The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 27, 1936, Page 8

THANKSBIVING- 1S OBSERVED OVER NATION Evidence of Increasing Prospenity Cause of Celebration NEW YORK, Nov. 27.—The na- tion, spurred by evidence of in- creasing prosperity, observed the |trict Attorney, returned to Juneau FOLTA RETURNS. FROM ARGUING SHIPS CASE IN SAN FRANCISCO COURT George W. Folta, Assistant Dis- jon the Princess Louise after a trip to San Francisco where he appeared before the Circuit Court of Appeals to argue the famed Tahoma case of Ketchikan. The District Court had ruled for the government and opera- (tors of the vessel Tahoma, which was charged with illegal registry, took the case to the higher court. | Decision on the appeal is not ex- pected for some time. While in the soutl, the prosecu- ALMOST SLIDE - VICTIM, OLI 1S THANKFUL Resident of Mattson Board- ing House Escapes as Building Falls Jumping through a window, on the second story of the Mattson lodging house, into mud and debris annual Thanksgiving Day .yester-|tor had opportunity to see several nearly up to his thighs, extricating day and all over the country there football games and declared him- himself and then running into the was feasting and merry-meking, self convinced that Washington has darkness directly across the slide, families sitting down 'to turkeys and 2 Ereat football team that should sinking up to his knees at times, churches everywhere holding spec-| ial services. give a good account of itself at the and finally reaching the Home |Rose Bowl. He was in San Francis- Boarding house, was the experience The recent increases in wagss 0 When the new bridge was dedi- of Eric Olin last Sunday evening, Sheldon who in turn sold it to his and bonuses and increased divi- cated and witnessed the, big cele- following the earth avalanche. dends, gave added reasons to. be thankful. 5 reported, are not worrying much t) Glacler Highwa, beginni) just The day was obesrved by the, a room on the second floor of the g] Y, ng jus Army and Navy the world over | about the strike unless they happen mattson Lodging house, one of the beyond the Juneau Dairy property ] [to be directly effected. Ample f00d pyjigings demolished ir. the slide. President’'s Turkey Dinner Aboard the U. S. Indianapolis en- | route to Buenos Aires, President Roosevelt invited the ships’ officers| to a turkey dinner. Transportatfon systems, air, rail,| bus and water, all over the country were taxed beyond capacity | Hotels and dining rooms and cafes | generally offered lavish menus,| some New York hotels charging $10 a plate, including wine with all courses } Thousands of poor ate meals from bration. 1 Residents of San Francisco, he is available without the water trans- portation that Alaska is dependent upon. Unions, he said, are policing | their own organizations and every- thing appears to be peaceful. | D | STEVE WARD PLEADS | GUILTY AS ALIEN | TO KILLING GAME| Steve Ward, who operates the gift baskets and the Salvation Al’n’ly;ggsboqt Betsy, Ross and the Rain- and other organizations served tur- ier beer parlor, pleaded guilty in key dinners. U. S. Commissioner’s court late Against Turkey Feasting | Wednesday to being an alien and Glum disapproval of the turkey taking game without proper li- feasting was expressed by the Veg- cehse. He was fined $250. etarian Society in New York at the! . Ward said he was a native of annual meatless banquet, but had Austria and that his true name a live turkey as the guest of honor. is Sam Stipich, and that he has The annual exercises are usually never taken out naturalization pa- held at Plymouth Rock, Massachu-|pers. He has lived in the Territory setts. since 1925. He had been hunting |under a resident license and was TURKEY SHGVED OFF TABLE |2pprehended by the Alaska Game HONOLULU, H. I, Nov. 27—The Fomnnsfilon’anfr it was‘ found that can opener played an important his application for a resident license was role in preparing the Hawaiian a5 R Thanksgiving Day dinners. 3 snoved the custamaacy Burkey oft she| WEL};&&“?