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———————————————————— DEMOCRATS LENGTHEN VOTE LEAD ReiurnsViflMy Complete for First Division- No Close Races atic candi was con- from 52 Den Election of all Democ dates in the First Divisior ceded tcday when return of the 5 ts showed the ocrats 4)\ .wH T ator Norman R. (Doc) Walk ahead of zell in-the F rriterial Sena the incumbent, ha s against 2,482 for lly Complete Only S Myers Chuck and Goddard are missing from the total All are small precinets, with prob ably not moere than 50 vote allo gether All Democratic candidates for the House were winners, with Mrs, Mil- dred Hermann, the highest Repub- lican, trailing by more than 200 vt Running first in the House ra is Allen Shattuck, with 3353 voics, followed by James V. (Jim) Da with 3,024, John McCormick wit 3,003, and Mrs. Crystal Snow Jenne with 2840, Mrs. Hermann has 2 323 vote Refrrendum Defeated Returns fram 35 precinc Pirst Division show the total Terr the 1eferend 4 total 2468 The Division gave larg ties te all Democratic candidates for Territorial officials, Delegate An- thony J. Dimond has approximately three times as many votes as Re- publican Cash Cole, the 53-precinct total being 4,232 for Dimond and 1473 for (()]P JW. Club Wil Hold Inauguration Dinner Tomorrow Tomorrow evening at 6:30 o'clock the Juneau Woman'’s Club wiil hold their inauguration dinner in the parlors of the Metropolitan Metho- dist Church, with the executive board as hostesses. A brilliant program has been ar- renged by Mrs. Matilda Holst, who recently appear- ed in concert here with great suc- cess, will sing several selections, accompanied at the piano by Carol Beery Davis. A trio of piano, violin and cello, played by Mrs. Davis and her two daughters, Sylvia and Shir- ley, will present three numbers, “Trees,” “Sylvia,” and “Ma Lindy Lou.” Child Health will be the sub- ject of a representative of the Ter- ritorial Department of Health. All women in the Channel district are welcome and reservations may be made by calliing Mrs. A. M Geyer at Red 415 or Mrs. B. Huns- bedt at Green 470. A STATEMENT BY GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. i “WE BELIEVE the 1940 G-E Refrigerator to be the finest product of its kind ever offered to the American public —one that will cost you less to own than any other refrigerator you could buy at any price.” A Better G-E Refrigerator For Less Money Than Ever vith CONDITIONED AIR Controlled humidity and tem- perature, and constant circula- tion of clean, sweet, freshened air, Keeps foods /n:ber longer! ALASKA ELECTRIC LIGHT g AND POWER (0. ‘- iimee C. C. Rulaford. | |UNOFFICIAL RETURNS—Flrsi Divison — Election Spplember 10, 1940 GUARDSMEN OF NATION MOBILIZED Sixty Thousand Men Catch Step on Way fo As- sembly Camps WASHINGTON, Sept. 16. — To he accompaniment of the inevitable ‘You're in the Army now—" some 0,000 citizen soldiers trooped today n home armories for the first Fed ral mcbilization of the National juard since World War da Cemmanders of National Guard inite are under orders from Wd\h- ngten tc concentrate their g - in- nen at previously announced t ng centers “as soon as practicable.” Officials anticipate all guardsmen will be in camps within ten days -oe KETCHIKAN GUARD Delegate Atty Gen Auditor F,nginoer Senator Representatives Menndum gk l8 s lefp (sl 18 |82l zl2 2 g 8 ¢ |7 Flg |2 & EIB2E & (B Bl : o8| P (811 |8 1B & | & | & [® @ | & | jo | | Juneau No. 1| 526] 240 509/ 255 | 508| 232|| 361| 363|| 405/ 406| 389| 322| 163| 536| 400| 283(| 322| 459 Juneau No. 2| 316 106 300 120 306/ 108/ 179| 224{| 238) 193| 218| 245/ 88| 307| 176 145|| 154 271 Juneau No. 3| 201 140 198 140 178 161|| 194| 136|| 141| 225 132| 128| 127] 192| 227 147|| 155| 200 Jualpa 20, 17 17] 21 19 19| 16| 21| 15/ 19 17| 17| 17| 16/ 20| 23{| 15| 23 Thane 17 7 20 4 15 8!