The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 3, 1939, Page 2

[EFFORT T0 KEEP COAST GUARD IS | UNDER WAY HERE Chamber, M_a70r Working fo Bring Headquart- ers-to Juneau- A special committee tp make a e | | vigorous effort to have Coast Guard apd . Lighthouse Service | headquarters " established in Ju- neau, as ordered from Washing- ton, was appointed today by the | Juneau Chamber of CGommerce. Reports from Ketchikan say that Commander W. K. Thompson, new, |Coast Guard Commander of the ‘Alnnku Division, has recommended |that the headquarters "be trans- ferred to Ketchikan. | The Chamber committee consists of ‘Horace Adams, Chairman; Cur-| tis Bhattuck and Howard Stabler, This is a big item for Juneau, it was said today, and worth effort to obtain. Bob Schoettler, Manager of the Baranof Hotel, said today he is still holding office space reserved by Thompson for the headquar~ ters. Mayor Harry Lucas is also work- }lng on the problem. " |CHAMBER JOINS * " 'MOVE 10 GAIN * PAVED HIGHWAY e Commlflee WI” Confer with' Public’ Roads | Administration The Juneau Chamber of Com- merce has joined the Rotary Club |in an effort to obtain permanent | improvement of the condition of the Glacier Highway. Yesterday the Chamber Board of Directors appointed a special com- | | mittee composed of Tom Morgan, Chairman; George Folta and Allen Chattuck to take up the matter with the Public Roads Adminis- tration here ‘Grasshoppers " on . AreonDrive ; TORONTO, Aug. 3.<Millions” of » grasshappers are attacking North- | ern ‘Ontario .gardens in:one ‘of the worst drives the insect pests have | ever made in that part of c:mada.l | ‘Atlanta fo Get Next | Red (ross Meefing ek Ay results | e/ e Reach For Your Phone Call 374 place your want-ad 1. o X in The EMPIRE. The | ' K a=- " EMPIRE regularly winmomon s o atuih site for next year’s annual conven- tion of the American Red Oross. . Red Cross Chairman, Norman Davis, pointed out this will be the | first time the annual conference |of the relief organization has been | | scheduled for the Southern ststes’ | More than 2,000 delegates from all | sections of the courftry will attend. | e ?Former Film Ador “Is'in"Bad Straifs HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Aug. 3.—A once famous film director, Marshall Neilan, was freed ;today from bad check charges by the Supetior'Court. He was arrested several weeks ago on charges of trying to pass a ser- |ies of checks amounting to $100. He said that he had tried to pass them in order to keep up appearances, He {had been out of work for a long HE BUTTED IH Now ga gl BALTTMORE, Aug. 3. = DocwrsA were almost able to embroider a dove of peate on James Gutowski, 81, after’ he sought to wmediate an argument between two brawlers. It ‘requiréd 70 stitches to close 10 knife wounds ‘Gutowski suffered in his peace-making efforts. | AERIAL PICTURES " OF CHANNEL BAR " PIECED TOGETHER publishes more -«want = ads than any other Alaska paper— and reaches MORE readers. That’s why a want-ad in The EM- PIRE will bring you MORE results! Take thie *3 steps to Want- Ad Reésules?™ For Quick : Action Channgl pat, pgg:\»eumi’;he For- |est Service fox Juneau Cham- | ber of Commerce which is attempt- ling to have ‘the chanriel’ dredged, | have been developed and ‘Wil be I fitted together” in ‘s mesaio ' show- ol le ing the area, Assistant' Regional ’ | Forester ~Wellman - Holhrook an- # g |nounced today. | The pictures turned- out ‘well, it - " | was reporteéd. They will be sub- §5 ved | mitted at a hearing which will be j |ordered by the 'War ‘Department. ¥ ——ae U | HERE FROM SEWARD | Fred Naugle, of Seward, recent S ————————— | Arrivi]l here).is‘¥isiting “hik sister; e e | Nrn, T, BRI SO RIS T I the 9 e | White Apartments. Naugle will be S l here indefinitely; 'V Aerial pictures' ot tie uufinenul‘ THh DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 3 1939. Tablet Honors Pioneer Alaskan) NATI. GUARDSMEN ok R EWORY OF ‘msx !s‘ !0, \l,/ c’n unr;n\ Tt T CIMOREE I CITAE NS WHSSE EPRASIS VIS SLECTRY, The .!m\'e cut {§: of thie fablet which will be placed on the Memorial Hospital at Kodiak, honoring the pioneer who passed a 3’%&-’? ffin in Juneau while Secretary of Alaska. MARINE STRIKE ‘POlI(Y DRAFTED B’l COMMUNISTS Impor!anl Evndence Read Info Record at Harry | ;Bndges Hearing SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Aug. 3.