The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 18, 1941, Page 2

TH[; DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE MONDAY, AUG. 18 'Shoofing War”" Spread Over PAATO FERRY Welrdesl (omer Ol Thls B|g Earth! AIR(RAFT 10 MIDDLE- EAST “ Route Via West Africa Will Not Pass Through War Zone WASHINGTON, Aug. 18—Presi- dent Roosevelt disclosed today that the delivery of planes to the Brit- ish forces in the middle-east will | be speeded through a ferrying sys- 10% CUT IX Wil DELIVERIES OF GASOLINE Problem of Eastern Gas Rationing Left in Lap of Service ,.at.on Men y. 18. — Leon Price Admin- has the MONGOL!A “CHUNGKING, eli o gas/| tem conducted by Pan American 10 percent but requires Alrways. 1 The White House announcement ) mercial emer- | said the system would provide “di- | rect speedy delivery of aircrafi” ‘(rom what President 'Roosevelt has termed the “arsenal of democracy” to a critical point in the Orient. or the may 1 equipment Thus, pleasure Ccars nce on the Under the agreement with the The order JPAA the airline will ferry plancs | 1 him how he E to West Africa, then on to the ot GUAM middle-east. The delivery route will not pass through the zone of | actual warfar after fueling vehicles each of il Pacific Ocean ROAD SURFACING XPERIMENTS ARE BEING TRIED HERE Hard Surface on Glacier Highway Bay Be Start- /' inUkraine Air 1941. »‘No Two 28000 pounds 13% Nau Fllers Hn Manm Shlps' ed Next Spring road im- available, work to conver into a hard pavement, it Pub- office learned the Road: ninistration of asphalt surfacing ma- out in out the high- rs of a mile from types road ght for the he highway, but trial strips indicate the type uitable to weathe: road conditions here. - MORE RECRUITS FOR NAVY HERE, TOTAL OF 25 NOW Amber Officers, Men Held Open House Yesterday | for 50 Juneauites been the best recruit- U. 8. S. Amber in CCOr g to Lt. C: Parke Officer In Chal of the| recruiting trip. A total of! nave so far been re- . trom Alaska will serve in Alaskan waters a con- | rable interest has been shown| Juneau mer in Naval service by 'd the Amber and asking the now too over he It most 1 has about the service. Men who are invited to contact aboard the ship between k in the morning and 8 ck in the evening. Lt. Com. Willis said, “We are tly pleased with the number of | ants which have been signed | continues, our quota|> ters will be met. We | e the hearty hospital- by Juneau people m\mmj and men of the Amber. fternoon between ¢ fifty locql‘ open house | held aboard tbe Navy officers and men ap- | blues to welcome the | d show them about. The | as moved from the Gov-| C yesterday to the| 2 ship. The peared in o Amb ernm BARNEY GOOGLE o SONUFFN —\WE'RE TTH SERRNVILLE CWIL\AN NARD BIRDS FOR HOME DEFENGE " TR ANBHOR. SBAD NOWD TELL LS WHET TO DO \WN CASE OF &N AR RAD BLARNM turesque the converience of turn to Taku this evening Indian Ocean AP FEATURE SERVICE | Here is a region of suxml‘lati‘/e.\‘ It has the deepest ocean (off the| fighting—has not yet spread to Philippines), the most colorful | much of this area. Actual battles ruins (Angkor-Vat, Indo-China),| have taken place only in the Sinc- some of the greatest wealth (of | Japanese war (this one started in Burmese, Siamese princes), some cf | 1937) and in border skirmishes be- the greatest natural resources| tween Russia and Japan, and be- (Dutch and British East Indies,|tween Indo-China and Thailand. Australia), some of the most pic-|But Japan's occupation of Indo- scenery (Japan), the!China and her calling up a mil- strangest animals (the panda in | lion fresh soldiers was taken as War—in the sense of actual China, 10-foot lizards in the East| such a threat by Australia, the Indies), the most populated nation| United States, and the Dutch East (China) on earth. The very vast- Indies that they 1mmediawly re- FLYING FORTRESS 'ACA MAKES ONLY UNDER ATTACK BY TWo ConsTTRps | NAZI FIGHTERS | Big Craft Beats Off Assault, for the day and only two flights| Bri"sh Base to Island towns. Dean Goodwin is piloting Nick Bez to cannery ports and pilot Alex | Holden has a charter with Don S. Da general manager of the P. E. Harris company at Hawk Inlet. On a trip to the Coact. Shell Simmons