The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 28, 1940, Page 2

o A S S Tense Mexnm (@nwsss Sem patrolled (he roof of the Chamber of Deputies in Mexico Cit General Juan Almazan, the independent Presidential candi lowers September 1 opening of Congress KNOX ANSWERS CRITICS OVER PLANE BUYING Says Army and Navy Train- ing for 1942 Force of 25,0007Planes Conscription Legislafion Is Moving Along Taking Over Manufactur- ing Plants Is Endorsed WASHINGTO! Re- plyving to what e called “unintel- . . Navy plane purchs policies - retary ¢f Navy Knox said today WASHINGTON, Aug. 28, The He declared the 1 v has 1031 gcnate late this afternoon wrote cembat ple 1489 traming plane: to the conscription bill a provision and 21 m'scellaneous craft under the Government take over ccr t and not yet deiivered. wfacturing plants when neces- Saying the reason for a prepon- sary for defense purposes. The vote derance of nes is ob- was 69 to 16, Tie provision is d Knox . Navy as seribed by the authors, Ser in pre- Russell and Overton, as prohibition ring men to op a total force against any possible sitdown against of 25.000 planes h the Army limited profits. and Navy hope to h ve in 1uil The provision al confers broad > > powers on the Secretaries of War and Navy BEZ SAILS FOR ate is pushing toward fi- WESTWARD WITH e At s phemice appaviuniy sured, Senater Burton K. Wheeler asked why the ate didn't “go the whole way and attach a declaration of war S. 5. ALEUTIAN Nick Bez, of the Peril Straits Packing Company, came in from |lo the bill? Todd yesterday and took passage| Supporters, ] te this afterncon de- west on the Aleutian for Seward. |fcated by a vote of 55 t 027 an Bez will 11y from Anchorage to | @mendment prohibiting calling men Nome to look after mining interests | to the service until Congress de- he has in the Seward Peninsula clares an cmergency exist country e i BA Baseball Tod e The following are scores of games of the Juneau Claude Carnegie, played this afternoon in the two Florists, returned on the Aleutian major base ‘”1 leagues from a vacation trip to the Pa- onal Léague cific Northwest. ago 3 arnegie spent about five weeks 0. Pittsburgh 5, on his trip, visiting his mother in 5 Oregon ‘and seeing other relatives American I and friends through Oregon and chicago 3; Boston 2. Washington. 4 - i rv a classified ad 1n The Empire. Try & classified ad in ’lm Empi e Sub]ect of Today s Photo: F. D. R. Beaming ‘smiles light tho faces of President Roose- L and his mate, Secretary of Agricul- l &8 the two greet women Hyde Park, N. Y. lace, the Democratic vice presidential niominee. on !Egler Arms i i Y i v against possible storming by fol- ate, as his foes met to organize for CHAS. JACKSON LEAVING AFTER ALASKA SUMMER and Wildlife Servnce Assistant Director Headi_ng South Fish Charles Jackson, Assistant Di-| rector of the Fish and Wildlife Service, is leaving tonight south-| bound on the patrol vessel Brant| after a summer spent investigating| the Alaska fisheries. Jackson ac- companied his chief, Dr. Ira Ga- brielson, about the Territory and remained on here after him Jackson, with Seton Thompson, Assistant Chief of the Division of Alaska Fisheries, and Clarence Ol- son, Fishery Management Super- visor, will conduct a hearing At Wrangell Friday on 1941 fishing regulations, A similar hearing Wwill be held at Ketchikan Saturday. Frank Dufresne, Executive Of- ficer of the Alaska Game Commis- sion, will go as far as Petersburg on the Brant, Thompson and Olson will return here for the balance of the fish- ing season - - LULY’ S (OMING T0 JUNEAU SOON Lulu Fairbanks, of the Alaska Weekly in Seattle, was a passénger on the steamer Aleutian to Wran- gell and is due to arrive in Juneau for a visit with her many Miss Fairbanks is making the Telegraph Creek tour on the Stikine | with the Barrington Transportation Company. et BOUND FOR ANCHORAGE Miss Violet Bourgette visited friends in Juneau during the stay of the Aleutian. to Anchorage to resume in the Publu Schools there. teaching : Runnmg Mate The president in friends | here about the middle of the month. ! She is enroute| THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY AUG. 28, I940 JOHNSON WINS OUT, PRIMARY Leads Oppdhéfits on Three Tickets—"Ins" Nomin- ated Elsewhere (By ASEOCIATED PRESS) The “ins” had a big day yester- day a ing to returns frem the | primaries in four slates. Senator Hiram Johnson, veteran California le tor and at with President Roosevalt, led the parade, sweebing the Republican | Democratic and Progressive