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

2 YAKOBI SEEN GROUNDED AT POINT HILDA Tom Smith, Missing Ten Days, Drifted Ashore with Dead Engine PFriends boatman Tom Smith neau April 4, on hi urier Island with the kobi, were reliev news brought in that Smitk high the Yakobi on Douglas Island ten passing noticed the Yakobi lying beam in the mud at Hilda Creek shore, Captain Smith wa oying the warmth and waiting for tide to take Yakobi off Smith told friends he ashore with a dead engine, who left Ju way to Leme motorship ¥ to he weeker with of w today ver the and dry West shore day small on of high cabin fire a the drifted coming on deck too late to keep the vessel from groundir Henry Museth on the Dupoco, and Ralph Reischl, on the Treva C were to go to Smith's aid tonight, and attempt to pull him from the beach on tonight's high tide. Mu- seth is taki long a quar of dynamite that may be used to blast a channel in the mud to aid the floating Jake Cropley, who talked to Smith on the beach Saturday, said the Ya- kobi was not damaged oo YVONNE PERRY WILL BE BRIDE OF MR. WHITELY Ceremony Will Be Held Tomotrow Evening, Holy Trinity Cathedral At an 8 o'clock ceremony tomorrow pvening, Miss Yvonne Perry, daught- er of Mr Mrs, Ludvig Thoren, will become the bride of Mr. John Whitely of this city, with Dean C E. Rice performing the ceremony in Holy Trinity Cathedral. Miss Perry will be given in mar- riage by her father, Mr. Thoren, and Mr. and Mrs, Clifford Berg will at- tend the couple at the Dorothy Green will sing d wedding ceremony Both Miss Perry i Mr. Whitel, are well known in Juneau and plar to make their home in this city - Federal Employees Enjoy Dinner-Dance At Barapof Hotel Over one hundred and sixty Fed- eral Employees and their escorts at- tended the dinmer-dance in the Gold Dining Room of the Baranof Hotel Saturday evening during which time Mrs. Sally Shafer presided as a most gracious toastmistress. During the affair a quartet com- posed of John Keyser, Sherwood Wirt, Wes Overby and Bob Laney. gave three novel selections, with two numbers sung by Miss Mary VanderLeest and Miss Myrtle Holly- wood. Main event of the evening was the football broadcast present- ed by Bud Foster featuring the Kake piledrivers and a team from Kluk- wan, star for the evening's game being “Bugeye” Boyle, who was ably assisted by “Drizzlepuss” Olson. | Bob Robinson and Fred Ball, and i 5 community singing, led by Harry woRK ls ]'o BEGI“ Sperling and Josephine Wright, was enjoyed. ed by Klonda Dufresne and her orchestra et —eee . Fire Mais & Strike Seftled-80 Cents an 4 i Hour, 44-Hour Week - For Firemen i ats s Juneau'’s week-old walkout on the When the Fire Departm $40,000 Willoughby Avenue sewer some work done at a ce project, ended today, according to hey ring a certain al centractors and union officials, when Yesterday, when a few Firemen |Uhe Juneau Contractors Association hands were needed to string wire SiEned 4 one year agreement on netting at the ball p graga: |Weges ahd hopss. 3 tands, the alarm, 4-6 Slawn,| Wk Wil Siyin AU SORIEOR callir the crew to Tenth and Cumnmng on the sewer projet:l, con- % # tractor R. J. Sommers said this at the ball park YorenGOhS Inclement weather came to the THE DAILY'ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1939. Italian Premier Mussolini’s latest demands include the French colony of Tunisia in Africa. However, *he natives have signified their reluctance to trade their French allegiance for Italian rule. Photos answer to Mussol The agreement, which was com- pleted today, sets the wage scale for common labor at 80 cents an hour, 44 hour week, according to Harry | Gerfen, Secretary-Treasurer of CIO | Industrial Union Local 882, the un- |ion