The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 17, 1936, Page 8

8 DAVE LAMSON ADAPTS BOOK FOR MOVIES Story of Personal Reactions While in Death House to Be Shown on Screen HOLLYWOOD, Cal, April 16. Three years in prison and three trials on a charge of having murd- ered his wife, gave David Lamson, ona-time busin manager of the Stanford University Press, “some- things I want to say and saying them now gives me my chance to be useful, which is what I want more ng else out of life.” n came to Hollywood to be- dapting for the movies his , “We Who Are About To Die,” which he wrote while confined to THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1936 ‘(‘ASBOAT UMPQUA TO LEAVE FOR HOONAH gasboat, which will at a few of the fox farms enroute. - DU The gasboat Umpquah, owned by | SATURDAY SPECIAL J. B. Caro, will sail for Hoonah late| DUTCH SWEET BREAD at the tonight or early tomorrow morning, [ PEERLESS BAKERY —adv and will return by way of Excursion DT SRR Inlet, arriving here Sunday night.| THREE CROWN BRANDY Mr. and Mrs. J. B. 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Behrends Co., Inc. , Juneau'’s Leading Department Store VISIT OUR UPSTAIRS BARGAIN DEPARTMENT probably stop i 4 ? : reeeeeeeeo—=3 tion developed by the Northwest GENE MEYRING LOCATED HERE, PLANE SERVICE | Wellknown mt Flies Irv- ing Plane to Juneau | | from Ketchikan Gene Meyring, wellknown Ju- {neau pilot, who was employed as| airport manager for the PAA last: summer, arrived last night at the| controls of the Wilbur Irving, Inc.,| Lockheed Vega seaplane which w. flown to Ketchikan Irving. Mrs. Irving was a passenger from Ketchikan to Juneau on the return trip, leaving Ketchikan at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon and arriving here in slightly more than two hours | flying time. Pilot Meyring and Gor- | Tuesday by| senger to Juneau aboard the plane |arrived in Ketchikan yesterday on lt‘.‘m North Sea from Seattle. { F. A. Burgy, Chamberlin Weather Strip representative, Mrs. Burgy and child were passengers from Ketchikan to Wrangell, and Harold | Glaser, representing W. J. Lake and Company, was a passenger from | Wrangell to Juneau. 1 In Good Shape | “The Lockheced Vega is in mech-| of ‘:.mically perfect condition,” Pilot | | Meyring stated this morning, “and | | performs as only a Lockheed can | It is powered with a 425 horsepower Wasp motor, it has a cruising apmw} of 125 miles per hour, and its equip- | ment and design include all of the ‘xmprn\'emcnt‘, in seaplane construc- ‘Alr Service, the only Department | | of Commerce- approved airplane re- | | pair shop in the Pacific Northwest.” Graham Is Mechanic Gordon Graham, who will ha | charge of all repair work for Wil- | | bur Irving, Inc, and the Alaska Air | | Transport, started work e s {morning on a “20-hour service check” of the Lockheed Vega. A| complete check of mechanical equip- | Iment at the end of each twenty| hours of flying time, which is stan- dard service in the States, will be a | part of the policy of the flying ser- | vice afforded by Wilbur Irving, Inc., |according to Mr. Irving, manager of the company. | The Lockheed Vega will take off on a flight to Sitka soon after the | arrival of the steamer Yukon with | mail and passengers from the Stat- Mr. Irving said. On Wednesday ! the plane will fly to Chichagof! and Hirst-Chichagof, he stated A new office and headquarters | for Wilbur Irving, Inc., has been opened at 195 South Franklin street, and offers 24-hour service. Pilot Meyring is at present located at address, but expects to move to! partment soon after the arrival | of his wife and 3 -year-old daughter | Joan, who will sail from Senme] on the Yukon. | e | Mrs. Max Love Arrives | in Fairbanks; Husband | Said to be Improving FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April l’7.—i Mrs. Max Love, enroute to Seattle and who left the steamer at Juneau | to fly back here because her hus- | band was ill with pneumonia, arriv- ed safely with Pilot Haakon Christ- !ensen and Copilot Bill Lavery. Mr. Love is much improved. it EXAMINATION FOR STENOGRAPHER, TYPIST | The United States Civil Service| | Commission has announced an open | ! competitive examination for Steno- ! \grflpher and Typist for appom'.ment\ in Washington, D. C. only. Receipt o[ | applications close June 4. | ‘Full information may be obm\ned |at Room 311 Federal and Territorial | Building. | | How to make | Good Coffee ‘ every time | Follow these directions—use rea- | sonable care —and your coffee will | | always be mellow, delicious and sparkling clear. { Use a Drip Coffee Maker 1 Ask your grocer to show you the new model Schilling Drip Maker. It is efficient — modern and inexpensive. Use Schilling Drip Coffee It is specially blended, roasted and ground for the modern drip process. Use a Filter Paper | They are packed in each tin of | Schilling Drip Coffee. Try this triple alliance of special | coffee — drip maker — and filter | paper. The result is delicions! | small son, Sandy don Graham, who was also a pas-| PILOT HOLDEN ARRIVES HERE WITH SEAPLANE (PAA Fairchmown North from Seattle—Four Are Aboard The PAA Fairchild flown fromn Brownsville, 71 seaplane, Texas, by | Pilot Alex Holden, arrived in Ju- neau at 4:45 o'clock yesterday after- .| noon. The plane, carrying four pas- sengers, including Mrs, Holden and L. V. Fernalt, left Seattle at 17:45 o'clock yesterday morning and reached Juneau 8 nours ilying time, with one-hour steps at Alert Bay and Ketchikan, e converted Fairchild plane will e stationed at Juneau this sum- mer, and as soon as installation of | new radio equipment is completed, ment board includes blind-flying panel, and navigation instruments and aids similar to those used on' the largest airliners in the States.| Radio Installation | The new radio equipment no“f being installed in the Fairchild in- \ cludes the very latest type PAA| transmitter and receiver, pamcu-‘ larly adapted to long distance com- munication under cenditions pec- uliar to Alaska, with a selection of four wave bands, one of which, 500 kilocycles, is used by ships at sea | and by U. S. Army Signal Corps| stations. In addition to the 14 radio | stations operated by the PAA, afll of whom are in constant communi- | cation with PAA planes in the air, receiving position reports at regular intervals, the radio equipment will enable its pilot to communicate with Co Guard vessels and Signal Corps stations, many of which maintain constant watch, Direct Starter { Another mechanical improvement is a direct starter, considered greatly superior to the old type inertia starter, which was installed in the Fairchild at PAA shops in Browns- ville, Texas. ‘ Corn Dynamite, Bartow, head of the University’of Iowa Department of Chemistry. The explosive element, known as Inositol, a byproduct of corn starch manufacture, has been known for a v long time, but only recently has a ITY, April 17.—Corn d\!::xsifsacne“ prl(j:duct poten- | Process been developed to extragt | it cheaply. tially superior to Nitro- glycerine, is reported to the American Chemi- cal Society by its President, Edward HANDY o HANDLE? Lym PIA "lt" the Water> Superior to TNT, ls Reported The new expiosive can be used in all forms of blasting operations, The modern bottle that saves space yet holds the same. Shortly after the arrival of the Fairchild plane from Seattle yes- terday, Pilot Bob Ellis, local PAA representative, took off at the con- trols of the plane for a ten-minute flight over the Juneau area. An- other short flight with the newly- arrived Fairchild was made this morning by Pilot Ellis Pilot - Holden reported good fly- ing weather throughout the entire trip from Seattle to Juneau. e ——— - hich will require about 10 days time, will be available for charter and schedule flights. New Equipment The plane is now equipped with a Wasp SC-1 ten-to-one supercharged motor, Pilot Holden stated, and de- slopes 450 horsepower. It is also equipped with a controllable-pitch propeller, and has a cruising speed out 115 per hour. 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