The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 11, 1940, Page 2

12 Box Office Rates Them OW +1 _THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JAN. 11 I 1l | |Census Su 1940. Last Sunimer's | POPULATION Posteard OF ALA S K A j‘Finally Arrives | Mailed at Ketchikan last June 23, a postcard was received here yes- [ | 'The slow mail was addressed to H. B. Brown, who lives at 121 Goid | Street, by a friend who starts off | his message with: “Well, it's about |time I was dropping you a card.’ pervisor States DISPUTE - SETILED ~ ONSHIP McKinley W Sail from U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAI THE WEATHER (By the U. 8. Weather Sureau) ¥ Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginsing at 3:30 p.m., Jan. 11: Increasing cloudiness tonight and Friday; gentle westerly wind. Minimum temperature tonight about 26 degrees. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Fair tonight, increasing cloudi- ness Friday; little change in temperature. Gentle to moderate west and northwesterly wind. Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Winds along the coast from Dixon Entrance to Cape Hinchinbrook will be moderate west and northwesterly; and from Cape Hinchin- brook to Kodiak, moderate westerly. The Ketchikan postmark on the | First Division Tofal card is dated June 23, 1939, The fo Be 25,000 | Juncau postmark is January 8, | 1940. Mrs. Brown found the card in their postoffice box yesterday. Postoffice officials were at a loss | to explain where the card hadbeen for the past six months. NEW COACH | 15 SELECTED ATSTANFORD Cark Shaug]flessy Is Ap-‘ pointed Successor fo "“Tiny"" Thornhill PALO ALTO, Cal, Jan. 11.—The| . [ | .‘&z Fl BRInGE appointment of Clark D. Shaugh- E nessy, 47, Chicago, as football di- | rector, is announced by President ANCISCO, Jan. 11.—Four | Wilbur. ere injured and 38 others| Shaughnessy, who has been coach en up on the San Fran-|at Chicago University which an- Seattle — Defails Nof Given SEATTLE, Jan. 11.—Ed Coest- er, Business Agent for the Sail- ors Union of the Pacific, said the dispute which tied up the steamer Mount McKinley, has been settied. The Alaska Steamship Com- pany has announced a new sail- ing date for January 20, at 9 a. m. Coester did not give details of the dispute settlement. The dispute arose last week when sailors and firemen asked their living quarters be moved from the forecastle to amid- ships. Meanwhile, the Alaska went into commission, to take the Saturday sailing of the Alaska Steamship Company to South- east and Southwest Alaska ports. e SITKA WORKER QUITS, CHARGES DISCRIMINATION LOCAL DATA Barometer Temp Humiditv wina Velocity =~ Weather 29.52 34 9% N 3 Rain 29.93 30 87 Calm [ Clear 30.10 30 ki w 2 Cloudy RADIO REPORTS ‘t1me 3:30 p.m. yest'y 3:30 a.m. today Noon today hat the 1940 census 's population to 000" was made is Supervisor J. P. 1930 total was 59,- TODAY 8:30a.m. Precip. 3:3Cam. temp. 24 hours Weather 5 0 Clear 0 BlowingSnow 4 Snow 06 Cloudy Snow Rain Clear Cloudy Clear Clear Max. tempt. last 24 hours Lowest Station temp. Anchorage Barrow Nome Bethel Fairbanks St. Paul Dutch Harbor Kodiak Cordova Juneau Sitka Ketchikan Seattle Portland San Francisco First Division in- population will run in 00 in comparison with | s ago, he said. lules for four towns where complete have been or Washington, | Juneau, in the final | more than 5,800, 1e Channel popula- d at 7,500. | e — Rain Smoky Foggy Rain, Fog 29 30 55 WEATHER SYNOPSIS The low pressure area that was over the northern portion of the Gulf of Alaska yesterday morning has moved rapidly eastward and this morning it was centered over northwestern Canada. Low pressure continued over the Aleutians an dnorthward to Barrow, while high pressure prevailed over the mortheastern portion of the North Pacific Ocean. This general pressure distribution has been attended by precipitation over the Interior and western portions of Alaska and over the southern portion of Southeast Alaska, and by generally fair weather over the northern portion of Southeast Alas- 50 60 shows these stars to have been amon ckey Rooney (center). No. 2 > (lower, left), No. 5 is Shirley '] spectively, are Alice Faye, Errol een eight two, there many more f I knov 1 to be thankful an be thankf breaths, and for oceasior and for he people rrow y do the sun- into the eaves spa if there hat is happened e i1 AMO) A\ ¥ MENT ki * Anne Gwynne of the movics likes eulottes for golf and bowhing. Here she wears slate blue ones (elasticized at the waistline), with a striped shirt. The fabric is a mixture of rayon and wool. With snow on the ground, Juncau women who do not play golf will be interested in the costume from a bowling standpoint. Then Cz lank. There wa And befor d was Babe R 1. 