The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 27, 1941, Page 2

PAGE TWO PARTY TIME GLORIOUS NEW t vour party mood fternoon and fun anytime after five. As seen in Ha 3.50 ot jogces tive suede in red or black with gaily studded SHOE trikingly different part 14RABESQUE 4N « 44 | | PLAY SHOES - joyce CALIFORNIA | | VEWS! Joyce's time play shoes to 4 IFor street, rper’s Bazaar ; Shining satin, in whitespale pink or blue delicately quilted ol€ MAIL ARRIVES FROM SEATILE AND INTERIOR Elecira Returns to White- horse, Douglas Due from Fairbanks Late Today Bringing mail and expross both north and south, a Pan Am- erican Electra arrived in Juneau at noon today, 'discharged its pas- sengers and retur to Whitehorse, while the Douglas Clipper is en- route to Juneau from Fairbanks and scheduled to arrive late this after- noon Leaving on the Electra were Hor- ace Bristol, Mrs. Edna O'Leary, John Shepard and Fred Tintinger. Com- ing on the Douglas are Adolph Menak, Kinlock Neill, William Pat- ter and Richard Coffen, all for Juneau, and Dr id Mrs. Paul Haaglund, Paul Haaglund, Jr., John .. POLLY AND HER n R Behends QQALITY SINCE /887 from | A\J GaLaxy Haaglund, Charles Merrill, Howard Beasley, Esther Thompson, Peter Stew , F. A. Block, William Per- rott and Robert Sroduski, all going to Seattle Meanwhile two Lodestars which | Had been held at Whitehorse moved to Fairbanks whilea northbound Lodestar remained at Prince George Kelthfifil&ng " Bill Gets }enale 0K WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has signed the Senate bill authorizing Ketchikan to con- struct a school and fire hall, also | remodel the present school building and allowing the city to issue bonds not. exceeding $205,000 for the im- provements. | ‘The bill provides that at least 55 | per cent of the voters must approve }or the bond issue in a special elec- | tion. | - e | Subscribe to the Daily Alaska paid circulation. PALS ESSSSUSNS WERE THERE EVER ANY OTHER ©IRLS SSSNSSSSSS | Empire—the paper with the I.ng('.\!l BEFORE “OU GO ON, HAROLD TANACROSS | SUPPLIES | FROZEN IN Report that Trader's Store. at Yukon River Out- post Burned Sunday Balked by pad and an ice- filled river, the Office| of Indian Affairs has been trying all this week to get delayed supplies in to Tanacross, on the Yukon River, it was revealed today by Fred R. Geeslin, chief clerk ing flying weather vainly | | the Juneau office of the Indian Service That a critical need of medical and food supplies may exist at Tanacross it was believed by Gees- lin, as the result of a wire received here last Sunday, notifying the Of- fice of Indian Affairs that the trader’s store there had burned. Meantime, 25 tons of the outpost are on a river boat owned by C. E. Gordon, frozen in the Yukon River, about 30 miles from Big Delta. Gordon, who took the contract to deliver the sup= plies to Tanacross, got started wita his first. load, of the goods oo {late in the season and was CAUBDY| (o per in answer Lo the appeal sent | ters, in the freeze-up, Geeslin said The supply seontract has now been transferred to the Wein Al- | aska Airlines, Geeslin declared, and |immediate flight of some of be made as soon as ta, will | weather permits. Reports from the | ! airlines pilots, however, indicate that it would be almost impossible to land their planes at-the spot in the river where the boat load of supplies is frozen in. Plans were | under way today to use a small airship to transport the goods from | the river boat to Tanacross. e - Marthas’ Bazaar and Lunch ngL Attended | Evergreen boughs and cones dec- {orated the luncheon tables and tea “Lmh"» vesterday when the Martha |Society gave their all day in the Northern Light Presbyterian Church. The luncheon tables bad |1a bouquets of the greenery and red and green Christmas es. The tea tables were tall tapers in red holders hesides evergreens. 