The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 29, 1940, Page 2

& 7 BERTEN THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1940. You Have o be Tough fo be Number 1 Speedway Fan at Indianapolis (las ; s w2 DEATH TAKES Commencement Exemses “""“THE WEATHER (By the U. 8. Weather Bureau) H Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4:30 p.m., May 2 |( u ea onlg Clear tonight, increasing cloudiness Thursday; minimum temperatu o tonight about 44 degre gentle to moderate northerly winds to- e The Commencement Exercises of the Juneau High School Class of | night, variable Thursday. REEDSPORT, Ore., May 20.—Un- 1940 will be heid tonight in the high school gymnasium, starting 8 Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Fair tonight and Thursday with : til a 79-year-old pioneer succumbed .. k. The complete program and roll of the class follows: increasing cloudiness Thursday; not much change in temperature; early in March, it began to look as ‘ gentle to moderate changeable winds but northerly over Lynn Canal though death was on a holiday in this southwestern Oregon coast town From December 6, 1938, until March 11, 1940, the town’s under- ‘ taker looked vainly among his 1,800 neighbors for business. A man can't | SCHOOL GYMNASIUM Forccast of winas along (he coast of the Guif of Alaska. vening—May 29, 1940 Near Dixon Entrance moderate, probably fresh variable wins to- ight o'Clock night, becoming easterly Thursay; from Sitka to Kodiak, moderate versily Grand March east and northeasterly except fresh in the vicinity of Kodiak. HIGH SCHOOL BAND tior .REV. JOHN A. GLASSE dman LOCAL DATA live on only one funeral in a year Wa he Flower i T'schaikowsky | Time _ Barometer 1c:r)u. Humidity Wind “elocity W(::li!\u adtd’ o Baif GIRLS’ GLEE CLUB 4:30 pm. yest'y . 3013 63 40 w 12 b e . % 4:30 30.13 44 6 w 2 y The town’s two physicians, Di " Ao 4:30 a.m. today $ 8 w #. C. Bastland and-B. I, Pields, and Americanism Noon today 30.00 |)f 41 | SE 5 Cleay the Oregon State Health Depart- | America Is Ours ephine Campbell RADIO REPORTS ment said a combination of good Propaganda e Right”" Sue Stewart 3 | TODAY luck, caution and “salubriou - R A - Mary Stewart Max. tempt. J‘ Lowest 3:30a.m. PJ]““D» 3:30a.m roundings” was responsible for the Written by Mary Stewaft: U(‘m'vd by Betty Wilcox Station last l,,l hours | u‘!n[). l«‘mp, 24 hours Weather low death rate . B e Barrow 34 29 31 0 Fog Nermally, about 12 p may-{gd . The Cha g ok ‘{}; ',:?‘11 x;," (I' l) Aklavik 36 28 jfl 0 Cloudy 500-mile gri 5 4 sua ery » each year pgon e Monrce 1 Tine Ve OreY | Fairbanks 70 41 .. R 0 Cle Y& (he scene as the field gets underway at the start of the 500-mile grind. About 150,000 fans usually ery 1,000 die cach year in Oregor 2 i ppid anks s £ % L Clear : for the Memorial Day clssic This compares with 10.7 persons per i t : Cain Nome 53 { 5 8 06 Cloudy g bbb At A = — 1,000 throughout the nation. ! 1 Thousand Eyes | Dawson 66 36 38 0 Cloudy | . £ 3 The last deaths before that of the OR TRIO | Mayo 45 45 03 Clear Like Louisville ‘with its Ken- |, pig event, for, although post | Wins in Maine cldster on March 11 were those of | | ¥ Irving Lowell| Anchorage 42 2 0 Cloudy tucky Derby, Poughketpsie with | ;0 s not until 10 am. they Yo Mien, 7o'denl B Dubae tis Hals : Harley Turner| Bethel 57 .“ @ 0 e its Regatta, and Paadena with |, o o their garages shortly | iday.” two native sons, both past| | nnedy | St Paul 40 36 36 06 Rain ue ; ¢ I Joseph Kennedy it towl game, Indiznapo- wfter dawn to give their spanking 75 years old, moved to two other| | Richard Jackson | Puteh Harbor . 