The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 8, 1941, Page 2

| i DEBATEON IRAQSTRIFE CONVOYS IS | QUIETTODAY, QUITE HOT! SAYSREPORT Senator Nye, W|I|k|e Mari-|British in Possession of time Commission Add Habbiniyah Airdrome, Fuel to Flames Also Basra Port WASHING' lON Ma\' 8—Two un- (By Assodaled Press) compromising speeches, one by Sen- The British Middle Bast Head- tor Gerald P. Nye and the other by |quarters today reports the situation wendell L. Willkie and some un- | quiet in the strife in Iraq expecied statistics on ship sinkings | The communication says that both e Federal Maritime Commis- | the British aidrome at Habbiniyah, <ion, has intensified the controversy 60 miles east of Baghdad, and Basra over convoys of supplies to | Port, on the Persian Gulf, are in Britahin. possession of the British. enator Nye accused the Admin- 1t is claimed the Iraq airport near jstration of “blitzkrieging for con- Baghdad was bombed by the British vovs” and declared in & broadcast | yesterday and many planes were de- that “this week or in these next few molished. days will determine whether or not 3 America is going to be in Europe’s L W e | MDROVEMENTS Gre willkie, meanwhile told a “free- dom rally” in New York City, that | RECONMMD delivery of the lease and lend sup- plies to at Britain must be in- sured by “convoying, patrolling with airplane accompaniment or what not | but we want these cargoes protected and at once we must have less talk | and more action.” A new element was injected in the | convoy debate by the Federal Mari- timbe Commission presenting fig- ; ures showing that less '.han four | percent of the British air ships leav- ing American ports were sunk in the first three months of this yéar. ——— EMPLOYMENT WEEK FOR NORTHLAND {House Riyers and Harbors Commitiee Outlines New ‘Navigation Program WASHINGTON, May 8. — The | House Rivers and Harbors Commit- tee today agreed to a $281,000,000 navigation program to be carried out when expenditures will “not materfally intérfere’ with National Bno‘nml IMG“ De(g;:::rucnon authorized, when possible, including the following In observance of National Em- projects in Alaska: ployment Week, proclaimed by Legion is sponsoring a "broadcast 3 Moo Hollyweod ‘atTHO ol te- | Meyems Chuck 2200 = e Wrangell Harbor .. 189,000 night over the Mutual-Don Lee net- according to an announce- Wrangell Narrows. 2.731.000 work, . ment today by the Social Becurity | gm“.&b;f:ander 31,000 Bowrd and Alaska Territorial Em- pop oo 38,000 ployment Service. Beldovl: e £0,000 The broadcast, entitled National | Port Allen 15,000 Defense and You,” will feature radln and motion picture stars. Mrs. A. H. Bradford Arrives on Lodestar Mrs. A. H. Bradford, of Dillingham, owngy, of the Lowe Trading Com- pany and numerous other interests, arrived here today on the Lodestar from Seattle after vacationing at Santa Barbara, Cal. She will fly to Fairbanks tomor- row and then go by plane via An- chorage to Dillingham. ————————— H. E. BERGER ARRIVES H. E, Berger, in the transportation business on Cook Inlet, was an ar- rival in Juneau on the Lodestar this afternoon. $ Juneau Work The bill also authorizes engineers to sutvey the advisability of naviga- tion improvements to tHe harbor at | Sitka, Gastineau Channel with n view of improvement both by water | anid air and control of tidal run-off, Kodigk Harbor and Skagway Har- bor. Iy e R BEN SMITH HERE by his engineer A. A. McLaren, ar- rived here on the Douglas. Smith, well known New York broker, Westward. LRI of the Meditérranean, A top-ranking pommur on every countl WmAmv wuuou WHISKEY A NATIONAL FAVORITE FOR THE PAST 7 YEARS! Netional Distillers Products