The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 6, 1939, Page 8

1939. Ultimatum | Is Issued for WPAWorkers Nationwidefiike Threat- ened-Longer Hours, | Same Old Pay WASHINGTON, July 6. — Col F. C. Harrington, WPA Commis- sioner, has instructed State Ad- ministrations to warn any WPA workers walking out on their jobs that they will be dismissed if they stay away more than five days. | Talk of a nation-wide »Lnk(‘i against the new WPA wage mingled today with reports of work- ers returning as labor leaders strove to guage the momentum of the ser- ies of sudden and apparently spui- taneous walkouts which began W¢ nesday when all classes of workers were informed that under the terms | of the new Federal Relief Bill they | must work l3u hours a monun, - | stead of from 50 to 80 hours, fori substantially the same, and in some cases, for less pay. 2 AFL strategists have called meet- ings in Washington and New York | to study the extent of the effect-' iveness of the sporadic work stop- pages and consider the feasibility | of an organized strike action. TRAP WATCHMAN IN COMA; OTHER MAN DISAPPEARS Marshal's Office Investi- gating MysteriousPort | | Althorp Situation | Disappearance ot a fish trap watchman from the Ainsley trap at Port Althorp and grogginess ol (he missing man's partner was being wwvestigated today by the U. S. Marshal's office. | Marine Alrways Pilot Johnny' Amundsen flew to Port Althorp yes- terday 10 bring i Sainey il who was found at the trap, scratch- ed, bruised and apparently in a coma. At St. Ann’s Hospital today Johnson still was unable to tell his cwn name, explain what had hap- pened t ohim or what had become of his fellow watchman, Andrew Sandness. This afternoon a Marine Airways plane was to fly again to Hoonah, where it will pick up Deputy r shal George W. Samples, who first reported the case, and take him to the trap for further investigation and a hunt for S8andness. .- — ULSTER DIVORCE COST T0 BE CUT Legislation to Slash Pres- ent Outlay from $1,- 000 to $200 BELFAST) July 6—Unbpppily marrieds here are looking forward to an $800 cut in the price of free- dom. On its way to becoming law is Northern Ireland’s new divorce legislation which will enable the marriage tie to be severed for a mere $200 instead of the present $1,000. Hitherto divorce has been by the same method as in England 80 years back. | A court order for legal separa-‘ tion first had to be obtained. Then to secure freedom to remarry, couples had to sponsor a special act of Parliamept which had to be passed by the Ulster House of Commons and Senate, and receive the assent of the King. Minimum cost of this lengthy procedure was $1,000. Under the new legislation courts will be able to grant divorces outright. Woman Roufed by Fire lwlcg in Night| SMITHFIELD, N. C., July 6— Mrs. Ed S. Abell Jr., awakened by smoke in her room, rushed from| her burning home with her child in her arms. Firemen extinguished the flames, She went to bed in an-: | | other room. Three hours later smoke awakened her. The house was on fire again, Firemen again put out the blaze—and Mrs. Abell saild she was no longer sleepy. .- KETCHIKAN MAN _VI_SITING HERE Gilmore Jr., who was Mes- in the Senate during the last session of the Territorial Legis- lature. is in Juneau from his Ket- chikan home. Gilmore 1s spending a week here visiting - friends and is residing with Kelly Foss in the Fifth Ave- nue Apartments ‘ Pete senger THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JULY — < [t - . ‘GOOD NEIGHBOR’ POLICY—Past Rio de JaneXxo’s Sugarloaf mountain slips the Nash- viile. bearing U. S. future chief of statf, Brig. Gen. George Marshall, to Brazil. Returning, the cruiser will bring Brazil's chief of staff, General Goes Monteiro, for a visit—a fact having significance since he accepted U. S. invitation before acting on those of Germany, Italy. Radio "Robot” Be Sent Aloft Large hydrogen-filled balloons carrying compact radio transmit- ting stations as well as delicate | weather instruments are to be re- | leased daily by the U. S. Weather | | Bureau here commencing Septem- | ber 1 to plumb the .neteorological | mysteries cf the upper air. Signals seni by ‘he ascending radio equipment will be received | by the Bureau, which will record them until the balloon explodes an hour and a half later in the rare atmosphere from 10 to 12 miles| Bureau Under New Program i \ Balloons fo by Weather CLOTHES in Alaska. Radio-sonde balloons | were released experimentally at| Fairbanks in 1932 and 1933 when | the method was being pioneered | in this country. Those tested at| Fairbanks were the first ever used | by the U. S. Weather Bureau and were a far cry technically, Thomp- | son says, from the perfected type which will go into service here this fall. Daily Airway Forecasts Another extension of Alaska Weather Bureau service under the As King, Queen Returned | | L4 Western Union Cablephoto This is the first picture taken of King George and Queen Elizabeth | on their return to London from their Canadian and United States | visit. A Western Union cablephoto, the picture shows the king an queen and their daughtrrs, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret R riding in the royal carriage in London. SING TTE CANADIANS BAN WONIN JUNE MERCY KILLING" TORONTO, July 6. — Canadian rts must not and will not give ct to a “mercy Kkilling” de- fense, Attorney General Conantde- clared, when he stated the pain-| less hastening of the death of in- curables was “repugnant” to our| social structure, Mr. Conant’s state- | ment was in comment on the de-! bate made publiely in London, led by Sir James Purves-Stewart, nerve | specialist. gy GANGSTER SLAIN, COMPANION HURT 1 | ! PHILADELPHIA, July 6.— Un- | derworld foes murdered Danny | Day, paroled veteran of the pro- | hibition era’s gang skirmishes, as 1hc raced through city streets with | |a gay blonde woman at his side. | He died in two blasts from a| sawed-off shotgun, dealt by two| Imen in a passing car. The girl, z:\‘ | Joan Goebbie, suffered a brain con- | | cussion when Danny slumped at the wheel and his shiny sedan plowed into a street car. e, — * | BABY GIRL IS BORN A girl baby, weighing 8 pounds and {10 ounces, was born to Mr. and Mrs. |at 3 o'clock at-St. Ann's Hospital. | The little Miss has been named | Bennie Luelle. | is the proud grandmother. | - Skiing tournaments in mid- summer are no novelty on the high slopes of Oregon's Mt. Hood, for despite June weather, the snows there never welt. '0 ROBI. ROSS"ERS‘a cost of $500 was granted today to | | Robert Rossiter yesterday afternoon | Mrs. Floyd G. Betts up and drops the instruments and | radio sending station to destruc- tion on the earth Thus did Howard J. Thompson, Meteorologist, explain today the radio-sonde observations the Bu- reau will take both here and at Fairbanks under the new U. S. | Weather Bureau appropriation 0DD FELLOWS | passed by Congress this week and | which provides $170,000 for Alaska. | Burton Gaskill Making| ., fiemees s First Visit to Territory GRAND SIRE OF | { new appropriation will be daily| airway weather forecasts, super- seding those now made only on a| trip basis. Juneau will make the| forecasts for Southeast Alaska | routes and for the Juneau to Fair- | banks run, while Fairbanks will| handle the Fairbanks to Nome nnd‘ | Fairbanks to Bethel forecasting. Air mass specialists are to be as- | signed to both the Juneau and | TFairbanks stations in connection with this work also. | 16 New Stations | Also included in the nzw pro- gram will be operation of 16 new signals with the eéarth) measure barometric pressure, temperature | 2 o and humidity of the upper air, the Burton A. Gaskill, Grand Sire of | j;,5tryments manipulating delicate | the Sovereign Grand Lodge, I which transmit a signal | | aloft in the free balloon (not con- on Prince Boat | nected in any way but by radio * | levers Gastineau Channel last evening| ... one for each of the three in- :‘;he'l‘ %sgec;f‘l};’;?';:?fhfiflzl:‘?m M‘strumem,s carried aloft varies with e Al e e SRR T TR CHTR T i Making his first trip to the Ter- The balioohs to b leased Hitory, Mr, Gaskill is also the first| oML N D Grand Sire to visit Alasks, and is| {rcm the roof of the Federdl Bufld- making the round trip on the Ca"_; ing, an experienced radio-sonde | B adian National steamer Prince Rob-| 2% o e serth Nere ok it ‘lngton to join the Juneau Bureau | A delegation of Odd Fellows and;st&fl to take the 0?50!