The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 15, 1941, Page 2

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, JULY 15, 1941. The Night Clubs’ New Era Is Here; “HELLO SUCKER” was the stock in trade of yester-year’s Texas Guinan. Tex usually was rlght The glittering institution _of the New York night club, born in the turbulent Twenties, has entered upon a new phase.Here in the first of a series, Broad- way Columnist George Tucker tells you what has happened to it. By GEORGE TUCKER NEW YORK-Folks, some ]x’(v))l‘ claim the night clubs in New York | used to be, that the thrill is gone, that the excite- ment has slowed down to a walk. Why, I remember Zelli's, and | Tommy's, and the hll\l Slipper,” they say. “I rememb the night the police broke into Chez Morgan, armed with axes and wrecked $75,000 worth of decora- tions, They hacked a 60-foot bar to pieces. 1 was sitting right there. I wa citting right next to ‘Legs’ Dia- mond, He had a couple of beau- tiful Broadway butterflies with him. He was so clese I could have) reached out and touched him. That a night! Boy, those were the You don't see things like any more.” Well, folks, that’s right, in a way. You don't sce things like that any more. You don’t see “Legs,” because “Legs” is dead, and most of the mob is dead with him, some in silver cof- fins after $50,000 funerals, and others in lonely lime - pitted graves. And you don’t see butterflies either, because them are dead, too. One was strangled in a Bronx park, and to this day the soiution of her death remains a mystifying puzzle. Another took her own life. . . . third disappeared. No, you don’t see the hoodlums lording it around Broadway as you used to, and you don't se wrecking crews with axes. Open Door Policy But youre wrong When think the bloom is off the bu We've got night clubs today many if not move than we eye had. Some are as ornate and lav- ish in decor as their predecesso were, and some are just as small | and chummy and intimate. In fact, just to look at them you couldn't tell the difference. But there is this difference: In the old days they peeped at you through a slot before they let you in. Today, you walk in free and easy. ‘Ten years ago, the sale of lig- wor was against the law, This meant legitimate business men couldn’'t operate, and so the mob was there. Today, the night clubs are back in the men. Let's see now. Let’s name them There's the Rainbow Room, the Diamond Horse the Stork, El Morocco, Monte Carlo, Twenty-One, | the Riviera . These are the night clubs, the show places New York. There are no hoodlums there. Maybe that's what they mean when you the thrill is Dollar Dynasty omething else, when you took cost you you never kne suddenly woulgd inspired by a craving pilled. That what illegal hootch did to you. Today the stuff inside the bottle: at the labels say it is Finally, ten years ago, when you walked into a night club, somebody yelled “Hello Suck- er,” and he (or she) was right —because you were. You were being played for a sap. You paid anywhere from three to five dollars cover charge just for the privilege of sitting in a chair. That didn’t pay for any- thing you ate or drank. Nobody yells “Hello Sucker” you today. But they're mighty likely to a_sk you, along with everybody else, W times. that most of A f of yone There's too. Ten yeats g (which $1 a throw) whether you blind or be to see blood drink tha N a le: 1 w never at ' l much of the' hands of business ' big | Smg "God with pretty girls Bless Amenca GOD BLESS AMERICA, in your best tenor voice to lead you—that’s the new “era.” BALL RESUMES AS WEATHER LIFTS TODAY 4‘ Game Scheduled Befween. Douglas and Elks on Firemen's Field After a solid week of no ba Hnll' in the Gastineau Channel BRITISH, RUSSIANS HAVE PACT Two NaIion;Xre Lined Up Against Germany - No Battle of Communism LONDON, July 16. Prime Minister Wintson Churchill declared in the House of Commons weather conditions appeared this u(t(‘nl(mu to have lifted enough to | permit a scheduled battle between the Elks and Douglas on the Fire- men’s Field beginning at 6:30 o’clock tonight. for the Seven innings are \L\lr(l« game. - — Mine President