Corporation, New York, N. Y. MORE THAN A MILLION WOMEN . . . Now Coeok Eleetrically The modern Electric Range has simplified the art of good cooking. And modern glec- tric cookery is at its best on a G!NEI.AL ELECTRIC NGE eqnl)pd with “Bl- SPEED CALROD.” Remember: Genuine “CALROD" is found : only on General Electric Ranges Prices start at $89.95—TERMS! ALASKA ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER (0. PHONE 616 Sell ’em Ben Smith, accompanied has | been on an inspection trip to lhe, P S S S S Sy | Auk Bay is almost naked of herring today, according to reports and with the herring have goné the| giant king salmon. . . . but where? Tee Harbor should start its an- nual yield in a few days and Mar- | Hasselborg two days ago are sched- uled to return late this afternoon| est catch of cutthroat this year. Pilot lon the trip are Percy Reynolds, !Hux'ry Lucas and Art Beaudin, Hans Floe, superintendent of the | Hawk Inlet canfiery, came into Ju- | neau today with- the story of catch- ing a 30-inch rainbow below the falls in the outlet of Lake Flor- ence. That, in any man's language, | is fish! i | 'Twas only a few days aga that 116 inches, came’in fiom Auk Lake, !but it was only today that any one found out about it. The boys {got them on the hook with eggs and worms and sald they Te strik- THE DAILY ALASKA mion Island is beginning to pick hay. up. s RO | Bill Saunders went out today The boys who flew into Lake|and said he's going to try wet flies,| and with them probably the larg-| Dean Goodwin is slated to| go in and pick them up today.Men | 27 cutthroat, ranging from 10 to| on the hook! ing as fast as you want them. Best | time is just at sundown. ‘At that time you can see a mil- | lion ripples dotting the lake like a light rain was falling out of a | cloudless sky. . and that ain't possibly a Mary Ann, on them, but| he’s going to bring them back. | Speaking of large fish, the larg-: | est king salmon ever caught in the | world will be in Juneau on display | ‘in a few days after its arrival from| | Petersburg. The fish weighs 126 pounds, was caught in a trap off Prince of Wales Island and was rescued f{rom being transformed| into several cases of one-pound talls| by Juneau’s Dr. J. O. Rude who| had the giant stuffed and mount-| ed. The hig red king now adorns; 4the walls of the Chamber of | Chamber of Commerce in Peters-| burg, but the doctor, who is mak-, ing a trip to Pétersburg to pick up! his speed boat, says that he is sure that Petersburg will allow him to) borrow the fish for display in Ju-| neau. We'd like to see that mam-| moth of the deep, Doctor $71 Is Added To Fund for Respirator lron Lung Campmgn Total Now $186-Stag Party Donates §21 Juneau'’s fron l\mg f\md swelled to $186° today as donations total fll were added to those feceived y day, the first day of the oommunlty mmp- n. | "Thé "Juneau Chamber of Com- mérce donated $50 to the fund to- {day and another $21 was raised at ‘a stag party and contributed anon- ymously by a group of Juneau men An account has been opengd |the B, M. Behrends Banl |Iron Lung Committee, of W] xch Pel u i | The pipeline running. from ',he\ClEmenl.s is Chairman and George wells of Iraq to the Palestine shone | Sundborg, Treasurer. carries an | A portable lung, such. as the one estimated 4,000,000 tons of crude oil flown here last week, costs approxi- each year. | mately $600. That sum is being raised by popular subscription to purchase such equipment for the City of Juneau, so that it will be on |hand in case of emergency. | A committee from the Juneau Mine and Mill Workers Union, con- isisting of John Covich, Jack Dunn and Dave Carlson, are working with the Rotary Club, the Chamber and other local organizations to raise the necessary funds. ~ Small personal contributions are inyited. The committee asks that the effort be made a truly commun- (ity one. Donations in any amount |are welcomed. They may be mailed to or left with George Syndborg rat The Empire, {NAVY PLANES OVER CHANNEL Flying low over Gastineau Chan- nel from the south, four Nayy Pa- trol Bombers, Consolidated PBY’s, passed over Juneau shortly affer 3 o'clock this afternoon. 