The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 30, 1941, Page 2

Charleston ‘;Proposed Incréase, Public Debt, Will " Meet AIIfiDemands' Calling Here k3 | T | WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—Secre- oml"g tary of Treasury Henry Morgen- |thau said although the Army and |Navy plans great purchases, he is overly optimistic that the $65,000.- 000,000 public debt limit should cover |1l needs for the next fiscal year, re- gardless of the needs to aid Britain Official Inspection Being Made of Alaska Ports by Navy, Army Men 'BIRTHDAY BALL PROMISES T0 BE "GREAT AFFAIR" Dance Will Be at Elks’ Ball Room - Reservations Open for Card Party Dr. Courtney Smith, General Chairman of the President's Birth- day Ball, announces that Norman! Banfield, Chairman of the Dance, lrreight. and take on 40 passengers KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Jan. 30— Continuing the first such combined and Army Survey of Alaska, its and ship building facilities, the U. S. 8. Charleston will leave here sw morning for Prince Ru- which was missed when the schedule was changed to tom pert original brin chak survivors to Ketchikan Capt. R Parker, Commander of he Alaska Sector of the Navy, an- nounced he will continue to Juneau Sitka next week after inspect- me canneries in Southeast Al- and later to the westward, rdova r and from there di- which he left Janu- and in as calling Dutch eattle, Parker said he will complete ige about March 15 irvey is no military secret,” The aid Capt. Parker 'We are just finding out what will be available when the time comes.” Army’s Side Representing the Army's side, Col Thomas L. Martin, Col. John Har- rington, of the Presidio, Cal, and Major Frank L. Beadle and Capt Russell Vincent “from other point will inspect cold storage, fuel and food plants also other defense items giving particular attention here and other Alaskan ports. Capt.’ Parker éxpressed the opin- ion Ketchikan has better machine and shipbuilding equipment than any other place in Alaska, the best north of Vancouver, “however I do not see anything on the horizon about shipbuilding here.” TERRITORIAL TREASURER'S REPORT OUT The biennial report oi Territorial | Treasurer Oscar G. Olson the condition of the Territory ous funds, was issued today The report shows a net cash bal- ance of $637,436.91 in the Territorial treasury as of December 31 the U. S. Army transport Kvi- | | Seward, then to Important Guild Meeting Set for Tomgrrow at 2 An important business meeting of Mrs. C. T. Gardner on the High- way. Arrangements will be complet- ed and committees named for the Valentine tea to be held February 14 All members are urged to be present. ARG NURSE PARR ON TRIP To follow up studies on a special ap of native children begun three will be held by the Senior Guild of | Holy Trinity Cathedral at the home | has arranged for an interesting eve- Ining as master-of-ceremonies. The Elks’ ballroom will be espec- | ially decorated for the occasion Sat- urday evening, which is scheduled to start at 10 o'clock. There will be a prize waltz, for which the lady of the winning couple will be presented | with a bouquet through the com- | plements of the Juneau Fjorists. A special square dance and other nov- elties are also listed, with Lillian ‘Uggen and her orchestra providing | “extra special” music and enter- | tainment for the affair. i The card party committee urges | that all those planning to play pro- | gressive or pivot bridge or those to engage in pinochle, call Mrs. Wallis | years ago by the Office of Indian | George for reservations by tomor- Affairs, Miss Erma Parr left recent- | .oy evening. Cards will be in play |ly for Skagway and Haines to make ot 9 o'clock in the Baranof Hotel a check-up on those children wWho Gold Room and Lounge and first {had removed from their districts to|second and consolation awards will the Lynn Canal cities | be made for both men and women A DISTRICT RANGERS | i o il ghirod o GIVEN NEW NAME | Juneau merchants. Charles W. Carter and Charles ‘Beale announced today that they .. |were meeting with good success in 1 i gers | o v,:‘;?bl‘:‘;flpninfe::-l:t;es :”m‘!