The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 29, 1929, Page 8

e i b HEART ATTACK CARRIES OFF GOV, STRONG Former Governor of Alaska| Passes Away at Seattle | Saturday Night | Asscclated Press dispatches bring! the news of the sudden death of | John F. A. Strong, Governor of Alaska from 1913 to 1918 and pioneer Alaska newspaperman, nl‘[ Seattle Saturday 1t of a heart | attack. He had been in ill health about one year. Former Gov. Strong came to Al- aska in 1897 and was employed for sbout one year on the Skagway News when he went to Dawson. He was employed for a time on the Dawson News and went from there to Nome where he was as- sociated in the establishment of | the Nome News and later founded | the Nome Nugget. After leaving Nome he traveled for a while and then established the Katalla Her-|i about two |} ©ld. This -he ran for years when he established a paper at Greenwater, California, and ran it for a time before selling out. His next venture was the Iditarod Nugget, which he ran for a year or two. After traveling for a time in Europe, he founded The Empire in the fall of 1912. A little more than a year later he sold The Empire to the Empire Printing Company, and finally retired from Jjournalism. He was appointed Gov- crnor of Alaska in the spring of 1913 and served for five years In 1917 his name was sent to the Senate for the second term, but that body adjourned without acting on it and in 1918 President Wilson appointed Thomas Riggs to the position. Mr. Strong then traveled in South America and elsewhere and later settled at Los Angeles. For the last several years he has spent his winters in Southern Cali- fornia and his summers in Seattle ‘While at Nome Mr. Strong was one of the organizers of the Pioneers of Alaska and he served while there as Arctic Chief of the Arctic Brotherhood. He engaged in mining at Daw- con for a time without success. Before coming to Alaska Mr. Strong was engaged in newspaper work at Victoria, B. C. Belling- ham, Seattle and Tacoma at var- ious times. He was editor of the Bellingham Independent in 1892, For a time he was on the Seattle Telegraph and was telegraph editor and editorial writer on the Tacoma Ledger. Mr. Strong was married to Miss Anna Hall in Seattle in 1896 and she survives him. She accompan-| jed him to Alaska and always worked with him in his newspaper ventures. They accumulated a mod- cst fortune in Alaska and, it is understood, have increased it con- sideably by wise investments since leaving here. Mr. Strong was called “Major” by his friends before he served as Governor of Alaska. Since that time he has been known as “Gov- ner” He was a native of Thorne- wwn, New Brunswick, where he was born in 1859. He was educated in a normal school at Fredericton, New Brunswick, and in his early years taught school, managed a country store and engaged in news- paper work in that Province. He came west in_the middle eighties, and after living at Butte for a time he came to Puget Sound, where, as said, he lived at Victoria, B. C., Bellingham, BSeattle and Tacoma. FUNERAL WEDNESDAY SEATTLE, July 29.—The funeral of former Gov. John F. A. Strong will occur Wednesday afternoon at Seattle under the auspices of the Rose Croix of the Masonic order. Cremation will follow the servlccs.l CONDITIONS IN THIS DISTRICT EXCELLENT Law observance conditions in the Juneau district are in first class shape with crime at & minimum,| according to United States Marshal Albert White, who last week return- ed home after a 12-day survey, made under instructions from the Department of Justice. He was Grayco Ties | Fashion’s Leader Showing a full line of these late styled, artistically patterned GRAYCO TIE SABIN’S THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE MONDAY, JULY 29, 1929 F()R(l-l) DOW \ ON ALASI\ A FLIG HT . g | e =l Capt. Ross G. Hoyt, U. S. A, was forced down a week ago yes- terday near Valemount, B. C., after about two-thirds of his flight had been completed from Mitchell Field, New York, to Minneapolis, Edmon- ton, Whitehorse, Nome and return Capt. Ross is shown in the inset of the picture of the map of his flight and his machine, which was completely wrecked, when he was forced down, is below. Engine trouble on account of water in his gasoline, is given as the cause of the crash. Capt. Hoyt was not injured zlthough the plane was wrecked. He owes his life to the fact that he found a small clearing in the mountainous and wooded terrain and to his skillful piloting. Valemount is near the Alberta boundary, not far from where Mount Robson, highest peak in the Canadian Rockies, lifts its head more than 13,000 feet. Capt Hoyt, refueller of the Question Mark, was making the flight in an attempt to make the 8,460 miles in quicker time than it had ever been made before. He planned to demonstrate the feasibility of extending the present pursuit range of army ships by increasing ‘the horsepower and fuel capacity. Customs Service. All prospectors and others going up the river are GUSTGMS WII-I- “u:fucstud l?)