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T S TS S S S touch of smartness to be for sports, street, a offers excellent choice suit most any outfit. Gloves for every costume It takes well gloved hands to add the final our showing of the season’s best glove styles RICE & AHLERS " LOW BIDDER ON ~ SCHOOL PLANT Local Firm Gets Plumbing and Heating Contract For Indian School Rice & Ahlers Company, of this city, were today awarded the bid for talling the heating system and ¢ plumbing for the school plant at the Industrial School be- ing erected al"Shoemaker Bay, near any outfit, whether it fternoon or evening— and in color range to YES BAY PLANT PRODUCES FINE SALMON HATCH Has 22,000,000 Red Sal-| mon Fry to Release, Says Supt. Russell The finest lot of red salmon fry| ever hatched and reared in Alaska is now in the ponds at Yes Bay hatchery and soon will be released [to make their way to the briny Geep and wherever else they go in the THE DAILY ALASKA EMPfRE. WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1931. BATTERS FAIL T0 KEEP PACE IN PAST WEEK Elks’ “Big Four” Crack-up —Kearney Blasts Way to Third Position - Upsets were' the oraer of the day in the ranks of the City League sluggers in the past week, according to statistics' compiled by Official Scorer Ed. Mize and made public today. The Elks' “Big Four” cra- cked up and Manning and Roller RAIN PREVENTS BASEBALL TODAY Four Days of Rain- Raises Havoc With Schedule of City League Thé rain gods were still frowning on baseball today, a four - day frown it has been to date, and the finals of the Fourth of July series which bring the Elks and American Tegicn together still remains un- played. It will be played off be- fore any other scheduled contest is staged, it was announced today by [President Karl Theile of the Kid Gloves Women’s 4-inch Doeskin Slip-on Black, Beige, Eggshell and White $2.75 10 $4.75 Chamoisuede Gloves Women’s double woven, fancy 4-inch Slip-on assorted colors $1.25, $1.75 pair MISSES” SINGLE FANCY CHAMOISUEDE SLIP-ON—Assorted patterns and colors. Price, 75 cents B. M. Behrends Co., Inc. Department Store” “Juneaw’s Leading ORURO TR T 0 ORI the deposit will be forfeited to the Government, Guarantee will be re- | quired with each bid as follows: | Five (6%) per cent of the amount of the bid. Performance bond will be required as follo In amount | of 100% of the total contract price. ~Inwitation for Bids United States Devartment of Ag- riculture, Bureau of Public Roads, Juneau, Alaska, July 3, 1931. Seal- ed Bids, subject to the conditions contained herein, will be received » | Performance will begin within ten until 9 oclock AM, August 12,10, “cpjondar days after date of 1931, and then publicly opened, _for potice o proteed and will be furnishing all labor and materials| ., ieted within One Hundred | and performing all work for CON-|gjonty (180) calendar days from structing and improving the While |} /v date, exclusive of any time Pass Highway, Skagway RIVEr|..i may' intervene between the | effective date of order of the Gov- | ernment to suspend operations on | account of weather conditions and | sion, Territory of Alaska. The | e offective date of order to re- | length of the project to kf“ SOn [sume work. Liquidated damages for | rtructed is _approximately 9-‘1’5!'