The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 16, 1936, Page 2

it 0 OO R A [ A 3 E THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JAN. 16, 1936. A DO LTI - 3] LUNCHEON SILK WINDSOR BATH MATS “Juner E"“““||||||||||||m||lmilmmfll"Hii WCAIN TELLS OF KETCHIKAN PWA PROJECT Candidate for Attorney- General Also Praises Utilities Ownership Harry G. McCain, Ketcmkan at- torney and Republican candidate for Attorney-General in the forth- coming election, left Juneau en- rcute for Ketchikan on the Vie- toria, after a short business trip here in the interests of the Alaska Transportation Company Declaring business conditions in the First City to be increasingly good, Mr. McCain was lavish in praise of the recently acquired pub- lic ownership of utilities. Shows Projit “For six months we have owned er, telephone and power he said, “and during that . time have made a net profit of $14,- ‘000 more than the same ccncern did under private owne ip in the same six months the previous year At the same time b been a noticeable reduction in rates to the consumer, and considerabie sav- I DIDN'T SLEEP A WINK--- WHAT'LL Og CASSY DO T ME WHEN HE GITS OFFA TH' BOAT 772 LLAR — FRIDAY ~nd SATURDAY — DAMASK TABLE CLOTHS, 64x90 . BREAKFAST CLOTHS, 52 in. ... Bl MERCERIZED TABLE DAMASK, 2 yards STAMPED LINEN BUFFET SETS and BUREAU SCARFS, 3 for : : ek e e WOMEN'S WRAP-AROUND HOUSE APRONS . RAYON SATIN—PINK and BLUE, 4 yards . SHORT LENGTHS CRETONNE, 5 yards ... CURTAIN SCRIMS, 5 yards ROLLER TOWELS; 2for . ... BATH TOWELS—22x44, 3 for CHILDREN'S HOSE. 5 pair WOMEN'S MESH HOSE.: 4 pair .. - ... CHILDREN'S RAYON PAJAMAS, 2 for . 46 IN. OILCLOTH., 6 yards for 12 IN. SHELFCLOTH, 12 yards WOMEN'S PRINT PAJAMAS COTTAGE SETS, 2 sets for B. M. Behrends Co., Inc. 15000 and ran it continuously at| a profit. _BARNEY GOOGLE AND SPARK PLUG BAUS $1.00 _$1.00 _$1.00 $1.00 ey TIES, 4 for w's Leading Department Store” IlIIIIIII_|IIIIllmillIllIIlIIIlIIIIIlIIIlIIIlIIlHIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllulllllfllulllllmlllllfi FORMER VALDEZ RESIDENT DIES 1w to the taxpayer, since care of street lights and high pressure wa- er mains, formerly incumbent upon the city, is now assumed by the public utilities. For the year ending December 31, the plant earned $140,000--$40,000 more than has ever been collected in taxes in Ketchikan.” | Walter T. Stewart is in charge of | the project, according to Mr. Mr-\ Cain. Stewart, formerly of Valdez, yg,..:. was for 15 years manager of the, Willlam A, Dolan, of U. S. utility plant there, which was con- = ucted to serve a population of | Dept. Of J}IS(ICC, Passes Away in Tacoma Street Proposal | TACOMA, Wash, Jan. 16.—Wil- The First City, according to Mr.|liam A. Dolan, 76, retired employe McCain, is one of the few in the of the United States Department of United States which is in a posi- Justice, dled in the hospital here tion to ask for a PWA grant and | Wednesday. furnish its own 55 per cent with-; A resident of Alaska since 1897, out accepting a government loan.)Mr. Dolan came to Tacoma four Hetchikan has asked for a 45 per | months ago. He was a member of the cent grant on a $150,000 project to Eiks Lodge of Anchorage and the construct permanent streets. Local | Knights of Pythias, Truckee, Cal. Lanks will furnish the 55 per cent| Survivors include his widow, Jessie without interest. |Mary, of Tacoma; three sons, a "It is our public utilities which daughter, and four grandchildren. bave made this possible,” said Mr.. Two sons live in San Diego. The McCain. “We have thousands of |third, James M., lives in'Valdez, as dollers of the sinking fund of the|does also his daughter, Mrs. Anna utilities in the Ketehikan banks;|Mae Thomas, hence there is ample security for! - e their investment.” MRS. HOOKER RECOVERED Mr. McCain expects to return to Junczau for a course of informal talks during the campaign. SHOP IN JUNEAU! : Mrs. Katherine Hooker, who has been 4ll in St. Ann’s, has returned {to her home in an improved condi- i