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JUNEAU, WEST The final ures for the Jun Districts show the: some season final summe Yakutat were August, COAST SALMON PACHS TOP 39 Final Totali'ls in for Three Districts — Southeast Pack 2,163,352 0 almon ‘pack in and West 340,000 mc s than The Ketchikan distric last year's. and Wrangell d packing at the behind th ghtly under still ud both of comparative date. For whole, the salmon pack to the end of August Southeast area as the was 2,16335: cases FRANK DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE AUDITOR ELECTION SE GMC TR fig- have canned pack total of 656,961 cts| 1,445,978 pi 1939 pach THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, SEPT. 9, 1940. 1,942,145 last year. t by District ies, is 'mpa Di ibe pack lows: Ketchikan (final 649 veds, 63 kings, £2,490 chums, 34,754 cohoes, 961 total, 669,540 last year. vakutat—14,917 reds 9 kings pinks, 111 chum 8423 co- 394 total 12,043 last year. t Coast (fimal)—11,283 reds, 251,718 pinks, 58,168 chums, 18,787 ses, 339,956 total, 274,056 last | year. Juneau, (final king:. 522,818 pinks, 39,408 cohoes, 853 151 last year. Wrangell 21,306, reds, 26 pinks, 70,303 chums, 283546 total, 37 summer)—36,~ 508,005 pinks, 656,~ 39,500 reds, 581 688 chums, t total, 589~ cohces, year. Total 123,665 reds, 1,179 , 462,760 chums, 12 780 cohoes, 2,16 2 total, 1,942,145 -+ of Don’t fergei =0 vore tomorrow. Polls open from 8a.m. to 7 p.m. - - Subscribe for Tie Empire. a " MATILDA HOLST " CONCERT WILL BE WEDNESDAY To Be Hearat Northern Light Church - Tickefs Are Now on Sale : Miss Matilda Holsty talenied young mezzo-soprano, will be heard in concert on Wednesday evening at 8 oclock in the Northern Light Presbyterian Church,” with Mrs. Trevor Davis as accompanist, By no means a stramnger to the Capital City, Miss Holst was born in Juneéan and graduated from the local public sehools. She attended the University of Washington and spent three years in the Oregon State School of Music. A year of voice and opera study was also spent in Mdlan, Italy, by the young | singer. .| since her concert here fwo years A. BOYLE [ 3 FOR OF ALASKA PTEMBER 10, 1940 UCKS Compare Them Witk All Others! PRICE - APPEARANCE - ECON DURABILITY CONNORS MOTOR CO. F e (E 411 e “THE PRICE TAG PHONE 787 THRIKTY RETAILERS OF FAVOUS SHURFINE and TASTEWLLL PRODUCTS —FREE DELIVERIES Our Store Is as Close as Your Phone—SHOP EARIY 3 “THE PRICE TAG Put a Covic D 18 1\.()'1' F\;ER\'TI-IING" PHONE 767 - (J(D_fip 318 MAIN STREET > IS NOT EVERYTHING” s ! ot MORE ROOM N YOUR BOMI More Miles for Your Money An knging Assur: Freedor from Fu'! Di A Broad Range of Smoath Speeds Low Operating and Maintenance Costs Keduced Disurance xates Smotelcss, Odorless Exhiust €l Dependability A Comfortable, Quiet Ride that Tn-tantly Starts nce of Safe Trips Fire Muzards v Au Engine that Can Be Easily Hand Cranked CHARLES & . WARNER CO. st ——————— HEATING PLAN? And the best time to S DO NEED SERVICE!! iave a complete overhaul is right now before winter gets here. Don't Wait Until They Shut Down!! They won't run forever without eleaning and oiling. Don’t expect the inipossible from a piece of machinery. We Have Time NOW to Give Proper Serviee!! RICE & AHLERS Third and Franklin €O. ago, when she was applauded for | the first time by Juneau music- lovers, Miss Holst has been doing| radio and theatre work in the tates and has been heard in sev- cral concerts on the coast as well as in private musicals for out- | standing personalities in the States. | Of Miss Holst, Barrett Willough- | by, well known author wrote: “You are the most interesting and romantic figure I have met in all Alaska. I am proud of you, my dear. I like to think that you are the| | voice of Alaska, I know you will go — | far, When you are back in New [ York in all the hustle and bustle | eeting sophisticates and per- | sonages, don’t let them change you from one so gracious and Alas- kan.” i An interesting program, for the | most part to be sung in English, | has been arranged by Miss Holst !and her accompanist, Tickets have ’bcr.'n placed on sale and may be 1 purchased at any of the drug stores, hotels, at the Snap Shoppe, the | Hayes Shop and the B. M. Beh- rends Company. bR B 'TELEPHONE 451 FOR ) RIDETO