The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 10, 1941, Page 6

DAY, MAY 10, 194 By CLIFF STERRETT LUNTIL T BOUGHT THESE RED\JCIN&- GLAS THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE POLLY AND HER PALS HENRY MEIER s & paid-up subscriber to The Daily Alaska Empire is invited to present this coupon this evening at the box office of the CAPITOL THEATRE and receive TWO tickets to see: “ALIAS THE DEACON" Federal Tax—3¢ ver Persen YUH SURE KIN DiSH IT OUT:- I NEVER O g THOUBHT YUH HAD EROM NOW ON I'™M RUNNI THIS COUR‘TSHIP, AN' NO BACK TALK, BIT I'T? AS A MATTER" FACT, T NEVER DID HAVE, " MORE THAN 520 ADDED OVERNIGHT FOR IRON LUNG Overnight the fund for purchase of an iron lung for Juneau gained | than $200 as donations poured | m tmm Juneau individuals and | firms. The total up until noon today | was $434.37. | A portable iron lung such as will be bought for the community costs 18560, F. O. B., Boston. Its cost here | |15 estimated at $600. Success of the | nnmpnlgn which is entirely on a| voluntary basls without any solicit- ing, now seems assured. | Donations may be addressed t,o\ {the Iron Lung Committee, care of | | George Sundborg at The Empire | office. “WATCH THIS SPACE— Your Name May Appear! SOOSE IS CHAMPION Gefs Decision Over Mid- dleweighter Overlin in 15-Round Fight NEW YORK, May 10 — Billy| Soose won the New York version| of the world middleweight champ- xonship last night by taking a 15- round decision over Ken Overlin in a Madison Square Garden fignt. There were no knockdowns and| neither were in serious trouble at any time but Soose had a close advantage and got the decision. 1 North Sea Docks Here Southbeund Arriving southbound from Sitka on the return to Juneau, the steam- er North Sea, Capt. Leonard Wil- liams and purser C. D. Littlehales, docked here at 10:30 o'clock last sl Ephedrml‘lescoveréd Baranof scheduled to arrive to- morrow morning but nothing (Continued from Page One) ! definite at noon today. il % Alaska due Tuesday. North Coast due Tuesday. to Dr. Swingle that all the reports| bpbetrtpiodls . and specimens of lo-han were re-| NEWS SCHEDULED SAILINGS 3 3 Denali scheduled to sail from e|fered and after months of study) Seattle May 13 at 9 am, | he came up with the answer. Back Princess Louise scheduled to ior that, however, was the strange MRS, HERMANN DELIV‘I':H sail from Vancouver May 13 |Story of a National Geographic So- MOTHERS’ DAY ADDRESS at 9 pam o | ciety expedition which four years, ON EAGLES PROGRAM | Taku scheduled o|280 sct out to find what had for, At Douglas Eagles Hall, Sunday Seattle May 15. o |decades been a mystery—the source evening at 7 o'clock, Douglas Aerie Northland scheduled o |of this queer, fruit-like drug which| 117 P.OE. and the Ladies' Auxili- Leave Seattle Northbound May 3 Due Juneau Northbound May 6 May 10 May 11 Due Juneau Southbound Mon. May 12 Steamer COLUMBIA .. YUKON ... BARANOF ... Sat. Tues. to sail from Tues. May 6 Sat. to sail Thurs. May 8 May 17 night with 22 passengers for Juneau from Sitka and sailed at 11:30 o'clock with 23 passengers from Ju- peau for Seattle and Southeast Alaska ports, Arrivals in Juneau from Sitka were Mrs. F. W. Williamson, J. L. Cavanaugh, Sid Thompson, Thomas Fulton, Ben Bellamy, K. W. Nasi, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Harto, Max Weidiger, W. Bradley, Richard H Person, C. Weidiger, John Palermo, Frank Turner, T. H. Bessant, Orville Bessant, Leonard Bessant, Ralph Parmeter, 8. Ramsey, S. Deck, Evan Hughes and John Monson. Sailing from Juneau to Seattle|® ® ¢ ¢ ¢ R were G. R. Smith, Mrs. Emil Starks, PR -, 2R Mrs. R. Ramberg and infant, Jessie Macklin, Amu Skulka, Emil Starks, wreim e Navy Bombers From Juneau for Petersburg—J.