The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 20, 1938, Page 8

PRESIDENT MRS. ROSE HAWKINS LEAVES: SOUTH Rebekah Head Is to Other Lodges on Re- turn to States The brief visit of the Rebekahs President, M Rose Hawkins, of Dayton, V gton, came to an end U morning when she sailed on the or the south where she will continue to visit othe chapter Rebekahs in Wash- ington er her jurisdiction During M H visit in Ju- neau she ensively enter- tained. Yes she visited the hosptial was later taken to Mendent by President of the J mber of Com- merce C rter. She also attended the reception for Post- master General James A. Fariey at the Governor's House, A luncheon was given in her honor yesterday by the Past Noble Grand Club at Percy's Cafe and the Drill Team entertained at a dinner last e ing with aj Xi- mately eighteen in attendance at Percy’s banquet room A good crowd was present last evening for the meeting at whic the Douy member: under M Lindstrom, Noble Grand of th las Chapter, exemplified their work. Mrs. Hawkins was presented with ivory handled pie and cheese knives, symbolic of Alaska. by the Douglas and Juneau lodges. Group pictures were r Davis after which refreshments were served, with Mrs. Katherine Hooker in charge of refreshments. Thus came to the close the visit of the distinguished um t CONVICTION OF 17 DEFENDANTS IN 0IL CASE,UPHELD 12 Companies, Five Execu- tives Fined Total of $65,000 MADISON, Wis., July 20 eral Judge Patrick Stone today tained the conviction of 17 out of 46 defendants convicted last - ary on a charge of conspiracy to raise and fix midwestern gasoline in 1935-36. The defendants, companies and five executives, were fined a total of $65000. The Judge dismissed the charges as to 10 other executives and one cor- poration and found the remaining defendants, 15 officials and three firms, entitled to a new trial be- cause they were linked to the al- leged conspiracy only by circum- stantial evidence. D Italian Section ~ Shaken by Quake Thousands Scurry Into Streets Early Last Night After Tremor MILAN, Italy, July 20.—The Itai- fan Riviera, the Piedmont Mo tain section, was shaken by a strong earthquake at 7:58 o’clock last night and sent thousands fleeing to the streets. arly reports received here state none are believed to have been killed. The quake centered in Imperia Turin, Cuneo, San Remo, Venti- miglia and Tangia were also strong- ly shaken Fe: TUNA RUNNING, MAINE COAST; WHALES APPEAR KENNEBUCKPORT, Maine, July 20.—Schools of tuna fish are cavort- ing in unprecedented numbers off the coast. This ordinarily placic fishing town especially has been thrown into excitement “There are tens of thous the tuna, many of them 800 to 900 pounds each,’ man said. Whales are also appearing fishermen report. e MRS. DAVID WOOD ENTERTAINS; LUNCH Yesterday afternoon Mrs. David Wood, Jr., entertained at her home in the Seatter Tract at a luncheon The afternoon was spent in sewing Guests for the afternoon were Mrs. Cecil C. Rulaford, Mrs. Rus- sell Cook, Mrs. W. L. Anderson, Mrs. Bill Douglas, Mrs. Englebert, Msg. John F, Neate, Mrs. William ilncl Mrs. " Noble G. Ricketts, Miss Rose Barton. nds ghir of wi one fisher- other ‘HE DID IT WITH MI HUGH M'RAE PASSES AWRY Pioneer Resident of Doug- las Dies After Illness of Two Months Hugh McRae, 60, passed away at St. Ann’s Hospital at 11:30 o'clock this forenoon after an ill- ness of two mon Mr. McRae, a bachelor, in Canada, went to Sedo Woolley, in the of Washington, and landed on Gastineau Channel in 1899 McRae was employed at the Treac Il mine until the cave-in and then at the Alaska Juneau as machinist He had been in con- tinuous employment at the two companies ever since arriving on the Channel and had maintained his residence in Douglas where he as known as a public-spirited citi- zen and one respected for his open heartedness. On niece and a nephew survive, dents of Sk v | The remains are at the C. W.