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Ragtime Kid
Passes Away
In Seattle
Famous Character of Esriy |
Klondike, Days, Dies j
in Hospital
— i
SEATTLE. July 20—i?:-The rag- j
time kid is dead.
Hartley Claude Myrick Sr., 65,
the "Kid that handled the music
box" in Robert Service’s' famous
poem, "The Shooting of Dan Mc
Qrew," died in a hospital after
a long illness here Monday night.
Myrick, a Seattle resident since
1916, was a souflS<ftifcv'otf'1&te -Al
aska gold rush at the age of 13
and played th first piano ever
brought to Sky g way.
About f9C7 in the Yukon he fig
ured In a combination of circum
stances which led Sendee to write
the poem.
Service a couple of years ago
said the names used in the poem
were fictitious, although the bar
room shooting described in it was
based on actual circumstances.
Myrick frequently recounted how.
at the age of 17. he was playing
the piano in Whitehorse, Y. T.,
where “a bunch of the boys were
whooping it up in the Malemute
saloon.”
Service had told how he heard
the shouting and music as he
passed the place one night, in
spiring the first line of his poem.
Later he built up the verses with
the story oi a subsequent shooting.
The description in the poem of
"the ragtime kid" stuck to Myrick
'he rest of his years. He played
in Dawson and Tanana and Idit
arod, following the gold rushes, but
he didn't strike it rich until he
came outside.
He did well in business here
until the 1929 crash, then later
re-established himself. At one
time he was a featured attraction
at the old Pantages Theater here.
During World War II he played,
the piano for servicemen at the |
Seattle USO.
The widow, Mary L. Myrick, a |
son Claude, and a daughter, Joy,
survive.
TEAMSTERS' STRIKE 1
SETTLED; LABORERS'
DISPUTE IS STILL ON
One of Juneau's three-week-old j
strikes affecting local construction!
work has been settlpd, and labor j
leaders were hopeful today that the
other would be settled in the near
future.
Contractors late yesterday signed
with the teamsters’ union, Local 10.
which had been striking since July
3 for a working agreement.
The contract signed yesterday
calls for a wage of $2.08 per hour. T.
B. Erickson, executive secretary of
the Alaska Federation of Labor,
said.
But many of the drivers will not
be able to go to work until an
agreement is signed between con
tractors and the Construction and
General Laborers, Local 1203 l AFL >,
■tfnd picket* leave the construction
jobs.
Prospects for an early settlement
of the laborers’ strike were bright
ened today when two independent
contractors signed a contract with
the laborers’ organization.
The laborers’ walkout was also
called July 3. and Erickson said at
that time that they were seeking
"recognition of a contract already j
accepted by some contractors here,
and by contractors in Haines, Skag
way. Petersburg and Ketchikan.”
The laborers’ have been asking
for $2 per hour, and a compromise
offer of $1.85 per hour by the Ju
neau Contractors and Employers
Association has been turned down.
ALASKA BOY SCOUTS
SAILING FOR HOMES
SEATTLE, July 20—Thirty
eight Alaskan Boy Scouts and their
leaders who attended the Scout
Jamboree in Valley Forge early
this mouth will sail from Seattle
for home today.
The group, under the direction!
of Scout Executive Maurice Powers,
of Juneau, has been on a seven
weeks .tour. Tliey have been, in
Seattle since last Friday.
FROM ANCHORAGE
Among Anchorage residents re
gistered at the Gastineau Hotel are
William H. Gerald, Sig Johnson and
j. M. Angfell.
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to those who subscribed
to advertising in the
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GUILTY IS PLEA
MADE BY GOLD TO
SPYING CHARGES
PHILADELPHIA, July 20—(.ft—
Harry Gold, 39-year-old chemist
who has admitted serving as a
courier for a Russian atomic spy
ring pleaded guilty today to an in
dictment "charging him with con
spiracy to commit espionage and
giving information to a potential
enemy.
The indictment, in two parts, was
read to him before U.S. District
Judge James P. McGranery in a
half-filled court room of the federal
building.
"How do you plead?” he was
asked.
"Guilty," said Gold in a firm
voice.
The defendant, his hands man
acled, was led Into the.court room
by FBI agents. Only about 60 per
sons were present when Gold came
! into the court room. A dozen more
drifted in as the proceedings be
gan.
The maximum penalty under the
I law is death.
