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

5 D e S0 740 P 0 LR Big Blockade IsEffective At Midnight Greai Britain Fxtends Zone . from Arclic i North to Africa LONDON, July 31.—Greal Britain orderetl” a° blockade extending- from the Arctic to Africa, cffective at midnight tonight In the futuresnon-British ship ping companies will hayd “to agrec| to always efnploy navic . a form of passport,” for ship caroes in or- oo S'der- to oblain services, such as coal- @& ing, water, drydock insurance and §ifacilities in Great Britain’s world vawidc ports. FYRAR! e;VISINNG CHIEF: ADDRESSES LOCAL ROTARY MEMBERS Dlsmd Governor Borleskel Honored at Baranof Banquef | Rotary was defined .as “an or- ganization of biisiness men tied| together in rncnd.shu) and nyhu, to be of service” 1h an inspiration- | al address last night by District Governor R. Vineent (Nig) Bor- leske of Walla Walla at a ban- quet at the Baranof Hotel. | Approximately 70 Juneau Ro- tarians and their wives attended | the meeting 5 . Borleske, veteran football, base- , ball ‘and basketball coach at Whit-| man ‘ College, explained the almw and objects of .the Romry organi- zation, Whitehead Presides Dr. 'W. M. ‘Whitehead, President | of the Juneau Club, presided and reported briefly on the recent Pres- idents and Secretaries Assémbly he attended at Chehalis,” Wash. ‘Miss Alice Peterson, Whitman px- ano instructor who is accompany-| ing Mr, and Mrs, Borleske on their | trip, playéd several $éfections. Com- | munuy singing «was led by Sum-‘ ley"'Jackson Bcdumpullt‘d by Mrs. Arthur Uggen. This everiing at T o'clock ‘Gover- nor Borleske will meet with a Club| aséetibly 'of “the 'Juuiiu, Rofary| Board of Directors and Cormittee Chairmeén at Perc,'s Cafe for din< ner. x4 T UNDERWGOD FCR NO ME J. ' J. Underwood, [ormer s(ar reporter of the Seattle Daily Times, but who has been” many Yyear, and is ‘now, the offi¢ial fepresentative of tHe Seattle Chamber of* Coth- | merce in“Washington, 'D. C., passed through Jurieau 1ast night aboatd ' the'Aleutian’ headed for Nome. Mr. Undeétrwood is going to the Seward Peninsula to glve the once-over to mining ‘property i which ‘he is now intefested.” He will spend several days at Fair- banks and_ then fly to Nome. Returning south fo Fairbanks he will go'to Anchorage for a stay, of several days, then to Seward! and return fo Juneau Where He will remain for a day or two be-| fore proeeeding fo Seattle and east. . ot * HWM SCATTER GUNS * WiLL BARK AT (LUB TOMORROW et ‘Tomorrow ‘evening, at 6:30 o'- clock the Juneau Shotgun Club traps will begin flipping out the| pigeons - for* unot‘her _week night #hoot. Secretary ann Daniel said ‘a new supp\y of erimp shells are on hand ‘and’ several speclal events have been arranged. All interested shotgunners are urged to furn out nnd 'brlng & SIG(K QUOTATIONS NEW, YORK July 31. — Closing quotation” of ‘Alaska Juneati mine| stock today is" ‘4%, American Can 95%, Anaconda 20 34, Bethlehem| Steel 79; Commonwealth and South- em ‘1%, Curtiss’ Wright 7%, Gen- ‘erll ' Motord 4%, 7 Intérnational| ‘Hirvéstér 45 371, Kennecott 21%;,] New York “€entral 12" Northern| Pheific 6%, United States Steél 53 18, Pound $3.82 on open mar- ket, o, 2 mns AVEEAGES *The” ‘are “today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials’ 12614, il 3692, "utilicles - 23.70. " {arc repofted from Hoonah by U. S I'Comm {last night while the Charlotte was in port. They are the wife and daunhtrr of !hc I tmaster at ‘Hmuq, # [ ,{\f | district~ on |the Juneau Chamber of