The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 17, 1939, Page 8

GIANT ROADS BILL PASSES LAST HURDLE House 0.K.'s Senate Meas- , ure for $800,000- Largest in History afternoon before zip- s for the da s passed the Yest 3 ping up brief ¢ House of Representative Senate’s “biggest ever” $800 uuu foads bill so passed the House | bill which teacher aries The big roads measure no opposition and sailed fhent with a 14 to 2 vote Walker opposing Ways and Means Chairman Rogge | and member Martin, said briefly that the measure was “worthy” and the “budget could stand it.” Rogge said, however, that “We'll stay on the right side of the ledger i we don’t make too many appro- priations for buying pictures and things.” (Earlier in the afternoon, the House had voted favorably on and will ise experience to enact- Coffey and a $720 appropriation measure for | a group of oil paintings for the museum). Passage of the giant road bil marks a milestone in highway pro- gress in the Territory, representing the largest such appropriation in the history of the Territory, and fwice that of last session. William Hesse, Territorial High- Sanitary | Meat Co. "Pleasing You Means Our Success” WE ARE EXPECTING A LARGE SHIPMERT OF FRESH | MEATS and - POULTRY 'TO ARRIVE EITHER TONIGHT or Tomorrow Morning TO BE SOLD at REGULAR PRICE Phone Your rders Early Telephones 1349 | . ED SHAFFER Proprietor THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE FRIDAY, FEB. 17, 1939. Engineer, in still wishes the twice as much flood of roads tile teacher in it is smiles today, appropriation to take care requests way but were | of the minimum salar, original introduc- to the rquent has on 1€ now wnd if Ser th a frame of mind a laries are pleasant Ho teachers’ up An u of going rimportant the House measure coming with favorable way to the Senate yes- Rogge's bill to require valuable records be fur- United States Commis- in the Territory measure, which would give | certain monies paid out | for relief of indigents, on it ay Wi for ished ali sioners The Anchorage by the city lost 12 to 4. D Stocxk QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Feb. 17.~— Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine! stock today is 9’2, American Can 91, American Power and Light 3, Ana- conda 28%, Bethlehem Steel 697, | Commonwealth and Southern 1%, | Curtiss Wright common 7, Curtiss | Wright A 27%, General Motors 48%, International Harvester 587%, Ken- necott 36%, New York Central 184, Northern Pacific 11'4, Southern Pa- cific 16%, United States Steel 592 Pound $4.68%. R s DOW, JONE The following are Jones averages: Influ\umls 144.95, rails 30.31, uulxurs 25.07. WATER IS USED AS AUTO FUEL _ The gorgeous White “twins” who wo! night club. Left, is Crystal, the d. “Twins”—Mother, Daughter lSI‘IIPPING TO n special mention among the prettiest at the twin convention held in Chicago are revealed as mother and daughter. They are pictured in New York where they are employed in a aughter, and right, is Priscilla, the mother. fifteen years older. FIRSTCLUE T0 MISSING COPE PLANE Substance Appears to Be Fed-Tony Schwamm Reports Find (Continued trom Page Oned PHILADELPHIA, Feb, 17.—Enan Martin Deal, Philadelphia inventor, uses water instead of gasoline to operate his automobile. Substituting a home-made atom- izing and “cracking” device for the | carburetor of his motor, Deal claims to get much as forty-five miles to the gallon on the str fuel. His contraption comprises a pro- peller - equipped manifold which draws air into a chamber in ich oil and water are combined—two parts oil and one of water. The re- sulting vapor is utilized as an ex- plosive gas. - MRS. CLARK RETURNING Mrs. George Clark and two child- ! | ren are passengers aboard the North- land for Juneau after a visit in the!