The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 28, 1941, Page 2

U.S. HasPlenty TEETH STAY Steel Capacity Says President Facilities W"ivI—I Care for Needs of U. S. and Democracies ¢ WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.— )-‘:"‘\-l‘ dent Rooscvelt today made public a report which he said showed ample steel production facilities existed in the United States to meet all domes- tic defense and civilian needs as well as those needs of nations try- ing to uphold the cause of democ-|that racy Con on the report effi of Produ President. Roosevell has been a lot of 1 menting at a press conference 1 came from the tion Management, said that there ose talk about the | - INBILL ON ~ GOLD TAX \Move fo Remove Penalies ! Resisted Teday in Senate Session An attempt to remove penalties from_.the bill of Senator C. | (Alabam) LaBoyteaux putting tec {in the gold tax act was defeated {a vote of five to three in the Sen- ate today. | Senator Henry Roden proposed adequacy of steel production capac-|peglected to pay the tax on the ity and the report is exceedingly en- | advice of lawyers who question the ~ouraging e — HOUSE PASSES BILL CURBING GIN MARRIAGES ::. Three Days Nofice of Mat- rimonial Infenfions to Be Required | | Three days’ notice of intention to |bill was rejected four to four. The|No permit marry will have to be given in Al- |bill would license coin-operated purct aska if the Senate follows the lead | of the House of Representatives, | which today passed unanimously a bill by Rep. Harvey J. Smith mak- | ing such a requirement. | The notice would have to be given | to the U. S. Commissioner issuing the marriage license and could be the 10 percent penalty for g g R iy cfficials that the second of the Lode- | LOCAL DATA non-payment by January 31 and| 'he permits would be issued by NDE stars has already been delivered to| my o Barometer Temp, Humidity Wind Velocity ~ Weather 15 percent penalty for non-payment CO(HRAN uRfiES t and their deputies R PAA at the Lockheed fagtory in b b‘\' March 165. be .stricken. i 4 g c ing t nam Santa Monica, California i | 4:30 p.m. yesterday 29.94 22 34 ENE 8 Cloudy SREeEIe T 9 A > p g 7 R hes i S | & « . 20 Lt. Snow Senator O. D. Cochran argued| pERM iT SYS{[A X ice of ap- 'I'Ax Blll IS May Go To Fairbanks | :q;‘gn“;‘&a"”d“y g:}; g :; x 36 il against removing - the penalties, e L8y licant Mits co be s Although nothing was definitely| y L ” . ing that many companies had N ily 1 by District C set late this afternoon, PAA of-| RADIO REPORTS Of Lflg;@u SAlE prot has twice becr 4 |ficials indicated that the new ship | TODAY iy dliiag € ek o {might refuel and continue on to Max. tempt. Lowest 4:30am. Precip. 4:30am |legality of the act and that “these = i A 5;‘1;\1» uld H c ——Afi R :Fai}"bnnl;s immediately after i‘s ‘Station last 24 hours | o i 35 Bn Weather fellows wouldn’t be ‘so eager (o i i o 1 ouse Lommiitee Recom- arrival here. One passenger and a| parrow i -4 14 -14 01 Olear |l ot w0 weer 0oyl Option Bill fo-Be i o or (11 it D R K 1 - : S into cowt and make tem oy |nfroduced Tomorrow SRR families. mends Passage of | mterior if the ship leaves. FavidR i ; 2 0 Glbar | their taxes if they knew they would 4 it Ao oy '1(‘ ‘hi"‘,r;( / The ship has a wing span of! pawen . B 16 14 0 Pt. Cldy |have to pay penalties along with hv Nome ‘enagor S SRR (ordon Measure over 65 feet, has twin tail assem-i anchorage . . 19 15 15 0 Clouds them. ’ ks s ol L - i |bly and is almost 50 feet in length.| Benel . iy 4 7 0 Cloudy | “They've taken the gold out of| ‘ X e | | Its cruising speed is 239 miles per St. Paul ... 34 25 27 08 Cloudy |the ground, They have it. There| pgjjjs for local option and for FRAVILAL | Rep. Frank Gorcon's bill to tax|hour and its top flight speed at| mgga . 