The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 3, 1940, Page 2

| h (e batteries tend to indicate AR 4yiston Edifor the defending fighter plane = is more useful than ground bat- NEW YORK.—An'i aireraf teries, training their i c ¢ planes in the Luipcan wa : He e, have. out. problems. af .- defer to prepare adequate fully as a scientisi ! . against I:mm.u. 5. fer in Bishor taatl d rie gun throws a 20 times a minute. A Mechanized 1 batier wr has a fire power ! to the battl J of 80 dlosive shells, timed to prepared (c i ¢ n a »olane within le defense. vter the aircraft Anti T 1 ¢ S ’ range. around, vital dist U A contrel n: <alled, in maximum ¢ ge again 1 1erican arn the “Houdini ers, The typical “aa” or “archie ipplies a battery with data (anti-aircraft) gnn has a horizon- t 1 ht, direction and speed tal-vertical range of 3,000 yards A raic bomber. BEach man on and 18,000 feet. Batteries of four n has his assigned duty are set up so their fire overlaps. T'hose who aim, merely turn han- At least 10 batteries would be dles to make pointers on dia necessary to protect vital areas of coincide. Scientific formulas ha a city the size of Washington. done the rest, Their exact effectiveness has not The American army has found been determined even by the na- | (hat the most effective altitude tions. now under arms. for anti-aircraft fire is from 7,000 The Houd! Box to 11,000 feet. A bomber is most Engagements between German vulnerable in that 45-secol -to- warplanes and British anti-air- | a-minute when it must a 2 Warning net here, 100 from vital begins miles area. Reporis are phoned in and charted. el e Searchiis Diagran By DEVON FRANCIS raft Machi fight tack es brought int> pl e —————. —— ———— T————— Fighting 0% 1» Air Raid Is a Matter Of Formula: Machines and Also Master . Minds Solve All Problems in Advance To aim bombs, bomb- ers must fly straight course for 45 seconds. They are most vulnerable then ne guns off at- planes Battery of 3-inch anti-aircraft or “Archie” guns connected with computor and range finder fire simultaneously, shells bursting at approximate. height of approaching bombers to fight of MODES of the MOMENT by Adelaide Kerr For_school days, Judy Garland likes to wear a printed pinafore over her navy blue wool frock. This pinadore is gray and blue. Its wide straps fasten with silver butions. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, (ritis of - MoviesAre losi_ng Out Insight Given as to How They Make Selections of "Best” Films By GYORGE TUCKER NEW YOkn, Feb. 3.—Here is some melancholy comedy for those who place importance on the pro- nouncements of film erities. The other day the Mahattan film reviewers gathered to vote on the “best” film of the year. The purpose of this is to recognize real merit. If you are a critic you are supposed to know the bad from the good, and if you lend your name to such a selection you presumably want it to reflect !.~u~m credit. to. your judgment There were. some 13 critics | gathered, to debate: this selection ‘Pr(:hum;\b!y they . all had their | minds made up before, the voting |began, ©On the first, ballot i | smith Goes to Washington ‘Gone, With, the Wind” rece | the . largest number of votes. [ neither polled & . twosthirds Mr, But| jority. So they argued, and voted again, and argued some more until more than a dozen polls had been taken. { In the end. most of the critics | who, are supposed. tg, have some | courage with their, conyietions, sur- rendered. their opiniops .and ran in , “Wuthering Heights” as 2 | dark horse.. As this polled the two- { thirds , majority, the film cr | then solemnly announced that 8 | “Wuthering Heights” was the best movie of the year. | It seems tp, me that the New | ¥ an air "“aiki York film critics haye paid,a hich ST e T price for their fun. Who, after straight course to aim its projec-|this, will pay any attention to tiles, That is when the soldiers| anything they have to