-'c the 'S;;\st:xms' authori- OPEN STATION, vy orFicia. ATTAKU MUUTH EEROM KETCHI FROM KETCHIKAN McBnde Announces Serv- ‘.( »d suddenly to Washington, First Assistant Secretary of ' ice for Newly Discover- ed Mining District th Ernest Lee Jahncke and accompanied by Admiral ry J. Ziegemeir, commandant the 13th Naval District with quarters at the Bremerton vard, left Ketchikan at 3 Sunday morning for Se- rd the Destroyer Moody. omdr. A. W. Radford, U. » *mun‘ this morning that he ed a communication from ary Jahncke saying that he| i his party were returning to Sc- and were sorry that they be unable to come to Ju- Arrangements had been| for the Secretary and three party to fly to Juneau on rday but due to the unfavor- E weather the flight was not decmed advisable. Tn a wire sent to Gov. George A Parks by Secretary Jahncke, he thanked the Governor for his cour- tesy in inviting him and his party to be guests at the Governor’s man- sion and expressed his regrets that Hen <ot Opening of a United States Cus- j toms station at the mouth of Takn, River to facilitate travel and freight | shipments into the rapidly d ing mining area across the lntll- national boundary to be complished at once. An | nouncement to this effect was made | g |today by J. C. McBride, Collector of Customs. T. L. Allen, for several ye: head of the Dry Goods Departm of Goldstein’s Emporium, has bees appointed Deputy Collector of Cuc- tome in charge of the station. Il will be located on a barge at fhe :momh of the river. The service iwill be inaugurated August 1, Mr. McEride said. | Increased travel and heavier freight movement, occasioned Ly the recent mineral strikes on the British Columbia side of the boun- an- d dary make the opening of the sta-|matters of state ~prevented his tion advisable, it was said. While coming to Juneau. it is listed as a temporary station, e, it will be continued as long as the conditions of traffic warrant. The develcoment programs of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Com-| pany and the United Eastern on the | Big Bull Group aud ffe IRWhiyg lpiind? has. i’ most ltera) property —respectively entail the| coning in the case of George shipment of considerable quantities|yw — carter, 32-year-old Marlow of equipment and supplies. These‘ pilot. . companies, in order to insure N0/ other aviators “fly blind” in break in their transportation service | storms or fogs, but Carter must do are establishing a barge and store- g, all the time. He has been sight- house at the river's mouth where jess since he was 15 years old. a storage can be maintained if with the aid of his co-pilot, Don necessary. Shipments then can be Clayton, Carter flies his own planes handled between Juneau and the and flies them well. He can take Customs’ station by deep water off and maneuver ships in the air vessels and by river boats from without difficulty and calls on there to the camps. !Clayton to take the controls when Mr. Allen will have charge of the |he wants to land. storage and the barge for the! “You can feel your way off the companies as well as represent the ground and around the air all Landlord Pilots Plane In Air Though Blind MARLOW, Okia., July 29.—"Fly-| accompanied on the trip by Mrs. Deputy United States Marshal White. William Schnabel left today on the Marshal White visited Tenakee,|steamer Queen for his home at Sit- Warm Springs, Todd, Chatham,|ka, after spending several days here Sitka, Goddard’s Sanitarium, Ex- cursion Inlet and Funter Bay on official business. oo — Everything was in a satisfactory state from the standpoint of ob- servance and enforccment of law, he said. United States Commissioner R W. DeArmond of Sitka, left Sunday on the Sea Otter for his home. He was called here At all of the salmon canneries he | offictal business. visited, many fish were Being re- BhfAD O A ceived. A heavy run was in pro-| A Texan, Berkeley Bell, holds the gress in the Icy Strait area. While|new vork state singles tennis mlo no record breaking packs were i L it = | anticipated, the packers were all substantially ahead of the 1927 out- put and were apparently well sxxus-"l fied with results. —————.