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

2 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, FEB. 13, 1940 ————————————————————————————————————— ——————— N —— Soviet "Big Bertha” Fires 25 MiIéfi : S s i o U R ’ R ) in snow-bound Viipuri, Finland, pictured above are result of fire from a Russian ‘Big Bertha” fired from a distunce of 25 miles during a rezent push on the Karelian Isthmus, Seven-story build- ing in right background is a civilian hospital, also struck by shelis from the hige weapon. February 6 re- however, said still another Rus:ian division of 20,000 troops had been annihilated a near ports from Helsin an a or taken prisoner Pretty Dancer Seriot 'DANTERS’ CENSUS REPORTS PANTERS SHOWI LSS IN TOENGAGE “rcpior aLska HENNING'S%HUIV Cross, Nenana Re- cording Districts Lose Others Gain Census figures announced today by Supervisor J. P. Anderson showad a net ten-year loss of 49 in three Has-beens o*fauannel Bas- ketball Rise from Histoty Tonight $ recording districts and a village Forgotton names in channel bas-|in Interior Alaska ketball will go down on thé score-| Holy Cross has 226 inhabitants books again tonight with a team today, compared with 337 in 1930, of has-beens taking on the second| Rampart Recording District has place Henning Clothiers to replace | 228, compared with 180. the cutter Haida, whose boys still| Nenana Recording District has have sea legs. 611, compared with 768 Two old-timers heading the list| Kuskokwim Recording District of the “Panters'—‘Has-Beens" or|has 793, compared with 722. U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. S. ARTILLERY THUNDERING | Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 3:30 p.m. Feb, 13 Cloudy tenight, occasional light rain Wednesday; gentle variable | wind, becoming southerly Wednesday; lowest tempepature tonight RTH AREA' about 32 degrees. No Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Cloudy tonight; light rain Wed- nesday pt occasional light rain over southern portion tonigh . Moderate ecast to southeasterly ind except northerly over Lyun Bitter Fighting Is Marking| °"%. | Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alask Winds in vicinity of Dixon Entrance moderate to fresh easterly, coming southeasterly Wednesday. From Sitka to Kodiak east to northeasterly Invasion of Russian Red Army LOCAL DATA (Continued from Page One Humidity Wind Velocity =~ Weather Time Barometer lemp, 3:30 pn, yest'y . 29.45 39 83 SE 12 Lt. Rain garding the Finnish-Russian fight-| 3:30 am. today 33 98 Calm 0 Fogay ing declared that five Russian Di-| Noon today 40 81 w 5 Cloudy visicns of about 15,000 men each Wy | £ 00 are being fmu.\n against the Sum—f RADIO REPORTS TODAY na Bect "‘]'i"-- Y Max. tempt. Lowest 3:30am. Precip. 3:30am. Station last 24 hours temp, 24hours Weather Atka 38 2 0 Clouc GREAI BRIIA‘N Anchorage 37 0 ! Barrow -33 0 TURKEY IN PACT | 5 1 : | Bethel 1 0 : ; | Fairbanks -2 Trace Cloudy COVERING TRADE =72 & Dutch Harbor .. 31 02 Snow — Kodiak 10 12 Rain New Treaty Becomes Ef-| Gordcre i % i Juneau 10 | 24 Foggy fective on Thursday, | St B : * | Ketchikan 44 39 117 Cloudy london Repo"s Seattle 49 | 46 64 Cloudy Portland 9 47 83 cl < i San Francisco .. 60 50 50 0 LONDON, Feb. 13—The British spokesman announces that a new | WEATHER SYNOPSIS trade treaty has been made with | Pressure was low this morning over the north Pacific Ocean Turkey effective February 15. | and the Gulf of Alaska, with a weak center just west of Queen The treaty provides that Great| cCharlotte Island, and another weak center about 200 miles south- Britain will send airplanes, machin-| east of Kodiak Island. Rain was general over coastal areas ery, cotton and war materials and| (he Aeutians eastward and southeastward to Oregon, with in exchange Turkey will give raw| pheayy and accompanied by strong southwesterly winds over the matarials, tobacco and dried fruits.