The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 27, 1937, Page 8

Extra Week of Vacation to Be Given School eS Wlll RCL‘OH\'(‘H(? on Monday, January 3, Ex- tending Pr esent Period Class books and roll calls have 3 to the season of winter sports as Juneau public school stu- dents prepare for an extra week of vacation following announcement by Sup! 3 that ' til Mon- day d this afternocn s a result of the extended va- tion this winter. school will not for summer vacation until The (lm mas vacat was ori- ginally schedul to end today, with school ol)rnlr” tomorrow | - | Christmas Day Celebrated at | - Govt, Hospital Program and Panv Add to Gay Holiday Fesmlhes Patients at nu G pital celebrated Christmas red letter day style Saturda the morring was opened W ty and program which assembled all in the hospital for a gathering of entertainment and fe Ly The program, in which children patients participated, was presented under the direction of Mrs, Gargar- et Fletcher, teacher at the Govern- ment School. The accompanying party which Santa Claus attended was planned bv the Salvation Arm with Capt. Stanley Jackson and Lieutenant Margaret Morrisin charge. Guests at the affair were Rev. and Mrs. David Waggoner, Dr. J. F. Wor- ley, Charles W. Hawkesworth. Miss Bertha Tiber, Dr. Luella M. King, and members of the hospital staff. Bright Christmas decorations added to the occasion which was al- so marked by presentation of gifts from the Moose lodge, the Juneau Woman'’s Club, and various. mem-- bers of the community - TEMPERANCE FILM TO BE PRESENTED AT W.C.T.U. RALLY Showing of the film, “Benificent Reprobate,” temperance picture widely accepted in Southeast Alas- kan ports where it been pre- will mark lhc Women's ian Temperance Union rally 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. The rally will be held at the First Fresbyterian Church and is being presented by Mrs. C. W. Wade, Al- aska organizer of the W.C.T.U. Mrs. | Wade has already shown the pic- ture in ports south of here and ex- MR. AND MRS. SOCIETY when ies "| lisplav their finery, come lush times pai Eppens Dies at | Hospital Sunday Pioneer Douglas Resident Succumbs to Illness | Death claimed another Alaska pioneer, yester when C. R. Ep- pens, for manj s a resident of Douglas, passed away on the day after Christmas following a confi ment of two weeks in St. Ann's pital Hos- in in came ermany 1859, to A living in the vicinity of he Juneau, and in the Yukon until 1910, prospect- ing. In 1910 he accepted a position with the Treadwell mine and re- mained here ever since. Unmarried, Mr. Eppens living relatives but is re by many friends in > Gastin Channel districst. Funeral serv will announced ortly the Charles W. Carter Mortuar e CHRISTMAS PARTY GIVEN TODAY FOR HIGHWAY RESIDENTS has no (le! Emil Sick mbered au be RETROSPECT All' ng its Capital C'l‘ and counting the bil back on a green Juneau head tod: as it looks 'Il‘-l,..”z.:,,(.)\-m( ent it throughout the :r‘:ll;’l; ::Hr(\‘l‘lul:‘n}v:‘l‘nu ‘ R (h‘: ;:L::-‘,‘,,‘i :‘h\l\) l;:n"' 3 - noon was given by Mrs. J. C. Re { 15 on the streets today CHRISTMAS EVENTS | focum sesidence from 2 antil 4 bres MR DAY ADVENTISTS riesnment: ai’ the party masses held at the Trinity Cathe bright Chr 8 Church of the Na Kindergarten and primary de- vity partment children took a leading he af- T and there | € T in the Christmas tree program Julia were St 1ere was | g turday morning at 10 am Morgan, skatir g superb on several lakes and | during the ices at the Thomas Joan, Holly g with even motor s ven: | Eeventh Daj During the services, marched around the dcnations for work yn, Denna Mrs. Leo and Hom: Jean, B Jewitt Church - Hudon, Mar all present e and hung being carried onto the ice. conce 5 - i8- .h. eau l\ ll a Crowell, Mary , new owner of the signed Jack Lelivelt (right) as manager “for a term of years” . Lelivelt was formerly with the Los Angeles team of the Pacific Coast League and scout for the (‘hi(z\zu Cubs. the | Union THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, DEC. 27, 1937. are represented here attired in nrcmng of New York’s Metropolitan opera season, an ncca#mn or lean. In the first tier, famcd ~w:\ s ur~t Lumhes In the <ecuml or “"rand tier’ are lcs~er hghts while eattie, Wash., baseball ciub has of the Unemnleyment insurance Rate Is to Advance WASHINGTON, Dec. 27—Unem- ployment insurance will cost