The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 31, 1927, Page 2

7 > I L THE DAILY Elefyrmmealommenfipemenfir MMMW e | A wealth of bright colored prints, subdued patterns, plain colors in a complete range of shades Soft Taffetas. gette, TAFFETAS A Taffetas in rose, pink, navy blue. $2.25 and a yard PONGEE | Colored Pon, 33 inch atural Pongee ster - White (8] good assortment of and Crepes, Satins, Geor- A new blue, tan, medium | A pink, $2.75 | black and gee in $1.65 1.00 1.50 GEORGETTES line of medium weight Georgette, 36 inches wide, in rose, yellow, green, shrimp, grey, navy, white. $1.75 a yard BARONETTE SATIN in pink, blue, black, peach and navy. 36 inches wide. i $1.25 a yard B. M. Behrends Co., Inc. Juneau’s Leading Department Store EUROPE GETS TOMAKE WORLD WET - PARIS, May 31.-—European inter- national “wets” are almost ready to make war on both prohibition and drunkennoss France finaily has approved plans for an “International Wine Bureau” to supervise propaganda and stand- ardize methods of production, regula tion and trade practices Primavily this burean’s job is to! otect and develop the wine indus iry. both by counteracting dry move meants and curbing alcoholism the French regard frankly as a greq danger. Greece, Huhgary, Italy, Tunis and Luxemburg adopted the plan at a meeting hore in 24, with Sp adhering under rese tions. Five r@tifications are required and the plan is expected to become opera tive by the end of the year. Queerest Museum in London Dock District LONDON, May 31.—One quaintest and least-known in London is in the Dock district of Stepney, housed in a building on usged as a mortuary Dockers who find curios when un of the loading ships bring them to this building for classification. Giant ders, cockroaches, scorpion lizards and snakes from all parts of the| world are captured and brougr along in jars, but other curios ar also collected by llm keen docker and placed in the “museum.” Th Stepney Borough Council has taken over the upkeep, and the children of this poor dlnlrl«-l are keenly i terestad in. the P\hihil» ACCIDENTS_ INCREASE WITH CARS IN JAPAN| A TOKYO, May ’!l ~—With the increas- ing number of automobiles in Japan, it is almost as unsafe to cross a street in Tokyo or any other large city as it is in New York. Half of the automobiles in Tokyo either killed or injured someone dur- ing the past year, according to po- lice statistics. There are approximately 13.000 mo- tor cars in the Japanese capital. Dur- ing 1926 there were 6,368 automobile accidents reported in which someone was Lk'lled or injured. There were 14.0°" traffic accidents in which 22 [yirer ons loat their lives and 9,781 were ‘¥4, Ot the total number of acci- dents, bicycles were responsible for which | museums | READY SEES EACH SUNSET FROM CAPITOL DOME MADISON, Wis., May 21 \ dome of the Wisconsin | | building is the nightly | | of an aged trapper. | Up the winding stairs to the deme, towering high above the city of Madison, Nathaniel Cram- ton plods each evening to watch The capitol rotreat || the sunset | Despite his 80 years he nego- | | tiates the column without much | effort, and seldom is his rite | | | omitted. He does not speak to | | | other visiors who may be at | { [-the top. For ten or twenty min- | | | utes he stands silently, and then | | descends the stairs, | I i s = [ tram cars for 1,445 and the Hmlm nt lunhn, ) ‘A W r 105, iMOORING MAS ".ECES ABOVE SCOTT FIiELD BELLEVILLE, I, {aerial “nhitching post” nearing completion at vill make the airport 1y type of light-than-air May 31 176 feet high Scott Field, accessible tc ft from An glant Zeppelins to the smallest bal loons The mooring mast, one of the world tallest for aeronautic pur- noses, will have a ladder stairway n elevator, electric lights, telephones |and speaking tubes, and in it will be | stored supplies of helium, fuel and | water for servicing airships. | The tower is supparted by an oc |tagonal steel and concrete founda tton which weighs 638 tons. Twelv: |foot bolts, 22 of them, anchor the thwe which is built of steel plates | graduated in thickness from half ar |inch at the base to a quarter inch at the top. Seven diaphragms or floors furnish rigidity. The mast will be flood lighted at night and three searchlights will be beacons. JACKIE, ONCE JAKEY, * WANTS TITLE MATCH CHICAGO, M ~—Jackie Fields, Los Angeles lightweight who is clam- oring for a title mateh with Sammy Mandell, champion of the division, iz in real life Jakey Finklestein, o Chicago’s west side. Jakey started boxing as an amatew lin 1922, made the 1924 Qlympic tean, and won the world amateur foather- weight crown. He went to Los An- geles and turned professional. Recently Fields fought Mandell there, with no title involved, and was credited with winning. Now he wants another shot, with the 13- pound crown at stake. The match may be staged in