The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 27, 1944, Page 6

PAGE SIX TWO-STEP JAKE HIRSCH PASSES {His nuggets went into the pockets of the girls, over the bar, and into the hands of the ten-piece orchestra until the sum of $35000 had been {spent in that long night, but not \\lnlh 'l wo-Step was himself tired |tered a dance hall, it was the two. ‘«h') for him, the only dance he knew, and he could foot I was always wimmin and there wi gal in the dance halls in the early days” said Two-Step. With all of his spendings, however, Two-Step would “throw a nasty Colorful Character of Early Days in Klondike and Alaska Dies Here devil with the John J. (Two-Step) Hirsch hit the last trail Saturday night at St Ann's Hospital, and the career of » of the Northland's most colorful acters was ended tide him over until he had made another strike in the next stampede. About six years ago, Two-Step came to Juneau and then went to | Two-Step, as he was always Tenakee. Later he was admitted to wn, was born on August 15 the Pioneers’ Home but did not re- D¢ La. and he was 92 main there long as he said: “My | s old at the time of his pe feet itched for the mine pay dirt t one would never have 1 and I just had to get back to my 1t the little man, active as a 1 property and in the great outdoors.” | d and with keen eyesight had | Recently he was admitted to St. ) that many milestones. His|Ann's Hospital. As far known t was demonstrated by the !there are no surviving relatives. fact that when he spied Depu The remains are at the Charles Marshal Walter Hellan, W. Carf nd, two blocks away = ep would yell at him. As to his FINED IN POLICE COURT blene everal months ago he | Paul Tetoff was fined $25 in City | entered a 1in dance hall and an- | Police Court this morning on a| unced he would dance anyone|charge of being drunk and dis- down for ms or money. He had | orderly ta His activity was also 5 by the fact that until re- « he worked on his mining Té putting in ) 14 hours on a shif Came North in 1879 Two-Step first came to Alaska in | 1870, locating in the southern end of the First Division, traversing the ral islands and along the main- searching for gold, and finally landed in Juneau. He knew where amers were located in nearby tions but when the discovery of old was made in the Klondike Two-Step went to Skagway, over the vhite Pass, down Lake Bennett to hitehorse and was in the vanguard rough the canyon, across e Le- barge and down the Yukon to the | Klondike metropolis, Dawson. He d there for several years, then ifted down the Yukon to St Michael and across to Nome, w he remained for sometime, then re- tracted his route and landed at' Fairbanks. Two-Step got busy right away and stopped his wanderings long enough to pile up a little fortune of $90,000 in gold nuggets. Wins Name Two-Step It was about this time he won the name of Two-Step. He entered a dance hall in Fairbanks one night and yelled for the orchestra, and in those days there was some real hot musici: who knew their busi- ness, to play a two-step. He selected partners from the dance hall girls | and tired them out, one by one ¢ 1ere JUNEAU ( IMPORTED FROM CUBA — THIS BRANDY HENRY M. \R(!l IS BRAND — THIS IS SPEC G I N FULL QUARTS CASE PICKWICK CLUB — PEC IJ\L BEER:=. SPECIAL WESTERN BRANDS GODDARD’S GOLD LABEL—SPECIAL PRICE! L P PRICE! 125 PROOF many a pert | hide enough away in his pocket to | ... or how to get along with folks Have a “Coke”, says the returned soldier aod bis friendly gesture is understood in Newport or New Zealand, at home or in far-off places. Around the world Coca-Cola stands for the pause that re- freshes,—has become the gesture of good will, saying Let's be friends. BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY 'OLD STORAGE CO. IS SPECIAL IMPORTED FROM CUBA — THIS IS SPECIAL PRICE! __ Phone, Write or Wire George Brothers CASE FIFTHS - CASE—FIFTHS HERBERT J. WAUGH FILES CANDIDACY , FOR CITY COUNCIL | Herbert J. Waugh today filed at| | the City Clerk’s Office as an inde- | | pendent candidate for the City| Council Wellknown here, Mr. Waugh was | formerly employed in the Behrends Pank, Behrends Store and by the R. J. Sommers Construction Co. He i; now occupied with his mining in- terests | e MASKA COASTAL ON SITKA TRIP SUNDAY | Flying to Sitka with the Alaska Coastal Airlines on Sunday were E.