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iy JUDSON FILES FORMAYORAT = =~ - CITY ELECTION John McCormick, R. H. Beistline, Emmett M. Botelho, Councilmen The Peoples Ticket, headed by Thomas Judson for Mayor and with three councilmen, has been filed with City Clerk Harry I. Lucas for submission to the electors at the ity election on April 5. Councilmen on the Judson ticket are John McCormick, pioneer of Gastineau Channel and former United States Deputy Marshal; R. H. Beistline, present counciiman and seeking re-election, and Em- mett M. Botelho, one of the pro- prietors of the Triangle Inn and wellknown Juneau young man The Peoples Ticket is the one to be filed for the coming tion AN FRANCISCO is gath- ering superlatives. Here's its latest claim—'"The most comprehensive signpost in the world." It tells how far you'd have to walk—or swim—to get to New York or Shanghai and points north and south. What good is it? Of course, e to show first elec- D Judge Alexanfler. Joseph McDonald Confirmed Today WASHINGTON, March 8. — The | Senate has confirmed the nomina- tion of George F. Alexander, of Ore- gon, reappointed as Judge of the First Judicial Division of Alaska | and also Joseph A. McDonald, re- appointed as United States Marshal of the P‘ourm Division. | boy shorts. But there seems o be an ulterior motive. The signpost has been erected on Treasure Island. That's the ite of the San Francisco world's fair of 1939. It sym- bolizes world participation in the fair. HOLLYWOOD SKIIS WITH PHONY SNOW be Snow may scant in Juneau, as it is in Hollywood—but they ski in both cities BI" Is Relflc‘ed Hollywood, according to Juneau- ites wintering there, just wound up WASHINGTON, March 8. — The |a gala ski carnival at which 30,000 House has tentatively refused to persons attended to see the cream insert in the tax bill a provision of the country’s ski artists, Birger for publicity of corporation salaries | Ruud among them, perform on tons | President | of machine made ice and snow. You only have to w a mile or so in Juneau for skiing snow. over $15000 annually. Rocsevelt recently said he favored such publicity. | Schilling Tea is always delightful in flavor and aroma—always clear, be- cause it's made from choicest tea leaves. Pro- tected and kepe fresh for you in an arractive, cello- phane-sealed package! Orange Pekoe and Pekoe Tea Schilling halt pound “BIG SAVINGS FOR YOU” Far, Far Away hough not as negative a quantity | GOODNEWS: BAY | : " WILL GET ‘NEW “g OUTFITS IN 1938 1} Walter Cul\:Well-known .'t Driller, Is Heading Back to Field There will be three draglines and two dredges in the Goodnews Bay area before freezeup next fall, ac- cording to Walter Culver, Goodnews Bay driller who passed through Ju- neau today on the steamer Ala and visited friends with M Culver. According to Culver, Jonson and Gale will put in a 2%-foot bucket jcapacity dredge. on Wattamuse Creek this spring, while the same outfit intends to have a dragline working on Fox Creek before fall Strandbergs and the Goodnews Bay Dredging Company will con- tinue their operations, the former with a dragline and the latter with dredge and drag. Culver is drilling ground on the Goodnews River in the gold country and expects to do extensive drilling this season. “Don’t forget that Goodnews is a machinery country,” said Culver, echoing the warning that has been sounded many times to miners who believe Goodnews is a hand-working country. Pay dirt is deep for the most part and hard to work, Culver said. COUPLE MAKING HONEYMOON TRIP AFTER 47 YEAR Elderly Wyom—ing FolksAre Sold On Alaska as Place for Home 105‘1 i | J. 0. Blake Dies At Oregon Home Father of Kelly Blake, Mrs. | James Orme Suc- cumbs Saturday Dorothy Short A double beauty crop will be fea- tured at the National Orange show at San Bernardino, Cal., from Dorothy Short, above, who moses with a basket of oranges. EIGHTEEN LEAVE WITH ELECTRAS J. O. Blake, father of E. J. (Kel- ly) Blake and Mrs. James Orme, of Juneau, died Saturday at Sea- side, Oregon, according to advices received here. Funeral services were conducted yesterday. Mr. Blake, who ted here with |Mrs. Blake four years ago, was well-known in Juneau. Beside Mrs. |Orme and his son, he is survived by two daughters, Mrs. John Phillip and