The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 14, 1941, Page 2

TWO 5,000-FOOT BRITISH QUITTING ok el HER ONE AREA‘CAA Annofincés Plans for Six New Airports in Alaska This Year winter, at least one usable runaw ich of six new airports Alask located and engineered will be in oper- according to a report made to 1 Donald H. Connolly, Ad- ministrator of Civil Aeronautics, by CAA el after a two months inspectic through Alaska h ports at Juneau, Cordova, Big Delta, West Ruby and in course of con- Tobruk, in Northern Africa, | Is Being Evacuted- Two Reporls TED PRESS Before r national defense OCIA Gene gineers Nome either THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, APRIL 14 ~ CANADIANS TAKE KING FOR A RIDE truction or awaiting receipt of bids | o for work to be done during the sum- In several remote sections, the loads of supplies for construc- tion of radio facilities are being tak- $en in before the spring thaws wipe trails broken by dog teams and tractor trains. By winter Alaska's available airport facilities wnd radio aids to {lying will be more i Office stateme he ot 1 belt out the new acks on t than doubled Sites Visted M. Lample, Chief of the Air- s Engineering Division, and Ha O. Strawn, Associate Airways ineer, in company with Jack T Airways Inspector for the Anchorage, visited all the . - Faster Ceremony Held by Masons At Temple Here c Eng Jef CAA new 1 sites, development of some of looked over plans and ady made for future de- velopment both of airports and air- ways in the Territory. They flew in one of the CAA’'s twin-motored Cess- na Monoplanes, landing on tempor- ary fields which the hardbitten Alaska pilots have been using for rs, and in some cases landing at the new sites. Flying in January, February and early March, they used wheel landing gear throughout the tour The new airports are a part of the $40,000,000 airport program insti- tuted last year now being administ- ered by the CAA and the Corps of Engineers. Alaska’s share is $3,300 000 and is being handled by the Air- ways Engineering Division of the CAA. Canada’s Airways system will tie up with ours at Boundary. Growth of Flying | Comparisons between existing fa- cilities and the new facilities to be made available emphasize the growth of flying and forecast its ing importance in the Terri- where “there is only one major e men. At Nome, there is a landing The post Office at Fort Richard- place consisting of one runway on son, at Anchorage, Alaska, was open- | which commercial pilots have been ed for business cn April 1. The An- landing for years but which is far chorage Stamp Club is sending out from adequate for even the most special stamped envelopes in observ- 'meager of military uses. The new ing the event field there will have runways in two ety directions, 4,500 feet long or longer. JOE JOHNSONS ADOPI | At Cordova, the “airport” is lit- 11-YEAR-OLD GIRL at the end of the road and is sit- SIETT | uated on the side of mountain. The Eleven-year-old Josephine Lewis runway is 2,200 feet long, with the was adopted teday by Mr. and Mrs. mountain towering on one side and Joe Johnson, residing at House 13,|dropping down to the river on the Willoughby Avenue. :ul]wr. The new field, 12 miles from The ycung girl has been renamed town, lies in the public domain, and Margaret Johnson |will make possible runways more Mr. Johnson is an employee of the |than than 5,000 feet long. CCC Warehouse on Willoughby | At Big Delta and Boundary, along = AR | the Juneau-Fairbanks-Nome Airway, MIS® TIBER RETURNS the new fields will be adequate in ments them, surveys the: Alas x. Scottish Rite Mason by many June se Cr witnes Holy Trinity Cathed ted by Ernest F. Ober ral numbers. V Alaska Chapter of welcoming addr rtson, guest spe Easter, aster ph E. Rob s ed as hi Eternal Hop Officers <taking part in the meny included, Light of Charity James Wilfred Lei ; Light of Hon- Walter B. of Lib- erty, Frank Light of Truth, H ; Light of Justice, John J Light of Toleration, Homer G. Nordling, and Light of Veneration, Vergne L. Heke cer- - FORT RICHARDSON er: leads out from town. The airport is completed arrange- | ly a Wide place on a road that | King George (left) was taken for a ride in a Bren carrier when he visited Canadi: recently. Seated bggide the King as they rode over the testing grounds was Major General Victor Odlum. | | i that wheel landings can be made | on it Pilot’s Dream The airport at a point west of Ruby, so remote that the engineers | had to find a name for it—they call it West Ruby, turned out to be a ‘pilol's dream in a weary land, when {it was surveyed and its possibilities established. The old field at Ruby is