The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 12, 1941, Page 2

ne RAF BOMBE! STRIKE NALZIS I WEB.’_ German Convoy Aftacked Off Duich Coast- Larae Ship Fired Passi Securable Workers Warned Territor- there are cind available on ke-Puget Sound Con- wpany projects there, emp Joseph of the service, th acilit at Kodia 1 persons and uoct k ailable steamer ntil Octob 9. The Kcdiak jobs will be unavail- | ble until further notice, according ) a gram received from Flak- ne’s Kodiak branch manager, A. A, Owen, Jr. There is no other work s island, Owen added . seven passengers for Kod- ho sailed aboard the Alaska Steamship Company steamer Yu- kon fiom Seattle Wednesday will' be ¢ way ports that jobs| tent, Flakre said. e rvice pass- Anniversary Dinner Reserve'ions Close Rnights of Col- h have been RUSHED Work Pushed on Strategic Ivory Coast Base for France ements assisted ial musical e rranged for enicrtainn CARA NOME™ PERFUME Enchanting as a dream come true, this rare French bouquet fra- grance is distinctive and the world.” allyring Sl With the base of Dakar, in the g 1Y 1 ench € 1. it will bracket Wwhere. 7 il sort of P l‘°‘4 it! AT . orous wom enevery- """1“"‘ Butler-Mauro Drug Co. The Rexall Store VICHY, Sept announced todaj rushed to transform Abidjan, Africa’s Ivory Coast, into “one of the r secure natural harbors in 12. — The French s that work is being ercd lageor channel is beir I il | BUY I T L i ELECTRIC RANGE s A NS D THE SWING IS 70 R ALL THE ADVANTAGES OF ELECTRIC COGKERY At a new lower ¢ost you can now enjoy the cleanliness, cool kitchen comfort, the speed and economy, and the better results of modern electric cookery. All these are yourswiththenew GENERALELECTRIC-plus added advantages no other range can offer. TEL-A-COOK LIGHTS IN COLOR. Tell you in- stantly when and where the current ison. SELECT-A-HEAT CALROD COOKING UNITS. Five cooking heats—from super-speed to simmer. NU-FLEX TRIPL-OVEN. 3 ovens in onel Oven. Extra large Mastet Oven. Super Broiler. Five heat applications. sIA ELECTRIC LIGHT WER COMPANY ALES and SERVICE PHONE 616 F& Neither Relief No Perurn: | siak are there | on | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPth FRIDAY, SEPT 12, I94I BANQUETTO , HONOR 1941 ~ BALL TEAMS Players Will € Gel Prizes ah Traditional Affair This Evening ,‘ T, 1 In a parting gesture to one of the| best diamond seasons the Gastineau nnel Baseball League has seen, players, officials and record keepers will be feted this evening at the annual banquet tendered by the | Juneau Volunteer Fire Department. | The traditional season's-end cele- bration, slated for 6:30 o'clock at Percy’s Cafe, will be highlighted by 1tho awarding of prizes for the out- |standing plays, both good and bad which the Elks, Moose and Doug teams staged during the season.| Honor guests, of course, will be ‘()u champion Moose nine, which | walloped the Islanders in the seven- | |th game of the Little World Series. ‘ These To Be Chosen | To be chosen at the banquet are |the most popular player, who will |receive ‘a prize from the Alaska| | Electric Light & Power Company; 3 | "the player or players responsible for “the biggest hbonehead play” of the season, who will be awarded a significant picnic ham, donated by the Sanitary Meat Market; lhe tstanding outfielder, a gallon of | wine, Juneau Liquor Store; out-| standing infielder, suit clean and| pressed, Valet Shop; the biggest “crab” in the league, picnic ham“ Alaska Meat Market; player who| spent most time on bench, two cans of beans, 20 Century Grocery; and| | —to the most popular umpire, a free burial guaranteed by Charles| Carter. | Players Awarded Players who will be awarded | prizes for their season’s