The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 19, 1942, Page 2

PAGE TWO THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—- JUNEAU ALASKA THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1942 WAGE-HOUR RESOLUTION IS ADOPTED Juneau Chamber of Com- merce Sends Copies to Washington Chamber ARE YOU TRAVELING? A New Shipment of TRUNKS jreen. ® STEAMER The Juneau merce unanimou lution today, pi culties Alaska employers sting the diff] ® WARDROBE TRUNKS ® Sturdy © Metal Reinforced @ Brass Fittings |Wage-Hour Law and urging situation (rezolution which was adopted by 'the Alaska Miners Association in Seattle on January 19, and by the| Anchorage Chamber of Commerce on January 27. The recolution points out hardships which the administration of the law has brought to bear lon the Alaska mining industry. It emphasizes that since the act was made effective, there have been no | cases where an employee here has |been dissatisfied ~ with wages or | hours. The resolution sbrings out ‘the many inconsistencies |bave resulted in the admin ation |of the law through fréquent changes lin interpretation. Tt points out |also that many court decisions have |disagreed with the interpretations |taken by Wage-Hour administtat- jors. The resolution concludes with {the statement that if such initer- edy the BN Behrends QUALITY SINCE /887 land employers 'in the Territory forced to pay huge fines asked (for, the administrators will wreck \the Alaska mining industry. | Copies ‘aré being sent to the | Wage-Hour Administrator in' Wash- | terior quality became less popular, | with dea RECORD AMOUNT Another influence was ine in-|) NA"VE AR]’ creasing interest displayed by the|ID8tom: to the Regoinal Director in Army in Eskimo- manufactured |San Francisco, ‘to'Delegate Anthony [J. Dimond, the Alaska Miners As- clothing ociation, All types of Arctic wear, SOLD IN ALASKA Heintzleman, including reindeer skin socks pants, parkas and mukluks were 3k&. to the Anchorage and Fair«| ST sold to the Army, although the de-|Panks Chambers of Commerce Income from Wholesalers|mand was so ereat that the natives) A commitice consisting: of B. r. were unable to produce enough. The Regional Forester, kin goods were distributed from|@nd Robert Cowling and H. O. Ad-| Increased fo $216,455, ‘”". Nowme center under the. direc. |28~ Was*appeinted Yo investfdte [ ¥ bil H | tion of Mrs."Edna O'Leary, demon- | the possibilities of conducting a Siarhng Reports | stration teacher. |drive in Juneau to raise scrap rub- ol ber, iron and other salvage mater- Goods were produced by nativa 8 Jolste y finer craftsmanship : als to 2 : |y{ |] d ’hl : ’v‘mll lyln:v&r'“unlt‘l‘- whikerd af . 82 SEALIONE Major | Is to iid A{atmnal defense. o ;;'”k;_l and by |Sources of revenue’were from the | R i s “; o e for warm Arctic | following goods y ‘ Basketry, $9,734.92; ivory carving, ch p I d M t atives produced el of $10.455 | $31875.88; wood carving, $9.624.30; apeladies viee al work, $772.30; skin sewing,| fth of goods whic re sold Mmela ; . ,\':_ : g_lx N iviston | $126.153.32; blanketry, $365.00; mod-| n tues ay lg Bureau of Indian Affairs € Work, $981. 2 BRITE N5 (AL TN Aatat AR raw products 052.65; boat con-| .. \ional Division, the 1941 re- | 3 apels vere Tt B ‘“"_l“rn‘ w’“fl‘l\ " | struction, $5485; sled construction, Tll{'l\“ ‘(‘“25;:;““u“,";/[:"‘;"':;“’, PR 5 5 || $2405; snowshoes, $699.50; art; o *"Tm e e i 1‘; Ny ibite ) 115 dealers Al- okill. Distributed ‘to 115 de in "l work, $1040.90; miscellaneous, $4,-|y 0 R U M‘g‘fflfl;: Uf” Ml“ aska and the States, the fourth geqsoq P S ce S, vear of the Arts & Crafts program alst |Fred Canipen. Only routine busi- | showed a 120 per cent increase over iness was transacted during the 1938, the first year the program business session, and the next meet- x started, Harvey W. Starling j- J- RYA" I.EAVES {ing has been set for March 3. Mrs. Hal Kimmel will be hostess to the club