The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 25, 1931, Page 4

ot s o e e e e Dail v Alaska Empiré JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER the Main unday by cond and evening except COMPANY at Ka Published _every EMPIRE PRINTIN Streets, Juneau, Post Office tn Juneau as Second Class @nt SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Delivered by carrier in Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and Thane for $1.25 per month, postage paid, at the fol ng rates: i, $12 s, In advance they will promptly y failure or irregularity papers. for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. ssociated Press is excl lication of all ne rwise credited in blished herein also the LARGER ALASKA CIRCULATION. GUARANTEED TO BE CATION. THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PU THE ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1931. \J into mines ana areas and take out gold: If the idea it is well to recall that and unprecedented programs may be ed to d relief offered the only authentic > United States totally dry when we would only stop talking and stop' ™ If all the people could be persuaded m, With summer lingering in the lap drinking the country would be dry. It is'©f spring in the Hyder district, assesment work is delayed on claims could go Bishop to ma g 4 syster only way that it can be mades so. It cannot _ be done by naming e above the 1,800-foot altitude, where \daba b ) 1 {there is still plenty of snow. How- G . |ever the roar of powder blasts While an advance of three dollars a bale in|y..ops the silence of the valleys, cotton is not to be scorned, it is a long way from!where property owners are doing $55 a bale to the $100 that is regarded as necessary|annual assessment labor. to make cotton growing really profitable. It road work were let in sman | Those officials that are seizing convention liquor'units, money would be saved by the by the hundreds of cases may be making difficult|government and more benefit would that effort of Seattleites to make their balliwack a|Yesult to residents of the Territory, favorite convention city Yet w2 do not expect declares the Hyder Chamber of . . Commerce. E th: i e delegates to choke from thirst in the “Queen City.” Hyd:?e dmr;c{[ ;jsgse :o‘mrrt:fl:)hr% sublet the work in small units at |a total cost that is much less than e | the amount paid the big contractors (Seattle Times) by the government. The Alaska Ward T. Bower, chief of Alaskan fisheries, points; Road 'Commission is asked to let out that a count of the Pribilof seal herd last|contracts for small units or itself summer showed 1,045,101 animals, an increase of|to do the work at day’s wage. 73,574 over 1929, or 7.57 per cent. Last year 42,500 seal skins were taken, the largest take in forty-one| Capt. Kathryn Loewen in charge year d the sale of skins brought in the sum of|of the Salivation Army activitics $667745 gross. From that amount there were de-|at Petershurg, has received orders| ductions for dressing and dyeing the skins and for|to go to Cordova to take charge of | The Alaska Seal Herd. ' All-Alaska News more cases than it had at this time last year. Individual fishermen report better catches than last year. H. H. Hungerford, fish warden says the run at Karluck is always a sure indication of what the run will be around the whole Kodiak Afognak group. There are 14 can- neries operating this year in that region. Margaret Millard Danen- hower, wife of Capt. Sloan Danen- hower, U. 8. Navy, comander of the submarine Nautilus, in which Sir Hubert Wilkins proposes -to go to the North Pole under the northern ice crust, is a former Alaskan. She is the daughter of the late B. F. Millard, formerly of Valdez and Mrs. Millard, now Mrs. James H Owens, a resident of Medford, Or- egon. Mrs. e There are more than 