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

BOND GETS PROMOTION | HIGH RANK‘,]W-!\».\ as compared with a 33-year | Charles H. Burdick Ap- pointed Major of Infan- fry, 297th Battalion | nfcrmation reaching Juneau from | of United States Army of Recruiting Ser- quarters gcant Hamilten H. Bond to the siticn »f Mastér Sargeant in the United States Army. This appoin ment gives Sergeant Bond the higl est ran g he may obtain. The news came through today, and the wpointment is effective December with Major Jesse| present the nizht f the a National iated alsn, units of th2 ant Bend tham the Alaska | cff 1ctic all onal Guard sc far. yming along with the prom: ,:;.rx.i of Screeant Bond is the appoint-| ment of Charles H. Burdick, by Gov- ernor Ernest Gruening as Major of | Infantry over the 197th Battalion composing all the National Guard ccmpanies in the Territory of Al- ack Major Jesse E. Graham will con- tinue in his canacity as instructor in Alaska National Guard work.| H» ic stationed here permanently Burdick’s appointment makes him the ranking field officer of the Alaska National Guard. The For- Service official, now 46 years old, was a Gunnery Sergeant with tre Marines in France, serving in six major engagements during his 23 months overseas. He enlisted at| the outbreak of war and stayed on afterward for seven months with the army of occupation. e ——— | November Is Colder Also Drier Pussible Sunshine Was Above Normal According fo Report que Today The menth of November in Ju- averaged colder and drier than n al with the percentage of pos- sible sunshine ccrrespondingly above normal, accerding to the monthly meteorological report issued today n of est the Ninth Corps|¢ | Tth. ,test Nevember on record at Juneau | cver a period of 48 years was that of 1936 when 25.87 inches were re- jcorded and the driest was of 1896 when 058 inch was recorded. The maximum amount of precipitation ['o cccur within a 24-hour period ‘M»‘ month was 1.82 inches on the 1 and 20th. The total snowfall elted) for the month was 5.1 ( average of 9.4 inches. The maximum !depth of snow on the ground at any [time last month in the vicinity of |the Federal and Territorial Build- | ing was 2.8 inches on the 12th. At the close of the month there was{ nly a trace of snow on the ground | n the vicinity of the Weather Bu- | reau Office. There were 5 clear days, § partly loudy, and 20 cloudy days last m hou: ent, which is 3 percent above the | -year average. The prev: the month was northeast with an The maximum velocity for a sustain- | miles from the northeast on - e HALIBUT TAGGERS IN PORT Crew Sells Load Here Last Saturday The halibut boat Polaris of Se- attle under charter to the nationai Fisheries Commission on a lagging cruise sold 7,000 pounds of halibut on the Juneau market Sat- urday The Polari, with a mixed crew of eleven Canad and He is a member of the Commis- lications. International sion. | The Polaris left here for halibut banks off Cape Spencer to conunue her tagging It was not known| whether or not she will return here. - e Magnus Hansens Go Fisheries by the Juneau Weather Bureau Of- fice. The average temperature for the th was 338 degrees, as cared with a normal of 35.7 degrees The warmest November of was that of 193¢ with a mean tem- perature of 3.2 degrees and the ccldest was that of 1883 with a mean temperature of 229 degrees. The highest temperature last month was 49 degrees on the 13th and the low- est was 20 degrees on the 5th. The highest temperature on record for any November at Juneau pericd of 46 years was 64 degree: in 1923 and the lowest was -1 de- gree in 1883, The total precipitation for the month was 675 inches, or 2.39 in-| ches below the normal. Of Daughter, Clara gort To attend their daughter Clara’s| e n;li:llows. | l0(a' Ma |e COU” record | Wedding, Mr. and Mrs. Magnus Han- | g oyp ¢ 204 158 172— 554 | p sen, accompanied by Miss Th‘““;Hagerup C174 178 11— 529 ' Hansen, another daughter '“‘m'd‘Curnegie 172 237 169— 578 | At 7:30 tonight, the curtain goes yesterday on the Yukon for Se- ‘Holmquis! 207 170 194— 571 | YP for the first time of the season attle. Stevenson 179 156 191— 526 |°P commercial league basketball Miss Clara Hansen, Nenana Ice| —e —w —= ___|teams when the High School meets Pool winner in 1940, will be married | Totals ... 