The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 25, 1940, Page 2

The Men won't be pouring into éamps in as large numbers as they did in 1917-18. camp organization, better sanitation and more attention to the individual soldier’s peace of mind. The life of a soldier is not what it used fo be. Morgan Beatty of the AP Feature Ser- vice investigated draftees would be going an what they would be doing. This 1 is the fi of his six articles. where the ne as By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON—The big differ- ence between the draft .~ This Is the Life! Army’s Ready Th Private Misfif's Out of Date Annabelle Simpson CATERDILLARS found this out when he ' | Juneau today of the marriage yes- | terday in Los Vegas of Miss Anna- | is Time; Is Wed in Los Vegas To Charles Melczer in Announcement was received belle Simpson, daughter of Dr. and army of Mrs. Robert Simpson of Juneau, to 1940 and the draft army of 1917-'18 Mr. Charles Melczer, son of Joseph is about 3.000,000 men And what a whale of a differ- ence 3,000,000 meén make! handle. For a while they pushed a million men a month through the training camps, Naturally there were 90-day- wonder shavetails companies right off cliffs sergeant didn't Stop tHem. Bani- desired seas of ! graduated in- 1939 from Stanford |more challenging prospect than the In World War days, the Army{umverslty, During the last year |tundra trek which awaits had to take on more than it could | Mr, Melczer was a graduate student | van of Caterpillar tractors | | Melczer, of Phoenix, Arizona. Both Mr. and Mrs. Melczer were in the School of Business Adminis- tration at Harvard University and this year is continuing his graduate work at Stanford, The young couple who'd march|will make their home in Palo Alto| Dispatehed to the Arctic to scrape! if the, until the term ends in June. | | | . Mrs. Melezer is a graduate of the |sites of Civil Aeronautics. Adminis-| tation was not all that could be Juneau schools and has been among | tration auxiliary air fields, 20. DC} Camp streets often were the most popular of the Juneau Cats and allled equ!pment are on mud. And the Army was YOUDE people. Mr. Melczer also has |board the S8 Dellwood out of Se- handling weapons many of its of-|many. friends in Juneau, having ficers didn't understand. Meant To Stop It There’s infantry officer who so deplore the death rate in forced airplane landings that he posted this bul-‘ letin on a Texas air field; “Effective this date, there will be no more forced landings!” Shoes and uniforms seldom fit well in 1917. Haste was the reason for all this, We were aArming too fast, training men too fast. This time, the medical corps says it is ready to cope with all preventable epidemics, The doc- tors remember the tragedy of the| 1918 flu epidemic. Uniforms have | visited here last summer, | graduated from high school in Phoe- th lassi bout the MiX, Arizona, where his father is L o ]; associated with the Star Flouring He was Mills and the Phoenix National Bank. > Mrs. Melczer® accompanied her {b.rother, Robert, soyth in Septem- ber to San Francisco, flying from the bay city to Los Vegas for the surprise marriage. ————— ‘ Hospitar NoTES Max G. Rayelo entered St. Ann's been modified for easy fitting, Hospital Sunday for surgical treat- Every camp will have a shoe fit- ting machine. Alr officers will give orders to air troops. The Army's punch card system is probably the outstanding dif- ference. Under it men will give their trades, hobbies, preferences, hopes, And they'll be given jobs that fit them when possible. (More about this in another article.) The Army hopes Private Misfit will not haunt his officers as he did in 1918. One day a World War command- ing officer got a requisition for all expert automobile mechanics in his camp. He sent for Private Misfit. “What did you do before you got in' the Army?” “Engraver, sir.” “You must be mistaken,” said the| exasperated commander. “Think! Weren't you an automobile me-~ chanic?” “Well, sir, I don't—" ‘Just what 1 thought. Pack up your duds and report to head- quarters as an expert automobile mechanic!” Wen't Hiappen Again That won't happen again, un- less the punch card machine slips 2 cog. And PS8, Mom and Dad: The Army says you can visit the train- ing camps most any time to see for yourself how all this is work- ing out, But if there's something special about your son the army ought to know, please take it up with the draft board BEFORE he gets in. Itll be ever so much easier to straighten out. Tomo:rcw: What the soldiers of 1940-41 will wear, BASSEIT il SOUTH ON Waiting in St. Anfi's Hospital to go