The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 3, 1939, Page 2

2 AUNCLE SA B > four laborator 4 GOES IN FOR CHEMURGY; MILLION DOLLAR * ABORATORIES ARE TO SEEK NEW USES FOR FOODNOW SN ———————— e ettt ] ries U. S. is building and the principal crops each will study. Chems ything from cyeglasses to airplanes.” yat | DOth the factory—a, oing to Y and wider in: oratories i h greater justrial us farm products. ‘ mment nd chan scien ways njtr mod; ith inf s of su sts are te turn and cotton and things like airplanes and “Chemurgy” has becr describe such work nlists prefer it hunt factory markets for he Whatever its name, it is twen! eth ces . s is the first of articles telling how Uncl s dabbling in it. Greeks Had Two Words For It That 1t the chemur- | sts had in mind a few years ago | 1 their catchword hemia,” for chem- gon,” which ‘means | is exac when from t 1860s the iron horse welded 2 continent and put com- ce on steel Whee teeming twentiess of this a cheap car set off a big- And Edison’s wild perpetual daylight came wiong. chemurgy boom h m of to I supporie relp thi as new American » AT JACK THOMPSON Feature Service Writer of creating one for WASHINGTON Chem- urgy! 3 ed, merry-eyed Wil- | le, inventor of the word caught the ear of r out of the | “chemurgy.” | ultra-modern | will h has cos "ederal 3 and e phatic “We'l :alnuv\r pairp Sthe by for the fact “Maybe,” sciently intere: Lo find out ' rm product cd to Right now he is building million-dollar laboratories in the major farm areas of U. S, north, south, east, west. fou Eight hundred scientists — test an eye on'other tube economists with from eyeglasses to says Uncle Sam, suffi-|y pend millions | st how much chemur- | new spotted the learned, for instance, how to make Henry Ford during Three hundy agricu ped the depression >d representa- industry nd » the first chem ice at Dearborn, Michi~ ring of 1935. Other neces followed and the_ Na- Farm Chemurgic Council | to enroll members and! d the word. \ Then they found that for 30 s Department of Agriculture sts had been searching for ways to put farm products | into industrial markets. With Jimited funds | ernment scien already these gov- had | building board and Qigh-grade pa- per from corpstalks, straw @ and wastes; starch from sweet | MODES of the MOMEN by Adeleide Kerr Frocks like this are seen this spring. It's designed of navy blue dotted swiss in keeping with (1. o ue six-tiored skirt and puff-sleeved bodice are banded in white ric-rac aid to eohagce its old-fashioned charm, otato pulp, and paint and plas—-"t:ms from soybeans. - That was a prelude to'theé new program which experts ‘say will ‘bé the biggest 'scientific Kunt along that 1iné in history. The new hat- tery of scientists will have some- thing like a million dollars a year to spend in each of’ the ‘four new laboratories. In the South they'll try" first' to find new industrial futures for cotton, sweet potatoes and pea- nuts, crops in which the major surpluses have occurred or are likely to occur, says Secretary Wallace. The three-story labora- tory, to be built in New Orleans, ill serve nmine southern states| covering the area from Oklahoma | and Texas east to the Atlantic. The laboratory at Peoria, Illinois, concentrate on the most troublesome mid-western surpluses, corn and wheat. | In the east scientists at the lab- | oratory near Philadelphia will work on apples, milk products, potatoes, | vegetables and tobacco. Its territory | runs as far south as North Carolina | and Tennessee. The western laboratory near San Francisco, at Albany, California, will experiment with fruits, vege- tables, potatoes, wheat and alfalfa. The tentative program for cot- | ton covers the whole cotton plant. Already the fine white = hairs from the lowly cotton seeds have helped build the biggest success in the synthetic fiber field. Rayon, made from cotton linters, and from wood, has skyrocketed from a two- by-four industry of pre-war days to a giant among the textiles, Its half-brother, ‘a transparent cellulose wrapping material, i§ just "S00N AT SEWARD Executive Order Increases Property of Bureau- Plans Announced Three lots at Seward have been set aside by executive order of Presi- dent Roosevelt to enlarge the Bureau of Public Roads warehouse property which formerly consisted of three lots. ‘A new warehouse is to be built on the site, the bureau announced here today. Maintenance equipment will THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 3. 