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

CHINA AIR LINES ARE SEARCH IS UNDER WAY BEING MADE Govemmen?ggns Agree- Parties Hmfng by Land- ments with France, Rus- * Boat Skimming Shores sia and Great Brifain ~Planes in Air SHANGHA! Feb N The, Chin- (Continued rrom Page One) ese Government is reported to have iehis feached an: agreement with French yerg'js Alex Holden, Chief Pilot for and Russian authorities for estab- nrovine Ajrways here. With me- lishment of Chinese and French and | chanic Martin Fiest as observer he Chinese and Russian air lines; con-!y o\ er 0t 10:90 o'clock this morn- necting West China with those na- ;o 24 spent two hours in the air, Sptis. | thoroughly canvassing all sections 4 similar agreement between Chi-' ;o g, i Tyouglas Isiand, west slope nawand Great Britain provides for .o ‘noo10¢ Igjand, Point Arden, 1, Bian Grover invaded Rusio in o plane; landed in jail; but brought his Russian wife back to England. Bonnie Bee Berryhill, Oklahoma ® Indian coed, left Arthur Oche! tree, tenor, at altar in New York. Then changed her mind. INTENSIVE [Just to Remind You, On ValenlmesDay, That the World Is Still Full of Romance SAILINGS | SCHEDULED ~ TOMORROW | AT Northland, Tongass Mark- ed Up fo Leave for North Wednesday (Continued 1rom Page One) Press dispatch to The Empire said: Picketing Reported “Metal Trades Council are picket- ing the yards of Alaska Steamship Company as protest over what they termed a lockout from the yards |during the ship strike.” The yards mentioned are at an“air service between Chungking and London. DEFENDERS OF SPAIN RESISTING Government Srengthen- _ing Several Sections * rony fo Meef Insurgents [ PERPIGNAN, Feb. 14.—The Svan- ish Government has braced itself on thg Central front to meet the shock ofithe Insurgent offensive expected in"an effort to clinch a victory. bnpawhes received here said| Spanish Government Premier Neg- riff nad several members of his Cab- inet are on visits to Jamara and| Gtiadalajara to bolster the defenw uf, those sections. Bishops Point and contingent ter- rain. He landed at PAA airport here at 12:30 o'clock and took off again soon after to continue the survey. Simmons Flying Shell Simmons, in his AAT Lock- heed Vega flew from Ketchikan to 'Jlmeau today with two passengers | aboard. With the cabin occugants | acting as observors he covered the area extensively down Seymour Can- | al and up Glass Peninsula. | Landing in Juneau at 12:15 o'clock | he took off again at 1:50 with Jack | Littlepage, Paul Sorensen, and Gor- . don Graham aboard. He will gener- , ally go over again the raea. | Schwamm on Search Schwamm of Petersburg | Airways came in today aboard his | Waco plane after flying up from 3 Milton Knapp and Alice Donnelly got into trouble for sitting like this in Los An- geles movie. He paid fine; won Alice's heart. 4, Seriset Zoring, ® dance star, and Georges Balanchine waltzed into wedlock weeks before telling. | Peterburg at 9 o'clock this morn- ing. Landing here at 10:40 he took off again around 11:30 with Sven| Thorpe aboard as observor. He re- turned again to Juneau harbor at| 1 o'clock this afternoon. One hour | later he was again in the air with| | his Waco pontoon ship. | Late weather reports from nw |area indicate a fair visibility and| \decrease in wind velocity. | Others Searching Contributing their efforts to the; hopeful work are three boats in ad- dition to the Haida and Umwdw | States Bureau of Fisheries flagship | Brant; the Wanderer under Captain Kinky Bayers the Jazz, skipper Cash ' Cole, Duposo, Henry Museth. 1 Roughly speaking the section | which is being combed consists of | of land parties as ships plying lhe shorelines are not able to accurately view various objects along the beach. | Landing is feasible in Green's Bay or in Doty’s Cove and other places along the line of survey. locality by him revealed nothing. Another Report Another report of motor heard came from John Carlson caretaker |of Marmion Island lighthouse off the southern tip of Douglas Island. He identified the sound as coming | Skiing Parties from between Point Cooper and’ Three skiing parties wound up a Point Salisbury. A hillside region |tedious search of the southern nalt | which lies to the west near the end |of Douglas Island yesterday after- Sa'e of Gastineau channel. Carlson claim- | 200n reporting that they saw noth- ed that on the day of the accident ng. The parties consisting of 13 men, he was ‘chopping wood when he saw [rving Noble, Ralph Moreau, Rod | — Alex Holden go over on his trip lo‘Damell Lee Prescott, Bill Hlxson.