The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 17, 1939, Page 6

IHh DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FHURbDAY AUGUST 17, 1939. By GEORGE McMANUS RS R L GET A DOCTOR- QUICK -NMY EVYE WON'T SHLT= BRINGING UP FATHER OH MOTHER- T'S REALLY VERY BECOMING T N~ ’ OH- 1T COMES hATUPAL MY-1 REALLY DON'T KNOW HOW | EVER GOT ALONG WITHOUT A MONOCLE-! HAVE WORN IT AL L _DAY- ’ BY - JOVE ~YOU - REALLY LOOK | CHARMING WITH | THAT MONOCLE- | 'M PROUD OF Y H CHILDREN - AND DO CALL AGAIN - YOU MOT HER-IN-L AW- i MUST HAVE TEA WITH ME- MARINE NEW®S PAAELECTRA FLYING HERE : Pacific Alaska Alrways plane was scheduled to arrive at the airport at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon from Fairbanks with six passeng Pi- Jots Knox and Savory were in com- many Passengers making the are Mrs. W. A. Castleton Steele, James Carroll, M den, Charles Mespelt and H - TAKU IN PORT CARRYING SIX ROUNDTRIPPERS Steamer Taku tied up at Fem- mer's Dock yesterday afternoon with six round-trip passengers from Se- attle and four whose destination was Juneau. The six round-trippers toria Simpson, Mr. and Mrs., ard Gasser, Paul Beauchene, Jeannette Beauchene and Mrs. A, .Shellgren. Bound for Juneau from Seattle were Mr. and Mrs. V. J. Newell and Mrs. E. Eckstrom. At Wrangell R. H Henry Roden, attorney, Taku, ‘The ship, which with ship, Tyee, probably will be on the southeast aska run winter, sailed for a before turning to Seattle. R BRIDGE LUNCHEON | BY MRS. VOLLERT Mrs. E. F. Volert was hostess to 20 guests yesterday at a bridge luncheon held in the Iris Room of the Baranof Hotel Lace tablecloths formed ting for the vari-colored dragons. Prizes were won by Mrs Keyser, first, Mrs. J. F. Wor second, Mrs. Edith Riley Rowe, consolation, and Mrs. W. W. Coun- | cit, uvuhmg prize B e 3 HALIBUTERS SELL, SEATTLE SEATTLE, Aug. 17.—Halibuters selling here today are as follow All vessels from the western hanks: ' Bernice 25,000 pounds, 11 3-4 -and 10% cents a pound; Federal 25,000 pounds, 122 and 11 cents; Sunset 36,000 pounds, 12'% and 11 cents - T0 BROADCAST WORlD SERIE CHICAGO, IH Aug 11— Judge Landis anncunced today that ox- clusive broadcasting rights for the 1939 world series had been a i- ed to the Mutual Broadcasting sys- tem. The broadcasts will be sponrs sored by the Gillett Safety Razor Company. In previous world series broadcasts have been open to all networks trip out Mrs. Don D. Mad- Kelly were, Vic- Rich- Mi: E Stock and boarded the its sister kept all Sit re- set- snap a | | D Mrs. Fred Lewis Visits Daughte | hanks aughter Mrs. Fred Lewis, of F accompanied by her grandd Mary Lewis, of San Pr Cal., is visiting here this week with her daughter, Mrs. Ike P. Taylor Mrs. Lewis expeets to remain here until Saturday, leaving on the Barano! for Fairbank will spend the winter. - MARY JOYCE AT BARANOF whete sne Mary Ji evening from her Taku Loc is registered at the Baran she will visti for a few da Ac- companying her were Mrs. Eric Smith and Mrs, G. M. Bradshaw e and where | & Columbia rcisco, | e .u“\md in Juncau last SteaMER MOVEMENTS NORTHBOUND e Prince Rupert scheduled to*ar- rive at 6 o'clock tonight. . Alusk;\ scheduled to arrive Sat- e urday 2 a. m. Should have three days' mail aboard. ® Bara turday e Princ lotte scheduled to e arrive Saturday afternoon or e byening . SCHEDULED SAILINGS e Northland scheduled to sail e from Seattle tomorrow at 10 e am sail at 9 scheduled to e from Seattle August 19 e am e Tyee scheduled to sail from e Seattle August 19 at 9 p. m e Princess Louise scheduled to e sail from Vancouver August e 19 at 9 p. m. e Prince George scheduled to sail . from Vancouver August 21 e