The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 20, 1941, Page 2

2 LODESTAR IS Crashing of FORCEDBACK Pickei Line is Delayed (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) he ‘plan of the AFL D Trades il chieftains t6 I worker: Northbound PAA Plane Returns fo Prince George ~Two Others Go South NTUCKY QUADS GROWING U? THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, ‘i’UliSl)z\Y, MAY 20, 1941. = PAUL GORDON OF INTERIOR DEPT. VISITS JUNEAU Sv_-pcrvisor”oTAIaska Af- fairs "'Reschooling” Himself in Norih With the purpose of “reschool- : THE WEATHER - (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU Forecast for Juneau and vicinit7, beginning at 4:30 p.m., May 20: Showers tonight and Wednesday; not much change in temperatur:; lowest temperature tonight about 43 degrees, highest Wednesday 48 degrees; gentle to moderatee southeasterly winds. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Local showers tonight and Wed- £ nesday, except partly cloudy in south portions Wednesday; slightly i 1 Ameriean Air to lanc forced orge thi cancel- enger Joyce, n, h rison, Lyr D. Bennett, Mrs. Oliver n, D. V. Cronin and Frank Wri exc througt sassengers on the pl booked Juneau for left orning with nine pas- 1 for the States. They illa 4 r, Elsa Lundell, Ness, John Eframson, Mrs. Pratt, M R. B. Earling, Mosso, Emil Eisenberg and Jack Flaum. One Electra arrived from the In- terior with no passengers and re- 1 four passengers from 1 for Fairbanks. They were Mrs, y Maynard, L. D Gano, H. W. Christianson and R. W. McCrary B JACK GARRETTBACK AFTER SHORT TRIP Returning after a several weeks vacation in the State of Washing- ton, Jack Garrett, well known at- ugh the AFL and CIO machin- ket lines in the San postponed Culbert L. machinists strik Franc p two AFL > immedi- nd what is called"a | at the Lorain, Ohid, | American Shipbuilding | y which is tied up on work | | | | ubmarines and 10 tenders. | - Relief Fund Is Refiuéi]}éd WASHINGTON, May 20--Presi- dent Roosevelt today asked Con- | gress for $868,000,000 for relief ap-| propriation for ‘the year beginning July 1. This is $109,000,000 below the Budget estimatés. The President noted“in his ‘mes-| sage ‘to Congress that defense ex- penditures have dn“fmportant bear- ing op unemployment. & & s GAMES TODAY s isonius. s . inLegion Aux. Contest Jednne’ Butts, “seventh' grade stii- Kentucky's. quads (L.-R.), Mildred, Martine, Beulah and John, born to Mr. and Mrs. Por Leitohtield, Ky., last February, have grown from an aggregate of 18 pounds, 12 ounces to 35 pounds, at a Louisville hospital. Halibuters ~ Sell, Seattle “SEATTLE, May 20—Only hali- buters ‘from the local banks sold here ‘today as follows: “Mariner 17,000 pounds, 9% cents a pound; Merit :ggpd.g, 12 and 9% cents. R R T o 12 and 11,000 tache at the Baranof Cocktail Lounge, arrived in Juneau today on the northbound steamer Columbia Garrett visited with friends and relatives in Seattle, Everett Bremerton and received med attention during his trip. .- Birthday Luncheo baseball games’ played this after- noon in the two major-leagues re- | ceived up to press time: National League | New York 5; Pittsburgh 7. | Brooklyn 15 Chicago ‘9 | Boston 6; Cincinnati 8: American League Louis 9; New Yerk '10. ! st Detroit 2; Boston 4 Cleveland 5; Philatiedphia 6. The following are final scores of | dent 'from the Juneau Public School, and ‘Patsy Arm ‘Balog, student from |'the Douglas ‘Grade’ School, 'were given first awards for theéir poppy posters by judges of the annual American Leégioh Poppy Poster Con- test. p Sixty-three ‘entriés were submit- ted, - thirteeni of which' were dis- qualified bscatise’ they Tatled to com- ply with riles of ‘the cantest. Judged This Mérting Judges