The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 10, 1945, Page 2

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New jaunty Knox Felt Hats The Vagabond, the Fifth Ave- and Jerry, in brown, tan, blue and gray. 7.50-10. ll From the Capital City ... . 1o Westward Alaska WOODLEY AIRWAYS ““Route of the Coastliners” City Ticke! Offic Baranof Hotel PHONE 716 [{now with the Army Utilities in Age Will Pay Off At Unique Banquet Here . For Oldtimers Soon Are you at least 65 years old? T ?ru :’:fltlli):'\‘. :::»s;]ml":s:“nmul you | YANSON'S (AFE GUTTED SUNDAY {ever had and a genuinely grand | jand glorious good time are yours |for the asking. | Two of Juneau's real oldtimers— |75-year-old Bill Holzheimer (City | Magistrate William A. Holzheimer) |and Bill Franks, invite all other oldtimers “to join them in a dinner, at 7 o'clock, p. m., Sept. 24, 1945, to be held in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel.” The Monday, Sept. 24 dinner date was selected by the two hosts |as being an intermediate date be- tween their birthdays. Judge Holz- heimer’s birthday is Sept. 29. Billy | Franks lists Sept. 19 as his birth- day. The two oldtimers already have 89 names on their gues , but are anxious to have more. They want everyone who can meet the age requirement. If you're 65 or ovi they say, and if your name doesn't appear {on the following list of guests, just send in your name to The Daily | | Alaska Empire and* an invitation | will be mailed you. | An occasion that remembered—and, there’s no strin attached. Dolly Silva, “young old- timer,” friend of most of the old- |timers at the party, will have | charge of the banquet table. Flames Co;fied fo Res- faurant Property by Fire Department With startling rapidity, flames or- iginating in a grease-covered hocd | cafe, at 162 South Franklin Street. An 'hour-long battle by Juneau Volunteer Firsmen tempered the first holocaust and finally | tinguished the flames before they |.could spread to other portions of | the frame building owned by Chris Bailey. No cne was injured, restaurant counter W crowded at the time the f] caught. Cooks, waitre tomers had fled ou : the build- ing before the flames licked to t heavily paint-coated walls and ceil- | ing and surged the entire length of the restaurant with explosive speed. 9 Tenanted living quarters on the The guest list todate, includes: | . 50y f150r of the building and the RL‘:;k’setx(‘?g:{“;;“’;jw’h{{‘f"‘l::"'gf‘l; adjcining Bail2y’s Cocktail Bar were he { ed | 11 long be- ens, Al Lundstrom, Nell |, oo 09" to have suffered only Gallager, Jock McConnl, Chasles (00 ' water damae. The one- e Moller. ; four fire call was sounded at 10 Art McKinnon, R. M. Willilams, ;.o in the morning. The fire Ted Shezburg, John Torvinen, Pete | i arrived while the fire was| Carlson, Knute Wyman, Sam . concentrated in the stove hood, BRSNS, M, L. . Diwwes. but before extinguishers could b2 Dave Gross, Nat Holm, E. M.y, cont to play upen it, the fire MeIntyre, Lloyd Winters, Charlie od “flashed. ! Naghel, Frank Boyle, Al J. Sprague, Fred Alexander, John Cary, W. E. Murphy, John Clausen, U. S. Greg- ory, Ole Frederickson T. J. Ryan, Frank Garnicl Zavodosky, Jack Wilson, Loomis, Charlie Hooker, Carl Cav- ander, H. S. Graves, Fred Crow, Henry Tamma, John E. Booth, Francis Rogers, Charles W. Carter, John Newmarker, J. J. Stocker, John Morrison, John Reck, Robert Two waitresss lost coats and hat which were left hanging inside on hooks when the occupants Tled. Flor- | entine Yanson, who has operated K | the restaurant for the past four month: opinion that all the restaurant’s 1gs had been dam- | aged beyond recovery. He estimated his own loss at $8,000. The