100 persons were served it was estimated, and mall v by the | Almost | lunchecn many others attended durlng thep, e offered to take free of charge|below by |afternoon for the bazaar | During the tea hours, the “Sing- iing Debutantes,” under the di- rection of Miss Merle Janice Scrroe- der, provided entertainment with several songs. The girls were | dressed in patriotic colors, and in Ikecpmg with one of their songs, |“The Girl With the Pigtails in her | Hair,” every girl wore her hair in braids. The girls were Mary Juk- |ich, Shirley Davis, Adrienne Glass, {Pat Shaffer, Margaret Fewmer, { Marvel Geddes, Dessa Schnreider, ! Charliene Arnold, Anna Lois Davis, “Conme Davis, Thelma . McCarkle {and Erna ‘Meier. ¥ ——————— PHOTOGRAPHER DEPARTS Horace Bristol, photographer for | Fortune Magazine, who is making Alaskan photographs for an article to be published soon, left Juneau | today on a Pan American Electra |for Fairbanks. { Bristol, chorage before returning here. WELL, THERE WERE - BUT WHAT'S THE USE OF TALKIN/ ABOUT THEM NOW, Ve T THIS HOUR ? WHAT KIND OF A SINESS DO YOU THINK |'M RUNNING 2 BRINGING UP FATHER | WOLLD vOU MIND TELLIN/ ME HATS YOUR IDEA IN WIN' UP AT TH' OFFICE | SUPPOSE ED A WHILE AND NO PARTICULAR \— < AT THIS HOUR sl ¢ 1 WOULDNIT KNOW- L FIND OUT AFTER I'VE WORK- BUT the | { goods, still warehoused at Big Del-! azaar | who returned this week | from Sitka, will go as far as An-| BEING LATE THIS MORNING ILL QUIT EARLIER THIS THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA REPORTS HEARD ON MONTH WORK AT AWVS MEET (lasses Siilll_ee;ching Many Courses-New Classes fo Start in January Reports from the various com- mittees were given vesterday after- noon at the regular monthly meet- ing of thé American Women's Vol- untary Services held in the Gov- ernor’s Mansion, with Mrs. Ernest | Gruening, general chairman, pre- siding Reperting on the cecent concert given by Mr, and Mrs. Ernest Ehler and Miss Merle Janice Schroeder n the Northern Light Presbyter- ian Church, Mrs, W. S. Ramsey said that the sum of $104 was cleared for. the regreation fund of the men at Chilkoot Barrac'ts Mrs. Harold Knight reported that 21 persons were taking her First Aid course, with which Mrs. Frank [ Metcalf is assisting. She also states !that Dr. Frank Hull's Red Cross freight for |classes have graduated twenty in-|Fines collected tofaled $6,251. while First | structers qualified to teac |Aid, and these instructors will be glad to start new classes. Anyone wishing to join a c! starting in |January ‘is asked to turn ‘n her |name to Mrs. Knight. | Mrs. Peter Hammer states that |85 deer skins bad been turned over | out, and. that she had in turn given |these to needy natives to make | mocassins .and possibly deer x | jackets for sale. It was announced that the tele- graph instruments for the new |afternoon class in communications have arrived at Hixson's. Those iwishing to join