The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 27, 1938, Page 5

» POLLY AND HER SOVIET PLANE MAY BE UNDER ALASKAN PACK Belated Report_Concerning Missing Fliers Is Re- ceived by War Dept. WASHINGTON, April —The possibility that Alaskan ice packs may cover the plane in which Sigis- mund Levanevsky and five com- panions vanished last August ap- 97 THE GREATEST HAVE OFFERED IN YEARS OF BUSINESS U—AS OUR GREAT Stock- Reduction SALE STILL CONTINUES VALUES WE OUR 24 IN JU- BEST /ir 8 ?;t of 10 Men! FLORSHEIM SHOES ANOTHER GREAT BUY! Regular Values $9.50 and $10.00 Now 8.45 Regular $35 COATS Hart Schaffner & Marx All Wool Topcoats NOW $29.50 S e S COVERT CLOTH TOPCOATS —Regular $25.00 value—$19.50 H. S. GRAVES PALS PESTIFEROUS PRANK T'DAY! pears in a belated report from Olit- uk, 140 miles southeast of Point Barrow The War Department has been in- formed by Sergeant Stanley Mor- gan, at Point Barrow, that natives at Olituk saw a big object hit the water two or three times then sub- merge. This was about August 12 or 13, consdered near the time when Levanevsky and his Soviet compan- ions took off from Moscow for a flight to the United States. Jack Smith, white trader. told Morgan he saw oil spots at the scene where the object is believed to have struck and gone down. The iocation is off Thetus Island. Morgan said Smith promised to search the area carefully this spring after the winter breaks up. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1938. SIMPLE AS SOUP, SUSIE . IT'S CUZ. WE'RE CHAMBER TO TAKE UP PLANS FOR AIR MAIL CELEBRATION Plans for the air mail celebration next Tuesday when the service is inaugurated between here and Fair- banks by Pacific Alaska Airways will be discussed at the luncheon meeting of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce tomorrow noon at Percy's Cafe. R. E. Robertson, chairman of the committee, wil present the gen- eral plan for the affair. Dr. W. W. Council, who returned on the Yukon from an extended trip |to the States, is expected to give an account of his travels. - | Empire classifieds pay. Most of these suits are fall and Hart Schaffner & Marx SUITS 350 OF THEM are still here at the most greatly reduced prices ever known in Juneau These Are Standard $35.00 VALUES Nationally Famed Hart Schatffner & Marx —Quality Suits— which—because WE ARE OVERSTOCKED we offer now at $29. SUCH AN OFFER A RARE OPPORTU ITY FOR YOU. winter weishts, most practical for Juneau wear, on which you can realize remarkable savings by buying now—HOWEVER, there are also many summer-weights— in shorts, longs, regulars. BY AMERICA’S MOST FAMOUS MAKER s ! | STETSON HA IN LATE STYLES [ —NOW— $3.50 and 5.85 R s LARGE VARIETY “The Clothing Man” HOME OF HART SCHAFFNER & MARX CLOTHES Gabardine Navy Blue & French Tan Regular $30.00 REGULAR VALUES $5 and $7.50 Topcoats $19.50 20 | | president, GAMES TUESDAY Pacific Coast League Seattle 7; Sacramento 1. San Diego 5, San Francisco 3. Portland 3; Oakland 0. Los Angeles 8; Hollywood 5. National League Brooklyn 1; Boston 4 Chicago 5; Pittsburgh 3. Philadelphia 8; New York 12. St. Louis 7; Cincinnati 8. American League New York 5; Philadelphia 3. Washington 6; Boston 4 Cleveland 10; Chicago 6. Detroit 7; St. Louis 1 DR. COUNGIL RETURNS FROM CONVENTIONS Commissioner of Health Attends Conclaves in Washington, D.C. Alaska’s Commissioner of Healtn. Dr. W. W. Council, returned from attendance at health conventions in Washington, D.C,, last night, ar- riving on the Yukon, after a stay marked by a visit to the White House where he and Mrs. Franklin D. Roo- sevelt discussed Alaskan fishing in the midst of a formal reception. Asking the First Lady if she thought Roosevelt would come to Alaska where there “really are fish to catch,” Dr. Council learned that the president “certainly would like to come, but he is afraid he would stay too long." Dr. Council, accompanied by