The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 19, 1940, Page 8

BASKETBALL TONIGHT January 18 CITY LEAGUE GAMES First Game at 7:30 P. M. HIGH SCHOOL GYMNASIUM Use Sixth Street Entrance ONLY! DGUGLAS 6TH GRADE vs. JUNEAU 6TH HAIDA vs. KRAUSE DOUGLAS HI vs. JUNEAU HI FLKS CABARET DANCE For Members in Good Standing SAT., JAN. 20 MUSIC BY STAN COX ORCHESTRA Dancmg Starts at 10:30 P. M. Refreshments 00 B amee wa THE DAIL\ ALASKA EMPIR!: FRIDAY JAN 19, 1 940 e o2 e ROOSEVELT | 'WINSALASKA DELEGATION ‘Terrifory"s#Daegates In- structed to Support "If"" Candidacy (Continuea tigation of the Alaska Rallroad, for | a similar investigation of rates charged by steamship lines operat- ing to the Territory and abolition of all highway tolls. Resolutions This afternoon delegates acting on a sheaf of resolutions. Those passed up to press time pro- vided as follows: 1. Endossing an appropriation for pupil transportation. 2. Asking a system of flood con- trol for the Matanuska Valley. 3. Urging that the headquarters © of the Bureau of Fisheries for Al- aska be established in the Terri- tery and maintained the year around. 4. Referring to were the Territorial Central Committee the matter of | establishing and endorsing Young Democratic Clubs in Alaska 5. Referring to the Legislature a request to ask Congress to amend | the organic act to provide for s recall statute, Tax Btucy 6. Asking the Legislature to| study patented and unpmcnwd mining claims, with the object of placing an equitable tax on such claims. 7. Instructing Delegates to vote for Roosevelt if he is a candidate and for Farley if the President is not a candidate, 8. Declaring it the sense of the Convention that bonafide perman- ent residents of Alaska be given priority in employment in the fish- ing industry both as to fishing and a5 to canneries. 9. Expressing willingness to cooperate with Gov. Ernest Gru- ening in all matters for the bene- fit and advancement of the Ter- ritory. Late Night Session In a session which lasted almost until midnight, the convention last night elected delegates to the Na- tional convention and perfected par- ty organization for the campaign and for the next four years. Hopes of some of the delegates to get away on.the steamer North _ Coast last night went glimmering There is no substitute for Newspaper Advertising as the business of nominating and balloting continued past the sailing hour, with the important matter of platform and resclutions still un- touched. National Delegates I BERT"S CASH GROCERY Quality! Price! Service! You Will Find Them All Here! —— JUST -PHONE 105! gf HOBMEL—HIahell Quality BACON JC Lean—No Rind Pound 3 9 (HEESE ——TILLAMOOK —— OFF THE BIG < HEEL! 'Z:I("FPEE 49c OUR SP’ECML— ‘Cups With the Best” COOKIES —- KLEENEX ELEAN. 33«: | TOILET TISSU LUTHERAN LADIES’ COOKED Don | l'orgel'— FOODS SALE —— RITZ CRACKERS gg’gf 'fiTs 211 Seward Street Large Roll . T BROS.—— HOME MADRONA SlLK BACON Any Size Piece. WAX PAPER s 33C Pound 25¢ 20c¢ HAPPY HOME 3doz.30¢ PIG BARS 2 lbs. NBC Whole Wheat 4 rolls 25¢ 29c¢ Here Saturday! Large Box 29 ¢ TWO PHONES 105 Delegates to the National Conven- | [Uon weré elecled as Iolluwx John W. Troy, Delegate Anghony J. Di- mond O. D. Cochrane ;qof Nome, James Campbell and Harvey Smith |of Anchorage, and Luther Hess of Fairbanks. Alternates will be H. R Vander- :Leest and Mrs. Robert Bender of Juneau, M. J. Walsh of Nome, Mike Haas of Anchorage, Harry Phillips |and Pred ‘A. Sorri of Fairbanks. New Officers | Oscar G. Olson of Juneau was elected National Committeeman, suc- ceeding Jack Hellenthal of Juneau, by a vote of 59 to 21 over Lu!hex C. Hess of Fairbanks. Mrs. Bertha Perrine of Palmer was elected National Committee- woman by a vote of 53 to 27 over the incumbent, Mrs. William A. Holzheimer of Juneau. Howard Lyng of Nome was elected Chairman of the Territorial Com- mittee. He was without opposition. ' i Central Committee A new Territorial Central Com- mittee was elected as follows: | First Division—Van H. Pisk of Wrangell, Frank Chinella of Juneau, Mrs. James Wick of Ketchikan, Mrs. J. J. Conway of Sitka. Second Division—E. L. Kell of Nome, Chris Roush of Candle, Mrs. Ethel Marx of Teller, Mrs. Jemue[ O'Farrell of Nome. Third Division—Mike Haas of An- | chorage, Dr. J. H. Young of Cor- dova, Mrs. Alice Kennedy of Seward, Mrs. Ivy DeLand of Palmer. Fourth Division—Harry Phillips, Mrs. Dorothy Loftus, Mrs, Annella | Davis of Fairbanks, and C. P, Shel- ton of Fort Yukon. S e ALBERTAN SAYS ALASKAROADTO GO BY INTERIOR Declares Coastal Route Is Imprach(able—Amer- icans to Pay CALGARY, Jan 19.