The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 11, 1933, Page 2

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 11 1933, 3 PROSPECTORS ARE RESCUED IN - NICK OF TIME H. '$ € ¥aves and Two Others Are Located— Flown Here by Plane Long Wearing - - - - - L Warmth-Giving Blankets! | { l (Continued from Page One) “a severe earthquake shock was felt. This they believe freed the waters ,of a sizeable lake and subsequently |fishifted the main course of the |} river and washed away the entire | | cache, whieh they had been con- fident they would find to provision |} them for the balance of the return | §! journey. { Prospect Rough Comntry | The three prospectors Were land- | led at Dry Bay onm June 15and from {there walked and prospected forty I miles back. All their supplies were carried with them, and according ’lo Mr. Graves the country was rough and difficult to traverse. A raft was built for transporta- | {tion down the Alsek River for a portion cf the return, and on this the party traveled to the point where the plane found thém this morning. “The changing of the rivs er's course and swift waters made the going so hazardous that sev- |fieral days ago ‘the men decided 6 |} make an attempt'to get over mto |the Haines country and® come out {that way. They climbed a 3,000-foot |§irange and worked out on a glacier. |Here a storm overtook them, and |} atter spending the night on the |} m1acier ‘concluded that it would be impossible to go on and' despite | 1 their exhaustion, again crossed the |§irange and reached the Alsek. ' Plane’ Sighted “Our hopes ran high when we |}isaw the plane this morning,” satd | Mr. Graves, “However they sank as it flew over withdut seeing us. |}, We had extinguished our fire as |}l we planned to attempt ‘the raft |} again. However, we 'immediatély |fibuilt another ' fire and' with ‘weeds and grass sent’ up ‘'a column of | fjsmoke. 'Scon the ‘plane camé back, \saw the smoke and Tanded 'on' the | {“Vl‘l' | ' “We are very gfatéful to 'both i Gov. John W. Troy ‘dnd 'Commis- |sioner J. F. Mullén for authorizinf B. M. Behrends Co., Inc. |- 55 ithe plane {and Sheldon Simmons’ for their’ éf- (forts in finding us, as the' country (Fis a difficult one to fly over atid |§| find anyone.” |} The seaplane Baranof left Ju- neau at 6:30 o'clock this morning land returned with the party shortly before noon. This is the quality women want to invest in . . . the kind of blankets that have a super-abundance of service woven into every inch of them. Notice their thick, high wool nap fleece surface . . . so thiek it protects porous it permits air eireulation. Made {ull with wide satin bound edges,’ in soft pastel plaids for every choice. ik . S0 SINGLE BLANKETS $4.95 $795 . $9.00 $1200 $13.50 3LANKETS $9.50 DOUBLE $7.25 Juneaw’s Leading Department Store CHESTER MILLIGAN WILL BUILD DREDGE - formet v'\‘uredge | superintenden; iy ; Consolidated G i:.‘??s m is a passenger aboard the Yukon. | He is bound for Fairbanks from which place he will go to Nome | by plane. Mr. Milligan is in full charge of the affairs of the Alaska Sun= | set Mining Company and will su- pervise the construction of the i)ild Papers for Sale at Empire Office Chester Millig: ! aiel | \U. S.-Alaska Road Stretching 2,000 Miles Being Urged to Open NewScenic W onderland U3 ORSE + 0 o v €. - QHAZELTON R, PRINCE™ S-&eonde STRIKE PICKET THOUSANDS OF - WORKERS: ARE STRIKING, N, Y. Guns and T;r_ Gas Bombs Used in Two States— Buffalo Clash Reported WASHINGTON, ' Oct. 11.—Con- ferges struggled unsupgeessfully through ‘the night to end a strike of 70,080 workers in the New York ared, according to adviees re- ceived here. Police and military, with guns and tear gas bombs, patrolled the troubled sections of West Virginia and Indiana. Th2 police charged Bufffalo. g At Scranton, Penn., 'a bomb ex- ploded on a school porch where earlier in the night, pickets and troopers had fought. In Buffalo, eleven persons went to the hospitals after the clash. Longshoremen on the San Fran- cisco waterfront struck for an in- crease in wages. Thirty-five thousand coal miners | in Pennsylvania still remained away from work. — e, rioters in “'FATALLY SHOT | i Clash Occurs Among Cot- ton Pickers in Cali- KETCHIKAN MAN IS BOUND: OVER {Kenneth Shgc harged with Assault with Dead- ly Weapon for Shooting For the shooting of E. J. Erwin in a Ketchikan beer hall on Sep- tember 28, Kenneth