The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 11, 1941, Page 8

Seledee Has’Advanlavge by Enlisting in Local Guard Unit Before Army Gefs Him | As time draws nearer to the ten- tative date when the first group of Alaska selectees will don khaki and report to a training center for a year and possibly more service with the armed forces of the Unit- ed States, Major W. R. Mulvihill, Adjutant General of the Alaska National Guard, pointed out the many advantages for immediate en- listment of selectees in the local ulits of the Alaska National Guard Of the present number of men An opportunity to attend officer w composing Company A, head-1 .. gigate schools will be given men querters and medical dc!.uchmvnul who show aptitude and have quali- the Guard in Juneau, approXi-gieqtions Selectees, too, will he ely 40 will be inducted Into|.i., the opportunity to apply for federal service, said Mulvihill. The| ;0 y10e months' school, but not Major showed that every one Of| i) they have served a longer these men, if qualified .will become | (e than the Guardsmen. non-commissioned officers because| nfon may enlist in the Juneau| «4 men will be needed as Sergeants| njt; of the National Guard any | and corporals when the company §S| 6 petween now and induction swelled to war time strength by the | 4a40 gecording to regulations, Mul- influx ‘of selpctees, | vihill said, but pointed out that May be Specialist |men who will be inducted by Se- In addition, the company, Wh(’l\‘le(-[j\‘l' Service in the first draft| in service at Chilkoot Barracks, is| have a golden opportunity to ad- allcwed 43 privates first class and|vance themselves by preliminary 15 specialist ratings. Far too few | training with local units before the| men will be inducted from the|time comes. ranks of the present peace time| “Many men,” he said, “would Guerd unit to fill out the number | rather volunteer to do their duty of higher paid and non-commis-!than be taken for it. And when it siored officers’ jobs. Those posi-|comes down to a matter of ‘dol- tions will fast be taken by Guar |lars and sense’ What man would men and will be filled by selec-|rather earn $21 dollars as a se- tees after a certain training stage|lectee, than earn $34 as a corporal has been reached and they have or $60 as a sergeant when all he shown aptitude. has to do is to protect himself Another advantage for a selsT |with preliminary training and get tee whose name is < wes. AN | in on the ground floor?” who will pe taken to serve approxi- [ -> > im‘ejy,u,'?m,“h uI\xil' the Guards 1M|’S_ Bar]holomew 10 We Do NOT P 'Spend 2 Weeks Here men leave, is the opportunity to stay with the home town units| rather than being transferred out | camp with strange | buddies, said Mulvhill. Candidates have at present an opportunity to| t in either Company A, or the medical or headquarters thus choosing the type they are most to a strange ;! battalion detachment | of work in interested. Possibility for Commission which | EARTHQUAKE {men were working in some offices, THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, AUG. 11, "IT HAPPENED THIS PUTS (RACKS " INWINDOWS 'Two Shakes Felf Here Sat i urday Night - Light | Damage Reporfed | Juneau's earthquake, | curred Saturday night, was the most popular topic of conversation on street corners and in office | buildings today, as reports of cracked window lights and broken | plaster came from both downtown | and residential districts. Where| ! \ | | i pens rolled off desks. Dishes rat-| tled in homes. According to Weather Bureau records first tremor came at 9:06 pm. Saturday, and was followed | by a second, less violent shake. at 9:3¢ p.m. The quake was felt from Taku to Icy Straits, accord-‘ ing to reports. Along the Glacier | Highway, the temblors were mort*} intense than in the city. | Juneau residents told today of| several window panes cracking in different sections of the city. Others told of small cracks opencd | in plaster walls. | Most spectacular break appeared | in one of the plate glass windows | of the Triangle Cocktail Bar, on Triangle Place, where the glass cracked the length of the window light, about an inch from where the edge of the glass is held by a Imetal frame. The action also | warped the glass, giving the pane! the appearance of having been! made of flexible glass. | In some sections, people ran| from houses, apartments and bars when they felt the first quake. The | | first shake lasted from 15 to 20; seconds and the last movement | about 10 seconds. Townspeople s00n atronize Montgomery Ward Co. Procter & Gamble Products Gatner & Mattern * Knit Goods Carnation Milk Co. JUNEAU CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL Mrs. Ralph Bartholomew will ar- rive in Juneau on the Baranof from | Ketchikan. She will spend two weeks | visiting her niece Miss Edythe Young and will be staying at the Baranof hotel. .