The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 21, 1941, Page 2

Lodestar Due South Today Scheduled south, a PAA Lodestar to land here this afternoon. | v weather permitting, with | ngers leaving the ship, five | and three through | is due inte two I g here Passengers arriving from Fair- | banks are Prof. Ray Nickols and Dr. Jeanette Nickols Passengers boarding here are Col. | David McCoach, Charles W. Watson, the Rev. Douglas Mathews, Mrs Meyra Mathews and Harry Tillman Through passengers are Robin Small, Mrs. M. Bradford and Chatles McLennan A northbound Electra left for Fairbanks this morning with L. J.| Dowell, H. E. Gray, George R.| Cooley, H Gowman, M. Corbett and J. J. Meherin - BIG RAIN GAUGES | NOW IN OPERATICN The world's lavgest precipitation guages will be comp.etely installed by this evening on Mount Roberts, it was learned today from Ashton R. Codd, hydrological measurement cpert who came here to intall two biz specially designed guages on| the local peak and two more on Deer | Mountain, in Ketchikan | Codd finished installation of the| guage at the summit of the moun- | {ain yesterday and due to mm»‘ plete putting the guage at the 1,800~ foot level in operation today. He is| peing assisted by the forest Ser-| vice, Codd will then leave on the first| southbound boat for Ketchikan ; W e he wil supervise the install-| ing of the Deer Mountain guages.| Part of the equipment in Ketchi-| Fan has already beer taken up the mountain, he has been advised. - - DR. WESTON BACK FR TUBERCULOSIS CLINIC Returning to Juneau this morn- ing on the Aleutian, Dr. J. 1. Wes- ton of the Territorial Department of Health reports that a number | of skin tests and x-rays were given | in the tuberculosis clinics held in| Petersburg and Wrangell during the | past three weeks. In Petersburg, about 30 skin tests were given, and 38 x-rays. In Wrangell, 50 skin tests and 101 x-rays were given. Dr. Weston be- | lieves that more would have been | given except for the large run of fish at the canneries which kept | the residents busy. | HUNTERS START | IN WITH GAME Hunters started in from the Islands today bringing in game and stories of game. Irv Blowers brought back a 90- | pound spiked buck from Admiralty and reports much bear and bear | sign His hunting partners, Don Stroup and Bob Heaney came back | empty handed. ! At Youngs Bay 14-year-old Red Shaw killed a two-point weighing over 100 pounds. Few reports have come in about the local deer hunting. Joan Linagfioé; To Visit Parents| For a short visit with her par- ents in Anchorage before going to Seattle to attend school, Miss Joan Lingo left Juneau aboard the Aleutian this afternoon. Miss Lingo has been a reporter on The Empire this summer and the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Robert Bender, gl St | THROUGH AT TENAKEE | Robert Myers, of the Juneau Weather Bureau office com- pleted installation of weather ob- serving equipment at Tenakee and nas left for Sitka, where he will be has siationed for a few da it was steted here today BANKRUPTCIE LED Two Juneau men filed petitior ¢f voluntary bankruptey in the Fed- eral Court here late yesterday. The were Frank Weers and sred W Buchser. | super ¥ E buy silk stockings, MATTER OF WEAR AND TEAR—_while American women are stampeding stores to the agriculture department’s experimental hosiery mill at Beltsville, Md., is testing cotton and lisle hose that may have later use in this time of grave emergency. Gypsy Frankenberg is testing hee) wear on cotton hose: the rollers rub the heels. 3 Aluminum Planis fo Be Construced Federal Loan Administra- for Makes Announce- ment in Washington | WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 — Jesset Jones, Federal Lean Admitis Annour the Government will build at st of $52,000,000 aum- inum plants in Arkansas, New York, and Bonneville Dam areas in order to produce metal for mannafacture| of bombers | The plants will be operated by \ht" Aluminum Company of America | —————— WANTS T0 KNOW IF THERE IS GAS | ..o SHORTAGE IN EAST WASHINGTON, Aug. 21—United | cxpected to return home next week. | States Senator ncis Maloney of Connecticut today urged speedy Congressional investigation to de- termine whether the east actually faces a gascline shortage or “ if we are be pushed around for psy- chological r ons.” Harcld L. Ickes, Secretary of