The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 16, 1939, Page 8

LYNG MEMORIAL ASKS CHANGE OF CONVENING DATE Drager Infroduces Bill fo Broaden Report on Vital Statistics A House Joint Memorial was in- troduced by Speaker Howard Lyng of Nome today, the second joint memorial of the session from the House. Lyng's memorial asks Congress to amend laws governing the Territor- jal Legislature’s convening, moving the convening date to the fourth Monday in January of odd years instead of the second Monday as is now the law Reason for the requested change is brought out in the memorial as lying in the fact that many Terri- torial offices close their books for the calendar year on Decemeber 31, and have trouble preparing for legislative sessions in the short time available before second Mondays. It is also brought out by Lyng, that legislators in many cases are also operating businesses where books close Decem- ber 31, and because they often re-| side such great distances from Ju- neau, the same hardship is worked upon them as on Territorial of- ficials. House Bill No. 8, introduced by Karl Drager, Third Division Repre- sentative from Anchorage, today, would create an act that would re- quire Clerks of Courts in Alaska to report all divorces or annulments of marriage to the registrar of vital statistics, those statistics now repre- senting one of the few incomplete sections of the broad vital statistics report gotten out each year by lhc Territorial Auditor. Prisoners Like Books: PIERRE, 5. D., Jan. 16, - Prison- ers in the state penitentiary are in- terested in traveling and the further a library book takes their minds away the better they like it. Lan Thrasher, librarian, who is serving a 25-year term for man- | slaughter, said that “Lost Horizon™ and “Leif the Lucky” were most popular, with “Arm of Gold” and “Wild Cargo” running secoud e e The Englisa language is spoken by | mpre than 224,000,000 people, of | which more than half are Ameri- cans. SALMON RED or WHITE Sanitary MEAT CO. ED SHAFFER Proprietor Phones 13 & 49 “Pleasing You Means Our Success” - 'uniforms, | tion for | Lee predicted. lchutes and said Alaska was e + Grace Moore, opera and mo' husband, Valentin Parera, Cannes to the Duchess of Wmdsnr, England. The gesture usual been a royal duchess now i: lly is reserved for royalty. if it weren’t for the fact she’s an American vie star, returning to New York with her defended her curtsy during a concert at wife of former Ki.nz Edward VII of “She would have woman,” Miss Moore declared. NATIONAL GUARD IS REQUIRED IN ALASKA, SAYS LEE Joint Session of Senafe and House Held with Colonel as Speaker (Continued from Page One) send a warship in here for fear it would be lost. Rallying Foint He urged the value of an or- ganized military unit as a * ly-' ing point” for Al s defense in |time of attack, saying that there | |is no resident of Alaska but who | would want to “take down his shot- gun and help repel an invade The Army would equipment and instruc- Nalional Guardsmen, Col. if the Territory will build armories suitable to take care of the Federal property. These armories, he said, ‘would be avail- able for community use as well No Protection “It worries me, as an Army man, that we have no protection here in Alaska when it would be so ed to furnish protection,” the Colonel stated. “It would he tragic if you residents of Alaska would have to stand by and see things happen here which have happened in the past few ‘months elsewhere in the World.” Every port in the Territory vulnerable to attack at the present is time, Col. Lee said. He alluded to the “gangster attitude” on the part of ecnemy raiders in other parts of the World Fairbanks, he said, was destined to be the great airport of this part of the world and should be af- forded proper protection from at- tack. He said that it was a known fact that other nations have per- fected a maneuver to drop an armed force from the air by pa 2 ticularly vulnerable' to such attack Fire Questions With Representative Leo Ro; of Fairbanks in the chair, the I islators directed a number of ques- tions to Col. Lee. Among suggestions were one from Representative Lander for a naval militia and one from Senator Joe Hofman of Seward for a Terri- torial aviation