48 40 42 32 Rain Jis a big altraction which |)i0n speedsters a last going- | Pacific Coast states in search of | Y - Wosngsenski 48 43 44 15 Rain i FRANK PARSONS 45 | makes it sports capital for a | gyer Many a car has been put health. Both died shortly after leav-| | o DUNHAM | Kodiak 46 45 15 116 Rain day. IUs the Memprial Day into winning condition just a few | ing Reedsport b r A8 N S Cordova 63 40 41 0 Clear Speedway Classic, This S00rY | mitutes before it was wheeled fo Bl St PRimC Era i ke % : o s SSRGS = ‘1 5 7 s telis how Indianapolis behaves |ipe starting line |able by the that hazardous | Present WALTER SCOTT, R. R. HERMANN | sitka 61 40 4 0 on its big day. 3 RS ks ‘4 |lumbering ana logging operations | f Seitz! Ketchikan 62 44 4 0 ! “i‘"'l “‘"‘l' g A o el '§ | employ many of the town's worker: 'HOOL BAND Prince Rupert . 64 40 4 0 ; F s gl s B A it e 7 B ! B Prince George . 69 29 30 0 le By CLAUDE: WOLF} other group does its partying in | i Loy e rge ® . o y m(é-lwl\‘: AP Feature Service automobiles lined up outside the | Hu«vrgu hite e 5 o L. Cldy x speedway P § fie ) Shamrock | Portland 8 57 5 0 Smoky EpeRdwiy < F0r U~ SRR » TN Ay ; o . : san Francisco .. 57 51 51 0 Clear INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, May 20— forite parking spaces just inside the | Motio _Tout bien tout rien Ml 5 ; Take a bit of county fair, a sky!, airplanes, streets k early next morning That line usually starts to form I Frank Parsons | I ler Pete Schneider clogee sidewalks, cafes | qays pefore the race and on the NEW YORK, May 2. — Alaska| . ; ne Andersc The deep western disturbance was centered near Dutgh Harbot this 4 nad > with ' ‘DacDIe| TS e M gl il g ine stock closed at 43| Secretary and Treasur June Anderson ' morning apd another moderat dis urbance was approaching the coast hote i e last night stretches (‘JHL in a long jJunnau mine ock closed at 4 A ; Aiss Myme Moe of Oregon and appeared to be ad ancing inland. Pressure continued rom everywhere, put them all 0- qyeye for miles. It's a common today, American Can 90':, Ana- L high over most of Alaska with a ridge extending into the Gulf ether and it's’ Indianapolis just| siont to see the folks get out conda 21'%, Bethlehem Steel 69 7/8, Cloudy Wl‘u.l,h.f'l" and r‘n;n prevaile 1.: er the A’|'1>IA; B: region ”x‘l before the big speedway classic. | nyets and pillows, make their Commonwealth and Southern 15/16 CLASS ROLL thil. SHBEA -Beningilg. willa, cléar weather Sotitiaed. Lver the Tne A i e e et beds, drop a cover aver the car SANes Wright - Cenerdl Mp-, Anderson, June key, Jim Reischl, Keith terior, the Yukon T erritory, nn(i Southeast IAhckw 5 the first long ra was run on windows, and try to sleep. tors 40, International Harvester | alten. Ruth sey, Vern Rudell, Bob ; 2 A "‘ & -"‘J"H ] the 2% mile speedway in 19111 Not g few put out folding cots tes, Forrest ho nto, Mux Del s 7 am., sunset 9:48 p.m | 41%, Kennecott 27 3/4, New Yo Central 10%, Northern Pacific hneider, Pete 11, Beatrice except that it seems 10 get bigger on the grassy roadside, undress in Marlanna lr hnstone. b 4 :‘r;?‘t(-nm.lrhilml‘ : 2 : 4 : i ity L their c lip under a light cover United States Steel 45 7/8, Pound in. Sydney Jorgens Shith, the Douglas Lodge, headed by M ell. Josephine Kennedy, Joe Stewart, Mary . * P LONPL BRLIRTe fimnd ety e Sasiutedse g o | 83174, | S s Loken, Ethel Siewr(, Sue_ eneVIVe uneau vin Pcol, entertained the June e chilfreti Wil 80 10 thetr wopst | Dobson, Tdabelle Frunces Thibodeau, Cecilia oUD Wit aBieib TuntH A r 4 o) ufresne, Virgin| well, Tr 3 the old course on Memorial Day, Roor fak - Ryoskast DOW. TONES AVERAG | Pug Virginia May 30, to watch the dare-devils’ gomes daylight the long line of the nation go through thelr|goeg into action, some of the folks crashes and spins in the wirh preat spirit and others slow- rving Thibodeau, Hob | ! Erickson, Bonnle Mungsol, Ada rkelsen, Ruth . Guest of C D A 1t was announced that installaticn i re Foster, Clarence Messer, Elwin er, Elizabeth as annour 1 allati ones averages: industrials 115.2 > A Osborne, Orvald Watkins, Harry rails 23. 