The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 9, 1935, Page 8

BURNED MAN BROUGHT HERE | BY AIRPLANE Nome Miner, Hans Hansen, Flown to Juneau, Ac- | companied by Nurse | Amon; passengers who ar- rived on the PAA L from Fairbanks Hans Hansen, who was burned in a gasoline explosion at Nome, and heed Electra yesterday ~were his nurse, Mrs. T. J. Shaw, the‘ wife of ning partner. E n Thomas J. Shaw are owne! the Ophir Dredging Company at Council, 72 miles north of Nome. On June 18 Han- sen attempted to start a tractor which had not been used for sev- eral months. He filled the tank with gasoline and made a torch of gasoline soaked rags to heat the carburetor. He lighted the torch near the tractor and the explos- | jon" followed, igniting his clothing. He suffered severe burns about his| chest and hands before the flames were extinguished #A plane was summoned by tele- ppne and in less than two hours he was in the hospital at Nome, where he was until he started seuth. Hansen left Nome accom- psmn(‘ by Mrs. Shaw on the PAA eonnecting with tuaen re and sailed with on the Alaska today. en will entér @ hospieal M where he will receive surgi- ment including skin graft- plastic surgery. the Ju-'i neau plane at Fairbanks, He was Ann's hospital upon | ces FRENCH EXPERT | MAKING TRIP TO MINE AT JUALIN f W {Andre Fonville Is Here to Conduct Investigation for Capitalists Andre Fonville, Ingenieur des Arts Manufacturers, 23 Rue Surette, , who arrived in Juneau on the Sea, expects to leave this af- noon or tomorrow by plane for he Jualin Mine at Berners Bay. He has been commissionéd by a group of French an inspection of the mine. Fonville, who is making his first trip to Alaska, said that he finds everything much different from Eu- rope. “The cities, the people, h and Belgian capitalists, | !who own the property, to conduct | |rier at the west end of the br! "heiknow his truck struck the Dawes \TRUCK OPERATOR IS CHARGED WITH 1 RECKLESS DRIVING th reckless driving Sundny lehsm Spark; was ar- raigned in U. 8. Commissioner’s court today on a complaint sworn |to by Dr. L. P. Dawes and pleaded not guilty. He was given time to get an attorney. Dr. Dawes charges in his com- | plaint that Sparks, who is driving |one of the trucks on the Sommers | construction job on the Douglas WIND HAMPERS NORTH SEA IN LANDING TODAY Steamer Bri;;gs 23 Pas- sengers from Sitka— Takes 28 South road, hit his machine near the| After having considerable diffi- |Nursery on the Glacier Highway vesterday morning when attempting to pass. The complaint says Sparks was doing in excess of 40 miles an hour at the time. The doctor followed the truck af- ter the accident across the bndge in an effort to catch up with the; driver but was held up at LhF bax— dge. culty in making a landing due to the strong wind which shifted sud- denly just as she was about to reach City Dock on the first at- tempt, the steamer North Sea ar- rived here at 1:15 o'clock from Sit- ka. She was scheduled to leave for 'Seattle at 3 o'clock this afternoon. She brought 23 passengers to Ju- Ineau, and an incomplete list at 2 Sparks told Assistant District At-|0'Clock showed that 28 persons had torney George Folta he did not taken southbound passage. A ship- ment of fish was taken into the schner)—c\ery!hmg is different,” ‘machme Dawes claims his car “s,{relght holds before the steamer he said. ““The scenery is wonderful. |y rneq completely around by the I have seen the celebrated fjords °f‘glancing blow from the truck. Norway and I think the coast of Alaska is more beautiful.” The French engineering expert speaks v not trust his ability in that respect and carries a French-English dic- | tionary most of the time. He stated that when he sailed from Le Havre on August 17, he did not speak Eng- lish at all. “I have been in London many ‘times—it is possible to break- fast in Paris at 8 in the morning, have lunch in London and be back at 10 pm. the same day,” ut I did not find it ne- speak English.” ille said that he knew he would be forced to speak English in America so he supplied himself th text-books and taught him- Jf during his voyage across the Atlantic, He