The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 7, 1937, Page 2

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1937. h 3 You: opoortunity to buy fresh up-to-the-minute n anclise at prices that suggest the "good e B T T TP D COTTON FABRICS—WOOLENS SILK GOODS Prints—Seersucker—Sheers 25c yard - |'was under the supervision of C. S. ‘| R. Gallently, of the Seattle office . | bell, retired. P et - e S P~ B Bri One lot Draperies—Cretonnes—Scrims—Chintz Half Price Print Silk Goods—Short length sl.oo yard L Woolen Dress Fabrics—Y% Off Re en Odds and Ends in Yardage Assortment & yards for $ 1.00 e e e et i~ Gt REMNARTS—HALF e e i RABIOTELEPHONE HERE THURSDAY 'Official Opening of New Communication Link to Take Place (Continued from Page One) network in the continental United States, thus making it possible for the citizens of Juneau to talk to any telephone subscriber having access to the long distance lines of the Bell system, and vice versa. Local Installation The installation of the Juneau terminal was in charge of Staff Sergeant Roger H. Stevenson, Op- erator-in-Charge of the Juneau Radio Station. The technical part Daugherty, agent of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, assisted by Radio Engineer George of the United States Signal Corps, and Master Sergeant James Camp- In Record Time The installation of the Juneau terminal was in record breaking time. Actual construction was start- ed on May 1 and included in- stallation of the latest type of directive thomboid, transmitter and »|receiver, and antennaes which are gular Price {in the Transpacific and Transat- the latest development of the Am- erican Telephone and Telegraph Company and similar to those used SERVICE STARTS! Final Services Rev. O. L. Kendall Officiates at Ceremony in Scot- tish Rite Temple At rest together, Stanley Albert Heisel and David Sidney Heisel re- ceived the final tribute of hun- dreds of friends and of their family this afternoon at funeral services conducted by the Order of DeMolay in the lodge rooms of the Scottish Rite Temple. The Rev. O. L. Kendall officiated at the ceremony, paying homage ito the two prominent Juneau boys whose lives were lost Sunday at {the Crystal Pool, near Mendenhall Glacier. “Memories ‘of the two brothers {while here were so happy together, |will ever be with those left be- hind,” stated the’ eulogist. *“It is ‘significant and fitting that they should continue together now.” Following the eulogy by the Rev. Kendall, Robert Cowling, Master Counsellor of the Order of DeMolay, conducted the lodge ceremony for Stanley Heisel, former DeMolay member. David Heisel had not yet |reached the age of admittance to |the order. James Latimer Gray, |chaplain, offered the lodge prayer, innd symbolic flowers were placed on the altar by the DeMolay officers. Lola Mae Alexander sang for the services. A ceremony at the grave side, conducted by the DeMolay, conclud- lantic service. ‘The telephone signals are gen- erated in the Signal Corps offices in the Federal and Territorial | ) | Building and carried on 12 miles | of telephone cable to the trans-| mitter station on the Glacier High-' “|'way near Peterson's Dairy. The station contains an automatically ,operated radiotelephone transmitter | which is rated as a semi-powerful | - 'radio transmitter from an electrical !standpoint, the actual energy de- livered to the air and for carrying on radiotelephone conversation with L Seattle is less than that required on the ordinary breakfast toaster or flat iron. The signals received from Seat- PRICE B. M. Behrends Co. Inc. social status of Iudians is impe Juneau's Leading Depc tive BRITISH SHIP = IS TORPEDOED, - CREW ADRIFT * Search Made by Cruiser to Nu . where for Men in Boat ; underway states that if the \\/., ~ut Om-s Alaskan p n is approved by the Washington, D. C. office, he \DON, July will return to Juneau in the fall. Admiralty announc Dr. Aronson, working temporarily Penelope has sea: | with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, for 19 hours for |1s associated with Phipps Institute reported adrift, wit of open boa pedoed off the a submarine of ality, The Admiralty announces it has Keteh Khake cover oong z00n rg and T f a few day Alaska, determining whetler facilities will permit the esearch program to be during 1 South- ave chortly to return )t: and South Dakola program is now ~The the the only United States institute voted solely to the study of uberculosis. #n nation- the University of Pennsylvania,| ent Store CUT EXPENSES, SAYS EDR. T0 DEPT. CHIEFS Ninety-five Million Dollars ~ Saved Since April Is Report Made WASHINGTON, July 7.