The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 2, 1941, Page 2

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JAN. 2, 1941. r PR -] CHRISTMAS BOMBE?& 50 FET Eighteen thousard employees of the Lockheed and Veg craft man Cal., watched while their warplane Christmas gift to E igland teok off fr to Canada, where it will be turned over to the Royal Air Force for transs er:tation ceremonies on the field, pictured above Mattern, p “Spirit of Leckheed-Ve To comply with neut treal. The plane, christened butions by the aircraft workers. ployees of the British Fairey Aircraft Company. LUTHERAN CHOIR MEETS TONIGHT rehea church toni ty regulations, Masonic Temple Is Scene of Reception ! t n hosts yester New Years gt the Ten Schroe- the inice DAN MOLLER ROM SITKA, PLANE social and Was enoye ancin - AIR.M..uL ENVELOPES, showmg Rir route from Seat.e to Nome, on sale at J. B. Burford & Co. adv, A ufacturing companies at Burbank, om the Union Air Terminal enroute pment to England. Following pres- ot, flew the Hudson bember to Mon- a Emplcyees,” was purchased with voluntary contri- it was offered by them to the em- Power Plant Underground : INNERTKIRCHEN, Jan 2.—Onme of the greatest plants in Europe being underground in the Bernse near I're to protect it from possible future bombs and - built is any In a accidents found that recent analysis in Wyoming 13 percent of of it all s traffi was dents on rural highways were caused Past 12 months. The Air by the driving the side road. on wrong of The British Trap at Italian Bardia A BRITISH RING OF STEEL AND | FIRE Is CLosiNG IN ON BARDIA { wiry 30000 N 7auAan Crack | 7R00PS TRAPPED s many as 30,000 crack Italian troops are reported to have been trapped in Italy’s Libyan coastal base of srdia after being hemmed in by Britain's armored columns. Strategy was to cut the road linking Bardia Bth Tobruk, farther west in Libya, At the same time, British warships blasted the town with shell fipe, TROUBLE ZONE ' Famed Editor Says Give R U 4,4 BUCHAREST 5 CONSTANTA BALCIC ay Z BULGARIA < The interests as fre mouths of the ¥ h German tro 1) offered poured into Rumania through Hun- Danube ver a zoue for a clash of sian big guns at Ismail (lul‘:unlul the north mouth and So- the Red Army Moldavian Rumania W Gee German t reported ld take over Sulina Siretul River region (2). and occ 2) to the Ploesti Dobruja Province gained by Bul, a g upy ops already guard oil fields in the Diagenal shading is from Rumania. White Will Quit Post; Allies Aid Job to Younger Man for Full Time | EMPORIA, Ransas, Jan. liam Allen White said today he |decided to resign as Chairman | the Committee to Defend America By Aiding the A Hewever, White said he will 1 tain the post unti his successor is t ressed hope the new chosen within the 2 Wil- ha. chairman next few White, boria Ga 52 » is to much for arn a living days. 72 € the Em- A Chairma a man who b oty publi of tie 1 A i rant ma full 1 Entertains with Egg Nog Party|: were served a group of M friends who and Dixo Egg nogs afternoon to Alexander the t terday s Jane alled at t home | and Mrs. of her Geor g x Try a classified ad in The Empire,. Switzerland, power Alns shells. F GE&EM BRITAIN Commercial Aviation in Remarkable Growih During Y NEW YORK, Jan. 2. — Commer- | cial aviation in the United States | showed the most remarkable growth | | in its compa ive brief history in | | 1940, | Movement of passengers, air um)l‘ {and air express reached all-time | highs, New York's new $40,000,000 | LaGuardia Field settled down to | handling capacity business, Phila- | delphia opened its new multi-million wrl(lll’u airport. TWA instituted the | st four-engine domestic transport ce with its fleet of 33-p: nger |5 ratoliners, Pan American Airways | opened a new route acre the South Pacific, and the world’s first airlines | terminal was completed in New York. These were the major high- |lights in a year in which commer- |cial aviation forged ahead on :\ll | fronts Anticipated Increase The year's end found airline ex- | ecutives somewhat concerned over the problem of handling 1941's | ticipated increase in traffic should‘ the government “freeze” airline | equipment in the name of national | defense. The Priorities Board cently authorized deferred delivery on transport planes previously ord- ered by the airlines to meet normal expansion needs. If the order is not modified, the airlines’ own position the national defense structure 1 be weakened through lack of equipment to meet possible defense emergency needs and schedule ex- pansion. There was considerable hope among airline executives, how- ever, that the order would be relaxe within the next two or three | months jin Records Broken ssenger traffic on the airlines e all-time records during ihe Transport i Association of America reported in tits latest figures that passenger vol- ume increased 6142 per cent in ihe first 10 months over the correspond- ing period of 1939. A total of 208 revenue passengers were 820,525,163 revenue passenger in 1840 as against 1219928 sengers and 551,690,659 revenue pa: senger miles in the same period o the preceding year. An extremely heavy volume of fall and Christmas mail indicated that air mail shipments would ex- | ceed 20 billion pound miles for 1940. Latest figures from the Post Office Department covered only the firs | seven months during which all t airlines performed 11,258020,789 air- mail pound miles as against 9,516, /103,532 miles for the comparable period of 1939 Air Express Shipments Air expr shipments reached the record-breaking total of 8647457 pounds in the first ten months of this year, an increase of 29.39 per cent over the corresponding period of last vear. Officials estimate the rease for the entire year will exceed | 35 per cent. A half-d flow miles pas- N new airports were ear Just Ended sign, is situated directly across 42nd Street from the Grand Central Sta- tion. Government Aid A number of engineering and other technical advances were re- ~orded during the vear ment appropriated funds for "the installation of instrument landing facilities at selected major airports, which will permit airliners to make instrument landings with safety when low ceilings overheng the field. For the first time, a domestic air- | line began teaching its pilots celes- tial navigation. The subject became | part of the curriculum of TWA pil- | ots so that they could fly off regu- lar routes without benefit of ground or radio m\vignuon'\l aids, CONGRESS T0 MEET FRIDAY, TTTHSESSION House Adj&l}ns Presen Session This Afternoon © -Senafe Iomorrow WAQHINGTO House nty Sixth Congress adjourned the last cession this afternocn. The Senate leadership :alled the final meeting nch for tomorrow. House adjournment came at c'clock afterncon just 366 y ress opened the third cn on Januar 1940, nth Jdn 2. — The however of cession of to open " HUNDREDS CALL AT GOVERNOR'S FOR OPEN HOUSE nor and .‘Vln Ernest Gruen- ing Serv their second New Year's Day in Alaska by hoding open house bhetween 3 and 6 o'clock. Hun- dreds of Gastineau Channel resi- dents called at the Governor's House to extend their greetings ing during the reception heurs w Murs, B Catherine Gre M wW. W ver, \ Farl McGinty, Farr Mrs. Fred Gees Robert Scheettler, Mrs. Minard l\:m, Mrs. Charles Beale, Mrs. Isadore | Govs The govern- | perfect | of the reccrd smashing Sey-| :nnp % ATHENS, Jan 2—The capture, SHATTUCK CITES CITY'S PROGRESS T0 CHAMBERITES Juneau Need Not Alibi for | Apparent Shortcomings Says New President Juneau’s prezress in recent years 125 been great,.and speaks for itself, Jurtis Shattuck, new President of he Juneau Chamber of Commerce, aid tcday on taking over the gavel 1t the weekly membership luncheon. | Declaring. that he believed the | “existence of the Chamber in the| | ~cmmunity is fully justified,” Shat- tuck cited as accomplishments the following: | The new Baranof Hotel; the Gros: 20th Century Building; the Hill crest Apartments; Fosbee Apart- ments; new floor on the Gastineau| Hctel; many private dwellings; Cold | | Storage plant ¢alarged and modern- | ized; Juneau Lumber Mills modern- | {izad; $100,000 in City paving work; l new airmail services; the small boat ‘hmbor the new Public Roads Ad- | ministration warehouse; the Doug- | las Isand road, just begun. Federal = Projects The total of completed, started |and proposed Federal projects in the }Junenu neighborhood, including the \;.wonoo airfield on Mendenhall bar, |is well cver $900,000, Shattuck said. Speaking of road expenditures here as compared with those at | Ketchikn, Shattuck cited the fol- :lcw\m fgiures furnished by Public Roads Administration District En- | gineer M. D. Williams: | Reoad Costs | u vieinity has 45.898 as forast highw of $1766.129.26 exciu- | it bmi;o which 548.41. Av-| ion u\hxlr main- | $54.41878, for a| 1,143.04 in l'O'L‘SU here. | | TFhe Ju | miles ciassifie | built at a cor cf ihe an addi 2 cost pe sive o |era | has highway Ketcl 249 miles of f (.~l high 7875, or an average of $62.728.63 per mile. Tolal mainte besn $181,701.16 for 1 grand tot 40,080.91. In the fiv n Juiy 1 .‘H 3 ures have § Juneau and $443,- | wmn | - EHAUAN ~ FORCES (RUSHED Romans GiEWay at Kli- sura as Greek Forces Continue Advance 1935 bflb’ at Kxir by | Greek troops, of heavily fortified It-| THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureaun) U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4:30 p.m. Jan. Occasional snow, changing to snow or rain tonight and warmer; lowest temperature tonight about 30 degrees, highest day 42 degrees; gentle to moderate southeasterly winds. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Snow in the mountains; rain or snow in north portion, and rain in southportion tonight and day; warmer; moderate to fresh southeasterly winds except decre ing northerly winds in Lynn Canal. Forecast of winas along the.coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Dixon Entrance to Cape Spencer: snow or rain; fresh to ng southeasterly winds; Cape Spencer to Cape Hinchinbrook: snow rain; fresh to strong easterly to southeasterly winds; Cape Hinchin- breok to Resurrection Bay: snow or rain; fresh northeasterly wind Resurrection Bay to Kodiak: snow or rain; fresh easterly to scu easterly winds. LOOAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity 4:30 pm. yesterday 30.18 18 95 NW 3 4:30 a.m. today 30.08 20 89 w 3 Noon today 30.06 26 87 S 4 RADIO REPORTS Weather QOverc Lt. Snow TODAY Lowest 4:30a.m. Precip. temp. temp. 24 hours L -33 0 3 0 -32 0 2 [ 32 01 38 .33 37 04 38 16 02 L 0 15 43 4:30a.m Weather Clear Clear Max. tempt. last 24 hours -20 9 =27 2 35 39 40 38 81 .22 40 35 40 24 47 35 55 Station Fairbanks Nome Lawson Anchorage St. aPul Dutch Harbor Wosnesenski Kodiak Cordova Juneau Sitka Ketchikan Prince Rupert Prince George Seattle Portland San Francisco Cloudy Cloudy Snow Rain Snow 38 WEATHER SYNOPSIS Rain or snow was falling thi; morning over most of Southeast Alaska, and clear or partly cloudy skies prevailed elsewhere Alaska except mostly overcast along the immediate coast from C Spencer to Kodiak. Rain or snow had fallen during the previou hours along the coast of Southeas’ Alaska to the Aleutian Isla and the Bering Sea. The greatest amount of precipitation wa inch which was recorded at Dutc) Harbor. Temperatures conti cold over the interior of Alaska th's morning with Fairbanks m 33 degrees, but temperatures wer: warmer over Southeast Al Mostly overcast with moderate to moderately low ceilings, snow and good visibilities were reported this morning over Juneau-Ketchikan airways. The Thursday morning weather of 985 millibars (29.09 inches) was 152 degrees w and a second low inches) was located at 4l degrees W and a third low center of 981 millibars (28.97 incl cated at 45 degrees north, 175 degrees west. A high pressu abcve 1039 millibars 36.68 inches) was centered to the of Alaska, and a second high center of 1022 millibars (306 wes located at 30 degrees north und 158 degrees wesl eau, Jan, 2. — Sunrise 9:46 a.m, sunset 4:18 pm BODY FOUND GCRDON WILDES IS APPOINTED T0 ATFANSHAW FEDERAL POST INVESTIGATED Juneau Engineer Will Be Planning Consultani for Cities | Gordon Wildes, formerly | gineer with the PWA here, ha appoimed by the National Rr « Planning Board as a cons |assist Alaska communiti light indicated 1 centered center north anc chart a at of area north Possible Murder Hinfed- Name Withheld by Investigators last Sunday has started | Disccvery of a body o | tained ‘speeds opened, others were under construc- | Goldstein, Mrs. Courtney Smith, tion and many more were placec in | Mrs. Jesse E. Graham, Mrs. Hugh | the planning stage to handle ihe |G, Wade, Mrs. J. Simpson MacKi increasing flow of air traffic. New | non and Mrs. Ike Taylor. | York’s famous LaGuardia Field.| Serving were Mrs. Allen Shattuck, | which was opened in December of | Mys, Robert Bender, Mrs, Frank 11939, was hard pressed to accommo- | \fetcalfe, Mrs. James G. Truitt, Mrs. date the greatly increased number Langden White, Mrs. George F. Al |of flight schedules that began op- | exander, Mrs. Oscar G. Glson, Mrs. erating during the year. Its facilities | James J. Connors, Sr., Mrs. Herbert | became so heavily taxed that of- 1, Faulkner, Mrs. William A. Holz- | ficials conceded the need of another | he:mer, Mrs. J. A. Hellenthal and airport in the metropolitan area to|Mrs. Grace Wickersham. e . REORGANIZATION PLAN EXPLAINED Philadelphia air travelers who for | vears have been crossing the Dela ware River to Camden, N. J., ln board their plane, welcomed ihe |opening of the vast new Philadel- | | phia airport. With its miles of flat approaches and long runways, this field takes rank as one of the fin- est in the world. Washington dedi- | Reorganization of the Juneau cated a new and larger airport,|Chamber cf Commerce so that its which will be opened to traffic dur- | Ccmmittee Chairm2n would become ing the calendar year. Other cities [the Executive Board, dropping the which dedicated new or improved [dresent Executive