The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 5, 1939, Page 8

o =1 NOME PROSPERS FROM DREDGING, CHAMBER HEARS Rep.Lyng Says $5,000,000 in Gold Taken from Peninsula in '38 Nome has just experienced its finest mining year since the World war, Howard Lyng, Second Division legislator and outstanding candidate for Speaker of the House of Repre- sentatives, said in a short address at today's luncheon meeting of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce Some $5,000,000 worth of gold has *heen taken out of Seward penin- sula in the past year, Lyng said, | with 21 dredges operating steadily Three large dredges alone, Lyng said, produced $3,000.000 worth gold in 1938 in operations within| three miles of Nome in diggings mined 30 years ago 50 Years Dredging Ahcad And the dredges have 50 years of dredging ahead in that operation, Lyng remarked. He characterized the Seward Peninsula as the “larg- est continuous mineral area in the | world.” | Representative Lyng said Nome's population now is 1,500 in the winter and from 2,500 to 3,000 in the sum- mer. The Second Division. he said, | now has more than 14,000 people. Business Not In Danger | Senator N. R. Walker of Ketchi- kan, another speaker at the Cham- | ber luncheon, declared the legis- lators were fully aware that if busi- ness suffers, everybody suffers, and predcited the session would do noth- ing to injure Alaska’s businesgmen. Noting the progress on Juneau's small boat harbor, Walker said | building of the boat basin in his city was the “greatest thing that hap- pened to Ketchikan in 20 years.” He predicted that Juneau would reap similaf benefits from its develop- ment, now under way. Others who spoke briefly at the luncheon were H. H. Malcom, Presi- dent of the Seldovia Chamber of Commerce, and Lester Elkins of Pet- ersburg. JURY CHOSEN IN ARMSTRONG 'MURDER CASE Sam Scofi—De!inquen(y Case Given to Jury This Morning Trial of Jerome J. Arstrong, who is charged with murder in connec tion with the death of Peter All at Kalina Bay last summer, went to trial this.morning in Federal Dis- trict Court before Judge George F Alexander, District Attorney Wil- liam A. Holzheimer and his assis- tant George W. Folta, representing the Government, and attorney: Henry Roden. George Grigsby and of Paul Danzig making up the de- fenke counsel. This, morning was given over to the selection of a jury and taking of testimohy was to start this after- noon. Chosen on the jury to hear the case are Nadja Vestal, Alvin H. An- derson, Edwin Sutton, Lewis Dyr- dahl, Francis McDermott, John Niemi, Joe Snow, Steve Vukovich, J. Latimer Gray, Robert D. Bonner, Jr., Stanley Nowicka and Chester ‘ L. Williams. { The Sam Scott delinquency case went to the jury at 1 5 this morn- ing and the jury w ill out early ! this afternoon. Scoit is charged | with contributing to the delinquency | of several minor girls here —_———— Fifteen Arrive Fram Sitka on | Northland Today Motorship Northlan¢ arrived in Juneau from Sitka this morning cnd will sail south tonight at 10 o'clock. Passengers from Sitka to Ju- neau were W. 8. 8mith, Oscar Ben- | nett, H. L. Bahrt, Don Smith, | Myrtle Hollywood, Eiler Hansen, C. F. Wartman. Chris Nelson, Dr. W. O. Chartris, C. Durgin, N. Williams. Mrs..W. Reed, Mr. and Mrs. R. J immons, Julia Williams, Ray | Williams. | For Ketchikan—Mrs. J. Conway. Passengers booked for Seattle | up to press time this afternoon in- | clude Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Kelvin, | Natashka Kelvin, Elaine Bolshan- | ain, James Xidos, Nick Xidos, Sam Pappas. .- SITE CLEARED FOR ROADS WAREHOUSE; | Work preliminary to construction | of a new Bureau of Public Roads warehouse on the Glacier Highway opposite the Waynor tract was be- | gun yesterday, with a native crew | of 17 CCC men clearing two acres of land for the building. After the site is cwcared and gradéd,” which work is expected to ';rz months, the Bureau will t up,4 assist-the CCC crew in stumping. STANDOUTS OF '38: ¥ % X GRABBER Hitler ook Austria, then seized 10,885 square- miles of Czecho- Fissssm TARGET Men, the line: fire of bombing planes. slovakia in 1938 coups. £ . # R PROMISE Beatrix, daughter of Princess Juliana, is in line for The Netherlands' throne. She was a.January baby. U. S. Bride for Clemenceau -~ 4 Pierre Clemenceau of P :eau, wartime premier of F former Jane Louise Grunew at the bride’s hom y were married Rvmh to Train ll ar Fliers Dr. Jchn D. Akerman, University of