The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 3, 1939, Page 2

ry Clearance Sae] dee;’ié‘ aincli{ C;iédren”s YOMEN’S SKIRTS Values up to $7.95 Clearance $3.95 - CHILDREN’S SKIRTS W0OL PLAIDS-CORDUROY Solid Colors Clearance $1.95 B.M. BEIIRENDS ., Ine. | Juneau's Lesking Deparimenl Store CUTS FOOT Martin Dahl was brought in from Pelican in -Lisianski' Strait ‘yester- Mrs, Danner Hostess |STU THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRL TUESDAY, JAN 3, 1939. PWA WORK | IN ALASKA SPEEDS UP Program for 1938 Reached ‘Construction Stage Weeks in'Advance POR'PLAND Ore, Jan. 13 — Breaking ‘all records for speed in putting men to work on useful pro- jects, the 1938 Public Works pro- gramin-Alaska; calling for expen- ditures of npbromalzly $9883,000 for | | piyrolls; matérials ahd other build- | ing costs, redched the construction | stage n all judieial districts in' the Territory many weeks in advance | of “the January ‘1 ‘deadline set by Congréss, Administrator Harold L. | Ickes was informed by Regional Di- : remc C. Heockley. ‘ Although “climatic conditions mde it necesstiry’'to suspend work on 'practically a11°public’ works pro- jects"in the “Territory during the | winter 'months, the 13 projects being built in Alaska were well under way , before contractors were forced to Jject sites. “Fhe " swiftness with which the| PWA program got under way in Al- "' askn is indicated by the fact that two ‘Territorial projects—a sewer- ageé system at Sitka ahd municipal improvements ' at' = Skagway—were stibstantially completed in less than five months after President Roose- velt signed the new PWA Act. { 15 Applications Okeyed | - Pifteen applications for PWA funds to ald in the construction of public works projects were filed by | cémmutiities'in" Alaska, and-all fif- ¢ |teén were approved. Two applica- tions later were rescinded, after al- !withdraw their workmen from pro-| day afternoon by Pilot Shell Sim- | mons in* the -Alaska -Air Transport Lockheed for hospital attention. Dahl cut his foot with an axe. .- — Today's News. Tuaay.—Emplre. Every Month in the Year AUCTION SALES DATES 1939 3ianuary 1 July 12 February 8 August 9 March 8 September 6 April 12 October 11 May 10 November 8 June 1 December 13 Special Sales Held On Heguest of Shippers Advances will be made as usual when requested. Transferred by telegraph, if desired L4 E .J:JATTLE FUR EXCHANGE 1008 Western Avenue Seattle, Wash. With New Year Party | Last evening Mrs. George Dan- lm-r entertained the Glad Tidings ‘,Band of young folks of the Bethel . | Mission Assembly ‘of God at her home on the Glacier Highway, at |a New Year's party at the close of | the Christmas ' vacation. Special | musical numbers were given during | the evening. Games were played and delicious refreshments served |at the close of the evenings fun and | good time. | Those ‘present were: Misses May land Stella Barnesson, Audrey Click, | Phyllis Cameron, Anna Lee Houk, | Peggy Houk, Jeari Johnson, Lillian | Lehto, Mary Fournle, Margaret | Femmer, Anna Mae Personeus, El- |len Weston, Dorothy White, Gene- | vieve White, Mrs. J. E. 'Click, Mrs. | ©. C. Personeus, Mrs. F. F. Cameron, and Mrs. George Danner. Mr. J. E. Click, Mr. C. C. Person-l eus, vin Click, Donald Groves, | Personeus and Ernest Reb. | Today's News ‘todav.—¥Embpire oLD |SER FIRST—massage throat, How to Ease “EST ves the distress. 'ru‘fil—to make its long-continued last even er, spread a thick layer of VapoRub on the chest and tover & warmed cloth. warking—loosens phlegm-—eases muscular soreness or tightness—clears air- mges—eueq Coughing—relieves wngesuon. . VIcKs ofl.m,bymarn- ing the worst of the cold is over. VapoRus o 3834 » i -mtdld 4 8ok Aum ELECTRIC RAHIA_[ WIRING SYSTEM full ‘provision for the easy use of electricity. The G-E Radial Wiring System is adequate. Contractors for G-E Radial Wir- \nhphuu us. We will be glad to 9 pay for but never use. It is lost between MU—DOUGLAS—ALASKA oni.oemleul systy and costs without obligation. vood l.lfl'l' & POWER C0. Ivan Winsor, Carl and Mer- Byron | ) cheafi and back with Vicks | Rub at bedtime. This | LONG AFTER sleep comes, VapoRub | keeps. warl Jensen 210 140 162— 512 Lindstrom . 