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

“Juneau’s Leading AVIATION GROUP MAY MAKE TRIP OVER TERRITORY Federal Officials Arrive| Here to Confer with Alaska Commission | Sessions of the Alaska Aeronau tics and Communications Commis- sion, which opened here yesterday afternoon, were continued this morning with attendance by Fed- eral officials who arrived here last night on the Dorothy Alexander.| Plans for improvement in aerial| transportation and accompanying communications were taken up and the members have under consider- ation a survey trip over the Ter- ritory before completing the ses- sions. Information from the gath-| ering was that the Commission and visiting officials may travel by air| to various parts of the Territory| and then return here to continue| their deliberations. Gov. John W. Troy, Chairman of | the Alaska Commissioin, is presid-| ing and present at the sessions are: |2 visiting Rotarian, met with the E. K. Jett, Assistant Chief En- gineer of the Federal Communica-| tions Commission; John B. Rey- nolds, Assistant Secretary of the Federal Commission; L. C. Herndon, Inspector-in-Charge at Seattle; Eu- gene Sibley, Bureau of Air Com- merce; Hugh Brewster, Alaska Aer- onautics Inspector, Department of Commerce; Edgar B. Calvert, Chief of the Forecast Division of the U. S. Weather Bureau; Howard J. Thompson, Meteorologist for the Weather Bureau here: Comdr. M. J. Ryan, U. S. Coast Guard; Capt. Paul S. Edwards, U. S. Signal Corps; Charles Murphy, U. S. S nal Corps; Joe Crosson, membe of the Alas Commis Fairbanks, and Sheldon Simmons, member of the Commission Juneau. Mrs. Vella Moehring as temporary cvlerk. e eee DR. WHITEHEAD IS BACK IN JUNEAU Dr. W. M. Whitehead, wife and| baby, returned to Juneau aboard the North Sea from a vacation and is serving visit in Wrangell. Dr. Whitehead attended Mrs. Z. M. Bradford, former Juneauite, who was in the recent fire at Wrangell which de- stroyed the Standard Oil bungalow residence. — e — Mrs. Susan Robins, England, who| died at 102, never had a vacation,| never saw a motion picture, and oply once rode in a motor car. UGUST RA]INWEAR | Reduced from $5.00 Sizes—Small, med- Women's Rubberized SILK RAINCOATS WOMEN'S CRAVENETTE RAINCOATS Blue and brown-—sizes 16-18-20 Sale Price—$8.95 GIRLS’ RAINCOATS Sizes 3 to 16 Priced from $2.50 to $4.50 UMBRELLAS for Women and Children 1-4 Off Regular Price B.M. Behrends Co., Inc. |Phillips was the principal speaker |at the luncheon meeting of the Ro- .|home is in Bronxville, N. Y. on from | from| THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1937 l Here Isthe Area of the Presont Crisis Between Chma and J apan | [(PEIPEI AND VICINITY qm e | i Women's Genuine OIL SILK RAINCOATS Red, blue, black, green, brown, natural to $3.95 ium, large. Blue and brown Sizes to 44 Special—$6.75 : PR INTERIOR TRIP | Catches Grayling 'on Fly | Despite Earthquake Sensations, Highway Expecting the earth to shake a ‘little momentarily, but convinced he can stil take a grayling on a fly, Harry G. Watson, Secretary to Gov. {John W. Troy returned to Juneau |on the steamer Yukon after a two | weeks’ vacation trip to the Interior. Mrs. Watson is staying over in Fairbanks for a few weeks, visiting with her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Weir, and Mr. |Watson's sister and brother-in-law, iMr. and Mrs. Brice Howard. Mr. and Mrs. Watson experienced some of the recent earthquake sen- sations in the Fairbanks region and when he left they were still feeling tremors in the district. The Juneau couple motored up the Richardson Highway from Valdez and first heard of the quake at Gulkana. When they reached Mile 34 on the ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 3.