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

2 e e . LEND-LEASE VOYAGE— TESTING A3 SEVEN MILES AWAY is another ship, to which the sailor is signalling. Searchlight, € | CANS OF DEATH" DURING CRUISE made leng distances even in daytime. Here is ive the las cye-witness AMMUNITION—MADE American ammunition, so lend-lease s; S, Coast Guard vessel, t story of the | and exclus- e entry into the battle of the At- lantic Leasc ing A Service the of war it vessel vou this g of writer for and an American Lend- vessel, now a fight- the the The to rap! Briti: AP Emy Canada accol navy. Feature pire to unt. By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP F ABOAR E D HMS. th ck down harge! from ature Service Writer rode give AT th can of h to splashed into the ocean. We put on a burst of speed whil 1l mb was finding the deep n ally from pressure. 1 brace myzelf for an explosion, I got wrprise of my iife. T heard ise like a distant - ¢ firing in a foggy November 1i A of a “Boom.” In a mi or two I saw a great area of ocean behind us suddenly out, gli in the sun was a shimmery, rapid vi- on the surface, like heat only faster and mushier I was all pic m t depth. Nor v over the side 1p ¢ or supper Nor w ¢ ubmarine, dept our sak respite seeme freq board turns “Your Now we rest. 1 went boy to ¥ a free seems how did 45-de Women? F were hout belo aske me up when moment. I asked bout America on th us to begin at about our resh” to “what set he did midnight.” girls Da- 'ALASKA "MUST SAYS BRADLEY : ;Alaska Juneau President ism About Future ]z«m to any large scale development {in the near future, P. R. Bradley, | president of the Alaska-Juneau Gold Mining Company, spcke before the weekly meeting of the Juneau Cham- r of Commerce today. | “The vast, undeveloped mineral | rescurces about which we hear so much are not to be found” said Bradley, “and the people speaking 5 much abtut them should either tind and point them out, or cease | to speak of them.” He claimed that | Alaska timber will not be touched |or made a commercial interest until | the Puget Sound and other lumber areas on the Pacific Coast are ex- | hausted cf their,supplies. The fish- {ing induvstry has reached its limit of | expansion, and the tourist trade in | Southeast Alaska cannot be called! |an industry. “We in Alaska are not, | | rich in natural resources,” the min- in Cincinnal can be seen at FACE FACTS," Does Not Show Optim- | Epeaking almost pessimistically, asking the Territory to “face the facts” and saying, that Alaska can-| 1ct look forward with any enthusi- 3 s AR Juneau Rotary-Empire Soap Bo: als at Akron. Medals will ides which there will be mi on display ¥ Medals to be awarded winners in the against a background of the 1940 Derby fin; third cars in both Class A and Class B, bes the car with the best-designed brak: Medals and trephies are now Hixson’s radio shop at Second and Sew. year’s pass to the Capitol Theatre, tool kits, sleeping bag, fishing ing executive said. Speaking of the plan to swell Al-/ | aska population with aliens, Bradley | |asked, “What will we do with them? | | How will we feed them? Where will | they be employed? There is more| | tillable land in the 11 Eastern states | than there is in the whole Territor_vl of Alaska. Let us stick to the facts { | of material things” Riggs Dces Not Concur With » smile and an optimistic at- | | titude, former Governor Thomas| s spoke to the Chmber with oc cnal reference to Bradley, point- ed out the “amazing progress made | in the Territory” and its potentiali- | ties after the construction of the pro- posed International Highway. | Riggs said the U. S. members of | the International Highway Commis- | sion, which met here recently, want| the road to be constructed as near | the Coast as possible so that spurs| and branch roads can connect the, main line with the Panhandle of | . “In case of trouble on > the ex-Governor said, | the Army can protect the route from | Rupert to Skagway and keep | | would be difficult to protect ships| on the outside Coast route. Then,! too, the Army wants the construc- |tion of the highway for defense| measures. The Highway trunk line _____|is