The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 20, 1947, Page 2

PAGE TWO THE DAILY ALASKA FMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1947 JUNEAU CHAMBER =" FERRIES ARE NEW GA. GOVERNOR YOUNG STUDENTS |B U L L E 71 N § LABOR RELATIONS | ity - OF CCMMERCE IN - LASHES OUT, HITS AT ARE TO PRESENT | ULLETIN SI COURTS MEASURE } fencrh ver are in a state of near-anarchy” SINGAPORE—The defense in the ... AGAIN PLYING BUSY MEET TODAY Unde TAlMADGE GROUP plANo RE(IIA[ "(riul of seven Japanese oificers BEFORE CONGRESS when it comes to industrial disputes Roter er from o | charged with responsi y for the and the time has come to subject y Fr St. Paul, 0 5 i R Gk mc“‘Smgnporc Massacre” of 1942 told i ! them to “the legal discipline of a A of Com- i H Recital weel . b the War Crimes ivi society.” e e PUGH SQUND Brands Leqislation as',m stents of Mrs, Garol Beery| e v orimes Court today that, waSHINGTON, March 20—ip— | CI*Iised SOCIty. . o send a delega- "wh't S " Davis. Sunday afternoon, March| der international law to destroy Senators Ferguson (R-Mich) and| Smith declared the bill would Ketch Wrangell 116 JUPremacy — s . program recital of Beethoven, yndesirable clements. Smith (R-NJ) have introduced a|cover “at least three-fourths” of and Juneau on one of SEATTLE, March 20.—(M—Reg- MUSf PaSS on B‘" Bach and Brahms will ke presented 2 Sh bill to create a system of Federal such cases and could lead to “the rips of Phillip Briggs' ular ferry service plied the waters S the auditorium of Northern| VATICAN CITY—Pope Pius X1 00or relations courts with juris- ultimate settlement of all labor- A 1 hip, Southeastern. of Puget Sound today for the first o Light Presbyterian Church at 3:30 jesyed a letter today recalling the diction over “a large majority” of | management disputes on the basis Presiden been delayed by me- time in almost k after mem- By ROMNEY WHEELER lock life of St. Benedict of Nursia, \*0°T-management dispute: | of what is right and just.” of the meeting iculties, and probably I of the CIO-M ineers' | ATLANTA, Ga., March 20.—(® The following Friday, March 28, founder of western monasticism, The courts would have the rignt| The Smith-Fergusou proposal was his initial sailing Beneficial Associ two Gov. Melvin E. Thompson declar- 7 o'clock in the evening, a cos-|and calling upon all Catholics to t0 issue injunctions in labor offered in the Senate only a few ae e last of March, to one” approval to its new con- ed today that Herman Talmadge tume recital, with folk songs and c¢mulate his example. a course now forbicden by the Nor- | hours after Rep. Landis (R-Ind) W read which had tract |and his political associates - no es of various nations, will be s ris-LaGuardia Act in disputes in-|told reporters there is a 50-50 r he Juneau Cham- e Partial ferry service to Brem- longer had the right to speak for ved by the beginning and inter-| JERUSALEM—A British police- VOlving private industry ! chance the House Labor Committee pre » Delegatz E. L. Bartlett, ask- erton, Vasho! nd Bainbridge Is- the Democratic party, and brand- mediate groups. man was killed and five other Bri-| They would have jurisdiction to| may suggest revision of the Norris- v for immediate action to pre- land 1 t night and ed the Talmadg ponsored “whitc And on Saturday, March 29, tons were injured last night by a interpret collective bargaining con-| LaGuardia Act as a means of com- the Public Reads Administra- most routes were cxpected back on!supremacy” legislation as an in- there will be a third recital, at 7:30 pomb explosion on the highway be- 'facts and to review actions of the batting strikes which affect the ~ halting . appropriations regular pre-strik schedules by vitation to fraud and stolen elec- pm. This program will feature the tween Haina and Te Aviv. administrators of the National La-| national welfare e needed work on Alaskan ncon t e company .~um} || tions. 