The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 20, 1928, Page 7

Weather Conditions As Recorded by the U. S. . Weather Bureau Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, Mfim&ing 4 p. m. teday: Rain tonight, Wednesday rain or snow am southerly winds. colder; moderate LOCAL DATA Time— 4 p. m. yest'y..20.62 4 a. m. tcday.. 2943 Noon today ....29.43 Barom. ‘loananp. Humidity Wind Velocity Weather Snow Rain Rain Calm .} 2 S 11 ; "CABLE AND RADIO REPORTS mrERPRY T Highest § pm. | temp._temp.__ 0 ) Stations-— Nome Bethel Fort Yukon . Tanana Bagle St. Paul Dutch Harbor.. 3 Kodlak Cordova . b4 62 64 76 8 66 Juneau Ketchikan Prince Rupert. Edmonton Seattle . Portland - Sam Franeisco.. 62 | 56 | 70 | i | 62 TODAY Low #a.m. $am. Preclp. 8am: temp._temp._Velocity 24 hrs, Weather -6 14 0 Cldy =14 0 Clear “14 Clay —14 Cldy -33 Clear 2 Pt. Clay 22 4 2 Snow 22 Clear 24 32 43 3 46 [] . 4 . Pt. Cldy Cldy 50 , Clear 54 » Clear *—Less than 10 miles. 34 34 50 -— 50 54 g L R " NOTE.—Observations at Dutch Harbor, Kodiuk, _Juneau, Prince - Rupert, Edmonten, Seattle, Portland and San Francisco are’ made at 4 a. m. and 4 Do WEATHER The pressure is low off the gcoast from ‘mi, Juneau time. CONDITIONS Prince William dound to Vancouver Island and ‘high in iBering Sea and the Pacific States. Harbor and heavy rain in Southeastern Alaska. generally fair in other parts of Hastern Light snow has fallen at Tanana and at Dutch The weather is Alaska. Temperatures have risen in the Interior and fallen on the coast and are un- usually' low {p the. Pribilof Islands. DOUGLAS | NEWS — NOMINATIONS FOR COUNCIL 1 TO BE MADE TONIGHT A public caucus is to be held in the city hall this evening at 7:30 o'clock for the purpose of having candidates named for councilmen and a member of the school board, to be elected at the annual “eity election of April 3. Everyone interested in the affairs of the town should be on hand for the meeting tonight. ————————— REBEKAH CARD PARTY Cofitinuing the card party series which was started last month by the Rebekah Auxiliary, the third one will be given on Thursday evening of this week In the Odd Fellows' hall. A pleasant evening is being arranged with the usual prizes for high scores; and' do-ferth. No one yet has efnch on the grand prizes and the competition affords increasing interest. e “THE BETTER 'OLE” IS AT LIBERTY. TONIGHT the seven |. Reisner, is magnificent. It has tremendous pace and swiftnoss, its detail is finely accurate, the camera work is of rare beauty and driginality, and the whole at- mosphere breathes of the war vil- lages of France. But the genius of the picture lies in its laughter. It is the laughter that was stirred out of thé anguish of the war; the hi larity of the British army that was captured by Captain Bruce Bains- fathe, whren he drew the cartoons that later were to become famout in The London Bystander. Holds New Post It you can.tind a befter show; go to it. Meanwhile we doubt that in the ‘whole motion pictures, you wilk.find en- tertainment more consistently’ en- Jeyable than that afforded by “The Better 'Ole,” the Warner Bros, production at the Liberty tonight and Wednesday. 3 “The Better 'Ole,”! : has . ghout everything that belcmgs to a per- fect picture. The charaeters are all real and intensely vital per sons, especially Old Bill, the low- able British civilian in. uniform, who, as played by Syd Chepliny Becomes as memorable a charae- ter as ever trod in the path.ef picture camera. The story, witly #ts background of the war, 'is ens] grossing and full of suspense that Hses to a smashing climax. The direction, credited to Charles wide ield of § P et g y toms- Appeal CMEER FOM RATE MOTORISTS ARTFORD, . March 30— Meurs cost money. . Comnecticut ll’mogg@ prepare -and in 199 miles of them in $679 a mile. o B Rilehic, - fofmer “distriet Judge of the Third Divisigh, visited. here = while the Aleutign wasg in.post. " He 1s ‘en- route 1o Valdés', on 3 bnsiness. EOLLOW! ME: ] Lowy SSaGE To MR.GooGtE TS MCRNING (- s CROAK TELEGRAG———— GOohus ANCORA ARO BUWNGOET ON PLANNE D NTETION B9 aCTMG AR €F SCLID S'INER LOWUAG CL2 BNERWed WITH INSIBNIA CF l CUR CROER To G CANDIDATE ~ On MY Koko'# I TIRK TM GONNA N MAH GOGDNESS BOSS - NO SHO AM A MESS D\S MR, [ nufi MRS, FINCH , WE'VE DECIDED A To_STOP AT KANSAS CITY AS GOOGLE \S Too T WRE WS ‘ s OF THE TELL MR- GO0GLE ThAT I wilL ATTEND ThE KANSAS CI'TY RECEFTION | (WSELF ANDO RECEWNE in landing. It is also possible that Wilkins may Wave found the motor generator which he used!| last year to send messages, and| which he stored at Barrow, in N in shape < fo the prearranged : 'schedule with Woolverton at 8| {o'clock last might. | Weolverton sutd as the plane! . landed at Point Barrow, the| Seward Radm Man m motor ceased abmiptly instead of | Touch with Fliers, Fairbanks to Barrow whining off to nothing. This with - wind and storm and the (Continued from Page One) first landing since a year ago, gave rise to expression the plane may have crashed. On Air 8 P M. Woolverton, ecvery night at 8 Now clearing up. o’clock, will be cn the air in an Over village. 