The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 1, 1941, Page 2

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1941. ¢’s Big Circus Stuff Gging on in Floridaq ‘600D VO'I'E e BEING CAST IN ELECTION Seven Hundred and Séven Ballofs Cast at 3 P. M.- Polls Close 7 Tonight At 3 o'clock this afternoon, 707 votes had been cast in the city elec- tion at the three precincts. Interest appears lively as there are three complete tickets in the field. Voting started off at a good clip | this morning, spurted during the noon hour then dropped for an hour but again startéd up during mid- afternoon. beginning at noon. Voters are slow in the booths, in- dicating they are carefully picking their candidates for Mayor, one Councilman for a one-year term and three Councilmen for the two-ytear term. There is only one candidate for director on the School Board, Wal- ter P. Scott. At 3 o'clock this afternoon vote was as follo First Precinct, City Hall, 379. Second Precinct, American Legion Dugout, 191. Ends Film Holdout | Thd Precinct, Barlow Building 8720 P e 4 | Last year, with two tickets in the # field and also the referendum on | adopting Seattle time, been exactly 800 votes cast of which 400 were in the First Precinct and 200 each in the other two precints. The polls will close tonight at 7 o'clock. -, — LODESTAR DUE T0 LAND HERF FROM SEATILE Two Electras Leave for Fairbanks—Another Trip Is Scheduled Today | With R. O. Bullwinkle, traffic manager of Pacific Alaska Airwa | aboard, a PAA Lodestar is sched- juled to land at the Juneau airport this afternoon with four passen- gers for Juneau. Passengers are R. O. Bullwinkle, Nome Judge Returning After Trip Judge Morison Is on Way Back fo Interior After Visit with Sec. Hull Ther ] | [ \ | | | | Nome vacation Outside ] H. M the tean rezistere twaitir tation tc ni i ractinean Hotel lable PAA tra 0 hi. next | take | « home ited h two weeks | Tenne hington the eo, New | D. C Nom State 5 o'clock this after- City dnd Wa in Washington e called upon Secretary of dell Hull and Attorney Gel tad States, Robert H. Jack- also visited with Anthony J Delegate from Alaska the attitude of ituation taken b; e Mor just ak | Dimond iy at the peo- of onal aid that muct Elephants put on a show at Sarasota, Fla. the ne what Gover is happering | ng o happea. Hel oo o all players aren't the only ones training in ment officials sel-| /L0 oW For the big Ringling circus also is dom mention the subject and ! ing his own opinion of the war | salc A snake can swallow e " FHA INSURANCE PETERSBURG T0 S e 5 IN LAST MONTH| CRANBERRY CROP bef Bering Sea was closed | i Daca« Exceeded Five Billion Dol- |Plot Laid Out by Forest AUk. Bangsndents | lars According fo Ad- | Service-Vines Coming Enjoy Social Heldat | inistrator Ferguson from Grays Harbor PAA Re(eptlon Ha” WASHINGTON, April 1.—Applica An experimental plot of cranber- {tions for FHA insura of small- ries, to test this crop undeér Alaska ocial was held during the week | heme mortgages have now ex conditions, was laid out at Peters- end at the PAA reception hall for all | $5:000.000,000, Federal Housing Ad- last weck by Josiah Wyckoff, residents at Auk Bay. Community |Ministrator Abner H. Ferguson an- Ranger for the U. S. singing was enjoyed and a program | 1 who returned to Ju- nted. | Almost neau today on the North Coast Given by the Auk Bay Recreation | mortgage Wyckeff said the 16 by 60 foot plot Ciub, an organization sponsored by | Wer® receive | be cared for by the District young people of the Bay, the gu said, and applications dur- r at Petershurg. Vines have tam included two vocal selec. | NG the past week brought the cumu red from Grayland, Wash- On the Road to Mandalay.-|}ative total since the start of the Harbor Lights”, sung by “‘nunrum abo he $5,000,000,000 le quartet, Members of the group were |¢l: The number of application wrliene Arnold, Bill Geddes, Mil- |Preximately 1,140,000 ed Kendler and Burton Walker, A | During February, trio, including Margaret Femmer,|FHA insurance Margaret Clark and Norma Barek- |328¢s showed staging its routines for casual crowds at Sarasota, Fla., getting ready for the long summer road irips. ther I'he Morison nee A $100,000,000 of small-home surance applications ng February, Mr o nzton ticns Tempe - and rainfall condi- t Al are almost e of the cr; Harbor, W: ature utk with t Grays . - oo and is ap applications f¢ of new-home increa mort- | es over both A heavy vote is expected | there had | VETOES KILL AMENDMENT OF 2 LAWS | | "Insuran(e Not Exempted from Bid-Mine Lease Tax Unchanged (Continuca from Page One) for years to come, from the pro-' visions of this bill. Finally, it wnum‘ be discriminatory in creating two classes of taxpayers, those who had | made leases on mining property before the expiration of the 90 days A those who make them in me‘ future. | “This is the type of tricky joker| by which valid, desirable, and lmn»" estly conceived legislafion is rlv-‘ liberately ruined.” | The Governor's statement on veto| of the amendment to the bid law was as follows: tatcment by the Governor “I have vetoed House Bill No 46 entitled, ‘An. Aet to amond§ Chapter. 