The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 10, 1937, Page 8

8 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1937. the collections of thewe and building up work in the {ing | foreign missionary field J Among the musical selections of |{the evening was a solo rendered |by Miss Jeanette Whittier, a mem- ON WILLUUGHBY ber of the Northern Light church B W | The offering for the evening to- ward foreign missions was $13.45. William Lee, Who Came BIDS CALLED FOR with Gold Rush, Ends JUNE 7 ON POWER Life with Gun Alone PLANT, SEWARD 4 | Approval has been given for the William X. Lee, 66, resident of Al- q aska since 1899, killed himself yes.|Proposed new diesel electric power CLEAN-UP TALK | AT JUNIOR C. C. s 1 Urges Making Yard, Street| and City More Beautiful | —Start April 19 | | | | Let’s {help make our more beautiful strive to do our part to d, street and city suggested N. Les- fafday aftstnoon 1n his cabin .on (B Bt Sewerc and bids o thel gt oy Tt ook Bt thisisekus m \phbv Avenue by shooting project estimated to cost 590.000.‘1‘ .« Fridas X oK R Sl I)us-‘ 4d i Y SUO%U M8 |have been called for on June 7, ac-!1ar Friday noon luncheon ar [ himself in the head with a .38 re- PWaA iness meeting of the Junior Cham-| cording to Ross A. Gridley, volver. Neighbors sounded the fllflfm State-Engineer Inspector, who re-|0cf of Commerce in® the grade|John A. Glasse alternate commis- and officers on investigation pro- .0 BTN o RO S at. | school Isioner. | nounced the death suicide. ter an inspection trip to the West- Mr. Troast spoke in the interests| Ralph P. Waggoner of the First| Mr. Lee was one of the real old Lo .." "Glijlev also attended to ©f the annual clean-up campaign Church, was elected Principal time mining men of the north. Com- PWA matters 'a‘ Cordova and Val- fponsored by the Juneau Chamber|Lay-Commissioner to the Assembly, ing in the gold rush days, he went ... 5 fof Commerce that will open a city- and Gibson Young of Hydaburg as first to Dawson, then on to Fair- - B % (wide drive April 19 to clean up, Alternate Lay-Commissioner. banks, the Iditarod and the other fix up and paint up. A week ago| Rev. J. L. Webster of Sitka was mining camps of those days, com- LEAVES JUNEAU T [Friday, Dr. Blanfon spoke on the|elected delegate to the meeting of ing to Juneau some 14 years ago (o make his home. He was a minng, engineer by profession and had fol- | lowed mining all his life until more recent years. He was born in Ch cago January 26, 1868. In recent months he had become despondent, those who knew him well said, and on several occasions is reported to have said he would take his own life. Authorities said he had no known relatives in the north. The body is at the C. W. Car- ter Mortuary pending funeral ar- rangements. Lee is a former member of the Elks Lodge of Anchorage, Loyal camy ATTEND FED. SESSION ! n n from the healh and| standpoint nd Mr. {Troast followed. by a discussion on the preservation and beautifica- ion of homes and property. It was pointed out that the peo- Mrs. R. R. Hermann left cn the Mount McKinley for the south. She is going to Salt Lake City as parliamentarian to the Western : - 4 i 5 ple of the remote parts of Alaska,! Federation of Women’s Clubs on - | e use o s and skins, ar April 19 where she will be first Al-|°Y ‘i: t:zo,‘; rwm:,heax:,tfiysalng pret-“ ‘:fi‘:“h‘;:’:““l;‘n“"i dh;ll(vi‘::]iw-g‘elr‘szeior“"""'” the homes in which they live | 5 Some of the framework of the ig- Since 1929 she has been legislative e S . chalrman of, the Aluske’ Wescdbis loos are constructed of whalebone ¢ ¢ Women's Clubs. for driftwood and this is covered by ion of omen’s . god and skins. The windows are G o fv“'fi“’:n"fn;:‘: made from