The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 1, 1941, Page 1

“ed value of THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIL, NO. 8609. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, _fANUVARYWI. 1941. TMEVBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS BALKAN UNR EST BEGINS NEW W Alaska Hits High Reco * ROSE QUEEN AND COURT OF MINERALS INCREASING Tntal Value—ft;; Year 1940 Has Estimated Value of $27,658,000 LEADING FEATURES FOR YEAR REPORTED General Eo?diiions Re- viewed-Situation Bet- ter than Euflng 1939 The minerals produced from Al- ségn mires i 1646 had an estimat- | 7,658,000, according to” atement of the Geo- log y, United States D: partment of the Interior. This amount brings the total value of the mineral output of Alaska since 1880 to more than $830,000,000. Noteworthy Features The total. value of the mineral output of Alaska in 1940 exceeded that of 1939 by nearly $2,400,000, or more than 8% percent. This increase is not regarded as being due to any unusually favor- able c¢onditions that may not soon be repeated but as appearing to PRODUCTION | a preliminary 1 al Sur " (Continued on Page Three) Clhe N Wz, =z ) <X WASHINGTON —A few days ago Army Air Corps chiefs sent a cer- memoranduom to Defense Cemmissioner William Knudsen. The public was given ne hint of {h_«» document and the chances are ii will never see, the light cf day. | But in this secret memo is one enswer to why the warplane pro- Jring, As Krtdsen frank- in his speech gpefore I Association of Manu Whereas Krudse lie- terms about tain wor blunt finger on ene of the tlenecks of the aviation i —aluminum alloy forgings and cast- ndustry ings. These are vital in the manufac- ture of planes, and the only large producer in the United States is the Aluminum Corporation of Amer- jea (Alcoa), largely controlled by the Mellon family. A few independ- ents also make castings, but Alcoa dcminates the output, as well as aluminum-alloy tubing and sheet- ing, also essential in manufactur- ing planes. Today, deliveries of forgings are reven months behind and of cast- ings three months in arrears. 1 For menths the major airplanc plants—Douglas, Consolidated, Nor- throp and others—have been clam- oring desperately for more of these supplies. Result: whereas deliver- ies of forgings to Douglas were four months behind last July, they are now seven months behind. This has forced the use of castings, which ESS A \Conunued on Page Four) - i T bt H i i b, The red, white and blue formal gowns worn by Sally Stanton (center), Queen of the Touri:ament of Roses, and her six princesses follow out America in Flowers,” in their “court™ . from lower left: Patricia Hops, the New Year's pageant theme, picture. The prineesses, clock Claudine Radeke, Young and Ellen Harmon. SURVIVORS OF 10SHIPS zabeth Allensworth, Anne Stratton, Dorothy IS MARRIED 10 ANDREW HILDRE pI(KED UP Couple We&flst Evening German Raider Leaves Victims on Remote Isle in South Pacific SINGAPORE, Jan. 1.—The Aus- tralian Naval Board revealed today that 500 persons, including women and children} have been rescued from Emarau Island in Bismarck Archipelago where they had been marooned by a German raider De- cember 21 It was said those rescued rep- resented passengers and crews 2 ten ships, totaling 62,000 tons, which the raider struck in the past sev- eral weeks in the Pacific. The largest ship sunk was the Turakina, 9,600 tons. The announcement said the Brit- ish and Australian navi were “well aware of the act es of raiders and appropriate measures are being taken.” at Resurrection Luth- eran Church Mrs. Sizrid Foberg and Mr. Andrew Hildre, both well known were married last eve- in Juneau, ning at a quiet ceremony in R urrection Lutheran Church. The 8 o'clock ceremony was performed by the Rev. Jolin L. Cauble. { For her marriage the bride chose a gown of blue lace and a corsage of lilies-of-the-valley. Mrs, Frank Olson, her only attendant, wore wine crepe and a corsage of roses. Mr. Olson was best man for the couple. Following the wedding, a recep- tion, in the form of a smorgasbord was held at the Calhoun Avenue home of the Frank Olsons. 