The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 20, 1940, Page 2

SPORTSMEN T0 RALLY; Jum-nu i e f Gruenmgs Honor @® | BIG PLANES " FOR BRITAIN - GOFROMU.S. Juneau Visitors /ilhjaimur uest du i (m' and M entertaining I-' this THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 20, 1940. ITALIANS REPULSING BRITISHERS Communique Claims At- tempt fo Capture One Island Frustrated ROME, Nov. 20, — The Italian communique this morning says that there was a British attempt to cap- ture the island of Gaidaro, whic is in the Dodecanese group. According to the communigue, the attempt was repulsed by the action of Italian land, sea and air forces The Island of Gaidaro is 10 mi south of the Greek island of Samos The Italian communigue gave 1(‘!Jl]k of the attack. It be- [lieved British forces may have tried to ‘make the landing from British warships. Juneau Hostesses Plan Gala Dinners For T!@ksgiving Juneau hostesses famed for their hospitality will gather friends and relatives about them for the tra- small dinner ; (,,‘:,“\ “\,:“1‘ I:v \];:”Mfi :m !’ ditional Thanksgiving celebration Ay Ditcasne; Mr. “hufl Mes. O s —_— Among those entertaining tomor- d 4 H oldstel Mr. and Mrs. Wellman, ~ row are Gov. and Mrs. Gruening Juneau’s Biggest Stag Par- Gosten. e end xtr svimes: Army Releases 46 FIYing wio “aee ™ Spening ~cheir 11 i<k Thompson, Dr. and Mrs. W. W ¥ Toanksgiving in Juneau. Guest 'y Pfomlses 10 Be At' ('mmflxx]. Mr. Charles Burdick and FOT"CSSGS IfaflS'efS will include Mrs. Charles W. the I r guest | Hawkesworth and daughter Flor- 'ended by crOWd ! ‘La:“x;’gl?\ ; dinner party at the A"ranged ence, Mrs. Effie Knapp, Miss Jane (Governor's mansion honored Col. —_— Alexandgnm Major Jess dEd Gr}']\- | 8 20! ham and Mrs. Graham and daugh- e gho ot | SRS the . dgd Boikers o] | WASHINGIFON, New(20. — W ter. Dr. W. &. Ramsey, “William| | Dun: e , B s o ey neau ' ug are o . has acted on the release of ) i);]:dl un":ml:j organizational mem‘_ passed through Juneau yesterday | AG““(‘:r ]Lal:ealnr(gest United States| RAmsey, and Staff Sergeant and P ; = alar b ,|on an inspection trip. Other guests | ¥ Mrs. Hamilton H. Bond, U T hos sons KR | bombing planes to Great Britain ™. tne Rucsel Maynard home in QUL ;R e Bin AL it Gy L\lu(l;;u-‘[\)xéz‘l |and also announced that ore of . pyjcrest Apartments the fol- Meny have been personally con- Katherine Gresory And HEh G4 ftwo high accuracy bombsights de-| ),y il gaher for Thanksiv- tacted, -but the job of canvassing veloped in this country has fll"mg AiARart e W e !'t;ogl-r the entire channel is so great that| ready been released to the British.| i AT i ard “:m-- o not yet been contacied are asked to | Sperry. A more modern bombsight oy , B d Mrs k phone 602 or Green 375 to leave| w ' E. is now being used by the U. S. ' ’ ¥ 2 ! & st Twe e their names end facilitate feeding " Army and Navy. hor:: I‘:‘};elran:;Vx»;r\ \\x]«l(;{h mbi&ll:‘(l ) Twenty-six of the d-engined Li'have’a their guests Mr. and A bu.sme.&g session wul‘ get under FOR MORE ( S planes to be released to Britain| Mrs. Earl McGinty Mr md‘ b et a4 * ** are now coming from the Consoli- pyey Geeslin and Mr. and Mrs r,dl-' men wx[ll discuss their respective] =00 0o lated Adircraft plant at San -Diego. VAT desires for setting up of a perma- These will be delivered to ; 2 ! A ; nent organization. Officers will be Aboui Two Hundred Thou- s 3 Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Shepard will clected to keep the organization | d w k o B B‘;‘,‘“‘ s‘““;dflé’l- A entertain and their gllests will in- TP he second release of planes, .1 de the Misses Nell McCioskey spirit alive and at least assurz an an orkers 10 pe = # 3 clude the N McCioskey, i | o built by Boeing, are now already parpara Judson, Joan Sabin, the annual stag party, and Frank Du- fresne, chief of the Alaska Game Commission will speak on the ac vities of the commission ‘Bportsmen will also register their | Ramspeck Bill permitting the Presi- complaints or praise of game and/gent fish problems and the meeting