The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 25, 1941, Page 8

SHIPPLANTIS TAKEN OVER, NAVY DEPT. President lsgues Orders for Government Control of Kearny Operations v Pre Ro- Aug side pcret session HYDE PARK, N turday 1 directec the Navy take operate” the strike plant of the Tht to po! Federal & building and Drydock C which has been closed since / because the CIO demanded good union standing be required for all workers. The reason the plant was or 1 taken over, the President said, is because the strike “jeopardizes con- struction of vessels essential to the Naticnal Defense of the United States.” Rear Admiral Bowen will have charge of the reopening of the plant which takes place tomorrow fol- lowing conferences today between union men and company officials officials R DETROIT STRIKE SETTLED 25 DETROIT. Mich., Aug Edward J. Jeffries, late last day afternoon announced a ram for settlement of the then old street car and bus bound Kearny, " THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE MONDAY, AUG. 25, I94I U. S. Defensé Outpost inthe South Pacxflc Phonephote This view on Johnston Island, 717 miles southwest of Honolulu, was made during construction of buildings for the new U. S. air station, "which has just been commissioned. The station gives America another stra- tegically-located mlzpo-t m h-r Pnifle wenlu. BROTHER OF KING GEORGE NOW IN U.S. Duke of K;h'trArrives in New York on Bomber ~Plans Visit fo FDR NEW YORK, Aug The Duke of Kent, youngest brother cf King George, arrived at the La- Guardia airport late last Saturday afternoon, in a Canadian RAF bomber from Ontario on his way to visit President Rooscvelt at Hyde Park. 25 plan was ag B 2 hy " 1 . + plan was agreed upon BV - an eseort pomber accompanied City officials and the leader ; : Ragile e £ he Duke’s aircraft, { 1e st 2 C C striking s A police guard quickly circled ——e—— Overall height of the Liberty Bell i feet, three inches. EFirst (flfl) IN QUALITY Ghoi, : At your favorite tavern and package store. | | ,w% sorrien lo;/ “ew vorum® * Straight Bourbon Whiskey, 100 proo.. Schenley Distillers Carp., N.Y.C. GENERAL & POWER ! cutting ALASKA ELECTRIC LIGHT PHONE 616 tife Duke in a crowd of about 4,000 persons. .- Eastern Star Unit to Cutand Sew Dresses ! The Red Cross unit of the East- ern Star, which has been meeting every Wednesday, will meet this week in the Scottish Rite Temple at 2 o'clock on Wednesday after- noon. The group will continue to cut ‘out dresses and sew them for the Red Cross. A full attendance of members is requested. A large attendance at this meet- ing is desired, and all whe go to cut out dr are asked to take sisse Anyone who can ake portable sewing machines is asked to contact Helen Webster. 'Hear > CLEARLY//Q " with SONOTONE Do you hear but have trouble understand- ing? Then call for full information on new audicle which is help- ing thousands. DR. 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In charge of the serving will be Mrs. C. J. Peterson, and she will be assisted by the Mesdames James Ccle, Henry Green, K. Carson, J. V. On a tour of inspection of a pro- posed air route to Alaska from Cal- Route, two Vice-Presidents of West- ern Airlines, arrived in Juneaw from Fairbanks yesterday to study further conditions for the new schedule ! which is tentatively planned to stop at Whitehorse and then go to Fair- banks and Nome, with a spur run- ning from Fairbanks to Anchorage. | Wolfe; Vice-President of Traffic. gary, Alberta, and flying the Interior ' The men are Leo H. Dwerlkotte, ! First ' Vice-President and - Thowmas ' KODIAKBEAR REFUGE ISHIT BY DIMOND Better Leave Land Open for Settlement, Dele- gafe Declares WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.—Publi- cation of an executive order, estab- | lishing a Kodiak National Wl]dllrr‘ erugc in, the Uganik section. of | Kodiak TIsland for the prownion |of brown bears, today drew trom | Alaska's Delegate to Congress An-] [thony J. Dimiopd, the assertion that | the governtient had better " leave| | the land open Yor settiement. | The order sets aside all thef Uganik part of Kodiak Island, to- taling 1,979,000 acres. This land is withdrawn from entry settlement and permits homesteading only on| a mile-wide strip along the shore-: | line, “Setting aside an area for the protection of brown bears is un- | necessary,” Delegate Dimond ex-| | ploded. “Bears have increased 30 rapidly in recent years that in| |some sections they are becoming a nuisance. It would be better to| | i | | | leave the island open for settle-! ment.” { The Fish and Wildlife Service |:~id the order would set up al management area for the protes !tion of bears, to be administer |under the Alaska Game Commis- |sion. They said hunting of the |bears will be permitted in the| !1efuge under regulations of the commission. WIND STORM NEAR CYCLONE PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Aug. 25.