The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 7, 1941, Page 2

to fasten it admire new hat ward inhab prominence " Fine Feaihere rinds ALASKA FORCED 10 SURRENDER IF BLOCKADED Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce Wants High- way for Defense In the event of a successful blockade, Alaska would be forced to surrender in 60 days, according to a 500-word radiogram which was ent to President Roosevelt by the Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce id of which a copy was sent to the Juneau Chamber for approval. Pleading for immediate action by the President on the construction of the International Highway, the | radiogram to the chief executive | said, “We are living in an: area | that well may become the battle- tield for the initial invasion of America,” and continued stressing the value of the $25,000,000 project frem the national defense stand- point. After the lengthy communi- ion was read, the Juneau Cham- unanimously.. endorsed the ra- gram and proffered help in ac- quiring the start of .the project, Said Chamber member Allen shattuck: “If the Army, the Navy and people living in the Interior | want the road, then we should | support it, even though there seems to be little advantage to Southeast Alaska.” Dimond Gives No Help Referring their request for in- formation to the 13th Naval Dis- trict and to Marshal Hoppin in Anchorage, Alaska Delegate An- thony J. Dimond replied to an in- quiry of the Chamber by saying that information concerning pro- posed construction of naval and air stations in or near Juneau is mot available in Washington, and all inquiries should be directed to the men named, Ideas from the newly inaugurat- ed idea box were read by Cham- ber Secretary M. J. Whittier. Most prominent in the large pile of writ- ten suggestions taken = from the idea bhox was that of the irradica- tion of rats in Juneau. A rat cam- | paign, a suggested rat bounty on | the rodents, buttons for Cham- cat Navy Planes Make Search For Missing Jack McCord T—Fear- husband KODIAK ing for the saie who left home on Sitkaledik Island, 90 miles from Kodiak, Mrs, Jack McCord requested a searching party be sent out by the Naval air station Lere. Planes sent out yesterday made a wide search for the 65 foot he | ber members, auto inspection for Juneau, formation of a publicity icommitlee, the landscaping of sey- |eral Juneau eye-sores and a clean- {up campaign, the removal of the |U. S. Army Signal Corp office out |to the Glacier Highway, the ap- jproval of finance drives by the Tor s | Chamber, the inauguration of a believed that McCord may be at | ~Know-Juneau” campaign, the Chirikof. elimination of smoke from the saw- A Coast Guard survey plane is as- mill, and caging of cub brownj| sisting Navy planes from Kodiak in |bears for tourists were included in . search. |the suggestions for future Cham- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, AUG. 7, s N VICHY NOTE LEAVES HULL INPUZILE Question o? French Teri- torial Defense Still Unanswered WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.—Secre- tary of State Cordell Hull indicat- ed today that American relations with the Vichy government depend more on —aetion- the French may take in defending their territory than on assurances just received from Vichy. Secretary Hull received a French note substantially along lines re- ported' in recent press dispatches from Vichy, he told a press con- ference. Asked whether these new as- surances were satisfactory, Secre- tary Hull said he still wished .to know more about what is going on in Vichy. It was reported that the French note expressed Vichy's intentions of defending the French empire its own way. Hull's remarks led some observers to infer the note in itself failed to satisfy the American govern- ment entirely on the question of defense of French African posses- sions and other territories, or pos- sible resistance to Axis demands Tellerbach Passes Away SAN MATEO, Cal, Aug. 7—Isa- dore Zellerback, 175, Chairman of the Bxecutive Committee of the Crown-Zellerback Corporation, died here today. He had not been in good health for some time. Survivors are his widow, two sons, J. D. and H. D. Zellerback, and a daughter, Mrs. Alfred Sa- roni, all of the San Francisco area .- Grishams Home from Visit in Wrangel Mrs. W. L. Grisham returned’ to Juneau on the month’s visit in Wrangell with her mother, Mrs. Hannah Otteson, and her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs, Einer Otteson. Mr. Grish- am, manager..of the Race .Drug for military bases and other con- | Yukon after a! 1941. JAP SHIPS [sam 'UNDERWAR | “onpigersovio CONTOL ACT seiners Getfing 14 Cenls a gt - Pound for Sockeyes- | Nippon Merchant Marine, Pinks Starfing SeVerS Relafions Wml ‘ Puget Sound::njoying one of Bri’ain alld U. S‘ the finest late runs of salmon in ! many years, it. was reported here TOKYO, Aug. 7.