The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 1, 1936, Page 3

i | | THE DAILY ALASKA FMPIRE MONDAY JUNE I 1936 o g - ) ) ) ]’ ] - - THE LAST MAD CARNIVAL OF LAWLESSNESS . “BARBARY COAST” ith wl MIRIAM HOPKINS and JOEL AL Color Cartoon — :-: Daily Alaska | i i i - A | DOUGLAS NEWS WELL KNOWN INDIAN WOMAN PASSES AWAY SATURDAY Mrs. Hugh Watson aged about 55, died at midnight Saturday in the Government Hospital in Juneau as the climax of a long period of heart ailment. Formerly Mrs. Maggie Goldstein, the deceased is well- known on the Isiand, having lived! here the greater part of her life. Besides her husband, survivors are a sister, Mrs. Charles Ruby of Ju- neau and a brother, Charles Ander- son at Tee Harbor. - g ! COMING FOR VISIT { Mrs, Fred Movall, sister of Mrs. Inga Dickinson and Mrs. Carl| Carlson of Douglas, is a passenger on the Yukon due tomorrow for a visit here. J. O. Kirkham is a returning pas- senger on the Yukon after a trip East for the benefit of his health - | II\JURES FooT | Ray McCormick is being Im'c(‘di to hobble around with the aid of a cane as the result of an accident at the Foundry Saturday wherein{ he sustained a smashed foot. - | DUPREE TAKES UP DUTIES Robert DuPree was sworn in this morning as the new City Mmahal‘ of Dougla sand was busy looking after his various duties which in- clude being foreman of streets and sewers. - EAGLES AND AUXILIARY HOLD JOINT INSTALLATIONl The annual installation of offi- cers for the year beginning June 1 of Douglas Aerie 117, Fraternal Or- der of Eagles and the Ladies Aux- iiary was properly observed at a joint session of the two branches of ! the order here last Friday night.{ Frank Johnson, Past President of | Tacoma Aerie, F.O.E. was master of ceremonies. He was assisted by P. W. P. Sam Devon, as grand con- ductor. The following Eagles were in- stalled: J.W.P., John Marin; W. P. Leopard Johnson; W.V.P., Claude Erskine; W. Chap., Ed Roller; Sec'y., Tom Cashen; Treas., Robt. Fraser; Conductor, Tauno Niemi; I. G, Henry Sgragier; O. G. Carl Lind- strom; Trustees, Sam Devon, three years, Mrs. Sante Degan, two years, Lew Nunamaker, one year. Mr. Devon officiated as install- ing officer for. the K Auxiliary. He| was assisted by Mrs. Felix Gray as conductress. The following were in- ducted into the various positions: P.MP, Mrs. James Sey; MP., Ce- cile Cashen; M.V.P., Mrs. R. Mc- Cormick; Chaplain, Mrs. Robert Fraser; Sec'y., Mrs. Mark Jensen; ‘Ireas., Mrs. Hugh Cochrane; Con- ductress, Mrs. Robt. Bonner; LG., irs. A. Kiloh; O.G., Mrs. Mary Doogan; Trustee, Mrs. A. Sturrock. Social entertainment in the form of cards followed the ceremonies. Bridge, whist and pinochle was played. Prize winners for bridge were Mrs. Fraser and Leonard John- son, high scores; Mrs. A. Gair and Henry Langfeldt lows; whist, Miss Ruby Summers and Carl Del Mis- sier, highs; Mrs. Doogan and Ralph Mortinson, lows; pinoctle, Tauno Niemi, high score. Refreshments were served after the card playing. —_—— — FAREWELL TO BOWMANS Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Kilburn en- tertained a number of their friends in honor of a farewell to Mr. and Mrs. Bowman at their home Friday Peter Pan Beauty Shoppe PHONE 221 ! ! EDWARD G. | | ! ! | ! | | { D Empire's Talking Reporte EIGHT SCHOOL ROBINSON McCREA SO Peculiar Pengum *1 ! evening. Three tables of whist were enjoyed. Prize winners were Mrs. J. O. Kirkham and Mrs. Bowman. firsts, and Miss Elizabeth Fraser and Charles Fox, lows. SO A8 1 NORTH WIND BRINGS FREIGHT With close to thirty tons of freight including some 200 sacks of cement for the water dam, the North Wind arrived in port at 7 o'clock Satur- day morning for the unloading. - ,-e— Mrs. Charles Grabam and two boys, Charles Jr., and Jimmy, ar- rived on the North Wind from Ket- | chikan to spend a month visiting with relatives. ——— CANNERY FOREMAN HERE A. V. McCay, machinist for the| Douglas Fisheries, arrived on the| North Wind to start overhaulng| their cannery for the coming sea- son’s