The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 13, 1941, Page 2

7 § GANTYS. IN TOWN ON WAY SOUTH FEE OHT ey T Prosper Ganty,” prominent young with Mrs, -Marthas Meefing, Sale february AP At a recent meeting of the Martha | Sitka business man. Society it was decided to hold a Ganty and their two children, was voody sale at the Piggly Wiggly store | in Juneau today while the North on Friday, February 21. Mrs. Gunnar | Coast was in port enroute to Se- Blomgren will be in charge. attle. The ar meeting of the Mar-| Telling of business booming {ha's will be held the same day,| Sitka, Ganty took time today to arting at 10 o'clock in the morning, lobby for a new school building when members will meet to continue | which is badly needed in the grow- their Red Cross sewing project ing town. .y | The housing situation is serious Jln Sitka, Ganty said, and five | apartments that are being built lfor him by Ray Peterman on plans of Harold Foss, will do but little to ease the condition. Mr. and Mrs. Ganty, Maryjane and Wallie will spend about six weeks in Seattle and in Bremerton where they will visit Mrs, Ganty's | mother, Mrs. W. B. Jessup. While they are south they expect to be joined by Ganty's parents, Mr. jand Mrs. P. H. Ganty of Skag- way. [ During their short stay in Ju- ;nvau. Mr. and Mrs. Ganty were | in QUALITY Ehoroe American Bottled in Borid W lidhey At your favorite tavern and package store. guests of Mr, and Mrs. Harold Foss and at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Keith. Wildes, Women Voters Hear ' Talk by H. L. Faulkner Approximately 35 persons attend- WELFARE BILL Chambe rmroves Pus- pose of Legislation But Does Not Endorse If Disapproving of a pending Welfare Bill before the Legislature because it “contains impracticable, question- abl and controversial features.” the Juneau Chamber of Commerce at| noon voted unanimously that it ap- proved of the general purpose of the | bill, but would not endorse it be-| cause of some of its features. | Voting to accept the Executive| Committee's suggested endorsement of the legaliZation fo the Territorial | Department of Health, the Chamber | accepted the committee’s report without discussion, approving unani- ! mously of the report which included | several suggested changes in the | bill now before the Legislature. | Welfare Biil | The committee’s report on the | Welfare Bill disapproved of the in- ciusion of Indian children in the scope of the bill because they are MERCHANTS 'COLONIZATION DISAPPROVE SCHEMES HIT its regular luncheon meeting this|day as Legislators returned from in-| genator Ed .Cofrcy only THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, FEB. | Sidelights on the Legislature Senator LeRoy Sullivan, only Re- | publican in the upper house, was of all people the member to move that the Senate meet on Lincoln's Birthday, though the Legislature | INMEMORIA ‘Stangroom Measure Urges ix coited, te, & oy, Laie | Defeat of Dickstein Bill- | Want Fed. Highway Act Memorials asking Congress to ex- | tend the Federal Highway Act to Alaska and to kill thé Diekstein Al- ‘ |aska immigration bill were intro- | duced in the Alaska Legislature to- It is said that more than one legislator was a trifle upset by moticns that were made yester- day—by the beat which took the Pioneers’ Home Commit- tee’ from Sitka to Goddard Springs. | wants | $30,000 for a school at Naknek, while the House members from, his |Civision are asking $40000. Both | bills* weré introduced today. specting the Pioneers® Home at Sitka. The Federal Highway Act memor- ial, by Rep. Allen Shattuck of Ju- neau, urges that the benefits of a unified and systematic highway con- | yqentical letters from the Pet- struction program be exlenfled m‘?rsburg Post of the Amerfcan Le- the HtOLE | gion, Petersburg Eastern Star and Rep. Stuart Stangroom of Nome|petercyirg’ Lutheran Church Ladies is author of the memorial attacking | ;4 have heen received by thé Sen-| 1;;:;&3;:0;:??