The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 16, 1941, Page 2

. Holds Initiation WANT TREATY 3 Halibuters WITH CANADA Sell, Seattle P H!GHVIAY SEATTLE, April 16.— Halibut | | A vossels arriving and selling today | re as follows: rom the western banks—Brisk i ith 36,000 nds, selling r Infernational Road Head . o “tentrs pousa ™ 1 2 From the local banks—Bclinda Meets with Cordell Hull 105 soines, i ansts 374 oomess on A‘aska Rou'e ha 9,000 pounds, 11 and 10 WASHINGTON, April 16.—Con- PRICES AT RUPERT are ren G. M At Prince Rupert today 100,000 Cha Ala pounds of halibut were sold at 8.30 tional Highway Com and 7 cents a pnund today. a onference e o retar of Ci 1 he expect tiatior ith Ca thor on of the j t construct Stat 1 a throu Can will be soon. it keen interest in the Highway and | arranged for nuson and Gov E Gruening of Al et Members of the Juneau Woman’s | other officials in the D2- Club, meeting for their monthly | partment in a few days lo lay luncheon in the Gold Room of the ground work. Baranof Hofel yesterday were treat- Magnuson said Ne believed one ed to an interesting and unusual of the first will be to ask program put on by the Department Canada a confer e of Associate Membership, under the | committhe with a simi leadership of Mrs. Mildred R. Her- ‘ mann. Mrs. Hermann presented a guest art Mrs. John Clark, who sang two numbers, “The Waltz Song from Romeo and Juliet” and “Love Me Tonight,” a popular number by Bing Crosby. Taking as her theme, “the Pioneer te Depart- treaty committe ment ftc Legion Auxiliary gave excerpts from the nine editions | Initiation of candidates Was ;¢ e special edition of the Juneau | held at its meeting of the wyoman's Club which provided an Ame! n Auxiliary at the jnieresting and colorful history of Dugout Alaska during the past decade. Mrs, | Candidates were Mrs. Ernest germann read articles on the polit- | Gruen N B ical situation of ten years which | Err had a strangely modern note. | In a stirring appeal to the women | of Alaska to carry on in the face of the world’s dark hour, Mrs. Her- mann closed her message with the ay dance was an- words of a woman in England: ancelled. Miss Debor “All the darkness in the world is Supervisor of Child Welfare not sufficient to put out the light speaker, and of one single small candle.” routine sed and the nour Pentz, ices st was gu Mi: Magnk Oyga: Public The program was ended by Mrs. Health N was introduced Clark’s singing “Alaska’s Flag.” The Following a social next meeting, to be held on the first w enjoyed ino Tuesday in May, will be an election He ickson. fare chair- of officers and all members are | man, i sements. |urged to be present. | O Y SURPRISE SHOWER with a surprise shower last night, i given by Mrs. George Schmids ot MEETS TOMORRO her on Distin Avenue, Manj lovely gifts were opened by Mrs.| Guest at Juneau's Chamber of Roth, from a pink and blue decor-’Commerce luncheon tomorrow noon ated cradle at the Baranof Gold Room will be ———— Carl Whitham. operator of the Na- | besna Mine. Subscripe 10r The WANTED A BISCUIT EATER berj | Beer Columbia Brew- eries, Inc. Tacoma, Wash. 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He | expects to be away for a month or five weeks. | Lecturing on Alaska for the Pres- | byterian Board of National Mis- isions, he will travel down the coast |to California, and may pessibly go |to Nevada, Utah and Colorado. Flying from Vancouver, B. C, to Seattle. the Rev. Glasse will preach next Sunday in the First Presbyter- |ian Church at Seattle, and from {there will go to Portland. | During his absence, the 9:30 {o'clock Sunday morning service Wlll be in charge of the Junior Advisor; with the following church officers | as speakers: M. S. Whittier, R. E.| Robertson, H. L Faulkner and J. W. | Leivers. The 11 o'clock morning services | wil be conducted by the Rev. Walter Soboleff of the Memorial Presby- |terian Church, and Adjt. Stanley | Jackson of the Salvation Army. The Rev. Soboleff will be in charge of the services on April 20 and May |4. and the April 27 and May 11 services will be conducted by Ad]ul | Jackson .