The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 28, 1939, Page 2

RADIO BALLOON WEATHER MEN HERE FOR DUTY RadiO»Sonde Process Ex- plained by New Juneauites about two hour ba go as high to go. about 15 miles into the in wintertime ‘is fr miles above the tor the stratosphere is Hig 15 to 16 miles Wheni the balloén bursts strument is floated b by a parachute. Here's wi touch lightly on farmer ters At sasser loon to was hich here ) seve: stratosphere Oklahoma City about 80 percent struments are picked up turned to the Wedther The most distant one turned was sent in fror ay. But of all the returned to the Bure has been one whic parachute. The rea rachute is made Bureau. be r m 380 miles instrun there hore u that brilliant N of red ‘Mar farmer's dau ys Kleinsasser, red silk panties \h Ok expensive only 39 cents a ) Reward Offered is red the from RussO »f them to h The silk truments can be distance. Klein: don’t expect very many be found in Alaska ward is paid anyone sendi instrument back to the Wes Bureau. The company which 1 factures the instruments some of the parts ov Three signals ar nt out by ascending instrument. One tells the temperature story, one obout the pressure and fhe other about dity. When the balloon i to earth, the three pitch as the first the song “America,” pens to be that way arranged as a patriotic the balloon gets perature drops, pressure and humidity varies s the radio isn't sending long. It so tha A ca re- an ather the close are three It am notes of just hap- and wasn't gesture. A: cou ir My get to the ob- the sigrals Besides bmm audibile server on the ground, are being recorded at the same time by means of a photo cell and electric eye on a piece graph paper. Marks which an ir bar makes on the slowly moving paper show the temperature. midity and pressure at frequent| intervals. From these readings, the observer can compute the 'altitude of the balloon by means of a ther-! modynamic diagram | Automotive Static There are other ma paper too. Strays, they by radio interference mobile motors. A coaxial cable in from the aerial Building roof to sonde ' instrument ctric of the made auto- s on are m is used as a lead- on the Federal the new radio- reom on ‘the UYALDE SAGE_1f vice President John Garner, “Cac- tus Jack” to his fellow-Texans, chooses to seek the 1940 Démo- cratic nomination, he may de- nt mh campaign, | course covered sheath ogen for reason cable i ight copper joned with nit The 0se: ind Tow must b 8 f pre- The lead-in mus Weather Bureau s it will recive? much.” Weather more and m ion ely to k. If there trasting Juneau will be what upp air ve them ed in Forecasis J Thomp- the ist Howard e clues from in mak ballocns ill be ght cx cept in weather put the missior think pitious which would ut of com- Kleinsasser be of their wind of the equip- this week and Russo are living stineau Hotel. Kleinsas- staying in e Russo | case cond ins Ru naybe ar suld not pro- bol- it time being Chicago. a sim- o stat at Fair to go threugh westbound Schaad of il fon bar Juneau steamer expected > TRAP WATCHMAN 1S FINED $150; FIRM SEEKS NEW TRIAL trial was filed this afternoon by Robertson for the almon Corporation, by jury fishing its the weekly Motion for a in District Court Attorney R E Alaska Pacific which wgs found guilty fay jof illegally Bay trap during closed period A. J. Bebean, trap watchman, who was also convicted, was sentenced by Judge George F. Alexander to 60 days in Jail and a $150 fine, the jail term to be suspended if the fine is |mn promptly - " BOB BARTLETT 10 ATTEND ANCHORAGE HEARINGS OF CAA E. (Bob) new Secretary of Alaska Bartlett sailed on the steamer Mount McKinley to represent Gov. John W. Troy at the Civil Aeronau- tics Authority hearings to be held at Anchorage. He will extend his travels to Pal- mer and Fairbanks, his former home. GRAND, PETIT JURY PANELS ARE DRAWN A jury panel list for the Grand Jury and Petit Jury which will meet | at Ketchikan next month was drawn today by Clerk of the District Court Robert Coughlin. e Miss Housel Has Vemson Dinner El.