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

e A ———————— S ——— T —— BRUNSWICK KEGLER HAS HIGH TALLY Smithberg, anchor n on the unswick bowling squad, ran up 577 total last night in the commer- loop to mark out high man for nd paced his squad to Holden Ouf With Plane Once Again cie the evening For the first time since Saturday : wiién high winds began to whip the |8 four-nothing victory over Golden northern part of Southeast Alaska, Age Beer Pilot. Alex Holden went out with _Juneau Florists won points the AAT Lockheed today on a trip |in the other match of the night s foe from Alaska Laundry Ed Hamblin, Gifford Close, Mr Tonight's games are George Bros " I ind Peter Dyer Vs Islanders and Baranof vs. Drug- were flown to Sitka, Holden return- ISt e e ing with Henry Fitzgerald and J. C.| Scores last ight were as follow Russell Brunswick On his Holden went out E: Galao 181 203 154— 538 for Hirst He W G Mamburam 170 170 170—*510 Call. Kei < H. Fitzgerald Smithberg 163 210 200— 577 J. Russ SR o SRS Totals 514 587 Golden Age Bee H H B. Mangalas 155 169 Have Feafl Villaganas 151 176 16 A'M " Totals 465 499 5191483 eeling Juneau Flor J. Halm 166 166 170 502 : B. Lojoie 172 149 156— 477 : I.m:mhll d a -,::uu‘n_; m,l u‘[ C. C. Carnegle.. 146 220 168— 534 last night for their re nonth T M get-together in the Firemen's Club Totals 474 4941513 Jim Orme was named boss of the " Junean Lannd Firemen's backetball team Which g maoychi 198 176 150— 466 will be entered in the City Lea H. Kurasaka .. 168 168 168—*504 M yens M. Mationg 152 134 146— 432 The business meeting was follow i A e by a grand feed of king crab, a 2 Totals 158 478 4461402 pound turkey donated by W s xveruge: did, Bt BOWA ton Creamery through agent Emmett ; PP - Connor, and with beer to wash it down, donated by the Juneau Dairies The Virgin Islands consist of who recently had cause to thank the Thomas, St John Croix and fire fighters for quick work in saving numerous tiny islands, > - the dairy building from fire destruc- ¥ tion Fmnire Cly sifieds Pay! wINTER TRAVEL can be most enjoyable when you take advantage of modern conveniences provided by such a luxurious train as the Roller-Bearing— NORTH COAST LIMITED Pure, warmed fresh air at just the right temperature and humidity, gently circulated without drafts, makes life in every car healthful and comfortable, regardless of the weather—thanks to complete Air-Conditioning. Deluxe reclining chair coaches, up-to-date Tourist and Standard Pullman sleepers— Ob- servation-club car, with radio, buffet, library, baths and other enjoyable features. good meals at popular prices; also lunch serv- ice in coaches and Tourist sleepers. Through to Chicago daily on convenient schedule for eastern and southern connections. Route yous May we give you more details and make your reseryations? Freight Write or wire — e KARL K. KATZ, Alaska Representative ; 200 Smith Tower, Seatt | Seattle NAHA IS NEW | JUNEAU BOAT Haugen Brifigs Yacht North to Aid Dart - Picks Up Shipwrecked Crew Capt. Einer Haugen, mailboat Dart operator, has added another boat to his Haugen Transportation Com- pany fleet, the trim 50-foot Naha of Haugen arrived in the small boat | harbor Saturday night from Seattle with his recently purchased Naha | intending to use the vessel as an| auxiliary vessel for the Dart’s work. | The Naha is a bridge deck cruiser with a double plank cypress huli and | house. Tt is powered with a “horsepower Redwing and logs a good eight knots. | Accommodations are good with a three-bunk stateroom forward of the wheel house and the galley in the with an icebox in the bow. wo more staterooms, two P are Aft bunks in each Haugen brought two men with him on the way north, Nels Olsen | of Tacoma and Brice Blake of Fair- banks. In Seaforth Channel, north of Milbank Sound, Haugen performed a mercy mission coming north, pick- ing up seven stranded seamen from the cannery tender Oregonian which foundered after striking a reef Haugen found the crew of the Oregonian coatless, wet and cold, trying to get a fire going. They had been on the beach for six hours and had been unable to flag down a P! ng steamer. Haugen took them to Bella Bella - - OPEN HOUSE AT PUBLIC SCHOOL TUESDAY NIGHT Back to school night will be held as scheduled on November 12, be- ginning at 7:30 p.m., according to Supt. A. B. Phillips. Both buildings will be open and students’ work up to this time of year will be on exhibit in the various rooms. Some of the rooms will have students doing special work where parents may observe them as they go