The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 21, 1941, Page 2

Canadian Wom There Worki Taking War with Smiles BEAR SKUL e ] Gas mask drill is part of the tral Red Cross transport service. Mrs. the army, inspects masks of the ¢ After an cight-day Canadian | trip during which she talked with dozens of men and women | frem Prime Minister Mackenzic King to war factory girls and | flying cadets, Mar Ker ncdle tells what sfie found oul abeut the war work of Canada’s women. KERNODLE e Writer By MARGARLT AP Feature OTTAWA, Can 1ls Canadian Auxiliary »—for Women. Its members are war werk vol- unteers in uniforms. You see a lot of them on Ontario streets ahd learn there are 20,000 Canadian women in various uniforms. Now alter nearly two years of war, Can- dian women are just getting or- lized effectively on a national scale, They C-A-T-8 Training da — work hard and they keep| sense of humor. (This one group deliberately arranged to get the CATS nickname.) And those I talked with scemed thrilled and enthusiastic about it all. _But are the men glad? They ¢ not! The average Canadian man still appears to feel that the proper place for women is in the home the uniforms are “un- Some say the women; 3 ng materials. Some mere-| ly smile about it all, but a lot agree| with Mitchell H. Hepburn, Premier of the Province of Ontario, who thinks women can have only a complementary part in war, in- cluding a little factory work, until the boys come home again a As soon as you have cmswd‘_ the border you start seeing evi- dence that theirs is a women's w as well as a men's. You can| keep one on the U. S. border | and the :(h(x on women in khakx; coveralls covered with V.AD.C. in- | signia, driving trucks as members| of the Volun s Auxiliary Drivers Corps. They collect kitchen kettles that housewives donate to the Red Cross. Materials military minded | those at Niagara Falls,! started their organiza- year ago when a deferse! ended with an extra cents in the treasury. Now have two mew trucks with they pick up scraps—such as tons of paper a month md burlap bags worth $30 a ton. Busi ness women members work one afternoon and one night a wee'; Salvage other Like * women, Canada, tion a class 25 g th which 50| old | isewi pembers put in kg ‘20‘0 WS oty es had to be moved to the na- least °1}.° “nm‘ t,:(‘" S8y tatorium where they await ship- 1m 1 ;;: i tobs va-| ment along with between 4,000 and Ty y e 5 Or o tha orE et cated by men now in service, | 000 mor e dock ready to ; i be sen n the ship calls Their commander, Tvy Ma b i lieves in 1egular route marci s L discipline and proudly whi to me the uews of their tary wedding recently. “I took a leaf Hitter's | book,” she asseried explaining | that she has built thi ANz tion largely U ugh her n fortd. A = pretty, blue. with brown, cuwly h beams when she tells you the al forces salute her when she wedring her aviation blue uni- form. Another blue-eyed woman at the head of one of these units is Wini- fred Richards, national comman- dant of the Canadian Women’s Service forces, The main object is to train women for jobs and re-| lease men for service overseas. She| insisted” her women would sail for England themselves, if anyone would let them. Alsa T met English-born Violet Greenwood, leader of a branch of the Air Raid Precaution, which is| set up like the ARP in England Little Time for Worry Many Canadian women Jearning first aid, home nursing, motor transport, mechanies, wire- less telegraphy, how to make buzzer sets, and Army cateri and cooking. They leave them- selves as little time as possible for worry. The ones I talked with like the uniforms. Although these | one | dale, { Shudshift, | employed at ! half arel| 334, enArein ng; They Are nirz of members of the Canadian Allan Smith, whose husband is in yronto unit, aviators salute them girls like that, too 1 com r » first official | ul war work | ment bui thy autiful Par at Ottawa (with its| guard the hanged just like the at Buckingham Palace). There | vent to see Prime Minister Mac- King ling Dwirling his horn-rimmed read- tacles in one hand, he| “Oae of the first efforts of | uux(’])h [horson, new Minister of | War Suvice, will be to see that| women are more -effectively or- ganized.” 