}?0; p;g;‘:' ”ir;'dp:‘}:e‘mc renouncing endorsement of the | e Gt \ " | Department of Health bill. It ‘":;L”ia:h;:i:]&“m:;%‘l’ge‘;‘:;Co:‘]') | seems the Petersburg Hralth Coun- Em‘md SniiEtinh dota j:w‘a;cu did endorse the bill, and in single quota to allow (:-el‘ugees Toiin |its endorsement mentioned these 5 * Troiooo | Organizations among 18 which made other countries to enter the Umtcd\up the Councl. States for the purpose.of Alaska | 44 3, 1941. JUNEAU FIVE | GETS BACON. FROM HAINES Crimson Bears Trim Army | Town Hoopsters in | First Game SCORE AT HAINES Juneau High, 38; Haines High, 26. Playing a stiff, rough game that| | sent Miller to the showers with four personals and chalked up three fouls | | for each other member of the first | squad, the Juneau Crimson Bears trimmed the Haines High School |five on the Glacier Bears' new floor last night in Haines 38 to 27. McDantels was high point for the | touring J-Hi squad with 13 points to his credit, with Valencia cf the Haines five making seven field throws swish through the net. But| Valencia, captain of the Glacier Bears, also was sent out on four fouls after battling a hot, fast game. Little Halley Rice did his share, including three personals, when he | knocked over a total of 11 points for the Juneau side of the score board Close Refereeing | The two determined teams met THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) U. S. DEPARTMENT NF CON MERCE, WEATHER BUREAU Forecast for Juneau and vicinily, beginning at 4:4 9p.m., Feb. 13: Oceasional very light showers tonight and Friday; not much change in temperature; lowest temperature tonight about 36 degrees, Fri- day highest 42 degrees; gentle southeasterly winds. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Mostly cloudy with occasional light showers tonight and Friday, except partly cloudy south portion tonight; little change in temperature; moderate southeasterly, be- coming moderate to fresh southerly to southeasterly winds. Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alasks: Dixon Entrance to Cape Spencer: Occasional light rain; moderate to fresh southeasterly wind; Cape Spencer to Cape Hinchinbrook: Oceasional light rain or snow; moderate to fresh southeasterly winds except fresh to strong wesi of Cape St. Elas; Cape Hinch- inbrobk to Resurrection Bay: Occasional light rain of snow: fresh to strong southeasterly winds; Resurrection Bay to Kodiak: Occasional light rain or snow; frésh to strony southeasterly winds. LOCAL DATA Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity 36 85 SE 11 36 90 sSwW 3 38 83 E 9 RADIO REPORTS Weather Lt. Snow Lt. Rain Lt. Rain Time 4:30 p.m, yesterday 30.07 4:30 am. today 30.25 Noon today 30.30 TODAY 4:30a.m. Precip. 4:30a.m temp. 24 hours Weather -14 0 Clear 0 Cloudy 03 Snow Pt. Cldy Snow Snow Clear Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Rain Cloudy | Lowest | temp. | -15 -3 24 -13 31 28 Max. tempt. Station last 24 hours Barrow 3 | Fairbanks | Nome | Dawson Anchorage Bethel St. Paul Atka Dutch Harbor Wosnesenski Kanatak Kodiak | ed yesterday's meeting of’ the Al- aska Association of Wbmen Voters| {held in the Penthouse of the Al-‘f | aska Electric Light and Power Com- ‘pnny, H. L. Paulkner, guest speaker, gave further phases on the prob-| lems of vocational training. The| | legalization of the Territorial Health | | Department was also discussed. The next meeting of the group ;lms been set for March 12. | —————— GIL RICH THROUGH Gil Rich, well known merchan- | dise broker, enroute from Sitka to | Ketchikan, called on Juneau trade today while the North Coast was in port. | eorneo m;)/ 'NLLY prsrisens / voan.n®? ., | e VALENTINE SILVER TEA | Trinity Hall, Sat., Feb. 15, 2 to 6. Public invited, adv. | | . The Dauy Alaska Empire guaran- tees the largest daily circulation of | uny Alaska newspaper. - Empire Classifieds Pay! $trolght Bourbon Whiskey, 100 proo Schenley Distillers Corp., N.Y.C. — i ment report asked for the clarifica- | progress in sending a Juneau can- tion of the bill, asked that laymen be included on the Board, and asked that final authority on the Board rest with the Board and not the chairman. i In other business of the meeting Charles C Carter made a report on didate to the Ice Carnival in Fair- banks as Miss Juneau. He said that on February 21, or thereabouts, a | Style Show will be held at the Capi- tol theatre by