'effort to communieate with Wil- Going to land, going to land.” |kins. At 4:30 o’clock, Wilking must| Wilkins informed Woolverton, have landed as the radio ceased |while the former was in Seward, as the trailing antenna was he expected to hop off for Spita- drawn into the plane. {bezgen on April 16. The inter- % i g time will be spent by NO WORD LAST NIGHT | Wilkins - and = Eielson preparing SEWARD, Alaska, March 20, Physically for the hardships they —Capt. Wilkins was silent 'last | May encounter if forced down on | night at Point Barrow although |Arctic floes. Capt. Woolverton, radio officer R ORI B here, and also others in the in- BEHRENDS RETURN terior districts of Alaska com-i .. 0 nected with the United States | réturned home to Juneau today Signal Corps attempted for three ., ,..q (he Aleutian. They have hours to hear him. « . 4o been outside for some time on af Woolverton sent an “OKeh" 10y, (5 the cast where Mrs. Behr- wilkins for his messages WIIkins | g e yndorwent medical treat- shot Woolverton while on his| o . long flight yesterday over the) bleak, barren lands, from Fair-|Qla papers for sale at The Empire banks to Point Barrow, but for|-e— — . some unknown reason, Wilkins % - did ngt reply mor did he reply! THE ROCKLAND i BOARDING HOUSE to thé San Francisco Examiner | is now open for business. station 6-ARD which also at- tempted to talk with Wilkins. Room and Board. Home Cook- ing. Mrs. Stort, Prop. May Have Smashcl °— lowing coast. Can see village. 5. M. Benrends % | There Js a ‘posgiMility ‘Wilkins and Bielson have been smashed 31 REAM of TARTAR M J |H. She’s a Peach | Grace Cflllrraf Scott, Ga., reg- isters hep personallty evem in c snaf shot, and no wionder . Grae has' just berw- voted ‘the “pes spat” of all the students at! md ting Andrew ‘College at Cuth bert, Ga. RCAD BUILDERS IN E To meet fn’ conference with of- ficials of the Alaska Road Com- mission, five divisional superin- tendents will' arrive in Jumeau from the westward at the end of this -week, on the steameér Al aska. Those aboard the ship are: W. Sterling, Fairbanks; M. €. Ed@munds, Anchorage; T.'H. Huddleston, Valde#; R. J. Shep- ard, Chitina; and' -Jack Coats, master mechapic of the Chitina and interior district. The superintendents will con- fer with Major Malcolm - Elliott, President; Major Douglas H. Gil- . CONFERENC in each distriet this coming sum- mer season, and equipment to be purchased. The program will be |made kmown at the close of the |session. The conference wiH commehee ' immediately after the arrival of |the superintendents ‘in Juneau and will continue about one week. i Rons J. Kinney, superintendent in the Seward Peminsula district, who has been in Juneaw the past i week, will leave for Seattle on |the steamer Alaska. He is now completing his conference with the officials relative to the work to be done in his district this year. i i — - i 'l TWHO'S WHO ]‘ | AND WHERE -5 Mrs. C. D. rerguson returned home on the Aleutian after spend- {ing some time in.the States. Her children remained in Seattle with ! { her parents, where they are at- tending school. Gus George ui Ueorge Hrothers Grocery, 'was hn_arrival from Se- attle on the Aleutlan. He has been on a short vacation to the! Outside. | Ralph E. Robertson, local attor-| ney, was a Juneau-bound passen-| ger on the Aleutian. He recently ! left here for the south ih com: pany with his mother, who return- ed to Her home in the east after vislting hero for sothe, months, Willlam H. Caswell, deputy U. 8, ! marshal at Sitka, came to Junead from Ketchikan on the Aleutian. Don Meldrum, forest engineer, representative of the Chandler and Zellerhach pulp ih- terests, was an_ arrival on the steamer Aleutian and will begin i preparations for his. symmers work in the field. i Vance R. McDonald, ploneer. in- terior meérchandise hroker; -visited local friends iwhile ' the}jkthamer Aleutian wasiin: port. . -He is en- route ‘o his home in. Fairbanks after ‘& s two-weeks . busii to Pacitic Northwest cities, | { ber of the Alaska . Legislature from the Fourth Division, is a passenger on the Aleutian for Seward. enroute to his home in .;Urhlnh He is accompanied by - HALL 1 " hs SATURDAY SORY. MR. BARAES - /A4 tions and maintenance of roads | Cameron- . Andrew Nerland, forniar, men | MR.GOOGLE To Sa WORDS =$ b PAWAER LRov Weeo AND (K emsmd'{th Y A FEW ABOUT; The rolling dollay gathers no interest NEUTRAL DOLLARS Like any other piece of maehinery, an idle doHar is useless. We pay 4 per cent. for the use of such money— why shouldn’t you make it earn its way? Small or large, put your idle funds ihto certi- ficate of deposit form-—no expense-~all profits.. First National Bunk " ok Bebviy™ 4 K S 7 50 o e 8 g Pure food experts and doctors do lette,” Bngineer: Ofticor, und .. P. Taylor, Chipt Engineer of the Commigsion, The conférence wil Jinclude 'a discusyion and draw- not pass judgment lightly. The world that cream-of-tartar baking nqwdd' & the most wholesome ‘for yaa‘. i ing up of 4 program for opera- Candidate for .Republican Nomination as Delegate ; : . .. toCongress ., PRIMARY ELECTION, LEAVE ORDERS m-mm‘d MUSIC HOUSE '{'h_ey are midt by m 8. & F. egj‘tectxom PIANOS—We have FOUR VERY SNAPPY ; g ors ; NEW RECORD OLD' Brunswick, Vi chase three new B ) ONE