The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 17, 1930, Page 8

T = i 3 8 SEEERAARRE R SRR AR AR HEAVY FALL OF SNOW MENACING LOCAL TRAFFIC City and Snow Shovels in Effort Streets to Clear With level about t d dri feet deep lining strects and side- walks, Juneau today was digging itself out from beneath its white lanket and keeping its eyes turned skyward in the hope that the snowfall, practically continuous for the past three days. would cease. Auto traffic tod: limited to delivery tru E ma- chines engaged in clearing the streets. And shoepacks and hip| boots were needed by pedestrians who would walk hod and in comfort | Snow Shovels Busy Sunday and today the ring of snow shovels was heard all over town. The City street gang was augmented to 12 men this morning | and three trucks were put to haul- i ing away heaped up snow piles in | the business section. At noon vir- i tually one block had been cleared. | § Many men were cmployed in | shoveling off the roofs of business| and office buildir The Snow | § from them added to the c: : i jons in the streets below 11 over town Sund residents i spent hours e shov- i eling off roofs Condition Is Abn The existing conditiol normal. Usualy the fall of much less and municip: agree that it will take the very best of co-operation between the City and private citizens to handle the situation The City, it was pointed out, is doing all it can to keep the streets open essary traffic and tire do this it is expend considerably more mon- y than ever before. It needs as- s'stance in clearing sidewalks and stairways. Affects Other Industries The accumulation of snow curtailed outdoor work mate This was evidenced by the number of men seeking places on the City ,street crew this morning. Mayor T. B. Judson had called for ten or 12 men to add to this force. More than 120 men answered the call, all reporting job availa cnywhere else. Twelve were employed and new snow shovels, just purchased were distributed. Later in the day Mayor Judson ordered more cls but none were to be had for to 1 tion. To has not The town's supply had been exhausted. Keeps Plow Busy | Since Friday the City snow plow | has been kept busy. It has so far been successful in keeping the streets open in most parts of town. | "I'here were two exceptions—the hill in Seater Tract and Starr Hill. These had to be shoveled out by hand. | Mayor Judson said today that nother 24 hours of snowfall would | be more than the City machine | could handle, and that he would be forced to seek help from the Bureau of Public Roads which has a big tractor-drawn plow on Glac- ier Highway. If the fall continues b S S R | | 1 { FREE BOOK | ON Diseases and Feeding l of Your Dog | (By H. Clay Glover Co.) Call for Your Copy—It’s Free Junean Drug Company ree Delivery Phone 33 } Post Office Substation No. 1 e L % | i z | | | 3 SHARI FACE POWDER Now Available $1.00 Packages / BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. Free Delivery Phone 134 WHEN WE SELL IT T8 BIGHT ‘mmm Citizens Take to| l’.!‘ | still longer. {1 Daily Cross-word Puzzle ACROSS Solution of Yesterday's Puzz'e 8. Misfortunes 1. Stupld person 6. American poet Mature 7. Type measure Pronoun Molnsses TR A THE DAILY ALASKA EMPlRE MONDAY FEB 17 1930. N Article of apparel L B | | | ny rock City in Towa Egyptian sun K Noted the ¥ ¥ I artifice Silver coln speed of Concerning o, . Sallor Residences s of une's pothetical foree Domesticated Footless anl- mal Withdraws inels 2. Part of an antomoblle Entire amount 0. Sits forcibly 81, Conclusion . Genus of the muple tree E DOWN Namo g Masts b ol 20 Smail particle B 2. East Indian 41, L welght Mineral spring 3. Woolen yes: Scot. fncket 44, Color 4. Fast horse 47, Oil: sutfix 7 7 for the Bur to obtaining aid from that s Highw Kept Open man Charles Jones and ssistant Ber ed day and night, some ning hours, keeping Highway open for tra e making two trips dai ad with the big p Juneau and Auk Lake, kept the highwe as Amalga I Johnson have hifts out the as far open ing up to end f last week ually these men t plow about 4 a. m continuously until 9 p e howev they wor even | onger shifts in order to open up the road. Due to then v iams said, it has been possible to keep the dairy trucks and shcool | bus operating and allow residents | on the highway to travel between their homes and town John Osborne, with a Wehr £'mli~ er, has been keeping the Thane road open as far as the oil docks.