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

GYRIL ZUBOFF PRESIDENT OF ! BROTHERHOOD Mis. BcssicMill;r of Juneau Elected Head of Alaska Native Sisterhood Juneau was elect- the Alaska Native the third term which closed in according to infor- here. Other offi- Cyril Zuboff ed President of Brotherhood for the convention e Saturday f and David presidents secretary; and ser Tatitlik ce Johnsen, Kake, Wrangell, treasurer, radley Wrangell, T' ank vcn Miller, Herb: 3 M elected pr tive Sisterhood chosen were Mabel Willard, president; Mrs. Anna neau, secretary; Mrs. namaker, Angoon, Mrs. Evelyn Johnson, geant-at-arms. Klawock was voted as the next| convention city and the convention went on record for abolition of in- oxicating liquor from Alaska; ask- ing a change in the Enabling Act relative land title by Thlinget and Haida Indians; for a further camrpaign on tubtrculosis among | the natives of Alaska. The convention authorized organizing of other divisions and sie Miller of Juneau was ident of the Alaska Na- and other offic Wrangell Zuboff, Andrew treasurer, Kake, vice- Ju- and ser- to cfficers for a tour of Southeast Al-! aska in the spring. The Alaskan was named the official organ and Albert White the Brotherhood at- torney. Among visitors were Mrs. C. W. Wade, of Juneau, for the W. C. T. U. Delegate com- ing the farthest distance was Max Ttalio of \A\k\n'\l Nnrlnemen to Meet Tomorrow Dinner Gatherlng to Be Held at Northern Light Church Reservations are due this evening for the Norlitemen dinner to be Leld tomorrow eveming from 6:30 until 8 o'clock in the parlors of the Northern Light Presbyterian church On the evening program will be John Newman who will discuss stamp collecting, and John Borino flutist. A few hours climb in the Great Smcky Mountains from river valley to the peaks 5000 feet above, will disclose in succession the same plant life zones to be found in traveling northward from the latitude of Southern Tennessee to that of Cen- tral Canada. — e Wood ducks are at home in trees as well as in water. Schlllmg SHOULD BE MAILED SOON If you are planning to remember some one ‘“out- ide” on Christmas, it would be well for you to begin shopping. Our shop has many of those things your friends would buy if they were here. You are invited to visit us and snoop around. We are accustomed to visit- ors and you are welcome whether you buy anything r not. Open Evenings Until Christmas The NUGGET SHOP at| the | organizer | REPORT ALASKA Letters An:iw: Vfrom West- ward Marked Day Earlier than Sale Was to Start licked in Juneau last Friday on the day of the official opening of the tamp here, scheduled to be one day earlier than anywhere else, according to mail which arrived in the city from the Westward on the {steamer Alaska Several persons reported that they received letters from Westward points, bearing the Alaska stamp, and postmarked on November 12. Postal officials said they were at a loss to understand how it happened as |stamps were supposed to be sold be- ore November 13, outside of Ju- neau, they explained. Several envelopes got cancelling machine sale into | in Ju- | wrong Wa-neau during the flood of business jetties, and the greater part of the Ifor the 12th, it was reported, with |the result that when delivered they bore a postmark of November 11 Only a few of them got out before 'the errcr was detected, the Post- master said, and are of no value. JW.C. Lunchaun To Be Tomorrow : semble Fifty at Luth- ‘ eran Church Reservations made today for the Juneau Woman's Club monthly no- host luncheon, which will be served tomorrow at 1 o'clock in the Luth- eran Church parlors, indicate that 'approximately fifty members of the club, and their friends, will be present for the event, which is the regular social meeting of the month. Wlth “Economy in Food” as the eme of the program, the lunch- 'eon, which will be served by a com- mittee of club women, headed by Mrs Ray G. Day, is expected to present excellent illustration of the theme, and the two demonstrations which Mrs. Day will give following it, will further carry out this motif. Following the program, members will spznd the afterncon working on decorations for the Club’s Char- ity Ball, which will be held on the Saturds following Thanksgiving under the auspices of the Depart- ment of Public Weifare. Mrs. H Wilcox is chairman of the com- in char; cof arranzem this affair ,es Ynung Livermore Weds, Baltimore ‘Mother Who Took Shot at | Him Two Years Ago [s Attendant BALTIMORE, Maryland, Nov. 15. —Jessie Livermore, son of the noted Wall Street speculator, was married vesterday to Mrs. Evelyn Sullivan daughter of the former fight pro- motor. His mother, Mrs. Dorothea Wendt Longcope, who shot and ‘wcunded her son at a