The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 3, 1937, Page 2

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE MONDAY, MAY 3 1937 SPRING COATS and SUITS Women’s Sizes 38 to 46 COATS and smart dresses. A a Priced to TWEED, Priced to B. 1. Behrends Co. Inc. Juneau's Leading Department Store and fully lined. A coat that looks casual in the country that looks equally well over your suit and your afternoon n who dresses smartly and economically. fabric of a SPRING SUIT. Tailored and swagger styles for the mature woman. carefully tailored in town. A coat coat for the wom- from $13.50 $42.50 the most popular from $25.00 $42.50 P IOV VRN iy ymy iy umumy eep 7SR TSI 7 S P e 4 Exercise Routs Threat | of Flabby Double Chin [PILOT SIMMON 'UP IN AIR FOR MOST, WEEKEND AAT Pilot and Lockheed Make Two Hawk Inlet Hops—Thrice to Sitka Alaska Air Transport Pilot Shel- don Simmons and the AAT Lock- heed Vega seaplane had a middling busy time over the week-end. Returning from a flight to Chich- agof Saturday afternoon at 4:30 o'- clock, Pilot Simmons brought as passengers to Juneau Jack Coutur and A. J. Toering, the latter jround-tripper. Saturday, Pilot Simmons picked up five passengers for an excursion trip to Sitka and back to Chichagof. They were: Mrs. James L. Free- burn, Miss Annabel Freeburn, Mrs. Fred Hill, Mrs. Claude Rhoades and W. Orr. Out again at 2:30 o'clock yester- day afternoon, Pilot Simmons, ac- companied by flight mechanic Bud Bodding, flew to Hawk Inlet, from . |where he returned at 3 o'clock with W. 8. Pekovich, L. L. Allen, Samuel *| Allen, and Joe O'Brien. Taking off again at 3:30 o'clock from Juneau, Simmons then flew to Chichagof with J. A. Kirk, to Hirst- Chichagof with Gus Erickson and John Erickson, and to Sitka with Mrs. William Ott and J. E. Boyle He returned to Juneau at 8:30 o'- clock last evening with Harry Da- toff from Chichagof. After taking it easy this morning, Simmons once more put the Nug- get into the air this afternoon at 2 jo’clock, flying to Hawk Inlet with W. S. Pekovich, Samuel Allen and Joe O'Brien. From Hawk Inlet to- day, Simmons was to hop empty to Sitka, where he was to pick up four passengers, returning with them to Juneau about 5:30 o'clock this af- ternoon. B MRS. GROVER WINN, " DAUGHTER SAIL ON TRIP TO SEATTLE Mrs. Grover C. Winn, accompan- \ded by her daughter, Elizabeth, left \aboard the Princess Norah for the ‘south yesterday morning enroute to Seattle where they will visit with relatives for a short time before returning to Juneau. ‘While in Seattle they will spend much of their time with Miss Bar bara and Bill Winn, daughter and son of Mr. and Mrs. Grover Winn, 'now in attendance at the Unliversity lof Washington. e e {PROTECTION AGAINST DIPHTHERIA WILL BE While at Chichagof NEW YORK BROKER | | FLES HERE AND | SAILS ON ALASKA| Returning to his home in New York City after a visit to the Ad-| miralty-Alaska gold mine on Hawk; Inlet, and his son there, Louis Ll |Allen, prominent Manhattan stock! and bond broker, sailed south from' Juneau early this morning abourd‘ the steamer Alaska Mr. Allen arrived in Juneau about | |two weeks ago and immediately ilew 'to Hawk Inlet. He flew into Juheau from the mine there yesterday af- ternoon with Pilot Sheldon Sim- mons. Mr. Allen was accompanied |to Juneau from Hawk Inlet terday by W. S ,tendent of the mine, his son Samuel Allen, and Joe O'Brien, all three of wrom returned to Haw Inlet this ternoon. . Before sailing this morning, Mr. Allen and his party were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Roden, at the ;Gmnnmu Cafe, last evening. Mr. Allen declared that from what m-( had seen of Southeast Alaska on this, has first trip north, he liked jit very much, and expres his intention to return later this sum- mer. His son Samuel is also much at- tracted to this section and intends to retain his