The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 12, 1929, Page 7

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Lrom o8 Barom. spondents | 22970 ; 2971 . 2962 Time 4 p. m. yest'y 4 a. m. today Noon today 7,9 o - - e - o Because - of his belief Murray finally moved the British defenses across the canal to the east side. There, on the huge dunes, amidst sand so loose that one sank halfway to the knees al every step, he established a “front line. And a miserak blazing hell it was. Then, out of the blue, came the | | attack. Fourteen thousand armed | system | men suddenly appeared and launch- ed themselves against the British This was astonishing enough, but an almost unbelievak ng was that the enemy actually brought heavy artillery with them This last seemed so much beyond the realm of possibility t the Brit- sh could scarcely believe their ears when they heard the guns boom. I won't describe the battle at length. It .was terrible. The Turks charged in amongst the du on which the British had their defens There for hours, the battle raged under in which was registering something like 175 degrees fahrenseit. M: ine guns on the crest of the dunes slaughtered the Turks by hundreds. The Anzac cavalry-men in one of the most glorious actions of their wonderful career, actually jumped their horses down from the dunes onto the encmy foot-soldiers. Many of the T must have been virtually burned to death under t merciless sun after their tiny supplies of water gave out. Once the battle was over the British set about to find out how the Turks accomplished the cross- ing and especially how they got the artillery over. I was lucky enough to be in on the sclution. I strolled into the hut which served as head- quarters for Gen Sir Herbert Law- rence, commander of the northern forces. The general was in his MYSTERY OF THE SANDS | General By DeWITT MACKENZIE (Copyright, 1939, Associated Press) One of the great mysteries of the World War, and one which all but oscaped solution, was involved in that amazing battle in which the British defeated the Turks in Ro- mani, just east of the Suez canal, | i [ CABLE AND RADIO REPORTS i YESTERDAY TODAY H i Highest 8 p.m. | $am. Precip. Sam. | temp, _temp. | Velocity 24 hrs. Weather | 6 Cldy | 12 Cldy 22 Cldy 26 Clear 30 Clear |in August, 1914, 36 Clear| Fourteen thousand Ottomans, 34 Cldy | with some German and Aus . Cldy | officers, swept across the well-nig Cldy | impassable Sinai desert and made Clear | 3 fierce assault on the British de- ace Pt. Cldy|fense samoung the mountainous | Pt. CldY|sand dunes. The defeat of the Clear | Turks was a catastrophe. The bat- | Cldy | glefield was a shambles and few Cldy|of the enemy escaped death or - CldY | capture. Clear| " Gen. sir Archibald Murray, com- mander-in-chief of the British forces in Egypt, had invited me to st. ®aul, Dutch Iarbor, KodieX, Juneau,|visit him at his headquarters at Seattlz, Portland and San Frandisco are|Ismailiya, on the Suez canal, and I arrived there just after bat- tle had been fought. The sands were still strewn with the bodies of innumerable Turks and came donk The great general his men were happy in their victory Ibut. they were engrossed in trying | to solve a pu e which had been constructed by a master mind. | But if we are to start at the be- {ginning we must back a cen- ST Y | tury to the time of Napoleon Bona- BETTER. HOMES DEALT {parte. The Little Corporal o WITH BY D. I W. €.l jeciared that no European arm jcould cross the Sinai desert. For Wednesday evening the D. I. W.1; hundred years Napoleon’s asser- et with Mrs. R. R. Brown. Offl-fyion ppg peen considered by m s elected for the ensuing year,i,ry men as the last word are: President, Mrs. Rose M. Dayis; It wasn't possible to move Vice-President, Mrs. Fleek; Secre-!qonsiderable number of troops tary, Mrs. Glen Kirkham; Treasur-| o yipment across this tractles er, Mrs. Charles Sey; E‘i““““""!\\'uwr! ss waste of blazing sands, Board, Mesdames J. O. Kirkham, nien with every tiny breath Charles Sey and L. D. Hammock. lof gir. The whitened bones of William L. Coates s for Juneau on the | Low 8a.m. Stations— temp._temp, PLfrow Nome Bethel Fort Yukon Tanana Eagle St. Paul Dutch Harbor Kodiak Cordova Juneau ... Ketchikan Prince Rupert Edmonton Seattle Portland San Francisco . 