- GOES TO KETCHIKAN Traveling man Irl Thatcher left on a business trip to Ketchikan aboard the steamer Aleutian. Affiliated with American Federation of Labor See These Features on the NEW White Electric Sewing Machines REVOLVING SOLID DISC SIGHT SAVING spOOL PINS SAFETY HAND SEWING LIGHT STITCH TENSION CONTROL , HINGED PRESSER FOOT RIDES SMOOTHLY AUTOMATIC BOBBIN WINDER FORWARD AND REVERSE CONTROL | calmed down and returned in- doors. i - PLANES OF s i - JAPANARE ~ OUTMODED Estimate oFNpron's War Equipment on Lland, Sea Is Given Out WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—Japan is viewed here as one of the world's three most war-weary nations (oniy Italy and Spain being placed be- fore it) but is unable to stop its! 1 | | | i E i AP Feature Service ATLANTA—When a man steps up and starts rolling toy automo- biles around the bench in Atlanta’ The rolling is done before the watchful eyes of Recorder Luke Arnold, who is convinced that his in reconstruction of an accident scene. Oral descriptions often result in confusion on the part of the witnesses to a point where no one and just what happened, Arnold points out. can under: A witness lines up the toy cars describing. The next witness may version of the story, but the chubl end everyone is better able to understand the claims. CLOSE-UP of the witness’ “stol Mlaska Trp IsBest Vacation in Years, Says Cliff Winkler «Best vacation I've had in years,” ceclared Clifford Winkler' presi- dent of Greene-Winkler Company, Seattle, in Juneau today jafter a month in Alaska travelifg with Sol Lachman, his company rep- 1esentative in the Territory, “Lachman has been bragging about Alaska . for years, swanting me to come north and see the coun- try. Now I wonder why T never made the trip before,” Winkler said. Winkler and Lachman left Seattle o) geries 3 to 2, and with a good Alaska and Is considered & na- course of aggression. The problem @ month ago aboard the Aleutian, chance to their taking the Douglas giong) guthority on the measuring| RECORDER ARNOLD points to visual testimony. 1941 NORTH COAST LEAVES WITH - 580NBOARD The delayed steamer North Coast, after a 13-hour stop in Juneau, | whistled out from Douglas at 1 | o'clock Sunday morning bound for {the Coast by way of Todd and Tenakee, carrying 58 passengers from Juneau to Sitka and the south. Passengers sailing for were Mrs, L. D. Patterson, Hill and Jack Brannen. For Petersburg —Mr. and Mrs. Del Fett and Fred Benson. For Ketchikan—Mrs. Dave Dav- enport, Bob Davenport, Margaret Ulander and S. Silva. For Sitka — Mrs. Jack Mutch, Frances Stone, L. D. Fillier, C. H. Sawyer, Thomas Folta, Michael Ciko, C, T. Bostick, Alexander Ku- pof, Herbert Lenz, George Thomp- son, Alex Demos, R. K. Hawkins, Ted 8. Thompson, Charles E. Flor, Jack Carlins, Mike Denhoff. Jack Short, Charles Doucette, Earl A, Farsling, Pete Snyder Mike K. Fucks, P. H. Prouty, Steve Kauz- larich, Lawrence R. Wafer, Donald Trautman, Thomas Harris, Charles A. Lindberg. William C. Elsner, J. W. Stoft, Henry R. Olson, Tom A. Taylor, Walter Sobeloff, Stanley Siovagni, Leo H. Hansen, Ernest Peterson, Wilford M. Welch, Eli Maki, John Bozar, Leighton Kern, J. Powers, Fred Roman, Peter Nazypany, Peter R. Gadd, Bob R. Smith, H. M. Holl- mann, Frank Cashen, William Nash and Ernie Bennett. — .