The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 2, 1943, Page 2

PAGETWO NOT MANY CHANGES JUVENILE CRIME SHOWS INCREASE: " FBIMAKE REPORT THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA "'"S YEARvS'afisti(s Regarding Girls| But Rules Rfe]raxed in Some Areas for Bigger Take Continued from Page One) be deleted from this year's regula- tions in Southeastrn Alaska | Ickes said that mo ‘aetion will be taken toward adjusting fish trap activities because ; Steps in that direction depend upon the out- come of plans to consolidate can-| nery operations for theé duration of| the war { Valdez Arm, which heretofore re- mained open for comtyercial fish-| ing tmtil August 22, will lose with | the remainder of the Prince Wil-/ jlam Sound area August 5. An increase of 50,000 barrels has been permitted in the Kodiak her-| ring catch quota which will allow | {vealed dn as Well as Boys Are Made Public WASHINGTON, March 2 — The Department of Justice announces that surveys conducted by the Fed- eral Bureau of Investigation & re- increase in juvenile crime during 1942 despite the fact millions of young men are in the armed services and many juveniles are gainfully employed in war pro- duction. y The FBI survey was based upon a study of the fingerprint records of persons under twenty-one years of age which were forwarded to the FBI by law enforcement throughout the United States. The tituation becomes all the more start- | ling because of the fact that juven- ile authorities handle many cases of persons under twenty-one who are not fingerprinted by local au- thorities. Director J. Edgard Hoover of the| hat district 200000 barrels. The | Federal three six-day closed periods effec- pointed out Bureau of Investigation| that arrests of girls| RIGHT TO THE FACE—_Beau Jack (right) plants a right drive on the face of Fritzie Zivic * in an early-round of their bout in New York City. Beau Jack won the fight on a decision, 'EVACUATION OF ISLANDS GOING 10 BE FEATURED \The Rev. Baranoff Will Address Society of Christian Service The monthly meeting of the So-' |clety of Christian Service will be {held tomorrow night starting at| j8 oclock in the Methodist church; parsonage. As a special feature of the even-| |ing, the Rev. Makary Andrew Bar-| |anoff, of the Russian Greek Ortho-| dox St. Nicholas Church, will tell |about the evacuation of the islands |in Westward Alaska. { Al' members of the Service and |others interested are asked to at- tend the meeting, ALASKA PRIESTS IN CONVENTION Priests | lasf | I | | | Russian Orthodox a convention in Juneau The held cutlined. It I night and much good-will work was/ is planned that the| {RA TUESDAY, MARCH 2. 1943 ; e | Both Afrikaans and English are | recognized as official languages in the Union of South Africa. THE ATCO LINE Alaska Tramsportatien Company L ] SAILINGS FROM PIER ¢ CEATTLE - —— ORDER YOUR BBIT SKINS Now Tanned, cleaned and all ready to make up. VALCAUDA FUR COMPANY SEATTLE, WASHINGTON ™ RARANOF Alaska’s Largest Apartment Hotel * EVERY ROOM WITH TUB and SHOWER * | 3 PASSENGERS PREIGHT REPRIGERATION L] Reasonable Rates Phone 800 FLY D. B. FEMMER—AGENT PHONE 114 NIGHT 312 PAA tive in 1942 in Kodiak waters have under twenty-one increased 55.7 per | been revoked. |cent over the 1941 figure. Prostitu-| Increase in Herring (tion and commercialized vice Herring fishing quota waters in|among minor girls increased 64.8 |priests will at various times vigit| the different localities in south- east Alaska and keep the people of their denominations informed and " EDWARDBRUCE ' DOUGLAS SITarbe Tesfifies as Prince William Sound have been} extended to include the entire area An increase in the Southeastern| Alaska quota ‘tc permit a catch of | 100,000 barrels of herring in speei-| fled waters from June 1 to Septem- | ber 30 was announced, Regulations ‘providing for the‘ maximum take of ragzor clams on| certain central bars ih the Prince Willlam Sound and Copper River areas have béén modified ‘to permit commercial digging within one mile of “First ' Bgg'/Ihland ‘after reéach- ing 20,000 eases. The quota of 47,000 cases in the spring and fall seasons remains the| same as last year. The shrimp sea-| son in Southeastern Alaska was| Jengthened 15 days, permitting fishermen to start operations April| 16 instead of May 1 | ——————— ; i ALASKA SOLDIERS SEE MOVIE BEFORE RELEASED, STATES American sdidiers in far-flung | Alaskan out-posts, where not even, theater facilities are available, are| getting a gcod break on one of | the new motion pictures. They are | ceeing it even before it has been| shown in the neighborhood mo- tion picture houses back home | The film, Paramount’s Star| Spangled Rhythm, was donated to! the War 4Department without cost ! by the motion picture industry, and is being shown to our troops in| sparsely settled out-posts through- out the world. It is being run off | | { per cent, while those arrested for other sex offenses increased 1047 per cent. Increases of 30.9 per cent and 69.6 per cent were registered during the year for drunkenness and disorderly conduct, respectively. According to the FBI Director, boys eighteen years of age were Investigation Opens | ' OnLlabor Depariment (Continued from Page One) charged to the Department of La-|_ bor. Several of these were sent {youthful hands, accompanied by T | ir ::;d o";z;e a{::q:ri)x::x’:’ :'l;;r;e;l;ois: ;from Haas to Federal officials prior the years 1939-1941 age nineteen |t0 his being employed by the Fed- predominated. leral government as Alaska repre- During the year young men under | sentative of the War Labor Board. twenty-one arrested for assault in- | Question Report eredsed 17.1 per cent, while youths| Attorney General Roden referred under twenty-one arrested for rape|lo Haas' report to the Legislature, increased 10.6 per cent; disorderly{ pointing out statements which re- conduct, 26.2 per cent; and drunk- | ferred to questionnaires being sent enness, 30.3 per cent. |out for the purpose of compiling Director Hoover stressed that the statistics, but Sharpe said that no inctease in crimes among juveniles|statistics had been compiled, ac- Indlcated a deplofable lack of par-|cording to the records left in the ental guidance and discipline in! cffice many homes. It was pointed out Roden also referred to the re- also thnt_ boom conditions in many |port’s statement which said some communities and easy money in|g35000 had been collected by the a sense of wartime abandon, are con- tributing to the general let-down ;ln moral standards among juven- es. | referring " to these transactions did not check with this total. Sharpe was the only witness la night. Most of the session was /taken up by reading of various | trips made by employees of the De- partment with expenses paid by OBSERVED SOON‘UH. Territory. Sharpe said thers { were no reports for many of these !trips, and said that there were no Plans for the internationally cel- records in the office showing that ebrated World Day of Prayer, to|most of them had been authorized be held March 12, are reaching by Haas, under the law. completion, officers for the event| vouchers Show Increase a?nouncvd today, and will culmin-| sharpe testified that vouchers on ate in the program to be held file in the Auditor's office showed DAY OF PRAYER in barracks, mess halls, and even in the open, where conditions re- | quire. “Star Spangled Rhythm” is | Paramount release, with 20 top-| flight stars, including Bing Crosby, | Mary Martin, Betty Hutton, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Victor| Moore, Paulette Goddard, Veronica | Lake, Vera Zorina, Marjorie Rey- nolds, and a host of others. The film has been shown to| coldiers in distant posts for the last several weeks. It has only re- cently been released to the ' public in the states. Three copies of the picture are being shown in Alaska, and are now making the rounds of various posts, from the Aleutians to the far north. ::fl;e:;ts"é?" 1: the Resurrection sharp increase in expenditures, i ohny after the elections last }Z’Iace on the program is being reaching a peak the aceor i v e fellglous OTBAN- | 1y0n4n pefore the term of the for- and all those who can positly i |Mer Commissioner ended on De- tend are urged to set aside the oy |cember 31, 1942, He introduced evi- for um‘ndafme n‘i st;ens K dence to this effect reve - | . i servance. ki | All interested parties were pres- Posters announcing the special ent. Haas pointed out that although day have been placed in show -win- |® COPY of the resolution setting up dows ‘around town, it was reported|the investigation might have been s;‘! l:ihesspeigil Executive Commlttee‘mujll‘"; ""K l;xm, ::t ghs:]irn;m; Jo- e aturday afternoon at the|SePh W. Kehoe stated, he had not home of Mrs. A. B. Lesher. |received a copy until this evening e |Haas returned to Juneau from a NOTICE trip to the States yesterday. That 1 will not be responsible for| The resolution was read in full any debts—only those contmcted\l’i" ‘Sk:‘““'-m’ ?