The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 6, 1945, Page 5

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, STATEHOOD MEMORIAL IS PASSED Unanimously in favor of state- hood, the Territorial House of Rep- resentatives this afternoon voted 20 to 0 to pass to the Senate a memorial asking Congress to admit Alaska as the 49th State. The measure, authored by Rep- resentatives Hanford and McCut- cheon, weathered a short storm of debate over the question of whe- ther or not Congress should be directed to provide Alaskan state- hood after Alaskan referendum. The sentiment of Alaskans was asked from the gallery and Mrs. Harcld Smith, prominent Juneau club woman, declared: “We know we want statehood. We don't need a referendum on the subject.” One amendment wholeheartedly endorsed asked that statehood be given Alaska “with complete con- trol over all natural resources.” Also passed was House Bill 23 by Representative Hope changing the general election date from Sep- tember to the second Tuesday in October. The bill passed to the Senate 21-3 POWERFUL TREATY IS URGED NOW Vahdenberg_Wants Ger- any, Japan Kept Demilitarized DETROIT, Mich., Feb, 6—Some United Nations “will continue to go their way,” said United Slat“s Qnu- ator Arthur H. Vandenberg, * and until they know they can dcv pend on America to join effectively in keeping Germany and Japan de- militarized.” The statement was made in what he describéd as the “second chapter” of his foreign policy address made in the Senate last menth. Senator Vandenberg told a home state' audience that he will continue to urge America to “sign up now all her major Allies and join in a hard and fast treaty. FIREMEN HAVE BALL SATURDAY The big event of the weekend will be the Thirty-Second Annual Ball of the Juneau Volunteer Fire Department. The event will be observed in the Elks Ballroom and the committee on decoration promises something: novel. Tickets are going at a lively rate W and may be purchased from any| member “of the fire-fighting or- ganizatfon: ‘ —e e EQRMER SEATTLE | RESTAURANTEUR BUYS ANCHORAGE PROPERTY ¥R John Utéerstrom, former proprie- tor of “Liftle 'Bit- of Sweden” in! Seattle ‘which was famous for its smorgasboard, recently purchased the . Merchants Cafe on Fourth Avenue in Anchorage. Mr. ch1~ strom also bought a home in the| Western City and expects to be join-| ed soon by his wife and children. He had made five hunting trips to the, Territory so did not stranger. —— FROM. HOONAH Adam Greenwald and Howard | Erickson, both of Haonah, are come as a 1945 sroter soors_|WAR HEADS | STILL WANT § WORK, FIGHT Say Recent Battle Success-‘ es Have Not Changed Need for Law WASHINGTON, Feb. 6—Secre- tary of War Henry L. Stimson and Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson today renewed requests for enactment of the limited na- : tional service act. Senators, emerging from a closed two-hour session of the Military Affairs Committee considering the act, said both Army officials ¢ tressed the importance of such a law as a morale builder for the front line fighters. When queried by reporters after, the meeting, Stimson gave the opinion that the recent successes in battle “had not made the slightest change regarding need of the bill.” NAVY NURSE IS EAGER TO RETURN 10 PHILIPPINES By BONNIE WILEY AP Newsfeature Writer SAN FRANCISCO--Ann Berna- titus, Navy nurse who escaped by | submarine’ from Corregidor a .scnnt two days before “the Rock™ fell, going back. “I hope it will be to the Phlllp» . pines. That's what I'm counting .n " said the attractive Exeter, girl, while awaiting transpor- taticn from San Francisco to the zone. ! (j.g) Bernatitus, to whom the of the fall of the Philippines like a terrifying nightmare, wants to see the tables turned on the Japs. Only N: Movie star Linda Darnell takes time cut from sereen-acting to do seme pre{ty-sitting en a sofa 3 for the camerman. BROTHERS serving in the House of PReE Representatives from two different States are George B. Schwabe (standing), new.member from Ok- lahoma, and Max Schwabe, Mis= souri member. (International) | Roosevell Going fo MeefPope Swiss Radio Declares‘ President Will Also ' o Make Broadcast cerm LONDON, Fe 6 — The Swiss radio today quoted a Rome report h ey 3 plans to meet the Pope and make GRven DAY CONIRE e 1S Yy, wi crept aboard an Australia- broadcast. ” o ey bound submarine in the black of | The radio report said MyronFay- : ) lor, the President’s petsonal envoy Dight on May 3, 1942, while. Japan- swept the Corregi- 2 searchligh to Vatican City; is making all ¢ fearc Y preparation dor ore in a vain hunt for them. ANy iy First thing the submarine crew| did was serve us hot tea and cake and we all cried because we'd for- CLUB gotten there were such things in the| | world,” she smiled. “I had grown accustomed to horse and buffalo, meat and to canned salmon and rice. | I remember for one week we had| nothing else to eat and for break-L fast, that's not good. I haven't eat-| en any rice since.” | to| Ann Bernatitus reported for duty | form a plan of action. ‘nt the U. S. Naval hospital, Canac-“ Club rooms: were offered by't ! pa, Philippine Islands, in July, 1940.