\mvr Housel entertained at the family cabin Highway with a Miss last evening on Glacier son dinner Twelve guests and the playing game; of the was spent | n¢ing parto venin: in and d PARTY LINE—His pro- tests (as of March 22) **4i he's not a candidate for presidential nomination haven't Guieted a ild-up for Sen. Arthur H. adverse | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1939 MOVED IN WITH WIDOW, CHARGE AGAINST NATIVE Pefer Loie Br Brough! Here on Manslaughter and New Count Bird Hobbyist Says Flight \South Is Begun Jim O'Neil, [nnp'vwlm' of the Baranof Cigar Stand, reports the southerly migration of waterfowl has begun. O'Neil, whose hobby gy, said he saw a | pintails yesterday on the Ihall Flats that were j northern birds.” O'Neil is ornitholo- flight of 15 Menden- “definitely also re- Peter Louie, bound over to the|ported secing a few teal and shorp G slaughter death at Yakutat will have another charge filed against him, Assistant U. S. Attor- ney Geotrge W. Folta announced ! today. The new cha the fact, claimed by authoriti that Louie living with Georg: widow since the tragedy and w: |in bed with her when he was a | rested at Yakutat on Saturday by Deputy U. 8. Marshal Vic Ross. Louis was brought here on the Columbia by Foss, who arrested the Native on a District Coust bench warrant after he failed to appear in Juneau as he promised when he | was released on his personal recog- nizance. George died after a fight with Louie, but an autopsy performed on and Jury on a charge of man- of Fred George, is the body here brought a report from | the examining physician that death |had ‘been due to a heart attack. - TIME EXTENDED FOR FILING BRIEFS IN MINERAL TAX SUIT Due to the illness of Attorney General James 8. Truitt, the ‘Ter< ritory has been given an extension of time in which to file a brief in the Feurth Division Court where legality of the Territorial gold tax is being contested. The Attorney General now has until September 15 to submit his brief. Mr. Truitt is reported to be recovering steadily at his home at the Baranef; Hotel R in connection with the| rge is occasioned by | were not local fowl. BRSSP0 | bir ds that MISS WHITE IS BRIDE - ELECT OF REX SUNDERLAND Ceremony 1y Will Be Per-| formed at Northern Light Presbyterian The engagement of Miss Mar- garet White, Civil Service nurse at the Government Hospital, and Mr. Rex G. Sunderland, electri- cian for the Alaska Juneau Mining Compaily today. A wedding service at will be held at the Northern Light Presbyterian Church o the morn- ing of September 10. Miss White came several months ago Mont., and since her arrival has made many friends. Mr. Sunder- land has been a Tresident of the Capital City for the past two and cne-half having come here from Edmonton, Albert -ro ALEX 10 SITKA; SHELL TO ATLIN of Marine | to this from Saco, While Alex H()I(l(‘n. NATIVE ARRESTED AS BURGLAR, AXE ASSAILANT HERE mre. 5 Accused of breaking into the Ju- neau home of Ed Dowling and as saulting the 8l-year-old man with |an axe in an attempt at robbery | Sam Jackson, native, ‘was arrested | yesterday morning by City Police. A charge of burglary has been placed dgainst him by the Di Attorney’s office. Jackson is also | accused of burglarizing thé cabin of Jom Howard, native. NATURALISTS IN FROM THE BRUSH Out of the brush for only the sec- ond time in 26 days, Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Quick of Philadelphia in- terrupted their “camping out” to come to town today. The couple, who term themselves “amateur botanists, ichthyologists, mammalogists and ornithologists” are leaving the Juneau district in about ‘a week to go to Skagway. 