The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 30, 1941, Page 2

i | e e ———— £ O — FLYING NO W Marian Hendrickson Chos- L' en President-Ann Day LAST EVENING Starting the day’s flying activities PAA was the departure of the | this morning | for southbound Lodestar from Juneau. The plane, leaving at | 9 o'clock, had aboard 10 passengers | for Seattle. They were: E. B. Nowa-i kowski, G. W. Hendershott, K. W. Egan, R. N. Jordan, Mrs. Charles | Bechtold, M. Dyer, Jack Salmon, | Charles Raymond, Mr. and Mrs. A.| 0. Smith The northbound Lodestar left Se- attle this -morning on schedule and hould arrive in Juneau at 4 o'clock afternoon, weather permitting, the following passengers 1: G. A. Collette, E. W. Elliott, E. E. Murray for Juneau. gh passengers on the plane are: J. Elder, Harry Webb, C. M. Wells, and Fred Mote. The Electra from Fairbanks is due rrive in Juneau at 4:15 o'clock afternoon with one passenger for here, Lance Hendrickson. ——.-—— with BEOUND FOR DAWSON Mrs, Dorothy Campbell and son Edward, passed through Juneau on he Princess Alice enroute to their nome in Dawsen RS RS Candy sales set an all-time re- cord at 2,250,000 pounds, valued at $336,000,000 in 1940, Department | of Commerce statistics show. Eirst (fl”) IN as 1st Vice-Pres. Marian Hendrickson' is the new | gered by radio to proceed to port President and Mrs. Anna Day is | First Vice-President of the American | Legion Auxiliary. They were elected last night at a meeting of the or- ganization in the Dugout called at | 8 o'clock. Mabel Lybeck remains as Second Vice-President. Mrs. Katherine Davenport will at- tend the Legion Convention next month in Seward and will represent | the Juneau Unit, A report was made of the visit of Mrs. Louis J. Lemstra, National President of the Auxiliary. and the convention call was issued. The organization decided to have a food sale on August 9. At the conclusion of the meeting refreshments were served in honor of Mrs. Edith Davis who is leaving soon for Anchorage to join her hus- band, and Mrs. Florence Mutch who will soon join her husband in Sitka. Gifts were presented to each from the Auxiliary, DOUGILAS NEWS NEW FAMILY FOR DOUGLAS Louis A. Wagner has taken resi- dence at the Kilburn Apartments in anticipation of the arrival in a few weeks of his wife and child from Grants Pass, Oregon, where they | formerly resided. Wagner has been | making his home with his brother, | William Wagner, since coming here | a couple of months ago. - — TO VACATION, TENAKEE Mrs. Jack Warner, accompanied by her two children, Aleda and Toni, and her mother, Mrs. John G. John- . QUALITY %d.//umu Bottled in Bond @@( At your favorite tavern and package store. ¢ | Estebeth for a two weeks' stay at Tenakee Sprlngs i S MISSIONARY HEAD VISITS Dr W. E. Pietsch, head of the are leaving this evening on the| Ay 28 fOR DISTILLERS O Suew voann s’ Straight Bourbon Whiskey, 100 proo.. Schenley Distillers Corp., N. Y.C. | ® DUSTPROOF BAG ® SPOTLIGHT No matter how large oi PHONE WE STAKE OUR REPUTATION ON G. E. CLEANERS YOU MUST SEE OUR NEW "Moderne” Model Cleaner These features offer many valwes built in our cleaners— ® REQUIRES NO OILING small your home, we know there is a G.-E. ¢ household cleaning needs. try these superior vacuum cleaners. ALASKA ELEC and POWER CO Alaska Evangelization Society, which ts headquarters in Douglas, was icitor here for a few hours yes- rday as guest of Mr. and Mrs. (seorge H. Loveless, local represen- tatives. Dr. Pieisch is a passenger board the steamship Denali on his way to Westward points in interests EQUALIZATION BOARD TO CONVINUE HEARINGS HERE Last night's meeting of the Doug- las Board of Equalization failed to materialize due to failure of some of the members to attend. The hear- ings will be continued tonight, be- ginning at 7:30 o'clock. ABEEUL LT NORTHLAND TAKES CANNERY SHIPMENT ‘With 10,000 cases of salmon await- ing shipment