The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 11, 1941, Page 2

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, FEB. 11, 1941 Juneau Elks | Award Prizes For Essays eneweiic proest Lodzed BRITISH AID Annva Lois D?Fis, Doris Ca- hill and Harry Sperling, Jr., Are Winners Winners from among 80 essays on “Why T Am Glad to Be an Ameri- can” entered in the Elks' National Defense Committee’s contest for Ju- neau high school students, were an- nounced yesterday by committee chairman H. R. VanderLeest as fol- lows | Anna Lois Davis, first prize, $5; Doris Cahill, second prize, $3; .'md‘ Harry Sperling, Jr., third prize, $2.| Because of the general excellence of their essays, the following seven high school students were given hon- orable mention: Lois Allen, Robert Helgesen, Con- stance Davis, Bob Phillips, Pat Ol- son, Margaret Femmer and Shirley Davis ! Pinal judging was done by a com- | mittee composed of Gov Ernest| Gruening, chairman; Mrs Crystal| Snow Jenne and Judge William A.| Holzheimer. All essay entrants were arranged by number instead of the author's} name, Mr. VanderLeest said, and s were made on merit of the work and with no knowledge regard- ing the writers: The winning essays will be entered by the local Elks in the national con- test sponsored by the lodge’s Nation- al Defense Committee throughout the country. Anna Lois Davis, Doris Cahill and Harry Sperling, Jr., will read their winning essays over KINY tomorrow night at 8:30, as a part of a Lin- coln’s Birthday Program, following | on the air the Juneau Women's Club broadcast. Elks' committee members expressed | appreciation of the cooperation of Juneau High School teachers and | pupils in the contest. ee— REPORT SHOWS LESS FLU; MORE MEASLES The weekly report of communic- able diseases as sent in to the Terri- torial Health Department for the period ending February 10, showed a decrease of influenza from 336 cases last week to 210 cases this week. The majority of the cases exist at Tetlin, Tatitlek and Met- lakatla. Increasing cases of German meas- les are being reported from various parts of the Territory, Anchorage having 52 and Fairbanks 16. Seven cases of pneumonia, seven of | syphillis, five gonorrhea and 40 new cases of tubercuolsis were listed. The increase in tuberculosis rep- resents a partial report on develop- ment to date of x-ray films taken of suspected cases. CHARLES BUNNELL ARRIVES VIA PAR Charles Bunnell, President nf! the University of Alaska, was an| arrival today on the PAA Electra from Fairbanks, President Bunnell| will spend some time in Juneau | visiting with friends and confer- ring with legislators. KETCHER ARRIVES 10 TAKE NEW 108, Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Ketcher, ac-| companied by their two small chil- dren, were arrivals on the Yukon and are guests at the Juneau Ho- tel. Mr. Ketcher will be property clerk for the Office of Indian Affairs. The Ketchers are from the Carson Indian Agency at Stewart, Nevada, where Mr. Ketcher held a similar position. e —— Harry Suggets Off To Si_lk_a for Stay Mr. and Mrs. Harry A. Suggett left on the steamer North Coast for Sit- ka. Mr. Suggett is Alaskan distributor for the Steelco Stainless Steel pro- ducts. ' The Suggetts will return here in a few months before going to the Westward INSPECT FOREST WORK AT SITKA W. A. Chipperfield, District Rang- er for the Forest Service office here, and Lynn Forrest, assistant archi- tect for the department, are making the round trip to Sitka on the steam- er North Coast. They are on a regu- lar inspection trip of work in that vicinity. e e —— GUCKER RETURNS J. W| Gucker of the Alaska Trad- ing Company arrived from the south on the steamer Yukon and is registered at the Baranof. PASSPORTS OF AMERICAN ARE szeo, sona BRANCH FOR | with Bulgarian Govt.