— | The statement that Communists drafted the policy of the 1934 mari-| time general strike ‘on the Pamrw-‘ Coast was read into the records at the Harry Bridges' deportation hearing today, but the CIO labor leader declared that the unions themselves drafted the strike strat-| Excerpts from the magazine “Communist” were read by Thomas | Shoemaker, chief of the govern- ment's counsel. One article was Sam D'Arcy, former San Francisco Communist leader, in which he de- | clared the Communist Party drafted the policy and encouraged workers to “forget structure legality” and place the strike program in the hands of a strike committee. | Shoemaker asked Bridges to com- | ment on the article. i Bridges said: “So far as the strat- | egy of that strike was concerned, we handled it. That article was written in July and our strike com- mittee set it up in March. The strategy came out of our group and I had a lot to do with it.” Bridges added that D’Arcy was correct on the results of the strike but 1nconect on the assumption d it. FIS_H[NG POOR N’ SOUTHEAST, AGENT REPORTS Thompson Refurns from Pafrol Trip Aboard | Widgeon A poor salmon ' pack through‘ Southeast Alaska, with the excep-| tion of Ketchikan which has packed about as many cases of | fish as in 1938, was reported to-| day by Seton Thompson, Assistant | Alaska Agent for the Bureau or.‘ Fishéries on his Teturn from a week’s patrol trip to canneries of the district. | Icy Straits is about a third be- hind last year in its pack, thougn it is packing many more reds Lhan‘ usual. The West Coast of Prince of ‘Wales Island ‘also is hdving a POOT year. Thompson made the trip on "‘ei Bureau of Fisheries boat Widgeon. i i BASEBALL TODAY | The' foflcwing are schres of games | played ‘this afternoon in the two| major leagues: * "~National League Boston 1; St Louis 5. Brooklyn' 4; Pittsburgh 1. ‘Philadelphia 6; Chicago 9. Boston 3; St. Louis 4. ' “American ' League Detroit 3; New York 12. Cleveland' 6; Boston 17. 'Chicago 9; Philadelphia 7. ‘Washington 9; St. Louis 5. TREASURER OLSON INDISPOSED AT HOME R Territorial * ’I‘Ms!\lrex‘ Oscar G. Olson has been ordered by his phy- {p at home for a few | sician “31& days. fim "is” indfsposed but not seriously ill. -~ BUILDING, PERMITS Building permits have been is- sued to Victor Crondahl for re- pair of basement and adding plumbing at 615 Kennedy Street at a cost of $250 and to B. M. Krafft for boiler room and heat- ing .work at 234 Second Street at a cost of $1,000. —l NO JEW-ARYAN EXCHANGE BUDA?EST “Aug. 3.—An unoffic~ ial proposal for the partial exchange | of Hungarian Jews for Aryan Hun- garians living in the United States has béen abandoned. The plan first was suggested by | the newspaper Heto and informed quarters sald it never had reached the stage of govemmem considera- tion, | factory | years Bellv to his friend, W. L. Bli - e o 0 0000000 000 . WHAT'S IN A NAME? . » - e AUSTIN, T Aug. 3—Thir-e e teen key dams and 100 small e e earthen dams are to be built ® e by the government on the Bra- e zos River and its tribuaries, o largely as WPA projects. The @ e first dam is to be located on ® e Harmony Creek. . e e e e 000000000 e PRIZE MULES BRAYIKG WITH FRENCH ACCENT New Importation from Ov- erseas