The Daily Alaska empire. [volume], September 30, 1930, Page 8, Image 8

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AIR MAIL URGED
FOR ALASKA BY
NATIONAL BOD\
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Aeronautic Associatior
Convention Appeals
to Government
Air man service between Alaskr
and the States is advocated by the
National Aeornautic Association ol
the United States. Resolution:
urging the postmaster general tc
extend the aerial mail - carrying
operations to this Territory were
unanimously adopted at the recent
annual convention of the aviation
organization, and have been for
warded to the head of the postal
department at Washington, D. C
The National Aeronautic Associa
tion is the strongest aviation in
fluence in America. It has a chap
ter in virtually every community,
and its membership is in the neigh
borhood of 1,000,000 persons.
Senator Bingham President
Its president is United States
Senator Hiram Bingham of Con
necticut and among its directors
are Charles A. Lindbergh. Amelia
Earhart, Frank Hawkes and other
famous fliers.
At the national convention of the
association. Valentine Gephart, who
yeas delegate from the Seattle chap
ter, also represented Southeast
Alaska at the request of the Alaska
Washington Airways. After the
convention he went to Washington,
D. C. to urge action by the federal
authorities on the convention's reso
lutions.
Text of Resolutions
The text of the resolutions, as
comunicated to A. B. Hayes, rep
resentative here of the Alaska
Washington Airways, follows:
“Whereas the regular mail service
between the United States and the
Territory of Alaska is served only
by steamship, and
"Whereas it takes the majority
of first class mail a minimum of
four days’ travel by steamship from
the Territory of Alaska to the
nearest part in the United States
and
“Whereas there is an established
air-line between the United States
and various points in Alaska which
has been operating successfully for
the past two years, and
"Whereas the route over which
these ships fly is a safe route for
air navigation nine months during
the year,
“Be it resolved, that the National
Aeronautic Association urge the
Honorable Walter Brown, Postmas
ter General, to establish an air mail
route between the United States and
the Territory of Alaska and ask
private operators to bid on carry
ing the mail over this route at as
early a date as possible, in order to
facilitate the pommunications of
f the hundreds of companies In the
[ United States who do business with
Alaska and are now materially
1 hampered by the delay in receiv
ing mail." »
lORME BAGS TWO
. BROWN BEAR AT
:OLIVERS INLET
5 -
: Local Hunter Bags Two
! Large Charging Brown
i ies with Three Shots
James Orme. delivery truck driver ;
for George Brothers Grocery, while i
hunting deer last week at Oliver's
• inlet, was charged by two brown
bear and dropped both almost at
i his feet. He got a badly bruised
nose out of the encounter, the recoil
1 of his bolt-action rifle injuring it
slightly.
Orme was hunting with a party
comprised of: Melville Leeth and
Ben Melvin who owns the gasboat
Sea Otter on which the trip was
made. He went out with Melvin
and while climbing one of the near
by mountains ran into the bears.
He first saw but one as it headed
downhill right in his direction.
Orme dropped it with one shot.
As it fell bear number two hove
into sight. The first shot checked
. but did not entirely stop its charge,
| but a second tumbled it down. It
1 crashed downhill by Orme and just
a few feet to one side.
The party returned to town
Sunday minus deer. Inclement
! weather prevented extensive hunt
ing.
YOUNG BUCK
| FLYINU WEST
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.. Sept. 30 —
Robert Buck, 16-year-old flier, at
tempting to set a Junior transcon
tinental speed record, took off at
7:50 o’clock this morning, resuming
his westward flight. He planned to
land at St. Louis to refuel.
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| Moslew law, forbidding payment'
of interest, has prevented establish
ment of a native bank in the king- .
dom of Hedjaz, Arabia.
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Silk Chiffon Hosiery
KAYSER and GOTHAM GOLD STRIPE
48 Gauge 3 Thread All Silk
$1.50 and $1.75
In the rich, dark shades of fall — Sunbash,
Nightingale, Season, Ivory, Pawnee, B. Clair,
Gunmetal and Rose Taupe. French heel and
pecot top—one only finds in expensive hose.
