The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 10, 1938, Page 8

8 RADIO, FROGS TAKEN UP BY JUNEAU .. Interference Gets Condemn- ed — Croakers Seen as Profitable Enterprise Radio interference and frogs cen- tered in the attention of the Ju- neau Chamber of Commerce this noon at its weekly luncheon in Per- ey’s Cafe. There was sentiment ex-< pressed against the former and in favor of the latter, Pastor H. L. Wood,:Chairman of the Radio Interference Investiga- tion committee, brought in a com-| plete report, of the study, ineluding & report of City Radio Inspector Bili Hixson, in which the committee rec- ommended the Chamber sponsor a| movement to eliminate radio inter-| ference in the community. It cited| that high power lines and inade-| quate equipment was largely re-| sponsible for interference and rec ommended that steps be taken it said were being taken in Ket-| chikan, to have power lines removed from the streets and placed under- ground. ‘\ Eight major causes of interfer-| ence outlined in the Hixson report| and incorporated in the Chamber| committee's report were i Alaska Juneau high power lines,| Alaska Electric Light and Power| Company lines, the U. :S. Signal| Corps setup, oil burners, improper | house' wiring, KINY interference,| cheap = electrical . equipment not properly filtered. { The report is to be taken up at| a meeting of the Executive Board | of the Chamber next Wednesday. Charles Goldstein, recently re- turned from Ketchikan, brought back a report that the raising of| edible frogs in the Ketchikan area was' proving successtul and sug-' gested an investigation toward that| end be made here. He also inciuded | the suggestion that the stocking of | some of the nearby lakes with bass and other fish be undertaken as| some of them are now practically barren. President Charles W. Car- ter named a committee of Curtis| Shattuck, George W, Folta. John| W. Jones, Frank Dufresne and A.| P: Romine, new representative of the Bureau of Fisheries here. to delve into the frog and fish poten- tialties. | A feature of the emermmmemJ program was a reading by Miss Eli- zabeth Stewart, winner of one ot the recent declamation events at t%e high school, which won warm approval. The Rev, John A, Glasse was named to represent the Chnmberg at the peace prcgram to be held| here the latter part of the month by the Woman’s Club and Business , and Professional Women'’s Club. | | | | Fishffl}.g‘lfiétinn | Near Karluk River | Asked in Congress| VCASHINGTON, rep. 10.—Wash- ington State Representative John M. Coffee of Tacoma today intro- | duced a resolution in Congress | calling upon the Department of Commerce to establish regulations tn govern sahmon fishing in or near| the mouth of the Karluk River on Kodiak Island. - MEMBERS OF WORLD SERVICE CIRCLE TO ASSEMBLE TOMORROW | Tomorrow afternoon, members of the World Service Circle will meet ! ton's Willard Hotel. Mrs. ; hotels where narties were held honoring the Pr drive against infantile paralysis. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, FEB. 10, 1938. There Is a Dime in Every Letter Shown Here 100,000 letter: Nearly Hcus the infantile paralysis foundation. are shewn sorting the letters while I. R. T. Smith, Chief of Mai The mail bags contzin letters still to be sorted. Pestman B. A. Van Geuder. Cutting a Birthday Cake bi devotionals, and Mrs. John Glasse is in charge of the program which will concern women and missions. Radio Anfieur Gets H[gh Honor ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo, Feb. 10. Although living 1000 miles from the scene of the Mississippi floods, John S. Duffy, Rock Springs ama- teur radio operator, was recently awarded @ “public service certifi- cate’ by the American Radio Relay League for valuable service per- formed during the catastrophe last sprine Duffy contacica 1:azen, Ark., when that town was cut off from the out- side world by flood waters and re- layed appeals for aid when all oth- at the Northern Light Presbyter- izn Church where Mrs. Charles Sey will be hostess for the afternoon. Mrs, Jay Williams will lead the er avenues of communications had been destroyed. .- Empire classifieds pay. SQUAD TO ANCH Elks vs. |#Tax incladed rz oot el Students: 25¢ at door “ON TO ANCHORAGE” BASKETBALL Special Double-Header TOMORROW EVENING 7:30 P. M.—JUNEAU H. S. GYM ALL PROCEEDS TO BE USED FOR SENDING JUNEAU ALL-STAR HOOP ORAGE TOURNEY Firemen All-Stars vs. High School Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, wife of the President, is‘shown cutting a huge hday cake honoring her husband’s fifty-sixth birthday, aL'Wa:«h|xxg- Roosevelt had made a round of Washington W. S. Buckley (‘ower left) and M. C. M |of i th |sh! i sh {th |of |ru sident and aiding in his INTERNATIONAL IN CASE HERE. King Gustav of Sweden and President Roosevelt En- ter Into Lennart Probate Internaticnal echoes were heard © in U. 8. Commissioner Felix Gray's * court yesterday afternoon when the probate hearing came up on the estate of the late Gus Lennart of Juneau, who was drowned about a year ago in Gambier Bay Lennart left an estate of be- tween $13,000 and $14.000, and what was believed at the time as no living relatives. The estate is mostly in cash and bonds, located in banks from Juneau to Seattle. In the dead man’s effects a crudely hand writ- ten will was found in which he left * all to the Red Cross. It was later revealed that Len- nart had a brother, Erik Enar Kris- ter Lovskog, and a sister, Svanhild; Sally Vilhelmina Abrahamsson, liv- = ing in Sweden, Lennart’s name it developed was Lovskog in Sweden % but he had changed it to Lennart ‘ when he became naturalized. | Swedish birth certificates, com- & munications from King Gustat of & Sweden to President Roosevelt in ; connection with the naturalization . 3f Lennart, copious other documents all were on display as Frank Foster, & representing the Red Cross, and H. L. Faulkner, as Swedish Consul, and Attorneys R. E. Robertson and M. E. Monagle delved into the pro- bate at a four-hour hearing. ' Who gets the money? Commis- sioner Gray has taken it under ad-, visement. - e LI LT A copper vessel containing 11,000 silver coins of the elevnth century including pieces from Germany, & Saxony, Denmark, Italy, Persia and . Central Asia, was found buried in a forest near Lake Ladoga, USS.R. Should oil beds become depleted, science might manufacture gasoline from lignite, says Dr. R. A. Gort- ner, chief of the division of agri- : cultural biochemistry at Universil Farm, St. Paul, Minn. | EPRINGFIELD, | “misogynist” and “ichthyology blonde Elaine Meyers, {Bendl eighth grade each bearing a dime, addrested to President Roosevelt had arrived at the White befcre his birthday, and 75,000 more were expected in answer to an appeal for small coins for Reed, White House mail clerks. at the White House, receives a bag from [Spelling | . |Champion 11, Feb. 10 issing only eight words such as out 200 orthographical puzzlers. 13-year-old recently won e Illinois State spelling champion- ip. Elaine, her spectacles agleam e pencilled down her words, as was i trailed closely by Lucille June Nay, irteen, of Kansas, Edgar County, 'and Fay Hood, thirteen, DuQuoin who tied with 189 words correct out! the first 200, Lucille winging the noff for second place. " ds: Metamorphosis, ichthyology, misogynist, bassinet, - Wales was annexed to England during the reign of Edwarg I STANDARD 0IL CREW HEADING FOR WESTWARD Iced Down Craft Docks in Juneau Bound for Larson’s Bay A crew of s‘nrvv-y;xrs and engin- eers bound for Larson’'s Bay, near Kodiak, for the Standard Oil Com- pany, wrived in Juneau this noon aboard the 63-foot motorslap Su- aco The party, in charge cf E Schmidt. of the Stancard Oil Com- pany of Califcrnia, numbers eight nien. Men aboard the boat did not know exactly what they were going 'to do at Larson’s Bay other than “transit work and general survey- ing The Suaco left Seattle January 30 and has experienced severe wea- ther all the way. This afternoon, crew members were chopping off third heavy load of ice they acquired in eleven days. They have been four days out of Ketchi- and twice ran for shelter be- hind Cape Fanshaw and Cold Point, The party expects to leave about Saturday or Sunday to continue tucir trip to Kodiak. Captain T. A. Renton is skipper of the craft. Wil- liam Erskine of Kodiak, is pilot. Boo Laird and LeRoy Jones are en- gineering assistants. In the February 3rd Empire, it was exclusively announced that a number of large oil companies would drill and test an oil well on the Pacific side of the Alaska Penin- L across Shelikoff Strait. e stcamer Northwind is sched- uled to leave San Francisco for the scene of oil operations sometime Saturday, with actual drilling oper- alons to begin some time in May. THREE BURIED IN ORE SLIDE 'One Miner Is Killed, Two | Others Rescued Five Hours Later ROOSEVELT, Utah, Feb. 10.— kan. | Elaine missed the following: eight R0y Campbell, 43, was kilied last night in the slide of 50 tons ot Giisonite ore, 100 feet underground in the Pariette mine. His son, | in Campbell and working com- panion, Everett Pope, were entomb- cd nearly five hours, but were res- cued unharmed g SWIRL PRINTS for Spring Whirl into Spring in one of these swir- ly, swing prints! You'll younger and more colorful than ever! Jon’t let cold weather fool you Spring is mighty near. Sizes 12 to 42 Specially Priced! ALSO—New shipment of Mannish Sport Suits and Topcoats. JUNO feel gayer, EPRSERER SAMPLE SHOP o « more drastic than an extended A Proud Mother Celebrates Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, mother of the President, is shown as she antered the ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City, for the President’s birthday ball. With her are Frank Vanderlip (in civilian elothes) and Col. Lucien S. Breckenridee LITTLE FELLOW IN BUSINESS TO BE HELPED NOW Administration Will Give Aid — Details Are to Be Worked Out WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 The Administration has extended a vir- tual promise to help the small bus- inessman borrow money Although details are withheld, pending further study, Chairman Jones of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, reported he will be ready to disclose loan arrange- ments within a week or ten days. Chairman Jones made his inten- tion known to Secret of Com- merce Daniel C. Roper. The latter was host to 1,600 small business men at last week's conference Speculation regaraing the propos- al ranged from a mere continu- ance of the RFC lending to a more elaborate system of new Federal credit agencies, Federal insurance, and private loa to business, Usually well informed officials aid they “guessed” the Administra- tion is not ready to do anything and possibly iberalized fype of lending ' the RFC has been doing for three years. Ex-Governor Reed Aspires to Senate PARSONS, Kas., Feb. 10.—Former Gov. Clyde M. Reed, Parsons pub- lisher, has tormally entered the race for the Republican United States Senatorial nomination and said if elected he would not ‘“be ‘rubber stamp’ at any time for anybody.” Reed, Kansas Governor from 1928 to 1930, seeks the office now held by Senator George McGill, Demo- crat, who has indicated he will be a candidate for reelection James Roosvelt Is Tnluin‘mrsamas WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—James President’s eldest son House tary, will leave here the latter part of this month for two weeks' active duty with the Marines in the annual war games off Guatanamo, Cuba. Young Roosevelt is a lientenant colonel in the Marine Corps re- serves, having received the com- mission just after starting with the President in November, 1936, on the trip to Buenos Aires peace confer- ence. Roosevelt and a W -oo Empire classifieds pay. e EXTRAS EARN §3,000,000 IN ¢ PAY IN FILMS LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 10.— Almost three million dollars went | into the pockets of Hollywood extra players during 1937, according to a statement issued by the Central Casting Bureau. During the year 294,307 extras were ziven employment and were paid 2.986.372 for an average daily wage £ $10.03—8$1 more than for the 1936 period, the report revealed. €ince the signing seven months 20 of the agreement with the Screen Actors Guild, the studios ave been paying an average daily vage of $10.91, it added. 2ICH MINERALS AT SOUTH POLE CHICAGO, Feb. 10. — Under the ice cap at the South Pole, which is ‘wo miles thick in some places, lies more mineral wealth than there is n the rest of the world. However, Dr. Thomas C. Poulter, director of the research foundation >f the Armour Institute ot Techno- logy, secand in command of the sec- ond Byrd Antarctic expedition, said that he thought matters should be left as they are. “Undoubtedly vast wealth is there,” he observed. “Imagine melt- ing through two miles of ice over a territory as large as the United States, Mexico and Central America! “If all that ice were melted it would raise the ocean from three to five feet. Coast lines would recede and hundreds of cities would disap- pear under water.” e e HEINTZLEMAN IS BACK OF STOPOVER TOURIST PLAN IN SOUTHEAST After a several weeks trip to Ket- chikan and Petersburg in connec- tion with the study being made in connection with developing recrea- tional areas with the aim of en- couraging stop over tourists, Region- al Forester B. Frank Heintzleman returned to his Jimean headquar- ters yesterday on the Alasks, < Plans are bemg workeu uut, which will be extended to Juneau. with the purpose of encouraging more and more travelers to stop over in Southeast Alaska, the Forester ex- plained. It is hoped that with aid of (ransportation companies and other agencies a large increase in ourist travel to the Territory can be furthered. B e NO NEED TO SHIVER Laugh at winter in a real “cold weather” outdoor garment from H. S. Graves. “The Clothing Man" is clesing out a large stock of heavy winter and work garments— at big price reductions. adv. .- — The studiat body at Freed-Harde- man College, Henderson, Tenn., in- cludes boys named Walker, Hopper, Jumper and Leeper.. SIILL2 MORE DAYS S CASH ONLY "'THE STORE FOR MEN"’ ABIN’S CLEARANCE SALE! | Tomorrow and Saturday NOTHING WITHHELD Every Item in This Store Offered at REAL REDUCTIONS! TAKE ADVANTAGE OF MONEY-SAVING PRICES!