5 The planes were seen in Juneau to late today for information con- cerning their destination ang their base to be determined. It is thought, |however, that the planes are from the Naval Base at Sitka. CRASH WASHINGTON, May 8—Capt. Rafael Rivas was burned to death 1and Capt. Alberto Taborea is feared to be critically injuréd ‘when the two Bolivian Air Force officers crashed late this afternoon taking off from the Washington airport. —————— WEATHER MAN SOUTH Meteorologist H. J. Thompson left this week "for the Btdtes on a months leave ‘of abserice. H meet Mrs. Thom) Seattle” CANNERYMAN ARRIVES Excursion “Tnlet Salmon cannery, private boat. He is stopping at the Ga | astineay Hog.el, : Texas has 8 Texas Co\mcfl m uu objec- !of.nlqlly uveg”%e beautifi will| A. C. Adams, bookntper at mol arrived in Juneau last night on 8- In Taku Inlet | Just Ducks | Reports that great numbers of fur deal were sporting in the wnl,ers‘ of Taku Inlet were investigated to-| day by J. Steelé¢ Culbertson of the Fish ahd Wildlife Service, who made a trip down thé Channel by Alaska Game Commission speedboat. On the Tnlet he found, not seal, but bout 2,000 surf scoters. He ad- | inftted” the ducks might have been mm-lken for seal. 'The original re-| port came from a plane which flew low over the Inlet today. 3 50AP BOX | ERBY RACERS HAVE SPONSORS llsl of Entrants and Firms or Individuals Back- | ing Them s Given Thirty-two Soap Box Derby en-| trants are being backed by sponsors who expect them to win the big race here next month. The list, with sponsor first and boy next,| is as follows: Baranof Hotel, Tony Del Santo;| chprles Carter, Charles Linehan; Darnell and Triangle Clean- ers, Jack Turoff; Juneau and Douglas Telephone Company, Mel- vin V. Shudshift; Dr. W. M. White- head, Robert Howell; J. B. Bur- ford, Donny Burford and Jackie| Burford; Warners Grocery, Rudy Krsul; Swanson Brothers, Robert Swanson; Bert's Cash Grocery,| Lynn Forrest and Stanford Clark; Case Lot Grocery, Jinmy Sprague; Alasks Electric Light and Power Company, Robert Dupree Jr.; Cap- itol Theatre, Minard Mill Jr.; Dr. ‘W. W. Council, Jerry Gucker. Lu Liston, Bill Vernon; Colum- bia Lumber Company, Billy Sper- ling; Cowling - Davlin Company, Terry Lennon; Dr. R. H. Williams, Russell Clark; E. R. Hunter of First National Bank, Beverly Lane; I. Goldstein, Jack Hendrickson; Evan Hill and Joe Bird, Leonar Olson; Henry Messerschmidt, = Al- bert Shaw; Alaska Laundry, Gus-| taf Peterson; Allen Shattuck, Se-' vern Swanson; Robert Simpson of Nugget Shop, Edwin Stewart; Krafft Manyfacturing Company, {Leonard Harju; Juneau Police De- | partment, Eddie Hughes; Reid U-; Drive, Lloyd Reid; Fred Henning, \Bllly Carlson; Roy H. Gillispie ol | Bacific Fruit and Produce, J. b Wilson; J. W. McKinley Electricall Service, Robert Forrest. e, 7 e In the interior of Borueo, even, today, no man may marry unless' he can display the head of an-! other bumen. f ————— m-unummwmmkmun WIKE UL Yx, UR LVE | Aud You'll Jump Out hmu.fi.w’m:. "; should pour out two plnu ,.m*a.,.m"'.mf“i:“ those good, effective Ci Lictle Liver Pills 15 wel these i bile flowing freely to make y. up." Amaiting i making bile Mow freely. k for Carter's an Liver Pilly by name. ubbornly refuse a lse. ¥ (OMING FROM 'Douglas Dufi Land from | from the south and 13 passeng PIRE, THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1941. 