The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 28, 1928, Page 2

D e In a Sunny Array Belmont Prints aj In o bost of wmw and cheerful summer colors. each smart As shown, exch frock has & distinctive feature assuriog individualicy. These Dresses Wil Lighten the this COMBINATION XX Starting Thurs N S SR R In ten charming styles, to size. , {60V, P Cool — Dainty — Summery | FROM Print Froc ! of Famous Quali nd Cord Dimities In engaging designs. ly adapted Sizes—Misses’, Small, Mecdium, Large. Every minute detail spells values which never b?li)re were offered for so lictle, Your Work and Brighten Your Every Howr About House, Porch, and Garden The cooperation of thousands of merchants makes possible PLAN Selling Eve-+ day, June 28 B. M. Behrends Co. Juneau's Leading Department Store Decorate for the Fourth We carry a ful in all Also Cotton Bu oration in tri-color I line of Flags Les. mting for dec- or Stars and Stripes, B. M. Behrends Co., Inc. Juneau’s Leading Department Store I | :Stories of iVii(l ] ALANOGORDO, N. M., Jun —Yarns about the days of cattle drivers, cattle rastle and war- like Indians will be swapped here July 3 and 4 when the real old! timers gather for a reunjon. | Bugene Manlove Rhodes, novel-| dst and former cowboy of the! New Mexico ranges, is to be fore- man at a chuck wagon. When| Gene hollers, “Come and get it!"! the old time:s will drop their con-| versations 1 go a-runni After the chuck is stowed away eigarettes and pipes will be it} and maybe the ( boys, who fought on the side of Billy the Kid in the Li n county wa will tell what happened when me: . carried six-guns and used them | Or maybe Billy Breckenridga will * explain how he made bad men be good when he sheriff at Tombsione, Ariz. Bert ! B Mret captain of the Arizona " & mounted police, is counted on for one of the best yarns, | Gowboys who used to drive cat- from the Texas plains up the sholm trail will relate their| gperiences. Johnny Dines, who| . through several of Gene es’ movels as a fiction char et _will be here in pe: 1 old timers expected at are two former gover- George Curry and J. F STAR STILL SHINES H Michelena, the’ safliest of movis % been making nersonel here with her old is.on the way from e 58|88 | their West Will Flow at Reunion $100,000 Fire Is Reported At Hyder According to advices re | ceived late this afternoon by United States Marshal Al bert White from Deputy U. 8. Marshal Donald Mar £100,000 fire oceurred der tod. The Dbuilding in which Jall was located but the official were saved. No oth- r information was given, the burned ords CLIPPING PARIS —Judges days off cach sheep, VACATION still get ten summer to sheer under a traditional custom, because in old days b judge was a land owner and wool figured in his income. None own sheep now ———,———— TWINS SHARE HONOR JACKSONVILLE, Ala.—The fac ulty of Jacksonville Normal could not distinguish between Irene and Kathryn Flurry, 20 and twins, so (it named both valedictorians. They finished with the same grade, ——————— | IKE TAYLOR RETURNS Ike P. Taylor, of the Alaska Road Commission, returned on the steamer Yukon this morning |from a trip to the Westward. He i 8 Tho Bmpire has been absent for several weeks cn ofticial business, KS BACK AIRPLANE TOUR, INTERIOR |Over 2000 Miles Covered by Governor’s Party in Plane During Month Having covered betwoen ' 2,000 and 2500 miles by airplane i ensive trip around the Ter- | ritory, Gov. George A. Parks re- turned this morning on the Yu [ kon, slightly over @ month from the day he left. Major Malcolm iott, President of the Alaska Commission, who, with R. Sommers, Territorial Highway | Engineer, accompanied the Gov- | ernor en the trip, continued to | Ketchikan on the Yukon and wifl return on the Aleutian next week. Mr. Sommers will remain at the Westward for sometime. A. A. Bennett ‘of the Bennott- Rodebaugh Airplane company of Fairbanks, piloted the Swallow | plane, which had a cabin with a comfortable carrying capacity for four persons, in which the nine- day trip from Fairbanks was made by the party. In that time they visited Nenana; MacGrath, Ophir, Tocotna, Flat, Tditared, Unalakleet, Golovin, Nome, Teller, Candle, Kotzebue, Nulatd, Ruby, Tanana, Bettles, Wiseman, Fort ALASKA EMPIRE, M T T e AR ; Hazel feanne Nelson chiosen . as “Miss Mooselet” at the 4 gras and will go Tidrdpe 'as a representative thie foyal order to the inter- of Chi- Yukon, Circle Hot Springs, Liven good and returned to Falrbanks. Wiseman, which is one degree above the Arctic Circle, is the farthest north point visited by the Governor's party, though Kotzebue Is also aboye ths Arctic Circle. They were unable to land at Bethel, Holy Cross and Circle as they have mo- landing fields as yet, and high water pre- vented the plane from landing on sand bars. There was so much | wind and rain at Eagle that they were advised not to ‘attempt the landing, and the high water n the river made landing on the bars impossible, Gov. Parks