work in-| clude the following: Jack Schmitz, shortstop with | nost put-outs, quart of whiskey, White Spot Liquer Store; Staniey | Grummett and Hub Sturrock, tied | for greatest number of strikeouts| {at bat, carton of cigarets, Garnick’s Grocery; Claude Erskine, pitcher with most strikeouts to credit, base- ball glove, Juneau-Young Hard- ware; Fritz Schmitz, player with | most errcrs, shave and haircut, | Brownie's Barber Shop. More Awards Red Shaw, most sacrifice hits, jar | f pears, Gastineau Grocery; Joe! now, best batting average, Schaef- | r pen, Ludwig Nelson; Schmitz, nd baseman with most putouts, of beer, Brunswick Bowling | Grummett, catcher with| ists, case of canned goods,| Wes, Greeery; Hallie Rice, best in- | jeld fielding average, framed pic- ure, Snap Shoppe. Joe Guy, fifth best hitter, dozen pencils, J. B. Burford; Snow, Nor- nan Rustad and Grummett, tied| or mest bases on balls, $2.00 mer- ‘handice certificate, Case Lot Gro- ery; Willie Radenberg, most out-| ield errors, $3.00 merchandise cer- tificate, San Francisco Bakery; John Skok, catcher with fewest oassed balls, carton of cigarets, Bill's Parcel Delivery Hem For Jos Joe Snow, most hits, one ham, Jchn Hermle; Andy Andrews, in- ielder with fewest errors, photo 1lbum, Ordway's; J. Steele Culbert- son, man's travel kit, Guy's Drug Store; Mark Jensen and Rustad, ied for third best batting average, ase of beer, Ken Edwards; most outouts, Schaffer pencil, Butlers Mauro Drug Company; Bill Ramsey, Sammy Taguchi, Skok and Rabbitt Illenberg, tied for most three-base 1ts, slab of bacon, 20th Century Meat Market; Fritz Schmitz, most wo-base hits, shirt and tie, Sabin’s. Willey’s Theft Rustad and Jensen, tied for great- >st number of runs scoréd, dress ‘hirt, O. J. Anderson; George Wil- ley, most stolen bases, pair of shoes, H. S. Grdves; Hallie Rice, sest " second base fielding average. :arton of cigarets, New York Tav- ’rn; Ham Kumasaka and Snow, tied ‘or second place in base-stealing, cne bacon, California Grocery; Max Lewis, best shortstop fielding werage, gold stickpin, Paul Bloed- 20rn; Taguchi, best third base field- ng average, carton of cigarets, Tri- ingle Inn; Ernie Stewart, best first ase fielding average, first base mitt, Thomas Hardware. Lefty Smith, pitcher's best field- ‘ng average, framed picture, Winter 1$12382, made out |as Streber was leaving Jack Likins,| | Streber Red lroops Move Into Iran g From Moscow comes this radiophoto showing Russian troops in Iran (formerly Pepsia). The picture was taken in the town of Tavriz, according to the caption. Troops march on one side of the street ‘Spokane Site Is Selected for Ay’ sDepoI 314000 000 Air Corps Plant to Employ Thou- ' sands of Men WASHINGTO: Sept. 12—A site near Spokane has been selected for a $14,000,000 v Air Corps depot, | Scnator Wallgren (D-Wash.) an-| nounced today [ Wallgren said the establishment| |of the depot near Spokane would | provide permanent employment fory between 2,000 and 6,000 men, who| | will service planes from Army bases| | throughout the Pacific Northwest |and Alaska The plant will have eleven acres' shop area. One building will| 750,000 square feet in .area.