The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 15, 1937, Page 2

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, FEB. 15, 1937. |IIII|III||IIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIII|IIIIII|||IlIIIIIIIIlIINIIIIIIIIIIIIII BLOUSE and SKIRT SA Freshen up your wardrobe with a new BLOUSE or SKIRT or BOTH . LE . Lovely Blouses in georgettes, crepes, lace and satins .. . an array from to sell at 14 All Skirts in of colors to choose Off Stock 1-4 Off HOUSE WARES SALE CONTINUES UPSTAIRS B.M. Behrends Co., Inc. Juneau’s Leading Department Store. | T FIVE SENATORS BACK BRUNELLE MINERAL LEVY Cochran, Powers, Roden Oppose Three Per Cent on Total Output (Continuea frcm Page One) States and the Secretary of the In- terior: “We, your Memorialists, the Leg- islature of the Territory of Alaska, in the Thirteenth Regular Session assembled, uo most respectfully and carnestly represent that: “Whereas the term of the office of the Governor of Alaska Is about to expire and an appointment is to be made by the President; and, “Whereas, the Honorable John W. Troy has served Alaska faith- fully and well during his term of office, and has administered the high office of Governor of this Ter- ritory with impartiality and fair- ness to all; and, “Whereas, the people of Alaska, regardless of political affiliation, desire the reappointment of Gov- ernor Troy, and, Whereas, because of Governor Chlldrens Colds /Best treated without 'dosing”™ Troy's experience in the -office of Governor, his long residence in and knowledge of the Territory, he is exceptionaily well suited to admin- |ister the affairs of the Territory. “Now Therefore, we, your Me- morialists, the Legislature of the Territory of Alaska, most respect- fully endorse the administration of Governor Iroy and urge and pray for the reappointment of the Hon- orable John W. Troy as Governor of Alaska for the coming term.” ——————— PRISONERS IN mandeer Truck, Make Their Escape RALEIGH, N. C,, Feb. 15. — Four or more prisoners kidnaped Capt. R. D. Hinton, in charge of the per- sonnel of the Caldeonia Prison Farm, also steward W. L. Roberts, and escaped in the direction of the Virginia State line. Later, Chairman Capus Waynick, of the Highway Commission, report- ed the prisoners commandeered a state prison truck. All telephone lines to the farm have been cut. e e — NOTICE Steamer Alaska of the Alaska Steamship Co., is due soon with large cargo. We will appreciate it from S.8. Yukon will remove same promptly to make room for the in- coming cargo. adv. PACIFIC COAST DOCK FIESTA have taken the country by stormm and the potteries are having difficulty in supplying the demand. The bright cheerful coloring lend a variety and charm to the table that is particularly pleasing. Our new stock of this popular ware is now on display and we urge you to see it. 20-PIECE (Starter Set) MIXING BOWLS in qll sizes in RED, GREEN, YELLOW and BLUE. Attractively designed colored TUMBLERS to Match Your Dishes Specially priced at $1.80 per dozen 18-Piece Set of TUMBLERS—3 sizes of glasses in charming colors. Only 51.85 Our entire main floor dlsplay room has been remodeled and rearranged so that you will enjoy spending an hour or so wandering through this depart- ment. items to make your room more liveable 3009 Tadt oad ger £ligs R S So many new and interesting kitchen and dining and attractive. i1 JUNEAU-YOUNG HARDWARE G(l | ot b0 FRerist | Abduct Two-()?ficials; Com-| if shippers having freight on dock | SVENSSON IS SUCCESSORTO DAVE BRANCH Veleran of Sea, New Man-| ager, Salmon Department of Libby, McNeill, Libby (Seattle Times) Capt. Fred Svensson, who recent- ly was appointed manager of the salmon department