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Evening star., 1939-06-13
German Policy Of Reprisals
Not = New Story.

To the Editor of The Star:
The wholesale and indiscriminate re-
prisals inflicted upon the city of Kladno,
Bohemia, for the acts of one or two
individuals, even before an investigation
was made or the identity Of the guilty
persons ascertained, is not the first act
of the kind committed by the Germans.
Those whose memories reach back to
Germans in Belgium and France repeat
sdly puuished whole communities for
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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-07
FESTIVE Event
IS ON FRIDAY.
Hotel OPENING
Chairmen Of Various Com.
mifiees Are Named
for Big Affair

The formal opening of the Bar
anof Hotel next Friday night will
be one of the most festive affairs
ever given in juneau.
Announcement was made today
of the Chairnlen of the commit
tees which follow;
Gov. John w Troy, Honorary
Chairman.
Allen shattuck, General Chair
Judge C. F. Alexander, Recep-
ton.
Mrs. Helen Bender, Social.
Bert Lybeck, Flag Ceremony.
H. O. Adams, Banquet.
Curtis G. Shattuck, Entertain
ment
w. S. Pullen, Decorations.
Charles Beale. r. T. Bernard, f
S. Evans Publicity
Charles w. Carter viii be Toast
master and speakers viii be A. 3
Phillips and r. E Robertson
The Nonresident Committee is
composed OF Norman 2. Walker
Howard Lying and A II ziegler.
The program menu is by la Lis
ton.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-07
PICKET LINE. Al H.,
ANCHORAGE ENDS

Piekets have been withdrawn
from the grade school and hospi-
tai construction projects at An
chorage. Picketing by the Carpent-
ers Union No. 21S2, has been main
tanned for one third of a year.
Leonard Dean, Secretary Of the
union, said that the line was with
drawn because lit has served its
purpose and no more good can be
derived from it, the jobs on the
two projects are known all over the
coast to be unfair aa
AT least two pickets have marched
around the buildings for 10 hours a
day during the four months. Some
times there were four men. They
used dogteams and skis during the
Fur Rendezvous. Until January the
picket line was maintained on Sun
days, Mr. Dean said.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-07
FISH TRAP
MEMORIAL
IS PASSED
Senate Votes 5 10 ; for
Immediate Abolition
Smith Measure

The 14th Territorial Legislature
is on record as favoring immediate
abolition of all fish traps in Alaska
BY a vote of five to three, late
this afternoon, the Senate passed
House memorial by Representa-
tive Harvey Smith calling on Con-
gress to do away with traps at
once. s, fa a
Those voting for the memorial
were Senators Henry Roden, Nor
man r. Walker, Joe Holman, James
Patterson and Victor c. Rivers.
Those opposing were Senators @.
H. LaBoyteaux, Leroy Sullivan and
O. D. Cochran,
The fish divisions" the first
and third, were solid for the mem
orial, the nay votes coming entire
ly from Nome and Fairbanks Sena-
tors.
No Amendments -
No amendments were made in
tliC biCiiiOl idl OClOlt III JdoScQ. q
"A move as soon as the bill APP
peared for second reading to post
pone it indefinitely was defeated
six TO two. g.l e. i'll g.
The margin Of victory for the
memorial was the same in each
house, the House approving the
measure in a stormy session two
weeks ago by a vote of nine to
seven. sv ploss~sl 5s ire Ser
Yesterdays proposal Of the Sem
ate Fisheries Committee to temper
the memorial by making lit call for
gradual abolition over a five-year
period was defeated four to four
Delegate Dimond has, introduced
in Congress a resolution to abol-
ish traps by the sfiye-year plan.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-07
MINIMUM WAGE
FOR WOMEN IS
NOW AGREED ON

The House this afternoon accept
ed the report of House Committee
returning from a parley with a
Senate Committee on amendments
to Senate Bill So. defining minimum
working wages and maximum hours
for women.
As the bill now stands, clear of
argument, insofar as. the House is
concerned, the minimum wage for
women will stand at $l8 instead of
$22. to which the House had boosted
On House Bill l22, as to who will
pay gold taxes. lessor Or lessee of
mining property, the House and
Senate cannot get together, the
House today turning down the SEN
ate amendments, throwing the bill
into conference.
Senate Joint Memorial 7, request
ing investigation of the Alaska Rail
road with an eye to program of
development, was agreed to in the
House with aaeonference committee
report being accepted aa
On; the matter of House Bill 1919,
giving Alaska flag designer Benny
Benson $1,000 for his efforts. with
which to attend school in Seattle
and not at the University of Alaska
as was originally agreed on ten
years ago, the House refused to
concur in Senate amendments which
fail to give Benson the interest or
the sum.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-07
tHANBtR, BILL /. ). /,
STAYS; TABLE
New Memorial introduced
Asking Change in
Oil Leasing Laws

