The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 11, 1939, Page 2

‘ltun PAN AMERIC PLANS 4 1H0PS OVER ATLANTIC Two Flights?o?rance, Two to England Is Proposed Weekly Schedule WASHINGTON, May full plans for the projected air ser- vice across the Atlantic have been revealed in hearings on the petition of Pan’ Ameri Ve Company to the Civil Aer ties Authority for a certificate of ic conven- fence for such flight. Pan American Airways plans four flight. eck, two over a souther route > ea terminal at Mars; two over a northern route wit land as the terminal point. a n tern and On the southern route, upon which flyin vats of the type of the Yankee Clipper will be used, the start will be made from New York when the weather permits and from timore at other times Halts will be made Azores, Lisbon and Ma sellle. On the northern ger planes will B.; Botwood, Nfld and Southamvton, course, passen- t at Shediac, N. F. England. Land Plane to Carry Mail A flying boat and a land plane, the latter a modified “flying fo tress” equipped for stratosphere flying, will alternate on the morth- ern route, according to plans, the land plane carrying only mail anc express. The land plane will folloy the New Brunswick-Newfound Irelend course ing the year dn the uorii , b ing si¥ months of ar the | senger-carrying f1 boat for Eng- land will fly to the Azores and Li bon and thence to Southampton. For the land plane Croydon, instead ! of Southampton, will be the custern terminus. New York will be the ern terminal of the !in being employed as during those perio i when ice might erdanger i boats in New York, or weath ditions make operations at York impossible. Pan American Airways during the hearings to use Ney port t nc wes saltimor New | that it jnte s i ed yet a lease from the c of its municipa! air Dundalk, b € P. A. A agrees t« sixteen round trips and at leasi L after. Airporis Built at Lish Pan American has an lusive contract for American plane ser- vice with the Portugese Government for il[l*r‘n years, the testimony | The company has built its| own airports at Lisbon and at Horta in the At Marseilles it has acquired the rlgm to use the airport facilities of | and. at Southa ton | hose of British Imper- ar n, Horta Airways. Through ments States, land mental agree- by the United Kingdom, Ire- Pan ated Ameri- quired fro ise llw Shed!: n Great at and coneluded the and airport, for twe BAL.]L the right to use he same period, nd the right to use Irish has obtain- | ng boats which it will use in the transatlantic service, and the third will be de- livered within two or three wecks Some delay in starting service is foreseen. ¢ ————— From 1929 to 1922 United States production of turkeys incicased more than 56 percent—from 17,~ 000,000 birds W 26,000,000, | 11—The at Horta in the ynes, Ireland, i = | Miss . lowing disclosed |1 ded | 4 American | Lesses in one of the exhibits at the ght o¥e Ruby Lee and Ruth Anna Bell, KOUGAROKLID. MINE CONCERN INCORPORATED Two Nome Men, One Cali | fornian Form New Company Organized to engage in the min- ing business at Nome, the firm of <ougarok Ltd., Inc. was incorpor- ated today at the office of Territor- ial Auditor Frank Boyle. Incorporators are O. M. Powell and Ira D. Orton of Nome and D. E. Crowley of Belmont, Cal. he principal place of s of the corporation will be pal corporate office ned at the Lomen srein]l Company headquarters at, Seattle, the application stated. | (Capital stock of $20,000 consists |of 200 shares worth $100 apiece Limit of indebtedness was set at $25,000. —————————— TED HUNSBEDT IS ENGAGED TO NEW YORK GIRL ‘Well Known Juneau Boy | Will Wed Miss Dorothy Gunther Next Fall Juneau Of interest to his many 1 ne of the engag Hundsbedt, son of sedt, of this city, and Elizabeth Guunther, 1 Mrs. Q. A Duyvil, New (Mrs. B. Hut Dorothy | ghter Mr. {Gunther Spuy {York Cit \h\.\ of of attended the Lin- nore Colle nsbedt, High U.