The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 8, 1939, Page 2

s e T Y A ¢ results Reach For Your Phone Call 374 place your want-ad in The EMPIRE. The EMPIRE regularly | publishes more want - ads than any other Alaska paper— and reaches MORE readers. That’s why awant-ad in The EM- PIRE will bring you MORE results! Take the 3 steps to Want- Ad Results?® 1. For Quick Action Empire Want-Ads Phone 374 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1939. "Birth Drive"” Is Starfed Now By Frenchmen PARIS, July 8.—More babies :md | bigzer families. i With this aimein view an mtensivd propaganda drive has been launched in French newspapers and in poli= [ tical and social circles. Decrying the “perilous plight” of France with its ever-decreasing pop- ulation and rising surplus of deaths over births compared with Ger- many's continued increase, all are | demanding that the government take measures to halt this down- | ward trend. | Latest statistics show that. there are 34741 deaths over births in | France in the course of a year and that the birth rate is continually | decreasing. | LUCILLE LYNCH - BETROTHED .10 - (LEO COMMERS ;Announ(ement Revealed at Parly /Given Yes- terday Afternoon | At an informal afternoon gath- | ering yesterday at the Glacier High- | way home of Mr. and Mrs. Martin| Lynch, the engagement of tlmr‘ daughter, Miss Lucille Lynch l(y Mr. Cleo Commers, son of Mr. and | Mrs. A. J. Higgins of Los Angeles, was revealed. The affair yesterday was . given | complimentary to Mrs. Lucy Cov- erry, house guest of Mrs. W. Montgomery, who is visiting from California, Guests were.met at the door by petite, Bonnie Joe Lynch, grand- daughter .of Mrs. Martin, Lynch, who presented them with a corsage of sweet peas and mountain helio- | trope to which was attached the| announcement card bearing the “Lucille. and Cleo.” | | iss Lynch is well known in this city and attended the Juneau High School. She later finished her training at a. business college in Seattle. Mr. Commers came to Juneau from the States several months ago and is at present .with the Yellow Cab Co. No definite date has been set for the wedding of the young cou- ple. Guests for. the party yesterday included: Beulah Sund, William Reck, Jessie Harmon, Ray Peterman, Joe Kend- ler, Fred Crowell, Joe Lynch, W. A. Montgomery, Jack Garrett, Jack Stanyer, Charles Naghel, Roland Lindquist, and . Misses. Marjorie Fountain, Enids Fountain, Elaine Housel, Bmmle Joe Lynch | R e SM.VAGE VESSEL - TOREAGH WRE(I( OF DEPERE SOON Barge to Be Picked.Up at Ketchikan Wi th All Necessary Patching KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Aug. 8.— here announcement here early tomorrow morning route to the scene of where the De- pere is beached near Petersburg. Capt. L. H. Jennings, marine sur- veyor, said the salvage barge Fannie Dutard is ready to proceed from Ketchikan at the same time with the necessary patching material and other equipment, so the Can- adian ' salvager will be used only “when ‘absolutely to prevent a total loss,” Jennings said. toria, B. C., and was sent to the Depere’s aid Sunday afternoon. The Depere hit Prowley Rock, a lighted beacon, in a,heavy fog and strong tide -Sunday morning and . was beached to prevent foundering, at the noth end -of . Wrangell Nar- QWS 11 Amys 3 ¥ ..——rwmvw— HUNTOON 10 TAKE : FOSTER’S: FISCAL: Bob }iuntoon who res.(gnod {rom} take a Forest Service position, will kan to succeed Bud Foster as a| clerk . in- the Fovest Service fiscal office. 1 Foster has accepted -a . position with Capt. A. E. -Lathrop’s new radio station KFAR at Fairbanks. e TWO FLOWN. IN Two passengers :flew . in from Tenakee and, Superior Packing Company this afternoon with Shell Simmons in, the Alaska Air Trans- port - Lockbeed. They were Dr. Kearsley from.Tenakee, and Anne | sioner ' daughter-in-law, Mr. Gemgc Sundborg. OFFICE POSITION the Game Commission recently to’ be transferred here from Ketchi-| | Po'\urifibés off; Firemen Take Workout When city power failed this aftc noon for a short time, firemen re- ceived a call from the Home Board ing House where a flooded oil burn- er caused alarm. No damage Ws and firemen re few minutes later. Power was off in town from 2:28 pm. to 0. At press time, the immediate cause of the tempor shutdown had not been determined - - FISH SCIENTIST DR. DAVIDSON VISITS JUNEAU Plans fo