‘;their solicitations for the Birthday b ok headquar- | gaj) and A. B. Phillips and Calvin ers at Juneau, Ketchikan and pe'(Poole urge everyone who has coin tersburg, have been changed to that | cards to fill them in with as many of Division Supervisor. This change‘s and 10 cent pieces as they can has been made in order that the| title may more fully signify the du- | m]:nd TRRUEE- g a8 Soor 45 ties of the men. ’ W. W. Council states that Sat- b i ’*’f‘ urday“ night's nf{alr promises to Mrs. J- H. Dav'es be a “great event” by the way the Is Honored Today tickets are going. ->oo As a compliment to Mrs. J. H. Davies of Ketchikan, Mrs. J. W. Leivers entertained this afternoon (ASE WILL 60 10 with luncheon and three tables of j“RY m mm bridge at her home on Distin Ave- Faud The case of the United States The honoree is visiting in Juneau| ;:rscl;:arc:dm:ll:: Hoogen]d om.flwlho with her sister, Mrs. J. A. Williams. | . 8 VS oy e 2 R tion, will go to a jury in District | Court at 10 o'clock tomorrow |MRS. BLOOM, SONS ) HERE FROM INTERIOR | Mmorning. Final arguments were| completed today at 11:30 o'clock. Mrs. William Bloom, wife of the The Petersburg fur buyer’s at- torneys attempted to establish to- North '(o,as|> Southbound Returning from Sitka with 17 passengers for Juneau, the soutn- bound North Coast, master, A. J. Borkland, purser, Paul E. Richers, docked in Gastineau Channel at 4 am. this morning to discharge for the south, The vessel sailed for Seattle and Southeast Alaska ports at 4 p.n. today. Passengers arriving from Sitka— W. J. Manahan, H. H. Bates, George Anderson, Mrs. William Kunz, Rose Kunz, H. F. Dodge, E. T. Brinley, N. A. McEachran, Bud Whiteside, W. D. Gross, William Kunz, Rodney Palmer, Thomas Young, Gus So- vella, Charles Littlefield, H. E. Green and I A, Thatcher. Passengers sailing for Seattle—B.| Jacobs, J. Liechtenberg, Mrs. T. B. Burnham, Mrs. William Bloom, Stan Bloom, Bart Bloom, Myrtle F. Ag- erstom, B. L. Hamilton, John S. Adams, John Gaffney, Mrs. Henry Messerschmidt, Mrs. Lena Bristol, Mr. and Mrs, Al Smith, Patsy Smith, C. R. Koch, Clarence Wol-/ lam, Mr. and Mrs. Vern Soley. Ann[ Campbell, Jean Mozee, Mrs. Zal- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JAN. 30, 1941. DAYLIGHT | RAID MADE | Sidelighis on the { Legislature Looking as pretty as ever, Mrs. | | Margaret Grisham, who was Chief | Clerk of the House two years ago, is assisting Chief Clerk Lawrerce Kerr temporarily pending the ar- !rival of his assistant, Elena Arola Droves of Qerman Fighter 75, o =& Planes in Attack on | _ B ¥ R A he Governor delivered his ad- I_ondon, Dover |dress in one hour and 52 minutes, | with but three brief pauses for (Continued from wzage One) Informers stated the attack was also the most persistent for some time, with thousands of bombs falling and fighter planes machine gunning balloons in every instance. | | Dover Attack | The attacks over Dover resulted in many big silver bags being shot down. The planes formed the at-| tacks in this area under cover of| thick fog, making it difficult to he spotted by RAF fighters and anti- | aircraft fire. | The suddeness of the attack, howaver, causir three daylight| alarms in’ London alone, was not in vain for the English, as several main Gross, David Gross, Dorene Smith, Mrs. B. Carr and George Larsen. | M. Acton, A. VanMavern, Viola| Loftus and Mrs. E. J. Cowling. | For Petersburg—H, R. Sarber,| Martin Marshal. Steve Szeles is the lone passen- ger from Juneau to Ketchikan > PLAN FOR LARGE SKI-BASKETBALL FETE IS REJECTED Separate Tournamenis Are Planned for Juneau This Spring A large festival combining a ski tournament and basketball tour- nament will not be undertaken here this year on the scale of the Fair- banks Ice Carnival or Anchorage Fur Rendezvous, it was announced at today's