on a hogback montain, consisting | of one runway 1800 feet long, with a"dogleg in the middle. The runway is narrowest at the bend and the | wind direction is claimed to be al- v at right angles to the runway. | It is obstructed at the south end by ‘high mountains and on the north drops off precipitately to the Yukoen River, 800 feet below. | The new field is located in a val- ley so wide that instrument ap- proaches and let-down procedures | can be made from any direction. It |is on a piece of table land that rises {150 feet above the valley floor and is about five miles in diameter. Dur- ing the spring the whole valley is | flooded except this table land. The |land is on public domain. It was |located by Jefford while flying the | mail and Lample and Strawn chose it at once as the best site. Its re- {moteness and its size actually make |it a perfect defense base, they be- \lievv, despite the fact that supplies will hate to be flown in or ferried ‘up the Yukon. Runways of any |length can be laid out, the first to !be approximately 5,000 feet long in the prevailing wind direction. Juneau Plans Juneau's present field is likewise inadequate for military uses and in- adeuate as well for commercial uses as these are understood in the States. The new field will be ad- | jacent to the present field and con- | tain part of it and have runways in | two directions, each about 5,000 f2et long. Use of the present field can | continue as construction proceeds. The status of the six projects is as | |follows: Proposals on .Juneau and | Cordova already issued, bids to be opened May 15; proposals on Big {Delta, Boundary, Nome and West' Miss Bertha M. Tiber, Superinten- dent of Nurses for the Office of In- dian Affairs, returned on the steam- er Columbia today from Anchorage where she attended the Nurses’ In- stitute, - >-oe Subscribe to the Daily Alaska Empire-—the naper with the larges, paid circulation, size to accommodate the largest [Ruby to be ready for publication military planes. The field at Pig early in April. Proposals are being Delta is the only field in Alaska |distributed throughout the States as which lies alongside a highway, and | well as the Territory of Alaska. } this is the only major highway in | In every case thus far surveyed, Alaska, leading from Valdez to Fair- | the underlying base of the fields is banks. This road is closed in the gravel. To prepare runways, the winter ,but the airports are kept |surface dirt is scraped off and more usable by the ‘Alaska method of |gravel, also available nearby in every rolling the snow, which packs it so case, is laid. In some cases a bind- - |ing agent will be used on the gravel, 0 LOWEST COST! You Save When You Have Your Newspaper Handling “Your Job Printing Because the actual printing of a news- paper is one of its 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 vou of excellence when you have your printing done by your newspaper. It also assures you of rock-bottom prices because of the volume of printing done by the newspaper. You can’t go wrong by letting us do your printing. PHONE 374 The Daily Alaska Empijre O | producing, in effect, hard-surfaced |runways such as are at use in air- ports in the States. Even when the gravel is merely rolled, it produces |a runway adequate for the heaviest planes. There are 50 CAA employees permanently assigned in Alaska and a total of about 500 will be used nn construction while the new airports are being installed. | Range Stations As part of the Civil Airways sys- tem in.Alaska, and. independent of the airport program, simultaneous i radio range and broadcast stations | are installed or being installed ad- | jacent to the new fields. There are ! Inow 16 radio facilities including | communication stations and radio | ranges, and 17 more are expected to ! |be- installed during 1941-42. Also | | proposed for construction during | this period is lighting equipment, ‘consisting of boundary lights and beacons, at 17 such landing fields, }lncluding the six airports now to be | constructed, and fi¢lds at Copper | Center, Tanana Crossing, Naknek, |King Cove, Chignik and other points. Weather observations taken |at every radio facility will be dis- | tributed from the forecast stations to all airports. [ Some of these fields and radio stations are so remote that supplies can be brought in on the surface only once a vear. With the increase {in civil and military flying, Lample and Strawn estimate there will be at least one caller a day at almost every field, and, included in the living acccommodations for the at- tendants, is one extra room which ' might be used by overnight visiters. Even today, Alaskan pilots always | gather up all available literature be- :{r:u-n every flight and drop' it off for {isolated trappers, miners and air- ways workers, d Applications Considered There are two regular air services .