The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 17, 1941, Page 8

ONE TICKET COMPLETED | ARMORYBILL HELD UP IN Six Injured as Fire Tfuck, Auto Collide | HOUSETODAY Measure Fazé;Dealh~Two Votes Short of Being Advanced INELECTION First Full Filing for Muni-| cipal Offices Made by Five Candidates e Failing by two votes from receiv- | oy g "" ; g " ing the necessary two-thirds r i ok A jority to be advanced to final pas- ion was filed in the armory bill for appropria- April City & sage the City Clerk’s office late Satur-|yon" ¢ 6500000 for five Territorial « e members of g ngings was stopped dead in the t P ; declared their House this morning ming candidates | o yote was 10 te advance the bill i ng municipal offices. | 4o a1 passage and six against. The | Mayor: Harry I. Lucas, Pre- |y oqqure now goes on the calendar ident of Juneau for tomorrow. Even if it passes the House it would then require a two-| thirds vote in the Senate to be re-| ceived, for today, the 50th day, is| et the last on which a bill originating on, reside JU- i one house can be received in the Fagerson 1s 0N | other, except on a_ two-thirds vote | the Conerete Pro- el Lo as served as City V- € ar 1937 and has r for the past three y duicts Manlfackuring. Company and | ppe bill went through second read- A general REAGSIR L the House today without a; ———— year Lerm: | pange. A motion by Rep. Almer J.| o [ tin, resident of : s 7 beii Peterson of Anchorage to amend it Martin is a real |y, ,.oyide that “any person attach-| ] ed au and is em- < to the National Guard -Juneau Gold found | 2 drunk on duty shall be immediately M & pipe-fitter discharged from duty and court | two year LerM: .,.ialed” died for lack of a se-| elng a en | ident of Juneau | o 1 s is owner and | “gerorg to advance the bill so that . [ f the Juneau Motors COM- |y oo get nto the Senate before | made this afternoon or evening 4 1 for two year Lerm: |y, . two-thirds vote will be neces- | Ol l Henry Messerschmidt, resident of y to advance the bill in this way. | | Juncau since birth. Messerschmidt Sk FOU”een Bro’herhOOdS | is one of the owners of the San Fran- 4 cisco Bakery, a long established firm | Scott for the position of school di- However W“ling '0 i in Jur He has served on the Tector. 8 o J City il for 11 years and is at R o 3 | present a member of the Council. Alaska has 60,000 people spread A“ep' Medla“on | Only cther filings for municipal out over an area of 586,400 square | Earic offices to date is that of Walter miles. CINCINNATI, Ohio, March 17.— — ——— — = - George Harrison, President of the Rallway Labor Executives Board, N 0 T I C E ! ! aid 14 Brotherhoods are accepting mediation offers of the National FUR FARM FOR SALE Railways Mediation Board in the On Price Island, in Gambier Bay, the property of the dispute with the major carriers of estate of Oscar Larson, deceased, consisting of a one- room frame house in good condition, equipped with a range and household equipment, a smoke house, a feed shed, a tool and wood shed, three small row boats, im- the nation, but they will count the strike ballots anyway. The Brotherhoods had been asked to postpone! the§icounting of the| proved premises for garden, and stocked with 20 female ballots of 750,000 rail employees and 3 male blue foxes. The island is held on a permit who seek to be paid for vocations. trom the United States Forestry Service. This property Ballogingliends March 27, ¢ must be disposed of without delay, and will sell on rea- - = 1 sonable terms. See or write to Felix Gray, U. 8. Com- missioner, Juneau, Alaska. g s ! FIRE REPORTED “THE PRESTIGE OF A GREAT NAME_ 10 BE RAGING, «s.combined with the economy of a moderate price Official German News| Agency Gives No Des- fination, Nor Cause : -—— 3 (By Associated Press) reports that a fire is still blazing | aboard the 49,000-ton liner Bremen, across the Atlantic from New York | early in the present war. The DNB does not give the Brem- |en’s whereabouts nor the cause of Llhe fire. | | | Great Name— AMONG AMERICA'S s GREAT AT GASTINEAU WHISKIES Ray Cavanaugh, traveling man, arrived from the Westward on the National Distillers Products Corporation, New York Distributed by NATIONAL GROCERY COMPANY Seattle, Washington at the Gastineau Hotel. SONNY, MORE THAN 1,000 ALASKANS DRAW THEIR PAY FROM OL' MAN CANNED SALMON ! GOSH,WHAT A LOT OF FOLKS! ——, = N ALASKA'’S BIGGEST PAYMASTER, the Canned Salmon Industry gives employment to more than 11,000 Alaska workers and fishermen. During the fishing season Salmon canneries alone give jobs to more Alaskans than