The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 1, 1936, Page 2

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, JUNE 1, 193 6. |IlIIIIIHIIll|lllllllllll|||||||||I||||I|I|I|III|IIH||IIIIIII||m|Illllmmfllllllillmmllll!IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlh IIIIIIIIIIIHIIIHHHIHIIIIIIIIIIIHmIllII!lHII“III|IIIIlMIIHIIIIHl‘ SUPREME c 0 U R]’ National Cotton Week June 1 to 6 . “Everybody Uses Cotton”... There are so many good common -sense reasons for the use of cottons. 1 fully, are economica the many items included in this Here are a few Cotton Sale of Broadcloth, Pigue, Seersuck- er, plain and printed, 35¢ yd. Lawn Dimity Percale 25¢ yard Cretonne, 3 5cto 5(0 yard Curtains, Ruffled $1.50 pair Panels, $1.00 each Bedspreads, Twin and Double, $2. 50 and $3.95 House Lining, 12 yds., $1.00 Cheesecloth, 3 yds., 25¢ Huck Towels, 25¢ each JUST ARRIVED! Women’s White Cotton Watfle Cloth COATS aml SKIRTS—$7.50 CULOTTES . .. Play Suits and Slacks —$2.50 B.M.BEHRENDS CO.,Inc. "Tuneau’s Leading The fact that they launder beauti- 1, cool and lovely in appearance. i e Pnllow Cases, Best Ou Sheets, Best Quality, 81x108, $l 95 Ticking, 25¢ and 40c yard Turkish Towels 25¢, 35¢, 50¢, 75¢, $1.00 each Department Store” VISIT OUR UPSTAIRS BARGAIN DEPARTMENT 'lmlumumumumm||ummmlu||||||luuuuuuuu||uluuuuuululuuunnu||ummmmmmmnmnmlmmlmnummluummmnmmmmmuunu STROECKER IS HERE ENROUTE T0 SOUTHLAND Banker of Fairbanks Says Ail Mail Service Is 2+ of Commerce is working hard to ure air mail contracts for the ter for an air base at Fair- banks, and for flood control in the ! muirbanks area, he said, but air me 1 service is considered of su- preme importance. Many new homes are being buiit in Fairbanks, Mr. Stroecker report- ed, and there is a shortage of resi- dential accommodations. The Nor- dale Hotel has made considerable improvements in preparation for a large tourist season, he said. The new building occupied by the Pirst National Bank, completed last SHERMAN LEAVE FOR SOUTH; ARE GUESTS AT | MANY SOCIAL AFFAIRS K. Sheldon Jr., B. B. Bradley, | | After a busy social week in Ju- f’;‘:&;Fé;figrogufiszgfl;hgmzii“e““ as the guests of Mrs. Sher- W. B. Madland, Seattle; Arthur man's parents, Judge and Mus. Treter, Petersbutg; P. Skrog, Seat- George F. Alexander, Mr. and Mrs. {le: S. E. Robbins, W. J. Jones, Mil- | Dean Sherman left for Seattle on dred Scott, Nome: Catherine Dien- board the Alaska. or, Nome: Blanche Torgerson, Flat; | Saturday, Mr. and Mrs. Sherman s H. Stroecker, Pairbanks; S. B. !and a group of their friends were e & 0 80 v %0000 00 . A" THE HOTELS o ® 0 6 P =9 00 00 00O Trites, Juneau. guests of Judge Alexander aboard THROWS OUTN. Y. MINIMUM WAGE Flve to Four Rulmg Holds Law Violates Right of Contract ‘WASHINGTON, June 1.—The Su- | preme Court, which ruled against Federal efforts toward guarantee- ing minimum wages in the NRA and Guffey Coal Bill cases, today | invalidated the New York State !law providing minimum wages for NEW HANGAR -TO BE BUII.Ti Construction Work Started y for Alaska Air Transport Work was started today on the construction of a new hangar for the Alaska Air Transport. The building formerly occupied by the Juneau Motors shop on the Com- emrcial Dock will be remodelled into a hangar 50 by 100 feet, which will accommodate five planes; and all piling and decking will be re- placed by new material. The side | women on ground that it violated | the individual freedom of contract.| It was a five to four decision. Chief | | Justice Hughes ruled with the mi- | | nority. | Briefs urging the court to uphold’ |the law were submitted by Ohio, | Connecticult, Illinois, Massachu- | setts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, and Rhode Island, all of ,which| have similar laws. Washington and | |19 other states also have similar, | laws. | The action came from the appeal |from the New York law which| fixed the minimum wage for wo- | | men laundry workers at $12.40 a week, and which was enacted by the Legislature and signed by Gov- | ernor Lehman m 1933. The majority opinon held the | “right to make contracts must not be violated.” The particular case at issue chal- lenged Joseph Tipaldo of Brooklyn, laundry manager, who had been in- | dioted for forgery in an alleged at-| tempt to conceal violation of the law e | D GOING SOUTH Mrs. G. H. Walmsley and her (son George are leaving on the Aleutian for a visit with relatives in and around Seattle. The trav- lelers expect to be gone until Sep- tember. - e - RHODE BACK Deputy Game Warden Clarence Rhode of the Alaska Game Com- mission returned to Juneau Satur- day after two weeks patrol in Southeast Alaska. He came in on the Grizaly Bear. . INSPECTION TRIP Assistant Regional Forester Well- man Holbrook and Administrative Assistant Charles G. Burdick were looking over work out the highway »day, particularly the Auk Beach village recreation center where con- siderable damage was done when some one started a fire on the newly laid slate floor in the log shelter house. e GO SOUTH TO VIal'l‘ Misses Jean Boyer, graduate of Juneau High School, class of 1936, and Bernice Lovejoy, Jayhi stu- dent, are southbound passengers on the steamer Princess Louise. They are enroute to Seattle, where they will spend the summer with rela- Itives in Puget Sound cities. — e SISTER PHILLIPA LEAVES | Sister Phillipa wWho has been a | visitor in Juneau for the past week, |left for Skegway on the Alaska Sat- | urday. Sister Phillipa came to Ju- neau as chaperon for a number of children who returned to their homes for summer vacation from | Pious the Tenth Mission at Skag- | way. —— v —— SISTERS GO SOUTH Sister Mary Modeste and Sister 1 Mary Agnes, of the St. Ann's Hospi- | tal staff, sailed on the Princess Lou- ise for summer vacations in Victor- ia, B. C. — ee— Sister Rosa Linda, who has been receiving surgical treatment at St. | Ann’s Hospital, left on the steamer | Alaska for Skagway. e ee— | John Cain who was receiving medical attention at St. Ann's Hos- pital is going home . today. a broken collar bone was admitted to St. Ann’s Hospital for treatment yesterday aftermoon. SN & N ENTERS HOSPITAL Mrs. C. F. Schaefer was admitted | 'be made into a repair shop with | of the building facing the Channel will be supported by a truss and will have sliding doors to allow | planes to pass in and out. A ramp 20 by 60 feet will be moored in front of the dock and planes will be drawn onto it pre- paratory to being hoisted to the (dock by a mechanical lift. A thhv,y-l foot mast with a long boom at-| |tached will be used, together with | ‘a new type of electrical hoist cap- able of lifting 4,000 pounds, for lifting the planes from the ramp to the hangar. An underground gas tank with 'pump and meter will be installed, and new heating equipment will be installed in the main hangar. One corner of the building will Gordon Graham, licensed aviation mechanic, in charge. Repair equip- | ment will include lathes, saws and . welding outfit owned by Grahami The room formerly occupied by the Juneau Motors office will be | 'occupied by the Alaska Air Trans-| port office and radio room. | The new hangar, which will be| operated in addition to present facilities of the Alaska Air Trans- — — ——— U. S. DEPARTMEN7: O AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. 8. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4 p. m., June 1: Generally fair tonight and Tuesday; moderate southerly winds. LOCAL DATA Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity = Weathes 29.84 9 28 w 12 Clear 20.86 57 69 s 5 Clear 29191 65 52. SE Clear 15 CABLE AND EADIO REPORTS YESTERDAY TODAY Highest 4p.m. | Lowest4dam. 4a.m. Precip. am. temp. temp. | temp. temp. velocity 24hrs. Weathcs 56 — 40 8 54 54 72 80 44 48 46 52 79 73 66 58 84 56 64 62 68 6 ‘Time 4 p.m. yest'y 4 am. today Noon today Station Anchorage Barrow Nome Bethel Fairbanks Dawson 8t. Paul Dutch Harbor Kodiak Cordova Juneau Sitka Ketchikan Prince Rupert Edmonton Seattle Portland San Francisco New York ‘Washington 36 48 54 70 80 42 44 44 50 79 58 58 82 56 62 58 66 70 | Cldy Clear Pt. Cldy Clear Cldy Cldy Cldy Clear Rain Clear Cldy Cldy . Cldy Cldy Rain . Cldy . Cldy Clear ERY Pt. 0 0 0 0 0 9 g 0 22 m Trace Trace Q Eowow | o 52 54 b6 62 64 PO PO cE2B8ocBooe oo WEATHER CONPITIONS AT 8 A. M. Ketchikan, cloudy, temperature, 53; Craig, cloudy, 56; Wrangell, cloudy, 52; Sitka, partly cloudy, 53; Radioville, cloudy; Skagway, clear, 52; Soapstone Point, partly cloudy, 60; Yakutat, clear, 60; Cordova, cloudy, 47; Chitina, cloudy, 50; McCarthy, clear, 50; Portage, cloudy, 50; Anchorage, clear, 49; Fairbanks, cloudy, 58; Hot Springs, clear, 60; Tanana, partly cloudy, 58; Ruby, partly cloudy, 52; Nulato, part- 1y cloudy, 62; Kaltag, partly cloud: 4; Unalakleet, Nenana, missing; Crooked Creek, clear, 48; Flat, clear, 54. WEATHER SYNOPSIS High barometric pressure prevailed this morning from the Al- askan Arctic coast southeastward to northern Alberta 'while' low pressure prevailed over the North Pacific Ocean in the vicinity of the Aleutians. Precipitation was reported yesterday at Ketchikan, Prince Rupert and Kodiak, elsewhzre over the field of observation generally fair weather prevalled S Basn oo o o Gus Donoff, who is suffering with | port, will house the Alaska Alr‘ Transport Stinson seaplane Patco, | a new Bellanca seaplane which is| scheduled to arrive here from Se- | attle within a few days, the Klemm | Skylark seaplane owned by the Ju- | A ‘party of young people: accom- neau Flying Club, the Aeronca sea- :pumer; va b et LDY;.HK hdach. plarie reperiily ‘puiohased by the er, and the Rev. John A. Glasse Grsmesu Phing (DKL, snd ml\wm leave Juneau early tomorrow yo;o:gupc seaplane owried by A. morning for Tee Harbor where they L Y will board the mNsionary boat The bullding is owned by T. A.-{pynceton for Sitka to attend the Morgan, and the contract for im- |y, g people’s Conference which provements amounting to a cost of | y,eging tnere on Thursday, and will $3,000 was awarded to Jake Crop- contitiue dor oxé Welk. ley, whose pile driver was in posi- tion in front of the building this Members of the First Presbyterian morning. Improvements are to be ChUrch who plan to attend the con- completed in 18 days. ference are Miss Minnie Brown of | il R ‘Douglas, Mrs. Hazel P(’l;‘v;sun of Ju-| , AR 3 neau, and Mr. and rs. James | Bt s rRip| Goenett. It has not yet been def-| iy intely decided what members of the Dr. W. W. Council, Well known intely decided what members of the | sportsman, was not to be outdone gty | CONFERENCE PARTY LEAVES TOMORROW { will attend the conference. The conference delegates will go by way of Skagway and Haines where they will gather delegates from these towns. The party will return about June 12, the Rev .Glasse announced. e PLANE OFF TO ATLIN The North Canada Air Express Pilgrim plane piloted by L. F. Barr left Juneau today for Atlin with two passengers, E. Drexler and Leonard Delna, Juneau photograph- er and a quantity of freight . e BABY GIRL BORN Mrs. John R. Blythe gave birth to a baby girl at St. Ann’s Hospital Sunday evening at 7 o'clock. The infant weighed 8 pounds and 2 ounces. by the Juneauites who went fish- ing over the week end, so, accom- ' panied by Ben L. Grimes, Jr., San- itary Engineer, he went to Tee Har- bor at 1 o'clock Sunday morning. Returning later in the day Dr. Council proudly showed three sal- mon of not mean weight. Mr. Grimes was the proud possessor of one salmon. - — |DR. ENSCH, FAMILY, ‘ GOING TO PETERSBURG Dr. Leon Ensch and family are leaving for Petersburg shortly, where they expect to locate for the summer, returning to Juneau in the fall for the autumn term of school. Dr. Ensch is a former resident of Petersburg, having re- sided there for two years before moving to Juneau via Fairbanks. | > LYMAN SNOW GOES TO SEATTLE ON LOUISE Local Unio June i, NOMINATION Lyman Snow, son of M. A. Snow, who has been in Juneau for the past two years, attending the high school here, left for Seattle yester- day on the Princess Louise. Lyman will continue his high school course at the West Seattle High where he will enter this fall as a junior. He will also continue his musical stu- dies in Seattle, both voeal and in- strumental. | e - I TEACHERS FLY HMERE | IMPORTANT MEETING! United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America n No. 1944 1 0. 0. F. Hall, TONIGHT, OF OFFICERS AND ALL MEMBERS URGED TO ATTEND Blanche Torgerson, Territorial A school teacher at Flat, Mildred Scott and Catherine Diener, Ter- ritorial school teachers at Nome, ,arrived here yesterday from Fair- banks aboard the PAA Lockheed | Electra travsport plane flown by ! the Jacobi on a fishing trip at the|to St. Ann's Hospital this morning. S o e, ALASKAN Paramount Issue Pilots S. E. DRobbins and W. J. Several new miaing Geveiopme are under way in the Interior, ac cording to E. H. Stroecker, President of the First National Bank of Fair- banks, who arrived here on the PAA Lockheed Electra from Fairbanks Mr. Stroecker, who will sail for Seattle on the Aleutian, enroute to Portland for medical treatment, re- ported that a mew dredge, brought down the Yukon river, has been in- gtalled in the Circle district by the Goal Creek Mining Company. Ol- son and Company are conducting stripping operations preparatory to installing a drag line on ground in the Circle district, with the largest caterpillar tractor ever brought intc the Interior and will bring in a dredge this summer, Mr. Stroecker said. Olson and Company are alsc prespecting on Dome Creek, in the Livengood recording district. with the intention of installing a dredge in that area, and will start opera- tiens with a drag line on Wolf Creek on the Fairbanks district this sum- mer. . For Air Mail ' ‘Streecker stressed the impor- hnoe of securing air mail service September, contains air condition- ng equipment and the newest and most modern lighting Tixtures, cages and tounters available, Mr. Stro- ecker said. B — LARGE CROWD AND DANCE The Memorial Dance at the Odd Fellows Hall Saturday night at- tracted a large crowd of Scamndinav- ian and American dance patrons, who thoroughly enjoyed the strains of Russian Scandinavian and Amer- ican music furnished by the Krane- Peterson orchestra. --e GASBOAT MOVED The gasboat Arrow, owned by George McAllister, was moved from he lower City float to the ferry ‘loat yesterday. it MISS OLSON ENROUTE SOUTH Miss Eima Olson, member of the faculty of the Juneau schools, is a passenger aboard the steamer Al- aska on the southbound voyage to Seattle. Miss Olson plans to at- tend the San Francisco Teachers’ College, following which she will spend the remainder of her vacation o Fairbanks, The Fairbanks Cham- at her home. L. Rankin, City; Wayne Painter, end of Marmion Island. Sherman, | Seattle; Phil Whitihg, Seattle; C.| member of the Beaumont and Hoh- Maddox, City; C. Ervin Bagley, {man staff, advertising agency for Kensington; G. W. Samples, Hoon- | the Alaska Steamship Co. caught ah; M. R. Cortos, Juneau; F. N.| a 40-pound king salmon strip fish- West, Tee Harbor; K. Louring, Se- | ing, and is prepared to write of Al- attle; Arthur Smith, Juneaun. aska as a vacation land with more ZYNDA than his usual enthusiasm. H. C. Blickenstaff, wife and fam-| Last evening friends of Mr. and ily, Kake; June La Marer, J. E.| Mrs. Sherman called at the Alexan- Boyle, Juneau; I. T. Lavrischeff, | der home to bid farewell to the vis- Hoonah; Mrs. Walley Wilson, Skag- | itors. way. | | JOHNSON, HEBERT for the Ruretli a8 3 leaving for Ketchikan on the Aleu- CM.LWG ON TRADE i tian tonight, and there will bo:‘lld ABOARD OWN YACHTI».. Highway, B. P. R. vessel, for 1 | Hyder to look over Bureau work in The motor boat Reliance T, skip- | that section. He expects to be gone pered by Chet Johnson of the Na- & week or 10 days. tional Grocery Company, accom- AN panied by Lisle Hebert of the ATTENTION S SIS T WILLIAMS TO HYDER M. D. Williams, District Engineer for the Bureau of Public Roads, is Sohwabacher Hardware Oompany, BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL | left Sunday morning for Peters- | WOMEN'S CLUB burg, Craig, Hydaburg, Sitka, and| The first meeting of the new way ports. They will retwrn via [fiscal year will be held tonight at Petersburg, and will go to Ketchi- |8 o'clock in the City Council Cham= kan before returning to Juneau. bers. This is also the last business e |meeting before summer recess. Lode and placer location notices ' FRANCES L. PAUL, for sale’ at The Empire offic.. —adv. President. LEAVES ST. ANN'S Mrs. C. W..Bland, with her baby girl left St. Ann's Hospital for her. home this morning. —— - TRITON ON GRID The yacht Triton, owned by J. J. Meherin, was on the grid at the upper City float today. e e SAMPLES BRINGS PRISONER G. W. Samples, Deputy U. 5. Mar- shal at Hoonah, arrived here on the Estebeth, bringing Chester Mills, who is being held by authorities on a charge of drunkenness. — . LEAVES HOSPITAL Mrs. Ahna White was discharged from the Government Hospital yes- terday after receiving medical at- tention. - e - GOES HOME St. Ann’s Hospital, \was discharged and went home this morning. 2 e LEAVES ST. ANN’S George Beymer, who received medical care at St. Ann’s Hospital left for his home this morning. Chris Erickson, a medical case at | (Jerry) Jones. All three school | teachers will sail for the States lon the Aleutian. e TVETEN IN TOWN Arthur Tveten, connected with the Petersburg Press, arrived yes- |terday with a party of Juneau Elks returning from Petersburg aboard the Irving Airways Lookheed Vega plane. .. MIZE, MILLER HERE Ralph Mize, former well known Juneauite, and Charles W. Miller, Superintendent of Wrangell Insti- tute, were in Juneau over the week end, arriving Saturday and leaving {today aboard the Sea Otter, Bureau of Indian Affairs vessel. They at- tended to official matters at the Federal Building this morning be- iore getting away. i FULL COURSE nnmms from 50cup _BAILEY’S CAFE THE TE o HARRY RACE, Druggist “The Squibb Stores of Alaska” RMINAL “Deliciously Different Foods™ Catering to Banquets and Private Dinner Parties.