The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 20, 1937, Page 8

SEASON'S FIRST FRESH HALIBUT ARRIVES TODAY Boats Avona and Dixon Are First of Juneau Fleet to Bring Catches Two boats of Juneau's halibut fleet arrived back in port from the } nearby banks this. morning with the first catch of fresh halibut of the season—much.of which will find i*a way down the throatc of the many -Juneau-residents -who - hava lug been awaiung some of gleaming white fish, straight from the watery depths. The two boats, the Avona, Capt. wie e Olaf Larsen, and the Dixon, Capt. || Emil Samuelson, back to Juneau about: 23,000 pounds. | Leveral others of the first half of | the Juneau fleet are expected to ar- rive back in port this week-end, and | no sale is scheduled until the nrst, of next week. More of Juneau’s second grcup‘ halibut boats took bait and ice at the Cold Storage today, and are ready to sail this week-end for the | banks for the opening of their sea- son, midnight Monday. Taking bait and ice today were: The Oceanic, Capt. Ole Westhy: Louhelen, Cant.| Knute - Hildre; - Missourl, -Capt. Sig Jackson; ‘Theima, Capt. Beint au-| stead; and Marje, Capt. Peter Os- wald.-The Margarel T, Capt. Peter Hildre, took aboard its bait and ice supply yesterday and is ready to leave with others. The Viv- ian, Capt. Charles Larsen, sailed from Juneau !or the banks this morning. Mayor I. Goldstein’s two halibut schooners, the Norland, Capt. Tom Sandvik, and the Bitka, Capt. Bill Doucette, took ice today and will sail tomorrow for Sitka where they will take aboard fresh bait. From Sitka they will' leave for Area III in time for the opening of the sec- ond half Area III season, midnight, March 25. | PRESIDENT IS STORMBOUND WARM SPRXNGB, Ga., March 20. —Presidént Roosevelt . was storm-| together brought | | Three-year-old Tommy Pontius was his dog, Jack, in Denver. Tommy suffered only blistered feet but had his dog not rescued him it was believed he might have been burned fatelly. (Associatd Press Photo) TRAPPER HELD FOR MURDER OF YUKON INDIAN {half an hour before midnight last near the 7-mile post out the Glac- to Grand Jury for Al- leged Shooting, Kokrines FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 20. |~0wen McEntee, 70 year old trap- per, is held by Federal officers at Kokrines on the lower Yukon ir connection with the fatal shooting Thursday of Joe Wright, Indian. Thomas Long, Deputy United States Marshal at Ruby and Unit- ed States Commissioper Warner reported to the Marshal's office here the verdict of the cor- oner’s jury was that “Wright met George * | pulled from a pit of hot ashes by I JUNEAU MOONLIT AS POWER FAILS Wind damage to tiie nigh wltue power line over the mountaifis plunged Juneau into darkness .for |night, was the report of power com- {Owen McEntee Bound Over oy officials today. In many ways the failure of the p( wer came at a most opportune lnm crowds were just mlng out of the theatres after the last shaw] as the lights went out. Those Juneau residents whp were not already asleep were ‘given a L rare opportunity to enjoy the béau- Llon at M“‘ Seven. ties of the moonlit night, nn;l mnnv arguments arose as to whether the four streaks across the sky near the ver half moon werg just streamers of light clouds, op. were , last-of-the-winter dlsplpy lof Northern Lights. bound and' out of telephone com-|Dis death at the hands of McEn-, FIREMEN CALLED munication at & nearby cotton farm! of Cason Callaway, textile manu-) facturer for several hours last night. Secret Service cars carried com- munications to and from nearby Hamilton. The President’s Secretary and; son, James Roosevelt, spoke at Ath- ens last night. He described his father's Supreme Court plan as the most effective way to make “con-! stitutional democracy work.” ——,e—— — Dance at the Terminal tonite. ] bee.” The defendant, arraigned