The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 12, 1929, Page 8

TRAGEDY OCCURS DURING FISHING TRIP SATURDAY Carl SundliEDrow\'ned in| Salmon Creeck Dam Lake When Boat Capsizes Tragedy overtook a fishing party when Carl Sundling, of Katalla was drowned in the lake above Sal- mon Creek Dam about 9:30 o'clock Saturday night, less than three | minutes after the boat in which| he and Dr. W. W. Council had been | fishing for several hours, Dr. Council and Mr. Sundling took the seaplanc Ketchikan into the lake about 6:30 o'clock and landed at the far end of the lake where they put their rubber boat in the water and fished until after dark. They were half way down the lake on their way to the dam when the accident occurred. Mr Sundling was paddling, using a collapsible paddle that was jointed | in the middle, when it came un- jointed and the lower half fell into | the water. Taking his aluminum rod case, Dr. Council paddled back to pick up the lost section of the paddle, and when they were almost along- side, Mr. Sundling leaned out to| reach for it, and leaning too far, overturned the boat. Plunged Into Water Plunging into the icy water, Dr. Council called to his companion to grab the boat, but received no re-| sponse, and in less than two min- utes all sound of splashing and swimming had ceased, he said. They came to the surface on different| sides of the boat after it capsized, and Dr. Council said that after he struck the boat, he didn't see Mr. Sundling, but believed that in the excitement he must have swam; away from the boai rather than taking hold of it. After struggling in the water for about three-quarters of an hour, Dr. Council succeeded in reaching the shore, still clinging to the over- turned boat. After reaching shore he righted the boat and paddled to the lower end of the lake where he remained in the cabin until day break Sunday. Two other men who had been fishing in another part of the lake returned to the cabin shortly after | Dr. Council and, on the way down the lake on their raft, recovered the hat worn by Mr. Sundling. They | told of a large log about fifty feet | from the spot they picked up the hat and expressed the theory that Mr. Sundling might have seen tk log as the boat capsized and start- ed swimming toward it. Mr. Sundling is survived by his widow and three children, a girl, Evelyn, about 15 years, who is at- tending high school in Michigan; a 16 year old boy, Fred, who is operating his father's boat from Cordova to the St. Elias Light, and a six-year-old daughter, Cherry, who is in Juneau with her mother. In Junecau Three Weeks The family came to Juneau sev-| eral weeks ago in order that Mrs. Sundling might be operated upon by Dr. Council, who had been their physician for many years in Cor- dova. She left the hospital a short time ago and they had planned to return to the Westward on an carly boat. Mr. Sundling, who is about 35 years old, had lived in Katalla for many years and for the last three years held the mail contract from Cordova to the St. Elias Light, through a stretch of the roughest water to be found in Alaska. A party headed by Forrest Smith will leave on the seaplane Ketchi- kan for the lake at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon to attempt the re- covery of the body. Mr. Forrest, who has aided in rescuing bodies from Lake Chelan, belicves that the only possible chance of locating the body is by sounding. —— - BERLIN MEN BUYIN READY MADE CLOTHES BERLIN, Aug. 12.—The first Ger- man attempt at American stand- ardization in men's clothing causes a 20 per cent reduction in retail prices here. A chain store under central man- agement uses “American style” quantity production and sells ready made suits at rates substantially lower than those of any Berlin tailors. The standardized suits are finding a ready market. —_—————— LET Amquis. rress Your Sult We call and deliver. Phone 526 ——————— LODE MINING CLAIM LOCA- TION NOTICES AT THE EMPIRE | capsized. | istice made useless. By FRANK I. WELLER (A. P. Feature Writer) WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.—Within a year nothing will be left of the government’s “wooden armada,” the greatest fleet that ever hoisted a try’s defense. Sixty-five of the vessels, ghostly ture, are tied up in the Potomac river, waiting to be dismantled, burned, and sent to the bottom of Ballows Bay, near Quantico, Va. They are the property of the West- ern Marine and Salvage company which already has scrapped 158 cargo carriers for their equipment, iron, and saleable timber. It is the fortune of war. Had the conflict continued, these craft would have braved the enmemy on the high seas, carrying cargo as a part of the United States shippiny board's proposed emergency fleet of 1,017 ships. German submarines and gunfire virtually had cleared the ocean of American craft and the bigh com- mand believed that if troops ever reached France, the United States | would have no ships to carry food and