Chicago this sum- mer, MILLER OF HARVARD HEAVY BUT SPEEDY CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 31. Despite his 209 pounds, Al Miller of Harvard is a whirlwind on the cinder Jaths. One of the fastest sprinters ever developed at Harvard, Miller was clocked in 9 4.5 seconds at the last Harvard-Yale and . Oxterd-Cambridge meet. In this evemt he won from both Porritt and Bayes Norton. H& s a consistent 10-second man in the hundred yard dash. 3 As a senior, this will bé his last vear of intercollegiate competition. —_————— — WHO'S WHO - ' AND WHERE | 'Supermu-ndem W. (K. Keller, o’ he Juneau Public Schools, left fo Seattle on the steamer Alameda, wit! the plans of the new ‘scheol building; to confer with Harlan Thomas, Seat- le architect. » Miss Ann Rohwer sailed. for Se’ attle on the Alaméda enroufe to her home near Spokane, Wash., she will visit with her rélatives dur- Ing the summer, |returnifig to Jut neau in the fall. Miss Marjorie McConahay loft on the Alameda for Ketchikan where she will visit for a few weeks, then sailing for the States enroute to her home in Spokano. — MISS TODD REOPENS HER STUDI0O TOMORROW Miss Caroline Todd will resume her classes tomorrow and her studio in the McBride-Fisher apartments will again be opened for the sum- mer months, Strengthens Weak Eyd Old fashionea hydrastls, borie, etc., as mixed in Lavoptik eye wash, strengthens eyes and relieves any case weak, strained or sore 'eyes, Acts surprisingly quick. * Aluminum eye cup free. Butler, Mauro & Co., Druggists, 96 Front St., In Doull‘l by Guy's Drug Store, adv, | L S i wherel| | 1927. Abbott (Ju ALASKA EMPIRE, 'IUESDAY MAY 31 3! Sir J. J € 1892). John I)vu mber, Thompson (Decem- 1894). PARLIAMENT |~ M. Bowell (December,| 0F 1804—April, 1896). | Hon. Sir Charles Tupper (May,! ’ 1896—Junc, it I""Rt. Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier (July, 11896—October, 1911). | tt. Hon. Sir Robert Borden (Octo-| —— ber, 1911—October, 1917). 1 Rt. Hon Rohe Borden( Octo-| Jubilee Committee Enlivens, " Ji7™ iy 1526} i - Rt. Hon hur Meighen (July,; InterCSt m COIn”]g" ‘IUb 1920-—December, 1921). | ilee Celebration. Rt. Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King! | (Dacember, 1921—June, 1926). i OTTAWA, May 31.—in plans for| Rt. Hon. Arthur Meighen (June,} | celebration’ of the Diamond Jubilee |1926—September, 1926) SN in Canadd ixty years of parliament Rt. Hon. W. L. Mackenziec King} is the review issued by the Jubiled | (September, 19 | gessions, dissolution being granted by the Barl oi Dufferin, the Governor |General, in 1872. Fiftcen parliaments have been su oned and dizsolved since July 1, 1867, and 1927 finds! Canada between the first and second' sessions of the sixteenth parliaments.) 1.—City bottled ARIS, May nd guaranteed miners ians proposed as a solution of the expensive water probl: Fourteen Ministries | Pure spring water is a ble so Fourteen ministries, have held of-|iho 4,000,000 people in this district fice under the Crown. Of these eight|can each ha a bottle a day for have been Conservative, two have|four sous each, a little less than a| been Unionist and four have been|cant Liberal. Ten citizens of Canada have| paris faces a 2.000,000,000 franc| held the high office of Prime Minis-|outlay to iner its water supply fought sbrond, ‘These ocoasions were |puc it has & taste that {8 mot made the Fenian Raids, the North-West|more agroeable by the radical : Rebellion, the South African War.|ca) treatment it gets in purification and the Great War of Europe. With b these interludes the story of the y p Dominion has been 4 domestic onc.| American Library it has been a story ef immigration, | fndustry and administration, and over | parties and the riseiand fall of poli-| Co-operation. tical movement. cle of Con- sixiy lequipped to help them. R to | | ESTEBETH WILL USE area of country. Even now years after—the werid can look Canada for lesseas.i administ ‘With a population not much only a tribute to administrative abil-|received word that the Esteboth wi jall of the bigger | gasboats and vigate it at their own ri xception has been made Estebeth, the larger Chronicle). seas and in this gfeat ‘sprawling na- tion of British North America. Former-Present Ministries To the men who have led the gov. ernments of Canada more than to] any others belong the credit for the administrative achievements of the six decades. The Ministries of the past sixty years as follows: k, but power Rt. Hon. Sir John A. Macdonald | July, 1867—November, 1873). MORRIS Hon. Alexander: Mackenzie (Nov- CONSTRUCTION CO. ember, 1873—October, 1878). Rt. Hon. Sir John A. Macdonald ALL KINDS OF CABINET MILL WORK Plate and Window GLASS MORRIS CONSTRUCTION CO. BUILDING CONTRACTORS (October, 1878—June, 1891). Will arrive on Steamer Alaska Wednesday morning— Fresh Ranch : EGGS 35¢ Dozen 3 dozen, $1.00 ; | " SANITARY