- EXPERT COMING . HERE TO INSTALL RAINFALL GAUGES ™ Seattle Olive 's traffic court, its not a game. little automobiles help materially to conform with the situation he is shift the arrangement to fit his by judge is confident that in the claims and counter special storage guages, for meas- urement of rainfall on the summit of Mount Roberts and Deer Moun- tain, at Ketchikan, Ashton R. Codd, specialist in measurement of pre- cipitation, is due to arrive here to- morrow on the Columbia. i The special guages, constructed | for Alaskan use, are being put in | service at the request of the For- ry.” MOOSEREADY T0 CAPTURE 1941 SERIES Game Tonig_hfifighl Finis est Service, it was announced to- day by Howard J. Thompson, chief | meteorologist here. Data gained flram their use will be used in a isurvey of seasonal water power |available in the Southeast Alaska | section. | The guages have been especially| | constructed with a sluice arrange-| ment to melt snow and a film of| oil which will prevent evaporation | Season with Paps Takmg Pennani iof water. Codd is in charge of all| hydro-meteorological studies in the! With the Moose leading the Chan- porthwestern part of the U. S. and| To supervise the installation of| | ‘S.S. McKinley Docks Here From Seward | | Arriving here trom the West- ward at 7:45 o'clock Sunday morn- ing, the southbound steamer Mount McKinley, Capt. Arthur Rynuing snd purser Paul Coe, brought in 29 passengers for Juneau and sailed two hours later with 30 pa:sengers from Juneau for the South. | Passengers arriving from Seward —J. B. Williams, Robert Boes, Os- wald Thanem, H. K. L. Johnson,| Bernice McDaniel, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Green, Mr. and Mrs. George Lane, Joe Hall, Royal Hobst, C. R.| Anderson, Adolph Benson, Martin| Norberg, Gus Adams, Henry Heino, Elmer Howester, Don A. Wclf, Roy |Lane, V. V. Smith, Beull Epley, Les {Lawrence, Sam Martin, From Valdez—Kaarlo W. Ward Duffy and Bill Morgan. From Cordova—the Rev. Harley} | Baker, R. Robinson and Arthur | | Passengers sailing for Seattle | were Ward I. Bower, Mrs. Dill Grupe, | Mary A. Hulbert, William F. Rhor- back, Mrs. John D, Hubbard, Mrs. Clark Hart, Kosy Maier, Mrs. Frank Maier, Qrville Guthanggen, Marin Wetler, Arnold Maier, Mr, and Mrs. | Sandra de La Varre, Marjorie Doug lass, Lewis Hartwin, James Dunning, Mel Levik, Allan Guganson, Frank Crawford, Martin Norberg, Leland Vardivers, Donald A. Wolf and Adolph Benson. 1 For Ketchikan—A. W. Douglass, Herbert H. Arlowe, Mr. and Mrs. George Chassis, and F. Munson. For Wrangell—Mrs, E. J. Cowl- ing and Donald R. Meal. ———————— OLSON, CROUCH ON WAY T0 KETCHIKAN Clarence Olson, Fisheries Man- agement Supervisor, and W. E. | Crouch, trout expert, both with the Fish and Wildlife Service, are slated to leave Juneau by plane either tonight or early tomorrow for Ketchikan. Olson will go there to observe the pink salmon run in that dis- trict, while Crouch will be inter- | ested in the supply of game fish in stfeams of the area. They will be flown in the Fish and Wildlife | Service plane, piloted by Ray Ren- | shaw and expect to be away most of the week. .- BUY DEFENSE STAMPS HEAR SONOTONE as advertised in LIFE i | | | Olson. ‘ Columbials 'Northbound SEATTLE, Aug. 11.—Steamer Co- lumbia sailed for Alaska ports S urday forencon at 10 o'clock with 261 passengers, including 24 steer- age. Passengers aboard the Columbia beoked for Juneau include Vivian Tise, Myra Tise, Ashton Codd, Mrs V. Bauers. W. B. Grueter, Emma Smith, D. Swanson. -—.——— BUY DEFENSE STAMPS CARA NOME CLEANSING CREAR This high-quality liquefy- ing cream quickly soffens d make-up 50 they are sasily removed. Helps to keep your skin clean and flower-fresh. ECONOMY REG. SIZE 52, sl g ASK FOR IT AT Butler-Mauro Drug Co. The Rexall Store LA I TER 2o, itraveled into Fairbanks, flew back pine over the hurdles to capture | Why endure strain of sub-normal hearing ’.OV!R SEAMS FOUR POINT FEED HAND RUBBED WALNUT FINISH CABINET TENON AND GLUED HANDY SHELF. 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Latest Reports The latest reports indicate that' of Japan's 57 divisions, 37 were in| China, nine or ten in Manchuria, two in Korea, one in Sakhalin, four | or five in metropolitan Japan nndi three or four on the Island of| Hainan. It is believed that because | of a shortage of equipment and| transportation, Japan will never be | able to muster more than 66 divis- ions or 1,800,000 men at the most. Japanese Planes Old The Japanese Air Force is placed at 3,600 planes, being evenly divid- ed between the army and the navy. |It is pointed out, however, that while Japanese pilots have had much experience in China v.he{ planes are mostly of 1939 design | and are badly outmoded. | 'WEATHER BUREAU MEN 60 SOUTH Two Weather Bureau men left |on the Aleutian yesterday. Harry Douglas, -Mrs. Douglas and | their two children were on their way to Seattle, from where Mrs. Douglas will go to Mayo Brothers’ sanitarium, at Rochester, Minn., for