The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 27, 1938, Page 2

2 : THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, DEC. 27, 1938. JANUARY, 1938 SHesssions o aThoue o WAR! * WORRIES MOUNT UPWARD ABROAD iolted by the marriage of a car- | One way to help in ascertaining m——T | where we are is to look back on enter's 28-year-old daughter to ‘ the road by which we have | 7leld Marshal Werner von Blom- | trayelled.—Lord Grey. be Spanish loyalists took | | s, Teruel, their first great victory for| | | In the year now nearly oyer, |months. And Nippon nibbled on in | ! the world careened along a |China, but promised to be Uncle | | rough, bewildering road. Some | Sam’s pal in 38 | £ | folks goose-stepped; some did Taking the Long View 3 | ? A TE WET i T | the Lambeth Walk. And here’s America prepared to build a big- 2i0-% ool Bouble Blankets 3| i s tme monin-by-montn |r navy. “Our people believe | glance back. This is the first, | (he President asserted, “that ov £$9.95 part, January's. The next chap- | he years democ Bciee ulwv‘x“ wor ter deals with February, and so | Wi wvive, and de ; . 1‘ AC ”“ i 3 ry el ye restored or established in 105€ By VOLTA TORR The Hc of Representatives # AP Feature Service Writer ricd the Ludlow war referen- i . lum plan ) to 188. The ) 2 i There was a dearth of prophecy | became entangled in an when the iron tongue of midnightlynching bill filibuster. The Su- tolled s arrival. Jitterbugs | preme Court was kept in he es shouted “Bei Mir Bist du Schoen,” by Associate Justice Sutherland's but outside the night clubs, busi- retiremen appointment of So- ness stagnated e work vou citor Ger al Stanley Reed to . YRS o B |can get it” was a popular ph p. succeed him, and Justice Cardozo’s on Sheet Bian ket Special Canint Toker ol b Big- | illness |gers estimated 10,000,000 Americans| Jersey s Mayor Hague -~ < > p | were unemployed, and big business spurned a Senate seat to continue d ‘3??\535?9 h!.,za men went silently to Washington.| his war on “reds.” Glenn Frank {like small fry entering the woodshed ' agreed to head the G.O.P. program with father, committee. . New York WPA actors || Interior. Secretary Ickes and As- | presented * one-third of a na- {/sistant Attorney General Jackson | tjor Al Loiais | B I{; %_ "$ }1 d . T s “Heigh, Ho, Heigh, Ho . . . : : _ i/ - & 'rffi\ ' 5 s o nc - “Snow White and the Seven oy SonarRfalntcs [ 1%'5-'5 “‘-"}@ A "5 L “ Dwarfs” delighted ‘'most every- ‘l';fn:f"::’{,rl::: oty . Lz A ; : e | body. Stay-at-homes tuned in on 28 “Juneau’s Leading Department Store Toscanini or read “The Citadel. The Arts,” or “Northwest Pas- Mo =i immilif el satmoelifrtrmee i\ orostfpref ] | s Idlers in corner drugstores Eloafiymmenfymmcnflmamefysmnonfis r Tl | discussed the 22-day fast of Dean > | | Israel Harding Memphi: E he Ely Ibertson Three New Rear Admirals SEWARD-KENAI | o Blesapoik T i AT TR L R LIS oo | b3 over an adopted son o L 8. Ross of Chicago. i A " B '8 Seven died when Pan American EIN URGED' Airways' Pilot Edwin C. Musick crashed near Pago Pago, Ameri- can Samoa, and 10 died in an air- | 708 Kenai Residents Pe- | terists on eward at Terwel |0 (e . Bruno, e the | fi”Ofliflg l_egislature (who then “.;: e ))\wv\‘kxl \]u r[”p for motored ‘humbmx on :; u[;mfl»\m\ i & { b 2 governor of New York) had been ht from Ttaly to South America 8 R O'h 0“ f ' booting business “bourbons.” Men ¢ Birth of a Baby Snow White dances with Dwarfl er utticiats | means fought NLRB and fumed A French cabinet crisis del later). made the Jews squirm. The | " about “that man in the Wi League of Nations councils jggR.’s new parliament met; the| House.” But before the month ended 100th session. Anthony Eden still y' s. got curiouser and curiouser | Urging an immediate survey of a | there was truce talk. And Econo- was figure-skating for Brit- | about a M¥. and Mrs. Donald L. Ro~| highway leading from the ‘Present | mist Leonard P. Ayres foresaw an|ain. Kurl Schuschnigg was deal binson whom the Russians had in | end of the Seward-Kenai road to upswing by s to Italy’s efforts to lure Ausivia| jail | | the town of Homer, a petition is| «another another war?” oul of the league. Both democrati And January 31 in Holland, a 51- | being sent to members of the Leg- Europe thought. Unusually brigh | fascist missionaries bustled gun salute announced the birth of | islature, the Governor, the Alaska Northern lights onc through the Balkans—and Ruma-| Prir Jilthnals. bbs. Beatelé Road Commission, Planning »COIJncll. made peasants pia’s new poct-premier, Octavian Wilhelmina Armgard, destined .“m;. Dr. Ernest Gruening, Interior Sec-|haq dawned. But Germany’ was Goga (who died only four months| day to rule 69,000,000 people retary Harold L. Ickes and Delegate “ & L 7 % SaSe Anthony J. Dimond by 708 residents | ot "fhe 'Rebal! Paginsula, aboobding MANEUVERS SHOW THAI— U S ARMY |it. it is a thrilling sight from a mili- | D tary standpoint,” he added. “It seems | to me any sensible enemy will turn and run in the face of such an attack. | > e HAROLD McKINLEY INJURED IN JUMP to Don Carlos Brownell, Mayor of Seward. A copy of the petition ap- - pears elsewhere in today’s Empire. | SIE“‘ HAS NEED rOR "'S HGQSES The petition points out that many | e of the signers want to settle in the L Kenai district and they want to be along the road, thus the reason of the immediate survey so that set- Three of the nine eaptains of the United States Navy whose promotion | "\ ©0 "0 0B 0 ot wiere the | to the rank of res iral bas been approved by l’nsulx:m, nlngmi S e are shown above, Left, Arthur L. Bristol, Jr., commanding the naval | 101 i 1 ‘ i st John M. Smeallie, chief of staff e | e. Right, Robert L. Ghormley, The diamond back, most danger- ous of rattlesnakes, attains a length | of eight feet. ! | and aide to comr er of ¢ aide to chief of naval ope tions in Washington. Receives Broken Leg Yes-| terday Afternoon in First | Ski Accident of Season | Early yesterday afternoon Harold | (Mac) McKinley, chef at the Top Notch Cafe, and member of the Juneau Ski Club, was injured in| the first serious accident of the} season on the Douglas Ski Trail. | McKinley, in attempting a jump at the second meadow, received a break in his right leg when his ski dug into the snow, which was not; hard-packed enough for jumping. | Excellent first aid was rendered | by Ted Coomera, ski instructor, who | made temporary splints as support, while others packed McKinley to the road, where an ambulance was waiting to take him to St. Ann’s Hospital. 3 r i fobs for Alaskans J A 3 S, MARY JOYCE WILL - STRING DOGS FOR .(‘:\valry dequipl’:’lent a;sclxlt;le(l about Su" vAllEY FOlK | him, commented: | “If war is what General Sherman, Mary Joyce will fly to Fairbanks | said it was, then the next one will be tomorrow with Pacific Alaska Air- Hell on Wheels.” ways to get malamutes or huskies | | Scattered over the =<7 Riley acres 'for a team she may take to Sun | | were squatty combat cars, 10-ton Valley, Idaho. |track-laying giants, bristling with | This million doliar ski resort will | machine guns. There were also keep Mary busy with a team and | armored scout cars, fast and ‘made dogs until April if Mary can get the | for rough going. And mixed in with dogs she wants. This cavalryman wears a padded helmet—instead of ihe wide- brimmed campaign hat—to protect his head while inside his steel mount. BACKGROUND In Lima, Peru, the United States delegation to the Pan-American Conference urges a united stand against any foreign political or ry aggre on. In Wash- ington, the administration pon- " ders plans to spend millions for arms and officers study reports of summer and fall mancuvers or lessons in defen: One such Gen. | residents have hookworm. disease now as did 25 years ago. |provéd they can work together ef- “Suppose,” answers Brig. | fectively in the kind of mobile army | Guy V. Henry, commandant at Fort :tlw United States needs to defend | Riley, combined unit of horse and its far-flung frontiers. | mechanized cavalry is operating to- Thats the consensus of officers | ward a stream too deep for the com- who took part in recent joint ma- |pat and scout cars to cross. | neuvers of “iron and horse” cav- “The solution is to fight to the & alry units in Kansas, some of the | stream’s edge; then the horse cav- . o . 