- They Are Returned SOFIA, Feb. 11. — The Bulgarian police seized an American diplomatic courier’s passports, the United States Legation announced late today and an “immediate and energetic protest To serve as the nucleus of an was made.” organization which will enlist local| Later the Bulgarian Foreign Of- aid for England, the Juneau Rotary | fice expressed “sincere regrets,” ex- Club today constituted itself a plaining the passport was taken be- branch of Bundles for Britain. Bundles for_B;'tain Organ- | ization Set Up for cause it is alleged the courier, Ray- The Club will accept contributions mond Leddy, was attempting to take of Juneauites wishing to assist the photographs in the military zone. | English people in standing off and The passport is being returned, the defeating the German assault. Al-| Foreign Office state. though all details of the local ef- - fort have not been worked out, it is planned that subscriptions for regular monthly contributions to- e( ares ward the purchase of hospital equip- P ment and other materials needed by England will be taken by the Ro-! tary Club. | osporus | H. L. Faulkner, the Rev. John L. Cauble and George Sundborg| M | were appointed a committee to or- ganize the Bundles for Britain Nall Goal‘cnmpmgn here. Cauble will serve as Treasurer. Registered with State Dept. ISTANBUL, Feb. 11.—The Turkish| Bundles for Britain is the larg- official newspaper Otrat Politika to-| €st organization of-its kind in Am- day says German troops are arriving | erica. It is registered with the U. S. steadily in Buigaria and the Nazi| State Department and authorized officers are declaring “our 'goal is|under the Neutrality Act to solicit the Bosporus and the Mediterran-|and accept donations for England. ean.” | Such donations qualify for income The newspaper says hundreds of | tax exemption, German soldiers, wearing civilian| The organization started as one’ overcoats, have been taken to many | which gathered clothing for Brit- Bulgarian ports on the Black Sea by | ain (hence the name) but more re- Buigarian trucks. |cently has been sending surgical| bt 548 10 5 D A | instruments and whatever else Eng- lish leaders send word the nation 4 needs urgently. More than 350 Rotary Clubs in the United States have become branches of Bundles for Britain. No Saerifice Yet Speaking in favor of today's ac- | tion, Faulkner said we in America | all feel the danger of Nazi domina- (5 tion but very few of us have made any sacrifices to head it off. It is not only our duty to aid Britain, ._|he declared, but our duty to de- WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.— Presi- dent Roosevelt said if the United | €04 ourselves by so doing. States is forced into a war on the Ao ‘fiqm e 4 ety Pacific there would have to be no ;:omn;u?tny arehmvxted by Bundlgs curtailment of delivery of war sup- | OF < AR e A0 BapitysOlihsde plies to Great Britain. serving as the local branch _and The President said he thought will transmit Juneau contribu- there is no danger of such a war. The statements were made in re- plying to questions asked at confer- ence with the newsmen this after- noon. tions to New York and thence to England in the form of urgently needed supplies. | e s BIG BASKETBALL ——————— JACK GUCKER RETURNS WITH NEW LINES FOR ALASKA TRADING (0. - Announcing the addition of Hamm's beer to lines he handles, ROTARY (LUB | | Juneau I HOUSE VOTES DIES LONGER LIFE, MONEY eral, Lincoln’s birthday is designat- and voted $150,000 to finance the THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) U. S. DEPARTMENT OF CON¥ MERCE, WEATHER BUREAU Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4:39 p.m., Feb, 11: Mostly cloudy tonight with occasional light snow late tonight; Wed- nesday occasional light snow and rain changing to rain; warmer Wednesday; lowest temperature tonight about 31 degrees, highest Wednesday 43 degrees; gentle variable winds, becoming gentle to moderate southeasterly Wednesday. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Mostly cloudy tonight with oc- casional light snow, changing to s170 wor rain in north portion, and occasional light rain south portion late tonight and Wednesday: warmer Wednesday; increasing southeasterly winds, becoming moder- ate to fresh Wednesday. Forecast of winas along the coast of the Guilf jof Alaska Dixon Entrance to Cape Spencer: Occasional rain; moderate south- easterly - winds, becoming fresh t> strong Wednesday; Cape Spen- cer to Cape Hinchinbrook: Occasional rain; fresh to stroug south- easterly winds; Cape Hinchinbroox to Resurrection Bay: Occasional rain; fresh to strong southeasterly to. easterly winds, but shiftin to moderate to fresh southwester'y during Wednesday; Resurrection Bay to Kodiak: Occasional rain o: showers; fresh to strong 1 easterly winds, shifting to moderat> to fresh southwesterly winds dur- ing tonight. SO B LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity 4:30 p.m. yesterday 29.83 36 4 s 6 4:30 am. today 29.91 32 94 w 2 Noon today 20.95 32 91 w 3 Weather Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy RADIO REPORTS TODAY 4:30 a.m, Precip. 4:30a.m temp. 24 hours Weather -19: 0 Clea 2 0 Cloudy 28 16 Sno Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Clear Snow Snow Lowest temp. =22 -5 23 7 25 33 29 35 36 36 31 3 33 34 35 31 44 42 51 Max. tempt. | Station last 24 hours | Barrow | Fairbanks | Nome | Dawson | Anchorage | Bethel | St.. Paul Dutch Harbor ‘Waosnesenski Kodiak Cordoya Juneau 3 Sitka. i Ketchikan | Prince Rupert | Prince George | Seattle | Portland | San Francisco . | WEATHER SYNOPSIS Relative warm, moist maritime air had invaded most of Al this morning except over the north:rn and the southeastern portion Rain or snow was falling this morning from Cordova to the Aleutian Cloudy Pt. Cldy Rain Cloudy Cloudy PLAYED, JUNEAU e Ketchikan and Petershurg acl ucker, owner of the Alaska Trading Company, returned to Ju-‘ May Come Here '0 De' neau ‘on the Yukon after a business | . » A Bt (o tha sast oest cide Championship Gucker, whose company also han- | dles Golden Age Beer, said he is| The Ketchikan High School bas- pleased ‘with the addition of the|ketball team is on top of the heap | new line, “one of the best known|in the Southeast division of the Al- eastern beers.” aska high school basketball stand- Fruit Industries’ wines and a full ings so far, in this year's play-off by line of Schenley Liquors are also|yirtue of two wins recently over its represented by the Alaska Trading arch rival, Petersburg. The scores Company. were: First game, Ketchikan 28, Pet- Gucker spent much of his trip|ersburg 26, in an overtime period. visiting Col. Theodore Wiehe, presi- | The second game Petersburg won 30 dent of Schenley Company. |to 28,.and the third game was won - B S 5 * |by Ketchikan, 30 to 18, all three Pu]’l"u" MI"'“G | games being played at Ketchikan. | However, this does not decide the M‘N v's"s HERE | team to journey to Juneau for the | All-Southeast title, as Ketchikan % 3 _ Imust play a three-game series at Returning from a business trip petersburg, and must win two of to the States, Charles J. Johnston the games. If not, it is reliably res arrived on the Yukon for a Visit | ported that both teams will come to of several days in Juneau before | Juneau to complete the' play-off be- going on to Platinum where he is | fore the series with Juneau High's Treasurer of the Good News Bay|Crimson Bears. ? Mining Company. The champions of the southern Speaking of their activities in|district are decided on a four-game placer platinum mining, Johnston|winner out of seven-game series. stated that they will continue to|Ketchikan needs two wins to make operate their dredge and the two|the series championship and the draglines, beginning as usual the|right to play Juneau. first part of May after the frost| - o — has left the gound. No major chang- | es are contemplated. 1M lE I Johnston is an oldtimer of the| ( . Fairbanks district as well as Good- SERVE TWO - e - - . John Brillh YEARS IN PEN ohn Brillhart, . s Fam"y Return A maximum sentence of two years |in McNeil Island Federal Peniten- 5 | tiary was given to Charles Robert John Brilthart, Junior Forestnr,‘Mcme"an this afternoon in Fed- returned here on the steamer North | era] Court by Judge George F, Al- Coast after a leave of absence of | oxander. i three months, during which time‘. McClellan was found guilty by a he spent at Lancaster, Pa. Before| jury on a charge of conlrzlbuty;nu returning here he attended the So- |4 the delinquency of a minor. ciety ‘of American Foresters at A Bl ? ‘Washington, D. C. | Mrs. Brilthart and twin daugh-| ters accompanied Mr. Brillhart on'\FRAmo oFF 'o the trip. £ > e SEE MUSSOLIN RANDS FOR SITKA . Mrs. Clarence Rands, formerly of Juneau, with her daughter Barbara, BERN, Switzerland, Feb, 11.