The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 11, 1939, Page 6

BF”NFIN(‘ UP FATHER GRACIOUS! WHAT A NG WITH _ | BREEZE D | DONT OFF LAKE \w Y | THOL MICHIGAN = | THA }0 D THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, DEC. 11, 1939 By GEORGE McMANUS 1T | SAW WHERE IT GO - YOU WENT-LET — 'MARINE NEWS | | STEBNXER Movzmm'xs i GOlD BRI(K SWINDLE HAS ODDTURNING Yukon Going L] z &f s e e e s 0 8 w000 H e Northland scheduled to arrive » | FORT SUMNER, N. M, Dec. 11— ¢ A T R o |An allege gold bric swindle, e Mount McKinley scheduled. to .iv)uz\ umx mwl to produce a bur- e Ctarhoan. Mav have sov- e | ico Tanch hand, came tolight here g e PRl Ab « | today s SCHEDULED SAILI « | Allyere @it h Z o | bricks valued around ard this| o gaoyy m - 1, p. m .i“v‘ ession of the U. 8. Cust 8 ACTOSS | o o | El Paso as Federal agencies puzzle . o | over what to do r D o e| The secret service reported the Bew . « | silver bars were dug up on a ranch bl o . Big Springs, Tex., by Emmett E i ’ o ) Ferguson, & Fort Sumner | o . h hand, who overheard a con- K. Coltin. |, ~ o relating it 1 bee Jacobsen, | S osed] 1 B s, [o = : . supposedly a e o Baittie Decen o | Secret Service agent Emmett Har- ol-| g o | gett said the perpetrators of the € » SOUTHBOUND SAILINGS e |“gold brick” scheme were believed I Phillip Harland, Mr.| » No steamer Aorth o |to have swindled a wealthy West Mys. H. 1, J L. F. Jewett Texas banker and others of some LOCAL SAILIN « | $300,000. Bstebeth scheduled & . said, maintain- » Wednesday atl 6 p.m. for Sit- e | €C ilver by vi e ka and waynorts o |of digging it Pendng determ- ¢ Dart leaves cvery Wedn=sday ¢ on of the the treasure will » ay7am. for Petersburg, Port e in cu of the govern- * Alexander, Kake and way e |ment » ports The secret service uncovered the 6000000200 e o | swinde tale when Ferguson at- 2 _ | tempted to sell a dozen of the silver o bars at a bank in Lindsay, Okla | TiDES TO ORR”)W According to information obtained 5 i Y &by the secret service, gilded bricks f al actually were shown the High tide 1:54 a. m. 162 feet Vs B 3 gy Eaieutietia A truckload of spurious * For W ell—B. W. Willard = spofidi i sy ks” was dispatched to Houston For P ) M. Rhodes, F ; b ‘) i ‘H’ ool |for conversion into money, Hargett 3 o e 7% €% lsaid, but the truck never reached ikay John Covict its destination because of a myster- i, John McCormick icus “hi-jacking” at Houston, O Olson, M Robert Bender JUNE U piANFS Federal nts considered the pos- A. D len, G Mrs, N - {sibility the’silver bricks dug up by roast, Frar nd Mr me.'v»n were obtained in Mexico 1j Louring, J. E. Pegues, Donna | “come on.” p ewett, Robert Lee Jewett R L, William: Dotalas Alex Holden made two flights to e the Polaris-Taku mine today and ILING TIM 5 p'“N BER Passengers flyinz to Tulsequah son, L. McWilliam, William Bacon BEING (RU!SED ;\ 31‘:11:&1«};_‘(;4 ide Cummings and | jppusATEM Dec. 11—A sun- “,’[” ’};’“‘:‘:““‘{fl‘ W. Heaton. Alex|fish Weighing nearly a ton has ant R Joh Biact | Kiloh Avahle MIKEQs -Gard-icen<] L0 cAUbnb Uy Axal Dsherien o o Ad v Division of the For- nedy and Paul Sorenson. | the Mediterranean off Haifa. [ ! to Inner Poir Amundsen brought in E. E. Brom-| It 18 the only sun-fish caught ¢ he other side of Douplas Island. |ley from Hoonsh off the coast of Palestine since ¢ = Titlseht Porester to S {1870, and on that occasion the speciman which was netted weighed less than half Th ake Cropley, w 10 a ton. catch was made with close- 1ed D about 50 yards away rom the main breakwater in Hai- YUKON RIVERBOM ( OPERATOR THROUGH - TILL SOUTHBOUND — Harbor ~ Captain George Black, owner of The sun-fish has a body resem- Leo Ti been working 'a fleet of river boats on the Yukon |bling the fore pert of a larger W. J. I on the well and tributaries, passed through on |fish cut off short, and is so-called « Zone mine the the steamer Yukon today. He and pecause of its almost circular B hbound pas- Mrs. Black will nd the winter | shape € amer Yukon today. Outside > German Soldiers In Poland ! Hitler claims German casualties in the lightning war on Poland were infinitesimal, but not all of his soldiers escape as this Nazi graveyard near Warsaw attests. The marker over the graves reads “For Greater Germany % ¥ R A N e | Seward Lou Hudson ) YO Want fo | HOP OPEN i Street Manager | o u a evenings until Christmas. adv. | ¥ in i X & g i SRR | Be a (adet in the 3 . inal 0 SANITARY PLUMBING and | | Merchant Marine! CEVEIANGIAM | sesmvG cowpRNY | | 7 W. J. NIEMI, Owner | FER S FAMOUS HOTEL lis | ™ = | :l;{:“su.r:rnm;:ux?n ull: Let your plumbing worry be R. C. Je stores, with magnificent our worry.” Phone 1788. | day anr view of mountains and har-, | R e bor. 