The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 19, 1938, Page 8

PARENTS URGED TO COOPERATE WITH POLICE Window Soapvi ng, Other Pranks Must Stop, Cheif Dan Ralston Warns Cooperation of parents was asked by Chief of Police Dan Ralston day in an effort to stop soaping of windows and general defacing of p has been several days biles anc ty which going on for “Hallowe’en pranks are all right in their places.” the Chief said, “put ‘it isn't Hallowe'en and it will not be for two weeks. Tt isn't fair that car owners, business houses | and home owners should have their windows in a mess every morning and have to go to effort and pense to put them back in decent shape = “If parents will advise their chil- dren it will help a lot. We don't want to be rough with the voung- sters but we can’t permit this <ort of thing to go on from now until Hallowe'en and unless it is stopped we will put the offenders in jail ex- “My attention also has be 1 ed by auto owners to the fact that the air has been let out of their tires the last few nights. This, too, is in the same category as soaping windows, and it has to stop.” Warning was issued through Superintendent A. B. Phillips to the school children today and Scout officials said they would take it up with their respective troops in an effort to see if Hallowe'en pranks can not be confined to Hal- lowe'en which falls on October - DEUTZ PARTY BACK AFTER TEN DAYS ON ROCKY PASS FLATS Four Juneau hunters are back from Rocky Pass after ten day of hunting ducks and geese on Al Weather's Deutz Those making the trip were Al- len Shattuck, Dr. Robert Simpson, ‘Elroy Ninnis and Tom McCaul The hunters reported ducks geese unusually plentiful. DANCING EVERY NIGHT ALL NIGHT to the music of RUTH WOOD At the Piano . . . while you eat and and drink your fill! DANCING AND ENTERTAINMENT: THELMA BIRD Singing and Dancing at JOHN MARIN’S DOUGLAS INN | jH. B. Humphr —By Eat at ERW ENJOY A MEAL COM Salad, two kinds of Meats, plenty of Vegetables, Dessert an EVERY SUNDAY E OR TURKEY DINNER TONIGHT 8 0’Clock FREE HEALTH LECTURE Stanford ngsley Claunch on ‘How Thoughts Make or Break You' | A Different And More Profitable Way to Spend Your Evenings Miner’ Almost entiy into the state to picket a highway construction da on the unfair list and established a picket line at the state border, where motorists were urged not to use llighv\:n‘ h Florerce Syverud Sneaks Yesterday At Club Luncheon Fifty Attend Woman Club! Gathering at Pel S » important fact that making is a profession rather an odd job that any one can lorence Syverud, head xtension Work of the Uni- of ka, brought an in- spiring and challenging me ge to the fifty women assembled yester- day at the no-host luncheon held under the auspices of the American Home Department of the Juneau Woman'’s Club. A able to understand and textile values, scientist tn that she should be food chemistry a trained nurse after in that she must look the physical well-ebing of her family, a psychologist in that she must ur stand the fundamental prin- ciples involved in the rearing and training of her children, a purchas- ing agent who spends 80 per cent of American income, the American housewife, Mrs, Syverud declared is still classed by census takers and others as having no occupation “Her’s is the only profession in which no special training is re- law, and no standards of been determin- quired by qualifications have ed,” she concluded Mrs. Syveria's aadress was the highlight in a program which in- cluded two delightful vocal solos, ‘None But the Lonely Heart” by | ‘Tchaikovsky, and “My Lover Is a Fisherman” by rikland, sung by Mrs. John Keyser, with Mrs. Carol Beery Davis, at the piano; an in- teresting reading by Mrs. Russell Cook, and a brief talk, appropriate to Alaska Day, by Mrs. R. R. Hermann An interesting and effective dec- orative scheme with a Hallowe'en motif was carried out in the table appointments, asters and chrysanthemums, inter- spersed