The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 18, 1939, Page 2

WN WHERE SHOF A LIVES ONCE UPON AT AND A BOY W S WE JANE AN S IN MAY [ | There is no substitute for Newspaper Advertising T et e o 5 For Fast Service Call the i-Way Belivery General Haxlin BAILY TRIPS TO ALL POINTS OUT GLACIER HIGHWAY Authorized Delivery for The Baily Alaska Empire $1.25 PER MONTH (No Delivery Fee) For Immediaie Service AY DELIVERY AN 2425 7 AT R g e e | [FAR UP AT THE NORTH POLE 1S CHRISTMAS HMSEEMS LIKE AN AGE A k & SINCE THERE WAVE BEEN ANY CUILDREN AROUND THE PLACE 3 T SHOULD INVITE ACOUPL HERE FOR A VISIT! \\} 3 4l ERE ARE JUST THE TWO I WANT- SEND MY MAGIC PLANE T FOR THEM! THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, DEC. 18, 1939 JANE AND JOHN. ] Sa;\t;; 7Needs Company RPN $anta’s madic plane is vheeled a.rtn:md oft it ‘er;tp brind, Johnand Jane B Christmastewn, Watch fer their adventurest Food for Finnish Evacuees Some of the thousands of Finnish children eva are shown in Heinola, ing on Soviet Russia, were sent when the Soviet threatent soon, for Russian planes started rain of R DONT MISS THE ANNUAL hristmas Edition of the DAILY ALAS KA EMPIRE TEE v mpRna e shopping Guide for Juneau Citizens? A Complete Some of Its Contents Gift Buying Suggestions. Sparkling Toyland Treats. Christmas Greetings. Last Minute Suggestions. Legends of Christmas. Favorite Christmas Dishes. Christmas Stories. What to Give, and How. Thrills for Little Folks. How to Serve and Prepare Dinner. Usefulness of Christmas Trees. Liberally Illustrated. Watch for the Christmas Edition of the DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE TR TS TE cuated from towns border« inland city to which they, a ed. Evacuation took place none tog Bavard, suffered a lacerated and| £ death as soon as the people fleds) | bruised arm. % | the % |and Firemen were scheduled e | WILE MOVES & | Cooper | THREE TRUCKS TANGLE, LOOP ROAD ACCIDENT Wreck laySTJB Two Cali-| fornia Grocery Trucks | —Passenger Hurt Three trucks, a load of oil, a ton| cf sand, a film of snow the ground and a bad turn contributed yester- day on the loop road of the Glacier | Highway tc a freak accident in which two of the trucks were badly damaged and a pass r in one slightly injured. Carrying 1,000 pounds of sand for | the Bavard vegetable garden, a Cal- | ifornia Grocery tguck driven by John Bavard rounded the turn at the top | of & hill to see the oil truck looming JIl]) ahead of him. They crashed. A |moment later a second California | Grocery truck, operated by Philip | Bertholl and similarly loaded, rammed into the fear of Bavard's car. | The heavy oil truck, belonging to| |the Juneau Transfer and operated by Bill Kolander, was damaged nnlyi | slightly. | Passenger Hurt | Flagg, Tony riding with young The truck driven by Bertholl was damaged on the grille and radiator, | while the newer one driven by Ba- | vard was damaged heavily at bu(hi ends. As if this were not misfortune enough, a wrecker summoned from | Martin Lynch Garage broke |down on the way to town. It and) two California Grocery u-ucks; had to be towed to Juneau by the oil | truck, making one of the longest tows seen here in many a year. R - Love-Bomber | Is Convicled iR | DALLAS, Tex., Dec. i18—A jnr,v} has convicted E. R. Watt, 36, former hool Principal, of bombing a house f | vating, SCORES ASSEMBLE FOR ANNUAL TREE FESTIVAL SUNDAY Commun Ey" Song Fest Marks Opening of Christ- | mas Activifies in Juneau Several hundred Juneau citizens gathered around the e lighted Yuletide tree yester afternoon on Front and Seward Streets for the eleventh annual community song festival under the auspices the Juneau Woman's Club. Officialy ushering in the Christ- mas festivities for 1938. the pro- gram was arranged under the super- vision of Mrs. Frank Harris, and was broadcast over station KINY with W. C. Arnold as announcer for the event. Besides community singing of fav- of {orite carols, accompanied by Oberg, organist, choirs of the Met odist Sunday School, the Ps 1 School and Salvation Army Girl Guards presented several appropriate numbers. 3 Highlighting the afternoon fes- tival was the surprise visit of Santa Claus, who led the community sing- ing and later opened his huge knapsack to treat approximately 500 youngsters who thronged the Juneau street. The Juneau Woman's Club wishes to extend their thanks and appr ciation to the community for their cooperation in making the annual custom a success and to the Juneau | Transfer Company for the use of the Juneau Drug Com- their donation of candy their pay car, for |tréats, station KINY for broadcast- ing the festival, to the Alaska Elec- tric Light and Power Company for wiring the tree and supplying the electricity, and to the Juneau-Doug- las Telephone Company for their as- sistance in connecting wires for the broadcast WORK STARTS ON TWO WPA PROJECTS HERE Swimming Pool and Sewer Jobs Give Employment to 40 Juneauites Two WPA crews of 20 men each went to work this morning on a swimming pool in the Evergreen Bowl and a sewer system at the small boat harbor The men, paid $57 