The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 6, 1940, Page 2

By~ g i Gypsy Rose L at the New Y. ing off her belt | Parachute troops will land in New Jersey as Uncle Sam’s first contingent, a practice hute tower similar to the one 3 rs will make practice leaps for a week from the two 125-foot towers at Hightstown, N. J. Left, a student 1s raised to top ! platoon from Fort Benning, ‘at the New York World’s air EXPORTS DOWN SUIGHTLY FROM | JULY YEAR AGO Shipments from Alaska fo States Last Month | $4,934,847 1 Alaska exports for July totaled| $4,934,847 which is roughly half a million dollars less than the value of exports in the same month last year. Gold shipped Outside last month was valued at $1,899.587 com- pared with shipments of $1,903,492 in July, 1939. Canned salmon ship- ments worth $2378,878 last month compared with shipments a year Ago of $2,057,759 The complete list for July is as follows: Fish: Fresh and frozen- Halibut $ 24751 Salmon 38,244 Other 4,693 almon, canned 2,378,878 Cured or preserved— Sdlmon 194,593 Shellfish— Clams 30,781 Crabs 528 Shrimp 11,109 Fish products: Meal 665 Other fish products 23,682 Furs .and fur-skins: Beaver 4,274 Fox— Black and silver 750 Blue 500 Red 2,638 Fur-seal skins 25 Hair-sel skind 173 Marten 56 Mink 863 Muskrat 14,520 Otter 632 AllL other 1,255 150 Fur manufactures Wool, unmanufactured Wood, timber and lumber Ore, matte and regulus: Stone, including marble curios, ete, .. 600 6,302 3,862 19,779 ee starts her Strip Tease World's Fair by toss- learns the ropes on a pa The [ Spruce oars 1940, | 2,437 b o next she unfastens garters, 48 men and two offic But, unlike mest strip-teasers, she removes her inner garments first, THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, AUG. 6, 1940. She centi nues to work from the in- side out as she (akes off lingerie, mean- while singing of history. 45 Paintings Platinum 107,730 Gold 1,899,587 Silver 4 Total value Alaska products Value United States chandise returned Value of foreign merch $4,779,061 mer Total value I'VA BID—piea tiat TVA's sower output be exyanded, to lio im production, capital by Edward bovel, defense com- mission member, * | preparatory DENTAL EXAMS ARE SCHEDULED | Dr, Wallace Peterson arrived on the Columbia from Ketchikan today to opeming examina- tions of the Territorial Boeard here, of which body President. Dr. Peterson he and Secretary- Treasurer Dr. G. F. Freeburger will| conduct the four-day exams. Today's news today In The Empire grease, Dental | FREIGHTER DEPERE The freighter Depere was in Ju- | neau today loading lumber for dis- | tribution to the Westward and for | Interior points. | The vessel arrived on the Channel | yesterday and discharged dynamite | and coal e | CREWSON TiERE H. B. Crewson, traveling man, came in from Sitka on the Tyee today and is at the Gastineau Ho- tel. U.S. Trains Its First "Chute Troops in New Je of one of the towers for a trial leap, seated in a chair and guided by wires. Second, he practices use of the rip-cord. Third, the ‘chute has just left the tower and is not yet inflated. Fourth, the student has mastered the technique and is coming down on his own “wings,” free of all safety devices. | IS LOADING HERE rived on the Columbia this morning | here yesterday after an infection |after a triv to the States. She will | geveloped from an operation- per- | fly out tc Hirst tomorrow. At pres- formed a week ago. Transfusion of | $800,000 Fire Sweeps Paint Facory | sSeven persons were listed officially as unaccounted Tdr a in a ‘§pectacular fire Which swept the R. M. Hol- ! lingshead Company plant in downtown Camden, N. J, causing damage estimated at $800,000. The fire shown here at its height spread to adjoining streets. The company manufactuyred automobile paint and rsey RUMANIA ~ GIVING N Territorial mDé}nands Are . Accepted According fo General Report BUCHAREST, Aug. 6. ble Government quar Responsi- 5 in Buch- by its expert on Rumanian-Bulg jan relations, Fayrl Caderc irest declars that Rumania is will- inz to accept Bulgaria’s territorial | demand Official spekesmen said that Ru- mania has eed to the return of Dobrujda and the re-establishment | of the frontier with Bulg: 1. The agreement is said to have been| reached after what was l]/"(llUL‘Li‘ as three days of hectic preliminary conferences. | I'he negctiations with Rumania were conducted by Bulgarian Pre- misr Filoff and ign Minister Pepoff. Rumania was rep | The discussions were held at Sofia ond paved the way for the formal negetiaticns which are expected to hegin shortly . -oe - STREAM OF MEN MOVING OUT OF JUNEA TO WEST xodus of workmen from Junean to