The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 18, 1941, Page 8

Fhé"l]nrepressed FilmPress Prmls Washmglon Edlllon (Conunuea irom rage One) wood coverage—and to say even less, it left some of the investiga- tors a bit groggy. After all when' a story earned such a head- line as “Nye Holds Floor All Day —Talks Lot, Proves Nothing" are one memory jump ahead of yours truly. The story said some- thing to the effect that the law of supply and demand seemed “to have been passed over the veto of Senator Gerald Nye.” “There's also the law of com- pensation,” - it continued. “That's the one which caused Senator D. Worth Clark to do a lap dissolve yesterday He lapsed from the avoir faire of a Mitch Leisen dress extra to the lost look of a W. C. Fields straight man when Senator Ernest McFarland (the only administration member ' of the committee), thought to be a |stooge, revealed himself a Lone | Ranger.” scenarist for Paramount; man named Alexander, I hadn't met before to these a few of the old tand-bys who ordinarily earn h st penny reporting for the trade papers, and you have all of the list that I upply. under vath-~but the these boys filled the columns Hollywood sheets made orage seem something film spec- Wash- Holly- tie it was introduction to Headquarters \ ‘0\ THE CUFF pictures from inception to fiflished | product, Hoffman said that the |Senate would ‘“be reading the tablecloths from Ciro's and the Brown Derby, and Gregory La- ic“n will have to have his shirts | laundered in Washington.” b P o0 o0 _oeeenen d Hardeman WATER-PROOFED Hais H. S. Graves RAYBAN goggles cut haze and |eliminate glare from sun. snow, The Clothing Man j| water. — Dr. Carlson, Blomgren Building. adv. A SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT SIGRID’S Make a SPECIAL OFFER ON Thew Famous . | oI, PERMANENTS Now Only $7.50 Sigrid’s Beauty Salon YVONNE COOPER QOwner Cooper Building PHONE 318 NOTICE! To All Affiliates J unean Mine & Mill Workers Union Juneau Sawmill Workers Union United Trollers of Alaska Union Juneau Cannery Workers Union Juneau Longshoremens Union Local 1-16 Local Industrial Union 882 Juneau Allied Trades Union if you can remember you | { That's good straight Hollywood {talk, but it has ‘the Washington| |boys so numb they don’t know |whether to sue or telegraph appre-| ciation When one columnist - suggested that the committee should investi- gate all purported propaganda | Constance. THE DA ILY. ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA |cOLD STORAGE UNIONSTRIKES +..FORDRYROOM {Promised Ffities Nearly |~ Complete But Work- ers Oun Approxunut“l\ 40 meml)ers of the Jumeau Cold Storage Workers Union, an affiliate of the C.LO. International ~ Longshoremen and Warehousemen's Union, staged a walkout at the Juneau Cold Storage Company yesterday afternoon, charging - the ‘company had not completed a dry room it had agreed to furnish for the workers’ comfort. Backed by the Juneau Industrial Union ‘Council, the union voted 3 to 1 to remain out on strike until the dryroom is completed, Max Lurz, Council Secretary said. Lurz lsaid _“action” . would be taken against an C.1.O. member violating the pwket line at.the plant. Henry Benson ' is President of the strixing union, all of whom work in thef cold storage warehouse. No long-| shoremen are affected by the work stoppage. ‘Wallls George, president of the |company; said today that work on| the dryroom was completed Thurs-| except for installation i | Vdny night, {of lockers, materials for which could not be obtained immediately due| | to natlonal defense shortages in| [the States. CRUISER OF - NAZIS SENT - TOBOTIOM | NEW '¥ORK, Oct." 17~A" British radio. relayed. a -Moscow, broadcast this afternoon which said Russian torpedo boats in’ the ‘Baltic' have ‘orpedeed. and sunk a German crujser and two destroyers. A setond cruiser was torpedoed after which it ‘came to ‘a stand- still.” | STORK BRINGS PAN AMERICAN NEW PASSENGER Daughter Arriveson Nor!h-I bound Alaska Line Ship Columbia KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Oct. 18— ,The stotk found the steamer Col- umbia in. Canadian waters south | of here at 3:30 o'clock this morn-| ing and presented Mr. and Mrs.