The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 17, 1931, Page 8

FOURTH OF JULY PLANS GO AHEAD SATISFACTORILY Chairmen Hold Meeting; All Report Progress is 3 Excellent Progress in arrangements for celebration of Fourth of July in Juneau was reported by the chair- men of all committees having charge of activities scheduled for the national holiday. Committee chairmen met in the Legion's Dug- out late yesterday afternoon with J. T. Petrich, commander of the local Legion post, which, with the cooperation of the Fire Depart- ment and the financial assistance of the Chamber of Commerce, is formulating plans for the Inde- pendence Day observance. Those At Meeting | Among those present at yester- day's meeting were Mr. Petrich, G. H. Walmsley, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce and chair- man of the music and dance com- mittee; Martin Jorgensen, chair-! man of water sports; C. H. Helge- sen, chairman of children's sports; Guy McNaughton, chairman of baseball; W. S. Pullen, chairman of decorations, and Royal M. Shep- ard, chairman of the smoker. | J. L. Gray, chief of the Fire De- | partment and chairman of fire- works display, could not be pres- ent, but he had previously confer- red with Mr. Petrich and had giv- L.O.0. M. No. 700 DANCE MOOSE HALL TONIGHT With The Melody Orchestra NEW SNAPPY NUMBERS Admission $1.00 HM.S. DRAGON COMES NORTH at Other Ports Besides Ketchikan His Majesty’s ship Dragon of the American and West Indies squad- . |ron, will be in Southeast Alaska The “King of Speed,” Frank Wy- koff, world champion sprinter, at rlght above, will really assume his royal niche when he is officially erowned monarch of the pre-Olym- c nt and water sports to be eld soon at Hermosa Beach, Calif. Chosen as ‘“‘royal consort" to| | Frank, Olive Hatch, at left, mem- | ber of the world record-] holding ‘women's relay swimming team, will appear in regal raiment with Wrack champion, en the assurance that tne pyrotech- nical exposition would be unusually good this year. Prizes Are Selected The executive committee, of which Mr. Petrich is chairman, is engaged in soliciting from business houses articles of mechandise to be awarded as second and third prizes in the various competitive events. First prizes will be provided from the funds donated to the celebra- tion by the Chamber of Com- merce. “All preparations for the Fourth are going forward satisfactorily,” said Mr. Petrich. *“We hope to give Juneau the best Independence Day celebration in her history.” OFF TO NOME BY AIRPLANE Gov. Parks and C. W. Hawkesworth Leave Fairbanks on Trip FAIRBANKS, Alaska, June 17— Gov. George A. Parks and Charles ‘W. Hawkesworth, Acting Chief of the Alaska Division of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, left yesterday in an airplane for Nome. While there Gov. Parks will organize the Rein- deer Council, recommended by Sec- retary of Interior Wilbur's com- mittee. ‘Gov. Parks and Mr. Hawkesworth will return here in about one week. MILLERS ENTERTAIN FRIENDS PRIOR TO DEPARTURE MONDAY Prior to the sailing Monday night on the Prince Henry for Prince Rupert, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Miller were hosts at their home to many of their local friends and were the recipients of many beautiful gifts. They are enroute to Pittsburgh to attend a Serbian convention. They will stop briefly at Prince Rupert to visit Mrs. Sam Bell and will leave their four children with her while they make the eastern trip. Mr. Miller will return here in about 30 days, but Mrs. Miller will stay in Prince Rupert for two or more weeks before coming north. Among the guests at the Miller home Monday evening were: Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Willlams, Hirst- Chichagof, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Kasilico, Mr. and Mrs. Mike Pus- ich, Mrs. Gabe Paul, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Lepitich, Mrs. Sam Nik- inovich, Mr. and Mrs. Stiepich and a number of others. SALOUM CLOSING OUT ALL MENSWEAR SEE US FOR PRICES SUNPRUF GLASSES 50¢, 75¢, $1.00 Butler Mauro Drug Co. phone 134 We Deliver waters in August. She is sched- uled to visit Ketchikan from the but made no plans for calls at Territory. Information of the vessel's ap- proaching cruise North was con- veyed to J. C. McBride, Collector of Customs, in a communication from 8. Lowman, Assistant Secre- tary of the United smes Treas- ury. Mr. Lowman said that the State Department had notified the Treasury Department of the Drag- on's Alaskan voyage, and Mr. Lowman requested that “the usual customs courtesies and facilities” be extended to visiting craft and her company. Mr. McBride, in transmitting the request to his deputy at Ketchikan declared it |should be complied with. M. 8. Whittler, assistant collector of customs, thinks the British war- ship will visit other Southeast Alaska cities, beside Ketchikan, if invitations are extended to her. B 19,000 POUNDS HALIBUT MOVE ATTANDACTS, Catch of Sal_m:n Delivered for Customary 10, 6 and 3 On a bid of 7 cents a pound first grade and 4 cents a pound second grade, 19,000 pounds of halibut were moved today at the auction of the Juneau Fish Ex- change. The catch was brought to port by the Oceanic, Capt. Ole Westby. The purchaser was the San Juan Fishing and Packing Company, Wallis S. George, repre- sentative. For the prevailing