The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 1, 1932, Page 2

54x90 SHEETS 63x99 SHEETS 81x90 SHEETS 72x99 SHEETS 81x99 SHEETS 81x108 SHEETS 45x36 PILLOW CAS ‘SPECIAL LOW PRICES on PEQUOT ! “ - PILLOW CASES THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, sHEETS and B.M. BEHRE Juneau’s Leading The W eather . LOCAL DATA /By, the U. 8. Weather Burean) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4 p.m, Aug. 1: Showers tonght, Tuesday clearing and warmer; gentle westerly to northwesterly wipds, 1 J. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU NDS CO., Inc. Department Store i | | Weather | me Barometer Temp. Hum!dity Wind Veiocity 4 pm. yest'y .. 29.77 54 90 Calm Cldy 4 am. today .....2089 50 96 s 5 Rain Noon today 29, 52 96 s 6 Rain CABLE AND RADIO REPORTS i | 4 YESTERDAY TODAY i s Highest 4p.m. | Lowest4a.m. 4a.m. Precip. .4am. Station temp. temp. | temp. temp. velocity 24hrs. Weather Barrow 3 34 | w8 80 8 0 Cldy Nome 54 54 | 50 50 0 Trace Rain | Bethel 56 64 42 146 47 T.28 " ‘Pt.Cldy, Fort Yukon 58 56 54 54 6 12 cidy Tanana . 8o o YOG R 4 02 Cldy Fairbanks 60 56 48 48 4 0 cldy | Eagle 62 S 1 0. W 4 26 Cldy | St. Paul . 50 50 46 46 16 .06 Rain Dutch Harbor 58 52 — 4 12 0 Clear Kodiak B & | 8 » 0 0 Cldy Corodva 66 66 | 50 52 6 14 Cldy Juneau 54 54 | % 50 5 .61 Rain T T - 82 - 49 — 4 40 Pt.Cldy Kefchikan .. 60 60 I 4 04 Pt.Cldy Prince Rupert ... 54 52 | 50 50 4 64 Rain | Edmonton woOoR | M s ¢ 02 Clear Seattle _ B2 58 | 58 56 6 Trace Rain Portland ... 82 80 58 60 4 Rain Cldy San_Frangisco ... 64 64 54 54 4 0 Clear | The, pressure is moderately low throughout nearly all of Alaska It is lowest in northwestern Canada and light pain- generally .from Eastern Alaska to Puget Sound and.portiops of The pressure is moderately high in the Aleutian Islands and rising slightly. Bering Sea. and from Southetst Alaska southward. been slight during the past 24 hours. ; —eeeee ROLDS TRIAL TOURT RULINGS | | | | | s j’fifl'firfiéfil i;-l;;‘vor of Late|Arrested for Afléejd Stab- Frank Fremming Upheld by Court of Appeals A mandate was received today in the office of Clerk of the Unit-| . ed States district court affirming g;s Judgment of Judge Justin w. Harding in favor of Frank Frem- fning, Jack Zavodsky es assignee, ;ufilkt the Southeastern Alaska Mining Corporation, on a miner's lien for work performed at Ju- alin during 1729, 1930 and 1931 Fremming, was employed ai thel property from October 29, 1929, to §,1931 at the rate of $125 per month, He was awarded ai judgment in the sum of $1328.10 and attorreys fees of $300 by a decision made by Judge Harding last Seplember. { foraclosure of the len was ted ara the Banshee, Undine, wa ond Cover lode claims mill sites were ordered sold satisty the judgment. The com-! appealed from the findings of ; died in a local hos- Temperature changes have F. ERICKSON IS INCUSTODY ON ASSAULTCHARGE bing of Two Men Last Satuyday Night Charged , with, assault with a dangerous weapon, Felix Erickson was arrested Saturday evening by Chief of Police G. A. Getchell and Deputy United States Marshal Tom Newcombe. ~ Felix Carlson and Henry Gocdwin, alleged victims of assault, were treated by Dr. W. J. Pigg for knife wounds. Carlson was stabbed in the shoul- der, and Goodwin, suffered from a cut the hand. Neither was seriously injured. James Kestner, in whose cabin on Willoughby Avenue the fracas| is ‘said to Lave occurred, was alsol arrested. He was charged with drunkenness. The affair is said to fave had its origin in a booze| Erickson was expected to have| had his arraignment today in the United States Commissioner's Court, before Judge Gharles Sey. - — the SOVIETS TRY TO MELT HAIL — LENINGRAD — Soviet. meterolo- gists are experimenting with rock- ":K;c‘fg the case was started judgment was render-| W; he died, he assigned| . and other claims to Za- ’ preparation _which England, man -has geal. - v lights them| An average of 400 persons—more when .they are rub-|than one a _day—change their ets in an_ attempt to melt hail stones :nto rain or snmow before the icy pellets can damage crops. Missles two feet long are shot! up 1,500 feet to blast the air cur- rents that cause moisture to con- SILVER HORDE Great Run of Pink Saliion {ful,_indicated the main run, morz | |in North | Friday each of {hose days. INVADE WATERS | OF ICY STRAIT Is Reported Entering Local 'Districts (Continuea irvm rage One) than a week later than last year | has at last, struck, in. Capt. Dell Reports Capt. Clyde, I. Dell, after cover- ing the district, ip a radiogram to the bureau uxgy‘ said traps and’ South Inian Pass | ard Saturday had taken | pinks, Those on Pleas- had _averaged 10,000 Those in the‘ vicinity between Funter Bay and | Excursion Inlet, farther east, 145,000 ant Is! | caught an average of 1,000 each. ‘This is the first real pink run 1o be ¢xperienced this season in | the Ty Strait distriot. It started about Juiy 27, when the adyance, guard struck in frofm the ocean.' And the run has been growing heavier since that time. Gilbert Reports Pack | J. N.. Gilbert, production man- ager for the Alaska Pagific Salmon | Corporation for Southeast Alaska,| who ariived here today, reported| the big plant at Port Althorp hadl put up slightly more than 28,000 cases to last night. Of this num- ber, more than 22,000 were packed since July 25, and most of them! during tie last three days of the| month. | Sunday the plant had 100,000 fish on the floor and it was ex- pected to be running at capacity | by Tuesdcy morning. Mr. Gilbert | came her: last night on a com-! pany boat from Port Althorp. From' Pleasant Island east for some dis- tance, paiches of phosphoressence | showed salmon running in large numbers. Confident Run Is On He is confident the run is on in full force. MBut it has come rather iate to do any good as far as fishinz in the western section | of the aistrict is concerned. Com- mercial fishing closes there next Wednesday.. ‘At that time, trap| operations must close and seiners move to other areas. Whether there will be any ex- tension of the season in the dis- trict was still unknown today. Com- missioner C'Malley, who is at Ket- chikan, bhaa been advised of the run conditions, = Several of th2 packers had wired him urging an extension. The - Commissioner was due to leave Ketchikan this | Jifieau via the west coast. He, is expected to arrive here Wednes- | It is possible, however, that! day. he will take final action before reaching kere. TAYLOR LEAVES FOR _ HAINES INSPECTION To. inspect Work in Drogress on system, Ike P. Taylor, Acting,Chief of the Alaska ; Road. Commission, will leave here tonight, on the steamer Admiral Rogers for Haines, He will be accompanied by Harold Omsted, . fust , appointed sub-fore- man for the Hafnes system. - Mr. Taylor .will be in Haines about two days. He will return here on the tender Highway, Upit- ed States Bureau of Public Roads. Mr. Omsted is taking the place of A. P. Laurie, sub-foreman who came here last week for medical treatment and underwent an op- eration for @ ruptured appendix later. He will be unable to resume his road duties fqr about 30 days. J. C. ROWAN. VISITS WITH EMPIRE STAI"F; J. C. Rowan, who is with. the publicity department of the Can- adian Naticnal Rallway with head- | quarters in Vancpuver, B, C, is' making .the round trip. on the; Prince Kobert' and. visited - with | members of The Empire staff while the. steamer was in port yesterday. Mr. Rowan is well known as a free lan'e writer and newspaper | man throughout Canada. He was in the newspaper business for many years hafore becoming associated with the Canadian National, i Vhy Pa k Ful § o ————— names every year in France. % _“We Tell You in A (neau from \back to