The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 19, 1941, Page 2

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CITIZENSHIP (CITY SALARY ~ GERMANS LOA (LASS TO BE BOOSTVOTED SWORNHERE BY COUNCIL Mass Naturagafion Being PayGoesUfiAppointive Planned by Court for Officers for Year Near Future Confirmed Induction into U. S, citizenship of class of aliens who have the naturalization pro- will t place in District Court Juneay within the next few A class of 22 was sworn in ently at Ketchikan Among these who will take part n the mass naturalizations are Sina Bergita Scnderland, Norway; Grace Reed, Great Britain, Mrs, Eva Clark, Great Britain; Isaak Emil Hietala, Finland, and Signa Marle Karki, = aq 1 jast meeting of the retiring g | city Qouneil, the pay for Council- Georgea Wilson, native of Great| .. wag set at $6 per regular meet- B n. took the oath of allegmnce\ingv Formerly they served without today. A resident of Haines, he wlll‘pay‘ Raises in pay for municipal of- ficials, running from $5 to.$25 a month, were veted by the Juneau City Council Jast night in adopting a 1941-42 salary ordinance. Only two changes were made in the list of appointive officers, Dr. W. M. Whitehead being named City Health Officer in place of Dr. W. a large completed cess in chesen Harbor Master succeeding Paul Jensen, W. Council and J. W. Wilson being ' v k. v < ;' Bound for Africa, German tank crews prepare their machines for loading aboard not be in Juneau for the large cere-| " Gite common labor hereafter will i {be paid 80 cents an hour Instead of N 175 cents and Lruc{k drivers $166 ger (motith instead of $7 a day, under LACK OF QTR ... |t vr am s o, pREvE"IS vtssfl. fmetaltlntz i:cluded vq;u;qdaf‘ra l;:ro;est againgt the propose miralty Na- FOR BRISTOL BAY o o i S Due to the national defense emerg- | Ing room. ency it will not be practioal to sta- tion a Coast Guard vessel in Bristol Bay for the fishing season, Herbert E. Gaston, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury notified Becretary of Alaska E. L. Bartlett today in re-! spense to House Joint Memorial No. 5, passed by the Legislature, Gaston said there would be fewer | vessels in Bering Sea this summer and none could be assigned exclu- sively to Bristol Bay. McCANN ASSIGNED | 10 TAKU CUSTOMS TASK ONCE MORE| Joseph A. McCann has again been appointed Navigation Officer| and Deputy Collector of Customs at Taku Inlet for the navigation sea- con, opening in about another week, Collector of Customs James| J. Connors announced today. | McCann is now in the Juneau! office and will leave in a few days with his wife for his station on Taku Inlet * HITLER'S DRIVE TO SUEZ FACES STRONG TURKISHBARRIER i MAP SHOWS HOW NAZIS, if they The list of city officials appointed by Mayor Harry I. Lucas and con- firmed by the Council, given with new salaries and old (in parenthe- sis) is as follows: H. 1. Lucas, Btreet Commissioner and City Manager, $275 ($250). Dan Ralston, Chief of Police, $225 ($210). Ken Jupge, Asst. Chief of Palice, |$: $190 ($185), Roy Thomas, Patrolman, $180 ($175), Emmett. Bothellp, Patrolman, $180 ($175), B. H, Manery, Patrolman, $180 | s178). Joe Hill, Fire Truck Driver, 3105| ($160). Holgar Larsen, Fire Truck Driver, $165 ($160). V. W. Mulvihil, Departmet, $60, Wm, Niederhauser, Asst. Chief of Fire Department, $85. H. M. Porter, Fire Alarm Care- taker, $25. Ann B. Coleman, Librarian, $155 ($150). Chief of Fire Ruth Richardson, Asst. Librarian, his wife who is there visiting her | kan, where Court has been in ses- $35 ($30) o\ A THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY e — ICEBERGS KETCHIKAN, Alaska April 19.—Coast Guard headquar- ters here in a weekly notice to mariners, reported two ice- hergs in steamer lanes today. They are a mile and a half north of the southern tip of Glass Peninsula which sep- arates Seymour Canal from Stephens Passage. Beeceesessene . . . . . . . . . . . . . [ '] . 