south on the Douglas plane, is Clark Bassett, Panair employee, who is receiving medical treatment for a severely inj eye. Bassett will seek further attention in Seattle. e QUICK RELIEF for troibled feet Tele, 648, Chiropodist. Dr. Steves. | i i | ment. Henry Maki was dismissed from St. Ann’s today. Dave Mahlum, who has been re- cefving medical treatment at St. Ann's Hospital, is to leave for his home this afternoon. A baby boy weighing eight pounds was born Saturday afternoon at St. Ann’s to 'Mr. and Mrs. Tony To- mitich. Mrs. Helen Trout and Mrs. Lola ‘Walthers left St. Ann’s Sunday with their new babies. Mrs. William Johnson, who has been a surgical patient at St. Ann's left the hospital for her home yes- terday. Mrs. J. S. Putnam was in St Ann's Hospital over Sunday for medical attention. Miss Suzy Winn, who had expect- ed to return home Saturday, will remain in St. Ann's for a few days longer recuperating from burns re- ceived over a week ago. Mrs, Johanna West was taken to St. Ann's Sunday with a broken ankle. R y FOR THE BOXER At the little village of Bethel on the Kuskokwim River a strange ship repair job wil be done this winter. It is the installation of @ new pro- pelidr on the U. S. niotorship Boxer of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, in a drydock formed of ice. The Boxer. is moored in a slough at Bethel with long mooring lines rurining to the shore. When the slough is frozen solid, men with axes will chop the ice around the stern of the vessel and the broken propellor will be removed and a new one installed, | | | The result will be better 10 TREK NORTH ~ TOPI. BARROW, Caravan of Tractors Taken | fo Nome fo Be Sent | Iifo Far North No Sahara safari ever faced & a caras destined ! | Tor points stretching to the topknot |of Uncle Sams possessions, Point !Bflrm, says a recent Fairbanks | News-Miner. § | the hide off the earth at 10 proposed attle due in Nome this week. The Dellwood will discharge its| cargo of -dirt-moving monsters at the starting peint of what may prove | to be one of the toughest rows men and machinery have had to hoe. Leave After New Year ! A caraviin of eight fractérs with | 4 crew of 40 men, siipplies, ;i'oflable‘ buildings, fuel and lubrication abcard will crawl cut of Nome ne ward after January Two Cats will halt by the wayside at Shelton, rorthern terminus of the Kougarok | Railroad. Two more will pitch! camp. at Taylor. The femaining quartet will continue across the | frozen crust of Kotzebue Sound to the village of Kétzebue, The tractors are moving to their cperation sites in midwinter in or-| der to make them valuable for im-| mediate shipment north to Barrow when_ the boats are able to sail into Arctic waters again next spring. Marshall C. Hoppin, CAA" super- intendent of , airways, accompanied by W. L. “Dan” Lhamon, manager of the Northern Commercial Cat- erpillar department in Fairbanks will fly to Nome in a few days to| lay groundwork for organization of | the tractor carvan. Complete List 1 The complete list of equipment aboard the Dellwood and the SS Ba- ranof, also due in Nome this week, | was announced by Lhamon as fol- lows: { Twenty DC 80-hoxsepower, trac- tors, four No. 12 motor graders, 12 Le Tourneau angledozers, eight Le- Tourneau bulldozers, 20 front power control units, 16 rear power. control IN COLD WAVE { have left their banks. | afternoon were surging over the low |loss of life which BUSKINVILLE THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, NOV. 25, 1940 SOUTH TEXAS TWO STEAMERS o - | morrow morning from the south The Yukon, westbound, is sched- uled to arrive at 8 o'clock tomor- row morning. The North Sea, bound for is scheduled to arrive at clock tomorrow morning The Princess Norah port at 5:30 o'clock noon. Sitka 10 o'~ Hundreds of Families Flee to Safety-Red Cross Aiding Refugees DALLAS, Tex., I'ov. —New flood threats sent hundreds of South Texas families hurrying in safety from the rain-gutted streams which due in after- is this OUTLAWING OF STRIKES IS PROPOSAL Georgia Congr—essman De- clares "'Labor Racket- eers” Responsible Repre- While meager short wave radio messages from Amarillo reported the |city is still held fast in a sheath of ice, the river is coming up as the cloudbursts upstream surged down the Guadalupe and waters late this lying residential section. Many homes in Vietoria Cuero are inundated. The homes are most- ly thgse of humble working men and the Red Cross is feeding the men and their families. There are no direct reports of seems amazing as many streams suddenly went over | their banks during the night. The rain dumped as much as 16 | 98 