The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 17, 1941, Page 6

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURS APRIL 17,-1941 POLLY AND HER PALS SO YUH DON‘T NEED A NEW SUIT, EH2 O.K EN STICK OUT YER HAND T/SEE 1S IT AWRIGHT, BUT I DON'T SEE WOT RAIN HAS T/DO MARINE NEWS Taku s Now Northbound : i ° North Sea scheduled to sail ® SEATTLE, April 17.—Steamer ® from Seattle tomorrow at 10 ® Taku sailed for Southeast Alaska |® 8. M. 4 . ports this forenoon sengets | ® Columbia scheduled to sail from e aboard for Juneau ar w. ® Seattle April 19 at 9 am Collins, Mrs. Rex Chitti s Peq- | ® Princess Louise scheduled to ® gy Harris | e sail from Vancouver April 22 ® The Taku goes to Ketchikan, then | ® 8t 9 am. o to Si and calls at Juneau cn the | ® SOUTHBOUND SAILINGS e southbound \'D\ug(‘ CYANESTOPS HEREDURING SURVEY TRIP : Only recently returned to its head- quarters at Ketchikan from a sev- eral weeks overhaul at Seattle, the Coast Guard cutter Cyane, com- manded by Lt. F. K. Johnson, dock- ed in Juneau at 6 o'clock this morn- ing for water and supplies before continuing to the Westward. The vessel, which sailed from the Channel at 11 o'clock this morning, is on a survey cruise of the West- ward area for new lighthouse sites Lt. Johnson said the Cyane would be gone for six weeks and would then return direct to Ketchikan. ——-e-— - HALIBUT PRICES ADVANCES HER | ! STEAMER MOVEMENTS' NORTHBOUND o Denali due Saturday. e Mount MeKinley due Sunday. . . . SCHEDULED BAILINGS . | ® Tongass schedulsd southbound e ® at midnight tonight. . | ® North Coast scheduled south- e . . bound sometime tomorrow e afternoon. o Baranof scheduled southbound e | ® 10:30 o'clock Saturday fore- ® . noon. . ‘ ® Alaska scheduled southbound e | 'e Monday. | o Northland southbound Tuesday. ® | ® Taku scheduled southbound 0 next Wednesday. LOCAL SAILINGS ¢ Estebeth scheduled to sail.every o Wednesday at 6 p. m. for Sit- ' * ka and wayports. ® Naha leaves every Wednesday 0‘ ® at 1 p.m. for Petersburg, Port o ® Alexander, Kake and way- ®| ® ports. Tt e e 00 e e 80 00 oo -, MdKinleyls Making Trip SEATTLE, April 17. — sceamer‘ Mount McKinley sailed at 9 o'clock | this morning for Alaska ports with ' 198 passengers aboard, including 75 steerage. | | i 'Ken McCormick fo Spend Juneau halibut prices raised frac-| Passengers aboard the steamer tionally today as skipper Olaf Aase booked for Juneau include Allen‘ of the Marie unloaded 6,000 pounds Shattuck, Lester Jones, O. B. of fish to sell to the Alaska Coast TWeedt, Mrs. A. Kunzas, P. F. Clav- Fisheries at 7.30 and 530 cents a €au and wife, (stop-overs for Sew- | pound and the Fern II, Capt. John |8rd: A. Anderson, Y. Solderling, | Lowell, sold 11,000 pounds to the Mrs. B. W. Carr, George Bassett, Alaska Coast Fisheries at 7.30 and E. A. Meyring, Mrs. John Tando, | 5.35 cents a pound. A E. Running, Albert Bostedt. ! e ——————— TIDES OLD SALMON CREEK S D0 - ROAD NOW CLOSED Han Uo7 o 350l BY GEORGE BROS. Empire Classifieds Pay! Announcement is made today by ~ | George Brothers that the old Sal- | T XM DAY Ty men Creek road on the Glacier| \ c A L I F n B “ l A Highway will be closed to traffic, ] Grocery and Meat Market effective immediately { { -~ | The road extends through George| QP Qe 4“5"' HONES—371 onlhfls property. It was plannad| High Quality Foods at |to be closed for some time, but only Moderate Prices |recently the owner® received aj * < |quit claim deed from the Terri-! — torial Board of Road Commission- ers, giving them the right to tlov-‘ the road. The reasons for the close, state| the owners, is due to the fact that| many people drive across the property during the night and vnn- ous articles have been taken, SEE MIELKE & COLLEN Painting—Paper Hanging Decorating Service 407—PHONES—~——Red 232 SCHEDULE and FARES JUNEAU TO SEATTLE TRRNO RS FAIRBANKS TO JUNEAU MONDAY and THURSDAY (Passengers—Airmail and Express) JUNEATG TO FAIRBANKS IUESPAY (Passengers—Airmail and Express) JUNEAU----SEATTLE $95 One Way; $171 Round Trip Passengers — Airmail — Air Express Pacific Alaska Airways, Inc. Pan American Airways System TRAFFIC OFFICE L. A. DELEBECQUE District Sales Manager PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS 135 Bo. rranklin St. PHONE 108 { graphical, | writer. | | | | The German freighter man ship, the Lewpzig, also was scuttled as Peruvian authoritics beg: States in seizing Axis ships in American waters. of Manuscrlpl Hunt Starts, All Sections Weeks Looking for Writers By GEORGE TUCKER NEW YORK, April 17 A manuseript hunt that will take Ken McCormick from Manhattan to | the Midwest wheat fields and from | the Great Lakes to the Pacific is ander way. This chief associate edi tor for Doubleday, Doran will (spend the next six or eight weeks | traveling about the country, in- dulging in leisurely discussions with authors, meeting news writers, chatting of publishing trends, and garnering new manuscripts—bio- historical, fictional—for possible publication. { One of the ideas of this trip will be to meet those people who have stories to tell but can't write. There