for the south, the Douglas Fisheries Company had the | Northland in port for about 12 hours today to load at least part of the salmon as space would allow. A S ‘COEPORATION IN ANCHORAGE Corporation papers were filed with Frank A. Boyle, Territorial Auditor, for Freidman's Jewelry and Lozn Company in Anchorage. Incorpor- ators are William Renfrew, F. M. Hale, and Julius Lee Friedman. The | firm has 100 shares valued at $100 each. MOTOR-DRIVEN BRUSH HIGH SPEED MOTOR leaner to meet your Stop in today and TRIC LIGHT 616 Jap Ship | " Ordered To Port Tatuta Maru, with about 100 Am- erican citizens aboard, has been or- 1mmrdm|els according to officers | of the N.Y.K. Line. The Tatuta 1s expected to arriv: at the quarantine station late tbis afternoon The vessel has been off the Gold- en Gate since Thursday and has been granted special permission to | discharge passenge without dan-| ger of seizure or any other delay | v jIr Boxer Salls North With Year Supplies For Indian Outposis| E. L. Bush sailed for Alas-| Seattle Monday in com-| mand of the Boxer, ship of the Of- fice of Indian Affairs. First for the vessel which is taking direct route to Unalaska through to Bristol Bay, will be Mekoyuk‘ on Nunivak Island. Then the ship| will proceed to Tununak on Nel- Capt ka from the mainland Passengers making the voyage| are Mr. and Mrs. Leo Bubb, who are taking the place of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Schultz as teachers in the Ir n school at Hooper Bay. The Schultzes will be teaching at Shaktoolik this year. Henry| Nancen, a native, is also making the trip, The boat is taking school, cal, and food supplies to the In- dian Affairs outposts. BT e e L CIVILIAN DEFENSE MAN MIGHT SPEAK AT CHAMBER MEET Assistant Director of Civilian De- fense J. J. Ryan has been invited as a guest speaker at the regular | medi- | weekly meeting of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce tomorrow noon in the Gold Room of the | Baranof Hotel. | Other business to be broached is a discussion of the plan to list available small boats to take fish- ing parties out of Juneau..The plan was suggested at the executive board meeting today by Dr. W. W. Council. ———————————— HOMESITES ALLOTTED The Admiralty Division of the Forest Service announced today that two ground lot permits had been issued to Juneauites. One permit for lot 17 at Point Louisa was is- sued to T. J. McCaul. The prop- erty was formally under permit to J. V. Hickey. The other permit issued was for lot 3 at Auk Lake to Valerie Trambitos. This prop- 'en.v was leased to George Phulip> originally. national stimulated demand for luxury and Increased income has semi-luxury merchandise, the De- i partment of Commerce reports. SAN FRANCISCO, July 30—The | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 194! JUNEAU ALUMINUM ;NURSES EXAMlNI“G BEGINS TO PILE UP BOARD APPO"“ED Ai BIG "CORRAL" = oo e v = Drive for Defonsn Melel e S oo e Now Gefting Under Three nurses from as many Al- askan towns were named on- the new board. From Juneau ,the board | sacks, son Island and Hooper Bay on Lhe‘ Way in City Juneau r ents were becoming “pot watchers” today, as the first contributions of old aluminum be- Tgnn appearing in the city alumin- {um | streets, where the defense metal i being gathered in drive sponsored by the Rotary Club. A sign on the wire enclosure built the city appeared this moin- . disclosing the purpose of corral. By mid-morning, a pots and pans had already peared in the corral. The drive is scheduled to reach a climax Th y and Friday, ac- cording to Dr. W. M. Whitel chairman, when Boy Scouts make a city-wide canvass of all homes, apartments and business houses. On Thursday, the Scou's will take pamphlets around to the Juneau residents, declaring the will purpose of the campaign and ask unus have on wi ing them to donate a aluminum ware they may hand. On Friday, the boys again call, this time with bu in which to collect the al- uminum offerings. In connection with the Scou drive, Dr. Whitehead asked thatal motorists, including truck and taxi drivers, watch for boys headed for the aluminum corral Friday after noon with sacks of the defen metal on their back. The driver are requested to give the boys lift to the collection pot, so work of rounding up the metal can pro-| ceed as rapidly as possible. At the end of the week, it was stated,. the aluminum will D hauled, freight-free, to Seattle by the Alaska Steamship Company. 