The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 9, 1941, Page 2

Rev. Glasse Is Leaving ChurchHere Accepts Pastorate of Fnsi Preshyterian Church - in Albany, Oregon A eigl who one al v. John Juneau ago from the the pastor Light byterian 1d for the Fir Albany, to hi leave ement today Glasse says: regret cceedingly that this' nent could not have been to my own people yeste morning, but the action involved in this statement had not actually been taken until after that hour. There- fore. Al to the news- papers, I am king the first op- portunity to advise the members and constitu of the Northern Light Presbyterian Ch h that T have been unanimously called to become t pastor of the First Preshyterian Church of Albany,| Ore., that our tentative plan is (o conclude our Juneau minis- try by July 1 in order to begin at Albany on July 15. “To many, this action will not comie as a surprise, since it has been known to them that with o two boys now ready for college we ve when a suitable chanee in fact, the Elders congregatfon have known recent return from a States that this call bility, needing onl legal meeting at it a fact we make thisc celings of real and expectancy; a ks to God for the man v fellowships of the past eis half years. 1 shall be x more detailed rvice next Sunday ounce directly at the service its and > made; he since my visit to the was ok time bany “Of with gret with o courst min, M in| con-| Both the Rev. Glasse and Glasse have been instrumental izing and successfully ting several prominent and in- or clubs of the Presbyterian the pastorate of Glasse, many improve- been made to the church debt The membership hes also increased. One of the organi- zations formed during the Rev 's pastorate was the Chap y-the-Lake on the Glacier High- way at Auk Lake, which is now in a flourishing condition. Mrs. Glasse has been prominent not only in church activities but in other civic organizations, especi- ly the Girl Scouts. e Buffet Supper Is Given in Honor of Visiting Officers nor of Major General John ns, Chief of the National and Colonel Benja- s, Lieut. Col. Lucas Beau, R.nph F Love and societies 1 Light During fluential ch. the Rev ments have church and been removed. has al min F. G Jr., Lieu Lieut. Col. s rs of Major (, neral Williams' and Major H. Baker. rnor and Mrs. Gruening enter- Jast evening with a buffet orty {5 were present for the affair .o INDIAN. TEACHERS HEADING. OUTSIDE Office of Indian Affairs officials arriving on the steamer Aleutian in- cluded four teachers headed Outside on leave. Mr. and Mrs. C. Foster Jones of Old Harbor will stop over he North Sea goes south. Mrs N. Amber of Kanakanak and rs. Gladys Waddle of Eklutna were through passengers. Mrs, 1 D. Dean cf Copper Cen- ter was a through passenger, tak- ine the body of her husband south for burial. lor J nd Mrs. Supervisor from the W e MAKARENKO HELD ON ASSAULT CHARGE rested to- ssault filed Pyle, Dental Super- Vera Harmon, Social ere among the tward Br. visor. Wellare arrival Bill Makarenko was day on a charge of by Frank Domeneg, who claims Makarenko kicked him in the thigh and groin during an argu- ment. Makarenko pleaded not guilty om arraignment before U. S. Commis- sioner Felix Gray tode ACK RETURNS A. C. Black re- turned to Juneau this morning on the southbound steamer Aleutian after a trip to the Westward. He is stopping at ‘the Baranof Hotel. Presbyterian * ) been called to become with statement | morn- the| s|and 1990 and 8.60 cents a pound. ‘Mary Olga Loken And Roberf Meek Married Safurday Miss Mary Olga hert Meck were I rnoon at 4 o'clo ticn Lutheran wirch v. John L. Caubl € crvice before a gro f and relative: ng the aturday af re. the the close couple bride chose | rose with ac-| houlder cor- d roses and with din Her wa { cream color Llies of the vailey e mlv attendant ter, Miss Ethel Loken, who wore an