The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 16, 1939, Page 2

Envaa st an o FIRST ROTARY !g:;ul»tggce BOATLOAD NOW 'Heard From vwlrr | shattered t.\.l\ lhl\ mu nin; 11 for Conference on Can- " accwsiomed soud of a of Anacorles n in e 1 travelng alone 4 ed to Wind -| was chirping brightly s box Although postal regulations forbid own fowl for rooster is to be| . his way tomorrow aboard| since the Postmas accepted the parcel 1 of the P. O. are traced by ) a car- on ster, May 16 way nta of Ar this | KETCHIKAN, Alaska, The cannery tender Uw cortes arrived here at 11 o' forenoon with eight Ro three other passe! ¥ #eau District Rot which opens Thurs One Rotarian, Georg flew to New Jersey, hu ring the “bird.” tender. | .- | Wu’gfi’m PLANNERS WILL . | SOCTPONED BY | OPEN SESSION APDEAL NoTice, HERE MONDAY All Members of Council Nelson th.‘!( Has Except Shonbeck fo August 1 foTake Ar Be Present peal A("M | With all members present except| Nelson | A A. Shonbeck of Anchorage, the o ool |Alaska Planniu: Council is to con- Charles hangipg, originally schedul- ed for Juneau the .\fm,ww of July s ting | t o land wat Hac nad | vene next Monday afternoon at the office of Secretary of Alaska E. L.| ,Bm]m. it was announced today| John E. Pegues, Executive Sec- retary. A. Polet of Nome anc, TLuther | Hess of Faribanks are flying to .m- au this week-end B. Frank Heintzleman will arrive from Wash- {ington on the Alaska on Tuesday, he morning after the session opens. W. C. Arnc Ketchikan also is | coming to th Capital City to attend. Other members of the Council are | Gov. John W. Troy, ex officio, Ike { P. Taylor, Chairman, Frank A. Boyle, illiam T. !\L«h\m jcted by a jury at| of killing his mother-in-| B f appeal. As notice was filed May 1 and as ho has 90 d r to peal, he ed unt gust 1 at ¢ No hang appeal 1 notice ¢ t for the tipe ddress-| he | |gently by his crjtics. He has been “|is known as a “bad press,” and it L bavd Vs R e Sy~ SO BOSHITOr e FMR INN.Y. sfie NBC PROGRAM 'S G. WHAI.E“ R. Sthoelfle,r.Tells World ‘ 4 About Alaska for {He-Conceived.ldea, Lram- Nine Minutes med it ]’h[flugl'.l,'AS- Robert J. Schoettler, Manager of ‘ sumes Responplbllliy the Baranof Hotel, returned to Ju- neau on the motorship Northland By GEORGE TUCKER after a two weeks’ business trip ‘0 Seattle, Portland, and San Fran- NEW YORK, May 16.—Now that |cisco. \is dream of a New York World's Highlight of the trip was a sur- |fair has materialized, one wonders [prise National Broadcasting Com- what multiple impressions crowd [pany hookup with Manager Schoet- through Grover A. Whalen’s mind |tler being interviewed in the lobby as he sits in his Juxurious offices in{of the Hotel Sir Francis Drake the shadow of the Trylon and Per-|gSan Francisco. isphere on what used to be known| Interviewer of Schoettler as Flushing Meadows. NBC's personality girl, Janet Ba Whalen used to be Commissioner [ers, who handles the “Who's In or Police in New York, and he han- | Town" program. |dled NRA for New York. He was a Schoettler said he “just told them business man associated with alabout Alaska for nine minutes.” great department store, and later| Interest in Alaska is running with a great distilling house. He |high, Schoettler said, and “Juneau dreamed up the fair and ham-{and the Territory at large should mered home his ideas fo bankers|see an unusually heavy influx of |and industrialists until finally they [travelers this season.” |acquiesced and he had his way. |, . And yet, for all this, it is ironi- f: e i i [UNEAL SKI CLUB "2 RECEPTION TONIGHT AT BARANOF HOTEL tonniere, and the sharply creased trousers. Affair Is to Honor Darroch Crookes, Bride and Two Austrian Skiiers A reception this evening in the Iris room