were Mrs. George Sund- For Miss Jenne An informal birthday luncheon complimentary to Miss Corrinne Jenr given during the noon I ay at the family home on Franklin Street. Eleven friends of the honoree were asked Chicago §; Washington ‘@i B e | STANDARD OIL MAN ARRIVES Standard Oil man R. Blankensop arrived in Juneau on the Columbia today. He is staying at the Gas- tineau, Hotel. ICAN borg, Mrs. Clara Stillman and Miss {Mary Griening. "The' judging wu!companied | completed this morning at the Am-| chjid. erican ‘Légion ‘Dugout, with Mrs. Florence Mutch, unit poppy chair-| man, supervising. The two winning posters will be entered in the Department compe: tition with -posters ‘throughout Al- laska, and winners in- the Depart- ment contest will be sent to Na- ticnal headquarters for final judg- ing. The two wianers were' given awards of $2.00 each and second place winners receiving $1.00 award: lare Evan Scott of Juneau and Her bert Bonnett of Douglas. Honorable | mention winners, Dorothea ' Hen- drickson of Juneau and Noreen An- drews of Douglas, were given 50c | | cash'awards. ? | Poppy Day Saturday i ‘The contest is sponsored each yeari | by the Legion Auxiliary in reminder jnf Poppy Day, May 24. The poppies for Alaska are made by non-com-i pensated veterans at Walla Walla, | which is one of eighty-one hospitals| and one of forty-one work rooms | |where popples are made each yem’.' All proceeds go towards child wel-| fare and rehabilitation work and! neady cases in this community which HOSTESS AT BARANOF - BACK FROM VACATION } Miss Ruth Cowles, hostess at the | Baranof 'Hotel, returned today on the steamer North Sea. She has been vacationing in "the States for the past six ‘weeks. — e KEYSERS RETURNING J. 3. Keyser with the Weather Bureau, south for several months {taking various courses, is returning to Juneau aboard the Yukon, ac- by Mrs. Keyser aud | ———a - GUCKER IS BACK | Jack Gucker, traveling man, ar rived on the North Sea from Wran- |gell after calling on the trade there. — . — HOLT ON NORTH { A. B. Holt, is a passenger aboard | the North Sea bound for Sitka, after ia business trip to the States: ~ HECTOR M'LEAN HERE Hector McLean, insurance broker, who has been south on business, returned to Juneau aboard the North Sea. -~ MARRIAGE LIC SES Marriage licenses were issued to- day by U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray to John William Suttlich of Fairbanks and Wilma Estena Tait of Sacramento, California, and to Ben A. Bellamy, Juneau, and Bessie A. Axton, of Denver, Colorado. L A e Ay DIVORCE CASE Suit for divorce on grounds of incompatibility was filed in District are taken care of by the Legion Auxiliary in cooperation with the Welfare Department. Will Make Wreaths } Thursday morning at 9 o'clock | |has been announced as the day in| which Juigeau Auxiliary' workers will gather at the Dugout to make the annual poppy wreaths which are to be delivered to lccal concerns on Friday, Mrs. Florence Mutch will be in charge of the workers and a luncheon will be served during the! I‘r.c.cm hour, NG EVENT I THE WORLD. CUSTOMS AUDITORS | HERE FOR CHECKUP | ? ! Customs - Auditors' R. B. Hauser |and H. I. Hood arrived on the steam- |er Columbia today for a routine | checkup of books of the local Cus- toms Office. The auditors are from | the Comptroller's: office in San Francisco. - 'Théy ‘will be in Juneau several days. ' Juneau Soap Bex Derby Entrants! Are You Getting Prepared? The Juneau Race Is Only a Few {EBBA ERICKSON ON } WAY¥Y TO ANCHORAGE | Mrs. Ebba Erickson, formerly‘; Weeks Away. BUILD YOUR CARS ACCORDING ... TO RULES! Be Sure Your Chances Are Equal in the JUNE ROTARY-EMPIRE SOCAP BOX DERBY !way to Anchorage to take the po-{ | Ohlson, {Hm CRUISING T0 lousekeeper’ at the Governor's| Holuse,' was 'in’ Junedu today while the Columbia was in port on her sition as housekeeper for Col. Q. F. managet’ ‘of ' the ' Alaska | | Railroad. 