The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 23, 1941, Page 2

FLIMAY MARY WILDES AND CLIMAXIN X HENTHAL FAR EAST | "weD, ANCHORAGE NEARI“G}WeII Known Juneav S . Married Last Evening- British Sources Indicate Are on Honeymoon .. . 1 PO CI'|S|S Will Be Rea(hEd | ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 23.— . Mary Wildes and John Hellenthal in Next 24 Ho urs | were marriea here lnst night at 8 o'clock. 3_British sourc-] The ceremony was performed by is expected reached within the LONDON, July United States Commissioner Thomas t where tonight will" be ours in the Far sweeping | i Price at the Anchorage Hotel. The bride wore a navy ensemble with white accessories and her cor- | sage was of gladiolis. ‘ | The bride’s attendant was Mrs. 10 Brit- | garry G. Maxwell, Jr., the former been | gupil Godfrey. Mrs. Maxwell wore Té-la dusty pink ensemble with white |accessories and a corsage of sweet | peas. Maurice Brunelle was best man. | 0 G. AS | The newlyweds will spend a short b | honeymoon at St. Clairs, then re- |turn to Anchorage, remaining here NEWS {until September, when they will DOUGLAS ALIVE WITH {then go to Juneau to make their | home. | INDUSTRY, NIGHT LIFE | and forearmed™ the situation e forewa arding Mrs. Hellenthal is well known and popular among the younger set in! Douglas hummed with activity &l- | Juneau where she has resided for most all last night with Industry |several years with her father, Gor- centered at its height on the city | don Wildes. She recently left Juneau wharf where the cannery was Tun- and has been in Anchorage for sev- ning to capacity and the North | eral weeks. Coast was docked loading salmon John Hellenthal is the son of until 5 a.m. today. ¥Federal Judge Simon Hellenthal of Douglas Fisheries Company began | the Third Division, and Mrs. Hel- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1941. $60,000 Wil 6o fo Alaska | Juneau Miiiers Arrears on Overtime | Wages Being Paid to Workers Here | | Payment of back wages, found ’duv in @ Wage and Hour inspection last year, are now in process of being made by the Alaska Juneau| Gold Mining Company. Approx- imately one half of the total am- ount has already been paid off and the balance is in process of| payment, said Walter T. Neub('r(.i Alaska and Washington State Manager of the Wage and Hour Division of the U. S. Department of Labor, today, | These payments will amount ap- roximately to $60,000 and were awarded to the employees of the! mine in a recent decision of the United States District Court in | San Francisco, stated Neubert, and | the remainder of the amount is to be paid shortly. | Checking with the Alaska Juneau mine along with the other mines; and industries in Alaska is rep-| resentative of the work that Neu-| bert intends to accomplish in the Territory during . the next two| months, “To see that all the measures of the Fair Labor Standards Act are| Bobby Gallagher (left), of New Y. o Brazil Greets Boy Ambassador ork, boy ambassador from the United States to Brazil, and Roberto Andrade, Brazil’s boy envoy to the Uni States, are pictured as they arrived in Rio de Janeiro aboard the liner 4rgentina. : 92, He’s Sued for Divorce APPLICATIONS, AIR OPERATORS . ALASKA, HELD UP The de- | WASHINGTON, July 23 Civil Aeronautics Board has | cided to uphold action on appli-| cations of 38 air line operators in :Alaslm until a study' of air U'.m*-‘ | portation problems there. | Meanwhile, operators ard author- jiced to continue operations, eff | tive immediately. However new ap- plicaticns must be acted upon by | the board | It is said that the Alaska air E ce is surrounded by circum- | stances so different from those at present in continental United States | that further consideration should | be given the problems of a general | regulatory policy including possibie | need legislation before passing lon the pending applications. | —— - 'FLECTRA, THREE LODE ARSARE FLYING TODAY, A heavy schedule is being car- ried by the Pan American Airways | | today as four different planes fly | their respective routes. ! The Lodestar, which has be grounded if Prince George for last two days, finally arrived in| Juneau at 0 o'clock this after- ncon and left shortly with two pas- sengers from Juneau for Fairbanks. i 1 of United e . THE WEATHER (fil the U. S. Weather Bureau) U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU Forécast for Jidnead and vicin®y, beginning at 4:30 p.m., July Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday with morning fog in channel; slightly warmer Thursday, lowest temperature tonight about 53 grees, highest Thursday 68 degrees; gentle variable winds. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Partly cloudy tonight and Thurs- day with morning fog in channcls; slightly warmer Thursday; mod- erate to gentle westerly to northwesterly winds. Forecast of winas along the Goast of the Gulf of Alaskas Dixon Entrance to Cape Spencer: Moderate to fresh northwesterly winds backing to westerly winds Thursday, partly cloudy; Cape Spen- cer to Cape Hinchinbrook: moderate to fresh southwest westerly winds backing to soutnsrly to southwesterly, mostly clou- dy with local rai Cape Hinchinbrook to Resurrection Bay: moder- ate to fr southerly winds, local rain; Resurrection Bay to Ko- diak: moderate to fresh southerly to southeasterly winds, mostly cloudy. 99: 1 de- LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity 4:30 pm. yesterday 30.20 57 82 s 6 Rainins 4:30 am. today .. 30,28 53 9% Calm 0 Noon today 3030 56 81 Cam 0 RADIO REPORTS Overcast TODAY 4:30a.m. Preecip. tempt. 24 hours 33 50 50, 55 57 51 48 48 50 51 55 Lowest temp. 32 50 49 55 57 51 45 48 50 50, 53 Max. tempt. last 24 hours AQ 65 51 6 68 57 50 57 Station Barrow Fairbanks Naome Dawson Anchorage Bethel St. Paul Atka Dutch Harbor Wosnesenski Cordova Juneau Sitka Ketchikan Prince Rupert Prince George Edmonton Seattle 61 58 53 o1 57 54 52 55, 54 66 64 66 72 72 Overca::t Cloudy its day's operations with 35,000 fish on the floor and as warehouse fac- ilities became jammed, hundreds of cases of salmon had to be hi ; from the wharf to await ship- ment later n steamer space be- comes available While the ship wa sengers enjoyed the here on the channel leaving only with reluc the vessel was ready to sa in port v ht right ce life wl 2a MORE FISH TODAY The cannery tender P rived early this morn. lcad of salnon, some ! day's packing at the cs ha 00, £ nery lenthal. He is a graduate of the Juneau High School and also Notre Dame University and the law school. He was admitted to the bar in Ju- neau last fall and for a time was iated with his uncle, Jack Hel- al, in the latter’s office in Ju- au. He went on the court cruise board the Coast Guard cutter Haida during the spring with his father and then returned and re- |heading of mained at Anchorage. are: | e 1—That the minimum age for| Executive Follows carried out in the Territory is my| | job,” stated Neuvert, t “Although it is up to us to| enforce the three basic measures of | the act we are not in Alaska in a; punitive capacity. Our mission is| informative as well. The three con-| ditions that must be dbserved b}"L all industries that come under the | interstate commerce 2—That regular wage plus one! hau be paid to every man working !over 40 hours in a week. 3.—That 30 cents an hour is the “fhe Government Hospital after suf- DOUGLAS LAD DIES AFTER SHORT ILLN} .. Julian Tassell, eidest son of Joe Tassell of Douglas, passed away at an ‘early hour yesterday morning at Back in the 1850’s Capt. Joseph Comstock, sailing the Meteor out of New London, Conn,, visited the| coast of Alaska on long and ad- venturous whaling trips. | Grandson George Comstock, Pres- | ident of Electrical Products Con-! solidated, and Mrs. Comstock are| passengers aboard the Baranof making the roundtrip to the West- ';ward, not retracing grandfather’s| | path because his ship travelled far| to the northward, but finding for themselves that Alaska is the land of scenic beauty that has been claimed by all who have told about it ever since Capt. Comstock's day Comstock, a former president of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, | | was scheduled to make the trip to Ala. a with Terry McGovern LITTLE CLAUDIE IS and Darwin Meisnest, 4 Y Meisnest, Chamber of SIX