The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 29, 1939, Page 2

UNHEARD OF! BUT TRUE ! Michaels - Siern Qualily Suils as low as $25 NEW MODELS FOR SPRING 1839 ~— IN THE FAVORITE WEAVES AND PATTERNS ARRIVING ON EVERY BOAT . SIZES FOR EVERYONE. B. M. BEHRENDS COMPANY, Inc. | “Juneau’s Leading Department Store” PHONE 411 | CONNORSMOTOR COMPANY ;Morrm:. L. H. Metzgar, Ernest Par- sons, A. B. Phillips, W. 8. Pullen, = IPUBLIC INVITED T0 ELECT NEW SCOUT COUNCIL A_council of seven, chosen from and by the public at large, is to direct. Boy Scout activities in Ju- neau for the coming year. The council will be elected to- morrow evening at a meeting in the City Council Chambers at'7:30 o'- clock. Distfict Chafrman Chn:les [ | Burdick, stating thaf Scouting 1§ in the public inteFést and should be supervised by a ldrger cross-section of the public, invites anyone inter- ested in the movement to attend tomorrow’s meeting and.have a vote en a8 well at men are invited. A nomination committee has sug- gested a number of hames for di- rectdrs and additional nominations will be made from the, floor, The committee nominees are as fol- lows: Judge George F. Alexander, C. B. Arnold, Dewey Baker, Charles G. Burdick, Tom Cashen, the Rev. John L. Cauble, Tom Dyer, Frank Dufresne, H. L. Faulkner, the Rev. J. A. Glasse, Charles Goldstein, Henry Harmon, Wellman Holbrook, {Earle Hunter, the Rev., G. E. Knight, the Rev. William G. Le- Vasseur, John McCormick, K. G. Dan Ralst and Keith Wildes. ELECTRAS KLY AGAIN. AS SKY LANES REOPEN Eleven piqsepgers ¢ame in and p with Pacific Alaska Airways Electras today as sodden ing again aftér two days of thick Wweather, i Arrivals from Fairbanks were R. E. Murphy, J. G. Shepard, A. L, Kaye, T, Mack, C, M. Hansen, Mrs. | M. Swenson, Janet Swenson, Jerry Swenson, Stéve Carey, Della Hill! and’ Charles Goldstein. 1 Flying to Fairbanks were, C. B.| Day, Glenn Day, Mr. and Mus, F. B.| Gillespie, J. C. Smith, Ed Cluasen, C. J. Newlin, I. K. McWilliams, D, J. Simpson, J. Miscovich, Pete Miscovich, A. Miscovich, Mrs. A Miscovich, H. P. Sheppard, Mrs. | SPECIAL MEETING Juneau Transport Workers LOCAL 172 ¥ [ THURSDAY — MARCH 30 8:00 P. M. UNION HALL IMPORTANT! SN S S SRS . R USED WASHING MACHINES WANTED “NOW is the time fo furn your old washer in “on & nice, new, white, guaranleed model. Selecteither . . .. <y General Electric . Easy Thor You can't afford to miss this deal: LIBERAL ALLOWANCE EASY PAYMENT PLAN ;\laska Electric Light & Power Co. IUNEAU——ALASKA—DOUGLAS_ LS LN BN #How much fire insurance do you have? How much $BHOULD you have? Do you have enough? Too little? &oo much? Are you unpro fected against hazards that Fay cause you serious firancial loss? = ’ Wou should know the answ t e glad to help you. Cou cuestions, We'll in, wile or ylephone SHATTUCK AGENCY ' vHONEZS There is n substitute for Newspaper Advertising | Livengood, and‘A. Frances. [to the 1939 halibut banks. Roars Down. H. P. Sheppard, A. H. Harford, J. Next PAA trip from Fairbanks to Juneau will probably be made Sun- day. TRt E FIVE. VESSELS - TAKE ON BAIT AND ICE TODAY Five halibut boats took ice and bait today, the first boats to make final preparations for getting away Most of them plan to leave to- morrow morning. They are as fol- lows: the Fremont, Capt. Olaf Win- |ther; Dixon, Capt. Emil Samuél- son; Hyperien, Capt. Oscar Oberg; Emma, Capt. Tom Ness; Diana, Capt. Eli Johnson: Seventh Slide _ Snowslide Gulch The seventh major snowslide of the year blocked the Thane road today at Snowslide Gulch, leading the Bureau of Public Roads to re- \issue its warning to motorists to |stay off the road except in case of |dire emergency, 3 | A small slidé of mud and. boul- |ders at Mile 14 blocked the Gla- |cier Highway for several hours early ceilings lifted to permit plane fly-| A | in the election of the council. Wom- 1 Mercury Hits 56 Above At Fairbanks Spring arrived in Fairbanks yes- terday, a week late but with a