- ‘Martha Society Dinner Tomorrow: Is Open io.Puinc‘ The annual public dinner, spon- ; |sored by the Martha Society, will| 1be held tomorrow evening bvmncn‘ 5 and 7 o'clock in the Parlors of the Northern Light Presbyterian Church. | | Mrs. Florine Housel will havvl | charge of the menu, and she will be | assisted by various members of the | crganization, | Special decorations have been| planned for the affair and a largei attendance is anticipated. It was also announced today by | the president, Mrs, Katheine Hook- | er, that a meeting of the Society will be held on Friday afternoon, at 1:30 o'clock in the Church Par- lors, All members are urged to at- tend. Do sz GUARD OFFICE MOVES. 10 SENATE CHAMBER The office o1 the A(!Jnmnc-Geneml and instructors of the Alaska Na-| tienal Guard will be moved tonight from Roome 314 of . the Federal| Building to the Senate, Chamber. | The winning racer in the 1940 Ali-American Soap Bo: | Champion’s Racer Diagrammed PIECE SoLp FlLOOR = TWQ- 212 BOARDS) , age 12, Detr. struction is of laminated strips of scrap lumber. Sides can | the All-American Soap Box Derby, A-2 be built heavier to boost weight total, or can be cut down | Building, Detroit, TELEGRAPH CREEK /INTERN, | WRANGELL PLANE SERVICE PLANNED Canadia n Pilot Dalziel Makes Application for Summer Run i | Regular pascenger and freight air | rvice between Wrangell and Tele- | \ph Creek, B. C., is planned by o Canadian plane CF-ALZ, cording to an application received | Gruening has notified his office here. living in Seattle here. | Pilot who plans to maintain the service is G. C, F. Dalziel. The sched- ule would be in effect only during the summer. - Argentina is expected to 00,000,000 bushels of wheat port. in 1941, for ;m-st time have f THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1941. SPINBLE gorteh To PRACHER ATOOWRD | to lighten weight if needed. The champion’s car depended | for weight largely on a heavy, solid floor, made of two 2x12 national and international Derby racing champion, is | planks. Complete blueprints of the winning racer may be shown here in this accurate phantom drawing. Body con- | obtained free by writing o the national headquarters of 23 General Motors INTERNATIONAL HIGHWAY MEN TO MEET HERE | First Alask-aMS;ssion Is Set for June 12-14 in Capilal City Te lnlr‘lndiml\al Hmhwav Com- mission will meet in Alaska for the when members gather in immer, Gov. Ernest | Juneau this The Commission wili meet hon‘ June 12 to 14 - > > - ADMITTED TO HOME Samuel J k, 72, \vl\o g came to n 1900 Ilom a, has tted to the s’ Home at Sitka Berlin Opera House Bombed RAF raid on the German capital. quk lnnp Berlin 2 few howrs after Smeke pours from the German State Opera House in Berlin after an This picture was radioed to New the raid. A German anti-aireraft gun and crew guard over a German army motor route somewhere in Yugoslavia. This picture radioed from Berlin to New York, - e emaas sankAld lof pneumonia, 4 |draw whatever pneumonia organ- POLICE SEEK T0 IDENTIFY BODY OF MAN Remains, fl&xght fo Be Charles W. Erickson of Juneau, Found Outside | An unidentified body, believed to| be that of Charles W. Erickson, for- | merly of Juneau, was found in Ska- |mania County, Washington, on | March 30, according to word receiv- \l(l from Sheriff Irens H. Borden, by Juneau police chief Dan Ralston. | Tracing of the body, which was| lfcund almost three months afhen | death, was possible through a watch | found on the deceased and which, ac- ‘cordmg to the manufacturers, had ‘heen sent to them- for *repairs by Charles W. Erickson, care of Al- | strom’s News Stand in Juneau. | Investigation by Ralston showed that Erickson was an employee of | the Alaska-Juneau mine and had ,worked on the motorship Estebeth before leaving Alaska. He was last heard of as living at the Traveler’s Holel in Seattle. The Juneau police chief asked for additional informaticn to come to ! definite proof whether the body found in Washington was that of Erickson or not. He asks that any- one knowing any information of |Erickson or where he went after lepving Juneau, or knew the man during the time he was in Juneau, | ccmmunicate with him, | Erickson, records show, in 1930 | was 52-years old, 5 feet, 10 inches in height, weighed 195 pounds, had ‘light hair and blue eyes. It is thought that he had a brother, John Thorn, - It You Have Pneumonia | ANN ARBOR, Mich, April 16.