position with the Hawk Inlet mine indefinitely. . - — HILLMANS SOUTHBOUND Returning from a brief visit to Interior Alaska, Mrs. C. Kirk Hill- man, wife of the head of the large Seattle machinery company, and her son Allyne Hillman, are south- bound from Seward to Seattle| aboard the steamer Alaska, in port here early this morning. They passed through Juneau northbound aboard the steamer Yukon about two weeks ago. - IRVING GOES SOUTH Leaving Juneau on short notice on a hurried business trip to Pa- cific Coast cities, on which he will journey to Seattle and Portland, and perhaps to San Francisco, Wil- bur Irving, operator of the Ter- i minal Cafe, sailed south from herc abeard the steamer Alaska. | oo | yes- Pekovich, superin-, TO WED AT SKAGWAY Already a day late ‘for her mar- riage to a doctor from Whitehorse, (which was to have been performed EVANS ARRIVES FROM KANATAK ON WAY SOUTH Store Owner from Alaska Penimsula Anticipates Possible Oil Boom Coming to Juneau from Kanatak and Egegik, land of no tourists, many bears, much fishing and tra ping, H. M. Evans is to be here for a few days before continuing on %is buying trip to Seattle. Evans, owner of the general mer- chandise store at Kanatak, and of a salt salmon station and general store at Egegik, is to purch sup- plies for his stores in Seattle and return to the north toward the last of June. Sitting in the lobby of the Gas- tineau Hotel this afternoon, he spoke of the possibility of further development of oil claims on the Alaska Peninsula, near Kanatak, where the Frank Beale interests of ios Angeles are located. “There possibility of flourishing times ahead, if the development takes place,” he stated, adding that the opening up of this relatively iso- lated Alaskan area would also make possible a heavy output of fish, | | | | U. 5. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAD THE WEATHER i (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4 p.m., May 3. Rain tonight and Tuesday; moderate southeast winds. LOCAL DATA pagometer Teral. Humidity Wind Velocity Weather 3017 55 31 SE 8 Cloudy 29.01 42 69 NW 10 Cloudy 2087 56 50 SE 8 Cloudy Time 4 pm. yest'y 4 am. today 12 noon today CABLE AND RADIO REPOKTS YESTERDAY TODAY Highest 4p.m. Lowest4a.m. 4am. Precip. 4am. temp. temp. temp. temp. velocity 24hrs. Weathér 47 00 34 .08 Station Anchorage Barrow Nome Bethel Fairbanks Dawson St. Paul ¥ Dutch Harbor .. Koediak Cordova Juneau Sitka Ketchikan Prince Rupert Edmonton Seattle Portland San Francisco New York Washington 34 34 34 48 | T 38 | 40 | 42 1z 32 6 Cloudy 04 Cioudy 16 Cloudy 0 Pt Cidy 0 Clear 01 Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Clear Cloudy - e = @ = ScowraSoo s 2 'Y S Clear Pt. Cldy Clear Clear Pt. Cldy Clear Clear Clear 58 | a2 60 6 | 52 72 | 54 84 58 50 | 68 | fEI2gggssssssss & coccocococcocHeaoI ER Ry | WEATHER CONDITION AT 8 A. M. TODAY Seattle (airport), cloudy, temperature, 51; Blaine, partly cloudy, taken from Lake Becharof. Fresh trout by the thousands have been taken from the waters of Laie Becharof during the past four years, ! Evans stated, as a result of the bounty awarded by the Burcau of Fisheries. .In order to protect the salmon eggs in the lake, he stated, | the Bureau has encouraged fisher- men to catch the trout, an occupa- tion which is near termination now | with the diminishing of bounty funds. i Evans remarked that Eskimos of Kanatak and Egigik, unlike thejr Aleutian Tsland compatriots, are not interested in art, and have no ivory with which to work carvings. However, he stated, they are unusu- illy fond of music, and with no tea- cher but the radio have picked up the latest pieces. Their favorite in- strument is the guitar, but recently | several Eskimo children have dis covered a piano in the Evans Mer- | | 44; Victoria, partly cloudy, 52; Alert Bay, cloudy, 46; Bull Harbor, clou- dy, 49; Triple