carried Jim Cooper, Mrs. Anna Brookman, P. Tullis and two other passengers. He is scheduled to return with five passengers from the Coast. German fighters. Seven pasengers are scheduled| Nineteen German interceptors to leave Juneau for Hoonal on two were shot down in numerous air | flights this afternoon. duels, the Air Ministry announced, —————— | placing the British toll at four LOUIS DE FLORIAN IN inghms lost. FERIEY Brest Bombed Louis De Florian, care-taker of | The high-altitude Flying Fortress Taku Lodge, arrived in Juneau last | giants violently bombed the docks night on a small boat and will re- | at the German-held French port of Brest in broad daylight, leaving their city held. 8u Juneau is the only| where an open house has been — et Air traffic for the Alaska Coastal LONDON, Aug. 18—British raid- ers droned across the English Chan- nel Saturday to renew their air offensive after a day of heavy as- saults in which Seattle-built Boe- iing Flying Fortress bombers played a notable role, one of them beat- | ing off repeated attacks by seven AND SNUFFY SMITH \NARAL - KEEP ON MORE WELMITS BN STRSHIN NROW - DONT \ORESE'® ON W STREET CORNERS M2l it : WIE N0 MORE AN \WHEN NE HEBR ARSNNWNE & WHISOLES GRAB HOT QUESTIONS T FIRST CRUITTER \E SEE AN DRBG Hiy W & SHELTER | ness of the Far East sets it apart. | taliated by freezing Japanese cred- its. Every nation in, or with in- terests in, the Orient, has long been strengthening its defenses. Will expanding Japan—aligned by treaty with Germany and Italy (and, ironically with Russia) — be satisfied with her present posi- tion and sit tight? Will she attack Singapore? Will she attack the Dutch East Indies? Or will she march on Russia? And how will other nations answer Japan’s next move? their targets in flames, according to an official announcement. One Fortress, returning from Brest, was beset by seven German fighters, the Air Ministry related, but fought off a series of whirling, diving attacks and thus demon= strated the fighting capacity as well American-built type of bomber, The Fortress suffered some dam- age and its crew sustained some casualties, but the big craft was brought successfully back to its British base. This was the first of- ficial disclosure that a Flying Fort- ress had been damaged in action.| WORK STARTSON . PUBLIC FOIIHTAINS Installation work on' two dflhkf ing fountains donated to the City by the Rotary Club started today as Bert Lybeck, Street Department foreman, began installation of the first fountain at Front and Frank- lin Streets on Triangle Place. 1 The second of the two public fountains will be installed within two days on the corner of Seward and Fourth Streets. \ Raid as bombing power of ‘this| BERLIN, Aug. 18.—German of- | ficials tonight report that Nazi | fliers have destroyed 25 American made Martin bombers in a raid on the Soviet airport at Saporoshfe, near Dniepropetrovsk, Ukraine m- dustrial center, today. A hangar, fuel supplies rmd am- | munition stores were likewise sald to have been destroyed. LS ANCHORAGE T0 FAIRBANKS RUN "READY 10 60" PAA Official Say Says Company Is Waiting for CAB Permission Pan American Airways ‘“is ready to go as soon as CAB gives us ine OK."” for a run from Fairbanks to Anchorage, said R. O. Bullwinkel, Division Traffic manager for Pan American Airways in Alaska who arrived here from Seattle last night on a morthbound Lodestar. Bullwinkel said the Civil Aero- f:autics Board has alteady held a jmeeting to decide whether or not & certificate will be granted PAA for their new sthedule, but the res- ults of the meeting have not yet been revealed. The PAA official is scheduled to| leave Juneau today for fairbanks| and will fly to Anchorage, He ex- pects to be in vhe Territory for about two weeks. quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 4%, American Can 82, ‘Anaconda 28, Bethlehem Steel |68%, Commonwealth ahd Southern %, Curtiss Wright 9%, Internation- al Harvester 52%, Kennecott 38, New York Central 12%, Northern Pacific 7%, United States Steel 58%, Pound $4.03%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 125.62, rails 30.19, utilities 18.39. - SOUTH WITH PAA Glen Goudie, Chief of Communi- cations for CAA