THE POLLS . Automobiles to take voters to , the polls tomorrow may be ob- | tained without charge by tele- phoning 451, Democratic Head- quarters. Headquarters in the Shattuck Building will be open all day and evening. A radio will broad- cast the address of Delegate An- | thony J. Dimond at 8:15 o'cleck | tonight, and the public is invited | to listen in, 43 ABSENTEE VOIES CAST BY JUNEAUATES | Absentee ballots cast in the Ju- | neau procinet before U. S. Commis- | sioner Felix Gray and turned over to the District Court total 43. | Four absentee ballots have been received from U. S. Commissioner 1meass White at Skagway. ‘Curtis Shattuck and Bride on Aleutian, | Curtis Shattuck and his bride, the ;(ormer Mary Louise Patterson, are {enroute to Juneau on the steamer ! Aleutian, | The newlyweds have been honey- | mooning for several weeks in Cali- (fornia, at the fair and Carmel and Del Monte. | six shearts, instead of a grandslam DOCWALKER ASKS VOTERS FORSUPPORT ‘Radio Address to Juneau | Super Bombs Are Dropped by Former Senate Pres- | Which Spread Destruc- ident. Gives Record fion, 500-Yard Radius (Continued from Page One) CRIEF CTY IS LASHED BY RAIDERS (Continusd from Page'One) | | i ‘super bombs”, :eputedly capable of a Democrat of bygone years: ook |\ (L, anything within 500 yards| |at the reeord and be sure of the A | integrity of the candidate. ‘No can-| didate has the right to seek YOUT | qaqeast said Hitler had entrusted support on only one single issue.|;y with the task of sterming the There are many, such as educalion. f.peqav of the British Empire :”M‘\ internal improvements, publiciy gy carrying out the threats of| health, and welfare. \ thousand-fold reprisal on British “I have represented the people of for raids on defsnseless Ger- the First Division of Alaska for two terms in the upper house of the Legislature and am seeking re- election next Tuesday on my record During the years that I have at-|yay Denmark, Holland, Belzium ftended the Legislature, I havenever|anq Northern France, declared that missed a day’s attendance and have | ine fires in the London area were| voted for or against every measure| spreadirg ayl dense mmoke introduced and never took advan-| ccured the targets below. : tage of being absent when the roll| The German pilots de ed that| was called. It is true, some of the|he concussion of the super bombs, | bills I voted for did not meet with| cserved for paralyzing blows on my entire approval but I believed | special objectives, tossed planes fly- | they contained enough good to|ing at several thousand feet alti- | | warrant support. cude like small bos stormy “I have no apology to offer for|sea. The Nazi fliers aso asserted any of my acts as a legislator, nor|the RAF's defense was losing its have I ever supported any measure| force under the hammering on- | that did not appear to me to be for|slaught. the welfare of the majority of my| constituents and against all legisla-| LONDON 1S ! tion designed to favor any special| TO TERRIFIC BOMBING | interests. I welcome your examina-| All through Saturday, Saturday tion of the record as it appears in| night, Sunday and Sunday night the Senate Journals and begof you1 waves of Nazi bombers dived not to heed unproved charges. | through smoke-shrouded skies above “I have voted for every measure| the British Capital City, dumping designed to improve the economic|millions of kilograms of high ex- conditions of our people, My record | plosives and incendiary bombs, For | will prove that I have not been practically 48 hovrs, up to late last | sectional but have had the welfare night, London has been practically of all of the people at heart and|under a continuous raid alarm. have given equal consideration to| Nazi observers this morning re- | the people of Alaska regardless of|port that many new fires are burn- where they live. ing in the London area and that | “I1f it is your wish that 1 dense smoke clouds have spread resent you for the next four ye as far as the channel coast. in the Senate, it is not my inten-| The Nazi spokesmen said tion to promise you anything that| the dense smoke hovering | would be impossible to fulfill but|London proper is greatly aiding the will continue to give you the legis- | German [liers by hampering to near- lation that you will expect to get|ly complete ineffectiveness, the anti- judging by my past record.” ‘mrcmn defense artillery units. 