The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 24, 1939, Page 8

SHOE CONTEST FOR JULY 4TH (HEMM'IIONi Barnyard Golf fo Again Be Feature of Annual Holiday Games Horseshoe pitching will again be a feature contest of this year's Fourth of July celebration here, it was announced today John Newman is in charge of the tournament that will be held either FLOODED BETHEL SENDS OUT CALL FOR ASSISTANCE Entire Town Endangered States Messages fo . Gov's. Office ’ it N 00 Pt el THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1939. No Keys for Prisoners In Jail Prisoners in Juneau's City Jail |are probably as sorely mistreated as in any city in the world—not one | prisoner has a key to his steel bar- | red sanctum. This startling revelation was made today by Mayor Harry I. Lucas when two men being held in the bastille beneath the municipal of- VESSEL HITS REEF; SUPERINTENDENT | 15 KNOCKED OUT New Eng|a;d_ Tender Ar- nold Goes Aground Yesterday ‘ Andrew Gunderson, Superintend- 'RAE JORGENSON IS ENGAGED TO OLAF PETERSON Announcement Revealed at Dinner Party Held Last Evening The engagement of Miss Rae Jor- 'New York liTeAgency Di- An urgent request from Bethel|fices jn the City Hall protested at for help in the present flood of the |1yneh (ime to Lucas that they were Lower Kuskokwim has been received | ujooped out.” by the Governor's office. The men had been painting the A telegram from Nels new mayor's and city magistrate’s | Anderson, | ent of the New England cannery at genson, brother of Mr. and Mrs. Chatham, suffered a nasty scare and George Jorgenson, to Mr. Olaf Pet- shakeup with his wife and three erson of this city, was revealed last guests yesterday morning when the evening when guests found their| company tender O. M. Arnold struck | place cards at a dinner given by the | n of the Bethel Chamber | of Commerce, states the “river| situation in Bethel is very serious. River is cutting into banks the en- tire length of the valley and form—! ing eddies causing the bank to cave | in “Help is urgently needed to pre- vent, if possible, property loss. If no action is taken it looks as though the ground of the Territorial and | Federal schools and the airport will be encangered “Houses are being moved away from the bank as rapidly as pos- sible. We beg and urge Federal| authorities to investigate and graut | aid immediately. Send competent engineer.” Mission Asks Aid A message from the Moravian Mission said help was needed imme- diately to prevent a property loss otherwise “the strategic value o at the ball park or in Evergreen Bowl It is expected also that a number of entries from Chilkoot Barracks will be in the contest Knocked Out First Round Negro Stabmfle of Louis No Match for Gus Lesnevich NUTLEY, New Jersey, June 24.— Chair offices when they knocked off for | lunch “downstairs.” On hearing their complaint, May- or Lucas obligingly dug up the b tille key and let the “prisoners” - a reef near Hawk Inlet. | The 67-foot fifty-ton vessel hit at| three o'clock yesterday morning, un-i " | der fast bell and lurched heavily on | its beams. Mrs. Gunderson was thrown to | the floor from her bunk, and Gun- | derson himself suffered a gashed knee and a blow on the head that| DIES SUDDENLY | temporarily rendered him uncon- | scious. | Mrs. Kayra Garns and her friend lASI EVENIN | Mrs. Lister, were thrown heavi | against the sides of their bunks, as | J. E. Boyle, Union Oil agent on Al Nordstrom, well known Juneau | vt:::rd at theyume. o carpenter, passed away suddenly 1ast| ~ nrec Gunderson also. suffered a evening at his home on West Tenth 'paqiy cut toe from broken glass- Street.e ware. Mr. Nordstrom was about 46 years — «gyerything was a mess,” Mrs. of age and came to this city a few | Gunderson said. “Dishes and groc- years ago from Fairbanks. He Was | eries and everything just slid out.! °mployed by Hans Berg during