corps. Col. Lee answered statements of Representatives Carl Drager of An- chorage and A. P. Walker of Craig that bodics of organized labor were opposed Lo establishment of a National Guard by saying that the guard acted in civil disturbances only at the urgent request of civil authorities when situations had got out of their hands and I and order had broken down. A Nation- al Cxuuld is as much for the pro- Mrs. Fowler's Delicalessen 213 Front Street BIG NEWS 99 e ®e® und HEALTH FOODS CENTER, w licatessen busin to Mrs. Krafit's lways to HEALTH FOODS SPECIALTIES furnish arms.! TODAY in the HOUSE House Joint Memorial No. 2, by Howard Lyng, from the Second Division and Speaker of the House; | a memorial . urging Congress to amend law regarding convening of | Territorial Legislature House Bill No.'7, by Smith, Representative from chorage. in the Third Division, an act declaring the policy of the/ Territory of Alaska as to alcoholic and malt liquors, recommending wholrsnling of such beverages lo retailers through a Territorial of- fice. House Bill No. 8, by Karl Drager, Representative from Anchorage dn(lv the Third Division, an act to re-| quire Clerks of Courts to report| vital statistics. Harvey An- tection of labor as for anything)| else, the Colonel stated. Would Know Cost Speaker Howard Lyng of the House mentioned that the Terr " tor revenue was small and its| expenses large and that Alaska| would have to know definitely what a National Guard would cost before it could vote to establish one. The Legislature extended a vote| of thanks to Colonel Lee, after which the Committee of the Whole reported progress in regard to Lhe joint memorial. The joint session was to convene again at 3 o'clock this afternoon to consider confirmation of a number | of the Governor's appointments. | Col. Lee left Juneau on the| Mount McKinley this afternoon for |the States. He had been in the Territory two weeks inspecting the boat harbor project here and flood control work at Seward and Fair- banks. He said this morning that work on the harbor breakwater | here is far ahead of schedule.. The breakwater has only 1,000 more feet to extend 1933 GOLD A(I T0 BE REVIEWED, HIGHEST COURT WASHINGTON, Jan. 16. — The Supreme Court has agreed to review litigation involving application of the 1933 Act abrogating payments of obligations in gold in contracts requiring foreign currency equival- ent of gold dollars. The reviews granted include the appeal of the Chemical Bank and Trust Company of New York, trustee under the mortgage of the St. Louls (and Southwestern Railway, and the Bethlehem Steel Company of New York A review has nheady been grant- ed in similar litigation brought by llu Guaranty Trust Company of ! New \'mk PHONE 152 en over the stock of Mrs. Krafit's now incorporated in pleased to an- d others, that we 1 varied stock of 1ve just taki usir | curity Act {of the old age insurance benefits }(hr Umlr(l Stal tories, Alaska should have received | $616,000. Three | (ongress Is Given | Proposal gPresudeni Recommends| | Expansion of Social Security Act Now WASHINGTON, Jan. 16. — Presi- dent Roosevelt today recommended to Congress a wide expansion of the Social Security Act but at the same time warned against “turn- ing to untried and unsound pana- ceas.” The expansion of the Social Se- includes the beginning liberal- afford- depen- the sooner than provided and izing them in early years, ing greater protection to dent children, and extending unemployment and old age pro- |tection as rapidly as possible “to ‘all our people”; increasing, in some instances, Federal grants in aid to states. The President's program also proposed states receiving Federal aid institute the merit systems to {the personnel agencies handling Social ‘Security funds. ALASKA'S 1939 FOREST ROAD ~SUM $400,000 ! (Conunued from Page One) aud the T an allotment of |vears ago the congressional com- | mittee having under consideration the Alaska coast, where forest roads are located, was not the appropriation decided that |50 badly in need of roads as many | |parts of the United States At that time and each year sub- sequently the committee As writ- ten into the appropriation act a provision arbitrarily reducing Al- askas share. Dimond Wins Increase For two