—Gen visited friends here while the North | Francisco Franco of Spain today Coast was in port. They are re-|crossed into France enroute tohave turning to their home in Sitka|a conference with Mussolini, a after a trip south. | Swiss telegraphic -agency reports. — - o e - — Subscribe for The Empire. Try a classified ad in The Emplire s ' . 1 7 ]OUR"EY Lincoln’s Birthday Not fo st Be Observed, However, : . WASHINGTON, Feb. 11, — The Three Answer Roll Call in - whelmingly to give the Dies Un-Am- Tomorrow will be a holiday for erican Activities Committee another Session Today ‘ ed a legal holiday for Alaska of-'work. Three members of the Senate and | ficials. i R e today in the Territorial Legislatures, | will meet tomorrow, though briefly juNEAu woRKERS the rest of the Legislators being in as most of the members are Senators remaining here are Hen- B ry Roden, Leroy Sullivan and Ed- Box To ENG[AND James V. Davis, Frank Gordon, Al- | len Shattuck and H. H. McCutcheon sy i According to Capt. J. C. Newmark- small remnant marked time until| I the Sitka committees should return, Juneau’s clubs and organizations have repsonded most graciously and o'clock tomorrow and the Senate un- | til 11, | workers. SR i gl | I\ Not only clubs, but individuals as forts in behalf of refugee work. There is stil, however, a need for . urged to call Mrs. J. C. Thomas. In- Head "orlh mum'BIue FOXES Te”S | voices for more yarn have been re- | 0 . ’ i Condlhons in North A list of goods for the English - | i refugees sent out in the latess box The job of moving a ‘“ca#”across country from the former Kiyumin-| trader and fur farmer and the orig- the Catholic Daughters under. the ing operations to the Three Min- inator of the platinum-blue fox | direction of Mrs, Delia Dull, and the John Haventrite and his wife and|Commission this afternoon, while the | Leona Sebinco’s supervision. ' The Jack N. Allen north from their|Yukon was in port. | Lutheran Aid group, headed by Mrs. lier than usual so that they will|Outside and spoke before the Com- shirts. There were 85 girls’ skirts have the “cat” journey over before mission on game conditions in his- | completed, with work being done by Havenstrite, operator of dmg]me‘blue fur is in demand by buyers and | workers including Mrs. Robert Som- operations in the Second Division,| he has a standing offer from Fromm | mers, Mrs. I. Taylor, Mrs. A. B. Phil- erty at the upper end of Candle|€rs and producers in the world, to Women's dresses amounting to 24 Creek. The ground was drilled last|Puy all of his breeding stock, the were finished by Mrs. H. I. Lucas, this season and arrangements will| be made to move part of the Kiyu| enstrite said. | Allen, associated with the Haven-| Homer, has operated at Ophir !or‘ four years. Last season was the best for this year's operations are even, better, Allen said. country trip is an experiment, AI—‘ len said, and one he hopes to ac-| party, in Juneau today while !he) Yukon was in port, will fly from erties. . Mrs. Havenstrite, a Cheechako Candle and is returning north now an old timer, she declares. | tions of the Havenstrites, hope was/ expressed that operations may be granted and present plans of the; company are to renew work. ADDITION HERE | the Elks Building here and remod- | eling the piesent structure have| Committee for opening at 7:30 o'- clock the.evenin; of April 1. obtained at the o'fice of M. E.