The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 21, 1931, Page 8

s FIVE SCHOOLS BEING SOUGHT " FORTHIS YEAR Territory | lish New Schools at Various Points ve been received of Applications Department e new sch application certa. to be made in the near future, it was| announced today by W. K. Keller, Commissioner. As far as it is justi- | fied by conditions, the schools probably will be established The applications are from com- fi is munities in the F Third and | Fourth Divisions. In this section, Port Alexander and Tree Point are seeking schools. The former re- ports nine children and the latter six Both are held up pending further data. Security Bay is ex-} pected to apply later. In the Third Division, Premier, a coal mining community in the Mat- anuska Valley, has been authorized to open a school. It has nine avail- able pupils now and will have sev- eral more by the date of the open- ing. A third teacher has been au- thorized for the Matanuska school Commissioner Keller said. Tl‘ni\ school has 50 pupils. The assign- | ment of a third instructor makes it possible to offer a full four-year high school course there. An application from Nushagak, in the Bristol Bay region, has been disapproved. Thirteen children, all mixed bloods, were reported avail- able. Ophir, in the Fourth Division, near Flat, has applied for a school,i also. It reported eight children. This is being held up pending fur- | ther investigation. { The supplies and serviceable equipment in the abandoned school at Hope, Third Division, have been moved to Moose Pass. The school there has been in the special co- operative class. It is expected, the | Commissioner said, that it will| have enough pupils this year to raise it to the regular public| school class. Mr. Keller will leave here next Monday for Sitka, and from there go to Goddard where a summer | school is maintained by the Terri- | tory. { CERMAN MAID LEAVES KAZAN KAZAN, Soviet Republic, Aug. 21. —Marga von Etzdorf, German avia- trix, who is flying from Berlin to Tokyo, took off from Kazan yes- terday for Sverdlovsk. Frauline von Etzdorf is the first Geérman woman to get a first class air pilot's license. - - MARKOE OWS MOVIES OF LOCAL HAPPENINGS | Front Street pedestrians last night gathered in goodly numbers to view a novel exhibition of “movies” of local events, staged for them by; Markoe Studio. On a window | screen, using a home projector, Major Markoe exhibited some ex- citing moments in the Moose-Elks baseball game played last month in Douglas, and views of the an- nual Moose Picnic held several weeks ago on Marmion Island. The studio plans to show other local views later, Major Markoe said. They will include some ex- cellent pictures of Alaska big game animals. — e FISH FARES The following salmon fares were received at the Juneau Cold Stor- age Company’s dock this week: ‘T-3768, Capt. Jim Young, 7,000 pounds; Sadie, Capt. Sam Stevens 7,600 pounds; Vyella, Capt. F. P. Oldenburg, 4,000 pounds. e - Asked to Estab-| ~ [ALASKAN FISH CAN LIVE IN ICE 21.—Alas- among the WASHINGTON, Aug kan black fish are hardiest denizens of the sea, ac- cording to Federal Government fishery experts. Some of the fish' were brought 5,500 miles and ar- rived in good condition today to be | put into a fresh water aquarium in Washington, D. C The fish have the reputation of being able to live several months | 1 in fce, and yet they stand! warm water well. In fact they| can get along without any water for a short time. —————— The Detroit Tigers have bought Al MCcElreth, 19-year-old outfielder of the Joplin Western association THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, fTHUUSANDS DIE ' IN CHINA FLOOD HANKOW, China, Aug. 21 —Be-‘ lieving that Hankow is doomed to | destruction by the flood waters from the Yangtse River, Chinese residents are fleeing the city. Thou- sands have been drowned. In the i | |vicinity of Hankow, 9.000 square| miles are under water. Thirty| | million persons have been made| | homeless and 'millions of dollars |worth of property has been de- stroyed. The calamity is one of the great- [est in modern times, | SuECANag | Bill Harris, pitcher for Fort | Worth in the Texas Leaguc, hurled four consecutive games in. whick {his mates failed to get him'a run. the lower possible prices. ceipt goes with every pur invite you to put us to th White Star Tuna Fish Try this recipe and intro your family to a new food delight. 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It found that met her death by being knocked jdown by an automobile driven by | Robert Murphy.” It was signed by “Ruth Peterson | | Rev. T. Tripp and L. R. Smith. The verdict of the jury, it was said at the office of the United States District Attorney, closes the matter. - It is- the belief of the latter office that the accident was unavoidable. The funeral services for the little girl will be held at 1 o'clock Sat- urday afternoon at the Russian Orthodox Church on Fifth Street, A. P. Kashevaroff officiat- ing. Irene Peterson, 11-year-old sister of Ruth, who was slightly injured in the same accident, continued to show improvement . today and was expected to be discharged from 3. C. Thomas, S. Nowicka, W. W. isc Ann's Hospital in a day or two. | Batcheller, Willis E. Nowell, H CARMODY AGAIN HEADS KNIGHTS OF GOLUMBUS Grand Rapids Lawyer En- ters Third Term as Chief of Catholic Order FRENCH LICK, Ind. Aug. 21— Martin Carmody, lawyer of Grand Rapids, Mich,, was reelected Su- preme Knight of the Knights of Columbus, which concluded its an- nual convention yesterday afternoon at French Lick. { With the re-election, Mr. Car- mody is entering on his third suc- cessive term as Supreme Knight ;of the Catholic order. BOB ELLIS TO FLY i |~ OUT OF ANCHORAGE Pilot Robert C. Ellis, well known pilot of the Alaska-Washington Air- ways who has been flying in this district for the past three years, today announced that he has ac- cepted a pilot’s berth with the Alas- ka Airways, Inc., of Anchorage, and that he will fly out of Anchorage this winter, returning ot Juneau next spring. Mrs. Ellis will accom- pany her husband, who plans to sall for the westward on the Aleu- tian next Tuesday. During the absence of Ellis, Pilot| Meyring, who is now operating a' plane for the Alaska-Washington Airways at Cordova, will resume flying here. SCIENTIST FROM OREGON IS GIVEN LANGMUIR PRIZE Dr. Linus Pauling, Aged 30, Is Designated ‘Prod- igy of Science NEW YORK, Aug. 21.—“A prod- igy of American science” is the designation given Dr. Linus Paul- ing, 30 years old, a native of Por land, Ore., graduate of the Ore- gon State College and now a prof- fessor in the California Institute of Technology, by the American Chemical Society, which yesterday awarded him the $1,000 Langmuir prize for his achievements chemistry. In speaking of the award, Dr. Irving Langmuir, for whom the Langmuir prize is named, said: “Dr. Pauling may yet win the Nobel prize for his experiments into the nature of the chemical bond forces that hold atoms togeth- e ——————— SIMPSON RETURNS FROM VISIT TO ROCKY PASS Robert Simpson, of the Nugget Shop, arrived in Juneau yesterday afternoon on the seaplane Peters- burg, after a visit to barrium claims in Rocky Pass in which he is in- terested. - Old Fapers at The Emplre. 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