expects to spend four or five very good English but does‘ —————— SIMMONS RETURNS i TO CARCROSS HOME Taking off in a heavy wind, the/ Fokker pontoon plane of the North- ern Airways, Inc, piloted by Bob Randall, left Juneau at 10:30! o'clock this morning, bound fer Carcross. George Simmons, owner and| manager of the airways, and hisl mother, Mrs. L. E. Simmons, were, passengers on the round trip. Mr' Simmons came to Juneau last Fri- day for medical treatment. While here, the Simmonses were the guests of Dr. and Mrs. R. H. Williams. CANNERY OFFICIALS Ibaby, C. R. Leeper, Mrs. Leeper, A. Mrs in United States service as a nurse at the Government school at White Shaw was for several Vears|qays ot the Jualin' mine and will then return to Paris to report his TRAVEL TO SEATTLE findings. Mountain in the Nome distirct. . o B0 Three officials from the Port Mr. and Mrs. Hansen and Mr. and > TH Althorp cannery of the Pacific Mrs. Shaw live in Seattle during HARRIS GOES SOU American Fisheries Company are traveling to Seattic on the steamer North Sea. They boarded the ves- sel at Port Althorp Sunday with! | their wives. the winter months, sailing on the first steamer to Nome in the spring and returning on the last ship in the fall. Harry Harris is traveling to Se- attle from Juneau on the North |Sea. He will enter a business col- jlege there. UNITED FOOD CO. “Your Home-Owned Grocery and Market” BACK TO SCHOOL-- Schoel days call for good wholesome foods to develop the bod- ies and minds of young students . . . You are sure to get just that at UNITED FOOD. BANANAS—Golden Ripe, PEACHES or PEARS—For Table Use, et baskes . .l ol v i G it e OR /\\GFS—Sweet and Jun:y 79 hert left. The inbound list: From Sitka—P. R. Bergman; Mrs. John Jazobs, Martha Jacobs, George Jacobs, Mary Jacobs, Lizzie Ja- cobs, A. Klaney, Glen Bowden, Aaron Jones, Mrs. A. Collins, Mrs. W. R. Carter, Lawrence Sarvela, Dan Noonan, Frances Bob, Daisy John- son, Dick Johnson, Mrs. Johnson, George Williams, Mrs. Williams. From Port Althorp—Otto Nystedt, Oscar Osmundson, August Johnson, |Marcus Goodman. ‘The outbound list: Fcr Seattle— Elizabeth Terhune, C. Hansen, G. Hansen, Harry Har- ris, Victor E. Brown, Carol Rob- ertson, Duncan Robertson, Mrs. R. E. Robertson, Evelyn Alstead, Har- ry Kinagaru, Mrs. Kay Carter, Bart O'Laughlin; Mrs. O'Laughlin - and B. Strouse, James McAlister, Mrs. McAlister, Mrs. Strouse, Mrs. Cash Co’e and two children. For Ketchikan—Miss F. Feero. For Wrangell—Jeanne Karmink Adeline Jackson, Scotty Martin, > BROWN LEAVES Victor E. Brown, a former miner, Juneau permanently on the North Sea for Seattle. O’LOUGHLINS LEAVE Mr. and Mrs. Barth O'Leughlin and baby are passenger to Seattle on the North Sea from Juneau. iy Daily Empire Want Ads Pay! PINEAPPLE--Fancy Crushed or Sliced, 10¢ T e ..39¢ ot e il e o MILK--All Popular Brands, IVORY SOAP— Smedium bars |, .00 e it i g POTATOES--U. S. No. 1. , e - 15¢ ORANGE JUICE—No Sugar, Just Juice, BAKING SODA—Pound Packagés, e e o S R 'S 2 2 © 1935, Liceerr & Myzns Tosacco Co, Dmly CrosSaword Puzzle . ACROSS | 1. Practice agriculture 4. Mix circularly 9. Crony 12. Wild ox 13. Sheet of glass | 14, Leaf of the | palmyra alm 7. Resident hospital physician 8. Brazilian ‘money account 9. Those who speak many P 15. Daybreak 6. Not cuitivated 18. Attendant on the sick 20. Omr’t'l of sight 21, Vajue for tax purposes 24, Resounded 26, Watered appearance 27, Unfastens 30. Tree 31, Festivala 33. Cereal grass 34. Planet 36. Extreme 38. Rhythmie swing 39, Stylish: collog. 62. 40. Linpressed with a sense of grandeur 42, Unwanted plants 14, Substance . Couch . Artifieial language To an inner point Land of which ‘Tara was the capital 63. Lair 54. Botch 55. Nearest In time or place 1. VVllCl’é w¢e make Chesterfields Wi wn)- allish o3 0 dEENE Light op Sotton fabric . Serviceable Only Person of weak in- tellect . Ridiculous rrrr I l// JEEN AN | IIWI b flll%lfl===%flll R 2 42 43 T %%I-I%III-I . ] reathe o« gether or round . Season . Diminish 39. Greek lIsland Among 41. Walk in water . Food: slang . Margin . Seaweed 2. Make rm ., Insect DOWN . Passing fashion Collection of facts . Propel with oars 