The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 8, 1938, Page 2

FINAL CLEARANCE WHITE COATS $12.95 Regularly $25.00 values Summer BAGS Patents! Grain Leathers! $1.00 and $2.95 Freshen up your whole costume with a new bag or two! Tophandles, pouches, double handle bags, i envelopes . . Summer’s smartest bags . . priced to clear! Summer GLOVES White, Black and Colors 50c and $1.00 B. M. BEHRENDS CO.,, Inc. “Juneau's Leading Department- Store” | ALYCE ANDERSON IS PASSENGER ON Party Honors o Wro. Kol . SO | school teacher, was a passenger on the Mt. McKinley yesterday on her | way to Semnak where she will re- sume her teaching position with the Territorial schools. Formerly a resident of Juneau, Mrs. Anderson on her vacation of several weeks Outside has been vis- iting many old friends, most -of them friends from the ‘“old days” in Juneau, Saturday evening, Mrs. George Karen, president of the Method Aic s hostess to a group of ap- pr pate twenty-five guests at \ tarewell party in honor of Mrs.d 0. L. Kendall, the affair being held in the church parlor Refrest W were served and was spent in commun- and games « . Avoid Fuel Freeze-Ups Let onr experienced workmen forestall winter worries and expense by pumping out your fuel tanks now— condensation puts water in even the tighest of tanks. Get rid of that water and dirt before it freezes and calls a balt to your heat and comfort. THIRD AND FRANKLIN STREETS Rice 8 Ahlers-Phone 34 Representing Small A J. DIMOND *" (Paid Advertisment) HENRY RODEN, Juneas Representing Professional and Business Men JAMES V. DAVIS, Juneau VOTE IT STRAIG BARR MISSING ON PLANE HOP IN INTERIOR |Former Juneau-Atlin Pilot T Lost Between Big | Delta, Chicken (Continued from Page One) | Mr. and Mrs, Barr moved to Fair- | banks last spring, where Barr had freighting contracts with mining companies in the Fortymile dis- trict SEARCH IS STARTED FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 8.— Mayor Leslie Nerland has organ- ized a search party for L. F. Barr, | missing since last Thursday when he took off for Big Delta in a Pil- grim plane with three drums of gasoline for the North American mines at Jack Wade. Several planes have flown .aver the route or portions of it since, including Pilot Bill Lavery, Jimmy Dodson and planes of the PAA and Wein Airways but found no trace of Barr. Charles R. Burnett, Assistant in- spector of the Bureau of Air Com- merce, is here now and is taking charge of the search. The Pollock Flying Sservice has | volunteered services of a photo- | graphic plane and pilot for the spe- ‘cml search. ~ FOR FEW DAYS For the benefit of radio “‘tuner- iners,” station KINY is off the air today, and for the next three or | four days. The reason for the sudden, but temporary, closing of the local sta- tion may be blamed to the new station, located on the “rock dump,” and which, incidentally, is a “dinger.” During the time KINY remains silent, tests are being made of the new station, with the gov- ernmenf. This, however, could be done anl still keep broadcasting over the “old KINY”, but for one reason. When radio fans tune in | hereafter, the “new KINY" will be heard on a different frequency, 1430 |kilocycles instead of the old fre- quency of 1310 kilocycles, so if the station were to remain broadcasting |during the tests which are now be- |ing carried K on, another licgnse ‘would have to be purchased, be- |cause of the two different fre- |quencies, and KINY would be class- |ified as two different stations. Wires have been received from San Francisco saying that the new |station just “booms” in, all sounds | being both loud and strong. The new building is one of the most modern and up-to-date of any station in the country, all equip- iment of the very latest. Because recordings have to. be used here to a great extenf, one of the most expensive transmitting turntables has been purchased, which .will make the recordings sound almost ireal. Another item of interest to \radio fans is the fact that no | harmonics will be thrown out. from the new station to interfere with programs on standard broadcasting | bands. | ANl local studio programs for the |most part will be broadcast as usual in the main office in the |Goldstein Building, although the | new building on the rock dump has Operators. A.P. WALKER, Craig Rep.tve_sefflingv .Fifllefinef" ki J.P. ANDERSON, Juneau Representing Agriculture and Horticulture. w208 Lred (Tony) |JOHN McCORMICK; Jiiaciu Representing the Miners. HT! Czech-Nazi Mediator Viscount Runciman One of Britain's best known ship- ping, ratiroad and banking men, | Viscount Runciman, may become the mediator of the Czech-Su- | deten German controversy, ac- cording to London reports. Brit- ain is anxious to thresh out the | Sudeten question quietly prior to | the submission of the new Czech minorities statute to the Prague parliament. The Sudeten leader, Konrad Henlein, opposes the | Czech minorities’ statute. Vis- | count Runciman’s wife is the for- | mer Katherine Garrison of New | York. a very fine room, but it is a little out of the way. [ It was also announced that in a| very short time “open house” will | be held at the new KINY, during |which time all who wish may in-| spect the station. | The exact date that the station | will again be “on the air” will be announced in The Empire, and will | probably be Thursday or Friday of | this week. D Important Leion Aux. Meeting Wed. A regular meeting of the Amer- ican Legion Auxiliary is scheduled for tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock at the Legion dugout. Election of delegates to the Le- gion convention at Ketchikan Sep- tember 7-9 will be held at the meet- ing tomorrow night. Reports on the basket sale, and on the Legion dances will also be read. Plans for entertaining the na- tional president of the Western division of the American Legion Auxiliary, Mrs, George A. Cole, of Reno, Nevada, who is to arrive on the Prince George during the latter part of the month, will also be| | discussed at tomorrow night's meet- | ing. IKE O'MERA PASSES AWAY HERE SUNDAY Ike O'Mera, 86-year-old pioneer, passed away at 1:30 o'clock yester- day afternoon at St. Ann's Hospi- tal. O'Mera was admitted to the hospital. August 28, 1928 and had remained there since that time. It is believed that he has living relatives but they are not known here, No funeral arrangements have been made as yet. The remains are at the Charles W. Carter Mortuary. and Oscar Olson Candidate for Re-election as TERRITORIAL TREASURER Election Sept. 18, 1938 SEPT. 13TH | J. Connors Jr. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1938. HAROLD L. ICKES IS PLEASED WITH ALASKA JOURNE Is First Secretary of Inter- ior to Visit Territory in Fifteen Years (Continued from Page One) TARY ICKES “BOSS” TO THESE FEDERAL AGENCIES Federal Government agen- cies which operate in Alaska under Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes are the office of the Governor, of the Secre- tary of Alaska, the Alaska Road Commission, The Alaska Railroad, the National Park Service, the Public Survey Of- fice, General Land Office, Of- fice of Indian ' Affairs, the Reindeer Service, Geological Survey, Bureau of Mines and Public Works Administration. e e eceo 00 00 e leesvevvevsescsssncscsccce president of the Chamber of Com- merce, and other notables, the Sec- retary and Mrs. Ickes and E. W. Griffin, secretary of the Territory who had met them in Ketchikan, went directly to the Governor's House where they were joined by Gov. Troy, Claude Hirst, director of the Office of Indian Affairs in the Territory, Daniel C. Ross, of the Public Survey Office, Collector of Customs J. J. Connors, Democratic National Committeeman J. A. Hel- lenthal and William B. Kirk, Ter- ritorial Director of Public Welfare. Following a brief conference, the party left for a trip to Mendenhall Glacier, and to Douglas across the Douglas bridge, built under Secre- tary Ickes' administration and which bears his name inscribed upon a