The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 14, 1941, Page 7

| In case of error or if an ad has been stopped before ex- I g , piration, advertiser please noti- | ty this oftwce (Phone 374) at { cnce and same will be given ¥ attention. “ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE 1 “Gount five average words to the ine. Dally rate per line for consecutive unsertions: One day ... o108 Additional days —— Se Minimum charge .58 Copy must he in the office by 3 selock in the afternoon to insure wisertion on same day. We accept ads over telephone rom persons listed in telephone “ 2ctol FOR SALE—One 9-ft. tram-type, boat, $50; also 1 12-ft. round| bottom transom stern, $75. Phono\ Green 730, new GE.| pump. FOR SALE—Practically washing machine, ~with Call Blue 763. Phone Black WATKINS Products. 634. I<‘ITRN1-;‘:HED home at Auk Bay, 3 acres. See Milton Ward. FOR SALE—34 Chovrolet sedan. Reasonable. See Fred at Gastin-| eau: Hotel. FOR SAL'I" 1'717 V 8 Pane] l)P]iv Case Lot Groceery. miles on Glacier High- acres, five rooms, fur- concrete basement, hot heat, (very —economical)’ refrigerator, 1,000-gal. fuel} double garage—$4,500. Cuah' prefered. See Paul Hudon. AOME 4 way, 2 nished, water C‘OR QALF—Lmnple set Gurdies, fathom stainless steel lin smission shaft, chain, leads, and spoons. Phone 0 an: pulleys -!"Blt SALE: “Restaurant and apal mént house: income property at @ bLargain. Phone Douglas 28. SALE '35 Ford Sedan, $200. Green 160. FOR Phone "TWIN BEDS, complete; also L. . Smith Lypewriter. Phene Green 462, 7 FOR SALE—E house, fully equipped; sewing ma- chine, radio, double garage, Ply- mouth sedan, dragsaw, tools, 92 acre on loop road, $900. It's a| Bargain to Anyone! Write to XYZ, ¢/o The Empire. FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN — 90 horsepower Kermath Marine Mot~ or. Write Box 463. FOR SALE—Scow house, new last year, 16x41 ft. Can be moved any- where, Located at Elfin Cove.| Write Box 1855, | SMALL, AP 16 l | FOR RENT 4-ROOM partly fur, house. Phonc| 67 after 5 pm. FURNASHED Douse ‘or rent: oil heat. Inquire Steve Stanworth. FOR RENT—3 rooms and bath. 0il stoves. and 7 pra. 3-ROOM steam heated apt. Phone Blue 474. | AI’ARTME.\T FOR RENT Hotl‘l Juneau, partly furnished. APARTMENT FOR RENT—Inquire at Empire office. APT. FOR RENT— Brunswick. 8e¢ and those who are there to serve the William White. Phone 436. 3~ ROOM ful St. MLM\I“ “house, 843 West 9th VA(I\NCY flt lhl‘ " Decker Phone Blue 465. ly. Inquire Columbia Company . office, 3 OOM mcely rur “stm. }wa d npts and houses. Windsor Apna F‘OR RENT—] Fumhhed apartmen in Triangle Building. See Stal Grummett, Phone 253, FOR RENT—3-room fur. heat, fine view. Phone Red 245, Zitb Bl S8 stm. VACANCY Nugget Apartments. Re:| duiced Tates. VACANLY Evergrwn Apsrlmenl.s Plioné Blue 629. WD T TS W ONE, FURNISHED APARTMENT AND ONE UNFURNISHED/| ‘APARTMENT. HILLCREST.| PHONE 439, . cm ra APABRTMENT for Teft. today. SLEEPENG Thom ‘with-or without board, Phone Green 462. VANCANC[ = ments. Phone 671 or 304. Apact | 6 p.m. Phione Black 490. S i XL, e T 2 FURNISHED apts. Phone Red: 600. | 3-ROOM fur_apt., ol begj. 12th 8. | FOR RENT—3-room apt. Owl Cale, Douglas. BT L & ONE OFFICE room for rent, Flrl” National Bank Bldg. FOR RENT—Ap&rtmepm, inqulre at office 20th Century Bldg. BOARD & ROOM, $50 per mo Steam heat, dry room and shower bath. Juneau Rooms, phone 472. COZY. waim furn. apts. Lights, water, dishes, cooking utensils and bath. Reasonable at Seaview. FOR SALEFully furnished home, with two lots. Phone Douglas 612. LUNCH BOX Cafe; must sell im- medlntely Bargain for cash. | l'nfl SALE OR TRADE—MOLO{- soat “Pal” See owner at Rock| Dump | WANTED- WANTED— Mmd for gcneral house- work. Apply at Chas. Goldsl.eln‘ residence. Phone 69. ‘ WANTED—Goad