The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 15, 1940, Page 2

ON ENGLAND BEING MADE Thousands of Planes Mak ing Unprecedented Furious Attack 15 war planes 16osed upcn Britain the mightiest aerial of fensive ever kncws German bembs fell south of Lendon and on the great Croy den airdrome. The Nazi planes fought the Rritish London’s Tilbury docks. 5o struck in Scot- lord struck vital mu- jens n Nerthern ¥ land shed - along ceasts. Tenights "attack is b with incredible fury, wilts, such a blow been struck before. The Royal Air Ferce has let Jeose every plane. the coast teries and anti-aircraft guns are firing witheut intermission. Air bottles are being fought frem 12,000 to 15,000 feet in the a LONDON, / 1.000 X tnousand Great ove They and the; areas and sms all g made ceascless as never arly evening ady state shipping ports, munitions and industrial plants, air bases and even the great Tynesside indus- trial shipbuilding area on the east ceast near Newcastle are ameng the areas bombed. Street casualties are unesti- mated. —— MAY EXHUME BODY OF NOME WOMAN DEATH Mozee Is in Cleveland fo Work with Officers in Weird Case CLEVFLAND Aug. 15 ¢ P ] Marshal B. B. Mozee arrived here today and joined two Cleveland de- tectives in investigation of his wife's mysterious death in Lake Erie. The body, found already been buried, but FBI agents said Mrs. Mozee's body will be ex: humed with her hushand’s per-; mission, for autopsy. NELS SORBY IS TAKEN BY DEATH HERE YESTERDAY Nels Sorby, 44 passed away l'\w yesterday afternoon al Lis residence | in the Sorby Apartments on Gas- tineau Avenue. Born April 14, Norway, Mr. Sorby residgent of the Territory July 29, has 1886 at Stange, He was at one time United States Deputy | Marshal at Dillingham, and spent several years in Westward Alaska. Returning here in 1933, Mr. Sorby has since made his permanent res- idence in Juneau He is affiliated with the local Eiks’ lodge, and was initiated into the Masonic Order at Mount McKinley Lodee in Cordova, having demitted to the Juneau lodge about 10 years ago. He was a Scottish Rite Mason and a Shriner, The remains are at the W. Carter Mortuary services will be held at the Chapel on Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock RIFLEMEN T0 LEAVE SOON: Charles PERRY SHOOT| Five members of the Alaska Rifle Team from Juneau, going to Camp Perry, expect to leave here next week on the steamer Tyee, while one member has already left. Louis Garrett left recently to take his vacation prior to the match, while Rex Chittick, George Hanson, John Osborne, Oscar Wat- erude and Wendell Andrews will go on the Tyee. Other members of the team, from Seward, will come through on the Baranof, leaving the 20th. - HELP AN ALASKAN Telepho~e 713 or write The Alaska Territorial Lmployment Service for this qualified worker. STENOGRAPHER-BOOKKEEP- | ER—Woman, married, age 36, high school education and business col legt training. Several years ex- perience in responsible positions as seeretary. bookkeeper, office ager. all for ES 154 - Subseripe to ‘“he Daily Alaska Em- pire —the paper with the largest guaranteed Circuis ion. | hatched jas a long time | and Masonic | man- | _WATERFOWL POP 1930 | 80 o {— BASED ON JAN INVENTORIES THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, AUG. 15, 1940. NIGHT RAID ' Bright Hunfing Prospeds Indicated for 1940 Season ULATION TREND 1935 1940 CONSENSUS OF OBSERVERS MILLION DROUGHT INTENSIFIED [PLAN FOR FEDERAL REFUGES . STEPPED UP BETTER CLIMATIC CONDITIONS DRASTIC HUNTINC RESTRICTIONS This ch: based on figures of th shows a steady upward (rend in duck population since 1935, say the increases are U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Experts e tending to level off but add that an adequate supply can be maintained with proper care. R. GEORGE ervice Writer By ALEXANL AP Feature WASHINGTON AIIE 15. You can't. count your dueks until