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} Passing Through “Inde- Juneau, Predict pendence, Two Years com- nment i Onk- colon- u today Guard his four-year- was stricken 12 months opedic Hos- aiting the ar- cutter Matanuska ti Empire, “ev ly. “Of course rs is scheduled tell whether all continue to be w administ moot ence in Farms ce between his the 90 pres- acre located is an, n point d is sour been cleared before pro- Onkka de Matanusk ion rops, M. two acres almost his only it year farm cleared say this for Matanuska. We r school and hospital ligan.” 11 but a n't want had been e ted, and st of these fers will be in another year.” hy he left his an he said that “the He left his Mich brother to operate. ose Who r farm in n farm for a Youngest of Six is the youngest family. He nuska child to be ken with infantile paralysis other child, an older girl able to tell doctors about her symptoms, while Jackie Onkka was ) went around for some the of wa Jackie six children in t the second Mat he he ime before case LOW GOS REFRIGERATION. yedra//eryear diagnosed TH E DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1937 2 ALASKA PLANE Z% - IN NOSE OVER ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 10.— Anchorage passengers on the Sikor- sky Amphibian piloted by John Moore narrowly escaped i ry lo»J day when the ship nosed over in a forced landing on Bristol Bay. Motor trouble which developed as the plane was taking off was said |to be the cause of the accident. Lit- |tle damage to the plane was re- [ported. first having 1 nuska conditions are enjo Mr. Onkkka said is only three miles’from our rm now whereas it wasfive miles from us in Michigan.” There are {nice dances, too. Mr. Onkka will remain with his son for a week in Seattle before re- turning to Matanuska for harvest. His second eldest son is in charge 01‘ the farm during his absence | | - >-es - CARD PARTY IS TO BE HELD NEXT WEEK BY MOOSE WOMEN Plans have been made by the Wo- men of the Moose for a public card | party to be held ¢ | YEAR AT KOTZEBUE Moose Hall, next | o Wednesday, August | Robert Huntoon of the U. S. For- 18, at which e e ot pinorle. will pe|est Service office in Juneau left R ’®|for Fairbanks aboard the PAA Elec- ayec % Another |event ont the IATEs drda] oo s oy SRHERS S 4 Ay oy et e dge PYO-| yarles Burdick, Forest Service In-| gram w be ivity in connection| | e spector, and proceed to Kotzebue.| with the Southeastern Alaska Fair,| : | Mr. Huntoon is to be stationed next month, at which the Women| ; i at Kotzebue as a clerk in the For- of the Moose are to take over 1\‘(“( booth. Service office there for about a year. He came Juneau a year Further plans for the two events|® 3 ol ot will be announced shortly ago this spring from his home in | - |GRANDC Soc! M - HUNTOON LEAVES TO BE STATIONED FOR Los Angeles. HILDREN OF E{ECTRA LEAVES ON MRS. REINKE ARE '~ FAIRBANKS FLIGHT| JUNEAU ARRIVALS i Piloted by Je: Jones and Bill Kathryn, Louise and Alden Holt,|Knox, the PAA Electra took sff for andchildren of Mrs. L. Reinke,| Fairbanks at 2:30 p. m. today with arrived in Juneau from their Pet-|five passengers for Fairbanks, and aboard the Yukon for|one for Whitehorse. visit of two weeks here. | Passengers for Fairbanks { The three visitors are the chil-|C. A. Goodwin, B. D. Stewart, Rob- ldren of Mayor and Mrs. A. B. Holt|ert Huntoon, H. B .Hawgood, D. J f Petersburg. During their stay|Sjolund. G. Berg was aboard for here they are to be entertained by |Whitehorse. The plane is due toj their grandmother and friends, and [return here at 3 p. m. Tursday. a number of doings have been plan- | - rE |M.S. NORTH STAR POINTS NORTH LAST EVENING| Commencing her v voyage into Arctic waters, but later Boarding the PAA Electra plane than ever before this year, the In-| here this afternoon, B. D. Stew- dian Bureau motorship North Star, {art, Territorial Commissioner of Capt. S. L. Whitlam, sailed from| [Mines is heading for Nome, where|Seattle last evening at 11 o'clock {he will investigate the requirements| She is to stop at Ketchikan and | for the new office to be es- Petersburg enroute to Juneau. tablished there under the act pass-, Passengers heading north aboard edb y the last Legislature |the North Star include Mr. and Mrs. i After completing his duties at'H. M. Critchfield. Mr. Critchfield is | Nome, Mr. Stewart will make field Credit Agent of the Wheeler-How- | linspections of Seward Peninsula ard Administration, and is coming I'mining