the | A5 nearly as we can figure out, Andy sonstruction of the Presbyterian Me- | was knocked out by a bottle of | Gus Lesnevich, of Cliffside Park, last night turned in the most sen- sational upset in recent history of lightweight boxing when he scored a technical knockout over Dave Bethel as an ocean and air port will be destroyed.” Superintendent Claude M. Hirst of the Office of Indian Affairs morial Church, and received a 1eg | ketchup.” njury in an accident las tNovem- At low tide, the hull was exam- ber while wa_rklng an electric Saw,|jned and found apparently little in- and was confined to St. Ann’s Hos- | jured. With the Seakist, from Hawk pital until recently when he was re- niet, the craft was refloated at high bride elect's parents at their home in the Seatter Tract. Miss Jorgenson is a graduate of the Juneau High School. Mr. Pet- erson came to this city three years ago from Petersburg, North Dakota, and has made many friends since yhis arrival. At present he is em- ployed at the McCaul Motor Com- | pany. No definite date has been set for |the wedding which will take place in this city within the next few ) months. Guests last evening for the an- nouncement dinner included Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Zenger, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Snow, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Leivers, Mrs. Minnie Hurley, May- nard Peterson and Vernon Swap. e NEW LOT READY FOR CAR OWNERS A new parking area consisting of [SALMON CATCH WEAKENING IN OUTSIDE AREA Salmon runs in the Icy Straits |district are currently weak insofar las King salmon are concerned, it appeared today from tabulation of fish landings. rector Lauds Work of Kel'h WIldeS The big packers Nuisance and B AR !Elfin I brought in but 12,000 Visiting for the first time the pounds each today, but prices mean- Territory in which his firm has while have gone up one cent to 13 written more insurance per capitacents a pound for large reds, 8 than any company writes in any cents a pound for mediums and 6 district, Dudley Dowell, Agency Dir- icents a pound for whites and ector for the New York Life Insur-cohoes. ance Company, is spending a few| .One load of halibut was brought days in Juneau on an inspection (in on the Dixon, bringing a seas- trip. on’s high price of 6.65 and 4.55 cents Dowell attributed his firm'’s record |a pound. in Alaska largely to Keith Wildes, | Juneau representative. who last) vear led the 400 agents in the Nortn | § BROUGHT FROM Pacific department by writing more | SITKA FOR JAIL than half a million dollars worth of insurance. Dowell said indica- tions were that Wildes would lead Six prisoners were brought from the department again this year, Sitka yesterday by Deputy U. S. thereby quallfying again to head | prargng) victor Ross on the North 'Sea to serve terms in the Federal Jail here. i the organization's “Top Club.” Production per capita in Alaska Prisoners, charges and sentence: are as follows: Nels Sunderland, by his firm s $26.10 which is high- | drunk and disorderly, 30 days and er than anywhere else in the Na- tion. Last year the Territory pro- | $60; Claus Blixt, drunk and dis- | orderly, 60 days; Willie Dick, drunk duced a million and a half in new business for the New York Life, Dowell said, the nmount of Alaska'gng gdisorderly, 60 days and $60; insurance in force with his company; Patrick O'Reily, drunk and disord- reaching nine millions. erly, 60 days and $100; James Mc- "BOSS" OF NO. 1 INSURANCE FIRM VISITS TERRITORY | ! PICKPOCKET IN TROUBLE AGAIN; PRISON DECREED Violating with a burglary at ‘Wrangell the terms under which a sentence for pocket-picking was suspended, Everett Alexander was brought before District Court Judge George F. Alexander teday and sentenced to serve three years in Jail. ———e—e——— MARRIAGE LICENSES Marriage licenses were issued to- day