The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 6, 1937, Page 8

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 6, 193 POINT BARROW NURSE THINKS ESKIMOS NICE Young Woman Comes to Juneau After Year in Arctic A year ago, Mary Ellen Speanburg left Washington, D. C., for a nurs- position at Point Barrow, Al- asl Today she returned to Juneau aboard the steamer Alaska, dressed in a beautiful white parka sourdough lass who likes to dog teams and hunt, and has found she likes whale meat. “The parka is no stage-costume! Miss Speanburg laughed at the Gas- drive tineau hotel. “It's the only thing I had to wear!” On February 18, last sp Miss Speanburg says she will never forget the date—the Point Barrow hospital went up in the smoke of a terrific fire—and Nurse Speanburg’s clothes went also. Today she was shopping in Juneau for new cloth- ing that felt good to the touch— and “didn’t smell like caribou.” Asked the prosaic question as to what one does in Point Barrow in the long winter night, Mary Ellen Speanburg smiled W she confessed, “pinochle and knitting is what most people do. but as for myself I'd rather take a dog team for a spin along the beach.” Whale Hunt Fascinates Whale-hunting with the Eskimos is another favorite pastime of Miss Speanburg’s. “The Eskimo whale hunt is a fas- cinating thing,” related the Point Barrow nurse. “The whales play in the open leads out on the ice and he Eskimo hunters, taking a skin nomiak with them, block the whale’s path and fire a bomb into his vi- tals, whence they raise a flag on the ice that is the signal for a big celebration as the Eskimos on shore seurry to the scene and cut up the < Barrow will trophy From then on it is a case of “muk- tuk” feasting, said Miss Speanburg. She explained that the skin of the whale with about an inch of blub- ber attached, is boiled, salted and peppered, th touched up with vinegar. “Honestly, it's good!” she insist- ed: “It tastes something like chicken.” Miss Speanburg said this was probably Barrow's busiest year. Sev- eral planes searching for the lost {Russian polar fliers have been there lin the past few weeks and more boats than usual ot so long ago we had a Cana- dian aviator, an American aviator, and a Russian aviator there at the same time—and then there was the Krassin, too. It came in on Aug- 26 with 140 “comrades” aboard ust a true ;4 opened their ship to the in- spection of the Point Barrow popu- lation of fifteen whites. “They were fine fellows and they had & fine ship,” the nurse remin- isced Miss Speanburg thought the na- tives were “grand,” the climate ac- and the enjoyable, hunting swell.” Point the little over a monii be swallowed In a in Miners Working Arctic Gravels WILKINS FAILS T0 GET PLANE Nunh fl' Kiana Unable to E;chase Craft Cleary Placers Experience Good Cleanup This Summer North of where the Arctic Circle trails its dotted path across the sub- Arctic tundra, north of what all choose to call the finer things of life—north of the “waters of the Kobuk, rippiing onward to the sea,” man moils for gold. Three employees of the Cleary | Creek Placers, having spent a sixty- \day season working claims of that | company near Kiana on the Kobuk | River, were southbound today on the steamer Alaska. They were John McDonald, Walter Thomas and | Lecompte. ! Heavy freight to the diggings goes | up the Kobuk from Kotzebue Sound, thence up the Squirrel River, and | finally, up near the 67 degree lati- |tude line, where trees are missing on Coast to Resume 1 Flying in Arctic LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 6.—Sir Hubert Wilkins, who tried vainly to purchase a plane here suitable for Arctic flying and landings in order to resume his search in the Polar regions for the six missing Soviet fliers, has left by plane for New York Cit, Three Thousand . Kosher Shops in - New York Glosed NEW YORK, Oci. 6.