of Libby, Mc- Neill & Libby in Seattle, succeed- ing David W. Branch, former windjammer skipper who |first went to sea as a lad of 15 |years. Captain Svensson was mate of the Seas, built in Boston by Donald |the: bark Beylin and the ship Wil- liam H. Macy. From 1897 until 1907, he was with the Alaska Pack-| ers’ Association of San Francisco. For twenty-five ' years, Captain Svensson has been in the employ of ‘Libby, McNeill and Libby. The veteran of the sea lanes announced that the name of the cannery ship Santa Olivia, pur- chased last year in New York from W. R. Grace & Co., will be chang- ed to David W. Branch in honor of his predecessor. Mr. Branch was with Libby, McNeill & Libby forty -four years. During his ‘long service, he saw the transition of the Alaska sal- mon cannery fleet from picturesque sailing ships to steamships and mo- tor vessels. From one cannery ten- der, Libby, McNeill & Libby float- ing equipment was developed to a fleet of 130 craft of various sizes and types. The Santa Olivia was one of three| Grace interests just after the world war. The other vessels were the Santa Isabel and Columbia. The latter was lost off the Mexican coast about nine years ago. The Santa Olivia was launched as the Ecuador. She is of 5544 gross tons register, 395 feet long over all, with a beam of 48.7 feet. In the spring she will sail for the Alaska salmon plants as the steamship David W. Branch, laden with cannery workers. fishermen, Innd supplies, and in the fall will ireturn with holds filled with the harvest of the silver horde. NELL SCOTT IS BPWC Is vamg Dinner Tonight Also for Wives < of Legislators Honoring Representative Nell Scott and the wives of the Legisla- tors, the Business and Professional ‘Women are giving a dinher tonight in the Juneau Coffee Shoppe. Fifty reservations have been made. Toastmistress for the evening is Mrs. William Paul, president of, the B.P.W.C, ang tnose honored at the speaker’s $shle will be Nell Scott, Mrs. Crystal Snow Jenne, Mrs. J. V. Hickey, Mrs.- R, R. Hermann, and Mrs. Betty McCormick. Mrs. J. V. Hickey, heading the in- ternational relations group, is co- chairman with Mrs. Crystal Snow Jenne, .who. leads the legulat.lve committee. Trans-Atlantic Airmail Wil Have Subsldy House Appropnalmns Com- mittee Recommends ‘F unds WASHINGTON, Feb. 15. — The House Appropriation Committee to-: to subsidize trans-Atlantic air mail service ‘starting about November x, (1937. 4 Twice weekly round trips between New York, South America and Eng- land with glant passenger-carrying flying boats are contemplated. The British Imperial Airways is scheduled fo being a similar semi- weekly crossing at the same time. ‘The appropriation recommend- ed is about $§750,000 based on 'a mail subsidy of $2 a' mile. Hearings brought ouf’the infor- mation that airships much larger than the. clippers now flying the Pacific are under consideration, The 3,500 mile northern route from New Foundland would be used six months of the year, and the 5,000 mile jourpey via Bermuda and the Azores during the ouwr six months, ENTERS HOSPITAL it Tom Am\erong. a medlcal pa- tient, entered St. Ann's Hospital yesterday. e ———— LEAVES HOSPITAL Mrs. Victor Spaulding, a surgical patient, . was - dismissed from St Ann's Hospital yesterday. ¢ retired, is a| famed old sailing ship Glory of the| McKay in 1869, and also sailed in| ships acquired in Holland by the| 0 BE HONORED day approved ‘a ‘request”for funds{ Northland Here Dn First Trip Since Ildluck Motorshxp Is to Relurn to | Juneau. After Calling at Sitka — Bnngs Ten Commanded by Capt. L. Williams, and with Furser E. P. Winch back on the job after illness which over- took him last September, and