956 899 903—1267 the Firemen in the High School gym on the evening of December 9 to| Brunswick at 7:30. Ray Downey, former member m‘E]lenberg 145 161 — 306 Many .Im‘mer High School stars over a the U. S. Signal Corps staff at An-‘E.G““m (e TV 193‘are playing on the Firemen’s squad s chorage. The wedding will be “'-Mnngnnno 166 175 157— 498 | and the cont,es_t should be a battle the Central Lutheran Church in| villiganas 211 178 194— 583 from the opening whistle. Tacoma with the Rev. Hoff reading | g Galao . 208 174 160— 537 | What fans will get in the second | the service. Smithberg 172 201 182— 555 Same, between Elks and Haida is | PRI 55 A TR | . . __. ___|something that can't be predicted The wet- Totals 897 889 886—2672 A4S those teams have changed their | Empire Classifieds Pay! “Extra” No. 1. Genuine G-E De Luxe Lamp optivnal at slight increase in price. tul Bad weather south of Ketchikan Mixing Plant Near Tacoma .. e ames hoos fectchikan men were killed when a ton of dyna- | Out of a possible 2372 | mite exploded early today in the because it was not equipped for win- |kncwn Interior lode property, has through the amount of sunshine re- | mixing plant of the Columbia Pow- | ter flying, the big Douglas was flown ceived was 590 hours, or 25 per- | der Company, 15 miles east of here parts of the bodies have been found orable climes. ling wind direction for | but identity is not yet known. average hourly velocity of 9.1 miles. |ing plant to bits. ed period of five minutes was 38|in the plant at the time but the |flight ittempt. many time. DYNAMITE ThatPlane’s EXPLODES: Here 4 MEN DIE Again |bian observation ship back to Ju- neau Saturday afternoon and that craft is tugging at its mooring lines | Blows Up-Victims" Bod- ies Scallered About 57X 2astintes:ror tne e o | !since its arrival here from Anchor-‘ TACOMA, Wash., Dec. 2.—Four |age. | Bound for Langley Field, Virginia, | saturday for five hours in its frus- | J. A. Denn, plant manager, said |trated attempt to reach more mv-‘ Army crewmen are again guests at the Baranof Hotel and will again | | rise early “tomorrow mornine” in! for another southbound Denn said the blast blew the mix- Denn said possibly other men were | prepare __ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY OPERATOR larrived in Juneau from the West- , DEC. 2, 1940. NABESNA WEATHER HOLDING VISITINGI Carl Whitham Sees Great Hopes for Hesse's Highway System to come on through to Juneau, a 20 north from here if the weather breaks, and the Douglas Airliner Carl Whitlam, operator of the ing for here is still weatherbound Nabesna Mining Company, well at Prince George and will come tomorrow, weather per- mitting. ward to spend a week or more here At Whitehorse scheduled to come on business. in are Luther Hess, Mr. and Mrs Whitham, who first went into the George Fuiler, Jack Henderson Interior country, battling his way Gladys Galey, Mrs. Lois Schodde with packhorses through mud and Willlam Kavalach, L. Haverlock swollen streams over the old Aber- Mary Roganovich, Andy Johnson, rombie Trail from Valdez, looks William McDonald, Carl Heaning with rope on the proposal of William | Audrey Vauchet, A. Polet, Mrs. T men were working at the CONVOYS ANOTHER BOAT | JOINS SEARCH ATTACKED the | majority of the cew, 60 men in all a o T S e |Hesse for a Haines-Nabesna road Vernon, A. Zuber, Dan Haverlock do not report until 8 o'clock in zhe‘ s the first step in the construction ! C, E. Hanford, A. Thommet, Jame: morning and as the records were |of the International Highway. Gordon, William Lodge. blown up it is difficult to ascertain B R I T | S H | “We've got to lo look at these In Juneau waiting for a north- just who the dead men are or how things as General Steese did,” Mr. bound flight are passengers Osca: Whitham saiys. “He said the Olson, William Potter, Susan Camp future of Alaska rests in the laps of | bell, Lois Smith and Walter Cross- tho gods of tranportation—and he man. warc right.” ave Nabes | I3 Roads h: made the Nabesna possible, Whtiham said and “more | roads will make more mines possi- ble. Progress follows roads.” | The Nabesna concentrated most of its work on development pro-| —— e - PLANES Three Electras were at Whitehorse | this afterncon waiting for weather load of passengers is scheduled to | which left Seattle Saturday morn-| International Fisheries Sea, Land FOR SHORIRIDGE;Dislress Calls Are Picked Parties Return grams this summer, Whitham said, and declared new outcroppings have | | been located about a mile around | | the mountain frem the mill that “may possibly be the main lode of Up-Sea and Air Raid- CONFERENCE STEFFANSSON . A gift the whole family can use "and enjoy! Mirrors with hand-) 'some gilt. frames, or the smart) | Venetian type—take your choice.} Superior quality. Heavy mirror plate.AWl@derl'ul values!