The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 13, 1940, Page 2

HOCKEY ACE ' ' RETURNS T0 ALD FRIEND THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, JAN. 13, 1940. ' : , The Justice Watches a Party z U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAV | THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) 0 pm. J2 m ast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 3 temperature tonight and 1t about 2 y, little change in tem ¢ mnortherly Fores Cloud nortl e minimum ture wind the coast of the Gulf of | from Dixon nce to Car | s i | brook will ate to fresh westerly; and from Cape Hinchin- ; EW YOF’K' Jen.iiS-gONly: be: li: k to moderate north tonight, becoming variable | cause of his warm friendship Ic B v [Rea Dutton and the fact that [ BN small racing stable was proving an | LOCAL DATA | expensive luxury, was Nelson Stew- [ s um paromerer Temo Humiditv wina Veloaty — Weathe: pih g Old ‘Bakon igpihie Ngonal ‘ pm. yes 29 82 36 92 N 5 Lt.Rain fiEooksy Leaghe r“““a R 3:30 am. tod 31 63 BE 5 Cloudy sake retivement and. return to the " Tt 35 YN Slou firing line with the New York Am- Sl i e 3 405+ D SR ey i “amiec i Hiodd [ ericans. ! { RADIO REPORTS % The Americans were buried in | TODAY | the cellar, thanks to a series of in- Max. tempt. Lowest 3:30a.m. Precip. 3:3Cam | juries to key players, when Dutton Station last 24 hours | temp. temp. 24 hours Weather | sent out his frantic call for help to Anchorage 40 | 26 26 0 Cloudy | Stewart. The star-spangled troupe | 16 | =20 =20 0 Clear | needed a scoring punch, and needed 14 | 9 14 0 Cloudy | it fast. 34 | 20 Trace Pt. Cldy | Stewart was hopelessly out of 31 | -25 0 | shape when the call came, but in | 34 | 33 .03 | about a week he had whittled some Dutch Harbor .. 39 | 39 43 25 pounds off his huge frame, leav- | Kodiak 50 37 0 | ing him an ample 200. Cordova 3 31 0 Cloudy | Even .with his new streamlined | yijiiam 0. Douglas, associate justice of the Supreme Court, and -Mrs, | Jurcan 3 | £ Cloudy | figure, Stewart does not melt the ice | 1),uglas watch the children deliver their broadcas i al party | Sitka 43 | 10 with his speed on skates. But. there | for Wa n kiddies, including those of fi Ketchikan 40 40 06 Cloud |:ave few players in the game Who can | Douglas is s miling at the antics of his son, Willia Seattle 45 38 0 \match his guile in feinting a goalic Portland 40 39 Trace San' Francisco .. 58 41 0 1siz ;raphigally just what hippered to ¥ Tep p This series of pictures shows head, »asing tons of death and destryc the hail of death huddle ne sing dc) r busines TRADEACT BASKETBALL rbasketball league today with a 385 to victol over the National Champion Oregon team. Oregon | WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Quick passage by the House of the me State led throughout most of "h"i to enew the reciprocal trade agree- ments act fostered by Secretary of ¢ aure, for dead and injured suided by police, almost be News). go through smo subsided. our game. | In the Southern division, South- ern rnia knocked over Cali-| fornia, year's champion, 49 to | and Stanford beat U.C.L.A. 53“ 0 v State Cordell Hull is predicted to- to 38 although U.C.LA’s negro day by Democratic Representative|Jack Robinson was the star of the Buck of California. game with 32 points. Buck visited President Roosevelt CL.A. has not won a confer- to report on hearings on the meas- | ¢nce game since 1936. ure. He is a member of the House| Other hoop scoxes included Wash- Ways and Means Committee before | ibgton 39, Montana 34; Idaho Sou- which the Secretary of State and thern 35, College of Idaho 24 Agricultural Secretary Wallace have T app i in defense of the recipro- - cal frade prozram s The Califor Cengressman said I e as were trying to us as a mask in opposing e tfrade program. Said Busk: “These selfish political opponents or u r of the measure have built up a pseudo farm oppesition.” NEW YORK, Jan. 13—The flow of v money into industry dwin- dled to a finy trickle in 1939. New issues of corporate securi- s - e y COMPLEIED BY ties sold for the purpose of re- cruiting additional funds amounted FORES'I' SERV[(E to -oximately 365 million dol- 1 compared with an average of Half Mile Section Provides i o arisa. © " " Easy Access o Upper it ot of the previous vear, and Gold Creek less than one-third the 1937 total. New corporate financing in re- Opening of the Basin Road as far cent years compares as follows as Shady Draw, below Cape Horn, (in millions): was announced today by the Fores $8,63! 