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

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Mr. Jensen is engagzed in mining activities Maid; also selected by student s follows: Juniors Emma Snow. Nola Mae v Sophomores, Patricia Hussey; Fresh men, Marguerite Hickey It was required ir that each class ber least one member ing from the Senior .o CHANNEL CABS, Phone Stand at BUS DEPOT. 108. adv. 9000000000 00000000000000000000000¢ Co-ed L\okrs Good g | ming in the 4 Esther Kipen Deserting her studies at Univer- sity of Wisconsin for the stage, Miss Esther Kipen, above, made good as soloist with Paul White- man’s band. She plans to finish her education after a whirl in the white lights. Supreme Sacrifice Reported {Discharged Man'Saves Girl Who Gave Him His ‘Blue Ticket’ NOVISAD, YugoSiavia, Oct, 2— A few weeks ago Peter Schumaker, factory clerk, was fired. The daugh- ter cf his boss handed him the blue envelope. The young man thereafter spent many of his lonesome hours swim- Danube. One day a ream from the swift channel ned him that a girl was in dan- ger. Fighting against the current, Schumaker pushed her to a sand- nk, where she was grasped by on- lookers. But Peter,too exhausted to make a few additional strokes, was caught in the current and drowned. The girl was ,the one who.gave him that blue envelope. e RETURNS FROM ST. ANN'S Mrs. Lawrence Carlson, of Doug- |las, returned to her home from |St. Ann’s Hospital accompanied by {her new daughter. Her FLusband is an A-J employee. e | Daily Empire Want Ads Pay! b | theme. Luncheon Announced for Octo- ber 19 The Juneau Women's Club met | vesterday afternoon in the Council Chambers for the regular business, 1 session, ! A number of new members were !admitted. | The Department of Applied Edu- {eation, of which Mrs. H. L. Red- | lingshafer is chairman, announced flhat the annual history essay con- | test for seventh and eighth geaders would be held again as a feature of the Alaska Day celebration. Tre topic is not yet decided upon, but | will be announced in The Empire | sometime next week. It was: decided that the annual Mother and Daughter Iluncheon weuld be held on October 19. The ! program will follow some Alaskan Because this date is so near {that of the social meeting, it was | voted to omit the latter this month. A special feature of the afternoon was a talk by Mrs. Chas: Sanford, | associate member of the club who is visiting here from Fort Yukon where she has been for some years a missionary for + Church. Free Ticket Fans Barred {Vienna Theatres Clamp Down on Issuing of ‘Annie Oakleys ’ | VIENNA, Oct. 2. — War on the free ticket hunters, declared by the- | atrical managers here, has upset the jtnsy-going Viennese. | years ago, actors gazed at empty cemfortable amid rows of vacani ceats. So the managers decided to fill the houses under all circum- 1 stances. jwith the show or knew somebody |there could get a ticket. | instances people were begged to at- tend the performance But as the years went on some support,. and the demand for "Ag; nie: Oakleys” went just the other way. Persons who wanted to dem- cnstrate their “connections” would invite friends on their free theatre | tickets. So finally those who rad to pay full or half price thought |they were cheated. > BUTTONS GUIDING of 120 routes to tourist attractions installed in the main rallroad sta- tion here. EAR -0 ST A LEAVES FOR SEATTLE the deputy customs inspictor {Ketchikan, left recently for Seattle, to join her daughter Eleanor, whose engagement to Joe McFarland, nounced. 2z - p General John J. Pershing, familiarly known to World war vets as “Black Jack”, passes his three-quarter century birthday in retire- ment at Washington, where now nize the face once so familiar to left, as cadet at West Point; below, captai General Pershing Hale and Hearty on 75th many pass him who do not recog- all. Pictures review his life. Top in Philippines campaign; center, as general of American Expeditionary Force landing in France ir 1917, and right, his most recent photo, Birthday THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 2, 1935. Planned by Club Women jMother, Daughter, Event Is' the Episcopal cquipment necessary to assure an |of these theatres got government|to “Jack Loreen, The Man Bur-1 MUNICH TOURISTS| MUNICH, Germany.