The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 23, 1941, Page 2

_Leslie Here To Command Cutter Haida New Skippér of Coast Guard Vessel Arrives with His Family ska, Commander N. H. Leslie, new com jer of the Coast Guard cut- | ter H ed here last night the nc 1d Mount McKinley | s s wife and daugher, Jane Leslie will Juneau Monday or Guard cutter Hermes and board the Haida at the tip of | the Aleutian Tslands. He expects the ve 1 to Juneau “in about ssel to re R am ' Here is Henry Ford's new. plastic car, Formerly a lieutenant on the Un-| Teady for production, the body contains steel only in the tubular alga from 1922 to 1926, Commander : Leslie arrived here from Jac the unit. ville, Florida, where he was in cha 2 of organization of the Coast Guard Reser e he was last in Juneau, Leslie has been on the Seneca at New York, the destroyer Fanning on the East Coast, on a tour of the Coast Guard depot Saltimore, Md., on the Cahokia at Eureka, Cal., and at two posts in Florida, spending i two years on the Coast Guard Re- ¢ work at Jacksonvillle s. Le nd her daughter wi make their home in Juneau while the Commander is out on his first trip commanding the Haida Leslie is replacing Lt. Commander R. C. Jewell who was transferred from the Haida to the East Coast TOLLS NEAR Folta Says Decision to Go Lt. Commander H. W. Stinchcomb e Vol | Aouatand of4HB vegehl to Supreme Court since Jewell’s ansfer. > R ‘ for Finals KETCHIKAN STILL THIRSTY AS HALK INCH RAIN FALLS Rainy Cifyi Nears Drouth with No Showers-Tenth aceable settlement of the Rich- ardson Highway toll dispute be-|@ tween truckers and the Department |7 of the Interior is in prospect now, | & a court case pending whichr will start in Fairbanks and even-| & reach the U. S. Supreme Court, it was announced here today by George Folta, counsel-at-large| for the Department of the Interior.| & Folta has just returned from a (two weeks’ trip to Fairbank: wit tually unveiled the car is not radically d frame on ... A laughing Matter . .. Lou Costello’s Favorite Story THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, AUG. 23, | Ford’s Plastic Car, Not Ready for Production v ) | in Detroit, Still in the experimental stage and not ifferent in appearance from the steel models. The new which are mounted 14 plastic panels that make up The ¢ar weighs approximately 1,000 pounds less than a steel unit of comparable size. The car body was made of 4 mixture of synthetic resin with the fibrous material derived from wheat, . hemp and other crops. JOLSONSAYS PACKNEARS 4 MILLION Largest Qutput in Years! Bring Territory fo 6%2 | Million Cases The salmon pack for Southeast Alaska, will probably reach about 4,000,000 cases, one of the largest packs of fish this section of the2, Territory has ever wrapped tin around, it was predicted this morn- ing by Clarence Olson, Fisheries Management Supervisor, who has just returned from a trip tg ob- serve the salmon run in southern ections of the district Ketchikan plants will pack over a million cases, Olson prophesied. ! My younger daughter, Carol, spent | the other evening playing with her | new alphabet finally was persuaded to go to be blocks. When she 1941. IDECK HAND MORE TAX Jan DROWNED IN PROPOSALS 'ARE MADE ICY STRAIT Veteran Old Age Pension Ed Somers Believed fo! Have Stumbled Over ' Advocafe Appears Be- fore Committee 22, Scuppers on. Tug Believed to- have “Stumbied over WASHINGTON, Aug. — Dr. Francis Townsend tod: urged general gross tax of five percent on all wages and business transac- tions as a means of meeting the huge costs of defense of this Gov- omers, 60-year-old deck hand on » tug Lone Fishermun, f:i over- and was drowned lasi Tues- ght about a mile off Point o ernment. a in Icy Straits, it was re- The veteran old age pension ad- Dorted here last night, wien the vocate made a talk to the Senate tug arrived with a tow of logs for 11s Juneau Lumber X Finance Committee as one of the the last of the more than 100 W es who have appeared and e numerous changes in the record- breaking tax bill which has been The report of the accident was master ‘d .nade by Harley Rutherford of the Lone F erford said Somers was apparently The Senate Finance Committec Eafuiadl i 3. Soesl will. begin ‘alterations in the bill |5y (0% BORK ALUGHED he: Epidiue " A || fight had trarspired b.tween - next Monday and it is expected |y Ry B the measure will reach the Senate floor by September 2, the day fol- lowing Labor Day. .