wulwl be given over to brief debates At the conclusion cf the busi- ness session, officers of the organ-|gppreva 1 Civil of reelsimore than er in concluding number ization will take o remarks before a v of Alaska angling and big game|government agencies, most of which | movies will be run off |have grown up during the New BASKETBALL The evening will close with a|pea) buffet luncheon, beer, and a druw~: Among them are the RFC, PWA, | ing award of a list of outdoor equip-!cce, AAA, NYA, HOLC, etc Em-| ment prizes. | Included in the long list of those t who will ‘be | for ‘the big night are the names of Governor Ernest Gruening., and 01‘ Mayor Harry Lucas. | EXPENDITURES FOR RELIEF T0 BE REDUCED .. |ter 55, 20.—Chair-| Central 14%, Pound $4.04 WASHINGTON. Nov. man Doughton of the House Ways and Means Committee said the Fed- eral expenditures for relief next year fhovld be much smaller than pre- diéted. Doughten claims the new tax bill will raise at least a sufficient additional revenue to meet the “normal expenses” of the Govern-| ment. orse-Drawn | ployees will have to pass examina- “just one of the boys" | ments. |quotation of. Alaska Juneau mine steck teday is 5% Anaccnda guaranteed circuiaiion. fully equipped and will be turned (over when a basis of release, now | being negotiated, is reached. | The released pianes will be able Given New Status Nov WASHINGTON, 20 The to reach any part of Germany to bring about '7(1(1('(19 mr;rmwnh full loads of bombs, it is mployees under Civil & has | gaid. | ren gt s the LS . It is said that U. S. Army Ob- Hnder Ahe m. i O servers have flown over Great o Brecides Britain but no( over Germany. | to rs ir i > status a score of work independent ions to meet physical require- PLAY BEGUN STOCK QUOTATIONS 20.—Closing Basketballers = turned out = last night at the High 8chool gymn to[ take the kinks put of muscles that |have forgotten the pounding of !maplo floors .and ;get in trim for | the coming winter season of the Jo- cal hoop league. Team practices begin next week and the Grade School gymnasium will be available for workouts, but| | further details of the coming' year | | have yet to ‘be worked out. { The Southeast Alaska Basketball "[ Tournament will again be held in! March and everything points to ai better year than ever before. — e NEW YORK, Nov. 5%, American Can 90, 26 Bethlehem Steel 85%, Commenwealth and Southern | Curtiss Wright 9%, General 49%, Tnternational Harves- Kennecott 35%, New York Northern Pacific 67% DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, ! Jenes averages: industrials 132.22, rails 2918, utilities 2042 The Daily Alaska mmpire guaran. | tees the largest daily cifculation o* | e Subscripe o :ne Dally Alaska Em- Ay Aleaks RPN | pire — the paper with the largest ‘. Subsceibe Tor The Empire. i Vnctorla horse-drawn Victoria cabs was de-'| thodriver of the cab were injured, on Fifth Avenue, Two couples and | the sedan mth which it collided. as 'he | Fairbanks yesterday by Messrs. H. R. Shepard, Royal Shep- ard, Los Bernard, Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Sabin, Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Mon- agle and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Jud- son. - e — WELLING HERE; ON TRIP SOUTH Col. A. C. Welling, of the Ladd Field Army staff, flew in from Welling was to go to Sitka to confer with Naval officials and con- | tractors on the base project there beforé making a brief trip to the| | States on official busi ness — e HOLDEN BRINGS SIX PASSENGERS Alex Holden flew in from the coast yesterday in the Lockheed with six passengers aboard for Juneau. J. J. Davis came in from Hirst and Sam Duker, Howard Montgom- ery, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Richards and George Troychak from Sitka. Today Holden was test-hopping {the recently acquired Fokker which is to operate on the Tulsequah run on wheels this winter. e Since bananas ripen only at room | S | Lloyd Jarman, well known young temperatyre, -do not store them in the refrigerator until they