at that time. Present at Tuesday's gathering livision suparvisor, noted in the re- port, Of the dealers, three-fourths FOR BUSINESS TRIP cperate in the Territory. Defense . | areas showed particular increases| J. Ryan, Assistant Civilian De- in purchases' during: the year. fense Director for the Territory, left it native crattsmen, all' to4ay by plane for Anchorage on a 1 experts in their fields, prief pusiness trip. He is expected the division 10|, pe gone several days. Mr. Ry~ teach their fellow workers how 10| an took with him, Keith Petrich, (urn cut better work, while Bureau pa; american Airways ground crew { Indian Affairs teachers obtained employe mechanic. mel, Frank Maier, Jenny Pederson, Doar Spaulding, Virgil Puzey. Clar- ence Wittanen, Herb Wendling, Fred Campen and the hostess, Mrs. Jekill: ar were ‘engaged by = SAER NS LIRS L6 better results in their work with PRSP Sob- M T = native children GERA[DS GDOM As a result of the educational Subscribe to the Daily Alaska L] y um, quality of the goods in- | Empire—the paper with the largest i and Japanese goods of in- paid circulation RECENT ARRIVAL, DIES SUDDENLY After an illness of only a few nours, Gerald 8. Odom passed | away at St. Ann’s Hospital last eve- |ning from a kidney infection. He carried on his work at the Menden- nall Dairy yesterday morning and was taken ill during the afternoon Dr. J. O. Rude, who was called in attendance late in the afternoon, rushed him to the hospital. For a time he seemed to rally but an hour later hada relapse from which he failed to recover. Mr. Odem, a man in his early \\\\\ \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\I\\\\\\|||IllIHH"I"llll//l///////////// /W/fl'// \ = sunshine of Old Kentucky captured for you iny [T KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON W HISKEY [ and only came to Juneau a few weeks ago. He has been employed by George Danner at the Menden- nall Dairy since his arrvival. Two R NSNS Wv’IWW/I”WW/’/fl’/’//W V2277272 of Com-| adopted a reso-| have ex- |perienced in administration of the | that | |the Government take steps to rem-| It s the same| the (] which | | pretations ave allowed to- contihue !’ | were Mesdames James DeHart, Har- | ry Arnold, Max Mielke, Hal Kim-| forties, was a veteran of World War| Nofed Aulhor (1]} DogSIones (Continued !rom Page One) | ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE himself a- hack and the' original “ghost writer™ A robust giant, six feet (two inches tall and weighing 230 pounds in his prime, he drove himself re- lentlessly until hé was in his six- ties, plagued by the double fear of losing his beloved' estate “Sunny- 'bank” here, and of facing an im- poverished old age He won the nickhame “Iron; Man” by working for 'years twelve hours a day the week around. At Ithe height of his writing career, Vhis annual income was estimated as high 'as $90,000: On Jan. 1, 1937 ‘he announced his retirement. ' He ‘cut 'his''working schedule to two -days a week, keep- ing up only his daily syndieated col- to the Governor of Al- umn that appeared in 200 news-{Chester | papers throughout tké country, and {writing an ‘ocecasional short story. His Dog Stories Strangely, he did not begin writ- ing the stories of dogs that won| ;hun fame until he was 42. For years he sought to intere editors in i | animal tales but it was not until| 1914 that one of them, Ray Long, asked him to do a plece because| s interesting. “Lad,” later the “Lad: A Dog" Adventures of Lad.” friendly and That collie was hero of two books: |and “Purther { But he did not rush to accede to Long’s request. His r(-p]y was _a diatribe. | “For ten years I've bech ‘\h;gim editors to let me write dog stories But /mot an cditor ‘on emth will lot me.” He was born in Newark, N. December 21, 1872. He received his AB. degree from Columbia Uni- versity in 1893 and left the same year for a tour | Bast. J Travels Abroad He traversed the wilds of