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

Z NS 1L i ITALIA! 3 B PR S | e Machinery-wrecking erew members of the Ita in Portland, Oregon, Coast Guards sted the erew of 54 men and one woman on orders from Washington, Interrational Ilustrated News photo airmailed to The Empire. * [TALIAN SAILORS BOARD PADDY WAGON s e T e, | | | i | ian motorship Leme in and navigation eguipment. but not before the crew had damaged 4 members of the ship’s officers and erc ated Pr heavil, Pertiand, Ore, Here are seme of the being loaded into a police patrol wagon to be taken to jail. Ass U.5. ASSUMES CUSTODY OF TALIAN SHIPS T — 03 photo airmailed to The Emoi a group of Ialian freighters ¢ sumed custody last Suncay of the pls under ter: left to right) San L:onardo, Alberta and Aussa, COFCTO SEE MAKING | OF NECPRENE ied up at Port Ne s of a World W. Pictures airmailed to The " laska Indians to mL : W“ » , formery A A reel of sound film depicting the Nome, y ) { e . o 1t South- | | iction of synthetic rubber, of the Departme P c e 7/16. Ou Wright 9 Gener known by the trade name of Neo- fare for a fou ! Acthne 43 ternational Harves- Prene, will be shown tomorrow at pointment was el 4 e it 34 New Yore 'h€ regular weekly luncheon meet- | of Public Welfare, nov . s 13%. Northern Pacific 6. |IN& of the Chamber of Commerce )u:- wis o 1 57% Pou hie Gold Room of the Baranof been se ‘ t v I ! of former of the Chamber will be The Board beg i DOW, JONES AVE Cafferty, former Juneau R s . s i e an and owner of Ju- Ri28 1o conticius Jon . 1 s, Who now lives in Santa | : i 2897 utilitie California. are Gov. Ernest Gruening, Chai > o R man, Howard Lyng of Nome, Mr Empire Classifieds Pay! OTGED SHIP TO PORTLAND JAIL | freighter Leme are shown filing down the ship's gangplank enrotite to Multnomah County Jail ! having or able to obtain them. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WE |OFFICIALS 'TO ATTEND WRANGELL CONVENTION OF INDIAN LAND SUIT D. C,, to prevent further sabotage. Maska Has of 18 Southeast Representatives Alaska Indian villages will meet L] L] {at Wrangell a w from today for l Ion’ s |the Haida-Thlinget Land Su | convention. Purpose of the meeting is to select an attorney to press the Indians’ claim against the Gov- n reasur | ernment for compensation for land, X | timber and water in Southeast Al- aska Amoeng officials who will be pre: Fiscal Year Smallest of the Office of Indian Affairs for :AII!\ki. Donald W. F , Chief H Organization | Or Since 1936 ST —_— at-Large Field and Interior, Alaska Department the GOES for A net cash balance of $1,269.302.59 remained in the Territorial treas- ury at the end of the Territorial fiscal year on Monday, Treasurer Oscar Olson reported today. The sum is the smallest of any DNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1941. SABOTAGE EVIDENCE Boatswain's mate W. W. Grub of the Coast Guard surveys smashed gyro-compass of Italian fre’ghter Leme, s Sunday. ‘The Halian crew was charged with sabotaging the vessel by breaking the instruments and seriously damaging the boat’s en- gines. International Miustrated News pheto airmailed to The Empire. zed in Portland, Ore., last Passage Bay | Mr. Counsel- moved from the Fosbee Apartments of 'to the Chris Wyller home at 604 |Gola street, T0 AR Naticnal Defe Fund Is Back BULLETIN, — Washington, 2.—The Senate and House rence Commiliee on one ase Appropriation s afterncen put back the for change of the Al- atiréad terminus frem Heuse had refained the .nt in the bill but the Sen- e rejected it. o> - - NASIS MOVE Mrs. Kaarlo Nasi have and for the summer. year since 1936 but larger than for any year from 1931 to 1936, The teasurer’s net cash balance as of March 31 for the past ten years has been as follows: | 1931 $ 812.767.03 1932 56229076 | 1933 646.408.25 1934 82553409 | 1935 97008541 | 1936 101431670 | 08 - 1,302,201/97 1938 s 1,302,147.28 1939 .o 1583834654 | 1940 . 1,439,328.95 1941 126930259 | ALASKA EAGLE FEATHERS FOR RAF. SOUGHT American Eagle Squadron: Adopts Insignia fo_ Come from North | Feathers now flying over Alaska in the tails of bald eagles will shortly be flying over Germany in the hats of members of the Am-| erican Eagle Squadron of the Royal Air Force. A single eagle feather in the flying helmet has been adopted by the American fliers with the RAF. | as official Eagle Squadron insignia for the war. An appeal from overseas for n} supply of eagle feathers has been | forwarded to Donald W. Hagerty, | Senior Organization Field Agent of | the Office of Indian Affairs here. Request to Indians Hagerty has asked Southeast Al- send him eagle| feathers, though he is willing to| accept such feathers from anyone| “Hundreds” of feathers will be| needed, Hagerty said. Only 12 feathers from the tail of each eagle are suitable for the | purpose. A ceremony in which rvpresenta-i tives of Southeast Alaska Indian tribes will present a supply of the' feathers to some representative of | the American Eagle Equadron wiil! be arranged when the feathershave| been gathered in sufficient num- bers, Hagerty said. e ‘The United States has but one plant for manufacture of metallic