such a class, which will start in January, are 2l |to call Mrs. Charles Burdick, who as | will be chairman of the class | Mrs. Gruening reported that the| |New York headquarters had a. long | list of women willing to write lett |to the service men in Alaska and were only awaiting names to into acticn. A letter as list of fifty names of weuld like to receive such letters | has -been sent to the commanding | cfficer ‘at each base. A list lalready been received from Chilk | Barracks and forwarded tp New | York «men W, Great, interest was aroused by ¢ | paragraph appearing in the Novem- | ber issue of the sent out to all unites in the States | which contained an appeal for the | members to send books, games and | magazine subseriptions for the ser- |vice men in Alaska. The articles \are to be sent to the Junean unit jand redistributed by the mexibers Ehcrc at the bases. Mrs. Griening iannounged that the steamship lines lany boxes packed with these books tand games sent from Juneau to the {bases in time for Christmas Also. read was a memorandum {sent out by Mrs. Franklin Rcose- velt on the status of the AWVS in relation to Defense Councils The | memorandum was sent out follow- \ing a discussion between Mrs. | Roosevelt. and Mrs. Isabelle Green- i way King, Chairman of the AWVS. |'The notice states that it has been agreed that the AWVS will con- tinue to cooperate with the Defense {Council, it being understood that governing factor in cooperation. - Joseph M. Schenck, movie pro- duver, once was a clerk in a drug store on the Bowery, New York. e Senator Robert Rice of North Carolina, once operated a skating rink in Louisiana. / BUY DEFENSE BONDS YOURE RIGHT, HAROLD. I CAN SEE I WAS YOU'RE TH' ONE THAT'S GONNA - DO has | AWVS bulletin, | {the Defense Councils will be the| Reynolds | | WANT. YOU TO |~ REMIND ME ON HEAVY FUR CHINESE FLY| SALES SEEN BY ODOR SAYS| PAST YEAR AMO'S BERG] 27 — The| 2B “"Wmmli Close fo Two Million Dol- l Well Knowfix-plorer Tellsi' ars Worth of Pelts Mar- | Oriental Adventures keted by Alaskans fo C. of C. | Fish and Wildlife Service today an-| A keen sense nounced that Alaskans received|Tadio beams in the daring flights $1,658,533 for pelts during the trap-|made by commerc jal Chinese pilots ping year which ended June 30.|over the war-torn country between | Tne annual report siid 14 agents|Hongkong and Chunking, members of the Alaska Game Commission|of the Juneau Chamber of Com- traveled 200,000 miles in the year|merce were told this noon by Amos on duty, spending 637 hours flying|Berg, National Geographic Society | 70,000 miles. Vessels carried them | explorer and photographer whowas {24,000 miles, dog tearns 1,700 miles,, guest speaker at a meeting at the Some of the coldest weather this peared on Tokyo streets and taxi season was reported from through- drivers took routes which would out Alaska today on the U allow them to coast as much as Weather Bureau teletypes here possible. In the countryside, out- Meantime, lashed by a light side of Tokyo, he said he found Taku, Juneau felt its coldest blasts the people living in a primitive | jof the winter when the mercury state, with no modern farming fell to 11 degrees early this morn- | methods. | |ing. Up Lynn Canal the weather| po.o coore of “some 1500 Mazi was even more frigidly inclined,® : ; ' Y military technicians who han: with thermometers at Haines this| , 00 the Imperial Hotel in T morning registering five degrecs | o0 R i b o Tl ot yo. glving Japan advice in her | At Seward, where workmen are ”'i‘“‘ L R clearing the debris from Monday's ¢ Chunking Bery stated, there damaging downtown fire, at 10:30 poo o KON e o'clock -this morning the tempera- | (14 111:11: e b;";mfj]u rasaal jture was reported at 13 degrees, (nere when he realized. that !hx'nt report from Seward since the attacking Japanese planes W “':" W below zeto wbhe. Fale.