The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 12, 1941, Page 2

PLANNING MARKS MODERN SOAP BOX DERBY mem Maity Juneau beys have begun drawing plans for racing cars to be entered in the local Soap Box Derby in June. A meeting of boys interested in the contest will be held at the Jurieau High School gym Menday night at 7 o'cleck. The picture above shows National Cham- pion Temmy Fisher, age 12, of Detroit, who spent many hours studying official rule book in his basement workshop. Here the 1940 wer (right) confers with his brother Fred, Detroit Soap Box Derby champion in the In many sports, rules make the thought into his own construction S | plans. His car is a Derby winner.| game. In Soap Box Derby racing, nowever, the converse has been New Lines Devised {he case. Literally, the game has Yet the next fear another boy made the rules takes a candid look at the winning When the Derby was first con-|car. He sees its angles, blunt nose, ceived in 1933 by Myron E. Scott, and sauare tail. “Why" he says, photographic editor of the Dayton “a little stream-lining and that car Ohio, Daily News, the idea was|Would be speedier yet.” So he, in- simply to ;}1\<~ boys an opportunity troduces 'Y""I"m airflow lines to to organize the sport they had| Derby racing. evolved and were already enjoying| Literally p Box Derby racing in haphazard fashion. Even for the|meant competition between driv rst local » held in Dayton un-|riding in home-made cars con- der the sponsorship of the Daily structed of a soap box, four wheels, News, rules were more or less in-}and a steering device. Today, no tangible. ar that gets to the national finals The fohowing year, when Chev to be held this year at Akron,| rolet Motor Division accepted co-| Ohio, August 17—is so crudely con-| sponsorship with leading news- Structed ch is a model of papers from coact to coast, a loose- | zhnug)‘nru\ informed, intelligent Jy-drawn set of rules was submit-' Planning. | tunnel | car | rangement | Grange, Mrs, 4 PAA Ships Fly Out of Seventeen passengers flew out of Juneau this morning in three El- ways sent four planes from Juneau, three to the Interior and the Doug- las DC-3 to Seattle. Passengers bound north are Har- vey Grant, Alfred Carey, Roy Bas- sett, Martin Quarnstrom, Gus Carl- son, George Dana, O. H. Floe, Lea Stevens, Franklin and infant, Mr. and Mrs. | | Earl Nelson, Harold McLean, Allen Teresa McLean and | W. E. McDonald Passengers bound for Seattle on the Douglas are Capt. A. E. Lathrop, Dr. Louis Sharpenberg, Capt. J. L.! Searles, Maurice Harris, J. H. Muna, Dr. F. Gillispie, Mrs. Edith P. Sheel- or, Archie McCormack and George H. Tagge. 1 The Douglas and a PAA Lodestar are scheduled to return to Juneau from Seattle Monday. | was a perfect “tear-drop,” modeled along lines suggested by wind-| tests. Of interest in this connection is an anecdote related by Tommy FPisher, builder of the winning car in the 1940 race. His was patterned precisely after his older brother's which represent- |ed Detroit ‘at Akron thé previots year but fajled to weather the semi-final heats. The only differ- ence designed by Tommy, and the improvement in steering alone was enough to clinch 'the title for the younger boy. '!’hus profiting by his older brother's ex- periences, young Fisher détermined his individually eonceived improve-| ments in his own car, and in the process produced a winner, Perhaps the best tribute that can {be paid to the newspapérmen and othérs who play a role in the for- mulation of the Derby frules i! that they have always encouraged initiative on the patt of the in- dividual boy-builder, but have al- ways tried to allow for sufficient flexibility to encourage novelty and ingenuity in Derby designs, And American boys have never let them down. g Each year has seen the develop- ment of new construction details.