The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 28, 1941, Page 2

CLEANUP WEEK 1S PLANNED Proclamation of Mayor Lu- cas Calls for Campaign to Begin Tomorrow By proclamation of Mayor Harry L I Juneau will observe its annual Cleanup Week starting to- morrow and lasting until May 8 1C8K The Mayor urges citizens to put their homes, yards and business properties in as clean and at- tractive conditions as possible be- fore the beginning of the tourist City trucks will pick up refuse without charge from householders’ ewrbs upon notification to the City Clerk's office. This service will be offered all during Cleanup Week - - IDAHQ SHERIFF TAKES GRIFFITH BACK TO TRIAL Sheriff Archie McPhail of Sho- shone County, Idaho, arrived on the steamer Baranof yesterday and Jeft today on the Columbia with William A. Griffith, arrested here last week. Griffith is to face on a charge of em- He walved extradition B prosecution bezzlement ON VACATION Miss Clara Atkins, Secretary to the Education Division of the Of- fice of Indians Affairs here, left on the Princess Norah to spend a month's vacation in California BE PRE SOAP iy ||iIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIII|||||I|ITHIIIIIHIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllIIIIlllllllll!!III|IIIIIIIIIIllllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIII ST R ERTEST AITTIEIR WALING SVERT 11 T WORLD 1o Enter the Juneau Rotary Club Daily Alaska Empire DERBY Winner Gets All-Expense Paid Trip to Akron, Ohio and the NATIONAL SOAP BOX DERBY. Start Bulding Your Car ’l‘od IllllllllllllllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII|IIIIIIIIIIlIIIlIIIHIIIIIlIIIIlIllIIINIIllllllllllllllllm«IllmllllllHIIIMIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIlllIIlIIIIlIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllllllllllllllllll'= e during e e, BOUGLAS AND LODESTAR T0 ARRIVE HERE 19 Passengérs on Board To SEATTI.E 5.5.COLUMBIA BACK ON WAY Planes Coming from Steamer Columbia, Capt. A. A. Sea"le—[le("a Due Anderson, Purser Bill' Hickman, docked in Juneau southbound at | 1:30 o’clock this afternoon with six With 19 passengers due to arrive | passengers from the Westward for in Juneau from Seattle, a PAA Lode- | Juneau and sailed for Seattle one tar and the Douglas DC-3 left Boe- hour Jater with 32 passengers leav- ing PField on the Seattle-Juneau run ing Juneau. this morning ‘They are due to land Passengers arrivin from Seward were Jack Molyneaux, Alda Murus- | here between 3 and 4 o'clock this afterncon ky, Lawrence Murusky, Fred S. Jen- Passengers on board the Lodestar $en, C.H. Kejl and P. J. Preston. are J. C. Hill, A. E. Brooks, Louis Passengers leaving Juneau for Se- Delebecque, J. D. Littlepage, and attle—J. 8. Judah, Mr. and Mrs. 5. Howard Thompson K. Harrod, Marion Davee, W. E. Passengers on the DC-3 are J. Griffith, D. Hoel, R. Robinson, Mag- Lichtenberz, Paul Taylor, Frank gie Johnnie, Amelia Alexander, H. A. Rose, J. Prescott, F. Schultz, C Janecek, H. Putnam, William Brown, Mr. and Mrs. 1. K. McWilliams, A. 8. McPhail, Charles Watts, H. W. Far- rington, S. L. Thomas and Norma Eraut For Ketchikan—Edward Jahnke, F. Madsen, LeRoy Vestal, Robert Scott, Alex Miller, and Lee Lucas. For Wrangell-E. L. Keithalon, | J. M. Clark, John Newmarker, DR, WESTON JOINS Dtmm,m SRISIIGR ; | Dr. John Westat nas foined ‘the staff of the Territorial Depart- Mrs. Faulkner i Wl o South on Visit| Warsing, Uno Herbert, Wilson Scott. Z. J. Loussac, A. Sather, Oliver An-| derson, A. W. Fryslie, A, K. Schel- P. O Peterson, Carl Olsen, R. on and T. B. Stinchfield ers on board a PAA Elec- duled to arrive from the In- this afternoon are William Dr. William Davidson, Mrs. Mrs. L, G. Loomis erior Bloom, Ann McGowen, and Eileen Loomis. The Lodestar will return to Se- attle tomorrow and the l)nuglns will make a round rtip to Fairbanks | tomorrow, returning to Seattle on| Wednesday | Congdon, who is now in Boston, it wils ‘afinounced today by Assistant Commissioner of Health Dr. Cour: t- | new wage agreement reached by { Mrs. H. L. Faulkner sailed south | ney Smith. on the Princess Louise enroute to Dr. Weston is a graduate of| Palo -Alto, where she will spend!flarvnrd Medical School and has | some time visiting her daughter and ’ had special training and experi- | son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Remlng- ence in tuberculosls work, both in ton