The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 16, 1935, Page 8

8'\ MRS. HILL WINS S100INLOCAL 3 IGE - BUESSING, At Least Six Other Juneau, Pool Victors on Nenana | Break-up Told some druggist in Fairbanks ve won the $61,100 Nenana Well may ha ice pool yesterday, but there was a lot of exciteme ght here in Ju- neau to as winners of local pools were announced least seven combines declared win- ners. The majority of the tests were based on guesse: exact minute which the ice went, out. The © ice me was 1:32] o'clock yesterday afternoon, so “32" was the lucky figure on local dials today. | The biggest individual winner is| Mrs. Mildred Hill, employee of the Rice and Ahlers Plumbing Com- pany. Mrs. Hill guessed "32“ on both the $1 and $2 pools at The Arctic and won $180. Puts It In Bank Say, when I found out I won| that $180 on my guess, I almost| fainted,” Mrs. Hill said this morn-| ing. “What am I going to do wuh’ Th it? Put it in the bank, of cou No, sir, no frivolities. I'm pu that money in the bank Mrs. Hill had a part in the re- cent Juneau Drama Club prese local con- s for the as they attended the ceremony whi the Duke of Ycrk, left, and the tion of “Loose Ankles” at t seum Theatre. Although Mrs. Hill was the city's erican Legion Post sponsored a pool ch netted $369 to the winner. ard, because of the terms of a “Share the Wealth” pool of which he was a member, will divide his winnings nine other ways \(all\’ $l5 00 0 Will Be The American. .egion pool was Taken by Uncle Sam from $61,000 Award not a minute guess but copied the Nenana system. With Shepard on the winning ticket of 2:48 o'clock are: Milton Lagergren, Emmeit; yw . Berrigan, Fairvanks dr Connor, Mrs. Emmett Connor, Art' ok Nenana Ice Pool winner, and Henning, Etta May Kalosa, Mayor| popahly the most envied man Isadore Goldstein, Joe Sunick, K.|ajacka today will probably experi- N. Neill, and A. B. Hayes |ence a feeling of sympathy for Wilfred S. Gartley was the city's|Morgans, the Duponts and the second largest individual guessing |kind, who, under the government's winner. He walked off with $7).25 neces from the Garnick's Grocery pool. | b The Gastineau Hotel minute pool | d went to J. A. Buiger and was for | cxt nated tax pay unto when Uncle y increa pay and point, $60, as was the Zynda Hotel pool. $61,000 which Dr. H. C. DeVighne was the cor- pm. ice p rect guesser on the latter dial. Other winners included: Francis| As a courtesy J. C. Cocper Riendeau, $58, The Imperial; Hans|fied public accountan comput Loonburg, $58, The Imperial; Hen- |the tax for Empire readers. ry Wedding, $30, The Miners’ Rec-| A y to the tax data avail- reation. and based on the report- IMPORTANT! All Union Carpenters Special Meeting at 8 P. M. Friday, May 17 BE THERE! radiced scene shews King George V anl Quecn Ma in cpened their Prince of Wales. Directly ide St. Paul's Cathodral, Lendon, behind their majesties are W|NNER OF ICE Juneau Has Grave-y urd with No Headstones; Don’t W orry, It’s Only for Automobzles 1 with no 1 O obile ‘“bone Avenue. T= many a fr past, ablishment ol mection with the it is owned by baugh, & man who nething” out of no- Ford Is Earlicst Sta ) 1927, Juncau’'s auio- now has a col an 100 mo- bile g n of probably more t. in various stages of rusty y ything' of value, of arse, I been d from them Rolling stsck which ied the name of “Ford” form the majority of the grave d members. Per- haps the oldest car there is one of Henry Ford’s first products, an an- cient Model ’[‘ of the vintage 1913. »d $61,000 figure, and not taking in- o any other earnings Mt may accrue during the year, Mr. Cooper acvises that ner will pay a $1.200 gift tax, al 4 percent tax, and $11,183, making a total However, Mr., Berrigan may still censider himself fortunate because Territory of Alaska has no personal income, or gift taxes. In numerous ate ble additional amot i be extracted by the state g nments, v From casual observation it looks like the one sure every-year winner in the Pool is Uncle Sam; even though his “cut” isn't so large, he can't lose > > 11,000 POUNDS OF HALIBUT IS SOLD BY CAPT. HILDRE One of the largest individual fresh halibut sales went across the Ju- (neau Cc 3 e market board yesterday when Capt. Knute Hildre of the Louhelen sold 11,000 pounds to the San Jus ) and Packing Company for freezing Pri paid for the allotment, as | well as for all 1d DR. RAE L .CARLSON OPTOMETRIST NOW IN JUNEAU THE GASTIT EAU HOTEL Eyes Examined Glasses Fitted i Eleven Years in Alaska Graduate Rochester nois College of Optometr New York. Hlinois :uul Washington,and by reciprocity in : Licensed by examin: School of Optometry: Post Graduate Northern I1li- ition in the States of Alaska. (Running