| 10| 14{| 14| 11 18/ 18/ 5 11| 11| 12f| 15 8 Mendenhall 43 19 35 29/ 33 29| 35 26{| | 32| 26| 33| 22| 31| 35| 31| 41 Lynn Canal 52| 24 39 39 49 30| 46/ 331| 29| 57 31| 20( 21 48| 55 41 56 Salmon Cr 51 20 45/ 27/ 49 21| 28] 40{ 32| 45/ 30, 33 18| 39/ 46/ 27 31 Douglas 143 25 127, 40/ 112 48/| 170 89| 108/ 79| 90/ 129| 25/ 115 69/ 46/| 63| 106 Ward Cove 26 B 22 7 16 15 13| 18| 18| 9/ 20/ 20 10 19 9| 10|| 12| 19 Gravina Ts 9 0 7 2| 6 4 1 8 1R ) R R [ 5| 4 Saxman 60 9 56/ 10/| 42| 25/ 11| 56/| 46/ 18] 39| 43| 21/ 41| 19| 12|| 25| 42 Pennock I 1 5 0 1 4 0 6 5 1 2 4 1 2 5 1 5 4 2 4 Wacker City| 17 G 2 15 8 6 18 17 K 12| 18| 12| 10/ 11 .11 13{ & 18 1 way 197 44 171/ 65/ 135 105/ 121| 114/| 168] 88| 151 114] 65/ 141| 71| 122{| 100| 151 }\~ techikan, 1/ 545 175 4720 215/ 340) 385/ 214| 503|| 423! 271| 362 413 210/ 434| 248 241|| 296/ 430 Ketchikan, 2| 158/ 56/ 145 125/ 80/| 74) 146 | 72| 144|| 120] 112| 102| 98| 69| 114| 96) 84| 102| 117 - Ketchikan, 3/ 176 40|/ 114 167 44! 112] 116/ 54| 167|| 146 86 132| 136) 58 144/ 68| 54| 118) 112 Sitka 2 239 136/ 201) 179/ 208/ 174|| 198( 161| 177| 179| 143( 204 140| 194/| 213/ 184 Klawock 69/ 24| 22 76/| 35/ 61|| 27| 28| 58| 66 42| 58 28| 58| 54| 47| Hydaburg 55| 18|/ 54 43/ 22 32| 33| 30/ 38/ 24/ 38 27| 34| 51| 26/ 30/ 35|| | Hyder | 48 8 19 47 10| 43| 14 17| 36/| 36/ 24/ 31| 38 10/ 45/ 15| 17 17 38 Haine @ 1 29 25 161 44| 181 24| 34(| 41| 29| 3¢ 41 4 51 19( 22(| 20/ 38 Craig 75| 15/ 60 G3/ 191 32| 63| 34| 53| 41 37 50| 54 32 40| 24/ 24| 35 31 Joug. Bridge! 11 4 2 100 5l 1 B 3 12| 10 8 .9 13 3 .8 .8 2 J Petersburg 203 49 | 113( 115/| 196/ 50|/ 110/ 106| 136 127| 48| 124{ 87| 91| 183/ 78 Wrangell 223( 111 112 1721| 314 29!| 130 176{ 113| 132| 121| 118| 114( 148( 172| 181 | Stikine 55 8 i| 31 20f 53| 8| 29/ 26| 30| 34| 13| 29/ 24/ 17} 42| 201 Metlakatla 148, 11| 69 127 26 88 77| 32| 127/ 133 35| 119 121 42| 116/ 33| 26/ 112{ 42| 460 20 40 35 40| 34| 401| .46/ 30 24| 47| 32 37 45| 31 39 3 | | 28 6| 28 241 Bt 6/ 26)| 21| 9/| 13 13| 20f 18/ 25/ 10 11/ 13i| 21 14 0 3 14 ol 131 3 .3 13h a2l 9 .6 13/ .0/ 13 0 [ 9 9 G 2 8 .8 4 | .8 3| 5/ 3 @6 6 0 U 4 2] W, Peth'urg 10 5 9 8 11 4 6 11 13| 6l 17 9 12( 1| 3 W 7 7 | Yakutat 40 4 9 39 200 271| 16| 26| 30f 12!] 33 19| 12| 20/ 20/ 14{ 30/ 28/ 41 12 5 4 19! 34 47|, 3f 43 8 13| 38/ 41 9/ 40| 43/ 8 38 5 6l 7 48| 2 1 G 7 9 4 9 3 3 10 1 8 8 10 2 6 8 6! 5 8 42 1 5/ 38/ 41) 0| 40/ 2| 21| 16/' 12| 12| 16| 38 11| 26/ 19 6 10 1 6 6 9 3| 8 4| 6 5 3 9 68 9 4 6 8 3 Elfin Cove 25/ 2 1 16 24| 3|| 25 3 4| 22| 21| 8| 12| 22/ 5 16 & @6 Fanshaw 8 1 21 .5 (- g | 7 3 3 3 3 6 0 .8 4 0 A 4 8 4 16/ 5 9 M 4 ] 3 1 M 4 7 2l 8 9 | Baranof 2l 100 3! W 3 9 # 9 Bl 8 6 4 % 8 8 @ 8§ Hood Bay ( 0 3 2 1 2 1 11 2 2 ¥ 8 2 0 2 3 b1 Chichagofl 5 121 10 150 7)) 10] 10/ 10/ 9 6 12/ 8 13 6/ 13f 13 T Kimshan 1 5l 37 31 3| 3¢ 8§ 9| 33| 28 12| 16{ 26/ 10/ 32{ 23| & Chilkat 3| 3 o] 9 & m 3 8 & 8 7 6 1w i 3 8.5 3 9| Jamestown 6/ 7l 15/ 13 8 13/ .8 13 8! 8 154 13 4] 4 13 8 U 9 14! Klukwan 22|/ 18 2 2| 12| 1| 14{| 14 0f 4 g{ 3 25/ 4 8 10 Kake 17/ 16! 18)| 13| 13|| 13| 1%| 21| 13| 18| l.'l I 17) 17| 14 18| 14 Angoon 13 15/ 21 170 17| 14 20| 21| 15| . 