The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 17, 1940, Page 2

BROTHER OF WILLKIE IS COMING HERE Will Arrive Tbmorrow Ater Inspection Trip to West Alaska FAIRBANKS, Alaska, July 17 E. E. Willkie, brother of the Re- turned (o Fai today by plane from the Westward where he in spected canne of the Libby, Me- T of which he I e clif Seattle Friday mornin He expressed regret that N did not bring his brother to Al- a for onderful vacation but he come ter he Presi- nated so there sue Roosevelt i royal battle such never witnessed - FISH PIRATES PLEAD GUILTY; YEAR IN JAL Four K:?chiké'n‘ Youths in New Court Appearance This Afternoon The Chatham Strait fish piracy case came to an end withoul goin to trial today when four Ketchiks youths pleaded guilty in the court of U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray to a new charge of petit larcen and were sentcnced ar in jail each. Robert A. Hullt, James A. Simn-! mons, Courtney H. Lyons and Fran- cis Mills were arrested last week near Angoon after rebbing two fish traps They pleaded guilty to a petit larceny charge filed today by U. S Attorney William A. Holzheimer. The sentence of Commissioner Gray was six months on each count, to run consecutivel One count covered stealing fish from a P. E. Harris and Company trap and the other from an Alaska Pacific Salmon Cor-{ poration trap. After sentence, Holzheimer moved for dismissal of the grand larceny and robbery charges previously filed. | - BRANDALL ALSO FISHED IN WRONG | ARE, IS CHARGE, Martin Brandall, master of the| halibut boat Avona, appeared in the | court of U. S. Commissioner Felix| Gray today to be arraigned on a| charge of fishing illegaily in Area | 2 with an Area 3 license. He was| released on $500 bail | Yesterday Olaf Westby of the Ad- | dington posted $500 on a similar| charge. | e - niey o ‘ o have V y chiidren, called | out the Fire Department at 2:30| o'clock this afternoon from box| 34, Second and Gold. The fire was above the Osborne House on Har- ris and Second and was quickly stomped out, then chemicallizéd DR. BAYNE TAKES LIFE WITH SHOT FROM .25 PISTOL Refired Juneau Denfist Reported Despondent for Some Time Dr. James Wheeler Bayne, 60, Juneau dentist who retired from practice two ars azo, killed him- self with a calibre pistol this morning in his room at the Rainier Rooms on So 1 F nklin Stree The body wa ered by Will- i cal mail carrier and proj or of the reoming house, at 10:30 o'clock Ev those in rooms nest to Bayne | not heard the I hich Dr. W. W. Council said wa fired at about 8:30 this morning Dr. Bayne leit no note. He had been despondent for some time friends said, and had made previous threats to end his life Incuest Called An ing into the death belr held this afternoon by U, Commissioner Felix Gray. Dr .Bayne practiced here many ear having an office in the Tri- ngle Ju and later in the Grand Apar its. He came here from the Interior, where he was a neer dentist. He had lived in Alaska 40 year The small pistol with which he | taken from the | 1self was killed suitdase of another roomer, officers aid Among surviving relatives are the fow, Mr Mayphle E. Bayne of 1 Angeles, other, Dr. Robert R. Bayne of ma, and a sister, whereabouts unknown e —— DUST PREVENTATIVE USED ON ANOTHER SECTION OF ROAD Another experimental application of calcium chloride was laid to- day on two sections of highway here by the Public Roads Admin- istration, The dust preventative treatment was used on one-fourth mile of the cier Highway at the city limits and on one-sixth mile of the Douglas Highway near the bridge. Previously a quarter-mile of Glacier Highway at Salmon Creek was treated - TEMPERATURE 81.4 DEGREES YESTERDAY Juneau sweltered yesterday after- ncon in heat which reached a max- imum of 814 degrees at 