The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 2, 1939, Page 2

oo Ay PR i s REENTD WIND-SWEPT WINTER!— here’s the time Standard Gasoline really shows its stuff! Every petroleum fraction in it is care- fully balanced for unsurpassed winter per- formance. Every slow-firing, sluggish ele- ment is painstakingly removed. So count on Standard to start like a scared jackrab- _. bit—warm up your engine right now—cut choking way down—and pile up mileage. Use Standard for better performance! STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA Shower Last Evening For Mrs;Cililrris Huber Mrs. Chris Huber was surprised last evening with a shower by members of Womcis Moose Sewing Circle at the hon- Highway. given or the oree's home on Giacier YOUR SAVINGS A\2E INSURED, ARE INSTANTLY AVAILABLE AND EARN GREAT. ER RETURNS WITH THE ALASKA FEDERAL Savings and Loan Assa. of Juneau TELEPHONE 3 Fourteen guests were present for the affair. The next regular meeting of the circle will be held at the home of Murs. Nellie Bucher on Deecmber 15. - - r3 ALASKAN | Telephone 713 or write The Alaska Territorial Employment Service | for this qualified worker. DIESEL MAN-TRUCK DRIVER— Single, age 29. Several years ex- perience on trucks and caterpillars including RD-8 bulldozers. Has op- erated bulldozers in the placer fields | of the Interior, and driven freight| trucks over Richardson Highway, Valdez-Fairbanks route. Can do all} of own mechanical repair work and servicing. Call for ES 23, i e oo | I Sroc;af;:atnrxonl |i NEW YORK, Dec. 2. — Closing quotation of American Can at to- day's short session of the Stock Exchange is 110%, and Light 4%, Bethlehem Steel 79'% wealth and Southern 1 Curtiss Wright 10, General Motors 527, International Harvester 57%, Ken- necott 37%, New York Central 18'%, Northern Pacific 9%, United States Steel 65%, Pound $3.89%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 146.58, rails 31.76, utilities 25.11. - - STOCKHOLM The Swedish Government will look after Finnish Common- terests in Moscow, it is officially | I stated. IT'S TIME TO American Power | e Anaconda 30%,|is preparing estimates on the p_ll- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY BOAT HARBOR DREDGING IS NEARLY DONE » 20 Days Work Yet - City Can Begin Construct- | ing Floats Jan. 5 SKAGWAY FLOOD CONTROL CREW IS GIVEN PRAISE my Project All Finished Except for Rodk Fill, Flakne Learns Everything except the rock fill, which gannot be made until next spring, has been completed on the Skagway flood control project, Di- rector Joseph T. Flakne of the Al- Dredging of the Juneau small aska Territorial Employment Serv- boat harbor will be completed wm,.\ibe learned on a visit to the work in 20 days, officials of the Gen-|this week. Flakne made the trip eral Construction Company have On the cruiser Triton, retwrning notified Mayor Harry I Lucas. today. ; Capt. William Burke, in charge; M. J. Rogers, civilian engineer of the work, said the eleanup would [Sefving as construction superinten- be completed by January 5, whendent on the U. S. engineer project, the City can begin its part of thetold Flakne he was very well work. pleased with his all-Alaskan crew Float logs to be used at the har- | Provided through the Employment bor have been delivered on the ) Service. Rogers and his assistants beach north of the breakwater. said it was the best working crew Piling, also ordered, is to be laid | they had ever supervised. down here soon, | T e City Ehgineer Milton Lagergren 'FUR INDUSTRY ASKS HOURS EXEMPTION A public hearing on application of the raw fur receiving industry! for partial exemption from Lhel hours provisions of the Fair Labor | standards act will be held in | Washington next Thursday If granted, the application would ing and float work so that bids an be called following the next regular City Council meeting De- | cember 15. The City has already spent ap- proximately $9,000 for individual work at the harbor and has a fund remaining of $39,279.76 for | floats and other improvements. All funds spent by the City were drawn |ions shortly BARANOF ISLAND CLAIMS ANOTHER | SOLDIER