The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 17, 1939, Page 3

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Simply turn the dial ...it holds the cold you select regardless of changes in kitchen temperature. See it in the new 39 Westinghouse Refrigerators! You'll be money ahead with Westinghouse Refrigeration! EASY TERMS Parsons Electric Co. 140 So. Seward———Phone 161 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, AUGU ARMY PICTURE IS SHOWN FOR TONIGHT ONLY Foster Co-starred in Film at Capitol It's been, many a month since this reviewer has had anything to cheer about but that something to cheer about is in town and anyone who doesn’t join in that cheering and have himself, or herself, a rousing good time, has only them- selves to blame. We are referring to the grand bit of entertainment, Republic’s “Army Girl,” which is at the Capitol for the last times tonight. Don't ask us why we are so en- thusiastic about the film because we don’t believe we could tell you The picture is such a perfectly balanced production that it would be difficult to pick out any one ele- ment in the film as a standout. Perhaps it is just that fact—per- fectly balanced progluction — that makes it something to cheer about There’s a grand story that is filled with action—there's never a dull moment—and sparkling dia- logue. There’s two brands of humor —one that will bring a faint smile and one that will drag e hearty laugh out of you. There's pathos, drama and just a touch of melo- drama. Of romance, we don't be- lieve we have seen anylhing to compare to the love story that is unfolded in “Army Girl” since we first saw “Smiling Through.” JACKIE COOGAN IN SETTLEMENT OVER FINANCES Mother, Stepfather fo Split What Is Remaining of Kid Earnings LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 17— The kid of the silent screen, Jackie Coogan, has reached an agreement in his long fight with his mother and stepfather, Mr. and Mrs, Ar- thur Bernstein over his childhood earnings. Jackie earned Tour million dol- lars when he was the world’s lead- fng. child star. When he reached his majority he found most of the money had disappeared and. the Bernsteins refused to part with what was left. The property settlement is un- derstood to provide that Jackie and the Bernsteins will divide the $250,000 remnant of the fortune., B e > DOUGLAS NEWS WAHTO TO TEAGH AT LISIANSKI SCHOOL Arvo Wahto just received word that he will be located for the com- ing school term at Pelican City on Chichagof Island where he will be in charge of the Lisianski school new this year. His school last year was at Fish, Creek and at its clese he secured transfer to ome far to the Westward which the one at Pelican is now substituted for. T MRS. BAROUMES COMING Due to arrive aboard the Alaska is Mrs. James Baroumes fo spend a few weeks visiting her husband and daughter Agnes .at their St Ann’s Avenue residence here, The family also own their own hame in Ballard, Wash., where Mrs. Barou- mes keeps hpuse for two.other daughters, Helen and Nina, both of whom have positions in Seattle and are inexcellent health, it is report- ed, o — - LUNDELL TO SITKA After a couple of weeks visit at his home here, Harry Lundell left by plane this morning for Sitka where he will spend a few days with his sister Phyllis, and then continue on to Kimshan Cove where. he is employed. in-the assay office. MRS. CASHEN RETURNS FROM. VACATION TRIP “Bill” Cashen arrived on a recent boat from Seatile after enjoying a vacation trip to Seattle and San Francisco. He will visit with his mother, Mrs. Sadie Cashen, until time to return to his teaching post in the Anchorage 5chools. — - PICNICS SCHEDULED With a break in the weather, picnics will be muech_.in order, ac- cording to plans being made here. This afternoon a picnic was being staged in the Natatorium for the children of the Gospel Mission Sun- day school angd their parents, Mon- day the annual picnic marking the cloose of the cannery season will be given for the employees by the cannery officials. Aboard the ten- der Tulip Queen they expect to be taken to some point of Interest for their holiday. Then the second nice day, perhaps hext week, the Four H Club composed of 11 girls of Douglas has plans for a trip to Auk Bay for their picnic. - eee - Empire classifieds pay. Dail ; C rossword_Puzzle ACROSS Solption of Ye L Ploch & Cook with dry heat 9. Noise 12, Age 13. Senlor Mountaint comb. form . Kind of rapid dance . The letter & American hu- morist . Destiny . Channel in which (he tide sels . Device for v animal Type niensure Adversary Put a galf ball Into pluy 6. Rock Sheep Interprets: archale Fpistles > Decavs . Chop ALASKA;FIND MANY CHANGES BUT EXPECT T0 SEE MORE Handled Cwelve " Grow arowsy . Arablan sea- port . Also . River on which Somtle sH- |aska. They want to come back again, | soon—if we live long enough,’ | wistfully explained Thelr itinerary aboard the Prince | Robert calls for a trip to Skagway, | from which point they will take a | | day’s excursion on the White |and Yukon Route—an event which promises them as much excitement a trip outside in a modern streamliner would give Pock's Bad Boy. Then they return south Back to Portland. Back their photograph albums, To dig out the | evidence of 1886 and compare it | with that of 1939. To plan, perhap: | another trip into the last frontier to the land of their earliest trip- ping remembrance—"whose fjord have those of Norway beat a mile a trip which may take place next season, or the one following. In any event a future trip to Alaska. But| definitely. | +oe erday's Puzzle 22. Aromatic prin- ciple of vio- let root . In a line bumpkin One who starex open- mouthed . Cooks . Clineel nnoys . Fish of the farring fam y Néw: comb. form Stalk Low monoto- nous sound tn that place Roasting stake ikely Tury to the . Clock in-the form of & ship Masculine i tradiction Artificial imne . Take up again Antique Bustle E I L ATIE—— An Alaska of an eariier era—the Alaska which provided such Muses as John Muir and Robert W. Serv- jce with their first writing pap— was vividly recalled yesterday by two young women of 63 years, twin sisters from Portland, Ore., whose father was a dyed-in-the-wool pioneer in the roaring Alaskan 'Eighties, and who, in the dim reaches of the year 1886, made their first trip up the Inside Passage with their family and a collection of the “prospectin’est bunch of business men who ever went looking for trouble.” ‘With nostalgic glee these two yes- terday tensed themselves in one of the spacious lounges aboard the Prince Robert and talked about the days when Alaska was a place in which competition was “something fierce,” when the old medicine man in his blue shirt and pearl-whit; buttons was a man to be taken seri- ously, when the Chinese immigra- tion problem was becoming a na- tional issue and when, in short, Ju- neau, was a hamlet comprising a rambling collection of shacks with one main street, a village in which the bulk of the population lived in tents along the beach stretches of what today are the mud-flats below Willoughby Avenue and the reaches along the Thane Highway. Have Look-See The Misses Loewenberg, Ida and Zerlina, were haying a, look-see at Alaska for the first time in 53 years, looking back to a time when their father, Julius Loewenberg, President of the Merchants’ National Bank in Portland, also was. President of the old Northwest Trading Com- pany in what was then America’s most recently-acquired baby pos- sesston. Calmly they talked of such famous personages as Cdpt. John Carroll, Carl Spoon, the Koehler family and the founders of the tribe of Behrends; talked in a manner calculated to stir the imagination of the most lethargic scribe, to “rev” the pulse of the most practiced listener and make him wish he could turn back the pages of time and history and re-live with them a period which in the shade of the airplane and the radio has become to many even in this country a per- lod of fancy and, almost, fiction, en- hanced and multiplied by the facile pens of Service, Muir and Jack Lon- don. 5 is Land Here in 1886 Alded and abetted each by the other, the sisters Loewenberg re- counted their story of the summer of 1886 when, in the good ship An- con, a fusty old side-wheeler skip- pered by John Carroll, they dropped anchor in Gastineau Channel and looked out at a flat and dismal group of lean-tos and teepees—their first view at the impressionable age of ten years of what is now the capital city of America’s last frontier, “We had to be taken ashore in the ship's lifeboat,” Miss Zerlina explained. “Yes,” Miss Ida chimed in, “there were no docks in Juneau in those days.” Pausing every now and again as an additional wisp of their memories were pieced into the thread of conversation, the Loewenberg twins recalled that while they were port Capt. Carroll was ‘“very wor- ried about the fact that scowloads | of Chinese laborers were ferried across the channel under armed; guards to go to work in the old Treadwell