YEARS OLD TODA 1 Commerce representatives who re- s cently spent several weeks in the Claude Erskine, Jr., celebrated his | ¢ SP c ’ sixth birthday today with a party north. Smce. their return McGov. for himself and his young neigh- | Il and Meisnest have shown pic borhood friends given by his mother. tures and given talks about Alaska | e that convinced the Comstocks that | TO SITKA | the trip to Alaska should be made | Pear] Johnson, who has been visit- | in spite of a busy summer sched- | ing with her sister, Mrs. Elroy Fleek ule. | for the past week, left this morning After making the trip to the gla-| by plane for Sitka, where she Will cier and sight-seeing in Junenu“[ join the nurses’ staff of the Pioneers’ Mr. and Mrs. Comstock were hosts | Home. to a group of friends at cocktails 'at the Baranof before the ship| sailed. | Mr. and Mrs. Comstock live :n| Seattle where the former started his extensive neon sign business| | nearly 20 years ago. Active in the ! city’s civic affairs and club life,| Comstock is president this year of| the Seattle Community Fund. fering two weeks with spinal men- ingitis Aged 13 years, the boy was born in Douglas on February 19, 1928. He | is survived by his father, two sisters, Marian and Dorothy, and three brothers, Joseph, Peter and Patrick, all of Douglas. ~ Remains of the deceased are at the Charles W. Carter Mortuary in Juneau, where services will be held at 2 pam. Friday, July 25, followed by interment in the Juneau ceme- tery. Eulogy will be read by George H. Loveless, missionary of the Alaska Evangelization Society. - ->>o Reese (alled for Military Service| Richard W. Reese, who is a Sec- ond Lieutenant in the Army Re- serve, was called into active serv- ice today. His orders, which will become effective on August 1, are for lum to go to Fort Richardson, re he will be attached to the nance Department. e is now employed as an en- 2ineer at the Alaska Juneau Gold Mine. -oo—— LA GASA IN TOWN C cllknown diver, ieau aboard the North Kake. arnved in * | Coast frum ODOM-EDWARDS © Alaska Distributors Put a Covic Diesel in Your Boat If You Want MORE RCOM IN YOUR BOAT Meore Miles for Your Money A Comfortable, Quiet Ride An Engine that ntly Starts Assurance of Safe Trips Freedom from Fire Hazards A Broad Range of Smooth Speeds Low Operating and Maintenance Cests Reduced Insurance Xates Smokeless, Odorless Exhaust Full Diesel Dependability ; An Engine that Can Be Easily Hand Cranked CHARLES 6. WARNER CO. ————————————————————————————————————— 0000088000000 | for the Territory with headquartérs | met by Major B. B. Talley at the| &and'a'he’ “or|h1::;r;im&1:kyage at which employees N eubert’s office is located in the | Assembly in the Territorial De-! partment of Labor. He will use| this office as his base of operations] for the next two months while he| is in Alaska. | ARMY ENGINEER FLIES THROUGH ABOARD BOMBER Colonel Dunn Steps from| Lodestar fo Waiting | U. S. Plane ‘ Col. B. C. Dunn, Army engineer at Seattle, arrived on a northbound | Lodestar this afternoon and was airport. Major Talley, engineer in charge of all Army construction in the Territory, arrived here two days ago in an Army bomber from Fair- banks. Col. Dunn joined the Major and left immediately in the bomber for Yakutat and an inspection of bases in Alaska. Gilbert Family On Way to Fairbanks Mrs. J. F. Giloert, who is a sister of Mrs. Frank McCafferty, and her two daughters, Ma.rgaret.nnd Fran- ces and son Floyd are in Juneau to- day while the Baranof is in port. Miss Margaret Gilbert is going to Fairbanks where she has a teaching position for the coming year. She graduated. from the Santa Barbara State College in June. Miss Gilbert and Frances and Floyd will return south enroute to their home in Santa Barbara after visiting Fairbanks. TEACHERS RETURNING FROM YEAR'S ABSENCE Mr, and, Mis, O. C. Connelly and their son William, after a year's leave of absence, returned to the Territory on the Baranof, Mr. and Mrs. Connelly are teachers under the Office of Indian Affairs and have been stationed at Kival- ina which i$ on the Artic coast. - e - NOTICE SPECIAL NOTICE is hereby given that the Director, Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation, under date of July 14, 1941, file 3-3479, gave authority to change the name of the oil screw yacht CONTENT to TAKU. Said vessel was built in 1930 at Los Angeles, Calif., her official number is 229784; her gross tonnage is 45; her home port, Juneau; owner, Ed- ward Lowe, Juneau, Alaska. JAMES J. CONNORS, Collector of Customs. First publication, July 21, 1941. Last publication, July 24, 1841. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY { D — Luther Bristol, 92-year-old Civi] War veteran, is sued for divorce in Los Angeles by his 62-year-old wife, who was his former housekeeper (both pictured). They were married in 1929. Mrs. Bristol claims her aged husband was cruel to her, and asked for “reasonable support,” averring he owns real estate worth in excess of §40,000, " Rothschilds on U. S. Visit B ss Clarice de Rothschild (right) arrives in Boston from Mon- | trae:‘lm;ith her two daughters, Bettina, 16 (left), and Gwendoline, 14, i en route to Bar Harbor, Maine, for the summer. A fugitive from the | Nonie the haranass ie ona of the warld’s wealthiest women. | Spy Suspect Pleads Innocent. | One of 32 persons arrested by the F. B. L on espionage charges, Herman Lang, 40-year-old German-born draftsman and an employe in the Sperry Gyroscope tactozb' which_is working on the Norden bombsight, a closely-guarded U. 8. military secret, is pictured in custody of an officer in New York where he pleaded innocent. Lang was held in $25,000 bail. They were Gene Burnham and| Blanch Havercamp. | Arriving from Fairbanks at 5| o'clock this afternoon will be an| Electra with the following pas- | sengers: Al Dierks, Mr. and Mrs. | Arthur O’'Mera, Powell Plant, Frank Chinella, and Robert Gebo. ‘The southbound Lodestar left Ju- neau for Seattle with five passen- gers from here at 12:15 o’clock this afternoon. They were Robert O Brien, Curt Reisinger, Mrs. Leslic Weldon, Wayne Wood, and ¥red Lanter. | The regular Wednesday Lodestar from Seattle will arrive in Juneau | at 5 o'clock this afterncon with t Portland San Francisco 4 3 WEATHE Partly cloudy to cloudy s ing apd rain was falling at sor Kenai Peninsula to King Cove a lokwim - Valley, The greatest am center of 30.73 inches was degrees west and moderately Juneau, July 24 — Sunrise 4: Cloudy Clear Clear 56 53 SYNOPSIS o5 peevailed over Alaska this morn- m> points along the coast f the' ni at scattercd points over the Kus- ount precipitation was 97 hun- 57 54 of dredths of an inch.which was recorded at Wosnesenski. The highest temperature yesterday afterngon was 68 degrec Ancheorage and the lowest this morning 33 Broken clouds to overcast with moierate ties prevailed over the Juneau-Ketchikan airway The Wednesday morning weater chart indicated a high pressure locat *d low pressure prevailed ing Sea and over the northern portion of Alaska. degrees at Barrow. ceilings and good visibili- this morning. at 49 degrees north and over the 143 Ber- 32 a.m., sunset 9:36 p.m. following passengers for Jun Paul K. Pasche, Walter G. M Passengers booked for Fairbanks are Robert Hinckley, Howard Rough, Mrs, C. H. Mrs, W. E. Waxher 2Rae. DAWNF GET PATIENT MADE | BY PILOT GOODWIN Roaring out of the Channel on an | emergency flight to Chatham to re- | turn with Annie Joseph for St. Ann’s | Hospital, Pilot Dean Goodwin made | an early morning trip today. An- other passenger returning with Miss Joseph from the cannery was Tom | Lee. { On a flight to Sitka, Pilot Alex | Holden carried Robert Cunningham, ! Mrs. M. Windsor, Betty McCormick, | Mrs. Louis Lemstra and Pear] John- | son and returned with Robert| Schoettler, W. A. Bates, J. Thomas, | H. Roherts and Ernie Birkland. Shell Simmons carried Mrs. L. Murphy, James Gleason and Robert Gleason to Tenakee and returned | | with Mrs. Sam Asp. O. Berseth was a passenger to | Chatham with Goodwin later in the ) day and W. C. Bryant went to Todd round trip. ‘The pilot landed mail at P. E. Harris, Superior Packing, Peril Straits and New Enland Fish canneries on the trip. Flying to Hoonah, Goodwin car- ried Mrs. Ione Felton and W. E. Bryant. HARDYS SPEND DAY IN JUNEA