2 Mrs, ‘Brickson lved in Juneau for | five years and since her demrmro‘, has made "her Horfie“in Seattle and | in Oakland. | ——-e | | \ LYRN CANAL LIGHTS Coast Guard. vessel Haida, com- manded by Lieut. Commander H. | W. Stinchcomb, left on a short |crusse fo tend lighthouses in the | |Lynn Canal area. The vessel only | | recently returned from a week’s | cruise to the South. The Haida is expected to return today or to- | !morrcw, .| | ———————— Empire Ciassiecs -y | Court today by Mildred Whiteley | Baggen against Ludwig C. Baggen. e DISHAWS GO WEST Dave Dishaw and Mrs. Dishaw are passengers on the Columbia from Juneau to Anchorage where they will locate. ——— NOTICE AIRMAIL ENVELOPES, showing air route from Seattle to Nome, on sale at J. B. Burford & Co. adv. — e —— Try a classifiea ad it The Emplire | Army Parades at Fort Dix for N_ét'\&’s*Knox. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox is shown o jast in review at d.”" Left to right are Knox, Lieut, Gen. hus Andrews, First Army; Rear Admi“l&flgj of the 44th Diwision rumble up against anything in the Lashley ARMY FINANCE CHIEF HERE ON ALASKA SWING Colonel Harris Visiting Various Pay Offices in Territory Finance Officer for the Ninth Corps Area, arrived here today on the steamer Columbia from his headquarters at San Fran- cisco on a visit to the various Army finance offices in Alaska. He will proceed to Anchorage on the mnext Westbound steamer. - - Col. E. R. Ha New York's center actu- the ma- construc- buildings in immense Rockefeller ally weigh than terial excavated in their tion The Sen. Charles W. Tobey His anti-convoy resolution defeated 13 to 10 by the Senate Foreign Re- lations Committee, isolationist Sen- ator Charles W. Tobey is shown in his Washington office mournfully reading news of the war into which he fears the U. S. will be drawn, "tion in Alaska for three and one- half years beginning in 1932, He! himself in Alaska conditions, | Corden, Supervisor of Alaska| r the Division of Terri- and Island Possessions of the S. Department of the Interior, reached Juneau today in the course several months’ visit to Al- ing” of a ska For Gordon it was a return to a familiar part of the world, for he was with the old Bureau of In- dian Affairs as Director of Educa- has also been North on one brief| visit since. Gordon went into the Division of Territories shortly after its organi- zation under Director Ernest Gruening, now Gevernor of Alaska. The Supervisor came from Ketchi- | kan on the Columbia after stopping | off in the Pirst City since the north bound trip of the Denali. He plans several weeKs here and then the Interio: > PLANS APPROVED: FOR NEW TOWN AT ARR TERMINUS Plans for thc survey of a new Alaska town—as yet unnamed— were reviewed and approved today at a conference here between Col. Ctte F of the Alaska Railroad, Porter Ber- ryhill, Chief Engineer of the Rail- read, and George A. Parks, District stral Engineer of the Public y Office. The townsite is that at the rew of the Alaska Railroad on hal, Tt will embrace ap- s on the delta of wa termin Whittier Creek The plan to subdivide the town-| treets was drawn site into Jots and s W. Williams and a left on the Columbia today » the survey. Col. Ohlson and Bewryhill were through passengers cn the Colum- bia after visiting Wes 1. FLIES TO NOM.E Mrs. M. Maynard, publisher of the Nugget, flew out cf Juncau| Nome nis mor rthbound PAA d recently re=- Ohlson, General Manager| warmer over south portions Wednesday; moderate Southwesterly' to “¥ southeasterly winds except moderate to fresh in Lynn Canal. Foreécast of winas along the coast of the Guif of ‘Alaskas Dixon Entrance to Cape Spencer: Fresh to strong southwesterly winds becoming moderate to fresh westerly winds Wednesday; local showers tonight; partly cloudy Wednesday; Cape Spencer to Cape Hinchinbrook: Moderate to fresh southwesterly winds becoming wes!