| Olsen, Ken Edwards, Don Rude, Dr. il J Rude, and K, F. McLeod. For Wrangell—L. Johnson, Nick Johnson, C. Weis and Mildred Han-‘ After spending wwo days in Auk |Bay on what Navy men call “ad- | vance base” work, four Navy patrol sen, | bombers, PBY-3's, roared over Ju- | from Seattle May 14. North Sea scheduled to sail from Seattle May 16 at 10 e am, SOUTHBOUND SAILINGS Columbia scheduled south- ® bound Monday. LOCAL SAILINGS Estebeth scheduled to sail e every Wednesday at 6 p.m. for Sitka and wayports. Naha leaves every Wednesday at 1 p.m. for Petersburg, Port Alexander; Kake and way- ports For Ketchikan—James Slnko S L., Woods, Helge Bergensen, Vaughh and Julian Bass Tanana Now Northbound return flight to Sitka. Commanded by Lt. Commander | o o [seemed to be one of the principal Girls' Glee Club; address, Mrs. Mil- | o|Was so highly rated by the Chin-|ary will it was as common in| lese that some communities as aspirin in o |the United States. In recent years, | thousands of dollars worth of ‘has been imported to Chinese resi-| |dents in this country, yet no one ikne\- what it was or where it came| o | from. Starting in Canton, which| | distribution centers for the drug, o [the cxpedition found it wrapped | intermediate e |in papers that showed fruit grow- | School; o |ing from a tree. Working tedious-| Rjce. |ly into the mountainous regions of | Kwangsi Province (so many “mid-| ! dle-men” handled the transporta- | tion of the plant, it was a needle-| in-a-haystack job to trail it) the| e).pedmon finally discovered the| Miaos, a primitive, aboriginal peo-|popular dances with a good. time | | Anonymous : “lost” for 150|assured for all. Glen Edwards’ or- Christensen Brothers |ple who had been years after being driven out of central China. Their rocky, moun- tain-side land is apparently the only place in the world where lo- han is cultivated The expedition found not a tree .n all, but a vine—grown on crude arbo To the amazement of the expedition, these primitive peoples were using an extremely modern ‘mcmod of plant propagation. They were cultivating only the female | pollination from male vines grow-| ing only in the wild state. F. B. Johnson, the partial squadron‘ Freighter Tanana sailed from Se- :’:; nz:;r:;a;éed{s{n:l}:vz:g‘te;fixl attle at 10 o'clock Thursday night | which anchored in the bay, Men and bound for southeast and southwest orficers of the flying boats were Alaska ports. This is according t0|quartered on the vessel during their | advices received here by Agent stay here. Horace O. Adams of the Alaska| advance base work is the war- Steamship Company. The Tanana|time or war-game practice of Navy is due here early next week . | planes on patrol at a considerable distance from their home base. | Planes are based temporarily in any ‘shclwered convenient spot with a | | tender following them as a floating | SIZE OF HEN EGG | The fruit, from which the dxu; is taken, was found to be abou ‘lhe size of a big hen egg. Drie | it has a brittle shell. Inside are a, too-sweet, fibrous meat and watei- melonish seeds. Samples, photographs and re- ports finally came to Dr. Swlnglew and out of his laboratory the other! |day went the announcement that lo-han is a formerly unknown| species of momordica, | suddenly. (e commemorate Mothers' | Day, according to their time hon- ored custom with the following pro- gram: Doxology, audience; invocation, | Dean C. E. Rice; address of wel- come, Robert Bonner, W.P.; vocal | solo, Mrs. John L. Clark; reading, | “My Mother,” Lucille Goete; songs | of Mother, Douglas High School “Mother,’ Douglas | C. E ‘dred R. Hermann; song, grades of benediction, Dean - DANCE IN DOUGLAS TONIGHT from the Alaska Juneau Gold Min- | ing Company, which gave $100. | Donations to the fund are as