The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 17, 1941, Page 2

Seledlive Lottery Is Baker Tells OfPurposes OfRedCross Adtiviies of Greal Organi- Second Group for Military Service to Be Drawn in Washington \\'ASHINGT(;‘I’.T!\!I\' 17.—Within the space of approximately two hours the Government will determ- zation Are Discussed a Meeting with Women In his speech at the public meet- Juneau women, sponsored of i m““”:”'(','“\m\y;f',“"”t ine by lot tonight the order to call i L b up for military service the second i ry M. Baker, As-| 0 of Selective Service regis- sistant Manager of the American | E70U Red Cross, discussed the purposes After brief preliminaries, begin- and activities of the Red Cross, ! ning at 7 oclock tonight, in the He especially brought out the in-) gepartment augitorium, Secretary ternational functions of the organ-, o Navy Frank Knox, blindfolded, jzation, and emphasized the three|will dip his hand into the historic main purp of their activities.|glass jar, used on similar occasions Two of these are little known,|in the past, and draw out a capsule Baker said: first, that the Red!containing a number and the second Cross atte: s to locate persons|National Selective Service lottery in foreign countries whose loca-|will be off to determine priorities | for service. Approximately 750,000 young men who have become 21 years of age | since the first draft registration of | tion is not known, for relatives and friends. Second, the organization sends relief to those held in con-| ll\"‘, ra camps in the form of { 3 i ety g o last October, will be involved in the | individual packages. Lastly, the B | e better known, is to send lottery tonight. | purpose better known, is send | o | food and clothing to the civilian populations of foreign nations At the beginning of the war, o said Baker, the Red Cross sent letters to all the branches in for- eign countries asking them if aid were needed. All except three sent word aid could be used. These three were Germany, Italy and! | Japan The Red Cross has sent $40,000,- 000 in relief beginning of the w to Europe since it has also BERLIN, July 17—United States sent 369 ships, of which only 11 have been lost. This is an excel- | Consular officials and employees, lent record, the organization feels,|founded up for ejection from Ger- said Baker. many and other points in Europe will not be set free until the Ger- -~ 2 o man consular officials on the Am- Ame"(an I_eglon and crican Navy transport West Point | are set down on European soil safe and sound Auxiliary Will Fete Davenports Saturday This is according to a statement | from an authorized spokesman. The spokesman also said the Am- ericans stationed in Germany were A é 4 {now on Frankfurt-On-The-Main The American Legion Auxiliaty gnq those in Italy are at San and the American Legion are plan- | po,.. i ning a get-together next Saturday | 7o west Point, formerly the "“";l“_ "“‘S ‘3:1;::; ':‘ ‘m-mf:u;/(;\s American liner America, cleared i o D e ® | from New York late yesterday it Dave Davenport who are leaving the | /o' T TOTE e s city soon to make their home in | Was officia »“‘“”“" Rt i g Ketchikan, The gathering is to be a no-host affair, and sandwiches, cake and coffee will be served. Those sending in food are asked to call Mrs. Jack Davis at the Baranof Hotel, Mrs, Waino Hendrickson ,or Mrs. John l KE McCormick. | Mr. Davenport is leaving Monday, | and Mrs. Davenport expects to leave (Continued from Page One) during the first part of next month, TOMMY GREENHOWS AR PARENTS OF DAUGHTER — Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Greenhow The report made no mention of the are the parents of a six-pound, 13- fall of the town, claimed by the Ger- ounce baby daughter born at 4:50 mans. | o'clock yesterday afternoon at St. The Germans assérted they have Ann's Hospital. Mrs. Greenhow is extended rearguard resistance, and | the former Corrinne Duncan and said Red Army troops in the Smol- | granddaughter of John Reck, Presi- ensk sector have been crushed. The | dent of the First National Bank. The Nazi advance toward the east is con- new little girl, Coralee Ann, is Mr. tinuing