— If you believe youre on the verge| cough all you like —it may help ward off the disease —but don't cry about it or hic- cough, for -that might give the germs the chance theyre waiting | for. This conclusion was reported to the Michigan Academy of Science by Dr. W. J. Nungester and Dr. A. H. Kampf, University of Mich- igan scientists, in discussing re- cent research. L Moderate coughing or expiratory; puffs might help ward off pneu- monia, their experiments showed, but forceful intake of breath, as in sobbing and hiccoughs, tends to |isms might be in the windpipe | down into the lungs. Exhaling with | force, as in a cough, has a ten- | dency to expel the disease organ- |JERRY CALLAGHAN, FAMED AS BARBER, THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Burean) U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4:30 p.m., April 16: Mostly cloudy with very light ra'n showers tonight and Thursday; not much change in temperature; lowest temperature tonight about 40 degrees, highest Thursday 46 d:grees; gentle southeasterly winds. Forecast for Sontheast Alaska: Partly cloudy in south portion; mostly cloudy with local showers in north portion tonight and Thurs- day; not much change in temperature; gentle to moderate variable winds, becoming moderate southerly in north portion Thursday. Forecast of winas along . the coast of the Guit of Alaske: Dixon Entrance to Cape Spencer: Moderate to fresh southwesterly to southerly winds except westerly to northwesterly in Dixon En- trance tonight; local showers; Cape Spencer to Cape Hinchinbrook: Fresh fo strong southerly to southwesterly winds and occasional rain; Cape Hinchinbrook to Resurrection Bay: Moderate to fresh southwesterly winds; local showers; Resurrection Bay to Kodiak; Moderate southwesterly winds, becoming moderate to fresh easterly winds Thursday; increasing cloudiness with light rain Thursday. LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity =~ Weathe 4:30 p.m. yesterday 30.33 43 72 s 3 Showers 4:30 a.m. today 30.44 40 87 S 3 Cloudy Noon today 30.49 £ 88 s 3 Rain RADIO REPORTS TODAY Towest 4:30;m. Precip. 4:30am temp. temp. 24 hours Weather -2 -12 0 Pt; Cldy 36 37 [] Cloudy 20 21 0 Cloudy 43 47 02 Rain 26 28 02 Snow 19 22 01 Snow 33 k- [ Cloudy 32 32 13 Cloudy 2 Pl Cloudy 8 102 Rain 36 pLY Clear 4 34 225 S, R, mixed 40 Max, tempt. Station 1ast 24 hours Barrow Fairbanks Nome Anchorage Bethel Dutch Hnrbor e Wosnesenski Kanatak Kodiak Cordova Juneau . Sitka ... Ketchikan Prince Rupert Seattle Portland San Francisco 88 18 Cloudy Cloudy Pt. Cldy Showers Cloudy Clear 43 38 41 39 47 WEATHER SYNOPSIS Relatively cool, moist, maritin: air prevailed over most of Al- aska this morning, except cold con'inental air cortinued over the northern ‘and northwestern portio:s. Rain or snow was falling this morning at some points along th: coast from Sitka to Cook Inlet, the lower Kuskokwim Valley and t .e Bristol Bay area. Partly cloudy to cloudy skies prevailed generall; elsewhere over Alaska. Rain or snow had fallen during the previus 24 hours from the 'Aleutian Islands to the St. Lawrence Island and to the. Kuskokwim Valley,and the northern portion of Southeas' Alaska. The greatest amount cf precipitation was 2.25 inches which was recorded at Cordova. The lowest tempeérature was minus 12 dagrees, which was recorded at Bar- row this morning. Variable cloudiness from seattered to overcast with moderately low to moderate ccilings and good visibilities, except for fog patches over the south por.ion, prevailed over the Juneau- Ketchikan airway this morning. The Wednesday morning weath>r chart indicated a center of low pressure of 993 millibars (29.32 inches) was located at 40 degrees north and 157 degrees west. A second center of low pressure was centered in the Kuskokwim Vailey, with the frontal trough exteénd- ing eastward to near Anchorage and thence southward into lower latitudes. This storm was expected to move about 400 miles north- eastward during the next 24 hours. The indications were'that a third low center was located to the east of Atka. A high pressure center of 1038 (30.60 inches) was located at 43 degrees north and 135 degrees west, and a high crest extended northward into Southeast Alaska. Juneau, April l’l.