3,000 farms in Cook county, Ill, in which Chi- cago is located. treaty payments of 15 per cent. to Japan and Great Britain, The net amount paid into the federal treasury during the year was $273,991. During the years from 1918 to 1930, inclusive, the profits of the industry aggregated $2,680,821, and they were made in spite of heavy expenditures dur- as in the jng the latter years of that period for roads, the “Alaska is replacement of all native dwellings with modern I B. buildings, mostly of concrete, the erection of ware- houses, shops, barns and new salt houses, the latter to take care of the increasing number of seal skins. ‘Then, too, $140,000 of the profits went for a new tender to take the place of the old onz, which has; been assigned to fisheries patrol work. There is an annual charge against the Federal treasury of about $145,000 for the support of the 368 natives. On their account not only has modern housing been provided, but schools, hospital facili- this year husiastic of the Chicago rubber tinued the | Dryden hunter. and big game fishing, hunting, hing and hospitable people.” the Chamber of Commerce season out of Al is the reason I came n told the of talk is familiar to Alaskans. We ties and all other necessaries of life. These people it for years It is talk, however, that are virtually wards of the Government. They do we have not been as active as we might have been all the manual labor connected with the seal in- in circulating among habitual globe trotters and dustry, in return for which the Government ' takes care of them and their families. { There are three school teachers, two on St. Paul | Island and one on St. George Island. 1In the latter vacationists into the out-of-the-way places And th su We have listened all Sum- gests: mer for ms many seasons to the enthusiastic gonool tnere is an enrollment of about fifty. The praises for Alaska by people who travel. Out In ypgamiliarity of the children with the English the middl> of the Pacific, as near Alaska as it iS language necessitates a great deal of Individual to San Francisco, is the other of the two great attention on the part of the teachers. The school| Am an Territories, and Hawalians continuously term is practically as long as that in continental hear, particularly in the Fall, Winter and Spring, United States. & similar praises for their Territory and people. A Asked if education was compulsory, Mr. Bowers| recent Honolulu paper, under the heading, “Most S53d it was, but that there had been no nzed for Bamaxitis’ B {5 6hl> vt ? contalned. the.. fols compelling school attendance. The children are R e i anxious to attend and learn rapidly once they have lowing ; (b acquired the rudiments of English. Hereafter there Where, believe it or not, a whole ship- Wi Be tho tmadiers -G Baklk O ha I andl: load of tourists weep when they leave Th h- more truth than poetry in this Not Sellin;z Solar tem Short. Haws slogan, according to those who | belling ; Ti‘_Ml : s | (New York Herald Tribune) o R L _"_"‘;"j“,l“ "?““‘i‘ 4 Sir Oliver Lodge says that this planet will come | B S Pehe Siearia pery b i oG to and end as it gets colder and colder, and the As- Now th why not have literature describing | sistant Sage of Lyons Plain says that he means it will be a cold day when the planet comes to an| end. of them are/ Of course, pessimistic though we be, we don't| believe Sir Oliver. We don't know whether he is a gamblin’ man, but we'll give him 4 to 1 against| Dow't, as Mr. Brisbane, of the Seattle Post Intelli-| gencer might say, sell the solar system short. the beauties and ys of Alaska travel circulated among these happy Hawaiian tourists as they leave for the Coast in the Spring? Most globe trotters who are on the go Summer and Win- ter. Why not let the world know that the best pos- sible way to spend a year is to come to Alaska inthe Summer and go to Hawaii in the Winter? Alaska transportation companies 1.x(‘ probably P e \fe, noted: athor: and travel-| bet by not advertising their wares at er, says the bear of Alaska should not be molested. ‘But certain big game hunters have taken the trouble to journey all the way from New York to| Kodiak Island to demonstrate to Mr. White how little to care for his opinion.