tion, m|||munm|||||1|i|i|1nuhm||m&||i||nu|||u|iu||||||fi|i|||i|mim|% IO LGRS o) T e WILEY While preparations were being made for the stratosphere flight, Wiley Post and Frank Phillips, his financial backer, decided the world best could be awakened to the pos- sibilities of stratosphere flying if the New York in the substratosphere at ! an extremely high rate of speed. | From then on, all plans were laid around this idea, which in itsel | furned out to be a mistake, for it | automatically branded as a failura any flight which ended short of this | goal. 2 In all of his flights Wiley proved | without doubt to thinking persons that the stratosphere is the place for | all future long-distance flying. Let us look at the record. When | | Wiley flew from Los Angeles on tha‘ morning of last March 15 he landed | at Cleveland, (s, seven hours and |19 minutes la.er. This is a distance of 2,045 miles, which shows an aver- | | 3ge speed of 285 miles an hour. | Doubled Speed But when he decided it was n’e- cessary to land at Cleveland, Pox already was 100 miles east of there at about 40,000 feet altitude. H From that time it was an hour |and 15 minutes before he actually landed on the field, which would | fix his average speed from the start to a point over his final destination at around 340 miles an hour. This was accomplished with an airplane eight years old in design, with a normal cruising speed at sea level of 150 miles an hour, a speed ‘probahly stepped up to 170 miles an hour by dropping the landing gear. Simply by going up to 40,000 feet E | Wiley proved definitely the speed of a plane can be more than doubled. Let us see just what this means. % [t enables the craft to fly above all ordinary storms and cloud banks, § reducing the weather problem. At the worst it would be necessary only to climb through bad weather at € the start of a flight and descend through it near the destination. Ninety-five per cent of the flying could be done in clear weather. Since the perfection of blind, or instrument flying, weather no long er holds transport aircraft on the ground. Ice is the only serious diffi- culty now preventing 100 percent schedules. Since ice forms on an airplane only |at temperatures of 30 to 34 degrees Fahrenheit, except under extraordi- nary conditions which do not caus> serious trouble, there is no danger of ice at stratosphere levels, Ships would remain in cloud banks in lower levels such a short time ice couid | cause no serious trouble. In addition, de-icers have been perfected so aircraft could, witn safety, pull through ice-forming con- ditions until a non-icing area was reached. Ship Thoroughly Groomed Probably the most important fac- | | tor for the future of air transporta- | !tion is the fact that to fly a given |distance an airplane and its engine | | would be operated only half as long. | This will cut costs nearly in half, | with the resultant saving to the user of the service. | | In case of over-water flying the | |hazard will be greatly reduced in that the time spent away from land | will be cut in half. | Wiley encountered regrettable and | | unfiecessary dif ficulties through | | these significant months. | j When he was poised for his firsi | jattempt to fly from Burbank, Cal., | to'New York last February 22, we all | thought his equipment was in per- | fect condition. For months the country’s finest en- gineers and mechanics had groomed the ship, going over every bolt, nut and cotter key. Difficulties encountered prior to that time had been of a minor na- ture. They were to be expected in had been overcome. Test flights had proved to the satisfaction of every- one that the Winnie Mae was ready would carry her master to New York in eight hours or less. But the next difficulty was not surrounded by ordinary circumstanc- | es. Less than an hour after his take- off, after dropping his landing gear Wiley was down on Muroc Lake, lucky to be alive. It was hard to believe anyone | would stoop so low as to put emery . in the ship’s engine. Why it was done (remains a profound mystery. It