the Chamber in which local merchants will have candidates for Miss Juneau. A group of judges will choose the final winner to re- { present Juneau. Each merchant is allowed three | models who will appear in two show- ings dressed in three costumes, for- | mal gowns, bathing suits and ski| suits. Rotary Minstrel Carter also spoke about the Romry‘ not only that this bill be not passed but that all other Alaska coloniza- tion schemes be dropped. It asks further that Congress “consider Al- aska as part of the United States” in determining immigration pelicy. Appropriation Bills A new bill by Rep. Harvey Smith would appropriate $6,000 for equip- ping and operating the Seldovia | Hospital and another by Peterson, Smith and Egan would appropriate $40,000 for a school at Naknek. A resolution introduced by the | House Ways and Means Committee would appropriate $400 for janitor service to clean the House and Sen- ate chambers. One new bill, by Senator Edward Coffey of Anchorage, was intro- duced in the upper house today. It asks that $30,000 be appropriated for a school building at Naknek. Actual work done in the Legisla- | to be referred hereafter to the squad was still going strong to pound The House | Education Committee of the Sen-|the home team into the floor and passed a bill raising the license tax ate before they go to the Finance end the first game of the series with ture today was slight. on embalmers to $10 and Senate passed a memorial ammthat a highway be built from Palmer to Copper Center. - Both houses adjourned until o'clock tomorrow. ————————— 11 PIONEERS’ the wards of the United States, not- | colonization only. The memorial asks | ) . d that under -the provisions only Quite a muddle exists in the en- four judges have jurisdiction over children in some cases, which they claimed was impractical, and takes away the power of convicting certain minors for felonies. Suggested Changes The Chamber objected to the| clause in the Health Department Legalization Bill as “most objection- | able” which gives to the Board of Health the power to make rules and regulations which have the force of law, but have no legislative ratifi-| cation. The Committee's endorse- dorsement business as a result of the Health Department Bill as introduced, differing quite mater- |ially from the bill which various | organizations throughout Alaska endorsed. In the proposed bill which | was so widely endorsed the Terri- | the policy-making body for the Department, while the bill which Rep. Allen Shattuck introduced in |the House last week by request leaves the matter of policy up !to the Commissioner of Health, | with the Board serving in a pure- |ly advisory capacity. Several or- | ganizations are said to be plan- ning to disown the bill as intro- ! duced. | The rash of bills asking appro- | priations for school buildings are Committee. Tonight's showing of legis- laters’ amateur motion pictures in the House Chamber will be a double-feature program, with Rep. Frank Gordon announc- ing today he would show films he tock in Scotland last year at the conclusion of the show- ing of Rep. Frank Whaley's films showing life in the Sec- ond Division. The time is 8 o’clock. | torial Board of Health would be! BuyaCarYow’ll Enjoy Owning Comfort, dependability, 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 Juneau Rotary Club MIEINSTREL SHOW Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 17-18 Minstrel show which is raising mon- | |ey to establish a loan fund for pre- iparatory college students in the\ Territory. Myron Christy, president of the Ski club, spoke for his organization |pointing out that although the !Chamber, in spite of its close bud- |geting, is guaranteeing $150 for the |Miss Juneau contest, they are sup- | porting the Ski and Basketball tour- | naments with only moral support. | H. L. Faulkner said that Christy icuuld be assured of the Chamber’s cooperation and that any deficit re-| sulting from the 8ki Tournament |in Juneau could be settled. Archie Shiels, President of the Pacific' American Fisheries, and a member of the Chamber, was intro- iduced as was P. S. Ganty, Bitka merchant, visiting Juneau. SUEZ CANAL AIRRAIDED | CLAIMNALZI (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) The German High Comimand to- day reports destructive aerial blows against the Suez Canal that caused “severe paralyzation” of ship traffic on that link between Great Britain and her Far East possessions. COMMISSION ENDS MEET As the week-long annuai nreeting of the Game Commission came to an end today at noon, with per- | That bill would'make the 150,000 ap- | Chief Clerk Lawrence Kerr of the House is recovering from an arthritic attack which struck his | right arm so badly he was unable | to sign his name for several days. HOME ANNEX 1S FAVORED Although official reports of the Legislative delegations which. re-| If the Shattuck-by-request bill turned today from Sitka and God-| t0 Prohibit the selling of certain dard will not be submitted for sev-| drugs is passed without amend- eral days, individual members indi- |ment, it will become impossible to cate here that they are pretty well purchase any of the listed druzs agreed on recommending that a in Alaska, either with or without $150,000 appropriation be made for 2 prescription. Although the body an annex to the Pioneers’ Home at|of the bill says sale is prohibited Sitka, with abandonment of me‘excepz on prescription, the title Goddard location as an auxiliary | mereiy prohibits the sale andleaves | home. off the phrase “except on prescrip- Senator O. D. Cochran this after- tion.” The Organic Act provides noon declared it to be his personal,express]y that the purpose and in- opinion that the best solution is em- tent of every Alaska act must be bodied in the bill which the Senate |set forth in its title, passed two ycars ago but which was - - defeated nine to seven in the House. ( FIS propriation for an addition at Sitka. | Pioneers Contented ( Rep. Harvey Smith said the pio- | neers at Goddard appeared to be well-content, but that the butlding was simply not satisfactory for use as a home. Rep. Leo Rogge, Chairman of the FOR AUCTION, Tickets On Sale At HARRY RACE DRUG STORE Reserved Seats 75¢ e B -t General Adm. 50c -3 sonell matters being the last busi- ness on the Commission docket, Ed| Arnell received a promotion from Clerk in the Juneau Game Com- mission office to Junior Adminis- trative officer. Chairman of the Commission Earl Ohmer and his wife will sail tonight on the steamer North Coast for Petersburg, and Commissioners. Simons and Hajdukovich with agent-in-charge of the Fairbanks district Clarence Rhode, will leave Juneau for Fairbanks tomorrow via PAA Electra. Tentative plans were for the, Commission to meet in Fairbanks next January. - e - Sunscribe for The Empire. House Territorial Institutions Com- mittee, said “the boys at Goddard are well contented and well taken care of.” He said 'his committee would have to hold a meeting as he had no idea what the other mem- bers thought was the best solution to the Sitka-Goddard problem. Superintendent Eiler Hansen of the Home has recommended that $175,000 be appropriated for an ad- dition at Sitka and the Board of Budget has approved his request. Home Inspected The 17 Legislators making the trip visited the Home Tuesday evening, making an inspection and inter- viewing individual pioneers there. Most of the oldtimers expressed themselves as being well satisfied, Legislators reported. Yesterday morning at 7 o'clock nine Legislators accompanied by Superintendent Hansen and Tfus- tee H. R. VanderLeest made the trip by small boat to Goddard. They in- spected the bullding there thorough- 1y and returned to Sitka at noon. The North Coast, which returned | Legislators to Juneau, arrived in port at3:30 o’clock this morning. —— NAVAL DOCTOR THROUGH Dr. Richard S. Silvis, USN, and Mrs. Silvis are passengers on the North Coast from Sitka on their way to the States where Dr. Silvis is being transferred after serving for some time at the Sitka base. ————— WHT SUMFER with your feet? Phone 648, Chiropodist Dr, Steves Over 2,000 confiscated muskrats and 46 mink furs were being graded | by wildlife agents this afternoon in preparation for the next confiscated fur auction. The hides were seized by Wildlife< Agents Clarence Rhode and Grenold |Collins in