2LODESTARS BOEING FIELD Inferior with 13 on | Board for Juneay | Two northbound Lodestars from Boeing Field in Seattle and a southbound Douglas from Fair- banks are scheduled to land at the 1 Juneau airport today shortly after|, 3 o'clock bringing in 18 passengers| L from the Interior, } Passengers on board the north-| pound Lodestars are George Hite,! S. W. Norman, Margaret Bradford,| Mrs. J. White, G. C. Barrington, Bill Watkins, Mr. and Mrs. A. New- ton, W. L. McGinn, G. A, Jackson, George Tate, H. C. Berger, M. Sul-|g livan, Joe Crabtree, Mrs. R. Sipe,| Mrs. A. McCandless, A. Ranier and | | Miss T. Robinsen. 4 Passengers on board the south- | pound Douglas are John Ahl(‘ls‘ Jack Winston, Betty Geer, A. /\‘ Matthe'ws, V. F. Robertson, Ben| Smith, A. A. McLaren, E. F. Bailey, | W. K. Foster, Stan Bennett, M. and Mrs. Dean Stanley and Mrs.| A. E. Waxberg The Lodestars will return to Se- attle tomorrow morning and the Douglas will carry a load of pas-| sengers and mail to rbanks. ELEVEN SAIL * FOR COAST ON 5.5, NORTH SEA from | yester- Eleven passengers chilpd Juneau on the North Sea ddy afternoon at 5:30 o'clock as the | | vessel, Capt. Leonard William: and | purser C. D. Littlehales, whistled out of Gastineau Channel after un- loading freight at Douglas for two| | hours. Passengers from Juneau for Sitka were E. S. Evans, Mr. and Mrs. Bert | West, Virginia Wiley, Mrs. C. Wildes, L. P. Danish, W. C. Whiteside, John | Mulke, Kaj Louring, John Walstadt and S. Deck Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Shoreclain were mssengerx for Excursion Inlet. -GAMES § TODAY The following are final scores of baseball games played in the major league this afternoon, received up to time of going to press: National League St. Louis 4; Brooklyn 5. Chicago 5: Philadelphia 1. Cincinnati-New York, postponed, { rain. Pittsburgh - Boston, postponed, rain. American League New York 5; Cleveland 4. ‘Washington 7; Detroit 1. 'FEARS EXPRESSED FOR SAFETY OF MISSING MICEK. Still missing without a clue is Joseph A. Micek, Juneau newcomer who has not been seen since Mon- day morning. | Chief of Police Dan Ralston asks| that anyone knowing anything about the man get in touch with him. - e | HUNTERS ARRESTED Phillip Gibbert, Stephen Gavlick | and Donald Smith were apprehend- | ed last night hunting migratory. birds near Fairbanks, according to information received by the Alaska Game Commission from Wildlife Agenc Clarence Rhode, Taflewell PEAS - \ EVERSON—No. 2 cans TASTEWELL—17 oz. Whole Kernel Efl TASTEWELL—2Y; S Tomaloes with Puree - Z for 25¢ | | Worth, SLICED BEETS - COL. KNOX IS COMING 10 AlASKA‘ | Cabinet Official fo Inspect Areas for Proposed Defense Bases (Continued, from Page One} money had been appropriated for the immediate construction of 13 of the bases and that the others would be built “in the near future.” As a reply to their radiogram to Dimond offering * all cooperation needed for taking of the project in Juneau, Dimond sent the following wire: “JUNEAU CHAMBER OF COM- ERCE: RE POSSIBILITY JUNEAU| SITUATION NAVAL BASE SHALL ADVISE PROMPTLY IF ANY- THING CAN BE DONE. SECRE- TARY KNOX PLANS VISIT 1 ALASKA THIS SUMMER AND 1] BELIEVE NO DECISION WILL B MADE UNTIL AFTER HE MAKE INSPECTION ON GROUND. (Signed) ANTHONY J. DIMOND" The radiogram telling of the cabinet member’s visit was read to the Juneau Chamber of Commerce at their noon luncheon meeéting today. TEXAS WEDDING FOR| MISS RUTH GEYER, JOSEPH H. SIOBMS, |Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Geyer