Juneau Chamber of Commerce meeting, Instead separate ski and basket- ball tournaments will be held | Nazi planes, both fighters and Gross, Darlene Gross, Mrs. Clyde bombers, were blasted out of the Govern sky. Take to Cover For Wrangell—Mr. and Mrs. u.i Dover residents were forced to|by the President, with confirmation take cover for awhile as the un-| seen German raiders dropped| bombs, and attacked the huge bal-| heavy fog. Blazing balloons fell ‘n | several parts of the city along with the bombs and vicious machine gun fire. Although several big = balloo were shot down over the outlying London districts, fewer fell there than over Dover, but bombing cf the once largest city in the world was more concentrated. e JUNEAU SCHOOL T0 ACCEPT BENEFITS OF YOUTH PROGRAM Beginning February 1. . Juneau High School will accept the bene- fits of the National Youth Admin istration, according to Supt. A. B Phillips. Eight students will work under the program, which provides for a maximum sum of $6 for students who are given the privilege «f earning by doing certain tasks about | drinking water. When he first ‘l'enched for the water pitcher after 45 minutes of speaking, President Henry Roden offered to call a brief recess but the Govenor declined; Not announced until the Gov- | ernor revealed it in his mes- sage is the final corrected figure for the 1940 census in Alaska. | It is 72,524. That, of course, | was as of October 1, 1939. The | Governor estimated the increase since that time would show Al- aska to have gained 30 percent in the decade. He later esti- mated that the Territory’s pop- ulation would be more than 80,- 000 by the end of this year. | w4 8 Senator Roden introdiced the | r as the representative of the President of the United States. Governors of Alaska are appointed by Congress. i | It could be argued with some | Frank Thomas, Don Reyburn and|loon barrage over that city in a | truth but with no particular effect | that the Governor only recommend- | ed three new taxes, while he urged | the repeal of 15 Territorial and 18| Federal levies. Those which he suggested for discard are license taxes on cold storage plant, meat market, bakers, power, light, tele-| phone and water companies, saw- | mills, optometrists, dentists, osteo- paths, attorneys, undertakers, em- | poyment agencies, public messengers, | hotels, theatres, drug| stores, jewelers, insurance agents, | public halls, bowling alleys, pool | and billiard rooms, abstract offices, real estate dealers, transfer com- pan; itinerant physicians, patent | medicine vendors, peddlers, taxider- | mists and pawnbrokers. Quite a| list. | Four of the women spectators in the gallery knitted all through the Governor’'s message, not missing a stitch, ! Seen in the gallery:Mrs. Gruen- ing, Harry Watson, Mrs. William A. | Holzheimer, Dean C. E. Rice, the; THE WEATHER (By the U. 8. Weather Bureau) U. S. DEPARTMENT NDF CON¥ MERCE, WEATHER BUREAU Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4:20 p.m., Jan. 30 Mostly fair tonight and Friday; tonight about 27 degrees, highest gentle variable winds, becoming m Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Mostly fair | except partly cloudy with local r tonight; slightly colder; gentle ing moderate to fresh northerly lightly colder; lowest temperature Friday ortheasterly Friday. tonight and Frid: ain or snow showers south portion to moderate variable winds, becom- in Lynn Canal Friday. temperature 36 degree Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaskn Dixon Entrance to Cape Spencer: Mostly fair; moderate easter to southeasterly winds; Cape Spencer to Cape Hinchinbrook: Mostly moderate easterly winds; Cape Hinchinbrook to Resurrection the school building. The “odd jobs” | Rev. John A. Glasse, Mrs. N. Lester | are those ordinarily done by stu- Troast, Mrs. E. L. Bartlett, Russell | Fair; moderate northeasterly winds; Resurrection Bay to K- : Partly cloudy; moderate northerly to northwesterly winds. LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity =~ Weather 4:30 p.m. yesterday 29.29 43 83 SwW 6 Lt. Rain 4:30 a.m. today 29.62 33 80 SwW 1 Clear Noon today 29.65 33 88 sSwW 4 Cloudy RADIO REPORTS TODAY Max. tempt. Lowest 4:30a.m. Precip. 