in Juneau After Trip | To C onsolldaled ‘Bul‘\m is identifying herself with | | Enthusiastic over the outlook for ! his mine during the current sea {son, C. L. Harrison, President of the Consolidated Mining Compa was in Juneau today while the Bar- anof was in port southbound. | The Consolidated, formerly the ! Pacific Mines, operates the largest gold quartz mine in | Al second . Alaska. At | Creek men said. | Harrison Is returning to the com- |pany’s Seattle office after several months at the mine. D PILOT TAKES. FIVE ON COAST FLIGHT Five passengers flew out of Gas- tineau Channel this morning as Pilot Alex Holden made a trip to | Sitka with H. C. Dunlop, A. C.| Evans, John McCormick, George F. Al(' xander, Jr., and Bud Rocks. He | is expected to return with four ;m- sengers. Pilot Dean Goodwin took off [0! the Coast with James Boyle for | Hoonah and R. A. Boe for Pelican. | Goodwin will fly to Chichagof and then to Sitka where he will take a charter to Ketchikan, Two trips to Polaris-Taku mine | are scheduled for tonight. its property in the Willow district near Wasilla, 197 are on the payroll, Harrison | to join in a chorus of “God Bless A|m-1 ioa.” (Temorrow: Club Era.) The old Night shipping | the today the agreement on joint war action against Germany is an alliance of the Russian and British people who are now allies, Churchill added the British-Rus- | | sian alliance does not mean Great | the Communist creed or fighting the | battle of Communism. 'TWO LODESTARS FLYING TODAY Two PAA Lodestars are in the air | today, cne flying from Fairbanks to Seattle and one northbound from Seaftle to Juneau. The Seattle-bound plane arrived in Juneau at 12:30 o'clock this after- noon with Ed Wisler, Gayle Mc- Keown, Joe Ragrade, Travis Marsha and Paul Greiman as through pas- sengers and Ray Jenson, and Mr. ,and Mrs. Ralph Morrill for Juneau. The plane left Juneau at 1 p.m. On the northbound Lodestar are | four passengers for Juneau, M. J. ‘Warner, J. S. Deutschle, Mrs. Betty Cull, and Herbert Cull. For Fair- banks are: Virginia Belding, Max- well Belding, and Herbert Belding. The plane will arrive at 4:30 and will leave after refuelling and tak- ing on six passengers for Fairbanks. Fairbanks passengers are: Howard Thompson, Mrs. Southall Pfund, | Contsance Pfund, Lucy Pfund, Tom Boskovich, and Sldnoy Ells. ADMIRALTY SAYS JUNE SHIPPING LOSS VERY LOW LONDON, July 15 — Merchant losses were 79 ships, to- talling 329,000 tons in June, the British Admiralty announced. Ton- nage included British, Allied, and ~ | neutral ships. The tonnage losses are less than in any month since July, 1940, with exception of December and Jarmary of last winter. British | new British-Russian | MOTORISTS RESTRICTED INCANADA 'lEGION BANQUET ~ TONIGHT HONORS MILO J. WARNER Nafional Commander Ar- | riving by Plane Today Sale of Gas;'l_i;e, 0il Pro- hibited During Cerfain Hours-Also Sundays OTTAWA, July 15—The Canadi- an Government today amnounced prohibition of the sale, delivery or distribution of gasoline and oil to motorists from 7 pm. to 7 a.m. on week days and all Sundays, effec- tive tomorrow. The Government, in making the announcement, also appealed to citizens to cooperate against the prospect of & serious gasoline and oil shortage by cutting the use of cars 50 percent. Authorization for an increase of oné cent a gallon for gasoline is also announced. The use of credit cards is also prohibited and gasoline and oil must be sold on a cash and caxr\" basis. n 10 lEAVE FOR SITKA BASE JOBS| Emplo}menl Service Hires| Large Group Leav- ing on North Sea | | Twenty-two workers hired in Ju-| !ment Service for employment on| |the Naval Air Station at Sitka will leave here this evening on the ! northbound steamer ‘North Sea. Men hired and leaving Juneau {are Arnold C. Amundson, Lafay P.| | Weaver, Wendell L. Andrews, Wil- liam H. Peterson, Theodore R.| { Adams, Harold E. Sadler, Frank G.| | campbell, Oliver F. Hargrave, Mike Osmonovich, Victor Grimm, James | G. Gangler, David C. Graham Walter Hill, Cashmere M. Pasie, Edward McKensie, Kenneth H.! Meier, John Whiteley, Courtney R Best, George W. Young, Albert A. | Schatz and Donald MacKinnon. Joe Molloy, Norman Crooks and William E. O'Dell have been hired for base work, but will leave for | the island later. .