The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 1, 1935, Page 2

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE. TUESDAY, OCT. t, 1935. oo Misses ¢ Splendid coats for byo;\uf- tailored dresses. Trimmed with luxurious fur collars of beaver, fox or coon and tailored with g } a nicety of detail, these are coats which ) d 1 ‘September et Wet Manth, Ak Air Ml Clyde Pangborn predicted that ucheduled airlines, carrying both mgzil and passengers, will be op- er2ting between Alaska and the United States in a very short fime. He says the inside route is the best for flying to Alaska. Pangborn proposes a non-stop flight; arcund the .woxld, in' the near, futwre. LTI T To Observe Loyalty. Day Juneau Churchies 16 Ded- cate Next Sunday.- to Special Cause - Say§ Re port Precipitation-for’ Morth 11.92 Inches, 1.7} In- ches Above Nofmal * | | ®or the first''time’ in' s'éven | monthy, the onthly Méap tenpera- {ture in Juneau was above normal, {and, for'the fifth copsecufive month thgy. precipjtagion hag. heen We nopmnal, ageopding to, the momthly meteatological report. issued today by.the Juneau Weather Buréau Of- fice. + " | The average temperatuve for the ‘month was 508°, or 06 degree | above the normal. The warmest - tember of record was that of 101 | with @ megn of 52.6°, and the cogl- |est was that of 1914 with an aver- 1 ;Girl Scout - Committee Is Meeting1 'Plans Are g;g Made for? | Active Work During ; Corning Winter The Girl Scout Exécutive Com- | mittee met today av the home of | Mrz. Milton Lagergren for its final | conference before active troop work | begins. The committee-~ccmposed of Mrs. | A, B. Phillips, Mrs. W. W.. Council, ‘Mrs. George Rice, and Mrs. Wm. | P. Blanton—had as their honored lguest.s. Mrs. A. E. Schottler and daughter, Betty. Mrs. Schoettler, who has been ac- |tive - in wseout work in Seattle, is i erving the ¢ommittee in an advis- ory - way. It has been announced that Miss Betty Schoettler will as- | think you'll be par you can wear with an air of pride. We ticularly pleased with age of 47.3°. The highest temperg- Loyalty Day, which' ‘calls all| 8 {ture in Juneau last month was 67°, church members to be present M;workl_m i N \on the 8th, and the lowest was 32° their respective churches, Will be| ppe committee expected Kk {on the 24th. The highest tempera= observed on Sunday, October 6, ac-| 4piov “YIRHES CRECES 1o MEke VOV P0P0P000000 0000000006 T 00000090099 09060909000660 0000 B.M. Behrends Co, Juneau’s Leading Department Store, . *00e 00006000000000000000000000000000000330000800000000000000. Editor in Milwaukee | ture op, record for Septemiber Quer cording to a decision reached by| the way they fit . shoulders without !a 40syear period.was, 71° in .1916, . . roomy across the and the lowest for a similar period the Juneau Ministerial Association | at its yesterday’s conference. Both Saturday, Oetober 5, and | ing of the troop will be held early | next week. ing program today. The first meet- U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (Byv the U. S. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vieinity, beginning at 4 pm. Oct, 1: Fair tonight, Wednesday incre: asing cloudiness, rain by night; light varijable winds, becoming southeast Wednesday. skirts have a graceful swing. Black—Brown—Navy Children’s Coats i (2414 | was 200 in. 1943, . being bulky. g i " Synday, October 6, are included in e ”M ; PR the Loyalty Days program, spon- | 'The 'totdl preCipltation”'1oF the sored by the National Committee | month’ whs ‘1192 inches, or 171 for Religion and Welfare Recovery, nches aboye, the pormal, The driest which has its headquarters in New September, over. ., 40ryear. petiod york Gity. ! wag, that, of 1940, with a total, of The purpcse of the dedication of | L19. inches, and, the . webtest, Wwes thece days is to “call upon all those that, of 1924, with a,dobal.0f, 18,86 who believe in the value of organ- | nches, At the, timber, line. (@levgs ized religion to rally to churches | tion about. 1800. feef). o, Mt. Rob- and synagogues,” in an effort, says ierts, the.total precipitation ,last the statement of the committee, ! b 1 14.64, dnches; and . ab “to call the attention of American the, 3/300-fopt,. elevation the total citizens to the place of the church- o CHINCHILLAS in;a vatiety of golors | was 2100 inches, and.,ah Parsever- es in our civilization.” . ? was., 1920 All Juneau residents are requost- . . all sizes. pesdl :»‘i .