The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 31, 1940, Page 2

the MOMENT Flight Prints d ort of dress that ser and bag are in T A Sights And Sounds By Robbin Coons. where you would expect to handsome physique clothed muel Goldwyn, cldom demanded Jon’s principal ac- building hoats, trav- ilor and the Not that he’ll admit it, but new authority to a role He han’t been she doesn’t have Nana has retired and gone > girl who never had CAFE NIGHT sTopP at PERCY'S ANY TIME for Dinners or Light Lunches that all Juneau is lalking TRY OUR FOUN- TAIN, TOO! O-lamp says now she has been she used to be. ; an about-face as she re- rmined highness of brow in she always hated snobbish sed husband, advised her badly ly advised me. I never pur- and I want to make nd become an experienced actress greeable as the toughest director points of procedure on her role, an’t laugh right heartily, e girl hasn't changed much, after all. n effort te let others understand her better too serious and preoccupied to make before. ! ‘@MlfllllfilflilflflfilI!lllllllil!IlllllllllllIIIIIIIII!IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIII } TH G.W. STORRS MS NORTHLAND DROWNS IN FAR NORTH FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 31— special dispatch to the Fair- A banks an says George W, Storrs, drowned Thursday while tak- ng a boat from Hammond River to Wiseman with Fred Milam. The latter is safe Storr’s body was recovered and funeral services will be held next Sunday Sforrs was a World War veter- an, formerly of Connecticut, .Ind w has been prospecting in the man section for the past six y urs A son, Kenneth Storrs, is a stu- dent in Tacoma, according l.uUlllt»w ed States Commissioner Charles Irish ITALY MAY MOVESOON i H A% :‘? ROME, May —Ttaflang’ clése' ta | the Government said tonight that any ably come only after the Italian, forces have already moyed and the world will probably learn u[‘ the first actions from points outs | LIBRARY MEN * ARRIVE' HERE | ONNORTHLAND Two investigators of Alaskan ‘4| braries, Dr. F. P. Keppel, president of the Oarnegie Foundation, and | J. T. Jennings, Seattle librarian, ar- rived in Juneau late this afternoon from Sitka on the motorship North- land. Keppel and Jennings have been studying libraries in Alaska, in re- gard to possible Carnegie aid. The Carnegie Foundation rules, however, are that no funds can be donated ! Daily News-Miner from Wise- | 41, | clock. Passengers arriving from Sitka were | }uem‘)y half way from Tacoma announcements of Italy's ens| tering the European war will prob-| | side of Ttaly | [to a library with population less than 5,000, (lypso, Ingenious Native Trap, (Is Displayed Here A small model of a clypso, a native fox trap, was brought back from the Aleutian Islands by As- sociate Refuge Manager Douglas | Gray. The model was made by An- |drew Maharin of Biorka and pre- |sented to the Alaska Game Com- nm»xon by E. K. Pedler of the Al- ;uska Commercial Company at Una- Now outlawed, the clypso consists {of a spiked wooden arm which falls on the hack of the fox when the {animal trips a cord across ‘lrml. The spring to operate the jarm 'is provided by twisted sea- | lion gnb T | Stock QuOoTATIONS NEW YORK, May 31. — Olosing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 4%, American Can 191%, American Power and Light |2%, Anaconda 321 7/8, Bethlehem | Steel T1'4, Commonwealth Southern 15/16, Curtiss Wright 8%, | General Motors 40, International ‘Harveswr 41, Kennecott 27%, New Yurk Central 10%, Northern Pa- lcmc 5, United States Steel 46%,| | Pound $3.19. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are Dow, Janes |averages today: industrials 116.22, rails 23. 