184 154 le1— 490 Sturrock - 205 132 199— 536 Totals .. 599 ' 426 522—1547 New York Tavern Seston . 164 176 150— 490 | E. Schmitz .. 158 167 160— 485 B. Schmitz ...... 173 173 173—*519 Totals 495 576 483—1494 Juneau Dairies | Peterson 156 158 171— 485 |Adams ... 135 154 137— 426 |Jones - 189 148 128— 465 } Totals ... 480 460 436—1313 | AJ Mill il | Mationg ..... 178 128 212— 378 |Mura .. 167 135 169— 471 | iQuinw 174 186 164— 524 Totals .. 519 449 -545—1513 lotments had been authorized. IIIDEPEHDENTS :* | Throughout the Northwest region, Down &t e Brunswick alleys’ jast comprising Aléska, Washington, night, Sturrock’s 538 was the ‘best Oregon and Idaho, a total of 287 mark of the evening as his Inde- pendents beat the New York Tav- ern trio tvo of three. The AJ. Mill squad won two from the Juneau Dairies. Tonight’s game is at 8:30 Between Rainier Beer and George Brothers. Last night's scores were as fol- lows: Independents Did not bowl, air Recephon at Tem% Is Charmmg M Appro:dmltely three 'hundred per- sons attended ‘'the reception yes- terday afternoon at the Scottish Rite Temple, an annual New Year's| affair ‘given by the Scom.sh Rfl-e Masons. Because of the mvlcéc wumy for former Sécretary Edhrd w. Griffin, the reception “Hours # between 3 and 5_o'clock; ‘n hour later than previously plannéd. *—Average score. ‘pamcxpnted in “the ‘ enterta Community' singing “was fead by"Y. {J. Fargher, with ‘Mr5. Cérol . Beery \DEVIS accompanist for the after- inoon. Members of the. Order .of | Rainbow ' Girls and DéMolay 'Boys rinment; | while dancing was enjoyed in the | ballroom. ) Mrs. Katherine Hooker was in "charge of ‘arrangements for the af- | ternoon refreshinents. z b S | SEWARD BO | Mr. and Mrs. CHff | passengers on the El}n\ol ‘and vlclt- |ed triends i Juneau; enroute- to | Seward. ‘Bergeson is’ with sundnd |Oil at Seward ? | wi projects, estimated to cost $42,579,- 800, were under construction on | January-1. These projects, designed to'meet PWA requirements for “per- manent” and "tiseful” " construction, will afford approximately 43,000,000 man-hours of employment for work- ers on project sites and in lumber ,and ¢ément plants, fron foundries, suel mills and other industries sup- pxymg construction needs. All ' PWA construction projects were undertaken at the request of governing agencies in local com- | munities and were planned by the community, Director Hockley point- ed out. By supplying 45 percent of | the‘estimated cost, the Public' Works Administration made it possible for the' communities to build needed projects and send men back to work on construction sites and in | basic industries. Funds—Man-Hours Altogether, in the five and a half years of its existence, the Publi¢ | Works Administration has allotted fund.u for the construction of public works projects ~costing about six | billion dollars. These projects have provided to date, approximately ten billion man-hours of work at pre- vsmng wages under normal condi- | tions and have released hundreds of I'millions of dollars in wages to men might otherwise not have been employed. While the peak of PWA construc- tion throughout the nation will not be reached until the height of next year’s building season, private in- dustries engaged in the production, fabrication ‘and " transportation of i buildihg * materials already have benefitted to the extent of more tHan' fWwo ‘and a half billion dollars | irf faterlal orders, and will continue |/ to benefit under the current PWA pmm, the regional director Local communities participating in the'PWA ptogram by contributing 55 percent of the cost have indicated their heéd and 'desiré for a wide variety of public works projects which will provide employment at standard wages and tend te satisfy the social needs of the people, Di- rector Hockley said. wgre X “’ E%’fiuu Wit 2 ‘Hob " Elifs” 1éft * ft Retehikan - today tga p‘ssen‘ers ‘for Juneau, one . C. Arnold. 