The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 11, 1941, Page 2

developed by GIL FIELDS— The indusiralized U. The great Baku oil a HONEYMOON, THEN K. P. FOR JACKIE “The Kid" Is A. W. 0. L. After Wedding to Night- club Flower Girl FORT ORD, Cal, Aug. 11. Bridegroom Jackie Coogan has been AW.OL, from his anti-tank con ing a Ties just be surprise marriage to former Flower Parry, 19-year-old Hollywood nightclub flower girl. Officers said today that he woutd probably be assigned to kitchen po- lice duty when he shows up. - - VALLEY OF 10,000 SMOKES DWINDLES 10 8 LITTLE PUFFS The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes is tapering off and will probably quit smoking entirely in a féw years. Such was the report :eceived here today in the report to B. D.| Stewart, Territorial Commissioner | of Mines, from J. C. Rochm, assis- | tant mmmg ‘engireer for theé’ com- ssion, who has just completed a r ,):thmugh the famed valley on the Alaska Peninsula. “There are only eight smokes ac- tive in the valley,” Roehm reported, “and they are on the sides of the Mount Nova Rupta volcano. The floor of the valley is beginning to be covered with vegetation and in few years will probably be com- pletely over grown Roehm has recently finished a nining survey trip in the Nuka Bay strict and is now at Seldovia. He wrote Stewart an account of his trip through the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes as a portion of his report on a recent trip through the upper portion of the Alaska Peninsula. BESSIE REEDER DIES IN SOUTH Friends here.today were shocked by news of the death of Mrs. Bes- sie Reeder, prominent Juneau wo- man who died yesterday afterncon in Portland, P A brief telegram received here did not reveal the cause of Mrs. eder’s death. She left here Sun- August 3, on her way to a Portland clinic for medical treat- ment. She had been in poor health for a number of years, friends stat- ed. It was expected that she might undergo an operation at Portland. Mrs. Reeder was 59 years old and had been in Juneau for about 20 years. She formerly operated the Northern Cocktail Bar and was 2 member of the American ' Legion Wadies’ Auxiliary and of the Wo- men of Moose, in which order she served last year as Senior Regen She was also active in other Ju- neau women's organizations. Mrs. Reeder was born in Illinot Surviving her are a sister in Cal fornia and a brother in Illinois. D STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Aug. 11—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 4%, American Can 84, Anaconda 27%, Bethlehem Steel 70%, Commonwealth and Southern '1/16, Curtiss Wright 8%, Kennecott 37%, New York - Central 121/2, Northern -Pacific 7, United States Steel 56%, Pound $4.03%. his di DOW, JONES AVERACES The following are today's Jones averages: industrials rails 29.73, utilities 18.50. .- - FROM COLLEGE, ALASKA Lawrence Bayer of College, Al- aska, arrived in Juneau yesterday on a southbound PAA Lodestar. is registered at the Baranol Hotel Dow 126.01 exprepriated, any here for 24 hours follow- | the | t.|on the East coast. She also British, yield cver eyond the Ukrainian farming region. CITY HEADS IN MEXICO ARE KILLED Troops Called Out fo Put Down Semi-Military Uprisings MEXICO CITY, Aug. 11. — Re- ports of the slaying of eight mu- nicipal officials in two towns of the state of Vera Cruz reached the Capital today. At the same |issued for Federal [ | i time, orders were troop comman- ders in all parts of the country to put down unauthorized demonstra- semi-military groups. FOARD, SMITH | tions of | | | | HELD AT NOME, BAD WEATHER ‘ Dr. Fred T. Foard, Regional Med- ‘ ical Consultant for the United States | Public Health Service, and Dr. ‘(,o\u tney Smith, Assistant Commis- \smnen of Health, have been held in Nome