- erly Wednesday; partly cloudy; Cape Hinchinbrook te Resurrection Bay: Moderate to fresh southerly to southwesterly winds; par cloudy; Resurrection Bay to Kodiak: Moderate to fresh northwesterly to westerly winds; partly cloudy. LOCAL DATA “¥ Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity = Weathex 4:30 p.m. yesterday 10152 43 ki E 13 Showers 4:30 a.m. today .. 1019.6 42 8 ESE 12 Rain i Noon today .. 10237 4 5 SE 13 Showers 5 RADIO REPORTS 3 TODAY 1 Max. tempt. Lovest 4:30am. Precip. 4:30am. 1 Station last 24 hours temp. tempt. 24 hours Weather Barrow . - 19 16 17 01 Snow Fairbanks .. 55 42 42 .08 Rain Nome .. 48 28 28 0 Pt:Cldy *# Dawson 55 41 4 02 Rain Anchorage ... 56 45 45 [J Pt. Cldy Bethel .. 57 45 36 09 Pt. Cldy St. Paul ... 36 30 22 T Snow Dutch Harbor .. 43 36 37 10 Cloudy ‘Wosnesenski K 38 37 0 Pt. Cldy Kanatak 58 52 52 0 Clear % Kodiak . 63 39 ‘02 Clear ; Cordova 55 38 39 15 Rain k Juneau “ 41 42 29 Rain Sitka 51 40 40 25 Rain ¢ 9 Ketchikah 49 41 3 62 Cloudy Y Prince Rupert .. 54 41 41 .26 Pt. Cldy Prince George .. 57 30 33 0 Pt. Cldy Edmonton 58 31 41 0 Clear . Seattle 59 | 53 54 [ Cloudy Portland 66 e 49 50 [ Cloudy San Prancisco .. 80 | 58 59 0 Clear % WEATHER SYNOPSIS ! Relatively low pressure ‘over th: Gulf of Alaska and the interior of Alaska had caused a southwesterly flow of relatively cool, moist maritime air over the' southeastern portion, and showers had fallen » during the previous 24 hours over this area. Partly cloudy to clou- dy skies prevailed generally elsewhere in Alaska, except clear orscat- | tered clouds from the Alaska Peninsula to Kodiak. Scattered falls of rain or show had occurred over the north portion of Alaska and the Tanana Valley, and from the Kuskokwim Valley to St. Paul TIs- | lahd and the Aleutian Islands. The greatest amount of precipitation during the past 24 hours was 63 hundredths of an inch which was reported at Ketchikan, Temperatires were lower this morning over | the Seward Peninsula, and the lovest temperature was reported at Barrow where 17 degrees was recorded. Broken clouds to overcast with local $howers, moderatelow lov ceilings and fair to good visibili- ties were reported this morning over the Juneau-Ketchikan airway vy The Tnesday morning weather chart indicated a weak low cented over the interior of Alaska, with a trough of low pressure extending 4 from Cook Inlet southeastward to 50 degrees north and 135 degrees west. A crest of high pressure ex.ended from Vancouver Island to ¥ just east of Southeast Alaska. A center of high pressure of 30.47 inches was located at 43 degrees north and 137 degrees west, and another high pressure area of 30.62 inches was located at 34 degrees north and 168 degrees west The idications were that a high pres- sure center was located to the northwest of Alaska. fler a va- \d spent Russell n trip t day rd and his W Emil Eisenberz buyer, was a scutk cn the PAA Lodestar this morning. - BACK ON JOB ral Building Custodian George fsen was back on the job to- week's absence due to Gullu day after a illness. - - POLISH CONSUL Dr, Karol Ripa has been recog- nied by the State Department as Consul General of Poland at Cl | Juneau, May. 21—Sunrise 4:21 a.m. sunset 9:28 p.m. Fit free year’s pass, which the Commit- ¥ MORE IHAN sm tee decided would make a fine first | prize in the Class C competitior | l" pRIlES FOR Prizes will be on dispiay next o g | week in the