1 The reception table was centered with a three-ti bride's cake topped by a huge bell and a bridal couple in miniature, and ‘ol'Ise'. by candlelight. | Assisting during the evening were The announcement did not iden- ' nrs . Hagerup, Mrs, Pete Hildre tify the German ship. —_—— .- New Year's Baby Born Today fo Bob Lindquist |is captain of the halibuter, 1 S‘thflr home in Juneau. Nineteerr forty-one rang in a new | baby girl in Juneau for Mr. and | Mrs. Roland Lindquist. She was born at St. Ann’s Hospital this morning at 3 o'clock and tipped the scales at 6 pounds, 7 ounces. This is the second daughter for the couple. Mr. Linquist is clerk‘at the Gasuneau Hotel. Mrs. Peter Oswald, Miss Lillian Olson, Miss Kay MecAlister, and| Miss Julia Moe, | Mrs. Hildre has made her home in this city for a number of years and is well known here. Mr. Hildre Lou- helen. The couple plan to make — e scalp: |day the TItalians are reported to; |raid on Valona, lentry ports of the Italians. OLDWORLD PETAINENDS Charity Gels ‘ "SPINSINTO RELATIONS Hyme Alaska WATCH BOWL BULGARIAON OVER 300,000 AR YEAR rd in Gold Output PREMIER OF NEW YEAR WITH REICH Fish Forfune GAMES TODAY REICH VISIT 1941 Finds War Engulfing Three Confinents But U.S. at Peace (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) The grim Werld War was fought E year while the Ameri- rded for the defense of virtually the only shores free of trife. Shouts of “Happy New Year” | were tinged with a_note of sadneess in threa cf the earth's five contin- ents ‘The chief figure in the World's warfare, Adolf Hitler, who has the cf many countries dangling rom his beit, told his soldiers that i me M \ Chureniit pledged his embal tion it would repay Germany with | interest for its devastation. He said | ed na- Y | there would he no peace until “‘we have beaten them.” Benito Mussolini, whose Italian legions have experienced setbucks | on the Albanian and African fronts, greeted 1941 in silence. Gloom pervaded once happy , where even Chief of SlfllL‘! al Henri Philippe Petain wns! ferced to admit to his countrymen: i ‘We will g hungry” in the new year. | The Sino-Japanese conflict wore cn across -the Pacific but in the Western Hemisphere, as exemplified by the United States, no builiings toppled under the booming of can- non, no bombers flew overhead with | death and destruction and no sold- iers sent bullets into each other ITALIANS ATTACKING OUTPOSTS Greeks Beinvg Checked in One Sector — British | Planes Shot Down R | (By Associated Press) On the Albanian battlefront to- | | | | | have attacked outposts of the; Greek forces who are pushing a counter invasion through the Fas- cist conquered nation. Four British bombers are report- ed to have been shot down in al one of the (‘hlvl‘ The Fascist High Command re- porgs that the British thrust on| Bardia, which has been besieged | for two weeks, has been repulsed. | GILWEE FLYING | OUT, AIRLINER John Gilwee, assistant to PAA | agent Louis Delebecque, flew south | on the Douglas airliner this morn- | ing, transferring to the Seattle of-/ | fice, | THIELE IS NORTH | Homer Thiele, PAA office man who was stationed here this sum- mer, came north on the Douglas airliner yesterday from Seattle and went on into Fairbanks by Electra this morning to join the office staff }’ol the Interior PAA system. Gilwee is being replaced by Fred Eastaugh who has been in Juneau with PAA before. - | FOR SAND POINT ! Miss Florence Osterboock is a pas- senger aboard the Baranof enroute to Sand Point in Western Alaska. J Reufers Dispalch from Lis- Widow of Pioneer Packer hon Not Confirmed by~ |eaves Bulk of Es- Other Agencies tate fo Welfare LONDON, Jan. 1.—A Reuters dis- & SAN FRANCISCO, Jan, 1.