\"l‘ unther *hool and S York. Mi. H of the Juncau has attended the Military Acade for the past four his graduatic Cadet Hunsbedt will iosliuet rid- ling at a boys' school in Mz and er will assume a position Lieutenant Point ears !ol~ June, edding take place in New York in the early fall 'MRS. DRAKE TAKES VACATION: KARNES DUE HOME MAY 2 } | Mss. Marie Drake, Assistant Ter- ritorial Commissioucr of Education, on leave until June 1. “She is | spénding the vacation at her home jon the Fritz Cove Road on the | Glacier Highway. ! Commissioner A. E. Karnes, now in Berkeley, California, attending a vocaticnal education conference, expected back in Juneau 'about | May 20. Spamsh Relugees Arrive in Mexico MEXICO CITY, May in Mexican capital today from Spain. The group included one pow- Spain. The group included once pow- | erful figures in the Loyalist regime, | alist :\.mé;a\\ador to Russia, Munuol | rhev reached Mexico City while | imany groups were petitioning the | government to forbid entrance of | |all such rdu"ees | D e ! A !mes French chef a century {or so ago described eggs as “the lcemcm that holds the castles of Ccookery together,” at a station of the young ('ml])h" 0l is | 11L—A sec- jond contingent of refugees arrived | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, MAY 11, Five Sets of Twins Serve as Fair Hostesses Plg-lalled Head Floats i On Alaska Tide A wicked- lrx;km;, hvad with a long{ queue or pigtail was found on the beach near Bear Oreek, Admiraity | Island, recently by Augustus De- Roux, oldtimer in that district, and brought to Juneau today for iden- | tification. DeRoux, who has an asbestos| mine at Bear Creek, left the head | with the Alaska Game Commission, | though it is apparently human and not animal. We g as mean’a leer as hu- man ever could, the strange head is carved out of a cocoanut husk. One | eye is formed by a shell and the other by a rock, giving the face a brutal cockeyed expression. The long tusk-like teeth are formed of shells, which appear to be of a kind not| found in this vicinity. ‘The pigtail | is a cord tied to the top of the husk. | The wierd head is well worth a; look if one happens to be in that part of the Federal Building. CHAMBER 0 BE HOSTS T0 Bi6 SEATTLE GROUP nnd Harnet and Shirley Potter. | 70 Goodwill Tour Mem- © bers fo Attend Lunch- | eon at Baranof About 70 Seattle Chamber of Com- | merce members will meet with the ,Juneau Chamber at a luncheon at the Baranof Hotel May 30 during | the Seattle Goodwill tour to Alaska, | COMMITTEEOF 1 | ber's wish he would be * | and attendance | E | sistant Cashier. | waugh, | | Eileen and Edna Reeke, Patsy and Bette Chase, Janet and Ruth McKellin, | THREE TO SCAN BO[K SITUATION Chamber Hopes fo Avmd‘; Tieup of Shipping at Juneau Appointment of a committee of three to look into the rumored pos- sibility of a shipping tieup in Juneau and to investigate demands report- edly being made by local longshore- men on the steamship companies | was announced today by the Juneau | Chamber of Commerce. R. E. Robertson was named Chair- man of the group, to be assisted by the Rev. John A. Glasse and Allen Shattuck. Robertson, present at to- | day's Chamber luncheon, said ‘he was reluctant to accept the appoint- ment but that if it was the Cham- ‘glad to do what he could.” The same committee was asked w [1ook into the labor situation Whl(‘h has resuited in interruption of work on the sewer and paving projects| here. Another committee appointed to- day was one to arrange program at Chamber func- | for the next three months. | Curtis Shattuck will be Chairman, | sted by George Sundborg and tions Henry Kessler. ! Publicity Scheme ! vas announced that the Cham- | reed to retain the serv- | ices of W. T. Walsh, Detroit and | Chicago advertising man, to publi- | cize the Rotary conference. | ‘The Board has contributed $20 fl]AMEs McNAUGHTON | M: Behrends Bank, today announced | 193 IS ELECTED CASHIER (OF BEHRENDS BANK John Morrison Elevated fo ' Position of Asst. Cashier | -Waugh Joins Staff | J. F. Mullen, Pn\\ldvm of the B. | that James McNaughtcn had been | elegted Cashier of the bank by the Board of Directors, Mr. McNaughtoni has been af- filiated with the bank the past eighteen years and succeeds his | father, the