The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 2, 1940, Page 8

S —_ P 4 WYEI(OFF B[(K ' An Ohio Relief Row Victim AFTER BOOSTING = ALASKA LUMBER Use of Timbe—r,—Peai, Shin- gles Promoted by For- est Service Man J. M \\wkorr men\bor of the For- est Service Regional Office staff who has been on the Pacific Coast for the past two years investigating the possibilities for increasing the use of Alaska forest products, re-| turned to headquarters here today. Wyckoff has been in contact \\'x(h“ A and Navy officials and con-| tractors on the Sitka and Kodiak | bases and the Fairbanks airport to | promote a greater use of Alaska | lumber in Government projetcs. Ceda: shingle manufacturers in vest were interviewed and in starting mills in Al- also looked into the | | | Betty Bucher, 15, stands on guard beside the belongings of her family, evicted from their home in Toledo, Ohio, when a shortage in relief funds prevented assistance. Toledo authorities are classifying the needy there o that the little money that is available can be distributed to the most | needy cases. suddenly last Thursday in Cor- cedar for furniture, battery dova, before her daughter, an ators and other purposes. employee of the Juneau Dairies, Peat Progress Inc., could reach her bedside. | Representatives of one of several Her remains are being taken to peat exporting firms interested in| Topeka, Kansas, for burial. using Alaska peat to take the place Robert Cunningham is in charge of the product formerly imported |of the Cordova Drug Company and !from Germany will come to Peters- | before going to the Westward two| burg next week to start an inves- | years ago was at Guy Smith's Drug tigation of the large peat deposits | Store in Juneau. just outside the city. The Forest | ——————— vellow separ- chances for using Alaska SALES Every Month in the Year AUCTION SALES DATES 1940 Service a few weeks ago sent a sam- | January 17 July 17 ple shipment of one ton which was Annual S(ofllsh | Pebrusry 16 August 14 u»sc:d l;y the importers and found | | March 13 September 11 to be of satisfatcory grade R't R t Am‘iT 10 0?:,;:, & 16 Wyckoff expects to return to Se- | I e e(ep 'on May 15 December 11 attle for conferenecs with forest products men after the Petersburg investigation is compieted | —— e [ ROBERT CUNNINGHAM Held Yesterday Approximately 175 members of the Masonic Lodge and their | ladies, members of the Eastern Star, Rainbow Girls and DeMolay Boys, attended yesterday's annual ENROUTE SOUTH WITH MOTHER'S REMAINS sioiin i’ rempie nere. | Music was provided between 2 accompan- and 5 o'clock by Mrs. Carol Beery Davis and Miss Merle Schroeder, and community singing was led by June 12 November 13 Special Sales Held On Reauest of Shippers Advances will be made as usual when requested. Transferred by telegraph, if desired. THE SEATTLE FUR EXCHANGE 1008 Western Avenue Seattle, Wash. Robert Cunningham, jed by his wife, two children, and his sister, Miss Rachel Cunning- ham, are enroute south on the Jack Fargher. steamer Mount McKinley from Cor- In charge of arrangements for dova with the remains of his the affair were following Masters mother, Mrs, Daisy Cunningham. of the four coordinate Scotiish Formerly of Juneau, Mrs. Cun- Rite bodies: Messrs, N. Lester ningham was affiliated with the ' iroast, V. L. Hoke, J. J. Fargher D Eostern Star here. She passedaway and Lance E. Hendrickson. DON'T MISS OUR JANUARY BABY CLEARANCE SALE of things to wear which are going at LOWEST PRICES ever offeread Juneau shoppers for many a day. LOOK OVER THIS LIST . . . . THEN SEE US NOW! o e SNOW SUITS Sizes 2 to 10 3-PIECE COAT SETS 1-3 OFF Sizes 3 to 6 ONE GROUP OF Cotton Print Dresses Sizes 3 to 10 ONLY 73e¢ GROUP DRESSES Wocls—Silks—and Cottons— Sizes 2 to 10 1-3 OFF! GIRLS’ FELT HATS - - - - 73e YARN — Broken Lots - 15 Regular Price Also the Following List at Reduced Prices: (In Broken Lots and Sizes) POLO SHIRTS, GIRLS’ PAJAMAS, BLOUSES, SWEATERS FREE ENITTING INSTRUC'HONS—WEDNBDAY AND SATURDAY AFTERNOONS! NEEDLECRAFT SHOP AMUNDSEN MAKES | EARLY MORNING EMERGENCY TRIP Tenakee Resident Taken to Hospnal with In- junes from Fall Elderly Roberl Brumilge of Ten- akee, was flown to Juneau and hospitalization today in a before- dawn emergency plane flight by John Amundsen in the AAT Lock- heed, following a ago. Brundige, carrying a heavy pack, tumbled over backwards and for three days was “out of his head,” according to Tenakee residents who met Amundsen when he arrived there shortly after 8 o'clock this morning Brundige, whose daughter, Mrs. Sam Nelson, is well known here, is in St. Ann's Hospital while doctors determine the extent of his in- -t— (OMBAT LOCKED MOOSE FREED BY WILDLIFE AGENT Animals Sig?flEd from Air- plane, Roped, Separ- ated by Saw Add unusual duties of Alaska Wwildlife Agents: Separating bull moose which have.locked horns in combat. On December 19 Wildlife Agent Jack Benson, on a wolf patrol flight out of McGrath with Pilot Don |Glass of Woodley Airways, saw two moose struggling in a death lock. It was too windy and too late in the day to make a landing so Benson returned by plane the next morning They roped and hog-tied the ter- vifed moose and separated them by |sawing off on horn. The smaller of |by a horn thrust in the neek and died shortly after the arrivak of the | rescuers. Moose Walks Away The larger moose, however, stag- gered to its feet when freed and walked away. The 1500-pound ani- mal was weak and shy one prong