The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 12, 1942, Page 5

FOR SALE FURNISHED apartment in Tri- angle Bldg. Phone 253 or see Stan Grummett. bath, electric “range, 4-ROOM apt., oil heater. 410 10th. Call 190 from 9 am. to 5 p.m. IN DOUGLAS, 4-room apt., 2 bed- rooms, oil range, inlaid lino, good. furniture, comfortable hom», $20 monthly. Phone Douglas 472 after 7 pm. 3-ROOM heated apt., refrigerator, dry room and laundry facilities. Erwin Apts. Phone Red 559. VACANCY at Kilburn Apartment, Douglas. Al conveniences of modern apts. for ‘$30 a month. Phone Douglas 48. $25 p(" 2-ROOM furnished apt., month. Winter and Pond Apts S;\IAI.i. 2-room cottage, Juneau. Phone Thane 3, three rings. 3-ROOM furnished house. Phone Black 415. 3.ROOM furnished, heated apt. Miettinen Ap(a 4th and Harris. X lurmshed house, 5th and Gold. See VanderLeest, Butler-Mauro Drug. 3-ROOM apt., oil heat, tion. Phone Black 490. FURNISHED complete, 3-room cot- tage, oil heat, reasonable rent. Phone Douglas 64. COMFORTABLE, air - conditioned home. with garage. Phone 156. 1-ROOM apt. Bishop Apts. Phone 336. ONE office room for rent. First National Bank Bldg. ALarge view apt., rea- rent. Alder Terrace. sonable Phone Black 570. 1-ROOM furmshcd house, oil heat, washing machine. 147 after 4 pm. SMALL nice apt., couple. 618 East St Phone Green 230 4-ROOM apartment at Knight Apartments,! Phone 426. PURNISHED 2 bedroom apart. 5th Street Apts. Phone 107. 4ROOM house. Oil heat. Call Black 100. cabin $20. LARGE furnished 2-room with bath and oil range, 724 E. St. VACANCY, VACANCY—One large unfurnished apt.; one fur. apt. Fosbee Apts. MacKinnon Apts, 4-ROOM partly furnished house on Behrends Ave. Phone Black 611. e S 3-ROOM furnished apt. for work- ing couple. Phone 32 or call ut 510 12th St. - G S SR N e VACANCY—Shabaldak Apts. Phone | 642, 2- AND 3-RM. apts. (3-rm. npt with bath). Steamheated. Hot and cold water. Electric range. Capital Cafe. 2-ROOM furn. apt. Red 404. FUR. apts., easy Eept warm. Win- ter rates $15 a mo. Lights, water, dishes. Seaview Apts. 2 LARGE clean front room apart- ment: garbage, water, $35 month- ly. Phone 143, CLEAN steamneated rooms. Sim- mons beds. 326-2nd St $3.50 and up per wegk. +ROOM FURNISHED apartment; also 5-room strictly modern un- furnished house. Phone 484. TWO 4-ROOM furnished duplex apartments, $20. Also, 2-room fur- nished apzrtments for $16. Phene 621. 3-ROOM nicely fur. stm. heated apts. and houses. Windsor Apts. FURN btmdtd room. Green 575 nice loca- | Phone Green| 1036 DODGE sedan. Phone Blue 232, AMERICAN Oriental and Wilton rug, ironing board, 'mahogan§ *buffet, mirror. Phone Black 404. 6-ROOM furnished house, full con< crete basement. 873 Basin Road. Call after 5 p.m. G.E. WASH. machine; Daveno; double bed; chest drawers; chest- robe; playpen; 1933 Pontiac se- dan. Phone Black 454 or call 1026 West 9th after 5 p.m. DINING room set, oil heater, bed, table, etc. Phone Black 429. G COMPLETELY furnished year round home at Auk Bay. See R. B. Forrest. | BEDS, mattresses, chairs, tables, dressers, brand new overstuffed chair and sofa, dishes, pans, etc.; assortment of groceries. All at a bargain. Must leave account ill health. Act today. 873 Basin Road. KITCHEN range; ice skates, size | 5%. Phone Red 328. | TROLLING boat, No. 31C199. Com- pletely equipped. Must sell quick- ly. Leaving town. $500 cash. Call Black 275 after 5 pm. 16-PT. CEDAR skiff and 2% h.p. outboard. Black 429. FOR SALE—Used baby crib. Phone Black 739, 156. lF'RANKLIN elec. | $25. 740 5th St. WATKINS Products. Ph. Black 634. WURLITZER pianos. Expert tun- ; ing. Alaska agent. Phone 143.— Geo. Anderson Music Shoppe. MISCELLANEOUS RABBIT SKINS WE ARE likely the largest dealer in this item in the Northwest. Order your skins direct. Val- cauda Fur Co. Seattle, Wash. iHAGERI—J;'g saw filing service, 919 9th St. Skates sharpened. FIVE CENTS each, paid for used gunny sacks at Coal Bunkers. TURN your old gold into value, cash or trade at Nugget Shop. GUARANTEED Realistic Perma- nent, $550. Paper 'Curls, $1 up. Lola Beauty $Shop. Phone 201 315 Decker Way. LOST and FOUND LOST—Bunch of keys on ring. Re- ward. Return to Empire. ~ WANTED WANTED TO BUY—Bedroom set. Phone Red 611. WAN'I'ED - Position ~ desired 85 housekeeper, here or out-of- town. Box 1758, City. sewing machine, Green 153. | ( \FOR RENT (Conlinued) FOR