the intestines of the i arLn, " MIS. seal. There are usually three doors Hermann at Ketchikan, going to to go through before one enters Salt Lake City with her, and from| > © i = Order of Moose of Iditarod and ] Y TS - ;the main room of the igloo. Some Igloo No. 10, Ploneers of Alaska. ::"”, ‘::’Ta’]‘:; gfifl:fi’m:”lf‘ifie'“ the natives are getting small B [ 004 s oil stoves in an endeavor to bet- council meeting of the General Fed- eration as delegate, April 25. | ,,— im their present condition. “All in all, these people are very PRESBYTERIAL o |eivilized and happy,” said the Memorial Week |speaker, “and they are interested o N (in beautifying and preserving their HAS SESSION For Will Rogers < | Jackie Hawkes won the prize for iHc)spital Fund At the meeting of the Presbyterial| AUSTIN, Texas., April 10—Gov. Friday night at the First Presby- James V. Allred today proclaimed |the best current event on the Unit- ed States and Simpson MacKin- non won the best-joke award. Bel- terian Church, congregational sing-|the week beginning April 30 Will :1;::1 m‘zgim‘; reported on at the ing was | Rogers Memorial Week and invited 4 . 0p was 10 by SRR Waggoner. . [ROGH William Tanaka, Dean Allen, After prayer and scripture! Texans to contribute and the thea- readings by Mrs. John A. Glasse,| tres cooperate with the Motion Pic- the First Presbyterian Church WQ-}Lure industry in support of a Mem- men's Chorus sang an anthem un- orial Hospital at Saranac, New York. der the direction of Ralph Wag- gener, and accompanied by Mrs. Dorothy Waggoner at the organ. Harry Sperling, Malcolm Faulkner, John Tanaka and John Bavard re- 'celved the highest score in the weekly current event quiz prepared by Billy Osborne and John Cass. Jack Newmarker, chairman, Fred CHILD ILL | ! I Short talks were given on Af-| Called to Seattle by the sickness of Sorri, and Lester Troast were ap- rica by Mrs. Verne Swanson, on their child, PAA Pilot Murray Pointed on the program committee China, by Miss Ruth Farquharson,|Stuart and Mrs. Stuart are south- ""d' Virgil A"d‘;“""- chairman, and on Indie by Mrs. A. D. Swag- bound passengers leaving Juneau Gcorge Tanner and Ned Zenger were ger. Mrs. Swagger was a mission- aboard the Mount McKinley. They N@med on the subsidiary commit- 8 in Punjab, India for several had flown here from Fairbanks on €€ vears. {Thursday, by the PAA Electra. | Eugen: Carothers was elected a " ‘Mrs, N. Lester Troast made a talk, R imember of the organization. explaining how the contennial fund, “Alaska” by Lester D. Henderson.! George Walmsley, clmirm;m, ¢ e A —_ George Tanner and Harry Sperling weer appointed to make arrange- ments for the Father-Son Baseball 7 Game, Malcolm Faulkner accompanied the club on the piano in the open- ing and closing songs. ALASKAN LEAPS “T0 HIS DEATH | OAKLAND, Cal., April 10. — Too proud to beg, Cyprian Genesa, Al- aska fisherman, leaped to his death from a ferry boat. The police re- ported that Mrs. Gertrude Rich- ards, cafe operator, identified the body as a man she had befriended because he was hungry. .- HUDSON MOTOR "~ STRIKE ENDED | ‘ DETROIT, Mich., April 10.—Jubi- |lant sitdown strikers marched out jof three plants of the Hudson Mo- {tor Company today, ending a 33- |day occupancy of the premises. Ap- proximately 1,500 of them approved |terms of a settlement already | ‘signed by union officials and the! | management late yesterday. ——,to——— GANAL BLOCKED CAIRO, April 10.—All shipping 7~ in the Suez Canal is blocked. The , giant British liner Viceroy of India E L K is grounded, but it is expected she will be floated tonight. ADMISSION §$1.00 HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS 50c ANNUAL DANCE TONIGHT SPONSORED BY MOOSE BASEBALL TEAM (We dance just as good as we play balll) HONEYMOONERS ON NORAH | Making the roundtrip to Skagway | from the South aboard the Canad- {1an steamer Princess Norah are Mr. and Mrs. M. Bell who were last week married in Seattle. ——————.