say? manning the archies try to blanket e the raider with shrapnel. This little ditty is entitled “Go- The guns, of course, are only|ing down. Mt. Hovenberg as 80 part of it all. The standard anti-|miles an hour, or how to have fun, airerafi regiment contains several|in an, abandoned railroad station | ;un batteries throwing explosive|at 3:30. oclock in the morning.” hells, ¢ ral machine gun bat- It also explains those stiff joints jes, to fight off swooping small-|Kay Kyser it toting around town planes, numerous searchlights| these days. It seems that Kay and and sound locaters, | Ginny. Simms were taken up to Lake Placid and crowned King and Queen of Winter. After being aircraft defense area is flanked|roundly feted, during which they by « subordinates all working on|were taken down the famous bob- ome phase of defense. Reportsisled run by two of the four Stev- {he “warning net’—scores|ens brothers, who are Olympic reporting the presence of | champions, Kay, Ginny, Hal Ha 100-Mile Warning Net, The officer in charge of an anti- from of men en aircraft by telephone from|ett (his manager), and Paul Mosk- as far off as 100 miles—are.chart-|er (his press agent), drive over to ed. The officer in charge of the Westport, N, Y., to catch an early alert” will order his fighting|train for New York. planes aloft, ~ directing them by| It was about 12 below zero. The wirele The direct of passive| King was slightly frost-bitten, resistance will the wailing|and the Queen was breathing lof air raid sirens, and will mar-| plumes of frost.. As they waited shal the forces Lo combat gas and)for the train, the station master fire. |came out and, annouced that the That is war on the mechamz&:d‘!muv matter of a wreck, up above sclentific side, but anti-aircraft|on the Iline somewhere, would de- fense commanders Know Lhat}lay matters a bit. “However,” he raiders will use a good many|added,.. “make yourselves com- tricks learned ip 1914-18. They |fortable. I got to go home.” will hide in clouds, much as in-{ So the station - master went fantrymen use woods for protec-|home, and it become 1 o'clock tion. They will streak over with|ip the morping, and the stove we-| the sun behind them to, hlind, the|came cold. The Queen was in the defenders. | waiting "room, . just waiting, bus The advantage of “flying down|the King decided he had. to have the sun” probably has been re-!g little sleep. He stretched out on sponsible for German habit of g hard table of a sort, with a cast- raiding the Scottish coast in the|iron jack for a pillow. Two o'clock morning hours came, and the King groaned. * i 9 = | Two-thirty came, and then three. Still no train. Finally, at 3:30, DR. BMNION OFFERS | there was a splutter outside. Their AP | Majesties broke out the ice-run-, ners, cracked the icicles off their CITY SEATER: TRACE chins, and boarded a pine-knot RIGHT.OF.wAY SIR'P | burner for Manhattan N “For some strange reason,” murc- An off by Dr. W. P. Blanton T'nulrffi l}?teif:{“hlx sl aay, 1 el to give the City a 10-foot wide|> o¢ Ui .- strip of property in the Seater Tract p: vestigated today by the StreetCom- | mittee of the City Council, The Blanton strip would be used | to widen the pr ugm-oi-way‘ ME GOES Up: to 25 feet | | - | 4 i RUSTAD 15 T0. - REPLACE DAVLIN AT UNION PLANT Rustad, of Petersburg,is! L. Davlin, formcrl Union i e |Better Roads, Tires, Vaca- ! fions Boost Cold Weather Mileage NEW YORK, Feb. 3—Winter au- Oil| tomobile travel is increasing 11 per L“J\ who recently joined Robeit cent faster than warm weather C a € \I(C;ml. Motors. |driying, and there are many indi- ad, fol with the old, cations that American motorists will Roads in survey soon be using their cars as much n here. He will in winter as in the summer to Juneau his' These trends were reaveled in & |survey of motoring developments made public by J. J. Newman, vice- [ ] | president of The B. F. Goodrich Co., [ |Who attributed the increase to the