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

NEXT YEAR'S INCOME TAX Committee Reiomr snda- tion Makes Drasiic Increase in System WASHINGTON, June 19. g i Hc w and Means Committee i wid incom ind to tight- en up ~orporation excess profits tax- [; r effort to raise the e at ed ) billior 480 million dollars | in additional revenue needed for | national defense work The new individual income sur tax I aid to m than double ax bill of every tax e, DIMOND BILL ENDORSED BY SITKA C. OF . - i Central Labor Council, Am-| erican Legion Sup- port Legislation : SITKA, June 19.—At a special meeting held Tuesday night the Chamber of Commerce passed a reso- lution endorsing Delegate Anthony J. Dimond’s bill, H. R. 4397, w ich provides for representation i Territorial Legislature according to population. President Theodore Ket- tleson directed the secretary to wire Delegate Dimond the Chamber’s cn- dorsement, and also to notify other Wnizations in Alaska that Sitka was heartily behind the bill Mayor Jack Conway and R. L Jernberg spoke on the merits of the sure, emphasizing the demo- cratic tenor of the legislation as contrasted to the present system wherein small minorities have equal representation with more deserving, ngavier populated sections of Al- aska. . The organization voted unani- mously for passage of the bill. me The Sitka Central Labor Council passed a resolution endorsing the pendment to the Organic Act, as % proposed by Delegate Anthony J. Dimond in H. R. 4397, now pending in Congress. The Council drafted a wire which is to be sent to the Dele- gate in time for the House Com- mittee hearings on the bill. Sitka Post No. 13, of the America Legion, enacted a similar resolutio: last week. Mrs. Joe DeGanahi, and two chil- dren, Charles and Virginia, arrived Wednesday by plane from Fairbanks where they have been nding a vacation visiting with fric:ids. Lieut DeGanahl, USN, is a Naval flier. Lieut. Robert E. Ellis, USN, form- er well known commercial pilot and air transport operator, recently pur- chased the attractive Griffith Island home of Dan Moller, local lumber- man. Mrs is and the two children arrived in Sitka today. Baseball seasons opened last Sun- day member of the City Council, tossed the ball over the plate and initiated the 1941 season. The Navy’s entry in the City League responded by trouncing the Seims Drake club 5 to 1 Word was received here that Lawrence Freeburn’s boat, the Q U . Queen, sank last Monday in Gon'd- ing Harbor, on Chichagof Tsli Mr. Freeburn was advised thul the crew was safe, although the boat submerged in deep water. CHAMBER 10 MEET FRIDAY Postponed one day so that mem-| as guests members of the Seattle Chamber of Com- merce, the Juneau Chamber of Commerce will meet Lomorrow noon in the Gold Room of the Baranof bers may have Hotel Foster L. McGovern, assistan general manager of the Seatt Chamber, and Darwin Meisnest chairman of the Alaska Chamber are scheduled to arrive from Fair- banks on a southbound Lodestar tomorrow morni and will be guests of the local chamber. . "SOAP BOX DERBY CARS T0 UNDERGO IISPE(HON HERE - All completed Soap Box Derby car will ‘be inspected tonight on the eourse when another test run is held Chief of Police Dan Ralston exp 2 turnout of 40 cars tonight. - CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Meets Friday this week adv. ————————— BUY DEFENSE BO) | French | 000 persons, one in each seven a the | when O. W. Tupper, banker and | AZORES (PORT) CANARY 1. (5P.) fungy i ¥ Atlantic i nnnzi Ocean | EIGHT hours from Braz smber flies, lies this fort n the dark cont as the d city, nt's great and chip shoulder and ital of French 1,500,000 squa mands the se vital Europe: from control point West e miles, | | | It routes over whi com- \ ) requirements—meat Argentine, coffee wd grai nd rubber from Brazil, ¢il from \ | Venezuela. Guarded by French land batteries, Dakar is a from whi