*i'“‘m“ :S"dflle-tflf;k by myself. of e special committee, a e adv. beginning of 'last night's session. a beginning year and OSCAR TILSON. NOT PLEASEPAY ALL ACCOUNTS DUE THE CASE LOT GROCERY AT FEM- MER'S TRANSFER, next door to the store or mail to P. 0. Box 662. ‘ |resented by counsel. Haas said that {he would rather hear the evidence first and then make an answér. Walker said that he would not ob- ject to hearing the evidence with- out counsel. The committee recessed until 7 |o'clock this evening. All persons expecting to attend are warned to go early. Many had to take seats in the aisles and on the window ledges last: night. .. Neither Haas nor Walker were rep- BUY WAR BONDS | Department for workers on claims. | |Sharpe said that slips apparently | -;;mut adorns the lobby. PASSES AWAY INWASHINGTON | (Continued from Page One) |has been said that this program which he administered probably did more for art and artists in America ' |than any single factor in modern times. But it was not for that reason ‘lhat Washington lamented his pas- {sing. Ned Bruce probably knew as imany of Washington’s famous as any one. There was hardly a week |that he didn't carry on an informal |note correspondence with the Presi- dent and most of those notes would |make rare bits of Rooseveltiana {Bruce explained them, when he mentioned them at all, as “Just a little whimsy the President and 1 |are discussing.” There were few big artists in the country who failed to visit Bruce {when they were in Washington. | But he never let “big names” bother | him. His informal dinners and other | {pm-(ies were a mixture of the great jand unknowns and I have heard dozens of guests say they were the |most delightful in Washington. | “Ned” Bruce hated stuffed shirts 1in art, politics, and bustiness. He |delighted in taking the wind out of the sails of shamsters. He was {never impressed by the purely col- ossal. He invariably referred to the National Art Gallery “the (Mellon mausoleum of Stricken with paralysis several {years ago and almost complete confined to his chair, Bruce never {let up. He and Mrs. Bruce contin- ued to give their little parties and he continued to keep his audiences | rocking with salty tales of his |years in the Orient or of the time in as Ihe spent | France. painting southern Bruce never gave up his work either until the last few months |when another stroke forced him to |go to Florida and a more kindly climate. One of his last great pro- ljects was a competition for thé massive sculptures that flank the entrance to the new War Depart- ment building and the big mural It was said that Ned Bruce nev= er took a dime for his work from the government and that he spent thousands of his own furthering it, but that was something he never discussed. R NOTICE TO BICYCLE OWNERS The 1943 Bicycle Licenses are now available and on sale at the office of the City Clerk. The City of Juneau ordinance requires all bicycles to be licensed. (Signed) ETTA MAE DUCKWORTH, City Clerk. - MILLIONS OF NEWS LEO YOUNG fter living in other parts of the Territory for the past few years, Leo Young returned here yesterday to make Douglas his and has taken an apartment at the Kilburn House. During the last couple of years, Young has been working at thej old Chichagof mine and prior to! that was located at Kimshan Cove | for several seasons. y RETURNS A home again MOVES TO COTTAGE Joe Smith who has been living | at the Kilburn Apartments, has| moved to the small cottage on St.| Ann’s Avenue owned by Mrs, Rosci Davis. Smith is employed at the| Treadwell Foundry. PASTEXALTED RULERS" NIGHT 15 TOMORROW Elks are going to! have another big night tomorrow. It is called Past Exalted Rulers’ Night and former heads of the lo- cal lodge will be in the various po- | sitions. Nominations will also be made| nd it is announced there will be | an initiation ceremony. Howard Simmons, P. E. R., has charge of the evening's doings. | - The Juneau ENSLAVED DIE DURING 1942 good fellowship maintained. | Priests attending the convention ihere were the Right Archimandrite !John Zlobin, of Sitka, the Right | Archimandrite Theodsey Kulchitski, |of Funter Bay, the Very Rev. 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