The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 10, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASK TWELVE PAGES “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1939. MEMBLER VOL. LIIL, NO. 8047. WHOLESALE LIQUOR, FISH TRAP BILLS DIE LEGISLATURE VOTES FOUR BILLION PLUS Appropriatio}hill Agreed on at 9 o'Clock This Morning ECONOMIES MADE IN ALL-NIGHT SESSION Fingerprim—A;propriafion Cut Out of Final Bill as Adopied A general uppm])lmnon bill call- ing for expenditure during the coming biennium of $3,507,390 was finally passed by both houses of the ture at 9 o'clock this morn- after an all night session. With adoption of a free confer- ence committee report on the meas- | vote of seven to one in| Senate.and by a rising vote in | House, and with the ning of the bill by Governor John W. Troy several hours later, after it had been engrossed, the session of the 14th Territorial Legislature came to an end. The appropriation, with addition of the $800,000 road appropriation which has always heretofore been part of the general appropriation bill, the total voted was $4,307,390. This is the largest appropriation ever approved for the Territory. Bill Praised ure’ by the the Romance Links Egypt, Persia legislators and Territorial uf- ficials, however, were unanimous in! their approval today of the impor- tant bill, the general opinion being that the money was well spent and well within the estimated revenues for the biennium. The bill was passed originally by the House last Saturday and by the Senate at 10 o'clock last night. It went back to the House, after being mimeographed, and the House agreed to all Senate amend- ments except 12, disagreements over which were thrashed out by a free conference committee of each house in the early morning hours. While the Legislators took cat- naps in their chairs or walked the corridors of the second floor of the Federal Building, the commit- tees, consisting of Senators Victor C. Rivers, LeRoy Sullivan and Joe Hofman, and Representatives Ed Coffey, Wallace Porter and Leo Rogge, straightened out all diffi- culties. The free conference to 9 oclock before making their reports, which were accepted with- out discussion by each house. Final major operations pexrmmed by the committees early today were striking of the $10,000 for carrying the criminal identification bill into effect; striking of $30,000 for voca- tional education and $8.000 for cor- respondence courses; raising the ap- propriation for the employment service from the $10,000 to which it had been cut by the Senate to $20,000; bobbing of $11,800 for the Department of Public Welfare ap- propriation, and striking of the $4,000 item which the Senate had tacked on to the measure for the Territorial Chamber of Commerce. An item for salaries of Associate Mining Engineers under the Com- missioner of Mines was restored to $21,600 from the $12,000 to which the Senate had slashed it. Reinserted at insistence of the House conference committee was an appropriation of $8,000 for indus- trial and agricultural fairs, which had been stricken by the Senate. As finally enacted, the appropria- tions for the biennium beginning April 1, 1939, are as follows: Office of the Governor Additional salary of Secretary to Governor, $720 per annum, $1,440; salary of Assistant to the Secretary to Governor, - $2,700 per annum, $5,400; salary of two stenogra- phers, $2,100 per annum, $8,400; additional special service. $1,800; contingent office expense, including dissemination of information about Alaska and publication and circu- lation of pamphlets and booklets, under direction of the Governor, $2,500; repairing and furnishing Governor’s house and upkeep of | entertainment at $2,000; total, grounds, $2,000; Governor's house, $23,540. (Continued on Page Eigho) committees | labord from 6 o'clock this morning | s B ouk of Egypt, is to vi, crown prince of t a.umem. cnu.ntrie: ROMAN(E BlOSSOMS OUT IN LEGISLATIVE HALLS JUSTTHE CHINESE FORCES ARE SAID TO BE CAUGHT IN TRAP Japanese War Planes Are Bombing and Machine Gunning Thousands SHANGHAI, March 10. —Japa- ‘nv\v war planes ranged over the northeasternmost corner of Kiang- su Province today, bombing and I machine gunning Chinese forces re- ported trapped in an ea of 60| square miles. 