The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 2, 1941, Page 2

2 AMERICANS, FRENCH COUNT DIE IN CRASH Atlantic Air Transport Hifs Hillside in Great Britain LONDCN, Sept. 2—Two Amer- jeans and Count Guy deBrailett La- Tour, were among the ten persons aboard a transport plane the RAF ferry command has given up as lost, it was announced today | The air ministry ferry command | first announced the Olympic official | himself was aboard the plane, but | the Beleian Embassy later confirm- ed it as his son, istant military | attache of the Belgian Embassy in | Longon, son-in-law of James Dunn, political advisor to Secretary of | State Cordell Hull Count Guy had been in Wash- | ington, D. C., on a mission as a‘ member of the staff to administer colonies of the emigre Belgian gov- ernment. His father is still in Bel- | gium. The Americans killed were Cap- tain Sherwood Picking, U. S. Navy a passenger, and Flight Engineer Charles Spencer Littleneck, New York member of the transport crew. Picking was 51 years old and com- mander of the submarine O-10 dur- ing the first World War. The Navy Department said he had been ord- cred to Londen as an & stant nav- al attache. The plane left North America presumably Canada, yesterday for England. CRASHED ON HILLSIDE MONTREAL, Sept. 2—The RAF ferry command announced today that the Atlantic transport plane. earlier reported missing, had crash- ed into a hillside in Britain. All ten persons aboard the plane, in- cluding Americans, were killed, it was announced by the Montreal command > TWO LODESTARS LEAVE JUNEAU FLYING SOUTH Arriving from Fairbanks with seven passengers for Juneau, a southbound PAA Lodestar landed at the airport this afternoon with Pauline Johnstone, Jerome Cystew- ski, Mark Ferguson, Walter Petri Willard Detty, Virgil Farrell and Harvey Starling for Juneau and through passengers Mrs. Margaret Johnstone, Ben Vallat and Joseph Goodhue booked for Seattle. Passengers leaving Juneau for | Boeing field were Catherine Mack, Sam Hayward, Roy R. Jones, Sam Asp, William C. Carroll, Paul Gor- don and Volney Richmond Early this morning an Electra left Fairbanks with one passenger, Mae Walton, for Juneau. This morning a Lodestar left for Seattle with Major Oliver Rosto! and Myrtle Krusey leaving fo the | south. The plane arrived here from the Interior last night with Earl McGinty for Juneau and through passengers Ann Lindass, Mrs. Alice Vibe, John Vibe, George Vibe James Vibe, Carl Lottsfeldt, Fran- cis Lottsfeldt, Harold Gray and Patt McFarland. — e — MRS. CAHILL RETURNING Mrs. W. E. Cahill and daughter Doris are aboard the Princess Louise arriving tonight after a visit of several months in the States. CLOTHES that are CLEANED OFTEN—Weat Longer! Sen1 YOUR GARMENTS to Triangle Your appearanee is Assured When You Have Them Cleaned Heret 507 IT SEEMS EV and Mussolini have something to talk about, hat's been going on a leng time, and started a style. When Roosevelt and Churchill met, it completed a cyele: all major natiens have sent their heads of state or other bigwigs intc eenference. The war year, 1941, is also a big year Proof: AP Featur for talking it ever. HITLER AND MUSSOLINI met at Brenner Pass, a favorite rendevous, in June, Chief topic, according to Fascist sources, was possible American intervention in the war. Said La Stampa of Turin: “Everything is calculated up to the last consequence.” 