The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 16, 1929, Page 2

e AR s e Two Specials For Three Dayy We have a few of the : LADIES’ DRESSES Left at the special price of S Underwear ew Suwit Free if it Illps Anygwhere R No-Rip Union Suits are tailored to fit all over—no binding or bunching. Models for “stouts’’ and “‘longs’ as well as regulars. No-Rip Shirts and Shorts are the last word in smartness and comfort. New patterns and beautiful color combinations. Two-way full- ness in Shorts—side ties for perfect waist adjustment. Union Suits Shirts and Shorts #1.00 arnd vpwara T3¢ 10 *1.5 B. M. Behrvmls Co., Inc. Juneau’s Leading Department Store - CLAIM SURVEYS FRONT STREET APPLICABLE AS ASSESSMENT B.D. S{cwaxt Says SUrveys son on that project. A crew of Of Mmmg Clalms AppllC- |men was put at work between the | Palace Theatre and the intersection able as Assessment Work |of Frankiin and Front streets level- ‘mg off the surface and getting it The recent pocket veto by Gov- |in shape for concrete. With practicaliy every property jowner on Front Street approving the City Council's street paving q)u‘:'.*m \-.'m'k t.)d;\'y was launched PAVING STARTS THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1929 *—Less than 10 miles. NOTE —Opservations at St. Paul, Dufch Rarbor, Kodiak, Juneau, Prince Rupert, Edmonton, Seattle, Portland and San Fianvisco are made at 4 a. and 4 n. m,, Juneau time. The pressure is lowest near Unalaska and highest west of the Pacific States and British Columbia. It is falling in the Gulf of Alaska and rising in extreme Eastern Alaska, British Columbia and the North Pacific States. Precipitation has been general in South- ern Alaska and showers have fallen in the upper Yukon Valley. Clear weather preails over most of the Interior. Aside from a fall at Eagle, little change is noted in temperature SNOHOMISH TO CONVOY .~ YACHT RACE CRUISERS DAVIS OFFERED Cruisers racing from Olympia to Juneau, Alaska, in the Second An- nual Capital-to-Capital Yacht Race which starts from Olympia June | 15, will be convoyed, as in the 1928 | competition, by the United States { cutter Snohomish, according to i !word from John G. Berry, Com- mander of the Northwest Coast Guard division. | Lieutenant Commander F. J. \Blrkett, who skippered the cutter convoy and rendered valuable as- {sistance in at least two instances WASHINGTON, May ‘G“PTES"‘ot racing yachts, will again have | dent Hoover has offered the Gover-|command of the Government boat. n:n Generalship of the Philippines | permit to take the Snohomish into [to Dwight F. Davis, of St. Louls, ed, Captain Berry said, in a recent | former Secretary of War, who has!conference with Admiral F. C. Bal- |the matter under advisement. \lard, while he was making an in-' | It s belleved acceptance depends |spection of the Northwestern Di- of the decision of the family wheth- |vision of the Coast Guard. |er it is desired to leave the home| On the Snohomish will be carricd lin St. Louis for an indefinite stay extra gasoline, and probably oil, |in Maniln {ready for use' on any racing boat in need of fuel. And last year RSP T 1 | (’contesung yachtsmen were permit- ’MRS PHILLIPS ited to store firearms and fishing 1 tackle, which they expected to use while in Alaska waters, aboard the Government boat. — e 'Mother of :Mts. Gus Mes- serschmidt, Dies—In IlI- Health for Some Time Former War. Secrelary May | Be Governor General ‘ of Philippines PARTY LEFT TODAY FOR TAKU DISTRIC John B. Stapler, prominent Los Angeles mining man, and his party of several men, got away early . B. STAPLER AND Weather Conditions As Recorded by the U. S. MRS Mlc ARTNEY : Weather Bureau Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning 4 p. m. today: DIES s U n D E NLY Rain tonight and Friday; moderate southeasterly winds. LOCAL DATA Time Barom. Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity Weather 4 p. m. yesty 30.05 45 82 SE 7 Rain i 4 a. m. today 30.16 41 ” NE 1 Rain vl s ARk = R sl Rain {\Wellknown ]uneau Woman CABLE AND RADIO REPORTS | Passes Away—TFuneral ESTERDA Is Tomorrow ! Highest € pm. ! Low 8am 8am Preclp. Sam. Mrs. Grace White McCartney, | ;::};;::- u.ln; tolr;p. _J __temp. temp. Velocity 24 hrs. Weather wife of T. J. McCartney, died yes- rday after at 3:40 o'clock at| | Nome 46 42 | < 8% 88 12 0 Pt. Cldy|terday afternoon Aqu & ;73 i | Bethel 6 42 36 40 10 0 Clay | the residence of Mrs . Peter | Fort Yukon 48 42 30 4 — 16 Clear |man on the Glacier Highway of a Tanana 54 52 | 34 4“4 — 0 Clear | heart attack, following an attack Eagle 52 48 0 3 — 0 Pt Cldy Of acute indigestion. Although St. Paul 40 40 3¢ 3 14 0 Cldy Mrs. McCartney had not been well Dutch Harbor 48 44 | 38 40 — — cidy for several years and had suffered Kodiak 46 44 | . 38 40 20 10 Rain | from severe headaches for the last Cordova 48 44 40 42 14 28 Cldy‘ulx months, her sudden death yes- Juneau ... 48 45 40 41 1 .16 Rain | terday came s a great shock to Ketehikan 56 - | 34 - 4 £3 Cldy her many friends in Juneau. Prince Rupert 52 52 42 44 0 2% €t 1y‘ Last fall Mrs. McCartney began Edmonton 66 64 | 44 48 : 0 Cldy | suffering from headaches which in- Seattle 64 60 48 50 4 0 Cldy |creased in frequency and severity Portland 2 60 50 52 ! 0 Cidy until the latter part of December San Francisco 60 56 52 52 = 0 Cidy (when she went to Scattle to the | Virginia-Mason Hospital for treat- ‘man She returned to Juneau: the |latter part of February when the | Scattle physicians said they could |find nothing wrong with her condi- !tion. The headache attacks con- itinued and Mrs. MeCartney sold The American Beauty Parlor, of which she was proprietor, the first of May because of her health. Mr. McCartney and she spent the last two weeks at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Peterman, while they worked on their house near by, into which they planned to move on its completion. The attack which resulted in Mrs. McCartney's death began Tuesday afternoon, and at noon yesterday Dr. H. Vance, whose treatments had brought relief dur- ing previous headaches, was called. He found her in a dying condition and advised Mr. McCartney to send for a physician to apply restora- tives immediately. When Dr. W. W. Council arrived at the house he found her ungonscious and she did not regain consciousness before | her death. Mrs. McCartney was born in Spokane, Wash., in 1897 and came to Juneau in 1918. Mr. McCartney and she were married in the fall of 1923 in Cordova and a year later she purchased the American Beauty Parlor, formerly owned by Mrs. Lydia Webber, which she operated until May 1. Besides her husband, Mrs. Mc- Cartney is survived by her mother and step-father, Mr. and Mrs. A. 'Reinwald, two sisters and a broth- | er, all of Spokane. Funeral services will be held to- morrow afterncon at 2 p.m. in the Presbyterian Church. The Rev. C. E. Rice will officiate at the funeral and burial will be in the Elks’ plot of Evergreen Cemetery. | e e \ AMERICAN LEGION | NOTICE | Members of American Legion and | American Legion Auxiliary are re- quested to meet at the Dugout at 1:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon to 'attend the funeral of Mrs. Mc- i Cartney, wife of Legionnaire Mc- |Cartney. Legion members are re- ,quested to wear caps. A large at- —adv. e e D. V. F. D. BASEBALL DANCE DOUGLAS NATATORIUM WORKERS ARE WANTED, BOY SCOUT CABIN Men and boys, who can work, are wanted to gather at the Boy Scouts | cabin next Sunday to gather moss and assist in laying the cement floor. Workers are asked to take their own lunches and make a general picnic of the affair but incidentally to work. Those joining in the movement are requested to take gunny sacks for the purpose of gathering moss and chinking the cabin. The cement is now at the cabin according to Dr. Simpson who has issued the call for voluntary work- ers. MILLARD SUCCEEDS LATE FRED G. PRICE IN EAGLE DISTRICT| D. F. Millard, formerly of Valdez, a nephew of B. F. Millard, one of the pioneer mining men of Prince William Sound, has been made gen- cral foreman on the Alaska Road Commission’s field staff, succeeding the late