The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 19, 1940, Page 8

8 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 1940. JUDGE GEORGE ALEXANDER'S MOTHER DIES Widow of Former Secre- tary of Commerce Passes Away March 19 GALLATIN, Missouri M Roe Ann Alexander, widow of Juc a Alexander, who W Secr { Commerce in the Wil- E et, died here last night. b3 band had died three years Judge George F. ler of Ju- PROMINENT FAMILY Judge Alexar oldest living child of Mrs. Roe Ale: re- word of his mother's death ht was 81 years old. nder was the daugh- of Judge Samuel A. Richard- » of the great pioncer law- ye Missouri Her husband, Judge Alexander’s fathe died three years ag He vas Judge Joshua W. Alexander C ressman for seven consecutive e Secre y of Commerce in the Wilson Cabinet M Alexander died on the fam- i home d at Gallatin, where the family had resided since 1845 where Judge Alexander was Otk urviving children are two ons, Pre n C. Alexander, Assist- olicitor for the Bureau of in- Revenue in Washington, and ce W. Alexander of Galla- tin, and three daughters, Mrs. N. R. Jenner, Mrs. A. G. Ficklin and Rowena Alexander, all of Mis- urt here was adjourned er Judge Alexander 1 of his mother’s pass- > BACK TO PLACERS and Mrs. Al Jones, whc property near Be! Yukon, returning Mr minin the piacers for the season. to their LUMBER [iAN Ray Larson, Anchorage lumber \. is a passenger on the Yukon for the Westward after a business trip Outside. Some Honeymoont ¢y AMBER FAVORS WORK PRIORITY FOR ALASKANS Territorial Board of Man- agers Hold Meeting in Juneau Support for bills now pending in Congress which would give pri- ority in fishing employment to Alaskan residents was voted at a meeting here of the Board of Managers of the Alaska Territorial Chamber of Commerce last Sat- urday. Attention was also given to H.B 8732, providing for putting under leasing arrangement all public lands in Alaska, except mining lands, within 1,200 feet of navigable or other water. This bill would stop all patenting of land by industry | or by homesteaders outside the Na- tional Forest areas, where such land is within 1,200 feet of navi- gable or “other water.” The Board voted to send Delegate Dimond a vigorous protest. A discussion was the suggested tying highway systems in the Kenai and Anchorage areas with the Rich- ardsen Highway; and on the prob lem of bird sanctuary areas in the| Aleutians, Action on both matters | held also on up of the Mr. and Mrs, Phelps Busiest Cigarelte AMss Hazel Brooks . photographed at New York's new municipal airport. MISS BROOKS is chief instructress of stewardesses for American Airlines and one of the busi- est people in America’s busiest airport. Her passengers all know that Chest- erfield is the cigarette that satisfies. fiam Coast fo Coast Chesterfield is today’s Definitely Milder...Cooler-Smoking Better-Tasting Cigarette Flying East or West, North or South, you’ll always find Chest- erfields a favorite of the airways. 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VISIT OUR FLOOR COVERING DEPARTMENT AND SEE THIS UNSUAL DISPLAY! Juneau-Young Hardware Smtos Sm('lting_ Rehmng and Min- ing Company, will reach a new peak this summer. R. B. Earling, Manager of the. F. E. operations, arrived in Juneau | on the Yukon this morning and is| to fly to Fairbanks with PAA to-! morrow | Earling said a new dredge will | be installed this summer on Cripple | | Creek, a 10 cubic feet steel pontoon | type, now being assembled, and on Fish Creek, an old Yuba dredge, 5 cubic feet capacity, will be re-| novated and put into operation for the first time since the Tanana Valley Gold Dredging Company fin- ished work. These two additional dredges will raise the number of F. E. dredges | in the Fairbanks district to eight, | adding to the two on Cleary, two on Goldstream, one on Pedro Creek, and one on Ester Creek, where a |large dragline and conveyor system Experiment WASHINGTON, March 19. ticak Army and Navy Skep- | | Navy Secretary Edison said anm'i session: | the two and a half hour authorities | ok was postponed pending arrival o Selected as the first ideal couple | ,o.4eq additional information 3 to enjoy a two-week honeymoon | " B O rom the | on an island located off the coast | 17 FeSPONSe 1o requests from - of Tampa, Fla, Newlyweds Mr. Wrangell and Skagway Chambers. | and Mrs. Thomas W. Phelps