—Mayor La- Guardia announced today that Sec- |retary of Agriculture Wallace will ref o vea s i Arctic night. Last year, the Sunl.,q prych js stunted, to the Cleary attend aconference here on Friday disappeared on November 19 and did not reappear until January 22 Nurse Speanburg shook her head as she spoke. “That was a day! We all climbed to the highest points of vantage we could gain on the buildings when we heard the shout—and then only saw a tiny bit of the sun for a dis- hearteningly short time.” Miss Speanburg will join the staff of the Government Hospital here for an indefinite length of time When asked if she would like to go back to Point Barrow, she said she would. When asked if she is going to get to go back, it sounded as though she had sneezed, but she!y 1o ttellotte, of Portland, Oregon. Ronald had said something in Eskimo. “Ah-choo!” it might have been, but it meant, “I don't know.” LRSIV D WEBETR Oats is the pricipal crop raised in Scotland. Barley comes second. The first consumers’ cooperative bank in Denmark was founded in 1866. Creek Placers. Here, where nature's only blessing is gold-bearing gravel worked feverishly for sixty days s long as the short summer would | permit—taking out a thousand dol- lars a day by dragline this summer. | Two months ago in that northern loutpost of man’s advances, the | miners perspired under an Arctic sun that blazoned all day long for | three weeks with temperatures run- between 100 and 105 degrees | ning above zero. When they left the | workings a short time ago, there was snow on the ground. | 'The mine is controlled by Archie |Warren Rand, Superintendent of Operations, remained at the mine. At this mine is one of the few air- !fields north of the Arctic Circle, and seven miles of road. The near-‘ est postoffice, many miles away. Kiana, where the white population is composed of two storekeepers and two women school teachers. e company | seeking a settlement of the Kosher meat strike that has closed 3,000 shops in the Metropolitan area. D s - HOLDEN BRINGS MAN IN WITH BAD HAND Alex Holden took off this noon in the Fairchild 71 of the Marine Airways for the Polaris-Taku mine. Lloyd Jarman was Flight Mechanic, | Outbound passengers with Holden were Mr. Bert Nieding, Ed Spor- leder and S. C. Ellis. | Coming back, Holden brought in Evans from the mine for treatment of an injured hand. | - ! J. L. GALEN HERE J. L. Galen, Superintendent of the Mt. McKinley National Park Transportation Company, is in Ju- 'neau today, having arrived on the | Alaska this morning. He is at the ' Hotel Juneau. JUNEAU DRUG CO. nniversaer ! ( Now in Celebration !! McKessons’ Shaving Lotion and Men’s Talc Bothfor3 A 64c Value! 9c Both None Better—McKesson’s Milk of Magnesia 16 oz. 33c 8 0z, 23¢—32 oz, 59¢ The Original Mineral Oil Liquid Albolene 65¢ Absolutely pure. able corrective for cons pation. Non-fattening. ALBOMIST with Ephedrine Spray or drop into nose. Gives relief from colds, 39¢ One Ounce Baby Will Like It Albolene Baby Powder Smooth and fluffy. Prevents chafing. Can 19¢ McKesson‘s A. B. G. I VITAMIN CAPSULES Contains the four vita mins named. Box of 25, 79¢ Box of 50, $1.47 A valu- ose and Throat Drops and a Botle of A §14 ti- McKesson Shaving Cream and a Package of Five St. Regis Blades A 35¢ Value! for 23¢ 8 oz. Size—McKesson's CITRATED CARBONATES 100—McKesson's ASPIRIN TABLETS Both for 89¢ 9 Value! McKesson RUBBING ALCOHOL Compound Indispensable in the As a rub down is invigorating to the body sick room. Pint 29¢ CHATHAM HOUSE Delightful to use as an after-shave lotion and SHAVAMI Brushl ess Shaving Cream Both for 45¢ An 89 D. c Value! FREE Package of 200 St. Regis Cleansing Tissues with a 4 oz. Jar of Both ALBOLENE—Solid for 50c MANY MORE BARGAINS—SEE THEM FOR YOURSELF—AT JUNEAU DRUG CO. Nale of Qualit; ) Z% |- /8 Lucretia Vanderbilt Face Powder and Lucretia Vanderbilt Perfume A 98¢ Value! Beth for 49¢ All Popular Shades Operates with One Hand Lucretia Vanderbilt Indelible LIP-STICK None Better Made In Alluring Tones 9c ALBATUM —for Chest Colds An inhalant and rub for the chest. Relieve that superficial congestion with Albatum. 