The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 4, 1940, Page 2

2 ALASKA GETTING JOBS, SAYS GOV, - ' BEING PROPOSED Points to Naval Consiruc- fion Discrimination Despite Denials sickness, the people of on and Seattle would have te complaint for | McCurdy in the ! Entire Junegtflrea Should CONSOLIDATION OF |BOAT HARBOR IS " CHANNEL CITIES | TAKING SHAPE | FOR EARLY USE City Prepares to Call Bids for Floats - McKay Plans Ways Bids for construction of floats Loftus Is Making Cows Inspection from Petersburg and the experi- cow inspection. | Loftus flew to the Interior with PAA this morning and expects to be back here in about five weeks, visiting Railroad Belt cities and touching at towns along the coast Be Made Taxable, Is | Planning Opinion A “Greater Juneau” consolidating | Despite Indignant denials e e ks et 3 disc at 7 the populations of Juneau, Douglas, and other facilities at the Juneau| e e e the e | the rest of Gastineau Channel and small boat harbor will be ealled by "JINEE to dunens iihde ”;W scts, Alaskan work We 1-.1 el sad. Of the Glacier Hghway under one civic|the City within the next few weeks, ersburd ISECINIL fur RRLEEA, o5~ still being giv nd” [ tirades o "Boverior i i i A “““"‘}"';gdbfv;*;e‘“g"; fi?;'g;‘;fi,fip‘}‘;:;’d‘f;‘;fi « |pecially a try at crossing blue and < i o b sult of a conference hel - | edg! voel 8 SR, and | L e e -t = : officials yesterday at the office land the big General Comstruction |White foxes, is “progressing,” Lof- Ernest Gru S of Gov. Ernest Gruening. | company dredge taken in tow Mon- | 1U4S said, but added, “We won't S L MISS KASER TO I'he Governor suggested that com-|day for its return to the States.|know the results of the experiment Washington where he Wi, & littees of five members representing | The dredge will be put to work on |{or some time. R i he (wo cities form a Gastineau |the Bonneville dam. PERPTR TR T up the ‘ E TAKF TRIP OUT Channel planning board to work! Plans of the city ¢all for floats Hlp H plaints with the Navy Department P with the assistance and cooperation [to accommodate from 300 to 350 RIAGE the Gov o M i - o ON NORTH COAST { the Alaska Planning Council and [boats. The harbor wil be complet- T desplic Uie O Bt y other officials concerned in the de-|ed for use in the Spring. pROBlEM up Io erimination against Alaskan work- % velopment of the area. | The Mayor was in conference to- ers has been and s being prac-| FElisabeth Kaser is sailing on the Onie ot Merehiiie laay with Lem McKay, etchikan ticed North Coast tonight for a W overnor Gruening said today that |marine ways operator, who plans to AlASKA lI"ES One doesn't have to go beyond wecks in the States. | the present situation finds about |install a similar ways here. As soon ‘ | ol te oWl ieRniERce (o, BUss SBAATL 3 ok 21~ | () ree-fourths of the people of the |as details of financing are complet-| More ships on the Alaska run perceive this diserimination e tives in Portland :?m:(lv Channel area living within the Lwo}ed, McKay will build a $50,000 to are a pressing ncgd which will Governor said. He said no amo will return here latter part| j.orporated cities and bearing me;ns‘m ways which will accommo- become more pressing next sum-| of talk on the part of offic f February entire expense for public services date boats up to 100 feet in length. [™eT when there will be “thousands | of the contracting firms could get| This noon, Miss Kaser was @u2st| ey ioved by all, | “Much of the material for the ways |°f People wanting to come to Al- around the fact that the contract of hon an infor ncheon There are many desired facilities | has already been assembled at Ket- aska and unable to do so,” Gov. itself requires that first man the Baranof Hotel Iris|ypich the community cannot afford |chikan for transporting to Juneau,|Ernest Gruening said today. from Seattle that tr tation i for which Mrs. Robert Ben- some way is found of increas- | Enlarging on remarks he made Seattle, that tion is der was hostess, |ing the tax income. Among these| in regard to Alaska shipping fa- | workers from Seattle to the Alaska jobs but not from points Alaska to and t portation home In case « provided for Seattle the jobs ess is ers but not for A - Mrs. Phillips to ; Head Chapeladies| cilities when he