The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 10, 1941, Page 8

’ (s s e s s s s e st o - ooo————— TO HONOR -THE GREAT- EMANCIPATOR The Regular Republican Organization Which represents the Territorial and National Republican Committees in This Division, holding its ANNUAL LINCOLN BIRTHDAY DINNER at PERCY'S CAFE, Juneau, at 7P. M. FEBRUARY 12, 1941 Reservations may be secured from Miss Anita Garnick, Secretary, Young Republicans, PHONE 171 $1.25 Per Plate Convoy of JUNEAU HIGH Brit. Ships FIVE TO SAIL Is Atfacked FOR HAINES German Communique Crimson Bears Are fo Meet (laims 24,000 Tons Sent = Basketball Team in Down, Others Damaged Scheduled Series BERLIN, Feb. 10.—A German com- Hard munique d ares that 24,000 tons of tioned after British shipping has been sunk and npeau, the Juneau High Crimson four other ships seriously damaged. Bears will sail for Haines on the The ships are said to have been in gsteamer Yukon tomorrow for a convoy off the coast of Portugal. gscheduled three days' session, G i ot possibly lor with the Glacier Bears on the maple floor of the I N I H E Haines' High School new gymna- sium. INTRODUCED--8 den by request. for Compensation Law act and- creating Bourd P PR i i - s o A R e A S P S e D I playing and well condi- Anticipate Battles Speculation among sports everal tough battles on their hands in view of the three consecutive beatings that the Haines High 5 by o School team handed the Skagway 18y Work- five in a three out of five tour- repealing NAment I Another reason for misgiving among the Crimson Bears is Lhe guarantee of $75 offered the local team as an inducement to accept the chailen Opinion is that the Glacier B are on their t this year or such a guaran- tee would not have been posted Chilkoot Next It is expected that the J-High squad will play a hoop five from Chilkoot Barracks if they beat the Haines 1 in the first two games played. Team members are hoping that arrangements can be made for them to go to Skagway on the Fornance to play a series with tne Skagway -five, Players being taken by Coach Lin- denmeyer on the marine basketball tour are Rice, Murphy Miller, Lucas. Bavard, Martin, Niel- son, and Pasquan. - —— B a men's the dust 16 A L rooters 1 PASSED irgine lease-lend bill - by LaBoy- o pass the J. M Congre 1 classitied ad 1n The Empire, rrrrrr it ) FROM 5 TO 50 THEY ALL ENJOY JUNEAU DAIRIES’ ICE CREAM! Home Bound LONDON, Feb. 10.—Harry L. Hop- kins, personal representative President Roosevelt, today author- ized the U. 8. Embassy here TRY IT TODAY! 5 1V a good season in Ju-| and | fans are that the J-High team will have | McDaniels, ! of | voice he THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, T BIG FORCE, AIR CORPS, FOR NORTH {Over 500 Officers and En- listed Men Sail This Week for Alaska MOF FIELD, Cal., Feb. 10.— More than 500 Army Air Corps offi- |cers and enlisted men are packing | their furlined flying suits and long |'woolen underwear preparator; to| | service in Al The officers and | men will_board the transport St.| | Mihiel on Wednesday at San Fran- | | esico to join other units bound for | | Elmendorf Field and Ladd Field s | Anchorage and Fairbanks respective- | The units making the trip, in ad-| |dition to the Moffett Field group, |will be 275 men who have been under- | oing aviation special training, com- |manded by Major John D:l\'l(l.\(m_{ |the Tweniy-Third Air Base group ! ind Twenty-Eighth Composite group |commanged by Major G. W. Titus, and the Eighteenth Pursuit Squad- ron, which has been stationed at | Hamilton Field | The transport St. Mihiel will stop |at Seattle, Alaska-bound, to pick {up the Seventy-Third Medium Bom- |bardment Squadron from McChord |field and also the Thirty-Sixth | Heavy Bombardment Squadron from | Lowery Field, Denver. ELLEN REPP IS ON KINY LIST TUESDAY NIGHT Recording of‘ContraHo's | Voice Will Be Birthday Message fo Mother A Grieg program over KINY featuring a recording of the com- poser’s “Eros” sung by Miss Ellen | Repp, will be broadcast Tuesday | nizht, February 11 ; February 11 is Miss Repp's birth- day, and though she is now in New | York, the record of her voice on the program tomorrow has been arranged as a special greeting (o | her mother who is visiting in Ju- neau as the guest of Miss Magn- hild Oygard, her niece. | The recording of “Eros” as sung by Miss Repp was made when she was, soloist at a concert and na- tional broadcast with the New York ¥ Symphony orchestra November 17. It seems the Anchorage” Chamber | KINY has build a special Grieg of Commerce is up in arms over Rep. | 500 0" 1y ik program around Miss Repp's solo Harvey Smith's memorial askins b eh b WoutD and scheduled it between 6:05 and Federal government to turn the AW"I‘AX ABSENTEE FISHERMEN—Al- 6:15 o'clock tomorrow . night chorage courthouse site oyer to the Apgis Ellen Repp, whose appearances Territery. The City of Anchorage, in the east in concert are frequent, Packed by the Chamber, wants title gave yearly concerts in Juneau un- to the property itself. Telegrams of til her studies and professional Protest have been received here by engagements on the east coast pre- the Third Division delegation urging | ! vented her customary return to menibers to use their influence on her home in the northwest dur- Smith to have him withdraw the ing the summer. She was last here Measure in the summer of 1938. 