The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 9, 1940, Page 5

ONDAY, DEC. 9, 1940. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, M accessible than when the worldf was at peace. | the civilian employees, they’ll re- . F'"h (°|umn Reporls port every morning at the Army 1511(1 Navy beehives with their | badges in place, or get held up —|until they are properly identified. of the White House newspaper cor- it always is considered the final WHITE HOUSE AGAIN OPEN | respondents, but that was started sign that peace is over and war| The Capitol is under the heavi-|two years ago and it always has EAGlE TRAIl is at hand. It has been done be-ie.st guard in years. Although visi- been voluntary with the individu- | fore and in each instance, Wash-|tors are not asked for Xdentilicn-‘als. | PR f . a jon, suspici i v H i ngton takes on a martial air tion, the least suspicious acti o !Me(ham(al Genius, Maker of Bear Denfal Plate, which would be all out .of meOr-‘or the carrying of dangerous look Word received today by the of-| Dies Prospecting 3 Y a uniform is proot enough. ‘ tors, as is the White House. Guards Er Y A T Ve VY Vg Vol l o Yol Vo d Ped Pedlid e d P-d bod LAy 4 al-d¥ L A%d ) gg" wal’, “a“ Depaflme'“s Nevertheless, military men sta-| remain at every gate e every Y . DREORSNeRIRYReRO0Nes IV NINNRNOVVOVDVVDVDAETY H tioned here are not going back|turn, but the official family and "- Iake (ogmlan(e over | into uniform for the present. uke‘residmce are hardly any more in- C ! lRIS‘ ! Y h 1 4 S C E l ! : ! R fl;% {7 Most White House employees have (Continued from Page One) been fingerprinted. So have some Throughout the Year—GIVE LOVELY CANNON TOWELS in GIFT SETS 50 o r BEE2ESBSSPEDEISETITIRTE tion for a nation at peace. | ing packages is likely to result in| Althottn General Persing !s @ polite but firm questioning fice of the Alaska Transportation| one of the most confirmed believ-| In front of the Capitol, where| Company, that on account of thej ers in the morale value of spic|the great inaugural stand is be-| congested shipyard situation, the; ki ~ oy TP and span uniforms at the close| ing constructed for the event of|§s. Tyee will not sail from Seat- i - {"(\‘T‘HRI”IN:' ARRAY OF GORGEQUS ]\ ANNON of World War I he over-rode his| January 20, there's a constant day| tle before late Sunday, December| Death at Eagle of A. E. Robert- | Qg TOWEL SETS . . . The smart, useful gift of the season reluctance and waited no longer and night guard. The construcnon!a The S.S. Tongass will omit the son, known throughout the Yukon &P Utterly luxurious, thick, thirsty, fresh, clear-toned CAN than necessary to order men sta- work and the Capitol, from sub-| December 10 sailing, next Tongass Valley as “Nimrod" was rep«n-wd}A NON TOWELS. Your fortunate friends will bless you back into basement to dome, are searched|sailing being December 17, followed in a letter to M. S. Whittier, As- W tioned in “Mashington A f ¥ WaRERAR R ) - civies almost daily. [by the Tyee December 24. adv. sistant Collector of Customs here,|§ or your thoughtfulness. Sketched are just three of While officers in uniform are Nobody here is pooh-poohing| — e — rom Jack Hillard, veteran Deputy | our lovely new CANNON CHRISTMAS GIFT SETS. not difficult’ to identify, there’s a this vigilance but it certainly is| cOME IN and see our New Gift Collector at Eagle. | =% Nimrod, who was believed to be| between 80. and 90 years of age,| went to Eagle in the early days of the gold rush and had tinkered and | rospected in that vicinity eve sine | He died while making a trip alone from his cabin on Chicken Creek to Eagle, about 25 miles away. When the temperature dropped to 23 be- low while Nimrod was caught out in the open, the old man leaned )ns‘ rifle against a tree, lay.down. pulled | his parka over his head, cressed his arms and legs and died. “S cends, at least on this earth, the life of a most lovable and a most ' = impracticable genius,” Hillard writes. Mechanical Wizard | Nimrod was said to be able to “make anything except a living." His mechanical ability was consid- cred remarkable. He could work with expert precision on any piece of mechanism from a watch on up. His particular duty, and one which he fulfilled with almost unbeliev- able capacity, was keeping the wind- mill water pump at Eagle in re- pai: Nimrod had developed a process for hardening steel and with it manufactured hunting knives which were said to have blades so keen !that they could shave bars of steel ‘\\i,hmxl turning their edges. Orders | for such knives came to Nimrod from all over the world but he would work ion them only when the notion struck him, spending almost all his time in prespecting. No one else knew his steel hardening process and the | secret died with him. Bear Teeth | | The aged prospector is famed as {the man who shot a bear, made SHADOW LACE BOX — A sweet Christmas Valentine — overflowing with 2 bath towls, 2 hand towels, 2 face towls, matched z 50 . not being duplicated at the other' pacement —Channel Apparel Shop. end of Pernsylvania Avenue. The RdY White House grounds. closed a few z s ago, again are open to visi- pretty generous penitentiary sen- tence waiting for men impersonat- ing an officer of the armed forces. The mere unauthorized wearing of W R e Try a classified ad in The Empire. TGANFKILER IGRID ARNE (> KITCHEN QUEEN BOUQUET— 4 sturdy, smartly designed dish towels, 2 dish cloths . . . Keeps kitchens Christmasy for months AVENUE HAT BOX — 2 famous bath towels, 2 hand towels, 2 sh cloths tucked neatly in an aqua and white striped box. A gem of a gift 2 50 MANY OTHER CANNON SETS Bsc 4 95 e B, M, BEHRENDS Co. bear's teeth and then, according to JUNEAU'S CHRISTMAS GIFT STORE ) e et for many YA BBS BB BB BDIBEDDEE BHDBBIB S D DB DS D NI B ED IS DS AN |years and. finally traded them to.a 77 o T I 3 g, N Seatile dentist, who had heard of To Wed Officer ! 