The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 4, 1941, Page 2

T e S T ————————— | e v Jerry Chapman Spent $2.42 For 'Boughten’ Paris While Bulldmg Wmnmg Soap Box an siask u speed driver : : of the Soap Box Derby Fuf Parka today told in dol ents and in actual parts FOF je"y ning car, did not : in Akron na ¥ mb! anc nger Lhe s in his cla All Soap Box Derny ers $6 fc ffich w are asked to "be ska ‘ of 4 L Steamship doc ok of which the latter is not inciud tomorrow mornin ing he c cush helmets to see Derby i Champ Jerry Chapman off on : the Princess Louise. Serpentine will be issucd to the boys. yressed i « and uk he b Outsider n whi e well-c an ry Chapman, auto wa 4 nner of (he Juneau Soap Box Der- dard Oil Company. o will step off a fast tr £ . <ron, Ohio, in several d: Dert : t the national conte: )¢ s and race his Alaska-built Iy I 1r against those of boys from the covering. Fr f yw morning after a going ing came from torn down five- and farewell breakfast lon gasoline ¢ A nails sal- 1e epitome of a boy's vaged from the wooden parts. Ther b, Tagry RDOSEIAD MoldhE ant lot ted laths and tWo gangplank of the southbound steam- n the olid wooden blof tWo er Princess Louise with Rotary mem- ber Don Skuse who will accompany him to the East | R: ams from the national v Be headquarters asked Jerry to wear and adviser durin ¢ the fur clothing, and Yurman's Fur careful of the car, Faciory quiekly obliged with the The neighbors d advice by needed articles. All friends of Jerry the but that was the only are invited to his home tomorrow | thir 1 mor: at 8 oclock for a good- Y g2 1 goes south on bye party and in spite of the early the Princes ise tomorrow morn- hour, a boy's insatiable appetite | ing at 9 o'l and Juneau plans for hot dogs will be filled when he 1o ¢ him a big send-off gets them for breakfast. New Training Ship for U. S. | ‘As the United States b ties, more sailors are nce newest training ship, the 4 v the freighter Edge~ mont, tied up at its Staten Tsland, N. Y., pier. Bottom, are some of the 800 apprentice seamen ready for the 6,000-mile maiden voyage to Hucneme. Cal, rehant ships in e is the r increasing quanti- Maritime Commission’s When Japaneac Troops Moved Into Indo-China | 1 AFTER GERMANS BOMBED MOSCOW A German air rald on Moscow left this structure, described as a 'HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, AUG. 4 i school building, in sources \a:d This pictnre was radioed from Moscow to New York. GERMANS INSPECT MONSTER RUSSIAN TANK e German soldiers look over a giant man hands July 1 PROMOTION FOR BUCKNER WASHINGTON, Aug. 4—Presi- nt Roosevelt has nominated Brig. Gen. Simon Buckner, 55, of Mun- fordville, Ky., now commanding a armed forces with his head- | at Fort Richardson to be ary Major General. e Mrs. Blake Returns After Month's Trip. Mrs. E. J. Blake returned to Ju- neau late last week on a Lodestar after a month’s visit in Washington and Oregon. She represented Juneau at the Washington and Alaska con- vention of the Rebekah Lodge held June 23, 24 and 25 in Eveertt, Wash- ington. After the convention, Mrs. Blake visited with friends and relatives. She spent sometime with Mr. and Mrs. Marshal Connett in Klamath Falls, Oregon, and there she attend- ed her first rodeo. She also visited | with Mr. Blake's relatives in Séa- side, Oregon. 1 temp One of Japan’s most important bases in her invasion of southern French Indo-China is Haiphong, former French stronghold in the north. Japanese troops are shown as they first marched into the city, yielded to- them by France last yur Japan’s first goal appears to be Saigon, which would place herforces within 700 miles of the Philippines, Singapore and the Dutch East Indies. Soviet tank abandoned in ‘the suburbs of Lwow, reported in Ger- 27 Years After ?B*Rmsn | ~ SQUADRON | ~ ONMOVE ReporIed Slghled Tonight in Gulf of Siam-led | by Warsprite (By Ascociated Press) Un cial reports were received in-the United States tonight, but which the Associated Press has been!