The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 22, 1941, Page 2

Losing their way in a Puge the intercoastal freighter Hanley 9 NATIVES FISHING IN CLOSED AREA Fined $50 Each for Making Hauls in Restricted Kadak Bay Nine Kake natives paid $50 each here today when pled guilty to the charge of fish- in the restricted area of Kadak at Kuiu Island The natives comprised the of two purse seine boats, the Rain- jer and an unnamed boat of reg try number 31-A-861. They were literally caught in the act of fish- ing in the restricted Kadak Bay waters Wednesday when the Fish- Patrol Boat No. 6 pulled them. fines of they ing Bay. crews eries alongside while the 31-A-861 had 2500 fish in the hold. Both catches were con- fiscated and sold to the Kake can- ner Natives aboard the Rainier were Jessie Kadake, captain, Mor THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, AUG. 22, 1941. TWO SHIPS RUN AGROUND OFF FORT AT § (right) just after she had been pulled free, S t Sound fog early in-the morning, two vessels ran aground on West Point, below Fort Lawton, Seattle. This photograph shows the Alaska liner, Aleutian (left), awaiting assistance, and . The Aleutian was later floated undamaged. Associated Press photo. EATTLE S SR B LEW AYRES ON LODESTAR DUE 10 LAND HERE 'Plans of Motion Picture | Star Not Known - Is | Booked fo Juneau | Famous movie star “Dr. Kildaire" ! | of the picture series and former hus- | | band of Ginger Rogers, Lew Ayres is | scheduled to arrive in Juneau today on a northbound PAA Lodestar. Ayres’ most prominent picture was | “All Quiet on the Western Front,” in which he played the lead. | The motion picture star is booked to Juneau on the northbound plane, but his plans are not known, "WOLF" MacLENNAN The Rainier had 4,000 fish aboarc, | FLIES SOUTH WITH BIG GAME STORY | Returning to his headquarters in e B olis INCREVASSE | DILLINGHAM SENDS. RUSS DEATH NEWS NOTES FOR STAND MADE "symme seasow |n packing season is over for an- other year and the fishermen are b purchasing their winter outfits and going back up the dif- | .erent rivers to their winter cabins, ‘\\'hvr(‘ they trap furs during the Nazis, Finns Bear Down on THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4:30 pau., Aug. 22: Mostly cloudy with showers and njt much change in temperature to- night and Saturday but showers, b>coming very light Saturday; low- est grees, gentle variable winds. Forecast for Southeast Alask: tonight, partly cloudy Saturday temperature tonight about 51 degrees, highest Saturday 59 de- Mostly cloudy with local showers h likelihood of very light showers in north portion; not much change in temperature; gentle to mod- erate southerly winds. Forecast of winds along the coast of the Guif of Alaska: Dixon Entrance to Cape Spencer: Moderate southerly to southeast- erly winds, local showers erate easterly to southeasterly win ! rain; Cape Hinchinbrook to Resu rrection Bay to Kodiak: cloudy with local rain by Saturday. Remt winds, erly winds, rain; to northwesterly partly Cape Spencer, to Cape Hinchinbrook; mod- becoming southerly Saturday, ction Bay: moderate northeast- moderate northerly LOCAL DATA Time 4:30 p.m. yesterday 2991 4:30 a.m. today 29.81 Noon today 29.83 Barometer Temp. 61.7 548 56.0 RADIO Max. tempt. last 24 hours | 57 | 60 51 69 | 68 | . 58 | 51 55 54 60 68 63 . 67 63 Station Barrow Fairbanks Nome Dawson Anchorage Bethel ... St. Paul Atka Dutch Harbor Kodiak Cordova Juneau Sitka Ketchikan Prince Rupert Prince George Edmonton Seattle Portland San Francisco 89 80 2 5 66 Lowest temp. Humidity Wind Velocity 6 s 3 96 S 3 95 Bl 2 REPORTS Weather Cloudy Rain Cloudy -TODAY 4:30am. Pretip. 4:30am. tempt. 24 hours Weather Cloudy Cloudy Drizzle Cloudy Fog Drizzle Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Pt. Cldy Cloudy Rain Cloudy Cloudy Rain Pt, Cldy Pt. Cldy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy 37 53 47 53 52 48 coccco88HBocoHoo2coRc® 44 59 61 55 58 WEATHER SYNOPSIS Mostly cloudy skies prevailed generally over Alaska this morn- City from Three (BY ASSOCIATED PR S) German and allied Finnish troops reported tonight that they haw captured the Russian stronghold of Kakisalmi, 75 miles north of Leningrad and have stroyed the | main body of the Soviet 168th Di- vision below Sortavala. | This year the Nushagak River had | winter season. ‘ml\' three