- — NATIONAL GUARD SHOOTING TROPHY | WANTS ENGRAVING 'Chamber of Commerce Cup| Won by Local Units for First Tme Sitting proudly in the office of | the Adjutant General of the Al-| aska National Guard and awaiting engraving, is a silver rifle trophy won by the First Battalion, 297th Infantry, Alaska National Guard, a trophy won by the Guardsmen the first time they competed for it. The cup, a perpetual trophy pre- sented by the Juneau Chamber of Commerce, must be won three times by the same unit before it may be kept permanently. The 4th Infan- try at Chilkoot Barracks claimed the cup in competition in 1938 and bw. the Juneau Rifle and Pistol Club gained possession of it in 1939, and members of Juneau Na- tional Guard units are winners of the trophy for 1941 after a meet. on the 4th of July. The Guardsmen eked out an 11- point win over the Juneau Rifle and Pistol Club to gain posses- sion of the eup. ———e———— The emperature of the planet Saturn is 238 degrees below zero. e Alaska has but eight rated cities. incorpo- | tional ~Flying Tomorrow National Commander Milo Warner of the American Legion will be honored tonight at a ban- quet to be held in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel at 7 o'clock. | ladies and 2 invited their of Legionnaires, limited number will attend. Warner was to arrive at 4 o'clock this afternoon by plane from Se-| attle, The banquet, originally sched- | uled for last night, was postponed when cancelled due to unfavorable weath- er conditions yesterday. The Commander will be accom- panied by his aide, Joseph Deut- | schie. Toastmaster at the banquet will |be Howard Stabler, who today an- nounced a program as follows: Singing of “America” by all; sclo by Mrs, George F. Alexander; in- | troduetion of the Toastmaster; welcome from Mayor Harry I. Lu- cas; greeting from Dr. W. W. Coun- cil on behalf of the Rotary Club;| Charles Beale for Juneau Chamber | of Commerce; talk on naturaliza- |mu by Judge George F. Alexan- | der; talks by Department Legion Commander Walter B. King, Sec- retary of Alaska E. Henry Baker of the Red Cross; in- troduction of and address by Na- Commander Warner; pre- sentations by King for the Depart-| ment and Frank Metcalf for Al- ford John Bradford Post of the ing of “God Bless America. The National Commander’s L\'L will be broadcast at 8:45 o'clock Tomorrow, weather permitting, Commander Warner will fly to Fairbanks and the following day to Anchorage. He will return this weekend. — e — \Baker fo Address Nurses and Legion Banquet Tonighi Assistant Manager of the Ameri- can Red Cross Henry M. Baker, of San Francisco, is scheduled to speak at three meetings today. At noon he addressed members and guests of the Juneau Rotary Club at Percy’'s Cafe. This evening at 8 oclock Mr. Baker is to speak to the Gastineau Channel Nurses Association at the home of Mrs. John McCormick. | All nurses are invited to attend the meeting. Later he will address the Legionnaires and their guests at the American Legion banquet in| the Baranof Hotel being given in honor of Milo Warner, National Commander of the American Le- gion. ‘Tomorrow, Mr. Baker is to speak at a public meeting sponsored by the American Women’s Voluntary Services. The women of Juneau are invited to hear the speaker at the Methodist Church at 3 o'clock. MRS. CAWTHORNE BACK FROM INTERIOR TRIP Mrs, Mary Keith Cawthorne ar- rived in Jupeau on the Baranof after an official trip to the West- ward and the Interior. She visit- ed Nonie, Fairbanks, Anchorage and Seward and introduced Miss Helen Johnson to the Public Health nurs- ing service in the 'Matanuska Val- ley. Miss Johnson is replacing Miss Mary Sullivan in that district. LEAVE ON BRANT Dr. Earl Graves, Territorial Vet- erinarian, left Juneau today for Skagway and Haines on board the U. 8. Bureau of Fisheries boat Brant. Dr. Graves, who has just finished an inspection of the local cattle here will continue his in- spection work. The ‘irls are playing hockey in the sand this summer at Lido Beach €lub; L. L. The ball ean’t be