they're or in the bag—but shoot- ing prospects definitely are winging higher for the 1940 duck hunter Uncle Sam’s duck census takers say the migratory waterfowl pop- ulation has jumped 15 percent since last year. They figure roughly there are about 65,000,000 on the Ameri- can continent this year compared with some 57,000,000 in 1939, Furthermore, drought in em and northern regions didn't materialize as extensively as was feared in the spring. Walte up- ply conditions are rated generally good in the breeding grounds The numk of waterfowl has | doubled since @ population low of 30 to 32 million was reached in 1935. The duck comeback is at- tributed to drastic action by the Federal ~government, with coop-| eration of the States, to prevent| threatened extinction and to cimatic conditions in the grounds, Refuges Started Emergency funds were provid- ed by Congress and the sale of duck stamps was inaugurated in 1 to finance the purchase and maintenance of watarfowl xef- uges. Simultaneously, the ernment and States tightened re- strictions on duck hunting to cur- tail the heavy annual slaughter. | Although the hunting season does not open in most regions un- | til October, the 1940 duck stamps are on sale now at postoffic throughout the country. The stamps, which must be purchased by | migratory waterfowl hunters | than 16 years old, cost $1 are in addition, of course, licenses, i The dropped | 448,000 since a year. west- a better | nesting al mo The; to state| of these from 635,000 in in 1935 but has then to more than The number of i wildlite refuges H heen | creased from 102 to 260, than half of these areas primarily for migratory fowl. sale :;l“lm},\s 1934 to increased being ‘water- Increases Not Uniform | /The Fish and Wildlife Service | dormerly the Biological Survey) reports a marked lack of uniform- ity in the percentage of duck in- crease this year in the four major | “flyways.” As in the past the At- | lantic and Mississippi flyways in- | cluded most of . the waterfowl. | The Central Flyway showed a large decrease Jjn all waterfowl | while the status of birds in the Pacific flyway remained almost at the 1939 level. Here's a brief | comeback status | cies: | The mallard and pintai are making the best recovery among the various species of ducks. Black ducks show a slight dc nuLse, which may be more | parent than real. Canada geese population is greater than last year but in- crease is not so large as expected. (May reflect excessive slaughter n one or two areas.) Canvasbacks have increased sat- ‘Mu rily, blue and snow - geese | have increased considerably and whistling swans have suffered slight reduction. - MRS. JOHN PERELLE ' DIES AT HOSPITAL - EARLY THIS A. M. | Mrs, John Pvu-]le, pioneer Ju- | neau woman and property owner, passed away early this morning at St. Ann's Hospital where she had been confined for the past few days. About 65 years of age, Mrs, Per- summary of of various the spe- | elle was born in Finland and came | da She Gastineau of the to Alaska in the early was well known on Channel and a member Pioneer Auxiliary. | Mrs. Charles Perelle, a sister, is the only living relative. She is | enroute here from Portland on the | steamer Baranof due Sunday. The remains are at the Charles W. Carter Mortuary pending fun- eral arrangements, Goy-| 1,000,000 national | in-| more | ol (lIPPER AND ELECTRA DUE Nineteen passengers are ‘Copliag in this afternoon aboard the Alaska Clipper and an Electra is due in from Fairbanks with seven aboard. From Seattle passengers are Dr. L. B. Kingery, Ted Kingery, B. Bishop, W. C. Champion, Miss M. Quirk, Mrs. M. Quirk, Mrs, Ellen Brady, Mrs, C. H. Code and infant, C. Yager, W. Langer, D. Rasmussen, W. B. Swan, W. Johnson, O. J. Weibe, J. Thompson, Phillips. From Fairbanks H. C. McCloskey, Mrs. J. P. Phelan, Mrs, J. Harris, C. Austin, C. E. Jackson, D. 