— Highway they heard more about it The last river boatman opcratmg‘mr the road had been covered up out ef here—Capt. William Austin|yith slides for a distance of some —left yesterday on his final voyage. |1 ggo feet, Mr. Watson reported. Un- He is quitting business. He said|aple to proceed further, the Wat- that airplanes have taken all the sons who know their Alaska, turned Department Store” |business and that it is no longer|pack and found a cabin where they profitable to run a boat up the Su- stayed a few days while the road sitna river. was being cleared. It was in those He has been serving trappers and |days that the Secretary had an op- others in isolated country for four-|portunity to prove he could still teen years. Other tiver boats quit| hook a grayling on a fly. years ago. He said he will run a| Most of the damage in Fairbanks fox ranch on Kodiak Island. proper was to stocks in the stores, B3 9 B Y B Mr, Watson sald. The ‘quake shook SCHOOL SUPT.'IS ' B"flch L,"e ENGTAI WHER cg/figs fhrIESE FORCE JAPANESE ARMY HEADQUARTERS Pz TEMPLE OF AGRICULTURE BF L 7&] W[ R gkun 0% Ml % CITIZENS OF VARIOUS COUNTRIES GO HE| FOR SAFE T . TEMPLE CcoNFuCIus in the legation when he was shot. and explained that they thought A United States marine, Pat Fliszar of Easton, Pa, was wounded recéntly when firing broké out within a few hundred yards of the American legation at Peiping. The commander of the Chinese troo; the party was Japanese. BORAH CLAIMS “NO VACANCY," SUPREME COURT Senator Declares Reure- ment of Justices Not Pro- | vided in Constitution WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—United| States Senator Willlam E. Borah, recognized as one of the Nation’s | leadihg Constitutional authormes,! told the Senate today that there is no vacancy in the Supreme Court things off the shelves and messed ROTARY SPEAKER the shops up considerable. Fairbanks and all places in the Superintendent of Schools A. B. Interior where they stopped are looking fine, he reported. Mining activity is at its peak and the creeks are covered with men in search of gold and employed on existing op- erations. Several new prospects are coming in through the area and on the whole “things are looking almost as good as I ever saw them,” he said. SWIMMING POOL GROUP MEETS 7:30 TONIGHT, tary Club this noon at Percy’s Cafe. Mr. Phillips, who has just ‘com- !pleted his term as Preésidént of the {Club, told of his trip through the various States this summer while on vacation with his son. Dr. D. C. Cowles of Fullertony Cdl., |Club and spoke briefly and Mayor. |Fred Hanford of Wrangell was al ‘:‘:e: President C. D. Beale pre- scomSH RlTE TEMPLE |PAA OFFICIAL 18 ol i B v[s['nNG IN JUNEAU pool In Juneau, the Permanent Swimming Pool Committee will meet at 7:30 o'clock this evening in the Scottish Rite Temple, it is announced. Officers of the group which represent various organiza- tions in the city were elected at the last meeting nnd tonight it is hoped to nrrlve at a definite ways and means plan. Edward E. Wymah, prominent of- ficial of the Pan-American Air- Wi arrived in Juneau last night aboard the Dorothy Alexander. His Pan-American Airways is the par- |ent organization of the Pacific Al- aska Airways which operates from Juneau to Fairbanks and Nome. o TR N I Mr. Wyman is assistant to J. T.| GOLD CREEK BRIDGE | Tripp, President of Pan-American wEAKENED BY FLOOD Airways, and is in charge of Pa- cific Alaska Airways operations. Following his arrival here he spent {most of today at the PAA Airport iln-rv, ,examining the planes and airport equmment {NAMING DELEGATES PUT OVER FOR WEEK | Election of delegates to the De- kp‘ tment Convention at Anchorage eptember 20-23, inclusive, was 'postponed at the meeting of Alford John Bradford Post, American Le- |gion, until next Monday night when |officers request that a large num- ber of Legionnaires be on hand. All who expect to attend the con- vention are asked to notify the Adjutant and be present at next IMonday's meeting if possible, Flood