The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 10, 1938, Page 7

D e e G URBACH NAMED SUGCESSOR T0 P.C. McMULLEN J. P. Williams Makes Re- port to Territorial Cham- ber on Perry Trip Leon Urbach has been named by | the Seward Chamber of Commerce to succeed the late P. C. McMullen on the Board of Managers of the Territorial Chamber of Commerce, it was announced at the meeting of the Board of Managers here Saturday. Present at Saturday's meefing were: Presiding Officer and First Vice-President F. A. J. Gallwas and L. W. Kilburn of Douglas; W. J. McDonald of Cordova; John W. Joneés and M. S. Whittier of Ju- neau; H. R. VanderLeest, Treasurer; and Curtis G. Shattuck, Executive Secretary. J. P. Williams, who went to the National Rifle Matches st Camp Perry as the Chamber’s publicity agent, also was present. Mr. Williams told the board of his work at Camp Perry in the in- terests of tourist promotional work for Alaska. Since Camp Perry is each year the mecca of big game hunters and sportman of all kinds from every part o( the nation, it BRINGING UP FATHER THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE MONDAY OCT. 10, 1938 By GEOBGE McMANU [ ALL THIS HOUSE NEEDS ISALITTLE TOUCH HERE ANTTHERE x|} ) s e it offered an excellent opportunity for 'retary was empowered to enter into o PIONEER!!! Lescaze Preaches the Modernistic Home; sueh activity. A tremendous inter- est was shown in the Territory. as| was evidenced by the crowds that| constantly besieged the Alaska desk | in the front of the Winchester Re-{ | peating Arms Company booth. In addition to disposing of sev- eral hundred pounds of literature, |Mr. Williams had meetings with ‘sman groups where Alaskan moving |and still “pictures were shown. He also made trips out of Camp Per- H‘y for the lectures. Stress was laid | |by Mr. Williams on the fact that| | Alaska is not a land of promise for | unemployed persons. Correspondence was read relative to attempts to improve the freight and passenger service west of Ko- diak. Since Delegate Dimond is |now in westward Alaska and is studying this problem at first hand, | action was delayed until the Dele- gate can be conferred with. Attention was called to the 1939 Convention of the National Editor- ial Association which will be held in Alaska. The Secretary was ord- ered to cooperate to the fullest ex- tent with the N. E. A. Since Dele- gate Dimond made a special trip to the 1938 N. E. A. convention to invite them to Alaska in 1929, the board voted $50 toward d(‘»; | fraying the delegate’s expenses. The quetsion of loaning Chamber cuts for use in other printed mat- ter was up for discussion. The Board decided that no charge would be made for cuts when they are used for free distribution-printing, but that there would be a charge made ror commcrcia.l use. The sec- e . WANT AD | INFORMATION Count' five ‘average words o the foe. Datly rate per hne for consecutive Usertions: — e} In case of error or if an ad | has been stopped beiore ex- piration, advertiser please noti- | fy this office (Phone 374) at | once and same will be given | attention. | THE DAILY ALASK# EMPIRE St 5 One day ... Additienal days Minimum charge Copy must be in the office by 2 ’elock ‘fn the afternoun to Insure nsertion on same day. We accept ads over telephone ¥om persons listed in telephone Uectory. e R e Phone 374—Ask for Ad-taker. ....50¢ F‘OR SALFr—SS Remmgwn auto- matic rifle; 12-guage double- barrelled shotgun; 5-tube dry battery radio. Phone Blue 302. 522 West 10th St. FOR S!\LE—.’)-mom house in Doug- las. Apply Warner’s Grocery. §-ROOM house in Douglas. Phone L. W. Kilburn, Douglas 48. e 1930 FORD Sedan, good condition, $120. Write P.O. Box 601 FOR SALL — wabvage for sauer- kraut, 3 cents per lb. Inquire Rudy Ranch, Glacier Highway. FOR SALE—Canaries. 202 6th St ® WANTED WANTED '1'0 BUY Good washing machine. Phone 364. n.w(l WANTED—Smail acreage near Ju- neau. H. Hamsom, Fanshaw, Al- aska. MISCELLANFOUS Learn WELDING. Largest, " best equipped school in west. Free cata- log. DUNN WELDING SCHOOL, 2033 N.E. Union, Portland, Ore. nents, $450. Finger wave, 65c. Lola’s Beauty Shop, telephone 201, 315 Decker Way. TURN your old gold into value, cash or trade at Nuggst S8hop. LOST AND FOUND LOST—10-foot gray skiff at Auk Bay. Finder notify P.O. Box 1931, Juneau. 