The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 2, 1946, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE- —JUNEAU, ALASKA TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1946} NIGHT SESSION|North Sea In, |SPEAKER LANDER : { The ste: Speaker of the ; h Sea In com-| House Jesse D. mand ¢ st. M. L. Jordan, is in |Lender today c ebrated the near port, arriving this morning with the closing of the legislature by scrap- following passengers from Seattle Ping Ro 's Rules of Order in and wayports: favor of an original rule of his own Receive Last-Minute e fing came shorty _ater . From Wrangell: The Rev. and House Resolution 2, due for secon Precautionary At | r o Masin, Mrs. A, Lomsex,|reading today, was reported back | Agnes Gooday and N. S. Merculief. | from the Committec on Engross- In an unparalleled burst of actiy-, From Petersburg: Thos. Scott, ment and Enrollment and up for ity, the Alaska Senate last evening Fabian Peterson, T. Souther, Dan third reading and final passage. The forenocn and the gas tax rewrite,|mark, Wm. Denmark, Jr, Mr. andthe Territory,” lists his reported HB. 64, and new HJR. 2 gaining Mrs. Thomas McCaul, Royal Smith, achievements, and is designed to passage in the afternoon session,/Mrs. Virginia Young, Janet Young, |off-set the effects of Senate Mem- that made a total of 12 measures Betty Boydon, Virginia Hipps, Harry‘ona‘l 1, which asks for the gover- passed upon by the Senators Mon- |Bjork, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Lybeck, nor’s removal. UTS OVER NEW [ o [} 93 From Ketchikan: Mr. and Mrs.[whor(‘by “the speaker must protect E. S. Harrop, John Herman and |th® majority.” cleaned up all nine bills on its|Alsten, George Okegawa, Don Pet- controvprsial resolution describes immediate calendar. With the Ba- tigrew and Ford Johnson. Gov. Ernest Gruening as ‘“the day. |Oliver Jetty, Virginia Klaenham-| According to the scrapped rules, 'i‘;:s;o of the measures acted upon | mer, Arnold Stenbakken. jaction on the measure should re- Senators Let Down Bars fo | Francis Chafe, USCG. The ruling came shortly after sic Science Act passed during the| From Seattle: Mrs. Wm. Den- | greatest governor in the history of Mr. and Mrs. Lindtner Tweit, |sume where it left off at adjourn- the Senate last evening met . i g\i,ddene death, via the indefinite Norman Rustad, Miss M. E. Ballard, ment yesterday; specifically, it ;,Qgtponemenl' route, They were: Mrs. L. Darragarr, Mrs. Dorothy should be on the calendar for sec- Lord, Mrs. Donald Bolland, Mrs. L. ond reading today, and, as this is Lynch, Mr$. E. Subrbier, Mrs. Flor- |closing day, in all probability the ine Housel, U. S. Gregory, Warren resolution would not have passed !Grant, R. W. Aho, A. Strasser, the House and the adverse Senate Chas. Schwader, Ben Wright and memorial would have headed for Wm. Heitner. ‘Washington, D. C., unaccompanied with the consent of the Board of| Surviving an indefinite postpone- - by a softening influence. According to the formerly-appli- Administration. ”S ( 0 R ES D I E ment .motion, but killed on final vote was H.B. 62, to pay irregular-| 1y made claims for*wolf and coyote | Icable rules a two-third majority H.B. 35, another bounty measure, |(1n this case 16 “yea’s”) is requir- jed to suspend rules and advance a a 81561 deficiency appropriation to ‘pay for eagles killed before re- bill to final passage instead of put- ‘ting it though the customary three peal of the eagle bounty, also sur- | vived an early threat—to table it— {readings. A motion by the anti- Gruenings to suspend rules yester- but was able to squeak through to! passage. | 1day, made in the almost-certain knowledge that the pro-Gruenings WA E H ! could raise only 14 votes was blocked ‘by a pro-Gruening move to adjourn (adjournment takes precedence over Also passed last evening, all by‘s’nid There was no word of the| Di_scavery this morning that the substantial margins, were: island's little naval garrison. ,motion to advance the hlll_, which S.B. 15, prescribing qualifications Scene of Horror lacked a two-thirds majority vote for police officers In first class| Hilo, exposed to the full force of |Vesterday, had been carried out citles; H. BS5S8, a $1200 sup- the waves, was a scene of horror, | hone-the-less, provoked the follow- office of the Attorney General to ed on high ground as troops ini be used for law compilation; H.B. fhe wrecked waterfront recovered'er, you ordered that bill to com- 31, increasing pay of election offi- bodies. jmittee without