| western portions of Washington and Oregon. Pattly cloudy weather i prevailed over most remainir ctlions of Alaska Juneau, unset 4:53 p.n 11 am., NineFlyln burned when her filmly ballel costume she was tr; and, Gayle Gitterman, a studio writer, and Hope Taylor, an actress who witnessed the flaming «ccident are ALASKA FOLDER " PREPARED FOR GOV'S. OFFICE A new folder giving information about Alaska in condensed form has been prepared by the Governor's c fice for distribution to Ing inquiries from the & History, government, ¢l pop- ulation, employment homesteadi commerce, timber, the Alaska Ra s0ns W ate F e e ng on for a film role caught fire. She is shown (left) at her bedside. road and scenic features are de- cribed. A picture of the Insldx‘l Passage decorates the front cover and a silhouette of the Territory | superimposed upon the map of the United States is printed on the back cover. Seppela Ii)'be; To Mush At Ice Carnival tthe University of Washington many years ago, and “Doc' Hollmann, one FAVORED BY HULL I Also “scheduled to play with the Has-Beens are, Joe Werner, Stan undeclared Sino-Japanese war ———— Chairman Key Pittman, Chair- annual meeting of the Alaska Game | Commission at Anchorage. modern law enforcement methods. Joseph Kehoe, U. 8. Attorney for| colored photographs and a display | of furs which will later be auc-| led business and pleasure trip,‘mh”' ""‘:’b‘o"“;z_“ dead, was 8 Ju- agement Division of the Bureau vas an inbound passenger on the [R€au visitor today. of .Biological Survey; George - E. {world.” This year, Seppela sald, : th s being lengthened to 84 Chidlrmddl Is Vistor e oy 1§ bely SHEE ar From Petersburg—Earl N. Oh- “Wildcats,” will be traveling man - >eo | Everstt Nowell, who played ball with c of the classeist ball players who - ever made a hucket on the local| courts, but has now gotten well |along in athletic years. Two veterans who have seen ser- | vice spasmedically the last two sea-| sons, Jim Orme and Bob Waldron, I P 5 ;Ll:(help the “Panters” in their “"‘Expresses Dlsapproya| of Invoking Law, Sino- S::zumngen. Kelly Blake, and Bob Japanese War In the first game of the evening | 4 the Moose will play, Krause for their| WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—Secre- seventh attempt at getting out of | tary of State Cordell Hull today the zero column. y | expressed disapproval of the reso- Referee George Willey has applied lution introduced in Congress to for a gun permit to handle the | Invoke the Neutrality Act in the nightcap game, A |man of the Senate Foreign Rela- | tions Commitiee disclosed this, | saying further the Committee will (OMMISSION o“ obably consider the Secretary’s | Far Eastern conflict but the unde- wAY wESIwARa’Am(J war on Finland by Russia. RIS | Annual Meeting fo Be af POLICE WATCHING Anchorage-Many in 5 Town Today Game Commissions, Wildlife Agents and Bureau of Biological Survey officials reached Juneau i force today on their way to the| The meeting, at which regula-| tions for the coming year will be| formulated, is to be held in con-| junction with the Anchorage Fur Rendezvous. Public meetings will feature the session this year. E. M. O'Donnell, FBI Agent, will address the join meeting of Wild- life ' Agents and Commissioners on | the Third Division, will speak on enforcement from the legal angle. Superintendent Frank T. Been of Mt, MeKinley National Park will| meet with the game men. Exhibit at Rendezvous A Game; Commission exhibit at the Rendezvous will include seven reels of motion pictures, 30 large tioned; Arriving here today on the steam- er Alaska, enroute . to the West- ward \ were: ; b il From Seattle—Frank Williams of Leonard Seppela, {amous ATetlc| gt apichael, Second Division mem- PILOT FLIES IN doz musher who ventures modestly A 3 babl (G iore | Dot ARl AIMERR. Gleme. Commis- | Herman Lerdani, rawbanks pilot|(hat he has probably Waverste WE T |slon, and, Mis, Williams; W. E. who has been south on a com-|"‘”‘"" behind a dog team than &1Y|geuch Chief of the Game Man- Alaska today, and flew north with |, SePpela 18 heading bedk & FAlr- | ocsiok, -Alaska -Game Commission 3 |banks on the steamer Alaska after ; e | spending most of the winter Out- Ening 8 Washington; Weliad R ster H. Ransom, officer charged | He hopes he will be able to enter|¥ith enforcemont of the Lacey {|his team in the Fairbanks Iceé Car-| o, P on o N ot ship- { [nival dog race, an event which hel ™oy e K..’w;‘k.g”m“ g V| deacribes a8 b, “Biagea - shiel. From -ERECAiisn-—_Deputy Wild- - life Agent Gerald Banta miles each way, to Livengood ahd | turn. % B amer; Chairman of the Alaska Game Commission; Wildlife Agent Hosea Sarber. o Executive Officer Frank Du- fresne of the Game Commission will join the party here. He plans to return to Juneau February 26, Other Wildlife Agents and mem- bers of the Commission from all INDICTED SECRETLY, | - TWO BROUGHT HERE ; FROM PETERSBURG | opinion as reflecting the State De- ZIEGLERS €O} George Washington veloed two | partment’s views not only on the BT bills during his presidency | | A. H. Ziegler, attorney t- >~ SR ler, came north aboard the Alaska _ The first Secretary of the Navy | attle to their home town, W8S Benjamin Stoddert in 1798, — | - - - e Nine passengers flew to the In-| : g llr‘mrlv\lilh PAA pilots Bl Knox|. Jim Tully, we aughor, was edu He - WA S Sov‘EI EMBASSY and Gene Meyring today lcated at an orphan school tary of War of the United States. 4 They were: Dr. E. Butler, G. A. |- £ e & Dale, June Meadows, Mrs. Rose Ryan, Leo Bouch, R. O'Loane, S. G. Preg, Herman Lerdahl, Bertha Ti-| ber. | Sheasis FAULKNER BACK FROM TRIP OUT H. L. Faulkner returned on the| steamer Alaska this afternoon after | several weeks in the States. | While in California, Faulkner af- tended the wedding of his Llnlllgll-l ter Jean, in Palo Alto. | Foreign Mfii_slry Disre- gards Immunity Be- cause Diplomatic PARIS, Feb. 13. — The Foreign Ministry announces that a special police watch has been installed over the Soviet Embassy here in disregard to its diplomatic immun- ity. The special police watch, accord- | | | ing to the official statement, is be- ~During his stay in San Fran-| cause of the “relations” with the cisco, Faulkner argued two cases outlawed French Communist party. before the Circuit Court of Ap-| > — peals e —— NEW ZEALAND. 10 CONSCRIPT JAPAN PLANNING DRASTIC ACTION TOKYO, Feb. 13.—Foreign Min- ister Arita told the Diet today that repatriate Japanese immigrants from the United States. However, Arita said, such steps would not be taken unless the worst possible conditions develop in Japanese-American relations. —— - Stock QUITATIONS ' NEW YORK, Feb. 13. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6%, American Can 114%, American Power and Light 4, Anaconda 27%, Bethlehem Steel 16 3/4, Commonwealth and South- ern 1'%, Curtiss Wright 10%, Gen- eral Motors 54%, International Harvester 56, Kennecott 36, New, York Central 16%, Northern Pacif: ic 8%, United States Steel 58 7/8, Pound $3.96':. First British Dominion fo, Take Steps of Kind, Present War | LONDON, Feb. 13—The first step toward conscription in a British Do- minion is reported today from New Zealand where the Government an- nounces a plan for registration of all available man power. { First outlines of the registration plan by Prime Minister Fraser and Defense Minister Jones stressed that the Government hoped to continue enlistment for the Dominions’ drm- | ed forces on a voluntary basis. However, both men emphasized the Government's disappointment with the success of voluntary enlistment. Air Minister Webb disclosed that | | the National recruiting