_ states. She is the wite of George Clark of the Royal Blue Cab Com- pany. Sorensen, C. B. Kay, Ralph Mer- rill in the cabin acting as observers. Brant Returns The Fisheries boat Brant arrived Juneau last night and plans to ain this evening to take up the quest once n e. Aboard the | 1S | Lester Ingle has bvu arrested by Deputy U. S. Marshals on a charge of petty larceny involving a charge | ship were nine men. of looting liquor stocks during the | Goldstein Building fire | Land Parties Out " 'y o - Two land parties ‘were put out |by this boat, one covering down near King Salmon Bay on Seymour anal and the other going through |from Seymour Canal to Oliver's In- let. At that time travel was a vir- {tual impossibility’ on account of |heavy snow Today a bright sun ocutlined |details of the shorelines. Ice | beginning to dissipate on the rocxy |beaches and melting snow has left {the trees green and clear. From the beach to approximately 400 feet elevation the ground snow is not hazardly deep. Higher levels Istill remain blanketed in a heavy |white coat. | Weather Breaks | i | spirits raised today as weather broke, giving clear visibility and smooth water. The first day of open flying has however, provided {no clues and later in the after- I the oil slick as seen by |Schwamm appeared to furnish the only slight reward for the search- | m\ efforts. A practically chopless sea permit- | ted the float planes to land and take off at will in the water | stretches around Grand Island.| Checking all foreign objects seen | on the surface, the pilots touched |their pontoons many times on| |Stephens Passage. These forays to the water sur-| face produced only floating objects such as a piece of canvas, torn gunny sacks, an old mattress, and floating tin cans. The tress sighted from the SONS OF | NORWAY | MEETING ! AT 8 P. M. SHARP Basket Social SPECIAL PROGRAM 1.0.0.F.HALL SATURDAY FEB. 18———9 P. M. fin sail aj Nunn-Bush nble fashioned. Orfoed. . all was America’s Smartest Footwear forMen... days Joel McCrea PARAMOUNT STAK I BECAUSE THEY RE Ankle-fashiomed ,“‘\‘ Nunn Bush shoes,”” Joe. McCrea . . . . eIt e ference Ank smartest footwear s more than a slogar for 3avs s actuai show us the dif ¢ makes, NIW LOW PRICES MOST STYLES $8.75 Lunch--Dancing FRED HENNING | pypric iNyITED | I“ air by Schwamm and” Harwick, ap- | proximately the shape and color of | the orange-winged Marine Airways Fmrclul(l provided momentarily an anxious ray of hope to the fliers until they landed beside it. On the lost ship now gone over five days were pilot Lon Cope, E. 5. El Juneau salesman; John Chappell, Juneau insurance man; Earl Clitford, Juneau salesman; George Chamberlain, Anchora; salesma. and Jack Lennon, 18- year-old youth of Wrangell. SIXTY DOLLAR PENSIONS NOW BEFORE HOUSE New Ham and Egger Hits Floor in Death Wake of $45 Plan Ham and eggs come back into the legislative picture. Today, Fourth Division Represen- tatives Lander and Gordon placed House bill 85 on the floor to amend the present pension laws to permit giving needy pensioners up to $60 a month Regulations require the pensioner to have lived in Alaska for five of the last nine years. Yesterday, the House defeated with an eight to eight vote, another Fourth Division bill to give pension- ers a straight $45 a month pension. R Rl | TODAY | in the |HOUSE Bills Introduced House bill 83, Coffey, “resident fishermen.” House bill 84, Rogge, by request, | appropriating hospital monies. House bill 85, Lander and Gordon, raising pension money limit. House bill 86, Smith, to establish Department of Labor and Mines. House Joint Resolution 5, to set up a Woman’s Pioneer Home Building Fund. Bills Passed Yesterday House bill 63, requiring Commis- sioners to have safe record vaults. House bill 17, minimum teachers salary measure. Senate bill 4, road appropriations. defining ) PIONEER HOME FOR WOMEN IS NOW PROPOSED IResoluhon Would Start Fund at $20,000 Each Year The women of Alaska are going | to watch with interest a resolution introduced by their champion in the House of Rrepresentatives teday, H H. McCutcheon, establishing a fund | for a women's pioneer home. The resolution, number five, would | direct the Treasurer to set aside $20,- 000 annually from the Territorial revenues for a Women's Pioneer Home Building Pund. Grounds for the resolutio; en in that “women of A entitled to as much consideration as the men, now comfortably housed, for their pioneer spirit.” ECEPTION HELD ALASKA BACK “Fon 6t 1ons TO NORMAI.