5 B iy BLEes i LAY at THE GASTINEAU HO- IT'S » FACT that the Canned Salmon Industry provides more jobs for | e, shignatve eves condueted by |alry makes its way across the river Ry S [‘,Ic,,mb,, 31st., at least, . | the army. : i ?) o R " ) | ) and establishes a bridgehead so that | oo R GLASS- Alagkans during the fishing season than any other industry does. It’s alse | Twenty years ago, whien the World | enginers can throw across @ wr\-ifii“fflflgff&.fii’r S e : » . | War ended, militarists were aimost |toon bridge. The mechanized units » o T, 99 | X ) kers h /i at other times || in pr s that tr : » |fects, ete. a fact that the packers hang out the Help Wanted” sign | unanimous in predicting that trench |can then cross and lead the attack” S €t o4 . i . warfare had dehorsed the leather-| Coordination between horse and | x of the year, Each fall and spring, hundreds of men are employed in the |Annual Trip 1o Tweaty Years. Ee |legged cavalryman and sent his|iron cavalry units in the recent| | s - 8 favorably known : : i g i i mount to the rear, maneuvers _exceeded expectations, |5 S0 Wwell and maintenance of canneries and other equipment; furnishing construction Today the cavalry admits that the | officers said. that further comment is unneces- and box shook materials, wire netting, supplies the Industry needs to sary operate. That’s why good times for the Salmon Industry mean good times |day of “fighting stirrup to stirrup| One old cavalry officer, sitting throughout Alaska. Y lesson is presented h | them were machine gun squad | Mary expects to be in Fairbanks V;//// | 3 & trucks, maintenance trucks and about a week. %///// | troop and battery commanders’ cars. R o3 / ////-" $ | FORT RILEY, Kans—The horse| “What part then can a horse| A recent survey indicates that // {4 |and the mechanized cavalry have |play?” civilians frequently ask. less than a third as many Alabama - DR.J. W. EDMUNDS OPTOMETRIST of Alaska and Seattle Boihhn=2).\ with shining sabers” seems to be atop a hill while watching a horse | , gone. But some militarists are ready |unit attack with & thud of, hoofs—|School Children's eyes examined, to revise their opinions about the |from the morth — and mechanized OF to show t-he' Christmas ‘spirlt need of horse cavalry. units roaring from the east and west, bY ha\‘r:‘lf Father's or Mother’s eyes A bronze-faced sergeant who sat | said “this spectacle sends cold chills examined. on the fender of a combat car and down my back.” ) PHONE FOR APPOINTMENT Now is a good time to have| | . ONDOUGLASTRAIL uneay coupte Wed _ U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER ‘ (By the U. S.” Weather Bureau) ol Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 3:30 p.m., Dec. 27: | Fair tonight and Wednesday, continued cold; east-northeast gale to- | night, moderating Wednesday. ] Weather forecast for Southeast Alacka: Fair tonight and Wednes- day; continued cold; east-northeast gale tonight, except north over Lynn Canal, and moderate east to north winds at Ketchikan, mod- erating somewhat Wednesday over most of Southeast Alaska, be- coming fresh to strong east-northeast winds, except north wind over Lynn Canal and strong easterly winds over channels having an east- oY west direction; and moderate east t onorth winds at Keetchikan. Forecast of winds along the Coast of the Gulf of Alaska: From wl¥ Dixon Entrance to Cape Spencer: Strong northeast winds, gales at times, becoming fresh to stronz Wednesday. From Cape Spencer to Cape Hinchinbrook: Moderate to fresh east-northeast winds to- night and Wednesday, except strong over mouth of the Copper River. LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity = Weather 3:30 p.m. yest'y .. 