The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 22, 1947, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT ROTARIANS HAVE NOTED VISITORS | AT TODAY'S MEET C. Lana Sarrate of Buencs Aires, Argentina, a guished member of Rotary International, was guest of honor at the we y Rotary Inncheon held today in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel. Mr sarrate, accompanied by his son' on an extended tour| America, which includes Quebec Montreal, Otta- »nto, Winnipeg, Banff, Lake Edmonton, Fairbanks and Juneau. They arrived in Juneau on Sunday and will leave tomorrow. | Jack Fletcher, Past President of Rots in introducing Mr, Sar- | ate gave short sketch of his g career. Mr. Sarrate was born in! | Spain, and first came to America EAGLE ON HER NOSE_ “The Inde in 1917 as an Electro-Chemical en- paint job featuring a stylized American eagle on nose a gineer for the Spanish Government, ' .- and later became an assistant pro- TENAKEE NA"VE those money order offices on con- fessor at, Massachusetts Institute 4 | necting telegraphic lines of Technology. He returned to Spain and became & metalurgy and alloys e Gty = »xpert with the world-famed His- FAI_I.S OFF DOCK- | Reguiar telegraphic money ord- g |ers are normally delivered on the pano-Suizo Building factories tsame day filed a e cost is Spain. Leaving Spain at the out- i bl Ol e . & charge for a ten word fast day break of the Civil War, he re- | | message to the point of destination turned to America and was ap- e———— pointed an organizer for Rotary David Howard, 30, of Tenakee D = C LAt E aniz avid Howard, 30, of Tenal ' ount of money being telegraphed. International. In this capacity he was drowned last night when he i . ey Charge for the supplementary mes- was sent to South America and in apparently lost balance and fell “‘rlwgv i based on “;: fast dn\}: s five years he started 114 clubs the Juneau Cold Storage DOCK|ca00 yate for each word contained there. In 1941 he became General about 6:45 o'ciock. His body was in the message Manager of Perfumeria Dana, a rccovered about 20 minutes later s 2 7 &) ) Heretofore the only telegraphic company which he organized and|through the efforts of three mvn‘ y o | money order service provided by that now has ten factories in the in a skiff frcm a fishing boat tied ¢ Western Hemisphere. the Alaska Communication System fup at the ncarby City Float. The | i T " Sarrate spoke briefly, telling the men caught Howard's clothing with dfl‘hf\“’d"L::Z:m:lLel::::)lnlcnen;(:\ii members of South America in gen-'a boat book after diving efforts it e ,a,.mpe‘h.' afd oL ?,,'_ eral and Argentina in particular. oi Bill Warner, employee of Chas.| g d"fl |s°" i E i He said that Argentina was the'G. Warner, falled to locate the * g 0 ".’fmy R hing i mest civilized and progressive of all pody. | RNFEhor CHUGNE. dufmering, Shis the Latin American countries. Il-!| Members of the Juneau Fire De- new service may be obtained from ==/ BIGTIMEFOR THE DAILY ALASKA o pendence,” President Truman’s new plane wears a t Santa Monica, C committees are being named to at- tend to various functions. The visiting Elks are Past Grand Exalted Rulers Bruce A. Campbell, of East St. Louws, Ill, and John R. Coen of Sterling, Colo. They at- tended the recent convention of the Elks held in Portland, Ore. e . |was made at last night's meeting ELKS TONIGHT .. Local Elks are making great pre- | goq¢ parations for welcoming two prom-|ayajjghle space, are alsoasked to re- inent Elks who are arriving on the|gigter their boats at Darnell's. Re-| n Princess Norah this afternoon ““d‘gistration fee for the Derby is §5./home port, EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA —~— Chrysler Auto, Aluminum Skiff Are Two Awards in | Salmon Derby Next Month f A 14-fool aluminum skiff com- tact outside firms in the hopes of plete with a 4% h.p. Champion Securing many other awmjds. outhoard motor will, be awarded as| Women of the Soroptomists Club | second prize in the Salmon Derby and the Business and Professional to b2 held here August 31 in con- Women’s Club have arranged tp junction with the convention of S€rve picnic meals Iromv noon until the Outdoor Writers Association’ of 6 P-m. on Deri?y Day in the Auk | America. Village Recreation area. The final decision on this award The Convention Committee also voted last night to change its re- gular weekly meeting night. In the | future, meetings will be held on ! Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. in the offic- les of the Juneau Merchants Asso- ciation. of the Convention Committee (which has already announced that |a new Chrysler automobile will be given to the person catching the (largest salmon in the Derby. | - — Registration blanks ior entrance in the Derby have now been print-lAlAsKA lINE SHIPS {ed and are available at the Ju- | neau-Young Hardware Co., Dar- nell's Sports Shop. Thomas Hard- All ou' HOME poRI {ware Co. and I. Goldstein. ! r The Committee requested that TR be accomplished as| SEATTLE, July 22.—(»—For the "qulckly as posible in order to de- | first time since tefore the war, the {termine transportation requirements entire fleet of the Alaska Steam- owners, expectng to have Ship Company was away from SF- attle after 5 o'clock last evening. After the Flemish Knot left her all 17 ships in the Clarification of two Derby rules vill be either in Alaska, or | was made by the Committee which on _!hen' way non.hAv_ i {said that all boats must report to| SIX of the ships will be in Bris- lthe Judges' Float before 6 pm. on'tol Bay, or on their way there Derby day with their catches. It Th.e_y are the Dmrfmnd Knot, Ring {was explained that, after fishermen 'SPiice, Cape Victory, Edmond |have reported, they may wait in Mallett, Peter di Mcgu,"'e }:m,d Ithe area until their catches are Horold D. Whitehead. Two others . i th 1weighed. The Committee amended | the Terminal K"l,lt and e " Square Knot — are in the Bering the rule concerning wire lines and (fleet will literacy is almost non-existent and the people are highly cultured. Set- tled by Italians and Spaniards in the last decade of the 19th century, today 90 percent of the people in Argentina are of European extrac- tion Sarrate also spoke of the progress that Rotary International has made in South America, which now has 800 active clubs. He concluded, by presenting the club flag of the' Buenos Aires club to the Juneau club. Sarrate’s scn, Alfredo, who is a Jjunior at . Massachusetts Institute of Technology, majoring in chemical engineering spoke briefly on his impressions of American university life. = Other guests at the meeting in- cluded Don C. Foster of Juneau, A. M. Mlejnek of Oakland, and Gus Grant of Cloverdale, Calif. B S | SOAP BOX DERBY TRYOUTS INDICATE CARS T0 BE FAST With better and faster cars this year, the tryouts for the Soap Box Derby have been going along in fine style, according to Don Skuse Chairman of the Soap Box Derby, sponsored by the Daily Alaska Em- pire and the Juneau Rotary Club. Trycuts are scheduled for Wed- nesday, Friday and Saturday nights of this week in preparation for the big race on Sunday. e e e o o ¢ ® » 9 WEATHER REPORT Temperature for 24-Hour Period Ending 7:30 o'Clock This Mcrning In Juneau—Maximum, minimum, 54 At Alrport—Maximum, 59; minimum, 52. WEATHER FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Mostly cleudy with occa- 59; sional light shewers and little change in temperature tonight and Wednesday. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending WO .m. today) In Juneau — .06 since July 1, 3.02 i At Airport — .07 since July 1, 243 inches. 