price of 10 cents a pound for large, 6 cents for medium and 3 cents for small sized king salmon, 3,300 pounds of the fish were delivered today to the Juneau Cold Storage Company by the Sadle, Capt. Sandy Stevens. Nearly all the boats of the Ju- neau halibut fleet are on trips to the banks. Most of the craft are fishing for Fourth of July money, the present voyages being the last until after Independence Day. MRS. MARION FOLTA QUEEN STEWARDESS Mrs. Marion Folta, formerly of Juneau, was on the steamer Queen as stewardess, when that boat was in Juneau last Sunday evening, and will no doubt be stewardess on the craft during most of the summer. Mrs. Folta graduated from the Columbus Hospital in Se- attle as"a nurse last fall, and since that time has been doing special nursing in and about Seattle. As stewardess, she has the oppertunity to meet her Alaskan friends and visit with her son, George, Jr., in Juneau. FIVE MAKE FLIGHT TO HIRST-CHICAGOF Mr. and Mrs. Dan Williams, of Hirst-Chichagof, returned to their home by the airplane Petersburg yesterday afternoon, going by way of Sitka. They were accompanied on the trip by Mrs. J. H. Walmer and Mrs. Edith Sheelor. “One hour was spent at Sitka, and Mrs. Fred Schrey, wife of the Mayor of Sitka. joined the party for Hirst-Chi- chagof. Considerable fog was en- countered between Sitka and Hirst- Chichagof. After about a one-half hour stop at Hirst-Chichagof, the plane re- turned to Juneau with Mrs. Wal- mer and Mrs. Sheelor. ANCHORAGE AIRPLANE WAITS ON WEATHER After having taxied from the hangar toward the cenfter of the harbor yesterday afternoon to take off for Anchorage, the International Pacific Airways plane, Pilot A. B. Holden, Mechanic Larry Davis and passengers, Joseph Barrows, gen- eral manager and Harry F. Mor- ton, attorney- for the Airways, as- certained it was weighted with too much gasoline and it returned to the hangar to lighten the load. ‘While there, it received a weather report that clouds and fog on the Gulf of Alaska impaired visibility. The plane and its parzy are in Juneau awaiting favorable weather for the Westward flight. —lr The $10,000 two-story - depot of Rhyolite, Nev., houses the only um- i|ily left in the mining camp, whi A once had a popuhuonoummn NEXT AUGUST" |British Warship May Call 14th to the 19th of that month,|ss, other ports in this part of the|3s, Duily Cross-word Puzsle AGRCSS L Morbldly tender / 5. Away 5. Celeatial body 2 Hebrew meas- :lr. of capac~ 13. Corded fabrio 14 Fleshy frult I 1. Towlrd the lhellered [EINIT] ICIK] 18, Pnllllv. pole £ Solution ot Yesterday's Puxzzle % l Wlflldl‘l' 7. Music drama [T} TRASITA) o e, [E] ééamnmfl . Kind of bale, 10. 80°be 1t \ 1L Tall coarse 16. kfse by buoye. ANnc ! 27, Rope 19. Easily angered 2L lnclnled“ power or Moccasin . zmfil:. device o g;:f.f‘"‘ Sommenc! Allaviate ' 60. Kind of poetry 42, Having organs bL Winglike of. hunnx 2. Ro) [ 4. Gre 1 4. I:urn-l coat of a spore B3, h:ol for ing & cable to an anchor 31, W ll. Blckl n 9 Hlndna 41. Itallan mone= tary unit ca. Great Lake 41. Inhuzllnt ofs , suffix: DOWN / "1, Soft- drlnk 2. Prophatio | 3. Dourmlnefi , 4. Eat away 5 THI. of s Save Dollars! KOTEX, regular 45c, now 3 packages for . . .. $1.00 CLEENEXT regular 25c, all colors, LADIES’ PRINCESS SLIPS, regular $2. 25 L APOEE TR R R B RN o Rayon Twills in popular shades. ROBBERS GET VALUED LOOT NEW YORK, June 17.—Three' robbers forced their way intp the home of Stanwood Menken, former Chairman of the National Security League; bound two maids and made Mrs. Menken open a vault contain- ing $150,000 in jewelry. . ‘The robbers scooped the jewels up and made their escape. { MISS M’LAUGHLIN IS BACK FROM VACATION several | IAfter an absence of months, spent visiting relatives in Seattle and San Francisco, .Miss Catherine McLaughlin returned here yesterday. by her brother, Dennis, who will spend the summer here. The latter is now a student in Gonzaga University at Spokane, which he has been attending for the past two years. He is a mem- ber of the football squad, playing in the backfield, WENTWORTH TO MOVE TO EAGLE R. VALLEY ‘With his studies of glacial bould- ers and recession neary completed at Mendenha!l Glacier, Prof. Ches- ter K. Wentworth, of Washington University, St. Louis, is preparing to move camp from there to Eagle River Valley. He probably will make the change next Friday. Prof. Wentworth, and his asso- ciate, L. L. Ray, will spend several days In the vicinity of Herbert Glacier, making similar investiga- tions to those made ‘at Menden~ hall. After finishing there, they will move to Skagway and later She was accompanied GOES T0 JAIL ~ FOR SWEARING PORRTLAND, Ore, June 17— Robert Gordon Duncan, anti-chain store advocate, and ‘unsuccessful candidate for Congress from Ore- gon, has been committed to the Federal Ward in the County Jail to serve a six-months’ sentence for using profane and indecent lan- | guage over the radio from a broad- Icstsung station. | e Helene Madison, Seattle, worid's champion woman - swimmer, is much stronger this year .than she was last in the opinion of her coach, Ray Daughters. She weigns 156 pounds, having .galned five pounds since last summer. UNGUENTINE for SUNBURN 50¢ Juneau Drug Company Free Delivery Phone 38 proceed to the Yukon. — - Old rapers at The Emplre. 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