years the reduced sum $350,000 a year. However, for |next year Dglegate Anthony J. Di- | mond succeeded in having this arbitrary amount raised to $400,000. | In discussing the matter here to- |day, Regional Forester B. F. Heint- |zleman commented that he hoped |this small increase for this year | would be the entering wedge toward | getting the full apportfonment for | national forest roads in the Ter- ritory restored. — e It has been computed that in the lam,uagta\ are spoken national | world today at least 2700 different | Henie tinues to break records on pers-nal appearance tour with con- her Iee queen Sonja he- Hellywood Ice Review. The show is expected to show to more than 1,000,000 persons on the United States tour. Sonja’s movie popularity also has sky- rocketed, latest reports indic she stood third at the hox office. JAPANESE SHIP GOES AGROUND, Passengers and Some Mail Removed - Crew Re- mains Aboard, Report MANILA, Jan. 16—A Radio Cor- poraticn i S that 12 pa: message reports aground on Cagayan Island The report says there are feet of water The crew flwamng nine in the engine room. is remaining aboard alvage attempts. CAGAYAN ISLE ngers and a quantity | of mail have been recoved from the | Japanese freighter Cheribon Maru,; 300 KILLED, Wisconsin’s Governor in Othce combination of mild rette tobaccos. millions of men a why THEY SATI /44 CHESTERF/IELDS the Happy Combination Jor More Smoking Pleasure More smokers every day are turning to Chesterfield’s happy ican and aromatic Turkish tobaccos—the world’s best ciga- . When you try them you will “ know why Chesterfields give more smoking pleasure . ., ripe Amer- nd women SFY I I A . Numerous Raids Reporled & Made on Inland China - | (Cities-Severe Fight ¢ { SRy | SHANGHAI, Jan. 16. — Chinese | | newspapers report that an estimated 1300 were killed and many more | | wounded in Japanese air raids on | Chungking, provisional capital city. | - i | Numerous air raids have also been | | made on inland cities. 1 < Six Japanese planes bombed Wan- | shien, in Szechwan Province, killing | ” 50 and wounding 80 persons. | Severe fighting is raging through- | g 'out senthwest Shansi Province. : . ”|TODAYi i in the < | | SENATE | > : | ! i Introduced { { Senate bill No. 6, by Roden, to| Governor and Mrs, Julius P, Heil E permit -incorporation of cboperative | . ¢ = : B 2 | wisconsin’s new governor, Julius P. Heil, a Republican, takes over associations -for producing and| no governor's chair in Madison, officially ending the La Follette marketing agricultural and equa- | reign, Standing beside the governor is Mrs. Heil. \tic products. ot | Senate bill No. 7. by Roden,” ap- | S R ‘. ! propriating $100,000 to relieve un- employment and distress by aiding | WEllBlEY-SOBERG ‘B".l. A(HESO“ | cooperative associations to engage | in agricultural development of the | MARR'AGE IONIGH'\’ GOES 'HROUGH r‘g:;;‘\’(’x-m” No.6. by Patterson, to| Fostponed frou iast evening the | Bill Acheson, well known young o 1098 adt Fhlalbe o e o ElAge O, IAKICE TWOllakEY . f man from Atlin, passed ;‘mrpnral'inn ‘”l “mmmu;liurs mlu'I alph Scherg will be held tonight | southbound through Juneau - on zfiubllv' ity m\(‘“ = * - 8 o'clock in the Lutheran Church. |the last Princess Norah, going to iR L T ;:Hw Hr;v. John L. Cauble will per-|Seattle for a few months before ¢ p e e B DS Us v form the ceremon: | returning to his diggings. ill:xru(:iv'?rxxrl‘x‘ix)nfi(x::mgl “nnw(lt(llx\‘;:"::m]t::"j Clarice Wellesley recently Amvwl‘ Acheson is working ground with ' pital i i L"‘"‘ from Wrangell, while Mr. So- |his father and brother at Discovery, i Prg s ) . " > Senate foin resolution No: 2, by fpricio :m:‘”‘(::”kn.mn road com- | n udAlt)]m and ls'said to have a, Roden, to spend $300 for extra | n | “g30 1ing |help and supplies for the Judici- | - - 0 A ary committee ! e Winter Cleara , Semate bill No. 4, by Rivers. up- | | |y earance propriating $800,000 for road pur USED - D - - J. W_ club Lun(heon 1937 DELUXE SIX FORDOOR TOURING SEDAN, hot water heater, mileage 8.740 ¥ Tomorrow at Church 1997 MASTER CHEVROLET COUPE. radio, hot water heater, mileage 7,208 [ Reservations for the luncheon of i, the Juneau Woman's Club tomor- 1937 G. M. C. 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