1939. J.W.CLUBHOLDS +CANNERS, BEER "'FINAL BUSINESS ~ DEALERS FINED MEETING OFYEAR - IN TAX-SUITS ‘Reports Given, Officers Se- Seven Firms Plead Guilty lected, Installation fo Non-payment-As- Dinner Planned sessed $13,474.64 Mrs. Thomas Haigh. President, The Territorial Treasury has been I presided at the final 1938-9 business |enriched by $13,474.64 as a result of meeting of the Juneau Women's|three salmon canneries and 'two Club held yesterday afternoon at peverage distributors pleading guilty | the A]“Sk: Electric Light and Power ¢ Kea‘hiknn last week to charges Co. Penthouse. of not ing Territorial taxes. Year]y reports of the Executive ©; g pca:'rlygl(& Chief of Territorial Doard. Were Riesrsbd Uy M. 1'7' F.| Enforcement Officers, has returned Bulatind, Hotrothchs at have, Pooa t0 his fupeau Bebqgubriars gt Tiedt, Ct‘n-resvpondm'g Secretary. ‘nssxsung with prosecution of the Annual department reports were “35¢S during the Court term at given by their respective chairmen: Ketchikan. Y Mrs. David Wood, American’ Home | Pleading guilty to charges of n;? Department; Mrs. Harold Smith, |Paying salmon pack case taxes, o Legislative Department; Mrs. J. P. Diamond K Packing Company was Williams, Applied Education De- fined $6,092.7¢ and costs; the Lin- partment; Mrs, Henry Harmon, Fine denberger Packing Company, $4.- Arts Department; Mrs. Crystal Snow 367.18 and costs, and the Ocean Jenne, International Relations De- | Packing Company, $2564.72 and partment; Mrs. H. L. Wood, Pub- costs. lic Welfare Department; Mrs. Mil- A similar charge against the |dred R. Hermann, Associate Mem- Burnett Inlet Packing Company was | bership Department; Mrs. Walter dropped when the, company made | Hellan, Civic Improvement Depart- payment. | ment; and Mrs. Joe Kendler, Pub- Distributors Fined licity Department. o bl Charged with distributing beer A very interesting J. W. ub | without being properly licensed, four | scrapbook, compiled during the last fipms ,,leadfdp g.?iclgy_ The Seattle |year by Mrs. Harold Foss, Was on Brewing and Malting Company was exhibit, - : fined $250 and costs; W. J. Lake Chairmen of standing committees ;n4 Company, $200 and costs, and U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 3:30 p.m., May 3: Showers tonight and Thursday; maderate to fresh southerly winds. Weather forecast tor Nouthes,t Alaska: Showers tonight and Thursday; moderate to fresh southerly winds. Forecast ¢f winds afong the Cosst of the Gulf of Alaska: Fresh southerly winds tonight and Thursiay along the coast from Dixen En- trance to Cape Spencer; fresh southeast and east winds from Cape Spencer to Cape Hinchinbrook. LOCAL DATA Barometer Tembp. Humidity Wind Velocity Weather 3003 . 54 a2 SE 12 Clear 30.12 43 90 SE 3 Cloudy 30.15 48 68 SE 9 Cloudy RADIO REPORTS TODAY Lowest 4a.m, 4am. Precip. temp. temp. velocity 24 hrs. 34 34 34 34 10 18 30 30 34 28 32 34 38 38 42 41 40 40 54 52 52 | 50 | 48 Time 3:30 pm. yest'y 3:30 am. today Noon today Mazx, tempt. lagt 24 hours | i 42 4am. Weather Pt. Cldy Lt. Sriow Cloudy Lt. Snow Cloudy Pt. Cldy Cloudy Lt. Snow Lt. Rain Lt. Rain Lt. Rain Cloudy Atka Anchorage Barrow Nome Bethel Fairbanks Dawson St. Paul Dutch Harbor . Kodiak Cordova Juneau Sitka Ketchikan Prince Rupert Edmonton Seattle Portland New York Washington Station lwmoes Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy 54 52 52 52 50 PSR-y =3 WEATHER SYNOPSIS A trough of low barometric pressure covered northwestern Cana- da, all Alaska except the southeastern portion, the upper part of the Gulf of Alaska, and the Pacific Ocean adjacent to the Alaska Penin- sula this morning with a central pressure of 29.60 inches about 20 miles south of False Pass. The barometer was moderately high over the Pacific coast from Southeast Alaska to Oregon. Light precipitation occurred over western and southern Alaska and along the coast to Puget Sound while generally fair weather prevailed over the rest of the field of observation. Temperatures were cooler over western Alaska, and warmer over the southern and extreme northern portions of Al- aska last night with little change ovei other parts of the Territory. Juneau, May 4—Sunrise, 4:00 a.m.; sunset, 7:55 p.m. A ‘*BIKE” ' for more sport this summer — Bluegrass Adage Must Be Beaten fo Capture Kentucky Derby By JUSTIN ANDERSON (AP Feature Service) | LOUISVILLE, Ky, May 3.