- JURY BLASTS SEATTLE ON SPEAKEASIES Coroner’s Group Accuses Police, Liquor Board and Prosecutor 1S, Rutherford said that shortly be- fore 9 p. m. Tuesday Somers came lon deck with his bags packed and stood them at the foot of a com- panionway leading the pilot | Somers then entered the pilot house, Rutherford .a.d, and iocked both doors fror the inside. |He seemed to believe that a plane was coming to take nim ~ff the ship, Rutherford reported. About that time, according %o the report, A. J. Martin, another deck hand, tried to. enter the pilot house from the door on one side. Immediately, Somers unlocked the door on the opposite side of the ship and dashed out. Rutherford was at the wheel and did not follow the man. Soon after | this a search was made of the ship | for Somers but he had disappeared. SEATTLE, Aug 23.—A blue rihbon‘Rutherford said he believed Some.s coroner’s jury today criticized the | had possibly stumbled over the State Liquor Board, the County |SCuPper at the edge of the deck Prosecutor’s Office and the Seattle @ he ran from the pilot house Police Department in a verdict re- (nd fell over the side. turned on the holdup shooting| Somers had been' a resident of deaths of three persons in a Seattle |Alaska since 1916, when he moved speakeasy August 3 {from Port Townsend to Keichikan. A (he scuppers of the Yoat, Edward| ors and any of the four crew mem-| ofaninchToday | Relief for drouth conditions Ketchikan seems slow, according to | reports from the Weather Bureau | in here, Just 11/100 of an inch of rain| fell on the First City during the| 24-hour period preceding 4:30 am y, it was reported. This makes of 46/100 of an inch of| 0 a total three days. It was not raining in Ketchikan today, the reports showed, and pre- dictions were that Revillagigedo Xa-“)xu’. ides that if the regulation of} Interior on ment e truckers for ap- residents need not expect any | the present. land more showers for CHINELLA DELLCGAIE Frank Chine.!la has heen eloct AFL delegate to the convention to Le held in Se~ttle on Oetober 6, 7 and 8. C. C. Rulaford was eiected| alternate at a meeting of tiie Cen- tral Labor Courcil. — e DIVORCE GRANTED A divorce was granted Joseph T. Whiting in Federal Court here today from Ruth Florence Whiting. .- WARNINH Portland Island is a Fox Ranch and being operated. Shooting at or | bringing the blocks along with her, representing the truckers that an Carol was very drowsy and was agreed statement of facts be sub-|falling asleep when she remember- mitted to the court there, with the|ed she hadn’t said her prayers. understanding that either side will| She turned, pushed her blocks appeal the decision to the Supreme |a&way with a vague gesture, and said Court in Washington, D. C. Tolls in Escrow where he proposed to the attorney | | “Oh, Lord, I'm too sleepy to The unusually heavy late run of The jury said the Liquor Board pinks will swell the total Alaska |encouraged the growth of spenk-] iish pack to approximately 6,500,000 easies with its reluctance to amend | cases, he believes. | regulations permitting large sales to Meantime, fishing in the lower known operators, accused Prosecutor | section of Clarence Straits is due | Warner of not prosecuting the cases | to close at 6 pm. today. The cen- |With vigor, the policé with not per- | {tral portion of Clarence Straits is | forming their duty and said some of Under a stipulation agreed to by | all truckers, being paid on all fre precipitation there during the past|the Richardson Highway, and the| |toll money is being held in escrow | pending the outcome of the c ! Folta said of tol Secretary imposing