16. mduamnls 18.90. | | Joanne Blythe ls daughter of Mrs. Elsie Blythe, was | honored with a birthday party this | afternoon at the Sixth Street resi- dence of her grandmother, Mrs. W. C. Jensen. Red tulips and tapers in matching | fect to the party table and favors | were found at each of the nine plae- les. Guests spent the day playing lames e N | i3 | the | swimming pool in Evergreen Bowl and| Four Years ()Idi Four-: year-nld Joanne Blyihe | from Illinois returned to the States |seph Juneau, took part in the ceremonies of dedication of the Juneau-Harris monument yester- | colors added a bright decorative ef- | RETURNS FROM SITKA, COAST Twelve passengers from Sitka ar- |rived in Juneap late this afternoon on board the Motership Northland. | The vessel was in port for several hours and after loading freight and picking up passengers for the south. is to sail for Seattle at 4:30 o'- J. T. Jennings, Dr. F. P. Keppel, Miss C. Rostrum, A. C. Black, J. K. Mar- shall, Anna Martin, Miss Stranahan, | Class D circuit in baseball with ev- Anna Young, Mrs. J. K. Marshall W. K. 8heldon and J. Litehfield. - Salkos at Alerf Bay ALERT BAY, B. C, May 31 Capt, Satkos, unreported for three | days in his Ark with his large fam- arrived here late yesterday to ily, Ketchikan, BLITZKRIEGING. | ¥| BLit IHR-MN(ES ; - 2 2INTQAEMETERY | A small blmm “ma into Juneau yesterday, coming down through the Seater Tract and as far as Evergreen Cemetery. The bear and his brother (or ter) had been worrying the dozs m\ that section of town for several| nights, As no mether has heun seen with the cybs, it is belleved s '(") prey to some hunter — Marie Hanna Given ‘ ‘Bon Voyage Party Fol Mids Mkrlq Hanna, who plans | to leave shortly for a visit with her | grandmother in Klamath Falls, Qre- gon, Mrs. Waino Hendrickson en- tertained informally last evening withh a bon voyage party at her res- idence on C Street. Chinese checkers and bingo pro- vided entertainment for the guests during Lhe evening. > Bridge- Luncheon Honors Teachers Mrs. Maurlce T. Johnson was hostess yesterday afternoon at her | residence in the Frances Apart-| ments with a bon voyage party in| compliment to various members of | the faculty of the Juneau Public| Schools. A buffet-luncheon was served and | four tables of bridge were in play | during the afternoon. Honors were | presented Miss Delma Hanson, first; Mrs. Jack Finlay, second and Mrs. T, J. Pyle Lraveling prize, | wom( RESUMES | - MONDAY ONWPA | SWIMMING POOL FRE T Work will*’be zesumed on the next Monday, according Engineer Frank Metcalf. The WPA watertank for the Seater tract will be completed to- morrow when forms are removed, he said. COURT IN SESSION - NOW AT WRANGELL Judge George F.:Alexander and the District Court party traveled from Ketchikan to Wrangell on the steamer Aleutian. After con- dueting naturalization hearings at Wrangell, the Court will move to Petersburg before returning to Juneau next week. MISS JUNEAU, TWo (OMPANIONS, LEAVE Much impressed’ by Juneau and the reception received here, Miss Genevieve Juneau and two friends to City on the steamer Baranof today. Miss Juneau, grandniece of Jo- day. With her on Florence Kilb the trip were Miss of Naperville, IIl., and Miss Anna Merchunt of Auro- ra, . Miss Juneau lives in Au- rora, Il ITS TIME TO CHANGE YOUR HEAVIER LUBRICANTS! MRGVH!’ATIER LEAVES s & CLASSIFIED Mrs. M. J. Whittier sailed on the | Als° suns Princess Louise enroute to Holly- i wood, California, where she will visit Light and Dark Colors . for the next few weeks with her E“Pln E PPERS—SW Teety 12 to 40 TO! AGG! and also FITTED § ! WILLIAMS TO KETCHIKAN J o l B s b T o ° Tel L District Engineer M. D. Williams ‘elephone eo t a S fof the Public Roads Administra- st:' E u s a7 i rd tion left on the steamer Baranof - in the BaranOf HOIel DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY MAY 31, 1940 U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. §. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4:30 p.m., May 31: Clear tonight, increasing high cloudiness Saturday; minimum tempe ature tonight 45 degrees; gentle to moderate variable winds. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Clear tonight, increasing high cloudiness Saturday; not much change in temperature; gentle to mod- erate variable winds but northerly over Lynn Canal. Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska: NEW FLORIDA (Fishing Boafs LOOP UNIQUE Sell Cafches All selling at 8:75 and 6.80 cents All Pilots are Former per pound, five halibuters unloaded | Members of Biq League their catches totalling 31,700 pounds ‘,11.;::) f’\‘dwrifi‘:z unloaded 8,000 Moderate variable winds but mostly northerly tonight from Dixon Baseba” C'UbS i peunds and sold to Sebastian Stuart; | Eptrance to Sitka; and moderate east and northeasterly from Sitia — the Tern 1 sold 6,000 to New Eng-| to Kodiak. AP Feature Service {land, the 31A27 sold 2000 to New LOCAL DATA MIAMI, Fla, May 81—Officials Eiigland, the Clara Sold 3,700 to Se-|{ Time Bir‘{MEier ‘1emp. Humidity Wind “alocity ~ Weather of the newly organized Florida East | pastian Stuart and the Hyperien sold| 3:30 pm. yest'y .. 20.73 12 18, NE 10 Clear Coast League believe it is the only (12000 pounds to the Alaska Cosa| 3:30 am. today .. 2997 48 81 Calm o Clear | Ficeries | Noon today 29.95 70 2% NE 13 Clear ery club manager a former major | - ; RAQRD Rxrdihs sague player | ¥ ;:/l t ‘ lustrious of the six pilots »‘S(OUTS GOING 10 R et TODM_{ Max Carey of Miami, gnetime man- *ax. temp! . west 3:30a.m. Precip. 3:30a.m. ager of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Carey, | (AMP IOMORROW Sy i emp. temp. 24 hours Weather who has been in the Persian lime | Barrow g | 3 2 0 growing business here for several| Preliminai ments at the | Fairbanks :’ }’ 8y ¢ P oh P N oty | Nome 56 | 44 45 03 years, played in the Pittsburgh Pi g ing pretty Bawoon 4 o5 i A s rate outfield for 17 and le vluxmri ording to schedule, report- 5 - | i . } “v the National League in base steal-|ed Harold E. Smith, Chairman of | Anchorage ;’J. | o 47 0 L‘lwm ing for 10 season: [the Camp committee, who returned | Bethel o | 3 3 01 Cloudy Lance Richbourg, former out- from Eagle River last night. | St. Paul 43 | 36 36 0 Fog fielder for the New York Giants and [ Murs, Claude Hirst assisted by us-| Duteh Harbor . 54 | A3 42 05 Cloudy the Boston Braves and more re-fing her automobile to transport | Wosnesenski 50 | 42 4 0 Pt.Cldy cently a cattle rancher, is manager ihree boys to Eagle River yeste Kodiak 4‘7 411 4%- 89 Cloudy of ‘the Fort Pierce Club. afternoon. These thic ys arriy-| Cordova 67 | 42 43 0 Pt. Cldy Fred Heimach, who pitched m"m at camp in time to assist mater-| Juneau 7 | 45 18 0 y the big show for the Philadelphia ially in handling freight. Sitka, 73 ?7 52 0 Athletics, Boston Red Sox, New As an added comfort this year,| Ketchikan 79 51 53 0 York Yankees and Brooklyn, is tak-!the front of the dining room is be-| Prince Rupert . 75 48 54 0 > ing time off from his dyties as po- |ing screened in to exclude flies and| Prince George .. 49 | 38 40 0 Cloudy liceman to handle the Miami Beach | mosquitoes, chinking been re-| Seaitle 3 | 52 53 32 Cloudy club. placed in the cabins, a sixteen-fogt| Portland 3 53 53 26 Cloudy The other managers are Herb table with benches to maten has| San Francisco . 78 59 59 31 Pt. Cld | Thomas of Fort Lauderdale, former 'heen added, and water is being piped | WEATHER SYNOPSIS Braves and Giants outfielder; Jiggs into the kitchen, | Relatively high pressure has pesisted over the Gulf and Southea Donahue, ex-first baseman for the| Tomorrow, Saturday, a truck willl Alaska while the ern disturbance appeared to be advancing slc | Braves and Chicago White Six, and |leave the est Ser wehouse | northeastward with the lowest pressure reported this morning ab Cecil Downs, a former White Sox!cnWilleughby Avenue al 9 o'clock| 400 miles south southwest of Dutch Harbor, A minor disturban pitcher. in the morning to transport the main | has moved eastward into the northwestern portion of Washinztos b D i group of hoys to Eazle River. Qlear, te partly clondy weather with above normal temperatures con- | It is requested that the boys | tinued, over the Yukon Territory and most secticns of Alaska, Thero lo(‘l (H‘MBER"ES {make a special effort 1o be there| were light rains over the Alaskan Peninsula and the extreme west- on time; | arn portion of Alaska. Juneay, June 1.