The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 15, 1941, Page 2

2 | | EN 10 BRITAIN AIR FORCE ((\(IIEA fi'; EHAMP REQUIRES ~ OFNAZISIN “ririe rmioay BlG SUM i NEw MOVE Contest af Montana Creek{f Camp fo Select Divi- | sion Winner | ‘The champion CCC enrollee ax~-| man of the Juneau area will be se-| lected in a contest to be held at the, — Montana Creek CCC Camp Friday| Secre- | LONDON, Jan. 15 Military quar- afternoon at 2 o'clock. The purpose Helry Morgen. | ST declace ;the Nasl Alr Force isfof the contest is to select a Di- Y odime that Greng | Striking Great Britain's Mediterran- | vision winner who will compete | 16 ean fleet for the purpose of clearing a later date with other Divisional | $3.019,000,000 to , ALt v : hases in this country he water for shipment of German|champions to determine the best; o4l to January 1| troops to Africa to sue TItdly's axeman in the Alaska CCC. | b 23, BNDEINE | battered armies in the various cam- Each contestant will have before| smigns him a green spruce log 2' feet| long, freshly cut, 16 inches in dia- meter and with an average of about seven annual growth rings| to the inch. The one who is able to chop through the log first, using| a standard double bit axe, will be| declared the Divisional “champ.” | Considerable interest in the con-| test has been shown by the en- rollees. A small amount of money has been collected from each one Empire Classifieds Pay! to be pooled and divided among the winners. | TIJE Shoe“; Abe"l) Co‘ft $40"000 The public is cordially invited to - attend the contest. | Morgenthau Reveals How Atfacking Brifish in Medi-| Much Short London to | ferranean - To Move Be on Purchases | Troops to Africa 15, WASHINGTON res Of that amount, $1,464,000,000 will be in excess of British funds avail- able for buying here 2 ; Testifying in support of the Ad-| SAPULPA, Okla.—A few tele- ministration’s lease-lend plan, Mor- | Phones at City Hall went dead but, genthau presented the House For-|the city got its man alive, One of eign Affairs Committee with two| WO shots fired at an escaped pris- memorandas, one of which showed | oner snapped a phone cable. He in’s total dollar exchange | Was caught later that day untry to be $1,775,- | - - CLOSED CALLS resets in this 000,000 Fish Workers OnStrikein - Three Towns Cold Storage Hands Ask Five-Cenf Boost- | Meetings Held ' Cold storage workers laid off work today in Juneau as well as in Ketchikan and Sitka while un-| ion officials and fish buyers went| into huddles over new agreements to replace those now expired. Unionists now getting a base pay of 82': cents an hour are asking| 87 cents, a five cents an hour, boost. Although arrivals of fresh fish are light at this time of the year,| considerable stocks of frozen fish are reported still in Alaska stor- ages awaiting shipment south. - FAGERSON APPLIES TO CONSTRUCT FILL N. Floyd Fagerson has applied to the U. S. Engineer Office of the War Department at Seattle for a' permit to construct a rock fill from Willoughby Avenue just west of the Standard Qil fill. Action on the application will be withheld until February 8 to allow any protests to be heard. VESSEL, BARGE T0 BE SOLD AT MARSHAL'S SALE | The gas screw Bryan and barge known as the W. T. and B. Co. No. 39 will be sold by the Marshal here January 27 at 2 o'clock at the| | front door of the Federal Building to satisfy judgments obtained by | the Pacific American Fisheries, it was announced today. - Harley Turners Go_t_o_ Portland City Clerk Harley Turner, accom- panied by Mrs. Turner, sailed south this morning on the Princess Norah. They plan to go to Portland, | Ore., and will be away for about‘ three weeks. | AUCTION OF FURS BRINGS IN $5,000 The Alaska Game Commission's% { | Note the shoes on Beryl Carew’s feet here, for they are about the costliest in the world. The price? $40,000! Why? Because they are ornamented with diamonds. Miss Carew is a showgirl in New York. Aussies Help pr P i Bardla Fall o British troops, helped considerably by Australian troops and tanks, finally capture the Italian stronghold of Bardia, Lybia, and take more than 25,000 Italians prisoner. The Aussie troops pictured were advancing over the sands of Libya awaiting the zero hour when the photo was taken. o Trammg Pigebns for War confiscated fur auction this after- | noon netted a total of $5,991.10. { Three fur dealers, Charles Gold- | stein, Henry Yurman and L. Ket- cham, the latter a visitor from the | States, did most of the bidding. One fox went to a non-dealing bidder. | Goldstein bought the bulk of the | furs, principally beaver. > - DIVORCES GRANTED Divorces have been granted in| District Court here to Elsie Williams from George Williams, Vera Glen- don from Jack Glendon and Beulah | Sund from Chris E. Sund. | ->-ees - | NOW THEY'RE MINERS Four local CCC enrcllees have | been given certificates at the com- | pletion of the mining extension course here. They are Richard C. Davis, Walter D! Griffith, Norman D. Rinehart and Kelly M. Ward. | > - | The Daily Alaska Empire has the Miss R. G. Taylor, of Britain’s