5 o'clock, the hottest day in more than three year On Monday the maximum was 79.6 d ees, Today is s considerably cooler. ‘he temperature at 3 o'clock was degrees, 67 .o FIRST- HUNTING LICENSE GOES TO DAN RALSTON First 1940 hunting license was issued today by the Alaska Game Commission to Chief of Police Dan Junean. Jim O'Neill The licenses have been Ralston of was No. 2 on sale since the first of the year, but there has been no takers. - = HAGERTY Donald W. Hagerty, r Or- ganization Field Agent of the Office of Indian Affairs, flew to Angoon today. >so— The Daily Alaska tmpire guaran- tees the largest daily circulation of any Alaska wspaper ' 5. B. Buckner, who is to command | gene | Pre rac (of Chilkoot. | ARNOLD BOMBER | Chief of Army Air Corps | Comes in on Regular | Airport This Time | old landed with a fleet of ten Mar- | Mendenhall | *tin bombers on the | Flats, literally making his own field | for the big ship Today, the same man eame in as Major Geperal H. | H. Arnold, Chief of the United States Air Corps, flying in from Fairbanks with a big twin engined bomber to the PAA | hining Doug airport Gen. Arnoid, making a tour of Army projects in Alaska, will con- here this evening with Gover- Ernest Gruening and Colonel fer nor forces in Alaska Arnold’s party are Col-| onel Ira C. Eaker, Exccutive Offi-| cer; Col. A. B. McDaniel, Oper: ticns Officer; Major Harold Clark, | [ representing the Army's construc- | tion division, and First Pilot Eu- Beebe. Two mechanics are | Technical Serzeant Henry Puzenski and Staff Sergeant Robert Meade. | nt at the airport to greet' Gen. Arnold and his party, besides ! Col. Buckner, were Col. G. Hoising- | ton, Commandant of Chilkoot Bar- | and Capt. H. L. Calvin, a 50 | Army field In Gen GOOD OLD SUMMERT Gen. Arnold would not comment on proposed Army developments in Alaska, but said, “You can say,| _ though, that we will confer with] Gov. Gruening and Col. Buckner to-| night and I hope we will be lined| ihe Republican nomination, up on a program of expansion Io\" More interest centers on the the Army in Alaska—right now Iipemocratic and Republican race wani to go fishing.” |in the First Cpngressional Distric Lieut. Comdr. Simpson MacKin-|¢, the G.OP. side the first wom- non will take Gen, Arnold and vllL"v b ‘syer clesled. to Congien, Mis party out after salmon this eVening| ;o nneire Rankin, is running about and the big Douglas bomber Will|e,on ™ giin Representative Jacob take off for Spokane via Prince|,,o.eieen Miss Rankin was a i .“,Am & Oglwk in the morning, | rrage worker and was & mem- weatlier DU | ber of the House of Representatives |at the outbreak of the World War. along a seashore? This is Jeanne LEAVE FAIRBANKS FAIRBANKS, Alaska, July l-,f'Formor Representavive Jerry O'- Mnjor Gen. H: H. Armold, Chief| COnRell, nioted for his hattles with took off | Jersey City’s Mayor Hagtie, is fighting it out for the Democratic nomination with Lieut. Gov. Adair. of the U. S. Air Corps, from Fairbanks this morning on his return trip aboard a Douglas bomber, via Whitehorse and Ju-| Ry FSHIRAP SITE General Arnold spent two da: | in Anchor and vicinity and ex- pressed satisfaction at the progress of Alaska Army projects which are Dlspum Io BE even ahead of schedule. | A EDI (1 RT The General made his trip from | Anchorage here over the Alaskal Railroad in company with Gen-| eral Manager Colonel O. F. Ohl-| son, while the remainder of the | party came by plane. | Major Beebe is piloting the ship . . southward while Arnold will take Flda!go Firm a turn at the controls as a ¢€o-| T | pilot, still adept at every practical! A suit for an injunction to pre- |side of the service, and havinglvent the Fidalgo Island Packing climbed to the highest position injcCompany and Otto Sutter from Mrs. Bergman