2 SE B A e TRAVELING MEN END CRUISE ON TRITON J. J. Meherin and N. A. McEchran, well known merchandise brokets, returned to Juneau today aboard Meherin’s boat Triton. The two have been cruising West ,Coml towns for several days. - WILLIAMS RETURNS veni- | District Engineer M. D. Williams of the Public Roads Administration ret umed from Skagwa- N—How Post- Tits In!o 1940 jigsaw, may some ddy answer. Farley is thought op- poséd to third term bid, is be- tieved a potential nomineg, STAM master J i r Airways, flew to Sitka tod. Shell Simmons of Alaska Air Transport, | flew to Atlin, in British Columbia. | Holden ' flew G. R. Anderson to| Jacobs to Sitka, and rank ‘Wright to Hoonah. Smmmn.\ todk Robert Schoettler and Jm-'lnv Heaton to At - Donald Williams Returning Home Donald G. Williams, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Williams is returning here tomorrow for a visit ! with 'his parents. He has spent the | past few ''years in where he studied commercial art and advertising lay-out work, and in which city he was employed by the Dayton Com]}an\' | CANNERY OFFICIAL FLIES TO JUNEAU Frank Wright, Superintendent of the Icy Straits Packing Company flew to town over’ the weekend, with a poor season behind him Wright said the company packed but around 30,000 cases, compared with the year's normal canning of somewhere around 45,000 cases. Expecting to stay here until fish- eries hearings are completed, Wright is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. .- SHERIFF SAIL Sheriff L. D. Divelbess of Nava- jo County, Ariz., left on the Co- lumbia last night to return Larry Harmbsch '.o face charges of issu- mg worthles: checks wi LL'NC—“No sensible man ‘could be eager” for the presidency, wrote Sen. Robert Faft of Ohio, son of a president, wnnouncing his bid for the 1940 , nomination, Gold | . MEN EMERGE, was revealed here | 9:15 o'clock | has been chosén by the couple and | city Minrieapolis, | | to her home in Juneau. French Plan For Peace s Turned Dow Hitler Saysfio” fo Pro- ' posal Submitted by Pre- mier Daladier ieds bring results | Empire cla lone of the strangest printed. Its eloquence rivalled any- thing the German Chancellor ever wrote or said. It marked Hitler's last attempt to persuade France to | remain neutral and let Germany {settle her quarrel with Poland. He | served clear motice that Germany ! will not negotiate with Poland. He |cited the offer Germany made to | Poland for the return of Danzig and | reproved the Poles for not taking i advantage of it. -oo—— PARK SERVICE letters ever GLACIER BAY Find Regioh 'Inrlriguing—To Recommend Tourist Development Terming the “glacial Glacier Bay National “tremendously intriguir Been, Superintendent of \‘lvul, Kinley National Pa and Earl A Trager, Chief of the Naturalists Division of the National Park Serv- jce, returned yesterday from month’s sojourn at Glacier Bay, Been and Trager have been study- ing the possibilities for extending tourist development in the recéntly enlarged monument They been using the Fore ' Ranger VI for the Both Been and Trager on the steamer Aleutian tomorrow | for the Westward and Interior, | where their destination is the park Trager is from Washington. - TO CANNERY story” of Monument Frank T 1t M- Mr. and Mrs. Odin Klatt 1d children flew out to Hawk Inlet yes- terday where Klatt will be win watchman for the P. E. Har nery. The Marlent Klatt children, Nadine and also went along. > NORDLING HOM MRS. EBOU Accompanied by her son ahd daughter, Rodney and Betty, Mrs Homer Nordling left Seattle on the Aleutian, returning to their home in this city. They have been in the states for the past few weeks. .