drinking party in Santa Barbara two years ago, jaccompanied the party at the cere- meny. G mi for es ge e — ‘ Anglers’ licenses were purchased by 5,632,448 persons in the United States during 1935-1936, setting an all-time high. These fishermen ent $8,002,000 for licenses. NEW ALASKAN Bachelors’ Hotel Announces NEW WINTER RATES—Beginning Nov. 15 I e All the new Alaska stamps weren't no Alaska the | No-Host Affair Will As-| *imately THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, NOV. 15, 1937 quudhury Abbey MAN REPORTED 0f Nome StormF RO M ALASKA Mining l:ngmeer Reports Seward Peninsula in M:ining Boom EmployeL Sad i Haw* Gone Over Side Shortly After Boat Left Seward Nels Nelson, said to have been an employee of the Alaska Steam- Bringing to Juneau an eye-wit- ness account of the recent disas- trous storm at Nome, Woodbury Ab-|ship Company, is reported to have bey, engineer in charge of opera-|jumped ovedboard from the steamer tions for the Kougarok Comoll-|A]aska shortly after that vessel left dated Mining Company, arrived in,Seward on the south bound Juneau yesterday aboard a - PAA:The news was brought here by pas- plane. sengers who dropped off here from 'We were helpless to do a thing,”{the Westward, Local officials said said Abbey in the lobby of the Gas-|they knew nothing of the reported tineau hotel last night. “The streets{incident. were filled with spray and the wind - blew a steady half gale.” | “The east end of town along the beach line was completely wrecked {—but then those people with houses{* on pilings there had expected it.” Most of the damage, explained Abbey, was to the government built L 5 HOSPITAL NOTES Baby Nels Landine was dismissed today from St. Ann's Hospital fol- lowing medical care. damage total in dollars and cents lies there. Driftwood Causes Concem “It was not so much the wind,j that did the damage, although the tide was raised several feet, but \rather it was the driftwod coming wxrh the waves. “Piling and other drift picked up by the heavy surf was thrown like a barrage of battering rams against everything they came into contact| with. With the crashing of piling land the sound of the wind, the; lain was terrific!” Abbey reported a good season for his company who operate a 2% -foot ' | bucket dredge on the upper Kou- |garok river where they are working old stream channels with the pay about 12 to 15 deep deep. Good Mining Season | Sam George of Yaxuiai was ad- A mining season with ample wa- mitted to the Government Hospi- ter was experienced for a little over tal for surgical care today. 100 days. Yardage of dirt moved,' e amounted to about 155,000 yards. Pay, Baby George Martin was admit- runs about eighty cents to a dollar ted this morning to the Government a yard. Hospital. “There are thirty-one dredges on —_ Seward Peninsula now and possi-; Mrs. Flora Quick of Sitka was ad- bility of three more to go in next mitted this afternoon to the Gov- year. There will be two or three ernment Hospital for surgical care. new hydraulicking outfits going into P the Kougarok next year, and the Arabian horses are distinguished general outlook is exceptionally by a square and sharply chiseled good for the district,” Abbey said. contour of the head Abbey is a former Juneau resident, having been connected with the Land Office here from 1915 to 1922 - - Mrs. Clifton Tisdale underwent major operation at St. Ann’s Hos- pital this morning. a Mary Hubbard was admitted yes- terday to the Government Hospital | for medical care. Mrs. Jane Grant of Kake was ad- mitted this morning to the Govern- ment Hospital. Charles Howard, a surgical pa- tient, was admitted today to the Government Hospital from Hoo- nah. Elsie Kasko, a medical patient, |was admitted to the Government lHospilal today. By counting the number of bats occupying a cubic yard of air during flight, naturalists of the National Park Service estimate that approx- ,000,000 bats live in Carls- bad Caverns, New Mexico. MORE DAYS To assure yourself of the Best Thanks- giving Dinner Ever —by placing your Turkey Order at the SANITARY MEAT CO. ED SHAFFER Phones 49—13 “Only the Best Quality"” JUNEAU FOR HOME OR BUSINESS REFRIGERATION SERVICE and REPAIRS Phone 34 Our Refrigeration Ex equipped to give you Quick, Efficient Service at reasonable cost. Rice & Ahlers Company pert, JOIIN HOUK, is trip. | Fatally Stabs STAMPS ISSUED ' Brings Account m HAVE JUMPED Man,Wipes His BEFORE OPENING Knife, Fscapes Murder Is (omnnlk(] n | Crowded Restaurant by | Red-haired Slayer Nov. 15.