The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 1, 1940, Page 2

8 . G o7 sx e Hoi \ywr%u .S T/ 1d Sounds HOI pape Gabie her ne There must mbered, could voice A'l‘ Percy’ ely exclusiy There “Machinal,” W t a little i to give himse 7 d of hi Angeles, ar in “The Lipnel Barrymore yole in “Bird of Paradise hair curled and a flows hit pictures as a be: And eventually, Rhett Butler, ‘Josephine Dillon taught him, and a few other things besides in th ier And the film te ing a loinglc R. ... No wor who remembered all the e — e e e A S ausata P o = e THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE wedais Ingrid Bergman er most charming smile, an arrives at New Sweden. She is to play n of Arc in Hollywood film. THURSDAY FEB. I, side, Cal., dur- . Army air base, Candidate | | | | e e Frank Gannett rank Gannett, , 'N. ¥, finall is hat in the v the blican 1 nett v Yh.\x critic. > oo King’s “Ghost” Not everyone ean be a king’s “ghost,” but this unassuming lady has won that fame. She is Miss Minnie Haskins, retired teacher the London School of Economi who, it has been revealed, is author of the moving words. spoken by King George on his Christmas Day broadcast to the euDu’l. ! S BUILDING PERMITS iing permits have been is- City Building Inspector gergrep to Ira Tucker for work for Clark Reid at 2th Street at a cost of u.d to Lester Linehan to re- a building at 112 West Eighth treet at a cost of $100. N RS Today's News Today—Emplre IDUFRESNE AND CARTER DIVIDE large Crowd_;t Elks" Hall | Enjoys Ananias Club Competition It's a draw. Juneau Elks were unable last night to decide which of two mem- bers of the lodge can claim the title to being Juneau's biggest liar. | So the two—Charles W. Carter |and Frank Dufresne—divided hon- | ors and the prize of $5 cash. The 11 tter was inconsequential be- | cause each of the winners was fined | $2.50 for telling such fibs in lodge me=ting. Carter’s lie was about bears and | Dufresne’s about pike in Selawik Lake. When called upon for an en- {core to run off the tie. Dufresne {told one about wolves and Carter about rats. But it was still a |draw, in the estimation of Judges | George W. Folta, H. R. Vander- |Leest and Henry Messerschmidt Other contestants were Norman anfield, Harry Lucas, Frank Fos- George Gullufsen, Bob Burns, Frank Metcalf, H. R.'Shepard, Peter Jenscn, Wellman Holbrook, and Bob Henning. Ray Ward presided over the Ananias Club session. Prize Story Carter’s stery, documented by pho- tographs, was as follows: “I have been requested to parti- cipate in thjs program but not wish- ing to share the fate of Ananias of old who was stricken to death when accused of lying, I will en- de r to prove to you that truth one ~LIARS" PRIZE| is stranger than fiction. “About 25 years ago I numbered among my particular friends, one William Royden, Captain and own- er of the halibut schooner Wa- bash, who was better known Wabash Bill. During the early part of August, he and his crew while enroute from Juneau to the fishing grounds, decided to take a day off and get some fresh meat. They anchored in Rodman Bay in Peril Straits. The location is no doubt familiar to many of you. Early the following morning, Bill went up on the mountain to the west of the bay. Ahout 2 p. m. he killed a deer and started for the beach. Shot From Waist “While passing a spot where a large spruce had been up-rooted, a large brown bear rose up and charged him. Being hampered by the deer on his back he had no time to take aim but fired from his waist and saw that instead of inflicting a mortal wound he only blasted away a portion of the right paw outstretched to grasp him, slapping him c¢pwn, tearing the clothing from his body. Strange to say she did not continue her at- tack until life was gone but retired a short distance and lay down growl- ing over her wounded paw. “she had two cubs who now came to investigate the victim; they played around coming up and lick- ing the blood from his wounds. Bill figured that his best chance for escape was to play dead but was | werried lest the cubs should com- mence to make a meal of him. When he thought that the old bear was not looking he tried to crawl away but she pounced upon him, gave him a slap or two, a couple of bites and left him again, growling over her sore paw. When she would at- tack him he would keep his right side to her and let her chew, fear- ing that if she bit him on the left side, one of her tusks might pene- trate to his heart. Lasted 12 Hours “As near as he could judge this continued for about 12 hours, his many attempts to crawl away re- sulting the same way, a slap or two and a few bites. Once she seized his head in her mouth, and he said ‘I thought she had me that time/’ the lower teeth tore the back of his neck and one of the upper tusks 85| irail of a bear with part of the entered his ear, just missing the brain, but Bill says' ‘A bear don't know how to kill a man.’ “Finally about 2 o'clock the fol- lowing morning as near as he could judge he made another attempt to crawl away, and this time was successful, but instead of going to- ward Rodman Bay he crawled in the opposite direction and finally after hours of struggle came out on the beach in Peril Straits, at a point known as Dead Man's Reach, about 20 miles by the beach line | from his boat. “He figured that his hest heb was | to stick to the beach in the hope of flagging a passing boat, and any way he did not have the strength (fo cross the mountain a 8o he struggled on without food, At night he would lie down and cover his wounds with wet moss to keep down the inflamation. On the sec- ond night when thus lying a bear came along, rolled him over with 2% |15 snout, sniffed at him for a' | while, but evidently not liking the smell of him, turned around and left him. Found By Crew his boat had b<n searching the thills for him and had decided toj FRiEg :.r‘EE."s f : Bfel “iE “In the meantime the crew of ¢ hands and knees, being no longer able to stand. He was taken aboard just three days after the accident and rushed to Sitka for treatment. He was found to have suffered 83 bad wounds. The photos taken be- fore the wounds were dressed will give a better idea than I can de- scribe. “He was a tough bird and two weeks later he was in Juneau, sit-| ting on the counter in the C. W. Young Co. store cussing that bear,| he said that he was feeling pretty well except for a spot on his right leg where the bear had taken out a specially large bite. He says, ‘You know that damn place hurts yet. Loaded For Bear “He told me of his plans and said that he was determined to get that bear and tack her hide to the wall, and asked my advice as to the make of rifle which would give him the most advantage when he met her again, as he was positive he would be able to trail her on ac- count of blowing away part of her paw. 1 therefore sold him a Win- chester Model '95, 405 calibre, which was at that time the largest made in the United States. Anything larger they put on wheels. “He went back to the scene of the fight, found his keys, pocket knife and parts of his torn clothing, as well as his rifle, with stock brok- en, but his particular treasure, a watch, he could not find. He told me the history of this watch which had been presented to him by his crew. 1t appeared that he had his five dories strung out when a sudden storm broke and it looked for a while that all ten men would be 'ost. However, he succeeded in pick- ing up all the boats and out of zatitude the men decided to con- tribute their share of the trip to- ward getting a suitable gift. They therefore secured & watch which was certainly a remarkeble time- plece, absolutely waterproof and among other gadgets, would ring soft chimes at the hour. Loses Trail “One year later he visited that neighborhood and , picked up the right front paw missing. He spent three days hunting but never sight- ed the bear. “The following year he again vis-| ited the scene and picked up the trail but just as he had decided to give up for that trip he came face to face with his old enemy. Crash goes the 405 and down goes moth- er bear. “He immediately proceeded to re- move the hide as he had determ-| ined to have that for a trophy. While thus engaged he heard the soft chimes of the hour, the sound | seemed to proceed from her throat. | He thought he must be going batty, having worried so much about ‘hei loss of his watch, however he slit her throat open and there found his | watch, so imbedded in the throat| that by a strange freak the action of the throat muscles kept the watch | wound, and upon