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2 1939 PROGRAM ANNOUNCED BY | " ROADS BUREAU Salmon Creek, Eagle River Projects Slated on Glacier Highway IA_ summer d program calling for expenditure of approximately $400,000 in the First and Third Di- visions, was announced Today the 5 $ i 1 4 o Buregu: of Public Roads, f approval by the Secr Agri- uagro r project slated in the Ju- neau area reconstruction of the Salmon T k cutoff on the Gla- cier Highway by erecting new biidge downstream from the pres- ent span and leading the road to w fill on the flats in te bad turns on the pfésent highway . Eagle River Work “Weconstruction of several bridges o the Eagle River flats near the effd” of the Glacier Highway also 1¢" fhicluded Near Wrangell the Bureau will cgpiplete grading and surfacing of a contract on the Chichagof Point séction, of the Wrangell Highway, together * with reconstruction and resurfacing of the present road JResurfdcing of three miles from Ketchikan to Bugge Beach is also slgted g @he Bureau also will grade and surface the Crai rab Bay section out of Craij Third Division Two projects are on the program in the vicinity of Seward® oné for reconstruction of .the Victor Creek bridge ‘and approach fills, the other nifl{nall improvement _project at Clfper Creek Money for the projects becomes lable July 1. The work will be «ut on contract NASI PREPARES RECOMMENDATION | ~ON SANITATION l?e;pofl fo Be Submitted to‘ Council as Part of (leanup A report on properties in Juneau which require special cleanup at- | téntion from the standpoint of hegigh. and, sanitation, is heing com- piled by Kaarlo Nasi, Sanitary En- gipeer for the Territorial Depart- mgpy of Health, who will present his.. recommendations to the City Council for action on Friday. Nasi was conferring today yith Citt. Engineer Milton Lagergren. Fed'the past several days these two, with Mayor Harry Lucas, have been m¥king a survey of sanitary condi- tiens in various Juneau buildings. “e cleanup went ahead rapidly oR¥ther fronts today, With many ufsihtly properties being cleared of their winter accumulations R g Judgé Alexander Réturns Flfbm Court ‘Federal Judge George F. Alex- faifder returned to Juneau today on the'steamer Alaska after sitting at | thie 'sessions of the Ketchikan Dis- triet Court. Vdge Alexander was the only me prer of the court party to re- !u.m The others will come north in abqul a_week, he s; e a s LONDON—William Rose, one of the Jast of the old London cabhxesl is.gead, and one of the chief mourners at his funeral was his chestnut “mare, Kitty. Rose had beer a licensed driver in Black- heath since he was 13. Wi DARK IN SINGAPORE SINGAPORE—A e¢émplete black- out of Singapore is planned in con- | nection ‘with combinéd land, sea CABBIES VANISHING {at 11 the nigh( before. I'HL DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, MAY 2, I939. ' ABABY NEED NOT TURN YOUR HOUSE UPSIDE DOWN . |. She exercises . . . CHILD HEALTH DAY, May 1, In 1917, the death rate for every 1,000 live births in the United States was 93.8. problems of its children. 1927, three _\mr. 54 deaths per thousand births. was established 15 years ago to make the nation more conscious of the health after the establishment of Child He alth Day, the rate had tumbled to 64.6. Better milk and water supplies, and greater knowledge among mothers of health | By In 1937, it was problems have helped to lower the rate, says Dr. Shirl ey W. Wynne, president of the Children’s Welfare Federa- tion. This is National Baby Week and yesterday was Child Health Day. Most of the authorities are giving their attention to such problems as diet, illness and pre-natal care. Another big problem, how to raise children without upsetting the home rou- tine, is not so often discussed. Lydia Gray Shaw, child guid- ance expert, tackles it in this article. By LYDIA (.R AY SHAW AP Feature Service Writer en Jones was given to Saturday t bats and Sunday morning He loved swing, and would But still