canneries operaiing, the | Pacific American Fisheries, Libby, iMeNeil & Libby’s and th> Alaska| Packers. The Alaska Packers oper- ing except clear or partly cloudy skies from the Alaska Peninsula to Kodiak. Due to the influenceof a storm in the Gulf of Alaska, rain had fallen during the past 2! hours over Southeast Alaska to Yakutat and rain continued to fall this morning over most of this area. Light falls of rain were al;o reported at scattered pointsover the western portion of Alaska ani over the lower Yukon and the Kuskokwim valleys, The greatest amount of rainfall was 22 hun- ated their Clark’s Point Cannery this vear with all resident fisher-| men and laborers with the >xception | of the machinists and iren chink | man. The Alaska Salmon Company did not operate this season but! dredths of an inch which was reorded at Ketchikan. The high- est temperature yesterday afternoon was 68 degrees which was re- ported at Haines, Cordova and Anchorage, and the lowest tempera- ture this morning was 37 degreesat Barrow. Overcast skies, light rain, moderately low ceilings and fair to good visibilities prevailed The Finnish High Command said |@rank Waskey is operating a store| the Red army troops have been|there this summer The salmon| encircled at two points northwest /pack was very poor in Bristol Bay,| of Lake Ladoga. Ibut the Nushagak River had the| Four divisions of the Red soi- best run of any of the rivers and| diers were thrown back with heavy |uearly all the local residents made| losses while the Finns drove down|tncush money to pay for their this morning over the Juneau-Ketchikan airway. The Friday morning weather chart indicated a center of low pres sure of 29.70 inches was located at 54 degrees north and 139 de- grees west and the storm frontal trough extended eastward throuzh Southeast Alaska and thence soithward and southwestward into lower latitudes where a new low c:nter appeared to be developing at 50 degrees north and 130 degrees wst. The storm frontal trough was Ho\vnrd Leningrad on the north.| |The Nazi forces are attacking from | |two directions in the south — in| the ' Kingisepp sector, 75 miles| | southwest of Leningrad, and in the| | Novgorod sector, 100 miles soutn. | - i _hg winter's “grubstake”. i | School will open Septemler sce-| ond, with a new intermediate ‘eacher, Miss Fern Rivers, a sister of the primary teacher, Mrs. Clyde‘ expected to move about 400 mile; nortaward during the next 24 hours. A second low center was iidicated to the south of Atka and appeared to be moving eastward. A high pressure center of 30.20 inches was located at 37 degrees nrth and 153 degrees west and a second high center of about the same pressure was located over the Bering Sea and a third high cen er was located at 33 degrees north and 135 degrees west and a high c est extended northeastward into Grant, Benson Kadake, Tom Twist| geattle with a “believe it or not”| Thousands of men, it is reported 151"‘313*- ‘ The boy scouts under the gridance and Peter K. Grant. Aboard the 31-A-861 were Willie Dugagua, captain, Herbert Grant, George Marten and Victor Adams. Northland Is OnWayNorth SEATTLE, Aug. 22. — Motorship Northland sailed at 10:20 o’clock this forenoon for Southeast Alaska ports with a full passenger list, the follewing booked for Juneau: Mr. and Mrs. Otto Jacobsen and children, Mrs. C: W. Bland® and daughter, Harley Crosby, A. W. Eoddy, Harold H. Hessig, Wayne Meek KETCHIKAN GETS HEAVY RAINFALL Ketchikan had some rel¢f from the “drouth” recently repoited from the First City when 33/1¢G of an inch of rain fell there yesterday and early this morning, The almost a third of an inch cf rain was recorded at Ketchikan auring the 24-hour period immed- sately preceding 4:30 o'ciock this morning, according to the Weather Bureau here. During this morning, the rain continued to fall in inter- iittant showers. - - HERON RETURNS The Fish and Wildlife Service vessel Heron returned to Juneau for supplies this afternoon and left after being in port for several hours Try a lassinied 4a 0 I'ne Kmpire e BUY DEFENSE BONDS S0 -Nou BOMNT SEWG RIDDEN QWX QF SERRYNLLE ON B RO 2 NARD, BIRD. SMTH . |t AERAID LLL HONE o DO SOMETHING DRASTIC By BILLY DeBECK story about how he killed a wolf | with a rock up in the Gaines Creek | District this summer, H. L. Mac- Lennan of Glenn Carrington