Shoss was yes- terday held to answer to the grand jury on a ¢hérge of assault’ with a deadly weapon, following a pré- liminary examination before Judge E. C. Austin in the United States T0 GRAND JURY Commission’s Court. His bond was fixed; &b, $1500; ;114 11y ‘Shoss' has been held on an open charge since the shooting, pending the outcome of the injury. Erwin was discharged from the hospital early this week, and all danger | of complications is said to be past. | RS R it A TWO DUMP TRUCKS ARRIVE IN JUNEAU PURCHASED THROUGH CONNORS MOTOR Two new trucks arrived aboard the Yuken for the Connors Motor Company and will today be de- | livered to the purchasers. One was a Chevrolet dump truek, two and one-half yard ca- pacity, whichi. was . puncha by the Cole Transfer pany: | Péte Macey, is thé purgaser of the other triiék, Which“is & GMC dump truck with a capacity of two and one-half yards. FRESH QUINCES, 3 Ibs. PARSNIPS, 3 lbs. fornia Section SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Oct. 11. | L i ent apprcves the preject and funds o0 #2 cventually will fink Alaska -and tates. . The highway has been recommended by a com- FRUITS VEGETABLES CONCORD GRAPES, basket . GROUND CHERRIES, 1b. ............ F ...........250 CELERY, large bunch CAULIFLOWER, each SEEDLESS GRAPES, 2 lbs. | alr commerce with Alaska by fur- U0 L pysiipoviding ‘service to aviators i ‘Risom | miczjon of of it ave heing gopght from shows the route, from Seattl : Fraser River, Canyon read ‘WsHINGTON, Ost, 11.—Pro- ents of the Paciflcfifikm High- way, thd proposed 3,000 mile road linking Alaska and the United , ‘are 'pressing for ' govern- | a1 approval of ‘the pro that wouild make more accessible one of Aiieriea’s “Tast frontiers.” Anthony' J. Dimond, Delegate to Congiéss from Alaska, has asked the “Public’ Works Administration for ' an ' allotment of '$2,000,000 to! finance the Alaskan section of the| highway. Dimond alfo is Seeking| President Roosevelt's’ approval of| the project, which has been rec- ommanded as feasible by the Unit- ed States commissioners appoint- ed to co-operate with Canadian| representatives in studying the| plan. Advocates of the highway say| it would open to motorists a new; seénic wonderland, to farm settlers | rich acres in areas hitherto inac-| cesble and to miners an oppor- tunity to develop one of the rich-| est’ ‘minéral storehouses on the North' Amerfcan continent. The American members of the Commission report that the ad-| vantages to be derived from a highway extending from Seattle to Fairbanks “are obviously more than commendable with the cost.” ‘They also say it would foster a guiding landmark and along 'the" most practicable flying Toute to’ the interior of the Ter;i- 'Thousahds' of 'motorists in quest Of ‘the mnew ‘and picturesque in tatiring territory would travel the AluSka' road every year, it is be- *‘SurVeys' place 'the highway to He t of the coast mountain range, where climatic conditions are such that snowfall is compar- | flea the highway could be kept |opBfi thé 'year rTound. "Prig! @stimsted ‘cost of construct- | ing the Chnadian section of the ay is $11,990,000, while that company’s new dredge to get it ready for operation early' in the 193¢ mining season on Seward | Peninsula, ———————— SCANDINAVIAN-AMERICAN DANCE MUSIC FEATURE AT MANDARIN BALL -TONIGHT Scandinayian - American," "4k | music played by Harry, KWW Jimmy Steele’s Reveler's Orel a | will be the special feature of & }dance to be held ‘tonight in'the | attractive’ Mandarin Ball' in the Goldstein''Building:'’ v ‘The Scandinavian-American déincs es are becoming increasingly ular’ with Juneau’ patrofis of 'tHE '}l dances and’ it ‘was withy that in | mind that ‘they are being' featuréd | tonight. e it | ——————————— EARLY MORNING ' 19 a0, ] { Mamma i Marheis 1 1 9, Ay an 'eatty ' holl ' this ‘motmitg’ to said BREAD .. ’cause she knows you got it in fresh this morning!” during a “tight on' | sought by ‘the Moal ° though as' yet, no charges ist el st | sERvICE TRANSFER CO. GETS NEW BDOPGE TRUCK For delivery 16 the Bervice truck of one and one-half yard capacity arrived heré on the Yu- kon for the MecCaul Motors, through which company it was purchased. el it DR. SOUTHWELL BETUBNS TO SKAGWAY NEXT WEEK | Dr. R. B Séuthwel, lecal opto- | metrist, returned to Junesu om the Estebeth Monday, | the round trip te Hoonahi D | Southwell plans to-leave for Skag- way on the