1 Tomortow: Canadian women | DOUGLAS NEWS MISCELLANEOUS SHOWER GIVEN FOR BRIDE-TO-BE | Complimenting Miss Jessie Fr: ser, Mrs. Felix Gray was hostess at a second event for the bride-to- be, a miscellaneous shower given at her home Saturday night Twenty-five guests invited in- cluded the Mesdames F. A, J. Gall- Dan Douglas, Arthur Bring- Olgat Anderson, J. L. Hop-| J. M. Clark, C. M. Tuckelt, J. R. Guerin, Glen Kirkham, Arne John Mills, Alex Gair,| Joe Riedi, Charles Schramm, Frank | Pearce, Sam Devon, Ed Each,j Charles Sey, Erwin Hachmeister, | Elton Engstrom, Guy L. Smith,| Robert Fraser, Miss Elizabeth Fra-| ser, and the honoree. Bridge entertained with Mrs. Sey holding high score, Mrs. Bach| the low and Mrs. Devon u’mmn"‘ cut prize. Miss Fraser's wedding is set for the last day of the present month | when she will become the bride of | Mr. Theodore Mack. The latter is the First National{ Bank of Juneau. The ceremony will be held at 8 o'clock in the evening at the i Lutheran Church. A reception for the couple will follow at the Fra-| ser home. i L P A BUSY DAY AT CANNERY Working 2l day yesterday the night, Douglas Fisheries| Company had around 2,700 sal- mon run through their cannery here | 'to give them their biggest day of canni, so far this season. | ve congestion in the cas- | torage quarters, 1,000 | i i was, good | i and| - Celebrate Birthday | JomIIy on Saturday Jesta ’rnmmerman and . Mr. Douglass celebrated their jointly last Saturday with party. between 5 and ’7 o'clock. The party was held in ne playroom of ~Mrs. Timmer- man’s home on Tenth Street. About guests were present. Clever sketches by Jimmy Hodges of birthday parties were tacked to | the walls and summer flowers com- | pleted the decorations. e HELP AN ALASKAN Telephone 713 or write The Alaska Territorial Employment Service for this qualified worker. CHAMBERMAID — Woman, 48, wishes full time work. hotel experience. m rthdays a. cockta 35 age 10 years' | call ES lease IN FROM INTERIOR | weights and lengths of fish, ling them to the ounce, and all in ‘he said. {articles on Alaska defense, saying| | George because of | C. Kofron, | Mr. and Mrs, John McCullough. (OREY FORD CHATS WITH Colliers Writer Seek Alaska Streams Dan Holland and Nofed. Sitting cross-legged on a table in the Game Commission office and occasionally turning to make casual comment to the skull of large Kodiak bear, Corey noted Alaska visitor and staff writ- er for Colliers, conversed with EX- ecutive Officer Frank Dufresne {n- day, and made plans to fish the | Territory “up as far as the Circle.” Ford, aska, by PAA Lodestar accompanied by | Dan Holland, son of the editor-in-| | chief of Field and Stream. In his | own right a writer, youthful Hol- a |land bit a pipe stem and searched | his statistical mind for record| quot- | an effort to find some record ‘that| could be broken and held by Ford. ‘ Finally Holland, who is vlsitmg the Territory again, he said, be-| cause of a rumor that “there is! a couple of fish up here,” decided} that Ford can claim the grayling mcoxd because of the impossibility 'of anyone disputing the ‘claim.