2 Halibuters Sell, Seattle SEATTLE, July 30—Only halibuters, both from the local banks, arrived and sold here today as follows: Bertha 1,000 pounds, selling for 15 cents straight; Myr- tle 1,000 pounds, also selling for -)‘ cents straight. RUPERT PRICES At Prince Rupert today 95,0 pounds of halibut were sold aL | 112 to 12.30 and 10.50 to 10.90 cents | a pound. ———— Mrs. Eva Koski | Dies Suddenly, | Juneau Hospital Mrs. Eva Koski, the wife of Ok;-ll car Koski, died at St. Ann's Hos-| pital this forenoon. She was rushed to the hospital yesterday morning in an effort to save her life. and was 63 years old and has lived in Alaska for many years. Her only known survivor is her husband.| The Koskis made their home on the Douglas Highway near the Is- land end of the Douglas bridge. Funeral services will be Friday afterncon at 2 o'clock at the Charles W. Carter Chapel with the Rev. John L. Cauble saying the service. Interment will be in Evergreen Cemetery. .- NORTHLAND IS . ON'WAY SOUTH The Northland on its way soutn from Sitka arrived in Juneau last evening at midnight with 29 pas- sengers booked for Juneau aboard. Passengers from Seattle were Mrs. J. B. Carlyle, Jack Carlyle, G. Bristol, A. C. Notar, L. Hedinger, Mrs. Stewart Stott, Arthur Stott, Dorothy Stevens, Miss Grace Cul- tum, and C. A. Notar. Passengers aboard from South- east Alaska ports for Juneau num- hered 16. They were Cathryn Wil- son, Mike Kosoff, Ray Peterman, Mrs. L. Williamson, Mrs. A. Fra- zer, Shirley Wilcox, S. T. Zuern, Mabel Sumdum, J. S. Jeffrey, Mrs. J. S. Jeffrey, 1. A. Thatcher, Flora Kosoff, Mrs. E. Vienola, Mrs. E. A. Johnson, J. W. Stoft, and Lloyd Wooley. The Northland went to Douglas early this morning to load canned salmon and returned to Juneau at 2 o'clock, sailing south during this afternoon. — e ARRIVE IN JUNEAU Mrs. J. B. Carlyle and son Jack aurived on the Northland to join Mr. Carlyle, of the Territorial Treasurer's offiee. ————————— Try a classilied &Q I 1he Empire two | Mrs. Koski was born in Finland| member is Mrs. Lola Walther. She will work with Mrs. Helen Hendricks of Ketchikan and Miss Margaret Dunnigan, of Fairbanks. The new law, which provides a system of registering nurses who | corral at Front and Seward |wish to practice in Alaska and pro- | | hibiting any persons from nursing as a week -long a registered nurse unless he or shm meets Territorial qualifications, is contained in Chapter 46 of the 1941 Session Laws of Alaska. It was ap- proved by Governor Gruening on . | March 27. The Governor also named four men to serve on the Alaska Aero- nautics and Communications Com- mission. Only new member of the | board will be William L. Lavery, of | Fairbanks, who replaces Joe Cros- son, now in Seattle and no longer a resident of Alaska. Re-appointed to the Aeronautics and Communica- | tions Board were Sheldon Simmons, of Juneau; John M. Cross, of Deer- ing, and Thomas M. Donohoe, of | Anchorage. DEFENSE PROGRAM GROWTH IS FAST, GOVERNOR STATES Civilian Defense UmlsANow Started in Four Al- aska Cities “The national defense program in Alaska is expanding far beyond the efense program planned a year,.or| even three months ago.” Such was the statement of Gov. Ernest Gruening today, upon his return from a two-week trip which took him to all the major defense| bases in Southeast Alaska and the Westward. Gov. Gruening, his son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Huntington Gruening, and James = (Jimmy) Ryan, Assistant Dir- ector of Civilian Defense, arrived by plane in Juneau last night. During the trip, the Governor re- ported, civilian defense units were rganized at Fairbanks, Nome, An- chorage and Seward. ‘BRITISH AIRCRAFT - CARRIER REPORTED IN'ARCTIC OCEAN Germans Claim 28 Planes Shot Down from Ship Off Norway . BERLIN, July 30.