The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 18, 1939, Page 2

S S T A A T S S Al AR A S Mrs. J. N. Harvey 4 Fost Wash Mr Hidd X ter George W, ney sm.,,m HALF HURDRED ‘ HOW {1 TOWN =5 = " ROTARY CLUBS | " Trumbull and Edwin I.ls' Of ViS.-.,:; C?pl’al alla Walia, Wash.~ Clly Is Nea”y Ten ; w{ulcu Tdaho—W. R. Cusick. Score Long - 1ea 1rom Page o IMiss Deborah Pentz Yor Honoredm States and Wil- (Cc Moimt Vernon, Wash.—! Hibbard, Ben F. Hibbard Jard L, Brickley. Moscow, Idaho—C. W. and Ben Push. m.lm( of beauti- dron bu 'vr»':J Against the ba ful shell pink rhododer which are on display in the Palace New Westminster, B. C sam Hotel Palm Court in San Fran- C. Boyd, S8am C. Boyd and Kenneth cisco Mrs. Edith McAllister of that Smith city, entertained with a luncheon | Newberg, Oregon—Mrs, Ross Ben- y. May 12, in honor of Miss pett and Ross. Ben Pentz, ¢ ervisor for Child Nanaimo, B. C.—Mr: Wilsor 1 in fhis city, whois vaca- | and R. T. Wilson. t in the Neison, B. C.—Mrs. R. A. Peebles| Gt for the occasion were Miss | and R. A. Peebles. Weber of Berkeley, and Oak Harbor, Wash—Dave N 1ces Kidney and Miss Eva son and John R. Vanderzi on of San Francisco. Pendleton, Oregon—Mrs. - - Savage and Fred Savage. ngt Angeles, Wash.—Mrs. Tom Durro(h rrookes Feted Informa Hickman Jud- Fred | Trumbull, Tom Trumbull, H. T Fehly, Mrs. Dwight Jenson, Dw Jenson and George Jenscl Olympia, Wi h.—Mrs Maury and Hernd Taury Priuce Rupert, B. C.—Neal Car- n ter, Mrs. J. W. Nirhc w arroch t Nicholls. urnament skii the Portland, Oregon—Mrs. Van Van es who are visit! Hevelingren, Van Van Heveclingren, members of the i Club Mrs. H. W. Roberts, H. W. Roberts, gathered last Frnest Mrs. W. C. Schuppe! C. Sch . o Beventhl pel, Mrs. Al Greenw r S al parth: i wald, Andy Patterso Mrs. Tommy Luke, Mr ’ i 3 5 g man, Gus Hut Andesson, Fred: Anden the Juneau club. | Fixott, Cline Fixott 3 SR e | man, Mrs. Claude Ser Claude AMUNDSEN A"D Crook ninent United he city, and J Sersanous, Mrs, 0. B. Col Miss Coldwell and O Coldw | ‘ . s SEVERAL TODAY flew one M to the islands toc Johnny Amundsen flew Polaris-Taku mine t of the Bosl Sumner silverton, Ore Leonard and Seattle, Was! E. Brown, Mrs Harold G. & Hopps, Robe Wood and Jim Unive! C V --Mrs. Prank Proffitt anc frank was 1o Proffitt. vought Sedro Woolley, Wash. — Carl J.| an, Mrs. J. K. Gordon, J. K. Gordon, Art Johnson. Spokane, Wash.—Mrs. ren, Carl Warren, Mrs Alex Bell, Froest Majer Carlsou Alfred Car , Mrs. B. Fisken and John B. Fisken. Tacoma, Wash-—Clark Oberlies, Mrs. J. K. Gordon, J. . Gordon, Art Wickens, Mrs, Cliff Haley, Ciiff Hal- ey, Mrs. Harry Brown, Harry Brown, Al Dr. Burton T Mrs, John G. Station at tenhall Airport, re- Fassétt, Johu sett, Mrs. Nels turned from Fairbanks on Elec- | E. Johanson aud Nels B, Johanson. tra-frum the Interior yesterday Vancouver, B. C—Mrs, Zeb Este i S e | Zeb Estey, Mis. Ernie Markl Lode and placer location notices | Ernie Markham, Mrs. Vic Vlckmy,' for sale at The Fmpxre Office. Pilot to the was to spend the re flying glacier trip sightseers. en ‘ukyk Odin Klatt to Hawk nd J. P. Hillard as round-| o Todd, while Frank Wright | . picked up at Hoonah and | to Juneau via Tenakee, dsen 1l a load of freight to the mine and brought in Mr and Mrs. Thompson. This afternoon | he had four glacier hops scheduled | with visiting Rotarians. Yesterd ning brought in M o Bs 4, Sharpstone from Tulsequah. — e, | Carl War- John Amundsen h BACK WITH PAA | Johnson. of the PAA radio Luce, | Jack Wright |behind it. | were THE DAIl Y ALASKA EMPIRF,, THURSDAY MAY 18, I939 SIDElIGHIS - 0f the Conferente - How did it qu come about that this fine Rotary Conference was steered to Juneau for 1939? There’s a story The groundwork for ob- aining the meeting was laid 'way back in 1936 when four Juneau | Rotarians traveled to Spokane, ‘Washington, to