The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 30, 1939, Page 2

WORKER-GENERAL: Up from ihe ranks of non-military workingmen came Klementi Efre- movich Voroshiloff. He acquired oratorical powers during his revolutionary days, and as war commissar likes to harangue the soldiers of the Red army. He directed army during its in- asion of Poland. demonst-ation at Leating. By the AP Feature Service The smaller armies of I tries are commanded soldiers’ from mili gigantic army of the country is commanded who' leatned his soldier was thrown into it ¢ field. Until' then he mineboy, shepherd {: factory-Hand, revolution many-times political prisoner. 141 KN"I‘V\\ l Voroshiloff Russia's pr on the continent of in no small measure t vinced tk Reéd R pect, a of a capitalist power powers, Vdroshiloff orga eral staff, mechanized buflt a large such novel mi chitte infantry Well-built, powerfu astride his horse, easy >} cheerful, and handsome eyes, “Klim come Born in 1 railway sv at 7, ea mine. At farm-laborer ahd led by the police to get another er cou car school world’s 1a by a © g when he battl - WAY T0 STATES Says Alaska Can Look For-| ward to Decade of Development the had been m - laborer I‘mv ! free lance writer, in cner, time uska that began with a | tour of half that time. who won an infamous se for his Cosmopolitan year labelling Alaska ; man’s paradise, proudly dishonorable” . Nome Chamber of while in that city this projecte: Hilscher litary ideas t of of la; lookin werce ill - received astic report of 2 politan may have beer Alaskans can 1ook ears of boom un- naintain: . rward to ten thought of am of rarade Northwest Alask has become s newest dream of Terri- While taking in the a-and-north coun- er, Hilscher said he reat mining develop- " of much great- the arres P tions of Russian r him info a Generally cons commander 10 e m € Kougarok is Hilscher RADICAI.' 'Klim" Voroshiloff's political career began when he was only 15. During a labor tory where he worked, he resist- ed a police officer, received a wmrmuuscum b - STOPPING OFF ON ::':;: B s condemned as the procedure voted by mittee, Senate will be sped to the joint Commit-|the heaviest for a similar period in THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, OCT. 30, 1939. ized & Red a metal fac. Verdun." added to the fun of the evening. Arrangements for the affair were | nder the supervision of Miss Caro- sisting during the evening were Mrs. | | Josephine Spickett, Mrs. Mae Kil- | roy, Mts. O. P. Jenne and Mrs. Lueue Sibley. The money derived from the dance | will be devoted towards a fund for | the purpose of helping some zxrl obtain a college education or train- | ing in some business or poncssmnaI line, -, . HOUSE PLANNING QUICK ACTION ON NEUTRALITY BILL Rules Committee Frames Up "Gag Rule” Pro- cedure, Is Claim WASHINGTON, Oct. 30. — The| Rules Committee has outlined for| the House in comsideration of . the Administration’s neutrality bill a course of parliamentary procedure the “gag rule” by Representatives opposing the re- peal of the arms embargo. If the House itself approved of the com- | whiech the one 'month, the: bill struggled over for House and of the Senate, pos- | DEFENDER: At Stalingrad), Voroshiloff organ- army against the White counter-revolutionaries, held them off for a year, gave Tsaritzyn a reputation as a "'red TOP MAN mili man politically, orders from no Tsaritzyn (now rom the school WEEI(END STORM BOOSTS JUNEAU RAINFALL TOTAL 1939 Almost tertain fo Go Down in Records as Wettest Year weekend st which lashed Junm\u and vicinity with strong winds, dropped several trees across the Glacier Highway and left a \numbcx of small boats high and t Auk Bay, also added several “,(m.