erted that “strikes a inches on some sections during the | the Government is the most sh: bast 48 hours and then freezing |ful thing that has happened in this weather came, making a thick coat ‘connlrv in a long time. WASHINGTON, Nov sentative E. E. Cox of G of. ice Representative Cox proposes to| Communications are down®in fl”"oullaw all such strikes during the directions and highway traffic is | ‘emergency period Cox emphatically told the House practically at a standstill Bl bt it membership that “labor racketeers” |are responsible for strikes now pre- ailing against the industries work- |ing on defense equipment for the Government. —>>o—— VIS NEW TOWN NEAR KODIAK The town of “Kodiak™ is now three ) | | municipal centers rather than onz-“ the camp is still ‘booming,” hous- | . ing is still lacking, and there are| apparently enough workmen waiting | SEATTLE, Nov. / 25—The Seattie jobs to take care of immediate ]‘“'iDail.\' Times today says Harold ing. aetnande. s brought to|ETitchett, of Vancouver, B. C.. has That was the news brought (0|,cgoneq as President of the CIO town this morning by Frank Hen- nessy, Senior Interviewer of the Territorial Employment Service who has spent the last month at Kodiak felfeving the employment office su- perintendent there Buskinvlle is the newest town on zfiodiak Island, Hennessy declared. He said civilian employes and their families have built the new town between Women's Bay and Kodiak itself. The ‘town,” on the banks International Woodworkers of Amer- ca. | The Times says Pritchetts resig- Ination was submitted during the CIO National Convention last week. O. M. Orton, of Seattle, the Times Nov. 25—Union leaders in the Vultee Aircraft plant returned today to conferences with the management, still denying charges that the 10-day strike has halted military contracts aggregat- | ing $80,000,000 and is inspired by says, has been elected a member of of the Buskin River, has a popula-| (oMES wEsI’ | i Navy men and their wives have ing and growing. and proof of citizenship before Have 51st Wedding | | CIO United Auto Workers, has ar- celebrated their 51st wedding anni- | ‘use whatever influence I have to | | DUE TOMORROW | said the 60-hour weekiy closed per- liod of last year, increased from 36| ithe CIO National Executive Board |to replace Pritchett. tion now of “about 400,” Hennessy said, has several “stree and is H Elp SETTLE their own community at Women's| Bay, while Kodiak itself, with a| - Workmen bound for Kodiak to seek | | Jobs should remember to be straight- | | leaving, Hennessy warned. o n i B | Communists. L . Anmversafy Sunday (rived here from the East and joined The Charles Goldsteins, one orilh‘? conference. versary yesterday. In honor of the occasion they had a small dinner e e—— blossoming into a real community population of around 1,600 is mriv-} ened out on their birth certificates| pownpy éal Charles Goldsteins R. J. Thomas, President of the Juneau’s longest married couples,! Thomas expressed the desire to party. Guests were Dr. and Mrs units, 10 Model L 9%1cubic-yard|C. C. Carter, Mr. and Mrs. I. Gold- aid settlement of the difficulties.”, - LOGAN-WALKER carryalls, four H3 heavy duty root- stein, Mr and Mrs. J. F Mullen, Miss ers, four W3 sheepfoot rollers, and |Minnie Goldstein and Robert Gold- four DIN heavy duty towing win- |stein ches. | > — The list does not idclude another| Don Hagerty, Senior Qrganiza- tion Field Agent for the Office of Indian Affairs, returned on the steamer Tyee after attending the Alaska Native Brotherhood con- $9,000 worth of LeTourneau and Caterpillar parts in the same ship- | ment to be held on hand in the! Caterpillar branch warehouse at BILL TAKEN UP. WASHINGTON, Nov. 25. — The ! Senate this afternoon voted 34 to |21 to take up the controversial Log- an-Walker bill designed to facilitate the Court of Appeals decisions, such as quasi judicial agencies as the Nome, nor tons of portable struc-|vention at Klawock. Labor Board. HEARINGS REOPENED ON SALMON Seiners Wé;f ]ntrease in! Size of Boats-Freer Use of Seines ) | The Canned | SEATTLE, Nov Salmon Industry of Alaska has rec- ommended more flexible regulations | of mon fisheries in the Territory as hearings opened here today before | Dr. Ira Gabrielson, Director of the | Fish and Wildlife Service. Spokesmen of the Alaska Fisher- men’s Union generally concurred in the industry’ recommendations while representatives of the United Fishermen's Union of the Pagific, | composed mostly of purse seiners | said in districts where fish boats’ are limited to fifty feet in length, | the limit should be changed to 35 net regstered