committees | DOW, JONES AVERAGES | would soon open up with a so-called The following are today’s Dow,!big push for volunteers. | Jones averages: industrials 148.78,| Al the British Dominions have | rails 31.13, utilities 24.99. | limited their support to the Mother | | Country, thus far in the war to the H | enlistment of volunteers. J - Ml StUdenis 4 | New Zealand and Australia also! previously announced that they for service overseas, keeping their | land forces for home defense. Japan might take steps shortly to | o would seek only Air Force recruits| § CLOTHES that are CLEANED OFTEN—Wear Longer! \ Send YOUR GARMENTS to TRIANG!LE Thorough Workmanship and Modern Methods Produce Work _that Is Sure to Please You, & PHONE 07 l MODES of the MOMEINT ez SO— e WS XXX 908 you learn that you can sell those old things D John Adams is charged with sell- you've been saving through EMPIRE Clas- ing intoxicating liquor without #| i parts of Alaska will be at An- | Deputy Marshal Chris Christen-| horage for the meeting. . son of Petersburg arrived or . the e | steamer Alaska today with two pris- T A T | Youll d . d f h |cners arrested after secret indiet- SWITZER BACK ((Ompanv eam | ou’ll do an impromptu dance, too, when ment by the Grand July. Charlés ;Switzer, well known i hway dairy operator, returned to au over the weekend aboard To Petersburg |, - .- LASKA BOUND HOME | sified ads. Used furniture, appliances, dogs, cats, cars, lawn mowers, porch swings and a hundred other things can be sold at small cost to you. Turn your white elephants into cash the Classified way and go out and buy a hat or something. EMPIRE CLASSIFIEDS PAYS In the classified columns of THE EMPIRE hun- dreds of Juncau people and firms find a solution to their buying or selling problems. And the cost of the Classifieds is very small, Make a habit of reading the classifieds daily, and when you want 1o use them yourself simply phone 374 and ask for our helpful ad-taker The Daily Alaska Empire license, and John Ronning with careless use of firearms. > BOUND FOR VALDEZ C. J. Todd, J. B. Short and Peter Maas are aboard the Alaska bound for Valdez. ,—gs__-._“_—————- YOU CAN'T GO WRONG the steamer Tongass after receiv- ing medical treatment in the States. O'NEILL RETURNS Jim O'Neill of the Baranof Cigar Stand returned on the Tongass over the weékend after a trip south. i : a ! | : i i z ! REC.U.S. PAT OFF THE BIGGEST BURNER INSTALLATIONS IN JUNEAU, ARE RAYS! RICE & AHLERS CO. PHONE 34 Third and. Franklin Juneau High School yell leaders;; Marian Dobson and Ruth Torkel- son, sailed to Petersburg last night. on the steamer Mount McKinley and will lend support to the Crim- son Bears when they meet the Vik- ing squad in the first game of a| series tonight. Harold Zenger is another Ju- neau High School student who is making the trip to Petersburg for L. L. Laska, of Anchorage, is a passenger aboard the Alaska en- rolte westward after business in the States, ————— | MORLEY HOME | Lloyd Morley, Territorial Sani- tarian, came in on the Mount Mc- Kinley from the Westward last night, returning to his headquarters | offices here from a trip to Anchor- the championship series. age. BETTS RETURNS | JAMESON BACK Public accountant Archie Betts; Earl Jameson, former Alaska ! returned on the Mount McKinley ! last night from a trip to the West- ward. newspaper man and well known here, came in on the Mount Mc- Kinley from the Westward after a few days’ stay here. - MRS. RUSSELL RETURNS Mrs, Leota Russcell, of Leota’s Shop, returned on the Alaska after ‘n buying trip to the south. st LD L O FROM CORDOVA H. J, Baker, piano man, came in on the Mount McKinley last night from Cordova and is at the i1 Gastineau Hotel, Knit in neat checks is this two-piece frock for spectator sports wear. Its material is wool, its color grayed blue mist and its belt a finger-