3 parklB TAS" dotais \ Wy, 20 ’|hl—lr ingenius manufacture and FUNERAl SERVI(ES Jries | "l‘(»lxpin'; o “. i—’\ sought Nimrod out, for a sct of mod- | o i S AL : WEDMESDAY 2P.M. | FOR MRS. J. RECK ame in endiess waves," the din of he mote) of the auti [ 5 The gorilla is the largest and | DUSK DAWN iercest of the anthropoid apes. | r L\ For Twelve Hours Raiders| Swarm Over British | {modern plates, Nimrod's Lear teeth |are still on exhibit in Seattle. In his early days Nimrod was a lguide in the Maine woods. He| —— {was at one time a Captain in the| Funeral services for Mrs. John | Maine National Guard and liked Reck, held up pending the rrival lio feil cronies at Robert Steele's/of a daughter, Mrs. B. B. Green, | roadhouse, where he ate lunch of were announced for Wednesday af- his military career. |ternoon at 2 o'clock at the Resur-| The crew on the Yukon River rection Luthern Church 1 steamer tell of overtaking Nimrod| - Mrs. Green arrived yesterday at “necking” a small boat up the river |2 o'clock on the Electra, after mak- | last year. Invited to put his sk)l!iing quick connections by plane | aboard and ride up the river, the | frcm Jack Wade Creek to Fair-| rising above the crack reraft guns. - 2 “\\\\\\, DEAR CHILDREN: Here is a Chrisimas serial for you. It'sall about a boy who finds a lot of people waiting for him to free them from the spells of the three terrible giants. The young man, Eric, has a very imporlani helper_sania Claus’and 1hey Share many ihrilling ad- ?;;f;;nafl:; ;;iglzegoojh:ul‘gg:wba::fifienrers for the funeral of Lhe‘ | Cap"al, Drop Bombs Road Worker beloved pioneer will be Minard Mill, | ventures. Read it in THE EMPIRE — Starting TODAY Owing to this serial being delayed on reaching Juneau several chapters will be printed today and tomorrow, December 9 and 10, to catch up with the installments. To Grade School Teachers: Earle Hunter, Wallis George, John | | Krugness, Hans Berg and E. O. Ja. | cobsen. The Rev. John L. Cauble will con duct the services and burial will be in the Odd Fellows plot of Ever- Frank Millard of the Alaska Road Commission recalled that Nimrod, then a man of more than 70, had worked under him on road gangs| at Eagle. The old man, when sent out to repair a bridge, would ne- glect tc take along axe or shovel | green cemetery. and would procesd on the spot to —_— —e-—— — whittle workable tools with his | senite - amen. win e 1€0CHETS Prepare who was then 60 himself, Nimrod id indignantly: “Youn G W I f ‘r::)::. 1“: not in thn:x;asllm of :emg, ay e (ome or . . Superintendent vecalled. because his conscience bothered him to be taking pay for building a road, which be thoughtl";:"‘:‘“L:;C::rfm:ri"Zfilg‘:\g‘g::‘ (Conunuea 1rom t-age One) | ‘unt}l early this morning. E One London resident said: “It | seems as if it was raining incendiary Motor-Driven Brush !bombs by the hundreds.” Cleaner Comp | llcsp‘lluln Are Hit | with Attachments | Nine hospitals are reported to |have been hit during the night.| "Save Yourself your time. | Among the hospitals struck is the | YOur Fugs your |General Hospital for Women. | mosey. BUY NOW. One hospital suffered from a di- |rect hit inflicting many casual- ties among the staff and patients. East of London a number of perscns are feared to have been |trapped in a large air raid shelter | when a bomb exploded close by. disputed by a man of your age.” | He resighed at one time, Millard | | 1 Margaret Bolling “"Santa and the Giant Killer,” a Christmas serial for children, by Sig- rid Arne, will start in this paper TODAY and will run daily through December 24. Because there has been increased use of Miss Arne’s stor- ies in the schools the past few year, here is a suggestion: Have the children make scrapbooks info which they can paste each installment. In scrapbook form, the story will be doubly useful and will provide an inferesting and instructive diversion that will carry over info the vacation period. should go across a swamp instead of along a ridge, as decided by en- gineers. ——ao———— CHOOSY THIEF ZANESVILLE, Newsom complained to police of a milk thief so impudent he planned his menu. He faked or- ders for the milkman to leave whipping cream, and took: that, too. ——————— Empire Classifieds Pay! 0. — Mrs. Cleo| Em order to be in top form when |the North Sea docks, weather per-| mitting, at 2 a. m. tomorrow morn- ing with newly married Superin- | tendent and Mrs. A. B. Phillips on | board. | Relugantly abandoning first ar-| | rangendents to have the high school | |band on the dock, the teachers| promise to give the newlyweds what Alex Dunham termed a “good come | | back.” ————— | - Subscribe to the Daily Alaska | Empire—the paper with the largest paid circulation. _Engagement of Margaret Jose- | phine Bolling of Boston, Mass, daughter of Lieut. Col. Alexander R. Bolling, chief of the U. 8. army | intelligence, and Lieut. Roderick | Wetherill, son of the late Col ®jchard Wetherill of Washington, | has been announced. Lieutenant | Wetherill was graduated from the ! U. S. Military academy at West | Point last June. A new source of optical calcite,! indispensable in all polarizing in- struments has been discovered in the San Pedro Mountains, north-| west of Santa Fe, N. M. " BRINGING UP FATHER OH-WHAT ARE WE TO DO? 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