the most important. The branch| lines to Southeast Alaska towns will American guns require ors take on a load from hey're a bit fresh, don't you naturally fellow.” I think, sir Laber Ex Post Facte “Fresh? Mike Haas, newly appointed La-| “I've seen them roll their|bor Commissioner who will take of-} stockings in the street, sir.” fice in the near future, spoke s, Davey was embarrassed “just Mike Haas and not the Labor He and the other lads who kept|Commissioner,” saying that ‘it will the wardroom shipshape and fed|be his duty when he assumes official the crew obviously were tickled Status to weld labor and capital to- pink with their American ship./gether and prevent misunderstand- What impressed them most was the|ings between the two groups. gadgets He <aid that labor often misunder- “There seems to be a gadget for "’,m"dg |h»o»purposes( e :” .‘r\hg;‘\]d'ch arnd yopre “k"q} Secretary M. S. Whittier read a pped too if you snnti e thd e communication from Terry McGov- s ern and Darwin Meisnest, represen- Our food was well prepared, ex- tatives of the Seattle Chamber of emely ¢ 1, and less greasy than|Commerce who were to arrive from ost American war- Fairbanks today in time to attend nding was their stan-|the local Chamber meetnig. The! rice with chutney, two men notified the Juneau group hot enough to scalp a!that disrupted plane schedules made it impoessible for them to attend. Guests at the Chamber were Har- | get though it fellow Skip the Coffee! Ihe coffee? Let’s skip it. They |ty Townsend and N. L. Davis of Se- tried very hard, but they just|2ttle. don’t know what to do with cof- 1 fee I'he big coffee percolafor—: | quarters éf every - American war- 4 b gl ship—was soon being used to dis- A il cocoa. . | British officers liked American | ] desserts better tk their own, RESIER HERE ed could get coffee the| ) can way. But they didn't| ke owr ciarettes very much,| JOiNS Holbrook in Grade ught they were a bit strong. T it thousnt the same tine avour Below Heintzleman in hip lost s pronbition Forest Service - when the British took Al ,; i them came barrels of | Charles G. Burdick has been ad- rum an over 21 years old yanced to the position of Assistant three fingers of grog every| Regional Forester in' the Alaska or the equivalent in pay. branch of the Forest Service, accord- #1.50 a month. Nearly half|ing tc an announcement made today men prefer the pay to the rum. by B. Frank Heintzleman, Regional nigh about o When T tasted the stuff, T agreed| Forester, Burdick will have charge with the men who took the pay. [of the Division of Operation with| I couldn’'t find a soul with a|headquarters in the central office at complaint against the lend-lease| Juneau. 3LODESTARS 2 TODESTARS CONGRESS AGREES "ON TUBERCULOSIS HOSPITAL ITEM $250,000 Institution Will INAIRTODAY Thre= PAA Lodestars are in the air today after a two-day delay 5 which grounded planes at Prin Georgs and Juneau. With ten pas-| Be Bu'” Nex' Year sengers on board, a southbound in Alaska Lcdestar left Juneau this morning | for Seattle. Passengers leaving Ju-| feau were George J. v The Hous ives h amendment PNgers m | concurred in @ Fairbanks to £ re Ben Mozee, to the Inter Walter Dowd, Eric Seaburg, Charles| priation bill Wilcox, Freeman Gates, Edward La- 0 hospital bell, Mrs. Fred Saltenriech ' and, tubercniosi Gayle Fick. to a rad After waiting for weather in Prince | General Gecrge for two nights, a northbound | Hirst of Lodestar left the Canadian town this| fairs from Delezat merning and went through Juneau | mond. Davis. native received adent the Office of An for the Interior. Charles Goldstein This action assure o was the only passeng the item in the bill Juneau. Threugh p: 1| finally passed. Seattle to Fairbanks were T. J. Paul-| Hirst said he had no the back door to Alaska -open. It{son, Mrs. W. Engberg, Mrs. E. Ben- | on where the hospital would be Jo- son, William Taylor, George Schil- | cated. ling, A. A. Anderson and Harry Mc- AL g Donald. Passengers hoarding the P plare in Juneau and book for L] " wn.l ARRIVEIOD&V Fairbanks were Dr, W. W. Council lre al ' a ; and Marchal Pearson | FOR ALASKA CRUISE On its regular flight schedule, one el ‘Lodestar is scheduled to arrive here e w Precident of a this afterncon with Mr. and Mrs.