The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 8, 1939, Page 2

08k yhe oo 2 B — ] Fatally | Burned Dress of Six - Year - 0ld Child Catches Afire as She Irons Clothes "HIKAN, Alaska. Feb, 8. — Jackson, 5, daughter of John ckson, of Baxman, was fatally yesterday when her dress fire while ironing clothes for Is | 1 was alone in the house at he time, her father cutting wood on the beach Hhe heard her cries, rushed to the house and found the girl en- ped in flames. The only water available was a BRSO B small amount in a wash basin be-j use the water pipes were rrozen.‘KEI(HIKA" Bov The father dipped his hands in the ater and applied it to the burning| rl who died later in a hospital. e eee | ALICEMacKINNON Si-Yeor0ld Sno DIES INPORTLAND ' Y?;gf‘:{ay'"ed OF lONG “.lNESS KETCHIKAN, Alnska, Feb. 5. Bobby. Prink, six, was killed late yesterday afternoon when he coast- ed into the side of a taxicab, ap- FO,mer Ju“eau .G'rl Was parently going betwenn. the front Dauah'er of Ploneel' and, rear wheels on one side and i t l |being Tun over by rear wheels on other side. He w ’__,__.__..w--—-—: Lloyd Shrine Head fiig‘l Is | i Y ] F 1 s believed to have ¥ ol e | HO S E Alaska Family other Bl S E 2 Appeating before the House Ju- fVh buJ i) | Coasting down the steep side street, d1cIary. Gommitiee st i oyt B r SR i an impeachme: solution agains Alice Case MacKinnon, wife of nto an arterial near the city limits, 30 !hlv s Yae) ke Int nald Mackin dled today at when struck, the son of the mana- =% 7 = e b atr ey ROy o oday ab .o h i - w | fident, whether examined minutely | & 5 “ ger of the Union Oil Company, W. k 24 he Portland Open Air Sanitarium E. Prink and s. Prink, stopped at OF at large t my record as Sec- C g - received t 5 8 By ) a : . AhE g to a telegram received by |\, oot onq @1 over into the snow. | TEtAIY will show consis- sister, Mrs. Hugh J. Wade. MacKinnon had been a tu- patient at the Portland nce last May when she h from her home in Craig, for treatment for her ill- The weekend was followed by fourteen above yesterday and ten above today, the latter being the coldest temperature recorded this winter. As the result of the accident police have roped off a three-block section on Main Street for the past two nights for safer coasting, which ansferred to Portland because wife's iliness, Mr. MacKinnon, ———— STYLES SET BY THE WORLD WAR may establish a pattern for the backyard. “mail order” air raid shelters in Britain, whose government recently announced its plan to spend $100.000,- 000 on public and private bomb shelters. Above is a sectional mod cylindrieal Nissen hut which, in a little different form, 'MADAME PERKINS DIES, COASTING ~DENIES CHARGES | ISix-Year-OFSon of Union | IN IMPEACHMENT | Record Wiill Show Support of Orderly Government Secrefary Says WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. — Secre- tary of Labor Frances Perkins {lat- ly denied again today charges that she had failed to enforce deporta- | tions laws. tent purpc the ide governmen! purpose to not merely to support Democra: orderly and freedom, but the ur all persons sub- ject to t ernment, whether citizen or those ideals are being forward in the actual day to ¢ ractice, T've applied this was used by troops 20 years ago. el of the corrugated iron, semi- Indian Star Weds U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. 8. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 3:30 p.m., Feb. 8: Fair, not quite so cold tonight, Thursday fair in morning, increasing cloudiness in afternoon, probably siow by night; warmer Thursday; moderate to fresh east to north winis tonight, becoming east and southeast Thursday. Weather forecast for Southeast Alaska: Fair, not quite so cold to- night, Thursday fair in morning, in ‘reasing cloudiness in the after- noon, probably snow by night over the northern portion of Southeast Alaska, warmer Thursday; moderat: to fresh east to north winds to- night, becoming east and southeast Thursday; except fresh to strong cast to north winds tonight and Thursday morning over Dixon En- ¢ trance, Clarence Strait, Chat ham Strait, Frederick Sound, Stephens Passage and over channels having an east-west direction and fresh to strong north winds tonight and Thursday over Lynn Canal. Forecast of winds along the Coast of the Gulf of Alaska: From Dixon Entrance to Cape Spencer: fresh strong east to north winds to- night and Thursday morning, becoming east and southeast Thursday afternoon. From Cape Spencer t> Cape Hinchinbrook: strong east and northeast winds tonight, becoming east and southeast Thursday. LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity =~ Weather 3:30 p.m. yest'y 30.41 6 44 N 15 Clear 3:30 a.m. today 30.40 7 51 Nw 8 Clear » Noon today 30.25 12 30 NW 16 Clear RADIO REPORTS S TODAY Max. tempt. | Lowest 4a.m. 4a.m. Precip. 4am. Station last 24 hours | temp. temp. velocity 24 hrs. Weathe: Atka 40 | il e = - Anchorage 2 | -6 2 4 [] Cloudy Barrow -30 | -32 -32 4 0 Clear Nome 16 10 14 22 .02 Lt Snow Bethel 16 | 2 16 22 01 Lt. Snow Fairbanks -16 | -36 -36 4 0 Clear & Dawson 2 | =50 =50 10 0 Clear st. Paul 36 i — — - — ; Dutch Harbor 40 | 34 36 0 1.04 Cloudy Kodiak .. 30 | 26 30 10 10 Mod. S. Cordova .. 30 8 14 4 0 Cloudy Juneau .. 8 | 6 X 8 L] Clear Sitka 4 | 5 — — 0 Ketchikan 24 12 12 4 0 Clear Prince Rupert 18 12 12 0 0 Clear Edmonton -26 | -48 18 4 0 Clear Seattle 40 32 32 18 02 Lt Snow Portland 38 34 34 4 10 Cloudy * San Francisco 52 38 40 10 52 Clear New York .. 42 | 34 34 8 03 Cloudy ‘Washington 50 34 34 4 0 Clear WEATHER SYNOPSIR Abnormally high barometric pressure continued this morning from Barrow and Fairbanks east-southeastward to the Rocky Mountain States, there being two crests, one at Mayo where a pressure of 31.04 inches was reported and the second crest was 30.76 inches at Edmon- ton. The barometric pressure will fall tonight from Barrow and Fair- banks eastward to the Mackenzie Valley. Low barometric pressure prevailed over the Pacific Coast States, the lowest reported pressure being 29.66 inches at Portland and Northhead. Another storm area ™ prevailed over the Aleutian Islands, the Alaska Peninsula, and the Bering Sea region, the lowest reported pressure being 28.98 inches at Dutch Harbor. This general pressure distribution has been attended by precipitation over the West Coast States, the Bering Sea region, and from the Aleutian Islands eastward to Cordova and by generally fair weather over Southeast Alaska and over the Tanana and upper Yu- kon valleys. Cold weather continued over the Stewart River and upper Yukon valleys and over Southeast Alaska, the lowest reported temperature being 60 degrees below zero at Mayo. Ketchikan reported a tempera- ture of 10 degrees above zero at 7:30 am. P.S.T. The lowest tempera- i ture at Sitka last night was 5 degrees above zero. Juneau, Feb. 9.—Sunrise, 7:49 am.; sunset, 4:41 p.m. house of the Alaska Electric Light Tuberculosis Association in sponsor- . I £ rd Oil Company agent at IV:‘:!::E" 24 Hiskokcbiapart this :;;A:‘tx?\p 1:i( to ”mm:‘xa;r ilrlnmp(x)xifi?q"' ¥/ . ¢ Craig, was with her at. the time of s MO LT The impeachment resolution, au- | POl onth il D> ] Z ¥ [o! C ‘dvnuh. Also in Portland was her thored by Representative J. Par-| Outfielder for the Cleveland In- Q% ? ¢ : J :; M;: :V }\1 C;S;fl- and {lf T e o~ 3~ . = nell Thomas, of New Jersey, cen-' dians and 'second among Ameri- ey biste 2 Passed nc s. Lockie Mac mncn; Pnl'- ' T 0 D ‘4_ Y I ters around the Labor Department can league batters last year, Jeff 3 i g H ; her husband, and her two - handling of deportation ca: Heath, 22, is pictured with his Juneau’s Le ildren, Donald, aged 6, and I in th ticularly that of Harry Bridges, bride, the former Althea Belle Department Sto T F Lo Dee who was born in Juneau e e cific Coast head of CIO. Calland, 19. The two