| Monagle. OF INDIAN AFFAIRS | | rived in Juneau last night on the North Coast to make their home clerk for the Office of Indian Af-| fairs, replacing Fred Geeslin who istrative Assistant. Mr. Brust comes with a wide ex-| Affairs. Recently he has been sta- tioned at Shawnee, Oklahoma, with and Mrs. Brust are at the Baranof, | temporarily while locating anapart- HOLIDAY HERE By Fed8fa| offi(es House this afternoon voted over- Senate, Four in House | Territorial offices. but not for Fed-|15 months to make investigations four of the House answered roll calls| Both houses of the Legislature ! in | Sitka inspecting the Pieneers’ Home. | Sitka. | SEND RED (ROSS | ward Coffey. Representatives are:FuR FARME [ No business was conducted, as the er, head of the local Red Cross unit ‘The House adjourned until 2 ! unselfishly to the recent call for M' 7 | well, nave lent their time and ef- lnlng Men IMan WhO Origmaied Plat’ 1mone knitters, and all interested are iccived and should be here shortly. George R. Goshaw, Shishmaref |includes 60 girls’ dresses made by ers property near Ophir is taking|spoke before a meeting of the Game Women of the Moose, under Mrs, winter homes in Los Angeles ear-| Goshaw is returning from a. trip |Alfred Zenger, completed 46 boys’ the season opens. | district. Goshaw’s famous platinum- | Lutheran Aid and by a group of is moving a new outfit to his prop- | Brothers, one of the largest fur deal- lips and Mrs. W. S. Pullen. vear in preparation for operauousmmdcr said. A prime hide of one of |Mrs. G. F. Freeburger, Mrs. J. equipment in to Candle Creek, Hav- strite brothers, Russell, John and| the company has had and pl‘ospects} Moving the “cat” on a long cross complish without difficulty. The| Anchorage to their mining prop-| last year, spent her honeymoon at Regarding the Iniskin oil opera-| continued. ease renewals have been — .- BIDS CALLED ON Bids for building an addition to been called by the Elks Building| Plans and specifications may be VT W T R NEW CHIEF (LERK Mr. and Mrs. Reinholt Brust ar-| here. Mr. Brust is the new chief recently was promoted‘ to Admin-| perience in the Office of Indian the Shawnee Indian Agency. Mr. ment. CARNEGIE RETURNS C. C. Carnegie, of the Juneau Florists, who was called south by the death of his mother, returned; to Juneau aboard the Yukon. | —— - Miss Ruby Weinman Arrives on Yukon Miss Ruby Weinman, of Wash- ington, D. C., arrived on the Yu-| kon to be secretary to Dr. Lang- don White, Medical Director of the {sion on the effect of National For- 20 layettes, complete with six gar- | received by the Governor's office. the foxes sells for $110. Newmarker and Mrs. Earl Cleve- Goshaw said that he has been land. The Martha Society of the working on crossing and breeding | Northern Light Presbyterian Church foxes for fifteen years. and the Juneau Women’s Club com- Yesterday afternoon the Game pleted 100 women's skirts. Commission held a two-hour meet- Twenty-nine pajamas were made ing with the Pinance Committees of by the Episcopal Guild, as well as the House and Senate for discussion seven convalescent robes. Mrs, Wile of proposed predatory animal boun- |liam Holzheimer was chairman in ty reduction. The Commission in- charge of the Guild sewers. The formed the Legislators of the feed-|Doreas Society of the Seventh-Day ing habits of the bounty animals and | Adventist Church was responsible disc *d the reductions and the for the completion of 14 robes and amount of damage done by each ani- under the direction of Mrs. Dave mal at length. Davenport, the Legion Auxiliary fin- Today B. Frank Heintzleman, reg- ished 11 hospital shirts. ional forester, spoke to the Commis- | A Red Cross sewing group finished ests on game animals. CERTIFICATES OF | ments in each. Also included in the shipment were 162 knitted garments, including sweaters for men, women and chil- dren, as well as children’s dresses and shawls, mufflers and beanies. Under the direction of Mrs. Stanley IDENTITY BEING 'SSUED F“.lpl"os Jackson, the native women com- pleted a large quota of mittens. Mrs. Certificates of identity for Fili-|E. R. Jaeger and Mrs, Simpson Mac- pines resitient in the United SwFE‘S Kinnon have also done considerable are now being issued by the office knitting on mittens, There were 70 of J. M. Elizale, Resident Commis- pair sent out. sioner of the Philippines to the U.