The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 19, 1938, Page 8

] THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1938. CELEBRATEFIRST § AIR MAIL FLIGHT Gov. Troy Invited by Mayor Nerland to Participate in Ceremonies FAIRBANKS ISTO HOW A NATION MOBILIZE L Urging Gov. Jotin W. Troy to be a passengers on the first flight of air mail from Juneau to Fairbanks, Mayor Leslie Nerland of the latter city last night sent a radiogram to the Governor inviting him to par- ticipate in the celebration they are planning there at the inauguration S._, of the air mail service. Mayor Nerland's message read: “Fairbanks is planning appropri- L—U. S. Confederate General Nathan Forrest de- 2By 1914 that way of cal out any army by ate ceremonies and celebration upon fined strategy as “getting there fustest with the pre-arrangement was general. No longer did up- the arrival of the first aif mail ser-| mostest men.” But Forrest never. dreamed of « tc-date powers depend only on volunteers, pro- vice for Alaska, we consider it very night mcbilization cf a nation in arms. fessional soldi r even on drafted men in the appropriate that you be a Dassenger generals did. Legend has it that when the Franco- c¢ld sense. Everyone was subject to call. Moreover, on the first trip. On behalf of the prycsian war broke out in 1870 one of them had when mcbilization began in France, for instance, city of Fairbanks, the Fairbanks g, (5 awake from sleep long enough to tell an h conscript knew where to get equipment and f:Bg:’:x’ns:rc(:m('?:r;c;p‘;;“ll“:;u‘,’,“"; aide that orders were in the left-hand drawer. Any- what (rain {0 fake. Troop trains moved almost vou a most cordial invitation to| “a¥r Prussia won and established l{n‘ system of at once, centinued rolling like clockwerk. Supplies Visit Fairbanks on this important| ® emeral staff to plan for war in time of peace. were asscmbled as pianned. But still something occasion. Phelo: Reichfuehrer Hitler and Generals cxamine was lacking. Pheio: French reserves entraining The Governor said today that it manecuver plans. for maneuvers, conditions permitted he planned to accept the Fairbanks invitation HAVENSTRITE RETURNING TO INISKIN BAY Big Shipmen; of Drilling Equipment on Oduna Also Going North Ralph Lomen Tells - 0f Mining Activity ThmugpnutAIaska Member of Lomen Broth- ers Firm Is Enroute to Seward Peninsula Ralph Lomen, on his way back to Nome, arrived in Juneau on the Al- With plans to begin drilling in eytian and leaves tomorrow by PAA Chinitna Bay for oil again aboul glectra for Fairbanks enroute to his the middle of May, Homer Haven- phome strite, of the Iniskin Oil Co, is on Member of Lomen Broth who board the steamer Aleutian have extensive mining and commer- With Haverstrite, going to the (jy) activities in the Seward Pen- scene of last year's promising oper- jnsyla, Mr. Lomen is looking forward atlens, are E. E. McWhirter, drill t5 4 pusy summer season master, and J. Allen, who were with the “Mickey Mouge” drillers 1ast ing Seatule on every boat for Alaska.” SIRgmer. Mr. Lomen said. “In fact, there is Because many Hollywood notables yeqily buby boom in progress are interested in the operations, ol (hough, because of the danger of the Iniskin Compuny, the company gttracting unemployed who might was early dubbed “‘The Mickey hccome charges on the Territory not Mouse Oil Co.” much is being said in south Havenstrite said about 32 men gpout any boom up here. Mining would be employed at the seene of companies are going quietly about the company's Operations, Aacross the work of shipping their equip- Caok Inlet from Seldovia, this sum- ment without much talk about it e With Mrs. Lomen and his mother ‘We are down about 5700 feet and widow of the late Judge Lomen, Mr. we will keep right on going down,” Lomen spent the winter travelling Havenstrite said. “Of course we hope jn california to hit oil almost any time, but we'll Raiph Lomen is a former member “Lots of mining machinery is leav- work all season even if we don'l.” of the Territorial Legislature. His Last fall, the company ceased OP- prother Alfred Lomen, Territorial erations because gas showings were genator in 1933 and 1935, will leave s0 strong, there was danger of bring- ing in a well that could not be hand- led with the inadequate