-Japan's today by F. W. Buhrman, opera- biz|tor of the Farwest Packing Com- shipping companies announced hcre:pany of Anacortes and the .Far- today their acceptance of the gov-|west-Alaska Company, of Wran- ernment’s plan for centralized “war- | gell, ; time control” of shipping. | ~-Buhrman, who has been coming The empire’s merchant marine|to Alaska every summer for 32 plan calls for establishment of u]years, arrived in Juneau Monday Central Maritime Transportation|by plane, has spent the early part Control Association to direct all| of the week at his Wranggll plant, shipping during wartime. | and was bagk in Juneau this morn- Already, N.YK lines, Japan‘sfing. awaiting departure of a plape largest shipping company, has an-i this afternoon, on which he will nounced suspension of services to|return to Seattle. the United States. Domei, official|" “In all the 32 years I've been Japanese news agency, reported‘ coming to Alaska, I've never seen| | that the Asaka Shosen Kaisha,sec-!such a heavy run of fish in South. |ond largest shipping company, is east Alaska as we have right no | closing its branchgs in Los An- Buhrman stated. The Wrangell geles, and in mapy British Em-'plant of the Farwest Company will :pxrc ports. have a heavy pack in cans when| | Official circles were said to.view | the season closes there on August) the move as “practical - severance | 28, he declared. of economic relations with Britain| On Puget Sound, Buhrman stat- and the United States.” ed, seiners are averaging between - - - 1,000 and 3000 fish a day. For Puget Sound sockeyes, fishermen arg getting 14 cents a pound, best price the red salmon have brought in years, he stated. Pinks have just begun to run heavily in Puget Sound, Buhrman declared, and will reach a peak run between August 15 and September 15, it is expeet- od. The pinks are bringing a price of 3% cents a pound to fisher- men. Puget Sound canners are hand- packing the sockeyes being taken now, and putting up a “fancy” pack, Buhrman said. He declared that the five major canning plants | now operating on Puget Spund are ~ SCHOOLS 10 OPEN Defense Base Kids GetNew | | Buildings at Kodiak, Dutch Harbor | handling more fish (thanks to high |speed machinery) than 47 plants Two new Territorial schools, Te-ion the Sound once handled in the |quired by the flood of army and|qays before fish traps were barred |navy families and families of de-|f.om washington waters. | fense workers have poured into e Nleglet |along with 52 other rural terriwr-; 18 MONTHS |Alaska in the past year, will open |1al schools and schools in most of | |Alaska’s 19 incorporated cities on September 2, it was announced to- day by Dr. James C. Ryan, Teniwrm; | Commissioner of Education. | The two new buildings will be at| |Dutch Harbor and at Kodiak, cen- | . ters of Alaska's buzzing new defense‘:, industry. Both schools have been con-| |structed in cooperation withe con-| | struction companies engaged in de- fense. contenct work ana witn navs| SeNate Approves Year and, authorities, Dr. yan stted. h . i Yease, s e @ Half Exfension fo Territory, in each case, is furnish-: THE WEATHER (By the U. 8. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinily, beginning. at 4:30 p.m., Aug. 7: Partly cloudy tonight and Friday, slightly warmer PFriday, lowest temperature tonight about 51 dezrees, highest Friday 75 degrees; gentle variable winds. a0 b Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Partly cloudy tonight and Friday; slightly warmer south portion Friday; moderate variable winds but mostly northerly in Lynn Canal Forecast of winas aleng the coast of the G of Alaskm Dixon Entrance to Cape Spenger: .Moderate no: Iwest, to west winds, blacking to west to southvest winds, partly cloudy; Cape Bpencer to Cape Hinchinbrook: moderate northeast to east winds, partly cloudy; Cape Hinchinbrookt M“"@’W’" Bay: moderate northeast winds, partly eloudy; Resurrection BHay to Kodiak: moder- ate yariable winds, partly cloudy. LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity = Weather 4:30 p.m. yesterday 30.20 61 9 SSE 4 Overcast 4:30 a.m. today 30.19 52 95 Calm 0 Cloudy Noon today 30.15 _63 65 NwW 8 Overcast RADIO REPORTS .\ goDAY Max. tempt. Lowest 4:30am. ‘Brecip. 4:30a.m. Station last 24 hours temp. tempt. 34hours Weather Barrow iy 68 n 41 07 ‘Drizzle Fairbanks 63 52 52 19 Overeast Anchorage . 