(Y :Governor's;(;ne Scene o | Fourteenth Biennial Af- | fair Given Here ‘R | f 1 | l North Coasi Sails This| receiving in- | arrival from | | | i HANS Morning - Baranof Be- Last evening at the Gm‘vrnm".s‘ ki ‘Lepuon was held between 9 and lfl ATTLE, Feb. 17.—Shipping .to o'clock, honoring members of the; Winches rumbled on dock and in |5 { the ship's hold of the Alaska In receiving was Lieutenant Simp- anof, scheduled to sail Sunday|to the Governor, Harry G. Watson.| morning at 9 o'clock for Southeast| In the receiving line were ! ing the full resumption of service ret Bender, Secretary of the Ter- to Alaska. The Baranof will carry ritory E. L. Bartlett, Mrs. James S. With the Northland and Tongass Mr. and Mrs. Oscar G. Olson, Mr. already Alaska bound, the North|and Mrs. Anthony E. Karnes, Pre. freight and passengers, sailed for |Senator 0. D. Cochran, Senator J. Southeast Alaska ports at 10:30 | H. Patterson, Senator and Mrs. Vic- | " 8 Y The Alaska Steamship Company Henry Roden, Senator and Mrs. Le announces the Cordova will sail| ROy M. Sullivan, Senator J. S. Hof- Speaker of the House Howard with freight and passengers, and 2 the Yukon will sail as scheduled, 'L‘““ Representative and Mrs. Jam- The Northland Trampux-muun”:mp J‘gf;“‘“&c(‘:‘u"r‘,’;ies:"“:(‘)"‘;es:“fE Company announces that Lho v i 1 EYERLES uvc and Mrs, H. H. McCutcheon, Juneau on the present voyage, re- Representative W. J. Dowd, Repre- schedule Friday, February 24. | tative Garnet Martin, R(‘])l‘l“'h.i\-\ SR i ; '\enlauve Karl E. Drager, Represen- | MEASURE Io | tive and Mrs. Leo W. Rogge, Repre- | | sentative Frank Gordon, Represen- (REATE NEw tative Jesse T.'Lander, Representa- Those assisting in cluded: Mrs. Frank Dufresne, Mrs. Wil-| liam E. Britt, Mrs. T. M. Reed, Mrs. | WOUId Make commlSSIOfl | Mrs. G. E. Cleveland, Mrs. Guy M(-‘ | Naughton, Mrs. Charles W. Haw er's Chair Elective | Seorn . Howard Thompeon, Mss.| | George Folta, Mrs. Charles Fox, Mrs. | -$5,000 Salary — | Naghel, Mrs. Wellman Holbrook, | The long awaited bill to create a|Mrs. J. F. Worley, Mrs. J. Pegues, | discussed several days ago in The|Gray, Mrs. G. E. Krause, Mrs. Walter | Empire, has reached the House Hellan, Mrs. L. P. Dawes, Mrs. Frank | The measure was introduced to- | 1on day by Representative Smith in| Following the reception dancing original shape on the hours of 10 and 12:30 o'clock Washington, D. C with Wesley Barrett and his orche a Department of Labor and Mines |€Vening selections were sung by to supercede the present Depart-|Mary Beme and Egnest Ehler, the Department would be appointed | Frances Wheeler, 7 by the Governor for the remainder | 110 Who assisted with the re- eral election when'the oMfice holder R e M will be decided at the polls for his | orr F€ P TayIon Miss Gladys Fore 3 e | Stewart, Mrs. L. H. Metzgar, Mrs.| U‘r_"‘”’ se of the act, the measure | yyijiam' Holzheimer, M James | velfare of the Alaska wage earner| ;. . Connors, Mrs. Jack Hellenthal, | land to improve his working con-|y\y C. E. Rice, Mrs. | T. Mahoney, | | Mrs. H. L. Faulkner. ‘ Alexander, Mrs. Agnes Ads Ernest Ehler, Mrs. Minard Mill, Mrs. (OMING NORI hend Mrs. R. L. Bernard, Mrs. R. J. SEATTLE, Feb. 17.