The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 4, 1929, Page 2

e e s s S et ] ALL MEN'S AND YOUNG AT n AT LDUCED PRICES § on Men’s Suits and Overcoats = g = = = = = = = = = | = = Here’s an opportunity for you to save many dollais on a new SUIT or OVERCOAT. We prepared for a long, hdrd winter but the weather man fooled us---- Now we've entirely too many COATS and SUITS left, hence this opportunity of better grade garments and dependable tailoring at a great deal less than they were made to sell at. Take your pick now at these clear away prices. 225.00 SUITS and OVERCOATS now selling at $18.75 2 $27.50 SUITS and OVERCOATS now selling at $20.65 = $30.00 SUITS and OVERCOATS now selling at $22.50 = $35.00 SUITS and OVERCOATS now selling at $26.50 %‘ %37.50 SUITS and OVERCOATS now selling at $28.15 = -%‘17&')" 00 SUITS and OVERCGATS now selling at $30.00 £ 5.00 SUITS and OVERCOATS now selling at $33.75 % ‘“T:' .50 SUITS and OVERCOATS now selling at $36.35 = : = Woolwear TWO-PANTS SUITS for Boys outfit at very much less than you would pay after the sale is over. . M. BEHRENDS CO JUNEAU'S LEADING DEPARTMENT STORE 5{?;“1?;0‘“" e v st BRITISH WOMAN EXPLORER OFF FOR THE ARCTIC CIRCLE MES. UE GROFF Mrs. de Groff is survived by a son and daughter by a former marriage. John W. Vanderbilt, the son, is now residing at Calm Springs, California, where his mother died. The daughter, for- merly Miss Nance Vanderbilt, was married a few years ago in San Francisco, w but her present IN CALIFORNIA ; Onem { Owner of Famous e learned in Juneau. They are| also well known here. Chichagoff Mine Passes ““itier tne dcutn of her hus-‘ band, Mrs. de Groff and daughter {spent several years in traveling, | visiting all parts of the world Associated Pres: vmsvatches flml |She picked Honolulu as the place Away—Hemorrhage private ‘eiegrams .ocel ed 4 {she liked best, and established a peau. convey the news of thr e hote thare, _Jdeath at ‘Calm' Springs, C.ifor- 25 SRR o Bia, of Mrs. Lena de Grofl. A 7 FAULKNERS BETUEN ' {elegram from \irs. de Groff’s son " juhn W. Vanderbilt, to the B M. Behrends Bank said that b After a 30-day combined vaca- mother died Saturday at ncon of tion and business trip, Mr. and ' gerebral hemorrhage. Mrs. H. L. kner returned | ; Mrs. de Grom was one of Lh home today from Seattle on the ‘thiree ers of the famons Chi- amer Queen They visited in ey Les eles and San ohagoff Mine of which James L Freeburn wa. the Gener and Mrs. Faulkner o days in Klamath Falls. 2 «.n. The other sharel 'fl.n‘w R. Rust and Hugh C.| SRR B | ‘Wallace of Tacoma. ‘She inher-| John L. Ahlers, of the firm of the interest from her hus- /Rice and Ablers Company, left 3 the late Edwarld 't‘lle Groft ‘f\m" itka (n the Queen. Mr Mrs. Violet Cressy-Marcks, Bntuh society woman who is inal owner of e prop- | rs is going to superintend ’ :.w.fi: died many yeu! le iction on contract work ' i‘;lollv;nl::d“ explorer, plans to motor to the Arctic Circle by way The Associated Press say: Nt s being done by the firm | P it Groft’s estate is valued in ¢ xcess [ in Sitk | of $1,000,000. Local people be- Howard Ashley, Master Me-| LONDON, Feb. 4. — She has|Arctic Circle by way of Lapland. be gone 'about eight that it is comsiderable over|chanic for the White Pass and Iseen the mercury in the ther- Two revolvers, a volume \t amount. She is said to have | Yukon Route, is returning to|Mometer freeze and she bas been down more ‘than $2,000,- {Skagway on the Queen. Mr. Ash-|forced to eat camel meat and from the Cbi-!ley has been in Juneau for sey-|Still she isn’t content with the ‘Mine. eral days and only recently re-(luxuries of Mayfair, de Groff lived in Sitka, |turned from a vaeaticn in thel So Mrs. Violet Cressy-Marcks, M Edward de Groff owned a <outh. |a British scciety woman of indes neral store, for many ye:rs. She - pendent means, is off again on _well known in Juneau where| New, select line of visiting cards |another ‘‘pleasure” motor trip. ¢ had been a frequent visitor. [at The Empire. JThis time her destination is the She will moaths. of Plato and some evening gowns are in her equlpmgnt. “I won't be celd in Lapland,” she said. “The last time I was mercury froze, so Mrs. Cressy-Marcks has been ,around the world twice, Her pres- - at SPECIAL LOW PRICES Those who have boys to clothe will be especially interested in the offering from our Boys’ Section this week. Special reduced prices on SUITS and CAPS and SWEATERS, make it advisable to bring the boy here for a new T .I|lIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINII I:iiillllllll"lIII!