&; %D ok 21 table. Turkey prices skyrocketed to 70| cents & pound. There were On]y’ Twelve new members were init- 15,000 birds on the island. |lated into the Juneau Lodge of Outside of the Army and Navy Elks Wednesday night at cere- kitchens, not a cranberry could be|monies in the lodge hall, which found and there were only a feijas followed with a social hour fresh vegetables. little of imported fruits. Eggs are limited. John Roach, a medical patient at St. Ann's Hospital, will return to Sitka by plane as soon as t.he‘quist. T. H. Dyer, C. L. Skuse,|sibly nearby may be found the body | IN. F. Fagerson and J. E. Werner.lof Mrs. Mattson,_ as according to| weather permits flying. There was very|and refershments to welcome the new members of the antlered herd. Sprouting antlers were J. G. Wenzel, Frank Dufresne, K. K. Ky- Olin, who arrived from Hirst- Chichagof several weeks ago, had Olin was lying- on the bed in his |room attired only In his underwear and reading a magazine. Woman in Kitchen He heard Mrs. Mattson and Mrs. Lena Peterson talking in the kit- chen, which was almost beneath his room. Suddenly he heard a roar, then the lights went out. The house moved a little. He heard the two women scream, Almost directly another roar occurred. That was caused by the second slide, and the house moved. again. e o Rocks ana dirt b 2 dashing and moving into his room. He sprang from his bed, located a chair, smashed the window and jumped —into the mud and debris. In the dim light he saw the outline of the Home Boarding House, across the slide and away he spéd, only in his underwear, and harefooted. Sinking first ankle deep, then knee deep he made his way across the slide. Two men with pocket searchlights were hastily coming up| from the Home Boarding House. They saw Olin and directed him to go to the house, which he fi- nally reached, and secured suitableI apparel. Is Thankful Olin has bruises on one side of| the head, perhaps made when he jumped through the window or per- haps by rocks while crossing the slide. Olin escaped, however, and he is thankful and that was the way he| appeared in the office of The Em- pire yesterday, Thanksgiving Day, to tell his story. Found in Debris ler, F. O. Jenson, F. A. Riendeau, M. Ugrin, Ed Shaffer, L. J. Holm- ECONOMY ... Is the Keynote of the LOCHINVAR OIL BURNING FURNACE Since its introductioq the Lochinvar complete furnace unit has met with universal Every claim that has been made for them has been proved since the first Lochinvar furnace was manufactured. Their principles of construction have been justified and proved beyond doubt to be sound and practical. 'The develop- ment of the Lochinvar Multiple-Stage burner (exclusive with Lochinvar) is recognized as the greatest singlé achievement since the introduction of automatic oil heat. It does not have one moving part and it is nociseless. acceptance of the Lochinvar furnace has been so widespread. J. A. BULGER HEATING and PLUMBING approval, Phone 553 The body of Mrs. Lena Peterson' has been found in the debris. Pos- That is why the 224 Front St. | Olin-$hey were: in the:kitchen at [the time of the first sliddy although |they might have run the | house. | | Olin told of assisting Mrs. Matt- | | son during the early evening, bank- ‘ 'ing up the Gastineau Avenue side of the house to prevert water from | entering. The water, caused by the torrential rain, was at fhat time irushing down the hillside,: Word of Ship with Pas- SHELDGN TRACT N sengers Aboard PURGHASEB BY | SEWARD, Alaska, Nov. 27.—Capt. | Heinie Berger is awaiting anxiously for word of the motorship Kasilof, CHAS. WAYNOR Capt. Jack Wilkinson, with several (Continued from Page One) RIDING COOK | INLET STORM ’Capt. Heinie Berger Awaits | passengers aboard. | The Kasilof left Seldovia on No= vember.21 bound for Iliamna, after three attempts to cross Cook Inlet,. |and no word has been received | since. Hope is held that the ship is rid- ing out the storm in a sheltered ;bay on the west side of the inlet. Capt. Berger arrived here Tues- day from Anchorage aboard the | Discoverer and reported he had been wim the worst storm ever experienc- ed on Cook Inlet. It took him |eight days for the trip which usu- lally takes a day and a half or twoj daughters, Mrs. Minnie Brunson and Mrs. Anna May Spaulding The tract is on both sides of the Today Mr. Waynor said that no rdecision had been made as {whether application for annexation tto the city would be made. days. ARRIVES AT SEWARD SEWARD, Alaska, Nov. 27.