The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 15, 1939, Page 8

"8 SEINER DROWNS | AT TENAKEE IN FALL OVERBOARD Tragedy Rét)—dffed by Cap- tain-Victim's Name Is Alfred Michael Alfred Michael, a crew member of the seiner Helen H. drowned last night at the Superor Packing Com- v plant at Tenakee when he fell overboard. Richard Young ,master of senie boat, reported today to United States Marshal William T. Mahoney here. The body was reeovered and ta- k: ) to Tenakee Springs. Captain Young has been nstruct- to take the body to U. 8. Com- ioner Robert R. Brown at Hoo- 1 and make a report of the affair lS DROWNED AT WRANGELL WRANGELL, Alaska, July 15— Dick Johnson, 20, foster son of A Rasmussen, Superintendent of Schools in Wrangell, formerly of Skagway, was drowned yesterday while gillnet fishing near the mouth of the Stikine River. The nearest fisherman, half a mile away, heard the cries as Johnson fell overboard from his craft, but before thev ennid reach him he had sunk from sight. - PROMINENT JUNEAU BUSINESS MAN WEDS MISS CLARA AUVIL J. J. Connors, Jr. Mamed‘ last Evening at ! Quiet Ceremony j At a ceremony pexfon'wd last ev- ening by the Rev. John L. Cauble in the Resurrection Lutheran church before immediate members of the family, Miss Clara A. Auvil of Ju- neau, became the bride of J. J. Con- nors, Jr., of the Connors Motor Co. e atiractive bride chose a black for tailored suit with pin stripes er wedding and wore a bridal ¢ e of gladiolus. Miss Alice Clar her only attendant, also wore a dark tailored suit and a gladiola corsage for the service. Mr. William Niederhauser was Mr Connors’ best man. | Following the ceremony an infor- mal reception was held at the Third “treet home of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. ©onnors, Sr. The newlyweds will make their home in this city and are staying temporarily at the Gastineau Hotel. ———— ALEUTIAN HAS 14 PASSENGERS, SEATTLE, July 15 Steamer Aleutian of the Alaska Steamship Company, sailed for Southeast and Southwest Alaska ports at 11 o'clock this forenoon with 281 first class and 30 steerage aboard. | Passengers booked for Juneau in- Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Oliphant and son, Mr. and Mrs. George Riddell, Mr. and Mrs. Linton Collins, Miss Hilding Haglund, snappy left fielder dows Emma Hardman, Ed Nelson, E. Lea- for the Moose ball team Eichel turned in a fire alarm, mon, Mrs. Lillian Sayres, M. Pus- >-oee but firemen arriving at the scene| tinen. | a few minutes later, could offer |STELLA YOUNG 1S e | Friends said Eichel had been DRAFTSMAN JOINS FOREST SERVICE | REGIONAL OFFICE, turning Alaskans tell how glad| wire recently removed from the they were to be back in the house was the cause of the acci- A new draftsman for the Regional |Titory — and smiled, has 8 dent 8 Office of the Forest Service here,| Young Eichel, meanwhile, is looking for Eldred E. Harrell, arrived today on| Today Mrs. Young, Secretary (o a more le\el place to fu hls eggs. the Mount McKinley. He is to be|Secretary of Alaska E. L. (Bob) | o> an addtion to the drafting division | Bartlett. was telling how glad she! staff. | w Harrell was formerly with the Soil | Conservation Service at Washington. | He is regstered at the Baranof. D TAKU CANNERY , MAN VISITING Al Minard, Superintendent of llw-: Libby, McNeill and Libby cannery at Taku Harbor, is visiting in Juneau today The well known cannery man | came to town aboard the Libby ten- der Roedda, formerly owned by Capt. James Davis, t opick up a load of lumber and supplies. D GOLF CHAMPION NEW YORK, July 51.—Henry Pi- card, of Hershey, Pennsylvania, this| afternoon defeated Byron Nelson. | Baseball Fans {Can Now Sit JUNEAU BOOKED In Comort ball fans are now able to sit in com- fort at the Firemen’s Joy Sunday an maiden’s fy ones, were provided for all taking clude Martha S8ommer, A. C. Black, advantage of them the pleasure of Juneau citizens by o0 the floor and breaking all win- mother, on the first extended visit | 'I'HE pATHH"DER outside in 24 years | e \IALMAIN GROSS | Street. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1939. Nurse Accuses Them of Kidnaping Four of eight persons accused by Mrs. shown in the Leo Quinlin, man, Gertrude Farley and Jeff Quinlin, Leo’s brother. Fi zgurvs in Kulnap Case | Mrs. Elisa Emery (left) is shown with Mrs. Olga Chadd, her nurse and companion, as they left San Fran o for Stockton, Calif.,, where eight persons, including Mrs. Emery’s son, Hubbard Middlecoff, 36, | are held on Mrs. Chadd’s charge that they "kidnaped” Mrs. Emery. |Breakfast Song Ends on ‘ Tilting Nofe ' |of a single mass air attack putting contested the will, | Erich Eichel, painter and paper- | Park and en- hanger, was frying his breakfast d dweed-day games | eses this morning at his m\:rlnnu*J Last night, in answer (0 many & qyop Star Hill when the teetering prayer, cushions, nice com- house suddenly lurched several | feet down the hillside, precipitating and miscellaneous groceries| For a nominal sum, Juneau ba, The cushions were purchased for | €888 planning to put new supports un- der the house for some time, but | had put it off, while firemen said BACK; OH 50 GLAD' She's listened to nundreds of re- was to be back in Alaska. She has| EMJL HURJA Buvs been at Oakland, Cal., visiting her Emil Hurja, former Alaskan, re- cently purchased the national cur- der, to announcing that in addition BUYS RESIDENCE continuing its publication he Mr. and Mrs. Zalmain Gross have Would take a few straw polls with purchased the Al Dishaw residence it Olga Chadd of “kidnaping” Mrs. Elisa Emery, her employer, are sheriff's office at Stockton, Calif., after charges were filed. \GREAT BRITAIN | Bohemia and Moravia last March | every | tal, | don to establish | quarters. Eichel told them a power pole guy | rent events magazine The Pathfin-| (TAX ASSESSMENT NOTICES GIVEN | OUT BY JUNEAU 'Property Can—pletely Re- valued in First Equali- zation in 10 Years Tax assessment notices for 1939 were placed in the mail yesterday by City Clerk Harley J. Turner, notifying all Juneau property owners of the assessed valuation of their real and personal holdings The assessments represent a com- plete revaluation of the city, or- dered this year by the City Coun- cil as no equalization had been made here for 10 years. Assessor Herbert C. Redman fixed the as- sessments after a personal house to house inspection of property here. The assessment roll will be filed with the City Clerk July 20, with the City Council to sit as a Board of Equalization at 8 p.m. August 7,8 9 and 10 to pass thereon, to hear objections from property owners and to make necessary ad- justments. Payable August 20 Tax bills will be mailed August 20, when they .are payable. They are delinquent if the first install- ment is not paid by September 15 and the second by March 15. - |the whole tax is paid by Septem- ber 15 a two percent discount will be allowed. In announcing distribution of the tax assessment notices, City offici- als asked that taxpayers stop and realize that in the 10 years since valuation was last equalized the City has almost doubled in popula- tion and has been transformed from a town to a small city, with i expenses of municipal government having increased in proportion ¥ia o u Left to right: William Berg- ISPREPARING FOR WAR TIME LONDON, July 15. — Into the broad pattern of its war prepared- ness program the British govern- i ment is working an emergency Penngnem improvements here, plan to shift the bulk of its ad-|made in the 10 years, have in- creased property values and many other improvements such as mod- |ern sewer systems, paving and the small boat harbor are under way, ministrative machinery from White- hall to safety zones in the country. The plan would send 200,000 of-| ficials to temporary department headquarters. |all of which was taken into con- | sieration in nxmg assessments. Only key officiais would remain g in London, working and sleeping in | bemb-proof office basements. i Since Germany's absorption of lANARI wlll IS UPHELD; ESTATE ’ been built, walls lined with sand- British government depart- | ment has had its basement rein- | forced against bombing. | Additional brick partitions have | bags and every basement room stocked with anti-gas materials and e s e 53 e Heirs Lose Fight Details Kept Secret | Details of the plans fo move the | '0 Have S(nbbled NO' government offices from London | H 1 are a closely-guarded secret. 'ahon Se' ASIde Some observers believe that Ox- ford, ancient university town 63! The will of Gustaf Lanart, scrib- miles from London, has been se- bled in a small time book found lected as Britain's war-time capi- in the belongings of the Gambier Bay fish trap watchman after his But cthers think the uovern-;d!