The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 28, 1935, Page 7

Six Hundred Children in Event Today Mickey and \1mn|e Mouser Birthday Celebration Is Held Here ildren in finnie Mous nded pa- can Le, oved no det variety who presented them e theatre doors arm ncoats, umbrellas, and tickets which Juneau merchants pro- vided to all children under 14 yea of age. Charles D. Beale, manager of the Capitol Theatre, marshalled children into file at 1 o'clock, each child entering the theatre ceived a bag of candy. Smells of damp wool and licor- jce mingled with ‘the perfume of the theatre as, during the interim between opening of doors and be- ginning of the show, the dripping children engaged in a spirited trad- ing of candi Rousing Cheer A rousing cheer for Mickey and Minnie shook the chandeliers when through Mr. Beale, the celebrated actors expressed their appreciation of the interest of the in attending their party, and ir gratitude to Juneau mercha the Capitol Theatre, and the Da Al- aska Empire for arranging the event. “Mickey Mouse Plays Papa,” Martin Johnsons in “Baboona,” an re- the and Although he is Beery showed a decidedly friend! with his daughter, Carol Ann, on shown aboard an incoming liner. gruft when playing in motion pictures, Wallace y atmosphere when pictured here his return from Europe. They are (Assn:lated Press Photo) nn Whitley Kline, Kathleen McAlister, Rob- an, Maxine Mulvihill and Lane. attired as only the contest the latest Pathe News made up the ! actual movie program. The gala event, however, was the awarding of prizes for the best costumes. At the call of Manager Beale, fifteen children in variegated costumes assembled on the stage. Prizes by Vote Prizes were awarded by vote of the children themselves, who reg- istered the degree of their approval by clapping. First prizes—one for a boy and one for a girl—was a Mickey Mouse Ingersoll Wrist Watch. Second prize was $1 third prize 75 cents. There was no doubt as to who won the first prize when the theatre was shaken again by the rousin approval granted to Harriet Ston: house, as Minnie Mouse, and Eu- gene McRoberts, successfully cam- ouflaged as Pop Eye Patsy McAlister, who caused some amusement when Mr. Beale mis- takenly put her in the runninz fer boys' prize, captured second prize for girls with a fetching Huckle- berry Finn costume. Vincent Moder, dressed as a girl nurse, easily took second prize for boys; and Maragaret Rand, in a tap-dancing ocstume, and Jimmie Kline, wearing a bib and apron, received the third prizes. ‘ Other Participants Other children participating in! the stage show were: Barbara Rands, Gordon Clithero, Dick Cli- thero, Laura Jean Clithero, Betty e and Who own the New 1935 General Electric W asher A price advance is ex- pected on these wonder- ful machines. Make arrangements now for immediate delivery. 500 $500 Down Monthly Contributing Mcrchants Don McMichael, Bon- Shoots at Whaleon [Down pour | Conti nues in Juneau I i So Much Rain Out High- way, Halibut Taking to Hills, Driver Reports The deluge continued in Juneau today and between 8 o'clock this morning and noon one inch of rain had fallen, according to the U. S. Weather Bureau, with the ACROSS L Bpon‘y L stem Solemn wonder Kina ot snow= shoe: varlant Land measure Black bird Pronoun Actual Gaps Anglo-Saxon slaves Metal Aniinal's nose Telegrams: cofioa, [ s . 13 1 16. 16. 18 20. 2. 28. n IRIOIW] ISIEIRIE} Faucet downpour still on this afternoon. Howard J. Thompson, Weather | Bureau Meteorologist, estimated that | almost half an inch fell in the hour and a half after noon, indi- cating the total today might set a record. The total rainfall since the present storm started at 5:40 p.m., | September 25, was 5.32 inches at| | noon today. The fall from Sep- | ,tember 1 to noon today was 10. 27‘ |inches. Fish on Bridge ‘ A slight abatement in the flood- ing of creeks and some bad mud- hols on the Glacier Highway were reported by W. H. Bacon, proprietor of the Channel Bus Line, this morning. | ‘Stating that it was still raining “plenty hard,” Mr. Bacon reported several fishing vessels which had taken anchorage in Auk Bay after the southeast storm which blew up {in Lynn Canal. “Wet?” said Mr. Bacon. “Well— | |we ran over a halibut on Lemon T |Creek bridge this morning. That's | | | {damage and that no part of the iroad was impassable. how wet it was!"” No Damage He said the wind had done little There was some talk around the (]ame H WL Federal Buiiding this morning of pooling resources for an ark but Lawrence Kerr of the District At-' The following Juneau merchants| Those Aboard Yacht West- torney's office blew up the project centributed