RENT—Apartments, inquire at office 20th Century Bldg. FURNISHED house and furnished apt. Inquire Snap Shoppe. VACANCY. HILLCREST APTS. i Daring! Senasational! A Picture for Free Americans FOR SALE—Upright plano. Phone | THE DAILY ALASKA EM!'IRE»—JUNI:.AU AIASKA COMMUNICATION (Editor’s Note: The foHowing is a copy of a letter, dated Juneau, Janu- ary 9, addressed to the United States \ Maritime Commission, Washington, D. C. and signied by Alah E. Wicks relative to the'freight and passenger | | rate increases, Copies of the letter | have also been sent to Alaska Dele- gate A. J. Dimond, Gov. Ernest| Gruening, Time Magazine and all Alaskan newspapers.) | | | “We—and, I believe that in this| way I may speak for the common people of Alaska—have been glveni |to believe that the United States | |Maritime Commission, if truly the| “watchdog of rates charged for sea- going commerce,’ is a governmefital | agency set up by the people for the | benefit of the greatest number, to | watch over such rates and judicious- 1y and wisely supervise any action relating thereto. It is also my under- [standing that it is the Commission’s function to give due consideration |to the legal and moral rights of the commerce carrier. How, then, may |these positions and the assumed | precepts of democratic government be aligned with relation to the auth- orization of the Alaska Steamship Company to increase their treighti and passenger rates by forty-five | per cent? | “As the subsistance and welfare of the lower-paid government'work- ers and the large body of medium and low-wage earners in the Ter- ritory already is being direly threat- ened, from what pocket is it pre- sumed that we can pay this added | lien on the cost of necessities? It | is'well known and has been so stated by the Governor of Alaska, the Hon. Ernest Gruening, that the ‘year-ago’ costs of living in Alaska, as com- | pared with the costs in New York | City and Washington, D. C., where it is’ relatively high, was 35.52 per cent higher in Ketchikan, Alaska, | 49.40 per cent higher in Juneau, 109.45 per cent higher in Nome and 116.16 per cent higher in Fairbanks. “Wherein, then, lies the rational | and reasonable justification for the | rate Increase authorized by the |Commission and accorded the Al- | { | | ! whatever best suited capacity we may. “May we réceive our facts pub-| licly and diréctly from our Govern- |- ment and regulatory bodies, rather than suddenly being awakened to | such notice—a mask of soft-soaping | trivia — which headlines state that ‘Increased ' Shipping Rates to Raise Food Costs Only Slightly.? “Political tryanny is awful and despicable; the economic variety taking the form of tariffs secretly imposed is equally bad. Can it be‘ that . the -Commission is blindly | denying: citizeln suffrage to Al- askans?” To the Editor, Juneeu, Alaska, Jan, 12—It was with much interest that T read the timely communica- tion from Mr. H. L. Faulkner ap- pearing in the January 2 issue of the | Daily Alaska Empire on the subject | of the appointment of an assistant administrator to promote the sale of defense bonds in Alaska. It has been reported through a reliable source that the position carries a salary of $4,600 per year, liberal traveling expenses and $2,100 a year for stenographer. We can all rest assured that there | will be much traveling—all the cities and villages will have to be visited and Alaska will have added another | “tourist” to its now long list of bureaucratic travelers. But it is not that which makes us stop and think . In these days of bureaucratic tax experts, planning experts, colonizers, etc., we have be- come used to our “tourists” at gov- | ernment expense. Today our country is threatened |as to its véry existence, to live as a happy and peace-loving nation. War has been brought to our very shores and all that is America today is being threatened by the marauding hordes of ruthless outlaw bandit na- tions. This war is no longer a war of sanctions and boycotts. It is in- deed no longer a war between two military armed forces. We are today fighting a peoples’ war. It is the | war of every man, women and child. The battlefield has no boundaries. aska Steamship Company? As West- iward Alaska already is under the thumb of the Alaska Steamship | | Company monopoly—by virtue of its | | being the sole carrier to that