late Guy McNaughton. At the same meeting of the Direc- | tors, John Morrison was chosen to succeed James MzNaughton as As- Mr. Morrison’s as- sociation with the bank extends over fourteen years. It was also announced that Herb who recently arrived from Seattle, has joined the staff of the bank. ™r. Waugh was formerly with the Pacific National Bank of Seattle and. the Federal Reserve| | Bank of that city lE(TURES 10 MARK FEAST, GLACIER DAY Rofarians o Hear of Men- denhall, Game, Fig- ures and Mines Four Juneauites will deliver 10- |minute lectures over audiphone \hookup at the Rotary convention outdoor barbecue fest at Menden- | hall Glacier, it was announced to- day. Bob Robinson, Forest Service man, will talk on the history and | general phenomena of glaciers, specially Mendenhall. Frank Du- | fresne, Executive Officer of the Al- |aska Game Commission, will talk on | |fish and game. Curtis Shattuck, of the Territor- ial Chamber of Commerce, will give a talk on Alaskan economics, while B. D. Stewart, Territorial Commis- isioner of Mines, will give a word picture of the Northland's mining mdustry ROY WIllIARD . DIES AT AGE OF 9. [M AYORTO ASK MEDIATION IN LOCAL TIEUPS 0'Connor at Kefchikan- Will Be Asked to Come to Capifal City Mayor Harry I. Lucas said tod .|y‘ will attempt to enlist the aid | Labor Mediator J. E. O'Connor, who aided in the settlement of Ju- | neau labor troubles last fall, in| ironing out the present tieup of | lccal sewers and paving projecls,. O'Connor has been in Ketchikan for the last two weeks in connec- tion with the canners-union dis- agreements and it is hoped he wiil | come north on the Baranof, Sun- day. Yesterday, Mayor Lucas, at the request of the Public Works Admin- | istration, asked the protesting CIO Allied Trades union for a written he of !statement as to why pickets were | placed on the jobs in question. The answer, Mayor Lucas said, was “discrimination,” after the Al-| lied Trades, local 943, held a meet- ing last night in Union Hall. The statement was signed by E. O. Fields, President, and W. O. Shaef- fer, Secretary. Approximately 60 men were thrown out of work yesterday after- noon when the CIO carpenters pick- | eted both projects. Laborers and | teamsters on the jobs are CIO and cannot go through such a picket | line to their jobs according to un- ion regulations. The CIO carpenters said they want “fifty percent of the work” on the jobs and “recognition.” Jim Doyle, foreman for the L. J. | Dowell Construction Company, satd\ |he was working three carpenters | before the tieup, while one carpen- !ter had been employed on the Som- |mers job. LA il 4y Mother-Daughter Tea Is Tomorrow At High School Plans have been completed for the | 1 Mother-Daughter tea which | | | annua | will 5:15 o'clock in the High School. | A colonial theme will be used in| ‘mrrvmg out decorations for the| | occasion, and all girls assisting will | be gowned in costumes in kceping | with the theme. Mothers of the officers who wxll 19 IN ARIZONA Only Child of Juneau Na-| tive Couple Succumbs fo Long lliness ! Roy Willard, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dave Willard of Juneau, died Foster L. McGovern of the Seattle |(0Ward the Girl Scout camp and|oday in a hospital at Tucson, Ari-| group has notified Charles W. Car-| ter, Juneau Chamber President. contingent will have luncheon that| day aboard the boat. W. Walter | Williams, President of the saattle Chamber, will be on the trip, i | 'No" Chamber luncheon, is to be| held here next Thursday, due to the | Rotary. conference, wmch will begin | | that day. | J - HARRY SPERLING - T0 BE TOASTER, BOWLING DINNER At the Elks bowling banquet to- night in the Baranof Hotel, at 6:30 o'clock, Harry Sperling, veteran split ball artist will be Master of Cere- monies and will present the indi- | vidual cups to the five members of | the Professional League champion | team, the Lawyers. In addition, Wes Barrett, Bob Laney and Ted Osterman will fur- | nish music. All members of the Lawyers, Mer- chants and Druggists teams will: be feted to free dinners‘and