Commerce v AHalibuters. | Sell, Seattle July 31 today, — Halibuters all coming in SEATTLE, elling here trom the western banks, are as fol- lows Chelsea 40,000 pounds, 10% cents| pound straight; Atlantic 34,000 pounds 10% and 10% cents; Mitkof 40,000 poursls, 10% and 10% cents; National 25,000 pounds, 117% and 10 tents.e 1 R John Stewart Of Juneau Weds | Boston Girl’ John E. S'(\\,\H‘ son of Mr Mrs. B, D. Stewart of, this city, married at Boston this week to Miss | Kathleén Kllgariff of Boston. .u)(l ” Stewart has just finished his third ‘year "in Harvard Med} cal Echool. "Mrs. SteWart 15" an M. D. n lmr owh right. | resent M;, ang, Mrs. Stewart Mamc oy toneymoon trip. 24 ARE"ARRESTED AT HOONAH FOR | ILEGAL FISHING atrestd for {llegal past sevéral ‘weeks m(* i Twenty-four fishing Th the oner Robert R. Brown. Eight arrests are reported from| | Patersburg and [A)c (rum Sitka on similar offénses, .- BOUND FOR IIA!N S Mrs. ‘Virginia ‘Kingsbury and daughter Frances visited in Juneaw TEMSNMC@IB%% BEGINNING SOON Blrd Is Favorife-Govenor Is Also Conténder for Racke! Crown Play was ¢éxpectéd to get undér way this ‘evening in Evérgreen Bowl in “the ‘anndal tehnis " fouknamert | {6 ‘détermine “the’ ‘city rhammon 'Plo}'fleld‘ Dlrvctor ‘Hardld ‘Roth dringuiced 4 drawing schedule ‘tas day, with' favotite-to-witl” Joe ‘Bird, &rwlng a‘bye. "Bob" Rowe s 'to play Harold | Roth,” Roget Stevenson Vs, Peter | Gruening, “Al' "Anderson vs. 'Déan 'vnuams, Fred Ball, bye, Tick Mb_ryan Vs Rev. ‘Boyer, George| | Schimidt vs. Dick ' Nichols. Gov. Errest Gruening, confender, ‘draws a bye. Roth announced that reservations can be made for courts if players desire;” anid ‘matehes should be run off as geon a§ possible, R SKINNERS VISIT JUNEAU; ARRIVE WiTH NEW YACHT Port Ajlhorp Pack 1s Dis- | rcouraging o Alaska Pacific Head Gldyert W, skmncr‘ President of | the ‘Alaska Pacific Salmon Com- pany, ‘arrived here’ this morning with his wife and party aboard their yacht Nellwood, of the Se- attle Yacht Club. Aboard the Nellwood with Mr. and Mrs, Skiprer' bn"their newly acquired 'vessel aré Dr. ‘and Mrs. J. J. Pfistar, of San ¥Francisco, ' par- ents of Mrs. Skinner, and Jackie Gordori alsp of "San Francisco. The party left Seattle July 19 and also n{' has - been visiting Alaska Pacific canneries through Southeast Al~ aska. o W e To date’ the Port 'Althorp cati- nery has been experfencing its poorest year, according to Skin- ner, and with the Icy Straits outér area closing the fifth, the inner afea the ‘¢ighth, and ‘the Chatham i the eighteenth, Ilittle hope is held out Tor a good pack. The party wlu len\c here this evening for Kake Port Althorp. D e MAJOR TO SPEAK BEFORE CHAMBER Ma]or Jesse E. Graham who has| beéh assigned to organize a National | @uard in Alaska will be the speaker | at tomorrow’s luncheon meeting of ' tat the Baranof Hotel - — 4 DON ECK HAS TOUR Don ‘Eek -is aboard the Aleutian with a Golden Belt Tour of 16| members. A NOTICE AIRMAIL ENVELOPES, showing air route from Seattle to Nome, on $ale’ at'y, ‘B, Burford & Co, | developments. | Geologist with |in Juneau last night on the steamer | , [ i THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE; WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1940 FARLEY, AS NEW CHIEF OF Y ANKEES, WOULD BE NO STRANGER 10 SPOR WAR SPURRING: GEOLOGY SURVEY WORK, ALASKA Three Parties Working on Strategic Minerals- One on Army Field Work of the U. S. Geological Sur- vey in Alaska for 1940 has been con- siderably broadened under wartime Phillip S. Smith, Chief