The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 4, 1937, Page 8

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1937. FISHING NEAR KETCHIKAN IS HELD UP, GALE Canneries Idle Because Un- able to Brail Traps— Seiner's Can’t Fish HIKAN, Al , Aug. 4. — fishing operations were vir- at a standstill yesterday fol- Jowing resumption of a severe storm. Canneries were practically idle on ) ack of fish because of ) brailing traps and were unable to fish, he salmon pack to date this sea- n is under half of that of the last three years. Captain Jackson, Salvation Army | Leade@uccumhs tive Worker Passes Away at Government Hospital William Jackson, promm-: ntly identified with work of the Salvation Army in Southeast Al- a since 1915, died at 11:30 p.m vesterday &t the Government Hos- pital, four days after his admission to the hospital for emergency medi- cal care pt. Jackson was brought to Ju- reau last week aboard his fishing boat, the Fanny J, but was unable to recover from the illness which had overcome him. | Born in Wrangell in 1869, he died at the age of 68 and is survived by his wife and two children, Elizabeth of Juneau, and Milton, of Ketchi- kan. His sister is Mrs. J. Willard of Juneau. Capt. Jackson was a fisherman by trade, and had been fishing out at Tenakee when he was taken ill. Funeral plans will be announced from the Charles W. Carter mortu- ary, shortly A SRS o TWO ELECTRAS TAKE OFF FOR INT, THIS A M. Held here an extra day by bad weather, the two Pacific Alaska Air- ways Electra transports took off from the airport here this morning, on a two-section flight to Fa banks. The first of the big Lock- Leeds, piloted by Jerry Jones and Murray Stuart and carrying nine pussengers, got away for the Inter- ior about 11:30 o'clock. The sec- cnd ion, piloted by 8. A. Rob- bins und Bill Knox an dearrying trree passengers, followed about ten minutes behind the first plane. Passengers leaving here for Fair- banks this morning by PAA plane were: First section—Al Schuback, W. W. Johnson, W. W, Johnson Jr., Phillip Johnson, C. Franklin, Curtis Shattuck, G. Rayburn, Percy Hub- bard, Mrs. T. C. Archer. Second section—Charles Burdick, A. E. Karnes Gladys Abel. One Electra plane is scheduled to make the return flight from Fairbanks to Juneau tomorrow. e AERO COMMISSION CONTINUES SESSION KETC! Img | | | \ | Capt t Members of the Alaska Aeronau-| and Communications Commis- | ties sion, meeting with visiting repre- sentatives of Federal agencies, con- tinued their deliberations today with Joe Crosson of Fairbanks pre- siding. The members discussed vari- ~us phases of the communication und aerial transportation problem but had arrived at no definite con- clusions, it was reported. The repre- sentatives plan to leave shortly for a trip over the Territory. KIRCHOFFER NAMED TEMFORARY HEAD OF A. 1. UNION GROUP Ed Kirchoffer was chosen tempor- President of “Federal Labor Union 21001" at a meeting of a group of employees of the Alaska Juneau mine last night in OdA Rallows a1l it was announced following the meeting. Important labor guestions were discussed, it Was reporieq. vu. fcijon was deferred until a later session. A good attendance was re- ported. S e - JERRY COLE TO STATES AFTER VISITING FATHER Jerry Cole, Cash Cole, who has been visiting his father in Juneau for the past two months, will leave on the North Sea Thursday for Menlo Park, Cal, where he will re-enroll in Park Military Academy. The boy will graduate from the school in two years. Mrs, Cole also lives in. Menlo Park. . ——— e Try The BEmpire classifieds fo results. 11-year-old son of Insurance Man and Radioist Who Died J\lon(laySW|mming Pool r il BLAINE.WAS| 1 o3 ARG 'W7FB T the pacilic 9cea e £S5, SCOBEE Above is a picture of Floyd S. Scobee, former wellknown insurance man of Juneau, who 3 o r died suddeniy Monday night in his home in Vancouver, B. C., wherc he has been lccated, in his insurance agency, for (he past two years. Scobee was an enthusiastic radio man and the above picture is his receiving and send- ing rcom, near Blaine, Wash., on the boundary between British Columbia and Washingten State, station was known as WIFBC and Scobee contacted also took messages from friends on CHICAGO HAS MYSTERIOUS | KIONAP CASE Donald Hoa,_ Two and One-half Years, Snatch- ed from Family Yard (Continued from Page One) wife of & prominent hotel owner and song publisher, and her maid as the bewildered child was carried