The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 16, 1940, Page 2

=2 Field Cl;lit Loaded for “ Attack” U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTUKE, WEATHER BUREAD THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Burcau) THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, JAN. 16, 1940. e e g Afim}; o SLASHING A.P.WALKER orunonmen OF BUDGET ~ FILES HERE UNDERWAY FOR SENATE House Apbr‘dpriaiions Carrol Clausen of Pefers- Committee Is Getting bury Is Candidae in Its Work for House WASHINGTON, Jan. 16. — Com-' A. P. Walker today filed with the nual cenvention of the Maritime | pletely denying funds for two District Court here his not Federation's Alaska unions. | agencies created by President Roose- | candidacy for T About 250 persons attended the |veit, the National Resources and in the First Divisi meeting, which was held in the |Planning Board and the Office of | ocratic primari Union Hall | Government Reports, the House Ap- Walker is at present a Rer Calling Juneau “one ‘of the fin- propriations Committee today slash- | tative. He formerly lived a est labor union towns'on the Pa-|ed the budget estimates of other but lists his new addres: pific Coast,” George Lane of Bel- government independent offices by | can- City lingham, Business Agefit of the Al- | ninety-four million dollars. | Carrol Clausen of Peter askd Fishermen's Unfor, said that| The committee also trimmed the filed for the House as a Demc transport workers, fetail clerksand | Maritime Commission construction - - | funds from two hundred million to on CalifornialM recast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 3:J Cioud slightly warmer tonight and Wednesday. snow Wednesday; moderate southeasterly wind. ture tonight about 24 degrees Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Northern portion ably ‘occasional light snow Wednesday. Slowly risir moderate es wind, except fresh northerly cver rn portion—Cloudy tonight, intermitten light rain Wed- nesday; mc e to fresh southeasterly wind Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska. Winds from Dixon Entrance to ka will be moderate to fresh south and theasterly. increasing Wec lay night; from Sitka to Hinchinbrook, moderate to fresh ¢ and from Cape Hinc brook to Kodiak, moderate to frc LOCAL D/ Temns Humiaitv wina Velocity 15 ESE 8 s w Maritime Federafion Con- vention Ends with Public Session Accomplishments and aims of the Maritime * Federation of the Pa-| ciffe and its affiliates were ¢iewed here last night @t a mass | | meeting which concludéd the an- pe Canal Soutt Car Cape re- | Weather Cloudy Snow Cloudy parometer 29.98 30.11 57 98 81 RADIO REPORTS TOLDAY 3:30a.m. Precip. temp. 24 hours 38 15 2 0 3:30 pm. yest’y 3:30 am. today 5 Noon today & 3:3Cam Weather Rain Cloudy Lowest temp. 38 -3 Max. tempt. last 24 hours | 41 ‘ 6 Station Atka Anchorage Field guns, like the one above, were loaded on the chartered steamer Baranof! at Olymvia, Wash., for ship- ment to California where several thousands soldiers will participate in a mock attack on the California coast in the nation’s Targest Army-Navy war games. San FranciscowBay 7 Region Reports No Earth Sh_otk Damage BERKELEY, Cal,, Jan. 16 —Police could find no damage today from the second earth shock to hit the bay area in two days University of California seismolo- gists said the quake was moderately strong, centering about five miles north of the university campus. It CLOTHES that are CLEANED OFTEN—Wear Longer! Send YOUR GARMENTS to TRIANGE Thorough Workma Modern Method: Work_that [ Please You 4 PHONE 507 last about four seconds. {last night. He has been in Seattle Residents of the neighborhood jon duty and on leave. mistook the tremor for a shock of a | Kazee plans to remain in Junéau heavy blast, and swamped the po- |for the present. He will hold safety lice switchboard with