three forts and strong sea_b; ch an oc- | cupying force could endanger main British convoy routes in the South Atlantic. The “Nazi threat” ex- to it, President Roosevell | nas dee | tends ty, acquired from Britain has rail connection with St. , 160 miles up the coast | to the nerth, and is linked with co by a very poor Population is estimated 40,000 to 70, highway. variously at from Ships going arry peanuts, suni-helmeted white westward from it ¢ rubber, cacoa and timber; those - o DELAYS PAA PLANE HERE A southbouna Lodestar was i | Juneau-late this afterncon waitix for weather to continue its trip from Fairbanks to Seattle. Another ship is in Prince George, bound | nerth waiting for better flying con- ditions before coming to Juneau | from Seattle PAA scheduled northbound Electra left neau with Arthur Johnson, Mrs. Georgia Moore, Gladys y, Mil- ton James d Andre Fleutsch, all bound for Fairbanks. - - 'LONDON BROADCAST SCHEDULED SUNDAY BY 'BUNDLES' GROUP one flight today Ju- a ‘ A special radio program entitled “The Bundles Reach Britain” will | be broadcast from London Sunday |afternoon at 1:15 o'clock Juneau time over the staticns of the Co- lumbia Broadcasting System, H. L. Faulkner, Cha nan of the Juneau Bundles for Britain Chapter, an- nounced today. Mrs. Edward R. Murrow, Bur dles for Britain London represer tative, and Mr: John Rathbone, second American-born woman to sit in Parliament, will joint the head of the allocation depot tell how clothing sent by Bundles Britain is distributed ... HOLDEN FLIES TRIP FOR INJURED YOUTH Pilot Alex Holden winged out of the Chamnel on an emergency flight to Excursion Inlet last night to return with John Reece, 15- year-old native boy who fell from trap and lacerated his right knec The boy was taken to the Govern- ment Hospital for treatment. The not serious engers returning for injury Other Holden Loui pa with vere h | OLDSTER YOU | CHINA, Me. — When Doe Wiggin attended his daugh- ter's golden wedding anniversary | he spoke affectionately of the prin cipals as “youngsters,” He's 101, TERS Augustus Edwin Austin and Don| THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1941. eoming -in must bring petroleum, for West Africa has no oil. OF COAST GUARD | CUTTER REDWING Alaska Freighiship Will | Get New Propeller at Seattle Berth After a long sojourn in the Kus- kokwim River where she was dis abled last fall by a broken propeller wheel, the motorship Boxer of the lOffice of Indian Affairs today was bound for Seattle in tow of the Coast Guard cutter Redwing. The Boxer was taken to Good- | news Bay by the motor vessel Met- reor, where she was met by the Red- wing. The Coast Guard cutter had | been on a cruise in Bering Sea, car- | rying a party of scientists of the! Fish and Wildlife Service. She is expected to make the voyage to Seattle with the Boxer in tow in about ten days. Aboard the Boxer are John Wil- | son, chief engineer of the vessel, who | .- | terier, Bob Hennir resenting Charles | riers, returned to Juneau via PAA { Electra from Fairbanks yes Henning, well known Junes has been | trip since January. has been with her since her accident | last fall, and Capt. S. T. L. Whit- | lam, sent to the Kuskokwim from Seattle to assist in bringing the lit- | tle carrier south. The Boxer spent the winter in the ice in a slough seven miles below Bethel in the Kuskokwim River. | The Boxer is expected to sail from | eattle July 15 for Hooper Bay, Tun- | 1ak, Nunivak, Togiak, Dutch Har- r, Atka and Attu with a cargo upplies for the government. She be under command of Capt. will E. L. Bush, who was ice pilot of the Office of Indian Affairs North Star during her voyage to the Antarctic. | The North Star has been command- cered for patrol service on the At- lantic with base at Boston. ROWE ESTATE SOLD 1 AT PUBLIC AUCTION The Keeny Apartments of the Rowe Estate at 55 Willoughby Ave- | nue, were sold at public