fol- lows: Previously acknowledged Scottish Rite Bodies Emil Rundich | Rice and Ahlers Co. Juneau Ladies’' Auxiliary No. 34 R. E. Robertson | Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company i Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Whittier.. | Anonymous Alaska Federal Savings and $226.37 25.00 1.00 5.00 5.00 25.00 5.00 1.00 Douglas Eagles will sponsor a| dance to be given in thejr “new hall tonight, another one of those chestra will furnish the Everyone is invited. s g FACULTY PICONIC Douglas faculty members ; .and Mrs. Calvin Pool enjoyed an Jout- ing after school yesterday a: of Arthur Ladd aboard his Cheechako. With baskets of Iuod for supper on the beach, a run wa~ made to Marmion Island = giter cruising around the vicinity of thc usic. i neau at 9 o'clock this morning on a plants, fertilizing them by haad end of the Island, where the pie- nic was: beld. e — MEMORY HONORED from Petersburg, Alaska, the people !of that community are placmg al memorial window in the; towa's| ! Lutheran Church in memory Jf | Miss Impi Aalto who died there| ————— i ARRIVES FROM SOUTH:~ Joe, son of Mrs. Viola Pike, resi-| dent at the Baroumes Apartigents, arrived here yesterday aboard the Yukon to join his mother. He plans Loan Association Columbia Lumber Company Mr. and Mrs. Tom Morgan 1.00 10.00 $434.37 | W. D. Gross Total - Alaska Now Juneau Bound SEATTLE, May Alaskn sailed for Southeast and!C 1 |couthwest Alaska ports at 9 o'clock | According to recent word recejved this morning with 188 first c,a_;s‘ and 63 steerage passengers aboard. The following are passengers on the Alaska, booked for Juneau: Roy Rutherford, Mrs. Davis Far- rell, Miss Alma Savage, Harry Froid, Harriett Shaffer, Mrs. John Notar |and son, Mrs. C. G. Stillman, Miss Mary Gruening, Mrs. Tadie Brad- burn. Miss L. Booth, Mrs. B. Travis, Keith 'Petrich, Mrs. Florence Fer- guson, Mrs, Alice Thomas, Mrs. D. Largest contribution of the cam- paign came to the Treasurer today 100.00 10.00 | 10.00 | 5.00 | 5.00 | 10. — Steamer | o0 file in the said cause in said Overlin entered the ring weigh- | ing 159'¢ pounds and Soose 157 3/4 pounds. ATTENTION, ELKS! All Elks requested to meet in Club rooms at 1:30 Sunday after-; noon, May 11, to attend Mother’s Day services. COMMITTEE. ALIAS SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION No. 4631A In the District Court for the Terri- tory of Alaska, Division Number One. At Juneau. ANTON F. NOVATNEY, Plaintiff, vs. GRACE NOVATNEY, Defend- ant. THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNIT- ED STATES OF AMERICA. To | the above named defendant, | | GREETINGS: | | You are hereby required to appear |in the District Court for the Terri- | tory of Alaska, First Division, with- in thirty days after the last publica- ‘ tion of this summons, namely within whlrty days after the 17th day of 'Mny, 1941, in case this summons is | published, or within forty days after ‘ | the date of its service upon you, in| % case this summons is served upon you personally, and answer the com- | plaint of the above named plaintiff Court. The said plaintiff in said action demands the following relief: that | | the marriage between the plaintiff |and defendant may dissolved and | declared null and void and of no | further force and effect, and for | such other relief as to the Court shall seem meet and just in the premises. And in the event you fail to so | appear and answer, the plaintiff will take judgment against you for want thereof, and will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in his complaint and as hereinabove ALASKA ... Sat. May DENALI COLUMBIA ... YUKON ... BARANOF Tues. May Sat. May Tues. May Thurs. May H. O. ADAMS AGENT 10 . May 13 May 19 13 17 20 22 May 17 . May 20 