kicked or thrown, but must be swept along by brooms. Four of more girls comprise a side. As the game starts | the centers lower brooms and hit the ball goalward—after which anything can happen, g This pretty girl was tripped as ! b guests the northbound flight was| L. Bartlett and | here 29 INDICTED ON CHARGES OF SEDITION Socialist Workers Charged with Conspiracy by Grand Jury ST. PAUL, Mim , July 15 — A Federal Grand Jury named 29 per- sons today in indictments charging | serious conspiracy and advising insubordination to overthrow the United States government, Those indicated were officers and mem- bers of the Socialist Workers Party. The conspiracy, the indictment said, was committed in the cities jof Minneapolis, St. Paul and Chi- lcago and in the states of Illinois and New York. Henry Schweinhaut, special agsis- 'tant attorney general, said the ac- tion s the largest peace-time !roundup in the nation for sediti- ous conspiracy and are the first | indictments under the Smith Act | which became law June, 1940, cov- ering conspiracy in advocacy to [overthrow the government. The majority of those named are | officers or active members of the EGenerul Drivers Union No. 544 of Minneapolis. District Attorney Victor Ander- son said the indictment charges that party members sought to be iplaced in key positions in all ma- 'Jor industries, among others trans- | portation, mining, lumbering, farm- I1ng. shipping and manufacturing ‘so said party members who could and would induce workers and la- neau by the Territorial Employ-| American Legion; community \n\"- borers to join such a party.” - NO SPACE FOR " ASSAY OFFICE AT ANCHORAGE ‘Establishment Must Wait on Availability of Good Quarters ‘The new Territorial ascay office { which the 1941 Legislature author- lized for Anchorage b yet »| been established, Commissioner of Mines B. D. Stewart said | because of the impossibility of ob- taining suitable ters for the proposed officc in. the kusy West- ward city. | As soon as quarters can | tained, the appointment Assayer-in-Charge will nounced. The assay offices at Ket | be of be ob- an an- chikan, blast. MARION DOBSON HONOR GUEST AT Miss Marian Dobson was the honored guest at a pre-wedding shower given by Miss Ruth Torkel- son last night at 8 o'clock. The bride-to-be was presented with a complete Toastmaster set. The guests enjoyed refreshments and played games during the eve- ning, Included at the gathering were the Misses Joan Irwin, Marilyn Merritt, Lillian Olson, Patricia Gul- lufsen, Lila Sinclair, Isabel Par- sons, June Anderson, Bettye Kem- mer, Shirley Kemmer, Verna Mae Gruber, Kay McAlister, Marge Snell, Annebelle Hagerup, Naomi Forrest, Marianne Skinner, Kath- erine Torkelsen, and Idabelle Dob- son. (I e MRS. KOSTROMETINOFF HERE Mrs. Peter Kostrometinoff, whose husband is in charge of the tele- phone company in Sitka, arrived in Juneau from that city yesterday. She is staying at the Baranof Hotel. ——————————— Empire Classifiéas Pay! she reached for the ball. (Oh, of course it wasn’t intentiorial!) Field is about 20 feet wide and 0 tot long. ) College and Nome are working m!l‘ WEDDING SHOWER| today, | - | THE WEATHER the U. S. Weather Bureau) ¥. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU Forecast for Juneau and viciniy, beginning at 4:30 p.m., July 1 Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday; wdrmer Wednesday, lowest temperature tonight about 54 degrees, highest Wednesday 72 degrees, light to gentle variable winds. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Partly cloudy with local fog to- night and Wednesday; warmer in north portion Wednesday; gentle to moderate variable winds except becoming southeast to east, south portion Wednesday. Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska Dixon Entrance to Cape Spencer: Moderate west to northwest winds, becoming south to southeast south of Cape Ommaney Wed- nesday, partly cloudy with local fog; Cape Spencer to Cape Hinchin- brook: moderate south to southeast winds, partly cloudy; Cape Hin- chinbrook to Resurrection Bay and Resurrection Bay to Kodiak: moderate southeast to cast winds, partly cloudy. LOCAL DATA Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity 64 8 5 10 55 97 Calm 0 64 82 SsSwW 4 RADIO REPORTS Weather Overcast Drizzle Overcast Time 4:30 p.m. yesterday 30.18 4:30 a.m. today 30.19 Noon today . 