The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 28, 1929, Page 5

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1929. By GEORGE McMANUS BKINGING UP FATHER ) BYE- BYE, CGEE' 'WE BEEN AWAY FROM MY DEAR LITTLE WIFE FOR & FIFTEEN MINUTES- | MUST o] GO 1IN THE ORUG STORE AN’ HELLO DARLIN'- THID 19 YOUR LITTLE BABY BOY- 1JLUST WANTED TO caLL YOU LP To FIND OUVT HOW You ARE MY DEAR- DEAR- MURESCO or BYE-BYE: HONEY- | WONT BE GONE LONG "M JLST GONNA TAKE A LITTLE wWALK- ELKS AND DOUGLAS | VETERANS IN MEMORIAL DAY RACH® HOME BUILDERS SLATED FOR TODAY| __ i ACH oS wio WE CAN FURNISH CEDAR ITEMS i AND WHERE | | The Elks and Douglas clubs in the ! - \ . 3 and 4 inch Planks Gastineau Channel League are ] 2 3 slated to play tonight at City Park, 2x12 Planks a switch being made in the regular X Sl ¢ 3l schedual which originally brought | 6 and 8 inch Shiplap the Bills and Veterans together.| Douglas has a clean slate, having, won both its games while the Elks have won and lost one each. At midafternoon, the outlook for | the game was not bright. Rainfall! had been fairly heavy all morning; WALL AND CEILING DECORATION 55c¢ Per Package THE Thomas Hardware Co. TAR POT FOR RENT el W CTTES ERZ) © 1920, Int"] Feature Service, Inc., Great Britain rights reserved. WILL DRIVE AT INDIANAPOLIS W. E. Moultray, District Manager | for the Standard Oil, arrived on| the Alaska on his annual visit. He | will visit Western and Interior stations before returning to his Seattle headquarters. Leo McCormack, manager and |one of the ownrs of the Wrangell | Wharf, son of Representative P. C.| McCormack, arrived on the Alaska | #a 'on a business trip. 4 and 6 inch Bevel Siding 4 to 12 inch Clear Finish 5-8x4 Ceiling 5 to 2 Clear Shingles and there didn't seem to be much 3 » G | likelihcod of a change in weather conditions by cvening. e, GAMES MONDAY National League Philadelphia 2, 3; Boston Cincinnati 8; Chicago 5. Pittsburgh 10; St. Louis 1. American League Chicago 7, 6; Detroit 4, 5. St. Louis 3; Cleveland 1. Pacific Coast League No games were played yesterday as the teams were traveling to open this afternoon on the following schedule for this week: Los Angeles at Seattle. San Francisco at Portland. Sacramento at Mission. Oakland at Hollywood. STANDING OF CLUBS Pacific Coast League Won Losi ... 41 17 . 35 33 29 31 26 . 22 21 National weague Won Lost 21 12 20 21 15 14 14 Mission . Los Angeles San Francisco Hollywood . Oakland Sacramento . Portland .. Seattle .. Chicago Pittsburgh St. Louis Philadelphia New York . Boston . Brooklyn 13 Cincinnati 12 American League ‘Won Lost . 25 . 23 406 364 Pet. Philadelphia ........ St. Louis New York Detroit . Cleveland Chicago ‘Washington Boston . .10 24 Gastineau Channel League Won Lost 2 0 .639 594 550 457 .395 313 .294 Pct. 1.000 500 500 .000 Douglas Moose it | et AN 1 American Legion ... —— e J. B. WARRACK HERE 2 1 2 J. B. Warrack, of the Warrack Construction Company arrived on the Alaska and will be here for a week or so. Mr. Warrack’s com- pany has the contract to build the Nelson Building on the triangle property at the junction of Frank- lin and Front Streets that Mr. Nel- son recently purchased from Mrs. Decker. He is at the Gastineau Hotel. 158 | Two veteran race drivers will day automobile race at Indianapolis. and Leon Duray. G. H. Tyrell, with the House of {Irving in Seattle, was an arrival on the Alaska. Bishop W. R. Sloan of the Mor- mon Church and President of the| Northwest Mormon Mission with | headquarters at Portland, Oregon, arrived on the Alaska and will be in Juneau for a week. J. Metzbaum, Cleveland, Ohio, |attorney is a pasenger on the Al- aska on his way to Seward. G. H. Miller of the Bureau of | Mines is a passenger on the Alas-| ka enroute from Seattle to Anchor- age. Associated Press Phote | burn up the track at the Memorial They are Cliff Durant (left) Associated Press Photo Phil* Shafer, veteran automobile Iracer, wili drive in the Indianapolls Memorial day race. e —— DREDGERS COME NORTH J. K. Gowdy, Manager of the New York-Alaska Gold Dredging Company, and E. E. McDougall, with the same company, both of | Montreal, Canada, are passengers lon the Alaska for Seward and the Mr. Gowdy and Mr. McDougall will fly from Anchorage to their property. that they will have a satisfactory iyear’s work in the North. e B. D. Blackwood, traveling sales- man, is a passenger on the Alaska to Seward. He will visit Anchor- age, Fairbanks and Nome before he returns. { Kuskokwim. This is the fourth year | their dredge has been operating.