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

Saves Lives of 32 DUCK SEASON T0 OPEN OCI. 1 FOR 45 DAYS Alaska Re—gmtions An- nounced from Washing- fon by Secy. lckes WASHINGTON 15.—Secre- tary of the Interior Harold L Ickes nounced a 45-day 1939, uth- dian Jixon Entrance opens October 1 and close November 15 Alaska south and west of the ok River, Na onal Mo indary Aleu- 150th from ernmost bo Islands and east meridian the & PASOn v Cynthia Chapin November 16 to December 30 In the remaind th Daughter of Robert D. Chapin, n Se Oc- | secretary of the Hartford, Conn,, ol National bank, Cynthia Chapin, 22, is being hailed as a heroine PRAPS following her brave efforts in sav- ing the lives of 32 companions clinging to a capsized yacht in Long Island sound off the Con- necticut shore. Miss Chapin swam for 45 minutes until her cries at- tracted the attention of a tugboat crew. JACK ROSS OF JUNEAU DROWNS IN FORTYMILE Details of Accident Told Marshal'5\Office by His.’a\ner Former Alaskans Return for Visit Returning to Afaska for the first time in twenty years, Mr. and Mrs A. G. Pendo. accompanied by thair surther details of the drowning ¢ Purther detalls O b e o ester. WO children, George and Nina of Jack Ross, w0t T reported Sailed from Seatle today aboard the O o 1T B ssarshal's office Liere Alasks o the U. 8 A oo partner Mrs. Pendo was Miss Ruby John- s ey S ith theqr Son of Douglas, and with her family on the trip which encec L L e will visit with her sisters, Mrs. Mar- boat overturning in Uhe y tin Lavenik and Mrs. Garland Bog- River = f gan, until September 5 (‘,rl'w);x'}n'! ‘UHIY“" =H“(1‘!Y‘;“' 5 _“”“‘ Since her departure from Alas- by truck from Valdez to Chistochin®, | ko mrs. Pendo has been living in flew to Chicken, built a boat and gouth Dakota. were prospecting down the Forty- B mile when the boat capsized July 29 in Canyon Rapids, 10 miles from . ¥ the vukon River. Ross was arown-| Y0CIa] (Oat ering ed. Gregerson walked nine mile E downstream to Fortymile and re- I H Id t D ' ported the tragedy to Ed Lister S e a Ugou Postmaster When Gregerson reached Dawson and reported the accident to tI Members of the An i Legion Mounted Police (the drowning oc- and Legion Auxiliary gathreed for a curred in Yukon Territory), a trap- social last evening mn the Dugout per and officer were sent back with With Russell Clithero, chairman in him to search for the body. They charge of the affair were unsuccessful Those present spent the evening Ross worked at the Alaska Ju- playing games 1 dancnig. Dur- neau mine until last February. He ing the latter part of the social is believed to have a brother and hours, refreshments were served ster in Chicago and is believed to - have money in the First National Bank at Seattle. ROBERTSONS KE Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Robertson turned to their Juneau home aboard the North Sea from Seattle. Miss Rosa Danner Is Returning Home Danner, Miss Rosa daughter of AT T 4 Mr. and, Mrs. George Danner, s Good Old Fashione | enroute home on the steamer Alaska | which sailed from Seattle teday. BEEP STEW and | She has spent the pas tseveral months in the States. | New Vegetables | iyt Tomorrow at the Baranof | “Alaskana” by Marie Drake at all e 4 book stores, 50 cents. L ; 7 AN 3, PROVED LOW-COST OPERATION! 10 HOURS OUT OF 12 it uses no current at all! . Kitchen-proved in thousands of bomes. .. under real home con- ditions...the famous Westing- house ECONOMIZER Mechanism sets the pace in operating efficiency and economy. Certified records show current consumption averages only 19 kilowatt hours per month running time averages only %. See the new Westinghouse Refrigerators, all powered by the thrifty ECONOMIZER mechanism. EASY TERMS Parsons EleciricCo. 140 So. Seward———Phone 161 Westinghouse REFRIGERATOR THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1939. 