The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 20, 1941, Page 2

ITALIANS REPORT FASCISTS IN BIG RETREAT IN ALBANIA Are in Head!ofig Plunge Toward Adriatic Sea- Troops Battle Worn ASSOCIATED PRESS) are broadcast that the Itelian Army is today in a dong flight toward the Adriatic Sea following the fall of Tepelini. The reports, if true, mean the breakdown of Mussolini's Albanian campaign. The reperts persisted in Yu- goeslavia that the battle-worn Italian scldiers are flecing to- ward the Yugosl front be- fore the Greek troeps and are in absolute demoralization. Among the fleeing forces are Ttal ist legions who in- vaded Greece confident of quick viet last Octobe 28. Other sources early tonight said the Greeks have seized all Jocalities adjacent to strategic Tepelini, Central Albania, after smashing a seven-day Italian offensive. e - — HIGHWAY IS SPEECHTOPIC (BY Reports AT CHAMBER MacDonald flells of Latest Plans for Construction of Road Io States a thing as win- ning an argument and losing Al- aska,” said Donald MacDonald, Al- aska mber of the International Highway Commission, at the Ju- wmmber of Commerce meet- at the Baranof Hotel this noon was speaking to the on the proposed $25,000,- 000 highway from Alaska through Canada to the United States. MacDonald explained that pres- ent plans call for a 25-foot wide “There is such ing a MacDonald road bed to cost approximately $20,000 a mile and said that he| has never seen a project of simi-| lar le that has so few ob- 'xplaining that the high- evation on the proposed high-| way is only 4,400 feet, he said that the road could easily be kept open year-round. Spur to Juneau The Fairbanks Scotsman spoke of the possibility of running a spur to Juneau from the road, a| line which would connect the cap- ital with the States by overland transportation. He claimed that| supplies could be sent from Se- attle to Fairbanks in two days on the highway Using a Canadian Engineer's map to illustrate his talk, Mac- Donald explained to the Chamber that the highway is in a straight line, follows the route of airplane| flight from the States, and is| surveyed to be constructed on the Jowest altitude possible He spoke of the value of the| a defense measure, and | quoted General Simon B. Buckner on the subject. He claimed that if Alaska does not get the highw it will be in a ‘“very serious spot And then, not need the highway for defense purposes, we still have a fine high- | way for the expansion of the Ter-| ritory | Only One Bridge THE DAILY ALASKA EMPth THURSDAY, MARCH 20, D IN FLIGHT ARMORIES, INCOME TAX UP IN AIR Neither Measure Yet Senate-Guard Bill Passes House in 15th Territorial Legis- week from adjourn- the most controversial With lature ment pieces today hung precariously somewhere between the House and Senate, with the just a two of the prospect that neither would ever become law. The income tax bill was sent over to the Senate just before noon today with f a dozen other House bil and by unanimous consent was plac ed ~at the bottom of the calend: for censideration of whether it would | be accepted: A two-thirds vote is| necessary to get the hill into the| Senate at- this late date Armory Reconsideration The bill appropriating $500,000 for rmories though passed last nigh! 10 to 6, ing for reconsideration tomorrow of Rep. Harvey J. Smith's vote on the emergeney claus On rec A\.fl(n"‘ahon today of Rep. Almer J. Peterson’s vote on the in- come tax bill, the final vote on the measure was 12 to 4, with the nega- |, tive votes being cast by Reps. James V. Davis, Leo Rogge, Smith and Pet- erscn, Rep. Frank Whaley, who vot- ed against the bill ofiginally, an- nounced in the House this afternoon he had voted for it today by mistake. The armory bill was passed 10 to 6 at 10:30 c'clock last night in the | House after three solid hours of de-| bate pro and con. Voting against the bill were Davis, Peterson, Rogge, Harvey Smith, Whaley and Allen Shattuck, Emergency Fergotten Rep. Howard L; one of the strong supporters of the bill, gained the recognition of the chair just as the vi was completed and moved for adjournment, tc shut off any an- nouncement of a move for reconsid- cration, But the emergency clause was not adopted, so the bill came up again today. When Smith announced | he would move for reconsideration of his vote on the emergency clause. he was ruled out of order by Speak- |er H. H. McCutcheon, but on appeal irom the ruling, the House failed by | and 8 to 8 vote to sustain the rul-| ing The bill will now come up again | temorrow for reconsideration of the emergency clause vote, Major On Stand Last night ion was featured by a lengt interrogation of Maj. Jesse