used studio couch and overstuffed chair. Midget Lunch. MAN WANTED to share expenses‘lr on apartment for two months. | Write Box 2793 l'he Dnily Alm, a mp.re Has the largest paid circulition of any Al- aska newspaper. CALIFORNIA Grocery and Meat Market 478—PHONES—371 High Quality Foods at Moderate Prices —_— MIELKE. & CIII.I.EII Painting—Paper Hanging Decorating Service 407—PHONES——Red 232 VACANCY at Fosbee Apts. VACANCY Perelle Apartment | Phone Blue 575. ¢-ROOM FURNISHED apartment; also 5-room strictly modern un- furnished hmue Phone 484. HISCELLANEWS Dl E. R. HUNTEB Veterinarian. Small animal spec- | mlist Will be at the Alaskan Hotel. ‘OMPLET!: body massage In your nome, $2.00, Call Black 510 be- | fore 11 a.m. and after 7 p.m. SWEDISH massage and eabinet baths Mrs. L. Skefe, 410 West 12th St. Phone Green 663. 3% CENTS EACH PAID for used eound, gunny, sacks at Coal Bunk- ers, ' ° [ it b e SRt # | GUARANTEED ' Realistic' Prema- ngnt.s, $4.50. Finger. wave, 65c. Zola’s' Beauty Shop. Telephone 201, 315 Decker Way. | TURN your old gold into value; cash or trade at- Nugget Shop. NAGHEL GOES TO VALDEZ Edward 'Naghel, who has been vis- {iting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. {Charles Naghel, left for Valdez on the Baranof where he is in the em- ploy of the Alaska Road Commis- sion, having been transferred from torial Legls!u.t.me let it be record- sity’s budget was drastically ' re- | facing of Alaska’s problems, ‘ * ed that a’ majority of both houses’ duced. Anchoraxfi { ests. apt., ! L turé of $30000 of Federal { VACANCY — Snow White Apts.|is sorely needed so that our Al- tably conservative; Phone 299° or Green 355 Iflq‘ aska youngsters shall not continue’ expenditures, often, in Alaska, it do. & muehl larger THEDAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, APRIL 14,1941 SOME MEMBE OVERNOR ASSAILSLOBBY, RS OF RECENT LEGISLATURE IN MESSAGE (Continued irom Page one) which determined the final results| in the Fifteenth Session of the Territorial Legislature. A mijority! of the legislators could not be dl-] Call' 173 between 5 rectly affected by the Lobby. Rela-| Egan; tively few in our public life can be DIRECTLY influenced by it; and those are known in advance to the Lobby. Often they have sought election for the sole pur- pose of protecting certain inter For, broadly speaking, lea: lators fall into two classes: } who seek to represent their con- | stituents honestly and honorably, | scmething else, themselves includ- ~led. It is not difficult to recognize in most cases into which class the, \lcel'lalm fall. There are some, the . them lessly | which serve hires private and “who un-! | stituents. | honorable legislators, there are na-| | turally some who can be who,. can .be tricked—and in | thede methods the Lobby is par- ticudarly skilled. Bhe . Territory- is. now growing | fast 1337173 percent since the 1930 ‘('ensus) and this growth brings wxfir it many requirements, The ‘Hnmd of the Budget; composed of - .{two electéd offitials—thhe Terri- | torial Treasurer, the Territorial Au-| |dilor—and the Governor, found :thnt with the -utmest prudence and ‘.econmw L€ expenses of ‘the regu-| lar ‘Territorial departments would | be .$600.000 in sgcess of anticipat-| |ed revenues. It was evident ‘also that. many. new requirements were { not included. i Needs of Territory ,uc; are needed almost everywh |years ago wiith the yearly forfei-| funds; to . lose opportunities for be theirs if they were technically, ,lramcd The University of Alaska with the largest enrollment in its | history—307, of whom 117 are | Freshmen—is obliged to turn away, Alaskan boys and girls ! them. In this national Congress and the War Department allocated 'four companies of the National Guard to Alaska. The in spirit to the