|de1ay will be the amount stated in | Miles and the principal l“;?llli* o |the Special Provisions for each | work are approximately as follows.'cajendar day of delay until the Structure Excavation 600 Cu.Yds;|ywork j5 completed or accepted. Par- | Finished Earth Road 0318 MIes; iia) payments will be made as the | Unclasssified Borrov:' 5,100 Cu.Yds,. work progresses on work and ma- | Untreated Timber 52 MFt. BM. |toriq) delivered if such work and | Treated Timber 9 M.FtB.M.; Class | jateria) meet the approval of the | A Concrete 154 Cu. Yds; Class S/oongracting officer. Article on pa- Oonclmtlc‘m? Lgu-YgS: Rfl"lfor;m‘é tents will be made a part of the Steel 11, s; Corr. Met. Pip « contract. Bids must be submitted Culverts 60 LinFt; Treated Timber ypon the Standard Government Piling 98 LinFt; I B spans com- |Form of Bid and the successful plete 6 Spans; Rock Fill in place pidder will be required to execute 150 Cu. ¥ds. The contract form the Standard Government Form of and the plans, specifications, spec-|cContract for Construction. The right ial provisions and estimate of quan- is reserved, as the interest of the | tities may be examined and the|Government may require, to reject | Standard Questionnaires and Fl-;;m_v and all bids, to waive any| Bridge, National IMorest Road pro- ject, located adjacent to the Ton- ss National Forest, First Judicial nancial Statement for Bidders se-|informality in bids received, and|™ cured by the prospective bidder at to accept or reject any items of | the following addresses: U. S. Bu-|any bid, unless such bid is quali- reau of Public Roads, Federal & |fied by specific limitation. Envel- | ‘Territorial Bldg., J au, Alaska; [opes containing bids must be seal- | U. 8. Forest Service, Commercial |ed, marked, and addressed as fol-| Bldg,, Ketchikan, A a; Assoclat- Jows: Bid for Road Improvement. | ed General Contraciors, Multnomah | white Pass Highway, Skagway Riv- | Hotel, Portland, Oregon; Associated er Bridge, To be opened August General Contractors, Arcade Bldg., 12, 1931 at 9 o'clock AM., Federal | Seattle, Washington; Associated | & Territorial Bldg., Juneau, Alaska. | General Contractors, Spokane Hotel, M. D. Williams, District Engineer, Spokane, Washington. Each bidder| U, 8. Bureau of Public Roads. must submit with his bid, or prev-— —— iously, an attested staement of his 7 e o et DAVE’S SHOP business and technical ox'gmnzw-‘l tion (of the bidder) on forms to| | READY-TO-WEAR | | —for— | be supplied by the District En-| LADIES AND MISSES | gineer, which is available for the contemplated work, including his} financial resources and his high-|'y way construction experience and| other construction experience, com-' | pared with the project bid upon.| The United States expressly re- serves the right to reject any bid in which the facts as to business and technical organization, finan- cial resources or construction ex- perience, compared with the project bid upon, justifies such rejection.| re copies of plans are request-| ed, a deposit of $10.00 will be re-| quired to insure their return. If | li . LUDWIG NELSON JEWELER Watch Repairing | Brunswick Agency FRONT STREET | COLEMAN'S | | Hollywood Style Shop | | “One of Alaska's” Distinctive within fifteen (15) days after open- Sons” Fjrab and Main ing bids, plans are not returned, THE HOTEL OF ALASKAN HOTELS THE GASTINEAU Ovr Services to You Begin and End at the || Affairs. |than the next lowest bidder. The declared Bob Russell, Field Super- | Brown, the Plumber, Everett, Wash. \and Ketchikan, | [Manufacturing Company, (| was rejected for defects. 'WATSON SPENDS |Navy of Japan; speaking his Eng- || Charles || sponded the captain, “we shall be are Wrangell, by the Office of Indian years that swallow them up There were five bidders, from time of migration to their two from Juneau, two from Seatile return to parent streams. “I never and one Everett. 