The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 20, 1940, Page 8

PARKING OF AUTOS NOW OFF | Streefs Must Be Kept Clear | for Operation of Snow Plough . to be n oparking of auto- les on the strests of Juneau at while the present snow storm | order issued today by Dan Ralston. present snow fall, plow will be operated ¥ t making the streets le for traffic and the plow | have a ‘“clear way." rly this morning the snow plow and on some streets had This is the Chief of Police During the wa a tough time passing on account of | parked on both sides of thor- oughfares. as out autos Among other concessions given Ru LIFE WORK OF chairman, the affair was | Approximate 50 members and ls DESCRIBED friends gathered for the event, tax- | ing the capacity of the large ban- AL quet hall at Percy’s Cafe AdEIhEId GuemhnerHeard Miss Guenthner Speaks Miss Adelheid Guenthner, new at Juneau Woman's member of the force of the Territorial D 1t of Public c‘Ub l.Ufl(heOfl Welfare. was the speaker, whose delighttul portrayal of the high- AL lights in Miss Addams' work won The story of the life and work | enthusiastic applause from the as- of Jane Addams, America’s great|sembled group. She drew a striking woman social worker was interest- | contrast of the work done at the ingly and graphically told yesterday | i{ull House settlement now, and in g the featured number on the|the days when Mrs. Addams direct- rogram of the regular monthiy|d the work. Many of its activities al meeting of the Juneau Wo-| have ceased, she said. and some of man's Club. Given under the aus- pices of the Education Departmeit of the Club, Mrs. Harold Knight the rooms where enthusiastic groups of foreign women once demonstr ed the crafts and arts of their na ive lands are empty But Hull House will nto its own, she said back new come Under g off the letharg: hat charac- erized it after Miss Addams’ death, ind the promise of work it will do n the future is great Irish Dance Appropriate to St. Patrick's Day vas a cleverly executed Irish dance. harmingly performed by Miss sylvia Anderson in a colorful Irish b ostume. A pupil of Mrs. Alice Seatrie Brewine & Mavtine Co A jones, Miss Anderson’s interpreta- Since 1878 & Emul Sick, President STV ST lxllmg Irish air won O " - -r-u..r} FIESHAFEFRMEN’S ANNUAL BALL ELKS HALL SATURDAY——MARCH 23 REFRESHMENTS Admission $1.00 Ladies Free MUSIC STARTS AT 10 NOTICE! MEMBERS OF LOCAL 203 Special Meeting THURSDAY, MARCH 21 AT7P. M. UNION HALL ALL MEMBERS REQUESTED TO ATTEND! FOR SALE FRIGIDAIRE 12 CUBIC FEET RESTAURANT or COCKTAIL BAR Practically New—Cost $425.00 SACRIFICE FOR $275.00 CASH or TERMS GEORGE BROS. PHONE 92—95 another | ence. aind dynamic leadership it is shak- | | Following this presentation all pres- | duction of their 1 23 ALASKA TRIPS |made by Canadian Pacific liners be- | | tween Vancouver, ' | Rupert ' ’qpccml 11-day cruises included thi § | according il - o s wm wp | TG e === THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1940. ia by Finland in the peace treaty which ended the bi instant approval from the audi- Mrs. Henry Harmon sang to Me Only with Thine Eyes,” Ben Jonson’s immortal love song, and “The Bitterness of Love,” a musical contribution of outstand- ing interest. She was accompanied by Mrs. Robert White Mrs. Jennson Guest Mrs. M. O. Johnson of Wrangell, former President of the Alaska Federation of Women’s Clubs, and veteran club worker in her home town was a special guest. She spoke briefly of thes Work of the Wran- gell Woman's Club, the oldest clus ink in the Federation, which has been Lusy with .new. projects this year. including the acquisition of a club home, for the first time in its history Flag Presented Mrs. Knight . presided at the meeting, her own pertinent and inspirational remarks forming an addition to the program that had a special interest of its own. Not on the program, but a highlight in the occasion was the presentation by Mrs. Charlotte Groves of an American Flag for the club rooms |ent rose and gave the flag salute. Community singing, led by Mrs B. Lesher between cours en- |livened the program for those at- tending, and the informal in guests by var members added interest to the oc- | casion Members of the committee who planned the program were, besides Mrs, Knight, Mrs. J. P. Williams Mrs. Tom Park and Mrs. Lesher stgckholm Russia got broad concessions from Finland in the peace treaty which Russia got Sredni peninsulas and privilege of an airline and commercial route between Russia and Norway across must build a railroad from Kemiarvi (3), to border to meet new rail-- road Russia will built from Kandalaksha to unite White seaports with Tornio on the Bothnian Gulf. including town of Kuolajarvi and area east of Markajarvi which will straighten border. the Karelian Isthmus and