of the Baranof Hotel be- tween 8 and 9:30 o'clock is to be Whalen hasn’t been treated very given what, in Broadway parlance, | bewilders him. He is frequently re- ferred to as a dandy with a gar- denia in his lapel, when as a mat- ter of fact he never wore a gar- denja in his Jife. Cornflowers and carnations, certainly—but there is a vast difference between carna- tions and gardenias. They say now that Mr. Whalen’s {80 Attend l;gTdn's Corned; S Mission | CLARA HANSEN U. 5, Mission BETROTHED T0 Destroyed by | " james eustace japan Bombs|engagement is Announced LS by Popular Couple Second Raid Reported af Last Evening Iankpeh_ChiId Ki"ed Announcement of the engagement | in First Bombing of Miss Clara Hansen, daughter of | PEIPING May 16.—Arthur Ny- Mr. and Mrs. Magnuu Hansen of hus missionary from Fertile Iowa, this city, to James E. Eustagce of; Caldwell, Idaho, was revealed last! evening at the home of the bride's| whose daughter Phoebe, aged 3, was i killed in a Japanese bombing raid last October, today reported that an- parents on E. Street. Those present for the announce- other Japanese raid has destroyed his mission church and school. ment party spent the evening play- ing Chinese checkers and pinochle. | The report has been made to the U. S. Embassy which has lodged writ- Honors were won by Miss Edna| ten representations to the Japanese Almquist and Joe Snow. Guests for the occasion included Embassy regarding the latest bomb- ing which occurred May 2 at Tang- Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gordon, Mr. peh. and Mrs. Joe Snow, Miss mspemj Douglas, Miss Leona Saloum, Miss & i - ’ Edna Almquist, Miss Thea Hansen, FLAKNE SPEAKER AT LAST JIGGS DINNER OF YEAR Evan Wruck, Benjamin Hoges, Rich- ard Reese, Erling B. Onsoien and Harold Hansen. A graduate of the Juneau High School, Miss Hansen was active in athletics and student body affairs. She is a popular member of the; younger set of this city and has, for the past nine months, been an employee in the office of the Forest Service. Mr. Eustace has been an employ ee | of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining | Company for the past two years, and is well known here. The wedding of the young couple | will take place in this city Decem-| ber 10, which date is the wedding an- | niversary of Miss Hansen's parents. Beef and.Cabbage Feed at Juneau Dugout Operation ort T\‘rnlurm] Em- ployment Service, especially as it | relates to ex-service men, was ex- | plained by Joseph T. Flakne, Direc- tor, m a calk at v.hc American Le-! last mzht ¥ Following the usual corned bec[‘ BAITLE FouGHT and cabbage feed, the 80 Legion- naires and guests present sang| songs and played cards. | held by the Juneau Ski Club in hon- or of Darroch Crookes, prominent tournament skiier of United States and his bride, the former Beth Pas- kill. The affair will also compli- ment two Austrian skiiers who are in Juneau at the present time, Fritz Schwartz and Charley Brecknies Mr. and Mrs. Crockes are arriving hall sent to take hiring waiting longshore ships New Navy Shlp Damage in Landing at New Jersey Field LAKEHURST. Commiander Je: a crew of eight day when the Na than-air ship while landing tion. The bli sald - the for . The K2 gn flate on L POR".AND pORT ce Chairman, Frank Dufresne and |salary is about $100,000 a year. He Y o o i eSED S!x DAYS‘“‘”‘"‘» consists of Dr. Charles E.