any other industry. As Alaska’s biggest local eastomer, the Industry spends over $10,000,000 annually—purchasing coal, lumber, wire meet their payrolls. government officials. you share in the prosperity of it a—— LINER BREMEN, Four firemen, a woman and a boy were injured when this fire truck and a private automobile collided in Towson, Md. The truck was saved from even greater damage by the lamp pole, which checked the impact af the lighter car. SUSPICIOUS OF HITLER, BRITISH TAKENO CHANCES Mass Air Raids on Ger-| many for Purpose of "Active Defense” Appropriation Bill Passes House, 15101 Total $4,485,852 Follow- ing Minor Amendments | ~University Fund Up A general appropriation bill to-, talling $4,485852 was passed 15 tof one by the House of Representatives Saturday afternoon. Only member voting against was Rep. James V.| Davis of Juneau. The measure allows funds for run- ning Territorial offices for the next two years. | Only slight amendments from the bill introduced by the House Ways and Means Committee were inserted. They are as follows: struction of rural schools, in- ed from $67,000 to $68,000. University Boosted University of Alaska experimental | work cooperative with Hatch-Adams- | | LONDON, March 17.—Brit- | ish sources said the latest at- | tacks of the British Air Forces | made on Germany and Nazi oc- | cupied territory are based on | ve defense” tactics partly on suspicion that Hitler’s Balkan movements are merely to mask his intended invasion attempt of the British Isles. .- Nolfiing (an Save England Says‘Fuehrer; Hifler Declares No Pqwer, No Support from Any- where Be of Avail BERLIN, March 17.—Hitler de- clared Sunday that “no g power” on earth can save Englal from defeat., The statement was made The German news agency DNB | in a Memorial Day speech in the burg, $90 item deleted. historic Zeuchaus Army Museum. “No power, no support, coming | the ship that made a dramatic dash | g6y any part of the world can’from $600 to $380. | change the outcome of his battle, |in any respect. England will fall,” after considerable discussion were|in Alaska on ground that passage Hitler said. Hitler made no direct mention | of the United States except tocom- 2t Ketchikan and another to elim- ment on Some remarks he said | were made before the Congression-' al committee. He also referred to Great Britain bringing up that Churchill declared in 1936 that ‘\mxthbound Yukon and is staying Germany must be destroyed be- | cause she was growing too strong. creas Purnell Act and Bankhead-Jones Act, increased from $10,000 to $15,- 000. University of Alaska experimental work coperative with Smith-Lever and Capper-Ketcham Act, increased from $13,800 to $15,000. University of Alaska administra- (tion and maintenance, increased from $169,400 to $174,400. Mines Increase Commissioner of Mines, total in-j creased from $55,100 to $62,200. Expevses in investigating the Ex- permimental Fur Farm at Peters- Expenses of Legislature in inves- tigating Pioneers’ Home, reduced Among amendments voted down |cne to make at $13,000 appropriation | {for the fisheries products laboratory .inate the $10,000 eagle bounties item. JUNEAU HAS 600D FUTURE, SAYS LEWIS Tée_ revo_lzftio?tag: ; V‘Ofll}/ 29 inches high! The Height of Comfort ‘This new Shaw-Walker creation is Just sit down at this new low desk. Im- nediately you feel the difference. You’re an top of your job...with greater com- fort, better vision, longer reach. You sense instantly that Shaw-Walker have truly found “The Height of Comfort”! built of sleek ste el and gleaming plastics.- Every edge and corner is ivory-smooth, From deck to floor it’s a modern beauty! FREE ...come inand get Shaw-Walker’s new “Height of Comfort” yardstick. “Bum L e raper®, J. B. BURFORD & CO. “Qur Doorstep Is Worn By Satisfied Customers” Dimond Says No Federal Armory Sum Government—VTlill Not Put Up Alaska Buildings, Delegate Radioes There is no chance that Con- gress will pass a bill to appropriate money for armories for the Nation- al Guard in Alaska, Delegate An- thony J. Dimond notified Senate President Henry Roden by radio- gram Saturday afternoon. « The Delegate's message was as follows: “Secretary of War has written letter to Chairman House Commit- tee Military Affairs opposing enact- ment of my. bill, H. R. 89, which would authorize construction of armories by Federal Government this measure would involve depar- ture from established policy where-| by all States and Territories are required to provide armory xu:fll-% ties. In my judgment there is no, chance for passage of bill against objection