‘ First recovery from the debris of Tulsequah, a few minutes later he Jay Willlams, Ernie Parsons, Al the destroyed Goldstein Building is claimed he heard another motor but | Schramen, Bert Caro, Fred Ball,|a large safe belonging to the United was unable to-locate the plane. The Bob Robertson, Kaarlo Nasi, and |States Army Finance Office which 55 Safe l(omes Out West Seattle and they were closed when the Masters, Mates and Pilots | walked off the Alaska steamers. The Masters, Mates and Pilots | walked off the steamers when their | | demands for an approximate raise | in wages of $25 a month, separ- | |ate rooms and guarantee of eleven |months employment each year, | were not negotiated. Spencer in South An Assoclated Press dispatch to| | The Empire also stated that previ-' Mr. and Mrs. Owen D. Young ous plans to have the Coast Guard| p ., 1y young, chairman of the board of General Electric Company an: John C. Spencer carry mail and | DoteR B O ST out for & day's fishing at Key We emergency supplies are held up by | guring Flotida vacation. This is one of few recent pictures of Mr. zi: the Coast Guard officials while theyr Mrs. Young. determine if the present scheduled sailing of private ships will take care of the situation. The Spen-| cer arrived at Port Angeles this morning. Situation in Juneau Fresh meat and perishables are practically exhausted in Juneau.| There is plenty of canned product,s at present. Butter and eggs are scarce, fact severa! stores are out. POPE PIUS FREN(H NOT Deceased Head of Cath- lic Church s Laid 1 RE(OGNIHNG ; 'lgesi li‘;(St. SPe?tlars : I‘eb 14— PARIS, Feb. 14 —Determined op- !to his final resting place beneath LAST RITES (DR WILLIAMS SOUTH FOR NEW EQUIPMENT Dr. R. H. Williams, well known Juneau dentist, associated with the |staff of the Juneau Medical and Isurg\cnl Clinic, whose offices were 'destroyed in the recent Goldstein Building fire, left for the south Sunday on the steamer Princess Nora Dr. Williams will purchase new omce equipment while in the States. in | | | - |the floor of the great Cathedral | Southern half of Douglas Island,|sound persisted for a few minutes Lu Liston. {was formerly located in the struc- Position from a group of Anti-Fas | shoreline and interfor from Youngs | | Bay to Point Arden, Stephens pas- ! sage shoreline down Glass Peninsula both shorelines down Seymour can- | al, East shortline of mainland up Stephens Passage from Port Snettis- ham to Taku Inlet, Taku Inlet, sec- tion around Point Bishop. Coming through the area a few minutes previous to the time Lon Cope was to hit, Shell Simmons | Sunday encountered ice conditions in | the near vicinity of Point Arden. | This forced him to divert his course and proceed to the westward. Reports Heavy Winds Simmons reported that at the time | he was over the area Sunday after- noon visibility in the vicinity of | Point Arden a few miles from Grand | Island, was good, but a heavy wind was blowing. An iced plane would have’ trouble in such conditions. | Unexplained pools of light oil| sighted on Gastineau Channel by “Kinky” Bayers and his crew of four aboard the gas boat Wanderer, was reported late yesterday when the boat returned to port in Juneau after an 8 hour search of the mishap area. The oil, source of which has not been determined was scen in three patches, one approximately 100 square feet in area a few miles out of | Juneau in the vicinity of Sheep| Creek. Investigation today reveal- ed no indications that this came from the lost plane. The Wanderer carrying a party of skiers who were landed at the South tip of Douglas Island also reported that Henry Museth, watchman at the Dupont Powder plant on Gastineau Channel heard a motor belleved to be Cope's at about the time of the last message. Investigation of the 'oot-Massagins abour c:m£c1 heretofore m. ¥131.08 W1'Ii EVERY STEP, FRED HENNING EVERY TIME WITH BAKING Schilling s To make biscuits that “meltin your mouth,” do as good cooks have done for over half a century! Rely upon Schilling Baking Powder! It is double-acting, made with pure cream of tartar, and never leaves that “baking powder taste!” Use Schilling Baking Powder for all "b;-li'ng, Remember, only success- -fut baking is true eonomy! Schiling 2 = Ounces MONEYBACK To show our unbounded faith in this CREAM OF TARTAR Baking Powder, your grocer will return your money a1 0ur expense, Bnd’ will also pay for the " exgs, bower, flour, exc., you have used, if you find any Tl whatever with it and died. Half of the party commenced their Last Message search from Douglas covering the| ture The depository saved all contents | cist Ministers has compelled the|St. Peters to a tomb in the sub- French Government to delay form- | terranean grotto of the Basilica RADIAL {through clear weather area from Treadwell to an elevation | intact from fire. Water damage to e P r- mf;;m;‘q;‘:d "t‘;‘;“:;rm"q‘fi;‘,‘ (’;‘ulfi"‘:w of over 1,000 feet, from shoreline to| papers including army pack checks, % A 121 | hillside. A zigzag line of men beat { was not considerable as many of ¥ the snow covered underbrush for 8| the documents will be eligible and exc 8 I W, rom Poim‘ . A’:‘d‘:;:' ;f.