The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 17, 1939, Page 2

FIVE MEN AND An attractive 21-year-old ranch girl was in Juneau last Saturday She is off to brave the fa Northwest P age, known to - inters the world over but navig by white men only once in history The expedition of six, of which she is the only x passed through ¢ foot -horsepower Pandc The crew with storms, icebergs Arctic winter Leader of the party old, red-haired Dr. Homer FI lems, an evangelist ranch in Delaware County ma. The girl i jenne, an art university who is daughte student at the Among the things the expedition intends to do are Stop briefly at the scene of the Will-Rogers-Wiley Post | tragedy, i Search near the mouth of the Cilville river for the lost Rus sian fliers, (Indians reported they crashed there.) Take seundings which may show the Navy Department whether the United States fleet could use the Northwest Pas- sage between Pacific and Atlan- tic. Get postmarks at postoffices for 5000 “covers” collectors. carried for AGIRLTO BRAVE R SIGNED; LOUIS | MAKES CHANGES ) o i [ ( A uG\.» (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) HAZARDS OF NORTHWEST pASSAGE Forecast for Juneau and Vicinity, boginn at 3:30 p.m,, July 17: MEETS pASToR !N woRK HOURS Partly cloudy tonight, Tuesday cloudy, probably with showers; mod- | erate € and southeast winds. g ey o st for Southeast Alaska: North portion—Partly cloudy to- v i (Continuea rrom I'age One) day probably with showers; moderate east and : ‘BOUt WI" Be Siaged n De- — T wir South portion—-Cloudy. with showers, tonight and | . hours, the building- labo: te east and soutneast winds, exceRt moderate to | froit on Sepfember 89 hours, and unskilled lab ~'“)‘"‘» . | 120 hours. On the same project Forecast s along the ccast of the Gulf of Alaska: | 20, Ja(obs Says plumbér is. limited to 50 heurs Mcderate to east and southeast winds tonight and Tuesday il work a month, while his helpe from Dixon Entrance to pe Ommaney, and moderate easterly winds | DETROIT. Mich., July 17 must be scheduled from Cape Ommaney to Cape Hin hinbr [ Fight promoter Mike Jacobs an-|of work. Compress LOCAL DATA | nounced today that Champion Joe|limited to 56 3% hours per month Time parometer Temo. Humudity Wind Velncity ~ Weather | Louls will defend his title against|While jackhammer operators 3:30 p.m. yest'y 30.07 61 57 SE 13 Cloudy Bob Pastor in a bout here on ting power from the compressor) | iy 3:30 a.m. today 30.09 51 89 Calm Cloudy Samber b |are scheduled for 119 hours of | Noon today 30.04 66 47 Ssw 8 Pt.Cldy Louis will receive 40 percent of | WOrK 2 PORTS the niet gate and Bastor 171 per-| "It 18 obvious that schedules AN TRl s as these rende any practic ] " g type of staggering of employment Lowest 3:30am. Precip. 3:30am. j» Tipkets Wil range from §2 ineffective in producing efficient Station 1 hour: temp. temp. 24hours Weather $27.50. | operatidoa Anchorage 18 49 0 Clear S | The bout will be staged in the % P S ¥, Barrow 40 40 0 Pt. Cldy $ | Briggs Stadium with a capacity of| Nome 48 50 Rain | 80,000. ;SOVIE‘I‘ plANES Bethel 50 52 0 Cloudy b > - i Fairbanks 46 4G 0 Cloudy i Dawson 44 46 0 Clear 'MINE EXPLOSION ~ MAKE RAIDS ON £ F G ’ | . 46 59 0 Cloudy | i HA[UNARSHAN . 50 51 0 Pt. Cldy - DEATHTOLLNOW , s s 0 Cley | S Dr. Lubomir Walicki e o 51 L Cloudy o PLACED, 28 MEN Several Dozen Bombs Are| Dr. s Wi, o ol K | & ot i e | . . of the Polish ministry of communi- nce Rupert 5 21 atn islands of far nosthern i 3 | Dropped with Dis- | Sations,is pictured s he arsived in | Eon B MR o e comparative safety of Bodies of Nine Are Recov- | New York. He will visit the World's Seattle 0 PRI el the Labrador coast | astrous Results | Fair and make a series of diplo- Portiand b, u g 7k If successful, the party will ered from Deep Place % matic calls in Washington, where ! 4 brate by sailing on around thr 4 % R e deies s | WEAT SYNOPSIS the Panam aCanal to the statin in CO”|ery B sl ol Yoine e Relin i T point at Seattle tal itinerary of 7.—Eight Soviet war planes attack- -k £ : rmal this morning from 24,000 mi ed the railway center of Halunar- th . utian I:Ln:m. and I,v‘z'm"r Seca region southeastward to the The ¢ the Nerth- PRQVIDENCE, Kentucky..July chan, the fourth such raid within a southern tion of the Gulf of a, the lowest reported pres- west ps s made in 1903-06 17.