The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 1, 1949, Page 8

PAGF FIGHT ™™ Letter Goes "Visifing 22 Days fo Go 125 Miles; | Others Lay Lost in Sack Inefficient handling of mail in the Juneau postoffice was brought APARTMENT GUTTED to light today with two occurrences involving 10 letters, only one ol | day recelved a remittance from a' A fire this morning gutted jone subscriber in the shrimp capital, a APartment in @ bullding st 474 bill for which was mailed him No- South Franklin Street. The Daily Alaska Empire yester- teking 22 days to get to Petersburg Answering a 1-7 alarm at 8:20 vember 7. Here are the postmarks which were stamped on the enve- &M. i€ Juncau Fire Depamign Jope, :which ‘hé ‘révurned jwith his confineil the dahse to one NpEH check: ment in the building owned by Mrs. “Missent to Skagway — Novem- Ludwig Myhre. Three other gpart- yic 1§ 3 ments were slightly damaged by “Missent to Tulsequah—Novem- smoke an water Fire Chief A. Min- per 14" ard Mill said. A stamp showed it finally ar- rived in Petersburg November 29. | i 4 5 The remaining nine letters, seven Occupants of the bachelor apart- addressd to Stateside postoflices, ments had fled from the building were mailed from Idaho Inlet by bY the time city fire-fighting equip- prifate indisidunls. to friends, the TCRS SEUVELIIEBHC Boenc S0 ony other two were addressed to Fin-| "% injured. y land, also from Idaho Inlet. | Cause of the fire is not known, These were discovered by Empire | X1 Chief Mill said. mailer Lee Rox. The Empire secures | AT empty mail sacks from the post' office for use in mailing the daily ‘BUR“ED MOIHER HERE ditions. Well, Rox always shaki editions. Well, Rox always sha e~| fOR -‘-RHIME“I AI MT. the sacks Lefore placing them on hooks for use. He shook one sack, | possibly in the Empire mailing room i EDGE(UMBE HOSP“‘AL, for a week or so, and out dropped b | and fell to the floor, the nne air mail letters. They were addressed to: the City Cafe. Mrs., Bessie Edwards, Fairbanks | | mother badly burned in her home | !last August when fire killed her| The Motors Insurance Company, husband and two children, was| Oakland, Calif. brought to Juneau today by Dr. The Alaska Fishermen’s Union,|William F. Smith, who has kept her Bellingham. alive for months despite extensive Mr. and Mrs. Alex Turner, Berk-|3td degree burns on her body. eley, Calif. Dr. James T. Googe, medical di- S. M. Realty Company, Berkeley,|rector of the Alaska Native Ser-| Calif. vice, said Mrs. Edwards was taken One letter addressed in Finnish. ' to the Government Hospital pending | Mr. Herman Talvitic, Parainen,|transfer to Mt. Edgecumbe for fur- Finland. ther treatment. The patient is a| Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Siirila, Astoria, native, | Ore. Skin grafts and extensive treat- Mr. and Mrs. John B. Siirila, ment will take a year, Dr. Googe es- Ruverside, Calif. timated. Blood donors are being Mr. and Mrs, E. Manty, Berkeley, | recruited to aid her, he said. Calif. 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The building is to the rear of | O SKI CLUB READIES FOR SEASON; SETS UP COMMITTEES Juneau Ski Club officials, eagerly awaiting. the beginning of the winter's schuss-booming, met last night and made final pre-season adjustments in the club ogganiza- tion, All necessary committees were set up, and a membership drive was planned which will begin next week and-be climaxed by a club dance. Good news for tyro skiers was the appointment of Dean Williams to head the ski instruction and ski patrol committee. He is in charge of providing instruction for teginning skiers as well as main- taining . safe skiing on the slopes, Ski Club President Neil Taylor| announced that a small portnble} available for use in the| g Bowl when there is| enough snow for skiing there. Plans have been made to provide ' justruction for beginners in Bowl. fl Taylor also said that the Arts and Crafts Club has loaned the Ski Club its rooms in A.B. Hall. After the room has been fitted out, it will be open two nights each week with ski publications on hand and classes in dry-skiing for be-| ginners, he said. | Axel Neilsen 'was appointed head of the ski tow committee. His com- | mittee will maintain and operate the 1000-foot rope tow in the Doug- | las Ski Bowl. Leonard Lowell was named