| Fire at Sitka today damaged ey SRR Sikaicy Fred Meyer, Mr. and Mrs, Stanley | barracks of the Ja Jewett, | Wi'dlife Serv- Jewett and Marion Katz booked for| Naval —Air Ba: 0 e Or oth of Portland Juneau. Booked for Whitehorse is|Sketchy reports received in Ju- i % iva goday PAA Loestar J. B. Lynch; for Fairbanks, Lewis heau. = on frem Seattle for a leisurely and ex- Simpson. | First reports said the fire was (o0 FLUE O Atk ke aRAganed L L Siie of serious proportions, destroying o\ ool sl :a;"b 7 ‘1 o barracks which are situated within gl ™ Lt o ohd e 1100 yards of oil stor |a machine shop where a | considerable damage three ago. PRINCE RUPERT HALIBUT PRICES fire month: 11.40 and 9 cents a pound At Ketchikan the halibut price is 10.30 and 9.30 cents a pound. — - {fire had broken out in the barrack: jbut declared the fire was “no | very serious.” Naval offic RAINBOW GIRLS ARE TO (to have equipmént MEET TOMORROW NIGHT | flown from Juneau. There will be a regular business meeting of the Rainbow Girls co-" morrow evening at 7:30 o'clock at} the Scottish Rite Temple. All mem-| bers are requested to attend the| meeting as plans for the visit of | the Grand Officers will be discussed. | R An experimental electric loco-|que, N. M., NYA Work Projec motive of 4.000 kilowatt capacity! pert, arrived today on the offe: refused an and - - NYA OFFICIAL IS of Commerce says. Wrangell enroute north. Britain’s N, vessel T was leaving, That is, I| This appointment gives the Alas- could dig out only one umble. | ka branch two Assistant Regional " Fess up” T said to one of the| Foresters, the other being Wellman fficer ‘®u't there one single Holbrook. With the increase in re- you don’t like about this'spensibilities Burdick found it ne- ¥ | cessary to resign his commission as W i you put it that way,”| he said. “I own the bunks in the| Burdick recently completed his s are @ bit too comfortable.”| twenty third year of Federal Service Too bad,” T sympathized. | and has been in charge of a variety Oh, 1 rem ed that welllof work ranging from timber cutting nough. I stuck a board under the |cperations in the Western States to Now I sleep like a babe.” | the buying of the white-owned rein- (End of the Series) deer il the Arctic. He was transfer- e s | red to Alaska from the Montana of- NOTICE |fice of the Forest Service in 1927 AIRMAIL ENVELOPES, showing |2nd has been stationed at Ketchikan, air route from Seattle to Nome, on | Craig, Sitka, Juneau and Nome dur- | sale at J. B Burford & Co. adv. :ing the subsequent 14 years. - ————— Subserhe 1 the Daily Alasky| A halibut matures at the age of Empire—the paper with the larges ! about 11 years; 40 years is @ ripe tpnm circulation, oid age, View of Alexandria, Egypt tern Mediterranean, Alexan Described as the greatest ati No British warsi Britain’s great naval base in the eas Fombing attack by German planes. death toll of more than 100 and many injuries. cording to reports. Alexan ard. Besides the medals, local prizes include a bicycle, radio, outfit and an all-expense-paid trip to ppro- age tanks and did | The Empire was unable to gain Mor: r | y Moran arr] y i | detailed information on the fire ; el Wty et Ll At Prince Rupert today 81,000 "y 0. ime a message from pagsenge et £ hall Lt 4 55 time, ssage frc SIS 0L pounds- of ‘halibut were sold ab) gy, " confirmed reports that a assistance HERE ON VISIT Glenn O. McGuire of Albuquer- " called to Camp and a maximum speed of 112 miles| Yukon with Ken Nelson of the Al- per hour is reported under con-|aska NYA office to inspect the i & i “” General, 3] J 5 ) St Dkt Defrlorial selup. Thoy have vistt oo DB SUERE works at Moscow, the Department;ed Ketchikan, Pefersburg and aval Base in Egypt Nazi Targer dria, Egypt, was subjected to a hea tack ever staged at drig is 112 miles northwest of Cairo, BRI x Derby June 26 are pictured here be awarded for first, second and edals for the best-designed car and n the window of Bill North C JuneauBo e g 34588 * SEATTLE, July 20. Bteamer North Coast sailed at 11:15 o'clock this forenoon