The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 16, 1932, Page 6

& AR IGREAT GUNS, GAL, i YOU'LL NEVER GIT COUPLE OF Q:ows, PA! 1M GAPT. DOLLAR PASSES AWAY EARLY TODAY Shipping Magnate, Who gan Career by Launch- ing Washtub, Is Dead (Continued 1rom Page Ong) and established a| the n- itable bequesis chair of Chr San Francisco 1] ary. | He made his home at San Ra-| fael, near San Francisco and was| assisted by his sons in his many interests. He was born in Falkirk, | Scotland, March 20, 1844 | Doliar received a brief but fun-| damental education in a public| school presided over by a crippled schoolmaster, whose zeal in chas-| tising lazy students led them to thank Providence he had only one arm. swept acress the finish line five Writing his memoirs late in life,| pine of the Kentucky Derby. Dollar credited his early training| __ s ; § in thrift and temperance for his success. ; With his father Dollar went to Quebec when was 14 and began to work in a stave factory for $6 a month. He |in Bracebridge, Ontario. Two years and brothers, |1ater he adventured out on the he |great ice expanses in and around Georgian Bay, n Parry Sound, lin order to establish new logging =N . | CAMPs, and became lost in a bliz- .‘m‘mg,,*‘oj"zg”;n;”;m;: B umber | jard. He fought for days to get and. in his spare time during the |Pack to civilization. : long winter evenings learned to| A search for bigger timber took figure and write. The year lBHGH"m to the Marquette region in found him in charge of a crew of |Michizan. He continued lumbering 40 men running logs down the Du in the upper Michigan _pcn{nsu!u Moines River, a tributary of the|Until he moved to California in Oftawa, his salary being 26 a|1808 and bought a timber tract in month. Sonoma County. In 1893 he s art- In 1874 he married and- settled (¢4 # mill and lumber establi P ment in Mendocino County, nd ded holdings in Washington and British Columbia. tain turned many of his ships, over to ‘the, Allles under an arrange- {ment which permitted him to take care of his own business. business continued to grow in the ante bellum period and a record of his ship purchases during the years fleets had been increased two-fold by the addition of 22 vessels. freight service was inaugurated in 1924 with seven United States Ship- ping Board boats. In 1925, he pur chased five other large Shippin out of San Francisco. 1926, another fleet of five Shipping Dollar flag and Capt. Dollar owne all the American passenger bo the Orient. around - the - world service as his greatest achievement. Although then 80 years old, he personally worked out the plans and sailed on the first voyage to call on 400 shipper (and prospective customers all alor the globe girdling route. The next |vear he made a similar idrummmg" voyage, making 500 | calls, Mrs. Dollar accompanied him on both trips. “In the Pacific lles the future \cemer of the world’s commercial | develpment,” Dollar was fond of |saying. “It hasn't been so long | since only once a year a ship went |around the world and not oftener than once every month or two from i e e CRANKENSTEIN if :4A7N WHO MADE A MONSTER dort Motion Picture 1 COMING TO CAPITOL » NAILS—GEASS—DOORS—SASH SCREEN DOORS—SCREEN DOOR SETS ADJUSTABLE WINDOW SCREENS CERTAINTEED ROOFING CERTAINTEED SHEATHING CERTAINTEED ASPHALT SHINGLE Take Advantage of Our Complete Lines Thomas Hardware Co. This striking picture from the top of the grandstand at Charchill Dewns shows Burgeo King as he Economic was sceond and Stepenfetchit third. | ' Here’s the Derby W;mner During the World War the Cap-| His.; from 1921 to 1926 shows the Dollar | The Dollar world passenger and' Board liners for trans-Pacific trade | Early in| Board boats were taken under the operating on regular schedules to S and Daughters of) SHOP IN JUNEAU 1 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, MAY 16, 1932. IM A GAME GUY, BUT I CAN'T SEE IMYSELE AS A FARMERETTE/ S, ERES My ) —Assoclated Press Photo. lengths ahead of the field to win mcre than $62,000 in the 58th run- { i —Associated Press Photo. Unprecedented turf honors came to the Idle Hour Stables of Col. E. R. Bradlcy when his Burgeo King won thé Kentucky Derby by five lengths, giving Bradley his third Derby winner within a dezen years. Here’s the winner—No. 13—getting his wreath after the race, with Jockey Eugene James up. . |Norway with a musical every |and dance. program ‘week of the year fo ports in {14 countries and arour > world.” Two thousand mountain asht | Working with foreign trade|trees will be planted in Ketchikan to beautify the city, The trees i eressional legislation which he con- | were obtained in Wrangell by the | sid restricted t impos- | American Legion Post of Ketchi-| ing burdens on shi wners. kan and the money derived from Because of American shipping | their sale to residents will go to- s, many of the Dc vessels | ward community relief. | were registered in ouver, B. C. Capt. Dollar tra tensive- ly and headed a m | business men of th {to foster foreign co a | tions. | |bodics, Capt. Doliar opposed Con- Boy Scouts of Ketchikan will enjoy a ten-day outing beginning June 8 at their White River camp. At Seward, the fire departments ) Among his lumbe interests (has a black cub bear for a mas- was the lumber settlement of Dol- |cot. larton on Burard Island, six miles from Vancouver, B. Felix Seppi of Hyder, proprietor where' he |built a model commu A of the Salmon River stage Um,! and Miss Helen A. Berry of Van-| couver, B. C., were married at' Hyder. They will make their home there. 