\ of rainfall to the 1939 total which ncw appears, almost to be the largest of all time here The east-southeast wing blew all (Satutday night and Sugflay morn- ] ing, reaching a maximum s tained velocity of 33 miles per hour over a five minute period at 7:45 o'clock yesterday mornipg. At- noon today the precipitation for the month stood at 18.39 inches, the third heaviest for any October With rain forecast for d8fght and tomorrow, the total at the end of the month tomorrow midnight is expected to be great than the all-time October record of 18.71 inches, Heaviest Rainfall Ever Total precipitation for the year, certain | . Limestcne Inlet, funly, as Joseph Stalin is’ top Voroshiloff is reputed to take one but Stalin. They are old friends and comrades, both having graduated of revolutionary hard-knocks. Russia's No. | general and Russia’s No. | po- “-co are ceen above fe!e a- Ve’e. DU(I( HUNTERS Two little parties of duck hunt rs went ahunting—one got thcxc nd the other did not. Both got a| good shaking up. The halibut boat Hyperien, Capt.| Oscar Oberg, battled its way dewn | to Sumdum in a heavy storm that Oberg admits was “the worst” he | had experienced. The vessel Wanderer, Capt. Kell Larsson, with less power than the Hyperien, put in at Taku Harbor | { | seas for two hours from Point Ar- den to Grave Peint. On the Hyperien were Lyle He- bert, Holly Triplette, John Young, Verne Soley, Ruseell Hermann, My- ron Christie and Steve i They had “good shocting” after a difficult landing in surf at Sum- dum. On the Wanderer were Dr. W. P. Blnnton Dr. C. C. Carter, A. B. ertson, k, Olaus Larsson and Bob Hen- | ning. They had “a little shooting” at south of T: | Sunday - e e {DON CLARK BURNED SUNDAY WHEN GA3 HIT BAD SEAS Stevenson. | Phil Ly-| a short distance | aku Harbor at midday | gonned a gridiron uniform since | the | PELICAN CITY STILL GROWS AT LISIANSKI New Town Will Boast Big | Marine Ways, Shops for Next Year ter has not slowed at the site of the se in Lisianski » Charles ainon, President cf the company, | vhe came to Juncan nid on his beat Peli | company's bookkeeper, nd. Raatikainen Advance of wir ”cr:!rur’k‘n WOl Pelican | nlet, n with the Bob DeArm- said about twenty men are working on the project| ow, and a new shipment of build- ing material is due in a few days. Latest development of Pelican | Ccity, which now boasts several per-| | manent families and fourteen chil- | Arvo Wahto, is the organization of |a group of lczal and outside residents | rine ways and machine shop. velopment, which has no connection with the cold storage company, is expected to be built before next sea- son and will accommedate vesséls up to one hundrd feet in length. With building work still on the increase, the company has added a new planer and cther additional mill equipment to meet lumber demands. Raatikainen and DeArmand will | | be in Juneau for & few days on bus- iness before returning to Lisianski ki qrigiagl fou gk FORMER OREGON FOOTBALL STAR Lined Up for Gold Bowl Gridiron Battlers | | | | | Joe Campbell, |days of the famjous 1932 MCcEwen coaching era, will be in the starting line-up for the Baranof Bears when | | that team takes the field on Thanks- | |giving Day against the Sourdoughs |in Juneau's first annual Gold Bowl| football game. Joe, who has not| leaving Oregon, reported to | Bears® coach, Conrad Puhr, over the week-end The fleet-footed Oregon player is well equipped for the forthcoming | fray as he has a wealth of football in' the Raati- cvar thesweek-= | iren in jts Territorial school under | the purpose of installing a ma- | This new unit of Pelican’s de-| ~ WILL PLAY HERE for the night after fighting head on | Practice Schedule Is Now | | orilliant Univer- | |sity of Oregon backfield man in the | THE W Light rain tonight, Tuesday. Moderate crate to fresh tonight. degrees. afternoon, except light snow to along the Canadian border; rain Chatham Increasing southerly winds over gales tonight in the vicinity of Tuesday. | Tuesday; ccming northerly Tuesday; from ‘Time 3:30 p.m. yesty :30 a.m. today Noon today Barometer 30.00 30.31 30.07 Temb. 46 37 39 Max. tempt. Station last 24 houre Anchorage Barrow Nome Bethel Fairbanks 2 Dutch Harbor . Kodiak .. Cordova Juneaw . Sitka Ketchikan Seattle Portland San Francisco | the state of Idaho to Southeast of the Alaska Perlinsula near lowest reported pressure at the partly cloudy weather prevailed sections of Southeast Alaska but morning. Light tomoderate rai Juneau, Oct. 31.