|opnosition — an opposition, inei 18 Truitt and William A. Hesse. [pect of a billion dollar take which of wate lisputes, ruled this sociation violated t The employers wouid | S.I.RU(K |“ HGHI | ternooy ibtop A B - | ida City-Fourth Wife | injuries suffered in a} Branton. Sheriff C. J. Hufche thy said he had hit Palmer with Palmer did not fall that Palmer suffered serious| ritic blow on the forehead. The many | by his fourth wife, a former waitress. | MINE EXTENSION is wife nciled and both | sor of Mining Extension for | lowed siiortly and he then married | Way. Palmer’s third marriage to Polly | | December, only a few days after| intend to do so as all witnesses said | Chief Engincer Tke P. Taylor of for a run to H and Skagway, | (ARD i | B. D. Stewart 6 ; }x.\ worth every cent of this. He it RIQPEHED AH’ER | The General Advisory Committee, |was who crammed this fair down 0 o next | i Bunnell, E. L. Bartlett, Oscar G.|gentally, which now is cheering PORTLAND, Ore, May 16. —| mpe session wm 13<l three days. forencon that the Portland Ps : the CIO long ide by the decision and the port The CREW ESCAPES s af Bedside TS URQL\!D fist fight young utter. Ken- |neth Nosworthy, d that Nosworthy appeared t after the wealthy Chicagoan biow and remained at the | uries. Palmer’s death was des- times married scion of a socially Simultaneously she filed suit for‘ | 1y WORK FOR YEAR ts were dropped. versity of Alaska, returned an Argentine girl, Marie Mwlmew Ro .E"GI."EET Warren followed .the other two tu, thn divorce from Miss Warren. Pauner wa. the aggressor. 1w Commission is to where he will inspeet highway work Mrs. Roy Peacock arrived in Ju- Mrs. Paln ., the fourth, was at being di for the Commission. He Former AssouaIe Justice of| neau on the Northland, making her - | which is meet here nextithe city's throat despite wholesale Olson, Anthony E. Karnes, James 8. |,ng rubbing its hands at the pros- Wayne Morse, West Coast Arbiter s Coasts Waterfront as reopened at 1 o'clock this af-| ik Playboy Succumbs in Flor- AS DlRlGlBl[ SARASOTA. Fla, May 16 -Play- | [ i Dorsay Palmer died last nitied he struck | | Palmer s voluntarily at| his office to teil taunted him and struck some time after’ the cribed b\ physicians as caused by a R minent Chicago family was sued | $300,000 against his parents for P! z inst last Paimer eloped in 1938 with Elea- | to his home in Juneau today on the|de Hoth. This second marriage end- ‘ | the divorce courts and he then mar- Sheriff Hutches said he has not| Service launch{her hushand’s bedside at death. will retwn probably ‘ILursday Supreme Court Remem- on cargo. st Thursday during an al-| tercation at a pi at f the fight. Nos- 1 beer bott sheriff It was not learned until yester- ‘bral hemmorhage due to a ter-| wu(ox HNISFES recently for separate maintenance | lienation of affections. Palmer and of the season, H. G, Wilcox, | nor Goldsmith. A Parts divorce fol- | Denali. The last class was at Skag-{ed in divorce also in 1938. ried the present Mrs. Palmer last| SKAGWAY TONIGH , 275 e b not| Auk Bey this evening e Gy TGN, - MRS, PEACOCK bers Housekeeper first trip to Alaska to join her hus- { band here who spent the beaver irapping season with his brother Bill on the Taku River. The Roy Peacock’s intend to make their home in Juneau, e — BATTLER RECOVERS Herman Russell, seve: t in a fistfight at Hawk Inlet Sunday NEW YORK, Cardozo, late Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Btates, left an estate of $329,000 of which -$200,000 is to be given to charity. ‘The Columbia University received an estimated $188000 to found a Al this will drop into the laps of | !the railroads, | taurants, | preparations Mr, | were gratis, | fair |Whalen because he seeks to take | Chrysler, and General Motors into \he would be less than bright if he hdeas into motion. Seemingly he is Iby the city and foreign powers to May 16.—Benjamin | |)u~ fair seems certain to insure.