|FUE With American gasoline and | ) : dropping American scrap iron on ‘gank.s reported a low temperaturs i 3 degrees below during the night, but had warmed up to 17 mid-morning. ‘Meantime, and Dawson were ex- |the Chinese city, was sometimes thard for him to decide whether to {be angry at the Japancse cor the Americans. Pal Stays Herc Whitehorse | periencing their coldest winterdays was | " WERHYe | With Berg at the meeting o ‘:Cs,,’";‘f“‘:} #0 pelow | willis Johnson, of Thistle, Utah, TR PR ite- | comrade with whim he once fol- | horse. R R to Alaska this summer ol Berg’s| small boat, the Endeavor, now moored here. When Berg returns| ‘Holy Trinity Choir i g the Alaska Juneau mine, Berg de-! Choir rehearsal for the members X l:n‘ | sal clared. “Our bit for defense,” of .the Holy Trinity Cathedral choir | " < will take place tonight at 8 o'clock\::;_cl:“;]e;e Aokinson's { QPRSI in 'the church. All members are| - ik Berg first came to Alaska in 1ured to be present, and all others; oo " ; Wi are interested in singing are; " Whell; D' tuade ia [Magin it invited. Practice on Christmas YO Juneau to Taku Glacier, then {music will be the work of the UP to Skagway and took the frail "gq?ning' (craft down the Yukon River. Dar- |ing the past summer he has mada Katharine Hepburn left Bryn|? motion picture of Southeast Al- Mawr College to begin her stagwaska resources, now being shown career. ; iin the States, and just completed, { B S |another film of Eskimo family life BUY DEFENSE STAMPS lon Nunivak Island. By CLIFF STERRETT | SURE. WE'LL SAVE ‘EM FER THEM LONG WINTER EVENINGS AFTER WERE MARRIED. > - | !lowed the course of the Colorado River, and who accompanied him | foseeoerrreerrer e e o or ooe e s s r e o THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1941 R. L. STEWART as a paid-up subscriber to The Daily Alaska Empire is invited to present this coupon this evening at the box office of the—— CAPITOL THEATRE and receive TWO tickets to see: “THE SAINT IN PALM SPRINGS” Federal Tax—>5c per Person ———WATCH THIS SPACE. Your Name May Appear! ‘ALAS i“‘;‘_t‘;‘i:fi?? ;;‘;;E’:’ - _ | Baranof Hotel | ;p(n;;n.s lwer? m‘resi;;]ifl,r’;l,‘,:! :,1‘? The planes spiral to an eleva-| eat for ganje law Wiblations, with|tlon Of about 10,000 feét above | |169 .convicted and sentenced to Hongkong Berg declared, “then| ¥ iserve a total of 1,590 days in jail level off for Chunking. They al- ways fly at night and I asked the Lieave Dus Jimsan Drié Jubnen 13,000 wort roper! 5 for- bilot how he knew where he was.| ttsvuod oy Bl e A e |He told me it was partly by watch- | Steamer Seatlle NOrgione Bouthbound ! Non-residents, during the year, ing the stars and partly by smell. | COLUMBIA Tues. Nov. Fri. Nov. 21 Thur. Nov. 27 shipped out 244 animals, the kill He said he could always smell Can-| MT, McKINLEY ... Tues. Nov Fri. Nov. 28 Thur, Dec. 4 jfromgtBsivehynts, Commerolat furtonl GH te lefh | ALEUTIAN .......... Tues. Nov Fri. Nov.28 Thur. Dec. 4 ,j:,‘,l":I‘,:,D,:':,l:dp::.fo?”