The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 11, 1941, Page 2

P . BUILDING SUPPLY FIRM 1S FORMED AT ANCHORAGE company for A new Anchorage e producing the avowed purpose of building supplies filed articles of incorporation in the office of Ter- i Auditor Frank A. Boyle The new company is called Alaske Builders, Incorporated,” an cquire timber and min ruct mills and produ: brick, stcne, lime, cement and c building materials, Nine of the ten directo: new company Y of res r, Herald W. (,u\ ce in the t as their > tenth di- a Seward man. The Yakutat director are John Tuttle, J. W. Kerwin, eonard Thrasher, Donald Stac Roy Smith, Otto J. Ka Harris W Brown, William D. Bale and Goorz A. Profitt - .- Empire Classifieds Pay! Now and always IT IS WISE today to insure your property in a company that will be able to pay whenever you may have a loss — whether it be next week or years from now. Our companies have paid in full every honest claim. Shattuck Agency INSURANCE JUNEAU L CLEAN UP THE' ATTIC-MA\/BE THAT 1S WHAT MAGGIE WANTED ME TO DO - STRANGE - CANI'T REMEMBER _WHAT IT WAS Annual FALL DANCE Douglas Firé Departmeit Douglas Natatoritiii - Glen Edwatds Orchéstra ADMISSION - = Everyone Invited MAY EXTEND CALL TO THEREV. W.R. BOOTH FOR NORLITE CHURCH A meeting of the Pulpit and Sup ply Committee of the Nerthern Light Presbyterian Church is scheduled !r; be held after the church service to- morrow morning to consider lmom- mending the Rev. Willis R. Boo of Sitka to the congergation. This committee consists of elders, rustees and heads of H\(‘ various departments of the church Following the committee’s recom- mendation of Rev. Booth a week’s will be given for a meeting congregation to extend the Rev. Booth as notice of the formal call to the pastor of the church Members of the committee are re- quested to be presént at the service tomorrow morning which will be conducted by Adjt. Stanley Jackson n] the Salvation Army. © Genllemen $1.00 BONDS PHONE 249 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, OCT. 11, OFFICIALS CONCERNED AT STRIKE 'Conciliation of AFL and CIO | Factions Sought o End | Spicer Company Strike | DETROIT, Mich., Oct eral and State labor sought today to end of rival labor unions, which is threatening to stop virtually all the. Army's tank production, at a, conference between the CIO and AFL. | United = Automobile Workers of | !the Spicer Manufacturing Com- | pnny of Toledo and its sub\ldlan‘ | Hillsdale, Mich., Steel Pmducts“ | Company were summoned by Dr. John Steelman, Chief of the U. 5. conciliation service. War officials expressed grave |concern as the UAW CIO bargain- ing agent and 2,200 Spicer em- ployees decreed a boycott on AFL | produced materials supplied from the Mlcmgan plant. The Toledo plant manufactures 70 percent of the transmissions for tanks, -and it thas been turning out six to eight medium 28-ton tanks a day. R s ViR NOR CRUISES i%rhitv lr%( | risiirmrs VESSEL Governor and Mrs. Gruening left | here last night on the fisheries boat Brant for a cruise to Tracy Arm and surrounding country, it was learned today., Jusd Also on the Brant are Dr. Ira| Gabrielson, Director of the. Fish| and . Wildlife Service; - Seton, Thompson, Assistant - Chief of the! Assistant Chief of the Alaska fish- eries division of the service and Clarence Olson, Fisheries Supervis- | or, in Alaska. { ; The party expects to return to| Juneau tomorrow night. Fly for Pleasure Hunt or fish, near and far, § | in your own plane or in one which you have rented. Learn the Modern Sbori! Aviation is not expensive. There’s more pleasure per dollar in flying. Start: Pre in for Your ang{g Lfiense TODAY It's Easy At Alaska Schoél of Aeronadtics, Inc. P. O. Box 2187 Phone Black 769 JUNEAU {itation of the |thmus - cf lup new possibilities in the "'THE OL’ LOCOMOTIVE!” 11—Fed- mediators the dispute B }m ljo»..’ PN Alleinate ToPanama Canal Seen 'Rehabilitation of Railway on Isthmus of Tehuan- tépec Is Ordered 11— WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct The reported action of the Me: president in ordering the I bil- now little-used trans-! ailway across the Is- ehuantepec has opened way of transport Geo- continenta “hemisphere - defense according to the National graphic Society. Opened in 1907, the Tehuantepec liner was a thriving enterprise for a time, but with the completion in 1914 of the Panama Canal to the scuth, the rail gradually lost its importance. The immediate value of the Tehuantepec route cording to advocates of the proposed improvements, is as an alternate, or auxiliary line to the Canal. e DREDGING CLO! DOWN Dredging of the Jack Wade Com- pany on Jack Wade Creek has clesed for the season. —— - Newspapers of the U. 8. spena mare than 16 million dollars a yeav for new equipment, according to reports to the Census Bureau. BUY DEFENSE BO THAT | SHE TOLD ME OVER TH/'"PHONE- Copr. 1941, King Features Syndicate, Inc., World rights reserved. 80 KI0DWY, BARNEN - o REBLN WWITED SRLEEY To COME RAROBRD SHP 2 BRINGING UP FATHER Nep Y e WL SAOOTW' OFF Q\S ANOWTH BB0UT W BRMN BEW RETTER'N T NANY AN T WANT 0 QPEN WS BNES N | HOPE VVE GUESSED RIGHT=-THAT WUZ A TQl No) ABL‘-O’CI_.‘JT ALL MWLT% U.C.L.A PLAN TO SEHI.E STRIKE REJECTED BY AiR COMPANY Government May Take Over Vital Plant- Union Cooperates WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 The Defense Mediation Boa n- nounced that Air Associates, at Bendix, N. J board's recommendation a 30-day strike in the lant, which makes terial and parts Dr. Frank Graham, chairman of the board, said two day 0 that if the recommendation was re jected the government would be asked to take over the plant The striking CIO United Auto- mobile Workers Uuion local toc has rejected e to settle company’s aircraft ma- Bendix last night voted to accept! the board’s recommendation and return to work today. — .- TONGASS IS DUE HERE AT 6 A. M. TOMORROW Steamer Tongass is scheduled to arrive in Juneau from Sitka enroute south at 6 o'ciock tcmorrow morn- ing. This is according to a radio- gram received early this afterncon by Agent D. B. Femmer. A, o e, Y NO PAA TRIPS TODAY Airmail from Seattle, discharged at Whitehorse yesterday for transfer to the next Juneau-bound plane, was still in the Yukon city today, poor weather having prevented any Pan American trips. B- | AM IN == RIGHT TS WON, \QRD B\RO- NOW- NICE? DO YOu KNOW THAT THIS MORN!NG SPENT THE DAY CLEANIN! THE ATTIC- s AS NEAT S A PIN—= U WSTCH . \OWR STEP GOOGLE -~ k RCY \&EN RIS FER MEON Td' CORNER SCOWBONG \EE'N T TOKES ME Tl ~ By BILLY DeBECK 4 | GAVE MY BROTHER TEN DOI_L.AQS TO COME OVER ISNIT THAT WON'T LL G(T BNEN WE THESE BOLACIONS DOONS -OBY = 1941. BY MUN' FORECASTS: Juncau and \icinity: Mostly rain tonight and Sunday; not m variable winds, mostly southerly. sional erate light showers; northeasterly winds, partl proper. Light snow was falling aska. The greatest amount of which occurred at Ketchikan. grees recorded at Barrow, 'WOULD-BE LIFE TAKER tionary center of low pressure Gulf of Alaska in the vicinity sure of 3040 inches was located west. Juneau, October 12—Sunrise 13—Sunrise 7:28 a.m., sunset 6: THE WEATHER (By the U, S. Weather Bureau) U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU tonight about 37 degrees, highest Sunday about 45 degrees; Scutheast Alaska: Mostly clo: much change in tgmperature tonight and Sunday; gentle to mod- crate variable winds, but northerly in Lynn Canal. 2 Wind and weather along the Giulf of Alaska tonight and Sun.;y Dixon Entrance to Cape Spencer: mogerate southerly winds, 9 Cape Spencer to Cape Hinchinbrook: Resurrection -Bay: modlerate northerly winds, clear; Resurrectiony Bay to Kodiak: moderate northwosterly winds, becoming westeriyg Sunday, partly cloudy. % 1 LOCAL DATA e Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity =~ Weathess 4:30 p.m. yesterday 29.44 41 95 SE 11 Rain ¢ 4:30 a.m.’ today 2935 40 100 S % Rain 10:30 a.m. today .. 29.40 42 94 SE 5 Overcast RADIO REPORTS e | TODAY Max. tempt. | Lowest 4:30a.m. Precip. 