} [-mabse to confirm, said the British Naval Squadron, including the 30,- 1000 to battleship Warsprite, has been |been sighted in the Gulf of Siam, {within the horseshoe shaped curve ! of the Asiatic Coast formed by Ma- | laya, Thailand and French. Indo- | China Chester B. Duryea On May 5, 1914, police rushed into a mansion in Brooklyn, N. Y., | ax ea rln s to find 80-year-old Brig. Gen. Hi- | ram Duryea, a Civil war veteran, dead on the floor. The general’s son, Chester Duryea, was standing | over the body with a pistol in each hand. He was quoted as saying, “Angels told me to do it.” | Indicted for murder, he was ad- judged insane before he could be brought to trial. Last year Dur- yea was ruled sane and sent to a private institution under bond to await preparation of the case against him. But today the evi- dence is' gone ‘and the witnesses either dead of disappeared. So the indictment has been dismissed and Duryea, now 70, begins life anew. Begm Tomghl Tonight is the first of four nights when Juneau residénts who feel they have a grievance as to | the assessed values of their prop- erty may appear before the -city | board of equalization and have adjustments made on the tax rolls. The City Council will sit as an lcquulization beard tonight, Tues- |day, Wednesday and Thursday, ‘h(m 8 to 10 ¢'clock, according to | Mayor Harry 1. Lucas. After Thurs- day night, it will be too late for Am mmlals | hearings on tax adjustments, the y Mayor stated. A tn'e"amed | On Friday night, the council will |amm meet (o set the tax rate for By Governorlzé‘i kit Gov, Ernest Gruening was host| soday at the Governor's House at | BA[[ET Fon A m 1 luncheon for Col. B. C. Dunn | | army Engineer frcm Stattle and| Lt. Col. G. Nold, who is in char&e| LONDON, Aug 4~Althuugh dm. ¢ the Army Air Field at Annette jng the first World War most the- “sland. Robert Schoettler was als|gtres presented the lightest typs A guest, {of musical comedy, today ‘“high- s A e | brow” entertainment finds great , |tavor Londoners of all boom at Lho Arts Theaire Olub in GUAM, Aug. "4—A typhoon wdnyllhe mwna;,vmf:nt advertises. ,wept - past this island but the; SR ide-sweep caused some damage w‘ this marine post. No lives werel Admission aver- ritain has a new organization, Tt the National Building Record, s 3 ¥ 4 - which already is considering plans hoon's, center was 10 miles 3 ’d';hc :;p ;z:]: Emiio’ tha I‘:‘ g, for reconstructing some of - the ‘well known buildings destroyed by -eached a velccity of 120-miles an| German bombs. hour. 1941, ‘rate of spaed on the Glacier Hi | way. When the |the road about 60 feet fr | bridge, missed .a slight curve and ‘then into the guard rail. i {lead in the cantata written by the FDR's Tax Proposals Turned Down | Commifieeie—jeds Change| | in Income Tax Ex- | emphons Llaw B 14 | \ WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 4—| Chairman Rebert L. Doughton, of | North, Carolina, announced today that the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee has turned down three suggestions of President Roosevelt for last-minute 1 ¢hanges in the $3.000,000,000 tax bill designed to raise. money from Am- | erican purses to help pay- the de- | fense bill. | Those Rooseveltian measures re- ljected by the committee included a [pmposal to lower individual income tax exemptions, a proposal: for.the modification of the requirement that all married couples file joint in- | come tax returns, would have complete credit for his | or her earned income, and the sub- ! stitution- of the Treasury Depart- ment’s excess profits plan in place | of that approved by the cummm.ee | e ——— Nusunginja Fined 515 and Cosf of Rebulldmg Bridge I e | Ronald Nusinginja, Juneau, was | arraigned before U. S. Commis- sioner -Felix. Gray late this morn- | ing and fined $25 and the cost of installing - a. new corner post and ithm support timbers on the bridge lon- the ,Glacier Highway toward| | Juneau from the Juneau dairy. | | . Nusunginja - was charged with | reckiess driving by Dan Ralston, |Alaska. highway patrolman, as a | result of the bridge smash-up yes. | terday. 