Beard which is el- fields included Albany, Albuquerque, | 8¢ by the membership, was pro- | Houston, Sioux City and Dallas, |Dbcsed at teday's meeting and ex- Faster airline schedules between Plained by Howard Stabler. | Atlantic and Pacific seaboards were | The prcposal, which will be dis- | established when TWA started op- | *ussed next week, has been referred | erating its new fleet of 4-engine, 33- | € a Committee headed by Charles h).»rn[,m Boeing stratoliners carly | W. Carter and 1 lera in domesti line transporta- | tion bv innovating a system of fl_\'- bove the weather > policy of the Chamber resclutions and motions are equipped with “press: with matiers of considerable cabins so that passengers may | Mpcitance must be submitted in enjoy low level comforts of breath- | 7ritine. Norman Banfield submlw’d | ing while flying three and four miles | the motion-in writing Mbfl /e the earth’s surface. In actual| The Chamber’s constitution al- service, these huge planes have at- | veady provides that no matter of | as high as 387 miles | matter of major importance may be | passed upon at cpen f: nge, execept by unan us vote. a | Such matters are to be referred to Ccmmittee for study. Pending ‘ganization, old committees will nue to function, R ODD FELLOWS ATTENTION Regular meeting of Silver Bow Lodge No. A2 I.O.OF. tonight, 30 o'cleck. Work in degree of Love and Degree of members are urged to hour, Pan American Link American Airways added link in its trans-oceanic net- | |work by inaugurating passenger | service between San Francisco-Los | Angeles and New Zealand. Thi service, coupled with TWA’s strato- liner connetcions at New York and | {Los Angeles, gave the United States | four-engine commercial aerial shway from Auckland to Lisbon ‘(‘ three-ouarters of the way around | 3rotherly the world, Cruth. All ‘ Early in the coming year, the air- | be present. lines operating into New York will | move into the world's first airlines | aqy. terminal, which from a historical - 2 standpoint may be likened to the | e Daily Alaska Empire has the first railroad union station ever jaioast paid circulation of any Alc built, The terminal, unique in de- oocq newspaper, GEORGE JORGENSON, Noble Grand _icentral sector of the Albanian bat- 10 CHAMBERITES consisting of all| )i | in July. These planes opened a new | Past Precidents cf the Chamber. 1 was adopted today mak- | a vote on the proposed e Fanshaw |alian pesitions north of Klisura,|Dear Cape trategicaily important town in lhe‘Fedeml officials here on an inves- i e i | tization into possible foul play con- 2 th. ; been announced by the |Dected with the death. i of the Greek| The dead man has been tentative- |1y identified as a Southeast Alaska businessman and minor Federal of- ficial, but the name is being with- | efront b ! cfficial spokesman Command. It was also reported prisoners ware captured and two heavy guns and [ sther materials were taken. | | Strcng Italian counter-attacks in| | the snow covered mountains around | | Klisura were beaten back, the spok- | esman said; before the Italian line of | :leiense works fell. S e T Roads in the 21 American publics total 3,618,818 miles. made. Discoverer of the body was James | Wadman, trapper. News of the find was relayed to Juneau this afterncon by U. S. Com- missioner Harold F. Dawes at Pet- | ersburg. €| The Federal Bureau of Investiga- Attorney are working on the case. N e FOR RENT — Four-room house. ‘ American artichoke production Suitable for couple. Phone Black'is confined largely to a strip of 240 or call at 614 Wllloughby ccastland south of San Francisco. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY | m meet- | | Huge combers battered the Pacific Coast from Southern Czlllomh to storms lashed over a wide region. |held until a definite check can be ticn, U. S. Marshal's office and U. S. | working out their prcblems. a ing fo confirmation raceived Washington today. ‘Wildes' appointment was eff yesterday. The full-time p | the first one of its kind in A e DIVORCE CASE Suit for divorce has been filcd in | District Court by Sam tad against Susie Elstad on grounds of | drunkenness. e SLOW BELL FOSTORIA, O.—The recent wreck of a fire truck in nearby Fremont was followed by an order to lmria firemen to stop for all red | traffic signals while answering calls. ol ——a—— Try a cla ed ad in u)v}n ,:. . - STORM lASHES PACIFIC (OAST IN SOUIH the Pacific Northwest as raging At Stinson Beac, north of San Francisco, cottages were battered and some (above) were swept to sea. At Point Arena, Cal., a search was on for 10 Coast Guardsmen missing after putting to sea in a boat to aid the storm-stricken schooner Stanwood,