afternoon dress of blue and a cor- age of lilies of the valley and sweet as. Mr. Norman Thompson was asteman Before Pierce was her sis-| the ceremony Miss Mar- played “Because” and You.” Baskets of spring " decorated the church and at thp altar bouquets of varicolored ets and tulips made an| garet 1 Love d impressive setting. | Following the ceremony a wedding | dinner was served to members of | the bridal party and the family of the bride at the Singing Tea Kettle. | Later in the evening between the| | hours of 8 and 11 o’clock a reception | | was held at the home of the bride's |parents at Salmo: sck when a large number of fri called to/ wish them happiness. Assisting in the | serving were Miss Patricia Sey, Miss | Evelyn Spain, Miss Margaret Pearce | |and Miss Ethel Loken Mr. and Mrs. Meek will be at home to their friends at the Klein Apart- ments. The bride, who is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hans Loken, attended | school in Douglas and Juneau and | business college in Seattle. For the! last fe ars she has been on the staff of the Territorial Cnmmlssnn— r of Education’s office. Mr. Meek, who attended school u\ Warroad, Minnesota, is employed hy Alaska, Coastal Al i 3Hallhulers, R Sell, SeaIIIe June 9. today are — Halibuters as follows: | From the western banks—Yaku- at 40,000 pounds, 12% and 11% {cents a pound; Chelsea 40,000 pounds 125 and 11% cents From the local hanks—Nova 000 pounds, 15 and 10 cents. | | PRICES 3 At Prince Rupert 198,000 pounds of halibut were sold at 10.50 SEATTLE, selling here 19,- the halibut a pound | At price i | ‘EDWARD MIZE IS ON VISIT, JUNEAU Edward Mize, former well knm\n Juneau resident, arrived on the | Princess Louise Saturday night for a brief visit here with friends and his brother Ralph, and the lat-| ter's fami | Mize, who is a chemist with the Shell Development Company at Emeryville, Cal, near Oakland, will return south on the Louise tomor- row, returning to his position he: has held for the past four years Mize was in Juneau on a visit threc| years ago and said the population has changed to such an extent| since then that in the crowd at the landing of the Louise, he could spot only five persons he knew. | -, Pioneer Picnic at Auk Bay Is Success Pioneer Igloo No. 6, members of the Auxiliary and their families enjoyed their annual picnic at Auk Bay recreation center yesterday| with approximately 100 joining in the fun which included horseshoe pitching contests, baseball and other picnic activitie: Principal contest was the ball game between the “Blues” the “Whites” with the Blues ning 15 to 5. With baimy weather interrupted only twice by mild showers, . the day was one of the most pleasant spent by the group in a long while and the food was plentiful and pleasing according to those attend- ing. Ketchikan today \ll 8.65 cer soft and win- — e — \FOREST SERVICE AUDIT UNDER WAY 1ckey. F(u(“( Service cal Agent from Region 5. Francisco, arrived Saturday |spend two weeks making an audit f tl Alaska Region He is accompanied by Mrs. Lack- ley, their daughter, Miss Floramay Lackey, and a friend, Miss Shir- ley Williams, E V.1 Fis- - COMING ON NORTH COAST Mrs. Grace Wickersham is north {bound on the North Coast accom- |panied by her niece Miss Ruth Coffin, form teacher in Juneau | once Wilhelm’s court preacher, read but now, instructing in a Seattle| school. e ——— BUY DEFENSE BONDS THE DAILY ALASK/\ EMPIRE, MONDAY, JUNL 9, 1941. An unauthorized AFL laberers’ strike at the jovernment’s Ravenna, Ohio, arsenal led to a dec L] §‘ ion to weed out “agitators” by issuing new identification badges, arsenal officials said. This long line of men—cars extended nearly a mile down the road—were wa g for the weekly tfl"flfl‘ and the l=suauce of new l;adm was staried. CONFERENCE. ON DEFENSE. ~ ISHELD umi & A two-day conference here be- tween National Guard and