The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 9, 1940, Page 2

ax: !’A\Tl{l 1A JuU I St ence U ) sity fre 1an, rom 750 contestants ancollegegirl. Pas ren of the Southwe Sun Festival, typific . res of queens picked through- out the nation ea¢h year. RUTH SHELLY, ! rned t e was pick I over Miami maneuvers. BOB MIZE GOES Ralph Merrill raipn Merruis . THROUGH, YUKOH Back in Juneau Bob Mize, former Juneau b Mr. and ) Ralph serrill, popu- grac ed from the ean lar young couple, arrived in Juneau and went on to finish a college edu- on the umer Yukon and ¢ cation at v of Alask guests at Baranof Hotel visited fri here for the first| The Merr have spent the time in several years while the Yu- two and a half months in Kod kon was in port where Mr. Merrill Mize. er with the First Na- with the Standard Oil Compan tional Bank of Fairbanks, is mak- a1 Merrill is the former Miss Mary ing his first trip to the Outside in of this city many years, having never been to - the States since he came north with his family in around 1925. After spending three months leave traveling, he will stop off on hi: return trip to Fairbanks for a week in Juneau with his brother and sis- ter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Mize. HURSE RETURNS FROM TRIP TO BELLINGHAM Mar Jchnston, Te~ - - o> turned on the Northland after a COOPER SAILS month's vacation. She spent ner Certified public accountant J. C. ' ith her amily in Bell Cooper sailed on the Yukon for a ham. She is at the Gastineau Ho- brief business tel IMODE S trip to Wrangell. by Adelaide Kerr s u-tdlll' different in beach ensembles designed for coat of yellow and white printed pique. Here'’s suit and ‘have southern sands youw'll know how to dress. ———————— southern s (The coat has a plain yellow top.) been. scientifieally shrunk. The above pictures are printed in The Empire so in case you go to COBINA WRIGHT, JR., was named by leading illustrators as the most talented and attractive girl in the New York scene Mrs. Haglur{d Joins Husbafld in Sitka Mrs. Hild her husband who the position as Cox ager for the cont ject yase .eaving on the motarship North- Haglund will join ently accepted missary Man- ors on the Sitka Prior to his ¥ eparture last week for the Historic y. Haglund City of Juneau. ON VACATION TRIP was Wharfinger for THROUGH CALIFORNIA Sam Feldon, wife of City an Feldon, sailed on the r a vacation trip Outside She to spend about two months visiting friends and rela- tives in California before return- ing. - Try an Empire ad. nds, ofthe MOMENT It combines a swim Both : | Victims of Red THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, JAN. 9, 1940. death in the search for the Cham- ISTRANDED AIR pioneer {bers plane 4 . Walsh is a guest at the Hotel Ju- pASSE“fiER Is nesu and plans to “jus spend a couple of weeks” visiting in Juneau £ H 1 son of Mike Walsh, City S e Joe Walsh Was wilh Freq _ SPORT DISPUTE Chambers in Kaiyuh Hills Landing Joe Walsh, young Nome mining engineer, arriving in Juneou on the Yukon for a two weeks’ visit, related a remarkab) of a woman’s pluck and an airman’s skill in the winter-locked reaches of the Kaiyuh | Hills today | It was Joe Walsh #ho was a bas- senger with Pilot Fred Chambers and Mrs. William Jefford and her |baby when their plane was forced down with a broken oil line last month, | Walsh said they were flying at 4,000 feet over heavy fog and did |not know their exact location, but | hoped to reach a forecasted broken ‘ceiung near Nulaio. However, the | engine began to miss and they were ! forced to “mush” down through the |fog for nine minutes, expecting a crash on one of the numerous hills 'of the area momentarily. “Oil was running all over the |ship,” Walsh said, and the cabin of | the little Fairchild suddenly “filled with smoke.” Walsh said he could | not evem see Chambers sitting beside him, and “then the cnzine quit.” “Fred did a figure 1t and start- ed down through the muck,” Walsh said, “and we broke out luckily in a valley at about 1600 feet ‘“Fred put her down on a little story i." upsets in sporis troubl > were many many river and there wasn't enough| Prum Majorett: Elsie Crabtree straightaw: Coming in without | liked this costume. The dean did power, we were a litfle high and| not. Their dispute drew more when we finally got the skiis down, Fred had to take t noti cwever, than did Nevada turn of the Shidh abs T A vith k| U° vm which she genetally e ol o led out to the football ficld with “The wing didn’t anything | the college band. but just as Fred got leveled oft again, he had to raise a wing ti clear a windfall, and right past to retty to get down had to dip the same wing under another one. He did a job and we were lucky at all Safe Landing The party rigged up the