1': e hgr‘v:ym m%l‘ it was believed setting in ‘at|are likewise being asked how many spend the night at Pet-|ferent types they own and can use FUR POISONING RING BROKEN UP | Two Men Sentenced for| Alleged Use of Poison | in Taking Pelfs Blow at a purported fur poisoning ring in the Fort Yukon district has been struck by Wildlife Agent Pet- er McMullen with the arrest and conviction of John Sam, 43, and Clifton"J. Carroll, 20, according to AT FORI YUKON| FARMERS' ‘38 INCOME TAKES DECIDEDDROP Decrease Is Estimated at 11 Percent-Big Harvest Sends Prices Down By A. A. PATTON Associated Press Statistician a message to the Alaska Game Com- | mission today. Sam, an Indian trapper, was fined | $125 and given a three-months sus- pends-d sentence for sale of poimn‘ and Carroll, a white man, was given | a three-months suspended sentence | for possesion of poison, according to message from Wildlife Agent Mc- Mullen. The men were sentenced | at Fort Yukon yesterday. Game officials said rumors had been prevalent for some time o(v alleged poisoning operations in the | Fort Yukon district and McMullen finally traced a parcel, said to con- tain strychnine, to Sam. Carroll| later admitting receiving the pack- | age, officials said, and the two plead- | ed guilty to the offenses charged. | TRAINFOR AVIATION MECHANICS Over 7,000 Young Men Preparing for Jobs, | Govt. Policies WASHINGTON, Jan. 3. — Under the policies of the Federal Govern- ment to provide financial assist- ance to vocational education in the States, more than 7,000 young men in different parts of the country are now receiving training which will prepare them to become aviation mechanics, J. W. Studebaker, Com- missioner of Education reported to- day to Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. Figures issued by the Office o(l Education, Department of the Inter-| ior, show that in Federally aided | vocational schools and classes throughout the United States, there are 2,182 students in day-time class- es, 3,242 in part-time classes and | 1653 in evening trade-extension | classes. { The rapid expansion of commer- cial aviation has opened up a new field of activities for many boys. While the average boy is lured by the romance and adventure of pilot- | ing a great transport plane, there is a better chance of his finding an outlet for his mechanical ability in the specialized work that is needed at the airports, Commissioner Stude- | baker said. A far larger number of | men are reuired for ground work than for pilot duty. At the commercial air-base in Miami ten classes are being conduct- ed by the local Board of Education | with Federal aid to train employed aviation mechanics. In New York |City some 500 young men are being iprepared for this field. In Chicago, lwhere airlines maintain important | repair stations, a large number of | lmen are in training. Believing that this is an important \ laspect of .vocational training )n America the Office of Education‘ recently sent out 1,700 letters to| ‘universities and 26,000 letters to high schools and preparatory schools, in- quiring what classes in aviation axe‘ in progress, how many boys or girls are taking them, and what plans | are being made for increasing op- portunities for such training. The| survey is under the direction of | Robert W. Hambrook, Trade and Industrial Education Agent. Among the subjects envisaged as part of the regular high school or | trade school cwrriculum are the building of model planes to scale, powering these models with ‘gaso- line engines, flying of models, study‘ of principles of flight, study of avia- | tion events, building of gliders, glid- | ing or soaring, ground school train- | ing and flight training. The schools planes and airplane motors of dif- for study purposes. | farm sc NEW YORK, Jan. 3.