The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 15, 1939, Page 8

NEW TYPE, INFLUENZA SPREADING Thousands of Students Are Abed in One City in Michigan POLICEMEN, FIREMEN STRICKEN I (HICAGO Southern States Reported Hit According fo Pub- lic Health Service LANSING. } new. type of f out kunst said seekir Battle Duda- Department major outbreak ek schools are closed and of 10,000 students, are abed typical of in- cterized by back at and absence toms of the te is flusnza aches, fever, sore th of coughs and other symp head or respiratory cold More than 750 Chicago men and 6 firemen are to their homes with the disease. John L. Moss, Chicago Director of the Bureau of Public Welfare, re- | ports that his office is swamped with requests for physicians. He| said between 500 and 650 requests| are received daily and increase of | 800 over January Elsewhere from are made for aid Peoria, Illinois, reports are closed with an estim: Students ill. The Peoria City Auth- prities announce between 5,000 and 6,000 are suffering the respiratory disease. Police~ confined Tllinois requests schools i 3,000 CASES ELSEWHERE WASHINGTON, Feb, 5.—The Pu-| blic . Health Service reports there| are an estimated 3,000 cases of in-| fluenza in Texas, South Carolina and Virginia but this is lower than Tast year. Influenza is unofficially reported | responsible for thousands of cases! 1 the Northern States. | - PETER B. GILL ir HAS RETIRED Peter B. Gill,| 75. has retired after 43 years as the' business agent of the Sailors Union of the Pacific. Edward Coester, formerly of Port- SEATTLE. Feb. 15. land, Ore is Gill's successor. D “Trv an Empire aa. | l SPECIA SUEDE-PATENT and KID *1% BAGS *1% NEWEST COLORS! " Shining, VIVID patent bags . gayest for Spri BIG [ Shapes . . soft . ipouches, envi square "“dhapes! New black! Match your gloves! Devlin’s New ton-handles, opes, navy, Hudson River Locked in Winter’s Icy Grip Cold wave which brought new low temperatures to the East, turned the mighty Hudson River into a stream of ice. Huge floes, stretching almost from shore to shore, are pictured passing under the graceful Bear Mountain Bridge. Traffic in the river was brought to a halt. EPUTY MARSHAL IS INVOLVED IN JURY TAMPERING Attorney General Murphy‘i Considering Evoking Civil Service WASHINGTON, Feb. 15. — The jury tampering scandal in which a United States Deputy Marshal is sald to have received money from, attorneys from the alleged brains | of Washington's $2,000,000 number | racket, may lead Attorney General' Murphy to issue a call for improve- | ments in the stafds of United States Marshals throughout the country. It is said the Attorney General is considering placing deputies under Civil Service. Emmitt Warring, alleged racket leader, has pleaded guilty to charg- es growing -out of jury tampering. R Signal Corps Writes Long Book In a long succession of dots and dashes the United States Signal Corps office in Juneau transcribed some twenty full length novels throughout 1938. Piling word on word for 12 months nine operators in the station accu- mulated a grand total of 10,000,000 | New Spring Colors!? THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 15, 1939 LIQUOR BILL “ JOKER STIRS ~ SENATEWAR Cockfail Bill (leavage Is Evident Again as New Measure Argued (Continuec. from Page One) few yginutes later, however; that he would be in favor of a motion by Senator *Walker which would have the same effect, the Cochran bloc relented and the Second Division Senator himself asked unanimous consent for suspension of the rules so Senator Walker's amendment could be adopted. The amendment strikes from the bill all matter quoted from the present statutes and simply desig- | nates the new matter to be added to the section. So amended, the Cochran election Jones Act Memorial | adoption of a dozen committee In juggling these huge tomes only gram, were registered. | Soon Reveal ‘to allow Canadian ships to carry| tion duplicated the number in out- | ‘ | be taken only if American ships in going out of Juneau totaled to $85,- | nature going out of Juneau grossed retary Hopkins has decided to dis Senators quarreled heatedly over Des Moines, Ia., February 24. | No. 4 designating the Kodiak hos- . i Hogs Fed on (orn' tary of Commerce, he has declined | orial Hospital” a section appropriat- pay Di“ereme to prepare a formal address. Senators Sullivan and Rivers sup- | | wish merely to have the hospital Senate passed and sent to the House | | right if it were kept polished every because the war department failed to Senators LaBoyteaux and Coch- N. C., in 1918. e Griffin without erecting a plaque he failed to get the garbage. The| IWO BI”IOn DO"arS The proposed amendment Wwa; ernment was asked to pay $33.757. | R Senate Bill No. 40, by Senator tain’s huge rearmament progr: St | Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the | Judiciary, as a number of highly | day closing bill was passed unani- mously. of the syllabic units which make up | recommendations, half of them amending bills under consideration.