antenna | to a tree and informed an anxious Alaska radio world they had “gotten down okeh,” but they could only estimate their position as somewhere near Nulato. Walsh had his sleeping bag along the only bedding in the plane nd Ms, Jefford and her fou month-old baby were put in t For wood chopping they had a little belt axe and sible to keep a fire goinz time with below zero temp holding firm. Near Drowning Walsh, safe on the ground ically had a mnarrow escape drowning shortly after landir it wa impos- all the iron- from when he plunged through the ice of the river while carrying a small treel pARM AIDE—From Gaines- fo_ gt 3 ville, Tex., comes Grover B. Luckily, Walsh hunz on to the Iyl (above), former ranchman tree which buoyed him enough so he wasn't swept under the ice, getting clothes warm and dry ag: at five below zero was “not much fun.” | The little Jefford baby ate émer- EARLE JAMESON HERE recently named assistant secre- tary of agriculture. He succeeds Harry L. Brown, who resigned. stantly in the search for the missing plane and Walsh said: “Give him That old Stinson gency rations along with everybody| Earle Jameson, former Juneau else. | newspaperman, ar ved on the “We feed him dried apples, ra: Northland for a visit in Alaska. and pretty near everyhing,” Wa |He is a brother of M i A Y said. “He seemed to do all right | Faulkner. In recent ye ameson but it's luckly Jack Jefford came|has been engaged in radio and over and dropped supplies when h»! fiction w . in addition to pub- did. We were, down to dried egzs!lishinz a 1l new: at Ho- then.” | quiam, Wash Credit to Jefford | - 4 | Jefford, brother-in-law of the/ stranded Mrs. Jefford, flew con-|MRS. CLIFFORD IS | ON VACATION TRIP | Mrs. Earl Clifford sailed south on the steamer Yukon this morning for a trip of about six weeks in the States. While in Seattle, Mrs. Clifford will visit with her sister Miss Iris Moore. KIMBALL ENDS VISIT Orrin Kimball, ficket agent for the Northland Transportation Com- plenty of credit. | | sure looked good to us.” | | Jefford, having located the party,| | | advised search parties of their locs tion and a dog team brought the stranded group in safely. Walsh said Mrs. Jefford was “a | brick. | | “She never complained at all, an. | she had the hardest job, taking ¢ of her baby.” pany office here, returned on the ‘ . Pleasure at rescue was dampened ,motorship Northland from a Vvisit |for Walsh, however, whose years|in Ketchikan with bis father, \long friend Hans Mirow, met his| brother and sister-in-law. Air Raid 8 i Victims of Russian bombing raids on Helsinki, these civilian casualties are cared for in a temporary hospital, a former restaurant. Many of the Finnish capital’s finest cafes have been pressed into such service. Mrs. Callin Passes Away Wife of U. fiepuiy Mar- shal at Haines Dies Suddenly s. H. M., Callin, wife of Deputy States Marshal at Haines, passed away yesterday afternoon at 2:55 o'clock at the family home at ) to advices re- cefved by Wwilliam A. Holz-| heimer Mrs. Callin, who has been suffer- ing from heart trouble, was improv- ing around the holidays, and in a} letter to Mrs. Holzheimer stated | that her cond 50 much bet- | ter that she would come to Juneau! cn a visit. Her death indicated how- ever, a sudden attack. | M: Callin, who was about & vears cf age, had resided in Haing: for the past six years. Previously,, che resided in Ketchikan where she and Mrs, Holzheimer were the cles- est of frien “She was a most| remarkable woman,” sald Mrs. Holz- heimer, “whese friendship was pro- ncunced and desired M i band, daugl 5 7 her hus- | 15 years of Mona Friediander Named as one of eight women pilots who will ferry new army planes from British factories to airdromes and thus relieve male pilots for com- bat duty was Mona Friedlander, 25. ! Mrs. U. 5. DEPARTMENT OF jAGRICULTURE, WEATHER BURE THE WEATHER (By the U. 8. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 3:30 p.m., Cloudy, occasional light snow tonight and Wednesday; variable winds. Minimum temperature tonight about 27 de Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Cloudy with occasional light over northern portion and occasional light rain over the southerr Little change Jan. 9: moderate rees. no' 1 portion. Moderate variable winds, mostly northerly. in temperature, Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska. A weak pressure field over the Gulf will cause gentle to moderate winds over the entire Gulf region. Winds along the coast from Dix- on Entrance to Cape Hinchinbrook will be moderate northeastorly; and from Cape Hinchinbrook to Kodiak, moderate east and northeasterly. 