swiftly on the southern end Recks first great grandchild. On Tonight THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR - Army Bombers Crash —— orpilishmon Three Army bombers, flying from Savannah, Ga., to March Field, Calif., lost their way and ran out of gas near Fresno, Calif. The crews of two bailed out, but Lt. H. E. Adams and Corp. S. L. Norwood made a dead-stick landing with their plane (top). Licut. A. A. M, Rulison and Sgt. C. C. Herron bailed out of their plane (bottom) before it crashed and burned. The third plane was demolished. Ford Grandson, Bride THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1941. FOUR SPEAK New (abinet ATLUNCHEON ' For Japanese OF CHAMBER Now Making ‘BoyScouIs,lk_dCr'oss,Bible Prince Korfifi, Head of‘I Society, Resources Resigned Government, Men Present Forming New One ,3 With four speakers concentrating To'flf,fl;, -;ugas‘:é:e‘;:g":h:‘;"l:: on after dinner jokes and the cur- g‘;‘;’?,s cun}t,mand % Torm & iew tallment ' of. words, the ‘Juneau Japanese Cabinet to replace the one | Chamber of Commerce sat in at a that. resigned yesterday. long session today at their weekly The new Cabinet, it is said, may luncheon meeting in the Gold ROOM pe more- capable of grappling with of the Baranof Hotel. ! the “ever changing world situa- No business was broached at the tion” session with mémbers waiting for | Prince Konoye, who also headed the talks of the -speakers. Rex the retiring Cabinet, has started as- Muger, Boy Scout executive, spoke fsembling a new list of ministers, briefly of the hypoed work om! Authoritative sources assert that scouting in the Territory, saying the Emperor is expected to be able ‘that an increase of 19 percent in to install the new government by | Scout membership has been re- tOMOITOW. i Prince Konoye's first con- corded since Amby Frederick, Scout ' ~Among executive assigned to. the Terri- sultations was with Baron Hfira,-‘ numa, -strongly Nationalist, and tory, arrived four months ago. gt SiG (1C Cutgoing Cab- | Ok WA TNRer Ul epus = | ite inet. Observers believe this indicates | Territory who have shown intense . .y pianuma will remain in the | desire to participate in scouting, gapinet, continuing the totalitarian only 87 percent have been taken'snq gomestic program on which the into the movement, Muger said.'glq Cabinet embarked. | The visitor asked the interest and; . e g— support of Juneau and Alaska in { the rejuvenation of Boy Scout ac- Iar an i tivities in the Territory. { Red Cross Ready Henry M. Bake sistant mana- ger of the American Red Cross, who is visiting the Territory, made mention of the readiness of the Red Cross, and said the organiza- tion is prepared to face the pres- ent and any future emergency without any change in the com- ponents of the _group. “The Red One PAA Lodestar and one Elec- Cross is ready with seasoned men tra flew through Juneau today as and women,” he said, “and will weather flying conditions continued | not have to train more or add new to pe favorable. The Electra left committees to handle the job, as Juneau this morning for Fairbanks we did during the last war.” at 10 o’clock. Everything is in preparation,| Passengers booked for Fairbanks | | Baker d, with doctors, nurses, were: Kenneth Foresman, Alex | supplies and transportation ar- Ovena, Homer Jewell, Mrs. C. B.| ranged. The Red Cross is in a Freeman, Mrs. R. C. Wood, Curt state of mobilization, he asserted. ~ Reisinger, Mrs. Leslie Weldon, and Bible Man on Hawaii Ted' Peterson. Bubbling over with enthusiasm' The southbound Lodestar for Se- for his home, Hawail, and personi- Siile winged out of the Juneau alr- y 4 et al T fying in actuality a booster for the dropping six passengers here: Hak- kon Friele, Harry Gamler, Mrs. Dor- othey Beaton, Leslie Beaton, Janice Beaton, Karen Beaton. Aboard the Lodestar for Seattle are Virginia Belding, Maxwell Beld- ing, Fred Belding, Alys Faurot, Miss | talking of pineapples and volcanoes, M, F. Winneck; Gordon Wicks and Bayless casually mentioned that the Mrs, Frances Hayes. in the Territory, The Board, he said, will correlate data and facts and territories is merely to gather | and correlate