| Improved streamling, more positive | steering, and new springing designs have appeared. New braking sys-| tems have been evolved and muen| idea that uniform the from city to city would make ted, with rule for a fair race. This preved to be the c , naturally, and a na- ional rule book was adopted Rules Follow Trends Today, this rule book is a far|attention has been given to cry from the original. Yet the reg-| Proper weight distribution, Each alations and by-laws of Derby rac-|¢ar indicates that hours of care- ing have never been included in|ful planning and ingenious con- this manual in order to restrict| struction lie behind it Yet at no time has any rule! Rather, advancing Derby builders in any w: the they have followed proposed either by Chevrolet or the Farewell Luncheon For Miss Guenthner| For Miss Adelheid Guenthner, who ! will leave tomorrow evening for An- |chorage to become the bride of Frank Pauls, a farewell luncheon is being he|€iven this afternoon. Mrs. Warren |Eveland is hostess at her apartment in the Feldon. Guests invited are those with whom the "bride-elect has worked with in connection with her duties as Socfal Welfare worker for tth‘ city. They include Mrs. Robert Duck- | worth, Mrs. Leona Smith, Mrs. Sim-} |on Meacham, Miss Jane Alexander, |Miss Magnhild Oygard, Miss De- | borah Pentz, Miss June Forrest, Miss Winifred Sipprell, Miss Betty Good- makes an ideal man and Miss Elaine Housel. | ——— — Inability mand for China, whereby to meet public de- telephones at Peiping, has resulted in a system: new. installations are as- RS S SR trends of Derby construction, as Derby National Rules Committee, youthful builders themselves have| composed of technical experts, or-| evolved -them dered any boy to study streamlin- Just as the early typewriter, add-|ihg or wind resistance. The rules| ing machine, or motor car looks| that now appear relative to those crude and ungainly when compared | topics have been the outgrowth >f with its modern successor, so do|€Xperimentation and evolution on the first Derby cars seem rough-|the part of the builders them-| finished ancestors of the modern | selves racing cars | Paper “Shell” Discovered | Yet this gradual evolution toward| Some drivers have found that| smart, streamlined speedsters has| compressed paper come about not because any ma: covering or “shell” for their race, made rules specified such improve- | ca That discovery was an out- ment, but simply because ingeni-|growth of individual experiment- ous boys, building each year upon|ing. Others have arrived in Ak- the foundations laid the years be-|ron with cars of unusual design, fore, have annually devised sleek-| including one with a built-in wind- | signed by lot. | er, speedier racers, | shield, through which the driver Studying the winning car of a|peered between his knees. One re- preceding year, a Derby builder| cent winner has admittedly pat- may discover a method of weight| terned on a cigar, which the young iistribution that will make for builder studied as it lay on his greater speed. He incorporates this father’'s smoking stand. Another| a0, o of LOWEST COST! You Save When You Have Your Newspaper Handling Your Job Printing Because the actual printing of a news- paper is one of it most important jobs, considerable care is given to the selec. tion of newspaper printing equipment and to the men who man it. This care assures you of excellence when you have your printing done by your newspaper, 1t also assures you of rock-bottom prices because of the volume of printing done hv the newspaner. You can’t go wrong by letting us do your printing. PHONE 374 The Daily Alaska Empire i nnnnnmme | | news |D. L. W. C. TO AWARD PRIZE SUNDAY P. M. | Announcement was made this | morning by the Douglas Island Women's Club that tomorrow is the last day for purchasers to partiei- pate in the disposal of their round trip to Seattle ticket, Anyone inter- ested should contact Mrs. Mark Jensen or Mrs. Calvin Pool. The award is to be made Sunday evening |at the Coliseum Theatre. ——————————— PROPERTY TRANSFERRED A property transfer made in Doug- las this week is the sale ta Mr. and Mrs. Ray McCormick by Y. 8hitanda of house and lot bordering the Third Street fill, reported by the latter. It is understood the McCormicks will make the residence their home. - | EAGLES' DANCE 18 ENJOYABLE AFFAIR | A good time dance was the verdict of attendants at last night's affair given 'In the Eagles’ new hall by Douglas Aerie 17 F. O. E. Musie by Glen Edwards, piano, and “Dude” Haines, banjo, proved most ihfect- ious for the light fantastic. There was such a crowd present that the lodge members are encouraged to give more of the dances, the next one to be on a Saturday night to meet the more popular demand it was reported. l (OLISEUM-DOUGLAS SATURDAY—SUNDAY " ANGEL FROM TEKAS " " Juneau Today ectra flights as Pacific Alaska Air- ' J. G. Rivers, Mrs. Glenn | |80 to Cralg. lay in a new steering ar- i { members. |fair and & luncheon was served at| i Rsther Johnson, Pauline Petrich, * PETRY MAKING - 20T TRIP AS FISH WARDEN Eider in Port