The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 26, 1940, Page 2

Kidnaper Tries fo Kill Self SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Cal, ec. 26. — Wilhelm Jakob Muhlen- broich. 40, serving a life term in prison for the kidnaping of Marc de Tristian, 3, attempted suicide in his cell today The attempted suicide failed, however, because he fainted in the attempt Warden Duffy only ccmment w n't finish it.” Muhlenbroich was treated for a Jacerated wrist in the prison hos- pital DROP BOMBS ON ENGLAND aid the prisoner's as “I'm sorry T'did- LONDON, Dec. 26—Great tain’s bomb-free Christmas holiday ended this afternoon in an attack by a single German plane on the Isle of Sheppey, Thames Estuary. Little damage was done and there | were no casualties, the British Air Ministry announces. JAN KiN6 OUT JUST IV TIME FOR ST. NICK Jan King radio announcer faclng prosecution on a charge of grand | Jarceny, was released from Federal jail here at 11:15 o'clock Christmas | eve to spend the holidays with his wife and baby son. ed $500 bail for his release. R DOUGLAS AIRLINER HELD AT WHITEHORSE | Two PAA Electras are due in Ju- neau from Fairbanks this after- noon, while the Douglas airliner at | 2:15 o'clock was in Whitehorse and weather looked 5o poor it was thought theé liner would remain | there over night and resuthe the flight to Seattle tomorrow. — e LEAVES HOME Charles Woodward of Juneau was | died December 20 at the Ploneers’, discharged from the Pioneers’ Home | Home, according to word received | " MRS. GREEN Bri- | DIES; RACE WITH DEATH Manley Hot Springs Wom- an Flown fo Fairbanks . in Middle of Night x FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 26— !Death dramatically marred the | happiness of Christmas celebration !in the little town of Manley Hot Bprings, when Mrs. Daniel Green pioneer resident of Interior Alaska and the Yukon, was suddenly stricken fatally ill on Christmas eve Mrs. Green was flown to Fair- banks in a difficult mercy | through 25 degrees below zero tem- | perature, but succumbed here in St 'Joseph 's Hospital. Pilot Lon Brennan left Hot 1 Bprings at two o'clock in the morn- .ing in utter darkness to get a doc- wlor at Fairbanks, but about half way here he was forced down at [Minto with a frozen fuel'line ‘With his radio, pilot Brennan con- itacted a Fairbanks amateur and informed him of his plight. No doctor was available, but pilot !Bill Lavery flew to the Springs; through the darkness and brought Mrs. Green and her husband here. | An hour after her arrival, Mrs. | Green ' succumbed Brennan is still at Minto and La |ervy is taking him repair parts day. The Greens conducted the Man- ley Hot Springs Hotel for the last 16 years. 'They formerly lived in wDaw'eon and Fairbanks. Green was a member of the 1837 ‘Ala.ska Legislature. He was famed ipilot who formerly steamboated on Puget Sound where the Green fam- |ily were all Queén City. pioneers. | "Mrs. Green was reared in Sedro grandparents in Eastern Washing- | | Wooley. - | CONVERSE HOME | Clarence Converse came home for jchnstmas on the North Sea, arriv- ing here from Seattle Tuesday after- !'noon. D { PIONEER DIES William™ G. Winh, of “Ketchikan, December 20 to try living at large by the Governor's office from Sup- again for a time. ertendent Euer Hanson, AP FEATURE SERVICE Britain’s Midlands are her strength and weakness—source of her war power, yet sprawling and vulrierable from the air. They grew up when England industrial nation, because coal and iron lay close together. followed industry to the Midlands, was becoming the world's mightiest Industry until the of Britain's factories, were situated in the area roughly bounded by Bristol, Liverpool, Hull asid London. There “was little attempt at approxima -!.y% $ concealment of factories. England fm was. umum impregnable. When the