——— WHITE PASS ROUTE | EMPLOYEES NORTH TO 1 SKAGWAY ON NORAH Returning to their posts at Skag- way for the summer's work aboard the steamer Princess Norah this irip were Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Gault, Joe Goding and his son and daugh- ter, and W. T. Farwell. Mr. Goding is an engineer for| the White Pass Route. He and his son and daughter are return-| ing north after the winter in Ore- gon. Mrs. Goding recently died in| Oregon. | Mr. Gault is also a locomotive en- gineer for the White Pass Route, | while Mr. Farwell is connected with Music by RANDS’ ORCHESTRA [ Arctic Is One WAGGONER IS SIMMONS MAKES Froei crundisier ~~ JUNEAU PINMEN CHOSEN T0 GO T0 ASSEMBLY Presbytery Elects Repre- sentatives of Session in Columbus The Presbytery of Alaska yester-i day elected the Rev. David Wag- goner of the First Church as Prin- cipal Commissioner to the Assem- bly of the Church meeting in Col- umbus, Ohio, May 27 and the Rev.| the Synod at Seattle in July. The Rev. Donald G. Christian- sen, of Ketchikan, has been elected Moderator. . The liquor law recently passed was discussed at some length in the repo:! on moral welfare and temperance An iateresting review of the life of Dwight L. Moody was given by Rev. J. L. Webster. In the Necrology report, the Pres- bytery learned of the death of Miss Emma A. Jackson, the fond- ler of Haines House Orphanage at Haines, and for many years its su- perintendent. She was known by all the children under her care as “Mother.” . Tonight at 7:30 o'clock, the ev- ening service of the Presbytery will be under the direction of the Rev. John A. Glasse, pastor of the Thing, “Painless” Trap Another Set Warden Grenold Collins of the Alaska Game Commission down jin the Arctic in the dead of win- ter and he would fare as well as a native, as he proved last winter by his long trek over the frozen | tundra, but catching beaver in Duck | Creek on the Glacier loop road with a “painless” trap is something slse again, avowed his mates in the Commission. Yesterday “Gren” sallied forth to Duck Creek with his famous or in- famous “painles” trap. Patiently he waited and toiled to catch the bea- vers which the Commission plans |to transplant in Windfall Lake or Peterson Creek. Came night and the Warden returned with what his companions immediately labelled his catchless trap. Undaunted, the conqueror of the Arctic set about making adjustments to his trap and |today was out again on his quest. | Complete report is anticipated in an early issue from our Duck Creek correspondent. NINETEEN RIDE ‘POLAR BEAR IN ' BIG INITIATION | From the turnout of candidates| last night, initiated into Auxiliary| No. 6, Pioneeers Igloo of Alaska, it is evident that the Polar Bear up-| on which they had to ride (more fitting for real pioneers than the| lowly goat) had a real workout car-| rying the nineteen candidates into| KETCHIKAN AND DAWN TAKUHOPS AAT Pilot and Plane Re- maining Overnight, First City—First River Flight Following a dawn flight to tiae Taku River and return, Pilot Shci- don Simmons took off this morn- ing at 8:30 o'clock for Ketohikan in the Alaska Air Transport Lock- heed Vega seaplane. He is to re- main at Ketchikan overnight, re- turning early tomorrow morning. Passengers to Ketchikan with Sim- mons were: J. J. Meherin and J. B. Warrack. Returning from Kef- chikan tomorrow, Simmons will fly three passengers to Wrangell, one to Petersburg, and will bring M, Warrack and Mrs. Jesta Timmer- man on into