The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 2, 1940, Page 2

2 3 VESSELS ATIEMPT TO MAKEDASH German Merchantmen Un-; able fo Escape from Aruba Harbor BRITISH NAVY IS ON GUARD, WEST INDIES Two Craft At, Captured While Third Set Afire and Goes Down Dutch West Indies, attempt of threc ARUBA, March 2.—An UNCLE SAM'S UNDE German merchantmen (o dash palims w d to help canceal from this island through the hut, o war mined British blockade ended in fail- ure. One German vesscl was cap- i ared on e aon e vas NOTlilemen Is Sef sunk and one was driien back ’ and then captured The u-w»!" were the 6,500- Ahead 'o Mar[h 12 ton ager and ¢ boat : Heidelberg. now being towed | Because of conflicting with Holy to Trinicad by o British naval week, the scheduled March 19 1 with the German ceamen nvjtemen dinner ha en setb| Sheara . Se' Bttt 1d will be held in the Par- oricrs; the 2,3U0-ton i s of the Northern Light Presby- Troja 'which weit down vian Church on the evening of hours after she was set afire and farch 12 t seacocks opexied by the orev Not to be outdone by the recent to aveid capture, and the 1,400~ irl's style show, the Norlitemen ton Antilla which was driven ) feature a men’s style show at back by a British subma; which time the newest in sports- and captured as entering the .a. pusiness suits and tuxedos harbor ’“‘" will be modeled. The clothes will s be loaned for the évening by ihe | varicus men’s clothing stores in| MRS, HOOKERTO . B. P. W. CLUB MEETS MONDAY regular monthly = busine; and noon luncheon of the and Professional Women's in the HEAD MARTHAS AS PRESIDENT Mrs. Kalhtrme Hunh; member of the Martha was elected president of t! ‘The meeti; » Busines: Club will be held Monday honorary S THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE SATURDAY MARCH 2, 1940. 4 RCOVER JOB _Native this U. S. army gun in a thatched vers at San Juan, Puerto Rico. ved by U.S.A in 1898, Woll Seen Wolf Shot: ~ That's All (Fairbanks News-Miner) | Jimmy Secondchief, a 45-year-old Indian trapper and hunter who | lives at Tyone Lake, 60 miles west | of Sourdough Roadhouse on the | Richardson Highway, never heard the story of the boy who cried “wolf!” | At least, that's the opinion of | Pilot Herman Lerdahl of Fair- | banks after a succinct interview (with the native in the roadhouse operated by Mr. and Mrs. Ed | Tekatch. With Jimmy Carroll as passen- ger, Lerdahl was enroute to Fair- | banks from Gakona. Just before | putting down near Sourdough Road- house the pilot sighted from his plane a lone wolf skulking near the snow-buried highway. | After landing, Lerdahl and Car- !roll entered the roadhouse. Jimmy ~ | Becondchief sat in the room, un- FIRE NEARlY ' SWEEPS MINE CAMP, HIRS The Hirst-Chichagof mine build- ings came near being swept by fire tjve pounded back into the cabin. Judge of the Fourth Division of a few nights ago, according 'O without speaking he sat down to|Alaska, who has been south for | Superintendent Paul Sorensen, WhO warmn himself. ES weeks, is a passenger aboard AI ASK 4N arrived in Juneau today with pilot, «wel” asked Lerdahl, “did you the Yukon. He will go to the In- 4 4 :Slu‘ll Simmons. | see the wolf?” terior by PAA plane from Juneau Telephone T13 or write | s°;“"”‘ n said ;b‘r""k“o“* "0“;" “Oh, yes,” Jimmy Secondchief re- | 5 Wi oy The Alaska Territorial | ing 45 men caught fire, apparently plieq simply. “I shot him.” PN . : Employment Service ] \when a cigarette thrown from the = ggrung up outside the door, the BA"A‘\:I “l‘:\;‘\j(' L(N“H KON| =— | second floor blew back under the golf measured seven feet eight Ao and \FS !:“h‘m J. Schoet. ¥ e . Mr. 4 s : E % e e broke Gut Somewhere nhes from snout to tail-tib. Helyer gre passengers for Juneau on TRUCK DRIVER- TRACTOR |around 2 o'clock in the. morning 120 Pren brought down by twolthe yuyon which left Seattle to- MAN—Single, age 34. high school |around 2 o'clock i e I 8 rounds from the Indian's .22-valibre gqay Mps. Schoettler has been in education. Experienced on dump and did approximately $500 dam- gpecial, i - % . 