3g 35 3r 07 Pt. Cldy any reason why they| ermit system of liquor sales I ROY(HAK ARRIVES chain stores received ‘a go-ahead 8800 feet. altitude, 263 miles per| pyugoh Harbor .. 42 5 o 37 09 PL.Cldy |shouldn't pay this tax,” Cochran| peen written nator O. D. Coc i from the Municipal hour. ‘Wosnesenski ... 37 35 36 2 Rain declared. { ran of Nome. ' permit biil was in- FQR pUB”( RO!&Q mittee of the House of Climbs Mile in 3 Minutes Kanatak ... 42 29 29 44 Rain The bill passed through secondtroduced today and the local option| George Troychak, former coast ac- ntatives which reportedthe, —Climbing from sea level at 1850 gogiak i ; 33 38 10 Rain |reading today. [bill will be introduced tomorrow,|countant for Siems Drake Puget t to the floor of the House feet per minute, the Lodestar can| cordova ... .. 35 32 33 &l Foggy Music Boxes Scchran said. 3 ki Island Naval Air | With recommendation that 3t level off and fly 1,540 miles, carry-| yoneqy 24 22 24 T Snow | An amendment by LaBoyteaux to| Permits costing $1 would be re- senger to Juneau on | pass ing 664 gallons of fuel and using| gjtxa 35 29 32 0 Clear lexempt music machines from Rep.|quired for the purchase at retail of 2 ay. 3 The bill would tax individual 95 galions per hour. The ship has' Ketchikan 35 20 22 0 Pt. Cldy |Harvey J. Smith's “juke box” tax|.l beer, ale, wine and other liquor.| Troychak has left Siems Dr stores in Alaska from $10 to $500 retractable landing gear and seats| prince Rupert . 36 24 2 0 Clesr would be required for n the staff of the Bureau of per year, depending upen the num- | 14 passengers, although it is thought| punce George .. 38 14 20 0 Cloudy irinks in dispensari s Roads office in Juneau ber of stores in the chain. |that the load for the Alaska run| geattle . 53 | 48 50 37 Rain amusement devices $15 per year. | — cAte £ i - ————— will possibly be 10 to 12 passen-| pgrtjang 50 | 45 46 25 Rain Opposing LaBoyteauxs proposal, - v - 7 gers because of long flights with-| San Francisco .. 61 53 54 30 Cloudy semator Leoy suiivan of nome &o.| - AAmIerica’s Largest Locomotive—5,400 Horsepower)| o reine , - o A« ‘ cried “these machines which blare i o il 5. g | WEATHE! S given in writing, by telegraph or | in to get mus | personally. Asked as the House's only lawyer out their jazz music through thin walls into the street. “But,” complained LaBoute: “lots of machines you put a n c to dance by.” Smith’s bill to raise the tax on hard liquor from 50 cents to $1.50 member to give his opinion of the |Per gallon was continued in second bill, Rep. Almer J. Peterson of An-| chorage said the only thing he had | reading until Monday. Rep. Leo Rogge's bill to require ac- Nazi Bomb Serves as Bank for RAF Fund THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, FEB. 28, A huge German bomb, weighing 2,000 pounds when dropped on London by the Nazi Luftwaffe, serves as a bank as London collects money for the Spitfire Fund, which buys new pursuit ships to battle Nazi bombers. e e e PAALODESTAR | DUETO LAND (By the U. S. Wrather Bureau) H U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU i Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4:30 p.m., Feb. 28: Occasional light snow showers tonight, changing to occasional ligh snow or rain Saturday; warmer Saturday; lowest temperature to- | night about 28 degrees, highest t:mperature Saturday 37 degrecs; i | gentle variable winds, becoming southeasterly Saturday. | Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Occasional light snow showers | . north portion and partly cloudy in south portion tonight; occasional l . . ! light rain or snow Saturday; warmer Saturday; gentle to moderate NeW Sh'p Makes F"S' AI- variable winds, becoming southeast>rly Saturday, and reaching fresh ! southeasterly in sounds and straits Saturday afternoon. aska Run-Left