—The propos- ed United States-Alaska Highway | will be built through Alberta, W. A. Fallow, Alberta Minister of Public ,Works told the Social Credit League convention' last ‘night. . Fallow said: “No matter what.| Premier Pattullo may say, I'l :L@ke* my personal reputation on the high- way going through Alberta.” Alberta completed last summer, a | 250-mile leg of the road, Fallow said, from Grimshaw in the Péace River | district to Great Slave Lake. “The trouble with the British Co- lumbia route,” said Fallow, /is that | it's not passable in winten; They | have nine months of swinter ' in | there.” Continuing, Fallow declared: “Am- ericans have already named the road | for us as the ‘Highway to the Mid- night Sun,’ and 340,000,000 people are anxious to drive . their cars through to Alaska, even to the ex-| ‘ten! of putting up money for the road.” | | ?Poflery Shower | Compliment fo | Miss J. Whittier First t ohonor Miss Mary Jean- nette Whittier, bride-elect of Mr. Robert Cowling, were Mrs, R. L. Davlin and Mrs, Burford O‘rmicl1~i ael, who entertained last evening at the Davlin residence on Dixon Street with dessert-bridge and a pottery shower, Many lovely pieces of Franciscan | ware were opened by the guest of | honor. During the evening” honors| for bridge were won by Mrs. Mar- cus Jensen, first, and Mrs. Edward Sweeney, second. Honors for Tri- poli were presented to Mrs.-R. M. Akervick, Those asked for the cccasion were Mrs. M. J. Whittier, ert Rice, Mrs. Marcus Jensén, Mrs. John B. Halm, Mrs. Robert Hénning, Mrs. Fred Henning, Mrs, -Edward Sweeney, Mrs. R. M. Avervick, Miss Clara Walther and Miss Sybll God- frey. Finnish Visitor Maurice Ansel . : | One of the first persons to come:to" the United States from Helsinki since Russia started its mvui-‘ll Finland, Maurice Ansel, arrives in New York to arrange shi wood pul to Finland, w! % _most d pulp from Eledrified !ince. Noe fo Fight i writ of habeas corpus on grounds Mrs. Harold | Brown, Mrs. Lau Hudson, Mrs. Rob- | SABOTAGE SUSPECTED Investigation on Made in Ex-| plosion of Royal Gun Powder Fadory LONDON, Jan 19, — Scotland and experts are today investigat- | ing the possibility that sabotage caused yesterdays explosion of the Royal gunpowder factory at Wal- tham Abbey where five persons were killed and heavy damage to surrounding property resulted. m:“ PLAN IS ADVANCED FOR LOAN TO FINLAND WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—Senator | Brown, Democrat of Michigan, said | today a modified plan for a loan to Finland is being worked out by ex- perts of the RFC. » : | J 15% ; v j ._ | Canadian Discount | Orient’s Gift to the U. S. | } 1 B. M. Behrends Bank. First. National Bank. YOU CAN'T BUY A % BETTER BEER ‘Z | f V Barrier Put AlongRhine AMSTERDAM, Jan. 19.—Germany is said to be erecting a barrier of electrified wire along the Rhine frontier in the Guelderland Prov- The barrier is six feet high of wire netting. RS N S Linda Brent, 20, voted the most beautiful white girl in the Orient by the Shanghai International Settlement, won her first trip to America and is pictured in her New York hotel suite. Her mother, a Russian actress, died while Linda was young; her father, an Austrian aviator, was killed in the World War, and Linda was adopted by H. G. MacKenzie, U. S. Searrie Brewin & Mavtine Co. customs official at Shanghai. Sincc 1878 4 Emil Sick, President QllllIIIHIIIIIIIIIIHHIIIIllIllIIIIHI|lIIllllllllllIIIIIIIIIIHIIIII IIIIIHHIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIImIIIIIIIIIHHIIIIII %] 16 Gov.E.Long NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 18.—State Senator James A. Noe announces he 1 will support Sam Jones in the runoff Democratic. primary next month against Gov. Earl Long, who failed to secure a majority vote in last Tuesday's primary. Reform groups predict this means the death blow |to the Long regime. Noe was third iman in the race for the Governor- ship. 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