Army of- ficials and Gov. Ernest Gruening | ended today when the officers left, | at noon for several points of the © General John F. Williams, | of the National Guard Bu- | reau, who arrived early yes £ morning on the Army Engineer ve: raugh, left with his staff; eed to Seward, from where e will inspect the National Guard companies at Anchorage and Fair- bank Brigadier General Simon Bolival | Buckner, in command of Alaska de- | ferse forces, who arrived by Army | bomber from Fort Richardson la: night to confer with Major General | Williams, returned to the Fort by plane today. Col. Benjamin F. Giles of General aff, flew south by PA/\} Accompanying General Williams to Seward on the Cavanaugh are| Lieut. Cols. Lucas Beau, Jr., Ralph | R Lo\(‘ and Charles E. Dissinger. | e conference dealt with defense | nutlih details of which were not annmmccd ———————— | LAST RITES FOR KAISER READ TODAY DOORN, Holland, June 9—Kaiser Wilhelm the Second was buried today with rites arranged by him- self 40 years ago. The Reverend Bruno Doehring, the official rites and sprinkled the| | former Kaiser's coffin with earth! lin the Temple of Sans Souci Park at Potsdam where his first wife, | Auguste Viktoria was buried. No Nazi flag was displayed, the black and white flag of Hohenzellerns fluttered . alone. - e — JUNEAU IRON LUNG ON WAY FROM EAST —r—— 1 The portable iron lung which the people of Juneau bought by volun- tary subscription is now believed to be enroute here from the factory in| Boston. | A letter of May 29 from Warren | E. Collins, Inc., acknowledging re- | ceipt of a check for $550 in full | payment for the lung, says: “We | regret exceedingly that shipment | has not yet been made, but we do | expeel to make shipment definitely | the latter part of next week.” - but the | COCHRAN D. Cechran, ¢ d Division d THROUG | nator from the| ing the Fifteenth| n of the Territorial Legislatifte, | mswd through Juneau yesterday as a passenger on board a northbound PAA Lodestar. He is returning to the | Interior after a’ trip ‘Outsitle. i A \ MINING MAN FLIES ! P. K. Dent, Interior mining man, was a through passenger on a north- beund Lodestar yesterday. He is re- turning to the Territory after a' trip Outside. - MRS. HELLAN JUNEAU BOUND Mrs. Waiter G. Hellan, who has been on a brief trip south, is a/ passenger for Juneau aboard the| North Coast. (OPPER RIVER: YAKUTAT SENDIN PACK REPORTS |Small Ouanmy of Reds, Kings Puf Up in Two Districts First small salmon pack repo: of the 1941 season have been receiv-| |ed by the Fish and Wildlife Service from Yakutat and Copper River, | where fishing has been under way |since May 10, Yakutat reported pe of reds and 650 Kine per River reported 17402 3,731 kings. 'NO REFERENCE TO ROOSEVELT FLIER CLAIMS NEW YORK, June 9.—Charles E. Lindbergh, spokesman for the Am- jerica First Committee, said today any statement that his recent speech at Philadelphia W President Roosevelt is untrue. payoff. } S two of the - land in terior to Seattle are L. directed at | Seme workers were paid THREEPAA PLANES IN AIR TODAY Lodestars Runnmg In and Qut of Juneau on Flights in Both Directions Three Lodestars m American Airways are in the air today ships were scheduled to | Juneau from Fairbanks thi afterncon and a northbound ship is due to arrive here from Seattle shortly after 4 o'clock. The north- bound plane is scheduled to con- tinue to Fairbanks and the south- bound planes will leave Juneau for Seatttle shortly after arrival here, weather permitt Passengers du neau from Fairbanks \( ar and a southbound Electra a les Goldstein and Dwight Hnll engers leaving here for Seattle L . Benjamin F. Giles and John W. Baum. o arrive in Ju- on one Lnrk‘- are Lieut. Through passengers from the In- B. DeLong, Condon Shillingburg, Orson Hormel, Mrs. Myrtle Kaiser, Dorene Kaiser, Lawrence Kaiser and Herbert