The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 19, 1937, Page 2

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY MARCH 19, 1937 <t 050 CHILDREN, ... s : STRONG PROTEST TEAGHERS DIE : ™ *5<5 N SGHOOL BUS IN EXPLOSION ISSUE ENTERED {Investigation Starts in Na Federal Ofilcmls Says Leg- | tion's Greatest School i islature’s Action Will Disaster * v Cripple Palmer Colony ‘ 227,250 | L | U. s DEPARTMKNT OF AGBICUL’IT!RE WEATHER BUW? THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau, Forecast for Juneau and viciuily, beginning at 4 p.m., Mar. 19, Fair tonight and Saturday, moderate east to north winds. LOCAL DATA Sarometer Tem). Humidity Wind Velocity Weather 29.81 37 n SE 12 Cloudy 29.98 32 94 w 3 Clear ..30.01 45 39 NE 11 Clear. CABLE AND RADIO REPORTS YESTERDAY rODAY # Highest 4p.m. Lowest4a.m. 4am. Precip. 4am. temp. temp. | temp. temp. velocity 24hrs. Weather 36 36 36 38 22 .01 Rain 41 e 13 0 -10 0 -16 4 -14 38 0 20 ‘o 36 24 36 30 40 30 42 28 37 32 —_ 26 46 28 44 34 36 24 48 40 48 38 52 46 et Children’s Easter Togs GIRLS’ SPRING COATS Sizes 2 to 14 $4.00 and up HATS—$1.00 Girls’ Dainty Pastel Easter Frocks Sizes 3 to 16 $1.45 to $4.25 CHILDREN'S Sweaters Berets—Bags Scarfs—Gloves Handkerchiefs Underwear Hosiery Little Boys’ WASH SUITS Sizes 1to 5 and the Bigger Little Boys’ WASH SUITS Following is the list of con- testants and {heir standing; all votes counted up to 6 o’clock ® ast night: . . 4 pm ye\Ly 4 a.m. today 12 ncon today | Lynch, Lueille ... . Whitfield, Betty . Danner, Rosa ... Bodding, Geraldine Hansen, Clara ndstrom, iaa-jaret n, Birdie Edwards, Phylis Pusich, Helen Lokken, Astrid Brown, Virginia . Coulter, Etolin n, Dorothy and, Edith land, Beverly . , Meriam therland, Sadie Stone, May Elizabeth ©c e c o000 o0 831,850 © 786,800 o .123,400 (Continued from Page One) Station Atka Anchorage 85,150 (Commued from Page One) 55,000 | 26,150 ® expect residents to undertake \uc 25,700 @ work for at least another year. | Barrow 20,000 © Final Grant, Ohlson Says | Nome 20,000 ® | Col. Otto F. Ohlsen, Manager of | Bethel 20,000 o | the Alaska Railroad, in a message| Fairbanks 20,000 ® to the Governor from Washington| Dawson 20,000 ® said that the Alaska Rural Reha-| St Paul : . 20,000 ® bilitation Corporation had received Dutch Harbor .. . 20,000 ® 5 grant of $800,000 about two| Kodlak 20,000 ® months ago with the distinct un-| Cordova derstanding that it would be the| Juneau final grant. Sitka BIONDI INJURED “This amount will not fully com- Irfe_lchlk;n 5 f : : o Falling from a platform onto an plete the construction program, Prince Rupert ... Sch UMM BECRR AN R | shortly before 7 o'clock this purchase additional land, imple-| Edmonton . of the wrecked school house morning, Donnie Biondi, Alaska- |ments and stock, clear land ana Seattle and it was revealed at noon)uncau mine worker, recetved cuts|other essentials” Col. Ohlson said.| Portland ... that nurses were rushing! land other injuries about the face|“It will be absolutely impossible| San Francisco 4 £ 75 and head, and was taken by ambu- for the corporation to furnish the| New York 38 36 preparations for receiving 7 lance to St. Aun’s Hospital. His much-needed school transporta- | Washington 48 34 more bodies expected to be!condition is considered not serious, | tion.” } ‘WEATHER CONDITION AT 8 A. M. TODAY exhumed from the basement — e Other ressages of protest have | Seattle (airport), cloudy, temperature 40; Blaine, cloudy, 38; Vic- of the south wing. MRS. LEO SIMMONS AND been recelved :fromt A. A. Shonheck, | toria, cloudy, 41; Alert Bay, cloudy, 38; Bull Harbor, partly cloudy, 39; . " 3 | DAUGHTER-IN-LAW RETURN |Chairman flf the Territorial Dnmc Triple Island, partly cloudy; Langara Island, partly cloudy, 40; Prince At 9 o'clock this morning, ON PRINCESS NORAH Rupert, cloudy, 38; Ketchikan, clear; 32; Oraig, clear, 35; Wrangell