advising the House. clals from $7:50 to $15 per day;| Buildings were crushed and rip- | When I made a motion to advance H.B. 25, increasing perdiem in lieu ped part; huge gaps were pushed the bill yesterday it was blocked other business). plemental - appropriation for (ing challenges directed at the Chair: of subsistence for traveling Terri- through thick concrete walls, and | before it could come to a vote, yet Senate Bill 25, appropriating an| additional $125,000 to the Depart-| ment of Public Welfare, and H.B. 38, which would have permitted Territorial Officials to travel out- side Alaska at Territorial expense tcontmued from Page One) Chair Challenged the 'Weeping friends and relatives wait- Rep. Curtis 8hattuck: “Mr. Speak- torial employees from $6 to $7 per there was a sprawling litter ofjyou acted without a vote. I've day. iwhat had been railroad cars, auto- fought for adherence to. rules mobiles, trucks, buildings and boats. | throughout this session and Mr. H.B. 68, making a permanent in- crehse in legislative pay from $15 0 '$22, per day also passed. The sire came over from the House With a $10 lawmaker pay boost pro- ed and vided The Senators, however, cut that high & the ddded pay to $7 to make it Werc prot donform to the subsistence allow- ing f anoe to ‘Territorial employees. A detic Gompanion measuré received from Wave the House and passed by the Sen- lerday | Speaker, I say you had no right to jadvance that bill after adjourn- ment!” Rep Jo Warning Given HONOLULU, April 2—An mfm'm-_ said he havy officers Almer J. Peterson for this point Landeér announced his new, ‘substitute ruling. siands yes 3 | o dte Monday afternoon was House ph records Lcre showed Rules Go Bump Resolution No. 3. It car ap- & earthquake occurred about| Put to a vote Robert’s Rules T for | 2°A Hawaii time — five hours{went down, sucking the anti- tpix"qprriatim\ for the added p e léegislators attending this spec- ial session. Also included in H. J. before the destructive wave smash- | Gruening minority under with it, ed in Hawailan shores, causing and Lander’s ruling was upheld, & deaths, injuries and millions of dol- 14-9. Voting against the Chair were g;,jd:f“ D o sen|lars in property damage. {Reps. Oscar . Gill, Robert Hoopes, 7.6 e -y his Maurice T. Johnson, Mrs. Linck, ate and the Speaker and Chief Army and Navy leaders felt, this & “ rs. nck, Clerk of the House for compiling source said, that if they had been Peterson, Wallace Porter, Shattuck, e Journal |given warning they could have sav- Steve Vukovich and M. J. Walsh. i % led many lives and much property.| The resolution is up for final The Senate also wrote into the| yi comdr. W. D. Patterson, sup- passage today as a result of Lan- Resolution a bonus for House and|ervisor of the Pacific District Coast der’s rulings. A majority of the Senate employees to ‘tompensate anq Geodetic Survey, said the first House membership (13 In this case) them for overtime. he knew of the tidal wave was is all that is needed to pass the Senators N. R. Walker and Frank |when water rushed into his beach measure. Gordon almost reached the mil-|phome. ' Also today the House passed Sen- lenium when they found themselves | ate Bill 26 with an emergency measure providing that extra $210 clause, thereby paving the way for for each lawmaker, Gordon went purchase of a floating clinic for on record with the un-Scottish de- the Public Health Department and claration that he would not accept authorizing sale of the “Hygiene.” his chunk. Walker was just about i Also passed was S.B. 15, prescrib- | as idealistic and hardly more prac- | ing qualifications of police officers | tical. The Ketchikan solon an- in cities of the first class. nounced' he will donate his $210 to| FREE RIDES TO POLLS Senate Joint Memorial 3, asking the Southeast Alaska branch of| All voters are invited to ride to that the Whittier railroad cut-off the University of Alaska. the Douglas Election Polls during |be opened as a means of reducing| One other action taken by the|today Free, by the courtesy of the| g h 2 Senate during the afternoon ses-|Yellow Cab Company. Just call’ sion assured passage for H.B. 27.