| e Specially Priced from $1.75 to $15.00 Juneau-Young Hardware Co. FISH, GAME T0 BE PATROLED BY BOATS Inter- | Channel Shortridge, 21, Indian hunter who disappeared Creek on the opposite side of Doug- las Island. Americans, | weekend, reporting no success in s s 2as been fishing off Cape Omaney, the search. Joe Stevens brought ating the raiders were running ‘agging halibut to further studies of |pack his boat, the North Light, down their prey which were on zig .o produced a gross of approxi- | business. ELKS KEGLERS wick five yesterday afternoon on the . lodge alleys in the second broad- Sou'h for Weddlng | cast match of the tourney. | Villiganas of the Brunswick stole | high honors with 583, but Elks keg- lers all hit over 500 to cinch three games and total. | to Report No Trace ers Join Assault Found of Hunter | NEW YORK, Dec. 2. — Undersea and aircraft raiders have loosed the Calvin search tioday party left to hunt A new British vessels about 400 miles west of Ireland. The attack was made last night and early today. Apparently 10 vessels were nt-[ tacked as repeated distress signals the | Were picked up last night and early | | today by the MacKay Radio, indi- | a week ago at Hilda| Two parties returned over _ BEARSTEAM "o Toueker MEETS. WITH FIRE SQUAD Elks keglers downed the Bruns- \Two Basketball Games on Slate for Tonight on rosters considerably from last year.' Use the Sixth Street entrance only, league officials told basketball | | fans toda; ROSE BOWL TEAMS ARE - CHOSENNOW (By Associated Press) g “ 3 {of $32 a ton ore blocked out, widespread attacks on a convoy of | yam said Directly down the slope rectors of the Retail Merchants’ As- {from there, he said, another out- |Sociation was held this noon at the | cropping |and trucks will bring the ore to the HELDTODAY A meeting of the board of di- the mpuntain.” In one spot, a lens outcropping has been sampled and $50,000 warlh‘ Whit- | Baranof to discuss routine business matters and prepare for a general meeting call soon. A meeting of the membership will 65 ton Marcy ball mill unit. be callel in about two weeks, ac- The Nabesna mine has been op- | cording {o J. F. Mullen, President of erating for the past ten years, and | fhe association, to discuss certain was found and will be drifted on next summer. A road to the site has been built he International Fisheries Com- after several days' search. George ?fl;lco\g‘:sfis.. e I mately $1,800,000. A crew of nearly -~ nission. The fish brought in here wrilliams and two other natives| “hE CLUeSs Ca's fasted for MOTe fi¢py men s kept employed for mos','loMEu BROTHERS ind sold w alibut pulled up dead | hiked across the top of the island! \;n“l;etei?sc o\]lrs.k_ lof the season on the property. on (he gear to Hilda Creek, but found no sign| Full detalls are lacking but radio ™, "\ ot 4t the Baranof Hotel,| T“Roufi“ 0" YUKON Money from the sale of the fish|of ghortridge. ?”N"‘F heyrd 1”"‘ calls from ab (opiiom expects to be here for 305 into the Fisheries Commission Today's party of six CCC en-|'east five vessels then: latewmealls | . ii1o ten days before going south Fund. The cargo wa frozen rollees_left on the boat of Jake Were Ppicked up from five hm‘s“gx' bu;l{ness E"Rouli To SEAnlE Aboard the Polaris was Miller | cropley. vessels, all apparently in the“same | e BN e Freeman, publisher of Pacific Fish- % ‘r:eneral locality. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Lomen and erman and other Northwestern pub- | "o DAMAGE FROM Alfred Lomen visited briefly in Juneau yesterday while the Yukon was in port. Alfred Lomen is presi- |dent and Ralph, vice-president, of the Lomen Commercial Company MORNING ALARM; | The Lomens report an active year An overheated stove provoked an in mining and commercial activi- Harris, in the apartment occupied iwm return north late in April. by Otto Smithberg, but no damage | - According to the firemen, the alarm call was telephoned as “Fire | on Seventh Street,” without further | 3 | ch h clarification. Firemen answered the | Memo"a ur( Seventh and Main call, 2-8, and | cruised Seventh Street until Smith- | . ginisterial Association of epRrtmenl. e | noon at 10 o'clock at the Memorial | Presbyterian Church with Dean C. \uroval of this measure. Next meet- Jackson Marsh, owner of the Al-|ing will be January 6. the Yukon for a business and pleas- | ure trip of several weeks in the| alarm this morning to Seventh and |ties on Seward Peninsula. They " hsrs Ministers Meet \ , | berg attracted attention to his | jyneay and Douglas met this fore- J A(KSO“ M ARSH