operanons TEAGHERS FOR SOUTH ON SHIP Members of Fairbanks Fac-| ulty Fly to Cordova— Catch Aleutian Eight school tmchex: of Fair-) banks are aboard the steamer Aleu- | tian on the present southbound trip. They flew from Fairbanks to Cor-| dova, in a plane piloted by Harold | Gillam, and caught the Aleutian there last Saturday for the south. | The teachers, bound for the south on a vacation, are: Rosamund Wal-I ler, enroute to Couer d’Alene, Ida- ho; Dorothy Young for Tacoma; Lucy Powell for Honolulu; Ann| Hopkins and Mrs. Anna Beth Fer- guson. for Paul's Valley, Oklahoma; | Carrie Stratton Tate, for Berkeley, Cal, for post graduate work; Thel- ma Hunt and Mrs. C. W. Ross for Seattle; Lloyd V. Londen, for Ro- chelle, Illinois. MRS. NOSTRAND AND DAUGHTER LEAVING| Mrs. G. W. Nostrand and her daughter Maxine are leaving on the Aleutian enroute to Seattle where they will visit with Mrs. Nostrand’s mother. Following a two week's visit with her mother, Mrs. Nostrand expects to return to Juneau, and then go to Hawk Inlet to join her husband.! Maxine will remain with her grand- mother in Seattle where she will at- tend school. PILOT’ WM. KNOX “GOUND-LOOPED” BY TENNIS BALL Pilot Willlam Knox, who has been regularly assigned to duty at the controls of the PAA Lockheed Electra on every weekly flight of the transport plane from Fairbanks to Juneau since the summer sched- ule was resumed the first of the month, was unable to make the current trip aboard the plane, which arrived here yesterday afternoon and will return to Fairbanks to- morrow, because of injuries receiv- ed when he was “ground-looped” by a tennis ball on the Fairbanks ten- nis courts. Pilot Knox, according to reports received nere, accidentally stepped on a tennis ball while learning the finer points of the game last Thurs- day and went into spin which re- sulted in the fracture of a small bone in one foot. He is at present forced to use a pair of crutches but is expected to be sufficiently recovered to report for flying duty before the next flight of the Elec- tra from Fairbanks to Juneau next Sunday. T SHERMANS, MRS, GOLDSTEIN, MISS KAHN ARE PARTY GUESTS For Mr. and Mrs. Dean Sherman, who have been visiting Judge and Mrs. George F. Alexander, and Mrs. I. Goldstein and her sister, Miss Helen Kahn, of San Francisco, who left on the Princess Louise enroute to California, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bender were at home to friends of W""m"“"‘l noon. 'fer of the ruthless, powerful Lou D D D)D) D ) - D [Irving Plane Is Kept Busy; | Youngs Bay Lake yesterday aboard the guests of honor Saturday after- l JOEL McCREA STAR OF TENSE FILM PLAYING ; “Barbary Coast” Is Show-? ing at Capitol i Theatre [ All the flaming color, the ro boisterous glamor of that lnv&hss colony which sprang into being fa] the early days of the California gold rush of 1849 has been caught | in the film “Barbary Coast,” now | playing at the Capitol Theatre. | Stars in the cast are Miriam Hop- | kins, Edward G. Robinson and Joel | McCrea. i Miriam Hopkins plays the role| of Swan, a beautiful girl who comes | to marry a gold-miner. When she | finds him dead, she accepts the of- | Chamalis to preside over the crook- ed roulette wheel in his notorious | Bella Donna Cafe. | Into Swan’s life walks Jim Car- | michael, played by Joel McCrea, an | idealistic young miner, and they fall in love. Learning her true| identity means bitter dissillusion- ment for him, however, and it is| not until they have faced a great peril together that they find true love. e SCOUT TROOP TAKES PLANE, DUTING TRIP Over Weekend—Gold | Brick Brought In Starting with five trips to Youngs| Bay Lake last Friday evening with| 30 members of the Eagle Boy Scout | TProop of Douglas, the Irving Air- ways Lockheed Vega was kept busy| with flights to Southeast Al.