—The bodies of nine men have week eing 2982 inches over the Pici 2t latitude 52 degr by Roald Amundsen, whose vessel | been found deep in the Duvin Coal| The invading planes dropped sev- and longitude 140 (C*;rct'i»- '1“‘ lm‘omctlnc pressure was also low was frozer roug winters. Mine by a rescue crew, raising to eral dozen hombs, destroying four over n vestern Canada. his general pressure distribution has Y ’K[,l]mm_f ,';{‘,,.::"L\ l:k,[,:‘go tooq for| Vivienne and her father plot a |33 the geath toll from the explosion |railways cars and the post office been attended by precipitation ove - the southern portion of South- a year and four months, has radio | *T of last Friday night. building. ast A , also over the Bering region and by generally fair communication, and, at the insis- | 5 Bodies af the other victims were A report says many persons were ner the remainder of the field of observation. tence of Canada’s Northwest Terri- | found last Saturday. | wounded Juneau, July 18.—Sunrise, 3:22 a.m.; sunset, 8:49 p.m. tories, bas made rescue arrang ;‘““‘-* ’X’:*‘h:s“mlrfl dlefen:; ;‘a!ue] of = - Halun northwest Man- sk ia ¢ EE SR RS with airplane pilots 1S SouhidiUEs SerOURS SH ERS: 08 N choukuo, about miles from the cnis wih aiplene DI v vy | cussed tvem win nigh Wasingion BRENNAN NOMINATED 1G5 SoncGion border 7 HALIBUTERS Shovel Spends from Alaska to Labrador, 2,200 miles, | °fficials. " FOR PETERSBURG: P.M ..o Rkl be made between August 1| As for Vivienne, she will sketch, Al RUPERT FISH PRICE Sunday on and September 15. Only then will | take photographs, shoot game and i g At Prince Rupert today These are the alternative routes for the Northwest Passage. The Kellems will take the northern route, if ice permiis. Amundsen foliowed the southern route. WOMAN WRITER SUCCUMBS T0 ALASKAN LURE Eva Yates Gathering Trav- -~¢l Book Material, Finds It Hard fo Leave Eva Yates, magazine write and travel book author, comely blonde wife of a McCormick Steamship company captain, Aubrey Scott, re- turned to Juneau today on the Yukon after two months in the Westward and Interior. Mrs. Scott (or Eva Yates), who is doing a number of magazine articles, including a yarn for Woman’s Home Companion on Alaska from the wo- man'’s viewpoint, and a travel book as well, was scheduled for but five hours in Juneau. She didn't like that schedule. She is “falling hard” for Alaska, and she wanted more than five hours in Juneau. She wired her publish- ers a “no sir” to the five hour stop here and is planning to spend seven days in Juneau as a guest at the . Baranof Hotel. | ‘While in Fairbanks, authoress Eva Yates flew to a number of outlying mining camps, “met a lot of old- timers,” went up for “a peck at the midnight sun,” and on a trip to Wiseman, “saw a real native pot- lateh.” From Nenana she went “upriver” on asteamer to Dawson and so out + to SCkagway, where she saw glaciers from the air before sailing for Ju- neau. For a woman who has worked on | newspapers through the Orient and | islands of the Pacific, and who loves to travel, Alaska has presented something new, where the next pz . tures do not call as Joudly as before, and where “each time you leave an- other Alaska town, you find it hard- er to leave than the last.” From Juneau, Eva Yates plans to go to Sitka for a few days and catch the Alaska southbound from there Her enthusiasm for Alaska sums up with the exclamation, “wonderful,” and adds, “I'll be back — - —— - DROWNED SEINER'S FUNERAL AT SITKA Alfred Michael, seine boat member who drowned last week when he fell overboard from the boat Helen H at Tenakee, will be buried at Sitka. The U. S. Com- missioner and Deputy Marshal at Sitka will examine the body to make sure no foul play was involved in the death. she crew - oo KENAI RANGER * ON WAY SOUTH Sidney V. Dennison, Forest Service District Ranger in the Kenai di- vision, went through Juneau last night on the Columbia from Sew- ard, called to Berkeley, Calfornia, by the serious illness of his father Mrs. Dennison accompanies him. While he is outside, Dennison will take two months’ leave the ice pack be broken this daylight vious Through 24-hour help the ship's cook. If the expe- dition is successful, she will have made a trip that the bravest sea- dogs have dreamed of since the days of Frobisher and Cabot. Rayon M|II fo Be i Established at North Vancouver VANCOUVER, B. C., July 17.—A Hamburg firm plan the establish- ment of a rayon mill at North Vancouver, the cost of which, it is estimated, will not be less than $3,000,000. It is learned here that 32 acres of land to provide the site, have already been purchased. period there will be Kellems, who has made six pre- trips to the northlands, NO DECISION AS TO NEXT STEP IN NEUTRALITY ISSUE Democraiicfi L;ader Bark- | ley Makes Statement After Talk with FDR WASHINGTON July 17.