| Clifford 8. Smith with a daughter. The Smiths, formerly of Seattle, are en route to Juneau where they iwill fly to Fairbanks. Smith is a 'Pan American Airways employee.' Dr. G. H. Quillen of Juneau, the only physician aboard the vessel,| delivered the baby while the Col-| umbia rolled in rough weather. | After thc Columbia. docked here at 8' oclock this morning Mrs. Smith, looking ‘happy and radiant, 1said She plans to name the infant' She said the arrival| of the baby meant just another passenger for PAA and she intends to plane to Fairbanks. A Birthday Party Is - GivenMrs. Decker Mrs. E. O. Decker celebrated her 77th birthday yesterday when sev- eral friends dropped in to call on her in St: Ann’s Hospital, where she has been confined with a heart attack. The party was ar- ranged by Mrs. W. J. Walker, and other guests were Mrs. Josephine Spickett, Mrs, Anna Winn, Mrs. Turpin and Billy Lee Turpin. | A birthday cake was served. for| the oceasion, and nurses took part in the refreshments. James Me- Naughton also called during thc afternoon. Mrs. W. E. White, niece of Mrs. Decker, will arrive- soon from Ok- | | Moscow, ‘wu attended by a number jcal high- school youths to use up| igym last night as practices for the: {out from their front door, PACKING . HEAD DIES INCHICAGO Cudahy, Aged 81, Is Victim of Sudden Heart Infliction CHICAGO, Ill, Oct. 17—Edward Cudahy, Senior, 81, founder and head of the great packing eompany, died today as the result of an attack of the heart. Cudahy spent 68 years packing business. RUSS GOV, MOVES 550 MILES EAST Diplomats Desert Moscow for Kuibyshev, on in the John Santo For eight years a leader of the Transport Workers Union, John Santo was confined at Ellis Island New York, on charges that he e tered the United States asa Atudent HiS'OI’i VOI from Rumania in 1927 under tho ( ga name !l)f Desideriu Hamer and lat: ROME, Oct. 17 — Authoritative "e681¥ changed ibis name and sources said today the foreign dip- ! «—— lomatic staffs, which have left have gone to Kuibyshev, 2 on the Volga River, 550 miles east om m u nls s of ‘Moscow. e QUESTIONS ABOUT ALASKA ROME, Oct. 18—Eighteen Cori- In a very appropriate manner munists were shot immediately Alaska Day was. commemorated after conviction in special military here yesterday by Douglas' Pubiic courts at Dalmatia. This is the Schoals. Outstanding among the official announcement today. exercises held in different graae rooms was a program of sopgs and Alaska subjects - featuring s radio seript “Information Please,” which Boom Town of | From 10 o'clock and through u-e‘ day relays of pupils accompanied Trles 'o Be |by their teachers visited thg Al-| | aska museum in . the Fademl on Even Kee' Bullding. E. L, Keithahn, curator | parents. of the museum, talked to. the. stu-| dents about the various exhibits,' explaining many points of in-| terest, i NEW BRIGHTON, Minn., Oct.18 e e !|— New Brighton is one defense HIGH SCHOOL ORGANIZED boom' town that is trying to keep A high school fire squad was or- an_even keel under the impact of |ganized at school yesterday with a $30,000,000 small arms plant by |the election of a fire chief and remembering three ! assistant past booms. The town fathers hope it will fire posts among members of the remain just a typical American squad was made. thamlet, as it did when a packing ————.——— jfactory, a big pickle plant and a BASKETBALL SOON HERE |cast iron rolling mill each in ‘its Indoor athletics available for lo-|day brought prosperity and then passed. chief. Reassignment of 3 their surplus energy took the form! of basketball scrimmage in the]the Prince third hopping from George to Whitehors The northbound Lodestar was to | transfer its Juneau airmail to an GEORGE GUERIN HOME Electra, scheduled to arrive here Arriving here yesterday on Ule;elther late today or tomorrow. Of Tyee of the Alaska Transportation two Electras at Whitehorse yes- Company, for which he is wharf|terday, one reached here and the agent in Seattle, George Guerin other turncd back to Whitehorse came home for a brief visit with|again after encountering heavy (his_parents, Mr. and Mrs, J. R.iheadwinds a short distance out of; Guerin. Arriving with the young| Whiteho: man was Miss Edna Langlois. They expect to return to Seattle rext favored channel sport began, e -———— ssifieds Pay! FORT LEWIS GARBAGE MEN FACE (HARGE‘ F. B. I Reports Criminal Waste of Food Supplies at Big Army Camp | TACOMA, Wash., Oct. 18.—Ev | dence obtained by the Federal Bu-| reau of Investigation regarding the wastage of food supplies at Fort| Lewis is to be turned over to a grand jury investigation, Assistant | U. S. District Attorney Frank Hale said here today. | A month’s investigation by the F.BI men was disclosed here ye: terday to have implicated six civ jan garbage collectors on the charge of stealing property. The men are P. W. Haings, E. L« Hardin, T. C. Rabun, | Francis McMahon, Oscar Grogstad and James Wallace. It was sald that much edible food “and *cHritied goods, sugar and potatoes, has daily been left near garbage cans at the fort and the ! garbage collectors are always told to take the tood supplies away. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Oct. 18 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock at today’s short session is 3%, American 83%, Anaconda 26, Beth- lehem Steel 62}, Commonwealth and Southern %, Curtiss Wright B'., International Harvester 501/2, Kennecott 341, New York Central ‘11%, Northern Pacific 6%, United States Steel 52%, Pound $4.04. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 120.10, rails 28.19, utilitles 17.50. Mrs. Wallis George ‘Returns to Juneau Mrs. Walus George returned to Juneau last night aboard the Al- aska after a trip of several months |in the States. She and her daugh- ter, Miss Maydelle George, went ito California, where Miss George cntered Scripps College in Clare- ! mont. Mrs, George spent her time in California, stopping at Los An- geles and San Francisco and other coast cmes government | imposed on freight brought over SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18. 1941 nghway Toll - Case Will Be | Taken nghen Judge RuIesAgainsiTruck-' ers — Says Law Can't |: Guarantee Profit | FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Oct. 18 —| Judge Harry E. Pratt, of the U. S.. District Court, fourth judicial di- vision of" Alaska, sitting at Fair-| | banks, yesterday handed down a| 43-page decision declaring the Rich-| ardson Highway tolls legal. \ The action was argued here last| month in the stated case of the United States versus members of the Tanana Valley Truckers’ Asso- ciation, to test the validity of tolls their profit as carriers, and the |only reason for this is that freight i rates on the Alaska Railroad are such that truckers canmot meet them and operate at a profit, and {no law guarantees the right to 1mnke a profit.” i Subscribe to the Daily Alaska Empire—the paper with the largest paid circulation. FLY Fly for Pleasure Hunt or fish, near and far, in your own plane or in one which you have rented. Learn the Modern Sport! Aviation is not expensive. There's more pleasure per the highway from Valdez to Fair- dollar in flying. banks. | George Folta, attorney-at-large in‘ Alaska for the Department of the i Interior, represented the gox-‘ ment in the suit. John L. McGian™ was counsel for the truckers. | McGinn said today he will appeal to the Circuit Court of Appeals. The case is the culmination of a vear's fighting against the tolls by highway truckers. Start Preparing for Your Private License DAY! It'sEasy At Alaska School of Judge Pratt, in his decision, con- i te.nds after eliminating other Aeronanhcs' lnc' nts, that “the uiltimate complaint { p, Q. Box 2187 Phone Black 769 by the defendents is that the im- JUNEAU position -of the tolls takes away WORN 0UT? Drink Milk When you get that dead, “I can’t do it” feeling, what you need is a glass of cool milk. It perks you up right away without that bloated feeling. A good habit to get into, is to drink a glass of milk every day about 3 o'clock in the afternoon. 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Toaster, e} « GENERAL ~ | ELECTRIC AUTOMATIC ACuDe * TOASTER ALASKA ELECTRIC LIGHT & POWER C0 — BONDS PHONE 249 week on the Tongass. BIRTHDAY PARTY Celebrating a . birthday for' thrlrl daughter Aleda, who was eight! years old yesterday, ‘the home of l Mr. and Mrs. Jack Warner will be the scene this evening of & gay children’s party for which several interesting . features, surprises - for the young people, were planned. ——————— v “ BOLYANS HEARD FROM In a letter from Hermosa, Cal, where they are nicely located in a comfortable apartment on the beach with the ocean spreading Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Bolyan sent greef- ings in the last mail to their friends on the Channel. — e VISITORS LEAVING Gilbert Hulk and friend Orville at al’ times ACE :| Chrysler MARINE Engine CROWN Engicesin Stock A Marine Engine for Marine Use Enquire About (Not a Conversion) fiesigned and Built for Marine Use by Chrysler Corp. Our Financing Plan ROYAL 8-CYLINDER 75-143 H. P. 6-CYLINDER 6-CYLINDER Moline who have been the house guests of Mr. and Mrs. Gene Hulk for the past ten days, will be honor guests at a party given for them lthXS evening at the Hulk home. A !number of young people have been lahoma OCity, Oklfl u) be with her aunt. JOHN KRUGNESS, JR. JUNEAU INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCIL, CI0 Sanctions, endorses and supporis the strike action by I. L. W. U. Local 1-41 at the Junean Cold Storage. MAXLURZ, ’Sdcyia’x}y.-. {Juneau temorrow morning aboard LEAVING ON LOUISE John A, Krugness, Jr., is leaving the Princess Louise for a months vacation trip in Capada and the States. He is employed in the Regional Disbursing office. Krugness plans to go east through Canada to Winnipeg, and then visit |relatives in Nerth Dakota. P‘rom | thefe : he will go'to Lds rmn“flflp 4 ‘0.2‘1. H Suhserjhe far The Fmpire, invited and cards and refresh- ments will be enjoyed. Special for the occasion is a large cake with “pon voyage” inscribed on it. The young men will return south next week. LODESTARS GO SOUTH; ¢ WAL EXPECTED HERE “ h%‘mfin ’tofluurs were. in.the air. today,..two. & 2 off. fgom- Juneau for Seattle and. PHONE 57 Cow ALSO THE NEW 4-CYCLE AIR-COOLED LAUSON OUTBOARD MOTOR The New Sensation in the Outhoard World! ng-Davlin JUNEAU, ALASKA Co. b indre B