The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 12, 1946, Page 2

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA I| 1946 Convention of American Legion fo Be in San Francisco INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 12.—San Francisco was the unanimous choice of the American Legion's National bW P |Executive Committee as the site| Joan of Arc was born in 1412 of the 1946 convention to be held Domremy, France. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1946 1946 West Coast’s FUR AUCTION 'SALES Dates WEST COAST FUR SALES INCORPORATED JANUARY ...... 30 MABCH....O....27 APB]L........ 24 MAY.C....... 29 ’]UNE...... ® o 26 JULY..........sl AUGUST.........zs SEPTEMEBER.....25 OCTORER ...... 30 NOVEMEBER......27 DECEMBER......27 YOUR SHIPMENTS SOLICITED Try West Coast in 1946 . PAGE TWO X - 30 to October 4, Donald. G. Sept. C National Adjutant, an- slascoff, nounced. The vote which awarded the con- vention to the California city for the second time was taken by mail. B Signal Corps i zse il To Mainfain 33 Stafions overseas through ' the New York Port of Embarkation during World WASHING1ON 12. — The War II gnal Corps plans to operate 33 \radio telegraph stations in its net- |work serving Alaska during the next | U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU JUNEAU, ALASKA |fiscal year, Maj. Gen. Frank Stoner, WEATHEK BULLETIN {assistant chief signal officer of the i DATA FOR 24 HOURS ENDED AT 4:30 A. M, 120TH MERIDIAN TIME army, told the House Appropria-| Max. temp. | TODAY itions committee | last | Lowest 4:30am. 24hr He testified during hearing on 24 hrs.* | temp Precip. the War Department’s civil func- Trace tions appropriation bill General Stoner told the commit- tee the master station of the net- work would be in Seattle and 32 stations in the Territory. He d it also planned to use the present cable from Seattle to | Alaska as long major rehabilita- Snow tion is not required. Cloudy | Stoner told the committee com- Rain Imercial civilian traffic handled over Cloudy the network last year totaled $667,- Cloudy 000, but id Government traffic, Snow |if paid for, would have amounted Pt. Cloudy |tc about $2,000,000. Cloudy | The General said it had been Pt. Cloudy 'cuggested that private companies Pt. Cloudy take over the Signal Corps_sys Cloudy yin the Territory, but commercial Clear companies had found they could Cloudy |not make a profit when they had Rain to establish their own stations, Clear |rent purchase land and erect Snow |their own buildings. He explained the Signal « Corps system relayed tems of industrial | Weather at 4:30a.m. Snow | Station | Anchorage Barrow Bethel { Cordova | Dawson | Edmonton | Fairbanks | Haines uncan | Juneau Airport | Ketchikan | Kotzebue | McGrath | Nome Northway Petersburg | Portland | Prince George | Prince Rupert | 3an Prancisco iSeame | Sitka ‘Whitehorse Yakutat *—(4:30 a. m. yesterday to 4:30 a. m. toaay) | WEATHER SYNOPSIS: A deep low pressure center is located in 17 Trace Trace .01 .03 0 .04 - 08 03 Trace Trace .05 07 Cloudy Rain Pt. Cloudy Clear | Cloudy Cloudy B Sumptuous Gifts that Say . . . R e S Nothing nicer than a lovely string of “CARNEGIE’S PEARLS” ~— I "LOVEXOE for that spceial girl who rates first place in your heart, show her how how very much you treasure her affections by presenting her with a chcice gift this Valentine’s Day . . . 0 Dainty hand embroid- ered white linen HANDKERCHIEFS with hand rolled edges. | Bristei Bay this morning with a trough of low presSure extending south- eastward and southward from this center over the easteth Pacific. A high pressure is located over the Western States and a second high pressure is located over the Northern Plains area of the United States. Tem- peratures are above ncrmal over most of Alaska but below zero tem- | peratures extend from the Dakotas northward and northeastward of the | Arctic Ocean, the lowest temperature being minus 47 degrees in the Northwest Territory. Rain or snow has fallen during the past 24 hours | over the Reocky Mountain and Northern Plains area of the United States and at scattered points over central Canada and along the coast from iWnshington State to the Aleutian Islands and the Seward Peninsula. Reports from Marine Stauons at 12:30 P. M. Today MARINE WEATHER BULLETIN WIND Dir. and Vel. E 25 ENE 26 N 6 SSE 16 SE 22 Height of Waves (Sea Condition) | 3 feet i | | | Weather Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Rain | Station | Cape Decision | Cape Spencer | Eldred Rock | Pive Finger Light | Guerd Island Lincoln Rock Rain SE 17 1 foot | Point Retreat Cloudy SE 8 Zero ! MARINE FORECAST FOR NEXT 36 HOURS: Lynn Canal and Taku Inlet—variable winds under 15 miles per hour becoming southerly 20 { miles per hour tonight. Inside channels of Southeast Alaska south of Temp. Zero 2 feet 1 foot | companics which transmitted them te all parts of the Territories. Stoner told the committee that the Government had turnzd over to Canada that part of the Signal Corps telephone em on the Al- can highway, which is in Canada and which cost about $9,300,000. Stoner told the committee that in all cases where there was no mili- tary need for a station its contin- |uance was based upon its commer- cial value as a profit-making