upheld, a dered a The stipulation is now being con- Department of sidered by t Interior whether fice before Jjudg and General in Washington, D. C. Folta said, with the view of determining filing be given federal authoriz explained that it must be author- ized by the Attorney General's of- case can be filed in the Fai. anks court. Deputies the The he the the of Stationed After truckers had put into ope: pray. There are the blocks, spell it |out Yourself.” (AP Feature Service) tolls are now t hauled on ment ferry at Big Delta, the fight igainst the freight tolls came to a nead recently with authorization by the Department of Justice to sta- tion two deputies at a toll gate at Shaw Creek, 12 miles north of the ferry. The deputies had orders not to allow any truck bearing freight stipulation a Harold Ickes, the freight, i~‘ will be ren-| Ipxownu\:l,\' percent of the ton\;u, pass without exhibiting a re- voided during the past year of|ceipt for tolls paid at the Big open warfare between the haulers Delta ferry. and toll collectors. However, on their arrival at Shaw Creek, where the toll gate had been built, the deputies found someone had hitched a truck tc the gate, pulled it from its fasten- ings and destroyed it. - — the U. S. Attorney to He the case is tion. CASE IS MOVED The petition of Virgil J. Lee, form- erly of Sitka, for a change of name was ordered sent up to the Third Division District Court for hearing |today. Lee, an army man, has been transferred from Sitka to Anchor- ferry across |due officially closed at 6 pm. to- morrow, but because of the week- | end closing law, fishing will actu-| ally stop there, too, at 6 p.m. to- {day. The northern section of Clar- ence Straits is due to close at 6 pm. Wednesday. Because the sal-| mon are not running in large vol- ume in any of these districts, no| extensions of the season will pe granted, Olson declared today, The pink run argund the lower end of Prince of Wales Island is |“very good,” on the other hand, | Olson reported. This district is due 'to close at 6 pm. on Friday, Aug- just 29, and possible extensions of | the fishing season there will de- |pend on the volume of the run at that time, he said. B g — 'LUNCHEON TODAY HONORS VISITORS Mrs, Gertrule Naylor is enter- taining 15 guests at a luncheon to- |day in the Baranof Hotel, The oc- | casion is to honor two out of town visitors. ation their own Tanana River this spring, to avoic collection of tolls at the govern- on this island by hunters is strict- * ly forbidden. adv. FORREST R. BATES. ~ BRINGING UP FATHER AH-IT'S NICE TO BE BACK IN THE CITY WHERE IT'S LIVELY- i | CRAVE THE EXCITEMENT OF CITY LIFE TO THE SLOW AND . SLEEPY-DROWSY AND LIN- EVENTFUL COUNTRY LIFE- i age, it was stated. | ... BUY DEFENSE STAMPS AP BUY DEFENSE BONDS them lied before the jury Two éuardsmen Gef Discharge Two discharges jrom the Alaska| National Guard were reported here today. Private Donald R. Holm, of Fair- panks, is being discharged because | he has left the Territory Pr'.vate‘ kirst Class Rodger L. Eliiott, of Ketchikan, will be released to join the naval aviation air corpe< LON HOLDS EDGE ST. LOUIS, Aug. 23.—Lon Warn- eke, St. Louis Cardinal star, is the only National League pitcher o hold an edge over all opposition in his lifetime record. e MRS. FIEST LERE i Mrs. Martin Feist, nee Louise Tanner, is in Juneau for a visit with rer parents Mr. and Mrs. Eli Tan- uer. He resided in the First City until about ‘eight years ago, when he came to Juneau. He is believed to be survived by ‘a sister in Maine. e — AVERAGE ANGLING COLUMBUS, O., Aug. 23. — The Ohio Division of Conservation and Natural Resources, on the basis of special surveys, decided that the Ohio fisherman averages 29 tries a summer at the sport, gets about 53 fish. — - ENDS LIFE Sergeant William *Long 25, of Fort Richardscn, who took poison self-administered, died in the hos- pital at Anchorage. His remains were shipped south to Abilene, Texas. T SALARIES RAISEI Members of the Fairbanks Fire Department have had a salery raise 