The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 1, 1936, Page 8

FIVE PERSONS ARE INJURED IN CRASHES HERE Holiday Week-end Sees Autos Piling Up in Wrecks on Channel Highways Five persons were hurt in two | reported auto accidents here over | the Memorial Day week-end in| which four machines were involved. | Gus Donoff suffered a fractured collar bone shortly after noon Sun- day when the machine in which he was riding with Al Taloff, driver collided with the auto of Mr, and Mrs. L. E. Iverson mid way between Switzer's Dairy and the Radio sta- | tion on the Glacier Highway. The Iverson car was reported attempt- ing to pass the Taloff machine at | the time of the impact which re- | sulted in the latter vehicle going |to be held in Mr. Roden’s ofiice on 25 miles northeast of Morgan, by| in the ditch, Ann's Hospital. Near the Lawson Creek bridge on the Douglas highway shortly after midnight Sunday night, thc machines of W. H. Peterson, miner, | and a Cardinal Cab, driven by John Auvil, met almost head on, over- turning the cab several times and injuring its four occupants. Auvil and his three passengers, Phil Lund, Carl Castle and Art E\mnn \ the latter of Petersburg, all were treated by Dr. W. W. Council for minor injuries. .- | Plans to Dive from Douglas Bndge Sunday Chuck Domir- y Wants to Prove His Medals Won | for Real Feats Chuck Dominy, who spent the win- ter here, couldn't resist the lure of the water yesterday, so he sneaked down to Thane and limbered up with a few fanecy dives for his friends. Dominy, who is considered | one of the finest fancy divers on the coast, was a member of the 1932 Olympic diving team, is leav- ing for the States June 12, to qm in shape for the summer competi- L.ons, Although he reported the water to he a bit cold, just off the float at L'hane, it wasn't too icy to prevent, bim from practicing a few swan | dives and an occasional one-and-a- | half from the 16 foot dock. To Dive From Bridge If the weather is good next Sun- day, Dominy said he intends to prove that the medals he has in his room here are the “real McCoy" by | being the first human being to dnc from the Douglas bridge. To Dominy, the feat is nothing,| as he has been in many high diving | exhibitions, once doing a back flip| from a 120-foot tower in Honolulu.| He intends to do the same stunt from the bridge Sunday, with a skiff waiting below to pick him up. | and Donoff to St MRS. ASHLEY MAKING | BRIEF TRIP, SKAGWAY Mrs. Howard Ashley visited | friends in Juneau Saturday while | the Alaska was in port enroute to| £kagway. For the last year Mn‘) and Mrs, Ashley have been in Se-| attle, where Mr. Ashley has been receiving medical attention for ar- toritis from which he has bcen} 'uvm.ng He is now at the home of a-former Skagway resident, Mrs. W. C. MacKenzie, north of Seattle, | and will be joined there by Mrs. | Ashley when she returns to Seattle | from Skagway next week. Friends in Alaska will regret tha!‘ Mr. Ashley's health is forcing him to give up his residence in Skag- | way where for more than thirty- | {ive years he has taken a prominent | part in town affairs. He served | many terms as Mayor of Skag- | way and was a member of the staff of the White Pass and Yukon Route. Mrs. Ashley has taken an active part in Skagway women’s clubs and civic organizations. GERALD HILL HAS BIRTHDAY PARTY Gerald Arthur Hill, son of Mrs. Mildred E. Hill, celebrated his third birthday yesterday at a party in his home at the Jensen Apartments. Guests who enjoyed the party were: lleen Roberts, Diane Hunsbedt, Devyerly Junge, Evelyn Claire Holl- mann, Billy Talmadge, Robbie How- cll and Barrie Coate. Diane Hunsbedt won the prize for pinning the donkey's tail nearest in the proper place. Ofher games were enjoyed by the