the M | Col. Charles R. Re: Mfim‘mmmwm} el T collection a honors, how - close race for “‘oldest” cver, is a 1916 Hupmobile. Cld-age and wrecks provide Dutch” with automo- His sal , on o0 $50, depend- he worth of the vehicle. Re- are made cn the number that can be biles. ‘he a ing on turn yart Moters Valuabie Cld motor: f 1inz out ble. Many built moli plants for small boais. Othcr ag- er in necd iors form emand for the rebuilt products. Then, of cours tacre are the| the multi- are strip- a is "con- igned to the grave-yard: iThere's many a car ing around Jiineau | s long } reets today vital parts e\tab.xshmem which can lay yesterday, were 4% and 3 cents per pound The New England Fish Company | purchased the rest of yesmrdays‘ haul from the banks, amounting| 1o 20,000 pounds. Capt. Pete OswalZ, of the Marie, and Capt. John Low- ell, of the Fern, each sold 10,000 pounds. D Burglars, who robbed a Santa Barbara, Calif., saloon, delayed long enough to “have a few on the house” the proprietor found on opening the bar next morning. Sev- | eral empty wine bottles and dirty glasses uitered the bar. PSR, S SHOP I JUNLAU l-lRS'l" Army’s No. 1 Doctor ! .| the Juneau Lumber new surgeon-genc will be raised to 11 : of major-geme & k3 BREAKUP OF NENANA ICE, LATEST DATE Winner of Guessing Con- test Had Exact Minute —Gets Over $61,000 The moving of the ice at Ne- nana yesterday afternoon at 1:32 o'clock was the latest breakup in 18 years' history of the great Al- aska guessing contest. Th# previous late breakup was in 1027 when the date was May 13 at 5:42 am. William Berrigan, member of the Cooperative Drug Store: of Fair- banks, guessed the exact minute and wins the entire pool of over $61,- 000. Thomas A. Hunt, also of Fair- banks, was the next closest picking 1:29 p.m. Follewing is the ice movements from 1917 to 1935, so paste it in your hat for reference next spring: 1017—April 30 at 11:30 a.m. May 11 at 9:33 a.m. 11 at 10:46 a.m. y 11 at 6:42 a.m. May 13 at 5:42 am. May 6 at 4:2¢ p.m. May 5 at 3:41 p.m. 1930— May 8 at 7:03 p.m 1931—May 10 at 9:23 a.m. 1932—May 1 at 10:15 a.m. 7 8 at 7:20 p.m 1934—April 30 at 2:07 p.m 1955—May 15 at 1:32 p.m. ~-e A"V HOLIDAY TAKEN, JUNEAU COALBUNKERS al bunkers are being closed on afternoons during this ne, July and August, and are requested to get in for week-end re- t later n Friday or mornings. talking the half are those of Coast Coal Company, Dock and Commercial ays [FLOE ARRYJE’S GN CANNERY TENDER Bringing Hans Floe, well-known cannery superintendent, to the city the tender Fairweather berthed at Mills Dock at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The vessel, comanded by Capt. C. Neeset ame from the C. E. Harris Com- Jany plant at Hawk Inlet. Floe, who registered at the Gas- tineau Hotel, may return with his joat when the Fairweather leaves today. The tender will return to Hawk Inlet heavily loaded, as she is taking lumber as well as a large cargo of general supplies. S e Aviatrix Hurled From Plane 2,000 Feet Up, Lives OAKLAND, Cal, May 16.— Hurled from her air tossed air- plane while 2,000 feet in the air, Misz Ya Ching Lee, reputed America’s only Chinece woman student pilot, escaped with a ducking in San Francisco Bay yesterday. The 25-year-old woman pulled the.1ipeerd of her parachute on her way down and floated safe- ly to the water from where she was rescued. That Was Some ’ Hand of Pinochle Mrs. Winn Drew They are still talking about | the pincchle hand that Mrs. ‘ Anna Winn drew at the Trinity | Hall card party recently. | Mro. Winn was. playing a four-handed brand of the pop- ular card game when, on one hand, she had to take two looks to reascure herrelf that this was what the had: 1500 trumps in | diamends as well as the ace of spades! LIBERTY IS SHORT LIVED TACOMA, Wash.,, May 16.—Har-| vey Lias and Gordon Troutman, Army prisoners who escaped from Fort Lewis where they were serv- ing time for desertion, have been captured near Bay Island, west of here, surrendering peacefully when | officers located them. The two men| now face charges of beating a guard | ver the head. ‘ Shrme Sold | CARENNAC, F\.m.e —The fine old priory in which Fenelon, bishop | rote “The Adventures | elememachus,” a 17th century | over which generations 01 1 boys have pored, has been| old for the modest sum of $2| 500. - .. - DAILY EMPIRE W ANT AD§ PAY l Babe Ruth (right) and Hack Wilson, former home run kings of the American and National leagues, respectively, leaving the field to- guther in Albany, N. Y., after Wilson had tripped over Ruth's leg on a dash to first in the game between Boston Braves and Albany Sen- ators. Both returnea to the game later. 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