days when the| minute men took down powder horn and musket from over the mantle and went forth to defend their - liberties. Today everything that we hold dear, the liberties for which our ancestors fought and died, are imperilled as® never be- fore. In this fateful hour, our Fed- era] administration is pouring $70,- 000,000 into Alaska for defense. Much of this expenditure is also of great economic.and social bene- fit to Alaska. Great airports, long needed, new tdads such as the trunk-line connecting Anchorage with the Richardson Highway, are | being constructed. , Nearly every | community in Alaska has been, is being, or shortly will be, materially | aided economically by the Fedéral Treasury. Fér the National Guard |—an institution of which the 48 stdtes and our other territoties have been proud—the Federal gov- ernment has started to send into the Territory additional hundreds of thousands of dollars yearly for equipment and pay. The one and only collaboration which the Fed- and Stangroom misled,| mories some who can be intimidated, some -Shattuck in anendeavor to bomor‘ aged to secure cuts in many appro- all up his opposition to them sent a|priations defense - crisis’ lt'\mmd hmldm" the armories and| ~ voted the needed _appropriations: | Five out of eight in the Senate Walker, Roden, Brownell, Nordale, LaBoyteaux, and ten out of 16 in the House — Jenne, McCormick, McCutcheon, Lander, Her- Gordon, Lyng, Leonard Smith By the treachery and deception of several House members—one of whom. James V. Davis, used the Trojan horse de-| vice of co-sponsoring the bill order to defeat it—the measure ! bert, Those Was deliberately stalled, so that it!ing no incres could not reach the Senate until after the 50th day, when, under rules, a two-thirds vote required ‘and three votes out eighit sufficed to kill it Atmery Mistepresentation A good deal of nmropx(-svut.\lmn of Apts.| Who unabashedly and quite shame-| about (hefe” armoriés “was propa- ance law interest gated by the Lobby. As far as the the Department of Pabliz blic had an opportunity to- ex- un rent, $30 mom.h— hesitatingly sacrifice the public in- Press itself, it registered the atti-| slaughter Lumbzr‘ terest and the interest of their con-| tudé of patriotic “Americans. Among the majority of "peoplé bf Nome, in a mass meeting, | enthusiastically - endorfed the ar and when Representative| !wire to the Nome Chamber of| | commerce asking it to follow the, position taken by the Juneau i Chamber in disapproving the mories bill, he.received a rehuke in a m the Nome 'Chamber did not care to oppose animous expression’ of Nome, and added said “un- ge which of Comi the “we realize with them the necessity and urgon-‘ cy of cooperation with the Federal Government which is spending mil- lions. Shall we be blinded by sel fish interest and offer no sacri toward preparation to defend homes?" | Yet Cochran and Sullivan who| | owed their election chiefly to the| our Additional or better school f““h" people of Nome, did everything in!den. At present the influx of peo-|tial tax measure passed was one | their power to delay, obstruct and 4 | Vocational education, cut off four findlly to kill this national defensc|ates new requirements—for schools, | iand civic measure. Chambers of Commerce they object are no- to steady,’ would seem, unwisely, when cer-| under our rigid and outworn ¢gainful. employment which would' tain expenditures are really com-|system munity investments which will bring better living conditions, more business activity and more revenue' to their towns. But the fact is that] a number of our Chambers of Com- because merce are controlled by resident, new there are not accommodations for|jobbyists, men whose one and. only|extremely moderate net income and i loyalty p!oyfirs‘ to . their is to their absentee em- whose patriotism is only pocket * bobk. Yet the Chambers of Ketchikan, l“ah‘bankw! afid ‘Nome all endorsed the armor-| militia is an institution as old as|ies Biil. Anchorage amd Juneau did | |increased Federal our United States; it harks back, net, J\(nenu witnessed ‘ the depress-]nmpmdmg ing, spectacle of ‘one or two of ‘its in! was The| ar-| merited| of the peopie| Thc L'ul)h.. have armor And despite the fact out “of 16 members of and five out of eight’ members in the Senate favored armories and 50 voted, there were no armories. | The Lobby even tried to cut the fynds for crippled children. It got $10.000 slashed off the requasted $30,000 in -the first skirmish. Taere| was sufficient indignation and spirit among the free members of the ‘Legislature so that $5000 of this was restored; but the final figure was still $5,000 less® than was required. The Lobby have a new And although ment can s of space, there was no Building. said, “You shall not £ To Buy for Eire that ten| the House d: “You shall not erritorial Building." Alaska’ vern- ely operate for lack Territorial Refcrms Peiish Ingidental to the Lobby's stra- tegy of obstruction and delay, worthwhile measures, often involv- ed expenditures, re- forms long sought by Alaska’s civic bodies—Women’s clubs, the Ameri- can Legion—-p hed. Thus dicd the bills for Juvenile code-—to prevent littte children from being | stigmatized criminals—and the bill amending the mothe allow- both recommendad by Wellare. was too busy with its to Worry about innocent | | i | | Francis Aiken Francis Aiken, Ireland’s minister: | for eoordination of defense, arrives at New York by clipper plane. lle came to the United States to pur-| «hase arms for his government, as | The Lobby N yictims. The Lobby on the whols won a sweeping victory. To be sube it suffered a few set-backs. It man- serious consideration in the Senate,| although the Hoblse passtd it by a vole of ten to six. The Lobby hag stimulated some childish talk to the effect that these tax pro- J » “breught in from the (So, it might be recalled,| Federal funds which pay| travel and’ per di-| for this legis- three yegrs 10 under the administration of Gov-| emnor ‘lroy when, at his direztion. the Planning Council updertook a thorough study of taxation, This With a~ one-third increase n'wos clearly annoying to the Lobby population in a decade, and fur- which wanted the Planning Coun- ther” gfowth in prospect, our prob-|cl killed and had its way. But lems could be_taken care of largely apart from all this, the Legisla-| by a revamping of our obsolete and ture had full and final control over| inadequate tax structure. Such a|any tax legislation. The Legisla- | revision would permit our new and|ture had the power to amend any| increased activit not now taxed,| proposals or (o introduce new reve-| | that were needed; it managed to defeat all t. lagisla- tion which wauld have distributed the burden equitably .and . have reached those who have hitherto not borne a fraction of their just share; and jt is highiy possible that some- worthwhile approprin- | tions Were made only because the Lobby kndw flnds for them might not be available. , the legislators The basi was laid are the em.) lation to pay a small share of their bur-| nue measures. The only substan- ple into an Alaska community cre-|doubling the stamp tax on liguo The general property ly drafted, was not even- giv :.'ilnlvn) of hearing or discus gion. A grc ales tax introduce: Il in the Senate ‘after it was clew’ the cther measures would not re- ceive consideration was likewise unceremoniously laid on the tabl Thus while the Legislature passed few worthwhile measures, great cpportunities for constructive legis- lation whi would help Alaska were