The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 24, 1937, Page 2

NEW ARRIVALS for SPRING Hardeman Hats in this excellent shipment of attrac- tive hats . and they're Hardeman Hats! GRAY—PEARL—NECTAR MIDNIGHT: $ 5.00 each B.M. Behrends Co., Inc. Juneau's Leading Department Store VE¥Y FORNANCE ARRIVES WITH DOUGLAS HOOP TEAMS THIS A. M. gone, because of the disaster that struck the city. yesterday. Capt. John . W. Gaddis is = in charge, and under orders: from Col. Ralph W. Dusenbury investigated the Douglas. disaster in relation to any aid the army might afford, and today . reported on the situation to Col. Dusenbury. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Wharton brought their small daughter, suf- fering from an eye injury to Ju- neau, aboard the Fornance for med- ical treatment here. Capt. Gaddis said that Major L. D. Soper had received orders of transfer to Fort Benning, Ga. Be- fore going to his new. post Major Soper will spend two months at the neighbors that had been planned for Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, taking the 13 members of the two Doug- an advanced surgical course avail-! las hoop squads, had to be fore-|able to' aimy “doctors. the victorious Douglas High Schol basketball team, and he not riumphant Douglas Eag- lets back to their smoldering city ing their recent at the tender Capt. James from Chilkoot Barracks arrived here this morning at 9 o- clock. Bring series Fornance will return to the r tomorrow morning after ving mail here for the post The roaring welcome by their k Sanitary Meat o, ED SHAFFER, Manager Is incz\lly owned and independent market deserving of your patronage. TRY —For after all “PLEAS- ING YOU MEANS OUR SUCCESS!” CORNED BEEF 19 Boned and Rolled bl B Our Own Cure—Mild and Sweet HAM The Ham What Am”_1b. — By the piece b, Lean and Tasty! SHORTENING Fresh Stock—One Pound Cartons CHILI BRICKS ' A REAL TREAT Ib. 30 Just the Thing for These Cold Days! PORK SAUSAGE GLEASON'S HOME MADE !b‘4n “THE TALK OF THE TOWN” -Fast Delivery '!‘rucks-z PHONES 13 and 49 "PLEASING YOU MEANS OUR SUCCESS" e 20 WEINERS—BOLOG LIVERWURST “SWIFT'S BEST” 1033500000084 | |ing of . Councilmen Marcus Jensen, |the WPA office and others, to go !Johnson are in charge of distribu- | IS MANIFESTED BY ISLANDERS {Plans for Rehabilitation Al- ready Started by Doug- las Residents ! (Continued from Page One) | R man of the Red Cross, wired to Mr. Robertson from his headquarters in San neisco today asking that the local Red Cross chapter extend any emergency aid possible in the way of supplying family needs, tem- {porary housing and assistance in jgetting - families feet |again. | “Because upon their most of the families who were burned out have the | heads of their household wage- jearners who feel they can get on their feet again without more than |temporary assistance, the task of ithe Red Cross is not as great as it |seemed af first, However, we are |doing everything we can to assist the people who suffered in the dis- aster yesterday,” Mr. Robertson | said, “The housing problem is diffi- cult, there are few vacancies in Ju- nean to offer people. Most of those who suffered from the fire desire to remain in Douglas, and we are en- couraging them to find temporaryj housing with friends or relatives there, whenever possible.’ Donations to aid Douglas should be sent to Mayor Goetz or to Allen | Shattuck, treasurer of the Red Cross, in Juneau. Where They Are Pastmaster Guy. Smith and Mrs. Smith are living temporarily.in the Government School Building. Mr. Smith is also agent for The Empire and the papers will be delivered to him at his temporary home. Mr. and Mrs. W. Burr Johnson are temporarily at the home of{ Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Wyller in Ju- neau. Rehabilitation Plans The Mayor's committee, consist- A..J. Balog, Thomas Cashen, Lew | ! {by the Legion in securing aid from rangements to open a store in the Bacon ‘building and in the mean- time he will take orders at his home for meat and groceties (o serve his patrons and others. A Bond Bil Again . regular delivery service will be Is I"‘rmuced l" maintained until his place of busi- ness is opened. { ]3"] I-E islal‘"ra Emmett Botelho, in spite of re-' g Iports, declares that he is not a hero. While he took the Grant Lo- : gan children from their home dur. Memorial Urges Passage of ing the Douglas fire yesteraay, &t Dimond Proposal As Step was - all in the course of siness,’ : 2 {and, no hurried Tast miaute o in Developing Territory from &k T LF fi volved}i e s CERNG e 1n Killed in the form of a resolu- According to Botelho's story, he tion in the Senate cnr}ler in the |was trying to help firemen and oth- S€SSi01. 