—Presi- |dent Roosevelt, whose department heads managed to save about $95,-! 1000,000 under the estimated expen- |ditures during the past three months, has requested a Govern-, |mental savings of $400,000,000 next' | year. The President wants all Depart- |ments to effect economies, he sai [ | | tle are picked up at the Signal Corps receiving station 7 miles out the Glacier Highway and brought ,to the receiving room in the Fed- eral and Territorial Building over the same cable. Privacy One of the main features of the new circuit, probably already no-; | :Liced to Juneau ‘“radio droppers” is the privaey or serambled conver-‘ sations which are less intelligible than. Chinese to the listener. During test periods the privacy is removed but when serious con- versation is transmitted only the parties at both ends are receiving the ungarbled conversation. ARMY PILOTS ARE FLYING OWN LAUNDRY MARCH FIELD, Cal, July 7— Friday morning, and army trucks dash out to meet it. There's a ed the services with the following pallbearers assisting: For Stanley Heisel, Donald Wilcox, George Al- exander, Claude Hirst, Forrest Bates, Charles Jenne, and Harold Zenger. For David Heisel, Jack Newmarker, Frank Parsons, Peter Snyder, Rob- ert Geyer, Harley Turner, Jr., and Keith Petrich. During the service, the U. S. Customs office remained closed in deference to Walter B. Heisel, fa- ther of the two boys. ONCE CRACK CPR Held Today for LINERIS FIRED, Heisfl Brothers IiEIllll:EIl_TlIJUNI(i Steamer Princess Patricia Beached, Sent Ablaze at Albert Head VICTORIA, B. C., July 7.—The once crack coastal vessel of the Canadian Pacific Steamship Com- pany, the Princess Patricia, was tilted on the beach at Albert Head and gutted by fire after almost 35 years of service behind her. The vessel was sold recently for scrap and dismantled. She was beached and fired last night. ———————— Young Peoples Bible Sessions A@ Be Held First Conference of Kind Announced—Will Start Next Monday The Christian Workers Commit- (tee, with J .E. Click chairman, will 'conduct a Young Peoples' Bible con- |ference at Tee Harbor July 12 to 17. The buildings formerly occupied by the CCC have been secured. |Young people between the ages of 14 to 20 are invited to attend. The Bible conference is to con- !sist of Bible Studies from 9 a. m. jto 12 noon, with intermissions of singing and exercises. Directed recreation from 2 to 5 p. m. Evan- gelistic services each evening, Mon- day to Friday, 8 to 9, to which the public is invited. Special speakers each evening. Followed by a camp fire service on the beach, 9 to 9:30. Application for enrollment and | | | | | The brothers 2dditional information may be se-| | are survived by their mother and €uréd from J. E. Click, Box 986, father, and by their brothers, Wal- °f by phoning 175 or Douglas 453. ter Heisel, Jr, and Edwin Heisel. D2y visitors will be welcome pro- \viding they take their lunch. Bristol Bay This is the first Young Peoples’ Bible conference held in this vie- inity. A number of Christian work- Legislation g ' . x Civen Boost War Commission approved of the legislation requiring SO ers from outside of Juneau will par- aicipate in the conduct of this pro- gram. salmon fishermen using stake nets _ WASHINGTON, July 7. — The or set nets for commercial pur- German-American Mixed Claims poses in the Bristol Bay section. to Commission unanimously dismissed be residents of that area for five & motion of the United States to years preceding such operations. ~ award $22,000,000 to claimants who R R suffered wartime loses in fires and d explosions, including disasters of Dies Here Today the Black Tom at Kingsland, N. J. Robert Bonynge, American agent, Forest Service Cook Suc- cumbs Following e~ WASHINGTON, July 7. — The Senate Commerce Committee has secretary of the German embassy, German agent, opposed the motion. - e — HAWKESWORTH RETURNING Charles W. Hawkesworth, Assist- ant Education Director for the Bu- reau of Indian Affairs, is a passen- ger aboard the Mount McKinley | | A large army plane lands here each | so moved. Dr. Richard Paul, third Long Illness which left Seattle this morning for Juneau. Mr. Hawkesworth has been WEATHER BUREAD | THE WEATHER (By the U. §. Weather Bureau; ; Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4 pm., July 7. . Rain tonight and Thursday; gentle to moderate southerly winds, LOCAL DATA > Barom>ter Temy. Humidity Wind Velocity Weathee 30.10 53 87 El 4 Sprkling 30.01 50 88 [ 0 Lt. Rain 3000 55 72 s 8 Sprkling CABLE AND RADIO REPOZTS TODAY Lowost 4am. 4a.m. . Precip. = temip. temp. velocity 24 hrs. 53 — b= T U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AORICULW&E. | Time 4 p.m. yest'y 4 am. today Noon today Max. temp. last 24 hours 58 40 52 64 68 64 . 