Fairbanks, Kodiak, Sitka and| Anchérage this summer (-unlmuedj y with the booking of thirty me cteerage passengers for the imer Columbia, hound for Sew- rd this evening. An increasing number of names | on the call list of the Alaska Ju- neau has been noted. Ranks of CCC camps here have been thinned, and even nearby canneries have re- perted men are leaving for the west. ward and Army jobs before pack are completed. » In one c: a recently vis Her skirt is la off. “Strects of Paris.” thing te com Viiss Lee's show Is ealled st e crew members aboard iting yacht also book- 450 stesrage tickets have been sold on westward bound boats from Ju- | neau. | Many more persons have zravelod‘ first cl to Seward and Kodiak,| but hew many of the tickets sold | were to job-movers, cannot be de-| termined It is also estimated that more than a hundred persons have mads| the jump to Sitka from Juneau this | summer, by boat and by plane. Local businessmen look to see a static condition in Juneau popula- tion for the next two years during i the course of the Army work, and then a reversal of the labor flow. MRS. ROWE IS DEAD, KETCHIKAN KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Aug. 6.— | Funeral services will be held Thurs- Lippetts, wife of the {gay afternoon for Mrs. David S, Hirst-Chichagof mill foreman, ar- powe 42, who died in a hospital HIRST WOMAN IS BACK FROM TRIP | e i r M. ¥ ent she is at the Baranof Hotel. |plcod by donor Norman Gerde, fail- o at ed to help. 5 P Survivors include the hushand, Harold Zenger is leaving on the 4 $ 3 s two sons, David and Donald in Ket- Columbia for the Westward to take chikan; and mother, Lenora Cos- a job on the Lowell Creek flood |grove in Aberdeen, Washington. control project at Seward e Zenger graduated this spring from Due on Clipper | Mrs. John W. Gilwee, wife of the | Assistant PAA agent here, is sched- | uled to-arrive on the Alaska Clipper from Seattle this afternoon. | Mrs. Gilwee is joining her husband {who was transferred from the Se- | attle offices of PAA early this sum- | mer, | For the present, the Gilwees will be at the Baranof Hotel | - e o Baseball Today Scores of games played this af- ternoon in the two major leagues are as follows: National League Boston 3, 12; Philadelphia 0, 2. St. Louis 1; Pittsburgh 3, first | game. American League Cleveland 1; Chicago 2, first game. New York 3; Boston 8. Philadelphia 0; Washington 11. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Aug, 6.—Closing quo- tation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 4%, American Can 94%, Anaconda 20, Bethlehem Steel 78%, Commonwealth and Southern 1%,! Curtiss Wright 6%, General Motors 45%, International Harvester 43%, Kennecott 26'%., New York Central| 11%, Northern Pacific 6%, United | States Steel 52, Pound $3.92. ¥ e ey U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4:30 p.m., Aug. 6: Rain tonight and Wednesday, moderate temperature; minimum to- night abouf 54 degrees; moderate, occasionally fresh southeasterly winds, . % Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Light showers tonight; rain Wed- nesday; not much change in temperature; moderate southerly winds except fresh and probably strong Wednesday over sounds and straits and Lynn Canal, Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Fresh south and southwesterly winds, becoming fresh to strong south and southeasterly Wednesday, from Dixon Entrance to Sitka: and fresh to strong southeast to easterly from Sitka to Kodiak. Gale winds likely in open Gulf. . LOCAL DATA Time Barometer lemnp. Humidity Wind Velocity Weather 4:30 pm. yesty 30.01 55 83 ESE 12 Lt. Rain 4:30 am. tod 29.93 95 4 Mdt. Rain Noon today 29.92 54 86 14 Shower: RADIO REPORTS | TODAY Max. tempt, | Lowest 3:30am Precip. 3:30am Staticn last 24 howrs | temp. teinp, 24 hours Weather Barrow 38 | 38 33 Trace Lt. Rain Fairbanks 58 | 45 46 05 Nome 56 | 53 53 05 Dawson it} 42 42 0 Mayo 60 44 14 0 Anchorage 67 48 48 0 Bethel i 47 48 63 St. Paul 50 | 45 41 21 Duteh Harbor . 57 48 43 04 ain Wosnesenski 55 | 48 19 17 Clear Kodiak [ 48 49 22 Cloudy Cordova 54 50 51 35 Rain Juneau 57 51 52 Rain Sitka 60 | 55 56G 18 Cloudy Ketc¢hikan 59 | 4 55 141 Clear Prince Rupert . 60 65 58 0 Rain Prince George . 83 43 49 0 Pt. Cldy Seattle 85 6 56 0 r Portland 95 66 0 Clear San Francisco . 75 49 51 0 Pt. Cldy WEATHER SYNOPSIS The intense westérn disturbance has continued to advance mod- erately eastward and was centered early this morning just south of Bethel, while a large area of hith pressure extended from the Pacific coast westward to the Aleatian Islands. 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