—A" windstorm that approached cyclonic proportions swept a tri-state area Try Thrift Co-Op PAY DAY SEEDLESS Grapes 2 Ibs. 25¢ Malagas 21bs.33 Tomaloes CAMPBELL'S. TOMATO SOUP - Ghirardelli Ground Chocolate - - 8 ounces 12¢ DINTY MOORE MOTHER'S COCOA "PLANTAT]ON"—ln Medium Syrup Sliced Pineapple 2 size can 2 for 43¢ SPRY DOG-CAT FOOD -4 cans 2lc Shurfine Unsweelened Baking Chocolate % Ib. bar I5¢ [E6G PLANT SPECIALS!?? PRICES GOOD ALL WEEK Albers’ INSTANT TAPIOCA 1 pound 23c 21bs. 23] Spaghetti, Meat Balls large can 2] 2cans 19¢ 1 pound can 3% 2 pound can 21c 1 pound 14c ‘Dry Onions 5 1bs. 21c IVORY SOAP - 8 medium bars 55 THRIFT GO-0P PHONE 767 NEXT TO CITY HALL CELERY Large Stalks _ 13¢, I5c, 17c Davis, S. K. Sawyer, Mel. Martin, C. Jensen, ano Spencer DeLong. Mrs, Walter Heisel has arranged a program of music for the after- noon. tions will be presented by Mrs. D. C. Langdon, and vocal tr‘lr(’ll'vlu will be given by Mrs. Henry and Miss Frances Paul ., — Mrs. C. A. Melczer Arrives for Visit Mrs. Charles A. Melczer, the for- mer Miss Anabel Simpson, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Robert Simpson of Juneau, arrived -here Saturday night on the Princess Louise for a visit with her parents. Mrs, Mel- czer plans to stay about two weeks before returning to her home in Los Angeles, where her hushand is connected with the Lockheed com- pany. In this, several piano selec-, They said that action on the ‘route depends on the dec’sion of the Civil Aeronautics Board on their:request for a certificate of convcnienee and amon | arge Group Ahend Pansh Picnic Sunday ather Fully enjoying the fine wi yesterday, a large crowd of Gple | late this aftetnoon, killing at least | one person, injuring more than a score.of others, toppling smokestacks .and homes and leaving a trail of 'cther porperty damage, according to | meagre reports up to 4 o'clock this | afternoon. TYPOGRAPHI(A[ " DEATH NOT FATAL 3 DElE(iATES WILL ATTEND CONVENTION American legTion Auxiliary Members Leaving for IN CHANNEL FROM SITKA NAVY BOMBER' attended the Parish picnic at- the Shrine of St. Terese under the dir-| ection of the Rev. W. G. LeVasseur.' Besides the large number ofc Jun- eauites, a number of out-of-town visitors joined the group to’ enjoy refreshments and games played during the afternoon. The Rev. LeVasseur extends his thanks to the donators of the three busses used to transport picnickers from town. The busses were donated by the Catholic Daughters of Am- TO EAGLE EXPERT A victim of a typographical mur- der in this paper about a week ago was back in Juneau today, very much alive and showing no-ill ef- fects from his journalistic demise. He is Ralph H. Imler, of the Fish | and Wildlife Service, who left the city today by plane, en route to Den- | | ver, after a summer of studying the food habits of the Alaska bald eagle. ‘Hendnclr.son and Mrs. Bert Lybeck 'will ‘delesutes from Ketchikan, Wran- ing and tied up at a buoy off the erica, the Knights of Columbus, and an anonymous donor. ARSI P e A, BUY DEFENSE BONDS Star at A.A.U. Meet ., the The Library of Congress is largest in the world. A recent headline jn The Empire, over a news item -regarding Imler, | was_written to say “STUDENT OF 'EAGLE DIETS IN JUNEAU.” But a letter stuck in the magazine pf the ,linotype machine setting the head- i line and in the paper it read “STU- |DENT OF EAGLE DIES IN JU- |NEAU.” Thus Imler had th: rare Lplcasure of personally denying his untimely death. 'Commander Tate in Ju- neau as Consolidated attend the American Legion | Tles to Buoy Auxiliary convention in Seward the first of next month as delegates; A fumbering Navy PBY Consali- from this section. The convention dated bomber was lying in the water was originally scheduled for August|of Gastineau Channel this afternoon '27 to 29, but was postponed untiliyjed to a buoy off the A. J. rock’ the arrival of the Southeast Alaska;dump‘ The ship landed this morn- ~ Seward Sunday Mis. Jolin McCormick, Mrs. Waino i gell, Petersburg and Juneau. -| Douglas bridge, then moved south as This will be the (3th annual con-|wind increased. vention of the Alaska Department| -Several Navy officers -from the of the Auxiliary, and the 21st of the' gunboat Charleston and Commander ! American Legion. The three dele-! :J. R. Tate of the Japonski Island gates from Juneau will leave on|Naval Air Station arrived on the! the Steamer Baranof next Sunday,! plane for conferences here. | and ‘réturn on the Steamer Aleu- tian on September 12. . Mrs. McCormick has been endor—‘ ‘sed by the Juneau Unit No. 4 for Hodwalker Returns | Going back to Denver with ller is a 10-week-old Husky pup, named ‘Taku, acquired from the Husky pack ' of Mary Joyce at Taku Lodge, where Imler made his