first took office, | the Governor said the Adminis- tration takes the position that if the present carriers desire more ships they should request them. The problem, which he admits is| the Governor uentioned develop- ment of the waterfront to provide more home and industrial sites from | reclaimed mudflats. | If the two cities and surrounding | area could be consolidated, the Gov- Sigrid’s Beauty Salon Has Formal Opening Yesterday do not alt ts, ernor said, some saving would be| not simple, is up to the steam- 1 addi- tlection of officers was held avimade by eliminating duplicated ad- ship companies, Gov. Gruening tion to the manifest, demonstrable jast night's meeting of the Chapel- |ministrative offices and activities.| Pormal opening of Sigrid's modern | said. facts which I have mentionel, T adies, held at the home of Mrs.| Slide Area Hopeless {and beautiful Beauty Salon in the| ——— - | Max Miclke on the Glacier High-| As a result of many expert opin- Newly completed J. C. Cooper Build- | have in my prssessicr of other inf ion cates Alaskans are b what is generally the runaround ew officers for the year include: | Mrs. George Phillips, president; Mrs. Tom Bareksten, vice president; | ions consulted, those in conference | ing was held yesterday between 2 and with the Governor have concluded 9 o'clock when well-wishers called tentatively, but not conclusively, that | to inspect the new parlor which | stopping of slides in the Juneau dan- | Was crowded with floral baskets | area was probably impossible bearing cards of congratulations and | BEALE TAKES OVER GAVEL AT JUNEAU (HAMBER LUNCHEON Charles Beale today took over his duties as President of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce and presid- ed at the first meeting of the or- The Salon boasts three swankily This requires that the com- furnished booths, a dry room with available five new dryers, and two manicure | space for growth, the Governor said. units on the ground floor. Upstairs He urged that residents of the Chan- is a lounge, massage room, dispen- Dr. J. B. Loftus, Territorial Vet-| erinarian, arrived on the Yukon | " b e ' o Fra'emallle Fairbanks to begin a tour of milk| { work at e pei-| T0ast Each Other | U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAUV THE WEATHER Brifish, Nazi | [ | M (By the U, 8. Weather Sureau) Sea warrlors | Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 3:30 p.m. Jan. 4: Partly cloudy tonight, Friday probably light rain; moderate to fres easterly wind, becoming southeasterly Friday. Lowest temperature tonight about 35 degrees. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Northern portion — Increasing cloudiness, probably light rain late tonight; light rain Friday, ex- cept snow over the extreme northeastern portion; moderate to fresh easterly wind becoming southeasterly Friday. Southern portion—Rain tonight and Friday; fresh easterly wind tonight, diminishing and be- coming southeasterly Friday. Slightly warmer tonight. Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska: A disturbance off the coast of Vancouver Island moving north north- eastward will cause increasing winds over the Gulf region. Winds along the coast from Dixon Entrance to Sitka will be fresh to strong easterly tonight, diminishing Friday; from Sitka to Cape Hinchinbrook, moderate to fresh easterly, increasing Friday; and from Cape Hinchinbrook to Kodiak, moderate to fresh northeasterly, in- Participants in Great Nav- al Battle Drink Beer- BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 4—British and German seamen who fought| creasing Friday. the battle of Punta de Este, drank | LOCAL DATA beer together lat night in the night spots usually frequented by men of Time Barometer Temo. Humiaity wina Velocity ~ Weather |the sea and told each other they| 3:30 p.m. yest'y ... 2997 40 8 Calm 0 Cloudy entertained no hard feelings. | 3:30 am. today .. 2969 44 41 w 8 Clear The arrival of the British cruiser| Noon today 29.59 41 40 w 10 Cloudy Achilles on a victory visit with her teammate Ajax, which is docked RADIO REPORTS across the river Platte at Monte-| 1 TODAY video, led to numerous stag parties| Max. tempt. 1 Lowest 3730a.m. Precip. 