with jack-o-lanterns and | witches ] Mrs, David Wood, chairman of | the Department of the American Home was in charge of the details and presided gracefully as toast- mistress. Assisting her were Mrs, L t i | | , Mrs. George Le- Ray Ward veque and Mrs. IN’S Cafe! PLETE — WITH Soup 50¢ d Coffee—for 3—A SPECIAL CHICK! Try One of Our Club Breakfasts! BOARD BY THE MONTH AND SAV E———$§37.50 ERWIN’S CAFE South Franklin Street | | | as General Manager, neau on the Ala national first party to Matanuska three y sin w0 Ross Sheely, colony continue sons, | 8ince | then installed, and they preiect, 10.—AP Photo. AT MATANUSKA Former General Manager Sees Need for Turning More to Livestock Leo B. Jacops, wno nas been with he Matanuska Valley Colony since ts start and who recently resigned arrived in Ju- ka and plans to sail for the south on the North Sea, snroute to Washington, D. C., where e expects to be detailed to other PWA work. Mr. Jacobs, as a representative of | the relief setup, brought ago and began clearing the ground and putting up shelters for the first lonists. He has been “through the xperiment” with the colonists ever until he turned his duties over who now heads the organization. Matanuska is a succes to b aid Mr. Jacobs. ‘I personally do not believe there is anything that can stop it now. If every bit of government support was withdrawn tomorrow, the v and will JACOBS SEES FnurYnungMan ONLY SUCCESS Talked Out of s anything they could get ahold of, Stakes Claim Right in City ‘Claim _]ump;rs' Too Much| for ‘Procpeclor' Who Stakes Oul Bmdnof There's something about pros- pecting and staking claims that gets in the blood of he who follows the elusive gold trail, and it was aroused in the blood of Mr. Gordon Runyon of Juneau last night as he looked up at a bright and starry sky of a perfect October evening Mr. Runyon saw “d ings” so he decided to get in on floor before the stampede followed. With stones, s s and a mining claim sign, the “miner” what he considered a claim. It hap- pened to be the diggings from the sewer connection the new Baranof Hotel Street, but that aggressive prospector. He r over” carefully, finally selected the site for his “monument” and procecded to erect it, laying out for all and sundry to see that the PSSR CIO Tunnel Workers Union stands the new hotel The job done, Mr. to find an appreciati But he didn’t appreciate it when they threatened to “jump” his claim, and decided to “have the law them.” Arriving at the Imperial on Front e audience. Walk to States Four young men between the A :"’q 8 ‘:‘11:(11;0? n‘;:"o “,;"I " for an officer. Directly. Patrolman o MR At 5 i Kenneth Junge arr ived on decided today they would mot ask ..o relief they would walk (correct) Elaborately, Mr. Runyon went in- to details of his “rights” and the efforts he had gone to in erecting his “claim notic Officer Junge listened patiently. Then he ed to put the “prospector” to the States, up the Taku r and through Canada. Juneauites, listening to this per- haps courageous, perhaps foolhardy plan, talked them out of it. The four are Robert E. Murphy of Laredo, Texas; William Dreher, of St. Cloud, Minnesota; Joseph pec Kurtzman, also of St. Cloud, and William Balzer, of Los Angeles. All had worked at odd jobs in the wheat fields, plumbing, logging, up for “Claim jumpers, by gosh,” moaned | Mr. Runyon as he repose. Cordova Legmn when they listened too well to tales of that northern wonderland “land of opportnity,” Alaska, where young men were needed and where a young man might build a future rges al rua \ and swim in the rising tide of frontier progress. They spent their money ' ‘for Be Ke tn B steamer passage to Juneau. If anyone wants clean and pleas- ant young men for watchmen at summer homes this winter and perhaps odds and ends of work, or Essential to Alaska majority of the families there Would poyer still for more permanent em- make a go of it. The stickers have p),ument, The