The Territorial Chamber of Com
merce bill, appropriating $4,000
which was .laidcon, the table a few
days ago, stayed on the table to-
day, although an attempt was made
to pull the measure off.
The losing vote was eight to
eight. and Representative Rogge
again flayed the House for Its
"tabling" methods, as unfair,
whether the bill is right or wrong.
A new memorial was introduced
in the House today by Representa-
tive Harvey Smith, by unanimous
consent, asking that the oil leas-
ing law of 1920 be amended to per-
NIT oil prospecting licenses to ex-
tend to six years instead of four.
Reason for the memorial is given
as lying in "the hope that Alaska
oil resources may be developed as
soon as possible.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-07
SIGNAL CORPS
MAN OF FORMER
YEARS In Town

H. w. Whitman, onetime opera
tor-in- charge of the United States
Signal Corps in Juneau today PAID
his first visit to the city since he
left in 1923.
Arriving on the steamer Mount
Mckinley, Mr. Whitman is bound
for the Interior to assume charge
of a trading post for the Magids
Brothers Trading Company out of
Deering.
He was to leave for Fairbanks
on the PAA plane this afternoon.
Located in his new duties in the
Kotzebue Sound area, Mr. Whit
man will join the trading post COM
pany managed by Mrs John Cross
and her brother in-law, Boris Ma
gids.
Since leaving Juneau Mr.. Whit
man has been with the Signal
Corps office in Seattle until his re-
tirement several months ago.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-07
Resident Worker
Law Would Apply
Also 10 Mining

At press time, the House OF Rep
resentatives was making headway
with Senate Bill 81, which limits
outside cannery employees to
80 1f3 percent of the total can
merry payroll.
First amendment 70 the measure,
bringing mine workers under the
same measure, was accepted Rep
resentative Davis offered the change
that failed to succeed in the Sen
ate. The vote was IL to 5.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-07
B. M. BEHRENDS CO., Inc.
'Juneaus Leading Department Store f,,,,,,
T q ID A Y
in the
Sc N A TIE


House Bill No. 81, by Anderson,
providing for a referendum vote
on Territorial liquor control.
House committee substitute for
Senate Bill No. 80, by Cochran,
closing liquor stores and dispen-
saries on election days,
House Bill No. 33. by Mccormick,
appropriating $4,000 from First
Division road funds to aid the town
of Douglas in building gymna-
SUM and $4,000 for a similar pur-
pose at Skagway.
House Bill No 1913, by Drager,
making steamship companies liable
for losses suffered by workers by
reason of fish products, on which
there are labor liens, being moved
from the Territory.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-07
new BUDGET
DIRECTOR IS
SLATED NOW
Appointee Of Former Gov.
ernor Murphy Has Been
Offered Position

LANSING, Michigan, March T.
State Budget Director Harold D..
Smith, an appointee of former Gov
Frank Murphy, now Attorney Gen
eral OF the United States, confirmed
reports that he may become Fed
eral Budget Director.
Smith admitted that President
Roosevelt has offered him the post
of Budget Director, relieving Daniel
w. Bell, acting Director since the
resignation in 1894 of Lewis w.
Douglas.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-07
OMNIBUS ROAD
Bill IS DEFEATED
TODAY IN SENATE
Liquor Referendum Given
0kdy Of SoIons : No
Matdnuskd Howl