‘VB!1'1H5, Rebekahs were at the dock to greet| A vear ago the silvered octagon- boxes containing instruments, the distinguished visitor and his|2! nta wife, who were later taken for a radio transmitting equipment and drive to Mendenhall Glacier, and | batteries cost about 25 apiece. Now, before the evening meeting Mr. and however, under mass production, Mis. Gaskill were dinner guests of they are believed to be somewhat Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Carter. cheaper. The Bureau here will de-| At 7:30 oclock a closed session stroy 365 of them a year, as ob-| was held with C. K. Tisdale, Noble servations are to be made every Grand for the Juneau Lodge and|day. Fairbanks also will use one a George Fleek, Noble Grand for the day. The boxes measure about one Douglas Lodge, presiding. |cubic foot and weigh about two The consolidation of Alaska pounds. Lodge No. A-1 of Douglas was ef- Six-Foot Balloons fected with Silver Bow Lodge In addition to the instruments, No. A-2 of Juneau, with Grand the six-foot rubber balloon and its sire Burton Gaskill as guest speak- contents are lost with each ascen- er for the evening. The name of sion. Thompson hopes the Bureau Silver Bow Lodge No. A-1 was given | will be able to use helium in the the new group. balloons, but expects because of During the session a desk pen the rarity of helium that the with an old ivory mount wa§' pre-!cheaper and more dangerous hy- sented Mr. Gaskill on behalf of fhe drogen will be used instead. Odd Fellows, and Mrs. Gaskill was Radio-sonde balloons are rapidly given a string of old ivory beads, replacing airplanes for upper r a serving fork and a corsage ‘from cbservations, Thompson said. They the lodge and members of the Re- give a cross-section of the weather bekahs. Following the meeting a ' in the upper air which is neces- social session was held with ap- sary for the new methods of wea- proximately one hundred individuals | ther forecasting by “air mass an- present for the occasion. | alysis.” Returning to Vancouver from his| e palicons which will begin to Alaska visitation, Mr. Gaskill will | fjoa¢ heavenward here on Septem- visit lodges at Banff, Lake LOUISe, por 1 are not the first to be used Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Tor-|______ “Second Order” stations recom- mendations for sites of which will be made shortly by Thompson. Considerable difficulty is anticipat- , | O. F. accompanied by Mrs. Gas}(ill-jover the radio equipment to the|ed in instituting this part of the | paid a visit to the Odd Fellows of | ground station. The signal, a sepa- | Program due to the lack of com- munications in some vital areas, the Bureau having to rely upon the Alaska Communications Sys- tem and Territorial radio stations for cooperation, New First Order stations for Ket- chikan, Bethel and Ruby, which it was hoped would be provided in the appropriation, were not allowed this year. First Order stations now in operation are at Juneau, Fair- banks, Anchorage and Nome. COWLING-DANNER SUIT TRIED HERE Trial of the suit of E. J. Cowling versus George and Rosa Danner for a $600 labor lien which Cowling hoills against the Mendenhall Dairy for work performed on use was on in District Court here all day today. Tomorrow the Court is to hear the suit of the City of Douglas ver- sus Robert DuPree, former Wharf- inger, for an accounting. COUPLE FREED BY REQUEST OF LOZZIE An assault and battery charze against Gordon Selmyhr and Hel- ene McCutcheon was dismissed to- day by request of Don Lozzie, taxi | operator, whom the two were ac- | cused of thrashing at Douglas last | week. e Empire classifieds pay. onto, arriving in New York to pre-; side over Odd Fellows Day at the World’s Fair. FISHERMEN SEE HALIBUT PRICES CONTINUE CLIMB Halibut fishermen today noted the Juneau fish exchange hailing board with happiness—prices have | gone up once again after several days of continued steady rise. Today the halibuter Spencer, Capt. Russell Elliott, sold 10,500 pounds | to Alaska Coast Fisheries at 7.10 and 5.10 cents a pound, almost a | cent’'a pound increase over prices a month ago. A building permit for remodeling a dwelling at 414 Dixon Street at ~ Going to the World’s Garland Boggan, owner. Builder to be E. G. W. Morris. * - ON FRIDAY Individual CHICKEN PIE For LUNCHEON at the BARANOF i ssifieds for Winuae..of (bls shars. (oAl 1. on RO EERANR ) otk results. championship in the fourth 2 annual Golden Rose Interna- | tional Open Touranment is 16- | | N vear-old John Blatt of Palo Alto, Cal. The competition was held at Timberline Lodge in the perpetual skiing grounds of the famed Oregon mountain. Miss Mae Russell Luncheon Honoree Complimentary to Miss Mae Rus- sell, world travelist who is visiting | in Juneau, Mrs. Charles W. Hawk werth, Mrs. Edwin Sutton and Mrs. | Harry Watson entertained at the Calhoun Avenue residence of Mrs, Hawkesworth with a luncheon this | afternoon | Guests for the occasion were members of the Order of Eastern Star. The afternoon was spent in- | formally. W ‘ \ VISIT THE ‘ ROYAL ! 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