67 57 58 04 Cloudy Bethel .. 59 49 50 04 Rain St. Paul 53 47 49 T Rain Duteh Harbor . 58 48 ‘48 Ly Showers Wosnesenski 60 | 52 62 0 Oyercast Kodiak ....... % 53 64 0 Qvercast Cordova ... 59 a5 5 '] Qvercast Juneau 68 52 52 0 Pt. Cldy Sitka .. 61 55 55 0 Cloudy Ketchikan 65 55 56 13 Overcast Prince Rupert .. 66 55 56 0 Overcast Prince George .. 77 4 44 03 Clear Seattle 81 58 59 [ Clear Portland 90 61 61 10 Clear San Francisco .. 70 54 56 0 Pt. Cldy WEATHER SYNOPSIS Juneau, August 8—Sunrise 5:0! am., sunset 9;03 p.m. Partly cloudy to cloudy skies prevailed generally over Alaska this morning. Widely scattered showers had fallen over most sections of Alaska during ‘the past-24 hours. The greatest amount of pre- cipitation was 19 hundredths o an inch which was recorded ot Fairbanks. The highest temperature yesterday afternoon was 68 degrees at Juneau and the lowest last night 37 degrees at Barrow. Broken clouds to overcast with moderate to high ceilings and good visibilities prevailed over the Juneau - Ketchikan airway this morning. The Thursday morning weathe: chart indicated that relatively low pressure prevailed in Queen Charlotte Sound and a weak low trough was developing along the Gulf of Alaska. A high pressure center of 30.70 inches was locatei at 48 degrees north and 162 de- grees west and a high crest extendad northeastward over the interior SHELL TAKES FOUR GOVERNOR ONRPTOCOIT ) e NEW AIR BASE Four passengers winged out of Ju- Yakufat Field fo Be Usefu! neau this morning with Pilot Shell Simmons as Frank Metcalf left for in Proposed Coast- wise Service Pelican, and George Karsie, Alfred Choussel and Leonard Taylor left for Sitka. Simmons returned with Lawrence Freeburn and Martin Bradley from the Coast town: On a flight to the South, S8immons carried John Bailey to Petersburg, and Harry Larson, R. A. Woods, E. M. Belfus and M. J. Haas to Sitka. Pilot Alex Holden carried Jack HOSPITAL NOTES ibut boat President, with four men bound s. Olaf Peterson was admitted and six horses aboard for j o e el S Chirikof Tsland, part of the McCord | = o 0" cattle and sheep range k) left Sitkaledik Island two - Aene e sstehise < Sharon Ann Hanson en- weeks ago d heavy westerly it S Al i S : his morn- ther but the weather conditions St. Ann’s Hospital t for medical attention. ing for the last 10 days has been clear aad oatm E: Lacombe was admitted to St McCord was formerly associated Ann's Hospital today for a tonsil- with Charles Frye, Seattle meat ectomy. packer, ir the cattle raising in- — dustry to the westward. The com- A baby boy was born at 7:30 pany was named the Chirikof Cattle o'clock this morning to Mr. and Company. McCord now has entire Mrs. Virgil Harto at the Govern- interest. He lately purchased the ment Hospital. dressed m from his ra s Lo —_— the Naval r Station at ddiak Adeline Clark, a medical patient having been given a large cor ct. at th Government Hospital, was e diay dismi today CYANA TO SCENE ————— - KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Aug. 7.— The Coast Guard cutter Cyana may reach Sutkaledik tomorrow, seeking the lost President with Jack Mc- Cord and crew aboard, the Coast Guard headquarters here announces. One report is that McCord reach- ed Alitak, on the northwest side of Kodiak Island, on July 27, and it is CAA (OMMUNICATIO PLANS WOULD BLOCK RADIO FADEOUTS Plans for reg al chains o short-wave radio reporting stations throughout. Alaska, to defeat the workings of radio fade-outs in the Perritory, are in the mind of Eu- ene Sibley, communications chief for the Civil Aeronautics Admin- istration, day by tor plane, enroute to Wash- D. C ha been in Alaska duc- week conferring with and Navy communications and with the Weather au, regarding cooperative radio mications for the Territory would be shared by these along with the CAA. ; the past Army icers Come to the Olympic—enjoy i Y| or vital ‘nece to both mili- delicious foods as praued il | Le and commercial air route op- “Adventures in Good Eat- eration i stem by which weath- it the can be ma available thjs information States for reports from thrc d to > making use, Sibley ex- plained Where present communications facilities are often blocked by local radio fade-out conditions which prevent transmitting information {from large sections of the coun- try, establishment of a double chain of stations would make it possible to get the information out over other stations in case a key s | tion” is temiporarily in a fade-out belt, Sibley explained. - BUY DEFENSE STAMPS Frank W ¥ when he left Juneau to-| Silver Drive City Councilman Ernest Parsons | spoke to Chamber members about | the