The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 15, 1941, Page 2

FISH SEASON T0 CLOSE IN 2 DISTRICTS Kodiak fo Be Butioned Up Tonight-Southern Dis- frict Tomorrow eason s will close | ? | for two Al- within the Kodiak district fish at 6 p. m inounced today by Ibertson A: 1t Fish- ment T, e C Manag around 6 p m. to- rikan section has run “sh all n stated, wi..ch has off just be the season > > RATION CARDS BEING ISSUED T0 LIVESTOCK Some Animals Will Get Full "Feed” While Others Only Ggi Half VICHY, France, Aug. 15.—Ani- mal are going to have ration cards in unoccupied France. They | 1l be issued for livestock of “pub- | including cows, draft mines, breeding animals Animals kept merely to meet needs of their owners w have get the best they now utility in nd so fort horse: to along fed will stock which be by the hand of titled to full ration ca animals like goats, which pick part of their suStenance by graz- | ing, will get half ration cards. e MINNESOTA GIRL WINS PATRIOTIC | ESSAY CONTEST A high school girl from Red Wing, Minn., Grace Langley, was « as winner of the Elks Na- essay contest on the sub- ject of “What Uncle Sam Means to Me,” according to the latest issue of the Elks Magazine. Second award is Robert B. Gib- son of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; third prize winner, Warren Bierman of Harrisburg, Penn.; and fourth award winner is Victoria Eugenia Lopez of Puerto Rico. Four hun-| “dred thousand high school stu- s competed in the contest Mary E. Talbot of Skagway was the winner of the Elk-sponsored contest in the Territory. - BELLINGHAM AUTO DEAIER IS ON S. E. ALASKA TOUR can man,” 10sen tional Mr. end daughte and Mrs. Lewis B. Wallace Jackie, of Bellingham, Washington, were visitors Jun- eau last ni They are making a round-trip vacation on the Prir Rupert. Mr. Wallace is a Chevrolet and Buick dealer in Bellingham. -ee A formula has been discovered for extracting or refining gasoline from the tar sands of Saskatche- wan and Alberta. | | William AP Feature BRENDA JOY bathirg suit pictures, but she agreement with her studio n For every “leg art” shot she'l attire. U. S, OFFICIALS MAY CONFER WITH RED WAR (HIEFS; Stalin Maymet Britis and American Heads for Confifgrence WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. President Roescvelt and Prime Minister Winsten Churchill are reported to be planning to send a communication to Joseph Stalin proposing a meeting in Moscow in the near future be- tween Stalin and his war chiefs on one hand and high British and American officials on the other. - PAA LODESTAR DUE FROM SOUTHTODAY With four passengers for Junea a northbound Lodestar is due land in Juneau from Seattle th afternoon and will leave immed ately for the Interior. Passengers booked for Juneau a O'Donnell, Pa Frank Killman ar Dressen. Through Fairbanks are Rose Hall, and J. T. Hall Passengers leaving Juneau the Interior cn the plane are Whiting, John Ahlers and Huler. Johnso! Miss S, passeng Curry, M. to ALNE f Jc Alle e, VISITING HOLDENS Mrs. Charles F. Fagan, mother of | 5. Alex Holden, is now in Juneau, having arrived Wednesday on ti Alaska from her home in Seattl She plans to visit here abou month, specifically to see her grand son Sandy. > - BUY DEFENSE BONDS BALANCED BUDGET, HOLLYW0OD VERSION And which do you prefer? THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, AUG: 15, 1941 US.S. Amber Recruit Ship - Is in Juneau Fiffeen Men Recruited S0 Far-Will Go fo Skag- | way, Sitka Nexi Recruiting 15 men in the Naval reserves for service in far, the USS. Amber Juneau this forenoon | clock at the Governm Lt. W. B. Com manding officer Parks the pilot of the Amber Lt. Com. Park A. Willis and | sign Sidney Dennison are incl