Window Curtains
and Curtain Materials
AT
SPECIAL LOW CLOSE
OUT PRICES
NOW ON DISPLAY
CURTAINS As Low As
$115 Per Pair
with Tie-Backs and Valances
Leader Dep’t. Store
PgONE 454 GEORGE BROTHERS, Props.
Daily Cross-word Puzzle
ACROSS
1. Dinner coarse
6. Belonging to
him
6. Low tide
19. Hirer In Italj
18. Lizard
14. Leer
16. Slander
17. Skillful
19. Gnldo’s high*
est note
90. Growing oat
91. Pronoun
88. Deprive* of
nnlurul quhII
tlee
88. < entrui cyiln
der of stem*
and root*
88. Shackle
81. Ratio ot cir
cumference to
din meter
88. Metric land
measures
84. Finish
85. San god
86. Suit of acetic
acid
89. Cogwheels
41. Restraining
48. Hawaiian
wreath
46. Brilliant con
stellation
Solution of Yettefday't Puzzla
46. Half way
between east
and southeast
49. Behind a ves
sel
61. Deputies
58. Pack
64. Type square*
66. Paradise
67. Withered
68. Deserter
59. Back of th*
neck
DO W 51
1. Identical
8. Spoken
8. Take cargo
out of a vessel
4. Huwullon food
6. Reddish
orange dye
6. in case that
7. .Natural
height of a
man
8. And uot
9. Self-love
10. Alighted
11. Caressea
16. Dynamo
18. Throwing Into
disorder
81. Siamese coin
94. Pnff op
85. Prussian city
86. Watering place
87. Twitching
89. Sin
80. Spanish article
88. More severe
87. Supervisor of
a p it hi lot tloa
88. Silkworm
40. Progrum of
things to be
done
48. Cook
48. Mu Id
44. Princely
Italian family
47. stride
48. Ancient slave
60. Female sheep
68. Fvent contrac
tion
85. Mother
AT THE HOTELS
Gastlneau
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Henning, Point
Louisa; N. A. McEachran, Seattle;
Sanford Dodge, Los Angeles; Karl
K. Katz, Northern Pacific Railway;
N. C. Buren, Tenakee; R. H. Cham
berlin, United States Rubber Com
pany; Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Sarber,
John C. Cooke, Jr., John W. Ger
weles and L. A. Daughing, United
States Land Office.
Alaskan
Alton Klitz! Joe Jackson and
Jake Angelt, Tenakee; May Sher
! wood, Sitka.
Zynda
John Winlie, Chichagof.
Fifty million gallons of drinking
water were dumped into the Pas
saic, N. J., River to clear it of
sewage.
Cornstalks are used in making
i wallboard and paper.
" — N
J. M, SALOUM
Next to Gastineau Hotel
New Shipment
MEN’S AND BOYS’
Raincoats and Slickers
Rarely ever do you got
coffee ao good ae
MANNINGS
Blue Trade Mark
COFFEE
45c
Nature’* choicest gifts come sparingly. The
extra fancy article—like the flawless diamond
—is usually available only to the chosen few.
So it is with coffees. The finest grades are
not produced in quantities sufficient for gen
eral distribution. \
It is such fine quality coffee that has built
the fame of Manning’s Coffee all up and down
the Pacific Coast. And it is Manning’s finest
Blue Trade Mark Coffee that is sold you fresh
every morning at 45c the pound in this store
Its rarity is proved by its richness
of flavor. ^Get s pound today.
GEORGE BROS.
PHONES 92—95
Five Fast Deliveries
t
*
ELMER J. WHITE
FUNERAL TO BE
HELD ON FRIDAY
_ i
Son Is Expected to Arrive
Thursday Aboard Prin- j
cess Louise
Funeral services for the late El
mer J. White, editor and publish
er of Stroller's Weekly, who died
Sunday at his home In this city,
will be held at 2 o’clock Friday af
ternoon in the Presbyterian Church,
according to present arrangements.
The pastor, the Rev. C. C. Saun
ders, will officiate. Interment will
be in Evergreen Cemetery.