to be conquered, before health authorit and talked in normal tones. The baby slept right on. When he and his wife found a| responsible person who could take care of the baby when they want- ed to go out of an evening, they called her in Be Kind to Friends One thing Ken's baby-less friends appreciated. The baby’s belongings weren't strewn all around the house, and friends weren't forced to watch while the baby's diapers were \changed on the living room couch. | The baby had a corner in her parents’ room, lined with built-in shelves which Ken had made. Her possessions were kept there. Ken's friends were permitted to ies will relax, ‘SPRING CONCERT TO BE PRESENTED , FRIDAY EVENING |Vocal Musu Deparfment of Juneau Public Schools fo Give Musical In the High School gymnasium F‘rida} evening starting at 8 o'cloc! lhc entire vocal music department |of the Juneau Public Schools will | phonograph full blast for take a look at the baby when| ¥ al a time. He hated routine.|she was asleep, but weren't en- [Present their annual spring concert Then Mrs. Jones came home couraged to hold her when she|under the direction of Miss Alice from the hospital with a two|woke up. “It just makes it harder Palmer, vocal music and art in- weeks' old daughter. Friends of [to get her to sleep again,” ng“ed‘structor The musical is public and | is the high mortality rate of babies who die during the first week after birth, many of them becau se their mothers have not received proper pre-natal care. Don't Shoot that |Hooter; . [You'll Be Sorry e Hibotond st Aanistroukl This was the Alaska Game Commission, which re- minded hunters young and old that KIRKHAMS ARE TO LEAVE | | the big sooty or blue grouse which can be heard hooting in the trees these fine spring days should be left strictly alone. | The hooters are not dangerous in themselves, the birds presenting a very easy target, but they are bad medicine because shooting one means arrest by a Wildlife Agent. There is no open season on sooty Igmuao in the spring, Frank Du- | fresree, Executive Officer of the | Game Commission, said. This is the | nesting season and the males are all the couple were all set to sympa- | Mrs. Jones. ‘She gets used to at-|QVer three hundred voices will pre- |, t45 easy to find because of their thize with the new arrival. They |tention. went around one Sunday, skep- this child.” :’lg:ilg\ to see how the little one Was| sensigle parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ken met them at the door with a white gauze mask over his nose. | He was feeding the baby. The visi- tors would please put masks over their noses too. Struck dumb, while Ken gave bottle in masterly tucked her had, looked baby fashion, they the on her then he said, been up since 6 o'- | clock. What's more, he had retired “Got to get my sleep now,” he grinned. Ken was like a new man. He had' realized that the only way to keep | a baby contented is through estab- lished intervals of feeding, bath- ing and sleeping. The baby had to | proceed on a schedule. He and his wife couldn’t run around all night |and be up at six to feed her. So they |ad3usud their life accordingly There’s a Limit But when Ken's job changed, i up in her bassinet. He |Jones. They have a lot of fun with | the baby, but the child doesn't| {absorb the household. She is part | |of it. ONE MISSING, SUNK FISHING | BOAT OAKLAND | 'Hydaburg Craft Founders- Four Are Rescued- Alert Searching Reports were received here today | No rocking to sleep for et an hour and fifteen-minute hooting. program for music lovers of | community. Six glee clubs will be heard, in- cluding the High School Choir, a |group of fifty picked singers; |High School Boys' Glee Club, com- Iposed of thirty voices; the High School Girls’ Glee Club, with sixty- | five members; and a Junior High School Girls’ A Capella Choir, com- | posed of seventy-five students. This |will also be the first appearance or the Junior High School Boys’ Glee }of seventy members, who, for