The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 19, 1940, Page 2

THE “DOUBLE-RICH” BOURBON STRAIGHT BPOURBON WHISKEY, 90 PROOF b SCHENLEY DISTILLERS CORP, N. Y. C SEVERE GALE STEFANSSON CUTS DOWN HERE TODAY AIR RAIDING Explorer-scientist Vilhjalmur Stef- | ansson, flew in from Fairbanks this afternoon aboard a PAA Electra. e The noted Arctic traveler, who for | | the past several years has been ad- Usual Blows Forestalled-|vicr w pan American Airways on | . | northern flying, has been making a MVS'QI’IOUS Hashes | routine survey trip to the Interior. A man who can infallibly read a | Cause Of Alafm dog sled trail withering before the ‘" | blast of an Arctic blizzard and who N has traversed miles on miles of e RN DY trackless northern tundra with the z | ease of a man walking to his corner also reports that the RAF 2gain| grocery, Stefansson suffered misfor- | was. battering German ports in oc-% tune on this trip to Anchorage when cupied France. | he got “lost” on the Alaska Rail- One Big Bombing | rode Only one section of Britain was| A few days ago, Stefansson board- | heavily bembed during yesterday. ed a train he thought was bound for An upidentified town on the south Fairbanks. A short distance out of coast was reported to bave suf-|town, he realized his mistake and fered what was described as “a disembarked at a whistle post to brief but heavy” attack. However sheepisly board a speeder and return this was nothing in the nature of to Anchorage and await the proper a wajor reid. , | train. Storm on Channel The mystifying absence of the on next Friday’s Douglas plane. | usual Nazi blizkrieg warfare lead e military circles to suspect somc- sing n e sauce o 1 omee | ARGE SHARE OF | nel last might was rough with 2 SEAl SALE Fu“b | heavy swell and was overhung by a thick mist. Everything seemed | | feeling that such a move might| SIAYS |“ m‘" be impending was greatly height- ol | | thare batteries sent tons of snens 1r@asurer McNaughton Ex- screaming into the Dover area. replied. | 2 It is known that the Nazis have MOIIGY S UseS moved up large quantities of heavy | artillery from the Maginot Line.. In answer to many inquiries re-| been mounted in the vicinity of Christmas Seal Sale funds, James Cape Grisnez. | McNaughton, Treasurer of the Al- issued the following statement: W‘ “ BEGI"S on | “Ninety-five percentof the money | raised is retained by the Alaska Tuberculosis Association for the m‘u ROIARY control of the disease in the Ter- Is paid to the National Assoclation for its nationwide campaign. Dur- | contributed $15,000 to the tuber- culin testing and X-ray clinics held I"]” Tma"ve Pro- I clinics have taken 8,000 X-rays and du(flon Pfaus given more than 10,000 tuberculin | accounted for the major portion the Juneau Rotary Club is to present | ~The remainder is spent each sometime this winter were outlined 'Year for health education. Cooper- to be against an invasion but the| ened this afternoon when German Braatn's big guns aiong e cues| Plains Tuberculosis | At least 24 of these big guns have ceived as to the expenditure of | ————.e——— | aska Tuberculosis Association today iritory. The remaining five percent 'ing the past four years, we have . oy Director Lillian Uggen Out-| |in the schools of Alaska. These | tests during this time. This has Plans for the minstrel show which | Of the available funds. at today’s Rotary luncheon by Mrs. ating with Federal and Territorial THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, NOV. 19, 1940. CONGRESS 10 REMAIN IN SESSION House Repfb;icans, with Some Democrats, Vole Down Adjournment WASHINGTON, Nov. 19, — The Republicans, with some Democrats, voting tcgether, defeated the House attempt of the Democratic leader- hip this afternoon tp adjourn Congress at the end of today's session The vote was 181 against ad- journment to 148 for adjournment, The House action probably means | that the Segenth-Fifth Congress will continue in session, theoreti- cally, until Christmas time. - oo Govémor's Race, Washinglon, May Go fo High Court SEATTLE, Nov 19.