|this afternoon on the Princess Louise and Mr. Crookes will renew acquaintances made here when he was_instructor for the Juneau Ski }Club last year. Norman Banfield, President of the or practically so, for!Juneau club, and Joe Werner, last he came on a “loan” from his dis- |year’s President, will receive during tilling house on a dollar a year con- {the evening. All ski club members um Now he has fleet limousines 'and friends are extended a cordial .\(, his call, luxuriously appointed |invitation to attend the reception. ites here and there about the B grounds and the city, and af 4 & ; Vacht upon’ Which - important vmlnd.penden(e Day Dance in Douglas tors are entertained. In commemoration of National | Independence Day, the Sons of Nor- way are sponsoring a dance tomor- row evening at the Douglas Nata- torium. Music for the occasion will be furnished by the Scandinavian Swing Twisters and dancing will start at 9:30 o'clock. An invitation is extended to the general public to be in attendance. HEINTZLEMAN ON WAY HOME FROM WASHINGTON, D. . Regional Forester B. Frank | Heintzleman, who has been in the 15 to 18 hom;s e seldom slgeps States two months on Forest Service more than five hours a night, business, left Washington yesterday spends his free moments in the‘f‘” the West Coast, his office here saddle or in gymnasiums. He docs»w“ informed. not smoke. He touches alcoholics | Heintzleman plans to leave Seattle infrequently. on 31 xyon Satuxday Like Al Smith, Whalen is an east | ;:‘;’z:"xdfz:o:g,,";:z::::::w%:fd;;‘GWD%“"FSRA‘;%?:: i Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Ferguson left for the south on the steamer Denali enroute to Everett, Washing- ton, where they will visit with rela- tives. Mr. Ferguson, pharmacist for the Butler-Mauro Drug Company, is on a vacation trip and will return here with his wife during the latter part of next month. NEW MACHINERY FOR CHICHAGOF ' New flolutlo;;;nixlg equipment was aboard the Northland today, to be discharged at Chichagof, where the Chichagof Mining Company is clobing down mining operations and ‘making plans for working old tail- ings. The two big flotation units weigh six tons each. the hotels, the and the .merchants. During the first year of the fair Whalen's services | res- There are those who criticize | | credit for everything concerned with the fair. The truth of the matter that he personally drew Ford, line ;he personally is responsible for 50 European nations laying $30,000- 1000 on the line; he hires and fires, makes the decisions, signs the con- \tracts. If the fair is a_dud his shoulders must také the conse- quences. Under these circumstances didn’t insist on the credit. : It is no longer doubted by even his severest critics that he is one of the most expert organizers ln‘ the natign. He is a full-fledged,, blg‘ time executive with skill and lmas- ination and the ability to set his tireless; his working days run from |completely cover his chest, if he chose to wear them, which he never does. Right now all he craves is to see the turnstiles click. If they click fast enough, he is going to |be one happy hvmhre ARMY MMIEWERS STARTING, HAWAII HONOLULU, May 16.—Army au- thorities have completed plans to “blackout” Oahu island aeainst at- tack of the “enemy” air raiders nexf Thursday night. This will be a phase of Hawali’s most. spectacular army maneuvers which started yesterday by swift mobilization of 20,000 soldiers ring- ed by artillery operating in war- time secrecy. ————— SMOKER CARD 1S - LINED UP FOR EU(S'IOMORROW | Professional boxers will fight two. B OVERBY BACK ‘W. C. Overby, Deputy Collector of | Internal Rvenue, returned to his| Juneau offices on the Northland today after a trip to Ketchikan in connection with Internal Revenue affairs, e, MRS. HESS HONORED The recently completed Girls Dormitory at the University of Al- aska has been named Harriet Hess Hall in honor of Mrs. Luther C.