The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 26, 1939, Page 2

THE DAILY ALASKA #MPIRE! TUESIAY/ BEC. 26, 1939. """ “Thunder” and “Lxghtnmg” for British 2 EXPERTS SAY DUST BOWL OF 1940 WILL BE DOUBLE OF THE PRESENT SECTION U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. 8. Weathér Bureau) Forecast for Junean and vicinity, heginning at 3:30 p.m., Dec. 26: Light rain tonight and Wednesday; ‘moderate southeasterly winds; minimum temperature tonight about 35 degrees. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Light rain tonight and Wednes- day, except snow in extreme northeastern portion; moderate south- easterly wind, except moderate to fresh over sounds and straits, and moderate southerly over Lynn Canal. Winds increasing Thursday. Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska: The winds along the coast from Dixon Entrance to Sitka will be fresh southerly tonight, increasing Wednesday; from Sitka to Cape Hinchinbrook, fresh easterly; and from Cape Hinchinbrook to Ko- diak, fresh northerly. ‘u-vu of its normal semem\mr -Octo- ber precipitation; Kansas 19 per ‘(rn . Nebraska 30 per cent; North |Dakota 53 per cent; Wyoming 77| | per cent; Minnesota 50 per cent and Towa 37 per cent Prospects Very Poor “Prospects for next year's wheat crop are the poorest over the widest area in recent years,” say experts in the conservation office. “Wheat| farmers (of the dust bowl) in most instahces already have lost the op-| portunity for making a crop, next year. Their next opportunity will| be to plant wheat next fall. In prac- | ‘n( ally all of the critical area wheat |was se eded in dust and has not| | sprouted. 1 It is difficult to say whether the wheat farmer or the livestock pro-| ducer will suffer more. Ever where | grain crops and grass were poor this year as a result of drought, na!t]w‘ men can get through the winter in | fair condition. However ..Wwhere | feed crops were poor and there xaj little gr cattlemen are facing al cerious problem.” Reviewing. dust bowl history strrce | | jthe first “black blizzard: truck in| | the early thirties, technicians see a | | definite change in the pattern of dust bow] farming. | The use of water conservation | prac tices has, in many cases, meant | t)u difference between a complete |crop failure and a crop worth har- ‘ vesting. | | | His technicians estimate approx- imately 3,500,000 acres are under a complete soil and water conserva- | tion program in the demonstration | projects of the conservation service | set up within the 96,000,000 acre |area “normally considered as po-| | tentially a part of the wind erosion | lnvemn of the southern great plains.” | .| “The additional acreage upon | | which some conservation measures LOCAL DATA Barometer Temo Humidity wina Velocity Weather 3:30 pm., yest'y .. 29.69 47 44 N 11 Cloudy 3:30 am. today .. 2993 41 80 E 5 Lt. Rain Noon today 30.02 40 6 ESE 7 Cloudy RADIO REPORTS TODAY $:30a.m. Precip. 3:3Cam. temp. 24 hours Weathar b Snow 41 Rain [ Pt. Cldy 02 Snow 0 Pt. Cldy 0 Cloudy 12 Cloudy 0 Pt. Cldy 326 Snow, Rain 26 Rain 13 41 0 .01 .01 ‘t'ime Lowest temp. 23 29 -2 Max. tempt. last 24 houre | Station ! 30 | | Atka Anchorage Nonie Bethel Fairbanks St. Paul Dutch Harbor Kodiak Cordova Juneau Sitka Ketchtkan Seattle Portland San Francisco 34 10 6 24 14 26 31 49 50 52 50 39 i 36 [ 57 17 Two big Polish destroyers, «ic Grom- (Thunder) and the Blyskawica (Li flnm German blockade, get steam up, ready for action, at an undisclosed English port. m has been absorbed by Germany and Russia, but Poland continues to fight, her warships hflnm of the British navy. 2 To Fight for Finas ~ Jack Dalzell Passes Away ek Dalzell, employee of lht"‘ ris-Taku mine, died last Sat-| Asmm Bllz Ha& | O&MAVLE thum‘ ASTORIA, Oregon, Dec, 26.