by U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray to Modesto Pagaran and Mar- ion Littlefield, and Howard Wherry and Ann Johnson. iy SV RSP NEW CITIZEN Petter Johan Petterson Kirkebo, a native of Norway, was naturalized today in District Court here. The new citizen changed his name to Peter Johan Kirkebo. ———————— DIVORCE A divorce was granted in Dis- trict Court today to Marian Little- field from Charles Littlefield on grounds of cruelty. S SR AN NICK BEZ IN Nick Bez, owner of the Peril Straits Packing Company, was in Juneau today on a business trip. Bez came in aboard the newly reno- wvated Phoenix IV. —————————— CAN MAN HERE said he had received a telegram last night from John P. Snow, Rein Clark, Detroit negro, and stablemate of Joe Louis. moved to his home. tide yesterday evening and proceed- Surviving Mr. Nordstrom is his eq to Juneau. The technical knockout came in the first round deer Manager of the Kuskokwir Area, that the river appeared to be wife and daughter, both in this city, Mr. and Mrs. Gunderson are his mother, four brothers and three guests at the Baranof Hotel and two city blocks has béen opened by the city to the rear of B. M. Beh- rends’ store on Third Street. The lot is to be used to alleviate the Dowell said his agency, which covers Western Washington, the City of Seattle and Alaska, gives preference to Alaska business in order to offset natural time disad- Grath, vagancy, $200; Charlie Chuck, apsault and battery, six months and $250. When unable to pay fines, pris- oners may serve them out in jail D. V. Robinsen, Continental Can Company man, was a North Sea ar- rival from Sitka and is at the Gas- tineau Hotel. —————————— BOUND FOR. Y.M.C.A. CAMP vantages in the Territory. All Al-|at the rate of $2 per day. | York head office. t | N. Lester Troast, Jr, is a pas- HERE FROM SITK. | senger on the North Sea for the | Ray Cavanaugh, traveling man, south. He will join the Y.M.CA. aska business is handled by tele- | gram and air mail with the New subsiding and was not cutting so fas( sisters in Canada. plan to go back to the cannery to- WPA PAINTINGS OF ALASKA NOW ON DISPLAY HERE, Dozen Works Represent Result of Art Project yesterday. Chief Engineer Tke Taylor of the Alaska Road Commission, notifiec at Seward. said the cost of keeping the river out of Bethel was prohib- itive and that the only thing to be done in the emergency is to move the buildings back from the bank. e STEVENS BACK ¥ The remains are at, the Charles W. ' morrow or Monday. Jorter Mortuary and funeral ar-| The Arnold was to go on the grid- rangements, have been tentatively jron here today for a thorough sur- set for 2 p. m. Tuesday in the Carter vey of possible damage, but hull in-; chapel. | jury is believed slight as the sea for- | tunately was calm. i KRR L Mrs. H. Simmons ' iss GRercHeN peeo Honors Miss Deleo HONORED AT LUNCHEON | Istreets and is for the convenience parking congestion on downtown of shoppers. It was recently grav-| eled and surfaced. Various property owners through-| out the city proper have donated | the use of vacant lots to assis tthe city in overcoming the parking Faz- ard. Motorists are given the use of these lots free. B WHITES HOME FROM FROM TRIP OUT Mrs. Howard Simmons was host- ess yesterday evening at her Fifth and Harris Street residence with Tour in 1937 Results of wie WPA Federal art project tour of Alaska two years ago can be viewed at the Forest Service office of Chief Draftsman Sally Shafer, where an informal | exhibit of a dozen paintings has’ been placed on view. ‘The 12 pictures, mostly water Ray Stevens, treasurer of the Alaska Federal Savings and Loan Association, returned to Juneau from a trip south on the Prince Rupert He has been in the Northwest fo: the past three weeks on business S dessert and three tables of bridge for Miss Gretchen DeLeo, bride- elect of H. C. Redman. Individual