4:30a.m Station last 24 hours temp. temp. 24 hours Weather Barrow -15 =20 -15 0 Cloudy Fairbanks 4 -15 =12 01 Pt. Cldy Nome 0 -2 02 Snow Dawson 14 10 08 Pt. Cldy Anchorage 31 15 94 Pt.C Bethel -12 -20 0 St. Paul 8 g 01 Dutch Harbor .. 23 21 .10 Wosnesenski 28 | 25 ¥ aKnatak 8 | 8 0 Kodiak 38 34 01 Cordova 34 21 1.56 Junean 45 | 33 T4 Sitka 48 | 35 21 Cloud Ketchikan 48 37 114 Pt. Cldy Prince Rupert .. 49 | 6 8 Rain Prince George .. 46 36 18 Rian Seattle 47 | 40 0 Cloudy Portland 53 | 41 0 Clou San Francisco .. 62 | 51 0 Foz WEATHER SYNOPSIS Cold Pacific air moved in ove Southeast Alaska during the pre- vicus 24 hours, and clear or party cloudy skies prevailed this mor ing over most of Alaska except fir local snow flurries fram (h lower Kuskokwim Valley to the Se ;ard Peninsula and Barrow. Ram or snow had fallen during the pre zdous 24 hours at most statior over Alaska except along the Ala :a Peninsula. The greatest amoun of precipitation was 156 inches waich was recorded at Cordova. peratures were slightly colder this merning over the so tion of Alaska and little- change h d occurred elsewhere except v er over the northern portion. V rable cloudiness, from clear skic to overcast, moderately low ceiling and fair to good visibilities pre- vailed this morning over the Juneau-Ketchikan airway. The Thursday morning weather chart indicated a low center 997 millibars (29.44 inches) was located at 50 derees north ‘and 1 degrees west, and a second center of 985 millibars (29.08 inche was located at 43 degrees north and 165 degrees west. Relative low pressure prevailed over western Alaska and the Bering Sea, a a third low center was located to the northeast of Alaska. high pressure area was centered to the east of the Oregon a1 Washington states, and a second high center of 1022 millibars (: inches) was located at 27 degrees north and 132 degrees west crest of high pressure extended from the interior of Alaska sout ward into the Guif of Alaska and thence into lower latitudes alo the 142 degree parallel. Juneau, Jan. 31 — Sunrise 9:07 am., sunset 5:17 p.m. Bounties on hair seals exhausted | Superintendent of Schools at Fair- : i [Vithé) $60000 approptiated for that|banks, arrived in Juneau by plane,day that Hoogendorn didn't know | = dents and that do not require the Hermann, Mrs. Howard Stabler, “”f“l‘ by “‘f g o of the Hon- purpose last July, the report dis- today enroute to Hermiston, Oregon, | he wasn't a citizen. He came to tis| | EGIS) ATORS TO hiting of extra labor. Those re- Mrs. Mildred Hermann, Estella | cce t es orble Ziatold, . okess tat pothin closes. Claims for $13,746 are now on |for a visit. She was accompanied by Country from Bodegranen, Holland, A . ceiving the benefits of the ad- Draper, Everett Nowell, Xeith | y :;‘!ln’(;]x::l'. ! ref»;“:‘;}i;‘l» IM'K:illhH '“ | ¢ stry, and ral harm 0 hand and the Treasurer estimates a /O SONS, at the age of 14 and thought, his | i i ;Wi Wildes, W. C. Arnold, Tom Dy her two sons, Stan and Bart. gh ministration may work a certain our country will result if Ala H | i deficiency appropriation of $20,000 will be necessary to complete pay- | ments up to March 31 — e Bud Whiteside, salesman repre- e ee — - GROSS RETURNS W. D. Gross, owner and operator jof a chain of theatres throughout senting J. J. Meherin, came in on | Southeast Alaska, returned from a the North Coast and is registered business trip to Sitka, on the North at the Baranof. , Coast. ‘Wiie to Part Morton deney, counsel said, that he obtained citi-| zenship later when his father was naturalized. On this assumption, he voted on several occasions, it was argued, Hoogendorn is accused of buying| (furs without the license required | of aliens, Next case to be tried is that of| | Arminta