—Sunrise, 7:11 Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Light rain béginning ‘Winds along the coast from moderate to fresh southeasterly tonight, from Sitka to Cape Hinchinbrook, Lowest tenp. that. was over the Bering Sea yesterday morning had eastward, being centered this morning over U. §. DEPARTMENT OF!AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU EATHER Weather Bureau) Forecast for Junsau and vicinily, beginning at 3:30 p.m., Oct. 3 preceded by smow flurries in late afternoon; southeasterly winds increasing, ra becoming moc¥ Minimum temperature tonight about 1 late th might over' east and north portio: Taésday. Moderate to fresh nortt erly winds over ‘the northern portion and modérate to fresh eas erly/ over the southern'portion tonight; becoming fresh 1 Tuesday, except fresh.to strong over Dixon Entrance, Claremce Strai Strait, Frederick Sound, and Lynn Canal. Forecast of winds along the southerl const' of the Gulf of Alask; the Gulf of Alaska, probably wi* Cape Hinchinbrook; moderatin Dixon Entranct to Sitk: becoming fresh souther strong easterly, b Cape Hinchinbrook to Kodiak, fres to strong southeasterly tonight, backing to northerly Tuesday LOCAL DATA' Humidity wina Velocity 66 sSwW " 90 N 3 86 w 2 Weath: Rain Pt. Cldy Cloudy RADIO REPORTS TODAY 3:30am. Precip. temp. 24 hours 35 10 9 16 24 36 43 37 3 3:3Can Weathe Clouc Cloud Clez Cle: Clouc Clour « Rai Rai Pt. Cld 33 8 g 12 2 31 32 33 35 43 35 40 45 60 31 43 46 61 Clez Cloud Cloud Cleg WEATHER SYNOPSIS A ridge of high pressure extended this morning northward fror Alaska, while a low pressure are advance the central portio longitude 158 degrees with th center of 29.20 inches. Cloudy t during the last 24 houfs over mos was preceded by heavy rains Sunda n occurred along the coast of th Gulf of Alaska and snow occurred over the Interior. a.m.; sunset, 4:15 p.m. TRION'S WEARY PASSENGERS IN ON §. §. YUKON scribed by Health Dept. Men A boat rklf glad to walk home from it was described today by Kaarlo Nasiand | | Storm: on Lynn Canal De-‘ STORM RAVAGES AUK BAY BOAT! Residents Spend Sunday it Heavy Seas Salvaging Pounding Craft ‘ A freak westerly storm swep |into normally placid Auk Bay yes cerday morning and left a trail g boat wreckage behind. } Coming up unexpectedly, th |strong wind sent heavy seas int |the bay and tore a number o ! | wars that followed the revolution,| g00 sibly by the end of this week, background, starting back | days when he first attended gram- | mar school, continuing through four | years of Ligh school playing in tie to noon today, was 9591 inches, ENGINE EXPLODES Don Clark, empioyee of tha Ju- he 46 years precipitation records have been kept here. Warreii Eveland, Department of | POats- from their moorings, keepin Puhlic , Health officials, who ar-| Auk Bay residents busy salvaging rived homie if. Jureau on the| The Dishaw motor cruiser wa | | considerably damaged when i ding, “Keep an on that It's coming item of mining talk out these days is tin, Hilscher Voroshiloff was promoted to in- portant posts, finally | Commissar for Mil- } Biggest Affairs in 1925, | | that way s i said NEW FLUORESCENT LAMPS INSTALLED AT MARKET HERE Installation of a new type of flu- orescent daylight lamps in the showcases of the Sani Mes Company has been The lamps natural col play. I tured T “Cape York world ma - of interest odes this year Is Big Talk in bids well to enter in volume,” Hilscher e has been a great deal in the Seward Peninsula with war cutting off normal foreign sources of supply, and everyone looks to swift devel- opment of Alaska tin.” Coming north in June this year, Hilscher went down the Yukon, over the Alaska Railroad four times, over the Richardson Highway to Valdez, over the Steese Highway to Circle, and by and river boat to of Alaska’s Interior mining including a trip to Nome and Point Barrow—wherein lies the be- | ginning of Hilscher’s 1940 trail. nated