‘ath December 10, 1936, was up- | ment would scatter its many de- held today in District Court by | partments over a wide area in Judge George F. Alexander. | |event of war, to lessen the danger A brother and sister in S\heden which left all | [the entire administration out of of Lanart’s estate, $8,000 in the | ‘acuon B. M. Behrends Bank, to the Red | some officials Cross. Judge Alexander held in his| memorandum opinion delivered to- | :du,v. that the time book notntioni was a valid holographic will and that it is entitled to probate. “Please forward all to Red| Cross—The (they) might be able to do some good with the little I have,” read the will, penned in Lanart’s handwriting and bearing his signature. It was not attested. Frank Foster represented the Swedish heirs, Erik Eivor Kristen | Lofskog and Svanhild Sally Vil-| helmina Abrahamson, while the Red Cross attorneys were H. L | Faulkner and Grover Winn. In an emergency, of each government department im- mediately could be sent out of Lon- temporary head- Others, whose duties are listed as “non-essential,” would stay away from their London offices for two or three days to relieve the traf- fic congestion that would be bound | to be a major problem in the early stages of a war. Officials drafting plans for the Whitehall exodus say the govern- ment officers probably wont be | allowed to use their automobiles. Many of them now drive to work| from modest homes in the Lon- | don, suburbs. | Most cars probably would be | commandeered for official use. Sales of gasoline also would be | limited strictly to those employed in essential public services. Emergency Offices Picked 1 Families of the government of-| | ficials would be treated just as’ other citizens. If the men were as- signed to areas not already ear-| marked to receive refugees from the capital, wives would be per- mitted to follow them to their new, headquarters. They would have to make their own traveling -and housing arrangements. Wives of government officials sent to districts selected as evacua- | tion “receiving areas” for refugees, and those who preferred to remain | |in London, would get government living allowances, like wives of men called for defense duty. Women in government service would receive no special considera- recently Hurja worked as a reporter at Fairbanks, later becoming Secre- ta to Alaska Delegate Charles completed, on Eleventh The young couple move from the Coliseur partment with their Sulzer. He has been at Washing- two children yesterday and are now ton since 1932. permanently established in their ——r——— | larger quarters, - {WRIT FILED IN ED ROLLINS WORKING | RAPE CASE HERE I" WEATHER BUREAU A writ of habeus corpus was filed | in District Court today of Reading, Pennsylvania,on the 37th| Ed Rollins is working temporar- | of Richard Trask of Port Alexander, hole to win the Professional Golf As- |V in U. 8. Weather Bureau | charged with raping a 13-year-old sociation championship. | office as an emergency assist- | white girl. —_————— |ant du the absence on leave Hearing on the writ, filed by Mrs. Lightning starts 38 percent of [0of Assistant Meteorologist H Mildred Hermann, Trask’s attorney, the fires in U. S. National forests. | Douglas. was set for July 28. Trask is in Arctic seals break holes in the ST lir———y jail here, bound over to the Grand ice for breathing. Try an Empire ad, Jury. on behalf | tion. Those in key positions—con-! fidential secretaries — would have |to carry on their work in the | Whitehail “catacombs,” as govern- ment officials call the emergency Jbasexnenc offices. Officials sent out of London ‘would be billeted by the govern- ‘menl in homes in the district | where their war-time headquarters was set up. Many country mansions and en- tire office blocks in *“safe” prov-| lincial cities and towns have been | | earmarked as possible emergency | government offices. Stocks of food for “crisis” use are being accumu- lated. | ) Empire Want Ads Bring Results. & -3 i It lEpwoth Picnicers ‘ At Auk Bay Oufing| Games, swimming, picnic hmchvs, nd bonfires all highlighted the Epucrth League picnic held last night at Auk Bay. Earl Miller was in charge of en- tertainment and transportation for the outing and the Rev. G. Edward Knight and Bud Nance arranged for the refreshments. Those present included Hazel Fields, Betty Wilms, Minnie Rogers, Margaret Wright, recent arrival from Sheridan, Mont.; Bert Bart- lett, Bill Foxworthy, Earl Miller, J. Gibson, Glenn Honkula, Mr. and Mrs. Burns McCoskrie, Mr. and Mrs. Ove Hanson, and Mr. and Mrs. Jay Smith. The latter couple chaperoned the affair. - .o _ - | HOSPITAL NOTES | p B i 1 H W F’ulbru:m underwent a| minor operation this morning at St. Ann's Hospital. Dr. W. W. Council and Dr. W. P. Blanton were the attending phv,lu.n\ Hospital receiving Admitted to St. Ann’s today, P. Nightingale is medical attention. M. Hayes was admitted to St. Ann’s Hospital for surgical care this morning. He was attended by Drs. Council and Blanton Frank Peters entered the Gov- ernment Hospital today and is re- ceiving medical attention —— e 'MIDWEST (OUPLE CHASE RAINBOWS Mr. and Mrs. Billy Gragg, of Ok- lahoma City, are “heading for the end of some rainbows” aboard the Mount McKinley. 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