'TRADING DULL i - TODAY; PRICES j(° gre§s0n | ARE SLUGGISH Educafion s OpenedToday | Bond Market Im proves Slightly-Wheat Futures | ccionto Fiy Responsibil-| ity for Defense of Take Slight Decline Democracy | NEW YORK, Aug 15.—The bond market improved fractionally today | in quiet trading, no section of the | list outstanding. Foreign bonds rose about the same | as domestic issues. Railroads slmw-l industrialists are ed a good undertone. lumbia University The curb market closed fractions|opening of the Con s on Edu- to a point better today after a mod- | cation for Democracy. The meet- erately dull session. Stocks opened |ing at Columbia’s Teacher College strong on the curb and surged ahead | will last ' three day Persons in toward midday. However, the gains|charge estimate that 3,000 persons | were not held in full. In the after- | will attend the meetings. noon the market turned dull and| The purpose of the Congress has prices receded, but still held at| been outlined as to fix education's about yesterday's close. responsibility for the defense and | Stocks closed fractionally higher | advance of democracy. The meeting today after making a good bull up-|js the outgrowth of five previous ward about noon. conferences held at Teachers Col- The market opened higher and|jege by leaders in industry and shortly before midday surged Up-|education. The theme of the con- ward from large fractions to around’ gyess is “How Shall We Educate two points, however, trading tapered | ro; Citizenship in Democracy?” off in the afternoon and prices went Among prominent statesmen from | down by fractions to a point below | foreijon countries at the Congress, their highs. Most leaders retained | the former British Prime Min- | NEW YORK, dreds of educators, Aug. 15—Hun- | statesmen and | gathering at Co-| today for the| BIUSRIGHR o Fhe 08y ster Earl Baldwin of Bewdley and Prospects of a peaceful settle-| o former French Premier and ment of the Danzig crisis were cred- | pregigent of the Chamber of Depu- ited with improving sentiment. At Chicago wheat figures declined an eighth to a quarter of a cent per | pushed while corn lost a half to three quarters of a cent. September wheat closed at 647% to 65, Deecmber Both of | among persons re-| degrees at | of Columbia | Edouard Herriot will be honorary convocation today. ties, these ceiving | special | University bt G‘;” b M"l-v f"_'} G;’ “: BUTLER MAKES SPEECH | September corn finished at| ypw vopg Aug. 15—President| 2% to 42% and May corn at 45 e ¢ lumbia University b | the “Congress Education for Copper sold at 10% cents. Democrac; today that education - - JA \ cannot resist brute force. The meet- (ANOEING pAIR ing of educators, and industrialists | Butler of Ci was called to fix education respon- | | sibility for the defense of dr-mo-" | cracy. Dr. Butler made the address convening the three-day session on | the university campus. More than| the meetings. Dr. Butler told the S | assembly that both education and! Hopkins and Jaderholmldm seracy must have a moral foundation and an intellectual in- terpretation. Other speakers on| Report Historic Trail Is “Tough” [today's program included the his- | torian, Charles A. Beard, and the| | British economist, Lord Jonas Stap. | Hopkins and Jake Jaderholm, | Azt SR wanted to try Chilkoot Pass “to see MrS how tough it was in '98,” have just| completed crossing of the historic trail, they wired The Empire to- Juneau’s canoeing pair, Bert Skinner Is | Juneau Visitor day. The two said they shipped their Mrs. D. E. Skinner, mother of canoe to Whitehorse on the seventh, Gilbert Skinner, President of the then hiked from Skagway to Dyea Pacific Salmon Company, with their packs, and from Dyea to is visiting in Juneau this after- Bennett over Chilkoot Pass. noon. “Trail and bridges gone—going She is a passenger aboard the tough—took five days,” they wired, steamer North Sea, making the| GAME HUNTERS ON ALEUTIAN; MAY HUNT