The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 30, 1940, Page 2

v L - romETE 5= Mary Stewart Claude Helgesen Josephine Campbell Ruth Allen | Richard Jackson | Ethel Loken | Vern Hussey Ruth Torke Hick Paul Cok nce Nicholls B. Mangsol Robert Rudell NASIUM 1S | Watkins, business manager for the publications. her four years of High School WDED FOR WDE MENCEMEN | Frank Pgrsons, President of the graduating class, presented the Sen- 'lor gifts to 1940-41 student bod President, Ingram Varneli, who Richard Jackson Is Name , X : e cepted them on behalf of the Girls' Valedictorian-Virginia |ciub and Bows cluwn. | Werley Salutatorian | Selecting as a timely subject,| “Americanism,” nine members of the | class spoke on matters pertaining to | = o America and its citizens. { 1940--largest to be L P 4 Thore speaking during the exercis- cau High School | Gl 1t By es included Josephine Campbell, . America Is Ours”; Sue Stewart, eni i members entered the “Propaganda Can Be Right”; Bett; Wilcox, “America’s Future Citizens which was written by Mary Stewart; | Barbara Hermann, “The Challenge | of Americanism”; Virginia Worley, “The Monroe Doctrine”; Irving Lowell, “Opportunities in America; | ed to the Harley Turner, “Understanding| Schoeol b America”; Joseph Kennedy, “Edu- | ection of C/ Robert White, | cating America”; Richard Jackson, | sional “University | “Diyvided We Stand.” | fray draperies, In| At an interval in the program ! aduate’s gar-/he selection “Waltz of the Flowers” | background for the | was sung by the Girls' Glee Club, | ite lettering “Class under the direction of Miss Merle | by the n fern- | Janice Schroeder. A Senior trio| the platform. | composed by Misses Virginia Worley, , valedictorian| Ruth Allen and Idabelle Dobson, | jum which was with parents 10 were gathered to nt exercises for Seniors mng Acity nmencem cops and gowns, | The only student to be honored | with the perfect attendance and non | tardiness award was Ethel Loken, | whose average was 100 per cent for | | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1940. Virginia Worley Keith Petrich Esther Johnstone Clarence Foster | Barbara Hermann Peter M. Schneider Frances Long Bonnie Erickson Robert J. Thibodeau Ethel Fukuyama ARGEST CLASS IN HISTORY OF JUNEAU HIGH SCHOOL, IS GRADUATED LAST EVENING Lillian Hendrickson Orvald Osborne Beatrice Bothwell Virginia Dufresne Tom Powers Sue Stew Harry Watkins Keith Reischl June Ande Herman Porter | U. 8. DEP:\R'&'MENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. 8. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4:30 p.m., May 3 Clear tonight, increasing high cloudiness Friday; not much char in temperature, minimum temperature about 45 degrees fonight; gentle to moderate variable winds. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Clear tonight, increasing high cleudiness Friday; not much chang: in temperature; gentle to moder- ate variable winds, except northerly over Lynn Canal. Forecast of winas along (he coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Moderate variable winds tonight, b coming southwesterly Friday in the vicinity of Dixon Entrance; and moderate northeasterly from Sit- ka to Kodiak. LOCAL DATA Time Barometer ‘1emp. Humidity Wind Valocity ~ Weather 4:30 pm. yest'y 30.02 46 28 - w 10 Clear 4:30 am. today 30.03 2 B4 Calm Clear Noon today 30.00 69 44 E 3 Clear RADIO REPORTS, TODAY Max. tempt. Lowest 3:30am. Preeip. 3:30a.m. | Station last 24 hours | temp. temp, 24hours Weather | Barrow 34 30 30 Fog | Fairbanks 4 43 44 Clear | Nome 58 46 46 Cloudy Dawson 70 98 38 Cloudy | Anchorage 64 50 50 Cloudy | Bethel 58 43 46 A1 Cloudy | st Pau 40 37 37 06 Cloudy | Dutch Harbor .. 53 41 41 02 . Cloudy Wosnesenski 46 | 43 3 26 Cloudy Kanatak 417 | 44 16 Rain Kodiak 46 45 28 Rain Cordova 63 42 Clear Juneau w” 45 Clear | Sitka 70 44 Clear | Ketchikan 72 44 Clear Prince Rupert . 71 44 Clear | Pringe George . 72 34 Clear | Seattle 79 56 Cloudy | Portland 78 58 Cloudy San Francisco . 