The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 26, 1939, Page 2

q LANE GOING 575 MILES AN HOUR (OULD OUTRACE PISTOL BULLET, BUT— et New goln, not run ri a plane might bullets. Yes,"it might cumstances. 4 it might chas: the Mie and kill it basiging his head aga Here's how the mathematicians figure it— It’s: true that a person standing on the ground and shooting with an ordinary service revolver at the tail of ‘a disappearing plane wouldn't have:s ‘chance in the ‘world. His bullet, doing £02 fret a second, would be galr er than the plane at 843 feet a second. Donble Speed On' the other hand, if the marks- . BULLET FIRED BY JIBY a plane follow- | the other aviator as under normal conditions. Plane Would Catch Un man were sitling in the first und traveling at the same spced, his bullet -would have a approximately the same effect as if The explanation simply is that| {l, were standing:still. Actually |the following plane, traveling 575 his bullet would be traveling not 802 | miles an hour, would catch up with a second in relation to. the | the floating bullet. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE but 802 feet plus 843 feet or t & second over But by the man in the stead of the one in back That bullet never would go back- ward 'at 'all, in relation to ground. Instead, fired with velocity. 41 feet a second less the speed of the plane | in the plane’s wake of feét a second until it | and dropped ppose ‘the bullet was fired front plane in- enabling it 10| pullet and run into it so hard-that © the speeding plane in front. | he would kill himself. the | we might-as-well tell-you; tooythat a muzzle | pilots in than | shooting at each other with service it would tag | revolvers and 800-foot-a-second bul+ a speed of 41 | lets but with machine guns that spit 1050 momentum | shots at 2,700 feet a seecond. You Thus «ts pilot would chase the And we would have no more chance of dodging it than if he were standing still. If you have followed us this far, the ‘next war .won't' be can figure out the machine gun LY WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2 SIGNERS ASKED "RIBBED" NEW TOHURRYFOR oMM BASEBALL J0BS Few new baseball players had signed. up today - for. entrange: into the Gastineau Channel Leagte, President Judge William A, Holz heimer, correspondingly has issued a new demand that all ball players who are’ not held over from last year and desire to play, should sign | the rosters before Saturday evening. Saturday night, officials of the league 'will ‘assign new ‘talent to various: teams. | Players: signing ‘ may register’ at The Empire, the Canadian Pacific Railway office, or Stan Grummett’s. e TUBERCULOSIS REEL WILL BE SHOWNT0 | " CHAMBER THURSDAY Dr. J. C. Haldeman, tuberculosis clinician for the Territorial Depart- ment of Health, will run a movie on | tuberculosis for the Juneau Cham- ber +of - Gommerce luncheon -at | Percy’s' Gafe tomorrow noon. /The: film, “On the Firing Line," is an educational film that explains detection and. care ‘of tuberculosis in its early stages. i ‘Kaarll : Nasi, Sanitary Engineer | Yet it too would be as deadly to|angle for yourself. 50GY'S BULLET OVERTAKES IEY FEDERAL BLDG.. 'WALLS T0 GET - SUMMER WASH Scrubbing Job fo B *'Let on Coniract for : First Time ’ Walls and ceilings of all the and ho ys of the Feder: ing here are to be wa t mer for the f forsthe first time Cubtodian CGeor sllufsen nogneed {Exd: Guilufsen tiohs prepars the big job, wh July 1. A time pravably will be of the work, he The walls have by irelief workers was completed in 19 3 e FIVE HOMESITES EXCLUDED FROM i MATL. FORESTS Exbcutive Order of-Presi- dent Restores All fo Entry Buil preparing specifica y to calling bids h will begin afte two months sletior Eclusive of four homesites from theyTongass National Forest and of onerfrom the Chugach National For- est has been proclainied in‘am exeeu« tive order by President Rooseveit. The restored to entry are honjesites Nos. 184-and 525 at Ket- chikan, 185 