silver drive for the purchase jof silver service for the cruiser Juneau, soon to be launched ' in | Karney, N. J. He mentjoned that |a jitney dance will be held in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel | Saturday night to aid in raising funds for the purchase. Harold Foss asked that a letter | of appreciation be sent to the City | for the construction and final completion of the swimming pool in the Evergreen Bowl and said that in the past three days 1,300 people have entered the tank. The Reverend W. H. Mathews, 1eplacing the Reverend G. Edward Knight at the Methodist Church, was introduced. C. B. Awnold, foi- mer manager of radia statica KINY, who wil be in Juneau far several weeks while the present ! manager is south on a business trip, spoke briefly. P Luncheon Yesterday Honors Mrs.J.R.Tate Mrs. Robert Schoettler was hostess at a small luncheon yesterday at one | o'clock in honor of Mrs. J. R. Tate, who has been in Juneau from Sitka for a few days with her husband, Commander Tate. The luncheon was held in.the Iris Room of the Baranof and after iluncheon the party drove to the R. H. Williams garden on the Glacier Highway to spend the afternoon. Guests attending the affair were | Store here, joined his wife in Wran- |ing only teachers, text hooks and| gell and spent a few days. The |supplies. Buildings, heat, light and| widely entertained by her friends and relatives. v, & ammo Miss Joan Lingo Is Hostess at Luncheon Miss Joan Lingo was hostess to- day at a luncheon in the Iris Room of the Baranof Hotel honoring Miss Ruth Hill and Miss Bernice Mon- san who are in Juneau for a short visit. Other guests were the Misses Elaine Housel, Mary Jean Mec- Nayghton and Doris Freeburger. Miss Hill is visiting her brothe:r Evan Hill, and plans to stop at Sitka next week before returning sputh. Miss Monson is flying to Sitka tomorrow fo visit relatives. PAN AIR SENDS TWO SHIPS OUT Elecira Flies North - Lode- star Leaves for South with Nine «“Pan American Airways dispatched twp planes from Juneau this morn- ing as an Electrg winged to the Interior with five passengers and & Lodestar roared out of the airport bound for Seattle with nine on the Mesdames Charle Beale, R H. | Williams, J. J. Meherin, Alex Hold- |en, Ernest Gruening and Earl Clif- ford. 6 PROTESTS AT " TAX HEARING Busiest session so far of the city equalization board was econducted last night when six residents ap- peared and asked for adjustments on the assessed valuation of their property. Final session of the board, ¢om- posed of the City Council, will be held tonight from 8 to-10 p.m. in the Council Chambers. - After .tenight, no further adjustments can be made in the city tax rolls, it was stated by Mayor Harry I. Lugas. | On FPriday night, a shore session of the Council is scheduled to fix the city tax rate, Present rate is 18 mills, 3 - | board. Passengers .bound for Fairbanks on the northbound Electra were Margaret Foute, Stacy Norman, Mrs. Norman Cameron, Barbara, Ann Cameron: and Carol Joan Cameron. Passengers leaving on the Lode- star for the south were W. T. Miller, Oapt. James Craine, E. J. Kopp, Fred Buhrman, Eugene Cibley, C. R.‘Shinn, Charles Kofron. Mrs. Con-, nie Whittemore and.Darrell Gentry. North Coas s Dnes_ilurdayf Steamer. North.Coast, scheduled t0' arrive today or tomorrow, is not due: in)Junesu until 2 o'cloek Saturday afternoon. This is according to a radiogram received from the ship late this afternoon. PMmdk $4.03%. two returned together. |Janitor services are furnished by| ‘Wrangell is the pld home of Mrs. the navy. | Grisham and while there she was| At Kodiak, the school is built| on the new navy airport and will! be an elementary school, with high school students from the defense| base being transported to the Kod- iak city schools. It s planned to| furnish three teachers for an es-| timated 100 pupils at the Kodiak | school, however if attendance ex- ceeds present expectations it may | be necessary to furnish.an additional instructor, Dr. Ryan said. Two teachers are being provided | for the Dutch Harbor school, where enrollment is expected to be about | 60 children. Appropriations for maintainence|liability at two and a half years, of tMe new schools were npt in- cluded in the territorial budget for the coming two years, Dr. Ryan poined out today, as the legislature assured that school needs in de- through the national $150,000,000 | Community Facilities Act, Hazards INDIANA, Okla., Aug. 7.—Friends had assembled at church far the and Mrs. Grace Van. Just as the organ swung into | plosion was heard. . Out went the startled wedding guests, many through handy win- Investigation disclosed a photog- rapher Bad set off a charge of flash- light powder. 