7 e v The procedure which the Nazis MARRIED AT DOUGLAS | have adopted, according to DNB | “with unprecedented efiectivene: rs, accompanied by adius, 1 Goering himself, in a surprise fliers many.” | Fires Spreading German flie returning today to bases in conquered early | NOI'-‘ ob- 1 in a rep-| that over | Fritz Willard of Juneau and Eva |is for the bombe; Hopkins of Hoonah were married at swarms of fast fighter ships, to fly !Dcuglas yesterday by U. S. Com- at a very high altitude until they | missioner Felix Gray. are above their objectives, then they | dive through the smoke clouds and | dump their tons of death and de- FOR WRANGELL The Cuace of Indian Affairs | struction, | llaunch Institute No. 1 left for Not only are the Nazis using Wrangell this afternoon with As- | large one-ton bombs but they are |sistant Mechanical Engineer Ralph also using their new weapon which | Mize. | first made its appearance in at- tacks against London three days ago. | New Weapon | This new weapon is a mother bomb, which explodes in the air above a residential or business | district. The first explosion scat- ters broadeast hundreds of small incendiary bombs approximately the | size of hand grenades. These small ! bombs have a timing mechanism | which causes them to explode sev- | eral minutes after they strike the ground. These small thermite in- cendiaries are said to be responsible in no-trumps. He made it, as trumps | for at least half of the fires which | weren’t bunched against him. | are burning out of control in the 1 B 5 T BT T | London area this morning. 90 DAYS—IN HOSPITAL | The German again told CLEVELAND, O-—Judge Lewis readers that great leaders Brucker sentenced John Toliak to| were merely expressing their indig- | | | e e—— PASTLS RETURNING Mr. and Mrs. John Pastl, who| have been pleasure-tripping in the| States for several weeks, are re- turning on the Aleutian to thei: Juneau business and home. - - - SOME BRIDGE HAND WILLIAMSON, Wa. Va—W. A. Vawter, playing bridge, picked up a perfect no-trump hand: Ace-king- queen- of all suits. Vawter, railroad conductor, got so excited he bid ————— i Don’t forget to vote tomorrow. | Polls open from 8a.m. to 7p.m. OVER KINY TONIGHT CHIARE ES i V178 Referendum <« @51 Listen to over KINY on the CARTER % te 530 P, M. a 90-day tour of mortuaries and nation at Britain’s merciless night hospitals. Charge was speeding. attacks against Germany's civilian population, and that Field Marshal Goering, who is personally direct- ing the attack against England | from some point in occupied France, |is by no means using the entire striking power of the Nazi air force. Knows Air Stra;cgy MRS. DUFRESNE AND SON ARE ENROUTE Mrs. Frank Dufresne and son, Franklin, are returning here on the steamer Aieutian. They have been in Seattle for the past few weeks. 6 st o LINDQUIST ON ALEUTIAN Mrs. Robert Lindquist and infant daughter are returning here on the steamer Aleutian. They have been in Seattle for the summer months. il L WESTINGHOUSE. MAN HERE Westinghouse Electric represen- tative A. L. Hutchinson is at the Gastineau. ™ S ee—— MUNTER DUE IN Herb Munter was due in from Ketchikan today and was to fly back with Mr. and Mrs. N. R. Wal- ker. ————— IN FROM KETCHIKAN Dr. E. S. Steves cames in on the steamer Mount McKinley from Ket- chikan. e KNIGHT TO WESTWARD Alr Marshal W. A. Bishop is be- | case, DIMOND T0 SPEAK 1 OV RADIO TONIGHT STARTING AT 8:15 Delegate Anthony J. Dimond will | review his record in Congress in an | address over radio station KINY to- night from 8:15 to 8:45 o'clock. The speech, delivered in Washington, will be reproduced through electrical transcription - - BEAT WIFE T MONTHS IN JAIL TEROY LONG TIME; EI Leroy Long, who was given four months' suspended sentence in the court of U, S. Commissioner Felix Gray last week for ing to cut his wife razor, was back b today. Lc a reaten- with a ed at his Gl yesterday arrest Highway home charged with assault ifter .giving his wife plaining witness in beating the suspension of sentence was revoke given an additional on the new charge erve eight months in j wa and batt the com- the origin f Long's nd four