The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 2, 1937, Page 8

DEFICIENCY BILL IS GIVEN AIRING INLOWER HOUSE Members Voice Disappl'ov»l al of Large Deficits Leg- islature Must Make Up (Continued {rcm Page One) existing law and within the present What Bill Asks The bill calls fr $43,152.65 for support of city schools; $13,500 for pupil transportation and $2,500 for tuition, Other items in the defic- | irnev bill are $3,58149 to the Ter- | ritorial Board of Health and $581.8 fr deficit in the fund for rescue and relief of lost persons. l ng the discussion, the matter textbooks came up when Mr. id that free textbooks were being supplied in the schools “What schools and whe: meanded Mr. Davis. “in all the scheols,” Commissioner. “Do they furnish them in Juneau?” actked Mr. Davis, “I believe through the grade,” answered Mr. Karnes. “Well, I'd like to see some of them” declared Mr, Davis. “I've been buy- ing books for my children since they started to school and in the spring we can get a second hand price| - back on them if we're lucky.” | Victor B. Ross of the Fourth, who presided as Chairman with the House in the committee of the whole, | also cited an instance in Fairbanks where books were beinz bought for a child. he sald. Two memorials and a bill were introduced in the House this morn- | | | AT LUNCHEON, | ardson Highway. an Green and Ross of the FourtL‘Othl’S Are VXSI[O\’S at lee- offered a bill which would prohibit | de- replied the sixth moved from highways in Alaska Tolls are now charged on the Rlch- ing. Dan Kennedy of the Third| submitted a request for a seaplane base at Lake Spenard and Mr. Ner-/ the transportation of wolf and coy- | ly Session Today at ote pelts from Canada into Alaska | Noon Hour THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, FEB. PRESIDENT’S GREETING TO RAIN DRENCHED CROWD a second term. (As: ere monies. On the stand (left to right) nd Vice-President John N. Garner, w sociated Press Photo) Daily Cross-word Puzzlo ACROSS . Moccasins . Maltreat 10. Hastened 14. Wings O+ Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle Forebears 3 freiand . Mark of a blow . Noun suffix Came together 15. Antic 16. Fleet animal Sprite Accumulate 17. Kind .of dog 19. South N . Hindu princess Amertcan Station marmoset . Lift . Allude 3. Pass a rope | m[ O] . Steep Occurrence through Blundered . Old word for the season of spring ck . Native of the island of Luzon . Channel from the shore inland 2, 1937. Before taking his oath of office for a second term, President Roosevel t stcod on the inaugural platform and waved a hanpy greeting io the scaked thcusands who braved the inclement weather to see ‘he Hughes of the Supreme Court; President Reosevelt; his son, James; are: Chief Justice Charles Evans ho also tock his oath of office Zor WAUL CASE TO 60 TO JURORS Hedrick Reverses Plea Not Guilty and Draws $250 Fine FIRE ADDS TO STORM THREAT THIS MORNING Flooring Ignited Around Heater at Juneau- Young Hardware 1 | i | Adding to the threat of the storm, fire brck2 out this morning in the Juncau-Younz Hardware Company, where the wooden fiooring around the base of an oil heater became ignited. The blaze, which if unchecked might have developed with dire econ- sequences, was discovered by Percy eynolds as he was opening the Juneau Ice Cream Parlors, and hel turned in the alarm about 5:30 o'-| clock. The blaze was soon extinguished, with very little damage, bzfore it had opportunity (o spread and be !'whipped on by the wind. conductor, ar London. Jane, was among the few witnesses at Photo) ANN HARDING MARRIED Movie Actress Ann Harding and Werner Janssen, symphony orchestra shown here immediately after they were married in ear-old daughter of the actress by a former marriage, the ceremony. (Associated Press VBSSGAPT A TS TalylstoMake SENATE BOASTS lel Cruise to ~ RELIEF ITEMIN Westward Again DEFICIENCY BILL Request Still Il Million Under Amount Approved by National House \Cale Takes All Stretch Out ! of Cutter's Moor- | ing Lines j lowing a busy night of con- WASHINGTON, Feb. 2—The Sen- ate, working steadily today toward |tinuous remooring of the cutter to the Government Dock as the fury lof last night’s gale parted line after |line, the U. S. Coast Guard Ship Tallapoosa was this afternoon loaa- ‘ing mail preparatory to her mail |cruise to the Westward, on which| she is scheduled to leave Juneau Of tomorrow noen., | The Tallapoosa will go at least as |far to the Westward as Cordova and g |Valdez, possibly further if efforts to have her mail for more dxst.smt relayed