The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 29, 1942, Page 2

PAGE TWO AVALANCHE HITS TRAIN IN OREGON EUGENE, Ore, Dec. 20. — An avalanche whieh struck a Southern Pacific passenger train yesterday claimed the life of Frank Piicher, §5, dininy ¢ steward, and In- jurcd 14 ¢ dining r cars were de- - e - FUNERAL SERVICES FOR HAZEL BOCATCH BE HELD TOMORROW Funeral services for Hazel Bo- catch, divorced wife of Mike Bo catch, will be held tomorrow at 2 p.m. from the chapel of the Charles W. Oarter Mortuary. Interment will be in the Evergreen Cemetery. Mrs. Bocateh was found dead in her gquarters at Tex's Rooms on December 21. Born at Dry Bay, Alaska, and a native of Yakutat, she was 30 years old at the time of death. ——————— BUY DEFENSE STAMPS TRIANGLE CLEANERS New Location Jufeau Laundry Building * “for better appearance” PHONE counle 50 years ago. MISS PETERSON BECOMES BRIDE OF EARL BRACUS In ap impressive candlelight cere- mony at the Resurrection Tutheran Church yesterday afternoon, Miss @Genevieve Peterson and Mr. Earl iSfaff of Capitol . Theatre Guests of ' Garvins Last Night Mr. and Mrs. Homer Garvin en= tertained the Capitol Theatre staff lin their apartment at the Fosbee late last night with a holiday party of games ,and a buffet supper. Be- ) THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA EARLY NATIVE, HOSPITAL NOTES (AlE“DARS nE Mrs: Mae Abdill entered St. Ann’s | | Hospital yesterday to receive med- | FOUND MENAI‘ICBI treatment. | | | Ralph Bruin has entered St. Ann’s | Hospital for attention. Out of a compact, dull-looking| little box about 2% inches by 5! Evelyn Howard, local native, en- inches, taken recently to E. L.|tered the Government Hospital yes- Keithahn, curator of the Territor- | terday. [ | reaching | Christmas TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29. 1942 YOU CAN FLY _ JUNEAU to Jo service rened yowertey || Anchorage Kodiak Fairbanks way points with timber sale sur-| Yakutat Valdez Nome veys. | : Cordova Seward Bristol Bay JOHN BRILLHART ! BACK FROM TRIP| Supervisor Johr Brillhart of thej Admiralty Division of the Barcus were united in marriage. The Rev. G. H. Hillerman offici-1 ginning after the box office closed, _|the party broke up about 1 am. brivis x“horg:j'k;nl;lu'&,_w";e:?n | Those in attendance were, in addi- Plum, best man. Mrs. John Hed- | tion to the host and hostess: Shirley t . | Olds, Lillian Nellson, Patricia Mar- lund was soloist for the occasion. | g1 Mary Tubbs, Frances Karinen The bride wore pink and brown, Bev:l.ye Ke.mmer,'Snmh Led Av.kln-‘ her dress being a two-plece silk | o Ty powers, Fred Erickson, |crepe suit of palest pink, and her | p.q geyder, Russell Clark and Dick ssorjes brown, inehid‘mg 8| Garvin smart little hat with a veil. Her| |bouquet was of mixed chrysanthe- muns. | Pollowing the dding a recep- 1 was held In the Baranof ‘ss‘uu‘ (HARGE rement of Mr. and Mrs, David! Rt | Patterson, where wedding cake nn:l1 Frank McKinley, Juneau native punch were served. The table Was| naigeq with assault and battery |beautiful with a centerplece of yel- |y, y g Commissioner Felix Gray's low chrysanthemums and white|court yesterday was found guilty candles. About forty guests were | striking Mrs. Edith Danelson, in attendance. lcab driver. Among the gifts received by the| gentence was deferred in the couple was o 60-piece dinner set coce however, and McKinley has of fine American china, presented peen released on $100 bail. by employees of the Baranof Ho-| oo tel, where Mr. Barcus is assistant| | e m Jom - No Sunburn Troubl e ooy N0 SUNDUTN [rOUDIE For Submarine Crews The couple will be at home in the Erwin Apartments. e, WASHINGTON.