The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 21, 1941, Page 2

Income Tax Is Rejected By Senate Bill Dead for 1941 Session hy 5-3 Vole-Armories Measure Discussed Deferring its vote on whether it would accept the half million dellar armories bill, the Senate late this afternoon voted five to three (o take up the matter of ving the House bill 8 Tuesday morning. 5% at rec o'clock al \ similar measure Senate of the 15t) ure thi afte income ny possibility islation at ident wo ‘week ritor- re- bill of thi noon \cepting 0. D, Cochra 3 Hjalmar Nordale, C ind Leroy Sullivan the bill for consideration N. R. Walker, Don 1, Henry Roden. A six favor of receiving the been in lost in the woods near Lynn, M nece ies Discussed - ity 12 raged in a northeast gale. Hundre: Dxf:ssu] in a warm ski suit, she survived the ordeal with only a frost- bitten toe. Safe After Night in thvard everly Kirk, 7, is carried to safety by Charles Rich, 18, after being for 16 hours while a_snowstorm joined in the search for the girl. ome t killed began consideration of wr they would accept the bill appropriating $500,000 for armories Major Je E. Graham was called to the stand for questionin after which Walker de- clared that something more even than lives of our nd that liberty He urged the be accepted in the of tional défense This brought the rejoinder Senator Cochran that ‘“this called National Guard has no re lation whatever to national de- fense IN THE HOUSE WITHDRAWN—H B don, to clagsify and lice tile establishments PASSED -HRB Smith, te amend Senator ‘there is important people that interest much bill na- from $0- mper | HELP AN i | 1 satior North about Seward having to be protected foreign invasion,” said “is so much hot air He was protected by natur- for the greatest part ye: would a potential want to come and take Alas Cochran shouted He said the Guard would “grow and grow until it became one most expansive factors the peo- ple of this Territory will have to support.” S Senate also received a hill Frank Gordon to tax ex- ss offices. It deferred action on eting the bill legalizing the 'nt of Health. Ne¢ Poll Tax Raise At about the same time, the House this afternoon rejected by vote of eight to eight the bill Senalor Nordale whith would in- crease the school tax to $7.50 per to arrive in port at 4:30 o'clock t year, would make working women MOITow morninz from Sitka and w! pay it and would incréase the upper | b€ in port two or three hours befo: age limit for payment of the tax | Sailing south from 50 to 60 years. The Legis AT ture’s only woman member spoke and voted in favor of accepting the | HUNTER IS Flop bill, saying that there was no rea- sen women shouldn't pay the tax - if they are gainfully employed KERRVILLE Tex., March 21 Nine other Senate bills were Dick Smith went through 45 days cepted by the House. the hunting season, killed no de : - and spent $1 for wasted an munition. | After driving PUBLIC HEARING ON APPROPRIATION 1cx copec BILL TOMORROW A public hedring on the general appropriation bill will begin in the Senate chambers at 1:30 o'clock to- morrow aftérnoon when the measure is considered in committee of the whole Hot in the ‘This Peninsula against Cochran, id Nome bar: the What Air business ALASK AN Telephone 713 or write The A Territorial Employment Se for this qualified al of foe for worker. all?” BAKER'S HELPET high s experience 1s done some 271 - SIMMONS MAKES FLIGHT Shell Simmons ma to Hirst this m Fielder and George K expected to feturn witl sengers from the Coast % ->e of| NORTHLAND SOUTHBOUND Motorship Northland is schedul Also Call fc L 5 the season closed, he Kerrville when fence and g of his truck, br ing its neck and causing $15 dama to the vehicle. Smith couldn't ev. use the meat, since under the law had to be turned over to the neare game warden side - -> WHY SUFFER Phone 646. Chiropodis (adv.) n your feet ws ed 0- ill of er n- ied ge en it . PHONE 374 GLACIER