on Cuttes by In the case of the United Btates,pqig, ang Patrol boat Moms ahould (versus Charles Waul, charged with'ggy a vote on the $789,000,000 deficiency | relief bill, restored the committee | cut of $14,000,000 in settlement of ihe Administraiion’s appropriation 5r=quest The action would provide |tne relief department witl $79,000,- €00, 2 millicn skort of the amount |approved by the House | A short time later tre Senate de- feated an attempt by western Sen-| ators to raise the total to $1; ZOOA' 000,000. Taken from il by Mob, Hanged HEADLAND, Alabama, Feb. 2— | The body of Wes Johnson, 18-year- | 0ld negro farm hand, who is charged with an attack on a white girl, was found hanging this morning in the woods nearby with bullet wounds in the body. He was seized from the jail at Abbeville last night by men who drove up in about 25 automobuez‘ TAKU-LETS “Gone with the wind,” remarked |the staggering gentleman at Second | and Seward this morning as his hat | lisappeared over the Goldstein | building. A popular sign around town is “please use the other door.” An automobile in front of the United Food with brakes set tight was moved eight feet this morninz land of the Fourth introduced a me- morial esking that all tolls be re- for the purpose of collecting boun- ty. | | Braving the weather this nocn,| MATTSON CASE assault with a dangerous weapon,| | the counsel for the defense and the! Large wagon . Pronoun 6. Artlessness Lieut. Commdr. N. G. Ricketts to- >N 0 Constelat 2 gust of wind whipping around Put off announced that his ] SENATE GETS BILL Senator Henry Roden of the First Division introduced a measure in the Territorial Senate this morning at its brief session providing for an eppropriation of $8,000 to reimburse the City of Petersburg for monies advanced for harbor dredging work Th2 upper house handled a few | cther routine matters and adjourn- ed until 11 o'clock in the morning. committees going into session on the important matters now before them. I.IflllflR CONTROL FOR INDIANS IN ALASKA URGED William Paul Appears Be-| fore Senate Committee —Makes Statement VWASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—The Sen- ate Indian Ccmmittee today heard that Alaskan Indians are “one hun- dred percent Prohibitionists even when they are drunk.” William Paul asked the commit- tee to establish a rigid system for liquor control in the Territory. In Southeast Alaska “those In- !most of the Legislators turned out for a lively Rotary Club meeting at Ir! 2. Former speiling of three ajmir >R ZmCir|m < rr Baking dish Medicine the Gastineau Cafe. Other visitors today were: J. C. Davis, Kenneth Edwards, both of Juneau, and Wil fred Stumpf, of Ketchikan, Assis- tant District Attornzy. Mrs. Justa fimmerman and Miss Glady on the staff of the Legislature, | were also guests today. President A. B. Phillips introduced Joe Smith, the new high school representative. W. O. Carlson gave a brief sketch of his trip south He visited in Idaho, California, at- |tended the Rose Bowl game at Los | Angeles, and visited six different | Rotary clubs. | H. G. Walmsley was substantially ‘supportc'd by the Legislature today | when he led the community singing. ! \MM Cynthia Batson played the ac- companiment. . Director One who brings a publication up to date 8. Tropical bird variant Slope the of painting of everyday life . Kind of monument . Pertaining to 1t Huge wave Animal with four front and three hind toes c {No Breaks for |John Harris As Wind Blew The wind storm may mean jobs |for the carpenters but it doesn’t |mean a thing to John Harris, well- known sign painter, and son of one |of the town's founders: | “Ive been all around town and I| lcan't find where one window with, & sign on'it went out with the ex-| ‘ceptlcn of my own,” said Johnny {this afternoon. “What a break for a sign painter?” Harris was busy repairing his| | 1 | | dians drink whiskey like beer. They own shop today, one of the worstl judge good whiskey by the way it|damaged small places along the| burns them when it goes down. We |street. dropper . Device used in making plate glass Animal's foot Vegetable 1us of geese ‘inishes DOWN 1. Footway 2 On the side o away from strength to the wind . Explosive 3. Desert tain ) 4. Answ purpose Expert war aviator b sures of sth I al spring 9. Period un i 10. Cut thin 2 ! | with | the ! eral prosecuticn were closing their ar- uments to the jury late this after- noon, and the case was expected to he sent to the jury this afternoon for a sealed verdict to be returned in the morning. Due to an irregularity