medical treatment. Douglas is as- , sistant meteorologist at the Junean | office. { Warren A, Langer, from the Point Barrow weather station was also { aboard the Aleutian, bound for Portland, to which office he has been transferred. In Seattle, Lan- the first time a six-months-old son. Langer has been at Barrow for the past year. Mayor Takes Mayor Harry I. Lucas went strip fishing for the first time yesterday. Today the mayor was displaying hands telling of silver great sport._and intends to do more of it in the future. to Anchorage and arrived' in Juh- {he League pennant tonight, base- eau yesterday aboard the same boat, pa)) fans are anticipating the end of which he “liked so well” he waited the season on Gastineau Channe],‘ to take it back to Juneau. A Moose win tonight will bring| Now staying at the Baranof hotel, the standings to 4 to 2 and the in which he is a stockholder, MTr. required 4 out of 7 series will be Winkler is regretting that his Al- finished. On the other ‘hand, if aska trip is so nearly ended. the Douglas nine recaptures top The boom in Anchorage, Fair- place with the victory that will tie’ banks, Seward; the friends he has the slate, then tomorrow night's met in every town; the scenery, the game, weather permitting, will fin- of precipitation. A e BUY DEFENSE BONDS BT i Empire Clussifieds Pay! peace of being away from telephones —these are the thinks that have made this the “best trip ever” for the Seattle business iman, PARKS, TAYLORTO INTERNATIONAL LEAVE ON ALASKA' George A. Parks, head of the Public Survey office here, along with Ike Taylor, Chief Engineer of the Alaska Road Commission, will leave here this week on the Al- aska for annual trips around the Territory, they announced today. Parks will go to Valdez, Fair- banks and Anchorage for an an- nual inspection of work beingdone on public lands. Near Ancharage, he will go over work being done by two surveying crews. He also ex- pects to dispose of some lots at the Salchaket town site near Fair- banks and visit other town sites, along the Alaska Railway. | Taylor will make his regular fall | inspection of Territorial road pro-; jects in all sections except near. between & month and six weeks. ish the 1941 play. | Tonight’s contest will start at 6 o’clock on the Firemen'’s Ball park. — e I LOAD LINE ACT KNOCKED OUT WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has suspended the! International load line convention, thereby enabling fae United States | vessels to load cargoes beyond the present limitations as a National Defense measure. This is particularly helpful on| inter-Americcn shipments where there is a shipping shortage. e Ketchikan Visitr-3 Honored at Dinner Two long tables seating 34 guests at a Jiges corned beef and cabbage dinner honored the Chris Copstead | have been called up for promotion. Meat Market, Nome. Both men expect to be gone | family of Ketchikan yesterday. The .affair took place at the country home of the Fred Newman’s at Lena Beach. Everything for the dinner, including floral decorations, was | taken from the Newman gardens. 'o KEI(HIKA | The Copsteads, with theh daugh- ter Edna and son Leif, are in Jun- Major Jesse Graham and War-| .,y vyisiting their sons Roald and rant -Officer Hamilton H. Bondleft| ormold and their families. Arnold | yesterday for Ketchikan, where they | Copstead is connected with the will hold a board of examination|p, E. Harris Canning Co., and at for five members of Company B ‘of ;present is at Kake. Roald Copstead the Alaska National Guard who jis proprietor of the 20th Century While there, the officers are also| e “ ‘OVERBYS GO SOUTH planning to inspect Company B equipment, preparatory to induction Mr. and Mrs. Wes Overby left on of the Ketehikap junis. into nctjve] the Aleutlan for the ‘south, M. service on September. 15, They gpe| Qverby. booked (foy Seattie, and, scheduled to return here Thurs-|her husband stopping”at Ketchi- day. oo Hean, when new invention, less noticeable than glasses, has solved deafness problem for | thousands? Call for full information. DR. RAE LILLIAN CARLSON Blomgren Bldg. Phone 636 i)fflees At * ATTENTION! AUTO DRIVERS Pay Your Territorial Driver’s I.iqénse i ROOM 100 ASSEMBLY i ! LICENSES ARE ISSUED AND bFFICE IS OPEN EVERY DAY FROM 9:00A. M.109:00P. M. UNTIL AUGUST 15 * Every Auiomohilé Driver Should Be % icensed and Paid by the Abave Date. e B T ¥ i