HERE Among prominent big game hunt- ers going through Juneau today on the steamer Aleutian, were three men planning to hunt in the In- terior for sheep and goat. They are Gordon Bennett, well| known professional world roaming photographer; Anton Hulman, of Hulman and Company, food manu- | facturers, of which Clabbergirl Bak- ing Powder is a product, and Robert Patterson, New York Stock Ex- change investment man. Patterson was in Southeast Al-| aska in 1935 with Juneau Guide Oscar Oberg on the Hyperien, and planning to stop off on the way south with his friends to have a short shoot with Oberg for more | bear. Hulman, like Bennett, making his first trip to Alaska, hopes to get in a little big game fishing in the Iliamna rainbow country. Big fish are Hulman's long suit. He has| taken a number of Field and Stream | prizes for his salt water fish| trophies. The party will fly to the Interior 300 miles from Anchorage, spend thirty days and return, probably stopping off a few d: in Juneau. - NORTHSEAIN PORT WITH 19 FOR THIS CITY Nineteen passengers arrived in| Juneau this afternoon aboard the steamer North Sea, which was posted to sail at 10:30 tonight for Seatile via Sitka. | Atrivals were C. W. Wright, Fred | Fant, Mrs. F. Fant, Ralph Rant, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Robertson, Mi Edith Sheelor, R. L. Howell, Mrs WILLEXPAND " ok witon AI.ASKA WORK First Congressional Fisher- o ies Investigator Is Bill Passes to Permit of| on Aleutian Strategic Mineral Investigations | (Continued cn Page Eight) | Congressman Mon C. Wallgren, | of Everett, Washington, first mem- ber of the Merchants Marine and Fisheries subcommittee appointed to study Alaska fisheries, to arrive in the Territory, was in Juneau to- day while the Aleutian was in port. P Representative Wallgren, who making his first trip north, is on propriation, but will not expand his | crew this year. | Further mineral study will be made in the Kenai Peninsula country of | ™ chromite deposits which were work- | 1S way to Nome and the country ed in a small way during the World | DOrth of the Arctic Circle. He will War, and also in Southeast Aln.skad“’t“m south to meet his fellow Antimony will be examined in the | COmmittee members at Mt. McKin- interior, near Lignite, on the Alaska|ley National Park the last of Aug- Railroad, and on Cleveland Penin- |USt an dattend the first committee sula, near Ketchikan. | hearings in Anchorage September Dr. Smith said he did not know |3 oF % how much would be spent in Alaska| Apparently the itinerary of the from the new appropriations, but|Congressional party has been chang- said “some” would naturally beled, Mr. Wallgren said, due, no spent, and all such expenditure|doubt to the late adjournment of would be in addition to the normal | Congress. The plan, now, is for the sixty or seventy thousand dollars|party, in which there will be ten, the U. S. Geological Survey spends|to go directly to the Park, start in Alaska each year. hearings in Anchorage and possibly From here, Dr. Smith is continu- | continue them in towns along the ing to the Westward. At Anchor-|coast on the way south. They will age, he will talk with A. Barnes, |DOt g0 to Bristol Bay, the Congress new geologist with the railroad,|man said, but will take testimony who is examining the Portage Bay |at their Alaska hearings, and in Se- area as to tunnel possibilities for 2ttle where their work will be com- the railroad cutoff. pleted. It is planned that the trip From Anchorage, Dr, Smith wil @nd additional hearings at Seattle continue to Fairbanks and then to| Will take about five weeks. Nome to confer with Mertie, | Representative Wallgren was em- - e 3 phatic in his praise of Congressman DEP Schuyler Otis Bland, Virginia, chair- Territory and will make an excel- he has never been to informed on the fisheries S. Guyot, C. R. Nystrom, Elizabeth Karnes, Jacob Korfus, Arthur