9000000000 Hans Neilson, Cemetery Caretak- er, $165 ($160). Grover €. Winn, City Magistrate and - Attarney, $50. Dr. Wm. Whitehead, City Health Officer, $25, Magnihild Oygard, Health Nurse, Frank A, Metcalf, City Engineer and Building Inspector, $335 ($228). J. W, Wilson, Harbor. Master, $76, Bert. Lybeck, Street Foreman, $200. Big Olson, Hydrant Inspector, $175, | John Reck, Treasurer, no compen- sation, e ——,—————— CLARENCE WALTERS BACK | ; Clarence Walters, pilot instructor |of the Alaskg School of Aeronautics, has returned to Juneau after an extensive trip to the States. Walters, |however, amrived from Skagway where he had sailed directly from Seattle about a week ago to visit 'parents during her husband’s trip. attempt to drive to the Suex Canal through Turkey, Iraq and Syria, face severe obstacles should Turkey decide to resist. Two routes are considered. A blits aleng the general line of the Berlin-Baghdad railway (1) would bump into the famed Catalca Line, where Turks defeated a Bulgar invasion attempt in the Balkan war of 1913, Line at the edge of the Sea of Marmora would have to be smashed before the Nazis could cross the Bosporus. If Nazis take advantage of foothold in seuthern Greece and decided to follow the coastal E(plunvi-bia I JuneauBound SEATTLE, April 19. — Steather | Columbia sailed for Alaska ports 93 aheard including passengers | steerage, Passengers booked for Juneau in- clude the following: 8. €, Black, who has a_ Kodiak stop-over; L. E. Linck and . wife, Dolores Smith, Mrs. Charles Cream- er, John G. Johnson, Hang Floe. Mrs. Dana Hawking and infant, George H. Moore, John McGregor, Mrs. A. E. Gouldsberry, Mrs. Alice Changdler, A. F. Neady. T. A. Adams and wife, Cliff Price, Tom Gotom, Sam Matzoff, A. C. Kauginoff, Mrs, Bernice Pennimon and infant, Henry Wiehrman, —eo—— Mrs. Lingo Arrives For Juneau Visit| Mrs, George A. Lingo of Anchor-| |age atrived on the Baranof today to visit her sister, Mrs. Robert Bend- | er, and her father, John W. Troy | > ——— | COURT PARTY HERE | clerk of Court Robert Coughlin| and Deputy Peggy McLeod re-| turned on the Denali from Ketchi- | |at 8 o'clock this morning with 204 APRIL 19 ship in an Italian port. SUPERVISOR OF INDIAN EDUCATION LEAVES ALASKA Homer Howard Compléles Survey of Teaching , in Territory Completing a five-week investi-| gation of teaching conditions in Al- aska, Homer Howard, Supervisor of Indian Education and Director of Summer Schools for the Office of Indian Affairs, left on the steamer Baranof today for (he States. Howard announced before leaving that anather course for Alaska teachers would be taught at Chema- | {wa, Oregon, in 1942. He has been studying Alaska conditions especial- ly with a view to making these cl: es more helpful. One of his particu- ' lar interests during his Alaska visit was to study the training of appren- tice teachers. ! Arriving from his Denver head-| quarters, Howard was met at Ketchi- | kan by Dr. George Dale, Acting Di- rector of Education for the Office in Alaska. Together they visited Metla- katla ,Wrangell, Hydaburg, Klawock, Sitka, Hoonah, Seward, Anchorage, Eklutna, Fairbanks Fort Yukon, Ve- netie and Stevens Village. Dr. Howard is to conduct a series of educational conferences at Warm Springs, Oregon, on his return to! the States. -, — | | | | | | | LONDON AIR RAID DAMAGE IS REPORTED LONDON, April 19.—Tt is officially ! anncunced that both the House of Cemmons and House of Lords were damaged in the recent air raids. All windows in the House of Com- mcns library were smashed and a bomb made a large hole in the House of Lords building — e IVERSEN TO TRAVEL L. E. Iversen, Deputy Fiscal Agent of the Forest Service Re- gional Office, will sail on the steamer Mt. McKinley to spend | several weeks at Cordova and Sew- | ard, making an annual audit in| i Forust Service offices. MARSHAL RETURNS U. S. Marshal William T. Ma- honey returned. from Sitka on the; North Coast yesterday with six | \ e | | — e POSTMASTER LEAVING Postmaster Albert Wile will leave on the steamer Alaska for a vaca- {tion trip to the States. — e MARRIAGE LICENSE A marriage license was issued to-! day by U. 8. Commissioner Felix Gray to William Redling and Val-| lefle Pearce. Bubscioe i A2 Sl 1o tiic Daily Alaska pald circulation. WHY SUFFER with vour. feet? route (2), they wonld face the Gallipoli peninsula, where the Turks held back the British in 1915 Without taking Gallipoli it would be im- w-lb'lcu_unqqunulnullu. Phone 648. Chiropodist Dr. Steves. (adv.) |with the Juneau men holding prisoners to serve terms here. ) Empire——~the paper with the larges | 1941. JUNEAUELKS SUFFERTURN IN PIN DUEL Outcome of_Fi—ve -Match Series Still Undecided- One Gamf Missing Although four of the five match- have already been played in the telegraphic bowling duel be- | tween the kegling teams of the Ketchikan and Juneau the results, which might ily decided by a three out of five d cision, are not known today D cause the scores of the Ketchikan| Elks for their third game is mis ing. | Last night both the Juneau men| and the Ketchikan women suffered| reverses as they each dropped a match to an opponent they had| been consistently trimming in the previous matches. By a score of 2679 to 2907 the Ju- neau men Kkeglers dropped their first match to Ketchikan while at] the same time the Juneau women, previously walloped by the Ketchi-| kan feminine bowlers, came up from | behind to take the match 2236 to 2370. | Tonight's game will be the last the series. Scores mnow stand| two| matches, Ketchikan one, fourth) game unknown. Ketchikan women | hold two matches, Juneau women | one, fourth game unknown. | Last night's telegraphic bowling | scores follow Juneau Men Carnegie es lodges, | be | of Hagerup Duckworth 598 Lavenik 462 { Stewart 508 Total 2679 i Juneau Women Lavenik 479 Sperling . 456 | Faulkner 569 i White 410 ‘ Doe 458 Total 2370 Kelchikan Men | Howard 575 Iffert 590 Zorich 571 Hellard 540 | Ziegler 631 Total 2907 Ketchikan Women Mae Peterson 495 | Hildinger 454 H. Peterson 417 F. Howard 416 M. Peterson 454 Total . ....2236 Shotgun Club Shoot Sunday Club will| | The Juneau Shotzun have a shoot starting at 11 o'cl Sunday morning, according to an announcement by Milton Daniel. | Members entered in the 150-bird special event are requested to be on| hand to shoot the requird 100 birds so the handicap may be figured for| the final 50 bird shoot .lo be held| Sunday, April 27. N | . l | | | | | | | EN S1GN _wearing an en- | 's uniform, Franklin D. | Roosevelt, Jr., reported for duty aboard the destroyer Mayrant. He's a graduate of Harvard’s naval reserve officers’ course. " BRINGING UP FA THER BATHS- | THINK 1 WILL TAKE ONE - M Wi al . W, e H BOTTLE? | perienced at Barrow. } paid circulation. A THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU Forecast for Juneau and vicinié’, beginning at 4:30 p.m. April 19: Partly cloudy and not much change in temperature tonight and Sun- day; gentle variable winds; lowest temperature tonight about 39 de- grees, highest Sunday 56 degrees. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Partly cloudy and change in temperature tonight ani Sunday; gentle to moderate southeasterly winds, Forecast of winas along the coast of the Guif of Alaskar Dixon Entrance to Cape Spencer: Moderate to fresh soufheasterly winds; partly cloudy; Cape Spencer to Cape Hinchinbrook: Modc ate to fresh easterly to southeasterly winds; local rain; Cape Hinch- inbrook to Resurrection Bay: Moderate to fresh easterly winds; oc- casional rain; Cape Hinchinbrook to Resurrection Bay: Moder southerly to southeasterly winds but preceded by fresh easterly wind north of Kodiak tonight; occasional rain. not much at2 LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity =~ Weathel 4:30 p.m 30.23 54 47 3 7 Pt. Cldy 4:30 am 30.17 39 92 Calm 0 Cloudy RADIO REPORTS . | TODAY Max. tempt. Towest 4:30a.m. Precip. 