Alaskan the survey, arrived Alcutain from Ketchikan where he n his annual contact trip tc| he Territory, meeting with parties | n the field. A total of nine Geological Survey | parties are now working in Alaska, | Smith said, three of them operating under the War Stackpile Bill which finances investigation of strategic war ‘minerals, and another is fi- nced by the War Department it- | elf. At Metlakatla, under the War De- )ariment, a Party of five’ t,opogrwh- rs and one gcolmzist are making i sutvey of Annette Islapd for use | of "the Army in cm\strucuon of a preposed' airfield l;here In the Juneau district,. out at Yakobi, sland, John Reed is exam- | hing nickel deposits undzt the War | ctackpile’ Bill, ‘while ai Seldovia | Phillip Guild is carrying on chrom- Studies under the same bill Néar Tin City in the Seward Pen- nsuld, "I B.' Meitie' Jr. is investi- | zating the tin resoyirces of the area,| al4o’ tinder ‘the War Stackpile Ble | i the “An¢hotage district, F. mers is' doing geologic, Work, in o “peration ‘with the Alaskd ' Railtoad u‘lauve to, the proposed Portage m{ ‘cutott’ and large bunnel pro- ject., " tiendiaters of the Gopper 'River, ad T. V. Ranta doing work In the ‘Holithd _qist of thc Lowel Kaskokwim, "Topographe 'ump‘leym, aetial mappln five "o ten “tho: and sqiiare | S of muntry between Neénaba ~and McGrath, and will arrive in Juneau shortly ‘1o cotitinue aerial mappum work in' ‘this area. J.°6! Willlams is doing’ $pecial re- ¢ ¢h work in"the "Copper’ River ountry and, will Jnln Reed here rork in the Juneau belt, Président and the Budgél Comit- teée have “approved ‘of "doublibg the Fred Moffit has a party at the| <hortly to " pursue gensyal geology | ' Simith ‘deéclared today' that the f an*munt to e’ allocated for Strate- Wic mineral investigations”tifs yaer tindet the War, Stackpile Bl but Cengress has notas yet b ssed on ‘he meas\)rc . Under “the" War~ passed last summer 3500000 a year spént’ on ‘survey and acquisition of stratezic minerals, $150,000 to be expended by the Geological Sur- Vey and the remainder. by the Bu- rea of Mines, all on a five year plan Dr. Smith, who doesn’t ¢are much | for the “doctor,” has been with the Stackpile Bill, | Geological Survey since 1906, and | Chief Geologist for the Alaska De- | partment sice 1924. | He is a guest at the Baranof Ho-| tel whue n .mnnu PASSENGERS GO BY. PLANE FOR ISLAND POINTS shell Simpions” and Alex Holden r(ev( ‘out ‘on " mail, “passenger” and fréight“ins’ to island points this mornfhg, ‘taking “out ‘a’ total of | seven' passengers. Those leaving were Don Robin-| | | son for Todd, A. Anderson for| Chatham, Ed Ameling and Dave| Fenton for Sitka,” J. G." Shepard for Lisianski, William Berger Port Althorp and F. W. Blood for Hoonah, i Yesterday, * inbound passengers were Paul Sorenson and Paul Lazos, | from thsn the latter with a broken back;'Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Shanks from Sitka, and R. E’ Murphy and Jack Littlepage from chlchagof | NORTH' SEA ‘CALLING "HERE, | ‘WILL “'LOAD ' 'FISH CARGO A $mall ‘shipment '6f ‘around “700 cases of salmon awails the North Sea which is" expecwd in tonight ffom the south. Due'‘to slackened| run’ of fish the Douglas cannery has been in forced idleness most | of ‘the past week. P e LEAVES FOK WESTWARD Joe Perusich “sailédl “last’ nlgh' aboard ‘thé Aleutiai ‘enroute to An- chorage, ‘adding one moré from the Island seéking employmient in con- nection with the Government air base ‘project there. e Subscripe to ‘IHé Daily Alaska