kept| him confined to a hospital bed| during most of the maritime strike. the motorship Northland, the firstj vessel of the Northland Transpor- tation Company to Alaska since the | termination of the strike, docked | here this morning at 10 o'clock. | {from Petersburg where she left at 12:30 o'clock this morning. Ten passengers came to Juneau on the Northland, and there are four aboard, going through to Sitka, | jall from Seattle. The motorship| brought no local passengers to Ju- neau. The cargo aboard the vessel for Juneau consists of slightly more than three¢ hundred tons of gen- eral merchandise, mostly groceries some of which was aboard when the vessel made her last fruitless, un- dischargeable voyage to Southeast Alaska just as the strike was sel- ting in last October. The vessel also has aboard con-| siderab'e bulk and case oil for the| Union Oil Company here, which will probably be unloaded on her return to Juneau from Sitka, for where she is scheduled to sail short- ly after midnight. 1 Much of the Northland's for Sitka is made up of goods that were not unloaded there on her last voyage, and contains Christmas toys and materials for the repair of the| Sitka power house. The Nurthlumu is expected to arrive back at Ju-| neau from Sitka Wednesday eve- ning, and sail. back to the South from here Thursday morning. The Northland is still carrying| mail under her company's winter | mail contract. The vessel also brought to Ju-| neau much of the cargo left behind steamer’s last voyage to Alaska. Good news to Juneau merchants who have been getting along with opaque board windows since the recent violent Taku gale that de; molished many Juneau display panes, Jies in the large quantity of plate glass aboard the Northland for this port. Passengers coming to Juneau from Seattle aboard the Northland were: Ray Stevens, agent for the North- land Company, M. Peterson, I. Hall- quist, Jerry Reiland, George Hein- old, Ben Knight, Louie McCallum, | A. G. Norman, Carl Suterland, and | Carol Edwards. Passengers through to Sitka from Seattle aboard the Northland are: | Mrs. J. L. Cashen, Emil Knudsen, | Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Stewart. ———— ONE HUNDRED IN CLASSES | AT COOKING Final Demonstrations Held | Here Until During Next Apnl At the concludlng cooking dem- onstrations given Friday night and Saturday afternoon in the parlors of the Northern Light Presbyterian Church a total of 100 women were present to take advantage of the lessons which are sponsored by the Territorial Public Schools. According to Vena L. Crone, in- structor, - the cooking classes will be resumed again the latter part of April. Those givenr awards at Satur- day’s class were: Mrs. W. O. Carl- son, Mrs. Dave Carlson, of Thane; Mrs. J. E. Neate, Mrs. Frank Har- ris, Mrs, N. Cheney, Mrs. George Tanner, Mrs. J. E. McKinley, Mrs. J. Fowler; Mrs. Al Zenger, Mrs. J. Meifer of: Thane, Mrs. J. Mec- Dermott. MOLLER BACK FOR - SKI RACES SUNDAY Dan ‘Moller, donor of the trophy for which the men skiers will com- pete next Sunday afternoon in ‘the Annual Downltill Ski Race, and who is connected with the Forest Service here, returned to Juneau from Ketchikan by AAT plane last Saturday’ afternoon. 