districts, also the tin devel- nerth to make a survey of Alaska, | opment Returning to Fairbanks, in view of his office’s problems. make a general survey of Also aboard the North Star are mining region, then proceed Dr. and Mrs. James F. Worley. Dr. | through the Alaska Railroad Worley is coming to Juneau to re- {belt, examining gold and coal mines. place Dr. J. F. Van Ackeren as Medi- | Mr. Stewart will likely be gone cal Director for the Bureau of In-| {from Juneau for sevi weeks on dian Affairs in the Territory. |the trip. During his absence R. L./ A large group of teachers are on| |Stewart will be in charge of the of- !he vessel returning to their posts. | fice here o e i LS st PUTNAM TRANSFERRED| | PIONEER AUXILIARY TO SALT LAKE CITY| TO SPONSOR PICNIC D[SBURSI FFICE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 13 P?RSJF L?b . - ! an utnam, assistan! isbursing A “Yukon Bean Supper” which Clerk with the U. S. Treasury De-| | will emble scores of oldtimers!Partment here, has been transfer- ‘tineau Channel district|red to Salt Lake City and leaves for ay evening at the 'De south tomorrow aboard the| by Pioneer Auxil-| Mr. Putnam has been in Juneau| for two years, coming here origin- | (ally with John' R. Elliott, disburs- |ing clerk, to assist in establishment | ersburg ho! \V('l‘('] - 'MINES OFFICIAL HEADS FOR NOME | | TODAY BY PLANE | annual supply assay | | |in the Ga s to be held Fri P. Jenne Despite fact that the date falls cn Friday the Thirteenty:, the wvent is scheduled to be a red let- °f the office in Juneau. |ter affair, and all members and i it 15 e n TRANSPORTATION MAN e 4 uxiliary or in the Fisaeers ARRIVES lN JUNEAU Le e invited to be present, Winstan Jones, general manager ! | F transportation will be pro- vided, with details to be announced excellently. FRED. ELDRIDGE DIES IN SOUTH LOS ANGELES, Aug. 10. — Fred Jldridge. 60, Managaing Editor and -President of the Los Angeles | Examiner, died today. For more than years he was supervising ed- | of the Hearst Pacific coast newspapers. TO VISIT MOTHER.D Mrs. H. E. Keiser arrived on the with her mother, Mrs. Alaska No-! wicka, and will return south on the Dr. Freeburger Returns day. Mrs. Keiser is bookkeeper for the Seattle Printing and Publish- 5 Session Is Held E. Neate, pressman of The Em- —— pire, was formerly connected with.| There are three new dentists in has made to Juneau since she went!tions held in Ketchikan. Dr. G. F. outh twelve years ago. She will be preeburger of the Territorial Den- here as Dorothy Kleinschmidt. |to Juneau yesterday on the Munter. Ubriman o ngt plane and announces that Dr. Vic- DR" MRS ! lor J. Pyle, of Juneau, and Dr. ARRIVE TO MAKE |1arry 5. smith, of Metiakatla are HOME lN ‘IUNEA Dr. Pyle, dental officer with the oy Bureau of Indian Affairs, was not in Juneau aboard the Yukon, re- ju;sat in and carried off the honors turning to make their home here the Bureau of Indian Affair: | Mrs. Pyle is the former Miss Ann Juneau where she was a teacher in the grade school. She and Dr. kane, Wash,, and have been their wedding trip. They stopped proceeding to Juneau. R BT FAIRBANKS CONFAB ey Judge George F. Alexander is en- route to Fairbanks to attend a meet- [\a" Nflw Be See" § J Judicial Districts of Alaska. { He is to return to Juneau imme- papea NEW YORK, Aug. 10. — Tonight ber. During his absence from Ju- 3 neau, court here will be adjourned. times to see Finsler's Comet. which — is now at its brightest. DRAFTSMAN RETURNS Istar joining the handle of the Big SOUTH AFTER TRIP pipper to the Bowl's Comet tonight tance above as the star marking | the bottom of the Dipper and in a Traveling through the Territory ¥ taking both motion pictures and ble to the naked eye and ith field glasses. draftsman, arrived in Juneau aboard | —_— the Alaska sterday, and plans to . . o Editorial Wtiter Chicago Tribune Dies Yukon from Seattle for a visit EXAMlNATIUNs same steamer next Monday or Tues- from Ketchikan Where ing Company, the same company J. This is the first visit Mrs. Keiser Alaska as the result of the examina- remembered by scores of friends tal Board of Examiners returned PYLE tor I. Baggen, of Petersburg; Dr. . i now eligible for dental work. Dr. and Mrs. T. J. Pyle arrived| oqyired to take the examination where Dr. Pyle is associated with Rohwer, wellknown and popular in! Pyle were married recently in Spo- on for a few days in Ketchikan before Y JUDGE ALEXANDER AR | g ’ Leaving Juneau today aboard the| I"s