The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 4, 1941, Page 2

| House Shows 'Resenfment’ Against Ickes TEXAS POLICE ASK ABOUT REITA AMOS IN THE SENATE INTRODUCED—S. B. 2, by Walk- er, to establish a Territorial Depart- ment of Labor. 3 Committee substitute L PASSED " . . United States Marshal William |for §. J. M. 1, by Brownell, urging Memorial Urging President . Mahoney received a lone dis- Brecident Roosevelt to accept the . . tance telephone call this afternoon resignation of Secretary of the In- {0 Accept Resignation |wom the detective bureau of the terior Harold L. Tckes Dallas, Texas, Police Department, = >-oo L appearance of Reita DEpT OF lABOR R e suspended he House J. W. PFritz, Dalla letective . he Terri- | called the Marsl to ascertain if the orial by|in the disappearance of the young Re , of Valdezgirl. Mahoney said that there was BY Doc w‘lKER P cept the | no evidence of anthing but sui- " ’ Secre of the In-|cide and assured the Texas detec- vad . Bt Fiar L. Ic | tive that Juneau law-enfor> A Bill for estabiShment of & ek Rep. Harvey Smith, who moved |agencies were still at work on ritorial Department of Labor was pensi of the rules, saidjcase. introduced in the Territorial Senate ! i 11d “be passed out e this afternoon by Senator Norman N Oits DRpEimCH R. (Doc) Walker, of Ketchikan. cal w by o Senate Brownell be Sew- replaced by ill not develop and if this is of the De- in Alaska o the Commerce 1 Departments Second Reading i) advanced in the morning through sec- They are the Peter-| icense measure, the| to broaden the Unemployment e Interior ¢ bill the asking Congress 10 o 0y walker and Rep. Leo tion of Secretary of the Interior divorces after f’""ERngge, Chairmen of the Territor- Harold L. Ickes. Rewritten, but with ¢ e instead of two. |ial Institutions Committees of the most of the sting left in it, the Gordon withdrew his . a new one placing | ] tax on agencies not| permanent office in the wou Alrr J. Peterson introduced bill asking $6,000 for a school the Independence Mine in Lhe‘ Wasilla mining area For Donald MacDonald er Rep. LEGISLATURE'S i the memor- | ‘SPeCt ancditoe o8 cancelled today by Senator Norman Sy Wakring | respective houses, ction agency NCENSINE | roynq the motorship Northland had only nine berths available. for Sitka tonight, returning Thurs- Alaska agencies and "hr“"‘day_ As 18 had signed up to make be licensed at $50.1ype trip 5t was impossible for them to be accommodated on the North- land. | next week The department would be headed by a Commissioner of Labor who would be elected by the people for a four-year term after the first Com- missioner had been elected by a majority of the Legislature. Salary of the office would be $5,000 per year. The Commissioner would have to be at least 30 years old and a| resident of Alaska for at least five ) vears. His duties would include in- | spection, arbitration of disputes and administration of Workmen's Com- pensation. The Senate passed a committee substitute for Senator Don Carlos | Brownell's memorial urging Presi- | dent Roosevelt to accept the resigna- | SITKA JOURNEY 1S POSTPONED Accommodations Are Not Available on North- land for Members The Legislature’s trip to Sitka ‘o the Pioneers’ Home was memorial asks that Ickes' succes- sor be one “who will have a sym- pathetic and understanding view- point toward Alaska, its problems and its future” (the original mem- orial said “who will not develop a ! dictator complex™. Only Senator Walker voted against the memorial. | The Senate adjourned until 11 o'clock tomorrow morning. | ALASKA OUT when it was Members hac planned to leave The journey will probably be made - ’, THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, FEB. 4, 1941. CLAIMS SELF DEFENSE IN ASSAULT CASE Trial of Arminfa Osborne Nearly Ready to Be Turned OverAIo Jury Claiming self defense in a sur- prise statement to the court this morning, Arminta Osborne, being tried in Federal Court on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon, said that she stabbed Ole Nielson with a butcher knife when he grab- bed her wrists. She said that she freed one hand and stabbed him in the back when he was nearly breaking her othe: wrist. Dr. W. P! Blanton testified that