—(Prince Rupert | Empire.) | in the Winter and Spring. Why GOLD MINES AND UNEMPLOYMENT. The attention of people everywhere is becoming more and more fixed on mining for gold It is one product that is not vexed by competition or by market problems of any sort, and to that extent of- fers the point of least resistence to activity. There is psychological interest also in the circumstance that greater gold production is regarded as a world desideratum. To perpetuate the memory of the indomitable prospectors who paved the way for the discovery in 11896 of the rich gold-fields of the Yukon, a memorial is to be erected in Dawson by the National Parks of | | Canada Branch, Department of the Interior.—(An- {chorage Times.) “Now,” said Dr. (Hon, Rutgers, '31) Emil Ludwig, The following from the Seattle Business Cl\r()n-]‘“is the time for America to destroy the talk about | icle, offsred to help solve unemployment and add to the ‘dollar country’” How about a half-dollar the gold supply is suggestive of the present mood: |[country? Do we hear a dime, gentlemen? A nickel? A little item that comes under observa- | Thank you. Going . . . gone at five cents—(New at in Owen Valley, California, York Herald Tribune.) re busy washing gold from the an average of about $5 a ns. If we are to believe es, nothing can contrib- to financial well-being of world now than additions to the e supply of gold. Perhaps if unem- inues at acute stage next fall tion Mailing circulars is all right for those who prefer it to newspaper advertising, but if you go | to the local post office you won't find many copies | of The Gateway in the wastebasket.—(Seward Gate- | way.) more directly the Prohibition Director says the bootleggers are on | —as many predict—our western the run. Yes—making deliveries.—(Cincinnati En-; eCt @ ngement under which | quirer). { from GEORGE BROS. ; WOOD HEMLOCK For Kitchen Ranges — For Heaters FOR FIREPLACES ' $4.50 Per Load 8. 12, 14, 16 or 24-inch lengths KINDLING 14-inch only: clear, free from knots CHESTER BARNESON TELEPHONE 92 - 95 Railroad now has 300 men employed and they have prospects of a long season. run in the vicinity of Karluck and Salvation Army work there. She will be succeeded at Petersburg by her assistant, Lieutenant Brierly, who has been promoted to captain. Eleven hundred feet of Vesta Avenue in Petersburg will be im- proved with three-inch planking at a cost of $4 a foot. Alligator Raincoats Smiths’ Smart Shoppe is the name of a general merchandising store Mrs. G. Smith and Mrs. J. Smith are preparing to open in Petersburg. They Never Leak ' Henry Roden of Juneau will be i Fourth of July orator at Peters- burg. Fishing for king salmon off the docks at Petersburg has been good recently, some fishermen getting as many as three salmon each in one evening. SABIN’S Everything in Furnishings for Men While hunting bear at Hanging Point on Montague Island with three companions, Joseph Ivanoff, Indian resident of Valdez, was ac- cidently shot through one of his & lungs with a 30-30 rifle by one of his companions. He was taken to Valdez for treatment Watch for “The Flood” Swimming in Harriman Lake near Seward is now a real pleasure. Through the work of Mayor D. C. Brownell and Donald Shellhorn, an ice cold mountain stream that flowed into the lake has been di- vered away from it Arnold’s Bootery missionaries of Northern Alaska gathered from far-flung outposts at Holy