HIGHWAY DELIVERY DAILY TRIPS COAL———WOOD LUMBER —— GROCERIES PHONE 374 “SHORTY" WHITFIELD R illllilllIIIIIIIIIIIlllllll": i ["IN THE | | SENATE | | KILLED—H. 55, vy Gordon, |to tax chain stores; vote 0-8. PASSED—H. B. 101, by Egan, (0 | incre the boat liquor license fee| rom $100 to $200, )>-H 1 inve PAS M. 17, by Smith, tion of the clos- fall in South- midst of 2a sking 4 of fishing last Alaska in the run of salmon. PASSED-H. B. 29, coroners to or Deputies sed of inquests. -H. B. 4, permit taking of m witnesses living Territory on behalf of k LED- J. M. 26, that Congress appropriate 00,000 for immediate construc- the International Highway; by Lander, have U. m by Lander, outside defendants. H by Lander, ion of vot PASSED—H, J. M. 19, by Leonard Whaley, Stangroom and Lyng, requesting that the Postal Department establish the Anchor- Nome route for all mail winter and summer and it continue air mail service the Seattle-Juneau-Fairbanks- Nome run PASSED—Substitute for H. B. 34, Peterson, regulating the practice law, INTRODUCED—S. J. M Roden, urging defeat of colonize Alaska with refugees. ‘ PASSE S. J. M. 12, by Roden,| irging defeat of legislation to col- onize Alaska with refugees. PASSED—Substitute for S. B. 55, ri ownell, making fathers of il- children responsible for mith, that by of 12, by, le, "wunon\ to by PASSED—H, J. R. 5, by Leon- rd Smith, Lyng, Stangroom and Whaley, asking the Signal Corps to reduce the radiogram rate to Nome. .- companie: $1,000 the have reimburse- Insurance ed to for hospitalization and medi-i studenit | ried by civilian all pilot train- Iyers taking ing courses. > oy Asks Auxnhary Shlps Rear Admiral Robinson Rear Admiral Samuel M. Robinson, chief of the bureau of ships, is shown as he told the House Naval | Affairs Committee that the request for 200,000 additional tons of aux- iliary shipping was vitally needed. Admiral Robinson declared the mainly tankers, might figure in the British aid prngrnm. depositions the | W classes of | | health program. in- | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, MARCH 21, ;NURSES T0HOLD | " INSTITUTE HERE MARCH #1028 ‘Indian ffairs and Terri- torial Health Service i to Coonerate ‘ | j All Territorial Public Health| | nurses in the southeast section and! all Indian Affairs public I nurses have been called into neau for a nursing institute to held in the Territorial Building be- ginning at 9:45 next Monday mnrn-‘ ing and lasting through Friday,| | March 28, The institute is sponsored by Territorial Department of | Division of Maternal and the | | Health and the Crippled Chll(h‘(‘l)'s‘lnb."ls. ‘Services. It is financed by Feder: | funds set aside by the Children’s | Bureau. | held each year by nearly all ;l(‘rnnl and Child Health llnxsmm of State Departments of Health. |! | The conference is for the pur-|! pose of adjusting the program (o the needs and peculiarities of the {local community in an, effort to| be of greater service in saving the lives of children and mothers The Juneau institute has been |timed to cointide With the pres-| ence in the Territory" of seve | physiciahs and nursing dirr"‘\m..\: | highly specialized 'in the child and| maternal health field. | Dr. Edward LeCoeq, Orthopedic |surgeon of Seattle, in Alaska, to {conduct crippled children e¢linics, | {will be one of the prinecipal speak- lers ana consultants. Mary D. Forbes, INmsmp Consultant of the t I i t Public Health U § ‘urday to outline the program needs. Miss Rosalie Peterson, Nurs IAffairs, who returned to Juneau|. yesterday from a field trip through | the Territory, also will be on the! | program I¥ | Mi Jane Brown, Orthopedic!i Nunlnp Consultant, State of Wash- r |ington Crippled Children’s Pro- t \Indmn Affairs nurses in the care t (and nursing of crippled children. Local public health offfcials who i will take part in the program, clude, from Affairs, Dr. | Medical Director; Bertha M Supervisor of Nurses in Alaska; Edward F. Vollert, physician Tiber, Dr. | charge of thé Junéau Hédpital, Dr.