Last Night i with Personnel - Ro- mine Stoos, Juneau Enroute to Chignik for the 20th time to serve as fisheries agent | Charles Petry was a Juneau visitor | briefly last night during the stay in port.of the Fish and Wildlifc vessel Eider. Petry, Fishery Management Agent, has been stationed at Chig- nik every year for 20 years by the Bureau of Fisheries, now the Fish and Wildlife Service. The Eider was here from 11 o'- clock last night to 1:30 this morn- ing enroute from Seattle to Cor- dova with supplies and 19 men for fisheries stations to the Westward A. P. Romine, Deputy Fishery Minagement Agent in charge of the West Coast of Prince of Wales Island District, left the Eider herc He will rémain in the Juneau of- fice until just before the opening of the fishing season, when he will A. E. Karnes Honored At Legion, Auxiliary | Partv Last Evemng Prior to meir departure for the south, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Karnes were guests of honor at a farewell party last evening, given in the American Legion Dugout. ' Hosts were Legion and Legioh Auxiliary Bingo was played during the af- a late hour. The henorees were presented with a ple knife during the eve-| ning, theé fossil ivory handle of which hears the Auxiliaty and Le- gion 1ns!gnln_ U e gy Miss Norma Burford Miss Normu Burfnrd daunhtm of Mr. and Mrs, Wilbur Burford, will be hostess with a 12 o'clock Easter| breakfast tomorrow at the family | residence on Gold Belt Avenue. Invited to attend are Misses Mar- ilyn Armstrong, Pat Olson, Marilyn Merritt, Astrid Holm, Adrienne Glass, Anna Lois Davis, Doris Eahill, Beétty Jarte Mill, Bonnle Klein and Sylvia Anderson * sonnou WILDES ON Mmmsmno Gordon L Wfldes ‘salled = To- diak and the Westward on the Yu- kon in connection with the Nation- 8l Resources Planning Board. He Expects to be away for about three weeks, mo ANDERSON WilL BE PRESIDING ELDER M. Anderson, lacal member of the M‘mrclfll Jesus Christ” of Latter-Day * Saints, has been 'set apart o5 ‘presiding elder of 'the branch in Jlmenu The transfer of Parley Pratt to {Dutch Harbor'* necessitated the | change ‘in administration. Mr. An- derson will Have charge of the lo- cal'‘affairs of the church, ROUFF STOPS HERE ‘ OllflMmR FlIGHT Bert Roull Anchornxe pilot, was in Juneau for a few hours yesterday flying & Wasp Travelaire on a return ¢éharter from Ketchikan to Anchor- age.’ Rouff, carrying several Army of- ficers from Fort Richardson to An- nette Island, flew south via Yaku- tat and Sitka. He made his return trip via Juneau and stopped over at Yakutat last night. ———ee— ToEntertain Sundayin Baranof Gold Room »z‘m Fifty-five friends of Mrs. Ger- trude Naylor will be. her guests at Easter breakfast tomorrow in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel. They have been invited for 1 o'clock. Will Entertain with Breakfast Tomorrow Co-hostesses with Easter break- fast, Miss Margaret McFadden and Miss Elma Olson will entertain to- morraw at 12:30 o'clock in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel. Forty guests have been asked. ]u'y to have the highway open for |chorage road system east of Palmer stock at today's short session, IWORK BEGINS' _,Guw of U. ON 145-MILE ALASKA ROAD Ike Taylor gpes to Have Palmer-Richardson Link Open in Fall of 1942 A final location survey for the 145-mile Palmer-Richardson high- wdy road is now being made, Chief | Engineer Tke P. Taylor of the Alaska Road Commission said today on his return to Juneau after purchasing equipment for the big construction project and for other commission work in Alaska. Construction work on the new highway link, longest to be built in Alaska since the Steese Highway, will begin as soon as weather con- ditions permit. The commission will use by the fall of 1942, Taylor said. A $1,000,000 appropriation for the ; highway was included in a de-/ ficiency bill signed by President | Roosevelt April 1 and the money is | now available. | The highway will connect the An- with the Richardson Highway sys- tem at approximately mile 116 be- tween Copper Center and Gulkana. The new road will be 24 feet wide nl the crown of the grade and will be surfaced with gravel. Work will be carried on from both ends of the highway, under direction of Alaska Road Commission District Office Supervisors at Valdez and | Anchorage. Taylor and Assistant Chief Engineer Hawley Sterling will | be on the scene part of the time. Considerable difficulty in obtain- ing delivery of