The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 28, 1947, Page 8

the wn history of Si control of t he Alaska shipping trade. Regular seven day fre - vice will inaugurated S n early March between Pri - pert and Juncau, with a refriger- Stops will be ated 450 ton vessel 3 tehikan, Wrangell and the way will carry cargo ship- Midwest and Eastern centers at rates age 20 percent chi er than prevailing rates from Se- attle. In addition will be savings at . Rupert, w there will be no demurrage, w ; or drayage The service charges. Freight will be shipped by rail through da frcm a cen- trally located Midwest carloading outfit in pool cars and transferred directly from the cars into the ship’s ho! Briggs stated that his ship can © y 450 tons each trip; which will mean a yearly cargo total of 18 to 20 thousand tons %um bound, the ship will pick up shipments of cold storage fish ¥ seid that the Pilferage hs to serious heights and nd waiting charges in that port e become a custem over a pericd of 40 and more years. The co: timately by Ala in higher pr ¥ Competition is the that will change Seattle, do it by forcing the there to clean up themselves. Already, steps are being taken. are paid ul- an consumer only thing and it will businessmen the situation he said, some ake at a pa But, said Chester, we should not merely use the Prince Rupert or ... . . Portland routes as opening wedges . old daughter. to force Seattle to reform and then drop them for a return to ship- ments solely from there. Competition Necessary Competition from more than one shipping port is the thing lower Alaskan prices. The lower i, prices, the more buying power; the more buying power, the more trade, the more business for everybody. Ene Est JMA President Claude Smith sum- -ynict in Hoj The is entitled, med up the meeting last night with a final statement: “It depends on the merchants of Juneau and gng Southeast Alaska where we go from y here.” CHAMP ION FELII ginee at a ‘Chicago shov ntract t have two sercen father Mr. and Mrs. George Murphy cut their tv marking the event in the Juliette, while he was worl M-G-M for ter York € The bride-to-be is a widew and mother cf an eight-month- (AP Wirephote) HOME PLANNERS PULLMAN, W; that will - , State her Pc Fullatin, 1 the authors conviction arried hilletin wr College ith, bead of ing Department, d. then extens m2 Management. h. the at weare Stanley A Agricultural a a meat store saf2. recentlv “Planning Your apparently now the and N im ec published, Home," they are in “The R uratively wrote co! ing '] (h wedding anniversary Murphy a Detrcit automebile orked as a dance 3 ¥e is now and has been Us0 t cd to nerly of Wiscon- YEGGMAN FAIL PHILADELPHIA, - “laid"” unsuceessful Burglar dozens of e attempt to the burglars atta box with meat cle ut were aktle only to knock off the saf They left after 7s and mkination averal dozen e ing them on the floor ian cat owned by Casimir Mackiewicz of ribbons she has won in various contests. , NING: Protected waters of Southeast Alaska Lacking drills, break- tter- B e T e e S e T TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, I947 50 miles th us for thousands of towered above us. something like llowed fo NEWSMENFROM o | feet and INTERIOR COME . your VIR T S 2 Are Given.Rfiare Sight of | McKinley, Airplaning ' QOut frem Interior By CLARKE BEACH ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 27.— (Delayed) —We are down in the “banana belt” now, as the folks in Fairbanks call Southern Alaska It's only 28 below zero, which is just a little colder than average PAA ONREGULAR SCHEDULES FROM SEATTLE TO HERE Pan Americw~ Airways yesterday flew passengers between Seattle and Juneau both directions, with stops at Annette Island. The foi- here. We took on a safety pilot at lowing -pvrsons w?re reported on Fairbanks, Maj. A. J, Kluener, of 'he passenger lists: Seattle to Juneau—S-Sgt. Louis Cincinnati, Ohio, who has special- ized in flying airplanes in this re- gion for three and cne-half years Around 3 p. m. we passed Mount McKinley, a 20,300-foot peak, when our altitude was 11,000 feet. It crouched like a bluish-white sphinx in the ice haze, with small head and high fat buttocks. It was about sunset. ~We were above the fog just then and could cet a full length portrait of the Arctic suncet. The sight is really indescribable, but's Il take a try at it Underneath there is the boundless horizon of ice-locked forest and «muskeg, blue gray plateaus