Mrs. Lee McKey of Portland. Kelly Blake and Mrs. Orme left for Seaside last month, called south by their father’s illr INGRAM GOES - TO WESTWARD Married 47 years, never saw the salt water, and never saw Alaska, but Mr. and Mrs. Frank Tatro of Lander, Wyoming, are aboard the steamer Alaska bound for the West- ward on their honeymoon to take up a homestead “somewhere where Two PAA planes took off today the ground looks good to the West- from the PAA Mendenhall airport ward.” and left for Fairbanks via the Taku With his son and daughter-in- River route with 18 passengers law Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Tatro, and aboard their children Hug hand Adlor, the | Jerry Jones and Bill Knox took Tatros are already “sod" on Al-!the first ship ‘out with Mr. and aska. Mrs. A. Mathison, R. Uotilla, E. “We've farmed and ranched all Uotllla, R. W. Kransi, Mary Joyce, P. Deines, C. E. Bunnell, and K. our lives,” said Tatro in Governor Troy's office this morning where C. Spaid . ------ he and Mrs. Tatro paid their re- S. E. Rebbins and Walt Hall R. C. Ingram, Resident Engineer spects. “It got so we couldn’t make took off right behind Jones and for the Bureau of Public Roads at what we felt was a good living Knox with K. H. Triplett, Frances | Seward, took passage this after- down there so we decided we would Bingham, Dana Wright, Thelma take the honyemoon trip we had Thompson, D. Lhamon, Frank Nash, planned for so long, and pick up Miss L. Bahnke, J. Loftus and Viv- stakes.” an Waters. Both Mr. and Mrs. Tatro, 67 and ¥ {noon on the Alaska for the West- ward, returning to his Seward hoine | and headquarters following several weeks in the Juneau office of the P | i 6 rs old respectively, were en- | Puresy R o Lf‘uy_fi over Alaska y John Adams was admitted for i s s v cnlr;yr‘d myself so Medical care following an epileptic {RAY WARD! « satld Mrs, [it this morning, and was taken to w much in all my life!" sald Mrs. | Y s ILL Tatro. “T knov:’ we'll llkc\ it up St- Ann’s Hospital from the Alaska. TAKE TRIP OUT Mr. and Mrs. Ray Ward and | daughter Sue will take the south- bound Mount McKinley for a three here—it's so beautiful the He was dismissed a few hours later. here.” ‘When told that turnips and ruta- bagas and cabbages and other gar- den truck growed to such prodig-| country ) the April meeting, March 17-27, if we are to judge | Talbot, Ketchikan, Hands in Resignation from Council The March meeting of the Alaska | Platning Council which started here| | 1ast week closed yesterday afternoon | § |after details of its program had been | settled and committee chairmanship assignments completed. The eight committee chairmen will designate their own assistants to carry out the studies assigned to them, it was announced by Ike P. Taylor, chair- man. Each of the Committee organiza- | tions will cover the entire Territory, every region having representatives on each organization. New Member Named Announcement was made to the Council yesterday of the resignation of J. A. Talbot, Ketchikan member, owing to the pressure of private bus- iness that prevented him from giv- ing the time required to the work. W. C. Arnold, wellknown Ketchi- kan attorney, was appointed by Gov. John W. Troy to fill the va- cancy. Mr. Arnold is now in Seat- | tle. He is expected to come here for for which no definite date has been fixed. Chairmen Are Announced ‘The Council has designated the following as Chairmen of Technical Committees to cover the eight ma- jor studies on the program: Land Use: ex-Gov. George A Parks, Chief Cadastral Engineer, U. .|S. Land Office. Mining and Mineral Resources: | B. D. Stewart, Territorial Commis- sioner of Mines. Fishery Industries and Fisheries| Resources: Territorial Representa- tive, James V. Taylor. Transportation and Communica- tions: Tke P. Taylor, Chief Engin- eer, Alaska Road Commission. Tourist Industry and Recreation: Hatry G. Watson, Secretary to Gov. Troy, and veteran transportation man. Administration and Legislation: James 8. Truitt, Attorney General | of Alaska. Public Welfare and Education; W. Griffin, Secretary of Alaska. Organization of several subcom-. mittees to handle various phases of the major studies is now in pro- | Bress. Need Public Cooperation “The need for public cooperation