at9p m e Yukon scheduled to sail from e Seattle August 22 at 9 a. m. e North Sea scheduled to sail . from Seattle August 26 at 10 e am @ Taku scheduled to sail from Seattle August 25 at 9 p. m. SOUTHBOUND SAILINGS Princess Alice scheduled to ar- rive at 6 o'clock tomorrow morning and sails south at 8a. m Mount McKinley is scheduled e, t oarrive at 6 o'clock tomor- row night and sails south at 8 o'clock. Prince Robert scheduled to ar- rive at 6 o'clock Saturday e morning and sails south at 8 @ e am e Aleutian scheduled southbound e Sunday ’ LOCAL SAILINGS » Estebeth scheduled to selil every e Wednesday at 6 p.m. for Sit- e ka and wayports. ® Dart leaves every Wednesday » &t 7am. for Petersburg, Port o Alexander, Kake and way ® ports. s e0c0 00000 0o eesecsscn o0 TipEs ToMORROW High tide—2:52 am,, Low tide—9:00 am,, High tide—3:14 pm, 186 feet. Low tide—9:30 p.m. -13 feet. RO S 18.1 feet -19 feet. PRINCE ROBERT ~ON LAST TRIP Has 318 Aboard-Will Tie- up for Winter at Rupert The steamer Prince rived in Juneau from Vancouver| Wednesday afternoon on her las trip of the season, and left at mid- | night for Skagway and, subsequent- ly, the return to Prince Rupert, via Juneau, where she will be tied up for the winter. She had a passenger list of 318 persons. The Prince Robert has been on the Canadian National’'s Southeast Alaska run for the past four years and now is a permanent fixture in Robert ar- the summer life of the Inside Pas-| sage and the Coast ports. Nearly the entire passenger list on this last run were making the round-trip cruise. The vessel will stop in Juneau for two hours on Saturday morning on her way South, - BARANOF HAS 12 PASSENGERS ' FOR THIS PORT SEATTLE, Aug. 17.—Steamer B:lr- ancf, of the Alaska Steamship Com- pany, sailed for Alaska ports at 7 o'clock last night with 111 class and five steerage passengers oard Passengers booked for Juneau in- clude Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Desmond, V L. Thorne, Claude Bauer, Mrs. Helen D. Hawley, R Anderson, Duggan, 0900000000000 000000s00e0s00000000000 o first| Guard cutter Haida, is leaving to- David Wallace, | W Mrs, 168 Tourists Are on Board Prince Rupefll Canadian National steamer Prince Rupert is scheduled to arrive in port at 6 o'clock tonight from Vancou- [ ver. Passengers booked for Juneau are P. Quain, Richard E. Moore, s. Lindegaard and baby Peggy, Miss Florence Rost There are 168 tourists aboard in- cluding 13 of the Berry Tours, and 28 of the Sciots Tours. The Prince Rupert stopped at Taku this afternoon at 3:45 o'clock to discharge five tons of freight 5 Are Flown Out fo Sitka Marine Airways pilot Alex Holden took five passengers to Sitka this |morning and was expected to re- turn sometime this afternoon with (an incoming load. Those on the ioutgoing trip were Dr. and i Cheesman, Mrs. H. J. Nesta, | Freeburn and Harry Lundell Shell Simmons, flying for Al- ®|aska Afr Transport, took Heinie ‘Mlcll()d and Emmet Thompson, 'both of the Royal Blue, Cab Co., on a round Lrlp to Hawk Inlet SHIP lAUN(HED PREMATURELY: 1 WOMAN KILLED Britain’s $15,000,000 Air- craft Carrier in Run- | away Down Ways | BELFAST, Aug. 17.—One woman — | was killed and 20 persons injufed | when Great Britain's newest. air- icrarl carrier, . 23,000-ton vessel, | burst her . supporting cradle and | made a runaway launching in Bel- | fast. Slough. 