sonth of Wrangell and 857 hear Prtersburg, all in the Ton- gass Forest, and No. 9 at Kenai Lake back of Seward in the Chu- gach Fore: . — - LOSES - APPENDIX Fanklin Duf 12, son of Mr. and-Mus. Frank Dufresne, underwent an emergs append: operation lastinight at St. Ann’s Hospital. He is reported to be ¢ gz well today. LRl R Try an Fmpire ad are OR YOUR APPOINTMENT 'Giani"im;v]lakes i Pelt Juneau During Evening Snowflakes measuring ‘two ‘inches | long and’ falling in a flurry as thick as feathers descended on Juneau ) | 1ast night for a few minutes between 19:30 and 10 o’clock, giving the reg- jon as freakish a display of weather as it has ever had in late April The U. S. Weather Bureau mea- sured the fall as one | The snowslakes were 5o large and | vy that those who were abroad Wy they could ieel DAY NIGHT tl ke Heard a1 Concert Will: Be ‘Heard at| Northern Light Pres- byterian Church } Tomorrow: evening at 8 o'clock. in | the Northern Light Presbyterian Church, Chief Kiutus Tecumseh, Wenatchee - Indian, will (present a | program of ‘well :known songs: and | readings. The lyric tenor will appear in costume for: the occasion-and a | large attendance of Juneau music+ lovers is anticipated. Accompanist at the musical will be :Mrs. Carol Beery Davis: ¢ £ Following 'is *the levening's pro- gram: “Prom. the Land of the Sky Blue Water,” *Paie: Moon,™ “Faflafil ‘ 4 Today Juneau enjoyed one of the warmest and brightest' day the year. The temperature reached a aximum of 48 ree 12:30 o'clock, slipping to 47 an hour lat B e s s NINE MONTHS IN JAIL ‘FOR ‘ALIEN TRAPPER SUMMER Thomas Summer, “the man with | ing.” { | two countries” convieted by a jury| “Whispering ‘Hope," “The ¢Silent | |at Kefchikan recently of trapping Voice,' isEye Is On the Spar-| and dealing in furs with a citizen’s row,” “When They:Ring the Golden | license though he was an alien, was Bells,” “In’the Garden,' “The Old | sentenced today by Judge George Rugged Cross.! ‘Poeins to beédrama- | F. Alexander Lo nine months in jail | tized by Chief;Teeumseh are “A and to pay a fine of $150, | Vanishing Racey” “Mighty Men” and Testimony at the trial was that “Onward “Fhrough Bife:" « at Leaf,” tIndian: Love: Call" “The Land of My Prairie Dreams," *In- dian Dawn,” “Dear -Little Boy: of Mine,” ‘“Absent,” “One Fleeting Hour,” “When Irish Eyes'Ave Smil= « with the Territorial Health Depart- | ment, will be called on by the Cham- ber: of Commerce ‘also, to give ad- vice coincident to Cleanup Week «If the'cutter ‘Duane remains in pert. over: noon témorrow, Captain | Stanley Parker, Commandant of the Bering Sea force of the Coast Guard, | and Comdr. J. H. @ornell; will be FIRST SALMON IS CAUSING TROUBLE Mrs. ‘A E. Torgerson, who caught a King salmon ' 8Sunday at Auk Bay is still the holder of honors for hav- . | ing taken the first King salmon on rod and line in ‘Auk Bay this season +'Yesterday, a friénd of Andy Hafi- | ner's ‘asserted Haffner won the hon- ors by -teking a King on Saturday but it was revealed by Haffner today that he doesn’t want the honor be- cause his salmon was taken in a sérap fish net, not an a rod and line, ALASKA FOREST FIRE ARTICLE IN MAGAZINE i “Fire ‘Under the Midnight Sun,” an article on the forest fire prob- lem in Alaska, appears in the April issue of American Forests magazine. The article was written by W. J. Mc- Donald, Forest inspector in the U B Porest Service office here. SCOT-EDWARDS NUPTIALS HERE “Miss: Lilly Scott became the bride of PFrank Edwards at a ceremony performed today by Capt. Stanley Jackson of the Salvation Army. | /Mr: and Mrs. William Wanamak- clock and ent erattended the bride and groom. The freshment informal social following the bust ¢ Peggy Carroll, Hollywood ac- tress, is pictured modeling the newest design in swimming suits for the coming season. Fashion decrees that the suits should be “ribbed,” that does not mean made light of, rather it means ribbed knit. In addi- tion to ribbing the back will be cut to “a new low.” Miss Car- rells’ suit is pearl gr MASONS 10 OBSERVE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF FIRST INAUGURAL Members of Mt. Juneau Lodge, F. and A. M. will attend rvices of the Northern Light Presbyterian Church in a body Sunday, clothed in Masonic garb. The church visit is in commem- moration of the 150th anniversary of the inauguration of George Wash- ington as President of the United States. Masons throughout the Na- tion are observing the ary this way anniver in - oo Past Noble Grands To Conduct Meeting In charge of the business meeting for tonight at the I.O.O.F. Hall will be bekah Lodge. Past Noble Grands of the Re- The meeting will start at 8 o'- tainment and re- will be provided at the iness session. while ‘on the British Columbia side | of line Summer ‘claimed to be a Cangdlan and while on the Alaska [For ide to be a U..S. citizen, Word of the sentencing wa. | ston: o re- |Roff School-of Dancing. 315 Third | e by the Alaska Game Commis- | St. Phone Red- 118. CLASSES-NOW ' ENROLEANG : - |. Spring- Recitsl, fifty ‘cents per lesson,' Dorothy Stearns| adv; Try an-Empire aé. - & (| CHRYSL OTHER AGENCIES Atlas-Imperial Diesels Palmer Engines i Johnson Qutboards end other erigines of quality | A COMPLETE MARINE ENGINE —These engines have proved themselves in TROLLING and SEINE bogts for; - €OV S—QDIET; ECONOMY—EA OF VIBRATION—CLEANNESS CHAS. G. WARNERCO. .. 2 ALASKA Engineers and Machinists—Marine Hardware SPECIAL THE PETER PAN BEAUTY SHOPPE Must sell out, owing to the ill health of Margaret Lindsay, owner. Take Advantage of ‘this thorlnnily——Gtt Your Permanent While the Supplies Last! $7.50 Oil Permanent for $5.95 595 0il Permanent for 5.00 5.00 Permanent for only 4.00 THE BUY OF YOUR UIFE! keeps vegetables crisp and garden- : = fresh " 8 3 GENERAL@ ELECTR Tosale JRacft REFRIGERATORS keeps poultry, fro- xcn?(oods p?r(tcdy e beavtiful new Gen- eral Electric refrigerators are here now. ‘Mére ' beautiful, “more practical than ever before . . . at new lower prices. With selective air conditions, the new G-E has a place for everything and everything in its place. Before you buy any refrigerator be sure to s¢e the combines bigh bu- midity and low tem: | | and Wrangell, C. C. Garland, Chair- | of Commerce, urged today in & let-v‘ NEW OFFICERS, ELKS, TOSTRUT STUFF TONIGHT The new officers of the Elks | Lodge will show their stuff to- | night. Several candidates are to be initiated and the officers will be | able to demonstrate how to place | | |the antlers on baby Elks in the proper way. A'rehearsal was held | the goat showed spirit ~ after concrete and several night and of spunk and cans, the last plenty being bricks weeks. Refreshments will be served late in, the evening. i Alaska Marble Urged for fed tin duting past U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. 8. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and viciity, beginning at 3:30 p.m., April 26: Partly cloudy tonight and Thursda moderate east and northeast winds. Weather forecast for Southea.t Alaska: North - portion—Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday; moderate east and northeast winds ex- cept fresh over Frederick Sound, Chatham Strait and Icy Strait and fresh northerly winds over Lynn Canal. South portion—Showers to- night, Tk day partly cloudy; moderate easterly winds except fresh to. strong over Dixon Entrance. Forecast cf winds =fong tne Coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Fresh to strong easterly winds tonight and Thursday along the - coast from Dixon Entrance to Cape Ommaney; fresh east and northeast winds from Cape Ommaney to Yakutat; fresh northeast to morth winds, Yakutat to Cape Hinchinbrook. " LOCAL DATA Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity 80 s 10 8 s 8 36 SE 7 RADIO REPORTS TODAY Lowest 4a.m. 4 a.m. Precip, temp. temp. velocity 24’hrs. 32 6 ‘Weather Cloudy Lt. Rain Cloudy Barometer 29.10 29.32 20.33 Time 3:30 p.m. yest'y 3:30 a.m. today Noon today | Max. tempt. | 4 last 24 hours | Weml