The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 17, 1939, Page 2

T e ¢ Arrived for Spring IiMED COATS . ¥ } Fine New Woolens— Tweeds— Mixtures— Navy— Black— Sizes 12'10 44 B.M BEHRENDS C0o, l‘lec 4 “Juneau’s Leading Department p R rdupols ace of the Ameri-)gung 03 ¢ op ‘Whitehead, 220~ S Doy il pitcher of the Chicago { I lightweight champions are € Lynn Myers, 145-pound St. Louis 3 al shortstop and Jim Webb, pound Cleveland shortstop. The learhed Professors Edwards | 1d Brandt offer no explanation d o why fat runs to pitchers and an to shortstops.) Ihe tallest skyscraper in the big| MOSCOW, March 17.—A two- U is Robert Garner, 6-feet-7- nch Washington rookie pitcher. Jir Weaver, 6-feet-6 Pittsburgn er, tops the Nationals. hulled water-glider equipped to carry 150 passengers at a speed of more than 40 'miles an hour has been built here for Black Sea'serv- shortest guys are Leo Du-|ice between the southern health 1er Brooklyn shortstop-man- resorts of Sochi and Sukhumi. r; Cleveland's infielder, Frank| The two hulls of ‘the craft, each lzi; and Washington's outfield- Roberto Estalella. They're 5:06. about 75 feet long, are cohnected by a wide, bridge-like structure with many windows for the convenience of sightseeing passengers. ic is the tallest team that can stered from the big league | base—Detroit's Hank or Cincinnati’'s Frank lins, 5:09. Second base—Philadel- phia Phillies’ Emmett Mueller, 6:04. Second base —|5:06. Third base—Pittsburgh's Lee Oscar Grimes or St.|Handley, 5:08. Shortstop—Brook- rdinals’ Stu Martin, 6:00. jyn’s Leo Durocher, 5:06. Qutfield- ~Boston’s Jim ‘FPabor, | ers—Washington's = Roberto Esta- Shortstop—St. Louis Cardin- | jella, 5:06; Pittsburgh's Lloyd Wan- Martin Marion, 6:02. Out-{er, 5:07, and Cincinnati’s Stan n | fi s—Boston’s ‘Ted Williams, | Bordagaray, 5:07. Catcher—Cleve- - 6:03; St. Louis Cardinals’ Lou Vezi- |land’s Frank Pytlak, 5:07. Pitcher i . and New York Giants'| _chicago's Art Herring, 5:07. Winsett, 6:02'%.. Catecher —| ————,————— York Yankees' Bill Dickey or| Employers are opliged to shelter Ernie Lombardi, 6:02, their workers from the elements, shington’s Robert Gar-|the Mexican supreme.court has de- | cided, after a laborer died from the shortest team:| pneumonia and doctors said it ‘re- Chicago Cubs’ Rip Col-| sulted from his working in the rain. nberg Cormick, 1's d base "ing Is Your Business! T0 GUESS in any business is a RISK! | The installation of a modern model e PR hallicrafters” Radio-Telephone t will take you OUT OF THE GUESSING I CLUES — and INTO THE MONEY! 3 iy ] v ENGINEERING & MFG. CO., Inc. 205 South Franklin—Juneau | Bay. ihead may be taken around Sitka THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, MARCH 17,-1939. ’» ROD AND LINE SEASON NEARS King Salmon Season Now Weeks Away As the warm wind of approaching jpring breathes new life into the snow shedding hillsides, a man’s| thoughts turn to fishing, and while halibut fishermen gather at I. Gold- | stein’s, Charlie Warner’'s, and Swan- son’s, to prepare for the commercial halibut season, the fun-fishermen gets dutsy gear out of back closets It's worth predicting that there |will be a certain number of too- hopefuls this year, as in years past, | |who will go out to the lakes, the | streams and the saltchuck, at least t | two weeks before the fish, Salmon Follow Herring As for the salmon, the mighty King, oltimers say “Don’t expect salmon until the herring are in, and expect herring any time nflnri April 10.” The herring schools of the Juneau | section, are believed to winter in| deep water off the north end of | Shelter Island, and before they come | | to the surface, millions of inch-long | herring fry come to the sun‘mvJ where they are swarmed by gulls, giving rise to frequent erroneous reports that “the herring are in.” “Babies” at Auk Bay Such schools of baby herring are | reported to have risen in the last few days in the