by weather conditions for the past five days. They are expected to reach Fair- banks tomorrow where they will continue their inspection of health conditions in defense bases. They expect then to make a survey of | bases at Anchorage, Seward and Cor- | dova before returning to Juneau. They are making a study of health and sanitation problems of the civ- ilian population near defense bases Dr. Foard has his headquarters in San Francisco. — - RED (ROSS OFFI(MI. THROUGH JUNEAU ON ALEUTIAN YESTERDAY Henry M. Baker, National Execu- tive of the National Red Cross,| | stopped in Juneau briefly while the Aleutian was in port yesterday. He is returning to his headquar- ters in San Francisco after a hur- ried trip to the Territory where he has been establishing a clo: | coordination of Red Cross work in Alaska. While Baker was in Juneau he conferred with John Newmarker, chairman of the Juneau Red Cross Chapter and members of the Health Department. -~ HEALTH NURSE THROUGH | TO TAKE YEAR'S LEAVE Helen McBride Smith, who has been Public Health Nurse in Sew- ard for the past three years, went through Juneau yesterday on the Mount McKinley. She is on a year's leave of ab- sence and hopes during that Lime(‘ to serve on a visiting nurse staff in- | {tends to further her health train- |ing by studying at Columbia Uni- versity. Miss Smith is the sister of| Stevenson Smith, formerly the head ' of the English Department of the University of Oregon in Eugene. Mr. Smith has written several texts in the English field that are used in many colleges and universities as standard textbooks, He is now in the East doing research work. e.—— L. B. PROGRAM N PETERSBURG DONE; WRANGELL IS NEXT tuberculosis program being, carried on in Petersburg by Dr. John Weston, Tuberculosis Clini- tian for the Territorial Department | The Dutch and American interests, and later three-fourths of Europe’s production. S. R. could use it all, but had promised much to Germany. ' mons carried Nancy Wi ‘ensen left of Health, and assisted by Magun- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, AUG. | FDOD 'FLIES T0 GET SCHOLARSHIP; SHE'S WINNER NEW YORK, Aug. 8—Twenty-two -old Pat Thomas, sweaters and tended children to pay for her flying instruction, has \mn the first Amelia Earhart ‘Srlv slarship, founded in memory of | the first woman to fly the Atlantic. In the six years since she learned to fly, she has logged mcre than 1,000 hon Now she is a flight in- structor at the Alvin Eager School at Gardena, Cal. Pat expects to use her $150 scholarship, which was founded by the 99 Club of licensed women pilots, to study instrument {lying. — e —— McPHERSONS 10 HAVE VISITORS VIA LODESTAR Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Champ of Butte, Montana, will arrive in Jun- cau this afternoon on a northbound Lodestar and will be in the North for two weeks visiting Mr. and Mrs. F. H. McPherson of Tulsequah, B.C. McPherson, superintendent of the Polaris-Taku mine, and his wife arrived in Juneau from the Canadian | | mining town several days ago to meet their friends from Outside. Champ is branch manager for the General Electric Company with headquarters at Butte, and is an electrical engineer. The visitors will stop in Juneau for several days, then continue to Tulsequah for ten days, where they will see Taku river and the glaciers, end the other scenic spots of the area. The Champs are on their first trip to the Territory. Tomorrow afternoon Mrs. Mc- Pherson is giving a luncheon in the Iris room of the Baranof Hotel in honor of Mrs. Champ. Fifteen guests have been invited. PIlOT HOLDEN MIKES 4 TRIPS Pilot Alex smam will h-vra made four trips to nearby spots today by sundown after carrying 22 passengers. Early this morning Holden flew out of the Channel with Guy Graham on a charter