an aerial patrol of the |lower Yukon last month and re- | cently arrived in Juneau from the Westward. The skins were taken by natives out of season and had been sold to traders. FOUR PROSPECTORS, 'ALL OVER 70, ARE Four Alaska prospectors, all of them more than 70 years of age, were admitted last week to the Pio- | neers’ Home at Sitka, according to word received from Superintendent Eiler Hansen. Henry M. Jones, 70, miner, who came to Alaska in 1898 from Miehi- William P. O'Connor, 70, miner, | who come to Alaska in 1898 from Minnesota, was admitted from Nome. Ralph Barado, 70, miner, who came to Alaska in 1909 from Spain, was admitted from Ophir. PFrank L. Anderson, 77, miner, who ADMITTED TO HOME ' TRAFFIC CLOSED gan, was admitted from Nome. 1 | satd | each other in the Haines’ new gym- inasium, after new coach Rex Allen had primed his Glacier Bears to a winning pitch with two consecu- tive victories over Skagway in a two-out-of-three series. Close ref- ereeing marked the game as the fight raged with the Juneau High boys getting stiff competition from the Glacier Bears. After a cautious opening canto, the frame ended with ‘the score 9 to 6 for the Crimson | Bears. ‘The J-High team managed to keep ahead during the game however, by sheer effort and the half ended with only one field goal in the score- ference. But it was in the third quarter that the Juneau lads pushed the score ahead eight points while their opponents were ailowed only |one basket. | Game Tonight | During the last frame the J-High the visitors victors, 38 to 27. To- inight the Haines team will have a | chance for retaliation when the sec- |ond battle will rage for the basket- ball supremacy of the two South- east Alaska towns. Following are the individual scores | made by the two teams: | Juneau Haines | Player Player | Rice Mathews | Murphy Valencia | McDaniel Jacobs | Miller Perrin Lucas Sorrels | Bavard }AR(TI( BARIS " BURGLARIZED ~LAST NIGHT Ralston Says Place Enter- ed Through Transom -Money Taken | Entering through a transom in |the rear of the building, burglars | broke into and robbed the Aretic | Bar last night, taking a “consid- erable amount of money,” accord- |ing to a report from police chie! |Dan Ralston this afternoon. It was thought that the burglars entered the bar between 4 and 7 a.m, today. Rebekahs Name Committee for Dance March 22 At a meeting held last night by the Rebekah Lodge at the L.O.OF. Hall, 2 committee was selected tc make plans for the annual lodge danee on March 22. On the committee will be Amy Messerschmidt, Edith Larson, Betty McCormick, Ellen Shaffer, Mable Ly- beck; Elsie Waldal, Frances Neder- helman, Mary Ross, Esther O'Laugh- lin and Peggy McLeod. Announcement was made that the meeting on February 26 would be an initiation and a special service will be held in commemoration of Thomas Wildley, founder of the In- dependnt Order cf Odd Fellows. H A AR P SN Pts. 1 8 13 4 0 2 IN SEATER TRACT Traffic on Evergreen and Hem- lock avenues in the Seater Tract will be closed tomorrow morning, according to the City Engineer's office. Frank Metcalf, City Engineer, that the Department was starting the installation of a sewer line and that the streets will be closed at least until noon and pos- sibly longer. - ——— VALENTINE SILVER TEA came to Alaska in 1898 from Swed- en, was admitted from Anchorage. | Public invited. Trinity Hall, Sat., Feb. 15, 2 to 6. adv. Cordova Snow Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Juncau Sitka Ketchikan Prince Rupert Prince George Seattle Portland San Francisco 41 WEATHER SYNOPSIS Rain or snow was falling this morning at most stations along the coast from Juneau to the Alaska Peninsula, and at some points from the Kuskokwim Valley to th:z Seward Peninsula. Partly cloudy to cloudy skies prevailed elsewhere over Alaska. Rain or snow had fallen at most stations over Alaska during the previous 24 hours except in the north portion, The greatest amount of precipitation was 1.08 inches, which was recovded at Kanatak. Temperatures con- tinued relatively warm over the interior of Alaska. The lowest tem- perature was minus 14 degrees, which was reported at Barrow.Broken clouds to overcast