The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 5, 1941, Page 2

50. CAROLINA PUBLISHER 10 COLUMBIA Aug. 5.—Rog Peac 42- the Greenv S. C., was named publisher Senate ¢ vacant by th October perman: choose a 3yrnes > DEFENSE HIGHWAY PROGRAM IS DEAD; | F.D.R. VETOES IT President &j—eds to Ap- porfionment Among States-Prorate 5 — Presi WASHINGTON, Aug. dent Roosevelt has vetoed the $. 0,~ 000,000 Defense Highway Program because he objects to apportion- 25,000,000 among - states > basis rather than giv- spartment th points where defense nee GOLD ROOM AT BARANCF MAY BE REMODELED tive The Gold Room at the Baranof Hotel is going to be split up into three small rooms, unless Juneau residents can find enough use for the larger hall to make it profitable for the hotel management, it was reported today at the Rotary Club luncheon. To investigate the further possible use of the large Gold Room, which has been valuable as a location for large Juneau social events, a com- mittee of Rotarians were appointed. The .committee .will consist of Charles D. Beale, Keith G. Wildes and Charles W. Carter. Beale reported to the club that the hotel management contempla remodeling the Gold Room. It was stated that plans are to cut the present Bubble Room through into the Gold Room, to make more danc ing space for tourist and local r ties there, and that the other end of the room would be cut into the dining room, to afford more dining space. e, WRANGELL WOMAN 10 BE JAILED HERE ON DISORDERLY CHARGE John Kaskela was fined $25 and Amy Hill was yesterday sentenced to serve 150 days in the Federal jail in Juneau at a trial in Wran- E according to word reveived in the U. 5. Marshal's office here to- day. Both charged with being drunk and disorderly. At Petersburg yesterday, Otto E. Wilde was fined $50 and costs on the charge of reckless operation of a vessel. The ship piloted by Wilde rammed and damaged another un- named boat, according to a tele- gram received here. American transport planes were used. by the British army in mov- ing troops from India to Iraq, the| British Press Service reports. o SOMETHING HAPPENED AND THEN - THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, AUG.: 5 Allied Government Leaders Visit the King (= 3 & refugees called at Buckingham Palace. Left to right: King George VI the Netherlands, Mrs. Edouard Benes, King Peter of Yugoslavia, Queen Elizabet: of England, Edouard | | | | | | | | | | | . | Cablephoto | of England, Queen Wilhelmina of Benes, President of Czecho-Slovakia; King Haakon VII of Norway and Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, President | of Poland. SECRETARY 90 KILLED HULL COMES AIR RAID, BACKTOJOB SUEZ AREA Talks fo Newsmen on Ouf- look Affer Absence of Near!y Two Mon?hs : L;_\pliuiioimnmquc. | FIRST TAX HEARING Four Juneau property owners ap- peared last night before the City The Secretary of ate called for | Council, sitting for the first of four ever inereasing military preparations ' consecutive nights as a board of tax for defense “whenever and wherever equalization such defense is most effective.” Councilmen were in the City Hall The Secretary talked to the new until 11 p.m. after their first tax men at a conference upon his re- equalization session, checking up on | turn after an absence of nearly | tax rolls of the city. The board ofi two months. equalization will meet again tonight | and Wednesday and Thursday | nights to hear complaints regarding | tax assessments against property, according to Mayor Harry I. Lucas. On Friday night, the equalization | | board is scheduled to meet once more and set the tax rate for the city. Present tax rate is 18 mills here. - SENATE COMMITTEE ing to the progress of a closer cor- MAY HOlD MEETING e e | R Communications Dvision 1 wash- | 5eN. Wallgren of Wash- ington Says Defense CAIRO, Aug. 5—Ninety persons e killed and 106 wounded in an s air raid on the Suez Canal area last night. This is according to an WASHIN( tary of State Cordell Hull said that | with unity of purpose and the maxi- | mum effort the 'maining free peoples of the world will win over the forces of barbarism and the vic- tims will be liberated S — | EUGENE SIBLEY, CAA OFFICIAL, HERE TO CONFE To review and familiarize himself more thoroughly on civil ‘aviation communication matters in Alaska and to investigate matters pertain- | Thursday ; Communications Division in Wash- ington. Sibley arrived in Juneau vesterday from Seattle by plane and will remain here until H when he will return. |H(IUIfy Be Held ! ‘While he is here, Mr. Sibley will confer with Howard Thompson, head . wASHINGTON, Aug. 5.