are ripe enough for serving. Demohshed in New York Crash were mdu:e three oceupants of horse, at right. was killed. PAA plane. | HALIBUT HEARING DECEMBER 7 SET | FOR SENATE HERE Members of lniernahonal Commission Coming North on Brant halibut fisheries The hearing which is to be held here December 7 by the International Fisheries Commission will take place in Senate Chambers in the Federal Building, J. Steele Culbertson of the Fish and Wildlife Service announced today. Members of the Commission will arr in Juneau on the patrol boat Brant afser hold- ing hearings in Ketchikan Decein- ber 4 and Petersburg December 5. Another hearing is scheduled for December § in Sitka Interantion: Acsistant Director Charles J son and Fishery Management | or Clarence Olsan of the Fish and Wildlife Service will rive ¢n the Brant This is the first the Commis 1 ha variaus ports to hear the expression | of fishermen on the halibut situa- tion in which the tod BAYONETS NOWUSED BY GREEKS (Continued from Page One) | bombing and machine gunning by | Italian planes. The woman added that those who remain in the city are hiding in the deep vaults of the fortress, living a communal life and seldom daring to venture out for food or water - > S. F. Mining Man | Accident Victim Herbert Falinger of San Francisco, Vice-President of the Metal and U. 8. Smelting Company, was in- | jured in an automobile crash near Nelson, B. C., according to informa- tion received here today. - |GAME (OMMISSION * PATROL BOAT IN | FOR THANKSGIVI In fox ’I’h‘xnksglvmg from a game patrcl of the Icy Strait Hoonah, and Sitka districts, the Fish and Wildlife Service vessel Bear ¢ d in port last night with Captain Sc- Agent Jack Jeffrey. A 2 e WILLIAMSON SURVEY gineer F. W. Williamson of the Pui- lic Survey office, left Kodiak yes- terday and is due in Juneau on the next southbound boat. Wil- liamson has completed Kodiak town- site work. Oth: Davenport, Principal Assistant, Elmer Seery, Chairman. R JARMAN BACK FROM FUNERAL OF FATHER ana Juneau man, returned by Electra yesterday from Fairbanks where he attended the funeral of his father who recently passed away .in the Interior city. Jarman will take the next bcut south to return to his job with| Douglas Aircraft. He is a guest at| the Gasunenu Hotel. Fairbanks Cou;le Mr. and Mrs. J. P. March of Fairbanks, flew in by Electra yes- terday and are guests at the Bar- anof Hotel The young couple will spend sev- eral weeks vacationing in and around Seattle. e MAYNARD RETURNS FROM SITKA AFTER WELFARE BUSINESS After cenferring with Eiler Han- son, Superintendent of the Pion- eers' Home and William W. Knight, Welfare Agent at Sitka, Director Russell Maynard of the Territorial Department cf Public Welfare re- turned by plane to Juneau yester- day. ———— l Emplre Classifieds Payl the | also &r- | VANCOUVER, B. C., Nov. 20.— | | Ores Corpoartion, was killed, and | M. W. Woolley, an official of the | verin Swanson and Deputy Wildlife | PARTY 1S RETURNING in the party are Roheri| Visiting Juneau 500 NAZI PLANES ON. ~ BIGSMASH ;Birmingharfi—l; Fire Black- | ened Picture Today- { Midlands Attacked | (Conminueq irom rage 2ne) | speediest bombers, participated in last night's bombing of Birming- {ham. During the raid the state- ment said bembs of all calibers and zinds were drapped on th2 British xity, particularly on the northern | part where the majority of impol ries were situated. ement said the r: after weather the probabiliy , of conditions. men W guu' Germany's’ newest, | | eperted a night o gocd flying | The weather | n their prognostication | Nazi fliers were aided | the atta by good weather | oriliiant waning moon >-oe jnunmu( TELLS * HOW HE BOUGHT and throughout and a Found Inhabiting Ranges of North How he bought 4,001 reindeer for the Government at a cost of $333.