are people like that. Oscar Levant is one. A witty glib young' man In conversation, he ecame tongue-tied at a type- It was only a question of bringing the right collaborator to | him, and the result was “a Smat- tering of Ignorance,” which en- | joyed a phenomental success. McCormick thinks writers who live away from the Industrial East may be discouraged by what appears to be an over-dose of war books under FEuropean date- lines. But this is only the froth of the publishing business, | | | McCormick is anxious fo discuss what he calls “regional work” with wflters in various sections of the “regional” locale. country. By definitive is meant Nazi Si'up Flred by Crew in Peru | Monserrate is shown burning off Lima, Peru, scuttied by her crew. Another Ger- By CLIFF STERRETT IT WUZ TH/ ONLY WAY T7 CONVINCE , "YUH, COOT/ an to follow example set by the United The Peruvian government also seized two Junkers planes man Lufthansa Airline at Lima th lives ten years in a box car prob- biy has a good story to tell, but Envoy Returns 1e should write about life as she P & mows it in boxcars, not attempt ) glamorize it with the lights of ¢ York. He things it is unnec- to generalize too broadly, as § 1any authors do, in selecting lo- | for Juneau. ales for plot action. If youe | Publication dates, April 14-15-16- xriting about small town in Min- 17-18-19-21, !911 adv. | nesota, make that picture so true -~ AR M P T to Minnesota that readers will know § that this couldn’t have happened & in any state but Minnesota. That = s what he means, On a manuscript hunt such as this the routine is this. You go nto a town and announce through the newspapers that you will be available (to writers) for inters views. In one day on a previous hunt in Chicago, McCormick talked with 52 persons. From them he ob- | tained 99 manuscripts. Of these, two were accepted, and both developed into successes. | | ple. If you have not made reserva- i “NTION EASTERN STAR There will be a- dinner, ‘I‘uesday, Apnil 22nd henoring Past Worthy Matrons and Patrons. All Eastern Stars and escoris are invited. Start- ing at 6:30 p.n. caaip at the Tem- tions, call Mrs. Josephine Sullivan, Green 413, or the Worthy Matron or | Secretary before Saturday. HELEN WEBSTER, —adv. Secretax' NOTICE TO PAY SCHOOL TAX "~ All male persons between the ages of 21 and 50 years, who are: not “sailors in the United States Navy or Revenue Cutter Servicn-,! volunteer firemen, paupers or in- sane persons,” are required to pay an annual School Tax of $5. This tax is-due and payable after the first Monday in April and shall be paid before May 1, providing you are in the Territory on said| first date; if not, the tax is due within 30 days after your arrival in Alaska or within 10 days after written or oral demand is made upon you by the School Tax Col- lector. Taxes not paid in accord- ance with the foregoing require- ments shall become delinquent, and each person delinquent shall be subject to a fine of $2. All persons subject to, and refus-| ing or neglecting to pay said tax are subject to a fine of $25, or im-| prisonment in jail for a period of one month. CITY OF JUNEAU, School Tax Collector { WHY SUFFER with your feet?| Phone 646. Chiropodist Dr. Steves. (adv.) —_—— MONTGOMERY WARD . &CoO. i Unfair to Organized Labor | RETAIL CLERKS UNION No. 1392 H “HORLUCK’S DANISH” MARINE AIRWAYS——U. S. MAIL he| | points out—thin and transparent. A woman who Cleveland, Chicago, St. Paul, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Portland, Seattle, and San Francisco will be the major stops on this trip, though. he will branch out into smaller cities from these points. It depends on what “leads” he has and what the prospects are. McCormick, though technically a Jerseyite (“I was born there but we moved about five minutfes later”) will be heading into famil-| iar territory. Most of his boyhood was spent in the Midwest and his rmative years in Salem, Ore. He came to New York about 13 years 1igo and at one time held seven library in the mornings, etc. Even- tually he became identified with Dcukbleday, Doran, and now he is their ehief associate editor. He 1s| married to a former nurse at| Bellevue who keeps him enter- tained with hospital stories. used to write novels,” he “1 wrote. three. Were those same novels submitted to me w-‘ day I wouldn’t accept them. That’s the way the publishers I submitted | | producing a bank book showing de-“ rnln«nu FREIGHT them to felt about it - Trv a classiliea ad in The Emplre Spruille Braden Spmme Braden, U. S. ambassador to Colombia, arrives at New York. He returned to make a report to the state department in Washington on condjtions in the South American country. | Has Poor House Exemptions, Too TULSA, Okla., April 17.--An aged part-time jobs. He played a piano! couple, shabbily dressed, appeared three hours a day, he worked in a' 2% the tax assescr’s office to claim homestead exempticn on their one- The exemption was more than ample and the personal ' assessment was practically nothing. | reem house. 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