| “Your’s clear on that one, Corey, “It would be practically | to check on all chel impossible claims. The Colliers writer, one-half of[ Corey Ford, Allister McBain team, | is keeping his eye open for more | that it is fortunate that the gov- ernment is building air bases sO close to good fishing streams. Less effort to cover both, he intimated. The other-half, McBain, Ford said, intends to join the party here | in several weeks. “But it makes no difference, McBain can spot us a| i couple of weeks and still catch more fish.” The writing team and Holland will be in the Territory for about | six weeks, and will leave Juneau, in several days, bound for troutl fishing in the Interior. - LODESTAR IS GROUNDED IN PRINCE GEORGE The northbound Lodestar, whica left Seattle this morning at 10 o'- clock, has cancelled out in Prince | bad weather | conditions, the PAA office an- nounced this afternoon. The grounded plane has aboard eight| passengers for Juneau. They arer F. Evans, F. Hammersmith, Miss B. Havercamp, P. Beatty, Col. B. C. Dunn, Ensign J. Dugan, T. Gary, and Mrs. J. Kauzlevich. On the same plane booked for Nome is | | Leaving Juneau airport yesterday were two PAA planes. Aboard the | Lodestar from Seattle for Fair- banks were four passengers for Juneau, W. T. Neubert, Frances | Meals, Corey Ford, and Dan Hol- land. For Fairbanks were W. F. McRoberts, and Donna Mardich, On board the Electra for Fair- banks were Archie Betts, Leon De- Long, Stuart Stout, Robert 'Cebo, Roy Knight and Gene Poncin. GOODWIN FLIES EMERGENCY TRIP IN EARLY DAWN Flying a mercy flight to Hoonah to return with Ray Wild, Pilot Dean Goodwin roared off the Channel at | 3 o'clock this ‘morning. Wild was taken to St. Ann’s Hospital for im- mediate medical attention. In'a flight to Sitka, Shell Sim- | mons carred L. Lindy, Dr. Courtney Smith, Fred W. Foord and A. L. Depmeyer to the Coast town and | returned with Garl Main, ‘Dorothy Rossi, Tom Running, E. Whitehead |and Astrid Ash. Later today another trip to Sitka {'will be made ‘with Corey Ford and | Dan Holland. The pilot will return | with five passengers. Simmons made a charter flight to Elfin Cove with Tom Running from Juneau. Pilot | Alex Holden made two trips to the Polarsi-Taku mine . GENERAL OF MARINES ARRIVING ON YUKON On board the steamer Yukon and booked to arrive here this evening| is Brigadier Genera¥ Charles F. B.| Prince, Commanding General of the Department of the Pacific of the U. S. Marine Corps. With the General is his alde, Lt, J. S. Mc- Intosh. Both men are accompanied on Staying at the Baranof Hotel at present are Mr. and Mrs, Ray Rob- are unofficial, soldiers, sailors andinson from Fairbanks, | their tour of the Territory by their wives. They will proceed as far as Unalaska, al Ford, | on an annual trip to Al-| arrived in Juneau yesterday | A German soldier views a wrecked tank near Salu n, along the Egyptian-Libyan border. German sources desflribed the tank as being American-made. Picture radioed from Berlin to New York. For Merchanl Marme Uncle Sam’s rapidly expanding merchant marine listed a newcomer recently. Pictured as she breadsided into the Long Beach, Calif., channel is the 7,500-ton Alcoa Pennant, constructed at the shipbuilding plant of the Consolidated Steel Corporation. The newest addition to the nation’s merchant fieet is 417 feet long, has a 60-foot beam and a cargo capauty of 8,000 tons. JUNEAU 10 GIVE CRUISER JUNEAU ON SEIZURES SILVER SERVICE DEMANDED Mayor Lucas Estimates Cost Governmerfimirol Over of Gift from City Defense Materials Is at $1,000 Necessary for Nation ‘The launching of the cruiser Ju- WASHINGTON, July lEGISlATION 21-—-Demo- neau, tentatively set to taste water cratic leader Senator Alben W. for the first time on October 7, to- Barkley, urging the Senate to ay day launched a campaign in Juneau prove legislation permitting for the presentation to the vessel of | government’s seizure of defense r a silver service. terials, declared that “if war A letter from Delegate Anthony J. | he jast resort, T will not shun it.” i R o bt L“”“S'i Senator Barkley said seizure of gave estimates on several services S P araxvIsined At 1 18 mswmary‘thr,cu:” nI‘umyA\ most vital