The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 14, 1936, Page 7

Associate Engineer U. S. Army BEORGE B. RICE RETURNS FROM “Everywhere grei Alaska was shown Alaska Inters THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE SATURDAY, MARCH 14 1936. of the Engineer From Flightfo est High at interest in I answered at east 1000000 questions, and at RlP least 999,999 were foolish,” he said T "" G,aclers ] In the future Mr. Rice said he " “ |would open an office as a mer- chandise broker. He will represent Juneau Businessman in Im-|numerous lines, including heating George Bacon Guy Scott, equipment and an engineering serv- proved Health on ice, also he will represent auto-| Louis DeFlorian, Pas- Arrival Home r buildings. ic fire equipment for boats and sengers on Patco ‘ NORTHLAND IN FROM SEATTLE LATE FRIDAY Motorshlp, [: P. Winch, Purser, Sails Early Today for Sitka ] rriving with Mr. Rice last night | “Although T had the most won-! . " Moo 4 e Bacon and Guy F. Scott,| Motorship Northland, E. P. : 4 e g were his sister, Mrs esse i Mo | Winch, Purser, docked in Juneau derful trip of my life,.I am glad| g . 0. 5 Srov e e equah, and Louis DeFlorian, ! Wright, of The Dalles, Oregon, and h | from Seattle at 10:30 last night, and to be back in Juneau and Alaska, \pocior' Jyles Maitland, of Port- | yed -by Mary Joyoe b WAL Lo lTln toinh dae il . feeling much improved in health. ).,y juies is the twin brother of | Glaciers Lodge at Taku, arrived| o . soutix A e 1 have lived in Alaska 23 VearS p.uy pjce, the adopted daughter this afternoon aboard the ? : and enjoyed ev minute of it,| ¢ \p o I Mrs. R & Air Transport Patco sea-| Incoming passengers were as fol- of N and Mrs A LA { lows: From Seattle, G. B. Rice, Sid- and, among other things, when does * ypn. Yoo 5 S Il be Plane piloted by Sheldon Simmons. | ST PIOM Seatls g the king salmon fishing start?” house guests of the Rice’s for a|Scott and DeFlorian are guests at J;{es "M;‘:;;::d clsx\; }I{i Wright, Thus, George B. Rice, former|. .. “ang poth were impressed thc Alaskan Hotel. Bacon immed- |\ = ooy Mrs'm;,i.";l' M‘C’ Councilman and Juneau business jately got in touch with his wife | Y s 3 s Kann, C. man, expressed himself as he step- ; Seattle to Juneau. ton, Bert Elstad, G i ped on the dock last night from SR , the . 8. Coast’ Guard cutter ‘Talt |20 WA JUSC BRRRER in, the No}'thlnnd. retumx.ng hom.o aru-f GIVEN SCOUT BADGE ]‘upocta when the Coast Guard ves- Miss Delma Evans, Marguerite S an extended trip in search of| 4 sel accompanied by the gasboat Brod, Harold Maki, Mrs. H el health, which was obviously suc- | Boy Scout badges were presented Aladkarf - made-‘anemergenty” tHp| rod, Harol aki, Mrs. H. Maki sz o ¥ 51| to 12 tenderfoot scouts at a recent |, BN TROR S8 Taku River| S Winther, S. L. Curtiss, H. W m;; lulo.\mz six weeks of medical CRndle-lighting ceremony in Nome. Lg bx?nmhzzs Bacc: anduseveral Silberred, E. Bolstad. E. E. Kirkpatrick is scoutmaster of by Southeast - Alas a treatment in Portland, Mr. Rice : : |other marooned travelers to Juneau. o e s gorts ¢ o the Nome trooj traveled East via California, visiting i San Francisco, Fresno, Long Beach, Los Angeles, San Diego, Alber- queque, Kansas City, Chicago and La Crosse. Bad Weather Found Much bad weether was encount- ered in the East, Mr. Rice said. Business was obviously picking up | throughout the many places Mr. Rice visited, he said, and the up- trend was especially noticeable in | ner, San Francisco, Kansas City, Chi- cago and La Crosse. Mr. Rice visited the new Bonne- day at 7:45 ville Dam and was escorted through Parsonage to the vast workings through the body. courtesy of a Mr. Britch, Superin- tendent of Steel, and Carl Drus,—adv. Hickey directly - - Harry Kawabe, genvral manager of the Seward Placer Corporation in St gold mine, Mile 19 area, Moose P: stated recently that the mine will Wilson. resume operations about April 15. e BPWC ATTENTION! All club members are requested to meet at the home of Mrs. Beulah after to consider Amendment National Economy Act. Club members please meet Sun- | with the scenery on the trip from ! S, Monday din- 5051, .'A daughter who arrived here last month aboard Mrs. The Patco plane took off for| shortly before and «arrived here about an Taku later. DeFlorian, was born to Mr. Bacon about two weeks ago Ann’s Hospital, Bacon is now a guest of Mrs. Jack | Metcalf, C. B. Arnold, F. B. Wolver- Einar Olsen, N. L. Beers, W. C. Ar- | nold, C. Neilson, Mrs. C. Neilson Miss A. Wilson, George Johnston, and Mrs.