from the yard to an automobile in which the other man was wait- ing, motor running. Immediate Search Federal agents were immediateiy called to assist the city, county and state police in spreading the search for the kidnapers. Little Donald was playing in a sand pile when the kidnapers drove | up to the spacious Horst home. One man and the woman left the car, went to the sand pile and said: “Are you Mrs. Horst?" | Mrs. Horst nodded, and the men then ran and seized Donald and started to run toward the auto. Mrs. Horst caught up with him and threw her arms around him, tearing away part of his shirt. Are Knocked Down Her screams brought the maid. At this point the woman abductor turned on Mrs. Horst and knocked her to the ground, then landed a blow on the maid. knocking her also. Horst rose from the ground and again followed her son and| then the kidnaper struck her in Lhe! face, sprang into the auto and drove | off. | Mrs. Horst screamed: “Stop them | and get my baby.” i A neighbor, Joseph Immel, Jr.,! who appeared on the scene, said| the woman in the car screamed mine.” | An hour later, after the police | were picking up clues at the Horst house, a second telephone call came ‘demunding a ransom. e * o HOSPITAL NOTES . George Rahr of Chicago, a pas- senger aboard the Princess Louise from the south, was admitted to St. Ann’s Hospital for medical care’ last night, and is expected to be able to board the Louise when the vessel returns from Skagway to- {morrow morning. | Hubert Wandung, who | last week, was dismissed from the hospital today. Mrs. Gunnar Blomgren, wife of e retired grocer, underwent a mi- nor operation at St. Ann's Hospital this morning. She was admitted to the hospital last night Mrs. Don Gallagher, a medical patient, was dismissed from St Ann's Hospital today. Einar Bye, who was injured in a fall at the Alaska Juneau mine flume yesterday, breaking his back, Is Improving at St. Ann’s Hospital Charles Jackson underwent @ tonsilectomy yesterday at the Gov- ernment hospital. — e TONSILECTOMY Eulalie Bockmore underwent tonsilemtomy at the Juneau Medical and Surgical Clinic this morning. - ->oo The United States Weather reau is developing a system of wea- ther forecasting by lnmses. a r Byl various subjects. all Alaska. Actress to Wed English Earl Earl of Jersey and When the cameraman snapped this rill, American movie actress, and he were busy figuring out a j COLD MINETO WESTWARD IS BRANCHING OUT [back: “1t ismt her bavy. It is' New Mill Is Being Installed on Independence, Near City of Anchorage ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 4— |The Independence Gold Mine, northwest of Anchorage, is install- ing a new mill and other equip- & ment to permit of operations on a «larger scale. The mine now has a payroll of A CANDID TALK } with Grover received | a slibt head injury at the AJ mine, | 1 High up in the Empire State building, Grover T. Whalen stands before a map of greater New York to drive home points about the world's fair. First he wants to make someth clear about the title. * ‘Fair,’ clares, “is a misnomer. nightly many other staticns and listeners He had a hest of friends, not enly in Juneau, but in His and he Virginia Cherrill =" informal photo of Virginia Cher+ r fiance, the Earl of Jersey, they saw puzzle at the London home of the English noble. 35 men throughout the winter. Financing May Reqnjre “Pool” | Committee Has Suggestion in Mind—Calls on Groups to Send Representatives All for the sak of a swimming pool for Juneau youngsters, local | citizens soon may have a ‘“pool” of their own—to raise funds for the construction of the proposed swim- { ming center. | That was one of the suggestions brought forth last night as the Permanent Swimming Pool Com- mittee convened at Scottish Rite remple to further plans Another suggestion—and this ono{ by was brought forcibly home means of a resolution—was to se- | cure a grealer attendance at com- | mittec meetings. { Mrs. C. P. Jenne, Secretary, was { instrucied to write letters to every 1 interested organization requesting | that it see that its representative, or an alternate, -attend meetings. Since only six delegates to the Swimming Committee were present night, it was decided to give representatives of all interested or- ganizations a chance to be present befoie definite plans and details are evolved. Meeting Next Tuesday The next meeting of the commit- | tee, it was decided, will be held next | Luesday at 7:30 p. m. at the City| Mol In the meantime represen- | tatives were asked to consult mem- | Lers of their organizations and oth-| er individuals in Juneau concerning ssible plans and locations for tne| prcposed pool. | In the absence of Dr. G. F. Free- burger, President, who is in Ketchi- | can, Vice-President Walter P. Scott, the gavel. Others present ht were: Rotarian F. E. Mc- iliaryan Mrs. Orear s and Proies- ional Wonien's Clubian Mrs. H. G. Wilcox; and Women's Clubian Mrs. H. 8. Graves. 