The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 1, 1939, Page 2

TEINI Y ' ASFTORART Ty A Reach For Your Phone Call 37 place your want-ad in The EMPIRE. The MPIRE regularly publishes more want - ads than any other Alaska paper— and reaches MORE readers. That’s why a want=ad in The EM PIRE will brin%‘you MORE results! Take the **3 steps Eo'“’antg Ad Results?’ For Quick Action Lmpire ant-Ads Phone 374 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1939, Fast Flight IsMade by u.s. Ffl"fflss FAR OFF 38 Rofarians May Lead Movel New 22-fon Boeing Plaie Flies Across Continent at High Altifude NEW YORK, Aug. 1.--The Army's new 22-ton Boeing Flynig Fortress |landed at 1:24 o'clock this after-| |noon completing a non-stop flight from Burbank, Cal, in hours 14 minutes and 30 seconds. The giant four-motored craft, carrying 2500 gallons of gasoline and cruising at an altitude of 25,000 feet, spanned the contihent at an average speed of 250 miles an hout. Pilot Major Stanley Umpstead was about two hours behind the mark set by Howard Hughes in January, 1937, of 7 hours 28 minutes and 25 seconds, CAUBLE JUNEAU REPRESENTATIVE AT ROTARY MEET | Leaves fo Mtend Presi- | dents’ Assembly af Olympia, Wash. The Juneau Rotary Club will be represented at the annual Presi- dents’ Assembly at Olympia, Wash- ington, August 7 and 8 by the Rev. John L. Cauble, who sailed today |on the Princess Charlotte. Cauble, Secretary of the Club, is attending due to the inability of either Tom Dyer, President, or Dr. | Willlam Whitehead, Vice President, | to make the trip. | Rod Darnell ‘is serving as Secre- ‘mry in Cauble’s absence. 16 HALIBUTERS SELL, SEATTLE | SEATTLE, Aug. 1—The follow- ing halibuters sold here today: From the western banks—Eclipse | 39,000 pounds 8% and 8 cents. From the local banks—Leviathan 116,000 pounds, FEastern 14,000 pounds, Prosperity 8,000 pounds, selling for 8% and 7% cents; Cali- fornia 18,000 pounds, 8% and 8% | cents; Visit 11,000 pounds, Shirley J 10,000 pounds, Irene J 4,000 pounds, Curlew 13,000 pounds, Arne | 12,000 pounds, all for 8 and 7i | cents; Superior 12,000 pounds. Lin- | coln 5,000 pounds, Pioneer III 13,- {000 pounds, all for 8% and 7% cents; Ideal 15,000 pounds, 8% and | 7% cents; Tillikum 11,000 pounds, |8% and 7% cents; Thelma No. 2 16,000 pounds, 8% and 7% cents. — .- 'PLANS FOR DUPONT . WHARE IMPROVEMENT |+ ARE POSTED HERE | Notlwws posted here today by the U. 8. Enigineer Office of the War IDexmrtment that application had been received from E I. duPont de | Nemours and Company for a permit ‘to construct a wharf alongside the existing wharf of the company at Dupont. " | Plans for the improvement show ithe dock platform will be 100 by 74 | feet at the end of a 130-foot ap- proach which will be 20 feet wide. Action on the application will be | withheld, H. J. M. Baker, Senior | Engineer, said, until August 17 to ‘ allow objecuons to be heard. 'LEGION POST 10 ELECT DFLEGATES fék CONVENTION Election of seven delegates and | seven alternates to the American Legion Department Convention at Fairbanks will take place at next week’s meeting of Alford John Bradford Post. At the Post’s meeting last night | Commander Bert Lybeck appointed | Frank Metcalf, Homer Nordling and Bill ' Johnson a Southeast Alaska | Fair Commm/ee e, Mrs. Carpenter Here For Daughter’s Troth Mrs. J. W. €arpenter of Hol.'(y— wood, Cal., arrived in the Capital City on ‘the steamer''Aleutian.: She will be here'for the wédding of her daughter, Miss Clara Car- | penter to Dr. M. 