47¢ 5 oz. Jar 2 oz. Jar 25¢ YODORA Banishes odor of perspiration. Jar or Tube 25¢ McKesson’s Halibut Liver Capsules Plain, Box of 50 69c Plain, Box of 100, $1.19 SOAPLESS OIL SHAMPOO One of the most outstand- ing shampoos on the mar- ket. 9c Law In GO GET HIM! George Downie, on the motoreycle, other speeder will have a ticket. | America is traffic-safety con- scious. This is the first of six ar- ticles telling how some cities are ng the campaign against By The AP Featuie Service KANSAS CITY Radio speed |traps are making fast drivers here Jitt —and they're reducing acci- den! Portable short wave sets play a |major part in the safety campaign |Kansas City is waging. And they do away with arguments when a defendant in traffic court faces a charge of speeding. Convictions of persons caught in radio fraps have been almost 100 per cent, according to Otto P. Hig- gins, director of police Psychological Retarders White lines have been painted across streets as part of the radioj set-up These lines have had such| a potent psychological effect on drivers they will be painted at some 400 spots on the city’s streets Even thougii motorists know all the lines will not be traps they ave no way of telling which ones are. The element of doubt has a considerable effect in cutting speed and reducing accidents, says Lieut william Russell of the traffic de- partment Here's how the system works: A traffic officer hides behind the bushes of a deep driveway. When he sees a motorist approach- ing at what appears to be a high rate of speed, he picks up a tele- phone hand set on his portable transmitter then follows with a de- seription of the automobile. Give Driver Break Immediately upon the signal an- other officer, hidden a fixed dis- tance down the street presses a stopwatch. As the car Toars across the white line at this station, he presses the watch again. With the aid of a mathematical chart he can tell at a glance how long it took the car to pass between the two lines. If the driver is speeding, another patrolman, who has been waiting with the checker, his motor running, zooms into pursuit. To avoid too close checking, the driver gets an allowance of approx- imately seven miles an hour less than the speed recorded by the Iscientific trap. The next feature is Texas Cuts Accidents With Signs. e, Try The Empire classifieds for Radio Trap Cuts Down Accidents, Puts Fear of to Speed F iends Stopwatch in hand, Officer Tommy Lawrence has just clocked a motorist deing 50. He got the tip through the short-wave receiver at | his ear from another officer at a hidden statiof up the road. Officer | is starting out. In a minute an- Howard Stabler | Retufims North Local Attorney Completes’ Frip to Former | Ohio Home | Ending a month’s trip which was| highlighted by attendance at an old-fashioned county fair thage, Ohio, Howard Stabler, local attorney, the Northland this morning, bring- ing with him a new Dodge car. Mr. Stabler, accompanied by Mrs.. Stabler, left for the south on Sep-| tember 3, and has been visiting in | While the Yachters, who introduced | in Car-, |step for them was “Artists and Mod- | returned to Juneau aboard! Song-writing as Boys practice it is neither routine nor inspirational. Kelly relates they worked on one all the way across the ocean for a London opening and didn’t hit it until the final day. But they finished four numbers for “Pig- skin Parade” within one week. They | sit around together in a room—pro- bably padlocked— and at the end of a session they have .either a new Isong or four nervous breakdowns and possibly both. | “We fight,” as Billy Mann puts it, |“all day, but at the end we always bury the hatchet—in my baok.” It’s been a 3ong time between pic- L tures for Fred Allen, who smash-hit By ROBBIN COONS in “Thanks a Million” two years ago HOLLYWOOD, Cal,, Oct. 6. — A , . . He's just returned, ready for bunch of the boys (Yacht Club)|; sther picture after fulfilling east- were whooping it up at lunch the ern engagements. . . . But unlike other day, and it was a Ritzy—)beg msrv comedians Allen didn't need pardon—Yachty gathering. la quick follow-up. . . . My guess is The yachtmen who never saw a!he can come back “cold” and smash= yacht had returned to the movie hit again. .. . fold. They had made another pic-é - B ture and were insanely submer~ed | MRS. SCHOMBEL HERE in their next one—especially the Mrs. W. E. Schombel, wife of the yachter known as George Kelly, United States Commissioner af who'd nearly drowned because the Haines was a Juneau arrival thig folks thought he was clowning when 'morning on the steamer Alaska, he went down for the third time she is stopping at the Gastineau. during a scene. i = —— Something strange had happencdn’ YACHT CLUB BOYS RETURN TOPICTURES Came Nearly Losing Out in Hollywood to Ritzes, Song Hitters this nutty group singing into films| in “Thanks a Million” two years| ago, had left town for the gay spots of New York, Florida, London and Paris, some interlopers named the Ritz brothers (who never saw the Ritz, I'm sure) had come to town.