—An electri- |Of the street and lay a cement side- [teams meet October 5 in a highly, cal device that illuminates any one |Walk on that side tomorrow. when a button is pressed, has been |COLLEGE CLOSES! TEAM OKEH Mrs. George Woodruff, wife of |[agement with Occidental College in at Los Angeles. draftsman for Boeing Airport Com- |8nd Raymond Haines, pany in Seattle, was recently an-| Former Bulldozer of A-J Buried Under Five Tons of Jack Loreen, former bull-dozer of the Alaska Juneau Mine, has capi- :mhzed on his mining experience, and since leaving Alaska, has be- come a world’s champion. Loreen claims all records for be- ing buried ‘alive. News just re- ceived from ‘“Playland, at the Beach,” in San Prancisco, where the “mildew 'defier” lies in a.tidy little coffin, butied under five tons of earth, 15 feet deep, in the heart of San Francisco's amilsement center, states that the former miner has, been in (his self-inflicted grave, since June 20, or 100 days on September 28. Not satisfied with shattering all| world’s records for mummy apeing, | on September 20, when he bet\tered{ the mark recently made in South- ern California, Loreen opined that! he .would remain buried alive until' the middle of October, and create! a mark that all future “King Tut”| imitators would b unable to match. | Underground | The underground sepulcher m‘ which the head-under-the sand per-| former lives, is a regular casket, ini which is installed a midget radio receiving ' set, a telephone, electric lights and a heating pad—all the JACK LOREEN MRS. GOLDSTEIN CONVERSED WITH MAN BURIED IN 'FRISCO “Loreen's ‘hame is really Krause and he was in Junean last in 1931”7 said Mrs. Isadore Goldstein today,| commenting upon the above story received by The Empire. Mrs. Goldstein, during her Vi to San Francisco last June, visited the ‘‘Playground On the Beach,” and engaged in conversation with| “The Man Buried Alive” through his specially-arrariged telephone. | “He tcld me he was from Ju-| neau and mentioned the names of | several persons here” she said.| “Among these he mentioned were Mr. W. Cahill, of Treadwell, and| Hector McLean.” Mrs. Goldstzin asked Loreen why he chose such a hazardous, and un- | doubtedly uncomfortable, way of | achieving fame, and was assurad it uncomfortable stay beneath the rrcund. A shaft 11 inches in dia- meter allows the public to ogle at and chat with the “animated orpre.” The chute also permits! his attending physician to examine him daily with the aid of an elong- ated stethoscope, longer than a spiral of imported vermicelli and it is via this shaft that Loreen is fed twice a day. His diet consists of proteins of low intake and liquids—: although he is especially fond of steaks, his cramped quarters do not permit of any fancy carving. In Bright Spot Earth; It’s Entertainment U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER | (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) . Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4 p.m, October 2: Rain tonrght and Thursday; moderaic southeast winds. { LOCAL DATA } Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity . Weather | 4 pm. yesty ..30.09 58 12 w 4 Clear | 4 am. today ....3007 46, 97 s 2 Cldy Noon today .3006 _ 50 N ., W 4 Cldy CABLE AND RADIO REPORTS YESTERDAY ‘TODAY Highest 4pm. | Lowest4am. 4am. Precip. 4am, Station temp. temp. | temp. temp. velocity 24hrs. Weather Anchorage 52 - | 4% = — 129 — Barrow 30 26 | 26 32 18 0 Clear Nome 4“4 44 38 40 8 46 Rain | Bethel .62 54 . e et Cldy Fairbanks 64 62 50 52 8 01 Cldy Dawson 50 48 | 36 38 8 0 Clear 8t. Paul’ .. 50 44 | 44 44 12 08 Cldy Dutch Harbor ... 50 50 | 44 46 4 18 Cldy Kodiak . 56 54 | 48 48 4 .06 Rain Cordova 56 54 | 52 52 18 434 Rain Junezu ... .. . 58 58 4 % 2 [ Clay Ketchikan /. 58 56 . 48 50 4 0 Cldy Prince Rupert 52 52 48 48 4 0 Foggy Edmonton .70 62 38 38 4 0 Clear Seattle % .n 54 54 4 0~ Clear Portland 82 80 60 60 4 0 Clear San Francisco 0 62 | 160 62 4 0 Pt. Cldy New York ... 