| ed. " Nurerous complaints of flowers fccording to word received by 'the 17 Halibufers NAVAL RESERVE OIS T OMMISSIONS s Sell, Seatfle ~exsicN oFrereD Salmon Indfiy SaysMuch |'they a 1941 AGREEMENTOF PACKERS AND UNIONS CLOSE Time Has Been Lost- Submit Contract SEATTLE, April 14.-The Ala .;:ll €almen Industry, Ine., officials sald teday that negotiations with the Al- aska Fishermen's Union for 1941 contracts covering salmon canning cperaticns in Alaska are proceeding'| at a more rapid pacs, but so much | time has been lost already that it will be necessary to determine with- in the next two or three days wheth- cr there will be any operations in the Westward district. The Industry said because such conditions existed they will be pre- pared u ! tomor row a definite proposal in writing. sked the union to hold a meeting of its membership Tuesday night to ratify or reject the con-| ract; | The packers unicn_negotiati alsc requested the 3 committee meet with them this afternoon for a dis- cugsion of a certain clause to be in- cluded in the proposal. The Indus- try declared it has gone to the ex- treme limit possible and yet meet the existing industrial and eco- | nomic conditions, -oo NORTHBOUND | | | | SEATTLE, April 14—The follow- ing_halbuters, withcatches, snm!Aflnountemenf Is Made bY' re t : s g | eme t?nyc western nunks—Explm'-i 13"‘ Naval D‘S'”d S'a" ! | er 36,000 pounds, Federal 25000 pounds, Addington 25,000 pounds,J.| B. Edwards 40,000 pounds, all sell- ing for 9% and 8 cents a pound;| Excel No .2, 40,000 pounds, 9 and ign in the U. S. Naval Reserve| 8 cents. are now being offered, according to| From the local banks—Frigidland an announcement from the staff 20,000 pounds, 9% and 8 cents; headquarters of the 13th Naval Dis- | Irene J, 7,000 pounds, Al Jr. 11,000 trict. Seattle, which furnishes this| pounds, Jane 10,000 pounds, all for nformation: 9% and 8 cents Cheland 3,009 1. Requirements. A degree from pounds, Husky L 7,000 pounds, both a1 accredited University in Business for 9% and 8 cents; Loyal 9,000 | Administration, Science or Engineer- pounds, Libanon 10,000 pounds,““g (Seniors who will graduate in, Flint 8,000 pounds, all for 9'c and |June may submit application). | 8 cénts; Gloria Second 5000 B Under 27 years of age. bounds, Harding 5,000 pounds, botn | C. Citizen of the Ur_nLud SLau_‘s. selling for 9% and 8 cents: Lively| D- Successful physical examina- tion 12, a s 2,000 pounds, 9 11(_! 8 cents. 2. Procedure. A. Preliminary in- RUPERT PRIC terview by Professor of Naval Sci- At Prince Rupert today 140,000 lw-u and Tactic (University of R ashingten), a Naval Reserve En- pounds of halibut were sold for 9 ) climent cer or ava s- 9 t0 9.60 and 7 cents a pound. rcliment Officer or 13th Naval Dis. trict Interviewing Officer (Room! T 836 Exchange Building, Seattle,| Washington.) B. Physical examination at 13th| Naval District Headquarters (Ex-| change Building, Seattle), any Naval | Reserve Enrollment Office or any y Recruiting Station. (Note: No | waivers for any physical defect will re: e COl eration). C. After successful physical ex-| amination an interview 'with thel 13th Naval District Officer Material | Selection Board, 1 D. Submission of application, supporting affidavits and question-' naires to the Bureau of Navigation | a- the emmandant, Thirtgenth | | Naval District. 3. Training Program. A. Appli-| cants approved by the Bureau of | Navigation will be commissicned as | Ensign, Supply Corps, Provisional, U, S. Naval Reserve. B. The above Ensigns will be or- dercd to Gesrgetewn University, (Washingten, D. C.) about June 15, 1641 for a four months intensive ,ccurse of instruction. (Active Duty pay, transportation and $150.00 Uni- form allewance.) 4. Active .Duty. -Officers com- |pleting the abcve_coursc satisfac |torily will be commissioned as En. signs SC-V(G), USNR. (Supply| Ccrps, Volunteer—General Service, ! U. S. Naval Reserve) and those re- quired fo: active duty with the fleet Alaskans, and optimistic about ev- will be ordered to such vacancies. | entual completion of an extensive (An additional $100 will be allewed airport and airways program in the for uniforms to those receiving sea Territory. duty.) The remainder of the class B e o o {will. be returned tc an inactive stat- v H . , lus available for assignment in the M[Sg '_evme wed | Naval Districts from which they | were initially ‘enrolled. To Harvey lowe:mflouon PLANS P WILLOUGHBY FiLL Married Easter Day, Miss