HUNTER [ Army Officers Reveal Sec- ond Man in Two Years Recently Lost Army officers arriving here reveal today that Chilkoot Barracks its second soldier in two years dur- to Rodman Bay on Baranof Island. The soldier lost in October, young Private Cook survived by a frantic mother in Carmel, California, be- came separated from two compan- before dark and was never found. A year ago, in the same rugged locale, Chilkoot, Barracks lost anoth- er soldier on a deer hunting trip. He also remains unfound Private Cook, hunting companions late in the afternoon of October 10, near the mountain p, left them briefly at a campfire ust to hunt around the meadow a bit.” with two swered rifle signals. Soldiers be- lieve he fell from one of the nu- merous cliffs, A score of soldiers combed the woods for the lost man ten days, but found no trace of MOVING DAY FOR GOVERNOR TROY; fo Be Made Tonight by Committee Today was moving day for Gov John W. Troy and his daughter, Mrs. Robért Bender, whose new | residence is the Seatter Tract home formerly occupied by Dr. and Mrs, Robert Coffey. | Dr. Ernest Gruening, who will| take the oath of office as Gover-| nor of Alaska here on Tuesday, left Seattle this morning on the | steamer Yukon. He is accompanied | by Mrs. Gruening and by Miss Es- telle Draper, who has been his Se retary for many years, including his term of office as Director of the Division of Territories and Island Possessions of the Depart- ment of the Interior. The local reception committee,| headed by Jack Hellenthal, which will greet Dr, Gruening here, is to hold a meeting at 8 o'clock to- night at Hellenthal's office. The oath will be administered, probably at the Governor's office, by M. E. Monagle, Notary Public and Chairman of the Democratie Divisional Committee. WILL PROSPECT JUALIN DURING WINTER MONTHS Belgian ‘geologist-mining engineer | E. Poincin, who has been carrying| on investigatory work at the old Belgian-owned Jualin mine at Ber- ner's Bay, announced through his interpreter today he will continue his work this winter. Poincin, a guest at the Gastineau Hotel, has secured five men he wilt| take back to the mine with him in a few days to aid in prospecting work. Tentative plans now are to put a mill into operation in the spring, but extent of work to be done is as yet unknown. CAPE TOWN—The crew of the German freighter Knussi scuttled their ship off the coast to avoid capture by a British warship. lost ‘ ing an October hunting expedition | He never returned and never an- | ¢ GRUENING SAILS ?Final Plans ‘for Reception DEC. 2, 1939. | Roosevelt in Army r Kermit Roosevell According to reports from Lons don, Kermit Roosevelt, son of the late president, Theodore Roose« velt, has received a second lieu« tenant’s commission in the Brit« ish army. Recently it was re« ported that Roosevelt was be< coming a British citizen to accept a post in the new ministry of shipping. The picture above was taken during the World war when Roosevelt was a captain in the United States army, 4 William Sperling Has Party This Afternoon The eighth birthday Sperling, son of Mr. and Mrs, Harry Sperline. was celebrated this after- noon with a boys’ party at the fam- ily home on West Twelfth Strezt A color scheme of pink and blue was carried out for the event and guests spent the afternoon playing games. Friends of the honoree who were present for the festivities included: Bobbie and Severn Swanson, Robert of William | | | and Douglas Graves, Robert Larson, Billy Forward, Eugene Anderson, Edwin Stewart and David Sperling. HOODWINKS — Granama never saw a knitted hood like this, streamlined for 1939 wear, The girl is Marguerite Chapman, SACRAMENTG--sieut. Gov. Pat- terson declines to withdraw his candidacy for the U. S. Senate on the Democratic ticket at next spring’s primary. Patterson says he aspires to the seat of Republican Senator Johnson. OLHENGTY CHUNGKING, from a local bond issue. permit employees receiving, pack-! —————— | |ing, grading, sorting, appraising, | scraping, stretching and dx.mgraw} |furs to work up to 12 hours daily | |and 56 hours weekly for not to ex- ceed I4 weeks per year ————— The Tollowing are final scores of 'HR.S. fiA;!TAM RETURNING important football games played| wmrs w. P, Hautala, wife of Coach this afternoon and received up tO Hautala of the Juneau Public! press time: Schools, is returning here on the FooTBALL SCORES CHANGE YOUR THINNED - OUT LUBRICANTS! | USC. 9; U of Washington 7. |steamer Yuken following a month's | stanford 14; Dartmouth 3. trip to the States Navy 10; Army 0. { - . Fordham 18; New York Univer-\ 10S ANGELES — Film actress' sity 7. Jean Parker has filed action for Holy Cross 0; Boston College 14.