em- ployers more the first of the | year i o tax on payrolls will increase cents. this which 1937 year, has to been three from two cted for Social Se percent will fficial e the stan said three d rate in et Ng histnas . Fork Russlans | MOSCOW, De — Ch mas \was ignored Lhr\.ux,hout the Soviet AR e A ©n in Africa by the Church Brend y Dill > oo On Sunday, a Christmas party well Crowe K was held at the home of Mrs. Violet Coo! 2 Dee Cook. s. Nor- ROTARY CLUB TOMORROW Crosby from 4 until 10 o'clock, as- man Cook, Nan Humphrey, Mrs. H o sembling more than 30 for the oc- B. Humphrey, Alex Sey Plans f district convention| casion. The party was also a fare- and Patsy Sey Peter lieh *d for Juneau l\?‘(ll well gathering for Mr. and Mrs. E. end Johnny and Jean Roehm. > expected to be up for dis- #..Johnson and children who are - - noon when leaving on the Yukon to make their' Lede and placer location notices s regular Fome in the state of W for sale at The Empire Offi s Cafe. A FACTORY TUNE-UP will make your radio “’Sound like New" Let us renew the performance of your radio Don't miss the rich musical tones and distant stations your set was built to receive— for the lack of accurate adjustment. With our new "Cathode-Ray" Servicer it can be quickly “made like new.” Phone Us Today Our Prices A+ JUNEAU RADIO - gutie SERVICE Work 122 Second St., Next to San Francisco Bakery All Work Fully Guaranteed 60 Days |MRS. HENDRICKSON HONORED AT PARTY BY TREVOR DAVIS’| Mrs. Waino Hendrickson was guest | | jof honor at a birthday party given | by Mr. and Mrs. Trevor Davis at| |the Davis residence last evening, for| 'wwhlch occasion more than a dozen |guests gatiiered for an evening ot‘ informal musical games and singing. | Christmas decorations and a birth- iday cake provided motifs for the affair at which Mr. and Mrs. Harry | !W. Douglas, Mr. and Mrs. Robert, {Rowe, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Polley, |Mr. and Mrs. Homer Nordling, Mr. jand Mrs. Erling Bugge, Mr, and Mm Chaites Forward, and the Hen- |diicksons were gathered. B e Demetrius, an Attican sculptor in {the early part of the fourth cen- | tw B. C., was famed for his lrealism of portraits, | 'Gharles Loftus Shot in Leg as ; Dog Is Rescued | Boy Makes Fi;—hour Walk Back Home After Injury ccidentally discharging his shot- gun when knocking a poreupine from the dog in his cltarge, Charles 14 year old son of Mr. and B. Loftus was brought to St. Ann’s Hospital yesterday evening after a five mile walk back the Lem- on Creek trail for emergency aid Charles, accompanied by May- nard Wahlstrom, employee of the Harri Machine Shop, and Alfred Brown, 13 year old school boy, had hiking out the th De been trail crtson the care of J veterinarian, absence. lier in the d: 'encountered a porc ious results, and termined to prevent ing a second the gun by the mv 1t the porcupine He had first made s safety catch was opponer z1 ing from the feeling bette owledge that Dec ies he said be O.K.” Mrs. Fred Taylor, the school cafe a scheme W wit! Lemon , dog of the R. E. Rob- Dec had been placed under Territorial during the Robertson’s B. Loftus, the dog" had pine with ser- was de- ditti- nt it 1 ure gun wounds today with in no r Charles further culty when he found the dog attack- Grasping ocked stoc the e ki the that vill sus serious results from the quill injur- “It looked serious for a while,”|ms? “but all of the quills I been removed now, and Dec on, but in the move shi HOT LUNGHES = WILMINGTON, O., Dec. 27.—Stu- dents at Reesville high school nea here may be seen going to cla: with a bag of potatoes or appl in addition to text books. manager R RN S “Bobby” for Jamaica KINGSTON, Jamaica—An Eng- will be imported to this West Indian port in the Carib- bean sea. He will instruct the local “ins and outs” glish “bobby” stabulary in the directing fic White-tailed deer signal with their tails. .