4. Way . Goads 6. Makes Into leather H WERNECKE IS FLOWN HERE BY GROPSTIS Pair Left Portland Yester-| day Morning—Reached Juneau Last Evening Livingston Wernecke, Consulting Geologist and manager of the Yu- kon Treadwell mine ‘at Mayo, ¥. T., urived last night from chevsuut.h in the mining company’s Béllanta | Skyrockei seaplane flown by Charles | | Gropstis. | They will be here about a week, | I Mr. Wernecke said, Lefore going to| Mayo, where they expect to remain until the freéze-up. Pilot Gropstis left San Francisco Saturday afternoon and arrived in Portland that night. Yesterday the plane left Portland at 8 a.m. and after stops at Sezitle and Alert Bay, arrived at the PAA float in| Juneau at 6:30 p.m. The weather was perfect all the way, Gropstis said, and almost the entire distance was flown at an A copy of yesterday’s edition of the Sundsy Seattle Post-Intelligenc- er was delivered to The Empire by‘ uropsus {DREDGE OPERAT(R ! ARRIVES BY FROM KOU( R; OF ,Bammers, of seamg .SpoklnE, ‘Washington, arrived yes. terday on the PAA Lockheed: El 'ectra from Fairbanks. Lammers and ‘Dean ‘She to the United su‘m Government in accordance with the judgment handed down Saturday by District | Judge George F. Alexander, an $8,- /000 bond will be forfeited to - the Government. it' was explained today by Assistant District Attorney G. | W. Folta. Action was brought against the Tahoma on grounds that she was operating under American registry while Canadian owned and ' thus | was evading a one half a cent a pound duty on halibut which is \ shipped from Canada to the Unit- ed States. In the period between Uune 1933 and Sepleniber 1934, the vessel evaded more than $6,000 in My. the Governmént contended. | As an American vessel she would ply mto Prince Riipert under. per- mit ‘and sell her halibut without | paying duty. The Government, prov- ed she, actually was a Canadian vessel and thus was subject to duty. LEGION POST WILL NOMINATE TONIGHT The first {nl‘lvmeeting of the Al- ford John Bradford Post, Amer- !ican Legion, will be held tonight in the Dugout with John Newman, | presiding offfcer. = Nominations of ofticers will be held and plans dis- cussed for sending representatives to the department convention in Seward September 21. All membera are urged to be on hand. Mrs, Alexander and dl.uzhur 0 Jeft, -on, the Alaska for o ) E “ loperam a gold dredge on the Kou-|ing affairs here in Tecent weeks, \Nome. Lammers, who is returning pect to return areund October .14. 4 'from a visit of several weeks at the - |mine, stated that the season has ‘been about a month late in that "district this year, FIRE ALARM SUNDAY The Juneau Fire Department re- sponded to an alarm at the home of Miles Godkins, 336 Gold Street, at 5:15 p. m. yesterday, when wisps of smoke were observed aris- ing from the shingle roof. A hose llne was connected and the roof | cause of the fire undetermined. — .- MRS. CARTER TRAVELS Mrs. Kay Carter, wife of Art Car-| associated with the Reliable, Transfer, is a passenger for Senttle ter, on the North Sea from Juneau. ee— SHOP lN JUNEAU! saturated with water. 2,000 miles of his trip from Seattle Fire Chief V. W. Mulvihill reported to Kougarok River was traveled by CALLS DEPARTMENT that no damage was done and the plane. ‘1 ; lGOVERI\MENT 10 I} i his partner, Guy Riegel of Spokane Has been honored n‘mmi charm. L 'garok River, 100 miles north. of Judge and Mrs. Alexander ex< but that produc- ien is normal. He said that about PROFIT IN CASE GF TAHOMA SUIT If owners of the fishing vessel ‘Tahoma do not turn the ship over “Neather machines” in the Chesterfield factories keep the beqt and moisture at a steady even level . . . This control of tempcratqre\and lmmldny : _helps to retain the full flavor and aroma of the tobaccos you smoke in Chesterfields. . And it has a great deal to do with pro- viding the proper working conditions for the employes who handle thg tobaccos and operate the Chesterfield machines. Mild ripe tobaccos and madern up-to- date factories with proper control of tem- perature and humidiry help'to make Chesterfield . . . the agarette tbat‘s MH.DER the cigarette that TASTES BB’!'TER