1 S (RYBODY A 3. MUSSOLINI AND MATSUOKA got together at Rome. Japan’s Foreign Minister signed treaty with Russia, attempted to strengthen Axis ties on same trip. Then Axis went to war with Russia. Petain once wa: [ R FLAMES GUT . Rupert Sails | HOUSEWHEN On Last Trip oo | block Sat urday STOVE LEAKS .o = Building Practically De- stroyed as Oil Over- flows from Stove started by an burning oil stove, the rear of the Seward afternoon, bring- ing out two fire trucks and send- ing out a general alarm All household furnishings —we destroyed as the fire licked through the windows of the structure and ate into the roof. No one was in- jured in the blaze, the only casu- alty being a house cat whose. hair vas burning and was killed by fireman The building is owned by El beth Biggs and was insured. The seneral alarm was caused when two fire boxes were pulled simul- taneously stineau Ave- nue and on Franklin Street. Flam overflow from a « house at one on the other e ——— 'ACA MAKES FOUR TRIPS 10 SITKA Coast flights with the Alaska Coastal Airlines buzzed in and out of the Channel this morning as pi- lots made four trips, taking 20 passengers to Sitka and returning with 13 from the Coast. Passengers to Sitka were Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Williams, Peter Davis, E. Barnard, T. C. Whiteside, Ralph Young, Helen Young, Martin Zeng, Charles Martje, Carl Main, J. M. Mollay, John Hoke, Jim Hickey, Jr., R. House and R. Wehe. Passengers returning from Sitka to Juneau were D. E. Da Joha Melvin, Frank Turner, Lawrence Freeburn, W. Kransey and eight other passengers not yet arrived. Trips to Hoonah, cursion In- let and Taku are scheduled for later in the day. Governor Gruening Flies to Kefchikan Flying in a Fish and Wildlife Service plane, Gov. Ernest Gruen- ing left Juneau this noon, enroute to Ketchikan on “official busi- ness.” The Governor will stay over to- morrow in the First City and is due to return here Thursday. The Sarber, Fish and agent, returning to his headquar- ters in Petersburg. - ~ BARNEY GOOGLE BUY DEFENSE STAMP! AND-SNUFFY SMITH FLNG \T ONER T TENCE,LRADY, AN DON'T MBKE S0 MANY D0-NOTHIN' NOTIONS gutted | ® Russell Maki, E. Brisson, Tom Gib- | plane was flown by Pilot Ray Ren- | |shaw and a passenger was Ho: Wwildlife Service | Southbound on her last trip to Southeast Alaska until next June, the Canadian National steamer | Prince Rupert, Capt. M. McLean and | Purser Norman McLean, docked in | Juneau from Skagway at 12:45 | o'clock Sunday merning and sailed at 2 o'clock for Seattle with 31 pas- sengers from Juneau. | Passengers sailing were Bill Ram- sey, Joseph E. Boyce, Russell Dahl- berg, Alvert Collopy, Glen Carl, Richard Baxter, George Murray, Mr. land Mrs. Ernest Stewart, Marion Brown, Mr, and Mrs. W. J, Trwin | and two children, Roy Erwin, Joan | Erwin; Charles Vetter, Alice Cough- lin, Marie Stoner, Ullie A. Artis, | | | | son, Ellis Ketcher, Steve Chcha.: Katherine Kuh, Leslie Melvin, W. J. Coughlin, W. J. Irvin, Jr, and | T. E. Thompson. S L e @ LAY | HOSPITAL NOTES | Otto Pfieffer, who broke his arm during the Labor Day festivities, was dismissed today from St.Ann’s| Hospital. | — | Mrs. Irene Williamson, who has 'been a medical patient at St. Ann’s| Hospital, was dismissed yesterday. | | —_ | Lenore Anderson was dismissed | today from St. Ann's Hospital fol- lowing medical treatment. Mrs. Harley J. Turner was ad- mitted to St. Ann’s Hospital last |evening to receive medical atten- | tion., | Frank Willard entered St. Ann's | Hospital last night as a medical patient Jorgen Mortenson was admitted yesterday for medical treatment to :sr. Ann’s Hospital. | Frank Kerr was admitted today | ito St. Ann's Hospital for medical | attention, | | Pete Dalgard was discharged from |8t. Ann's Hospital this morning following medical treatment. Alice Reese was admitted to the Government Hospital yesterday for | ! medical attention. Elmer Adams, a surgical patient| the Government Hospital, was | sterday. W S R ON NORTH SEA | ’.AL dismissed ¥y Insurance man William H. Jen- sen and wife sailed to Sitka on the North Sea yesterday for a short business trip. R BYINGTON LEAVE After spending the summer here| | highway truckers who protest | tolls” had + business, |for no great dislocation because it y Toll Waterfront, Porta Costa Dispute Will ! > | Fraser of Douglas, and her husband 'is employed in the First National Go fo Court PORT COSTA, Cal, Sept. 2 two fish reduction plants, a large Interior 0.K."ed G 3 Three men are missing and fire- son highway to go to the courtsi Qwners of the various