put in a bid for the 1939 meeting. Members of that delentlo- who deserve more praise and recognition than they have re- ceived, were Keith Wildes, the Rev. 0. L. Kendall; E. Si Evans and the late Robert W. Bender. An application for a Rotary chart- er has been filed by a group of enterprising Alaskans at Pairbanks, District Governor Marshall Cornett disclosed today. The Fairbanks club would be the District's farthest north, a distinction now enjoyed by Juneau. Today's flight to Taku Harbor to meet the conference ship Aleutian was A. B. Phillips’ first time in the air. He was a model passenger, Pilot Alex Holden said. “The finest bunch of conven- tion delegates we've ever had on the boat,” is the way Purser Larry McNamee of the 8. S. Aleutian ' described the Rotary party. He said the Rotarians should be complimented on their gentlemanly behavior on the trip north. Twenty-five of the visiting dele- gates who are also Shriners will be | guests of honor at a dinner of the Juneau Shrine Club at the Baranof Hotel this evening at 6:30 o'clock. Greetings to the conference and best wishes for a successful meeting received today in telegrams from George C. Hager, International President, and from the Portland club, which has the largest delega- tion at the conference. The gavel Which is being used to rap the conference to order is a gift of the Grants Pass club, whose President, Charles R. Cooly, a delegate, received it from the Grants Pass Cavemen'’s organization. Made of myrtle- wood, the gavel is in the form of a club. Canadian and United States dele- gates alike will be surprised to hear of the difficulty Charles Carter, Juneau Rotarian, had in obtaining a Canadian flag to serve as confer- ene decoration. Carter asked his | niece, on a trip south, to get him a flag in Vancouver. After several hours of visiting Vancouver stores, she had to give it up. She could | have bought many American flags, but not a Canadian one was to be had, at least at any of the places visited. So Carter obtained a flag from Toronto, which arrived only vesterday. John R. (Uncle John) Casper, of Walla Walla, Wash,, is the only Past District Governor at- tending the conference. He held office in 1928-29. Today’s door prize for women Ro- tary visitors was presented to Mrs. Ivan Stewart, of Salem, Oregon. A gift is to be given at each morning | business session of the conference. Presenting a small beribboned “key to the city” to Gov. Cornett, Juneau’s Mayor Harry I Lucas remarked: “This will open every door and every heart in the city. T hepe you'll use it often but not too late.” Flags of the United States, Canada i |and Rotary stand together in a [§ | single standard on the ‘stage of the ‘Capitol ‘Theatre, conference auditor- | jum. Rotary District 101 is unique in ‘ being truly International, with clubs | from both sides of the U. S.-Canada | Prints are scheduled as heavy favorites for warm weather. This one, from Paris, has a gray crepe ground covered with raspberry schrolls. It makes a slim-waisted frock, whose skirt is shirred on at the hip- border, A “wee bit of ould Scotland” atmeosphere is contributed to the convention by the colorful plaid Kkilt outfit wern by L. S. Ferris of the, Ketchikan club.. Ferris, who picked up the kilties on a visit abroad last year, lived at Tread- well 40 years age: He has been at Ketchikan 17 yc.ls. s irt "'.n,c KARNES. RETURNS FROM rlg Bi6 ‘%%ms A. E. Karnes Commissioner of Education, returned on the Aleu- tian today from a three weeks'trip i where he attended |: to Berkeley, Cal., the Pacific Regional Conference on Vocational Education. Karnes said the conventioners in- formed him that no more Federal vocational ‘education funds for Al- aska will be' fortheoming without matching funds from the Territory. About 200 were at the big meeting that lasted from May 8 to 13, Karnes