'Splendid food, verfect | o | mination ann comfort, convenience and: —=4 & United States M,\‘nlllm"* amae R es 860 50 | % x = * omm for engineer and deck ) | cadets in the Merchant Marine b graul Fies HOUSEHOLD The announcement declares the 4 Sarainiat Enest. APPLIANCES Merchant Marine is not a military ALASKANY LIKE THE i & service and placement as licensed Hotel flal'l'l “achlne shop officers after the four-year cadet — 2 training is dependent entirely upon NEW WASHINGTON R “Try Us First | Olson. d death on the battlefield, ] | FLECTRA BRINGS SEVEN YESTERDAY Pilots Bill Knox and Burton Lien flew in from Fairbanks yesterday with seven passengers while Al Mon- sen and Ralph Savory flew north , empty. Arrivals were D. Warner, Al Snyder, Ruth Cowles, P. J. Doherty, { B. O. ADAMS, Agent Fred Walden, G. E. Goudie, Carl | PRI AN R DR. STEV¥s, CHIROPODIST, Makes Arch Appliances to measure— | office, 10 Valentine Bldg. Phone 648 | | { GREEN TOP l CABS—PHONE 678 | BUY GREEN TOP RIDE || BAILING SCHLOULE . Leave Due Juneau Due Juneau * Steamer Seattle Northivound Southbound MT. McKINLEY Dec. 9 Dec. 12 Dec. 18 YUKON Dec. 2 Dec. 5 Dee. 12 YUKON Dec. 16 Dec. 19 Dec. 26 FOR OTHER INFORMATION AND RESERVATIONS THE ALASKA LINE ; Al'lska Sthmshlp Companv y}l?\/!(l CONCALI"ALTASKA- ROUTE, IT COSTS SO LITTLE .TO DRESS SMARTLY DEVLIN'S Case Lot Grocery “LOWEST PRICES BY FAR" Phone 704 240 So. Franklir COUPON BOOKS: $6.25 in rides for $5.00 $3.00 in rides for $2.50 [z SHOE STORE “Juneaw’s Oldest Exclus- sive Shoe Store” personal qualifications. For admission to examination AN & seeesmm—"——— applicant must be between the ages 4 WHEN YOU NEED of 18 and 25 and unmarried and i and. rigeiosk PLUMBING Further information may be ob- HEATING SHEET METAL WORK or tained at The Empire or from of- ficers of the cutter Haida. Appli- cations for examination must be pestmarked not later than Decem- ber 21. — | WELDING | NOTICE i Automobile licenses fall due Jan- CALL | uary 1. 1939 plates are now on| - sale. Buy now and avoid the last Rlce & Ahlers minute rush, | i oH. J. TURNER, | Exclusive Dealers adv. City Clerk. for = =7 o e '} Briggs’ “BEAUTYWARE" Try The Empire classifieds for| Plumbing Fixtures | results. PRxSONER ASKS War Beoms King Cotton HIGHER PAY JOB MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. vin O. Griffin, 22, viewed his prison term with a business-like eye when where prisoners earn only six 'a day, but to the state penumu- ary where they earn 50 cents a day The p judge to five pronounced years in - > ONLY 10 percent of Texas' 5, are in full production - - MOSAIC disease in melon vines manifests itself by turning the vine v and gnarled, MRS. JAY SMITH Is now prepared to give PRIVATE LESSONS in VOICE CULTURE Phone 238 or call at Methodist Parsonage Cotton, long a surplus headache, finds itself in the midst of a sudden boom as a result of the war. Here, the last of 8,000 bales are being stowed into the hold of an unnamed foreign freighter in New Orle shipment to an allied port. Change in the neutrality law, bar ships from war zone, caused 100,000 bales to pile up in New Qrle s houses and docks, _fld:“——v For Further Particulars. 11.—Mar- he came up for sentence on a burglary count | He asked the judge to commit him, not to the state reformatory 228.000 grapefruit and orange trees/ = 0l RAY= Y\* Burners QUAKER OIL RANGE PHONE 34 ‘ s SAN FRANCISCO'S Finest Moderately Priced Hotel 'OXFO EVERY ROOM WITH TUB & SHOWER PECR‘jEm 200 250 300 revsons 2:30 3:90 3,50 corrit snop & (oz(uu LouNGE e EXPERT T 1 THE SIGN OF 1 | DEPENDABLE | SHOE REPAIRING || SERVICE W‘ Years in the Business 1 U. S. AIRMAIL il : | Juneau-Fairhanks Bethel-Nome WINTER SCHEDUUE (BOWL READ DOWN READ TP | Tuesday and Wednesday and | de for Heolth and Pleasure e iy O RO .. .. Ar. Whitehorse Lv.| :20Lv. Whitehorse —_______Ar.| 1:30/Ar. Pairbanks _ ______ __ Lv.| l Thursday and | \\ ; “\ :gmd'hrbmx- __Th.'i‘;” oo | al lhe nmmswrcx ":%?zr’-am. o Is “"PACIFIC ALA ALASKA AIRWAYS, Inc. 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