through All teachers will be in their class rooms at that particular time, where parents may meet and get better acauainted with them At 9 o'clock all class room activity will be closed and lights turned out and parents will be requested to gc to the Grade School Auditorium where a program has been arranged. The High School Orchestra will play two numbers, under the direction of Mr. White, and the Girls’ Glee Clut and Mixed Chorus will sing, under the direction of Miss Schroeder. In- teresting exhibits will be held in this room, and a talk not to exceed five minutes in length will be given by Superintendent Phillips. All the public is invited to attend and there will be no students in at- tendance at night, except those whom the teachers have requested. - American Red Cross Volunteer Braillists give personal service to the blind in transcribing material need- ed for their studies or vocations, in addition to furnishing Braille books \for siate libraries, which are made available to all blind through a gov- ernment franking privilege. For Only 3: Cents* Present prices lowest G-E ever quoted— starting at Prices Starting $39.95 NEW G-E MODELS CHEAPER TO BUY, THRIFTIER TO OPERATE THAN EVER! Choose a General Electric and get ALL the ad- vantages of electric cooking! Current cost now erages less than a penny per person per meal. ew models have more time-saving and money- saving features than ever before. Improved 5-Heat CI.E%N‘SPEED Calrod Cooking Units heat faster, use less current, ALASKA ELECTRIC LIGHT & POWER €0. PHONE 616 You Can Cook This Complete Meal for Five on a New General Electric Range Nore; cosr RAGE 3 ¢ ASKD ON . 3 CEnT RATE THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, NOV. 8, 1940. BRIDGE IS. 10 GO UP ONCE MORE Workmen Clear Debris- College Boy Was Mys- tery Man for ‘Thrill’ TACOMA, Wash., Nov. 8. V\'Ul‘k-‘ men armed with air hammers and picks and shoyels, went to Wwoi today on the big job of eleaniv 1p deb of the acoma Narrows Bridge, pavin way for build- the ng the span anew The first job is .removal of concrete from twisted, sagging av- proaches to reiieve the strain e erted against the two su 1sion towers. Preliminary estimates of ti reconstruction range {ro; of 000,000 to $£4.000.500. Case of Aercdynamics Chief Engineer Andrew of the Toll Bridge Authority said: *This is a simple case of aerodynamics. The size of the girders was great and the bridge, lying flat and solid,| offered resistance to the wind. The reaction was exactly what would Le experienced in flying a kite, which wobbles when the wind hits it “If open truss work is used on the side girders, the wind would pass through. Had it been con- structed so. the bridge would not have swayed or rolled.” The bridge “mystery man,” a phantom figure seen on the span as it was cracking up, turned out to be Winfield Brown, 25, College of Puget Sound freshman who paid dime “for the thrill of walking across the bridge in a high wind Sudden Swaying | Brown told how the bridge sud- denly began to sway like a swing and how he crawled ashore on his hands and knees with the br pavement cracking beneath and chips of cement whistling pa ais head. “] was certain I was not goin ©0 make it” Brown said, "I o seasick I couldn’t stand up and { thought I'd pass out sure. Some- Ames the bridge tipped right on ts gide and 1 could Iook' straight’ down to the waves 190 feet below I thought I was a goner sure. Brown removed bandages to she multiple abrasions on his knees for which he paid his ten-cent pe- destrian fee in getting on th: bridge North Sea Now Juneau Bound SEATTLE, Nov. 8. — Steamer North Sea sailed at 10 o'clock this morning for Southeast Alaska ports vith 49 passengers including the ‘ollowing for Juneau: James E. Smith, Miss Kjerstine 3chaline, James Peacock. - STORMBOUND MAYOR RETURNS 10 CITY Mayor Harry Lucas returned to Juneau last night after being} storm-bound at Skagway for almost 1 week on the Forest Seryice ves- sel Forester. : The ship moved from Haines to 1 safer anchorage at Skagway, and finally to Long Bay, to wait out the fierce Lynn Canal storm. The - Forester returned to Bay. Auk J adv. President Tells of His Forecas! WASHINGTON, President Reosevelt di p3 Nov. 8, — ed he had been way off on his guess on the outcome of the elec- tion. The President told the news- men at today's conference he forecast 340 ¢lectoral voles for himself on August 1. Late re- 1 s however show he received 442 clectoral votes, - . GOVERNOR RACE IN WASHINGTON KEEPING CLOSE SEATTLE. Nov. 8 Two small precinets are still missing