plants de- George Folta, attorney-at-lar:e| il e . noon that a stipulation drawn upIaku salls | been approved by the | ment of Justice. e ‘ of the case in the District Court|tion Company sailed for Seattle that the losing side will immedi- Edna D. Zentner and Mrs. James Notice of the approval of thel e R case may be filed in the Interior | Women’s clothing store in Sitk: {was formerly with the Vogue Shop Um | turned to Juneau on the Columbia |Mack is the former Miss Jessie Going Info Effect AIl |2 "= Fire Swepl —_— — | S'IDMG'IOD In CBse O'IF'lflmes swept the waterfront of the TflKkefS Vs Dep' of | industrial area today and destroyed . wholesale warehouse, waling ship equipment and general supplies. | Official approval for the high-|pmen are searching the smoulder- way toll dispute on the Richard- jne ruins. for settlement was received in a|groyed estimate the loss at $1- wire here today. 1500,000. for the Department of the Interior | in Alaska, was notified this after-| between him and the attorney for | the | F h solicitor for the Department of| or Sou' | the Interior and by the Depart- The approval of the case tleais| Bound for the south, ?h_"‘ stem.x“ T the road for the immediate filing|Taku of the Alaska Transporta-| at Fairbanks, after which a trinl|[Sunday evening with three pas- date will be set. It is understood | Sensers for’ Juncau ately appeal the case, carrying it Larson were books:d for ?muln and to the U. S. Supreme Court. Lester Senst for Ketchikan. stipulation was also wired to the| TO OPEN STORE AT SITKA Fairbanks district attorney, so the| Bound for the opening of her city within the next few days. | Mrs. L. Rienke left Juneau on the & AF - : |North Eea yesterday. Mrs. Rienke TIME PAYMENIS. " i % ' TED MACKS BACK lms | Mr. and Mrs. Ted Mack S‘I'AR““G IODA |during the weekend following a 4 N {month’s trip in the States. Mrs. e APPLEBAUM HERE | Sam Applebaum, well known pio- | neer from the Iditarod country, re- WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. — Am-| turned to Alaska on the northbound erica’s stores and banks opened to- | Columbia Sunday bound for the day for the first real day of busi-|Interior by plane from Juncau to ness under Government rules re- | visit his old home. stricting easy time payments. | ol i The Federal Board's installment | HOLLANDS RETURN and credit regulations went into! €. B. Holland, Mrs. Holland and offect yesterday but the Labor Day | $OR Dale returned to Juneau aboard holiday delayed the full effect of {he Columbia. Mr. Holland went the order until today. south about two weeks ago but Mrs. How much the rules will curtail| Holland and son spent the summer . A in the States. no one in sthmgmn’ T guesses, however, the Federal Re-| ON NORTH serve officials indicated theylooked! wng P G. Hanford, mother of Brooks Hanford, visited her son for several hours yesterday while the 1 North Sea was in port. Mrs. Han- MRS. ROEHM RETURNS |ford ‘was a round trip passenger from Wrarigell. B BEATTY ARRIVES is believed the regulations are mild. | i BSOS | Mrs. J. C. Roehm and two chil- dren, wife of the associate mining | § engineer in the Territorial Commis- | Willard W. Bealty of the Indien sioner of Mines office here, returned | Office in Washington, D. C. ar- with his brother, Glenn Byingwn‘ !sailed south on the North Sea yes- |terday to attend the winter ses- to Juneau Saturday evening on the rived here over the week end and Columbia after several weeks of is staying at the Baranof Hotel. visiting with friends and relatives - in the States. ! Try a classined aa m rne Empire sions of college. “(EE HEE - THERE WRS SOMETHING N T NOU MMGHWT LIKE <O WeNE “(EE WEE / WHRL: BusT MAK CRACKY BRITCHES Y WHNT NE SBN S0 QFORE NE FLUNG W OER T FENCE? attended military school in France. 