The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 3, 1941, Page 2

Y ) S R AR s Stunning New Dress Fabrics ina colors a see them. ® PRINTED RAYON CREPES ® SPUN BAYONS ® FRENCH CREPES © RAYON FAILE 0 PLAIDS M QUALITY 2 NEW MEMBERS T0 JOIN MOOSE LODGE TONIGHT Two new members will be initiafed into the Moose Lodge tonicht at & c’clock after a short regular business meeting is held by the oiganization. ‘The initiates who will hecome mem- bers of the Loyal Order of Moose are George Hanscu and George Karppi. | Governor Glen Ailen will meet | { with Insured Safety ! EARNINGS| On Savmgs Accounts| | . Aewnnh anrnmem In- sured up to $5,000, ® Money available at any | time. ® start an account with $1 or more, Curren! 4% Raie Alaska Federal Savings and Loan Assn. of Juneay Phone 3 | , with the other officer: at 7:30 o'clock preceding the initia- | tion. 2 Bg of the lodge Tt has been decided by the lodge that members in good standing who are leaving for-service in the Army | will net be required to pay due.s until their return. Several Moose are already preparing to quve for their stalions and these vacan- cics are expected to be rapidly mled y @ new drive which is now well under way. e The membership drive is \mder |the direction of ‘a committee ap- puhn d at the last meeting of.the Moose. Chairman of the committee is Harold Bates, gnd he is being assisted by Michael J. I Ed Rod- ‘rrr- g J Covich, Walter Herm- |ansen, and Hegstad. — e+ —— LOURING ON NORTH SEA { Kua) Louring, uuveling man, is aboard the North Sea bound from Kectchikan to Sitka to call on the merchants. Christmas Cards Made to Order ASK I'( SEE OUF 5 NOTICE!? The NORTH TRANSFER (0. Is Now Owned and Operated By ERNIE and E. 0. DAVIS Same Speedy Phone —; | waves had been piling over one |ing. The waves were so mountain- 'EARTHQUAKES vends Co SINCE /887 | Kake. WolfeNamed Credit Chietof .~ Indian Office Former Srtka School Prin- cipal Will Take Import- ant Post Here A man who has been connected with the Office of Indian Affair in Alaska for the past 14 years was today named chief creditagent | for | ritory. He is. Raymond L. Wolfe, and | will succeed P. J. Fitzsimmons to | the important credit post in th Office of Indian Affairs, according to a wire from Washington, D. C., this morning, confirming his an- pointment. Fitzsimmons was pointed auditor for the Terrl(nnr of Puerto Rico last spring. Wolfe has been principal of lhr' government school in Sitka for the past seven years. Before that hes served as Indian school prin-| |cipal at’Klawock, Metlakatla and | During the past several| months, Wolfe has been helping on detail work: in connection wl']lr the credit division of the Office Indian Affairs here. Hisgheadquar- ters will be at Juneau. | a Specialists Are Wanted The Civil Service Commission has| dhnounced ‘an’ examination fof posi-| tiens ds Specialist in Maternal and Child Heaith. ’ ¢ . | - 'The salaties range from $3,200 to| $5,600. a year’ [Positions in Lhe\ Children’s Bureau, Department of {Labor, will be filled from these ex-| FISH VESSEL ONFIRSTTRIP | DOWNATSE Nordic Prirf of Tacoma, Founders—Fate of Crew | of 10 or 11 Unknown | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Oct! 3~ The Nordic Pride, 71 ton fishing toat, making her maiden voyage out of Tacoma, Wash., sank last night | n the Pacific, 57 miles north west| of Point Arena, leaving unexplained he fate of 10 or 11 nshermanr aboard. The Coast Guard Cutter Ariadne, radioed the San Francisco Head- quarters of ‘the Coast Guard, that| the Nordic Pride, swamped craft,| foundered before a boarding pu’ty| could find out what had happened | to the vanished crew. The Point Arena Coast Guard| Station reported the Nordic Pride in an area where mountainous |uated from a medical 'school another since early yesterday morn- cus, the guard station reported, that one could easily have smashed over the fishing vessel, filling the nelds amd leaving the deck awash. e IN CALIFORNIA EUREKA, Calif, Oct. 3—A strong| quake was felt here and vicinity his afternoon but caused no ap- preciable damage according to 1sre reports received. Emplre Classifieds Pay! FOSH REFIE |fished in or near the mouth of aminations, and vacancies in State| agencies cooperating with thel Chlldrens Bureau'may also be filled | .nt the request of the States. There are three options—ped atries, obstetrics, and Dnhopedxcsr {—for each of which employment | li.!ta will be established for (ad-| ministrative, research, and clinical positions. Applicants must have been grad- | of recogrized ‘standing! with the de-| gree of M. D, and ‘must have! rvéed 1 year of internship."‘In| addition they must have had full- time post-internship clinical train- ing as well as other appropriate xperience in one of the options. | Applications must be filed at the| Commissioner’'s Washington office | not later than December 5, 1941. Full information as to the re- quirements for these examinations| and application forms may be ob-| tained at 311 Federal Building. Brothers Arresied For lllegal Fishing Arrested on a bench warrant is- sued here September 25, John and Gordon Reid were taken from their seine boat, the Neptune, in Pet- ersburg yesterday and charged with violation of Alaska fishing regu- lations, according to a wire ‘te- ceived this morning in the U S. Marshal’s office here. The Reid brothers were freed today umder a $500 bond each. According to the warrant for their arrest, the Reids are charged with fishing violations on two counts. Hosea Sarber, fisheries agent for the Fish and Wildlife Service, declared they were fishing after the closing of the season and were also guilty of having two nets on their boat, a seine and a gillnet. Sarber reported the Neptung the Castle River, in Duncan Canal, on September 3. This afternoon, word was re- ceived here- from Wrangell that 0O..C. Harris ‘and S. N. Wyatt, also fishermen, were taken from their boat on a similar bench warrant from Juneau, also charged with fishing regulation violations. These two men were also released on $500 bonds each. ——e— Dale Drulinger, a' former well- known basketball player of Ju- neau, is aboard the North Sea from Seattle for Sitka. B Harold DeRoux, wellknown young Gastineau .. Channel - boy, returned home aboard the North Sea today .‘x}erm a.trip. louth the Indian bureau in the Ter- | VISIT THE NANCE 5 - 10 - 224 FRONT THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, OCT. 3, 1941. NORIH SEA TAKES| CITY COUNCILMAN; 'BREAKS UP QUORUM | A | council - to night was portance tc, a routine llw city finance - committee the North Sea leaves this after- noon scheduled meumv of the city reduced in im- meeting tation Nortiland Transpor Company steamer tock Councilman | of | when | Religious Issue Taken Up, Russia 'President Seeking Inform- ation on Freedom of Harry Lee south on vacation, thus I reducing thé number of 'voting WOrSh'p fOI’ PEOD e council mem®ers on hand in the| ity to less than a’ quorum of the WASHH\G]")N ch 3.—Presi- ccuncil. With Leé gone, Council-|gent Roosevelt disclosed today he man Ernest Parsons in Sitka ‘on|has instructed Averill Harriman, husiness, and Councilman Henry head of the American mission in Messerschmidt now acting mayor in |Russia, to take up with Russia the the absence of Harry I. Lucas, and ! question of religious freedom in Rus- unable to vote as a council member, the city fathers found themselves | this afternoon with' only threée council votes in the city, where| four are needed to tr act city business. e e - TOKYO GRIPED BECAUSE REDS GETTING OIL TOKYO, Oct. 3.—The Japanese | unsuccessful themselves o ing a greater share of the ri 1esources of the Netl 1s E Indies, todey expre terms their resentment of the col- |onial government shipping oil and rubber to Russia Koh Ishii, cabinet bureau spokesman, told fc | press representati 1at his ernment would regard a of an “unfriendly attitud scale exports of such vital war ma- terials from the Indies to Russ inasmuch as the Japanese t with the Indies is at a virtua standstill. — e 8 Naturalized In Quarterly informa ives tr Court Session foreign-born persons United States citi: in Federal Eight ceived their ship today re- izen- | District | sia. The President told the newsmen at today's conference that he ‘had previously taken the subject up with the Russian Government, leaving the impression this had been done through Ambassador Steinhardt. The President said he had re- |ceived no report from Harriman and could not say anything as to whether the overtures had resulted in some success. et —— Governmem IsChanged, Australia Fadden’s Cabinet Resigns| -Labor Leader Form- ! ing New One CANBERRA, Australia, Oct. 3— Labor Leader John Curtin has dac- . cepted the commission from the: » | new Australian Government to form 2 new cabinet. The acceptance was made after Prime Minister Fadden tendered the Cabinet’s resignation following defeat of a motion, regarded by the | Government, &s one that should be for confidence in the Govzin- ment. | Curtin said the Labor Govern- | ment will carry on the war whole- { beartedly. | e Chinese Army Smashed, Say Court here, first naturalization class | to be given citizenship in Ju- neau since the recent court rul- ing under which naturalization hearings are held in the court only four times a year. Examined this morning, the eight were presented with their certificates of citizenship this af- ternoon, after hearing a stirring talk on the responsibilities of the United States citizen, delivered by Judge George Alexander. The new citizens are Freda Mar- garet McClure, Gudrun Olson, John Ben Peterson, Carl Waldemar Wal- lenberg, Fin Anderson Wik, Odin Amindus Lonning, Franz Julius| Behrendt and Harold Utgaard. Utgaard, a Sitka resident, flew here this noon for his naturaliza- tion hearing. He was given a sep- arate examination, so he might be presented with the other seven abp- plicants in the afternoon court session. AENSA R HOLDEN MAKES TWO FLIGHTS T0 NAVY CITY Pilot Alex Holden made two round trips to Sitka today for Al- aska Coastal Airlines, taking Tom Dyer, Ernie Whitehead, C. D. Cum- mins, Jack Calvin and E. R. Mc- Crasland on the first trip and re- turning with the Rev. and Mrs, Willis Booth, F. D. Kelly, Harold Utgaard and D. L. Dennard. On the second trip, Holden landed James Stoler at Tenakee and took |t R. C. Holmes, G. C. Ficklin, Julian Hill and Oscar Hart to the end of | the line. He was to return with five other passengers this afternoon. Meanwhile, Filot Shell Simmons hopped to Yakobi Island with John East, U. 8. Bureau of Mines engin- eer, who soon will start survey drilling operations of nickel deposits Goodwin took off for Ketchikan with Mrs. C. R. Bell, wite of a Kake merchant, B — - — BUY DBFENSE LEY AMPS NEW - 20¢ STBEET e e R local | JapsinHonan SHANGHAI, Oct. 3—A Japanese spokesman today declared the army’s new drive on Honan Prov- | ince has put its | within miles of the vital railway | junction of Chenchow and smashed the Chinese 98th Army. \ About 2,000 Chinese soldiers were. I killed and 5,000 captured, the Jap- |anese said. General Wu Shih Min, Jcomm'mder of the 98th Army, was jamong the dead, dispatches said. ANOTHER CZECH CONDEMNED FOR ANTI-NAI WORK. BERLIN, Ocf. 3—Otakar Klapka, mayor of Prague, today was re-| People’s Court in Prague on charges of plotfing rebellion, apparently in conspiracy with the condemned pre- mier of the Bohemia-Moravia Pro-| sectorate, General Elias. Dienst Aus Deutschland, Berlin newspaper, reported Elias is under a sentence of death. The only apt |’ peal from the People’s Court ver- dict will be to Hitler himself. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Oct. 3 — Closing quotation or Alaska Juneau mine ock today is 3%, American Can 84%, Anaconda 261/2, Bethlehem Steel 66, Commonwealth and South- ern %, Curtiss Wright 9%, Imter- national Harvester 51%, Kennecott 347/8, New York Central 12, North- ern Pacific 6%, United States Steel 551v2 Pound $4.03%. DOW, JONES AViRAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 126.08, rails 29.02, utilities 18.33. e Subscrlbe for The Empxre advance units | ported condemned to death by the|’ THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU FORECASTS: Juneau and vicinity: Mostly cloudy with showers tonight light showers - Saturday ‘morning; little change in temperature; est temperature tonight about 43 cegrees,’ grees; gentle to moderate westerly winds. Scutheast Alaska: Showers ton'ght, partly cloudy Saturday except mostly cloudy with very light showers along the mountains north of Petersburg to Lynn Canal; little ‘eHange' in temperature; moderate westerly winds except ‘hortherly in’ Lynh Canal. Wind and weather along the ulf of Alaska tonight and Sat.: Dixon Entrance to Capé fipéncfir!’ moderate ‘to fresh decreas westerly to northwesterly windls, nartly cloudy; Cape Spencer to Cape Hinchinbrook: moderate td''fresn w&terly to morthwesterly winds, partly cloudy; Cape Hln*l}rhrao. to Resufrection Bay: modera‘: westerly to northwesterly wilids 't :night, bécoming ‘moderate to fresh southwesterly Saturday, increasinj cloudiness; Resurrection Bay to Kodiak: fresh westerly to Southwasterly winds, becoming fresh to strong southwesterly Saturday, iucreasing cloudiness with rain Sai- urday. and low- highest Saturday 53 de- LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity Weathe: 4:30 p.m. yesterday 29.57 50 88 S 10 Showers 4:30 a.m. today 29.712 46 98 8 5 Lt. Rain Noon today 29.89 Y 9% s 5 4. Rain RADIO BEPORTS £ ' TODAY Max. tempt. Lowest 4:30am. Precip. 4:30am. Station last 24 hours | temp. tempt. 24 hours Weather Barrow 29 25 25 02 Foggy Fairbanks 44 34 37 T Int.lt rain Nome 42 33 41 05 Dawson 44 27 27 0 Anchorage 52 41 42 01 Bethel 47 40 44 .01 | St. Paul 49 43 46 a1 Atka . 50 45 49 12 Squalls Duteh Harbor .. 55 48 49 0 Cloudy Wosnesenski ... 56 41 49 0 Pt.Cldy Kodiak 57 44 46 .01 Pt.Cldy Cordova 54 40 42 0 cl Jtneau 52 46 46 1.00 Rain Sitka 54 48 50 1.30 Showers Ketchikan 55 | 48 49 31 Rain Prince Rupert .. 55 49 51 98 Cloudy Prince George .. 46 40 40 S0 Clear Seattle 59 55 59 T Drizzle Portland 62 54 55 0 Cloudy San Francisco .. 80 60 61 0 Clear WEATHER SYNOPSIS A flow of moist air® tising over the ‘mountains was causing rain to fall over Southeast Alaska this morning while an intense storm drea in the Bering Sea was causing rainfall over westefn and cen- tral Alaska, the Bering Sea and the Aleutian Islands. Rain had also fallen during the past 24 hours from Kodiak Island to the Cook Inlet region and snow had fallen at Barrow. The greatest amount i of rainfail ‘during the past 24 hours was 1.00 inch at Juneau. The highest temperature reported yesterday afternoon was 60 degrees at Skwentna and the lowest temperature reported last night was 25 degrees at Barrow. ‘Overcast l1ght rain with low ceilings and fair visibilities prevailed this morning over the Juneau-Ketchi- kan airway. The Friday morning weather caart indicated an intense storm with a low center 'of 28.70 inches was located at about 57 degrees north 175 degrees east with a sto'm frontal trough extending north- eastward, thence southeastward to St. Paul Island, thence southwe: ward to near Atka. This storm was expected to move northeastwardl to the vicinity of St. Lawrence Island during the next 24 hours, causing gale southerly and southw:sterly winds in the Bering S and Bristol Bay and easterly to s-utheasterly winds in Norton Sound. A'latge aréa of high pressure covered most of the North Pacific east of 180 degrees with a high center of 30.50 inches at 33 degrees north 140 degrees west. Juneau, October 4—Sunrise 7:07 a.m., sunset 6:28 p.m. Synagogues ‘ .~ Are Blown UpinParis Six Jewish Edifces Wredk- ed by Bomb Explosion r This Mommg VICHY, Oct. 3—Six synagogues | were blown up in Paris this morning | according to official advices re- |ceived here. : ‘The explosions were causcd by planted bombs. The' interiors of the synagogues| were totally destroyed and only the‘ walls are left'standing. Two persons are known w huve‘ been injured. % ‘' Bombs were placed in a sevemh syriagogue’ but were located mfl ze- moved safely. ' ' ‘Observers said the bombings are apparently the work of ‘the un- bfldled Rtxht ‘Wing wl‘m. | although not completely finished, the two-story strucjire has been roofed and floored. It was built by the Satkos themselves to live in while they farm their 122 acres of ground. Everyone is welcome to go to the open house—birthday party in the new home, which is located on the Herbert River Road. Brandeis Very lli WASHINGTON, Oct. 3—Former Associate Justice Brandeis of the Supreme Court of the United States, is reported seriously ill after an attack of the heart last Wednes- day. He is 84 years old. T et OSCAR HART IN TOWN Oscar ‘Hart, well known travelinz man in Alaska, arrived here on the North’ Sea from Petersburg, wherc he mucd on ‘the trade. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Satko®and their family are going to’stage a big celebration next Thursday, the occasion having a double signifi- cance. Pirst of all it is to be the housewarming of the La.rze log home which the Satko's have -built, and it is ‘also the marking’of the first birthday of little North ‘Sea Meri- dian’ Batko. North Sea Meridian™ is the first child of the Satko’s to be born in ‘Alaska, and she will celebrate her | pirthday i their new home. The house is built entirely of logs, and STORE on visaddneh ol