000 0000000000000 00 00 s e o s s o o o >-e MRS. JOHN McLOUGHLIN PASSES AWAY AT HOME Mrs. John MecLoughlin, pioneer cf Juneau, widow of John Mc- Loughlin who died Nov. 19, 1939, passed away this afternoon at her home on Third Street, between Gold and Harris. She had not been in the best of health during the past several months. The remains are at the Charles W. Carter Mortuary Mrs. McLoughlin is survived & sister, Mrs Josephine Elliott, resides at Toppenish, Wash. Carl Schraibman has switched to Calvert because Calvert is mellower. who #of 414 Meeting Street, Charleston, S. CALVERT RESERVE Blended Whiskey ~86.8 Proof—65% Grain Neutral Spirits. Calvert Distillers Corp., New York City |at 8:35 {who was called to the scene of the partment applied artificial respira- | ticn for over an hour and a half| before giving up their vain at-| tempts to revive the dead man. He was officially pronounced dead | pm. by Dr. C. C. Carter | accident. 3 Howard’s body was brought to| the City Float for the life saving | efferts. A large crowd lined the rim of the Juneau Cold Storage Dock to wetch the Firemen work lon the lifeless body. Confusion about the location of the call delayed the arrival of the Fire Department at the scene. A| 2-5 call was erroncously sounded! instead of the proper 1-7 ring. The Pclice Department in the mean- time, had received the proper in- formation and arrived at the; scene immediately. | Howard's body was taken to the Charles W. Carter Mortuary where it is waiting for arrangements to be made for the burial. Howard was a crew member of the fishing boat Florence at the time of his; death. TWO NEW SERVICES ANNOUNCED BY ACS The tem is public vices Alaskza Communication Sys- new making available to the two more telegraphic ser- whicn have proved to be highly popular with Alaskan resi- dents. These two new services are overnight felegraphic money orders and the inclusion of supplementary messages with telegraphic money orders. This was announced today in Seattle by Colonel T. J. Tully, Ccmmanding Officer of the Alaska Communication System. This new service is provided Ly | the Alaska Communics.ion System' between their cwn offices and to TALK | also: | Bond, any Alaska Communication System station in Alaska. CAPT. BILL JONES SHOWING VISITORS GOOD TIME FISHING | Two groups of tourists have re- cently been supplied with material for bigger and better Ilish stories upon their return to the States by hooking some big kings aboard the cruiser Clipper, captained by Bill Jones. Jones has been taking groups of tourists to Point Salisbury, Point Bishop und Point Arden on fishing | trips. Last weck Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Hopkins of Glendale, Calif., hauled in a couple of kings, and on Satur- ! day ecvening Mr. W. A. Rich and son Bill of Detroit, Mich., and Jim Green of Midland, Texas, managed to hook several beautie: e - hree vessels landed halibut hes today at the Juneau Cold dock, but the fish were unscld before ncon. Andrew Jack- son on the Arctic had 19,000 pounds; Frank Olsen on the De- fiance, 10,000 pounds; and the Cavalier, 38,600 pounds. The Apex No. I, under Peter brought in 5,000 pounds of salmon from the trolling grounds for Alaska Coast Fisheries. e e ——— - GIRL FOR VAVALIS Mr. and Mrs. John Vavalis are the parents of a baby girl born early this morning in St. Ann’s Hospital. The new daughter weigh- ed 7 pounds 3 ounces at birth. Mr. Vavalis is an employee of the Ju- au Water Company. B A B Y from the Infant Razaar n a fully hand made . INFANT DRESSES of f embroidered and ribbon - trimmed, Some a fine sections of | ANKLETS, ZC: s 314 to TVh Baranof Hotel Building Everything your little darling your selection here. in white, pink, blue, Women's Asenner says that it will now permit the | juse of such lines. Girl Scout Council Is To Meet Tomorrow; . Welcome Mrs. Kafer | At offices of the steamship com- pany it was said that the unusual Also, on the list of prizes, th¢|gjtuation of having all the ships | Committee voted to award a loving away at one time was because this |cup as an extra award for first js the