tons. Union View | Henry Barbarovich, of the United | Fishermen’s Union, said the change will move fishing offshore and im- prove the quality of fish caught,| provide larger and safer boats :mdi improve accommodations for fish- ermen. Babarovich also recommended changes in methods of measuring mesh of nets, taking into consid- eration shrinkage each year, elim- ination of maximum depths for! purse seine gear, establishment of a minimum distance of two miles| between all fish traps and changes in methods of measuring purse seines, i Arnold Advocations W. C. Arnold, canned salmon| spckesman, advocated, along with other things, the elimination of the additional weekly closed fishing periods and changes in the regu-| lations for closing the season. | Arnold urged that Fish and Wild- life Service representatives on the| ground be given freer rein in de-! i termining the final seasonal clos-| ing date i On the matter of hours, Arnold| hours, did not serve the purpose «f conservation it is intended to’ serve; but instead the same num-| ber of fish are taken out in five days instead of six, increasing costs of operation without conserving the run. Other Contentions Arnold added this regulation did | not benefit the use of mobile gear | as anticipated and contended that | Southeast Alaska and the Prince William Sound districts should be | returned to a 36-hour weekly c]used‘ period . Another recommendation from Ar- | nold is that the regulation which | requires spillers of traps to be lifted | Hoyt Sprague. There will be a cov- | Hooker will cook and serve the din- within four feet of the surface with- |ered dish luncheon and as much | ner. in 36 hours after the close of the| season be eliminated, and urged that | this law be revised to provide that Zzaar. fish traps be made totally ineffective | for fishing. | The attorney held also that clos- | ing hours and dates should be left' more to the discretion of re- sponsible agents of the Fisheries Service on the scene in order that the closure shall more nearly be based on the suggested formulation of local advisory groups composed of opeartors, fishermen and the Fish and Wildlife Service. WEEKEND ARREST Maurice ; M. Davich was booked ! here over the weekend on a charge | the victim of some mishap. of disturbing the peace. | . NASI TO PETERSBURG Kaarlo. Nasi, Directer of the Di-| vision of Public Health Engineering' for the Territorial Department of Health, left on the steamer Baranof for Petersburg on public health bus- | iness. Later he wili visit Wran-! gell, tures, fuel, food and other neces- sary supplies for the catskinners who will be hired in Nome for the long northward grind. —————.——— . . . Ski Club Enjoy Weekeiid Outiig | With four nches of powder snow Gver a frozen crust about 20 inches deep, ski club members enjoyed one of the most pleasant weekends in the history of the club. Twenty-Tive miembers climbed to the upper cabin whefre they gloried: In the ideal snow cbnditions. There was nc wind and thé weather was pleasantly crisp, but not cold: Nine took the trip to the Crookes Trail and three .over-nighters, My~ 1en Christy, Carl Danielson and Allan Wicks, voted the upper cabin | Desert Warriors ‘Who Flght for Britair f ‘The new propellor will be shipped | be boat to Seward, then by rail io, ‘Anchorage and then by plane to Bethel. The Boxer was disabled in the Kuskokwim in early October and will spend the winter locked in the in A-1 condition. — JOIN NURSING STAFF Miss Viola Rinell of Skagway and Mus. Vera Tyler, who has nurs- ice at Bethel. ing at Eklutna, have joified the staff e of the Co-Op Hospital at, Palmer. KAZEE RETURNING T g TR Harry H. Kazee, Senior Satety] MANY SEEK'DIVORCES | Instructor for the U. S. Bureau! On theccalendar of jthe District of Mines, is a passenger for Ju-|Court at Anchorsge are 50 divorce heau on the Princess Norah due]actions, . ting in almost all parts of Alasks, this afternoon. ? e classified ad In The Emplrr l Empire Clussifieds Pay! Trye Bmhnwmpmyo!mmiw fighters, these men are at home in that s incorporated in the British army of the Near East. Fierct ::o desert :xlxd play an ifsportant role in defense of the Suez Canal. THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) U. S. DEPARTMENT NDF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU Forecast for Juneau avd vicinity, beginning at :30 p.m., Nov. 25: Mostly cloudy with snow flurries tonight and Tuesday; not much change in temperature, lowest {emperature tonight about 32, high- est Tuesday 38, gentle to moderate southeasterly winds. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Mostly cloudy with local light showers or snow flurries tonight and Tuesday except partly cloudy Tuesday in southwest portion; not much change in temperature: moderate southeasterly winds except fresh northerly in Lynn Canal. Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf ot Entrance to Cape Spencer, cloudy with local show Alaska Dixon , mod- crate to fresh southeasterly winds; Cape Spencer to Cape Hinchin- brook, mostly cloudy with local snow flurries, moderate to fresh east- erly to northeasterly winds; Capz Hinchinbrook to Resurrection Bay, partly cloudy, moderate to fresh northeasterly winds; Resurrec- tion Bay to Kodiak, partly cloudy, moderate to fresh northerly to northeasterly winds. LOCAL DATA Time Barometer 71emp. Humidity Wind Velocity Weather 4:30 p.m. yesterday 20.52 38 49 E 18 Snow 4:30 a.m. today 29.85 34 54 SE 4 Cleudy Noon today 30.02 35 64 N 5 Snow RADIO REPORTS TODAY Max. tempt. Lowest 3:30am Precip. 3:30am Staticn last 24 hours ' temp temp, 24 hours Weather Barrow . 23 -3 -3 0 Clear Fairbanks 20 6 10 0 Nome 30 23 24 0 Dawson 13 -5 10 0 Whitehorse 12 | 5 9 .10 Cloudy Anchorage 27 | 13 14 0 Cleur Bethel 18 16 16 0 Clear St. Paul .. 34 29 31 0 Cloudy Dutch Harbor .. 37 | 31 31 0 . ‘Wosnesenski ... 39 | 25 31 0 Kanatak 37 30 30 0 Rodiak 37 | 43 87 5o Cordova . 38 31 38 0 Juneau 40 | 31 34 01 Sitka 46 34 33 Ketchikan 45 37 41 119 Prince Rupert . 45 37 41 .88 Prince George .. 38 35 36 0 Seattle 54 | 44 47 07 Portland 44 | 31 42 26 Cloudy San Francisco . 57 | 40 43 0 Clear WEATHER SYNOPSIS Showers or snow flurries wer: falling this morning over South- east Alaske and local snow flurrie; at some points in the Aleutian Islands. Clear to partly cloudy skis prevailed generally elsewhere over Alaska. Rain or snow had fa'len during the previous 24 hours at some stations from southeast A'aska to Yakutat and at Kodiak Is- land and the Aleutian Islands. Th> greatest amount of precipitation was 1.19 inches which was record:d at Ketchikan. Overcast skie: with moderately high to moderate7l low ceilings, local light snow flurries or showers and good visibilities were reported this morning over the Juneau-Ketchikan airway. The Monday morning weather chart indicated relatively low pres- sure in the Gulf of Alaska and a center of low pressure of 987 milli- bars (29.14 inches) was located a' 44 degrees north and 165 degrees west. High pressure of 1030° millibars (30.41 inches) was centered at 40 degrees north and 130 degr2es west and a second high pres- sure area of over 1034 milibars (30.52 inches) was centered near Barrow. Juneau, November 26.—Sunrise, 9:09 a.m. sunset 4:21 p.m. Have Sewing Session To complete the sewing for the A 6:30 o'clock dinner will be given bazaar, Susannah Wesley Circle by the Order of Eastern Star tomor- members will meet Wednesday fore- row evening at the Scottish Rite noon at 10 o'clock at the Metro- | Temple. Mrs. Lillian Hooker is in politan Methodist Church social charge of the dinner and reserva- reom. tions may he made by calling nher Chairman for the meeting is Mrs. | at 363 this evening. Mrs. Katherine Rol{ EII Dinner time as possible will be devoted to| Mrs. A. D. Wallace will speak at final arrangements for the ba-|the dinner of her experiences in | England during the bombardment T - Following the dinner there will be a business meeting after which | annual roll call will take place. — e ADMITTED TO BAR she Stanley J. McCutcheon has been admitted to the bar after passing the final examination before Dis- trict Judge Simon Hellenthal at An- chorage. The new attorney is 22 and has been-connected with the law firm of Grigsby and Drager. PILOT SOUTH Don Glass, Anchorage flier with Woodley Airways, passed southbound through Juneau on the Baranof on a vacation trip to Seattle, planning to stay out until after the first of the year. — PROSPECTOR DISAPPEARS Louis Beck, oldtime prospector in the Koyukuk, is missing following a trip to prospect ground on John {River and it is feared he has been e ANCHORAGE TAX LEVY The City Council of Anchorage has | set the annual tax levy at 15 mills. | This is an increase of five mills Empire Classifieds Pay! over the rate fixed last year. Put a Covic Diesel in Your Boat If You Want MORE ROOM IN YOUR BOAT More Miles for Your, Money A Comfortable, Quiet Ride An Engine that Instantly Starts Assurance of Safe 3 b e g:nm Fires azards B ge of Smooth Speeds Low Operating and Maintenance Costs R Insurance kates Smokeless; Odorless Exhaust Full Diesel Dependability. An Engine that Can Be Easily Hand Cranked 00000c000000 e pm——r Compare Them Wifh All Others! 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