is generally realized by the entire Planning Council, and was empha- sized in the discussions at the meet- ings during the past week,” Mr. Tay- lor said. “The Council seeks the as- E. | ber, Officer outside Mrs. Hahn's cell and inset, Mrs. Hahn Behind the grilled dourway shown to the left in this picture is the new cell of Mrs. Anna Marie Hahn, convicted Cincinnati, O., poisoner awaiting execution in the electric chair in Ohio penitentiary at Co- lumbus. Mrs. Hahn is to die M*rch 10 unless given a repneve. sistance -of every individuaf and or- | ganization, public and private, in its efforts to do something construc- tive for Alaska.” A. A. Shonbeck, Anchorage mem- and Dr. Charles E. Bunnell, Fairbanks, Chairman of the Gen- | eral Advisory Committee, left for their respective homes today. —————.——. — | sTock QuoTaTioNns L NEW YORK, ‘March 8.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 107%, American Can 86, American Light and Power 4%, Anaconda 31%, Bethlehem Steel 55%, Commonwealth and Southern 1'%, Curtiss Wright 4!%, General Motors 34%, International Harvest- er 63%, Kennecott 36%, New York | Central 17%, Southern Pacific 17%, United States Steel 527%, Cities Service 1%, Pound $5.01%. DOW, JONES AVERAG! The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: down .05; rails 27.55, down utilities, 19.09, down .02. T R Try The Empire classifieds for results. .50; industrials 125.33, | ROTARY CLUB - MEETS TODAY L Galditein Tellk ¢ Trip South at Gathering of Organization 1 Meeting informally at Percy's Cafe, members of the Juneau Ro- tary Club assembled today for their | regular weekly luncheon gathering at which Charles D. Beale, Presi- dent, presided. Guests at the meeting were Gor- don Barber of San Francisco, As- sistant District Engineer of the United States Treasury Department who is returning south aboard the Mount McKinley; Dr. Walter Tor- bet of San Francisco, Western rep- | resentative of the Board of Home | Missions ;and Church Extension of |the Methodist Episcopal Church, and M. J. Wilcox, former agent for the Alaska Steamship Company in Juneau. Wilcox spoke briefly, as well as | Barber and Dr. Torbet. 1. Gold- stein, who returned from the States ! today, spoke of his trip south Bendix Home Laundry \ i e ?, “Gives me an Extra Day EACH WEEK” D e weeks' trip in the States. ious size in Alaska, Mr. Tatro fair- ‘ Used Restaurant Model G.E. REFRIGERATOR 6.4 cu. ft. capacity—with new unit. Rice & Ahlers Co.~-Phone 34 .~ Mr. Ward, Regional Fiscal Agent, will attend a meeting of fiscal |agents in San Francisco, while Mrs. | Ward and Sue will visit friends and relnuves in Portland, Oregon. — e Ida Jackson, a medical patient {from Sitka, was dismissed from !it will be fine out there!" ly danced with anticipation. “Say!” he confided, “I'll bet you cmd M oderni ze "THE SUCCESSOR The Tatros plan to look over ground near Valdez and then go to Homer. Their enthusiasm was a fascinating thing to see. “Stay for a while?” said Mr. TO THE WASHING MACHINE" |the Government Hospital today to Tatro. “We've got all our things jreturn home aboard the North Sea. with us and we'Te going to stay Talk of Washers--- HAVE YOU HEARD THE General & Electric TALKING WASHING MACHINE! Stop and hear the s{c;r;} ol how the famous GE Washer F ectureg give long life to your clothes. GE ACTIVATOR GE PERMADRIVE MECHANISM GE PERMANENT LUBRICATION T GE ONE-CONTROL WRINGER Sold On Easy Terms E Y Alaska Electric Light . % .. ... andPowerCo. % S8 RfNEAU_ ALASKA— DOUGLAS for good!” WATER INCALIF, AND'IN ALASKA DIFFERENT TALE After ‘“escaping” from the Los Angeles flood zone by airplane after | wading across the street from the Biltmore Hotel in water to his| knees -to purchase a ticket, Hnrold\ Strandberg, Westward mining man, | was happy today to be returning to the diggings. . | “One thing about mining in Al-‘ aska, anyway,” Strandberg said, “is| that you pray for water instead of | praying it won't get any higher.” | | Harold is a son of Dave Strand-| | berg and a partner In the firm of | | Strandberg and Ohlson, mining op- erators. | Strandberg was one of the first | persons out of the danger zone when | flood waters began to rip the Los’ Angeles countryside and was (or. 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