|tained jobs They stepped from' the [James €. Ryan, Territorial Com-|Democratic |and kicked the ¢ld | missioner of Education, is on the| program to discuss Territorial :du-“ | cation in relation to public health ! in Alaska. All directorial members of the| | Territorial Department of Health| |are included on the program inf |order to discuss and bring to the ‘altention of the public field nurses the relationship of all the Divis- {ions of the Deparment in the whole! T | c t The Territorial Department of! | Public Welfare will be represented on the program by Miss Deborah Pentz, Direetor of Child Welfare! Services for the Terfitory, and Miss| Adelheide Guenthner, fare Worker in Juneau, and they | it i health | nresent Ju- ' House majority of seven Democrats | and two Republicans yesterday pass- ed a hill by Rep Fairbanks for (candidates filed would be just doesn’t Davis The institute is similar to those|sion cf the measure. Ma- |of trying this out and if it doesn’t’| ment. Battery C guns bei prove better than the present sys-|include a number of 1 | system, ¢ | candidates are nominated can do about oné-third of the votets take part in | the primaries | mary system, | m Public Health Service in District|men in office. He sail that it is at {5, will arrive from the South s“"‘rhe primagy that the In| pegisiature is | relation to the national (Iefensl-’nm“hm it i$ More important to take| M Anchorage and 'that a rec ‘m,e in selecting the Legislators “,m,mm spell in' ‘Fairbanks caused the 12| make the laws than the Territor | Consultant of the Office of Indian officials in- | Shattuck, the Office of Indian|to the Governorship, Jim Connors Langdon R. White,|became Collector of Customs, Simor Mr, Mahoney in|and all the other party leaders ob- | $ | J. Nicholson for an addition to his| house on Willoughby. | Snow Jenne, active in party affairs here for many and who have been mentioned, and for PRIMARY CHANGE | BRINGS DEBATE ON'PARTY MEN Houses Passes Bill for Blanket System After Statements Made thAt almosi anything| improvement on the elention system, n" Declaring would be an primary a blanket a ballot listing all handed the voter| Under the bill, ach primary voter, and c we have now Rep. James cpening discus “The primary law work,’ detlared, in em, we'll have an opportunity to| 0! hrow it out after one el | Tco Little Interest i Allen Shattuck, saying that, 00 little interest was taken in pri- |l mary elections under the present| clared that the attitude of varty leaders that “we can't he primaries” was all wron The primary, Shattuck id, more important than the gener election, for if 1Ahing but poor| at the| there is nothing the voters it in September. He in this area, only about| Rep. is primary, aid that The tendency of the present pri- | he said, is to put poor men, particularly “irresponsible” makeup of the | largely determined | 1 who merely administer| hem. Party Purpose “As T see it,” Shattuck said, political party is maintained primar- | ly for the purpose of putting the, members of that party in jol Af= | er they get jobs, he added, they take | ]“v(\“pa[p gram, will instruct Territorial and |little interest in what happens to| he party. “Whén the Democratic party came | $15,000 was issued by the City En- said | gineer’s office this morning for an | in- | addition to be built on the home | | of Dr. William M. Whitehead, corn- er of Sixth and Har in this Territory “John Troy stepped nto power cllenthal 3 ! and appointed Mr Judge, Holzheimer party intc these Jobs‘ raft back into he stream.” i Shattuck said he was criticising not the men, but the s Mrs, Jenne Objects Virgorous exception to Shattuck’s emarks were taken by Rep. Crystal whe said she had been ears and had been a candidate for ffice from the Democratic party for he past eight years. “I know,” Mrs, Jenne declared, that if it were not for Mr, Troy Mr. Conners