86 of the Session Laws of Alaska, for 1939 to provide for the exemplion of purchasés of insur-, ange and fidelity bonds from. the requirement. - of obtaining bids therefore; for the place of delivery of all purchasés in excess of, Fifty| Dollays ($50.00) by the Territory of | Alaska; the qualifications for, bid-| ders on contracts for such purchas- es and to provide a differential, not . to . exceed. ten . percentum | (10%) of the contract price, in fa- vor of hidders owning and operat-| ing establishments and businesses in the Territory of Alaska.. “There are. several, valid reasons for vetaing this bill. First: ‘The }provisions of this Act shall not ap- iply to the purchase of food, cloth- ing, medical supplies, insurance and | fidelity bonds.’ { “Recently the question of renew-| {ing the insurance on the Pioneers’| Home came before me as Chairman of the Board of Trustees. Policies| for $1437700 on the main buildlng; and $26,320 on its contents were| expiring on February 19. The expir- ing policies had been written by the following five agencies: Thel Shattuck Agency, Juneau, to the extent of $50,020; Shepard and Son; |of Juneau, $46,000; Charles of Ket- | ehikan, $23,000; Davies and John- ison of Ketchikan, $23,000; and the I Juneéau Insurancé Agency, 820.000.? | Boards Consulted i ! “The question arose whether thr’; and the pre suson said Increase 1l-home mort- 600 ¢ r- ructed un ted Ti 2% per- 1940 SO THAT'S A LOS ANGELES, Cal—A footnote to the automobile age was written when the Ontario elementary school took 700 pupils on an “educational on a Union Pacific train. eachers said that two-thirds of their charges had never been on a train, ten sang “Mexicali Rose” nd ac TRAIN the preceding y cordion selections were played by Thon®, M Aune Mavers, Skits and a spelling Feroans concluded the evening's enter-| A totalof 171125 tainment, and was followed by a BBEES AEErese luncheon | | jing 1g Ann Sheridan g new homes to der FHA inspecti for appraisal during represented an cent in amount |when 13 new Screen Player Ann Sheridan, the “oomph” girl, has ended her six- month holdout against Warner PBros. siudio, agreeing to return to work for the same salary re- ceived last year. Last October, Miss Sheridan walked out, claim- ing that unless she got a raise above the “mere” §600 a week ate was receiving, the studio would have to do without her. F bruary increase of ebruary n elected CiviL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS home REVERSED Cal. — Thirty M: Emilie Bernhardt tock her son Curtis to school, To day he is driving Mama and her books to Hollywood High School Mrs. Bernhardt, a 73-year-old war refugee, is studying English and taking a citizenship course. - -e SIDES TO SITKA Civil service examinations for t ycsitions described below were an- nounced by the United States Civil ““‘” 656,550 application Service Commission today Aml‘ht a- |lected in January tions will be accepted at the Com- | Galits Rénoited mission’s Washington office not Iat- | o 1 e construction er than the closing dates specified. | e pHA inspection bty The salaries are subject to a 3% ).,qywed a gain of 19 percent over a percent retirement deduction Iveax The incrense was 37 per Expediter, marine pn’nn'llmu and|oont in Januaty over 1640° -m!.mn;; equipment $3.200 a 3 The average weekly re on new United States Maritime Commission. | o sbaREal HEEA' idpection Four years of experience in a fac : Bahriary Wi akis dombnren tory cr shipyard manufacturin, January and 2,035 in marine propelling or outfitting |y ¢ b cquipment are required. Appropriate mall hemcl-Finatced by gdtlege sludy. o {”}“}“f"“‘(f‘:"”"“"’ loans insured under Title I of the gal experience may be used to National Housing Act. this requirement. The maximum age | pronerty improvement and limit is sixty-five years. Applica- | oization 1oz tions will be