Louise Levine and Harvey'R. Lowe took| An application for a permit to their vows yesterday afternoon at construct a 60- by 100-foot rock a quiet ceremony performed by U.'fill on tideflats adjoining Willough- S. Commissioner Felix Gray, at by Avenue near Gold Creek has his home in Douglas. |been filed by N. J. Nicholsdn with Attendants were Miss Cheda Paul the U. S. Engineers. and Mr. Glenn Martin, Action on the application will The bride, an employee of the be withheld until May 8 to allow Bureau Public Roads office, was-any:-complaints from the stand- transferred here from Washington, point of navigation to be heard. D. C., last September. Mr, Lowe =+ el K, 0 AT PR 2 came here from Oklahoma several FIEDLER TO TRAVEL months ago and is an employee of ~Hairy, L. Fiedler, Assoctate Min- the Alaska Juneau Gold Mine. ing Engineer with the Territorial The newlyweds are residing tem- Department of Mines, will leave to- porarily at the Baranof Hotel. 1morrow. for the Westward on a rou- FLOWER GARDEN i Ty s VANDALS WARNED' Headquarters Opportunities for commission as; in operation in Alaska, between Se- attle and Juneau ,and between Ncme and Juneau, conducted by Pan Am- erican Airways and its subsidiary, Pacific Alaska Airways. The Civil Aeronautics Board is now consider- ing applications for additional routes between Juneau and Anchorage and routes to serve other strategic points in the Territory. Heretofore no Civil Airways have been designated in Alaska but the following were designated by the CAA January 27 of this year: Ket- chikan, Petersburg, Juneau, Haines Juneau, Cape Spencer, Yakutat, Yakataga, Cordova, Portage, An- chorage; Petersi)urg. Sitka, Cape Spencer; Anchorage, Talkeetna. Summit, Fairbanks;Fairbanks, Tan- ana, Ruby, Moses Point, Nome, Nome, Kotzebue, Point Barrow; An- chorage, Farwell, McGrath, Nome; Anchorage, Kenai, Iliamna, Nak- nek; Anchorage, Seward, Kodiak, Chignik, King Cove, Unalaska; Ko- diak, Naknek, Goodnews Bay, Beth- el, Nome; Fairbanks, Nenana, Mc- Grath, Aniak, Bethel; Boundary, Tanana Crossing, Big Delta; Fair- banks; Cordova, Valdez, Copper Cen- ter; Paxson, Big Delta. Lample and Strawn returned the middle of March, enthusiastic about flying paossibiities in Alaska, com- plimentary about the hospitality of . ICE OUT EARLY Ice has left the Naknek and the Nushagak' airplane landings alfeady, destroyed_and bulbs torn up have Alaska Game Commission from PAA PLANES IN SEATILE Weather Is Bad on Seattlefi Run - Electras Make Flights fo Fairbanks With weather clear hetween Se-| attle and Prince George, but bad from Prince George to Juneau, the PAA Douglas DC-3 and a Lode- | star, scheduled to fly to Juneau today, were grounded and at press time today had not left Boeing Field. PAA officials, however, said that the ships might fly to Prince George today. Two Electras are scheduled to arrive in Juneau this afternoon with nine passengers from Fair-| banks. Passengers are H. H. How- ard, Dr. and Mrs. J. A. Dale, Paul Smith, M Statia Rickert, Walter Nikkola, Homer Rand, Mrs. Amelia Kelsey and V. T. Reason. i One Electra left for the Interior this morning carrying Mr. and Mrs. Art Brown, Ralph Potter, Rufus| Bean, D. W. Albert, Raymond Isaacson and Lars Larson. e S S KETCHIKAN T0 “PLAY FINALS WITH JUNEAU 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 14: Cloudy tonight and Tuesday with occasional light rain showers to- night and possibly Tuesday; little change in temperature; lowest temperature tonight about 36 degress, highest Tuesday 48 degree gentle variable mostly westerly winds. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Mostly cloudy tonight and Tues- day, but occasional light rain showers tonight and possibly Tuesday in nortff portion; little change in temperature; gentle to moderate var- iable winds. Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaskay Dixon Entrance to Cape Spencer: Fresh southwesterly winds; mos ly ‘cloudy; Cape Spencer to p: Hinchinbrook: Moderate to fi southerly to southwesterly winds; mostly cloudy; occasional shower Cape Hinchinbrook to Reswrection Bay: Showers; moderate south- erly to southeasterly winds; Resu rect Bay to Kodiak: Partly cloudy; gentle to moderate soutt becoming moderate to fresh southeasterly sh winds, LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity 4:30 p.m. yesterday 29.77 46 72 SW 8 4:30 am. today 2997 38 91 Calm Noon today 30.00 4 73 s Weather Showers Cloudy Cloudy RADIO REPORTS TODAY 4:30 a.m. Precip. 