Mine.” | “This,” they sald, “was because the Chinese at that time were being smuggled into the country in boat- loads. There was a good deal of agi-| tation against their working in the mine here and Capt. Carroll was {afraid there might be trouble be- |tween them, the natives and the white population of both Juneau and | ' Douglas.” { | Amazed at Progress The Misses Loewenberg confessed | themselves amazed at the progress |made by modern methods in Ju-‘ | neau during the past 53 years, as- | suring their interviewer that they |had expected little development | beyond an expansion of the shack | area and, possibly, the addition of jone or two semi-modern buildings. | They expressed themselves as being | enchanted with the Baranof Hotel, | complimented its sponsors and de- signers and architects on their good | taste, and went into ecstasy over the artistry of Sidney Lawrence, who | was responsible for the hotel’s decor. Too, the Territorial Museum cap- tured their fancy. “There is s0 much to be learned about the history of Alaska by the student, so very much that is of lasting interest to even the most casual visitor,” they murmured. Church Dispute Their trip has taken the sisters Loewenberg back to Sitka, which | they remembered from a bygone day : with great clarity, but they are dis- | appointed with what they consider an obvious attempt to delude the public into believing that the Rus- | slan. Church there is the same church into which they entered and rested and marvelled in 1886, “There were no cupolas on the church then,” they both averred. | “Today there are two. It isn't the same building. Then it was low and | rambling. Tt jsn't the same.” | Tt seems they expressed their doubts in this respect to an old-time shopkeeper in Sitka the other day and “excursions and alarums” were | the result in the one-time capital city. They were told in no uncertain terms that their memories were at | fault and that if they didn’t like it | ;,‘hey ct;u:d, in fact, Jump it. They | lave pictures in Porf i fland to prove | But there was one thing in Sitka which they testified had not changed, and that was the famous and colorful walk out of the town and over the little bridge across the | Indian River, “It was beautiful then,” they said. | “It is heavenly today.” They Ask Whys All in all these two “oldtimers, who today are as spry and interest- ed and full of life as they were 53 years ago, still like Alaska. But they wonder about the “whys” of a Country | development in this southeast sec- tor; the Why, also, of what they consider the exhorbitant prices of food and living accommodations; the | Why, too, of what they consider to | be a bad and consistently incomplete job of publicizing the Territory in | the States | But they still like, even love, Al-| been scored by Paramount to '(ORDOVA LUMBER i} ? MILL INCORPORATES The Roberts Lumber. Company, which will operate a sawmill in the Cordova district, was incorporated | today for $100,000 with the Terri-| torial Auditor. Incorporators, all| {of Cordova, are George Roberts, |C. T. Davis, William H. Liche, J.| H. Clauson, J. E. Young and T. M | Donohoe. | | - | 'YOUNG COLORADO ' MINE HEAD HERE ~ ON HONEYMOON A success story—with capital 8's dotted all over the place—was re-| |valed today in the return to Al-| |aska of Ward Terry, youthful gold | mining execytive, from Denver,| ‘Culn., who arrived in Juneau yes- {terday aboard the Prince Robert.| Nine years dgo Mr. Terry, who graduated from Yale University in {and that at some future date he! they | down showing tonight at the Coliseum Pass | Mary O | corporate name of The Slide Mine Juneau at this thne | ever, that he is keeping a weather | Cash Cole’s Jazz, which the (‘()uph*‘ (OLISEUM FEATURES "TOUCHDOWN, ARMY’ LAST TIMES TONIGHT| A motion picture touchdown has| in its| romance, “Touch-| which had its final| latest gridiron Army,” With some of Hollywood’s most talented younger players, including a | John Howard, Robert Cummings and | rlisle, scoring for new hon- | outhdown, Army” tells its| -moving tale of the home town | football idol who comes up against the hard realities of life at West | Point and emerges a true Army man. | Cummings, whose recent perform- ance as the Confederate officer in | 'he Texans” netted him a lead | role, gives a lively and convineing | port of the cocksure youngster | who comes to West Point thinking it just a glorified high school where | he can become the hero by means | of his prowess on the football field