The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 17, 1928, Page 2

7-14 First Grade to the Eighth MALL daughter’s frocks, for lessons or ) a game of jacks, may be most advan- sly bought now, for the rest of the Artfully created of exclusive Belmont ts these charming fast color Frocks are very well made with set-in sleeves Pri and strongly sewn seams. Ten In Frocks*l THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE TUESDAY APRIL 17, 1928. dividual Styles’ o o gl e i These Are Values You Will Find It Hard to Duplicate YOU may choose from a bright assem- bly of greens, blues, pinks and yel- lows. Many have crisp little collars and cuffs. Also, ribbon ties, novelty pockets and colored piping Little girls are invited to come in to see these attractive Frocks. Mothers will wel- come this opportunity. B. M. Behrends Co., Inc. YRIDUCHBOR BAYS i WILL LOW'E 1d e nd men grade onal a full time job. The health of teachers is better may be taken dur months. A real | health and vaca ¢ home and school, ‘when recreation is uot | two : | can be utilized when m 1 the hot summer | schools werc 1's Leading Department - mor| lder Presented With Gold Mad:l;Cif: Faris From Ciiy of " bullding. Suiherland Bill On Assessment Work Has Passed House April 17—Th for each pl by tha Houvsn sent to the Secnate. - Nome Harbor and Wrangell Narrows Allotmenls Made \V'\SHI\(-TON April 17.—Mil- of dollars have been set ¢ by Major General Edgar Jadwin, Chief of the Engineers ofthe Army, for rivers and har- bors improvements during the year beginning July 1. The al- - |lotments include $17,000 for the| Nome Harbor and 5,000 for . AWrangell Narrows. permit annual, 1 { small shrub Store B N { Sells Own W hiskey To Indians; Is Guilty; Given Year TANANA, Alaska, April 17 ohn D. Burchard, | known “Whiskey Jack” | along the Yukon River, has been sentenced to one year in the Federal Jail, having plead guilty to selling liquor of hi wn manufacture to as 85 Reportera April 17— b which obt ined lived Ay peérmoncial 1 Goath, ¢ 1 "the army's pri eol¢al"near here, was Sidaey J. Brooks, 29.# man who was me. Brc mary ° 2 he hls ra- ficlds were not Wip- burn’s regular asslgnments, and officials at City hall, where ha was known best, have provided a bronze plaque, bearing his profile for the corridor of the municipal i{.hpan Erects Statue To Reeall Grant Visit s SR TOKYO, A%——Tfie somi. centennial of ent Gran visit to Japan will be celebrgted {by the Japanese in August with the unveiling of & mnrm statue in Ueno Park. The statue will stand near a cypress planted by Grant as a 878, now grown President and Mrs. Grant Japan on a world trip WePe Dnational guests of the empire at Ueno Park. A special pavillon was crected for a W in tlsr honor, attended E Meiji and his | rh bl tions of Japanese. mrdmmhlp to imposing ;the park. | J AoW 8, tired financier, | tion committee JTQkYO chamber 20 years old, | Grant statue joravapers m-q’ - The -.n 2w ident 30&0 ree. Now r“"‘v."! weapon in resisting Federal offi- | cers, . |day afternoon in | IN SOVIET PARIS—Notable points on this black and white model from Jeanne Lanvin are the simple draped effect of the wrap-around and . the. cut of an attached blouse of white crepe roma, The skirt is black crepe de chine trimmed with bands stitched with gold thread. The blouse is flecked with embroidery of black and silver. - ee——— DZALOFF AND KOBAK PLEAD HOT GUILTY Evan Dzaloff and Nick Kobak, indicted by the recent Grand Jury and charged with using a deadly pleaded pot guilty yester- | the United | States District Court. e KAYS MOVE TO LAKE Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Kay, who have been residing for severa months at the Gastineau, h movyed to a cottage on Auk Lake for the summer. Mr, Kay is fore- man of the road crew aof the Bureau of Public Roads on Glacier Highway which maintains its headquarters at the lake camp. - eee TERHUNE IN SEATTLE Enroute to Juneau from Wash ington, H. W. Terhune, Alaske agent of the U, S. Biological Sur vey and Executive Officer of the Alaska Game Commisgion, arrived in Seattle