Island, partly cloudy, —; Langara, cloudy, 48; Prince Ru- pert, cloudy, 46; Ketchikan, sprinkling, 45; Craig, cloudy, 55; Wran- gell, cloudy, 51; Petersburg, cloudy, 49; Sitka, cloudy, 49; Radioville, cloudy, 54; Soapstone Point, cloudy, 50; Port Althorp, cloudy, —: Ju- neau, cloudy, 51; Skagway, cloudy, 55; Cape St. Elias, cloudy, 40; Cordova, partly cloudy, 38; Chilina, cloudy, 30; McCarthy, clear, 26; Anchorage, clear, 40; Fairbanks, partly cloudy, 40; Nenana, clear, 40; Tanana, cloudy, 38; Hot Springs, cloudy, 42; Ruby, misting, 37; Kaltag, misting, 36; Unalakleet, missing; Ohogamute, foggy, 32; Flat, cloudy, 32; Savoonga. cloudy, 11. May 4, 1937, Juneau—Sunrise, 4:00 a.m.; sunset, 7:55 p.m. WEATHER SYNOPSIS The barometric pressure was low this morning from the Brisiol Bay region southeastward to Vancouver Island, the lowest reported pressure being 29.72 inches at Langara Island. High pressure pre- vailed over the Mackenzie valley and from theAleutians southward to the Hawaiian Islands. Precipitation was reported over the western por- tion of ATaska and at Barrow and slight precipitation this morning over portions of Southeastern Alaska, elsewhere over the field of observa- tion generally fair weather prevailed. ‘Warmer weather was reported yesterday from the interior of Alaska southward to Oregon, it being much warmer at Fairbanks, the lowest temperature yesterday morning was 28 degrees, highest yesterday 48 at Skagway yesterday, Miss Ann|(chantile store, and have learned to degrees, and lowest last night 27 degrees. Portland reported a'temp- Palmer was an impatient passen- ger from Wrangell to Skagway aboard the steamer Victoria, in port here today. Miss Palmer has been in Wrangell for the past twenty months as a nurse at the Govern- ment Hospital there. e — ROUNDTRIPPERS Making “the roundtrip through | Southeast Alaska ports aboard the ' steamer Victoria, in port here today, {are Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Baugh. Mr. |Baugh is connected with the Gen- |eral Petroleum Company. ! e pick up pieces on that, with no in- struction whatsoever, Contact between Kanatak and Egegik, Evans’s two homes, is not difficult, for a trip between the two towns may be made in one day by crossing Lake Becharof. However, steamers going around the Peninsu- la from Kodiak to Bristol Bay re- quire eight days to make the trip. Mrs. Evans accompanied her hus- band to Seward and is to meet him in Seattie in about two weeks, re- turning north with him in June. i erature of 84 degrees yesterday and Seattle 82 degrees. Two Halihuférs Both will call at the Auk Bay he |ring pot for fresh bait. The Ex |plorer is leaving for the Area IIT | banks. i - . “Discovery” Hints Exchglgge Today of “Cust ron” Age in Alaska Fresh Salmon [s Shipped| hese who make a study of glac- iers tell as much of the ice age, South on Steamer Alaska | |age, before leaving for the banks. 74 £ ALY DO THIS FIRST . . . Cecilia Parker, movie actress, places both hands at the back of her neck and slowly turns her face from side to side. Double stns ( For a double chin is the result U[‘ two things: poor posture and lack of exercise. | 1f you're inclined to lean over| chins are double THEN THIS Miss Parker then applies a facial cream and massages her neck and throat with a gentle but firm upward stroke. HOLDEN FLIES TO TULSEQUAH, HAWK INLET FROM HERE 10 HALIBUTERS ‘ SE”.; SEATTLE‘ GIVENONWEDNESDAY | suNcex mack meme i | | Announcement is repeated today kan of about two weeks, Larry Bun- that on Wednesday of this week the 8er, Juneau photo-engraver, re- |Territorial Department of Health turhed here aboard the steamer From the western banks — Eagle 'y give free immunization against Victoria. 