‘ ., ed by the Ministerial Association 3 3N Ppassible 385.5 -hours, of to attend their respective churches, Pnced to P‘Qlu sunshing. Junegu, during Sep- where special programs will be | tember, 110.0 hours of sunshine were Presented in honor of the occasion. e | recorded, or 29. percent. of ;the. pos- ¢ | Sible amount. There were five olear | days, three partly cloudy, and twen- | ty-two..cloudy: days.,. during .the ey Avetape relative bumidity 8t yANCOUVER, Wash, Oct. 1— V&A%, was 86 percent., at noon, 70 A youth giving the name of Elmer percent., and 6. 4 pm., 69 percent. . i | 'The total wind |E. Lagel, 22, told police here today | " nd moyement for the i).t he had escaped from the month was 4,65 mjles, Of a1, 8¥-|pederal Jail at Juneau, Alaska, and OFFICERS FEAR ELMER’S COLD mediately preceding and during the worid war perhaps the most notablé of his career. He championed Ani- erican causes with vigorous skill which attracted nation-wide notice and the Journal received the second award of the Pulitzer medal “for the | | étage. hourly velocity, of 6.5 miles. wos tirea of being wanted by the ' . IN VANCOUVER, .. Dies Today disinterested and meritorious | E shimog:orerot ™, vereiios, vind. decsion was | fxom. the wegt, and, the maximum Velogity for a. sustained periodof . the East, on. the. 28th. .- Aurords were observed, om the 24th and 30th; heavy frosts on tke “ {May 16. \man on the street here last night| | police. Authorities here are get- ting in contact with Juneau of- ficials relative to the man. Lagel ’said he escaped jail in Juneau on He approached a police~ land told his story. Members of Troop Three and any other girls. interested:, in. scoutng e reguested to register at the grade school building,+in Mr. Dry- den’s room, at 3:456 o'clock Friday afternoon. UNABLE TO ‘LOCATE SELNESS‘ RELATIVES [ Attempt to locate 'relatives of | Evan 'Sciness, 38, ‘who 'died at 8 inn's Hespital late Saturday nizhi from injuries received at the mine,| are being madg by the C. W. Car- ‘ter Mortuary. According to the only available cecords Seiness had no dependents ar the only living relative listed is his mother, whose addp given as. Mrs. Annie Selness, Bcren. Avz, Sea | sent by Carter to etuzned with the information that there is ‘‘no such number.” Selness was born in Norway and had te#en. out second citizenship papers. He was employed at the Helm Bay -Cpld Mine near Ketzhi- kan in 1932; at Sawyer and Rey- n*lds logginz camp far.one year in 1933-34; and fer six menths as s section hand for the Alaska Rail- road in 1935. He had been emplov-~ ed for a few days by the Union Oil Company here bcfore he went to work .in the A. J. mine early in August. 255 wal 427 e Steamship Company .Agent, who r2- LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity = Weather 4 pm. yesty . 30.04 55 87 SwW 2 Cldy 4 am. today ....30.11 44 100 w 1 Foggy Noon today 30.11 50 91 w 2 Clear CABLE AND RADIO REPORTS YESTERDAY TODAY Highest 4pm. | Lowest4am. 4am. Precip. 4am. Station temp. temp. | temp. temp. velocity 24hrs. Weather Anchorage 52 - ) 47— —_ 05 — Barrow 18 18 14 20 30 14 Cldy Nome 46 42 40 44 14 .30 Rain Bethel 58 52 | 40 40 30 02 Pt. Cldy Fairbanks 60 58 41 56 12 .02 Cldy Dawson 54 52 | 34 34 4 [ Cldy St. Paul 50 50 | 45 46 10 04 Cidy Dutch Harbor 54 50 | 44 46 4 A4 Clear Kodiak 50 50 48 52 16 118 - Cidy Cordova 54 52 50 56 12 18 Cldy Juneau . 56 55 | 43 4 1 0 Foggy sitka 63 e [ s & 0 G4 Ketchikan 66 62 50 52 4 Trace Cldy Frince Rupert . 68 68 | 50 50 4 [ Cldy Edmonton 4 64 | 4 48 8 o Clear Seattle . 60 60 50 50 4 0 r Foggy Portland RREL | 4 54 54 4 0 Cldy San Francisco 76 0 56 60 6 02 Rain New York .. 