Remain Here Un- til End of Present Fishing Season Planning to remain in . the Ju- neau area until the close of the fishing season, Dr. F. A. Davidson, Director of Scientific Work for the Bureau of Fisheries in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, arrived (r- day on the steamer Columbia. Dr. Davidson's headquarters are at Seattle After the fishing season is over Dr. Davidson plans to go to Lit- tle Port Walter where a new field station is being built done, however o —— ANCHORAGE MAN WEDS SEATTLEITE Lawrence B C ole of Anchorage and Grace M. Bain of Seattle wer married today by U. S. Commis- M. E. Monagle. Miss Bain here on the Baranof last The couple will live at arrived Saturday i Anchorage PRSI L O A B TO N FRANCISCO Mrs. Anne Sundborg left on the steamer rincess Alice this morn- ing to return to her home in Sar Franc: For the past two weeks she has been visiting her son and and Mrs. ’-Women In The News—- ' These Top List | Of Brides-To-Be Mesdames § AERIELLE FRAZER. heiress to the Willys motor millions, at | Newport, R. I, where she | planned her marriage to the Hon» Michael Strutt, son of Bmams Baran Belper. The tug Salvage King is arriving i en- | The Salvage King is out of Vic- & zAntonw teueher, who pltms to ‘be wed to Douglas Corrigan | ‘on July 17, the anniversary of his “wrong-way" Atlantie ' flight. . ' DOROTHY ARNOLD, screen actress, who plans to be wed Gothberg from Swuperior. The Book ALASKA, Revised and | Enlarged, Now On Sale; $1.00, to Joe DiMaggio, Yankee out=- fielder, next winter, as she ap- peared on a recent visit with her fiance in New York. rned to the hall a| PRIBILOF SEAL INDUSTRY HAS THRIVING YEAR Superintendent Chrislof‘ fers Through-Dennis | Winn Also South | sehl population on nu‘ Pribilof Islands reached a new hl"!) The fur of one and three-fourths mlllmn&‘ this year and the inhabitants of | St. Paul and St. George Islands th wu]\ and natives, are thriving rintendent in ()\'\n!e of seal fisheries, report- ed here yesterday. | Superintendent Christoffers visit- | ed briefly at Juneau during the Southbound voyage of the Bureau of Fisheries vessel Penguin Though a record number of skins, 60,200 were taken in the season just ended, killing was completed a week earlier than usual, Christoffers said. Besides 25 “blubberers” from the St. Louis fur factory, passengers aboard the Penguin included Den- nis Winn, former Alaska Agent of the Bureau of Fisheries, now re- tired. Winn has been spending the summer in Bristol Bay. He will |stop over at Ketchikan before re- | turning to his home in New Hamp- shire. GOV. TROY BACK AT DESK; LOOKS FINE, FEELS FINE | Gov. John W. Troy, Ilooking younger and livelier than he has |in years, was back at his desk in the Capital today after a vacation | at Bell Island. The Governor flew to Juneau yesterday afternoon with Alex Hol- den from the Behm Canal resort. >ee - OREGON JUSTICE VISITS ALEXANDER Judge Joseph Bailey, Associate ! Justice of the Supreme Court of the | | State of Oregon, visited here tods with District Judge George F. Ale: ander, a friend from the days vmx-n‘ both were in the courts of OH‘LUH together. Judge Bailey is a round- | tripper on the steamer Cu!\uubm i Leewl ti MAN WITH BROKEN | lEG FlOWN HER Alex Holden took off this after- for Windham Bay with a Airways seaplane on an| ency flight to bring in a man | with a broken leg. The man’s name was not known but it was understood he was in- jured in an accident at the Wind- ham Bay mining property where placer developers are building a road Holden was due in with his pas- senger at 4 o'clock this afternoon Dr. W. W. Council was to attend the patient. - - - VISITOR LEAVES Elizabeth Parslow, Los Angele school teacher who has been visit- ing here for a month, left for her home today on the Princess Alice 'WRANGELL FISH | with the CONCERN SUED FOR $197,944 Pacific American Fisheries Movesto Foreclose on Mortgage a case involving the largest sum in ny months here, Pa- cific American Fisheries filed suit in District Court this ternoon against the Diamond K Packin Company. PAF. is close on a takir n to f promissary note se- cured by a mortg on Diamond K property. The amount sought in the suit is $197,944.244 The Diamond K plant is at Wrangell HOPKINS FEELS BUSINESS WILL HIT NEW HIGHS Says Recovery Movement Is Still Progressing on lts Upswing WASHINGTON, Aug seere- tary