those get- Ling cups onthe Lawyers squad will be, Mrs:: Hazel. Ptexich, Harry Spexl- ing, - Prank: Foster; Mrs. Jack Bur- ford and -Bob Kaufmapn, - NEW BOOK | Carlota, British poetess, has just had a volume of verse published in America. In pri- vate life she is Mrs. Louis Oppenheimer, wife of the managing director of the South African Diamond Corp. I has written to the American Le- celebration this year. Major L. M. Powers, U. S. Army | signal Corps, retired, was intro- | duced at thé meeting, He was oper- ator-in-charge of the Douglas sta- tion many. years ago, Uq&&d OLD TIMERS OF ROTARY T0 HAVE BREAKFAST HERE 25 Years' Mbership in| Club Necessary fo Qualify Man A breakfast for Pioneers of Rotary will be held in the Tris Room of the Baranof Hotel Priday morning, May 19. ~“To qualify to attend this aifau' which is* under ' the direction of Charles Carter of Juneau, a Rotar- ian must have at least 25 years’ ser= vice in the orgartization to his credit. Only about 25 out of the number attending the conference in Juneau are ‘éxpected to 'qualify as Pioneers) | of Rotary. The Rotary cruise ship, the Aleu- tian, leaves Seittle Sunday evening and will arrive in Juneau Thursday Jnorning. Between 300 and 350 Ro- tarians Wwill be aboard, ! B. Phillips, Conference Chairman, today. Mayoralty Election Has (reated Vacancy COTTONWOOD FALLS, Kas., May 11.—Cottonwood Falls had an election but wound up with no mayor. Mayor Henry Long was the only candidate on the ballot but enough voters wrote in the name of D. Smith to elect him. Smith declined to accept. The president of the council, law, became acting mayor. ——————— Try an Empire ad, announced by | | zona, according to word recewed {gion suggesting that that organi- by his parents. Wives and others in the Seattle Zation take over the Fourth of July | Willard succumbed to a long ill- | ness. He had been in Arizona three | years. He was an only child. The for burial. - GIRLS' ATHLETIC ~ BANQUET EVENT in the High School gymnasium, seventy-five members of the Girls' Athletic Association {gathered for a banquet and program, | during which time awards were pre- sented twelve girls. Miss Louise Hildre, President of the group, was toastmistress for the affair. On the program was a “Spanish Dance”, by Miss Sue Stew- art. Miss' Betty Wilcox gave an j&ccordian selection and a vocal num- | ber was given by Miss Lanore Kauf- mann, accompanied at the piano by Miss Olga Paul. Awards for threg¢ hundred points | Last night Miss Myrtle Moe, advisor: June An- derson, Margaret Brannin, Sylvia Davis, Dorothy Fors, Thea Hanson, Barbara Hermann, Mavis Nikula, Olga Paul, Cecilia Thibodean, Ruth Torkelson, Doris McEachran and ,L,fla Sinclair. In charge of arrangements for the event last evening were; Mary Fukuyama, dinner; Ethel Fukuyama, invitations; Louise Hildre and Doris McEachran, decotations; and Sue | Stewart, program. ‘Rebekahs fo Attend Church Next Sunday Last evening at the I.O.O.F. Hall a meeting of the Rebekahs Lodge was held, with Mrs. Mary Ross presiding. which was Luba Petievich. Sunday, in commemoration of Mother’s Day, members of the lodge will attend the morning services at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in a body. i boy attended the public schools here. | The body is to be sent to Juneau | LAST EVENING | received towards a school letter were | Presented the following girls Dy | Following the meeting refresh-| M. | ments were served, in charge of pour during the tea hours will in- clude: Mrs. B. D. Stewart, Mis.