The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 21, 1939, Page 8

PIONEER OF JUNFAU DIES IN SEATTLE Mrs. H. R. Shepard Passes Away After lllness of Several Months awrd passed % Hospital in Se where she last May 2 fractur accompanied ter, Mrs. B. B arrangements el S one of the best j neers. She was [ Ohio, Decem- ber 7 was married in 1 Ohio, May 25, 1885 pard came to Gastine ch in 1897, employed at 1rea Shepard joined bim the next year \ging her two and one daughter. In 1901 the Shepards moved to Juneal ¢ ed the Customs serv- The Shepards made their home I ince then A Shepard was a member of ican Legion Auxiliary, the ers’ Auxili and of the Church. After her family came associated with the insurance as his steady com- social and business urvived two s0 3G both re: Mrs two sidents repard B. B grand hter of Seattle, two great grand children, Columbus, Ohio. isters ir - SALVATION ARMY DRIVE STARTED ual Salvation Army Drive fu operation two for ar, was started Stanley Jackson erday and Capt the soliciting committees meet nd happy response ticns will be con- WOOING GOOD WIL 2,600-pound Arada from Germany to Australia, to demonstrate JOHN CHAPPELL | FUNERAL T0 BE HELD TOMORROW Masonic Officers Will Of- ficiate-Requiem in Morning L ‘DOWN UNDER’ the globe, CAA OFFICIAL ON WAY NORTH | SEATTLE, March 21.—Glenn Rid- ty BY PARACHUTE T0 BARROW IN 1924 — ALMOST ldle, Los Angele: CAA Air Safc ' Board investigator, is scheduled to The name of A, M. Frances might | lcave tomorrow for Juneau | Riddle will inquire into the cause have gone down in Alaska history | ¢ tne Gope plane crash. in rather glorious fashion had it | ittt not been for cautious Calvin | v Coolidge. And Frances himself Jack Dalfon’s might have gone down in the Arc- ‘Nephew A Masonic funeral servic k ‘1"‘ tic Ocean ingloriously on the same John D. Chappell was killed' gqventure. .I,h hj in the Cope plane accident, Will be| “q) 'y ¢he pime he's had to think | rougn Juneau mOrtow AlLienoon Sl Bree. it over between 1924 and today.| Joe Dalton, nepnew of one of O e will e when he arrived in Juneau on the | Alaska's most famous pioneers, was pye s ‘Gilasse. | Alaska, Frances has concluded that)through on the Alaska today, goin: Officer | Lodge No, he has no reason to bear a grudgejto the Kuskokwim 147 will ervice, with Aagainst Mr. Coolidge. Dalton’s uncle was Jack Dalt H. D. St Master Frances in 1924 was a Wwes vho beat the track over the pass Masonic pallbearers will be H, J. man for the Navy, when som | ‘Hknnu to the lek.m \\'lv\-« 1 Watson, Anthony E. Karnes, O. S. suggested that the dirigible |has become known as the “Jack Sullivan, J. B. Burford, Virgil Far- andoah be sent across the NorthjDalton trail rell and Dr. J. F. Worley. Honorary Pole. Frances was to sail from Se- pallbearers are He McLean, J. J. attle to Seward, go by plane canceled the whole, idea Connors, Felix Gray, James V. Davis. Fairbanks, mush team dov So he didn't come to Alaska to Dr. L. P. Dawt james Wicker- the Yukon and across Norton Sound |make history in 1 sham to Nome, where he was to assemble | Frances is here today as Meteor- Carol Beery Davis will play the an airplane which he was supposed lclogist for Pan American Airways organ for the service. to have taken in on the sled He will fly to Fairbanks to visit A requiem service will be held at Middle of Winter PAA weather stations in the In- 10 o'clock in the mor at Holy In the middle of winter he was to|terior. He said today that as far Trinity Cathedral, w Dean Rice pe dropped by parachute at Point ather is concerned, PAA is officia Barrow, where he would rustle up ready to institute its Seattl Mr. Chappell was a member of a crew of Eskimos to clear a land- Juneau service, using existing Hillsdale Lodge No. 32 of Hillsdale, ing field for the plane, which would 'cilities of the T Weathe Michigan, He belonged to both York return in due time with material ‘reau, which he sed highly for and Scottish Rites of Masonry, his to set up a weather observing sta-|the cooperation it has given his membership in these be being at tion to keep the Shenandoah post- Tcledo, Ohio. He wa mber of ed. - Zenobia Temple of the Shring The expedition had its equipment | TO SEWARD Mr. Chappell was born at Cam- | ," .o eq aboard the steamer Al-| EL. Sweek, agent for the Al- Biis, MIGHISRY, (B 1679 aska and Frances was ready -to aska Railroad at Seward, is 4 pas R Jeave when word came from Wash- |senger on the Alaska for the Gate- had way City after a trip south. ington that President Cooli two Nazi aviators, Rudolf Janett and Korst Pulkowski, flew this the use of small planes on a long flight. Their trip was 31,000 miles. WILL RESUME to Westward spotlight of attention to mineral development as drilling crews and resume work in the Jute Bay area of the Alaska Peninsula. | Ten men Associated oil companies | through Juneau today on the steam- er to a boat that will take them to blasted crown. Geologists with the party said one iM(KINlEY PARK "~ WOLF CONTROL j ‘ Now pROMISED}mach sufficient gas and oil indica- | shot that may prove the hole “dry” {or “gusher.” In the party going tc Jute Bay now to begin drilling operations for this summer, are Victor Waukowski, petroleum engineer; R. L. Hewitt, geologist; Dr. W. R. Coleman, oil geologist; Leo C. Burdick, driller . J. Witchell, driller; K. L. Witt feet,” and that insofar as hopes of oil go, “structural indications are favorable.” It is hoped the drill hole will Washington Responds fo Memorial-Investiga- tion Ordered Control of wolves and other pre- dators in Mt Park is promised by Ao B. Cam-|1, Blair, derrick man; C. B. Brown, merer, Director of the National|derrick man, and Jack Goteher, Park Service, in a letter received | welder, todey by E. L. Bartlett, Secretary Engineers in the party said they| believed crew would be coming 1g with reference | north shortly for work on the Iniskin to a memorial passed by the Terri- | ofl drilling at Chinitna Bay. al L ature, says he will send | 3 & ;- No work is being done this year an investigator into the Park with- | " § dbne this: o the Yakataga area, where ex- in a few o make & taretul{i S8, Yaxaiags ey woere iy study of the wolf situation, ahd if it |10y SEDK0gI08 e i of Alaska Cammerer, wri week |1ast year, and engineers sai § Tt to be as bad 89 Alaakany|ack yeaT, and” engiibets/ saiit A Toun verdict on that district is being claim it s, will see that adequate| ;i pelq pending developments of measures aken to “take care 01 pencias st the Alaska Peninsula work. of the situation | The memorial which moved Cam- merer to order the investigation was Senate Joint Memorial No. 2, by Senator James Patterson of Valdez It state he long-standing com- plaint of Alaskans that wolves are being allowed to increase without check inside the Park, tending to reduce the effectiveness of the Ter- ritory’s war on them, as th leave | the boundaries of the reserve.and | spread out over the Interior from | their National Park “incubator.” The letter from Cammerer is the first response the Territory has had to ayn of the many memorials pass- | ed at the Fourteenth Session it is: reverse gear. l‘ - ATJUTEBAY 'Standard and Associated| Men on Alaska Bound | & Alaska’s hopes for an oil produc- | ing industry are again taking the | engineers head Westward again to from Standard and | passed | Alaska for Seward and transfer | drilling fields south of Mt. 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