'saw finer fish, and we are well Rice & Ahlers Company's total satisfied with the results of the bid was $25,300, almost $2,000 lower hatching %nd rearing eperations,” architects estimate of the cost for intendent of the the job was $28,000. N. L. Troast, Bureau of Fisheries. who opened the bids here this af-| He spent yesterday in local head- ternoon, is the architect. ‘quarters of the bureau and left| Other tenders submitted were: carly today for Icy Strait, Sitka United = States He was accom-| $30,777; Harr Machine Shop, Ju- panied by Mrs. Russell who is neau, $29,786; A. Schaefer, Seattle, muking her first Alaska trip with $27,368; West Coast Heating Com-.a great deal of pleasure, pany, Seattle, $27,097. Davies| Hatched 22,000,000 Fish i Ketelil- | e yes Bay hateh consisted kan, also submitted a bid which o 22,000,000 fish, all red salmen: It only covered the heating unit and was 'S: n;:a‘anvrimarl‘re’iiylflltiinbiige;:stfd not one of the low tenders. {And they ought to be fat and sas- Iss, as Mr. Russell says they are, since some 30,000 pounds of food were purchased and passed out to| tiiem during the past winter and Spring. They are handfed and hana- reared. And now they fill the waters impounded in the upper creek and ponds into which they are passed after they pass the fin- gerling stage. From the ponds| they make their way out to salt! water. | MOST OF TODAY IN PORT HERE Japanese Admiral and Al- askan Guide are Among Ship’s Passengers When Salmen Swim Home There the knowledge of nan as 'm their voyaging and their careers w“ ™ " _|comes to sn abrupt ending. What| it samlzot;:lér;mf):l:,!thes do, where they go and why,! all remain mysteries. At the end & sit . w of three years a few may reappear, J[’(;hr:;‘;i‘ar;ooxgg:“fo“n;k; l:)oarg but not many. But not until thu} in a hunting expedition.” |fourth year does meflmam swarms | The Admiral was talking to Capt, [0f the-“sliver horde" come swim; Madsen of the Kodiak | Ming home, some to fill (fxe ca_fls Association Guides. | with delicious food that finds its Both are pas-| & 2 4 cengers-on the steamship Admiral {Vay into -all the marts of. the | f world, and ocshers to spawn, then] W,“Lr::":gm:m:;urj: ;0%2);.‘. re- die, leaving their bodies convg:lb g |ently depositec o furnish food for their multitudinous offspring wheni, |they emerge from- egg-sacks tHs he Nipponose sea fighter is re-|foliowing spring P turning to the States from asouth- | ~The present fry stock at, Yest wost Alpska 4rips that took him as,Bav is one of the largest as well far as Unalaska. His mission was|0S onc of the ¥ to select and stock gasoline refuel- | baicheries has ever turned out. “I ling stations for S. Yoshihara, the [Y€A/ly belleve we are doing some:| Japanese aviator, who undertook a |{hing for the Territory and the Tokyo-San Francisco good ~will;Salmon cannihg industry in this| flight. work,” er. Rusfi saigm};isterday. s| on his wa; TAlbY v mTtl;\‘i: ;]L;tl;: f:jggylszo x;mr;es Iui ‘Mr. Russell brought north with use on hunting expeditions next|him an engineer whom he left af fall. He has already arranged to|Aran Creek. In past years, ab take out seven parties then. stages of low water in the stream, The Admiral Watson, Capt. Einar |[Riahy fish have failed to reach the Thomsen and Purser Charles Miller, | SPAWNIng beds upstream becau:«" arrived in Juneau from Kodlak and |they were unable to ascend above| Seward at 10:30 this forenoon. She |the falls. The bureau plans fo was scheduled to sail for Seattle at | prove the creek so that ascent 5 o'clock this afternoon. vill She disembarked at this port ¥ dter. five passengers—Mr. and Mrs. F.| If the whole work cannot be Ivensson, daughter and secrotary,|done this season, temporary im- and Sadie E. F. Johnson. provements will be made so that all fish can reach the beds this Two SHORT mMs year ,and before next season pe:- MADE BY SEAPLANE rinent improvements will be com- Two short flights constituted rleted. the activities yesterday of the Pet- ersburg, Pilot Robert Ellis and Me- chanic Brian® Harlan. ‘A Juneau-Funter round trip and a flight over Mendenhall' Glacier with a party of passengers off the steamship Yukon were made. l ., Rear Admiral using airplanes to reach wild game —_——————— ©O. M. Spulling received 14 votes to be dlected mayor of Sharon, 8. €; a town of 600 people. His cpponent recelved four votes. L g e SPECIALIZED RADIO SERVICE Part Whitfield, Phone 373 adv L. 0. 