The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 12, 1946, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE: ~JUNEAU, ALASKA VFW TAKES ACTIONON Here Endorse VETS BiLL Walker Bill Favors Walker Bill But Juneau Post No. 4 FavorsgSTMEH Wants Tax Taken Out of Measure Juneau Post of the Veterans gn Wars at a special meet~ ng last night went on record in favor of the Walker Bill 1or erans loans and bonuses However, the Post toock a neutral stand on the methed of taxation to raise the necessary funds and opposed the inclusion of the meth- od of taxation in the bill The VFW also favored an amend- ment providing that if a veteran accepts a bonus under the bill and later r ys same, he is then eligi- ble for a loan under the bill The VFW also went on record as being opposed to the Territory subsidizing the banks of Alaska for the purpose of making loans to vet- erans e JENSENS RETURN FROM | 7-DAY ADVENTIST TRIP | IN SOUTHEAST ALASKA of F\ vees Pastor and Mrs. E. E. Jensen of the Alaska Mission of Seventh-Day Adventists have just returned from a two week itinerary with the churches and members of Southeast Alaska. They report a very pleas- ant trip. They visited Craig where they found the natives planning for a new church home. Dr. and Mrs. G. Lee Ketchikan accompanied their return to Juneau. The Staggs are attending the medical meet- ing being held here. Mrs. Stagg will be remembered as a daughter of the late Pastor H. L. Wood, who met his death in a plane accident STEAMER MOVEMENTS North Sea, from Eeattle, arrive at noon tomorrow Aleutian, from Seattle, scheduled to arrive sometime tomorrow Alaska scheduled to sail Seattle Saturday Princess Norah, from Skagway, scheduled to sail south from Juncau at 10 o'clock tomorrow forenoon. Baranof, from west, scheduled southbound Friday. Columbia, from west, southbound Saturday - eee WASHINGTON —President man has designated S 19th, as “I am an Am The President said the observanc will be in honor of all ne izens. Stagg of them on due to from scheduled Tru- Legionnaires Elimination of Bonus Though Juneau Post No. 4 of the Ameri- can Legion last night took definite action on veterans' legislation now! before the extraordinary session of the Territorial Legislature by unani- usly endorsing 9, e “Walker Bill,” as it now stands, ential - Diagnosis at Operation Table.” Yesterday evening Dr. Joel Baker of Seattle presented an illustrated paper on gastro duodenal ulcer and surgic: physiology envolved. Dr. Baker presented his paper in the basement of the Methodist Church at a meeting open to all profes- sional personnel. A movie on mo- dern anaesthesia was shown by the Squibb representative, Paul Monroe. D 00D BODY " ELECTS OFFICERS AT MEETING HERE Representativ of the Alaska | ALBERT WHITEIS | BACKFROM MEET OF REPUBLICANS | es for food, clothing and |other merchandise is higher out- iside than in Juneau, Albert White, | Alaskan Republican leader, said to- iday on his return here from a 30- \day visit to Pacific and mid-western states. Travel and hotel reservations must be made far in advance, he {said, and there is a real scarcity of all merchandise. He expecots mer- chants to be rationed for the rest of this year. Mr. White was optimistic as re- TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1946 Statehood Association met here this |8ards the chances this ‘year for the morning and elected officers for Republican party. At a meeting of the coming year. Elected were: ‘GOP members from 11 states and Mrs. Evangeline Atwood, Anchorage, Alaska, he said, high hopes were President; Mrs. A. H. Nordale, eXpressed that the party would cap- including the excise tax. GIRL SCOUT TROOP LEADERS NAMED AT | MEETING OF BOARD | The regular meeting of the Ju- neau-Douglas Girl Scout Board was keld last evening at the Lutheran Church Parlors. The minutes of the previous meeting - were vread by Mrs. A. R. Hared, Secretary and the Treasurer’s report was given by {Mrs. Boyd. { In the absence of Mrs. Ernest | Gruening, Troop Organization Chairman, it was announced by Mrs. Scott Murphy, Commissioner, |that Mrs. Louise Fiest will be the new leader of Troop 1, third grade| Brownies, assisted by Mrs. Florence Holmquist and that Mrs. George | Clark will be the new leader for Troop V, second grade Brownies: Auk Bay and. from there to Eagle River by scow or barge. Mrs. S. Green, Program Commit= tee Chairman, told of a Girl Scout Leaders meeting and of ilie inter= est and enthusiasm expressed by the leaders for attending camp this summer. She recommended that it would be advisable for scouts plans ning to attend camp to start work on some of their outdoor badges for the court of awards to be held at_camp. i Mrs. E. L. Keithahn