GROCERY ‘The Btore ‘rnat rieases PHONE 83 and 85 dLewvice Lucas says All our repairs are done with care At prices you will find are fair. VERCHARGE you? Not a bit of it. We don't make our money that way. When we repair a part it is dome correctly. When we thoroughly overhaul your car you'll know that we've done a good job of it and that you're out for a good safe ram barring tire troubles. Bring your repair troubles here. .JUNEAU MOTOR CO. PIIONE 30 ter and thirteen Governors General|t, meet needs of the near future. If have represented three reigning sov- the people would drink the bottled ereigns in this Dominion since July,|ater, it is said, the nearby rivers| 1867 |could furnish all the water needad Four times during these sixty vs L gop everything except drinking Canadians have stood to arms ul\ Water from the Seine and Marne on two of these occasions troops have is pronounced bacteriologically safe, Model for Europe all three phases the parliaments of| PARIS, May &1.—American library Canada have exercised the dom.|service was taken as a model by inant influence. European librarians gathered here Political Movements recently under the auspices of ihe It was decided to recommend that| 1 water for| 1 | | | | | Quite apart from considerations of | International Institute for !mvllu(u.\li federation is o parallel in|all nations follow, in general, the; the hmnr\ of democratic govern-| American stem-co-ordinating libra- thent. Nover beforg has such a mero |ries, facilitating the exchange of| Handful of people .occupied, adminic-|books and documents and directing | tered and prospered on such a |research workers to the library best| i . WRANGELL N'ARROWS\ 1801 | g— committee, which follows: | — ‘ In the structure of Confederation, (,'ripplp Plans ~ the parliament of Canada was the| & . keystone. It was the one creation of | Long W heel the British North America Act about| ~ & which the walls of the nation were|Chair Trip erected. The Act passed the British| STOCKHOLM, v rans Al- House of Commons in the e Jfred Witt, a cripple since 1914, is|- spring of 1867. On March 29, 186 |planning to set out shortly for Paxis | was given Royal Assent in the|in his wheel chair House of Lords. By proclamation it Witt hopes to win a $270 prize. came into effect on July 1, and on|His route will be through Malmoe,’ November 6, of that vear, the first|Copenhagen, Hamburg and Brussels. session of the first parliament was| Miss Linde Klinckowstrom, a Swe- opened by Rt. Hon. ¢+ Monck, |dish nobiewoman, made the trip on the first Governor of thejhorseback last year. She spent t\w; Dominion. months on tha road, although nnl\‘ The first session of the first nmm {two days is required by rail and ment lasted until May, 186 'lho |u-n hours by airplane | liament under the premiership of -~ i John A. Macdonald, lived through five \Would Bottle Water ) For Paris Drinking ~ than some of the cities of th~ i Wt ‘Syrés over ‘HRlt a ¢ ent, | Bartholomew & Spacth, local w-m« democracy functions in all its branch. {for the Neill Transportation Co.| es and the citizens, prosper. 1t is not |OPerating the mail boat Estebeth, has | boats and ordinary fishing boats may na- an | n favor of which is classed as among boats.—(Ketchikan {ity, it is a tribute fo British parlia.|{Pe allowed to navigate Wrangell nar-| mentary government, which has been |'OWS While the government dredge| proven equally ad#table in the com.|is at work there. | pact little crowded islands over the| The narrows will be closed to| and Bassinets See Our Window Display Juneau-Young Hardware Co. Hardware and Undertaking PHONE 12 PROMOTE JUNEAU BY MAKING IT THE NEATEST TOWN IN ALASKA KIMBROUGH and RUSSELL Painting Contractors and Interior Renovators PHONE 3284 Handy Andy’ y’s Carpenter Shop A. P. LAGERGREN, Proprietor PHONE 408 BAND- SAWING WOOD-TURNING, CABINET AND ALL KINDS OF W00D WOBK 4 NDSTRAND CASH REGISTERS Now on Display J. B. BURFORD & CO. ¢ WRANGELL SHINGLES WE CARRY A LARGE STOCK OF THIS FAMOUS BRAND AND ARE PREPARED TO SERVE YOU Juneau Lumber Mills, Inc. ALASKAN HOTEL MODERN REASONABLE RATES Dave Houser, prop. What this country is more in need of than a good 5c¢ cigar is a Nabeo Automatic Oil Burner in every home. Constant heat both night and day. Cost less to run. Attrac- tive prices. TRY US FIRST HARRI MACHINE SHOP PLUMBING HEATING SHEET METAL WORK ALL COAL MAY LOOK ALIKE but after trying our's you will be convinced that the héating quality varies, also you will learn that bak- Ing with our coal mean less coal and better results. ‘We carry a full line of Feed and our transfer service 0. G. Whis. D. B. FEMMER Phone 114 THE HOTEL OF ALASKAN HOTELS THE GASTINEAU QUR SERVICES TO YOU BEGIN'AND END AT THE GANG PLAYE OF EVERY PASSENGER-CARRYING BUAT \ - CONFECTIONS Candies, Ice Creams, Made in Juneau, Alaska. Smith Factory, e No. 186. Maker, T. B. Phone No. 637,