—The crew of an |American submarine on prowl in |enemy waters sometimes does not 'ROTARIANS HAVE (HRISTM__AS PARTY 2 i o i e v mander must observe. The sub Juneai Rotarlans held their|Stays submerged during daylight, annual Christmas pasty during COMIeS Up only et night. Crew mem- |their noon luncheon meeting in 'bers often lose as much &g |Percy’s Cafe, exchanging gifts and |Pounds on a cruise. laughs. R - J 'Cnal et s o me, SPEHlS Her Names club, H, L. Faulkner reading the| g g ; From East or West ceremony. McALESTER, Okla—The mother chances of surviving ta their|of W. C. Tippit, he, relates, had golden wedding are about twice three names that were spelled the what they were for the average|Same either backward or forward. They were Hannah Anna Tippit. ROBELF AT S S NATIVE GUILTY, ————.— For the average young couple entering marriage today, the ANNUAL B.P.O Starting 10 P. M. New This is for Elks and 1 Continuing Into the In the Elks’ Club and Ballroom Music by BOB SATRE and HIS DANCE BAND applicants for ms:mbership.who must pre- sent the cards mailed them for admittance. ?Ad of Courtesy Gets Sour Looks | HAYS, Kas—The Hays News re- |ports that a fellow opened doors |at stores, banks and other build- ings for 109 women in the Christ- mas rush, Three thanked him, five | thought he was fresh and the hus- |bands of seven stared at him as if they thought so too. {Home Front Health Hazards Now; Doctors \ And Dentists Are Scarce HI-JINKS .ELKS December 31 and Year (Contintied from Page One) It's certainly borrowing trouble i to contemplate what might happen if we had a recurrence of (or something similar to) the “flu” epidemic of World War I, bitt con- templating just such a possibility their ladies only and 15000 medicos to the armed ser- hetween a it and a faddle. cal raanpower. But behind the scenés here is ial Museum by Mrs. Grace Wick-| ersham, came one of the most in- | teresting discoveries yet brought to| the attention of ethnologists con- | cerning the racial history-keeping Mrs. C. F. Peterson and baby boy | left St. Ann’s Hospital yesterday and will return to their home at Hoonah. Mrs. T. M. Paula and baby girl with the prospect of losing lnotherf vices 18 what has health officials One partial remedy suggested ‘is the compulsory allocation of medi- | devices of the early Alaskan na- tives. Closed and sealed by the late Judge James Wickersham in 1907, the unassuming little container was found to hold six Kenai “quipos,’ medical patients at St. Ann’s Hos- or chronological history markers, | pital, have been discharged. not previously known to have been | o3 used by North American Indians.| Mrs. Al Bucher is an outgoing These consist of rosary-like medical patient at St. Ann’s Hos- | strings, knotted to mark the pus-!pm‘l" fur to indicate special events ‘g&::‘grer:;edwa] attention, has been Oldest Tells Primitive History i g The oldest of the quipos, de-| £ ' scribed in a letter to Judge Wick- | PAGING CAPT. PEARSON: ersham enclosed in the same box BABY PATTY JO CALLING and written April 10, 1907, was pre- | Attention, Capt. Matthew Pearson, pared, at same. Unknown date Prior | o o Army Exfi;mcers' boat in Al- o the coming of the Russians "“"aalm. The Empire has a newspaper the peninsula, and explains the | pisture of your baby daughter. Your history 1, recounts as follows: wife has not been able to' com- “The small gut calendar Starting | municate with you since the baby at the bead point, means the|was born on August 21, nor during month of November. In the olden | the past several weeks has she suc- times before the Russians came to | ceeded in getting a message through | Alaska this was the time when all | to you from the South. If you hap- | the tribes assembled at one point pen to be this way, call at The | called the winter place, to have a Emplre. big potlatch. This holiday lasted | about three weeks. i “The next bead—called Mask No.