68 58 Rain | 3 . WEATHER SYNOPSI® The pressure distribution has changed little during the last 24 hours. Relatively high pressure persisted over the Gull and most of Alaska, while the western disturbance has weakened and was centered near Duteh Harbor this morning. The disturbance off the coast of Oregon has advanced slowly northeastward and was expected fo move inland. <Except for light rains over the Bristol Bay fon and the Alaskan Peninsula, the weather was fair with mild temperatures over the rest of Alaska and the Yukon Territory. Juneau, May 31-—Sunrise 4:05 am, sunset 9:50 p.m | vis and Juneau had located ofily one | who once had been the best of claim on October 4, 1880, soon the |friends, daring dangers together, | records would show a claim loeated | sharing the roush comferts of life of thatl date in the name of each | (cgether. But, bitter did it be- | of the new nine arrivals. What hap- come that in one of the first decis- | pened? Probably. the nine out-vot- | ions rendered by the District Court »«d and out-cursed Harris and Ju- after it had been created in 1834, neau and insisted on being let in Judre Dawson spoke of the vindic on the ground floor of the new |tive vituperation which they evineed | Goleonda. ainst each other. Looking backward sixty years, it Now, resting in the slecp of eter- would seem Harris was a little ego- | nity, no doubt long since they have istical in naming both camp and | clasped hands in friendship and for- mining district after himself. We given each wrong each commitied know not what envies it stirred up | against the other. But, we today Elwin Messer Betty Wilcox Frank Parsons Tdabelle Dobson Waldemar Jones Pota Cbarne Bill Jorgenson Harley Turner | Cecilia Thibodeau R Jack Glasse Max DalSanto Theodore J. Smith | Marianna Brandes | Robert Geyer Harold Zenger | Sydney Brannin | | Forrest Bates art rson the summer are Jim Hickey's plans, with no plans for the fall. Veérn Hussey will work during |the. ummer and later plans to study metallurgy at the University of Alaska, L Fishing during the summer vaca- VARIATION SHOWN IN PROGRAMS OF JHS. f_RAWMES, during the summer and has no August 17, 1880, what a picture of | further pla primeval beauty must have met Yheir Senior class president, Frank Par- eyes! From waters edge to mountair sons may work at a cannery this slope were beautiful forest trees,| summer. He has no plans for next crowding each other rank on rank. | fall. The remnants of the Lewellyn Glac- Larry Nicholls hasn't decided on | ier still¢lung on the hills. The chan- a future yet. nel was filled with huge, gleaming Idabelle Dobson has no plans, icebergs. Goats and sheep and bear | in Juneau’s breast, but-on February was taken on names for the town, resulting one for Harris, fifteen for Juneau and. eighteen for Rockwell, after the U-8. Navy Lieutenant, who with the good warship Jamestown had rushed to the new mining camp 0 maintain law and order. Some 10, 1881, a miner’s meeting was held. | | Mike Gibbon was chairman. tion are Waldemar Jones' plans v and perhaps Diesel school in Los Class of 40 Reveals Plans anseles in e an: H No plans for the summer, Bob for Summer Vacations isodesu win enter . st ~School in Fall Juneau High School graduates are | busy completing plans for the summer and fall, with varied pro- grams revealed by the individual| members, [ Joe Kennedy will attend Reed College in Portland next fall. | Lillian Hendrickson plans to| enter nursing school at Providence Hospital in Seattle, specializing in laboratory technique. | Planning to take a two-year pre- | law course at Willamette Univer-| sity in Salem, Oregon, Barbara Hermann will enter college next| fall. ‘Working in his father's shop dur-r ing the summer months, Bill Jor- | genson will attend the University of Alaska in September. Winner of the Phipps scholar- hip, Richard Jackson will enter| in the fall. To remain in Juneau are Ted Smith’s only plans. He may “enter business school later. Tom Osborne says he has abso- lutely no plans. Marianne Brandes will return to Angoon and work in the post of- fice. Sometime in the distant fu- ture, she says she will go to col- lege in Oregon. Astoria and Puget Sound cannery will ogcupy Bob Geyer's