'I‘npp C. 8. Thompson, R. E. passengers are SCATTER GUNS T0 HIT BIRDS AT TRAP MEET| The Juneau Shotgun Club holds |its regular shoot tonight at the club range on the highway near the Salmon Creek power house. Shooting begins at 6 o'clock so all | attending will be given a change to break a few birds Club members urge again that women come out to the traps, and remind shooters that scattergunning At land s anything but disagreeable. e HOLDEN MAKES COASTAL TRIP Alex Holden' fléw to the coast to< day and John Amundsen and Shell Simmons made charter flights. Holden took €. H. Buckenseth to | Sitka, and Leonard Stokes to Hirst, while Amundsen flew to Lake Has- | selborg to pick up a Forest Service (party and Simmons went out to |Hawk Inlet. Simmons picked up canneryman Hans Floe at Hawk Inlet, Nick Bez! at Todd, and John T. Tenneson at Tenakee, bringing them to Juneau for an hour's business and flying them back out. Yesterday Simmons brought in P, K. Farmington, Gladys Hudson and Mrs. Jerry Powers from Sitka. BROWN BEAR T0 SAIL TOMORROW SEATTLE - BOUND The Fish and Wildlife Service vessel Brown Bear is to leave Ju- neau at 7 o'clock tomorrow night | for Seattle to be overhauled and outfitted for winter patrol of the | Aleutian Islands. The ship will be south for about two months.* Sailing aboard the Brown Bear tomorrow will be Assistant Execu- tive Officer Homer Jewell of the Alaska Game Commission and Mrs, Jewell, retiring Wildlife Agent Pete McMullen and family from Fort Yukon. Associate Refuge Manager Doug- las Gray, who usually travels where | the Brown Bear does, is skipping this trip. He will remain at his home in Douglas until the boat returns. EARL OHMER IN JUNEAU BRIEFLY FOR CONFERENCE Earl Ohmer, Petersburg shrimp king and Chairman of the Alaska Game Commission, conferred here all day yesterday with Dr. Ira Gab- rielson, Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service of which the game commissiori is a part. Ohmer arrived from Petersburg | yesterday morning with Wildlife Agent Hosea Sarber on the patrol vessel Black Bear and went out on ‘rhe same boat last night, FRANCE Mrs. M. Coyle, E. Thompson, | Burns, and B. the club is done under shelter | PLEADS [FLYING FINGERS ] HERE KNIT FOR WAR SUFFERERS H“NGER Juneau Red Cross Chapfer: British Asked fo Lift Block- ade to Feed Unoccu- pied France CLERMONT-FERRAND, France, Aug. 15—French Foreign Minister Paul Baudoin said he is doing his utmost to obtain a British ment tc permit importation of food for France through the blockade A British decision, he sg pending, while Germany has France assuran that food other needed supplies sent al into unoccupied parts of France v not be removed by the Nazi forc D 'WILDLIFE AGENT FORCE DOUBLED NEAR AIR BASES Dufresne Savvisfuewcomers Seem fo Have Wrong Aftitude on Game agree- siven oad The large increase in population at Anchorage and Fairbanks has made it necessary for the Alaska Game Commission to double its |force of Wildlife Agents in each | locality for the time being, Executive | Officer Frank Dufrense announced today. Dufresne, who returned yesterday from the Westward and Interior said Wildlife Agents Grenold Col- |lins and Jack O'Connor are now stationed at Anchorage and | White and Clarence Rhode at Fair- banks. Newcomers tend to be the worst game law offenders, largely through ignorance and the wrong attitude toward wildlife, Dufresne said. To many of the “green” workers ani- mals exist only to be killed on sight, he said agents had found Dufresne returned here on the 1 Brown Bear with his chief Director Ira Gabrielson of the Fish |and Wildlife Service, after travels on Bristol Bay and throughout the \wmwaxd and Interior MRS, ALEXANDER WILL | SIMG "ALASKA'S FLAG" | OVER KINY TONIGHT “Alaska's . Flag Mrs. . Marie Drake's poem for which Mrs. Ralph Wayne Dusenbury has composed the music, will be sung by Mrs Lola Mae Alexander over KINY at 8:16 tonight. Into the music for the song, Mrs. Dusenbury