.”;;":U.]"f;i‘,,;;[", Berg, who has had an_ enviable | yygoN Thur. Nov Sun. Nov.30 ' Sat. Dec. 6 HRAErat Rvaraaing '$110: 2800 ot | ATIENE OF 1/ CXPICHISESE ) BENS" | BARANOF Sat. Nov.29 Tues. Dec. 2 Sat. Dec. 8 - g Mg sentative of the National Geogra-| 8 e 3 ¥ B 3 rage $10.50; 444 wolves,| S ¥ | ALASKA Tues. Dec. 2 Fri. Dec. 5 Wed. Dec. 10 laverage $18: and 1,698 lynx, aver- phic Society, Library of Congress,| |age $43.50 newsreel company and other organ- : ; W - R 1 s izations, entertained the Chamber FOR INFORMATION REGARDING PORTS OF CALL AND | | members with amusing, exciting RESERVATIONS CALL Till: ALASKA LINE ‘COlDES'I' WEA"HER and out-of-the-way incidents for | & "gped |40 inwies, PHONE 2 H. O. ADAMS, Agent THIS WINTER IS ... 2.7t Japan, Berg declared, seemed 51 % | staggering on its last legs when NG ALASKA,. THE YEAR ‘ROUN FEI.T IN JUNEAU he was there last year. He de-! scribed the nation so short on| oy gasoline that few automobiles ap- | NORTHLAND TRANSPORTATION COMPANY q to s‘AmN(;S;J“"mU T GEATTU L ¢, Jun, Lv. Jun: NEB- WEEKLY peave A geattle 21 North- Nov v.21 Bnd .NOY North Nov.22 Nov. 26 sea . 4 ) North ! . B Ine const - NOY s : EEN, TENRY ‘;‘3“ Passenger: cight Phone 28 De s 109 ¥r * » + SMART o~ ALASKA COASTAL AIRLINES Serving Southeast Alaska———Passengers, Mail, Express SCHEDULED DAILY AT 10:00 A. M. Hawk An- Pel- Kim- Chicha- Inlet Hoonah goon Tenakee Todd ican shan gof Sitk Juneau ...$ 8 $10 $18 $10 $18 $18 $18 $18 $18 Sitka ........ 18 18 18 10 18 18 10 10 Chichagof 18 10 18 10 18 10 5 Kimshan 18 10 18 10 18 10 Pelican .... 18 10 4 18 18 Todd ....... 18 18 10 10 . Tenakee .. 10 10 10 g Angoon .. 18 13 Hoonah .. 10 Express Rate: 10 cents per pound—Minimum Charge 60c SCHEDULED MONDAY and THURSDAY Ketchikan Kasaan Wrangell Petersburg Kake Juneau - $31.00 $31.00 $20.00 $18.00 $25.00 Kake ... 25.00 25.00 25.00 12.50 Petersburg ........... 18.00 18.00 .50 ‘Wrangell . 15.00 15.00 Kasaan . 10.00 Express Rate: 25¢ per pound—Minimum of $1.00 FOR INFORMATION ON TRIPS TO HAINES, [ HASSELBURG, SKAGWAY, TAKU LODGE: Phone 612 Round Trip Fare: Twice One-Way Fare, Less 10% An additional charge will be made for single passengers to flag stops. | z | § | OH-I'M S0 IDEA ABOUT GETTING HERE | HAD M| AFTERNOON-AS | DETEST BEING LATE TWICE ON THE SAME DAY - WHAT DO YOU THINK 2 4 - SOME THINKING! 4 Copr. 1941, King Featuyum - ,udicate, Inc., World rights reserved. SK / TO FIRE YOU! \TURDAY SORRY | WON'T BE HERE ON SATLIRDAY-~ Al TIME-LKE > — | | ‘ U e e e e e Round-Trip Fares: | | 10% off twice one-way fares, when purchased | in advance. | Fairbanks, Alaska Flat, Alaska $ 56 Golovin, Alaska 67 $118 Juneau, Aaska 82 132 McGrath . 44 18 $120 Nome, Alaska . 74 126 149 $112 Nulato, Alaska 50 99 127 83 §$ 37 Ophir, Alaska 39 48 12 @5 10 116 § 88 Seattle, Wash., U.S.A. 236 170 217 9 207 234 212 Whitehorse, Y. T., Can. 144 75 125 26 114 142 119 $120 To Seattle From Seattle To Fairbanks From Fairbanks Tuesday Sunday Sunday Monday Thursday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Friday Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday Sunday Friday Friday Thursday Saturday Friday Saturday Effective Nov. 1, 1941 L. A. DELEBECQUE—District Sales Manager / 135 So. Franklin St. PHONE 106 m / 1324-4th Ave. SEATTLE 0 | nem— S —— g o mnay L) 1 Kt ¥ i I