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3 - PRIC Take advant February Clearance £ Women’s and Children ES SMASHED of this WONDERFUL RE- DUCTION on RAINWEAR LADIES’ RAINCOATS Regular $ 695 Now .......54.9 Regular $11.50, Now .... CHILDREN'S RAINCOATS Regular $4.75, Now ........$3.25 Regular $6.50, Now ........}4.75 | Regular $9.00, Now ........$6.25 B. M. BEHRENDS CO., Inc. Juneau's Leading Department Store ale of - ) L. 0, HENDERSON BOOSTS ALASKA | b N \ \ \ ) | | | \ 4§ \ N \ | ‘ 4 '\ ' \ } : N z ! : |\ s N \ N ) { |\ \ \ \ \ | |\ ) ] s | \ ) \ ' z g iAlaska Edu;:;r Says Al- aska Schools Rank with Best in States ter D. Ienderson, £o well and known in Alaska as her Commissfoner of Education, is rating that he is still an Since going to re he is finishing for a Master of Arts de- Henderson hag made Mr, ation Club, ‘the Palo Alto Ro- ub, the Banta Clara County asters’ Club and the Palo o Exchange Club. The Palo Alto Times contains I dress Mr. a meeting of the Stanford Educa- tion Club January 13: he Henderson delivered at “Alaska may be remote from United States in point of miles, history and environment, but that |far flung possession of the Uncle Sam is in step with the mother country in many respects, educa- tion being notable among them. “That is the contention of L. D. Henderson, Alaskaft’ Commissioner of Education, who spoke last night before the Stanford Education Club on ‘The Educational Program of Alaska. i AT PALD ALTO hes on Alaska to the Stanford | following account of an ad-| laska is a land of ‘paradoxes,’ | 5 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, FEB. 4, 1930. ing in Washin, itt will leave ENEVA, Feb. Jur t from Juneau: about onel 7 will not return to Ju | 'L;‘.\(-I'E HAS THREE ‘PLEDGES’ | 4.—Trak's s entry o v ma | LINOLEUM and RUGS of that Arab country he declared, ‘dry and wet, hot, FoT B S oy h — s jand cold, new and old. Long be-| fore a large portion of the United | States was even thought of, the first formal school was established by the Russians in'the Territory il e BE 7 4 S0 that date. e BAYLEUTH | 'nnnouncempnt of Dr. Ray Lyman of Alaska, in 1785. Just one hun dred years latér, in 1885, the first| American school ‘came into being.| “‘The Alaskan schools today much like the schools of Califc nia or Towa or any other Sta That they are oh about the s | 2ducational plane is shown by the fact that 60 per cent of our high| school graduates enter institutions of higher learning, and by the fact that Alaska school children! have no trouble in transferring to! schools here in the States and| continuing their work where they| left off up north,’ he continued. “Henderson dealt at considerable length with the existence of a dual »ducaticn system in Alaska—Terri- cupported by the Te: ritorial Government, for white ¢ dren and children of mixed blood who are living a civilized life; and | the Government schools, supported y Federal funds, for the abor- g y | revious to Henderson's leciure, | . W. C. Eeels, of the Stanford Education Department, briefly! diseussed ‘The Reorganibation of the Bureau of Education,’ telling of observations made on ‘a recent! irip to Washington. Concerning the Wilbur that the Bureau of Educa- tion (or more correctly the office| of education) is not to be an ad-| ministrative organization, Dr. Eells| i ! S —— and, the bt A @@W Hores Faton's modirn. sl ~ - inl, withe he ’Mfi%j%%mbffib deuble tads anids ; collan of thes yellew A haiv cwtohod and her pulk drees Rt | ROOM= ROOMS Bteam heated rooms, new ed with hot and cold runni er. Beautiful marine view monthly. Private baths, Boarding House, ROON 1S $15.06 Home —adv