auction yes- te y to Ernest Fuller, | All the Keeny property was ol-| fered for sale at the auction by Rob- | ert Keeny, but only the Rowe estate | as sold. — > NEW LIVESTOCK CENTER J LOS ANGELES—Livestock — not | oranges—Iled the" list of products| which brought $302,000,000 to far-| mers of Southern California in 1940. It was the most lucrative| |vear since 1987, ? | arriving 20006 pounds, selling for 11% cents a pound. From the local banks — Wesley 12,000 pounds, Summitt 9,000 pounds, 12% cents; Thelma Second 17,000 pounds, cents. e BOB HENNING BACK 127% Dakar sprawls along the eoast at the very hump of Afrie AFRICAN JUMPING OFF PLACE FOR POINTS IN 4P a strange city of mud huts and modern hemes, Old Werld bazaars and up-fo- date me e houses. Most white people live on hig h land well back from the shore, natives on the colorful, cosmopolitan waterfront. The very largest ships can anchor at Dakar, whose artificial harbor is one of the best west coast of Africa. It is protected by an island and two breakwater: ing machinery along with a good naval drydock and a torpedo-boat basin. would be a constant menace to British convoys plying between Cape Town and South America. BAD WEATHER BOXERUNDERTOW 4 Halibufers has modern dock: In German hands, the city Sell SEATTL From th wesiel 14 and 10% After gone Three elderly residents of Richmond, Va., make their contributions of aluminum pof traveling 7,000 plane and boat throughout the In- ! 477 t 3 Typical West 1 the entire T nd load- this Aitutu n fure than lad COUNCIL ME plete U vetil ‘Traveler 12! and | 1m banks- 3 10% cents; and 11 and WELCH, O the men of Wel in pushing 1 t the women wrly town, and ha BUYlNG Tm lec « from each house-| Mrs. Harold Smith was chosen new p holder they paid off expenses and|Uvit chairman of the Women's Vol- came out $11 ahead untary Service at. the meeting of th: g e ; e L i:;mnsnring committee which took miles by : |place last night at the City Hall. The Ohio Legislat once au-|She replaces Mrs. John A. Glasse, fur buyer rep- | thorized a loltery for the benefit|resigned, who is leaving shortly with Goldstein Fur-, of a Lanca man whose woolen!the Rev. Glasse for their new pas- rday. | -~ iman, Sweden irst on a fur buying ing plant, the s }in Europe, is no Pots for Defense Planes ts and pans to the trial salvage campai spends more time on he reen Bowl tc ¢ pool wili Mmain in Ketchikan on Tuberculos! tha e civic mill had purned. African native is egro girl who coif - ark Ave. ies on P EfS TOMORROW NiGHT bath com ructine Coun ng tomorrow nigh - REAL CLEANUP June 19— Whe h were a little s! lean-up pi took 1 there it away was i - roek wool produc cond such factor W it operation. i gn undertaken by, the Office of Production Management. The trials, in Richm_ond and Milwaukee, Wis., may be made nationwide if successful. Officials fear a shortage of ll:lllihlllm for planes, Thoy | soped up 13 big truek loads of| Col- INVASION - BELIEVED STARTED (Continuea rrom Page One) “liberated™ | tonia, | nexed by Baltic countries bf Es- atvia and Lithuania, Russia last yeaw, | an- {hat reports from Helsinki said Rus- sia is withdrawing her troops to the | Soviet military base in Hanko, ¥in- land. | Yugoeslav military and diplomatic attaches who left Moscow recently | wre quoted as saying Stalin adw ted a German invasion might come during the summer, If it did Stalin is reported to have said “the enemy | will get a smash in the face.” | - e | ~ OF PLACEMENTS ~MADE IN MAY Employment Service Finds | Jobs for 1,458 Alas- - kans in Month The Alaska Territorial Employ- unempleyment compensation bene- | tits received during M: 1941 wa.s‘ per cent less than April, 1941, | while nitial ¢ 1040 wer received in April . DOCTORS WESTOH, | ' RAMSEY 70 MAKE ived during The Torritorial | Health announced t J. Weston, and W. 1: for Ketch ;s rritorial business, Dr. Weston, a Ha School graduate, w - |placed Dr, Palmer