'J. Whittier, an event which ‘will take place in Sep- tember. At present Mrs. Carpenter and her ‘daughter are residing at the Fifth''Street residerice of Mr. land Mrs. Staéy Norman. e ATTORNEY 'THROUGH Edward P Medley, ‘Séattle attor- | ney who formerly practiced at Cor- dova, passed 'through on the Colum- bid™ yesterday on his way back to the States after a business mp 1o the Westward, PACK TOTAL Only 1,133,952 Cases Pu, Up in Season-Worst in Four Years The Bristol Bay salmon ialm(m pack this year 'totaled 1.1 cases, the poorest pack since 1 the Bureau of Fisheries anhounce today. Twenty-two canneries operated in Bristol Bay in the season which ended last week. They packed 4,-| 682 ‘cases of kings, 1,043,184 cases| of reds, one case of cohoes and | 86,085 cases of chums. Last year the pack was 1,809,223 Packs in previous years were: 1937 1,434,388; 1936, 1,393,808; 1935 (with Ugashik District closed and only eight canneries operating) 242,100; i 1934, 1,739,678; .1933, 1,591,108 LIMESTONE CAVE | 'NEAR CHICHAGOF | RECENTLY FOUND Geologist Finds River Go- ing Through Long Tun- | nel Near Rust lake | A limestone cavern nearly a| quarter of a mile long, 30 feet high | and 40 feet wide, was one of the| discoveries made in the Chicha-| gof area by United States Geologi- cal Survey geologist Dr. John Reed Reed arrived in Juneau Yyester- day afternoon aboard the ‘Public | Roads Administration vessel High- way which he has been using this | summer in connection with geolou— cal survey work on the west coast of Chichagof Island. The limestone cavern in question, which has aroused considerable in- terest in the Forest Departme nL for its natural phenomenon nt:ru:'v tion, | | { voir. Reed told Forest Service officials the stream flows through the cav-, ern tox quite a distance and is quite Temarkable. Reed will return to the Chicha~ gof area tomorrow aboard the Highway to continue his investi- gations. | Accompanying him to town was | his assistant, Robert Coates, Uni- | versity of Alaska geology professor. | Edythe-Reily Rowe Visiting in Juneau Edythe-Reily Rowe, eminent cell- ist, arrived im- Juneau on the steamer North Sea for a month's stay. While in this city Mrs. Rowe will' instruct a’ group of young mu- sicians, who received their begin- ners’ training from her during the family's residence here over a year ago. Mrs. Rowe is now making her home in Sacramento, Cal, where she is first cellist with the Sacra- mento Symphony Orchestra. While in” Juneau, Mrs. Rowe plans to pre- sent a musicale. e FAKE SUBS(I!IPIION “SOLICITOR LEAVES ALASKA, LAW FINDS Thomas' W., Bennett, who is al- leged to have obtained money un- ‘| posed of Howard Stabler, Charles is on a stream flowing into| Rust Lake, Chichagof mine resvr-] der false pretenses in connection with selling subscriptions has le” the Territory, authorities found to- CONDITION OF ’ HIGHWAY GETS 'PANNING' HERE| to Obtain Paving of Glacier Road Condition of the Glacier Highway was condemned at today's Juneau Rotary Club meeting as a “dis- grace." The road is slick in winter, in summer, full of holes when it rains and “blows in your face” when | it's dry, declared Howard Stabler, rough | |one of the members who joined in|<a the discussion 1 “All over the United States they are paving roads which don’t have half the traffic this road has” SLablor said. A proposal that the club lead a move to have the highway paved| was referred to a committee com-| Beale and Mayor Harry Lucas. Another proposed club object, y the building of a swimming pool at | Lemon Creek, is being studied by a committee consisting of Dr. W.! ‘W. Council, Rod Darnell and Monte | Grisham Eledra Takes Two Out Today I Two passengers ont north with Pacific Alaska Airways pilots Al |Monsen and Walt Hall today. H R. A. Clark was flown to Fair- banks and John Vestergaard was dropped orr at Whnehov e. BRITISH SALE OF SALMON IS AIDED BY LAW Japanese W|I| Now Have to Adm it Where Their Salmon Was Canned WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.