1t is said the only escape left for thousands of Chinese regulars | and guerillas is to slip through the lines of the Japanese mop-up of- | fensive or take to the Yellow Sea |in junks or sampans. Opposes Reindeer Purchase (Two Represeniahves 0Ob- jefcto Appropriation During Debate WASHINGION March 10.—Re- | presentative Dudley A. White, Re- | publican of Ohio, during the debate | today an the Interior Department’s appropriation bill, joined Represen- tative William M, Colmer, Demo- | erat of Mississippi, in opposing the | | | | toration of Alaska reindeer to the natives | Representative White said he saw {no reason why the Government should “pull the .chestnuts out of the fire” ‘when private interests ~ | failed to make a go of the business. appropriation of $1,070,000 for res-| SAME AS LAWS | v N GROVER WASHINGTON, March 10 ur's romance in them thar Leg- | islative Hall | Take Senator Jersey. Late last session he sitting on the Senate floor Pepper of Florida. Sma- thers spotted Mrs. Pepper in the Senate: wives' gallery. Beside her !was a lovely girl with a Florida complexion and a Broadway flair. More than once his eyes \vandere(l up there, then he turned to Sena- |tor Pepper. But Pepper beat him |to the draw. | “I know, I know,” said Pepper. |“It is Mary Jim Foley. She is a | friend of my wife's and she is from Winter Haven. Come up to the| :"dllvr\ and I'll introduce you.” | “But I can't leave the floor just | now,” said Smathers. He had a bit | |of legislation pending. “Then T'll introduce you from | up there,” said Pepper, starting loff. But he returned abruptly. “If you are inviting' her to dinner at | the Shoreham tonight let me know so I won't have to make two trips {up there.” Smathers grinned. Sure, he was inviting her to dinner. HOW D’YA DO! Pepper went to the gallery, sat beside his wife and Mary Jim, pointed out Smathers and went through the business of making an introduction by pantomime. From the floor, Smathers smiled -and bowed. “And Senators Smnthers Ls mvlb ing you to dinner at the Shoreham tonight,” added Pepper. “And I am accepting, Jim. So they had dinner at the Shore- | ham that night, and on several other nights, and presently Sen- ator Smathers went down fo Win- ter Haven to prove to her parents that he was a man of sterling char- acter and good repute. After some three months of courting they were married, “And how did you meet your wife, Senator Pepper?” - “Well,” said Pepper, “I was in the hall of the state legislature at Tallahassee and I saw in the gal- lery a beautiful girl in a bright yellow dress. That was the girl for me, I knew right away.” : (Continued on Page Seven) . with Senator Smathers of New was | Alaska” | said Mary BONE FEARS | WARDANGER INCREASING Urges Referendum by| People on Matter of Declaration of War WASHINGTON, March 10—Sen- | ator Homer T. Bone, of the State of | Washington, today asserted that | “No force stands between the man | in the White House and plunging| of this country into a bloody war.” Bone added: “Because of that, the people .\hould vote on any de- claration of war.” The remarks were Bone was arguing before the Sen- | ate Naval Committee on behalf of | the proposed war referemdum am-‘. endment to the Constitution. ¢ Senator Bone declared the Legis- lative branch is a “futile instru- ment” in preventing war. | Congress has the Constitutional | right to declare war, but Bone said | | he didn't belizve that constituted any barrier, because the forces of propaganda could be brought: to| bear on members of Congress and | Committees. The debate on the question was| born in the suggestion of Stephen | Raushenbush, former Chief Inves-| the Senate Munitions suggesting that Con- s should set up a public gom- | jon to consult the President as| to his foreign policy. - while made | | | 4 ! ¥ MiS$ REEDSTROM - IS "MISS ALASKA" | AT ICE CARNIVAL Elghteen Year- 0Id Blonde| from Seward Wins Beauly Coniest FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 10— | | Miss Irene Reedstrom, 18-year-old — | beautous blonde from Seward, won, the All-Alaska beauty contest spon- Prince Juan, youngest living son and his wife, the former It become king and queen ol & she monarchy Spain Schoolgirls, as well as boys, are coming in for their share of pest girls handle their rifles with soldierly precision as res Prince Juan and Princess Maria Mercedes Incess Maria Mercedes of Bourbon, may {o that war-torn country. | _of nu"muhnn_ military training in Hungary. These Buda- ult of daily drills and rifle practice as port oy Becom Spa'sRoyal Heads| Furopean | conference, according to the news- of former King Alfonso of Spain, | if Gen. Francisco Franco restores NEW YORK, March 10.