—Demo- ocratic leader Barkley reports “no de- The enterprise will be named the cision reached” in the next move|vyancouver Rayon Silks Ltd in the Congressional deadlock over | A 5 8 Bl neutrality legislation. The report was made after Barkley had a con- BAKERY CONCERN ference with Pr Roosevelt. Secretary of State Cordell Hull FOR FAIRBANKS IS told the newsmen that the whole date of Congress, is in the studs stage and added, however, “I do not i The Milk Maid Baking Company, a concern which plans to carry on a general baking business at Fair- banks, was incorporated today by | believe Congress will adjourn in th face of the overwheiming duty it is called upon to perform.” Whether the statement foretold the determination of the Adminis- three Fairbanksans, Charles Ray, tration to continue pressure on neu- J- G. Rivers and Ethel F. Mahan.| trality legislation this session, is Capitalization of the corporation is | not disclosed. $25,000. | el o el ! ((( ENRO”.EES -I-o BUILDING PERMITS | A building permit has been is- sued to T. J. McCaul for $100 in 60 T0 PETERSBURG plumbing work at a building owned | The Forest Service vessel ¢ by him at 123 Franklin Street. Rice is leaving tomorrow for Petersburg and Ahlers will do the work. | to take seven CCC enrollees to the | e o Seafood City. The craft will return ~ The Book ALASKA, Revised and Thursday. Enlarged, Now On Sale; $1.00. S —————— BUSI CREDIT — commercial credit. in particular— supplies the capital required for business to turn sales into money required for operation. expan- sion, and profits. In this, every bank and busi- ness house cooperates. This credit takes many forms, most important of which are: loans on © A BUSINESS Institution Capital Funds—$306,763.90 as of statemen NESS DEPENDS UP THE B. M. BEHRENDS BANK Oldest Bank in Alaska THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, JULY 17, 1939. THLE MATCHIS NEW RELIEF BILL WASHINGTON, July 17—Presi- ' pounds of halibut were sold z dent Roosevelt has nominated to 8 and 550 cents a pound. Richard F. Brennan to be Post- >oo master at Petersburg, Alaska. MARRIAGE LICENSE | A marriage license was issued BT today by U. S. Commissioner M 7 E. Mor to Richard Albert Slagle and Norma Ann Hak - principal industry Fishing is the of Labrador Hears From Mother i Ruth Delight Braman Ruth Delight Braman smiles hap- pily over letter from her mother Ruth Marie Rubens, principal in th Rubens-Robinson spy case. Freed after 18 months imprisonment awaiting trial in Russia, Mrs. Ru bens is expected to return to th U. 8. soon. Little hope is held fo her husband, stepfather of the chilc Ruth lives with grandparents i Miami. it DON'T POINT—Amer- | ican-born Lady Astor of the English house of commons wag- gles a finger in her chat with Justice Felix Frankfurter of U. S. Supreme court. The latter was awarded an honorary degree ' at Britain’s Oxford university. ON CREDIT merchandise, accounts receivable, stocks, bonds and mortgages: and discounting and re-dis- counting of notes. Each of these operations is a necessary part of modern business. Behrends Bank is proud to be a part of this important sys- tem and offers you any business advice that its experience has garnered. to Give BUSINESS Aid o Total Resources-$3,072,153.39 t June 30, 1939 S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU SELL, SEATTLE Cooper Project EATTLE. Ju 17.—-Only hali- A steamshovel worked y rday i trowm phe’ 1o Bank oiq | at Fourth and Main Streets, break- 4 ile attle. Fish change to- | 18 round for the new Cooper \ it Building, two-story reinforced con- switt No. 2 15000 pounds, 10% | crete office and apartment build- ) a pou Faith No 3 5 517,000 povinds, 10% and 9% cents; | T008¥, & crew iof workmen began 13 8000 HouRil o able prelimina work for basement TR AEERCT T forms and initial construction work. T O P S—Most honored man among naval academy gradu- ates at Annapolis was Midship- man Louis Harry Roddis, Jjr., who got nine senior awards for excellence in mathematics, engi- neering, navigation, seaman- Ship. He's from St. Paul, Minn. Zammmeh “PHONE 411 CONNORS MOTOR COMPANX IN JUST ONE AVERAGE YEAR the Canned Salmon Industry brings over $10,000,000 to Alaska. This is money paid directly for local labor, lumber, wire, cannery supp]ie:i, taxes. It is money which benefits not | only Alaskan fishery workers and workers in other industries, but also i Alaska’s professional people and merchants, whom it reaches in the form l of trade for services and goods. Thanks to the Salmon Industry, Alaska | prospers.