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- — PAGE SIX HOUSE STILL WORKING ON FINANCE ACT Alaska Ter}%r‘ial Guard Gets Original Request The House waded through a few more pages of the appropriations bill yesterday, raising the appropria- tion for the Alaska Territorial Guard to the origing figure of . $69,400 recommended by the Board of Bud- get The House also amended the bill to add a $10,000 appropriation to be used in case the Employment Office under the Unemployment Compen- sation Gommission is turned back to the Territory by the Federal gov- ernment before the Legislature meets again Dr. Charles E. Bunnell, who could not get to Juneau in time to appear before the Ways and Means Com- mittee to discuss the appropriation for the University of Alaska, ap- peared before the House and out- lined needs for the next two years The House unanimously adopted Dr. Bunnel's recommendations follows: For Territorial scholarships, $2.- 400; for experimental work cooper- ative with the Hatch-Adams-Purnell Acts and Bankhead-Jones Act, $15.- 000; for extension work cooperative with the Smith-Lever and Capper- Ketcham Act, $18,000; for mining éxtension, $12,000; for administra- tion and maintenance, $92,440. Dr. Bunnell explained the uni- versity's wartime program and said that he believed the government would pay for some of the services performed by the university for the Army. The University of Alaska was accorded the honor of being one of 241 such institutions in the whole of the United States and its Ter- ritories having educational work as- signed to it under the government's new program of using the facilities of institutions of higher learning to further the war effort. ———.———— as ; Empire Classifieds Pay! ONCE THIS WAS A RUSSIAN VILLAGE rnis It was the village of Kleshnevo, near Rzhev, the Russians sav, Soldiers'Big JUVENILE | Vicory Ball BILL WILL IsTomorrow BECOMELAW Climaxing a three-day rally which i S A sold $4,000 worth of War Stamps and | Governor DOes Not Slgl\ ory Veto Welfare Leg- Bonds, the Duck Creek men and' other members of the armed forces will see their Victory Queen crowned with War Stamps at a Victory Ball ISIB"OI’\ held tomorrow evening starting at| 9 o'clock in the Juneau High School - gymnasium The three candidates for whom \ The Juvenile Code bill became a iaw yesterday without the signature soldiers have been casting ballots |of Gov. Ernest Gruening who in- with bonds and stamps are Irene|(iormed the Legislature that al- Hafner, Kay McAlister and Mary | though he had turned the bill over Jukich. Lieut. Col. Roy W. Riegle, {t, gecretary of Alaska E. L. Bart- Commander®of the men here, Will {jett for permanent filing, he did crown the queen | not sign it. One voter, Pvt. Charles LaRocco,! The Governor, in a written mes- bought a $1,000 bond to pour a flock | .qge, declared that he had acted in of votes into the ballot box. !this manner after being informed An Army band under the direction ,,y Attorney General Henry Roden of Lieut. Robert Lagle will.furnish tha¢ q section of the bill which the music and Corp. Jack Yaeger|jjfrerentiates between white chil- will be vocalist. The dance is fOr | gren and native children is un- | members of the armed forces, only | congtitutional. and their dates. | But, the Governor points out, he In keeping with the Victory theme, | yejjoved the bill was good legisla- * FOR YOUR HAIR ON TINY COMBS For either day-time or evening wear BUNCHES OF BEA Jones-Stevens Seward Street MUSICIANY' BOWS and BLOSSOMS | SMALL BOUQUETS for yo LARGER ONES for even ELKS’ HALL Saturday--March Gth Public Cordially Invited ADMISSION: $1.10, including tax corsages of War Stamps will be sold | /jon gtherwise and has many bene- at the door | fits! | The closing paragraph of the !'»pmlon which Attorney General ‘Roden wrote is as follows | “It is my opinion that | Territory makes provision for its !delinquent white children it must iu it discriminates by providing for {whites only, which it attempts to {do in the bill referred to (Sub. for Y/HB. No. 1) it does something in {contravention of the constitutional land statutory provision cited. It | has not power to appropriate public {funds for such a one-sided under- flnkmg, and for that reason the bill {is void, in my opinion | regret to be unable to give you a {detailed opinion in the matter at in the city the bikers should also‘percom differential in pay this time; on account of the pres- |su of business and I cannot do UTIFUL FLOWERS D ALASKA STAR PLANE MAKES FUIGHT HERE | | Bringing passengers from the | Westward, an Alaska Star Airlines | plane arrived in Juneau yesterday |afternoon. Chet Brown was the [ pilot and J. R. Jacox, co-pilot. The | plane left