summer vacation. No plans for the fall. Josephine Campbell may attend the University of Washington or husiness college in Seattle. Claude Helgeson is awaiting an- nouncement of the results of a re- cent Annapolis examination. If he doesn't make it this time hell try again next year. No plans except to remain Juneau for the summer was in all but would like to be either aschool abounded in the hills. The ponds | e teacher or a nurse and creeks wers alive with ducks, |UsPect at least a few of the Navy et b s i g pese, and brant 1 other | officers and crew also wished to lo- FEthel Fukuyama will attend bus- and geese, and biant, and other ) ¢ i X wild fowl. Eagles and ravens and | “ale a rich mining claim for them- iness college. President of the Student Body, Tom Powers hopes to work at a cannery this summer and plans to attend the University of Alaska this fall. Vacationing in Juneau will take up Sue Stewart’s time this .sum- mer and in the fall she plans to attend Stanford University. Harry Watkins will work on his boat this summer and may enter the University of Washington in the fall, Eiwin Messer has ne definite plans for the summer and fall. Ethel Loken, Student Body Sec- retary-Treasurer, has no plans but hopes to continue with bookkeep- ing as her life work. Spending his fourth summer at Excursion Inlet, Pete Schneider will then go to Seattle to enroll in a diesel school. Ruth Allen hopes to take a sec- retarial course for one or two years in Iowa. Now in Seattie, Mary Stewart |plans to attend the University of ! Washington. | Leaving shortly for the south,| | Betty Wilcox will spend the summer | |in Seattle and may attend Whit-| | did gulls swooped and scared through |S€lves. the heavens. Nature iz Cemmand And, not a sound of man. Nature was in command he had been since the beginning. Here Joe Junegu and Dick Harris Here the Rockwell Discarded The name “Rockwell” did not suit every one, certainly neither Juneau nor Har Then, too, the miners didn't get along with the Navy Some people called it Rockwell; some still continued to call it Harrisburg as sl spent their first n_w.hl. - | Harris was particularly pleased when founders of Alaska's future capital|-n april 8 1881, the Post Office campgd! They made no complaint | pepartment created the postoffice of because they couldn't be accommo- dated with a room and bath. Pos- sibly w2 have lost something in the softness which has come over us when we compare cur needs with what cnly three decades ago men | could endure and not demand re- lief or prevent hensst men an op- portunity to carn their livelinood. During the encuing days how little did Harris and Juneau look into the future. On that August day much as they must have drunk of the| natural scenic beauty, strong as must have been their greed for gold, they Partners Quatreled not foresee within sixty years| Time is too short to narrate the a modern city with schools, church- | story of the bitter antagonisms that es, fine homes, paved streets, air-|sprung up between these two men, Harrisburg, Alaska. ure was shortlived. On December 12, 1881, at a min- ers’ meeting convened to hear a committee’s report as to what action had been taken to remove Black- ‘mith Charlie Wells from the water- front, Juneau's friends suddenly moved for a permanent naming of the town. Rockwell four; Harrisburg twenty one; Juneau forty-seven. And so today the capital of Alaska is Ju- neau! But, his pleas- The vote was decisive: | are not here to recount their mis- takes, but to remember that here ve, courageous adventuresome spirits, whose daunt- s lead the way to an industry has_given op- portunity directly or indirectly to thousands of men and women to earn honest livelihoods and to build homes and raise children in the American way of life and to the cre- ation of a fine, modern community. Hail, Dick Harris! Hail, Joe Ju- neau! two real he-men. BRIDGES BLAMES EMPLOYERS FOR ~ HOUSE ACTION | | saN FRANCISCO. May 30.