| The Douglas women, a group 8., according to an announcement headed by Mrs. Lloyd Guerin, fin- 2 ished 67 children’s knitted stockings The certificates are designed to and 23 men’s sox. help Filipinos identify themselves a5 Besides the local clubs, several American nationals. They will be prigge groups have been turned into | issued only upon presentation of | Red Cross knitting groups, for which proper evidence of identity. Mrs. R, H. Williams has been largely T ot i responsible. FEDERAL OFFICES A4 A AND @1y AL Charles Melczers (LOSE TOMORROW Given Hotel Party | Department of Justices offices in By Mrs_ Simpsonr the Federal Building will be closed Mrs, Charles A. Melczer, the for- tomorrow as it is a legal holiday. The City Hall will also be closed. Offices affected by the Lincoln | mer Anabel Simpson, and Mr. Mel- Day holiday in the Federal Building | czer, were honored with a large are Federal District Court, Commis- | party at the Hotel Mark Hopkins sioner’s Court, Marshal’s office and | recently. The affair was given by United States District Attorney's | the bride’s mother, Mrs. Rober office. | Simpson of Juneau, who went & e | south a few weeks ago. BECOMES CITIZEN Among those attending the party Mike Tomlinovich, formerly 2| ywere Misses Christine and Har- citizen of Yugoslavia, was natural-| pjere Helps, formerly of Juneau, and ized late yesterday in Federal Court| miss Sue Stewart, Juneau High before Judge George F. Alexan-|gchool graduate now attending der. school in California. > - >+ - ANDERSON TO SITKA J. G. Andersen, superintendent of | construction for Siems Drake Pu-| get Sound. is a passenger on the steamer North Coast bound for Sitka, | NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on January 18, 1941, HER- BERT LEE, as administrator of the| estate of ANNA W. A. HART, de- ceased, made and filed in the above-entitled Court at Sitka, Al- aska, his Final Account and Re- port and Petition for Distribution, jand that on said day the said Court entered its order directing that a hearing be had upon said Final | Accourt and Report and Petition for Distribution before it on Sat- urday, March 22nd, 1941, at 10:00 oclock AM., at the office of the said United States Commissioner, |in the Federal Building, in Sitka Precinct, Territory of Alaska, and requiring all persons to then and there appear and make their ob- Jjections, if any, thereto, and to the settlement thereof and to the final distribution of the assets of this estate, to HATTIE FAULK, the daughter and only surviving heir Islands and over the Seward Peninsula, and variable cloudiness clear to overcast prevailed elsewh:re over Alaska. had . fallen during the previous from Rain or snow 2t hours over the coastal area from Caordova to the Alentian Islands aad northward to the Seward Pen- insula and over the lower Yukon and Kuskokwim Valleys. The greatest amount of precipitation was 1.02 inches, which was reported at Kodiak. Temperatures were warmer this morning over most Alaska - except the southeast port ons, minus nine degrees which was recorded at Barrow. intermediate cloudiness w.th good visibilities, except for very broken low .cloudiness and local patches of The owest temperature was Scattered of fog in the Gastineau Channcl, prevailed this morning over the Juieau-Ketchikan anrway. The Tuesday morning weathe: chart indicated an occluded front was moving northeastward and extended from a low center of 652 millibars (28.11 inches) was, indicated to the northeast sure area of 1025 millibars north and 172 degrees west, and millibars (30.32 inches) degrees west, and a crest of hi located ner to near Kodiak, and thence southward into lower pressure area of 987 millibars (29.15 inches) grees north and 125 degrees west and tended northeastward over Washing.on state. (30. was centred at 26 degrees north and St. Paul Island southeastward latitudes. A low was located at 39 de- relatively low pressure A high pressure a of Alaska, and a second high pres- 27 inches) was located at 27 degrees a third high pressure area of 1027 154 g1 pressure extended from this cen- ter northeastward to Southeast Aliska. Juneau, Feb. 12 — Sunrise 