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When 3 every day, and 1 to say, is who lived 1 come ugh the ne: it 1s aln Ship idea how real say to Commerce, they have h they were af when two busses col- result of skidding. the first collision since the open for traffic four was < >0 OF FLINT HROUTE T0 URITED STATES Seized as German War Prize, Released, Is On Way Home OSLO, Jan. 11.—It is disclosed that the City of Flint, once captured 1s a war prize of thé German Navy later released in Norway, saiied I several days ago from and for it is reported the City of Flint is irrying a cargo of “bulk goods.” >oo / YORK, Jan 11.—The Am- raft industry faced the Year with approximately $550,~ 000,000 worth of orders on its books, the Aeronautical Chamber of This compares with only $153,- at the start of 1939. Nearly f the current volume was received mid-October, nearly all for ex- port e s (RAIG HARBOR the Long- a matter of what you m ierer At VANCOUVE An accusec old Roy 'Whit suicide in !} j re. He is ted to r is charge v i a Fernie, B hant, \ m Ingram, during t obbery. CUSTOMS OFFICE AT PETERSBURG ~ (LOSED FOR TIME ¢ Pe! will while th to Ketchika mpors tt > the Dep: Collector in > at the Fir d here { Customs. J ¢-two-year i | | | MOORING STA. RECOMMENDED WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—Recom= 'mendations that a mooring station | be provided in the south cove of Craig Harbor by dredging to a depth of 11 'feet over a width of 225 feet nce of 700 feet is made today by the U. S. Army 11. — | Engineel The development will include a ttempted 100-foot wide entrance channel It is estimated the cost will be White House | $80,000. - — Goldstein Rin Is Ouf of Piclure The GColdstein Building skating rink, where ice has formed in the basement of the fire-razed structure, is “no more” as far as the Juneay Police Department is concerned. Chief of Police Ralston today there threw up his hands in despair and said: “If the kids don’t want a skat- ing rink there and keep throwing debris maliciously on the ice, I can’t, to- do anything about it.” It had been planned to make the Hillard old basement a downtown rink for ; to Ketehi- |children. 1 tomorrow. MENDENHALL ICE GOOD; CABIN OPEN% Ice on Mend five to six noon, ace A. W. Chippe be good tonight kakatera' cabin will be open. inck field. LADIES' NIGHT AT EKS’ C(LUB 1 Lake was from | s thick this after-| to District Ranger Skating should | wivi he said, and the|joyed bowling, cards, dancing and Ladies night at the Elks Club last ht attracted a large crowd of both s and members. The guests en- n late supper, B1G SUCCESS. | nounced recently it has abandoned |grid games for next season, suc- ceeds “Tiny” Thornhill, removed | e MORGAN REPORTS SITKA IS BUSY Sitka represents a ‘“nice picture” ‘0! building and progress, according |to Tom Morgan of_ the Columbia | Lumber Company, who returned| on the Northland this afternoon |after a roundtrip to the Historic |City with his wife and son. | Morgan said work on the new| | Sitka Hotel is ahead of schedule land considerable other building work is keeping Sitkans busy. The Sitka mill of the Columbia | Lumber Company is working stead- | ily, Morgan said, giving employ- ment to quite a few local resi- fdents‘ and Petersburg logger Gor- don McDonald is logging across (larence Gainor Sa ys He Will File Complaint | with Labor Board | Charges of gross discrimination against Alaskan workers on the Sitka naval air station construction project were made here today by Clarence Gainor, an employee of the Seims - Drake - Puget Sound Company, who left his job assert-| edly to file a complaint with Na- tional Labor Relations Board repre- | sentatives. | Gainor arrived on the Northland. His home is at Juneau. \ According to Gainor, he and other workers who were qualified for advanced pay jobs were em- ployed first as common laborers by | the contractors, then shifted tof skilled positions and refused the regular union scale of wages. When the workers protested, they were from Sitka at Deep Inlet. Rt o2 FIFTEEN COME | IN FROM SITKA Fifteen passengers came in rrom{ Sitka this afternoon on the motor- ship Northland. Arrivals were Mr. and Mrs. Tom A. Morgan, Tom Morgan, Jr., Harold | | Foss, A. Scarbo, Lt. J. A. Stilger, M. Matsuda, Neil Anderson, C. H.