Cross on the Yukon River recently to meet their new Superior General, the Rev. Francis Menager. Father Cunning- ham traveled from Mountain Vil- lage; Father McElmeel from Nulato; Father B. R. Hubbard, the Glacier Priest was at Holy Cross, having a short while previously arrived there REMOVAL SALE after a 1600 mile dog-sled trip over winter trails, and Father Paul O'Connor also was there, having < ror come last summer. There are 200 F™==—""""== i is- . . ;;ila;hgléfus at Holy Cross mis J“neau Public Llhl‘aty Free Reading Room City Hall, Second Floor Main Street and Fourth Reading Room Open From 8a m to 10 p. m. Jesuit Recent shipments of coal by the Evans Jones coal mine at Jones- ville, north of Anchorage, included three carloads for the Bureau of Indian Affairs at Kanakanak; three carloads for the Libby, Mc- Neil and Libby Company and one for the United States Signal Corps at Valdez. All the coal was sacked. Circulation Room Open from 1 to 5:30 p. m.—7:00 to 8:30 p. m. Current Magazines, ; Newspapers, Reference, Books, Etc. FREE TO ALL } o AN PCRRGHE L A Red salmon are begining a good - On rehabilitation work, the Alaska | No Calculations WE GUARANTEE TO SATISFY (or no pay) Let us bid on that JOB. Alterations, concrete or “saw-log foundations and bulkheads. Buildings or Lots Bought or Sold. ROX & MOODY General Contractors TEL. 374. the Kodiak cannery has packed | et i 183 TAXI STAND AT PIONEER POOL ROOM Day and Night Service . ] Herbert Spencer on Habit “We are creatures of habit. We succeed or we fail as we acquire good habits or bad ones; and we acquire good habits as-easily as bad ones. That is a fact. Most people don’t believe that. Only those who find it out succeed in life.” The habit of thrift is most important for success. Our Savings Department will render you admirable assistance in saving for the future. The B. M. Behrends Bank OLDEST BANK IN ALASKA — NEXT I ProFESSIONAL | I AMERICAN LEGION ||| | | SO SR PSP A ST 7 Helene W.L. Albrecht | PHYSIOTHERAPY Massage, Electrizity, Infra Red Ray, Medical Gymnastics. | 410 Goldstein Building Phone Office, 216 SMOKER e = A8 ¥ JULY 3RD * DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER | i DENTISTS | 1 301-303 Goldstein Bldg. | | PHONE 56 F-urs 8 3. m, to 9 p. m. W. P. Johiison FRIGIDAIRE Dr. Charles ’I;.——Jenne ; DENTIST DELCO LIGHT PRODUCTS Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine MAYTAG WASHING Bullding MACHINES GENERAL MOTORES RADIOS Telephcne 176 Phone 17 Dr. J. W. Bayne I . J DENTIST i Front Street Juneau ! Rooms 5-8 Triangle Bldg. o .l, Office *ours, 9 am. to 5 pm. Evenings by appointment. T I ‘ Fraternal Societies OF Gastineau Channel B. P. 0. ELKS Meeting every o~ 2nd Wednesday in p month during sum- mer at 8 o'clock, Elks' Hall. Visiting brothers welcome, M. S. JORGENSEN, Exalted Ruler. M. H. SIDES, Secretary. Co-Ordinate Bod- les of Freemason- ry Scottish Rite Regular meetinge second Friday each month at 7:30 p. m Scot- tish Rite Temple WALTER B. HEISEL, Secretary LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE, NO. 700 Meets Monday 8 p. m. Ralph Reischl, Dictator Legion of Moose No. 25 meets first and third Tuesdays Phone 477 Verl J. Groves i \ 5 \ ‘ ! E | DRUGLESS HEALTH SERVICE | Car Painting, Washing, ! ) “Maintain that Vital Resistance | | Polishing, Simonizing, ||| Hellenthal Bldg. Phone 259 Chassis Painting, Touch- }|| Hours 10 am. to pm. | Up Work, Top Dressing. §|* L Old cars made {o look {|* : =8 _like new i Robert Simpson \ Come in ap?'