—Mo- torship Kasilof put in here after — e | { | Is BLOGKED FuR |riding out one of the worst storms lin this section of Alaska in twelve! M. S. KASILOF |RedCrossEnds - Drive with Over $800 gnscrihetlé Committee Workers Are Given Credit for Success of Drive by K. Wildes Exceeding the 1935 annual Amer- ican Red Crass Roll/Call in Juneau by approximately . $200;.’ the 1936 Roll Call ended Thanksgiving Day with $827.90 and & larger member- . ever before, Keith |. ship list 4l G. wildeb,; al Chairman . for the Juneau area,said today, When the: final checkup is- made | today,” this: sumiwill have reached $850, Wildes believes. Other communities in the Juneau area have not yet been heard from, the Geenral Chairman said, and the final report on this district, which includes the northern end of South- east Alaska to Yakutat, will be made when all chapters reports haye reached him. Credit for the increase in local chapter membership and the large subscription total, is due to the) hard work of the committees, Wildes said. Under Mrs. Earle L. Hunter, Jr., a well organized committee of Ju- ! {in the sucsess of the drive just Lucas and memberships. H. 1. Wildes canvassed the busiriess dis- trict and turned in a long list ‘of 100 per cent membership firms. Kenneth Ferguson, Chairman of the Publicity - Committee, . C. B. Anold, Radio Chairman, and the speakers and musiclans who. con- tributed - to . the Red Cross. Roll Call radip programs over ' KINY also contributed an important share ended. Juneau's share in the Red Cross drive funds were put to immediate ' the - establishment of 4 serving hot: coffee to ofr the slide. This was done under the direction of John Newmarker, héad of the local Red Cross Chapter. — e PAROLE REVOKED Willie James: of Sitka, who at- tacked a parole officer in that city earlier in the week, will be re- turned to McNeil Island Peniten< tiary to complete his sentence of two years, according to U. S. Mar- shal William T. Mahoney. B John Keegan, a medical patient, was dismissed from St. Ann's Hos+ pital today. Schilling Coffee One for Percolator Another one for Drip Al Bridge Out and Neces-| y My | sary to Construct Com- SIGK' HBSPITAI: plete New Structure | ‘ | Following the taking of a bus, BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 27. — An {acroes the buckled Salmon Crcek;acute sinus infection confined {bridge on Glacier Highway Wednes- | Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., to a hos- day afternoon, one end of the|pital bed yesterday and - distupted structure collapsed entirely and it!plans for the Presidential tamily will be necessayy to build an en- at their Hyde Park home. tirely new emergency piling struc- ture before the road will be open to traffic, according to the Bureau of Public Roads. Foot passage is| still possible and buses operate on Mrs. Roosevelt hurried here after hearing her son was ill abandoning arrangements for the holiday family | dinner. Henry Cushing, whose sistér mar- both sides of the broken structure, |ried James Roosevelt, the Presi- maintaining service as a result of dent's eldest son, said he did not the foot transfer. consider the infection serious. The old structure will be taken - o e " amamer MENACE OF JAPAN FISHING, ALASKAN said. It may be 10 days or longer | before an emergency structyre can ‘ STOCK QUOTATIONS | —— e = NEW YORK, Nov. 27.