in the returns from the state’s election Tuesday but Arthur B. Langlie s still leading C. C. Dill 2,129 votes for Governor. Langlie now has 377.012 against Dill's 374883 Twenty-five thousand absent ballots will be counted beginning next Tuesday and these will decide the victory - MENDENHALL LAKE ICE STILL UNSAFE is still the U. 8. For- rounced today. Dan- e been posted on the ice. Another glacier niovement d turbed the level of the lake and spoiled an almost perfect surface = R 'POSTOFFICE WILL BE (LOSED MONDAY Juneau Postoffice, along with Federal, Territorial and ba. and stores, will on Monday mistice The other office, closed all City be Day. - D — Steamer Mount McKinley which was eduied early this morning to arrive at 3:30 oclock tomorrow morning, is coming in ahead of time. The steamer is now scheduled to reive al 10:15 o'clock tonight and sails south about half an hour later. - FORNANCE IN PORT e Army tender Fornance was in port last night from Haines after several days trying to make mvi stormy run down Lynn Canal. The ship was here.only briefly last night securing supplies. | > o DOCTORS BAG DEER Doctor W. W. Council and Robert apson returned on the North Coast last night from a brief deer hunting trip in the Sitka area with Joe Hill, reperting good bags of deer. - - BRILLHART HOME Junior Forester John Brillhart re- turned on the steamer North Coast from Sitka, where he assisted Virgil T. Heath in organizing a new 35 man CCC camp. - CARD OF THANKS We wish to extend our sincere thanks and appreciation to all our friends and neighbors for their kindness and sympathy shown us in the loss of our husband and father. pecially do we wish (o thank his fellow workers of the! AJ Mill and the Elks Lodge and| for the many beautiful floral offer- | ings. MRS, P. J. MULLEN MISS MABEL PENNEY. ’ | tubble-strewn walkways. Nazi Normally a quiet residential district. in Loaduy this street today is a mass of wrecked homes |d-nt- GUNBOAT IS DUE HERE TOMORROW WITH CCMMANDER Capt. Parker Paying First Visit fo Capital on U. S. S. Charleston The gunboat U.S.S. Charleston, bringing Capt. Ralph C. Parker, Commander of the 4 tor of the 13th Na al Distriet, accor due Juneau tomorrow, ing to word received today by Gos Srnest Gruenin Captain Parker be visiting the pital for time. though he has @ Naval bases at Sitka, Kodiak and Una-| laska on the destroyer U.S.S. Bree: The Charleston is 320 feet long. about the length of a desiroyer but considerabl. heavier. It has been withdrawn from Panama for service in Alaska. There is a pos- sibility the Charleston may remain at Ju hanently as C Parke ing headquarte though cn its present visit it is cheduled to remain here only un- til Mcnday. The vessel will at the Governme hart - - PLAES WILL BE SOLD T0 BRITAIN WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 The orities Board tof announced th the British Purc Com- missioner will be pe to ne- gotiate orders from tion industry 000 planes The action announced short- ly after the President told the news- men at his conference with the he has established a thumb whereby Great Britain and for policy Canada will be supplied with 50 per- cent of American defense planes now coming from the factories. The lines of planes include large and other needed road bombers things both her Margaret Lockwood Margaret Lockwood, English ac- tress often seen in U. S. movies, oscaped with her life follow- ing a German bombing attack on a town where a British film com- pany was making a movie star- ring Miss Lockwood. Two people of the unit working on the pic- ture were Kkilled. - e Subscrive tor The pire. This Once Was a London Residential District | leave much untouched. All resi- were safe in underground shelters while the bs blasted destruction. (By the U, Weather Bureau) S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU 5 to- Forecast for Juneau and vicinit /. bcginning at 4:30 pm,, M tonight and Saturday; slight'f warmer; lowest temperatur highest Saturday 38; gentlé variable winds. Southeast Alaska: Fair tonight and Saturday; TFair night about 32, Forecast for warmer; gentle to moderate variible winds but fresh northerly in Lynn Canal Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaskai Dixon Entrance to Cape Spencer. fair, gentle to moderate easterly winds, becoming gentle ,to moderat: westerly winds Saturda Cape Spencer to Cape Hinchinbrook, f:ir, gentle to moderate northerly to northeasterly winds; Cape Hinchinsrook to Resurrection Bay, partly cloudy, gentle to moderate easteriy to northeasterly winds; Resur- rection Bay to Kodiak, partly clouiy. gentle to moderate easterly to southeasterly winds. ° LOCAL DATA Time Barometer T1emp. Humidity Wind Velocity Weather | 4:30 pm. yesterday 3020 311 17 N 5 Clear i 4:30 a.m. today 30.30 314 24 N 5 Clear Noon today 30.31 36.1 25 ‘SE 8 Clear RADIO REPORTS | TODAY Max. tempt. ! Lowest 3:30am. Precip. 