Army Officer
Asks Recall
Of Legislature
Sugg sling 4hat the pr-: rl of
tihe T r’ :t■'■ e O "
to recall the Lo - laturo into spec
ial session to appropriate money
for mair.t none md tra'.-ing f r
National Guard units in Alaska,
Brigadier General John C. H. Lee
Commander of Ports of Embark
ation for the Pacific Coast, spok
before approximately 60 mem
bers of the Juneau Chamh r of
Comm rce last Thursday, re-op
ening one of the most discus-ed
and bitterly fought questions of
the 1941 Legislature.
Pr.hiding his suggestion with
o’ servations on the improvement
of Juneau in the last three years.
General Lea bluntly came to the
point of his sV=rt to! by r int
ing out the n 1 for '' wrd
in the Terr a . ' r u ful
ness as a nucleus f r unlr^j -ed
militia in case . an emergency
II - d - - v ri : v
for th: A1 ka N i n 1 G ■' ’ '
be pt in t'’u T t y f - •
ial traini”2 in ! i 1 of d
needed f ■ r A la-' y . snl to’
i i id i h .' > t, 1 itvi
units in ■ F . b - on 1 d o it
of the T rril y. B in th - a *
they d t rat r r ;v ‘h c ’ -ntial
for such tr i ' i. " "■ ' •
would probably “3 e” ; . .
Military Weakness
The high ra-hin-g Army fli
Stressed the former v, v P' -
Alaska from a miiitnry s
point d i ' t t n
of Nation: 1 Gvr.rd uni's is ;c
i of the pr
Territory from p -ible iny. n
and war, which he said
■happen at any time.
General Lee, returning to ii 1 -
headquarters at Fort M • -, h 1
after an inspection of d ok and
North Star On
Tav North -
?;r :|r^ent Lost
Out f the Antarctic ice, but
• t the cost of ahandcnnig all
r , cj'j: ••• nt at East Base, the
; pin rth Shr of th Of
fi of Indian Affair- rounded
Horn last week and is now
p- ■ i Valparaiso, Chile, ac
r :<t to word from Leonard
Be !:n Juneau man with the ex
dh • 1.
The equipment at East Base
had to be abandon d in an emer
gency evacuation in order to get
out of the ice ahead of the se
v. . Antarctic winter. Berlin not
ifn d Ip ds in Juneau. Epuip
n-f t* a West Base was =av d.
TV- North Star, normally on
an Alaska run is now due to reach
:-' .!'p May 17. She sailed from
1: 1 part December 10 last year
f r h r second trip to Little Am
e-'ca. B rhn has b; n in !' Ant
arctic f r almost two ye r-.
C . '■ I
an 1 Cry E. L. Bush iw pilot of
he M Star.
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. w -C'XC-N. An- il — J m
W. Th anas, sixty-l ret r put
• , be le Id t printer
•
•e, vis placed on p s: n at
Ear. uu of Engraving an 1
r r.n :"g and retired f a vall
o d r : at his home.
hates said Thomas has
pith tiie bureau c r.tinuous
f r.- i rty sev n and a half
Subscr.be tor Toe N toe Nuggi
Cation facilities at Se
.! a 1 Anchorage, was one of
• l-rc guests introduced at the
Thau her luncheon.
Hartley Howard.
Construction
p* r* •
nerr?’ f Lops
If *11/ * ^ Kj L - iVlJ
P !• v Hi yard, pion or con
tra-' ■ : lit railroad worker,
died A-’ l 7 in the Providence
Hoapd 1 at An h rage at the age
of 63 The highly regarded build
er, v. i i has lived in Anchorage
sirco 192ft, had been ill for sev
. rsl r nnih=, but his condition
had not been critical until a week
before his death.
1 Mr. H. ward came to Alaska for
the first time in 1903, when he
wen* into the interior and settled
at F gk He w nt Outside again
howev r, and returned in 1907
to I i i Cord .va. There he set
up 1 - wn contracting business
and then became associated with
_ C • * • : R wr and Northw. st
1 ern R.dr ad.
In 1920 Mr. FI ward went to
Ant’ : - to build the Elks hall
and . made his home there
ever si:." . Ho went to work for
the Ala d Railroad and bee a mi.
of bridge- and
He cn-true ted the
Jotei t Curry.
A 1 a\: •* tii-‘ railroad he
• iinui !• if the A1. ;ka
C ..l C. mpany mine
: : r C: ek and operated it
tr* .i - I! i ::ied in 1933. For
the ; several months he has
bean i representative of the
C. li Lumber Mills in An
chor.; . . a:ter having been assoc
iaied with the Juneau Lumber
Company for a short time.