who formerly lived in Alaska when her husband, Col. Dusenbury, was in command at Chilkoot Barracks, said that she “tried to put all of the devotion and longing” she felt for Alaska after she left the Territory. In- spired by Mus. Drake's poem, Mr: Dusenbury composed the music while living in Omaha where her husband is now stationed, ple has brought Mrs. Dusenbury back north during the three sum- mers since she left here. It is her hope that “Alaska’s Flag” may be adopted as Alaska's official song. “Other of the Territories ,have official songs—Hawaii and Porto Rico. Mrs. Drake’s poem, to me, and I have attempted to provide it with music equally symbolic,”| said Mrs. Dusenbury, who is visit-| ing in Juneau, and who will accom- | pany Mrs. Alexander when sings “Alaska's Flag” over the BE LEFT SETTLE THROUGH WINTER Juneau's Evergreen Bowl swim- ming pool, the last of which was poured yesterday, is to be fenced in and left in its present state through the winter, City Engineer Frank Metcalf announced today. The earth around the concrete pool is to be back-filled and allowed to settle before sidewalks are poured next spring. Metealf warned youngsters not to play in the incompleted pool. One youth climbed down into the wet cement several days ago and left marks which put the city to con- siderable trouble to doctor up. MINES INSPECTOR FOR B. (. IS HERE Charles Graham, Inspector of Mines for the Northern Division of British Columbia, came in from Tulsequah yesterday, after a circle of the Atlin district, examining operations there. Graham is a guest at the Gas- tineau Hotel and will return to Vie- toria via Atlin, flying back to that camp tomorrow. | now prevailing of 1 Her love of Alaska and its peo-| it seems' is symbolic of the Territory she | | tomorrow to handle gold tax cases Distributes Yarn fo Local Women Sweaters, shawls, dresses and lay- ettes for England are being knitted in Juneau at present by volunteer Red Cross workers, Chapter Chair- man John Newmarker announced today A first shipment of 33 pounds of maroon wool and 10 pounds of black has been distributed here and is now g knitted into garments to keep Europeans warm during the blit krieg. Further shipments are e pected Newmarker ments were said the woolen gar- going to England as th the only part of Europe to which the Red Cross could guar- antee delivery. The work here is rection of Mrs. J. C. Thomas. Sim- ilar knitting work is being done at Skagway, Sitka and Petersburg - GABRIELSON PLANS NO GREAT CHANGE IN ALASKA SETUP There will be no change for the present in the Fish and Wildlife Service organization in Alaska, Dr. Tra Gabrielson, Director of the serv- ice, was quoted by Frank Dufresne today. Gabrielson, who has spent almost three months in the Territory hav- ing a personal look at fish and wild- Ntfe problems, had nothing more to say today. He will leave for Wash- ington tomorrow on the Alaska Clipper. AS under the di- - LABOR CONCILIATOR KEPT HOPPING BY ALASKA TROUBLES John O’'Connor, Labor Conciliator, Chamber of Commerce today he he® “heen kept pretty busy” since his assignment to Alaska veral months O’Connor explained saying its purpose is ployers and emplo; together for discussion ~ whenever dispute arises, He is one of 63 Commission- ers of Conciliation now doing such work in the United States D SALMON SALES HEAVY TODAY argoes of ml]ln(lll were bought Alaska Coast Fisheries today at the cold storage wharf with prices cents a pound reds, 8 cents a pound for and 5% cents l)l‘[n)l nent of told the Juneau 120, his © work to bring em- a for large whites and small reds, a pound for cohoes. The Tilliacum brought in 28,000 pounds, the Cary B., 600 pounds, the 31A27, 1,000 pounds, 31A63, 3,500 pounds Alms, 4200 pounds and the Lois ., 500 pounds. S PETE McMULLEN IS RETIRING AS WILDLIFE AGENT Pete McMullen, veteran Alaska | Wildlife Agent at Fort Yukon, has reached the retirement age of 62 and is leaving the Game Commis- sion for a life of ease in the States.