‘]“f:‘ewfiedqfp’;h“h'(,’,‘“““_ Point | yours fruitlessly. The balance of the [useable as soon as drying out pro- WIRING SYSTEM al recognition of Gen. Francisco|under the great altar where only a Franco as head of the legal Govern- Pope . celebrates mass. It was at ment of Spain. |this altar that the deceased Pope After three and one half hours officiated in the most solemn cere- debate the French Cabinet decided monies of the Church. | impossible. This was the section from & O R P O * | party sailed on the Wanderer to the | cesses are completed. and snow conditions made Visibility | (e, 431 of Douglas Tsland and beat el g Pl : a slow path back towards Nevada :’:;‘:h issued Cope's last fateful mes-| oy which approximately inter- | | sects the south half of Douglas Is- | Carlson believes the plane is down {land where they met the first party. | o nthe hillside between Point Cooper | | In this manner all the western slope | and Point Salisbury. |of the south half of Douglas Island | Advancing a plan sed on know- ' was covered. ledge of wind and tide conditions| There were no results, snow which | of the area Kinky Bayers that clues | lie heavy on thick underbrush all! to the missing plane are apt to be but obscured any objects and with found by ground parties working the |all the men hunting one member of | areas between Oliver Inlet and Point | the party states it is entirely possible Arden, | that they could have passed the plane | Wind coming down there from the and all occupants. Taku River basin strikes Point Ar- N den and ' splits, creating a water movement which washes the tip oIGouDIE ARRIVB FROM KETCHIKAN, Glass Penninsula from Green's Bay | to Point Arden. If the plane crashed in here a party working the shoreline | In Juneau today 1s Glenn Goudle, | |Supervisor for Alaska Aeronautics | | would discover remnants on this‘ beach. Around Point Arden and down '.ho‘ coast line at Station Point the wind | is blowing directly into the eam. land.. Commuinications Gommission | shore of Glass Penninsula. In this AL |after “arrival from Ketchikan area is Grand Island and if the board the AAT Lockheed, piloted | ship fell there the use of groundj“ 'y | | parties would be apt to locate clues. by Shell Simmons. Across from Oliver's Inlet, the| Originally scheduled as a pgssen- Southern edge of Douglas Island to|ger aboard the Cope ship, Goudie | Point Hilda should be searched due|was at first tentatively included to wind and swell conditions brush- |on the list of people reported down | ing up toward that shore. |until radio communication estab- Conditions Reversed |lished his presence in Ketchikan. The condition reverses itself at| Also on the plane with Simmons | Point Young on the other side of |was J. Conway from Ketchikan. H Stephens Passage from Point Hilda. | o s e RS The leewash provided by this pm-I Wing De-Icers Installed truding section would create a con-| LONDON—The Air Ministry pro- iceived a request from Mrs. dition which probably would result in any remnants being cast up on short of Young’s Bay. The vital need of proximity in order to ascertain the true nature of sighted objects demands the use wposed to make it compulsory for nll\ | British public transport flying ma- | chines to be fitted with am:u-ovm1 de-icing equipment whenever the probability of ice-forming conditions are indicaied. The safe four-foot steel third story. Water damage resulted from hcnt cruckinq the doors of the vaul expansion. When it fell lo lhe basement the safe landed face up permitting water from fire lmses to leak inside. It was removed yesterday by CCC boys who slid it out on planks up to the sidewalk. Offices of the U. S. Army Finance department are located temporaril in Room 6 of the Shattuck Build- ing which is a box fell six-foot by from the Requai;;d;cl_e 0f Whereabouts 0f Gabriel Stone Postmaster Albert Wile has re- Willis Moore, of Jackson, Michigan, con- cering Gabriel Stone, who is sup- ,posed to be in Alaska, somewhere around the “gold mines.” Mr. Stone is said to have been in Alaska a great many years. Any- one knowing the whereabouts of this man is asked to get in touch with the postmasler as soon as possible. - RESERVE OFFICERS MEET A meeting of the Reserve Officers | Association will be held at 7:30 o'clock tonight in the City Council Chumbm-.m anouncement was made today. All members are asked to be present. D Empire Classified Ads for results. 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Cox made a rousing speech, the tenor of which was that, | the Administration would do well| to go along with Congress and not insist so much that cangress} go along with the Administration. | The Georgian, who has opposed some of the Administration’s meas- ures, suggested that if the Presi- dent took the members in his con- fidence more, he would obtain greater cooperaflon hy Conzrm | The triple casket, wrapped in red Makes Electricity | Members Congress | wool, was lowered to the final rest- 'ing place in semi-private cere- {monies lasting an hour and a half The last rites reached a climax as \cardmals and Bishops, - many of {them aged, and most of them ap- pointees of the Pope, filed slowly past the casket and over it. Each made the signs of the cross. 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COOPER,C.P.A. announces temporary offices in the SHATTUCK BUILDING ROOM ONE (located with Howard Stabler, Attorney) INCOME TAX RETURNS PREPARED!