—The De- partment of Commerce said today that a new British regulation will he]p the sale of American canned Isalmon in Great Britain, where there is considerable competition with American salmon from Japan- l | ! Alas] sented | ese packs. U. 8. Trade Commissioner E. C. Squire, in London, advised the de- partment that a new British rule | requires foreign canned salmon tc !show the country of the product’s origin. This ruling is expected to im- prove sales of American salmon, Squire believes, “because U. S. canned foods have a high reputa- tion for quality among the Brit- the English could not between American and Japanese salmon because the cnly labeling requirement on foreign sal- mon used to be to show that it was “foreign,” without naming the coun- try from which it came. - - Ellen Repp in Northwest for Summer Concerts Miss Ellen Repp, well-known contralto whose many friends in Juneau follow her concert career with interest, is visiting her mother in Everett, Washington while she is filling summer concert engage- ments in the northwest. Following her Meany Hall con- cert in Seattle, July 13, when she initiated the summer concert sea- son at the University of Washing- ton, Miss Repp sang in Victoria Visited Museum Territorial slightly ahead of last year, though the correspondence with last year is very close, Mrs. Josephine White, Assistant Curator, announced today. months of 1939 is 7,525 who have signed the registration book. BOAT HARBOR 'WORK BEGINS IN FEW DAYS Crews Arrive This Morning -Dredge Expected End of Week (Continued trom :-age One) r General ximate ne d with the company this morhing con the North Sea and Aleu , and that a number of other men are coming up with the dredge Operations will begin toward the end of next week, Burke believes, but no local help will be hired un- til things have gotten under way, and it is not known to what extent the labor n-qunum-m» will be. | MUSEUM GIVEN CRESCENT HALE BRONZE PLAQUE Memory of Pioneer Sal- mon Canner Honored- ; Built atqushagak photograph and A bronze plaque ! framed explanat resolutien hon- oring the memory of Crescent (Bress) P. Hale, founder of the Imon Ceompany, were pre- to the Territorial M um teday by the Company Mrs. Hale and son, now residents of Piedmont, Cal., attended presen- ition ceremonies at the museum John Reck represented Alaska Pio- neers at the presentation. Hale, who died in 1937, first came to Alaska at the age of 12 When he was 15 he assisted his uncle in building the first salmon cannery on the Nushazak River in 1687 “For over 50 years,” states, “he made the to Bristol Bay." e BASEBALL TODAY The following are scores of games played this afternoon in the Major Leagues: National League Brooklyn 5; Pittsburgh 3. Philadelphia 2; Chicago 6. New York 5; Cincinnati 4. American League St. Louis 5; Washington 7. Chicago 4; Philadelphia 1 | Cleveland 5; Boston 7. | Detroit 5; New York 2. | the plaque long voyage Alaska Resolufion Is Sent to White House WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. — The Senate has passed and sent to the White House for the President’s signature the resclution authoriz- ing postmasters in Alaska to ad- minister oaths of affirmations, take apolis Star-Journal, acknowledgements and perform all functions of a notary public. 155 Have | | This Year Number of visitors to the Alaska | Museum in 1939 is| The total for the first séven June and July saw slightly fewer two,,, 'OLD NEWSPAPER IS PROCESS WELDS | u. . DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and Vicin Rain tonight and Wednesday; Forecast for Southeast Alaska: moderate southerly winds, except ence Strait. Chatham Strait, Fred Forecast of winds -along the Fresh to strong southeast winds t Entrance to Cape Hinchinbrock LOCAL Barometer Temn 29.96 52 29.95 53 30.06 52 Time 3:30 p.m. yest'y 3:30 am. today Noon today RADIO Lo ter Max. tempt. last 24 hours 61 Station 1 Anchorage Barrow Nome Bethel Fairbanks Dawson St. Paul Dutch Harbor Kodiak . Cordova Juneau Sitka Ketchikan Prince’ Rupert Edmonton Seattle Portland San Francisco WEATHER Low barometric pressure con eastern portion of the North P: pressure being 29.50 inches land.. High barometric pressure f southeastward to ‘Oregon, thence Iands, the'crest being 3044 inches tude 144 degrees. ''Precipitation ha regions from the Aleutians Southe sciiftered precipitation over the w of Canada! 