flight to Taku Harbor, and “ returned to take Mrs. De Armand, to Pelican and Mr., and Mrs. William Johnson and Forest Brender to Hoonah. He returned with Mr. and | Mrs. S. Warburton, Jr, and son from | Sitka, and Oswald Thanum. from Hoonah. Later he carried five passengers to Sitka and returned with five. He lis scheduled to make a flight into | | Tulsequah this afternoon with three | ‘miners Pilot Dean Goodwin has been on special flights with canning man Nick Bez during the day. On a flight to Sitka, Shell Sim- ht, E. Grif- fith, Jack Molyneaux, ‘Wendt and J. Lanier to Sitka and returned with four passengers. . Later today Simmons will fly to Excursion Inlet for cannery workers. ——————— BODY FOUND AT SECURITY BAY Marshal “Chris” Chr‘st- his Petersburg head- quarters yesterday for Security Bay to investigate the* finding of a body there, according to a telegram received by U. 8. Marshal William Mahoney here. The wire failed to say whether the body was that of a murdered man or one who met death by nat- ural causes. No further word was Deputy | received by the marshal's office today. —e —— BIRTHDAY DINNER Fox her new brother-in-law, Clar- e Walters, Mrs. Tom Jensen en-| »rtamed last Saturday evening with a birthday dinner. Additional guests mcluded Mr. and Mrs. Orrin Ed- who knit | | lated southern areas of this coun- ~ Demanded NAZI PLANS IN CHILE ARE NIPPED South American Group Planned "Putsch” Of- ficers Declare SANTIAGO, Chile, Aug. 11.—The arrest of five members of a Nazi organization at Puerto Varas in| southern Chile today uncovered “ad- [ vanced plans for a putsch” in San- tiago, officials stated. The newspaper La Critica de- clared further arrests have been ordered in the investigation of an alleged Nazi plot in German popu- | try. Informed sources said = the clean-up is connected closely with those in other South American countries. > — Release of Gen. Dentz I VICHY, Aug. 11. — The French Government, through Madrid dip- | lomatic circles, has demanded the | British release Gen. Dentz, former | Commander in Livant and also 35 other officers intetned at Beirut. SERVICES FOR SID MEDHAUG T0 BE TUESDAY| | Funeral services for Sid Medhaug, {whose death occurred August 7, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock in the chapel of the Charles ‘W, Carter Mortuary. The Elks’ ritualistic service will be given under the direction of the Juneau Lodge B.P.O.E, No. 420. |{Mrs. Lola Mae Alexander will sing at the services. Pallbearers will be members of the Elks Lodge. Interment will be in the Elks Plot at Evergreen Cem- letery. John Holmquist Celebrates 2nd Birthday Today Young John Holmquist was host! today at a party given for him hy) his mother Mrs. Leonard Holmquist, in celebration .of his 2nd blrthday. The guests enjoyed balloons and all| kinds of favors, as well as a birth- day cake proudly bearing two can- dles. Those helping to celebrate were Gordice Clowers, Jane Adams, Mar-| garet Ann Pyle, 8ara Drulcy, Bon-| nie. MoLean, Stewart Whitehead,! {Jimmy. Harmon, Bill Baker, David | Hamlin, Jake Ramsey, Joe Abel,| Mike Grummett, and Mike Black-| well. Assisting Mrs. Holmquist were Miss | Pat and Miss Marilyn Moaliter. ! { ‘ FORMER (ORDOVANS IN JUNEAU MAKING TOUR Mr. and ~Mrs. Malcolm Brock, | former residents of Cordova, wete lguests of Dr. and Mrs. W. W. Coun~ icil yesterday while the Aleutian |was in port. The Brocks now mak? their home in Bakersfield, Cal., where Mr. Brock is the owner of a large department store. The |couple has been making a vaca- | tion tour through the Territory. —— | TO RESIDE IN STATES i To make their future home in the States, Marion Wetter and Orville | Gulhaugen Jeft yesterday forenoon | | | hild Oygard, Public Health Nur*c]“a.d.