| T. Howester, K. D. McKinley, and | | Clifford Berg. The plane returned | with Chris Bailey. | On a flight to Ketchikan the pas- | sengers were Chris Jorgenson, Ro- bert E. Shaw, and Nellie Cogo. On | | the return trip the plane brought | Harold Heaton from Ketchikan, | Van F. Hoelscher from Wrangell | and Dean Bevel from Fmexsbuxg CASE FIFTHS RICE! THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—]JUNEAU, ALASKA Surcharge On Alaska Rafes Drop April 1 {Bonuses Paid Crews Will Also Be Reduced, Ship- ping Board Says WASHINGTON, March 27.—The ‘War Shipping Board announces & reduction to 16 percent of the sur- charge of passenger fares, berths and freight rates between Seattle and Tacoma and Alaskan ports ef- fective next Saturday, April 1. The present surcharge is 20 percent to Southeast Alaska, and 25 percent to other areas. Bonuses paid crews on ships on the southeast Alaska routes will be cut from 40 to 25 percent, and in some areas where the bonus has been 100 percent the pay will be cut to 662-3 percent. The thre: (|f Mn(k on Ala Ld ar names abbrevis- you hear “Coke”y 1¢s natural for popul |o‘ncqu|rc ln:ndru Y, flons. That's wh Coca-Cola called $4900 Phone, Write or Wire George Brothers $ 4000 l’hone. Write or Wire George Brothers g ._.$50°° l’hone‘ Write or Wire George Brothers i . Phone, Write or Wire George Brothers . %60°° Phone. Write or Wire Genren Rrathar- Here is your chance o save money on ahove items by pooling fogether way below selling price by the bottle. GEORGE BROTHERS BUY NO W-eeTODAY AND SAVE for the surcharge and bonuses MONDAY MARCH 27, |944 s e o Catholic Daughters S U p p LIES OF this threat has now been w(lmod |hence the announced cuts. LOCAL AGENTS NOTIFIED D. B. Femmer of the Alaska Transportation, Horace O. Adams of the Alaska Steamship Company and Henry Green of the Northland | ad- | vices regarding the reduction in the Transportation have received s\ nLhmge and other pallicu]nn Surprise Parfy for Miss Jane Bailey Complimentary to the fourteenth birthday of Miss Jane Bailey, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Chris Bailey, geventeen of her friends called at the family home on Calhoun Avenue Saturday evening. Carol Olson and Edwin Heisel were hosts at the surprise affair. i Dancing and games, appropriate to the occasion, provided entertain- | ment during the party hours and several prizes were awarded during the festivities - Meet Tuesday Night A social meeting will be held to- morrow night at 8 o'clock at the Catholic Parish Hall and all mem- | bers of the Catholic Daughters of America are urged to attend. Mrs. Ruth Geyer is in charge of cnt(x'tmnlnmlt for the occasion. FISHINDUSTRY SEATTLE, March 27. — Supplies (for the Alaskan salmon industry| junder the stepped-up program of | the ‘Office of Coordinator of Fisher- 'ies have begun to move northward b) ships operated by the War Ship- EASTERN STARSTO ~ INITIATE TUESDAY 2 sz s An initiation \\Hl be held for three Wmmm Sound and the Am; a Pen- candidates tomorrow night at the jinsula will be first served, then the Scottish Rite Temple by the Order | MOVE NORTH canneries at Bristol Bu_v. Labor allocations for the canned salmon season total 12,699 men, in- cluding 7,871 non-residents, and the rest residents, an increase of 10 ,percenl over last year. | Each packer will be required to | obtain a clearance from the Seattle | office of the War Manpower Com- mission for all employsks taken north. Resident labor will be clear- ed through the United States Em- ployment Service offices in the | major fishing areas of Alaksa. e HENRY RODEN LEAVES FOR NOME, PAA PLANE | Henry Roden, Attorney, General {for Alaska, left today for Nome by ‘\PAA plane, in connection with his campaign for the office of Alaskan Delegate to Congress of Eastern Star. The work will begin in the lodge room at 8 o'clock. MR W WITH LIBBY CANNERY ~em, H. G. Heaton, with Libby, McNeill “ and Libby, has arrived from Seattle and is at the Baranof Hotel. | # i DO SOMETHIN GL Open Evenings PHONE" 318 ] o e ettt et e e e e OLD TIMOTHY—THIS I CALIFORNIA CHAMPAGNE -SPECIAL PRICE! 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