Midlands were growing the military airplane had not appeared. Besides; it would be difficully even now to conceal a chunk of tely 125 by, 150 miles. That's the Midlands. A "l‘th»u‘wwid be near a factory. Some Make Goods for Export are finpomm, vhtther they make war imple- goods for export. Foreign ex- buy_Britain’s -war - materials flight | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, DEC. 26, 1940. HAZEL COSTER IS MARRIED HERE T0 PAUL JACOBSON Miss Hazel Coster and ‘Phul Ja cohson were married Christmas Eve in the parscnage of th@N:'ho- d Church by the Rev. G. Ed- ward Knight, Attendants were Miss Jean Rula- ford and Vern Moore. Following the marriage a small reception was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Rulaford at 611 Calhoun Avenue 'ELECTRAS AT WHITEHORSE ENROUTE HERE ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN FOR CITY IS SUGGESTED Two PAA Ele s are at White- Chamber of Commerce Has .= 2%, sy o, 2, | Fairbanks to Juneau and will prob- Roundtable Defense 5" e "ever chece becanse ) : f snow x Discussion Paasgiesrs on s planss indiis | red Olson, Emil Nelson, Mrs. John A national defense roundtaolqc,(\g Patsy Cross, A. Corovado, discussion at today’s Juneau Cham-| pay] Anderson, Oli Hukee. F. In- ber of Commerce meeting brought| zersoll, Mrs. J. Frawley, R. E. Lee forth everything from a sugges-|Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Lee, Al Hoff Mrs, Jacobson arrived here on|tion that the city ask for one|and Ray Zastraw the steamer North Sea from Great| anti-aircraft is| the observation that the Army con- an employee of the Alaska Juneau|siders Alaska just as a Falls, Montana. Mr. Jacobson Geld Mining Co. - BROWN BEAR IS DUE IN MORNING; THREE PASSEIIGERS HER The Fish and Widlife Service ship | Brown Bear is due in port tomor- row morning from Ketchikan, where she has just come off the ways af- ter repairs occasioned by the crafts striking a log while enroute north from Seattle. H. Douglas Gray, Associate Refu- ge Manager for the Aleutian Is- {lands, came from Ketchikan with 'Mrs. Gray on the Yukon in order | to be able to spend Christmas here wlt.h their baby son, Miss Elsie Blythe, Game Commis- 1sion employee, also finished her trip | /to Juneau on.the Yukon. She has been on lenve in the States. - - MISS TERHUNE 1+~ HOME ON YUKON Elizabeth Terhun . emplo ed m the 'rm wxpgnv nmct ¥e- Mrs. King post- |as the early YuKon and Kuskokwim | turned hé on Tuesday’ ev- ening after a month of vacation | in the States. Miss Terhune .visited . with her ton and also tock a trip down the coast to San Francisco.© On her \return to Juneau she stopped off and Vvisited relatives in Ketchikan. — e — MARRIAGE LICENSE A marriage license wa$ issued | Tuesday by U. S. Commissioner | Felix Gray to Paul Jacobsen of Ju- neau and Hazel B. Coster of Great | | Falls, Montana. ) e — Subscribe to the Daily Empire--the paper with the largest paid clrculanon the first experiment. Area Bombers, on the other: certain city. So they seek the dummtlon of the objective by destroying ‘the city. Area bombing is accog}vushed by sending over a formation of level-flight bombers. The aréa a sirigle bomb of given caliber will destroy is known. The planés fly destruction overlap.: Electric timers releasé bombs in line at split-- intervals. They are spaced so the That's what happened to Coventry. It's what could happen to all - the industrial towns in the Midlands. Alaski, Nazi O-rnmw, after concentrating for months jon bombing Lon- don, has been giving nttgnuon to the Midlands. A never-before-used ummque — area demolition — has made its appearance. It's simple and dreadful. Coventry was the test tube for Birmingham was ‘next. The difference between spot bombing and area bombing is this: Spot bombers seek to drop their bombs on a single target. gun installation to\ > | Juneau” when an atdience rose!ened the holidays. | when the national anthem Was| Robert Schoettler said the trans- played at the Capitol Theatre onel portation companies were to be evening last week. complimented on getting their Norman Banfield urged that the poats and planes here in time for Chamber keep the Jumeau airfield | Christmas in mind and do what it could to| The Rev. G promote completion of the projeci.