yesterday. He has some business matters to attend tg there and may not safl for Ju- neau_until next Saturday. e ———— AFRICAN QUEEN BUYS THIRTY GERMAN FROCKS BERLIN—Queen Suraya, of Af ghanistan selected 30 new gowns at a tea with music staged for the occasion at the fashionable salon of a Berlin modiste. The. tea was attended by the wives of Chancellor Marx, Under Secretary of State von Schubert. Minister von Rosen, the Turkisk Ambassador Kemalidin Sami Pas cha. and many other prominent men and women of Berlin's upger !POSTOFFICE I}\bPE(‘TORb bT()P [ LOSSES FROM MAIL ROBBFRIE) | WASHINGTON, April 17—The | mail robbing business is in the doldrums, fliciency of United States] | postotfice inspectors in running down mail robbers has resulted |in & marked reduction in that | class of crime, Grant B. Mil-| |ier, chiet inspector, whose fig.| |ures show a rapid decline in the, | amount stolen in major mall rob- [ beries in the last five years There has been but one | mail robbery since Octaber, a attribute thi sual record to the efficiency and | tenacity of inspectors in running [down offenders. That the mail bandit has little! |chance of getting away with I | treedom or his loot i3 indicated in figures showing that of the 50 major robberies committed in the| last five years, only in a single| ¢ case has there been no arrest or| GRANT B. MILLER conviction. In. the 50 rohberies | ———— there were 195 arrests and 107! muo taek of jearntng in which conviotions. The oXcess Of AITEStS | o 1no iy offices tho thetts cc- over convietiong reflects g number| oy ireq wag difficult. All of the of cases where robbers with pre.|jgpory opened had been resealed vious records were turned over ']’The inspector hit upon a plan state authorities for convietion. | uiich he put into practice secret The amount of loot during mwly_ A few weeks later he was beviod has declined from abou'lynqeq o letter that had been $2,500,000 during the year ending,peneq and rified. He held it to in June, 1924, to less than $700. |0 yoge, smiled and announced 000 for the year ending in Junc, inat the thief would be apprehend- 1927. Of the latter amount near- ed within a week. He had pre- Iy $450,000 has been recovered. |p..eq gsix lots of mucilage, cach| The, ingenuity of postal inspec: | orfumed with a different odor—| tors In running. down. clues was| . yiglet, miginette and so on. domonstrated , in the ~gouthwest, | my e were distributed among the where continued rifling of regis|yiy ofrices, and, as expected, the tered letters and packages Was|injer made use of it in resealing finally narrowed down to ome of |y . Lifed letters. six ;popgumcqu i SOLDIER OF FORTUNE MAY LEAD ALBANIANS PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia, April| He handed his uniform to a 17—Maj.-Gen, Gajda, once com-{gervant, with instructions to place mander-in-chief of the Russian)it in naphthalin until he should White Forces on the eastern Si-|require it again berian front and lately deputy| Now he is reported to have been chief of staff of the Czecho-Slovak ) offered the command of the entire army, has been degraded by a) Albanian army by Ahmed Zogu, military court to the rank of a' lent of the Albanian repub common soldier. | He is said to be on his way Behind this announcement is a|to Tirana to accept the offer. story of romance, intrigue, treach-| o ery and daring seldom equallad in military annals by soldiers of for-| tune. Born in a little Moravian town, Gajda, whose real name is Ru- dolf Geidel, began life as a drug-| gist’s boy. When the World war| came he enlisted,in the field hos- pital service of the Austro-Hun- garian army. Later he deserted | in Montenegro and joined the en-| emy, representing himself as a Captain, He next appeared as an ' army surgeon in Russia, where he | married the daughter of Admiral| Kolchak, head of the anti-Bolshe-| vist forces. He later joined the| Czecho-Slovak legionary troops as| a self-appointed ‘“general” and fought the Bolsheviks on the euut-i ern Siberian front. | In September, 1918, scarcely 29, Gajda became commander-in-chief | on the eastern Russian fromt. Buri he quarreled with his father-in- law, and is alleged to have “sold” the latter to the Bolsheviks, who shot the admiral for opposing the Red forces. After an abortive at- major | New Commissioner Fm‘ two hours, mannequins s played thé apparel worn by a Wo- mn ‘ot fashion from morning un- til | night. , The queen’s choice 1nalnflafl a pink evening gown of crepe georgette with a slecveless evening cloak to match, and an- ather . of. (yeMow . tulle with gold embroldery. . MA omuus;‘r‘n WOMAN | CIRECTY TOWNS BAND i, x{pum} Mass.