area— | what legitimate reason exists for this rate increase and the subs('queut exaction of greater tariffs from | | those living in that area? Judging from the extent of th® previous grievances held by the people against 1 the Alaska Steamship Company, in | addition to the lesser carriers, it | would seem that the previous rates |were sufficiently high to permit of | | profit- o peration, notwithstanding | |the war and its effects. That these | | carriers are not philanthropic con-v cerns we never have been in doubt; | | but there is considerable doubt that they should be allowed to become war profiteers on such an exorbitant scale. “I should like to say in citing an example, that I am an employee of | the Territory who has had good pro- | fessional training in technical and laboratory work. My wife does riot work and my salary is, therefore, {our sole income. This salary is hard |put to serve in the following man- ner: Food, 26.65%; shelter and in- | cidentals thereto, 31.79%; clothing | and care, 6.66%; insurance, 7.69%; medical miscellaneous, 461%; edu- | cation, amusements and social ac- tivities, 4.61%; general miscellan- eous, 7.69%; donations, 1.02%, and'i extras, 10.26%. Can it be assumed that we may look forward to the possibility of raising a family and of dressing and sheltering ourselves with fitting decency and health, be- sides other absolute necessities,. in- dulge in a minimum of amusements {and social life, let alone buy:small Government bonds and pay for this yet added tariff? From my honest standpoint, certainly not! “Yf T may be so presumptious, I would like further to state that it is the general consensus'that the seem- ingly secret authorization by the Commission, without public notifi- cation - being given or discussion allowed, recks from here of action unbecoming an agency of the peo- ple. Is there not in the laws and regulations governing the authority of the Commission, some provision which states that public notification of any action being taken under its jurisdiction shall be made immed- iately, or previous to such action? “Omy' recently President Roose- velt Jed the nation in’ celebration of 1 ‘§ | the ‘establishment of the ‘First Ten Amendments to the Constitution” of the Unifed States’ and declared the i rights and privileges of the citizens 'inviolate. In the present war which we are fighting to preserve these rights and" privileges, we must con- ‘tribute as much as possible from our earnings, .as well as pay definite tax amounts and ourselves serve in !land of management ‘Women and children are being ! bombed. Yes, we are all faced with a duty we dare not fail in doing. We have |a job to do. And do it we must. |To meet this duty we today as in 1918 are gladly and willingly making many sacrifices and we will be asked to make more. In Washington, D. C., a Labor- Management conference was held and a national board set up includ- ing leaders of both groups of labor are no strikes or lockouts by man- agement nor by labor. All matters are to be settled by arbitration in all defense industries. And the speed up necessary is urged and being carried out throughout the nation, The American Federation of Labor has taken the lead and shown the |way to all of its affiliates by pur- chasing $50,000 of defense bonds. It has urged all of its affiliated inter- national unions and locals to pur- chase defense bonds when possible. The purchases of defense bonds ! have also been made by the CIO and many of its affiliates have followed suit. Labor asked for no super-duper promoter at a fat salary to promote those sales. There was a national duty to fulfill and it was done with the least possible cost to our govern- ment, leaving the full amount of the purchase price of the bonds go to the defeat of the international pirates and murderers. And I am sure that all of labor feels better knowing that no part of the money they have given to the purchase of defense bonds will be used to pay a super- duper political gppointee. ians of the peopie here in the last great war. It was the duty of every patriotic American to sacrifice at home while the boys at the front sacrificed their lives. And a pro- gram for selling bonds was organ- ized and put on by the people of all | communities without eosc to the de- fense effort. Today, when war. ',hrea'.ena at the door of every home