—Sunrise 4:06 am., sunset 9:50 pm. YESTERDAY'S 74 T0 GREET VISITORS FROM LOS ANGELES The Central Committze has ruled | that ng guns will be allowed in camp | this year. The of having guns {in camp more than offsets the bene- | ms, it is believed. | morning when the st tian docks with the Chamber of Cemmerce goodwill tonr mer Alg Los Ang The local N.lvAl District branch James Jchnson and Fred Soiri | DEGREES HOTTEST | office has been moved from its have been named as stant Camp party. quarters adoining the Bureau of Directors. i So F‘R I" 1940 The Aleutian is scheduled to ar- | Fisheries inta the Alaska Road R { IV | rive at 8:30 o'clock in the morn- Commission suite. | 1 | ing and will remein until an hour The Fisheries office is ‘"‘"“H“““?RUSS'AN BEll SHOP Yesterday's maximum tempera- after midnight. pared for the arrival of the sum-| [ture of 74 degress stands as {uc | > mer Fisheries staff. > Enterfains With highest so far in 1940. On Wednes- COPENSINSITRA N | ay gh was 72 degrees. The Russian Bell Shop, Mrs. Hazel d'xy the lemrexat\ne declined when | "Rain Dampens Day A San Francisco; Kirmse’s eurjo- and- gift store in | an afternoon wind spdang up. The Desse[t Brid e |Sitka, is open .in a new building | forecast of the U. 8. ‘;V‘;““‘" ’B“ - and new location, according to word reau is for contmned air weather. | p d ( “ d g |from Mrs. Kirmse, who, with her = ! ara e an(e e A . son. also operates a curio shop in | 80 g Mrs. Hugh Coke and Mrs. William Skagway. ’ R "AVAI. DISTRI“ | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., May 31.— Byington were co-hostesses this |afternoon at Mrs. Byington's res dem‘o in the Assembly Apartments | with dessert and four tables of bridge. Arrangement of wild flowers were |used as a centerpiece for the indi- | vidual tables. | A drizaling rain yesterday eancelied the usual Memorial Day Parade and also caused @ decided falling off in of Commerce | prospective exposition visitors, The The only shop in Sitka that car- | \ries curios and gifts exclusively, The Russian Bell will be managed this summer by Mrs. Kirmse and Jack | OFFICE IS MOVE Chamber Juneau | Rirmse will be in charge of the members are urged by Chamber |gpen air was anything but a pleasant Skngwav shop. - AT o BUY AT HOME officers to be on hand tomorrow | place for strolling - [ELKS lODGE GOES ON SUMMER BASIS Now on its summer schedule of meeting only on the second and fourth Wednesdays of the month, | the Elks Lodge will not meet ‘again until June 12, according to Sec- retary M. E. Sides. Fifth Set JIT wini Born in Six Years LOGAN, W. Va, May 31.—Mrs. Bud Chafin, 24, is the mother of twins here, the fifth set born to her in six years, Married when she was 16, Mrs. | Chafin is the mother of 11 chil- dren. One set of twins died and then one each from the other sets died. The next to the last set of twins was born January 18, 1939, and mmmmil'umumuum SATURDAY SPECIALS ENTIRE STOCK OF COATS $14.95 ALL PLAIN COLORS and T in High Shadea Sizes 12 10 38 Weekend SPECIALS! COATS 23% OFF Light and Dark Shades and in Tweeds N A Pot of Gold SIZES 12 TO 42 Is Yours were named Franklin D. and Elea- nor D. Chafin. . when you count the i3 dollars you save with PRICE OF GAS DOWN ONE CENT ‘The price of gasoline was reduced | one cent this week to 20 cents a gallon on Gastineau Channel. FOR POSTMASTER WASHINGTON, May 31.—Presi-| dent Roosevelt has renominated Au- gustus Kingshury, Jr., to be post- THE EMPIRE classified. Everything you want to buy or sell is handled more easily if you use the classified. BUYING is made more easier o classi- master at Haines, Alaska. trouah: ho . O - fied. TO TOUR STATES . Lee Lucas, son of Mayor and Mrs. Harry 1. Lucas, and Bob SELLING Scott, son of Mr, and Mrs, Walter Scott, left on the Princess Louise today for a tour of the State: They will visit Chicago, New York, Florida and California. is made surer thru the classified. I on a routine inspection to Ketchikan, trip = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = : = = = = = = = g = = £ = E = = = = £ [+ ] A |II|IIIHIlmlllflllllllmllllflllufllllllll|||IIIIIIIIIllllllmlllfllllmlIHIIIIIIIIIMMHIIIIIMIIHIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII