The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 25, 1941, Page 2

7 type A wonderful pun rayons, rayon crepes, on your shopping list. RIS Q(/-?[/’h fiRMY pi _“NES WRECKED BY GM, CLAIMS Senator Tobey Cha:gusMo- tion Pictures Granted Free Use of Ships WASHINGTON, jor Charles W. Tobev of New Hampshire, a member oi Lhe com- mittee investigating the tion laid before that picture industry, oday the Senate committee charges the motion picture compu::ie: n granted the free use of Army onnel, bomk and equipment. In one instance. Scunator Tobey during the making of a “West Point of th2 y Metro-Golc -Mayer, the company “deliherately wrecked six or more planes to make the picture mo? e. Robert Rubin, company’s counsel, arcse to sav “we produced the picture but we didn't wreck any planes.” Tobey said he reccived his in- formation from Aul Brair, the former Secrctary of the Screen Ac- tors’ Guild. ——— Bergs Surpiised On Silver Anniversary | On the oc on of their silver wedding anniversary, Mr. and Mrs | aff Hans Berg were surprised by a number of their friends who gath- ered in the Berg home on C Street Tuesday night. The couple wae married in Douglas on September 23, 1916, and has lived i1 viein- | " BARNLY GOOCLE AND Y7 ON THE y . r-Bright T ) WD IMPROMPT Fall's glorified version of dresses to wear : ay house dr with W earable. The typ shop in and groomed for all informal \ L ,10 D ®Pln ® Checks ® Dots ® Florals Sizes 9 —17 12 —20 142—2415 —A41 Colorful as ar wind. Zippe runts, selec SEPTEMBER & o ) I'U FROCK on of charmin i day long. Your new styling, re beauty, but ever 1e type you love Tnine. v @ Scrolls ® Siripes ® Prints ® Solid Colors Taku | A pereale. Gen. John J. Pershing America’s World War commander, Gen. John J. Pershing, is pictured as lie celebrated his 8lst birthday in Washington, D. C. In a message to | cn Sunda; the ariy he declared, “There is no | nation in the world whose citizenry ords better soldiers than the United States.” PPON TROOPS ADVANCETOWARD | ity of Gastineau C then The surpr nged | ofeled o by Mr g, Mrs. John Satre rs. Oscar Oberg, and, o€ ot the evening was spent enjoying an|@ “devastating” { impromptu entertainment, ese capital of Al R I the Japanesc The USS. Silvers ;round subm to be bn u mite K new defense program, i A G- > - —— o Chiang BUY DEFENSE STAMI St SNIFFY - (00 BEKING NOW - MAR T &y BRE YOU AN OF STEALNG. 46 EROM TUE CASH 7%y OF THE JOOK © ey 2 WGEHT F la | P [ | It fe ranger |of the Forest Service, and Charles Ferward, pft Juneau on the fternocn ‘ forest plot at Pecint Amner. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE THURSDA\ SEPT 25, 1941. Need for New Highways Is é«?e eal@d CARDS LOSE BY HOMER IN 6TH INNING PITTSBURGH, Pa Sept. TOMEASURE TREES AT POINT AMNER Virgil Heath, assistant = forest of the Admiralty Division administrative assistant, Forester this to measure a sample The Forester wll also put in at ort Snettisham, where a crew is at work building a trail on thelgebate in which his brother, Judge titions, Shuck river, The Point Amner plot is one of many sample forestry plots through- at Southeast Alaska, measured by |the Forest Service every five years to study the growth and survival of ees in national forest areas, for rest management plans may be made cn a scientific basis. | R D, | thereafte ‘\lup contest at Chillicothe Business | CHINESE CAPITAL ;" ™ > —. gt end their son, Leroy, Jr., The Forester expects to return GET THE POINT: CHILLICOTHE, Mo, Sept. 25.— obert Newcomer of Lemmon, S. swallowed a pen point, Shortly he entered a penman- l\TlNGl‘ONa GO ON NORTH COAST Mr. and Mrs. Huntingtorr| are pass- Leroy engers on the North Coast which left Juneau this morning for- the suth. T SWOW, GEN'R\\.