—Har- ry Bridges, CIO leader whose depor- .tation is being sought by Congress- 1ianal action, today accused his em- ployers of promoting the move in | Congress to deport him “by any de- ivice po: | “I don't want to be deported,” he said, “but I would rather be than |compromise even to the slightest |extent the trust which the union | people have placed in me.” | Bridges’ statement followed the ‘action of the House of Representa- tives Rules Commitfee yesterday giv- }ing the bill to deport him right of way. planes, automobiles, radios, oil burn- il i ers, and all the conveniences of civ- ilization’s swift life. Named Creeks They explored the streams up and | f was presented with|gave two numbers “Robin in the!either the University of Alaska or|that Kejth Reischl had to reveal. ) pot which his name Rain” and “The Night Has a Thou- [the University of Washington in| Bob Rudell, likewise, has no ¢ of Gordon |sand Eyes” Two trumpet solos were the fall During the summer he | Plans. 1 Jenne, 5; |also given by Harry Walkins, ac-|will work in Juneau. | cCecilia Thibodeau is going - to X Ve Freeburger, companied at the piano by Forrest| A lazy summer is planned by have lots of fun this summer and A nd Wil- | Bates. lAda Mangsol, who hopes to get|will attend business college in the Ired Webste Announcement| Dean C. E. Rice offered the invo- | secretarial work in the fall, Vi fall, was also m that Jackson was cation, replacing the Rev. John A.| EMzabeth Tucker has no plans| power boat troiling at Sitka will AW bipps scholarship to| Glasse, who is in the States and was |for the summer, but in the fall|iaye up Forrest Bates' time this the T ity of Alaska, making unable to attend the exercises. she may take up nursing or res|cummer with no plans for the fu- he bighest record of any student| Presentation of the Class of 1940 | enter Juneau High School for post|yure takir examination. He was Was made by Superintendent A. B. |, ork. 2 'k in Fair- further complimented by the fact Phillips and Walter Scott, member Ergi‘;:': r,: Portland for a visit bfimdfin:gc?h:%x::& l'l\‘n::lL { was the second Juneau High | of the School Board introduced the | gyth Torkelson may stay on to| : nt to tak exan without the Annapolis ations and pass ving any previous newly elected Board member, R.| R. Hermann, who presented the fifty | six graduates with their diplomas. { junior college in southern Califor- tr p school. In the States for the purpose of | nia Worley, who rated having attended recent instrumental close. second in scholastic stand- | WUsic tryouts, Mary Stewart and | the henor of salu-|Jack Glasse were unable to receive | their diplomas, which were accepted | on their behalf by their parents. | At the close of the Commence- | Henors Given their k in schol- ment, members of the graduating I Howing Senlors vere g " s : T‘ M’U:l ‘:]'l:‘ class filed out of the gymnasium as iine. Gamphell | L1y, bant played the finals “Saluta- J 1 Helgesen, Mary 2 I Stewart, Keith rich, Sue Stewart, b 65 Ethel Loken, 1 Lowell, Ruth Al- C e i soreer ommencement attaining a standard of 114 . of High 8c pal A. 8. Dun nied gold Torch Honor So Last Evening Ethel Leken, Irving Lowell, Richard on, Josephine — Cawmpheéll, Virg Worley, Claud Sponsored by the Masonic Lodge He! Sue Stewart, Joe Kennedy, Keith Pelrich and Mary Stewart. Plagues, given for cutstanding work in extra curricular student body ac- tivities, were presented Tom Powers, studznt body President; Ethel Loken, #tudent body Secretary; Betty Wil-| The entire student body was-in- cox and Keith Reischl, associate edi- vited and music was provided Ly | ters of the publications; and Harryj a three-piece orchestra. = , ‘ and arranged by members of the junior class of the Juneau High School, a commencement dance was | held last evening at the Scottish | Rite Temple in honor of the gradu- | | ating class. | study nursing. ; Paul Coke intends to work here| during the summer and attend a nia in the fall. Trving Lowell will attend the| University of Washington in lhe“ fall, entering as a student of chems | istry. 