The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 15, 1937, Page 8

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 15, 1937. WARDEN LIKES ALASKA AFTER FIRST 38 YEARS Jack O(‘(%nno]‘, Widely Known Officer, Pays Ju- | neau \ 1sit, LOIlg Ahsence ‘ Game Warden Jack O'Connor of | Anchorage, who has lived in Alaska 38 years and figures that if he sticks it out another year or two he may like it, has arrived in Juneau first visit to this city since 1621. The Warden came on the Game Commission vessel Brown Bear last night from the Westward with Executive Officer Frank Du- fresne and will be assigned to the local office for a short time. The Warden is a dyed-in-the-wool Alaskan. The O’'Connor family came north during the gold rush and Alaska has ciaimed them since. Joe, Jack's brother, who now in Fairbanks, was middleweight | champion of Alaska back in the golden era of prize fighting and one | time fought Stanley Ketchel He was in Ketchel's corner when the | latter fought Jack Johnson in B(»-‘ ton many years ago. Incidentally, an | interested young spectator at that fight was the present Executive Of- ficer of the Game Commission who admits his major achievement in those days was playing cornet in the village band Before joining the Game Commis- cion in 1929, Warden O’'Connor was widely known throughout the In- terior as a law enforcement offi- cer. He is a former Chief of Police of Fairbanks, also Fire Chief, a former Marshal at Nenana and two or three other places. Recalling those days, the genial Warden ventured today that a few more years and he believed he would get to like it. Anchorage, his present station, he get on hi lives | A ba ! soldi of Overton H. Mennet of Los Angel SURVEY GROUP Fl(:g Bar to Reunion Plans [H AIDA OFFICER DROWNS IN FALL OFF GANGPLANK | il |Chester Poulsen, 37, Slips | Overboard—Two Patrol Launches Drag for Body (Continued from Page One) that Gastineau Channel had been dragged solidly for a square city block around the Haida this morn- ing. | As far as could be ascertained, the drowning today was the first fatal accident that has occurred on the Haida during the 13 years she has been sailing. A member of the crew died of sickness several years back Poulsen is survived by his widow, | |Agnes H. Poulsen, and two chil-| |dren, Jean G., 11, and Gary C, 17; months, of Tacoma, Wash.; one |brother, Alfred Paulsen, an under- |taker in Stanwood, Wash., and one! |sister, Miss Mildred V. Poulsen, as-| sociated with tuberculosis work in/ Seattle. His parents are not living Mrs. Poulsen was notified of the mishap this morning at 2 o'clock Veteran Coast Guarder | Poulsen was a veteran in the |Coast Guard service. He enlisted on August 4, 1920, as a seaman second class and was assigned to the cutter Snohomish, which is now, jout of commission. He then served {in the Seattle division and on Dec.| {8, 1933 he assigned to the Haida, to which he has been at-| |tached since then ! He was born in Minneapolis, Minn. on August 14, 1900. He was a grad-| |uate of Lincoln High School in | Seattle. Recently he had spoken| couraging the natives in vumm\mul‘f’lf(]';‘uv‘"“[i .)']'” l“‘tmk)l-y o Jl";m"'lu: work, accprding to Mr. Murrie. ;‘m:\““ AL L D e They are attempting to start com-|* 4 i A s i | As Chief Yoeman he was in charge question of honor to the American flag appeared to be the only r to G.A.R. participation in a reunion with surviving Confederate s at Gettysburg, Pa., next year. C. H. William Ruhe (right), .R. commander, said, “There is only one flag in this anot permit the enemy flag (o be displ s, candidate for command; at left. was ittsburgh, We reported is having a prosperous era Thirty new houses are now under construction there and housing is RETURNS FROM munity fox raising, with the entire population sharing the proceeds. In other parts of the Aleutians, mem- that of the cutter’s personnel and, ac- |cording to members of the crew, he |was a “swell fellow.” At Moose National Convention | e e ‘When the Loyal Order of