The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 21, 1938, Page 8

I o TEN DEAD IN RAIN STORM, THREE STATES Four-Day Downpour Causes Unestimated Damage to Pl‘(lpl‘ll)‘ DEVASTATING FLOOD ON ATLANTIC COAST Dams Burst, Washing Out High\\a)’s and Under- mining Houses BOSTON, Mass., Set. 21.—A tol of ten dead, three e of two jured v ) ra v it e AN, Vermont 1n several sections it rivers return to below not until t properiy dameé Lefore the flood stage the true known, FLOODS INCRUASING BOSTON, Ma Sep 1 I'h rain contint to spread th the rich industrial and farmin; Amherst College reports ar tions of Massachusetis and alos the Atlantic seaboard but conce trating its force on the New Ei States, causing hundreds of U sands of dollars damage. At noon today another life wa reported taken, bringing the tol to eleven in flood waters of river and stream: Dams Break Dams have burst resulting washing out sections of highw and railroads and underminin houses and farm buildings In some localities the flood water have reached above the state’s de- vastating 1936 floods. Amberst College reports an all time record of rainfall of inches for September since last The old record was At East Hampton, Connecticut workmen are laboring desperate to save a 50-foot dam which is he waters of a pond. If the , the center of the towr will be swept away. TWO RIFLEMEN RETURN TODAY FROM MATCHES Hoffman and Blan*llun Re- port Seward Man Made President’s 100 Assistant Chief of Police Roy Hoffman and Dr. W. P. Blanton members who went to the recent national matches at Camp Perry returned today to report that Al- aska placed 46th out of 126 teams enfered, and that one Alaska rifie- DELEGATE DIMOND aug man placed 45th in the President’s 100, select group of the nation’s rifle marksmen | MRoy Hoffman said the Alaska man in the President’s 100 was Fred Kielcheski of Seward | “Glad to be back?’ asked Hoff- 13 man. “I wouldn't trade a mil : Alaska's rainiest beaches for the|Dome in Valdez before returning |cluding two babies. Passengers were | Of Mrs whole shebang back there. I told [SOUtR George: Beggen, [Lihoyid. Tamon,| > - James Kitka, Mrs. J. Kitka, James | a Canadian barber that when he started praising Alberta and he| didn't like it.” 8,000 in Shoot Camp Explaining the shoot, Hoffman said about 8000 persons were al the camp, including all obam’\‘orx} and shooters. | “The Army and Marines deserve a:lot of eredit for that meet,” Hoffman said. “Nobody but them | could have managed it the way|® they did. It was as efficient clockwork. Nearly 2,000 men a day | would shoot, and they had one cafeteria building there with four individual cafeterias in it. The; served a couple of thousand ever meal there “Every shooter had an Army or Marine observer and scorer. The thing went as smoothly as could be | imagined, and a couple of hours after the shoot was over on Sep- | tember 10, the Army had moved the whole camp and left our stuff piled in the middle of the field.” Go to School Arriving at the camp August 21, the Alaska Team went into “school” | for a week for Small Arms Firing under Army men before going out on the range. . World Represented __Hoffman said there were teams: there from “preity near all over the world.” #foreign” in an encampment on Wi The Alaska Team was labeled as Porto Ric- the same “street” aps, and Hawalians. .. As to the whereabouts of the rest of team, Hoffman and 4s coming up on the He and ol Waving al yeu are at Atlantic Cit N Here is another view of five girls vying for n recent “Miss Americ (Miss Seuth Carclina); Yelanda Ugarte (Miss Maryland) but lost Winner of the e shoot was the U two of Juneau’s Alaska Rifle Team nosed out the Marines for the f1 time team winner was California Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Di- C: mond, re-elected at the election, left for |other West e of |Columt tward aboard the Columbia and = will |before returning south. - GARNICK ABOARD ALASKA Frank Garnick is a aboard the Alaska bringing the re- | mains of Mrs. Garnick who passed —_ way 1 flhll’“"l services will be held here next | Sunday. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 21, 1938. A Bumper Crop of Peaches in Atlantic City p gathered fr £ Miss Ameri 4 Beauty, Ab, Beauty! i S tienal honors at the Left to vig contest at Atlant ington, D. € a 19 are Dorcthy Parker (Miss W (Miss Florida); and Kathleen Mann (Miss Virginia). Simmons Takes e Walsh as for the re: t of them, we the party at C ) ted men’s S. Infantry, which in several years. Civil - - - Shell Simmons flew out to Hirst the | The Chichagof today with Alaska Air Transport Lockheed. OFF TO WESTWARD ' s ) of, and Mr. and Mrs. W. A stleton also to Chichagof. September Perpich and Rudy Tencich Seward and to Hirst. Yester e c ard points aboard the He will visit his old in Kitka, Jr., Katherine Nadja Vestal. BAKER TRAVELS m Baker, broker, left on the - ROUNDTRIPPERS VOYAGING probably go to the interio: - There are twenty-one roundtrip. Sacramento, Cal. ——-—— In Lithuania, the unit of cu rency is the lit, worth about cents in American currency. CO