— Mem- of the United States Weather Bu- | opg of the Senate Defense Investi- reau with headquarters in Juneau, |gaiine Committee said today they and Major W. H. Neal, Who Das . .. considering a trip to ‘the West flown from Anchorage for that pur- t to hold hearings for the pose. Major Neal is weather officer | X = of the Army Alr Corps, national defense program in that e WESTWARD HERE YACHT ator Mon C. Wallgren ' of o, Washington said he believed the The Campbell Church yacht|Primary objective of ‘the inquiry Westws Capt. J. I. McDonald, ar-| Will be to bring out possibilities riyed here from a cruise in the|of the West's resources and stra- islands this morning and is sched-|tegic materials. o sail south for Seattle as| - .o as passengers are taken on| MRS. EVANS BETURNING board. The yacht is at the small| Mrs, E. S. Evans, who has been boat harbor. Isouth for several weeks, is return- o ling to her home aboard the Princ- DE SE BONDS Jess, Charlotte. BUY | Chinese Had 196 |u e Britain’s royal rulers are shown with leaders of the governments-in-exile who now make London their |night in the Gold Room of the Bar- Russia” the capital and whose loyal forces are fighting with the British against Hitler. They were pictured as the 1941 ‘Silver Week' REPUBLICANS | Tickef Sale Is DENOUNCING OnTomorrow "WAR STEPS Fund for Sefie for Cruis- | Hoover and | Landon Score er Juneau Being Rais- | ~ Measures Taken by ed by Drive ' FDR, _C(_)Egress juneau residents on down town| ALEXANDER BAY, N.'Y., Aug- reets tomorrow are going to have ust 5—Fifteen Republican leaders, | an opportunity to help buy a silver |including Alf M Landon and Her- fce for the mew. cruiser which bert Hoover, make a joint. appeal ar the name of their city. here today to the effect that “Con- 0 in the city will to- gress must stop this step by step ' Silver ‘Week” tickets | projection of the United otates 1w $1 each;, with all the' money an undeclared war.” | raised to mo into a jack-pot for| A 'statement drawn up by the purchase of the silverware for the Republican wheelhorses and mad?‘ U. 8. 8. Juneau, which will be public by Frank Lowden, former‘ \unched late this month at a New governior of Illinois, declared that it was announced "by naval action in taking over mili- tary occupation bases outside the? ¢2y shipye today. Final event of the ‘Silver Week”| Western Hemisphere, and. by the crive will take place next Saturday |promise of unauthorized aid to Reosevelt administra- nining the fundamen- of democratic govern- s under »{ Hotel, where a jitney dance tion ill be held, with music donated by tal princ al musician’s union. ment. Size of the silver service for the S. S. Juneau will be determined t the end of the week by the am- unt cf money raised in the drive, ry I. Lucas has stated. orial officials plan to make the o trip to New Jgrsey for the launch- pouGLAS COUNCIL FIXES | ing ceremoni TAX RATE, SPECIAL LEVY | Gunmen Take $76,000from —— e The usual rate of taxation for the current year, 20 mills,was decided upen at a special meeting of the| City Council last.evening. A 3 per cent discount for payments made on or befere the 15th of October will be allowed. Last few years the lis-| count allowed was 5 percent. ! HE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU Forecast for Juneau and vicini#/, beginning at 4:30 p.m, Aug. 5: Cloudy, not much change in temparature tonight and Wednesday; lowest tonight about 54 degrees, h'gHest Wedhiesday about 68 degrees, moderate southerly winds. Forecast for Southeast Alaska:* Cloudy tonight and Wednesday; not much change in temperature; moderate southerly winds. Forepast of winas along the coast of the Guif of Alaskw Dixon Entrance to ‘Cape Spencer: Moderate westérly winds, cloud: Cape Spéricer to Cape Hinchinbrook! moderate vatiible Winds, hiost- ly soutuherly cloudy; Cape Hinchinbrook to Resurrection Bay: mod- erate south to southwesterly winds, occasional HBHE rain; Resutrrec- tion Bay to Kodiak: moderate to fresh southwesterly winds, occa- sional light rain. LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity = Weather 4:30 p.m. yesterday 29.96 75 AT sgl M 2 Clear ‘4:30 aim. today 30.06 61 71 SE 8 Cloudy Noon today 30.17 58 81 SE 10 Cloudy RADIO REPORTS TODAY Max. tempt. Lowest 4:30a.m. Precip. 