4 | tofer w1 e i By CLIFF STERRETT IT'S A SIGHT FER —\THREE FLIERS DOUCLAS | or AGHBARROW; NEWS _ | STORM BOUND DUUGLAS I'"GH Baychimo Expedition Held " SCHOOL GRADS | o Ground 0 Days at Point Hope | n and Mechanic G k arrived at Poin Saturday afternoon o They were stormb: at Point Hope t is not kmown here 16.—Pilot Rev. J. W. Cadwell Dis- cusses Battle of Life at Douglas i jde | { | hat luck the, ad on the search for the Working with God” was the Hud camer Bay- of the Rev. J. W. Cad- chimo which was. th rpose of Baccalaureate sermon lasc"h"‘ flight. day for the 1982 Douglas High | S | Senior praduating class, | PURPLE DEGREE CiREMONIES Rev. Cadwell said that the “great- | ARE TO BE HELD IN JUNEAU et thing under Heavens is man— | vho is created in the image! Lodal members of Aurora P ing God. Although only |Encampment are specia invited jCatholics, Protestants and = Jews to dttend the meeting of the Or- accept’ the Bible, many other re-|der in Juneau tom night. s seots believe in a God.” ‘The Royal Purple Degree will be Cadwell affirmed that *we |¢onferred and refres nts will be are at the door of discovery in | served. modern world and the young men and women of tQday are called to go forward to leadership and success. ‘A person cannot sit down | in the battle of life, he cannot | l | ¢ t + \ ROBERT HURLEY HOME TO SPEND SUMMER rest or he will lose out. Using s son of Mrs. everything one has is a remedy nnie Hurley of this eity, left for |Seatile Saturday on the steam- and High School|er Alaska for Juneau. [He has hers filed into the church after been attending Santa Clara Uni- |versity where he recently com- pleted his Freshman year. — i it ia number a trio, M 'Pmperwn. Miss Thoma, and Ric | Niemi sang “Morning,” accompan- | NOTICE TO EAGLES Your attendance at the regular of Douglas Aerie, No. 117, Monday, May 16, at 8 quested. Initiation. Re- Visiting brothers wel- GUY L. SMITH, Secretary. jed by Miss Holbrook at the piano. | gt it FIT CARD PARTY Wednesday evening, May 26, the T Rgbekah Auxiliary will give “a Come. public card party in the Odd Fel-;*ad“ lows’ Hall. The event is to be| e Gl B yiven for a charitable cause. Both | SLINGSHOTS BARRED bridge end whist will be played. | Warning is hereby given that i‘ordinance against the use of sling- EAGLES TO INITIATE |Shots within the City Limits will Tnitiation of candidates for mem- ' Pe enforced. By order of the City bership will be held this evening | Council by Douglas Aerle 117, F. O. E. FEULE. ORAY, A social time will follow the initia- ;—24V: ity Clerk. 3 i Edia lon. = | Dr. G. L. Barton, who has been ATTENTION AUTO DRIVERS {in Skagway on a professional trip, The City of Douglas car drivers’ returned home to Juneau aboard licenses for the year 1932 are now ‘the Northwestern. due and payable to the City Clerk. (A4 TOXIC ELIMINATION Everyone that drives a car must “Solid Comfort” get a license before June 1, or the Reclining Steamer Chair ‘ City Marshal will take action to Cabinet | collect same according to the city Lady Attendant ordinance. } Drugless Health Institute | | | Phone 477 Night and Day | 3 “EL CAMINO” YELLOW CLING PEACHES In quarters. Delicious and different—makes you think of home-canned peaches. LARGE CANS—20 cents CALIFORNIA GROCERY PHONE 478 FELIX GRAY, City Clerk. —adv. Prompt Delivery — - ‘Tropical fruit h thrive in Ketchikan lemon has been Lmvned nd cult y, wife Robert Law, miner and trapper | of Stewart, B. C, who left his on a tree|isolated cabin at the head of Bow- | Mrs, C.|ser Lake February 19 to go to States |Stewart for medical treatment for )n, which |& foot that had been frozen, died’ lden yel- | Of exhaustion on the trail 15 days tree in|later of exhaustion and cold, ac- in the|cording to the findings of a cor- oner’s jury at Stewart. His body was found under a tree 17 miles north of the Big Missouri mine been made to A full-sized is beginning to low, i the Fi r window for Federal because of |April 30. Both hands™ and feet in the |Wwere frozen before death had over- 7 living | aken him. asked A project is under consideration in Anchorage for utilizing an old channel near the aviation field for creating a water landing field for airplanes. This channel may be filled by a ditch from Chester be the first cok snd the lake thus created. personnel | would be of sufficient size to ac- commodate the largest amphibian plane. Thus, instead of the nec- essary traveling four miles to Lake Shepard to take off on pontoon cquipped planes, the distance would be reduced to a mile from the center of the city. — Ketchikan, i meeting at- They did stion that d husbands Federal ser- in cases w! are employ vice, the w { might be |of Educ: lated places has to and husbands. in some iso- 'mploy wives Norway's Ind 17, will be obser by the Sons lence Day, May ved in Ketchikan eneral Electric Refrigerators NOW BACKED BY A FOUR-YEAR FREE SERVICE GUARANTEE Incidentally, they cost a trifle more than the other kind — and they are worth the slight difference in price. Prices and other information on request. Alaska Electric Light & Power Co. Junean Phone No. 6 Douglas Phone No. 18 To Make Dreams Come True The simplest way we can say why bank- ing your money is adyisable is this: The more you save, the more you hnve, the more money you have saved, the more your desires and dreams can be fulfilled. 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