lof recruiting. The Amber left 9 and has stopped Ketchikan, Wwrangell and Pet to | cruit men. It will remain in Ju- neau until Tuesday morning when |it will pull out for Skagway and | Sitka {ust The patrol yacht was acquired by {the Na from” Edward Lowe, San | Francisco capital and entered | service about January 1. It converted to & patrol yacht at | " ‘ has an informal ot to overdo 'em I pose for one in docked at 30 o- dock. the co and Lt. Larwy nt | | is | is attle August shurg re- HOLDEN MAKES | JAPS PUSHED OUT COAST FLIGHTS O CHINESE TOWN HELD FOR 3 YEARS In two trips to the Coast today, pilot Alex Holden carried 16 pass- | engers to and from Sitka. This hluwming he left for the defense town with Lloyd Tilson, June Con- 'Invaders Forced fo Evacu- {7ad, Charles Carter and C. D. Swan- afe Vlllage in Shansi | son, and returned with Jim Boyle, | |W. C. Allen, N. A. McEach:an, E.| PI'OVIn(e Connors, and Sol Lachman i On the second flight he carried |M. Johnson and Lloyd Lar.on to p 5 tka and is scheduled to return with | —The Chinese capture of the town | iive passengers. of Hsiayi in Shansi province, held Pilot Dean Goodwin is on a series| by Japanese forces for three and of charter flights for Nick Bez.|one-half years, is claimed in a| |Early tcday Shell Simmons took off | Central News Agency dispatch to- {from the Channel bound on a day. charter to Wrangell with Red John- | Ison and then flew to Sitka He is| hectuled to return this afternoon th five passengers from the Coast. ! Later today Simmons slated to make a charter trip to Port Conclu- |sion an another flight to Sitka. Holden will make two trips to Pol- @1is-Taku mine, CHUNGKING, China, August 15. e ——a— - — HOUSE APPROVES $1,500,000,000 DEFENSE MEASURE . Romance Is Found i$750,000,003 b e 2 for Needed Anti-Air- + InSeashore Boffle craft Guns | HARKERS ISLAND, N. C., Al!g.; WASH!NGTON- Aug. 15. — The | House has approved of the revised | | seven billion five hundred million | dollar defense appropriation bill | | -~ |after restoring $750,000,000 for the | g } | vitally needed anti-aircraft guns and | or| The eighth note advised Davis|other ordnance which the senatei | | | | v | i \ | re | n, | 15—Earl Davis found a bottle on the seashore which contained eight separate notes, plus change to mail five first-class and two airmail let oe | the bottle was thrown from an bil | eliminated. . | tanker 30 days before. i b Wi, 500 CRRIIS | The letters? Oh, they were ad-‘ | dressed to women: | —_—————— PEASE MAKING TOVR On board the Princess Charlotte | in port this afternoon firom the| uth is the Pease family fr.m Cin- e Dr. Larus A. Sigurdson ot Win- cinnati, Ohio, Mr. and Mrs James €. vipeg, is a round tripper seeing L. Pease, Mrs. Fanny P. Pease,| § Southeast Alaska aboard the Miss Mary E. Pease, Miss Fanny K.‘ i 1- | Princess Charlotte in port this af-| Pease, Miss Joan E. Pease, Burtun! b ternoon. Dr. and Mrs. Digby|Pease and James L. Pease. | | FROM WINNIPEG | Wheeler, also from Winnipeg, are | o X AR |roundtrippers on the same sieamer. BUY DEFENSE BONDS and return to Juneau Aug-|” ESKIMO TR ICK_pefinitely not an Wells, a Southerner, still tries out an old Arctic device, whale bone sun glasses as fashioned by Eskimos, while vacationing in Mon- treal, Quebec. She found them OK for cutting glare. 