for Southeast Alaska s with a capacity list of passen- rs aboard including the following Juneau : Miss Anne Harquail, Mrs. Nerine < Thompson and Baby, Mr. and Mrs. fo J. H. Guns, Miss Jane Blomgren, Mrs. Wm. J. Passey and children, D. Jones, Max Ware, Roy Ander-| cen, Harsld Taylor, George L. Smith, Archia Liston, C. L. Florom, William | Ramsay, Mike Gavri!, H. R. Whit- field, Thomas Boyle, Albert Trul- ck Purdy, Jack Barber, Paul | Armas Hel Kernetlr C. Di . Mars- PORTLAND COUPLES wAfter staying at the Baranof Hotel | overnight ,the Meyers and Jewetts will leave tomorrow on the yacht of Capt. Qasey Moran of Ketchikan. 1 t BONDS RETURNS FROM KETCHIKAN Warrant Officer Hamilton H. Bond, Alaska National Guard in- structor, returned on the steamer { Yukon from Ketchikan after hold- ing several schools for induction for officers and key enlisted men. Bond cut his Ketchikan visit short due to the development that five Alaska Guard officers will be Benning, Ga., to ttend Infantry school. Major W. R. Mulvihill, Adjutant r BUY DEFENSE STAMPS extended to the Alaska Peninsula. B e e 'COAL SHORTAGE. {Commissioner of Mines lexandria, it left hips or naval property was hit, &t | | ne THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Burean) U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU Forecast for Juneau and vicinit;, beginning at 4:30 p.m, June 20: Mostly cloudy tonight with scattered showers in vieinity. partly cloudy Saturday; not much change in temperature, lowest tempera- ture tonight about 52 degrees, highest Saturday 59 degrees; gentle southeasterly winds. 5 Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Partly cloudy tonight and Sat- urday with scattered light showers north portion tonight; slightly warmer in south portion Saturday; gentle to moderate souih- erly winds. Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaskw Dixon Entrance to Cape Spencer: Gentle to moderate southeas winds, partly cloudy; Cape Spenc:r to Cape Hinchinbrook: ger to moderate easterly to southeast ly wihds, partly cloudy with local showers; Cape Hinchinbrook to Resurréction Bay: gentle to moder- ate northeasterly winds, partly cloudy; Resurrection Bay to Kodiak: gentle to moderate northerly wind:, partly cloudy. LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity ‘Weather 4:30 pm. yesterday 29.80 5 "8l SE 19 ove 4:30 a.m. today 29.86 53 83 ESE 5 ove.« Noon today 2097 53 38 S 5 Rain RADIO REPORTS TODAY Max. tempt. Lowest 4:30am. Precip. 4:30 5 Station 1ast 24 hours temp. tempt. 24 hours Weather Barrow 31 | 26 30 0 Pt. Cldy Fairbanks 5 54 54 T Cloudy Nome e O 47 48 0 Pt. Cldy Anchorage . . 60 51 51 [ Pt. Cldy Bethel .5 56 56 0 Pt. Cldy St. Paul .. 51 41 4 o 0 Oove. Dutch Harbor .. 46 a3 46 0 Clear Woshesenski ...... 60 48 49 0 Clear Kanatak 63 50 50 0 Ciear Cordova 55 49 49 0 ove. “Juncau 56 52 53 T Ove. Sitka 63 50 51 0 ove. Ketchikan 66 49 50 A3 ove. Prince Rupert .. 62 Ly 49 T Pt. Cldy Prince George .. 67 43 43 10 Pt. Cldy Seattle 61 49 49 Ove. Portland . 66 50 51 20 Clear WEATHMER SYNOPSIS Juneai, June 21 — Sunrise 3:51 am., sunset 10:08 p.m. Clear or partly cloudy skies prevailed over most of Alaska morning but cloudy skies were reported in the Tanana Valley along the coast from Cordova t> Southeast Alaska. Light showers had fallen during the previous 21 hours over Southeast Alaska and in the Tanana Valley. The greatest amount of precipitation was thirteen hundredths of an inch which was recorded at Ketchikan The warmest temperature yesterday afternoon was 75 degrees which was mpox:tod at Bethel and Fairbanks and the lowest temperature this morning was 30 degrees at Barrow. Broken clouds to ovi with local light showers, moderat> to moderately low ceilings good visibilities prevailed over th: Juneau-Ketchikan airway this morning. The Friday morning weather chart indicated a center of pressure of 2968 inches was located at 53 degrees north and 138 degrees west and was expected t> slowly fill and remain almost stationary during the next 24 hours. Relatively low pressure contin- ued over the interior of Alaska. A low center was located to the southeast of Atka and will move to the east