Low. the United Statés and abroad. * BOX All-American” Soap Box last in the “‘Parade of Champlona” the event & ot ‘ever seen. New | be held SOFT COAL STRIKE IS‘ DEADLOCKED WASHINGTON, April 28—John! L. Lewis, President of the United | Mine Workers, testified at a special hearing of the Senate Defense In-| vstigating Committee today that the “northern financial operators ¢ coal mines, figuratively call them- selves Southerners,” but they are committing a great economic outrage upon the south by opposing the 70 percent of mine operators, The outhern operators refuse to elimi- naté the north and south wage dlf- feréntials. Conferences in the soft coal dead- lock contimw BRITISH BOMBERS LONDON, April 28.—British bomb- crs left a German destroyer “‘spout- ing a great volume of smoke” after an attack off the Dutch Coast this morhing and two vessels of about 2,015 tons each were also hit and be- lieved sunk. British bombers also made a day- light raid on Enmden and factory and rail yards at Keppel, Dutch Naval hase. - eee SALLY SHAFER LEAVES Sally Shafer, Chief Engineering Draftsman for the Forest Service here, left on the Princess Norah on two months’ leave in the States. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, APRIL: 28, 1941. ALASKA PACKED MORE THAN HALF OF 1940 SALMON Figures for Pacific Coasts | of America, Asia Announced Canned salmon, packed the Soviet pack), 855,000 standard cases pound cans, according liminary statement releas. by the United Interior. ates Departmen Compared with the 1939 pack of | westward Hotel Company. represents 9,759,000 cases, this decrease of 904,000 cases, or percent on of 48 to a pre- ed t y- the| ¢ | Pacific coasts of North America and Asia during 1940 (exclusive uIi amounted to 8.- Work Starts On New Hotel | Hotel Company Returns | { 1 Forecast for Juneau and viciniby, beginning at 4:30 p.m In Anchorage Secrefary of Westward| THE WEATHER (By the U. S, Weather Bureau) U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU April 28: Showers tonight; mostly cloudy; occasional light: showe: Tuesday; slightly warmer Tuesday; lowest t:mperature tonight about 41, hi est Tuesday 52; gentle fo moderate sou therly to southwesterly winds. | Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Showers tonight; mostly cloudy | but with occasional light showers Tuesday; slightly warmer Tuesday; | moderate southerly to” southwesterly winds. Forecast ' of winas ‘along the coast of the Guif of Alaska | Dixon Entrance to Cape Spencer: Moderate to fresh southerly fo ; southwesterly winds; showers; Case Spencer to Cape Hinchinbrook: Moderate to fresh southerly to southwesterly winds becoming south- After Signing Confract Contracts for the immediate con- struction of the $160,000 Westward Hotel 'in Anchorage were toda of the nine The 1940 production was allocat- Coast States (Puget Sound, Wash-|yeady for occupancy by August ed ameng the several areas as follows: Alaska (south- | eastern, central and western dis | tricts), 5,069,000 case: Pacific Wester, of the Gastineau Hotel in and Secretary-Treasurer Junean of the returned to Juneau after 11 days in the| | defense town. who flew back to Ju- | Wester, neau from Anchorage in one day,| producing | said excavation work on the build-| ing has already started with con- tractors planning to work double| the building will ‘be 1. shifts so that ington Coast, Columbia River and| Building contract went to the J. B Oregon Coast districts), cases; Brilish Columbia cases; Japan producticn 1,783,000 cases. Comprising the 282,000 cases of chinook or king! to -have bath'and shower, salmon; 2039000 cases of blue- ments, sample roofns, a coffee shop| back, red, or sockeye; 695000 cases|and a large lobby ard lounge. of Silver or coho; 4218000 cases| Directors of the Westward Hotel of humpback or pink; 1581000/ Company are Harold Foss, presi- cases of chum or keta; and 40,000 dent; Norman Banfield, vice-presi-| ca slhead trout dent, and ~ Wilbur " Wester, Stére- oS T AT tary-treasurer, Manager of the HERE FROM SITKA building’ will be Bob Lindquist, CR | present assistant manager of the James Claire of the Photo|Gastineau Hotel, H. B. Foss and Shop in Sitka arrived in Junean|Company w $ ‘the architect for the yesterday with Pilot Shell Slm-‘bullding mons and Will be in Juneau for| ~Plans, location and necessity for several days on business. He is the hotel accommodations