Moose gathered at Cleveland for its 49th annual international convention, among the rotables on hand to welcome the 2,500 delegates headed by Senator James J. Davis, left, of Pennsylvania, director general and pilgrim governor of the order and founder of Mooseheart, were Governor Mart.n L. Davey of Ohio, center, and Mayor Harold Burton of Cleveland, right. Catholic Group Has Anniversary BanmflTuesflay To the tune of “Happy Birthday to You,” members of the Catholic Daughters of America celebrated their first anniversary at a ban- quet last evening in the Parish Hall. \ Mrs. Bertha Foote had charge of the serving. Entertainment for the evening consisted of dancing and cards. Miss | Esther Cashen played the piano for the dancers. Planning the enter- tainment were Miss Mary Vander- Leest and Mrs. Arthur White. i — SPEECHES SET FOR JUNEAU A.C. MEETING| A battery of athletic speakers will address the gathering of the newly- created Juneau Athletic Club in its |the disease is being transmitted by | New Meningitis Epidemic Breaks Qut N_ear Bethel Doctor Believes Disease Transmitted by Na- tive Carriers BETHEL, Alaska, Sept. 15. meningitis epidemic broke out anew in a native village six miles from| here. Two deaths and one new case inj| the last two days brought the six months’ total to eighteen fatalities. All available supply of Serum is| gone. A quarantine for the affecied v lage has been established by t! United States Marshal, but the Ju-/ neau Health Department has vised it has no funds for guards| § to help enforce the qua ( antine. | Belief has been expressed that Remo Poulsen, fastest woman typist in the world, was the only American woman competing in the International typewriting contest at Toronto. : 'SIMMONS WINGS TO SOUTHEAST ALASKA unsuspected native carriers gomg} to the village. Grave concern was felt here of the possibility of an outbreak. Scores of children, one third of them white, have been ex- posed COUNCIL'S STATEMENT Dr. W. W. Council, Territarial Health Commissioner, stated that POINTS WITH FIVE the Health Department yesterday sent all the serum available in An-| Pilot Sheldon Simmons .in the chorage to the stricken area near| AAT Bellanca today at 10:15 am. Bethel hopped off with R. H. Stock, Dr. wIhere is ‘ 'ds to|J- W. Edmunds and Floyd Volk for cil said. “In a quarantined area, ‘f"kwh for (f:h!clmgor. He was to the United States Marshal has the T this atlernon, " authority to arrest anyone whoj, Fiob L. F. Barr felt atb 11:30 for breaks quarantine Atlin with fresh vege_'.ables and was The United States Health Depart- | '”“"“;";ffi‘: Wi R ment rules do not make monmgius,w“gcm‘ SRRICAY n' past a quarantine disease, according lo,returned from his flight at 4 o’clock ‘ s .1 |with Mrs. Claude Rhodes and Mrs. Dr. Council, tut the Territorial| [T ot S0 Gy ot and B health rules ask that meningitis|hOr HAaY IFo iy ¢ Unger and A. Van Mavern from G. H. Walmsley led the singing with James McNaughton at the piano. organizational session at the Elite Studio tonight at 7:30 o’clock, Spon- bases ibe- quataRsIod. Sitka. He flew H. Peterson from Chichagof to Sitka. —r—— NO NEW S sor Lee Rox announced today. % o i Bava) His list of professional instructors,| NO new cases of meningitls have| including Doc Webb, Jim Savuge,;occ"”ed in the Bethel district in Conny Pratt and others, will speak the last 24 hours, according to a to m'(‘ group. message to Dr. J. F. Worley, Meq:- SE Shen g cal Director of the Indian office Dan Creek where he is interested here, from Dr. Ernest Werbel, who'in Jack Price and others in a min- s in the stricken area. Dr. Wer-|ing venture. While the steamer was bel reported that there have been in port last night, Mr. Leivansaler two cases directly contributed to was a guest of Gov. John W. Troy. meningitis, one of which has result- ———————— ed in death. Empire classifieds pay. LEIVANSALER THROUGH Lewis A. Leivansaler, wellknown mining man, was a passenger on the Alaska for Interior, bound for a major problem. He attributed it| mostly to the fact that the mining areas accessible to Anchorage by, are having a successful sea- bers of the party found fox| o i : trappers and breeders were turning , 1" Alarge birthday cake was the cen- to pen raising. The body of Poulsen was recov-irq) decorative feature of the af- “One interesting new thing we|cred from the icy waters at 1 o'clock foyr. One candle adorned the cake. |found,” Mr. Murrie said, .