The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 14, 1939, Page 8

NERLAND HERE FROMINTERIOR | ON WAY SOUTHS Former Legis!ator Says Fairbanks Enjoyed Good Business Year Andrew Nerland, of Fairbanks, former legislator from the Fourth Judicial District and owner of a leading Fairbanks business, arrived | in Juneau yesterday via the PAA| Electra. Mr. Nerland who represented his district at seven different sessions of Territorial Legislature during a per- jod from 1916 to 1937, is the father of Leslie Nerland, Mayor of Fair- banks. While here Mr. Nerland has contacted many old friends and he comments on the representative character of the personnel of the Fourteenth Legislative body now in session. Fairbanks enjoyed an unusual business year, said Mr. Nerland. Mining developments, through the use of new methods nad machinery, have brought a real prosperity to the interior city. Building in the Chena River metropolis indicates the activity there. In the last three years approximately 40 new houses a year have been built. A new four story apartment house has been completed and a two story office building. In the spring Capt. A. L Lathrop, of Fairbanks, will erect an- other apartment house-theatre bullding. The City Council has in- stigated a $500,000 municpal im- provement program which goes into ffect within a few months. New streets, sewers, and school| additions are included in the new work. U. 8. Army Engineer John C. H. Lee, has just finished arrange- ments for a $500,000 flood control project on the Tanana River, 15 miles from Fairbanks. Work on this is scheduled to start within a few months. At the present time Mr, Nerland estimates that there are 4,000 people in Fairbanks. Although there is a great deal of activity on the boards, Mr. Nerland advises people seeking employment in the interior to have sufficient financial means before venturing in- ! FA M ' l v FEUD land. Mr, Nerland is an oldtimer in Al- aska, having gone to Dawson in '08 RESU[IS IN lIlwo DEAD, TRAGEDY and being established in Fairbanks since 1904. He will leave for a two months business trip outside on the Princ s | Norah tomorrow arriving in SPa(l'fi Milady’ y’s Own Hair Trims This New Hat Which Is Now Becoming the Late richly collared in blue fox. The gloves are blue suede. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE SATURDAY JAN. 14, 1939 A lock of hair and nothing else trims this biue felt sports hat whose d esign is inspired by the costumes of old Italian comedy. resigred it with a hole in the crown threugh which a curl can be pulled to fall over the jutting brim, Its color reflects that of the blue wool suit, Schiaparelli MARINE A(T :W ‘(’ipple Son Saves DRAWS FIRE | s His Crippled Father DECATUR, Ga., Jan. 11. —Helpless‘to the enlistment of two dog teams, gengers of the disabled Northern with a broken leg, eighty-three- |to traverse the 30 miles to the acci- { | * House Bill No. 6. Introduced by | Representative H. H. McCutcheon, |an amendment to laws of Ternwly‘ | to legalize sale and dispensing ah liguors in club rooms maintained | | by certain fraternal organizations. | | House Joint Memorial No. 1. Ad-| | vanced by Representative H. H. Mc- | | cutcheon, praying Congress of Uni- | ted States to amend Merchant Mar- th Act nf 1929 to include Alaska. THINGS REMAIN AT STATUS QUO . INSLOKO CASE ‘Cope SHill Held at Tulse- | quah by Zero-Zero | | Weather, Wet Field | With two dog teams on the way from Tulsequah, the five men of the Northern Airways party isolated lin the Sloko River country, wait| patiently for removal from their | predicament which has endured for‘ “nx days. The weather at Tulsequah is zero- { zero with continued warm temper- | atures preventing a take off for Lon Smnling with the joy of freedom, Thomas J. Mooney is pictured as he left his San Quentin cell on his way to Sacramento for his pardon hearing by California’s Governor Culbert L. Olson. Above his cell ‘ door is a horseshce. Guard Clarence L. Doose is holding the door Cope, Marine Airways pilot, Who| yige gpen for the priscner who has been behind bars for over twenty- has hopefully awaited an opportun- Ve year: ity to fly to the stranded group since i Ve £ % 4 last Tuesday when he landed on the |~ o | slush field at the Polaris-Taku Mine | scene the five marooned men wxll Anway% plane; M. L. Gray 9( Norths after completing his only successful |go out on the sleds. No word of the ern Airways, and Martin Feist, Mar- | jaunt into the scene and from which | progress = of the teams has been | ine Afrways mechanic remain ~u1n- |he flew two of the victims, Fred |heard. There are three men in this|ded on the scene in the vicinity of Kane and Nick Mijavovich. At‘gmund rescue party and they are|the s)oko-l\'akma river junctions. 