| They had gone to town because Hol- lywood’s Clover club wanted the Yacht boys, who were too busy mak- ing pictures but suggested that the| Ritzes, then in New York, were pretty good too. Court Song Censored Any Yachtman will tell you that the Ritzes are fine fellows and very| good friends. Any Ritzer will take| oath ditto. And yet the fact re-| mains that the Yachtmen, because of their absence while the Ritzes| were making “You Can’t Have/ Everything” and other hits, are| rather in the position of come-| backers at their own game. First| (AN Schilling Tea has more flavor because toasted NOTICE! Juneau Mine and Mill Workers Union,| els,” next is “Thrill of a Lifetime,”| during filming of which the Kelly|}i ncident nearly evened things off,, three to three. i The Yacht Club Boys, individual- ly, are Billy Mann (the blue-eyed the States for the past féw weeks. redhead), George Kelly (the brun- Buying the car in Seattle, he and ette who laughs loudest at the Mrs. Stabler drove to Cleveland, others’ jokes), Charlie Adler (the Ohio, by way of Yellowstone Na- short end), and Jimmy Kern (the tional Park. In addition to attend-|juvenile and the intellectual wiz- Local No. 203 The election of of- ing the fair, the first he had seen for twenty years, Mr. Stabler visited with relatives throughout his for- mer home state, Ohio, and also saw Ralph Mize, father of Mrs. Tom Moyer, in Lakewood, Ohio, where he is head of the weather bureau. The Stablers found extremes of weather ranging from 100 degrees in the shade through Kansas, to a piercing cold along Lake Erie. Enroute home, Mr, Stabler visit- ed with Frank L. Poole, grand mas- ter of the Masons in Washington and Alaska, accompanied by John Dunn, recent Juneau visitor. Mr. Dunn and Mrs. Dunn, Mr. Stabler stated this morning, plan to leave Seattle for their home in Pasadena on October 20. Mrs. Stabler stopped off at Eu- gene where she will visit with her parents for two weeks before re- turning to Juneau. HUSBAND IS INJURED; WIFE CANCELS TRIP Mrs. Ralph Effner, who had planned to sail south aboard the Alaska this morning, cancelled her reservations when her hushand was injured at the Alaska Juneau mine. Mr. Effner is in St. Ann’s Hospital with a broken ankle. - MRS. ANDERSON BACK Mrs. P. A. Anderson, who has been visiting in Petersburg with her daughter, Mrs. Chris Dahl, re- turned to Juneau this morning results. “JUNO aboard the Northland. ficers for the Inter- national U. of M. M. & S. W., also the lo- cal officers will be 'held in Union Hall on zard). | | Kern is a Fordham law graduate, last to join the quartet. Kelly, Ad- ler, and Mann are vaudeville gradu- ates. Kern discourses on the psy- chology of comedy in his serious mo- ments, cracks wise like the rest most 'of the time. All together they write the songs. They specialize in the topical satire such as that “Alpha-| (bet Song” and the “Income Tax TH SDAY Song.” In “Thrill of a Lifetime” they | October 7 have one called “If We Could Run| Polls will be open| (the Country for a Day”—but there's{ from 10 a. m. until| 8. p: m. | one couplet that’s been censored. It, goes: “We'd dig up nine old men an to perpetuate their fame, we'd give| ‘em two more guys and let them ‘all play Notre Dame!” ¢ | ik 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 A SURE HIT .... That Means a Home Run By All the They'd swap a seat behind third base in the Yankee Stadium for a seat at your table—IF they knew dinner is to be top- ped off with—— -MAID” ICE CREAM “Product of JUNEAU DAIRIES, Inc.” Family! | 0