placque. Accompanying the party were Harry G. Watson, James and Joan Morgan, who acted as nides” on the climb up to the glacier. “That was the longest walk I've ever known the Secretary to take,” said Mrs. Ickes after they had returned from the climb to Mendenhall. Before the McKinley sailed yes- terday, the Secretary had his coat off. was hard at work in his shirt sleeves dictating wires to his sec- retary and anxious to have his bus- iness completed so that it wouldn't be necessary to delay the sailing of the ship. Sunshine Accompanies Party Sunshine greeted the Ickes party as the McKinley first ehtered Alas- kan waters. At Ketchikan they were met by Secretary of the Territory E. W. Griffin and Mrs. Robert Ben- der who represented Gov. Troy in welcoming them to the Territory. J. E. Johnson, acting mayor of Ketchikan in the absence of Mayor A. H. Ziegler, Senator N. R, Walker, Judge W. C. Arnold, J. R. Heckman, the Rev. Paul Mather, Capt. W. C. Dibrell were among those who wel- comed the Secretary in Ketchikan. The visit at the first city included a trip through the government school, where both the Secretary and Mrs. Ickes were impressed by the handiwork of the native people on display there, to St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church, where the Rev. Mr. Mather showed him more work of the natives, who bhad built the church. A reception of business men at the Elks Club followed, and then a trip through a cannery and a cold storage plant under the guid- ance of Mike Heneghan and J. C. Mendenhall. A Famous Romance No story about the Secretary and Mrs, Ickes would be complete with- out comment on their charm and | friendliness which completely won all who met them, Recent participants in “the most famous transatlantic romance of 1938"—they were married May 25 at the home of the bride’s uncle, John, Cudahey, U. S. Minister to Ireland—interest is attached to them because of their romance as well as for their importance in the poli- tical life of the country. To the demand, “Tell me about Mrs. Ickes,” there is no answer ex- cept that she is perfectly charming, her poise and graciousness belie her youth; her auburn hair, friendly blue eyes, contagious smile combine to make a person more lovely even than news pictures would indicate. In a recent Washington Merry- Go-Round, Drew Pearson and Ro- bert S. Allen said of the Secretary: “To those who really know how the wheels go around inside the New Deal, Ickes stands next to Roose- velt as the No. 2 man in the Ad- and in the former Jane Dahlman is a perfect wife for her very important husband. ‘When asked for an interview, Mrs. Ickes expressed her delight in Al- aska, the pleasure with which she was looking forward to her return to Juneau then added—“say any- thing you wish—only don't say my suit is pink.” The smart tweed suit, in a rust that matched her auburn hair, had been called everything from pink to brown by reporters along the way—and no red-haired woman would be caught wearing a pink suit— Though she is~looking forward to her return here, she hopes in .| the meantime to fly from Fair- banks across the Arctic Circle. “My idea of Alaska, 'l admit, s‘ [Bobby G. Party Gets Salmon; Doty’s Cove I. Goldstein skippered his yacht| Bobby G. to Doty's Gove below |Point Arden yesterday, and found | | | 1a new fishing ground for Juneau strip fishermen, | “We had more fish than we could handle,” Goldstein said. ‘ Five in the party brought back 32 salmon, most of them king sal-! mon, the largest of which was be- tween 20 and 30 pounds. Those making the trip were Mrs. | A. W. Stewart, Howard Buttons, L | Goldstein, Mrs, I. Goldstein and| Bobby Goldstein. LB e | Ray Paul, Cecelia Thibodeau, Champs Raymond Paul and Cecilia Thibo- deau are the respective champions of ping pong in Evergreen Bowl, i was announced today following com pletion of second round play at the bowl. | Paul and Miss Thibodeau both | won first and second round play and so became undisputed cham- plons. ‘ — e What