Mrs. Council, and by Mrs. Mary K. Cau- thorne of the Department of Health staff, traveled to Washington, D.C where the Surgeon General's con- ference was the incentive for sev- eral related health conventions He attended the Crippled Chil- dren’s Conference, the State and Territorial Health Authorities meet- ings, the Maternal and Child Health STAND 3 OF CLUBS Paci Coast League Won Lost Per. Los Angeles 15 10 G600 Portland 14 10 5383 Sacramento 13 11 542 Hollywood 13 12 520 £an Francisco 12 13 480 San Diego 12 13 480 Seattle 11 14 440 Oakland 9 16 360 National League Won Lost Pet. Pittsburgh T 1 875 New York 6 1 857 Boston 4 2 667 Chicago 5 3 625 Cincinnati 3 5 375 Brooklyn 2 5 286 Philadelphia 1 5 167 St. Louis 1 4 125 American League Won Lost Pet. Cleveland 6 | 857 Boston 5 3 626 _ Washington 5 3 625 Chicago 3 4 New York 4 5 St. Louis 3 5 Detroit 3 5 Philadelphia 2 5 S e - ALASKA GLUB HEADS VISITS HERE TODAY Enroute to Kansas City, Mo, to attend the conventions of the West- ern Federation of Women’s Clubs, and the General Federation of Wo- men’s Clubs, Mrs. Robert B. Atwood, president of the Alaska Federation of Women's Clubs, was a through passenger on the Aleutian this morning, after a two weeks' visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A E. Rasmusson, at Skagway Mrs. Atwood was met at the boat by a delegation of Juneau club wo- men, headed by Mrs. Ray G. Day, and consisting of most of the officers and department chairmen of the club. Also present to greet her were Mrs. R. R. Her- mann, and Mrs. Marcus Jensen, pre- sident and secretary-elect, of the Alaska Federation, and Mrs. J. M. Chase, custodian. The group enjoy- ed an informal and improptu break- {fast with Mrs. Atwood at the Gas- tineau Cafe, during which club mat- ters were discussed. Mrs. Atwood will be joined at Ketchikan, by Mrs. H. P. Hansen, Director for Alaska in the General Federation of Women's Clubs, and the two officials will go eastward together, to attend the conventions at Kansas City. Mrs. Atwood will make the response to the welcome of delegates by state and city officials, of the hostess city, and Mrs. Han- sen will serve as chairman of the nominating convention at the West- ern Federation Convention. The General Federation conven- tion will have special interest to the Alaska delegates this year. Since they will see Mrs. Sadie Orr Dun- bar, well known to Alaskans by her work here in the tuberculosis as- sociation, installed as president. Mrs. Atwood will return north in June at which time she will re- main over for a few days. The Jun- eau Woman's Club will entertain for her during her visit. She plans to hold at this time, also, Alaska Federation’s first installed ceremony, when Mrs. Hermann and Mrs. Jen- sen will be formally inducted into the offices to which they were re- cently elected. A later installation ceremony in Skagway will induct into office Mrs. VanDerwall and Mrs. Callin, of Haines, and Treasurer elect, respectively of the Alaska Federation. | The Alaska delegates will also take with them the Alaska Federation's official invitation to “float to Al- |aska” during their convention next | year, immediately after the Gener- ‘al Pederation Council Meeting at |San Prancisco. R Lode and placer location notices |for sale at The Empire Office. Vice-President | By CLIFF STERRETT conclave, and the State and Pro- vincial Health Authorities meetings, taking an active part in committce work. He was a member of the Ven- erial Disease Control committee. the Indian Affairs Committee, where Alaskan tuberculosis conditions were discussed; of the Public Relations committee, and the committee on Conservation of Vision. Not confined entirely to business Dr. Council visited many former Juneau friends while in the Nation’s capitol, spending some time with the George Wentzels, the J. F. Van Ackerens, the Anthony Dimonds, the L. C. Pratts, the Robert