rated until further no- iy a1e0 showed gains over 1 tice |'A total of 51,154 such loan Head soil " |amount of $20.865,710 were reported Bureau of Plant | for insurance during February, com- of Agriculture | pared with $22,390,679 in January uirements include c and $18,251,675 in February, 1940, -year college course uccessful and ence In soils research date is May 24, 1941 Junior engineer draftsman, $1,440 year. Applicants may qualify in various branches of drafting. In ad- dition to completing 14 units of high chool study, applicants must have pleted one year's experience or ation in drafting. The closing » is May 24, 1941 inder (hand), Printing Office Burcau of Eng $1008 a day; raticns) Office, will be only. C mort- The years volume of new-home S ago applications ast 16 percent TOO MANY KITTENS WICHITA, Kas—Petunia, belenging to Dr. Robert G. of Wichita University, is the moth- er of 72 kittens born in a seven- M. H. Sides, Deputy Collector of ?,::' [ll)u,”“,:ll‘uz’“ “’,',';’,"IL';:"}‘:;:‘::: Cutsoms, sailed on a short trip to T heh e, o s Sitka on the steamer North Coast |57 " PR driaen, the. caiBy stood today. ago, - FORESTER OUT -+ - | ARNOLD LEAVES " x C. B. Arnold, former manager of | The Forest Service vessel Forester Juneau radio station KINY, sailed | 1€ft Juneau early today for Ketchi- for Sitka today on the steamer North | an to go on the ways for annual Coast. Arnold is on his way South | °Verhaul- after being transferred from Juneau | . to the States. He will continue on | The Dpresent the North Coast on its southbound | féserves” of oil trip to Seattle via Juneau, | States total 18,483.000,000 barrels, -oo | sufficient to last only until 1954 at MISS KUNNAS HERE ,]'hs present rate of consumption. AFTER TRIP SOUTII‘Oi] discoveries of the future un- Miss Ruth Kunnas returned on|doubtedly will increase the re- the steamer North Coast. She has|serve. been vacationing in the States for| the past several weeks. | | ¢ new mod- i >ee estimated “known scientist, $6.500 a 3 Industry, Depart- The minimum mpletion of a and 8 years of progressive experi- The closing ment % - < K. C. TALMAGE BACK Returning on the steamer North | Coast, K. C Talmage is back after | & month’s visit in Seattle and Port-| { land. E— A yellow flag hanging from a ship’s halyard indicates that there is pestilence aboard D Try a classiiied ad in The Empire ~ Midget Car Performs During Mock Warfare e T Government $1.20 an hour and aving and Printing bookbinder (Machine Government Printing | $1.26 an hour. Appointments made in Washington, D. C. mpletion of an appropricte eship or cquivalent ox | and one year of journeyman beol Full informati quirements for ations at 60 he had to turn to Yankees.! | M. Tagge, T. Roland and J. Hum-|insurance should be automatically| Sullivan, | S " i .| tion noon. Passengers leaving are l\;}["ha\'c been glad to be bound, The st bid from an outside firm in | Charles . . RODEN TAKES | | ling. continued in the same proportion Two Flectras winged out of Ju-|With the firms that had written it.| neau today bound for Fairbanks Whether bids should be opened on with ten passengers. Passengers were Harold Hiffinger, T. Rosander, J. A. Korba, Brick Jacobs, Leroy Mr. and Mrs. Whaley and son, Mrs. Sam Mc- Clellan and John W. White. Another Electra is scheduled to leave for the Interior this after- John and Dr. and Mrs. F. B. Parker, White, Frank Langle A. Bunnell. ATTY. GENERAL OFFICE TODAY Nell Mc(los@to Confinue as Secrefary-Truitt Going Qufside Henry Roden today took office as Territorial Attornéy General, taking in the United|ine cath this morning from Notary| Harry Sperling. Roden anncunced that Miss Nell McCloskey would continue to serve as Secretary in the office. The new Attorney General plans to close his Valentine Building law office, he said. James S. Truitt, who retired yes- terday after two terms at Attorney General, will leave Thursday for a vacation in the State: Man Who Assaulfed Blind Woman Pleads Guilty Accused of beating Mrs, Katie Hughes, 30-year-old blind woman, 5o severely that one of her eyes must be removed, Paul Alex plead- ed guilty in Commissoner’s Court here to a charge of assault and battery. Mrs, Hughes said Alex beat her with a hammer on a previous occa- sion, striking her in the face in | this considerable amount of insur-| |ance, or what method should be| pursued. It seemed to me to in-| |ritorial policy, and I v.herefore‘ |called a meeting of the Territorial; !Board of Administration to ask its, | views