Minnesota Aeronautics chief, whe flew for the Czar in the World War, is ready to expand his de- partment for training fliers under President Roosevelt's program for adding 20,000 aviators {o this nation's strength. He is showing can bride, the women and ch |dren behnd in Spain and China drew California's $30-Every-Thursday plan got nation-wide attention, his but voters turned it down. THEY HELPED TO MAKE THE YEAR A MOST MEMO i ADVENTURER Corrigan captured world's fancy with Dublin hop—then blamed it on a “faulty compass.” When Orson Welles turned Icos: "Martians," prepared to repel them. SAM WHITE, OF FLYING WARDEN FAME, 1S HERE life Agent OQut from Fairbanks First Time in Dozen Years don wings, is on the ground crarily and hasn't even a plane at his dispesal. But he hopes to be back in the air next season Sam White, Wild Life Agent at Falrb'mk\ arrived in Juneau yes- en hi trip out of th interior in 12 years. He will be here for 10 days to confer with his sup- eriors in the game department. Then he'll fly back to Fairbanks and be afoote again. Sam, who one winter covered more than 13,000 miles by plane on pa was furnished a plane last year, after hav- erated his own for many and this year hasn't a plane s first years at all. Necess: ble w Plane | The only p a territory as big as most states—is by plane. By doz team and river boat, the agent the 1d just isn't patrolled the way it should be. Attitude of the people in the Fair- banks region is good toward the game laws, White says, and gives the | Agent very little trouble consider- ing the size of the area. There are no organized poaching rings now in operation in the in- terior, according tc White, the cnly . prcblems for the agent being inci- dental ones such as alien and non- ¥ to cover White's—as By as large resident hunters engaged illegally in stalking game. Large District White’s game di extends from Fairbanks east to /e, inter- | national boundary, north to Central, west on the Yukon to Nulato and | scuth to Broad pass and Lake Min- | chumina. | Fur dealers and trappers, as well | as the Wild Life Agent, now travel almest exclusively by plane, White said, this development cf the past half dozen years enabling them te go | into the country just as the season | opens, rather than beginning their | {long treks weeks in advance. | Trappers are "taking many fox| this year, though the price is low, | | White said. Fox farms are about all | gone, the cost of feeding the fur- | bearers being prohibitive | Wild foxes, however, have found it much easier to shift for themselves, and are thriving. The lynx cycle is not coming along as well as had been hoped, | j White said, the expected upturn being three years overdue. | Agent White said he noticed a | | wonderful change in Juneau in the | doxen years since he was here last F‘ahbanks too, he smd, is boommg | | - e | | Steamed puddings can be made | |days before serving, stored in a( Nerman Huseby, a student, parts in a laboratory demonstration |dry “place and merely reheated machine. |when wanted. To reheat them, 38 ~ |steam them in covered molds forty- GROWS LOTS OF WOOL To slice f dates and prunes five minutes in water to cover or for cooking, It them with scissors | Put them in the upper ps.rt af YASS, Australia — A pet sheep|dipped frequenily in warm water. double-boiler, tightly covered, for known as “McGinty” has produced | This helps avoid stickiness and|thirty minutea 8% ponads’ ofs ol Bt vass | Wakes even-edged pieces. For fruit| | B O e q)uddm» it often is advisable w' Mustard pickles are’ excellent | to be & world record. gredients. wavehoyse, A tractor has | River District, for the second Year| uover cut fruit with warm water 8o been furnished by the BPR. to|in succession, This is believed hue‘u will mix better with the other in-|is served alone or in partnership|and check lids and jars closely to with corned beef, whether the beef with cabbage. some earthlings | £ finishing at TUNNEL WOULD BE EASY, SAYS COMMITTEEMAN {Plans for Evergreen Bowl Bore Await Return of i A. J. Supt. | Easy digging in gravel is the pros- |pect when work on the proposed | tunnel [ begins, RABLE ONE ‘ Wellman Holbrook, Chair- | reported today. The mountain was once holed- through for a water main about a { block from where the tunnel would Swing stepped out of swaddling was encounteerd. clothes, pranced through ‘39 a | Further plans for the proposed full-grown jitterbue | tunnel, which would be for the con- | venience