'Partly' ¢loudy to clou mainder of Alaska and western C Junmu Au[,ml 2.—Sunrise, moderate a short 3:52 am.; ity, beginning at 3 southerly Rain tonight fesh over Dixon Entrance, erick Sound, and Lynn Canal coast of the Gulf of Alaska: onight and Wednesday from Dixon :30 p.m., Aug. 1: wind. and Wednesday Clar- DATA Humidity Wind Velocity 9 ESE 22 87 SE 12 o7 SE 14 REPORTS Weather Lt Rain Lt. Rain Lt: Rain TODAY 3:30a.m. Precip. temp. 24hours Weather 50 01 Rain 5 Cloudy 4 Clear 42 Clear 44 Cloudy 47 Cloudy 46 Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Rain west mp. 3:30am. Rain Cloudy Clear Clear Clear Cloudy SYNOPSIS inued this morning over the north- cific Ocean, the lowest reported distance southwest of Kodiak Is- revailed from Southeast Alaska couthwestward to the Hawaiian Is- at latitude 38 degrees and longi- s been general along the coastal astward to Prince Rupert, with est-central and northern portions dy weather prevailed over the re- anada. sunset, 8:19 p.n. . . PROTESTS T0 BOMBINGS PEKING, Aug. 1—-’I‘he Onitted | States embassy has protested to the Japanese government against the bembing of the Ameriean Lutheran mission by Japanese war planes last Wednesday. The' superintendent of the mis- sion said that six Chinese were killed by the six bombs which were dropped directly on the mission grounds. None of the American at- taches were injured. e [MERGED; BIG DEAL ANNOUNCED TODAY MxNNEAPous Minn,, Aug. 1.— The ' Minneapolis - Journal,” evening and Sunday morning newspaper, | in its 6Ist year of publication, the oldest newspaper here, has been purchased by the Minneapclis Star, also an evening paper. John Cowles, President of the' 'Go-Between Indicted J. M. Brown J M. Brown, who acted as contact man between Dr. James Monroe Smith, ex-head of Louisiana State University, and his brokers, was in- dicted by Baton Rouge Grand Jury on charges of embezzlement. Dr. | Smith was indicted on 23 counts, charged with embezzling $100,000 Star, and Earl Jones, President of the Journal, announced they con- solidated, effective today. | The combined newspapers will be | published in the evening and also| Sunday morning field as the Minne- | The purchase price is not an-| nounced. | | GLASS TO STONE TOLEDO, Aug. 1—“Welding” o glass and. conerete, achieved in a | combination load-bearing and fac- ing unit for building. soon will be[v | announced by the Libbey-Owen- The new | Ford Glass Company. product is the result of developing“ a patented process. BROOKLYN SCHOOL day 'when they checked on the July 19 and in Bellingham July man’s whereabouts. Bennett is said to have obtained On August 27 Miss Repp is to be about ' $140 in ' soliciting at Peters- soloist on “Norway Day” at the San burg, Wrangell and Ketchikan, is-|Francisco Exposition. suing false receipts for the money After her summer on the coast, obtained and not being an author- | Miss Repp will return to New York ized agent, where shg plans another Town Hall ghetc, concert in October or November. Plans to return to Alaska for an- other concert tour this summer and | Ho HUM' "0 GAME a visit with her sister, Mrs. Mary| ® | Torkelsen, in Petersburg and her cousin, Miss Magnhild Oygaard, in At 3:30 o'clock this afternoon it|Juneau, were changed because of definitely looked and was so “an- | her busy season in Washington. Mrs. ! visitors than in 1938, but the months of April and May more than made up the difference, giving 1939 ‘a shght lead over last year. PUEHT P p g AT te HIRST-CHICHAGOF PASSES DIVIDEND Announcement of an 8 percent dividend has been