ticket | to take him back to Washington \Jl,hn,«(m received 376,000 Democratic cte<, 434000 Republican votes and \zzuo Progressive votes. Returns lare in from 80 percent of Califor nia’s precincts, Johnson, who pceed President Rocsevelt's foreign pelicy, triumphed e in what he called his hardest campaign in 3% op- years. Dry advocates in South Carolina won a decisively advisory referen- |aum on whether the state should | retuirn to prohibition | In Mississippi Senator | the Democratic nomination s«‘ond term. ; All incumbent members in Con- | gress from California appear re- nomlnnled - eee (GLACIER MINING CLAIM HEARINGS ARE COMPLETED Tesumony in the action by U. S. Forest Service to ejett sev mineral claimants who have le {on land at the face of Mendenhall | Glacier was completed in the court of U. S. Cgmmissicner Felix Gray yesterday. One acticn is against Clarence W Farlin and Joe George. Another |names Pete Hammer. Farlin and | George made no appearance in court, while Hammer did, being present with counsel, Henry Roden. Transcript of testimony will be sent to the General Land Office | for decision, after several deposi- tions are taken. The Forest Service contends the land on which the prospectors filed is not mineralized to an extent to “urm'y its interfering with recrea- tional facilities at the glatier. Cloyd Stewart, Assistant to the Department of Agriculture Solici- tor, who handled the case for the Forest Service, is to fly ‘kan tonight to catch a*boat for the |'States, where his mother is reported I'to be aerlous]y L. SUIT IS FILED - T QUIETTITLE TO PANSY LODE Margaret Carroll and Julia Car- | roll, daughter-irz-law and grand- | daughter of James Carroll, who in 1896 patented the Pansy Lode min- ing claim on Douglas Island, filed suit in Distriet Court here to! quiet title to the land The suit mentions as defendant George Bent, who was given one share in Carrol's Alaska Baranoff Exploration Company which was in- | corporated in 1898 to develop the claim. The corporation has since |been stricken for non-payment of license tax. The plaintiffs, as the only heirs | of James Carroll, who died in 1912, | seek clear title to the claim. e Tongass Is Now Juneau Bound SEATTLE, Aug. 28. Steamer Tongass, taking the regular Tues- day trip of the Alaska Transporta- tion Company, sailed during the night for Southeast Alaska ports. ‘Passengers aboard the Tongass booked for Juneau are Ivan Black Mrs. A. McKenzie, Miss Margaret | Blankenship. The Tongass is due to arrive in Juneau at 1 o'clock Saturday af- ternoon. Bibo won for a the - e ON ROUND TRIP There aré 27 Tround trippers aboard thg Aleutian, also 15 making |the GoldeR Beit Tour e FOR KIMSHAN COVE Grant Evans and Mrs, Grant Evans arrived on the Aleutian en- |route to Kimshan Cove. | i g ud TEACHER THROUGH Agnes Anderson, home economies tescher in the Seward schools, passed through Juneau on the Aleutian, returning to her teaching | duties after a summer school sés- sion in Honolulu, . HOLLY HERE A. O. Holly, traveling man, iz —— - Emprme classifieds bimg results. to Ketchi- * have | registered at the Gastineau Hotel. JIME NEWSWEEK BOTH REPORT ON ALASKA DEFENSE DUKE LAYS PLANS FOR Articles on Termory Ap- : U. S. IRIP pear This Week in News Magazines fo New York City | Both of America’s leading news azines, “Time” and “Ne y C | this week carry articles about Al and Canada |aska, hat in “Time titled “Flying| NEW YORK, Aug. 28.—An emis- Field for Arcad and accompanied | ary of the Duke of Windsor, Cap-| by a photoaraph of Metlakatlans | ain Vyvian Drury, and one of his inging in a church choir, is as | id been in New York, ap- ’1(,11\\ [ ar aking quiet prepartions Little but sturdy is the village of | » former King's expected vi on rugged Annette| o United States and Cana | Metlakatla ' | 1ce did not be- News of his pr |Island in Alaska’s Panhandle, 650 | | miles north of Seattle. Religion | 'ome known until today, 24 hours started Metlakatla, and religion ha ter his' departure In 1887 a Church c¢f | The Duke, in a recent interview kept it going England missionary named William | 1 ed great inter- Bermuda | buncan and a band of Tsimshian | 5% in New York City and said he | ns, harried by differences with | thought he should pay the ecity » Canadian Government and the | wncther visit Established Church, left their co- | - operative villaze in British Columbia and settled on Annctte Tsland, in Dr., Mrs. Brown U. S. territory. Four years later an | eries and cannerics, Metlakatla’s 466 store clothes, gets barbershop