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VOL. 41. No. 21. "TOME. ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEB. 17, 1939. P^e oer Copy 15<
Ships Loading For Alaska Ports
Legislature Appropriates $4,000,000 for Next Year
Oil Slick Found Vicinity Cope Plane Disappeared
Strike Over
S S Baranof
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SEATTLE, Feb. 17 Mb—Winch
es rumbled on docks and in ships
bolds when worked W3s rushed
loading Alaska steamships.
The Baranof is to sail Sunday
at nine a.m. for southeastern and
southwestern Alaska, marking
the full resumption of ship ser
vice. The S. S Alaska wi 1 carry
a large quantity of fresh food.
New Pope P I a y
Important Part In
Form New Europe
VATICAN CITY. Feb. 16 Mb
—Hitler’s ambassador to the holy
city informed the Card nal Col
lege that the new pope they
chose, would play an important
■part in the development of a new
world.
Ambassador Diego Von Bergen
spoke when he led the diplomat
ic corps, of which he is the dean,
to call on the cardinals in a for- ^
mal presentation of condolences
on the death of the Pope. He ex
pressed the hope that the new
world he mentioned would be
built peacefully out of the
“ruins of the past.” He remind
ed the cardinals of their respon
sibility of naming a pontiff who
will guide 'humanity through
“tempestuous and fearful anx
iety.”
.Foreign circles noted the simil
arity between the ambassadors
reference of a new world and the
new Europe which Hitler and
Mussolini have repeatedly assert;
ed must be created.
Artist Passes
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PARIS. Feb. 17 Mb —Gilbert
White, aged 61, American artist, j
whose murals decorate many1
state and federal buildings in the
United States, died in a hospital |
here from complications after an
operation for an intestinal ob
struction.
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FORMER G-MAN For
k rest Harness (R.-Ind.), who ar
rested Samuel Insult in utility
magnate’s famed chase to Greece
has new role; he’s now a repre
sentative In Congress.
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V- 1 DOW of Oil Millionaire
Frank C. Hart w ho died in an air
trash three years ago, Mrs. Mu
riel Woodward Hart (above) of
Sharon, Conn., plans to wed
Paul Felix Warburg, divorced
New York millionaire-banker.
Air Base Wrangell
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 (A3)—
Rep. Maas, senior Republican on
the House Naval Committee, in
troduced a bill to establish a nav
al air base on Wrangell Island.
He said that Senator Reynolds is
proposing a similar measure for
the Senate.
Bases are now' proposed at Un
alaska, Kodiak, Sitka, and Maas
asserted that another base at
Wrangell would “give Alaska
complete naval air protection.”
Objects To Sale
WASHINGTON. Feb 16 (fi3)—
Members disclosed that the Sen
ate Military Committee received
the testimony of President Rcose
velt who over rode the specific
objections of General Craig,
army chief of staff, to permit the
French Air Ministry to buy one
hundred American made bomb
ing planes of the latest type.
Dies Operated On
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 (/P)—
Rep. Dies. Texas Democrat, head
of the House committee on un
American activities, underwent
an emergency appendicitis opera
tion. Surgeon Dr. Elliott Camp
bell said afterwards that Dies
was in “fine shape."
He was stricken last night
with a gangrenous appendix, and
added delay might have been
serious
Dr. T. Wilson Dies
PORTLAND, Ore., Feb 16 </P)
—Dr. Clarence True Wilson, aged
66, internationally known prohib
itionist and Methodist Church
Temperance Board founder, died
at 1:50 p.m. in the Good Sam
aritan Hospital.
He had been ill for 3 weeks
with uremic poisoning complicat
ed with heart attacks.
Asks $2,733,000
For C. (i Air
Stations Alaska
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 (/Pi—
The Treasury Department asked
Congress to authorize two mil
lion seven hundred thirty three
thousand dollars for a coast
guard br?e and air station in Al
aska. The construction of three
new coast guard cutters costing
nine million dollars and the ae
quisiti >f fit so '1 lies, cost
ing two m il on four hundred
nir?*v 'u u'snd dollars and fac
irtics. V. rgenthau sold would be
“of interest to national defense.”
The s’alion would be built at
a si; t ib •.,,ed by the Tress
ury Department as “it deemed
most advantageous to serve the
interests of the coast guard and
the national defen-e.”
Secretary Morgenthcu wrote
Congress “that the need for a
coast guard air station in Alaska
is urgent because of the exten
sive and important seal and fish
eries resources and of gov
ernment law enforcement which
was so forcefully emphasized by
the recent' encroachments upon
salmon fisheries, makes it imper
ative the coast guard have air
facilities along the Alaskan
coast.” Fifteen seaplanes would
replace lost craft and also serve
the proposed Alaskan station and
others. The Secretary said three
new cutters are needed to re
place obsolete vessels.
FAIR WEATHER-or
foul—finds Mrs. Walter L. Hen
sel (above) on the job at Santa
Barbara, Cal., where she has the
necessary equipment In her back
yard. One of her four daughters
serves as assistant. She begins
her weather recordings at 6 a. m.