to the entertainment: B. M. Behrends Co., Inc., Garnick’s Grocery, Kann's Store, Juneau Drug Co., California Grocery, The Mar- ket Basket, Juneau Ice Cream Par- lors, Piggly Wiggly, Co., United Food Co., Frye-Bruhn Co., Halvorsen's, The Terminal, The Sanitary Grocery, Pay'n Takit, Al- aska Meat Co., the Capitol The- atre, The Dailly Alaska Empire. A style show for mothers kiddies attending the matinee was held this afternoon at the Halvor- sen’s Shop. - REYNOLDS, SWEUM GET DUCKS; WEATHER IS STORMY ON TRIP ; Ed (- Sweum a 3- Bay They ducks weather. Percy Reynolds and returned this te: day hunting trip and Lim2: Stone Point. brought ba fair bag of but report v stormy - CLUB HEAD RESIGNS Mrs. E. L. Winterberger, Presi- dent of the Anchorage Women’s Club, tendered her resignation at the last meeting, since she leave early in October for Eugene, Oregon, where she and her hus- band, the Rev. Winterberger, make their home. k SOLD ON EASY PAY PLAN Alaska Electric Light and Po JUNEAU—Phone 6 wer Co. DOUGLAS—Phone 18 J. B. Burford|, of the| ward, Now in Port, Have Odd Experience While whales are not generally necidered typical Alaska big game, Ned Mudge of Dallas, Texas, who is on 2 hunting trip with Mr. and Mrs. Paul C. Summers of Morgan- town, West Virginia, aboard the | Campbell Church yacht Westward, now in port, was provided with a; barpoon shot at a huge whale of the humpback variety near the mouth of Hoonah Seund. Mr. Mudge fired a harpoon from the Westward's gun at the whale, point blank at 15 feet, but whale proved that he (or she as Lhe case may be) could take it. The harpoon-equipped with a time bomb et to explode in 3 seconds—bounc- ed off the whale's nose and flew 100 f=2t in the air before exploding. The whale—nc worze for the en- counter, excepting a possible head- ache and acute distrust of yachts n geoneral—is still at large. Bag Bear The Westward, Captain J. I. Mc- Donald, arrived at Femmers Dock last night at about midnight, 11 leave Juneau late today or to- row. The yacht left Ketchikan with Mr. Mudge and Mr. and Mrs. | three black bears, and some good lishing was enjoyed at Lake Eva, Basket Bay. From Juneau the Westward will 20 to Tracy Arm where the hunt- ers hope to add some goats to their . The yacht will probably call at Laconte and will reach Se- attle about October 13. Although a great deal of rain has been encountered on the present voyage of the Westward, Mr. and Mrs. Summers and Mr. Mudge have enjoyed their trip very much. . Beard Contest | A beard contest—inaugurated at he start of the voyage by the mas- | culine contingent of the ship's par- including the guests and the | rew—is still being carried on by he hunters, but some of the crew | ronceded defeat and shaved. A large quantity of motion pic- | ure film in colors has besn taken | 9y the hunting party. Mr. Mudge ‘('xpec'.s to have a total of 4,000 feet jof exposed film at the end of the ‘tnp The Westward, a 110-foot diesel- powered vessel, has seen continuous service in Alaskan waters this year since April 22. The yacht’s home port is Ketchikan but she winters in Lake Union, Seattle. Her crew includes Mate Jack O’Donnell, En- gineer Willlam Alakanaga, Chef A. W. Corriveau and Stewart Bill Spi- dgl. Three guides are aboard tne Westward on this trip—Wes Meyers of Ketchikan, and Ed Jahnke and Oscar Oberg of Juneau. 5 ALl - TORGERSON WEDS O. A. Torgerson, Vice-President of the First Bank of Cordova, and Mrs. Ruth Apperson, niece of Mrs. Eleanor Adams of that city, were married recently by the Rev. R. J. Bingle at the home of Mrs. Adams. Following the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Torgerson went by plane to Kinney Lake, where they trans- ferred to an automobile on the Richardson Highway for a brief honeymoon’ in the Interior. > CORDOVA PAIR WED Willilam Otto Wahrer, baker at the Model Cafe, Barbara Parchen, popular young woman of Cordova, were married| in that city recently by COmmLSA sioner Jones, the ' |when he quoted the Bible to show /the earth would not again be swept |by water, but by fire. The Alaska Air Transport Patco, piloted by Sheldon Simmons was chartered for a flight to Chichagof with Mr. and Mrs. Jack Roehm dnd Mrs. Corbin as passengers, but was held here by weather reports of a forty-mile gale, no ceiling and no visibility between Juneau and Chi- chagof. e FALL FISHING IS VIRTUALLY ENDED Fall fishing is virtually over, ac- cording to L. G. Wingard, Alaska Agent for the Bureau of Fisherles, who arrived in Juneau today after 2n inspection trip to all the areas open for fall fishing. The run was poor this fall and the catch small, he reported. Wingard arrived on the bureau vessel Widgeon which he has been ! operating in the Southeast area for the past week. The Brant, with Warden Don Haley aboard, is due tonight, as is the bureau ship, to Seattle, concluding the season. ———.