- 1) SUSPRISED e WHLLD EVEN They are on their way to Angeles after a visit with Mrs. tingten’s mother, Mrs, Charles I NE S\CH & € QUESTION LTS DOWNRIGHT 9\\&\2«\\\\2&“(\\‘ 25— Elbie Fletcher's. sixth-inning home | run with a mate on base gave the | Pirates a 3 to 1 decision over the Cardinals. Max Butcher bested Ernie | White and Lon Warneke in a pitch- ing duel. 'HEATH, FORWARD sh., s are provided pictured above might weil hwest maneuavers, Three lines of traffic headed one way on a two-lane highway bitween when the soldiers were “returning from the war.” Observers pointed out that unl to meet the needs of national defense, serious traffi jams suck occur, This pholn was, laken at the close of the spectacular Pacific BISHOP OF METHODISTS PASSES ON One of Nation's Best Known Clergymen, W.A. Candler, Dies, Aflanfa | ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 25—Bi Warren -Akin Candler, 84, el Methodist Church leader for more than half a century and one of the Naticn’s best known clergymen, died here today. Licensed to preach when only 17/ years old, a few months after his conversion, Warren Akin Candler spent more than half a century in the service of the Methodist Epis- copal Church, South. More than s new highway as 1 N ene } Nans Eat as Vltebek Burns \ ! skirts of the Russian cily of Vitebsk '{)]::x’](g’p years of that time he was| .. yehing them, the conguered community is destroyed by fi As a circuit rider, elder, edft author, college president and In Educ al Field versity chancellor, he touchad e To these notak ohase of the life of his denomina- religion and p tion and was its senior bishop. dler ad | Born of the distinguished Candler | family at Villa Ricn, Ga., on August 23, 187, his impressionable ggars *| uni- ed disting 1 field. He s alma n he wa, were passed during the chaotic days r.d linquished at post of the civil war, Sherman’s march| pe ywag clected bishop in W 25. — Ma- to the sea and the difficult re6on- o) many vears thereafter 1 of the Ad struction period. They had a life- ;0 i 1614, he was cha General's Department, has {long effect. ot b L A Sy en ordered to Fort b dnititution atter 3t bes n ordered o Forf Defeats Unification b LBt Richardson, at Ar . Alaska.| ory University. An uncompromising Bishop Candler ag giatz athletics def |attempts to bring He was largely responsible for the defeat in 1925 of the proposed unification of the northern .and southern branches of the Methodist church, throwing the full weigh of his mental attainments and. the Pelitive relations prestige he had gained by long|scuthern schools service against the proposal and Its students we holding his ground ainst ated int nume intoc othe sports.' en- Jap Defense Chief hip in majo allowed in a notable gage only in minor to th(N‘ in w John S. Candler, led the forces in| no favor of unification. Dodges Politics | Bishop Candler came into na-| tional prominence again in 1928 when he refused to take part in| | the presidential campaign of that: Asa G. Candlel fortune from Coz -Cola, year despite the wide-spread Pro-| In 1877 he married | testant opposition to the Demo-|Curtright of A(rlul)‘? b} {cratic candidate, Gov. Al Smith of |daughter and four sons were )mxn New York. For justification of his|to them, but two of the sons dicd | stand he went back to his boy-|in youth. hood days and quoted from an address made by Southern Metho- |dist bishops to ministers and lay- | able caleb men in 1865. honor. Their g “Know your high calling.PreachiauLumob:leA The Christ and Him crucified. Do not| Mrs. Candler c ted their 50th preach politics,” said. that address. wedding annive | “You have no commission: to —————— | preach politics. The divinity of the| Gasoline consumption rises uml‘ church is never more strikingly: falls regularly with t} played than when it holds its !?er-,During the winter, average straightforward way in the n;dst.?ly consumption Bishop Car lin 1927 was the c r's -70th birtk sion of a friends in as a luxurious me year he and | &} nationally of worldly commotions.” 