House Debates Repeal of Alaska Tonnage Tax
The House weighs repealing the $1 per ton interport tonnage tax on vessels linked to Alaska trade. Senate Bill 2254, backed by Senator James E. Murray, passed May 10. House panel heard May 19. Justice says collection hinges on interport Alaska business. debate includes rights of Territorial Legislature and potential impact on shipping service. Alaska supporters urge repeal to preserve facilities and avoid hindering interport transportation.
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Senate
James E. Murray
Montana
Alaska
Dimond
Beer taxes add 150 million to state treasuries in 1923
Revenue from taxes on beer manufacture and sale boosted state county and municipal treasuries by 150 million dollars in 1923, per the National Institute of Beer Manufacturers and Distributors.
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Washington
National Institute of Beer Manufacturers and Distributors
Elks Barn Dance At Petersburg June 12
The Petersburg Bill's Club hosts a barn dance at Sales Inn on June 12 with Juneau and Wrangell lodges to initiate beforehand. A farm atmosphere includes hay chickens and maybe a cow, and attendees are urged to wear farm style clothing. Sunday June 13 features Flag Day exercises.
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Petersburg Bill’s Club
Sales' Inn
Juneau
Wrangell
Seiners Push Union Plans for Alaska Season
Petersburg purse seiners hold meetings to organize a union for the coming season. A district charter from the International Seamen's Union is favored, with Alaska settling issues. A negotiating committee from Ketchikan will seek packer prices: eight cents humpies, nine and a half chums, twenty two and a half cohoes, thirty five cents sockeyes. Erick Ness named Petersburg agent. executive committee: Chris Gronseth Join Pederson Hans Wick.
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Alaska Salmon Purse Seiners’ Union
Ketchikan
Petersburg
Alaska
Erick Ness
Chris Gronseth
Pederson
Hans Wick
Navy reports delays in 44 of 67 ships under construction
The Navy Department says 44 of 67 warships are behind schedule. Bids for the first new battleship are due June 17 from private shipyards. The second dreadnought, 85,000 tons, will be assigned to a navy yard.
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Navy Department
Tragedy in Ketchikan Ends in Suicide After Love Affair
In Ketchikan on June 4, Peter Guldowik a 27 year old laundry truck driver killed himself with a 300 Savage rifle on highways eight miles south of town after an apparent love affair. He had accompanied a local high school girl whom he first shot at but she was not hurt. he then fired at himself and died believing he had killed her.
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Ketchikan
Peter Guldowik
Guldvik
A J Dispute Settled By Court Order In San Francisco
The Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company and the Juneau Mine Workers Association reach a court ordered settlement. Eleven workers return with back pay up to 500 dollars each, and offers of reemployment to other strikers. The firm must cease discouraging union membership and withdraw recognition of the company union.
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Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company
Circuit Court of Appeals
San Francisco
National Labor Relations Board
A.J. Company
Juneau Mine Workers Association
Brant in Town Saturday Morning
On Saturday morning May 29 the USFS Brant under Captain Olson was in Petersburg en route to Juneau and points north. Aboard were Alaska Bureau of Fisheries officials, Juneau staff, and wardens plus a Ketchikan committee en route to confer with the Governor regarding an Alaska fisheries laboratory.
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U .S. FS Brant
Olson
Petersburg
Juneau
Points North
L. G Wingard
Alaska
Bureau of Fisheries
Ketchikan
Juneam
Coonfer
Abr
Territorial Legisature
Survey of Petersburg Schools Seeks Resident Insight
Superintendent George Berk compiles a seventy three page report on Petersburg's school system. It compares average achievement and high school graduate grades with charts showing subject and grade distributions. The study notes that Petersburg graduates post higher A and B rates but also more F grades than the broader average.