10 per cent, making the new scale $19250 a month and the chief’s $220, plus $25 tor acting as wiring and building n:spector. T R BIG CLEANUP The Spuce Creek Placers, Ltd., Atlin district, lately had another juicy cleanup, estimates given as nearly the $30000 inark. E\GGERED ONE WEHT W T&' GUBRD HOUSE WUz EAEF FER ME 2 1 CALLS THRT DOWNRIGHT " RESPECKABLE OF i GET ALL THEM BN 2015 AN PANS OFFR TH' . PIE " N CORNER - N\CE T SWOW"Y b o R B 1AW R THAR ORVER BE i A By GEORGE McMANUS ™ WS TORS FLINGW THUEIR KITCHEN NEWTENSWES "ROLND. \S O’ FIRE ¥ & TERT TN AT O MWNE ~ BLOWS OFF REN WL BE FIT CER W LIINTIC GRSENALY THE WEATHER - %:? U. 8. Weather Bureau) 0. q DEPAR' OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU Forecast for Jufieau and vicinity, beginning at 4:30 p.m., Aug. 23: Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday with likelihood of some very light | local showers tonight; slightly warmer Sunday, lowest temperature l tonight abolt 51 degrees, highest Sunday 65 degrees; light o gentle variable winds. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Partly cloudy. tonight and Sun- day with possibly very light showers in north portion tonight; slightly | warmer Sunday; gentle to moderate southerly winds. | Forecast of winds along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Dixon ' Entrance to Cape Spencer: Moderate southedly to southeas erly winds, local showers tonight, p rtly clgudy Sunday; Cape Spencer to Cape Hinchinbrook: moderate. s utheasterly to easterly winds, lo- cal rain; Cape. Hinchinbrook to Rosurrection Bay: moderate mnorth- easterly winds, partly cloudy with risk of local raim; Resurrection Bay to Kodiak: moderate northerly to norfheasterly winds, partly | cloudy. " ! LOCAL DATA ; | Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity = Weather | 4:30 p.m. yesterday 29. 8 67 69 w 9 Cloudy | 4:30 am. today 29.86 55 98 s 4 Rain Noon today 29.89 56 94 w 4 Cloudy RADIO REPORTS | ¥ TODAY Max. tempt. Lowest 4:30am. Precip. 4:30am. | Station last 24 hours | temp. tempt. 24hours Weather Fairbanks 68 £ 41 0 Clear Nome ... 51 48 49 0 Cloudy Dawson ML 51 52 0 Pt. Cldy Anchorage ... T 55 55 0 Pt. Cldy | Bethel - 81 42 43 0 Clear | Dutch Harbor .. 59 51 54 0 Cloudy Kanatak .. 53 51 52 .03 Drizzie Kodiak 68 54 55 .01 Drizzle Cordova. . 5. 53 53 0 Pt.Cldy | Juneau 54 55 18 Rain Sitka . . ... 69 54 55 01 Cloudy } Ketchikan ... 63 58 59 AL Cloudy i Prince Rupert .. 66 53 56 .38 Rain | Prince George .. 83 53 54 06 Cloudy Edmonton .. 88 57 58 18 Cloudy Seattle “.oivoe... 10 62 63 01 Rain Portland 6 64 64 14 Rain San Francisco .. 65 $ 55 56 D Drizzle v WEATHER SYNOPSIS Juneau, August 24—Sunrise 5:38 a.m., sunset 8:21 p.m. Clear or partly cloudysskies D evailed over most of Alaska this morning but clondy skies were rejorted over the southern coastal area and over the Seward Peninsu'a. Rain had fallen during the past 24 hours over Southeast Alaska and at some points along | the coast from Kodiak to the Aliska Peninsula and over the Be:- ing 'Sea. | The greatest amount o precipitation was 46 hundredths of an inch which was recorded a’ Craig. The highest temperature yesterday afternoon was 80 degrees at Skwentna and the lowest last night 37 degrees at Barrow. Broken clouds to overcast with local showers, moderate ceilings and good visibilities prevailed over | the JuneausKetchikan - airway thi; morning. The Saturday morning weathe' chart indicated a center of low pressure of 29.60 inches was locat>d at 55 degrees north and 140 de- grees west' and was .expected to move slowly northeastward and slow- | ly il during the next-24 hours. A second low center of 20.70 inches ! was located near Atka and was ex)ected to move slowly eastward during the next 24 hours. ‘A hig: pressure center of 30.20 inches was located at 33 degrees north a1d 134 degrees west and a second high pressure center of -30.65 inch's was located at 39 degrees north LAS DAA PLANES B e DOUGL e | CANNERY * OFFICIALS TO LEAVE NEXT WEEK; FINAL SHIPMENT READY Busy all this week preparing the cannery