In- terior, is Oil Administrator FRONT STREET GETS SIDEWALK REPLACED Sledges thumpad and crow bars pried today as the City Street De- partment began work replacing sev- ¢ral sections of sidewalk in front »f the Triangle Cocktail Bar on Fron: Street and in front of the astineau Grocery. Work is being Street Lybeck. vised by Department icreman Bert z<t local hunters who went erday for some of the sea- or's first venison the following ere reported successful; Ralph Mortensen, Tom Jensen, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Nelson, Gust Erickson, and Jack Warner. The last men- tioned brought in what was pernaps tire finest speciman of the day’s kill, a big four-pointer. The deer| was brought in from Glass Penin- | sula. | ——.——— CARD OF THA! We wish to thank the kind friends who assisted us, and the friends who sent the beautiful flowers, when we lost our dear friend, Herbert Lee. MR. AND MRS. STANLEY NOWICKA AND MRS adv. LYDIA WEBBER. - - — American pilots ferrying planes to Britain receive about five time the pay of RAF fliers By BILLY DeBECK “SaTURDAN NGHT, NARD BIRD SMTH, ARMY INSTRUCTOR FOR CWAL\GN DEFENSE WAS R\DDEN OWT SERAYUILE ON A RA\L OoF W e WS \S SCANDRALOWS HAVE NARD BIRD SHTH REPORT BT HEADQUARTERS THE MOMENT HE COMES W '\ at Phillip Indian route (rip. Mr, and Mrs. J. Edgar Waddle, school teachers day aboard the Aleutian, »n route | for Tanana. where they will teach | | Miss Jirdes Winther is a passenger south on the Alaska for Seattle | | where she will enter a business col- ge Mr. have been visiting here for several | Was EDINBURGH, Aug. | drews, August Aalto | left T U. 5. CONSUL MEN T0 SAIL PHILLIP TATE IN JUNEAU Tate, of the Office of| Affairs, is in Juneau en- to the States on a business He is irom Mountain Village. - e TANANA TEACHERS were in Juneau to- the Bureau of Indian Affairs| B OUT TO COLLEGE ficials fo Shanghai August 28 TOKYO, Aug. 21.—The N.Y.K line, apparently under Foreign Of- |fice pressure, suddenly announced | today that it had reservations for s, are passengers south on the |26 United States Embassy and for their home in Tacoma, | Counsular officials aboard the liner - RMS GO SOUTH Mrs. L. A, Sturm, and who * | Tatsuta Maru, heduled to sail > - on August 28 for Shanghai. SIGN OF THE TIMES At Shanghai, most of the Ameri- 21.—8t. An-|cans are expected to obtain trans- stronghold of Sabbath cb-gr’dcmc passage home aboard a servance, is to have Sunday golf |United States transport ship. {and tennis the town council decid- ity S et 1 by five votes to four. | W i | DAVLINS TO HAINES PED ~ 10 PETERSPURG | M and Mrs R. L. Davin left |on the Aleutian for Haines for a !visit with Mrs. Daviin’s parents. | e - GROSS TO HAINES W. D. Gross, Coliseum Theatre jehain owner, left on the Aleutian for Haines on a business trip. d daughter Laina terday aboard the Alaska a short visit to Petersburg. They | i BUY DEFE i STAMPS Blackout in Times Sqfiarc In a protest demonstration by the striking Brotherhood of Electrical ‘Workers union, an A. F. of L. affiliate, the mnmmogh electrical signs and theater lights in New York’s world-famous Times Square sec- tion were doused for a half-hour blackout. The union is engaged in a jurisdictional dispute with the Consclidated Edison company. At the top is a scene lookirig.up the Broadway-7th avenue intersection “efore the blackout. Below is the blackout. ON JAP SHIP B IN.Y.K.Line fo Take 26 Of- {Nome and Ruby where | sometime this fall. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, AUG. 21, 1941. 5Halibuters | Sell, Seatile | —_ | SEATTLE, Aug. 21 — Hulibuters| ving today and selling were all| om the western bank. Th> ves: stches and selling price is as fol- lows: | Corstitution 40,000 pounds, 131/2 and 12% cents a pound; Kanaga 40,000 pounds, 13% and 12% cents; | Vansee 40,000 pounds, 13% and i21/2 cents; Grant 40,000 pounds, 3 nd 12% cents; Polaris 40000 1ds, 137/8 and 13 cents. i £ FOREST FIRES | . ARERAGING IN B. C. SECTIONS One Hundr?zgflifly - Milej Semicircle of Flame, Smoke Reported | PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., Aug.