|III|IIIIIIII|IlIIIIIlIIII|IIIllll|IIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIINIIHIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIlIIIIII!‘ B A N NER AL ASK A ALL TRUNKS AND SUIT CASES AT REDUCED PRICES ., Inc. end journey is in striking con- trast to her last motor trip, which carried her through Ara- bia, Greece and Albanja. “I am traveling alone this time as I always do,” Mrs. Cressy- Marcks said before she left. “Doz- ens of women would come with {me but not one in a thousand would like the life. It means |giving up civilization, shops and comfort, sympathy and admira- tion. If a woman gets knocked down at Hyde Park corncr she gets sympathy and is picked up. If an accident happens to her in | the wilds nobedy cares. “It is true that I am taking some beautiful gowns with me. ‘I had much rather be the best- dressed . than the worst-dressed woman at any party, especially as in out-of-the-way places I am | the only Englishwoman. I appre- ciate the luxury and eomfort for two months in the year. For 10 months I enjoy the simple life— bread, cheese and water, or camel and caribou steak, but I admit I am something of a gourmet.” Mrs. Cressy-Marcks has been in every region of the world ex- cept Australia. and South Am- erlcl. T FREEBURN GOES 0 SITEA 0! QUEEN FOR BHOIT STAY W. G. Freeburn, superintendent of the Pyramid Packing Com- pany’s plant at Sitka, and for- merly superintendent ‘of the old Chichagof mine, visited here to- day while the Queen was in port. He is emroute to Sitka on busi- ness and will return south on the same vessel. ——————— E‘ntkh £ £ = = =| = = = - = = = £ = - ] | lmmuummummmmmmwmmnnmluummmuumulu mmm!||mmmlmmumum||uummmmu||||mmmmumu HiHii Commerecial job printing at The (of famine this year is not sup- SEASUN FOR 1329 SAYS B. HOWARD Largest Tousist Travel Is Indicated for This Year, Says Agent i Preparations to handle the largest season of Alaska tourist| travel ev ticipated are being| made by the two largest steam- ship companies that operate ves- sels on the Seattle-Alaska route, | according to I d, local | agent of the Steamship | Company, who W his family returned from a vacation today lon the Queen. “The whole out- look for a banner year for the| Territory of Alask most prom-| sing from every angle,” said Mr.| Howard. The General Passenger Agent of the Admiral Line stated to Mr. Howard that the Dorothy Alexander is at this time booked to capacity for all except two of her summer excursion trips to the North. ““The Admiral Evans and Ad- miral Watson have been thor- oughly overhauled and the pas- senger accommodations have been greatly improved as measures to take care of the record tourist year that is confidently expect- ed,” he said. To give the travelers more time to visit Juneau and nearby scenic attractions, the Dorothy Alexan- der will arrive here in the early morying on her northbound trips | his summer instead of afternoon, in the past, and will sail he Lynn Canal ports in the , thus giving the passen- a full dey ashore. The first of the Dorothy is scheduled | ve Seattle June 9. y available ship of the ¢c Steamship Company has in service all winter, ac- ng to Mr. Howard, and to le the fréight traffic, that| been enormous, the company artered from the Alaska Steam- p Company one of their vessels the California servi he, “Bach trip of steamers Seattle for California ports 3 rge amounts of merchan-; dise left on the dceks and in the warehouses. The fully laden ships cannot handle the business and {that should be a good