with the plane | corn going up the Noatak River Vatican Fewspaper Cominents on United s o dogs, re the have ever ventured. Results of Trip of this year's trip for| in addition to a number of stores including an article | a's biggest pi E. Lathrop, are o nd Chambers of Commerc fermed Unite 05 | like hi in Cosmo, ncmmlu;\ The ttracted a good deal of Democratic co ka is on the first prevent public opi | ladder. Hil- morally three, he's VATICAN Vatican ne repeal of embargo what it ditions, s of the U can paper CITY Results Hilscher fea on c w e A A one; > didn't ! ing itself the Allies.” on anc ¢ \mx. of next year \\“l’i in Juneau for a week or so, he Baranof Hotel a z to do a story on MM\, - Tnmty Hallowe'en Tea Well Attended Very charming hallowe'en tea give: noon at Tri members of ‘tes call Joy a cup of te - o - Educai’ion Fund Ball on Saturday Evening | Was Colorful Event : dancing crowd the annual and pumpkins - WOLDS LEAVE in hallowe'en off set by a background of and black, marked the an- | 2 Piscal hual Business and Professional daughter | W! s Club Educational Fund| Saturday evening in the | Oscar M. Wold, F Officer, Mrs. Wo left on the Yukon home at Missoula, Mon has been making the of Forest Service boois past six week i o eir Wold dit Elks’ ballroom A five-piece orchestra was present for the occasion and novelty favors ere for the !101"11W5‘5t§ber has been awarded the Juneau - of Alaska, Hilscher and Rein- | Lumber Mills by the contractors’| deer Superintident Sydney Rood are | syndicate which J. business man, | porast Service Office here, is in H“‘s«ame making arrangements for | |Alaska sawmills to participate though the navy base business. (papers that Gen The joint committee will be charged with adjusting differences Juneau between the bill ‘passed by the Sen-| passed this year early in October. ate, substituting the cash and carry plan, and the arms embargo House jn Juneau was bill approved last June providing 1917. Only 1061 for a limited arms embargo, JUNEAU LUMBER MILL, AWARDED KODIAK ORDER To Supply 162,000 Feet for Costruction of Navy | Base Dormitory | Contract for 162,000 feet of lum-’ is building the} and over | gitka and Kodiak bases, it was an- dm\n Lh(' Cclvllle nmncrd teday. The Juneau lumber will be used\ deer, skin boats und plane|in building Kodiak dormitory No.| turn over which fewly Anp order for half @ million feet {of awarded Company and is being cut at lhc has been Lumber | Sitka Columbia lumber for the ka sawmill. M. Wyckoff of the Regional| in} AMBASSADORSHP - GOING TO WATSON WASHINGTON, = Oct. 30.—Offi- | one of the country’s well! cials played a game of ring around guson and Mls L. | the rosy, today with a report that| Presidential ~ Secretary, Brigadier General Watson, will succeed Am- bassador Joseph Davies who was moved from Russia to Belgium sev- eral months ago. | Watson denied the.report flatly when askd about it by newsmen. Sald Watson: “I'll be right heve next spring.” Secretary of Interior in Watson's office at the however, and told reporters: “Don't you believe him. He just admitted to me it's true.” | between Ickes was' time, | Normal rainfall for the year in is 8325 inches, a mark Heaviest year’s rainfall on record 106.52 inches in inches need fall now and January 1 to make 1939 the wettest year ever in Juneau. Normal rainfall in No- vember is 9.10 inches and in De- cember: 7.61 inches, Every month of 1939, April, has had above normal pr cipitation .and. April fell only inches under the normal. 1939 month-by-month record to date is as follows: Month 1939 Normal January 10.17 .25 February 8.42 5.69 March 9.09 5.50 April 4.80 5.45 May 5.63 5.23 June 4.65 3.97 July 8.44 5.10 August 1223 .44 September 14.09 10.18 October 18.39 11.18 e Junior Guild Public Card Party Tuesday An invitation is extended to the| | public. tomorrow evening at 8 o'- clock for the Junior Trinity Guild (card party to be held in Trinity Parish Hall. .60 A Hallowe'en motif will be car-' |ried out in decorations for the ocLa.smn and pinochle and bridge will be in play during the eve- ning Arrangements are in charge of Mrs. John Dolenc, Mrs. Muriel Fer- Bulslord - e TUBERCULOSIS ASSM. DIRE(TORS 10 MEH There will bn a m«mmg of Lhe Board. of Directors of the Alaska | Tuberculosis Association tonight st.