—A red- walked into a OGDEN, Utah, ired slayer, who wurant last night and plunged a knife into the heart of Tom F1 erty, 35, escaped unmolested Detectives, soon on the scene, said the restaurant was crowded at the time when the man entered and walked calmly to the table where Flaherty ‘was sitting and stabbed 'him. The man wiped his knife on a black and white scarf, then walk- ed out the front door and disappear- ed D 10 PASSENGERS ~ ABOARD NORAH ~ FOR THIS PORT Canadian Pacific steamer Princess ‘Numh in port this afternocn from the South, brought the following passengers booked for Juneau: | R. O. Byrd G. Discombe, D. Bar- y, R. E. Hornbevk, MA][!AI(* ‘v ndstrom, Richard G. Holmes, K I Wohlford, Harry T. Horan, mas Stevens. The steamer goes to Skagway and 'is scheduled to return to Juneau southbound early Wednesday morn- ing —ro—— 'REBEKAHS VISIT MINNIE FIELD HOME 24 m(‘n\hl\ of the Rebekah lodge surprised the matron and chi dren of the Minnie Fields home yesterday, going out at noon and spending several hours with Miss Field and the children. In the party were Mrs. Betty McCormick, Noble 'Grand-elect; Mrs. Etta Bringdale. Mrs. Anna Webster, Miss Mary XKo- fasa, Luba Petovich, M Edith Sheelor and Mrs, Joe Wehren of Douglas. hestertield Capytiphe 1957, LIGGsTt & Mysxs Tomaces Co. Connery’s Brother Takes Over ah- e — — — Congressman Lawrence Connery, of Lynn, Mass., is shown at his home | with his wife after his election to fill the post vacated by his brother’s | death, Connery has promised to carry on his brother’s fight for the | wages and hours bill. TWO NAVY MEN ARE DROWNED NEAR SITKA CCC Crew R(’coveled Bod- | ies at Japonski Island, According to Report BEING HEARD IN U. S.. DISTRICT COURT TODAY way, charged with larceny from a boat, was being held in Federal court today with George Grigsby appearing for the defense and As- sistant District Attorney Stump for the government. Both sides rested at 3:30 this afternoon arguments were to follow. Hearing the case are Mrs. Stan- ley Norwicka, L. R. Hogins, George Shaw, John W. Jones, L. H. Metz- gar, Louis Delebecque, Vena Crone, Sam Paul, E. E. Zimmer, James York, R. McClennan and Mrs. M V. Manville. and | Two Navy men attached to the temporary naval base at Sitka were drowned early Sunday morning at Japanski Island, according to word to the U. S. Forest Service from Dan Moller, CCC foreman. Names of the men were not given. 1 Moller with a crew of 16 CCC men and eight hoats recovered the bodies a short time after the tragedy, ac- cording to the message. - - - BEIERTY SON BORN A son was born to Mr. and Mr: Pete Beierly at 5:45 p.m. Saturda in St. Ann’s Hospital. Named Peter Beierly, Jr., the child weighs seven pounds. Mr. Beierly works at the Al- aska Juneau mine. Todsa ws Today.—Tmp:re PIERCE LARCENY CASE Trial of Charles C. Pierce of Skag-' had | HOSPITAL ASKED BY LABOR PARTY TO AID MARINER Abollhon of Fish Traps Asked with Two on Karluk Named Among a number of resolutions 'd yesterday and today by the abor Party meeting in Un- was a resolution asking jarine hospital in Alaska. pener asked for maritime P-.al ion and sick benefits for all boatmen on further g hospital, as that place has hospital of any sort and at the came time is centrally located in the hing area. Another resolution recommended any amendments to the Labor Relations Act, as le act has not had time to work l!\fllf in or out. Fish traps were ruled against and {the abolition asked of two present itraps on the Karluk River near Ko~ | diak. Still another resolution asked for the freedom of Billings and Mooney, ‘Jill]l‘(] for the Preparedness Day |bombing of 1916 in San Francisco. A tuberculosis saniaffum was ‘:\sked for the Matanuska Valley, the Japanese Fishing invasion was con- demned and the repeal of the Crim- inal Syndicalism Law was askec for. The resolution against the Jap- anese fishing invasion will be fol- lowed by several hundred copies of the agreement being sent to sena- tors and congressmen in Washing- ton, D. C. nst. Tom Burchett was elected from the body to represent the Labor Party on the Alaska Planning Coun- cil should a choice be made of a man for that position from the Party. With him in a committee con- ferring at the Federal Building to- day was A. J. Nelson and Alfred Thix bbert. ‘The Ail Alaskan Labor Party Con- vention will probably adjourn today and the All Alaskan Convention of Labor will convene tomorrow. e Many London flats are let by the week rather than the month with no lease required. Many others de- mand a seven-year lease. Anchored 47 miles off shore, the Nantucket Lightship guides traffic on the Atlantic Coast. Mail and supplies come aboard once a month—one of the . most welcome arrivals is the supply of Chesterfields. Chesterfields give more pleasure to smokers wherever they are On land or sea or in the air Chesterfields satisfy millions all over the world. They’re refreshingly milder. . . They’re different and better. ...a laste that smokers like