May 24 May 25 May 26 Sat. May 31 PHONES—TICKET OFFICE 2 FREIGHT OFFIC 4 SERVING ALASKA THE YEAR ‘ROUND MARINE AIRWAYS—U. 2-Way Radio Communication S. MAIL Authorized Carrier Scheduled Passenger Airline Service SEAPLANE CHARTER SERVICE—ANY PLACE IN ALASKA Headquarters Juneau—PHONE 623 ALASKA AIR All Planes 2-Way Radio Equipped Operating Own Aeronautical Radio Station KANG HANGAR and SHOP in JUNEAU Seaplanes for Charter TRANSPORT, lnc. PHONE 612 NORTHLAND RANSPORTATION COMPANY ] 1 | barracks and mess hall. 201 feet, | Yesterday one of the planes made | You and I don't know what ito. stay pending.getting a job. momordica is—but the botanists P s i 2 25 R (Sun time—May {R. McDonnell, 8, Ricker, Mrs. B. O. | Graham, Mrs. Goldei Senter, Miss| Stated: & i High tide—0:26 a.m., Low tide—6:5 High tide- Low ' hikan. 43 et a pnnol_l,fi %{etc an. 18.0 Teet -04 feet. 1:14 pm, tide—7:04 p.m., | DEPUTY HERE MAY 12 | High tide—1:10 a.m. 203 feet. Low tide—T7:40 a.m., -4.5 feet. High tide—2:01 p.m. 178 feet. Low tide—7:50 p.m., 0.1 feet. ., ATTENTION, ELKS! All Elks requested to meet Club rooms at 1:30 Sunday after- noon, May 11, to attend Mother's| Day services, Deputy U. 8. Marshal Sid Thomp- son came to Juneau on the North |Sea from Sitka. " TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY in| REINEL cabin h.p. air-cooled motor, Douglas 67. “cruiser, 18-t $350. Phone HOUSEKEEPING room for rent. Everything furnished. Reasonable. 208 Main St., upstairs. COMMITTEE. —————— Try a classified ad 1 The Emplr TUESDAY FRIDAY JUNEAU T0 SEATTLE MONDAY and FAIRBANKS TO JUNEAU " iccorY (Passengers—Airmail and Express) JUNEAU TO FAIRBANKS %5501 ¥ FRIDAY (Passengers—Airmail and & JUNEAU---SEATTLE $95 One Way; $171 Round Trip Passengers — Airmail — Air Express Pan American Airways System TRAFFIC OFFICE L. A. DELEBECQUE District Sales Manager, PAN AMERICAN AxtwAn 134—4TH AVE—SEATTLE 125 8o, Prankii 8t PHONE 108 do and it may be only a season or| |two until it becomes as well| | known to medicine as ephedrin,| calomel or aspirin. It certainly will if there’s anything to the claims its Chinese testimonialists have been making these last 200 years. II there’s anything to it, we'll probably use it in vitamin cap-! | sules. The Chinese brew it into a sickeningly sweet soup. That's how .new. medicines are born. THREE DIVORCES - - " GRANTED IN COURT Three divorces were granted in | District Court here yesterday after- noon and today. Bernice Roe Con- nor was -granted a divorce from Emmett Connor; Vera E. Beach! from Raymond G. Beach and Creighton Diener from Rosalie La Vanway Diener. trapsferred to the Fourth Division. ' SLEETMUTE PIONEER DIES AT SITKA HOMP William Lietzke, 73, of Sletmute, died Thursday at the Pioneers’ Home at Sitka, according to word received from Acting Superinten- dent Charles Wortman. Lietzke came to Alaska in 1906 and prospected in the Kuskokwim dis- trict until 1938. ——— -~ Try a classifiea ad ir. The Empire Suturday and Sunday 3 RUSSELL” i | Stephanie Hodges .has su The suit of Andrew A. Anderson! against Grace Anderson was ordered | DOUGLAS WOMEN TO GO ON TRIP OUTSIDE! Mrs. Marfon Wetter and two, children are ‘leaving Monday for| Shoals, Indiana, where her mother, 'Mrs, Lillian Dwyet is Very ill. Mrs. Harry Naifanov and dittle daughter- will also ‘embark M she| south next week to.visit with gefa- | tives, in Seattle and Cali(om’ NEW ASST, DRUG ST Ag clerk in. Guy's Drug Bernice: JJohnson, resigned. - PATIENTS IN HOSPITAL i .Mrs. Gertrude Laughlin is slowly but, steadily improving at St. Ann’s Hospital following her recent oper- ation, according to report received today. Mrs. Glen Kirkham, overcome by a fainting spell yesterday, was tak- en to the hospitai out is expected to -come home this