The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 27, 1939, Page 2

1939. ~ [PIONEERS | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 27 ——————————————————————————————— Nazi Freighter Seeks U.S. in Flight from British War Vessel < U. S. PEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAUV THE WEATHER (By the U. 8. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning a Light rain tonight and Thursda; moderate lowest temperature tonight about 36 degrees. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Light rain tonight and Thursday,. 3:30 p.m., Dec. 27: southeasterly wind; - | | southeasterly wind, strong tonight over sounds and s ts, and | strong southerly over Lynn Canal. ‘7 = 5 TR Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska: % i Chflstmas FUnd DIS'I’IbU'ed Winds along the coast from Dixon Entrance to Sitka will be strong P 1 | east southeasterly tonight, diminishing and becoming southerly i to Oldtimers at | Thursday; from Sitka to Cape Hinchinbrook, strong easterly, from | < I Cape Hinchinbrook te Kodiak, strong northeasterly [ Sitka Home } LOCAL DAT» —_— | ‘Ime Barometer Temo Humidity wina Veloeity Weather * i | . The W. D, Gross Fund for the| 3:30 p.m. yest'y .. 2999 39 84 s 6 Cloudy , i | Pioneers at the Sitka was| 3:30 am. today . 20.71 42 64 ESE 20 Cloudy | 1arge enough to provide the sum of| Noon today 29.00 42 62 ESE 16 Lt. Rain } $11 for. each of the 197 residents 'y They received the amount on Christ- RADIO REPORTS b mas Day, according to advices re TODAY ceived by Mr. oss from Superin- | Max. tempt. Lowest 3:30am. Precip. 3:3Cam tendent Eiler Hansen of the Pion- Station last 24 hours temp. temp. 24 hours Weather | eers’ Home. Atka 27 | 20 24 0 The total amount was .suhxmbed} Anchorage 39 | 24 27 0 1 % s {from many sections in the Pacific| Barrow 17 | 10 10 0 Cloudy A G y.n‘.:'dfifi:n. t ship, Arauca, fled inside United States te 1 waters off Fort Lauderdale, Florida, a British cruiser soughtto seize i} ms‘a_prize of war. The Arauca fl:lr‘;\‘i:“::‘;llgr “::SAV;'I";I‘;S cities mm‘\ gg?}:{;l 10 | -1: -1: _oé Z}i\::' foreground), is shown awaiting a pilot to take it into Pist Everglades. In background, extreme right in circle, is the warship at the three-mile limit. |l St ok thi om el | i P | 2 : 2 S - 3 » 7 s 7 3 ;‘ionr.‘ Mr. l::" ]smd. the freevwmi‘ St. Paul 8 “ 5 5 0 Clear A ~ ! S A l ' | donations being larger than in pre-| Dutch Harbor .. 22 20 21 05 Cloudy Works for His Ex-Chauffeur First Canadian Contingent Arrives in England |reouras = ompom) pupmer -2 | B & 2 Sa g = and spontaneously given. | Juncau 4 35 a2 " Cloudy . %, . TR ” Vri & i P 3 - | sitka 40 | 36 0 T : B b s Ketchikan 48 36 48 08 Foggy e { } # . 'WILL SEE DAUGHTER | Seattle m | 30 32 0 Foggy | Portland 44 38 41 07 Cloudy WEDDED, FEBRUARY! san wsoncisco . 55 | 49 50 03 Cloudy e { WEATHER SYNOPSIS Mrs. B L Paulkder satledan. el The disturbance that was in the lower Gulf of Alaska ye steamer Yukon this morning to join| day has advanced northw with the lowest reported cer her daughter Jean in San Fran-| Suré of 2870 inches this morning at latitude 53 degree: M cisco. | lcngitude 146 degrees west. A trough of low pressure extended acros Jean is to be married in February.! Her mother expects to be south lur‘ from two to three months. | > | PEARCES ON VACATION | Mrs. George Pearce and daughter, | Valeria Pearce, left today on the| Interior Alaska to Barrow and pressure was high over the Bering Sea The weather has continued cloudy over most of Alaska with light snow over the western portion and scattered light rain over South- cast Alaska and along the coast o' the Gulf of Alaska. Temp: tures were much lower over th: Interior and Western Alaska this morning. Junean, Deec. 28.—Sunrise, 8:50 a.m.; sunset, 3:14 p.m. at,” philosophizes W. Tilden P. Hazard, 42, Harvard Wall Street broker, as he works in the New York Gaibrois, chauffeur to the Hazard own waiting on a customer, verybody has to e graduate and one-time City butcher shop owned by Charle family 15 years ago. Hazard is s CORDOVA LOSES VALDEZ GAI Decrease Only 102 at Cop- per River Town-Other Shows 82 Increase The first contingent of Canadian embarking at an unidentified En P. Andersc MANY CALLED RUSS COLORS s A Ny 114 ] RISTMAS SPREE (0STS CELEBRATOR STIFF JAIL TERM (K = MOSCOW, Dec Reliable but inofficial sou report Soviet a has called more men to the to supplement her vast arm: estimated in some qua 4,500,090. The