| this afternoon after more than nyg walter Hellan, president of the Toxes on’ sonmetials thd \mum.,' hours of systematic _(lraggmg. group, was presented with an ex- principally on sand fleas. Even mc-‘;‘_ b k"ld up-hy _b“f‘“:"f‘ 88T quisite corsage by Father LeVasseur natives were surprised when we ""‘\.‘mr-‘d e piling nearby the coast —pecorations for the affair were vealed vur discovery. Now we kxumgk"’;’uf:“:‘"‘r- te blasts had proveq Dandled by Mrs. M. E. Monagle, |that people who wish to set up qu'mm‘:‘a““n' namite blasts had proved Mrys. Harry Walmsley, Mrs. Guy Mc- farms on islands should thoose those| = g ") glfjm S OO MR ha sl | Naughton, Mrs. J. K. McAlister, Mrs. with a great deal of beach.” ¥ BCURS colk: George Simpkins, Mrs. H. L. Turner . {ing gear which picked up Pouls A0S & — A resolution recommending a sep- a full and extensive study of the| Motion pictures of the sea OLLers iy g wa¢ supplied by the halibuter | arate civil service district for Al- habits of the sea otter on our trip|Were @n unusual feature of thel,quing which is in dry dock here, | ka was adopted at the luncheon'to the Aleutians,” said O. J. Mur- | {TiP, according to Mr. Murrie. and was manned by a member of meeting of the Local 251 of the Na- rie of the Biological Survey bt Studied Sea Otter the Aquing crew 5-MONTH TRIP Fox Farming Possibilities Are Studied by Parly s SEPARATE CIVIL SERVICE DISTRICT IN ALASKA SOUGHT SOENEKES LEAVE FOR STATES Mr. and Mrs. Al Soeneke and daughter, Roberta, of Anchorage, left recently to spend the winter in the States. We discovered fox farming possi- bilities on many islands and made at tional Federatiocn of Federal Em- Jjackson Hole, Wyoming, who came| We tried to study the sea 0{"’“4 This is the vessel which was towed pleyyees in Percy’s Cafe. Copy of to Juneau (o on the Game ! °eXtensively,” Mr. Murrie said. “Ab|i juneau last week after it the resolution will be forwarded to Commission boat, Brown Bear, |One time they were almost extinct qungereq with a broken propel- Delegate Anthony J. Dimond and Other members of the party who|Der¢, although they were the prin-jj,. oer the coast of Cape Spencer the national federation made the five months’ study of the CiPal industry when ka first © according to members of the Accomplishments of the Federa-'Aleutian Islands included Capt John | Was ~ commexcially discovered. Tiorey poulsen's head appeared to ticn were outlined by President Sally Sellevold, Dr. Victor Sheffer of the |[PinE it is up to the people of Al-},e stryck a heavy object, presum- Shaffer and note was takan of Con- Biological Survey; dJohn Steenis,|2ka to aid in the restoration of the ,p1y {he camel at the foot ofthe| stitution Day on Friday with the botanist and Douglas Gray of the €& OUer k. An injury appeared on the. cinging of the national anthem. Alaska Game Commission. | The group found mno poachers, jegy sige of Poulsen’s skull. The body Forty-thiee, including two guests, “One of our mew discoveries,”|Although they saw, in Southeast Al-'was placed on the lower Govern- were in attendanc said Mr. Murrie, “was finding the|¥d evidences of poaching. |ment float and covered with a tar- e nesting places of the fulmar, often| Several hundred bird specimens|pnaylin yntil removed to the Charles| MRS. ROMIG HONORED called the ‘whale bird’ We found|Vere stulfed by the group, and var- w._ carter Mortuary shortly before . J. H. Romig was honored at the nests principally in the jous kinds of fish were collected. |3 gielock. a tea given in Anchorage recently jlofs "”'”; On the Brown }Isem- u::' several £ S g | by Mrs. Margaret H s RS e artie. | Alaskan bald eagles, taken from| i Howard G. Romig. e M o We cai point Lo any one Pt e,y and Ogliuga tstands tor the HOLDEN HOPS OFF | .