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine 5%, b K DOW, JONES AVERAGES | | sored by the Fairbanks Ice Carni-| [val and has been acclaimed “Miss | for 1939. This blue eyed Northern beauty | is a coed of the University of Al-| aska. She was born in Nenana, Al-} | aska. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. | ank]m Reedstrom and they live "TO0TS” DUNLAP “Miss Alaska” is a pure Nordic type and won recognition among | Iher fellow students at the reuem‘ plEADS GullIY Military Ball at the University of Al- r aska where she was selected Honor- A('I (ASE ary Coed Commander by her fel- A“N low students. “Miss Alaska” will preside over | {all of the Fairbanks Ice Carnival H H H | festivities including the coronntlon'case AgalflSf Wlfe IS DlS' tonight, the spectacular demonstra- . | tion at the picturesque Ice Palace; MISSOd i TO Be Sen' ‘and Eskimo Igloo Village on the banks of the Chena River, following 'eMEd Tomorrow the big parade. | LA Miss Reedstrom was chosen “Miss i Alaska” in competition with beauty | SEATLE, March 10— E Fing, Queens from Juneau, Fairbanks, | 42, alias M. M. Dunlap, former sec- Anchorage and Nome. ”rf‘lsry of the Alaska Salmon Purse Five Judges were from non-com- | Seiner's Union with headquarters peting Alaska and Yukon Territory *' Ketchikan, pleaded guilty today towns, miles apart. They made the '° 2 charge of conspiracy to vio- award of honor. y late the Mann Act. | i i | Both Pling, or Dunlap, an is thy’éso]ii‘edé:&mmxwx;sfi?ts:g wife were indicted on a charge of Francisco t6 represent Alaska. transporting a woman to Ketchikan, —— ? but the case was dismissed as to Mrs. Fling, for insufficient evidence. Fling is to be sentenced tomorrow. JAPAN AROUSED v ~Repr|sals Are Indicated for siock today 1 5%, American Can American Power and Light lemg Chmese Fi- ,'Anaconda, 29%, Bethlehem Steel . . , Commonwealth and Southern I'lan(lal Alfl 1%, Curtiss Wright common §%, General Motors 51%, International TOKYO, March 10, — Japanese | Harvester 65, Kennecott 38t, New newspapers said Japah will take YO k Central 20 Northern Pa- counter action against Great Brit- cific 12%, Southern Pacific 18%, ain for comtributing $25.000000 to United States Steel 64 Pound 4 Chinese Corporation to stabilize $1069 China’s foreign currency. The Foreign Office spokesman refused ‘to comment whether Japan is planning any retaliation and the | newspapers gave no inkling of the reprisals to be suggested. The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 152.32, |rails 33.37, utilities 26.52. | A1 OF SENATES BILLS ENACTED BY LEGISLATURE, {Russia Told fo Renew Fish- Measires Introduced by Solons Cover Wide Range Subjects Forty-one Senate bills were en- acted this session and have been recorded among the 1939 session laws. The Senate measures which passed both houses were as follows: | Senate bill No. 1, to make un-! known heirs of deceased persons defendants in suits relating to real propperty. Senate bill No. 2, effectuating Fed- eral copyright laws. Senate bill No. 3, amending the unemployment compensation law. Senate bill No. 4, appropriating $800,000 for roads. | Senate bill No. 5, returning over-| pald taxes of $147.82 to Grace Lowe of Livengood. Senate bill No. 8, including cold | storage plants and cannerigs among enterprises which may be operated by Public Utility Districts. Senate bill No. 9, npproprlaung‘ $20,000 for construction of a hos- | pital at Seldovia. H Saloon Bill | Senate bill No. 10, providing for! sale of hard liquor by, the drink| under licenses of $500 and $1000. . ! | be | has been told to warn Soviet Russia Situafion DEADLOCK UNABLE T0 BE BROKEN ?Conferen(eam miftees | Unable fo Agree on ; Amendments \TWO SESSIONS ARE HELD ON MEASURES jMuch Legislafion Enacled During Final Morn- ing Hours BULLETIN—The House went back into its last meeting of the Fourteenth Session at 1:50 o'~ clock this afternoon and after committees had been sent to the Governor and to the Senate, advising of pending adjourn- ment, youngest member of the House, W. J. Dowd, moved for adjournment sine die, the mo- tion was seconded, carried, and the Fourteenth House adjourned . Improving Some Fornt of Limited Dis-| armamenf Foreseen— Plan Conference l‘\(’"h‘ limited informed roved of thi svernimnent The Daily Mall says Prime Minis- | ter Chamberlain plans to call a con- ference of bhig Powers to consider calling a halt in the arms race, This paper, may be called before the end of the summer. The scope of the conference may extended to include economic problems, JAPAN MAKES DIRETHREAT, SOVIET UNION ing Privilege or Take Consequences TOKYO, March 10.