of | the Board voted to protest the in-| St. Louis arrive in New York en |clusion of Alaska in H.R. 8358, a| route to the island. Clinton Moz- |bill to protect the American Mer- | ley Washburn, wealthy New | chant Marine, which would, in its! Yorker, offers free use of the | present form, probably stop the| island for two-week vacations operations of the Canadian steam-| e P ¥ for honeymooners. ship lines now operating in Al-| ‘*H MINFIELD SCHOOL | i 3 CROWBARS TAKEN F. E. (OMPANY | . ..TODAY’S COOLER-SMOKING | Copyright 1910 Someone has taken away a sel EXPANDING BY il BETTER-TASTING...DEFINITEI.Y MllDER CIGARETTE B of crowbars belonging ito the = Mintield School, according to TO GOODNEWS g 2 MORE BOATS WILL TEST HAGERTY BRINGS . JOF MEHERIN PERSHING IS .o i, oo Though they are necded badly the Goodnews Bay Mining Com- to roll rocks and stumps, Miss New Dfedges for c”pple KEI(HIKAN lOAN pREDI(TS BIG pany, is a Yukon passenger for the Field says that if anyone needs i REOUESIS HERE Westward, returning to his season’s theia as badly as the school does creek and for Fish NEw B A AI N work v is welcome to them. If not, she . YEAR ALASKA et . would like to see them returned (:[eek ThlS Season Don Hagerty of the Office of In- ! i FORESTER KETURNS Today's News Toaay—Empire, e disn Affalrs retumed on ! Toa" golng TR Regional Forester B. Frank Hein- ¥ sttamer Yukon from Ketchikan _ IU'S g0ing to be a big year in the : el e S Gited B it lorations 4 g ¢ g0l | Ketchika 8 . try, according to the prediction of 9% gl g 2 h A it 4 | Ketchikan Indian Corporation for of | ] John J. Pershing, left Tucson |half week trip to Ketchikan, Pet- who returned on the Alaska last night after a month’s trip through the Yukon and Kuskokwim country, Anchorage, Kodiak and coast towns. Activity in government work and mining has given business an im- to continue his winter vacation. The seventy-nine year old soldier ap- peared in good physical condition. He said he was feeling fine. | General Pershing was accompan- ied by Miss Per- | individual loans. An application for Mountain Vil- lege to operate a community store has been forwarded to Washington | - 20% vielded to the pressure of highly RA”)H FERRANDIN! petus that will carry it through a his sister, May |impressed Congressmen today, and successful season, Meherin said shing, an orderly and @ nurse, | dian D | ey 5 i e ; : 2 S ) e anadlan vscoun 7 agreed to put on a test of a new ARRIVES 'I'o 'I'AKE Only in furs was there a falling | i super bomb. . | off in production. The fur take was, Uy Schubert, of Race’s Drug B. M. Behrends Bank ? The declsion was taken hehind | FISHER'ES oFFI(E about 50 percent of last year | Store, returned on the Yukon this | 4y First National Bavr closed doors at a meeting of four | | Kodiak is booming with lots of | MONing after spending several| Congressional committees with the | = activity as a result of the Naval Weeks on vacation Outside “ Secretaries of War and Navy. | Warden Ralph Ferrandini arriv- ,o"goco™ooncmiotion ! R, 5 S s i The inventor, Lester Barlow, ap- | €d on the steamer Yukon on tem- “It's a real frontier town,” .| peared with bottles of carbon and |borary assignment to the Juneau zronerin said, ‘It's like old days, ! prares i b of carbo ana sy e, o U, SN i i, it ke 4 car ALASKA composition of his new bomb, which | Ferrandini recently reutrned (0 cppirqay night.” compoinof i Hew b i | P ety S 1o S gt ELECTRIC within hundreds of feet Washington with Bureau officials .nof Hotel Comp 3 R x a pany and represen- | : The Army and Navy will give his | He will leave this spring for his yoeivo i Alacka of Hills Brothers LIGRT and POWER CO. ¢ mvt'nl:‘:;n a test wl\llrl\ will be |regular post at NT" coffee, the Imperial Candy Com-| observi by a special joint com- B T T —— 9 G A pany and other manufacturer i mittee of Congress. ‘ To oPHIR d ' JUNEAU and DOUGLAS SPECIAL Frank Speljack, well known Ophir handles an eight-yard and a twelve- vard bucket, the latter one of the |“Barlow just seemed to have gotten country miner and trader, was a Foun SPECIAle gest dragline buckets in the |hold of an old long-known explosive | Yukon passenger returning north world. and perhaps has made it a little |on the vessel today with his fam- | ———————————"—"—— The mild winter has given the F. 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