—A Supreme Court test is in prospect today to. determine the outcome of the close race for Governor between Repub- lican Mayor Langlie of Seattle and former Democratic Senator Dill. Langlie has 4,000 lead. CHINESE PORTS " INCHINA HANDS CHUNGKING, Nov. 19. — The Chinese Central Government an- nounces that its troops have occu- pied the coastal regions of South- west China, following the evac- uation of Japanese forces. The ports of Yamchow and Fancheng Stefansson will probably go south are now in Chinese hands. Gaults Will Spend Holida_y_s in South Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Gault; promi- nent Skagway residents, expect to sail South December 7 on the Prin- cess Norah. They will spend the holidays with their son and daugh- ter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin L. Gault, at their home in Los Mo~ linos, California. They will returmn north about April 1. (ROPS ROTING IN NAZ! RELDS LONDON, Nov. 19.—Fliers making reconnaissance flight over Germany report that crops are robting un- harvested in the fields in' many sec- tions, presumably: because of a shortage of farm laborers, all avail- able men pressed into army service. e HOLDEN FLIES FOUR 70 SITKA Alex Holdenr flew to Sitka boda with the AAT Lockheed, taking four passengers out. Stephen DeLong and Cleo Sains- bury flew to Hirst and Eric Larsen and James Smith flew to Sitka. “Alaska’'s Flag” has just been published in sheet music form, ac- cording to word received by Mrs |Marie Drake, author of the fam- jouss peem of the Territory's flaz. from Mrs. Ralph Wayne Dusen- bury, who composed the music for the song. Publication is by the Clayton F. Summy Company of Chicago and was arranged by Mrs. Dusenbury who tells, in her letter to Mrs Drake, of the widespread campaign that is being put on by the pub- lishers to establish the song of Alaska's Flag. Written by Mrs. Drake in 1927 following the adoption by the Leg- islature of the design of young | Benny Benson, seventh grade na- "Alaska’s Flag” Is Published as Song of fhe North; Words Are by Mrs. Drake, Music Mrs. Dusenbury NEW ENGINEER HEAD MAKING ALASKA TOUR Col. succeeded Col Alaska, paid his respects Ernest Gruening this with Col. Beverly Dunn. Col, Park and Col. Dunn the Westward on a general of inspection of Army work in Al- Richard Park, who has John C. H. Lee in| charge of U, S. Engineers work in the Northwest district, including to Gov. afternoon are passengers aboard the Baranof for tour - FRIENDS THRONG 10 koot Barracks. The Dusenburys left Alaska in 1937 for the Colo- nel's present station in Omaha, Neb. It was after she left Alaska that love of the poem and the Ter- ritory which had been her home PAY LAST RESPECTS e her to compose music tor e 10 ALBERT BROWN| “Into the music has gone my i o4 < Funeral services were held this ;::‘ulf;.s:;’; ;?fennzr;:.wxr?;1 ]?Aul- afternoon for Albert Brown in the aska: 198t summer. “It is a longing| Memorial Presbyterian Church with for: Alaska: that has brought me the Rev. John A. Glasse delivering back each summer since 1 left te| S, fUnCTal sermon Territory. Mrs. Drake’s poem is el I really a song, give it the music it has meant to e Alaska Native | d T trisd. t | Brotherhood in their uniforms act-| and T've tried to ., ¢ ha) pearers The church choir sang two numbers, favorites of Lh(:i Penguin Has Safety-Pin (ase Ahoard The motorship Penguin of the Fish and Wildlife Service spent a few hours in Juneau today on its way south from its Christmas trip to the Bering Sea. Aboard the Penguin is a year- and-a-half-old Eskimo girl who is being rushed to Seattle where a bronschoscope will determine the damage done her by a safety pin she recently swallowed. The little miss swallowed the pin November 6, and Coast Guard headquarters at Ketchikan were asked for assistance in securing im- tive pupil of the Jessie Lee Home, aska. They will go first to Yaku- mediate ‘ml“d_lml atlennon. for the the poem has become ~“known | tat and continue their tour from) Child. Fisheries employees at St throughout the schools of thé Ter- there | Paul Island re ResiBaLy o8 her | ritory, is @ proud addition to Al-| Also aboard the Baranof was|S0Uth to the Tacoma hospital where askan lbraries and a favorite cf Ben Peterson, another U. S, En-|the pin may possibly be removed. | tourists seeking Alaskana. gineer, who disembarked at Ket-| This morning, Office of Indian| Set to Music chikan for Annette Island. Ool|Affairs doctors X-rayed the liftle , Music to accompany the Words Earl Hoag is a Baranof passenger MIS% “’”{"' the safety pin, closed,| was written by Mrs. Dusebury. bound for Seward, while James| I the bronchus of the left lung, whose husband, Colonel Dusenbury.|Truitt Jr. is also bound for Sew-|Put she “surprisingly,” as Dr. Leslie was formerly in command of Chil-| ard. White put it, “showed no symptoms of foreign matter in the lungs. Penguin passengers said the lit- tle girl “certainly hasn't hurt her| appetite,” at any rate ! - -oo i FIRE ADJUSTOR HERE | Perry Huff, well known insur- ance adjustor, is a ' passenger cn the Baranof for Cordova, bourd for McCarthy to survey recent fire damage there. - eee BACK ON BARANCF | Pearl Peterson returned on the| Baranof after a brief trip to Ket-| chikan, Miss Peterson had gone to the First City on the steamer Yukon. * : “Saved by Grace” and For the past two years, the song ?ecea Have g Y | S ol DS |“It Is Well With My Soul. Sam been used by the orChes"as? A profusion ol flowers testified MRS. WICKERSHAM RETURNS | of Alaska Steamship Company| . = ...~ .cteerm with which Mr.| M!S Grace Wickersham returned ships. Already it has had a wide|p owr' o halg by his many|t0 her home in Juneau after a stay | audience through the middle west, friends, He was active in the of several ks in the States. She! over radio WOW of Omaha, and church work and in the Sunday|WaS & passenger on the North Coast, ot Mchares and concerts. School of the Memorial Preshy- 5 T S B3 4 A story of the song has reached | \o.ion Church where he will be| A WPEZ OLDTIMER DIES the Army and Nn_vy Journal bg“much missed. About 60 frienda Mclzan» lV.‘Edwams, old.umm' of cause of the musical composition| ... at the church to pay their Valdez, died there recently as the by Mrs. Dusenbury, and will give las.! respects, lnnvrmnntl 0 result of a kidney ailment. it further renown. E\..'ergr(‘;'n (it;nmcten‘}' = 5 & Placed in Territorial Scheols Hodes A SNE T M ‘Through Anthony E. Karnes, Ter- ritorial Commissioner of Education,| “Alaska’s Flag” is being put into all Territorial Schools. It was sung over KINY this sum-| mer by Lola Mae Alexander, with| Mrs. Dusenbury, who is an accom- | FoE plished planist as well as a com-| VICTORIA, B. C., Nov. 19.—Fun- poser, playing the accompaniment. ' 2l services will be held tomorrow The front cover of the sbng,|for the former Inspector General which will be on sale in Jumeau ©f Canada, Lieutenant General Sir shops soon, will be not unlike the| Percy Lake. ‘ cover of Mrs. Drake's Alaska book-i The retired army officer died at| let, “Alaskana” with the Alaska| Victoria at the age of 86. During flag in color and words of her| the course of a long military career T. GEN LAKE verse: ‘he had served as chief of the Alaska’s Flag general staffs of India and Can-| Bight stars of gold on a field of| 243 blue— 1 Alaska's flag. May it mean to you.