| and Pacific Northwest | present send all planes major repals to the Air depot av, Sacl'umflmo of cover Alaska bases at din rps l fiED MINEHalibut CHECK BRINGS Receipls ARREST HERE Object of a wild chase thmugh] The records of the International down town streets iast night, will- | Fisheries Commission show that iam Streber, former Alaska Juneau for the period from April 1 fo mine employee, was this afternoon|August 31, 1941, the following arraigned before U. 8, Commis-|amounts of halibut have been land- sioner Felix Gray on a charge of|ed from Areas 2 and 3 in the vari- forgery. jous ports' on the Pacific Coast: Shteber appeared at the men’s| Area 3 c)e'.hmg store of H. 8. Graves last 20,036,685 | night about 6 o'clock and presented| what was apparently an Ala | Juneau mine payroll check to, “Knort and a L:m‘ s along thg other. U. S. Fleet Canadian Fleet f:):'§ Total M. These figures have be Eabe Ito date but are subject Graves cashed the check and just corrections. For the poriod from April 1 to |paymaster at the mine, entered the August 31, 1940, the following land- store, allegedly recognized the check s a forgery and gave chase to the check casher. Likins said he chased | part way up a stm‘rwa_v‘ from South Franklin street to Gas- tineau Avenue, when Streber turn- ed, kicked Likins in the chest and, Total 19,701 made his get-away. | For the month of August, 1941, About 9 p. m. Streber was ar- "the following amounts of halibut rested in front of St. Ann's hospital Were landed: by Police Chief Kenneth Junge. Streber claimed today his mind was blank between the hours of 5 p. m. and 9 p. m. yesterday. The check was made out on a printed payroll c¢heck form, similar to those used in paying off Alaska Juneau miners. Today a search of the room in a local rocming house where Streber lived revealed a typewriter, which was tentatively identified by Assistant District At- torney Lynn Gemmill as the mach- ine on which the name of the fic- titious “Knort M. Faber” had been typed on the check. Gemmill also had in his posses- corrected to further ings were recorded: Area 3 18,791,570 909,687 U. 8 Fle Canadian t Fleet Area 3 5,913,661 882,595 U. S. Fleet Canadian Fleet Total 6,796,256 Landings from the closed Arca for August were restricted > that halibut caught mcxdem:\lly while ning for other species un- der permit and amocunted to 121~ 049 pounds. Acknowledgment is made of the assistance given by the Depart- ment of Fisheries, Canada, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Canadian and United 2 Expenditures this year on new "construction will total about 10 bil- lion dollars, the Department Commerce reports. P SRR BUY DEFENSE BONDS sion this aftercoon an ink pad and tendent, was apparently traced onto 10 BE WED 10 explain: what had happened to the | & | oclock. The wedding will take tine, batted in most runs, case of Mr. and Mrs, Ed Jahnke, and has of shoes, Fred Henning; Joe Guy from employment at Dutch Harbor. Eversharp pencil, Harry Race. .Mll make their home. second most home runs, $5 in trade, of date stamp, which he believed were Of these totals. the ones used in stamping the date - on the forged check. The signatura' the forged check by use of a carbon| paper, Gemmill stated. When arrested, Streber had onjy ! pA'l' RQBI o balance of the money Graves had I him in payment of the check. { Miss Elinor Jahnke will become ‘Warrant for Streber's arrest was the bride of Pat Robinson at a fielder with most putouts, ,gallon place at the home of U. S. Com- of wine, George Brother Roden- missioner Felix Gray in Douglas. serg, outfielder making most errors, Ted Cowling will be best man. oeer, B. F. Kane; Bill Niemi, best lived in Juneau and vicinity for fielding average, gallon of wine, [many years. The bridegroom has Alaska Liquor; Bill Ramsey, pitcher been employed at the Alaska Jun- and Jensen, tied for greatest num-; Following the ceremony, an open ber of games won by pitcher, neck- house reception will be held from tie, Bon Marche; Clancy Converse, |7 c'elock on, in Apartment 5 of the Shavey Koski, pitcher yielding —————— fewest walks, electric razor, Juneau Drug; Rustad, hit most home rums, Alaska Laundry; and Erskine, Kern and J. Schmitz, third most home