said. Halibut prices today were quoted |at 6% cents a pound and 4% cents a pound. “The Fern, Capt. Chris Birkland, sold 11,000 pounds; the Spider, Capt. Bert Jones, 3700 pounds; the Pidalgo, Capt, Earl E. line, wear with a raspberry wool ¢oat ¢ut on similay lines, | Jones, 2000 pounds, Llrvmov Successor | SHRINE DI"NER |S EVENT TONIGHT; BARANOF HOTEL Affair in Gold Room Will Honor Visiting Shrine Rofarians ¥ | This evening in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hptel, Juneau's Shrine Club will entertain with a dinner in honor of the visiting Shrine Rotarians. Approximately fifty Shriners will be in attendance for the occasion, with James Woodford, President of | the Seattle Rotary Club, and an officer in the Nile Temple Divan of | that city, and Ernest Major, of Spo- kane, who is also a Past Potentate for the Shrine Temple, will be | guest speakers this evening, giving news of Shrinedom in the States. J. Simpson MacKinnon, President of the Juneau Shrine Club, and Judge George F. Alexander, Past President, will be hosts for the din- ner. Leo Mortland is chairman of the affair. A flower centerpiece for the din- ner table will offset the blue and £ | gold Rotary emblems, with the tra- | ditional “key to the city” being in evidence durmg the evening. s A L {0'CONNOR WILL MEDIATE LABOR PROBLEMS HERE Commissioner of Conciliation for | Failure to obtain a speedier alli- | the Department of Labor, John| ance with Great Britain and | O'Connor, is leaving Seattle on the France is blamed for the resigna- | steamer Yukon Saturday for Juneau tion of Maxim Litvinov, Russian | o investigate the dispute involving commissar of foreign affairs. Lit- | juneau contractors and CIO car- m;’;’m‘: S:F,f;e‘;el‘:o*’3;0‘;{‘?“::;“‘?"” penters of the Allied Trades Union, 4 | who are demanding ‘“recognition,” resent post of premier of | : e Sc\'?ct Russi:. (g | according to union officials today. | L. F. Morris, Business Agent for | the CIO Carpenters, said a wire had | | been received from the Maritime Federation of the Pacific Coast that | O'Connor was leaving Saturday. z > Meanwhile, active pickets are on Bathl"g three projects, all residential or| | apartment work. Pickets are walk- |ing on the Boyer-Jensen Nye Apart- PUEBLO, Colo,, May 18—Brighl| oo bioiect, and before residential lights will keep nude bathers out ;o or Al Dishaw and James Larson of Pueblo’s city park lakes on warm | "ine Gasey-Shattuck Addition. summer nights, Park Commissioner | ywo ik on the Sommers residential | Ray Talbot hopes. The p ¢ | project on Seventh Street was shut for the public’s convenience but | down this mmmng nude bathing at midnight can’t be | interpreted as a taxpayer'’s conven- | et 0 S0 ANTONIO POLET bothersome | ists were particularly last summer and brought numer- | ous complaints from clothes-wearing taxpayes . | NOME, Alaska, May 18.—Antonio | Polet, pioneer merchant of Nome, |left here today via plane for Fair- | banks to connect with the PAA ELKS’ BASEBALLERS FETED w“"’ HOI‘D Electra for Juneau Saturday. quet May 22 in Juneau. The Elks baseball team members| Polet will return direct to Nome were guests of the Elks Lodge last |at the close of the council’s sessions. night at a smoker and Dutch Junch. e 9 e TR After the evening’s entertainment and lunch, the bowling alleys were BASEBA[I, ToDAY turned over to the baseballers, “on | S bl The following are scores of games | played this afternoon in the two | V. M. Molotov Maxim Litvinov Nip Nude | The Elks are holding practice to- night at Firemen's Park, according |yajor leagues as received up to 2| to manager George Henry. o'clock : National League Boston 2; Cincinnati 3. Brooklyn 2; Chicago 4. Philadelphia 4; Pittsburgh 5. American League New York 1; St. Louis 6. Cleveland 3; Philadelphia 4. Detroit 2; Washington 3, St. Louis 1; New ¥nrk 8. Chicago 3; Boston §, HITLER MAKING | INSPECTION TRIP STRASBOURG, May 18. — Adolf Hitler, atop of a 100-foot tower, i gazed across the Rhine into the heavily-fortified French territory when he arrived on an in.