in ,Alaska, passed through Juneau on’ a southbound Lodestar this afternoon, bound for Seattle, ABILLION MORE FOR LEASE-LEND May Need More Funds for British Relief, Con- 1 nalIy Reports WASHINGTCN, Aug 1R~Sena- tor Tom Connally, Texas Democrat, today predicted, after « House conference on international | affairs, that Congress will be asked to appropriate in the neighborhood of $4,000,000,000 additional for the | Lease-Lend program, “if and when the money is needed.” “By far the greater par‘ of the \orlgmal $7,000,000,000 Lease-Lend | appropriation is still unspent,” de- clared Connally, who is Chairman |of the Senate Foreign Relations (‘ommmec 3 Halibufers Sell, Seattle SEATTLE, Aug. 18v—HB1ibut ar- rivals. catches and selling prices | here today are as follows: From the western banks— Brisk | 36,000 pounds, 13 3/4 and 13% cents a pound; Franklin 36,000 pounds, 13% and 13 cents; Faith and 113% cents. From the local banks—Lane 800 pounde 15 cents straight; Bertha 0 pounds, 15 cents straight. RUPERT PRICES At Prince Rupert today 175,000 pounds of halibut were sold at 12.50 to 13.50 and 11 cents a pound. ‘SHRINERS DUE HERE ON PAA PLANE TODAY Lodestars Leave for South and North with Mail and Passengers Carrying six shriners. coming to ‘Jlmeau for a ceremonial, a north- bound Lodestar is scheduled toland here from Seattle this afternoon | with seven passengers for Juneau | and two for Fairbanks. Passengers arriving here are L. J. Dowell, J. W. Woodford, H. F. Gray, George B. Coolcy, Harry Gowman, Marshall Coronet and Garry Poncia. Through passengers are Everett King, and J. B. Beatty A southbound Lodestar passed | through Juneau this afternoon with Benuey Royster, and Norman Ar- lin for Juneau, Mrs, Ethel Bliss, Enid Bliss, Mrs. Virginia Swift, infant Swift, Glenn Goudie and Bertram James for Seattle from the Interior and Fred Evans, Franklin Richards, Mrs. Katherine Nye, Arthur Dopmeyer Foard leaving Juneau for Seattle. Three passengers arrived here yesterday from the south on a northbound 'Lodestar. They were Mrs. E. H. Stiene, Virgil Heath and R. O. Bullwinkel. Through: pas- sengers were C, H. Barton, L. E. Anderson, H. B, Van D'Hinderin, ‘Mrs. M. A. Triplett and Charles Watson. Passengers leaving Juneau for the Interior were Joan Taylor, | John Garrett and Mrs. Kather- ine Garrett. el 1 g g (GAMES TODAY The following are final scores- of baseball games played this after- |noon in the two major leagues as received up to press time: National 'League Pittsburgh 5; Brooklyn 6. i Cincinnati 13, 5; Philadelphia 5, 4. Chicago 4, 1; New York 6, 7. | American League | New York at Detroit, postponed because of threatening weather, Two other games scheduled but both night games. ‘White | THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) ] U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4:30 p.m., Aug. 18: Partly cloudy, not much change in temperature tonight and Tues- day; lowest tonight about 50 degrees, highest Tuesday about 70 de- grees; gentle variable winds, mostly southerly. | Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Cloudy to partly cloudy with not 1 much change in temperature tonight and Tuesday; moderate vari- | able winds but southerly in Lynn Canal. | Forecast of winds along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska: | Dixon Entrance to Yakutat: mode ate west to northwest winds, par! | | | ly cloudy; Yakutat to Cape Hinehibrook “to Kodfak; moderate vari- able winds, cloudy. | LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity =~ Weather 4:30 p.m. yesterday 30.24 63 69 S 3 Cloudy 4:30 a.m. today 30.22 53 98 Calm 0 Cloudy Noon today 30.23 64 63 w 9 Pt. Cldy RADIO REPORTS | TODAY Max. tempt. Lowest 4:30a.m. Precip. 4:30am. | Station last 24 hours | temp. tempt. 24 hours Weather | Barrow .. .. 40 30 40 0 Cloudy | Fairbanks 3 54 55 0 Cloudy | Nome 53 | 46 a1 0 Cloudy | Dawson ... . 68 | 51 54 0 Pt. Cldy Anchorage . n | 54 54 0 Pt.Cldy Bethel 69 4% 45 0 Pt. Cldy St. Paul . 51 5 46 0 Cloudy Atka 58 | 47 48 0 Fog ‘Wosnesenski 57 | 50 60 0 Pt.Cldy | Kodiak 63 | 53 54 0 Cloudy Cordova 63 55 55 0 Cloudy | Juneau 65 | 52 53 01 Cloudy Sitka® .................. 63 51 53 21 Pt. Cldy | Ketchikan ... 