information of eco- | | | | | | | [ | | | Complimentary to Miss Jessie Fraser, whose forthcoming marriage to Mr. Theodore Mack of Juneau was recently announced, Mrs. Felix Gray will be the hostess at two sep- arate shower events, to be given at her home, one tomorrow evening and the second one Saturday eve- ning. Honolulu Chamber of Commerce, Dr. Ralph W. Bayless, secretary of the American Bible Society, began his talk with mention of his work .and organization, then deviated to the islands of the Pacific. Before American Bible Society issues seven | T Yo million volumes annually, and has; S . taken over the work of other! Do!}&' Ag similar groups which are now non- | s G 4 5. existent because of world condi-1 g New Planning Board | S James C. Reme_, of the National ppynay, SHOWERS TO Resources Planning Board, ex- HONOR MISS FRASER | plained to the Chamber the work | and the purpose of the new office ' so that governmental departments will know through that office just what other departments are doing. Thus duplication will be eliminat- ed, Rettie said. The policy of the organization in regard to the states YOUNGSTER ILL PR o S il HELP AN ALASKAN of the: 2,000-mile battlefront. Invad- ing forces are also reported to have captured Kishinev, capital of Bess- | arabia ! It was declared that more than a | thousand Red Army prisoners were | taken in the Smolensk sector, in- | i Benson Ford, grandson of Henry Ford, and his bride, the former Miss Edith McNaughton, in the garden of the bride’s home following their wedding in Grosse Point, Mich. The bridegroom is the second son of Edsel Ford. Board is responsible entirely to the Federal Government and has no connection with state or territorial planning councils. George Sundborg, newly appoint- nomic trends in- the country.. The' ed technician on the Board, was cluding a Soviet division’s chief of | Jis Telephone 713 or write staff. introduced in his new capacity to Allan, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. Elton Engstrom, is ill at his home here with rheumatic feevr. He first took sick on Monday with little change apparent from day to day. —————— WAHTO VACATIONING SOUTH Recent advices from Arvo Wahto, who suddenly decided to spend some | | | The Alaska Territorial Employment Service for this qualified worker. | | JOSEPHS. MILLER, PILOT OF ALASKA, DIES LAST NIGHT Capt. Joseph S. Miller, 68, died last night at St. Ann’s Hospital. He has been a pilot with the Alaska Lo I8 ' Steamship Company for 20 years| WILDES TO ENTERTAIN ‘and was taken to the )msplla]! Mr. and Mrs. Keith Wildes will be from the Alaska last Friday for| hosts at a small cocktail party today @1 emergency operation. between 5 and 7 o'clock at their home. The party is in honor of Mrs. ton, .Wash., in.1873. His wife sur- STENOGRAPHER—Young wom- an, age 31, college graduate, pleas- ant, attractive, has had ten years’ experience teaching commercial sub- Jjects in high schools, is capable stenographer, interested in obtain- ing temporary stenographic work. Please call ES-332. Robert Jernberg from Sitka who is vives him in Seattle and a daugh ter in Butte, Mont. spending a few days in Juneau, Yee off the Hive Sradbtiones i & Great Name AMONG AMERICA'S GREAT WHISKIES said. Fishing was off in both the Kvichak and Naknek districts, and a little better at Nushagak. Proving that the fish business is not yet an exact science, Mr. Fricle said that just the reverse was expected by hoth the canners and the Bureau of Fisheries. Nushagak was supposed to be off, according to the book and Kvichak and Naknek were due for a good seasoon. . At the Nakat 's cannery at Na- keen, the pack is only one-third of SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, July 17. | normal this year. Up to last Satur- Thomas Murphy, Western Airlines | day night the pack was 230,00 cases. Traffic Manager here, said applica- ' Expected by the end of the season Capt. Miller was born near Shel- | tion has been filed in Washington, |is a pack of about 600,000 cases as D. C, to extend the lines of the against a normal 1,800,000. route from Lethbridge to Alaska.: | It was Haakon Friele who, with Murphy ceeding 