vieinity of Auk| Bay, according to the residents out the road, but Martin Holst, veteran herring seiner, says the real fish don’t appear for almost a month af- | | ter the baby fish. | And when the herring first strike in, they’ll put the earliest King sal- mon fishing on the calendar off| Amalga Landing and Eagle River| bar, and from there theyll work | down to Tee Harbor and so to Auk For steelhead, first arrival of the stream fish, Peterson Creek will give up a few, but not until the ice has run out of the river and Salt Lake. A good bet for those who want to| gamble, is any of a number of Out on the West Coast, steel- head and cutthroats will be caught around the first of April, while dur-| ing especially mild winters, steel- near the first of the year. King Time Near | But for that gamble, when it looks good on the mainland shore, but the fish still haven’t appeared, take a run-by boat or plane out to Pavlof Harbor, Hoonah Sound, Lake Eva, Angoon, or other locale where falr; sized streams cross long grassy flats| and give steelnead and cutthroat open and unobstructed watre warm- ed by tidal flats. You should click. ‘The calendar says March 17 today That's only about three weeks thtil King salmon time. HosriTAL NOTES Ben Peterson was a medical dis- | ‘missal from St. Ann’s Hospital last‘ night. | { Harley Rutherford was admitted to St. Ann’s Hospital this morning for surgical care. A baby girl was born this morn- ing at the Government Hospital to Mr. and Mrs. David Williams, of Hoonah. Mrs. Evelyn Edenso, of Craig, was admitted for surgical attention this morning. - GROWING CHILDREN N€ED MEAT "THE BEST IS CHEAPEST"” for Finest Meatls Phone 38 AMERICAN MEAT CO. | TOM-HUTCHINGS, Manager- Only About Three | | s This young Parisian buys violets for her first spring hat and wraps them in a mist of myste The straw hat is black, the violets shade from rosy mauve to purple, and the veil, which swathes both and ties under the chin, is a deep rosy mauve. Designed by Violet Marsan. us veil. ST PATRICK'S [man DANCE AT ELKS : TOMORROW EVE Ladies’ Aux. 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LOCAL DATA 17: Time barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity =~ Weather 3:30 pm. yest'y ... 3032 3 34 s 8 Cloudy 3:30 a.m. today 30.12 29 94 sw 2 Lt. Snow Noon today 30.03 32 29 8 8 Cloudy RADIO REPORTS TODAY Max. tempt. Lowest 4am. 4am. Precip. 4a.m. Station last 24 hours temp. ‘temp. velocity 24 hrs. Weather Atka 40 | 30 30 8 0 Clear Anchorage 34 14 14 4 [] Clear Barrow 16 12 12 26 ] Cloudy Nome 26 10 24 16 [ Clear | Bethel 20 14 14 2 0 Clear Fairbanks 26 0 0 4 0 Clear Dawson . 6 -14 4 0 0 Clear St. Paul 26 20 22 18 0 Clear Dutch Harbor 34 32 34 16 T Cloudy Kodiak 36 32 36 4 27 Rain Cordova 44 32 34 4 0 CGloudy | Juneau 35 28 29 2 19 Snow Sitka. 48 | 33 — - 43 Ketchikan 42 38 40 4 99 Rain I Prince Rupert 46 36 46 24 .66 Rain Edmonton 18 | ~20 -16 4 0 Clear Seattle 52 | 48 48 4 03 Cloudy « Portland 62 | 50 5 4 T Cloudy San Francisco . 8 | 58 58 4 0 Clear New York 48 | 30 30 8 o0 Clear ‘Washington 48 | 32 2 4 o Clear WEATHER SYNOPSIS Barometric pressure was high over northern and interior Alaska and over southern Canada and the Pacific Northwest this morning. A large low pressure area covered thesouthern portion of Alaska, the Gulf of Alaska and extended southover the north' Pacific Ocean from the Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutian Islands to latitude 35 degrees N., with a central pressure of 29.20 inches at latitude 48 degrees N., longitude 156 degrees W. Light to moderate precipitation eoccurred at Kodiak and from upper Southeast Alaska along the coast to the | Straits of Juan de Fuca, also over southern Alberta and Saskatchewan | with generaily fair weather prevailing over the remainder of Alaska, western and Central Canada and the West Coast States. Warmer | temperatures were reported from all portions of the Territory except around Fairbanks this morning, the largest increases in temperature | during the last 24 hours being noted over western Alaska and from ; Prince William Sound to Dixon Entrance. s Juneau, March 18.