The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 7, 1949, Page 8

. PAGE EIGHT ~ COUNCIL ACTS T0 PROVIDE SITE FOR Rex Beach l S ici TERRITORIAL BLDG. IS Juicide 1 First step in providing a site in| Juneau for a new Territorial Build- | y ing was taken last night when the| City Council met in special ses- sion. SEBRING, Fla.,—(#—Rex Beach, The Council passed the first read- (72, nationally known novelist, was ing of an ordinance calling for |found dead of a pistol wound in the a special election to get Juneau | head at his_home near here this resident’s approval of the city's| morning. offering property on which the His death was pronounced suicide building would be constructed. by County Judge J. Howard Living- The property which te be offered, | ston and Sheriff Broward Coker. if the approval is given, is lots| Beach had Been suffering from a three and four, block seven. This is | throat ailment for three years. His the property on which Arctic Bro- | body was found by ‘a nurse who therhood Hall now stands and tl\n’fhroughc him breakfast, the Sheriff Jot. adjacent to the A.B. Hall at|said. Third and Main Streets. His nurse, Miss Tania Simonian, Also up for approval will be the | found the writer in his pajamas on offer of lots six and seven, block | the floor of his second story bed- seven, the lot on which the City | room. The body lay by the bed in BETA SIGMA PHI MAKES PLANS FOR Detailed plans for the CHRISTMAS DANCE public/| formal dance to be held December THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA 1 T R S T A T Y Dale Cogshell of the Queen City Yacht Club, Seattle, was nagmed to succeed Hart as president. Qther new officers are Frank Walters, vice president; Jack Vincent, sec- retary, and Dr. Lindblad, treasurer. The IPA, which has Bremerton | &s “home port,” is sponsor of the International Cruiser Race. BiG6S, PACKARD INITIATED INTO KIWANIS CLUB Initiation of two new members, a double-feature movie program and President, Anne Grisham called our meeting to order with the pledge of allegiance to the flag. Our Vice President Patricia Mclver led us ih the pledge. Our Treasurer, Julia Walther gave her report. The re- porter also gave her report. We wrapped our Christmas pres- ents for our mothers. ‘We are go- ing to send some pictures and scrap books to the children in the Edge- WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1949 Plumbing ® Healing Oil Burners Telephone-319 17 were discussed and formulated at the regular meeting of the (oMMu"I(A'Io"S !plans for a Christmas party—all 1 these, and routine business, too, cumbe Hospital. Beta Sigma Phi Sorority which was held last evening in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel. | Jennie Rusher, social chairman, teported that the next social func- tion. of the ‘sorority would be a Chyistmas dance to be held for the public on December 17 in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel. As customary at previous dances, the chapter’s Beta Sigma Phi sweet- heart for the year will be chosen throught® a ballot of all the guests at this:dance. One of the features of the program will be the crown- ing of the sweetheart who will act| gommunications system in the en- as queen of the festivities for the|tire Territory, and discuss air- WEATHER UP FCR CAP DISCUSSION Besides the previously planned program for the meeting tonight of the Juneau Civil Air Patrol Squad- ron, Paul I. McConnell will give a talk on communications. McConnell, controller of the CAA: tower at the Juneau airport, is communications officer for thej new CAP unit. | He will give a resume of the Hall now stands, and the lot ad-|which he had slept through the jacent to it. | night. This would make that propert, Robert Fox, his secretary for 33 available for future expansion of years, said funeral arrangements a Territorial Building on the A. B.|would be made later. Hall site, when a site for a new| Beach was in the midst of a City Hall could be found, Mayor | psychological noved, “Woman in Hendrickson said. | Ambush,” on which he had com- There will be two more readings|pleted 27 chapters. He had not of the ordinance before it is finally |worked on it for several months. passed, he said, and then a 30-day This summer, Beach's life was wait before the election is held.| despaired of for a while at Miami “The election will approve or dns-:where he had gone for treatment approve the Council’s action,” May- for his throat. or ‘Hendrickson "~ said. Beach joined the Alaska gold ‘rush in 1900 and his early novels DISORDFRLY (ounua dealt with Alaska adventures and | people. His best seller was “The (HARGED AGAI“SI us | Spoilers,” which was on the silent sds |and talkie screens. “AVY E“uS]'ED MA“{ Beach married Edith Carter in 1907 and when she died in 1947, the e |author said that one of his chief A US. Navy enlisted manllsou:ces of inspiration had gone charged with allegedly disorderly | from him. conduct on a complaint signed by| Beach, big and strong, talked in a a Juneau housewife, was turned|deep, resonant voice. He made over to Navy officers today for|friends everywhere and was per- prosecution. sonally