children during e party hours. Mrs. Hill was assisted by Mrs Opal Taroff, Mrs. Pauline Sunquist ond Mrs. Mabel Crawford. e e————— MISS ANDERSON HERE Eunice lu;derm. government field nurse under the Social Security | g a' oy » left for a susgical : ?.u:-whm! : pe)n y. |ELATED FISHERMEN | returned ,day and each man brought home a |D. E. Sherif, Mrs. Election Held by Mining Men Last Saturday ‘T B. Judson Chosen Presi- dent—M. A. Snow, Sec- retary, of Orgamzanon Paving the way for a permanent organization, nearly thirty pros- pectors and others interested in the development of the mining indus- try in Alaska met Saturday night in the office of Henry Roden in the Valentine Building afid elected officers. A great deal of interest was mani- fested in the¢ subjects discussed and the enthusiasm was pronounced. A committee headed by Henry Roden was named to draft a constitution and by-laws for the organization {and will report back to a meeting the 13th of this month. At the opening of the meeting A. P. Walker, divisional representa- tive from Craig, was named tem- porary chairman, and after the pur- poses of the meeting were explained, permanent officers were elected and | took their chairs. T. B. Judson was elected president of the group,| Gudmund Jensen was named vice | president and M. A. Snow was elect- ed secretary. R RETURN FROM TRIP| Reporting a Ficias bagah ‘ot ke throat trout, a group of nine men aboard the Wanderer, Capt. Kel Larson, from Hamilton Bay where they fished over the week-end Included in the party which left Friday night at 9 o'clock were: Holly Triplett, R. R. Hermann, R. H. Stevenson, Walter Bacon, Ed Jones, H. Button, C. K. Tisdale, E. W. Walker and Malcolm Morrison. Fly fishing was the order of the good mess of trout. Mr. Hermann AIR TRAGEDY IS REVEALED: PLANE FOUND Wreckag;gf Howard Stark’s Ship Found on Rugged Utah Peak MORGAN, Utah, horsemen, who scaled a rugged peak yesterday to the wreckage of How= MERCURY SOARS T0 79 DEGREES HERE ON SUNDAY Second Hottest May Day in History of Weather Bureau Small wonder every one felt so warm yesterday. It was the second warmest May day in the 41 years' et ¥ history of the local weather bureau ard Stark’s plane, found mute ‘““'}~75 degrees, within one degree of timeny of the Department of Com-, the peak of May 16, 1915, the hot- merce flier's attempt to ward offtest May day on record, or 80 de- death from cold when grees. crashed in a blizzard last January. Hail frustrated attempts to lo- cate Stark’s body and the party re- turned here to await more favorable weather. The plane was found Saturday, June 1.—A dozen nis plane enjoyed 100 per cent sunsine wil: indication this afternoon that it might continue. The present spell of sunshine started on May 27 with la mild 61 degrees. The 28th went to 68; 29th, 75; 30th, 73, and yester- day, the 31st, 79. It was 65 at noon Fred Weyland, a sheep herder. The|today and the forecast was for con- plane was found lying on its back|tinued good weather. with the switches and gasoline cut] But while the weather is fine, off. Fabric cut from a wind indi- it need not be cause for depreda- caved thay Stark attempted to pro-|Uons, according to Meteorologist was high man catching the longest fish which measured 24 inches in length, while Holly Triplett caught the most fish. Members of the party said the weather was perfect, and fishing the best thy had ever experiencd B (BUSINESS MEETING OF BPWC TONIGHT The Business and Professional Women’s Club will hold its first meeting of the new fiscal year this levening in the Council Chambers. {This Is also the last regular busi- |ness meetnig before the summer | recess. Mrs. Frances L. Paul, new President, will pre<i - the > end will |announce her standing committee chairmen for the year. e eee ARRIVE ON NORTH WIND Six passengers arrived this morn- ing on the North Wind from Sitka, including Mr. and Mrs. R. Lea, |roundtrippers returning to Juneau; A. Lorentsen, ‘Mrs. E. S. Forsythe, and John Barta. W. E. White was a pas- senger from Sitka to Seattle. dova the plane by a towboat. Fitzpatrick left Nellie Juan last| { Juan, a lookout was kept by the steamers, tect himself from cold Howard J. Thompson. The weather (ently made a forced landing, of-|Peen tampering with the rain gauge ficials said, and preliminary inves- !¢ Bureau keeps on top of Mt. Ju- tigation led them to believe Stark|D€2U With the result that a month terday. The gauge ‘s particularl valuable in ascertaining the in- GAPT ARNESON crease of precipitation with eleva- pcwer investigation. Those climbing the mountain ar. DIES STRUKE lasked not to tamper with the wea- ' S SEWARD, Alaska, June 1.—Capt. Mlss'" P[I[]t schooner Charles D. Wilson, of the, g Seattle-Washington Fisl: and Oys-| ter Company, died following a| a"d Passengers Fort Wllll’ams‘ " AGTIUN DEAD Hinchinbrook Island on Al | Account Broken Rod CHICAGO, I, June 1—Pros-| — pects of entering a third national | CORDOVA, Alaska, June 1.—Pilot oday after advocates of such ac-|passengers, Walter Kokko and Lin- ion rejected proposals to call alcoln Erving of Seattle, and Clar- onvention in September. | ence Olson, of the Bureau of Fish- Minnesota Farmer Laborites strong- | Thursday on Hinchinbrook Island 'y favored a third party ticket on account of a broken connecting - ->oe - 1 SUNDAY SCHOOL HAS | The steamer Aleutian lowered a ANNUAL PlCNlC TODAY, boat and took Kokko aboard. The \ | launch Chigach took the others! Sunday school members and thedral enjoyed their annual picnic | today. The party hoarded the 12:15 bus for Douglas and spent a pleas- Beach playing games and enjoying a delicious picnic lunch. | .- Stark, lost in a blizzard, appar- Man reports that some one has was not \vrmusly hun in the crash, |7¢0d had to be thrown away yes tion and is used in making water | thef bueau equlpment Anton Arnesen, master of the stroke. He was brought here rmm: Plane Is Forced Down on varty in the fall elections dwindled | M. D. Fitzpatrick and his three A group calling themselves the | orics, were forced to a landing last | rod teachers of the Trinity Church Ca- ant afternoon on the Treadwell| SUFFECOOL RE' NS Frank Suffecool, oldtime resident of Skagway, who has been in Ju- neau for one week, guest at the Simpkins Hotel, returned home aboard the Alaska. Daily C ross-word Puzzle ACROSS L. Measure of total surface 9. . Statement of an_account . Heavy cord . Anger . Floor In a bullding be- low the main . Rub out . Laughing, iling or gay Exclamation . Nervous twitching Put to flight Swedish coin Supervisors of & corpora- . Canvas shelter . Apparition Make lace One who gives tips on the rac . Three-part composition Tree Grade Smlll vessel for heating liqutd 33. Silkworm 34. Rudimentary 37. Distant but visible 38 Huge Tennis stroke Symbol for tellurium mics Sw.tl solution Solution of Snurdly 's Puzzie IHHHV/IHIE A R O G A I T T AT flllllllllllllIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII|IIIIIII||l|||IIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIII S . Persia 1L Confined Las: s American Indian Huge myth- ical bird . Desire ex- . Spoken Return Ilke for like Preceded by ten . Rodent . Disturb the eace vio- Clever Termination of feminine DOWN . Poorest part of a fleece . Long narrow infet Other . Vigilant 6. Having knowl- edge of com- s mz events . Solitary . Likely Pronoun Slow Y City In Montana Negrito of the hilippines . Edible seeds Close . Sever Genus of the blue grass . Transgression Extinct bird Familiar ap- pellation "of a former // H AnEm S AmmE el 1| 7 B b ol 2 E g 8 one of our suits. ticular man! No wonder, There’s freedom as a It compliments than fit i For five consecutive days, Juneau ' Government agencies worked at top speed to insure delivery of 38,000,000 $50 bonus bonds to 2,000,000 World War veterans by June 15, the date set for mailing. The tre when these pictures were snapped. Left, Miss Edna Scott of the loa and currency division of the treasury displays a registered enveloj mendous Job was in its final stag of the type to be used. Right, stacks of finished bonds, ready for the inscribina of vatarane’ names Safe Landing s Made When Forced Down Pilot Executes Good Move with Big Liner—15 Pas- sengers Aboard CHICAGO, Iil, a forced landing, Pilot W. L. Smith rought a TWA liner, with 15 pas- sengers aboard, down safely in a vacant lot after shearing off the ola of a house, breaking off a pertion of a wing and shearing ofll the ship’s nose All aboard the plane were bruised and shaken. Six passengers are in a hospital for treatment. Pilot Smith had received the ground signal to delay landing but | was unable to regain altitude. FISH SALES LARGE HERE About 24,000 pounds of King sal- mon and approximately 16,000 pounds of halibut were bought Juneau over the week-end. Alaska Coast Fisheries 11,100 pounds from the 31-A-63, Capt. Carl Weidman, 2,000 pounds from Capt. Antone Bartness. Sebasman ‘Stuart Fish Company bought 5,000 ' Slip Into a Michaels-Stern for the Inside Story! “You'd think it had been made expressly for me! We often hear a man say just that when he slips into I Virtually the suit HAD BEEN made for that par- then, that even hard-to-fit men marvel at the way Michaels-Stern’s fit. man moves his arms, and he’s surprised that while the coat feels full and com- fortable, it looks smart and tailored. And where are his bulges—where his “sags”? This suit does more — and soft pedals where June 1.—Making | in | bought | | aboard and brought them to Cor-|7000 pounds of King salmon from | Fitzpatrick is bringing in|the Elfin II, Capt. Ernest Swanson, rchlld died yesterday morning (Associated Press Photos) pounds of King Salmon from the Washington, Capt. George Dalton, 6,000 pounds from the Sadie, Capt. Sandy Stevens, and 2,000 pounds | from the Yasure, Capt. Dick Fitz- lebon e Fern, Capt. John Lowell, sold 14, 000 pounds of halibut to Sebas- tian Stuart Fish Company at prices of 6.05 cents and 4 cents, and the; New England Fish Company | bought 1,900 pounds from the 31- A-27, Capt. John Pademeister, at the same prices. — e |GOGD FISHING AT WARM SPRINGS BAY BY JUNEAU PARTY| A fishing party composed of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Kann, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Wilson and son Jackie,| Mr. and Mrs. Pete Clements and | Mrs. O'Malley, Mrs. Wilson'’s moth- | ’MAY-WEATHEH ABOUT NORMAL ‘Mean Temperah.n Slightly | Above Average—One Hot Day Reported Precipitation in Juneav was ‘fiomewhat above normal in May, | otherwise other meteorological ele- ments averaged about normal, ac- | cording to the monthly meteoro- | logical report issyed today by the | Juneau Weather Bureau Office. | The mean temperature for the month was 48.0 degrees, or 0.3 de- grees above the average. The mer- cury redached its highest point dur- {ing the month on the 31st when a temperature of 79 degrees was reg- | ture on record in any May in Ju- ,neau during 41 years of record. The highest May temperature on record The lowest temperature last month in Juneau was 32 degrees, on the |second. The lowest on record for | |any May was 24 degrees in 1884. The total precipitation for the month was 5.59 inches, or 0.35 inch (above the average. Precipitation 1 (001 inch or more) occurred on 22 ‘dnys, as compared with a normal jof 17. The maximum amount of precipitation within a 24-hour peri- od was 0.95 inch, on the 24th and | 25th. There were five clear days, two partly = cloudy, and twenty-four cloudy days during the month. Out {of a possible 519.9 hours, the sun- shine received amounted to 1973 per cent below the 18-year aver- age. The total wind movement for the month was 4,566 miles, or an aver- age hourly velocity of 6.1 miles. The er, left early Saturday on the Betty Ross, Steve Ward, owner,; and skippered by Abel Anderson, |bound for Warm Springs Bay for | | holiday fishing on the lake. They returned at 7 o'clock this ! morning and reported a huge catch of cut-throat trout. Mrs. Kann was the most fortunate of the anglers, |landing a beauty of a cut-throat, | measuring 22% -inches long. They |reported wonderful weather, and said that the residents of Warm Springs Bay anticipate a good sea- son in the fishing industry. D - INDIAN CHILD DIES Rachel Williams, 4-year-old In(lmni at | the Government Hospital. The re-| mains are at the C. W. Carter | Thursday and when he did not|the Thlinget, Capt. Jimmy Martin, | Mortuary and will be taken to Hoon- ‘ Mrnvc here nor return to Nellieland 1,300 pounds from the Alms, ‘ah tonight aboard the gas boat of the little girl's father, liams, for burial. William Wil- | ne Woven broadcioun, new plaid-check pattern, form-fitting, style-right. HIRTS will be dashing and “sporty” Shown above are the this summer. latest, newly - arrived styles taken fashion-centers by storm. All are guaranteed colorfast, shrinkproof, wilt- proof. You’'ll want several. | = SHIRT VARIETY CAN BRIGHTEN YOUR SUMMER OUTFIT! New deep-tones witn but- ten-down collars, in sev- eral smart shades. which have STAR BRAND DRESS and SPORTS FOOT 'WEAR VERY PAIR maintains the Star Brand standard for high quality ed by expert craftsmen. These new sum- mer shoes of genuine White Buck are always favorites. Wing tips moccasins, perforates. . . . Design- , plain toes, Phoenix Socks wearing qualities. 3 Pair are known for their § ) G Another Summe TIES Swankiest we have yet shown ... .. r shipment of the 51.25 HATS New Brims—New Crowns—Néw Shapes and Colors in Stetson’s or Hardeman’s STAR BRAND SHOES FOR ALL! B. M. Behrends Co., Inc. “Juneau’s Leading Department Store” lm1 Items in Our Upstairs Bargain Department istered, which is within one degree | of equalling the highest tempera- | in Juneau was 80 degrees in 1915.| hours, or 38 per cent, which is 1| A. H. SWANSON of the Juneau High School Graduating Class of 1936 IS THE WINNER OF A SHAEFFER PEN In the Clock Pool at BUTLER- DRUG CO. CONGRATULATIONS! Swank new ngoum in British stripes, cluster maximum velocity for a sustained period of 5 minutes was 24 miles from the southeast on the 23rd. The prevailing wind direction was from the south. The average relative humidity at |4 a. m. was 86 per cent; at noon, 59 | per cent; and at 4 p. m., 56 per cent. A heavy frost was recorded on the 2nd and a light frost on the 27th. |GASBOAT BLUE FOX SAILING TOMORROW The gasboat Blue Fox, owned and skippered by Capt. Chris Dahl, which arrived last Monday from Tebenkoff Bay, will sail for Pet- |ersburg and Ketchikan tomorrow. Capt. Mahl, Mrs. Dahl and their four-year-old daughter Clara, have |spent the week here visiting Mr. land Mrs. P. A. Anderson, Mr: Dahl‘s parents. Mr. Dahl, who owns a fox farm at Tebenkoff Bay stocked with about 50 breeding animals, has chartered the 60-foot motorship | Attolin, with which he will trans- port fish bought from seiners under |contract in the Tebenkoff Bay Company, with whom he has made arrangements for packing. | The Blue Fox, powered with a |135 horsepower Gray motor, made a short cruise to Nevada Creek yes- terday. Schilling MAURO spaced stripes. 000 A area to the Ketchikan Packing b