Syria on horseback, lived with a tribe of ‘Bedouins, visited leper colonies and | then travelled across Egypt States and got a job as a cub re- | porter on the old New York World. It was the start of a twenty-year assoclation that culminated when he became the paper’'s sports edi- tor. He also wrote a series of historical articles for The World. in 1900 when he and his mother wrote “Dr..Dale—A Story Without ‘A Moral.” It was one of the few instances on record of mother-son collaboration. His interest in those carly days were not limited to writing. An out- standing amateur boxer, he entered | the ring for exhibition matches with such old time fistic greats as ‘Gentleman Jim” Corbett, Bob | Fitzsimmons, Kid McCoy and Jim Jeffries. A “Ghost” Writer Some of his ring opponents, Jef- fries and McCoy, were among the clients for whom Terhune later said he had written signed “ghost- ed” articles. Similaily, he wrote er, Terry McGovern, Laura Jean Libby, and David Belasco. He and his wife, the former Anice Passes Away FOR ORDERS one of the “Sunnybank™ collies was i (NATION'S SOFT | through the Near i In 1894 he returned to the United | His career as a novelist started|. for Lillian Russell, Mrs. Leslic Cart-| NEW FORCE T0 REPORT _| Five Volunleers Included| ed Here Tomorrow Twenty-one men will report to Selective Service Headquarters here| at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning \\IU\\ induction orders in hand, the Ju- neau Local Draft Board announced | today. ! In addition, 10 other men who| registered with the local board and | are in other parts of the nation| {will report to the boards nearest| | them, Their induction will be ac-| | credited to Juneau. | The men reporting here will go! to the Territorial S.S. office in the| |Marine Building. There they will| receive sailing orders setting the| time for their departure to Chll-l koot Barracks, where they will undergo final physical exammauo—nsl |by Army physicians. Those pass-| ing the examinations will be sworn | into the Army, while any failing| to pass will be returned to Juneau.| All draftees must take their in- | duction orders with them, Judge| Felix Gray, draft board chairman, | announced. Five of the men to be inducted| are volunteers. They are Franci Cudal Sison, Seamen Gibson, Royal! !Clinton Allee, Harvey Philbrook | Worden and Louie Stich. Others reporting will be Har\md | Brewster Brown, Gunnar Ohman Alvm Perry Dotson, Raymond Ha: jold Abrahamson, William Carl Els- ner, Waldo Marvin Iverson, Hen Arthur Benson, George John Kane, Joseph Peter Ordos, Einar Jack-| |scn, Felix Bello, Arthur Bexg[,xcq,. Lafayette Z)mmelmam: Martin Paddock, Wilho Alenius afid | | William Herbert Richardson. Rich- {ardson. who registered. in Peters-| burg, was transferred to this boa)d | for induction Reporting at other places will l)v“ James Buchanan Beatty, Portland, Ore.; Edward John Cowling, Jr,| | Seattle; James Daniel Harrison,| |Dutch Harboer; Lloyd Price Garner, Grove Springs, Mo.; William Mi- |chael Kopezak, Portland, Ore.; | Courtney Hurschell Lyons, Ancho 'age; Gideon Salazar Mationg, Se- attle; Peter Zirglis, Fairbanks; | Woodrow Joseph Atkinson, Biloxi, | ) [Miss.; Jon Takashiro Matsuo, Se-| attle, | - DRINKS PERIED | BY SUGAR RATION NEW YORK, Feb. 19—Two straws in every soft drink shortly |may become a handicap instead of a romantic interlude. Six of the nation’s leading soft- drink companies have admitted that| the governmental order limiting sugar consumption of the carbo- nated-beverage industry had cur- ]taxled their output. | “We're rationing our deliveries,” an executive of one company said, and unless the government eases up we're in for a rocky year.” The Coca-Cecla Bottling Company[ began rationing case deliveries to| retailers several weeks ago and an- nounced that sales would: be re- duced about 35 per cent. | | to comment on its plans, but the | Seven Up Company, Orange Crush, |Mission Dry