|Douglas 18 and a cab will call at' The Senators receded from their|your door and take you to the polls. | amendments to that bill authoriz-|There is no strings attached. ing purchases of surplus govern- ? ment structures for housing vet- etans attending the University of Alaska. The Senate action restored ——-—a———— DOUGLAS VOTERS AT POLLS 30 'voters had gone to the polls at 11 o'clock out of a total of 178 the appropriation at $100,000 and the responsibility for administra- tion in the Alaska Housing Auth- ority. Upper chamber changes had halved the fund and vested auth- ority in the Board of Regents. Also considered by the solons yes- terday was S.B. 19, appropriating fot landing fields at Nak- | and Dillingham. The measure once faced. with _ indefinite jponement but survived to pass he Third Reagding stage on to- sLu\endnr.', s . old argument about iHe- y was hauled out against the bill, but co-author Grenold Collins referred to the appropriation of $25,000 made on the last day of the 1945 session as a precedent for such specific appropriations. Collins de- clared he had been willing to stay out of the pork barrel as long as that was the rule of the Senate, but the Petersburg bill tore the lid off. Collins also argued that Bristol Bay has contributed up to one- third of the Territory's revenues and received very little in return; that the airfields are much needed voters registered. This is a fair sign of a large vote this year, as most of the voters are on their | jobs and will not vote until after 5 o'clock, Last year at the same time, 18 voters had gone to the polls, Clerks at the.polls this year. are Mrs. James Barra§ and Mr. E. L. Erwin." Judges’ are Mrs. E. Hachmiester, Mrs. and Mr. John G. Johhson. NO LIBRARY TONIGHT Because of the City Election, there will be no lbrary tonight in the City Hall, according to Librar- ian Mrs. Thomas Cashen. LODGE MEETING Gastineau Lodge No. 12¢ F&AM will hold a regular meeting in the Eagles Hall this evening at 7:30 | o'clock | R o | HOSPITAL NOTES Mrs, D. G. Taylor, with her ba- by boy, returned to her home yes- terday from St. Ann’s Hospital (o) a medical patient, Sadie’ Cashen | | £ ight and pa. ger rates tq the interior, was indefinitely, postponesi. | Late yesterday the House pass- Senate bill 34, appropriating 1$20,000 for the Alaska Aeronau and Communications Commission, approximately ten minutes after it (was admitted on suspension of rules. The Senate notified the House of the following action: House Joint Memorials 8 and 9, passed; HJM 1, signed and ready for the Governor; H.B. 64, passed and returned; House Joint Resolu- tion 2, passed; H.B. 25, 31, 35, 58 passed; H. B. 62, failed; H.B. 38, indefinitely postponed; S.B. 34 and HJR 3, passed as amended. The long-awaited report from the committee on free conference on the Alaska World War II Veterans Act was' promised for this after- noon following word that the Sen- ate had passed the bill as amended in committee. The body recessed its final morn- ing session until 2 p. m. today. MRS. EMMA (. NOYES 90-YR.-OLD PIONEER DIES THIS MORNING Mrs. Emma C Noyes, one of Ju- neau’s oldest pioneers, died. peace- fully at her home at Fourth and Franklin early this morning. A quiet and retiring person, she had spent much of her later years in the seclusion of the home where she had lived more than 50 years. The deceased was 90 years oid January 20, this year. Friends be- lieve she first came to “Juneau sometime in the '80s. Mrs. John Winther, Jr., a grand- niece, is the only surviving relative living in Juneau. Other survivors are a step-daughter, Mrs. Gladys Wilkins, Hollywood, Calif.,, two nieces, Mrs. Marian L. Wood and Mrs. E. H. Stroecker, Fairbanks, Al- aska, and two nephews, Martin E. Creamer, Tacoma Wash, and Charles A. Creamer, Fairbanks. The remains are at the Charles W. Carter Mortuary, from which funeral arrangements will be an- nounced. ., ed WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) Temperatures for 24-Hour Period Ending 6:30 o'Clock This Morning e o o In Juneau—Maximum, 37; minimum, 30. At Airport—Maximum, minimum, 32. 38: WEATHER FORECAST Juneau ané Vicinity) variabie cloudiness with occasional light snow flurries tonight and Wednesday. Considerable sunshine Wed- nesday. Lowest temperature tonight about 30 degrees. le®0eeee0oss0oscceeocsses . . . . | Point SCOTCH GAP LIGHTHOUSE | DESTROYED (Continued from Page One) | ington coast and there were no re- | ports of the wave striking the coast of British Columbia. One body was reported recovered at Unimak but it was not identi- | fied. The Coast Guard Cutter Ce-| dar was sent from Kodiak and the cutter Clover from Adak to help the pebple on Unimak. Heavy Earth Tremor Two heavy earth tremors were reported early yesterday at Sand in the Shumagin Islands, ! some 240 miles southwest of Ko- diak, and it was thought locally the tidal wave may have started | from there. 