chair- man of the committee which will handle jnter-club ski competition and make plans for the annual ski tournament which will prob- acly be held about the first of March. Jan Hodgman was appointed chairman of the club’s membership | committee. ! Shirley Meuwissen was named | Secretary-Treasurer of the Ski| Club for the coming year. H Club President Taylor announced | that an organization party of alll available ski club members will} leave the Baranof Hotel Sunday at 9 am. for the ski slope on Doug- las Island, where final preparations ior the season will Le completed. He said ski club members mak- ing the trip should go armed with | sandwiches. { i SON FOR POLANDS Word has come from Kodiak that | Mr. and Mrs. William Poland be- came the parents of a baby boy November 21. The child, named Patrick Henry, weighed seven| pounds seven ounces at birth. Mrs. ' Poland is former Kathryn Kennedy of Juneau who was employed by the | Department of Taxation here. 1 | CONWAY ENROUTE TO SITKA Jack Conway, President of the| First National Bank of Sitka and owner of the Conway Dock, arrived | in Juneau on the Baranof after a; business trip to Seattle and was an Alaska Coastal passenger for; his home town. L D S RELIEF SOCIETY Women's Bazaar and food sale, | Sat Dec. 3 Parsons Electric Co.| Public invited. Choice Christmas! gifts suggestions.—adv. 61-4t' THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—~JUNEAU, ALASKA ALASKA COULD BE| TAKEN TOMORROW, SAYS GOV. GRUENING HONOLULU, Dec. 1.—®—Gov-| ernor Ernest Gruening of Alaska | says Alaska is totally undefended | against attack.| I “We could be captured tomorrow by a minor-scale, air-borne inva sion,” he told the Hawail group of the Institute of Pacific Relations Tuesday. Gruening, here for a few days following a quick visit to Tokyo, | said: ka has no radar screen, few posts and those meagerly and not nearly enough manned; housing for U. S. military forces The Governor deplored proposed plans to move important industries from the Pacific seaboard to the interior. He mentioned the plan to transfer Seattle's big Boelig airplane industry to Wichita, Kas “The defense establishments cre- the ated in Alaska for World War II have been virtually decommission- ed,” he said. “For any future ws we have next to nothing—offensive or defensive. B “Present U. 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It ALWAYS Pays To Shop at GRAVES a GRAVES The Clothing Man South Franklin Street Open Evenings Until Chrisimas o rrrreerd |the same as those used to enter|caid, J. Clark, Peter Brunger, Mae Butler-Mauro Drug Company store, | Brunger, Eck Guerin, ‘Marjoric\ 159 South Franklin Street, Tuesday‘ Wardrobe, E. Movey, Mike Cuuso,} night. | A. G. Woodley, W. Hope, O. Mc- | Entrance was made into the drug, Adams. store after breaking a pane in a| mom g l window in the rear of the store. | greida é:]ei:"‘;mg}da'hgz]ah&x::” Police said nothing was taken| z™ Goets, Wiliam Huckleberry, | [by the prowler who entered *he| gymer gJones, Lyle Jones, Mr};‘ | Butler-Mauro store. Jones, Karen Jones, Ole Kasin, Sue } iKennedy. Eno Klemola, John Leon- ;tovich, Kenneth Perkins, James Saunders, Mrs. S. Smith, Gre)g’ WINDOW - BREAKING PROWLERS ENTER TWO STORES IN TWO DAYS A prowler entered the Case Lot Grocery on South Franklin Street last night. It was the second case of prowlers entering stores in the past two 'PAN-AM BRINGS 21, Stroome, Stella Wallace, Virginia Snyder, Bill Snyder. i THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 194 | | SO OO LETCES Open 24 Hours a Day MIRROR CAFE Chinese Food Steaks—Chicken cooov v onaooooooo oo Entrance was made after breaking <= CARRIES 14 SOUTH L EYES EXAMINED a side window, Juneau police said.| The prowler lifted out several cases of soap powder which stood in front of the window after breaking the pane. The soap powder was Twenty-one passengers were| found this morning under a build- | brought in yesterday by Pan Ameri- can World Airwa; with 14 being carried out. They were: [ To Seattle: Bud Hanson, S. R.| Kin- ! ing nearby, they said. Nothing else was reported taken from the store. | LENSES PRESCRIBED DR. D. D. MARQUARDT OPTOMETRIST Second and Franklin PHONE 506 FOR APPOINTMENTS Juneau Tactics used by the prowle re' Duke, Mrs. Stoneman, W. 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