areas north of Lake Ladoga (5, shaded), halted their 105-day war. @), ! ON SCHEDULE OF CANADIAN PA(IFI(} ! Three Special Cruises fo Be Made During Tourist Season ; Finland (4, shaded), including old Mannerheim Line. surrounding islands (6), gives Russia a huge naval base site. Estonia’s commitments to Russia on Dagoe and Oesel islands and in Estonia (7), insured the Soviet a commanding position on the Balti Um'apturod Clty of Viipuri Goes to Russm, Peace Trmtv ter undeclared war, was the city of Viipuri (above), which was reported virtually surrounded by Soviet troops just before the settlement was reuhed in Moscow. Russm Gets Vtctor s S pozls LENINGRAD (1) part of Rybachi and Petsamo district. land | [ Russia took a big slice of eastern Russia got city of Viipuri, | Also a long lease on Hangoe and be! ‘More Money For Western Alaska Mail 'Senate Reporfed Approv- Twenty-three sailings will Prince the three M. C.; Alaska during season, with and coming tourist d of two as heretofore, to the schedule just is- | year, inste sued. | steamships Princess Char- loue. Princess Louise and Princess| |Alice will handle the service, with ithe first named scheduled to take care of the special cruises. First three sailings will be the Princess Charlotte, Saturday, June| 1; Princess Louise, Saturday, June ed AddlflOna‘ Sl!m 18, and Princess Charlotte, Satur- day, June 15 of $55,000 Saturday, Wednesday Sailings —_— Therearm’ the sailings will be, gpAPTLE March 20.—The Seat-| on Saturdays and Wednesdays,|ye chamber of Commerce has heard| with the exception that the mo,Mm Washington, D. C. that the of tourist cruises will be out of genate has approved of the meas- VAm\couvor on three Tuesdays, JUun€ yre appropriating an additional $55- 25, July 16 and August 6. These oo for an operating subsidy to per Tuesday departures will take the'mijt a freight and passenger service | place of the regular Wednesday petween Seward and points on the sailings in order to gain the extra Alaska Peninsula and Aleutian Is- day needed | lands, supplementing There also will be two straight motorship service, Saturday sailings near the end cf mail. the schedule, namely the Princess The present subsidy is $69,000. _ | Charlotte, out August 27, and thelwith the additional sum, a larger Princess Louise, out August 24. Fi- | vessel can be operated. nal departure covered by the sched- | ey ule is Wednesday, August 28. | Ports of call besides Vancouver pekOVl(ll “ii and Prince Rupert will be Ketchi-| kan, Juneau and Skagway, with| NOVI plall 0' special stops at Alert Bay and Taku' Giacier. = Forecasts Sam Pekovich, well known Ad- FRITZ MElI.INGER FEDERAL GUARD AI ler of any town, six months in ad- KH(HIKA"' DIES‘:vnnce. to 95 percent accuracy on a theory he has developed of cycli- | cal weather. Fritz Mellinger, Ketchikan guard! Pekovich, whose theory, he claims, on the staff of the U. S. Marshal, is supported by 15 years of persist- died last night, according to word ent observations and checking, is received by Marshal William T. Ma- pased on the six months difference honey. m, time between the September and Mellinger, an old time painter,! March equinoxes. leaves a widow and family at Ket- chikan, ! miralty Island miner, offers to pre- hard in Juneau, the present! carrying only | dict Juneau's weather, or the weath- | | | For instance, today it is snowing snowing some ger- | You check above the March mean snowfall. Pekovich believes, therefore, that six months from now, or about this date in Septem- ber, Juneau will have precipitation, not necessarily snow, but precipi- tation nevertheless, and it will be heavy precipitation, likely rain, pro- portionately above the September mean rainfall. Climatology is too deep for us it. Pekovich says he tain proportion | has. D ROAD FROM ALASKA TO ARGENTINE GETS PUBLICITY IN EAST A large picture of the Juneau waterfront is featured prominently in an article in the Sunday Times of March 10. Title of the article “World's Longest Highway to Ling the Americas; Alaska-Argen- tine Road Grows.” The author states that the 14,100~ mile route from Fairbanks, Alaska,! to Buenos Aires, Argentina, is al- ready half completed. - Today's News Today—Emplre Seal Treaty Denounced By Japanese lmernahonal Incidents Are Feared by Bureau of Fisheries Officials SEATTLE, March threatened denunciation of the north Pacific fur seal treaty by Japan might lead to serious inter- pational incidents. Foreign Minister Arita | the 1911 pact, has threatened the 20. — Bureflu: of Fisheries officials fear that the| declared | in the Japanese Diet that the in-| i crease of the seals, protected under | | New Congressman 3 lposed new agreement. " It “appears there are differences |now over fumigation of living quar- | ters which fishermen previously paid for, and