and for the city after which a new cruis- | . C (G0 Avon 8 needed, that of this Nation er is named to present it with silver issed publicly. service. The cruiser Wichita was | Y 2 given a service valued at $5,500, the | The Senate becan the debate on the legislation and Administration | cruiser Tacoma a service of $3,000, | the cruiser New Orleans a service of | $1,132 and the U. S. S. Phoenix a service of $560. Other ships, Di- | mond said, received presents valued as much as $8,000. ‘The Delegate suggested the ap- \ propriateness of the gift to the crui$- | er St. Louis which included a punch ! bowl, a ladle, a tray, 23 cups and | four candlesticks at approximately | a cost of $855. Mayor Harry Lucas | said the expense of the service to be given the cruiser Juneau will be near $1,000, and pointed otit that the presentation of the gift is only two months distant. - leaders predict passage late today or by tomorrow. 1 STAYING AT BARANOF ‘ M. J. Klepser of Ketchikan i in ! town and is staying at Bar anof Hotel. the - .- HERE FROM KETCHIKAN in Marshall Crutcher is from Ketchikan and is ¢ the Baranof Hotel. - MISS SULLIVAN HONORED In honor of Miss Jo Sullivan, s\ho is visiting her sister Mrs. Samuel | Guyot, Miss Nell McCloskey enter- | town | ing at| R EC OR D—Ceaselessly since 1820 Charles Kettering, General Motors research chief who in- ' vented the auto self-starter, has perfected devices for the hom/: and for industry. tained eight friends at a luncheon | B in the Iris Room at the Bnrano(l nUY DEFENSE BONI)S Hotel Saturday . i Gy —— Empire Clussifieds Pay! BUX DEFENSE STAMPS THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, JULY 2I, German Soldlers Vlew Wrecked Tank 1941 te _g:' v B Major Ialley | Here to Meet Colonel Dunn Army Engieee‘r for Ter.ri-‘ | fory Flies fo Juneau THE WEATHER E (By the U. S. Weather Burcau) U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU Forecast for Juneau and vicinids, beginning at 4:30 p.m., July 21: Mostly cloudy with occasional showers and not much change in tem- perature tonight and Tuesda lowest tonight about 50 degrees, high- est Tuesday about 65 degrees; moderaté southerly winds. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: GCccasional shower change in temperature tonight and Tuesday; moderate winds. Forecast of winas along the cpast of the Guif of Alaska: and not r sout! Dixon Entrance to Cape Spencer: Moderate to fresh southerly winds, occasional sHowe Cape Spence: to Cape Hinchinbrook: m e to fresh east to southeasterly w tain; Gape Hinchinbrook to Resurrection Ba noderate east winds, rain; Resurrection Bay to Kodik: moderate nottheasterly winds, cloudy tonight, rain Tues- day. LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity =~ Weather 4:30 p.m. yesterday 29.73 62 54 WswW 2 Cloudy 4:30 a.m. today 2976 52 95 S 7 Rain Noon today 20.88 56 % SE 14 Cloudy RADIO REPORTS TODAY Max. tempt. Lowest 4:30a.m. Precip. 4:30¢ Station last 24 hours | temp. tempt. 24hours Weat Fairbanks 70 | 53 54 0% Cloudy Nome, 55 47 47 T Drizzl Dawson 4 42 42 0 loudy Anchorage 65 | 50 50 0 Cla Bethel 53 51 52 2 St. Paul 53 | 4 50 0 Pt. Cldy Dutch Harbor .. 55 48 48 0 Cloudy Cordova 52 i 65 53 0 Cloudy Juneau 64 | 51 52 05 i Ketchikan 59 | 54 56 44 Prince Rupert ..63 { 52 54 5 Seattle 81 60 63" b Portland 91 58 59 [ San Francisco .. 