The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 20, 1939, Page 8

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W.B. SUMMERS PASSES AWAY IN DHIO TOWN Established Wea'her Bu-‘ “reau Station in Juneau- Transferred to South Melvin B. Summers, who estab- fisted the Weather Bureau station is dead in Canton, Ohio, to adyices received here | W. Leivers. Funeral services will be held Thursday in Louisville Ohio Mr. Summers was transferred in Juncau to Seattle where Weather Bureau chief 1 in March, 1931 furlough 1923 from he became until he becam He was then placed on s retirement in 1932 Mr. Summers » first commissioned mau the Weather Bureau, the n was located in what is now Presbyterian Manse. Howard Thompson, Meteorologist now in charge of the Juneau station, worked under Summers here. H. W Douglas, of the Juneau stalf sorked under Summers in Seattle. Summers was born at Nimishel- jen, Ohio, in 1877, and died in Can- Jon yesterday. He was a member of Mt. Juneau Lodge No. 147. F find AM. He is survived by the widow, by a son Wayne and daughter Marian - TUBERCULIN TESTS 10 BE GIVEN FOR AUK BAY CHILDREN 4 parents in the Auk Bay district who are interested in having their preschool children tuberculin test- gd are asked to meet at the Chapel by the Lake tomorrow at 2:30 p.m , Preschool children in Juneau will be given tuberculin tests Wednes- May between 3 and 5 pm., at the Juneau Public Health Center, in the Territorial Building here in came banking and currenc. $2.000,000,000 stabilization fund. ginia, chairman of the committee; Morgenthau, BANQUET CONCLUDES REUNION OF RITE Ann reunion of tish Rite bodies was urday eveni with the Temple € Master of the toastmaster. Juneau Scot- concluded a banquet at Walter Scott, 32nd degree, Wwas Out-of-town T to receive degre turned to Pete kan on the Yukc RLC U.S PAT OFF A RAY fully-automatic oil burner does give greater heat- | ing efficiency. greater convenience, and requires a mini- + mum of care. RICE & AHLERS CO. ———PHONE 34 i—MAY 18-19-20 R i ¥ Third and Franklin Streets JUNEAU'S ROTARY CONFEREN(C HI"—()R GREATER B“fl Tfl ]‘ 6’ PLEAST THE REINELL FISHERMAN 1t you're looking for a boat adapted to sports use in Juneau waters s 4 it is: Economical, staunch, leeK. Up to 6 hours &% gds from Bendix inboard, air-cooled engines (1 to 5 h.p) equipped Jeverse gear. DON'T PAIL TO SEE THE REINELL! ON DISPLAY ABOUT MARCH 20TH ————— I. FISHING IS A BUS ~ MR. FISHERMAN Fishing Is Your Business! TO GUESS in any business is a The installation of a modern _ |accompanied by Mrs. Brown mmnning per gallon of THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1939. Explains Stabilization Fund Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., appears before the i committee of Senate to explain workings of the Left, is Senator Carter Glass, of Vir Morgenthau, standing, and Henry veteran of the diplomatic service. who sat on sideline as his san testified VIC BROWN, WIFE SOUTH ON YUKON Vic Brown, jeweler at Anchorage. is a southbound passenger on the Yukon Mr .and Mrs. Brown are oldtimers of Fairbanks and Anchorage. e QUIST GOES OUT FOR MONTH STAY A. W. Quist, contractor, sailed south on the Yukon to be absent from Juneau about a month. While in Seattle, Quist will draw plans for the new Goldstein Build- ing, to rige on the site of the re- cently burned structure. T SR - OLD CONGREGATION BERNE, Ind—Seventy-five mem- bers of the Mennonite Church here, founded by farmers of German de- seent, are over 70 years old. Three are past 90. 