1 A message from Unimak said | the wave that struck the lighthouse | was an estimated 100 feet high. H The Commander's message said earth shocks were continuing ir- regularly and he warned of a “pos- | sible recurrence of the waves. Ikatan Hit Ikatan, a small settlement on the southeast coast of Unimak, report- ed severe earthquakes started there at 4:30 a.m. and continued through the day. By 6:30 p.n. there had} been 22 tremors. A tidal wave estimated at sol feet in height struck Ikatan and. the residents of the village fled m; the hills. Four buildings were wash- ed into the bay and four small’ boats smashed, but there was no| loss of life. ] King Cove—Adak ! King Cove, on the Alaska Pen- insula some 50 miles east of Ikatan, : reported a 10-foot rise in the tide, | which subsided at once without causing damage. Indicating the main force of the ! tidal wave was only 18 to 30 inches higher than normal when it reach- | ed that Aleutian Island. | Caution was the rule throughout Alaska as ships and radio stations | stood by for any calls for aid. At Anchorage a postponement was an- | neunced for a train due to leave tomorrow for Seward, officials ex- plaining they feared damage from ! the wave to tracks at Cook Inlet. _— e COMMISSIONER'S COURT Sentenced in the United States | Commissioner’'s Court Monday af- ! ternoon by Judge Felix Gray were: | Clarence Manning who pleaded guilty to a charge of petit larceny | on March 14, six months in the| Federal jail with sentence starting | i | | 1 ! March 14. Rcy E. Matson, who pleaded | guilty to a charge of assault and: Lattery committed February 18 on! which he: had previously plended‘ not guilty, 45 days in jail, sentenoa} to begin February 18. | l ANNOUNCING Change of I have Ownership sold the Victory Bgrber Shop Mr. William Scott And 1 wish to thank the people of Juneau and Gastineau Channel for their patronage the past twenty-five Months. Mr. Scott will continue to serve you in the same courteous manner as you have re- ceived in Oscar Waterud the past. ANNUAL INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS Y Wednesday, April 3,8 P. M. for bringing cannery workers into|was dismi from St. Ann’s Hos- the area. < terday i The Senate was to re-convene| ted yesterday to the Gov- this morning at 10 o'clock, for this|ernment Hospital were Hazel Willis, ! session’s final day. The Senat Juneay; Louise Williams, Haines; | still have more bills ahead of them | Elmer Jones, Kasaan, and Thom- than they are likely to be able tc|as James, Douglas. Discharged handle. —— .o — Yote, Polls Close at 7 | were Anita Gibson, Juneau; Caralee | Moses, Hoonah, and Geraldine Gor- {don of Rake A Lunch Bills! Attend and Support Your New Officers! | rett Jones, Douglas Jones, Cather- Ladin, Herman Treadway, Ticie Kel- ly, Myron Dean. | | mans of Anchorage are at the Bar- 19 PASSENGERS FLOWN HERE ON “FLIGHTS OF PAA Arriving here from Seattle yes-| terday by Pan American plane were | the following passengers: i I £ Lyle Scott, William Ward, lsa-,k;, belle Ward, Donald Roush, Ray i~ Ferch, George Johnson, John Dodds, Al Micek. | Mary McFadden, George Nelson, Arthur Van Mavern, Gerald Olson, William Ribenhek, Lee Dehaff, Charmane Rancy. | Howard Lemgele, Ruth Graham, Norman Graham, Charles Erfurth, Lillian Higgins, Fern Marsh, Lee Bettinger, Fred Barlett, Russell Angell. From Fairbanks: Ann Williams, Dorothea Williams, Carrie Wil- liams, James Williams, Glen Leach. Passengers to Seattle were: Bar- ine Rink, Hogan Duty, Ernest Beaudin, Johrn Van Ginhoven, Wil- liam Head, Dorothy Head. | Bill Herdman, Marie Lockett, Rodney Lockett, Robert Lockett, Arthur Woodley, Letha Woodley, Ronnie Anderson, George Ander- son. Eion W‘nkkurL Col. Henry Clark, Dula Anderson, Pearl Flint, Rosalie . FROM :4:VCHORAGE The Rev. and Mrs. Arthur Berg- anof. SRSCh S 4 Vote, Polls Close : at 7 BABerts CASH GROCE T ONION SETS 31bs.50¢ GARDEN SEEDS All Kinds NEW DELIVERY SCHEDULE MINIMUM ORDER $2.00 MORNING DELIVERY CLOSES DOUGLAS DELIVERY CLOSES AFTERNOON DELIVERY CLOSES .. THE COFFEE Alaska Knows Best RICH and FLAVORFUL! Vacuum Packed! RELIANCE PURE FOODS NATIONAL GROCERY €O. » 1000 Fourth Ave. So. + Seattle, Wash. \ WELL ROUNDED spirit that’s abroad es, new imaginations, new ideas springing ? e grass and flowers are springing ‘{rom the earth? It’s eyerywhere and it's contagious . . . It’s the spirit that makes the new, " éxeciting change in YVONNE'S fashions. 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