0. MOOSE {700 Annual Picnic | Marmion Island SUNDAY, JULY 12TH. For the niéembers of the Moose, The Legion of the Moose, No. 25, and Women of Mooseheart Legion, together with their families. © Please bring your lunch . . . hot coffee will be furnished. Children must be accompanied by pareats.. The “America First” will leave City Float at 7:30 and 9:00 am. for Picnic Grounds. Transportation Free. X COME AND HAVE A GOOD TIME UNITED FOOD COMPANY CASH IS KING finest the bureau's{} be possible at any stage of race next September. . Juneau Lumber Mills, Ine. hit the toboggan. Boyd and Andrews continued to lead, but Jack Kearney blasted his way into third place, Koski, nominal leader before, dropping down to fourth. The list of averages of all play- ers taking part in seven or more games follows: City League. At midafternoon today, jnounced it would not be played this evening. If the weather clears, it will be staged tomorrow and one of the postponed games, probably the Elks'-Moose affray set for last Sunday, will be on the boards Friday evening. he an- AB R H Pct: e Boyd, E. 53 21 23 .434 9 Andrews, E. 52 17 22 423 VETERANS IU‘NERAL earney, Al 31 10 11 .355 | Bokezer si0 15 SET FOR TOMORROW i{»af;?x:mtz.EM :; 1:; 198 gg?’ Funeral services for the lats Worth, g;“ 56 o 18 3| Zygmunt Gutkoski will be held at Jun, e' e 7 57 8 17 .298 9 o'clock tomorrow morning in the c f,m‘s adden. M 44 8 13 295 CAtholic Church of the Nativity. Blake, do i 38 6 11 .o8g|Interment under the direction of Roller. E 50 16 17 ogy|the Charles W. Carter Mortuary, lq Ke’aton AL B 79 4251 will be in the American Legion plot Ellis, AL g 2 4 6 >2Sl at Evergreen Cemetery. v 8 ; ! Mr. Gutkoski served overseas ii ?j?g“gf, 1;,[[ :é ig ig 'gzg with the Canadian forces during Ramia DM' 42 4 10 235 the World War. After the great }:f“"esy' AL 42 4 10 o3 conflict he served two enlistments Fiskins, M 25 3 ¢ o3 in the United States Army. Heinke, AL 40 3 9 2095 T J Schmitz, M 46 9 10 217 SAM PEKOVICH Is HERE Sabln, AL-M .. 23 3 5 211 ON SHORT BUSINESS TRIP Livingston, AL 28 10 6 .214 R‘;,fifnd E 28 5 ¢ 214/ Sam Pekovich, President of the B .Schn‘\itz M % 8 3 :20‘1 Alaska Admiraity Gold Mining Niemi, E f 59 7 12 204 Company with proporty at Funter Neilo, M 35 3 7 .o0n Bay, arr here last night on B riner, B 52 10 10 193 business connected with the com- ¥. Keaton) AL 27 1 5 .1g3 Pany and will remain until Thurs- fowe Al 29 5 5 .174,day evening. He was accompanied i 2 ‘Jag| by Mrs. Pekovich. ig;’;‘;‘:g's §§ 2 ; ':,;2: Mr. Pekovich recently returned : A % to Funter Bay from New York iwhere he stayed several months. FUTURE GREATS ASKED Renewed mining deveiopment. ac- TO ASSEMBLE AT PARK "™ i Rain or shine, all boys, 18 years! c:d or under, who have any incli-| nation to play haseball’ are asked| f~ meet at 6:30 o'clock tomorrow| gvening at the baschall park for! flie purpdse of osganizing two ninws| that will engage in a s of| scheduled games. The gathering| Wwill be held in the grandstand, 50, the weather willj thake no difference. i Managers and captains will' be’ chosen as well as members of the, FOR - SALE ser MABRY'S CAFE CASH OR TERMS INQUIRE i FIRST NATIONAL BANK adv + of two teams, and a schedule will be ctitlined. Italy Keeps Close Guard " Over Race Plane Motors' TURIN, July 8—Secrecy such as protects a country’s war plans now hangs over the building where new motors are being developed iov Italian planes in the Schneider cup | i i “Tomorrow'’s