Juneau. On his first hop today, Simmons made his first trip of the season up the Taku River, landing Capt. William Strong and Ed Powers on a stretch of open water one-ralf mile down-river from Canyon Is- land. Simmons made the Taku ‘tip in the AAT Stinson. He returned to Juneau at 8 o'clock this morning. Returning from Sitka yesterday afternoon, Simmons arrived herz at 6:15 o'clock in the Nugget, with H. R. Vander Leest, from Sitka, ard C. F. Baker as a passenger from Tenakee. DEPUTY TO HAINES FOR 2 PRISONERS 0f 8-Pound Boy ‘That happy smile on the face of Charles Goldstein, pioneer fur deal- ler, today can be accounted for by the fact that he received a tele- |gram telling of an eight-pound son being born to his daughter, Mrs. John Dolginer, in Los Angeles, this morning. Mrs. Goldstein is now in |the south with her daughter. » i \ ATLIN MAKE DAY BARR'S BUSIEST North Canada Air Express Pilot Makes Two Flights Up Taku This Morning Pilot L. F. Barr and his North Canada Air Express Pilgrim plane had their busiest day in severai menths, commencing *this morning. Taking off for the first time at 7:15 o'clock, Pilot Barr made two freight and passengers, and this afternoon late hopped for Atlin, B. C. On his two flignts up the Taku River this morning, Barr had as {passengers a group of men for the Polaris-Taku Mine who arrived in Juneau from the south yesterday aboard the Princess Norah. They William Snyder, John Moran, and TULSEQUAH AND flights to Tulsequah with mail,| were: Gordon Fisher, J. L. Franks, | WELL IN FRONT, KETCHIKAN ELKS {Local Aliey Quintet Takes Nearly 300$in Lead in " First Set of Match | Led by W. S. Pullen, who rolled a 591 total, the Juneau Elks' five- man bowling team last night rolled a team total of 2,894 pins, to take a lead of nearly 300 pins over the Ketchikan Elks' in the first leg of the fifteen-game match between the two lodge groups: High man for the Ketchikan Pur- ples was Boos, who totaled 546. The second set of three games of the match will be rolled this evening in ithe two cities. Second high for ‘cvening was R. H. Stevenson, who irolled 588 to nose out Fred Hen- !ning by one pin only. Scores made by the two quintets last night were: KETCHIKAN H. H. Henning 490 Maloca 484 Helland 534 Howard . A Boos . 546 147 DM oot fiosmrios, 9508 JUNEAU | Stevenson 204 194 190— 588 Metealf 180 179 189— 548 | Ugrin 193 188 199— 580 ,Pullen . . 207 206 179— 591 ,F. Henning . 201 194 192— 587 Totals .. 950 949—2894 Ketchikan's .la,dy bowlers last ,night issued a challenge to Juneau’s Northern Light Church. The choir, the shelter of the Iglool lodge. i A. Jackson. top feminine pin-layers to an inter- of the Northern Light will give the |message of song. The Rev. J. L. Webster of Sitka will give the mes- sage. The Sunday services of the Pres- bytery, starting at 10 o'clock are |noted in the church column un- der the announcements of the First Presbyterian Church. .- NAVAL RESERVE GADETS WANTED | A . |Qualifications and Other | Particulars Received Here by Wile | A communication received from iLmu(. Commander H. S. Kendall, |United States Navai Reserve Avia- |tion Base, at Seattle, by Albert | Wile, Postmaster, announces that applications will now be received ‘lor Naval Reserve Cadets, the first |class to start about May 15. | I the communication, Lient. Commander Kendall gives the qual- ifications an applicant must have ‘!it.s he may expect to attain. In brief, the qualifications are: That he must be a male citizen of the United States or its possssions, must have the consent of parents, if a minor, and must not be over 28 years of age. Also, he must be unmarried, be in good physical condition and able to pass medical examinations. Col- lege