3 casons of the year, with a num- 405 ! > TE lett stated at partic the Loop road Terms h lement reached Appearing before a joint session ber for each m I - he is reasonabl id Glacier Highway project Monday at a confersmc: in Olym- of the Georgia Legislature, just i uzx Leopold O’lll“ilclh;li;:g;';\}:ip. X’]l":e BOGOTA taipmkin—The 11l 4 ictions 'In CAA appropriations in R. J. Somm Construction pia, i estimated 238 24 hours after the State Suprem public is cordially invited to attend 9¢2d In South American plane ac- No Tl C E he near future, and that the Ju- Company of Juneau was low bid- percent e in- surt had rejected ‘Talmadge's cach and all of these three student S9¢ntS in the last two months 200 X neau airfield has one of ‘1: * der on the contract, kut had keen crease over reclassi- claim to the governorship, Thomp- ,rograms. : mounted to l91 mltlia.\' with an- \ owest priorities of any installa- to halt plans for the work. fication of v \ccording to son said g PRI A nouncement that all iive persons s CAA control in Alaska statement was made at this horsepower ith pay scales based Those who sought to seize thc aboard a TACA airliner which There WIH be an City Council will con- noon's meeting ‘that apparently o e size of the engine plants; state of Georgia for their selfish crashed and burned yesterday were by <ider action tomorrow towards ob- the PRA wa sking that Alaskan and rc ification of first and ends, and who undertook to pros- You""rul pAlR killed. | opm ml“u ol lhe ing a qualified person to make ws let their projects wait second assistant chief engineers as titute the Democratic platform tc | § d v a study of the airfield, it was re- for a year, so the funds can be assistant chief enginecers, placing extend their own reign, now have HElD l" FATA[ SUMMERVILLE, S. C.— The 4 vealed today he study will cover ysed by the States for their own both on the same wage level no right to speak for the Demo- Right Rev. James DeWolf Perry, A“ chHANTs Ass N Bt Gy b o “”“rm il I o STt Sk ¥ former presiding Bishop of the cost City to maintain the R. E. Robertson inserted the Their program is not the pec YA(HT Blowup Episcopal Church in America, died field; and (2) how much traffic comment that the condition of the (ple’s program. It is not the " . 'a : ars THURSDAY — M h Zoth A 0 e otk it oot snak s, il 36 S8 ORI WS QO A S L O denly today. e was 10 yeurs arc : and profit, if any, Territory at the present time, ]'0 MEH "oMoRkow program. No selfish group can SANTA ANA, Calif, March 20— " | AT 8P M could be made from its ope roads which have not been repair- [explolt Georg and no selfist Two blond college students, en- pipre piine Minister Paul Ra- . : The point was brought up at eq or improved since before Pearl jgroup will ever control Georgia £4ged to be married mext month, Lo HE e Tl doe that the in the ) the Chamber meeting that in the Hartor in many cases, ate due to Juneau City Counc: wiil meet iniso long as elections are free.” re in Orange county jail today Unist Party - joi ’a L Statés, many Cities operating mu- fome wxtent 1o MAIIGFYCREE. S taRilir session. tomoriow RRERINEY THotapeon, Who! Tt talea:tr 151 avalting: SnlecEisi ORIBAIAE thveas S TRCEE M S TR nicipal airfields do so at a 1so read in connection with the at 8 o'clock in the City Hall. Ap- bills apparently signed illegally by U£ation into the explosion deaths ¢~ e 0 s h:eh BARANGF GOLD ROOM ~f r a good purpo 10ad spriations were telegrams pointments Jlection Judges and Talmadge, indicated he might veto late Saturday night of the girl's At vahgoler:mex". nfl wdcf : . ! 5 or the e from Ketchikan Chamber of clerks for the Municipal elections Talmadge's number-one measure Wealthy parents aboard their 47- he'salvidifitec leadyva e &A% 0l g 3 : field dc a level Commerce to Bartlett and to the April 1 will be confirmed '_the so-called “White Primary’ {00t yacht in Newport Harbor. the . Republic and the end of ZR e e S =% 2 business, and make up t s out public Roads Administration Mayor Waino Hendrickson \will bill. Beulah Louise Overell, 17 daugh- France. | of City funds \v ‘,“v ((‘;\I?.?)