Em- pire — the paper with the largest guargnteed Cireuis oL WUGI.AS CQIiseum /MUESDAY--WEDNESDAY - for| = | The Magnifient Fraud' | adv. ¥ Farley was Jim boxing com- Farl 1ows most of tod: pflssioner whén Max Schmel- He's st ing. on“scales, won the heavy- victory over 'l 1 wei I‘L championship on claim ing to change hi when B FackBharkdy Touled him. millions as Dempsey-Tunney bout &a\ln]eres}‘ in All Sporis— et 3 Farley has high regard for man- Golf is only game in ‘which he agerial ability of Joe McCarthy, pa pates. He shoots around who has bossed Yankees since 100. Government duties have 1931, won five world cham-= allowed him lutl( time for keep- pionships. ing'in m"ulu e Farley Will Boss These Men and Ihls Stadium— B a8 "Ed Barrow George Weiss Tim Sullivan Yankee Stadium, the ‘house that Ruth built” on the Harlem River, seats more than 80,000, is rarely filled Most famous Yankee play serves as site for big boxing bouts, football games. American League batting champion. Ed Barrow, pert, is now president of club. George Weiss manage s Yankees' farm sy: wh o operated Yankees 1§ v DILLON GRANAM Sperts Editor, AP Feature Service cate | $4.000.000 for the New York Yankees wa a ‘hatiof 1s New York ‘Athletic Commissioner from 101 the no-foul boxing rule and sent the Dempsc weight championship fizht to Phila- delphia vo Harry Wills was the logical con- fende must meet him before Tunney or fight frent people, like Jim. As one explained, “He ightfo Farley ha | be heid the Postmaster sther sports champions k on the former chaip’s 1938 s stubborn commiss refus- York ione merchants protested losing vent to Philadelphia. turf enthusiast, varely Derby He Dame- football He's misses a Kentucky generally .sces Notre Army, Army - Navy games each fall r is Joe DiMaggio, 1939 forMormer owner Col. Jake Rup- m, which includes Newark, Kan- sas City and several other rhinor league clubs. ‘Timm ¥ Stllivan ‘is popular Yankee bat boy. :\l\l\mxgh Yankees won four straight World Series, club hasn’t made huge profits, didn’t draw as many 1939 fans as Brooklyn Dodgers. One off “Stretch” Farley's first jobs may be supervising rebuilding of slumping Yankvea now in fourth |>l.|4(‘ ‘Mary Cockbum fo - Wed Edwin Johnson| 1AND OFFICE DFFICIAL I 5 'HERE FROM WASHINGTON Called to Alaska on one of his | A4 odivex wenaig vomorraw | PEriodic, Visits i conpeglion with | ) ¥ V| gdministrative problems, Thomas © afternoon Wil unite Miss, My | g, ve)) “sypervisor of the Branch of Elizabeth Cockburn, = daughter of | 4y qication of the General Land | Mr and Mrs. C. G. Cockburn Of|gpfica “artived here from Washing- Lake Stevens, Wash. and Mr, Bd-| 0100 SE0NeE Bt B an win Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Havell will 'go to the Westward seorge ~Johnson, also of, Lake o, ‘the next boat to visit District Stevens. The Rev. John A. Glasse|yqnq offices at Anchorage, Fair- | will officiate at the Northern Light panics and Nome Presbyterian Church Miss Cockburn, ‘a former Univer- BACK FROM BETHEL sity of Washington student, ar-| | Miss Mary Ellen Speanburg, Head i rived here on the steamer Aleu-|y,;e gt the Government Hnsmufl} tian. Mr. Johnson is an employee|pere returned to Juneau on the of the Cold Storage Company and| geamer Columbia after two months’ came here about three yeaws 880. |temporary dtty at the new Bethel | CORRI- <7 52 sAaeb | Hospital' while the head mirse there Ty a classified ad in The Empire, was on leave, | ————— | WALLS OF BOWL SWIMMING POOL ALREADY pounm the city's of Walls pool in E