12:30 oclock this afternoon, when |traveling a semi-frozen river route.| - | Alex Holden of Marine Airways last ! When they left they expected to mke} % | contacted station CY13 at Tulse-|five days covering’ the distance. Flgh' |S Made on was 34 above| Food and supplies are probably | Retkless Driving v lquah temperature | zero. | running low for the isolated party | Throughout the capricious elé- | unless they were able tb oag somm ments have contributed nothing but | wild meat near theéir temporary en-‘ DALLAS, Tex., Jan., 14--Dallas obstacles to the rescue mission, Wea- | campment. Three moose were spot-| high school studenis are taking a « | ther in the vicinity of the accident|ted near there soon after pilot Les|hand in the traffic situation. is usually cold at this season of lh("cnok had made the forced landing., They bave organized the “25-50 year but unseasonable rains and It is supposed that they are finding | club,” 25 miles in the city, 50 miles temperatures have reduced all pos- Irefuge in a trappers cabin a few|per hour in the country. sible land and take-off sites to im- miles from the scene. The emblem is a club with 26 passable bogs. | Les Cook. rrea Graham, and a|SPikes, one for each of the traffic o Inability of planes to operate led| man named Landry, pilot and pas 1“‘“‘““95 for the year. R g - Fmpnc want adds pay. next week to join Mrs. Nerland who preceded him. —— e - DOC BARKER DIES; BULLET | FOUND MARK Leader of Notonous Gang: Fafally Shot in Attempt- | ed Prison Break S8AN FRANCISCO, Cal, Jan. 14— Like his mother before him, Doc Barker is dead from Federal bullets, | a victim of & futfle break from Al-| catraz Island prison. He died last night. He was 40 years old. Barker was the leader of the Bar- ker-Karpis gang which was once rated as Public Enemy No. 1. Barker's mother was killed two years ago when trapped by Federals. Another one of the five convicts | who attempted the prison bre'ak‘ early Friday morning, is also in a critical condition. | ————————— SAW MOWERS KILLS BIRDS |friends he invited ten years ago between points within cc/.inental 'Two Brothers Are Held for Killing One Brother, His Wife ENID, Oklahoma, brothers of a farmer, who was found ‘slain with his wife in their home near here, have surrendered and the sheriff said one of them admitted he shot the couple while the other ylooked on. Roy Murphy, younger brother of slain Harry Murphy, 44, said he fired in self-defense and that Harry's wife, Sarah, was kiled accidental One member Jan. 14—Two an argument preceding the shooting but the cause has not definitely been determined. Both of the Murphy brothers are held by the authorities. e, Man Calls Off Proposed "Wake' COUNCIL BLUFFS, Ia., Jan. 14— George Wright, 70-year-old baci 'elor attorney, has called off plans he made for his wake because he is still very much alive and the yrrre. lare either dead or living in other LONDON — Farm mowing ma- chines kill many birds, particularly parts of the country. Wright took out “wake” insurance the corncrake, ornithologists meet- maturmg Oct. 31, 1938. J. C. Hansen, ing here decided. The corncrake,' plentiful 20 years ago, has become rare in many English districts. ing merry at my wake,” said Wright, e “I have attended the funerals of all ilities.” ‘ Empire Ads Pay. | but a few of them.” Bitterest pain of .the present ar- the trustee, died recently. “Instead of my old friends mak- CURRENT'RATE OF 4% SAFETY INSURED BY ment here up to $5,000. Could s n An instrumentality of the Government with resources of nearly 120 millions stands squarely behind your invest- lt;y? 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McCutcheon’s memorial reads: | “Alaska was excluded as a -proviso in favor of points within continental | United States—this has operated asj discriminatory against the best in- terests of Alaska by delaying deliv- ery of goods and increasing costs of transportation. | Amendement is proposed to the| clause wherein Alaska. is excluded, giving Alaska equal rights and mak- | ing the objectionable section “inap- plicable to merchandise transported United States over through routes recognized by the ICC for which routes rate tariffs have been or shn]ll be filed with said commission when such routes are in part over Can- adian rail lines and then their own or other connection with water fac-| rang ment was felt during recent | shipping strikes, McCutcheon said, “When we're dependent on shipping as we are, it is not in any sense right that we must depend | almost solely on one line, If we could, transship, say from Prince Rupert, we could not only gain lower trelghti costs, but we would have a lane of commerce open during times when United States ports are closed by labor trouble, Only Alaska is exclud- ed from this privilege. 