The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 8, 1940, Page 2

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, AUG. 8, 1940 Aid Enlisted yRF( ISTOAID By SAM JACKSGN Sgain Jbe | peallty AP Feature Service Writer et 2 Beauteou TLAND, Ore A 8 I L Ar 1 we of the professional payche yampic 1t iker o 1 ulzh d Al ron e A.AU € 3% I Oc « trid ¥ I Holm -meter ba : uried and qui m- petition Gloria Callen of New York is ed to make rong bid or Mortridpe vacated title : 1 the mythical Leauty hror Mi Williax once ozcu- pied. Helen Crienkovich and Marjorie Gestrin; diver Halina tcmska Tull 104 ter [ree- tar from Chic ), and sev- are alwo strong title contenders who could poll plenty voltes in almost any beauty con- Nancy young- compe- the rt expeat Merki, 14-year-old Portland ter, to stand out in the the title Swim ex hold: for yard lieve tion, Sir HO- and 880 and many b could be he 3 Louisville, defending mile chs ion; piko Katsutami of H: rd breast-stroke, Providence in the, medley their honor d on the in Mare k the 100 Dorothy ter, Mass, and New York sprint events ring duel e a meet free-style event 100, of mile, Ryan t i of ndividual Bren mete are duled to defend Helser her def 300~ srenda ravor coast plic by Miss 'Lulli meter frec- cnard Wor e Lo raine Fischer other threats in the The Crlenkovich-C of the dives should highlight. Helen holds the 10- foot springboard title, Marjoric the platiorm chamn nship. Portland 440-yard reiay team Miss Merki, Miss Hels Miss M and Miss Maryanne n is aiming for that title The Women's Swimming Asso- ciation of New York and the Multnomah Athletic Club of Port- land are favored in team compe- tition, The Los Angeles A, C., win- ner in 1939, lost too many stars to the pro ranks of are H:;n«- EXCUSE PLEASE BOYS PLAN FOR NEW CHINA WAR| Nippons R;aa;ing for Far EastBlitzkrieg of French, Dukh | SHANGHAI, Aug. 8—Trustworthy foreign sources said today that the Japans and Navy is speed-| ing preparations for further moves southward in the direction of French Indo-China and the Dutch East Indies 1t is predicted a lightning thrust will be timed to coincide with Hit- ler's attempt to invade England e ———— me the key or I will slug Mi Griffith declared the said | mystery.. slugger felled OTTAWA, Ill, Aug. 8—Eleanor her with a blow on the head, but| Jarman, the Chicago “Blonde as the lay on the floor she man-| Tiger,” serving 199 years for mur- aged to swallow the key. der_and imprisoned in 1933 for the X-rays taken in the hospital this slaying ofGustave Hoeh for which GIRL FOILS SLUGGER IN SKY SLEEPER When ThugD_emands Bag- gage Compartment Key She Swallows If HVILLE Airline stewardess ith as saying she was head by an unknown anded the key to the baggage rtment of the Sky Sleeper hip nearcd here early this Tenn., Aug. 8—~Am- officials today quot- Rosemary Grif- hit on the person who. can air you thug The forencon revealed the stewardess her sweetheart was ~electrocuted, actually had swallowed the key escaped early. today from the Wo- She is badly bruised about the men’s Reformatory, accompanied by body, also, indicating she was beat- her companion, Mary Foster. n where she fell D Haida Arrives af Seward Affer Run Of Just 45 Hours The Coast Guard cuiter Haida arrived at Seward at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon after a 45-hour run from Juneau, according to word received by the Governor's office here, The Haida left Juneau at 6:30 o'clock Tuesday evening, Aboard the cutter are two Con- gressmen checking up on progress at Army airbases in Alaska, as well . as Gov. Ernest Gruening and Ma- Jesse E. Graham, who is or- the Alaska National Guard. _Congressmen, and two col- who flew to Fairbanks will come to Juneau ) Electra from Fair- | evening. The lipper will be held until| . WREE. ‘morning for them. owing an anonymous tip that dew York ombed, | demy A heavy police guard was thrown about the De- roit Packard Motor company plant, pictured, fol- display and storage plant would- be The “tipster” lold Packard officials the GLORIA CALLEN FULL UTILIZATION IS FISHERIES AIM, CHAMBER TOLD utilization of our fisheries resource, so that it will continue to yield wealth to the Territory, is the purpose of protective mea. ures established by the Fish and Wildlife Service, Elmer Higgins, Chief of the Division of Fisheries Research, said at today’s Juneau Chamber of Commerce luncheon Higgins deseribed Alas] fish- eries as a continuing mine without a botton properly conserved and stabilized Other guests at the Chamber luncheon included Clarence Olson, Fisheries