Today original he was months he will MAJOR G ) BRIEF VISITOR ON WAY BACK, INSIDE M. George, in char banks for Ma jor of construs the Army came in on the clipper Sunday and flew north with the Electra this morningafter a trip to Washington and an Francisco to confer with superiors > > PAPER; GET PRACTICE CHILD LIGH] FIREM Firemen made a run to the Upper City Float last night when a child set fire to paper aboard the boat Robert Burns. No damage burning paper and the before was done was put out ! firemen arrived. - - JEAN TAYLOR SOUTH Jean Taylor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ike P. Taylor, sailed south on the steamer Alaska enroute to Se- attle to attend the University of ‘Washington - FAULKNER TO CONVENTION H. L. Faulkner, Juneau lawyer, left on the steamer Baranof enroute to Colorado Springs to attend the con- vention of the American Mining Congress. He will be away for about three week: N RALIEGH MAN J. C. Mass2y, representing Ralei snd Kool cigarettes, is a guest the Gastineau Hotel gh KE 18 C. H. Keil, construction man with R. J. Sommers, came in from Ketchi- kan over the weekend and is at the Gastineau. S - Don't forget to vote tomorrow. Polls open from 8a.m. to 7 p.m. - eee Empire Classifieds Pay! l THURSDAY FRIDAY...SEPTEMBER 13 .SEPTEMBER 12 THE WEATHER ! (By' the U. S. Weather Bureau) J. 8: DEPARTMENT OF COMWERCE, WEATHER BUREAU Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4:30 p.m., Sept. 9: artly cloudy with not much chaige in temperature tonight and Tuesday; lowest temperature tori ht about 48 degrees; gentle to moder westerday winds. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: change in temperature and tonight and Tuesday. Forecast of winas along t(he coast of the Gulf of Alaskas Moderate west and northwesterly winds will prevail over the Gulf and along the coast frm Dixon Entrance to Kodiak except winds will shift to southerly near Kodiak Tuesday. LOCAL DATA Barometer lemp. Humidity Wind Velocity 4:30 p.m. yesterday 30.14 64 51 s 4 4:30 am, today 30.15 50 93 w 1 Noon today 30.15 59 3 w 12 RADIO REPORTS Partly cloudy with not much moderate west to northerly winds Time Weather Pt. Cldy Cloudy Cloudy TODAY 3:30am Precip. 3:30a.m. temp. 24 hours Weather 47 13 Cloudy 52 01 Cloudy 48 19 Rain 50 Cloudy 47 Clear 51 Cloudy a4 - 47 50 49 50 50 50 59 51 55 40 58 68 51 Lowest te np. 47 51 47 48 47 51 43 46 48 45 48 Max. tempt, | last 24 hours ! 53 68 54 3 (5) Statien Jarrow Fairbank: Nome Dawson Mayo Anchorage Bethel St. Paul Dutch Harbor Wosnesenski K Cordova Juncau sitka Ketchikan Prince Rupert Prince George Seattle Pc and San Franciseo dy Cloudy Pt. Cldy Clear Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Clear 65 8 8 ki 8 82 Kk Clearx Cloudy Clear 63 57 WEATHER SYNOPSIS Juneau, September 10.—Sunris: 6:15 a.m., sunset :33 p.m, The severe disturbance that wis situated over the Bering Sea has moved into the Arctic Ocean waile a large area of high pressure I noved northward into the Gul Allaska. There has been rain during the last 24 hours in the w:st and central portions of Alaska proper, however, skies were clearin; over this region this morning. Clear weather prevailed yesterd.y over Southeast Alaska and in the Yukon Territory. MiNT BE SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA -~FAIR WEEK - THURSDAY—FRIDAY—SATURDAY Exhibits | ' Agricultural Floral ! Home Cooking Home Canning Embroideries Tapesiries Garmenis Infant Wear Art and Amateur Photography Educational Native Art 3 Enterfainment " 'The Aerial ' PATTS Their Famous Dog BIMBO SATURDAY - SEPTEMBER 14 Band Concerts ing credited with building the Canadian air force from its for- mer antiquated condition to one that can now lend valuable as- sistance to Great Britain. The marshal is shown &t his desk at Oftaws. Bishop, during the last World war, the German ace of aces, Baron Manfred von Richtofen. Dewey Knight, Divisional Director of Immigration and Naturalization, left on the steamer Mt. McKinley for Cordova on business. e, Don’t forget to vote tomotrow. Polls open from 8a.m. to 7p.m. ——aaa——— Empire Classifieds Pay! Local Industry Concessions ‘Amusemenf Concessions LR o Dancing WES BARRETT'S ORCHESTRA Son”hga__stegh Algska Fa!r Building

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