‘ wolvisvkmdvik ‘The blue of the sea, the evening DIES, VICTORIA SEWARD PENINSULA JAPAN SENDING Government has named three econo- | mic missions to promote trade in |the Scuth Seas region and in Cen- | tral and South America. THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) U. S. DEPARTMENT N)F COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU Forecast for Juneaun and vicinity, beginning at 4:30 p.m., Partly cloudy tonight, increasing cloudiness Wednesday with pos:, light showers by Wednesday afternoon; colder tonight, lowest tem- perature about 28, highest Wednesday 40; gentle variable winds. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Partly cloudy tonight and Wed- nesday but increasing cloudiness Wednesday with - light showers or snow flurries by Wednesday afternoon over north portion; gentle to moderate variable winds, northerly in Lynn Canal tonight and be- coming southeasterly Wednesday. Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Dixon Enfrance to Cape Spencer, partly cloudy with increasing cloudi- ness Wednesday, moderate to fresh southwesterly to southerly winds becoming southeasterly Wednesday; Cape Spencer to Cape Hinchin- brook, partly cloudy tonight, rain or snow Wednesday, moderate northeasterly winds tonight becoming fresh to strong southeasterly Wednesday; Cape Hinchinbrook to Resurrection Bay, inereasing cloudiness tonight, occasional rain Wednesday, moderate southerly to southeasterly winds, becoming strong to gale southeasterly by Wed- nesday; Resurrection Bay to Kodiak, occasional rain, fresh to strong southeasterly winds, becoming strong to gale southeasterly Wednesday. LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Tlemp. Humidity Wind Velocity Weather 4:30 p.m. yesterday 29.66 42 84 E 16 Rain 4:30 am. today 29.82 317 92 B 1 Cloudy Noon today 29.96 38 8 SSE 7 Cloudy RADIO REPORTS | TODAY Max. tempt. | Lowest * 3:30a.m Precip. 3:30a.m Statien last 24 hours ' temo temp, 24 hours Weather Barrow 14 | 2 14 .03 Snow Fairbanks 29 | -1 ] 22 Cloudy Nome 33 18 33 14 Snow Dawson -, 19 | 3 14 05 Pt. Cldy Anchorage 33 22 23 a7 Clear Bethel 35 21 35 02 Cloudy st. Paul 41 38 40 33 Cloudy Dutch Harbor . 45 41 m 2 Rain Wosnesenski 45 41 42 11 Cloudy Kanatak 19 15 15 0 Clear Kodiak 4 36 39 0 Clear Cordova 41 33 36 56 Cloudy Juncau 43 | 3 3 179 Cloudy sitka 48 | 34 37 2.63 Cloudy Ketchikan 47 | 39 0 a Pt. Cldy Prince Rupert .. 46 | 33 43 88 Cloudy Prince George .. 32 | 29 30 0 Cloudy Seattle e | 27 30 0 Foggy Portland 49 | 29 31 0 Fogg San Francisco .. 65 54 57 0 Clear WEATHER SYNOPSIS Showers were falling this morning over Southeast Alaska and rain or snow at most stations from the Aleutian Islands to Barrow Clear or partly cloudy skies werz reported elsewhere over Alaska. Rain had fallen during the previous 24 hours from Southeast Alaska to Cordova and from the Aleutian Islands to the Bering Sea and the lower Kuskokwim Valley and show from the Kenai Peninsula morthward over the .Alaska Range to Fairbanks and from the Seward Peninsula to Barrow. The greatest amount of precipitation was 1.79 inches which was recorded'at Juneau. Broken clouds to overcast with local showers, moderately low ceilings and good visibilities were re- ported over the Juneau-Ketchikan airway. The Tuesday morning weather chart indicated relatively low pressure to the northeast of Southeast Alaska with a low trough of pressure