and the others heir wise, support, financial and other- sinte they took office, the Id Wel-| Democratic party wouldn’t be where t is today, and the majority in this will discuss public health programs pesislature would not be a Demo- lin relation to' social and welfare| | cratic. majority.” » problems. Mis. Jenn's remarks were second- | \r(l by Rep. Howard Lyng of Nome. DYKS RA auiTs POSITION Aok i WASHINu.oN. Matcn' 21 | Clarence Dykstra has resigned os !Dlrecwr' of the Selective Service; Administration to devote his en-| !tire time to the duties as ‘the, newly tippointed National Defv:nse} | Mediation Board. | B — Mrs. R. W. McCrary Is 16 Fly South on | Douglas Tomorrow Mrs. R. ' W. McCrary, manager of the Juneau Sears Roebuck Order Office, will fly south tomorrow, weather permitting, on the Douglas; DC-3 for a months vacation in the States. In Seattle she will be met by Mr. {McCrary, who has been south for several months installing radio equipment in the new PAA Lode- stars. ————. OLIVER ANDERSON HERE Oliver Anderson, former resident of Gastineau Channel, now manager of thé Northern Commercial Com- | pany’s store at Bethel, accompanied ! by his wife; arrived from the interior | 'on yesterday's PAA Electra and will remain here several days hefore pro- ] ceeding south - SOBOLEFFS GOIVG EAST Vincent ‘Soboleff, who owns a store at' Angoon, has arrived in Ju- neau, accompanied by his wife and will leave tomorrow for the south; énroute to Glenbury, Maryland, where they will visit for several | Pet FOR ANOTHER ™ FAMILY GETS |the fire, he «said, for the adjacent Those voting for the blanket pri- mary bill were Davis, Shattuck, Wil-, liam Frank Gordon, Charies rbert, Jesse Lander, Almer J son, Stuart Stangroom and ank Whaley. The bill now goes to the Senate. e Bzan, BURNED OUT, WINDHAM BAY SSTE Couple Loses Home in Dis- aster that Destroys Cabin fo Ground | A fire that destroyed 14 years of | work, approximately $9,000 worth of property and left two aged people homeless was reported here today as Mr, and Mrs. A. E. Nelson were | in Juneau after being burned out of their home at Windham Bay. | The disastrous blaze, said Nelson, | started at 2 oclock on the after-| noon of February 25 and swept the roof of the large log cabin before noticed. There was no way to fight creek was frozen solid. The fire had apparently started by a spark from the chimney being fanned into a flame by a high wind. With only the clothes on their | backs, the Nelson took refuge with their neighbors at the cabin of {Dave W. Yates. Today Nelson is in Juneau undecided as to his next action, full aware that his home for 14 years is gone and will take ap- proximately $9.000 to rebuild. He expressed a desire to return to KODIAK MAY e Lander of | fense rifles of the primary. |t Ko Health |would be allowed to choose one for e r Child | each office, without regard to party | headquarters refused to make any V. | families, “I'm in favor|Seattle carrying soldiers and equip- | | Guard regiment before inducted in- [ v ARMY BASES DEMAND all men working- on as Navy deferse ‘projects in | kay, | Maitlahd, manager: of |age office of the Alaska Tertitorial . cértiticates’ or are How required in new Army pro- | i been laid off in the last at th two hases. 'WHITEHEAD BUILDS 1941. THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU Forecast for Juneau and vicinit -, beginning ot 4:30 p.m., Mar. 21: Partly cloudy; not much change in temperature tonight and Satur- day, but with possibly light showers tdnight: lowest temperature to- night about 38 degrees, highest Saturday 45 degrees; gentle variable winds Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Partly cloudy with not change in temperature tonight and Saturday, with possibly local showers “tonight; gentle to' modéra e southerly to mthwvm\xl\ winds except norfherly in Lynn Canal. 