34000 pounds, 8% and 7 cents & gipntheria to all children from six; PEH AP pound; Sunset 30000 pounds, Nor- months to 16 years who have not| FAIRBANKS INCORPORATION thern 34,000 pounds, both selling |oen protected heretofore. | Artieles of incorporation have Children should be brought to the been filed with the Territorial au- SEATTLE, May 3.—The follow- ing halibuters sold here today: GASTINEAU GROCERY the tropical age before that, and |what-not. But now a real “discov- by Sebastian-Stuart lery” has been made. IN NEW LOCATION ! ON FRONT STREET. A total of 13250 pounds of halibut| Arthur Eide of Douglas in his Jt 8 was sold on the Juneau fish cx-i‘sunday “explorations” up the Nug- With Sam Paul's Gastineau Gro- chy inge L_his forenoon by two boats:get Creek trail at Mendenhall Qla- arriving in port here from the banks cier reports what may develop to over the week-end. a great unknown “cast iron" age. The Thelma, Capt. Bernt Alstead,! By the ‘Glacier *Explorer” Eide sold 10,500 pounds to the Alaskal|found a big, three-foot cast iron cery moved into its new location in the old Light Company building over the week-end, contractor B. M. Krafft this morning began remodel- Coast Fisheries at 7 and 5.10 cents| for 8% and 7 cents. ‘ From the local banks—Liveley 15,- 000 pounds, Superior 10,000 pounds, both selling for 9% and 7 cen Rosario 11,000 pounds, F. C. Her- gert 6,000 pounds, Eureka 12,000 pounds, all selling for 9 and 7 cents; | Angels 15,000 pounds, Bernice, 15~ 000 pounds, both selling ‘for 9% and |7 cents. !SCHOE'IT'LER BACK | FROM WESTWARD After an extended trip to the |Westward where he aided in ar- imnging vocational education work Ifor next seasom, A. E: Schotttler, {Vocational Education Director, re- turned to Juneau on the Alaska. The |director visited Palmer, Wasilla, An- | A flight to Tulsequah yesterday chorage, Seward, Seldevia, Kodiak, afternoon, with Mrs. D. C. Sharp- Woody Island, Valdez and Cordova. typewriters or books—or eyen the| dish-pan, you'll have to make up, for it with exercise. ‘Juneau schools between 1 p. m. and 3 p. m. Wednesday. . H. L. WOODS ARE ON | WAY TO LOS ANGELES | Pastor and Mrs. H. L. Woods have left Gray Eagle, Minn.,, where llhey have been visiting with his “parems and are due to arrive in‘ Los Angeles shortly, where they will join their daughter, Miss Ione | Woods. | Word received by Juneau friends states that during the trip through the Middle West the Woods have encountered severe dust storms. — ., — HOONAH INDIAN FOUND DEAD ON Flabby musicles are the cause of| stone, sulti 1-| Biuik chins, AnfY.the | guickess|S 0T Wil of e oriult g ged Though no appropriation was made by the Legislature for next school way to cure flabby muscles, as ev-|O8ist for the Polaris-Taku mine, Was year, Mr. Schoettler reported that| erybody knows, is to exercise them.|the only soaring done yesterday by many of the schools are going to; Here are instructions for the two pilot Alex Holden and the Marine carry on the work. | Ex;,l’cl:'['.\ 1{11mtmted ;[buvc: ! | }Alr\kuys Bellavica Pecemhker M,a_\hRHemr:ep:r:evc:rt::ttzn;rzwl‘éu;l:lt‘ n he first an astringent is ap- . i S - piied over the throat and neck nnd")]‘““' Pilot H"ld(’"vl"“ Juneau on jnyengent of Schools at Seward, suc- both hands are placed at the back the flieht about 5:30 o'clock and ceeding Glen S. Rogers, who re-| of the neck. The head is then|returned empty au 7.30. signed to take work at the Univer- slowly turned from side to side,! This forenoon, Pilot Holden put sity of Washington. the movement serving to strength-|the Ballanca into the air at 11:30] g en the neck and throat museles. }u'durk as a flight to Hawk Inlvt‘N. LES'I‘ER TROAST In the second the neck and lhrualiwuh Hans Floe and T. Conrad, who, ! are massaged with facial eream. arrived in Juneau on the steamer| RETURNS TO ClTY> Then, beginning at 1} » of the|Victoria. Mr. Floe is superintend-| neck and using a firm, gentle stroke, ent of the P. E. Harris cannery at; N. Lester Troast, head of the Ju- the flesh is slowly pushed upward.