Nel- son, Mrs. A. Nelson, F. Klepser,| Don Bradley, Gus Berg, E. A.John- | son, Jane Alexander. > MRS. VOGT GOES SOUTH ON LOUISE Mrs. Lillian Vout, housekeeper at the Baranof Hotel, sailed south | this morning on the steamer Princ- ess Louise on receiving news of the | passing of her husband in Seat- tle. Going south with Mrs. Vout w little Marja Schoettler, daughtes of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Schoettl Marja will visit with her grand parents in Seattle for the remain- | der of the summer. - e DYEATRALWORK man of the Merchant Marine and AT SEAIT" E | tent chairman for the study of Al- Fisheries committee and subcom- Heading for drydock at Seattle, askan fisheries,” he said mittee. “Though the Alaska Line freighter Depere | - sailed from Juneau at midnight last night. The Depere struck a rock IERR"ORM[ AND at the north end of Wrangell Nar- U B s i GOVERNMENT SCHOOL ing. % ercny, atter corgo was un.| . JEACHERS THROUGH Yesterday, after cargo was un- loaded to the Derblay, the Depere’s | Inspectors John M. Clark and John | teachers are passing through on Newmarker, who also looked over|almost every northbound steamer charts of the vessel's exterior pre- | at this season, headed for their pared by divers from the Salvage posts in Westward and Northern Extent of the damage will not Today, R. V. Puette, Territorial be known until after the Deepere | teacher at Ninilchik for the past goes into drydock. three years, passed through on the -~ =~ | Aleutian for Kenai where he will BUENOS AIRES—Rear Admiral Other teachers through today Leon Scaso, Minister of Marine, | were Mr. and Mrs. Lowell H. De- speaking of the Argentine navy's Moss of the Office of Indian Af- immediate needs, said none was | fairs school at Cordova. rows last Sunday and was beached hull was inspected by Steamboat Territortai and Government King. Alaska NAVY NO teach for the coming term more urgent than replacing its two| W. 8. Klockenteger, Territorial Alaska before, Mr. Bland is well| of the| QUITS OFFICE SACRAMENTO, Cal, Aug. 15. — The head of the California State Relief Administration, Dr, H. Dewey Anderson, has resigned following a long dispute with Gov. Olson. Anderson and the Governor have been at odds over various political matters for a long time. Several other aides of the.former administrator are also expected to quit, * AN 'PREDICTS G. 0. P. ~ VICTORY IN 40 SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. 15.— ! Republican Governor Ray Baldwin of Connecticut predicted a G.O.P. victory in the 1940 presidential elec~ tion as he paid a visit to the San Prancisco fair, The governor, who balanced Con- necticut’s budget during his first year in office, has been mentioned as a possible Republican presiden- tial candidate. ~ | NURSE FOR CHITINA The Office of Indian Affairs in- formed Delegate Dimond that in }line with his request that a nurse | be stationed at Chitina for work with the natives, arrangements have been made for Miss Clara Cunning- |ham to transfer from her present |duties in the Indian field service |in Colorado to take the station at ‘Chitina. | DIVORCE CASE Suit for divorcg on grounds of | non-support was filed in District |Court today by Fanny Cashen of | Sitka against Lawrence Cashen. —————— MEHERIN SOUTH | Mrs. J. J. Meherin sailed south {on the Princess Louise this morn- ling for a brief visit in Seattle. B | MRS. GEORGE LEAVES | Mrs. Wallis S. George, accom. | panied by her daughter Maydelle, |left on the Princess Louise for ‘\mil in the south. | R T i GAME HUNTERS HERE | G. E. Hovey, H. E. Hovey, prom- inent Eastern chain store opera- |tors and their friend Lyle Kingery, are passeng on the Aleutian for ‘Lhe Westward. They will hunt bear iin the Alaska Peninsula country. ., (ranberries 0pén - New Industry for | Malanuska Colony | ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 15. |L. c. stock, Matanuska Marketi | Association ~Manager, announces | that he will statt within 10 days buying colonists’ cranberries, plan- ning to ship them to the States. arriving in Bennett on the 12th. T0 COMMENCE SOON | roundtrip, accompanying her grand- | | | ccC workmen will begin work| jshortly on extending a trail from | | sSkagway to Dyea, ghost city once |inhabited by thousands of gold- | seekers. The present trail extends| 'SWEDISH REINDEER HI.MS SHOWN HER from Skagway halfway to Dyea.