1936 $1,217 Service, which has had a crew of 1933 161 1937 1,227 15 men working on the section for 1934 178 1938 854 the past six weeks 1035 404 1939 365 - The half mile of read has been provided with abundant turnouts, guard_ rails, a _gogd turning and parking place at the upper terminal and gravel surfacing. | Purpose of improving the road is! to encourage hikers to visit the upper Gold Creck Basin area, DOES HER BIT Red Cross chapter here, which has been accepting donations for the cording ‘to District Renger A. W. aid of Polish refugees, received Chipperfield. ,an envelope bearing a Houston et postmark. Enclosed were two one- JERRY WAITE RETURN] doliar bills folded neatly within a oo Sheet of Lablet per on which was written: “You have heard of the mite. Well, this is an old widow maid The note was unsigned. Miss Jerry Waite, Forest clerk here, is returnine on the steamer ‘Alaska from a vacation in the States. terrified Finns, unable to find shelter from high stone wall, using prayer as their protection. About 100 civilians were killed or hurt. re the smoke and dust of the bombing had HQUSTON, Texas, Jan. 13- The | out of position and then ramming -home the puck for a,score, He is the |only active Hockey League playe |- who can boast a total of more | 300 goals and over 500 points, scored over,a period of 14 years’ competi- | tion, He passed well over those fig- ures, last season when he accounted 'for. 35 peints on. 16 goals and 19 assists Having accomplished his goal Stewart announced his retirement At the close of last season. ; He was ;slated .to. become a coach on the Canagiens, but the deal fell through It was, then that he turned to his uacing, stable and other interests. Stewart. was astar, with the Mon- treal (Maroons from 1925 throuch 1932 and; was. one of the. highest paid , stars in the game. He was rated fairly “well off” until the de- pression came along and kicked his skates from under him and, inci- dentally, prolonged his active play- ing career several years. He is 38 years old and while he admits that it is a bit old for speed skating, he insists he still knows his way around the nets. ITALIAN PLANE SEEKS RECORD NON-STOP HoP Takeoff Set for Dawn on Rome-to-Patagonia ‘ Flight Attempt ROME, Jan. 13, — Col. Angleo % {Tondi will commnd a tri-motored monoplane hopping off at dawn to- morrow on.an 8.300-mile non-stop flight to, Patagonia. The plane has an estimated range of 7,800 to 8400 miles. g as Soviet planes droned over- Center, rescue workers Lower, civ- Previous . non-stop flight record is, held by six British planes which or a a flew 7.162 miles from Ismalia, Suez Canal, to Darwin, Australia, No- e Nembers § 40;7; 1938 TORONTO, Jan. 13.—It is ex- ——— pected that Canada will have a force of 6,000 planes by the time the ' AmB“’ DUE m ¥ | | air training scheme hits its peak.’ l—E B‘sp tain has 4500 first line fighting SI"G ; u“' planes, France has 4,000, Germany 7,000 and Russia possibly 7,500. | 8 His arrest by City Police Thurs- . |day night and by a Deputy Mar- Nall |°res 1shal Friday morning were an out- Y ) not reflect a general obstreperous- ness, Charles Conti claimed today. “ 0 ap’e Conti was arrested in the kitchen | night on a charge of disorderly | - conduct.” He says he was struck by! BERLIN, Jan. 13—Collapse Of|the owner and manager of the admitted. Shopkeepers can only SuP- | himself, ply a fraction of the things de-| He was at the Cafe, Conti says, manded by the public. A lot of time| arguing about a ‘“note" for $25| | ration cards. | bank check .and gave to Mitchell | — eee—— ,Dabo. This document which Conti | | describes as a ‘“note” is called a! ' check by Dabo, who had Conti ar-| IH rested yesterday on a charge of : e gy gk | DES MOINES, Jan. 13.