—The oldest city in ‘the Pacific .North- | urday afternoon at the Baranof|West, Astoria, looks forward to the Hotel. |tirst major collegiate basketball Rain Fog Cloudy Foggy 32 49 WLAT!!ER SYNOPSIS A trough of low pressure extends this morning from a center of low pressure situated over Interior Alaska southward to another center of low pressure located. at, latitudee 43 degrees north and longitude 155 degreest west with the lowest pressure reported as 28.65 inches. Pressure was high over the Bering Sea and off the coast of California. The weather has been cloudy over most of Alaska with Th bowl The soil con map shows how the dust wrea changed {rom 19 shaded section shows its ible extent in 1940, atio prob: accor uthoritie: By ROBERT AP Feature Scrvice E. GEIGER rea where next Writer expected VER, Col, D: 5 atest fall anc ienced by plain: s lar technieians Finnell, Cons Tex. That say H Soil arillo, half ; drought” of covered aores. it 50,000,000 1t area exter es, from the than ; Septem- rec- “ tubble upor exposed s6il it; to 1 October, scant ) on Mont y 76 pe: > there is CLOTHES NED OFTEN are CLE!? Wear Longer! tha d YOUR GARMENTS to PHONE 507 MODES of the /V\OMENT Sl I I N B A delathe Korw. s itpiistons Heads or tails, furs win, says Schiaparelli. This suave blagk suit of hers for holiday luncheons and matinees is designed with a mink tail jabot tied with a black velvet bow and worn with a velvet muff tipped in more mink tails. Another tail falls érom the back of the Daniel Boone hat. 15 it he millions,” Finnell says. in| regional | rvation | will | )‘“'u*l] you it's been so dry the water! the Ap- |are being used probably will run into light” rain over Southeastérn and along the coast of the Gulf of Al- It's a Laugh Dry weather can’t kill dust bowl humor. In Kansas City the farmers wm\ in Smoky Hill river is wet on just/ one side—the bottom. In Texas they tell about the ducks | s | that carry their individual canteens, | flying south. | "And in staunch Democratic coun- ties they contend the Republicans were wrong when, in the Presiden- | tial election, they said grass would grow in the streets if Roosevelt was elected. “It's so dry,” say the Democrats, }"mv grass won't grow anyplace.” | | GIVES OUT ADVICE FOR JANUARY FIRST ——— | NEW YORK, De. 264—Temper- ance leader Mrs. Ida Smith hasgiven | out some advice to New Year cele- | brants, " Mrs. Smith is President of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. | She suggested that New Year cele- | braters take their so called “Never |again” 'liquor pledge earlier this time and really stick with it. | Said Mrs. Smith: “Now there are thousands of the annual whoopee imukers wh odon't know a thing |about a single New Year’s eve in 1rtcem years—entire holiday week- ~ lends have just evaporated into no- thing, leaving behind no more, than | a sick headache.” | Added Mrs, Smith: “There is | another reason for cutting down on ! the festivities this year and that is the fact that New Years’ Eve falls on Sunday, a day which cer- tainly shouidn't be marked by rois- terous celebration.” b S eiin 1 SToCcK QUOTATIONS , b b St i | NEW YORK, Dec. 26. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 6%, American Can Dalzell had come to Juneau m‘gflm(‘ played here. | spend the holidays and passed| The touring Michigan State Col- away suddenly in his hotel room.|lege will clash here with the Oregon The remains are at the Charles State basketcers on Wednesday and | W. Carter Mortuary pending word | Thursday nights. COLD WEATHER BUTTE, Montana, Deg., 26—Cold weather ‘and Santa OClaus togelner in this section. mercury tumbled Sunday mght to 25 degrees below zero. Tem- peratures dropped to zero at Hélena |and Great Falls. g v ans ESTEBETH IN ~ OVER HOLIDAY The motership Estebeth, Capt. Gust Gustafson and Purser Dave Ramsay, beat Santa Claus to Ju- S mucu prom | ~ GERMANS BREAK HOLIDAY TRUCE ‘David Niskanen kisses i ;.u.lNaus Deny Atfack by Pa-| '{?33"%?0,’:’2.,"%:’:"52’3‘25 e frol During Christ- mas Festivities | \Gripsholm to return to his native Jle-nd and help defend the home- ,lund from invading Russian armies, 'Four hundred Finns are making o, pis pec” 25 — The French| military today reported the repulse of pre-Christmas raids by German | patrols east of the Moselle River. the crusade 3 P | Ladles Of the GO ? J German communiques said Nazi | D€3U over the weekend and brought " |troops had taken no action on in eleven passengers from island & |Christmas day. P A | The French said they had suf-| .o 0 o0 ' | fered no casualties in routing the ¥ Phe | Germans after a half hour of in- Prg;z’[’l“““(-lmm Pl ey | tantry and cannon fire. } 2 ike Stetz. From Tenakee—Nels Magnuson, Nick Grandsma, Nick Pgoezelski, HOI.IDAY Jml"v | Bill Castell, Frank Peterson, | From Hoonah—J. 