- 063 and turned back $303,000 of | today by Charles G Burdick in a | talk at the monthly meeting of the | National Federation of Federal Em- ployees. Burdick said his recent task for the Department of the Interior in buying up all non-native owned enjoyable because “there were no | precedents to make or break.” The reindeer population | Western and Northern Alaska, |area a little larger than Texa: Burdick estimates at 252,000 Eskimo herders were employed to round up the deer. In some places, these herders were paid off in reindeer instead of money as was the custom in those parts, Bur- | dick said. | Earmarks and Mavericks of | Ownership of the reindeer was | determined by earmarks as the ‘came through the chutes and ti rdllO of ownership determined in | these counts was used on each, | range to allot the mavericks and| the ungathered remnant of ani- | mals remaining on the open range. Burdick said Reindeer Superinten- | dent J. | Indian canny | herds checks | within total. President Ray Ward of the |NFF.E. today termed the recent | death of Charles W. Hawkesworth Affairs possessed an un- ability to estimate deer from the air, numerous showing Rood was usually one percent of the correct Last survey party in the field for a “distinct loss to the arganiza-|g 1640, that directed by Cadastral Er-| | tion” in which the veteran Office {of Indian Affairs official was an | active worker. DOUGLAS NEWS OBSERVE THANKSGIVING School holiday beginning at 2:45 this afternoon to continue for the remainder of the week and closing of food stores all day tomorrow will featur~ Thanksgiving Day in Doug- ;las. There will also be a number | of dinner parties as usual and un- doubtedly feasting and good time |in general will ‘be enjoyed. - . | MRS. CUFHBERT IS | COMPLIMENTED HERE ! About eight of the neighborhood | friends of Mrs.. W. B. Cuthbert dropped in upon her at her home | yesterday afternoon to see her new baby and bearing gifts for the little one. The new arrival has been nam- | ed Della Margaret. S. B. MEETING | Regular meeting of the ‘Douglas School Board will be held this cve- ning in the school. | 'The present week at school ends | the second six-week period on the term and report cards will be {ssued | next Thursday. R i SCHOOL PROGRAMS TODAY | “The kindergarten children had a | party -this forenoon with first grade pupils invited in celebration of the Thanksgiving period and a program was arranged by /fourth, fifth and sixth grade pupils for this after- noon. The seventh and eighth grades and mothers of the pupils | were invited. —— el JOHN John Feusi, former pioneer resi- dent .of Douglas and partner in the Feusi and Jensen, Inc., store, lies critically ill in a San Francisco hos- pital and is not expected to recover largest and | > correct | the ! 84,001 REINDEER Quarter of Mon Animals his appropriation unused was told reindeer in Alaska was particularly | S. Rood of the Office of| { THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) U. S. DEPARTMENT )F COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU | Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4:30 p.m., Nov. 20: Light rain tonight, perature tonight about 37, ly winds, fresh to strong Thursday ‘morning. highest at | | Forecast for Southeast Alaska: | showers Thursday; warmer tonight, lowest tem- Thursday 42, moderate southeaster- times in Gastineau Channel tonight and Occasional rain with snow in mountains tonight and Thursday but with showers Thursday in north portion; warmer tonight, moderate to fresh southeasterly winds but fresh to strong in sounds and straits and Lynn Canal tonight, creasing winds Thursday afternoon. | Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaskas Winds along the Gulf of Alaska tonight and Thursday; trance to Cape Spencer, rain, frasa de- Dixon En- to strong southeasterly winds, becoming moderate to fresh southwesterly by Thursday afternoon; | showers Thursday, Cape Spericer to Cape Hinchinbrook, rain tonight, partly cloudy, 5 fresh to stronz southeasterly winds, shifting to \ moderate to fresh southwesterly wiads late tonight or Thursday; Cape Hinchinbrook to Resurrection Baj, local partly cloudy, moderate westerly to northwesterly winds; Resurrect on ay to Kodiak, moderate north- westerly winds. LOCAL DATA Time Barometer 71emp. Humidity Wind Velocity Weather | 4:30 p.m. yesterday 30.01 36.1 92 w 3 Cloudy | 4:30 am. today .. 