ven- geance.. The temperature soared to 56 degrees above, tying the record for March heat, according to in- formation recetved by the U. S. Weather Bureau here. At Nome, yesterday’s maximum | temperature just touched the line between freezing and thawing, and | then swooped down from 32 above to 15 below zero within a 12-hour period. | Maximum at Anchorage yester- day was 50 degrees and at Juneau | 38. Rain here, in the 12 hours from | 8 yesterday morning until 8 in the evening, amounted to 281 inches and in the 24 hours from 5 o'clock | yesterday morning until 5 o'clock thiy morping was. 3.30 inches. AL D PAP BASEBALL BALL IS SET FOR SATURDAY EVE First training session of the com- ing fiorsehide campaign is set for| Channel . Leaguers and Hot Stove| Leaguers next Saturday evening, when the Moose Lodge will hold its | apnual Baseball Dance at the Elks Hall, Proceeds of this year’s ball are to be used to supplant the well-worn uniforms, in which the Champion Moose ‘apple knockers have capered | for these many seasons past. | Moose ball team Manager Art Mc- Kinnon, who is acting on the dance committee, promises a real warm-up and peper session for those attend- ing. SITA PlANES T0 FLY HERE fly to Juneau April 8, remaining here tend the military ball being held thaf evenlng by the Reserve Of- ficers_Association. The formal invitational dance will be held at the Shrine hall. {this morning' until & right-of-way was cleared by the Bureau of Pub- |lic - Roads. Needlem sm | Moving fo Seward:- Street Quarders Forced ,to,, tion where she nndah?x‘: lzhg\ Bve- land, former owner, have operated the Needlgcraft lz!\op for the past several years, Fowler today stated that her shop will be closed during tomorrow and Fri- day, but is expee ta, re-opep in its new location Saturday morning. The Negedlecraft, Jis 1o be moved to quarters in the Valentine Buliding on Seward sireet formerly occupied by the Canadian Pacific Railway office. Removal of the shop was forced by planned, expansipn of the showrooms of the Rice and Ahl- ers Co, owners of the building on Third and Franklin streets where the Needlecraft Shop was formerly situated, e — Elmer Lindstrom and Carl Jen- sen have purchased the 38-foot boat Starlight. e C. E. McDonald and Mrs, McDon- ald arrived in the north on the North Sea and continued to Sitka. Word .that the naval officers and planes were coming to Juneau was received by Lieut. Cortaland 8. B;ooks from t.he commandmg officer Em GIVES PHOTOGRAPHS 10 - ALASKA MUSEUM Donuuon to the Territorial Mus- eum of a “grand set of enlarge- ments” of Alaska scenes was an- nounced today by Father A. P. Kash- evaroff, curator. The seven photographs were tak- en by Bradford Washburn, explorer, and enlarged to 38 by 50 inch size by the Agfa Ansco Corporation of Bing- hamton, New York, which is donat- ing the set. Scenes are as follows: Mount Mc- Kinley from an altitude of 10,000 feet flying over the Park to the Northeast; Mount St. Elias, from a plane making the first flight across the head of Seward and Columbus Glaciers; Ester dredge of the Fair- banks Exploration Company at, Fair- banks, showing in detail all the op- erations of gold dredging; the great southerly 14,000 foot sheer cliff of Mount Logan, one of the greatest precipices in the world, photograph- The United States Government formally communicated to Germany its stinging “condemnation” of Hit- ler’s seizure of Czechoslovakia as an act of “Wanton lawlessness” ter, facing camera), is shown as he released to Washington, also said this Government “does not recognize that any legal basis exists” for Germany's protectorate over |0 nits way to Juneau, is an extra| SPARKS INDICTED | | Building offices here after SIXTH BIRTHDAY | tions’ ON APRIL 8 |is fwill be Six naval planes from Sitka will|band to overnight to allow officers to at-| lwill hold a ed during a flight over Seward Gla- cier last August; Goldstream dredge Secretary of State Sumner Welles (cen- D. C