Bill Pass Prohibit
Sale Liquor On
Election Day
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JUNEAU, Feb. 15 UP) — The
Senate passed Cochran’s bill pro
hibiting the sale of liquor on an
election day until the polls are
closed
The Senate Committee of the
Whole met Thursday afternoon
to consider the bounty bill on
setting $30 for wolves and $20
for coyotes, and the trapper must
turn the skin into the Territory, i
The House passed Lyng’s two
way radio law that all airplanes
operating twenty-five miles or
more from their bases must in
stall radio receivers and trans
mitters within six months. The
Third Division legislators split
I two and two over the law, de
spite petitions and letters from
Anchorage opposing the bill.
The House passed the appro
priations for schools to the
amounts of: $40,000 for Snag1
Point, $12,000 for Haycock, $20,
000 for Unga, $25,000 for Craig.!
and $25,000 for Douglas.
$3,200,000 For
Next Year'
JUNEAU, Feb. 15 UP) — The
hearing this afternoon was sud-|
denly postponed when Rep. Cof
fee withdrew his memorial urg
ing the progressive gradual elim
ination of fish traps, because
Rep. Harvey Smith introduced a
memorial that the traps be im
mediately abolished.
An Alaska General Appropria
tion bill was introduced in the
House by the Ways and Means
Committee calling for approxi-|
malely $3,200,000.00 for the next
biennium. This does not include
the $800,000 roads appropriation
introduced earlier in the session.
Minimum Teacher!
Salary Bill Passes
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JUNEAU, Feb. 16 UP) — The
House passed the teachers mini
mum salary bill of $1800 for the
First Division; $1900 for the 3rd
Divison and $2100 for the Second
and Fourth Divisions per annum.
Beginning with the second year,
the pay will increase $45 yearly j
for ten years. Those at present
employed shall be entitled to
credit for the time already
taught.
The House passed the $800,000
appropriation for roads, the high I
est in the history’ of Alaska and
double that of the past biennium.
•Senator Roden introduced j
three bills, changing the date of
general election to the first Tues
day after the first Monday in Oc
tober; prohibiting officers of the
territory of employing or appoint
ing relatives to territorial jobs;
and a minimum wage scale of
$18 for a six day forty eight hour
week. No woman under sixteen
may be employed in a domestic
household and the employees are
prohibited to work more than 60
hours per week.
CENSORSHIP trouble in
Riehmond, Va., cut short the run
of “Ecstasy" starring Hedy La
marr (above), now 1n Holfy
wood. Film drew 12,000 persons
before It was withdrawn.
Passes Memorial
For Coast Guard
Station at Nome
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JUNEAU, Feb. !fi (/P) —Rep.
Gordon introduced a bill which
would require chiropractors to
have a license.
Rep. Garnet Martin introduced
a bill asking $800 for the repair
of trails and bridges in the
Shungnak section.
The Senate passed the Rivers
memorial for the investigation of
freight rates charged by Alaska
water carriers, and the Lyng
memorial for the rebuilding of
the coast guard station at Nome.
It passed the joint memorial by
Martin asking the construction
ef the 183 miles of international'
highway from the western boun-,
dary of the Yukon Territory to!
the Interior Alaska road system, i
The Senate discussed the wolf
and coyote bounty but without
results.
11 of A to Take Part
In Air Program
JUNEAU, Feb. 17 f/P) — A
House memorial introduced by
Rep. Coffey asks congress and
the Civil Aeronautics Authority
for the designation of the Univer
sity of Alaska as a unit of the
President’s program for the de
velopment of aerial minded
youth. He said Fairbanks has
more air traffic in proportion to
its population than any other air
port in the world.
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Still No Trace
Of the Missing
Cope Airplane
JUNEAU, Feb. 15 UP) — The
Cutter Haida returned Wednes
day night after a three-day
search on both shores of Steph
ens Passage from Port Arden to
Port Snettisham, for the missing
Cope plane but with no results.
The shore parties found on clues.
If the weather permits, the
Haida may return to the scene
i ght Thursday, provided the
navy planes frdtn Sitka join the
hunt.
JUNEAU, Feb. 16 f/P) — Two
shore parties on snowshoes work
ed their way around Point Ar
den Wednesday but found no
trace of the Cope plane. A party
of skiers are leaving this morn
ing to make another search.
The Haida is remaining in port
as bad weather prevents the
navy planes from Sitka from
flying.
Oil Slick Found
JUNEAU, Feb. 17 </P) — With
sunshiny weather and unlimit
ed visibility, the cutter Haida
and three airplanes are making
an intensive search in the area
where Cope went down last Sun
day.
Oil slick discovered by airman
Tony Schwamm is today being
investigated by the Haida. The
slick was found about 150 yards
north of Grand Island and is ap
parently being fed. The Haida
may try to grapple, although the
depth is over six hundred feet
at that spot. Several articles
have been found on the beach
but none were identified as from
the Cope plane. The navy bomb
ers are not on the scene yet.
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SEASICK? Well. Dr. Rich
mond Goulden demonstrates a
' new type mask which allows the
wearer to converse and eat—if
he can—while fightin? seasick
ness by inhalation of 100 per
cent oxy/jen. Dr. Walter Boothby
developed the mask.