Management Agent of the Fish and Wildlife Service; Major John Paul Dean, instructor in Na- tural and Experimental Philosophy at the United States Military Aca- at West Point; Charles L. Peterson of the National Park Ser- Full ‘ vice; Dr. W. E. Peterson of Ket- chikan; Lemuel G. Wingard, for- IN CHARGE—Gen. Doug- merly Alaska Agent for the Bu-| las MacArthur (above), former reau of Fisheries; the Rev. Walter ~Chief-of-staff of U. 8. army, now heads a military mission to the A. Soboleff of the Memorial Pres- Philippines and as a marshal in byterian Church, and John Bishop, the Philippine army is active in | who recently returned from a Calhi strengthening that country’s de- | fornia buying trip for the B. M. fense program. | Behrends Store. ‘ | e | - e | Fmphe Classlfled< Pavl TV a rh\,xnod ad'in The Emuire Detroit Packard Plant Guarded Atter Bomb Threat | plant would be bombed because the Packard com- pany was planning to build airplane engines for'the [ the company’s | British government. The company recently indi- | cated it would build 9,000 plane engines, 6,000 for 1 Great Britain and 3,000 for the United States, In Drive for Airport Here Council arvdfiamber Send Telegrams fo Dimond, CAA, Engineer Urging the construction of an airbase at Juneau, telegrams were sent today by the-City Council and » Juneau Chamber of Commerce g DEFENSE IN HEAVY LOAN WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.—Federal Administrator Jesse Jones told the Houce Banking Cammittee today that the RFC has agreed to fi- nance censtruction of “a half dozen™ new at: aft factories to cost be- tween $150,000,000 and “$200,000.000. Jones said the RFC has commit- ted itself .to loans totalling about $700,000,000 under the defense pro- am, including projects for acqui- to Delegate Anthony J. Dimond, sition of straiegic materiais as .ol the Director of the Civil Aeronau- as the construction of new crd- tics Authority and Col. John C. H. nance munitions plant Lee, Division Engineer. - v > | The telegram to Dimond to which the others are similar, was as follows Afternoon Tea Is | “We feel presont defense pro- 3 ’ | gram overlooking necessity and im- C p| t y | ent Auk Bay harborage, both o . use. Also centzal point of ¢ 196, jExHNpL T s D Potwaen 3 and 6 o'cloglk today, Mts s, namely: (o Tair Gecize W. Folta and Mrs jam Nome; to ‘Interior .and "Nort -1 A. Holzheimer are entertaining with ern Canada; to Seattle; to £ Bl B Cordoya/ aind ANCROARE; . o ' W enth Slrect, in cor nt I kase and adjacent islands,|, yon J. Gemmill, wife of . well ‘as .established “fact ‘Rocess™ fye iy \ppointed Assistant Unit- bility overland to cities ‘Southern | gq sratas Attomey. One hundred Canada and northern Unitzd S and fifty invitations were extend- frem Minneapoli Al of which ' gy | airways importance defense, Gov-|' presaing at the tea table ermmental and civilian purpose ehtren o ol Therefore Common Council and peny of mixed summer floy 11 Chamber Cemmerce urge immediate pocdames Gruening. H. L. #aulk development and request Your €0 per Grover C. Wing, i cperation presenting to Army, Navy e J. Hellenthal "rruitt, | and CAA, If any further Infor- Grace Wicessch Smadic, | mation needed or any suggestions Rchert Bender, b will appreciate prompt advice Alevadit Rhd Bk The telegrams are sizned by 4-'to serve Mayor Harry 1. Luca bl 4 z R A Robert Cowling, ! g , H. M. Heilmann, Helen Annabelle Simpson, Doris Free- APPOINTED 10 COMMAND GUAR Juneau Ex@s Agent Is Adjutant-General for New Home Force Appointment of William R. (Roy) Mulvihill of Juneau as Adjutant- General in command of the Alaska National Guard was announced to- day by Gov. Ernest Gruening through Secratary of Alaska E. L Bartlett here. Mulvihill also will have the title of U. S. Property and Disbursing Officer for the 297th Infantry, the Alaska National Guard Under Adjutant-General Mulvi- hill's command will be a Headquar- ters Detachment, Medical Detach- ment, three Rifle Companies and a Heavy Weapons Company. Pos- sibly a National Guard Air Squad- ron will be added later. Mulvihill, brother of Fire Chief V. W. Mulvihill of Juneau, is Raii- way Express Agent here William Walther has already been appointed Captain in charge of the local Rifle Company. D WILLIAMS APPOINTS GUARD COMMITTEE Dr. R, H. Wl]h.mls. Chairman I\I a Chamber of Commerce Commit- tee cooperating in the formation | of the Alaska National Guard, has named as members of his com- mittee Charles Naghel, Joseph T. Flakne, Keith Wildes, G. E. Cleve- land and E. H. Parsons. Baseball Today The following are