the matter of a half of one percent share to offset So- cial Security payments, which lat- ter stymie applies also to tuna fish- ing. | Union branches here have ad- | vised that no boats will leave for the banks until tentative agree- ments have been signed. ELISEN MARRIES ON SEATTLE TRIP Oscar Elisen, of the Juneau Txan:!er surprised his many friends 1 Ilast night on arriving in Juneau ‘fon the Northland from a trip to 9 | Seattle with his bride of a few days, | the former Berthelle Alexarder ] | Mrs. Elisen has many \the Capital City, having { ployed here until a few friends in been em- years ago. ;und 15 percent each to Canada and | Japan KETCHIKAN, Alaska, March 20. serve Fleet Maneuvers | Off Pacific Coast B. M. Behrends Bank First National Bank. av WASHINGTON, cn 20.—Sec- | ————0—90898M8 —————— retary of the Navy Charles Edwm announces that he will observe| United States fleet maneuvers be- ginning April 1 in Pacific waters. Th maneuvers will test naval techniques arising from the Euro-| pean war. Edison will embark from Los An- geles April 1 aboard the USS Pennsylvania, flagship of Admiral | James F. Richardsons, the Com-| mander-in-Chief of the fleet. — - Childbirth Too ‘ Much for Man; JEROME, Idaho, March 20. A | mother and child are doing v\ell today, but the father did not sur- | vive. James Showers, a Jerome business‘ man, was found dead at his home| shortly after his wife gave bum‘ NOTICE! GROUP HEALTH ASSOCIATION MEETING WEDNE at the CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS Public Invited Japanese fisheries industry. Most of the north Pacific seals spend the | roon SPECIALS' summers on the American-owned — Pribilof Island. The ammau.spcnd‘ Skookum ’ the winters cruising the Pacific| 3. H McGregor |{ Assorted 1 1b. cans for | in search of fish and return to the| Z 49c b |islands each spring. A smaller herd, Ohio Republicans hail the e.. IEEEM, o SRS o lives on Russia’s Commander Is-| :on of J. H. McGregor to the g lands. fi;“é;?c!“°“§cé:2{g“m‘hfv£'2le?:‘c‘f_ TOMATO g 15 oz cans The 1911 treaty, signed by the| . "gy"he vacancy created by the 4 36c | United States, Canada, Japan and| jeath of William A. Ashbrook paiet. F s SR ol gl g i Russia, prohibits all hunting of| Democrat. Woodbury | seals at sea. Before the treaty was FACIAL SOAP g bars for signed the Pribilof Islands herd, DEAL 4 zgc | which numbered about 5,000,000 SHER L I e ] | When the United States purchased (oNTRA(TS Standby \(?In(.‘»ka from SR\x.ssm.s hadwdwi‘n- Home 5“1,_.2 No. 2% cans 45( 9 | dled to about 150,000. Since 1911 the 5 herd has increased to about 2.000,- PEAGHES @ Do e (w‘ljlummg { the seal at sea brought [ MALULRS and. 2 i 45 many clashes and several times KTLRERTY C threatened warfare, before the STiE witoie % | treaty was signed | POWDERED MILK | A canadian sealing vessel once | 79 was seized by a United States| B [] cach C A Coast Guard cutter well outside st\NDB\' ¥ TR (e the three-mile limit Fumigation and Social Se- | sranee BurTER A party of Japanese poachers that | g 19 Janded on one of the Pribilot 1s-| CUrify Are Stumbling : 1 pound jar C lands was wiped out by enraged | ;'—CHILLINGS G o S Aleutian natives. | BlockstoAgreement | SChuENES or TEA Since the signing of the treaty 3 I 43c only three-year-old male seals are BULLETIN—SEATTLE, March || * pound package taken for their furs. 20.—The Vessel Owners Asso- | LARGE BTERCT H( 5 The Pribilof Islands now yield| ciation and Fishermen’s Union o = oy 4o i about 60,000 pelts each year. Re- both say they expect to reach ' CHOCOLATE ECLAIRS 23 ceipts from the fur are divided,| an agreement at a meeting to || 1 pound for c K4 70 percent to the United States be held late this afternoon. | e, - - SISy | ZWIEBACK MASTER TOAST 25¢ cCo-0P g 4 ALASKA ELECTRIC LIGHT and POWER CO. JUNEA" and DOUGLAS SPECIAL You May Now Buy "The Best of All” WASHERS General @B Hectric At No Higher Price than Others to a baby. | Physicians said that excitement | of the event apparently resulted in| NO WHITE a fatal healt attack for Showers. t OILING PORCELAIN S ’l‘cduvs News ’loaay—Emplre ' P N | GE GE l:lnl:sn EANSYE(;:I;‘E i ACTIVATOR GUARANTEE LLY 3 KE ; QUIET 6-POUND | CAPACITY “ | LONG-LIFE RUBBER MOTOR CASTERS “m A an W _Only = | 56.95 | ~$5.00..| | Pay Weekl; SDAY, MARCH 20 || wims pume—sess Monthly on Balance. Alaska Eleetrie Light & Power Co. PHONE 616 - —Customary pre-seasonal work on || 10 oz .package e | halibut gear is at a standstill in || ———— o this fishing port because of the| PUREX E | failure of the Deep Sea Fishermen’s ] TOLIET TISSUE 4 rolls | Union and the Fishing Vessel Own- || (Soft, White) 23(: ers’ Association to agree on a pro- /| * FRESH FRUITS and AT, | py . en vy G | 20, Phone 767- We dellver U U b 'Secrefary of Navy 1o 0b-| * Canadian Dscotnt THRIFT |« @ s