Tur- | ner. Arriving in Juneau from Seattle | CHURCH WEDDING | BY CANDLELIGHT UNITES COUPLE Miss Sybil Godfrey Be- comes Bride of Harry G. | Maxwell, JL Saturday With the soft glow of many candles and the defused light of the last rays of the setting sun | filtering through the stained glass windows, the Northern Light Pre byterian Church was a beautiful setting Saturday evening for the | eight o'clock wedding of Miss Sybil | Ellen Godfrey, daughter of Mrs |John Beasley Godfrey of Juneau, jand Mr. Harry Guy Maxwell, Jr., json of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Guy | Maxwell, of Fullerton, California. The Rev. John A. Glasse perform- ed the impressive candlelight cere- |mony before a host of friends and | relatives that almost overflowed into | the aisles of the church. To the strains of Lohengrr‘n'ak wedding march and preceded by her | attendants, the bride entered on the arm of her uncle, Mr. Horace O. | Adams, who gave her away. She wore for her wedding an exquisite |gown of white point d'esprit with |a square neckline and long sleeves | slightly puffed at the shoulders. The close-fitting bodice flared to a full skirt terminating in a long train. |Her veil of illusion, caught to her head with a plaited coronet, flowed to a full length train. She wore as her only ornament a golden locket, a family heirloom which first was worn by her great-grandmother, M Marie Curry, when she was married to James Stuart in Manila® | nearly 100 years ago. She carried a | shower bouquet of white daisies. Carrying out the traditfon of an all white wedding, Mrs. Robert Cowl- | ing, matron of honor and the Misses |Jeanne VanderLeest and Mary | Wildes, bridesmaids, wore embroid- ered white organdy picture hats and identical dresses of white French jorgandy with sweetheart necklines ‘nnd full skirts. They carried leis of | white daisies, Miss Louise Adams, {cousin of the bride, who lighted the }mndlcs before the ceremony, wore white dotted swiss with short puffed | sleeves. Each of the bride’s attend- ants wore a small gold locket, gifts !rl the bride. Mr. Edward Arnell attended groom as best man and the M Joe Bird and Lance Hendri were ushers. For her daughter’s wedding Godfrey wore sea mist crepe with a dusty pink flowerpetal hai and accessories to match. Her shoulder corsage was white jardenias. Mrsy Maxwell, mother cf e |8TOOM, wore I yal blue 1 | matching accessories and a cor ‘of yellow roses. Before the emony Mr, , Ehler sang “Because” and h £ ‘Mvsu*n of Life.” He was accom- | panied on the organ by Mrs, John }Jones who also played Lohengren’s | wedding march and Mendelssohn’s l‘xeces\mnal and during the ceremony | | played “at Dawning” on the muted {organ, White daisies tied in sprays to he si's. on Mrs. | the with rsage THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4:30 p.m. June ¢: Rain tonight, showers Tuesday; nst much change in temperature, temperature tonight about 52 degrees, highest Tuesday 59 de- s; gentle to moderate southeasterly winds. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Occasional rain tonight, showers Tuesday; not much change in temperature; moderate to fresh southeasterly winds but fresh to strong in sounds and straits tonight becoming moderate southerly to southwesterly winds Tuesday. Forecast of winas along the coast of the Guit of Alask» Dixon.Ent,rance to Cape Spencer: Fresh southeasterly winds shift ing to’ moderate to fresh westerly to southwesterly during tonight, rain tonight, showers Tuesday; Caje Spencer to Cape Hinchinbrook: Moderate to fresh easterly to south:asterly winds but becoming mo erate southwesterly during Tuesday, Cape Spencer to Yakutat Ba rain; Cape Hinchinbrook to Resurrection Bay: Moderate to {re easterly to northeasterly winds, becoming moderate northeaste Tuesday, local showers; Resurrection Bay to Kodiak: Moderat northerly becoming westerly to northwesterly winds Tuesday, paci- ly cloudy, LOCAL DATA Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity 56 6 w 10 51 85 SSE 8 51 6 SE w RADIO REPORTS Weather Showers Showers Showers Time 4:30 p.m. yesterday 29.77 4:30 a.m. today 29.82 Noon today 29.82 TODAY 4:30a.m. Precip. tempt. 