E. Graham, Army instructor to the Aaska National Guard, who| was on the stand for over an hour. He said the Alaska Guard was or ganized, armed and equipped be- tween August 6 and the end of 1940 setting a record. The Guard was au- thorized for the Territory, he said, when “the War Department became very much concerned last summer about what might happen in Alaska.” Asked if the Guard would be with- drawn from Alaska if the Legislature | failed to pass the bill for armories Graham replied that “if the Terri- tory would do the best it can to provide facilities reasonably close to the reguiations and specifications of the War Department, the War Department will meet the Territory half way, just as the War Depart- s the Territory to meet The Major said the War Depart- ment didn’t want the Territory to spend “one single dime” beyond what is necessary to give the Nation- | al Guard a place where it can drill. He said the absolute minimum re- commander and proper storage fac- ilities for arms and clothing. Asked if such armories could not | | be built for less than $100,000 apiece, | legislation of the session till in the House, walts | ) " IN THE PASSED-—H.B. 66, by Davis, Stan- groom, McCutcheon and Herbert, to appropriate $500,000 to construct ar- mories at Juneau, Ketchikan, An- chorage, Fairbanks and Nome. PASSED—HB. 69, by Lander, to | |allow the Board of Administration | | to dispose of obsolete Territorial | property. WITHDRAWN — HB. 80, by Lander, relating to recording of in- struments. PASSED—H.B. 93, by Shattuck, to reduce the bounty on coyotes from 1820 to $17.50. PASSED—H.B. 97, by Lander, for a blanket primary. PASSED—H.B. 92, by Shattuck, to "lppmpl jate $6372 for Minnie Fields for caring for indigent children. , namely Anchorage,” said in favor of the National "ucrd but against this armory busi- | ness.’ Harvey Smith said the attitude of the House toward the bill was a re-| | velation to him of how effective lob- ¥ ng could be, saying that when the lature convened 50 days ago nere wasn't a member who would | ‘ven introduce the bill. | Speaking of the manner in which the National Guard’s formation was authorized, Smith declared heatedly: mebody got his chestnuts in-the | fire, and I'm not going to be a party pulling them out.” Rep. Frank Gordon said he “\von- | dered sometimes at the flop that | members make, They may not have | been out the night before, they may not have had anything to do with | the lobbyists, but their votes are cometimes surprising.” Neme Rush Davis spoke of *“this great rush to establish a National Guard unit | at Nome particularly for the purpose | cf getting the votes of the members |of that. Division for this bill.” He caid he was afraid that if ‘the bill became law, the Board of Adminis- ation might hxvu the same pres- |sure put upen it” and that the Ter- s inadequate revenues would be used to build armories, leaving the ;Pmnl'r rs’ Home the Public Welfare activities and other parts of the | Territerial Government to come ba with deficiencies, | But the most devastating argu-| ment against the bill was that of | Allen Shattuck, who read from a prepared speech, in part as follows: | “The subject of the ccmstrunuon ‘c armories is much older than this| | bill. Tt dates back at least to a time efore the primary election a year go. When the matter was brought |tc the fore at that time, there was no discussion about the schools, about the roads, about landing fields, | about the mining industry, about the | fishing inBustry, but only about armories and where to get the money to finance them. At the close of last | week, there still seemed to be but |cne interest, and that was for ar- mories at any cost, and whether we | 2ould produce enough revenue to finance them. The schools, the so- cial welfare program and other heavy burdens have not even been |discussed by the main proponents mr this bill, at least in my presence. | “The basic argument in favor of jarmories is that we need them for ‘mv training of men for defense of the Territory, and yet, notwithstand- ing this need, we are informed that unless concrete buildings costing $100,000 each are provided, the Guard will be disbanded. This simply does not make sense. I have not found ledge leading to this conclusion. | “If there is any danger of this happening, the responsibility for it {will not be on the Legislature but with those in authority for their failure to present a true picture of Alaska, taking into account the vast “if we find that we do|quirements were space for a drill|area, the sparse population, and the hall, a little office for the company | limited tax sources. If these things were stressed sufficiently, I am ab- solutely