and to secure a determina-| of policy by what I should | Board of Administration, however,| took the position that this was a | problem confronting the Board of Trustees of the Pioneers' Home and | that this Board should make its decision. Therefore, I, as Chairman, | with Mr. VanderLeest, the other! Juneau member, concurring, decid‘; ed that we would call for bids and notify every one of the 76 insur- ance agencies in the Territory that! this insurance on the Pioneers’ lHomc was about to be let. My view.g which Mr. VanderLeest shared, was| {that this was the proper procedure | when Territorial funds were in:| volved, that no agency or group of agencies should have any ‘in-| side track, and that, other things being equal, the lowest bidder should receive the award. “In response to a Territory-wide | notification 16 agents submitted bids. Twelve of these, including the Shattuck Agency, Davis and John- son, Thé Charles Agency of Ket- chikan, which had handled the in- surance that was expiring, submit- | ted identical bids of $543.10 on the building and approximately $174.50 on the contents. By far the lowest bid was submitted by the Juneau ;lnsurnnce Agency which made a bid of $365.82 on the building and $120.48 on the contents. After sat- {isfying ourselves that the bid of the Juneau Insurance Agency rep- resented no inferior quality of pro- tection, the Board of Trustees of |the Pioneers’ Home awarded the | insurance to it, thus saving the Territory the sum of $222.30. Such a saving seems worthwhile, and the method pursued under the circum- stances fully justified. Methed Called Desirable “H. B. 46, introduced that very day by Representative Shattuck, would forbid that method; would| forbid the purchasing of insurance| THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4:39 p.m., April 1: Partly cloudy tonight and Wedncsday with occasional very light showers tenight; not much changes in temperature; lowest tempe ture tonight about 38 de; t rest Wednesday 45 degrees; gentle variable winds. Forccast for Southeast Alaska: Partly cloudy tonight and Wed- nesday with local light showers toaight; not much change in tem- perature; gentle to moderate variablé winds but mostly northerly in Lynn Canal. Forecast of winas along {he coast of the Gulf of Alaska Dixon Entrance to Cape Spenger Gentle to moderate northerly to northeasterly winds, becoming moderate southerly Wednesday after- noon; partly cloudy; Cape Spence: to Cape Hinchinbrook: Gentle to moderate northeasterly winds; partly cloudy with local showers Wed- nesday; Cape Hinchinbrook to Reurrection Bay: Maqderate nort easterly winds; partly cloudy with local light rain Wednesda Resurrection Bay to Kodiak: Mode ate to fresh northeasterly ¢rly winds, becoming northerly Wednesday; occasional light LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity 4:30 pm. yesterday 29.00 47 44 BEast 11 4:30 am. today 20.45 36 6 South 4 Noon today 20.48 65 65 Northeast 6 RADIO REPORTS to ea rain. Weather Cloudy Cloudy Lt. Rain TODAY 4:30a.m. Precip. 4:30a.m temp, 24 hours Weather =10 0 18 Lowest, temp. =12 16 Max. tempt. Station last 24 hours Barrow Fairbanks Nome Dawson Anchorage Bethel St., Paul Dutch Harbor ‘Wosnesenski Cordova Juneau Sitka Ketchikan Prince Rupert Prince George Seattle Portland San. Francisco (e] PL. Cldy Pt. Cldy Cloudy Pt. Cldy Cloudy Fogay Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Pt. Cldy Pt. Cldy Clear Rain Fogay Pt.Cldy 35 34 35 36 4“4 48 45 33 51 48 62 WEATHER SYNOPSIS The storm area was. located t)> the south of Dutch morning and was expected to mose into the Gulf of Alaska Wei- nesday. Ran or snow was falling this morning from the Alaska Peninsula to the Aleutian Islands and over the Seward Peninsula to the St. Lawrence Island. Clear or partly cloudy skies prevailed over the northern and central por:ions of Alaska, and partly cloudy to . cloudy skies over the southera portion. Rain had fallen during the previous 24 hours along the coist of the Gulf of Alaska to the Aleutian Islands, and from the B ring Sea to the Kuskokwim Vailey, the Seward Peninsula and St. Law.ence Island. The greatest am: of precipitation was 99 inch which was recorded at Cordovs temperatures were slightly warmer over northern Alaska this morn- ing. Barrow reported the lowest t mperature of minus 10 de ¥ Mostly overcast skies, with modera e ceilings and good visibilies were reported over the Juneau-Ketchikan airway this morning. The Tuesday morning weather chart indicated a low pressure