Do You Do ‘ With Extra Salmon | You Catch Now? What do people do with all the extra salmon they catch? That is the question puzzling Assistant Regional Forester Well- | man Holbrook and Fiscal Agent | Ray Ward after a successful day with hook and gaff yesterday not | far from the Holbrook cabin out the road. Concluding 'that many sports fishermen catch a great many more fish than they need, the officials advanced the thought today that it might be an excelent thing for some group to plan for saving the fish and distribute them in the winter to needy families. “If fishermen knew some place they could turn in the extra fish they get on weekends where they could be put in cold storage and saved for distribution in the win- ter time to needy people, it seems to me a large supply could be ob- tained,” said Holbrook, “and it would be a boon to a great many needy persons in the winter months. Various organizations do much of that kind of work in the winter time and I can’t see why these Tenakee, clear, 66; Port Althor Tulsequah, clear, 68; Yakutat, foggy, 54; Cape St. Elias, cloudy, 54; Corcova, cloudy, 65; Chitina, clear, McCarthy, clear, 48; Anchorage, cloudy, 57; Portage, clear, 49; Fair- banks, cloudy, 57; Ruby, cloudy, 60; Nulato, | Crooked Creek, cloudy, 64; Stuyahok, U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. 8. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 3:30 pm., Aug. 8: Fair tonight, Tuesday increasing cloudiness, light to moderate westerly winds, becoming southeast and south Tuesday. % Weather forecast for Southeast Alaska: Fair tonight, Tuesday in- creasing cloudiness; light to moderate westerly winds, becoming south- west and south Tuesday. Forecast of winds along the Coast ¢f the Gulf of Alaska: Moderate westerly winds tonight from Dixon Entrance to Cape Hinchinbrook, becoming moderate southwest and south Tuesday, increasing Tuesday from Yakataga to Cape Hinchinbrook. LOCAL DATA Tiae Barometer Temp, Humidity Wind Velocity Weathes 3:30 p.m, yest'y 30.14 76 34 w 1 Clear 3:30 am. today 30.20 52 89 w 1 Clear Noon today 30.19 0 41 8 & Clear RADIO REPORTS | TODAY Max. temp. | Lowest 4a.m. 4am. Precip. 4am Station 1ast 24 hours | temp. temp. velocity 24 hrs, Weather Anchorage 66 45 — - — Barrow 46 42 44 12 0 Cloudy Nome 58 50 50 4 03 Rain Bethel 60 50 50 18 08 Cloudy Fairbanks 8 46 46 4 0 Clear Dawson 8 4 44 0 0 Pt. Cldy St. Paul 52 — - — & Dutch Harbor 58 50 52 20 0 Cloudy Kodiak 58 52 52 4 19 Pt. Cldy Cordova 64 48 50 [} 0 Cloudy Juneau kil 50 52 1 0 Clear Sitka 64 52 - — 0 Ketchikan 68 | 48 50 0 14 Pt. Cldy Prince Rupert 62 50 52 4 04 Cloudy Edmonton 56 | 46 46 12 1.33 Rain Seattle 74 | 54 54 10 .01 Clear Portland 2 | b4 54 6 0 Clear San Francisco 64 | 54 56 16 0 Cloudy New York 84 T2 4 6 b Cloudy Washington 84 | 4 6 4 T Clear WEATi#HFR CONDITIONS AT 8 AM. TODAY Seattle (airport), cloudy,, temperature, 54; Blaine, foggy, 44; Vic- toria, clear, 50; Alert Bay, cloudy, 47; Bull Harbor, cloudy, 53; Triple Island, partly cloudy; Langara Island, foggy, 52; Prince Rupert, fog- gy, 51; Ketchikan, partly cloudy, 51; Craig, clear, 62; Wrangell, clear, 54; Petersburg, clear, 61; Sika, foggy, 55; Hawk Inlet, clear, 60; fog: Hood Bay, clear, 54; Radio- ville, foggy, 56; Juneau, clear, 57; Skagway, clear, 56; Haines, clear; 47; Cape Hinchinbrook, cloudy, 2; Nenana, clear, G61; Hot Springs, cloudy, 59; Tanana, cloudy, 56; Flat, foggy, o1; raining, 50; Bethel, cloudy, 54; cloudy, 55; Solomon, cloudy, 56; Council, clear, 60; Platinum, misting; Golovin, | cloudy, 54; Nome, cloudy, 52. Juneau, Aug. 9.