1 Miss Repp's first important opera | appearance in New York City wiil| be at Carnegie Hall February 17.) Recently she was the contralto su-: loist with the Bach Society at New York’s Town Hall, | The Eros record, according io |llm.\(~ who have heard it, reveals; |a great improvement in the artist’s| since she was last heard| and, though the record ‘s its message will be happily b mj THAT SLIM SILHOUETTE —Lines for destroyers this spring are definitely slim*and rakish, as can be seen in this n destroyer Arunta, being prepared €or sea-at Cockatoo Island in Sydney, New South Wales. (ALASKA TAXATION LAW. — An- NEW TAXES FOR ALASKA ASK- BY GOVERNOR.—Wrangell Senti- | nel. GOVERNOR URC ES FOR ALABKA. Chronicle. Sidelights on the Legislature NEW TAX- - Kelchikan ANNUAL MESSAGE, SOLONS.— aska Weekly GOVERNOR ASKS THAT GOLD BE TAXED.—Petershurg Press. Frank Whaley, Representative and tlier frem Nome, will show motion pictures of life in the Second Di- vision in the House Chamber Thurs- day evening at 8 o'clock. Just te show how reports be- ccme balled up, evi this day of medern communication facil ties, the Anchorage Times quotes R. S. Bragaw, Secretary of the local Chamber of Commerce, as | saying he understood Rep. Har- vey Smith wanted lo preserve the unsightly Anchorage court- house building as a memorial after it is turned over to the Territory. Prebably semebody got this bum steer because Smith e . Geerge Folta is the first expert witness to be granted the floor of either house this session. The Department of Interior’s Alas- ka Counsel-at-Large was called to testify in the House this aft- cricea as Lo the legal aspeets of 2 il to tax < here As an argument for the passage worn, ALASKA GOVERNOR PRESENTS T WILLKIE IS | | BACK FROM SURVEY TRIP Still Believes Aid Should Be Given to Embattled British Empire NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—Wendell L. Willkie is back from England, where he made a personal investiga- tion of war conditions, still unchang- ed in his conviction that peace for | America lies in aiding the embattled | | | British Empire | Willkie said: “If we do give aid to Great Britain we are likely to| stay out of the war, while if we do | not give aid to Great Britain, we| | will probably become involved in § | war. Willkie will give testimony tomor- row before the Senate Foreign Rela- i | tions Committee. - CITY CAMPAIGN IN SEATTLE T0 SOON BURST OUT 15 Candidate for Mayor with Only 11 Seek- ing Council Seats SEATTLE, Feb. 10.—Local poli ‘m;s promise to start humming this | ‘wcek for the run-off or primary | |election to be held on Tuesday, | | February 25, to be followed by the | city election on March 11. There are 15 candidates in the field for Mayor and two will be| nominated at the primary for the | | regular election at which one will | |be chasen for a one-year term. | There are 11 candidates for the | City Countil, the smallest number | [to- file in many years. Six will be inmmnuwd at the primary and‘ be chosen at the clec- | tion for a term of three years. 'HOUSE GRINDS " oUT BLLS IN " BUSIEST DAY | Delegafe’s an'ienainmenl : Fund Halved—Commit- | fee Idea Shelved | The proposed entertainment fund |for the Alaska Delegate to Congress was cut from $4,000 to $2,000 by the House of Representatives today in adopting a committee recommenda- | tion, during second reading of House | Bill No. 14, by Rep. Harvey J. Smith. | The Smith bill would provide a | Delegate’s entertainment fund for | the first time. | | Another Committee recommenda- tion that work on a proposed Wasilla School addition be done under the supervision of the Commissioner of | Education and not under that of the |Superintendem of Public Works was | defeated, despite. an opinion from | | Territorial Attorney General James | S. Truitt that such a provision was legal. The vote came on House Bill No. |17, by Smith and McCutcheon, ap-| | th certificate bill, | propriating $25000 for an addition | Visitor tonight, explaining the need |City Director of Civil Defense by Enjoy Q| The favorite bif:;‘sge of wholesomes refreshing. is good beer= light, ¢han Olympia— beer . urer, finer There is n° P » w1ps the Water- feom the choicest oty and our ins and hops grains Just the Condl Mae Olympia gives At brew.ng wat it 53 shment YOU need. mild refre: VISITORS w of Amcnc:\'s g pia Brewing C ELCOME! eptional Brewss “one , Oympis, Wi Olym| NAMED JUNEAU DEFENSE CHIEF Plans for Local Civil De- fense Unit to Be Dis- cussed by Legion AIR MAIL "IN ALASKA g ‘.IS,BBOSTED Sum for Star Roufes In- creased-Turn Down Ju- neau-Ketchikan Run Page One) Frank Metcalf has been appointed Mayor Harry I. Lucas, it was an- nounced today. Tonight Director Metcalf will explain the defense plan and make further plans for a local unit at the meeting of Alford John Bradford Post of the American Le- gion. Major W. R. Mulvihill is Ter- ritorial Director of Civil Defense. The Major will attend tonight's meet- ing. Joseph T. Flakne will be another (Continued from viding local service to Peterbur: and Wrangell.” Anchorage Boosted During the testimony on the re- quests, Representative George H Mahon of Texas said, ‘I think the truth is that Anchorage is probabl going to be the largest city in Alaska The Government is spending 15.