directly involved in the sewer | project disagreement. | The CIO union, with its offices in the ANB Hall on Willoughby, has | a semi-closed shop on the sewer job, with hiring hall rights. | The agreement on common labor { signed by contractors and union of- | ficials, is effective to March 1, 1940. | R A PIRATES BEAT REDS OPENING aid of those who were unpleasantly fooled by the alarm, however, and the work was postponed until bet- ter weather comes along GARSTER IS BACK FROM LONG TRIP William Garster is back in Ju- neau after a several weeks' trip through the United States that in- cluded the Panama Canal and both world fairs. Garster took in the New York Fair first, then journeyed south- ward, went through the Panama Canal, came up to the Golden Gate | exposition, and called it a tour. | THREE GUESSES as to framed bv eaually famous cherry blossoms that bloom each spring. GAME OF 1939 | CINCINNATI, Ohio, April 17—+ ;The Pittsburgh Pirates exploded a | four-run barrage in the eighth in- ning this afternoon, and added an- !Other tally in the ninth frame to| whip the Cincinnati Reds by a| score of, 7 to 5 before 30,000 base- | ball fans in the lone game of the | big League’s baseball season on the |opening day. 'KING CRAB CAUGHT BY HALIBUT (RAFT Besides a load of halibut, and a few red snapper, the, halibut Little | Emma had.another interesting fish catch aboard ,when it unioaded at the local fish mart today.. q | ~Taken on halibut gear were a |half dozen King crah, one appar- # |ently having a spread of at.least three feet. TAKU CHIEE IN FROM WINTER'S "HIBERNATION" pusid | | The Polaris-Taku River tug, Taku Chief, was in the harbor here today, coming in under the hand of Captain Atchie Currie after a winter on the beach at Fritz Cove. As soon as water is high enough in the Taku River, probably in |about three weeks, the Taku Chief | |will begin freighting for thé sum- mer between the mouth ‘of the river and the mine at Tulsequah. 3 . The Deparment, of Agriculture in 1939 undertakes a program to en- courage the production of fiber flax in the United States, what famous building this is, Tunisian troops, top, and Tunisian natives . $how, top, French colonial troops during maneu- vers in Tunisia and, bottom, natives staging as an lini & pro-French mass meeting in the city of Tunis. UNION MAKES NEW. DEMAND ON FISH FIRM End of Deadlock Insisted Upon-P. E. Harris Company Hit SEATTLE, April 17.—A. E. Hard- ing. Executive Secretary of the ‘Washington District Council of the Pacific Maritime Federation, an- nounced today the Federation's co- ordinating committee had voted to demand an immediate - release of ' the deadlock between the P. E. Har- ris Company and the Federation. “The compahy has signed an agreement with the Alaska Fish- ermen’s Union but has disregarded other interested unions. Our action is in effect an ultimatum,” Harding said. | - e Miss Bodding on Vacation Trip Miss Thelma Bodding, bookkeeper : for the B .M. Behrends Company, | left for Lhelsoum today on the steamer Yukon. During her six weeks’ vacation trip Miss Bodding | plans to spend some time with her : brother, Gerald Bodding, who is attending flying school in San Diego, and will also visit the World's Fair at San Francisco, BOB GIERKE ON WAY | THROUGH T0 BETHEL Bob Gierke, widely known Kus- kokwim River transportation man, was through on the Baranof today | on his way back to Bethel after two months spent on vacation in the States. Gierke took in the fair at San Franéisco during his trip. He will | fly to Bethel from Anchorage. GAME N COMMISSION MEN 10 KETCHIKAN The Alaska Game Commission | patrol launch Bear left for Ket- chikan this morning with Executive Officer Frank Dufresne, Dave Wood Jr., and Lance Hendrickson. They