machinery for its long in- | active season until June or July and getting ready to make final ship- ment of salmon awaiting . freight accomodations from here, the Doug- ias Fisheries Co, bas jusl about completed the year’s work at this end. ; \ The work of moving the canned salmon. stored in the natatorium continued until & .late hour: last night and, approximately five thous- and’ cases are now piled up in the ireight shed .aweiting = the North Coast to come aud get th:m next Tuesday. After the fish go out of- ticials here will he about ready to ‘follow, enroute to Scattle where ‘they will spend the winter months ‘Mspasing: of the pack and geiting ready for next season. 5t Summary,; of - the ;1941 pack ac- cording: to figures given out by Joe Ellson, head of; the. corpant.s office nere, the. pack ~of shghtly under 41,000, cases was-composed of about 80 per cent pirk salmon; fotal of 'sockeyes. was: less, than 5 per cent, ‘about 12 per cent were chums and ‘there were g few silyrsi . ¢ | Reyenue, to the town. received dir- ect.- from the ‘company frum the sSeason’s qperatipns has been- estim- ated to.be arennd. $4,000. Which sum back into, the wharf need of laragr stor- the. eannery praved ‘Douglas sheries . 0. . praved ‘this year to be the best fish indus- try Douglas has ever had. Companies of various Kinds have operated l?ere \for close to forty years With yvary- tive for all concerned at the present one, Weekly payroll benefitca about sixty pe6ple in town ‘who : received something' like $28,000.for tne sea- son, 'There weve aroun- 130 persons company. e SoH R RICHARD SCHUMAN TAKES BRIDE IN BERKELEY, CAL. ot Detalls of the marriage of Richard Herbert Schuman, who was born 'ing success' bt't none s r‘emunm-‘ -outside ‘of the “town 1fx scivice: of WAITINGFOR BETTER AR i Lodestar Here afid Prince - George: Grounded . ‘on Flights . Two PAA Lodestars were sitting on the ground waiting while weather slowly improved at 12:30 o'clock this afternoon, scheduled to leave Juneau bound for Seattle and slated to leave Prince George bound for Juneau and Fairbanks. ‘Weather conditions were improved over those this morning, but still not favorable enough to allow the dispatching of the 'ships shortly after noon. e e e et San Prancisco, He is now aitending the University of California in pre- varing ' to. teach mathematics in high school, his chosen lifc work. During his former school days Mr. 'Schuman won many tenris titles end trophies. ; CoUNCIL MEETING Regular meeting:«ef the:Douglas !City Council is scheduled for next Monday evening &t th: usial hour. 1 |DrRS. ROBERTSON ‘IS TO' LEAVE: NFXT WEEK Mrs. vgmm‘:q Robert .on wno has been guest here at the hon'¢ of her ‘sister Mys: John Mils vians' to "leave on the Northland next week Ifor return’to her homi ' in Ketchi- | . During the past week Mrs Robert- son has been guest of ‘a number of parties and 'luncheons 'given here and in Juneau by her friends. ‘Tonight Mrs. Felix Gray is en- tertaining with thre: -‘tables of bridge at'her home in honbr of the visitor. - | % T ——————— TRIP TO MARMION H. L, Cochrane, ‘Dick McCormick and Walter Andréws plan ‘a' surprise (visit this' evening’ after woik with itheir families who are camping out for a week at the end of th Island. | | -ert Schuman when about ten years | old, ‘was received here yesterday. ! | Vornholdt of Berkeley, Cal. and the | wine's church toere early in July. and reared in ‘Douglas until he left| with his parents Mr. and Mrs, Her-| TEKAS T0PS COLLEGE''STATION, 'Tex., Aug. 23.—Coach Homer H. Norton, whose s A&M football team beat A nephew of Ed Huriutts of Fordham in the January Cotton Pacific Grove, Cel, who were also Bowl game: at Dallas, picks Texas shannel residents for manv years, to be the Southwest Conference’s the young man graduat:d from local top team this fall. ‘Southern Meth- schools there and also as an at- odist. Rice and maybe Baylor torney from St. Marys coilege in ‘shmud be a step behind,” he said, The bride. was Miss Carol L. H.' ~edding took place at St. Augus- LR i