| 21 —A new forest fire on the Sal- mon River, 50 miles north of here, | has added to scores of fires that| form a 150-mile semicircle of flame and smoke burning through north | central British Columbia. | > - oo SIMMONS TAKES | FIVE TO SITKA | On a flight to Sitka today pilot Shell Simmons carried John Wv\-‘ ter, Kay Herman, Marie Triers-| child and Herb Colman to Sitka,| land returned with Mike Fuchs, | Vietor Cox, Charles Fisher, Cecil Cawcise and Chester Hjelne. | | Later Simmons took Frank Thom- | | s, Duncan Johnson, Phillip James, | | Margaret Been and Leo Houston| |to Hoonah and is scheduled to re-| |turn with five passengers from the | | cannery town. | Pilot Alex Holden carried szr:(-i Flesher to Hoonah and Norma Nel- | son and Gladys Whitmore to Sitka. | He is scheduled to return with five passengers. Dean Goodwin left with an empty ! plane bound for Ketchikan and ls} scheduled to return with Herbert Arlowe and two other passengers. Other flights today will be by Sim- jmons to Hawk Inlet to pick up five passengers and by Holden to Sitka with three passengers and will return with five, Sommers Refurns | From Nome, Ruby [ Sommers, local construc- tion man, returned to Juneau by plane yesterday from a trip to he ha charge of the construction of air- ports. The Nome airport, reports Mr. Sommers, is 75 percent completed, and should be finally completed There are 30 men working on the construction. The airport near Ruby on the Yukon River will have one runway completed this fall by the 175 men working there. Mr. Sommers plans to leave Ju- neau again this weekend, flying to Seattle on business for about a weekq Vatdn_ezl; fiefira For Nome, Sevoonga A supply of vaccines and anti- toxins for Nome and the native village of Sevoonga, on St. Law- rence Island, winged out of Ju- neau this afternoon on a PAA Electra. The shipment, made up by the laboratory of the Territorial De- partment of Health here, contained smallpox vaccine, diphtheria toxoid and tetanus (lockjaw) antitoxin. The vaccine supplies are not needed for any emergency at either Nome or ‘Sevoonga, so far as is known here. It was described as a outine shipment to prevent doc- rs at the two places from run- ning short oof supplies. S i 52 BUY DEFENSE BONDS Williams, Amos Wallace and M. B.|" "Bad News” for Taxpayers s In Mail Junecau preperty cwners their annuval “bad days as the bulk tax statements go into the mail. Mcst of the tax statcments e alrcady been mailed out and the remainder will go to the post effice within the nest day or two,. it was announced this morning by City Clerk Robert Rice. If taxpayers pay their tax bills by Scptember 15, they can claim a two per cent reductien on the taxes, Rice peinted out. Hewever, after Scptember 15, the taxes will become delin- quent and will be assessed a penalty of one per cent per month for every month they re- main unpaid. ' -l SRR LARGE NUMBER OF CHILDREN ATTEND CLINIC Juneau Public Health Cen- ter Reports Monthly Clinic Successful The Juneau Public Health Cen- ter reports that the vaccination and immunization clinic held yes- terday was most successful, with 49 children receiving treatment. This number is just one less than the number treated last month at e similar clinic. Six children were given the Schick test, which is to determine whether the child has immunity to diphtheria, If the test is posi- tive within 48 hours, immunization will be repeated. Thirteen children were given smallpox vaccinatipns. Six of these were under one year of age. In the toxoids, 34 received in- Jjections for diphtheria, this being one of a series of three injections sary for immunization agains! the disease. Of this large number, nine were one year or younger. The next clinic will take place September 17 from 2 to 4 o'clock in the afternoon. - W. Mathney Arrives; are \Will Be af Behrends Mr. William Mathney and his wife, of Loveland, Col, arrived in Juneau today on the Aleutian.Mr Mathney will be in the men’s de- partment of Behrends Department Store, — eee— RANCE MAN HERE Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Martin ved in Juneau today on the Al- utian and will reside here at the Baranof Hotel for the next 10 days. {or the Northwestern Life Insur- ance Company of Seattle. His com- pany’s agent here is William H Jensen. After leaving Juneau the Martins will go to Anchorage anc Fairbanks on business. B A GEOLOGIST HER| A brief visitor to Juneau today was Philip 8. Smith, Chief Alaskan Geo- logist of the Alaska Branch of the Geological Survey. Smith paid a hasty visit to Gov. Ernest Gruening and called on a number of friends at the Federal Building when