8: ELECTRAS IN AND OUT One PAA Electra left Juneau for Fairbanks this forerloon with Charles Geldstein, Capt: J. G. Shinkle and John Down as passengers. Joe Cros- son, Alaska manager for PAA was a passenger from Whitehorse to Fair- banks. Crosson, who had been in the States, flew to Whitehorse via Yukon-Southern. Leaving Fairbanks this forenoon, another Electra arrived this after- nocn with the following passengers: Charles Bunnell, George Hite, For- est Brenner, Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Strause and G. A. Grab. Returning immediately to White- horse the second plane took out Cecil Frickey, Bill Root, Louis Corbley and Lloyd Peterson. S SR ARCHIE SHIELS, CANNERYMAN AND AUTHOR, IN TOWN To Spend. Several Weeks in Juneau Visiting Old Friends Back in Alaska on his annual visit to renew friendships in tne Capital City, Archie W. Shiels, President of Pacific American Fish- eries and author of “Seward’s Ice-| box” and other volumes on the North, arrived today on the steam- er Yukon. The genial resident of South Bellingham plans to remain here about two weeks. He is in his usual room in the Juneau Hotel and has cpened the office in the old First National Bank Building which the year-around has his name upon the door. OIS S SO S 1941 BICYCLE LICENSES HERE 3)a sunset 5:47 p.m. MRS, CROSSHERE ENROUTE TOHOME IN FAR NORTH After a trip that took her 5 | far as Washington, D. C.. Mis John N. Cross arrived in Juncau |on the Yukon today and will re- | main here until the last of the wee | when she will leave by PAA Elec- | tra, bound for Deering. | Mrs. Cross, with ‘her brother | Boris Magids, one of the largest IALmding post operators in Alas | flew to the States in December b; Southern . Airways, visited a s ter in Winnipeg and continued by | plane to Chicago where she spent New. Year's with Mr. and Mrs. Carl | Dreutzer. ] With her daughter Patsy, Murs. Cross continued her journey to New York and Washington. Before re- turning north, Mrs. Cross entered Patsy in Ramona Convent in Al- hambra, Cal. While visiting in Chieago, Mrs. Cross spread the fame of her north country by several radio broad- casts and as guest of honor and speaker at a dinner at the Adven- turers' Club, of which Dreutzer is a Past President and an active member. § Mrs, Cross, whose interests in the Seward Peninsula are many, will be met at Fairbanks by her hus- | band, Capt. John Cross, cperator of Northern Cross Airway | I 1 i Subscribe for Tbhe Empire. [ NOTICE Sealed bids will be received at | the office of M. E. Monagle, Sew- ard Building, until 7:30 P.M., April |1, 1941, for remodeling and con- | structing an addition to the Elks Building in Juneau. Where plan and specifications are requested, a deposit of $10.00 will be required to insure their return within 30 days after opening of bids. A per- | formance bond of 50% of the 'bid will be required upon award of the contract. Work shall start not of Deceased. WILLIAM W. KNIGHT, U. S. Commissioner and Ex-Officio Probate Judge at Sitka, Commissioner’s Pre- cinet, Territory of Alaska. Office of Indian Affairs. Miss Wein- ndn is a guest at the Baranof Ho- el. Before coming to Alaska, the new ;llnes "‘ASEuuy"‘ ‘ileln Fireman James “Scotty” McLach , lan wants to fight the Nazis, so has | ecretary, held a similar position juit the Miami, Fla., fire c’ieparc— | in the Washington office | ment and joined the RAF. He will Py l ukg final training in Canada before Empire Classilieds Pay joining the British air service. Publication dates, Jan. 20-27, Feb. 3-10, 1941. adv. Bicycle license plates for 1941 in later than 10 days after acceptance the same colors as the Territorial ©f the bid and shall be completed plates for automobiles are now Within 120 calendar days there- available in the City Clerk’s office. 2fter. Plans and specifications may According to city 8rdinance all bicy- | be examined and bid blanks ob- cles in Juneau must have the plates tained at the office of M. E. Mon- which sell for 50 cents. |agle, Seward Building, Juneau— e g ik |ELKS BUILDING COMMITTEE. Try a classified ac m The Emp!rai adv,