| 2, 18 called the sun mask and rep- resents the sun when it reaches the { 21st of December—when the days, begin to get longer. At this time the older people collected the boys and girls of eleven or twelve years and placed them in small houses.” Puberty Rites Described “For twenty days they were kept there, only being given each day a small plece of Yukolo (dry fish) and a little water. Thenh the boys( were blindfolded and had & small | stick place in front of them. Then they were given a stone axe and placed in front of the beard, and if they chanced to strike it in the center, they were considered to have great luck. | “The girls were also Nlndlolded and placed in front of & pile of kamalaika (gutskin rainceats) and the one who picked out the clean- est was supposed to have great happiness and luck. 3 | Other bead masks 4 for the middle of winter, est day, and the time w] fish have been dried. represents the last days before No- | yember prior to the assemabling at | Reswrrection Bay for the fall pot- | lateh. The descriptive letter ‘was writ- ten by Juneau's first Russian prie<®, Rev. Ivan Bortnovsky, who was at the time of writing located ac‘ Kenal, Alaska. It was he who sent | the little-known gutstring calen-l dars to Judge Wickersham. were discharged from St. Ann’s Hos- pital and returned to their home yesterday. Isaac Niemi and Elbin Arntson, Butler-Mauro Drug Co. The Rexall Store 4 o W You Can Be a Soldier's Santa Claus . . . And you won't have to go with- out lunches to pay the Gift Can- teen! Not if you're one of the lucky members of the Alaska Federal Savings and Loan Asso- ciation’s. Christmas Savings. If you're missing this grand con- venience, why rot stop in now and join up for next year? 4% PAID ON SAVINGS ‘ Deposits insured up to $5,000 i] Alaska Federal Savings & Loan Assn. of Juneau Member Federal Reserve System Of all trucks on American farms, one-third are more than 10 years old. CHANNEL BUS LINE, INC. SeBedule from Douglas to Juneau and Return . New Schedule Effective November 1, 1942 LEAVE DOUGLAS LEAVE JUNEAU 7:18 &.00.—Willoughby a.m.—Willoughby—Mine 7:40 8. m.—Twelf! .m.—Willoughby—Foundry 8:40 8.;.—Twelfth a.m.—Willoughby 1040 a.m.~Willoughby a.m.—Willoughby 158 e —Filiougtivy a.m.—Willoughby " p.m.—Willoughby 3 p.m.—Willoughby |not bearing 1943 license plates is | adv. DOES - Numerous storms kept him from | B vhal bagh oig, on Kuskokwim and Yukon Points Juneau in time for| the Ranger VIII with Cant. George i Wednesday Friday Sunday Reynolds and was stormbound at several places, including Hanus Bay and Freshwater Bay. Juii o B e * ALASKA STAR AIRLINES Phone 667 AUTOMOBILE OWNERS ATTENTION The 1943 Automobile License Plates are now available and e at the office of the City Cle The operation of motor vehic on | prohibited after December 31, 1942 B ARAP?(&KIE‘C%OTEL ETTA MAE DUCKWORTH, City Clerk INDIGESTION NO RTHLAND UG AT VR 7R AN SPORTATION. COMPANY BELOW THE BELT? ( Help Your Forgetten ‘28’ For The Kind Of Relief That Helps Make You Raria’ To Go | More than half of your digestion is done | below. the belt —in your 28 fect of howels. | So when indigestion strikes, try something that, helps digestion in the stomach AND | below the belt. What you may need is Carter’ Pills to give needed help to 28 foet” of howels. Take one Carter's Little Liver Pill before and one after meals. Take them according to | directio help wake up a larger flow | of the 8 main e juices in your stom- | juch AND bowels—heip you digest what you huve eaten in Nature's own way. ‘most folks get the kind of relief that miakes you fee] better from your head to your toes. Just be sure you get the genuine Carter’s LittleLiver Pillsfrom yourdruggist, Price: 25¢. iver forgotten We Make a Specialty of CHOP SUEY : = : .