graduates will be given pref- erence, although if a candidate can pass their tests in higher mathe- matics it will count as equivalent. He must be more than 66 inches tall, more than 132 pounds weight, have more than 2%-inch’chest ex- pansion. While training he will receive {a $10,000 life insurance policy, paid iby the Government, at least one year's training at the Naval Avia- to join, and a resume of the bene-' | Mrs. Crystal Snow Jenne, Presi- dent, announces that after the in- initiation ceremonies a delightful so- cial evening was enjoyed with lamusing reminiscences of the “old P1Act to serve sentences in the Fed-| days” bers. | A pool was formed for securing tickets on the Nenana Ice contest and, if awarded, the money will be swapped among the mem- e | Those initiated at least night's |ceremonies were: | Katherine Shaw, Lydia A. Smith, | Anna Webster, Nettie Baldwin, Ida| T. Bathe, Etta Bringdale, Cordelia Carlscn, Esther Davis, Lizzie Davis, Mary Giovanetti, Josephine Green, Lulu Hunter, Minnie Hurley, Lena! Osborne | Kron Marshall, Martha Marshall, * Helen McAlister, Irene McKinley, Mary McNaughton and | Ethel Markle. | e MULLENREPORTS EXPANSIONWAVE LOOMING AHEAD (Continued from Page One) !there is growing confidence in !ability of President Roosevelt meet conditions as they arise.” Judge Mullen was accompanied iby Mrs. Mullen and they visitea many points of interest. They stopped at South Bend, Ind., to visit their son, Ben, who is being graduated this spring at Notre Dame. Did business in the Chicago and New York markets, stopped over a day in Washington where they contacted a few friends and then |went to New Orleans where several enjoyable sight-seeing days were en- Joyed, but were too late for the Mar- di Gras. They continued west via El Paso and then hurried on to San Francisco to spend the Easter holiday with their two daughters who are attending school there, ba- to d for a new home for the Igloo.| |ther information on the require- ! The fiev‘: o. |Sunday, April 18 for certain, fore returning to their home here. IS REV. SANDAL CALLED SOUTH The Rev. T. A. Sandall, Super- iintendent of the Northwest District Council, Assemblies of God, who ar- rived here yesterday afternoon on board the Princess Norah, accom- panied by his wife, to conduct a ser- ies of Evangelistic services, leaves tomorrow morning for the South on the Princess North, The Rev. Sandall received in- struction last night to return to Seattle immediately and therefore tion school at Pensacola, Florida and three additional years of active duty, and finally, a $1,500 cash bonus and a commission in the Na- val Reserve at the end of four years. Anyone interested in gaining fur- ments is invited to write to the Reserve Aviation Base, U. S. Naval: Reeserve Aviation Base, U. S. Naval Air Station, at Seattle. CHOIR REHEARSAL IS HELD TONIGHT AT PRES. CHURCH Byron Miller, director of the Northern Ligat Presbyterian choir, announces that the choir will meet|must cancel the evangelistic ser- at 7 o'clock tonight at the North-|Vices planned at the Bethel Pente- ern Light Church for rehearsal |costal Assembly of God on Main prior to going to the First Presby-|Street and which were to start to- terian Church, where they will give |MOITOW morning. a concert for the Presbyterial and| The Rev. Sandall and his wife Presbytery meeting to be held however will hold a session to- there. night, ‘starting at 7:30 o'clock, in Mr, Miller asks that all choir|the mission on Main Street, ace members be there promptly for this|cording to the Rev. C. C. Person- rehearsal. eus, REV. FOSSO TO BE wdid HERE ON APRIL 18| e Jusenu hatiters took vait Fosso, of Ketchikan,|this moming, before leaving this wha was,to.have