1 hand; s~ Eorensen sildsSilie ¥ B Re Seattle for several months visiting trucks and tractors. Also handy agl ks B The intcrvnew was ended. her parerts, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. at plumbing work and mainten- had burned a few minutes longer, pd & S 2 Y ake ¥ 1 3 | Quist and Mr. Schoettler, manager ance. Will take odd jobs or full we'd have been ’cleaned out. ¥ r % 2 of the Baranof Hotel, has been time work. Call for 61 The camp has adequate fire pro- r RN AR suth on a brief business trip. g G ‘Lmu()n with a salt water pumpmg Wit i NERLAND CO! A ystem and a weli train e o N DA G of firemen, Sorensen smd_ IAI. (lUBS MRS. CLIFFORD RETURNING P Sorensen is & guest at the Bar- Returning fo Juneau after a six Leslie Nerland, Mayor of Fair- anof Hotel and will sail south on weeks' vacation in the States, Mrs. banks, is expected to arrive in the next Canadian vessel for a AS BENEFI(!A[ | Earle C. Clifford is a northbound Juneau on the Yukon sailing from few weeks in the Stat?s | |).is§engex Seattle this morning FOUR MISSING MEN SOUGHT at yesterday's meeting held in l‘n- Iris Room of the Baranof Hotel Parlors of the Northern Light Pres- and all members are requested byterian Church. to be present. Other offiters include Mrs. L. Miss Anita Garnick, President, E. Witt, first vice-president; Mrs. will preside at the session E. M. Richardson, second vice- v -~ president; Mrs. Ray Gillespie, sec- DIVORCE GRANTED retary; and Mrs, Sid Thompson, A final decree of divorce was reelected treasurer. granted today in Distict Court to Plans were made yesterday for Oscar Elisen from Alice Elisen — e e Today's News Today—Empire. another rummage sale to be held in the church parlors March 11. | l)atly Crossword Puzsle ACROSS Sglution of Yesterday's Puzzle 18. Within: ecomb, 1. Twist out of i shape 5. Station Show frreso- 10. Destiny lution 14. Medicinal . Singly plant upid persons 15. Banish from food one's coun- ting im- try rlement 16. Metal 3. Cive out 17. Orderly . Fuyeral ora- 18, Consisting of tion smaller par- Interprets: ticles archaic 19. Tear apart . Put forth 20. Sour . Saucy 21. Oil of rose . Persia petals . Percolates 22. Kind of starch . Related on weet potato the mother's ereal grass de Small soft mass line . Toughens and name plrdens . Ocean-going efore en Tenstded Offspring of 2. Appellation of e . Considers , Esperanto Athena 53. Official of an- Moy Banaos o Bellow yllent Rome . Meadow mice Of small im- 4. Youn orses Keel-billed Vld-womanish portance B3 Consmiracy cuckoo 65 This springs & Slandered 56. Fury 44. Wear away ternal 6. Passage out b7 Baking com- 45. Beseech 69, S-shaped 7 \{e’ltvlre of partment 47. Bird of bril- molding capacity 58. Act lant plu- 70 Liquefies by g Genus of the 61. Pravided with mage H live tree shoes 49. Refreshed by ngs which 62, Large volume repose pire great 03 Unconcealed 50. Most rational 1) I 64. Confined 61. Animal of the 74 y 66. Norwegian genus 11, territorial Mephitis DOWN 12 Chinese secret division 65. Pokes . Yesire soclety 67. English_ letter | 7 /) flilV//’///% W7/l el EE ] 1 SRR l%%%n-lll; B id 7 IN TERRITORY | Inquiries have been received by the Office of the Governor regard- ing the following persons supposed to be in Alaska: MALONE, BENJAMIN G. — Age labout 57 years. Believed to have been in Alaska for last twelve years. | Niece in Dorchester, Mass., interest- 'ed in locating him. | BENDURE, STEPHEN — In late seventies or early eighties. Relatives | in Sandusky, Ohio, trying to locate him. | TIPTON, RAY—An old time Alas- 'kan. One time resident at Anchor- | age Supposedly only man in Alaska holding a Carnegie Medal for car- rying a sick man across a Valdez | glacier. { FIDDLER, HARRY DAVID—Sup- | posedly owns a cannery somewhere |in Alaska. Son from Germantown, Pa., interested in locating him, Anyone having any information in regard to any of these persons is | requested to notify the Governor's | Office, Juneau, Alaska. SCOUT TROOP 2 | The Girl Scouts of Troop 2 of Juneau are meeting in the parlors | of the Episcopal Church, under the |leadership of Mrs. E. C. Stewart and Mrs, R. M. Akervick. Recently reorganized, the follow- ing were elected officers for the term: Margaret Femmer, Secre- tary; Erna Meier, Treasurer, and Irene Willlams, Scribe, One Patrol is working on Com- !munity Life towards their first !class work, and the other Patrol is working on International Friend- ship and Nature, which is neces- sary for the passing of second class work. JAHODA MOVIES { AT VESPER HOUR | Besides the singin of favorite hymns by the Young ple’s Choir,| OTTAWA, OnL, March 2. —James Ed Jahoda will show colored mov-|H. R. Cromwell, United States {ies at tomorrow's Vesper service Jof the Northern Light Presbyteran | Church, The service is held be- 1tween 6 and 7 o'clock. S g s Empire classifieds bring results - BUSYWITHWORK| speaking, hardly revealing he knew {the two visitors had entered. | In