The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 3, 1941, Page 2

lce Guessing Big Thing in Alaska Now Northland's Exclusive Event Is Paramount Con- sideration af Present Guessing as to when the Ner ice will go is the big thin n Als now. All guessing ends at midnight turday night The ice break-up at Nenana is Al- aska’s exclusive sporting event and nearly all residents are vitally inter- ested vear the ice went out at k in the afternoon of April 20, The previous year the ice went out at 1:26 pm. on April 27 and in 1938 the ice moved at 6:15 pm on 6 Acce 2 reporis received this afternoon by the Weather Bureau, the ice Nen: is 43 inches thick with @ inches of snow. At Fairbanks the ice is 50 inches thick with 6'2 inches of snow st year on this date the ic Fairbanks was 44 inches thick but no record is known of the depth of ice;at Nenana >oe - Merchanimen Sce Picture 0f Neoprene Chamber Presented Sound Movies of Synthe- tic Ruhber 0 Members of the it Chamber of Commerce sat at the lunche table in ti Gold Room to- day to st ture on the mak usefulr prene (a Dupont product), in com- parison with the product from Scuth Amer es, rub- ber At the reg business meeting held before the showing of the film 1 in the Juneau Hi and physies stu- je were ed. Secretary Whit - utive mee in exe g would ided the Chamber appropriate not more than $100 to- ward the construction of “Wel- come” sign which will be placed on the Al a dock through the joint efforts of the Chamber and the Ro- tary Club. Merchants Lunch ed by Cash d a mer Cole ants’ th sked that the | v write the Geological Su t equest for their nt report atezic minerals in Alaska. | r Joe Bird broache: us- | 1 the possibility of construct- | ing ore ‘tern irts eithe ir Evergreen Bowl or in some appro- | priate spot and suggested several| 3l le methods of financing the| ement. Discussion of the| proposition revealed that almost 81,000 which could be used for the project ; been set aside by vari- | ou izations for such a pur-| pese | No Read To Bewl | It was pointed out that the 5t | of buildr a doubie tenn « tn Zvergreen bowl would approacl $2,700 because of the lack of road o {1 1l hecanse all ma teri ve to be taken into the basin by 1 Henry C Junean agent of the N and sportation C | npany gave a chort t on his re 1- tion trip and the exper cf such a trip. e ¢ ROME YOUTHS MAKE ATTEMPTS AGAINST U. §. ltalian Troo{;is Prevent Stu- dents from Reaching American Embassy ROME, April 3—Mobs of attempted to r the Unit Embassy and the Yugoslav Leg in large demonstrations here iod but were turned back by cc troops which bloecked the approact to botin buildings ESeveral score of the aded the streets carrying large Ital- ian and German flags after cheer- ing Japanese Foreig Minister Matsuoka cn his wa the railroad station. The Japanese Ministe returning to Berlin after confer- ences here with Premier Muss R The Daily alaska Emplre has tn¢ largest paid circulation of any Al aska newspaper, tion 3:27 E |2 This radiéphoto from decker tramcea than a week in bow Trap License Bill Dies by Pocke! Velo Harvey Smith MeaSure fo Change Regulations Not Approved ng in Mexico City, is pictured with President Manuel Avila Camac Front row, | left to right, ul Walsh, Mrs. John Hearst, Presid wacho, William Ran- | dolph Hearst, Marion Davies, Mrs. David Straight-line production of fuselages in Northrop plans be the fastest military seaplanes in the world, are | consigned to the Royal Norwegian Naval Air Force. They can carry & full load of 2,000 pounds ! bedt was presented by Marie Jeal 1 bank Hearst, Party’ Vis her William Randolph Hearst and his party, Production of the five-ton patrol bombers at the Northrop Aircraft’s new plant at Hawthorne, Cal., has reached a high of one completed plane each lgrking dayg The gu.nes, which have proved to: _Scene of Desolation in'SmIIand After Nazi Air Ra i % verpool and Hull confirmed today. Bills not signed within three ter the close of the legis- session are dead. This bill not been signe In addition to the raise in the the bill would have required apr tions for fish trap be m : before January 31 year for which the license apply and that in cases two or more conflicting ap- for trap licenses were re- Treasurer should