- are ria, has developed ereby hot noon meals are exchanged for farm produce. said WRITING HIGH round trip; Fairbanks to Big Delta, Edmund Lund, $85, round trip; Fairbanks to Tetlin, Frank Pollack, ne way; F anks to Wise- n, Wien iska Airlines, $140, ound trip; Fe anks to Nome, Pa- cific Alask ays, $457, round Air j trip | Delegate Dimond said the routes {for which bids were submitted, ated officially as virtually all of ng i before the he awarded and in the contracts will bidders,” Dimond “air the am. will be time me instances, go to t d - - - MRS. GALAGHER DUE Mrs. Georgie Gallagher, mother of Miss Jean Gallagk is a north- bound p: the Yukon enroute } offices of the Bureau of F’lsm‘lh’\ in Seattle. Al- though plans are as yet indefinite, it is believed that Mrs. Gallagher will take over duties of the Bureau (of Fisheries office here e J. C. Holton, Mississipi commis- sioner of agriculture, estimates his state’s 1936 crop value at 200 mil- lion dollars of | —_— | Firemen estimated damage at cents after an automobile fire to which cost taxpayers 8400 at Bos- ton, Mass, of Governor’s Son With Fiancee | |- Engagement of Peter G. Lehman, son of Gov. Herbert Lehman of | New York, and Peggy Lashanska Rosenbaum, daughter of a concert singer, mext summer. has been announced. The wedding is scheduled to take place Young Lehman is a student at Lehigh university and Miss Rosenbaum is at Sarah Lawrence college, Bronxville, N. Y., A IN MAN-MADE COMETS, two fliers are shown as they looped their planes together at Miaini’s recent All-American Air Maneuvers. Smoke which trails the <hips, tracing their paths, is produced bv ch: LOW BIDDERS ON Kendll-Wiley MAILCONTRACTS Wedding Takes ais. LEGION YOUNGSTERS Juneau where she is prominent in social and church activities, attend- MOOSE cd school in Buhl, Idaho. Her fa- g ther is pastor of the Methodist Christmas Awards Church. Mr. Wiley, who is employed by RADIO the Alaska Juneau mine, comes to Juneau from Oregon. will remain in Juneau. The couple By providing nesting places for Qs d i R robins and scissor-tails, gardeners can cont e cutworm or “army Silver Percolator werm” to a marked extent n ‘ e i he state department of agric - re says approximately 240,000 tor 2— 187 of commercial fertilizer were use QiR 168 on Mississippi farms th year. | Start the NEW YEAR Right Make a Clean Sweep with GENERAL ELECTRIC CLEANERS No ciling nor greasing — Air cooled motor — Motor driven nozzle brush—Dirt finder light —Exceptionally ligh't and easy handling machine— $49.so Liberal Trade-in-Allowance SOLD ON EASY TERMS Alaska Electric Light and Power Co. CHRISTMAS PARTY AT 7 TONIGHT, DUGOUT FOR HOME OR BUSINESS REFRIGERATION SERVICE and REPAIRS Phone 24 Our Refrigeration Expert, JOHN HOUK, is equipped to give you Nuick, Efficient Service at reasonable cost. Rice & Ahlers Company to help the dog, the gun fired into hi: ght leg. i A Christmas party is announced fc from the accident, although tw the Legion, and Junior Auxil of the gpellets were fired near the this evening, starting 7 o'elock bone, and several were imbedded in i e 5 b 3 % in the Dugout. The affair is being the flesh, tea uen muscies. Are Not Official Air Mail Christmas Eve Ceremony given by Alford John Bradiord Post The accident oceurred at 2 ¢ 2 | B e and Auxilia; and all members of m. Sunday, but it wa ROUteb' D(‘leg?t(‘. Dl' | IS Su‘ pl’.lbe to the two Jjunior units are expected after 7 p. m. that Char e mond Advises Many Friends Parents need not attend, if the B eaanks o - YT srould Snevar z | i youngsters are old emough to go have gotten home if it hadn’t been' WASHINGTON, Dsc. 27.—Alaska| Surprising their many friends on 8lone, the committee anncunce: for Maynard and Alfved,” Charles Delegate Anthony J. Dimond has Gastineau Channel, Miss Willetta - said from his bed at St. Ann's I Post Office oftic- Gayle Kendall, daughter of the Rev. pital, this morning. “Mayn: n € d him of recent low- and Mrs. O. L. Dendall, became the , ' a tourniquet aboy » wounds and smissions for mail contracts bride of Mr. Roanld Wiley at a ® the two of them helped me back I sairbanks to several Interior Christmas Eve ceremony in the over the trail to the road. It was Kendall residence ™ w going, since in two or three ist was as follows: Fairbdnks The ceremony was performed by One of These places the trail was banked over han, Thomas . $1600 a the bride's father at 8 o'clock, with A N slides, After we reached the road, Fairbanks to Livengood, Mr .and Mrs, Lee Minkler as at- ward Numbers Maynard went for a car, and they Pollack, $48 one-way; Fair- tendants. Only members of the fam- f h ‘brought me to the hospital.” to Chandlar, Wien Alaska and a few close friends were or the es expects to be in St , round trip; Fairbanks present for the ceremony. Ann's hospital for about two weeks to Bethel, Harold Gillam, $720, The bride, who is well known in | LEGION OF THE 4 4 ot b