3:3Cam with the interned Germans of the| Station last 24 hours temp. temp. 24 hours Weather scuttled Admiral Graf Spee | Anchorage 33 | 19 19 0 Pt.Cldy One British sailor, a mere lad,| Barrow 0 | -3 0 0 Clear | rested his elbow on the powerful| Nome 18 10 12 0 Clear shoulder of a German sailor, who| Bethel 18 11 15 0 Clear had manned a gun on an opposing | Fairbanks 21 | -6 10 0 Clear kattlechin, in the oreatest naval bat-| St. Paul 14 | 12 14 .01 Snow tle yet fought of the present war,’ Dutch Harbor .. 22 | 17 17 .02 Pt. Cldy una wastea eacn ouner n a tiuce | Kodiak 37 | 33 35 15 Pt. Cldy while fascinated Argentines looked | Cordova 39 | 30 31 54 Clear jon in amazement Juneau 7 | 32 44 05 Clear ————— sitka 43 | 31 0 Ketehikan 45 33 35 04 Clear B " Sh B k * Seattle 49 42 45 11 Cloudy € y afpe ac 7 Portland 49 | 44 45 48 Rain San Francisco .. 59 | 55 56 127 Clear WEATHER S A storm area prevailed this morning off the coast of Washing- ton, Oregon and Vancouver Island, with the lowest reported pres- sure of 29.47 inches. This disturcance was attended by and gales over the coast of the Pacific Northwest and Vancouver Is- land, Another storm area prevailed over the Alaska peninsula, with the lowest reported pressure of 29.37 inches at Wosnesenski Island High pressure prevailed over the MacKenzie and Yukon valleys, with the crest of 30.40 inches at Barrow. This general pressure dis- tribution has been attended by precipitation over the Alaska penin- Mother Visifs Here| Miss Betty Sharpe, employee of the Forest Service office, returned from a two-months’ vacation trip to the States and Honciulu yesterday on the steamer Yukon. The popular Juneau miss spent 10 days with friends in the Islands, and visited briefly with her sister in Seattle Accompanying Miss Sharpe from rains Ketchikan to Juneau was her moth-| sula and the southern Bering Sea region, and by generally fair er, Mrs. Walter Sharpe, who Will| weather over the remainder of the Territory. It was warmer last spend some time with her daughter night over the Tanana Valley. and son and his family in the Capi- a ‘runaround personally W and Mrs. Loren Card, secretary-|SeT went to Sitka.” reasurer, and that the area ought to be ex- Wishes for success. The Governor said he would P! were made for the next|¢luded from plans for further build- to have th the State ceting which will be held with|!P€ do not understand pla Y Tom Bareksten. Mrs. John|munities look to other to picture the 1 )<shorn will be hostess for the ses- He said that C ) project were being und ) at Present at last evening's gather- [7i®! utilize as Mueh secessible and Bremerton, for instance, and the ing were Mesdames James DeHart, | 8%able area as possible | contract provided the first men Virgil Newell, Frank Millard, Dora | T should be hired in Juneau and their Spauld Jenny Pederson, Wi ‘(U“ER'S (ooK transportation paid to the job,that liam Pederson, Frank Maier workers who might be hired later orge Phillips, Clarence Wittan- "o KEEP uGH'I' in Seattle would have to pay their nd Max Mielke. | e own way to work and that Alaskans - > - would have special privileges in ‘ Robert P. Stimble ship’s cook on | the Coast Guard cutter Haida, gets |a new job out of the recent Fed- ~-eral office shakeup in which the Lighthouse Service went under the Coast Guard, Stimble will become a lighthouse keeper at Cape Spencer, it was re- vealed today. an Empire ad. CLOTE that are CLEANED OFTEN-—Wear Longer! Send YOUR GARMENTS to TRIANGLE Thor Mode Wi FAIRBANKS DAIRY MAN GOING SOUTH Charles Creamer, farthest north dairyman, of Fairbanks, arrived in Juneau by plane with his father today from Fairbanks and will take the North Coast out for his first trip in 12 years to the Out- side. While Creamer is in the . States, his father will visit here with his sister, Mrs. A. Noyes. + Workmanship and Methods Produce that Is Sure to — e Empire Want Ads Bring Results. A e MODES o e MOMENT "mnu-u the season’s party clothes. The teatime. frocks «f these young matrons reflect i The ome at the loft tops her black frock with a turquoise wool jacket cmbroidered in gold and a velvet turban of the same color. The amber sheer wool dress at the right is worn with gold costume jewelry | fore U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray. i Morris was admitted to $1,500 bail. sary, powder