Fred G. Price. He has beer on duty at local headquarters o —TONIGHT — A HARD TIME DANCE Music by Serenaders Gentlemen $1.00 Late Ferry WOOD the Commission for the past 1( 3 dazs : ARGE LOAD, $ With Lieut. J. G. Christianson L L 2 4‘25 and Foreman Foster, Mr. Millarc will leave Saturday for Skagway cnroute via. Whitehorse and Daw- son, for Eagle. He will be ir charge of the Commission’s work in the Forty Mile district this sea- son. Mr. Foster will also be sta- tioned.in the same district. After spending about two weeks at Eagle and Forty Mile, Lieut Christiansen will proceed to Fair- banks. Later he will go to Chis- tochina and spend the summer with Engineer Donald McDonald on the Gulkana-Chisana survey. k4 oo Either MILL or KINDLING WOOD SERVICE TRANSFER CO. Office—Almquist Tailor Shop We are now serv:ng SANDWICHES PHONE 528 neau Ice Cream Parlors. -adv = Old Papers for sa]e at Empire Office e > AERIAL VIEWS OF JUNEAU Mrs. Emma Louise Messerschmidt Phillips, 72 years of age, died of heart disease yesterday afternoon at 2 oclock at the residence of ‘her daughter, Mrs. Gus Messer- schmidt with whom she had made her home for the last two years. this morning on one of Bill Strong’s Taku River boats for the mining property on the Tulsequah River on which Mr. Stapler is supervising development work this summer. While work now is preliminary, Mr. Stapler expects to do consid- erable diamond drilling and other i, ernor Parks of a Senate measurc| J. J. Connors yesterday took that under took to regulatc annual around a petition to the property labor on mining claims in Alaska, owners on Front Street. All of does not operate to render the cost (them, except three, two of whom of surveys of unpatented claims in- [were not seen, signed the agree- valid as assessment work, accord- ments specifying that the work ing to the statement of B. D. Ste art, Supervising Mining Engineer for Alaska, in an interview today. This matter was submitted by Mr. Stewart to Attorney-General Rust gard who supplied the following information: “In the case of W and vs. Mike Byrnes' Estate which originated in the banks, Alaska, the Court of Appeals at San Francisco held that the cost of surve a mining claim could lawfully be counted as and applied upon the expenditure re- quired by law for assessment work or annual labor.” Territorial Act Limited The Territorial act that was re- cently vetoed provided, among other things that the cost of surveying mining claims could be counted as assessment work only in the event the field notes of the survey had been recorded, Mr. Rustgard said This provision of the bill was look- ed upon as being in conflict with the federal statutes as interpreted by the Court of Appeals in the Wigand case, in that it would place a limitation on the right to apply the cost of surveying as assessment work. The Attorney-General sla!es\‘ that’ this interpretation by him supplied one of the reasons wh the Governor vetoed the bill. % “Important to Miners It is important to owners of un- mining claims to know court at Fair-! would be paid for by them and re- iimbm—wmonts made by the City jover a period of four years. One lof the owners said he expected to 11 his holdings shortly but if he had not by the time the paving crcw reached him, agreed to sign up. Generally, it is said, the new plan meets with approval among the property owners. It is understood the Front Street paving will be completed before the City under- takes any other, part of the pro- grom, which cal !1., for paving on the block between Burford’s Corner and Ithe Cable office on upper Front Street, and the two blocks be- Itween Franklin and Main on Third Street. > TENNESON IS HERE FROM TENAKEE FOR BOAT TO THE SOUTH | 4 T. Ten »son, President of the Superior Fisherles Cotfipany, was here today from the company's plant at Tenakee cnroute to Seat- le. ‘The early season’s work is practically complete, he said, and lans for the year's canning activ- y all made. | The company will operate five floating traps and buy from two in- dependent trapmen this