The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 19, 1941, Page 2

Bowling Tourney Dlanned YPHOON < B N The Elks Bowling Committee an- wament will start on the Elks those who vs just as soon as all interested in the sport turn in their names to Erv Hagerup at the b rooms. Ideal for Hunters symen To facilitate team lineups, the k ing committee has mailed cards Sizes t members who are thought 1 m I i terested. Bowlers who have F ! r < cards and wish to bowl All in Stock 1d contact Hagerup at once at clut he women who do not have one belonging to the Elks iy g e | pply to the club :>.|(' ard or Bio Be & member of the lodge for a special . This card will entitle 165t CcarC Y on the alle ¢ Clothing ] Man NSE STAMPS > to The Empire FIRST in Reputation msr in Popularity Distributed by NATIONAL GROCERY COMPANY Seattle, Washington e — TO COMMEMORATE %/ winld One Jothonité ELECTRIC RANGE WE OFFER YOU THIS NEW CENTURY FOR ONLY §129.95 O commemorate Hotpoint’s Millionth Electric Range,we offer the New CENTURY model. 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Juneau Douglas BRINGING UP FATHER | THAT YOLI THAT IT WAS ME-NOW - LISTEN-1 DON'T WANT ANY NOISE AROLIND HERE -IF ANYONE STARTS ANY-YOL STOP 'EM- NOW GIT BACK TO YOLR DESK-— I S TO ON il = RADIO? — Rolhng Stock Abandoned by Red Troops AH-NOW FOR A WITH NO INTERRUPTIONS- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE-—JUNEAU, ALASKA | 1 STEAMER BRINGS 12 PASSENGERS; 39 SAIL SOUTH Seattle-Many Juneau- ites Leave for Sitka Twenty-two persons arrived in Juneau today on the steamey North | Coast, which sailed for Sitka and Seattle shortly before 3 o'clock this' | afternoon with 39.persons. from this port aboard. Liseumuking here were Mrs. G | B. Baldwin, Mrs. M. K. Smith, Mrs. ©. M. Miller, Tam Larson, Mr and |Mrs. Joe Alves, J. W. Gucker, Jack Molyneux, Mr. and Mrs. C.. F.| Charles, F. Hamm, Mrs. luatie Whic- ing, Harry Brenner, Sheldon James Wesley Jones, Brigadier and Mra. John T. Gillingham, Magnhild- Oy~ gard, and Commissioner Benjamin Leaving on the North Coast were the following: For Sitka—E. Houston, Martin Thompson, Mike Gemoroff, John O'Keefe, W. J. LaFond, Frank Dom- inque, John Wolf, Ted Donner, WHI- iam L. Paul, Jr., Archie Betts, Hal | Fairhurst, J. R. Haviland, A. B. Holt, William Hesse, Mrs. Ray Pet- erman, A. A. West, C. Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Glascoe, Mrs. donn | Houk, Peggy Jean Houk, Mrs. Frank | Kitka, John Howard, Mrs. Pete Fow ard, Oscar Clauson, Lawrence Kerr, Mrs. Frank Hennessey, John C. Houk, Jr. For Seattle—Martin Hanson, R.| P. Henderson, Gladys Whlt.comb Carl Hansen, John Michael Mo- | Greanor, Michael McGreanor, Mrs. L. E. McGreanor, L. E. McGreanor Roy Slyster, | Anderson C. W. Beverage, Oscar - e | BUY DEFENSE STAMPS { 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 expensiv There's more pleasur dollar in flying. i z % | 1 Start Preparing for Your Private License ODAY! -It'sEasy At Alaska School of Aeronautics, Inc. P. O. Box 2187 Phone Black 769 JUNEAU CE-QUIET NAP Copr 1941, x.~,).“m« yndicate, Inc. . Warld rights reserved War material,of all kinds, includin, _ otock was abafidoned by the retreat Norfh Coast Arrives from; | | | i I i t ey L disSorderly conduct German caption with this photo. But the capfion doesn’t mention that most of the abandoned material had been dumped into the river nt left. Center of Population tractors, trucks and other rolling Runmn army, according ',u the MEXICO AND U.S. REACH ° AGREEMENTS WASHINGTON, Nov, 19,—Edu- arde Suarez, Mexican Minister of Finance, announced today that the | Mexican and United States govern- | ments have at last reached agree ments which will settle the U. S. ‘{ou interests’ controversy. Suarez also said he had sifned {a silver money stabilization agree- | nent and a highway financing agreement. between Mexico and the Unfl;ed Btab(fi REDS RETAKE HIGH LANDS OF CRIMEA LONDON, Nov. 19.—Tass news agency reported here today that | Rugssian forces have recaptured the strategic heights in Crimea with the help of intensive action by | their dive bombers. R TRAINMEN SUFFOCATED IN TUNNEL VAN NUYS, Cal, Nov. 19. — An :ngineer and a fireman on a 96- car freight train were found suf- focated here today in a 7.000-foot unnel where for 11 hours smoke | and deadly fumes had barred res- old farm girl, living near Carlisle, Ind., sits ; the new center of population of the United the Census Bureau at Washington, 18-year whic| Geneva Sution, on the fence pc States. The cen decided by is two miles southeast of Carlisle. Music Speeds Naval Building cuers after the train became stalled. ! The victims were John Dunne, | engineer, and 8. E. Snodgrass, fire- man, both ‘of ms Angeles. { TWO LOCAL MEN : - GIVEN HEARINGS Two men were hailed before U.! $. Commissioner Felix Gray yester- | day for hearings, then lodged in ihe Federal Jail. Floyd Cromwell was bound over to the grand jury on the charge of obtaining property under false pretenses. He is alleged to have 'used the alias of Frank - Jackson | and . claimed employment at v | Alaska Juneau Gold Mine to obtain ‘ucccnea from the Swanson| | Brothers Grocery store. Cromwell! has been held pending a hearing| f ifor several weeks now. | John C. Brown, local native, was A new note in hnttlcfllip construction is sounded as workers set in the | sentenced to spend the mnext 30| deck plates of the 35,000-ton Alabama at Norfolk, Va. The men labor days in the jailhouse on the charge! %0 the rhythm of the latest music bmmlvx»uhmughouc the growing ship g via a speaker system flum a phonograph, I\otc the loudspeaker (arrow). By GEORGE McMANUS fl TUT-YOU'LL HAVE OP THAT NOISE- INSTRLICTIONS | :F&FDHVE;‘V IT QUET IN S OFFICE - HOW AM Lisi e 1 DOING?2 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, |94I 'THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU FORECASTS: Juneau and vicinity: Rain with little change in temperature and southeasterly winds about 15 miles per hour except reaching 30 at times in Lynn Canal for tonight and Thursday, lowest tonizht 38 degrees and highest Thursday 43 degrees. Scuthcast Alaska: Rain with little change in temperature, winds south to Southeasterly about 20 m les per hour, reaching 30 in open channels tonight and Thursday. Wind and weather along the Gulf of Alaska tonight and Thurs.: Dixon Entrance to Cape Hinchinbrook: south to southeast winds 20 to 30 miles per hour, rain; Cape Hinchinbrook to Resurrection Bay east winds about 20 miles per hou-, rain; Resurrection Bay to Ko- diak, east to northeast winds about 20 to 25 miles per hour, showers. LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity =~ Weather 4:30 p.m. yesterday 30.19 41 91 S 5 Rain 4:30 a.m. today 3013 40 92 ESE 17 Rain Noon today 30.05 42 85 E 14 Rain RADIO REPORTS TODAY Max. tempt. Lowest 4:30am. Precip. 4:30am Station last 24 hours | temp. tempt. 24 hours Weathe Barrow 4 0 0 T Snow Fairbanks 20 18 18 02 Snow | Nome 26 15 19 01 Clear " Dawson 3 -6 3 T Snow | Anchorage 41 32 32 15 Snow Bethel 31 16 16 i Pt. Cldy St. Paul 40 33 40 0 Cloudy Atka 45 | 43 45 S0 Drizzle Dutch Harbor .. 44 | 32 39 0 Clear Sand Point . 47 33 35 0 Pt. Cldy Cordova 42 | 38 41 224 Juneau 3 | 38 40 80 | Sitka 47 41 47 58 Rain ! Ketchikan 43 39 40 02 Cloudy Prince Rupert .. 45 35 37 0 Pt. Cldy ! Edmonton 35 21 23 0 Clear Seattle 50 | 38 39 05 Fog, Smoke | Portland 42 40 42 16 Cloudy | san Francisco .. 57 . 38 40 0 Clear WEATHER SYNOPSIS Cloudy skies prevailed and rain or snow had fallen over almost all of Alaska and it was raining from near Wrangell north to Cor- dova and snowing thence mnorth in a wide belt to the Arctic Occan this morning. The greatest amount of precipitation was 2.24 inches at Cordova during the past- 24 hours. The highest temperature yester- day was 47 degrees at Sand Pointcn the Alaska Peninsula and the lowest temperature was minus 5 at Point Lay. Moderately low ceil- ing and poor visibilities prevailel over the Juneau-Ketchikan air- way this morning, | The Wednesday morning weather chart indicated a low pressure center of 29.45 inches was logatel near Seward with a frontal trough extending to the east thence south thence southwest into a second low pressure center develop ng at about 45 degrees north anc 150 degrees west which was expeci>d to deepen and move about 500 i miles to the northeast during th:> next 24 hours. A high pressurc center of 3040 inches was locatel at 49 degrees north and 128 de- grees west. A low center is indicated to the west of Atka. Juneau, November 20 — Sunrise 8:56 a.n., sunset 4:30 p.m Capacity Audience Present for Concert FORB ( Iow“ Presenting a program of musi- ‘ cal favorites to an exceedingly large de- Dumber of people last night, Marye parted or arrived today in Juneay | Berne, Merle Janice Schroeder and but & Lodestar hopped from Seattle Ernest Ehler, accompanied by Miss to Prince George, B. C., before the|Ruth Mcvay, sang ‘in a concerl weather closed in. If gconditions|sponsored by the American Wo- are favorable, the ship will come Men's Voluntary Services. 2 here tomorrow. Only passengers are 8roup arranged the concert, whick Michael J. Haas and J. L. Hartley, t00k place in the Northern Light Late yesterday a Lodestar an-ivcd;Prcsbywrlan Church, to raise funds from the south and an Electra|for local men now in the armed came from Fairbanks Passen- | service. gers on the Electra were Mrs. Edda| Tickets for the concert were un- O'Leary, Vic Aldrich, Wegener der the management of Mrs. W. | Paulson, Joe Meherin, Carl Kiel|s. Ramsey, who extends her thanks ‘and Glen Novak. to many persons who contributed D‘MAGED vESsEl :‘l:s:‘r ati;\;c;:s; making the affair PUTS INTO PORT FOR INSPECTION With its steering apparatus bad- ly damaged after running aground ,on Sister Island in Icy Btraits, the | steamer Western Trader put into! Juneau last night for inspection before proceeding to Seattle for | LODESTARHOPS | FROM SEATILE No Pan American planes repairs. The vessel, well known in nor; |thern British ~Columbia ~ waters, | s A I where it once was operated by the| Nelson Brothers Cannery at Prince | Rupert, was enroute to Kediak with @ supply of frozen, meat 4or de- fenes foroes t.i:erea & i BB T jowm,m’ YAKOBI NICKEL' PROPERTY' ON HIS WAY-THERE ‘} Carl Velvestad, of Juneau and Petersburg; left here on the M. S. Triton this - afternoon, bound for Yakobi Island to look cver diamond drilling operations of the U. 8.‘ Burcau of Mines at nickel deposits | |EARNINGS | | Velvestad, who owns the property (where the drilling is being carrled; l'on, was accompanied by his brother, |c. H. vVelvestad, of Juneau. The, nickel property owner arrived here| yvesterday from Petersburg on the | Alaska. After several days on Yakobi Is-, On Savings Accounis ©® Accounts Government In- sured up to $5,000. ® Money available at any |land, the Velvestads Wil return time, | Petpe (I o start an account witn 51 | 5 e or more. | COLONEL HERE | | Colonel Walter Scott, enroute to! | Fairbanks on a routine army mis- | |sien, is a guest at the Baranof | Current 4% Rate | Hotel. { LD RS 1 POLLEYS LEAVE Alaska Federal Dr. and Mrs. E. M. Polley and two children left Juneau aboard the A || Savings and Loan Alacka to return to their home in' ckagway following a visit here of | Assn. of Juneav several weeks. H i Phone 3 ! - Fresh water fish contain much less iodine than do salt water fish