56 56 56 0 Pt. Cldy Prince Rupert .. 70 53 55 0 Fog Prince George .. 80 42 42 0 Clear Seattle 57 58 0 Clear Portland " ! i 62 62 0 Pt. Cldy 80 59 60 0 Pt. Cldy [ ‘San Francisco .. | : WEATHER SYNOPSIS Skies were cloudy over most of Alaska this morning and no rain was falling over Alaska”proper. During the past 24 hours scattered light showers occurred in Southeas’ Alaska with the greatest amount of rain fall of .27 inch reported at Sitka. The highest temperature was 75 degrees, recorded at' Ketchikan and the lowest was 30 degrees, recorded at Barrow. OVer the Juneau-Ketchikanairway, the weath- er was cloudy but with ample cei ing and visibility except that local | patches of fog restricted visibiliti>s during the early morning. The Monday morning weathe ' chart indicated a weak low pres- sure drea was centered ‘over the Alaska Peninsula, while a large area of high pressure extended far t> the southward from the Gulf of | Alaska to low latitudes with the center of maximum pressure located off the coast of Oregon ‘at 45 degrees north and 136 degrees west. and Fred | High pressure contirived north of the Aleutian Islands. Juneau, “August 19—Sunrise 5:27 a.m., sunset 8:35 p.m. Tax and Pnte lemg Bllls in' Commitfee-Va- | strenuous work, Congress found it- self in the dog-day doldrums today :with the majority of members id- ling at home or at vacation re- ;| sorts. Meantime, legislation was pend- ing on two important issues, taxes and price fixing, but it was i the committee stage. Under agreement’' to meet only twice weekly dnd transact no busi- ness, the House started a four- week rest period. Most members packed their bags and ‘left town during the weekend. PARTY OF 4 SPEND 'WEEKEND AT TAKU At Mary Joyce's this weakend was a party of four, Mr. and Mis. Dave Patterson, Miss Lee Ellenw~od, and Paul Xavier, who enjoyed the Taku official, is also at Mary Joyce's He will remain there a weck, mak- g a study of the food ' ~bits of fish eating birds, and retirn next weekend. OUTH s & N 18 % r“mi Dr, “Préd 4nd A. L. Dopmeyer, P c Health cfficials, who have been touring Alaskan towns located' near defense bases for health inspections, left Juneau today for their San Francisco head- quarters by Lodestar. They have been in Alaska for several weeks. Herbert Lee, oldtimer of Tenakee, died at St. Ann’s Hospital Saturday after an illness of several weeks. He was over 70 years of age at the time of his death. Lee was born in Virginia and liv- ~d in Tenakee for 31 years. He was stream watchman during the fish- ‘ (afIOIIS Taken ng season and also rented several —_— wouses he owned. WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 18— | Funeral services will be held to- ‘| After almost eight months o | torrow afternoon at 2 o'clock in he Charles W. Carter chapel. The sallbearers will be John K. Marshall, Jack Zavodsky, Stanley Nowicka, Tohn Nowicka, Tom Armstrong and Com Dull . Burial wil be in Ever- sreen Cemetery. jitka Man and Idaho Girl Married Today Miss Margie K, Wikum of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and Gardner F. Teale of Sitka were married this fternoon by the Rev. John L. 3auble at his home. The bridegroom is a truckdriver at Sitka, 'and the couple wili make their home' there. ket GOWMAN ARRIVING TODAY Harry Gowman, manager of the Gofman Hotel 'in Seattle, is sched- uled to arrive in Juneau this af- ternoon on a northbound Lodestar River scenery from Saturday after-|i, attend Shrine ceremonies to be noon until Sunday evening. held here. Ralph Imler, Fish and Wildlife| - BN 40 and 8 MEET The 40 and 8 mét this noon at, Percy’s’ Cafe for an hour's lunch- eon meeting. The group discussed only routine business. e din Diigtslep- B £057. | 8-7° 1mu—nmm-n. Mrs. Charles Beale " Feted on Birthday ' s Two parties given today honored |Mrs Charles D. Beale, who is cele- | brating her 'birthday. This after- ioon, Mrs. R. H. Williams enters itained a number of friends at' a Larbecue luncheon at he: country \home, and this evening, Mrs. H. L. | Faulkner is planning an informal ,»upm party in her summer home |in Mrs. Beale's honor. — - | HERE FROM WRANGELL | L. B: Chisholm,” city clerk of Wrangell, arrived in Juncau re- cently on the North Sea hw