2 {south several weeks agy to Van-| 5 3 N |couver and awaited Mr. Coates who b fl_om }’_‘Eig“m _ |went south two weeks ago. | Mr. Coates conferred with Can- | adian Pacific officials at Vancou- ver and Victoria relative to the| present season and today he stated | that a larger than e, 18 10 lwoo Write to Frye & Com pany, Seattle, for Frye’s “Meat Guide”—over 200 tested recipes. Send 3c for postage, is to keep the rediscount rate low, but just a little above the | -ates for money in the markets, ;0 that no bank will borrow from it | without making a slight sacrifice has convinced many bankers and lawmakers that call| Mrs. Coates visited with friends loans—money lent on stock|and relatives in the British Colum-! >xchange transactions—cannot be|bia cities and returns home feel- admitted to this currency emitting (Ing fine, she said, privilege. Security markets must get their cash where they can and when millions of new speculators | spring up, as today, call money rates can go to 20 per cent and be- yond. ®cococooo 3; | usual tourist travel to the North was expected T or this year. Exerience sy Delicious Bacon Pt. Pt. Pt N T T REDPATH IN NORTH | o oRcocof oo *—Less than 10 miles. | James Redpath, Port Steward for ‘Lln' White Pass and Yukon Route vith summer headquarters at Whitehorse, is a returning passen- ger north on the Princess Alice.| Mr. Redpath has spent the \vmtm’z’ |in Vancouver. NOTE--Observations at Prince Rupert, Edmonton, made at 4 a. and 4 p. m, Juneau time. Th:;x :L;r; is low in the Eastern Aleutian Islau.. and falling moderately in the Gulf of Alaska, and is high between California and the Hawaiian TIslands. Light snow has fallen in Southern Ber-| ing Sea and light showers and snow flurries fell during the night over portions of Eastern Alaska. Temperatures have risen in North- western Alaska, with little change in other districts. Gradually, as speculators o funds, the high interest rates tch all the loose money avail- ible. Banks turn more and more to the federal reserve. Currency volume threatens to grow above the standards considered safe and the r rve system must increase its r ount rate. Then comes the international side. ~With the help of the fed- eral reserve board the currencies of England and Europe arc on a sound gold bas But the pull of call loan rates bringg beck to this country money from everywhere to get the great and safe return prom- ised. At present the reserve banks have not fully used their existing weap- on—the raising of the rediscount rate. Its supporters will not be anxious for the creation of new tools until the old one is brought insist | - 27-2° WILL VISIT ATTENTION AUTO OWNERS Any person operating an automo- bile not licensed by the Territorial Treasurer for 1929 is delinquent. After date of April 15th, », prosecutions will follow. dF. TWO LOCAL FIRMS HAVE NEW TRUCKS Two firms, Swanson Brothers | Grocery and the San Francisco Bakery, are now using for delivery new cars that recently arrived from the Seattle distributors. Swanson Brothers have the néw model Ford with the tonneau body. The car| is handled locally by the Juneau! The San Francisco Bak-| ery car is the Dodge Brothers de- | livery of 1,000 pounds capacity. The | body is the usual all-steel type of construction done in cream with the firm name on the s i n the side panels. | ted Shaving Cream, Mrs. H. W. Terhune and her daughter Elizabeth has left for Wrangell to visit Mrs. Terhune's brother and sister-in-law, for about a week. DOUGLAS NEWS ARE NOW PREPARING FOR COMMENCEMENT P f | i | is said that the picture is even more { thrilling than the stor D Germany has just opened its first postal substation. A milk and deli- | catessen dealer at Wilmerdorf .is |in charge. ALL FOR 49 Cent: 1 Gem Razor, 24 K. Gold Plated, reg. .$1.50 2 Gem Blades, 1 tube Mennen’s Menthola- —— e MILL WOOD for everypody. See Femmer. Phone 114. —adv. LS Ice cream, brick or bulk. Juneau Ice Cream Parlors. —adv. — - Old papers for sate any h d The most coveted and greatest honors which can be achieved by worthy students of the Douglas L The high school have been won by Violet Johnson and Roberta Fra- ser, whose grades entitle them to deliver the valedictory and saluta- tory, respectively, May 16, at the commencement exercises of the 1929 Senior class. These two students have an aver- age of A for their four years of high school work, as has Ethel Run- quist. A is valued at 5 points. Violet has an average of 4.9 in all her subjects, Roberta 4.8 and Ethel 4.7, — GETS NEEDLE WORK The hand-worked pillow cases disposed of by Mrs. Ted Doogan for A very interesting “Better Homes” | y0yy men testified to this. There program was given under the direc- | w5 one man, however, who did not tion of Mrs. Charles Sey. She dis- po)q with Napoleon. He was Gen- cussed the “Own Your Own Home"|era] Murray. The commander be- plan and advocated use of. the|lieved that it was not only possible “Building and