passed by. Next ™2 | streets, public utilities, forth. At the same time flux creates prosperity; business. and s this in- merchants| But tax the Territorial Treasury |gets” no additional receipts. In other words, Alaska while called upocn to furnish new facilities, wr‘ gets no corresponding lnx benefits | from the increased b eonstruction acti Tnv nnium In the next biennium the peo- ple of Alaska will have ample time edied ‘this difficulty. ‘Lu consider these problems, 1f, a5 Most Lightly Taxed I'has been alleged—quite: incorrectly The Lobby's c w that with| prung” for defense and public with- no time for| {ficient warning, there will taxes. The be two years for their full ‘pl‘()pl‘ll,j taxes preposed to the F:l-‘ ‘Lconm Legislature would have rem- on t out now this was any new TFerritorial TIMELY CLOTHES NUNN-BUSH SHOE STETSON HATS Quality Work Clothing . FRED HENNING Complete Outfitter for Mem THRIFT C0-0P Member National Retailer- Owned Grocers NEXT TO CITY HALL » | | | flpporlnmiy ls Always Waiting! ALASKA SCHOOL OF AERONAUTICS BYSTEM CLEANING . PHONE 15 Alaska Laundry FORD AGENCY (Authorized Dealer=) GREASES GAS — OIL Foot of Main Street Alaska Music Supply Juneau Motors Arthur M. Uggen, Manager ————— e} [ e Soothing Organ Music and. Delicious Fried Chicken EVERY NIGHT DOUGLAS INN John Marin, Prop. Phone 86 et ———— | | Utah Nut and Lump COAL Alaska Dock & Storage Co. TELEPHONE 4 ES Sea MANUFACTURING CO. CABINET WORK— bl GLASS ————q S (S Sanitary Meat Co. FOR QUALITY MEATS AND POULTRY FREE DELIVERY Call Phones: 13 and 4 HOME GROCERY " Phone 146 Home Liquor Store—Tel 99 Amerioan Mert—Phono 38 The Juneau Laundry FRANKLIN STREET between Pront and Second Streets PHONE 380 GEORGE BROS. Widest Selection ok LICUORS PHONE 92 or 85 ‘_hh_‘ Boling Ty BUILDING =~ Rock—Coal Hauling ltvn—-lnlflllhlur, ——e “SMILING SERVICE” Bert's Cash Grocery PHONE 108 * Free Delivery Juneau — | Garbage Hauled r . r " _'-—-q Thomas Hardware Co.! PAINTS — onig TELEPHONE 212 Phone 4753 Sullders’ :’s:.. Soeit | — ‘Every house needs westinghouse’ PARSONS ELECTRIC CO. Electrical Contractor—Dealer 140 So. Seward St. Juneau, Alasks Business Phone 161 Residence Phone Black 680 R e JUNEAU-YOUNG Hardware Company bill before the Legislature to build|union do so many occupations, cat- the afories required. Of course|egories or individuals escape appre- “leading citizens” employing every| facts ate that Alaska is by far the ¢ means to defeat a motion bexo.-e;mofil lightly taxed entity under the| the Chamber to support the only flag; that in no other part of the | available in the ny who may| e. — T Y ‘ R S desire them, complete studies of mm m]fls Alas| tax problems, copies of| 1941 Models Now on Display Governor's > propoased net income and prop-' PAINTS—OIL-GLASS Bhel! and Heavy Hardware Guns and Ammuniticn breast-beating and flag-waving on of expenditure, especially of his absentee client’s, is the type which has made the rise of totalitarian- ism. possible in the world. When Adolf Hitler, in one of his fre- quent sneers at, the free institu-, tions of our world, deglared, “De- mocracties ' are impoteént; while they talk, I act;, ease and wealth above all else,” he| could have found here in Alaska recently a confirmation of that caustic condemnation of democra- cies. 5 Time Will Tell Neither Alaska .nor any part of dur beloved United mm will be controlled by the penny-plnmlng ists whose flag is the dolar-sign and who at all times in their meth- |eral government has ever expect- ed of the Ter:itory, the first re-| quest of Alaska in ns history, was that Alaska’ build its own armories |as every state and Territory has, done. It is hard to believe that the Legislature, in respopse to ‘this call! Iully do -its small| part." But no heasure was.more savagely fought by the gold and cannery lobby. ods and morals are the enemies of the. democratie. process. HeTe in Alaska at the Pifteenth Sesslon the Lobby told! the people of .Alaska. ' “You shall_not h)ve additional for patriotic service, did not cheer-{fun(h for Vocational Education, "Mnd And so 'no funds were voted. ‘The Lobby declared: “You shall rot' have additional patriotism that consists merely in| holidays, but balks at a single cent | they value their| Time will* prove him wrong.