hundreds of |classes shortly for the Hirst-Chi- telephone calls. | chagof eniployeés’ @d ptobably for BUREAU OF MINES | oooivins SAFETY ENGINEER | rofl T BACK FROM STATES DIVISIONS. LEAVING H. H. Kazee, U. S. Bureau of Mines Safety Engineer, returned to Juneau | George Louden and Miss Eleanor Oman, Depattment of Public Wel: | fare officials, are leaving on thé | headquarters on the Princess Norah | Alaska tonight for the Westward, | | Louden to set up headquarters at| | Fairbanks as Welfare Administrator |Oman to handle activities in the Third Division from an Anchorage office. AT :Mrs. B. R. Glass South for Visit Leaving on the steamér Téngass last night Mrs. B. R: Glass plans to visit in the States for the next féw months. She will spend most of her time in Portland with her daugh- ter, Adrienne, who is attending school in that city. - nd VS i MODES of the MOMENT: by Aleclaid — Mrs. Marsh Sails Kerr Mrs. Jackson Marsh of the Alaska Mendenhall Fur Farm, safled south on the steamer Tongass for & ‘#ik weeks' vacation in the States. She plans to visit with friends in Seattle, Portland gnid Sad’ Fiangisto %%ore H returning here ‘in’ o 'HONEYMOONERS - " SEPARATE PRISONS CHICAGO, Jan. 16.—Jairies 'Mc- Anna, 48, and his bride, Mrs. Grace Kelly McAnna, 44, were sentenced to spend their honeymoon ate prisons. WO | Pederal' Judge Charles ‘B. 'Wood- ward sentenced McAhna to siX years imprisonment in Leavenworth after he pleaded guilty to three dndict- ments charging sale of narcotics, and sentenced McAnna's bride of two months to five years’ imprison- ment in the Alderson, W. Va., womi- en’s reformatory on her plea of guilty to the same thergebes 6 PEpAIn pE Many Planningto 4116 Attend Norworten! A ‘good attendance i§ amiticipatid for the Norwomen dinner on Thurs- day evening at 6 o'clock which Wil be held in the parlors of the North- ern Light Presbyterian Church. “Harvest of the Sea,” & coldred movie, will be shown by A. Millotte, well known photographer. Commun- |for the Fourth Division, and Miss E South on Tongass| miners here enjoy working condi- tions superior to ‘those anywhere else in Alaska, largely due to ef- forts of the Maritime Federation. Work for Residents nery Workers' Unlofi of Seattle said the Federation and his union “haver't yet accomplished a condi- tion in which resident workers are earning as much as non-residents, but we have asked for it.” “When we get through,” he de- clared, “a cannery worker isn't going to ‘be any different because of ‘his color, the way he combs his hair or whether he lives in Alaska o ‘Outsidé.” Hspe sald unions this year would “gp'to the limit” to get industry- wide wotking conditions and de- clared uhfons don’t like to fight with operators yeéar after year Guarantees Demanded “Our answer to the speed-up in the indtistry is ‘that labor must | have seasonal guarantees from now | on,” Espe said. Guarantees will be | asked for ‘both resident and non- | resident workers, he said. | Bspe said his union would con- | tinue to send organizers and fin- gncial support to the workers in | Alaska “to make this one united | Alaska where the labor movement ;h going to be dominant in politics, | économics and every other element of life in the Territory.” Joe Jurich, of District Council | No. 1 of the Maritime Federation, sald that since new Bureau of Pisheries regulations have closed herring fishing for reduction pur- poses in ' Southeast Alaska and “ghirown 300 men out of work,” the Fegeration would attempt to set tip'a herring saltery industry to employ thése men, take fewer fish from ' the water and make more from ‘them, Trollers Invited s Jurich urged trollers to unite in @' single " organization, declaring troNe¥s ‘“have an idea they are bisinessmen” whereas they are ac- tudlly laborers. John Olofson, Business Agent of the | Alaska ‘Fishermen’s Union at Reétthikan, stated that