- has concluded his mission in Eng-| received by those who hear it way that to Wasilla, The bill passed through [Of having birth certificates in order | o5 500 5 there now.” land and left for the United States He has been here since January 9 § 3 \ ] 1l ) \ 4 N N 5 ) \ \ ] 3 3 \ \ \ I} I} \ \ 3 \ \ \ \ \ I} \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ ] \ \ JUNEAU DAIRIES s lHopkins Is BuyaCar Youwll Enjoy Owning Comfort, dependabilily, economy, smart looks . . . you want all of those when you buy acar! And you get them in Connors Motor Co. USED CARS, at REAL BAR- GAIN PRICES. Come in and drive one of these specials. Connors Motor Co. PHONE 411 has a memorial in the Legisla- ture asking for transfer of the title from the Federal to the Territorial government. - The Daily Alaska Empire has the largest paid circulation of any “Al- aska newspaper, it ature 1 certifics s one) might be ‘challenged on citizenship and who second reading. House Bill No. 19, ates'by Rep. Stuart Stangroom, appro-| B The headlines: | GRUENING DEMANDS HIGH- | AIRMAIL ENVELOPES, showing'ER TAXES—Cordova Times. | With bounties as the subject, the e route from Seattle to Nome, 7n' GOVERNOR, GRUENTNG Asis| Senate Pinance Committee and sale at J. B. Burford & Co. adv. LEGISLATURE FOR THREE-wAy HOUse Committee cn Ways and RERTC & FARAN e B gt L 2 Means niel this afternoon with Alas- ka Game Commissioners, now in session in Juneau. |unseated. The bill passed. A petition of protest to the propesed scuttling of hair seal beunties was reccived by the Senate teday from about 50 residents of Hoc»ah. . - Ball Park Molesforin (ii Y Jail Charged with indecent exposure and thought to be the man who has been mclestimg small girls and wom- 1 in or adjacent to the Ball Park| for the last several days, a nnl.ive‘ man was in the Juneau jail today after being arrested early this morn- ing. | Police Chief Dan Ralston said that the arrest would probably be a re- lief to women in the district. Date | of arraignment has not been set for the prisoner. —————— Subscribe to the Daily Alaska Empire—the paper with the larges, i | TONIGHT Juneau High Nal'!v;iuard FIR;:N;EN HENNINGS DOUGLAS HIGH SCHOOL GYM 7:30 P. M. paid circulation, ! INo Host Dinner for priatifg $10,000 for a school at Coun- | cil, also went through second read- ing. Two Recommitted Two bills were recommitted to the | Ways and Means Committee for| amendments. They were House Bill No. 8, providing for bank examma-; tions, and House Bill No. 9, to tax coin-operated amusement machines. Three measures passed in the! House this afternoon—one bill pro- viding for delayed birth certificates, another providing a setup for graz- ing districts and a memorial asking | a trunk highway survey. Rep. Charles Herbert introduced the only House Bill today, one re- pedling Section 1694 and Sections 1696-1706 of the. 1933 compiled laws, providing for Divisional Rvad Com- missioners. The law is obsolete and has not been in effect for many years, Herbert said. { The House adjourned until 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Game Commissioners A no-host dinner party was given‘ in the banquet room of Percy's! Cafe last evening and was attend-| ed by members of the Alaska Game Commission and the office per- sonnel of the Fish and Wildlife Service. Thirty-five were in attendance with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dufresne and Mr. and Mrs. Homer Jewell, entertaining the out-of-town mem- bers. Empire i Clasull'lfldn' Payl [ to be eligible to work on defense projects. Final plans will be laid for a Jiggs Dinner to be held next Monday Willlam Triem, Superintendent or’ the Division of Railway Adjustments said the Juneau-Ketchikan route i need2d to serva Petersburg and night. —— - Empire Classifieds Pay! R Subscribe for The Fmpire Wrangell. —l Subscribe 1o ihic Dally Alaska Empire—the paper with the larges oaid circulation. JUST WHAT YOU'VE WANTED?!? You’'ll experience more cooking pleasure with LESS TIME and LESS TROUBLE than ever before with a hew 1941 GENERAL ELECRIC RANGE Here’s What 1941 Brings —Clean Speed Calrod Units— Two-Uit Oven — New Thrift Cooker— Welded One-Piece Body — A New Low Price! ALASKA ELECTRIC LIGHT & POWER COMPANY