equipment at hand. A cargo of 250 tons of equipment is aboard the freighter Oduna, in port in Juneau today, that will be Seattle for Nome late in May. ———————— SHELL FLIES Life Goes on in Barcelona =) - Boys will be boys, youngsters having in the background the ruins left by whose recent raids killed more than the children are bombs and cannon notwithstanding. Here are two fun with their scooter in the streets of Barcelona, and the air-strafing of Franco’s fliers, 1,000 persons. Young as they arcg hardened to sudden death. GENERALS FIND NEW WAYS OF "GETTING THERE FUSTEST"” B AGUN RES";NS AS COMMANDER OF LEGION POST Widely Know Juneau Man Going to Enter Busi- ness at Sitka Walter Bacon, Commander of Al- ford John Bradford Post, American Legion, resigned that position last night at the regular meeting of the oiganization, announcing that he is going to Sitka to make his home, expeciing to leave here in about a week. He is going into the recreation parlor business with his brother-in- ;.1 Pa: Commander Bacon s 3—The generals decided, after polisning off that 4—When Hitler tock over Austria, (he gencrals | wijely known here and operated war, that next time they would have to put shcwed hew fast witra-modern mobilization mighl | (he Channel Bus Company for many industry on a wartime basis quickly to keep the be. Tanks, artillery and infantry, including re- | years until selling out a few months supplies pouring out. They would have to control scivists, cressed the frontiers on schedule. An | ago prices, money and food. Such things were accom- advance guard in automobiles roared 100 miles to | A successor will be elected at next plished rather slowly at the outbreak of war in Brenner pass, on the Italian border, in aboat | Monday night's meeting of the Pos! 1914. Today, in closely governed states like Italy two hours. and Germany, habitually on a semi-warbasis, it by plane at Viel would be comparaiively e Even the United populace. Other States has industrial mobilization plans, and all their war macl Photo: Moscow. Bankhead’s Europe has them. Photo: Inside a British munitions factory. LANDSLIDE AT HOONAK SPECIAL TO EMPIRE HOONAH, Alaska, Aprii 19.—A landslide occurred here at 12:30 oclock this afternoon. At first a few rocks fell into the house of Al- bert Judson (native) who with his tamily was eating lunch. They thought someone was playing a joke cn them and continued eating A few moments later the entire side of the hill, consisting of tons of rock and dirt hit the side of the house The sidé of the house was slighily rushed and the entire house mov- al feet. The house piles which accounted for that it moved easily and entirely crushed Probably the wa the fact was on the fact was not ed cause of the slide that just about 24 hours * earlier severe earthquake oecurred here. It was strong enough to shake windows and close doors which were open Mr. Gray, CCC Foreman, put entire crew to work cleaning up the lide. He lashed himself to a rope and explored the top of the slide to see if there was any more danger NewAPrt;s’fiecls hi: Chosen by Speaker of the Hou Tennessee Valley Authority, Clarenc Poy Is Take Barry Keoun Bourd fo Mines To Kenai District : e Well-known Mining Man With E. B. Blickenstaff, Pio- Returns to Property Near Valdez After Winter South Thousands of German soldiers landed ines into action almost as quickly. A Russian tank rcars across Red Square ture, left to right, are: Representatives William J. Republican, Ohio; Charles A. Wolverton, and Ewing R. Youthful Spanish Scavengers' lightered ashore in Chinitna Bay by barges. Shell Simmons took Russell Mc- Gee, carpenter, to Hirst this morn- Russell E. Havenstrite, President and General Manager of the Iniskin ing and was scheduled to bring back A. Van Mavern, from Sitka, Oil Company, will leave Seattle shortly for Iniskin's workings, Hom- er Havenstrite said. e Members Surprise Mrs. Day, Banquet Fifty members of the Juneau Wo- men’s Club assembled this after- noon in Percy's Cafe for the annual luncheon given the old members by the new, at which occasion Mrs. Ray G. Day, President of the Club, was surprised with a birthday cake. Mrs. ay was also presented with a lovely corsage of roses. Following the luncheon there was community singing, after which a quartet, consisting