fish traps éifminated by the new regulations of'“the Bureau are “those which were ‘opened sinée Bell's appoint- Hadrold Jones, President of the €10 ‘eannery ' workers' union and ‘figherméf’s union at Petersburg, thanked Delegates from Seattle for Hgomihg ‘@l ‘the way "uip here and héiping draw up resolutions” which he ‘said ‘Wolld strefigthen the posi- tiotr of the Maritime Federation in Alsiska: Jones claimed that through union effdris in 1938 workers ob- taifléd ‘500000 in increases over 1937, previoudly ‘the best year. © comcyilling” to ‘Help “we'‘dre willing to help Alaska restderits,? ‘Jones said, “provided they comeé into out house and live with us.” Other speakers were Ragnar Han- son, Secretary of the District councfl No. 6 at Ketchikan, and Murtin Hageberg, representative of | the Copper River and Prince Wil- liam Sound Fishermen's Union at Cordova. F. F. Davis, Juneau long- shoreman, presided. A public dance | followed the meeting. - o oo | ~ | $IX 60 OUT 1 - ONTONGASS Six passengers sailed from here | on the Tongass during the night| for Seattlé via Sitka. They were John McManamin, Contad Espe, Presidenit of the Can- | — o =’"°ffib‘h‘fé"3§?uuu NEW DIRECTOR " AFTER VACATION OF MATANUSKA | o Judge and Mrs. George exander returned today on the o“ wAY NoRIH steamer Alaska after spending six | weeks of vacation in the States. i | Christmas North Dakotan Laughs at ceorse, a student at e vniver- 1 sity of Washington, and Mrs. Dean Repuiahon Of Pa'mer | SBherman. Later they visited Port- 4/ A’ {1and and the Oregon beaches Hot Potato : seventy-five million dollars. in Seattle with their children - - ‘Goldstein Rink Is Popular Today - Chief of Police Dan Ralston’s ice rink in the basement of the old Goldstein Building was a place today. Ralston, who had given up the skating rink as a hopeless task in the face of vandalism, quietly A new director to replace resigned Ross L. Sheely as Director of the Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corpor- ation at Matanuska, was a Juneau visitor today passing through on the steamer Alaska, genial Dr. Herbert C. Hanson of Fargo, North Dakota. Dr. Hanson, whose evident phil- osophy is of the home-spun farmer variety, was able to laugh at impli- cations he was “walking into a hot one.’ Having no special plans for the colony, only recently having been appointed by the Board of Directors, and making his first visit to Alaska, Dr. Hanson laughed, “T haven't seen seen the valley, yet.” Accompanying Dr. Hanson are his wife and three small children, all together representing a collective impression of a man who has come North to stay. Prior to his appointment to his Alaskan post, Dr. Hanson has been Vice-Director of the Agricultural Ex- periment Station at Fargo where he 7 has resided for the past ten years EEpu 5 a) Pirst, impression of A1aka fof Dr.: 0mb and their four children, ar- HariBor “Hag beeri one of fayorable rived on the Alaska today from Se- contrast, he said, to a dust bowl e / left behind, and going to Matanuska, | Lieut. btmch('cm.fl) will assume where new crops are being sought, the position of Executive Officer represents to him a considerably O the cubter Haida, transfer; more pleasing prospect than the ffom the Ariadne of Seattle, - prpblem of correcting difficuties ¥ arising out of planting too much JaneAIeXflnder Back on Alask wheat. Alexander, applied Today, grown-ups and alike were making the most of Ju- neaw's first business-district ice night, NEW OFFICER FOR HAIDA COMES | and Mr D s Near Naied Stroller Startles Downfown Juneau Shortly before the noon hour to- day, a Juneau visitor walked down the busiest street in town, taking no cognizance of the stir he created as he ambled blithely along in his bare feet, with only an overcoat and a hat to disguise his likeness to Adam. A friend heard tittering men and ! women spectators, took