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 14%, American Can 122, American Power and Light 11%, Anaconda 498%, Bethlehem Steel 727, Calumet and Hecla 14, Columbia Gas and Electrig 18%,| Commonwealth ‘and Southesn 3%, 1 Curtiss-Wright 6%, General Motors 70%, International Harvester 99%, | Kennecott 59%, New York Central |44%, Simmons 45%, Southern Pa- cific 42, United States Steel 76%, | United Corporation 7%, Cities Serv- lice 3%, Pound $4.89 11/16. | DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 182.81,| up 2.03; rails 5594, up .86; utilities 35.56, up 97. . — NORTH STAR BOUND SOUTH The Indian Bureau vessel North fsur was in Seward on November 124 and will proceed to Southeast| Alaska from there, according to| iword to the Indian office here. —_—eto— Oil was discover®y at the rate of 605,000 barrels daiy in South Texas during the first eight months of 1936, CLEANLINESS . . Goes the Heat from the ESTATE OJL HEATROLA 780-F Series — Made in 3 Sizes . . FLEXIBILITY . . .. ECONOMY and NOISE- LESS OPERATION are characteristic f!f() {‘lx. ESTATE OIL HEAT- . insured by its | ' WATERS, TAKEN UP be erected to serve automobile| traffic. | | The Alaska Committee of the Se- o+ ~ |attle Chamber of Commerce is tak- ing interest in the possible menace to Alaskan fisheries by the Japan- ese fishing in adjacent waters, ac- cording to Charles Waynor, who while in Seattle attended the week- ly meeting of the Committee, at which time the matter, one of in- vestigation by the committee was discussed. In addition to his flying trip to Montana where the purchase of the Sheldon tract was made, Mr. Way- nor made business calls to credit bureaus, in Bellingham, Victoria and Vancouver, B. C, Portland, Oregon, Olympia, Tacoma and Se- attle, before his return on the Princess Louise yesterday. SANITARY GROCERY AND MEAT MARKET ARE BURGLARIZED A sardine-hungry burglar broke into the Sanitary Grocery and Meat Market early Thanksgiving Day, it was reported by officials today, stole $10 from the meat market till and dgparted. Check was being made today to determine if any supplies had been taken. 3 Entrance was made through a trap door in the rear, according to officers. The burglar = apparently had a pair of pliers for -he had cut the wire protection in some places. The fact that the thief was able to work the meat market cash register led to the theory that the burglar may have been familiar with the place or had made a study of it, officers said. It was reported, but unconfirmed, that a second attempt to enter the morning, authorities said. VICTOR ROSS TO BE IN JUNEAU TONIGHT Victor C. Ross, Representative- probably be in Juneau this even- ing, a passenger south aboard the Princess Louise. place had been made early this| elect from the Fourth Division, will |« - Gleams Luxuriously Every piece beautifully trimmed What a Christmas thrill a gift of these exquisite undies will be! Rich, heavy satin and crepe in a variety of colors, trimmed with choice laces, embroidery and drawnwork. Beautifully styled gowns, smooth-fitting slips, ‘_attractive sets and panties. A grand iglqction. New York has sent Juneau the v'eiy" . they ‘are simply divine, ' You will find it to your advantage to shop early to insure best selections.. | i latest in Lingerie . . . Pajamas ... ¢ Chemi Lounging Robes. - They are gargeous ® Gowns L4 emises . . . they are marvelous . . @ Slips ® Panties ® Bandeau Sets o Lounging Robes JUNEAU new. double chamber bow]l burner. Much of the heat in the ordinary cabinet heater goes up and out the ehimney Rated Heating Capacitics 784-F—T7000 to 7600 cu. ft. 783-F—41750-to 5250 cu. ft. - - 4 4 HILS t 782-F—4000 to 5000 cu. ft. ardware Co. . . . but that cannot happen in the new HEATROLA. The Intensi-fire in the HEATROLA puts all the heat to work by its double air circulating. Estate Heatrola—With the famous fuel-saving Intensi-fire air duct—at Thomas _,,H § ne o™ : §: | ¢ PHONE Mr. Ross, who is an interior airplane pilot, is accompanied : by his ‘wife: and the* two arrived: at BSkagway yesterday aboard the Noel Wein plane from Fairbanks. Mr. and Mrs. . Ross. are enroute to Portland, where he is a delegate to the Northwest Aviation Plan- ning Council. Later both will go to Los An- geles, returning here in time for the opening of the Legislature. ———— O’CONNOR’S IN HOSPITAL 555 James O'Connors, cook on the Alaska Game Commission vessel Seal, is confined to St. Ann's Hos- pital, suffering from pleurisy. He was stricken when the Seai was enroute to Yakutat, the vessel re- turning here to bring him to the ¥