table decorations of flowers and yellow tapers formed a colorful setting for the occasion. Honors were won at bridge during the evening by Mrs. Roy J. DeLeo, first; Mrs. R. L. Bernard, second; and Mrs. Elmer A, Friend, consola- 'L.E. Iverson and Miss Gretchen DeLeo, who will become the bride of H. C. Redman | STATES VACATION July 1, was complimented with a Sk, luncheon today given by Mrs. Dewey | gugene J. White, Bureau of Pub- Baker at her home in the Jenson jio Roads Resident Engineer, was Apartments. | back on the job today after a sev- Guests for the occasion were Mrs. en.week vacation trip to California Roy J. DeLeo, Mrs. Oscar Olson, 'and Arizona with Mrs. White. They Mrs. Arthur Adams, Mrs. Elmer A |attended the fair and visited their| Friend, Mrs. Henrietta Elliott, Mrs. | friends. M. E. Monagle and the honoree. . | The Whites are glad to return .- |to Juneau for several reasons, they {say, one being that it was here New York Life Insurance agen(s‘I is at the Gastineau Hotel after col -lcamp for Boys at Orcas Island, in Alaska are Wildes in Juneau, ing in from Sitka on’the North Sea.|Puget Sound. Howard McInerney at Fairbanks, | Charles Potter at Ketchikan, Nels Strand at Ndme, Kathryn Galen at Anchorage and F. D. Kelly (as a part time agent) at Petersburg. Dowell arrived here by PAA plane Thursday from Fairbanks. He has been in the Territory for the past three weeks. He is leaving Sunday on the steamer Yukon to return to his Seattle headquarters. Dowell is registered at the Baranof Hotel. CHECK SUSPECT CLAIMS INSANITY Arrested Thursday by City Police on a charge of issuing worthless checks, C. D. Howe pleaded inno- cent by reason of insanity when ar- raigned before U. S. Commissioner 2 "MONEY BACK" susrantee U it's so good! SELZNICK INTERNATIONAL cclors with a few oils and crayons.| have been loaned by the Federal | tion. A guest prize was also pres- LT TTRUCKER TEAM Government, whase property they are, to Regional Forester B. Frank He'ntzleman, Four of the paintings are by Tony Mattei of New York, four by Carl R. Saxild of Massachusetts, three by Prescott Jones of Massachusetts and one by Arthur Kerrick of Minne- sota. The group on display is a selection from those painted on the 1937 tour WPA artists made here. Subjects include, Cook Inlet, Ap- proaching Petersburg, Looking at Lazoon—Sitka, Lake Sunset Rail- rcad, Near Valdez, Waterfront Ket- chikan, Cloudy Day at Seward, Bear Creek, Richardson Highway, and Tanana River Below Nenana.| e SIMMONS DUE EARLY INWEEK FROM SEATTLE Shell Simmons, Alaska Air Trans- port pilot who has been south for several days getting a complete overhaul job on the big Lockheed seaplane, is to come north early next week. Simmons wired he will leave th2 Queen City for Juneau not later than Monday. It is believed he will have as passengers, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Sager, | who haye been vacationing in the south, and Georgia Littlepage, 20, and Jean Littlepage, 18, daughters of Jack Littlepage, well known mining engineer who is Superin- tendent of the Chicagof mines. - WOODS RETURNS HERE ON BOARD MESSENGER The Alaska Mission yacht Mes- senger arrived in Juneau on Thurs- day after a two weeks trip in the interest of the Seventh-Day Ad- ventist Church work in Southeast Alaska. Aboard the Messenger were Pas- tor and Mrs. H. L. Wood with their daughter Virginia. Mrs. Wood is returning from a vacation in Washington and Oregon, having at- tended the graduation of Virginia from Auburn Academy and also visited Wanda Wood who is taking the nurses training at the Port- land Sanitarium and Hospital. The Messenger will remain at Juneau for two or three weeks and then start its summer cruises in welfare work among the fishing camps, canneries, fur farmers and Jomoing camps of Southeast Al- @ska, | —_———e Two signers of the Declaration of Independence died