northeastward during the next 24 hours. A center of h'gch pressure of 3041 inches was located at 34 degrees north and 154 degrees west and a high crest GEOGRAPHER T0 NOT IMMINENT | CONTINUE WORK SAVS STEWART NEAR ST. ELIAS Arthur Wood and Parly Through on Prince to this and and Tow Returns from Washing- fon Conferences Kluane Lake Area Arriving on the Yukon, 2 D:‘ To continue geographical mapping Stewart, Commissioner of Mines ;g gyygies he began in 1035 and for the Territory, returned from an . ,.c,.q in 1936 and 1939, ‘Arthur’ extended trip which took him 10 wo,q of the American Geographic Washington, D. C., on official busi-|sqciety passed through Juneau yes- S |terday on the Prince Rupert with a Stewart stayed in Washington for| harty of four bound for Kluane about three weeks while he con-iyage B. C. ferred with various officials cOn-| wood and his assistants will be nected with the Coal Division ofly, the field until October in terr! the ' Geological Survey, and of the t5ry so remote that all food and Bureau of Mines. Stewart, who in gypplies will have to be dropped addition to his duties as Commis- |to them by parachute on the high sioner of Mines, does work for the glociers where they will camp. Geological Survey on 2 coopera- Planes will fly from Anchorage for tive basisy discussed matters of in-|the purpose. terest to the —rritory regardingl Accompanying Wood are: his wife, coal leases with Survey officials.| who has been with him on every When questioned 2s to whether |trip to the North; Capt. Albert H. he thought there would be any|Jackman, U. S. Army, and Geolog- curtailment in distribution of coal |ists Anderson Bakewell of New York in case of war, Stewart replied that land Robert P. Sharp of Urbana, Ill. he saw no reason for that in the Army Man Along near future inasmuch as there was| Captain Jackman was assigned to no serious coal shortage either here|the party to study living and trans- or in the coal states. port problems for the Army in After leaving Washington, Stew- | mountainous terrain. art joined his son, John, who has| The Wood party will wo_rk in the just received his medical degree at|wild country on the east side of the Harvard University, in New York.|Mount St. Elias range in the general The two drove out to the West locality of the headwaters of the Coast together. John stayed in Donjec River. Berkeley, Cal., to start his intern-| The tavelers will go by steamer ship at the hospital while Stewart to Skagway, train to Whitehorse and came north, accompanied by his then fly to Kluane Lake, where they daughter, Jeanette, who is work-|Will enter the field. e of s FIVE FLY 0 COAST University of Washington. YUKON PASSENGERS . . | WITH ALEX HOLDEN Five passcugers flew to the vls“ m ju"!‘“ Coast this morning as pilot Shell Simmons winged out of the Chan- Among visitors in Juneau while | | | | nel with Herbert Ariow, E. W.Gail- braith, W. J. Jensen and Gildo the Yukon was in port are: Batello for Sitka and Henry E. Miss Virginia Gray, making her [ anocs for Kimshan Cove. second trip to Alaska, bound for| " sjey Holden made a flight to Anchorage to spend several weeks visiting her cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Pugh. Miss Mabel Swanson from Seattle to visit at Womans Bay. Mrs. W. F. Dawson on her way to make her home at Womans Bay at the naval air station where her husband is an officer. J. H. Walters of Seattle is bound for Womans Bay where he will be attached to the naval air station. ——— > IN ON YUKON Representative for electrical sup- plies, H. M. Gustafson, artived in Juneau on the Yukon teday and is stopping at the Baranof Hotel. ——————— AT BARANOF Herbert Cole, General Cigar Com- pany salesman, arrived in Junéau on the Yukon and is staying at Ketchikan later in the day with Harold Foss and A. Stetka. He is scheduled to return this afternocn with three passengers for Juneau. One flight to the Polaris-Takn mine is scheduled for late this evening. GAMES TODAY The following are final scores of baseball games played this after- oon in the two major leagues as recelved up to press time: National League Philadelphia 6; Pittsburgh 7. Boston 0; Chicago 5.