[ 8 o'clock in the Health Center of the Territorial Building e 4 TRAVELING MAN HERE Traveling men \hu Odom, Rob- except| neau Motor Co. is in St. Ann’s VHcspn.al today suffering from first' and second degree burns about the |face and hands as the result of an | explosion late yesterday afternoon of a gas engine on which he working. The accident occurred at the Glacier Highway home of W. A.| | Mcntgomery, who also received | burns on the hands. Both men are reported impmved' today according to Dr, W. M. White- head; was | 'HEALTH CENTER VACCINATES 30 l More than 30 chudren and adults were vaccinated today at the Juneau | Health Center by Dr. Palmer Cong- !don and Public Health Nurse Miss | Magnhild Oygard. [ Vaccination will be offered free {at the Health Center in the Douglas |City Hall on Wednesday afternoon | from 1 to 3 o'elock, EVikin(j Club Gives . Public Card Party | An excellent attendance was pres- ent for the Viking Club card party | held Salurday evening in the IL.O. |OF. Hall. Bridge, pinochle and | whist were in play for the. occas- | ion. Honors were won during the even- irg in bridge by Mrs. C. E. Bloom- | quist, high and Mrs. F. Harris, low. In pinochle prizes went to Mrs. Fred |Newman and Frank Olson, high; Mrs. O. Hermanson and Frank Lay- er, low. Whist honors were won by Mrs. Hannah Daniels and John Nelson, low; Mrs. Pete Oswald and Bert Morke, low | 1 NURSE SUPERVISOR TIBER HOME FROM TRIP T0 WESTWARD Miss Bertha Tiner, Superyisor of Nurses for the Alaska Division of ithe Office of Indian Affairs, re- |turned to Juneau headquarters to- |day after a trip to visit nursing sta- }tions at Kodiak, Kenai and Eklutna. | Miss Tiber came in on the Yukon. Presidential Secretary’ Early mld{m Wakelin and A. O. Holley came ! newsmen that he Watson is_to be spring. He said he named next jwouldn't deny it—but he couched jand the gypsy queen fortune teller |his reply in an enigmatic tone, saw by the news-|in from Westward trips aboard the Yukon and are guests anof Hotel, e Empire classitieds bring results, at the Bar-) TO CORDOVA Knox Marshall, formerly of Seattle, |is leaving tomorrow onl the Alaska |2 for Cordova where he will be Prin- cipal Foreman for the CCCy | day. |Lower Columbia River Cponference |and including one year at the Hill ,Mimary Academy from which he/ |graduated to the University. Although much of his expeérience lon the Oregon squad was gleaned from playing end and center posi- tions, Joe made considerable im- pression as a back and enjoys work- | ing in the quarterback assignment | more than anything else. ¢ Over the week-end, Mr, Puhir and Tom Dyer, head coach of the Sour- doughs, got together and drew up' a regular practice schedule fot' the two teams. The schedule, which follows, is reversed each week. Bears Skating Rink: Wednesday, Satur- day; Gymnasium, Monday and Fri- Sourdoughs Skating Rink: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday; Gymnasium, ! Wednesday. Hobby Club Meeting A twelve year old child prodigy will be present at this evening’s meeting of the Hobby Club when she will display art work.. The girl | Vera Zilchoff, a recent atrival from Harbin, China, doés superb: paint- ing on velvets and silks. Also of interest will be a demon- stration of sculpturing by Robert Fuller. The session starts at 130 oclodk and will be held in the Parlors of the Northern Light Presbyterian Church. e g oo POLICE ISSUE FIRM. WARNING ON HALLOWE'E Hallowe'en is tuniorrow right, bt tonight, Chief of Police Dan Ralston reminds Jurieau’s younger genera- tion. Those attempting to celébrate in hallowe'en “tricks or treats” style tonight will be dealt with summar- ily by the police, warned the chief. Even tomorrow the streets will be patrolled carefully to guard against vandalism in the guisé of fun. —— -, — LEGION TO