Making Good in Wesfern Area STILLWATER, Okla., Aug. 3 Whén an Oklahoma mule wins a championship at the Missouri State Fair (where the Mi like sterling on silver) there’s a story behind it. It’s a sort of love story, with curly- haired Poitou, a French jack, the hero. He is revolutionizing the Okla- homa mule business American jack breeders were well| aware of the superior qualities of | the Poitou jacks of southern France. | But French jacks hadn’t been satis- in this nation and besides | the French breeders weren't anxious to establish competitors. So, for 50, scarcely a jack had been brought over Then Tomas E. Berry, nephew of Oklahoma’s lieutenant governor, dis- | covered there was fun in the mule | business. id ard, now dean of agriculture at Okla- homa A. & M. college, who was go- “Pick me up a good jack ling to Europe in 1937 to buy horses and sheep for the college herds. “Get me a Poitou.” It was a hope, more than an or- der, but in France, Blizzard did |see a good Poitou and bought it. His judgment was excellent, for the animal had plenty of stamina to cross the ocean and to thrive on the Oklahoma mule farm of Berry and his partner, Jim Arrington. Most important, the curly-haired one caught the eye of the sleek fe- males of the Berry herds. Now Berry has American stock | that carries the French charac istics of Poitou. Important amor these is unustual weight. Poitou’s| offspring weigh around 1,150 pounds and stand more than 16 hands That's a lot of mule. The feet are| large, round and dense in texture, a big asset for farm animals. These are the reasons Poitou’s offspring are winning blue ribbons not only in Missouri but also in nearly all of | the nation’s important stock shows. All this war talk, says Berry, makes the jack business good. For | jacks bred to mares produce mules -=and the mule supply is low because foreign governments have been buy- ing them up for military use. BULLETS MISS-KILL SACRAMENTO, Cal, Aug. 3— |Even when a hu-iter ¢ shot misses a wild duck it may kill it, Reports to the division of fish and game show that much game dies of poisoning, as a result of eat- ing spent shot from the soil. = B 5 Try The Empire classifieds for results. | i A HI T—With e]llslveyl';;c;s she stopped the show.” Thus one critic hailed : Carmen Wijranda ouri stamp is |, ed, DISARM DEPUTIES ! ' IN COL. DAM STRIFE ‘ Move Made This Afternoon on More than 200 Special Sheriffs GREEN MOUNTAIN DAM, Colo-| rado, Aug. 3.—National Guardsmen moved in upon Green Mountain Dam shortly after:2 o'clock this afternoon and disarmed more than two hundred spgcial deputy sher- iffs at this hub of labor strife zone, where six persons were wounded: by Lullets and a sever beaten when the dam Federal Reclamation proj- ect workers struck July 12. Five unions demanded the contracto Warner Brothers of Chicago, to de: ignate them as bargaining agents. Some laborers forced their way through the picket lines on Wednes- day and returned to work. Backed by citizens of neighboring towns, union supporters of Denver moved in last night and opposing forces clashed in two gun battles. - SPE A AT Rare Flsh Taken | By Juneau Halibut Boai | A strange fish Juneau yesterday T and o )unl ght to e hali- was buter Ocganic, inv tion by Assistant Ala Agen’ the Bureau of Fisheri Seton was found to be one cf the North Pa-! Thempson, the rarest fish of cific. As to what the fish is, in com- men parlance, Thompson said one could not say “because the fish isn't common.” cientifically, it is known as a rora, probab the silenus Jorddn branch. Only two speci- mens have been reported before, I hompson said, both specimens ken from Nanaimo Harbor on | Vancouver Island, one of the speci- mens now being preserved in the Provincial Museum at Victoria. The strange denizen of the deep ken