equipment across the sea. On August 3, 1917, the resources of the nation were thrown behind a gigantic undertaking—creation of an emergency fleet scheme was to put into service in the shortest possible time anything and everything that would float Work started on 1,017 wooden ves- sels. In little more than a year, the armistice was signed. Only a few of the wooden ships had seen duty. They were part of 589 under con- struction, principally in private shipyards. Contracts for the re- maining 428 were cancelled. Some were completed and operated through privately-owned lines. Many were sold outright, including valuable ocean-going tugs In 1921, 40 wooden ships of all classes were sold at a price averag- ing $60,000 apiece, as contrasted with an estimated cost of $1,000,000 each. Now the last of the unfinished hulls lie in the Potomac river wher: they await their fate. ~Within a year the remaining 65 ships will lie at rest in Mallow's Bay. They have been towed in from their long resting places in the James river, rusting and rotting They will be burned to the water’s edge, hauled ashore for removal of scrap iron, and shoved back of a vast barricade that has been built to safeguard navigation from the ! drifting graveyard of forgotten ships. posal. e, wastes any time going through her husband’s pockets while he is ing is because she knows there isn't anything more in them than there is in an airpocket. . e — Some women can wear ihe pres- ent styles and look fairly dressed, while others somehow wear ‘em in a way that makes 'em look fairly nude. Here We Are Folks LEATHER BILL FOLDS For our new size nloney Priced from $1.00 to $5.00 BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. Free Delivery Phone 134 WHEN WE SELL IT IT'S RIGHT flag or struck a blow in its coun- | remnants of a mighty wartime ges- | Part of the| Then came the question of dis-| The reason many a wife never keeping her awake with his snor-) crapping and burning (lower right). EBLILD ROAD TO tigate New Mining Dis- trict Next Month **| An investigation of the needs for ja road from the International | Boundary to the newly discovered nining region on the Taku River will be made early next month, provincial authorities of British ‘| Columbia, according to J. A. An- {derson, of the provincial Depart- | ment of Public Works. He is a | passenger south on the steamer Prince George, returning to his ;| headquarters at Anyox, B. C., after i[a visit to Atlin. ! Mr. Anderson will return to Ju- ! neau about September 1. He will be accompanied by the Provincial Mining Engineer who will look over the district, visiting the United Eastern and Alaska Juneau camps and investigating the reported dis- coveries of others. If the showing Hulls of wooden cargo ships (upper right) built during the war for the emergency fleet that the arm- is sufficiently promising to war- As they appear anchored eight abreast in the James River (left) where many await rant expenditures, Mr. Anderson ‘\said there would be no difficulty in | obtaining funds for immediate road Notables at Wedding I | able to ‘ ‘ |and get whatever TAX BILL SENT FLIER LOST TWO YEARS AGO PARIS, Aug. 12.—Charles Nungesser, France's war ace and Atlantic flyer who with Captain Coli, was lost on an attempted Paris - New York flight in May, 1927, is con- sidered dead in the five continents of the world but he is still alive for the French tax collector. Two years after his dis- appearance a bill for Fres. 421 — about 17 cents—ad- dressed to Charles Nunges- ser was received at his ad- dress with this notice: “This is the last warning. If not paid within ten days, the treasury will coll ect through legal proceedings.” ee e 00 vesco e The trouble with the average| husband A |chance in the world of him béing |“Juneau’s Most Certain Thing;” and hand over one of those new ten thousand dollar bills to | his wife and telling her to go out she wants with s #{ ' TION NOTICES AT THE EMPIRE is that there isn't j work. e, + EVANGELIST MEETINGS | MOVE TO M.E. CHURCH 'I | The evangelistic services which .‘y are being conducted by Evange- st R. S. Peterson, of Pelican Ra- !pids, Minn., at the Bethel Pente- ..co..tal Assembly, will be continued |this week at the Methodist churcn. .fas a larger place is needed. Last o | night Evangelist Peterson gave e an interesting illustrated sermon e to a good audience. This week will be the last week of the campaign as Mr. Peterson next week. He has announced a number of this week’s meetings beginning on Tuesday evening: Tuesday, “Religion, 18 Inches Too Shallow;” Wednesday, “Junea 1, Weighed in God’s Scales;” Thurs- day, “The Universal Church Ques- tion;” Friday, “Will Juneau Ever a'Become a Battlefield;” Saturday, next Sunday, “The Saddest, Mad- destand Gladdest Man in Juneau.” e LODE MINING CLAIM LOCA- Miss Mildred Vare, danghter of U. S. Senator-elect William S. Vare of Pennsylvania, as she ;}?peared at her Atlantic City, J., wedding to William F. Kipp of that city. Guests at the wedding reception included a number of senators, con- gressmen and members of the cabinet. (international Newsreel) ——————— Nothing would give many a wife quite such a thrill as having the \tables turned and she live long enough to be able to send her \cast-off clothes to the snobbish |sisters-in-law who have made her life a burden with their high-hat- tedness. Men’s Shoe Sale PRICES $ 6.00 Values for . 