in America, it is hard for one to believe that we now spell patriotism by $ay-triotism. Tm sure that there are enough believers in democracy in Alaska to put over a program that no one ) person in Alaska, regardless of his abilities, could ever hope to compete with, and enough to keep this pro- gram going. And this without any reward but knowing that there was a job to be done, that it was done and done well. b of bottlenecks, strikes, tie-ups, lock- outs and of ‘many saboteurs in our national defense program. But, Mr. Editor, there is nothing and no one who is s0 repugnant as the politician who would make political capital of lto string along with their jobs. Today there ‘We had no such appointed guard- | | Mr. Edifor, we have heard much Government (Continued from Pa;e One) refusal of sulting from workers Center of the whirlwind of argument now is the Patent Office, with officials of that agency and approximately 700 patent attorneys here who live | off our patent system and the litigation that grows out of it, leading the fight. Their ' facts and figures are im- pressive. Although the Patent Of-| fice has only about K500 employees, a survey of the entire field indi-| cates that nearly 20000 persons would be taken out of Washington by transfer of the office—many of them the aforementioned patent attorneys, their families, and em- ployees. In addition, the Patent Office basement contains 1,600 cases of records, with an overall weight cf nearly 8,000 tons. This doesn’t in- clude the patent office’s scientific library and the examiner’s rec- ords. The SEC also is against transfer- ring to Philadelphia and Wage and Hours is getting up a petition to move to Richmond, Va., instead of Pittsburgh. Ohe ‘compromise meas- ure proposed is that the patent of- fice and SEC moves be made tem- porary for the duration and that files of the former not be trans- ferred. One of the government per- sonnel experts says his survey indicates 5,000 of the affected workers are eager to move and that twice that many office werkers will transfer from other agencies immediately if they can work in the cities named instead of here. Several higher government offi- cials say all the.argument is just a lot of sound of fury which will avail nothing — “because this is Just the beginning.” Budget Dire:- tor Smith, in making his an- nouncement, admitted that his bureau’s survey of decentraliza- tion possibilities had ' not been completed. GRADUATE NURSES ASS HOLDS ELECTION TONIGHT Election of officers for the coming year will take place at the meeting of the Gastineau Channel Nurses | Association to be held in the Health | Center of the Territorial Building at 8 o'clock. It is urgent that all members at- "Decentralization” of Now Causes Many Agencies fo Move Buffet Supper leen ForBeales, Williams and Dr. and Mrs, R. H. Willlams, who are leaving Juneau in the near future, Mrs. Florine Housel | was hostess at a buffet supper at last | her home on Fourth Street evening, Following supper, bridge and poker were played. Mr, and Mrs. Beale are leaving Juneau to make their home m alifornia the latter part of this menth, while Dr. Willlams will leave Junéau in about two weeks for Anchorage to report for active duty as First Lieutenant in the Medical Corps of the army. Mrs. Williams will visit relatives and friends in Seattle and Tacoma. e ROOM FOR MORE FIRST AIDERS IN WED. CLASS Those who wish to enroll in the Red Cross first aid class which is beginning Wednesday evening at 7:30 o'clock in the council cham- bers of the City Hall may still do so as there is room for several more students in this class, it was announced today. The class will be conducted by Helgar Larson. It is particularly desirable that Juneau men, who have not already qualified in first aid work, take ad- vantage of this class as more are needed to take charge of the first aid posts being established through- cut the city. B MEDICAL SOCIETY TO MEET TUESDAY AT 8 | Tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock its regular meeting in room 102 of the Territorial Building. defense quesuons will be discussed - FIRST AID INSTRUCTORS HAVE MEETING THURSDAY be a meeting of all first aid in- structors in the council chambers of the City Hall at 7:30 o'clock. Purpose of the meeting will be to line up emergency work in con- nection with the first aid posts