Jernbergs. Dr. Paul Gruening, and with Chris- tie Sather whom he states will visit in Nome this summer. Dr. Council spent a day.in Con- gress in connection with action on the Venerial Disease Control bill, and met Mayor La Guardia at this time. Enroute to the conventions, ar leaving Juneau the first of March, Dr. and Mrs. Council and Mrs. Cau- thorne stopped in Portland where Dr. Council conferred with Sadie Orr Dunbarr on the tuberculosis program and also talked with Dr J. C. Haldeman who will come to Alaska in July in connection with Territorial tuberculosis work. Visiting in San Francisco, they then proceeded to Los Angeles where they spent some time. Charles Mur- ray, noted film comedian, who vis- ited Alaska last summer, enter- tained the Councils at his home in Southern California, following which the travelers left for Phoe- nix, El Paso. and Mexico and then for New Orleans. They visited for some time in North Carolina, D: Council's former home, and after visiting his brother in Norfolk, Va proceeded to the convention Mrs. Council returned to Seattle after the conventions, accompany- ing Dr. Council, and then left for North Dakota to visit her former home for some time. She will leave Seattle for Juneau on May 28 >oo PENNY DRIVE IS DUE TO START HERE SATURDAY Children’s Orthopedic Hos- pital Will Benefit from Local Campaign Coincident with the May Day- Child Health Day program of the Territorial Board of Health, is the announcement that the first two weeks of May will be Children’s Or- thopedic Hospital Penny Drive weeks in Juneau Mrs. Frank A. Boyle, chairman of the penny drive on Gastinean Channel last year, will have charge of the drive to raise funds for the Seattle hospital again this year. Seattle’s Children’s Orthopedic Hospital, the only institution of its kind in the northwest, has aided many Alaskan boys and girls in search of health. The annual penny drive, carried on throughout the state of Washington and in several Alaska towns, provides a means of helping the hospital by small do- .. nations. Assisting Mrs. Boyle in distribut- Dredge Going in Near Livengood, * Summer of 1933 D. C. Beyer, Engineer, Is Heading in to Survey ™ Water Reserves - D. C. Boyer, engineer in charge of operations [or the Livengood Plags ers, was a plane passenger on @ PAA piane today for Fairbanks, have ing arrived in Juneau on the Yukon last night 5 The Livengdod Placers compiill about six miles of ground in that mining area recently opened n Fairbanks by an 80 mile road from Fairbanks, completed two years ago: Beyer said the ground has thorcughly drilled and the claims of the block were bought ‘i in January. Work this summer will be confined to survey of water !fi serves and a dredge will be install in the summer of 1939. ¥ Livengood Placers are owned the Callahan-Zinc-Lead Co., of Wj lace, Idaho, and the Goldfields Ci | solidated, of Reno, Nevada. -ee BUCHANANS THROUGH . Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Buchanin passed through Juneau last night e the Yukon, returning to their Ane chorage home after a trip Outside. Buchanan is agent for the Alaska Railroad at Anchorage. ing Penny Drive envelciix.s in 3\1- neau will be Miss Elisabeth Kaser, Envelopes will be distributed Jn Juneau and Douglas Saturday. REC.U.S. PAT. OFF. “The Talk of the Town” HEAVY FUEL OIL AND DIESEL OIL BURNERS —Sold Exclusively by— Rice & Ahlers Co.-Phone 34 Your Business’s Future WHAT ABOUT Im ARE YOU B ® ® W APPEARANCE MAKES THE MAN — AND THE LETTER, HAVE YOUR LETTERHEAD TAILORED TO YOUR ORDER. GIVING YOUR BUSINESS EVERY OPPORTUNITY FOR A PROS- PEROUS LIFE AHEAD? HOW DOES YOUR BUSINESS IM- PRESS ASSOCIATES AND STRANGERS? DOES THAT ALL IMPORTANT FIRST IMPRESSION FIND ITS SOURCE IN A SHODDY, CARELESSLY COMPOSED, RUN - OF - THE MAIL | ) “The only P ENVELOPE — ENCLOSING “JUST ANOTHER"” LETTER? 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