—Japan has dispatched decisive instructions to her Ambassador in Moscow in con- nection with the fishing rights dis- pute with the Soviet Union and about the same time the Foreign Office spokesman, dealing with an- other of Japan's foreign problems, criticized the British support of the Central Chinese Government's cur- rency to the extent of $25,000,000. The spokesman advised Great Bri- tain to throw her financial support behind the Japanese. It is believed the Moscow Envoy | that Japan will resort to free fish-| ing unless Moscow renews the Jap- anese privileges of fishing in Sib- erian territorial waters. TRAIN HITS AUTO; 3 MEN, after sixty official days. The official ndjourning time of Senate is 2:06 o'clock this aft- ernoon and the House 2:14 o'~ clock, The Territory will not go into the wholesale liquor business, and the immediate abolition of fish traps will not be recommen- ded. At an early hour this morning, with Legiplative clocks tpoaed back, frec powers -eonfererce conunittces returmed to the House for the second time and reported a hopelessly dead- locked condition as to any chance of the Senate backing dewn frem its amendments to the trap memorial and the ritorial wholesale liguor bill. No Progress Returning from these second conferences, and reporting mno progress, it was apparent two of the most debated measures of the Fourteenth Session had been relegated to the scrap heap. On the trap memorial ques- tion, as originally passed in the House, it was asked that traps be immediately abolished, and that such was a platform of the Democratic party convention a few years ago at Seward. The measure passed the Sen- ate after bitter battle, but was called back in reconsideration and the reference to the party platform stricken, One Viewpoint During committee parleys on the question it was insisted by Representative Anderson on the House floor that only “abelition” was asked for in the platform, and not “immediate.” In two successive meetings with Hous econference Commit- tees, the Senate refused to budge an inch, Senator Patterson say- ing there had “been a slip-up” on the memorial that could not be repaired, and that “Fourth and Second Divisioners had kill- ed the measure because they were afraid the loss of revenue would cause an increase in the gold tax.” Liquor Question On the wholesale liquor ques- tion, it was plain that before the committees gave up the job of getting the Senalc and House together, the biggest stumbling block was the saliry of the Ad- ministrator of the proposed board, which the Senate had amended to be $10,000 instead of $4,000. That particular amendment, along with a multitude of dthers that left the measure in emascu- lated form, effcctively bogged the bill. 3 Clab Cocktails After a grandioguent speech zesticulating - Representative u:y. Cutcheon, telling heart rending tal- es of Elks giving coal to stricken widows huddled in cold and friendless -cablss, the House last WOMAN DEAD Senate bill No. 11, appropriating | $5,000 for expenses incurred by Donald MacDonald in connection with the plans for the Alaska In- ternational Highway. AKRON, Ohio, March 10.—Three men and one woman were killed last night at a ecrossing in suburban Cuyahoga, when their auto. was night passed the Third Division Representative’s club cocktaly mq- | sure At tirst the measure was lflhfl the Senate, but on ] ‘% of the vote, was passed bfl\e i ing House where it _passed m Senate bill No, 13, reducing the in- struck by the Capitol Limited, a | difticulty, terest rate on town of Wrungellw bonds held by the Territory. Senate bill No, 15, lpproprfating «::o}mfiued on Page Two) streamlined Baltimore | passenger train. — et The ordinary ‘henrlng is over nine octaves. and Ohio As the law stands, Iraternal ¢ yanizations may serve liquor the club rooms tos members (Continued on Page Six) range of human