| pretended patriots, by- the lobby- | whose Policy. frankly declared was ' facilities for the Untversity for the “not a cent of expenditure by the boys and girls who want to go Territory for the Territory. that there. You shall have no new struc- we can prevent.” To the everlast- tures, and you must cut your funds ing credit’ of - the Fifteenth Terri- for operation.” And so the Univer- LOOKN m ,NEWT ¥ -] T“EN (NFUNNEL DRAPEWN OUT'N ‘ONE O THEM FLYN' CONTRAPTIONS \\ Q LE'C"l OF "R“CE ‘& Tom-FooL Y. THBT WANT - ND FLRG 4 THARS & FE\.LNR A-DANGLW erty tax bills, together with sum- maries thereof. And the underlying issue, | will not down, is whether the ab- | ditional cent of taxation, a threc|sentees who are stripping, ~and | percent gross tax with a $20,000 ex-|would continue to strip, Alnska, emption alone has been levied Un‘shul] through their resident Iobby- | Alaska’s gold industry; that under|lsts and representatives take it all.! | this exemption over $5,000,000 worth|Or, whether the people of Alaska [of gold is taken out of Alaska an- | shall take their part and plow if nually without paying one cent oi back for the improvement and wel- tax to the Territory; that ‘many| fare of the Territory which they states with already adequate tax|Wwant to call their home. burdens ate taxing. themselves fur-| WP ther to meet their needs; that the ATTENTION MASONS derritory is now at an all-time| Stated Communication of Mt high of prosperity; that the Na-|Juncau Lodge No. 147 F. and AM, tional Defense program is still fur- Monda,. evening at 7:30 o'clock. ther augmenting this prosperity; «. W. LEIVERS, but that very little of this new|2dv. Secretary. wealth is staying in Alaska. Al-| —— though,Governor Langlie’s message o s ———— MONTGOMERY WARD & CO. ciable taxation; that after (»l)joy»; |ing a 70 percent increase in the price of " gold for the four years |from 1933 to 1937 without an ad- which |to the ‘Washington Legislature, in| | ! which economy was urged, was quoted by ene of the leading Alns—) ! kan lobbylsts, he did not state that| | nevertheless the Washington begls-‘ i lature finally adopted, in order to provide adequate governmental ser- vices to the people of that state,' the largest -budget -in its ‘history incroased | taxes ‘all -alond the Unfair to Organized Labor RETAIL CLERKS UNION No. 1392 | I FOR RENT Juneau Liquor Store Space Will Remodel to-Suit - Tenant, - See Percy’s Cafe line, Senators " “Frightéiied, Bamboozled® | The )y ‘was able ‘to frighten one Sera to ‘bamboozle another, and thele in addition to those al-| ready “in the hag” were sufficient. With ample opportunity for intel- ligent discussion amd an honest the was never given Income tax bill By BILLY DeBECK GENERAL MOTORS, DELCO ‘ and MAYTAG PRODUCTS W. P. JOHNSON . “The Frigidaire Man” REPAIRS and SERVICE JUNEAU RADIO SERVICE Phone 464 Bill Hixson e e H. S. GRAVES “The Clothing Man® HOME OF HART SCHAFPNER | & MARX CLOTHING IF I'"S PAINT WE HAVE IT! Ideal Palm Shop PIIONI L] Rice & Ahlers Co. COWLING-DAVLIN COMPANY DODGE and PLYMOUTH DEALERS The Alaskan Hotel Newly Renovated Rooms at Reasonable Rates Phone—Single O The Daily Alaska Empire has PHONE 10 or 20 largest paid circulation of any aska newspaper. Oldest Bank: in Alaska THE B. M. BEHRENDS BANK COMMERCIAL SAVINGS