6.50 Values for . 7.50 Values for . 10.00 Values for . $4.75 4.95 5.95 7.50 J. M. Saloum NEXT TO GASTINEAU HOTEL . . . . . e |interesting subjects as follows, for | ° . . . . SAMUEL MARTIN LIMITED Imported English Topcoats Warmth Without Weight Smart looking light weight, all wool coats. They come in Cord Twists, Donegal Tweeds, Irish Fleece, Hand- woven Irish Homespun and Camel Hair, $40 and up SABIN’S The Store for Men Free Delivery Service Imported Swiss Cheese, pound . . . $1.00 Imported Roquefort Cheese, pound . . . . 95 cents GEORGE PHONES 92—95 . 83—85—For the Best in Fruits and Vegetables THE SANITARY GROCERY “The Store That Pleases” BROTHERS FREE DELIVERY BREUER VISITS MANY SCHOOLS - TAKU DISTRIGT‘ ON LONG TRIP B C. Authorities to Inves-|Discusses School Matters with the Directors of 18 Institutions Work on the new Territorial school building at Kodiak is pro- ture will be complete by the middle of September, according to L. W. Breuer, Commissioner of Education, who returned home Saturday after a five-weeks trip to Western and Interior Alaska. He made contact with 18 schools on the trip and inspected several buildings on which work is being done. The Kodiak building, costing $17,- 000, will be a fine plant and a decided addition to the town. The opening of school there will be postponed until its completion. On his trip Commissioner Breuer talked with the directors or teach- ers of many schools. These includ- ed: Cordova, Latouche, Valdez, Sel- dovia, Uzinkie, Kodiak, Seward, An- chorage, Matanuska, Wasilla, Healy, Fairbanks, Fox, Chatanika, Meehan, Tanana, Mission near Seward, Long- wood, Tofty, Tacotha and Port- lock. A new building and teacher’s cottage is being erected at Fox. One room is being added to the Seldovia building, a new building is being provided by the Baptist mission at Longwood, and a housc purchased at Tanana is being re- habilitated and altered for a school house there. At Fairbanks, Commissioner Breuer visited the Alaska College and discussed conditions with Pres- ident Charles E. Bunnell of that institution. He also met Dr. Wil- liam John Cooper, Federal Commis- sloner of Education there, and trav- | jeled with him from Fairbanks to | expects to leave the early part of this city. He discussed various ad- ministrative matters with him, tak- ing up questions of interest and in common to the Territorial and Fed- eral school systems and devising and eliminating duplication work. At Seward the Commissioner in- spected the new school plant, just completed, which will house both' the grade and high school. It is a very fine structure, one of which | the town can justly be proud, he| said. The voters of Anchorage were to vote last Tuesday on a $50,000 It was thought then that it would be approved by the voters. No word had been received by him gressing satisfactorily and the struc- | ilocal agent, ways and means of co-operation | hearing in Los Angeles. ) ~ Ausociated Press Photo Charged with the death of a Japaneu as a result of a fatal automobile accident, Mrs. Pantages (center) was given a preliminary today as to the outcome. Commissioner Breuer made the trip from Fairbanks to Tanana by plane. from leaving to returning to Fair- banks was six hours and fifieen minutes. Had he been forced to travel by river steamer it could not have been done in less than seven days. | AND WHERE @ Enroute tc a convention Manufacturers’ Canada at Toronto, Hector McLean, left Sunday on the Prince George for Prince Rupert. He will be absent several weeks. S. Wallstedt, Dictator, I. O. O. M, left Sunday the annual convention of Order. Mrs. V. A. Paine returned Sun- day from the Paine fox ranch on Keui Island where she has been since last May. e | It's the peauty or tne face, at-| | tractiveness of the figure and the smoothness of the skin that help a girl attract a man, but it is the sweetness of the disposition that | makes it posslble to hold him. i | The entire time consumed | of Life Insurance of Deputy Supreme on the Prince George for Prince Rupert enroute to Detroit to attend that | i i At the Coliseum | SINGING FOOL | [ Tomorrow | ! | [ WHO'S WHO T I TRY The Whole Kernel DAINTY PEARL CORN— S&W 25¢ per can | CALIFORNIA GROCERY Phone 478 | | Free Delivery doz., $1.85; pint size, E. Z T EllllII||IIHIIIIIIIIII||Illlllllllllllll“!llllllIlIIlI|IllIIIHHIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIilIIIIIIIIIIIII||IImnmlmIflllflllfllllllIIIIIIII|IIH|II||IIIIIIIII|| NOW $1.00 NOW $1.00 left for 5 CENTS e, E. 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