| McMullen and his family are| aboard the vessel Brown Bear here enroute south, >ee 'TRUITT 10 FLY T0 FAIRBANKS ON TAX CASES Attorney General James S. Truitt | is to fly to Fairbanks by Electra | and probate matters pending before the Fourth Division District Court. | .- IN NEW HOME Mr. and Mrs. Arthur S. Glover today moved into the Behrends home on Fifth Street. Glover is Regional Engineer for the U. S. Forest Service. AN i SITKA BILL SIGNED The Sitka bond bill, authorizing the City of Sitka to increase its bonded indebtedness for the purpose of acquiring the public utilities there, has been signed by President Roosevelt, according to word re- ceived here. BUILDING PERMITS Building permits have been issued by City Building Inspector Frank Metcalf to Dr. Robert Simpson to build a 50 by 54-foot garage for Gray Line buses on Willoughby Avenue at a cost of $2,000; to I. E. Tucker to enlarge apartments on Twelfth Street at a cost of $400, and o Tucker to perform $150 worth of slumbing work for A. F. Knight at 45A Willoughby Avenue, D The Dally Alaska mmplire has the argest paid circulation of any Al aska newspaper | on | Bain THROW BACK THOSE FISH NOT NEEDED Writers Ford and MacBain Sound Warning fo Anglersof Alaska When you've rod with enough as much fish as or used your {ishing success to secure you honestly nead tely use, then start you'll ensure Al- a fisherman's remaining paradise s write Ala: Ala creed that Ford and hoping the Corey MacBain “keep will adopt l'ord and MacBain returned yes- from several wee of travel Interior and Westward country, doing an Alaska defenses ignment for Collier like the good strategists the are when it comes to Ala fishing, managed to do considefable re- search work on the banks of the Northland's trout and grayling streams, A lot of people who have fished much as Ford and MacBain (if “lots would be blase even Alas s lakes and but these two annual vis- itors to the Tarritory can get just as excited over a new fly, a new fish or a new stream as a freshman girl over her first football playing date, but this matter of destroy- ing more fish than one can use has thein stirred up ‘“plenty.” lither Ford* or MacBain, and frequently the two' of them at the same time, will recite to you the parable of the West’s vanishing buffalo herds and then toss you a handful of verbal pictures as to where Alaska's fishing might be headed Their proposition is this: Given, that Alaska has the grandest fish- ing in the world—the biggest rain- bow trout, the most cutthroat trout, and the only I 5 and streams on earth which still teem with the elsewhere nearly extinct Arctic grayling. And through the and alw there are ) abe treams nobody seems 1o worry about how long those fish will la: a visiting couple fishes the Newhalen River and throw over 1,000 rainbow trout on the bank to rot—resident “sport” fishermen fill creels with grayling or trout and then fill the backs coats and handy forked sticks the :;'n goes down You can't keep it up,” Ford de- clares, “You've got rainbow trout worth $56 apiece, as nearly as you can figure it out, to a visiting 1gler ty big dollars spent in the Territory, and yet, along with the Dolly Varden, you pay bounty rainbow trout tails, you feed them to the dogs or you just le them rot on the bank.” * MacBain will interrupt to tell how he and Ford fished a stream that comes into Lake Clark on the Alaska Peninsula and caught gray- ling up to 20 inches long as fast tly could be tossed on the a few being kept for din- the rest released result, of until as a riffles ner, and | le: In the Russian. River where trout regulations have just gone into ef- fect, possibly too late to repair few years damage, Ford and Mac- caught wonderful rainbow a trout. They went to the Newhalen River between Lake Clark and Lake Ili-| more beautiful trout, sockeye | amna and caught rainbow trout, lake salmon and battling Dolly Varden. They followed the Kvichak River to Bristol Bay and caught more rainbows, as they did in the Nak- nek River Lakes country Point section, “People in the East don't believe us when we talk Alaska fish,” Ford grins. “Their fishing is something of the past. And yet in Anchorage, when we suggested a few pounds SAVINGS HERE ARE EARNING 47 Your Money Is ® Available for with- drawal op request. ® Insured by U. S. Gevernment up to $5.000. behind Alaska Federal Savings & Loan Assn. of Juneau Telophone 3 '| to save the Russian River and other harm- and in the Wood Rweri the Snag U. S. DEPARTME. OF COMMERCE, W THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4:30 p.m., Aug. 15: Light rain with not much change in temperature tonight and Fri- d minimum temperature tonight 50 degrees; moderate southeast wind Forecast for Southeast Alaska: in temperature for tonight and Friday; east winds except becoming fresh over Lynn Canal. Forecast of winas along the coast of Moderate south winds tonight, becoming fresh Entrar to Cape Spencer; and fresh east and Cape Spencer to Kodiak, ATHER BUREAU Light rain with not much change moderate south and south- the sounds and straits and the CGulf of Friday from southeasterly Alaska: Dixon from LOCAL DATA Barometer Tlemp. Humid: 3013 54 K6l 30.11 51 94 30.15 51 94 £ RADIO REPORTS Weather Cloudy Cloudy Drizzle Time 4:30 p.m. 4:30 Noon y Wind Velocity SE 9 s 4 5 9 yest'y am. today today TODAY 3:30am Precip. temp. 24 hours Wealk 328 43 2 52 Lowest temp. 38 43 52 43 51 51 46 49 51 54 50 51 52 Max. tempt. last 24 hours 10 Staticen Barrow Fairbanks Nome Dawson Anchorage Bethel St. Paul Dutch Harbor Kodiak Cordova Juneau Sitka Ketchikan Prince Rupert Prince George Seattle Portland San Francisco Rain Cleir Pt. Cldy Rain Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Pt. Cidy Rain Rain Clear Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Trace 0 0 4 2 50 54 southward was large area has been wit 1 a trough extending Bris ol Bay region, while a of high pressure was situated of: the Pacific coast. There precipitation during the last 24 h.urs in Southeast Alaska, in the Bristol Bay and Bering Sea area’, and over the coastal areas of the Gulf The southern half o the Juneau Seattle Airways was clear this morning while rain was falling over most of the northern half of the route Juneau, Aug. A large central this low pressure area morning over the 16—Sunrise 5:21 a.m. sunset 8:43 p.m nt will be Mable ed to be pres for the social Scott and Mrs, bers are urg Hostesse: Mrs. Hazel Schmitz. of out or grayling was enough for any angler, we nearly got our heads taken off.” It was Ford and MacBain who prophesied a few years ago that regulations would have to come D Subscribe to The Dally Alaska Empire—the paper with the largest paid circulation, - Empire Classifieds Pay! CLOTHES that are CLEANED OFTEN—Wear Longer! Scnd YOUR GARMENTS to Triangle Thorough Workmanshir and Modern Methods Produce Work that Is Sure to Please You, barren of has sud- from becoming that prophecy streams Auhf.md denly become true Tomorrow, weather Ford and MacBain will cn the Alaska Clipper Still the me Bain who every cuse to fish in Ala that it would be weather delayed the they could spend a ing in the Juneau back, unharmed, the not eat, permitting, fly south and Mac- find an ex- ka, both agree well” if bad _clipper. and or so fish- area—throwing fish they can- Ladies’ KJ;I]I;T-Y Will Mget Friday A regular business meeting social will be held tomorrow night t 8 o'clock in Union Hall by the | Juneau Ladies Auxil. All mem- MAY WK TOOT AIR-FLO OIL BURNING RANGES, by Therm, are GOOD!!! © WE SELL THEM ® WE RECOMMEND THEM ® WE GUARANTEE THEM Priced, with coil, from $69.50 to $133.95 OPERATES WITH OR WITHOUT FAN ON DISPLAY! RICE & AHLERS CO. 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