necessary equipment is being experienced due to defense demands throughout the nation, Taylor said, but some priority on = b K. A, Petérson & This Danish sailor, B: A. Peterson, holds onto his cat after being taken into custody by the Coast (juard in Baltimore as the U. S. s¢ized all | Axis and Danish ships in American waters. The sailors face' deporta- tion proceedings, which y means they will be interned, since deportation is almost impossible at (louds, Maybe Rain Predicied /" for Easter Parade All right, girls. You probably will be able to dis- play that new Easter outfit tomor- row—between showers. Weather for Juneau's Easter Day will be partly cloudy with possibly occasional light rain, according to 3 & ol delivery will be afforded the project as it is on the national defense list. Equipment operators and other | workmen will be hired at Anchorage | | and Valdez. Insofar as practicable, the local labor supply will be ex- | hausted before calls are made for workers from Outside, Taylor said. > To Give Breakfast ‘ Seoce Quomtme i ‘ NEW YORK, April 12, — Closirg | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine fol-| lowing the Good Friday holiday, is| 4%, American Can 87, Anaconda 2%, Bethlehem Steel 727%, Com-| monwealth and Southern 7/16, Cur- tiss Wright 8, General Motors 40-"«,‘ Internatioral Harvester 45 Ken | necott 32%, New York Central 12, Northern Pacific 6, United States| Steel 52, Pound $4.03%. | | DOW, JONES AVERAGES | The following are today's Dow,| Jones averages: industrials 118.60, rails 27.89, utilities 18.69. o AT | BIDS (AllED FOR ‘ CARRYING MAILTO THREE LIGHTHOUSES. Bids for furnishing mail servi‘e to the Sentinel Island Cape Spen-| cer and Eldred Rock Lightstations| will be réceived by the Coast Guard | at Ketchikan up until May 15, ac- cording to notice posted here. | BEAVER CATCH BROUGHT T0 TOWN FOR SEALING First beaver of Lhe 1941 special | season to be brought to the Alaska sealing were submitted today by Andrew Haffner, Haffner had 'two 'medium three klts and Miss Mullen W|I| " Give Breakfast Miss Beatrice Mullen has’ invited a group of 12 friends for Easter breakfast tomorrow at 12 o'clock. The affair will be given at the Main Street home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Mullen. ———————— FLIES TQO CALIFORNIA Capt. J. L. Searles, stationed at Fort Mason, Cal, and Aide to Gen- eral John C. H. Lee, left Juneau for his headquarters in California on the southbound PAA Douglas. —_— e — | months spent 'ited Game Commission office here tcx'[ | the forecast of the U. S. Weather Burenu Temperature will be mild enough for Spring apparel, with a maxi- mum of 48 pr dxctcd HIRST RETURNS FROM BUSINESS IN WASHINGTON| Office of Indian Affairs Superintendent Atfends | fo Budget Matters Claude M. Hirst, General Super- intendent of the Office of Indian Affairs, returned on the steamer Yukon last night after three in Washington on official business and three weeks in Arkansas on leave. Hirst visited the Washington of- fice of the bureau on budget busi- ness. Later he and Mrs. Hirst vis- relatives at Little Rock, Ar- kansas. Enroute north, Hirst stopped off at Ketchikan to visit Hydaburg, Klawock and Metlakatla. At Wian- ;:('n he attended the Haida-Thlin- get land sult convention. THIBODEAU ASKS TO FILL FLATS OPPOSITE STORE |War Deparimeni Posts No- tice of Application by Juneauite Application to make a 180- by 145-foot rock fill on tidelands diag- onally across Willoughby Avenue from the Government School has been filed with the U. 8. Engineer Office in Seattle by Joe Thibodeau, according to announcement posted here. ‘Thibodeau plans to construct the fill and place a building on it. Action on the application will be withheld until May 7 in order {o allow any protests from the stand- point of interference with naviga- tion to be heard. Mixupin Gramma TOPEKA, April 12—1t's the job &f Walter G. Pyle to iearn why sehool TRIBUNE MAN LEAVES George H. Tagge, on the political staff ef thé Chicago Tribune, flew south on the PAA Douglas this morning after spending several days in ‘Juneau 'gathering material on Alaska's attitude toward Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. ———e ROY BASSETT NORTH Roy Bassett, brother of PAA airport manager Clark Bassett, left Juneau ,on a northbound Electra. ———— SURGEON SOUTH Dr. F. Gillespie, Fairbanks sur- The brother of the airport mana- ger visited here several days, and children miss classes. 