22 uum.ies 18.80. Osborne, Tom Weyand, Dallas of June 11, yihei oy J Wileox. Bettv With Miss Genevieve Juneau and - >+ - race against time and death. ly because of too much spirits the . Worley, Virginia e e B M ldianee |+ vae s b sl rind, 3 Thousands of others, however.| njoht before. A couple of hottles | ' or, 1 Zenger, Harold | her two companions, c "> 7 Zmpire classifieds pay. ist gather In the city, clog, the|or peer have made up many o | p"‘(HIN PAUI. : - Powers, Tom Kb and Miss Anna Merchut, as highways leading to the track race fan's breakfast | special guests last evening, mem TOO LATE TG CLASSIFY stand d forming the back- Then the slow, nerve-wracking ground fc | e [ " \ FROM WASILLA | of the Catholic Daughters of Amer- COLUMBIA, Mo., May 29. — H wAlK OUI W. S. Klockenteger, Superinten- jca gathered at the Parish Hall for pug for m\;”h “Islu"\p:‘ Alx”m 5 :L,(;\x::.m: L:(“:; x(“t‘»mf‘“‘m '1,‘,:::‘\.:'} | earned his baseball-sounding nic dent of the Territorial School at | a short business session. N]CF“‘:;L].:E?IN](? rq?l,,, ‘f}‘,],f-ll:,l,.:,I‘)..‘, picking up a few extra dollars,! girections to join the all-nighter Mrs. Margaret Smith | name on a football field but Pitch- | ——— Wasilla, is spending a few duy,: Foliowing the meeting members of | private family. 56 AHoBeYby. the event means something else jjne g Widow of Representative C. H. |0 Paul Chrisrqmn isn’t so bad! 1pPON Ind, May 29—County in Juneau. Ye “""f leave for the P03 51 S A S IR TS 5 eSS R A S ag | Let's look at an average race Smith of Augusta, Me, Mrs. |On a diamond, either. . |Clerk John McNeal was ready to|States on Thursday. h NEWEST IMPROVEMENTS IN KITCHEN EQUIPMENT 1 Airplane pilots get their share gan who has a parking space in Margaret Chase Smith, 39, easily In Alx ball games this Patl put his seal on a marriage license ap- R 13 { of the easy spenders’ dough With the track infield, Once in his al- WOn the Republican nomination | cracked out 12 hits for Missouri| ication he had just made out, when BOATS IN ! Murphy cabranene K“chen ! flights abovegle wpeedway. HOWIS loted pii - he unleashes a bunch [oF her husband’s unexpired term | in 24 times at bat for a 500 aver- ine would-be bridegroom askd: “Will| The Forest Service vessels For- E % do well with a maximum cHarge of Jumber, bolts it together until ;f;, 'ep"fs",gm";e t;xm r:t‘"': | age, leading his teammates. He thig come out in the paper?” ester and Ranger IX arrived here olfeanot of $10 a day—with no Hmit on it rames. the car, and, presto, he |~ o | batted in 13 runs and scored thiee \roveal qaid it probably would. |last night, the Forester from Ket- Radio Enginéering and Manufacturing Company i the number of persons who may has his own little grandstand atop homers. The couple, without taking the li- chikan and the Ranger IX from Phone 176 Box 2824 H occupy a room. Merchants, res- his gutomobile. Paul is first baseman for the ... tumeq and walked out. Taku Inlet. bt Sl B e s taur night clubs and liquor| gome of the boys sell sitting Empire cuassifieds bring results. | Tigers. | i e A < SO, £ dealers have no cause for com- room on such improvised stands o | plaint either But Uncle Sam has wised up to D Rehearsal !that little business venture and musement center Springs has corps of agents on the joi to night along the last mile collect government tax on the leading to ggles. sands of “Two-Lap Stretch” leeping on the phen the race! It's almost a rit- The surroundings ual that every one must stand y of the thi Which quring the first two la make up the mid-way at a county Then, having had their first fair. Pennant haw! riend- ( taste of thrills, they settle back Iy bother to the crowd