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became more insulting with "No Dogs or Indians Allowed." These signs were not confined to Juneau. It was prevalent in large areas such as Anchorage, Fairbanks and Nome. We conferred with our then Governor Gruening of Alaska and sought his assistance in having these degrading signs removed. Fortunately, this man was sympathetic. He called upon the individual proprietors of these places who discriminated against Indians to remove those signs. However, his efforts to remove the signs were unsuccessful. He finally advised us to seek legislation to correct this deplorable situation. It was during this time that the theaters had an imaginary line that an Indian, Eskimo or Aleut could not cross. When you entered the theater you were immediately placed in the Indian section. Unfortunately, we had a few that played White men and as a result would mingle with the Whites. It is amusing to me that the same so-called White Indians became "real" Indians when the land claims suit was brought to a successful conclusion. 

In order to introduce suitable and corrective legislation we appealed to our delegate to Congress Anthony J. Dimond. THrough his efforts we were able to obtain copies of legislation passed by the states in the Lower 48. We researched these laws and put together ideas obtained from this source and had a bill drawn up and introduced at the Territorial Legislature during the 1943 session. When I say this legislation attracted widespread interest it would be the understatement of the year. When this bill was brought before the Legislature, my wife and I testified on behalf of this bill. We had experts who appeared in opposition to this bill. Outstanding people such as church-pillars or so called "Christians" from the Protestant Church appeared and each stated that we had not reached that level where we

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