—Prices of commodities crashed to the lowest levels in four years durinz 1938, as dwindling demand and large | harvests boosted surpluses to record- | brea tances Unlike industrial staples, which rallied sharply when business re- { set in during the summer. | agr cultural commodities registe: [only the feeblest of comebacks in) the final half of the year Farm prices, measured by the de- partment of agriculture index, av- eraged approximately 94 per cent ng proportions in some ins- of the 1909-1914 level during the year, 22 per cent under the aver- age for 1937. The break in quotations resulted |in an 11 per cent farm inccme re- duction, according to latest official imates, from $8,600,000,000 to, $7,- | 625,000,000. | Benift Payments helped The dip in cash receipts the farmer during 1938 was cushioned by a $130,000,000 jump. in govern- ‘ment benefit payments, which are expected to reach $500,000.000. The farmer fared somewhat bet- ter than his city cousin during the recession, however, government data indicates. Industrial workers, in- cluding largely urban dwellers, re- ceived roughly 13 per cent less this year than last estimates based on Department of Commerce: income data show, while farm income drop- ped to 11 per cent. Although the 1938 cotton crop was roughly one-third smaller than the record-breaking 19,000,000-bale har- vest of the year before, the south’s most important agricultural staple faced the largest surplus in history Wheat Stocks Heavy Wheat stocks also climbed to re- cord levels, as a result of the third largest crop in history. The gov- ernment, through the Federal Sur- plus Commodities Corp., therefore initiated an export subsidy in an ef- fort to regain some part of our former world market. Wheat and the other grains were hardest hit among the major con- tributo: to cash farm income. A recent survey by the Department of Agriculture indicated receipts from this source would be 23 per cent under 1937 this year. Cotton and « “tonseed account- ed for the second sharpest reduc- tion 4in agricultural income, an es- timated 18 per cent. Total cash receipts from all crops were placed at $3,100,000,000 against $3,870,000,000 a year ago, down 20 per cent. Crops supplied twe-fifths of all the money made on farms. Livestock Changed Little Livestock and livestock products, accounting for more than half of all receipts, were comparatively stable. Meat animals—hogs, lamb and cattle—and dairy products be- tween them showed a decline of only six per cent compared with last year. These two categories were by far the largest individual farm in- come producers. Government benefits alone add- ed 6% per cent to the farmers’ in- come. — - {Get Your License \Plates for This 1939 Year If you don’t have your 1939 lic- ense plates, you haven’t much time before they’ll cost you more money. That was the warning issued to- day from City Clerk Etta Mae Kol- asa’s office. The deadline for acquiring new | I plates is noon, January seventh—| {after that day, cars without their plates are subject to fines. e — ASSAYER SHALLIT HERE A. Shallit, in ‘charge of the assay office at Nome for the Territorial | Department of Mines and who has been relieving Assayer Nils Johans- | son at Ketchikan for the last month, arrived in Juneau'on'the Baranof. He will beé here about a’'week before going to Fairbanks to’ work a relief trick for Asseyer, Burns while the latter goes on vacation. l u. S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER {By the U. 8. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicin'ty, heginning at 3:30 pam., Jan. 2: Cloudy with snow flurries tonigh and Wednesday; moderate south- east winds. Weather forecast for Southeast Alaska: Cloudy with occasional rain except snow fiurries over northeast portion tonight and Wednes- day; moderate southeast except fresh over Dixon Entrance, Clarence Strait, Chatham Strait and Frederick Sound and fresh northerly winds over Lynn Canal. Forecast of winds along the Coa't of the Gulf of Alaska: Fresh southerly winds aldgg the coast from Dixon Entrance to Cape Spen- cer tonight'and Wednesday; fresh, southeast winds from Cape Spen- cer to Cape Hnmhmbmok Y LOCAL DATA ' Time Barometer - Temp. x-lu.mldxty Wind Velocity ~Weather 3:30 p.m. yest'y 28.91 32 s 6 Cloudy | 3:30. a.m. today 28.80 35 7B S 6 Pt. Cldy Noon today 2896 34 80 s 6 Lt. Snow RADIO REPORTS | TODAY Max. tempt. | Lowest 4am. 4am. Precip. 4am. Station last 24 hours | temp. .temp. velocity 24 hrs. Weather Atka 22 | 30 32 10 16 Cloudy Anchorage 14 8 12 4 0 Cloudy Barrow ' 0 -10 =10 12 0 Clear Nome 10 -2 6 4 0 Cloudy Bethel -4 | -6 -6 8 0 Clear Fairbanks -2 -18 -18 & 0 Clear Dawson - -12 -12 In 0. Cloudy St. Paul 32 22 24 0 Cloudy Dutch Harbor 34 26 30 8 02 Pt. Cldy Kodiak 32 24 24 4 0 Pt. Cldy Cordova 34 30 3 4 01 Cloudy Juneau 27 a2 3 6 04 Pt. Cldy Sitka 46 40 4 - 02 Ketchikan 44 42 44 10 85 Lt. Rain Prince Rupert 46 42 46 10 22 Lt. Rain Edmonton 8 0 4 4 0 Cloudy Seattle 52 14 44 30 55 Mod.R'n Portland o1 46 46 2 2 Lt. Rain San Francisco 56 50 50 6 T Cloudy New York 52 34 34 4 0 Cloudy WEATHER CO<DITIONS AT 8 AM. TODAY rain 44; Bellingham, raining ' y, 45; Alert Bay 41; Bull Harb raining, 40; Lang . pert cloudy, Triple and, raining; Prince Rupert, cloudy, Ketchikan, raining, 45; wdy, 40; Wrangell, cloudy, 32; Petersburg, raining y, cloudy, 32; Sitka, raining, 41; Cape Spencer, snowing; Tenakee, fogey, 33; Radioville, cloudy, Wy, 26: Klukwan, cloudy, 18; Haines, cloudy; , 28; Juneau, cloudy, 35; Taku Lodge, cloud, 14; Cordova, cloudy, Chitina, snowing, Seward, snowing, Anchorage, cloudy. cloudy, -14; Nulato, clear, -20; Rul part cloud -22; Stuyahok, cloud Bethel, cloudy, -5; Nome, snowiug Solomon, clear, clear, 0; ‘Council, cloudy, -4; C bell, part cloudy Jur 1, Jan. 4.—Sunrise, 8:47 a nset WEATHER SYNOPSIS The barometr ti] low c all Alaska, sc vV ern Canada, and t portion of north Pacific Ocean with the 1 and a seconc this morning sland ported pressu ry center of 2 inches, at Lan- at latitude 52 de- Lr\"v north, longitude 162 degrees w of high air pressure extended over the Pa Ocean from the Hawailan Isla to the southwestern United States, and tr& eter was also high over the Hudson's Bay region. During 24 ho light to moder- ate precipitation had f. Kleutian 1sl. 3 and from Prince ! william Sound south along the coast, to central California. Light snow fell at Fairview and Ches field Ir 1 Can: ., with ge ally fair weather prevailing over the rest of , central and western Can- ada, and the west coast states lun,.tmum»s were slightcolder over northern and northwester @ ot Kodiak this morning and warmer over other portions of th> Territory MRS. DONNELLY GOING SOUTH MISS CARPE Myrs. Donnelly of Flat, wife of Har- Clara arpenter, secretary ry Donnelly, well known banker, office of the Federal Com- merchant, mining man and former ions Dept., returned here Legislator, is traveling south on the on the steamer Baranof, fol- Mount McKinley after arriving here | 1 from the Interior yesterday aboard the PAA plax,v ywood, California, where she visited with her parents. | ROSE W|"H°UT THORNS (except for the pocket- book) decorate social Dorothy de Mifhau who helped model a 1 £1,000,000 jewelry fashion show in New York. Paul Flato spent & vear creating these three diamond-escrusted rosebud designs. POLLY AND HER IT!IS JUST THAT I By CLIFF STERRETT