18] l]l 14 15| 21/ 14 170 15 P Ten 12 17| 29| 36 14| 32 17| 21 27" 24| 18 28| 27| 18| 26| 2¢ w‘ 34 19 ! |—i | | 3712 11&5 .wwzuz“uu TALS |4232(1473! "i‘GB 2936 T MISS ANNE AUSTED BECOMES BRIDE: OF KENNETH KOLANDER Ata7 a bridal corsage ol mixed gardan | flawers. ¢ Miss Ronnie Ash]nnuon was t.he bride’s only attendant. A She also | wore a crepe dress of soldier blue with navy accessories and a corsage of garden flowers. Mr. Frank Bar- | nett was best man for the groem. After the ceremony a reception }\"us held at the Willoughby Avenue o'clock cer v, perform- home of the groom's sister, Mrs. ed Saturday evening in the manse Lucille Popejoy. A three-tier cake, of Resurrection Lutheran Church by’ topped by a tiny hride and greom, the Rev. Merle W. Boyer, Miss Anne | centered the bride’s table. White Austed, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. tapers and arrangements of chrys- Grunde Austed, of Okles, Minr., be- | anthemums and garden flowers dec- came the bride of Mr. Kenneth orated the reception rooms. Last Kolander, son of Mr. and Mrs. Perty | evening a wedding dinner was held Kolander of Boise, Idaho. at the Gastineau Cafe, with mem- The service was read in candle- bers of the bridal party and those light and baskets of mixed garden |present for the marriage in attend- flowers decorated the manse. Be- ance. sides members of the bridal pa Mrs. Kolander attended Bemidji Mrs. Lucille Popejoy, Lynn Popejoy State Teachers College in Minne- and Ray Jacobsen were present for sota. She has been a resident of the marriage Juneau since: November. M. Kol- A street length frock of crepe in ander came here over two. years soldier blue was selected by the 980 and is an employee of the Al- charming bride for her wedding. Her | 8ska Juneau Gold Mining Company. accessories were nayy and she wore The couple p]u to make their home at 146 wmough)ay Avenue TAX MMI!S Ahead Ofel‘afim % Thlrd of Tax Roll ! SliltOwing' i 3 Brai RO City tax gallegtions for 1940 total- ed $88,336.5¢ Sstupday : pight when | City Clerk Harley J. Turner closed his books at the delinquency date. This compares with $8561640 col- lected by the same date. last year. Of the total tax roli of $124,362.24, there remains $46,025.72 to be paid. Most of this is accounted for by tax- | payers taking advantage of the sys- | tem of paying half of their taxes by Sepwmher 15 and the other half by \ Mareh 15, without penalty. | There are very few outright de- ‘unquencus this year, Turner said.. | Noticeable this year was & tend- having paid by August 31, as against, ss 598.30 pflld by that time hsl year. (LIPPER OFF FOR JUNEAU The mm. “Ciipper - m’ a-mp this morning for Juneau with eight passengers aboard, two for Ketchi~ kan, and is due hnn about’ 5:30 flh evening. i For Ketchikan, Governor Gruen- ing and Clyde Doran . | For Juneau, Terol Beamer, W A. Downie, Helen Evans, Milton. Over- mire, A. Kaye and H. M. Bird. —— e — Southampton is -Buitain's lavg- est ‘port on the English ———————— Ipaid circulation, ¥ |ency to pay taxes early, $11,932.50 | 2810| MMM%IM\W 1680(3353 236&2\"3 2468‘ 2867 | Walthers, REV. SOBOLOFF ORDAINED AT SERVICE HERE Alaska Presbytery Holds Ceremony Yesterday at Memorial Church For the purpose of exanining and >rdaining Wajter: A, Soboleff, min- ster of the Memorial Preshyterian Church, into full ministerial rank, “vdination services were held last| ‘vening. ‘ The Alaska Presbytery started Sat- urday with the arrival of minis- ‘ ers from various towns in South- 'ast Alaska. The meetings were held at Memorial Church. | Of special interest is the fact that | 10t only is it an uncommon occur- \ ence for Alaska to have an ordina- ion ceremony, but it is eapecially} ncommon for the service to bej serfermed for a fully trained Indian | minister and this fact is further evi- | dence of the progress of Presbyter- an work among the Indians in Al-| aska. Following is the program held last evening: Prelude. The Processional—‘Faith of Our Fathers! Living Still.” Invocaticn—The Rev. Edwin E.