3043 11 74 NE 21 Clear 3:30 am. today . 3014 10 38 NE 22 Clear R Noon today 30.09 9 59 NE 20 Pt. Cldy RADIO REPORTS b TODAY Max. tempt. | Lowest 4a.m. 4a.m. Precip. 4am. Station last 24 hours | temp. velocity 24 hrs. Weathe) Atka 40 36 14 .05 Pt. Cldy 3 Anchorage 16 16 8 0 Cloudy 3 Barrow -2 18 6 0 Clear ! Nome 18 18 12 .01 Clear Bethel 10 | 10 20 0 Pt. Cldy é Fairbanks -4 | -20 4 0 Clear i 4 Dawson -44 | -48 12 0 Glear St. aPul 38 38 18 0 Cloudy ol Dutch Harbor 38 34 36 8 135 Rain Kodiak 36 34 34 8 25 Cloudy Cordova 28 22 22 4 0 Clear Juneau 14 8 10 22 0 Clear Sitka 24 | 16 — — 0 . Ketchikan 28 20 20 4 0 Clear ¥ Prince Rupert 30 22 24 4 0 Clear d Edmonton -12 -34 -32 4 0 Clear Seattle 42 38 42 18 .08 Rain 1) Portland 40 26 38 8 .09 Rain San Prancisco 60 48 48 4 0 Clear New York 52 38 52 20 99 Cloudy hd - ‘Washington 46 | 42 44 4 88 Cloudy WEATHER CONDITIONS AT 8 AM. TODAY Seattle (airport), misting, temperature, 38; Bellingham, cloudy, Bull Harbor, raining, 37; Prince Rupert, clear, 23; Peters- 41; Victoria, missing; Alert Bay, cloudy, Triple Island, clear; Langara, cloudy. Ketchikan, cloudy, 18; clear, 26; Wrangell, clear, 13; burg, clear, 7; Sitka, clear, 18; Cap> Spencer, clear, 21; Hoonah, part- Craig, 173 ly cloudy, 12; Windham Bay, clear, 16; Tenakee, clear, 12; Radio- o ville, clear, 16; Juneau, clear, 9; Skagway, clear, -3; Haines, clear; Eldred Rock, clear, 9; Tulsequah, clear, 2; Atlin, clear, -24; Cordova, of cloudy, 10; Cape St. Elias, parily clloudy, 26; Seward, cloudy, 22; An- chorage, cloudy, 14; Fairbanks, clear, -28, Hot Springs, clear, -22; Tanana, cloudy, -10; Nulato, clear, -22; Ruby, cloudy, -10; Flat, clou- dy, 8; Stuyahok, clear, -4; Bethel, cloudy, 10; Golovin, clear, 8; Solomon, clear, -2; Council, clear, -3; Nome, clear, 1. Juneau, Dec. 28.—Sunrise, 8:50 a.m.; sunset, 3:14 p.m. WEATHER SYNOPSIS Abnormally high barometric pressure prevailed this morning over the Mackenzie and upper Yukon valleys, with a crest of 30.96 inches e at Mayo. Low barometric pressure prevailed over the Aleutian Is- lands and northeastern portion of the North Pacific Ocean, there g being a storm area of 29.30 inches centered over the North Pacific Ocean at latitude 52 degrees and longitude 142 degrees. This gen- eral pressure distribution has been attended by precipitation along the coastal regions from the Aleutians eastward to Kodiak and over southern British Columbia and Washington and Oregon and by fair weather over the remainder of the ficld of observation. Strong northeast winds and gales were reported over most of Southeast Al- aska and southerly gales off the coast of Washington. It was colder last night over Southeast Alaska and over Alaskan Arctic Coast and warmer at Anchora The lowest reported tempera- * ure last night was 58 degrees belo w zero at Mayo. i ATTENTION O.E - o" (HR'STMAS EVE Regular meeting of Juneau Chap- ; ter No. 7, Tuesday at 8 p.m., Initia- “ e William John Engel, Alaska Ju- tion. Entertainment for Rainbow neau employee, and Gloria Ida | O DeMolays, Masons and Vis- Bardi were married late Saturday iting Stars. afternoon by U. S. Commissioner LILLIAN G. WATSON, Felix Gray. The couple was at- adv. Secretary A tended by Arline Rice and Bernard e 4 Friske. | Today's Newt Taauy.—Empire. b —— - —_— — vr COLUMBIA LUMBER COMPANY o OF ALASKA g . Lumber and Building Materials PHONES 587 OR 747—JUNEAU SECURE YOUR LOAN THROUGH US To Improve § HALIBUT FISHERMEN 1 lpeered over the acres of mechanized | “But whatever you may say ahontlfl'l' ONCE. DON'T DELAY, ady. l = hazards take heavy toll, too. 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