orrespondents of the note. The note Bohemia and Moravia. No. 2 of the Fairbanks Explor: ation | Company at Fox, Al 1; Mount Sanford and the lower part of the Jacksina River seen over the Nab- esna mine; pattern of gold dredge tailings at Fox. Included in CASH COLE IS "IN RACE FOR o oen o JUNEAUMAYOR now | which Washburn says is a personal| Cash Cole, transfer man, filed gift from himself and the Agfa firm | for Mayor of Juneau today, the only to Gov, John W. Tro; | candidate to enter the City election the shipment, from the The Juneau Chamber of Com- merce luncheon and meeting will| be held tomorrow noon at Percy’s Cafe. Announcement is made that| W. T. Walsh, publicity man, and | Glenn Riddle, Inspector for the) Civil Aeronautics Authority, have | been invited to attend as guests| of the Chamber. | — e —— (arpenlers Meet To Organizeas | OBSERVED HERE (!0 Loca! Group On April 5 thv Civilian Conserva-| Fifteen Juneau carpenters meeting tion Corps will complete the sixth|last evening at Union Hall laid the | year of its exisitence. In recognition | groundwork and lected temporary of this event, “Birthday Celebra- officers for organization of the Al-| will be held throughout the lied Trades Union, United States and its possessions| the Committee of Industrial Organ- wherever the CCC 'is established ization as Local 943. The Juneau unit has arranged to| L. F. Morris, spokesman for the hold open house at the Montana | gromp, and the new union is inten- Creek Camp on the afternoon of |ded to succeed the AFL Carpenters Sunday, April 2, between the hmn\‘bmon No. 1944, in completing or- of 2 and 5 pm., to which the public | ganization of all carpenters in Ju-‘ cordially invited. -Refreshments|neau and vicinity under the CIO | erved and men will be on|banner. how visitors around the ATyl A camp. The committee in charge asks Work Starfs on | Hydaburg Dock that those interested in the CCC| give this celebration their whole- hearted support. Construction has been started at Hydaburg of a new dock which will be used in connection with resump- - | tion of operations this year of the | native cannery there, Don Hagerty, “(E SlATED Field Representative for Indian Cor- 4 A porations, said today. Federal and Territorial employees Hagerty returned yesterday from dinner dance at the t i) e lakatla Baranof Hotel April 15, it was decid- ’\’,V:,’:g:'{, }gd;b;fizsfi‘:x;ons Cr:;c:. ed at today’s luncheon meeting of | Agent, Indian Corporations, who ac- the local branch of the Nationallcompanied Hagerty, will return to Federation of Federal Employees. : _ Juneau this week. The two, with T’};endance will be an invitational | claude M. Hirst, General Superim- affair. Nominat 2 tendent for Alaska, flew to Meta- omination of officers was opened | jakatla last week for a meeting with | by the Federation today. The meet- the natwag there, ing at the Baranof 'was attended by 50, members -and was presided over SIMMONS FLIES by Sally Shafer, President. * v Capl. Currie s PEKOVICH OUT Shell Simmons flew to Hawk In- Badk; Awaiting let this afternoon on a special cha‘,:- Breakup "'ak“ ter trip with W. S. Peckovich, who (] is returning to his mihe after a| Capt. Archie Curri i several weeks trip Outside. the Polaris-Taku G Cole will oppose Harry I Lucas, | incumbent, and E. J. Krause at the school Board position No opposition had appeared for James E. “Jack” Sparks was in-| Botelho and E. J; “Kelly” dicted on four counts yesterday by | pewcomers. william T. Mahoney. | = B ol Stk was accused of .