barometer | of business in general. This is! the first winter on in several years that ships of the largel| lines have not been tied-up. “Not only in shipping circles is activity bustling. The great tunnel recently completed by the| Great Northern Railroad through or added Weather Conditions As Recorded by the U S. Weather Bureau Forecast for Junean and vicinity, beginnmg 4 ». m. today: Probably snow flurries tonight and Tuesday, warmer night; moderate southeasterly winds. LOCAL DATA Barom. Temp. nugdity Wind V;lo;uy Weather 21 Snow 4 a. m. today...30.20 23 90 SE 2 Snow 84 SE 2 Noon today ....30.27 27 Cldy CASLE AND RALI0 KEFORTS to- fime— 4 p. m. yest'y..30.26 YES Highest # p.m. X] Low 8a m. 8am. Preclp. _8a. Stations— temp. teuip. _temp. temp. Velacity 34 hre. Weat or Barrow . - <10 26 28 -8 0 Cldy Nome . D 0 £ 3 0 Cldy Bethel 22 14 | 4 18 - 0 Cldy Fort Yukon ... 4 -12 -22 12 — 0 Pt. Cldy Tanana . - 10 8 8 10 = 0 Cldy ;| Eagle . -2 -2 -6 -4 — 0 Clear |8t. Paul .......... 36 36 34 36 42 14 Rain Dutch Harbor.. 38 38 | 26 38 —_ .02 Rain Kodiak 40 40 26 30 0 0 Clear Cordova 36 34 32 32 4 .38 Cldy Juneau . 81 21 20 23 2 .30 Snow Ketchikan . 30 — 28 —_— — .34 Snow Prince Rupert.. 32 32 30 32 0 04 Snow | Edmonton . —2 -6 -18 —16 b 0 Clear Seattle ........ 84 32 [ 28 28 . 0 Clear Portland . 36 34 28 30 . 0 Clear San Francisco.. 58 54 50 52 .12 .86 Rain *—Less than 10 miles. NOTR:—Observations at St. Paul, Dutch Harbor, Kodiak, Ju- reau, Prince Rupert, Edmonton, Sattle, Portland and San Fran- cisco are made at 4 a.m., Juneau time. The pressure is high in Eastern Alaska and southward along the coast and is low in Southwestern Alaska and the adjacent ocean. The pressure is falling rapidly in southern Bering Sea and the lower Kuskokwim Valle;. Rain has fallen in extreme | Southwestern Alaska and Califoraia and snow has fallen: from wl’nn(e William Sound to BMtish Columbia. Temperatures have fallen at Fort Yukon, Kodiak and Nome and have risen in nearly all other parts of the Territory. FULL LINE OF Upholstered Rockers AND OTHER CHAIRS Juneau Youfig Harduware Co. e . - FOR SALE ONE SILVER MARSHALL the Cascade Mountains gave em- ployment to several thousand men, which alone tended to make the work situation a minor one.! Remarkably few men in Seattle and Portland are out of work| and the recent heavy snowfall in these cities gave the last of the| unemployed work fcr some time ring the streets.” i Airplane service for Alaska is| a erns are at the present time utting planes in shape and in {March the first mapping and routing flight will be made from Seattle, said Howard, who added that in several other respects Al- aska’s potentialities are attract- ing not only the capital of the | Pacific Coast but Eastern as well. s B00Y OF PAUL LAYTON FOUND Man Burneg—h; Death at Sitka, Details Lacking— Officials Investigate |a ¢ {p The body of Paul Layton was today found at Sitka in a cabin, death being the result of burns, according to telegraphic advices received this afternoon by U. S. Marshal Albert White. The dis- |covery was made by Martin Klabo who reported it to Federal au- thorities. Deputy Marshal William Schna- bel is making an investigation of the case. Details of the fire and circumstances surrounding the af- fair were not available. Marshal White was also advis- ed that the “body of Gus Heid- rich was also found in a cabin at Sitka by a trapper. A cor- oner’s jury found he had died from natural causes. Fear\Famine Regularly In Winter MOSCOW, Feb. 4,—Fear of fam- ine "has become an obession With many Russians ever sincé the 1921 drought, when starvation killed thousands in the Volga reglon. This fear, usually dormant in the spring and summer, awakens in the fall and grows with the ad- vance of winter. ; Panicky states of mind, athough hysterical and unwarranted by the general economic situation in re. cent years, usually have their roots in some local crop shortage. On the whole, fear of a recurrence ported by ghe facts !t hslfl. ured thing. 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