|Hawk Inlet and Mr. Conrad is book- neau architectural firm of N. Les~ Two minutes devoted to each of (keeper for the same cannery. }u)r Troast and Associates, returned these exercises each day will work| Holden returned to Juneau Yrum:u) Juneau on the steamer Ala.ska.' wonders over a reasonable prvn(ld‘rhls Hawk Inlet flight 2t 12:30 o'- Mr. Troast flew from Juneau to | clock. Lloyd Jarman was flight me- Fairbanks nearly two weeks ago by of time If you don't believe that try v,.k-‘rhzmic on both hops, yesterday and PAA plane, and returned by way ing some candid ecamer before | today. |of the Alaska Railroad and steam- and after shots” oi jourse!f | - 'ship. T e DINNER IS PLANN BY AMERICAN LEGION trip to work for which his firm was architect in Fairbanks, An- SCHOOL TAX DUE BEACH, MUD BAY Body of Harry Dick, Hoonah, over 80 years of age, has been found on the beach at Mud Bay, accord- ing to word to the Marshal’s office from Deputy Marshal Geoige Sam- ples at Hoonah. Dick had been miss- ing from Hoonah for about 10 days. Death was believed due to natural causes and apparently the man had been dead about four days, the of- ficer reported. Dick leaves a daughter and two nephews in Hoonah. FUNERAL SERVICES FOR HARRY HALL TO BE HELD TOMORROW Funeral services for Harry Hall of Gustavus, who passed away at St. Ann’s Hospital last week are to be held at 2 p. m. tomorrow from the Mr. Troast was on an inspection | chapel of the Charles W. Carter Mortuary. Dean C. E. Rice will officiate at The Territorial law provides that school tax, $5, must Le paic by Ma 1. Penalty of §2 yt r0sed for non-payment. PLE YOUR TAX NOW A. W. HENNING, City Clerk, adv. School Tax Collector. e eee Matermellon plants, i1 ages, are subject atacks by Iusarium niveum, a ° disease that enters through root Lips and rupiures form- ed by new ..teral roots. the Fathers and Sons dinner for the Sons of the Legion tentatively set for next Monday night, May 10, will be discussed ai |the regular meeting of Alford John Eradford Post, American Legion, tonight in the Dugout. e The Spanish rebel government is requiring all peseta bills to be stamped to force them out of hoard- ing Plans for chorage, Seward, and Corfova. Helthe ceremony, which will be follow- reported all progressing smoothly in|eq by interment at the Evergreen the Interior and to the Westward.|cemetery. . e 4 BNV Hall, who lived at Gustavus for _B‘CK TO EAST 17 years, was born in Utah 52 years Returning to Xaw York City, after |z00 His brother, Jake E. Hall, a trip to Anchorage in the inter-)came in by plane from Kensington a ests of his company, D. R. Norris, |few qays ago to complete arrange- of the National Lead Company, is|ments for the funeral. a passenger from Seward to Seat- - e - tle aboard the steamer Alaska which| The total white population of the was In port here early this morn-|{ynion of South Africa now exceeds ing. two millions. ditor by the Fairbanks Junior |Chamber of Commerce, a non-pro- (fit organization. Incorporators are ‘H. D. Kirby, C. A. Bryant, Elwin Hjellen, Dick Acheson and Harold { Byrd. | D SULLIVAN RETURNS O. 8. Sullivan, Internal Revenue |department representative for Al- ‘aska, ret,ned to his Juneau office jon the Victoria after visiting in sev- eral Southeast Alaska cities. - -+ PAUL TO KETCHIKAN William Paul of the Bureau of iIndian Affairs sailed for Ketchikan on the steamer Alaska in connection with business of his office. ON TAX TRIP Walter Sharpe of the Treasurer's 'cfnce left for Ketchikan on the Al- |aska to be gone about 10 days in con- nection with tax matters. He was ac- jcompanied by his small daughter, AL MRS. MOYER BACK Returning from Wrangell, whete she visited her brother and sister- in-law, Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Mize, |Mrs. Thomas Moyer arrived back at her home here this morning