CAPS | AND HATS FOR Children B ool | Women | 25centsto - $6.50 “FLOWER BED” LATEST| MAMMOTH CAVE FIND| LCUISVILLE, Ky, Feb. 4. — A ean garden of flower-like} the newest find in| ation was discovered by ¢ and Cecil Cutliff, in a chamber with an area uare fect. It is not more | le and & half from the famous Sand cave in which Floyd Collins was imprisoned for almost two a half months before his body was brought from its rocky tomb to the surface. Pushing thelr way through a tune | nel which almost stopped their ad- | vance, McGavic and Cutliff found themselves in the flower garden,| their lights reflected by mfllions of | declared that the only admimistra- {ped of, |country. e function whicl: had been ‘lop- as far as he could ob-| , was the care of reindeer in Alaska.” T0 ADVERTISE FOR Ipflmsrs Publicity Scheme Mapped Out to Attract Amer- icans for Visit EIDNEY, Australia, Feb. 4. Australian business interests have started a $500,000 publicity scheme to attract Americans, South Ameri- cans and Europeans to visit this C. H. Holmes, chairman of the Victorian railways betterment and publicity board, who is the pro- moter of the advertising eampaign, sets great store on the attraction fo Australia of tourists from the United States. He thinks that 10 per cent of them remain here. In an aricle in the Melbourne Herald, Mr. Holmes says visitors from the United States have ap- plauded the sunshine and our “great outdoors”—bushlands afid our golden beach (gleaming crystal flowers which rose from the chamber floor much after | the manner of cabbages. The clus- | ters varied in diameter from three | to 14 inches, but all were the same | height | ‘he crystals are believed to be | nature's transformation of some| strange underwater vegetable growth left high and dry ages ago. The formation, according to George | D. Morrison, President of the Mam- | moth Cave Developmeni Company, | is neither stalactitic, helectitic or talagmatic and is unlike anything | d belc He says that it is some kind ¢ | Havana is seeking the title of the best ligh city in the world, and is exter g its strect lighting sys- ilem accor ngly. gypsum formation. | at the vast r Tal resources. He continues that ome of the chief aims of t new organization 5 to attract investors, Investor- settlers and tourists from the Unit~ ed States, and quotes a recent Ameriean visitor as saying: “The ave American thinks | of Australia as a small island, and does not believe that it is bigger than the United States. = It 18 never heard of in America although it is distant only 23 days 6f dom- fortable travel.” “The Ame Helmes adds ican visitor Mr. “suggested that we ther were an extraordinarily mod- est or else a ¢ backward people, we should Australia more.” The new organization will try to, aet Australia a permanent place Onj the world’s tourist map, iget together for the formation. —and been amagzed | CHCOSES WiND HOLDS PLANES “MOTIONLESS” IN AIR CORONADO, Calif,, isn't speed always hat counts in flying, w0 Rockwell Field pilots. The two, Lieut. I. A. Woodring end Lieut. W. R, ey, had a ti with a wind, and wind emerged victor. H The pilots had taken off for a! two-plane formation flight at 25,000 feet altitude. Lieutenant Casey regched the helght over the flying field; Lieutenant Woodring, wafted by the wind, reached it over Tiajuana, Mexico. | Prcpellers churned (he a: ously enough te c y the planc 130 miles an hour. Half an hot passed. Casey was still motionles over the flying field. Woodrin Iooked below to find himself still over Tijuana. ‘They had been facing a 130-mile- an-hour head wind and were forced to decend to a lower aititude to Feb. 41t but direction ording to out the economy of N other coal on this market. the cook stove or Use it straight range—ix. with Lac If you order NOW delivery will ba made almost mediately by any of the following transfer oempani JUNEAU TRANSFER ...Phone 48 COLE TRANSFER ... Phone 3442 NORTH TRANSFER ..Phone 34 BODDING TRANSFER.Phone 444 SERVICE TRANSFER .Phone 528 JACK'S TRANSFER .. 