'B. Mealy, Juneau observed the Christmas holiday, beginning Saturday night and extending into the early hours today. Open homes. Family dinners were generally , held on Christmas day although there were many parties Saturday night and Sunday. Sunday church services and mid- passengers were Mike McKallick, H, Q R LITTLEPAGES FLY IN ON WAY SOUTH house prevailed at many mine, Jack Littlepage, flew to town today Georgia and Jean, Air Transport Lockheed, piloted by John Amundsen. with his two daughters, | in the Alaska The three, guests at the Gas- tineau, will part tomorrow when arrived Supermtendcnt of the Chlchagofi | | aska. ‘Over a foot of snow fell temperaturés were above normal Juneau, Dec, 27.—Sunrise, 8: at Anchorage and vicinity, The over Southeast and Interior Alaska. 50 a.m.; sunset, 3:13 p.m. JAPANESE CLAIM o Assertthat 15,000 Chinese, Klfled in Recent Fight- ing Anr Raxds ‘ SHANGHAI Dec. dispatches received here that 15000 Chinese have been killed in recent fighting, north| and south of Hankow, in central China now the most active sectors in the Oriental conflict. 26— J'\pannw | 'The Japanese also report muchX fighting in north, central and| south China and said counter at- :v.ack:’ in six Provinces have been | forestalled by winter. It is admitted that the Chinese made a number of bombing attacks | late last week in the southern war | zone but the Japanese said all Chinese air bases in the Kwangsi Prinvince have been bombed and are being destroyed by retaliatory | \ raids. King Ge_orge Makes Address, Christmas LONDON, Dec. 20.—In a Christ- mas Day address, King George said that pever before in the history of | the world has there been such unity and effort for a just cause as now | displayed by France and England in | lof National Republican Committée: night masses called forth religious celebrants in larger numbers than “ever before, it is stated. ;I Nearly all windows shone with Christmas greetings and outdoor adg;’h%‘afl:rfir‘:cr};‘::‘; i*n,g;. decorations were more numerous simons of Rhode Island, member of | than in former years. ' the executive committee, and nght, b Tl & g | Hembers of the feminine contingen Mrs. Worthington Scranton, 112%, American Power and Light of Pennsylvania, vice-chairman of the committe 4, Anaconda 30%, Bethlehem Steel 81%, Commonwealth and Southern | 1%, Curtiss Wright 10%, General — Motors 54%, International Har-| vester 60, Kennecott 38, New York Central 18, Northern Pacific 8 3/4, United States Steel 66%, Pound 53.9.4, DIVORCE CASES Suits for, divorce were filed in District Court today by Benjamin P. Mahlum against Marjorie Mah- | Ium; Mabel Jim against George Jim and Nellie Shorty against Jchn Shorty. Grounds in the Mahlum case is incompatability and in the, others non-support. ————————— DOW, JONES AVERAGES | The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 149.27, rails 31.37, utilities 34.91. KETTLESONS "IN TOWN Eufi‘em' IS | Mr. and Mrs. Theo Kettleson are # |aboard the Northland for their | Sitka home after a visit in the! Aogyier . Bl ma wic T | mub KY- DEAIH south. Mr. Kettleson is in business ¢4 reidesigr s fey wswe [in Sitka and also connected with REDWOOD CITY, Cal., Dec. gs.flthe Sitka Cold Storage Company. Minute laboratory examnations fail- | e ed today to reveal the cause of the, FREIGHTER TANANA death of nineteen year old June | IN FOR CHRISTMAS ' Twohig. The freighter Tanana arrived in The Menlo Park girl dropped Juneau at §:30 Christmas eve and dead on a dance floor Saturday spent the night and Christmasday, night, on the eve of a party which, unloading coal and powder here! was to have announced her engage- | and at Dupont, saiing from here ment. | to ‘the Westward, going as far out | San Mateo county coroner Crosby | es Kodiak. |said that an examination of Miss | it Rl Twehig’s body by physicians failed | MAIL ON NORTHLAND to reveal any heart or other ail-| Eighteen pouches of mail arr ment, or nny trace of poison. | unexpectedly aboard the Nor TR i {land this forenoon, according to ATTENTION | Postmaster Albert Wile and is |'being boxed. In the dispatch wus Members Local 203 and Auxiliary jmore Christmas mail No. 34! Christmas party at the| - v Union Hall tomorrow night, Dec. 27, ROTr\RY VISITORS beginning at 9 pan.