total loss is thought to exceed $10,000. Insur- ance was carried on the properti Immediately following the light-| Burns, George Getchell, Harry Pat- ning-like spread of the flames terson, smoke gushed in torrents from doo: Charles Rude, James Morgan, ways and tongues of flame licked Ralph Thempson, Walter Bathe, out the front of the restaurant, Tom Ashby, Art Rieudeau, Billy charring the marquee, giving a Busch, Jim York, Tem Dull, Dan first impression that the building Freeman, Charles Goldstein. was beyond hope for | saving. | ; % Tom Hall, Jack Livie, Allen Shat- | tuck, Bill Geddes, Grant Baldwin; Henry Olsen, Elmer Friend, Gus Brown, Ole Anderson, Ed Adams, |Jack Lanseth, Walter Barron, Phil Gallagher, Roy Skinner. John R. Krughorn, Alex Ware, Henry Roden, Charles Stern, Jim Connors, Eines Lykke, Charles Boyer, Dave Brown, Hans Neilson, Roy Rutherford, J. Williams, Tom Maxwell, M. S. Whittier. - - "Fall Fever” Symptoms Require Three-Day Observation “The Fall Fever!” with reconver- sion, furloughs and return of ser- vicemen all having their effect, “the equinox for marriages is now on,” U. 8. Commissioner Felix Gray announced here today in serving | “Notice to Expectant Lovers.” | “There is a three-day wait law in Alaska—and no waiver of same,” the Commissioner warned. | The law provides that a marriage |license may be issued only after |three days’ notice has been given |in an application made to the Com- ,missioner by word, letter, telephone MRS. CARL LOMEN or wire. JUNEAU “Matrimony-contemplating couples please observe,” Commissioner Gray pleaded. D e 0o e 0 0 0 00 00 EATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) . . . . Temperatures for 24-Hour Period @ 0 'Clock This Morning @ e o o . . . . 0 ° ° - g 2 In Juneau—Maximum, 53; minimum, 47. At Airport minimum, 46. aximum, 50; 000000000000 C00®00 00 WEATHER FORE (Juneau and V ° Rain tonight and Tuesday. o Not much change in tem- perature. . . . o e 00 0 00 0 0 0 0 - JENSENS RETURN Pastor and Mrs. E. E. Jensen, of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, returned on the Steamship Al from a nine-week missionary trip to Anchorage, Fairbanks, Homer, Seldovia, Naknek, Dillingham, Al- cknagik and Palmer. 2 - - iN ROUTE SOUTH Bound for Minnesota, where she will visit her father, former Con- - B e |8 man Andrew Volstead, Mrs. AR(HIE FMSER Carl Lomen was a stopover Pi\n; 4American passenger in Juneau Miss Pat Shaffer, talented and popular Juneau High School gradu- ate and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. | Ed. Shaffer, left on the Steamer Alaska enroute to Evanston, I, where she will enter Northwestern University as a freshman, majoring in music. of “AwK mlE‘l‘ | Saturday and Sunday. | Mrs. Lomen spent the summer in DlES o" SUHDA Nome and will be joined in Seattle i |by Mr. Lomen after she has com- !pletud her visit with her father. Archie Fraser, until recently al = - resident of Hawk Inlet, died yes. S terday afternoon at St. Ann’s Hos4{ o oY “H,}‘g Ff,':riz':)’"; g pital. He was 69 years old at th(\‘ 3 O b time of his death, and single. A]‘ miner by occupation, he was born in Nevada. The remains are at the Charles W. Carter Mortuary. Funeral ar- rangements will be announced later,| pending . word from Mrs.. Marjory Gallager, the only known surviving| relative.’ — Mrs. Shatier 1s accompanying her GETS SIX MONTHS |as far as Seattle. Arriving on the Roy Manson, of Douglas, who,same steamer from the Westward had pleaded guilty to an assault|was the Shaffer's son, Eddie, who and battery charge, was sentenced has been with the Alaska Road to serve six months in federal jail| Commission at Valdez during the by U. 8. Commissioner Felix Gray.