said. Great Prosperity ¢ “The whole Territory 18 enjoy- ing great prosperity, judging from the places we visited. "'Che ‘fur catch 1s expected to ba very large this yoar, and transportation /by alrplane will enable the -irappers to get a quick roturn on thej gkins. The aviation landing field: were splendid in nedrly every place we stopped, though ‘that ‘at Fairbanks naturally’ surpasses them all as it is th home port for the aviation companies,” Gov. Parks said. “Aviation 18 doing more to develop the Territory than s ordinarily realized, and its future can not be foreseen. The advance in the last few years is amazing when it Is realized that but a few years ago there was not a landing field in Alaska and that now there are ahout &b flelds already constructed or in the process of comatruction. There are four operating comphanies in | the Territory now, in whieh evory | dollar of invested capital i3 Alas- kan money, and to' date there a: not been one fatal accldent” he declared. In Air 29 Hours Altogether the party spent 20 hours in the ale and in that time | covered tertitoty that would ré- quire at least ®” yedr by the' or- dinary ie(hog¢ ‘of' transporta: tion, Gov. Patks i, “*0 " Visits industrlal | Séhools: On the way to the Tntérlsr) Gov, Parks stayed in Béwarl for twe days and went frem there to. An: chorage where' he 'attended "the meeting of the Polley Hoard at which matters 'pertalning ‘to the Alaska Railroall were tdken 'tp. He visited the industrial schodl at Bklutna abotit 26 iles froth Anchorage, which is doing splen- did work under the diraction of Charles Brefett. The schodl Is better equipped than any other in the Territory, With a mbdsi carpenter shop, and othst' acfit tics. The boys are makig smow' shoes, sléds and are' e ment- ing in the tanning of skind,’Gov: Parks said. ~‘While he wil'at: the school a groifp of boys were: work- ing on a basehall tHeld With a Fordson tractor belongingito’ the school. ¢ WL & Attends Graduation Exéfeises At Fairbanks, Gov. Parks, Ma- jor Elliott and Mr. Sommérs, who joitied him there, attended the graduation exercises of tHe ' Ala#- ka Agricultural College' = and | School 'of Mines. ' The program was excellent and ‘was attended by several hundred people, Gov. Parks declaréd. The address was given by Judge E. Coke HilL The party left Fairbanks on the morning of Jume 7 and flew to Nenana where they had linner and remained for 'several hours, visiting ' the 'Bureau of Hdication hospital boat on the river. The boat was preparing to leive Ne. nana, where 1t had underione re- pair work, and had a doctor, den- tist and nmurse ‘on board. The same evening they flew to Mac: jrath passing Mt. McKinley n the mnorth. 3 McGrath Prosperous At McGrath, where they remiin- ed for a ‘few hours, business seemed exeeMemt and the people oxpected i’ prosperbus season in furs, 43 MeGrath 18 the dibtribut- ing point for ‘the Kuskokwim country. ' The 'party stopped at Ophir where guite & bit of mining activity '1s gbllig on'in both dredge Land cpeh eut mihinz, according to Gov, Parks, Most of the activ’ natioreal convention at Cardiff, Waies, * Cinternationa! Tllustrated News) ty Is &t Crooked Creek, a short distance below Ophir. From Ophir they flew to Tocotna where they spent the first night out from Fairbanks, On the morning of the second day the .party took off for Flat where they found a very good landing fleld. While the town suffered consideredable loss from the fire experienced last winter, they plan to rebuild as soon as lumber, arrives on the first boat of the Season. The party drove to” Iditarod from Fiat and flew the next morning’ to Unalakleet op Norton® Sound. Conigiderable lce"in Sound Thare ' was considerable ice in Norton Sound and the mail boats had been unable to get into Un- alakleet, Gov. Parks said. At Unalakloet they visited the Swedish Mission and the Burcau of Education school and hospital. The hospital, of which Miss Mable LeRoy, who was formerly in Ju- neau, is in charge, is excellont, Gov. Parks declared. There was considerable actlvity there and quite a number of people, as Un- alakleet is on the aviation route from Fairbanks to Seward Penin- sula points, and has a good land- ing field, ho said. At Golovin the Governor's par- ty stopped for a short time visit- ing the cold storage plant and the packing plant ot the Lomen Reil deer Corporation, where they were prepariig for the season. Seo’ Fur Clothing For Byrd The party remalned at Nome, their next stop, for two days, and while "there saw all of the fur clothing to be used by Command- er Richard E. Byrd on his Ant. arctic . expedition. There wers crates and crates of parkas, mir- tens and other fur garments which Commander Byrd had ordered trom the .natives of the Nome country, who, according to Byrd, make the hest fur garments in the world. From Nome they continued to i —n NEW SHIPMENT KAHO Corsets, Corselettes, . Girdles, elts Garter Bandeaus will be o display “THURSDAY MORNING