\ska} | points over the week-end. | Frank Chasel, Bobby Ferro, Al-| bert Stragier, Olavi Wahto, Douglas | Wahto and George Stragier were passengers on the first flight to Youngs Bay Lakc‘ on the D'Juglas | Boy Scouts annual outing, Pas- sengers on the bLCOnd flight were | Gordon Wahta, ¢ohnny Doogan, | Francis Doogan, Peter Guerrero,| Tommy Terry and Hjarmar Savik-| ko. On the third flight were Elmer Savikko, Roy Brown, Dan Klrsu1| Frank Cashen, Kenneth Loken and | Harry Cashen. On the fourth flu,m‘ were Glenward Kirkham, Billy| Spain, Glenn Kronquist, Robert| Fleek, Billy Feero and Albert Sa- vikko, and on the last trip of the| evening, Scoutmaster Marcus Jen-!| sen, Tom Jensen, Joe Reidi, Mar-| tin Peterson, Gordon Mills and Jimmy Devon were flown. The Boy Scouts returned from the gasboat owned by Fred Gallwas of Douglas, and their baggage, weighing about 1,000 pounds, was brought back to Douglas yesterday by the Irving plane. Funds ‘to de- fray expenses of the trip were drawn from the Eagle Troop treas- ury. To Hawk [nlet On Saturday morning the Irving plane went to Hawk Imlet with Mrs. Glenn Hyner as a roundtrip pas- senger, and brought Henry Roden, of the Alaska Empire Gold Mining Company, H. B. Wilcox, mining en- gineer, K. O. Jackson and Max| Peters from Hawk Inlet to Juneau. Later Saturday morning the plane went to Petersburg with a party of Elks to attend initiation ceremonies, returning to Juneau yes- terday morning. Brings Gold Brick Following the flight to Young's Bay Lake for the Boy Scouts’ bag- gage yesterday morning, the plane went to Hawk Inlet and returned with a gold brick from the Alaska Empire gold mine, estimated to weigh fifteen pounds, which was de- livered to Henry Roden at the Irv- ing Airways hangar. At 3:30 p. m. yesterday the plane left Juneau to overtake the Canad- ian Pacific steamer Princess Louise. V. W. Mulvihill, agent for the Can- adian Pacific, and three others were round trip passengers aboard the plane to Cape Fanshaw, where the| ship was contacted, and Mr. Mul- vihill boarded the vessel to con- duct official business. ——————— BIBLE SCHOOL BEGINS FOR 2-WEEK PERIOD The Community Vacation Bible School under the sponsorship of the First Presbyterian Church and the Salvation Army began its regular session this morning at the Gov- | ernment School. The school which is held on school days for two weeks is in session from 9 o'clock in the morning until noon. Teachers who gave instruction this morning were Mrs. David Wag- goner who is in charge of the Bi- ble School; Mrs. O. Carmichael, Adjt.. and Mrs. Tanner, and Lieut. Morris, i g ————— Lode and placer location notices for sale at The Empire office. | clock. Director Mr. and Mrs. Franchot Tone “'ne Ulie once enjoyed by Mary “whs were recognized as “the first W secome attached to Mr. and | | | | | Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, family of filmdom”, appears slated 1 [ k Mrs. Franchot Tone, whom Holly- wood points out as one of its happiest couples since Joan Craw- tord, the former wife of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Tone middle- aisles fllJEEN MARY CANT BREAK OCEAN RECORD British Lin:on Maiden Trip, Unable to Make Normandie's Time NEW YORK, June 1. — British liner Queen Mary passed Ambros | Lightship at 7:55 o'clock this morn- ing and proceeded immediately to quarantine. i The time of crossing the Atlantif by the Queen Mary on her m‘um\g | trip was 4 days, 6 hours and 38 min¢ utes. The Normandie’s record is 4 dflvfi 3 hours and 13 minutes i Among the officials welcoming | the party of distinguished passengt Nichola ers at quarantine were | Murray Butler, President of Colum bia University Army planes circled overhead a$ the Queen Mary approached th¢ American shores { R 19 BOY SCOUTS GET AWAY FOR ANNUAL EAGLE RIVER CAMP Juneau Boy Scouts got away fof their annual two weeks encamps ment at Eagle river this morning, leaving the City Hall around 9 o'y Wayne Young with three others had gone to camp Saturday to get things in shape and ready to welcome the boys today. Scouts at the encampment a Raymond Paul, John Nicknovic Griffith Nordling, Dallas Wl\and LeRoy Vestal, Lee Lucas, Hallie Rice, Harley Turner, Jr, Glasse, Harry Watkins, Jasper Ty ler, Bud Lowell, Donald McDonald, Alex Miller, Harold Zenger, Richard Jackson, Keith Petrich and Mike Munroe. Forest Bates is going out! tomorrow evening and one or two others are expected to attend the outing. FISHERMEN MAKE FINE HAUL SUNDAY | Among the lucky fishermen who enjoyed a -successful outing yester- day were Melvin Brenno and Ev-| and Gruber. The men fished at Tee Harbor and caught two fine salmon, one weighing 40 pounds the other weighing 25 pounds. Both were reported to be beauties s ol el John Manning, Lawton, Okla., at- torney and former county judge, de- livers a milk route, but his custo- mers are needy persons and don't pay a cent. delivered Juneau Luhier Mills PHONE 358 Jack | ORDER YOUR BLOCK WOOD NOW! $4.00 PER LOAD d it CITY FLGAT BEER { | PARLOR TO OPEN | TUESDAY NlGHT‘ Featuring a four-piece stringed orchestra nightly, the new City| Float Beer Parlor opens tomorrow | under the management of Mike, Bocatch widely-known Russian bal- | alaika orchestra leader, and Junmm‘ | resident of several years. The City Float Beer Parlor, lo- | cated on South Franklin Street, at | the entrance to the Float, will offer free beer to one and all from eight until nine o'clock tomorrow even- ing, Mr. Bocatch said. 1 An attractive ballroom, with booths, a completely new barroom and fixtures, and a new building from top to bottom has been care- fully planned and designed to meet the exacting requirements of Man-, ager Bocatch, resulting in an at- tractive and comfortable rendezvous for dance patrons . Floors were laid by Garland Boggan, bar and fix- tures by the Carpenter & Cabinet Shop, and lighting effects by A. J. Mench. \ Dancing will continue every week night from nine to one, Saturdays and holidays until 2:30 o'clock, the management said. PATTENAUDE ESTATE, ' VALUED AT $40,000, IS SETTLED UP TODAY. The estate of Mary Pnltenaude,: Wrangell pioneer, aggregating ap- proximately $40,000 in real estate, | stocks and bonds, of which R. E.| Robertson, Juntau attorney has been administrator, was settled to- day. The estate goes to four el- derly brothers and siters of Mrs. Pattenaude, living in the States. Mrs. Pattenaude came to Alaska in the 90s with her husband, Leo | C. Pattenaude, who for many years prior to his death operated a bar- ber shop and pool room in Wmn- gell, LUMBER TAKEN 0 KENSINGTON MINE; BUILD WAREHOUSES ! Y [ The Yacobi, Capt. Tom Smith, left the Juneau Lumber Mills dock at noon today, bound for the Ken- |sington mine properties at Berners Bay, with a shipment of lumber, {to be used in the construction of a | warehouse on the beach. The Yacobi has been chartered to| haul several shipments of lumber | to the Kensington mine, to be used | in construction, it is said ! B Two thousand pairs of army trousers and as many khaki shirts were sent to Kiowa Indian agency at Anadarko, Okla, by the War Department to be remade into chil- | | dren’s clothes. in Juneau ; and Friday night aboard the P. E. Har- "I tis cannery tender Fairweather for| | home last night via Auk Bay, where | for the season’s fish run. - NOW SHOWING AT COLISEUM “The. Bidhap. Mishebaves” Combines Laughs and Mystery Mystery and mirth run rampant in “The Bishop Misbehaves” now showing at the Coliseum Theatre Based on an idea new to the screen, it takes mystery and by deft hand- ling makes it no less mysterious in that its every moment is hilar- iously funny. Edmund Gwenn, famous stage screen actor from England, plays the enigmatical bishop, and makes of him a most engaging and amazing character. Maureen O'- Sullivan and Norman Foster are the romantic leads as the soviety girl with her madcap revenge plot and the lover who agrees to help her, and almost lands in the clutch- es of the pclice CUT-THROATS BIG IN FLORENCE LAKE | ASSERTS KOHLHEPP George Kohlhepp left Juneau Hawk Inlet, as the guest of Hans Floe of the Hawk Inlet cannery. Saturday morning, accompanied by T. 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