—The patch from Lisbon says Petain's Government of Free Unoccupied bulk of her $400,000 estate will go France nd Germany have broken | eventually to welfare and charitable 4 uses under the will of Mrs, Mary off negotiations. The Associated Press office in A Tume, filed for probate here was the widow of Robert D. London, however, has received no She confirmation of this report Hume, pivneer in the Alaska sal- Other unoffi sources, aside men packing industry from the Reuters dispatch, indicate| Mrs. Hume left cash bequests of that negotiations looking toward | £53.000 to friends and relative collaboration of the Petain Govern- $90,000 to specific charities ment and Germany are virtually the income of a trust fund Vige Durs vy U8 Afterwards (& rerse TAVEL Wiro W da for d Foregn Minister of the Petain Gov drei, leaving prison without friends or work, needy ernment Technically, Germany and France are not yet at peace but merely in a truce state. World War veterans and their fam- ilies, - T DOLICE FIND Open House ™ wew veag 15 AtGovernors QUIET EVEN o vament Graenns ana < Pafrolman Manery Only Gruening will hold open house this Real |I|jU|'Y i, FIgMS Reported Scarce "fternoon between the hours of 3 6 o'cloghk, The public is infited to call, F Quietest New Year he can remem- ser, says Chief of Police Dan Ral- — LOCAL PILOTS |z .. Chiei Ralston declared he only mew of five fights this year as com- | DAY, NEW YEAR' — | rared with something like ninety a year ago. Arrests were practically Fliers Shell Simmons and Alex | Holden got the new year off to a| negligible Most sericus injury reported was flying start teday with almost per- fect weather and four irips sched- hat reccived by Patrolman B. H Vianery whe reportedly suffered nasty face slashes from two celebrat- uled for the day. Simmens took L. Smith to Tena- tee and P. Bender to Hirst. He was ng native women pretesting the 1ad on the flocr of a downtown bar 0 bring hack Paul Screnson from| n the process of handeuffing cne <7 them te be placed aboarc | leclared he had saved firecrackers the steamer Baranof in Icy Straits.|for two years, threw them out the to make three trips over the route |was say whish!” carrying mail and passengzer | Two steamcrs spant the night in arrest of their man of the hour. Hirst, Jack Littlepage from Chicha- At midnight, cnly a few whistles Holden took the big Fokker whee! | window alight with promise of a ———— | the harbor, the northbound Baranof EARLY GUNPLAY ©o disorderly buck that vof, and three passeng from Sit- | ind guns went cff. One citizen who plane out for Pelaris-Taku, and was | 'errific explosion “and all they did |and the southbound Princess Norah, neither carrying extra large loads of passengers. Most bars closed early and as a tute L Stanford Meets Nebraska in Rose Bowl - NBC fo Broad(asi SFOCIATED PRESS) Football's first fling in the new year was to entertain a third of a million spectators today in half & dozen bowl battles scattered from Florida to Hawaii. No single game could claim it would decide any national chamion- ship or any other honor, but all premised to be fiercely contested. A tremendous throng of 90,000 and fans is expected to take advantage of of ideal weather to sit in on proceed- Priscilla Shand, ing at the Rose Bowl at Pasadena, where undefeatéd Stanford is & fa~ ‘l?w e m ’r" in a cver ‘onvesbegten Nebrasku. The game soheduled for 2 o'cleck and will be®broadeast by NBC. Another 73000 persons bought seats to the Sugar Bowl in New Or l2ans where the only contest of the day invoiving (wo undefeated anc untied stants, ‘Tenne: s ang Bcsten College, will be played. ne powerful Texas Aggles arc matched with Fordham before a seliout crewd of 45,000 in the Cottor Bowl at Dallas. Missiesippi State, tied but un- beaten, is an elght-to-five cholcr cver Georgetown in the Orange Bow) at Miami. The Shrine East-West charity fgame, with many ali stars, is sched- uled in San Francisco. WORKMEN AGAIN | TO DT Ok | steame: Barauof th's u | Dutch Harbor as receiving of crews 'at the Navy base project resumed For a brief time, following a fire at Dutch Harbor. orders for men . had been cancelled. . s L2 MRS. HYNER RETURNS Mrs, Glen Hyner, who has been 4 visiting in the states for severali Manecry Weeks, returned to her