Com- pany was a southbound Lodestar passenger today. | MacLennan, travelling with Ben Gellenbeck of Keystone Lubrica- | tion Company and Speed Schnei- er of Isaacson Iron Works, were on a road out of Ophir, when they | and lost his life. Leon Brigham, Jr. Holding the Stremberg, Brigham's life. Leon Brigham, Jr., of Seattle, who took thi mountain-climbing companions, himseif plunged into an adjoining crevasse on Mount Rainier a few minutes after taking this picture When Richard Ruoff lost his ice ax in a crevasse, his companions lowered him by rope to retrieve it. 60 fect down scaling the wall of ice, face turned toward Photographer dramatic picture of his He is pictured rope (left to right) are: William hard Berner and Harry Holland. This crevasse is on Russell Glacier, a few yards from the crevasse that claimed young s o GIANT FIRE BLAZESNEAR PR. RUPERT encountered a pack of five wolves. | The road was cut out of the mountainside, with steep banks be- {low and above, and no escape was | convenient to the predators. With perfectly good bounty money in front of them but no firearms, the trio stopped the car, followed up the wolves to a cluster of wil- |lows below the road where the iwnlvcs sought refuge and before |the encounted was over MacLen- nan and Schnieder had killed two " ey regicrea e animuis o Flames Sweeping Over 500 | Flat for collection of the bounty M“es Of Iimber—Fon Threatened and collected their bounty checks at Fairbanks. ; | MacLellan’s trophy has been sent to his son who is going to have| e rug in his room—and son has bragged so about dad “Wolf” Mac-| PRINCE RUPERT, B. C, Aug. Lennan who kiils wolves with rocks |22—The largest forest fire in the he's almost afraid to meet the history of this district blazed here neighbarhood kids. today over 500 square miles of for- | MacLennan has been in Alaska ¢St land at Beaver Lake, 50 miles for the last six weeks, flying over northwest of Prince Rupert. most of the Territory for hts com-, Crews of axemen, commandeered pany. irom nearby settlements, are work- ing with tractor bulldozers and | have attempted to backfire one side BUYS PHO! lof the blaze in an effort to save | ey Fort St. James, on the McLeod Announcement is made in Wrang- yaxe trail. sell of the project:d sale of the | Wrangell Telephone Company by | Mrs. Christine Darwell and Fred {Dahl to H. C. McKowan, who has |been in charge of the electrical Davis has his maintenance work at the Wrangell posi with the overnment |Institute. The deal is ccntingent Treasury Department at Whitehorse on the granting of a franchise by end ieft for Vancouver to take back Jthe city. in old job. a ——e———— POSITION . Round-up ' In Paris ~ (ontinues Police Make Over 5,00 Arrests: of Those: Op- posing: Occupation from Paris said the police round-up of persons opposed to German oc- cupation troops is continuing but on a greatly reduced scale. It is asserted that over 5000 per- sons have been arrested in the round-up which began two days ago. —————— JUNEAU GIRL WEDS Blanche Motichka, of Junzau, and Donald R. Neal, radio ersineer of the U. 8. Signal Corps, were .narried recently in Wrangell e — YUKON RIVER LOW | ‘The water in the Yukon river is low and much of the beach near the B. Y. N's dock at Duwson is 'no longer under water. VICHY, Aug. 22.—Meager reports | have rushed from Leningrad to | stem the advance of the German|©f Mr. Alfred Opland, tbe U. S.| columns, while other thousands have | ‘OVerrment Reindeer Sup«rinbend—; ardetéd. street, fortifications for o hb» Bre working hard to gain their| i |merits. They have just completed | city. It |for a warming up place {or the| |women and children skiiers and a| (place to holc their camp meetings. ! - e —— SIMMONS MAKES TWO SITKA TRIPS, 1 lenbergs, The stork was unusually busy this summer bringing ltouncing baby Loys to the Dr. Louis Salazars, U.S.