| Carter Mortuary and funeral ar- rangements will be under the pices of the Douglas Odd Fellows, of which organization he was a founder and (-h:xrr(-r member BIG PLANE IS HOPPING OCEAN, FOYNES, Ireland, Jjuly Me cury, the speedy unit of Great B tain’s unique pick-a-back airplane, took off from the back of her| mother ship Maija at 11 am ¢P3~‘ cific Coast Time)-—in an attempt | to fly the“Atlantic Ocean. ! The Mercury headed for Botwood, | Newfoundland, after accomplishing a parting from the mother ship in midair above Foynes. The flight is expected to take about 11 hours. Two hours after the takeoff the Mercury reported by wireless that she had covered 200 miles and everything was proceeding on schedule | R SR Old Records Washed | Away as Rainfall Continues Here Juneau’s dampness, precipitation or just plain rain has again stepped into the new record class. Since May 1 to noon today, or 81 days, Juneau has had 22.53 inch- es of rainfall, 69 days with some pre- cipitation and only six days which can be classed as clear, according to the U. S. Weather Bureau. Com- parisons with like periods have not| been made because there has been nothing like it to compare with. But going back to the first of the | year, the Bureau finds that every | month in 1938 so far has had more | than normal rainfall, June being | “tops” thus far, recording 891 | inches against a normal of 3.92| inches. The total precipitation since the first of the year to noon today | was 50.31 inches. The first 20 days of July, up to noon today, has seen a downpour of | 546 inches compared with a nor-| mal for the entire month of 5 inches. WEBER SCHEDULED RRORS’ Fourth Man in Labor Trial s Killed, Accident Defense Witness in Harlan County Case Loses His Life N Kentucky July 20. dmore, defense witness in the arlan Cour labor con- troversy Lria t t k was killed 1 of here n utom His. deatH is th since the trial started ten wee ago. Three other men, either witnesses or defendants, were shot to death, STy NATIONAL PARK OFFICIAL COMING NORTH SATURDAY John D. Coffman, for the Nationa scheduled to sail Saturday for Alaska word to Regional Forester B. F. Heintzleman. The official is ex pected to spend some time here looking over Admir land and then will go to Gl Bay Nation- al Monument, rding to tenta- tive schedule, Heinztleman said. J oe Ll pp Sells Chief Forester Park Service, is from Seattle according to Becoming interested in timing sport events a decade ago, Joe Lipp invented stop watches for football, By AURELIUS KINSEY AP Feature Service Writer CHICAGO, July 20.—If someohe were to tell Joe Lipp that table tennis or crocheting needed a spe- cial type of stop watch he probably | ywould sufier insomnia until he | had figured out how to make one. Joe Lipp, per company, football, now blossoms has designed watches basketball, boxing out with a | split second the finish time of any GUEST OF C. OF C. |number of rumners in a track | event. » TOMORROW NOON “'ai one nas to do with soes tip O. L. Weber of lhe Weber Lifelike Fly Company of Stevens Point, Wis., is scheduled to be a guest of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce at its weekly luncheon tomorrow noon at Percy's Cafe, providing the weather is such as to delay the tackle manufacturer’'s projected fishing trip to Hasselborg Lake. R Water in an open vessel begins to boil at 212 degrees P. J | watch is press a button as each run- ner crosses the line. Each equeeze makes the second hand tap a dot of red ink on the dial for the of- ficials to calculate time on the win- ner, second, third and so forth. iLipp has been official time keeper for every sort of sport event since 1617. He has timed Braddock, Louis, Henry Armstrong and many others ' in the ri He confesses having seen more free football and basket- | ball games than he can count and really applies to photographer who wanted to show from several angles reasons why Florence Mitchell of Bangor was chosen Maine daisy queen. s Papers For Living, But Designs Stop Watches for Hobb head of a Chicago pa- | watch that will record to a/ luons to sport. jured, and died in the hospital Mrs. Whitehead's parents, Mr. and The seven survivors of the blast Mrs, M. O. Johnson. D GREECE IS SHAKEN BY were - - Lemonade Did It IVYCHURCH, England—A fire in a dance hall here was put out ally injured, by dance-band members with lem- onade when water was not avail- able. Brief Reports Place Death Toll at Twenty with 150 Injured ATHENS, Greece, ,‘ strongest quake felt in this coun- ~ try in modern times