} Yellow Cab Company and: acéepted She recalls: | by the Council’s building committee| “After the first Jap attack W'-\ and a committee of high school stu- icvauuated out patients to the Army‘ |dents who inspected the 25 by 40‘11059"81 at Manila. I was in a| foot room. Walter Culver, chair-|surgicel team that was assigned w‘ man of the Youth Council said that |Bataan, so on Christmas day we| the operation of the club would be !were setting up out hospital along‘ entirely in the hands of the 'teen-|the Camp Limay beach. |agers themselves with the Youth| From dawn until midnight the Council acting only as directors. lundcrstarred hospital crews workezd B e lon an ever-increasing number_ of ! ANCHORAGE OPA WARNS pitiTe | AGAINST SHIPPING CIGS FOUR TO Scheduled to leave for Seattle on a Pan American |Airways plane were the following passenger Mrs. Mildred Keaton, Mrs. Velma Tew, Miss Bobbie Jeanne Tew, Ell Post g2 LIS BRI TR HERE FROM FAIRBANKS | Prank Walker, of Fairbanks, 'staying at the Baranof Hotel. SEATTLE this afternoon is v nurse on either Ba- ANCHORAGE 'TEEN-AGE GROUP TO HAVE Anchorage 'teensagers ape to have their own club &s the result of ac- uon taken recently by & group of ens who have formed themsel- ,ves into a Youth Council. The Council met with a representative group of high school students “We were in and out of fox h()lfl“ |part of the time, but the surgery | |was next to an electric. generator| Resident of Anchorage were warn-|which made so much noise we couldl ed by the localeOffice . of Pricg ot hear the air raids and ODU, 1Admuustratmn against shipping Knflw one’ was go!ng on' when the! | cigarettes to the States. Both pombps landed nearby,” she said. |hoarding and the _comparatively| * Two days before Bataan fell,.an-, {new practice of mailing cartdhs of | yiner cvacuation came, this time to| cigarettes to the States, will bring Corregidor. | about a severe and unfair shortage| ' .we raced down ‘to’the docks in of the Alaskan supply of this com-!pysses without he: hts ‘Ao a modity and may result. in curtaxl-‘mg,zag trail. shegr pi'recxplcc fell | ment of wholesale shipments. 0|off on each side of the trail,” she ! Alaska, the OPA warne | shid. B AT | Aftep almost a month of living and | ROAD PAMPHLET ISSUED caring for the wounded in the rock- —_— |hewn tunnels of Corregidor, Lt. Wilbur Wester, secretary of the|Bernatitus was ordered one after-| Alacka Arterial Highway Association!noon to be ready to leave that | recently announced that the hook-|night. A 'let entitled “The Key to Alaska’s| “IL don’t know yet how we were; i Development” is available at the|chosen,” she said. “They didn't| | Westward Hotel in Anchorage or tell us. Almost everybody remain-/ may be obtained through him dir-|ing lined up to wave goodbye when l(CllV The pamphlet, which was we loaded onto the ears. It was like starting off on a gala picnic, ex- THE DAILY ALASKA E . som 50 600D | EFORE minute. MPIRE--JUNEAU, ALASKA PAGE FIVE MARINES HAVE | U.S.S. PITTSBURGH JOINS OUR FIGHTING FLEET ! GRUB TROLBEES ; GUAM on this nd are still having with the Japanese strag- rking in caves and under- »w its grub trouble. Japanese are’on the food, and in daylight and into American camps, re- Chester D, Palm- Marine Co rps combat corres- | Marines recap- their sle, at the edge of Orote ys, an opera- ff duty lay helplessly und squito nettin watched ApAnese rumi a tent where six U. 8. Marines were sleeping. His knife and carbine out of reach, the clerk saw the invad- ers reach across his buddies and es- cape with a can of sausage and a & Lox of tropical chocolate. | FIRST CLOSEUP VIEW new U this picture of the .h..n,» cruiser which now kas Authenticated incidents about the | joined Uncle Sam's fighting fleet, her training period being concluded. The Pittsburgh displaces 13,000 ¥ Japanese stragglers have in-| tons when empty and is the most powerful heavy cruiser of her class now abroad.\ (Iaternational) hundred wild tales for | 10 one will vouch. Most pnp—‘ - i1 Gpen Hearing AUXILIARY MEETS him in a messhall, in charge of the U. S. Coast Guard Legion Auxiliary after-|All members are of the d a are you?” nger, I'he American eabee, barracks here, has been promoted digg tonight at the to the permanent rating of Chief Boatswain's Mate, it is announced by Lt. Warren M. Caro, Captain o'clock. |of the Port attend nto 1 ¥ rious serviceman the intr Marine i ed ‘Are noting | ques Ma- The Territorial Senate thi will resolve itself it ot the Whole Bill No. 2, by The hearing is . ART TVeTEN HERE Master Sergeant Art Tveten, well known young man, formerly lino- typer on the staff of The Empire, is visiting in Juneau enroute to a and ) westward post. Tveten is now com- i the | yander of an Army Air Force eraft, you a noon 1 Com- T BACK AT DUTIES ger smiled, and Senator Jor scheduled n bi No. ¢ I just Lt. (jg) Edward R has o'clock. returned to Juneau from le e Green measure would change has resumed his duties the existing Unemployment Com- |cffice of the Captain of the Port.| il to the Daily Alaska pensation Law of the Territory, and He visited b's wife in Los Angeles. | FROM KODIAK the paper with the largest I s of the compensation (l«‘]).u‘h; - - - . Laurence Seltzer, of Kodiak, is a I mer Empire Want-ads bring results! |guest at the Bxusmor Hotel. Gr Switzer . for said, “I'm Japanese ame in here to be captur - t were to be heard. { Portraitofs man cashing in his War Bonds~* you decide to cash that War Bond—wait a job after the war, and help guarantee a healthy, prosperous Country for us all. registered at Hotel. Juneau. {published by the association, is a ST G g |factual treatise on the territory's In the first 90 days of the inva-|road system. sion of Europe, the Army issued 125 million maps. - Empire Want-aas bring resulls! 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