of Mrs. John Chappell, Mrs. Clarence Rands, Mrs Harold Smith, and Mrs. Walter Heisel, accompanied by Mrs. L. P Dawes, rendered several selections, e HOLDEN HOPS Alex Holden hopped the Marine Airways Bellanca to Bitka this ynorning with Lu Liston, L. Hebert und E. Mills as passengers. R ZALMAIN GROSS RETURNS Zalmain Gross, who has been making an inspection trip to the Coliseum Theatre chain in Ketchi- kan, Wrangell and Petersburg for the past two weeks, arrived home and George Boylan from Cobol >os - U. S. FOREST SERVICE CLERKS TRANSFERRED Carl Goodwin, clerk in the Forest Service office here, has been trans- ferred to Kotzebue, replacing Ro- bert Huntoon, who will return here, it was announced today by Charles G. Burdick, Administrative Assis- tant. Huntoon has been at Kotzebue since last August. Kenneth Millard, who also has been in the Juneau office of the Forest Service, goes to the Seward office at clerk. He is leaving on the Aleutian. HESS DISLOCATES SHOULDER IN FALL| Former Territorial Senator Luther C. Hess of Fairbanks, who was here to attend the meeting of the Alaska Planning Council yesterday, was nursing a lame left shoulder today. Last night while a guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Watson, the | prominent Alaskan fell on the steps, | dislocating his shoulder. SARBER ON ALEUTIAN { Alaska Game Warden H. R. Sar-| ber of Petersburg arrived in Juneau | on the Aleutian today and will sail | ‘vonighl or in the morning aboard | the Ranger 5 with Jay Williams and Joseph Yolo, photographer, for for Chichagof Island where the party will take spring bear pictures for the motion picture being pre- pared on Alaska wild life. abeard the Aleutian. Help You AVOID MANY COLDS At the first nasal irritation or sniffle, apply Vicks Va-tro-nol —just a few drops up each nostril. Used in time, it helps prevent many colds entirely. S VATRO-NOL . . . DOUBLE QUANTITY 50¢c Conditions have become so acute in Barcelona, coastal capital of Loyalist Spain, by youthful boy refugees, MRS. BERNARD RETURNS Mrs. R. L. Bernard, wife of the | Business Manager of the Empire, | arrived home on the Aleutian from a trip south. She spent the past week visiting in Ketchikan, having come north on the Yukon to the Pirst City TRIP - oo RETURNS FROM Cyril Zuboff, President of the Ai- | aska Native Brotherhood, who has | been making a trip to Southeast Alaska towns, returned to Juneau aboard the Aleutian, coming here from Petersburg. He was accom- panied by Mrs. Zuboff. MRS. BEALE IS HOME Mrs. Charles D. Beale, wife of the Manager of the Capitol Theatre, who has been visiting in the south for some time, arrived home aboard the Aleutian -oo BACK TO ANCHORAGE John Lichtenberg, Anchorage merchant, was a passenger on the Aleutian today, returning from a brief business trip. - ,ee GOLDSTEIN BACK Charles Goldstein returned ~ to Juneau on the Aleutian after a bries business trip to Seattle. neer Mining Man Is Bound for Westward Barry Keown., mining man, pion- eer of Nome, clerk of the first Ter- ritorial House of Representatives was in Juneau today while the Aleu- tian was in port. With E. B. Blickenstaff, mining man from California, he is on his way to the Kenai peninsula to spend the summer investigating mining property there. Keown, whose specialty ing and installing dredges, ha mined in all parts of the world His most interesting experience, he said today, was his trip around the world for the Anglg Oriental Min- ing Company, operators of tin dredges in Siam, India and Burma that took him into the interior of Asia, beyond the “white man’s ‘counCry" near the mountains of | Tibet. But when he is through | talking about Burma and India, | where he was two years ago, ho is drill- will tell about mining in New Guinea for the Bulolo Dredging Company, the previous year. There it was necessary to fly dredging equipment into the mines by air- plane. Honduras and Columbia in South America have also been scenes of Barry Keown's mining ex-| periences. Last summer Mr. Keown was in Goodnews Bay with Alex H. Brac- ford, at the time of his death. This last winter spent in California was | pleasant but not especially excit- |ing to a man who has spent most of his time when away from Alaska that foreign vessels putting into port are haunted | in