MEET Further discussion of plans to ob- serve Armistice Day Will take place at tonight's meétinig of Alford John ] steamér Yukon after leaving the stormbound motorship Triton at Litnikoff Cove, Chilkat Inlet. With Dr. John W. Carswell, they | 1eft ‘here: early last week for a trip to Skagway and Hbines on officis business, Nasi is Public ‘Health Engineer; Eveland, Director | of Laboratories, and Carswell, Ter- | ritorial Epidemiologist. Snow, Rain, Wind Pinishing thefr business in Skag- | way, they started down Lynn Can- al at noon Thursday. Bélow Haines they ran into a blinding showstorm | which forced themi tb seek an- chorage in the lee of Sullivan Is- lahd. WHen thé wind came up the Triton cruised in the lee of the island from 2:30 o'clock Friday morning until 8:30 o'clock, when the little cruiser headed its nose into the Southeast blow.: Water rolléd over the passengers said’ to< | day, to tie top of its skylights. . So the Triton turned about to the north end of Sullivan Island for shelter ori & fldod tide. At I o'clock Friday afternoon the vessel | made a break across open water six miles to Litnikoff Cove. If they thought they had seen rough water before, they: soon changed their minds, Eveland and Nasisaid. | The expression on the faces of all the passeners during the hour’s crossing was something to see, they admit today. . . Long Walk Nasi went ashore at a cannery walk to Haines with the intention | of summoning an automobile to get | the othérs. Heavy slides across the road; however; made auto travel appear impossible, so Nasi returned for: Evel and: together, suitcase in hand, they walked through the The Alaska was six hours laté at. Haines, so it was possible for DF, Carswell to reach the town by nutomobne and foot in time to catch the steamer. Dr. Carswell on the Alaska. He is going to the Midwest on personal business for about 10 days. The. Triton, with Capt. C. A. Hayes and Jobn Smith aboard, is still at Litnikoff -Cove, for all its' passengers know—or care. ——————————— BLACK COD SALES Two halibut vessels brought in black cod cargoes today, the Happy | unloading 13,000 peunds lnd the Oceanic 14,000. Bradford Post of the American Le- glon at 8 o'clock at the Dugout, ————— (Continued rruin sage One) driving rain seven miles to Haines.| went right through Juneau today | | broke from jits moorings and wa | only saved from pounding to piece | by the efforts of a number of peo ‘ple keeping timbers between I (hull and the rocks until the craf was pulled to.deep water. Frank Metcalf’s boat Pheasan was blown adrift and also hit the | beach, suffering some damage, anc | the Pacific Alaska Airways “crast boat” was tossed high and dry b} a big sea, but was practically un scarred. Other small craft fared mor poorly. R. L. Stewart of the De partment of Mines, lost a nice outboard cruiser. A number o other outboard boats were sunk o smashed, and Curt Kirchoffer' small gasboat was wrecked. People of Auk Bay coming U town this morning, say the beacl is “a mess” ofbroken timbers anc general m__ City of Junéau To Have 0dd Skating Rink Juneau will have something new in downtown civic recreation center: this winter—an ice skating rink ir the basement of the fire-razed Gold- stein Building. ! Charlés Goldstein said he had turned over the use of the bas ment, gratisto the city for a skating dock at the cove and started 0! g 1t is understood City Police wil | supervise flooding of the fire-created | arena and “fix a phge for the kids.’ NEW CHIEF ‘CLERK FORINDIAN OFFICE ARRIVES TUESDA A new Chief Clerk for the Offi of Indian Affairs Alaska Div will arrive on the Alaska tomorrow, He is Fred R. Geeslin, formerl |Cnief Clerk for the large United Puehlos Agency and more recentl: ngaged in special work for thel Taholah Agency, Washington. Gegnn su Jy E: Glick here. SEWARD AIR SERVIE INCORPORATED HERE Three residents of Seward, Aaron Akin, O. H. Armstrong and R. E} m@ttm have incorporated thel Seward Air Service, Inc., with Territorial Auditor. Capitalizaf of the company s $30,000, 5 e dmet