'Mr. Moller, who has been vaca- tioning dh the States for the past six or seven weeks, enjoying his ski- ing' in ‘the resorts of the Pacific Coast’ and the Rocky Mountains, timed his'arrival back here so that he would: be on deck to witness the big racé next Sunday, the race Lh.t owes its inspiration to him. - PLEADS GUILTY OF ILLEGAL TRAPPING Reverflng his ‘request for trial by jury, t Kelley, arrested at ‘Wrangell Friday, by Warden H. R. Sarber, of, the Alaskd Game Com- mission, for trapping during closed season, Saturday afternoon plead guilty to the charge before U, 8. Commissioner. Richard Surratt, at ‘Wrangell, and was fined $50. and sentenced to thirty days in jail, * L.gmmmuum\m|u|||m|u|||||IM|mm|||||||||mnmmmlmmml|||mml:mummmmunmmmmmmmmnimmmlummmmulllmmmmmmmuuu T i b ROBBED; 1 MAN SHOT,WOUNDED Trio Make Bold Hold-up Shortly Before Noon— Escape with $5,000 SPOKANE, Wash, Feb. 15— Three men held up the Security State Bank shortly before the noon hour today, shot W. E. Walker, a customer in the bank, and escaped with about $5,000. The men were armed with pistols | and shotguns. The bandits forced A. D. Davis, | Vice-President, half a dozen em- ployees and as many customers into a vault and took all the money in sight, then started to leave the bank when Walker entered. “I'll take care of him,” one of the robbers shouted and fired one shot. Walker was then dragged into a back room of the bank. The trio fled in a dark green sedan. Walker was ta_ken to a hospital | in a still conscious condition but his wound may be serious. A squadron of motorcycle offic- ers, State Patrolmen and carloads of deputy sheriffs immediately formed a mnet arbund the city guarding all highways. — e e DUST STORMS - IN2STATES OKLAHOMA CITY Okla., Feb. 15.—Blinding billows of dust swept over Northwest Texas and most of | Oklahoma today. This .is the second time wnhm two days that dust storms have pre- vailed. Visibility is only one block at| Guymon, Okla., and Amerillo, Texas. - MISS YOUNG RECOVERING Miss Edith Young rapidly from the appendicitis op- pltal today. is . recovering | 'SPOKANE BANK MALLOTTE GIN CASE IS NOW BEFORE COURT Jury Selected for Trial This Morning — Testimony Taken in Aftemopn‘ Hearing of the case against Joe and Hazel Mollotte, of Yakutat, charged with alleged liquor law violations, came before the Federal District Court here today. [voted to empaneling a trial jury to hear the action. Direct testi- mony was being heard in the court session this afternoon. Jurors finally meeting with the approval ‘of the prosecution and of defense counsel Mrs. Mildred Hermann are: Lockie MacKinnon, V. F. Williams, Flora Kirkham, R. C. Rieck, Mrs. Guy McNaugh-| ton, Mrs. W. K. Burford, Mrs. | Charles Sey, Katie E. Jarman, Mrs. | Elmer Garnes, F. J. Jonas, Jessie| | Harmon, and Sigurd Mathieson. | Miliions Filing For Old Age Benefit PrOgram WASHINGTON Feb. 15. — The | Social Becurity Board has on file 123,647,461 employe applications for 'participnuon in the old age benefit rogram. The total includes Alaska with 2,000 applicants, ‘Washinglon . state 290,556, Oregon 153,076. Seattle applicants number 156,- 750, Portland 120,500 and Spokane 43,771, e DAN KENNEDY IS BETTER Representative Dan Kennedy, |who has been “ill with the flu in | St. Ann’s: Hospital, is. up and around again and has returned to the Leg- islature session, { e — HAS OPERATION Mrs. Havei Simonson, of Kake by the Gen. W. C. Gorgas on thu‘crauon she underwent recently and underwent an operation Saturday was able to leave St. Ann’s Hos- morning at St. Ann’s Hospital and |ture at Dutch Harbor being 18 above, St. Paul Island, 10 above, and is doing nicely. This morning’s session was de- U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHKR BUREAT THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau, Forecast for Jurieau and vicinity, beginning at 4 p.m,, Feb. 15, Cloudy tonight and Tue: y, probably snow; moderate south< erly winds. LOCAL DATA Barometer Temj, Humidity Wind Velocity Weather 28.87 35 87 SE 14 Lt. Snow 29.20 33 59 w 7 Cloudy 2029 34 64 s 10 Pt. Cldy CABLE AND RADIO REPORTS YESTERDAY TODAY Highest 4p.m. Lowest4a.m. 4am. Pracip. 