he passed through on the Aleutian, bound for geologic studies at the Westward. C—e—— BROOKS IN FORTUNE Assistant sales manager for Pan American Airways in the Juaeau ffice, Art Brooks, is picturea in the August issue .of Fortune. He it hown in an article entitled Civil- ian Mobilization. ——,o———— IN ON ALEUTIAN Joseph T. Fisher zrrived on the Aleutian today to jo.n the staff of the Alaska branch of the National Resources Planning Board. He is topping at the Baranof. S sappe ® b NOTICE The Neighborhood Beauty Shop will be closed starting tomorrow, Aug. 20, until Sept. 1. adv. AR o BUY DEFENSE BONDS WE JUST BLEW (N ASOUT 2 MINBTES AGO,CHZ — OWLL FIND WM OUER BT THE QUARTERMBSTER'S WHEN \BRD B\RD SNTH SHOWS WP TTELL W T 0L BN WANTS WM~ ON THE CARPET BARNEY GOOGLE AND BRALLS ' F\RE % T CAWNT WP AT\ ' HARD ON CLOTHES ! FUNG ME OVER SOME NEW OUTS\DE PANTS BN WS\DE PRINT N %TO\‘P ESEN‘ Martin is Alaska manager | THE WEATHER (By the U. 8. Wather Burcau) U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU Forecast for Juneau and vicinily, beginning at 4:30 p.m., Aung. 21: Occasional light rain tonight ard Friday; not much change in temperature, lowest temperature tcnight about 53 degrees, highest.Fri- day 58 degrees, gentle southeasterly winds. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Light rain tonight and Friday except showers Friday afternoon in south portion; not much change in temperature; gentle to moderate southerly winds except moderate to fresh in south portion tonight and in north portion on Friday. Forecast of winds along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Dixon Entrance to Cape Spencerwinds, rain; Cape Spencer to C Moderate to fresh southeasterlyipe Hinchinbrook: moderate to fresh easterly to southeasterly winis, rain; Cape Hinchinbrook to Resurrection Bay: moderate northoasterly winds, becoming moderats to fresh Friday, partly cloudy toaight, local rain Friday; Resur- rection Bay to Kodiak: moderat: variable winds tonight, becom- ing moderate to-fresh northerly t) northeasterly Friday, partly cloudy and fog patches tonight, local rain Friday. LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity ‘Weather 4:30 p.m. yesterday 30.10 59 83 SE 13 Cloudy 4:30 a.m. today 30.01 55 93 w 4 Rain Noon today 29.97 58 88 sSwW 3 Rain RADIO REPORTS TODAY Max. tempt. Lovest 4:30am. Precip. 4:30am. Station last 24 hours | te np. tempt. 24 hours Weather Fairbanks 61 51 51 04 Cloudy Nome e 50 47 48 T Rain Dawson 4 41 Ly 0 Pt, Cldy Anchorage ] 58 58 T Rain Bethel .08 52 50 01 Rain St. Paul ... 54 46 48 .03 Cloudy AR i B8 50 51 0 Cloudy Dutch Harbor .. 66 49 49 .02 Clouay Kodiak . 57 52 54 68 Fog Cordova 60 53 59 .08 Cloudy Juneau 62 | 53 55 01 Rain Sitka 64 54 55 05 Cloudy Ketchikan 70 | 57 58 .02 Cloudy Prince Rupert .. 71 | 55 56 0 Pt. Cldy Prince George .. 86 45 46 0 Clear Edmonton . 6 41 42 0 Clear * Seattle 82 | 58 59 0 Cloudy Portland AR, | 3 60 61 0 Cloudy San Francisco .. 62 | 57 58 0 Cloudy WEATMER SYNOPSIS Partly cloudy to cloudy skies prevailed generally over Alaska this morning and light falls of rain were reported during the past 24 hours at most stations in Alaska. The greatest amount of rain- fall was 68 hundredths of an inch which was recorded at Kodial. The highest temperature yesterday afternoon was 76 degrees at Skwentna and the lowest this morning 37 degrees at Barrow. Over- cast skies with local light rain, moderate ceilings and good visibili- ties prevailed over the Juneau-Kefchikan airway this morning. The Thursday morning weather chart indicated a center of low pressure of 29.85 inches was located at 50 degrees north and 140 de- grees west and was expected to move about 600 miles northeastward during the next 24 hours. A high pressure center of 30.30 inc! was located at 33 degrees north and 136 degrees west and a seco: high pressure center of 30.35 inches was located at 42 degrees north and 159 degrees west and a third high center of 30.33 inches was located over the Bering Sea. Juneau, August 22—Sunrise 5:34 a.m., sunset 2:27 p.m. Captured Soviet “Gun Women” —TI. I. N. Radiophoto’ According to the German caption on this photo, radiced from Ber- lin, these women are captured Soviet “gun women.” German sources have stated frequently that women were fighting side by side with & the men in the Red army. o AR ym-iii' “hobe” king and queen &t m. § o 4“4