er s nme mer Yukon, Federal District ing of the judges from the four diately after the first of Septem- and tomorrow night will be the best - | To see it, you must look at the THROUGH TERRITORY"“ the right at exactly the same dis- straight lines. snapshots, W. A. Berls, oil refinery j R stop here for a few days to add new of scenes to his picture collection be- fore returning to the south. | Berls, who spent three months in Valdez, and later traveled through Fairbanks and nearby points, has taken scores of pictures during his stay in Alaska. He plans to return to the States by way of Prince Ru- pert, Jaspar National Park and Van- couver. Before traveling south to his beme in Los Angeles where he is employed as an oil refinery drafts- man, Mr. Berls tentatively plans to travel through the middle west to Chicago. During his visit here he is stopping at the Hotel Juneau. - - MATANUSKA COLONY DIRECTORS TO MEET TOMORROW, PALMER Word has been received by Gov. John W. Troy that a regular meet- ing of the directors of the Alack Rural Rehabilitation Corpor: is to be held in Palmer tomorrow A self-help program for the Mat- anuska colonists is to be considered 3y e directors at the meeting. Governor Troy, a member of the board of directors for the Colony, will be unable to attend the ses- sion. i | COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 10—Dr. Francis W. Shepherson, 76, National President of Beta Theta Pi, journal- ism fraternity, died today. He was an editorial writer for the Chicago | Tribune. 'TALLAPOOSA 1S DUE The U. S. Coast Guard cutter Tallapoosa will probably arrive in formation brought here by Capt. John Trebes, of the cutter Haida. B e CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY Rika Wallen, famed as the own- er of the roadhouse and ranch at Big Delta, recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of her location at the favored spot. D SOLDIERS AT VALDEZ With 110 infantrymen and four officers from Chilkoot Barracks, the cutter Haida recently arrived at Valdez and the soldiers started on a hike over the Richardson High- way. by i B KILLED-MOTOR KICKS BACK Robert Blizgaloff, Indian from Chenega, was instantly killed at o s TO TEACH AT VALDEZ , THURSDAY FROM WEST Juneau Thursday, according to in-| RICHARD ORDWAY HERE ON YUKON TO JOIN HIS FATHER Richard Ordway, 16-year-old son of Fred K. Ordway, of Juneau, ar- rived in Juneau today aboard the steamer Yukon, after flying from Chicago to Seattle to make connec-, tions with the steamer. X Arrangements for the youth's trip, his first long air journey, were ‘made from Juneau by Mr. Ordway, through Karl K. Katz, of the North- ern Pacific Railway, and Bert Kins-" man of Northwest Airlines. Imme- diately after receiving word in Chi- cago, to join his father here, young Dick Ordway boarded a Northwest ,Airlmt-s transport plane in the {Windy City last Friday, arriving in {Seattle in time to board the Yukon {Saturday morning. In order to insure his son’s safe arrival in Juneau, Mr. Ordway wired Mr. Katz at Seattle. Mr. Katz had the lad picked up at his Chi- cago address and put aboard the, |plane. Mr. Katz met the plane at Seattle and saw the youth aboard the steamer for the last 1,000-mile leg of his high speed journey, and: lalso his first voyage on shipboard. Like his father, Dick Ordway is| never separated from his camera and will assist Mr, Ordway here in the future as a member of the staff of Ordway's Photo Shop, Flying Photographer: PASQUANS RETURN FROM TRIP SOUTH Mr. and Mrs. John P. Pasquan and sons, JoTh and Robert, returned | from the south aboard the Yukon,, \having attended the family reunion of Mrs. Pasquan’s family, in Cana-; ida, and later visited for some time, in Washington. /i 'MRS. LISA SMITH -~ | ARRIVES HERE TO ! ‘ FIND SON MISSING | | | Mrs. Lisa Smith, who arrived in bunoau aboard the Aleutian last !week tentatively planning to make her home here, has been unable to 'locate her son, Art Smith, who she | believed was working in a dairy near | Juneau. She is anxious to get in touch either with him or her other son, Victor Erickson, last heard from in Fairbanks in 1930. Mrs. Smith has {leased her farm at Custer, Wash. and had hoped to live in Juneau.! She asks that anyone knowing of either of her sons, please notify Mrs. P. B. Hammer at the Ideal Curio Shop. S CLERGYMAN BOUND EAST } | The Rev. A. A. Dinand, Pastor of the Ketchikan Catholic Church, re- !cently left for Boston, Mass, to |attend the fiftieth