4:30a.m Station last 24 hours 1 temp. temp. 24 hours Weather Barrow 3 -11 0 Clear Fairbanks 52 t 36 0 Cloudy Nome 19 | 13 0 Pt. Cldy Dawson 44 | 30 Cloudy Anchorage 42 | 35 Cloudy Bethel 38 | 33 Clouuy St. Paul 29 29 Cloudy Atka 38 35 Snow, showr. Dutch Harbor .. 39 37 Rain Wosnesenski 14 fa Rain Kanatak 42 | 39 Rain Kodiak 44 43 Rain Cordova 44 36 Rain Juneau 55 3 39 Cloudy Sitka 52 39 41 Pt.Cldy Ketchikan 62 37 33 0 Clear Prince Rupert 59 37 40 0 Clear Prince George . 65 | 28 20 0 Clear Seattle (i 38 38 0 Clear Portland 68 | 40 41 0 Clear WEATHER SYNOPSIS The storm which was located to the south of .the Alaska Pen- insula this morning had caused a southerly flow of warm, moist, maritime air over the southwest portion of Alaska, and rain wus falling this morning along the coist from Cordova to Dutch Harbor Partly cloudy to cloudy skies prevailed elsewhere over Alaska ex- cept in the extreme north portion Rain c: snow had fallen dur- ing the previous 24 hours from Cordova to the Aleutian Islands, and at some points from Bristol Bay t) the Kuskokwim and lower Yukon Valleys. The greatest amount of p ecipitation during the previous 24 hours was 1.74 incl which wa; recorded at Kodiak. The lowest temperature this morning was minus eleven degrees which was e Scattered ing and good visibilities were repo‘ted over the Juneau-Ketchikan airway this morning. 7 The Saturday morning weather chart indicated a center of low pressure of 2941 inches was located at 53 degrees north and 162 de- grees west. The storm frontal trough extendcd northeastward and eastward to 57 degrees north and 145 degrees west and thence souih southeastward into lower latitudes. This storm was expected fo move slowly northward into the Bristol Bay area, but decreasing n intensity. A high pressure area o’ 30.24 inches was centered at 34 degrees north and 148 degrees west A ridge of high pressure extend- ed along the coast from Washington to Southeast Alaska, with a sec- ond high pressure area centered t> the east of Alaska. Juneau, April 20—Sunrise 5:35> am., sunset 8:21 p.m. Sunrise 5:32 a.n., sunset 8:23 p.m. April 21— s Grand >Prizres Are Awarded at Card Party Last Night in a seizes of card parties and Pro- held S i by the Busines: fessional Women's Club, last night at the Legion Du grand prizes were awarded close of the session. Grand prizes for bridge include Mrs. Ellen Shafer, first and Mrs. Mary Michaelson, second. John Chapados won first for the men’s division. Grand pinochle awards went to Mrs. Alfred Zenger, first, and Mrs, A. C. Carlson, sceond. The grand prize winner for the men was William Rechin. Winners for last night's party | were Mrs. Olaf Bedding, bridee and Mrs. E. Meacham, low. In pinochle, high honors went to Mrs. €. E. Rulaford and low prize to | Mrs. Tom George. hign f —— MRS. FREEBURGER ON VISIT, RENO, NEVADA Information reecived in Juneau today is that Mrs. George F. Free- burger and her mother, Mrs. H. D. OBSERVER—_Returned from war zones, Col. William Dono- van warns against under-rating Germany, depicts Nazi Germany as alming at “absolute dominas tion” of whole world. A5 R CL U Ay Crary, are leaving Portland for Reno, Nevada, E r’ ‘ Subscrive i the Dally Alasks | yweeks. L e ¢ | Empire—the paper with the largest SN X S NS, Try a classifien ad in The Empire PHONE 374 GLACIER HIGHWAY DELIVERY DAILY TRIPS COAL——W00D LUMBER —— GROCERIES PHONE 374 "“SHORTY" WHITFIELD t> broken cloudiness with good ceil- , [

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