again for Anchorage this | morning. | Arriving here with the plane were Joe Faul, Floyd Anderson and three military personnel. Taking passage to the Westward were: for Yakutat—Bronson Brig- ham, William K. Walter, Delbert H. Brown; for Cordova—Mr. and |Mrs. W. G. Stear, and for Anchor- | age—Capt. Joseph M .Applegate and | Collis E. Druley. e NOTICE That I will not be responsible for any debts—only those contracted by myself. | adv. Spring Fungies SHINY SEQUIM ORNAMENTS EAR W FOR EVENING OSCAR TILSON. - D The present division of the world into five climatic zones was estab- | lished in 640 B. C. at the 10:00 to 1:00 o'Clock SERVICE MEN: 55c. including tax if the i THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA scene HOW TO LA | | & | i water. A handful of natives wi o2 minutes before the jeep is ru Bikers Are' ; Warned fo Obgy Rules | Chief of Police John Monagle today issues a warning to bikers to | perforce provide like facilities for ohserve traffic laws and and also to! all children of the Territory, and watch where they are riding andyo( the Interior do not come under how. During the present dimout, espec- ially on Willoughby Avenue, bikers are asked to watch thmselves and not dart here and there, as in the darkness trucks and auto drivers. although careful, are having a hard time in not running down the care- | less bikers. .k ‘Some of the kids are going to get “While I feel confident of v.he'hm-(_" said Chief Monagle, “and Jesse Lander | position taken herein, I express my I am only giving out this warning Congr for their own protection. Elsewhere i()l)sor\'o stop signs and other traffic rules and watch where they are go- ing and what they are doing. It is | not always the fault of the driver | when a biker gets in trouble. Nine |cases out of ten, the biker is at | fault, his own carelessness.” - ‘GOVERNOR SIGNS TWO MORE BILLS Gov. Ernest Gruening informed |the Legislature today that he has approved two more bills. One pro- {vides that the operation of the | Kodiak Hospital be placed in the hands of the Kodiak Common Council instead of a board appoint- ed by the Governor. The previous procedure Wwas adopted when the hospital was built because Kodiak had not yet become an incorporated city. The other measure extends the area in which hair seal may be | taken and bounty paid | D {LIEUT. CARO, PORT CAPTAIN OF JUNEAU, RECEIVES PROMOTION Lieut. Warren M. Caro, | J.g.) srade lieutenant as of December 31 Washington, D. C., last September. | | sion in the Guard, Lieut. United States Caro was associa ral Counsel, Federal Works Agency. a Washington A graduate of Cornell University md Cornell Law School, Lieut, | 2aro was in the private practice of {law in New York City before his | association with the legal depart- | ment of the Federal Works Agency. - NOTICE T will not be responsible for any lebts contracted in my name un- | tess authorized in writing by my- self. adv. LUCILLE WILSON, - Half of the moon's surface has | never been seen from the earth. of desolation was once a Russian village, the caption accompanying the official Russian phote said. and was burned to the ground by retreating German {roons. WHENEVER THEY WANT o land a jeep somewhere in the south seas, ingenious U. S. soldiers can find a way. In this instance, they loaded the car on an oversized rowboat and steered the craft into shallow Port Captain of Juneau, has been inot list schools as one of the places|in the Juneau office. notified of his promotion to senior of public accommodation, an item | Lieut. Caro came to Juneau from |bill provides a maximum sentence’ Prior to receiving his commis- |Maxinum fine for violations. Coast thor of the bill is Senator te | Walker. counsel in the office of the Gen- 4-Hole Frigidaire 1 450-Egq WHERE SER We DELIVER T ND A JEEP IN THE SOUTH SEAS the large: YAKOBI OW \Port Alexander th planks usually make up the landing party and it is only a matter | da DISCRIMINATION | VICTORY BOOK | CLAUSEWOULD BE = CAMPAIGN ENDS DONEAWAYWITH ON TOMORROW e ateaea s | PUDIiC Urged fo Confribute, art Linck would repeal the sec-! _Girl and Boy S(OU'S fo Make Cleanup tion of the widows' pension law mning along one ot the numerous sandy beaches found on the islan | 1the Juneau-Port Alex: —_— which provides that Indian or Es-| kimo residerits of the Territory who | are provided for by the Department 3 The Victory Book Campaign to secure good fiction and technical | reading matter for service men 5558 throughout this area comes to a Rep. Leo Rogge, Ways and Means | o oH8 0 " " ! Committee Chairman, authorizing | The response to the appeal for | {payment of minor bills incurred bY | pooks has ben very slow. In a final |the benefits of the Act. Several