24 hours .01 01 4:30 a.m. Weather Cloudy Pt. Cldy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Pt. Cl"\ Clear Pt. Cldy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Showers Cloudy Cloudy Pt. Cidy Rain Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Lowest temp. 30 52 47 52 b ? 41 40 45 46 55 46 51 i 48 48 | 45 47 | & | 50 55 Max, tempt. last 24 hours 35 76 . 66 70 . 87 .70 . 54 58 62 62 57 59 52 58 Station Barrow Fairbanks Nome Dawson Anchorage .. Bethel St. Paul Dutch Harbor ‘Wosnesenski . Kanatak Cordova Juneau Ketchikan Prince Rupert Prince George Edmonton Seattle Portland | 56 San Francisco | 48 WEATHER SYNOPSIS Relatively cool moist maritime air had moved over the south- eastern portion of Alaska to Coot Inlet and rain continued to fall over most of this area this morning. Partly cloudy skies pre evailed generally elsewhere over Alaska, The greatest amount of prec tation was 55 hundredth of an inch which was recorded at Ketchi- kan. The highest temperature yesterday afternoon was 76 degreos which was recorded at Fairbanks and the lowest 30 degrees at Bar- row. Overcast skies with local showers, moderately low ceilings and fair to good visibilities prevailed this morning over the Juneau- Ketchikan airway. The Monday morning weather chart indicated a center of low pressure of 20.50 inches was located at 52 degrees north and 147 degrees west and was expected to move about 6 hundred miles north northeastward during the next 24 hours with the storm frontal trough passing inland over Southeast Alaska during tonight. Rela- tively low pressure prevailed over the interior of Alaska with the cen- ter of low pressure to the east of Alaska. A high pressure center of 3040 inches was located at 35 degrees north and 136 degrees west and a second high pressure center of 30.30 inches was located at 33 degrees north and 171 degrees west. Juneau, June 10 — Sunrise 3:5¢ am., sunset 10: ol pm. CLIMBERS CROSS Breakfast Party BARANOF ISLAND | Learns of Locai FOR @ST TIME Girl'sEngagement Sitka Fliers Disprove RS- [ oot i i detat, ot day by Mrs. Erwin Metcalf, of Seward, the engagement of her sian Legend of Trail fo e v Warm Springs Bay 41 45 46 55 46 51 daughter, Miss Kathryn Eleanor Kennedy to Mr. Harold F. Dodge. The announcement came in the | form of a telegram which was read fon the northbound Lodestar is Mike | | proceeding in anything but Consti- | | tutional methods,” he said. | | Engineer and Deputy Mine Inspec- He said his call for “a change orl leadership” was aimed at interven- tionists and the “leadership of the| opposition which we have been fol- | lowing in recent months, “Neither I nor anyone else in the America First Committee advocates | STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, June 9 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 4, American Can 78%, Anaconda 26%, Bethlehem Steel 73, Commonwealth and South ern %, Curtiss Wright 8%, Gene Motors 38':, International Harves- ter 51%, Kennecott 36%, New York Central 12%, Northern Pacific 6%, United States Steel 56, Pound | e | R RETURNS Fielder, Associate Mining tor in the office of the Territorial Department of Mines, returned on | the Aleutian after spending a month on the rail belt, FROM GLACIE Supervisor of Alaska Affairs Paul | Gordon of the Division of itor- ies and Island Pessessions and Sec- retary of Alaska E. L. (Bob) Bart-| lett, returned on the Fish and Wild-| life Service boat Bear yesterday at- ter a four-day visit to Glacier Bay. E - MRS. CLEVELAND COMING Mrs. G. E. Cleveland is return- ing to Juneau