not disclosed. ters number at lled up is © celebrat- intensive training boore being sent to the Western Frent. combat troops te a nive m England since the war began is shown dis- glish port after crossing the Atiantic. The Canadians are to undergo Picture radioed frem Londo nto New York. | any of the family are able to get | down.” | “The family” is 22-year-old El- speth—she answers to "Jane who drives a general hundreds of miles every week in her job as a member of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry Service, and Edmund, 15, now at his father's old school at Tonbridge, Kent. Edmund, of course, plans to enter the army. ACTIVE £ 5575 Wite of Chief of taff Is as MANY PLANTO War-Busy as Her ATTEND SKi | { ing, I before U -es | rd de f 5,0 Giray & | L o s ety Hgtn CHAMBEE TOMORROW Husband DINNER DANC and the Coppe nd N - entenced to three months in A report on the year's activities W Railr ' will be submitted by the Secretary A la 102 p \ded guilty to at tomorrow's luncheon meeting By JACK CULMER 1630 ¢ ccordin B aone of the Juneau Chamber of Com-| LONDON, Dec. 27. — Working | Year's Eve dinner dance are com- reau of Census. f April of merce at the Baranof Hotel. almost as hard as any British mil- |ing in fast according to Warren Cord cabin. He - — itary leader to help win the war Eveland, chairman of the social er four IN THE 18TH century, in is Lady Mariot Ysobel Ironside,|committee, and a large crowd is ex- ldez population, als jail France, every window MODES s MOMENT by Adelaide Kerr Frosty white and silver is this debutante’s holiday party frock which is banded with ribbons of paillettes. She wears it with a white fox cape topped with an Eskimo hood and fastened with a jeweled elip. One more white touch appears in her bouquet which Irene Hayes arranged in a lace cup, Ironside, 59-year-old chief of Brit-|Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel and ain’s Imperial General Staff. | those wishing to attend are urged | | Since Ironside was called back |to leave their names at the hotel | to Britain last July from the com-|desk as soon as possible. | parative retirement of Gibraltar,| Special entertainment, favors and | where he was Governor of that ! Doisemakers will be features of the small but important British col-|0ccasion. Dinner will be served at ony, Lady Ironside has seen her | 9:30 o'clock and there will be danc- ing throughout the evening. - STORE BUILDING BEING REMODELED | husband only five times, “He literally lives at the War O! | fice,” (- | al ! she said recently. Gener: ide swapped jobs with “Tiger’ the 5,-year-old Viscount |who is commanding the British | Expeditionary Force in France. | Ironside relinquished his post as| | Director-General of the overseas| fores to succeed Gort as Chief of of the U. and 1. Lunch prémises at Staff. | 15 g i As professional head of the Brit- |00 SO0 Franiin Svect at & cot) ish Armj, Tronside is responsible| o, oue qic® G RN 0 Lo | for the training and shipment ofchnjpmy_ ¢ troops to the front. ’ | The permit calls for remodeling In a tiny village in the wilds Of | of (ne interior of the store building, | HorigiK, ‘e Eritain's Bast Coast, | pgallation of plumbing and wiring, {Lady Ironside virtually is eom-|copstruction of a new stairway to the | mander-in-chief of the local home gecond floor and building of a new front. | store front. Seven iles from the nearest| oOn completion, the new quarters railroad station, with no shops and | will be occupied by Henry Yurman, no movies, the village has only &, furrier. twice-daily bus seryice to Nor-| e etine o Jea Tomonow for Miss K. Torkelson | ficer, is responsible for the wel-| A tea will honor Miss Katherine | | fare of the 80 mothers and chil-| | dren evacuated from big cities. Torkelson, Past Grand Love of ssembly of Order of 1 Many of the self-imposed war- | time tasks of this gray-eyed wo- | man is keeping the evacuees happy. Rainbow Girls for the State of Washington and Alaska, in the Blue Room of the Scottish Rite | And it's no mean job to make en- tertainment in an isolated village Temple between 2 and 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. for women and children born and Miss Torkelson is in Juneau bred to the exeitements and amuse- ments of town life. In addition to serving on every village committee, Lady Ironside| spending the holiday season with has turned her cottage into a Red|relatives and during the tea hours tomorrow she will