68 62 46 48 18 06 Clear Washington ... 74 56 4 48 12 24 Clear WEATHER CONDITIONS AT 8 A. M. Ketchikan, foggy, temperature 50; Craig, cloudy, 52; Wrangell, foggy, 50; Sitka, foggy, 51; Skagway, foggy, 46; Radioville,, misting, 52; Cordova, cloudy; Ohitina, cloudy, 55; McCarthy, cloudy, 52; An- chorage, cloudy, 48; Nenana, raining, 42; Fairbanks, cloudy, 54; Hot Springs, raining, 40; Tanana, clouly, '38; Nulato, cloudy, 43; Flat, cloudy, 42; Ruby, Kaltag, Unalakleet, Crooked Creek, missing. WEATHER SYNOPSIS ’ The barometric pressure was high this omrning from Southeast Alaska eastward to the upper MacKenzie River Valley, the“Crest be- ing 30.20 inches at Fort Smith, elsewhere over the field of observa- tion low barometric pressure prevailed, depressions being centered cver Norton Sound and over the Aleutians. Precipitation hhs been general during the past 24 hours from the Bering Sea easfward to the Richardson Highway and the Prince William Sound region, the | rains being heavy at Anchorage and Cordova, where 120 and 434 inches, respectively, were reported. Foggy weather prevailed over | Southeast Alaska and at Prince Rupert. Temperatures were above normal over the interior and western portions of the Territory. |“SAILING PARTY” | TORRELL iy TO Hundreds of curious trek to his bier, located in a lot next door to | When depression hit Austria four|Topsy’s Roost, renowned as one of the brightest of the gay spots of | chairs and small audiences, felt un-|san Francisco, daily, and since en- tombment Jack has received three proposals of marriage. He states that he guesses that the prospective brides don’t expect him to come up Everyone who had anything to do|alive, From his grave, Loreen sends his In some|best wishes to Art Riendeau, fore-| man at the Alaska Juneau Mine, MAKE HOME HERE / W. L. Torrell, who has, been em- ployed at St. Ann's Hospital for about a year, since he came here trom the States, has decided to lo- | cate permanently in Juneau. Tor- rell, who was married last month to Miss Mary C. Noonan, a nurse at the hospifal, has purchased the James Gillen estate, consisting of threc houses at 52 Gastineau Ave- nue. and all of his old pals at Juneau. Mail will reach him if addressed hazardous enough to draw great crowds to witness an attempt. Krause attributes his ability to ied Alive, Playland. at the Beach,istay underground in a large part San Francisco, California.” 'to his mine work in the A-J. POURING ON ONE SIDE OF MAIN COMPLETEDi | Charges that the St. Mary's Col- The Gastineau Construction Com- lege freshman and varsity football pany finished paving the west side squads turned out for drills before DID GAELS FUDGE? |of the last block of their contract the prescribed “deadline” of Sep- for this year—Main Street between |tember 15 were hurled by the Front Street and Willoughby Ave- |sports editor of the Daily Cali- nue—this afternoon, and made |fornian, student publication of the Ppreparations to pour the- east side |University of California. The two [importam game. — .- JIMMY WANTS BOUT Jimmy McLarnin, dethroned wel- terweight boxing champion, has re- vealed an offer of $25,000 to box Teddy Yarosz, the middleweight titlist, in Boston. McLarnin is a | Vancouver, B. C. boy. Another Northwest fighter, Freddie Steele | of Tacoma, Wash, also wants a bout with Yarosz. - .. KETCHIKAN STARTS DRIVE Under chairmanship of J. W. -— Although the University of Mex- ico has been closed by an official government decree, the Mexican el- even will keep a scheduled en- — >, FIND MONEY ON DOCK Two Ketchikan youths, Conrad 10 and 8 years old, found $590 in cash on a dock and received a $20 reward when they returned it to its right- ful. owner, Lewis Lawson, New Laundry and Cleaner employee. e Daily Empice Want Ads Pay! ber of Commerce has merchant membership in Chamber. Mendenhall, the Ketchikan Cham- embarked on a drive to secure 100 per cent, the | was not glory but bread for which| FROM SPAIN TIES nct make a living on the ground,”| he said. “so I decided to go under-! Py MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Oct. 1. anteed $1500 and a perceniage of| gponer tnan many of the Span- the gate receipts for his expioit. z % quizitors’ to the North Plate is the She. putkite kb, iihhs |128-ton bark Exir Dallen, Which underground work finan i :vantageous, ha has also glcaned a|” ¢ Aboard were Fernando Cardenas, living from the sky, having WDrKEd’Spamsh industrialist, *just sailing” in the days when such jumping was|, . .. 