52 50 52 52 55 Station Anchorage Barrow Nome Bethel Fairbanks Dawson St. Paul . Dutch Harbor Kodiak Cordova Juneau Sitka Ketchikan Prince Rupert Edmonton Seattle Portland San Francisco New York ‘Washington 36 44 48 50 50 42 46 “ 46 50 14 4 6 36 | 44 48 60 50 42 46 46 48 50 & 2 () PR . 54 60 74 4 8 72 50 50 48 54 60 54 82 70 74 82 66 72 ‘WEATHER CONDITION AT 8 A. F 50 52 48 54 60 54 4 10 4 4 10 10 6 4 TODAX Hoooeooigy clear, 53; Alert Bay, raining, 52; Bull Harbor, sprinkling, 53; Triple Island, raining; Langara Island, raining, 53; Prince Rupert, raining, 52; Ketchikan, raining, 51; Craig, misting, 55; Wrangell, raining, 52; Petersburg, cloudy, 54; Todd, cloudy; Port Althorp‘.‘ cloudy; Tenakee, cloudy; Radioville, showers, 52; Soapstone Point, partly cloudy.',qx," Jus, neau raining, 50; Skagway, cloudy, 53; Cordova, cloudy, 52; Chitina, cloudy, 52; McCarthy, cloudy, 50; Anchorage, cloudy, 56; Portage, clou- dy, 52; Nenana, missing; Fairbanks, cloudy, 52; Hot Springs, partly cloudy, 66; Tanana, cloudy, 58; Ruby, cloudy, 56; Nulato, clear, 66; Kaltag, Unalakleet, missing; Flat, clear, 56; Ohogamute, cloudy, 56. Juneau, July 8. — Sunrise, 3:06 a.m.; sunset, 9:03 p.m. WEATHER SYNOPSIS High barometric pressure prevailed this morning from Southeast- ern Alaska, British Columbia, and the Pacific Northwest states south- westward over the Pacific Ocean to the Hawaiian Islands, the crest being 30.60 inches over the Pacific Ocean at latitude 40 degrees and longitude 148 degrees. Elsewhere over the field of observation low barometric pressure prevailed, the lowest reported pressure being 29.12 inches at Chesterfield Inlet on the Hudson Bay. This general pres- sure distribution has been attended by precipitation along the coastal regions from the Aleutians southeastward to northern Vancouver Island and scatteringly over the interior of Alaska and by fair weather over |the West Coast States. 306 TOURISTS " IN JUNEAU ON PRIN. ROBERT Canadian National Steamer Here from Seattle— Sails at 11 P. M. |SISTER SUPERIOR BACK FROM SOUTH Sister Superior Mary Barbara returned from & business trip to | Victoria aboard the Princess Char- | lotte. | While in the South, Sister Mary | Barbara also visited with her bro- |ther in Kamloops, where he has been a priest for the past 25 years |and is this year observing his silver Jubilee. e 7 NIGHTWATCHMAN ILL Bringing 306 round-trip passeng-| Jack Zabodsky, merchant night- lers, the queenly Prince Robert patrolman employed by merchants Iberthed at the City Dock today at of the city, was admitted for medi- 3:30 p. m, for a seven-and-a-half cal care to St. Ann’s Hospital this hour stay in the Capital City. | noon. No passengers aboard the vessel, He was taken ill last night and iwere bound for Juneau. Two went was taken to the hospital today ashore at Ketchikan and four were when his condition grew more se- bound for Skagway. | vere. | Capt. H. E. Neddon reported “rainy weather all the way.” The Prince OPERATE ON BAKER Robert will dock here for half an | Joe Baker underwent a minor op- hour early Saturday morning on the eration at the Juneau Medical and return voyage. | Surgical Clinic Saturday. I IT'S HARD T0 COLLECT FROM | .- | TONSILECTOMY Mrs. John Pademieister underwent a tonsilectomy at the Juneau Med- ical and Surgical Clinic yesterday morning. h'no laundry. hasty change of cargo—and back to | Percy M. Lockwood, 65, for many Rockwell air depot at San Diego years a resident of Alaska, passed goes some 600 pounds of laundry.|8Way shortly afternoon today at Pifty officers and men are Sm_;ac. Ann’s Hospital, where he has tioned at Rockwell, where there is|been confined for several weeks Consequently, March |for surgical care. attending the Masonic Grand Lodge convention in Tacoma. e WANTS WAGES Charged with failure to pay wa- ges, Al Glover was brought into CLAIMS GOURT WASHINGTON, July 7.