C - | berculosis Clinician week on here, wi re- Diagnosis and Contrel matters, while (| Dr. Ramsey will investizate Mater- | nal Welfare and Crippled Children affairs. Both plan tc return after a few da inspection. . Mrs. Harold Smith ' Unit Chairman of Voluntary Service| n| e at Albany, Oregon. The unit chairman of the organi- " ion works directly under the gen- y|eral chairman, who {5 Mrs. Ernest | Gruening, and acts as organizer and | vo-erdinator of the various activi- ties and classes arranged by the or- ganization. Other business discussed at the meeting included ‘the possibility of arranging some hospitality program | for transients .and visiting marine and military men; the feasibility of working cut a nursery project and |the coaperative respcnse in Lhe :lasses now being held in first aid, rdening and communications. ——--— Society fo Hold ‘Picniic Tomorrow Pirnie nlans of the Martha Society of the Northern Light Presbyterian | Cnureh to be held tomorrow, have teen altered. Previous plans had call- ed for the picnic to be held at Auk Bay but due to unfavorable weather the women will have the affair in the church social room. Each woman is asked to take sand- wiches and dessert and coffee will be served, The committee in charge of the luncheen is comprised of Mrs. Gun- nar Blomgren, Mrs. B. Smith, and Mrs. John Rogers. ARRIVES ON ELECTRA Gloria McLynne of Fairbanks ar- rived here yesterday on a south- bound PAA Electra and is stopping at the Baranof Hotel. . —_——— 2 BUY DEFENSE BONDS In this connection it is l'(flf'nl'!‘d‘l RECORD NUMBER Do, - 1 | Anchorage .. _‘Gmham. Oscar Olson, R. E. Rob | Hospital to receive medical treat- The lunch will be at 12:30 o'clock || l THE WEATHER ‘b‘:"" v. s ather Bureau) U. S. DEPART! T OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4:30 p.m., June Mostly overcast with very light local showers and not much char in tetmperature tonight and Friday; lowest temperature tonight about 52 degrees, highest Friday 60 degr>es; gentle variable winds. Forzcast for Southeast Alaska: Mostly overcast with local show- ers and not much change in tempe gture tonight and Friday; gentle to moderate southeasterly winds. Forecast of winos along the coast of the Gulf of Alaskss Dixon Entrance to Cape Spencer: Genile to moderate southeasterly winds, local showers;,. CapesSpenc . to Gape Hinchinbrook: Gentle to mioderate -easterly to southeasteriy winds, local rain Cape Hinchin- brook to Resurrection Bay: gentl: to.maderate northeasterly winds, local shower Resurrectipn Bay t> Kediak: gentle to moderate northeasterly winds, showers. LOCAL DATA 1 Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity ~ Weather 4:30 p.m. yesterday 29.70 59 769 wsw 2 Cloudy 4:30 am. today 29.77 51 88 N 4 Cloudy Noon today 29.79 54 6 s 5 Cléudy ) RADIO REPORTS | TODAY | Max. tempt. | Lowest 4:30am. Precip. 4:30am. | Station last 24 hours | temp. tempt. 24 hours Weather | Barrow 27 21 T i ! Fairbanks 48 4@ 0 Nome 50 50 0 40 40 0 . 62 54 56 0 | Bethel n 53 53 06 | St. Paul 49 | 40 43 0 | Dutch Harbor .. 52 | 46 46 08 Cloudy 1 Wosnesenski 58 | 8 48 0 Cioudy | Cordova 59 | 51 0 Cloudy | Juneam [] | 51 04 Cloudy | Sitka. . 62 el 48 02 Cloudy | Ketchikan 64 | 50 06 Cloudy | Prince Rupert .. 60 | 49 01 Cloudy | Prince George .. 61 | 417 .20 Rain | Edmonton n | 51 1.59 Cloudy | Seattle 85 | 51 30 Cloudy Portland 68 50 02 Cloud, ' San Francisco .. 