—Edward and offered to give him a-lift. { “Gee, gosh, but this is nice of you! g fellows!” Walker told the men.| a‘ Ie “Thanks for picking me up.” | R Replied Deputy Sheriff Spencer: | At present it is esimated that Bri- CONTI EXPLAINS B Hiia e | \ growth of the same dispute and do ! of the Gastineau Cafe Thursday the retail trade in Germany, is NOW| cafe and did not do any pu ing is also taken up in the sorting of | which he wrote out on a blank! | d . aiher oks. e glog St fishP';oImol a ride. Two men in a car stopped N TR R i boy, we have a: TOQKYO, Jan. 13.—The Japanese bad check -Government notified Soviet Rus- sia today that the fisheries proto- col between the two countries has | been ratified. | Dow 4 ®i, | The protocol provides that I.he| L existing agreement concerning Jap- ls p ED p‘anese rights in Soviet territorial ICKED UP swaters: shall remain in force until “Save your than ailed on charges. - December 31, 1940. | 0 s £ AL LONDON, Jan. 133—~The Admir- METZGARS RETURNING | alty: announced this afternoon that | ON STEAMER ALASKA | i the German plane shot down this | Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Metzgar nre‘ morning off the Southeast coast of | Scotland was a German Heinkel. A | booked north on the steamer Al-| naval launch picked up a German |aska. officer from a frail rubber boat. He | Juneau home where he is General | said .that the three other members |Superinténdent of the Alaska ‘Ju- | of the Heinkle's crew were killed neau mine, after spending two | | when the plane struck the sea. lmom.hs outside on vacation, l » TRY THIS ON A TRAY_When scarch in the White House (rear) failed to turn up a single sled, Eleanor and Curtis Dall, grandchildren of the President, used a wai HERITAGE_Talent for the stage must run in this family, for Lawrence Tibbett, Jr. (above), son of the opera bari- tone, is mow appearing in a Broadway hit show. They are returning to their | A happy, good-natured mass of humanity packed Times York to say farewell to 1939 and greet 1940. The New a rip-roarin’ welcome by the immense throng which Jjam-| triangles formed by Times Square and Longacre Square, crowding into Seventh Avenue and Broadway as far north as 50th Street. Fifteen er’s tray for sliding. Their mother is Anna, F.D.R.s only daughter. A 1,250,000—Count ’Em—Say Hello to 1940 ‘WEATHER 5 YNOPSIS ightly below normal this mornir reported pr ometric press The barometric pressure was from Cordova southwestward to Sitka with the lowes ut 29.95 inches near Cape Spencer. High b ed throughout the Inter rthwestern portions of Al with the cre: of 3050 inch oV Tanana Valley. Cloudy preva morning th rougt of Alaska. It was last night ove T an: The te! ature at aks fell from 31 qegrees ab ove erday morning to 25 degrees - below this morning. Juneau, Jan. 13.-—Sunrise, sunset, 3:39 p.m. Jan, 14 Sunriss 8488 am.; sunset, Pi in berate in any move 1 stop the Russian iny SHATING SPOILED FGR WEEKEND BY sion DADO WINS Jan. 13 IOLLYWOOD, Cal the seventh r 1d when Mann's one to wwo inches of water , | eve was cut bad covered the ice at Mendenhall Lake Dads had taken every reund. afternoon and skating will be | e by — R out of the picture over the week- | rkfl“(q ifi ACT end, according to a report from the | > office { ] 1L LR ibility Al VATICAIY Ci Jan. 13.—Gen- evere freeze to ralissimo Francisco Franco, the n of freezing at the h Nationalist leader, has in- v e ‘SOMEWHERE IN FRAN CE’—Tis is the Curtiss Hawk 75A pursuit plane mentioned in stories from France where French aviators repor German planes. Six of the gun mountings are Vv is same type plane in which a free-power dive of more than 575 m.p.h. was made. edly have found them successful in engagements with ible, two over the propeller, two on each wing. This Square in New | hundred cops were on the job to keep order, but all they did was to divert Year was given | vehicular traffic from the heart of the town. No injuries were reported packed the two | though there i were doubtless plenty of toes trod on. The good-natured crowd and shouted until one o’clock, then melted 3 New York’s hello to the New Year. dever. {t ms o restore