Seat- Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaskas . . Dixon Entrance to Cape Spences Increasing southeasterly winds. “e ThIS MOI’ ning becoming fresh to strong Saturday; occasional light snow, changing (Continued 1rom Page One) to Rrain; Cape Spencer to Cape Hinchinbrook: Increasing southeast- erly winds, becoming fresh to strong late tonight; occasional light snow, changing to rain; Cape Hinchinbrook to Resurrection Bg A0 i | Fresh to strong southeasterly winds, becoming moderate southerly The plane s one of three eS| oo rqqy: gocasional rain with showers Saturday; Resurrection Ba built for the Pacific Alaska AIWays| o gogigl: Fresh to strong southeasterly winds, shifting to modera: for its Juneau-Seattle run and was 3 A | | southerly to southwesterly late tonight and Saturday; occasional rain delivered to PAA in Seattle on Feb becoming showers by Saturday. ruary 19. It is thought by local PAA | The storm area had moved to near the Kodiak Island this morn- | ing bringing relatively warm moist air over the southwest portion «f Alaska, and mostly cloudy skies with local precipitation areas were reported from the Alaska Peninsula to the Kodiak Island. Due lo = weak low pressure center in the Gulf of Alaska, overcast skies with local very light snow flurries were reported from the Kenai Pen- insula to Juneau. The storm near Kodiak Island is expected to ! move into the Guif of Alaska during the next 2% hours, bringing snow or rain over Southeast Alaska by Saturday. Rain or snow had fallen during the previous 24 hours from Juneau to the Aleutian Islands ; and the Bering Sea. The greatest amount of precipitation was .72 IN THE SENATE against it was that it would hurt that applicants for licenses to Jawyers' business, He said he re. | tice medicine must be U. S. citizens cently had to get divorces for two Was reported favorably from com- couples who were drunk when they Mittee. Rep. James V. Davis’ bill to married and the men had married Tequire the Health Department to the wrong girls while in that state. P&y for physical examinations for Half a dozen other bills, none o: food handlers received an adverse great moment, were passed today. <eport from committee. A move to kill the bill making an| The Senate adjouined appropriaton of $5,000 for Donald ©'¢lock tomorrow. MacDonald was defeated today by a | b . WM | vote of 13 to three, with Reps. James | Slx SE“AIORS until 11 V. Davis, Harvey J. Smith and Allen INTRODUCED—S. B. 28, by Cof- fey, (replacing S. B. 26, withdrawn) autherizing the Treesurer to waive techr 1 provisions to pay bounty claims in certain cases INTRODUCED—S. B. 29, by Cochran, to provide for a permit system of liquor sales, i INTRODUCED—S. J. R. 4, by Brownell, to appropriate $1,000 for a survey (o determine whether a Pioneers’ Home for Women should ke built inch, which was reported at Wosnesenski. Relatively cold continental air with clear or partly cloudy skies continued over the interior and nerthern portion of Alaska. Scattered clouds to overcast with mod- erately high ceilings and good visibilities prevailed over the Juneau- Ketchikan airway this morning. The Friday morning weather chart indicated that a low center of 977 millibars (28.85 inches) was located at 48 degrees north and 132 degrees west; a second low center Of 987 millibars (29.15 inches) was located at 33 degrees north and 126 degrees west; a third low center of 978 millibars (28.88 inches) was located at 55 degrees north and 158 degrees west, and a fourth low center of about the same pres- sure was centered at 54 degrees notth and 170 degrees west. A high pressure area.of 1023 millibars (30.21 inches) was located at 26 de- Shattuck voting to indefinitely post- pene, When Rep. Frank Gordon then moved to advance the bill to final passage, the required two-thirds vots