4:30am. Station last 24 hours temp. tempt. 24hours Weather Barrow .. 38 33 34 L0 Pt. Cldy Fairbanks 60 53 53 05 Cloudy Nome 54 | 50 50 14 Rain Dawson 60 44 44 o Pt. Cldy Anchorage 0 | 51 52 0 Pt. Cldy Bethel 58 54 54 58 Rain St. Paul 51 47 47 29 Rain Atka . 50 48 49 .30 Cloudy Dutch Harbor .. 62 55 55 01 Clear Cordova 63 53 54 [ Cloudy Juneau 5 57 61 0 Cloudy Ketchikan 65 | 55 56 0 Pt. Cldy Prince Rupert .. 67 | 55 56 0 Pt. Cldy Prince George .. 60 417 48 10 Cloudy Portland kil | 56 57 0 Clear San Francisco .. 69 52 54 61 Cloudy WEATHER SYNOPSIS Cloudy weather prevailed oyer most of Alaska this morning. The influence of a large low pressure area in the Bering Sea was caus- ing rain this morning over a large ared, including the Aleutian, lands, the Alaska Peninsula, and a wide strip along the coastal area of the Bering Sea. The greatest amount -of rain reported was .58 inch which fell at Bethel. The ‘highest temperature was 72 degrees recorded at Juneau, and the lowest this morning was 33 degrees recorded at Barrow. It cloudy over the ' Juneau- Ketchikan airway this morning with moderately high clouds over the northern part bt rather low cloudis in the vicinity of Ketchikan. The movers faced a tough job at White Plains, N. Y. when this house adjustments can be made. % .| ROBERT G. RICE, el off the timbers on wh was being hauled by trailer-truck frem one location to another. The mishap occurred just a block from the structure’s destination. v | City Clerk. First' publication, July 31, 1941, . - Last publication, August 6, 1941, _ But Mary Jane Banning, 2, of Chicago, wanted to do her the pan. C _part in the nation-wide aluminum drive ‘and she donated the article along with millions of other Americans. Jane was mr,d' and G that's the why of the tears.” -5 For the special sewer assessment The Tuesday morning weather chart indicated a weak low pre:- ! Bank Runners a rate of $2 for all lots 50 by 100 sure center of 30.00 inches was located in the Gulf of Alaska. A feet or less; was decided upon and| jarge area of high pressure wa iated over the Northeast'Pacific fe 1“";!“""”‘"_ of greater dfm'?”’“o" Ocean with the maximum pressure of 30.65 inches located at 46 de- “;‘“ ““7.“_‘['] c)gx-adcparg? ‘i"m‘ be 41 orces north an d156 degrees west. A low pressure centér of about STROUDSBURG, PA., A 5iaEa o ‘13‘0‘ 13 T OVer| 9975 inches was situated over th: Bering Sea and appeared to be -Four gunmen wearing dark sun! z i | moving very slowly northward. :l':m'fl‘s teday held up two em- ('()lm;l(} FOR VISIT | Juneau, August 6—Sunrise 4:53 a.m., sunset 9:08 p.m. ployes of the First National Bank of | har : Bt e R s = T O AR Stroudsburg on the street and es-|. APert and Foleuda e, son the ‘'Liquor : Comtrol Office, Room b e iy and daughter of Emil Uberti of| IVERS MUSI GET 100 5% i eantbIV. die tiaunti, The bandits took \\'lli\ them on ihl? thy Wi le.w(' Senl'lr: e ?.1181 where licenses 'are being issued, e el li‘uf‘i:‘[mllll‘?i\:'g‘:;[fl‘lf"lUI nx; n;‘ HIGHwAY lI(ENSES will remain open from 9 o'clock in $76,000 in currency. Dol e Wil 'go to Bltka for | the morning until 9 o'clock in the A P a short visit here their sister Mrs. BEFORE AUGUST 15 NS S Emma Wilcoxin, W7 A GAMES TODAY """ =5 (ROUCH, BOWER TO FLOATING CANERY Rreragpit e LBt £ b Frank Krsul left yesterday for| August 15 is the closing date for| B“K m ‘m AR Taku river inlet where he will joim | the issuance of highway driving| gy ety r Wong Yee Chow The following are final scores of the Juneau Packing Co, ing| licenses. A notice has been issued m[p, m‘m‘s Dt et SR e S baseball games played this after- CANNETy crew | to automobile dnv}ers from the Ter- A akiiire an lt]wo chilng!ren in China, noon in the two majo‘r leagues as i:‘x‘n::;::l’t T:;asu;giimtmfc;e o-rer .t‘xe‘ Piloted by Ray Hensnaw, a Fish Wong Yee Chow, 21, was one of |eceived up to press time: i R ol y‘ w oad s |and Wildlife Service party arrived the holders of No, 196, the first | Naticnal League W ALl i from) cates fhetate. thiat-Uhbe or sutfer el i oy Miinegn. TARLOBIEHG, alter number drawn in the second draft | Pittsburgh 11; Cincinnati 5. TEonp AT ¢ from|rest. a4 |an inspection trip over Southeast lottery. Chow, shown in New | Boston 10; Philadelphia 9. Troop 8,10’ Jungan,; v early| Of approxiamtely 500 drivers in| Alaska sections. In the party were York, where he is a baker, was | St. Louis 2; Chicago 6, tomorrow. afiemnpon .af Ladd the local district only 180 have so W. E. Crouch, trout expert of the taken to Local Board No. 1 there | Adadeiinh Loagtis {boak for L fel“_]r camping P 1o recefved their licenses. | service, and Ward T. Bower, chief by a cousin. He is working t0 | New vork 3; Washington 4. “" 1"{“”"‘01" ‘“73‘ ¥ o For the convenience of drivers,|of the Alaska division of the service. make enough money to bring & | philadeiphia 5; Boston 6 Mgl “Cna’m)::é]l qile;de“ma:;‘ - - family to the U. S. He saw serv- | s 0 . s, Fr ) T} 1 e against the Japanese when he | > |Lerraine and Audrey Rude, of Jun-| ey p & served in the Chinese army. s eau, Junior Advisors. The group will D l S 'LIVESAY FINED $25 o e | re w(;ry ervice | i B ¢ 5 g L ! SEINERS LEAVE y Yn Y | Three seiners fishing for Douglas B3y, BY . & | John C. Livesay, Juneau laborer,| Fisheries Co., pulled out of Alaska| L) gy i drew a fine of $25 this morning when | pishing grounds this morning to go! B CINCINNATI, Aug. 5.— The hg was arraigned before U. 8. Com-|south for a reportedly good sockeye | Dodgers will remember Chuck Al- missioner F‘el‘u_( Gray on a charge!ryn of salmon, on Puget' Sound. eno’s lucky handle hit for some Of reckless driving on the Glacier plenty of time and ample salmon time—it practically won a ball mmelh.ighwny. |supply is seen here for the local: for the Reds. With three on base,! Livesay was arrested by Dan Ral-|company to get up their anticipated | Alena started to offer at a pitch Ston, Territorial Highway Patrol- pack. and then checked his bat. But ball "i":y"'aife”rz“’;:g b B SE e | ?;}:; ;;lrtiefiiniugm' ball 10.,))ul‘ OVeX I prive car Livesay was operating| WOLFES ON WAY NORTH | struck on the foul jop, " o 3 Rayi d Ife. M line. Three runs scored and ' e. i bbb e axmond. Walte, Mrs. Wolle, gad ? ¢ o (creek as he was returning to the|daughter Joann are aboard the minute later another hit won the city. Slight damage to the mflchine}PTinCESS Charlotte arriving this saige: was reported. {evening. He is principal of the Gov-| P AT TERTEY ernment school at Sitka. The three (olo“ElS (o"FER BUY DEFENSE BONDS have been south on a vacation trip. | 23 M : i . e . 4 ONARMY AIRPORTS Giving 'Till It Hurts? | Conferences on structural details of army landing fields in the Ter- ritory have'taken up the attention | of Col. B. C. Dunn, of the Dis-| trict Army Engineers’ office in Seattle, and Lfeut. Col. George J.| Nold, in charge of the Army land- | s ooy ing field at Metlakatlah, on An- mm or nette Island, near Ketchikan, both ) 8 ) 3 Sy y ;. of whom have been in Juneau the ¥ ek . %4 L b past few days. Duily De"vm 0-‘ Col. Dunn came here by piane | # gt g e "; R from the Interior, where he has n a4 Wf been inspecting new fields being | aily A'askaE built. Lieut. Col. Nold came here s PR from Annette Island to confer with $ nen Dunn., He is expected to fly to S e . Yakutat this week for the opgn- g ing cerémonies‘a‘t the ‘new Army landing field there. Nearly half the states in the United States operate airplanes in cennection with some governmen- tal function. NOTICE TO, TAXPAYERS Y . SRR | Y t The Common Council of the City Put a Covic Diesel in Your Boal i You Want of Juneau will sit as an Equalization 1 w4 T Aol e fi' > i w i s | Board in the Council Chambers of R ! i | the City Hall from 8 P. M. to 10 P. y 3 1 | M., August 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th. | The board will consider complaints ‘e from taxpayers regarding their as- L 3 | sessments, and make whatever ad-" 4 justments and corrections to the . o : roll that are found necessary. 4 “ | final meeting of the board I:Zf £ Mary I WenieE S 1 ///'ll Okay, young lady, if it hurts that much, you don’t have to give up g. 2