—Sunrise, 6:10 a.m.; sunset, 6:08 p.m. | tion beirig extended to the public; SOUTH PASADENA, Cal. March 17.—Charles C. Reynolds did inlaid woodwork for years, and when he started his most ambitious work, a directors’ table, he decided to count the pieces used. #It took his six years to finish it —and the wood used consisted of 1,110,000 pieces. | to be in attendence. Prizes will be awarded for whist land pinochle, with grand prize awards made at the end of the ser- ies. ———— ( The first stock ticker was intro- duced in 1867. Hollywood Sights And Sounds By Robbia Ceom HOLLYWOOD, Cal, March 17.—The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (pardon the formidable title but what can you do with it?) broke precedent this year. Not in handing out its awards, of course. Any dope could have forecast the main results simply by putting two, two and Holly- wood together. I say this advisedly, inasmuch as even I who look through a glass darkly managed a fair batting average on pre- dictions. They crossed us up (again!) by two-timing on Bette Davis and Spencer Tracy, who already had an Oscar apiece, but then that was an admitted possibility. (Only appalling prospect is that B. Davis will be up for it again next time, what with “Dark Victory” coming up. Seems to me they ought just to set up a permanent B. Davis Trophy—so the other little girls could win a door-stop once in a while.) ‘Where they broke precedent, really, was in the party they gave to commemorate the dishing out of the Golden Brass. You can’t appreciate that unless you've been to eight or nine or ten Academy Awards Dinners in the past—all as forbidding and deadly dull as the name of the august organization. This year the thing was a party instead of an ordeal. I mean a Party where people, even the people who spell Glammer, seemed to have a good time. On the speaker's platform there were plenty of stiff shirts but no stuffed ones. The Academy, some- oo we’rein arut—— and darned glad of it . . . it doesn't matter to us what happens or who is kicking up a fuss . . . we just ‘ go right on'serving the besi meals i in Juneau. Percy’s where along the path of this past arduous, uncertain year of its existence, seems to have picked up what it lacked before—a Sense of Humor. And when folks like Edgar Bergen and McCarthy and Snerd got up to speak, and Bob Hope, and other guys who know a laugh when they smell one three blocks away, I couldn’t help thinking What a Change . . .. And Shirley Temple can’t reach the mike, and giggles like a kid when she muffs her little speech—and is the more charming for it—and Spencer Tracy accepting his Oscar makes a minute speech about its really being meant for Father Flanagan, a speech so modest and so obviously sincere that it almost forbids the applause that crashes over him—and the amus- ing whimsy in the Disney award, a big Oscar with seven little Oscarettes for “Snow White”. . . . Well, I for one had a good time. Il What a change, this, from the old Academy days when speakers made speeches . . . . when everybody was so veddy, veddy careful of his or her Precise Diction that the life was gone from what he or she had to say before he or she said it . . .. which is a terrible way of putting it but typical of the extreme selfconsciousness of the horrible occasions happily beyond recall . . . . Beyond recall . because Hollywood, in growing up, has learned to relax a litle and be itself . ... And a pretty impressive self, sneerers to the contrary, it is .. . . Anyway, maybe the difference this year was simply this—that neither Will Hays nor Louis B. Mayer, my favorite orators, got } . near the mike! 5 S A NI S i i ] = 5 N Qe == { 3 i“" | ol [ ! Fhd i i { = ! e SRS SERSSEE SRR, iy