in the or- iginal indictment, in a warehouse, was returned by Grand Jury this morning against Frances Foster. With the re-opening of the Fed- Dis t Court session this morniny;, John Brinla the a second true| !bill, on the same charge of larceny | day though ship will be crowded aimost to c: pacity with mail, that if any real emergency exists requiring anyone to go fo the Westward, if that per-| |son wiil communicate with him, he will endeavor to provide passenger accommodations on the voyage. IR e Would Permit Supreme Court Justices to Retire| WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. — The charged House Judiciary Committee has ap- destruction of personal proved of a bill to permit Supreme property plead not guilty to the Court Justices to retire at the age charge. Milton Hedrick withdrew of 70 on full pay. Under the pres- (his plea of not guilty and plead ent law they must resign to be re- guilt) to two counts of careless use'lieved of their duties. jof firearms brought against him., | e | After Hedrick had waived time f""‘MXST,\KES WILL HAPFEN: | imposition of sentence, on the first count of the charge and | deferred indefinitely sentence on the isecond count. The United States dismissed its! |case against Hedrick for a similar | by the know it is killing us. Pretty near | all of us are for prohibition,’ said | Paul. Carl Lomen, of Nome, suggested | Territorial liquor monopoly to re-i o MAYOR '‘GOLDSTEIN TAKING TWO-WEEK TRIP TO SEATTLE Enroute to Seattle for medical at- _. | tention, Mayor I. Goldstein and Mrs. Goldstein left on the steamer Prin- cess Norah for the South. They ex-| pect to return to Juneau in aboul two weeks. | Mr. and Mrs. Goldsteins annual | vacation trip will be combined with the present voyage. ————— | The Fort Lauderdale, Florida po-l lice department reported October was the busiest month in history, |with 185 arrests and $1,789 turned place private trading. —————— | i Empire ads are resa. ! e | il | | Schilling pPepper irich in flavos | fund RESUEL ) L AE N Try an Empire ad. 5 in to the fine and bond forfeiture | ] hree years, {in a bill to be introduced by Dele- 1-Point Program for Alaska Asks Fifteen Million Schwellenbach Dimond and | Gruening Discuss Develop- ment with President WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—A sev- en-peint program for the develop- ment of Alaska with authorization lor the appropriation of approxi- ately $15,000,000 to be spread over will be incorporated !gate from Alaska Anthony J. Di- ELECTRIC mond and Lewis B. Schwellenbach, i 'Senator from Washington. HAWING f The program was discussed today with President Roosevelt by Dele- gate Dimond, Senator Schwellen- ;uonal Parks, air fields, river and harbor improvements, repairs on The Alaska Railroad, ey. Fifteen million s a small sum for such a program for Alaska de- velopment compared to the esti- mated two billion, hundred and fifty millions dollars value of goods taken out of Alaska, Senator Schwellenbach said. GEORGE PARKS BACK AFTER DOUBLE TRIP TO COLORADO CITY mining de-‘ velopment and an agricultural sur~ {the United States to prevent Jap- |anese and Russian fishermen from {taking salmon in Alaskan waters | charge of careless use of firearms, for which he had been convicted akee and had filed an appeal. INTERESTS BPWC, eign Fishing Problem Speaker at Meeting Need of action on the part of was told to the Busiess and Pro- fessional Women'’s Club at its regu- lar meeting in the Council Cham- orial to Congress on the subject. dent of the Alaska Fishermen's As- sociation, made a convincing case for his memorial as he told of the !manner in which foreign cannery boats, operating in Alaska waters take salmon from the seas before Completing a trip of six weeks| that took him twice to Denver, Colo,, | George A. Parks, former governor of | Alaska and now District Cndastnl\ Engineer, arrived back in Juneau Sunday aboard the Princess Norah. Going direct from Juneau to Den- ver, Mr. Parks conferred there for two weeks with officials at his head office, then proceeded to Oakland,‘ {Cal, but, after only a few hours they are able to reach Alaska fish- ing grounds. Business transacted at the meet- | ing included the election of Dr. Rae | Lillian Carlson to be Vice-President of the club. meeting for the Legislative Dinner jen will give in the Juneau Coffee Shoppe February 15, in honor of |Nell Scott, member of the House Judge| George F. Alexander fined him 3250‘ Commissioners Court av Ten- | operators, COFFEY ADDRESS Author of Memonal on For-| bers last night, by Representative | Edward Coffey, author of a mem- | Plans were discussed during the | the Business and Professional Wom- | REPORTER CORRECTS ERROR Mistakes occur in newspapers in as many names in one short story demand admittance, and the repor- rection for the Betty Mac Shop. The | with Mrs. McCormick, owner of the shop, are Helvi Paul- {son and Sigrid Walther, instead of |Helvi Peterson and Sigurd Wal- thers, as the Empire named them last night in reporting that Mrs. Walther had joined the staff of the Betty Mac Shop as a full time operator. .