\pccti(m} tour of Germany’s western Iorv.ili(:a- | tions. ‘ German officials closed the fr cnt- ier Rhine bridge linking Strashourg and Kehl for half an hour during the visit. ONE THOUSAND PWA PROJECTS ARE COMPLETED Construdiofieporled fo Be Fourteen Months Ahead of Time PORTLAND, Oregon, May 18.—A total of 1,000 WPA projects valued at $33,927,000 have been completed, 14 months ahead of the time requir- ed by Congress in the current pro- gram, Public Works Administrator Harold I. Ickes announced. The first thousand completed pro- | jects include 63 located in Region | No. 7, which comprises Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Alaska. The value of* completed projects in the| seventh region is $2,049,021, the re- WI‘AT S N Ews? Baron gional office reported. They include Kilchiro Hinnuml. {%: l'ss projects in Oregon, 15 in Wash- B‘::, paper P'W n ington, 6 in Tdaho and 6 in Alaska. . i One hundred and seventeen days ROYAL EARS will hen the sound of Jean Tennyson's veolce when above lovely Chi- cago Opera soprano sings for visiting Crown Prince Olaf and ~ Princess Martha of Norway. lmoro non-Federal projects. The law | *nding agency reported that dur- after the deadline laid down by the PWA Act for the beginning of con- struction of all projects (January 1, 1939) PWA had completed one-sixth of its widespread non-Federal pro- gram. This puts the current PWA program well ahead of schedule, with work proceeding rapidly on 5,165 does not require completion of the program until July 1, 1940. All Types of Projects The 1,000 completed projects have gone into use and are supplying ser- vices to their communities not here- tofore available. They include all types of projects, ranging from schools to paving jobs, and from sewage disposal systems to hospitals. All are part of the $1,500,000,000 PWA construction program whfi:h started last June. Meanwhile, employment is mcreu- ing on construction sites and in mill and factory as the program forges ahead. Projects still being built have a total value of $1,383,000.000. More and more employment is be- ing generated daily by these projects as industries fill orders originating on the jobs and building tradesmen take up their tasks in construction. It is estimated that to carry on this work PWA was responsible for re- leasing nearly $20,000,000 of con- struction money per week for the first 13 weeks of 1939. Continued aid to industry through construction of the remaining pro- jects is indicated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Depart- ment of Labor. This official fact- ing the past six years, PWA projects have been responsible for the plac- ing of industrial orders valued in excess of $2,121,000,000. These orders included all types of industrial products, particularly those turned out by heavy industry. Other Work Progresses Work also is proceeding rapidly on the Federal PWA projects under- taken by various Federal agencies. Of the 1,829 Federal projects author- ized, some 250 have been completed. These are valued at more than $5,- 500,000. Construction work is con- tinuing on 1579 Federal projects with a value fo approximately | $194,000,000. Analysis of the accomplishments| lof the 1938 PWA program to date | | shows that: | 1. During the first quarter of 1939, | PWA advanced $114,000,000 to cities, counties and states for construction purposes. This was matched by ap- proximately $140,000,000 from com- munities as their share of costs, giving a total release of $254.000.000 for employment, industry and gen- eral business improvement. 2. Eighty-one percent of the com- | munities voting on PWA bond elec- tions approved engaging in PWA| projects. 