4, FRANCO AND PETAIN discussed the Med- iterranean at Montpellier, France, in February. s a teacher of Franco, when latter 5. ROOSEVELT AND €HURCHILL conferred aboard naval ves- sels in the Atlantic. They discussed “the whole problem of the supply of munitions” and came up with an 8-point program of war aims for the world’s two greatest democracies. Yellow (ab j "Walks Off" ‘ In Early MoLn ‘ It a of axi, taxi, | who's got our cab?” this morning| grades first to fourth inclusive arelnere Saturday evening at the Fleek transferred to the Juneau Govern-| home by a group of their young ment School. friends. — R RN i The same evening a surprise party was given by the classmates of Clayten Fleek at his home in cel- ebration of his birthday. — e — BREAKS ARM Otto Pfeiffer, Jr., had the misfor- tune yesterday to break his arm just above the elbow in a fall from e Finn horse which he was riding GUERIN HOME J. R. Guerin returned home on ag city police and Dan Ralsm”"whuz taking part in the Labor Day Alaska highway patrolman, searched sports, The 13-year-old boy was diligently for a lost Yellow Cab. |jeported resting comportably this The cab was reported missing this | morning at St. Ann’s Hospital. mgming by Ed Ramsey, night| e driver for the company. Ramsey de- | clared he had parked the machine| front of the taxi stand at Sou!.h' Franklin Street about 4 am. and| that he hadl looked out of the . . window of the stand again abou[‘f}]:ild;;cnr;r;";siwi:‘e{gero;:“f:wo?[’:;: 6:20 am. and found that the bR e P et whie had, Reen, driyen BV, | the Baranof was in port. They are Police searched high and 10W, enroute to their home in Anchor- in the city and out the highway, age. for the machine. Then, about noon, somecne reported an abandoned | cab on Gastineau Avenue, Inspec- tion proved the car to be the lost cab, undamaged. This & oon, the mystery of disappearance was still unexplainéd S STOCK QUOTATIONS | 2 June ENROUTE TO ANCHORAGE Returning from a couple of months visit south Mrs. Carl John- son accompanied by = her three (P SR S BACK TO ATTLE After a ten-day visit with their father, Emil Uberti, Albert and Yolanda Uberti sailed for their home in Seattle aboard the North Sea last night. Arriving on the Baranof early this merning was Mrs. Calvin Pool who spent the past two months visiting in Seattle and Spokane. e, BIRTHDAY AND FAREWELL Complimentary to Robert Fleek its NEW YORK, Sept. quotation of Alaska Clesing | u mine| stock after the holiday ard on the|and Glen Kronquist who are leav- | September is|ing soon to continue their educa- Anacenda | tion in the states, the former at a 28%, Bethlehem Stesl 70, - | trades school in San Francisco and wealth and Southern /16, Curtis|the other in a Tacoma business Wright 9%, International Harvaster|school, a farewell party was given cpening session for 4%, American Can 827%, the M. S. Dart yesterday after a season as watchman at Taku Har- bor cannery. el HOME FROM CRUISE Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bach and two sons Curtis and Rodney arrived home yesterday from a two weeks’ cruise in their own boat. They | visited many bays and inlets wc- tween here and Petersburg. KINDERGARTEN ASSURED At a meeting of mothers of kinder- garten school age children held here last Friday, seven expressed | their willingness to contribute a fsmau monthly sum toward financ- |ing a kindergarten department in |school this year. With the sum of $180 to be advanced by the city a 51/2 months term is assured. Prespective attendants so far are | Donald Niemi, Dean Johnson, Bob- by Johnson, Dickie Roach, Connie Valison, Norman Wood and Louis Pusich. AR S A FIFTH BIRTHDAY Dean Royal Johnson’s fifth birth- day occasioned a happy party for him and his playmates at the fam- ily home yesterday afternoon. Games and refreshments delighted the youngsters. By BILLY DeBECK \E DECEWW FEMALE~ TAAR'S NUFEW! N \T, 010N 55%, Kennecott 38%, N | Nev \'Ol'k‘y Central 12%, Northern Pacific ’ | United States Steel 58'i. t it | DOW, JONES AVERAGES | The following are today's Dow,| | Jones averages: industrials 128.31, rails 30.17, utilities 18.80, i | i gt 1 re-| RETURNING FROM ATES | Esther Johnstone will