1.-The Senate killed nine House
bills at ono swoop this afternoon
when a vote of six to two defeated
Senate committee omnibus road
bill which was substitute for House
bills bearing the names of almost
every Representative.
Only Senators O. d. Cochran and
Henry Roden voted for the measure
which would have drawn money
from the 100000 highway appropri-
alton for II projects throughout
the Territory. w
/, Also defeated today was Senate
bill No. 81, by Roden, creating the
Department of Health legally. 1t
lost on four to four vote.
Libel Defeated
House joint memorial No. AZ, con-
demned by Senator Cochran as a
libelous attack on the management
of the Matanuska colony, was voted
down seven to one. The memorial
would have asked a Congressional
Senator Joe Holman voted for it.
Territorial money to aid Douglas
and Skagway in building school
gymnasiums was voted by. the SEN
ate this morning. A House bill By
Representative John Mccormick APP
propriating $25, 900 for Douglas was
amended to provide $4,000 which
lis to be taken from First Division
road funds. Then new section was
added to the bill to provide $4,000
from the same source for Skagway
So amended the, bill passed.
s.tea tn No Pikers
Senator Roden, in proposing an
amendment, asked only 81 $500 for
Skagway but at a call of ssWhy be
a piker ~ from Senator Victor C.
Rivers; upped the amount to S1O,-'
600. A proposed amendment by
Senator Rivers making the money
available when the towns put UP
Hike amount was lost for want of
second. Rivers was the only Sen
ator voting against the bill in its
final form 81 ~ seHsu Nf3
Rewritten by the Senate Judiciary
Committee to- provide that steam
ship lines are liable in civil suits
for any damages incurred or losses
suffered by reason of removal from
the Territory of fish products Oh
which there are labor liens, House
bill No. 103, by Representative Carl
Drager, passed
Election Day Closing
The Senate agreed also to House
committee substitute to Senator
Ccehran's bill closing liquor stores
and beer parlors on election days.
the House change being merely a,
phrase which will pave the way for
operation of the bill in case the
Walker saloon measure passes.
A referendum on the liquor con-
troll subject was approved by the
Senata.s an, amendment providing
that the 4forn and against" squares
are to be alternated on ballots in
SUCH referendum, proposed in
House bill Mo- 81, by Representative
]. r. Anderson.
During discussion of the omnibus
road bill; the Fourth Division Sem
ators Rivers and O. H. LaBoyteaux
differed ON whether reconnaissance
survey costing 1000 would be made
on the route of the International
Highway. Rivers move to reduce the
amount to $1,000 was adopted. but
the whole bill later was killed.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-07
fire DAMAGES
PUBLIC SCHOOL
II PETERSBURG

A fire in the Petersburg public
school building over the weekend did
$4,000 damage before it was brought
under controls according to brief
reports received here.
The loss was covered by insurance,
Commissioner of Education Anthony
j. Karnes said he was advised.
A telegram today from Petersburg
to the Territorial Senate said that
the town needed no help from the
Legislature.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-07
SrocK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, March CLOSING
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 9I2, American Can
9S3s, American Power and Light
6, Anaconda BIZ, Bethlehem Steel
1885, Commonwealth and Southern
rs, Curtiss Wright common 6Ss
General Motors 501a, International
Harvester 64M, Kennecott 80, New
York Central 20h. United States
Steel 63A, Pound $500 3l16
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-07
WEATHER SYNOPSIS

this morning northern AL
the highest reported 1882
southern Alaska
southwestern Canada and the Pacific Northwest
200 miles of Queen Char
Peninsula along
light the Aleuian Islands
Southeast Alaska with
the remainder the
Temperatures this morning
other portions of
Territory.
Juneau 8.-Sunrse sunset, SAG
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-07
H. W. GRIFFIN THROUGH

II. w, Griffin, accompanied by
his wife. is passenger on the
Mount Mckinley, enroute to Dill
iingham, where he will manage the
Mrs. A. H. Bradford interests. They
are returning after a three months
visit in Seattle.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-07
MISSIONARY GROUP MEET

A meeting of the Interdenomina-
tional Missionary Society will be
held March Il instead of March 8,
as scheduled at the M e h 0 d S t
Church.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-07

There are only few genuine cid
erdown pillows In the United States.
Real eiderdown is obtained from
the nest Innings of the elder ducks
in the crags of Norway,
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-07
BOYLE RETURNS

j. E. Boyle, manager of Union
Oil Company in Juneau, returned
to the city today aboard the steam
ship Mount Mckinley from trip
to Seattle.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-07
FIRE TODAY

Oil on the floor of the S and N
store on Seward Street today caught
fire during the noon hour and
brought tine fire department out
for a short run. The trouble was
quickly under control and no dam
[age resulted.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-07

Government figures indicate 61.2
per cent of the farmers in Oklahoma
are tenant farmers,
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-07
ELECTRA MAKES
RETURN FLIGHT