windows of Soap Box & . SOAP BOX DERBY {Date of Big—Race Set for . June 26 - Eniry List | Closes May 26 | More than $500 in prizes have been set up for contestants in the Juneau Rotary-Empire Soap Box Derby, the cage for Alaska, according to noti-maw for which was fixed last nigh ficaticn received today by the Col-‘by the Committee for June 26. t | s Sl The number of horses in Kansas has declined steadily in recent years. The total in 1938 was 418,- 385; in 1939 it was 386,536 and in 1940, 369,551. STEP to Health with Better Feet. Phone 648. Chiropodist Dr. Steves. —adv. set. | ‘e given a steel crash helmet to lector of Customs. loelhg date, foF it the ccaster race will be May 26, next Morday. The prizes for Class A and B follows: First prize—All-expense-paid trip to Akron, Ohlo, and return to com- pete in' the national Soap Box Der- by finals in' Atigust. Second prize—The finest bicycle which' can be bought. “Third prize—A radio. In addition, the first, prize win- ner will be awarded a trophy and second and third prize winners will | be given medals. i The prizes for Class C (ages eight to' ten inclusive) are as follows: First prize—A free pass to the Capitol Theatre, good for' every show for a whole year. Second prize—A sleéping bag. “Third prize—A fishing outfit. “‘In addition there will be a num- Ler' of ‘special feature prizes, as fol- Tows: : For the best-designed car—A tool For the car showing the best me- shanical workmanship—A tool set. For the best-upholstered car—A ven and pencil set. There will also be prizes for the vinners of each heat. Every boy entering the race will ‘tégp as his personal souvenir of the went. The winner of the Class A and B ace will be a competitor in Akron or a long list of national prizes, readed by a four-year college cholarship, ' All money paid in by sponsors of 0y entrants is being used to pur- Jhase prizes and to he'p pay for the vinner's trip to Akron, The Rotary b is putting up one-kalf of the n the reviewing stand as some of the 2,000 military machines Fort Dix, N. J. Knox later declared, “This army will stack Hugh A. Drum, commander of the commandant of the Third Naval District; and Maj.-Gen. . R, Powell, commander of the 44th Divisions noney for'the winner’s trip and the her half will be donated by The‘ daily Alaska Empire, which co-| sponsors the big Juneau event. | No prizes have been solicited from | seal business houses and none will e. Manager Charles Beale of the Japitol Theatre came forward voi- antarily today with his offer of the | (cges 11 to 15 inclusive) will be as | Derby headquarters or, Frant Street, along with crash helmets Additional Soap Box Derby com- mittee appointments, announced to- day, are as follows: Starting ramp— Don Skuse, Lou Hudson, John Young, Roy Gillispie and Tom Dyer; Decoration—Lu Liston and John Young. FLIGHTS 10 . COAST KEEp ~ PILOTS BUSY | | Al taree pilots of the local air- !ways company flew planes out of | Juneau today, making trips to the |Coast. ~Alex Holden carried Alan Heringhi, A. Shyman and Dr. W. C. Charteris to Sitka and Hans Floe Lo Hawk Tnlet. Shell Simmons carried M. G. Mal- lon, Dolph Tuggle and C. V. Wag- | oner to Taku Harbor and Pilot Dean | Goodwin made a trip to Hoonah to pick up Richard Dick for Juneau. RAIN CANCELS GAME TONIGH! Third consecutive rained-out sign was hung upon the Gastineau Chan- nel League schedule today as League President J. L. Gray gave the thumbs-down signal for the slated game hetween the Elks and the Moose tonight. Gray said that postponed and rained-out games will be sandwiched into the schedule when better weather arrives. . CLOTHES that are CLEANED ‘. OFTEN—Wear Longer! Sen1 YOUR GARMENTS Triangle Assured When You, Have Them Ciewned v/ e T ——— e —