13 Nusunginja was driving a Rr-i U-Drive car at an allegedly b machine ‘go’ out of: contrel, app: Nusinazin, crashed into the bridge corner post, | Miss M. Douglass | "Honored Yesterday‘ Mrs. Je;tn Young 'mJ A. William Douglass honored the latier's: sis-| ter, Miss Marjoric Douglass, with | a cocktail party yesterday -frem 4| ro 6 o'clock. Miss Douglass arrived on the Alaska cver the weekend, and she and her brother plan Lo} leave next week to visit their par- ents in Aberdeen, Wash. Miss Douglass studies voice un-; der Prof. August Werner at the University of Washington. She is a mezzo soprano, and is soloist with the Greek Church Choir and with various male choir concerts in Seattle and Tacoma. She sang the Director of the Men's Glee Club at the University, accompanied hy. the Seattle Symphony Orchestra two years ago. . Now working on her master's de- gree at the University, Miss Doug- lass formerly taught voice and pi~ ano. She has just completed a towr of the Territory. i MISS RUTH HILL VISITING HERE Miss Ruth Hill of Bellingham, ‘Wash., arrived in Juneau yesterday on the Aleutian .to spend several weeks visiting her brother, Evas Hill. She is staying.at the Gfll’. tineau Hotel. Mijss Hill is traveling with Ml& Bernice Monson, also from Bel- lingham. The latter is leaving an the North Sea to visit her brother, in Sitka, and Miss Hill ‘will jois her there before they go south. jr ——————— No-Host Luncheon Honors Miss Repp Fifty women were present at a no-host luncheon today at 1 o'clock o meet Miss Ellen Repp, contralto, who is to appear in concert and Wednesday. The affair was held in the Gold Room at the Baranof Hotel. Mrs. Ernest Gruening, who, as President of the American Women’s Voluntary Services, is general chair- |’ man of Miss Repp's concerts, intro- duced the singer to the assembled women. Miss Repp spoke briefly past two years. Mrs. Carol Beery Davis, who will accompany Miss Repp, was in charge of the luncheon. .- Highest gasoline taxes in Amer- ica are paid in certain localities of Alabama and Mississippi, where local taxes are added to the 1%- cent Federal and a 6-cent state tax. “l | Cape Spencer to Cape Hinchinbrgo:: so each spouse | LINER PLANS {in Japan after seven | (registration on her opera training during the |} THE WEATHER By the U. 8. Weather Bureau) U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU Forecast for Juneau and vicinMly, beginning at 4:30 p.m., Aug. 1: Fair, not much change in temperature tonight and Tuesday but with high cloudiness Tuesday; lowest tonight about 50 degrees, highest Tuesday about 78 degrees; moderate ‘southwesterly «winds. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Fair tonight and Tuesday but with high cloudiness Tuesday; not much change in temperature; moderate west to northerly winds, Forecast of winas slong the coast of the Gulf of Alasks: Dixon Entrance to Cape-.Spencer: Moderate northwest winds moderate. west to , fair; northwest winds, mostly cloudy; Cape Hinchisbrook to Resurrection Bay to Kodiak: moderate southwest winds, cloudy. ; LOCAL DATA Time Barometer TAmp. Humidity Wind Velocity Weather 4:30 p.m. yesterday 30,01 80 36 W 11 Cloudy 4:30 am. today ... 2999 51 90 Caim 0 Clear Noon today 2999 67 64 s 3 Clear RADIO REPORTS TODAY Max. tempt. Lowest 4:30a.m.. Precip. 4:30a.m Station Jast 24 hours | temp. tempt. 24hours Weather Dawson g0 17 56, 56 09 Pt. Cldy Junean 81 | 51 51 0 Clear Princé, Rupert .. 67 | 53 5 0 Cloudy Prince George .. 66 ‘ 50 5 18 Cloudy Seattle (... 69 | 53 53 26 Pt. Cldy San Francisco .. 