'ifi FELTS FOR FALL_Even the Big Br “stole” the hat styling will forgive this chic miss (left) who wears a mannish brown felt with creased crown. Right: tiny blue scoop brim felt bonnet worn back on head. DEADLINE FOR ’ AUTO lI(ENSESE Nine o'clodk tonight is the dead- line for Territorial drivers’ lic- enses to be isued. Up to 3 oclock today only 900 of an expected 1500 drivers had obtained their® license | The licenses are being i~cued in Recom 100 in the Assembly o | RETURNS TO SITKA | Douglas Swanson, Fish and Wild- life Servite Agent in' Sitka, left here by plane this morning for the! defense city. He but recertly re- turned.to Alaska after a two-month| vacation in the states - CK IN 1 PORT ‘ { Coast Guard cutter Nemaha re-| turned to Juneau at midnight last| night after a supply trip to Laian'iz light houses. The 'vessel will take on oil and supplies and return on| its light cruise at 4 o'clock tomor- row mornir | Tk 1 the Windon Marine Railway yards| in Windon, Wash. The title of the| , meaning patrol yacht | mber 6. | s of made | the ship calls on Goy. Gruening and Mayor | Harry I Lucas this afternoon. B BUY vrrenSe STAMPS Eskimo, Caroline Ry T other from whom she 3Ha THE WEATHER (By the U, §. Wea Bureau) U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COM WEATHER BUREAU Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4:30 p.m., Aug. 15: Clear or partly eloudy and not muzh change in temperature tonight and Saturday but with increasing cloudiness Saturday afternoon; lowest temperature tonight about 52 degrees, highest Saturday 74 de- grees; light to gentle variable winds. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Clear or partly cloudy and not much change in femperature tonight and Saturday but with morn- ing fog or stratus clouds n sonth portion; gentle to moderate var- iable winds. . Forceast of winds alpng the coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Dixon Entrance to Cape Spencér: Gentle to moderate Variable winds, partly cloudy; Cape Spencor to Cape gllnchmbrpok: gentle to moderate southeastérly winds, miost y ‘tloutly ‘with' local’ raint * Cape Hinchinbrook to Resurrection Bay: moderate to fresh mortheasterly winds, shifting to moderate south:rly late Saturday afternoén near Resurrection Bay, rain; Resurtécton Bay to Kodiak: mopderate to fresh easterly to northeasterly' ‘Winds, shifting to' moderate south- erly during Saturday, ‘rain tonigh:, showers’ Baturday. ¥ LOCAL DATA . Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity 2 47 w 1 52 96 Calm 0 63 i s 2 RADIO REPORTS Weather Clear Clear Pt. Cldy Time 4:30 p.n. yesterday 30.20 4:30 am. today .. 30.22 Noon today .. 30.23 TODAY ’ 4:30am. Precip. 4:30am. tempt. 24 hours Weather 33 ‘7Y 15 Snow 46 ¢ o ‘Pt. Cldy % ©a0 Pt.Clay Clear Clear Rain Rain Clear Clear Cloudy Pt. Cldy Rain Pt. Cldy Cloudy Clear Clear Cloudy Max. tempt. last 24 hours - 53 .. 16 . 56 Laggst tenip. 32 146 5 44 50 53 5 Station Barrow Fairbanks Nome Dawson Anchorage . Dutch Harbor . Kodiak Cordova Juneau Sitka Ketchikan Prince Rupert .. Prince George . Edmonton .. Seattle Portland San Francisco .. o sa cHoodHoocooBSco 55 WEATHER SYNOPSIS Clear or partly cloudy skies pr:vailed generally over Alaska this morning but due to the influenc: of a storm center to the south of the Alaska Peninsula fresi moist maritime air had penetrated the region from Kodiak Island t> the Aleutian Islands and rain was falling over this area this morning. Snow was falling at Bar- row. The greatest amount of pr:cipitation during the past 24 hours was 15 hundredths of an inch which was recorded at Bar- row. The warmest tenipsrature yosterday afternoon was 76 degrees at Fairbanks and the lowest last night 82 degrees at Barrow. Clear skies and good 'visibilities except for patches of fog and low stratus clouds over the south portion pravailed over the Juneau-Ketchikan airway this morning. The Friday morning weather chart indicated a center of low pressure of 29:68 inches was locat>d at 51 degrees north and 156 de- grees west and was expected to move into the Bristol Bay area dur- ing the next 24 hours, A trough of low pressure extended north northwestward