on the Alaska after a visit of several weeks in the States. Mrs. A. Cleveland is ac- companying her north. ARRIVES ON Fowler W. Mar stopping at the Ba day after returning from a business trip to the Westward. He a Ihere on the steamer Aleutian, e MRS. CLSON RETURNING Mrs. Oscar Olson, who been visiting her mother, Mrs. M. Cohen, in Nampa, Idaho, for several weeks, |is returning to her Juncau home Abmud the Alaska. —————,——— GOLDSTEIN RETURNS Juneau fur buyer Charles Gold- stein is scheduled to return to Ju- neau today on a southbound Eleetra. Goldstein has been in the Interior for several weeks on a business trip. SUTIAN of Seattle is nof Hotel to- n {J. H. Craine, (Boris Magids, Thompson, Through passengers to Fairbanks Cummings Orton, Dr. A O, Slater and Mrs Major Peter Goer? George Crerar. Thirteen through passengers were on board the two northbound Lode- stars yesterday. They were M. Davis, H. M. Gould, A. Johnson, Bernie Hoelm, E. Hellund, F. L, | Daly, R. Kokkevold, F. Austin, K. | | Tucker, |F. K. Dent and Mrs. M. Martin, G. Day. Juneau on a yesterday were sy Cross, Edna | Frank O’Leary and Don Departures from northbound Elect Stetiner, Lhamon, oo MRS. SOMMERS ON ALASKA Mi R. J. Sommers, been visiting in the tes, turning to Juneau aska. is - e Peanuts are called oundnuts” {in Afri ———.———— Count Pets’ Noses g |be at home to their friends at 825 Little Elizabeth Szathmary cooper- ates with the New York City Soci- ety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, They're taking a census of pets with a view to caring for ' them in the event of war. The phn calls for special shelters nderson, | O. D. Cochran, | who has | Miss Alaska for only a year, attended the corner posts of the pews of the church and large baskets of the same flower repeated in the decora- {tion of the church with the white ‘tapczs. complimented the all-white | of the bridal procession. ‘ Following the ceremony a recep- Ition was held in the Gold Room of | | the Baranof Hotel where the mem- |bers of the bridal party together ‘with the bride’s mother and the |groom’s parents received a large number of friends who called to | wish happiness to the newly married couple. | After the bride had cut the first ;slice of the beautiful three-tier- |ed wedding cake which was sur- mounted by a wedding bell, Mrs. N. J Lester Troast served the cake to the guests and Mrs. H. W. Stinchcomb and Mrs. W. B. Ellis poured punch. Assisting in the serving were: Elaine Housel, Elizabeth Ter- Phyllis and hune, Clara Walthers, aboard the Al-|Corinne Jenne, Mary VanderLeest, | Carol Robertson, Joan Sinot, Elsie |Blythe, Mary Jean McNaughton, |Marie Stoner, Helen Gordon and | Roberta Dooley and the Mésdames | Wesley Overby, William Redling, | william Hixson, Edward Arnell, Joe |Bird, N. Lester Troast, Horace | Adams and Crytsal Snow Jenne. Before leaving the reception each | guest signed the bride’s book and | was presented by Miss Roberta Dooley with a tiny monogrammed | box of the traditional wedding cake, | The newly married couple left on the steamer Baranof Sunday fore- I noon for Anchorage where they will | Third Street. | For her going away costume, Mrs. Maxwell wore a -redingote of dusty | pink with white accessories and an orchid corsage. | Mrs. Maxwell, before her mar- | riage, was the incentive for numer- | ous parties and was a popular mem- | ber of Juneau's younzer set. She was graduated from the Juneau | High School and attended business | college in Seattle. For the last three years she has been society editor of The Daily Alaska Empire. Mr. Maxwell, who has been in school at the Fullerton Junior Col- lege and the school of architecture at the University of Southern Cali- Alaska Game Commission at An- chorage where the couple will make fornia. He is on the staff of the|ls Believed to be the first men ever to climb across the