The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 26, 1941, Page 8

Byrd Ships Are in lce | GETS SENTENCE ON | DISORDERLY CHARGE by Douglas Chief of Po- Charles Schramm last night, Paul Joseph was sentenced to 60 days in jail on a charge of drunk H and disorderly, in Commissioner's n n ar '( Court today | The North Star and the Bear, sent | to the An c to bring back mem- bers of the Byrd Expedition, have Try a classified ad in The Empire, Sea for the last month awaiting fav- | |crable weather to evacuate the East rding to a radi> from 1 Berlin which was forward- ! ed by airmail to George A. Parks. Berlin stated that arrival of the ships would be delayed at least un- til early May instead of in April as expected mittle Hermits say: 17 70PS 1 been lying in the ice in Belingsausen | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1941, Train of Death in Niherlands East Indies : T As this marks the beginning of the | long Antarctic winter, Office of In-| that the North Star would be able | to clear the ice before becoming | frezen in until next season { With the Motorship Boxer now at | Bethel awaiting repairs which may necessitate towing to Seattle and the uncertainty of the time of return of | the North Star, the Office of In-| dian Affairs will be considerably | handicapped this summer in ship- ping in supplies to isolated stations B | CLOSING DATE OF | | ELKS ESSAY CONTEST i PROOF | Postponement of the closing date of the Elks national essay contest until April 15 was announced today the National Defense Committee of the local Elks Lodge. High school students under 18 years old are eligible to enter the contest, write essays on “What Uncle Sam Means to Me" and qualify to win cash prizes totaling $1,750. One essay from each State and Territory will be in the national finals. Six of the eight lodges in Alaska are participating in the contest and the others are expected to join in, ‘VanderLeest said. Douglas students are taking part through the Juneau lodge and Sitka has been invited to participate on the same basis. | — e, — — " Dinsiketed by | Subscribe to the Daiy Alasko National Grocery Co., | Empire—the paper with the larges, Seattle, Wash. paid circulation. | General Motors Trucks, with ' increased leg room in GMC'’s new Ball-Bearing Steering, are all-steel cabs. And under the easy to steer as your car.”” And hood, drivers have the strongest- GMC'’s exclusive new Cradle-Coil pulling engines in the industry, Seyts are as comfortable! There's size for size. Try a GMC today. 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Forbes, Public | Health Nursing Consultant for the Western States, Hawaii and Alaska, | discussed the merit system for public | | health nurses in the States and Ter- | ritories. | Miss, Rosalie Peterson, Nursing Consultan*for the Office of Indian | Affairs, gave a review of nursing | under civil service. The program for the remainder of | the day includes talks by Dr. Pal- mer Congdon on Tuberculosis Prob- {lems in Alaska; Dr. Courtney Smith {on “Communieable Disease Control Problems; Deborah Pentz and Adel- heide Guenthner, of the Public Wel- | fare Department, on Social Implica- tions of Illness and Inter-Relation- |ships of Social and Public Health Services; Dr., Edward LeCocq on | Measurement of Orthopedic Braces; |Mrs. Jane Brown on Nursing Care of |Orthopedic Cases and Kaarlo Nasi on ‘Home and Community Sanita- tion. { A banquet for those participating in the institute will be given tonight in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel at 7 o'clock. Dr. W. W. Coun- cill will preside and Miss Mary D, Forbes will be the speaker of the evening. Her topic will be “The Na- tional Defense Program in Relation to Public Health.” GOVERNOR SIGNS WICKERSHAM BILL Gov. Ernest Gruening today sign- ed the bill passed by the Legislature authorizing the appraisal and pur- | chase by the Territorial Historical Library and Museum Commission of the Alaskan library of the late Judge James Wickersham. Under the provisions of the bill the commission is authorized to check over all items that comprise the library, to appraise, and to nego- tiate on behalf of the Territory for the purchase of the library. The bill carries an appropriation not to exceed $20,000. It is expected that the actual appraisal and pur- chase price will be considerably less than the $20,000. : e TENNIS TOMORROW In preparation for Spring and Summer recreation, Evergreen Bowl was being cleaned today. Tennis nets will be in place tomorrow morning, according to the Street