hair-| 1. act of Congress gave them the land | inhabitants make an average com- munity profit of around $80,000 a b I t 3 r. and Mrs. Lawrence W, lhu\\'l: cuts. Most of them own Uhelr own | gy - engertafii ‘tonfght “Bt"“their motorboats (value $2,000 to $20,000) ; for their own. Today, in their fish Entertain for year. Every male Metlakatlan owns \partment in the Hillcrest The villagers get power froni ihe| .. ang an evening of cards. Guebts community hydroelectric plant, re- | ¢ oo S be Tont. (o R. D creation in the community’s $60.000 | o v of (he Coast Guard cutter public hall, where ‘Metlakatla'’s 60- | gaida ar.d Mrs, Dean, who will soon piece band sometimes plays of an eve- | 5o jeaving for the Florida district ning. On Sundays Metlatkatians 20 | ~mpo muest list will include Lieut to their shining white chiirches (one | somm ‘and Mrs. R. C. Jewell, Lieut Duncanite; one Presbyterian), sing |Gomm. and Mrs, H. W. Stinchcomb, | and priase the Lord for heir happy | Lieut. and Mrs. E. W. Holtz, Mrs.| lot | Langden White, Mrs. C. F. Jewell, “Few weeks ago grateful Metla- |y katlans saw a chance to repay the U. S. for favors received (which do | not include relief). The U. S. Army | Air Corps had set its eye on Annette N. Lester 1 t and H. L. Morgan, - . Final Performance . Of Drama Club Play Given Last Evening Island for a flying base, as part m its plan for the fortification of aska (Time, Aug. 5). Promptly (r followers of good Father Duncan voted to invite the Army on to their reservation, where until 20 y ago no white man was allowed to land “Last week Annette Islanders pre- pared to be host to more than 400 first night viewed last evening’s fi~ of them for a long time to come Most of the guests will be youngsters | 2al performance of “Second Child of CCC, scheduled to sail this week |hced,” the three-acy farce pre- from Seattle on the Army transport |sented at the Parish Hall by the Leonard Wood, with a detachment |Juneau Drama Club | of Army enginers and technicians of | The piay was sponsored by the the U. S. Forest Service. Their as- | Catholic Daughters of America and signment: to clear and drain an Air | directed by Seymour L. Flaxman. Corps flying field on the swampy,| A musical background was provided | flat west arm of Annette Island’s by Mrs. A. M. Uggen, planist. reservation.” The cast again turned in a good Under the headinz “Russia’s Al- |PCrformance and from all predic- “Threat’)" the piece in “News- |tons, a Little Theatre group for " is as follows: Juneau is off to a successful be- “Forget those scare stories about |8NNIng. ————— ‘menacing’ Soviet military and na 1 activity in the Bering Strait are and Big Domede Tsland. The fact | is that the Russian planes, pilots, | G"' S(OU'S Cy(le 1 crews }S Dis pde were s tion bureaus ..ml “have no connection | ool with the war commis: t. They| Eight Girl Scouts, members of are there for the purpose of finding | the clist class, took their final an ice-free route to Viadivostok | test Monday and Tuesday in com- from Archangel and Linengrad, and pletion of work on their cyclist are busy making year-round obser- | padge. vations of wind currents, tempera-| Accompanied by their adviser, tures, and the mean-average inter- s Sid 'I‘hum]].\u.u_ the girls ped- vals of ice-free conditions. In any ' qled as far as the Chapel by the case, U. S. militarv experts Y | Lake, stayed over night and re- Alaska, denuded as it is of fortifica- {yrned here yesterday. tions, would be easy to defend Making the tour were Misses against any attack from Big Dio- | Florence Hawkesworth, Marie Jean mede, which is hundreds of miles | Glasse, Jean and Ann Thompson, from its supply sources. Also, first- | pegoy Houk, Irene Shirk, Betty hand information indicates there’s| 1oy Hared and Jeanne Butts. nothing to reports of Soviet naval -o - s preparations in the region around PASS"‘G (IGARS 'HEINTZLEMAN AND | OUT AT BARANOF cigars over the desk today as the proud parent of a baby boy. The five-pound six-ounce arrlval is the first for Mr, and Mrs. Pater— son. LYMN CANAL POINTS Regional TForester B. Frank | Heintzleman and Territorial High- | way Engineer William Hesse will |leave on the vessel Forester . late | today to look over road and trail projects at Lynn Canal points, in- cluding Skagway and Haines. They | will return in about a week. Heint- “ERE ARE | zleman will also examine CCC pro- jeets at H'\me. .mJ Kiukwan. 