blirter Belt elgafic garters SETS Bt Ilihe 8t. Ann's Mission before go- | THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1928. Teller, Candle and Kotzebue making the trip in one day. At cach town there was considerable | mining vity, Gov. Parks said, and reindeer herds were to be seen everywhere. The people ex- | nected an excellent fur catch to be brought in this season. At Nulato they visited the Bureau of Edueation hospital and ing on to Ruby. Ruby was very prosperous with all of the stores doing good business. | “The Bureau of Educatfon Hos- | at Tanana Is doing some fine werk and will probably | develop into the larget hospital gtation in the country soon,” Gov. Parks declared. ‘““The matives were having a potlatch at Kok- rincs, gome miles from Tanana and hundreds of them were on their way to attend it,”” he said. Gold Strike at Wiseman | They stopped at Bettles and | then went to Wiseman where| they heard that a gold strike had been repcrted ahout 40 miles abave:thy taws, o8 Betiles:Creek: | The ground had already been all | staked out' by people from Wise- | man. One man was reported to have panned out $51 in a very shert time, while a native was | said to have panned $19. All of | the potatoes and onfons used by | the town and many of t_hu nlh‘-"} PARIS — For motoring, BDD“‘ vegetables are raised in truck ',;q gtreet wear the threc plece gardens in the vicinity, Gov.'gjt fs firmly established. Champ- Parka. fualuren; communal makes one in a dark beige woven material lined with Wiseman they continued to Fort|duvetyn in a shghtly darker Yukon where they spent nearly a|Shade for contract. Tts ample day, Fort Yukon shares the pros-|turned back cuffs, belt and long perity found practically o\.flyw_rnnar are of suede in the same place in Alaska and the furtone as the lining. catch in that country was un-| usually large, he said. At Fort|Parks said. “While airplane trav- Yukon they called on the Epis-lel is not mew to me, I have never copal Hospital and Misslon and made such a long trip before the Burcau of Educaticn scheol.[and helieve it is probably the “The town has a moving picturc longest sustained trip which has house, 4 or 5 trading posts and been mad¢ in Alaska.” a fine landing field,” Gov. Parks i CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 3 : l WILL MEET TOMORROW While unable to land at Circle cowing to high water, the part landed and spent the night After remaining all night at, Circle Hot Sorings Special business of importance {will be taken up at weekly Circle Hot Springs. The hot junchecn of the Chamber of Com- springs, of which Frank Leech, merce tomorrow noon, in the is proprietor, are ve arge and [panquet room of the Blks' Club, well kept up, Gov. Parks said.laccording to E. M. Geddard, They have fine accommodations,|chairman of the entertainment heautiful gardens and concrete|committee. Several distinguished bathing tanks will be put in guests are expected to be pres- during the present summer. ent. The camp at Livengood on the | et L s Tolamon River is looking better; YANKEE TRACTORS WIN than it has for several years, as, ANGORA, Turkey Americar they have plenty cf water to caterpillar tractors outdid Ger- work with, Gov. Parks said. | . Czecho-Slovak and British After visiting Livengood in "Turkish military tests Governor’s party returned to While Angorans bet on the results. Fairbanks, having been gone from | £ B & QoA Y] there for nine days. They stayed| ANOTHER LONESOME PINE several days there and returned | RALBIGH, C,—A long leaf to the coast over the Richardson, bine that serged as the original Highway, stopping on the way,' marker of the boundary between at Chitina from where they made; North and South Carolina has a trip to Kennecctt and Me- boen cut down. It was estimated Carthy, before continuing to Cor-'to be 355 years old. dcva where Goy. Parks and Ma-) — e, jor Elliott boarded the Yukon. “The trip was enjoyable and we were entertained hospitably, sonable. very plice we stopped,”. Gov. House. T L L T N. We clean chimneys. Prices rea- Phone 235, Rocklin —adv. 3 szzey (1] New Dresses- Special $16.75 We FLope you will be pleased with this baby carriage. It is a genuine Hey- wood - Wakefield car- riage and is easily identified by this QUALITY SEAL ON EVERY WHEEL. Juneau-Y oung Hardware Co. HARDWARE and UNDERTAKING | Band Concert “and Dance By Southeastern Alaska Fair Building TONIGHT 8 P. M. to 12:30 P. M. Concert by H. M. S. Durban Band 8 to 9:30 P. M. Followed by public free dance complimentary to Officers and Men of H. M. S. DURBAN Auspices Juneau Chamber of Commerce Old Papers for sale at Empir: Office I O T T T T T The costume that can be transformed to meet the various demands of the modern woman’s busy day is receiving more and more attention— Figured Chiffon — Printed Crepes and Georgette—Not forgetiing the popular Polka Dot— Sizes 16 to 44 $16.75 DAINTY ORGANDIES In plain colors and printed designs. R R R S R PR S G RS RS I H I RN