of snow and frozen trees, ranges of moun- tains that lock small, and snow covered rivers that curl like white corkecrews. The sun coated with gold the thousands of feet of ice fog which DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU JUNEAU, ALASKA W EATHER BULLETIN DATA FOR 24 DOURS ENDED AT 4:30 A. M., 120TH MERTDIAN TiME DeHoyos, Arnt Neilson, Barney Esta- brook, John Phelps. Annette to Juneau—Rex Hadfield. Junezu to Seattle—Richard C. Johnson, William Dillhoeffer, Cliff Berg, John Storms, Ruth Storms, Katherine Storms. Arnold Hildre, Helen Hildre, Dr. D. F. Bentley, Roy Koch,. Arthur Cannell, John Kienetti. Juneau {0 Aunette--Elroy Ninnts B ST O T FAIRBANKS VISITORS Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Stofrers, from Fairbanks, have arived in Juneau and are registered at the Baranof. - - METEOROLOGIST HERE R. G. Hedfield, meteorologist for Pan American Alrways, arrived in Juneau yesterday from Seattle and is registered at the Gastineau Ho- tel. Max. temp. TODAY last | Lowest 4:302a.m. 24 hrs. Weather at Station 24 hrs* temn. temp. Precip. 4:20am. -1 -30 Trace Clear =31 0 Clear =1 Trace Clear 8 0 Clear =56 0 Pt. Clc Edmonten - -15 01 Snow Frirbanks - =50 Trace Haines - -5 0 Lean Airport -i1 Ketchikan 8 Kodiak 12 Kotzebue -33 McGrath Peter -51 -41 THER '-wY‘\JOP IS A i”o (»f th‘1 p 3 about 400 miles southeast of the Alaska Pen high center located over the Seward Peninsula a d ¢ castscutheastward across central Alaska, southern Yukon into th: ie area of central Canada. A trough of low pressure extends from wveak low pressure center near Dixon Entrance southeastward to an- ther low pressure center located on the coast of Oregen and thence ~ast southeastward acress the southern Rocky Mountain region and n'\c United States. This has caused & mass of cold air to move slowly south— ward and its southern border extends from Dixon Entrance across c?ntral British Columbia and is penetrating the Dakotas this morning. Tem- veratures over the interior north of the ccld front are everywhere below zero the coldest being minus 69 degrees at Mayo, Yukon Territory. Tem- neratures cver Southeast Alaska range from minus 9 degrees to plus 9 ‘egrees at 4:30 o'clock this morning. Rain or snow has fallen during he past 24 hours at many stations along the coast from northern Cali- rnia to the southern porticn of Southeast Alaska, over southern Canada, southwestern Alaska and the Aleutian Islands. MARINE WEATHEKk BULLETIN Reports from Marine Stations at 1:30 P. M. teday WIND Height of Waves Station Weather Temp. Dir.and Vel. 'Sea Condition) Cape Spencer .. .Pt. Cloudy 5 ENE 47 3 feet — Eldred Rock Pt. Cloudy - 2 NW 44 7 feet Point Retreat .. Pt. Cloudy 2 NNE 44 8 feet Linccln Reck Pt. Cloudy 6 NNW 20 3 feet Guard Island . Pt. Cloudy 6 N 18 1 foot Cape Decision .. Cloudy RGN 5 1 foot MARINE FORECAST FOR PERIOD ENDING WEDNESDAY EVE- north of Sumner Strai northerly to northeasterly winds 50 to 70 miles ver hour—fair. Protected waters of Southeast Alaska south of Frederick Sound—northerly to nerth- easte.ly winds 15 to 25 miles per hour—fair. becoming easterly to southeasterly winds 20 miles per hour by Wednesday —fair. Outside waters, Sitka to Yakutat—northeasterly winds 30 to 40 miles per hour—fair. Low pressure center off Oregon Co: second low pressure center central Aleutian chain, moving into Bristol Bay. GRAVES' JANUARY SPECIALS MACKINAW, % length all wool, reg. $25.00 Leather Trimmed Pockets HOW $12.59 SLACKS, all wool, herring hone, reg. $15.00 Heavy weight—Size 29 to 32 wg}w z,ls-.z.UL‘ LEATHER WCRK GLOVES, regular $1.00 Short Gauntlet Hg‘” 530 SLEEVELESS SWEATEES, rc:r'ular $5.00 All Wool—Navy Blue ng ‘ 59 ASS PARKAS, regular $5.95 t: and Wind Naw sz.uo S 30‘1‘1 CA . 8. GRAVES | The Store of Bjg Name Brands around us, The grandmother's picture of the trans- figuration. Frankly, some of the % never thought I'd see scenery work cn case-hardened newspapermen like that Outside waters, Dixon En- | troug- trance to Sitka—easterly to northeasterly winds 15 to 20 miles per hour STRAINIS WRECKED: ~ AKILLED Roll of Wire Is Found| Wedged in Switch-In- vestigation Begins By MERRILL SWEDLUND WALTON, Ind., Jan. 28. — The death toll of yesterday’s wreck of; the Pennsylvania Railroad Union | passenger train was revised to four today after a thorough examination of a battered day coach of the eight- | car train. A bale of fencing wire! jammed into a switch ‘caused the' wreck, Indiana State Police