Superintendent H. S. McGar- clear, 29; Petersburg, cloudy, 30; Sitka, clear, 29; Radioville. clear, 32; ry, of the Humble Oil Refin-| ]\:Iw‘\lr:‘:lblfi‘ll‘nlsnl(::;" l(:r o(;"wnllunt:: Juneau, cloudy, 33; Skagway, cloudy, 42; St. Elias, clear, 3%; Cordgya, and 1 o ons - ery Company, estimated 4"“hmw were passengers in Juneau clear, 82; Copper River, clear; Chitina, clear, -4; McCarthy, ¢lear, -10; | - | bodies recovered. have been|today aboard the Princess Norah, Ancherage, clear, 18; Fairbanks, cloudy, 4; Nenana, clear, 10; Hot fieds pay. | springs, clear, -6; Tanana, clear, 4; Ruby, partly cloudy; -4; Nulato, identified, 26 were still un- rclrning to their homes after a o e+ o = | idéntified. " Sevéral’ .ehildren month spent in Vancouver and Se B e -14; -4; 2 attle. taken from the ruins, severely| Mrs. Leo Simmons is the mother =10 -12 -14 2 4 late today. Acetylene torches are cut- ting through the twisted steel beams of the massive build-| ing and tugging cranes and| bare hands worked together|e uncovering bodies. Rain Slows Work Rain slowed down work. An emergency haospital was 14 L ] Pt. Cldy Clear Clear Clear Cloudy Clear Clear Clear Clear Clear Eoww o | oo Clear Cloudy Cloudy Rain Cldy Rain Cldy Cldy ER-E Pt Pt. Pt. HBE&RBRoceoeBccocecococcHe w53 ger of the Culnn_v ‘md‘ the Anchorage Chamber of Com-| merce. R Empire ¢ clear, -20; Kaltag, clear, -20; Unalakleet, clear, Ohogamute, clear, -4; Savoonga, clear, L ¥ WEATHER SYNOPSIS Fiat, clear, Sizes 3to 8 A MOST COMPLETE ASSORTMENT OF BABYWEAR B. M. Behrends Co. Inc. Juneau's Leading Depcxflment Store oz B R et Smithson Gold Mining Company, SANDY SMlTH AND Incorporated, last December and MINING ASSOCIATE wr smith and Mr. Peel will spend RETURN FOR SUMMEK the summer mining in the Atlin dis- trict. They plan to leave Juneau for Atlin by airplane with L. F. Barr tomorrow. Returning to Juneau after an ab- threc months, Capt. Al- Malcolm Smith, known to his many friends in Alaska as sandy,” returned to Juneau today | on the Princess Norah. | With Mr. Smith returning to Ju- neau was William Peel, who was an | 3 ensign aboard the U.S.C.G. Talla- pu;;‘fe’(‘l ket g‘é;’;w;;m‘;‘;: Z‘::; :}Y:r;dhleaszestfl?ed i R many years operator of the Pullen o S | House there, was in Juneau today While away from Juneau, Mr. while the Princess Norah was in Emith has delivered lectures in the port. Northwest and spent much of his Mrs. Pullen has been in Seattle time in Seattle, Vancouver and New for several months. While there| York Oty. she delivered a number of lectures Mr. Smith, Mr. Peel and Russel before clubs on her experiences in| Clithero organized the Alaska Alaska in the early days. 0000 MRS. PULLEN RETURNS sence LECTURE TRIP SOUTH, | TO SKAGWAY AFTER | || Seatile. i month or six weeks. D |SUPERINTENDENT ENGINEERS FOR WHITE PASS IS ON NORAH In Juneau today while the Prin- cess Norah was in port were Mr. jand Mrs. J. R. Gaudin of White- horse, Y. T. Mr. Gaudin is super- |intendent of engineers for the White Pass and Yukon Railway. R R B YUKON OFFICIAL HERE George Jeckyl, gold commissioner and Chief Government Executive of the Yukon Territory, is returning to his post at Dawson after a win- ter in the South. Mr. Jeckyl passed through Juneau today aboard the steamer Princess Norah, and while here called on Gov. John W. Troy. OUT FOR MEDICAL CARE Mrs. J. E. Neate, wife of the press- |man at The Empire Printing Com- pany, is among the passengers out- bound from Juneau for Seattlé on board the steamer Nqrth Sea. Mrs. Neate will undergo an operation in She, expects | to; be gone; & injured, have died in hO'\lH jof George Simmons, who operates al tals. | three-plane airways company out of Carcross. Mrs. Aubrey Simmons is e |the wife of the custom’s collector | MRS. SAFFOLD LEAVES 4 P HARRY RACE, Druggist “The Squibb Stores of Alaska” Mrs. Helen Saffold, who has been | directing the operation of