‘,X‘Xi l,\.;?c,hc?n report to the Council on the mm._} - ki 1\)3“.0111 Mr,d ngd Mrs. Walter E_, LoNBE —"Admu'al PRI S8, % Cutler Berthing day gra ghway mal meeting held last Monday Oyershiins eosge TRECIOE S0l e Has laft to Heoorab: Viad SPECIAIJ MEET R R R L s ENEI A. A, of Seward; DI. with Walter Plett, Regional Direc- GARDEN (luB HAS lum, 21, were arrested 'yesterday MO A inal bid ING q Joy Robert Simpson, Jr, U. 8. N. Ju- tor for the CAA in Alaska, on the | fter Sherlff James Musick ‘and C0roy of india in # Sina st Alfairs Committee repor SOME peny-born son of Robert SIMP- subject of the Juneau Airport The | MrET WED"ESD[‘Y Newport Beach Police Chief R, R. keep within the British Common- o progress toward .obtaining berthing .o oya " rocently Naval physicin gonmetl will consider & sarvey by 4 Hodgkinson said 30 sticks of dyna- Wealth the vast sub-continent his pace for the USCG Cutter Wa- ,ioneq tq Task Force Frigld g qualitied pe i “the M = 4 T mite and a wired clock were found Sreat-grandmother Queen Victoria of chuett. An investigation of Paitbarikss Robervt B« THOTS fh e it D of: Wip oy | Juneau Garden Club met yester- in the wrecked hulk. The yacht brought under British rule. 1 - ords i the PublloWRonds Admin- iy Wieaidi -tk ager ety b ol of business,| ;.. afterncon at the home of Mrs. sank following the explosion, first e T | istration office would make It Americ ays at White- RGPS iipnance tosts | Alfred Zenger, Sr. After dessert, attributed to gasoline, and investi- In the making of leather, a hide | _saidAckervik, that titl enator Gunnard R T business meeting was presided gators went aboard after it was one-quarter an inch thick can be | UNITED TROLLERS the Sl 15 vested in the ebreth of Anchorage; and Mrs M'NULTY GOES TO JAIL over by President Mrs. J. Boyd raised the next day. split into as many as four thick- Coasin er from Sitka || Mrs. Harry Stonehouse gave Interviewed separately last night nesses. e e s eyt Thomas H. MeNulty of Sitka,|very interesting and instruckive toth Gollum and Miss Overell de- f 0F ALASKA : J. B Burford presented his ob- HERE FROM WESTWARD convicted last week on charges of {talk on the where, why and how of ried any res ility for the T | ) bR e 3 contributing to the delinquency of |a home rock garden dy. They said they had left “al‘l’y v, “l“ | ec passed by the Legislature' MIS Penny Anuerson =.om An- a minor, fined $100 and given sus-| The roll call of members was the boat for hamburgers shortly ¥ | ) PR e A bl S S was registered yesterday as pended jail sentence of one year,]answered by each member with the prior to the explosion. has switched to | ! yrd termed the bill a transaction of the wf Hotel jail charged with being drunk name of the official flower of th She disclosed that her 62-year- - mmAY_narcl‘ 21 _7.30P “ rd inghiv ek vl gheatiiy SR SAloisorasly S oadnat | state where she was born. Roll call cld father and 57-year old mother ca'vert because e L o ales tax on the buyer WASHINGTON ME) HERE e ,at the next meeting will be ans- had opposed her marriage to Gol- 2 i It was ta that a second bill,’ Frank Swartzbacker from Marys- ASED FROM JAIL | wered with the name of a favor- lum. calvert W'“skey o X {Neluiding exemptions fiof the (A%, ville; VTASEIUREN, rnd it i s s Jite buib D Special Business — Refreshments for rents, thea sales minger and James Koelber from Stephen F has been re-; The meeting of April 14 will b s 1 H by merchants to r Zettle Falls, Wac™ . and Virgil Ba- Atk Fodere] Tallic et hald\ ety BeT Hoie of N, 1 L. | GONDON == A0 w mmieen. (g IS smoother' ] itions and to the Territory has ker of O e ved 30 days for stowing away | Keithahn, with Mrs. J. V. Cole as. | Orimes Court in England today | c l o “ALL 3 passed the Senafe and been sent at the Baranof Hot on the Alaska. The charge of de- |sisting gonvicted. bWty o o PO ol TN e I T ! oo e to the House b i ARt innke 4t Gorllova | s agents Ang Ellte Guatds Shiey TAd cuyert Beserys BLENDED WHISKEY The House made no changes in Read the \ds for bargains! has been dropped Buy. it through Empire want-adsl |Ceen charged with atrocities against _ge § Proof—85% Grain Neutral Spirita 2 : X b 3 American fliers and mass murders. Calvert Distillers Corp., New York City : e T TTERE ey sy sy sy Wousy yoswiy 7R TR PR 70 - = e P 122 Second Sireet Free Delivery Service Phone 36 =, vt = ]uneau Uphfllstery =% STATEMENT of ALASKA ELECTRICLIGHT & POWER