The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 28, 1933, Page 7

CHANNEL BRIDGE HEARING T0 BE HELD ON NOV. 8 District Engineer An- nounces Public Hearing on Proposed Structure | Preliminary steps looking toward iction of the proposed 1 Channel bridge between Juneau and Douglas advanced an-| other step today when it was m:-} nounced that a hearing will bef held here within 10 days on the; issuance by the War Department | of a permit for the structure The Governor's Office said it had been advised by the District| Board the con Engineer, Seattle Division, of Rivers and Harb a hear- ing on the application be held | here on November 8. The hour of the hearing was not disclosed. It will be, held in the Hall of the House of Representatives ir the Capitol. All interested parties | wre invited to attend and present | any data desired bearing on the application. Application for a permit for the proposed bridge betwcen the two Gastineau Channel towns was made about two weeks ago to the Dis-| trict Engineer. Preliminary esti- mates of the cost and other data have been compiled by the local Chamber of Commerce and prelim- inary ns for an adequate struc- ture drafted. As soon as the per- mit is issued by the War Depart- | ment, formal application for a funds will be filpd with the Public Works Administration, accompanied by detailed plans and other porting data. - e————— S. PRATT FORMERLY CHIEF TRUCK DRIVER FOR J. F. D, VISITS HERE sup- M. M. S. Pratt, who has been with the Alaska Road Commission Valdez for several years, arrived in Juneau on the steamer Alaska? and stopped off here until the| next southbound steamer. | Mr. Pratt is renewing old friends | made here when he was chief truck driver for the Juneau Vol- unteer Fire Department about fif- | teen years ago. —————.— — Daily Empire Want Ads Pay ROIL SIMPLY ADD 10 ZAS AND O1L 3% _— More miles per gallon of gasoline. Much more mileage e crankcase filling. In- creased spoed. Longer life to car and motor. Theso are true PYROIL will give you. luxuries of motoring that Russo, fs In':“f'loll.l - ‘I,)uu-unbcr’ Speedway, Chicago, said: * and motor performance to the use 10 heat can destroy. ‘cars rotain new car performance. Gives old cars new lif Ask st your filling ¢ Pyroil Co. LaCrosse, Wie. AT ALL DEALERS cecee Silver-Plated Salad SPOON with bottle OLIVE OIL 60 cents for both Butler Mauro | Drug Co. FREE DELIVERY Phone 1-3-4 FREE! | e 0 g0 00 ° BARANOF WILL : L4 WATCH OUT! . L4 . Y ! TH 0N L Look at the weather fore- e | ® cast, then at the smoking e | « mountain tops around Ju- e e neau and figure it out your- e e self. tter see the water ® e pipes are in better condi- ® R }n tion than a week ago and @ First Season of Scheduled| ® have the scuttles filled with 3 . . . o 058 e bfiquets or coal so the e Air Trips in This Vicinity |e awakening tomorrow will e o not be like it was last Sun- @ Successfully Completed |3 not be e & W Tla the o Pilot Gene Meyring took the e fouse extremely cold. The e ) : e air this afternoon at 2 o'clock | ¢ ";]md lr:‘ultghrtn ;éizwbe ary-"% for Ketchikan, where he will |2 S E % remain over night and proceed o to Seattle tomorrow. Enroute [® ® ® ¢ b Pl e south this afternocn he took | as a passenger, the Rev. W. THURSDAY EVENWUL 3. Vasseur, who will be lanied at Sitkn. DAY IN LIVES OF TWO Completing a six-month schedule of regular trips, the seaplane Bar- Thursday was an eventful day anof, of the Alaska Southern Air-'i, tye jife of Alfred E. Gordon, ways, "”0‘9‘? byH_(,;:(ene Meyring, | gng almost as much so for Mrs and handler icks, made a round trip to Ketchikan |, cqse in the Federal District Court yesterday, leaving here at 10:30|charging them with unlawful co- oclock in the morning and Te-|papitation and adultery on an in- turning at 4 o'clock in the after-/gictment containing two counts. noon. It is the wind-up of the) poth pleaded guilty