The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 7, 1934, Page 8

L THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1934. WORK T0 START ON EMERGENCY FIELD MONDAY B. P. R. to Put on Crew to Get Field in Shape for Army Air Squadron Work on the emergency landing field near the Mendenhall Dair will be started next Monday morn ing, provided funds are definitely available then, it was announced today by Ivan Winsor, Acting Dis- trict Engineer, United States Bu-| reau of Public Roads. Funds are being provided by the War Depart-| ment. The field is to be used by the Army’s ten Martin bombing air-| planes on their return flight from| Fairbanks to the States. It is estimated that $1,500 will put the tract in shape for use Foreman Jones and the mainte- nance crew on Glacier Highway | will be taken off that work and put on the landing field job, Mr. ‘Winsor said. The stub road, built last winter to open up the site for the proposed new Signal Corps transmitting station will be com- pleted to the site and extended a short distance beyond so that trucks can transport oil, gas and other supplies to the squadron. The field will be leveled off with a Redding scraper, depressions filled| in, and a heavy roller run over the entire tract. R PROMINENT TOWANS HERE FOR SEVERAL DAYS V T WITH FORMER FRIENDS Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Brown, of| Cedar Rapids, Towa, arrived inipecerve Bank, who has arrived Juneau on the steamer Northwest-|pore for important financial con- ern to spend several days in Ju- ferences. neau and renew their acquaintance | with Gov. John W. Troy, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Kirk and E. W. Grif-| fin, Secretary of the Territory,| whom they met in Chicago during | the Democratic Convention in Chi-| cago, in 1932. Mr. Brown, who is head of a brokerage firm and an owner of considerable property in Iowa, and Mrs. Brown, spend the greater part in h's annual Teport. or, returned from a round trip to this afternoon. June 10, I have had no connection Copper River Salmon Pack Largest on Record in Six Years Up to last Saturday night, e the Copper River salmon pack e this year had broken all exist-e ing records since 1929 with a .l total production of 92134 e cases, according to informa- tion received by Warden Don S. Haley of the United States ® Bureau of Fisheries. The to- e tal 1929 pack was on the same ® date in 1929 was 95360, bute it has never reached that fig- e ure since until this season. The Copper River season ended last Thursday night by which time it wgs thought the 1929 figure might have been equalled if not surpassed. Of the total to last Saturday night, 88,647 were reds and 3,487 king salmon. e e s e0 0o | G0LD RESERVE ACT PERMITS U. S ACTION Country May Return to Gold Standard During January if Feasible Switzerland, Ju'y 7.— America is qualified for a return to the gold standard by January under the Gold Reserve Act, Leon Fraser, President of the Inter- national Settlements Bank asserted Fraser discussed the features of the Act with George Harrison, Governor of the New York Foderal N o o - ] SOMMERS RETURNS R. J. Sommers, Juneau contract- Klawock on the seaplane Chichagof ———— NOTICE To Whom Is May Concern: Since of their time traveling in the United States and abroad. with “Thu the Keyhole.” —adv. PAUL BROWN. FOR BREAKFAST PANCAKE FLOUR, mediu GALLON CAN MAPLE SYRUP . At GARNI [ CK’S, Phone 174 25¢ $1.10 m packages TONIGHT A Spec;al Pré’grafn has been arranged and EVERYBODY WILL BE HERE! : @ Featuring the KNX RADIO GIRL in new songs. YOU WILL LIKE HER! . Capital Beer Parlors and Ball Roo DISMEMBERED BODY IS KEPT FOR2 YEARS « |Strange Procedure Disclos- ed in Order to Collect C. W. Pension SENECA, Kansas, July 7.—Mrs. Myrtle. Lattimer, about 55 years, who said she kept her 88-year-old mother’s dismembered body hidden for more than two years to collect a Civil War pension, is being held by the authorities. Parts of the remains were cremated in a kitch- en stove. The disclosure came after the Postmaster demanded to see the woman to whom $40 monthly pen- sion was being issued. Mrs. Lattimer said her mother died in January, 1932. She left the body in a bed for several months and then [inally decided to dispose of it. The upper part cremated and of the body was other parts placed in a trunk No charges have been placed against Mrs. Lattimer. B e PIONEER FAIRBANKS LINOTYPE OPERATOR REVISTS TERRITORY | A. F. Failor, a ploneer in the newspaper game in Fairbanks, now connected with the mechanical de- partment of the Berkeley, Calif.,| Daily Gazette, is revisiting the Territory after an absence of 26 years. He is accompanied by Mrs. Failor, making the roundtrip on the steamer Northwestern. Mr. Failor was a linotype opera- tor on the Fairbanks Press-Times, in 1006-07-08, when it was owned and