The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 9, 1938, Page 2

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He muddé the trip aboard the first plane carrying mail on the new route last Tuesday and remain- ed in Fairbanks until yesterday. During his stay in the Interior, Carter wds extensively entertained and took part in many civic ac- tivities. THIRTY-THREE "ShlL; LOUISE The steamer Princess Louise pass- | ed southbound through Juneau yes- | |terday morning, taking 33 passeng- | ers from this port. ‘ ) Passengers were: P. W. Racey, | | Mrs. Bert McDowell, Dr. and Mrs.| W. M. Whitehead, Mr. and Mis. E. | McQuay, R. H. Hamilton, R. Mc- | | Clughan, E. Swanson; Mr. and Mrs. | W. L. Torell, Miss' G. Hanson, Miss| |M. Paine, L. Hartju, Mrs. Martin | Lavenik, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Mac- | Kinnon, Miss G. Savanoff, Rev.| and Mrs. J. A. Glasse, Mary Jean | Glasse, Jack and Jim Glasse, Mrs. | J. Biddlecombe, Miss M. Bailey, | Miss Jane Bailey, Mrs. Chris Bailey, | Z. Drost, J. H. Biddlecombe, John | Bojar, J. A. Smith, A. J. Demars, | |and M. Holske. ! | e, WILL FLY TO FAIRBANKS A. E. Karnes, Commissioner of Education, and Roy Dimmitt, of the Federal vocational education department in Washington, D. C. whom he met in Ketchikan, are| returning to Juneau on the Aleu- tian and will fly from here to Fairbanks for the meeting of the Board of Education there on Mdy 16. Also going from here to the meeting will be H. L. Faulkner, niember of the board. COURT Try The Emplre classifieds for results: of the two flower girls who - -~ attend Miss Marcella Logan be crowned May Queen orogram at the Seattle Holy ademy tomorrow, is Miss daughter of Mrs. John Cross of Nome and Deering. Patsy and her mother were in Juneau on their way south about six weeks ago. Half Sizes 3815 to 46Y; for the miss or pock- . and new styles tor PATSY GIRL; CROSS 1S FLOWER MAY QUEEN'S One will who will in a Name Patricia C i b MRS, SHARPE COMING Mrs. Walter B. Sharpe, who has been south for several weeks, is ri turning to her Juneau home aboard the Aleutian i % /SN 449*); faswion HOES By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, May 9.—Pioneers are a great institution; out west un- less you are the son of a pioneer 1l is not so good. But pioneers dis- played a singular lack of imagina- tion: that even yet is troubling the government. ‘They had a nose for gold, anc good land; and bad Indians, but they simply would not exercise thefr imaginations too much in naming creeks, rivers, lakes and mountain peaks. For the most part they appear to have named their geography from whatever hap- pened thereabouts. The result is a headache for the United States Board of Geographi¢ Names. Every creek in which a was seen became Trout Cre with- the result that there Trout Creeks in Idaho, Or Washingtori, Yellowstone, Al Colorado, Glacier Park, Florida Michigan' and New York. If we have overlooked any, forgive us Some pioneers could not identi- fly the fish they saw, so they sim- ply named the place Fish Creek or Fish River, or Fish Lake. The board has no authority tc correct all these difficulties, but in the event real trouble develop: in the Federal departments, the board may select a proper name and that is the way it will appear on all Federal maps. are IT’S ALL VERY SERIOUS ‘The board includes representative of the Army, Forest Service, Geo- logical Survey, several colleges, and @ cluster of geographic and explora- | tion' societies. They take their work very seriously; before changing a name they usually send representa- tives to interview citizens of the vicinity to determine if a native name can be found to replace Trout Créek: if another Trout Creek is so near at hand that confusion inland titles results. Snake Creeks and Snake Rivers abound, but the biggest Snake River of all, in Idaho and Oregon, was named not after a snake but dfte’ tHé Blickfoot Indians who were called “snakes” by the pio- neers and trappers. And they were called: “snakes” not because of stewlth ‘and poisonous dispositions but because they used a wiggly line as 4 tribal identification. The board found a name on a gravestone to prove that Maddox Island, in Maryland, should be spelled that way after an early set- tler, instead of Mattox, as it ap- peared on some maps. They found Krum Elbow was on Presider Robsevelt’s side of the Hudson in- more pleasure to millions stead of near a real estate develop- ment on the other side salmon Creeks, Salmon Lakes and Salmon Rivers are almost a numerous as Trout Creeks; in ad- dition. every time a pioneer saw a willow patch he named the creck Willow Creek. There are dozens of them. Along the coast of Maine and New England there are quan- tities of Spruce Points sticking out into the ocean PYSHT RIVER, PSHAW! changed Fish to Pysht River cause the Indians called it that pioneers thought all the time they were saying fish. Pysht, say the board, means fish. It doesn’t eem much of an improvement Some pioneers had an ey the picturesue; we challer anyone to find a choicer name than Moose Bay, in Wyom- Glass Creek, Oregon Wyoming, or Wear River be- and f the imming Looking Sweetwate River The board has a preference f Indian names and that is how Fish River. Alaska, came to be caliec 1k which € don’t pronounce at all there are no Snaki Snake Creeks in Alaska reason is, says the board, that no snakes there. And while names are being men- tior we might suggest that the board’s own name ‘of United State Board of Geographic Names be improved upon. Just to be origin- al, let’s call is USBGN. - More Help for Weather Bureau WASHINGTON, May 2—A com- mittee amendment has been added to the $20,000 Agricultural Depart- ments’ appropriation bill for estab- lishing new weather stations at Anchorage and Ruby and also to permit of assignment of an ad- ditional employee in each of the stations at Juneau, Pdirbanks and Nome. could . >oe HAMILTON GOES SOUTH Bob Hamilton, a recent patient at St. Ann’s Hospital, left on the Prin- cess Louise for Vancouver, B.C. He plags to with his grandmother while receiving medical treatment it GOES TO KETCHIKAN Gil Rich, wellknown Alaska brok- er, is a passenger aboard the Al- ska for Ketchikan Good Weather Has Alex Holden Busy With MA Bellanca Alex Holden got in from Wran- gell Saturday evening with two women pasengers, one of them Dr. Rae Lilllan Carlson Yesterday, Holden made two trips Yo the Polaris-Taku mine with six passengers, meat and air express in the Marine Airways Bellanca. Today, Holden went out to Port Althorp, Chichagof, Warm Springs Bay and return. Stacey No man enger and coming J. E. West in from was a round trip pas: Warm Springs P - TUBERCULAR TESTS GIVEN AT SCHOOLS sfeular tests were being given ay at the Juneau Pub: Dr. John A. Carswell, w to 140 students reeciving this morning Tes given through the and a final check on Wednesday th close the tests have two W of this type past will " be .- DR. CARLSON RETURNS ing a busine 1, Dr. Rae Lilli retrist, retur hoard the ca, piloted by op ‘MISS BROADWAY' in a preview of New York's World Fair is long-haired Gizella Varga, 18, Hungarian-born night club’ dancer chosen fro applicants. She is dancing cur- rently at a club fronting on ithe garish “White Way.” U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. 8. Weather Bureau) Forccast for Juneau and vielnity, beginning at 4 pm., May Rain tonight and Tuesday; moderate southerly winds Weather forecast for Southeasst Alaska: Rain tonight and Tues- day; moderate southerly winds, except fresh over Dixon Entrance Clarence Strait, Frederick Sound, Chatham Strait, and Lynn Canal. Forecast of winds along the Coat of the Gulf of Alfaska: | Frési southeast winds tonight and Tuesday from Dixon Entrance to Salis- bury Sound, and east winds from Salisbury Sound to Cape Hinchin- brook 9: LOCAL DATA Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity 30.14 54 39 w 10 4 am. tod 30.09 37 87 SE 1 Noon today 30.01 51 54 SE 12 | RADIO REPORTS TODAY Lowest 44.m. 4am. Preclp. temp. temp. velocity 24 hrs. 36 38 33 6 Time 4 pm Weathes Clear Clear § PL. Cldy vest'y Max. temp. ? last 24 hours | a0 50 6 42 54 60 64 42 44 48 36 40 £ 54 3 49 54 38 60 62 64 62 s 72 4am Station Weather Atka Anchorage Barrow Nemg Bethel Cloudy Cleir Cloudy Clear Clear Cloudy Rain Cloudy Rain Clear Paul Harbor Kodiak Cordova Juneau Sitka Ketchikan Edmonton Seattle Portland ., San Francisco New York Washington 40 32 50 44 50 Clonudy Cloudy Cloudy Clear Cloudy Cloudy Rain 50 56 58 56 58 WEATHFR CONDITIONS AT 8 AM. TODA' Seattle (airport), cloudy, temperature, 60; Blaine, cloudy, 48; Vic- , partly cloudy Alert Bay, cloudy, 40; Bull Harbor, cloudy, 46; Triple Island, partly cloud; Lanzara, partly cloudy, 44; Princé Ru- pert, cloudy, 45; Ketchikan, cloudy, 45; Craig, partly cloudy, 49} Wran- gell, partly cloudy, 47; Petersburg, cloudy, 49; Sitka, cloudy, 45; Soap- stone Point, partly. cloudy, 47; Hoonah, clear, Hawk Inlet, clear, 46; Tenakee, clear, 51; Radioville, cloudy; 48; Juneau, cloudy, 44; Skag- cloudy, 38; Cape Hinchinbrook, raining, 39; Cape St. Elias, clou- 40; Cordova, cloudy, 39; Chitira, cloudy, 40; McCarthy, partly clou- y, 42; Anchorage, cloudy, 37; Fairbanks, partly cloudy, 40; Nenana, r, 44; Hot Springs, partly cloudy, 46; Ruby, clear, 36; Nulato, rain- 38 Juneau, May 10.—Sunrise, 3:46 am.; sunset, 8:08 p.m. WEATHER SYNOPSIS Low barometric pressure vrevailed this morning over the north- eastern portion of the North Pacafic Ocean, the lowest reported pres- sure being 29.30 inches about 200 miles south of Kodiak. The baromet- ric pressure was slightly above normal from Southeast Alaska southward to California. Precipitation was reported early this morning along the coastal regions from the Aleutians eastward.to the northern:portion of the Guilf of Alaska, elsewhere over Alaska generally fair weather was reported It was much cooler last night cver the interior of Alaska, the upper Yukon Valley, and at Mayo, the lowest reported temperature at Mayo being 22 degrees te ing ding good-by to a large group of friends who gathered at the dock to wish them bon vayage. The Glasses Will travel for over two months in the States. The Rev, Glasse is to attend the Presbyter- jan conclave in Philadélphta. B GLASSES SAIL ON TRIP TO STATES Mrs. by John A. Glasse, their three chil- en, Mary Jean, Jack and Jim, sailed aboard the Princess Louise 'for the States, yesterday, after bid- tev. and companied Today's News Today.—Empire. ... real pleasure . . . carefree pleasure! 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