season. In actual development work during the present season. With the four| men who accompanied him tms morning, ‘there will be a crew of ! fifteen men at work on the proper- | ty. She is survived by her daughters, Mrs. Messerschmidt, and Mrs. M. M. Wilson, who were with her at the time of her death, and a son, Daniel W. Phillips, of San Francis- co, two sisters, Mrs. M. Martin, 82 years old, of Seattle, and Mrs. Henry Rumpage, 89 years old, of Minncapolis, Minn. Mrs. Phillips had been ill for sev- eral years and had been bedridden since last January. She was un- conscious for about 32 hours before her death. Mrs. Phillips was born in Minne- apolis in 1856 and. made her home there until 1890 when she moved to the Pacific Coast and . lived in - — PLANE JUNEAU BACK The plane Juneau arrived yes- terday afternoon from Petersburg doing commercial flying. snelll Dinners on BSundays Tacoma and Seattle, until she came ‘ and W :’o‘n’:uuo to Juneau about two years.ago wi E m ten to ‘:' make her home with her daughter and Mr. Messerschmidt after thelr | Mh p{?-‘.r::l.. b marriage. Her daughter, Mrs. wn-|.,_, R son, of Revelstoke, B. C., has beeh where it had been for several days b The Abeade Cate || tendance is requested. | Vaults and Safes furnished for storing your Fur Garments FUR COATS MADE i TO ORDER Latest Styles Alaska Seal and Otter Coats a Specialty. | YURMAN’S Remodeling and Repairing A at Summer Prices visiting here for:about a month: Funeral services will be held upon the return of the Rev. H. R. Allen who is now in the States and ex- pected home in about a week. — ., Charles Anderson, old time Al-} askan, known as “King Salmon Charlie,” died recently in Peters- burg at the age of 68 yeas. i g ol NOTICE OF CALL FOR BIDS Schools in the High School Build- Juneau and Alaska it st: ing up to 6 p. m. ,Saturday, May 25, 1929, for the construction and installation of the following school equipment: stand in need. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE SALVA- ands ever ready to reach out its hand to restore, befriend and counsel all who Your local officer in Juneau and other points are at the service of the public day or Alaska Scenic Views adv. gl"lllllllllllllllIIIIIIIIl'lIIllllllllllllllllllllIIII!IIIIIIIINIIIIIIlllllllllllllllllllllIlIIllllllll|IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllllllllllllllllll i B : S y = ) - 4 - - 5 & v o i U4 i 1 \ R 0T ' | INEE VAN £ } ~ (SR Lfiu i o 5 ! RN ; oL 2Gew (3 0 ¢ Vs o J [ Y- 2 . 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In three groups-$12.75, $16.75, $29 50 All Sizes I.l‘t they may legally apply as an- addition it will have 10 or 12 seine | nual assessment the cost of survey- boats fishing throughout the sum- “ their claims and that this right imer. Mr. Tenneson came north “implied in the federal m!mnn‘abou' 30 days ago and has been applicable to Alaska and |at Tenakee since that time. He ‘E therefore may not be affected by expects to be in Seattle about one jal acts or their veto, Mr.| week, returning here on the next said. sailing of the steamer Alaska. b~ B L eee ‘Commercial job printing at The! New, select line of visiting cards . Empl at The Emplre. P 2 Six laboratory tables; Six sewing tables; Two cooking tables; One instructor’s table. examined of any or all bids. W. K. KELLER, ladv. Plans and specifications may be at the office of the Suverintendent ‘of Schools. = The right is reserved to reject any parc Bids will be received at the of- fice of the Superintendent of Superintendent of Schoolsl night. This practical friendship has won the con- fidence of all from the President to the humble toiler. Will you asist this work of friendship to continue in your midst? Then let your gift to the Army Annual Appeal which is now on, be a liberal P TION ARMY IN ALASKA? : The Salvgtinn Army in Alaska stands as a friend to all, irrespective of creed, color, race or station, in life, just as the Army is designated. “The Army of the helping hand” in all parts of the world, so in one. E E E} £ ] ] £ E] | | S = ] ——