made by *the Hirst-Chichagof Mining Company to stockholders here. The dividend will be paid August PRINCIPAL IS HERE FOR WEEK VISIT Jacob A. Rubel, Brooklyn school, and Mrs. Rubel are spending a week here, their first stop on a tour they will make during' ‘a year of sabbatical leave. Later they will go to Hawaii, Mexico and South America. The Rubels .are guests at the Baranof Hotel. Principal of ai nounced—no ball’ game tonight. The schedule meet ‘would have seen the Elks and Douglas playing. The postponement makes seven in a row—because of rain or wet grounds. — o ——— TALMAGE BACK IN OFFICE AF TER TRIP IN VESSEL BEAR K. C. Tn]mage. Office Wild Life Agenit ‘with the' Alaska Game Com- mission, returried on the North ‘Sea this morning " after a - week’s ab- sence from the office here, during which he took the patrol véssel Bear to Ketchikdn for overhaul work. Northbound, Talmage left ' the Bear at Petersburg, where Wild.Life Agent Hosea Sarber joined the ves- sel for ‘a routine ‘patrol cruise, Hal- mage continuing to Juneau aboard tthe North Sea. Torkelsen was in Beattle for her 19 on stock of record of August 9. Enlaiged, Now On Sale; $1.00, sister’s Meany Hall concert in July. - Juneau Rofary Toasled in Merry England Juneau’s Rotary Club will be toasted by the club at Ashton Un- der-Lyne, England, on September 4, President Tom Dyer of the local club was informed today. ‘The British club chooses one club a week to be toasted. A silk British flag, embossed in gold letters with ‘he name of the club. was received here from Ashton Under- Lyne — e The Book ALASKA, Revised IMI 'HABEAS CORPUS HEARING CONTINUED Hearing on & petition by Mrs. Mildred - Hérmann for a writ 'of habeas corpus for her client, Rich- ard Trask, accused of rape, was held in District Court this after- noon ‘and continued until Satur- day morning. — .- BERGS RETURN Mrs. Hans Berg, accompanied by her daughters, Miss Sylvia Berg and Miss Grace Berg, returned to Juneau today on the steamer Aleu- tian. They are at their home on C Street, HEALTH CENTER VACCINATES 45 Forty-five persons, ranging in| age from eight menths to adult- hood, were vaccinated —against smallpox yesterday at the Juneau Health Center. Dr. John Carswell did the vaccinating, assisted by Miss Magnhild Oygard, Public Health Nurse. Tomorrow from 2 to 4 vaccina- vons will be made at the Health Center in Douglas. - PWA MAN SAILS K. N. Neill, Resident Project Au-| ditor for the PWA, left on the Aleutian today for the Westward in connection with school and pav- ing projects at Anchorage. SISTER VISITING SANITARIAN HERE Lloyd Morley, Sanitarian for the Department of Public Health, is being visited for a few weeks by his sister, Miss Ruth Morley of Bainbridge Island, Wash. Miss Morley arrived today on the Aleu- tian. SRSy ' ATTORNEY GENERAL IS ILL AT HOME Judge J. S. Truitt, Tetritorial At- torney General, is' confifled to his home in the Baranof by illness, and is under the care of Dr. W. W. Council. ———————— PLAYING A HUNCH DETROIT, | Aug. 1. — While the Tigers may be uniucky on the dia- mond, they struck it rich playing the horses on a rainy off-day dur- ing their first Boston trip. They got together on a hunch horse named Miss Michigan, a long shot that came home first. MRS. GRISHAM BACK Mrs. ‘Monte Grisham, ‘with her daughter, returned today on the steamer North Sea from a visit of several weeks with relatives in Wrangell. e ,——— KIMBALL RETURNS Bob Kimball, of the Alaska Elec- tric Light and Power Co., returned today on the steamer North Sea He has been vacationing for the past month in Seattle. i e RETURNS TO TOWN AFTER VACATION Etolin Coulter returned to Juneau this morning on the North Sea to resume her position in the Gov- ernor’s Office. Miss Coulter has been spending her vacation with her parents in Wrangell ———— The Book ALASKA, Revised and Enlarged, Now On Sale; $1.00, [t