| summer months. e — - eee VISITING PARENTS HERE BERGEON-DUVALL WEDDING , Mrs. Douglas Keating, with her paby son, arrived on the Steamer| Miss Dulice Glory Bergeon, of Alaska last night from Seward for Yakima, Wash, and Frank James o visit with her parents, Mr. and Duvall, of the Merchant Marine, Mrs. John Rogers. She plans to| were united in marriage by Com- spend several months here, and will |anissioner Felix Gray, Friday, Sept. be joined by her husband, who is)T. e Their attendants were Lola J. Beward. Reed and Jack L. Cremin. BY FLASH FIRE | pital, | KETCHIKAN PARR 1 HELD FOLLOWING. i | l SHOT EXCHANGE Youthful D;;flérado Is Se- riously Wounded in ; Plane-Boat Battle Two gun-wielding youths are now “in custody at Ketchikan, following seagoing escapade in two chap- , according to advices received { here today by U. S. Marshal Wil- , [te {liam T. Mahoney. | The two youths are named - as Fletcher and Talle, approximately 117 years of age. First names were [nt revealed in the wire to the | Marshal here. Talle is being held in a tal at Ketchikan, seri: ously wounded by a gun shot in the stomach, according to the wire. I Talle and Fletcher are alleged over tl}v large rvsu:urunt range, |to have purloined a power SCOW | patla Craig spread in a “flash fire” here Sunday | from the Ketchikan Packing Com- | .o already toured the Seward Pen- morning to completely gut Yanson's| pany a week ago. After wrecking jnquia area the scow on the beach, they are | said to have returned to Ketchikan | ;;md appropriated a second vessel, a sailing sloop, which was subse- quently wrecked near Gravina Island. The sloop had been sighted in| rence Strait by Russell Simpson, foreman for the Ketchikan Packing | Company, from a plane piloted by Al Coulter, Elis Air Transport. impson reported the sloop’s posi- tion to Nate Hardy, U. S. Deputy Marshal at Ketchikan, who went to the site by Coast Guard vessel. | Talle was shot when Simpson re- | turned gunfire opened by Fletcher, | who loosed a fusilade as Pilot Coulter flew low over the sloop. The two youths then abandoned the sailing craft and escaped into the woods, it was reported. | Talle, badly wounded, was cap- tured Saturday night and hospital- | ized. Fletcher was subsequently ar- rested Sunday afternoon.No in- formaticn as to charges filed had and Canada. been received here up to this after- noon. ! il - | HOSPITAL NOTES Samuel Coronado is medical patient at St. Ann’s Hospital, en-! tering Saturday. Jim Makris entered St. Ann’s | Hospital this morning for medical " attention. Margaret King, who has been a surgical patient at St. Ann’s Hos- returned to her home yes- 's. W. Leonard Smith, Mrs. Lee Smith, Mrs. A. W. Stewart, M Mildred Onsoien and Mrs. E. -B. Onsoien, all of whom :re medi- cal patients at St. Ann’s Hospital, {returned to their homes over the! end. i e Johnnie of Hoo been admitted to the Go Hospital for medical care. - MPSON wee h has rnment | HARRIET HERE Harriet P. Simpson, of Rockford, ! 1, arrived here on orah and is registered at the| aranof Hotel. N B: i TR | ELLA WETHERBY ARRIVES | = | Ella Wetherby, of Los Angeles, California, arrived here over the weekend and is a guest at thel | Baranof Hotel. | - | SWANSON IN TOWN ‘ S. H. Swanson, of Tacoma, Wash., | is @ guest at the Baranof Hotel. | >es MR., MRS. HART HERE i Mr. and Mrs. Bruce H. Hart, of | Seattle, arrived on the Princess, Norah and are guests at the Bar-| anof Hotel. } ->eo i C. D. A. MEETING | The Catholic Daughters of Am-| erica will hold their first businessl meeting of the fall season to-} morrow evening at 8 o'clock in the Parish Hall. Plans for the coming, year are to be made, and members are urged to attend. |area. the