\ g Ragnan. Outbound passengers from Juneau were: today | To Seattle—George Scott, Mr. and hour | Mrs. C. H. VanDugteren, Dorothy who fell on the|Green, C. D. Ehling, Mr. and and | noon ice a few days ago, came to Juneau‘Pa‘” Johnson, Carrol Wells, Rich- for medical attention. Unusual News of an unsual accident at| ard Poole, M. S. Rhodes, Dora ‘Rhodefi Ralph Rhoeder, Ruth Lun- | dell, Thais Bayers, Eleanor Gruber, Accident Bullards was brought to Juncau‘came’i"e York, Elisabeth Kaser, Esther Davis, Ida Roller. LOCAL BUSINESS MAN RETURNS; HAS ATTENDED SCHOOL Mac” Metcalfe, of Rice and Al‘leu Company, returned on v.he Nun.hland after spending o\el a in Seattle attending ~pecla! Cemxal Electric Air Con— ditioning School which was held for the heating engineers of the Northwest, sponsored by the Gen- eral Electric Company, with in- structors from the home institution at Schnectady, New York. Mr. Metcalfe stated that the ob- ject of taking this training was to fit him to intelligently offer to completely designed air condition- ing which has become so popular | throughout the States in the past few years. There were 38 engineers from the Northwest who took ad- vantage of the special engineering| course. From 9 to 12 hours per day | 14 days were devoted to in- ction in the special air-condi- g classes. Besides this course, Mr. Metcaife stated that he spent much time in lining up agencies and connec- tions with firms having lines of merchandise in connection with the piumbing, heating and home mod- ernizing equipment in which the firm of Rice and Ahlers Company specializes in. Station KINY to Have Latest of LEWIS DEFENDS 'FLOODS SUBSIDE CHAMPIONSHIP, AS DEATH TOLL |the North. 15 ROUND BOUTRISES IN EAST “worssiics Decisively Outpoints Jock Known lees Lost, 24 1 48 Hours—Ice Sheets McAvoy, English Fight- | er, n New York | NEW YORK, March 14. — Juhn! | Henry Lewis, Arizona negro, wonJ | a decision last night defending the | world light-heavyweight champion-l | McAvoy, English fighter, in fifteen rounds. McAvoy, 28-year-old Lancaster- | shire leatherpusher, won the middle- weight championship from Len Har- vey, and the light heavyweight title of the British Empire by defeating Al Burke. He put up a good fight last night showing the same speed displayed when he whipped Al McCoy of Boston in 10 rounds and later knocked out the durable Babe| Risko in one, after flooring him so| many times ringsiders lost count.| He weighs 170 pounds and stnnds 5 feet 9 inches. Lewis, the champion, kept r)ght on his toes and had the edge of| every round. Lewis won the light-heavy tltlc\ from Bob Olin last October. In nine overweight matches he won six by the kayo way. He is 21 years old, weighs 175, and stands 5 feet, 11 inches high. | | Liberal Vacations PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 14. —Floods in the East, still menacing | many communities, subsided slowlyA after taking a known toll of 24| the people’of Juneau the latest in|ship by decisively outpointing Jock|lives in 48 hours. S Crushing Piers Shrine these active and ruthless killers of Charles Fowler, who 1ecently res' turned to Fairbanks from the upper Chena River, killed several wolves Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania is endangered today by the Susque- hanna River. A portion of Hudson Valley, New York, and scattered parts of New England and maritime Provinces of Canada were also endangered. Eastern Canada marked thirteen deaths, five of them children, and| a forecast of additional rains. In Pennsylvania a mile-long ice| sheet moved down the Hudson | River in the vicinity of Coxsackie, Y., crushing piers and boat| houses 9:30 | WOLVES RAVAGING INTERIOR ALASKA Wolves in large numbers were seen by all the dog mushers who arrived in Fairbanks recently. They report an apparent great increase in the number of wolves in that part of Alaska and a Te-| sumng great menace to game by Dance (Invitational) TONIGHT Masonic Temple p.m. at Methodist by the plane passengers. Mrs. James | For Govt. Employees; attend church in Lingard, who with her husband | To Ketchikan—B. C. Livingston, ‘and two sons, Ray and Roy Clem-|B. F. Kane, H. B. Crewson, Everett MRS. PEARL BURFORD, President. ons, visited Juneau last month, was|R. Erickson, | severely bitten by a sled dog be-'Stel’lin& Tom Stewart. Starts Tomorrow The March of Ti | T Bt ot e lme Stratton and Beers, who has been “THE NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS!" Comes from Printed Page and from Out of the Air D; at the Talking Screen IN THIS ISSUE See Japan—China Searchingly and impartially presenting the Japan-China Crisis in | unusual and thrilling photography. SEE NARCOTICS—Uncle Sam’s Narcotic Squad of G-Men in Action! See The TOWNSEND PLAN Time finds Townsend Clubs in hundreds of communities. Sunday Monday Tuesday MARCH 15 —ALSO——— 22 GRAND PRIZES TO BE AWARDED! FEATURE PROGRAM ; “Chma Seas” | Clark Gable-Jean llarlow Wallace Beery MARCH OF TIME will be shown at the CAPITOL THEATRE each | month. Watch for announcements of play dates! B Pat Harland, Joe | To Wrangell—Andrew Erickson. | To Sitka—Margaret Lundy, Helen |Martin, Mrs. Jenny Kung, Lizzie | Kung, Nick Lawrence, Jacob Lewis, | Josephine Lewis, C. E. Wortman To Petersburg—Oscar Hart ———.