(iicfsec our low §| Opt. D. : 2 Wit | Graduate Los Anggles Col- ris T - wha] lege of Optometry and t“"""‘""" Opthalmology [ || Classes Pitted, "onses Grownd for New Fur Garment - Styles A big variety of Land Otter, Mink, Marten and other skins for your selection. Repairing and Remodeling { B SR T S S S L DR. R. E. SOUTHWELL | Optometrist-Optician | | Eyes Examined—Glasses Fittea Room 7, Valentine Bldg. Office phone 484, residense | | phone 238. Office Hours: 9:30 to 12; 1:00 to 5:30 . ! t . { 1. .Il Phone 321 || © A Baldwin, Secretary and You Can Save Money at ||®— « Herder, P. D. Box 273. Our Store Ples=seu L & S MOUND JUNEAU LODG! : ! A E NO. 1 [| EE | Dr. A. W. Stewart | |Second and fourth Mon- | Harris Hardware Co. ||| DENTIST day of each mouth in \ | Lower Front Street 1! Hours 9 a m. to 6 p. m. | | Seottish Rite Temple, C o i A\ SEWARD BUILUING beginning at 7:30 p. m. 35{ 7 ; Office Phone 469, Res. H. L. REDLINGSHAF- %7 il Pione 276 ER, Master: b { i : i JAMES W. LEIVE: Juneau Auio |- - o a9 . -0 . P(unt Sh 0 | Drs. Barton & Doelker ORDER OF EASTERN STAR CHIROPRACTORS Second and Fourth Tuesdays of each month at 8 o'clock, Scottish Rite Temple. JESSI KELLER, Worthy Mat- ron; FANNY L. ROB- INSON, Secretary. ANIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Seghers Council No. 1760, Meetings second and last Monday at v:30 p. m Transient brotbers urg- ed to attend. Councll Chambers, Fifth Strees JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K. H. J. TURNER, Secretary. DOUGLAS AERIE 117 F. O. E. Mevts first and thir¢ %Mondays, 8 o'clock, wt Eagles Hall Douglas. ALEX GAIR, W. P GUY SMITH, Secretary. Vistting srothers welcome. YURMAN, the Furrier Triangle Building | Hazel James Madden (‘l‘eacher of the Pianoforte aid SEE YURMAN i I |exponent of the Dunning Systim T *—*-‘ [ of Improved Music Study : o Leschetizky Technic—Alchin | SHOE REPAIRING | Harmony ALL RUBBER HEELS, 50c | | Studio, 206 Main St. Phone 196 SEE BIG VAN e r——— Opposite Coliseum | |-+ JUNEAU-YOUNG e i Funeral Parlors | Licensed Funeral Dircctors DON'T BE TOO | and Embalmers Night Phone 336-2 Day Phone 12 LIBERAL | ! L 'a . - . = | Dr. C. L. Fenton | ] CHIROPRACTOR | Kidney and Bowel Specialist | | No. 201 Goldstein Bldg., office | | formerly occupied by Dr. Vance | | Hours: 10-12, 2-5, 7-8 . . |. < L] | ROCM and BOARD Mrs. John B. Marshall With the coal If it comes from ofr | | PHONE 2201 place. For our coal goes farther and | | 4 | . . Our trucks go any place amy | time. A tank for Diesel OM | and a tank for crude oil save | burner tromble. | | PHONE 149, NIGHT 148 RELIABLE TRANSFER NEW RECORDS -‘ NEW SHEET MUSIC RADIO SERVICE Expert Radio Repairing Radio Tubes and Supplies JUNEAU MELODY HOUSE JUNEAU TRANSFER COMPANY gives a more even and satisfying heat. If your coal bin is running low, better have us send you a new supply to prove our statement. Our draying service is always the best and we specialize in Feed. D. B. FEMMER Phone 114 HAAS Famous Candies ! The Cash Bazaar ]I HAULED AND LOT CLEANING E. O. DAVIS Phone 584 { GARBAGE ] ! g . ZYNDA Open Evenings ELEVATOR SERVICE 8. ZYNDA, Prop. D e JUNEAU CABINET and DETAIL MILL- WORK CO. Front Street, next to Warner | - Machine Shep | CABINET and MILLWORK GENERAL CARPENTER ! S o WORK anitary methods are modern methods in the GLASS REPLACED baking business. Our IN AUTOS bread and pies are X ; made of pure ingred- E!tl[l!nltes Furnished ients and baked by ex- pon Request A I | —_— The Florence Shop | Phone 427 for Appointment | | RINGLETTE and NAIVETTE | CROQUIGNOLE and SPIRAL | WAVES | s perts. Yolur family will be pleased if you buy . our baking products. [ Peerless | Bakery ||| Beauty Specialists Moves, Packs and Stores Freight and Baggage Prompt Delivery of ALL KINDS OF COAL PHONE 48 “Our door step is worn satisfied customers” et i | i ! J. B. BURFORD & CO.! Garments made or pressed by us retain their shape PHONE 528 TOM SHEARER | l r J PLAY BILLIARDS —at— | BURFORD’S | [ S GENERAL PAINT CONTRACTING Those planning exterior work I this summer should place thefr orders now to insure comple- | tion while the weather lasts, | B. W. BURKE mmONE 4151 Alaska’s Resident Decorator