was aps pointed by Mrs. Murphy to be il charge of the annual court o? awards to be held in May. Burr Johnson reported on a meetd ing he attended as a representativ of the Girl Scouts in regard to th Teen-Age Club. Upon hearing his report and comments of several of its. members, the Board approved endoréing any well integrated moves ment for the Teen-Ag: Group. B t PIONEER SHAPPE DIES {Mrs. M. Jensen has taken charge | y Add At the same time, amendments strengthening the measure were suggested, and the Post also recom- mends that the bonus be eliminat- ed from the measure This is the same stand taken by the Anchorage veterans organiza- tions, and Ketchikan veterans have also endorsed the Walker Bill. e PHYSI(IANS HOLD CLOSING SESSIONS OF 2-DAY MEETING The first annual meeting of the Alaska Territorial Medical Associa- ticn swung into the second and fin- al day of the meeting with a busi- ness session in the basement of the Methodist Church. Dr. Arthur Wil- son presided. Following a report on committees, Dr. G. Lee Stagg reported on two cases of the extremely rare mesen- teric thrombosis. Earlier there was a discussion of the proposed constitution and by- laws for the association. The con- stitution as presented was studied section by section and, with few .exceptions and additions, was ac- cepted. The constitution, it was reported, had been studied by the committee on the constitution until late last night before being presented this morning. The members were guests at a dinner at St. Ann's Hospital at 1 o'clock this afternoon. This after- noon several addresses are being made and at 5:30 o'clock a recep- tion to the delegates will be held at the home of Dr. William M. White- head. At 7 o'clock this evening a ban- ouet will be held in the Gold Room of the Baranof open to all profes- sional personnel. There will be an address by Gov. Ernest Gruening. aspects of Venereal Dis- ease Control by Dr. E. W. Nor Address by Dr. Joel W. Bake “Acute Surgical Abdomen Fairbanks, Vice-President; Rev. Roy ture a majority in the fall el E. Olsen, Ketchikan, Vice-President and J. L. McCrary, Anchorage, Sec- retary-Treasurer. 1t was voted that all officers will be ex-officio members of the Asso- ciation's Territorial Central Com- mittee. The meeting also voted to engage George Sundborg to do a factual study on the statehood measure sponcored by the association. The immediate purpose of the crganization, Mrs, Atwood said, is the obtaining, compiling and dis- semination of facts pertaining to statehood for Alaska before the ref- erendum vote next fall. The membership at present, she said, is about 350. RSN G POLICE COURT NEWS William S. Hart and Donald W. Johnson, accused of disorderly con- duct, were placed under $75 bond and turned over to the Federal au- thorities by Judge William Holz- heimer in the Municipal Court. Other cases disposed of at the session were as follows, Edward Don- ley, pleading guilty to a charge of drunkenness, was fined $25; Jackson Howell, accused of _being drunk, was dismissed for want of evi- dence, and David Andrews, charg- ed with being drunk and disorder- ly, forfeited $25 ball. ——————— Former Minister - 0f France Guilty 0f Collaboration PARIS, Marci 12—A 20-year prison term at hard labor faces Jacques Chevalier, 63-year-old form- minister of education in. the Vichy regime, who was convicted and stentenced last night by the French High Court of Justice af- ter a trial on collaboration charges. Chevalier, the first defendant to be tried in the high court since the conviction of Plerre Laval last October, also loses half of his prop- Differ- erty by a court confiscation order. merritorial House raised H.B. ec- tions. ¥ Reporting on a canning conven- tion at Salt Lake, White said there has been a real shortage of canned salmon on store shelves this past year. He estimated the shortage iwould prove a boon to the Alaskdn pack with increased prices this year. | During his tour Mr. White visit- led Judge George F. Alexander who is well on his way to recovery and expects to be home soon. He also met Frank Chinella who is now representing shipyard workers in Seattle. White said that he met former Commissioner of Education W. H Keller in Salt Lake City. Keller who is now with a large indus- trial company, sends his regards to his Alaska friends. The Republicans in the meeting adopted a definite plank as regards Alaska, Mr. White reported. Among measures urged was a wider mea- sure of self-government and a right for Alaskans to elect their own gov- ernor. White was a member of a committee of seven, which formed the platform at the GOP session. Mr. White was accompanied on the homeward journey by Mrs White’s niece, Miss