Princess? |SPRATLING HERE i "0 HEW FOSTER Massacred NATIVES' CRAFTS ; | | “Silver Bill" Spratling—as he is {labelled by the current issue of the! (Readers’ Digest in an article des-| cribing his unique activities in turn- | ri from Hanoi reported today |ing the primitive craftsmanship of that when news of the Japanese Mexico’s natives into silver jewelry surrender reached enemy outposts art—is at present a Southeast Langson, in northern Indo- Alaska or. China, the entire French popula- Mr. Spratling is in Alaska at the tion there, totaling about 100 per- request of the Arts and Crafts Board | sons, was massacred by the Japa- of the U. 8. Office of Indian Affairs,’ nese. to assist the Alaska Native Service| The same source reported about in development of the native art of 500 French prisoners of war in Alaska. northern Indo-China had suffered An old friend of Gov. Ernest the same fate. Gruening, Mr! Spratling this past There was no immediate official week end visited Skagway, Hain®s confirmation. CHUNGKING, Sept. 10—An ar- and Klukwan in company with the - e — Governor and Don C. Foster, ANS MARRIED HERE Director. Colin Earl Merrill of Cordova, Mr. Spratling already has visited 2 d Nellie B(va»Ynst. of Portland, Ore., were married yesterday at the Heonah and is to devote much of the week to other Southeast Alaska native communities, including Met- and Kasaan. He home of Mr. and Mrs. Felix Gray in Douglas, with Mr. Gray officiat- ing. Their attendants were Frank T. Dakin and Edna Dakin. e — MRS. HERMANN LEAVES Mrs. Mildred Hermann, Director of OPA, left yesterday via Alaska s T | Senafor Magnuson Airlines on a short business trip 'to Cordova and the Interior. Talks with Truman =~ .. e 1 JUDGE LEAVE District Judge George F. Alex- ander left here by plane over the weekend to attend a conference of the four Alaska judges to be held at Anchorage this week. On Alaska Highway ‘WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.—Senator Magnuson (D-Wash) talked briefly 1y with President Truman about The next session of the court the proposed completion of the here is expected to be on Monday, Alaska Highway. |Sept. 24, following Judge Alex- The proposal calls for a 600-mile Ander's return. connection etween the Alaska = B Highway and the present military| MRE., MRS. RAMSEY HERE highway and would run from the M. and Mrs. E. A. Ramsey, of Hoonah, have arrived here and are guests at the Baranof Hotel. - e - PUTNAM, JR., IN TOWN Burleigh Putnam, Jr., ployee from Anchorage, is a gue at the Baranof Hotel. - > EMILY MARTENS HERE mily Martens, of Petersburg, ar- rived over the weekend and is reg- istered at the Baranof Hotel. - — Prince George to the Whitehorse Magnuson said he would talk later with James F. Byrnes, the Secretary of State, about completion of the highway as an inportant internation- al project involving this country - -os Wi L BABY CLINIC The regular weekly Well Baby | - Clinic will be held at the Govern- BEDNER FAMILY LEAVES ment Hospital tomorrow afternoon George Bedner and family left from 1 to 3 o'clock, with Dr. H. 1"’.: today for the States, where they Kaack in charge. All mothers a will make their home. They have invited to attend and bring thefr been residing at the Hotel Juneau babies. while awaiting passage south. ‘'WANTED 3 ] STENOGRAPHERS POSITIONS OPEN NOw! e ; Starting Salary S200 Per Month A APPLY TO ROOM 206 Small Territorial Building b Phone 726 ing. the 86.8 PROOF « Cheerful Enterlaining calls for Old Sunny Brook { ar & Noee” Bring on Old Sunny Brook and watch the smiles spread wider! For here’s that grand Kentucky whiskey with the sunny disposition! 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