Bailey's| Cafe here, left for Ketchikan on the | steamer North Sea. there. e LUClNE BOUHEY OUT Lucine Bouhey, ploye of the Gastineau Cafe, left | for Seattle aboard the steamer| North Sea. She does not plan to| return to Alaska. A large group of her friends was at the dock to see her off. e LUCAS GOES SOUTH | Fred Lucas, Assistant Alaska Agent of the Bureau of Fisheries, sailed last night on the North Sea | for the Seattle office of the Bu- reau. After some time there, he will go direct to Bristol Bay for the| summer. s o COUNCIL TONIGHT Final action on the revised build- | ing code is expected at the meeting of the City Council tonight at 8 o'clock in the City Hall. Introduc- tion of a new ordinance dealing with fire hazards also is scheduled. - e IN AND OUT Suffering from a hand infection, Ernest Birkeland was admitted to| St. Ann’s Hospital here for treat-| ment last midnight. Miss Irene E. Smith, who was admitted to the hesnital yesterday for medical treat- ment, was released today. Suggestions FOR YOUR 3 SUNDAY DINNER Boneless Rolled Shoulder of Lamb Rolled Prime Rib Rolled Rump Turkeys Roasting Chickens Colored Fowls Fresh Oysters and Shrimps [ ] FOR THE BEST MEATS—TRY | Alaska Meat Co. Phone 39 lHlflImlllllllllllllllllIlllllllllIIlIIIHIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII1 f IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllflllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII|IlIlIIlIIIIIIII"iIIIIIIl DRUM and BUGLE CORPS (Under ‘the Auspices of the American Legion) Saturday, March 20 ELKS’ Admission $1.00 5% HALL Rands’ Orchestra umumfiimMfi@ ulmwfiuiiifiémmuinullluiuumuum MKKEMG SERVICE TRAINED AGGOUNTANTS Tax and System Service JAMES C. COOPER COMPANY CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS Phone 182 Juneau, Alaska 205 Seward |at Whitehorse. - ->e - MILLS GOES THROUGH W. P. Mills, owner of the Sitka Mrs. Saffold| Power Company, lumber mills and | | formerly operated a restaurant other commercial ventures at Sitka, as a passenger through Juneau attle from Sitka aboard the stea- | \mm North Sea. long time em- | g “Smiling Service” .|| Bert’s Cash Grocery 1 ; Free Delivery Juneau - | { PHONE 105 1| | The barometric pressure was low this morning from the southern portion of the Gulf of Alaska southward to San Francisco, the lowest reported pressure being 29.20 inches about 500 miles west of the Ore- gon coast. Low pressure also prevailed over the far western .portion of the Aleutian Islands—elsewhere over the field of observation high barometric pressure prevailed, the crest being 30.74 inches at Nome. This general pressure distribution has been attended by precipitation at Juneau last night, followed by clearing this morning and by fair weather over the greater portion of Alaska. Rains were reported along the west coast States. Cold weather continued over the Bering Sea coast from Barrow to the Bristol Bay region, the lowest reported temperature being 20 be- low at Nulato and Kaltag. SATURDAY AND MONDAY FEATURES Your local PIGGLY WIGGLY store has combined all of the desirable qualities of Service Grocery and Cash Grocery—thereby being able to give you Nationally Advertised Merchandise and Quality Fruits and Vegetables at prices comparable and often-times even less than prices asked for inferior brands at self-styled money saving stores. PHONE 24 FLAP JACK FLOUR Albers—Pkg. 25¢ Orange Juice Libby's 12 0z. cans 43 S. and W. SALAD MIX Grapefruit and Orcmqes No. 2 cans 49" APPLES FANCY Winesap, Newtown, $3.25 LEMONS SUNKIST dozen 75c Free Delivery—10 and 11 a. m.; 2 and 4 p. m. BUTTER Sunset Gold 2 Pt g5 MILK Darigold $3.55 48 TALL CANS S. and W. CUT GREEN BEANS 0. 2 cans 39‘ Cigarettes Chesterfields Camels, Luckies $1.25 CARTON PHONE 58 EGGS QUICK OATS Fresh Mediums Albers-Roseware Darigold—Mild 25¢ POUND Del Monte GOLDEN BANTAM CORN No. 2 cans 39‘ Jumble Packed $2.59