3017 3.0 89 s 3 Lt. Snow | Noon today 30.25 344 96 SSE [ Drizzle | RADIO REPORTS | TODAY | ax. tempt. Lowest 3:30a.m Precip. 3:30am | Staticn last 24 hours ! temp temp. 24 hours Weather Barrow 23 11 23 01 Pt. Cidy Fairbanks 21 | 2 21 01 Snow Nome 34 | 28 28 1 Snow Dawson 16 | =1 2 0 Cloudy Anchorage 37 23 34 13 Clousy | Bethel 38 26 28 06 Pt. Cldy | st. Paul 42 26 32 .05 Pt. Cldy | Duteh Harbor .. 39 33 6 20 PL. Cldy Wosnesenski 44 35 36 10 Clear Kodiak 43 36 39 0 Pt. Cldy Cordova 38 34 36 65 Rain Juneau 40 | 3 33 T Snow Sitka 42 31 37 12 Clear Ketchikan 44 34 35 38 Pt. Cldy Prince Rupert 45 36 39 28 Pt. Cldy Prince George 19 34 Cloudy Seattle 43 35 38 0 Cloudy | Portland 45 28 32 0 Cloudy { San Francisco . 66 40 42 0 Clear WEATHER SYNOPSIS Rain or snow was falling this morning at most stations from Juneau to Cordova and snow over | Seward Peninsula to Fairbanks. the Alaska range and from the Partly cloudy skies were reported generally elsewhere over Alaska. Rain or snow had fallen during the amount of precipitation having Cordova, ceilings and fair to good previous 24 hours at most station be Scattered clouds to over visibili ies over the Juneau-Ketchikan airway. The Wednesday morning weather throughout Alaska, the 65 inch which was recorded .t skies with moderately low were reported this marning g n ast chart indicated an occluded front extended from a low center of about 975 millibars (28.79 inches) at 68 degrees north and 160 degre into lower A second low center of about 1010 millibars (20.83 inches) was locat- ed just west of the Washington coast and a third low center and thence southwestward lowest pressure about 987 millibars from about 52 degrees north and 162 degrees ,east. (30.30 inches) was centered about 48 degrees north about 1026 millibar: es west, southeastward to Cordova latitudes .in the Pacific Ocean. with (29.15 inches) was moving eastward High pressure of and 145 degrees west and a second high center of about the same pressure at 34 degrees north, center of about 1030 millibars 132 degrees west and a third high (3042 inches) was located at 43 de- grees north latitude and 172 degrees west longitude. Juneau, November \emhex 22.—Sunrise 9:01 am., 21 —Sunrise 8:58 am., sunset 4:27 p.m. sunset 4:28 p.m. No- | according to word received here in | the last mail by his dayghter, Mrs. Marcus Jensen. His illness really egan early in the summer when he nonceably began to fail and then about the first of November a severe | cold caused complications which caused his removal to the St. Fran- cis Hospital in the Golden Gate City. Delirious a good deal of the time, Mr. Feusi lives again in Douglas where he had his home for close on to forty years. In 1936 it was that | he went to California just for a trip, | but married again for the second time and decided to spend the rest | of his days amidst the balmier sur- | roundings of the Golden Gate City | and environs. | | DOUGLAS (OLISEUM | Ty ‘ “ON TRIAL” ’ ol | May 26, 30, Nov. 6-13-20-27, 1940. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GENERAL LAND OFFICE DISTRICT LAND OFFICE Anchorage, Alaska. September 23, 1840. Notice is hereby given that Os- car Mangsol, has made applicatiot for a homesite under the act of 1934 (48 Stat. 809) An- chorage serial 09866, for the lan, described as Lot “D” of U. S Survey No. 2389, of the Auke Bay Group of Homesites, containing 2.85 acres, Any and all persons claiming ad- versely any of the above mentioned land should file their adversy claim in the District Land Office, Anchorage, Alaska, within the per- xod of publication or thirty days thcreaner, or they will be barred by the provisions of the Statutes. GEORGE A. LINGO, Register. 2-9-16-23- adv, | Publication dates, Oct. Try a clmlflea ad in 'x'he Empizr FOR DAILY Watch Our Windows THRIFT CO0-0P BARGAINS GMC TRUCKS Lompare Them With All Others! 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