The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 3, 1939, Page 8

LEE IMPRESSED WITH PROGRESS ATBOAT HARBOR Division Enfiin;er "Highly Hopeful - for Dredging Appropnahons With President Rome\elts budget message scheduled to be released tomorrow, Col. John C, H. Lee, Army Division Engineer at Port- land, visiting the breakwater con- struction of Juneau's Small Boat Harbor Project today. said he was “highly hopeful” that funds will be allocated by Congress for completion of the lopg fough. for project this vear Col. lee, aboard the Baranof, stopped 6ver in Juneau today to con- fer with local officials in regard to the boat harbor and to inspect the breakwater construction, now one- third completed. “We're way ahead of schedule on the breakwater construction and it locks excellent,” Col. Lee said, ad- mitting that such progress will en- hance Juneau's opportunities of get- ting dredging appropriations. Col. Lee is on his way to Seward and Fairbanks to inspect flood control projects where rights of ways have not been entirely straightened out as yet. While ltere he was presented with @ resolution from the Juneau Cham- ber of Commerce, urging that a program- of dredging be undertaken on the Juneau side of Douglas Island to provide a navigable waterway, with the suggestion that the mater- ial so dredged be used in making fils .for air field developments around the tideflats. Mlchaelsgas. iéeturn Today on Northland Mr. and ‘Mrs. J. C. Michaelson returned to Juneau this morning on the. motorship Northland, following a visit with relatives in Seattle dur- ing the Christmas holidays. Mr. Michaelson is associated with the. McCaul Motor Company in Ju- neay, and accompanying he and Mrs. Michaelson on their recent vacation wip ‘Were their two sons, Harold and Joe. .- — Dinner-Dance Given By Three Hosfesses Miss Mildred Kendler, Miss Joan Hudon_and Miss Marian Crowell of Glacier Highway, entertained sixteen hjgh school students at a dance, preceded by dinner, on New Years EVe, ‘at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kendler, Assisting the hostesses during the evening were Mrs, Crowell, Mrs. Hudon and Mrs. Kendler. Jre 2 150 Y ELECTRA SNOWBOUND HERE; SAVORY, NOT to Foll iste; wsband, ake them to Honolulu. Mr. and Mrs. George McLanahan in Boston, the former Sally Clark, r-in-law of young John Roosevelt, son of the president, and her George McLanahan, depart for a honeymoon which will John Roosevelt was an usher at the wed- maid of horor. owing their brilliant wedding ding and his wife, Anne, Sally's sister, GLAD TIDINGS BARD LAVERY, IS PAA MAN HAS BOBSLED RIDE Yesterday the Glad Tidings Band SEATTLE MAN WILL MANAGE NEW BARANOF Bob Shofler Is Named as Manager-Homer Rich- ards Named Chef Wallis S. George, Secretary en- surer of the Baranof Hotel Corpora- tion, announced today on his return from a month in Seattle on hotel business, that Bob Shottler, widely | known Seattle hotel man, has been ches manager of the new Bar- ancf Hotel. In additicn, George said Homer Richards has been appointed Chef de Cuisine. Richar is now with the modern-after-the-show resort on Green Lake, known as the “Twin Tepees.” He was formerly with the Frye Hotel. the Ranjer Club and Gowman Hotel, as time in Juneau at the Terminal Shottler present in charge cf the Vance properties in Seat- tle, including the Hotel Camlin, Hotel Vance and the Vance Build- ing Mr Ears the J and George. with President of Hotel Corporation J. Me purchased furniture cther furnishings for . the which it is believed will be openc arcund February 1 George apartments will be furnished the other half unfurnished Returning on the Baranof with Mr. G > was his wife and child- nn Maydell and Wallis, Jr. Meherin will come north on the next steamer. erin, D HAIDA MAKING MERCY RUN IN FROM SPENCER curf battered Cape Spencer light, yesterday afternoon taken on beard the Coast Guard Cutter Haida to be brought to Juneau for immed- of young people of the Bethel Mis- { ¢, piedical atte v 3 RN e e SR g e g i al attention for a blood /\I Pac -"“ 'l*"‘ 54 LT RTE ‘-l""l“ sion Assembly of God of Juneau. , . Bhid with a load of passengers was unable | 1.0 21" aniovable outing and hob- Sz 2 §sthrough to: PRirbanks today | res ke ol the [ eats ilghway. | . Jooording fo tadlo sdvgnsTecely from here because of heavy snowfall |~y 5y o0 e o voung pecple ed today, the Haida found seas so e bobsled fu 3 g pecy and weather so thick last and zero visibility attempted tomorrow ho w the The trip Will be | 0 grawn by one car and followed by another in which they could heav i night she was forced to seek an an- Ralph Savory, former Star Air- Vi : ihiiras .