16-18 ft. lengths — 58- 62 in. heams — V-Bot- tom — weight 390 Ibs. — six persons capaci brass shaft and under- water fittings — decks and plankin kl‘I: here cedar with stem, keel and knees of t fir, GOLDSTEIN—-JUNFEAU — Resident Agent INESS! l l RISK! model ""HT3 hallicrafters” Radio-Telephone will take you OUT OF THE GUESSING CLUBS — and INTO THE MONEY! RADIO ENGINEERING & MFG. C0., Inc. 205 South Franklin—Juneau WAR TO THE | BITTER END, FRANCO VOW Madrid Request for "Hon-! orable Peace’ Meets HENDAYE, France, March 20— The Spanish Nationalists are re- ported today to have refused the lican Government's request for an “honorable peace” and have insisted on Madrid’s unconditional * surrender in the. Civil War. | Dispatches from Burgos, Franco's capital, said his answer to the offer /to open peace negotiations broad- cast by the Madrid defensg coun- cil was “surrender.” The official broadcasting station at Burgos declared, “our leader has | prepared an army which will carry i to the last village of Spain only | honorable peace, peace of arms.| This is the only way of making, certain war will not flare up {again.’ TWO SOVIET SPIES SENT 10 PRISONS Sentences Are Passed in U. S. District Court-One Man Denounced LOS ANGELES Cal. March 20.— Michael Gorin, Pacific Coast Man- } ager of the Intertourist Soviet Gov- ernment Agency, was today sen- tenced in the United States Dis- trict Court to six years in a Federal penitentiary and also fined $10,000 following conviction of espionage charges. | Hafis Salich, Russian born, for- mer Navy Intelligence Agent, was sentenced to four years and fined | $10,000 \ Federal Judge Jenney denounced | Gorin in violating the "hmp‘n,alily‘ of this country so graciously ex- | tended” to him. | Judge Jenney declared that Gorn will be deported as an undesirable | alien at the expiration of his prison term NEW UPLAND GAME BIRDS FOR ALASKA | | | { | { other cigarette. alor combination When you try them you will know why Chesterfields give millions of men and women more smoking pleasure . . . why THEY SATISFY THE GREAT WALLENDAS a Combination that has thrilled millions all over the world. The GREAT WALLENDAS the premier high wire artists of the world ...and the TOP Combination for more smoking pleasure is Chesterfield (the can’t-be-copied blend) ’Dle sun never sets on Chesterfield’s pop- ularity because Chesterfield combines. .. blends together . . .the world’s best cigarette tobaccos in a way that’s different from any Clhesterfield « « . the blend that can’t be copied . . . the RIGHT COMBINATION of the world’s best cigarette tobaccos Copyright 1939, LicoetT & Mysrs Topacco Co Frank Dufresne Announces Plans for Big Man- EARL CLIFFORD churian Bird KETCHIKAN, Alaska, May 20.— | Alaska sportsmen will be able to take the field for three types of | game birds new to Alaska if plans of the Alaska Game Commission materialize, it was disclosed today Masonic Lodge to Conduct by Frank Dufresne, Executive Of- Servi(es fOf Vidim ficer of the Alaska ‘Game Commis- | sion, returning to Juneau on tite | Of Plane CI'aSh steamer Alaska, after a visit [0 Washington, D. C., and game bifd farms. Dufresne said the will exchange wolverine for Blue Manchurian pheasants from Wis- consin, Mongolian pheasants from | Washington, and Chukar partridges | from Wisconsin. the lodge will conduct the services Wisconsin is the only state with and the Rev. John A. Giasse will Blue Manchurians, which weigh six!deliver the eulogy. or seven pounds. They will be bred on the experimental farm at Pet- ersburg and then distributed over the Territory. The partridges will be bred at |the Matanuska experimental station and be distributed through the In- terior. TRICKY LICENSES the Presbyterian Church tomorrow afternoon at 2 ’George P Fre«-burge‘, John H. Wal- ymer, Simpson MacKinnon, Wallis 8. George, Jack Kristan and R. E. Robertson. Honorary pallbearers will be J. J. Meherin, John Ahlers, Ike P. Taylor, W. S. Evans, John Newmarker and W. S. Pullen. tion. HELD TOMORROW BUTLER, FOSTER FUNERAL TO BE | IN NEW JOBS IN FOREST SERVICE | sons, dubbed by one farm inagazine | the “poultry capital of America,” now is going into a four-and-half- month rush season in which owners of its five big hatcheries estimate they will ship 20,000,000 baby chicks throughout the Western Hemi- sphere. Brothers, Not Triplets, Have Same Birthday { The poultry shipments have help- DELMAR, Md., March 20—It's a ed the postoffice to climb from | | Clerk Gomg fo Fairbanks better tian Tair bet that a birthday | fourth