Cloudy Station Federal Buildings Alaska marble, and not tile or| glass, should be used in the project- | ed Federal Buildings at Anchorage | 40 54 Atka Anchorage Barrow Nome Bethel Fairbanks Dawson St. Paul Dutch Harbor “The speéifications already issued | oot list tile as the basic material, with marble or glass as alternatives. Gnr-f‘ 8’ lmm“" land urged that the Governor in-| Ketchikan 28 4 12 6 32 4 6 18 man of the Alaska Development | Comnmittee of the Tacoma Chamber | @ -3 ter to Gov. John W. Troy. { | a8 obdHooHeoooo & 05 1.60 Clear Cloudy Clear Olear Cloudy Pt. Cldy Cloudy Cloudy Pt. Cldy Clear Lt. Rain Claufiy sist upon native marble being used.i e ! EXCURSIONS TO FAIR { Special low fares for exdursion | groups from Alaska to the San Fran- 1 cisco exposition will be arranged by | the Southern Pacific Company if | there is any demand from the ’I‘ern-‘ tory for such service, Gov. John W. Troy was notified today by B. C.| Taylor, General Agent. e, AUTO IS OWN ALARM GLENDALE, Cal—An automobile sounded its own fire alarm here. | Firemen said that metal expanding | in the heat set the horn going. 1 | UNITED STATSS DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR | GENERAL LAND OFFICE | District Land Office ! March 22, 1939, | Anchorage, Alaska. | Notice is hereby given that Charley | Woods, has made application for a| homesite under the act of May 26, 1934, (48 Stat. 809) Anchorage, serial 08545, embraced in U. 8. Sur-| vey. No. 2319, situate on the west| shore of south end of Tee Harbor, Alaska, latitude 58° 24’ 32” N. longi- tude 134° 45" 45” W. containing 4.99 acres. | Any and all persons claiming ad- versely any of the above mentioned | land should file their adverse claims in the District Land Office, An- chorage, Alaska, within the period of publication or thirty days there- | after, or they will be barred by the provisions of the Statutes. FLORENCE L. KOLB, Acting Register. | Date first publication, Apri) 5, 1939. Date last publication, May 31, 1939. Mod. R'n Clear Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Prince Rupert 14 Edmonton Seattle Portland San Francisco New York ‘Washington 46 50 | 50 | 5 66 cESinnnd EHuc8Re WEATHER SYNOPSIS A widespread low barometric pressure area still overlay the north- eastern portion of the north Pacific Ocean, the Gulf of Alaska, west- ern Canada and all Alaska except the western and northern parts this morning with a central pressure of 28.80 inches at lat. 54 degrees N., long. 144 degrees W. The barometer was moderately high over the Bering Sea and Western Alaska also over central Canada and the Pa- cific Coast states. During the last 24 hours moderate to heavy rain fell over lower Southeast Alaska and the coast of northern British Colum- bia, with light rain over the rest of the Pacific Coast from - Cross Sound to Oregon, also over Kodiak Island. Scattered precipitation was reported over the interior of Alaska and Canadian Northwest Terri- tory with generally fair weather prevailing over the rest of the field of observation. Temperatures over Alaska last night were warmer from Unalaska to Kodiak but were colder over most other portions of the Territory, notably over the Seward Peninsula the lower Kuskokwim Valley and the Interior. Juneau, April 27.—Sunrise, 4:18 -am.; sunset, 139 p:m. There is no sfiijslltuie for Newspaper Advertising ] .rnfll‘n»m OMPANY B W ey saMON INDUSTR) perature for mea new G-E. NEW LOWER PRICES FOR '39 Pl Sold on Easy Payment Plan adjustable shelves make convenient PHONE BlHala and Seryice ® storage easy. | :fieflric Light & Power Co. JUNEAU——ALASKA——DOUGLAS ALASKA’S-SHIPS CAN.KEEP RUNNING: and give Alaska’s .people good transportation, regular: mail service the year around. That’s-becausc 75% +of Alaska’s steamship revenue is;paid by the' Canned Salmon Industry for shipments of salmon, building materials, cannery supplies and transportation of crews. It’s another way in which the ‘Salmon tndustry helps to promote prosperity here. ] e i vk v v 8