PAA Electra arrived in Juneau
from Fairbanks at 3:15 o'clock this
afternoon with one passenger
aboard for the local airport, John
Andregg.
The plane, with Al Munson and
Bill Slavery at the controls, took
off Immediately afterwards with
four passengers from Juneau
aboard, c. Burkett, d. Haverlock,
w. H. Whitman, and c. Hallberg.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-07
U. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE WEATHER BUREAU
THE WEATHER
tBy the U. S. Weather Bureau)

Forecast for Juneau $3.50 March
tonight and Wednesday notheas winds
forecast for tonight and We'd
north portion partly colder tonight We'd
except Entrance Chatham Frederick
fresh northerly winds Lynn Canal
the of the Gulf of Alaska Fresh
along the from Dixon Entrance
Hinchnbrook Wednesday.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-07
DOW, JONES AVERAGES

The following are today's Dow,
Jones averages: industrials 1887,
rails $780, utilities 2597.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-07

MRS. SIMPSON BACK
Mrs. Belle G. Simpson has re-
turned to Juneau after a trip Out
side.
Evening star., 1939-10-28
Music Camp

The first music camp in the South
has been opened at Blue Ridge,
N. c. Boys and girls of high school
and college age are studying under
band and orchestra leaders.
Evening star., 1939-10-28
Gandhi Questions Value
OF Dominion Status
~ the Associated Press.

Dy the Associated Press.
BOMBAY, India, Oct. 28.-Mo-
handas K. Gandhi, leader of In
dia's Congress (nationalisD party,
questioned today whether dominion
status for India has any meaning
unless it Is synonymous with inde-
pendence
Gandhi posed his question while
expressing appreciation of the CON
ciliatory tone" of the statement
made in the British House of Com
mons Thursday by Sir Samuel
Hoare, lord privy seal, in defense
Of the governments India policy.
Sir Samuel said India had ad-
vanced far along the road to do
minion status, but declared it could
not be granted until "the Indians
themselves had settled their mi
norities problems.
Gandhi added that 1ndia's CO.
operation in the war is mot as
barren as Hoare believes"
"1t is still effective and will con-
tinue so. If the Congress party re-
mains violent" he said.
The Madras provincial govern
ment resigned yesterday in protest
against the recent British white
paper. which in effect postponed
consideration of dominion status
for India until after the war.
It was the first Of eight provincial
governments controlled by the Con-
gress party to resign. but Lord
Erskine. governor of Madras, re-
fused to accept the resignation
pending other arrangements to
carry on.
Evening star., 1939-10-28
Musso|ini. Exto|s
Strength Of Fascism
On Anniversary
BottIeship Launching
Postponed; 10000 Sail
For Africun Colonies
BY the Associated Press.

Oy tIlc hSSOSidteu 1ItSS.
ROME, Oct. 28.-Premier Musso-
lini, speaking on the seventeenth an
niversary of the Fascist march on
Rome, told a holiday crowd today
that fascism asked only the privilege
OF building and going forward
The anniversary of the ever
more glorious Blackshirt revolution
finds us as compact and strong as
ever from the Alps to the Indian
Ocean," said II Duce. speaking from
the balcony of his Office.
To-day, as during the harsh bloody
eve of revolution. fascism demands
for itself only single privilege. that
of building and going forward al
ways and in all circumstances with
the people and for the people"
Launching Is Postponed.
Launching of the 35.00O-ton bat
tleship Impero at Genoa was to have
been the most warlike event on the
days program, but the launching
was postponed indefinitely.
Most traditional was the handing
of Fascist party Identification card
No. l to Premier Mussolini.
At Bolzano. new Fascist youth
school for military specialists was
opened, but military accom-
plishments were stressed in most of
the natlon-w wide ceremonies.
Some 5000 of new contingent of
I re ot
to sail for Libya to join a previous
batch of 10000 in Italian South
Africa.
Members of Fascist youth organ.-
cations were summoned on this Sec
ond anniversary of their acceptance
into the Fascist party to see II Duce
award prizes to outstanding young
people.
Place Code in Archives.
Fascism has revived the ancient
Roman custom of depositing laws in
the state archives on Capitoline
Hill and it was arranged for Dino
Grandi, now minister of Justice, to
place the second volume of Italy S
new civil code there in Mussolini's s
presence.
Last night 1t. Gen. Achille Star
ace. secretary of the Fascist party,
turned over to the school of Fascist
mystical philosophy the den in
Milan which was the first editorial
office of II Duce's newspaper, II
Popolo dItalia.
Tomorrow will see the Inaugural
ton of Pomezia, second of the new
towns built on the reclaimed Pom
tine marshes.
Among many public works ordered
opened ceremonially were two strips
of newly electrified railway and a
block of miners homes in mining
town near Rome. The Agriculture
Ministry also announced Inaugural
ton of a second group of 100 farms
in the Apulla area of 1taly-farms
created by cutting up large estates.
Evening star., 1939-10-28
U. S.-Jopon rode Treaty
Talks Expected Soon
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TOXIC. Oct. 28.-Japanese news
papers said yesterday they expected
conversations would begin soon on
new American Japanese trade
treaty, but that the recent out
spoken speech by United States
Ambassador Joseph c. Grew had
darkened the prospects of an agree
ment.
Domei, Japanese news agency
said conferences between Mr.. Grew
and Foreign Minister Kichisaburo
Nomura might start next week.
The newspapers Yomiuru and
Kokumin reported. however, that
Nomura had told the cabinet Friday
adverse American opinion had be-
come such a formidable barrier
that Japan should prepare herself
by planning her 1910 supply of re-
sources without figuring on imports
from the United States.
Evening star., 1939-10-28
Naval Reservists
UrQed to Stund Bv