4:30a.m temp. 24 hours Weather 0 Clear Cloudy Clear Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Snow Cloudy Cloudy Clear Snow Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Rain Cloudy Clouay Fogey Cloudy Max. tempt. last 24 hours -2 H4 30 43 45 Towest. Station Barrow Fairbanks Anchorage Bethel St. Paul Atka Dutch Harbor Wosnesenski Kediak Cordova - Juneau Sitka Ketchikan Prince Rupert Prince George Edmonton Seattle Portland San Francisco 50 50 60 60 . 64 11 n 51 53 WEATHER SYNOPSIS The storm area now centered near Fairbanks has influx of relatively cold maritime polar air in scuthern ern Alaska, and cold Aretic air o’er northern and western Alaska. Rain or snow was falling this mo ning over the northern portion of Southeast Alaska, and along tie coast to Prince William Sound and the Cook Inlet area, and at s)me points i the Aleutiian Islands and the Bering Sea. Partly cloud; to cloudy skies prevailed gener- ally elsewhere over Alaska excep: in northern and northwestern portions, where skies were clear. Rain or snow 'had ‘fallen during the past 24 hours over Southeast A'aska along the coast to Prince William Sound and Cook Inlet, and in the Alfutian Islands and Bering Sea region. The greatest amount of precipitation during the past 24 hours was 1.79 inches at Cordova. Temperatures were gen- erally lower this morning except in southern and central Alaska.The lowest temperature reported this morning was minus six degrees at Barrow. Mostly overcast skies, high ceilings and good visibilities prevailed over the Juneau-Ketchikan airways this morning. The Monday morning weather chart indicated that the storm area, which was located in the Gulf of Alaska yesterday, hasmoved into central Alaska and is centered near Fairbanks with a low cen- ter of about 996 millibars (29.41 inches). A second low center of 1008 millibars (29.77 inches) was located 47 dggrees north and 169 degrees west, and pressure remained relatively low over the Bering Sea. A high center of 1033 millibars (30.50 inches) was located at 37 degrees north an dr52 degree; west. and pressure was relatively high over the coast states and Southeast Alaska. Juneau, April 15—Sunrise 5:4. p.m., sunset 8:09 p.m. MILCH GOAT FELLED BY RIFLE SHOT OF HIGHWAY HUNTSMAN Rifle shooting from Glacier Hign- | way, of which the Alaska Game| Commission has heard numerous/ complaints recently, has culminat-| Mrs. Statia Rickert, aunt of 5 ed in some daring hunter's shooting: Herb Redman of Juneau, flew here a domesticated milch goat belong-' by PAA today from her home ai ing to a highway resident. Fairbanks to spend a week visiting The goat, valued at $40 by its the Redmans. brought an and east- owner, was felled last Friday. Two weeks ago the Game Com- mission arrested one hunter who was firing a 30-30 rifle from the highway at birds on the water. He was fined and given a jail sen- tence. —— o —— VISITING NIECE Telegraphic Bowling| Matches fo Decide Win- ner of Elks Lodaes A final playoff for the bowling championship cf the Elks Lodges of Juneau and Ketchikan, will start on the Elks alleys at 7:30 o’clock tonight as the first of five telegraphic match- The NEW 1941 General Electric Refrigerators Are Herel ¢s rells down the alleys. Beth men’s and women's teams ill play in the tourney and matcih es will be telegraphed to Ket- | chikan as will Ketchikan wire their | |scores to Juneau. Previous matches ketween the two lodges left eac tcam victorious in cne game, Ketchi- kan winning when the Juneau lodge men visited them, and Juneau win- ning five matches to tie the score when Ketchikan visited Juneav dur- ing the Basketball tournament, e ee—— SWISS YOUTH GET TOO FOXY; | THEY'RE JAILED BASEL, Switzerland, April 14— Three young Baselers have been jailed because they had their own ideas on how to give quick service to the customer. They would look ‘through classi- fied. advertisements of the local papers and whenever they found a “picycle: wanted,” they stole one and sald it to the advertisers. e e L DOCTORS RETURN Assistant Territorial Comm’ssion- r of Healdh Dr. Courtney Smith and Or. W. S. Ramsey, Director of the Division of Maternal and Child Health, returned on_ the steamer Mount McKinley after attending a Nurses' Institute at Anchorage and a Milk Seminar at Palmer. iy ELMER TO WESTWARD been received by City Police in the' Wildlife Agent Grenold Collin at An- | past. few days. Chief Dan Ralston'chorage. said today.: «.Ralston warned that such van- l Subscrive 0. the Dally . Alasxs 'damm will be punished if repea‘-; Empire—the paper with the largest paid circulation. l "J. M. Elmer, prominent mine oper- General Electric $204.95 6 Cu. Ft. Models From $119.95 up ALASKA ELECTRIC LIGHT ator in the Valdez district, passcd ‘hrough Juneau on the. Baranof beund westward to start the season’s operations cn his property. AND POWER (0. PHONE 618