30.16 TODAY Lowest 4:30a.m. Precip. 4:30a.m. tcmp. tempt. 24hours Weather 31 Overcast Pt. Cldy Pt. Cldy Pt. Cldy Overcast Overcast, Fog Drizzie Overcast Overcast Max. tempt. last 24 hours .6 .. 85 Station Barrow .. Fairbanks Nome Dawson Anchorage . Bethel St. Paul . Atka . Dutch Harbor ‘Wosnesenski ... Cordova Juneau ... Sitka Ketchikan ... Prince Rupert .. Prince George .. Edmonton Seattle Portland Fog, Rain Cloudy Clear Clear Clear 56 55 57 65 68 WEATHER SYNOPSIS Due to the southerly flow of moist maritime air over the coastal mountain range rain had fallen 4iring the previous 24 hours along the coast from Juneau and Sitka to Cook Inlet and at scattered points over the Alaska Range t> the Seward Peninsula and the Kuskokwim Valley and rain contiiued to fall this morning at scat- tered points over the Alaska Rane with partly cloudy to cloudy skies generally elsewhere over Alaska. The greatest amount of pre- cipitation was 1.60 inches which was recorded at Cordova. The temperatures were considerably wairmer yesterday afternoon over the southern portion of Southeast Ala ka where Ketchikan reported the warmest temperature of 82 degree;. The lowest temperature this morning was 35 degrees at Barrov. Scattered to broken high clouds with local fog patches except over:ast with very low ceiling and visi- bilities near Juneau prevailed ove- the Juneau-Ketchikan airway this morning. The Thursday morning weath°r chart indicated a center of pressure of 29.65 inches was located at 48 degrees north and 155 degrees west and was expected to move about 500 miles during the next 24 hours. A second low centr of about the same pressure w located at 37 degrees north and 135 degrees west. Relatively low pressure continued over the Berng Sea. A high pressure center of 30.30 inches was located at 37 degrees north and 139 degrees west and a second high pressure c2nter of 30.20 inches was located near .Cape Spencer with a high crest connection the two high cen- ters. A third high center was located to the west of Atka. Juneau, July 16 — Sunrise 4:14 a.m., sunset 9:51 p.m.’ 103 Clear low Undle Sam Conduding BigBallyhoo Campaign; Is Real Super-Salesman (Continued from Page One) untary payroll deduction. It has complications, especially in smaller firms where it would be necessaty salesman in St. Louis and rose to a vice-presidency, an invest- ment expert, in one of the big New York banks. For five years, he has been the Treasury's chief of the division of savings bonds, and in that time he drummed up 2,500,000 customers for Uncle Sam’s baby bonds. He hopes to quadruple that number of customers for the de- fense bonds. to add to bookkeeping staffs to take care of it. The Treasury not yet ready to make any an- nouncement on that. Nor will Treasury men comment yet on the “forced savings” sys- tem now being tried out in En:- land, where salaried workers have to accept as part of their pay o treasury receipt to be redeemed i cash sometime after the emergency is over. MISS GIBBS AND WILLIAM GATH MARRIED TODAY Miss Nellie Pearl Gibbs and W:il- liam F. Gath were married today noon by the Rev. G. E. Knight. The ceremony was Wwitnessed Dby Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Gath. The couple will live in the Wil- liam McCurry residence on Glacier Highway. Mr. Gath is employed at the Alaska Juneau. ————————— BUY DEFENSE STAMPS Sloan is frankly pleased with the campaign so far and not at all displeased with the approximately $700,000,000 in bonds and stamps that have been sold in a little more than two months. “This isn't,” he says, “the kind of high pressure salesmanship that was resorted to in the days of the Liberty Loans. Each of the Liberty Loan drives had a goal that had to be subscribed quickly. Some pretty heavy bludgeoning was re- quired. “I hope we never have to resort to anything like that.” PAY DEDUCTIONS STUDIED Sloan’s experts are working on one method of sales now that I have not mentioned. It is the vol-