issue to prior licensee return the other applica- wtive enses the plications the the - HER Manag FROM INTERIOR r of the Alaska Pacific ted at Wasilla, W. Stoll, rived in Juneau today from Fair- S RGeS Knowledge of logarithms is a ic requirement for a naval re- serve officer’s commission, WProducc Five-Tofi Patrol 7BomBerfEach Day Here of bombg and s )¢ the German air attack on Glasgow, Scotland, shipbuilding center. Two double- % e center of the picture, with wreckage of buildirgs outhbound PAA Elec- it With Mexican President Hearst and Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, Jr, Back row, left to right, are Armendariz Del Cas- tillo, chief of protocol fromn foreign relations office; Captain Robert C. Armazaga, W. R. Hearst, Jr. Jose Novarro, David Hearst, John Hearst, Harr¢ | is Crocker and Arthur Constantine, I. N. S. write, |ccn!; THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1941. d A 2 PAA SHIPS BOUND HERE FROM SOUTH Electras Due from Inferior —One Is Refurning Im- mediately with Load | In the air between Prince George | and Juneau, one PAA Lockheed Lodestar and the Douglas DC-3 are scheduled to arrive in Juneau late today from Seattle with mail and express.. Passengers aboard the two ships were not known, Two Electras left Fairbanks to- day and are due to arrive in Ju- neau this afternoon with nine pas- | sengers. They are R. O. Bullwinkel, | W. Stoll, Astrid Lind, Nils H. Nei- dig, J. G. Shinkle, J. H. Perry, L. |k Hamm, Anne Taylor and Steph- | en Carey. One of the ships upon arrival| will refuel and return to Fairbanks| | immediately with the following | | passengers: C. H. Laboyteaux, Tony ‘Rnlando, Jack Humling, Judge J. | H. 8. Morison, Mrs. Arthur Pei- | erson, Arthur Peterson and baby, | Peterson. | The Lockheed Lodestar which left Juneau for Seattle twice ynsterday‘ was forced back both times but fin-| ally left the airport this morning! on a successful trip to Seattle. ! ee——— KODIAKBASE | YUKON HERE ANNUALREPORT ' yean AHEAD FROMSEWARD “picivo heveOF SCHEDULE il around, More than 1,000 persens were killed in less | ! € n the H H H | o amived on 4 Terrifory in New Period CO:!m;"dewsua\éS E‘aVali this afternoon as the vess:] ] » unge, docked at the -Ala: H | m| n m un p.pler from the Westward. Executive | ssione e p is schedu to sail fr b YN | o akn i | I sl That Alaska Das entered a new! KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April 3— RER e this o~ That Alaska has entered & D%, odiak Naval Air Base construc- "1’2’(\)1:”1(1‘ RS T L e is indicated by the 1940|tion s a year ahead of schedule, s e % s census figures, showing an increage | Permitting its commission to go Arlowe, Bob Kippen, Alfred Dish the into effect on June 15 and to be| E. H. Elwin Jr., Jack Mellquist, uniform throughout Territory | ™" s X » | ward Naghel, L. F. Sumrall, Carl and in regions of wholly diVPrSG]“’scd.u."h xslfmmgl' Comnhmdetr ot Ward and Ed Johnson. activities, Gov. Ernest Gruening|W- Corvell in charge of construc-| ;i |states in his annual report to the|tion at Kodiak said here today, - - o — etary of the Interi C()pms,_lixeturnma to the base with 100 more| England’s naval base at Singa- which have been received here from | Workmen. 3 5 3 re w created in a spot wh Government Printing Office in The »mcma.scd construction an s were .only faan- i |speed is due to emergency, hci . Py SR 5 overs the fiscal year|€Xplained, and work will still pro-| 1940, and sum-|ceed after the commissioning even| Jes Alaska activities for thel thoush the base is active then. “We | 13 Fepiha inever will be through” he said, Commenting on the loss in popu-| When asked when the base will be laticn of various mining districts, | COmPleted. | [the Governor observes that “the| Fifteen hundred workmen are there I : clear that from the long|ROW and will ke increased to 2,700 = ¢ view, mining is only tem- l‘n Lv\o‘monpl\s.. he sgm. mmca.un,‘ Borary s Al S e T still further increase in construction sootiastor Tater When th | pace. Coryell is with Cf)lnmander J. aunris dodes anil NHe DR have ECiTY, commanding officer at Wom- g gt K 5 ... |an's Bay who came here by seaplane ?v“l;m :i;ind out, the community|g.,., the Sitka Base, Coryellis here s wholly or chiefly on| ¢ "nchect