—Sunrise, 4:07 a.m.; sunset, 8:03 p.m. WEATHER SYNOPSIS The barometric pressure was high this morning from the Yukon and Mackenzie valleys southward over the Gulf of Alaska to latitude 35 degrees, the crests being 30.28 inches at Kodiak and 3056 inches over the Pacific Ocean at latitude 44 degrees and longitude 152 de- grees. Low pressure prevailed over the Aleutians, the lowest reported pressure being 20.38 inches a short distance west of Atka. This gen- eral pressure distribution has been attended by precipitation over the Bering Sea region and a local thundershower yesterday afternoon at Ketchikan and by fair weather over the remainder of the field of ob- servation. extra salmon caught every week- end wouldn't fit into the scheme. It's a shame for them to go to waste as many of them undoubted- ly do.” The official said he expected to contact, groups who do welfare work in the winter time and see if some plan could not be devised. —— DOUBLEHEADER ‘ TONIGHT FOR SOFTBALLERS | | Two softball games are on the| schedule tonight for Evergreen Bowl. First game, at 6 o'clock, will be between the Truckers and the Hai- da, and second game, at 7 o'clock, between the All-Stars and the A. J. Miners. YAKIMA CAPITALIST VISITS C. D. BEALE| Mr. and Mrs. Fred C, Mercy and Paul Mercy of Yakima, Wash., are round trip passengers aboard the Mt, McKinley who visited in Ju- neau yesterday while the steamer was in port. | Mr, Mercy, Yakima capitalist, | among whose investments are thea- | ters in Washington state, is an old friend of C. D, Beale, manager of the Capitol Theatre, and while in Juneau the Mercys visited with Mr. and Mrs, Beale, PASTOR WOOD LEAVING ON ANNUAL TRIP TO FAR NORTH REGIONS Pastor H. L. Wood is planning to leave tomorrow on his annual trip to the Westward and Arctic re- gions, sailing on the Columbia and | flying from Anchorage to the mis- I‘nbns of the Seventh-Day Adventist | Church of which he is head. Pastor | Wood will be accompanjed as far as Anchorage by his son-in-law, Dr. G. Lee Stagg, who arrived here recently with Mrs. Stagg after being graduated from the College of Med- ical Evangelists at Los Angeles and | completing his interne working at| Portland. Dr. Stagg expects.to locate perm- | anently in Alaska. e - P Legion Will Name | - mostly Jack London, and I'd hko‘L(-nded last year, and will return to find out if there is any of that|with Daniel, who is also visiting Alaska left,” Mrs. Ickes said, wish-|in Juneau, in time for the fall term ling a little that they weren't so ter-|of school. Interested in the Boy Scout move- |ment and social work with boys, g | Mr. Maltby was formerly connected with the Chicago Y. M. C. A. and SCHOOL HEADMASTER iCulvcr Military Academy. VlSlTS wchERSHAMS A passenger with Secretary Ickes aboard the Mt. McKinley, the Sec- | retary recalled him as a student at Willard G. Maltby, of Cleveland, |Culver at the time that his son Ohio, arrived in Juneau on the Mt. | gttended the famous boys’ school. McKinley yesterday to be the guest | —o—— of Judge and Mrs. James Wicker-| Mrs. W. A. Gallemore arrived in sham, | Juneau yesterday from Kimshan Mr. Maltby is headmaster at the | Cove with Shell Simmons aboard ribly official and might be allowed a little time to “snoop.” ‘boys' private school at Glendora, |the AAT Fairchild and will remain California, which Daniel Vrooman,|in town for a week as the guest of nephew of Mrs, Wickersham, at-| Mrs. Robert Bender. @ Every moath, every week you put off buying your new G-E Refrigerator you are very likely money out. out present refrigeration 08t surely costs more to maintain than the new low operating cost of a G-E. Don’t put up with an in- sdequate, old-fashioned refrigerator any longer. G-B, the first choice of millions is mow popularly priced! G-k uulnd-\n-shn:““ Meonitor Mecho h COOLING 2,‘;‘:}41‘:'*«'““"" Convention Delegates At Meeting Tonight | Nomination of delegates to the Ketchikan department convention | and action on a resolution relative to the naming of proxies will come before the meeting of Alford John| Bradford Post, American Legion, to- | night in the Dugout at 8 o'clock. A | large turnout is asked so that ac- tion can be taken on the resplution which has been the subject of de- bate for the last two meetings. —Bigger Dollar Value than ever. 2—Low Current Cost. 3—Long Life. 3 . SOLD ON CONVENIENT PAYMENT PLAN Alaska Electric Light & Power Co. JUNEAU———ALASKA———DOUGLAS 0