he probed the wound and found it to be between five and six inches deep. Late this afternoon the attorneys for defense and prosecution were in a rebuttal of presentation of facts to the jury before resting the case. It was thought that the jury would go out either late oday or early to- morrow morning. - e SIGNAL CORPS MAN ARRIVES WITH FAMILY M. A. McCorkle, new operator for the Signal Corps station in Juneau, arrived on the Alasks, With him are Mrs. McCorkle and daughters, the Misses Thelma and Mary McCorkle. They are registered at the Juneau Hotel. BRI S GAME (OMMISSION IS NOW IN SESSION With only one commissioner ab- | |sent and expected on the Baranof, the annual meeting of the Alaska Game Commission convemed today A $5,000 appropriation “to pay Sy o y . reasonable compensation to and | for its first meeting in the office o { ,‘ ‘w:i,‘, ‘:w‘( expenses incurred IHREE ARE ADDED FOR WESIWARDmenk Dufresne. and to be incurred by Donald Mac- 'I'o I-EGIS'.AIURE | The commission will be in session ¢ Pairbanks, Alaska, in to and including February 12 Donald of Fairbanks, a, | After four hours in port, the steam- rorar " . i 1t wrge of his duties as a| # 7 be s e | Andrew A. Simons, of the Third the dischar f his (I_ERI Al STAFF <hip Alaska sailed out of Gastineau|n, 4 N i 0 f the Alaska Internation- | 3 o e A ivision, is the absent commissioner. w r of the Alaske i ae] Channel at 2:45 o'clock this after- o b al hway Commission” is aske 5 . noon with 14 Juneau passengers o PN 1 L Legistature under the " adcitional bound 1or the Westard 'NOME PIONEERS T0 Rep. Harvey Smith introduced a| 8 e > B i ! " Passengers for Seward were: H. pill to appropriate $4,000 for an ;;’E’SlrellP G:{Jl)a ul)l{iir[culug,l?nij Kiikola - Wiiha EoRthkar, Miss B, E'"ER S“KA HOME entertainment fund to be used by) ™ &rTEa e Y- M. Anvil, Otto Memple, H. F. Keu- | Delegate Anth J. Dimond in ens in the House and Flora Wood- nard, W. Torbet, Miss E. Malloy | et | 3 "’ eyt worth in the Senate. . > ? ‘1 Harry Jones and W. P. Q’Connor. Washington during the biennium | ; .| Clarence Nelson, J. C. Jackman, Fred S & (aining Alaskans afid “8s-] Senator - Leroy Sullivan, Chair- Martinson, Gilbert Johnson, Mr. and | well known oldtimers who had lived o Sl e i1t it such busi-|man of the Senate Finance Com- by g S Nx‘l X r‘ for many years in Nome, werg arriv- N T s Have with the | mittee, entitled to hire an addi- gy e By ~[als vesterday on the Electra from ted States Government tional mnp]u,\'f‘r, voted against the o'y Hall was the lone passenger Fairbanks, They will leave Juneau House adjourned until 11 extra help bill, so may not use r.. cordova |today on the Northland for Sitka ’ ¥ his share of the appropriation. to enter the Pioneers’ Home. o'clock mmoni» mnr-ximt. | S ip ki - — | bt b | HOSEA SARBER RETURNS (anne Men Here .S"‘F,L!GIITS Hosea Sarber, Wildlife Agent It is interesting to compare SONS, DAUGHTERS ENTERTAIN TODAY FOR ROTARY (LUB i grandchildren of Ju- | | | at Petersburg, returned today meeting. He is registered at Baranof. to Juneau for the Game *Commission the On Inspedion Trip§ Frank Wright, Jr., Acting Manager and Superintendent of the Icy ! Straits Salmon Company at Hocnah, and R. A. Welsh, Vice President in - BYRAM AT BARANOF Charles T. Byram, of San Fran- Children ai ; i Rotar took over today'si cisco, representative of Schwa- :har‘ge Oil e ‘?f *.'? day oot mesting of the Club and |pacher-Frey interests, was an ar-| 5o Saumon Company, e presented a program running from | rival on the Alaska and is regis- ):‘:C::mm.]n ix: hflq)m ém; El;h speeches Lo harmoica ,~ol<:ls. A tered at the Baranof. l"iu Thrp\‘-l e);(pegct etro lfllls ?.: H(;])’:a; Malcolm Faulkner made a bri o DS Tip. ) v te X talk on the Alaska Juneau Gold MCKESSON MAN ARRIVES :\'nthmadflym—v.wo for an inspection Mining Company, tracing its his-| Eddie Nelson, representative of = _ 1 1 1863 when it lw;::m‘w\lh McKesson-Robbins Company, ar- pupr OYMEN”’—T 1 SR caconal operations in the basin, 10| jved from Seattle on the Alaska| wANTS CORRECT ADDRESSES 1615 when stockholders raised 18- |anq is registered at the Gastinead.| The Alaska Territorial Employ. 