of Commerce Harry Hopkin today sald business progress in continuation of moveme that located started in M'\\ Activity in all major lines is well ahead of a year ago, Hopkins said, and prospects for third quarter | business have improved | Hopkins said that business poli- cies generally reflect less hesitancy | in retailer commitments from wholesale markets, and with indu trial purchasing and expanded con- struction activities at a seasonal peak, activity in industry {hopes of being even greater ll the summer of 1937. e e 'KUGRUK MINES IN(ORPORATED Mines, Inc than porated today Territorial Auditor by Karl Theile of Wrangell and Ed- ward W. Allen and Gerald De-| armo of Seattle ’ was inc 1P minir Nor busins Cap Besides Theile members of the Board of Directors are J. N. Gilbert of Seattle, Al Schwabacher of San Francisco Mortimer Fleishhacker Sr., of San | Francisco. | Also filed with the Auditor today was an claring the Choggiung ity District a district Territorial law. -+ — Sleeping sickness in horses ap- parently is caused by mosquitoes and other blood-sucking insects, palholom%s say. Territorial order de- Public Util- under the Dazly C rossword Puzzle ACROSS . Mineral spring Solution of Yesterdzy’s Puzzle 8 ord 9. Courses of bublie life Cleansing agent S . Qutfit . Land measure . Pronoun 3. Century plant . Type meas sures . Pitchers City in Ohlo . Profit . Playing cara 6. ‘Merchandise Invite Moisten . Bitter vetch . Metric mea- . Units of work . Fixed charges Exchange Was aware . Lie in warmth . Female sheep PN w[>[F[Hu] >Nm T |4m ? ZNZ > m[n sure of ca- pacity . Passageway Uncle: Soutk Ancient city in African . Esctasy . Shake Timbers sup~ porting & Antenna * . Goddess of the hearth Toward the ZEEAP m<|=[pm nm®O|— floo! Coolk with dry heat e A L E R C . Three: prefix Al T E R s left side of a vessel eat . Enthusiastic devotees: 49. Wil plum 51 One third ot 44 Across 62. Fleet animal 53. Sea bird bd. Soore at base- number One with a 55. an indebwd dread dis- 56. Part ease Faithful slang . Demon . Always Molten rock Second odd 57. nghl l‘eDast ANEN o8 Hllfll%fllfl-l/% JEEE . JNEN - dudd o EEEE JEE lll’///flll//fl %/‘/fl/gflll | ] . Place where a trial is held . Scene of tion . Pay attention to . Device for re- fracting light rays 47. L‘vnn ir DOWN . Marine fish . Kind of nut . Rugged moun- tain ridge . Proverbs . Leaf of the palmyra ac- palm 6. Large arteries H . Equals Klller whale . 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) . beginuing at to moderate v: day (North portion) Rain tonight and riable winds, becoming moderate sh southerly wind over Lynn Canal. tonight and Wednesday; gentle var- cast for Juneau and Vie Rain tonight and Wednesday; gent coming moderate southe Wedno: Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Wedne ; gentle to moderate v southeast Wednesday, except fr (South portion) Generally fair fable win Forccast of winds Moderate southwest trance to Cape from Cape Ommaney 30 p.m. Aug.§: riable winds, be- of the Gulf of Alaska: En- winds along the winds tonight and Wednesday from Dixon Ommaney and modzrate east and southeast, to Cape Hinchinbrook. coast LOCAL DATA i Weather Overcast Overcast Overcast Time 3:30 p.m 3:30 a.am Noon today Barometer ‘Temo. Humidity wina Velocity yest'y 3 62 57 ] 3 today 30. 54 93 Calm 30.19 60 83 sw REPORTS TODAY ax. tempt. Lowest 3:30a.m. Precip. 3:30a.m. Station last 24 hours temp. temp. 24 hours Weather Anchorage 5 53 54 .05 Cloudy Barrow 67 49 49 Pt. Cldy Nome b4 51 53 14 Rain Bethel 55 | 45 .04 Pt. Cldy Fairbanks 69 52 52 x Cloudy Dawson 68 46 .06 Pt. Cldy St. Paul Dutch Harbor 5 42 ¥y Overcast Kodiak 49 15 Rain Cordova 3 49 . Overcast Juneau e 0 Overcast Sitka 52 Ketchikan ... | 50 Prince Rupert 42 Edmonton - 38 Seattle | Portland i 61 San Francisco % 56 RADIO Clear Clear Clear Clear Clear “ Quercast WEATHER SYNOPS area that was notel yesterda morning a short dis- Kodiak Islard has moved southweseward and the North Pacific Ocean at latitude derees, the lowest reported pressure being 20.20 inches. High baromet ic pressure prevailed from Cordova scutheastward to Brm"l Columbia. This general pressure distribu- tion has been attend by precip tation over the Gulf of Alaska and cver the western portion of th ritory and by generally fair weather from Wrangell soutk rd to California. 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