were mar- et SRR H t mem No. 21 ¥ ago in January. S E ]\T A T F Some of the committee members ied in Seattle, Wash., home town i of Ag-| Her brother, Howard Case, is min- 4 said after the session ended that JF ot for ng at Goodnews Bay Secretary made a “swell” wit- T v ice Case MacKinnon was born o Introduced 3 1906, the daughter f pioneer Alaskans. Not long after- her family moved to Juneau. graduated from Juneau and attended the Uni- shington. marriage to Donald MacKin- 1931 united two pioneer fami- the last six years the Mac- ons have made their home at < e CIAMNME PDIMAC SHIEUIND BRIV C(OLD VICTIM Yk i H buildin; :?’5 fire from buildings, nothi from neral plans have not been an- mced, but it is supposed that rial will be at Portland, where the Case family has many relatives - 1 REGENTS FOR ICE : CARNIVAL CHOSEN FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Feb. 8. — iis D, Colbert has been elected ng Regent and Mrs. Alice Hand- elected .Queen Regent to rule the y by auto. >so FEW AIR FLIGHTS Mrs. A ess of tb 51 Senate bill No. 37, by Rivers, ulating traffic on roads of Terr tory. Senate bill dealing with mortgage liens, Passed Senate joint memorial No. 3, by Rivers, asking reopening of Alaska Resources Committee study. on de- velopment basis. e o RSB WHAT WOULD YOU DO ‘What would you save in case of fire. Miss Mildred Apland, who with her brother-in-law and sister, Dr. and Mrs. W. W. Council, lived in an apartment on the second floor of the Goldstein Building, reached for her eye-glasses, carefully took the money out of her purse, left the money on her dressing table, No. 38, by duration of Cochran, chattel Agricultural economists predicted snnounced their intention of com- early in the year that farm families apprehended pilfering household ar- did in 1938. e Bted Hext dc 2 r the Ice Carnival and Dog Derby £rabed her empty purse and a coat Building on S - | festivities next month. and ran. removed all her by Alaska R LY DY e i from the t A did| Fourteen countries have thus far shop, wiil Pacific| ax nalia in 2 few ¢ F Alaska Airw peting in the 1940 Olympics in Pin«| would have more cash to spend Iz\jls,lnv before th ! from Fairbanks for Juneau land lin 1939 than they THE HORTH CAN TELL WHAT SUMMER WILL BRING EY TAKING A PEEK AT FLORIDA'S PRESENT SCENES DRESSMAKER mean in the bathi Fowler of W so-slightly seda proves a one-piece ticized creation. Pete bur in SHIMMERY dark satin sults draw plenty of at- tention, especially when they're worn by such | dashing beduties as Mrs. Anne Frelinghysen of New York. She's pictured at Palm Beach ; SEE MINE WORKINGS JUNEAU " _ —o . PLAN T0 BEAT {HARLIE SWITZER . INJURED IN CAR N.LRB. lOSES( ACCIDENT TODAY | Charlie Switzer, 83, well known Juneau dairyman, received a broken leg today when a rock truck acci- dentally hit his delivery car at a House Votes Down Repub- lian Attempt to Cut 0ff Appropriation crossroads near the Juneau Dairies,| PLAN TO BEAT chd Incorporated. —_— « The accident occurred shortly| WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. — The after 1 o'clock, just after Switzer House has voted down, 186 to 5, the had finished his milk route in Doug- las and was returning to his dair on the Highway, Fred Orme was driving the Switzer truck at the|tjon for the next fiscal year. time the accident occurred, and, Representative Taber, ranking Maurice Fields is said to be the | minority member of the House Ap- man driving the heavy rock truck.