Empire can ldcate Defense Pl‘ogram learned to like the country; Alaska g io o "o cont notice. Al is their home, and they to stay here in the north. There are about 160 families ia the colony at the present time, he reported, or approximately 800 per- and each farm has at least 15 acres cleared, some have more a year ago last September, the colonists have been on their cwn in the main part. he explained through the new system which was are getting along for the most part nicely. As the colonists get more stock they will get along propose live- better, Mr. Jacobs believes. “It is a natural livestock country; particularly a dairy country,” he said. “Cows, | chickens and pigs are the thing. As | they colorful bouquets of | oygeayor their success, I believe will turn more and more to this be enhanced.” Norwomen Dinner Tumnrruw Night Tomorrow evening at 6 o'clock, the Nerwomen dinner scheduled (o | be held in the parlors of the North- i ern Light Presbyterian Church, i | | I all reservations being made with Miss Mary Jeannette Whittier, by this evening Mrs. H. L. Faulkner, guest speak- er for the evening, will relate topics interest concerning her recent European trek. Miss Venetia Feero, talented mu sician, will present several piano se- lections. TECHNICAL MEN OF F. E. COMPANY ON of WAY OUT, ALASKA Five consulting engineers of ihe U. S. Smelting Company, who have been with the Fairbanks Explora- tion Company this summer, passed south through Juneau with their families yesterday, returning to their Salt Lake City offices. They were Col. and Mrs. G. W. Rathjens and family, Lieut. Col. and Mrs. George H. Collins, George Dodge, George Watkins and Trevor | Robinson. The men have been working on technical problems of the Fairbanks operations of the company for the better part of the summe: - HAVE DUCK FEED About 60 members of the Cordova Elks Lodge recently sat down to a banquet of ducks served in the Ital- ian room of the Model Cafe at the annual feed provided by the hunt- jing members of the lodge. ————— ‘Today’s News Toaay.—Empire. | | | | Request that the Copper River and Northwestern Railroad be kept | open either by government subsidy or by government operation as a de- It would save these young fellows quite a walk. -es Lunchenn Tomorrow Honors Mrs. Marsh transportation, to the rich by John W. Jones Post No. 8, Ameri- to information received by Depart-| ment Adjutant J. T. Petrich here A resolution signed by Ivan E. Mrs. Paul Marsch ll(*));x'v|n?nl Hunt, Commander of the Cordova President for the American Legion post ‘and L. J. Chilberg, Adjutant, fense measure and also to furnish| mining | country which it taps has been made | Fifth Christmas Seal Salg Plans Are Being Made More than 74 000 P(‘l<0l\.fl Examined for Tuber- culosis in Territory This year the Alaska Tuberculosis Association will conduct its fifth annual Christmas Seal Sale (9 raise funds for the campaign against approached | used not only on holiday mail, being laid from clerk, to Front Christmas didn't deter the other countries “looked have accepted it as a means of fund- Runyon turned | and | | decid- | Christmas Seal Sale funds the night, and deposited him in the possible in orde City Jail on a charge 6f drunken-|may be steadily reduced in the Ter- first; J. E. can Legion, of Cordova, according|! \ Auxiliary in the Territory, arrived has bheen forwarded to Interior Sec- in Juneau yesterd by PAA plane. retary Harold L. Ickes, War Secre- Mrs. Marsch will leave for the|tary Harry Woodring and e States Friday on the steamer North pejegate Anthony J. Dimond, urg- Sea to attend the national con- ing the road be kept open. fercnce of Department Presidents The resolution points out that and Secretaries. area which the railroad serves is Tomorrow afternoon at Kauf- rich in mineral products which can mann’s Cafe, a no-host luncheon, |be developed and s sed its value for members of the Legion Auxil- as part of an Alaska defense