—Claims {for some $ 150,000,000 pending Drama Takes to Clouds | { PITTSBURGH.—Student drama- _tists .at the University of Pitts- burgh are literally up in’ the air. Director Carl Cass, to avoid noise been unable to learn definitely the name of the torpedoed vessel. Ductfir?iias To Make Survey of Tu_herculusis Program to Test Spread of Disease Through S. E. Alaska Considered !by impounding 10 percent of the' funds Congress has appropriated. ALARM CLOCK STOPS FINES s agq Fright Sayfl’rmm jelock in his store to avoid paying traffic fines. He the alarm hourly, just| five minutes before it's time to| move his car from a restricted park- | ing area. After paying $4 in parl -1 |ing fines he decided it was cheaper| PITTSBURGH, Pa. July 7—You {to buy an alarm clock. can be scared into making a good | speech, Charles W. Lomas, ‘debate | director at the University of Pitts- ‘burgh, believes. Lomas sald: in an . experiment with high school students he found those “scared stiff* before their - —— . Plan 3,400-Mile L) Aronson arrived in Juneau yester- spepehws bilt calel “whate ' Gooe started talked more fluently than . day aboard the Alaska and this G""sa! Nfl Stnps A those never frightened at all. morning left for Ketchikan by| LONG BEACH, Cal, July 7 plane on a preliminary survey trip.!non-stop cruise of 4,300 miles in a Students who were unable to their stage fright, how- an- Aronson, wol |28-foot yawl has been mapped by! control ureau of Indian Affo Frank D. Anderson and three com- | ev d ! ar E -|ever, made the poorest speeches sent from Washington, D. C panions. Carrying 160 gallons of|of any group. study the possibility of establishing water and 100 gallons of gasoline! - ,,——— MAN TO GET mobile unit laboratories in South-|for an auxiliary engine, the Mn.sawuu; east Alaska. Through these labora- lhope to make distant Pitcairn Is-| PAY FOR LOSS OF BOAT tories it is planned to take tests!land in the South Pacific without | To study a proposed tuberculosis research program, Dr. Joseph D. and X-rays of Indians in an at-|any stop enroute tempt to study the spread of tuberculosis. “Housing conditions of Indians in| Southeast Alaska probably form a major cause for the extent of the' disease here " he stated this morn-| ing the Gastineau Hotel, where | staying. “Tuberculosis is more | ious than leprosy reated with no where equal amount of care Stating |through that he believes education of the |Seattle natives will do much to bring about [tives at Walla more healthful home conditions,|to sail shorily Dr. Aronson also added that im-|{stop provements in the economic andfore cus dants of the Bounty mutineers ->ee .MRS. M’CORMICK ON Mrs vet it is|Deputy near anlwho ha Betty bes t e East stoppiny Walla r Alask. with WAY HOME TO JUNEAU| The private bill to authorize pay- Pitcairn is inhabited by descen- ment of the sum of $250 to Sam | Romack of Seward, Alaska, was re- | ported to the House on June 10 with an amendment. As introduced the bill would have provided pay- ment in the sum mentioned to Mr. | Romack for the loss of his gasboat, - e Try an Empire ad, i Field does their washing and iron- ing. The seven enlisted men rated as ing the laundry. B00d Time on Flight South flying his Lockheed : Vega, arrived here from Prince George late yes- terday afternoon -and his passen- ger, Bartholomae Bien, continued south on a United Airliner. Mirow said his flying time from Nome was 15 hours and 30 min- utes. The Alaska pilot left Nome Mon- over night, took the air Tuesday morning and stopped at Hazelton and Prince George. Mirow said he will remain in Se- attle about ten days before return- ing to Nome via the inside air route. BLOW COSTS HOLIDAY CE! ‘__sso CASH Pleading guilty to a charge of as- sault and battery as the result of an altercation on Lower Franklin McCormick, wife of which was accidentally sunk by |Street in which he is alleged to have Marshal John McCormick, the Coast Guard patrol boat Morris |struck Michael -Boatch, Harvey 1 on an extended visit| during a storm at Seward in the|Davis, 33, was fined $50 and given How back inifall of 1935. As amended by theia two months suspended jail sen- rela-| Committee on Claims, to which the tence by U. 8. Commissioner Felix U3 bill was referred, it will authorize |Gray 'this morning. The