has scattered death and ruins through ancient Cteece. | The tentative casualty list, based |on fragmentary reports from the stricken showed 20 persons have been killed and at least 100 injured The Island of Euboea, north of Athens, suffered the most heavily the quake centered there. At least two villages were struck and nearly every house was shaken down Jinxed by June CHICAGO, July 20. — June has become a jinx month for Paul Hough, 11. For the sixth consecu- tive year he has been injured during that month. His latest acci- dent ocurred while he helped push a truck stalled at a picnic. He slipped under the wheels and his skull and a leg were fractured. .o Wrung Hospital LONDON, July July 20. — The areas, basketball, bexing, and track. all because he is interested in sports and time keeping. 20.—Inspecting a Lipp s he lost considerable hospital he had given money to, sleep figuring out his first watch, @ man said: “If I have the misfor- | for football, ba in This tune to meet with an accident I K\uuh had a 75-minute face, en- hope I shall be brought here.” But | abling timing straight through the|the matron told him it was a ma- | four quarters, inte ions and ternity hospital. | time-outs. It proved so popular with T e colleges that Lipp went on figuring out other kinds of time mec‘:’s fo% KETCHIKAN QUEEN the Swiss watch makers to con- PASSES THROUGH | struct. His watches for knockouts and| Queen Tina Dudley, ruler of the rounds in boxing have I accept- Fourth of July celebration in Ket- ed as official by the national boxing chikan, passed through Juneau on board. The basketball watch ac-|the Northland as a guest of the counts for play periods, time out and | Nrothland Transportation Com- overtime | pany. She is making the round trip, The latest of Joe's gadeets is an | returning to Ketchikan via Sitka. illuminated “down recording box"! O T e for night football. A foundry fore-|ASSOCIATED PRESS . man is struggling wi castings | EDITOR TRAVELING |for this invention which Lipp hoped to have ready for this year's! Harold Turnblad, Associated Press nocturnal games. Editor at Seattle, in charge of the Lipp says it is all fun o far as he Northwest Bureau, accompanied by at prices he figures wi even, thus making them contribu- | Coast. blad has made to Alaska. OVERWORK CATS: GROUP PROTESTS LONDON, July 20.—British ani- mal lovers took one look at their magazine, The Animals’ Friend, and raised such a holler over the cat scene in “The Goldwyn Fol- lies” the British board of film censors cut it out—but replaced it | before the picture was shown to the public. In the scene, 300 cats rush into a room and overwhelm Adolphe Men- jou as the grand finale to a com- | |edy song. is concerned. He sells tie watches his wife and two children, is mak- break him|ing the cruise aboard the North!' This is the first trip Turn- | | | The British magazine itself had no opinions but published a report from a Los which declared: “From eight in the morning un- til seven at worked . . . office set by means of a severe air hose . the scene had to be re- peated over and over again. Many were frightened into a frenzy. By mid-afternoon wherever they happened to drop.” The censors relented after Sam- uel Goldwyn cabled a denial of cruelty, backed up by affidavits from the American S.P.CA. and the California State Humane So- ciety. — .- JUNEAU COUPLE WED Edward David James and Ruth May Fillips of Juneau were mar- Angeles organization | night the cats were | were chased on to an| the poor animals | were weary enough- to lie still | | ) | | " trip with mail from the Princes o r a" rs Charlotte. [ ] i - > — Whitehead Bfl[!k MAKING TUUH IS BUSY TUDAY T Mrs. H. M. Hollmann, rict T oA Perennan, Owner 1{"1“’1"" Airways made three flights | peputy for the Rebekah Lodge in this morning, one to Wrangell, one | yuneau, returned home last evening OLkS Hele ‘Vl” Party to Lake Florence and Hawk Inlet from a month's vacation in Vhr; o N from St. Louis |and one emergency flight to Hoo- | giates at which time she attended p Iwo Children Accompany it ":11‘ Another trip was to be made o Grand Assembly of the Re- : ; 4 . nt ht Pagan, |during this afternoon to Tulsequah. | pexap Lodge in Wenatchee, Wash. f: 17 WO