their debut, will sing four-part music. |Another group appearing for the |frst time is the Grade School Glee | Club of sixty-nine voices, who will |sing two-part music. ‘ Accompanists during the evening 'will be Miss Ann Morris, Miss Syl- via Davis, Miss Ann Lois Davis and Miss Shirley Davis. Opening the program will be one (of George Frederick Handel's se- It is no sport to shoot | having lived on spruce needles for | | three months. Dufresne said it had been brought | | many of the grouse are being shot by boys who go into the hills with 22's The Commission will confis- cate the guns of anyone shooting grouse, he warned. | FEW BEAVER TAKEN i IN ISLAND REGION Very few beaver were taken on | Admiralty, Chichagof and Baranof Islands during the recent special open season, Deputy Wildlife Agent Robert Huntoon reported on his re- turn from a round trip on the Es- tebeth sealing beaver skins taken in that region. Fifteen skins were taken near An- {by the U. S. Customs Office of thellemom “Let Their Celestial Con-|goon, but for the most part the in- foundering last Saturday off Cape'certs Unite,”” sung by the High | dians did not even go after beaver and air maneuvers, Six sirens wm‘a.nd he <_~udn't get homg un_til after | Checon, near Ketchikan, of the | School Choir. Other outstanding | this year, the Alaska Game Com- give warning of the approach of |SiX at night, he and his wife were gashoat Oakland. numbers will include: “From Grief | mission reported. “enemy” afrctadt. |sensible enough o know that the| Four of the five-man crew weretg Glory” by F. M. Christiansen, | .- e | babys schedule could be, advanced brought safely to Ketchikan by the leader ‘of the famous St. Olaf’s | /RIYET'S LONG DROP [ oW Aurng phe dav. 5o that|gashoat Reliance last night, while ‘chalr in Northtield, Minn.; “chil-| Alaska Wolf wNDON—An iron rivet fell 100X ’ h““"‘ 1"]’;‘“" of the funi¢he cutter Alert is still searching|un’ Gome On Home" a negro spirt- feet from a building under con- Of Seemg his child awake. The ror g fifth man, tual arranged by Noble Cain, who| AFFives stfietion I Totterham Court Road, l;fk;‘:b;‘: Wwas regular, but not in-|"'Tne Oakland was owned by Peter now has charge. of the NB.C.| ‘smashed a motor windshield. | S ' ‘B(‘Il of Hydaburg. It was a 39- (ooLchoirs and another spiritual, “Keep | The driver, Mrs. Charles R. Wil- | m‘f:f’(‘ 5“"’,“ {)‘“;) didn’t ‘”}“"‘ it, bUt | fishing craft of 18 tons gross. lin the Middle of the ,Rom which In w“mnsm oI, was cut and severely shacked. e aby's arzivhl, s Witk | | will be sung by the Boys' Glee Club, e . > L had kept track of the time sho‘ | Alaska's big black wolf has ar- |spent. doing the household jobs (PRI BAVIDE hoén dnk S ON WAY TO YUKON CapL B. Drufner apd S. Craft, Steamboat Inspectors, are passen- gers on the Alaska for Seward. The two will go down the Yukon River |/ on official business, making the al 1 call on river boatmen. | o fghuantc Sl SUPERVISOR LEAVING Miss Bertha Tiber, Supervisor of Nuygses for Alaska, is going out on thg North Star this week to Un- alaska, where she will leave the Ingjan Affairs vessel 1o proceed to| kanak by Coast Guard cutter. good baby book had given her an {idea how long it would take to do' the routine jobs for the baby. She | had to do some readjusting, but| she planned how to do it before | the baby came | Afterwards her house ran smoothly. She got tired, but she! didn't get harassed. Sensibly, she learned to nap while the baby was asleep in the afternoon Ken didn't stop playing his pho- nograph. He knew he couldn’t keep the baby wrapped in cotton wool |against the world. She would have! MOIORCY[ISI ABOARD ALASKA” Pittsblrgh hardware J. Logan, !merchant who will'attempt to ride | a motorcycle over the route of the proposed International Highway (with muster-cyclist, passed through Ju- |neau on the Alaska today. | Logan said he and Willlams |planned to star within the next |few days on their epic 6000-mile will refurn to Anchorage by |t0 et used to a certain amount of |jaunt from Faifbanks to the New plane and probably come home to Juneau by train and steamer, [noise No tip - toeing around fl““Yonk World’s Fair via two specially 1hou.