3. Private capital has carried the bulk of the construction load up to date, and will continue to parud- pate in the PWA program. 4. Although cities filed appllca | tions for a large variety of projects, | {chased incident to its construction the preponderance of approved pro- jects have been for substantial, per- | manent public improvements. Major Credit Increase 5. According to the F. W. Dodge U. 8. DEPARTMEN‘!‘ OF AGRICULTURE WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 3:30 p.m., May 18:- Partly cloudy tonight and Friday; gentle to moderate variable winds, mostly southeast. Weather forecast for Southea:t Alaska: Partly cloudy tonight and Friday; gentle to moderate variable winds, mostly southeast, except moderate south winds over northern portion of Lynn Canal. Forecast «f winds wiong tne Coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Gentle to moderate variable winds, mostly southerly tonight and Thursday from Dixon Entrance to Cape Hinchinorook. LOCAL DATA barometer Temo. Humidity Wind Velocity 2993 53 59 SE 8 30.03 44 94 s 4 3000 58 37 8 6 RADIO REPORTS TODAY 3:30a.m. Precip. Station last 24 hours | temp. temp. 24 hours Atka . 46 38 40 03 Anchorage . 56 42 42 Barrow . ... 28 Nome Seber A Bethel BORORER Fairbanks 66 Dawson ... 66 Dutch Harbor .. 50 Kodiak . 50 Cordova . Juneau Sitka ......... Ketchikan .. Prince Rupert Edmonton . Seattle . Portland San Francisco New York Washington Time 3:30 pam. yest'y 3:30 a.m. today Noon today Weather Cloudy Lt. Rain Pt, Cloudy Max. tempt. Lowest, 3:30 am. Weather Rain Pt. Cldy Clear Clear Clear Cloudy Clear Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Rain 2 SGooRocoococoe 8o Clear Clear Cloudy Cloudy Rain Clear Pt.Cldy Clear 50 48 50 50 62 60 WEATHER SYNOPSIS High barometric pressure prevailed this morning from the Mac- Kenzie Valley southwestward to Southeast Alaska and northwestern British Columbia, while low barometric pressure continued over the Aleutian Islands and Bering Sea region. This general pressure dis- tribution has been attenled by precipitation over the Aleutians and ocally over portions of Southeast Alaska, and by generally fair weather over the remainder of the field of observation. Twenty-four-hour temperature changes have been small through- out Alaska and northwestern Canada. Juneau, May 19.—Sunrise, 3:27 a.m.; sunset, 3:27 .m. major credit for the ill-‘houls of employment since it was in construction throughmlt started in June, 1938. This amount of work has been divided between been due to PWA, Isite employment and work behind 6. The PWA has collected over|the lines in industry, producing, $485,000,000 for the Government |fabricating and transporting mater- | through the sale, repayment and re- |ials for construction purposes. Iv demption of the securities it pur- | does not take into account the sec- | ondary indirect employment created by reason of expenditure of the wages going into the weekly pay en- velopes of the men finding jobs be- cause of PWA construction. . i oR &R -] coocd 3 agency, crease loans. It is estimated that the 1938 PWA construction program has generated approxlmawly a half billion man- The Alaskan Classic!? ""THE PASSING OF BACKHOUSE BILL" The PERFECT GIFT for the boys who couldn’t come. On sale at ORDWAY'S and Juneau's leading stores. Corporation, construction reporting| IMPARTIALLY FAIRLY LOUIS P. Louis P. Loclvmcr LOCHNER, chief of The Associated Press Berlin Bureau, won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for “distinguished service as a foreign correspondent; for fair, judicious, well balanced and well informed interpretative writing. He has had 15 years experience as an observer o ) WS German the German scene. He KNOWS Y. He writes for THE ASSOCIATED PRESS for The Daily Alaska Empire and for YOU!