3 The guests reassembled and the ceremony went on. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Aug. 7. — Closing juotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 4%, Ameriean Can 88%, Anaconda 29, Bethlehem Steel 4%, Commonwealth and Southern /16, Curtiss Wright 9, General Mot- ors 39%, International Harvester 34%, Kennecott 38!, Northern Pa- 7Mic 1%, United States Steel 58%, DOW, IONES AVERAGES “Here Comes the Bride” a loud ex- | dows. i Service Adt WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 7— With administration forces in command, the Senate voted today to keep Army selectees, National Guard, National Reserve Corps men and enlisted men in the Army uni- form 18 months beyond their pres- ent one-year terms. After voting down an attempt yesterday, sponsored by Republi- cans, to limit extra duty require- ments to one year, the Senate chamber adopted the amendment to the selective service act pro- posed by Senator E. D. Thomas of Utah, fixing the maximum service instead of the present one-year term. Men who enlisted for three years could be retained four and a half years under the amendment. Vote on the amendment was 44 fense community wiuld be provided|io 28 PRESIDENT'S WASHINGTON, Aug. 7. — The | House this afternoon sustained the President's veto of the legislation authorizing the expenditure of $320,- marriage of the Rev. W A. Mathews | 000,000 for defense highway needs. This action kills the bill. The Sen- ate yesterday passed the bill over the veto. OPERATIONS HEAD BACK FROM INSIDE Pan American Airways Operations Superintendent for the Alaska Divi- sion, Capt. J. H. Craine, returned to Juneau last night on a CAA Doug- {1as Dolphin and boarded a south- bound Lodestar for the States today. Craine, on an inspection trip of | operations in the Territory, has been | in the Interior for several weeks and has flown all PAA runs in Alaska. WESTER RETURNS. Wilbur Wester, Manager .of the Gastineau Hotel and Secretary- Treasurer of the Westward . Hotel Company, returned to Juneau late _The following are today’s Dow, Jories averages: Industrials, 128.10; rails, 38.18; utilities, 18.72, —————— BUY DEFENSE BONDS yesterday on a southbound PAA. "plue after spending several ' in: Anchorage on business with the ‘construction of the West- ping Hot ward Hotel there, VETOUPHELD |- mn_‘@mmi = Early and Otto Mills ta Gull Cove | and later flew five cannery workers to Peril Straits. FISH COMPANY FILES Incorporation papers were filed today in the office «of Terriforial Auditor Frank A. Bayle for the Cape Cross Salmon Company of Washington. The firm has a capi- talization of $50,000 with 1,000 shares- valued at $50 each. Incorporators are W. Laurence Freeburn, Orvis. Nayes and P. S. Ganty. Agent for service is P. S. Ganty of Sitka. ¢ are as follows: Started less than a year ago, the | dedication of the new Yakutat army eir field yesterday was a tribute to the efficiency of army engineers in charge of the work, Governor Ern- est Gruening said today upon hi | return from the opening ceremonies, “I was greatly impressed with the speed and efficiency with which his field was completed,” Governor Gruening declared. “It is a major iemonstration of the efficiency of army engineers.” “The new Yakutat air base,” the overnor continued, ‘‘provides Alaska with a splendid airfield, not anly for military purposes, but com- mercially it will furnish an impor- tant link in a coastwise air service which I hope to see estabiished in the near future.. This service would nable people of Southeast Alaska to travel to Cordova, Valdez, An- thorage or Seward without flying first into . Pairbanks, which is so much out of their way.” Virtuolly completed in all its details, the new. Yakutat field has all main runways concreted. "RUBBER CHECK' ARTIST JAILED “David R. Kippen, of Juneau, began today to serve & sentence -of six months in the Federal Jail here on the charge of cashing checks for ‘which he had not sufficient funds in.the bank. o r check” activities when he was arraigned before U. S. Com- missioner Felix Gray.. Yesterday he Jall term on the first of these counts and a similar sentence on the second I approxi- mately $230 he had received via the bad check route RECKLESS DRIVING COSTS BANDY $50 31/2. - foot. . pendulum, terday afternoon he was ar- Wo feet high, raigned before U. S. Commissio ‘et long, and ho Pols aras. b ‘eet long. Bandy was driver of a machine in SN SR which Joe Prescatt was a passenger, Aplr Ans o 2go on the ) S TRl sto ofDan Ralston, Alasks way ‘water. B