4 The $15,000,000 vessel slld into the water prematurely, hurling blocks of wood supporting her keel | among.. thes thousands of persens | gathered for the launching. Lady Wood, wife of British Air Minister Sir, Kingsley, Wood, man- | aged to break the traditional bhottle of wine on the receding, bov: of, the vessel as it started. sliding away., in some unexplair.d manner, Scores of shipwrights. below e vessel to aeot in freeing her were given a warhing, and raced to | safety as the craale crashed ahout| them. Larry » -1 | | | | | | e (G-Men Are Still on mdmdu Gise bailiess War Jage G-Men are still at work in !he, investigation of the wreck of the /| streamlined train, City . of Saun | Prancisco. It -had . been. apnounced . earlier | that the Federal agents had been; withdrawn and that they had found ne evidence to support charges of the Southern Pacific officials that the wreck which cost more than a’ score of lives resulted, from sa- botage, An order has been broadcast by | police, ordering the arrest of an |escaped inmate from ton State institution, He was believed to have been in the vicinity of the wreck and ft \u-n thought that his mental dis- crder might possibly haye forced Jmn to commit a crime of this | | type. Alkert Frey. it Mn\ (,OBEI!L!LY LEAVES Mrs. Frank Coberley, wife of the Chief Boatswain mate on the Coast ! morrow on the Princess Alice for a Washing-1 SOUTHEAST PA(K ‘POOR AS SEASON DRAWS T0 CLOSE District 300,000 Cases Be- hind Last Year-Only Wrangell Ahead As the season nears an end, the salmon pack in Southeast Alaska is about 300,000 cases behind last year, according to reports to the Bureau of Fisheries for the week ending August 12, The pack to date is 1,078,620 cases as comy °d to 1,316,125 the same date in 1938. Wrangell alone in the district shows a gain, having packed almost twice as many salmon as last year The Eastern District pack is with- in a few es of last year's. But all other districts show losses. The pack, by districts and species is as follows Yakutat: Kings Reds Cohoes Pinks Chums 1.564 24,341 13 1,295 3 27,216 31,449 Total Last year Ketchikan: Kings Reds Cohoes Pinks Chums 138 39,152 8,003 265 985 33,208 346,486 462,790 Total Last year Wrangell: Kings Reds Cohoes Pinks Chums 18 14.211 4,189 152,676 20,146 'LL_TAKE IT OUT NOW-5S0 = LITTLE NAP- Leslie Succumbs in His Race with Death Preston Leslie, a passenger aboard the Canadian National liner Prince Robert, when she left Vancouver JAMES C. COBPEB C.P A ROOM 1 SHATTUCK BUILDING for Alaska last week, and who was removed from the ship to a hospital | at Prince Rupert after being seri-| ously stricken with pneumonia, died | there on Tuesday, according to of-| ficers aboard the liner, which reached Juneau yesterday. Mr. Leslie, who was State Inheritance Tax was 60 years old, and was making the trip with his son, Harry, 19, from whom he had heen separated | far 12 years, This was the first time they had seen each other during, that period. ! Mr. Leslie was taken ill when the | Prince Robert was only a few hours | out of Vancouver, and the vessel| speeded at 24 knots to Prince Ru-| pert, where she arrived eight and | one-half hours ahead of schedule Sunday night, in order to transfer the stricken man to the hospital. With him when he died were his son and Ray L. Riley, San Francisco business man, who left the ship with ! Mr. Leslie at the British Columbia port. .- Two-fon Symphony NEWARK, Aug. 17.—Benny Davis, who wrote among other things a song called “Margie,” is working on' a melody which, when published, will be entitled “Two-Ton Tony,” in honor of the Gallant Galento. 