before the U. S. Commissioner, waived ex- |amination and was bound over to the grand jury. $3,000. McEntee has lived for many years 'on the lower Yukon and hils a good reputation. He filed bail of -~ Try The kEmpue clas .deds for results. — e Empire eds pay. STOCK OF Fine Liquors = = - CANADIAN—Quarts ® MONOGRAM RYE e U.D.L. SPECIAL RYE CANADIAN—Quc:rts AMERICAN WHISK!ES $5.80 ® OI.D GRAND DAD Half Pints © TOWN TAVERN ! TO INDIAN TOWN' fire call in Juneau 1n sent the Juneau Vol- Fire Department scurrying the Indian Village at 12:30 o’clock fternoon. all blaze had been reported of there, but the flames were ished by bystanders and the' occupants of the house before the 'department arrived on the scene. Damages were very slight. untee: IIIIIIIIllllllllllllllllllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIh'IIIIII|IIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIlllIIIIIlIlIIIIII|IIIII||I|||IIIII||IIIg FINEST ASSORTMENT AND LARGEST Mrs. Pigg P © Wecanand do meet all prices on same quality merchandise. Gastineau Liquor Store HONE 65 Next to Gastineau Hotel IHIIMIIIIIIMMIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIII||IIHIIIIIII|IIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIlllllfllllIIIIIIIHIE | Each letter demanded $5,000 in ' jagents have been sent to check up ,Governcrl office that $10,360 is EXTGRTIUNIST MAKES DEATH California mers Asked| for $5,000 Each in Letters SACRAMENTO, Cal, Mar. 20. — The Sacramento Union said today that two Yolo County bankers were threatened with death in extortion- ist letters. The newspaper said that postal iinspectors had revealed that letters had been sent to Elmer M. Armfield, ‘Woodland and Yolo County savings bank president, and a Winter's bank vealed. $10, $20 and $50 bills. Federal Bureau of Investigation on the report. MONEY REPORTED AVAILABLE FOR CEMETERY WORK $10,360 in WPA Funds to, Be Used in Clearing Site Near Seven-Mile Post- Word has been received by the ‘now available in WPA funds to be| used in clearing and grubbing the proposed cemetery site for Juneau ier Highway. While details have not been worked out as to when the work might be undertaken, as- surance has been given that the money is now available. Application for the project was made in the early winter. The site includes 32 acres across the road from the Signal Corps tuning sta- BPWC BANQUET IS |- ON MONDAY NIGHT The . Business and Professional }Womens Club. banquet, postponed {from last week, will be held Monday Ievenlng at 6:30 ¢'clock in the Lu- !theran Church parlors. The Public Relations - Depart- | ment, Mrs. R. R, Hermann, chair- man, is in charge and _promised 'plenty to eat served * counlry style.” One of the features of the evening, besides a surprise musical program, ywill be a talk given by Senator Vic- tor C. Rivers. His topic will be “So- THREAT TO TWO executive whose name was not re- | mlmnculmawhlehvflltomgm all ln'lnll here m sale around May 1. aboard the ' Princess Norah from They include !hnfilm.slnflrlfluflwmth. : of various calibers. - Pilot Barr expects to return to Jimeau {jam Atlin on Monday or BARROFFTOATLIN Tuesday of next week. WITH FOUR ABOARD|SHOTGUN CLUB TO SHOOT TOMORROW ‘The Juneau 'Shotgun Club will the Juneau Dairy starting at 10 o'- clofxlntlnmnluuwu.n- Mr. Carlson arrived in Junuu'mb. today. Single and doubles from Atlin with Barr the first of this week. The three other passen- m“m‘“—"w' i With wlflhm‘ M. Peel, Sandy Smith, Oscar Carlson, and E4 Drex- Express Pllgrim plane to Atlin, B. C,, this afternoon, from here. * DRUM AND BUGLE ,com' DANCE (Under Auspices of The American Legion) TONITE! DRUM AND BUGLE CORPS WILL GIVE DEMONSTRATIONS VON.DANCE FLOOR. Public Invited ELKS’ HALL Admission $1.00 Rands’ Orchestra DANCING STARTS AT 10:00 COVER INDIANS| e e e o o e May Evenlually Have Mark-room the tacs 1o cer o le_gun