| Chorage :}md is not due in Juneau ways flier, was the pilot with Bill | ‘(‘1“./\[!‘1")'::(;“;:“L:‘.::‘l ‘l‘l'x‘;: they Wish= until 4 o'clock this afternoon. Knox, and not Bill Lavery. Lavery | g 5 i ; -’ is still operating his airplane service | Those who enjoyed the ride were MRS. MANVILLE SOUTH At PalibanEs, | Mi Audrey Click, Lillian Lehto, g SR S nna Lee Houk, Anna Mae Person- Mrs. Vic Manville and child, resi- eus, Dorothy White, Mary Marg- dents of the Glacier Highway, will DOOLIN BACK | aret Femmer, Stella Barnesson, May leave this evening on the steamer - Barnesson, Jean Johnson, Peggy Tongass for a visit in the States. Flessie Doolin, Chief Deputy | Houck, Eilen Weston and Phyllis - - has been s the | Cameron, M J. E. Click and Mrs, M CLAUS HERE her mother in Cameron, Carl Clic M n Click, —_— returned to Juneau today on | Byron Personeus, Ernest Reb, Ivar Miss Charlotte Clausen, of Pet- Conn, Eddie Hughes, Willard Shaf- ersburg, arrived in Juneau on the D - | er, Mr. John 1. Conn, Mr. J. E. Click, Baranof for work in the present Try an Empire aa. | and Mrs. C. C. Personeus term of uu- T»nnoual Legislature. et Co new % N/ pleasure well as at one his-stay in the Northwest, | hotel, | said half of the Baranof's | and James C. Scriver, keeper at lonely | Doris Duke Cromwell | Note the jewelry, with the sun- | burst motif, worn by Doris Duie | Cromwell, the tobacco heir in this latest photo taken as she dined in a New York night club Mrs. Cromwell's new $500,000 Yome in Honolulu is nearing com | pletior /GOVERNOR TROY RETURNS TODAY 3ov. Jehin W. Troy returned to hi | desk in the Federal Buliding today, 9rermhux from several weeks vaca- LEGISLATORS INTOWNFOR | 14TH SESSION Liquor Control, Gold Tax, Demand for Funds to Be Hot Topics (Continued from Page One) have the Presidency of the Sen- | ate if he wants it. Senator Roden | also is being mentioned in the | event Walker declines. The Third | Division had the Presidency at the la session, and the Fourth in 1935, leavine, according to the gos- ip. the matter between the First and Second. Walker and Roden, hold the spot in point of service ilthough Senator Cochran of Nome served in the last session. Speakership Speakership talk pointed Lyng of the Second., Fur- ther “dope” was that Karl Drager of the Third, as the only lawyer n the House, is slated to head the| judiciary committee, and there is considerable sentiment for “Jim" Davis of the First to head the upprepriations committee. The lators seemed to be| |agreed that liquor control, the gold |tax and appropriations are going |to be subjects of heated discus- sion during the next 60 days. Most of them already have received sug- gestive requsts for funds, leading {them to comment that “there is |going to be a big demand for pub- lic money.” The gross gold tax, 'passed by the Legislature, is dubbed by most of the members as a “hot cne” and hotter still, they prophesy will be the age-old liquor problem - Most rd ow | tioning in the Pacific Northwest | and Califcrnia, but saddened visibly 1bv the loss of his long time friend, | | E. W. Griffin, Secretary of Alaska | who died suddenly Friday night with | a heart attack. | Mrs. Helen Bender, Gov. Troy daughter, accompanied her father on his trip except for the California jaunt, DU IR CHIEF HASSELL BOUND FOR SITKA AIR BASE From sunny Pannma to winter in Chief Petty Officer in the naval air corps, Alaska comes W. S. Hassell, passenger aboard the for the naval air who is a Northland Back in carries three 1929, Chief Hassell, ‘hash marks”, enlis! ment stripes representing four service each, was member of the naval unit who did