4am, temp. temp. temp. temp. vélncity 24hrs. Weather 286 26 2 22 12 .08 Clear 20 I 8 — —_— -26 -28 -28 -28 -6 -6 -24 -22 -10 =12 =20 -16 0 -2 -18 -16 -2 -2 -10 -8 24 12 10 14 30 24 18 18 26 24 12 14 32 30 24 24 36 35 29 33 37 & 28 - 40 38 32 32 40 36 32 34 34 22 20 22 . 44 44 38 38 8 ¢ | 34 3 & T e TR i 50 38 { 30 30 20 18 i Washington 48 40 | 28 30 4 .06 | WEATHET, CONDITION AT 8 A. M. TODAY Seattle (airport), cloudy, temperature 38; Blaine, cloudy, 40; Vic- itana cloudy, 41; Alert Bay, ralnmg 37; Bull Harbor, sleeting, 33; Triple Island, partly cloudy; Lahgara Island, - partly - cloudy, 32; = Rupert, | partly cloudy, 32; Ketchikan, clear, 31; Craig, cloudy, 30; Wrangell, ‘clear 32; Petersburg, partly cloudy, 25; Sitka, .clear, 29; Radioville, snow and rain, 28; Soapstone. Point, ¢loudy, 32; Juneau, cloudy, 30; Skagway, cloudy; 23; St. Elias, 'snowing, 32; Cordova, snowing, 23; Copper River, snowing;. Chitina, cloudy, -6; McCarthy, cloudy, 12; Anchorage, snowing, 8; Fairbanks, cloudy, -14; Nenana, cloudy, -10; Hot, Springs, cloudy, -12; Tanana, eloudy, -18;. Rusy, cloudy, -25; | Nulato, clear, -40; Kaltag, clear, -40; Unalakleet, clear, -28; Flat, partly cloudy, I; Ohegamute, cloudy, -18. WEATHER SYNOPSIS The ‘storm ‘area ‘noted Saturday morning as being centered over the Aleutians, moved rapidly. efistward and by Sunday morning it had moved to the Gulf of Alaska and greatly increased in intensity. The storm area continued this ‘morning over the Gulf of Alaska but with | decreased. intensity:and a pertion of it moved inland to northern Al- |berta. High barometric pressure prevailed this morning = from the ‘West Coast States westward to the Hawaiian Islands: Precipitation lhas fallen over most of Alaska during the past 24 hours, followed by | clearing 'this morning over Southeastern Alaska and over the interior land western portions of the Territory. It was colder last night over the Bering Sea region, the tempera- Time 4 p.m. yest'y 4 am. today 12 noon tocay { i L Station Atka 1 Anchorage Barrow Nome Bethel Fairbanks 1 Dawson St. Paul Dutch Harbor Kodiak | Cordova | Junean | Sitka | Ketchikan ‘Prmcc Rupert | Edmonton | Seattle | Portland San Francisco | New York Clear Clear Clear Pt. Cldy Cloudy Pt. Cldy Cloudy Cloudy Snow Cloudy Clear Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Pt. Cldy Clear Cloudy Clear 20 below at Bethel. * IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIllllIIiIIIIIIIIIlIIIlIIIIIIIIIIlllIIIIIIIII"IIII|mIIIIIIIIII'IIIII|l|III|||I|IIllIIIIIII"IIIIII|IIIIIIlI|IIIIIIIIIIIIl|IIIIIIIlIIIIIII|IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII! month, new or months, months, new or months, new or menths, new or months, new or months, new or prior to February 27. all the détails. of by a candidate during the contest. A special extra vote of 10,000 will be issued with éach new nine months or y'ear’i subscription turned in renewal ... .. . new or remeweal ... ... 3 renewRl At e ol R renewal PROMWRE: e N renewal . renewal ... .. .. BONUS VOTES—A special additional ballot of 100,000 votes will be issued for each club of $50 turned in This club may be HOW TO ENTER Fill out nomination blank and send to: Circulgtion Contest Manager, Daily Alaska Empire - - - Either Al Zenger or Iohn Satre will gwe you all supphes cnd expltnn (LIRSS O SN R R S NOMINATION BLANK Daily Alaska Empire “Everybody wins campaign” 1 hereby nominate My o Ul o as a candidate in The Daily Alaska Empire Everybody wins campaign and agree to help her win the marvelous trip to Califorhia and Old Mexico. NOTE—Only one nomination blank and 20,000 complimentary votes accepted for each candidate. 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