MODERN Be Comfortable! Save! A RAY Full Automatic Oil Burner Will Cut Your Fuel Costs. RICE & AHLERS CO. Third and Franklin Streets PHONE 34 J VAN’S STORE st Saturday in Seattle. Fun- = Men's Original Chippewa, Irvine Park Dress Shoes Latest Styles-Goodyear Welt Quality Shoes for Less! Open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily GUNS—AMMUNITION 278 S. Franklin all parts of the a 1938 and even a cur Frank Denny flew to Chi- | f Joe | Mrs. went , John Amundsen came | with a load of passengers in- Kitka and | fifully centered with a mountain- pers aboard the North Sea on the passenger present voyage, eight of them from -4y EVERY NIGHT YAKOBI ISLAND NICKEL TO GET Official Going to Property to Take Out Milling Samples 'he immediate future of nickel mining in Southeast Alaska ap- 's to hinge on trip to Yakobi nd being made by John Borden, prominent sportsman and official of the Nickel Corporation of Am- rica Borden arrived in Juncau on the Columb itzer, Presiden ion of with Dr. Edson geologist, took claims held by Yakobi Island he corporation on amples then, were too tell much of a story,” n said ay. 1 Velve- ad, who lccated the claims with his brother Sve is at the prop- erty now and with a crew of men will blast out several tens of ore. rm about a ton of the ore fc ill tests.” As this summer © not as high expected, Borden althenzh he said he believed were high enough, as profitable minir ial bea and contest nt an 1 tes for the re United St President and Congresswoman O'Day Accompanied by Congresswoman Caroline O'Day of New York, President Roosevelt inspects progress on the new cottage he is hav ing built on his Hyde Park estate as a retreat from volitical worries Arrested Beggar sis that the judges’ job was no cinch. g008." glance rev ions Mineralogists ex ed op mmer’s samplings were SPANISH WAR VETERAN {*) 5" 500010 Veathering ana SOGUGHT iIN TERRITORY unfaithful in assay, which determ- ined Borden to make this trip to . irotechee sidbouly Policeman As to how soon operations might Delighiful Tea Is Co. G. 19th S. be expected should assays be fav- @, ; 1 l volu mpany, orable, Borden said robably in ls” l}""”’/ P s 21 5““ By Woman's Ghb st e sin , 035e888S o/l nes in He said enough ore was blocked PINDLAY, O. Sept. 21. — Police —— 99 have alout to begin miflling immediately Officer wWayne Zthell used the wis- | SAN RAFAEL, Sept. 21.—Because sewives complained that day er day, Carlo Maggetti annoyed em with pleas for ifood, police i the old man. 1 to the police station, Mag- vas searched. Among other ere $45 cash and 2 book howing Ma 500 on deposit. i mining cl and to without drilling, and that the drill- Two Hundred Guests Call ! cc itory in ing program could progress with | . & < 1901 or 1902 milling. Size of the milling unit, gay at Scottish Rite Tem- anyone should of ons be b pie m Afternoon Solomon if not the a wash two house- clothesline. ccused the other of off the line and @ Ofticer items found ket of bar od in arbi dispute be n, was wives over about 500 of Hill will estimated by Borden at One woman her clothe i n in the dirt i them to do will fly to Yak He is a guest at their 30 o'clock at t Temple, by me Board of the < Club. Appreximately two hundred ladic ¥ called during the tea hours, € of y for the aft € the 1 school teache; Out-of-town callers included M DeArmond. a member of the Sitka Woman's ib and Ame; Home Department Chairman of A Federation of Women's Clubs; = o - 2 i S WEEK-END — STARTING TOMORROW — member the Cordov Women's and interpretations gave full pr {of a finished musician, pr several piano selections, including “Falling Waters,” G. L. Truax; “The ide T. Badarzewfke SWEEP BEFORE WE MOVE — SATURDAY IS THE END EVERYTHING AT COST :: We Thank Our Many American Cash Grocery Customers for Their Patronage in the Past, and commencing Monday we will be pleased to serve them at the HOME GROCERY 14¢ 146 in; and “Wood!: ‘Wyman, In the receiving line duri mes J Thomas Haigh, W. Mahoney Glasse, R. B. Lesher, F. Wor Meline and Joe Kendler. blue room of the Scottish Rite Temple was a profusion of vers during the r hours flowers being from Martin Lynch Kimball. Corsages of pink rose buds and sweet peas, worn by the ladies of the execu board, were | ranged of flowers from the Martin Lynch on the cier Highway At the tea table, which wa R - beau- like plant of baby tears, offset by tall yellow tapers, were Mrs. Nora Chase, Mrs. R. Richardson, Mrs. H | L. Wood, and Mrs. E. Robertson. * - 2 I At during the afterfieal Where your wants will be attended by the same personnel, with the same court- | were Mesdames Rose Ha eous and efficient service. Cook, David G. Laveque and Cath- | erine Cheney. DANCIKNG WE WISH TO ANNOUNCE THE OPENING OF A NEW DELICATESSEN STORE IN THE PRESENT LOCATION OF THE AMERICAN CASH GROCERY AS SOON AS REMODELLING IS COMPLETED AND EQUIPMENT INSTALLED. WE THANK YOU! JOHN HERMLE and JOSEPH A. THIBODEAU ALL NIGHT | to the music of RUTH WOOD At the Piano . . . while you eat and drink your fill! THELMA BIRD Singing and Dancing at JOHN MARIN’S DOUGLAS INN i i