| Knudsen, Moderator of the Presby- tery of Alaska. Doxology. Reading of the Holy Scripture— | The Rev. Eugent E. Bromley, Hoo- | nah. Mezzo-soprano solo—Miss Matilda | Holst. Prayer—The Rev. Verne J. Swan- son, Hydaburg. Sermon—The Rev. Edwin E. Knud- sen, Skagway. Hymn of Consecration—*I Would Be True.” Ceremony of Ordination and In- stallation: Constitution of Presbytery—Cone ‘titutfonal questions, The Rev. Ed- win E. Knudsen. Mezzo-soprano solo—Miss Matilda Holst. Prayer of Ordination—The Rev. John A. Glasse, Juneau. Charge to the Candidate — The Rev. Alfred D. Swogger, Metlakatla. |'3tated Clerk of the Presbytery of Aluflu. Charge to the Congregation—The Rev. Ralph K. Wheeler, Haines. . Benediction—The Rev. Walter A Soboleff. Postlude. BISHOP ALECY WILL BE HEARD SOON AT ORTHODOX CHURCH Blshop Alecy of Cordova, is due to arrive here today on the steamer Aleutian and will remain in this city for a few days. Bishop Alecy wil have charge of ithe Saturday and Sunday services iat St. Nicholas Orthodox Chureh, it was announced by the Rev. A. Zolo- IS TO BE REVIEWED; JUNEAD IS REXT ;Army Party Leaves on Pa- frol Boat Bonham for First City Ketchikan's N is to be officially re for Federal recogniti Gov. Ernest Ketchikan by onal Guard tomar g arrived in from Seattle pper | this afternoon, and a party of Army and National Guardsmen left here this morning on the southbound Ccast Guard patrol boat Bonham o conduct the review. Leavi from here were Major | Jesse Graham, in charge of organ- izing lh( aska National Guard, his aide, nt Bond, Adjutant Gen- eral Roy Mulvihill and Capt. Bill in command of the Ju- neau company. Major Hart, in command of Chil- keot Barracks, came in with Capt Harrison from Haines on the For- nance in time to connect with the Bonlmu party. Afl reviewing the Ketchikan unit of the National Guard, the party will review the Juneau com- pany and continue on to anks and Anchc e. - STORM SUBSIDES 10 LET AIRMEN CATCH UP WORK ftcr a stormy esterday that prevented flying, local pilo were busy catching up tcday Four flown to Sitka with Simmons were L. C. Rhodes, Hazel Hood, Dave Fenton and Leslie Yaw. Alex Holden flew to the mine ports with Mr. and M e and | Pete Deveau for Chic 1d Bob Layfield and John Pr Alex Holden was to gc to Ket- chikan this afternoon with four pas- sengers and John Amundsen was to fly to the yacht Hol cannery beat Equator, bringing in a woman te catch the clipper south | frem the Holliday and taking Henry Roden to the cannery tender. - - POWER FAILS A transformer burned out on Star Hill this afternoen, temporarily dis- rupting pewor light service “about downtown Juneau. Largest ferry in the world, the Miss New D torn in her side by the hetvy steel prow of the oil tanker Magnolia, tovsky. —————— Try & classified ad in The Empire carrying 700 passengers, and the % nosing through heavy fog blanketing New York harbor. PAAMan vfriies 'September forn Stuni John Gillwee, of the Juneau air offices, enjoyed a day than most of those out of over the not only rained c yone but he f t ba as well. Gilwee, Tee Harber and Mr Rad turned the little when shifting stators W stroke his wa boat from the ¢ Darx .'