—Twenty-eight British planes which took off from an aircraft carrier in the Aretic Ocean were downed in air fights and by anti-aircraft fire in north-| ern Norway, the German radio an- nounced today. This is the first reported instance of British aircraft carrier activity in the Arctic. The radio said two German planes were lost but their crews were saved. Ingmans R’eijafrom Vacation Trip South! Mr. and Mrs. Gunnar Ingman returned to Juneau on the Prin- cess Alice from a visit in Wash- ington. Mrs. Ingman has been there sincé May, and Mr. Ingman joined her six weeks ago. They visited their son Gordon in Tacoma, and his wife and son. Gordon Ingman is connected ‘with the Bell Tele- phone Company. The Ingmans said they didn't do much traveling outside Wash- ington because of the. excessive heat. Mr. Ingman is returning from a vacation from the Alaska Junean mill where he is xepasr toreman, WEATHER BUREAU CHIEF RETURNS Howard J. Thompson, supervis- ing official of ghe Weather Bureau in Alaska, returned Jlast night by plane after a trip to Fairbanks and Anchorage where he has been con- sulting Civil Aeronautics Author- ity officials regarding cooperative work between CAA and the weather staff. With Thompson were Robert H. Hinkley, Assistant Secretgry of commerce, and Marshall Hoppin, CAA official. LN R R. L. STEWART ON LEAVE R, L. Stewart, clerk in the Ter- citorial Commission of Mines office under B. D. Stewart, commissioner, will leave this afterncon on the Northland to join his wife and small son in Seattle for a three- week leave. The Stewarts are due tp return to Juneau about August 20. NO MORE JOBS AT ANCHORAGE AND | " 'KODIAK PROJECTS Bases Will Noi Hire Men Who Have Quit at Any Other Place All openings fur common labor on defense projects at Kodiak and Anchorage have been filled, accord- ing to word received here from the managers of the Territorial Employ- mem Service in the two defense | Thp Employment Service advised | | against migration to the area in the | hope of obtaining jobs as common laborers. Other information con- | cerning base jobs was that projects null not hire men who have quit | jobs on one defense project and are | seeking work on another. | The ruling of the projects is to | prevent unnecessary migration from | one project to ancther and to elim- | inate boomexs 'DOCKETS ON AR - CARRIER HEARING ARE SENT HERE Official dockets relative to ap- plications of seven air carriers in Southeast Alaska for certificates of public convenience and necessity are being sent from Washington, D. C, to Junea®, it was announced today hy Secrcla.ry of Alaska, E. L. | Bartlett, | . The dockets will be open for |public inspection at Bartlett's of- |fice, prior to a Federal hearing on |the applications of the air carriers, scheduledd to be held here In Sep- | tember. | Dockets which are being sent |here concern applications of the | following companies; Alaska Char- tre, Service, Inc, Petersburg Air Service, Rinehart Seaplane Ser- |vice and White Pass Airways, Inc. {The dockets will also consider the merger of the Alaska Air Trans- Iport, Inc. and the Marine Airways, {Inc. | { | | DEPUTY MARSHAL . THOMPSON 15 BUSY:; | GOES TO PORTLAND { The U. 8. Marshall's office is | keeping Deputy Sid Thompson on the move. { Last night, he arrived on the |Northland from Sitka with two prisoners in custody. This alter- noon he left on the same ship for | Seattle, en route to Morningside {hespital in Portland, where he is | taking two patients from the Ter- | ritory. One of the Sitka priscners, Mabel Sumdum, was lodged today in the Federal jail, serving a three-months wsem,ence on the charge of destray- ‘mg property in Sitka. According | to the records, Miss Sumdum, with- out question a lover of flowers, was indescriminate as to where she | gathered posies. When she plucked blossoms from the grounds of the Alaska Pioneers Home in Sitka, ‘sue ran afoul of the law. 