extending southwestward into lower latitudes from Queen Charlotte Sound and a low pressure of 978 millibars (28.88 inches) was centered near St. Paul Island. High pressure of 1020 millibars (30.39 inches) was located at 41 d2grees north and 133 degrees west and a second high pressure cent:r of about the same pressure at 43 degrees north and 157 degrees wost, Juneau, November 20. — Sunrise 8:56 a.m., sunset 4:30 pm. McCANN TO S TKA Billy McCann, local fighter, and his trainer, Eddie Powers, are pas- sengers on the North Coast to Sitka where McCann tomorrow night THREE MISSIONS 10 S0. AMERICA TOKIO, Nov. 19.—The Japanese meets Cal McGraw in defense of his welterweight title. CLOTHES that are CLEANED GFTEN—Wear Longer! Send YOUR GARMENTS to = sky, The South Seas delegation sailed | Trlangle The mountain lakes, and the flow'rs| | from Kobe today aboard the liner | iy st il nearby; | x ! Kamo Maru. | i g The gold of the early sourdough’s| According to reports brought io| | The second mission, to Central dfl:?"s-on“;n'?xflr dreNins, Interior cities by Pilot Bill Muuz Amedline aud’ the West odast of | cleaned. clothes, The precious gold of the hills and| WhO bases at Taylor, the Seward | South America, will sail from Yoko- | Triangle streams; Peninsula is overrun with wolves. hama on November 22 aboard the! Way! The: brilliant stars in the northern|MUnZ states that he sees them| liner Rie Maru. | Phone oKy, every day, often in packs of a The third mission, to the Atlan- | The, “Bear’—the “Dipper’——and, dozen, { |tc coast of Central and South shining high, B | America, will sail from Yokohama | : (aboard the Montevideo Maru No- | vember 24, | i ——————— | The great North Star with fits steady light, Over land and sea a beacon bright. AMUNDSENS MOV i Alaska's flag—to Alaskans dear, NORTH; pAA "OB: 2 The' dmf"»il‘g of “fllva»‘i frontier.| g John Amundsen and her | ” i | Subscripe to ‘rne Dauy aiaska Em- ‘ | pire — the paper with the largest ' two children, David and Janice,| guarantees circulatioa, Lillian Uggen, who is to be director 2gencies, we have distributed more | tha of the show. At least 30 Rotarians will be on the stage. An eight-piece orchestra in the pit will be directed by Art Uggen. John Cauble is to be “Mr. Interlocutor.” There will be four end men instead of the usual wo.’, Popcorn and peanut butchers will work in the audience. A patriotic finale will close the show. Reports were heard today on the Rotarian Church service last Sunday | at the Resurrection Lutheran Church | and the Rotary party last night at Percy's Cafe, | Lee Lucas spoke today on the Constitution in one of a series of | Americanism talks being heard by | the club. | Guests at today's meeting included Harold Poss, Harold Roth and Paul Dapcevich. ———e-———— TWO BILLS BEING | STUDIED BY LEGIQN | Two proposed bills whieh will be’ presented to the Territorial Legisla- ture were discused at last -night’s | meeting of Alferd John Bradford | Post of the American Legion. | One bili would legalize the De- | Both. were turned over to Child Welfare Committee, | Polley, is Chairman, the bills, showing to Nome, un &Co. sav n 30,000 pamphlets on tubercu- losis. Motion pictures on tubercu- losis have been shown wherever power is available and talks on tuberculosis control have been given to all interested groups.” “I feel,” he continued, “that it is particularly important that the people of Alaska know that sof large a portion of the funds are retained ‘at home' and used for| control of tuberculosis in the Ters ritory.” — eee - HOOPER BAY PRIEST DIES FROM STROKE Word has been received of the death of the Rev. Father John Sif- ton, 8. J, at the Catholic Mission at Hooper Bay. He was found dead