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George Berk
Petersburg
Toe
Mov O of
Universitye
Jun- Tye
Petersboro
Pein Uv
Interior Department Increases Alaska Appropriations
The Interior Department recommends a 1938 Alaska appropriations bill totaling 2,676,265 dollars, up from 2,348,456. Line items include native education and medical relief, Annette Island Reserve, reindeer service, roads and trails, territorial government and schools, Mount McKinley Park, and the Alaska Railroad among others. Territorial government funding drops to 30,410 due to the Legislature meeting this year but not in 1938.
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the Interior. Department
Alaska
House
Annette Island
Geological Survey
Alaska Railroad
Mount McKinley National Park
Fish House Men Organize With Marine Warehouse Union
All men working in the fish house have joined the Marine Warehouse men’s Union affiliated with the International Longshoremen’s Association. The union formed when I L A agent Harry Stuhr visited town two weeks ago and workers secured higher hourly wages and overtime pay, about 45 cents more.
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Marine Warehousemen’s Union
International Longshoremen's Association
Harry Stuhr
I. Ll. A
Seattle
Good Will Tour To Alaska Arrives Petersburg Monday Night
The Seattle Chamber of Commerce Good Will Tour sails tomorrow aboard the SS Aleutian for Alaska. They will visit Southeast towns with rail trips to Anchorage and Palmer and a small group to Fairbanks. A dance and seafood feast await in Petersburg at 11 pm with the ship’s orchestra. Local committee chair is A. B Holt.
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Seattle Chamber of Commerc)e
Cod
Alaska
Othe
Anchorage
Palmer
Fairbanks
Petersburg
Chamber of Commerce
Ed Ramstead Passes Away Fox Farmer From Nor n Island
Ed Ramstead, a fox farmer from Norn Island, died at Petersburg hospital Monday morning after months of illness. He weighed about 110 pounds lighter, with funeral services at Salvation Army Hall led by Miss Moore and burial in Petersburg cemetery. He was about fifty, born in Aalsund Norway, survived by siblings in Norway and California.
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Ed Ramstead
Norn Island
Petersburg Hospital
Mr. Ramstead
Salvation Army Hall
Miss Moore
Petersburg
Ramstead
Aalsund
Norway
San Pedro
California
Reindeer Bill Advances in Senate with Amendments
The bill creating native ownership of reindeer passed the Senate last month with Indian Affairs Committee amendments. Eskimos and Delegate Dimond seek changes before House review. Interior funds allocate 3,755 for reindeer purchase and distribution. reindeer service moves to the Indian Office by July 1. A new garbage dump and 220 foot trestle are nearing completion.
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Alaska
Senate
Elmer Thomas
Oklahoma
Senate Committee On Indian Affairs
Dimond
House Committee On the
House
House Committee
Interior Department
Office of
Indian Affairs
Indian Office
Rebel General Mola Is Killed
The Spanish insurgents mourn General Mola who died when his plane crashed in fog over a mountainside after leading northern drive toward Bilbao. He and Franco led rebel forces in a key campaign during the Civil War.
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Mola
Madrid
Guadalajaro
Spain
Bilbao
Franco
Fire Sweeps Seattle Dock Amid Explosion Injuring Firemen
A dock fire at Seattle caused by an ammunition warehouse explosion injured four firefighters. The blaze involved Coast Guard equipment and a joint lease with the Quaker Steamship Company, with damage reaching Portcot Seatthe’s stretching dock area.
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Seattle
Portcot
Seatthe
pOonnnecicut Streep
Boos Coast Guard
Coast Guard
Quaker Steamship Companys
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Magnuson
Department of Justice
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Seamen's Union
Eckener Studies
Hindenburg
Hugo Eckener
Germany
Lakehurst
N. J
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A. J
Pany Union
Brant In Town
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Cordova
Seldovia
Kodiak
Alaska Peninsula
Bristol Bay
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Duke of Windsor
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George VI
New York
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Fish House
Good Will
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C. E. Swanson
F. PD. Kelly
Fox Farmer
Almeria
Italy
Neutrality Committee
England
Geneva
League of Nations
League Council
Port Almeria
Seattle Dock
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