| | three-minute rounds at the Elks hall | tomorrow evening in a smoker at |the weekly lodge meeting. Refresh- ments will be served later. Japanese - custom honors the “spirit” of a needle, after the in- strument is outworn. The needle is chair of Jurisprudence. Kate Tracy, his housekeeper for 40 years, is bequeathed $75,000, night, was released from St. Ann’s Hospital yesterday afternoon, Hess of Fairbanks, senior member of the Board of Regents embpedded in a soft cake which becomes its last resting place, , | Concrete, and Bill Johnson Chairman of the dinner BASEBALL TODAY The following are scores cf games | played this afternoon in the two major leagues as received up to 2 pm.: National League Philadelphia 5; Pittsburgh 8. Boston 1; Cincinnati 4. Brooklyn 12; Chicago 2 American League Chicago 4 Boston 18. St. Louis 5; New York 7. Detroit 6; Washington 2. PRBES o RODENBURC( RETUR! FROM WEEK'S VISIT Mr. and Mrs. William Rodenburg returned to Juneau on the motor- ship Northland from Petersburg where they have spent the past week visiting with Mrs. Roden- burg’s parents. e - GUNNAR BLOMGREN ARRIVES TODAY Gunnar Blomgren, former Juneau High School boy, arrived in Ju- neau from Seattle on the motor- ship Northland. Blomgren has spent the past winter in the States, mak- ing one trip to Juneau a few months ago. Rl R Sl KNOWLES HERE | E. A. Knowles, the “Chesterfield Man,” arrived in Juneau on the Northland for a contact visit with Juneau smokers. Knowles is making his annual trip through the Terri- tory. e e SUSPENDED SENTENCE Pleading guilty to stealing a hali- but roller belonging to the boat Spencer, Nick Giatross was sen- tenced today by U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray to six months, - E TO WED license Wwas issued issioner Felix Gray to Jack Westfall and Ethel Pearl Kunz, both of Juneau. - HOTELS FLAG UP As Juneau prepares for the com- ing Rotarian convention, the Bar- anof and the Gastineau Hotels to- day dressed the fronts of lhou buildings with long streamer f of blue and gold, Rotary colors. - - MARIN ABOARD ALEUTIAN J. B. Marin, of the Douglas Inn accompanied by his wife, is a pas senger ahoard the Aleutian for Ju- neau. D HILLARD RETURNING J. J. Hillard, Customs official at Eagle, is aboard the Princess Louise for Juneau after vacationing in the south. - - M’LEAN COMING HOME Joseph McLean, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hector McLean, who has been in Seattle for sometime, is a pas- senger for Juneau aboard the Prin- | cess Louise. | - DU | BACK TO SITKA ( Mrs. Nell Lorentzen of Sitka, is a passenger on the Northland, re- |turning to her home after an ex- |tended visit with her parents in Wash. I NUNAN THROUGH H. C. Nunan, General Manager of {New England Fish Company opera- |tions in Alaska, is on the Northland, making a business trip to Sitka, Dave Davenport was Toastmaster | uspended. | Plug Used for Lure—Rapld ly Taking Hold with 1 Sportsmen Ray Bravard, Alaska Juneau car-| penter shop employee, took one of the largest King salmon reported this season yesterday when he bat- tled a 51 pound fish to gaff at Auk Bay. | Bravard and Paul Johnson, Royal | | Blue driver, were fishing in the evening, using the new Martin silver | scale plugs, when the big fellow struck. Before the fish was brought to gaff, watches had clocked off 50 | minutes of light tackle strain. Which brings up an interesting subject: Canadians, fishing the big | Tyee (King salmon) at the mouth | of the Fraser River in British Col-| umbia, have used plugs (wooden| fish-like objects) for lures mqnvv years, but it was not until a fv:\'v1 years ago that neighboring sports- men and commercial trollers in Pu-| get Sound