of 970 millibars (28.64 in:hes) was located at north and 163 degrees west. The storm frontal trough and line of shifting winds extended from thi; center eastward to 50 degrees north and 158 degrees west and th>nce southward into lower latitudes. and was expected to move east-nor heastward about 500 miles during the next 24 hours. A second low pressure area of 993 millibars (29:32 inches) was located at 44 d:grees north and 129 degrees we: and relatively low pressure prevail'd northwestward from this cen- ter of Southeast Alaska. A high pressure center of 1031 millibars (30.44 inches) was located at 31 dgrees north and 156 degrees west and a crest of high pressure extend:d northeastward from this center toward the Gulf of Alaska. A .lov pressure area of 930 millibars (28.94 inches) was located at 63 de rees north an d167 degrees west, and a high pressure center above 1)12 millibars (29.89 inches) was lo- cated to the north of Barrow. Juneau, April 2—Sunrise 6:25 a.m., sunseét 7:40 p.m. 51 57 47 58 66 62 58 | | | 0 | 38 | 06 | 32 Harbor (hi center of 51 degrees: i & Frank | Volve an important question of Ter- yy the Territorial government from|chases would thereby be increased by 10%. Private enterprise would be given a subsidy by the Terri torial -gevernment. I can sece .no qustification for this procedure.” MRS. BUTTS HERE Mrs. M. Butts of Elfin Cove | registered at the Gastineau Hotef | today after arriving from the south jon the steamer North Coast. A S ARRIVES FROM SOUTH Arriving on the North Coast, R C. James of the Seattle Radio En- { gineering Company is in Juneau to- day for a short visit. He is regis- tered at the Gastineau Hotel. - any firm, person or business es- tablished.in Alaska. That is tosay, if and when bids are opened, for any article worth over $50, the low- order to secure the contract, must| be :10% lower . than the bid from an Alaska firm. While it is clearly desirable to encourage purchasing in Alaska and from Alaska firms, there can be no justification for using Territorial funds to give what in effect is a 10% subsidy to any Alaska business house. “Let us see how this would work in practice. Suppose some agency of the Government required office furniture, eic., and opens bids. As- Subseribe 10, the Duily Alaska, sume that a Seattle firm bid $1,000 p, g ; | Empire—the paper with the larges. (including of course the cost of | paid circulation. transportation and delivery). If an i, 2 L xE Alaska firm's bid were $1,100, it Don’t forget to vote. Polls in would get the award. Obviously the| the city election remain open cost of all our Government pur- until 7 o'clock tonight. Accuse Stepmother of Cruelty a manner which cut an eyeball in by the Territory by opening bids two. In the more recent beating, I think it clear that continuaticn she said, the injured eye had broken | Of the bid method is desirable—as open again, so that it now must be the saving effected in the case of removed. | the Pioneers' Home demonstrated— Mrs. Hughes, nearly deaf as wcuhhat the letting of government con- as blind, is at St. Ann’s Hospital. | tracts for purchases of any and al; Sentencing of Alex was deferred. kinds, including insurance and fi- A S R R delity bonds, should be performed MESSERSCHMIDT in thé open, and that everyone in RETURNS FROM STATES|the Territory engaged in the ' business should have an equal Mrs. Henry Messerschmidt re-|chance with anyone else. turned here on the steamer North| “A second serious objection to Coast after a visit of several weeks' H. B. 46 is that it provides a 10% with her mother in Tacoma, ldmcrentml for all purchases made ] and application forms, ma tained at 311 Pederal Bldz PR G MARSHAL RETURNS FROM LONG TRIP U. S. Marshal William T. Mahoney returned on the North Coast from a trip throughout the States. The Marshal brought with him from Petersburg a prisoner, Hi:myl Harrison, who is to ve 175 da; on a charge of heing drunk and disorderly. be ob- MRS. Left, Dorothy Pungiture, 5, testifies in Chicago court that her step- mother, Mrs. Isabelle Pungiture, 20, beat her sister, Theresa, 4, with & nail-studded stick and otherwise maltreated her. Right, Theresa is carried into court by her aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth Buttarelli, The child Pulling a 35-mm. anti-tank, this midget car went over the crest of a hill, barely touching the ground with one wheel as it raced toward its destination during the mock war staged at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.