rugged backbone of Baranof Island from Sitka to Warm Springs Bay, a party of three tliers from the Naval Air Station at Sitka completed the hazardous trip Juné 1, according to information re- ceived, from Fred Bahovec of Warm Springs Bay. The crossing blasted an old legend that the Russians had a trail over the route, for Ensign J. F. Litsey, leader of the climbers, said the trek never could have been made with- out modern climbing equipment and the assistance of air e. Three-Day Trip Accompanying *Litsey on the trip were Lieut. ©. B, Jones and Ensigr, Bill Thies, They left Bear Cove or silyer Bay at 8:30 o'clock the morn- ing of May 30 and rounded the heac of Baranof Lake to see Warm Springs Bay at. 4;02 o'clock the af- ternoon of June 1. In hetween was a trip which Lit- sey, a boy born in Fairbanks, and at a’ breakfast given by Mrs. Ruth ‘Noble and Mrs. D. V. Robinson in honor of the bride-elect. Guests at the breakfast included the Misses Corinne and Phyllis Jenne, Eliza- beth Terhune, Edythe Youne, Zlaine Housel, Mildred Webster and Mary Jean McNaughton and the 10stesses and the guest of honor. Miss Kennedy is a graduate of she Anchorage High School and attended the University of Wash- ington where she was affiliated with Kappa Delta 'Sorority. For ‘he last year she has been em- sloyed in the office of the Terri- torial Treasurer. Mr. Dodge is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Dodge of Moose Lake, Minn. He attended the Uni- versity of Minnesota and is a member of Sigma Nu. He is associ ated with the Department of Jus- tice. No date has been set for wedding. the — e who has climbed almost all the more | difficult peaks of the United States and many in Alaska, said was over “the hardest and toughest country I have ever been over in my life.” Litsey said the trip could not pos- sibly be made in the opposite di- rection, The only possible ctoams is by way of a vertical snow-covered chimney with a 10-foot overhang at top. The climbers reached this point the evening of the first day and camped overnight at the foot of the chimney as it was considered too dangerous to tackle that late in the day. Easy on Top After scaling the chimney, with its sverhanging of snow and ice, the climbers found fair going toward the canyon at the head of. Baranof Lake. A number of goats were seen on the distant benches, Great difficulties were encounter- ed on the way down the Chxthnm Strait side of the mnge Time and again the climbers had tp lower themselves on ropes over hanging cliffs, An old legend said the Russians snee crossed by land from Sitka to Warm Springs Bay, a distance of only 10 miles as the eagle flies, but the young fliers are sure the legend false. e —— their home. | Mr. and Mrs. Harry Guy Maxwell, i parents of the groom who were here for the wedding sailed this forenoon on the Aleutian for their home m Fuilerton, Calitornia, “ping at'the Gastineau Hotel, HERE FROM OLD HARBOR Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Jones of Old| arbor, Alaska, arrived here on the Alexman this frorning and'are Gl | yesterday and is Order of Eastern Star Have Spedial Flag Day Program Members of the Order of Eastern Star will have their last meeting of the year tomorrow evening when they gather at the Scottish Rite Temple. A special Flag Day pro- gram will pe presented with Miss Gladys Forrest in charge. Miss Maydelle George will be chairman of the refreshment committee. \Anna Lois Davis _ Leaves fo Attend Rainbow Meeting Miss Anna Leis Davis sailed to- day on the Aleutian for a vacation in the state of Washington. The first few weeks will be spent at Auburn where she will be the guest of relatives. Later she will attend the Rainbow Convention at Olym- pia. — e — SYRE ARRIVES HERE O. 8. Syre, bookkeeper for the Ex- cursion Inlet cannery, arrived here D , while in Juneau, at the Gastineau Hotel.