Auxiliary Training Service, is shown |largest paid circulation of any Als with two of her feathered pupils in the Army Pigeon Service. A bird- |aska newspaper. { trainer in civilian life, Miss Taylor is teaching the pigeons to carry . oo army dispatches from outposts to headquarters. Emplre Classifiecs Pay! THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 15, 1941. BELLIGERENT BUNNY rtt of Py ., has fur of aviation helmets, gloves The fur is said shown here in the lap of Caroiyn Li which is considered ideal for manufactur and coats. One rabbit produces about a to be lighter and warmer than wool. FASHION NOTE ur.d a year. e | More flattering than spectacular, these two little suits of navy sheer crepe are a part of the Fashion Futures selections for spring. One includes a ruffley pink collar, the other 2 hat of starched eyelet embroidery in pink to match the below-the-skirt petticoat. : ‘Endangering the Reich” Germany has demanded that the U, S. recall Cecil M. P. Cross (left), first secretary at the U. S. Embassy in Paris, and Leigh W. Hunt, second secretary, as well as Miss Elizabeth Deegan, reception clork. They are accused of “endangering the Reich” by helping a British officer sscape from France. Washington indicated the trio will be moved to Lisbon, but that this did not mean admission of guilt, CZECHS ARE | TAXED HIGH BY GERMANS Economic Conquest Has, Cost Billion Dollars, Plus | Aid to Help Win War ! (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) It is indicated that Germany's 22| menth old economic conquest of Czechoslovakia has cost the Czechs at least “one billion dollars.” The Germans are said te have im- | pc w i terrific taxes yielding an ad-| cnal $100.000,000 annually to help| presecute the war against Great Bri- | tain | - - | AXingdom | For a Plane; Latest Kind New Type'ITNeeded by, ! Great Britain-Purposes | Given Explanation | By BILL WHITE \ AP Feature Service | T | LONDON, Jan Britons satisfied that the RAF has almost ecompletely nullified {he threat of daytime air raids, are de- manding now an answer to the four-month-old horror of nigntI raids. i And there seems to immediate hope in sight. Some 14 weeks ago, Sir Archi- bald Sinclair, Minister for A declared, “I am able to look for: ward to a time when the pleas- ure of night bombing over Britain will cease to be attractive to Reich Marshal Goering and his aerial minions.” t 15.—War-weary be ro Good s These words were ‘hailed by everyone who had huddled in al shelter or had his sleep broken oy the terrorizing whuump of hombs| and the answering clatter of anti- aircraft guns But the two-part job of lo- cating the night - prowling enemy and downing him is not simple as it first appeared. | Anti-aireraft guns, even by day,| are none too accurate. The World | War average of ‘30,000 shells per | nit” still appears to hold good. By night, the guns are less accurate.| They can keep the enemy high and| ‘:lxml his aim, but they aren't likely {to turn back a determined raid. | The barrage balloons and the searchlights helpful—but sim-! | ply keeping “Jerry” high isn't! encugh—for obvious mathematical reasons. Sound travels about 1,109 | feet a second, that by the time o | plane speeding 200 miles an hour| at 25000 feet is heard on the| | ground, the machine is more than | {a mile from the point at which the | sound_ originated. | So far the British ack-ack ! gunners have been credited | with bringing down more than | 300 enemy aircraft by day and moere than 100 by night. But that is not enough. Competent observers are certain that the night fighter plane is the| solution—but present planes for Lhaz‘ | purpose are falling far short of the results sought. | The night pilot, too has his| problems. He is deaf to allf other sound and sometimes tem- porarily blinded by the reflection of searchlights on his propelier. His enemy may be thousands of feet above or below him, miles to the| front or on either side. New Plane Necded So the remedy must come new type plane. The air correspondent London Evening News are in a of the says it must! THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) U. S. DEPARTMENT NF CON MERCE, WEATHER BUREAU Forecast for Juneau and vicini$y, beginning at cloudy tonight and Thursday with possibly light snow Thurs- temperature highest Thursday Mostly d not much tonight about mocerate easter! change in 28 degrees, winds. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: day with possibly light rain or snow showers in south port in nérth portion on Thursday; not gentle to moderate easterly to southeasterly 0 p.m. with lowest temperature 38 degrees; gentle to Mostly cloudy tonight and Ti much change winds in temp except fr strong northerly in Lynn Cana! and Chatham Straits. Forecast of winas along the coast of o erate easterly to southeasterly winds; /moderate easterly Dixon Entrance to Cape Spenc inbrook: Partly cloudy; Cape Hinchinbrook easterly winds; Resurrection B: to Resurrection the Guif of Alaska Local snow or rain showers: n Cape Spencer to Cape Hi to northeasterly wind Fair; 'moderate sout Partly cloudy; Bay to Kodiak: ate northerly to northeasterly winds. LOCAL DATA Time 4:30 p.m. yesterday 29.73 4:30 am 2077 11:30 am 29.88 33 34 32 Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity Weather 11 Cloudy 13 Cloudy 15 Cloudy NE E SE 39 47 RADIC REPORTS |5 Max. tempt. last 24 hours | 20 -10 | Station Barrow Fairbanks Nome 19 Dawson -6 Anchorage 25 Bethel 10 St. Paul 34 Dutch Harbor .. 