will return in a few days. . NOME DEPUTY HERE Deputy Marshal Hugh O'Farrell of Nome, left on-the Yukon today | through Juneau on the Baranof| with & woman patient who is to be: committed to Morningside Sani- | tarium. They flew in from Fair-| banks Saturday. ———— MARSHALL-WELLS Bruce Bower, traveling for Mar- shall-Wells, is a guest at thie Gas- ! Soldiers, Natives of Tunis, Now Demanded by I;:;ly | Krieger Defeats Matthews Solly Krieger, middleweight champien everywhere but in California and New York, scored two knockdewns and a 10-round decision over Alien Matthews of St. Louis in a non-title fight at Seattle. Matthews is shown down for Krieger put him down for an cight-count in the next round. AN 8 five-count in the seventh reund. when British foreign minister, attemph?d to unite the democracies against the dictatorships, but lost out to Neville (_lhsm- berlain and his policy of appeasement. Today, as Col. Josef Beck ({lght), Poland’s foreign minister, visits London in effort to §trength.en ties be« tween the two powers, Britain has accepted Eden’s policy and is attempt- ing to stop Hitler by encircling him with her alligs, _ MEYERS ESTATE ON WILLOUGHBY 15 50LD TODAY $5,250 for Apartment and [ C(oftages fo Go to | German Heirs An apartment house, cottage and large lot on which were situated two more cottages, all on Willoughby | Avenue, were sold today by Wyatt Kingman, administrator for the es- tate of William Meyers, painter, who died a year ago. i E. Fuller bought the apartment, | Sam Rosenberg the cottage and Wwilliam Johnson the lot and two cottages. Total amount realized was | $5,250. ( The property was knocked down | | to bidders in an outdoor sale at the | scene this afternoon. | The German Consul at Seattle, {who had the power of attorney to| sell the property, must approve the transactions. Heirs of Meyers are| | six sisters and a brother, all in Ger-| | many. y H | - e — Anthony Eden (left), SPRING CHILL that might nip the finger tips can be readily avoided by the use of such a floral muff as this, worn by Miss Lida Sudakoff at a meeting of the Pacific morth- west florists in Seattle. The muff’s of gladioli and carnations. HALIBUTERS - SELL, SEATTLE | | PAA SCHEDULE SEATTLE, April 17.—Halibuters selling here today are as follows: | From the western bamu.qvxamn-' dale, Electra, Paragon and Helge- |land all with 40000 pounds each,| Two PAA Electras will be fl,\'ing] north tomorrow morning for Fair- banks, from here, according to of-| ficials of the office here. (AR i = | selling for 7% and 7 cents a pound; TO JACK WADE Liberty 40,000 pounds, 7% and 7% | Charley Whitney, * mining man | cents; Akutan 40,000 pounds 7%, and | from the Jack Wade country, passed |7 cents. From the local banks — Mariner teday, returning to get dredgingjggo0 pounds, Arne 14,000 pounds, operations under way for the sum- chancellor 10,000 pounds, Husky L ost, 4,000 pounds, all selling for 7% and| B T | 6 cents; Hanna 6,000 pounds, Antler | MINING MEN TRAVEL [15000 pounds, Evolution 10,000 Among mining men of the West- ' pounds, all for 7% and 6 cents. ward and Interior, going through! i Juneau on the Baranof, are L. B, PRICES ELSEWHERE Courtney, Axel Palmgren and Rob-| Aat Prince Rupert today 303,000 tineau Hotel, arriving today, and will be in Juneau for a few days. | PIRIERIT U i TO MILLER HOUSE | Franklin Kelly, of Miller House, | near Circle City, is a northbound | passenger on the Baranof. He is| operating his father's hydraulic property on Miller Creek. | e ' Try an Empire ad. ert Quigley. pounds of halibut were sol for 7 to 760 and 5.50 cents | D | A T | i | i TO PETERS CREEK | Bill Porter and his son, William Porter Jr., of the Peters Creek Min- ing Company, are heading back to| E A, Rasmuson, prominent Alaska Talkeetna to get the hydraulicking panker and well known Republican, | season under way. They are passen- | arrived in Juneau on the steamer gers on the Baranof, which passed | yyukon, He will go to the Westward, through Juneau today, bound west-lp.