500,000,000 gallons; in the fall i “Offering no criticism of othts,” | averages 1800000000 and rises ! Gen. Otozo Yamada said Bishop Candler, “I pr_cpou to|above 2,000,000,000 in spring a Named eommander-ih-chisf . of abide unfalteringly by this prin-|summer months. Japan’s new National Defense ciple, discharging conscientiobsfy, = = —— — Headquarters, Gen. Otozo Yamada my. duties as a citizen and jl-| Dnepropetrowsk, Russia, ill control all defense activities in ling with fidelity my commission|from a city of 188,000 ir sland kingdom and its posses- Slux.a He is a member of the Japa- nesg,general staff, By BILLY DeBECK BY JEEPERS ' WHEN T REFLECK ON 77 TEW BLBZIN HOT DS T WAL DIGAW' POST HOLES B THEN MERCAW BRCK AN FOTH WE 2 BUNNERT POUND PRCK T SWOW ¥ TS LEETLE OL JAIL HOUSE SEEMS \AK VETT\BLE PRARADIZE Jin 1926, to 500,000 in 1939, as a minister of Jesus Christ.” | Southeast Alaska to the Alaska R3inge, | Aleutian Islands. THE WEATHER (Dy U. 8. Weather Bureau) U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU FORECASTS: Juneau and vicinity: Rain tonght and Friday; not much chan: in temperature; lowest temperatu-e tonight about 48 degrees, high- est Friday 52 degrees; moderate southeasterly winds, increasing to moderate to fresh Friday morning. Scutheast Alaska: Rain tonigh: and Friday; little change intem- perature; moderate to fresh southasterly winds except fresh strong in Chatham Strait and Lyan Canal Friday. Wind and weather along the Gulf of Alaska tonight and Friday: Dixon Entrance to Cape Spencer: fresh to strong . southeasterly winds, rain; .Cape Spencer to Caje Hinchinbrook: fresh to strong easterly to southeasterly winds, rain; Cape Hinchinbrook to Res- urrection Bay: fresh to strong easterly to northeasterly winds, rain; Resurrection Bay to Kodiak: fresh to strong northeasterly winds, becoming northwesterly to westerly by Friday night, rain. LOCAL DATA to Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity =~ Weather 4:30 p.m. yesterday 29.84 49 98 SSE 9 Rain 4:30 am. today .. 29.69 50 100 SSE y Rain Noon today 29.65 50 100 s 4 Drizzle ' RADIO REPORTS TODAY Max. tempt. lov'est 4:30a.m. Precip. 4:30am. Station Ilast24hours | temp.. tempt. 24hours Weather Barrow . 81 30 130 0 Clear Fairbanks 517 48 48 0 Pt. Cldy Lawson e 48 28 29 0 Clear Anchorage . 61 a7 41 04 Bethel . 55 41 41 A7 St. Paul 46 43 44 1.10 Dutch Harbor .. 52 49 49 24 Kanatak: ....... 55 45 45 10 Cordova 50 50 50 .38 Overcast Juneau 52 19 50 92 Rain Sitka 57 51 121 Ketchikan 58 53 54 81 Drizzle Prince Rupert .. 59 52 55 pti Overcast Prince George .. 63 40 43 0 Overcast Seattle 2 49 51 [ Fog Portland 80 52 54 0 Fog San Francisco .. 67 55 56 0 Pt. Cldy y WEATHMER SYNOPSIS Due to the influence of a storm frontal trough which was moving northward and northeastward over the central portion of Alaska this morning, rain had fallen during’the past 24 hours from the Bering Sea, and the Clear or partly cloudy skies prevailed over the upper Yukon Valley and over the north portion of Alaska. The greatest amount of rainfall was 110 inches which was recorded at St. Paul Island. The highest temperature yesterday . afterno was 61 degrees at Anchorage, anl the lowest last night was 24 degrees at Point Lay. Overcast with light rain, low ceuings au. visibility, prevailed