Margaret Nefsy, of Boise, Idaho, a former resident of Skagway when her father was Deputy U. S. Marshal there, ! HUSKY WINNER_M lead dog, Panda, after driving her the event in one hour, three and in letters to Speaker Jesse B Lander read on the House floor yesterday—came forth from the La- bor committee with a “do pass.” Non-coneurring in the “do pa vote was Rep. Warren Taylor. Taylor previously proposed intro- duction of an opposition bill prior to Friday night's labor conference but at that time he agreed to support labor's choice of bills. Concurring in the “do pass” were Reps. Joe Krause, Chris Hennings, R. R. Warren, Edward Anderson and Robert Hoopes. Also back from committee s With “do pass” were H. B. 20 and H. B. 34 It answer to a request by Rep. Bess Cross it was agreed to ad- vance H.B. 20, a health measure, to the top of the calendar that it may | | o rs. Nicholas Demidoff holds her dog team over a 12-mile course in the Togo of Alyeska memorial race at Fitzwilliam, N. H., to win minutes and fifteen seconds. LIVELIER RATE SESSION IS IN SIGHT TONIGHT In the dcldrums the of weeks, the Juneau | Council’'s hearing to inquire the Light and Power Company is ex- st couple Common pected to have added zest in its, session this evening. Tonight, AEL&P Counsel H. L. Faulkner is due to plunge into cross-examination of the “star wit- ness” for those seeking rate Tre- ductions, Walter T. Stuart, City | Utilities Engineer. The light company is expected to into ! rates of the Alaska Electric; of the Intermediate Tropp VI in i Douglas. | Mrs. Perry Asncraft, Camp Chair- |man, announced that after confe yring with Frank Heintzleman of the | Forest Service, that the proposed iroad to the Girl Scout Camp site lat Eagle River will not materialize }this year. However, Mr. Heintzle- man generously offered the use of | Forest Service trucks to convey the :camping supplies and equipment to Albert "Shappe of Juneau, died | at'the Pioneers’ Heme March 4. He ! was born in Ludington, Michigan March 6, 1874 and came to Alaska in 1896, first settling in Sunrise; Since coming to Alaska he has res sided all over the Territory an | was a resident of Juneau until h | admittance to the Home on March |13, 1944, i | po R AR L DRINK KING BLACK LABE[J% i | ARMOUR'S ROAST | | I |EGGS - 2 .} MATANUSKA | PoraToes | NEW BEEF, 11 1b.fin 85¢ LARGE—FRESH—AMERICAN or CANADIAN dozen $1.09 8 pounds . . . 50¢ 17 pounds $1.00 DELIVERY SCHEDULE { MINIMUM ORDER $2.00 be heard when Dr. C. Earl Albrecht, | take issue Ccmmissioner of Health, appears in on theory with Engineer behind several of his stuart | Impeachment Bill Is Brought Backfo Life | Reconsideration Vote fo Indefinitely Postpone H. B. 19 Lost Today ; In a brie? morning sescion §he 19, the | impeachment bill, from the dead and | referred the eagerly-awaited S. B.| 8, the Tuberculosis control bill, to al committee of the whole to meet at| 2 p. m. today. g HB. 19 was voted indefinitely postponed, 13 to 10, yesterday, but Rep. Andrew Hope asked that he| be permitted to recensider his vaol-' al vote. Before roll call on the motion today, Reps. Almer J. Peterson, Curtis Shattuck, Steve Vukovich, and Oscar 8. Gill spoke against the measure. Opponents of the bill urged that referendum and recall legislation be substituted for | impeachment as a means of remov- | ing erring officials. Shattuck charged that the bill as written can be used “to smear officials” and Vukovich added “just before election.” Peterson pointed out that the measure does not apply to legislators and charged that if it did Rep. Stanley McCutcheon, who has championed H.B. 19 on the floor, would vote against it. Compensation Bill H. B. 3, the Green-Shattuck Workmen’s Compensation bill, en- dorsed by all organize labor un- ions in Juneau—both at last Fri- day night's joint AFL-CIO meetin, 060000000000 00 HUGE 8. the House today to testify on S.B.|rate-basing policies. Stuart also has The House recessed until 2 p.m. linterspersed his data regarding the | s a3 ¥ company with stigmatizing com- ments which are expected to be brought up for reviewing. The session this evening is to open at 8 o'clock, in the City Hall. R ATTENTION LEGIONNAIRES There will be a special Initiation tonight at eight. Please be there. HOLLYWOOD—Film singer Judy Garland became the mother of a daughter today by Caesarian sec- tion. Mother and child, named| Liza and weighing six pounds, 102 | ounces, were reported doing well. | Miss Garland :warried film direc-' tor Vincent Minelli last June. rmmmommmom»m»mw \ N ) 3 \ { \ ) N ! Have Your Tried Our GOLDEN MIX For Griddle Cakes and Watfles They Are Simply Delicious and Easy to Digest! 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