! The 39-year-old Gold, a research
chemist at Philadelphia General
hospital and son of Russian parents,
W'as arrested here May 23, the first
j of four United States citizens ar
rested this year on charges of giving
U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union.
PORTLAND C. OF C.
iS IN FAIRBANKS ON
WAY TO ANCHORAGE
FAIRBANKS. Alaska, July 20—
.f:—Twenty emissaries of “good will”
from the Portland Chamber of
Commerce were in Fairbanks today
on a combined business and plea
sure tour of the territory.
The group is headed by George
I Henderson, vice president of the
First National Bank of Portland.
Among the group is Professor A.
L. Lomax of the University of Ore
gon School of Business Administra
tion. Lomax will remain in the ter
ritory for a year to make a study
of trade and commerce potentiali
ties.
The Portland group leaves here
tomorrow for Apchorage.
ANSWER EXPECTED,
EXTENSION JUNEAU
AIRPORUHORRY
RecomniendationsRegard
ing Alaska Be Made by
Johnson on Alaska Tour
I When J. W. Johnson’s recommen
1 tlations concerning Alaska are made
to the Civil Aeronautics Administra
tion in Washington, DC., they will
be supported by his personal ob- i
servations on a. six-week tour of the j
Territory.
Johnson is Special Assistant in!
the Planning Division, Office oi1
Airports, for the CAA. After inspec
tions in and near Juneau, he left .
June 8 for the westward and the j
interior, returning here Tuesday I
and leaving for the capital yester-!
day.
Before boarding the Pan Ameri- |
cn flight, he said, “As to progress
in Alaska, everything is going well—
especially well. Airports in general \
are badly needed.
"What about Juneau?” he re- j
peated. “Application for the exten- i
sion to the Juneau runway, includ- j
ing the proposed seaplane base, is j
still pending. We hope to have the I
final answer within a couple of |
weeks.”
With Edward G. Fisher of An- j
chorage. Acting Chief, CAA Airport
Division, Johnson went from here
to Anchorage, then drove to Tok
and the Canadian border, inspect
ing airports and proposed sites.
Johnson expects an airport to be
built presently at the border, in J
connection with the Customs and
Immigration stations. The nearest
one at present is at Tok. 97 miles
from the Canadian border.
The CAA men went next to Fair
banks, Point Barrow, Kotzebue
Nome and Fort Yukon.
Construction on an airport for
Kotzebue is to start August 1. and
that at Fort Yukon is under con
struction. These will accommodate
Wien-Alaska regular schedules.
Airlines are using the Navy air
port at Point Barrow on a restricted
basis. Wien is allowed two sched
ules a week.
“The traffic could stand more.'
said Johnson. “The CAA will con
sider additional airports to servi
the area.”
The CAA officials inspected twe
airports being built by the CAA
separately from the Federal Aid tc
Airport program. These are the in
ternational airports at Anchorage
and Fairbanks.
Returning to Anchorage, Johnson
and Fisher headed out on the Aleu
tian chain, inspecting airports at
Cold Bay and Dutch Harbor, and
going as far as Umnak. Then they
visited St. Paul Island, where the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is
sponsoring improvements of the
existing airport.
FORMER SENATOR GORDON
IS BUSINESS VISITOR HERE
Former Senator Frank S. Gordon
is in Juneau from his home in
Fairbanks, where he and Mrs. Gor
don are in the merchandising bus
iness. Owner of Gordon's store in
Juneau, the former senator is here
on business.
News of the former Jane Gordon
who has many friends here, is that
she is now in Ankara where her
husband, Col. Milton Ascham is on
a mission to Turkey.
Until the Korean war, the Gor
dons had planned to visit theii
daughter this summer.
Forerunner of the television tube,
the oscilliscope, was invented in
1906.
OPEN ALL NIGHT
Chinese dishes, Italian dinners, Sea
Foods, Steaks and Chicken Dinner*
served all night. New Country Club
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Fares Reduced
One Way Round Trip
Anchorage 63.00* 113.40*
Kodiak 98.00* 176.40*
Homer 80.00* 144.00*
Naknek A. B. 104.50* 188.10*
Naknek Village 114.50* 206.10*
10% Reduction on Round Trip
‘Plus Tax
Daily Flights — Passengers, Mail
and Air Cargo
Connections at Anchorage for all Interior
and Westward Points
Tickets and Reservations
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LODESTAR TAKES
FRIELE AND VOSE
TO TOP OF WORLD
Thirty hours of flying in Alaska
shown William Wihcapaw, pri-1
ite pilot for C. R. Vose and Ra
mi B. Friele on a trip around
territory’s perimeter, more
i nery than four years of South
American flying.