} 15 errors of such a nature as to justify complaint, adjustment, or to Incorporated into House Joint | Memorial No. 1, asking amend- Handling approximately 400 in- ] % | freight between U. S. and Alaska HI pr | ports, was a Taxation Committee going miessages. —_ | Canadian waters be extended like 47,602.08. |close his program for government- a Finance Committee amendment to to discuss his plans, saving he want- | ing $500 for purchase of a bronze | sty i ported the amendment, saying they | | marked with his name and not by a bill to pay $9,116 to Nola Dilworth | lS IN ( R E ASING & | few da but would look terrible keep a contract to sell him garbage | | i ran, opposing the amendment, said Cocke, after signing a contract for . the garbage, bought some nogs. 1e, RAises Rearmament Pro- 7: | was like “burying somebody without | setting any marker on the grave.” Senate allowed hig widow the dif-| | ference between the cost of the corn £ lost, four to four, with Senators LONDON. Feb. 15— The British Hofman and Walker joining Coch- -~ Government has announced its bor- OSCAR HARRI HOME | Hofman, providing for enforcement ri Machine Shop, has returned home' The Government has doubledgghe |Of 80ld tax collection, was referred after receiving medical care at St. limit raising it from one billion flol- | On recommendation of the Taxation Empire Classified Ads for results technical adjustments in the bill - - {are necessary. ! Other amendments were unim- 5 ; Today's session was marked by » the English language. o p I ns 'o | nullify -the text of the wireless tele- | ! ment of the merchant marine act coming telegrams per day the sta-| addition requiring that such action Value of official communiques | 215.12 while messages of commercial| WASHINGTON, Feb. 15. — Sec- | privileges. | business cooperation in a speech at | strike from House Joint Resolution Since Hopkins was named Secre- | pital “The Edward W. Griffin Mem-, Sena|e v°|es 'o | ed time to survey the situation and plaque to mark the building. H | | believed it would be Mr. Griffin's| WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 — The GREAT BR"AIN plaque “which would look all Cocke, widow of William J. Cocke, DEFENSE PLANS " <. . from Camp Green, near Charlotte, | | | | that naming the hospital for Mr. s forced to feed them corn after| gram Cost from One o | Plaque Prevails and the garbage. Orgiinally the Gov- | {ran and LaBoyteaux in opposition. rowing powers to finance eat Bri- Oscar Harri, proprietor of the Har- Ann’s Hospital for the past week. Jays to two billion dollars. | Committee to the Committee on portant. With them incorporated, Exchequer, told the House of Com- mons today the bill will be intro- duced in the House, to legalize the increase which he said is need to meet defense expenditures. The ex- pentitures are exp d to reach at least two and one half billion dol- lars this year. Senate calendar with recommendation: Senate Bill No. 29, licensing en- When the arms program was an- gineers and archiiects. “do pass” the following measures went on the | HOSIERY nounced a year ago, the cost was put| Senate Bill No. 30, setting mini- taining of traffic over the section as late in the fall as possible. Senate Bill No. 46, by Senator Roden, would appropriate $1,363.51 to pay J. A. Bulger, A. M. Geyer and Duncan Sinclair balance due for a steam heating plant installed in the Territorial Building here when the place was occupied by the Uptown Theatre. The plant, never entirely paid for by the theatre, is of con- siderable benefit to the building, Senator Roden said. Senate Bill No. 47, by Senator Rivers, would amend the law re- lating to the time of commence- ment of civil actions on implied contracts from a limit of six years to a limit of three years. Bill Held Up