—Is | Technician doomed by an old “jinx" from winning the Kentucky Derby this year? “No,” says Trainer B. A. (“Ben™") Jones. He scoffed at an old Bluegrass adage that offspring of the same sire never win the Derby in suc- | cessive years, saying | worried about traditions, jinxes or | anything else.” 4 | If the tradition proves true as it | “we arent N = one more of a Iong list of test-tube | triumphs credited to scientific re- search, L 4 On the millions of dollars worth | chemists W?l their 15,000 POUNDS OF Three halibut vessels sold and one was to be bid on this afternoon at the local fish mart, to bring total |landings for yesterday evening and! | today to 45,000 pounds. 1 | The Fern, Capt. Chris Bjerkeland, | sold 12,000 s to Elton Eng- | strom at s:n?q:nnf‘ 425'a poud for {freezing,” 7" ‘: The Hyperien, Capt. Oscar Oberg, |sold 14,500 pounds at 6.35 and 4.25 ! to Alaska Coast Fisheries. The Helen ;H., Capt. Richard Young, sold 6,500 {pounds at 630" and 4.25 to Alaska Coast Fisheries. » | 'x'lw}a?p , Gapg. Bii B‘?I elson, i brcught n*mooo%‘fi:f:!is, ut had | not sold (l“imlfi‘;‘@pross time, SIXARE ORDERED - TO QUIT GERMANY BERLIN, May 3—Hugh Carleton Greene, chief Berlin correspondent of the London Telegraph, and five other British subjects ‘have been ordered to leave Germany by May 124, It is claimed hy the Ousted men that the order is in’ reprisal for the ousting of Germans, especially Nazi newsmen, from England. ———— T %’mmon T 1 The 40 foot fishing boat Winifred, {has been bought by Tom Bailoff, | Alaska Juneau miner, from Dr. E. H : Kaser. Bailoff, having the vessel fitted |for trolling, will make the Winifred |the latest addition to the salmon fleet here, for colion evening frocks, and its attle; and grandchildren Irvin Sayles, Aberdeen, Mrs. Streeter Beall, Puyallup, Mrs. H. B. Camp- bell, Washington, D. C, and Mrs. Neill Anderson, Sitka. Millards Hosts With Beach Party Mr. and Mrs. Frank Millard were hosts to a number of friends last evening at their home, Ledge,” on the Fritz Cove road, when they entertained with a beach party. Guests e ocgasion included Mr. and Mrs. Homer Acton, Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Newell, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Cole and Miss Bess Millard. DOCTOR AT KLAWOCK Mrs. Leslie White, formerly of Ju- neau, and three children traveled on the Office of Indian Affairs vessel from Seattle to Klawock where her husband, Dr. White, was recently transferred as Government doctor. “Mrs. White 'is a sister of Mrs. . W. Leivers of this city. The ‘Whites were formerly stationed at Unalaska. R BLACK BEAR HERE FROM PETERSBURG The patrol launch Black Bear of the Alaska Game Commission is al Juneau, brought up from Petersburg by Capt. Howard Jensen, now in charge of the district in the absence of Wildlife Agent Hosea Sarber, now at Kodiak: Jensert will be at ‘the office here for several days. - e Suit to collect on two notes total- ing $5,000 plus interest and attorney fees was filed in District Court to- day by the First National Bank of Juneau against the Alaska Gold Mining Company, which has property-at Hawk Inlet. Sayles, both grandchildren, in Se-| “Rocky | — e, 20-Foot Letfers Spell Out Juneau for Air Starting at the middle and work- | ing both ways, painters today had got as far as UNE toward painting JUNEAU in 20-foot letters on the roof of the Standard Oil Company | warehouse on Willoughby Avenue. The word, which will be 120 feet long, is for the information of avia- tofs and is the only: such- airway | sign in Juneau. A similar label topped the old Standard Oil ware- | house here. | Manager Tom Dyer said the | painting was in line with Standard Oil Company policy everywhere of | labelipg the cities for the avia- tors. { — e who summarized their year's Work|ginec have not yet been assessed e e B e atey In the case of the Alaska Distribu- |General Program committee; MIS. yo o ang the Golden Glow Distrib- g Hf"“mm“ly C‘?"