pro-| iary, will honor Mrs. Marsch. —a————— HARRIET MALSTROM IS STOPPING OVER IN JUNEAU FOR VISIT Harriet Malstrom, San Francis- co’s envoy to Alaska to encourage participation by the Territory in the gram. Pastor Wood in Sanitarium Now Word was veceived in Juneau that’ big fair, the Hotel Gowman's of- . : ficlal greeter, an accomplished vo- D8y Adventist Church of this city, calist and radio entertainer, ar-|%as stricken ill upon his arrival in rived here on the steamer Alaska Battle Creek, Michigan, and under- present for went a major operation. He is now recuperating in the Battle Creek Sanitarium. Pastor Wood will not attend the convention at Battle Creek, but fol- from the Westward and Interior. Miss Malstrom went to Dawson several weeks ago to visit with her uncle, editor of the Dawson News, and then went down the river to Fairbanks. She will be in Juneau for several | days and may give a concert here. - R ——— - | HOSPITAL NOTES | + PIONEERS SHOW BIG SUCCESS LAST NIGHT The show given at the Coliseum | Theatre last night by the Pioneers Gray Eagle, Mich., will continue to Walla Walla, Wash., to attend a convention in that city, before returning home. A. J. Goodman was admitted to St. Ann’s Hospital last evening for medical treatment. A medical admission last evening of Alaska, Igloo No. 6, was a great at St. Ann's Hospital was Ray ccess, it was reported today by the Nichols. committee in charge made up of Admitted for medical at St. Ann’s Hospital last evenirg| was Wallace Roge! | first MARTHAS MEET lmatment kle and Al Lundstrom. show,” the committee ./ for its wonderful support.” With the success of the show the HERE ON FRlDAYialwraLiuns to be made in the ceme- | tery next summer are now assured, Another of the Friday afternoon |the committee stated. dessert-luncheons will be held at| BT, B o R 1:30 oclock in the parlors of the| PUTTING BOATS AWAY Northern Light Presbyterian Church | District Ranger W. A. Chipper- for members of the Martha Society. |field hopped to the Hasselborg Lake Hostesses during the afternoon chain today with Pilot Alex Holden |which Metcalf is engineer. will be Mrs. Grace Cunningham of Marine Airways where he will| and Mrs. George B. Rice. |put up the boats the Forest Service o W i oY |have had available during the Try the mmpire classitieds for summer on the chain of eight lakes | ‘esults, in that vicinity. | Pastor H. L. Wood, of the Seventh- |afternoon with lowing a visit wit hhis mother, at| | Joe Green, Chairman, William Mar»\ “We had a overflow house at the| said, | |“and we wish to thank the public | |sites in the Kenai Peninsula, tuberculosis Last year Alaskans in 217 and villages scattered all over Territory bought Christmas and demonstrated that they towns the were the ground | behind this effort to help in solv- ing Alaska’s greatest public health problem. These seals are to be but’ throughout the year | Einar Holboell, a Danish postal| originated the idea of the Seal and forty-three around the globe raising to finance tuberculosis work In Alaska, Christmas Seal funds have been used to increase the lll- he | berculosis work of the Health De- had staked the property on which| partment so that now to date over 4000 persons have been examined | X-rayed and over 6000 per-| sons tuberculin tested. Portable X- ray equipment has been provided so that this service can be extend- the on ed to the most remote parts of Territory. Teaching material on tubercu- Street, the stampeder put in a call| losis is being sent to the schools so that children can learn how this dis- the | ease is being prevented and cured members of the Alford Jobn Brad- by modern methods. Harry Watson, President of the Alaska Tuberculosis Association, states that every effort will be made | by those responsible for spending| to use most effective manner that tuberculosis them in the ritory. B e dozed off into| |WOMEN OF MOOSE HOLD| Trv an meu- aa. CARD PARTY TONIGHT | &= o Tonight, slm'nnq