Secretary of War. Please inform all other members.” After the radiogram was read in the Senate, Senator O. D. Coch- ran inquired if “this is the heat that's being turned on to get us to pass the armory bill?” | ...AN’ EVERY ALASKA FAMILY } IS SUPPORTED WHOLLY 0R PARTLY BY THE MONEY | FETCH HOME TO THE TERRITORY ! < N\ and other Alaska products. . .. helping other industries As Alaska’s biggest taxpayer, the Industry helps | provide the salaries for Alaska’s school teachers and | So, fisherman or merchant, cannery worker or doctor, Roden replied he considered the radiogram a proper one to keep the Legislature informed of the situation in Washington. “Is there any way for «us to find| out who had him send this wire?”| ‘Owner of ]Eeau Water| i Company Points Out Future Prosperity den answered there was not. HOSPITAL SHIP REPORTED SUNK BY AIR RAIDERS Italian News Agency Says | Countess Ciano Last fo Leave Vessel ‘ ROME, March 17.—British air raiders are reported to have sunk an Italian hospital ship aboard | which Countess Edda Ciana, eld- est daughter of Premier Mussolini is serving as a volunteer Red Cross nurse. The Stefani, Italian News agency makes the report, and says the ship was sunk while lying at an- chor in the Albanian port of Val- ona and occurred last Friday night. The Countess was among the last to leave the ship, Stefani says, and adds the sinking was an “ignoble new crime.” 4 ITINERANT HEALTH i NURSE BACK FROM | HAINES, SKAGWAY: Miss Mildred Brown, Territorial Public Health Nurse, returned yes-, terday after an absence of seven weeks giving nursing service in' the towns of Skagway and Haines.| Five weeks of the time was spent in Skagway and two weeks at Haines. This service is given to communities too small to employ a resident health nurse. Miss Brown'’s territory included Tenakee, Skagway, Haines and Craig. | - e ' London’s famous No. 10 Downing Comparinz Junean with other| towns in Alaska and the United | States which are busy with hurried defense preparations, R. F. Lewis, owner of the Juneau Water Com- pany, said today that Juneau, al- though losing much of its popula- tion through boom'ng in other | towns, would be mo.~ stable than ! the defense towns aft~r the “'-.a- | porary program” and Lizens | have little to fear abcit Juneau's| | progressiveness. Lewis, recently arrived in .Juneau from ‘his San Francisco home, is| on an annual inspection trip of his enterprise. He said that to date there have been no definite plans for changes or extensions. to the water system, but explained that time has not yet permitted a complete survey of conditions, i Lewis said that Juneau, instead ’ of worrying about how to bring and keep population here when other | towns have so much more to offer, should begin to prepare for the Ttime when the workers will return to Juneau after the rush is over. HART ARRIVES Traveling man Oscar Hart arrived i’ Juneau last night from the | Westward and will leave for Sitka ! tomorrow, Hart is staying at the 1. Empire Classifieds Payl o .vx sinks without warning. Otherwise, it can-be k Reversible Raft One Answer to Nan U-Boats FISHTRAP MEMORIAL IS KILLED (Tie Vole in Senafe Defeafs Measure-Arnold and Paul Heard The 1941 version of the fish trap memorial went down to de- feat in the Senate Saturday after- noon by a vote of four to four. The measure, by Senator Ed- ward Coffey of Anchorage, would have asked Congress to pass Del- egate - Anthony J. Dimond's bill for gradual elimination of traps over a five-year period. The vote came after Willlam L. Paul had spoken in favor of the memorial and W. C. Arnold against. Sepators voting against the memorial were O. D. Cochran, Norman R. Walker, Hjalmar Nor- dale and C. H. (Alabam) LaBoy- teaux. LUCKY CHANCE | MINE AT SITKA INCORPORATED Incorporation papers were filed today with Auditor Frank A.Boyle for the Lucky Chance Gold Mining Company at Sitka, Steve Tus, Nich- olas Bolshanin, and Nels Bredvick are - the incorporators. The com- pany is incorporated for 250,000 shares with a par value of $1.00. Cochran then demanded, and Ro- Street was first occupied by a prime The property is located at Silver minister in 1704. Bay. e o This new reversible raft &’s latest device to safeguard the men of her merehant marine, threat- Alaska’s leading industry. Bacghof f mfl‘w_._ I ened :;'Hific’l !l.l-ouc -’;b::fl:: e:mll::l.:n- T;: raft, which can be launched either side up, carries a " & sail and oars. Built in the shape of a tank (see launching picture, left), it is automatically released if a ship | launched in the usual manner, _