in the| staying at the BIG RACE IN JUNE? Don’t Miss This OPPORTUNITY of a Lifetime ehnplul marched | records for m‘o ,000 plhnd for the year, both of which are expected to fall at the “the amateur racing event ll 17 at Akron O. ?Fi!e_s = Fun — Free Crash Helmeis! What Lucky Juneau lgoy Wau ue in Thas Parade? Champions on Parade 1,467,000 | which~ signed ‘for “a '$125,000 cof-| (including Japanes | in Siberia and Japan),| 00000000 O IIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIHIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlHIIIIIIIIIINIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIlHIIIIIlH DERBY BOYS ARE YOU BUILDING YOUR CAR FOR THE 536,000 | total pack weve|will have 70 rooms, Gastineau Hotrl | April 26, Mrs. Nell Lewis, warrack ~ Construction Company, truction job. The hotel, to be located opposlt/: the Anchorage Federal Building, the majority apart- air, base town troubled by housing acilitiés, resulted from a 'survey conducted by Foss and Wester. "The secretary-treasurer of the riew com- pany returned to Juneau last Fri- day after ¢onsulting with J. 'B. Warrack in Anchorage on the con- tract. When completed, Hotel will represent an investmen of $160,000. and Wester in the project are Mr. and Mrs. Nagley of Talkeetna. e GRAFTERS ARE DETROIT, Mich., April 28.—For-| mer Prosecutor Duncan McCrea and | former Sheriff Thomas Wilcox and 21 codefendants in the Wayne coun- | ty graft and conspiracy trial, have been convicted by a jury of seveni women and five men aftér deliber-! ating only 8 hours and 15 minutes. - DOUGLAS NEWS MRS. LEWIS, MR. KILBURN ARE UNITED IN MARRIAGE | At 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon,| former Juneau resident, became the bride of Mr. L. W. Kilburn, pioneer of this city. The ceremony was per- formed at the Kilburn Fourth Street apartments, Rév. G. Edward Knight officiating. The attendants were Mrs. William Sparks and William Windsor, For over 25 years Mrs. has been a resident of the Chan- nel, having come north in 1915. Kilburn, who came to Alaska dur- ing the early gold rush days and has lived in Douglas for over 40 years ‘and during most of tha't (ime has been most prominent of all residents in” the management| of city affdirs. He is' at preseni one of the largest holders of local property. The couple will be at home to their friends at their apartment on Fourth Street. TS A AUXILIARY TO NOMINATE; SHOWER ALSO ARRANGED ' Nominations of officers for the next anhual period will -~ occupy most of the business session of tlie Ladies’ Auxiliary, F.O.E, this evé- ning and for social interest follow- ing there has been arranged a kitchen 'shower. All members are reminded to take their contribu- tions for the shower. BETT T G S D.F.D. DANCE A SUCCESS A ldrge crowd atténded the Fire- men’s annial "dance at the Nata- torium - Saturday night and a fine blue streamers were effective. Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March” was played by the orchestra. — e ——— GIOVANELLIS LEAVINC Mr. and Mrs.' Pete Giovanelli and child, who have been’ residents of Wflflmfliflmflflfllflflflfl"mflIIIIIIIIHIII%HIIIIIIH“I!IIIIIHIIIlIIIIIIIII ~'IlHIlllmllIlllIIIIIIlllllllllllllllllllll!!IIIIIIIII[IIIIIIIIIII!IHWIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlillIIIIIIHIIIHIIIIlIIlllll!lIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIII ay -=----- DON'T DELAY! £ tonight on the Mt. route to Cle Elum, signed | »‘"last Saturday in Anchorage shor h and Wildlife Service,|ly pefore Wilbur manager | the Westward | Associated - with ' Foss | | Sands, Kilburny * time is reported. The decornuoml of evergreens and red, white and| Upon the entrance of former; Mayor L. W. Kilburn and his bride i Douglas for the past few months, are booked to sail for the south McKinley en- Wash. They | easterly Tuesday; showers; Cape H nchinbréok to Resurrection Bay; Moderate to fresh southerly to southeasterly winds; showsrs; Resur- rection Bay to Kodiak; moderate ) fresh northerly to northwesterly winds tonight, becoming southeast:rly Tuesday; showers tonight and rain Tuesday. LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity Weather 4:30 p.m. yesterday 29.81 46.0 26 SE 12 Rain 4:30 am. today .| 29.84 441 87 SSE 4 Rain Noon today 29.87 452 82 SE 10 showers RADIO REPORTS | TODAY Max. tempt. Lowest 4:30am. Precip. 