|Christmas baskets distributed oy Trevor Davis suggested that the the Salvation Army, when { Government should = be petitioned | yp, reached three and one-half {to use a suction dredge to fill the 'times the length of the Salvation Lairfield here, thus dredging the Army Hall xGasuneau Channel bar at the same| - - | time, CCC CHRISTMAS - Edward Knight said ton, returned on the steamer Yukon lined | spending several weeks in ‘Seattle. Santa Claus called at the Mon- turned Wins “Y” 1n Lite I Occasional light snow tonight ch: warmer; 39 degrees; gentle to moderate so day; warmer; fresh Friday but fresh to strong Canal by Friday afternoon, Forecast Dixon Entrance to Cap> Spencer: southeasterly al rain or snow; fresh to strong southeasterly winds, southwesterly late tonight. ‘Washington, oo McNAUGHTONS RETURN University of to the Aleutian Isldnds and. from senski. Ja; s McNaugiion, Cashier i ) James McNaugiion, . Cashier of| yyiloy temperatures continued over the Interior, the B. M. Behrends Bank, and| ro ol EuREN G migesin his mother, Mrs. Guy® Mc¢Naugh- pRkTed. i egrees gk for Christmas in Juneau affer area to ithe west of the Seward - e - MacKINNON HOME Lieut. Commander J. S. MacKin- non, in charge of the local office of the 13th Naval District re- to Juneau on the steamer Forecast for Southcast Alaska: and snow or rain in north portion inereasing soygheast orly winds, becoming moderate to winds; Cape Spencer to Cape Hinchinbrook; Hinchinbrook to Resurrection Bay: becoming mo lerate | LOCAL DATA greatest amount of ‘precipitation wa; Temperatures. above: nprmal below 976 millibars :(28.82 ‘inches), southeastward to the ‘Alaska Pen'nsula and thence southwestward into Jower latitudes'of the Pacific Ocean and was moving eastward | at about 30 miles per Hour. A'secoid low center of 996 millibars (29.41 inches) was l:enterzd at 39 degne; north, 132 degrees west, third low center of about:1,000 millbars (29.53 inches) at 51 degrees THE WEATHER - (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) . DEPARTMENT JF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU Foreeast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4:30 p.m., Dec. 26: anging “té' snow or rain Frid: lowest temperature tonight about 26 degrees, highest Friday utheasterly winds. Occasionaly light snow tonight and rain ‘in south: portion n sounds and straits and Lynn of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska rainh or snow; fresh to strong occasion- e sterly to southeasterly winds; Cape rain or snow; fresh to strong to fresh southerly to “jumping )ER(Y REYNO[DS Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity ~ Weather off place” for invasion. 4:30 p.m. yesterday 29.48 22.0 43 NE 21 Clear The anti-aircraft gun »hct’mfl‘w 4:30 a.m. today . 29.70 19.1 47 ESE 9 Slear was suggested by Dr. W. M. White- (HR'STMAS IREE Noon today 2068 237 58 8B 8 Lt Snow head, who said it would be nice | if the capital could have such a| WINS pRIlE HERE RADIO REPORTS | gun. President Charles Beale said | TODAY hel\would :ike to “"“’%;”:’;“““ — Max. tempt. | Lowest 4:30a.m Precip. 4:30a.m | anti-aircra guns in d on tiie ’ oo P b Skt smuaveatl g insaled o0 61| ) dges Say Ed Shaffer's (Saton Iwstilous | Ctedp. lehp . dbours Wealhe Juneau Neglected 1 ba s | - - 3 Dr. W. W. Council observed that WaS BeSt |nd00|’ an’r:‘b;”k" :3 ;:’) fg Og (53:':: Juneau was being largely neglect- | . E 2 & 2 1 e i matters of national defense Decoration Apworage .