2 memorial urging passage |ers in saving belongings threatened © the Dimond bonded‘ indebtedness {by the fire. Working around the bill by Congress was introduced in |Kilburn apartments, he saw that the ‘ferritorial House of Repre- {the back of the bullding had caught ScViatives by Victor B. Ross of the |afire, went into the Logan apart- Fourth Division. ment where the children were play- !¢ memorial s ing in the front reem, and told Lo- °hActing of legis ess gan that the back of the building PC'™it!ing the Territory to incur in- {had started to burn and they had 4°Ptedness up to two million dolls | better get out. Logan, who proved would be a great step toward its forth that the story reported yesierday, had his Percentages which would be allot arms full of clothes, so Botelno (°d to each general undertaking, took the children and Logan, °M¢ Of the points of contest in the as.many family belongings as his ¢arlier resolution. arms could carry and he and Bo- Under the Ross memorial 30 per telho deposited the children and °¢Pt Of any monies raised undér the rescued .clothing up on the hill "¢ Dimond bill, if enacted, would out of danger. go to airfields and aerial navigation However, Grant Logan was able 2105, 40 per cent would go to high- to save little else.and today. was in "a¥s and 30 per cemt to public in- Juneau purchasing work clothes }\l};lm:am such as hospitals and the ike. - BRANT IS LEAVIN ON STREAM SURVEY Legion Ready to Help William Johnson, Commander of the American Legion, said that the American Legion would continue to give any aid it could to Douglas fire sufferers. | On the Legion committee yester- The U. S. F. 8. Brant is .eaving day, furnishing coffee and dough- tcnight with Alaska Agent L. G. nuts to those on the scene of the Wingard and Warden J. Steele Cul- fire were Mrs. E. M. Polley and Mrs. bertson for a stream survey trip Homer Nordling. which will take them as far south Two families who applied to the as Wrangell and possibly to Ket- Legion for help today were assisted chikan. | Some stream investigation work the Red 'Cross: was done in the vicintiy of Ket- “We are ready to do anything we chikan and Wrangell a few weeks can,” Mr. Johnson said, “but we ago but further work was post- found. that the , Douglasites werc poned for a break in the weather, pretty well able ~to- take care of to be the unidentified man jn the development and further sets up the as it was found very difficult and often impossible to get into many | of the streams, such as Anan| Creek, where almost the entire {lagoon w covered with ice from | l\lwc» to five inches thick. The Brant will be out for about la week and will return to Juneau| |after the first of March to take| Bureau employees, here during the | present session of the Alaska Leg-| |islature, to Seaftle to commence {preparations for the coming fish- | |ing season. | Warden Donald 8. Haley and one stenographer will remain on| duty in the Juneau office. - - Prepare for ; War Warning Anchorage |Given Soviets Barrow | Nome | MOSCOW, Feb. 24. — Three hun- | Bethel dred thousand soldiers of the Red |Fairbanks !Army and also the Soviet people|Dawson were warned today to prepare for|St. Paul the “war threat” from Japan and!Dutch Harbor Germany. 504K Today is the nineteenth anniver- | Cordova sary of the Army and is being cele- | Juneau |brated throughout far-flung Russia, | Sitka LI Qg r o | Ketchikan ...... Victar. . Moore, . the ; cofedian, | EXince Rupert {writes poetry in a serious ven, | omonton o "\Vp ¥ 4 itk | Seattle Portland San Francisco |New York | Washington li. 767 DEPA;TMENT OoF AGRIC!’!LTUI’;E, WEATHKR BUREAT o - THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau, Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4 p.m., Feb. 24. Rain or snow tonight and Thursday; moderate to fresh southeast winds LOCAL DATA Barometer Tem,. Humidity Wind Velocity 20.6) ot 63 SE 12 20,69 4 b8 sE 12 2000 44 58 SE 16 CABLE AND RADIG REPORTS YESTERDAY TODAY Highest 4p.m. 4a.an, Piecip. 4a.m. temp. temp. velovity 2¢hrs. WeuaLner 40 40 16 Cloudy .33 2 -4 0 10 14 0 38 38 36 40 .. 40 Time 4 pm. ye 4 aun. tod 112 noon Wity ‘Weather Lt. Snow Et. Rain Lt. Rain Lowestda.m. temp. temp. 36 40 TR 24 22 210 -8 Sg Ay 14 -8 -8 -2 30 34 34 38 22 24 24 44 34 10 42 36 -14 42 42 50 Station Atka -16 0 10 12 0 38 38 40 38 34 Clear Pt. Cldy Clear loudy Cloudy Cloudy . Ramn Clear Cloudy Rain L owSe coBorHdosccH - e e s 46 54 14 60 60 . 