17 54 5 0 Pt. Cldy yment Servi reached an all time| high in total complete placements| WEATHER BYNOREIS during the month of May, Executive | Partly cloudy to cloudy skies prevailed generally over Alaska this Director Walter P. Sharpe of the| morning, Local showers had fallen during . the previous 24 hum‘, | Unemployment Compensation Com-| ©Ver Southeast Alaska and along the coast to the Aleutian Islan mission, stated today. | and over the Kuskokwim Valley. The greatest amount of precipifa- A total of 1458 men and women| tion was eight hundredths of an inch which was recorded at Dutch ecured jobs through the Empl - | Harbor. The warmest temperature yesterday afternoon was 77 de- ment Ser . Division of the Alaska| #P€és at Fairbanks and the lowest this morning 27 degrees at Bar- Unemployment, Compensation Com-| YO%. Brokén clouds 'to overcast with scattered light showers, mod- missicn during this period. | erate ceilings and good visibilities prevailed over the Juneau-Ket- Sixty-four per cent of the plac | chikan “airway this morning. ments were on national defense pro-| The Thursday morning weather chart indicated a center of low jects. The Anchorage and Fairbanks| Pressure of 29.62 inches was locat:d at 55 degrees north and offices were credited with the ena- | degrees “west and was expected t> remain almost stationary during jority of placements. the next 24 hours. The weak storm frontal trough extended irom The number of initial claims for! this center southeastward to 50 degrees north and 131 degrecs west and thence southward into lower latitudes and was expected to move very slowly eastward during the next 24 hours. Relatively low pres- sure continued over the interior of Alaska. A high pressure center of 3040 inches was located at 33 degrees north and 157 degrees west. Juneau, June 20 — Sunrise 3:51 a.m., sunset 10:08 p.m. Mrs. Burdick Is Lackeys to Have Hostess Today at Informal Dinner B[idge I_un(heon Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Iverson wiil | be hosts this evening with an in- % formal dinner at their (Glocior Mrs. Charles G. Burdick Was wighway home. Guests will include hostess this afternoon.with a 1:15 w0 ang Mrs, E. V. Lackey, Miss .| 0'clock luncheon followed by bridge gjoramay Lackey, Miss Shirley Wil- with four tables in play. A * 2 and ? iams, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Ward and Guests included the Mesdames G. ;%ay Seburn. % RIGGS T0 FLY | SOUTH SATURDAY ertson, Harold Smith, Helen Smita Cass, Hygh J. Wade, Wellman Hol- brook, George Folta, E: F. Vollert,! Charles Goldstein, W. S. Puilen, A. % E. Glover, Fred Geeslin and Ida Brownjohn, . | Former Governor Thomas Rizgs > | plans to leave Juneau by planc Sat- | urday for the States, ending a v |of 10 days; during which he attend- HOSPIIAL “oIB |ea sessions' of the International gAYy By ¥ Highway Commission. (LT Walteh Nefod lentirddl st nns| OOV- Biges plans o spend a fow days at Seattle and Bellinghain on ment yesterdas, | International Boundary Commis- . . |sion work before returning to his Mrs. John Johnson was admitted o minjlungmn, o to St. Ann’s Hospital yesterday tfo receive medical attention. MRS. M'DOWELL 1S ON | TRIP TO THE STAT “Skipper” Copstead was dismissed e from St. Ann’s Hospital yesterday| + Mrs. Bert McDowell and her two after undergoing an appendecto-| children, Nancy and Peter, left for my. the south on the Motorship North- land to spend the summer visiting relatives in Washington. Mrs, McDowell, the wife of the proprietor of Bert's Cash Groce | will spend most of her time in (Blaine, Washington. She will also visit briefly in Bellingham and Se- attle. They plan to return to Juneau about September 1 in time for | school. HERE FROM CANNERY | Don Laviolette, on the office staff | of the Excursion Inlet cannery, ar- ~NOTICE rived in Juneau yesterday for a few | ATRMAIL ENVELOPES, showing days visit and is stopping at the 8ir route from Seattle to Nome, on Gastineau Hotel. | sale at J. B. Burford & Co. adv. —————— - e, . CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ___ BUY DEFENSE BONDS Meets Friday this week. adv. Mrs. Harold Snaring and her baby daughter Shirley Anne have left St. Ann’s Hospital and re- turned home. Cornelia Phillips was admitted to the Government Hospital today | to receive medical attention. ————.————— ———.——— Peo:éjj Has Thrown the Key It's in the Channel RCY’S CA PHONE 94 ° ! W =