- HAGERTYS ON ALEUTIAN Mrs. D. W. Hagerty is a passengi on the steamer Aleutian returning She is ac- children, companied by her two Sharon and Donald. - - - HUSBAND WITH CHILDRE YESTERDAY Mrs. R. J. Gleason and children, came north yesterday, joining Mr. Gleason here, who flew from Fair- banks Saturday with PAA. Gleason is Communications Sup- erintendent with Pacific ~ Alaska Airways. JOINS BACK FOR SCHOOL Thea Hanson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Magnus Hanson, is coming home on the Aleutian and will re- sume her studies at the Juneau Public School next, month. THE AIR, ME T MIDWESTERNER «—In his own right, Sen. Bennett Champ Clark, Missouri Demo- crat, commands attention from forecasters. ~His father ‘was Champ Clark, speaker of house, will leave ' on their way | ways Will Protect Panama (anal WASHINGTON, Aug. Tt Uuuvd States Army announced tc- & l\.l’(l men and (lth will Mac- md 28 officers Artille: aid September from Fori Arthur, California, *for the Par Canal zone. the first contingent to be so moved since Cons au- thorized strengthening of the zone's defense forces by more than 7,000 to 24,000, of the anti-air P) - RUSSIA IS GOMG T0 HELP GERMANY BERLIN, Aug. 28.—Russia will sist Germany with oil, wheat, raw material and lumber under the new | trade treaty. The terms were an- nounced this morning. Russia during the first year will use one hundred and twenty mil- lion of the two hundred million mark credit granted by Germany.! Most of it will be in electrical goods. chemical preduets and enginecring equipment. - o> HAS PRAISE FOR U. 5. PRESIDENT WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 A mes- sage from President Navaroz of Ecu- aising President Roosevelt's policy was made public to- he head of the South Amer- aid that his nation ent Roosevelt in his a peaceful settlement - LEAVE EURORE, IS | URGE ON NIPPONS (YO, Aug. 28.—Japanese em- have been instructed to ad- Al Nipponese to quit Europe diately and return home. <> Missions of Brifish, | Frenchon Way Home HELSINGFORS. The British and French Mili- Missions arrived here Sunday home from Moscow members of the millions will d by water ave going ‘]\uu h Germany by land R HARDWARE MAN IN Charles Black, of Seattle ware, fl in from Fairbanks aboard the Pacific Ala: aturday afternoon trip through the Interior guest at the Baranof Hotel. - R BLACK MA ACTURING MAN J. C. Black, of the Black Manu- facturing Company, well known othing manufacturers, is visiting in Juneau, a guest at the Baranof Hotel. Black flew to Juheau from Fairbanks with Pacific Alaska Air- Saturday afternoon. - BANK ACCOUNT A bank account of $800 in the Seattle-First National Bank is part of the estate left by James Joseph (Jack) Ross, 24, Juneau miner who drowned in the Fortymile River re- cently, the Marshal’s office here was informed today. Ross has a father living at Tvon Rerieo, Michigan. [ -~ | LEGION TONIGHT weekly meeting ford Jnl\n Bradford Post American Legion will be night at 8 o'clock ‘u. the day. ican Republic backed Pre demands_for mn inland Aug ry The to id ter a business He is a Al- | of the held to- Ilu‘ »\1; of ! we | visit here. OF AGRIC RE. WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Burcau) nity, beginning at $:30 pam., Aug. 28. probaly with 'showers, ' cdoler Tiies- Forecast for Jpneau and v —_Fair tonight, Tuesday cloudy, day; aitle to moderate southerly winds. Forccast for Southeast Alaska: Fair probably with showers, cooler Tuesday; gentle to moderate southerly increasing Tuesday over Lynn Canal, Chatham, Strait, C! ence Str and Dixon Entrance, becoming moderate to fresh. Fore of winds along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Increasing southerly winds tonight from Dixon Entrance to Salis- bury Sound, becoming moderate to fresh Tuesday. Moderate to fresh east and southeast winds tonight and Tue sday from Salisbury Sound to Cape Hinchinbrook. LOCAL DATA parometer Temb Humidity wina Velecity 30.03 59 64 S 2 50 90 Calm 0 64 58 WNW 15 RADIO REPORTS tonight, Tuesday cloudy, winds. st Weather Cloudy Cloudy Pt. Cldy Time 3:30 pm 3:30 am Noon yest'y today today TODAY 3:30a.m. Precip. 