Seeks In- junction'Against | Uncle Sam’s Air Force. | operating a fish trap at Botswick | - > —— “nlvv., Gravina Island, has been | filed in District Court here by Esther Bergman and the New Eng- | | | A hearing on a show cause or- | & 4 !der will be held at 2 oclock to- | wlnnlng o ' morrow afternoon before Judge | George F. Alexander. i Mrs. Bergman alleges in her com- GREAT FALLS, Mont,, July 17— M. H. B. floating trap No. 2 at Senator Burton K. Wheeler is pil- the disputed location upon the ing up an overwhelming lead for death of her husband, the late Hy- renomination as the results are man Bergman last August. Later being tabulated from Montana’s she leased the trap to the New Eng- | primary election. Wheeler, a vet-'land Fish Company. an of three terms in the Senate,! Site Disputed leading Montana Attorney Gen-| Late the night of June 29 the eral Freebourn by a 3 to 1 margin. deféndants moved another float- Here’s Where A Clothin AP Feature Service HEY’VE figured what Mom and Sis do with the money you give them for clothes. An' unofficial report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics com piles long- range averages for 42 cities. It also shows men spend Jar less on' clothes than women, both spend most be- tween the ages of 18 and 21, and that boys’ clothes cost %, more than girls’ up to ti:e age group 12-17, Here’s how ® @ woman’s clothing dollar goes: anoes plaint that she became owner of | g Dollar Goes L vaswinza W AT G c I'M E—What's so rare as a day in July that doesn’t produce at least one picture of a lovely miss Murray, complete with parasol, at fashionable Southamipton, Long Island, Beach club, War itorial De- li- alleges. They have no partment permit or Te cense to operate there ept one obtained by arl Sutte in M Bergman’s name, Sutter obtainec this license without her authoriza- tion, Mrs Bergman states. As the law prohibits fish traps to be in operation within one mile of cne another, and since the New England Fish Company has a float- ing trap in readiness at a nearby harbor to tow to the site, Murs, Bergman ask. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1940. ... : ) Trollersin - PLATFORMIS | | E. K. Cheadle Jr, is ahead for ing trap to the site, the complaint| that the Fidalgo Is-| Port, ldle; Tieup Holds No Chance Seen for Delay of Deadline Over Salmon Prices Little salmon was unloaded at the local market today and the chance was seen for passing of the 6 o'clock deadline this evening after which no fish will be ac- cepted by cold storage workers un- til settlement has been reached in trollers’ demands for increased sal- mon prices. " This afternoon the United Trell- ers were holding a meeting discuss the tieup that began sev- eral days ago in Sitka, but stor- age workers had received no other advices from Ketchikan headquar- ters than that no fish are to be accepted after 6 o'clock this eve- ning. Meanwhile, it was estimated there were about 50 trollers tied up in Juneau awaiting sett!zment. Trollers are demanding 14 cents a pound for large red kings, 10 cents for mediums, 8 cents for whites, and 7 cents for cohoes. Current prices here on salmon are 12, 8, 7 and 4. HELD UP BY WAR PLANK i Full Aid Short of War” Demand Starts Tangle —Draft Rooosevelt (Gontinued from rage One) What Roosevelt will do when nom- land firm be prevented from fish- inated remains to be seen but New ing with its trap. on July 20. WHIT istant S. Whittier flew today to Sitka on a ‘routine inspection trip.. He wil visit Petersbu kan and Prince Rupert before re- turning here. IER FLIES As: >, Willis Hunt, Jr., yacht broker and | es his bride, the | Martin society figure, ki g, Wrangell, Ketchi~ The season opens | Deal lieutenants predicted that he would accept. Some_even hinted that the Presi- to| DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU (By the U.'S. Weather Bureau) | THE WEATHER | Fore Fair tonight, cloudy with occasion Thursday afternoon; light rain Thursday; moderate winds. for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4:39 p.m., July 17: al light rain Thursday; not so warmn moderate southeasterly - wind. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Mostly. cloudy tonight, occasional temperafures; moderate southerly Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Moderate westerly tonight, becoming south and southwesterly Thurs- day from Dixon Entrance to Yakutat; and moderate south scutheasterly from Yakutat to Kodiak. ’ LOCAL DATA | Time Barometer ‘lemp, Humidity Wind Velocity Weather | 4:30 pm. yest'y 29.81 38 38 w 14 Clear | 4:30 am today 29.85 57 90 s 1 Clear | Noon today 20.83 66 61 SE 15 Clear | RADIO REPORTS | 3 TODAY Max. tempt. Lowest 3:30a.m. Precip. 3:30a.m. Station last 24 hours | temp. temp. 24 hours Weather Barrow 38 | 35 35 0 Pt. Cldy i Fairbanks 88 | 55 55 0 Clear | Nome 56 | 53 54 a2 Rain | Dawson 86 | 54 55 0 Cloudy | Mayo 82 61 61 0 Cloudy Anchorage 69 | 46 58 4 Rain | Bethel 60 49 50 40 Cloudy St. Paul 50 45 45 43 Fog and rain | Dutch Harbor .. 56 [ 48 49 01 Cloudy | ‘Wosnesenski 52 | 49 51 0 Cloudy ‘ Kanatak 59 55 55 2.09 Rain | Kodiak 52 | 50 51 11 Rain } Cordova 72 | 55 57 0 Cloudy | Juneau 81 56 57 0 Clear " Sitka 67 55 51 Pt Cloudy i Ketchikan 63 55 57 T Cloudy | Prince Rupert .. 59 52 54 .02 Rain | Prince George .. 78 | 52 52 0 Cloudy | Seattle 1 55 56 0 | Portland 6 1 59 59 0 San Francisco .. 69 ¢ | 56 58 0 24 'hours, A large area of high have fallen in' the Interior. Fair weather with high temperatur sisted over most sections of Southeast Alaska, the Yukon Territor and central Alaska, while cloudy weather with light rains preva over the Bering” Sea and Bristol Bay region. Juneau, July 18.—Sunrise 4:22 am., sunset 9:49 p.m. WEATHER SYNOPSIS The '’ pressure distribution has changed last pressure was charted over the north- east Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Alaska this morning, while a moderate depression was situated in the Bering Sea, and pressures little during the per- SUNDAY DERBY PLANNED HERE . BY FISHERMEN ‘Second Big TBurney of | Season Holds Promise | of More Fish | The second - 1940 Salmon Derby \Damaris Davis ' Has Fourteenth § Bir@ay Today Miss Damaris Davis, daughter of Capt. and Mrs, James V. Davis, celebrated her fourteenth birthday |with-a 1 o'clock luncheon this af- iternoon at the family home on the Glacier Highway. | A “pinochio” theme was carried ;out in decorations for the occasion, |dent would address the convention will ‘'be held Sunday - off Marmion | with a floral centerpiece selected for || Charleston, Contradled WASHNGTON, July 17. — Thé | War Department has signed-a con- tract with the DuPent Company | for the construction of a $25,000,000 smokeless powder plant’ near Ind; Miss: June Lynch Will: Be Married: At Parents’ Home The marriage of Miss June Lynch, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lynch, and Mr. Emory | glamorous actress Carole Landis, | Herritt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thom- as they return to Los Angeles from |as Herritt, will be performed Sat- | Las Vegas, Nevada, where they urday evening at 8 o'clock at the were wed. Underwear | | | |man for the groom family home on Glacier Highway. United 'States Commissioner Felix Gray will officiate. Miss Joyce Trewitt will ‘be the bride’s only attendant and hest will be Mr. Harry Sturrock. Following the service a wedding reception will be held and friends of the couple are invited to call after 9 o'clock. i Lt iy Mrs. Kelly-Blake Is Home After Vacation After visiting“ for four weeks with friends in Ketchikan and