Mr. 1. ward was barn in Fords
v lie, 1... Hr- is surviv. d by his
wife, Emm:. Howard; a daughter,.
Mrs. H hi S>gn, both of An
. t hor: •; : a brother, Brady, of
ttle, it vo sist r s, Mrs. Ol
ive \V n and Mrs. Vera Jarboe,
both ( t Kentucky.
Save $2 by paying m advance
■ r vour subscription.
U. S. ASSUMES CUSTODY OF ITALIAN SHIPS
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United Places Co t Guardsmen stand guard over i group of Italian freighters tied up at Port New
ark, Newark, N. J. after the United States assumed eustodv of the vessels under terms of a World
War anti-! hot .'. • law. The ships are (left tj right) Pan Leonardo. Alberta and Aussa.
ITALIAN SAILORS B L) PADDY WAGON
The United States Coast Guard took armed possession of the big Italian Motorship Leme in Port
land, Ore., but not before the crew had damaged heavily the ship’s engines and navigation equipment. |
Here are some of the 54 members of the ship’s officers and crew being loaded into a police patrol
wagon to be taken to jail. i
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Important Notice to
I
I
I
Iv A further effort to keep The \la.-ka l ine steamers on
schedule in cooperation with the work ol the National Defense
Program in Alaska, and also because ol the provisions of the
Wage and lloijr I .aw which provides a forty-hour week for our
own as well as shippers' employees, it is necessary to make the
follow mg ruling:
Effective immediately, the / ! ska Steamship
Company will not accept shipments of freight,
baggage, and/or express after 6 p. in. at Piers
Crae and Two in Ccattle.
The new do :ng horn will not malerk. < ! M >-kan«, except
that I hex -hoi.Id plan to get Limit one - in to the ers at
least two davs hefote each -ailing S'. n • i - me -deduled to
leave Seattle on Tuesdav-, Thursdays md Saturdays. hoi ports
ol call on each sailing eon-nil I lie V -'.a I.ine Schedule now
available hum \uui uean t \krha S.* m hip (iompauv agent.
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M W YORK CITY
HAS 23,268 TAXIS
NEW YORK, April — This city
; has 23,628 taxicabs, which mild
Gy astonishing fact came out
when the ban against cab cruis
ing on snooty Fifth Avenu w -
lifted temporarily during the bu
strike. That’s enough taxicabs t •
provide one apiece for ever'
in Freeport, 111., Billings, Mon'...
or Reno, Nev.
i.u.M; KiOl t'.>R NTCKi I
NEW YORK, April -You cv.
get on an located train out •
Flushing, v r.re they held th.
World - Fair, and ride acres- th,
East River, c
Square, trr back north c
the Tin I A el '■ a 1 t th
enc’ of the li well past !•
ham Um 1 : r to 1
way and : i ■ • ■ Grand Cc il.
transfer to Flushing train,
which go und a- the river h>
again — more than 800 bio .
all for one nickel.
01)1) ACCIDENTS
ARKANSAS CITY, Kas. April
— I). L. Taylor’s car ran over a
piece of iron. It was picket! up
by the tire anti hurled through
the gas tank. The exhaust ignited
the leaking gasoline and Taylor’s
car went up in flames.
HIS IDE A—Rep. Robert F.
Ritb (above), Pennsylvania Re
publican. told the Utilise he had
a plan for solving the world
crisis and asked a S5,000,000 ap
propriation which he would use
“to get ten red-blooded Ameri
cans to go over and get Hitler.”
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THE WAY TO MARKET IN PORTSMOUTH
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Portsmouth. In gland, housewives, carrying shopping hags on their
way to market, pass fresh wreckage in the city which was hammer
ed by a German air raid.
Department of Commerce Weather Rureau
FORECAST, NOME AND VICINITY
Fair and colder tonight. Thursday fair with increasing cloudiness
in afternoon. Highest temperature about thirty.
Data for 24 Hours Ending 1:00 p. m. Today
Highest temp — 28 Lowest temp — 13 Preceiptation — T
Total precip this month 0.03 Total since Jan. 1, 1941, 1.30
Temp. Humidity Wind Weather
2 Midnight-- -- 21 82 N 9 Cloudy
8am - - - - , 17 83 NW 4 Cloudy
•2:30 p m . __... 27 7 63 SW 5 Clear
Tomorrow: Sunrise 4:23 a. m. Sunset 7:42 p. m.
One Year Ago Today
Highest temp — 49 Lowest temp — 31 Precipitation — 0
Suggestions and Criticisms Invited