on an anniver- sary of the historic date of signing, July 4, Family Returning Returning to Juneau with a new edition to the family, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Iverson and two children sailed from Seattle on the steamer Alas- ka. Mr. Iversen, assistant fiscal ageni in the Foorest Service office, has been in various parts of the coun- try whiile his family has been ir the soufn for the past several months, with the greater part of the visit in California. WILL 60 T0 TAKU RIVER LODGE FOR ANNUAL VACATION Mrs. Eric L. Smith, frequent Ju- neau visitor who annually tries to spend a few weeks at Taku River Lodge, is due in Juneau tomorrow morning on the steamer Baranof. Mary Joyce, proprietress of the lodge, arrived here this morning from the river and will go back with Mrs. Smith tomorrow or Monday. - ALBRECHTS COMING Major George W. Albrecht, of Fairbanks, accompanied by Mrs. Al- brecht, are passengers aboard the North Coast for Juneau. They will go by PAA plane to the Interior. COME ON AND HEAR!!! That Titillating Rhythm as Played by RUTH on that NEWEST of Nite ‘‘Dance BEER —— WINES AND DON'T FORGET THE PUBLIC DANCE . . . IN THE DOUGLAS NATATORIUM | DUFRESNE BACK | lQSES. 1106 FROM pEIERSBURG squad defeated the Truckers last I"Sp[nlo" 'I'RI night in Evergreen Bowl with a sixth |inning rally bolstered by a bevy of Deer have become so abundant on Tryucker errors, 7 to 6. the Petersburg game refuge that| The Truckers were leading, five Frank Dufresne, Executive Officer ¢, three when the lumbermen went of the Alaska Game Commission, |t obat in the last of the sixth and was able to approach to within a gtarted the fireworks. few feet of half a dozen of them Ay Burke pitched for the Truck- on the highway this week. lorg ang Jack McDaniels pitched for The refuge has been established columpia Lumber. for three years along the nine miles | | | | | HOSPITAL NOTES of highway. Dufresne returned yesterday from a short trip of inspection to the| Petersburg experimental fur farm,| where 135 nlx?;day-old Mongolian| A baby boy was born yesterday pheasants are awaiting release to Afternoon at St. Ann’s Hospital to stock game bird areas. A number | Mr. and Mrs. Jsf:k Ellman of Doug- of the birds, which arrived in eggs|18s- The new' arrival weighed 7 from Seattle recently, died because Pounds 5 ounces. a brooder was delayed in shipment | and the chicks had to be cared for, E. Haffsted, who had been re- in a home-made contraption. |ceiving medical care at St. Ann’s A number of young sooty grouse Hospital for an eye injury, was have also been hatched at the farm, dismissed today. which 15 being run by Deputy Wild- | life Agent Howard Jensen in the| After treatment in the Govern- absence of Dr, Jules Loftus. | ment Hospital as a surgical patient, —————— |Dannie Kunz was dismissed today. C. A. Schumacher, merchandise | : p broker, arrived here from Sitka on| Elbert Collier is a surgical dis- the North Sea. He is at the Gas- missal today at the Government they saw the sun for the first time since leaving Portland a week be- fore. e EXTRA SPACE FO FEDERAL OFFICES URGENTLY NEEDED Urgent need of additional space for Federal and Territorial agen- cies caused George Gullufsen, As- sistant Custodian of the Federal Building, to send a telegram today to Delegate Anthony J. Dimond inquiring when work would start on the proposed addition to the building. With the Coast Guard and Light- house Service headquarters to be moved to Juneau, increased de- mand for office space is antici- pated. GOOD FIGHT TO PUT NEW LIFE IN THE OLD HORSE SEE Weaver vs. McCann Felix Gray. Howe i to have a further hear- ing. He was released from the| Federal jail last winter after serv-; ing a term for a similar offense. | RAY HARRINGTON Chef and Maitre d’hotel FOR RESERVATIONS CALL 800 InNew York... 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