Committee substitute for House _{bills Nos. 36, 37 and 38 was ordered referred to the Judiciary Committee I'to be held until othet bills correct- ing errors in compilation can be | gathered together into a single measure. Senate President Walker appoint- ed Senators Rivers and Cochran to assist him in answering a telegram of Delegate Dimond’s expressing doubt as to the wisdom of Speaker | Howard Lyng's two-way radio bill. | Delegate Dimond stated he is in-| formed there are no new radio| channels available in Alaska and that extension of the two-way radio provision to all airplanes \vill} result in cluttering up of the air| waves now used by passenger-car- rying airplanes. e AACC GIVE AID IN MISHAP TO INTERIOR PLANE {Emergency Aviafion Fre- quency of New Stations Used-Pilof in Distress News of assistance rendered by the new radio stations of Alaska Aero-| nauties and Communications Com- | mission in a air crash of major pro- portions, was received here today by Supervisor G. E. Goudie. Picked up on ihe AACC emergency frequency of 6210 kilocycles at Fair- banks, a stranded pilot of the White | Pass and Yukon Route with one man, two women and an 18 months old child aboard "Whs given aid through the mediary of information | sent out and received over the Inter- | ior station. J. W. Rice flying the White Pass | plane CF-TXJ was forced down re cently in a blinding snowstrom 1 miles out of Carmacks Y. T. Las ‘word received frem the plane by | Whitepass operators came in the | afternoon of the same day which ! stated he had set down. ! Further attempts to contact were unavailing. Later in the day radio| stations of the White Pass were in- formed over PAA radio that the met- | eorological unit at Fairbanks had ‘;plcked up Pilot Rice on their em- | | ergency frequency. Full position of | the plane was obtained enabling the | | White Pass people to proceed to the rescue by truck, averting what may have been a accident of serious con- sequences. 2 | Alaways Tuned Up | All AACC stations operating all | through the Territory at Anchorage, Cordova, Fairbanks, Nome, Ketchi- |kan, and Juneau have one receiver {tuned throughout the day on 6210 {kilocycles thus permitting any plane | l e BACKBONE OF U. S. AIR FORCE, these cadets at 2,300-acre Randolph field, Texas, the “West Point of the air,” march toward their planes for a cross-country flight, wearing the parachutes that serve as cushions during flights. Most cadets are college graduates from 20 to 27 years old. Sixty-four instructors conduct the training peried which i | on the Gravina Island site of the | Radio Beam station near the First in three 4-month stages. TRAPPERS MUST i City has progressed satisfactorily. | A crew of 15 men is still laboring | ”VE I“ NOR'I'H | there clearing the almost tropical underbrush growth. Five acres m'v; now slashed and will be cleared in a few weeks. Beam equipment and | instruments will be installed on this site and first tests run the first week in March Move To Junecau Following the completion of work | on Gravina I 1d the crew will move to Juneau there to commence labors on the Raiston Island site for the beam station. There has ready been cleared here a 300 foot tractor road and machete work will continue on the removal of the undergrowth on the actual site. Some score of men will also be used on this work. High s€&5ay Gravina Island, where Goudie spent the last three retarded the program somewhat by washing lumber and oil drums from the beach into the rough water Seas on this section appear on the horizon as a mountain chain when the wind is stro The meteorological station up is now complete with the installation and removal of t} chikan unit permanent quarters. HELLER JOINS R. LIGHT, FRANKLIN STREET LOCATION Frank Heller, who was driven from his long-time barber p location on Seward street, last week by the Goldstein Building fire, has become sociated with Robert Light in the week: line- fir Ket tc | remaining | | | | | | | | that FOR THREE YEARS \Change in License Re- quirements Proposed fo Secy. of Agri. K HIKAN, Alaska, Feb. 15.