—— — BENDER RETURNS HOME Robert W. Bender, Editor and Manager of the Daily Alaska Empire, |returned to Juneau on the North- 1und Mr. Bender was called south b\ the death of his mother in Ta- | coma. Nelson I. Beers, of the firm of |in Petersburg and Ketchikan on | business, returned home aboard the Northland. irect QO O\ll' longing to a traveler who spent the night at Bullards, near Mary Joyce’s Twin Glacier Lodge, as she arrived at Taku about March 1 by gasboat. A dog belonging to Mrs. | Lingard came out on the ice to meet the returning Lingard fam- ily, and was set upon by two other |dogs. Mrs. Lingard dttempted to |separate the fighting animals and was severely bitten about the calf |of one leg. The Lingards are still |at Bullards and DeFlorian expects ;to take medicine and instructions {from a Juneau doctor to the in- ‘jured woman on the return trip. More than twenty feet of snow has fallen this winter in the Taku |area, according to DeFlorian and | Scott, and only the roofs of build- |ings are visible above the drifts. | —— Transcriptions A complete library of electrical transeriptions which will bring reg- ular studio programs by leading artists of the air direct to KINY listeners has been purchased by the local station, according to an an- nouncement made today by C. B. Arnold, Manager, who arrived in Juneau on the Northland, follow- ing an extended business trip to Seattle. The programs that KINY will offer through this new acquisition are all produced in regular large radio studios and are accompanied with proper orchestrations and the radio technique that makes them far superior to ordinary records, aceording to Mr. Arnold. More than 1,000 transcriptions have been pur- chased and new ones will arrive from time to time. A wide arnge of programs are included, varying from classical to comedy, and orchestras to various dramatic forms. s GOES OUT ON PATROL The United States Coast Guard cutter Tallapoosa, commanded by Lieut. Miles Imlay, sailed early this morning on a four or five-day patrol of halibut areas. —_———— ATTENTION CARPENTERS There will be an important spec- ial meeting of Carpenters Local Number 1944 at the I. O. O. F.| Hall Monday night, March 16th, starting at 8 o'clock. All members are urged to attend. —adv. ———— ' SPEND WHERE YOU MAKE IT! President Signs. Bill WASHINGTON, March 14 — President Roosevelt has signed into| the law, the bills providing for more liberal vacations and new sick leave | allowances for Federal employees. et OLD RAILROAD MAN DIES AT - CORDOVA Edward Pike, 71, veteran Copper | River and. Northwestern. Railway employee, died recently in Cordova.| The deceased had his first Alaska Railroading experience at Nome when he was employed during the construction of the Seward Pcnin-' sula road in 1905. In 1909 he went | to Cordova and was brakeman on the work trains. In later years he has been a conductor on the Copper | River and Northwestern. | RS a5 ) M WORTMAN RETURNS HOME C. E. Wortman, Sitka drug store owner, who has been in Juneau for several days to attend a meet- ing of the Pioneers' Home Board,‘ sailed for Sitka on the Northland.| S e REGISTRATIONS MOUNT A total of 104 persons have regis- tered for the municipal election to be held April 7, City Clerk A. W. Henning said today. Those who voted last year need not re-register. e e NOTICE | All Elks are requested to be pres- ent at 1:30 o'clock in Elks' Hall tomorrow afternoon, to attend fun- | eral of John R. Silva. —adv. R SIIOP IN ‘UNEAD. FIRST' | THREE Bl RUGS New Axminster IMPORTANT! SPECIAL MEETING of the JUNEAU MINE WORKERS' ASSOCIATION will be held MONDAY NIGHT—MARCH 16 AT 7 O'CLOCK A. B. HALL Every member is urged to attend this EXTRA SPECIAL meeting! DEPARTMENTS CRAMMED FULL OF BRAND NEW SPRING MERCHANDISE, PERSONALLY SELECTED, AND OFFERED TO YOU AT RIGHT {RICES! MEN’S WEAR . In New Spring Styles! 1 | i 16 17 Room Size, 6'x9’ $22.50 Up Room Size, 7'6"x9’ $22.50 Up Room Size, 8'3"x10'6" . $32.50 Up Room Size, 9'x12' ... $29.75 Up RETLOW RUG CUSHIONS in all sizes HALL or STAIR CARPET RUNNERS—27-inch $1.65-$1.75 per yard COCOA DOOR MATS—$1.95 BISSELL’S CARPET SWEEPERS $4.50 to $6.00 - BEE VACUUM CLEANERS—$35.00 Congoleum Rugs RUGS, 6'x9 RUGS, 7'6"x9’ . 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