66 £ g 0 Pt. Cldy WEATHER SYNOPSIS Above average temperatures and clear skies continued over most of Southeast Alaska this morning, while cloudy weather prevailed | elsewhere. in Alaska. During the past 24 hours rain had fallen in most gections in‘.westetn dnd cen rgl ;Alaska. The gregtest ‘amount of rainfall was .15 inch, recordel at Fairbanks. The highest tem- peratures occurred in Southeast /A aska where several stations repori- ed afteinoon temperatures of 81 4 grees. | v ‘The'. Monday merning weathe ' ghart showed a large area of high pressure was situated over tie Northeast Pacific Ocean with the maximum pressure of about 30.30 inches Jocated at 48 degrees | morth and 153 degrees west. The d sturbance that..was off the cc { of Washington yesterday has ‘mo/ed -inland ‘while the large storm situated over the western Aleutia: Islands appears to be advancing slowly eastward, Juneau, August 5.—~Sunrise 4:5 am., sunset 9:11 p.m. PIONEER IS 89 TODAY DASHACROSS . THE PACIFIC - Helan Maru Discharges Cargo at Seattle, Ready for Quick Run Home SEATTLE, Aug. 4—The NYK has cancelled the scheduled call at Van- couver of the motorship Heian Maru. indicating a dash for the home port longshore crews discharged the liner’s earge, including $1,000,000 worth of sili. The shipments for Vancouver are also being ‘unloaded here. et el TWO GASBOAT | SWEPT BY FIRE Reports of the total loss by fire of two gas boats in the Sitka neighborhood last month were re- = ceived today at the Customs office John McWilliams (above) is the there. pioneer and he believes Alaska, this One of the boats, the Musher Section especally, is a Utopia. 5 number 282-311) McWilliams was born in Hunts- burned -between Old Sitka Rocks town, Ohio, about 160 miles north ani Neva: Straits in ‘Sitka Sound on Of Cincinnati, on August 4, 1852. July 13, according to a report by' In his early days he came west its ownen.. and . master, .Cherles and was employed in the mines and McEwAD. - Fire: started on the 14- also lumber industry in Michigan. year ol boat.asa result:of an ex- McWilliams came north in the plosion' in-the cook- stove, MgEwan early days, landing at Treadweil, | stated, The boat. was-valued at where he was employed for some $2,000° and carried ne . insurdanee. , time. Later he was in charge of the 2“The other .buming was an,un- sawmill at Sheep Creek for two named .gas boat; (N0, : 81-B-123) years when Charles Young and E. owned and operated by Martin Van H. Bogues were operating the plant. Masten, of Sitks. «An-engine back- Subsequently, McWilliams spent #ire-while .the -boat: was-in-Kaglena most of his time . prospecting in Bay, at Krogof Jsland, caused; the various sections.in Southeast Al- tire, Van:Masten said: He declared aska. he-battled .the. flames with: @i fire, . McWilliams has a sister the baby extinguisher: -buty:gasoline: which' of #he family, Mving at present in Ohio.. She is 81 years of age. McWilliams, who eame north on the last trip made by the old Ida- ho, one of the first vessels plying the Southeast Alaska route, who has lived ‘in Douglas 55 years, is : being' congratulated today on his good health by his many friends. Specially ‘honoring him, Miss bon Myrtle, Berry will give a dinner n yesterday @t thamt for i party at McWilllams’ home with the following ' additional guests: iMrs. Ofto Pfeiffer and son Jun- ior, Arthur Berry and Sante De- gan. The oldest ploneer on Gastineau Channel is today- quietly observing his 89th birthday, hale and hearty, at‘his home in Douglas. xThe party wmmd by sts} Aurera -LeFevre, ‘Mns;. - Oliff Nor-| ——o—— WEATHER CHIEF HERE denson, and . Mrs, .Jack .Garrett. Other = guests were 'Miss . Marie Stoner, Ralph Moreau, Geng Major W. H. Neal, weather officer |Ior the Army air corps, was in Jun- x eau today in advance of a meeting g, JAnEacKkaRmELL i {scheduled for tomorrow with Eu- % jgene Sibley, chief of the communi- GOING sOuUTH {cations. division of the Civil Aero- Mrs. Raym ond Huddleston -of ;muw:s gdxguustnum, from Wash- Valdez visited friends in Juneau while the Alaska was in port. she is 'making a'trip to the States. | Lockridge, ; John Young; Cliff ; Nor- BUY DEFENSE STAMPS