of school children in get- i ting to the playfield, will await re- turn from Seattle of L. H. Metzgar, las one portal of the tunnel would be on Alaska Juneau property, Hol- | brook said. :Tru(k Takes Dive Over Steep Bank At Governor's 'A Juneau Dairies truck, driverless, |gave stunned lunch-bound school children a thrill shortly before noon today when it left its moorings on the Dixon Street hill, rolled down the 75-foot embankment and crash- ed on its nose in Gov. John W. Troy's recently landscaped white fenced yard on Calhoun Avenue. Johnny Adams, driver of the truck, was delivering milk when the | truck started down the hill, appar- ently having jumped its emergency S > F ol ;. A"“brflke. i e > sk The truck, last word in mi e- \Vl A IlLJd at D"SL ‘hvely vehicles and only recently | purchased by Juneau Dairies, sped | | down the steep embankment on all| four wheels, but when it lenped\ | from the six-foot rock wall to Cal- | !houn Avenue, it turned on end, | smashing the front end badly, | crushing the top and scattering milk for several feet. Several school children walking on Calhoun Avenue, narrowly es- caped being struck by the vehicle It is said 13-year-old Pat Olsen, daughter of Sig Olsen, city em- ployee, and Mrs. Olsen, hustled a number of children out of the way of the plunging vehicle that crashed but a few feet away. CUTTER HAIDA T0 BE SCHOCL ~ FOR BOATMER ‘Navigation in Elementary | Degree to Be Taught Free Soon ACTOR | e Dopey stole the laurels from | Snow White in the years most ballyhooed movie. Juneau boatmen and would-be hoatmcn are to go to school Fri- 13, on the Coast Col. F. C. Harrington (;\hud cutter Haida to take A new pécture of the new Works Progress Administrator Col. F. C. Harrington, shown at his desk in Washington. Colonel Harrington, who has been an assistant, suc- ceeds Harry L. Hopkins, the new United States secretary of com- merce, GOLD SHIPMENT HERE GREATEST INTHIRTY YEARS Platinum Production Also at Record High from | Territory Mines | Gold shipments from Alaska in the 12 months ending December 31 were | the largest since 1906, with $21,321, | 442 worth of the precious yellow | metal going south from the Terri- tory. all work Figures compiled from the month- covered ly reports of the Collector of Cus-| by the usual toms reveal also that platinum' s 4 production was $1,764,554, the big- g“’ds"e‘t"‘ uarantee. gest in the history of the Territory. | The increase in platinum shipments was due to operation of a new dredge | at Goodnews Bay since late in 1937.| Limerock, mined at Dall island' and shipped to Seattle for use in cement, brought $56,782 into the Territory. | Value of antimony ore, mined at | Kantishna, was $26,429 in the year. Marble, taken from Tokeen for Tacoma, was worth $29,837. . Other shipments of minerals from the Territory in 1938 were as fol- lows: Sliver—$292,227. Copper—$3,792,367. Lead—$104,845. Palladium—$13,235. When putting up preserves, use only new rubbers on the openings be sure they are airtight. to the Evergreen Bowl | | man of a Juneau Chamber of Com- | merce committee survey the project, | | be built, Holbrook said, and no rock | ad-1 ; | Grand Duke Vladimir (above), pre- tender to the Russian throne, paid a holiday visit to Berlin, He said he was merely visiting his sister, Grand Duchess Kyra, but observers believed he might be offered the throne of a new nation which Ger many may try to hack out of Polan: and Russia in Hitler’s “drive to th East.” BAHRT BRINGS IN TWO FOR FEDERAL JAIL FROM SITKA Deputy Marshal Henry L. Bahrt of Sitka, arrived on the Northlanc vantage of a Coast Guard offer tu held classes in elementary naviva- tion. | The courses will be conducted by Haida officers on the vessel once a week and will deal with course | plotting, sounding, bearings, and general elementary navigational principles with instruction in mari- | time law and first aid work as : 4 well. | this morning to attend court and The. course will be open to ul”hrmg over two prisoners for the Federal Jail. Prisoners are Donald Smith, who | will serve six months for assault |and battery, while Oscar Bennett. | convicted of drunk and disorderly | charges, will serve six months also, He was fined $200 in addition to the six months, according to the Marshal's office here. ,——- who desire to sign up. Those per- sons desiring to sign up should register with the officer of the deck on the Haida. with I. 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