3:30am. temp. 24 hours Weather 49 10 Rain 0 Cloudy 21 Cloudy 36 Cloudy Cloudy Fog Cloudy Cloudy Rain Cloudy Lowest * temp. 49 34 48 45 42 40 46 417 48 48 47 47 46 | 42 | 55 | 54 57 Max. tempt. last 24 hours 57 36 55 54 61 Station Anchorage Barrow Nome Bethel Fairbanks Dawson Dutch Harbor Kodiak Cordova Juneau Sitka Ketchikan Prince Rupert Edmonton Seattle Portland San Francisco . 66 i WEATHER NOPSIs The barometric pressure was below normal this morning through=- Alaska and over the northeastern portion of the Gulf of Alaska being two centers, one over the Norton Sound dnd another the southern portion of the Gulf of Alaska. This general. pres- ure distribution has b attended by unsettled and shower weather over the western portioh of Alaska,and by generally fair weather over Southeast Alaska. Juneau, August 29.—Sunrise, NORWAY A(TS 0 Clear Cloudy Pt. Cldy Clear Rain _Clear out there over 4:51 am,; sunset, 7: 10 p.am. UKE oOF WINDSOR T0 SERVE COUNTRY called UD | pARIS, Aug. 28—The Duke of AY. Windsor, it is announced from Cap d'Antibes, will return to England in event of war and join up by suming any post tHat is assigned to him, is the xcpom muwd here. MARTIAl LAW BUCHAREST, Aug. 28. The Prime Minister tonight, by a special Parliament” Act, was empowered to declare martial law throughout Hungary ‘Dewey for Presudenl SHEBOYGAN, Wis, Aug. 28. New York District Attorney Dewes is promised the support of Young Wisconsin Republicans if he makes the 1940 presidential race. The Because of the acute fire _\mm_‘,\'mmg voters met between sessions 3 ¢ =t Regiongy 0f the convention i Sheboygan. ot g o e Mie. | Leaders of the Dewey For President Fiscal Ag e % X soula, Montana, has postponed for TOveme nt said that they hope a month his trip to Alaska to audit form a statewide organization to at- G tempt to elevate the prosecutor to TRl e i(_fu’m\ the position of chief executive. .- AS “";": B Kol BIRD HOBBYIST Mrs. A. C. Frehe, sister of iss § g 5 Deborah Pentz of Juneau, is mak- B30:"‘;nG;}1‘:&“’%‘:};{"‘:;‘::chglmf‘f:_‘ ing the Skagway-Sitka-Seattle trip P S v on the ale&\nLlcr Yukon following & Dest: this crning: on the steamer Yukon from Skagway and is a guest BRSR at thHe Hotel Juneau while he re- 1 7 | mains in Juneau for a few days. CUSTOME JOURNEY Gillette is a collaborator with the Collector of Customs J. J. €Con- Bijological Survey. hors and Deputy Merv Sides passed | B QAU G through Juneau during the early WINDHAM BAY PIONEER morning Hours enroute from Skag- COMES IN FOR VISIT way to Sitka on the steamer Yu- = kon for a routine port inspection. B. W. Yates, pioneer Windham R 5 T ‘Bay resident, is in town visiting STERLING ON TRIP | ola friends and making arrange- Assistant Chief Engineer Hawley | ments for improved docking facili- Sterling of the Alaska Road Com- ties at the well known old miniag missioner left on the steamer Mount | camp. McKinley for Valdez and a road| Yates expects to return to his administration trip over the Rich- windham home next Wednesday on ardson ngh\my | the Dart. OSLO, Aug. 28. two classes of Naval Reserv Simultaneonsly the N State Council banned all from Norway. The Council also de- clared a ban on the sailing of Nor- ian ships to foreign ports. - o BRITISH CABINET MAY BE CHANGED ~Tt is believed Chamberlain anization LONDON, Aug 28. that Prime Minister is about to effe of his aid that the Cabinet will be reformed to include the lead- ers of the Liberal and Laabor par- ties. AUDIT POSTPOX NTIONING POSSIBlE (ANDIDATES e : o BARITONE_Republicans point with pride to the racket- smashing record of N. Y. District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey, who photographs and sings well. He came from Owosso, Mich, T I CKET?—Entry of New, York’s outspoken Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia into the presidential race isn't impossible. The pudgy “Little Flower” has mvpomn in several ;smn HOOSIER—Could Paul V. McNutt, Indiana Democrat, have been in F.D.R.'s mind when he spoke ‘of l “dozen charming young men" classifiable as po- tential -presidential candidates?