———— . 3 Egyptian goddess Glacial snow fleld Bird with brilifant plumage Roofed open gallery . Attire Rench across 42. Oll ot rose petals 4. Demons 46. Command Feasts . Act furiously Two-toed 1. Entire amount @. The white poplar i // | . Attempt Let it stand (AINTI ] [PIAISIT] EEB@D II %I work Bn‘lllh Jetter e pfesent e dirty Utilizes Observant or wllchhll 3. !llnlln' ’rn; position Clergyman in charge of & paris! This bira s 45 Dow DO 1. Remove the el 2. chflls 3. Become known 4. She for whom the Trojan war_was fought Fuss 3 The American . PI lchi l// H" lbfil‘chl nals 48 Hire . Prickly seed container OO}I.KNOII of cts . Horse 62. Secret i« tary agent - wm, . g 'buying at the short session today Stock Market Dull Today Alcohols: and - Motors Take Lead, Followed by Scat- tered Specialties NEW YORK, Sept. 28.—Alcohols, motors and a few scattered special- ties accounted for the principal but dullness ruled throughout. Today's close was fairly steady. Friendliness for auto issues are said to be based on the hopes that new cars, making their appearance shortly, will attract sales demand above the ordinary. | CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Sept. 28.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 15%, American Can 141%, American ‘Power and Light 7, Anaconda 20%, Bethlehem Steel| 37%, General Motors 46%, Interna- | tional Harvester 46%, Kennecott 24%, United States Steel 45%, Schenley Distilleries 41%, United| Foundry thirteen sixteenths. | DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, | Jones averages: Industrials 131.75, rails 35.32, utilities 25.18. ————-— JOHNSON ON TRIP Chester Johnson, National Gro-| cery Company, sailed for the round +|trip to Sitka aboard the North-| P ioneerIs Found Dead in His Cabm Death Believed to Have Oc- curred Several Days Ago from Natural Causes Emanuel Neilson, about 79 years old and a pioneer of the Territory, was found dead today in his cabin on Douglas Island about three miles north of the new Douglas Island bridge. He apparently. had been dead for some time, according to Deputy Marshal Judson Brown who was sent to investigate after Mar- vin Chase had reported to the Marshal's office that he feared the old man was either dead or sick. The body was to be brought into the Carter Mortuary this afternoon and Crane from the Westward, enroute{nnd authorities were making fur- ther investigation to determine if there has been foul play, although Steeplechasing in America began|it was believed Neilson thet a na- Summers aboard, on September 17. in Canada, where English officers tural death. He has not been well gave meetings. will| At Peril Straits the party bagged cquartered at Montreal and Toronto, {ror some time, it was reported, as once last spring Deputy Marshals went out and rescued the aged man fram the beach where he had fallen before the tide reached him. ‘GUIDE SEES NEED FOR CONTROL OF ALASKA GAME FISH I Need for control and protection |of game fish in Alaska is pressing |if the supply is to last for future | years, is the fir meonviction of Wes Mpyers of Ketchikan, veteran guide, who is here on the Westward guid- ! ing a big game party. | For 27 years Myers has been tak- ing hunters and fishermen into the| outdoors of Alaska-and declares that | if some action is not taken to pro- tect and preserve game fish it will only be a matter of years until the supply is depleted., Airplanes with their quick transportation and the increase in the number of sports- men will clean out the streams in 2 number of years if conservation is not begun_soon, Myers stressed. He advocated license and bag limit regulations, R . 5 i o Samcrmmad Both men and women wore their hair curled or frizzed with irons towards the end of the second cen- Use Alaska Lumber Do Your REPAIRING and BUILDING NOW! —Lumber for Every Purpose— Spruce CLEAR and COMMON GRADES Doors and Windows i Juneau Lumber Mills and Mrs. Leona' Hemlock SURFACED and ROUGH PHONE 358 Cedar Shingles and Cement Cedar land. e AR i | The eggs of the seahorse are car- ried by the male. jand Douglas, Slayers of Policeman Are to Die |Another Kplifixted Man Will Get Five Years to Life in Prison SACRAMENTO, Cal, Sept. 28— Thrée men accused of the slaying last August 11 of Chief of Police Erskine G. Fish, of North Sacra- mento, have been convicted. A split verdict was returned late yesterday which means that Al- fred Painem and Hugh G. 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