58 | 56 56 16 0 Clear Washington 56 | 48 52 4 0 Pt. Cldy WEATHER CONDITIONS AT 8 A. M. Ketchikan, foggy, temperature 52; Craig, cloudy, 55; Wrangell, foggy, 50; Sitka, foggy, 50; Skagwa;, foggy, 48; Soapstone Point, fog- gy, 52; Cordova, raining, 56; Chit na, cloudy, 54; McCarthy, cloudy, 48; Anchorage, cloudy, 35; Nenana, cloudy, 44; Fairbanks, cloudy, 58; Hot Springs, raining, 48; Tanana, raining,*36; Ruby, cloudy, 40; Nu- lato, partly cloudy, 44; Kaltag, partly cloudy, 43; Unaldkleet, cloudy, 48; Flat, partly cloudy, 47; Crooked Creek, n}usmg; Radioville, fog- &Y, 50 WEATHER SYNOPSIS High barometric pressure prevailed this morning from the mouth of the MacKenzie River southward to- Oregon, the crest being 30.12 inches at Ketchikan. Low b ircmetric pressure prevailed over the interior -and. western portions of Alaska, the lowest reported pressure being 28.88 inches at Du'ch Harbof, A slight barometric depression. was charted off the coast of .California. This general pressure distribution has been accompanied by precipitation over the greater portion of the interior ani western Alaska and over the Gulf and at San Francisco. Dense fog prevailed this morning throughout Alaska and at Seattle. With the exception of the Arctic Coast, temperatures were above freezing this morning throughout Alaska, the temperatures being abnormally high over the Tanana Valley. MCKANNA ELECTED TO OFFICE IN A. L. [ Seattle Broker Escapes from Escort of Deputies Robert: J. McXanna, alaska turned to Fairbanks this summer, was -elected Sergeani-at-arms of Dorman H. Baker Post No. 11, the SEATTLE, Oct. 1—D. W. Dawes, broker, charged with grand larceny for allegedly swindling clients out /17th, 24th, and 26th; sleet'on the! Pitmuleumi ce rendered by any American! newspaper during 1918. nThey GO th zmd C 4 BT Their Fuel from the Tun- PATCG FLYING TWO l dra as One Cake of fce GAME HUNTERS SOUTH ok A. McMarten and D. McMarten,| Petroleum which has become so, big game hunters from the Cassiar, popular for fuel in Alaska has now left Ketchikan this morning en-reached even the far Arctic, though editor and, before he was 21, man- route to Vancouver aboard the in another form, according to im: aging editor. As legislative corre- Alaska Air Transport Patco flown ) formaticn to Charles W. Hawkes- - by Sheldon Simmons, according to worth, Chief of the Indian Bureau a telegram received here from Pilot Lcor Simmons. | For centuries the Eskimos of the The Simmons plane left Juneau Far North have used whalé and yesterday afternoon with three pas-| s:al blubber for fuel. In thelr ig- sengrs—O. Gertsman, B. O. Mar- loos which were 0 Warmly con- tinson and R. H. Stock for Peters- structed temperatupés were easily burg and Wrangell, and instr ‘kept at around 170, degrees by m‘ tions from the Alaska Air Trans- yse of a couple,of their famous szl port agent in Wrangell to pick uD| ofl lamps. But civilization penetrated passengers there for Vancouver. the Arctic and frame houses be- Pilot Simmons arrived at Wran-| came popular with the m gell last night, picked up the twol They required another, kibd of el hunters and went to Ketchikan.| o withstand the terrific cold - Sea- He expected to go on to Vancouver; son. A g ’ { today and will 8o to Seattle on, Now the Eskimos have solved the | personal business, returning to problem, Frank Daugherty, !ndml Ketchikan or Juneau tomorrow. | gureau teacher at Point Barrow, Lucius W. iNieman, Who Started New Policy in Newspapers, Passes ? (Continuea mom Page One: called him to Milwaukee and he be- came legislative correspondent, city 23d, and dense fog on the 30th, it is proving successful. Barrow is located in the heart of the nvg”(or the winter was expressed by | metroleum reserve. By simply going jauthorities here when they learned | out and cutting blocks of tundra, fust a8 one would a cake of ice. the natives of the district are able to | acquire ample fuel, as the surface earth or tundra is so filled with ofl}2 CCC worker in a Forest Service | that it burns readily. ., . CHARLES ‘'WILLIAMS FUNERAL - TOMORROW 3 i\uf'e h1 services for ‘(_:hnrleis Wil liams, 45, who died at St. Ann's Hospital Sumday morning from opla, will be beld in the|no charges against him here, it is! thppel af the C. W. Carter Mor- b il tomorrow afternoon at 1 e burial service of the Rus- Orthodox Chureh wilk be read| by William Wanpamaker, and in- teyment will be im, the Willjams u"hmfly. plot. et Evergreer Ceme- Charles Willisms, who' lived. in w~ CASE RECALLED HERE Opinion that Elmer Lagel was {looking for a warm place to berth of the story the young man had |told in Vancouver. They recalled ithat Eagel was in trouble here on | laxceny count last fall, He was camp, at Auk Bay and brought some blankets and other articles into, town and sold them. About be | sentenced to four menths i Jail, Lagel asked for six as he Said he didn't want to get out of prison in the middle of the winter. He was given the longer term and completed his time on April 24, last, records