Osborne, on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon. | The jury panel will report at 10! o'clock Monday morning. | | pointed to head a committee on| BE GUESIS OF JUNEAU CHAMBER Gov. Ernest Gruening and mem- bers of the 15th Territorial Legis- lature will be invited by the Ju-| neau Chamber of Commerce to at- tend its meeting next Thursday noon as guests, President Curtis| ynjch makes it possible for as Shattuck announced today. | many students who desire, to work | Another announcement today Was ynder the program, until the sum that Charles Carter had been ap-|pgyided has been consumed. | y: . g Gov. Ernest Gruening is admin- sending a Miss Juneau to Fair-|igator for the National Youth pro- | number of hours each month re- | pairing library books, assisting in 1[119 music department repairing mu- | sic, working in the physical educa- tion department, the manual train- ing department, tool shop and other minor repair work. | The administration sets aside a certain allotment for the Territory, banks. Carter e 0 Barbara Bennett Downey According to word from Hollywood, Morton Downey, radio singer, . and his wife of 12 years, the former Barbara Bennett, sister of | Constance and Joan Bennett of the screen, are to be separated. Downeys have five children. It KETCHIKAN CUSTOMS | MAN IS VACATIONING | i ? - IN ISLAND HOSPITAL | Accidents seem to be in store for | Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Dobbs, of Ket- | chikan, when they spend their vaca- tions visiting their married daugh- | | ter in Honolulu. Dobbs, who is Dep- uty Collector of U. 8. Customs in | charge of the Ketchikan office, is in an Island hospital with a dislocated | shoulder and a broken arm, accord- | ing to a wire received today by M. | S. Whittier of the Juneau Customs Office. Two years ago on their return | from an Hawaiian visit, Mrs. Dobbs had a similar accident in Vancouver, B. C., dislocating her shoulder and | incurring other painful injuries, SURVEY FOR HOONAH Morton Downey The | is believed Mrs. Downey will have the custody of the children. PayrollsStimulateSales LOS ANGELES SAN FRANCISCO PORTLAND SEATTLE | TACOMA . | Sales of leading department stores the Paci ated during December, and early reports indicate that sales in Janu- ary will be the largest in a decade or more. directly important to retail trade. Effects of war are not However, indirectly, the national defense program’s expanded payrolls are credited with stimulating retail business, and still further gains are expected. Chart above shows store sales gains in December and for the full year of 1940. - WATER SYSTEM WILL | BEM_merwm' | The Forest Servie' launch will leave for Hoonah on Monday with | A. E. Glover, regional engineer, and an assistant surveyor, for the pur- pose of surveying a water system !for the town. Work on the project is expected to start upon completion of the sur- vey ‘according to District Ranger !W. A. Chipperfield. Construction "work will be done by the CCC, under the supervision of Milo Clouse, fore- man of the Hoonah camp. Basl@fiijr For Friday | & doubleheader basketball session is scheduled for tomorrow night in | the High School gym. Firemen will meet Henning’s and ‘the High School will play the Eagles. e — Try a cassified aa in The Empire replaces Robert,l Schoettler, who asked to be relieved of the chairmanship. IN TROUBLE AGAIN | REPIN ORDERED T0 | " SERVE VEAR'S TERM. Martin Repin was ordered today | to serve a year in jail when U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray revoked the suspension of a sentence which was passed upon the longshoreman December 31. Repin was arrested originglly for family desertion and was given the year’s suspended sentence. He was arrested again yesterday on a charge of being drunk and disord- erly. The Commissioner decided jail was the place for him this time. FROZEN PIPELINE 10 BOAT HARBOR BEING RENEWED Broken when somebody shut off the water last week and 90 feet of