which is|awaiting the first crash or brush well behaved | between skidding drivers i the s everyone must dr “'*'\nmd race for positions, out to nw course the night before| Comes mid-day. In the infield, the race, if for nothing else than|pehind the grandstands and in the | to give the Police Department a stands themselves, the thing be- for the next day’s|comes a community picnic in ap- 1 rowds jam into | pearance. holcls where the un-| gigmach demands answered, it think they might see one | pack to the race itself for the final of the 33 drivers who will start | 200. miles, where most of the thrills e race develop as the surviving drivers t the speedboys never are to|gpen throttles wide for the dash be found. They are tucked . into|toward a piece of the $100,000 prize their beds early the night before|money. Beer and liquor flow. freely be- fore and during the race, but the hard drinkers must bring their | own. Only beer is sold in the | speedway. It is delivered to the | patrons in paper cups, just to do away entirely with the possibility | of some one heaving a bottle at' | |one of the drivers. 3 < | | Crowd Orderly 3 ” y e 3 7 S | \ | main highwa for tr LOOK AHEAD! and ou'll buy your G-E NOW] A Brang New 1949 6.2 Cubic Foqy General lectric Refrigerator 119.50 Our Family’s WIISKEY RECIPE has always been so flavorful end mild—and maybe even more so today. Just try it sndsee! pgarry E. Wilken | Policed by the Indiana National | Guard, the crowd is pretty orderly. | If anyone does get out of bounds, though, there’s a jail on the, |grounds and a justice of the peace |to hald court. Removal from the | grounds, a fine, or a cooling off in the jail house are the punishments. But back to the race. It has en- tered the last 25 miles. Ten laps 0 go, and the thousands of people are standing again to be on their feet until the winner flashes across the line. Hundreds, however, miss the fin- ish and sometimes much of the race, for they have had too big a night and too big a day. Sleep 1m | overtaken them and they lie quxeL- |ly under a tree or in their automo- | biles, missing the biggest thrill of | SEE G-E! The buy of your life! l SEALED IN'STEEL THRIFT ® Rising food prices make | this G-E Refrigerator a more UNIT. {all, | PP ever. : Once the winner has finished | duifiy invesment ‘hl;*‘ ok § STALIESS STEEL SUPER the 500 miles, there is o, general | With unsettled wor conc FREEZER. B 2 S e | tions there is & pouibility §p DURAELE GLYPTAL | sees the tenth driver—the last of of higher prices. Right now FINISH. | the money winners—get his check- you can buy a big G-B Re- 4 ALL STEEL WELDED | ered flag. | " N i CABINET. : : t the lowest price : ] | Again we find auto-chocked roads | ‘A decad more has been cut from the apparent age of this home by well-planned modernization. fngerclnr ai ! leading to the city. One-way traf-| The front po.[;: was removed, shutters were added, and the front exterior was xenenell‘y renl:odelfi General Blectric ever ’nch‘, 5 FIVE-YEAR PERFORM- fic speeds the exodus. Paint has played an important part here, while poorly located shrubbery has been moved to places ANCE PROTECTION. { And in just a few hours, In- better advantage, te packa store. | dianapolis is back to normal again Owned by an HOLC mort; &t this home increastd in valde to the oxnnle;l““fiie,men&z;e::f ] ALASKA ELECTR'C L,G"f" “"‘"’W;‘ s ,:;, 75% groi | —until another year and another reconditioning, which cost only $2,265. Improvements of this kind may be fti'\":‘ A LA } e it Copyright 1940, The Wil o | speodway_race. ization Credit Plan of the Federal Housing Administration. Actual funds for the ‘ Mb wWER o neviral ::;n"’Ah:g‘Y::gSc ley — ., — from private lending institutions qualified by the FHA, 4 I . g ; HL—___'—' Today's news today it The Empire. l me ‘ls . o A