In the event Mr. White's son, Al
bert H. White, of ^ Springfield, O.,
does not reach here Thursday eve
ning as expected, the rites will be
deferred until after his arrival.
When the father became seriously
ill last week, the son was notified
and immediately left for Juneau.
He is believed to be a passenger
on the steamship Princess Louise,
which was scheduled to sail for
this port from Vancouver, B. C.
last night.
The son, Albert, will be the only
relative of Mr. White in the States
to come here for the obsequies. The
other relatives are too distant—
Washington. D. C„ New York. Ohio
and California—to reach here with
in reasonable time.
Mrs. White has received mes
sages of condolences from all of
Mr. White’s relatives and from
many of his friends now living in
the States or Canada.
BRIDGE AND WHIST TONIGHT
This evening at the Parish Hall,
the second of a series of card par
ties will be given. Bridge and
whist will be played and will be
gin promptly at 8 p. m. A cordial
invitation is extended to the pub
lic. Mrs. Skuse, hostess. adv.
Have you tried
the newest
GILLETTE
BLADE?
$2.00 per package
of 10
BUTLER-MAURO
DRUG CO.
Free Delivery Phone 134
WHEN WE SELL IT
IT’S RIGHT
Express Money Orders
Autogarts
Metis Self Supporting
Socks
A NEW FEATURE
OF HOLEPROOF
HOSIERY
Support Guaranteed to
Outlast the Sox
Do Not Bind
Nationally advertised
in Saturday Evening
Post of September
25 — Pages 92, 93.
SABIN’S
Phone 478
COFFEE
SCHILLING’S
GOLD SHIELD
45 c
STOCK UP YOUR PANTY SHELVES AT
THESE ATTRACTIVE PRICES!
Del Monte Products
(New 1930 Pack, Just Arrived)
BLACKBERRIES, No. 2 can, per can, 30c;
4 cans for.$1.00
LOGANBERRIES, No. 2 cans, per can, 30c;
3 cans for.80c
STRAWBERRIES, No. 2 cans, per can, 35c;
3 cans for.$1.00
RED RASPBERRIES, No. 2 cans, per can, 35c;
3 cans for.$1.00
PINEAPPLE, large No. 2 1-2 cans, per can, 33c;
3 cans for. .. • -90c
STRAWBERRY JAM, 3 lb. glass jar, each.85c
RASPBERRY JAM, 3 lb. glass jar, each.75c
STRAWBERRY PRESERVES, 4 lb. jar, each . ..$1.10
BLACKBERRY and LOGANBERRY PRE
SERVES, 4 lb. jar, per jar..85c
ASPARAGUS, medium white tips, square tins,
per can, 40c; 2 for..75c
ASPARAGUS SALAD POINTS, No. 1 round
tin, per can, 33c; 3 for.90c
EARLY GARDEN PEAS, No. 2 cans, per can,
22c; 5 cans for.$1.00
TINY KERNEL CORN, No. 2 cans, 22c; 5 for . .$1.00
GOLDEN BANTAM CORN, No. 2 cans, 22c;
5 for.$1.00
SOLID PACK TOMATOES, large No. 2 1-2 cans,
22c; 5 cans for.$1.00
LIMA BEANS, No. 2 cans, 33c; 3 cans for.95c
M'
'f
LARGE DISPLAY OF FRESH FRUITS
. AND VEGETABLES
FREE--One 15-cent package of Nalley’s Potato
Chips with each jar of Nalley’s Mayonnaise .. .35c
I
The Best for Least Money
SEARCHLIGHT Matches, large boxes, 6 to carton, 25c
CERTO-the perfect fruit pectin, 3 bottles .... 90c
SHELLED WALMTS-Rose brand, extra fancy, lb. 60c
QUAKER CRACKELS-A new and delicious cooked
food, package.. • • • ~ 20c
PALM OLIVE SOAP, 3 bars.25c
RASPBERRY PRESERVES, 3 lb. glass jars . . 62c
A OU^LITY ARTICLE Goes Twice as Far in Flavor and Quan
tity as a CHEAP ONE
GARNICK’S • Phone 174
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