W |spread of the winter vacation idea, the hard-surfacing of 85 per cent of the nation’s highways, and scien- tific advances in safety tire ild- General Motors' Vice President | ing during the past d’e‘ul:i:\( oL Charles Stewart Mott, announc- | Mr. Newman's survey was based | ed here today he will give away |chiefly on monthly consumption of | 100,000 shares of General Motors |gasoline during the past ten years. Comparison of Gas Used )"Compnrison revealed that in 1930 the average motorist bou ient until next Tuesday. |gallons of gasoline duns\l;:l Sigys; mem is noted philanthropi- | cold months against 55 gallons dur-1 ly. rng the warmer period while in 1940, is well k with him and child D EL PASO, Texas, Feb. stock, currently worth | more | than $500,000. | | ott declined, to divulge the I@—- SATURDAY, FEB. 3, 1 940. A ll Ghmpses Into Finnish War l | 3 A wounded Russian soldier. his fighting to his loved ones at home as he lies in a s over, dictates a letter sh hospital, a prisonae | e —_e B ——————————————————————— e et U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU * 9! THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at p.m., Feb. 3: Fair t ht and Sunday, light ground fog in channel tonight; gentle variable winds; lowest temperature tonight 25 degrees. Forecast for Southeast Alaska Fair tonight and Sunday except for some local grou fog in cI nels tonight and increasing I 1 cloudiness over south portion Sunday. Probably light rain over southern por Moderate extreme perature. tion Sunday a Sunday afternoon wind increasing in extreme southern por- 1d winds moderate northerly over Lynn Canal. Little change in tem- Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska Increasing winds, becoming strong over southeastern portion f region Sunday From Dixon Entrance to Kodiak moderate to fresh easterly, becoming strong in vicinity of Dixon Entrance late tonight and Sunday. LOCAL DATA Humidity Wind Velocity Weather Time Barometer 1emp. 3:30 p.m. yest'y 34 98 swW 2 3:30 a.m. today 29 98 Calm Noon today 33 95, w 2 RADIO REPORTS TODAY Max. tempt Lowest 3:30a.m Precip. 3:30am Station last 24 hours temp temp. 24 hours Weather Anchorage 35 | 31 33 13 Pt. Cldy Barrow -10 -10 0 Cloudy Nome | 17 16 Snow Bethel | 14 0 Cloudy Fairbanks 14 0 Clear St. Paul 4 0 . Dutch Harbor 3 o Kodiak | 40 04 Cordova 36 | 34 0 Juneau 35 29 0 Sitka 45 0 Ketchikan 46 30 0 Seattle £l | 42 19 Portland 42 39 18 San Francisco 58 5% 02 WEATHEK SYNOPSIS A disturbance of moderate in ensity was situated this morning abeut 500 miles off the coast of Oregon, north- apparently moving eastward towards Vancouver Island. Another disturbance was locat- ed about 600 miles south of Dutch Harbor. The disturbance that was over Bristol Bay yesterday has weakened and moved northwest- ward, Precipitation in the form of light rain urred over Alaskan | Peninsula eastward to Cordova and light snow occurred over the n portion of Alaska. Over the remainder of Alaska mosily loudy weather prevailed but considerable fog persisted in dttered areas in Southeast Alaska. No marked temperature changes were reported. Jun Feb., 4—Sunrise, 8:00 a.m, sunset 4:28 p.n. Feb. 5 - - Sunrise 7 a.m., sunset 4:32 p.m York's largest department store, Oklal a village of Osage have has caught on to such an extent challenged the Wisconsin that this year both Northern a teilers to a lie-telling Southern resorts expect a record- with no holds barred breaking total of 10,000,000 winter To prove we rate in the vacaticnists, he said. He estimates pionship cla ays Gl that about 50 per cent of the cold Cate of the Osage tear Fleeing from Soviet air raids, which have taken a heavy toll in weather holid rs 'will travel | one an. Osage kindergar o versons and things, these residents of Terijoki head for the interior by cap tells 5 oo where they hope to be safe. Paved Highway Network 5 i SAD Ahmar - Accelerated expansion of the na- when I accidentally