sta tion e LYN McKINLEY HERE tyn McKinley of Peter has arrived in Juneau. She is ¢ ing at the Gastineau R Ninetee., cmerican cities bave in- ter-American centers to foster in- terest in nations south of the border. Advances Made Upon Request WEST COAST FUR SALES GREEN 559 INCORPORATED SINCE 1897 Affiliated with West Coast Grocery Co. TACGMA, WASHINGTON sPldest Fur Sales on Pacifie Coast™ FRED R. WOLF ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR “HOUSE WIRING OUR SPECIALTY” BOX 2315 | Lynn Canal—southeasterly winds 20 to 30 miles per hour becoming south- | erly to southwesterly winds 2C miles per hour tonight. Outside waters, | Dixon Entrance to Yakutat and Cross Sound, Icy Strait area—easterly to | southeasterly winds 256 to 35 miles per hour becoming southwesterly to | westery 15 to 20 miles per hour tonight. Rain south of Frederick Sound | and rain or snow to the northward. $1.50 to $2.95 EXQUISITE PERFUME, bt General Electric WSB SUCCESSOR 10 WLB, ALASKA, PAC. NORTHWEST Membership List of New Group Reveals Little Changed But Name Wage stabilizatior, regulations and their enforcement are now be- ing administered fin Northwest and Alaska by the Twelfth Regional Wage Stabilization Board, with headquarters in Seattle This new agency a part of the National Wage Stabilization Board set up within the Department of Labor to carry out provisions of the Wage Stabilization Act which were formerly administered by the National War Labor Board, it was stated here today by the Alaska Representative of NWSB, D. E. Davis John B. McCourt, torney and former vice-chairman of the regional WLB, is chairman of the new (ripartite regional board which also will take over the wage stabilization functions formerly carried out by the West Coast Lumber Commission of the NWLB John D. Galey, of Portland, form- erly chairman of the lumber com- mission, has been appointed vice- chairman of the new board, and as a public member, part time, to serve on stabilization cases within the lumber industry. Regular labor members of the new regional board are Capt. John Fox, CIQ and James Rohan, AFL. Alternates are: Charles W. Vaih- busch, AFL, and James Farmer, CIO. All four men are from Seattle. Regular industry members are: Gerald Weaver, Portland, and H. is the Pacific| Portland at-| COLOGNES Hartnell, Dorothy Gray, Hattie Carnegie or Adrian. $1.00 1o $49.50 QUALITY SINCE /887 | Denzil Hailey, Seattle. Industry al- |ternates are: M. J. Muckey, Taco- |ma; George Farnsworth, Seattle; |Jack E. Bates, Tacoma, and H. |D. Weaver, Portland. Bates and H. D. Weaver formerly were mem- bers of the West Coast Lumber Commission in Portland. The oth- lers all formerly were members of the Twelfth Regional War Labor Board. McCourt said that the new board |will concern itself with voluntary {applications for approval of wage |increases affecting price ceilings, and all wage decreases; also with enforcement of the Wage Stabili- zation Act of 1942, Davis related. All applications under the new wage and price regulations are to be filed with the new board through the Wage and Hour and Public Contracts Division of the U. S. De- partment of Labor, as was done un- cer procedures of the old War La- kor Board. The jurisdiction of the Twelfth Regional WSB includes Washington, Oregon and Alaska. — e — 2 JAP TORTURERS (HARGEPLMURDER SHANGHAI, Feb. 12.—Two Japa- nese war criminal suspects have been booked on charges of murder and brutality against. Americans in China, The former superintendent of a hotel prison camp near Muk- den (Toru Kiki) was formally charged with brutalities against nine other Americans in 1942 and 1943. k! The other Jap suspect (Isamu Ishihara) is charged with beating |and torturing 28 Americans while acting as the civilian interpreter at two Shanghai prison camps from 1942 to 1945, i SRS L | WFRE FROM KETCHIKAN Delyle Larsen and Charles Sam- uelson of Ketchikan are guests at the Gastineau. { | ATTENTION, FLORIDA LOS ANGELES — Snow in Los Angeles? Ridiculous, but — Five youths were detained yester- day by Sheriff’s deputies for al- legedly violating a state law which prohibts throwing — of all things — snowballs at automobiles. Mrs. Dorothea Dalton, who com- plained, said furthermore, that the snowballs were real enough to break her windshield. The Chamber of Commerce has Let’s Get Together - Early This Year Less than six weeks are left to square yourself with Uncle Sam on your 1945 Income Tax. A competent staff is at your disposal to give you every ad- vantage the Treasury Department regulations permit you to save you faxes JAMES C. COOPER OFFICE COOPER PLDG. 4th and Main Sts. not been heard from yet. i / SoCeLee 35 SATURDAY 2e e ety Make AR RRRRRRRRRIRRRR IR R RRRRRRRRRARK MATHENY'S OR ELKS BANQUET For Elks and Ladies Only! Honoring the Elks from Keichikan Ladies’ Night at the Elks’ NIGHT, February I6that7P. M. BARANOF GOLD ROOM Reservations at the Elks’ Club * Ballroom CHESTRA AT 10 0'CLOCK ARRRARRR! RS RRRRXR ARRRRRRRRAX SR FRRPRRRFTRRRARRRRRRR S wee e than 2% . Home Appliances conyen e o homeg) 2 n e ar tsf e Dermijtgy a i » Of 20y, 7 lona| hmltedme'z:zx?ffl i es of or th n livery, Nolc earjj, deposit, Nap:b LOOK FOR G-E APPLIANCES FIRST AT Alaska EleetricLight and Power Co. Authorized General Electric Dealer