—John Chz\m- whose son, George Chamberlain, is missing aboard the Cope plane, is for Ketchikan, accompanied by his ! wife. Another | again Percy Reynolds and Ken Junge | 1 birthday's with a| joint stag party, held last night at! Approximately twenty guests were | prescnt for the occasion. | COMING HERE the Pioneers’ Home at Sitka, is com- ing to Juneau today on the Alaska Simmons. Monday Night February 20 Given by . Wesley Barrett's Orchesira ing Loaded for Sunday |some, e tourteenth biennial re- Alaska is again back to normal | Territorial Legislature and their wiv- Steamship Company’s steamer Bar-|son J. MacKinnon, and Secretary| { and Southwest Alaska ports, mark- jovernor John W. Troy, Mrs. Rob- 2 large cargo of fresh food Truitt, Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Boyle, Coast, loaded to capacity with|dent of the Senate N. R. Walker, o'clock this morning. |tor C. Rivers, Senator and Mrs during the middle of next week, | | man, Senator C. H. LaBoyteaux. Saturday, February 25 s V. Dx . Representative and Mrs. Norhiasd. Wi ohly g0 s far tative Wallace Porter, Representa- | turning here in time to go out on| . i.¢ive 3 P, Anderson, Represen- | tative Harvey J. Smith, Representa- t,ivc Chester T. Spencer. Claude M. Hirst, Mrs. J. M. Clark, | | Noble G. Ricketts, Mrs. Charles E. | Department of Labor and Mines, | Mrs. Charles G. Warner, Mrs. Felix | floor, | Metcalf, Mrs, Simpson MacKin- | a much abbreviated form from its | Was enjoyed in the ballroom between First, the bill would establish|tra providing the music. During the| ment of Mines, while the head of | COmPanied at the piano by of time until the next g freshments last ev were: Mrs. 5,000 a year salary | est, Mrs. S. Hellenthal, Mrs. B. D.| Is to foster and promote the|yyjcersham, Mrs. E. H. Kaser, Mrs. | Jitions William B. Jans Kirk, Mrs. William - ’(HAMBERI.AINS | Mrs. R. E. Robertson, M | lc. P. Jenne, Mrs. William White- | berlain, veteran broker of Alaska,| a passenger aboard the North Coast >kt o year has rolled by and| celebrated their | the Reyonlds home on First Street. | Eiler Hansen, Superintendent of | Air Transport plane, piloted by Shell Parish Hall ion $1.00 Leisure-time Foot | Mary VanderLeest, Miss Mary Clare - Good New |inois candy 1657 {during the year, ac-|a Miss | § The House of Daniel Green HANDS ACROSS THE BORDER were clasped by Gov. Robert T. Jones (left) of Arizona and Gov. Roman Yocupicio of Sonora, Mexico, shown at international border at Nogales, Ariz., and Nogales, Sonora. They exchanged expressions of good will and discussed plans for a highway as well as the 400th observance of the first trip into Arizona by a white man. A. H. Zeigler, Mrs. Esther Metzgar, Mrs. I. Goldstein Mrs. N. S. Fulford, Mrs. R. C. Sar- ratt, Mrs. Alice Coughlin, Mrs, Elmer A. Friend. Miss Jane Alexander, Mrs. G. Shepard, Mrs. J. C. Cooper, Mrs. Clarence Olsen, Mrs. Everett Now- ell, Mrs. K. MacLean, Mrs. Charles Sabin, Mrs. M. E. Monagle, Mrs. Keith G. Wildes, Mrs. Joe Green Mrs. Harold Knight, Mrs. N. L Troast, Miss Pear]l Peterson Mrs. Catherine Gregory Ross, Miss Lucile Fox, M Coulter, Mrs. Stella Young, Mrs. R. D. Dean, Miss Mary Wildes, Miss Elisabeth Kaser, Mrs. W. A. Chip- perfield, Miss Sybil Godfrey, Mr: Gertrude Naylor, Mrs. H. 1. Lucas, Miss Bess Millard, M Mrs. David Ramsey, Mrs Blanton, Miss Mildred Apland, Sommers, Mrs. J. Mrs. V. s Etolin Miss Hellenthal, Miss Carol Rober Miss Phyllis Jenne, Mrs. Jesta merman. " ILLINOIS SATISFIES MOST SUGAR-TEETH CHICAGO, Few. i7.—Iilinois led all other states in candy making dur- ing 1937. Federal figures sh plants, KII\\- employing 13,- employees on a payroll total- 1 $13,625.578, produced $90,371,- 121 worth of confectionery products third supply d with lvania $30.626,- the nation’s $305.839,: New Ya state rated secc output; Penn: achusetts of 62 w that 108 Til- | ) name [TODAY | in the ENATE Introduced Bill No. 54, by Roden, insurance associations. enate Bill No. 55, by River licensing construction business firms and banking establishments. Senate Bill No. 56, by Rivers, declaring it the policy of the Terri- tory to cooperate with the Federal Government in flood control and viver and harbor pl'oy‘('t" Give lls the Senate licensing Days DETROIT, Michigan, Feb, 17 Ira G. 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