dropped a tion’s paved highway network, of sharp knife. It cut our Inese are different types of incendiary bombs used by Russian air- nen in raids over important Finnish cities. They are used to cause conflagrations, Thig activity is taking place in a Finnish dugout, used as a base headquarters, 12 feet below the snow-covered terrain in Finland. Maps, instruments and telephones are used. apparent fulfiliment of his predic- tion that m sts' bound to the New. York and San Francisco Fairs | would: add 16,000,000,000 exwra tire | miles to the summer total, Mr. New- | man said, adding that the 1940 sum- | mer_total will again be boosted by | the ‘second year of the New York exposition. the winter gasoline consumption average per vehicle is expected to approximate 64 gallons, only seven gallons below the anticipated sum- mer level” Mr. Newman said. In- creased comfort and safety provid- ed for motorists in bad weather as well as good, have been major factors in effecting through the "30'; this greater balance of the seasons, from a car-user's standpoint. Im- portant among these safety advanc- Winter Vacation Idea A large part of the increase in NC- | winter driving, perhaps as much as es, he pointed out, was completion | 5o o cont is due to the spread of research and development of the | ¢ t1o winter vacation idea from new life - saver tire, scientifically | rq 1o 2 habit, for an estimated designed to give greatest protection | g poy cent of average-income resi- against skidding . |dents of metropolitan areas, Mr. Is Impressive | Newman said. The plan of giving in winter gasoline |vacations in winter, originated on institutional scale for its own The increase 2 | consumption is even more impres- an sive since it was made despite the | employees, five years ago, by Ncwl per n 1 mileage than those who equip their that tires wear 20 to 30 less in cold weather than winter drivers were cent ot, giving very old cat which borhood passed, When a rat his head out our everything which more than 100,000 miles were tail off up close. ar >d in 1939, has led to increased ' whistle. He looked so 1 ter use of motor vehicles, Mr.| and embarrassed that I de i Newman pointing out that gar- (o puild hi new tail of wc age statistics show a steadily de- 1 threaded the tail stub and clining winter “dead storage” busi- matching threads on the wooden ness. job and screwed it on. The cal “The increased wintertime use of |jooked proudly at it a mor tcmobiles also has the effect of | anq then scampered out of the ing the value of the average yg.q t's dollar, for research rec-'" i .phe next thing I saw hiding behind a all the rats in the nel stuck cat would switch s tail and knock the rat dead “*‘The next morning the cat had organized. He had an- | other cat sitting on a fence as lookout, 16 cats dragging off the |dead rats, 150 digging holes to bury them and 25 more g them up. A pussy was score.' " P TULSA, Okia., Feb. 3. — The 3 i Burlington, Wis., Liars’ Club, which choose the world’s cham- |as early as 1510. annuall pion prevaricator, has some com- petition now. The Liars of the BROTHER FAMOUS Anne Morgan, sister of J. P. Morgan, has returned from Paris, where she organized The American Friends of France to aid the war needy. SEEKS RICHES Pluma Louise Palmer, fourth and last wife of the late D'Or- say Palmer, who is working in a night club near Tampa, Fla., pending outcome of a suit for part of the estimated $7,000,000 Palmer estate. Women In the News Fame And Fortunes . . . Holland Carrots were eaten in - Empire classifieds bring resuits SISTER FAMOUS Jessica Romilly, sister of Hit- ler's “perfect Nordic beauty,” Unity Freeman-Mitford, is at Miami, where she and her husband haye an interest in a restadrant-bar. - WINS RICHES Annie Laurine Dodge, widow of Daniel Dodge, who h been studying at Alma C P lege, St. Thomas, Ont. I bate court in Detroit recen awarded her $1,250,000 fi« the estate of her husband,