could not be mustered. Voting against suspending the rules to ad- vance the bill were Davis, Smith, Shattuck, William Egan, Almer J. Peterson and H. H. McCutcheon. Peterson today withdrew his House Bill 40 defining the exempt prop- erty of a judgment debtor and en- tered a substitute, B FIREMEN FIND FALSE ALARM Juneau firemen answered two alarms late yesterday, one at 4:30 o'clock to extinguish a grass fire near the Federal Jail and another {o | find a false alarm at the new boat | harbor at 8 o'clock last night. Fire Chief V. W. Mulvihill said ast night’s false alarm was the lirst in many months, the last being when a series of alarms were {urned in and the perpetrator fined $100. e BROWN BEAR DUE T0 DOCK TODAY Alaska Game Commission vessel Brown Bear is scheduled to dock in Juneau this afternoon, according to word received by the Juneau office of the game commission The vessel, Master John D. Selle- vold, is returning after a two months’ cruise of the Aleutian Islands. HOSPITAL NOTES Kenneth Hedgewick was a medical dismissal today from St. Ann’s Hos- | pital. | After receiving medical care from | St. Ann’s, Glenn Johnson was dis- missed today Mrs. John Berg was dismissed today from St. Ann’s after receiving medical care. Admitted for surgical attention, Mrs. E. Larson is a patient at St. Ann’s, Elizabeth Peters entered the Gov- ernment Hospital today and is re- ceiving medical superv . - DA —— WHY SUFFER watnh your feet? Phone 648. Chiropodist Dr. Steves.| (adv.) | - URGE ADDITION - TOSITKA HOME Disconfinue Goddard Es- | fablishment, Recom- ' mends Committee | Construction of an addition to tl Pioneers’ Home to accommodate at least 100 additional persons was re- | ccmmended today in the official re- | vort of the Senate Committee which | investigated the Home at Sitka and | auxiliary establishment at Goddard | several weeks ago. | The Committee, in its repert read today in the Senate, recommended | that the home at Goddard be dl'»‘ continued because the building is a | fire hazard, extensive repairs are ne- | cessary, the cost of maintenance of | pioneers at Goddard is too high and 1o physician is present on the prem- ises. At present the Poneers’ Home has | 162 residents and Goddard 20. The | home is overcrowded, the Commit- | tee reported, strongly urging tha({ this conditicn be remedied. The ad- dition would permit acceptance of | 25 now on the waiting list. ‘The report commends Superinten- dent Eiler Hansen, Dr. William C.| Charteris and the Pioneers’ Home | staff, | Those signing the reports were Senators Norman R. Walker, C. H.| (Alabam) LaBoyteaux, O. D. Coch- | ran, Hjalmar Nordale and Don Car- | los Brownell. ——-—— LENTEN SERVICES, TRINITY CATHEDRAL, | HELD ON FRIDAYS| During Lent spcial services will be held in Holy Trinity Cathedral| on Friday evenings at 8 o'clock. | he services will consist of a| short devotional period, with an! address on the general subject of the Church in the present era Tonight's subject will be “The Church, the Extension of the In-| carnation.” R GEYER TAKES VACATION Robert Geyer, Juneau ycuth, ar- rived on the North Sea today lrcm‘ Sitka for a two weeks’ vacation.| Young Geyer has been employed in Sitka for Seims Drake Pugel Sound | on the ccnstruction of the Naval Air | Base there. ————.