000,000 to build the mill and drive 2 g £ir Ser?frea nz“;‘ l"m umg,g)—‘ tunnel to Juneau. Since u:at time,| pORTLAND SALESMAN HERE rem‘m“mg s fteenogrl;pseriawho at:: he company has mined T6000000| Bobert’ Dines, of Yakima, Yepre- | netively sooking. ok to be. sure re. young Faulkner said|sentative of a Portland firm, ar-|that their present addresses are in imd has returned to stockholde’s|jyeq on the Alaska to call onlthe files of the Service. $12000,000 of their original invest-|yade He is registered at the Gas-| < 54 ige. - company has paid 6,- axes and now employs The | \fier played a piano solo Porter harmonica a Ernest of Labor in the| | high school five-minute scribed Alaska tin a talk which will be fully in tomorrow’s reported Ex more Mrs. Mirow Visits Friends jn Juneau Hans Mirow and daughter, of Nome, who arrived yester- via PAA are the guests of Mrs. Mr J 3 ds V. R. Farrell while awaiting the sali- ing of the southbound Baranof. While here Mrs. Mirow is renew- ing acquaintances with former Nome residents now ng in Juneau and Douglas. She is bound for an in- definite vacation outside and ex- pects to spend mest of the time ir California, where she has where she may en- roll in business college Sig Wein is now in charge of the Mirow Air Service, which Mrs. Mi- row had managed for the last year e The Daily Alaska Empire has the largest maid circulation of any Al tineau. | TORBET RETURNS WEST - > ’ t The Rev. Walter F. Torbet, here CREDIT MAN VISITS for the past two weeks, left for his E. DeLong, credit man for lhelneadquarters at Seward aboard the National Grocery Company of Se- Alaska. attle, is a through passenger for | Seward on the Alaska. DeLong visit- | e Traveling man J. S. Jeffrey, ac- in port. ! the westward aboard the Alaska I Canadian troops have replaced the British who policed Iceland at the lowlands, and are continuing the task of converting the island into a la. is one of the big guns now defending the coast against invasion. pska newspaper, the original Don Carles Brownell memerial and the committee substitute on the subject cf Sec- retary Ickes, Where the original referred to the Secretary’s “Fas- cist-Jike” control of the Alaska railroad, the substitute says “un- warranted and coercive,” and so cn through the memorial. The Senate passed the memorial in its revised form this afternoon. But the criginal was passed by the House this morning. Senator Norman R. (Doc.) Walk- er's bl for a Territorial Depart- ment of Labor is the longest so far introduced in the 15th Legislature. It runs to 15 pages. The four yellow cedar plaques which decorate the Hovse Chambe™ | were carved by Guy W. Prince of Juneau for the U. S. Forest Service in connection with a program to | promote local'wood industries. They represent Alaska’s major industries, | fish, gold, fur and timber. | ‘The volumincus biennial report ox |the University of Alaska was for- ed in Juneau while the steamer was|companied by Mrs. Jeffrey, left for warded to the Senate today from the | office of the Governor. ainst Invasion $ .. time of the German invasion of the nd of tank traps and gun pits. Here | the | EXPLOSION OF DENVER TRAIN INJURES 24 DENVER, Col, Feb. 4—Twenty- our persons were injured when a ccomotive boiler went empty on the Denver Rio Grande Western pas- enger train and blew up its under- -arriage. | torial Employment Service, seven The explosion occurred in the men are scheduiéd to sail for Sitka outhwest industrial section of Den- tonight on the Northland. | ver. | The men, who have been hired to The boiler on the cab locomotive work for Siems Drake Puget Sound | was pushed backward into the rail- cn the Japonski Island Naval Air| | SEVEN HIRED FORWORKON SITKA BASE Hired thrcugh the Alaska Terri- the Alaska for a visit of several |is a stockholder, an ) months with her parents. Miss Geyer ! are representing Chicago capital on | recently was graduated from the | their present trip and hope to have | nursing school of St. Mary’s Hos- |2 favorable report to make on the| pital in Walla Walla, Washington. 'new prospect when they return here | . . lin March. | BIDS o" D’ofifi’us The real story the trio has to tell.