Sit- |ka, Mrs. Kelly Blake returned to| George Skannes to Chichagof. Juneau Monday by airplane, For the first two weeks of her trip, Mrs, Blake was the guest in Ketchikan of Mr. and Mrs. V. M. Blackwell. Two weeks ago, accom- panied by Mrs. Blackwell, she came north on the North Sea, continued to Sitka where they visited Mr. and Mrs. Jack Samson. To join Mrs. Blake in Sitka last weekend, her husband made the trip by plane Friday and both re- turned to Juneau Monday. Mrs. Blackwell will arrive Fri- day from Sitka and visit Mrs. Blake in Juneau before returning to Ket- chikan. e, The lightship- off San Francisco records an average of 1135 hours of fog per year, — e —— Subscribe to The Daily Aladk ' The Dally Aiaska xmplre has the Empire—the paper with the paid circulation, llector of Customs M. | by telephone from the White House. | Island’ under the, auspices of the the table. | Juneau Spotts. Fishing Club it was +announced today. Althotgh' the first derby pro- |duced 'few fish, with a slack run, |Sunday’s fishing "is looked .to as | promising “plenty of fish for every- | A‘heavy cohoé' run has been in- dieated beginning - to appear, and #a steady run- of Kings has been off | | Marmion all summer. | Fishing, as usual, will begin at |9 in the morning and end at 5 p. |m. with the boat Wanderer the official craft of the'regatta. The tourney will be ‘opén to mem- | bers of tlie club only with entry fee {of $1. | 0 5 NEW ROAD TO' BE - BUT AT * TEE HARBOR Work Slarfs'jl Half Mile Section o Open Sum- - { mer Home:Sites Work began‘today on ‘a forest development road from Tee Har- | bor: to* Stephens Peint, a distance of one-half mile. The new. road, being built by the Forest Service, will open a new section ‘of summer ‘'home sites. 'HOLDEN FLIES T0 " (OAST; AMUNDSEN ' ON FISHING : TRIP Alex Holden flew two flights to the coast today with'the Lockheed, taking out ecight passengers’ Ronald Lister, E. E. Robertson, M. S. 'Whittier, Henry 'Benson, John Holler and Mrs. Glass, all to Sitka, and Harold ‘Mattson to Hirst, and Last night,- Amundsen flew Dr. Carl Buck, Lucille Buck, Dr. and iMrs. 'W. W. Council, Mary Lee Coun- cil and Frank Pauls to Youngs Lake for an evening of trout fishing. Ball Game. On Tonigh The Moose wiil piay .Douglas to- night at a 6:30 o'clock game in Firemen'’s Park. Highlight of the affair was a scavanger hunt, with various |games also included on the enter- | tainment program. | Asked for the afternoon were Misses Mary Gregory, Natalie and | Angelina Savovich, Lorraine Man- | gelo, Patricia Martin, Lillian Neil- (son, Evelyn Spain, Audrie Thomp- son and Jaqueiine Brown. IS TS T A Daily mmpire classifieds pay. United 'States Department of the Interior GENERAL LAND OFFICE District Land Office Anchorage, Alaska. February 14, 1939. Notice is hereby given that Elise- us Laurensen has- filed an applica- tion for a homesite under the act of May 26, 1934, for a tract of land embraced in U. S, Survey No. 2363, serial 08675, situated on the north side of Tenakee Inlet about 2% miles northwest of Tenakee, latitude 57°47°20”N. Longitude 135~ 17 West, containing 4.87 acres. | Any and all persons claiming | adversely 'any of the above men- tioned' land should file their ad- verse claims in the District Land Office, Anchorage, Alaska, within the 'period of publication or thirty days thereafter, or they will be barred by the provisions of the Statutes. . FLORENCE L. KOLB, Register (Acting). Date first publication, June 12, 1940. Date last publication, Aug. 7, 1940. adv. [P e | EW Motor-Driven Brush Cleaner Complete with Attachments Wave Yourself your time. ‘your ‘rugs ‘and your money. BUY NOW. GENERAL 7. ELECTRIC I o e v i 1o e DMaSEQ Electric Light & Power Co. more laurels in what promises to | be a good fight. Phone 616 = — e L