waters in Gold Creek have damaged the underpinning of the Gold Creek bridge on the Basin Road, according to word at the Bu- reau of Pubuc ds today, and the structure_is dered unsafe for heavy traffic, it was announced. - eee——— SALMON OFFICIAL HERE Gilbert Skinner, presidént of the Alaska Pacific Salmon Corporation, was reported in Juneau today. He came to the Capital City aboard the company’s tender, Jeannette II, which took oil at the Standard Oil docks. ————————— —— A law passed in 1751 forbids Penn- sylvania auctioneers from handing out free drinks to speed up the bid- ‘dlng. for President Roosevelt to fill. Senator Borah took the floor to continue yesterday’s debate on the subject of when the President is to name a successor to Willis Van De-! vanter. Referring to Attorney-Gen- eral Homer S. Cumming’s ruling, he‘ described the vacancy as a “sup- posed vacancy.” Senator Borah said there are only three ways by which a Justice can be separated from the Land’s High- est Tribunal: impeachment, resig- nation, and death. “There is mno other way,” he said. Justice Van Devanter retired un- der the recently enacted law per- mitting Justices to retire at full pay after reaching the age of seventy. TO MAKE APPOINTMENT WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—Presi- dent Roosevelt told the newsmen at'a press conference this afternoon that he has the power to make an appointment to the Supreme Court and indicated he might make one before the Senate adjourns. HOME ECONOMICS ADVISOR ARRIVES HERE ON BARANOF Mrs. Florence Syverud of Manhat- tan, Kansas, arrived in Juneau aboard the Baranof to take over duties in Southeast Alaska as home economics advisor. Mrs. Syverud, who is stopping at the Hotel Juneau, is conferring with Miss Ruth Peck, home demonstra- tion leader, before her departure for the south, Friday. Miss Peck is to Jeave for Seattle where on August 12 she is to be married to Mr. Eu- gené Dietz, ‘agricultural extension agent. She and Mr. Dietz will later leave for Hurley, Wisconsin, to make their home. Accompanying Mrs. Syverud here is her daughter-in-law, Mrs. M. B. Syverud. - e Lode and placer location notices for sale at The Empire Office, {PARTY LfiADERSHIP { GIVEN TO BARKLEY Senator Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, who served as assis- tant to the late leader, Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkan- sas, recently won the Democra- tic leadership of the Senate by the narrow margin of a 38 to 37 vote. He was' chosen over Senator Pat Harrison of Missis- sippi. Barkley was supported by friends of the Roosevelt court bill, Harrison had the backing of those against the bill. S e UNDERGOES OPERATION Miss Margaret Abrahamson, sister of Mrs. Chris Wyller, who has been /! Juneau for the past, visiting in week, underwent a major operation at St. Ann’s Hospital this morning. He was aiding 250 Americans taking refuge ps Who did the shooting apologized Shown here is the American Legation build- ing, which is being protected by mavines during the Japanese seige of P TWO KILLED AS - PLANES LOCK IN AIR IN LANDING Pilot and Passenger in Sec- ond Ship Seriously In- jured in Crash LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 3. | Two men were Killed and two others seriously injured in a collision of two planes preparing to land at Dycer Airport. Chester O. Power, 24, private pilot, tand his passenger, Harry Wigley were killed as Power’s plane locked wings with a bi-plane piloted by Frank Jamison, 31, who received arm and leg fractures and a possible skull fracture. Alphonse Abelberg, in the plane with Jamison, also sus- | tained fractured bones in the crash. Witnesses said the two planes icame together at a height of about ithree hundred feet and spun slight- {ly as they fell, tearing shingles 'ifrom a garage. Both ships were de- 1molished. PHOTOGRAPHIC PARTY | i | | BACK FROM WESTWARD| Joseph Yolo, photographer, and Jay P. Williams of the U. 8, For- est Service, who have been in the Kenai district taking pictures for a series of films the Forest Service and the Alaska Game Commission |plan to present in the States re- |turned to Juneau on the Yukoh |after getting some fine “shots” in {the Westward. They will catch the salmon run in the Southeast before 'returning to the Interior for . further pictures of sheep and goats. |SAM GUYOT IS BETTER \FOLLOWING OPERATION Sam Guyot, head jailer at the Federal Jail, who* recently went south to enter the hospital in Se- attle, is somewhat improved after being very ill, according to U. S. Marshal William T. Mahoney, who has just returned from the south. Mr. Guyot underwent several blood transfusions but was better when the Marshal left. Mrs. Guyot is in Seattle with him. ONE HALIBUTER SELLS CATCH TODAY, SEATTLE SEATTLE, Aug. 3. — One hali- buter, the Bertha, from the local banks, sold 5,000 pounds here today ‘for 10% and 9 cents. . DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULT'URE, WEATHER BUREAT 0 THE WEATHER (By the U. 8. Weather Burcaa} Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4 p.m., Aug. 3. Rain tonight, Wednesday cloudy probably showers; moderate south- erly winds. LOCAL DATA Time paromer Temjs Humidity Wind Veloolty Weathee ' 4 pm. yest'y 29.69 517 90 SE 20 Lt. Rain i 4 a.m. today 29.80 52 s 93 w 3 Cloudy Noon today 29.67 54 87 SE 10 Lt. Rain RADIO REPORTS Max. temp. Lowest 4am. ‘4am. Precip. d4am. i Station last 24 hours temp. temp. velncny 24 hrs. Weather | ‘Anchorage 61 48 - 06 e Barrow 34 30 32 lli ) Cloudy Nome 58 42 44 12 02 Clpudy Bethel . 64 44 46 6 06 Cloudy Fairbanks 68 52 52 8 0 Cloudy g Dawson 48 48 6 27 Cloudy St. Paul’ .. 4“4 48 0 o Cloudy | Dut*h Harbor 50 48 50 4 02 Cloudy f Kodiak . th 48 50 4 .01 - «Cloudy Cordova 52 | \ 48 4 92 Cloudy Juneau . 57 | 51 51 3 1.58 Cloudy Sitka . 57 51 i, - § 47 1 Ketchikan .. 58 54 54 6 1.94 Rain Prince Rupert ... 60 54 56 16 a2 Rain Edmonton 58 58 6 01 Cloudy Seattle 50 58 6 0 Clear Portland = T 60 60 6 0 Clear | San Francisco ... 62 52 52 6 [J Cloudy New York 66 68 10 29 Clear ‘Washington 66 72 4 0 Clear WEATHER CONDITION AT 8 A. M. TODAY Seattle (airport), partly cloudy temperature, 56; Blaine, clear, 48; Victoria, clear, 54; Alert Bay, clear, 53; Bull Harbor, ¢loudy, 56; Triple Island, raining, —; Langara, raininz, 54; Prince Rupert, raining, 57; Ketchikan, raining, 56; Craig, raining, 54; Wrangell, raining, 55; Pet- ersburg, raining, 54; Sitka, raining, 51; Soapstone Point," cloudy, 50; Port Althorp, cloudy, —; Todd, rain'ng, —; Tenakee, raining, —; Radio- ville, raining, 51; Juneau, raining, 51; Juneau, raining, 51; Skagway, cloudy, 55; Cordova, raining, 50; Chitina, cloudy, 48; McCarthy, rain- ing, 46; Anchorage, cloudy, 52; Portage, cloudy, 52; Fairbanks, raining, 53; Nenana, raining, 52; Richardson, raining, 50; Big Delta, cloudy, 50; Rapids, raining, 42; Ruby, cloudy, 46; Nulato, cloudy, 56; Flat, ‘cloudy, 47; Ohogamute, clear, 58; Nome, cloudy, 46; Solomon, partly :cloudy, 48; Golovin, cloudy, 50; Council, cloudy, 45; Tin City, cloudy, 44; Tel- ler, cloudy, 45; Deering, raining, 45; Egavik, cloudy, 46. Juneau, August 4. — Sunrise, 3:56 a.m.; sunset, 8:15 p.m. WEATHER SYNOPSIS The barometer continued low over all Alaska and western and cen- tral Canada except southern Britsh Columbia and Alberta this morn- ing with Barrow reporting the lowest pressure, 29.24 inches. A ridge of high pressure with one center of 30.50 inches at latitude 36 degrees and longitude 162 degrees and ano‘her of 30.22 inches at Kamloops ex- tended from the mid-Pacific north of the Hawaiian Islands north- eastward to Montana and lower Alberta. Light rain has fallen dur- ing the last 24 hours over Seward Penjnsula, lower Kuskokwim val- ley and Aleutian Islands and