4:30am Station last 24hours | temp. tempt. 24hours Weather Barrow 16 | 10 10 05 Snow Fairbanks 32 20 20 T Nome 45 31 3% 25 Dawson 21 | 18 18 04 Anchorage 43 | 23 24 0 Bethel 43 | 34 36 .08 St. Paul 41 ‘ 41 4“4 02 Dutch Harbor .. 49 l 42 43 T Wosnesenski 52 | 89 40 [ 3 Kanatak %9 | 4“4 44 0 Cleary Cordova 48 | 81 81 0 Clean, Juneau 4% | 40 10 14 uaiql,i Sitka 51 | 4 10 Ketchikan 49 | 45 47 19 Rai Prince Rupert .. 40 | 43 45 53 Shower Prince George .. 51 | 3b 40 06 Seattle 63 49 50 01 Fortland 67 | 61 52 - o San Francisco .. T4 | 50 52 [ WEATHER SYNOPSIS L Clear skies continued this morning over Southwest Alaska and) partly cloudy skies prevailed ove' most of the remainder of Alaskal in the Yukon Territory. A near.y stationary but weakening pressure area located in the east>rn Gulf of Alaska was causing cloudy weather and scattered shovers,.over most of Southeast Al The Saturday morning weather pressure was centered over the Bering Sea. in ligh lowe: gentlagy [ 1dy with scattered showers and nofg cloudy with occasional very uch change in temperature, occa-gk mod - 7 tloudy; Cape Hinchinbrook fo and 1o wy i1 the upper Tanana Valley pecipitation in Alaska was .79 inchy The coldest temperature was 10 de- chart indicated a neary sta-. of 29.25 inches was located in the of Craig, A second center of low; A center of high pres-, at 40 degrees north and 160 degree:_ 7:25 a.m., sunset 6:03 p.m. 00 p.m, Octobog! IS RESCUED Firemen, Rag;rs Get Man =“Eopr. 1941 King Features Sy in Dangerous Location, Golden Gate Bridge "SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Jct. 1 —John Evans, 39, who crawled ON TONIGHT, DOUGLAS over the side of the Golden Gate| Music by Glen Edwards and his bridge, twisted himself through the|Orchestra will feature the annual maze of girders and partially | g ev:ntomeous;:-s Nl lashed his throat yesterday, has| unt:;r F;:re Depu;:::nenh wml 8{“6‘1 been rescued alive by firemen, and| :::‘5 b(:en "elx Lg:‘ljged to Sl:le: mee“!:;: bridge riggers who risked their in. good shaxr)’e and mephall will be lives repeatedly to reach him. sufficiently warmed .committee in | Pedestrians on the bridge heard!charge promises. Decorations of ll}; cries of Evans and‘ summoned | eyergreens have been used to id. 1| BIG DANCE EVENT ——— CARLSONS BUY HOME A | Mr. and Mrs, James Baroumes Mills is also expected home on the NEw :Onis, 2.0 11—A British 08 Seattle their permanent resi- ish tanks, with British crews, are district of the Puget Sound metro- ‘|will go south on the Brant, join- polis according to latest word from, them. Carlson is employed at thc) ]'I‘odd ship building plant of Seattle.’ —————— { FIVE FROM DOUGLAS WILL SAIL WESTWARI Leaving today aboard the Aleu- tian the following are to sail for Dutch Harbor to join their hus- bands and fathers who are em-i ployed on defense projects there Mrs, Vernon Hodges, Mrs. L. B Nelson and daughter Karen, and Mrs. Jack Elman and child. *! | For Sealfle Monday J. Steele Culbertson, assistant fisheries supervisor, will leave here Monday on the Fish and Wildlife Service boat Bear for Seattle, ite ¥ announced this morning. In Seattle, Culbertson will af- tend the annual fisheries hearing there and serve a short detail in the Beattle office of the service. Later this month, Mrs. Culbertsc: ing her husband in Seattle, from where they will start on a vace- tion trip to their former home in North Caroiina. The Culbertsong, expect to return about the first of next year. beautify the walls of the nat. In the would-be suicide’s coa’ s o vl | pocket was a note stating he has |are due home this afternoon aboard |the Aleutian after about two : . 4 |Aleutian from a month's vacation | | radio broadcast picked up here this dence, Lawrence Carlson and fam- afternoon quoted Lord Beaverbrook, ily have purchased a four room already in Soviet Russia and “ac- tion on the Eastern front should be | been ill and despondent. 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