{m“‘°“; |uting Company. On motion of At- A T P onr torney A. H. Zelgler the trial of the of Directors. The club now has go|Jakeway Distributing Company on {local members and 72 associate|the same charge was postponed. | members, Judge' George F. Alcxapder. in Special reports were given by Mrs, Sentencing the companies, an- Mildren Hermann for the special Dounced that the fine in each case edition, by Mrs. J. M. Clark for the | Was more than double what the tax Girl Scout committee, by Mrs. Wal- | would have been if it had been paid ter Hellan on the Civic Improve-|as Territorial law requires. ment department’s radio programs . for May and their National Child 8 Health Day program, and by Mrs. | TP J. P. Williams for entertainment e( nl(lan plans for prominent members of the General Pederation of Women's | b Clubs who will tour Southeast Al- Y aska and visit Juneau on May 20. us e ea Mrs. Williams announced that the Douglas and Juneau Club women were cooperating and that the fol- L] 4 . lowing committees had been ap- lnx o In pointed for the tea: Mrs. C. A. Fox| 4 and Mrs. L. M. Richardson, decora- | i tions; Mrs. Ray G. Day, Mrs. J. M. be moved to the new headquarters Clark and Mrs. Sam Devon, refresh- frém ‘otter places M thid vicinity of |ments; and Mrs. Crystal Snow Seward. f | Jenne, program. Bl . P oates | Mrs. Walter Hellan reported on | the excellent cooperation of the Boy hl' | Scouts and the Juneau Dairies for Mfs. Md.a“g III the Child Health Day program and " i |of station KINY during both the DleS Kekhlka month of May and throughout the L4 year. Mrs. Ray G. Day reported the fol- KETCHIKAN, Alaska, May 3. _:lowing officers had been elected for Mrs. Martha McLaughlin, 79, pio- | the ensuing year: Mrs. Joe Kendler, neer of Alaska, died last night here. | Vice President; Mrs. Frank Harris, The well known woman came to Secretary; Mrs. Fred Tiedt, Corres- Ketchikan, in 1903 and celebrated ’Donding Secretary; and Mrs, Eugene her golden wedding anniversary in Robertson, Treasurer. Mrs. Thomas 1928 | Haigh, whose_work during the past Surviving her are Mrs. Maude \ Year was so highly commended, con- Wakefield, a daughter in Ketchi- (510 0 act s femporary chai- kan; Arthur Wakefield and Jack Selecw‘f:’“ & R Rpuioonq e The Executive Board will be in has in the past 64 Derbies, Tech- | charge of the final meeting of the |nician, son of the late Insco, which final social meeting "of " the yaar“slred Lawrin, 1938 Derby champion, which will be in the form of an In- | Won't come home first May 6. stallation Dinner at the Baranof|' Zev, by The Finn, won in 1923 Hotel on Tuesday, May 16, at 6:30|&nd Flying Ebony, another of The p.m. Those wishing to make reser- | Finn's progeny, captured the 1925 vations should contact Mrs, C. C.|race—and that's the closest ap- | Rulaford or Mrs. Ray Day. Mrs, Proach of sons of one “pappy” to | Tiedt will act as toastmistress for | Consecutive conquests, | this occasion. | But don’t sell Herbert M. Woolf's Refreshments served yesterday by | fine colt short on that account. Mrs. Thomas Haigh, Mrs. C. C. Rul- | There’s a chance history might re- aford and’ Mrs. Davis Wood made | Peat itself in that the same owner | this final business meeting of the,Nas won successvie Derbies. Woolf year an especially delightful ogca- | 3150 owns Lawrin. ¢ sion, | Col. E. R. Bradley, whose colors (S CERUR RS S | have been run up four times— 4 £5 ! more than any other sportsman 1DIMGW B"_l mm | competing for Kentucky Derby (glory and gold — won in 1932-33 Allow Pos'ms‘[u | with Burgoo King and Brokers Tip, | respectively. m SH DO(MHIS\ There’s another old “spell shroud- | ing Technician’s chances. It is that 20 g Winter-raced horses never win the WASHINGTON, May 3.—Alaska | historic Churchill Downs classic. Delegate Anthony J. Dimond has | This has been broken twice, how- introduced a bill to authorize Alaska | ever, by Black Gold in 1924 and by postmasters to administer oaths and | Lawrin. affiymations. Technician, as did numerous other Qhigct of the measurd is to give | Derby nominees this year, competed remote villages some means of com- |on. the Winter tracks, winning the plying wtily legal requirements in|Flamingo stakes in Florida, dupli-| notarizing documents. =~ cating the 1938 performance of | e | Lawrin. Joe Williamson, Cadastral En- gineer of the Public Survey Office, is going out on the North Star to Klukwan to survey a townsite. 4, PR BASEBALL TODAY | The foliowing are Sgores of base- ball games played this afternoon in the Major League as received up to 2:15 o'clock: National League Chicago 1; Philadelphia 4. Cincinnati 4; New York 6. American e Philadelphia 3; Chicago 1. Boston 5; Cleveland 1. New York' 10} Detroit 6. Washington 11; St. Louis 10. 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