bills were introduced by the National Guard before the'griont to obtain at least one hun- | war 5 ldred more good books, the Senior! A resolution introduced in the gervice Girl Scouts and as many | | House yesterday afternoon by Rep. Boy Scouts as desire to participate, urges passage of a will conduct a house to house pick- jonal bill which would al- | up service all day tomorrow covering | tal employees in Alaska a 25 those areas of the city that have not over |been contacted. |like employees in the States. | The public is again urged to dig | Rep. R. E. Hardcastle introduced into- their personal libraries and a memorial asking that the Inter- have a good book on hand for these youthful campaigners. All Girl and Boy Scouts wanting low pos I national Fishery Commission’s reg- {ulation No. 5 be amended to per- vk w8 mit trollers to retain a pound of to'pardripela are aaked. Lo, men) 65 ¢ | the USO building at 10 a. m. sharp Saturday morning. Each young per- ?Z:::: ni:gg‘:"izl l‘;‘ahl‘li:e [flsl:;:xgmm son participating will receive a ticket et i 4 ShINg. | ¢, the movies. Trollers are now excluded fromi| ’thxs benefit and Hardcastle says |since 175 percent of the halibut |caught by the trollers usually die;NEw SAN'IARY |before they can be thrown back | in, granting trollers the same pri-| ENGINEER FOR vilege as other types of fishing op-‘ lerations would utilize much sea {food otherwise wasted | - | Coming directly from the Las | Vegas, Nevada, magnesium refin- lery center where for the past year |he has been sanitary engineer for SENATE PASSES 35 | B I l l H I II' “ G ! th U. S. Public Health Service, John | |Hall arrived in Juneau last night | DIS(RIMINATION jon detail as lay engineer to the Ihalibut for every seven pounds o [ | Territorial Department of Health, | | !and today took up his new duties The Senate yesterday afternoon|in the Territorial Building. |stamped its okeh on a bill provid-| Hall was interviewed by Dr. ing for full and equal accommoda- | George Hays, senior surgeon of the |tions, advantages, facilities and pri- {U. S. Public Health Service while vileges to all citizens in places of |on his recent trip to the States, public accommodation in the Ter- Who arranged for the transfer to |ritory. The bill must now go to Alaska. |the House which killed a similar| In Alaska, Mr. Hall will be en- | measure a few weeks ago. igaged in engineering and sanitation “ The Senate bill, however, does|and for the present wil be employed | From New Jersey A permanent resident of Freehold, | New Jersey, where his wife and young married daughter live, Mr. .lof a month in jail, and/or a $50|Hall has acted as a state and city ) Au_‘heal'.h officer there. He is a grad- | N. R. uate of Massachusetts Institute of | Technology in the school of en- igineering, and served in the Sani- r;ary Corps of the Army during the Natives of Rennell Island, aboutilast war. He also acted as health | 1,000 in number, live in wall-less officer in Massachusetts and Mary- shelters land for several years. NOTICE!? PLEASE PAY ALL ACCOUNTS DUE THE CASE LOT GROCERY AT FEM- MER'S TRANSFER, next door to the store or mail o P. 0. Box 662. 'ixhut helped defeat the bill in the House. A provision of the Senate! ONLY > See Th 0u FOR SALE National Cash Register Filing Cabinet .- - Ire Cream Cahinet Z-norsepower Motor - - $50.00 1 1,200-Egg Incubator — NEW CASH OR TERMS EORGE BROTHER IN BUSINESS SINCE 1908 and still doing MARTIN FEAST, GETS CONTRACT Mail Run Is Taken Over by Well Known Motorship Award of the mail contract ihas been made to Martin Feist, | owner of the Yakobi, the Post Of- Quaker 0il Burnen Measured by Dollars or Degrees Here's the Hottest Burner Automatic Forced Circulation THOMAS HARDWARE (0. FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1943 - $150.00 - $300.00 Practically New Incubator - - $60.00 VICE, PRICE AND QUALITY MEET O DOUGLAS—Each Tuesday and Friday 2 DELIVERIES DAILY 10:30 A.M. 2:30P.M. PHONE 95 st grocery business in Juneau. fice has announced. The contract, an extension of the contract previously in effect and given up by its holder, is ef- | fective until June 30, when new bids will be opened. The Yakobi, purchased from Tom Smith by Martin Feist, is one of the best known boats in this dis- trict. A 50-foot motor ship, diesel powered, it has accommodations for six or eight passengers and a separate galley NER, The mail contract provides for two long and two short runs a for month, with stops at various way ander run ports between Juneau and Port Al- exander. Six o'clock Wednesday morning is the departure time. Buy a in Juneau! QUAKER Provides ese NEW BURNERS on R FLOOR TODAY! W Phone 555

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