\ meomemstn || ALASKA COASTAL AIRLINES AMERICAN DISHES Serving Southeast Alaska Passengers, Mail, Express " The Boyal cale SITKA: TRIP—Scheduled Daily at 9:30 A. M. | . 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ANDERSON EXPERT PIANO TUNING Waurlitzer Alaska Agent Now at Your Service—PHONE 143 Anderson'Music Shoppe - .18 Hoonah .. 10 | Express Rate: 10 cents per pound—Minimum Charge 60c | Round Trip Fare: Twice One-Way Fare, less 10% | SCHEDULED MONDAY and THURSDAY Ketchikan ‘Wrangell $35.00 10.00 Petersburg Juneau .. $30.00 Petersburg Wrangell ... . e Express Rate: 25¢ per pound—Minimum of $L. ewchikan Express Rate: 10c per pound—Minimum of 60c to Petersburg and Wrangell FOR, JNFORMATION ON TRIPS TO HAINES, Pnouz slz Above rates applicable when passenger traffic warrants HASSELBORG, SKAGWAY, TAKU LODGE: Schedules and Rates Subject to Change Without Notice. ™ BARANOF Alaska’s Largest Apartment Hotel - EVERY ROOM WITH TUB }| and SHOWER * 10 Weekly — Seattle - Fairbanks 5 Weekly — Fairbanks - Nome Reasonable Rates * o Phone 800 Tu. Th. Sa. Dafly B:30am 9:00am 2:10pm Heattle, Wash, ___ PWT Ar Juneau, Alaska 135 MWT Sh— 3 B.m —Tweltth - that old bugaboo of organized R 1D Yhoubha—une i R medicine: the fear that any such 5:40 e &: THE BERT KIEFER s el 0 e | I8 ATCO LINE Alaska Transportation Company L SAILINGS FROM PIER 1 City Rates —e SEATTLE Round Trip Ticket along Douglas High way 3 b ‘Whitehorse, —135 MWT 3:10pm Fairbanks, Alasks 150 MWT 5:56pm p.8.—Twelfth—Show B.m.—Willoughby medicine.” 10:80 p.m.—Willoughby 100 &.m.—Willoughby 2: NEW RATES Junesu-Douslas Route xz.gg gmude TIOkOt 'ioiibicn — 4 uneau-Douglas—Straight t—Douglas to Foundry ... Douglas Hichway Rates Lawson Creek to Juneau—Monthly 34-Ride Ticket—Ski Tral . $3.26 TRt Thirty-Ride Book—Lawson Creek_. 4.75 Thirty-Ride Book—Two-Mile Post - 4.50 Thirty-Ride Book—8Ski Trafl . 4.35 18 ‘m.—Willoughby Fairbanks, Alasks _150 MWT Ar Ruby, Alaska 150 MWT Nome, Alaska 165 MWT 20am Ar is invited to present this coupon this evening 1o:200m Ar 11:25am at the box office of the- — CAPITOL THEATRE and receive TWO TICKETS to see: “SUNDOWN" Federal Tax—b6c per Person WATCH THIS SPACE—Your Name May Appear! SIS b tbsrieSite B Ou S smi S in’ 'sight, but.there isn’t a crowd- ¢d community in the country (Washington included and close to the top) where members of any| family in which there s a seri- ously 1ill child, a pregnant wife, an outbreak of colds, or a week-! { |end toothache, fail to realize that ! ‘ this is one of America’s critical | ! A Teo. G:00am Lv Falrbanks, Alnska 150 MWT 10:35am Ar MecGrath, Alaska 150 MWT 11:10am Ar Ophir, Alaska 11:50am Ar Fiat, Alaska 12:10am Ar Bethel, Ala $4.75 n_;wmu to Juneau — Monthly ‘Two-Mile Post to Juneau—Monthl: Ticket 1 3 wartime problems. ———.—— - BUY DEFENSE STAMPS 4.00 34-Ride Tieket—Lawson Creek —_ 4.25 34-Ride. Ticket—Two-Mile Post —_ 4.00 —— i $ ‘u » paid-up subscriber to THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE | | The solution isn't anywhere near ! 5 PASSENGERS PREIGHT L] P.'B. FEMMER—AGENT NIGHT 312 -8 PHONE 114 JUNEAU e ANCHORAGE YAKUTAT — CORDOVA With Connecting Service to KODIAK — KENAI PENINSULA and BRISTOL BAY BRINGING UP FATHER WHERE'S ME WATCH? I0_YOU TAKE A SNOOZE - I'M SURE | HAD [T ?. MOTHER'S CO! BEFORE | TOOK NY: WAS HERE~ TOO BAD YOU WERE ASLEEP WHILE HE WAS HERE / HELLO-THIS IS JIGGS - SAY - DANNY - WOLILD YOU MIND TELLING ME WHAT TIME T Is? Woodley Airways (ALASKA AIR LINES) ALASKA COASTAL ATRLINES LGy I i, Copr. 1942, King Features Syndicate, Inc . World rights ressrved.