to adultery, schedule which has been main-|were sentenced and had it sus- tained since May 1 last, With| pended, Gordon obtained a divorce, scarcely a break. and the two were wed, all within Weather on the trip was dm“‘g‘almost as brief a ‘space of time as and foggy with a mean wind and | jt required to tell about it. poor visibility, the worst experi-/ Regn,bempd by Grover C. Winn, enced so far this year, Mr. Meyring| (ney entered pleas of guilty. On said | the recommendation of the United Waiting only for clear weather, sStates' Attorney, Judge wW. A which is expected to be on Sunday, | Holzheimer, Judge Alexander sen- the seaplane will leave for Seattle |tenced them to three months in where it will undergo a complete |jail and suspended the sentence. major overhaul and be kept during Gordon then obtained a divorce the winter. |and the pair repaired to the ®nit- The plane will leave here Bndlcd States Commissioner’s Court stay over Sunday night in Ket- where, after obtaining a license, chikan, continuing to Seattle on!they were wed by Judge J. P, Monday, if present plans are car- Mullen. ried out, Mr. Meyring said. i v Checking over the logs kept in| oyERHEATED OIL STOVE the plane, it was discovered at the| (AUSE OF FIRE YESTERDAY conclusion of the first season dur-| ing which a schedule has been| an overheated oil stove caused '?“'"tflili‘: 1mr ?;)(““:e“‘s ::“?;"a slight blaze in the home of Ed- that a total of ours, - | Johnson on Lower Ninth Street at proximately 66,000 miles have been' s oclock yesterday afternoon, flown by the Baranof this last siX which was quickly extinguished by "llwllmflt-nm; 5‘:::351; nt‘;]';be;isfr";z the l-"n'ehDepa]xitment with r;o (}am- flown by |age. The call was sent in from during any like period. | Box 49. Scheduled weekly trips have been made during the season by the Baranof to Sitka and way ports, Chichagof and way ports, and Ket- chikan and way points and during the earily part of the season, the Baranof also kept the weekly schedule out of Ketchikan and to| the West Coast of Prince of Wales| Island, later taken over by the seaplane Chichagof. On these trips passengers and|Mulvihill accompanied him to Ju- first class mail was carried, the|npeau and they are house guests mail to be distributed from Ket-|of their son and daughter-in-law, chikan to points to the west and|Mr. and Mrs, V. W. HMulvihill from Juneau to points west. while they are in Juneau. — e — e ELSTAD TO MAKE HOME MRS. F. L. GODDARD AND MISS HERE FOR THE PRESENT| MADGE CLUNAS BACK HOME L 0 MAYOR AND MRS. MULVIHILL | OF SKAGWAY ARE HERE FOR | | SEVERAL DAYS ON BUSINESS I | Mayor M. J. Mulvihill, of skag-! way, arrived here on the steamer Alaska on a short business trip | which will keep him here until} | the sailing of the Yukon for the| | Lynn Canal port next week. Mrs.| | O. E. (Bert) Elstad, owner and| Mrs. F. L. Goddard and her former editor of the Petersburg| sister, Miss Madge Clunas, who Press, and well-known life insur-|have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. ance agent, will leave for Peters-! E. M. Goddard for the last two burg Sunday on the mowrshlp!weeks. left on the Motorship North- Northland and will bring his fam-|land last evening for their home ily here to establish their home|in Sitka. for the present, at least. —————— He is Asslstant Manager for| SARGENT IN CITY Alaska for the Mutual Beneml R. H. Sargent, Topographer with Health & Accident Associauon,‘, the United States Geological Sur- and United Benefit Life Insurance|vey, arrived in town Thursday Company, of Omaha. from Seymour Canal where he has — been conducting triangulation sur- veys for several weeks. Daily Emprre Want Ads Pay Hallowe’en DINNER TOMORROW FRIED CHICKEN And all of the Home Cooked good things that go to make a special HALLOWE’EN DINNER A REAL TREAT! { Dinner served from 4 to 8 P. M. JUNEAU COFFEE SHOPPE HELEN MODER