'MINE FIRST AID " DISPLAY PLANNED “FOR TANANA FAIR literature and the up-to-date mine rescue railway car rrom Anchorage will be on hand for a big mine Fair at Fairbanks this fall, it was learned today from Harry Kazee, U. 8. Bureau of Mines snfety en- gineer, now in Fairbanks arrang- ing for the dlspluy. Kazee's, immediate plans, it was announced, include a trip to the Kuskokwin district, where he will train miners in safety work. Later, he, will conduct a mine rescue train- ing class at the Umversu,y of Alaska and at mihes along the Seward- Fairbanks raxl route, HOLDEN Fllf.s (OAST Wml WO Flying to tiee Coast this mgrn- Hoonah, and Don Robinson and with from Coast. four passengers and express and returned with four Dassengers. carried mail and express to Hawk Inlet, Tenakee, Todd and Peril Straits this afternoon and then nroceeded to Hoonah passengers hooked for Juneau. Sorensen and J. D. Littlepage. He will return with two pp ngers. DUFRESNE ON TRIP Frank Dufresne, Execuuve om- ser in the Alaska Game ion, left today on the commls!lon' soat, Grizzly Bear. He will make a short patrol trip through: South- cast Alaska, ; | THE WEATHER {By the U. S. Weather Bureau) ‘ U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU Forecast for Junean and vicinily, beginning at 4:30 p.m., July 30: Mostly cloudy with occasional very light rain tonight and Thurs- day; not much change in temperature, lowest temperature tonight about 52 degrees, highest Thursday 57 degrees, light to gentle south- easterly winds. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Mostly cloudy with local rain and not much change in temperature tonight and Thursday except part- ly cloudy south portion tonight; moderate southerly winds but moderate to fresh in Lynn Canal. Forecast of winas along the efls‘l’ of the ’Gnlr of Alaskat Dixon Entrance to Cape spénc‘er Moderate to fresh southerly ‘o southwesterly winds, Ioca] rain; Cape ncer to Cape Hinchinbrook: moderate to fresh eesterly to southea.st.erlv winds, backing to south- erly Thursday, rain; Cape Hmchmbrofik to Recurrecnnn Bay: mod- erate to fresh easterly to southeasterly winds,, bscklng to southeast- erly by Thursday, rain; Resurrection kay to Kodiak: southerly to southwesterly winds, day, rain. moderate becoming moderate to fresh Thurs- LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity =~ Weather 4:30 p.m. yesterday 30.06 58 65 SE 12 Overcast 4:30 am. today 30.12 50 94 S 4 Rain Noon today 30.12 53 80 SSE 11 Overcast RADIO REPORTS TODAY Max. tempt. Lowest 4:30a.m, Precip. 4:30am. Station last 24 hours temp. bg;npt. 24hours Weather Barrow. 31 32 o1 Snow Fairbanks 57 i) h§ a1 Rain Nome 57 41 42 .03 Pt. Cldy Dawson 64 46 48 01 Rain Anchorage 61 52 52 46 Rain Bethel . 55 0 51 36 Drizzle St. Paul 50 46 43 06 Pt. Cldy Atka 59 50 51 02 Fog Dutch® Harbor .. 70 55 55 0 Overcast Wosnesenski ... 58 53 53 01 Ovel cast Kodiak 60 | 50 52 0 Cordoya 57 51 52 18 wamxt Junean 59 49 50 o1 Rain Sitka .59 42 44 I X Ketchikan 56 48 48 44 Overcast Prince Rupert .. 53 49 50 48 Cloudy Prince George .. 78 50 52 0 r Edmonton 84 51 58 18 Seattle i 56 56 o Overcast Portland 8 58 59 0 Clear San, Francisco .. 