and other soft-drink | concerns agreed that they had had 1 to revise their production s(‘h"dulc\ e | STO(K QUOTATIONS NEW YORK‘ Feb. 19 — Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 2, American Can 59, Anaccnda 26%, Bethlehem Steel 60%, Commonwealth and Southern %, Curtiss Wright 71, Internation- | | | inSelectees fo Be Call- |z | ton Birthday program will be giv- | Agent, C. P. R—Juneau, Alaska The Pepsi-Cola Company d'-dlnmi ! |21 PASSENGERS FROM SOUTHEAST, | SEATTLE ARRIVE Twenty-cne passengers from| Southeast Alaska ports and Seattle arrived by steamer this forenoon. From Seattle passengers were Mr and Mrs. Andrew Rosness, Mrs.| Leola Har Mrs. Leota Russell, | Christenson, Gus Larson, | Mary Walmer, Simon P. Kir- | by, A. Gillman | From Southeast Alaska — Mrs. Alice Gray, Alice Anderson, Mrs {Martin lson, Esther Abraham, Wes Overby, Charles King, Mr. and Mrs. |E. C. Hopper, C. B. Finnegan, | George W. Hendrix, Mary Maha- ney. IR TN SCHOOL PROGRAM BE GIVEN FRIDAY Tomorrow afternoon a WAhshing- | en by the Hign School. The pro- gram will open with patriotic music by the band, followsd by the flag| salute led by Chee Hermann, Stu- |dent Body President. The band will then play the “Star Spangled | Banner” as a prelude to recordings entitled “Washington at Valley Forge.” The Singing Debs will give sever- al selections and the program willf close by the band playing “America.” There will be a school | hext Mondav ). GIlMORE - LEAVES FOR SITKA P. J. Gilmore, Jr., Assistant Unit- ed States Attorney with headquar- ters in Ketchikan, left today, for Sitka on a short business trip. Mr. Gilmore has been in Juneau for| ix weeks in connection with the | |present term of the United States District Court. | holiday | - >oe - URFEW FOR GOVERNMENT STENOGS IN WASHINGTON CAUSING AN AWFUL STEW (Contummued trom rage One) inclination to save moncy for the District of Columbia by killing them off. Rat killing campaigns Fere now are carried on by the Boy Scouts, churches, and civic organi- zations. e TIDES (Sun iime, February 20) High tide—5:01 am., 156 feet. Low tide—11:16 am., 1.7 feat. High tide—5:17 p.m., 13.7 feet. Low tide—11:21 p.m. 2.7 feet. q{ ! CANADIAN PACTEIC TRAVEL ON A "Princess” LINER Juneau to Vancouver, Victoria or Seattle Princess Norah sails from Juneau February 22—March 4, 15 V. W. MULVIHILL CANADIAN PACIFIC THE ATCO LINE Alaska Transportation s mm At b SHELDON SIMMONS i as a p::id-pp §ulysrril)er 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: “THEY DARE NOT LOVE" Federal Tax—5¢ per Person WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! e e e i e P k- A ALASKA‘STE‘AMSHIP comnnv i : 1 NOTICE!? The United States Maritime Commission has granted the Alaska Line special permission to supplement all water freight and passenger tariffs effective January 7, authorizing an emer- gency subcharge equal to 45 per cent of th’ rates, fares or charges otherwise payable. € INFORMATION ON SAILINGS AND ARRIVALS WILL BE FURNISHED ONLY ON REQUEST WHEN, AS AND IF AVAILABLE. FOR RESERVATIONS AND INFORMATION— CALL THE ALASKA LINE PHONE 2 H. O. ADAMS, Agent ROUND G .ALASKA THE YEAR NORTHLAND TRANSPORTATION COMPANY ar! tment ; plished, ning the desnnal\on n rchal ars vcsse\ in America e ATIONS AND SERV R RESER b JON CALL INFORMAT HENRY GRE Freight Phone L e r e ALASKA COASTAL AIRLINES Serving Southeast Alaska———Passengers, Mail, Express SCHEDULED DAILY AT 10:00 A. M. Hawk An- Pel- Kim- Chicha- z Inlet Hoonah goon Tenakee Todd ican shan gof Sitka, Juneau ' 8 $10 $18 $10 $18 $18 $18 $18 $18 Sitka 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 13 18 Todd ........ 18 18 10 10 4 Tenakee .. 10 10 10 Angoon .. 18 18 Hoonah Expr:‘-)s 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 7.50 ‘Wrangell* 15.00 / 15.00 Kasaan 10.00 Express Rate: 25¢ per pound—Minimum of $1.00 NFORMATION ON TRIPS TO HAINES, PR IETSURG. 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