>e His friends came and went,|puilt English motorcycles. Slin Willlams, _Fairbanks | | prog presented last year by the rived safely in Wisconsin, the Alaska | University of Washington Glee Club d: t e| - in thfs c!ty lay by the Department of Conser: vation of that State. The wolf has been placed on display ‘and is gain- left on the Yukon yesterday, are IS (oMmG BA(K !being traded for a planting of game | birds. — d - e, ——— BERLIN, May 2-—The Natioral| McDHONALDS THROUGH Health Office has come to the con=, Alexander McDonald, General clusion Germans must have their Agent for the Alaska Steamship beer. . A national policy of absti-'Company in the Seward-to-Fair- nence has been modified to apply banks division, was through on the only to the youth of the country. . |Alaska today. He and Mrs. McDon- s B . ald are returning to their home at Try an Empire »d. J Anchorage after a trip Outside, | St. | mothers of the Sunday school are | DOUGLAS' . NEWS SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT FOR DOUGLAS HEARD FROM With a response received inquir-| ing about living conditions here, Douglas $chéol board this. morsiing heard from Mr. Brown, Los Vegas, Nevada applicant for next year's school superintenidency, indicating interest on his part in the pasmon offered him, I AASSRESCRS MRS. WARNER ENTERTAINS | Thé Monday Night Sewing Club met ‘at the home of Mrs. Jack War- ner last night for the weekly ses- sion. A spelling contest enlivened the evening for the members, first prize being won by Mrs. Dale Fleek and consolation by Mrs. Elroy Fleek. Mrs. Mark Jensen will be hostess to the Club next weel STRAGER RECOVERS | After several days tréatment at| Ann’s hospital, Rene Strager was permitted to return to his home‘[ here this morning. He expects to be able to return to his work again in a few days. - R | GOSPEL CIRCLE MEETING | The Women's Circle of the Douz- las Gospel Mission will meet at 27 | o'clock Thursday afternoon at the | home of Mrs. Lonnie Grant, All particularly invited to attend. | | this morning from Portland, rand he plans to look into opportun- !ities for fishing in_Alaska, | ;llon of baking by two 4-H Club| + members; | vocal solo, Mrs. Jay Smith; motion warning today of the was obtained at the nozzle. J this | them and they are no good to eat, | the | to the Commission's attention that‘ caught ! leral years, was prominent in the Game Commission was notified to-|strom. i 4{ ing much attention, the Department ! ** BRIORNAS | | The wolf and two wolverine, which D | VISITORS HERE FROM PORTLAND | Mr. and Mrs. H._H. Gertz arrived | Ore.,, | to. visit with Mr. and Mrs. A. E.| Goetz, Mr. Gertz is a cousin of Mrs. Goetz. For years he 'has been gill netting on the Columbia river — g 'PROGRAM ARRANGED FoR. | DOUGLAS . P.-T.A. MEET A program of music and motion | pictures will feature the May, meet- | ing of the Douglas Parent-Teachers Association which is to be hald to- | morrow evemnx in | the. school as- ! sembly room. opening number—communily sing- | ing; the “Seéret of the Woods”, by |’ the first grade; “Just for Mother",‘ second and third grades; demonstra- | Alfreda Fleék and Solveig | Havdahl; piano solo, Betty Bonnétt; pictures, Miss Magnhild Oygard. A business meeting will precede | the program and refreshments will § be served at its close. { -ees D.F.D. COMMITTEE IS DOING GOOD WORK The Maintenance Committee of the Fire Department held a demon- stration of their fire fighting re sources for protection of the Foun dry buildings last evening. Thef| pump on the fire truck was con- nected to the old shaft running into ' the bay and a pressure of 210 pounds DOUGLAS FOR ANCHORAGE After 25 years residence in Doug- las, Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Kirkham plan to go to Anchorage to live and