mod:rate to heavy rain from Cordova southeast to northern British Columbia. Light rain was also reported from the mouth of the MacKenzi> River with generally fair weather ' prevailing ‘over the rest of the fiell of observation. i ’ § A, ). Garpenter (oriered | f Je | Ordered in § Peculiar Case T« S * Stori-bound P assengers Arrive on Vida from Annex Creek After spending two nights at An- nex Creek, storm bound by the roughest weather to be reported in the 'vicinity for many years, the week-end party from Taku -Lodge returned to Juneau this morning aboard the Vida, with Harold Da- man, piloting. Arriving here were Miss Randi Molver, Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Car- Tuthers, - Walter Feterson, Jack Popejoy, Alla Mae Scott, nd George Melbo Mary Joyce returned to Ju- neau aboard; her boat, the Mary J. PACK SLUMPS ANCHORAGE, Alaska. Aug. 3.— Anchorage canners set the season’s fish pack at 56,000, considerably be- low the average of last year which set an all-time record at 90.000 cases. i —_———— The wife of Mayor. Janos Mlin- aries of Bajasca, Hungary, became a grandmother at 28. Bhe married at 13] as did her first d..ughoer Ceneral Brewing Corporation . Sam Franciecs Injured in Fall lu RIVERSIDE, Cal, .Aug. 3. — A iblood test has been ordered to Einar Bye, Alaska Juneau mine determiné whéther Anstruther Mac- carpenter, who fell from a trestle Donald is the father of the woman while building a tailing flume, was he took for his wife. rushed by ambulance to St. Ann's He pleaded inhocent to statutory Hospital at 1 p.m. today, where he charges which Mrs. Marjorie Mac- received immediate treatment for Donald preferred. |a broken back. | MacDonald claims she is his fos- Dr. W. P. Blanton, attending ter daughter. She gave birth to a physiclan, states that his condition, son nine months ago hlS afternoon, was satisfactory. { Bye, who has no relatives living in Juneau, has been employed at |the Alaska Juneau mine in the ee 8" a y carpenter crew for about months. § ¢ i ‘ Ral SaE ] urns nere NAVY CRAFTS VALLEJO, cat, Aug. 3.—Collid- ing during battle maneuvers, the destroyers Worden and Reid are hurrying to Mare Island for survey of damages. The two vessels hit off Point Conception, ‘about 150 miles south of San Francisco in a heavy haze last night. It is said no men were injured. Later radio said the Worden has a seven foot hole in her stern-and the Reid has a hole in her bow above {the waterline. MARSHAL REififi 3. BRINGS PRISONERS FROM stfiEAST After going south with prisoners,. U. S. Marshal Willlam T. Mahoney | returned to Juneau on the North Sea. While south he visited with his mother at Eureka, Calif, and re- ported that everywhere in his tra- vels he found a general air of pros- perity. Transportation lines were loaded and business everywhére seemed to be in sound condition. strike conditions, he found, seemed to beironing themselves out and Seattle is rapidly getting back to {normalcy after labor troubles, _ 14 Coming north, the Marshal plcked up six prisoners for the Federal jail here—Salena Mooney of Wran- gell to serve six months for as- sault; Harry Campbell, four months for drunk and disorderly; Arthur, Paul, six months on a similar charge; Chester Willis, six months | on a similar charge; Ivar Stolpe, | six months and $500 for game law violation, and Vernon Allred, bound over to the grand jury on a statu- tory charge. Allreg is from Ketchi- | kan, the other men from Peters- burg. 0 — e i WISEMAN TEACHER ARRIVES George Rayburn, school teacher at Wiseman for the past three years, Electra for Fairbanks this after- noon, but was unable to make the trip because of the weather. is a visitor in Juneau, stopping at } THE VOGUE ] |the Gastineau Hotel, having re-| | | turned from a vacation trip south. , Correctly Styled Clothes Mr. Rayburn was to leave by PAA [ For Women | 4 | 101 SEWARD ST.