% MAIL ROUTE CALLED according to Morse, isn’t concerned | | returning. with mining, but with the trip from | which he and Friedland are just| | | Sealed bids for carrying mail John Friedland went to Nome di- from Juneau to Douglas two rectly from his home in Switz -r]an(l; roundtrips daily will be received 35 years ago and has been mining, here on the Seward Peninsula since that| CCC education-! With the Morses he drove from| | Chicago to Florida, through the and Annette Island on the arrival SOUth to Mexico City and to the of the Baranof for a two weeks coast. He's still speechless about his training and safety trip. :erfthere have been lots of chang- 5 | es since 1905. MISS GILLESPIE sitg | Big thrill of the travelers was Miss ' Katherifis ‘Gillesplé, daugh-|Tceting Alaskans everywhere from ter of Dr. dnd“Mrs!®; B, Gillespie Miami to Mexico City, but most of. Pairbariks: atha (i an the w1k LpsEesive to- Priediand of all he aska after a vacation of several months in the States. Miss Gillespie will fly north on the PAA Elec- tra Alva Blackerby, al director, will sail for Ketchikan | Chicago. | |tic Circle Exploration company for |several years. Kirklin was formerly P PN |at Nome with the Northern Com: ol J e om« JACK PRICE RETURNS | ol . Jack Price, Union representative, iRt returned to Juneau from Ketchi-; :(x::;afl."d is registered at the Gas-iFRA"K p' w‘luAM HERE FOR MEETING —_————— EARL OHMERS HERE Mr. and Mrs, Earl Ohmer were arrivals today on the Alaska from | etersburg and are registered Juneau Hotel. Ohmer is at- ing in on the Alaska from Seattle. tending the Game Commission Con- Williams, well known St. Michael ference, ————--——— * |Meteor is here for the Game Com- ELECTRAS HELD HERE mission Conferences. Two PAA Electras were held in meetings the Williams will return to Juneau today and will fly north theri winter home in Seattle. wil- | tomorrow with passengers and mail, liams will go north on the Meteor weather permitting. to St. Michael late in May. S ee—— - —————— Subscribe for The Empire. Subscribe for The Empire. USSR RS SSSSS eSS S S S S 4 2 8 4 | [ EMPIRE Printing You MONEY T STANDS to reason that the men and machines that print [ Letterheads Envelopes a large daily newspaper are well Cards equipped to do almost any kind 2 | F of printing job. In addition to H orms ; ! | this advantage, they are equip: z Ads ped to do the job more economic- 2 Indexes ally. No matter what your print- | Ledgers ing -requirements, THE EMPIRE ‘\ Posters can fulfill them quickly, inexpen- sively, and well. The Daily Alaska Empire - " Phone 374 ROTARIANS FROM saw on his journey was the city of Friedland has been with the Arc- Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. Williams | at are registered at the Baranof, com- | |tragler and owner of the mailboat After the! SAVES | THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Burean) U. S. DEPARTMENT NF CON MERCE, WEATHER BUREAU Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4:30 p.m., Feb Mostly cloudy with occasional lign: showers tonight and Wednedds slightly lower temperatur Lowes: temperature about 40, highest Gentle to moderate winds. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Mostly cloudy with an occasior shower in north portion and partly cloudy in south portion, continu- ing Wednesday but with local showers tonight, = slightly colder, 3 creasing southeasterly winds, but fresh to strong sounds straits this evening. Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Dixon Entrance to Cape Spencer, local showers, fresh fo strong de creasing to fresh southeasterly winis; Cape Spencer to Cape Hinc brook. local showers, fresh to strong, decreasing to fresh southes winds; Cape Hinchinbrook to Resurrection Bay, local showers, southeasterly winds becoming moderate to fresh northeasterly: Re 1l in a = . R e S e = rcad yards and another engine was, Station, are Eddie Swope, Harry i ! b tol4trelk Southe arched 60 feet in the air overs push- Savage, Ralph Treffers, Harry Knud- rection Bay to Kodiak, partly clouiy, moderate to fresh southea | er engine which was crushed into an_ son, Walter Griffith, Berie Johnson | €rly winds, | empty railway e)fprvk car behind it Iand Amos Shirley. | LOCAL DATA l‘,“‘: o b";‘,‘.jl" S "Jl“ks'd st S, | Time Barometer Temp, Humidity Wind Velocity ~ Weather e/« il o 1 ol St 4:30 pm. yesterday 2050 47 8 SE 13 LtRain § g pRospE(I ou | 4:30 am. today 29.95 55 40 ENE 21 Clou S | R | Noon today 20.33 44 72 ESE 12 Lt. Rain MEDLEY, SEATTLE i pEIERS (REEK [ " RADIO REPORTS 4 | TODAY AITOR"“' IS HERE ! OB]E(T 0? IRlp‘ Max. tempt. | Lowest ~'4:30 a.m. Precip. 