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Attractivelylow time paymentterms,with Hy uwcrr Prices subject to change without notit HUDSON 112 « HUDSON SIX - HUDSON COUNTRY CLUB SIX AND EIGHT MecCAUL MOTOR CO. — JUNEAU, ALASKA Announcement to USED CAR BUYERS! Double-Safe Brakes ate Standard—and Auto-Poise Conirol is available at small cost—on all 1936, 1937 and 1938 cars built by Hudson YOU’RE SAFER IN A ENTERTAINMENT rowed time. Langdon, famed on the silent screen as a round-faced, wistful~ eyed, dead-pan comic star, today is a middle-aged man, a little heavier about the jowls and paunch, a lot wiser—and happier too, he says—than in the days of his reckless, free-spending stardom. “I must have given away thousands, and spent thousands more,” he says. “I never counted much on money, thought much of it—until I was flat.” From vaudeville headliner to movie comedian vas an easy, lucrative jump for Langdon in the silent days. Three years at Mack Sennett’s were so profitable that he formed his own company to make features—and that was his downfall. “I had to turn out a feature in 10 weeks, where Chaplin and Harold Lloyd were spending up to two years on each of theirs,” he recalls. “It couldn't be done—the public quickly tired of the character, and there I was, in '20—out. I'm not the type who could make good as his own producer. The responsibility got me down. I finally said, ‘Oh, nuts”’” That’s the way I always was. In vaudeville I couldn't rest till I got to the top, and then I didn’t care about it.” After his ‘“collapse” in 1929, Langdon went back to short e . . when and where = - - Percy's private party room 1s ]usi the place for your enterfai and, it is available for private afialrs every evenmg&r. : -==at Perey’s e | comedies, tried writing, appeared briefly in a feature with Al Jolson, but never régained his old prominence. He had a job with Stan Laurel, writing ‘“gags” for the Laurel and Hardy pictures, when Stan split with his boss, Hal Roach. Langdon, appearing anonymously, had beéen greeted warmly by . previewers of another Roach comedy, “There Goes My Heart,” and he was the logical choice for a Hardy partner. “Stan got me my job here,” says Harry, “and he understands « this dung now. ‘- He knows ‘that if I hadn't taken it, someone else would have—and he's glad I got the break. Great fellow, Stan.” The picture is “It’s Spting Again,” and Langdon is away from his old comedy character—and away from the Laurel and Hardy routines, too. The battered hat and oversized shoes he used in vaudeville and earlier. pictures are stowed away in a closet. “If T click in this,” he says, “I hope I can just ride along. I never want another build-up.'- They talk about coming back to the .top—I'm tired of the top. - I'm happy. My wife (his third) and I get along fine, we have a fine 4-year-old boy, and—well, everything's right. When I'd. given up all hope of a comeback, can you wonder that I'm gmteml?" . Advice to_the young ncl.o;? "S-ve your money!” Deanna Durbin, having achieved the splendor of a really-truly evening gown offscreen, is turning fashion-plate in “Three Smart Girls Grow Up.” . Has all of eight changes of costume! year-old J. H. Morgan was rescued |dent scene with food and sUPPlies | e ——— s e 1, S. B. No. 1; By Rivers, making un- by his son, Hugh, when fire de- |for the stranded men. The teamns are known heirs' . of . deceadba stroyed their home early today. under expert mushers, a man nam- f ¢ defendants in actions relating to| Not unusual? No, except theed Phil Scott, head dog musher for Ho“ywood SlglltS And Sound.i real property, passed. younger man also had a broken|the Polaris-Taku Mine dog teams| i ? leg. |at Tulsequah, and a man named By Robbin Coons GUCKER JUNEAU BOUND ————— Williams, veteran dog team driver | J. W. Gucker, broker with sever- May 18 has been designated as|of the district. If planes have not HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Jan. 14.—Harry Langdon is the luckiest al lines, is aboard the Baranof | “Peace Day” for the 1939 California | succeeded in contacting the party man in Hollywood—and the most grateful. for his Juneau headquarter:. World's Fair. by the time the sleds appear on the His career as a top-flight comedwn has been dead and done S 2 for 10 years or more. Suddenly the fates have tossed into his lap a chance to bring it back to life. It's like working on bor- P