|divorce from New York newspaper George Washington 13; West| writer George MacDonald, charging |FRENCH Japanese announce they Strike at Chinese ““Life Line” T : have entered Nanning (black arrow marks advance) in a drive on China’s “lifeline” supply routes from Inde- U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Jun=au and vicinity, beginning at Light rain tonight and Sunday; moderate southeas temperatu tonight about 32 degrees Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Rain tonight and Sunday, ex- cept snow in extreme northeastern portion; moc te to southeasterly wind, except fresh to ong over sounds and and fresh to strong southerly over Lynn Canal Forecast or wines along the coast of the Gulf of Al A low pressure center was over the northern portion of th and an intense low pressure area was forming over the lower region. The wind will cohtinue strong southerly tonight and Sun- day from Dixon Entrance to Sitka; fresh to strong easterly from Sitka to Cape Hinchinbrook; ani fresh northerly tonight, increas. ing Sunday from Cape Hinchinbrook to Kodiak. - LOCAL DATA Temo Humidity wina Velocity 39 4 E 37 94 SE 41 83 E RADIO REPORTS oS, sh straits, Gulf Barometer 28.95 28.87 29.33 ‘r1ime 3:30 p.m. yest'y 3:30 am. today Noon today Weather 16 Lt. Rain, Snow 10 Lt. Rain 18 Cloudy TODAY 3:30 a.m. Precip. temp. 24 hours 7 -4 -11 Max. tempt. l\ Lowest Station last 24 houre | temp. Anchorage 21 5 Barrow -2 Nome -9 Bethel -25 Fairbanks -10 St, aPul Dutch Harbor .. 37 Kodiak Cordova Juncau Sitka Ketchikan Seattle Portland San Francisco 3:3Ca.m Weather Pt. Cldy Drift. Snow Snow Clear Clear Cloudy Snow Pt. Cldy Cloudy Rain Rain Clol Rain Cloudy 53 57 NOPSIS 64 | WEATHER 8 The barometric pressure was abnormally, low this morning over the entire Gulf region. A moderate disturbancé was located gin the northern portion of the Gulf of Alaska with a central pressure esti- mated at 28.70 inches, and another 1 intense disturbance was present in the lower Gulf region at latitude 44 degrees N., longitude 150 degrees W. with the lowest central pressure reported as 2850 inches. Moderate to heavy rain has fallen over most portions of scuthern and central Southeast Alaska, and light to moderate snow over the extreme northern portion. Light to moderate snow also oc- curred in the Cordova district. Winds attained high velocities Fri- day night and this morning along the coat of Southeast Alaska. Cleari; weather, accompanied by colder temperatures, has set in over the Interior of Alaska, Juneau, Dec. 3.—Sunrise, 8:2¢ am.; sunset, 3:14 a.m. Dec. 4— Sunrise, 8:26 a.m.; sunset, 3:14 a.m. And No One Was Hurt! Skidding on the wet pa‘vement across the Passynunk Avenue bridge in Philadelphia caused this unusual accident. The driver, George Jacksen, who weighs 289 pounds, said he never thought he could move himself as quickly as he did to get out of the car. New [s the Time to Place Your Christmas Order This Year Let SEARS Order Office Help You! For a Copy PHONE 233 or Visit Sears Office % JUNEAU, ALASEA China. One such route (black dot) runs from Nanning to Kweilin. mr“unm"ummmnuwuxmm.na the motor highway (black line) frem there to Chungking, seat of China’s government. Shaded area Is held by Japan. G 1l s CONNORS MOTOR LUBRICATION COMPANY | Virginia 0. cruelty but not citing specific acts. Detroit 10; Duqguesne 10, tie. ! ———.—-— Ohio Wesleyan 7; Dayton 19. | The eurrent building program of ———— |the United States navy inecludes l Empire Want Ads Bring Results. |eight battleships. 205 Seward Street Phone 233 e e e e, et B et