All Naval Reservists in the District
Of Columbia should stand by through
the limited emergency" prescribed
by President Roosevelt, 1t. A. j.
Benz, director of Naval Reserve af-
fairs of the District of Columbia
told Navy Day meeting of the Of
f1cers of the Naval Reserve last
night at the Hamilton Hotel.
Dwelling on possible mobilization
1t. Benz. who made the principal
address at the meeting, suggested
that all Reservists keep in close con-
tact with the Navy Department.
Capt. H. j. Copeland of the
Office of Chief of Naval Operations
also spoke, giving a picture of events
during the last war.
1t. w. B. Armstrong, president OF
the local chapter, presided.
Evening star., 1939-10-28
Woodring Declares
u. 5. Will Not Fight
Other Nations Wars
Denounces Forecusters
Of Americas Entry
Into Conflict Abroad
BY the Associated Press.

| By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Oct. 28.-Secretary
Of War Harry H. Woodring assured
the Nation today guns in the hands
of American soldiers would be used
"for defense only" and threw the
weight of his office behind this
pledge to peace:
Every man and every dollar
necessary for the defense of Amer
lea, but not one man, not one dol
lar to fight the wars of other ma
tions."
In a broadcast address before the
National Guard Association last
night, Secretary Woodring asserted
There is no man in public life to-
day who is more determined than
your Secretary of War that your
sons and my sons shall not march
forth to war"
whatever may be the method Of
employment of a weapon of war in
Europe or Asia" he said, "let me
assure you that, under our plans,
the same type Of weapon, In the
hands Of American soldiers. would
be used for purposes of defense
and defense only"
Raps U. S. Entry Forecasts.
The War Secretary in blunt terms
denounced "those who pronounce
the inevitability of our entrance into
this second World War"
Supporters of this viewpoint, he
said. breed mistrust in the deter
mination of the national admins
tration definitely to assure peace for
the Western Hemisphere"
Yesterday high Army officials
| opened fire on United States war
| preparedness, one asserting I'VE are
not even ready for Defense" and
another declaring the Army has a
lack of seasoned fighters"
1t. Gen. Hugh "A. Drum. COM
mander of the 1st Army and End
Corps Area. told the convention that
Recent maneuvers revealed our
forces to be lacking in almost every
essential except energy. aggressive
ness and intelligence"
I'VE are not ready for a war" he
said. I'VE are not even ready for de-
fense.
| Gen. Marshall Speaks.
1--WE learned in the field at Ma
nassas and elsewhere the startling
weaknesses of the National Guard
and other reserve units. 80 AS to
strength. the forces are far too small
to face the rigors of a campaign
He said efforts were being made
to correct the deficiencies disclosed
at the maneuvers.
Cen George C. Marshall. chief
Of staff of the United States Army
said this winters concentration of
5000 Regular Army troops in the
South would be a practical war
college"