said. State police and wrecking crews had reported seeing two bodies in the ccach in the dareress, but shortly after daylight it was deter- mined the only dead were the loco- motive fireman and three passeng- ers whose bodies had been taken out in the night. Nearly a score of persons were ! injured, one of them seriously. Dr. M. B. Stearns, Cass County Coroner, | said an inquest would be held al 9 a.m,, Friday and that 22 witnesses, including State Police and railroad officials, had been summoned. | Several rolls of the wire were stored in piles along the railroad track at the scene of the wrecl “Apparently one of these e n=11 or was placed on the track a we want to know which,” said Fish- | er of the State Police. “The bale of wire found in the switch was the cause of the ck,” Fisher added. “It was either plac- ed there deliberately, perhaps the work of a prankster or a it was dropped by scme ing the wire." The roll of wire was about two- feet acress and weighed around 400 pounds. W. W. Patchell of Chicago, (nn- eral Manager of the western r ul the Pennsylvania id that llu ral Bureau of Investigation is vith State Police. | wire is m g from the the track an it is pre- e the one found wedged id Patche (‘w pd arer O A, mond, Ind., fireman, , Miss Kathryn Mar- 25 Kokomo, Ind.; Wal- , Kokomo; H. G. Perk- Anderson, Ind - o ,CHAPEL&MS AR.. ] MEETING TONIGHT TLe Chapeladies will meet t)- night at the Fom=» of M's. Dt Horton at 7:30 c'clock. Mrs. sher- man Tanner will be co-hostzss. AL members are urged to attend. ‘ i | | e 'FIREMEN BURNED UP | ROCKVILLE CENTER, N. Y. i For the past 51 years, the Eurckii ,Fire Company—oldest of Rock- (ville Center's six volunteer fire rrcups—has been ccliecting troph- les for its fire fighting skill. Yesterday, while no one was in| ythe firehouse, the trophies, fire| records, a pool table and other| {accessories, went up in flames. | | | . i | Skagway Makes Strong have been working on a subsidize this ‘bus company so that fares could ke reduced to 25 cents | for sanatorium personnel city of Skagway a head of the Skagway publlc util- ities master mechanic of the rail-| road and plumber and steamfitter formerly employed by government contractors and Skagway sanatorium to check the heating plant. Upon Profesi io Removal of Sana'o"um IO Slfl(i their arrival both boilers were found to be operating with the ex- /Conl nued pium Page One) ception of automatic controls. Two’ e oy hours work by one of these men plan to Put the controls on. The other boil- er was operating efficiently within the next twenty four hours. “We agree there are other condi- | “Since being adviscd that the | ticns at the sanatorium which need | gsanmormm was inefficient, and correcting but feel they will prove . | unsafe for patient’s weliare, the no greater nor more a serious prob- lem than putting boilers back into! shape.” immediately sent Natural Color Poriraits | In your own home or in our studio. This is only the beginning of the . CCLOR SERVICES that Lu-Ek’s will offer when material is avail- o0 able. B =Fic’s Photo Shop 20th Century Building Phone @Mm@ NOW...yovcan .. fly by Clipper at new low rates! 4 ® Now all Alaska can enjoy Flying Clipper travel at il lower fares— in spite of soaring prices and mounting ' operating costs. \ H This reduction is part of our long range plan to pro- 3 vide Alaska with the fastest, most convenient way to 5 travel . . . at prices everyone can afford. That's been our aim for the 15 years we've served the Territory— : and we're working steadily on future improvements. i I Whether you go to some point in Alaska or Outside Q ... be sure to go by speedy Clippér. ¥or the new rates affecting your community . . . for up-to-the-minute information on schedules, call or write the office below: § Baranof Hotel Phene 106 | V Send it Airmail for 5¢ per ounce to the U. 8. H«M/Mmmw _ :/em Wosrro A//IWM .,///xw,m, Clippers s [ i .|IIIIIllllIII||||IIIIlll(lIIIAllmll_IfiiIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIhlIllIIIIIHillliilmilli‘l|IIIIII!IHlIIIIIlIIIII|(HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIh.i Salmon €reek €ountry Club i | 3 Miles Norih of Juneau gn Glacier Highway | PRIVATE CONFERENCE | | BANQUEY ROOMS At the Finest Membership Club Cocktails “"The HARMO-DEARS" ; All-Girl Brchesira r (Music Starts at 8 P. M. Sundays) A A AR OO ceneal in Alaska Dinners 5P.M.to4A. M. Salmon €reek €ountry Club 3 Miles North of Juneau on Glacier Highway f