\‘ml.nr (HAMBER Ill ial count. The brief message to the Marshal faces prosecution on a.charge of disposing of stolen B o race today up until within an hour | municipal election next Tuesday. BY GRAND JURY | = = moberion mcumbent, ana | R | the Council slate which filed along | Elroy E. Ninnis, E. M. | the Federal Grand Jury now in Three Council aspirants, two of session at Ketcl n, according {0 a| them incumbents, filed this morning, | mails and from Federal he was ight in the act last week. | Holzheimer charged | today did not detail the new counts against the former elevator operator property, which her husband alleg- edly took from the building. {of closing of the books. R. Hermann are filed for the | with Lucas: Blake, all age received today by U. S, | but Jater withdrew. { him on two federal and one territor- | and night watchman - i ‘ OF CCC IS TO BE skipper of | river tug Taku| o Chief, arrived in Juneau on the RESIG"[D ((( Yukon yesterday morning to make the Taku Chief and its barges ready for the summer freighting season YouIH ARRHTED on the river. " Currie said he doesn’t expect there | Arrested on complaint of the For- will be enough water in the river for | est Service after he allegedly refused boat operation until about the first |10 Teturn COC clothing after he re- of May. | signed, Joseph Scott, 24, was in jail He is a guest at the Gastineau HQ_‘thi safternoon, charged with em- tel, bezzlement by baillee, U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. 8. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 3:30 p.m., March 29: Cloudy with occasional rain tonight and Thursday; moderate to fresh southeast winds. Weather forecast for Southeasst Alaska: Cloudy with occasional rain tonight and Thursday; moderate to fresh southeast winds ex- cept fresh to strong over Dixon Entrance, Clarence Strait, Chatham Strait and Frederick Sound and fresh to strong southerly winds over Lynn Canal. Forecast «f winds along the Coat of the Gulf of Alaska: Fresh to strong southeast winds along the coast from Dixon Entrance to Cape Hinchinbrook tonight and Thursday. LOCAL DATA parometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity 30,01 38 90 E 21 30.02 41 90 sSwW 4 30.07 41 90 s T RADIO REPORTS TODAY Lowest 4aum. 4am. Precip, temp. temp. velocity 24 hrs. Anchorage 36 38 6 10 Nome 34 -8 -8 26 10 Bethel 36 4 6 16 02 Fairbanks 34 38 6 0 Dawson 32 8 20 Cloudy St. Paul E 6 20 2L Clear Dutch Harbor 30 .06 Lt Snow Kodiak 36 0 Clear Cordova 36 .91 Mod.R'n Juneaun 3.21 Lt. Rain Sitka 2.03 Ketchikan 24 Lt. Rain Prince Rupert A48 Lt. Rain Edmonton 0 Clear Seattle 0 Clear Portland 0 Clear San Francisco 0 Cloudy 0 0 Time 3:30 p.m. yest'y 3:30 a.m. today Noon today Weather Hvy R'n Lt. Rain Lt. Rain 4a.m. Weathet Cloudy Pt. Cldy Cléar Cloudy Max. tempt. Siation last 24 hours | [P New York .. Clear ‘Washington Clear cBenSern | 1 | 54 [ | | 50 WEATHER SYNOPSIS A trough of low barometric pressure extended from the Aleutian Islands and the Bering Sea to Interior and Northern Alaska, thence east and southeast to central Canada this morning. The barometer was still moderately high from lower Southeast Alaska and British Co- lumbia over the Pacific Ocean to the Hawaiian Islands, with a crest of 30.66 inches at latitude 42 degrees N., longitude 142 degrees W. Light to moderate precipitation has been general over Alaska except around Fairbanks during the last 24 hours, also over northeérn British Co- lumbia and locally over northwestern Canada. Temperatures were ab- normally warm yesterday over most of the Territory, the thermometer reaching 56 degrees at Fairbanks and 50 degrees at Anchorage. Tem- peratures were warmer along the coast from Cordova to Ketchikan this morning but colder over other parts of Alaska, particularly along the Bering Sea coast. Juneau, March 30.—Sunrise, 5:36 a.m.; sunset, 6:37 p.m, affiliated with | ° Since plaids please the fashion dictators this spring, Jane Pickens, New York actress and singer, tops her navy blue wool skirt with a wool jacket plaided in navy blue, rose and gray. She wears it with a navy blue milan hat and a dripping, blue-dotted veil. IT'S TRUE, what they say ahout b RAYS REC.U.S. PAT, OFF. A RAY fully-automatic oil burner does give greater heat ing efficiency, greater convenience, and requires a mini- mum of care. RICE 8 AHLERS CO. Third and Franklin Streets. 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