effort to make conversation Lerdahl said, “Say, we saw a big | wolf down the road about a hall- mile.” The Indian rose, adjusted his outer garb, shouldered his gun, and stalked out of the cabin. In less than a half-hour the na- i Contacts, Pro Providing Re-| creation, Build Up Mor- | | als, Is Now Planned | CHICAGO, March --The wide- spread payment of old age pensions | | —there are 42,000 persons past six-| | ty-tive receiving pensions in Chi- | cago—has made it both pracuca]; |and economical for the aged to live together in old folk clubs. ! That was the statement of Miss | Harriet Vittum, for thirty-five| {yvears head resident of Northwestern University's settlement, as she vis-| ,unlized a Chicago dotted wtih homes where the old people might live in! comfort on their pensions, | “I can See the time, and probably not far off, when the old folk will| | gather together in clubs,” she said. \ | “There are many fine old residenc- es which would serve the purpose | admirably but which are being torn | down. i “The conditions under which many | persons receive old age assistance | are depressing and unhealthy. While no one minimizes the value of the| $20 to $30 a month pensions bemg‘ patd, these do not altogether solve | their finargial problems | “Some never see a friendly soul week in and week out. They have no one to lean on or to care ior‘ them in case of sickness. | “We have formed a good neigh- | bor club to give them social con-| tacts, provide recreation and build up thelr worale. Tts success is amaz- ing.” —————— INICK BEZ WINS FISHTRAP CASE | ' FROMWM.PAUL The long pending suit of Wil- liam L. Paul versus Nick Bez over ownership of a fishtrap at Fish- fery " Point was decided today in| favor of Bez in a decision handed down by District Judge George F. Alexander. R T i CROMWELLS ARE 10 VISIT QUINTS Minister to Canada, and his wife, | the former Doris Duke, American helress, plan to visit the Dionne quintuplets at Callander, Ont,, | “some time in the spring” the mihister said. o & Sound of the motors of Red army warplanes that bombed this Finnish | jown had scarcely died away before fire wardens and volunteers wexe oattling the flames started by Russian incendiary bombs. Reports indi ata ccarcely a single important Finnish town remains nntanched hv the | Russian bombers. | HELP AN CLEGG Cecil H ABOARD YUKON Clegg, former Federal on the Yukon. STAMP VENDING MACHINE TESTS A NICKLE 5 TIMES IN FIVE~EIGHTHS OF A SECOND/ ACROSS THE ATLANTIC TO POST A LETTER/ ILLUSTRATED POST @H"IF[I(E[E When the maiden voyage of the Queen Mary was first announced, the National Hotel management decided to mail hundreds of letters is first trip to their patrons. The mail was dispatched to England Postal Officials announced that the Qucen Mary had all il she could car Harry Latz flew the Atlantic, eut British ape, and mailul the lett back home. Odd Isn't It2 S et e e DR Oldest Bank in Alaska Commercial Safe Deposit Banking by Mail Department The B. Mi. Behrends Bank Savings Junequ, Alaska U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. 8. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 3:30 p. m., Mar. Rain, little change in temperature tonight and Sunday, minimu: temperature about 35 degrees; moderate southeasterly winds. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Rain, little change in.temperature tonight and Sunday; moderate southerly wind but increasing over sounds and straits Sunday. Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Fresh to strong southerly winds will prevail over the Gulf of Alaska and along the coast from Dixon Entrance to Cape Hinchinbrook, and fresh to strong souteasterly from Cape Hincinbrook to Kodiak LOCAL DATA 1 1 Time Barometer lemp. Humidity Wind Velocity = Weather 3:30 p.m. yest'y 29.46 34 4 S 4 Cloudy 3:30 a.m. today 2085 35 88 SE 9 Cloudy Noon ‘today 29.89 39 81 SE 1 Rain RADIO REPORTS | TODAY Max. tempt. | Lowest 3:30am. Precip. 3:30a.m. Station last 24 hours | temp. temp, 24 hours Weather Atka SRR 34 36 04 Rain Anchorage ......... 31 26 21 0 Cloudy Barrow -9 | -23 -23 0 Clear Nome 12 7 2 4 of Clear Bethel 21 | 2 14 0 [ Fairbanks 16 7 9 0 Cloudy St. Paul 28 | 27 28 Snow Dutch Harbor .. 40 34 35 86 Rain, Snow Kodiak 42 | 32 37 T Cloudy Cordova 40 35 38 2.87 Rain Juneau 10 30 35 01 Cloudy Sitka 46 | 37 .29 Kefchikan 43 37 43 96 Cloudy Seattle 54 46 48 43 Cloudy Pertland 54 46 417 53 Rain San Francisco .. 