—dancing, cards, Al Johnson, PAA employee, lunch beer. Wives and sweethearts | Norman Banfield were of 203 members and husbands of|the Juneau Rotary Auxiliary members invited. adv, ak and visitors at | Club luncheon are cordially | meeting today. Gov. Ernest Gruen- ing, who was to have been a speaker ! today, was unable to attend. COMMITTEE. A }Vamo Kallio Dles | M Pelican City ! The remains of Vaino Kalllo. 56, of Pelican City, was brought, to Juneau this morning by James Paddock on his gasboat. A native of Finland, Kallio dxed last Saturday. The remains are at the Charles ‘W Carter Mortuary pending fu- \neral auangoments ,ll's Warmer AI Fairbanks than Al Sealle ' Far from having its traditional white Christmas,” Juneau enjoyed |clear and warm weather over lhe heliday week-end. Teday it w actually warmer | | here than in Seattle. The 9:30 o-! clock Juneau temperature was 41 degrees. ‘At the same time Seattle |reported 36 degrees. Even Fair- banks and Anchorage, both with 38, were warmer than Seattle. | On Christmas day pansies were picked at the power house at Men- denhall Glacier. Sunday guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs, James/ Drake on the Fritz Cove road picked | English daisies, primroses, alyssum, | | Ieeland popples and marguerite from | H.hc garden [ e — A special meeting of the Juneau‘ | City Counell will be held Thursday ' night to consider applications for| liquor hcenses R Emplr: Want Ads Bring Resulta. i | | Northern Light Presbyterian| Georgia and Jean sail south to the present war. (reenter the University of Wash- The King praised the men of both | ington for the winter quarter.They | nations now at the front, those in have been at the mine -since this| | training and gave credit to the wWo- summer, visiting, |men for their valor, - - —— The King spoke. from hls study CAROLS AT CAMP 'in the Sandringham House where the Royal family is spending the the | holiday season. G NOTICE Christmas carolers from Church went all the way out to Montana Creek on Christmas Eve| Visiting days at the Minfield to serenade CCC enrollees. The' Home will be on Sundays only, CCC boys responded with a few from now on. songs of their own. !'adv, AlarmonaNanAlr MINNIE FIELD. [AMMEUR PILOT DIES IN CRASH LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec. 26— An amateur pilot was killed when hl‘s rented airplane crashed into the | transmission tower of radio station KECA, The flier is identified as Gail | Fenwick of Inglewood, Cal. He rent- ed the plane at an airport a short | time before the crash. The col- |lision ripped a wing from the ship. ! R er FIREMEN INJURED I ISLAND BLAZE SAN FRANCISCO, Cal,, Dec. 26.— |'Three firemen were injured battling |a blaze that damaged the East Bay Ferry Terminal on Treasure Island. | The fire did damage totaling about $100,000, but was the most serious \w occur on the island since con- struction of the World Fair build- lings started several years ago. For a time a strong wind threat- ened to spread the fire from the flimsy, temporary terminal to other exposition buildings. The firemen were burhed when a sheet of flame flared into their faces as they broke down a door. The, flre a Parently sha)‘ted in paint and paintiig equipment stored in the building. e e SITKA 0 HAVE AHOTHER SALOON License for a new saloon’ at Sitka was isstied today by Clerk of Court, Robert Coughlin. The dispensary license was granted Walter H. Bacon, who has been operating a beer and wine dispen- sary ‘in the past. o Other Sitka licenses approved were: John Osbakken, retail and | restaurant; Pinkes Dentes, restaur- ant; Fenton and Black, restaurant and retajl; Oscar Tilson, retail, A club license was issued to the Ketchikan Mnose Club. Fleld B . Bat Srom News/of the Dy 'rhi. phoh was tll:en a nwment after an air uld alarm had been given at an nnidgnfim Germar airdrome. The gong suspended at right sounded the If the pistol (stuck in the tripod of, the double binocular at Teft) which shoots colored u.hu, would used to warn the pilots, Interceptor plaues are tboutwhbolhm ntgcq. alarm had come at. the Ver; ve beer J