the Annette Island proj- the extraction of minerals, Willloo ang will rejoin his boat in Ju- dwindle and disappear unless other|; o, ctivities, commercial and indus- 3 t be brought into exis- may GOVERNOR WILL FLY TOMORROW | | | thin Recreational Industry One of these activities suggested for developmeni by the Governor| recreational industry. “Alas-| u terms of cuitable accom-| | modaticns for tourists and adequate| National D?ense, Oiher! facilities for their transportation., Here one naturzl resource which c Gf can be conserved indefinitely and, Ma“ers a“ uen- may weli be a substitute when the! g 2 a{ | e e ing 1o Capit ( hausted. In the meantime it will form a third prop to Alaska’secon-| Gcv. Ernest Gruening will leave by y. Every effort should be made PAA Lodestar tomorrow for Wash- to develep this indus |ington, where he will spend several The Governor makes in his re-|Weeks conferring on naticnal de- tax revision suggestions|icnse and other matters relating to port ihe | i {since developed more fully in his! the Territory. ‘mm.\agu to ihe Legislature. | 1t is possible that Mrs. Gruening| | “To make Alaska an American|MAY also g0 to:the States for a visit | community of permanent residence|°f several weeks one of the challenges that! R BSET S the Territory today,” the" AMERI““S __!1cport states. “From every quarter § :comc requests for mere roads, forI |more school facilities, for civic ARE mBIED improvements of one kind or an-| L] othe: ough the sense of re- ! spensibility for meeting fhe cost of | BERLIN, April 3.—Four citizens cf the United States, living in Ber- | T e | these improvemeants is not as fully e | developed in some communities as |in others.” Biozd Field Covered Im, airested last night by the Ber- ‘The report continues with a |lin Police, were later released. very of Alaska's commerce, financ-| These arrested were John pau[! cs, banks, travel, roads and trails, Dickson, of the Chicago Tribune and | | fishing, mining, came and furs,/Mutual Broadeasting System; Ar- rivers d harbors, com-|thur Dunning, Secretary of the Am- | lands, municaticn, aviation, education, erican Chamber of Commerce at | health, social welfare and public, New York; a negro music student | works identified as John Welsh, and a Cali- | Extra copies cf the 64-page re- |fernian whose name is not divulged. | port may be obtained from the Sup- | | erintendent of Documents at Wash- ingten for 10 cents apiece, v — GIRL SCOUTS - MR RGO B | - ACTING ASSISTANY - AREADVANCED MUSEUM (URATOR No reason has been given for the | arrests and subseguent releases. oo | Mrs. Katherine Gregory has been tests, two girls have been invested | 2PPointed temporary Assistant Cur- ! mbers of Girl Scout Troop No, | Ater of the Alaska Historical Library i\‘;;‘;: 4 and Museum, Gov. Ernest Gruening, Mary Avolan was presented by Chairman of the Museum Commis- |Navy to convoy supplies abroad are | trip. | Tk " i sion announced today. Patricia Davis, Diana Huns- g b W She will assist Mrs. Josie White, Glasse, Acting Curator, r guns. THE WEATHER (By the U, S. Weather Bureau) U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU Forecast for Juneau and vicinit7, beginning at 4:30 p.m., April 3: Partly cloudy, and not muchchange in temperature tonight and Fri- day; lowest temperature tonight abcut 40 degrees, highest Friday 53 degrees; gentle variable winds. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Partly cloudy tonight and Fri- day; not much change in tempera‘ure; gentle to moderate variable winds. Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Dixon Entrance to Cape Spencer: Moderate southeasterly winds; partly cloudy; Cape Spencer to Cape Hinchinbrook: Moderate east- erly winds; partly cloudy; Cape Hinchinbrook to Resurrection Bay: Moderate northeasterly winds; partly cloudy; Resurrection Bay to Kodiak: Moderate northerly to northwesterly winds; fairs. LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity =~ Weather 4:30 pam. yesterday 29.45 53 52 South 5 Cloudy 4:30 a.m. today 2951 49 51 SSE 3 Cloudy Noon today 29.55 48 67 S 5 Pt. Cldy RADIO REPORTS TODAY Max. tempt. Lowest 4:30a.m. Precip. 4:30a.m Station last 24 hours temp. temp. 24hours Weather Barrow -4 -8 -4 92 Snow Fairbanks 37 26 26 02 Cloudy Nome .. 