at 8:15 o'clock. fullnwing the regular meeting of the Women of the Moose Lodge, public card party will be held in |the Odd Fellows' Hall Whist, bridge and pinochle will be played, with Mrs. L. Smith and Mrs. Ray Peterman in charge of lh( entertainment. The kitchen will | be supervised by Mrs. L. McKinnon Declares Coppcr River Line|and Mrs. Ann Jackson. e O FOR WINTER Emmett Buckley, who worked on Long Creek, near Ruby this sum- mer on a placer operation, passed through Juneau on the Al a on | his way to Seattle for the winter. - IIREI.IGEMEN THRO['GII M. Briscoe and Raymond Ka- pusta, dredgemen from the Boun-| |dary Dredging Company on Can- yon Creek, are on their way Outside for fthe winter, having passed | through Juneau on the Alaska. - e OUT TO SPOKANE Ed Burnell, miner who has beer | | working on Nugget Creek, Fairbank: district, is a passenger aboard thc Alaska for Spokane to remain dur- ing winter. The placer plant has been shut down for the winter. ! e e | RETURNING HOME Mrs. A. H. Mapleton, mother of | Frank Mapleton, of Fairbanks, wh(' | has been visiting in the Interior city since last July, is a passenger | aboard the Alaska enroute to her home in Alameda, Cal. | B S | HANGAR ERECTED The Petersburg Air Service cently completed a hangar and is now in service. - | re- | it | i QUILTING BEE TODAY Mrs. H. L. Wood is hostess this | luncheon followed Iby a quilting bee, at her residence | jon Main street. Ten guests are| the afternoon session. - - MRS. FRYE ‘rlslTlVG Mrs. Harry B. Frye, who arrived lin Juneau last week from Fair- banks, is spending a week in this city as a guest of Mrs. H. L. | Wood. | Ul d ROBINSON RETURNS R. R. Robinson of the U. S. Forest Service, who has been sur-| veying homesite and summer home | re- turned to his Juneau headquar terb‘ on the Alaska. { - ., — Tells Probers About Nazis o . i o ittee on un-American Metcalfe, investigator for the Dies Commi .‘JAOc:?vgles is pictured in the uniform of a German-American Bund storn‘\: trooper as he testified pefore the committee. He charg:d uzat Niaz‘ l‘.’]‘;’:&; t construction for btained possession of full plans of secre b ¥ States banlgshlps. Mixer Last ngm Successful Event |TWO ORGANIZATIONS | FILE INCORPORATIONS Articles of incorporations have been filed with the Territorial Audi- |tor by the Alaska Livestock and Trading Company, Inc., of Unalas- Last evening at the America B N AN ya and the Eagle Library Associa- Legion Dugout, members of the | ;o "1 Legion Auxiliary were hostesses to ‘nital Capital of the livestock company is listed at $20,000 and incorporators ford Post with a card and dancing | ;.6 Roy T, Bishop and James Cole party mixed, which was attended ¢ porland and Arthur J. Harris bf |by approximately sixty persons. Tralasht % Prizes won during the evening Tne Eagle library, a non-profit include: Bridge, Mrs. Ray Peter- | oonizevion is headed by dJ. J man, first; Mrs. Oscar Olson, SeC- | gillard as President; John B, ond; Mrs. John McCormick, travel- | powers - Vice-President; Jessie Ma- ing prize. Pinochle: A. Johnston, ther, Secretary, and J. B. Knight, etary. 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METCALF TO TKA | Frank Metcalf went to Sitka on |the North Sea to spend a few days there in connection with Sitka’s |sewer consfruction project for — e DUCK STAMPS SOLD Up to October 13, a total of 84 duck stamps had been sold by the ll’ost Office at Ketchikan, l | B2 FIRE is not the only destroyer of property. Other hazards take heavy toll,*too. For a surprisingly small premium, have an Extended Coverage - Endorsement attdchcd to your fire insurance policy. It will protect you, in the same amount and under the same conditions as your fire policy, against explosion, windstorm, fall- ing aircraft, hail, “wild” motor vehicles, riot and civil commotion dnd smoke (from a permanently installed oil burner). Come in, write or telephone. SHATTUCK AGENCY PHONE 249 Office———New York Life 3