45 HOMESITES ARE | ELIMINATED FROM | NATIONAL FORESIS | By Presidential executive |41 homesites in the Tonga tional Forest and four in the Chu- EARNING | 47 Yonr ‘Money Is | gach Forest were eliminated on August 8, according to word re- ceived by the Regional Office of Available for with- the Forest Service drawal on request. The eliminations have been pend-| ° {ing in Washington for some time.| Hemesteaders can now obtain title to the sites in question, Insured by U. S. Gavernment up to $5.000. — I TO SNAP BEAR | | Mrs. Grace Ross of Virginia Alaska l"elleral Beach, Va, plans to fly to Ad- miralty Island tomorrow with a registered guide to phow”r'\ph brown RLear in Pack Creek e — RUMMAGE SALE Juneau Woman's Club, in base- ment of Singing Tea Kettle, Fri- | day and Saturday, 10 aun, adv. Savings & Loan Assn. of Junean Telephone 3 Emissary Pfe;éres for Visit| with din- | Ensign | An cven larger audience than the | HESSE T0 VISIT | SN e s g ] U. S. DEPARTME! OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU | THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) B - T Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4:30 p.m., Aug. 2 Showers with not much change in temperature tonight and Thurs- day; lowest temperature tonight 50 degrees;« moderate southeasterly wind Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Showers with not much change in temperature tonight and Thursday; moderate south and souti “ easterly winds except fresh over sounds and Straits and over Lynn al Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Fresh south and southeasterly winds from Dixon Entrance to Cape '{ Hinchinbrook; and fresh east to northerly winds from Cape Hinch- inbrook to Kodiak. LOCAL DATA | Time Barometer 7lemp, Humidity Wind Velocity ~ Weather 4:30 p.m. yesterday 29.64 61 60 SSE 1 Cloudy | 4:30 am, today .. 2957 52 93 SE 12 Rain i | Noon today 20.64 54 83 SE 8 Cloudy \ | RADIO REPORTS ] TODAY * | ax. tempt. | lowest 3:30a.m Precip. 3:30am | Statien 4 hours te . tomn, 24 hours o= | | Barrow | 33 33 0 Fairbanks | 52 Bt T i | Nome 45 46 3 Dawson 53 53 Anchorage 4 4 | Bethel 50 51 3 St. Paul 46 48 Dutch Harbor 9 19 A \wooinesenski 49 52 || Kanatak . | 51 51 . Kodiak YT K 41 Cordova 1 56 Rain Juneau 61 52 Rain ‘» Sitka 61 56 Cloudy | Ketchikan 58 54 Ram Prince Rupert 53 Rain { Prince George 44 Pt. Cldy Seattle 69 54 55 Cloudy Portland 74 56 56 Cl san Francisco . 69 53 55 Clear WEATHER S An extensive area of low pressure which covered most of Alaska and the northeast Pacific Ocean wais central thist morning in the | Gulf of Alaska just east of Kbdiak Island. This disturbance caused cloudy weather over most of Alasta Quring the last 24 hours with moderate rain occurring over the coastal areas from Oregon westward to the Aleutian Islands, here were no decidea changes In temper- ature, 4 Juneau, August 29—Sunrise 5:49 am, suncel 8:08 pm B ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS | NOTICE - aled bids will be received at 'lh'i Juneau, Alas | ./\ugust 26, 1940. _ (‘ City Clerk's Office; Juncau, Alaska, | SPECIAL NOTICE is hereby glven until 7:30 P. M. August 30, 1940, for ‘ that the Director, Bureau of Marine ', the installation of New Heating ana | Inspection and - Navigation, under Plumbirig in City ‘Hall. A set of | 98t€ of LAm»u 18 1340. gave ml-{ 5 = 4 3 ; o ¢hange the name of mm and specifications may be ob- | OV 0 COAREC T R 1ed at the City Engineer’s Office | W)ll the deposit of $5.00. The Cit, | € W Said vessel was built in 1932, at | of Juneau reserves the right to re- i GBI 10 Y€~ | ome, Alaska; her official number .‘ - | Commercial Co. No. 3. ject any or all bids and to waive informalities. is 171608; her gross tonnage is 45 owner, Lo- 9 her home port, Juneau; Each bid shall be accompanied by | " | me: ereia any, Nome, o ‘certitied cheek. suchioraomied bY | men Commercial Company . | Alaska. bid borid made payable to the City : 3, b R A 4 | JAMES J. CONNORS, o e e BLE Lhan | dy Collector of Customs. 5% of the amount of the bid o - eee - Signed: H. J. TURNER, | NOTICE { ; City Clerk. AIRMAIL ENVELOPES, showing ¢ First publication, Aug. 27, 1940, air route from Seattle to Nome, on 4 Aug. 28, 1940. adv. \me at J. B. Burrmd & Co. Last publication, VOTE FOR .. RANK S. BARNES | Republican Candidate for SENATOR General Election—September 10, 1940 “What’s good for Alaska is good for you and me.” \ | : MAY WE ToO0T?? § Just Received Large Shipment——1940 Models | COLEMAN OIL BURNING HEATERS Prices $39.95 to $94.95 ON DISPLAY TERMS o From now on we are the recgonized exclusive dealer for this well- known reliable heater. 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