4:30am Station last 24 hours \ temp. temp. 24 hours Weathet | Barrow 6 [ 3 ks Snow | Fairbanks 51 | 32 32 0 Clear | Nome 31 | 34 37 0 Cloudy | Dawson 52 35 0 Cloudy i Anchorage 53. 37 0 PL. Cldy Bethel 41 | 31 g PL. Cldy st. Paul 38 34 02 Pt. Cldy | Atka 44 | 35 08 Drizzle Dutch 'Harbor .. 43 | 35 35 a Pt. Cldy ‘Wosnesenski 42 | 36 37 02 Pt. Cldy Kanatak 43 | 38 38 0 Clear Kodisk 45 | 38 32 Rain Juneau 81 | 43 4 a4 Ramn | Sitka 19 42 44 50 Pt. Cldy Ketchikan 51 | 4 45 1.73 Rain Prince Rupert 53 45 46 20 Rain Prince George . 71 35 37 01 Clear Ednionton ' 61 39 39 0 Cloudy | Seattle 61 | 45 5 0 Cleat Portland 69 | 43 44 0 Clear 8an Francisco .. 59 51 52 0 Pt. Cldy B | . WEATHER SYNOPSIS Rain was faliing this morning over most of Southeast Alaska and along the coast from Southeast Alaska to Kcdiak Island. Snow was | falling over the extreme northern portion of Alaska and in the Ber- ing Strdits region. Partly cloudy or cloudy skies prevailed else- where in Alaska, ‘'Rain or snow was falling during ‘the past 24 | hotirs over Southeast Alaska, and along the coast from Southeast Alaska to the Aleutian Islands, and from the Bering Sea and lower Kuskokwim Valley northwdrd to the Bering Straits and Point Bar- row. 'The greatest amount of precipitation reported this morning | {vas ‘173 inches 'at Ketchikan. Temperatures continued |atively whrm with considerablé warming taking place over Seward Peninsu The lowest temperature reported wis four degrees at Barrow. Ovel cast skies with light” to moderate rain, moderately low ceilings and good visibilities, prevailed over tie Juneau-Ketchikan airway thu } motning. The Monday morning weathe: chart indicated a low center of 2923 inches was located at 57 d:grees north and 148 degrees west and was expected to move slowly northward out of the Gulf of Alaska ‘during the hext' 24 hours. A second low center of 20.23 inches was located at 51 degrees north and 173 degrees west, and a frontal ‘trough Wwith shifting ‘winis extended from this centes southward 'and” southwestward iato lower latitudes. This sys wias ‘expected to move east northeastward into the Gulf of by ‘Tuesday 'night. ‘Pressure continued low over the Ber A belt of ‘high pressure” é¥tended from Washington southwestward (o a high tenter of 30.21 inches at 31 degrees north and 1 degree: west, then westward to a second high center of 3030 inches al 29 degrees north and 157 degrees west. Juneau, Aptil zD—Sunuse 5:11 a.m. sunset 8:41 p.m. THOMPSON RETURNING Howard Thompson, Alaska weath- er man, is bound for Juneau aboard the Lodestar due this afternoon from Seattle. He is making an ob- servation trip. MARILYN ISAAK IS 7 Seven years old yesterday, the Sunday afternoon was made es- pecially bright for Marilyn Isaak and 16 of her young playmates by a party at her home, the cccasion “Marilyn’s birthday. ‘The games and refreshments were particularly énjoyed in addition to a lovely birthday ‘cake. Children who were guests were Shirley Edwards, Bonnie Wagner, Pauline Bonner, Terry Snethen, Mary Cuthbert, Mae and Louise Pat and Jeanine Greiner, Tony McCormick, Aleda Lee War- ner, Alice Johanson, Carol Coch- rane, Leslie ‘Gould, Beverly Erick- fon and Joyce ‘Glenman. % - e CALL FOR BIDS Sealed bids will be received in the office of the Commissionér of Edu- cation, Territory of Alaska, Juneau, Alaska, at 10:00 A. M., May 5, 1941, and will then be opened and read, for the -furnishing of all labor, materials, transportation and equip- ment necessary for the complete construction of the Homer and Nin- ilchik School Buildings, with Teach- |ers’ Living Quarters and for the addition to the Wasilla School Build- ing, all in the Territory of Alaska. Plans may be obtained from Dr. James C. Ryan, Commissioner of Education, Territory of Alaska, or the H. B. Foss Company, Architects, Juneau, Alaska. A bid bond of 5% of the contract price will be required to accompany the proposal. DR. JAMES RYAN, Commisioner of Education, Territory of Alaska. F‘lrst publication, April 14, 1941. -.!Ast publication, April 28, 1941. nmmm|umulllmuflmmulmmmmuu|mm|u|u||||||mm|||umnm- 3 Subscrioe to* the Daly Alaska Empue--the paper with the larges odtd firmnaunn LACIEB HGHWAY ELIVERY DAIL Y TRIPS C0AL——W00D PHONE 374 “SHORTY" will be accompanied by the year ==|and a half old son of Mr. and Mrs. McBride who plan a nlp WHITF IELD lllllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIHIll.!lllllllllIflllllllllllfllllllllllIllfllifiilliflllillmll