aboard the steamer Victoria, = - KIRMSES THROUGH Mrs. Hazel Kirmse and ner son {Jack Kirmse passed through Ju- neau today aboard the steamer Vic- toria enroute to Skagway to re-open their curio shop there for the com- ing tourist season. Mr. and Mrs Kirmse, who formerly operated a curio store here, have been south for the winter. ————e—— — NYES TO SKAGWAY After spending the winter in the South, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Nye are returning te their old home at Skagway aboard the steamer Vie- Nye formerly operated the Home Electric Company at Skagway. B o Definite progress in commercial aviation was recorded in China dur- ing the last year, available statis- tics showing an increase of ap- proximately 100 per cent in air pas- senger and mail traffic over the pre- ceding year. SHARPE toria. Mr. > T:7 an Empire ad. ling the old location of the store ogl for the new uptown branch of the Home Grocery. A complete new front is to be built for the John Hermle and Joe Thibodeau enterprise, which is to be combined with the American Meat Company, also operated by them. In addition, many alterations are to be made to the interior. With new shelving in place, the light building gives the Gastineau | Grocery considerably more floor ‘pace and window display than in per pound and the Tern, Capt. An-| “No doubt,” said the “explorer,” drew Rosness, received 7 and 5.15 in discussing the “find” today, “this cents per pound for her 2,750 pound article dates back.” Just how far cateh. {back, Mr. Eide was hesitant to say, Consigned to the Sebastian-Stuart|“but,” he remarked with a thinkle Fish Company, at Seatile, E. E.[in his eye, “it is safe to quote me Engstrom shipped out five boxes, that it is a phenomenal discovery.” containing 2,150 pounds, of fresh The phenomenal thing about it packed king salmore on the steamer being, who was ambitious enough to {Alaska, leaving here southbound ‘cmy the heavy pieee of iron such this morning. a- distance? Mr. Eide suspects it In the only other bit of business came from some navy ship which on the local fish front this morning, | happened to be in the harbor duriny the halibut schooner Explorer, Capt. | the “cast iron” age. ';:nrfrt"‘"d(;mm“' and Mr. Paul Magnus Hansen, and the. halibut| — e sl t° :' many new _"ems to his boat Tern, Capt. Andrew Rosness,) Lode and placer 1ocation notices cck to fill the added shelves. |took ice at the Juneau Cold Stor-| for sale at The Empire Office. OPENING SPECIALS e BABY’S PRANK IS f CAUSE OF BLAZE | AT CORTEZ HOME Oil, overflowing from an oil heat- °r, when the valve was accidently >pened by their two-year-old son Ruben, became ignited this aft,er-: noon at the home of Mr. and Mrs, | Seorge Cortez, at Fifth and Nel- ' son streets, ! A call was immediately turned in to the Fire Department, at 3:35 o'- clock, and the small blaze was oromptly extinguished on the arri- | val of the firemen, with practically | no damage done. Smoke was the principal result of the blaze. The| baby was not harmed, B o S ORDWAY RETURNS WITH ASSISTANT Accompanied by Mrs. M. C. Brown, who will assist him in the operation of his store this summer, Fred Ord- way, Juneau photographer, returned | from a business trip to Seattle aboard the steamer Victoria. Mrs. Brown will visit temporar- ily with Mr. and Mrs. Jack Wilson in the Fossbee Apartments. ——————— ON WAY TO SITKA Enroute to Sitka, where Mr. Warmward will be connected with the construction of the new Feder= al building by the Warrack Con- struetion Company, in the capacity of engineer, Mr. and Mrs. Pike Warmward passed through Juneau today aboard the steamer Victoria from Seattle, If you are interested in Washing Machines Electric Irons Coffee Makers Cleaners or Toasters VISIT OUR GRAND OPENING SATURDAY, MAY 8 Each adult visitor gets ticket on door prizes. Alaska Electric Light ~ 8 Power Co-pal:g; a