-obflmy on the steamer Alaska. He ward, is a guest at the Gastnieau Hotel. RASMUSON HERE . fears for its safety. U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bareau) Forecast for Juneau and ‘vicinity, beginning at 3:30 p.m., April 17: Cloudy with oceasional rain tonight d Tuesday; moderate southerly winds. Weather forecast for Southeas{ rain and Tuesday; southe: winds over Dixon Entrance, Chatham Strait and Lynn Canal Forecast cf winds wiong the Coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Fresh southerly winds tonight and Tuesday along the coast from Dixon En- trance to Cape Hinchinbrook. LOCAL DATA Temd. Humidity Wind Velocity 41 84 S 7 41 82 S 8 42 83 8 12 RADIO REPORTS with occasional except fresh Alaska: Cloudy Barometer 2993 30.00 30.18 Time 3:30 p.m. yest'y 3:30 am ay Noon today Weather Li, Rain Lt. Rain Lt. Rain | | TODAY Lowest 4am. 4am, Precip. tcmp.' temp. velocity 24 hrs. 36 Max. tempt. | last 24 hours | 44 42 32 4am. Weather Pt.Cldy . Pt. Cldy Station | Atka Anchorage Nome Bethel | Fairbanks | Dawson | St. Paul Dutch Harbor Kodiak Cordova | Juneau Sitka Ketchikan Prince Rupert Edmonton Seattle Portland K San Francisco 62 New York 54 » Washington 46 36 18 52 6 o 14 32 36 438 26 26 1 44 44 46 13 47 44 46 50 Clear Cloudy Clear Lt. Rain 41 42 40 34 1 50 62 46 42 40 SYNOPSIS low barometric pressure 40 112 0 0° 0 0 o3 41 Hv'yR'n Pt. Cldy Clear Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Lt. Rain WEA There was a widespread ar ! Bering Sea, all Alaska, and northwest Canada this morning est reported pressure 29.12 inchesat Nome. Air pressure over the northeast portion of the north Pacific Ocean from part of the Gylf of Alaska southwestward to the F a center of 30.70 inches at iat. 3 155 degrees W. The barometer was also hib] nada. Light to mod- erate precipitation fell over western Alaska and from the upper Yu- kon Valley south to Queen Charlotte Sound and scattered local pre- cipitation occurred over central Canada with generally fair weather over the rest of the field of obs tion. Little change in tempera- ture occurred at stations over Territory last night. over . the with the was high the lower waiian Islands with the Juneau, Ap inset, 7:18 p.m. MISSING BOAT |5, HOUSEL BACK AT—K—EI(HIKAN‘\‘ Mrs. Florine Housel returned to il 18.—Sunrise, 4:42 a.m 1er Juneau home on tine Baranof er several months Outside, Last summer Mrs. Housel accom- panied hre daughter, Elaine, 'Rich- wrd “Bud” Brown, and Mitchell Dan- ff, to the University of Alabama | where it is believed the three Juneau re the only an the register. sel will move to her home Creek, on the Glacier High~ Makes Port After Stopping | for Repairs at Hard- ing Bay KETCHIKAN, April 17. — The !missing halibut boat Fidalgo with four men aboard reached Ketchikan over the weekend after putting in | ¥ at Harding Bay for repairs The 1ip Estebeth, Captain The boat had been overdue sev-|Gus Gustafson, returned from its eral days after separating from |regular weekly island run yesterday npanion boats which expressed |bringing in four passengers from the islands. High School graduates | Alaskans & motor MODES of the MOMENT by Adelaide Kerr - Most of the fitted o s k. k last year's severely tailored look. This one of black and while pin-striped worsted is designed with unpressed pleats to soften its line. The young Manhattanite who wears it tops it with a white hat and carries Paris’ pet—a Chamberlain umbrella, A . Clopdy ** ) o . » * L4 L)