took up the lure. Today, the plug has taken a no- table place in salmon fishing and| many commercial fishermen are us- ing them in Alaska as well as the| sportsmen. Last summer in Juneau | a few plugs were used, but this| season it becomes evident that, w1m U. 8. DI'PAETMENT OF AGRICULTURE, wm'mm BURI‘AU THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vichui beginning at 3:30 p.m., May 1 artly cloudy tonight and Wednesday; warmer Wednesday; gentle variable winds, mostly northwest Weather forecast for Southeast Alaska: Partly cloudy tonightand Wednesday; warmer Wednesday; gentle variable winds, mostly north- west. Forecast cf winds ulong the Coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Gentle to moderate variable winds, mostly northwesterly. LOCAL DATA Barometer Temb. Humidity Wind Velocity 29.93 49 8 S 6 29.90 44 94 Calm 0 29.88 52 3 w 12 RADIO REPORTS Time 3:30 p.m. yest'y 3:30 a.m. today Noon today Weather Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy TODAY 3:30am. Precip. temp. 24 hours Weather 40 23 Pt. Cldy [ Cloudy [ Cloudy 15 Snow Bethel 0 Clear Fairbanks. . Trace Cloudy Dawson 0 Cloudy Duteh Harbor Clear Kodiak A4, Cloudy Cordova | 14 Clear Juneau ... | A1 Cloudy Sitka .. . 0 Ketchikan . Prince Rupert Seattle Portland San Francisco .. New York Washington Max. tempt. Station last 24 hours | 1 Lowest Atka l | | | | 3:30 am, Anchorage Barrow Nome Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Clear Cloudy 54 48 48 WEATHER SYNOPSIS The barometric pressure was relatively high this morning from Bethel southeastward to the Gulf of Alaska, elsewhere over Alaska, British Columbia, and the Pacific Northwest states low barometric pressure prevailed, the lowest reported pressures being 2946 inches over western Aleutian Islands, 29.80 inches at Dawson, and 29.66 inch- es at Kamloops. Scattered precipitation has been reported over the interior and western portions of Alaska, while generally fair weather prevailed over the southern portion of Southeast Alaska. Juneau, May 17.—Sunrise, 3:31 a.n.; sunset, 8:23 p.m. B y the authorof “Green Ltgbt o “Magmjtcent Obsession,” T'HIS NEW NOVEL has four characters you won't forget: M~ 2 young doctor torn be- tween duty to science and desire for a_happy, normal life; ™~ a famous surgeon who believes that *'science is éverything'; M~ a plain country doctor who heals the spirit as well as the body; %~ aheroine steeped in ¢ . wise, tolerant philosophy of the East. $2.50 continued reports of unusual plug |’ success, local sportsmen and trollers | will go more and more for “plugging.” e e Mrs. R. Waggoner, Mother Visiting Here Mrs. Ralph Waggoner and her | mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Owen, are| house guests of the Rev. and Mrs. David Waggoner and plan to spend | the summer months in this city. | Arriving here from Kenai, Mrs. Waggoner and her mother visited enroute in Anchorage and in the Matanuska Valley, being accompan- | ied by Ralph Waggoner, who return- | ed to Kenai for a summer of fishing. Following her visit in Juneau, Mrs. | Owen will return to Nebraska, and | Mrs. Waggoner will join her hus- Ibanrl at Kenai where the two will | | resume their teaching duties during | the winter mont} NORDALES IN JUNEAUBOUND FOR FAIRBANKS Mrs. Hjalmur Nordale | and their son Anthony arrive on | the Princess Louise this afternoon | from the south and were to continue tonight their journey by PAA Elec- | tra to Fairbanks where Mr. Nordale is manager of the Nordale Hotel. For the last three months, the| Nordales have been visiting in the States. Mrs. Nordale is a member of the Territorial Board of Educa-| | tion, | MISS KAHN IS GIIESI OF MRS. I. 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