60 52 54 01 Clear WEATHER SYNOPSIS An intense disturbance has developed over the North Pacific Ocean with the lowest pressure 28.20 inches reported at 400 miles south of Dutch Harbor. Southeasterly vicinity of Prince William Sound region while winds had moderated along the coasts of Washington and Oregon. Slightly higher tem- peratures with cloudy to partly cloudy weather was general over mest, sections of Alaska with light to moderate rain over the coastal areas. gales were reported in tne Juneau, Mar. 3.—Sunrise 6:52 am., sunset 5:3¢ pm. Mar. 4—Sun- rise 6:49 a.m, sunset 5:37 p.m. INNES TO RETURN HOME HANS LEAVING Don Innes, who has been in| Eifler Hansen, Superintendent of Juneau for a week, will return to|the Pioneers' Home, is leaving on his Fairbanks headquarters, lmv-‘ the steamer Taku tonight for Sitka ing on the PAA plane Tuesday. |He has been here for several days PRI e —" 'un business, 'TWENTY ABOARD YUKON | R o 5 FOR PLANE ON TUESDAY | Twenty passengers are aboard the | steamer Yukon, now northbound to Juneau from Seattle, who have booked passage on PAA planes leav- ing here next Tuesday for the| Interior. The discovery of Newfoundland is generally credited to the Italian, Giovanni Caboto, who became known as John Cabot. He found it in 1497, SECECE AL M Empire Want Ads Bring Results. Hollywood Sights And Sounds By Robbin Coons. HOLLYWOOD, Cal., March 2—The ladies and gentlemen of the church choir are at their evening practice in the organ loft, and Simon Stimson (nobody knows the trouble he's seen) is drunk again. ‘The ladies and gentlemen can tell is. Poor Simon fingers the keys with his left hand and “conducts” with his right. His gaunt face is pinched with that mocking bitterness that eats at his soul, and his roving eye is fascinated and caught by the huge shadow of himself on the white church wall—an eerie silhouetfe with its exaggerated head and the long stray ock of thin hair, the rhythmic motions of the claw-like arm and hand. . .. They are singing “Art Thou Weary, Art Thou Languid?” and Mrs. Gibbs (Fay Bainter) and Mrs Webb (Beulah Bondi) are singing right along with the rest, alarmed about poor Simon but charitably pre- tending not to be. . . . It's a scene from “Our Town,” the scene that in the stage pro- duction was played in the orchestra pit. The film is improving on that—with scenery, of course, and with shadows. Interesting, that shadow, and the camera is making the most of it. A chance inspiration, no doubt? Not a bit of it. You can turn around, over here back of the camera, and see the scene on paper. It is al there—the loft rail, the organ, Simon and the choir, and the shadow. It was all there before Director Sam Wood took his players to the first set for the first scene. You can go up to William Cameron Menzies' art department, THal's the reception charming hostessess give thoughtful guests who bring gifts of delicious Van Duyn Candie Little attentions make you & Try 1t Perey’s exclusively "must come" FRESH @uy” “Van /Wy" VAN DUYN CHOCOLATE SHOPS AT 4 quest. in fact, and see the whole production, scene by scene, as Menzies has sketched it. Viewing those scores upon scores of sketches, done in char- coal, is like previewing the film, for every camera set-up is there or suggested, virtually every lighting effect, and the artistic com- position of the individual scenes. If, when you see the film, you are stmck by their artistic quality, you can credit Menzies, the screen’s foremost art di- rector, as their first source. Menzies is a New Englander (New Haven, Conn.) by birth and training (Yale). He was a boy of five when Grover’s Corners, N. H. 'was living out the events told in. Thornton Wilder's play. He was an artist before he came into pictures, when he was 20, and his sketches have mapped out countless productions since then. He has never had a one-man art exhibit, but he deserves one. Any of his “Our Town” sketches, selected at random, can be viewed as an art work apart from its film association. But let’s go back, now, for another look at Simon Stimson— who is really Phillip Woods, a stage actor of 20 years’ experience. Woods is here making what he wishes was his first picture. He appeared before in “Room Service” with the Marxes. He supposes he won the Simon Stimson job (a meaty roll for any character actor) because he had just done a drunken father role in “The Primrose Path” in New York. That had some- thing to do with it—but more important was the fact that he played Simon Stimson in the Denvér (Elitch’'s Garden) produc- tion of “Our Town” and was retiembered.