| | Thomas Allen, Mrs. Mable Lee| *Nmuo and Mrs. H. G. Wilcox. | During the afternoon an »nwmblm | composed of Anne Morris, Shirley | Davis- and Sylvia Davis will play,| and Miss Lanore Kaufmann will present vocal selections. | — - UNIVERSITY T0 GRADUATE CLASS OF 36 STUDENTS Three from Juneau Among Graduating Seniors— 12 Qutsiders Three students from Juneau are in the senior class of the Univer- | sity of Alaska and will be gradu- ated from that institution at exer- cises Monday along with 83 class- | mates. The Juneauites are Earl Beist- line, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph | Beistline; Irene Flakne, daughter ‘u[ Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Flakne, and Theodore Kukkola. Olavi Kukkola, a brother also in the graduating |class, formerly lived in Juneau but {listed his residence as College. Others in the graduating class, | 2 dozen of whom are from outside the Territory, are as follows: Orovada, Nev.; Haines; Barbara Robert Burns, | Fairbanks; Douglas Colp, Peters- |burg; Harold Culver, Anchorage; Albert Dickey, New Castle, Ind.; George - Dickey,: New Castle, Ind. Helve Enatti, Anchorage. Duane Hall, New Castle, Ind.; William Hartman, Fairbanks; Hul- da Huttula, Fairbanks; Woodrow |Johansen, Cordova; Eugene Kar- stens, Fairbanks; Florence Kerr, Portland, Ore.; Loyal Lohse, Alamo, N. D.; Elsa Lundell, Douglas; Mar- jorie MacDenald, Fairbanks; Robert Maddox, Whittier, Cal. Dick Mahan, San Diego, Cal; Albert O'Shea, Enumclaw, Wash.; Norman Phelps, Malvern, Penn.; Leo Rhode, Eureka, Kas.; Patricia Roberts, Fairbanks; Frances Ronan, Fairbanks; Jane Runyan, Fair- banks; Harry. Saxon, Powhuska, Okla.; Charles Sundholm, Anchor- | age; Raymond Thorberg, Nome; Florence Walker O'Shea, Ketchikan; James Walsh, Nome; Hana Yasuda- Ross, Beaver. e RIS RR, Roses are the most popular flower purchased from florists in Canada. Sales. of .the flower amounted to $744,518 in 1938, Jack Adams, | Florence Allen, | Brewis, ‘Fairbanks; U. 8. DIPAM‘MENT OF AGRICULTURE WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. 8. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 3:30 p.m., May 11: Cloudy, with showers tonight and Friday; gentle to moderate southerly winds 4onight, increasing Friday to moderate. Weather forecast for Souiheast Alaska: Cloudy, with showers to- night and Friday; gentle to moderate southerly winds tonight, increas- ing Friday to moderate, except moderate to fresh over northern portion of Lyan Canal. Forecast cf winds wiong the Coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Moderate southerly winds tonight and Friday from Dixon Entrance to Cross Sound and east and southeast winds from Cross Sound to Cape Hinch- inbrook. LOCAL DATA Barometer Temo. Humidity Wind Velocity 30.32 49 49 SE 8 30.21 40 83 S 4 3017 51 53 S 9 RADIO REPORTS Time 30 pm. yest'y 3:30 a.m. today Noon today . Weather Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy TODAY 3:30a.m. Precip. 3:30am. temp. 24 hours Weather 0 Clear Trace 0 Trace Lowest temp. 32 38 6 20 14 Max. tempt. “ Station last 24 hours | Atka ... | Anchorage |, . | Nome Bethel Fairbanks Dawson St. Paul Dutch Harbor Kodiak Cordova Juneau Sitka Ketchikan . Prince Rupert Edmonton Seattle Portland San Francisco New York ‘Washington 44 48 gt 26 30 46 52 32 36 42 Rain Cloudy Snow Clear Cloudy. Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Rain Rain Cloudy Cloudy Pt. Cldy Pt. Cldy Clear Clear Pt. Cldy Clear Cloudy ceceocceoco®o WEATHWER SYNOPSIS High barometric pressure prevailed this morning from the Alaska Railroad belt southeastward over the Gulf of -Alaska te the Pacific Coast states, the crest being 30.26 inches over Alberta and British Co- lumbia. High barometric pressure also prevailed over the Aleutians, the Bering Sea, and over the Alaskan Arctic coast, while storm areas prevailed over the Pacific Ocean northeast of the Hawaiian and Mid- way Islands and southwest of Kodiak Island, the lowest reported pres- sure being 29.30 inches at latitude 36 degrees and longitude 150 de- grees. Precipitation has fallen over the northern portion.of the Gulf of Alaska and over the southern portion of the Alaska Railroad belt, also at Nome, Mayo, and Dutch Harbor, elsewhere over the field of ob- servation generally fair weather prevailed. Cool weather prevailed over the Aleutian Islands.and Bering Sea region. Juneau, Muy 12.—Sunrise, 3:41 a.m.; sunset, 8:12 p.m. be given tomorrow afternoqn |j§ by the Girls Club between 3:45 and |§ EVERY TIME BAKING Schilling s It’s easy to bake muffins you'll be proud of with Schilling Baking Powder. 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