| WITH 4 SOUTHEAST | ALASKA PASSENGERS - iWoodland Park Z Seattle. s standing discovery,” Mr. Murrie con- Woodiand ¥ b e o o0 FRED DOWD DI tinued, “but every bird we found and | 1”| ’l“ ¢ ff‘ ““' . "mf“(“ll""l“‘,l P red Dowd, 50, o miner of the In- 'every survey we made added great- PO the first to be ¢ d, ar terior, died recently in Anchorage I being sent to the zoo in Washington | «fter a heart attack. the Aleutian Islands. We found SR ogigs 3 such birds as the European seal, dif- WINS GOLF HONORS ferent from our native species, doing Robert Abernathy of Anchorage well. We also studied plant life won golfing honors when he broke | found many islands teaming all.pr‘evmus records at the Anchor-|with reindeer lri¢x~~ In addition, “ge Golf and Country Club. we studied fox farming possibili- e | ties.” Lode and placer location notices | for sale at The Empire Office. and Communal Work | Members of the survey are en- LOW SUMMER PRICES ON FurCoatRemodeling Let H. J. YURMAN, a furrier by trade for 40 years, bring your Fur Coat up to the latest in style. Your garment is absolutely safe in our care and is cleaned with special fur cleaner before storing. COLD AIR INSTALLATION in our Fire-Proof, Moth-Proof Building guarantees to keep your furs in the best condition. You are welcome to inspect our facilities. Ask to see our COLD AIR INSTALLATION. H. J. YURMAN FURRIER Decker Building T e FOR HOME OR BUSINESS REFRIGERATION SERVICE and REPAIRS Phone 34 Our Refrigeration Expert, JOHN HOUK, is equipped to give you Quick, Efficient Service at reasonable cost. Rice & Ahlers Company ly to the store of facts concerning | ., as are five young Murre |sea birds found on chifs of the v {ious islands. | The Brown Bear will leave to- Imorrow for Seattle, concluding the |second trip around the Aleutian Is- 'lands. Every island has now been touched in the Aleutian group. “Our plans for next year are as |yet indefinite,” Mr. Murrie said, |“but we are much encouraged over our findings, and we hope to dis- cover many more interesting facts about bird and animal life in Al- aska.” GRANT 7APPROVED FOR 'UNEMPLOYMENT UNIT | | The ESocial Security Board at | Washington, D. C., today announced through Hugh J. Wade, Territorial |Director, that it had approved a| |grant of $6,944.64 to the Territory of |Alaska to be used to pay the ex- |penses of administering the Alaska | ; Unemployment Compensation law {for the quarter beginning October | §‘l and ending December 31, 1937 on an estimate submitted by the Alaska Unemployment Compensa- tion Commission, and the Board ap- {proved the amount requested less $1,280.68 which is the amount of |the balance that the Commission had on hand that was previously jgranted but unused during the last quarter. Under the Social Security Act the Federal Government pays the com- |plete cost of administering the Al- aska Unemployment Compensation | Act. MRS. SABIN BACK Mrs, C. O. Sabin and her ter, Jean, who have been in the States, returned to on the Alaska. daugh- visiting Juneau SAMUEL GUYOTS RETURN Samuel Guyot, who has been re- ceiving medical attention in Seat- tle, and his wife, returned on the Alaska ->-> The amount of the grant is based | Pilot Alex Holden hopped off in! | the Marine Airways Fairchild today | at 9:30 a.m. with four persons for! Southeasst Alaska points. He was| accompanied by Mechanic Liloyd, |Jarmon. B. F. Kane flew on a round-trip |to Hoonah, George Getchell and J. |F. Dennis to Tenakee and George McClusky to Chichagof. Holden was to return this afternoon with addi- |tional passengers, Top o’ the mornin’ t'ya Mr. Schilling Coffee. Y’ gave the "GO” signal to a million men this fine g another mornin’ me frisky friend. Schillin Coffee One for Percolator one for Drip or Glass Maker. Today’s News Today.—Empire. Copyrighe 1937, LicaxTT & Myans Tosacco Co.