anniversary of the ordination of his brother, Bishop Dinand. The Rev. Laux,| | former Vice-President of Conzaga College, is in Ketchikan during the | Rev. Dinand's vacation. J { i | | 1 | { SURPRISE PARTY IS GIVEN FOR JOHNSONS A surprise party Saturday night at the Jack Goodchild cabin on the Fritz Cove road honored Mr. and Mrs. Victor Johnson on their four- teenth wedding anniversary which was also Mr. Johnson's birthday. Dancing to music furnished by Harry Krane and his accordion and Mr. Hershey, banjo player, was en- joyed during the evening and fol- lowed by a birthday supper. Thosé¢ who planned the surprise were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Olson, Mrs. Ole Westby, Jack Goodchild, Mr. and Mrs. Jules Loftus, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Swanson, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Reischl, Mr. and Mrs. Pete Oswald, Mr. and Mrs. Olaf Flober- gsund, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Krane, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Weschenfel- der, Mr. and Mrs. L. Green, Mr. and Mrs. White, Mr. and Mrs. John Hermle. Mrs. Ole Jackson, Miss Vesta Coons, Miss Ebba Erickson, Mr. James Weathers. GRETCHEN DE LEO IS BACK IN JUNEAU FROM CALIFORNIA Miss Gretchen De Leo returned aboard the Yukon following a vaca- tion of the past few weeks in Cali- fornia where she visited for the ma- jor part of the time with her mother and brother in Alameda. Miss De Leo is associated with the staff of the U. 8. Treasury office here. - e e MUMPS ON VACATION Patty Dooley, of Cordova, visit- ing at the cannery of A. S. Day and Company, at Dayville, near Valdez, spent part of her vacation with a severe case of the mumps. JUNEAU SPORTS FISHING CLUB Annual Salmon DERBY Finals, 1937 SUNDAY, AUG. 22 Off Shelter Island Fishing for prizes open to club members and vis- iting members. Member- ship, $2.00. Entrance fee for derby, $1.00. Transportation for those without facilities $1.00 additional. Everybody Welcome! ANNUAL BOOK is now on sale with all particulars. | | | | aszERERERER saasEsEREzE B5EEE IF YOU COUNT YOUR PENNIES your next range should be a... of the Alaska Transportation Com- pany, which operates the Evelyn Berg, arrived here today from Pet- ersburg on the steamship Yukon. He is here on bus and has been ater D |MRS. A. H. WESTALL, DAUGHTER TO SAIL Mrs. A. H. Westall and her daugh. ter, Miss Helen Westall, are le for t} ith on August 17 pla to travel to California s Westall is to take a BANFIELD RETURNS FROM CONVENTION, BP.O.E. IN DENVER| n where business before entering college. Westall will visit for four or months in Nevada and Cali- Returning from the largest con- vention yet to be held by the Bene- volent and Protective Order of Elks, Miss Ruth Ashley, who formerly taught school at Craig, will teach the seventh and eighth grades and ast in high school work, at Valdez. Valdez when the motor of his gas- boat “kicked back” as he was at- tempting to start it. He was thrown against a bunk and his neck broken. | fory |ing e land. while her daughter is study- r in San Francisco or Oak- Norman Banfield, Juneau Elks’ rep-| resentative, arrived back from Den- | ver, Colo., aboard the Yukon. Seventeen hundred delegates were| present at the convention, with! every state in the union represented by a float, in addition to one for each of the individual lodges of| Colorado. The convention, which| lasted for four days, was concluded | with memorial services held at Col orado Springs in honor of the lat Will Rogers. Delegates from Alaska beside Mr.| Banfield, were Mr. Robert Korn of Cordova, Leonard Soholt of Ketchi-| kan, M. Berry of Anchorage, and| Percy Charles, district deputy Southeast Alaska. | ONLY 1 HALBUTER | SELLS AT SEATTLE 'ATTLE, Aug. 10. — Only one j halibuter arriced and sold here to- The Mitkof came in fom the westen banks with 39,000 pounds and disposed of the catch for 11% and 10 cents a pound. D Busey, Seward High School uate and member of the stu- ot body of the College of Puget Sound, Tacoma, has signed a teach- contract at Kennecott, Black-' n district R DU PREE SWEARS 0 CHARGES IN DOUGLAS FRACAS charge of and battery been sworn against Larry Bun- 43 ger by Bob Dupree, growing out of {fias REFRIGERATOR . in Douglas early Sunday m g, during which time Doug- M Dupree charges, fractured the officer's jaw 1provoked blow with a fist has been released. pend- on $250 bond set by U. S. 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