give a few high- lights of her part in the last Grand Assembly held at Tacoma. Cross first aid post and has organ- Arrangements for the occasion | A building permit ‘for. rémodeling c - ized an anti-gas training course for the village. She also is learn- ing to drive an ambulance. Lady Ironside tries to visit Lon- are supervised by Misses Naomi don once a week to attend meet- Forrest, Ann Lois Davis and La- ings of various civic bodies. | nore Kaufmann. “There is always a chance I - > shall be able to see my husband,”| THOMAS JEFFERSON, one of she said. “But I have to spend a America’s great Democrats, learned llot of time at the cottage; you see|some of his democratic concepts ln. must be always ready in caseifrom his father, Peter Jefferson. J FOR YURMAN. USE | Yukon to spend a month’s vacation visiting relatives in Oregon. - VAN MAVERN OUT Mr. and Mrs. A. Van Mavern sailed on the Yukon this moning for Seattle and their annual trip Outsid They expect to be south for several weeks. DIESEL MAN HERE H. F. Schaub, Cummins Dicsel man, is stopping at the Baranof Hotel, coming in from Ketchikan on the Mount McKinley today. > RECEIVES TREATMENT . Liva was admitted to St. Ann’s Hospital last evening and was dismisseG today after receiving treatment. e GOES TO HOSPITAL Edward Phillips was admitted last eveming to the Government Hospital where he is receiving medical eare LAGERGREN OUT Ear] Lagergren sailed on the Yu- kon this morning to resume his stu- dies at the University of Wash-| ington. BATTELLO SAILS Gildo Battello of the North Trans- fer, went out on the Yukon this {morning, called south by the sud-| Reservatiens for the Ski Club New , q., il]:ess of his momé’r in West! Seattle. R ELKS MEET TONIGHT The Elks will meet tonight as us- was taxed. middle-aged, gray-haired wife of|pected to be on hand for the festi- P " ety e it | ot Eagi: 4 ual in a regular business session, ——— |“Big Bill” General Sir Edmund | vities. The affair will be held in the according togAcv.ing Secretary Wil- | liam R. Garster. | ———— GETS DIVORCE i | 1 | | | An uncontested divorce was weon in Reno, Nev., recently by Mrs. Marguerite Sykes Chrysler from Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., young son | of the automobile manufacturer. | Details of the beautiful socialite’s charge of mental cruelty were not made public. The young Chryslers were married in New York City in | April, 1938. Property rights were | seftled out of court. EARLY BIRD 22:—A seven-| mothering a| PARIS, Tenn., Dec. month-old pullet is | prood of nine chicks on the farm of W. T. Bell. The young White Rock hen stole a nest with ten/ eggs and bhatehed the nine chicks. Nor- mal age for setting hens is from 12 to 18 months, in a honey-suckle thicket) | ERSKINE WL~ Tells of Red Profs ‘Promi.':ent isI;fid Business \ Man Visits Here on | Way Westward Enroute to Kodiak where he will, among other things, build 100 new | homes, W. J. Erskine was a Juneau |visitor today. He and Mrs. Ers- kins are heading back to their | boeming community after a visit to California and Seattle. They at- tended the wedding of their daugh- ter at Berkeley. The houses will be put up in units |of 10 on a tract which E ine has | subdivided. They will be sold to |meet a large demand existing at ‘growing Kodiak. While in Juneau today during| Major Hampton Wilson ¥ |the stop of the steamer Mt. Mc- | 1.1.N. Phonephoto N | Kinley, Erskine conferred with Ter- faior Hampton Wilson appearing | ritorial officials regarding equip- pefore the Dies Committee on un- ' ping the Griffin Memorial Hospital American Activities, in Washing- {of which he is a director. ton, said one to five percent of all' e —— faculty members are in sympathy ‘I”WP’Z N A | ALASKAN they are “taught they can be more | valuable as fellow travelers.” Telephore 713 or write The Alaska Territorial Employment Service | | | Togday and Everyday the Better Foods Are Served at the BRUNSWICK CAFE CAB DRIVER-LABORER — Male, married, age 57. Several years ex- periece in driving taxi. Acquainted E Ilocally. Other experience includes ! working in logging, sawmills, mines, ? and general common labor. Call ; for ES 34. h (¥ ! ———— | { "Chinese and UNITED STATES bean produc- |} “Special Breakfasts, Lunches, E tion decreased this year by almost | Dinner: 5 i 2,000,000 bags. ? : — Seat7LE BREwiN & MaLTing Co. Since 1848 % Emil Sick, President L A. MACHINISTS LOCAL 514 "IN THE A. F. OF L HALL MEETS MONDAY 7:30 P. M.