in 100 fathoms of water about 25 miles southeast of Cape Spencer. It is approximately three feet long, five inches thick, and about eleven inches deep, shapad much like a salmon insofar as the darkly spotted body is concerned. The caudal fin (tail) is spotted on a lighter background and is round- °d at the tips. The fin, behind the small gills are round and perhaps five inches across. The dorsal fin reaches from the nape to the tail as on an eel. The head, ‘most striking charac- c of the fish, is blunt, rouad- nd supplied with heavily bon lips and jaws apparently for crush- ing shell fish As it is the first taken in A specimen specimen ever a, and the third such record anywhere, on Thompson has asked that the fish be preserved until he can get a suitable museum jar for picklin" WESTERN ROUTE FOR HIGHWAY 15 FAVORED HERE Much Good Though, Is Consensus Here The Juneau Chamber of Com- merce went on record today as being in favor of the most westerly route for the proposed Alaska In- ternational Highway, but serious doubt that the road would ever benefit Southeast Alaska was ex-| pressed at the meeting. f C., Board of Trade that Juneau contribute toward the printing of || a booklet promoting the western!| highway route was turned down by vote of the Chamber member- ship. Arguments for the western route | were set forth today by Norman, Banfield, Chairman of a local com- | mittee on the International High-| way. Briefs prepared by ‘the Haz-| elton and Vancouver Boards of| Trade were quoted. — - ARCHITECTS TO RETURN TODAY; ABOARD ELECTRA| Chief Landscape Architect of the‘ U. S. Forest Service, E. E. Walker, and Assistant = Architect with the Regional office here, Lynn A. For- rest, are both due in Juneau this afterncon by PAA plane. | The two Forest Service men have been making a survey of recrea- tional possibilities through the Westward and Interior for the past several days. | B | ODD FELLOWS ATTENTION Regular meeting of Silver Bow | Lodge No. A 2 T.OOF. this eve-| ning at 7:30, Odd Fellows Hall. In- stallation of officers. A special in- vitation to visiting members. Lunch (above), Brazilian who'sstarring in a Broadway revue, “Etrects of Paris.” 1adv. v 5 1 Probably Won't Do Juneau A request from the Stewart, B.[] will be served. CLIFTON K. TISDALE, Noble Grand. U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U.S. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and Vicinity, beginning at 3:30 p.m., Aug. 3: Rain tonight, Friday cloudy, with showers; moderate southeast winds. 4 Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Rain tonight, showers; moderate southeast winds, except trance, Clarence Strait, Chatham Strait, Forecast of ds along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Fresh southeast winds tonight and Friday from Dixon Entrance u’, Dry Bay and moderate to fresh east wind from Dry Bay to Cape Hinchinbrook. Friday cloudy, fresh over Dixon and Lynn Canal. with En- LOCAL DATA Time Barometer: Temb. Humidity Wind Velocity Weather 3:30 pm. yest'y . 80.09 51 81 SE 12 Lt: Rain 3:30 am. today .. 29.83 58 85 EE 18 Lt. Driszle Noon today 29.75 59 .. RAE. 13 Lt. Rain RADIO REPORTS TODAY Max. tempt. Lowest 3:30am. Precip. 3:30am. Station last 24 hours | temp. temp., 24 hours Weathzr Anchorage 63 | 50 51 .06 Cloudy Barrow 42 31 31 0 Fog Nome 65 50 51 03 Pt. Cldy Bethel 64 48 49 T Clear Fairbanks 70 | 41 41 by Clear Dawson 59 42 43 91 Clear St. Paul ........... 51 43 45 0 Clotidy Dutch Harbor .. 50 39 39 20 Clear Kodiak ... 46 6 22 Cloudy Cordova . . B4 41 49 169 Cloudy Juneau 61 3 8 L11 Lt Drizzle Sitka 62 54 2.89 Ketchikan .63 55 56 22 Fog Prince Rupert .. 71 53 54 0 Clear Edmonton m 4 48 0 Clear Seattle 85 54 4g ‘o ' Clear Portland 100 65 66 0 Ciear San Francisco . 