R. M. Hardy, President oi' the Sunshine Mining Company, and his | wife arrived in Juneau on the Bar- ‘aof for an overnight stay before |leaving by P.AA, tomorrow for Fairbanks. This afternoon the Hardys went (ishing on Goldstein’s boat with Dr. and Mrs. W. W. Council, Charles Geldstein, and I Stockerand, rep- resentative of Field and Stream. FORD AND HOLLAND T0 BE AT CHAMBER SESSION TOMORROW Writers Corey Ford and Dan Hol- land, visiting the Northland on their annual fishing trip, will br guests at the noon meeting of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce to morrow in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel. A new idea for civic interest prob- lems will be broached by the newl: inaugurated attendance committec headed by Dr. R. H. Williams. from Sitka and will leave on t Lodestar for a short business trip to Seattle. Mr. Bates is connected with the Kefchikan Banker Is Here from Sitka e R O WANTED — Maid for general housework. Apply Nugget Shop. Miners and Merchants Bank in Retchitan. ie 15 slaying at the Baranof. W. A. Bates of Keichikan, who is President of the Bank of Sitka, same to Juneau today on the plane LA GASA DIVORCE GRANTED IN COURT A. J. La Gasa was granted s vorce from Sophie La Gasa by Fed- eral Judge George F. Alexander in ‘New' District Qourt today. SITNA CITY DADS "WANT AID UNDER FACILITIES ACT Coast TowECiTy Council fo. Seek Advice from WPA Man SITKA, Alaska, July 23 — The City Dads held their last regular meeting of the month of July ‘Tuesday evening. The main topic discussed was the possibilities o Céngre: known as the Communi- ties Facilities Act. L Reports were read on plans for a new high school building, sewer extension and hospital, and Mayor J. J. Conway stated that Frank T. Evans, Public Works engineer, is expected to investigate these pro- posals upon hig arrival in Sitka this week. Evans is. enroute to Sit- ka from his Seattle office. The resignation of Councilman O. W. Tupper was read and ac- cepted, and a motion of thanks for past services rendered the City was passed and made part of the record. Mr. Tupper, who is mana- ger of the First Bank of Sitka, will leave next week for Seattle, where he and, Mrs. Tupper will visit. —————————— CONGDONS SAIL SOUTH Mr. and Mrs. Robert Congdon and two daughters sailed for the south on the southbound. steamer North Coast this morning, after visiting in Tulsequah for seyeral days. Congdon, accompanied by Thorold mine dur 3 r ‘Pfiam ];‘!:ld are large stockhold- obtaining aid under a new act of! PAA BUSINESS 1S HITTING ALL TIME PEAK NOW Operations are hitting an all-time high for Pan American Airways op- erations, stated Joe Crosson, Man- ‘| ager of the Alaska Division of PAA, | today. Invariably the four weekly Lodestars from Seattle to Fairbanks are filled and reservations are be- ing taken far ahead of time for the Juneau-Fairbanks Electras, said Crosson. Crosson, who arrived in Juneau several days ago, will leave Juneau tomorrow. When asked as to the progress being made on the contem- plated Fairbanks to Anchorage run, Crosson repliedthat no new devel- opments have arisen and that the company is still awaiting the de- cision of the Civil Aeronautics Board on the submitted application for the route, before making any definite plans. § INSURANCE COMPANY FILES The Merchants Fire Assurance Corporation of New York was qual- ified by the Auditor’s office today to do business in Alaska. the agent | for the company has not yet been | appointed. i | FORMER JUNEAU MAN 1S AT MOFFETT FIELD Friends of Gerdon Ferguson, for- merly a pharmist at the Butler- | Mauro Drug Company store here, will be interested to learn that he fis now serving in the Army as a | 2nd Lieutenant at the Flying Cadet | Reception Center at Moffett Field, | Cal. He is in the Medical Admin- | istrative Corps. | | | Empire Ciassuieas fay: ers in the Canadian mine, B e Some 756.000 men newly come of throughout. call them up 3t the rate of 75,000 ork draft d:fi;o{,' first to 8! uwp Babies Sign Up the nation for the new draft, and the shown age reglstered for ivilg:tirj service ) T : a month, Col. Aflur’ fi%’: Do Soe TosoR of Joha Zayreon,