35 Wosnesenski 40 Kanatak 41 Kodiak 43 Cordova 36 Juneau 39 Sitka 5 Ketchikan 40 Prince Rupert . 43 Prince George . 29 Seattle 47 Portland 50 San Francisco .. 57 Lowest temp. TODAY 4:30 am. Precip. 4:30a.m temp. 24 hours Wealther -9 03 -18 0 14 0 -21 14 3 Clear Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Clear Cloudy =10 ~-18 Rain Cloudy Rain, show v Rain, show'r Cloudy WEl\’l‘llER SYNOPSI. Rain was falling this morning at a few stations over the sout ern portion of Southeast Alaska, prevailed generally elsewhere ove previous 24 hours at scat-ered stations along the c Island s, ing the Kodiak tion of to the Southeast portion of Alaska. amount during the recorded at Ketchikan temperature the extreme was minus Aleutian Alaska, and previous 24 north = portion. 18 degrees which overcast skies with moderately lo good visibilities, with light rain reported this morning over the The Tuesday morning avea of 996 millibars (29.41 and 132 degrees west, and a (29.12 inches) was located at A high pressure area high center of 1023 millibars 44 The precipitation and Dutch Harbor. was experienced anywhere in Alaska except colderover = was Juneau-Ketchikan weather inches) second s centere 1 (30.21 grees north and 130 degrees west and the pres morning, over most of the interio Juneau, Jan. 16 — Sunrise 9: cloudy Kics fallen or partly Rain had clear Alaska. aad dur- over the southern the extreme no light, the greate 04 inch which wa Not much change and over was was s10W hours h> lowest temperature this reported at Fairbanks to moderately high ceil wers over the south por airway. chart indicated a low was located at 48 degrees norti low center of 985 millibars degrees north and 158 degrees . of Alaska and a inches) was located 31 ire was rising pressu this of Alaska 33 a.m., sunset 4:43 p.m. 21 SEATED HERE FOR COURT TERM 15 Men, 7Wlomen Take Up Criminal Cases of First Division men and seven women was impanelled late this afternoon to begin the consid- eration of criminal cases bound over to it by Commissioners’ Courts in the First Division and to consider whatever new matter may be pres- ented. Those on the Grand Jury are Al- vin Anderson, James E. Barragar, Jr., Roald ' Copstead, Margaret L. Dyer, Frank Heller, Arthur B. Jud- son, Fred Lefton, Mrs, Jack Livie. Mrs. Hans Nielsen, Leslie J. Reed, William Jack and James York, all of Juneau; Mary B. Benson of Glac- ier Highway; Florénce L. Elkins, Knute Thompson and Mrs. Bessie Warfield, all of Petersburg; Hugo Fredericksen of Sitka; Mrs. Anna Lee of Skagw: Evert Martinson and Hermann Savikko of Douglas; William Sprigade and John C. Thomas of Salmon Creek. - NATURALIZED Citizenship was granted in District Court here yesterday afternoon to Florence Lillian May Olson, native of Canada. jGRAND JURY 0F~ BILLY THE GOOD OR BILLY, BAD! AP FEATURE SERVICE | FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., Jan. 15.—-How | 'do you prefer Billy the Kid? Good wor bad? | You can have your choice, be- cause one of each variety has been galloping and shooting before mo- tion picture cameras a few miles from one another in northern zona It was a wonder the two Billys MGM's Rebert Taylor and Howard Hughes' Jack Beutel — didn't ri into each other. If they had, wouldn’t have recognized the ot The real Billy the Kid, credited with kililng 20 men by the time he reached voting age, was shot fo death in Lincoln County, New Mex- ico, some 60 years ago by frontier Sheriff Pat Garrett, but his spiri has been riding through fiction pages and across movie screens ever since Robert Taylor portrays the Xid as a fine fellow who fell into bad gompany. Howard Hughes' “The Outlaw” filmed in the northern Arizona Hopi icountry and at Tucson, shows Billy as a “cold-blooded killer.” There was no effort to “clean him up,” the | studio said. | e one Submarines sank 11,153,000 tons of Allied and neutral shipping during the World War. German; lost 178 of the 390 submarines sh2 sent to sea. have (1) @ PEriect All-GroUNG VIEW, g o—————— e i o e e o o Put a Covic Diesel in Your Boat If You Want | (2) a means of definitely locating| | the enemy, (3) the ability to cruise| all night if necessary and (4) Lax‘ry{‘ a crew of at least two men. | Until such a plane is perfected, | England must rely on RAF attacks| on enemy factories and airdromes | to diminish. the scale of Axis op- erations. | oo | C. CF C. WILL MEET THURSDAY The regular weekly luncheon ani‘ busine: meeting of the Juneau| Chamber of Commerce will be held| starting at neon tomorrow in the Baranof Hotel dining room. | Cr.'M. J. Whittier, in charge of| the program, says Leslie F. 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