The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-06
RayEndorsed For Delegate
 Al cop Meet

I (Continued from Page OneJ those companies who do business within and without the Territory should pay taxes according to the relative business within Alaska
 Transportation
 6. TRANSPORTATION: We favor immediate construction and maintenance of highways connect ing all points of Alaska. from Nome south, and feeder lines such as: Ho- mer- Seward to Anchorage; Haines Cutoff, conversion Of Copper River Railroad Belt into a highway, Forty 1 Mile Road, Cinema Hot Springs Min ing District Koyukuk District, Nak nek and other roads connecting up with a continental highway system And that the Federal Highway Act be made applicable to Alaska.
 Construction and improvements of waterways such as a channel be- tween Douglas Island and Juneau Youngs Bay Hawk Inlet Canal, Sul- ger Canal, breakwaters at Haines ! and Angoon and Rake;
 Airplane fields and landing strips l T. We reaffirm our faith in the l General Land Laws which have made possible the prosperity of the United States, and we urge that all public lands now withdrawn by exc cutive orders be thrown open to homestead and other entries, with preferential rights to all servicemen and ex- -servicemen and women, and condemn all leasing provisions and other schemes for withholding title.
 g. We sympathize with the na- tives of Alaska in their struggle to adjust themselves to a civilization that has well nigh overwhelmed them. and we commend the success with which they are overcoming handicaps unknown to the great body of our people, and so commend them to the sympathetic attention of cur government, both federal and territorial
 We acknowledge their original ownership of this Territory, and we believe that an early settlement of this question would be beneficial to the development of Alaska and so we urge the immediate passage of the bill to empower the Interior Department to negotiate for the extinguishment of their title or so much thereof as may not be needed to maintain a decent standard of living.
 1 g. LIQUOR: We believe that there should be strict and full en- forcement of the laws pertaining to intoxicating liquor
 i 10. We u rge the construction of acquisition, and operation of tuber- culosis hospitals within the Terri { tory
 I Il. We demand an immediate and complete audit of the Territorial finances.
 | l2. We demand the immediate repeal of Sec. 27 of the Jones Ma rine Act, a discrimination against cur use of shipping that does not apply to any other part of the United States.
 13. That the aged, the infirm the helpless and the involuntarily unemployed should be adequately aided and their needs supplied by increasing the benefits as their con- ditions may require, and the evils and defects in the present social se- curity legislation and its enforce ment promptly corrected.
 IA. SOLDIERS ACT: That prop CT legislation be enacted for the good and benefit of the returning veterans Of World War II along the lines of resolutions passed by the 1945 American Legion Convention held at Seward.
 15. We oppose all mass coloniza- ton of Alaska by aliens in contra vention of our immigration laws.
 LegiSlatiDe Ticket
 The legislative ticket follows:
 Flrst-Dr. L. P. Dawes of Juneau and Harry Mccain of Ketchikan fo1 the Senate; H. H. Hungerford ano w. K. Spaulding of Ketchikan Frank Price, Sitka, Neil Grant ot Wrangell, Steve Vukovich, w. l. Paul, E. E. Robertson and Anita Garnick of Juneau for the House
 Third District, Senate and House ceSlgnations not made = Walter Hodge, Cordova; Cecil Jones, J. L McCarry, Amer Peterson, o. s. Gill Morltz Andresen, Keith Capper anc J. c. Morris of Anchorage; Heinie Snider of Wasilla, Emil Knudsen o1 Kodiak and M D. Snodgrass O, Palmer. One person can also file from Bristol Bay area.
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