GOB | E. Rice, presiding. Among matters |of Health, The group voted ap- aska-Mendenhall fur farm, left on APTRTE SAM BAKER BACK States. Sam Baker, popular traveling |man, is again in Juneau. He came in from the Westward on the Try a classified ad in The Empire.' Yukon and is at the Gastineau. e —— | discussed was the proposed legaliza- | |tion of the Territorial Department | | | " AIDED BY AIRPLANE A system of cooperative fish and game patrol by three boats and the | NOT woRRlED new Game Cemmission airplane was werked out at Petersburg, Wrangell i and Ketchikan by Frank Dufresne, 2 Exy tive Oificer of the Commis- {Declares No Fear Here of “p,»ne retumed on the Tongess Russia, But Lofs of Worry About Japan the fleet” for Fish and ce patrol work in Sc a. 3 great abundance of deer and 5 right up to the end of the 9 Explorer J€BS0N Was report Du- fresne by residents ariou tewns, he said. — e Mary Stewart Is Honored; Elected Presi{gqt of Band 1 t~ Frar of the NEW YORK, Dec. Vilhjalmar Stefansson advocated to- day the United States extend the good neighbor policy to Russia, which he termed “our nearest neigh- |bor” with the exception of Canada |and Mexico. Stefansson returned recently from 1 months survey of various parts of Alaska. He said in an interview that gen- |eral cooperation between the Unit- ed States and Russia benefits the nations national defense program. Mary E. Stewart, daughter of Mr. | The explorer said Alaskans don’t and Mrs. B. D. tewart of Juneau, {consider Russia a potential threat has heen elected President of the but “worry a good deal about Ja- University of Washington Orches- Ipan.” tra. He suggested as a defense meas-' A freshman at the University, Miss ure that the Government embark stewart plays the clarinet. She is on a program of expansion for the now planning the winter tour of the | Matanuska colonization plan, car- orchestra to Western Washington | rying it out under a joint commit- communities. | tee of Congress, the Army, the Navy S RO P land Interior Department heads. | PATTYS GO SOUTH { 'COUPLE MARRIED Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Patty of | Fairbanks, passed through on the Yukon with their boys, Stanton and BY (OMMISSIONER cuc. vesterdas. | Patty, former Dean of Men at the University of Alaska, is now chief Elmer Johan Peterson and Vivian & S |Rogers, both of Juneau, were mar- f“""::" for the McRae Mining in- ‘ried Saturday night in Douglas by '6rests: U. S. Commissioner Felix Grav. ' A g i | BIRTHDAYS TODAY Ylt:es;eisef;ere e Bttt Among those celebrating their e RO |birthdays today are the following: i Mrs. H. B. Brown and Clarke O, Fulks. Try a classified ad in The Empire AREN'T THINGS PRETTY QUIET FOR YOU NOST OF THE YEAR? WELL SIR — NOBODY’S YET FOUND OUT HOW TO KEEP SALMON RUNNIN® THE YEAR ‘ROUND...BUT EVEN DURIN' THE OFF SEASON WE GIVE JOBS TO HUNDREDS OF ALASKA FOLKS ! GENERAL ELECTRIC You've never seen a top quality, fes- ture-packed electric range like this for 90 little money! Genuine G-E Clean- Speed Calrod Cooking Units, aad somplete equipmens—goy oply . " $134.95 SEE THI MODEL S 1941 G-E AT ADVANCE In the usual burst of post season | madness, principals in football bowl | games to be played New Year's Day are being selected. | Stanford and Nebraska will meet in the Rose Bowl at Pasadena. i Tennessee and Boston College will meet in the Sugar Bowl. | Arizona State and Western Re- | serve will meet in the Sun Bowl. Mississippi State will meet an un- chosen team in the Orange Bowl. Fordham will meet an unchosen team in the Cotton Bowl. —————— FRED LUCAS SOUTH l Fred Lucas, Fish and Wildlife Service Agent from Bristol Bay, was a through passenger yesterday on the steamer Yukon. Mrs, Lucas accompanies him. Lucas recently| completed census work in Bristol What Is Your Present | | ready for the next fishing - ALASEA SCHOOL OF . AERONAUTICS Yes, Salmon fishing and canning is a seasonal business —but in off seasons there are jobs for hundreds making -, -are kept at work modernizing and rebuilding canneries, . Job Now Teacling || repairing boats and other floating equipment. Others find , Y“? ! employment eutting piling and: season, Even in winter men coal and providing other supplies for the Industry. Not only does the Canned Salmon Industry provide the Territory’s greatest employment during the fishing season—these additional Industry-created jobs give Alaskans thousands of days work during off -seasons, for construction - -~And-this means greater year-round security for Alaska and box shook—manufacturing wire netting—mining families!