Opposite MacKinnon Apartments Phone 157 for Reservations mechanic, ' pigie Kostrometinoff, defendants 1n | JAMES M'GRATH DIES SUDDENLY and Politics—Trustee of Pioneers’ Home James B. McGrath, prominent Sitka business man, Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Pion- eers’ Home and just designated as United States Commissioner for that precinct, died there suddenly Friday at 2:30 p.m., according to word received here last night at the Governor's Office and by local friends. Cause of.death was not revealed but it is believed to have resulted from a heart attack. He was more than 70 years of age. For many years he has been con- nected with the mercantile bu: ness of C. M. McGrath, and when the ‘latter died several years ago. he and Mrs. C. M. McGrath con- tinued to operate it. He was a lifelong Democrat and was always active in party affairs He received recognition for his services when last Spring Gov. John W. Troy appointed him as a Trustee of the Pioneers’ Home and made him Secretary of the Board He was unanimously endorsed by the Sitka Democratic Committee for United States Commissoner Yesterday, Judge George F. Alex- ander announced he had appointed him to that office, effective No- vember 1. Mr. McGrath had many friends in this city who were shocked and grieved at his sudden death. He was never married and leaves no immediate family. It is understood funeral and interment will take place in Sitka but no details regarding them have been received here. Advices received here late this afternoon statzd the body will be shipped on the Northland to Ju- neau for interment in this city. e e — MR. AN RS. W. R. SEAVERS TO LEAVE SOON FOK TRIP TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Mr. and Mrs. W. Reed Seavers oxpect to leave on the next southbound trip of the Princess Norah for a trip to Mrs. Seavers’ home near San Francisco whene they will visit and later spénd some time in Southern California. The trip will be made for Mrs. Seavers’ health and Mr. Seavérs has been granted a leave of ab- sence of two months from his du- ties in the United States Marshal's HOSPITAL PARTY WILL BE FIRST AT SITKA HOME DANGE OF WINTER Was Prominent in Business Ticket Sales Indicate that | There Will Be Large | AttendanceHallowe'en From all indications, everybody in Juneau will be at the Elks' Hall next Tuesday night enjoying the Hallowe'en Dance that will be given there under the auspices of the Hospital Guild. | Mrs. William Holzheimer, Guild President, Mrs. J. F. Mullen, chair- man of the dance committee, and all of the Guild members who are working on the dance are doing everything possible to make it a party long to be remembered. Ju- u people are especially inter- csted in the Hallowe'en dance since it will be the first big af- fair of the winter season. Several dinner parties and buf- fet suppers have been planned for the night of the party by Juneau hostesses who go with their guests to the dance later, The Reveler's Orchestra, one of the most popular among local dan- cers, will be on hand to furnish music from 9:30 until 1 o'clock. Few tickets remain unsold and indications are that there will be a large attendance| People who have not secured tickets may do so at the Elks Hall Tuesday night. For those who do no dance, the dance committee has planned ta- bles in the card rooms of the club for groups who prefer to play cards.. CONDITIONS BETTER IN PETERSBURG NOW, ASSERTS POSTMASTER | Conditions in Petersburg are 300 per cent better today than they were last year at this time, ac- cerding to R. M. Brennan, Acting Postmaster, and one of the first| Alaska Postmasters to be appointed by President Roosevelt. The im- provement, he said, is largely due to gains in the fishing industry. Mr. Brennan is a son of James Brennan, veteran Democratic lead- er of Petersburg and long-time member of the Divisional Commit- tee of that