alone. ors, the seventh | is the eighth | the state of Inc., which now, in ar of its existence, largest gold mine in Colorado. The Slide Mr. : Mine, of which Terry is president, employe 80 men and to date has produced over $1,- 0,000 of gold The young executive’s visit to was prompted solely by the fact that he recently married and is, in fact, on his honeymoon. He admitted, how- eye open for new business venturos | might come back n to Alaska —this time on busines ! Tomorrow morning Terry and | his wife will leave Juneau aboard have chartered for a few days, and | will cruise in the Tracy Arm area where, if the weather is good, Mr | Terry expects to indulge his favor- ite hobby—amateur photography. NOME MINE Fl IS INCORPORATED McDuffee Mines, In¢., which'plans surance, he raised sufficient capi- | tal o] lode mining operations under the FEnlarged, Now On Sale; $1.00. | | tenyear schools and they all run eight months a year. We've got 304 stu- dents in our high schopl and 440 in the grades now. great many conditions. The Why, for instance, of a lack of l.gr)cuuumll 1929, came to the Territory tolearn to operate on Seward Peninsula, |7 something about | {in his time profitably in the Atlin torial Auditor by five residents of | district turned to the States, going to Den- ver, where he has lived ever since. mining, and put incorporated today with the Nome, McDuffee, Kinney, Gus H. Johnson, Almer R} deen and C, C. Tanner. Capitalizs tion is $200,000. -—ee Ralph After about a year he re- Ross J.| Borrowing money on his life in- to enable him to commence A CANDID TALK WITH— SERGEANT YORK . . “People don't talk about war down in the hills of Tennessee where I come from. They got too much to do. They're bus farming and working so hard. Lots of 'em don't take any pa- pers so they don’t know what's happening in Europe. And, any- way, when they get to talking they talk about livestock and farm problems. “It’s good farming country where I am, 90 miles from Knoxville, And it's good graz- ing country too-—blue grass like in Kentucky. I have tne same farm I wae borned on and my mother was borned on. My great, great granddaddy (his name was Coonrad Pile) got it from the Indians. “Besides farming I have two schools, the Alvin C. York Agri- cultural Institute and the Alvin C. York Bible School. I'm inter- ested in getting some good edu- cation for the people down there because I didn't get much myself. 1 went to all the schools we had in my day and that was about three months a year for 1 was educated in the ‘university of hard knocks'—that’s what we call it. But my kids, they’ve always gone to school eight months a year beca things have changed. ' “When I came back from the war I decided that what we needed was some schools so for years I made cross-country lecture tours, telling people about how we didn’t have much education, | and raising money. In 1926 I had enough money to start my Agri- cultural Institute—we tdok in all ages. After that I got after the | law-makers in the state, too, and now Tennessee’s got a lot more | WHO HE IS F YOU remember the big push of the Allies in 1918, you prob- ably remember Sergeant Alvin C. York. A Tennesseean who didn’t want to enlist in the U, S, Army because of religious prin- ciples, he accomplished the most amazing individual exploit of the war when, almost single- handed, he captured 132 mem- bers of a German machine-gun company. His unerring pistol shots mowed down 25 of the company. The others gave up. York himself is a descendant of German immigrants to the U. S, He has five sons and two daugh- ters and doesn’t think that’s a particularly large family, He plans to send his children to col- lege, expects his sons to become farmers, but won’t object if they don't. York is 52, looks younger. He weighs 250 pounds, but doesn’t look fat— just strong And he has the biggest hands you've ever seen, “Sure I belong to the American Legion, Mark Twain Post 137 in Jamestown, Tenn. That's my county seat. But we don't talk about war—we do philanthropic work.” ~MARY MORRIS, AP Feature Service Photographer. 12 The Book ALASKA, Revised and | Juneau's Greatest Show Value COLIS QWNED AND _OPERATED JOHN HOWARD MARY CARLISLE Robert Cummings William FrawleyBenny Baker Directed by KURT NEUMANN Vitaphone Musical News p b 4 Hla s The Perfect Friday Lunch at the BARANOF | Baked King Salmon with Drawn Butter When Your Appetite Demands Better Dinner— THE ROYAL CAFE Is the Place lo Eat! 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