- - A number of cough medwnn-»l contain sea moss, AT ———— ~oo New York had 11,870 registered taxis at the end of 1940, l The world’s first Diesel freight locomotive, placed in service by the Sante Fe Railway, is shown on its run between Chicago and the West Coast. The total length of the 5,400 horsepower locomotive, from coupler to | coupler, is 193 feet. It is built in four sections and is said by railroaders to be the last word in power, | Big Four of Congress Conter With FDR Phonephoto Here are the men known as the “Big Four of Congress,” pictured at the door of the White House as they called for their weekly conference with President Roosevelt, They cur: are engaged in rushing pas- sage of the Len se Bill. Left to right, John W, McCormack of M chusetts, Houge majority leder; Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, Senate majority leader; Vige President Henry A, Wdlace and Spesker of the House Sam Rayburn. . Y Cuba’s Batista With New Military Leaders Benitez, head of the national palice; Colonei Mn_nuel Lopez Migoya, head of the army; Dr. Domingo Ramos, minister of defense; Batista, and Colonel -Jose Gomez Casa, army chief, &% Cuba’s president, Fulgencio Batista, who ousted the heads of the army and navy to avert a political crisis, is shown in Havana with the new chiefs of the armed forces. Left to right are Colonel Manuel e advalosms e * |in Juneau on a visit to attend the grees north and 159 degrees west, and a high crest extended nor castward from this center to Sou‘heast Alaska. A second high c ter above 1035 millibars (3056 in>hes) Was located to the north « Barrow. Jupeau, March 1—Sunrise 7:5 5 a.n.. sunset 6:27 p.m. PASSED—H. J. M. 11, by Whaley and W. L. Smith, ng establish- ment of navigation lights on Kof- zebue Sound. | e [the latter part of March, and a dance on May 3. BOWLERS 10 HAVI ipoo(H"Apm | BAMOUET TOMORROW | 2 | | The next meeting was announced | Marcl ts f Mesdames Norma Homme, Linda WAS SToI.E" : Eikland and Lola Hill. | o’clock. i p | Chester Lopp, Juneau cab driver| @ The Ketchikan Elks have been | who was arrested yesterday on al charge of petit larceny and ac- cused of stealing a dog belonging |to 1l-year-old Jack Hash, pleaded iguilty in Commissioner’s Court this afternoon and was sentenced to 30 A banquet for the bowling teams |of the visiting Ketchikan Elks and | the local Elks will be held tomor-| [row night at Percy's Cafe at 7:30| | Southeast Basketball Tournament | jand to roll the local lodge in a | bowling tourney. They are expect- |ed to return to Ketchikan Sunday. i e days, suspended. | JUDGE MEDLEY SOUTH | Loop claimed that the matter | Judge E. F. Medley. who has been | was one of mistaken identity and lin Juneau, also Fairbanks, for the|that he had merely reclaimed his past several weeks, is a PASSENger on | dog after it had run away, Arrest- the Mount McKinley for his Sflimgiing officr U. S. Deputy Marshal { home. | Walter Hellan said that the ani- e d_— mal lest by the defendant had been s :‘; beer sales have gone up|, female and had certainly not © 30 percent in Germany. changed sex, for the dog found in ok G 2 0K TR Loop’s possession was a male. World of Yesterday L PursersHereon . Returnto Home InLivengood Mr. and Mrs. George E. Purser | of Livengood arrived in Juneau on the North Sea after a three months’ vacation in California and will leave for their home in the Interior by PAA Electra tomorrow.| Purser, known - to his friends in, Juneau where he was associatea| | with the Bureau of Public roads! eight years ago as “Tiny,” and his/ wife have lived in Livengood for the last eight years. He is semorI engineer for the Livengood Plac-/ ers. H With Senator C. H. “Alabam”| LaBoyteaux, of Livengood, Mr. and; Mrs. Purser have been calling on| friends in Juneau during their stay here. s sy wyer M1 WORK OF ART! " is made ONLY with de- Social Events Planned | iceus suay vare By Ladies’ Auxiliary . Ask For It! “The World, of Tomorrow” at the R At JUN EA U ew York World’s Fair. t spec] 4 . ' ¥ X {arrow) at the top of the trylon i; | Juneau Ladies’ Auxiliary and plans n A l n l E s ® workman, . were made for a public card party | e kg o o R e JULIUS WILE SONS & CO., INC., NEW YO' Workmen with acetylene torches begin the task of cutting apart the metal skeletons of the trylon and perisphere, erstwhile symbols of