pectinate, a bacteriacide used in| foods and medicines to increase vitamin content and .offset effect of bacterial infections. The plant is at MeAllen, Texas. Empire Classifieds Pay! / = e i ille Cox, champion woman parachute jumper, shown with J. G l!:.:ikli‘:.c:ead of the Rapnkin Aeronautical Academy at Tulare, Cal., has won a place in the national defense program. h to keep in working order the 'chutes used by Army Ai¢ . training at the academy. * te Jimmy Stewart, winner of an award for h’nvln[ been chosen 1940's best mevie acter, demorstrates he already knows how to salute after being issued a uniform and ordered to standby at Fert MacArthur, San Pedro, Calif,, for transfer to a training camp for his year’s service as a selective service trainee. She Se:vés U.S. Army'Air Corps i She has been assigned Lorps cadets in . THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4:30 p.m., April 2: Occasional light rain tonight; partly cloudy Thursday; little change in temperature; lowest temperature tonight about 36 degregs, high- est Thursday 46 degrees; moderate easterly to southeasterly winds, becoming gentle to moderate westerly Thursday. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Occasional light rain tonight; showers Thursday, except partly cloudy Thursday in norti portion; little change in temperature; moderate easterly to southeasterly winds tenight, becoming westerly Thursday except moderate to fresh south- erly tonight, becoming moderate northerly in straits and sounds and Lynn Canal. Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaskas Dixon Entrance to Cape Spencer: Fresh to strong easterly to southeasterly winds tonight, shiftiig to westerly late tomight; rain tonight; showers Thursday; Cape Spencer to Cape Hinchinbrook: Moderate to fresh easterly to northeasterly; mostly cloudy; Cap> Hinchinbrook to Resurrection Bay: Moderate northerly to north- easterly winds; partly cloudy; Resurrection Bay to Kodiak: Modor- ate narthwesterly becoming moderate to fresh Thursday; fair. LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity = Weather 4:30 pam. yesterday 29.60 48 4 South 9 Cloudy 4:30 a.m. today 29.45 37 95 [} Foggs Noon today 29.45 46 58 (¢} Cloudy RADYO REPORTS y I TODAY Max. tempt. Lowvest 4:30a.m: Precip. 4:30a.m Station last 24 hours tenp. temp. 24 hours Weather Barrow =2 4 -4 0 Cloudy Fairbanks 30 20 - 20 Snow Nome 31 25 2% Snow Dawson . 45 25 28 0 Clear Anchorage 46 | 31 31 0 Pt. Cldy Bethel 35 14 15 0 St. Paul 38 | 28 30 0 Atka . 39 | 29 31 0 Dutch Harbor .. 39 | 35 36 0 Wosnesenski 39 | 36 36 09 Rain Kanatak 41 36 36 [ Clear Cordova 40 34 35 .06 Rain Juneau 50 36 37 01 Feggy Sitka 54 43 L5 ] Pt. Cldy Ketchikan 54 42 43 14 Cloudy Prince Rupert .. 58 53 4% 06 Cloudy Prince George .. 66 30 30 0 Clear Seattle . 53 45 47 46 Cloudy Portland 62 47 48 0 Cloudy San Francisco .. 58 44 45 26 Cloudy WEATHER SYNOPSIS The storm area was centered south of the Alaska Peninsula this morning and was expected to move east northeastward to near the Southeast Alaska coast by Thursday morning. Rain or snow was falling this morning in the Prince Willlam Sound. region, and at most points in northern and central Alaska and in the northern Bering Sea and Seward Peninsula. Skies were cloudy in Southeast Alaska, and clear or partly cloudy skies prevailed over southwestern Alaska and the Aleutian Islands. Rain or snow had fallen during the past 24 hours at scattered points in Southeast Alaska and along the coast from Southeast Alaska to the Aleutian Islands, and at most points in northern and c:ntral Alaska, Seward Peninsula and Bering Sea. Temperatures ware generally lower over Southwest Alaska, but were slightly warmer elsewhere in Alaska. The low temperature reported this morniig was minus four degrees a{ Bar- row, Overcast skies with good c:ilings and visibilities prevailed this morning over the Juneau-Ketchikan airway, except ceiling and visibility in Gastineau Channel which- was very low because of local fog. The Wednesday morning weather chart indicated a deep low center of 978 millibars, 28.88 inches, was located at 51 degrees north and 155 degrees west. A s’orm frontal trough with shifting winds extended eastward from. th's center to about 49 degrees north 138 degrees west and thence sou hward to lower latitudes, and was expected to move northeastward, passing over Southeast Alaska to- night. A second low center of abjut 994 millibars, 29.35 inches, was located in Bering Sea. A high c:nter of 1028 millibars, 30.35 inches, w3gs located at 27 degrees north aad 160 degrees west, and a second high pressure system was located t> the east and north of Alaska. Juneau, April 3—Sunrise 6:22 am., sunset 7:42 p.m. Khaki Gar!) fo_r Navy Men g - 5 at R 3% H. F. Mears, left, and Joseph J. McGuire U. S. navy has adopted a new garb for its men, replacing the tra- ditional white duck uniform with khaki, similar in shade to that worn by the soldier. Chief Pefty Officer H. F, Mears, left, of the navy air station at Anacostia, Md., and Chief Petty Officer Joseph J. McGuire wear the new’ and ¢ld uniforms above. Ihere is no substitute for Newspaper Advertising