71 56 57 0 Overcast WEATHER SYNOPS1S Relatively cool maritime air p evailed over Alaska this mormn- ing except cool polar air was pen etrating the western portion. Rain had fallen during the past 24 hou s over most of Alaska except over the Aleutian Islands and rain continued to fall this morning from Junesu to the Alaska Range and [rom the Kuskokwim Valley to the interior of Alaska and snow was filling at . Barrow. The greatest amount of precipitation was 46 hundiredths of an inch which was re- corder at Anchorage. The warmest temperature yesterday afternoon was 61 degrees at Anchorage and tie coldest this morning 32 degrees at Barrow. Mostly overcast skies with moderate ceilings and fair to, good visibilities prevailed over tie Juneau-Ketchikan airway this morning. The Wednesday morning weatier chart indicated a storm fron- tal trough was moving slowly souheastward Alaska with the lowest pressure o/er the northern portion. tively low pressure continued in tie Gulf of Alaska. the interior , of Rela- A high pres- over sure center of 3046 inches was located at 45 degrees north and 151 degrees west with a high crest ex ending eastward and then north- eastward over Queen Charlotte Soind. . Juneau, July 31 — Sunrise 4:46 a.m. sunset 9:22 p.m. A | EPORT MADE The salmon pack in Alaska is| less than a hundred thousand cases| ahead of this time a year ago, it/ was, revealed today when weekly | pack reports were made, public by U. S. Fish and Wildlife, Service. For the entire Territory, the total pack, this season, as report,ed at, the closing of cannery opera- tions lflst Saturday, stood at 2234 761 cases, as compared, to 2,1 cases packed by the same t.mw in 1940, The report featured the final re- ports of the fishing season in the | Bristol Bay, red salmon area, where the season closed . last week. The ing, pilot Shell Simmons carried | of 663,121 cases as qgninn 510,997 Gil Rich and N. A. McEachran to|cases this time last year. Jacob Kahns to Pelican City. He| 3aturday stood, at 947,093 cases of is schedulqd to return to Juneau | ‘eds, 38,621, cases of kings, 881,838 the | sases of pinks, Pilot Alex Holden made a trip{r 2 total "of 2284 cases against) to the Polaris-Taku mine with mail | 2193004 cases a year ago. Pilot Dean Goodwin|;oMES NORTH TO GET for three|®. Winter, of Washington, D. C, Later this afternoon Goodwin is|work in the Congressional Library scheduled to fly to Hirst with Pnul of the Nation's capitol. Bristol Bay reports show g total | pack Xor the season of 623,267 cases, | of which 568,356, cases.were ieds. Mine crew flrst aid equipment This compares,_ with a total pack all species of salmon last year. of. 450,229 cases, By districts, the rej rt shows the | ! |safety display at the Tanana Valley lougw?ng S ota]‘l):d ey W ey "hums 31,230 ca.ses of ,ohoes, for| ; a. total of 758,020 cases of salmon, as against 259,380 cases this time a year ago. Central Alaska: 280,329 caese of reds, 34,136 cases of kings, 324,111 cases of pinks, 187,028 cases. of shums, 38016 cases of cohoes, for 1 total of 863,620 cases, as compared 0 1,323,547 cases a year ago. Western -Alaska: (Port Moller ind, Brjstol Bay) 604315 cases .Of ceds, 2,998 caese of kmgs. 83 cases| of pinks, 53,961 cases of chums, 1,764 cases of cohoes, for a total For the entire ter:lt.ory, total pack 346,199 caese of chums. and 71,010 cases of cohoes, —_——————— AWAY FROM HEAT WAVE In Juneau taday was Mrs. Etta for 15 years in charge of reference Mrs. Winter, making her first rip, to Alaska, said she had come 10rth to get away from the summer seat in Washington. She was mak- \gg the rwnd trip on the North- B S ol BUY DEFENSE BONDS BUY DEFENSE STAMPS Aleutian Is Bound North SEA'['I‘UE, July 30. — Steamer Aleutian sailed at 10 o'clock this morning for Alaska ports with 290 passengers, including 27 steerago. Juneau -passengers include Irene Rasmussen, H. E. Stoneman, Mrs. William Fraxks, Mrs. Marie Baker Grace Erickson, Ellen Repp. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Danielson, Mr. and Mrs, H. B, Johnson and daugh- 904 ter, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Baker and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. R. U. Rich- mond, C. A. Wheeler. PRGTECT ¥