\ Shirley Edwards, W. E. Feero”on the Mount McKinley. Wetter wilk has now been completed. The health workers will now carry on the same rogram in Wrangell, .and Tom Jensen. e ———— BUY DEFENSE STAMPS |lccate in Shoals, Indiana, and Gul- |haugen is returning to his former home in Arlington, Washington. of the fertile Ukraine, breakbasket of Europe, looks good to the ravaged, Nazi-dominated portion of Europe. This vast arable area is the reason why Russia leads the world in the production “of rye, wheat, barley, oats, potatoes, beet sugar, and is a ranking producer of fr ALASKA PIONEER, , fish, dairy products, eggs. SAMUEL DUBIN, PASSES AWAY Funeral ‘Services Planfied for Wednesday in Seame SEATTLE, Aug vices for Samuel Alaskan merchant, Wednesday. Dubin, are planned for Dubin died Sunday in a hospital | ;here after a long illness. He was {one of the best own businessmen of the Koyukuk area of the Yukon River Valley, living in Alaska since | 1906. His home was in F,mbmnkx SITKA PHONE (0. OWNER SHOOTS SELF : Peter Kostrametinoff, owner of| the Sitka Telephone Company, com- mitted suicide at his home in Sitka about 1 pm. today, it was learned! late this afternoon at the U. S. Marshal's office here. Kostrametinoff was home alone when he fired the shot, (\LOI\’)HS! to the radiogram from Sitka. He was sald to have shot himself in the temple with a .30 calibre Luegar automatic. Inquest into the death by a cnr-‘ oner’s jury is set for 10 o.m. to- morrow. ————— PAA MEDICAL MAN TOURING BRIEFLY | T0 SEE (ONDITIONSj Dr. R. A. McFarland, Medical Coordihator or Pan American Air- | ways, arrived in Juneau yesterday | after a trip to Fairbanks. He plars to continue south tomorrow on a| Lodestar. As Medical Coordinator for the | airways, McFarland protects the\ health of passengers and pilots ns‘ far as food supplies, changing | weather conditions from one pIace} to another and communicable ai- | seases are concerned. The doctor has his headquarters | in the Chrysler Building in New York and also dces laboratory work at Harvard University. oo CHILKOOT INDIANS TO VOTE LATE IN OCTOBER Voting of the Chilkoot Indian As- | sociation on their approved con- | stitution by-laws and federal char- ter will take place during the last week of October in Haines, accord- ing to word received by Don Hag- erty of the Office of Indians Af- fairs. NASI IS BACK FROM INTERIOR Kaarlo W. Nasi, Director of the Division of Public Engineering, re- | turned to Juneau‘yesterday on the Moum McKinley after an extended wm- of interior communities and National Defense bases and Alaska ' Peninsula canneries, Nasi has been making a routine sanitary survey of the cities, but would draw no conclusions. He said that the increased populations caus- ed by defense bases have made ad- ' ditional sanitary problems for the adjacent communities. He has made recommendations to the cities in- volved to help the situation. e PACKING MAN HERE Guy B. Graham, representative of Libby, McNeill and Libby, ar- rived in Juneau yesterday and is staying at the Baranef Hotel. To- ‘day he flew to Taku Tarbor on HAF‘unorul ser- | { pioneer | |cases being packed. This was about 1,000,000 cases short of the expected |- | Douglas. I94I. of the U. MINES manganese, a necessity in steel eld much of world" 's coal (left), iron a‘nd gold [rllhtb l-llfier has these, too, but vxtallv needs from the mineral-rich Urals copper, chromium (chrome steel) and Imaking. ; Russia had agreed to export these toblockaded Germany under the' temn of the “lrmndshln" paet umu so unexpectedly two yun un. AIRTRAFFIC | RESUMES AS 'PLANES FlY Two lodestars in from . South-Electras in and, . Oat This Morning. Aftdr bad weathel yestevday held up all PAA air traffic, Pan Am- erican Airways Alaska Division dis- patched four planes in and outf of ‘Juneau today. Yesterday’s Lodestar, delayed by weather in Prince