known to hundreds of old- He is based at Kodiak Island. |time Alaskans. The woman reported to pollCe‘ shortly after midnight last night | that she had been dragged into an \(G( Bl“ERSWEH Io alley by a man in Navy uniform. | She said he had been frightened | off by her screams. Shortly afterward she started for| The Coast Guard Cutter Bitter- her home, police said. The police|sweet has left from Kodiak enroute patrolmen observed a man in uni- | for Juneau and Seattle, Coast form across the street following|Guard headquarters here announced ber; ' today. They apprehended the man when| The Bittersweet should arrive he followed her onto the porch Ot ihere Friday. It will remain in Ju- her home and seized her. &neau for several days before pro- The woman had not ceeding to Seattle for overhaul. HOSPITAL NOTES Police quoted Navy officers as saying the man would be brought | Six persons were admitted to St. Ann’'s Hospital yesterday. They before a court martial on “a serious | charge” when he returned to| were: Jack Hadlund of Petersburg, Mildred Jacobs, Mrs. Raymond Liz- Kodiak. SGT. LEX UTTER JOINS 15" e o ™ A(s S‘I‘AFF I“ jumu\[ M. O'Grady, John Fox and Mrs. William Schoeppe and baby girl were dismissed from St. Ann's yes- Sgt. Lex Utter, formerly with Al-| aska Communications System in terday. Sarah Johnson of Juneau was Seattle, has arrived to join ACS staff in Juneau. dismissed from the Governmeit He will be assigned to outside Hospital yesterday. plant maintenance here. He was accompanied to Juneau by his wife and 10-month-old daugh- ter, Sherry Lynn. - ACS MEN TO INSTALL EQUIPMENT, SKAGWAY Three Alaska Communications System men left for Skagway yes- been Republican Senator Homer Fer- guson of Michigan wants a show- duwn about the island of Formosa. Ferguson has just visited that Chinese Nationalist island, and he’s now in Honolulu. He says the United States must secure the isl- and from Communist occupation— “no matter what,” Ferguson be- lieves that the island is necessary to our Pacific defense plans. |YACHT CLUBNOW | ARRIVE HERe Fripay| HAS MEMBERSHIP evening. The group selected Freeda|ground control. Bechtold, Jean Marsh, and Bea| The weather observation set-up; §rown as the candidates for this|proposed for experiment by thei year. Dorothy "Farrel and Senna|Juneau Squadron will be discussed | Powers, ticket chairmen, distributed | by Mrs. Viola Stimson, and the| the ;i:kets for the dance to the; vest of the two-hour meeting will | members. be devoted to completing adminis- The President, Ruth Bader, gave| trative organization. a report of the recent band con-| The meeting will be at 17:30 cert sponsored by the sorority 8ndin'clock this evening in the office thanked all members of the sor- of the Resident Engineer at the ority who had assisted in this pro-| Army Dock. Ject. & | Squadron Commander Alan G. @ner the business meeting, Tone: Marcum had a conference with Williams kegan the cultural DX‘O-I‘Brig, Gen. Frank A. Armstrong, Jr., ram by introducing Dotothy Far-|pnead of the Alaskan Air Command, rel who spoke on the “Art of Dress.”| when the General was in Juneau; Miss Farrel pointed out that Per-| last week. General Armstrong sonality, stature, profession, and|gtated that the Alaskan Air Com- the climau_ in which she lives areg mand is giving 100 percent support 'ha de‘e;m““"! factors in the se"i to the activities of CAP, an auxili- ection of a woman’s clothes.. She| gy ynit of the United States Airl enumerated the proper types of! porce. clothes for all occasions and for| «gecent formation of the Juneau various times of the day. She closed | cadron,” Armstrong told » Mar- ner speech with the fitting state- », “is a progressive and impor- ment, “You only get what you locic ta V' step in the complete CAP like you deserve. | coverage of Alaska.” '8 T0 WESTWARD ON BOARD DENALI I“ l“'l' GRoupi The Denali salied late yesterday 4 | for the westward, taking six pas- | sengers to Sitka and two to Seward. The Juneau Yacht Club was| They were: voted into membership of the In-| To Sitka: Mr. and Mrs. Tvonnie ernational Powerboat Association|J. Jimmy, Jack L. Sturtevant, at the meeting of that group last | Major and Mrs. E. Newbould, David } 3aturday, according to a letter re- | M. Ramsay. ceived here today. | To Seward: The good news was sent to J. B.|Clara Williams. (Jack) Burford, commodore of the Juneau Yacht Club, along with his| participation plaque for his cruiser, | Donjac, in the Capitol-to-Capitol cruiser race July 8-16, 1949. The handsome 4 by 6 inch bronze | plaque, mounted on mahogany, soon will adorn the bulkhead of the Donjac. It is of striking design, | combining a tetem pole, mountains and a cruiser pictured head-on, Mrs. Anna Atluk, Trustees of the American Medi- cal Association announce that a pative of Ontario, Canadd—Dr. | Austin Smith—has been nameéd to succeed Dr. Morris Fishbein as editor of the AM.A. Journal. For months, Fishbein has teen a center of controversy within the A.M.A. because of his outspoken expres—l sions. | seal drive Elks Hall Tuesday afternoon. Our JUDY PYM, Repartorl were packed, into the weekly luncheon meeting of the