which Benson sawed away, but car- ried no other marks of battle. The rarely-witnessed spectacle of two moose at battle was photo- graphed by the Benson party, as was the operation of roping and freeing the animals. Benson reported the event took place near Farewell Lake, 75 miles east of McGrath. He and Glass made the original flight to look for five wolves reported in the region. They saw one near where the moose weer fighting and so new that un- less they returned promptly the ani- mals would be killed by wolves. They counted 140 moose from the air in an area 20 miles square. PASTOR WOOD IS BACK IN JUNEAU FROM CONFERENCE Order Placed for New Pow- er Plant for Welfare | Boat Messenger | Pastor H. L. Wood, Superinten- dent of the Alaska Missions of Seventh-Day Adventists, with Mrs. Wood, arrived in Juneau last eve- ning on the North Coast. Pastor Wood is returning from the annual executive committee meeting of the North Pacific Un- ion Conference at Walla Walla, Wash., having been absent from }Juneau for five weeks. During this | time he attended the executive | meeting, visited his daughters, Vir- | d 'I'HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE TUFSDAY JAN 2, 1940. fall three days with four volunteers and a coil of . o Activity the | | the two animals was badly wounded a lot of work to put on a colleze ginia, attending Walla Walla Col-| lege, and Wanda, who is taking| nurse's training at the Portland Sanitarium -and Hospital. While at College Place a banquet was arranged for the Alaskans !who were attending the college and (16 students from the Northland ‘were present, besides their friends {who had lived in Alaska, or were | not attending school. | While in Seattle, | placed an order for a new power Pastor Wood plant for -the welfare yacht Mes- senger, made possible by donations from the Northern Commercial Company of Alaska and the Cater- pillar Tractor Company of Peoria, Illinois. The new engines will be installed in Ketchikan in March, iin time for the summer’s activities. At Ketchikan, Mrs. Wood joined Pastor Wood where they spent two weeks during the holidays visiting Dr. and Mrs. G. Lee Stagg. Mrs. |Stagg is the former Ione Wood | who did nursing in Juneau a few years ago. After remaining in Juneau for two weeks the mission superinten- dent will return to Wrangell to Phone 417 spend a month in evangelistic work with Pastor M. L. Miles of that place. 3 | [WEST BEATS EAST 28-11 Coast SfarsSTuflIe Visitors| in Regular Sea of Mud Monday SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Jan. 2.— The All-Star college football play-| ers of the West scuttled the East| in a sea of mud yesterdiy after- noon giving the West its ninth vic- tory in 15 years of Shrine bene- | fit football games. Forty-five thousand braved the! rain to witness the game which | ended in a score or 28 to 11 | FOURTEEN YEARS, NARCOTIC CHARGE Louis lepke BuchalierCon-' victed-Operator of Big Syndicate ;’ NEW YORK, Jan. 2.—Louis Lepke Buchalter, racketeer, was today sen- | tenced to 14 years in prison for vio- lation of the narcotic laws. 5 He was convicted on December 20 on an indictment chnrging conspir- RACKETELR GIVEN acy to violate the 'law in the oper- ation of what the Government call- ed a $10,000,000 international nar- nouc smuggling syndicate. .- - GERMAN WATCHES GREAT BRITAIN IN FINN-RUSSO WAR Nazi Will Go fo Aid of So- viet If Occasion De- mands, Report BERLIN, Jan. 2—Germany, ac- cording to authoritative sources, is keeping close watch on what kind of aid Great Britain is giving Finland. Germany desires to stay out of the Russian-Finnish conflict because, according to advices, Russia wants to settle her score with Fniland e, but if British soldiers appear on Finnish soil or if munitions de- liveries reach Finland from Great Britain, in decisive proportions, there seems little doubt but that Germany wxll support Russia actively HOLDEN HOPS T0 TULSEQUAH MINE Alex Holden flew two trips to the ' Polaris-Taku mine today, taking out five passengers and a load of mail Going to the mine were O. Flater, P. Pasqualatto, H. Vingren, George Samanuk and James Cox. - Empire classitieds bring results Radiophoto from Berlin shows Adol! Hitler spending Christmas eve with his old regiment on the Western Front near Saarbruecken. He’s shown second from right, dining against a background dominated by a Christmas tree and a swastika banner. They Call it o, Spare-Time REGULAR [ [boys have it a little easier. They | practice about 200 hours a season and perform for the public about 12 hours. e - MRS. HALL AND SON MAKING TRIP SOUTH | | | Mrs. Walter Haii, wife of the well known PAA pilot, and her son, Bradford, sailed on the steam- r Mount McKinley today. athletic show end University of | Nebraska coaches cite these fig-| B, il Apd hen sof will spgnd ures to prove it: ‘abaut three months on vacation Behind the nine hours of pub- |1n California, lic performance by the football‘ team are about 100 hours of spring practice, about 60 hours in pre- LINCOLN, Nev., Jan. 2—It tak2s 15% ceascn workouts and 125 hours’ H H practice during the regular sen~! canadlan nlscoun' son | B. M. Benrends Bank First, Bank. MEETING : Thursday, Jan. 4 4 Juneau Transport Workers Local 172 S ELECTION OF OFFICERS 8P.M. UNION HALL Over on the basketball court the adv. National ANNOUNCING The Formal Opening WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3 of SIGRID’S BEAUTY ALON inthe New COOPER BUILDING o 2t09P.M. s