here show. There arc said. i ———— HAS INJURED SHOULDER August Biwer, mine employee, entered St. Ann's today for medical sare. - Fe has an injured shoulder. ——— n, iaine employee, Annjs Hospital reéovering Joe Wi in_ St. from a sprained. back. is | spondent Nieman developed a fao- ulty for “digging out the story ba- hind the-official facts.” Back Tc Sentinel When ownership of the Sentinel changed Nieman accepted the man- agemeént of the St. Paul Dispatch, then the declining property of Gov- ernor Marshall of Minnesota. Ni2- man received a third interest in the paper and a chance to acquire full ownership if he restored the paper to a position of leadership. Within a year its success was assured, but preferring to live in Wisconsin he went back as managing editor of the Sentinel In 1882 a merger of Milwaukee papers opened the field for a new one and Nieman grasped it. He ! i % i 3 failed to interest James E. Scripps, | Committee. selected ‘2 1“‘{ ‘”é:“ B0 0.t 4 %Y T F LT celebrated Detroit publisher, so he |meeting of the Chamber o m- S proceeded alone. He took over a |merce, has relegated to the High/ To he Seaff of small paper started as a political School the selection of a ruling ma- | campaigner for P. V. Deuster, can- | jesty, for the official bridge open- | e Quad didate for congress. “Fighting” Type He began enthusiastically a fight- ing type of journalism then un- known to Wisconsin and through | @ series of exposures soon won a circulation that commanded re- gpect. Financial success came much later and Nieman once confessed that the problem of meeting ex- penses “used to sleep at the back of my mind while I was writing an article—and did not sleep very Boundly.” Nieman regarded the period im- onleokers handicapped workmen and decorators, Mike Pusich, owner of Dreamland, new Douglas night club, stated today that the entire place is closed to the public and that no one but those employed there will be admitted until 9 o'clock Saturday night, date of the opening. H There is much to be done yet, Mr. Pusich stated, and he is forced | to lock all doors to spectators this week, in order to permit the elab- orate night club to open on the scheduled date. ' JUNEAU’S GUEEN CONTEST NOW PUT _ | UP TO HI SCHOOL| Juneau’s Jougias Dricge Queen | ing on October 13. | In consequence Superintendent A.1 B. Phillips has called a meeting at 3:25 o'clock today to determine how | the election tomorrow will be han- |dled. It is possible, he said today, | that an assembly vote will be taken | tomorrow morning, the winner to be declared queen of the celebra- | tion. | - e Deputy U. 8. Marshal C. H. Mac-: | Spadden, who recently went south, with prisoners, is returning north {on the North Sea. | LYLA 'Wti;smv s By STARTING Beanticians ——vo—— !informs Mr. Hawkesworth, They 'Douglas, was employed by the A. s ! “DREAMLAND ” CLOSED & sns petroleun fundra fox (el | mine . the o4 Treadwell| CHANNEL CABS. Phone 106. . . Daugherty, | 1 y TO GENERALPUBLIC = NS MR . Y, Sland ot BUS bEPOT. adv. UNTIL NEXT SATURDAY LUCIS W, NIM Because increasing throngs of pARENT qEr N 'LAST PAVING CONTRACT 'STARTED HERE TODAY The Gastineau Cussiruction Com-~ pany began the work of pouring ce- | | ment on the last block ' of ° theil contract for this year—the block between Feent street and Willough- by Avenus on Main street—at 9 o'clock this morning. The paving | «will probably be finished Thursday night. Another day will be required lay a cement sidewalk on the t side of the street. The paving now under construc- | tion will require 21 days to harden sufficiently for motor traffic. Schilling | - Baking i Powder s fluffier biscuits. | | I e B S e American Legion, at Fairbanks, for the coming year. Frank Nash, Alas- ka Road Commission Superinten~ cent, was elected Post Commander. of approximately $5,000, escaped from a sheriff's escort after having en taken to a bank to cash a check. Y been - proven winter guests or hanting HUNTING BOATING MAKE US PROVE IT! Special weekly or monthly rates to Sitka Hot Spr GODDARD, ALASKA HUNTERS! *’ You can make this your headguarters and be as- turéed you will bag the limit. A wonderful game seascn in this vicinity has parties. ings «FISHING It's Alway Weather . when you bank ) bank in person bank by mail You can make own desk! The First and bank by mail! 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