Department. Heads FDR’s Guards | tions. Mrs. Clark, under the name |NBC and CBS networks, also in 'light opera comedies in the states. C.C MEETS TOMORROW At the regular business meeting and luncheon tomorrow noon of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce in the Gold Room of the Bafanof, members and guests will be afforded a rare treat. Mrs. John L. Clark. wife of the program manager for KINY will give several vocal selec- of Polly Willis, has appeared on the Other invited guests tomorrow will be Andy Fredericks, who has come to Alaska to be in charge of all Boy Scout work, and Dr. Edward Le- Cocq, orthopedic surgeon of Seattle, | who is copducting a clinie in Juneau and attending the Nurses' Institute. Try a classifled ad in The Empire Cold Storage Fish Holdings Increase To B(gil_( Records All Previcus recoras of cold stor age holdings of fishery producis were broken in 1840, according to a re- lease by the Division of Fisheries, U. S. Department of Interior. Recorded for 1940 were 196,155,000 pounds of frozen fish and shell- fish. This is an increase of 113 per- cent over 1920, the first year on record. Highest in poundage of fish trozen were whiting with 21,600,000 pounds; rosefish fillets with 19,200,000 pounds and halibut with 18,300,000 pounds frozen was third. The New England States led the frozen fish holdings with 87,370,000 pounds. The Pacific area was second with 48,044,000 pounds. On December 15, the highest hold- !ings for any individual month were | recorded with 100,088,000 pounds of fish and shellfish in cold storage. Hugh Mulcahy Having passed his physical cahy, star pitcher of the: into the army for a year’ program. Mulcahy is Mulcahy i?asses Checkup, He's In | and physician examination okay in Boston, Hugh Mul- Philadelphia Phillies, awdits his' induction training in line with the national defense first major league star to be drafted, Yukon Is Now ' " Juneau Bound | SEATTLE, March 26. — steamer | Yukon sailed for Alaska ports at 9 |o'clock this morning with 166 first |class and 70 steerage passengers aboard. Passengers on the Yukon, booked John Hermle, J. Boulanger, Mamie | Olson, Mr. and Mrs, Alex Mathieson, | M. Barberi, A. Prescott. | Capt. Dale Kinney, Katherine Lit- | Talbert Smith, Harold Prescott. Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Pago, Ernest Hansen, Mrs. Maria Dull, Mrs: Clara Hendricks, Jane Ellsworth, R. | A. Brown, Elliott Bradford. ; e e——— ! lEGI;lAQIORS ARE HOSTS WITH DANCE Highlighting last evening’s social salendar was the biennial legislative ball, a public affair held in the Elks' Ballroom with members of the Legislature ag hosts. Music was provided by Lillian Ug- gen and her orchestra and decora-, tions in the ballroom carried out a patriotic theme. During the evening each division entertained with brief programs. | Featured for the First Division were | two Alaskan solos by Represenattive Crystal Snow Jenne, with panto- mime effects provided by Demaris | Davis (fisherman), Corrinne Jenne (Indian woman) and Mrs. Florence O'Shea (prospector). The Second Division entertain-| ment was provided by Mrs. Leroy | Sullivan, who gave a Swedish imper- sonation of a political campaign; | and Mrs. Frank Whaley, who gave a tap routine, For an encore number, Mrs. Whaley was joined by her hus- band, Representative Frank Whaley of Nome. Representative Almer J. Peterson of Anchorage, spoke for the Third Division and Representative Frank Gardon of Fairbanks, entertained with Scotch jokes for the Fourth | Division. SCENIC TRIP " MADE ToDAY The first scenic flight of the year | was flown over Mendenhall Glacier today as Pilot Alex Holden carried five pasengers in the Lockheed Vega | for an hour's trip over the ice-caps. P gers were Dr. Edward Le- Cocqu, Mary Forbes, Dr. and Mrs. C. C. Carter and Evelyn Smith Earlier in the day Pilot Shell Sim- mons carried two passengers to the coast They were Herbert Lée to Tenakee and John Milias to Sitka. s R - ST | NEW YORK, March 26—Closing !quuhqqn of Alaska Juneau mine |stock today is 4%, American Can 186%, Anaconda 24%, Bethlehem | |Steel 76%, Cemmonwealth and Southern %, Curtiss Wright 9, Gen- | eral Motors 42%, International Har- | vester 47%, Kennecott 33%, New York Central 12%, Northern Pacific |61, United States Steel 57, Pound $4.03%. | DOW, JONE§ AVERAGES | 'The following are today’s Dow, | Jones averages: Industrials, 122.70; | rails, 28.62; utilities, 19.50. | —————a——— “Support Your Chamber Commerce.” adv. * Michael F. 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