The seventy- f(ml vac ¥ ekah Lodge in atcl ash., Puen’ls e -O‘el- T owned by T. A. Peterman, of Peter-| To Wrangell, with Alex Holden g tne delegate from the Juneau Months' Visit man Manufacturing Company in| i the Bellanca, were Dr. H. F. oqge She also visited with friends Shant 4 & Tacoma, wood products, arrived in 1tz and H. C. Timmerman and gng relatives in Seattle and other Dr. and Mrs. W. M. Whitehead, Juneau this afternoon to spend a "”‘7 localities in Washington. and their two children, Virginia| few deys here while on a cruise of| To Lake Florence, a fishing par- - o = 4 d two and one-half years, Southeast Alaska. ty: Hans Floe coming in from ANN LOU HENNING .nd Page, age ten months, re- Accompanying Peterman on the Hawk Inlet on the return. The trip GOES ON LOCATION AT turned here on the Northland, fol- trip are Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Maes- made by Lon Cope with th MARY JOY( LODGE )wing a two and one-half months’ tre of St. Louis, Missouri, and Mr. Fairchild. Mrs. Fred Henning and daugh- cation in the south and Mrs. Roy sel, and daughter ency to Hoonah: Lon Cope tor Ann Louise, left for Mary 44 The Whiteheads took the Prin- Mary Louise, also of St. Louis in the Fairchild, bringing in a na- Joyce's Taku River Lodge yester- cess Louise from Juneau to Van- Maestre is President of the Mis- tive girl, Edna Sheakly, with an d afternoont where Ann Louise leaving here May 8. From sissippi Valley Trust Company, and injured hand, and Oscar Osborne “on location” with Normun vancouver they went over the Siegel is President of Huttig Sash and Mrs. Bob Carteeti. Dawn's movie party filming “Golden ian Rockies to Chicago, and Door Company, Alex Holden went to Hawk Inlet River.” ence to Lovingston, Vi where “Just knocking about,” doing a with Hans Floe this afternoon, How long Mrs. Henning and her the family spent six weel visiting bit of fishing here and there, the while Cope was making the mine daughter will be gone it not known. with Dr. Whitehead's mother, Mrs. party has but one complaint—they A S. B. Whitehead. “haven’t seen anything but liquid While in the south, Dr. White- sunshine.” head spent a great deal of time — THIS LUCKY LAGER IS ting the University of Virginia Ryits 2 " Hospital. The doctaf also enjoyed a British Cruiser > DELIGHTFUL= IT'S SO ' reunion with Dr. Tyre Finch, of At Wrangell; Will SMOOTH AND CREAMY Chase City, Va, and Dr. Walter who is Associate Profes- Not Come to Juneau P iseases of women at Duke| . oo Tl oo oo THATS BECAUSE ity, in North Carolina. Both AR IRERaSl BEILOSL) S 8 s ved thelr internshiip at 1S D0W 8t Wrangell and Lieuten- LUCKY LAGER t ginia Mason Clinic in Seat- @0ts A. A. Murray and R. R. Wood| IS SLOWLY three had not seen each other for| L A Sl “ e T ' to extend the respects of Admiral NATURE'S A week was spent in New York, Sidney Meyrick of the York to Gov. WAY” 4 0 F Washington. D. C. While in John W. Troy, according to a radio- Washington, Dr. Whitehead con- ;l:’:"‘ to the Governor’s office to-| tacted Mrs. Robert Jernburg, for- 9% ; merly G St R burg, 08" The officers are scheduled to leave Baltimore Wuler Tunnel Is 2 o e nthony 3. Di. Wrangeil about 9:30 am, arriving Sce f Sudd i o here about 11. They will be met here cene of Sudden mond. : e d sl . . On ‘their homeward ‘Journey, the! D¥-, the Governofs Naval Alde, Morning Disaster s ok soar., Simipson J. MacKirinon, and escort-| A tle, during which time Dr. White- wd' to the Governor's office. | BALTIMORE, Ohio, JWly 20—A 1caqg spent a great deal of time at| rne York will not come to Ju- premature dynamite explosion (0- e Virgi Mason Hospital. “After neau, :u‘uvnlm“ to the message. 4 day killed eleven members of a yisiting different hospitals, I can Cr iy crew of eighteen men blasting a {ry(hfully say that the people of water tunnel through solid rock Juneau are fortunate in having a " near the Baltimore City Pumping hospital at their disposal as well | Station equipped and operated, as is St N The explosion occurred shortly Ann's Hospital” stated Dr. White- ‘Women, as well as men, prefer Lucky , before the night shift left the head, and added that “the rates for Ies u en y Lager. 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