busy season in the Alaskan | place. Milo Clouse who was chosen trade and vessels are not kept in jChairman of the Prize Committee, 'port any longer than necessary. reported that many local merchnnts‘ - e ave alreddy offered to contribute| UTAH WOOLEN MAN HERE | prizes to the contest. He said these, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Broomhead of £ | offers were unsolicited. Clouse also Lowell, Wash,, are registered at the jton, will meet tomorrow afternoon g,y tnst he intends to call on| Gastineau Hotel. He is representa- at 2:30 o'clock at the GOVernor's|,ihe,. juneau merchants and con- tive of the Utah Woolen Mills. home, to meet Mrs. Marjory Kafer,| _ £l fed ARALES 5 , %mcmber of the National Girl Scout | | Stafi, who is arriving here today | | by plane. | | All leaders cof the Girl Scout| |mcvement, assistants and others, | jare requested to attend and meet | | Mrs. Kafer, who is making a spec- | |ial tour of Alaska. H A special and important meet ing of the Girl Scout Council an {all other officials of the organiza F s ROBERT FELLOWS HERE, | ON TRIP T0 INTERIOR Robert Fellows, a member of the! U. S. Geological Survey passed| |through Juneau thiseweek on his| way to the Interior. While he was {here he was the houseguest of B. D. Stewart, his father-in-laww Mrs. Fellows, the former Mary Stewart, plans to arrive in Juncnuf |August 7 and will be met here by | *I'VE SOLD well over 350 million pounds of tobacco at the auctions down South, and year after year, I’ve seen the makers of Lucky Strike buy quality tobacco...fine, light, fragrant tobacco that makes her husband. The Fellows will| a grand smoke.” spend several weeks in Juneau - 2 {and then return to the States,| M ywhere they will drive to .their 'home in Washington, D. C. i RN i '/ J.H.BURNETT, INDEPENDENT TOBACCO AUCTIONEER B . of Buffalo Springs, Virginia (16 YEARS A LUCKY STRIKE SMOKER) \ John Fain, who is on a Fish and Wildlife boat, is in Juneau for| | medical attention. He is registered | | at the Gastineau Hotel. H — - . | FAIRBANKS MAN HERE O. W. Granell of Fairbanks is a| guest at the Gastineau Hotel, c—o——— i FROM TAKU LODGE | Lernie Lempke of Taku Lodge is rcgistered at the Gastineau Hotel. eeds—everything that's best nd that's prettiest is waliting JOE BURNETT IS RIGHT!...And like him, scores of other experts. .. who really know tobacco...have seen the makers of Lucky Strike buy the kind of tobacco that makes ‘‘a grand smoke.” After all, that’s what you want in a inest Batiste, with collars. cigarette . . . the honest, deep-down en- joyment of fine tobacco. £l Pl 3 So remember... 'UNION OFFICIAL IS w ' VISITING HERE TODAY Lester J. Green, International| Representative of Hotel -and Res- | taurant Employees and Bartenders stopped in Juneau today on a sur-| vey trip he is making of the Territory. He will visit Ketchi- ka Sitka, Cordcva, Wrangell,| Petersburg, Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Kodiak. The central office of the organization is in Cincin-| nati, Ohio. Green, who Tacoma, is register anof Hotel. makes his home in| ed at the Bar-| -ee | FRANK MILLERS LEAVE ! Mr. and Mrs. Frank Miller, of Salem, Ore. who have been visit-| ing their son, Don Miller and fam- ily for the past 10 days left for the south ahoard the Princess Louise, For AFEW DAYS ONLY: a large lot of beautiful also LOCKETS and BRACELETS 145 Price The NUGGET SHOP Now in the Simpson Building Grand Opening Soon ¥ § X g ¥ TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1947 | We'll Fix It! Speedy. depend- able service with specially design. ed tools and —+—— Parsens Electric Co. Juneau, Alaska COSTUME JEWELRY LUCKY STRIKE presents THE MAN WHO KNOWS~— THE TOBACCO AUCTIONEER! £ JOHN BALTER Conr.. The Americas Tobacce Comand Lueky Strike Means fine 7oBacco It's the Nicest Store in Town So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed —So Free and Easy on the Draw