58 44 40 34 34 12 50 46 3 3 8 WEATHER, CONDITION AT 8 A. M. TODAY Seattle (airport), partly cloudy, temperature 36; Blaine, partly cloudy, 40; Victoria, partly cloudy 50; Aiert Bay, cloudy, 42; Bull Har- bor, cloudy, 44; Triple Island, raining; Langara Island, cloudy, 40; | Prince Rupert, cloudy, 39; Ketchikan, raining, 43; Craig, cloudy, 42; Wrangell, cloudy, 40; Petersburg, cloudy, 43; Sitka, raining, 40; Soap- istone Point, raining, 36; Juneau raining, 40; Skagway, cloudy, 34; | 8t. Elias, snowing, 38; Cordova, cioudy, 30; Copper River, partly clou- |dy; Chitina, cloudy, 2; McCarthy, clear, 6; Anchorage, partly cloudy, | 6; Fairbanks, cloudy, -8; Hot Springs, snowing, 5; Tanana, cloudy, -16; !Ruby, clear, -19; Nulato, clear, -22; Kaltag, clear, -28; Flat, foggy, -U; ’Ohogamute, ciear, -15; Sovoonga, clear, 9. WEATHER SYNOPSIS Low barometric pressure prevailed this morning from the Aleutian |Islands southeastward to California, there being two storm centers, one | centered about 150 miles west of D.xon Entrance, where a pressure of 129.20 inches was reported. The second storm area was centered over |the Pacific Ocean at latitude 44 degrees and longitude 166 degrees, where a pressure of 29.30 inches prevailed. High barometric pressure 40 34 -14 40 42 50 Rain Rain Clear Clear Cloudy Rain Cloudy Snow 46 46 8 50 58 54 N 20 HoHoBolRE 1lling Tea /as more | flaver because irs toasted themselves. and .very, few .are seck- ing outside aid,” - e |prevailed from the Seward Peninsula and Barrow southeastward over |northwestern Canada to the Rocky Mountain States, the crest being 130.64 inches at Fort Simpson. This general pressure distribution has been attended by precipitation along the coastal regions from Cape St. SIMMONS, MAKES FLIGHT With: a group of four pioneers Nunamaker, Joe Reidi; Ed MeCor~| mick and . residents F. A. J, Gall-| was, Guy Smith, Mike Pusich, John | Marin, Charles A. Fox and L. 'W.! Kilburn . met - last: night-in Lew| Nunamaker’s -home and: . conferred | at length with Ross Gridley, PWA | State Engineer, Gordon Wildes, of | into details and plans for the re-| construction of Douglas. Two committees to facilitate the inception of the proposed work were appointed. The first com-| mittee made up of Mayor A. E. Goetz, Marcus Jensen and F. A. J. Gallwas, Wi appointed to meet with members of the L,cgislanf,ure1 and Governor Troy. | Fund Distribution The second committee, Tom Cashen and City Clerk W. Burr tion of funds. Mr. Gridley explained how -if other funds: could be raised it would be possible to get PWA grants for rehabilitation purposes up to 45 per cent of the amounts otherwise raised. The committee voted to request sufficient funds from the Legisla- ture for a new school house, and also $15,000 for immediate use to meet the emergencies that confront the residents preparatory to recon- struetion. Reconstruction committees were meeting this afternoon in Douglas with Mayor Goetz to go further into the rehabilitation problem with which the community is faced. Virginia and Dorothy - Langseth, | daughters' of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Langseth, who were burned out in vesterday's fire at Douglas, are house guests of Mrs. Joe Wilson at her home on Sixth Street. The Salvation Army in Juneau has some clothing ready to distri- bute to needy Douglas sufferers, ac- cording to announcement made to- day. The. Government school has been designated- temporary headquarters of Douglasites according to an- nouncement made this morning. It is understood that the post office will be quartered there for the time being and others seeking locations will be accommodated as long ‘as space is available. The officers and crew of the steamer - Bering, of the . Alaska Steamship . . Company, contributed $14 to relief of Douglas sufferers ac- cording to Juneau officials. This amount will be turned over to the proper officials. Alber§ E. Goetz.has made' ar- * for Tenakee, and also carrying Kiska. | | Perseverance, from the Interior going to the Pioneers’ . Home - at Sitka:. H. A Shepperd, John Smith, James Kirk and C..H. Wilson, and W. D, Trim ch'ld Union No. 1092 Brotherhoed of PAINTERS, DECORATORS and PAPERHANGERS of AMERICA Is Having a SPECIAL MEETING in the Union Hall, Friday, Feb. 26 AT 7:30 P. M. mail, ‘Pilot Sheldon Simmons flew the Alaska Air Transport Lockheed to Sitka from Juneau this morn- ing; leaving at 10 o'clock and re- turning empty at 2:15 o'clock this afternoon. Simmons was grounded yesterday by bad weather. On the return from his second flight to Sitka Monday he brought back with him to Juneau Harold B. Foss, Ray D Peterman, Sitka's Mayor, Peter Krostrometinoff, and Herman BARR BACK IN TUWN Having completed temporary re- pairs