- U L7 b an opinion seconded by Cash Cole. St. Paul 36 20 30 04 Clear | who said: “It has been pointed out| Prizes for illuminated Christmas Dutch Harbor . 42 6 26 06 Pt. Cldy in ‘the paper, and it is common|trees were awarded today by the Waosnesenski 4 34 37 28 Clear ‘Laxk that everything seems to get| Juneau Chamber of Commerce as Juan Trippe Kanatak o 31 36 ol i {by Juneayy There must be affollows p ¥ | reason why, and 1 intend to find! _Outdoor trees—Percy Rmvnnlqi E:::’Vd:}':,z.,utl':::e“\'":\eljc?z?v. ?\’:z g:rfl:l‘a :; :: 3‘4’ g} fout what it is. | first; Charles W. Carter, second; .. 00" o the alamnus who had ~Juneaw ”n 10 19 0 Cole $aid he learned in a recent|Trevor Davis, third earned his “Y” in life during 1910.) Sjtka 35 2 20 T | conversation with an Army offi-| Indoor trees—Ed Shaffer, first; He is shown as he receivel his Ketchikan 3 24 24 I ger that Alaska is looked upon «S;Scotty Adams, second trophy at Monteclair, N. J. Prince Rupert 36 32 33 1.29 |a jumping off place for attack, not| The Christmas tree judges were Wince George 81 29 % i Cloudy for defense. He said it might take| Robert Cowling, the Rev. John ~—— T Beatte 4 2 " 34 Rain the combined efforts of Alaskans to|Cauble and Don Skuse. HEALTH NURSE HERE Portland 5 a2 43 18 Rain tell the Army how to defend the' Speaking on Christmas in Ju- —_— San ‘Francisco 81 54 56 i Cloudy j'x*erriwry. |neau, M. S. Whittier said at to-| Miss Dorothy Hansen, formerly b Y = Americanism | day's Chamber luncheon that the|of Cordova, has arrived here for WEATRER SYNOPSIS \ Frank Garnick said defense would| community was indebted to the, temporary assignment as Public| Snow was falling tHis ‘mornin3 along tHe coast from the Kus- come. -from patriotic feeling and|theatres, churches and radio sta-| Health Nurse. Later she will be kokwim® Vxxney to the Sewnrd Penfnsula and Barrow, and at Cordo- demonstration of Americanism in|grams and singing which bright- has been attending school at- the Tkt or Safow had RATlets dur!ng 4% previous 24 dours from Cmduva The .28 inch, which fell as Wosne- ‘the Bering Sea to Barrow. western Alaska, Fairbanks having Clear to broken clouds with prevailed over moderately High ceilings and. goo! visibilities prevailed this morn- ing 'over ‘the: Juneau-Ketchitkan airway. The Thursday mnming weathe® chart indicated a low pressure P.ninsula with the lowest pressure and an occluded front extended and a pressufe area was ¢en- a secorid high center of 1029 milli- The Juneau Rotary Club’s an tana Creek CCC camp Tuesday Yukon after reporting to the Com- 3 nual Christmas party will be held night in the person of Enrollee mandant and receiving medical at- ’l‘:r‘::‘; tzez m “:“:i A "'::e“‘“@ high at- Percy’s Cafe tomorrow noon, Dekoven Brown, who distributed tention in Seattle. BRis ?mu in b "“n B ’ at 29 de es north, and 174 de- with each member bringing a pres-|gifts from the Forest Service per- B R ) oy e v b oot ik ent for some othe. sonnel to the 40 enrollees. ] known fo many Americans nho have toured Britain, lix.h Cost a Factor British defense. and its own cost Level-flight bombing plnnes are vulnerable to attack by mtercep’f«or Second, the lechmque is wasteful and staggeringly costly. Demolition of even a relatively small city like Coventry (pop. 200,- | 000) takes huge quantities of bombs and precious Nazi aviation Two, things may prevent it. flighters. gasoline. hand, know an objective is in a carries on coastal commerce. BIMINGHAH, COVENTRY—Coal and iron mines, manufactures (all kinds), iron and steel irdustries. Pittsburgh, V1. S. A. far enough apart so their areas of successive demolition areas overlap. SHEFFJELD—Iron and steel. rayon, Some Midland cities and what they do: BRISTOL—Exports coal, refines metal, processes iron and steel, NOTTINGHAM—Woolen