——— GET YOUR Fruit Jars and CANNING TREADGOLD GOING INSIDE A. N. C. Treadgsld, of London England, who is one of the pioneer mining men in the Yukon Terri-| tory, and who owns a large conces ACCESSO]{[[:S sion at Forty Mile and in the Daw- 5 son Country, was a north-bound | NOW passenger aboard the steamer Prin-| cess Louise. Mr. Treadgold also operated the first dredge in the Klondike. Complete stock just arrived e o FAX The Fragrant Sanitary Grocery PHONES 83—85 “The Store That Pleases” Deodorant and Insecticide Destroys Moths, Roaches, and other Insects Call Garnick’s Up Tomorrow for what you have forgotten today PHONE 174 3 I | EASY TO USE 40 cents Juneau Drug Company H. M. HOLLMANN R. R. HERMANN Free Delivery Phone 33 Post Office Substation No. 1 i i and CAMERA SUPPLIES PHONE 486 Personal Delivery BUTLER-MAURO i DRUG CO. i Free Delivery Phone 134 || ervice WHEN WE SELL IT Servi The Store for Men IT'S RIGHT Pete Says: “The last canning apricots of the SEASON. They are priced at 50 cents per basket or 16 pounds for $2.00.” Hurry Hurry Hurry “WHY PAY MORE” |it picked up Sam Feldon, right,” Carter explains, “but feeling out a landing is something that simply can't be done.” Beczuse he cannot make a land- ing Carter is not eligible for a pi- lot’s license. For the past two years, however, he has flown his two planes without an accident. He abandoned automobiles for speedier transportation to travel through Southern Oklahoma, where he makes regular visits to more than 350 tenant farms. ECKMANN FLIES TO KETCHIKAN; RETURNS HERE Juneau Saturday for Ketchikan. Fred Huffman, cameraman, was taken from Juncau to Wrangell; and Mar Dong, a Chinese contrac- tor, was taken on the plane at Todd and flown to Ketchikan. O. D. Leet, who was a passenger aboard the Ketchikan, arrived in Juncau from Wrangell on Sunday morning, when the plane returned here. Sunday afternoon, the Ketchikan took off for the Taku country where John Johnson, and Tor: Snyder, and brought them ba‘ck to Juneau. - ENTERT. N AT DINNER Comdr, and Mrs. Edward S. Ad- dison entertained at dinner Sat- urday evening aboard the U. 8. C. G. cutter Unalga. Covers were laid for eight. - IS IN HOSPITAL Dempsey Lewis entered St. Ann's Hospital this morning where he will undergo a major operation. — e e————— New, select line of visiting cards Empire. e b A THE NYAL Service Store Nyal Hypophosphites An Alternative Tonic Nyal Cough Syrups Nyal Rheumatic Treatment The Wonderful Nyal Face Cream with Peroxide for the hair | Phone 25 Free Delivery The plane Ketchikan, of the Alaska-Washington Airways, and| piloted by Anscell Eckmann, left |Navy Has Mobile Weather Bureau On Pacific Ocean (Continued riom Page One) “Our work also includes the tak- ing of a pilot balloon soundings of the upper atmosphere at zero, 6, 12 and 18 o'clock Greenwich mean time daily. These are made with a view of obtaining data to be used on a pilot chart of the upper air of the Pacific for the use of avi- ators, similar to the pilot chart of the upper air of the Atlantic that is regularly published by the navy hydrographic office. | “The third phase of our study is that of the correlation of static with the atmosphere. The Pacific communication office is recording static four times daily at San Diego, Alaska, Honolulu, Apia, Guam and Cavite. plotted against the weather maps, with a view to determining what assoclation there is between high These static reports are and low and changing pressures to § various static conditions.” Lieutenant Kincaid said that the hydrographic office, cooperatiny with the bureau of aeronautics and the bureau of engineering of the navy, is manufacturing instruments which will automatically record the direction and intensity of static. Soundings of the upper air are made by releasing balloons which are spotted with sextant. By keep- ing check on the speed and course of the ship it is possible to figure accurately the velocity of the air currents and the exact height of cloud formations. g g A radio receiver with loud speak- | ers in every classroom is to be in- stalled in the Beaumont, Tex., high school. FRESH HOME MADE BUTTER, 55c¢ per lb. Home Grown FRESH GREEN ONIO CABBAGE, BEETS, KALE, TURNIPS PHONES 92—95 : August 5, 1929 MARYE NS, CAULIFLOWER, SPINACH, GEORGE BROTHERS Purveyors to Particular People FREE DELIVERY August 5, 1929 ANNOUNCING CONCERT OF BURNS Nyal Hirsutone — Treatmer’ | “The Alaska Nightingale” Coliseum Theatre 8 P. TICKETS ON August 5, 2929 FINAL CLEAN SWEEP-Remaining Stock Must Go Regardless of Cost M. Reserve The Date SALE NOW August 5, 1929 1 COAT—Size 46 was $45.00, NOW $15.00 DRESSES—Regular $18.50, $7.50; Regular $25.00, $12.50; and Regular $37.50, $15.00 A small group of these models left SMOCKS—Regular $3.50—$1.00 MILLINERY—A few Fall and Summer models—ALL 75 cents RAINCOATS—Women’s, a few yellow slickers, 50 cents; Chil- dren’s, values to $12.50, MUST GO, $2.00 GIRDLES—A few in all sizes, values to $10.50. Two groups— $2.00 and $3.00 GIRDILIERES—Sizes 34 36, 42, 44, 46, 48, values to $10.25 Three groups—$1.00, $2.00, $3.00 WOMEN’S SWEATERS—clean sweep—$3.75 CHILDREN’S SWEATERS—all to go at $2.00 - = KNICKERS—Tweed, $2.50, $1.50; Khaki, $2.25, $1.00 ONE TABLE OF ODDS AND ENDS REAL VALUES—2 FOR 25¢ Goldstein’s Emporium