By BILLY RKER - | (Copyright, 1936, By the Associated Press) ship were flown from Los Angeles to | any -such research work, but they| |and climbing rapidly to 40.000 feet, | POST ELLAN —= ofill #/g STRATOSPHERE Aging Winnie Mae Doubles Her Speed Before each of Wil weeks of scient more tedious by the cor Wiley spent most of those d& ic conditioning o ing of a fast plane without landing gear, with the windshield entireiy covered with oil, obscuring vision, | and with a ton of highly inflam- mable gasoline around his neck. Thut was no sport and nothing anyon: with a love of life would enjoy periencing. Other Efforts The forced landing spurred Wiley on. When we had determined by mi- croscopic analysis that emery had been placed in thé engine, Wiley was more set than ever on continu- ing his periments. His backer, Phillips, promise stay with him as long as Wil to continue, and in less th: weeks he was ready again His forced landing at Cleveland on March 15 w we have determ- ined, a direct result of the original tampering. Post’s declaration that he ran out of oxygen due simply to his dislike of an “alibi” he could not at the time prove. It was some time before Wiley de- termined to try again. The constant labeling of his flights as “failures” brought discouragement. However, he did try again, on April 15, and this time the much repaired external supercharger went to pieces some- where over Ohio, and Wiley was again forced down, this at Lafayette, Ind. Still, he had aver aged more than 300 miles an hour. Feeling the trip simply had to be completed, Wiley took off again on June 15, after much reconditioning work on the aged Winnie Mae. His ship this time developed a bad oil leak while he was over the Mis: sippi valley. Wiley throttled back h motor and returned to Wichita, Kas, where he knew the weather was clear. By this time the Winfie Mae was in bad shape. She had undergonc four skid landings and, engine and 21, had taken severe beatings she never was intended to survive. Phil- lips was willing to continue and of- fered unlimited backing, but Wiley declined to go ahead with the Win- nie Mae. I think he used very good judgment. Next — Scientific Kesults or the Substratosphere Flights, — e |BP.W.C. DINNER IS AT be the featured speaker at Monday night dinner of the Ju- neau Business and Professional Women’s Club, to be held at 6:30 |in the Terminal Cafe, Mrs. R. R Hermann, Toastmistress. A musical program, featuring the initial appearance of the BP.W.C. quartet, will also be offered. Those wishing to attend are ask- ed to communicate at once with s forced Wiley to an emergency land- Miss Anita Garnick. v Post’s four hops in the stratosphere were ued strain put on the grand old ship. | TERMINAL MONDAY and,” under ordinary circumstances, | | | Judge George F. Alexander will| the! { the Winnie Mae, a task made TWILIGHT HOUR RECITAL GIVEN SUNDAY AT 1 { Holy Trinity Cathedral Of-l fers Program Featuring ! Loia Mae Alexander | | i | | i A Twilight Hour Recital, featur- | ing Lola Mae weli- | known vocalist, and Helen Torkel-! son, pianist, will be offered Sunday afternoon at 4:15 o'clock in Holy athedral, it was announc- y Crystal Snow Jenne, Director of the Cathedral Choir. Although there will be no charge for the recital, wi anyone desiring to attend, there will be a free will offering for the bene- fit of the pipe organ fund. Commenting on the program, Mrs. Jenne said today: “We have chosen the beautiful Twilight Hour for our recitals for two reasons. First, it is the hour when, weary of the day and its disappointments, one would look for such inspiration as this recital can offer. Secondly, the theatre matinee is over and there are forty-five minutes free for spiritual refreshment before we return to the world with its bustle and competition.” In the opinion of Mrs. Jenne, “Those who miss the rich mellow- ness of Mrs. Alexander’s voice in her fine interpretation of the “Lost Chord” will have lost something | they can never replace. The pro- gram, while brief, will, in my opin- ion, be one of the best in which we have been fortunate to hear this talented singer.” ' .