the first aerial mapping in Southeast Alaska. - R TO NAKNEK U. S. Commissioner W. B. Regan and sons W. B. Jr., Tom and Jack, are passengers aboard the Baranof returning to their \I()] Bay lmm t- mbinaliozy _a new year SMOK VG PLEASURE Make Chesterfiela your New Year’s resolution ...they’ll give you more plea- sure than any cigarette you ever smoked. Chesterficlds are better be- cause of what they give you —refreshing mildness, better taste and aroma. Chesterfields are the right combination of mild ripe American and aromatic Turk- ish tobaccos — rolled in pure cigarette paper. When you try them you will ktow why Chesterfields give millions of men and women more smoking cwhy THEY SATISFY. hesterfield the blend that can’t be copied o+« 4 HAPPY COMBINATION of the world’s best cigarette tobaccos &k base at Sitka where he will be stationed. who U. 8. Coast Guard, ‘Marfin New 'Floor Leader {For Republicans | WASHINGTGH, Jan. 3.—A pledge to restore a “balanced constitutional iGuvernmem" in the next two years |mme from Representative Joseph { | W. Martin, Jr., of Massachusetts, new leader on the floor. Martin, 54 year old publisher, was rhosen by acclamation at a caucus ast night to lead the Republican Pd)t) 's 169 members in the House. Representative Wadsworth, of New York, withdrew. ! -es - JOINING SPENCER G Lt. Cmdr. F. A. Zuesler, of the is a passenger cn the Baranof for Cordova where he will take over command of the cutter Spencer. — e, — ! KNIGHT IN TOWN | Dewey Knight, Immigration Ins- | pector at Ketchikan, arrived in Ju- neau aboard the Baranof on official business. R BACK FROM VACATION Miss Etolin Coulter, clerk in the Governor’s office, returned to her duties here on the Northland after spending the holidays with her | mother and other relatives in Wran- | gell. | — e ! PILGRIMS SOUTH | Mr. and Mrs. Earl Pilgrim of Fair- banks, are passengers for Sealtle on the Mount McKinley. | Pilgrim *is a prominent Interior mining man. e | Ed Carlson of Anchorage, is a passenger on the Mount McKinley ‘ln. Seattle expert. Senate Winner ROOSEVELT MAY BE TERRITORY'S | GUEST IN 1939 | Senator Rey—nolds Invites President to Cruise Alaska Waters | President Foose7-l{ aska next summer. This was the word brought north cn the Baranof today by Capt. F. A. Zeusler, who is enroute to Cordo- may visit Al- va to take command of the Coast wa Gu Cutier Spencer for winter as aboard Capt. Zeusler's ves- «el the Northland, that Senator Revert Reynolds of North Carolina veyaged in western Alaska last sum- mer, the Senator at that time say- ing he would attempt to convince Mr. Roosevelt he should follow the same route in 1936. Capt. Zeusler said today he had received a letter from Senator Rey- nolds, reporting he had talked to the President about a trip to Al- aska and had found him “very inter- ested.” The President has visited the ter- ritory of Hawaii and has cruised to almost all other United States | posse: s except Alaska. S ——— | TO WASHINGTON . | J.J. Delanly of the Alaska Rail- ,road offices, is a Mount McKinley ! passenger, on his way to Wash- !ington D. C. in connection with rail- \road business. STRANDBERGS THROUGH Bill Strandberg, well known young mining man from Anchorage, passed southbound through Juneau on the steamer Mount McKinley with his sister Genevieve, Seattle bound. ! Both will reenter school at the Uni-~ iversny of Washington PP P S P RN | Elected for the short term in the New York race for the United States Senate was James A. Mead tabeve), Democrat who defeated Republican Edward Corsi by a large majority. Mead fills the seat va- ~ated by death of Senator Copeland, FOIL KIDNAP PLOT - - FOR LEGISLATURE | Catherine Ghezzi, daughter of Al- | |fred Ghezzi, prominent Interiorite | and unsuccessful House candidate in | the recent Territorial election, ar- {rived in Juneau on the Mount Mc- ‘Kmley She will work in the legis- !lature during the coming session. Premier T. H. Stauning (above), of Denmark, who was recently marked for kidnaping in a plot that failed when police arrested four suspects ouwiside of his | s e S heme Cepenhagen. 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