3:30am Staticn last 23 hours temp. temp. 24 hours Weathes Barrow . 20 17 0 Clear Fairbanks 5 1R 10° 0 Nome . 36 34 .02 Dawson -12 -14 0 Anchorage 23 17 0 Bethel 39 37 22 St. aPul 40 40 .01 Dutch Harbor .. 46 45 58 Ww.nesenski 45 42 15 Kodiak 43 34 0 Cordova 34 27 0 Juneau 33 | 31 0 Clear Sitka 42 | 34 0 Clear Ketchikan 37 25 0 Slear | Prince Rupert 36 28 0 Cloudy | Prince George . 11 5 45 Clear Seattle 54 43 30 Cloudy Portland 52 44 1.18 Rair San Francisco 53 0 Cleaa WEATHER SYNOPSIS Rain was falling this morniny at a few points from King Cove and the Aleutidn Islands to the S ward Peninsula and local snow {lurries were reported from Fairba ks to Nome but gene clear | skies prevailed elsewhere over Alas a. The greatest amount of pre pitation was 58 inch which was r corded at Dutch Harbor. Warmer | temperatures were reported over wasten Alaska and the Interior a | far as Fairbanks. Moderate gusty northeasterly surface winds in the Juneau area and strong to gal: northerly winds in Lynn Canal and Chatham Straits were reported this morning. Clear skies and good visibilities were reported over the northern portion of the Seattle-Juneau airway. The Friday morning weather chart indicated a low pressure 1011 millibars (29.85 inches) was centered near Tatoosh Island and econd low center of 980 millibars (2894 inches) at 45 degrees nor and 157 degrees west. High pressuce of over 1044 millibars (30.83 inches) was centered over the sou‘hern portion of the Yukon Terri- tory with a crest of high pressure estending over the Interior of Al- aska and thence south southeastwird into the Pacific Ocean to a second high center of about 1024 millibars (30.24 inches) at 38 de- grees north and 138 degrees west. Juneau, November 9.— Sunris: CHRISTMAS MAIL of a 8:31 sunset 5:52 am,, pm. des, Columbia, Guadeloupe, Mar- tinique, St. Kitts and Venezuela, Dcsmber 13; Trinidad, Surinam, FOR ABROAD ls Newfoundlend, Honduras, British Guiana, French Guiana, Guatemala n ‘and Canal Zone, De- 14; Bahamas and Jamaica, 18; Bermuda, Dominican Haiti, Puertc Rico and Ccota T0 CLOSE SOON Posimasier“I Wile An- nounces Dates - Some Couniries Off List Christmas packages will not be at U. S. Postoffices this vear for 37 countries of Europe, Asia and Africa, due to war condi- ticns, Postmaster Albert Wile an- neunced today. Destinations to which parcel post ser has been suspended include Aden, Albania, Anglo-Egyptian Su- !dan, Belgium, British Somaliland, Bulzaria, Channel Islands (Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark), Cyp- rus, Czecho-Slovakia, Danzig, Den- mark (except Faroe Islands and Greenland), Egypt, Estonia, Ethio- pia, Finland, French Somalland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Trag. Italy and Italian colonies, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Mal- ta, Netherlands, Norway, Palestine, Pcland, Rumania, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Syria and Republic of Leb- |anon, Trans-Jordan, Turkey, Union |of Soviet Socialist Republes, ati- 'can City State, Yugoslavia. Mail Early Due to the irregular sailings for cther trans-Atlantic destinations, | the steamships, dates of sailing and {mail to be conveyed cannot be an- nounced. However. it is urged by’ [the Postoftice Department that {articles intended for delivery at | trans-Atlantic destinations before !Christmas should be mailed as |early as possible. | Latest dates of dispatch from | New York of mail for Central and | Seuth American countries are as i follows: Turks Island, November 113; Uruguay, Paraguay and Argen- ! tina, November 30; Nicaragua (Cor- !nto), Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador and | Granada, December 6; Nicaragua | (Eluefields). December 11; Barba- Republic, Virgin Isiands, December 1¢; Cuba, December 21 Pacific Sailings itest sailings from Pacific Coast perts will be as follows: For Aus- tralia and New Zealand, November 26; for North China, Shanghai and the Philjppines, November 29; for South China and Hong Kong, No- vember 30; for Japan and Man- churia, December 6. Parcel post ser- vice has been suspended to the Pro- vince of Jehol and to Manchuria except to certain Japanese offices. 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