- ! Todav's News Touay—Embire, {more frequently than any newspaper man likes to admit. But two errors | !ter who made the error makes cor- | | Lhc corner. “Let her go,” commented |the owner as he stood inside the tore. But she finally stopped. SEARCH TURNS & TOWARDS EAST ;Rubber Type Used in Ran-| | som Note Is Reported to Have Been Found Carpenters were up all night and »ul! going at top speed today try- mg to make temporary repairs. “Looks as if this storm blew up a little something,” commented a spec- ator as he saw the Territorial rTouse of Representatives tear into a de- ficiency bill this morning. Stray rubbers and hats could be seen buffeted about by the wind al- most any time during the day. BOSTON, Mass,, Feb. 2. — Federal officers investigating the Tacoma- Mattson kidnaping case turned to Springfield today on assertion by| Seeking doorway shelters from the United States Marshal John Murphy [gusts was a popular pastime by that rubber type used in the ransom |those who had to be abroad. notes had been traced there. He | |said he has also referred the G-men; They had quite a time settling to Deputy Marshal John Hall's sus-!one penny-ante game when the picioni of a prisoner who had been |lights went out. The losers still {arrested there for impersonating a|claim they've been gyped. Federal officer and released last| mid-November after having served | ;n three months’ sentence. Seventy-nine windows were re- ported out in the Coliseum apart- Marshal Murphy said the man ments. claimed Tacoma as his address. The |man had been arrested on the sam:| Lower Franklin Street was a mass 'street to which he said the ransom of light wires, telephone wires and type had been traced but admitted broken glass this morning. |the man was “somewhat taller” than the supposed Mattson boy kid-| About the busiest men in town naper. \were the repair men of the light e |and telephone company. When Leonardo Sa Vincl was| b 0 s TR painting Madonna Lisa, the enig—! The Portuguese man-of-war is not matic beauty from Naples, he caus-|a single animal but a colony of sev- ed music to be played during the sit- eral so integrated that they act as tings. one creature. | | | | Viewed in the fullness of its foliage, a tree reveals the magnitude of na- ture’s achievement. So, tor, does swhiskey that’s made from only the peak part of each distillation—the TOP-RUN .. 2hals Have you tried it—lately? We've stepped up the age to a fuy 18 months ! —and it’s better than ever! Sample it soon at your favorite bar and you’ll be ealling for it regularly--at bars and package stores both! National Distillers Products Corporation, Louisville, Ky. Representative Coffey, past Presi- | bach and Dr. Ernest Gruening, Di- | there, he received news of the death | Port DAY RICE 8 AHLERS CO. Phone 34 able Electric Machine “Safety First” OR NITE SERVICE Possessions. Schwellenbach said that by in- |troducing the measure early in the !session of Congress, estimates for | appropriations could be in the budget for the next fiscal | year. | The Senator from Washington lexplained that the program would include road building, construction of a hotel, development of Na- Nite 571 rector of Territories and Insular! inserted | of his father at Denver, and imme- | |diately returned there. From Denver, Mr. came directly back to Juneau, | way of Seattle. Mr. Parks reported that the in- fluenza epidemic was raging at its | height while he was in Denver. All Parks then by of Legislators. Club members are are limited to fifty people. Tickets ruary 10. schools were closed there. B S, Lode and prmacer location notices for sale at The Empire office. | Most popular apple varieties grown | of - Representatives, and the wives | urged to make their reservations as | soon as possible as accommodations | will not be available after Feb- | This whiskey is |18 months old in North Carolina are yellow trans- | parent, horse, golden delicious, S!ay-‘ man and winesap. A PRODUCT OF NATIONAL DISTILLERS YOUR GUIDE TO GOOD LIQUORS