'FOR RENT = FOR RENT—Peterson House, 3rd and Dixon, P.O. Box 1852. FOR RENT—Furnished steam heat- ed room. Hot and cold water. Phone 702. EXPERIENCED office woman. Capable of managing office, ex- cellent typist and mimeograph operator, desires permanent posi- tion. Salary reasonable. Box 48, c/o Empire. LARGE FURNISHED ‘heated room. Close in. Phone Black 380. FRONT OFFICE in Blomgren Bldg. Two rooms ‘Phone Blue 510, Roy Allen. FOR SALE — Used Universal Coal heaters. Inquire Juneau Paint == Store. FOR SALE—U & I Lunch. Owner quitting business. Write P.O. Box 2274 or phone 334. FOR SALE—New 4-| burner electric range, won at fair. Call Red 267 after 6 p.m. FOR SALE—City Float Beer Parlor. 1 Phone 541 after 4 p.m. R . S S S DUTCH SAYS— Get in on the Harbor job with a good dump truck. The 2% yd. size, same as the city owns, is $1585 Se- attle. Prices lower if shipped direct from Chicago. Terms 1/3 down. A good discount for cash. The 1% ton chassis and cab is only $695 at the Chicago factory. DUTCH’S ECONOMY GAR- adv. AGE & WRECKING YARD; Today's News Today.—Emplire. ‘I._.ast publication, APARTMENTS, phone Blue 200. FOR RENT—Two office rooms in First National Bank Bldg. Inguire at bank. COZY, warm, furn. apts. Light, water, dishes, cooking utensils and bath. Reasonable ot Seaview. ‘A. H. WALTHER TO WED IN WASHINGTON A. H. Walther left Junéau for ' Ritzville, Wash., last week on the Princess Louise, where he is to marry Miss Lola Hunnicott. Follow- ing the ceremony the couple plan to tour the Pacific Coast. Mr. Walther, who is an employee of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company, is well known in this city, and will return in a month with his bride. FUARANTEED Realistic Perma- | |agreements for such commercial use from time to time. A communication from the San Francisco office of the Christian| Science Monitor advised of a series | of articles on Alaska by Royal Arch Gunnison, Copies of each Monitor carrying such articles hnve} been received, and the Territory has been getting some excellent | publicity through this paper. The biennial meetings of this Chamber will be held January 20, 1939 and February 22, 1939 during the session of the Legislature. .- NEILLS TO MAKE Mr. and Mrs. K. N, Neill, former Juneau residents, have returned here from Portland to make their home, arriving on the Denali. Mr. Neill, who is auditor for the Public Works Administration, was trans- ferred to the Portland office. about the same time that Ross A. Gridley was transferred there to become re- gional engineer. But PWA work has so multiplied in the Territory, Mr. Neill said, that it was necessarv to reestablish the auditing service in the Territoryv. He will make his headquarters here, traveling to var- ious PWA projects about the Ter- ritory. Mr. and Mrs. Neill are making their home temporarily at the Gas- tineau Hotel. He reports the Gridleys well es- |tablished in Portland where Mr. |Gridley is in charge of PWA en- |gineering for the Northwest States. | FORM OF ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS SEALED BIDS will be received at the office of E. D. Webb, City Clerk, Seward, Alaska, not later than 8 {pm. on the 17th day of October, 1038, and then publicly opened and read for furnishing all labor and material n ry for the construc- tionofa ... MUNICIPAL DIESEL ELECTRIC PLANT AND ADDITIONS FOR THE TOWN OF SEWARD, AL- ASKA . .. in accordance with the plans and specifications on file in the office of E. D. Webb, CITY CLERK, SEW- ARD, ALASKA, where they may be examined and copies obtained. A deposit of $10.00 will be required to insure the safe return of plans and [ specifications, this amount to be re- ‘Iundf‘d when they are returned. | All bids shall be accompanied by cash, certified check or a bid bond, furnished by a surety company au- thorized to do business in Alaska, for five percent (5%) of the amount bid. Should the successful bidder fail to enter into a contract and | furnish satisfactory performance bond within the time stated in the proposal, the deposit shall be for- feited as liquidated damages. The successful bidder shall be required to file a performance bond in the full amount of the contract price, which bond shall be furnished by a Surety Company acceptable tb the Public Works Administration. No bid may be withdrawn, after the scheduled closing time for the receipt of bids for 60 days. This project is being financed in part with funds provided by the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works and shall be con- structed under the rules and regu- lations of the Public Works