runs, shaving set, Kann's. States Customs in the compilaticn! wand Harold H. " Bates, 3 DAMAGE SUITS 1 Al $16,000 Three d’tmage suits ste: mmlm from down-town traffic mishaps during the past summer have been filed in Federal Court here with the damages asked in the three ae-| tions totaling $16,118.75, Two of the suits named Keith | Petrich and the “Pacific Alaska Air- ways” as defendant, as the resplt| of an alleged smash-up on August 117 between a truck driven by Pet- rich and a sedan driven by Mary | Stanworth, with Marian Rhodes sl | passenger, | In the action brought by Mary! Stanworth, it was stated the im-| pact of the collision threw her against the steering wheel, causing cuts on her legs and t she will| | develop a serious rupture or hernia condition and will sustain perman-| ent injury. She asked $1500 for injuries and $4,000 for mental an-| guish, or a total of $5,500. ! Head Breaks Windshicid 1 | R | Marian Rhodes, the passenger in at the hig 1dehield mhh e]nss cuts °s. She the Stanworth car, claimed time of the collisicn head against the w enough impact,to break and cause her to suf and bruises on head and stated in the action t still in pain and may manent injury. She of $3,500 in damages. ‘The third case involved on ‘June. 2, ‘when Rok driving a delivery tr Brothers Market, is alleged to have run into Lloyd Capp, as he reached the street on a stairway from Gas- tineau Avenue, down which Alaska Juneau miners travel when coming off shift. Capp claimed Smith was driving {the truck on the wrong side of g5 a total | the street. He stated in his com- | plaint that the truck threw him {20 feet through the air and caused him to break both bones in his |lower right leg, cut his nose and ‘right elbow. Permanent injury to | the leg will result, he alleged. He Jasks a total damage of $8118.75." Two of the cases are being handled by Mildred R. Hermann attorneys, ‘whxle Bates is handling the third case by m*nself | | 5Halibuters | Sell, Seattle SEATTLE, sap& 12 — Halibuters; arriving today, their catches and selling, are ar follows: Frem thé western banks—Estep | 29,000 pounds,. 15% and 14 cents a pcund; Lituya 33,000 pounds, 15% cents straight; Shirley J 27,000 peunds, 15% and 14% cents a pound; Nordic 33,000 pounds 15% and 14% cents. From the local banks—Orbit 3,000 pounds, 15 cents straight. BUY DEFENSE FTAMPS BARNEY u0OGLE AND-SNUFFY SMITH \EAH - E\R ° WNOW SUNMP'Y, NQ OWGHTTR . TP We SRAGN - RENT: - TR SERGERNT i P CLR DONT KNOW WHEN \NE BREAK CANMP - TTHEN) ORDERS kC'N}E DIRECT EROM W GToN AND BINGO W JUST LIKE THeT - \WERE OFF O\D SNUEFY SeN ANNTHING. MARTY 2 NA KNOW WHAT T (ot and Pond; Jack McDaniel, out- DWNG \T AL L BISSEE, GNE ME €\ THat 5000 OF MOW GREEN PERS WONLD BE \N ROOSH N 60 DBNS - S STRICK Té‘d“éF\DENT‘h\. T GENR\L TH \GH of 3. A Williams, mine supmn.‘fimoa J AHNKE $45 in his possession and refused to | signed by Graves. !ceremony tomorrow afternoon at 4 framed picture, Elite Studio; Ers-| Miss Jahnke is the daughter of with best earned-run ayverage, pair|eau mine, and recently returned most often hit by pitched ball, Irwin Apartments, where the couple sport coat, B. M. Behrends; Snow, By BILLY DeBECK GEE - \ou GOSH “THINK oW CO\!