8o he called at a Topeka home and asked why the son hadn't been in school. * “He’s been building me a chicken coop,” explained the mother. “Don’t you know he can't do that?” said Pyle. “Oh, he can’t can't he?” com- mented the mother indignantly. |“Well he’s sure done it and if you don’t helieve me just go ‘round to the back yard and see for your- self!” ! S it FOLTA RETURNS George Folta, Alaska Counsel-at- is flying to Nome where he is em- Large for the Department of Inter- geon, is a southbound passenger|ployed by the Taylor Creek MIINg|ior returned on the Yukon from on the PAA Douglas. He arrived in Juneau yesterday on -an Electra and is going south for a shart trip. Company. ——— Bubseribe for The Zmpire. Wrangell where he attended the Haida-Thlinget land suit conven- tion. . | | Buffet Supper'Wlll evening of bridge, Mr. and Mrs E, Glover will entertain tonight at| world. their home on Main Street. The guest list will include Mrs. THE WEATHER (By the U, S. W ather Bureau) U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER 'BUREAU Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4:30 p.m., April 12: Fartly cloudy with possibly occasional light showers tonight and oc- casional light rain Sunday; not much change in temperature; low- est temperature tonight about 40 degrees, highest Sunday 48 de- grees; gentle variable winds, becoming southwesterday Sunday. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Occasional light rain with not much change in temperature tonight and Sunday, except partly clou- dy tonight in extreme north porton; gentle to moderate southerly winds, becoming moderate to fresh easterly to southeasterly Sun- day, except gentle to moderat: northerly winds in Lynn Canal tonight. Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaskoay Dixon Entrance to Cape Spencer: Moderate to fresh southerly to southwesterly winds, becoming fresh to strong southeasterly late to- night; occasional rain; Cape Spencer to Cape Hinchinbrook: Moder- ate to fresh southerly to southeasterly winds, beconting fresh tfo strong easterly to southeasterly Sunday; local showers tonight; occasional tain Sunday; Cape Hinchinbrook to Resurrection Bay: Moderaté southeasterly winds, bejoming fresh to sfrong easterly to northeasterly Sunday; partly cloudy tonight; occasional rain Sundsy; Resurrection Bay to Kodiak: Moderate southeasterly winds, becom- ing fresh northerly to northeasterly Sunday; partly cloudy tonight; occasional rain Sunday. LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp, Humidity Wind Velocity =~ Weather 4:30 pm. yesterday 29.75 43 78 E 13 Rain 30 a.m. today .. 29.91 4 ‘02 s 4 Rain Noon today 30.03 43 80 SE 10 Rain RADIO REPORTS 2 | TODAY Max. tempt. | Lowest 4:30a.m. Precip. 4:30a.m Station last 3¢ hours | temp. temp. 24 hours Weather Barrowy 10 -2 -2 0 Clear Fairbarks 58 30 30* [ Cloudy Nome 40 29 32 0 Pt. Cldy Anchorage 48 39 39 [ Cloudy Bethel 42 29 20 0 Pt. Cldy St. Paul 29 25 28 T Rain Atk 3 34 4 or Cloudy Dutch ‘Harbor . 42 37 37 18 Rain Wasyesenski 41 37 31 10 Rain Kanatak"| 3 32 38 73 Rain Kodidk 45 M 40 a1 Pt. Cldy Cordova 43 36 37 149 Rain Junéay 4 10 11 66 Rain Ketchikan 16 40 0 53 Rain Prihéé Rupert . 48 41 43 45 Cloudy Prince George .. 60 36 n [ Clear Edmonton [ 28 %0 0 Pt. Cldy Seattte " 62 48 8 0 Cloudy Poritliind 60 42 43 0 Cloudy San Francisco .. 64 52 51 0 Clear WEATHER SYNOPSIS Relatively warm maritime air prevailed over Alaska this morn- ing, except in the exttéme norta portion. Rain was falling this morning at a few points along the coast from Juneau to the Aleu- tian Islands, and rain or snow in the Bering Sea. Partly cloudy skies ‘prevailed generally elsewhere over Alaska. Rain or snow had fallen during the previous 24 hou s from Scutheast Alaska to the Aleutian ISlands and the Bering S:a. The greatest amount of pre- Cipitation was 149 inches which was reported at Barrow this morn- ing. Broken to overcast cloudines; with local rain showers, moder- atelly low ceilings and good visib lities, prevailed over the Juneay- Ketchikan airway this morning. The Saturday morning weather chart indicated a center of low presstire of 1060 millibars (29.53 inches) was located at 47 degrees north and 152 degrees west. This storm was expected to increase in intensity and move northeastward about 700 miles during the next 24 hours. A second low center of 988 millibars (29.18 inches) was located in Norton Sound and was slowly filling. 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