been at the Luth-|[Week end on their third trips of ———————— TAKE BAIT AND ICE |eran ‘Chureh tomorrow, was unable|the season to the fishing banks. to come because of the changes in|{ Boats icing this morning were: the boat schedules, but will be here{The Fern, Capt. John Lowell, He|Diana, Capt. Harold Grimstead; is at Petg¢rsburg this week instead|and Helen, Capt. John Willis. of in Juneau. He is installing the| There were no new Arrivals or the passenger agent service for the Route. ) 2 000050000666694406006500 0000000000000 0 0000000044 LASAR22482404242480240488404848080444484044224444) new Lutheran minister there to-|sales on the Juneau fish exchange morrow. today. " U. S. Deputy Marshal William |Markle is leaving on the steamer |Baranof for Haines to return to Juneau two prisoners held at that iernl Jjail. He expects to return on ithe Yukon. The prisoners are {John Fleming, sentenced to four- months and $100 fine for drunken- hess in a public place, and Edwin T. Jackson, sentenced to three months and $200 fine as an alien in possession of firearms. v GRIZZLY DUE TOMORROW The Game Commission vessel Grizzly Bear, Capt. Claire Kroegh, is scheduled to dock in Juneau at noon tomorrow from Ketchikan, ac- cording to word to the Commis- \sion. Executive Officer Frank Du- {fresne of the Commission is re- turning on the vessel from an of- \ficial trip to the First City and | Southeast Alaska points. ——————— Milk contains three of the four vitamins, guests lunch. THEM MRS. GLOVER 000000 -— Returning from nis first flight,City match to follow the present {Barr brought back from Tulsequah men's competition. L. Morrison, J. Thornycroft, Wil- | Bl s A 3 liam Harrison. Passengers back witi |5 o Barr on his second return from, . AT THE HOTELS | Tulsequah were Dan Moller, J. | (e vy e Teleford, and Harry Johnson. John- | son flew from Juneau to Tulsequah!_ James Effler, Juneau; Del T. Fett, and return on the second flight, Seattle; Gordon Fisher, Vancouver, when he learned that his mother is B- C; J L. Prank, Vancouver; Wil- sick at Atlin, and this afternoon flew \i2m Snyder, Vancouver; John Mor- with Barr to Atlin, 'an, Vancouver; and A. Jackson, ! Vancouver, Other passengers out with Barr| i i Alaskan on the Atlin flight this afternoon Tu h. were I. Johnson, Ole Olson, Eric| Covl, Wiliaps BRehs, v Magnusan, all of whom came to Ju- i|B. C.; C. F. Baker, Atlin, B. C, E. f 'Amn ith B g Koons, Sitka; Ellis Johnson, Princ2 aee s om With Barr the fi'st| pypert, B, C.; Ted Strand, Juneau; of this week, and Fred Baker, Who [ Anne Dwyer, Juneau. is returning to Atlin after several N — days at Tenakee. Ellis Johnson alsal TWO LEAVE HOSPITAL made the flight to Atlin with Barr! Harry Tomoff and Mrs. A. J. Nel- otato Chips POTATO CHIPS ARE ALWAYS A TREAT. Just the thing to serve when CHIPS ARE OVENIZED . . . crisp to the proper point . . . flavory. TRY from your local grocer. THEY'RE MADE IN JUNEAU SAVE 5 BAGS AND WIN By suggesting a design for a label to be used on GOVER'S POTATO. CHIP BAGS. ASK “O. 0. K.”” LUNCH this afternoon, and will be dropped son were dismissed from St. Ann's off at Tulsequah on the returnifiuspiml today. Mr. Tomoff, a medi- flight. cal patient, was discharged during ——————————— the noon hour. Mrs. Nelson, con- Try The Empire ciassifieds for|fined with a broken collar bone, results. |lert during the afternoon. L T NOW IS THE TIME TO TRY GLOVER’S OVENIZED "drop in."” Just the thing for And GLOVER'S POTATO TODAY. You can buy them 10 .", HOW MAY I WIN $10? OO O OO A OO RSO RO O PHONE 324 s il IIIIIIIIIIIlllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIllllmlllllIIIHIlllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllflllljflllflllflfll_lflllllflfl