Loans.” {to accomplish this feat, -but that Mrs. Sey stressed the advisability |the British sooner or later would of building substantially, as it iS phave to send an army across the cheaper in the end. desert. Moreover, he thoughi the Mrs. Rose Davis, whese topic Was | Turks could bring troops across. If “A Modern Kitchen,” brought OUthey did they might succeed in conservation of energy, when plan-|pjocking the all important Suez— ning a kitchen. She said it should |the allies’ sole direct waterway to be small, and compact. Women 'the East. should learn to do all work possible| General Murray's ob: sitting down. ~Stools for this pur-' casioned a good many quiet smiles. pose should be placed conveniently on one occasion, when the matter to the centers of kitchen work. . |was being discussed at headquar- Mrs. Glen Kirkham gave her plan ters, one of the staff ventured to shirt sleeves and sweat was stream- ing from every pore, but he was laughing as happily as a school boy. | 've got it,” he said exultingly. And then he unraveled the tangled skein for me. Water ,food and ammunition had been moved on camel back. troops had taken the desert in! forced marches at night, when it | was cool and when the darkness| shielded them from British air-| planes. I could understand all that but I waited anxiously for the de- nouement in connection with the big guns. Here it is: There grows in the desert a lit- tle shrub, which is so wiry that it The to bear. A few experienced bankers be- lieve that some of the trouble could be remedied by causing member anks to keep more of their de- posits with the central reserve Bicycles NOW IS YOUR CHANCE TO GET 1 Empire. We SPECIALLZE on Tinting and Framing Pictures. Call in and see our work. Coates Studios. adv, Old papers at tne Emp're. Dodge Brothers are represented in | Juneau by the McCayl Motor Com- | pany. D N«UK BEZ HERE Nick Bez, superintendent of the | Peril Straits Packing company n'.! ,Todd, Alaska, is in Juneau for sev- |eral days on business. He came in on a company boat and expects to return to Todd in a day or so. — .- +Try the Five o'Clock Dinner Specials at Mabry’s. —ady. ALL FOR 49 CENTS | HELLAN’S PHARMACY Next to Valentine’s Phone 33 Free Delivery ———— for a “Living Room.” She stressed color scheme and comfort—a ftire-| place, davenport, a well-filled book- 53| case, piano, good pictures and shad- ed lamps, These are not luxuries, she said. Mrs. F. A. J. Gallwas, in a read- ing from “Guide to Better Homes,” gave good suggestions on the hang- ing of pictures. The May program will continue with Miss Olson planning a model sleeping apartment. ~ Home Eco- I nomics’ Week will also be observed, | ong feature of which will be to bud- get a salary of $125 per month to CARLOAD HARRIS || Plumbing Fixture R Hardware Co. ; 1 at Other topics will be assigned later. | o Z ; 7 £ “Crool g B The Misses Dorothy Crimm; Hazel | 7 3 B : : C r s s Qau Witl,[ S5 mave thelycen and Margaret Abrahamsan 4 z e ll e lce Bambdy rple. of & Sty ERSUA are programmed for musical num- o ; 7 BARN DANCE is almost like a mass of steel| springs. The Turks had scooped | out small parallel trenches in the sand, just far enough apart so that the wheels of a gun carriage would recall Napoleon's verdict. The gray haired commander turned to his of- ficer and said: “Don't quote Napoleon to me. He has been dead a long time.” the benefit of the Catholic church, were won by Mrs. Anton Africh. o A USED BICYCLE ON THE DOCK a 53 | “CROOKS CAN'T WIN" | AT LIBERTY TONIGHT L il Particular interest is being evi- denced in the coming FBO produc- tion, “Crooks Can't Win,” which| will open at the Liberty tonight, because in it will be seen the first appearance of Joe. E. Brown, fa- mous musical comedy star. Brown, who is perhaps best known as the star of the musical comedy success, “Twinkle, Twinkle,” recently decided to.try the films after having appeared in every other line of show business. In $15.00 AND UP Never varies in fine flavor reporter who does much to unravel & TS. Refreshments were served $e mystery. upon it the plm'hy the hostess. ~The club adjourn- is based. o | ed to meet next month with Mrs. This story appeared in four hun Charies Sey. dred of the chief daily newspapers throughout the United States and | i was received with great acclaim. 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SATURDAY—APRIL 13 “YOUR ALASKA LAUNDRY SERVICE” Lindseth’s Orchestra Dry Cleaning 'and Pressing Cash Prize for Most Comical Hard Time Costume ALASKA LAUNDRY In New Building on Shattack Way ‘THE LAUNDRY DOES IT BEST” EVERYBODY COME! " 47 Spices 32 BExtraces