Juneau home | aboard the Baranof. - MISS VICKERY HOME Miss Jane Vickery, who has been visiting in the south, returned home to Juneau aboard the Baranof. e ENDS VACATION Patricia Deoley, Territorial Health Department employee, returned on the Baranof after spending a month vacationing in the States. KODIAK BOUND Seventeen of the passengers on German Troo_ps—in Rumania Believed Reason for Trip fo Vienna 'HOME FRONTS QUIET AS 1941 TOLLED IN' Campaigns in Africa, A bania Continue Info Another Year (By Associated Press) London's Big Ben and the bells Europe, & year in which Hitler has promised his people victory ard one in which British leaders have predicted decisive betterment cf wie Empire’s prospects. There was an overnight lull in the air war, but men fought and died on the active battlefronts of Jrica an Albania, At home, Axis planes were re- »orted over Britain during tne morning and afternoon but nodam- age was reported. Londoners greeted the new year with gloom from blacked-out streets nd with shouts of “To Hell With Hitler.” Germans held subdued celebra- | ions, the 10 bed keep- ern B € nexs 76 0 £ preaing i E Premyer Boge dan Plilot : Ls people, “Ged ielps those who help themsolyms 1“5 he boarded a train for Vienna. rhe official reason given for Phil- |.)“':~; trip was “medical consulta- tion” but observers speculated whether his visit might, be con: | nected with the swelling of Gers | many's Balkan army now passing through Rumania and massing at Bulgaria's doorstep. iy Janseur Sii Cb ~ Dinner Dance Is . Held at Baranof | Over 100 persons saw the New | Year in last night at the Juneau | 8ki Club's annual dinner dance in | the Gold Room of the Baranof. | Kiondy Dufresne’s orchestra pro- | vided music during the affair and | noisemakers and confetti added to e | HERA[DS 1 9‘1 v | clear dawn broke with rosy promise board the westbound Baranof are tne evening's festivities. . of a good year ahead, a few uptown merchants marshalled their crews for the annual inventory DOWNTOWN BAR Cab driver Dale Miller was lodged | Townsend Club Will Miller allegedly had been thrown| out of the bar twice by bartender| Spear threw glassware at Mil-|Union Hall and all members are ler when the latter came in with|invited to be present. A regular in the city jail early this morning| following an altercation in a down-| town bar. | M t Th. E * Al Spear and witnesses said he re- turned a third time with a gun| A meeting of the Townsend Club with which he threatened Spear, |will be held tonight at 8 o'clock in the gun and Miller was (nmmm||meellnx and frolic will be on the and arrested, it is said evening's program. GOING WESTWARD R. Bragaw and Mrs. Bragaw |well known Interior flier, passed are aboard the Baranof for Seward ' throuch Juneau overnight. She came enroute to their home in Anchor- | in on the Baranof and went out on age. They have been south for sev- |the PAA Electra this morning for eral weeks. | Pairbanks. TO FAIRBANKS s | Don | Mrs. Frank Pollack, wife of the booked for Kodiak, transferring to teamer Cordova. SEWARD BOUND Mrs. R. H. Stock, wife of the well known contractor, is a passenger on the Baranof for Seward. the GLASS NORTH Glass, Woodley Airways flier from Anchorage, is a westbound passenger on the Baranof, returning from a vacation trip to the States. ! — e ! FOR WOMEN'S BAY Ten passengers aboard th anof are bound for Wor on Kodiak Island. | e, Oraibi, in northern A cupies the same site Spaniards first came to { west in 1540, and is the oldest continuously Al -lmwn in the United States o |~ Arrangements for the dinner dance were in charge of Mrs, War- ren Eveland and Mr. Orrin Kimball. et < L ELKS ANNUAL HIGH JINKS 1S __ NOISY SUCCESS Crowds of Juneaultes attended last night’s annual Elks High Jinks the Elks ballroom, with Lilltan ven and her orchestra provid- i the music. Nolsemakers, favors and & snow- ! shower added a festival spirit ‘he occasion and daneing was #ld from 10 o'clock until the “wee rall hours.” X “havey Koski and his commif (arringed for the evemflf;‘"ln::.