1 1 The P;r!e—ctufnday Bt BARANOF Baked King Salmon with Drawn Butter 191,840 119,034 Total Last year West Coast: Reds Cohoes Pinks Chums 3,561 4,995 50,988 8,309 77,843 114,700 | Totals Last year Strait: Kings ... Reds Gohges Pinks Chums 151 46,103 3,437/ 67,772 40,057 157,520 243,297 Total Last year Eastern:, Kings Reds Cohoes Pinks Chums 207 11,026 2,121 140,792 30,509 184,655 187,385 Total Last year Western: .. Reds Cohoes Pinks Chums 35 19,082 1,798 41,370 30,775 93,060 157,470 Total ,, Last year Grand, Total: 2,113 167,466 25,156 720,878 163,007 pone 1,078,620 Last year 1,316,126 S eee Surprise Shower " Honors Bride-fo-Be Misses Jeanette Whittier and Belle Wassvick were hostesses last night at a dessert bridge, surprise kitchen shower honoring Miss Clara Carpentar, bride-elect of Dr. Judson ‘Whittier, The affair was held at the M. S. Whittier residence on Distin Ayenue, Twenty-five guests were assembled for the occasion. Miss Mary Vander- Leest won the first prize at bridge while Miss Jean VanderLeest placed second. Winners for bingo were Miss Clara Walther, first, and Mrs. John Halm, second. ————— {an extended trip to the States. While south, Mrs. Coberley will visit with relatives In Oregon. > MRS, COPE RETURNING Mrs. Alice Cope and two chil- both of whom have been 51aying al Glara Duggan, Mrs. Alice Cope and dren are aboard the steamer Bar- Miss Joyce’s lodge. two children, anof coming to Juneau, Impressions are being made of writings on inscription rock in El Morro natfonal monument, New Mexico, to assure permanent pres- ervation of the record of south- western culture, The Book ALASKA, Revised and Enlarged, Now On Sale; $1.00. GREEN TOP CABS—PHONE 678 BUY GREEN TOP RIDE COUPON BOOKS: 98.25 in rides for $5.00 $3.00 in rides for $2.50 PR DA S FOBD AGENCY (Authorized Dealers) GREASES Foot of Main Street GAS — OIL8 Juneau Motors FAMILY SHOE STORE “Juneau’s Oldest Exclu- sive Shoe Store” Beward Lou Hudson Street Manager <THE SIGN OF DEPENDABLE SERVICE U. S. AIRMAIL AIR EXPRESS SERVICE Juneau-Fairbanks Bethel-Nome (Summer S8chedule—Effective June READ DOWN READ UP Tuesday and Thursday and Saturday Baturday 10:00/Lv. Juneau ___ —Ar.| 2:30 11:00/Ar. Whitehorse | 1:30 11:20.Lv. Whitehorse 1:30[Ar. Pairbanks Thursday and Monday 8:00/Lv. Fairbanks 9:30/Ar. Ruby _ 9:50[Lv. Ruby __ 11:00/Ar. Nome Monday and ‘Thursd: Wegdnesday 8:00(Lv. Fairbanks _________Ar.| §:00 10:45/Ar. Flat e —r 2:45 11:00(Lv. Flat 2: 12:30(Ar. Bethel s ) T PACIFIC ALASKA AIRWAYS, Inc. PHONE: 106 Traffic Representative LOUIS A. DELEBECQUE p————————————— ] Lunch at the ‘ | | vl 9:00 J L 4 | vpen Evenings Phone 907 AL THE SHOE DOCTOR Bhoes, Clothing, Guns, Ammunition 278 So. Franklin St. Juneau, Alaska FOR RENT CARS | DRIVE-IT-YOURSELF Reasonable Rates—Gas Included H. SAILING SCHEDULE' Leave Seattle Aug. 9 w...Aug, 12 ...Aug. 15 ..Aug. 16 Aug. 19 Aug. 22 Aug. 23 Aug. 26 Due Juneau Due Juneau Northbound Southbound 12 Aug. 18 15 Aug. 20 Aug. 19 Aug. 2t Aug. 19 Aug. 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Mail Carrier Leaves Ferry Slip, Juneau, every Wednesday at 7 a.m. ? For PETERSBURG, KARE, PORT ALEXANDER and WAY PORTS For Information Haugen Transportation Co. Red 811 Freight must be on city dock not later than 4 P. M. Tuesday ALASKA MAIIIIIE AIIIWAYS—U S. H AlIL 2-Way Radio Communication Authorized Carrier SCHEDULED PASSENGER AIRLINE SERVICE SEAPLANE CHARTER SERVICE—ANY PLACE IN ALASKA HEADQUARTERS JUNEAU—PHONE 623 AL A N K A AIR TRANSPOBT Inc. All Planes PHONE 2-Way 612 Equipped | | NIGHT Operating Own Aeronautical Radio Station KANG ‘ HANGAR and SHOP in JUNEAU SEAPLANES FOR CHARTER [S— ‘5 B. H. BERTHOLL, SR. as a pala-up subscriber The Daily Alaska Empire 1s invited to present this coupon this evening at the box office of the CAPITOL THEATRE and receive 2 tickets to see: “ARMY GIRL" WATCHR THIS SPACE Your Name May Appear Transportation Railivgs from Pier 7 Seaitle Leaves Seattle Aug. 18 Aug. 25 8. 8. TYEE 8. 8. 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