with moderately low ceilings to moderately high ceilings, local light showers an good visibilities prevailed over the Juneau-Ketchikan*airway this morning. The Thursday morning weather chart indicated a low center of 75 millibars (28.79 inches) was located at 61 degrees north and 170 degrees west, and a second low ceiter of 984 millibars (29.06 inches) was located at 52 degrees north ani 159 degrees west. A high pres- sure area of 1028 millibars (30.35 inches) was centered over Southeast Alaska, and a second high center of 1027 millibars (30.32 inches) was located at 27 degrees north and 17! degrees west, Juneau, Feb. 14 — Sunrise 8:3) a.m., sunset 5:51 p.m. LINCOLN DAY MUSEUM LOANED DINNER GIVEN | REINDEER SKIN LAST EVENING ESKIMO PICTURE Republicans of Juneau gathered in ‘he banquet room of Percy's Cafe last night to commemorate the birth- day of Abraham Lincoln. Guest speaker for the occasion was Mrs. Mildred Lesher, and toastmast- er was Sam Duker. Musical selections were given by Phyllis Langdon, violinist, accom- sanied at the piano by Mrs. Carol 3eery Davis. Led by Ronald Lister, he guests sang “America” anc “Alaska’s Flag.” Introduced during, the evening were Mrs. Margaret White, Repub- lican National Committeewoman; Mrs, Ann Robertson, Delegate to the National Convention; Albert White, Delegate to the National Convention and Council for the Central Commit- tee; Henry Benson, secretary of the Sentral Committee for Alaska and Vice President of the Republican Na- ional Convention; Elton Engstrom, “hairman of the Republican Central Jommittee. Besides the main speaker, Judge 4. B. LeFevre told of his memories of Lincoln, and brief talks were giv- sn by Dr. J. Caswell of Ketchikan and Howard D. Stabler, Juneau at- orney. For the first time, the Territoriai Museum has on display, as a loan, a sicture by the popular Eskimo artist, George A. Ahgupuk. In a frame 36 by 18 inches, the picture consists of sine scenes from Eskimo Life sketched on bleached reindeer hide. Ahgupuk has attained consider ible fame in recent years as the only Eskimo artist. His sketches usually poken of as skin etchings, were irst sold as Christmas cards to in- dividual purchasers, but now are distributed widely through the Un.t- =d Artists Group of New York City. He started his work while con- fined for a long period in the Indian Affairs Hospital at Kotzebue. To cccupy his time he first made Es- kime life sketches on bridge talleys for the nurses. Mrs. Nan Gallagher and other nurses in the hospital rec- ognized his talent and encouraged him to sketch on reindeer skin purs- 2s. The Christmas cards followed. Orders from individuals in Kot- zebue, Nome and other Seward Pe- ninsula centers kept him busy with he novel Christmas cards. Through Mrs. O. S. Weaver, of Nome, who sponsored much of his work, Rockwell Kent became inter- ested in him, furnishing him ma- terials and bringing him to the at- tention of art patrons in the East Since that time he has enjoyed a {a‘:orad place among American arte ISts. Ahgupuk now lives at his native village at Shishmaref, filling as many as pessible of the many orders he receives. Contest Winners * Read Essays, KINY Anna Lois Davis, Doris Cahill and Harry Sperling, Jr., winners of the essay contest sponsored by the Elks Lodge National Defense Committec, read their essays last evening over KINY after being introduced by Gov. Ernest Gruening. The reading of the essays formed a part of a special Lincoln’s Birth- day program. The local Elks Lodge is entering the essays in the national contest. YILLARD RELIEVES ~ ustons depuTes J. J. Hillard, Deputy Collector of Customs in charge of the office at Eagle during the summer sea- son, returned this week from Wran- gell where he had been relieving Deputy Collector Leo Osterman. Hillard will be in the Juneau office | for ten days before going north| to Fairbanks where he will relieve! George M. Tuttle who will be on] vacation from the Fairbanks Cus- tom office. I i e camesanend NOITCE AIRMAIL ENVELOPEKS, showing sir route from Seattle to Nome, on sale at J. B. Burford & Co. adv. FROM 5 TO 50 THEY ALL ENJOY JUNEAU DAIRIES’ ICE CREAM! TRY IT TODAY! JUNEAU DAIRIES