to his plane, damaged in the recent violent Taku gales, Pilot L. F. Barr landed back in Juneau from Twin Glaciers Lodge on the Taku River Monday afternoon, and is now engaged in replacing the| damaged rudder on his Pilgrim plane. ciicencue R - A. N. NILES HERE I All painters are urged to attend, non- A. N. Niles, former resident Of! Gastineau . Channel, employed at| Alaska Juneau and Thane, arrived in Juneau today and is registered at the Zynda| Hotel. He is enroute to the Tenakee | Hot Springs. union painters are requested to attend for a discussion of conditions. Perfect Naturals What a very appropriate name for « RUG, woven from natural wool of sheep from all parts of the world. A RUG beautifully designed and depending for its charming colors on the undyed wool of sheep from India, China; Australia and America. A RUG that stands the abuse of tracked mud and snow as well as the bright sunlight without fading. No won- der this latest achievement of FIRTH'S artists has met with such instant popularity. Its soft blended colorings lend themselves to various decgrcxtive schemes and your rug becomes an unob- trusive background for your furniture and draperies. When such magazines as Arts and Decoration, Amer- ican Home and Good Housekeeping comment favor- ably on this new arrival on the rug market, you can feel assured of its correctness. PERFECT NATURALS " See the beautiful now on display ‘]u‘neau'-Young Hardware Co. Elias southward to Dixon Entrance, also over the Aleutians, and by fair weather over most of the interior, western, and northern Alaska. | It was warmer last night over the Mackenzie Valley and _ upper | Yukon Valley and colder at Fairbansk and at Barrow. | LINDBERGHS UNREPORTED IN 18 HOURS Flying Couple Finally Reaches Bombay After Aerial Tour Over India BOMBAY, Feb. 24.—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and his wife landed here at 1 o'clock this afternoon. The flying couple had not been reported for the past 48 hours on their aerial jaunt over India. They spent the night at Udaipur. The last report of the couple, previous to arrival here, was that they had left Jodhpur on Monday after- noon. - 'MOYER INSURANCE ACTION IS LEFT TO. JUDGE’S DECISION Most of the session of the Fed- |eral District Court here today was confined to hearing the action brought by Mannow D. Moyer against the Mutual Benefit and | Health Association. A trial jury was empaneled dur- |ing. the morning and testimony was heard. The case was first sent to |the jury at 3 o'clock this afternoon, |then on motion by Doth counsels, |the jury was recalled and discharg- led, and the case left to the discre- ition of the Court. i The case was taken from the jury, | when it developed that it contained no matters of fact for the jury’s | consideration, only points of law. { Members of the petit jury panel were today excused by Judge George F. Alexander until next Monday morning at 10 o'clock. ‘Alaska” by Lester D. Henderson. M. 5. ESTEBETH ENDS | ROUGH VOYAGE WITH | FIVE FOR THIS PORT Slowed considerably by rough weather encountered on almost the entire voyage to Sitka and way ports, the motorship Estebeth, | commanded by Capt. G. Gustafson, |arrived back at Juneau at 9:30 0'- ‘clock last evening, with five pas- sengers for Juneau aboard. Coming to Juneau from Sitka jon the Estebeth was Peter R. Strong; from Kimshan Cove, W. |Lahikanin and Alex Strait; from {Tenakee, Pete Jellich; and from |Hoonah, H. Moses. The Estebeth will probably sail ’from Juneau again on her regular island run tomorrow evening at 6 fo'clock, Purser Dave Ramsay an- | nounced. CRIMSON BEARS | BACK IN JUNEAU | ack from Skagway from a suc- cgssful conquest for the Northern Division Championship basketball ,‘utle, the Juneau Crimson Bears returned here this forenoon and at |11 o'clock a rousing rally was held 'in the High School for the squad. The Juneau High took both games ifrom the Skagway Polar Bears. Coach Hautala introduced = the {members of the team and each |spoke a few words at the rally. Those making the trip were Cil- bert DeVault, Bud Brown, John | Krugness, Roy Smith, Joe Smith, Harold Hanson, Henry Behrends, and Coach W. P. Hautala. The Petersbuiz high school bas- ketball five, champions of the Southern division, is expected to come to Juneau next week for the championship games. The players will be accompanied by Coach Les- lie Wingard. ——————— Luise Rainer mastered nearly 200 Chinese words and learned to write 80 -Chinese characters while play- ing in “The Good Eart) Ideal for Furndce, Remge or Heater— ' EVANS-JONES Alaska Coal F. O. B. Bunkers PACIFIC COAST COAL CO. Phpng 412