room, and locker room. Furnished with taste is Sigrid’s apartment, which adjoins her new Salon. MARINE WAYS SLATED SOON Lem McKam Ketchikan Hopes to Have Work Begun This Spring Lem McKay, Ketchikan marine ways operator who plans to install a marine ways in Juneau in con- nection with the small boat harbor, arrived in town oh the Yukon last night for a brief business visit here. McKay said preliminary prepara- tions for the ways are completed and he hopes to have installation started this spring, probably the lat- ter part of April. Tonight, McKay will sail for Seattle on the North Coast for a business trip. He is a guest at the Baranof Hotel RAPE CHARGES | FIED AGAINST f YAKUTAT PAIR | Charges of rape have been filed by Assistant U. S. Attorney George Folta against Joe Vinson and Ben Lingren and of assault with intent to rape against Monte Morris. The three were arrested in Yaku- tat and were arraigned today be- | { The complaints accuse the men |of offenses against several female children under 16 years of age. NEW TERRITORIAL - PIDEMIOLOGIST HERE ON YUKON Dr. B. L. Zinhamon, who is ‘to be Director of the Division of Com- | municable Disease Control of the ‘Terrlwria.l Department of Health, arrived on the Yukon. He and Mrs. Zinnamon are living temporarily |8t the Baranof Hotel. Dr. Zinnamon, formerly Sonoma | County (California) Health Officer, | succeeds Dr, John A. Carswell, who is leaving next week for the States ."" take a new position in Wiscon- sin. IKODIAK DOUBLES IN POPULATION “INTEN YEARS | Population of Kodiak, according |to & preliminary announcement to- }d-y of the Bureau of the Census, is- 865, The figure is almost double census. Supervisor J. P. Anderson said ‘the 442 enumerated in the- miot‘_mulla. California, arrived on’ihe that reports from enumerators in-|gineer Frank Metcalf. - dicated almost half of the Kodiak | total represented new arrivals in the community and that a count taken next year would show as|for your convenienve, may be paid many again. l ganization under its new officers. Officers of the Coast Guard cut- ter Haida were guests at today's luncheon at the Baranof Hotel. - ————— Miss itobinelle Weds Karl S. Bashelier Miss Virginia Robinette, who ar- rived here recentlv from Oklahoma City, became the bride of Karl 8, Bashelier of Juneau, at a cere- mony performed last night at the Douglas home of U. S. Commission- er Felix Gray. The couple was attended by Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Brown, JUNEAU FINNISH RELIEF FUND NOW TOTALS §397.45 Total funds collected here for the Finnish Relief FPund amounted this afternoon to $397.45. Contributors are as follows: Previously acknowledged .$371.45 Gudmun Jensen 1.00 1. Goldstein 5.00 Willlam A, Hesse 10.00 Ray Ward ... . 500 Mrs. J. A, Williams 5.00 Total $397.45 MAYOR STEWART - ELECTED AGAIN INCINNATI, Ohio, Jan. 4. — Mayor James Stewart, Republican candidate, has been reelected, cli- maxing a political fight, which was deadlocked between four Republican and four Democratic councilmen, in which pension planned, the Rev. Herbert Bigelow held thc balance| 8 of power. | B - JUNEAU LADIES' AUX. WILL MEET TOMORROW A regular business meeting of the Juneau Ladies’ Auxiliary, No. 34, will be held tomorrow night at Union Hall. Starting at 8 o'clock, all members are urged to be pres- ent, { DB & o FIRE MEETING | On the business calendar for fire-| men tonight at thei rmonthly meet-' ing at the Fire Club, will be discus-| sion of the annual Firemen's Ball in February. 2 s FORTY-EIGHTERS WILL CONVENE TOMORROW AT LEGION DUGOUT HERE The 40 and 8 will hold their regular monthly meeting tomorrow | evening at 8 o'clock in the American | § Legion Dugout. | The meeting will be an important one, officers said, and plans for 1940 are to be diseussed, { —————— H MINING MAN IN ! A. E. Smith, mining man from Yukon last night to examine prop- erties in the Juneau area with En-| ot ’ NOTICE | White Spot Liquor Store accounts, at the Top Noteh Cafe. adv. tal City. Juneau, Jan. 5—Sunrise, 8:45 a.m. sunset, 3:25 p.m. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE " Juneau's Guide lo Better Buying"” READ YOUR EMPIRE EVERY DAY! from ““Cover to Cover” THEN Send It to Your The Daily Alaska Empire “JUNEAU'S GUIDE TO BETTER SHOPPING”