—A w who g time outside of hougehold duties to lead a band, nad gux anzngemml as a cormet roud boast of this me;a tawn g@ | Mrs. Franee 'l‘h are 25 men in the Lun burg v wn band, but Mrs. W is irector. Apd her cornet soné‘? lrg foatiires of the concerts. no-r‘oa COATS OF LEATHER RIS—Motor coats of loathet ‘llned with plaid wool are designed by ‘@ French specialist in travet| clothes. PEASANT WOMAN ACTIVE LITICS MOSCOW- jan peasant wo- men are tak an increaqln‘ly large share in political activities,| says Tass, news agency, in summing up data, ::z Aheir participation in soviet varjous electiona of the i soviets and 146,251 were olw members of the goviets, or 11.3 percent of the total. In the soviets more than 21,000 women, or 21.5 percent serve. Twelye pergent of the memhers of the communist party are Jees| et o men. There is a noticeable growth also in the nmmber of women lndnn{w wm}.'nd a red numbeér ilfiterate having been and write sinee 1922. L NEW ] oH RoADS 5‘5 the Russtan otriclailf During . 1927, elx and onepalf] millions of women voted in q.‘ 1 &l reclamation—with _yeur tempt at a coup d'etat at Vladi- vostok, Gajde was put on a ship! and sent to Burope. Arriving in Prague, he determined to play a big role in Czecho-Slovakia. He became military commander of a Slovakian garrison and in 1926, was made deputy chief of staff of the Czechof3lovak army. Believing he could imitate Na- poleon’s career, he surrounded himself. with politiclans and plan-! ed a military coup d'etat in his 2wn cuwgy Just about m.!UONS wufi-!-r NOT time the Czech government learn- ed that Gajda had “sold” himself ME mls wm to the Soviet authoritles. He S| qnere will be no meetifig of the said to have given the Bolsheviks | juneau Lions Club this week, it was announced today, because of ‘secret French military, plans and to.have offered his serices to the the death of Mrs. Theodore B. Heyder. 39d army. Faced dwflh court- he resigned from the| qpe Charter Day dinner, which WW“ army and greated 8|y, gcheduled for this evening, cismo force of which he made was indefinitely postponed yester- self the head. At @ fascist!gay and the regular Wednesday ‘meeting communists attacked him, | meeting will also called off. ‘and hu saved himself only bY|wednesday, April 26, is the date for the next meeting, while. no \Ke‘nwbfle the sentence of deg-|time has been set for the Charter lon from the renk of general!pay dinner. v ‘was pronounced by a military court and confirmed by the ap- pellate court. Ira E. Robinson (above) is the newly appointed radio com-: missioner who succeeds the late Admiral Bullard. 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New Potatoes, per pound Fresh Peas, 25 cents a pound, 2 for Butter, per pound ..55 Big new shipment arriving on the Aleutian ‘tonight including Fresh Buiter and Eggs and Puritan Hams and Bacon A Splendid Partnership Regardless of race, creed or color, the Busi- ness of the Salvation Army is unlimited free sérvice to every needy body and soul. It looks qonyan,fellvv atum,'ua working partner in this great en rues:: or | m;{wnl;lyownnmgnflwmh i ou have by 108t generous in past, Il end with confidence in your loyal- E ty,wecomehywu-mmer-mdSelf || Denial Appeal. ‘ ’ rnthuabwluteeolfidmmhn&e L VOTE FOR LEROY NOLAND FOR REPUBLICAN NOMINATION FOR REPRESENTATIVE A vot2 for him is a vote for Home Rule, FEconomic and Efficient Government. He pledges himself to give a square deal to both labor and c:pital. 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