George, arrived here at noon today with four pas- | sengers for Juneau and five booked ;mrough from Seattle for Fair~ | banks. Passengers arriving here arc | Lawrence Bayer, Franklin Rich- |ards, Vincent Dorn and William ‘Shoxt Through passengers on the | ship are Mrs, Emma Henderson, Alyce Shaw, Mayme Shaw, Errol Im\\ and Guy Riegel. to land this v.cda,t'n northbound Lodestax Seattle with M. C. Faulkne Manery, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Champ, E. J. Daley and R. Reel for junzau and H. Ursin and E. Fritis for Faubunks A northbound Electra winged out of Juneau for Fairbanks morning with 1 Mrs, T. Morrisol ler for the Schlesman booked A southbound with R. W. Marshall fiom White- horse, and Frank Lenze, Abraham Cooley and Paul Poncia {rom Fair-| banks. | afternocn s from B \1\1- ald chorse. arrvived da S e ‘GREEN SAYS POOR FISHING TO MEAN LESS TAX REVENUE Joe/Green, who has bgen (in the | Bristol Bay area and other Third | on communities for the Treas- | urers Office since June 1, returned |10 Juneau yesterday by plane, He has been collecting Territorial taxes from canneries an%othel establish- ments. According to Green the fishing in Bristol Bay was very poor this season, only approximately 600,000 catch. Green asserted, “the poor fishing season will greatly effect territorial revenue.” | Instead of the usual number of about 22 operating canneries, only 14 canneries and twa floating can- neries operated this season. | Mrs. Green returned to Juneau with her husband. She went to the interior several weeks ago, visiting Fairbanks for the first time in 22 years. e ——— MRS. BUTCHER COMPLIMENTED | Honoring Mrs. Harry Butcher of | Juneau on the occasion of her birth- | day, Mrs. Grace Harmon entertained| at a dinner party in the Iris room| of the Baranof ‘hotel last' Friday, evening with covers for four. Cock- | tails in the Bubble room of the Bar- anof preceeded the dinner. - | The other guests were Mrs. Jane Harris and Mrs. Eugene Gath of The former with Mrs. Harmon is a visitor here from Los; Angeles, California. They ave house | guests of Mrs. Harris' brother, Wil-| liam B. Robinson, pioneer resldent of this city. Following dinner, the group en-| Jjoyed a theatre party with Mrs, Butcher as hostess. ———.———— LEGIONNAIRES TO MEET Regular meeting of the Ameri-| | can Legion will be held. tonight with routine business slated to hold the spotlight. One resolution to ke proposed will deal with approval or condemnation of the proposed changes in Alaska’s organic act, which would amend the act to provide representation in the Ter- ritorial legislature in proportion to population in various sections of the, Territory. J THE WEATHER LA B o S U. S. DEPARTMENT OF Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4:30 p.m., Aug. 11: Partly claudy tonight, cloudy Tuesday with the likelihood of showers, light fog, /Tuesday morning, littl> change in temperature, . lowest temperature. tonight 52 degrees and highest Tuesday 65 degrees, gentle variable winds. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Mostly cloudy with widely scat- tered showers north portion and partly cloudy south portion tonight and T\agsq;}v. morning fog Jocally 2over the channels. Tuesday, littie change in .temperature, gentle variable winds, Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska Dixon Entrance to Cape Spencer: Gentle to moderate southerly winds, . partly ¢loydy with some morning fog. Cape Spencer to Cape Hmchinhrmk. gentle to mo‘&erate southeasterly winds, cloudy with occasional showers, Cape Hinch nbrook to Resurrection Bay: gen- tle to moderate southeast winds tinight, becoming northerly Tues- day, showers; Resurrection Bay t) Kodiak: gentle to moderate northwesterly winds, partly cleudy. LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity 4:30 p.m. yesterday 30.08 54 99 SE 13 4:30 am. today ... 