party, who has been residing here for several months. He came here to be with his father who has been ill in St. Ann’s Hospital for several days. He expects to return home tomor- row on the steamer Northland. Daily Empire Want Ads Fay. MANDARIN ANNUAL MOOSEHEART Masquerade BALL TONIGHT Music by the Revelers PRIZES! Door Prize! ADMISSION Gentlemen 75¢ Ladies 25¢ o Time for Hot Cakes SPERRY PANCAKE FLOUR, 10 Ib. bag 60¢ AMOCAT SYRUP, quart jugs ............: 40¢ GARNICK’S-Phone 174 BALL ROOM FUNERAL OF J. E. BLAND ON SUNDAY Funeral services for the late J. E. Bland will be held at the C. W. Carter Mortuary Chapel at 1 o'clock Sunday afternoon, the Rev: Henry R. Cross saying the service. Pallbearers will be Robert Bom- gard, Gabe Paul, L. Numicker, Albert Norman, C. Weyand and Charles Boyer. Interment will be in Evergreen Cemetery. - DOUGLAS REBEKAHS Northen Light Rebekahs No. 1 of Douglas are requested to attend the funeral of Sister Jewell's fath- er, J. E. Bland tomorrow at 1 p.m. from the Carter Mortuary. adv. Y. P. A. C. TO HOLD ELECTION FRIDAY FOR NEW OFFICERS| | The Young Peoples Advancement | Club held a meeting at the home| of President Joe Paddock last night | and before the regular business was transacted prepared a resolution of sympathy to Mrs. J. C. wuuams, of Ketchikan, whose baby recently died. She is a member of the Ketchikan Y. P. A. C. The election of officers will be held _next Friday night and the | interest is already at fever heat. There are several candidates oul for the position of President es- pecially and these include the present head, Joe Paddock, with | Roy Holst, Tom Paddock, John Benson, Al Slagle and J. Cropley runners up. The club women will hold a sale on Sunday, November 5, at th2 home of Joe Paddock. e e TWO PARTIES ARE GIVEN BY MRS. TRUITT-MOEHRING Mrs. Truitt-Moehring entertain- | ed at two parties at her home in ! the Assembly Apartments Tuesday and Wednesday evening. Tuesday | night three tables of bridge werei played and prizes won by Mrs. H. E. Morgan and Mrs. Ernes!| Parsons. i .- —— Fishermen and cannery workers recently organized a union Wrangell. | i i | | | inj 2600000000000 000 MACHINE GUNS WEEK - END SPECIALS FULL TWO QUART SIZE HOT WATER BOTTLES-- Assorted Colors HARRY RACE, Druggist JUNEAU WOMAN LEAVES ON EXTENDED TRIP TO EUROPEAN COUNTRIES Mrs. Tyne Salo, who has resided in' Juneau for the last five years, left on the Alaska on-an extended trip to Europe. She will go by way of the Panama Canal to New York City where she will sail on a French liner to France. Her plans are to spend seven months touring Sweden, Russia and Fin- land, and in the latter, which is her homeland, she will visit rela- tives. On Tuesday evening, Mrs. Salo gave a farewell party at the Amer- jcan Legion Dugout, which was at- FOUND, SEATTLE Thirty Are Seized by Po-| lice—State Law Used to Get Them SEATTLE, Oct. 29.—Thirty-two | machine gtns have been seized under the state law making it a | felony for others than officers to | possess weapons. The police said some of the guns were in pawn-| shops and some in the homes of | men who said they were war vet- | tended by a large number of erans and had brought the guns|friends, who wished her bon voy- home as relics. v | age. This will be Mrs. Salo’s second trip abroad. On the former she went by way of Japan and China. —————— The police said the guns ‘were worth $1,000 each to gangsters. FIRE DAMAGES CABIN J. A. Bulger, plumbing and heat- Tom Ellefson's cabin on the|ing contractor, will move from his Wrangell waterfront was damaged | present location on Lower Front by fire the other day. Ellefson, | Street to the Front Street loca- who is an elderly man, lost his| tion formerly occupied by F. Wol- personal belongings and food sup-|land's tailor shop, he announced plies from water and chemicals. today. 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