In Mr. Vose's Lockheed Lodestar
he group has co’A.neted in two
weeks a trip to Barter Island. Ft.
a llow, the Bristol Bay area and
;uch cf Southeast Alaska.
Mr. Friele. v ice President of
\ (t P and manager of the Nakat
Packing Corp.. salmon division of
the A & P, has been coming to
Alaska for more than thirty years,
out the present trip is his first
r.to the Arctic. Mr. Vose, insur-1
nice broker of New York, a friend j
snd business associate of Mr. Friele,
was in Fairbanks a few years ago, I
jut this time he, too, saw the Arc- ■
i
ic for the first time.
Neither W’incapaw or Thomas j
Styles ,his co-pilot and mainten
ince man. had ever been to Alaska i
before, though Alaska flying is not j
unlike that the pilot had known
.n South America where he was a i
ommercial pilot from 1937 until!
1940. , I
Meets Balchen
A high light oi the trip was meet- !
ing Col. Bernt Bnlchen, a relative
jf Mr. Friele, in Anchorage. The
rip to Bartel' Island on the Arctic
Joast was made in his company
and the Lodestar group were his
tuests at the far north outpost.
At Barter Island, a live polar i
iear. captured by the Eskimos for
a Philadelphia museum afforded
ill in the party plenty of action
with their cameras. Mt. McKinley,
which thev flew over, and salmon
ashing in Bristol Bay rivers pro- j
.ided other excitement along the
way. I
The Lodestar, which Mr. Vose
ises for transportation between his {
aome in New York and his Mon- '
ana ranch, left Montana July 3,;
md followed a route to Annette, (
\nchorage, where they were joined
iy Col. Blachen, to Fairbanks. Bar
er Island, Barrow. Kotzebue, Nome
md then to Bristol Bay.
In the Bristol Bay area they de
cried the Lodestar for a smaller
plane to visit canneries and take
ime out for sports fishing. After
i stop at Anchorage the big plane
jioceeded to Annette Island, and
its passengers took Ellis Airlines
o canneries at Hidden Inlet and
Waterfall. They will return south
.oday.
"Routine flight, without incident,"
s the way the pilot reported the
lip. After his South American
flying, Wincapaw flew with the
Royal Air Force Ferry Command,
was in the Navy five years then
with Trans World Airlines until he
joined Mr. Vose as his private pilot.
"It's a swell job. We just spent
four months in the Virgin Islands
before we came to Alaska."
Mr. Friele will be north again
this summer. His company—we like
to call it the Great Atlantic and
Pacif Tea Company instead of
the A & P—©pr ates canneries in
Ketchikan, Hidden Inlet and
Waterfall.
IWO BIDS RECEIVED
ON PUBLIC WORKS JOSS
Bids were opened here late yes
terday for Alaska Public Works
projects at Fairbanks and Naknek.
Only one bid was received for each
job.
Southern Constructors of Fair
banks placed a price of $398,978
on t he Fairbanks project, a grade
school building the cost of which
had been estimated by Alaska Pub
lic Works engineers at $341,000.
The Carl J. Quisberg Construc
tion Company of Naknek entered
tnt: only bid on the Naknek pro
ject. a school with three class
rooms and teachers’ living quar
ters. Price asked by the Quisberg
company for construction was $208,
000.
John D. Argetsinger, Alaska Pub
lic Works district engineer, said
both of the bids have been found
acceptable, but final award of the
contracts will come from Alaska
Public Works headquarters in
Washington, D, C.
Date for opening bids on a school
project at Ninilchik, originally
scheduled for yesterday afternoon,
has been postponed for one week,
Argetsinger saidi
BEHRMANN HERE
Max Behrmann of Seattle is at
the Gastineau Hotel.
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Chinese dishes, Italian dinners, Sea
Foods, SUaks and Chicken Dinners
served all night. New Country Club.
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BABY GRANDSON OF
NANS BERG IS DEAD
Michael Clifford Berg, 23-month
cld son of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford
Berg, passed away at the Ketchi
kan Hospital this morning accord
ing to a radiogram received by the
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Hans
Berg. The baby fell recently and
concussion is believed to have been
the cause of death. The parents
are former residents of Juneau but
have made Ketchikan their home
i for the past two years.
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