Burma or Honduras. above, who row out to the ships begging food, scraps of clothing and beseeching aid. Mr. Blickenstaff has mined in most of the western states since the end of the war. Recently he has operated in the Mojave desert. This is his first trip to Alaska and he hopes there will be more. “Ever since the war I have been | wanting to come north, and had just | about decided that I had waited | too long, when this opportunity came,” ne said today while the Aleu- tian was in port. - - | Clarence W. Poy, operator of the Cooperating in the Cleanup cam- paign which opens next .Monday, the Post members are planning a cleanup of the Dugout ond grounds | next Sunday and Legionnaires are 10 to the bring radio blared orders probably could nna; nations . ed to meet at the Dugout at [u lock in the morning. Choice for the TVA Probe se William B. Bankhead to serve on a ten-man committee to investigate the the quintet above will act with five Senators in the TVA probe. In the pic- Driver, Democrat, Arkansas; Thomas A. Jenkins, Republican, New Jersey; James A. Mead, Democrat, New York, Thompson, Democrat, Texas. Crowdy Bound West After Trip Abroad ‘New Power—I)Emt Will Be | Built at Nyac This Sum- mer, Says Mining Man | J. K. Crowdy, of the New York Superior Mines out of Valdez, is in| Alaska Gold Dredging Company, is Juneau today, a passenger aboard a passengers aboard the Aley the Aleutian bound for his mining|in Juneau today. property to the Westward With Mr. Poy is Andrew Y. Wu. “We had a good season last year and we are looking forward to an- other good year,” Mr. Poy said. He has spent the summer traveliing in California. MRS. HESS JOINS HUSBAND AFTER WINTER OUTSIDE Mrs. Luther C. Hess, member of the Board of Regents of the Uni- versity of Alaska, arrived in Juneau aboard the steamer Aleutian to join her hsband here. Mr. Hess is at- tending sessions of the Alaska Plan- ning Council. The Hess's, prominent Fairbank- san’s, toured the Pacific Coast and went back to Mr. Hess's home in Pittsfield, Illinoi - e CLEMENTS BACI E. F. Clements, Terriforial Sani- tarian, returned to Juneau on the steamer Aleutian after a two weeks inspection trip to Ketchikan. D TO McGRA™H Bsrf, Vanderpool, of McGrath, is a passenger on the Aleutian after a trip to the States. Mr. Crowdy's plans for summer Jactivity at Nyac, 70 miles e (Bethel, where his company’s pro- perty is located, included the instal- lation of a nydro-electric power plant for the operation of two dredges. S ter- Since leaving Alaska last Dec- fofi:nug:ai 'é:o"r":':,:," Bl ember, Mr. Crowdy and his family —pon ar‘rlved in New York with a have travelled to New York, Florida, and made a trip to England. Mr: Crowdy, formerly Miss Daisy Race,| of Ketchikan, and their child will! join Mr. Crowdy at Nyac in May. | balanee of $6.20. A former mon- archist army officer, he fled from Vienna to escape army service under Germans. He plans to live in Texas. - BACK TO SKAGWAY Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rapuzzi and Betty Mae Rapuzzi, of Skagway. are passengers on the Aleutian, re- turning to their Lynn Canal home after a vacation trip to the States. — o — RETURNS TO JUNEAU Mrs. Charles Burdick, who has been in Montana for some months, returned to Junecau aboard the Al- eutian, —_— .- BOUND FOR NABESNA SALES Every Month in the Year AUCTION SALES DATES Alex MacDonald, oldtime> cf the Northland, is aboard the Aleutian bound for Cordova enroute to the Nabesna mining district in which he has property interests. 1938 May 11 September 7T June 8 October 12 July 13 November 9 August 10 December 14 Everyone likes home-made apple pie! Especially when the delicate apple flavor is en- 1 Schilling {Hlas Schilling Cinnamon. Schilling Spices have been the recog- Special Sales Held On Request of Shippers Advances will be made as usual when requested. Transferred by telegraph, if desired. nced by rich, fragrant nized standard for 57 years. NEILL ON ALEUTIAN ey K. N. Neill, Public Works Admin- iz 2 ounces istration auditor, with headquarters e at Portland, Ore., and formerly of | Juneau, is aboard the Aleutiar bound for Seward in connection | with PWA work. J >oo — ‘Try The Emplre classifieds for results. ] Y 36 THE SEATTLE FUR EXCHANGE 1008 Western Avenue ‘Seattle, Wash, \ g‘ B S ot —