checking the time | the watch was found to be within | one minute of the true meridian time.” - e FOR OFFICE A last minuvc zush of candidates filed declarations today with the Territorial Auditor and Clerk of the District Gourt to get their names on the Primary election ballot. Cash Cole filed late this after-, noon for Delegate to Congress, as U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Forecast for Juneau and vicini Cloudy with occdsional light rair temperature tonight about 32 d Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Cloudy with occasional Slightly colder tonight and Friday. tion, Gentle to moderate east erly over Lynn Canal. Forecast of winas along th Weather Bureau) ity, beginning at 3:30 p.m., Feb. 1: n tonight and Friday. Minimum iegrees. Gentle variable wind. light rain tonight over the northern por- to southeasterly wind except north- e coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Winds along the coast from Dixon Entrance to Hinchinbrook mod- erate to fresh southeasterly. easterly, From Hinchinbrook to Kodiak fresh LOCAL DATA Humidity Wind Velocity 3:30 pan. yest'y 30.02 3:30 am. today 30.14 Noon today 30.05 44 39 39 Weather Temp. Rain Cloudy Foggy Barometer w 2 Calm 0 w 10 Time 80 96 98 RADIO REPORTS | Max. tempt last 24 hours 45 -18 Station Anchorage Barrow Nome Bethel Fairbanks St. Paul Dutch Harbor Kodiak Cordova Juneau Sitka Keltchikan Seattle | Portland i | San Francisco 6 | Lowest TODAY 3:30a.m. Precip. temp. 24 hours 39 0 -18 -16 3:30a.m. Weather Cloudy Clear Clear Cloudy temp Hum Rain Cloudy Pt.Cldy Clear WEATHEK SYNOPSIS An extensive area of low pressure Islands this morning with a tending orthward into the interior of Alaska Aleutian much warmer over the interior morning. Dutch Hharbor erate snow fell over Juneau, F‘eb eastward to Di Western was charted south of the trough of low pressure ex- Temperatures were and western portions of Alaska this Light to moderate rain occurred over coastal areas from ixon Entrance, while light to mod- Alaska. 2. #Sunrise 8: 05 a.m.; sunset, 4:24 pm PRAIRIE POLO WENA’I‘CHT:E, Wash,, Feb. 1. Pat Kinzel, aviator for the Wen- atchee Daily World, has found a new sport—chasing coyotes with a plane in Eastern Washington's wheat country. It's the funniest thing I've ever seen,” Tinzel says. “I swoop down and circle over a coyote. He'll run for a while and then lie down on his back, paw the air and snap his jaws at the plane, trying to bite it as it roars |over him.” " |a village named Los Angeles. " GETS NAMESAKE i LOS ANGELES, Feb. 1—In the far-away Belgian Congo there is now It is part of the leper colony at Lubondai. Its construction was financed by Southern California residents. BURIED ON PEAK BERKELEY, Cal, Feb. 1—Years ago Dr. Valentine T. McGillycuddy was the first man to climb Harney Peak in South Dakota’s Black Hil! Now deceased, his ashes will rest the summlt at his own reque: CLOTHES that are CLEANED OFTEN—Wear Longer! Send YOUR GARMENTS to TRIA Thorough Wo! Modern Mef NGIL.¥ rkmanship and thods Produce Work_that Is Bure to Please You. 4 PHONE MODES of ¢the MOMEN bv Alclatdt A’arr ~ 1 Republican. George Grigsby filed for Mwmey General, as a Democrat. William Hesse filed for Temwr- ial Highway Engineer, as a Demo- crat. I Harry G. Watson filed for Ter- rvitorial Auditor, as an Independent.' Robert E. Sheldon of Fairbanks, filed for Auditor as a Democrat. | Among new candidates for the House of Representatives frol the First Division are Allen Shat- tuck, Democrat; Jay Williams, Re- publican; Sigurd J. E. Wallstedt, Republican; Grant A. Baldwin, Re- publican; Maurice T. Johnson, Re- publican; J. F. Van Gilder, Republi- can; E. L. Sampson, Democrat; W. H. McCall, Democrat; Don Foster, Republican. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. 1—It was Rose Bowl time, 1938. N. A. Miller, in charge of the| Union Pacific ticket at Chey- enne, ,Mr-.ppgled a letter to Pasa- | dena, reserving seats (or the foot- ball classic. The letter never arrived and Miller had trouble, on end, about his rese- vanons Came Rose Bowl time. 1939. "Billy Petty, transfer clerk, was re- mov. from @& box when he fell -x,:fierjgmmedm-gxmveat It was Miller’s. It had been stuck there one year, almost to the day. L ————— PARIS, Mo., Feb. 1. — A Paris