arrive on | the northbound Princess Louise to- | day after spending three months j"i | Colorado on a vacation trip. | —————— DOUGLAS NEWS NORTH SEA CLEANS UP | ON CANNERY SHIPMENTS | Final shipment oi the Douglas | Fisheries Co. pack for this season | consisting of 5,000 cases was taken {aboard here by the North Sea last night. While the ship was in port ;mgnv of her roundtrip passengers |enjoyed several hours visit on the Tsland. | Eailing south on the ship was Mrs. Glen Edwards enroute to visit her| {grand - parents in Mount Vernon, EWasn., for a couple of months. ! ——————— | GOVT. £CHOOL TERM STARTS HERE TODAY The 1941-42 term in the Govern- |ment school here began this morn- |ing with the school bus running on schedule to accomodate Juneau |children for grades from Fifth to Eighth inclusive that are taught| here. Attendance for those grades Is approximately forty; Two teach- ers, Mrs. James Hopgood and Mrs, Roy Roach, are in charge. | Douglas native children going to “THERE \S, NoU NENGWTY BoN W TELEPHONE NWINBER \S ON THE WEATHER (By the U. S. W.ather Bureau) U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COM VIERCE, WEATHER BUREAU FORECASTS: Juneau and vicinity: Increasirg cloudiness and warmer tonight, occasional light rain Wednesday; lowest temperature tonight about 50 degrees, highest Wednesday 69 degrees; light to gentle variable winds. Southeast Alaska: Increasing cloudiness and warmer tonight, oc- casional light rain Wednesday; g2ntle to moderate variable winds, be- coming southeasterly by Wednesday. Wind and weather along the Gulf of Alaska tonight and Wednes- day: Dixon Entrance to Cape Spencer: Increasing southeasterly winds tonight, becoming moderate to fre h Wednesday, increasing cloudi- ness with rain by Wednesday; Caje Spencer to Cape Hinchinbrook: moderate easterly becoming modera’e to fresh easterly winds by Wad- nesday, increasing cloudiness with local rain by Wednesday; Capc Hinchinbrook to Resurrection Bay: moderate northeasterly winds, part- ly cloudy; Resurrection Bay to Kodiak: moderate northeasterly winds, becoming northerly wind Wadnesday, showers. LOCAL DATA Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity 62 35 s 3 45 94 Calm 58 60 El _ RADIO REPORTS Weather Clear Clear Pt. Cldy Time 1 4:30 p.m, yesterday 2091 4:30 a.m. today .. 29.89 Noon today ... 29.74 0 3 TODAY Lovest 4:30a.m. Precip. texp. tempt. 24 hours 217 4:30 a.m. Weather Fog Fog Pt. Cldy Clear Pt. Cldy Pt. Cldy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Max. tempt. Station Barrow Fairbanks Nome Dawson Anchorage . Bethel .. St. Paul Atka . ... Wosnesenski . Cordova Juneau Ketchikan Prince Rupert .. Prince George .. Edmonton Seattle Portland 3 San Francisco .. 28 0 40 11 49 91 30 0 46 [ 49 12 50 21 46 0 52 Ly L 40 47 30 46 49 48 Cloudv Drizzle Pt. Cldy Cloudy 54 61 WEATHEK SYNOPSIS Clear or partly cloudy skies prevalled over Alaska this morning Rain had fallen during the past 24 hours at some points over the Tanana Valley and from the Aleutian Islands to the Kuskokwim Valley and the Seward Peninsula. The greatest amount of rain- fall was 91 hundredths of an inch which was recorded at Nome. The warmest temperature yesterday afternoon was 65 degrees, 1:- ported at Fairbanks, and the lowast last ‘night 27 degrees at Bar ~ow. Clear to scattered cloud; with geod visibilittes prevail over q,he Juneau-Kétchikan airway this morning. . The Tuesday morning weather chart indicated a center of low pressure Of 29.61 inches was located _at 53 degrees north and 152 degrees west and was expected to move astward into the eastern portion of the Gulf ef Alaska by Wednesday. A second center was was located over Western Washington and a third low center was located to the northwest of the Bering Sea. A high pressure center of 3035 inches was located at 38 degrees north and 148 degrees west with a high crest extending nertheastward toward Southeast Al- aska. cGomcoccoceceo Juneau, September 3—Sunrise 5:59 a.n., sunset 7:5¢ p.m,