Alaska next week: Wherever you buy Peerless Bread you are sure it’s been delivered to your dealer that very day. There's chance for its wonderful flavor to “dry out”-—no chance of getting a stale loaf when it’s Peerless, Make it a point to specify Peerless. You'll know it’s freshet — you can taste it! AT ALL GROCERS ASK FOR PEERLESS where he WP’ remain- for several| | days in the interest of his pro- | fession. —o———— BAZAAR vember 17. —adv. —_———e—— Daily Empire Wans Ade Pay, . be treated far injuries recsived|s Lower Pront|] Transfer Company, a Dodge dump| after making| Alaska ‘séction is figured 970,000 1 ; Melvin Q, Owens, 28; swam Albe- le Soynd" off the North Caro- @ coast in 14 kowrs, 40 minutes. to do so. Americans, and Canadi which_wauld be incorporated. |atfvely light, and if traffic justi-f. l ; TOKAY GRAPES, 2 lbs. TOMATOES, pound LETTUCE, 2 heads for ITALIAN PRUNES, box APPL ~Orchard run, fine for eating, bhox “Pete Subia, said by bfficers to be |a picket of the Southern San| |Joaquin Valley cotton pickers in | the present strike, was fatally shot |when strikers and these who re- sed to strike, clashed near Bak- e sfield on Monday, according to | advices received here. | ST LUKE,S GUILD T | Three others were seriously in HAVE CARD PARTY IN et = = &5 DOUGLAS ON FR]DAY”:; cers restored order by using | ar gas. e On Friday evening the members | of St.. Luke's; Guild in Douglas will be hosts at a card party to be held in the Odd Fellows' Hall| There will be a' regular meeting to which the public is invited. |tonight at 8 p.m. of the Persever- Both bridge and whist will be|ance Lodge No. 2-A, also nom-| played and members of the Guild : ination of officers. Visiting mem- are hoping to have a large at-|bers welcome. tendance from both Junmeau and; ALPHONSINE CARTER, Douglas. Following the distribu-}—fidv- Secretary. tion of prizes an appetizing sup- T PR per will be Served by the guild The ads bring you the Informa members. | tion about quality, style and price. "mm"“m" A pleasani time is assured to R i RO SR 3 who attend the party, for which a .- nominal admittance fee is being charged. PARANOF RETURNS FROM SITKA YESTERDAY; TRIP TO CHICHAGOF POSTPONED s, and funds fcr the Alaskan the Public Works Administration. e to Fairbanks, and below is the between . Hope and Lytton, British | ATTENTION REBEKAHS CALIFORNIA GROCERY PHONE 478 Prompt Delivery mlll"l"lllIlllllllljlll|||!Ill||||||[H|mm|llfl|!||l!|IIIHM|MIIII!1 | i William A. Hesse, Territorial Highway Engineer and Tom Red- lingshafer, were passengers for Ju- neau aboard thes seaplane Baranof, pilot Gene Meyring, and Chandler Hicks, mechanic, on the return trip 'from Sitka yesterday after- noon. The round-trip scheduled for Chichagof and way ports for this afternoon has been postponed and will probably be made tomorrow, Mr. Meyring said. AT MISS HARVEY RETURNS Miss Thelma Harvey, former Juneau girl, daughter of Mrs. Har- vey Clark, of this city, was a re- turning passenger on the Yukon after a visit with relatives at La Grande, Oregon. —r LAST DAY TOMORROW Taxes for 1933 must be paid by 5 p.m. tomorrow, October 12, to avoid penalty of 10 per cent, un- less one half of amount due is paid. Two per cent rebate will be allow- ed on full payment. A. W. HENNING, City Clerk. — ., ‘The number of infantile paralysis cases in Iowa this year to mid- August showed an indicated 20 per cent decrease from 1032, —adv. “And B. 0. P. could have saved me.fEond Bldiat scalded emamel . . . from'geard that clash and will not shift i REACH for the JOY OF LIVING WITH RADIO Now is the time to have your radio adjusted for the winter season of bigger and bgtter‘ programs. 3 Prompt and Efficient Repairing ‘Radto and Engineering Service PHONE 501—Near Capitol Theatre . . . from a sick and dying battery ou. a cold, morning . . . from burned-out bearings because the oil wouldn‘t,flow . . . from nasty skids and snowdrift stalls . . . from all the winter ills a ear is heir to . . . Connors Motor Co., Ine.; could have saved me!” ' Don’t put it off—let us proect YOUR car! Give YOUR CAR Its: ‘The Martha Society Basaar—No- | " THE TREND is toward “ELECTROL’-of course! ‘ . Winter Drink! Cold weather ahead! Don’t delay in filling your radiator with B. O, P.. guaranteed Anti-Freeze! It will not evaporate—and it may save riml: :expensivq towing charges and repair we r on! [ %d - aptw o Rt Bl ok g EP R g iy 3 AR gt .