The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-07-19


 Percy Kendall, of Port Orchard, near Bremerton, Wash, is in charge of the working party which arrived on the U. s. s, Partridge.
 MT. and Mrs. Arnt Hendrickson, of Long Beach, Cal, were guests Thursday, of MT. and Mrs. Jack Calvin of the Arts and Crafts Shoppe.
 Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss Genette Webster, daughter of MT and Mrs Jack Lee, and Robert Hagen, son of MT, and Mrs Harry Hagen, of Sitka. The wedding will take place in January.
 Mrs. Ray McGraw has arrived from her home at Edmonds, Wash. to join her husband who has been here since spring.
 Serafim Strekelkoff, Russian bari tone and globe trotter, who re- gently completed a tour of the world, spent the past week visiting in Sitka. The Women's Friendly Club of Sitka, sponsored a concert given by the artist last Monday evening at the high school gym- nasium. While here he was the guest of Father Zlobin, of the Rus sian church.
 Miss Margaret kanus arrived here on the North Sea this week to join her parents. MT. and Mrs. Clarence Bands, who recently ar- rived here from Juneau to make their residence.
 Wayne Hagen, of Tacoma, has arrived in Sitka to visit indefinitely with his aunt and uncle, MT. and Mrs. Harry Hagen.
 Mrs. Sidney Charles, of Ketchi- kan, Well-known here, made a short stay in Sitka recently, and extend ed her vacation trip and left this week on the North Sea for Seattle for visit with friends and rela- i tives.
 Recent arrivals at the Pioneers Home are Charles Volker and Eric Burman, both of Anchorage.
 Mrs. c. s. Gomiger, the former Miss Astrid Bredvik, and small daughter Sharon, left on the North Sea for Seattle. MT Gominger has been detached from the fleet air base at Japonski Island.
 The seine boat Busy Bee, owned by Richard Young, of Sitka, sank in fifty fathoms of water off Kelp Bay, Thursday. The boat, which was loaded with fish was under way when a deckhand noticed the stern sinking, and with quick &C., ton in untying the skiff, saved himself and other members of the crew from going down with the boat. Faulty caulking of the upper hull seams, it is believed, was the cause of the accident.
 The Sitka School Board has re- ceived from California the reisgna- ton of Ralph Davis, high school instructor. A meeting was held Friday evening to consider appli- cants for the position.
 Marriages performed recently in Sitka are as follows: Donald Berd- ing Foster, attached to the fleet air base at Japonski Island, and Miss Gladys Lillian Corkins, of Newport Vermont. were married at a quiet ceremony at St. Peters by the Sea Episcopal Church, by Rev. J. L. Webster. MT. Foster has received orders to leave here July 20 for Honolulu. Another marriage was that of Arnie Erickson, locally em- ployed, and Miss Betty Jones, of Juneau, formerly of Fairbanks, per- formed by Commissioner William Knight at his offices in the Federal Building Witnesses wereeL Lyle Phil- lips, William Smith and Walter Bacon. W
 Aboard the mission boat Prince ton this week on a visit to Sitka were pr. and Mrs. Robert L. Me Leod, of New York City, Captain Verne J. Swanson and Mrs. Swan son, and Mrs. John Maurstad, of Angoo. Dr. Mcleod is the secretary of the National Board of Missions. They paid visit to the Sheldon Jackson School while here.
 MT. and Mrs. c. G. Stewart, members of the faculty of Sheldon Jackson School, and son William, left Saturday afternoon on their boat Idno for Juneau to greet MT Stewards sister, Miss Georgia Stew art, of Ketchikan, who is a dele gate to the nurses convention in I'm