to second class by virtue of —Announced Now in Office Here Calvert Butler, who worked him- Masonic funeral services for Earl "se]r up from CCC enrollee at the Commission | Clifford, one of the victims of the Montana Creek camp to Property Cope plane crash, will be held in Accountant in the Forest Service | office here, is leaving tomorrow to become Chief Clerk for the Forest o'clock. Officers of geryice at a Fairbanks CCC camp. Butler will fly by PAA plane. His place in the office here will be taken by Bud Foster, who has resigned as radio announcer for Masonic pa 4 asonic palivearers will be Dr. KINY. COUNCILS SAVE for any one of the three Long boys receipts amounting to more thaa | —George of Delmar, William of Sal- | $120,000 for the last three years. isbury, and Curtis of New York— S | doesn’t go by unnoticed. FROM UNIVERSITY All three were, born on March 1| Helen O'Shea, University of Al- | —George in 1907, William in 1911, aska student, was a passenger south and Curtis in 1914. through Juneau yesterday on the And the brothers shouldn’t forget | yykon, the birth date of their sister, Mrs. | }Lewis Melson of Delmar—born on | | the fourth of July. | | .- Sk NILE NO REFUGE ALEXANDRIA—One of the last |of. the covilized nations to adopt Millions of Chicks by 4 s S i In One Horse Iovmi ———— During 1937 and 1938 Louisiana | granted ten-year exemptions from | RAMSEY, ina march 20—This | taxes to new industries built at a southern Indiana village of 70 per- cost of $60,000,000. FOR WASHINGTON, Strikers Picket Famed Cemetery The body wil Territorial Commissioner of Health e body will go south on the py w. w. Council and Mrs. Council | North Coast Thursday for crema- sajled on the steamer Yukon en- route to Washington, D. C. ISSUED BY STATE BALTIMORE, Md., March 20. — About 8,000 Marylanders who had hoped to grace their cars with spe- |cial license numbers during the |April '38-'39 period had to take |what came their way. But about 10,000 ‘odd number !plal-es were issued “before we ran lout,” Commissioner of Vehicles | Walter ‘R. Rudy explained. Those |consisted of combinations like 66- 777, or those ending in double-0 and triple-0. Such numbers were picked out of the lots as shipments |came in. Rudy said it would have too much work to fish out a pl jnumber like 21-794. v | ——tr MINER OUT 3 Walter Stoll, prominent Anchor- age mining man, is a passenger south oh the Yukon for Seattle. Mr. Clifford was born at Sault Dy Council said he expects to be Ste. Marie, Mich., in 1895. He Was & gone several weeks, seeking funds member of Skykomish Lodge NO. for the Health Department and at- 259, F. and AM, at Skykomish, tending conferences of medical men. Wash,, was a Scottish, Rite Mason P with membership in. Everett Con- SEWARD woMA“ TRIPPING OUT sistory, Everett, Wash.,, and was a L. V. Ray i$ a passenger| member of Nileé Temple of the Shrine, Seattle: D I Mrs. 1 south from Seward on the steamer | on. She expects to be in the States for about two months and MRS. FRED HENNING lans to take in the San Francisco AND DAUGHTER BACK FROM TRIP oulslb[ and New York fairs. —— - ! SHUCKLIN HERE Sam Shucklin, well known travel- ing man, is in Juneau today call- ing on his trade. Shucklin came in on the Yukon from the West- | ward. Mrs. Fred Henning and daughter, Ann Louise, will arrive in Juneau on the steamer North Coast to- night. Mrs. Henning and daughter have been in Snohomish and Seattle vis- iting relatives and friends for sev- eral weeks. The Hennings will take up their residence at Point Louisa again. — e — California produced 1,297,011 ounces of gold in 1938, leading all | the states of the union. The gold | was worth $43,395.400, I Striking grave diggers picket Crown Hill cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind., one of the largest and best-known cemeteries in the middle west. Former President Benjamin Harrison and John Dillinger, late Public Enemy No. 1, and o(l:her willl-known persons are buried in rown Hill.

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