17 hours. The route will be from San Diego, Los Angeles, Salt Lake, Great Falls, Edmonton, Grand Prairie, White- | horse, Fairbanks and Nome, e — FRIELE REPORTS NAKAT PACK OFF AT BRISTOL BAY Haakon B. Friele, Vice-President and General Manager of the Nakat Packing Corporation, salmon opera- tion of the Great Atlantic and Pa- cific Tea Company, arrived in Ju- neau at noon today by PAA Lode- star from Fairbanks and left this afternoon with Herb Munter by plane for the company’s canneries at Waterfall, Hidden Inlet and Union Bay. Bristol Bay is experiencing a poor a Japanese floating salmon can- nery. . Mr. Friele said, “and apparently they are not fishing for salmon in Alas- < kan waters, the Pribilof Islands, according to information in this district.” Work has staried at the Nak- nek airfield, Mr. Friele said, and which follows the close of the fish- ing season. among the natives this year, Mr. Friele said. The cannery executive will con- and return to Alaska in August. ————————— MISS BURNHAM HERE New York City. Miss Burnham is . : Road Distributed by National Grocery Co., Seattle, Wash, year in the salmon industry, Fricle |connected with Life Magazine, floor-of -the bullding, said three flights a week | Bureau of Fisheries officials, flew _|are contemplated out of Salt Lake |out over the Aleutian Islands in City and the flight from Salt Lake | 1937 and togk pigtures which proved to Nome is estimated to take not ex- | the operation in Alaskan waters ol “We saw no Japanese this year,” A Japanees crab boat is operating, howeevr, over toward the work provided there will help the usual unemployment situation There has been no unemployment tinue his present trip to Seattle the Chamber. Loss of Knight Regretted An ovation for the work of the Rev. G. Edward Knight was given. He is leaving for Seward in sev- eral days to become superintendent of the Methodist Mission of ‘Alas- ka. of his vacation from teaching on a srip south, indicate ‘that he is now visiting friends in Aberdeen, Wash., and later. plans to visit an uncle in Alberta, Canada, ' Feature Slides af Bible Discussion The Rev. Ralph W. Bayless of the American. Bible Society. will address a Juneau audience. tonight at 7:30 e'clock in the Memorial Presbyterian Church. The topic of his discussion ds to be the use of the Bible in everyday reading. Fea- tured on his program will be a SMOLENSK IS NOT FALLEN LONDON, July 17 — A Reuters dispatch tonight from Moscow says Smolensky, on the road to Mos- cow, is still in Russian hands. This morning the Germans|series of steriopticon slides on the elatmed they had captured the|Bible in Every Man’s Fown. city. The Rev. Bayless will also speak tomorrow night at the First Meth- )dist - Church, where he will enlarge on. his. original topic. Before coming -to Juneau, the Rey. Bayless stoppsd at Ketchi- kan, Wrangell, Petersburg, and Sitka. From here, he and his wife, MORGAN TRANSFERRED T0 MOJAVE N MIAMI ‘\' THE WEATHER (By the U. 8. W.ather Bureau) U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMVMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU Forecast for Juneau and vicinit, beginning at 4:30 p.m., July 17: Mostly cloudy with possibly. light intermittent rain and not much change in temperature tonight and Friday; lowest temperature night about 54 degrees, highest Friday 62 degrees; gentle southeast winds. Forzcast for Southeast Alaska: Mostly cloudy with intermittent light rain tonight and Friday except partly cloudy in south por- tion tonight; cooler in south poriion Friday; gentle to moderate southeast winds, becoming moderate to fresh in channels and straits Friday. Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaskst Dixon Entrance to Cape Spencer: Fresh southwest winds, rain; Cape Spencer to Cape Hinchinbrook: fresh to strong east to south- east winds, rain; Cape Hinchinbrook to Resurrection Bay: fresh to strong east to northeast winds, b:coming southeast Friday, rain; to- Resurrection Bay to Kodiak: fresh .northeast to north winds, be- coming southwest to west Friday, rain. LOCAL DAT Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity Weather 4:30 p.m. yesterday 30.12 66 85 0 10 Showers +4:30 am. today ... 