72 54 55 0 WEATHER SYNOPSIS Cloudy weather prevailed ove: most of Alaska this morning h scattered light rains occurring over west and central portions of Alaska proper and modératé rain’over Southsast A During previots 24 hours rain had' fallen over ‘most of" Alas! but were s preatest amount of precipitation was .91 inch, corded at Lar emperature yesterday afternoon was 70 degrees recorded at and the coldest was 35 degrees recorded at Barrow. Rain with low ceiling and visibility prevailed along ‘the Juneau-Ketchikan airways this mornin The Monday morning weather chart indicated a weakening center of low pressure Gulf of Alaska. located in the of 2065 inches' was located in the of high pressure of 30.33 inches was 39 degrees north and 156 degrees w Juneau, July 22 - 4:28 am,, A large center Pacific Ocean at sunset 9:40 p.m. Slip some of your favorite sachet | Leftover Ipaper can be used m Bomber | effectivel; covering wasto bowder in the ends of the padded baskets, utility boxes and acces- hangers hold our best dress | t The subtle odor scents the closet ling ore rmy |sory containers for dresser dra P o Landing here in an_Army B-18 e e e e 48 Wil A LA bomber from Ladd Field in Fai ers. The paper also is convenien banks, Major B. B. Talley, engineer | in charge of all defense col | i tion work in the Te ory, here last night to 1 Col. B. C.| Dunn, of the Army Engineers in | Seattle, who is expected to arrive here from the South ¢t Col. Dunn will meet ley here and return to the I with him. With Talley Major | D. W. Titus and Lt R. Speer | of the Air Corps. | > o - - | ALASKA SCOUTING | ~ ACTIVITIES GAIN INCAMPING PLANS Youth Movement Head- quarfers Announces Increase in Work The camping program for Ala: an Bi i year in both | short term and long term camping, ‘ th plans having been completed | ch v ult in every reg: 'tnredl troop in Alaska having participated | ir least one of many interesting camping experiences, according to| a statement issued today by the Alaskan Boy Scout headquarters. Camps have already been held in | Ketchikan, Metlakatla, Petersburg, Juneau, Anchorage and Fairbanks. 'Other camps are planned for Ko- diak and Palmer which will include Scouts from Anchorage and Cor- dova, Seward, Juneau, Sitka, and Ketchikan. | All camps are being conducted under the regular troop leadership and under the regulations required for maintaining the standards of Boy Scout camps. Amby Frederick, ut Executive for Alaska, who has recently completed a tour of inspection of several of the camps, | repor It is a pleasure to note splendid type of leadership that has been recruited locally to direct our - Alaskan - Scout ' camps. The physical ‘arranigéments * ‘and pro- gram have been of high quality. It is to be hoped that as a result| of the present intensive extension program now under way in the Territory, that increasing numbert of Alaskan boys will be able to| enjoy the advantages of Scout camping.” - ON STEAMER YUKON Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Washickek of New York are passengers on the steamer Yuken and will arrive here this evening on the north- bound vessel. Washickek is an in! vestment broker in New York. e FROM TEXAS Retired Collector of Customs R. W. Humphreys and wife are vaca- tion passengers ‘on the steamer Yu- kon ‘arriving here tonight. The Humphreys are from Galveston, Texas. o i DUE ON BARANOF Harry E. Huffman, prominent op- erator of motion picture theatres in Colorado, is a northbound pas- senger on the Baranof. Mrs. Huff- man is accompanying her hur band on the vacation trip. B for lining drawers. 0 mflh-vld Elaine, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Han'y Rollnick of Dayton, Ohio, a temperature of 96 degrees plus was just too hot for comfort, so a dunking in the bathtub was in order. To make sure of a breeez, she took along her fan. Obviously, the treatment for hot weather was a success — and she may try it uzin. Wodehouse Free in Berlm —l I.N. Radwyhoto Technically, ‘at lean. P. G Wodehouse noted British author and creator of that fictional character of “Jeeves,” the butler, has been freed in Germany. Captured last July, Wodehouse has been released from a Silesian internment camp and granted full freedom within Germany. - He is permitted to broadcast and lives at government ex- pense. He i§ shown in’ flu:h::w radiophoto sh.ndlng at left with an ous