31 20 22 02 Snow Dawson 52 32 32 0 Pt. Cldy Anchorage s 35 3% 0 Cloudy Bethel . 38 17 17 0 Clear St. Paul 34 25 30 0 Cloudy Atka ... 40 34 35 0 Cloudy Duteh Harbor .. 43 30 30 02 Clear Wosnesenski ... 43 35 35 0 Clear Cordova 40 21 39 1.06 Rain Juneaun 53 45 49 T Cloudy Sitka 51 44 44 0 Pt. Cldy Ketchikan 58 38 40 09 Pt. Cldy Prince Rupert .. 51 39 43 0 Cloudy Prince George .. 58 31 33 0 Cloudy Seattle 61 42 56 [ Cloudy Portland .. 62 | 44 44 A1 Rain San Francisco .. 59 49 53 0 Lt. Rain WEATHER SYNOPSIS The storm which was centered about 409 miles from Dixon En- trance this morning had caused a fresh flow of warm, moist, mari- time air over Southeast Alaska anl along the coast to Cook Inlet. Rain was falling this morning at a few points along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska west of Cape Sencer, and partly cloudy to clou- dy skies prevailed generally from Southeast Alaska to the ®anana Valley and Cook Inlet. Clear or partly cloudy skies prevailed over the Kuskokwim Valley, Bristol Bay area and the Alaska Peninsula. Cold, continental air had invited tbe northern and western portions of Alaska north of Nortion Souni, and snow was falling at some points over this area. Rain or snow had fallen during the previous 24 hours at some stations over most of Alaska except in the south- west portion. The greatest amount of precipitation was 1.06 inches which was recorded at Cordova. Toe lowest temperature was minus four degrees which was reported at Barrow this morning. Scattered to broken high and intermediate cloudiness with good visibilities pre- vailed over the Juneau-Ketchikan airway this morning. The Thursday morning weather chart indicated a low center of 982 millibars (29.00 inches) was located at 54 degrees north and 142 degrees west. The frontal storm trough extended eastward an thence southward through Washington and Oregon, and was expo ed to continue to move eastward during the next 24 hours. A sec ond low center of 979 millibars (2891 inches) was located at 43 degrees north and 143 degrees west. - Relatively low pressure pre- vailed in the Bering Sea and over the Alaska interior. A high pres- sure area of 1028 millibars (30.46 iiches) was located at 27 degrees north and 167 degrees west, and a second high center of 1021 milli- bars (30.14 inches) was located a 28 degrees north and 120 degrees west. Indications were that a ni b pressure center was located to the north of Barrow. Juneau, April 4—Sunrise 6:19 a.m., sunset 7:45 p.m. NOT GUILTY Surprise Shower . . SRl Given Last Night A jury in United States Commis- sioner Felix Gray's court this after- H For Miss Pearce noon brought in a verdict of not Complimentary to Miss Valerie guilty in the case of L. P. (Tex) Lovett, who was charged with al- Pearce, whose marriage to William Redling will be an event of April leged diverting of electric power. 23, a surprise miscellaneous shower His attorneys were H. B. Stabler and Forrest Bates. was given last evening by Mrs. Ro- bert Cowling at her apartment n NO CONVOYS 55 Cards and games were played for the occasion and prizes were awarded Mrs, Pat Doyle and Mis, WASHINGTON, April 3.—Presi-| Barney Lind. dent Roosevelt, a well informed leg- islator said, has told Congressional leaders that suggestions of using the Asked to attend were Mrs. Robert Davlin, Mrs. Douglas Gray, M:s Barney Lind, Mrs. Pat Doyle, Mrs Elsie Blythe, Miss Rgberta Doolcy, Miss Corrinne YJenne, Miss Ca! erine Mack, Miss Phyllis Jenne and Miss Sybil Godfrey. “too absurd to- talk. about” at this time on Capitol Hill. —— e LOUSSAC GOES SOUTH Z. J. Loussac, Anchorage mer- chant,, is aboard the steamer Yu- kon enroute Outside on a business The first postal service in Amer- ica was inaugurated on May 1 1693, between Portsmouth, N. H and Philadelphia. e Empire Classifieds Pay! M1:s. Roosevelt at Art Show Subscribe for The Zmplre. Mzs. James Boosevelt and Chang Kwan-Ye For the first time in many months, Mrs. James sevelt, mother of :‘: u. “S,m pmldenAtt. is pictured (l;publlc as she its an exhibition contemporary American and Chinese art being held in New York te raise funds for Chnese war orphans. Mrs. Roosevelt is shown watching Chang Kwan-Ye, well-known, Chinese. artist, at work,