30.07 58 93 Calm [] Fog Noon today . 30.08 65 6 w 7 Overcast RADIO REPORTS TODAY Max. tempt. Lowest 4:30a.m. Precip. 4:30am. Station last 24 hours temp. tempt. 24hours Weather Barrow ... .. 38 32 34 b\ Clear Fairbanks 52 52 .02 Pt. Cldy Nome 56 56 0 Pt. Cldy Dawson 57 57 0 Cloudy Anchorage .. 1 56 56 01 Overcast Bethel .. 65 48 49 0 Cloudy St. Paul . 55 45 4 .01 Atka . 56 45 46 o Dutch Harbor .. 52 48 48 08 Clear Wosnesenski 55 52 52 0 Cloudy Cordova 55 51 53 38 Overcast Juneau 7”2 56 58 T Ove, Cloudy Sitka ... 59 53 54 0 Ketchikan ... 82 59 59 0 Prince Rupert .. 70 b4 56 [ Prince George 100 58 .59 0 Overcast Edmonton a1 59 62 0 Overcast Seattle 99 72 3 s Portland 102 % 6 0 San Francisco .. 69 53 55 T Overcast WEATHER SYNOPSIS Clear or partly cloudy skies p-evailed over the northern portion of Alaska this morning and par:ly cloudy to cloudy skies over the . southern portion with scatte ed light rain falling this morn- ing at a few points from Cordova and Kenai Peninsula to the Alaska- Range and middle Yukon Valley. Rain had fallen during the previous 24 hours at scattered points over the northern portion of Southeast Alaska and from Bristol Bay to the Alaska Range and the Yukon and Tanana Valleys anl from Cape Spencer to the Alaska Peninsula. The greafest amount o’ precipitation was 38 hundredths of an inch which was recorded at Cordova. The warmest tempe ture yesterday afternoon was 82 degrees, reported at Ketchikan, and the coldest this morning 34 degnees at Barrow. Clear or scattered clouds in the south portion ani scattered to broken clours in the north portion with modera‘e to unrestricted ceilings and good visibilities prevailed this morning over the Juneau-Ketchikan airway. The Thursday morning weath'r chart indicated a center of low pressure of 2940 inches was loca‘ed in Bristol Bay and was ex- pected to slowly fill and move nor.hward. A second low center was located at 45 degrees north and 130 degrees west and was expected to move about 600 miles north-nor:heastward , during . the next 24 hours. - A third low center was lo ated to the west of Atka. A hizh pressure center of 30.26 inches was located at 56 degrees north and 160 degrees west with a high cr st extending northward to south- east Alaska. A second high center of about the same pressure was located at 38 degrees north and 138 degrees west. Juneau, July 18 — Sunrise 4:20 a.m., sunset 9:47 p.m. PAUL BREWER GOES THROUGH FROM SOUTH Paul Brewer, former PAA mechanic at the Juneau airport, ar- | rived from the south by boat yester- | day and immediately. flew to the Interior on a northbound Lodestar. Brewer left Juneau several months ago to attend an advanced PAA training school in Brownsville, Tex. Accompanied by his wife and daugh- ter, he will make his home in Fair- banks, where he will be stationed as PAA mechanic. e BACK FROM KETCHIKAN Margaret Ulander of the Mont- gomery Ward order office in Juneau, returned here on 'the northbound steamer Mount McKinley this morn- ing after spending several weeks in Ketchikan visiting her parents, .- BUY DEFENSE BONDS CLOTHES that are CLEANED OFTEN—Wear Lenger! Bend YOUR GARMENTS 'l'ri;ngle Your appearanse The Dally Aiaxka Empire nas the argest paid circulation of any Al- Will Remodel to Suit DELICIOUS ! boil W ek S Ensign Harry L. Morgan, for- merly stationed on the Coast Guard cutter Haida and who has re- cently been in the District Office it Ketchikan, has been transferred to the cutter Mojave at Miami, Fla., it was learned here today. The Mojave is of similar design to the Haida. B —— MOVES UP FLOOR The office of the National Re- sources Planning Board, formerly on who is accompanying him on the trip, will go to Seward, Anchorage, Palmer, Matanuska Valley, Yaku- tat, Haines, and Skagway, return- ing here on the Alaska. Mrs. Bayless is Vice-President of :he Music Teachers Association in 3an Francisco. This is their first trip North, and the two will have jeen gone over a month before hey return to their home in San Francisco. e Alaska’s - nearest _ poing.; to--the thiral United States is 600 miles north- yest of Seattls, ‘i i S ® [ [ 4 . o [ ® e e 2 #