jon the piacer gold possibilities in |vorable ty encourage many mem- evening for ' the Haines - Pleasant Camp road |, ‘handicap of blindness which al- |} 1 Automatic Oil Burner Complete] installed; il running order, with 16-barrel fuel oil tank Guaranteed to! Be b?tisfa’ctory . Underwriters’ Label Made by one of the largest oil burner vance What Job Will Cost” LIARD PARTY | MEMBERS COME HERE IN PLANE Some of Mitchell Expedi-|; tion to Leave This Evening for Homes On the large Jungers seaplane of the Cuanadian Airways Limited which maintains bases at Atlin B. C. and Whitehorse, Y. T., prom- inent members of the Thomas Mit- chell placer gold prospecting expe- dition '0. the Liard district of Yukon Tirritory came to Juneau | yesterday. Some of them will de- part hy steamship this evening enroute to their homes in Detroit. | By vess:l from Skagway, the par- ty's minmng engineer returned to this city, having concluded his in- | vestigation. | Those that came in on the Jun- | kers seap'ane, with Pilot S. McMil- | lan and Mechanic C. L. Allen, were | George C. Booth, member of a millionair2 family of Detroit; his, business associate, S. G. Bowden, | also of Detroit; V. H. Gallogly, likewise of Detroit, and Edwin G.| Tyre, of Toronto, Canada. | Mining Engineer | Harry Townsend, well-known mining engineer who makes his | headquarters In Seattle, arrived | here this forenoon on the steam- || ship Northwestern. | C. Mciaddyn, another member of the Miichell party, came to Ju- the expedition’s basc | at Tulsequah, B. C., on the sea-| plane Chichagof, Pilot Anscel Eck- mann and Mechanic Gordon Gra- | ham. ; Will Go on Robert Mr. Booth and Mr. Bowden will | embark this evening on the south- bound Piince Robert. Mr. Tyre Mr. Gallogly and Mr. McFaddyn are expecied to return to the Mit- chell expedition. | Mr. Tcwnsend is likely to go! Seattle soon. the, Liard was not sufficiently fa- bers of the Mitohell party to con- tinue activities in that region. i The Eistman planes with the ex- pedition are still with it, and they are expected to remain in the North. Scme of them are operat- ing between the Tulsequah, Atlin and Teslin Lake bases of the par- ty. e ‘The Jurkers plane is expected to return to Atlin tomorrow. P J VONDAY, AUGUST 1, S - Daily Cross-word Puzzle 20. DI ). GarAbling game 10, 1932. e . Feline Symbol for adium Workshop, Entirely 45. Musical characters v ACROS» Solution of Saturday's Puzzle 1. Symbol_for L Japancke tantalum statesman holes t. Angry ches 5. Entangle nit Head covering orrosion 3 Fresh supply Soce: of the 11 Self crescent moon hrough train s Bar legally Make fast: Dwart ! plautica Hint to'a %7 <3 Blank type solution 1 used -for | spacing Corpulent | Putt 3. Odder 1 Fized charges Walsteont | | Part of a Sudden. squalls | | stove o9 Zma = e step ured His report iDOU‘GLASES RETURN Temperatures' were high and some |of the Juneau rain and cool days| FROM wALLA wALLA would have been welcomed ther, After an absence of almost . six rincess Louise. Mr.. Douglas was cali south by ne serious illness of his C. Douglas, who is suffering father, | 2 TRy from cancer of the stomach. His Birds Make Board Nests |rccovery is not expected. o sk| Eastern Washington hasn't had | When Sto_rms Raze Tr“§|nluch rain in the past six weeks. | P | Showers fell only. two mornings WASHINGTON, Aug..1. + The noddy tern, bird of the Florida keys, seems satisfied with any kind | of wood for nest-building, reports Dr. Paul Bartsch of the Smithson- | {an Institution. , i He recently visited a “key” where | all the vegetatign, trees, bushes, | and shrubs had been swept off the | island by, storms. Great numbers of noddy terns used lo build thelr nests_there in the vegetation. Now all the terns lay. their eggs on, the ground, he found, but re-| tain a desire for some sort of wood | pear the eggs. They, gather a few | ead twigs