scores of games | played this afternoon /in the two major leagues: National League Chicago 1; Cincinnati 3. Boston 6; Philadelphia 2. American League New York 5; Boston 6. - Emprre ciassifieds bimg results. Lurger, Jean Taylor, Ruth Beatrice Mullen, Mary Jean Mec- Naughton, Betty Sharpe, Elizabeth Terhune, Jean llagher, Mary El- len Spain, Louise Kemper Edith Young, Beasla) and - oo £ DALE DAL GETS YEAR IN JALL Elmer Elswo th Day Jr, a Day, today pleaded builty in U. S. mmissioner's Court here to two counts of petit Jarceny in connec- ticn with obtaining money from Juneau women He was sentenced to a year in the Federal Jail on one count. A sentence on the second counts was suspended on condition that Day make restitution of the sums | obtained falsely. BLOWSUP; 39 KILLED ROME, Aug. 8—Two explosions in the Tiatenza munitions factory, | near Genoa, tonight killed 39 per- Dale year |sons and injured several hundred. ] The factory was completely wreck- | ed and the army barracks nearby | ]wns ('amaged Mrs. WaIIus George | After spending the past two months in California, Mrs. Wallis George, and daughter Maydelle, are| | returning here on the steamer| Mount McKinley. Before going to California, Miss; George attended the Grand Con | vention for Gitls held in Yakima. B SCHWAMM FLIES IN | WITH ONE IN WACO Teny Schwamm flew in from Petersburg in his Waco today,' | bringing in Carl Stromberg PAA | engineer, and returning with N. A. I'McEachran and H. B. Crewson. SO ing Merle Zinn, E HAT, GIRL!—0la Sol would have a time o 2, on a Galveston beach under this Mexican ut. m. Light degrees; temperature for tonight and Friday ;% winds except fresh over Moderate U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WE THER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, showers tonight and Frid; moderate southeast wind. Forecast for Southeast Alaska beginning at 4:20 p.m., Aug. §: minimum temperature tonight 48 Showers and not much change in ‘moderate south and scutheasterly sounds aud Straits and Lynn Canal Forccast wf winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska. to fresh south and southeasterly winds frem Dixon En- to Cape Spencer; and fresh east to northerly winds from nce e Spencer to Kodiak. LOCAL DATA Time Barometer 1emp. Humidity Wind Velocity 4:30 pm. yest'y .. 2058 53 87 SE 13 4:3¢ am. today 2949 53 ki SE 12 Lt. Rain Noon today 20.54 52 82 SE 8 Cloudy RADIO REPORTS TODAY Max. temapt. Lowest 3:30a.m Precip. 3:30a.m. n last 44 hours ! temp. temp. 24 hours Weather 34 | 33 0 Cloudy Fairbanks 72 49 Trace Pt. Cldy Nome 50 40 Trace Pt. Cldy Dawson - 68 417 0 Pt. Cldy Anchcrage 69 52 10 Pt. Cldy Bethel 51 40 0 Clear £t aPul 57 45 0 Lozey Duteh Harbor . 58 41 0 Clear Wosnesenski 56 46 0 Liear Kanatak 63 95 Clear Kodiak 64 52 PL. Cloy Cordova 51 Ran Junean 56 r Sitka . ... 50 | Clouay Ketchikan 59 | Cloudy Prince Rupert . 57 i 52 feam Prince George 8 | 49 52 Cloudy Eoattle 80 56 37 0 Clear Portland 85 61 61 0 Ci N San Francisco . 66 53 35 0 Clouuy WEATHER SYNOPSIS Mis, ning Company and the Bellingham the husband Hoonuh Dr., Mrs. Loftus 1 Dr. rived here on the motorship North- | land and is enroute to Haines and | Skagway. He was accomjanied hy Mrs tus, who will remain in Juneau as the guest of Mr. Hudon at their home on Highway. | The Daily Alaska smpire guaran- | |tees the largest daily circulation o | any Alaska rewspaper | Maydelle Returmng'. The disturbance centered ovor the Gulf of Alaska this morning has moved very little and appears to be diminishing in intensity. High pressure extended from the Pacific coast westward to the Aleutian isands. Rain fell during the last 24 hours ov the coastal of the Guilf and over Southeast Alaska, and cloudy weather con- linued over the rest of Alaska. Juneau, August 9.—Sunrise 5:.5 am. sunset 9:01 p.m, MRS. SOMMER Mrs. Welsh Goes nowr Mrs. R. J. Sommers, accompanied by her son Bobby, is on the steamer Mount McKinley enroute here after spending the past few months visit- ing in the States. AT Out with Clipper R.A, Whidn, wits of ident of the the Icy Straits Can- Canning Company, flew south on| The Daily Alaska Empire guaran- Alaska Clipper this morning. | €S the largest aaily circulation of Mrs, Welsh has been with her 2RV Alaska newspaper. most of the summer at CLOTHES that are CLEAN OFTEN—Wear Longer! Send YOUR GARMENTS Triangle ‘Thorough Workmanshig et modertt Method Froduce Work that is Sure to Please You. -+ - to Arrive in Juneau J. B. Loftus of Petersburg ar- Phone 507 Lof- | and Mis. 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