over the Jineau-Ketchikan airway this morning. The Wednesday morning weather map indicated a deep low cen- ter of about 20.20 inches was locat®d in. the Bering Sea ncar Nuni- vak Island with the storm fronta! trough extending northeastward to near Fairbanks, thence southeastward through Southeast Alaska near Juneau, thence southwestward into a second low center of about 2950 inches which is forming and deepening near 50 degrees north 148 degrees west. This second loW center is ekpected to movc northward about 500 miles during the next 24 hours, causing strong winds in the Gulf of Alaska and rain over Southeast and South | prevented the dropping of a, $31,000 |ing of the signal corps transmitters, | Iived at Dimond's office, after the | |real afd ern Alaska. A high center of ab’ut 30.30 inches was located at 56 degrees north, 146 degrees west. Juneau, September 26 — sum-ise 6:50 a.m, sunset 6:48 p.m. SAVES SIGNAL com- $31,000BUDGET ITEM Money May Be Appro-,3 priated Next Year fo | Move Transmifters A timely letter sent bo the offlce‘ of Alaska’s Delegate in Congress,, | Anthony J. Dimond, by the Juneau Chamber -of Commerce, probably Suburlbe for The Empme EXCELLENT WINES SINCE THE ! appropriation from the 1943 budget| of the signal corps of the U, S. Army, it was revealed at the moon meeting of the chamber. | The letter concerned.the possi- bility of moving signal corps trans- mitters out the highway, to improve xadlo reception in Juneau, The' |'$31,000 appropriation, ‘to. be avail- able after the end of July, 1942, is meant to take care of this work., | According to Attorney Norman Banfield, chairman of, the chamber committee mvestigating . the n_wv-i the letter frcm the chamber ar-| delegate had left for . Alaska. |It | was taken up by Dtmm; secre- | |tary, who immediately . referred it to signal corps officers in Washing- ton, D. C.. At the time, the $31,000 apprqpmuon to- do the work :here had, been dropped trom the budget, but mather hearing.on the subject was held, at which time the letter from the Juneau businessmen was arried considerable weighit in having the appropriation | { replaced in the budget, according to! word received by Banfield. . * ¥ Banfield declared that the signal| corps operations in Alaska, handl- | ing private as well as _Bovernment business, is taking in . money. than it costs to. operate the mstem. “They’re actually making money,” he said, “so when they make these improvements, they're. doing it with {§ profits €rom the money we spend.| with 'them.” It was re] d by the I publicity oommmlctbe of the w that Fergus Hommm Empire 1". porter, has been employed for a three-morith perrod to handle local publicity relengs ———e WYCKOFF GOES TO SITKA J. M. Wyckoff, chief forest ranger of the Forest Service, left here on | the North Coast today for Sitka, where he will inspect timber sale usiness on the island and check timber scaling. He expects to re- ‘urn in about a week. GASTINEAU Al Servee Information | PHONE 10 0r20 - m HIGH LIVING Beleslitic Americas. 1880 Smce ‘the “Elegant Eight- es” the name Italian Swiss Gnluly has meant Califor- nia wines at their finest. Every bottle of wine from this ‘historic winery bears that name on the label. It’s a small thing to look for— butia big thing to find. For | it -marks without fail, a . wine of fine body . . . rare muflt « . and unforget- flavor. A wine to serve proudly . . . as its % lfltf year tradition of ex- cellence deserves. ITALIAX | SWISS COLONY A delicious sweet wm: to serve with dmeln or between meal Alcohol, 20% by volume, Also: Other sweet dry warieties of California wines, in fifths or i ltfififl N Swiss coLony # BAN PRANCISCO PRy iRy =% L