4| Rosella Furnness may remain in Juneau for a year and then go south and attend business college. June Anderson may go south for the summer and in the fall she may enter the University of Michi- | gan as a student of commercial | art. Work in a cannery during this summer and the Univegsity of Al- aska in the fall are Herman Por- ter's plans. Clarence Foster will work in Ju: | neau for the summer and has no| plans for the autumn. Sidney Brannin might go south in July to visit with her uncle at| his dude ranch in Montana. She has no plans further than that. Dallas Weyand is going fishing and prospecting. In the fall he will attend the University of Wash- ington, i Work at Excursion Inlet during’' tend some college next winter. Max Dal Santo, who entered here from Renton, Wash, will go south next winter. A five-year nursing course at Providence Hospital in Seattle are Bonnie Erickson's plans. Beatrice Bothwell has no plans! for the summer and hopes toenter a’course in nursing in the fall. Virginia Dufresne plans to have a 80od time this summer and her program for fall is indefinite. Huntington College, Montgomery, Ala,, will be the abode of Marianne Skinner next fall. She will spend her i@re in Juneau this summer. Going to Minneap: in~ July with her parents, Virginia Worley will probably attend the Univer- sity of Minnesota next year. Esther Johnstone has no fall plans, but will work in Juneau this summer, Frantes Long will vacation at Lena Beach during the summer and attend business collegze in the fall. Orvald Osborne has no summer or fall plans. Harold Zenger will work in town, during the summer and may attend business school in the fall. Harley Turner will work here ‘:’,':" rfi]"“"““ in Walla Walla in |, 0 either side of Gastineau Chan- ok s % . {nel, not always without obstruction WK e e sey. | Auke Jim, sub-chiel of the Aukes o EPEAMERxCHlCAGO. Glasse plans S = | ende: rive them out. Shee] |lege, but doesn’t know which ono. andcagrad 10:aE e iy g Baoep ONC AILEDA LETTER sl YA A0 JUNEAU, HARRIS DEEDS EXTOLLED ~ BYROBERTSON Founding of Juneau Re- called in Speech at Monument ‘ (Continued from Page One) | Straits they pushed their way by canoe. But, the siren lure of gold| gave strength to every paddle stroke. | Visions of suddenly acquired fortune filled their eyes. Then, too, they were stimulated by the excitement of the unknown. Obstacles of rough seas, wilderness | of forest undergrowth, jagged moun- tain peaks, hositle Indians could not | deter them. They were not men without fault: but they were strong, | 'rugged individuals—men who relied upon tnemselves. They leaned not| on others for support. They were | | whiskey-drinking gold-seekers were Creek Mary was the Pocahontas who vescued them. They named Gold | Creck, Sheep Creek, Salinon Creek. Finally on October 4, 1880, they lo- | -ated a claim on Gold Creek about three miles up from its mouth. EI Dorado had been found! Birth had been given tc new gold discoveries! A capital was destined to arise! | Immediately according to miner custom they held a meeting, attend- ed by themselves and three Indians, and created a mining district and named it the “Harris Mining Dis- trict,” with Harris as recorder; and n, Harris' little book he recorded the notice of the location of their | claim. | In the namas of Juneau, Fuller | and himself, Harris also located a | quare mile of land, covering what | is now the businéss part of the town | and the residential portion ranging up the streets from it, and named | it” Harrisburg. The Rush | Swiftly the news spread to Sitka | of the new diggings. Perhaps some | prospectors had heard of Harris and | Juneau’s tip arnid were already on the way. In almost no time a horde | of black-bearded, vigorous, swearing, | MOTHER { Koth_er Polycarpa, 70, h: swarming up Gold Creek. McClin- o p Horstn Dominican s chy, Mooney, Pryor, McKinnon, | builders and founders. ‘When they landed on this spot on‘ Moore, Gibbon, Bennett, Pilz and & Puller had arrived, and though Har- 't Bt as been postmaster in th on at St. Joseph’s, N. Y., for 2‘2 yeenr(:.’ 'S anuary 81, 1940. She is America’s first Nux Postmaci: - TO GERMANY WRITTEN ON A MATCH BOX/ OLYCARPA, SAINT JOSEPH'S , N.Y,, 1S AMERICA'S FIRST NUN POSTMASTER/ . Riley and A. F. Zimma-r She retive 1 Ol