| | The crew will begin work on the Northern | other end, working from Dyea. were District Ranger W. A. Chipper- shown at the Baranof Hotel last field and Assistant Architect Linn | SR (S R FISHERIES PROBER DR- HUBBS ARRIVES night by Dr. Ethel Lindgren of Forrest of the Forest Service Ileft | Cambridge, England, to an audi-today on the Forester for Skagway Dr. Carl L. Hubbs, who has been ence of about 20 officials of the to plan the work and to make ar- making a personal investigation of Office of Indian Affairs, Alaska rangements for construction of Alaska fisheries for Secretary of the Game Commission and Forest Ser-|picnic grounds and other recrea- Interior Harold L. Ickes, was due vice. | tlonal. improvaments. t oarrive in Juneau this afternoon Dr. Lindgren is in Alaska scout- - 233 | on the Bureau of Fisheries vessel ing out the possibilities of settling PLANNING SHOOT | Brant ‘from the Westward. The European refugees in the Te)'“-; John Utterstrom, well known big Brant was at Yakutat yesterday. tory. game hunter and writer, who oper- How long Dr. Hubbs plans to re- ates the Swedish Smorgaasbord in main here is not known. | | Seattle, is a passenger on the Aleu- = S G T | tian for the Westward and a big AIRCRAFT MAN HERE | WOODSTOCK, Ont. — Farmers game hunt. Mr. and Mrs. Edmond R. Doak, of never have liked daylight saving| —aee—— Los Angeles, California, are pas-| but some near here propose putting | PROM NT TOURISTS sengers on the Yukon, planning to their clocks back an hour for the| Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Clement are make the Golden Belt Tour. Doak harvesting season, thus being two making the round trip on the Aleu- is Vice-President of the Douglas hours behind daylight time. ;tian Clement is President of the Aircraft Corporation. — - Pennsylvania Railroad, holding what - eee Empire Want Ads Bring Results. 1 is acknowledged to be one of the Empire Want Ads Bring Results. Empire Want Ads Bring Results. biggest jobs in the United States. FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST JUNEAU, ALASKA From there the two plan to pad- daughters, Sally Skinner and Fran-| dle down the Yukon and up to Fair- cis Edris. | banks via the Tanana River and Chena Slough. Tt is understood the Royal Mounted Police will not. pes mit them to “shoot” the Whitehorse Rapids. | S Motion pictures of | Sweden’s reindeer industry - CLOCK-WATCHERS Announces a FREE LECTURE | CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ‘ Paul A. Harsch, C. S. B. Member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts Scottish Rite Temple JUNEAU, ALASKA THIS EVENING AT 8 O'CLOCK THE PUBLIC IS CORDIALLY INVITED TO ATTEND 3 v Stock predicts a new industry that , the Rivadavia |teacher at Wasilla, was through' wil] average $20,000 annually is in yesterday with his daughter Ardis. sight for the colony. line-of-battle ships and the Moreno. For a BRIGHTER Home! NIGHT-TIME DAYLIGHT Now with NEW Fluorescent Lamps! INCLUDED IN A BIG SHIP- MENT OF NEW LAMPS JUST ARRIVED ARE MANY DESIGNED FOR AND EQUIP- PED WITH FLUORESCENT TUBING. They're the most advanced *and modern of lamps. They give a brighter, whiter (or any of several colors) light, they save you money on your lighting bills— THEY'RE THE NEAREST THING TO DAYLIGHT! See these fluorescent lamps here now on display in a var- ' jety of styles, easy prices. ALSO: Lamps by the Score! 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