on his knees in his room at the Mission. Death was apparently caused by a stroke. STEALS MATE'S TRUCK —— ed recently at Fairbanks, alleged NEW YORK, Nov: 19. — Closing | to have:stolen his wife's motor truck, quotation of Alaska Juneau mlne‘vn.lued at $150. The Mortimers are stock is 5%, American Can 90, Beth- | separated. lehem Steel 87%, Commonwealth Nk Sl o i and Southern 1, Curtiss Wright 10%, | CABIN TORN DOWN International Harvester 556%, Ken-| The old log cabin, built 25 years necotit, 36%, New: York Central 14%, |ago, and situated on the Lathrop Northern Pacific 7%, United States [property at Anchorage, once hous- Steel 70%2, Pound $4.04. ing the Elks Lodge and lately a —. “home-oooked ' restaurant, is being DOW, JONES AVERAGES torn down to make room for the The following are today’s Dow,|new Lathrop building. ! eft by PAA Electra this afternoor for their new home in Fairbanks, Charles W. Mortimer was arrest-| With Mr. Amundsen at the con-| trols, The Amundsens are moving to Fairbanks, Amundsen having cently joined the flying personnel of the Pacific Alaska Airways. While in Juneau, the Amundsens made a host of friends. - GRUMMETT RETURNS Stan Grummett arrived on the North Coast from a brief business trip to Petersburg. re-. i | | | aly’s popular nberto (akove) | 5 nation in the | i | Umberto com- army in the west 3 yoars old. | Jones averages: Industrials, 134.48; rails, 29.70; utilities 20.89. -, £PECIAL ELECTION, VALDEZ Valdez will hold a special elec- tion of December 9 for the pur- |pose of ratifying a decision of the | City Council to dispose of the mu- }nlclpal hangar built in 1930. | ——— i The Rev. Sifton had spent 26 years as a missionary in lonely Es- kimo-villages along Bering Sea. The Eskimos called him “Good Speaker" becausé of his facllity in the use of native languages. P —————— roup ana me BURNETT TO- LEAVE child welfare | , |enroute to his new location. Mr. and Mrs. Bumett have been active in community affairs in Pair- banks where they have resided: the|of Dougigs, now: in Valdez with her last two years. — e — l' Empire ciassifieds Wing resulta “ FOR HICAGQ OFFICE == cied recently and was buriea v | Charles Burnett, CAB inspector in | hearing is plan~| thg interier for.the last fous years, | 10 hear expres- has been transferred ‘to the Chi-|pasement, quickly spread and gut- |cago headquarters and expects 0|teq the residence of Mrs. Wayne | leave Anchorage shortly for sutuel‘mue in Seward. CALLED BY NAVY Halford P. Noggle, Assistant Dis- |trict Attorney of the Third Divis- ion, Naval Reserve, will leave his post next month for a tour of duty | !with' the U. 8. Navy. The length of | his service is unknown. i i e 1 skl i OLDTIMER BIES | John Maki, an oldtimer of Was- at Anchorage. ———l————. WRECKED BY' FIRE Fire from: an oil heater in the —— e ———— MRES. WOODBURY ILL Mrs. George Woodbury, formerly. husband, Operator~-in~Charge of the | radio station, was quite ill recently SEEING'S !with an attack of the flu. enft NOT BELIEVING, from snemv oves gives above German mine-sweeper a gay pattern as it enters war s SO i NAZIS HOPE—_cCamoufiage intended tq conceal this | p—— Watch Our Windows FOR DAILY BARGAINS THRIFT CO-OP Next to City Hall Nords Largest GMC TRUCKS Compare Them With AH Others! PRICE - APPEARANCE - ECONOMY DURABILITY CONNORS MOTOR CO. PHONE 411 ‘Put a Covic Diesel in Your Boat If You Want MORE. ROOM IN YOUR BOAT More Miles for Your Mongy A Comfortable, Quiet Ride An Engine that Instantly Starts A Broad Range of Smooth Speeds Lew Operating and Maintenance Costs Reduced. Insurance kates Smokeless, Odorless Exhaust Full Djesel Dependability An Engine that Can Be Easily Hand Cranked CHARLES G. WARNER (0. 00000600000