| Government doctor, the Rooert Kal- | the Albert Balls, and the| Donald Wrens Mrs. Clyde Spears| Alaska Coastal Airlines Pilot Shell | Simmons took off from the Channel | 8 | this morning with Ole Overbo for | ¥h0 Was Muriel Rivers of Fair-| Pelican City, W. McCormick and [P20ks has a pretty baby girl as| I Sigrid Swanson for Hirst and Mrs. | Vel as the Myron Morans. | | John Notar for Sitka and returned | _James Downey, the loca: Alaska | with Harold Johnson, Tom Morgan, Fishermen’s Union Delegite was| | Julian Bass, Patrick Ryan and H. M. | |Olson from Sitka. On a flight lhisi “NOTICE” inl’temoon Simmons took a load of |[TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: mail and express to Sitka and is| The Alaska Unemployment Com- | | scheduled to return with five pas- |pensation Commission will meet in | sengers. Juneau, Alaska at their offices in! | Pilot Dean Goodwin returned from | the Territorial Building, at 10 AM., | Ketchikan this morning with H. H. | September 22, 1941, and will remain | Arlowe, Mrs. Herb Coleman and M. iin session for approximately ten Adolf, then went on a charter fight |days. | with cannery man Nick Bez. | Mrs. A. H. Bradford, 1of the Lowe Trading Com SHLX, GENRIL - "TWARNT S0 BaD — LET'S BERGIT T \NHOLE EPPNSODE THEM PORE CRITTERS \N BERRNSNILLE \S B MILLNUN V'aRS AKINT TH TIMES — T F\GGER L GOT OFF TOUARLE ERSY — A— 7 7EY “Seasonal Regulations” pertaining to the Polaris-Taku mine with sup- | Mines, Herring Reduction. | plies nt}d is scheduled to fly two| All employers and employees are | more trips to Tulsequah today. | hereby notified that the seasonal | uled later today. (payment of benefits to seasonal | 5workers‘ as contained in Benefit | 5 ! Regulation No. 10, will be opened to Mfs. BfadfOTd IS In,mcms. During the period stated (above, any interested party may KJuneau Enroute Sou‘h {appear and 'be heard or present his | existing regulations. president | Any or all the existing rules and ny, ob- regulations now in effect are subject lingham, is in Juneuu on ner way, Regular business of the Commis- to Seatle to complete buyinz of her |sion will also be taken up at t‘h?s‘ winter supplies. | time, bound Lodestar waiting weather in | Chairman. Juneau, Mrs. Bradford is at theyFirst publication, Aug. 22, 1941, Baranof Hotel. |Last publication, Sept. 15, 1941, OOWN N Tw B\G SMOKIES T USTh G\T Alex Holden has made two trips [to Salmon Canneries, Open Cut| Two flights to Hoonah are sched- Ercgu]a(lcns having to do with the; |hearing as to changes or amend- |objections to any part or all of the eratar, of extensive interess in Dil- | to amendments. A passenger aboard the south-| NOBLE DICK, M. D, GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH _ TARD_ AN FEDDERED ~_ VER 8007 |prizes for the winners of. the races.| Western Washington. Juneau, August 23—Sunrise 5:3; a.m., sunset 8:24 p.m. mnarried August eleventh to Miss Mrs. Peter Nelson. Three army bombeis flew over the village this spring and aropped a large canvas bag containing the blank forms and reports for the local Draft Board. Tom Morgan, the United States Deputy Marshal,| Erric Fenrno, the U. S. Commiss- icner, John Nicholson and Frank Waskey were appointed as members of the Draft Board. They nave se- cured the services of Mrs Alfred Opland as secretary. Everyone is looking forward to the Dog Derby and ski races to be‘ held for the third successive winter | starting February 12th when five hundred dollars in a cash prize will be given to the owncr of the lucky number of the fiftv tickets. There will also be mawuy other| There are severa' local peophl now owning their own airplanes in 2ristol Bay. Bristol Air Seivice, op- erated by Bert ' Ro L an Walotka, has installed a 1adio sta- stand in defense of thely pice log cabin near the ski hill|Alice Nelson, daugh‘er of Mr. and tion here with Fred Whitcher and Lis wife in charge. FISHING BOAT GOES AGROUND Bound for Ketchikan fron Steam- boat Bay, the fishing boa! J. B. ran aground a mil: soutbwest of St. Ijnace Island, early last Friday morning, according to a report re- ceived today by the Customs Ser- vice here. The boat was loaded wilh 23,000 pounds of fresh salmon at the time of grounding and managed to float off without dumping the iish. John ‘3. Bogen, Ketchikan owner and master of the boat, estimated that aamage of about $7°0 was done to the hull, due to the mishap. The hoat is valued at $14,000. e This season’s pack of canned sal- mon in British Columbia will total approximately 1,700,000 cases, the 14 Department of Commerce reports. Mautzie, Boston bull tervier, is here. with her: owners, Mr, and Mrs. Mark J. Boundy, who refuse to move from their St. Lowis home until Mutzie’s bables arrive. The impending blessed event, is. holding up some $10,000,000 worth of defense plant construction on the site