Styles » Toda;” Air Minister Italo Baloa is the only one, outside the Fiat enginecrs and trusted workmen, all pledged to silence, who has inspected the new engines. They are understood to be rather revoultionary in da- sigh and' with’ many cylinders. e | AT THE HOTELS | ! Gas-itican N. L. Quesman; Prince Rupert. B. C; 8. Carlson, Ishpeming! Mich.; Fred Jensen, Chesterfield Oigarettes; L. D. Lowe, Westward, Cal.; Mrs. A. J. Weathers, A. Ml Hammer, Juntau; P. Baumgarten, Rayon Underwear Shown in Non-Run Featuring — Vests, Bloomers, Slips and Fitted Brassiere Top Petersbure. ---Combination Suits. Alaskan E. H. Johnson, Taku; Joseph Comminole, Mexico Civy; Fred Morton, Seattle; Mr. and Mrs. W. 8. Pekovich, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Neeley, Funter Bay; Miss Sadie E. Jackson, C. Korsnes, Cordova. Zynda J. J. Reynolds, Seattle; C. Lang- ton, Wrangell; T. T. Brennan, Ket- cr ikan. Pleasingly Priced ———————— © Garbage collectors in Tampa, Fla., ‘wear snappy uniforms to dis- tinguish them from backyard prowlers. i “Juneaw’s Own Store” WHEN YOU WANT.IT Phone 358 U. 5. DEPARTMENT OF AGRIOULTORE, WEATHER BUREAG The Weather . ¢ (By the U. 8. Weather Burerz) Forecast for Juneau and vicinlty bcginning at 4' p.m. July 8. Prcbably showers tonight and Thursday; gentle westeily winds. LOCAL DATA' Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity Weather 4 pm. yest'y 30.11 56 86 S 8 Cldy 4 am. today . 30.05 53 90 8 6 Rain 12 noon today- . 30.04 54 86 s 4 Rain wABLE AND RADIO REPORTS Highest 4pm. | Lowest4am. 4a.m. Precip. 4am. Statlon— temp. temp. -I° emp. temp. velocity 24 hrs Weather Barrow 38 36 | 36 38 16 30 Rain Nome 52 52 | 46 46 2 0 Cldy Bethel 62 60 | 44 46 6 {01 Pt. Cldy Fort Yuken 60 60 | 52 52 - 0 Clear Tanana 60 58 | 38 38 - 0 Clear Fairbanks 62 64 | 48 50 [ 02 Cldy Hagle 64 60 | 42 42 4 .02 Pt. Cldy St. Paul . 48 48 | 42 42 8 10 Clay Dutch Harbor 58 54 | e 46 8 Trace Clav Koealak ... 56 54 44 46 0 [ Cldy Cordove ... 64 64 I 52 54 4 10 Rain Juneau 56 56 | 51 53 6 64 Rain Sitka 59 —_ | 48 52 0 .60 Cldy Ketohikan 12 70 | 50 54 s 0 Cldy Fiince Rupert 68 68 50 52 » 0 Clear Edmonton 4 70 127348 52 Y 0 Clear Seatlle . 86 86 | 62 62 0 0 Clear Portland 96 94 | 62 62 ‘ 0 Clear San Francisco 68 66 | 58 58 X 0 Clear *—Less than 10 miles. The pressure is moderately low near Cordova and slightly above normal elsewhere in Alaska. It is highest' south of the’ Alaska Pen- insula and low near Midway Island. Scattered showers have faillen in Alaska during the past twenty-four hours and clear wea- tlier prevalls over most of the Yukon Valley with considerable cloud- iness in other districts. ‘Temperatures have risen slightly from Cordova southeastward and in th: extreme North with little change in other parts of the Territory. f—— Phone TAXI SERVICE DAY AND NIGHT Stand Opposite Chamber of Commerce Boogh SAVING | EVE HAVING WHAT you HAVE in the future depends upon what you save in the present. There’s no escaping that rule. Fortunately, it is: both easy and pleasant to save, once you start. It becomes a game. [ Watching a Bank Account grow is like watching a garden grow, only much more || thrilling. ,‘ HAVE A GOAL IN MIND Make Retirement in 15 Years your goal, or Travel, or a College Education for your children. Then you’ll enjoy saving. First National Bank MACHINES UNIVERSAL AND EVER READY TYPES Sold and remted—rentals can be applied on later purchase if desired Alaska Electric Light and Power Co. DOUGEAS Phone 18 JUNEAU Phone 6 JUST ARRIVED Another New Stock of WALLPAPER J uneaufif_’qint Store PRINTING AND STATIONERY - Desk Snpplies—-—lnk-v—Desk Sets— " Blotters—Offics Supplie Geo. M. Sim Co L " FryeBruhn Company I Pvetoo i oo il o | ELECTRIC SUNLIGHT ;

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