—sunrise 5:43 a.m., sunset 8:14 p.m. VALERIE PEARCE ANNOUNCES HER WEDDING PLANS Marriage of Popular Ju- neau Girl to W. N, Red- ling Set for Next Week First military wedding to be sol- emnized in Juneau will be an event of next Wednesday evening, when aflasms:séés sEExaBYR! | /' NOTICE | Effective immediately the Alaska | Dock and Storage Company'’s WareHouse and Office, the Rail- way Express Office, and the Alas- ka Steamship Cempany’s Ticket Office will be closed every Wednes- day afternoon. They will remain open on Saturdays and will also be open Sundays and at other hours when sieamers are in port. This is necessary on account of the Wage and Hour Law which pro- vides a forty-hour week for all employees, also because steamers are scheduled to arrive Saturdays and Sundays. ALASKA DOCK & STORAGE CO. {ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY Cloudy + gy o W] | " PASSES AT SHTKA e st Georse Eesre of ehie oy Jerry Callaghan, famous many | years ago as a barber at the Palmer House in Chicago and the Brown Place in Denver, died last Sunday at the Pioneers’ Home in Sitka at i the age of 84. Callaghan first came to Alaska in 1900 to seek gold at Nome. e e STOCK QUOTATIONS: NEW YORK, April 16. — Closing quotation of American Can today is 85'%, Anaconda 23%, Bethlehem Steel 72, Commonwealth and j Southern 7/16, Curtiss Wright 38, General Motors 40, Internatignal Harvester 45, Kennecott 32 3/4, New York Central 12%, Northern Pa- cific 6, United States Steel 52 7/8, ‘Pound $4.02. DOW, JONES AVERAGES ' The following are today's Dow,| Jones averages: industrials 118.60, rails 2822, utilities 18.49. | who was “Miss Jui JiNEAY ,ton last month, is to report at Fort becomes the bride of Lieutenant william N. Redling of the Juneau! Company, Alaska National Guard. The 8 c'clock ceremony will be performed by the Rev. John L. Cau- ble at the Northern Light Presbyter- ian Church, Mrs. Carol Beery Davis will be organist and vocal selections will be given by Miss Phyllis Jenne, Miss Pearce will be given in mar- riage by her father, George Pearce, who is coming here from Chichagef. Miss Cortinne Jenne will be her only attendant and Mr, Robert Cowling: will be best man for the groom. National Guard officers will be ushers. A’ recéption will be held after 9:30 o’'clock at the Franklin Street home of Mys. C. P, Jentie, to .which all friends of the couple are invited. Leaving the followirig' 'day, the couple will saif south en the steam- ar North Sea and from Seattle will moter té California fér théir honey- moon. They expect to nt.nm here early in June. Well known here, the brlde:eleqt u” at. this year's Icé Carnival Pairbanks, . Has been an employce of the Alaska | Game Commission office for the past three years. Mr, Redling is pay- master in the office of the Alaska Juneau Geld Mining Co. Tom Stewart, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs, B. D, Stewart of Juneau, has volunteered for a years service in the Army, according to word re- ceived from, Seattle by his father, Territorial cnmmlwnur of Mines. Tem, who completed “a pre-law | course at the University of Washing- Lewis next Monday. A S Approximately one-half of the |people in the United States at- tend a2 movie at least once a month, W. [tatiorr and RAILWAY EXPRESS AGENCY adv. CALL FOR BIDS /9 Sealed bids will be received in the office of the Auditor, Territory of Alaska, Juneau, Alaska, until 2:00 P. M., April' 30, 1841, and will then { be opetied and réad, for the furnish- ing of alt lber, mlaerhls transpor- necessary for the complete construction of a Re- inforced Concrete Vault adjoining the present Territorial Buildine, formerly knéwn as the Museum Building. Plans and specifications may be obtained from the office of . Auditor of m 1 A bid bond! of 5% of thie contract by the’ 'krrltory to nject any or all bids. £ Territo BSzMy Engineer. Pirst , April 9, 1941, Last pdhnma:fi E 1941, Wl A STATES DEP. OF THE INTERIOR . LAND OFFICE District Land Office Anchorage, Alaska . D November 13, 1940. i Notice is hereby given that Robert | E. Shelley has made application for ja_homesite, under the act of May t (48 Stat. 809) Anchorage a tract of land 1 Group of Homesites situated on Glacier Highway, approximately 10 1 miles northwest of Juneau, Plat of