O‘Dou;hlu:rm in the choppy waters Gastineau Channel 89 pons | To provide tof Indians under So- Arive cial Security, a group of western act which eventually might have & marked effect on carrying out the dian, although it will have no ac- tual bearing on the deliberations amendment. Bearing the names of Senators Nye, Thomas, of Oklahoma, Bulow, Bone, McCarran, Pope, Thomas of Schwartz and Hitehcock, the pro- posed change reads: State plan to include Indians who are wards of the United States; arid ments with respect -to; any - State plan shall be withheld, because “The Soglal qunw Board is au- thorized and.directed to furnish to thorized by this’ to be provided under ' approved- plans.” The ing them.shail be presotibed by ‘the Board. In -qut-the: provis- tract or otherwise, phe facilities or any department or agéhcy of of any. d»crmwm o ency such ‘state- » 9 such sums as may be. n carry: out mrpnmsmné “of th(fi Of 50,000, Animals In lean c etery day for .the “souls” of some 50,000 .cats, dogs, ‘'monkeys, rab- mal cemetery. ————— cial Security for Alaska.” ‘The committee working with Mrs. Hermann to make the dinner a success consists of Mrs. John Lar- {son, Mrs. G. V. Goss and Mrs. Lisle | Hebert, Mrs. Betty McCormick u chairman of the program commit- tee, and toastmistress for the eve- 'mng will be Mrs. Hermann, SIMMONS FLIES DR. CHEIFETZ OUT FOR - With Dr. Sonia Cheifetz, of the Territorial Health Office, as - his only outbound passenger, Alaska Air Transport Pilot Sheldon Simmons flew at AAT Lockheed Vega sea~- plane to Angoon this morning, leav- ing Juneau at 11 o'clock. After landing Dr. Cheifetz at An- goon, Simmons was to fly to Sitka, where he was to take aboard four passengers for his return flight to Juneau, and was expected to ar- rive back here this afternoon about 3 o'elock. Simmons is scheduled to hop off tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock on a flight to Chichagof. — e MISS PETERSON RECOVERING Miss Martha Peterson, in 8t. Ann’s Hospital, is recovering from a major operation performed last week, and will return to the home her mother, Mrs. Ed Andersom, GOOD VISION With Added Beauty We offer a splendid service in supplying glasses that are not’ only corrective but becoming, as'.well. Nothing so quickly Olllw for an Appointment! | OPTOMETRIST Phone 331 ANGOON THIS A. M.| PLAN GHANGE IN “""‘mml '°"” : SECURITY ACT TO/" " i rew v seized from game law, violators,-Al- llkl mma Commission wardens ed Affect on Administra- thy Wardeee Doglte Grey- asd tion of Law in Alaska oed ciod which had passed their usefulness and reported that there were res Senators have introduced in Con- gress an amendment to the present provisions of the act in Alaska, where half the population is Ip- of the special legislative session, being thus far only a proposed Hayden, Borah, Akhurst, Pittman, King, McNary, Pragler, Wheeler, Utah, Hatch, O’Mahoney,” Murray, Schwellenbach, Chaves Lee, “Nothing contained in this Act shall be cong to_require any the Board shall not refuse, to ap- prove any Stite plan, and no pay- |such Indians hre excluded from the benefits of such. Indians who Ate wards of the Unit- ed States benefits of thd types au- amount of stich ts “apd “ the manner and éonditibms of, furnish- ions of this section the Board is au- thorizéd to make use of, .under.con- Government of '.hn United Bu}q and, ‘with’ the ‘consent of any State, “There-is hef-hy ‘utmr;aed to be approptiated . for “each’ fllall veat |1 title.”, Pray hr "30!11:" " TOKYO, Mar. 20. — Buddist priests said sdlemn prayers to- _uu, goldfish and singing crick- ets, in the world’s greatest ani- Try The Empire cmssifieds tm] results, REDECORATED AND BETTER THAN EVER .. YOU'LL HAVE A WONDERFUL TIME AT THE CAPITOL ' CAFE 'romcrm ork N, nAcx AGAINI 0000 R Stdrtinq thqmmic at '8:00 o'clogk ., playirg. until 1:00 AM TOP—— oh