swimming | reen Bow! were poured vest men for G. Emil Krause, who warded a ;mux.lu to complete the work. The floor of the pool and gutters are yet to be poured -s- -+ EQUALIZATIONTO : Assessments 10 Be Consid- i Harley J. Turner. Baseball Today g are scores of games fternoon in the Na-| The { | played thi lional League: St. Louis 3; Boston 1, eleven in- nings, first zame. ‘Philadelphia 7 Chicago 3. U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER i (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4:30 Mostly clouidy Wwith occastonal ‘showers™and little chan ture tonight and Thursday; minimum temperature tonight 53 deg moderate southeasterly winds. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: showers and not much change day; moderate southerly winds, Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Moderate southe) winds from Dixon Entrance to Cape Hinchin- brook; and moderate east to northerly winds from Cape Hinchin- brook to Kodiak ¥ July 3 *in tempe ce: occasional Thurs- Mostly cloudy with in temperature tonight and LOCAL DATA Time Barometer ‘lemp. Humidity Wind Velocity =~ Weather 1:30' p.m. yest'y . 20.77 59 82 SE 13 Cloudy 430 am. today 20.82¢ = 56 90 SE 10 Cloudy Ndon today 20.86 58 83 SE 14 Cloudy RADIO REPORTS TODAY Max. tempt Lowest 3:30a.m Precip. 3:30am Staticn last 44 hours ! temp. temp. 24 hours Weather Barrow 44 | 35 35 0 Fogey Fafrbanks 51 46 46 g Cleat Nome 56 45 48 p Foggy Dawson 66 | 37 37 0 Clear Anchorage 71 55 56 0 Cloudy Bethel 59 46 16 .08 Cloudy St. Paul 17 46 46 05 Cloudy Dutch Harbor .. 57 | 51 0 Clea Wosnesenski 60 50 T Rain K& 60 49 03 Cloudy Kodidk il 54 07 Cloudy Cordova 69 57 0 Cloudy Juneau 69 56 01 Cloudy Sitka 65 54 0 Cloudy Ketchikan 63 51 34 Rain Prince Rupert . 65 58 29 Cloudy Prihce George .. 67 52 05 Clear Seatfle 74 51 0 Clotic Portiand 5 G 56 0 Clear San Francifco . 69 58 50 0 Cloudy ) WEATHER SYNOPSIS . A stationary and weakening’ depression was sharted in the Gulf of Alaska” this “mothing and another minor depression was centered in {he ‘Bering Sed, while an area of High pressure exteénded from {he 'Aleutiaps’ to ‘the coast of California. The weather umlmm'x cloudy ‘over oSt of "Alaska during the last 24 hours, and light : ers’ occuried in the interior of Alaska, in tfic Yukon 'mnuu,\ Southeast Alaska, and over the southern half of the Juneau Seattle Airways, ¥ Juueflu, August 1-—summ- 4:48 am, sunset 9:20 p.m. iTyee Is Now JuneauBound A B AT S (ITY BOARD OF MEET NEXT WEEK CEATTLE, July 31 Steamer Tyece is now bound for Juncau and other | Southeast Alaska port : ed for Juneau are Mrs. C. Peter- Witte, Robert Murphy, Melvin Erik- en The Tyee is scheduled to arrive Meetings of the Tax Equalization Board will be held on Monday, Tues- day, Wednesday and Thursday eve- | .4 yuncay 9 p. m, Saturday nings of next week at 8 o'clock, it | e was announced today by City Clerk | pprURNS TO JUNE WITH R v NT BRIDE The equalization board, will consider ev- City Council, sitting as an Richard W. Rees, Alaska Juneau ery piece,of property in Juneau inj . ,.,ovnc retutned on the Prin- turn to determine. whether the as- | .. Gnbiote Jast night from a J| sessments are equitable. All Persons | ., t, (he States, bringing back jl| wishing to protest assessments are | i, pim his recent bride i invited to ulu-l.l(l‘l.hv sessions. Mr. and Mrs. Rees are guests at The Daily Alaska tmpire guaran- | he Baranof Hotel. - o - tees the largest daily circulation of any Alaska rewspaper. 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