sure that our government, being a fair government, would not |expeet us to jeopardize our future Only one bridge is planned for, Graham said the Territory “might by doing anything that might, at the route, that crossing the Stikine! River. The estimated cost of the| structure is $300,000 plans to leave for Washington, c., hin the next few days for business connected with the In- ternational Highway Commission and W return to his Fairbanks home after his trip. He said that this trip to Juneau was his first in almost 12 years GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL T0 HAVE LINEN CLOSET Work was besun today by -the| Office of Indian Affairs Construc- tion Department on & small. linen room in the wing between the main hospital and the Tuberculo- sis ward of the Government Hos- pital in Juneau. As the hospital has been crowd- ed for storage space for some time. the small addition will be especi-| #lly welcomed by the staff, land s | be able to peach out on $75,000.” He said there are a lot of little re- | have * frills.’ ‘just plain armogies, with no Chambers Assailed Lyng defended the armory plan aid that among those opposing re the Anchorage Chamber of Cemmerce “which is controlled by abcut 12 Republicans” and the Ju- neau Chamber of Commerce, which he said voted against the plan on it w | the moment, seem desirable. | “Our government and its agencies MacDonald | finements could be cut out of the are top heavy now. Let'’s not keep D. \ armory plans, so that Alaska would | adding to them until the whole thing | falls down upon our heads. “I believe it is desirable to have | Naticnal Guard units in Alaska. T am in favor of appropriating such |a sum of meney, within the limits |of cur ability, as seems reasonabie |lo provide leased or rented armor- ies together with the necessary con- | tingent operating expenses.” Comparing Alaska with the States |anyone who has any definite know- | 1(-mmny, “from the largest city a secret ballot, while “if the vote had |on a pepulation basis, he said that been taken openly the result would |if we were to show equal cooperation have been the opposite.” in the national defense effort we Whaley said he wasn't going to|would have only 13¢ men in our vote to spend “half a million dollars | National Guard and that we would we haven't got.” | build 67 percent of one armory. Rep. Jesse Lander said the Guard | Armcries were needed to defend the Territory and the nation, which he described as “the greatest plum that was ever dangled before the eyes of any set of international hi-jackers.”| When her state and county taxes From “Largest City” came due, she turned over 473 nick- Peterson, describing himself aslels of 1940 vintage, the result of a n llu‘&yv:n"s saving, to the sheriff's office, — NICKLES FOR TAXES HOPKINSVILLE, Ky—Mrs. J. W. Dollins collects new nickels for a purpose. NAZI FORCES 'AREEXPECTED ~ INTO ACTION . :Army of O((upahon inBul- | | garia May Move Any- _a time, Is Report BELGRADE, March 20—Reports that great numbers of British troops | have landed in Salonika evoked the| leclaration of German diplomatic juarters that Hitler's armies in Bul- | zaria may move any moment against Greece. Turkey is said to have massed 100,- 000 men on her frontier facing the German Army of Occupation in Bul- zaria as a precaution against any | Nazi move, | One million men are reported re- liably under arms in Yugoslavia whieh has been dickering over the | German demands she join the Axis. ‘TWO SEATTLE | - PLANES LEAVE JUNEAU TODAY \PAA Sends Two Flights fo| States—Passenger Run Starts Tomorrow After a delay of over a week in airmail seryice between. Juneau and Seattle because of bad weather, two PAA Lockheed Lodestars flew out of Juneau this morning cairying no passengers but returning south with | mail. PAA officials announced that | the first passenger trip on the new| }run will leave Seattle tomorrow and |return to the States Saturday. | | Yesterday a Lockheed Lodestar | which was grounded at Prince |George for a week landed at the |PaA airport on a survey flight. The ship had aboard F. M. Weed, Lock- heed Aircraft Check Engineer who | formance and fuel consumption; | A. Bulott, PAA storekeeper in Se: xl- tle who returned on the ship this morning, and Al Grab, PAA Fair- banks mainiainance engineer who left for Fairbanks today. New Sales Manager A passenger on oday's Lodestar I(rom the south was W. S. Burton, district sales manager stationed at Fairbanks, who will be in. charge of the Juneau office during the ab- sence of L. A. Deiebecque. surwon has been in Seattle for the past few weeks. Delebecque will be in the States for six weeks on a vacation | trip. Today’s Lodestar landed here at| neon and returned to Seattle im- mediately. It stayed overnight at Prince George yesterday, after leav- in Seattle late in the afternoon. ‘The Douglas DC-3 is in Seattle Loday aiter leaving Whitehorse yes- terday. One Electra left Juneau for Fair- banks this afternoon with 3 passen- gers and 550 pounds of air mail. Passengers going north were Mr. and Mrs. Walter Sawko and Al Grab, S C. OF . MEETS "MISS JUNEAU' AT LUNCHEON Queen Candidates and Valerie Pearce Intro- duced fo Chamber Recent candidates, sponsors, and Miss Juneau herself were the guests of the Chamber of Commerce at their noon luncheon today in what Charles W. Carter called, “the! climax of the Juneau Style Show and Contest to choose Miss Ju- neau,” Valerie Pearce, Miss Juneau, told the members of her trip to Fair- banks, and the sponsors and can- didates of the contest were intro- duced. R. F. Lewis, owner of the Juneau Water Company, was in- troduced to the members, and W. S, Read, new manager of radio station KINY, was presented to the Chamber. Only business announced at the meeting was the passage by the Executive Board of $50 to be used| for the publication of a Forest Service report en prospective com-' mercial introduction of cranben'ies into Southeast Alaska. LRl el [ | | | | | | | ments were made by Dr. 194 IN THE SENATE KILLED—H. B. 39, by Jenne, for an Alaska Women's Home; vole PASSI"D—H B. 46, | to-amend- the bid law to give Al- aska firms a 10 percent differen- | nnl preference. ILLED—H, J. M. 23, by Peter- | son, asking that Congress raise the iuppmpflauon for the Alaskan Fire Control Service to $175,000. PASSED—H. J. M. 23, by Whaley, asking the CAA to allow non- scheduled flying in Northern and Western “Alaska. KILLED—H. B. 73, by Peterson, requiring notaries to apply their | seals ‘to documents. PASSED—H. J. M. 21, by Egan, asking that a highway be built on the- old Copper River and North- western Railroad right of way. PASSED—H. J. M. 25, by Har- vey Smith, asking the Coast Guard to station boats in Bristol Bay during the fishing season. PASSED—H. B. 104, by Lander, relating to filing of bills of ex- ceptions. PASSED—Substitute for H. B. 67, by Jenne, for dependent chil- dren, amended by Senate to re- |duce allowances from $25 to $18 per month for the first child and from $15 to $12 for other chil- dren, and to repeal the section ex- cepting natives from benefits of the act. PASSED—H, B. 78, by Jenne, for 1eglstrafion of nurses. MEDI(A[ SOCIETY DINNERTO HONOR DR. EDW. LECOCQ The Juneau M(‘(llCd] Society will have a dinner Sunday night at 6:30 o'clock in the banquet room at Percy's in honor of Dr. Ed-| ward LeCacq, prominent orthopedic surgeon from Seattle who will ar- nvc in Juneau Saturday. . LeCocq will discuss the treat-| ment of Osteomyelitis (bone and/ cmpanied the crew to check l“‘l' marrow infections) with arsenic, alof new method of treatment which! has been highly successful in ex- perimental treatments given in various medical centers in the States. Members of the Juneau Medical Society will have the opportunity to: discuss this treatment. Dr. LeCocq, during the last week, has been conducting clinics in Ket- chikan, Wrangell and Petersburg for crippled children. . Arrange- Steve Ramsey for the Territorial Depart-| ment of Health and by Dr. Lang- don White for the Office of Indian Affairs. Meet Friday Night A meeting of the” Past Nople Grands o fthe Rebekah ' Lodge will be held tomorrow night at the | ‘| Dixon Street home of Mrs. Anna | ‘| Webster. The session will. convene |8t | Grands are invited to be present. 8 o'clock and all Past Noble CLOTHES that are CLEANED OFTEN—Wear Longer! Send YOUH GARMENTS '!’mngle Your appearance I: Assured When Y Have. Them Cleaned CALIFORNIA Grocery ‘and Meat Market 478—PHONES—371 High Quality Foods at Moderate Prices - | | | “HORLUCK’S DANISH” Ice Cream Flavors Peppermint Candy, Fudge Ripple, Rum Royal, Cocoanut Grove, Lemon Custard, Black Cherry, Caramel Pecan, Black Walnut, The Daily Alaska Empire has the largest paid circulation of any Al- | aska newspaper. —eee - Try a cwmssitiea aq m The Empire at'the GUY SMITH DRUG ———————————— Raspberry Ripple, New York, Reck Road, Chocolate, stmwberr' and Vanilla— by Shattuck, | Past Noble Grands 0. SECOND TICKET FILED 'Edmund J. Krause for May- or-Thibodeau, Niemi, Westfall for Council A second ticket has been filed at the City Clerk’s office for the city election of April 1, The ticket is headed by Edmund J. Krause, for Mayor, and the coun- |cilmen are as follows: | For the one year term—J. P. “Tex" rLovett. For the two year term — Jack Westfall, William Neimi and Joseph A. Thibcdeau: The other Ticket in the field, filed last