goods. LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER—Iron, steel, commerce, chemistry, grees westi Junenu Dec 26—-Bunnu 9 Subscnbe ror The Empu'e ! ALIEN RE&ISIRMION 10 | Local-Office {s Remaining Open Until 8 for Final Roundup | Tonight at 8 o'clock the local alien | registration’offfce on the first floor { of the Juneau Federal Building will | close, and any alien not registered | by that time will face a heavy jail | sentence and fine. i | The alien registration act of 1940 | States register by December 26. | More than 600 are registered here. {until 8 tonight especially to take i . 'CHAMBER STUDYING POSSIBIlHIES OF - JISHING RESERVES Pcssmnmas of having one or cev- | eral fishing reserves created in the vicinity of Junedu are beilg inves- tigated by the Juneau Chamber of Commerge, whi¢H is- studying the adyisability of planting trout fry. Norman' Banfield 'has béen ap- | pointed a committee of one to'mdke | Tocal lakes. Horace ‘Adams reiinded Cham- ber niembérs that the time is ap- proaching for something to be dohe | about a winter ski and basketball | tournament which is suggested for | | Juneau. . R l_ HosertaL NoTES Miss Arline Thomas, of Bkagwly. | was admitted to St. Ann's Hospital Tuesday afternoon and underwent an appendectomy. Admitted to St. Ann’s last night, Murray - Faulkner is receiving med- ical treatment. Sam Argiris, of Hirst-Chichagof, | tion. Mrs, Juanita Mori was a medical | admission last night at St. Ann’s. After receiving medical care, Wal- ter Jackson wab dismissed from.ihe Government Hospital. — DRAKES RETURN Mr. and Mrs. James Drake re- Lumed on the steamer Yukon %fll MM mm This is “Black England,” like i. CLOSE TONIGHT | requires that all aliens in the United | | The local office is staying open | | care of any last-minuge registrants. a study of analyses made recently of |5 ‘at St; Ann's for medical attén- | R 'I an., supsez 4:10 pm. Ly il ‘NATIVES HAVE GALA EVENING Santa Clais Enters on Cane . —0Over 150 Children Receive Candy Thin, and walking with a cane, but a Sarta Claus, nevertheless, the jolly old gentleman himself made one of his first ealls Tuesday night at the Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall on Willoughby Avenue. Eanta's arrival on a cane climaxed an - evening of entertainment in which over 150 seiool children from the Government Senools 6f Juneau anll Douglas took part. The ANB Hall was packed with native” children, their parents and friends. It was an evening for fanciest dress and special sobriety and qlite evidéntly was the Thlinget “Day of the Year." A young Santa Claus doing a chimney ‘dét - during a Christmas carol: sceéne, furnished highlight | number one when he amused the | erowd with his constantly dislocat- ing “stomach.” -* Capper of the evening was the | mass presenitdtion of good things from. the Claus sack.. Children got | paper bags of candy and some fam- | ilies béat- the Bost Office by ex- | changing gifts ‘through Santa. | . Christmas blessings were asked by ,Lhé Rév. Walter Soboleff who sig- | nificantly spoke te his native throng | of the goodnéss of peace and hap- | piness i the United States and in | Alaska ‘while warring men abroad destroyed everythlng that stood for good md (or 1oy. SID(K QUOTATIONS YORK, Dee. 2. - Closing quouflkm of ‘Alaska Junéau mine stock today is' 5%, Amierican Can | 85%, “Bethleheém Steel 85, Commion- wealth #nd Southern #, Curtiss Wright 8%, Gereral Motors 48'c, International Harvester 48, Kenne- oott. 36%, New York Central 13';, }Northern Pacifie 5%, United States | Steel 6812, Pound $4.04. | DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, | Jones averages: Industrials, 129.02; | rails, 27.32, utilitfes, 19.54. . FURUNESS IN | Ralph Pnrunua flew home from | Fairbanks yesterday to surprise his | tamily here. “He will visit for the next few weeks.’