.‘ and clared the PAA employe with his glasses still on, I as big as saucers, and his pipe til in his mouth The pipe was out - HAIDA BACK I¥ HOME PORT HERE The cutter, Haida is ba K in. port Mter a Tun to Kediak from Cordova | with Clarence Olson, Acting Alaska Age for the Bureau of Pisheries, Ccast Guardsmen reporied a reugh ere uz of the Gulf en the m trip with heavy seas all the way - Basehall Today The following are scf 13 acue National League Louis 2, 7; Philadelphia 3, 1. Cincinnati Brooklyn 0. Pittsburgh 7; St. Louis 6. American League Philadelphia 3; Cleveland 8. Empire Classifieds Pay - Bathing Beauty Smiling at you here is Nancy Lewis, ! 6, of Philadelphia, cuddling the tro- phy she won in the bathing suit di- vision of the juvenile fashion show at Wildwood, N. J. She is contestant for queen of the annual baby parade at Wlldwmfl Victim of Harbor Fog York shows the gaping hole The ferry was six of whom were inj | wquipment but not arms. He is also given ' THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMVMIERCE. WEATHER BUREAU Forecast for Juneau and vicinit,, beginning at 4:30 p.m. Sept. 16: Partly clcudy tonight, mostly fair Tues slightly g gentle to moderate southeaster! s; lowest tonight ab 45 de- grees, highest Tuesday about 6 Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Partly cloudy tonight, fair Tuesday; not much change in temperature; gentle to scutherly winds. Forccast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Mo: e southwesterly’ winds from Dixen Entrancé to Kodiak except gentle to moderate easterly’ to norcheasterly from Cape St. Elias to Kenai Peninsula. LOCAL DATA Time Barometer 1emp. Humidilty Wind Velocity Weather 4:30 p.m. yesterday 2950 52 86 SE 20 Rain 4:30 am. today 29.45 50 83 s 4 Rain Noen today 29.50 50 9 ESE 14 Rain RADIO REPORTS | TODAY Max. tempt. | Lowest 3:30am Precip. 3:30a.m. Staticn last 24 hours ! temp, temp, 24 hours Weather Barrow 37 | 32 32 4 Snoy Fairbanks 52 ] 42 43 06 Clou Nemg 53 | 43 45 09 cliu Dawson 53 1 39 39 04 Cloudy Anchorage 43 13 43 36 Cloudy Bethel 53 44 45 25 Clougy St. Paul 52 41 47 0 Cloudy Atka 58 a1 49 0 Clear Dutch Harbor .. 53 45 48 02 Clear ‘Wosnesenski 54 | 49 49 g Cloudy Kodiak 57 51 52 0 Clear Cordeva 53 40 42 28 Clear Juneau 52 49 50 101 Rain Sitka 56 | 46 48 1.04 Thunderst'm Ketchikan 8 51 97 54 Rain Prince Rupert 56 | 51 52 25 Rain Portland 8 | 60 61 0 Pt. Cldy gan Francisco .. 65 | 48 51 0 Pt. Cldy WEATHER SYNOPSIS An accluded front with an accompanying trough of low press was moving eastward this morning over northeastern Alaska, sc A high pressure cell with its center 1033 milibars was located at 45 Cegrees north latitude and 170 degrees west longitude and the pressur> s rising over mest of Alaska. Rain had fallen at most cf the Al- stations this morning with over an inch of rain reported at some in Southeast Alaska whiie light snow flurries were reccrdzd at Barrcw. Mostly overcast with local showers and moderately low s and generally good visibilities were reported over the northern ticn of the Seattle Juneau airway. J\menu. September fl ——Sunnb: 6 30 a.m., sunset 7:14 p.m. Defeated Poilus Go B Home |'a l"rem afieer extendu hll hand to a soldier to whom he hn junt giver | demobiligation papers, France is demobilizing fixst those who come fron farms and those who do manual labor. 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