fo Be Married May 24 The engagement of Miss Rum% Geyer was announced today by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur M Geyer of this city. Her marriage to Joseph H. Storms, son ol Mr Mrs. Herbert Storms of Chew Wash., will be an event of May 2% The couple will take their vows at a Catholic nuptial mass al Fo Texas, and following marriage Mr. Storms and his bride | will go to Atlanta, Georgia, to make Goiat- their home. Mr. Storm ed with the Delta Airline plane mechanic. Miss Geyer is a gra Juneau High School ar uated last y as a regis from St. Mary's Hospilal at Walla Washington. During the past winter she was on the nur aff of St} Ann’s Hospital in this city. She| sailed south last month. Mr. Storms is well known here, having been a resident of this cily for seven vears. He has spent the past year in Texas, instructing airplane mechanics. This afternoon Mrs. Geyer enter- tained a number of friends at her Dixon Street home with luncheon, at which time she revealed the betrothal news of her daughter. As a centerpiece for the table, Mrs. Geyer selected two heart-shaped cakes bearing the names “Ruth and Joe.” ., — KFAR MANAGER HERE Jack Winston, manager of radio station KFAR at Fairbanks, arrived today on the Douglas from the | Westward Winston is enroute south on a vacation trip. - HARLAND HERE MRS. Harland arrived a visit Mrs. Dorothea on the Princess Louise for of two weeks in Juneau. here, Mrs. Harland is the house guest of Mrs. Helen Webster in the Evergreen Apartments, Empire Ci the immediate under- | studying and . While | THE WEATHER (By the U, . S. DEPARTMI Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, much change in temperature tonight and Friday; Showers and not grees; gentle variable winds. in temperature tonight and able winds. ing Friday; partly lowest temperature tonight about 41 degrees, Forecast for Southeast Alaska: “Friday; cloudy with local rain 8. Weather Bureau) NT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU beginning at 4:30 pm., May §: highest Friday 53 de- change vari- not much to moderate Showers and gentle Forecast of winas along the coast of lhe Gulf of Alaskat Spencer: Moderate” westerly to southwest- Dixon Ehtrance to Cape | erly winds, becoming northwesterly during Friday; occasional show- | ers: Cape Spencer to €ape Hinchinbrook: Moderate westerly | northwesterly winds; partly cloudy except local showers ton . | Cape Hinchinbrook to" Resurrection Bay: Moderate westerly to northwesterly winds; partly cloudy; Resurrection Bay to Kodiak; | Moderate westerly shifting to moderate to fresh southeasterly dur- Friday. | LOCAL DATA ‘Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity Weather 4:30 p.m. yesterday 30.02 50.7 (] S 4 Cloudy | 4:30 am. today .. 30.07 448 6 w 4 Cloudy | Noon today 30.09 53.0 58 w K Cloudy RADIO REPORTS | Y TODAY | Max. tempt. Lowest 4:30am. Precip. 4:30am. | Station last 24 hours temp. tempt. 24 hours \ Barrow 30 22 22 k3 Fairbanks 65 38 38 0 C lmld\ Nome 30 26 % 0 Cloudy | Dawson 65 | 34 34 0 Pt. Cldy Anchorage . 51 | 41 41 03 Showers Bethel 44 32 32 0 Cloudy st. Paul 41 32 35 02 Pt. Cldy Dutch “Harbor .. 43 31 37 0 Pt. Cldy Wosnesenski 44 34 35 0 Pt. Cldy | Kanatak 47 41 41 0 Clear Kodiak 50 37 0 Pt. Cldy Cordova 50 40 41 25 Rain | Juneau 51 4 4 06 Pt. Cldy | Sitka 52 41 42 Cloudy | Ketchikan 50 5 46 50 Rain { Prince Rupert .. 55 40 41 0 Clear Edmonton 44 k1 30 0 Cloudy Seattle 58 44 43 117 Portland 54 | 42 42 45 San Prancisco .. 68 53 55 . 