3 Forecast of winas along (n¥ ceast 6f the Gulf of Alaska, Dixon Entrance to Cape Spencér: Moderate southwesterly to west- erly Winds; partly cloudy; Cape Sp hceér to*CaPe Hinehinbrook: Mod- erate easterly to northeasterly winis; ‘moktly fair; Cape Hinchinbrook to Resurrection Bay: Moderate norsheasterly winds; mostly fair; Res- urrection Bay to Kodiak: Moderats northerly to northwestériy winds; fair, GET COAST ARTILLERY Guns Beina_foaded Onto | Hat Cars~Headgliarters Refuses to Talk OAKLAND, March 21.—Coast de- 50th Coast Ar- were ‘being 'loaded onto flat 1t Camp McQuaide today as talked about leaving for nd. The Army command- and the Ninth Corp Area much illery LOCAL DATA Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity 44 SSE 40 SE 47 NE RADIO REPORTS Time 4:30 pm 4:30 am. Noon Weather Lt. Rain Lt. Rain Cloudy 72 today today 29.63 29.59 55 omment on the action, The reported movement of Army however, indicated that a special train will leave Sunday for TODAY "ldwest 4:30.in. Precip. 4:30a.m temp. temp. 24 hours Weather =22 -17 Clear § 0 Clear 5 19 14 18° 38" 34 35 28 36 2 41 37 ki 39 43 Max. tempt. last 24 hours | -15 | 4 | 25 | 34 | 24 | 20 42 38 a1 41 54 Station Barrow Fairbanks Nome Dawson Bethel St. Paul Atka Dutch Harbor Wosnesenski Kanatak Cordova Jurieau Sitka Ketehikan Pririce Rupert Prince George Seaitle Portland San Francisco ing loaded mm rifles | f the 250th San Frahcisco National | Cle: Clear Clear Snow Cleai Clea Cleas Rain Clear Cloudy Cloudy Pt. Cldy Cloudy 40 Cle 50 51 Clear« WEATHER SYNOPSIS 3 A storm area was moving northeastward from the vicinity of Southeast Alaska this morhing, and rdfn Was® reported over thisarca Local snow showers were reported at some points over the Aleutian Islands, and: the northern Berin S:a region. The greatest amount f precipitation was recorded at Ketchikan where 2.23 inches was re- ported. Clear er partly éloudy skiés prevailed generally over Alaska from the Alaska Penihsula to Cook Inlet, and over the imnterior western coast, Littlé change in temperature was reported over Al- aska except eolder bver the Seward Peninsula this morning. The lowest température was minus 17 degrees, which was recorded at Bar- row. Mostly overcast ‘skies and local showers,’ with moderately low ceilings and ‘good visibilities, were reported over the Juneau-Ketchi- kan airway this morning. The Friday morning ‘weather chart indicated a low pressure area of 990 millibars (28.24 inches) was located at 55 degrees north and 141 degrees west, and the indiéations w2re that a second low center wus located to the west of Atka: A hizh pressure area was located (o the north of Alaska, and a seconi high pressure area of 1028 milli- | bars (3035 ‘inches) was located a! 32 degrees north and 133 degrees 1 west. Juneau, March 22.—Sunrise 6: There is no substuute for N ewspdper Advertlsmg Federal servi No selective Ser ists. St summer., men are in jts e e "BIRTH. CERTIFICATES B Birth cetfificdtes dre 1(-qum\d for Army as well Alas- aecording t0' word from William the Anchoi- | 1 Service. said that proof Employment Maitland izens me warned | laid off| nt jeet 'regutations! "He that men “are still being and It 200 was_esti-| men have | few days| lay-off of many men. ted that at leds - 1111¥1515,000 ADDITION, A building pe: rmu to the amount of am Contractors for the construction | re Boyer and Jensen A second permit was issued to N.| Value of the permit was $1,000, Don’t Forgetto Order Yam'v Copy of THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE 1941 Progress Celebrating Alaska's Dlscovery and lhe }'lsh lndnsh'y Gift- Wr'\pped and Mailed for 25e of f the press ~—feiy Order Your Copy Today! Industries Seenery @ Sport Activities ® Vacation Lands ® Government Statistics Population ® Liberally IHustrated ® Special Sitka Section History ® Salmon Industry © Mountaineering And Many fiore Articles Too Numerous o HLuhm Telephone 374 Today chicken farming, his pursuit at Windham Bay. e ee——— months, Subscribe for The Empire. | THE DAILY ALASKA Egpml«: