The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 11, 1936, Page 7

MY GOSH-- GEE WHIZ-- TRAP-DOOR SECRET TUNNEL 2/ WELL--OF ALL TH'--- DON'T COVER (T UP YET, LOWIZIE-- BETTINGER IS INITIATED IN FLIERS' CLUB akes First Solo Flight— Large Crowd Watches Initiation Ceremony Chuck Bettinger made his first solo flight this morning in the (Gastineau Flying Club’s and expérienced the usual cere- imonies which the flying members of the Club extend to all first time solo fliers, a ducking in Gastineau [Channel Bettinger probably had the larg- est audience in the history of the' club as more than a hundred s tators watching the Russian f getting ready to take off witnessed the event When asked about how the solo flight felt, Bettinger said it was swell but just before e ducking doubted if it was worth the plur into the chilly waters of C Channel Chuck’s size is such that the m bers experienced difficulty in throw- ing him in so he reiieyed them by diving, and in addition did several tir m- minutes’ swimming before clmb- ing onto- the ramp again - COPPER RIVER RAIEROADERS OUT ON STRIKE [Freight Shipments Are Tied - Up at Cordova — Sal- mon Not Discharged CORDOVA. Alasks. Aug. 11. - A strike of the Copper River and | [Northwestern Railway workers has virtually isolated Cordova so far as freight shipments are concerned. — The entire railroad crew, from checking clerks to section men struck last Wednesday morning over a wage disagreeme: The long shoremen here are not affected the strike but freight handling over the dock has been stopped because the checkers on the dock have al- ways been employed by the railroad Swagger Fur C This kneelength swagger coat, News Notes fom THEM PESKY . WILKINGES £ wuz TER BUS' (N NOW AN' FND PAW'S SECRIT ONDERGROUND T TRIMBLE THINK ON HIT--- l§ v ¥ »a THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1936. ~A TUNN'L TER (o oats Are Displayed for Fall typical of the fall trend, is de- | signed of gray kidskin worked on the diagonal to fall in soft supple | folds. gray woel frock peppered with white dots. waistcoat bedice and slender skirt. Chilkeot Barracks CKS, Alaska, CHILKOOT BA! company, and steamer crews have| Aug. 10.—Major and Mrs. L. D. So- refused to pass the freight over the| PeT, B: checkers’ picket line. According to information receiv-| WY ed in Juneau the Curacao, which runs a shuttle steamship route from | River Circle Tour, urda; Medical Corps, left Chilkoot acks on the North Star Sat- enroute to Seward, from port they will proceed to hich Tanana and continue to the Yukon returning to the Cordova was not permitted to dis-| Barracks about September 8th. charge a cargo of canned salmon [ for transfer to southbound steam- ers, and after loading perishables,| bodies left for westward ports salmop cargo aboard so! Two-Story Fall Fails to Shake : with the | season this Twin's ldemity; HOUSTON, Tex., Aug. 11.—Four- | year-old Tommie Mondshine has!| an identical twin brother, Ray-| mond. | Recently Tommie was leaning| against a second story screen and fell when it gave away. A nurse saw ‘the small figure disappear through the window. She scram- bled downstairs and info the yard. There, between a flower box and| the house, on soft dirt, sat Tommie. “Raymond,” cried the nurse, “are you hurt!” Indignantly the child, who had| become a heroic sort of person- age in his own eyes because of the| fall, retorted: | “Shucks’ I'm not Raymond. Can't you see I'm Tommy?” EQUALIZATION BOARD MEETS THIS EVENING ‘The City Council meeting as the| Board of Equalization, will convene | in the City Hall at 8 o'clock this evening to con:ider any assess-| ment probléms presented by tax-| payefs. The sessions will be held every evening this week including Saturday. Today'’s News Today—Empire. has continued du A futile searcn ror the missing of Master Sergeant Oliver A. Lawliss, Medical Department, his n and Sergeant Paul M. McWain, M.C,, drowned on August second, g the past week. ANNUAL TARGET SEASON Company E, 7th Infantry, Cap- in L. V. Castner, commanding, mpleted its regular annual target week. Ninety enlisted men fired the course with 10 quali- fying as expert riflemen, 29 men as harpshooters, 40 as marksmen and two failing to qualify. Private Icl. Theodore L. Baker was the high scorer of the company, making 232 out of a possible 250. To qualify| as an expert, a score of 223 or bet-! ter must be made out of a possible 250; a sharpshooter must make least 212, v ¢ a marksman must make 188 or better; th failing to make 188 fail to qualify and in soldier slank are called “bolo men.” The expert riflemen rece an ad- ditional compensation of $5.00 per month as “shooting pay course fired at Chilkoot S Is the standard “B” c fired at all regular army posts and con- sists of the following ranges: Slow iFre 10 shots standing, off-hand at 200 yards. | 5 shots kneeling, at 300 yards 5 shots sitting at 300 yards 10 shots prone at 500 yards. Rapid iFre 10 shots standing to sitting at 200 yards. One minute. 10 shots standing to prone at 300 yards, one minute, ten seconds. | Twenty-four enlisted men at Chil- koot Barracks received promotions! on August 4, as a result of an in-| crease in the allotment on non- commissioned officers to the 7lh| Barr ‘lnfantry, due to the recent increase| Lode ard placer muwi: notices jin the authorized strength of thejfor sale at The Empire office. With it goes an ofi-the-face toque of the same fur and a | The dress combines a = Army ed to Six Corporals were promot-| Sergeants and AUNTIE - T DON'T SEE HIDE NER HAIR 0' TH' WILKINSES T RECKON TH' VARMINTS HEV GONE HUM FER VITTLES--T WUZ WONDERIN' EF I I COULD FOLLER ATTER UNCLE SNUFFY AN' SEE THET NOBODY LAY WAYS HIM WHEN HIS BACK'S TARNED --- | NORTH salmon to go out from Douglas so' { this summer was the one made 18 Privatesidelivery | | DOUGLAS NEWS TAKES FISH SHIPMENT FROM DOUGLAS The largest shipment of canned today by the Douglas Fisherie Company, A total of 52 were loaded by the North Sea dur- ing a four-hqur stay at the city whart this afternoon e WATER SYSTEM (‘llLORlNATEl)j THURSDAY READY FOR U By, tomorrow eVening the water system will be ready new for local residents to connect up with | immediate use. City En-. r their gineer Hough Dupree wert noon .chlot and City Marshal busy all this fore- ating the system and by tomorrow afternoon the reser- voir and mains will be entirely emptied and new wate: coming in will be fresh and clean, ready drinking. AR 5 Qe R A, for D. I. W. C. MEMBERS ARE INVITED TO JUNEAU TEA Complimenting Mrs. M. O. John- son, Treasurer of the Alaska Fed- eration of Women's Clubs, Mrs. R. R. Hermann of Juneau will en- tertain with a tea at her home next Friday afternoon from 2:30 to 5 o'clock. Members of the Douglas Island Women’s Club are invited to attend >, — DEMOCRATIC LADI MEET IN DOUGLAS The first meeting of the Women'’s Democratic Club of the Channel to be held "Hére "tboX "place ‘in’ the City Hall last evening.*About 25 attendants from both Juneau and Douglas were present to hear Rob- ert W. Bender, who gave a very interesting talk about the Demo- Philadelphia this summer. i NEW DELIVERY CAR A brand new Chevrolet car, 1936 model, sedan was First Class or Privates, were pro-|brought here yesterday, having ar- moted to Corporals Appointments City Bakery, Joe Riedi, {ifouh the Connors Motor Com- ))nny'q[ Juneau, - - e PETERSON RETUR Martin: Peterson, Superintendent of Douglas Public Schools, returned to Douglas on the Aleutian after nearly two months' vyacation in Oregon' and at his home ‘town town, Stanwood, Wash. He attended Oregon State College for ! summer course. - PECIAL SHOW American Legion Auxiliary Coliseum Theatre tonight with Her bert, Marshall, Jean Arthur and|s 1934 and amended for Alaska. Leo: Carrillo —adv : ; | R, AL ahor required for this project | UNDERGOES OPERATION |thall be as outlined. in 3 (a) of the| Mattie Kasko underwent a major | operation this morning at the Gov- ernment Hospital. o D HERE FROM SITKA Mrs. P. H. Ganty arrived on the North Sea from Sitka. Her hus- band is one of the leading merch- ants of Sitka. CALL FOR BI Scaled Bids will be received at the Office of the Town Clerk at| By BILLIE a short | i “IF YOU COULD ONLY COOK," | B [ance bond ‘within the time statea |in his propesal, the certified check | | (cr bid bond) shall be forfeited as | liquidated damages. | The suecessful bidder will be re- | |quired to file a performance bond |in the full amount of the contract | price, which bend chall be furn-| ithed by a surety company accept- | able to the Public Works Admin- ration. This improvement shall be con- ctructed under the contract pro- |vicions of Bulletin No. 2, P.W “Reguirements as to Bids, Con- tiacior’s Bonds, and Contract, Wage and Labor Provisions”, dated March | Construction Regulations. Altention is called to the fact| | that not less than the minimum | wage rates prescribed by the Fed- | eral Emergency Administration of Public Works must be paid on this | project, i | Contractors will be allowed to| work employees on this project up | to 48 hours per week, exclusive of Sundays* and holidays. | | Funds available for this project |2re approximately $140,000.00 for construction purposes. Deducticn for Terl orial School | Scward, Alaska, to be opened at | Tax in the amount of §$5.00 per em- | '8:00 o’cleck P.M. on October 12, 1936, for furnishing all labor and materials necessary for the com- plete tiic plant, including pentsocks, gen- crators and wheels, transmission line, distribution em and all other. appurtenances necessary for the ccmpleticn of the project accordance with plans and specifi- catiens on file with the Town Clerk of the Town of Seward, Alaska, and |the Engineers, Hubbell & Waller, Alzska Building, Seattle, Washing- ten. Plans and specifications may be cbtained upon the deposit of $25.00 klhlsu}'e the safe return of same, which deposit will be return- «d after the reccipt of pians and opecificafions by (he Town Clerk. All bids must be cubmitted on the ferm prescribed by the Engineers, which form is a part of the con- tract documents. | ANl bids shall be accompanied by | cratic National Convention held in a certiffed check (or a bid bond | furnished by a surety company au- | thorized 'to do business in Alaska) for five per cent of the amount of the bid. (Where alternates are ask- ed then for five per cent of the basic bid plus the largest alter- |rived on the North Sea for the nates). Should the successful bid- | Douglas der fail to enter into a contract The following appointments in the Proprietor. The car was purchased |and furnish a satisfactory perform- Second Battalion, Seventh Infan-| try, are announced, by order of Col.| R. W. Dusenbury and made public| by J. W. Gaddis, Captain, 7th In-! fantry, Adjutant | To Be Sergean!’s Corporal Howard Greer, Company | E., Tth Infantry; Corporal Gouruv" Jollie, Company E., Tth Inrumry:| Corporal Michael Vinich, Company E. Tth Infantry, Corporal Murray| L. Harvey, Company F. Tth In-| fantry; Corporal Thornton T.| Haynes, Company F., Tth Infantry;| Corporal Herman Jepson, Company | F., Tth Infantry. | To Be Corporals, | Pvt. lcl. Stanley Polwick. Hq. Det. | 2nd Bn, 7th Infantry; Pva. lcl| Raymond R. Reid, Hq. Det., 2nd Bn. | 7th Infantry; Pvt. 1cl. Anthony | zyk, Company E., Tth Infan- | Pvt. lcl. Allan J. McPhee,! mpany E., Tth Infantry; Pvt. lcl| Frank Rachlewicz, Company E., Tth! Infantry; Pvt. lcl. George W. Wal- lice, Company E., 7th Infantry; Pvo. lcl. William M. Andrews, Company 7., Tth Infantry; Pvt. lcl. William H. Eddleman, Company F., 7th In- tantry; Pvt. lcl. Ero Lindstrom, pany F. Tth Infantry; Pvt. lel. Albert McGilbra, Company F., Tth Infantry; Pvt. lcl. Gerald McNally, Company F., 7th Infantry; Pvt. 1cl. Edgar G. Rembusch, Company F.,, 7th Infantry; Pvt. 1cl. Marion Ugh- rin, Company E., 7th Infantry; Pvt. Adam J. Cichoski, Company E., Tth Infantry; Pvt. Robert Matthews, Company E., T7th Infantry; Pvt} George Nelson, Company - E., 7th Infantry; Pvt. Joseph Rychwalski, Company E. T7th Infantry; Pvt George Wells, Company F., 7th In- fantry. 8 R A0 SR e - eee MAJOR OPERATION Miss Doris Swap underwent a major operation at St. Ann's Hos-| pital this morning. She is report- °d doing nicely. = £ RN LEAVES HOSPITAL Mrs. Robert Simpson, who has been receiving medical attention at St. Ann’s Hospital for several days, has returned to her home. B P R A S AR Y Charles W. Carter Mortuary JUNEAU _, Y O truction of a hydro-elec- | ployee will be permitted where such | employee has nct paid said tax. | If any person contemplating sub- mitting a bid for the proposed con- | tract is in doubt as to the meaning | of any part of the plans and speci- | ficaticns, or other contract docu- | ments, he may submit to the En-| gineer, Seward, Alaska, a written | request for an interpretation there- of. The perzon submitting the re- quest will be responsible for its| | prompt delivery. Any interpretation | |of the propesed decuments will be | made only by addendum. duly is- cued and a copy of such addendum will be mailed or delivered to each person receiving a set of such docu- ments. The ty of Seward will not be responsible for -any other ex- planations or interpretations of the Ged documents Nc bids may be withdrawn for a | pr period of thirty (30) days after date of cpening. 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