headquarters for part of his eagle studies. | From his studies of the stomach contents of some 150 eagles killed during the summer, Imler believes 'the birds live mostly on carion sal- ,mon fish that have already spawn- ed out or died on stream banks, he Isaid today. He is taking a number {of specimens back to Denver with him, however, and will complete his ! Imler has studied the habits and feeding of the big birds all over study therc before submitting any report on the eagle diets. | Southeast Alaska during the past summer. AS DEFENsc WORK |the position of Secretary-Treasurer of the Department. She has held this | position since 1937. She has also been recommended for second al- ternate for National executive com- mitteewoman. walker arrived in Juneau Saturday | | The lacal unit has also nominated |night aboard the Princess Louise| Mrs. Hendrickson and Mrs. J. O.|from the south, Mr. Hodwalker will, Rude to posts of Department Ex‘;mke up his position in the Juneau | ecutive committeewomen. Mrs. Hen-|High School as instructor in Eng- drickson was recently elected Pres-|lish. {ident. of the Juneau Auxiliary, Mrs.| This is Mrs. Hodwalker's first Rude 15 a member of the Petersburg |trip to the Territory. She and Mr. Auxmu'y but is now a resident o(lflodw,‘n, were married last year! Juneau. : on August 5 in Atchison, Neb. and, she remained in the States last With Wife for School, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Hod-) year. She is the former Miss Doro-| *|thy Worley of Alliance, Neb., and| the daughter of a western Nebras- Ted Seequist hborer on the Law- ka ranch family. Mr. Hodwalker and his wife did son Creek road until about a month | ago, was tenced to 60 days in graduate work together at the Col-* orado State College of Educatlon, and Mrs. Hodwalker recelved her | Master’s and business edu-| | cation. there. Following their wed-' !ding, the,.Hodwalkers traveled to' Pennsylvapia}and visited relatives 1 the Pedefa] Jall here.today when he pleaded guilty to a charge of | petit larceny. Complaint against Seequist was signed by, C. R. Dobbins, manager Alaska defense centers are still | whmlmng work projects applica- tions for civic improvements to be made under the $150,000,000 national ‘n Omahd and Lincoln, Neb., then Mr. Hodwalker returned to Juneau for last yurs school term. He went' south to join his wife last June. Top, Nancy Merki, 14, of Portland, Ore., receives a medal from Curtis Smithdeal, after the mrl set a new U. S. record for the 1,500-meter event at the National A.A.U. Women’s Swimming Championships at High Point, N, C. Nancy, a cripple for the first cight years of her life, made the distance in 22 12.2. Bottom, a champion comes back as Helen Crlenkovich of San Francisco shows her form in a; two and a half gaynor. She recaptured the platform’ diving '.Inmpionslip she lost last year. appropriation of the Community Facilities Act, it was learned today from J, G. Shepard, PWA Admin- istrator, in the Territory, Since last week, projects have been submitted from Ketchikan and Sit- | ka, Shepard said, and have been sent ion to Washington, D. C., for ap-| ‘ln building a new school building and for a recreation center for the | 400 Coast Guardmen staiioned there and the army men in Ketchikan and at the new army air field at Annette Island, he said. The Sitka projects also ask help for school construction, extension of al. Ketchikan projects call for help l of the Juneau Packing Company, Ty who sald the man broke into a} on the company’s float-! ing cannery, now moored at the; Pemmer Dock, late yesterday and! was caught stealing three-quarters lof a case of salmon. Seequist was sentenced this after- | noon when, he was arraigned before U. 8. Commissioner Pelix Gray. e MARRIAGE APPLICATIONS TwQ - mpllc‘nou.s for ' marriage llcenses . were ' filed today in the! office: of' U. 8, Commissioner Pelix Gray. ‘was filed by Carl Lehto, lot Junesw; ‘and Tilda Salo, who lcame bere recently from ' W The; second. spplication . was Buhscrlbe tor The Empire. ll!l' DEI"!NS! STAMPS We Do NOT Paironize Montgomery Ward Co. * Procter & Gamble Products Gatner & Mattern Knit Goods Carnation Milk Co: RED CROSS WILL BUILD QUARTERS AT ARMY POSTS Structures Wlndude 0f- . fice, Living Quarters, Eic. for Personnel WASHINGTON, Aug. 25. — The American Red Cross announces there will be constructed office and headquarters buildings at 62 Army Posts to cost about $1,250,000. Amony the posts included will be Fort Richardson, Alaska. The structures will contain offices ' and living quarters for the Red Cross personnel, legture and reception rooms. EARNINGS On Savings Accounts ® Accounts Government In- sured up to $5,000. ® Money available at any time. @ Start an account with $§1 or more. Current 4% Rate Alaska Federal Savings and Loan Assn. of Junear Phone 3}