0" BUSINESS ‘I‘mp | Station last 24 hours | temp. temp. 24 hours Wi | | Barrow -13 | -24 -13 0 | o 2 | . . | Fairbanks 39 | 29 32 0 | | uaze sawara w. sedtey, promi-| Oldtimer Is Back in Alaska. wome Cua e sl B ‘ nent Seattle attorney, arrived in . 5 Dawson 54 | 35 30 ‘o Pt. Cle ’“l““a" on the Alaska today and| After First T”D South | Anchorage r | 36 35 03 3 | will spend several days here on . | Bethel 21 15 21 0 business. in 35 Years | st Paul 23 | 6 25 19 Judge Medley formerly pmrtu‘ml{ & 4 | Dutch Harbor .. 31 | 30 T [ SO Bound fof Peters Creek in' the| Wosnesenski 317 | 31 02 BT §r | Cache Creek country where they will | Kodiak 40 | 36 42 - ispend about six weeks prospecting,| Cordova 42 39 193 ISS u‘ eyer |Don Morse, Walter H. Kirklin and| Juncam ; 55 45 r !John Friedland are passehgers| Sitka 52 48 VISIfIn Parents |aboard the Baranof in Juneau todey | Ketchikan 57 50 55 g |on ‘their way to the westward. | Prince Rupert .. 57 | 48 1 RS { | Morse, auditor and purchasing | Prince George | 37 0 Cloud Miss Ruth Geyer, daughter of Mr. 1agent for the Arctic Circle Explor-| Seattle 61 49 51 T Clou and Mrs. A. M. Geyer, arrived on ation company, in which his father| portland 54 41 49 0 Cloudy d his companions | 58 42 46 0 Fou San Francisco WEATHER SYNOPSIS Warm moist Pacific air had pantrated all of Alaska this morm- ing, and rain was falling at mos’ stations from along the coast from Southeast Alaska to Kodiak and rain or snow was reported at € stations from along the Alaskan Peninsula ahd from Bering the Seward Peninsula. Partly cloudy to cloudy skies prevailed where over Alaska, Rain or snow had fallen during the previou 24 hours along all coastal areas from the Seward Peninsula s ward to the Aleutian Islands and from the Alaska Peninsula to Soutii; east Alaska. The greatest amount of precipitation was 193 incl which was recorded at Cordova. Unseasonably warm fen prevailed over most of Alaska and temperatures above freezing reported during the previous 24 hours over the lower Tanana by Postmaster Albert Wile N until February 14. The bids will time. Last November, with Mr. and| central Yukon Valleys, and temperatures as high as degre be sent to Washington for 0p(,n_‘Mrs. Morse, whose home is in Chi-| were reported in Southeast Alaska. The coldest temperaturc ing i cago, Friedland made his first trip; morning was -13 degrees which was reported at Barrow. Overca - | Outside since he entered the coun-| skies with local rain, moderately low ceiling and good visibilit CCC MAN TO ANNETITE |try over a quarter of a century ago. with strong to gale southerl to southeasterly southerly wind open channels and straits prevailel this morning over the Junecau Ketchikan airway. Juneau, Feb. 5 Sunrise 8:53 a.m., sunset 5:30 p.m. CLOTHES that are CLEANED OFTEN—Wear Longer! ALL OVER ALASKA AT MEETING HERE Visitors from all the Alaska cities in which new Rotary Clubs were re- cently established attended today's meeting of the Juneau Club. Brice Howard and Hjalmar Nor- dale, members of the Faribanks Club, | were present, as was Almer J. Peter- !son, Anchorage Rotarian. Russell]| Clithero of Sitka was a guest. Sitka has a new club, though' Clithero is | not a member. - — Send YOUR GARMENTS to Triangle ¥ou'll enjoy the holi- day season miore i fresh, perfectly cleaned clothes, cleaned the Triangle way! hone 507 | } i | CAT MAN THROUGH Joseph Kerwin, Caterpillar tractor | agent of Anchorage, passed through | Juneau today on the Alaska after a business trip to the States. Put a vaic Diesel in Your Boat If You Want MORE: ROOM' IN YOUR “BOAT More Miles for Your Money A Comfortable, Quiet Ride An Engine that Instantly Starts Assurance of Safe Trips: Freedom from Fire Hazards A Broad Range of Smooth Speeds Low Operating and Maintenance Costs Reduced Insurance ates Smokeless, Odorless Exhaust Full Diesel Dependability An Engine that Can Be Easily Hand Cranked CHARLES G. WARNER CO. ' T PHONE 374 GLACIER HIGHWAY St DELIVERY LUMBER —— GROCERIES PHONE 374 "SHORTY" WHITFIELD A P L / I fad T |