published by Roy Maddox. It later became the Times under the ownership of R. E. Southworth and Arthur Bell. “I regret that we are not able to spare the time to go into Fair- banks, but I am glad that we could return to the morth for even such a brief visit,” Mr. Failor caid. - HUNTER TO LEAVE H. H. Koessler, big game hunter who has been to the Westward and who arrived in Juneau a few lays ago, has secured passage on Prince Rupert, sailing south this evening. - eee NEW HOURS—BARBER SHOPS Effective July 9, all barber shops will be open from 9 am. to 6 pm on week day and the da; d the adv. BARBERS ASSOCTATION. B , excepting S.nurdlyf,i before holidays lhei | hours will be from 9 am. to 7 p.m R. D. BAKER, OF STANDARD R. D. Baker, Alaska sub-station manager for the Standard Oil Company, arrived in Juneau on the Northwestern from the south iand will remain here for some ‘time | before continuing fo the West- ward. Mr. Baker stopped off i If you our TOM CASEY ne $900000000000000000000000000000000600 20000 its fluffy, deep collar. one trial. ———-——— MISS ELIDA AYRES TO VISIT MR. AND MRS. C. E. MORGAN FOR FEW DAYS home to Juneau aboard the North- Miss Elida Ayres, wines and food . . . prefer a lizht, low | Womenu. and purse . . . Open from 6 P.M. to 6 A.M. Daily of Seattle, | weeks with relatives and friends in ’K‘-uhikan on his way north and, Northwestern, and will stop off OIL COMPANY, ARRIVES | boarded the Northwestern at that | city. {‘here to visit Mr. and Mrs. C. E | Morgan until the steamer returns to Juneau southbound next week. Scott returned Mrs. Allamae | western after a visit of several n| Washington, arrived here on the Seattle. THE HEIGHT OF GOOD TASTE And Delighiful Entertainment! 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EXCLUSIVE DISTRIBUTORS (F90900000000000000000009000009044900 by Presids it authorized similar allotments for | 8ress. |receive allotments. MO ELKS TOMORROW | Friday Night's Game Post- | Elks-American Legion game on the : City League | weather forecast for Sunday doesn’t . | Elks-Moose engagement. 0000000000000000000000000000000¢ Paved, however, if the rainmaker HIGHWAY FUNDS ARE ALLOCATED FOR TERRITORY, Alaska Forest Highways! Allotted $671,076 for Current Fiscal Year For cons truction, maintenance and repair of Forest Highways in Alaska, the sum of $671,067 has been allotted. to Adaska for the current fiscal year, it was an- nounced today by Ivan Winsor, Acting District - Engineer of the United States Bureau of Public Roads. This breaks down the old put on Alaske allotments for sevs eral years past. In addition to the Forest High- way money, an allotment of $10,160 was made for Forest development roads and trails for expenditure by the Forest Service organization in Of the Forest Highway allotment, the sum of $350,000 has already been authorized for expenditure on approved projects, including two | miles of Douglas Highway con- ting the town of Douglas with | at Klawock and construction of a section of Mitkof Highway at Pet- | ersburg. This leaves a balance of $321,067 the current allotment which has 'not been programmed. No program will be drawn up until the return here of Regional For- ester C. H. Flory, and M. D. Will- iams, District Engineer, both of whom are expected to arrive about July 29. The funds for the current year were made available under the pro- visions of ‘the Hayden-Cartwright Road Act, approved April 18, last, ent Roosevelt. In addition the next two fiscal years from iunds to be appropriated by Con- The current appropriations also included $7,500,000 for National Park roads, and other items from which the Territory probably will R SE T0 PLAY poned on Account of Rain, Wet Grounds Rain last night washed out the schedule and the look any ‘too favorable for the Tt will be lays off the job long enough. The Elks probably wiil start either Koski or MacSpadden, sav- ing Erskine for the next game with the Vets. Manning probably wil hurl for the Paps. The game wil start at 5:30 p.m. 8 S ISP H. L. REED, HEAD OF PIGGLY WIGGLY ARCTIC, IS HERE ON WAY TO ANCHORAGE H. L. Reed, General Manager of Piggly Wiggly Arctic, arrived in Juneau today on the Northwestern on his way to his Anchorage head- quarters after spending the last month in Seattle on business. Mr. Reed reported that business was good and as he is anxious to reach the westward as soon as possible, hopes to obtain airplane transportation tomorrow or Mon- day. FL 20 i 5 TOM. HALL ARRIVES NORTH ABOARD NORTHWESTERN ON WAY THROUGH TERRITORY Tom Hall, of Seattle, representa- tive of the Hudson's Bay Liquor Company, reached here on the steamer Northwestern from the south and will make a ‘business trip through the Territory. - Old newspapers ror sale at Em- pire Office. AND Not Because We Are Cheaper : BUT BETTER BABY | AT THE On Willoughby Ave. @ Open Sundays -