Admin- istration as approved by the Ad- ministration, by executive orders of the President, and as amended for Alaska. ATTENTION IS CALLED TO THE FACT that no less than the minimum wage rates as shown in the Construction Regulations in- cluded in the contract must be paid on this project. If any person contemplating sub- mitting a bid for the proposed con- tract is' in doubt as to the mean- ing of any part of the plans and specifications, or other contract documents, he may submit to the CITY ENGINEER, SEWARD, AL- ASKA, a written request for an in- terpretation thereof. The person submitting the request will be re- sponsible for its prompt delivery. documents will be made only by ad- dendum duly issued and a copy of such addendum will be mailed or | delivered to each person receiving a | set of such documents. The TOWN OF SEWARD, ALASKA, will not| be responsible for any other ex- planations or interpretations of the| proposed documents. informality in the bids received. There is available the sum of about $5600.00 for this project. TOWN OF SEWARD, By E. D. WEBB, City Clerk. First publication, Sept. 26, 1938. THEIR HOME HERE | Any interpretation of the proposed | Oct, 10, 1938. ‘ A Dwelling that’s Made to Your M easure | puy FOR CASH Qg kel | (This is the fourth and last of a series of articles telling of picneers in industry, pioneers that you might have forgotten | or perhaps not even known.) By SIGRID ARNE | AP Feature Service Writer can get pretty impatient when peo- ple think that glass-brick walls tossed into a house plan for decora- tion, make the house “modern.” He says there’'s much more to modernism than that, and he should know, He’s been pioneering modern- | istic architecture since 1929. His own New York home was the first mod- ernistic home in the city. says, because people had such con- house seemed a mistake. It caused uch a rumpus that the Les husband and wife, had about as much privacy as a traffic cop. But they were sweetly reason- able. They invited the curious to themselves got out on visitors on tours of their much-dis- cussed home. Lescaze is tall and talks like Maurice Chevalier. 1 hangover from his hood. Mrs. ish, with auburn hair The house shows the way Lescaze tanned. He himself kind of rooms they needed or not. Brownstone Transformed Here's how Lescaze goes about it. For his house he had one of those dreary old brownstone houses in the heart of New York (211 Eas! 48th Street) to start with. on the fourth (top) floor and made a large living room away from the traffic noises. Built the back wall of the master bedroom (third floor, back) in a flattened “S” shape, and put a four-foot-wide curved window the length of the wall. That lets in maximum sunlight. Lescaze’s study just out in back on the ground floor It has a glass-brick ceiling that pro- vides diffused, bright sunlight, good for reading. It's roof provides a sun deck. Modern architecture, he contends, says, “Yes"” to life. The Philadelphia bank he designed is an example. NEW YORK -~ William - Lescaze | He practically had to build it, he | fused ideas about modern archi-| tecture. He put up the “sample” in 1934. Any Old ‘Monday There were times when his first ceme back any Monday—and Lh(‘_vi Mondays. | They left a man servant to conduct | That's | Swiss child- | Léscaze is Lillian Gish- | thinks, and explains his other build- | ings. When he starts a plan he asks| “What kind of people will! live here?” The old-fashioned architect, he sa would ask a client, “What style, house do you want?” And if | they said Dutch Colonial that's what they got whether it had the! He went after that dreary brown- | stone. Cleaned out the interior walls | catches a maximum of sunlight. deck lets daylight into the office vineed his clients that stones can’t protect a bank half 50 well as vi bility. If the bank were held up p ersby could see and give the alarm. | Here's another example of a building saying, “Yes” to life. Lescaze discovered that the man for whom he was designing a house liked his morning tea while | he was shaving. So Lescaze pro- | vided a dressing table next to the wash bowl. The tea pot and cups are set on that. That man loved his | garden, too. So Lescaze continued | the flagstones from the terrace | straight into one, room of house. | The Sun and Wind | Again: Lescaze was one of the | ten architects who designed Wil- | liamsburg, the huge New York | housing project that covers 12 blocks. The buildings were