per month of 130 hours, are clearing and exca- The work is expected to| last several months. Oscar Clauson is foreman on the| sewer project and Hamilton Gib-| son on the swimming pool. Work | is being done under supervision of | City Engineer Milton Lagergren. | |to avenge his unrequited love for | Mary J. Miller, 26, physical deuca- | tion instructor. | ‘The penalty is 50 years. No one was injured when a dyna- mite laden suitcase was hurled | | through the window of the house | in July, last year. HOOP CONTESTS | ARE POSTPONED The scheduled doubleheader bas- ketball game for Tuesday night has been postponed because the stage is being erected today for the Friday Christmas program in! the High School gymnasium. High School and Moose and Elks to | | meet. o ! Arthur Hautala, Forest Service draftsman here for the past year, | left on the Princess Norah to com- plete a course in forestry at the | X% | University of Minnesota. | His brother, Elmer, left here in | September to study forestry at Min- | |nesota. Another brother, Peter, is Juneau High School basketball | g [coach. Arthur, during his residence | |here, was a star baseball player. T — basketball and | ‘Today was moving day for Albert Wile. The Juneau postmaster, form- erly a resident of the Baranof Hotel, | has taken an apartment in the new Building - PORTLAND, Oregon — Picketing | by members of the CIO Longshure-l men and Warehousemens' Union | nlalted work on coastwise line freigh- tér Samoa because the crew is af- filiated with the Independent Sail- orsUnion of the Pacific. LAWRENCE, Ky. — Republican National Committec Chairman John | Hamilton is enroute to Washington after told his son Dan will recover from injuries suffered in an auto |accident in which the driver of the car was killed. WASHINGTON—With the docket almost cleared, the Supreme Court Jadjourned today for a 15-day Christ- mas vacation. Only half a dozen minor cases are pending. — - The Book ALASKA, Revised and Enlarged, Now On Sale; $1.00. U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. 8. Weather Sureau) u and vicinity, beginning at 3:30 p.m., Dec. 18: Tuesday; moderate to fresh southeasterly winds Tuesday; lowest temperature tonight about 34 Forecast for Ju Rain tonight and tonight, increasing degrees Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Rain tonight and Tuesday, ex- cept snow tonight in extreme northeastern portion. Moderate to fresh southeasterly wind becoming strong tonight over sounds and straits; fresh northerly wind over Lynn Canal. Forecast or wmas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska: An extensive disturbance in lower Gulf moving northeastward will cause increasing winds over the entire Gulf of Alaska with gales near the center of the storm and along the coast of the southern por- tion of Southeast Alaska late tonight or Tuesday. The wind direc- tions along the coast will continue southerly from Dixon Entrance to Sitka, asterly and northeasterly from Sitka to Cape Hinchinbrook, and notherly from Cape Hinchinbrook to Kodiak. LOCAL DATA Temo. Humidity wina Velocity 38 k] ESE 9 40 70 SSE 5 39 9 SsSW 5 Barometer 29.87 Weather Cloudy Rain Rain rime 3:30 p.m, yest'y 3::30 a.m. today Noon today RADIO REPORTS TODAY 3:30a.m. Precip. temp. 24 hours 23 19 Lowest temp. 17 3:3Cam Weathar Pt. Cldy Clear Cloudy Clear Cloudy Cloudy Drift. Snow Snow Clear Cloudy Rain Max. tempt. last 24 hours 28 28 Station Atka Anchorage Barrow Nome Bethel Fairbanks St. Paul Dutch Harbor Kodiak Cordova Juneau Sitka Ketchikan Seattle Portland San Francisco -9 32 40 45 39 Rain Cloudy Cloudy Clear 38 41 42 51 51 WEATHER SYNOPSIS An intense disturbance. was located this morning in Gull of Alaska with lowest pressure 2840 inches reported at lati- tude ‘48 degrees north and longitude 146 degrees west. Cloudy weather has prevailed over most of Alaska with light rain showers over most sections of Southeast Alaska and some light snow in the Cordova district. Temperatures were higher in the Interior but continued cold over western Alaska. Juneau, Dec, 19.—Sunrise, 8:45 a.m.; sunset, 3:08 p.m ’ DR. STEVES, CHIROPODIST, GERWEI.S SA“-S | Makes Arch Appliances to measure— SOUIH ON NORAH | office, l(h_Ynlenune BFdz Pflone 648 | NUGGET SHOP OPEN on the|evenings until Christmas. Princess Norah. Gerwels, who for | , g i the past several years has been| cpygtmas Gift 50¢, “ALASKAN,” surveying with the Public Roads,|hy Marie Drake. Ky will join his wife in Olympia. a2 Y iy ———— | the lower Walt Gerwels sailed adv. Try The Empire classifieds for Try an Empire ad. ! results. IT'S TIME TO CHANGE YOUR THINNED - OUT LUBRICANTS! s CONNORS MOTOR COMPANY | $10,000,000 for Alaska Busines IN JUST ONE AVERAGE YEAR the Canned Salmon Industry brings over $10,000,000 to Alaska. This is money paid directly for local labor, lumber, wire, cannery supplies, taxes. It is money which benefits not only Alaskan fishery workers and workers in other industries, but also Alaska’s professional people and merchants, whom it reaches in the form of trade for services and goods. Thanks to the Salmon Industry, Alaska prospers.