the stroller into a handy beer parlor where he awoke to his predicament, literally and figuratively. Miss Jane returned to Juneau on the steamer Alaska. During her vacation in the tes she visited friends and rela- tives in San Francisco, Portland and Seattle > A. J. SUPERINTENDENT RETURNS FROM TRIP General Superintendent of the Alaska Juneau, L. H. Metzgar, re- !turned with Mrs. Metzgar on the Chief of Police Dan Ralston ex-'pjaska after a trip in the States, plained the man was walking in his | he Metzgars have been south sleep and accompanied him back t0 ¢or several weeks, spending most his hotel room. { California. The man’s name is withheld—how S S would you like to come to in a beer | ORCE C parlor with nothing over your goose- pimpled flesh but an overcoat and a hat? ¥ of their time in DIV | Suit for divo was filed in Dis- ‘!n(t Court today by Delma Evans | | - Fairbanks Mayor Arrives by Plane| Proud of a swiftly progressing city | of Fairbanks, with greatly increas- | ed residential construction. unceas- ng work on the Army air base, and | @ thirty per cent increase in popu-| Tation proven by the recent census,| Mayor of Fairbanks Leslie Nerland is heading south for a brief busi-| riess trip with a clear conscience. | Neiland arrived by PAA plane | Bandy against Frank W. Bandy on grounds of incompatability. | Dutch Harbor 1 AlAl The Alexanders spent stmas | | | popular | snow cleared and a bit more water| children, rink which is to be floodlighted at lert Stinch- | o | Dlayer " | Bertha, and three children | 1 | AT PELICAN CITY | | Brillhart is aboard. Secretary | to the Director of Public Welfare, | | | Finnish Trobps go out té Ski;;rld F ight -24 0 -8 -9 -37 19 39 38 24 17 =30 -1 Barrow Nome Bethel \ Fairbanks St. Paul Cldy,Blov 14 Cl 0 -31 22 40 38 24 25 34 38 a7 % 57 | -24 | Snow Rain Rain Cloudy OW Kodiak Cordova Juneaun Sitka Ketchikan Seattle Portland San Francisco Cloudy Rain WEATHER SYNOPSIS Low barometric pressure prevailed this morning over the nor castern portion of the North Pacific Ocean with lowest reported pressure 28.82 inches about 200 miles south of Atka. High barometric pressure continned from Nome and Barrow southeastward to Mackenzie Valley. This general pressure distribution has been tended by precipitation over the southern Bering Sea rezion from the Aleutian Islands eastward to Cape St. Elias and from southern portion of Southeaht Alaska southeastward to Washir Generally fair weather prevailed over the remainder of the fie) observation. It was warmer last night at Whitehors weather continued over Interior, Western and Northern Alaska. Juneau, Jan. 17.—Sunrise, 8:34 a.m.; sunset, 3:47 p.n Race Driver Killed” HUNTS BOY FRIEND, " In1921,Finall Dies. WINDS UP I¥ COURT a | el CHICAGO, Jan. 16 —Henry Koh- 50—the man who wi in the Indianapolis Speed | |12 years It 30 CHICAGO, Jan. 16 was killed” | in the'r g and y race|scme, SO herine | ago—died in the St. Charles | cided to visit her “boy | Hospital. |instead of a date with the boy Kohlert, an automobile racer for|friend, she kept another before years, crashed through the wall dur- | Judge George B. Weiss in woman’s ling the 1927 race—and a radio an-| court. | nouncer broadeast that he was dead She was a ed for reachin | Despite serious injuries, he recov-|a parked automobile. She exp! ered. He raced again in 1928, then|she only wanted to blow the horn gave up competition, Lately he had|to rcuse the boy friend, but Mi |been in the automobile business in|Ruth Reister, owner of the car. had St. Charles. | other ideas. To make matters wor | Kohlert was a former baseball|Catherine couldn't remember the He is survived by his wife,| boy friend’s name. So Judge Weiss continued the case Miss Turple time to re- memory e she was lot Turple, 18 friend.” But de- into ined - The Forest Service launch For- ester was at Pelican City last night| HOT STOVE and is due back in Juneau Friday.