be near their daughter Mrs. George | L. Johnson. The latter with herl husband has been living' in the| Cook’s Inlet metropolis since 'they | too left here about 15 years ago. | In the Spring of 1913, Mr. and Mrs. Kirkham first came to the Island from Tacoma, Wash., and ex- cept for a year and a half south (] again’ during the world war when Mr. Kirkham worked in the ship}j | yards, they have remained here con- tinuously. Up until four or five | years ago Mr. Kirkham worked with | the carpenters’ crew at the Alaska (Juneau, and in addition to having 1been closely connected with much of the building construction in town (he has found time to prospect a little also and was successful. served on the City Council for sev- Masonic Lodge, and generally one of | the substantial citizens of Douglas. Mrs. Kirkham has had charge of the local telephone office since 1916. Besides herduties there she has been active in the Douglas Island Wo- | men’s Club, P.-T'A, Eastern Stars and all the various social activities of the town. It is needless to say this prominent couple will be greatly missed by this community, as well as in Juneau where their friends are legion. t FOUR HAHBUT CARGOES SOLID A total of 18400 pounds ‘of ‘hali- but went ‘over' the Juneau fish ‘ex- change yesterday evening and to- |; day. " The 31A27, Capt. John Pademeis- ter, sold 2400 pounds, the Anna H. sold 3,000 pounds and the 31D11| sold 3,000 pounds, all getting 6.15 and 415 a pound from Elton Eng- The Thelma, Capt. Bernt Alstead, sold 10,000 pounds at 6.25 and 4.15. WARD, SEBERN OF - FOREST SERVICE HOME FROM TRIP| Ray Ward, Regional Fiscal Agent for the Forest. Service, "and Roy Sebern, Clerk, returned to Juneau today on the launch Forester after an accounting and fiscal inspection trip to Kake, Wrangell and Ketchi- ]| kan, It will be as follows: | jis o U 8 DI'PARTM!NT OP AGRICULTUR!’ WEA'!'HER BmAU THE WEATHER o Forecast for J \u ll?d vlclllly, begnning at 3:30 p.m., May 2: Partly cloudy wnight and Wedncada\ moderate westerly winds. Weather forecast for Southeast Alaska: Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday; moderate westerly winds except moderate northerly winds over Lynn Canal. Forecast cf winds ulong the Coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Fresh westerly winds tonight and Wednesday along the coast from Dixon En- trance to Cape Hinchinbrook. tln ¥. 8. Weather Bureau) LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity 3:30 p.m. yest'y 30.07 55 34 s 5 3:30 a.m. today ... 30.07 36 88 8w 1 Noon today 3003 50 A 8% 5 i 4 RADIO umns L | DAY | i Max'tempt. | Lowest fam. dam. Precip. Station last 24 hours | temp. temp. velocity 24 hrs. Weather Atka 48 | ki 38 4 01 ‘Pt. Cldy Anchorage 48 | 30 30 [ 0 Pt, Oldy Barrow s 6 | -2 2 134 < 9 - Cloudy Nome 32 28 30 4 02 Cloudy Be?hel 32 | 30 32 26 10 Cloudy Fairbanks 50 32 3 4 0 Pt.Cldy Dawson 50 | 28 30 Calm 0 Cloudy Dutch Harbor 4“4 32 40 Calm 01 Cloudy Kodiak 48 | 32 32 4 0 Pt. Cldy Cordova 54 | 32 3 4 0 Clear Juneau 56 | 35 86 1 0 Clear Sitka 83 39 - -~ e 9 Ketchikan 48 | 40 42 4 40 Lt. Rain ‘Frince Rupert 50 | 42 44 4 28 Lt.Rain Edmonton 64 | 42 42 8 0 Pt.Cldy Seattle, 66 | 46 46 Calm 0 Pt.Cldy Portland 72 ok 46 46 6 0 Pt. Cldy San_ Francisco 56 | 48 50 16 0 Clear New York 60 44 48 8 0 Pt. Cldy Washington 60 { 4“4 48 6 [ Cloudy WEATIER SYNOPSIS A ridge of high'air pressure extended from the interior of Alaska south over the Gulf of Aln.skg, and the north Pacific Ocean to lat. 30 degrees N., this morning, With the highest pressure, 3053 inches, at lat. 46 degrees N., long. 156 degrees W. One area of low pressure was pres- ent over Bering Sea nnd ‘Western Alaska, and.' another - over lower Southeast Alaska and British Columbia. Light precipitation fell over Western - Alaska and, from lower Scutheast Alaska along the coast 40 Vancouves Island during the iast 24 hours with fair weather re- ported, from the rest of Alaska, central and western. Canada and the West, Coast jstates, Temperatures were warmer last night over West- ern Alaska, and, colder over the Alaska Railroad belt and upper South- eastrAlaska with liftle change overother portions: of the Territory. Junenu, M’ay z—sunflse, 4 02 a.m.; sunset, 7:53 p.m, PR I-i | Sights And Sounds HOLLYWOOD, Cal, May 2—1f you'ré one of the foam at the mouth about the number of Britishers playing..in. American pictures, consider Otto Kruger.