62 57 57 0 Cloudy WEATHER SYNOPSIS Low baromeisic pressure continued this morning over the north- eastern portion of the North Pacific Ocean, the lowest reported pressure being 29.58 inches a short distance north ef Kodiak Island. High barometric pressure prevailed over Alberta. This general pres- sure distribution has "béen atténd-d by precipitation along the coast- al regions from the Alaska Peninsula southeastward to Dixon En- trance, also over the ‘Tanana and upper Yukon Valley, and hy generally fdir weather over the remainder of the field of obser- vation. Juneau, August 4.—Sunrise, 3:56 a.m 5 IT'S TIME TO CHANGE YOUR THINNED - OUT LUBRICANTS! CONNORS MOTOR COMPANY PHONE 411 Hollywood Sights Axd Sounds By Boblin Coesn HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Aug. 3.—Personal to.an Irish doorman who used to work at Paramount’s Long Island studios: Producer Joe Pasternak would like to say “Thank you"—and I imagine Deanna Durbin might chime in. Maybe you've forgotien, but one day you Joe was a slight, gave Joe some advice. sandy-haired youth of 21 then, and gmovie- struck. He hung around the front gate, and you maybe got tired of seeing him, or maybe just liked him. You said, “Go in the back w: son, and THEN go up front.” T guess you know Joe followed that tip. Maybe Joe told you how he'd come to New York from a little town in Hungary when he was 19, a town so small Joe had seen only one movie in his life. Joe discovered movies in America. As a cafeteria busboy he couldn’'t see many movies, but he made deals with Broadway ushers. Doughnuts and coffee in exchange for free tickets. He saw “The Miracle Man” 19 times. Anyway, Joe got in the “back way.” He became a bus boy, later a waiter, in the Paramount commissary. He was so cheer- ful (and he still is) that people noticed him., One day Allan Dwan, who was directing Gloria Swanson, looked so grumpy over his lunch that Joe chided him. Allan and his assistant, Dick Rosson (the man who recently visited Nazi Germany); used to kid Joe about acting, but in the end Dwan took him on. Joe acted—something awful. He really wanted to direct, so Dwan made him an assistant cameraman. ‘When the studio closed, Joe was an assistant director. Maybe you don’t know what happened to Joe when he left Long Island. Out hgre, he found another chap, also broke “Come and Get I¥* Has a Speeial Meanmg Tasty food, efficient service and an atmosphere iruly home-like sound the old call of “Come and Get I .. (Billy Wilkerson, now publisher, of a movie trade daily). * Prac- 77 tically on promises dfiey made a movie with El Brendel. “Wesley - Ruggles saw it, made Joe his assistant at Universal. In 1928 Uncle Carl Laemmle sent Joe to Europe. Joe didn’t get back until 1936—after Uncle Carl had sold .the studio. A hangover from an old, regime doesn’t rate with the new. Joe sat . around until they gave him a modest “B” film to do. He had brought back with' him a young director named Henry Koster. Joe and Henry went to work, and the modest “B” turned into “Three Smart Girls” and put Pasternak and Koster and Durbin on top. f You'd find Joe an odd fellow—for a producer. He always has time to see people. He is sentimental about America as about people. Nowhere but in America could he have made his success story. His formula: (1) Luck, (2) Patience, (3) Back up luck and patience. He likes to give opportunities to “new people’—partly because he remembers he was “new” once. In Durbin’s “First Love” now he has Robert Stack and Lewis Howard, leading men in their first film. He also has Leatrice Joy, persuaded to leave her re- tirement. He got Durbin too. But he flatly says Koster deserves all the credit for her stardom. His formula for good pictures: many people, preferably friends, all working together—hard. Anyway, old Irish doorman, Joe would like to see YOU. ————