| | Metcalfe, Fred Wendt, T. A. Sween- | !ey, A. E. Glover, R. C. Gaynor, Ern- |est Weita and Ben Bellamy. MARSHALL T0 AUCTION (HAPMAN ACCORDION, | An accordion belonging to Eldon Chapman will be sold by a Mar-| shal's Deputy at the front door of the Federal Building January 15 at’ 10 o'clock in the morning to sat- isfy a judgment obtained by A. M. Uggen. Chapman is under arrest at Ket- chikan on a charge of obtaining money under false pretences in connection with sale of an accor- dion. ' NEW INFLA! ‘ {]Ilpfllfik INUSE New balloon inflaiion shelter on the roof of the Federal Building was used for the first time last night by the Weather Bureau. The nightly balloon ascension was Wit- nessed by 20 Boy Scouts from the Legion and Northern Light' troops, who paid a visit to the local office. A new coaxial lead-in cable for the radio-sonde recelving instru- ment is also ready for use. Ralston Profests As Street Crew andsSheels Ninth Street and Gold Street are closed to up-and-down automobile traffic, and Chief of Police Dan for children’s coasting: This morning at City Hall Gar- age, remembering his own- coasting days, Chief Ralston -“raised Cain” with street crews that had sanded some of the intersections; . “It slows the kids up too much” Ralston complained—and the street. crews stopped their sabotage. Ralston warned drivers against traffic on the restricted coasting hills- and says every intersection Ralston has set aside ihese streets|pany removed from higher paid posi-i | tions and put back to work as common laborers, Gainor reported. Other ‘men from the common labor crews were then hired to take their places as skilled workers at the regular wage rate for skilled labor, he claimed. ! Pay Protested Under the wage agreement, Gain- or and two other employees, Ross Carlyle of "Sitka and Leo Jones of Juneau, were to get 85 cents an hour for common labor and $1.10 as experienced riggers, he said. The three were first hired as common laborers’ and then transferred to riggers’ jobs at no increase in pay, according to Gainor. | Gainor said he wrote a letter of protest to R. L. Dyer, employment officer for the contractors, after which a three-man arbitration board consisting of Oscar I. Hall,| general superintendent for con-! struction, Assistant Superintendent Ralph Keenan, and Ross Wells, un- ion delegate from Seattle, met to consider the case. As a result of the arbitration, the contractors agreed to pay one of the three men, Gainor, $1.10 an | hour but refused the same to the other two men who had not sent in a complaint but who, Gainor claims, were entitled to the same wages for doing the same work. “Demoted” Is Charge When the three men protested this action, they were taken off their jobs as riggers and put back on common abor, Gainor charges. But, according to Gainor, they still have extra wages for 48 days coming for services performed as skilled rig- gers. Gainor stated that other workers had been discriminated against in the same fashion, citing one' casé in which an air compressor worker, who was entitled under the labor agreement to skilled wages at $1.50 an hour, was given only 85 cents an hour, When this worker pro- tested at this unfair practice, he was placed back on common labor, Gainor declal %suy ‘Gainor' charges that the contrac- tors’ arbitration board has not been air to Alaskans who are employed on the naval air station project, and that, as it consisted of two con- men and one Seaitle union delegate with whom the contractors have an agreement, there was little chance for Alaskans to secure fair treatment from either the contrac- tors or the arbitration board. Men are_quitting the job every day in dissatisfaction, he said. A number of additional workers from the States arrived at Sitka this week on the Northland, 'Gainor ka and over the Gulf of Alaska. aska was in the form of rain and snow. he; avy freezing rain at 8 a.m. The precipitation over western Al- Unalakleet reported a It was warmer this morning over the Kuskokwim and lower Yukon valleys. Juneau, Jan. 12.