- Kruger hails from Toledo, Ohio. And he’s one of England's favorite actors—in British pictures. For the past several yéars he has been a regular commuter between London and Hollywood and what’s more, he plays British roles over there: He has’just returned again to his big white West Los Angeles home and is talking about “settling down” ‘permanently. Settling, that is, unless he decides to go back to England on a deal with the new Leslie Howard company. Commuting, it seems, isn't forsworn so easily as it might be—even by a‘chap who does his own gardening and likes to get his hands dirty in the soil. There's something about being footloose that-gets him. llyw “And T suppose it would be more faif té thé family' (Mrs. Kruger and 12-year-old Ottilie Ann) if I settled down, signed a term contract here, and gave up traveling,” he says. “At least I'd make more money that way — ‘but I wouldn't like it, and money isn’t that important, is it?” Kruger was under contract to M-G-M, theé only time he signed a termer i Hollywood, when he learned that 72 per cent of his fan mail ‘Was coming from Great Britain. When he received an English offer ‘a short time later, he accépted—and now he’s'a big star” over thére.’ The ‘British, usually more than erttical of Amer- icans’ in Englith roles, have accebtéd ’him “Withotit ' Féservation. And the only American he has played—in the English studios—was the role of a gangster. In Hollywood, his speech is as'Ameérican’as”anybody’s--he sheds his broad-A’s on the boat, acquires them again'through Y ks so .we know ;mst e what yow’re looking for: 2 B ek a.good .man - sized lungh,, lasiy yaned and reasonably priced - 4.0cenls— S 3 bl gowu find it a‘t painstaking practice as goon as He 8alls' flom Néw York, wlrk" able?” Not at all, he says. Ability to mume an accent should be part of an actor's eqlipment. ' Kruger’s Hollywood movie now is “All the Tomorrows,” ovbofl'fl Prieda Inescort. ‘He's sold on the story—you can bet on that, or He wouan't be doing it. " ‘Time was when he Wasn't so happy abotit his “Hollywood* assignments. Personally, ‘I'd tatl Wi a ‘vietin of versatility. He ‘could do so many thitigs §d° well that' he' fever fit into any particular niche—and in these times an actor’ had to be a niche-filler or he didn't spring w mlnd when the big roles came up. Once: I'talked to him about the matter of using the local stage as “a~“show-winidow” 'for versatility. It. was the.récommended procedure, the sure means of 'displaying to’ pféducers, castérs, and directors the actor’s ability in any glven dxrecuon And he lauxhed with reason. ¥ . Because, with that idea in mind, he had done his'New Work hit, “Counsellor-at-Law,” on the smgev vhere-—\-lnd John _Barry- more did it in the movie. Because, undiscouraged, he Had played “Accent on Youth” here, a play written for ‘him’ by Samson Raphaelson—and Herbert Marshall did it ifi the movie. ° “But all that's changing,” he says now. “In England they don't insist that an actor stick to type—and in Hollywood we're getting away from it.” If Kruger joins the Leslie Howard' company abroad, the association will be most unusual.’ Throughout his Hollywood experience, the one man Kruger has beén most' frequently mis- taken for has been Howard, and vice versa. The two would wnrk, however, in different units. “I'n. nevér forget the time in Chicago,” Kruger relates, “ywhen T was shopping ‘dnd attracted a swarm of fans. I felt won- derful, ‘gloridus, xtremely “flattered about it-—and’ then one of “* tHem didrassed fie ds “Mf. Howdid" ' My defiation " was eomplete!” ol . »