Saturday, is headed by Harry I. Lucas, seeking reelection as may- or, and for the council—N. Floyd Fagerson, J. A, Martin, Elrcy Ninnis and Henry Messerschmkit (LYDE NETTLETON | DIES IN ANCHORAGE The death of Clyde Nettleton, 53, former employee of the Forest Se vice at Juneau was revealed today Forest Service officials said Net- tleton died suddenly in Anchorage | on March 7. Nettleton was the brother-in-law | {of William McDonald, formerly of| the Forest Service and now con- nected with the Alaska Fire Con-| trol Service, Nettleton was em-| ployed by the Forest Service | foreman of the Forest Service gar- |age in Juneau. He left Juneau and | went to Anchorage two years ago. He is survived by a brother, Huny, in Anchorage and several| relatives in California. ———— i Senior Trinity ; Guild to Meet A meeting of the Senior Guild|clock and all members are invited total U. S. demand “only a small to attend. be the Trinity Church will Don’t Forgetto Order Your Copy of THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE 1941 rogress Edition Celebrating Alaska’s D;scqvgry and the Fish hdulry held Gold Street home of Mrs. Kaser. Gift- Wrapped and Mailed for 25¢ And Hany More Articles Top Numerous fo Mention THE I)AILY A;Asm EMPIRE THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4:30 p.m., Mar. 20: Mostly cloudy; occasional light rain showers; not much change in temperature tonight and Friday; lowest temperature tonight about 41 degrees, highest Friday 44 degrees; gentle ‘southeasterly winds. Forecast for Sontheast Alaska: Occasional rain tonight; mostly cloudy with local showers Friday; not much change in temperature; moderate southeasterly winds, but fresh to strong in sounds and straits tonight, becoming moderate southerly to southwesterly Friday except gentle to moderate northerly in Lynn Canal. Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaskos: Dixon Entrance to ‘Cape Spencer:” ®resh’ to strong southeasterly winds becoming moderate easterly to northeasterly Priday; occasional rain; Cape Spencer to Cape Hinchinbrook: Moderate to fresh east- erly to northeasterly winds; rain; Cape Hinchinbrook to Resurrec- tion Bay: Moderate to fresh north asterly wind;s partly cloudy: Res- urrection Bay to Kodiak: Moderat: northerly to northwesterly winds; mostly fair. LOCAL DATA Time Barometer “Temp. Huntidity Wind Velocity = Weather 4:30 p.m. yesterday 29.71 45 ki Calm 0 Cloudy 4:30 a.m. today ... 29.70 41 84 s 3 Overcast Noon today . 2961 48 47 SE 13 Overcast § RADIO REPORTS 4 ¥ TODAY Max. tempt. Towest 4:30a.m. - Precip. 4:30a.m Station last 24 hours temp. temp. 24 hours Weathe: Barrow =19 o6 «25 -24¢ o Clear Fairbanks 40 1 2 0 Clear Nome 35 18 22 [] Cloudy Dawson 20 11 12 0 Cloudy Anchorage .38 30 30 [ Pt Cldy Bethel .. 29 11 18 [] Pt. Cldy St. Paul .. 29 23 25 04 Clear Dutch Harbor .. 41 36 36 25 Rain Cordova 42 36 38 21 Rain Juneau 16 39 41 02 Cloudy Sitka . 52 4 “ [ Clear Prince Rupert .. 49 40 43 15 Pt. Cldy Prince George .. 53 28 34 0 Cloudy Seattle 56 39 39 04 Cleat Portland . b6 41 43 .08 Cloudy San Francisco .. 59 47 49 0 Clear . WEATHER. SYNOPSIS A storm of considerable intens'ty was located south of Kodiak Island and appeared to be movin; eastward this morning and is expected to pass Southeast Alaska sometime . Priday morning. Rain was falling this morning along the coast from Southeast Alaska to Cordova, and at some peints from Kodiak ‘Island to the - Aleutian Islands. Clear or partly cloudy skies prevailed- -generally elsewhere over Alaska. Rain or snow had fallen during the previous 24 hours over the Bering Sea and along the coast' from the Aleutian Islands to Southeast Alaska, The greatest amount': of precipitation was . inch which was recorded at Duch Harbor. Little change in temper: ture was experienced anywhere. in Alaska this morning except slightly colder over the extreme north portion where Barrow reported thelow- est temperature of minus 24 degrees Overcast, with light rain, mod- crately low ceilings and good visibilities prevailed over the Juneau- Ketchikan airway this morning. The Thursday morning weathe® chart indicated a low pressure area of 978 millibars (28.88 inches) was located at 50 degrees north and 152 degrees west and relatively low pressure prevailed over Bris- tol Bay. A high pressure area was located- to the northeast of Al- aska, and a second high of 1030 millibers (3041 inches) was located at 34 degrees north and 134 degrees west and a high crest extende: from this center northeastward to Washington state. Juneau, March 21.—Sunrise 6:59 a.m. sunset 7:13 p.m. tomorrow afterncon at the The consumption of 6il in the E. 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