- — Gordova Schools Reported Gloged Fifty Per Cent of Children Il at Home with Severe Colds CORDOVA, Alaska, Jan. 16— Owing to 50 per cent of the pupils being absent ' with colds, public schools have been closed. There |are no signs of scarlet fever and |the action in closing the schools| was merely precautionary. — e The tin soldiers that Mayor Sper- | ber of Hersbruck, Germany, has been making since 1910 now num- | ’her 26,000 and weigh 600 pounds. T DECLAR TER GRACIOVS, GOOGLE--YORE TONGUE WAGS LAK' HIT WUZ HUONG PLUMB (N TH' MIDOLE AN' 'PEARS TER WABBLE AT B0OTH ENDS-- TAKE A LEETLE SWALLER ©' THIS MOUNTING DEW-- HIT'LL MAKE YE FEEL EZ CAM AN' PEACEABLE X €Z SKWM’ MILK=--~ By BILLIE DE BECK WHERE'S THAT GUY DeCASSY? 'Ll PULL HIS EARS OFF ! MISS BRISTOL, of Bellingham, Washington, will be- come the bride of Mr. J. Peterson, cdist parsonage. U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) Forecas’ for juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4 p.m., January 16: Cloudy tonight and Friday, probably snow, warmer tonight; moderate east and southeast winds. LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Veiccity Weather 4 pm. yesty 20.77 18 49 SE 8 Pt. Cldy 4 am. today 29.85 19 53 s 3 Cldy Noon today 29.74 22 64 s 4 CIdy CABLE AND KADIO REPORTS YESTERDAY | TODAY Highest 4pm. | Lowestdam. 4am. Precip. 4a.m. Station temp. temp. | temp. temp. velocity 24hrs. Wedthe - Anchorage 4 2 -11 -8 3 0 ~Clear Barrow -20 -20 -24 -12 26 0 Cldy Nome 6 -2 -6 -10 4 0 Clear Bethel -14 -14 -16 -16 6 0 Clear Fairbanks -12 -12 -38 -38 4 02 Clear Dawson -26 -26 -30 -28 4 — Clear St. Paul 8 8 4 4 22 .01 Cldy Dutch Harbor 24 24 22 24 8 04 Snow Kodiak 30 26 24 24 4 Trace Cldy Cordova 34 32 28 28 6 42 Clear Juneau 20 18 16 19 3 0 Cldy Sitka 34 = 20 = — 0 — Ketchikan 32 30 20 20 4 20 _Clear Prince Rupert 34 34 22 30 4 0 Clear Edmonton -6 -14 -28 -24 4 01 . Cldy Seattle 50 48 36 38 4 10 Cldy Portland 50 48 4 44 4 20 ~Cldy San Francisco 60 56 | 54 54 20 22 Pt Cldy New York .54 44 38 38 38 72 Pt Cldy Washington 58 40 36 36 8 58 Pt Cldy WEATHER CONDITIONS AT 8 A. M. Juneau Airport, cloudy, temperature 12; Taku Pass, partly cloudy, -8, Whitehorse, clear, -15; Burwash Landing, cloudy, -22; Radioville, snowing, 27; Cordova, clear, 28; Chitina, clear, -21; McCarthy, clear, -12; Anchorage, clear, -4; Nenana, clear, -30; Fairbanks, clear, -40; Hot Springs, clear, -16; Tanana, c'ear, -19; Ruby, clear, -32; Nulato, clear, -27; Kaltag, clear, -25; Unalakleet, clear, 40; Flat, clear, -41. WEATHER SYNOPSIS Low barometric pressure contnued today over the northeastern portion of the North Pacific Ocean, there being two storm centers, one over the northern portion of the Gul fand the second storm area centered near Vancouver Island. High barometric pressure pre- vailed over the Alaskan Arctic coast and over the MacKenzie River Valley. Local snows were reported yesterday over the interior, fol- Jowed by fair weather today. Snow flurries were also reported along the coast early this morning between Cordova, Juneau, and Radio- ville. Cold weather was general today throughout the greater portion of Alaska. ciate. Miss Bessie Powers, well- mown Juneau girl, will be brides- maid and Harold Stephenson will ict as best man. The bride arrives from her Bel- lingham home on the motorship TOWED SUNDAY e oont pROGRAM “Fom Wachmeron tome. | WINS APPROVAL from Washington Home | —Groom Well Known | | ~ WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.--Presi- dent Roosevelt, Congressional lead- ers and agricultural experts are agreed on a substitute farm program for the AAA under existing soil erosion and soil conservation laws. B e TS SPEND WHERE YOU MAKE IT! Miss Mildred Bristol, formerly popular Royal Blue Cab driver, next Sunday evening at the Meth- The Rev. O. L. Kendall will of- WATCH THE TERMINAL SATURDAY NIGHT FR Fruits and Vegetables ——ALWAYS! 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