| He also has given assistance on lower Front Street | Prepare for Fire Prot i Fearing a possible blockade of | streets in the hill section of town, | Mayor Judson today was planning to augument the fire equipment at City Hall with a sled and t to haul hose to locations w might not be possible to take the| fire trucks. He and Chief C ) of the Fire Department urged th: idents take every possible caution against fire. Today, it was said, were open sufficiently big fire truck to get part of town But with snow falling and more apparent in sight, it was felt that this con-| dit might not continue much the streets} to allow th through a | | n Three Ground hsigppe Jiy snow was on{ During \!\:“ has been 27 was announced by R. C. Mize, of the United States Weatlfer Bureau. Since February | 48 inches had fallen up to 4 a.| |m. today. And at that hour, lh\“! Ll'[' h at the local station was 25.2 hes. This, however, was admit-| not a correct u‘dr(‘i(‘nl'\llon actual depth as the station | {occupies an exposed position and| h of the snow has been car-| away by winds earlier this| Feet on It mated mately three feet of ground tod week ~;14\ inches, it | mu recorded depth bhas three times since local station began kL‘(‘])u]" recol On February a depth of 309 inches was/| asured; on February 3, 1921, "9 |inches; and on March 13, ma there was 43.8 inches on the gr uund | 1917-18 Big Year | The winter of 1917-18 was {worst for snowfall ever experienced |here, the total fall being 246.3] inches. The average annual fall for the past 13 years is 114.6 inches. The least ever experienced was in 1925-26, the total being 347 inches. The fall for this year up to now has not been excessive, amounting |to but 67.5 inches. However, the “Febm ary fall has been unusually this ded but heen exce the 1\1{\ |heavy and that of the past week. {without any rain to pack it and melt some away, abnormal. ,,- Old papers for sale at The Em- J | pire office, E NN NN damun JESEN | kind sir.” h‘etty Es»el‘.) Laoom, formerly |of Dorchester, Mass., will go down lin history as “ths girl who de- | clined a trip to Ho]l;rwood and a chance in the movies.” Estelle re-| cently won & beauty contest in New York and, it is certain. talkie barons had magnanimously offered her a chance to try her luck as another Janet Gaynor. The little Bostoner put them in sec- tions by replying, “No, thank you, : (International Newsreal) . THE ROUGHNECKS DRE, Snow Time — Harvest Time of Pork Chops (concentrating thought astounding) for Jim-Jerry, Cot- -tail Bill, Big Hearted Charlie, Putty Eyed Slim; De Horn Pete, Koko Head Nick, Blackie, Blondie, Pablo of Tex-Arkana and Mike of Baboon County. Tip toes, or your tip toes, or guard. We all work in conjunction to \‘t‘rvv local citizens. Telephone 244 WRECKER LEE ROX in Charge —adv. PO P Travelo Sweaters Light weight, all wool Sweaters—a real all- gill‘lll(’llt. season . Travelos do not stretch out of shape. SABIN’S | C. 0. SABIN, Prop. {| The $10 Suit Sale continues. PHONES 83 OR 85 | COLD WEATHER HITS ATLANTIC COAST STATES 10W v ey RS B sted is due to arrive from Se- e on the Alaska, according to on, and a large crew of men > to be employed in the work of oping the property - - MEAT SHORTAGE AT SKAGWAY; ADMIRAL Accompanies Drop emperatures— 10 ons Die in Boston spec 1t voy- y on her the Westw to fix Feb. 17. — Snow 15 depended on e Que temperatures wh 1 hipm t ter of 41 dj,,. b dealers ot -"r(“ intense suffering L foun tates today but weather I ort before the sts promise relief. was due, and arrangemen ton, where the tempor: wde to have the Adm Dger: to two degees below the v £ e A o acute cc which has struck the No AT THE HOTELS tic States this winter e coldest weather is Gastincau pper Lake, New York Sta Mrs. R. T. Kaufmann G i1 degrees below zero, 1oval John M ou an e, Albert Brown Sam Shucklin LM 18,000 men ar Paul snow in New deen, A. E. Beaudin, C. F r 2 G. Williams, J. E. Ames, ; Brumley, R. Jones, F. E. 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B Hell- FEBRUARY 20TH——38: 00 P. N lulwlmnmg and Enjoyable “The Store That Pleases” THE SANITARY GROCERY ROGERS GOES THERE ! _|sible but the study thus far showed | ! decision has been reached. ing se ’Judiciary Committee ascertain |Mrs Elen Schafer, then himself what extent, if any, the real mlentl\wth the same pistol ‘or the dry law is preverted and]| Schafer was seen d ]nullmed by incompetence and pre- !b ours yesterday in the vicin STUDIED FOR (Judice of any executive offici a groce! store operated ‘hmmg to do xuh Enforc | wife. He was wal {'shoot her four ti f wice NEW REP[]RT SHUUTS W|FE i et |at reconciiiation. Liquor bottles | | i { | Research Into All Phases | e AND HIMSELF [s Being Made— | Variance So F i p bl [Crowds on Street Leaving| Churches, Witness Tragedy, Sunday -0 ZIMMERMAN GOES SOU J. G. 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