| propriations Committee, offered the IR amendment. THIEVES ACTIVE 3o B IN FIRE SEcTioN " Wild Bil Three alleged looters were behmd;(ummmgs bars today in the City Jail an.er‘pa“es Away Republicans attempt to cripple the National Labor Relations Board by eliminating its $3,000,000 appropria- ticles and other items from assort-| |ments of goods removed from| NDTANAPOLIS, Indiana, Feb, 8. threatened buildings for reasons of | _wiljam “\Wild Bill” cu'mmmgs | safety during the Goldstein Build-| . cing griver, aled today as the Se g Tire, {sult of injuries suffered last Monday Augmenting the police force, a|iwhen his car skidded on a road near detachment of sailors from the cut-| o bridge and landed in the water. ter Haida patrolled the fire area|" Gummings' skull was fractured. It prevent recurrence of the thiey- | 2N % ery during the later part of the 5 GIRL, 16, TO WED WIDOWER, AGED 42 | morning and early afternoon. Silverware and other smail articles of value were reported as among | the stolen goods. - - CHICAGO, Feb. 8 — Winifred Sammler, sixteen, fled to New York e | on October 21, leaving a note stat- NEW YORK, Feb. 8—Clcping ! e could not go through with quotation of Alaska Juneau mine b dding to a mrcy—twc—ye;ar-o\d stock today is 9%, American Can widower, Now she is back willing to 94%%, American Light and Power Marry Walter Sammler, bro{her of 612, Anaconda 28%, Bethlehem Steel her foster-father, Alfred. after all, | 69. Commonweaith and Southern |she said. 17, Curtiss Wright common 67%, ~ ‘There was o much comment Curtiss Wright A 26%, General | around the uelghbgrhwd I d_ec\de_d | Motors 48%, International Harvester | to leave for a while and think it | 58, Kennecott 37, New York Central | over.” she said. 187, Northern Pacific 11%, South- | e ern Pacific 17%. United States-Steel| MOSCOW, Feb. 7.— Newspapers | 60%, Pound $4.68%. report that at Oyrotsia, in the Ko- lichak goldfields of Western Si- turned up a nugget of '| Stock QUOTATIONS I | e K g Bl | Ey DOW, JONES AVERAGES | The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industdials 145.43, | i rails 30.36, utilities 25.29. | The United States Forest Service LEGISLATORS WILL s S POk WOMAN'S (LUB Lesstators wit g0 mrouen e a1- VOTES AGAINST BILL | aska Juneau mine tomorrow, taking of SE“AIOR WMKER and Power Company, with Mrs. | ing a public program featuring a Thomas Haigh officiating. | lecture with illustrative slides. Departmental reports were givenl by Mrs. H. L. Wood, for the Welfare Department; Mrs. Harold Smith, for the Legislative Department; Mrs. Jay Williams, for the Applied Edu- cation Department; Mrs. David Wood, for the American Home De- partment; and Mrs. John Clark, for the Hospitality Department. On recommendation of the Legis- lative Committee the Woman's Club went on record as opposed to the | Walker Bill. The Applied Education Depart- ment reported on the progress of the public school essay contest, the subject of which is “What Qualities Make a Good Citizen.” They also recommended the cooperation of the Woman's Club with, the Juneau The Fine Arts Deparument dis- closed their plans for the weekly radio programs for the month of February. This department is also in charge of the monthly luncheon on Tuesday, February 21, at the Methodist Church dining room. The | program for this luncheon will | center around a historical pageant of Juneau. Mrs. H. L. Wooa, Secretary of the Board of Directors, gave an ex- | planatory financial report of the | newly acquired club property. Mrs. Mildred R. Hermann pres- | ented the names of 35 women for associate membership. She also re- ported progress on the Juneau ‘Wom-~ an’s Club Special Edition. Winter Clearance USED 1937 DELUXE SIX FORDOOR TOURING SEDAN, hot water heater, mileage 8.740 1935 PLYMOUTH FOURDOOR TOURING SEDAN, heater, mileage 34,007 1931 CHEVROLET COACH 1932 V8 FORD COUPE Connors Motor Co., Inc. CARS Treat Your Ithe biennial tour of the mine | works. ! | Because of the mine tour, the| A jarge attendance marked the | House today adjourned until 3 0'-|jpusiness meeting of the Juneau | elock, tomorrow afternoon memn-s Club held at the pengs HOT DOGS-—HOTPADS An electric hotpad will give you warmth and comfort during the coldest Taku. Inexpensive and safe to operate. 'Heat when and where you want it. Dogs Right. ALASKA ELECTRIC LIGHT & POWER CO. JUNEAU—DOUGLAS—ALASKA