30.08 52 100 Calm 0 Noon. today . 30,08 57 89 Ssw 3 RADIO REPORTS Weather Rain fog Fog Overcast TODAY 4:30a.m. Precip. tempt. 24 hours 51 0 47 48 52 59 46 61 51 51 54 52 54 50 2 45 46 55 60 61 | 42 WEATHFY SYNOPSIS Cloudy skies prevailed over Alaska this morning with fog locally over the southeast portion. Rain had fallen along the coast from Sitka to Homer and over most of western and northeastern Alaska, The greatest amount of precipitation was 71 hundredths of an inch, which was recorded at Cordova this morning for the past 24 hoiirs. Rain was falling this morning over northern Alaska and over the Kus- kokwim and lower Yukon valleys. The highest temperature yesterday was 72 degrees, recorded at Swentna and the lowest this morning was 39 degrees at Barrow.. Good ceilings and visibilities prevailed over the Juneau-Ketchikan airway this morning except - dense fog prevailed locally with low ceilings and visibilities over the north portion of this route, The Monday morning weather chart indicated a low pressure center of 29.85 inches was located at 57 degrees north and 147 de- grees west with a trough extending to the south. This low is ex- pected to move but little and deepen during the next 24 hours. A second low. pressure center. continued north of the Bering Sea. Two high pressure centers were indicat.d, one of 30.35 inches, located at 43 degrees north and 168 degree; west and the second of 39.20 inches, was located at 36 degrees north and 129 degrees west with a high crest extending to the north. Juneau, August 12—Sunrise 5:11 a.m., sunset 8:53 p.m. 1 Hallbulers Max. tempt. last 24 hours Lo vest te np. 51 46 48 52 48 46 60 51 51 52 52 53 4:30a.m. Weather Overcast Overcast Clear Cloudy Drizzle Fog Overcast, Overcast Cloudy Station Barrow Fairbanks Nome Dawson Anchorage Bethel St. Paul .. Atka Duteh Harbor . Wosnesensk1 Cordova Juneau ... Sitka ., Ketchikan Prince Rupert .. Prince George .. Edmonton Seattle Portland San Francisco e 5] HBlococcoHHs Overcast Cloudy Overcast Cloudy Overeast Overcast Rain ®ecocee oo SEAmE. Aug 11.—The follow- ing halibuters, all from the west- ern banks, arrived and sold here BELEL L B—Wo today as follows: H: 40, brown-eyed sisters from the Univ- 13%“:::“ :000 pou'nds. A and : | pound; - Kodiak 40,- ersity. of Wisconsin will soon start . | 000 .pounds, 12% and 12% cents; on an unofficial goodwill tour of Resolute 40, South American universities. They s i e Poy s, sIR% ° M are Elizabeth and Martha Wells,| 12% Cents; Tongass 36,000 pounds, |whose fellow students voted them|12% and ]fl,“ cenls; Addington tnofficial - ambassadors, Elizabeth | 25000 pounds; 12% cents straigt; has a job as assistant cruise dir-|Mitkof 40,000 pounds, 12 374 and ector on the §.8. Uruguay and Mar- | 12% cents; Eastern 23,000 pounds, tha is going along tourist class.|23,000 pounds, 13% cents straight. They expect to visit the University of Sao Paulo, McKenzie College and pk E‘"Iv H E RE the University of Brazil. Situ lll& nnd merchant Pros In “orway Ganty arrived here yesterday after- noon in his Aeronca seaplane with LONDON, Aug. 11—The Norwe-| J. J. Conway. The two men will be gian Government, in exile here, in Juneau until Ganty's plane re- sy *| ceives a 100-hour check from me- intimate that. next winter in Nor- Wway ‘many per will be hungry. chanics at the Alaska Coastal Air- A review of the situation says milk lines hangar. They expect to re- and potatoes are running short be| B - to Blflkflmflfls evening or to- cause of German “borrowings."|MOfTOW morning, ———————— Meat, eggs and bacon are unobtain- o able. Bread is already rationed to Wem!t. contracting painter, half a pound a day and coffee to m'ml twWo cups per week, ness trip, Sitka today on a short busi-