—A letter received here from Fra Du- fresne, Executive officer of the Al- ska Game Commission, to the Al- ska Sportsmens Association, say 1e Alaska Game Commission has ommended to Secreta of Agri- ture Wa a three year resi- requirement for resident trap- per’s license, This was a propesal made Alaska Sportsmens Assoc other groups throughout time time. The letter received here also says the game regulations will be- effective as soon as signed Secretary of Agriculture a wce. by th and come by the they do not require a 90 day notice. I | | | South Afr 50. AFRICA MAKES OWN AMMUNITION JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 15. — »a hopes to be self-suffi- cient in the supply of ammunition in the event of war througu its new ammunition factory in Pretoria. | operation cf the latter's shop ne: ‘::leclared himself fully prepared, in seven and one half billion dol-|mum restrictions with regard to|jn gistress to place through a call, 1 for five years but subsequent| statement of Government leadrs in- | dicated an increase probably of 50| percent. | | | nes®; .o pinching; no binding, | patented foot-shaped AIR cughlul in | Te MASS3 21 FootMassagi ‘ gives icor comfort i 1 S YIELDS W1™21 EVERY STEP, Ringless SHEERS The lovely stockings vou want for . Spring’s shorter skirts! Clear, full-fashioned threads with run-guard tops, triple soles and heels. Rosebeige, towntan, mist, amber, sandy. Sizes 8-10. Foot” Ylassaging Shoe GWEYENBERG { WAT WIN DEVLIN’S train and motor coach crews. Senate Joint Memorial No. 17, asking an investigation of water freight rates. Travel Memorial House Bill No. 13, westricting iravel outside Alaska of Territorial officials. House Bill No. 16, requiring call- ! ing of bids on Territorial purchases amounting to $50 or more. House Joint Memorial No. 17, ask- |ing"an appropriation of $2,250,000 for work in Alaska on the Inter- | national Highway. House Joint Memorial No. 22, ask- ing reduction to one year of the residence requirement for divorces. House Joint Memorial No. 23, ask- ing enlargement of the Federal Building here. House Joint Memorial No. 27, ask- ing rebuilding of the Coast Guard station at Nome. Three New Bills Three bills were introduced to- | day. Senate Bill No. 45, by Senator James Patterson, asks that $10,000 be set aside from the Third Divi- sion’s share of road appropriations to provide for opening of the Rich- ardson Highway between Valdez and Willow Creek as early as possible in the spring of each year and main- - & Beware Coughs from common colds That Hang On No matter how many medicines you have tried for your common cough, chest cold, or bronchial irri- tation, vou may get relief now with Creomulsion. Serious trouble may be brewing and you cannot afford to take a chance with any remed, -less potent than Creomulsion, whi ~oes right to the seat of the trouble :nd aids nature to soothe and heal :h?i L;,ghlmed muc%us membranes e loosen and expel - laden phlegm. el o Even if other remedies have failed, don't be discouraged, try Creomul- | sion. Your druggist is authorized to | refund your money if you are not thoroughly satisfied with the bene- {its obtained. Creomulsion is one word, ask for it plainly, see that the name on the bottle is Creomulsion, and you'll get the genuine product ' FRED HENNING ‘ and the relief you want. (Adv) - jon this band being sure that a sta- | tion will be prepared for receipt. | Operating as it does on a com-; paratively clear wave length, the em- }ergency frequency has been used/ | several times to advantage of planes' |in need of aid. Mr. Goudie reports that ships out of Fairbanks have on several occasions been rendered aid! through the instrumentality of the | meteorological stations. | Gravine Island Work Supervisor Goudie who returned to Juneau via Shell Simmon’s AAT plane from Ketchikan yesterday, af-| iter rainy weather had caused de-| lay of work he was doing there and consequent postponement of passage | on Lon Cope’s plane now down| | somewhere in the vicinity of Grand {Island, states that clearing work | 1 | i to the Alaskan Hotel, one South Franklin street, it was announced today. Mr. Heller has, at present, no plans for re-opening his own shop, but v his present location, to render his fromer patrons with his usual ser- vice. - Today's News Tuaay.—Emplre. ....FREEZE-UF? . ... Our Electric Thawing Machine offers you fastest, safest service — it will clear your pive in a hurry. Cash payment is required at completion of thawing jobs; except from our regular patrons and property owners. RICE & AHLERS CO. Third and Franklin Streets PHONE 34 JAMES C. COOPER, C.P. A. | announces temporary offices in the i SHATTUCK BUILDING ROOM ONE (located with Howard Stabler, Attorney) INCOME TAX RETURNS PREPARED!