afternoon. | Bernice Johnhions F-ND POUGLAS | E RS TRAIL'GANG FOR | CARLSON-CREEK JOB 5 LEAVES FOR TAKU | A foreman and three men for the | Carlson Creek trail job which has been undertaken cooperatively by the Territorial Engineer and the Porest Service left for Taku Inlet Thursday and four more en are to join the crew Monday. . Cecil ‘Owsley, formerly of Ketchi- kan, is Foreman. The trail will be, | eight miles long when completed. e i NEW CITIZENS Helge Leonard Bergesen, native of Norway, and Gustaf Rig d Brannstrom, native of Swedéh, the oath of a}legiance nuho,_@( pletion of the haturalization process in District ‘Court. t Annex. Creek and Bercesen at Ketchikan, w jas. the ' Alaska General | Mrs. Burgess worked .eight and one- | half hours per day, seven days per Brannstrom lives | i | . WITNESS, the Honorable Geo. F. Mirvi; , J. WL Ki 1 Al g;n’:{:,: tflddawuygr;:l:ym | Alexander, Judge of said Court, and also- booked for . Juneau but with | the seal of said Court hereunto af- |stepovers at Ketehikan, %":ld' on_this 19th day of April, (SEAL) ROBERT E. COUGHLIN, Clerk, U. S. District Court. By: JOHN J. GILMORE, Deputy. COMPANY SUED - oo piaicr 5o ot IN WAGE TEST| First court test of the Alaska women's minimum wage law, passed by the 1839 Legislature, was filed| in District Court here today by Clara Carson who is suing Mrs. Eligapeth -McBrien, .doing business. Electric Company .of Skagway for a. total of $1,688 on two causes of action. Miss Carson . alleges she worked as switchboard operator for the company, which operates the Skag- way telephone system, for 11 hours a day, .seven days a week for a salary of $35.per month. The Alaska law specifies that women cannof be paid less than $18 per week nor worked for long- er.than 48 hours per week. Discharged, Is Claim When she made demands upon the compeny /that it pay her ac- cording to the minimum wage law, Miss Carson alleges, she was dis~ charged. She seeks to recover $736.~ 35 in wages allegedly due. Miss Carson is also suing on behalf of Clara Oberle (Burgess) another. switchboard operator, who assigned her claim to the plaintiff, |1t is alleged .in. the complaint that NOTICE OF HEARING ON FINAL ACCOUNT AND REPORT AND PETITION FOR DISTRIBUTION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on May Oth, 1941, ARTHUR L. PINKERTON, - as -administrator of the estate of ELSIE M. KNIGHT, .deceased, iade and filed in the abave-entitled Court at Ju- neau, Alaska his Final Account, |Report and Petition for Distribu- tion, and that on said day the said | Gourt - entered ifs order directing ‘that a hearing be had upon said Final Account, . Report and Peii- tion. for Distribution before it on Saturday, July 12, 1941, at 10:00 .o'clock AM. in the office of the United States . Commissioner and Ex-Officlo Probate Judge for Ju- neau Commissioner’s Precinct, in i Juneau, Territory of Alaska, and requiririg all persons to then and there appear and make their ob- jections, if any, thereto, and to. the settlement thergof and to the payment and distribution of all of the residue of this estale to MOL- LIE REED, of legal age, the aunt, land, only surviving heir of deceased, residing at 911 Arlington Avenue, Imo Nevada. WHEREOF I here- unto set my. hand and official seal of the Probate Court at Juneau, Alaska, this 9th day of May, 1941. (SEAL) FELIX GRAY, United States Commission- er_and Ex-Officio Probate Judgei tion, my 10th, 1941. publicAtion; May 3lst, 1941, SO N v, week, for $32 per month. She also was discharged when she asked the company to pay her according to the law, the complaint alleges. A itotal of $901.65 Is sought on be- ihalf of Mrs. s Mrs. ‘Milared re}ents Miss &twmeys [ees in un sw. 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