and arrange them in the shape of a nest around the eggs and some terns incubate their eggs on bare boards. | ar g Blind Singer Memorizes | .. Nearly Thousand Songs| SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. i—The, most invariably sharpens other fac- ulties has, enabled Pearl Byrd, aj San Francisco girl to memorize | over 200, radio. programs. | As ‘accompanist and soprano for | six ‘blind singers she committed to memory not only her own parts but_also thdée of other singers. The group has been on the air four years and Miss Byrd's memor- ized compositions now total nearly a thousand, F T iy mach'nz . has .been deyeloped capable of adding up and down and sideways across twenty. columns of 4 figures at the same time. ———tlelp——— A farmer ih Denmark has dis- covered - a way o preserve milk in, sheet_form, which is thin as tissue paper, 5 v v More? Co. S Mot during. Mr, Douglas's visit there. he declared. e | weeks, visiting his parents in Walla Farm L i Walla, Wash,, H. W. Douglas, Unit-‘ wages LPWEL |ed States Weather Bureau, accom- | {panied by Mrs. Douglas and their two children, returned home last Saturday, arriving on the steamer | hand: | thirty years ago, Than 30 Years Ago Aug. 1—Farm than they did the Department of Agriculture reported. Moreover, there are anxious to' take every available, Wage rates without board range from $1854 a month in the South Central States to $46.01 in the Far two men farm job West, the. average being $27.10 or| 29 percent Jess than a year ago. UNION 76 -~ GASOLINE The Finest Uniform Non-Premium Fuel at No Extra Cost. D. B. FEMMER MARTIN LYNCH W. H. FLEEK REMEMBER TO ASK FOR INCREASED POWER and SPEED at NO EXTRA COST Now available at the following Union resellers: SERVICE MOTOR CO. ... 4. Juneau NORTHWESTERN 15 PASSENGERS ‘BRINGS 5 A ND. BOOKED SOUTH - TAKES JWAY fi‘ ON NORTHLAND Vessel Calls at Juneau oniMgto#s hip Comes Back . Way from Skagway | from Althorp and Sails to Seattle | for Seattle Shortly after returning to Ju- neau from Port Althorp yesterday morning, the motorship Northland !Capt. Leonard Williams &nd Purser . P. Winch, departed for Seattle. She arrived here early Saturday from Puget Sound and, after dis- ‘embarking passengers.and discharg- ing freight then went to Port Al- thorp to unload cannery supplies. | The vessel yesterday booked 15 |passengers. at Juneau for the South, namely: 1 For Petersburg—Mrs, R. Larson. For Ketchikan—Mrs. E. E. Creed, Clay A. Banicklan. For Seattle—Mr. and Mrs. An- thony Constantine, Mr. and Mrs, |T. A. Talent, Mrs. Fred Boynton, | M S. Jorgenson, Joan Jorgen- — |son, Charles E. Harland, Phil- DEPARTMENT MAKES RUN |lip Ha d, Mrs. Cora Smith, Paul TO 12TH AND WILLOUGHBY Decker, Tke Sowerby R - ) MRS. WYLLER GOES HOME y to Seattle, | tern, Capt. Paul D. this Enroute from Skag | the steamship Northws J. Livingston and Purser Coe, called at Juneau early morning. She made only brief |stay. She was he atur on | her way from Puget Sound to Lynn | Canal. From Skagway, the vessel brought five passengers to Juneau this morning, They were: Mrs. Vina Meehan, Edith Keene, Bertie Lee Keene, Lurline Wilkins |and Harry Townsend. | The Northwestern booked at this | port six passengers for the South. | | All were for Seattle. They were: | | Lila L. Brougher, Petrila J. Tai- |alda, Felix Yapy, D. M. Jorgue, G. Gillando and S. Fallegmio. dence of Mrs. Helen Moder on i Twelfth Street and Willoughby Ave- Mrs. Christian Wyller who en- nue at noon today resulted in a tered St. Ann's Hospital July 17 run by the fire truck. The wall- was dismissed from the institution paper around the chimney was last Saturday afternoon. charred but no actual damage was | T - — done, | DEPARTS FROM HOSPITAL e | Mrs. Walluf Rasmussen has left TONSILS ARE REMOVED |8t. Ann’s Hospital for her home. 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