The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 27, 1939, Page 8

BRITAIN UP T0 GERMANY IN PLANES Production of War Planes Overtake Reich's- ! Go in Storage 2. Britain’s NDON, Jnue y war the possi . surpassec The aircraft are now being cold rage” in underground in al source close to the aid Britain 1 weekly on pl the t ¢ remains nout problem- has been esti- ne: are C y's rate ted as high as 12,000 war but neutral observers ) (0 believe the figure should be eight or nine thousand - WORK RESUMES ON WATERFRONT, SAN FRANCISC Tenfaliveléreemem Is JACK DAVIS T0 d Averti R Top. | DEVELOP ORES; sc NICKEL CLAIMS SAN FRANCIHSCO, Cal., Jun -Dr. Louis Bloch, of the Mariti Leavu,lg Terriforial Treas- 2o, last might and i a. guest urer’s Office for Stiking @t the Gastineau Hotel Labor Board, announced early River Prospec FIREWORKS ON SALE yearly, It's goodby to the British king and queen as they board the S. S. Empress of Britain at Halifax, N. Davis said International Nickel Corporation engineers will examine tthe property this summer, which Davis says is unique in the nickel world, being made up of the min- erals garnerite, magnesium, silica and nickel. Tk ell known Juneau man will cave for t scene of operations ortly after the first of June. Mr. evening that a tentative agreeme allowing of resumption of water- front work Tuesday morning, had been made. The Dock Checkers and Employ- ers Association approved the plan which provides for arbitration by Dean Wayne Morse. Jack D: s h Jaci Davis, enforcement officer U arry Bridges was last gt ex- (% Dep memer e AT LYNCH'S STATION pected to recommend the plan 10 r06 announced today he will the unions, leave the Territorial Although fireworks are prohibit e the The plan gives Dean Morse POWer first of the month an de 5 to determine the disputed questions.’ the mining business. iously the unions had threat- Davis is in o somplete tieup unless & Work pjckel lode pre nent wes reached last night. gtikine River .y Lake with George r sale in Juneau, Mrs. operat a gasoline ion on the Glacier Highw secured a shipment of f ar Dease | cracke roman candles, pin wi 1 and Frank in f all kinds of Fourth of nakers which are on sale. BTy e R | o iEOATS L | SLASHED FOR THIS GREAT SUMMER | SALE— ONE LOT OF COATS AND SUITS CUT TO '~ PRICE $19.50 Values $9.75 Every Suit and Coat Marked Down For This BIG CLEARANCE! BRADLEY KNIT SUITS In LIGHT and DARK Shades 15 PRICE DUV SRR S S s 4 4 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESD British Monarchs Bid Goodby to America —International Illustrated News Phonephoto 8., for the return trip to England after their six weeks’ visit in Canada and .the United States. JONES-STEVENS SHOP Summer Clearance of Our Entire Stock of Fashion’s Smartest SUITS, COATS, DRESSES and MILLINERY ‘ AY, JUNE 27, 1939. EDITOR SENDS | PILOT THANKS | FOR "38 FLIGHT Conrad, President of NEA, | Recalls Trip with Harold Gillam 1938 when he Harking back to and Don Eck made a scouting tour of Alaska t olay out the National Editorial Association convention W. H. Conrad, President of the NEA, yesterday sent a telegram from Juneau to Harold Gillam, in recogriition of what Conrad de- scribed as a “wonderful flight” the pilot made for the two so they north The Fairbanks when the PAA Electra on which they had planned to re- turn to Juneau left a day ahead of schedule in anticipation of bad fly: ing weather. At the expense of Capt. A. E. Lathrop and Volney Richmond, In- terior business men, Gillam made a special ‘trip in a six-year-old Pilgrim plane from Fairbanks to Juneau by way of McCarthy and Skagway. Badly Scared “We were badly scared,” Conrad said, “because of the conditions around the mountains between McCarthy and Skagway, because of the tough head wind, and because ,of our fear the gas supply would not get us to Skagway. But when we reached Juneau we realized that we were in extraordinarily good hands and that the plane was per-| fectly safe.” Capt. Army aerial Col. WERNECKE IN FROM MAYO; GOING SOUTH Livingston Wernecke, Consulting geologist for the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company and Gen- eral Mana of the Treacdwell- Yukon mine at Ma Y. T, flew to Juneau yesterday evening in his with pilot Charles to Minneapolis, handled as well as Gillam did his Pilgrim that day. the day the NEA visited Fairbanks | recently on the tour which Conra and Eck were plotting at the time| of the flight in May, 1938, Gillam | ¢ sent this telezram: Telegram “Harold Gillam, Point Barrow: | Was sorry you were away when we visited Fairbanks Monday as had over v Wernecke was underground a routine check at the Al- aska Juneau, pecting to go on south to his Califernia headquarters omorrow or the.next day 5 The two men were guests at the Baranof Hotel v of my Juneau trip of last year as|years, as prez with the large party rre National Editorial Association.” “Alaskana” hy Marie Drake at all book steres, 50 cents. $1.95 TABLE BATHING SUITS 'BLOUSES SWEATERS SKIRTS UNDERWEAR $1.00 TABLE includes BLOUSES SWEATERS UNDERWEAR ALL SUMMER HATS REDUCED Regular $6.95 to $7.95 FOR THIS SALE Including CAGE. HEBERLING and One Lot of HATS and BERETS—$1.00 aIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlII|||I|IIIIIIIIII|IHIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII||||II|IIIII|IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII||I|IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIluIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII||IIII|IIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIh Army Survey Ships Take Mendenhall Flafs Field Ex- | amined Here-Gustavus |t arms. nave been making o Is fo Be Surveyed [ sibility for an airbase in connec- !lion with dredging material from | a projected small boat channel. Mayor Harry Lucas and Joe | crosson, General Manager of Pa-: cific Alaska Airways, accompanied | Lee on the trip, but said Lee made not .comments on the project. Col. Lee said the present flight| to Alaska is merely the extension of a survey tour of all proposed | air base sites in continental United | States. For the past month the two amphibians, flown by men re- puted to be the “crack pilots” of Off I_o West | flying tour of the East Coast, bbean ports, the South, South- | west and Pacific Coast | the Army flight survey party strip ARMY OFFICERS GET- SALMON AT SHELTER Simpson MacKinnon, Aide to the Governor, former Navy man and graduate of Annapolis, took four of fishing on the Hyak for salmon at Shelter Island last night with smal success Major Sam Connell, Capt. W. A. Merrick, Lt. H. L. Smith and Cadet John Lee, Jr., however, pronounc- ed the fishing trip a “complete success”. MacKinnon said Merrick caught one salmon and Smith another, both fish about twelve pounds, and (Continued from Page One) { at Point Higgins, about 18 miles done with the aid of the Coas wouldn’t miss their boat back 0| Guard Cutter Alert. | . M the States. | 'g:ll Skl R A e e mil)‘OFF|(|Al OF CHAIN l'lsherman, Miner Conrad and Eck were stranded at ' r.om Sitka Yyesterday afternoon or Blsilless “an after lunching and conferring wita Navy seaplane station, and making | b h heeas o cursory survey of the potential dent of the Red and White Grocery on the right hand shore going in|, .. ine steamer Alaska to Glacier Bay. While on the way out to the|the Alaska cruise by Mrs. Flickin- ~——————— Gulf today, a more careful survey 'ger. "E- was to be made of G a landing field possibility Capt. Gibson to take a number of |between two important cities is Secretary of War, Bill White, and the Parker brothers of Straw- berry point at Gustavus, all land- | holders there, while in Juneau on | his survey flight last summer At that time, considerable inter-| | est was evinced in the broad fla Conrad, who has done lots of of Gustavus as & logical airbas flying in the States, from one coast|site for the Army, presumably (o | tc the other and from South Texas | cerve as an auxiliary base for the| in all kinds of |jarge Fairbanks base considered as weather, said he never saw a plane | gefinitely decided on by most ob-| servers It is understood that for Army As Gillam was at Point BArrow ,nging field requirements, an area at least a mile square should be available for a pair of cross-run- Vi at least one mile long and 660 Yesterday evening after his re- curn from Sitka, Colonel Lee went the Mendenhall Flats 3 hoped to make an Aretic hop with and tour to be the very best he has you stop many pleasant memories known in the organizaiion in 15 president are being revived member of the official family. Conrad is editor of the Star- always happy Janding for you, News of Medford, Wisconsin. Eck W. H. Conrad, President |is transportation man for NEA, as well as representative of the Al- Conrad said here yesterday he aska Steamship Company and the believed the present convention trip' Northern Pacific Railway. JONES-STEVENS SHOP | Colonel Lee was “borrowed” from al the U .S. Engineer’ _|all caught plenty of halibut. | company the military survey AR e e o ek "une | 1@ Clean Clothes Help Whether States. of the First City. survey work yesterday wa STORE MAKING TOUR Glenn Ww. puckinger, Vice-Presi- Cronin, commandant of the FAINRIANGLE CLEANERS PHONE 507 - 3 R | 8tore chain, with his headquarters landing field at GuStavus. |, “puralo N, Y., is a tourist on Mr. Flickinger &> WEDNESDAY BOILED PREMIUM ‘ Ham & New Cabhagei photos. |that between New York and Hong- | For LUNCHEON at the Louis Johnson, Assistant kong; at 12 moon in New York it| | | conferred with |is 37 minutes past midnight n|| B ARANOF Juneau mail ecarrier, | Hongkong. . R tavus as - ty, with| probably the greatest time spaa | de. nine of which found him a RICE & AHLERS CO. Third and Franklin PHONE 34 e ... DRESSES ... Our Entire Stock of Dresses Grouped in Lots for Quick Disposal! in silk and shantung, in pastels, and dark colors. to $14.75. CLEARANCE i in blocked linen, shantungs and sheers. 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