CO0. ‘ —= = The Alaska Electric Light & Power Co. wishes to inferm the voters of Juneau that = . _ & 9 = it is taking no part in any controversy over the purchase of its property and business by the City + 8 £ New Custom-Built, Handsomely Tailored, (uality Furniture ... £ cf Juneau. = ln ihe Fabric YOU choose from our = In order to keep the record straight the attention of the voters is called to the con- = = trove and the negotiations between the City and the Company in 1945 and 1946. N = : ¥ T = In the Spring of 1945, shortly after clection, the Council approached the Company . J /] J — y ) y = llarge St(B( ’fi« "f Ej l”‘ol i@r!’ C() verb =| on the matter of the purchase of its property. The Company at that time expressed its willingness = =1 to sell, but it was not in a position to place a price on the property until its appraiser had brought L} = - = his apprisal and values up to date. The City then employed the firm of Black & Veatch to appraise = C 0 I L We use 0111{ the BEST =| the property. Before the appraisal was presented to the Council or made available to the Company ¢ = : = the Council urged the Company to submit a price. The Company submitted an offer of $1,500,- = S P R I N G S Of M A T E H I A L S m = 000.00, which included its entire property within and without the City of Juneau, including its water = 4 | Ei right on Gold Creck. This was before the Black & Veateh appraisal was received here. E your NEW furniture! = = Ihmughoui 5 E; Black & Veatch appraised the property at $1,087,474.00. The City then began rate = - Fabrl('s A =i hearings which continued from the latter part of February until the end of March. Before those — J\? = hearings were concluded the Company, at the request of the Mayor, revised its offer and made = Y MOHAIR g; the price $1,000,000.00. Colors FRIEZE = The City Council then set up a new rate schedule and the Company filed suit in - oo =i Court to enjoin the enforcement of the new schedule as being invalid under the provisions of the & Bre aeiok Wine: Alics Blus TAPESTBIES = Constitution of the United States. While the suit was pending ne'gotiations were carried on be- : ik nbie g ¥ VELOUR = tween the Council and the Company, thh' the aid of the Company’s own appraiser, Mr. Henry L. : Miive Wine = Gray, zm'd the rate schedule was again revised and the new schedule acepted by the Company, and Z Be e Du Barcy. Balge oo SR = a new offer was made by the Company to the Council. The new rate scbedule which was accepted R atroiss 2 “". -AIU AR = h all parties calls for a reduction of approximately $16,000.00 annually in the Compan_y sne!: earn- 1 AApTElat i seLs ings. The new offer to the City for the entire property and system of the company, including its ¢ water right, machinery, transmission system, buildings, ete. was $900,000.00. The proposition is ) being submitted to the voters at the election to be held on April 1st. Complete DAVENPORT and CHAIR SETS The Company is determined not to be drawn into any controversy regarding the pro- posed bond issue for the purchase of its property. All of its negotiations with the Council regard- ing rates and regarding the price were conducted openly and publicly. The Company accepted the reduction in rates and its option was accepted by the Council in good faith. ~ $225.0010 $295 Let us help with your ‘ SPRING HOUSE CLEANING by RECOVERING your OVER-STUFFED FURNITURE Springs Retied . .. ... . Completely Repadded Select the FABRIC and the COLOR DESIRABLE for your HOME If the voters authorize the purchase of the company’s property the transfer will be made upon the payment of the price. If the voters decide not to purchase the property the Com- pany will carry on as in the past, but it will not directly or indirectly seek to influence the result of the vote on April 1st; and it does not desire to take sides in any contest between .the advocates and opponensts of public ownership. The comple te record is in the hands of the City Clerk and available to anyone who desires information on the subject. ALASKA ELECTRIC LIGHT & POWER COMPANY By S. T. CORBUS, President A. WILLIAM CORBUS, Secretary AR AR e e R i A