3 ok F | twelve friends and three profession Tairell/ Al - vemadel Jall - thivee fp THey Dub ou; frclnll i_p?m;;ai 1::; bride, and the other two, for rent 11934, and made leisurely P! | as apartments. 5 [islands and Brazilian ports. i | SPECIAL DELIVERY TO DOUG- After a month in Montevideo, they |, 1 g/ Daily at 10:00 am. and 2:30 he was striving. “I found out I could | P AT MONTEVlDEO ground.” He said he had b>n guar-| Although Krause—or L n, as| craft which brought the con- ally ad-| Ciieq into harbor here recently. as a professional parachute-jumper| i "y wife their four children, | Moptitees houses—one for gimself and his | the Canary Islands, the Cape Verde | will visit Buenos Aires, then sail | o5 DY SIS0 B Bd 250 | down the coast and through the yyyppy_ phone 442. adv. | Straits of Magelian to visit the west R | coast of South America. Daily Empire Want Ads Pay! | 2 b -4 | Gastineau Construction Co. GENERAL CONTRACTING [{ E.J. COWLING, President Juneau, Alaska o L HUNTERS! You can make this your headquarters and se as- sured you will bag the limit. A wonderful game seascn in this vicinity has LAl | | ‘ P2 = - .y [} been proven — MAKE US PROVE IT! ' Special weekly or monthly rates to winter guests or hunting parties. Sitka Hot Springs - GODDARD, ALASKA HUNTING BOATING FISHING The Colonel Crzashed Jail Now He’s New Salvation Army Official SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 2—At a reshit of his effort “to crash” jail 43 years ago, young George H.| Davis joined the Salvation Army. | Now, at 61, he becomes director of its world wide evangelistic work. He is Col. George H. Davis, chief secretary for the army’s western | United States territory, who hasl been appointed “International Spir- itual Special” by Gen. Evangeline C. Booth, one of the highest posts® received by an American: officer. His conversion came at 16. It was at a Methodist revival conduct- ed by a Quaker minister. ! ) ‘Boy Preacher’ In 1892 Young Davis turned from the status of a “boy preacher” in Pitts- burgh, Pa., to that of Salvation Army soldier in 1892, he recalls. as direct result of arrest of the army's 4 captain there for preaching on a| _ COL. GEORGE H.:DAVIS | | t s L Ir’s Always Fair Weather . . . . when you bank at the First National and bank by mail! Bad weather, lack of time, or inability to call at the bank in person for any other reason need not interfere with your banking when you bank at this bank. Our by mail service brings our es darectly to you with safety and convenience. nE You can make deposits by mail in both Checking and Savings Accounts. streat corner. | was killed. He died in my arms.” “I thought that as a good Chris-| “I'll Be A Bum” tian I ought to go to jail t0o,” he| says. - “I was afraid the police over the world. might pass me up as I was, so I} buckled on a drum so I couldn’t be a wanderer on missed.” | earth.” It took persistent courage to n:on‘1 victims of riots,” he remembers. weeks ago. ' lus. It went on until one old man'tains. His new work will carry him all “I'll bé a bum,” he laughed, “just the face of ' the His orders call for him first to duct street meetings in those days.| spend three months in New Zea- “We were beaten, pelted and made | land, for which he sailed several “We used to have to lock arms| Salvation Army work seems 1o with our women folk inside a go with his family too. His wife was square and go out into mobs howl- | formerly an’ officer, and one of his ing and Shouting they would kill|two sons is now one of its cap- Try it—do your banking from your own desk! I = The First National LE W (¥4 LA