—Sunrise, 8: 40 a.m.; sunset, 3:37 p.m. REGULATIONS ROUSING IRE Wallgren Pufs Fisheries Men on Spot Befare House Group WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—Repre- sentative Mon S. Wallgren of the State of Washington, told Bureau of Pisheries officials testifying be- fore the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries sub-committee today that 1940 regulations covering fish- ing” in Alaskan waters are entirely too drastic. ‘Wallgren questioned W. B. Bowers, Chief of the Alaska Service, and Dr. P. A, Davidson, Chief of Bio- logical Laboratories as to the reason for the fifty percent curtailment of fishing in certain Alaska waters. Wallgren said he had written Ickes demanding a reason for the curtailment and added he would do his utmost to have the regula- tions relaxed. Bureau officials said they believed the restrictions necessary and made the best survey possible with the limited funds at their command. ., — Walter Had Most Rain 'Station Reports 255.23 In- ches for Year-Double Juneau Tofal Rainfall at Little Port Walter, wettest spot in ' Alaska, was more than twice that of Juneau in the year just closed, according to re- ports received by the U. S. Weath- er Bureau office here. The Little Port Walter precipi- tation total for 1939 was 25523 inches, more than 21 feet of water. Last year the Little Port ‘Walter statfon reported an all-time, all- Alaska high of 26453 inches, Latouche, which held the Al- aska record with 1926's 248.14 inches until last yeat, touche is 17878 inches. Contrast Within Few Miles At Warm Springs Bay, the Bar- anof station reported 197.97 inches for 1939. Just across the island at 87.13 inches. Juneau had 119.48 inches in the 158.00 inches up to -December 1. Normal there is 150.89 inches. Contributing to the Little Port Walter tofal was a fall of 3801 inches in October, 3383 in No- vember and 36.29 in December. La- should be observed by before crossing. a full stop| touche had the wettest reported 20693 inches for 1939. The normal at La-| Sitka the norhal rdinfall is a mere year just closed. Ketchikan had, single month, 40.68 inches in December, PLANE CRASH PUYALLUP, Wash, Jan. 11.—An observation plane of the Ninety- First Obsérvation Squadron crashed on a highway intersection yesterday afternoon and nobody was hurt. The pilot, Lieut.” Felix Hardison, bailed out safely in his parachute when ice formed on his carburetor and the plané's motor failed. There was no traffic on the high- way at thé time. KINY. STAYING 0 PROPER FREQUENCY, "MANAGER' STATES A statement that radio station KINY is on' its proper frequency at all times-'and that the station is so closely guarded by the Govern- ment daily that it cannot get off its wave band’ without being se- verely reprimandéd, was made by Manager C. B. Arnold at today's Chamber of Commerce luncheon. Arnold said the signers of a re- cent letter complaining dbout KINY being “all over the dial” had all repudiated their statements asking ‘hat their protest to the Federal Communications Commission be ig- rored. When KINY comes in at more than one place on the dial, the fault lies with the radio receiving set, Mr. Arnold said. WENDT IS BACK "~ FROM HOTEL JoB Fred Wendt, painter and decorator, returned on the Northland after a brief trip to Sitka to see how his painting and decorating contract | work was coming on the Sitka hotel project. | - Wendt found the job well along |and hotel construction expected to be completed in February. FINISHES CONTRACT [ ON SITKA'S HOTEL | C. H. Metcalfe returned on the | Northland today from Sitka where | he has been handling sheet metal work on the new Sitka Hotel. Metcalfe has just completed the | sheet metal contract for the struc- ' ture which is now well along in an | advanced stage of building. LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jan. 11— When a woman develops a fear {complex toward her husband, it's time to call quits to marriage— | At least that was the contention of Mrs. Margaret G. Bean. And it won a divorce from Leland G. | Bean. | Mrs. Bean told Superior Court Judge Georgia Bullock that her husband had threatened her per- | sistently with bodily harm. Finally, under the pressure of | the constantly repeated threats, she developed a “fear complex,” Mrs. Bean related. All of which came under the head of “extreme cruelty,” a situa- closely followed by 4051 for the tion which decided Judge Bullock same month ‘at Warm Springs Bay.to grant a divorce decree. L