4 LOCAL DATA ‘ime Barometer Temo Humiaitv wina Velocity ~ Weather 3:30 p.m. yest'y 29.86 0 65 SSE 4 Cloudy 3:30 a.m. today 29.78 30 91 s 3 Snow Noon today 2077 5 481 88 w 4 Cloud< RADIO REPORTS TODAY Max, tempt. Lowest 3:30am. Precip 3:3Cam Station last 24 houre temp. temp 24 hours Weather Atka 36 | 35 36 1.19 Cloudy Anchorage 21 ( 14 14 Cloudy Barrow 7 5 17 Clear Nome, 20 10 10 Clear Bethel 21 10 19 Cloudy Fairbanks 0 -8 0 Snow St. Paul . b 32 33 Cloudy Dutech Harbor .. 43 40 41 Rain Kodiak 31 21 31 Snow Cordova 30 22 23 Clear Juneau 31 28 30 Snow Sitka 35 29 Ketchikan 35 30 32 Cloudy Seattle 51 | 39 40 Cloudy Portland 41 | 38 0 Cloudy San Francisco .. 59 56 a7 Rain WEATHER SYNOPSIS The barometric pressure has fallen hlightly over most of aska during the past 24 hours, a storm area being centered over the southern Bering Sea with lowesy reported pressure 2017 inche a short distance southwest of St. Paul Island. The storm area notéd yesterday morning as being off the coast of Northern California has remained about stationary and has decreased some- what in intensity, This general pressure disiribution has b g ténded by generally fair weather over British Columbia and by pre- clpimtjpx'y over the remainder of fhe field of observation. It W warmer last night over the Tanana Valley and colder over the Se ard , Peninsula, and over the Prince William Sound region and Cook Inlet, Juneau, Jan. 10—Sunrise, 8:42 a.m.; sunset, 3:3¢ pm. ¢ ! RMANS 60 SOUTH | ON STEAMER YUKON Wi garman and her son Lloyd sailed on the Yukon to spend an indefinite time in Se- attle and California. Lloyd Jarman will school in California. - - enter MRS. RUSSELL IS TO BUY SPRING FASHIONS Mrs. Dan Russell of Leota's Sam- le Shop sailed south on the Yu- kon, She plans to spend a month on the Pacific Coast buying spring fashions. Charter No. 5117 pu Section 5211, U. S. Revised Statutes REPORT OF CONDITION OF THE ¢ First National Bank of Juneau in the Territory of Alaska, at the close of business on December 30, 1939, hed in response to call made by Comptroller of the Currency, under Reserve District No, 12 MONEY MATTERS —That billion-dollar word, budget, poked its head into the - news when Harold D. Smith ASSETS (above), U. S. budget director, 1. Loans and discounts (including $82.76 overdrafts) $ 537,270.97 Wwas summoned by F.D.R. for 2. United States Government obligations, direct and guaran- i talks ::‘::d’ blld‘lfl to be pre- sty 433,075.00 S next congress. 3. Obligations of States and political subdivisions 32.2501!01 a6 e 4. Other bonds, notes, and debentures 157,115.62 6. Cash, balances with other banks, including reserve bal- | i ¥ 15% ance, and cash items in process of collection 854,026.21 q T 1 7 Bank promises owned $3000000, furniture and fixtures . Canadian Biscount $4,950.00 e . 54950.00 B. M. Benrends Bank (Bank premises owned are subject to none liens not | adv assumed by bank) First - National = Bank. 8. Real estate owned other than bank premises 2,505.00 12. TOTAL ASSETS $ A $2,071,192.80 LIABILITIES | 13. Demand deposits of individuals, partnerships, and cor- porations $ 55012691 14. Time deposits of individuals, partnerships, and corpora- ! 2 “QW % 875,905.85 | 15. Deposits of United States Government (including postal | savings) 117,660.19 | 16. Deposits of States and political subdivisions lll.667.47£ 17. Deposits of banks 5 158,384.07 18. Other deposits (certified and cashier’s checks, etc.) 56,827.55 | 19, TOTAL DEPOSITS $1,879,571.04 24. TOTAL LIABILITIES - 31.879.571.04: | CAPITAL ACCOUNT ‘ 125, Capital stock: i () Common, total par $50,000.00 $ 50.000.00 26. Surplus 125‘000,00} 27. Undivided profits 1662176 EESHTLOET | 29. TOTAL CAPITAL ACCOUNTS ... $ 191,621.76 e B | | 30. TOTAL LIABILITIES AND CAPJTAL ACCOUNTS .82,0‘11,192.80} MEMQRANDA 31. Pledged assets (and securities loaned) (book value): | (a) United States Government obligations, direct and guaranteed, pledged to secure deposits and other | liabilities SRR AL T B 354,125.00 o l (b) Other assets pledged to secure deposits and other | liabilities (including notes' and bills rediscoimted and securities sold under repurchase agree- ment) 101,887.50 (e)ed Imbm‘;o’l‘AL ... $ 45801250 | YOUR SAVINGS 32, Secur es: (a) Deposits secured by pledged assets pursuant to :::‘S:QEEXNQREA;P;ST;;TA? requirements of law - e § 142,108.22 ER RETURNS WITH THE @ TOTAL $ 14210822 sna Territory of Alaska, City of Juneau, ss: Au rEnEBAL 1, E. McClain, cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly savings and Lm Asfl. swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge | of Juneau and belief. E. McCLAIN, Cashier. TELEPHONE 3 CORRECT—Attest: JOHN RECK, WALLYS S. GEORGE, A. M. MILL, Directors. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 8th day of January, 1940. J. B. BURFORD, Notary Public for Alaska. (SEAL) My commission expires February 14, 1942, B