| An overheated oil burner | Assistant District Ranger John|at the Ci#y Cafe called fi out this afternoon with a 1-7 al | but no damage was done. SAMPSON IN JUNEAU -o L. Sampson arrived on the| GOLDSTEIN BACK North Coast from Ketchikan. He| charles Goldstein, furrier. retur is a delegate to the Democratic|esq on the Alaska from Southe: Territorial Convention meeting in| plaska ports where he has be Juneau | contacting’ fur trade during the - | past few days. WRANGELL MAYOGR HERE | > Van H. Fisk, Mayor of Wran-| MURPHY COMES NORTH gell, arrived on the North Coast| R. E. Murphy, Alaska Represen- to attend the Democratic Terri-| tative for DuPont, arrived on the torial convention to which he is|Alaska after a trip to the Sta.es a delegate. = i BOUND FOR SEWARD MEHERINS TO SITKA | R, E. Baumgartner, Attorney and Mrs. J. J. Meherin joined her’SocreLar_v of the Seward Chamber husband, making the trip from Ket- | of Commerce, is a passenger west chikan on the steamer North Coast, | bound, aboard the Alaska for a round trip to Sitka. | - - -4 | Mr, and Mrs. Fred Axfor MRS. WARNER ARRIVES turned to Juneau on the steamer Mrs. Charles G. Warner arrived Alaska. Former proprietor of the in Juneau on the steamer Alaska. Top Notch Cafe, Mr xford has She has been visiting in the States been with the New York Life In- for the past few monthis with her surance Co. in Bremerton for the scn, Peter, who is attending school. { past few months. - - D Mrs. Jackson Mérsh, Mrs. B. R.|gnd is taking the Princess Norah | Pumpkey, Mr. ahd|south tonight. He wll spend sev- iels. | eral weeks in the States on busi- ity singing will be led by Mrs. ‘Theresa White. Reservations may be made by call- isa hion phetegraph from Paris. of ‘Black fern-patterned lace with the long sleeves and high neckline follow this winter's cover-up vbgue in dinner and evening Black satin ribbon girdles it and makes a big splash at the _ which © éluthes. front, ing 373 than tomorrow evening. not later ses WEST JUNEAU (0. IS INCORPORATED Everett Nowell, Frank H.'Foster and Sarah Nowell, all 6f Juneau, have filed papers of ineorporation with the Terrtiorial Auditor for the West Juneau Company, Ine., & real 2 { } 2 PORRE ] ROTARIANS LEARN [ OF SITKA GAINS C. H. (Mac) Metcalfe and Tom the Juneau Rotsty Cluo on the growth of Sitka and developments at the new naval airbase project. arles W. Carter gave a classi- fication talk. | ———— { | { estate concern with capital stock of { $5,000. >oo——— | DANIELS GO OUTH Patou designed the frock | M© | passengers south 'will return in about four weeks. and Mrs. Milton Daniel are on the Tongass, !for a visit with Mr. Daniel's pat- ents in Tacoma whom he has not visited for six years. The Daniels EDITOR WILLIAMS HERE | Lew M. Williams, Editor and Pro- prietor of the Wrangell Sentinel, | artived on the North Coast as &, delegate to the Democratic Ter-| ritorial Convention. He left the other members of the family to| ‘publlsh the Sentinel this week. Morgan spoke at today’s meeting of | liS' uioh' | At noon today the temperature; ness matters, going as far as San Francisco. - D 15 Degrees Cold in Juneau Juneau's second succeéssive night| of deep freezing temperature sent the official U. S. Weather Bureau mercury down to 15 degrees last night. Minimum the previous night was 13.7 degrees. was 25 degrees, - NESS IN TOWN Erick Ness, business man of Pet- !ersburg is in Juneau to attend the Democratic Territorial Convention. He arrived on the North Coast. into Russia east of Suomussalmi, Here one of Fintand's famous ski patrols, which have been harrying the Russians, starts out from a Finnish town to make trouble for the enemy. have surrounded a mew Soviet division after hurling remnants of the routed 44th and 163rd divisions back The white suits are for camouflage. The Finns were reported to