3§ Pt. CI l_y | relatively' cool ‘maritime “aif has eastern [mrficn at scatteféd points | to the Seward Peninsula, and at Barrow. B erate ceilings’ and good chikan “airway this morning | of 2083 inches was located at precipitation was .50 inch, which was jowest temperature this morning wis Broken clouds to overcast, visibilitie s pre | EATHER SYNOPSIS In connection with @ Weak frontal trough, a iwaded most of Alaska except Rain of snow h d fallen during the past 24 hours frop1 Southeas and over the Kuskokwim Valley, and from the middle Yukon Valley it Barrow. fresh supply of the Alaska Penir Alaska to the a The greatest amount of hikan The h was reported 1 showers, mc the Juneau-Ket- recorded at Ke 22 degrees W! local light vailed over The Thursday morning weather chart indicated that a low center 50 degrees north and 150 degree: west, and was expected to move about 500 miles eastward during the next 24 hours. A weak frontil trough was lccated near Cordova this morning, and was expected to move to the east of Southeast Alaska by Friday night. located at 57 degrees north and 180 degrees, move about 600 miles to the eastward during the nes weak high center was located in the Bering Sea, and A seconl low center of 29.68 inches was was expected to A and center of 3021 inches was locatel at 46 degrees north and 133 de- grees west, 33 degrees Juneau, May north and a third high cen‘er and 161 degree; 9—Sunrise 4:46 am., of 3044 inches was located at west. sunset 9:04 p.m JUNEAU GUARD - HAS FIVE MEN COMMISSIONED National Guardsmen Get Reserve Commissions as Lieutenants Meeting before a formal Examin- ing Board of three officers, five enlisted men in the Juneau National Guard units passed their qualification tests for com- missions as second lieutenants in the National Guard of the United States. Men passing the examination are Staff sergeant Kenneth Hel- gedick, Corporal Joe McLean, Cor- poral Evan Hill, Private George Willey and Private Joe Bird. Mem- ‘hm‘s of the Examining Board were {Major Jesse E. Graham, Captain | William ‘Walther and Captain E. F. | Votert, * | " The five men passing the quali- ficaticn tests are reserve officers in the National Guard of the Terri- Guard of the United States. If the Territorial Guardsmen ' are called |into Federal Service, they will be- |come” members of the National |Guard of u\c United States and the | youth commissioned | |late yesterday. tory but are officers in' the National | commissions of the five Juneau will become effective. — e - ROYAL CAFE AGAIN The second fire in the Royal Cafe in several weeks called out the Ju neau Fire Department at 9 o'clock | this morning as the oil range in the kitchen back-fired and flooded, spewing smoke throughout the building. No damage was done. B iy o LR M. P. MILLS HERE M. P. Mills, prominent business man from Sitka, is registered at the Gastineau Hotel today after arriv- ing from the Coast town by plane CALL FOR BIDS Sealed bids in triplicate will be received at the Office of the Com- missioner of Education, Juneau, Al- aska, until 10:00 o’clock a.m., Thu day, May 22, 1941, and then publicly opened, on the transportation of pupils on the Glacier Highway and Thane Routes to and from the Ju- neau Public Schools, and on the Douglas Route to and from the Douglas Public Schools, for the school biennium 1941-1943, bezin- ning September 2, 1941. Specifica- tions and bid forms may be obtained at the Office of the Commissioner of Education. The right is reserved to reject any or all bids. (Signed) JAMES C. RYAN, Commissioner of Education. First publication, May 1, 1941. Last publlcatmn May 15, 1941. 10 cans 37¢ SWIFTS (| Soap12hars 29c Soap Powder—24 oz. Nubora rku. 19¢ PACIFIC B[!!'!g . bottle Jc 2 for 23c RN - 2for25¢ SHURFINE Mayonnaise 1 9 43¢ SHURFINE—8 oz. 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