pipe burst in freezing temperatures, ‘the small boat harbor water line is being renewed by a city crew work- ing under Street Foreman Bert Lybeck. It will be impossible to shut off the water entirely from now on, so that there will be on repetition. Mrs. Zalmain Gross Is To Visit in States Sailing south on ‘the steamer North Coast, Mrs. Zalmain Gross and children will spend the next few months visiting with relatives in California. Prior to her departure Mrs. Gross was complimented at several informal affairs. —————-— BACK FROM SITKA Irl A. Thatcher, traveling man. gram in the Territory. | " E : NEW CHIEF CLERK FOR INDIAN SERVICE WiLL BE IN JUNEAU 500N Reinholt Brust, of Shawnee, Ok lahoma, will arrive in Seattle Fek ruary 4 and sail shortly after for| Juneau where he will be chief clerk in the Office of Indian Af-| fairs replacing Fred Geeslin who is now administrative assistant. Brust has been with the Shawnee | Indian Agency in Oklahoma and| comes to Juneau with a wide ex- perience in the service. Mine Deparimeni One of the-busiest offices in the Federal Building this month is the office of the Territorial Depart- ment of Mines which is workinz on the biennial report. The work is made especially dif- ficult in that the report covers the period closing December 31, 1940, and to date all data from the northern part of the Territory has not yet been received by Com- missioner B. D, Stewart. FOUR SAIL TONIGHT Hired through the Alaska Terri- torial Employment Service, four men are scheduled to sail on the steamer Baranof at 1 a.m. tomor- row morning, bound for Seward and a transfer to a vessel to carry them to Dutch Harbor, The men are Burton Granville, Arthur Rice, Arthur Davis and, William Johnson. Upon arrial at the Unalaska Is- land site for the Dutch Harbor returned to Juneau from a week’s business trip to Sitka on the south- bound steamer North Coast. He will be in town for several days. Rushed on Report| FOR DUTCH HARBOR George Lane, Harold C. Aase, Bin‘ Winn, H. R. VanderLeest, Maj. | Jesse E. Graham, H. H. Bond, M. S. Whittier, C. B. Arnold, a half | dozen beribboned delegates to the | All-Alaska Labor Convention and | many, many more. | First measure to pass all the way‘ through the 15th Legislature was Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 1, by LeRoy Sullivan, resolving that | a joint session be held to hear the | Governor. g SITKA T0 TAKE OVER UTILIIES; §115,000 PRICE An agreement has been reached between the City of Sitka and the' Sitka Wharf and Power Company for the city to take over the utility February 28 at a price of $115,000. Bob Wahl, Secretary of the Sitka Chamber of Commerce, announced here today. A manager for the public utility has not yet been selected. Citizens of Sitka will hold an election soon to choose a five-man board to sup- ervise management of the utility.| The public power setup is modeled on that of Ketchikan. The utility will continue to oc- cupy its present office. W. P. Mills, owner of the Sitka Wharf and Power Company, will continue in business as head of the W. P. Mills Company, which is the Northland Transportation Company agent. Growth Outlined Wahl said in a talk at the Juneau Chamber of Commerce luncheon meeting today that Sitka’s popula- tion at present is estimated to be 2,500. He said that within the past year, Sitka has seen its first bank, laundry, women's apparel shop, hotel, newspaper and 5 and 10-cent store open. The Sitka secretary urged that the cities of Juneau and Sitka co- operate to promote tourist travel to Alaska. He said a booklet was soon to be issued by the National Park Service on the Sitka National Monu- ment and that Indians of Sitka had finally agreed to release through the CCC the long-withheld Thlinget history of Alaska. Other visitors today included the Rev. Walter Torbet of Seward, John Clark, new program director of KINY, and Evan Hill of The Em- pire. ., — control is continued in the hands of the Honorable Harold L. Ickes “NOW, THEREFORE, we, the Al- Resignation P g €5 4 ahka Legislature in 15th regular ays enalor 8 ion, respectfully pray that the resignation of the Honorable Har- old L. Ickes from the Secretaryshil of the Interior Department be im- mediately accepted, and a succes- sor appointed who will not develon a dictator complex; and, if that be Brownell Memorial in Ter- ritorial Legislature not granted, then the immediae H transfer of all Alaskan Depar - Assails Secrefary ertalt buol fedint e Toterior Department to the Department of (Continued from Page One) 15th regular session assembled, re- Commerce or Agriculture, “AND YOUR MEMORALIST WILL EVER PRAY.” spectfully submits that: “WHEREAS, il is understood by our body that the Honorable Har- old L. Ickes, Secretary of the In- terior, tendered his resignation to you some time ago; and, “WHEREAS, The Honorbale Sec- ouuDED retary has continually sought to l‘l“k GR nullify the few remaining purely democratic processes yet in force in Two PAA Electras winged in to Alaska, seeking more and more dic-| 5,09y today, one from Whitehorse tatorial power for himself and bu-j. .4 another from the Golden Heart reaus. One glaring illustration Is‘City. bringing passengers for the his congressional bill proposing 10| teamer North Coast enroute to the give absolute control of our 25,000 gites mile shore-lands to assign to those ‘Arrivals this forenoon from he favors, instead of by the regu-| whitehorse were Clarence Wollan, lar processes of acquirement now il ap.c T B, Burnham, C. R. Kock. force. Another; trying to force nys yilliam Bloom and sons Bart through Congress his immigration and Stan, and D. L. Hamiltor bill bestowing autocratic power M| Goming here from Fairbanks the Secretary to dump into Alaska| gternoon were Mrs. Clyde Smi PAA HAS ELECTRAS IN AND OUT TODAY; any number of non-quota immi- grants, and to give unlimited areas of the public domain for their use; and, “WHEREAS, the Honorable Sec-| Brick Jacobs, Mr, and Mrs. R. M. Boyd, Miss M. Agerstrom, Mrs. Barney Carr and John Lichten- berg. Flying to the Interior city this retary has fostered Fascist-like con-| yorning from Juneau were Lester trol of the Matanuska farm colony| m gumrall, Mrs. B. B. Green, Miss and the Alaska Railroad, skillfully Elsa Lundell, W. E. Wickstrom and that our people have repeatedly prayed for; and, “WHEREAS, he has opposed giv- ing rightful preference to Alaska fishermen and labor over transient workers, thus retarding the home building growth of this rich coun- try; and, “WHEREAS, his attempt to coerce the 14th Alaska Legislature into passing certain tax measures was pioneers of this northland, making them view with suspiciin every rec- smmendation from the Departments in Washington; and, “WHEREAS, he opposes Alaska's Delegate to Congress, the Honor- able Anthony J. Dimond, in almost every endeavor of our representa- tive to have much needed Alaska legislation pass the Congress; and, “WHEREAS, the Interior Depart- Naval Air Base, the men will be employed by Siems Drake Puget! Sound. Subscribe to the Daily Alaska Empire—the paper with the largest paid circulation. ment is now in such throughout Alaska, due to the many usurpations and abuses brought voiding congressional investigations deeply resented by the democratic: ill-repute Harry Scott. The airliner is temporarily ! grunded at Whitehorse because of !bad weather. Mrs. Anna Wei)_ster " Honored, Birthday | Happy birthday greetings were given Mrs. Anna Webster last eve- ning at her home on Dixon street. where members of the family and close friends assembled for an in- formal party. A pioneer resident of this city. Mrs. Webster is president of the Ju- neau and Douglas Telephone Co. Present for the occasion last night were Mrs, Mabel Blanck, Mrs. Min- nie Hurley, Mrs. L. R. Carrigan, Ray Hurley, Mr. and Mrs, William Reck, Mr. and Mrs. Armand Duncan, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hurley, Roy Car- rigan, Mrs. B. B. Green and John Reek. .