from Central’ Oreon and Washington. A crest of high pressure extended from the interior of Alaska over the eastern portion of the Gulf of Alaska {o a high center of 30.35 inches, lo- cated at 55 degrees north and 133 degrees west. Juneau, August 16—Sunrise 5:21 a.m. sunset 8:43 p.m. libuters Charlotfe | Sgll, ;eéllle; Is in Port SEATTLE, Aug. 15. — Halibuters| With nearly 200 “roundtrippers arriving, catches and selling prices | aboard, the Canadian Pacific today are as follows: steamer Princpss Charlotte Or- From the western banks: chelsea,irived in port at 2 o'clock this af- 40,000 pounds, 14% and 14% cents a | ternoon on the special Southeast pound; Liberty, 40,000 pounds, 14% | Alaska cruise and will leave for and 13% cents. A g Sitka and Skagway tonight at 10 From the local banks: Angeles, o'clock, not calling at Juneau 2,000 pounds, 143% cents straight. sotithbound W. Q. Palmer is captain of the RUPERT PRICES At Prince Rupert today 164,000 | Frincess Charlotte, A. N. Taylor is pounds of halibut were sold at 1220 | Purser and T. Brown, Chief Stew- to 1250 and 1060 to 11 cents a|8rd- ARMY MENPLAN ™"t SerCHTan CHECK-UP TRIP " FOR BAD CHECKS Io WEIW ARD Corporal George B. Powell, army officer, is belng held under a $2,000 % i g ... |bond at Ketchikan on the charge of Back froni Ketchikan, where t) inspected Coxflpany' B of the Alaska cashing .more than $800 worth of bad checks, according to word re- National Guard and held examina- tions for promotions of several men ceived by the U. 8. Marshal’s office here today. ] BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH NOU HENE QIVTE ! A STACK OF PERSONAL MBI HERE, MR, STH \NAAL-FLNG 'En ONER ' WOL NORE JBW " T WAWNT N R TALKABLE NO0D “TON\GHT A DowT RECWON L BEEN S0 DOWNR\GWT CONTENTIFIED AFORE \N ALL NMAW RORNED DANS — “ER SOUT COMFORT TS MERE BERRYUNWLE HOTEL MRKES W ARMN CANP & SCANDAL O TH' \NOODPECKERS T CALKALATE TUEV'RE EROM T WNAR DEPCTMENT WiCW ONN § RED MOWTH LOWNER COWD R\DDLE OUWT — OWOMW - WHEK'S TS 2 By BILLY DeBECK W ENE-GPECKS \S SROKE, COUS\N — \EF'N T AWNT 00 \NQWSITIE - \WOWLD \E AMND RIDDLIY OWT WS MERE PERTICKLAR LETTER FER ME 2 TINE'S R-NASTIN' % ) WEN ¥ © weTs Ty || \WOR DEPOTMENT, TEW TW UBRIMINTS T HAWT NOWHER ON TH PROPYTTY \E \T'S B FENRLE cowuw WD BUD S - \QHD B0 SN — \{QHD BUD GWF n ‘the company, Major Jesse Gfa- ham “and “Warrant ‘Officer Ham- ilton H. Bond were today p'anning o leave next Tuesday via PAA plane tor the Westward. The two officers will go' first to Fairbanks, then on to Anchorage, where they will*arrange for exam- inations for ‘National Guard of the United . States commissiors, ‘for which several of ‘the: Alaskan guardsmen are eligible. Tiey will! alsp check up. on other matters preparatory to induetion of the Al-| aska guard units into active ser- vice ‘'on September 15, While at Anchorage, Graham and Bond will go to Fort Richardson! and confer with other army offi-| cials regarding the moveiuent of troops :and quartering of ‘companies after the induction date. They ex- pect to return :fo Juneau about| August 26, i —‘*?———- Approximately 2,000 officers are required to handle organization and bookkeeping of the U. 8. Army ‘Washington Powell ‘was arrested last week by Deputy ‘Marshal Nate Hardy, after checks which' the army man had written on a bank at Noblesville, In- diana, were found to be worthless. QOne of the checks was in the amount of $200, it was reported. . : The Alasks Ferritorisl Employment Service far this qualified warker. SALES CLERK — Woman, mar- ried, age 25, high school education. Experienced as sales clerk, ladies” apparel shop,’ also grocery store 'experience. Call for ES 349. e §. Army has approxi- 'mately 90,000 commissioned offi- cers. e : Tge