Kiwanis : NORAH BRINGS IN 25; Kiwanians guarantee a happy AR surprise program for the Ladies’ | Night dinner December 21 in the TAKES 11 SKAGWAY Baranof Gold Room, where the| r Wednesday luncheons are held. e President Stanley Baskin said there will be only a brief program, S0 as| not to interfere with any evening| engagements. i President Baskin gave member= ship pins to W. H. (Bil) Biges, secretary of the Juneau BPOE | lodge, and Ray Packard, boat builder. In a short talk about the club, he stressed the facts that Ki- wanis was organized 35 years ago| with the qbjectives of promoting | the ideals of American Democracy and aiding underprivileged child- ren. The Princess Norah arrived last evening at 7:30 p.m., bringing 291 passengers. into Juneau# from the south. She sailed at 11:30 p.m., with 11 passengers embarking for Skagway. She will return here Fri- day morning at 7:30 o'clock, and sail at 8:30, jt was announced by Canadian Pacific Steamship Com- pany Agent William Feero. Passen- gers arriving and departing were: From Vancouver: B. Bailey, Mr. and Mrs. A. Blackerby, Kirk Black- erby, R. Diboff, W. Flynn, Mrs. F. Hubbard, Miss R. Hubbard, Mr. With Wallis George 8s program|8nd Mrs. R. Jones, Diane Jones, chairman, two movie shorts were Douglas Jones, C. Jokisch, J. shown: “A Tree Grows for Chnst.l‘bnnfer, V. MacNeil, T. Millos, mas,” and “Think it Over.” Mr. and Mrs. M. Malcolm, Mrs. The first is an all-color film |M Starling, Cary Starling, Miss A. showing how Christmas trees are Stgismund, P. Syrotuck, B. Sakich, planted in a nursery, then trans- Mrs. S. Scoretz, Patrick Scoretz, planted to an unused acreage—an | Donald Scoretz, Garry Seoretz, P dition. that frequently serves to|Miss M. Wentworth, R. Bermel prevent erosion. The picture fea-| To Skagway: Mrs, Edythe Walker, tures planned thinning to Teduce Henry Stevens, Lillian Stevens, | overcrowded areas and pmmow‘l"reder(ck .Stevens, Brooks Hanford, conservation. Kiwanians were the| M. K. Cormley, R. Sweeney, I L. Pogue, Wayne Harrington, E. first Juneauites to see this new Forest Serviee movie. Martinson, Bill Howard. Nights—Red 730 Harri Machine Shop, Inc. BUY and HOLD UNITED STATES SAVINGS BONDS THE management of this bank is pledged to conserva- tive operation. The safety of depositors’ funds is our primary consideration. In addition the bank is a mem- ber of Federal Depcsit Insur- ance Cgrporation, which in- sures each of our depositors against loss to & maximum of $5,000. e DEPOSITS IN THIS BANK ARE INSURED FIRST NATIONAL BANK of JUNEAU, ALASEA, MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION The other picture vividly por- trays the crime of arson—of which | any careless person may inadver- | tently be guilty. “Think it Over,” produced by M-G-M Studios, | teaches an important lesson in fire | prevention and fighting. Dr. Henry C. Harris, chairman i the Kiwanis-sponsored Christmas in downtown business offices, reported that collections have picked up and are appmach-i ing the 1948 record totals. Rotarian William R. Hughes was he only guest. Brownie Troop News| Brownie Trocp No. 4 met In the| American Legion Dugout Tuesday afternoon, December 6. Marianna Terenzio opened the meeting. Election of officers followed with | the following results: President, Karlene Alstead; Secretary, Arlene James; Treasurer, Janice Bailey. Mrs. Ray Nevin- pieased us with | teaching a number of folk dances which were lots of fun. Coralie Sheldon and Loretta Peratrovich, Reporters. | Brownie Troop No. 12 met in the with a block space on which the performance citation is engraved. The inscription is signed by Ray Hart, Jr., IPA president, and Milt Benson, secretary. [ At the December -meeting in| Bremerton, award was made of | the four silver plaques presented by the JYC. The big silver plaque for the overall winner—with a de- sign featuring a polar bear on a| cake of ice—was presented to| George H. Patton of Nanaimo. whose cruiser Aileen won the race from Olympia to Juneau. The other plaques went to winners of the Prince Rupert leg of the race. At the IPA election Saturday, terday to carry out installation work there. They are Matt Gormley, civilian engineer with ACS, Pfc Billy How- ard and Pvt. Erling Martinsen. . They will install putside telephone and radio equipment. Happy landing? lT MAY cost you hun- dreds of dollars from your own pocket if some person is injured on your prem- ises and you are without Comprehensive Personal Liability Insurance. Before anything hap- pens INSURE NOW, with this agency. Protect your home, your savings and your family. Shattuek Agency [ nss ~— e s uamn net v The perfect Christmas gift! Elegantly styled accessories from our sparkling collection of fashion jewelry that will add o note of splendor to all her smart costumes. Attractively priced, t00. Pieces from $3 up The Nugget Shop Bracelet CLEA CITY DRY record albums. or longer playing dises. HIGH BUTTON SHOES ®My clothes come MERRY CHRISTMAS back ¢ ner, fresher. @ Spots and ingrained soils are gone. @ Dulled colors perk up and take on new life, ©® Careful press lasts longer. 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