to be Rear of Lescaze’s New York heme. the | The third-floor window The glass-brick floor of the sun underneath it. weather man and found that the sun shone and wind blew slant-| wise across that ‘part of town demanded Lescaze, “why can't we put the buildings slant- wise so they'll catch all the sur and all the summer breezes pos- sible?” It was done that way. Lescaze tells people who can af-| ford only small houses that mod-/ ern architecture is a perfect an- swer for them. He says modern architecture asks, What kind of rooms do you need for the things you do at home?” That way _vou'rl-; less likely to have a library thrown in it when you never buy| books. Murs, Peter Carlson is recuperat- | ing at her home on Fifth and Har-| | | Employees Save Two Youngsters Boys Rescued from Drown- ing by Carl Hagerup, | George Chickering Because Carl Hagerup, Forest Service sign painter, risked his life, and because George Chickering, deck hand on the Ranger V. knew |his first aid, two youngsters are alive today. Ingvald Peterson, Jr., 8, and his the bay while playing on the plat- |form of their home on piling across | Willoughby Aevnue from Jim EI- |len’s Cash Grocery. \ Hagerup, seeing the boys splash- ling in the water from his sign shop window at the Forest Service ware- house, rushed to the scene, found {no boat handy, so leaped in. With The right is reserved to reject Chickering’s aid from a nearby delegates approved any and all bids and to waive any ladder, and the help of a native committee reports calling for nine and a pike pole, both boys were ‘Larrled to safety. { Chickering applied artificial re- |suscitation to the younger Peterson wboy. and according to firemen who lanswered an alarm from the scene.‘by President William Green, who or b 'velt by assailing both appointee and | Firemen worked on the lad !m""square deal” and was not opposing |the board policies, | probably saved the boy’s life. brother Harold Peterson, 6, fell into - Banks generally look like stone|built parallel to the sidewalks, like ris Street, follewing a foot injury. fortresses. Not Lescaze’s building.|little blocks on a big block. —— - That's almost all glass, He con- But Lescaze conferred with Lhc Empire rlmsfl’lrds Dav. -} several minutes, however, with a Orest OBIVICE |=im Both boys were rushed to the Government Hospital by Fireman Arnot Hendrickson where they are being treated for exposure. — e, AFL VOTES FOR AMENDMENT TO WAGE,HOUR ACT | Federation Would Curb Dis cretionary Powers of Labor Board HOUSTON, Tex., Oct. 10.—The American Federation of Labor in convention here today voted for a | Congressional amendment to the Wagner wage and hour act and ordered its leadership to oppose |Senate confirmation of Donald | Wakefield Smith to the National | Labor Relations Board. | Without a dissenting vote, the|p the resolutions | revisions in the labor law to curb discretionary powers of the labor board. The convention action followed a |slashing attack on the Labor Board said the Federation wanted only a RETURNING 10 SEATTLE PORT Steamer North Coast, which grounded in a fog at Shelter Pdint, near Cape Mudge, B. C., last Sat- urday morning and was refloated at high tide during the late after- noon, is returning to Seaftle ac- cording to a radiogram received by Juneau Agent Harold C. Knight. The freight, except perishables, will be surveyed by the underwrit- ers and will be sent north on the North Sea sailing next Friday. Upon reaching Seattle the steamer will be surveyed so as to a what damage, if any, has res! i Passengers Alaska bound will be kept aboard the North Coast or transferred to the North Sea and come north on the latter steamer. g o 5 L S GOODNEWS B, VETERAN ARRIV BY PAA PLANE Ed St. Clair, veteran Goodnews Bay prospector who staked much of the ground on which the Goodnews Bay Mining Company is operating its platinum dredge, arrived in Ju- | neau by PAA plane from Fairbanks | enroute to San Francisco for me(h-v cal treatment. |& 115-2nd_Sf THE ROYAL | BEAUTY SALON | OPEN EVENINGS “If your hair is not becoming | to you — You snould be coming to us.” { Phone 723 R SRS | i) | GARBAGE HAULED Reasonablc Monthly ‘Rates E. 0. DAVIS TELEPHONE 212 ! Fhone 4753 Jones-Stevens Shop LADIES—MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR | Seward Street Near Third Thrift Co-op and SAVE the PROFITS on your own spending. PHONE 767 ED A. ZINCK, Manager ‘. 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