being established throughout Ju- neau and discuss defense work. - tend the meeting tonight and all nurses eligible to join the association are invited to be presenl such a cause as the people of our country are fighting for today,—the politician that goes about instruct- ing communnties to tie a project to national defense and you will get all you want to spend, thus diverting money from a necessity to a waste, and so subject its people to poverty and destruction. That, Mr. Editor, is truly a fifth column and sabotage and should be exposed to the people. Should similar super-dupers have been placed in each State, we would have 49 of them in the States and Alaska—or, if they were pro-rated as to population, heaven knows how many. Then, I say, let us redouble our efforts, for the bandwagon is loaded down. Where we would have pur- chased one bond, let’s make it two. for it will take the sales of many {bods to pay wages, furnish a sten- og.apher and house our super-dup- ers in an office. Yet we will have accomplished our duty as it was put before us. I have been requested to serve on | a committee to work with the assist- (ant' administrator to promote the sale of bonds. This I will gladly and willingly do if it is still desired that | T reihain on the committee after the publishing of this communication for I feel it is the duty of every Ameérican citizen to do all in his power to work toward bringing this war to a successful conclusion. Respectfully, (Signed) FRANK CHINELLA, e — BROKEN LENSES Are promptly replaced in our own shop. Dr. Rae Lillian Carlson, Blomgren Building. adv. | FIRET AID CLASS WILL Members of the first aid class of which Mrs, Catherine Gregory and Helgar Larson are instructors, will meet this evening in the Health Center of the Territorial Building at 7:30 o'clock. — e - — BUY DEFENSE BONDS NOTICE TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CON- CERN: Whereas Clarence William Wiitanen has petitioned the Dis- trict Court for the Territory of Al- aska, ‘First Division, at Juneau, for change of his name to Clarence William Wittanen,— Now, therefore, it is ordered that all persons . concerned appear be- fore said court at Juneau, "Alaska, at 10' o'clock A, M., January 24th. 1942, and show cause, if any they have, why said petition for change of name as aforesaid should not be granted. ROBIBT E. COUGHLIN, Clerk. HOWARD D. STABLER, Petiticner's Attorney, 3hattuck Building, Juneats, ska. Pubuclflon dates, Jan. 12, 19, 1942. ady. THE wmcw IN FLAMES! m Senasationall e for Free Americans "HERE ARE MY PAPERS T GUESS THATS AL FOR NOW,EHZ.. By C DIVISION THAT WUZ CHASIN/ YuH / NOW LETS HAVE TH/ NUMBER OF TH’ PANZER For Mr. and Mrs. Charles Beale| the Juneau Medical Society, Dr. Courtriey Smith, president. and Dr. J. O. Rude, secretary, will hoid| In addition to regular business,| On Thursday evening there will | MEET TONIGHT, 7:30| | | ! PAGE FIVF 1891—Hall a Century of Banking—1941 The B.M.Behrends Bank Oldest Bank in Alaska COMMERCIAL SAVINGS 4 MARION’S Dressmaking, Alterations Designing 304 Willoughby Avenue WOMEN’'S APPAREL Baranof Hotel Connors Motor Co. Herb Waugh Phone 411 230 S. Franklin Sanitary Meat Co. FOR QUALITY MEATS AND POULTRY FREE DELIVERY Call Phones: 13 and 49 e P OESTRRSIRR T Chas. G. Warner Co. Marine Engines and Supplies MACHINE SHOP Ropes and Paints p s Utah Nut and Lump COAL Alaska Dock & Storage €o. e e TELEPHONE 4 GAS —OIL _ Poot of Main Street Juneau Motors FORD AGENCY HOME GROCERY Phone 146 Amercas Meat—Fheme $0 “SMILING SERVIOR" Bert's Cash Grocery PHONE 104 or 105 PFree Delivery Juneaw The Juneau Laundry Pront and Becond Streets NORTH Transfer & ‘Garbage Co. E.0.Davis E.W. Davis 212—Phones—81 Hardware ccmpany PAINTS—OIL—GLASS Bhelf and l-vy Hardware ‘Bvery house neéds westinghouse’ Guns and PARSONS ELECTRIC CO. A — Electrical Contractor—Dealec — e L 140 8o, Seward 8t. Juneau, Alaska Py Business Phone 161 Residence Phoue Black 090 WALL PAPER Ideal Paint Shop Phone 640 Pred W. Wendt COWLING-DAVLIN "~ COMPANY DODGE and PLYMOUTH —_———e—— GASTIIEIU !'mmlonuuurmmu Air Service Information PHONE 10 or20 l% 20TH CENTURY MEAT MARKET QUALITY MEATS PRGNS g Dicsl Ol Biove Ol our ,Juneau Transfer Phone 48—Night Phone 481 MAT. PROC. & ENG. CO. Savrite Rust Preventatives Xzi# Soot Eradicator Chemical Metal Treatments Plastic Refractories 104 S. Main