\.D T T 0L WQ“LD&T HeFTh Goe \NAAL- TRRT AL =1 ONW GaT f80uT A DOLLAR SIXTY CENTS ON ME - AWWLL THAT Do @ ORAP \T ON TH GROWND AN ALK WG - T DONT t\t TO DINVY P Wi T fiE“RP\b\h-I \€ THE WEATHER (B_; the U. S. Weather Bureau) U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHEB BUREAU FORECASTS: Juneau and vicinity: ing temperatures grees, winds. Saturday, Fair tonight and Saturday; slowly lowest temperature tonight about 47 de- highest Saturday 60 degrees; gentle easterly to northeasterly increas- Southeast Alaska: Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday but scat- tered showers tonight south of Sika and Petersburg; slowly moderate westerly to northwesterly winds ing temperature Saturday; increas- sout_h portion and moderate northerly to northeasterly winds north porticn except moderate to fresh northerly winds in Lynn Canal. Wind and weather along the «iulf of Alaska tonight and Saturday: Dixon Entrance northwesterly Cape Spencer westerly winds, winds, fair; Cape rection Bay to Kodiak: partly cloudy. moderatz to Cape ®pence : partly cloudy, to Cape Hinchinbrook: moderate Hinchinbrook to Resurrection Bay ate to fresh northerly to northeasterly moderate to fresh wester except local showers tonig northerly nmm. mod Resur winds, to to partly cloudy northwesterly winds, northerly to LOCAL DATA Time 4:30 p.n. yesterday 4:30 am. today Noon today 2987 29.70 29.63 67 52 50 Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity ‘Weather Pt. Cldy Rain Overcast 32 % 94 NE Calm s 8 0 5 RADIO REPORTS Max. tempt. last 24 hours | 46 Station Barrow Fairbanks Nome Dawson Anchorage Bethel St. Paul Atka - .. Duteh Harbor Kodiak Cordova Juneau Sitka Ketchikan Prince Rupert Prince George Edmonton Seattle Portland Lowest 4:30a.m. temp. TODAY Precip. 4:30am. 24 hours Weather 08 Snow Clear tempt. 32 32 Overcast Drizzle Rain Pt. Cldy Pt. Cld: R Rain Overcast Pt. Cldy Overcast 56 49 52 55 51 48 46 36 54 57 WEATHER SYNOPSIS Due to the moving southeastward from rain except along the coast influence of a s‘orm near had fallen during the pas line from Yakutat to the Alaska frontal trough which was the Canadian border this morning 24 hours over most of Alaska Penin- sula. Cool, dryer air had penetrated the western and central por- tions of Alaska this morning with partly cloudy skies but rain was falling over of Southeast Alaska and snow was falling at Barrow. the accompanying clear ¢ the northern pertion The greatest amount of rainfall: was 40 hundredihs of an inch which was recorded at. Point Lay. degrees at Ketchikan and the low.st last night 32 degrees Overcast skies with moderat with scattered showers over the ex:reme north portion prevailed the Juneau-Ketchikan airway thi YOW. The highest temp rature yesterday afternoon was 70 at Bar- ceilings and good visibilities and over morning. The Friday morning weather chart indicated relatively low pre sure in the northeastern portion of the Gulf of Alaska with a low frontal trough extending northwarl to a low center Barrow. A high pressure center o of 44 located east 30.55 inches was located at degrees north and 152 degrees wes: and a high crest extended north- ward fo Sea. Juneau, September a second center of 3).27 13 — Sunrise 6:22 a.m., inches located in the Bering sunset 7:25 p.m. VATIVLs CHATER PLANE FOR TRIP Pilot Alex Holden of the Alaska 5 Coastal Airlines made a passenger flight to Sitka this morning, taking E. Skinner, Joe Meherin and Al Shy- man on the outbound trip and re- turning to Juneau with Emmett Connor, T. A. Davies, Pete Swanson and Ernest Monduschied. This afternoon, Bolden flew a charter party of five native fisher- nen to Excursion Inlet and was to return late in the day. Pilot Sheldon Simmons also made an A. C. A. trip to Sitka, taking H. Flori, Marjorie Miller, Tommy Peter and Joe Gluck on the outbound trip. Meanwhile, Dean Goodwin piloted Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wolf to Hood Bay, where Wolf is operator of the Hood Bay Canning Company plant. THAT'S SERVICE, It’s fuln to wake up on wings of the morning—delicious, full- flavored Schilling Coffee! Wlll WINGS OF R l:llllt!-llll' OR PERCOLATOR ing THE MORNING REGISTERED RAINIER RETAILERS