| Mr. Gowdy is confident Mrs. Ray H. Stevens and daugh- ter, Miss Rae Stevens, arrived on |the Alaska from San Francisco | where Mrs, Stevens has been con- valescing from a severe illness. Frank Sheppard, owner of the| | Sheppard Ambulance Company of | Seattle, is a round trip passenger jon the Alaska. RS-0~ S S e French Driver MR. AND MRS. H. J. THOMPSON ARRIVED ON 'THE ALASKA H. J. Thompson, formerly with Jthe U. 8. Weather Bureau depart- |ment in Juneau, who has recently completed a special course in San Francisco preparatory to opening an airway weather bureau in Fair- banks, returned to Juneau on the Alaska with Mrs. Thompson. When he had completed the course at San Francisco, Mr. and Mrs. Thompson spent several weeks visiting relatives in the east. They will remain here a short time before | continuing to Fairbanks where Mr. | Thompson will open the new office Associated Press Phota of which he will be in charge. Louls Chiron, French automobile ! rece driver, will bid for Memurlal;Stablu of Solomon day race honors at Indianapolis D ‘ D S T ue for Destruction Public Wards Grow CHICAGO, May 28—King Solo- | Trees to End Floods mon’s stables, where in Biblical days |he kept the fine Egyptian steeds SPRINGFIELD, Il., May 28— ye gptained when he married a Under a plan advocated by Rodney | pharaoh's daughter, soon are to be H. Brandon, state director of public|gegtroyed in the search of further welfare, convicts and insane per-|.yidence of .lost civilizations. |sons in public institutions may help | Discovery last summer by the |block floods by growing millions of | yesiqdo expedition of the Univer- young trees for reforestation p“r'islty of Chicago, vestiges of a still poses. earlier kingdom, a city of wealthy He proposes that the state buy canaanite kings, have been found tracts of land near penal institu- pejoy their level. tions and hospitals for the insane Everything of scientific value where tree propagation could bei(oung in the stables has been carc- carried on. fully surveyed, and all possible data - 'have been obtained, the expedition R. A. Zeller, Supervisor of Ton-|j.aders assert. gass National Forest, U. S. Forest oV A Service, is here for a few days\ qpe American Legion Auxiliary on business with district head-| . A, i orage recently gave a dance quarters of the’ Forest; Service. |and sufficient funds were realized THREE FOR_MER CHAMPIONS AT UNVEILING Former heavyweight kings meet at unveling of Muldoon-Tunney ti den. Left to right: Tommy Burns, Jack Dempsey, and Jack Johnson, ting to clear the Legion Hall of all debt. Vassar Underwear fon the Alaska. !Company in the Northwest. Agssociated Press Photo ‘Two likely contenders for this year's automobile speed crown at the Indianapolis Memorial day race are Ray Keech (left) and the | youthful Tony Gullotta. TRANSPORTATION VETERAN | o % vistting 1N JuNeau Many Air Mail Letters .| Carry Too Much Postage Gecorge F. Talmage, in point of continuous service one of the old- WASHINGTON, May 28.—Of the est transportation men of the 140,000,000 letters sent by air mail Northwest, and Mrs. Talmage, of |within the last year, thousands had Seattle, are making the round trip [too much postage, officials of the Mr. Talmage has |post office department report. been’' for many years connected with Although a national advertising | the Alaska Steamship Company. Be- | campaign was staged to inform the | fore going with the Alaska Steam- | public that a five-cent air mail ship’ Company he was with the old |stam would carry a one ounce let- Pacific Coas: Steamsixp Company |ter by plane to any point in the for years, and before that he was|United States, Canada or Mexico, with: the Northern Pacific Railroad jmany writers used a two-cent stamp | with the regular air mail stamp. ot s = Bt A gentleman is received according to his appearance WEAR TAILOR MADE CLOTHFS And have them made at home. 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