7 The idea of a “pool” to raise funds for the pool was suggested in a letter from a Seattle Rotarian to Mr. McDermott. It seems that this was used by the Seattle organ- ization to raise $2400 for a bene- liciel purpose in their city. | “Pool” Suggested ! While no definite action on the ibility of raising money in Ju- 1 in a like manner was taken, ral memkers of the committee d themselves receptive to i Several locations were discussed. Mrs. Wilcox suggested a site near the school, but Mr. Scott still favor- ed Evergreen Bowl as a centrally-' located site. ' Discussion also centered around |the age limits that would be re- quired. All favered the “free use for the pool for children, but as to the age limit that will eventually be invoked there was no agrecinent. Some favored the use for youths in| |the 20's while others felt the pool would accomplish a better purpose if 'confined to those of more tender years. | i Monetary Snags i | Tentative agreement was reached | | | Speaking pose Election of Senator Barkley. of seratic majority leader in the the first step on a trail which at the White House. Barkley has many qualifica- tions as a pwesidential candidate He is an ardent NEAR-TRAGEDY OF 2 CHILKOOT SOLDIERS TOLD Were Washed Ashore Near Skagway After Clinging to Overturned Craft A tale of near-tragedy, in which two Chilkoot Barracks soldiers nar- rowly averted drowning, was told here today by Corporal Felix Hak- kinen, who arrived on the Dorothy Alexander and is scheduled to de- part for Valdez on the Yukon. The two scldiers, Privates Orville Long and Scranton, had gone sail- ing in arowboat with an outboard motor last Saturday. Wheir they » hadn’t returned that night, a search was organized to scour nearby wa- ters. Corporal Hakkinen, who original- ly had been scheduled to go to Valdez with the remainder of his company on the U.S.C.G.C. Haida, was forced to remain behind to op- crate a shoal. The two doughboys were sighted Sunday by the cook of the For- Robin Montgomery, mine official, tnat “unless an angel could be|Dance, which was heading to Skag- said a trench 400 feet long is NOW foung financing a pool costing!Way, through a pair of spy-glasses. being blasted through solid TocK more than $5,000 would hit serious|The Trowboat had been ovérturned for the route of the tram car to carry the ore to the new mill. AZECHITT S L STEAMER HEAD IN KETCHIKAN ENROUTE HERE Intending to wisit nearly all Southeast Alaska ports, Winston J. Jones, President of the Alaska Transportation Company, operators of the freighter Evelyn Berg, is now in Ketchikan, and is due to con- monetary snags. |‘ There the matter rested. Fears jwere expressed that “unless more people show up at the meetings” interest in the venture would sag. |Consequently Mr. Scott urged that all organizations send either repre- ,sentatives or alternates to the meeting next Tuesday. In Mrs. Jenne's letter to various organiza- tions, she was authorized to levy $1 from each for incidental expenses of the committee. ———— About 29 per cent of the aircraft, near Skagway and the soldiers had |been washed into the icy waters. For twenty minutes they clung des- perately to the rowboat until it was washed ashore. several days aboard the rowboat. They attracted the attention of the Fornance by waving their shirts. The absence of the two army men caused constrnation in the Chil- koot Barracks ranks, Corporal Hak- kinen declared, because five persons associated with the army post were drowned from the same craft ex- actly one year ago on the date the tinue to Juneau this week, perhaps jnciuding engines and parts, man-|POyS set sail. on the next northbound steamer, according to word brought to Ju- neau this morning by officers of the Evelyn Berg. T. Whalen . “A proper designation,” he explains, “would be ‘inter-: national exposition.’ For an ex- position means the presentation of a country’s industries and ac= complishments—the public gets to see a representation of the i ter-relationships of business, %‘;‘9'39). Well set, faultlessl; work—and exercise. ufactured in the U. S. last year, was sold to foreign countries. e “Alaska” by Lester D. ffenderson.| At 50, New York City’s onetime They were none the worse for wear following the harrowing ex-| perience, Corporal Hakkinen stat- ed. isa$l-a “ man at the helm of the 'lflgo M,Wru'l Fair y But he will 3.-3uave Mr. Whalen has his worries. “Everybody in the United States seems interested in the fair,” he says. “I meet ly anyone who not offer me a ‘brilliant idea’ for putting it across.” There are plenty of job-seekers, too. clad, he still thrives on hard loaf later. 4 “Why do I accept a dollar-a- year? I feel that every citizen should make some contribution to the public service. I think this is the last public job I shall hold, however. By 1940, when the 'Iil‘L _1.1 nun I will want a res They had food for| New Dealer an has many frien 24 years, and, Kentucky, as Dem- senate may mark might possibly end d close ally of President Roosevelt, ds in congress where he has served being from Kentucky, is strategic- ally located. He is essentially a self-made man, & known as a progressive among legislators. Home Economics Agent to Make Hnmejl Jum;aui Mrs. Florence Syverud Is. Planning Southeast Al- aska Program for Fall ; | Arriving to make her headquar- ters in Juneau, Mrs. Florence Syv- erud, new district home demonstra- |tion agent for Southeast Alaska, is now commencing preparations for the home economics program to be presented here this fall. Mrs. Syverud will have charge of the Territory from Yakutat to Ketchikan, conducting work in con- nection with the 4-H Club and the Homemaking Club, as well as gen- eral home economics work. Coming here from Manhattan, Kansas, Mrs. Syverud is a graduate of the Kansas State College in home economics, and later tooR post !graduate work at the University of Wiscensin. For five years she was me demonstration agent at Kan- as State College, and for seven years she was with the University of Illinois as home advisor. For Ithe past six months she has been district home demonstration agent 'at the University of Idaho, and is' now in the Territory as district home demonstration agent with the University of Alaska. Mrs. Syverud is making her home in the Holbrook Apartment, with |her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Syverud. | PAN-AMERICAN OFFICIAL WEDS IN SOUTH 'AMERICA | C. C. McDermond, ‘Pan-American official in South America and prominent in South American busi- iness circles with headquarters at Maracaibo, Venezuela, was married May 14 to Miss Ida X. Lindsey, ac- | cording to a formal notice received here by Gov. John W .Troy today.| {Mr. McDermond, formerly an oil | executive in the south, visited here | several years ag8 and will be re- called by some Alaskans. ’ ' NOME FAIR THIS MONTH The Second Division Fair and Mid-Summer Festival at Nome is {to be held August 19, 20 and 21, 1 according to an Invitation to at- |tend received today by Gov. John| !w. Troy from Calvin E. Pool, ! Manager. ‘Alaska” by Lester D. Henderson. i | | | ORDER REQUIRES PAUL MUST PAY THROUGH COURT Filing Reveals Reimburse- ment Must Be Made Before Asking Reinstatement Formal filing of the judgment rendered Saturday against William L. Paul has been made with the Listrict Court Clerk by Judge George F. Alexander and its pro- visions set fortn that before Paul, who was ordered disbarred from the practice of law in Alaska, can apply for- reinstatement he must comply with the following order of the court: “That he deposit in the registry of this court, for distribution tc those lawfully entitled thereto, all the money, property and things of value whatsoever received by him from, for or on account of the per- sons, or any of them, named or al- i to, or in connection with the matters set forth in counts one to five, inclusive, of the information, wgecher with interest at the rate of six per cent per annum; and that otherwise make full and complete restitution.” Part of Paul's defensive according to the hearing records, was that he did not know whom to pay certain moneys to, which he was charged with npproprfatmg to his own use. Under the court order he will be obliged to pay them to the court before applying for reinstatement. — Commodore Oliver H. 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