trouble 1l payment of $126 forthe ioss. be- occurred Monday evening over the alleged refusal of Bocatch to take a drink. pilots at Rockwell take turns fly-| SEATTLE; July 7—Hans Mirow,; day morning, stopped at Fairbanks | Brought on an emergency flight by plane from Youngs Bay, Lock- 'wood had been cooking at a U. 8. Forest Service camp near there when he was taken ill. He was born in California in 1872 and has no known relatives. Funeral services from the Charles W. Carter mortuary will be an- nounced tomorrow. D. FREDERICK SEATTLE, July 7—Donald Fred- Frederick & Nelson's big store here, is dead, one week after stricken with pneumonia. He retired several years ago. R L 3 ka0 * | sTock QuoTAaTIONS NEW YORK, July 7. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 12'%., American Can 101%, American Light and Power 9%, Bethlehem Steel 90%, Ana- conda 56, Commonwealth and Southern 22, General Motors 537%, International Harvester 109%, Ken- necott 60'2, New York Central 40%, Southern Pacific 47%, United States Steel 107, Cities Service 3%, Pound $495%, Republic Steel 38%, Pure Oil 20%, Holly Sugar 32, U. S. Treasury bonds 2%s 97.30, Atchi- son General 4s 110%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 157.74, rails 54.26, utilities 28.33. ——e—o—— Try an Empire ad. PASSES AWAY erick; 77, one of the founders of, L U. S. Commissioner’s Court this morning and later released on his promise to make good by the 10th of the month wages of $30 allegedly due Tony Pappas, complaintant. AT SIGRID'S SHOP Mrs. Lila Wilson, who for the past two years has been an operator at |the Florence Beauty Shop, has now | joined the staff of Sigrid’s Beauty ! Shop. B JUNIOR C.D.A. AT SHRINE A group of junior Catholic Daughters of America members left yesterday for the Shrine site where they are to vacation for several days. Miss Helen Storms accom- panied the group to the site and will be in charge for a short time. —r DR. EDMUNDS SAILS Dr. J. W. Edmunds, optometrist of Seattle, who has been in Ju- neau for the past several weeks, |left aboard the Alaska for the westward. During his stay in Ju- neau he was a guest at the Gas- tineau Hotel. - e TAKING INLAND TOUR Roger Hager, son of the president of the New England Fish Company, is taking the Inland Tour aboard the Alaska. o SULLIVAN LEAVES M. J. Sullivan, who has been in Juneau for some time in connec- tion with mining property interests, left aboard the Alaska for Yakutat. A pioneer Alaskan, Sullivan has been stopping at the Gastineau Hotel during his stay in Juneau. - e MURCH ON ALASKA J. H. Murch, an official of the Kennecott Copper Company, his wife and son, J. H, Jr, are aboard the Alaska for Cordova, and interruptions, moved rehears- als up to the 36th floor of the uni- rsity’s lofty Cathedral of Learn- ‘against the government in the Unit- ed States court of claims look like a potential body blow to budget Y© balancing—if you don’t look at the 75, = . it record. But in the last four years the court has awarded an average only of from 1.06 to 524 percent of the amounts claimed. In 1935 awards totaled $8,642,161, after deducting counterclaims won by the govern- ment, in 409 suits demanding $145,- 000,00. Biggest single case on the docket, filed in 1921 by the late Robert Lee Wright, claims $122,250,000 for al- leged patent infringement by the government in the manufacture of all shells fired in the World war. Husband-Hunters Need More than Gulture to Win AUSTIN, Tex., July 7.—A young woman’s culture won't win her & husband from the group of young Every Month in the Year AUCTION SALE DATES 1937 August 11 September 8 October 13 November 10 December 15 Special Sales Held on Request of Shippers. men in Dr. C. W. Hall's “marriage” class at the University of Texas. The males ranked character as the most desirable wifely trait, and other qualities in this order: de- sire for home and children, health, intelligence, fidelity, congeniality, personality, consideration and un- derstanding, culture. ‘Women students ranked qualities of prospective husbands in this order: honesty and sincerity, am- bition, congeniality, attractive per- sonal appearance, desire for home and children, sense of humor, in- telligence, fidelity, personality, un- lderstanding. ? Advances will be made as usual when requested. Transferred by telegraph if desired. 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