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Pilinsky, Hungarian tenor for the Cnnp‘olmun R""s ' . . ititle role. ‘The difficuit role of > & 7 “Venus” has been given Frau Jost- W A CLEE T P ] | ) Ier e el e | perfect personfication of the part. NO BOLONEY naimo Lump Coal. It offers more dollar-for-dollar value than any in ly- smith screenings for the furnace or heater. 1 im- es: ] be Store for Good Groceries 2c 2 LRI R A - DEL MONTE SPINACH, No. 212 ..........,»..2% 2c < C 120 2c . 22¢ .. 10c .28¢ ..25¢ s Sc S¢ $1.00 Sc Sanitary Gro Iceland, | according fo expectation / become members of the Daily C d Puz=l | Weather Conditions As Recorded by the U. S. al y ross-wor: uzzie | ) A Weather Bureau ACROSS | J 9. E. o A & SHE s arudy's Pusie TN ;F,f,';‘;.",m. point | Tg WASHINGTUN‘ Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, hew~ning 4 p. m. today: i . . Defore: profix | b5 ":xphy:ndu |_y|l|r|un ' ! | Rain tonight and Wednesday; fresh. southeasterly winds. Window i | i LOCAL Humidity Wind Velocly Weathe i Heast of . seends l,ui;d;;n el 2 | Time Barometer Temp. DATA 3 akve OB Syumno'fer™ '] eaving Tomorrow on Ala {4 p- m. yesty 2010 27 o1 10 Rain g ialliim A | Trip |4 a m today 4 13 15 Cldy | t collation i Emvraco | meda on Annual Trip {Noon etk oo o1 12 Rain P e U ed NE ol .03 0 oui Woslorn ¢ ferences | Reh eapital L T e 1 for C?nd_ CABLE %D RADIO REPORTS s A st | pound for Washington, D. C. to| YESTERDAY T TODAY Movie director Hindu mali make his annual report and to Highest 4pm. | Low 4cm. 4am. Precip. 4am. . Ditedtlody with officials relative to|Stations— temp. temp. | emp. temp. Velbcity 3 hrs. Weather . gfl'l- ka of the nine active!Barrow -12 -16 { -18 -16 ' 0 Cldy FhII, spat- ) the Department of Agri-{Nomo -0 -14 | =12 5 0. Pt. Cldy Dealer in | ¢, C. H.'Flory, Commissioner | Bethel ] -6 10 0 Clear Bt iture for the Territery,iFort Yukon 18 -2 -8 — 0 Clear . Cavalry tomoiTow on the steamer | -22 -36 -20 —_ .04 Snow . D1t Torm ot ! s o A i o fhtse o | the purposes of his an- 18 18 i e A Snow * western luils |y is to diseuss the -|Dutch Harbor ... 24 22 g -~ "8 Cldy My Tt Alaska bureaus in o A;dedxak 32 g: ;g 240 01 Clear . Bombast 5 nl on |Cordova 2 66 Sn ' . Inhabitant of: there be no d n o ow i o Fhlek iogn watix 8. Gono by mal that o n @15 Lo Clay 47 cleht Thus 9. Blind the eyes g 44 42 40 8 204 Rain | 100 5. Term : Groek gover- @1 Coried Tahile 1ew policies Pricds e ] B 8 B 5 50, 68, Rigorous a king of g of the |Prince Rupe 2 2 2 46 Cldy 6, $ : 00 Digsiive for. Woyrroney Gl | year. | Edmonton % a8 2 * 0 Clear o men - v e 4 o4, woman's g1 Siarry . Short of sleep 67 Concerning ing him as far as Ket- | Seattle 46 44 48 6 14 Cldy ent 12. Preposition 69, Green Moun- 2 S ‘ 5. Fnglisn DOWN i, Endows tain state: be M. L. Merritt, as-|Portland .. LG ! 44 4 18 Cldy musiclan 1. Secore 14, Builds abbr. irict forester, who will|San Francisco 66 64 50 ¥ 0 Clear “—Less than 10 miles. NOTE—Observatlons at Bsrrow, Foré Yukon, Tanana and Eagle In|are made at 8 a. m. and 8 p. m., Juneau time. The pressure has fallen throughout Alaska except in the East- n portion of the Gulf of Alaska. It remains lowest in the Gulf and is moderately high from Oregon southward. Pre- |cipitation has been general in Southern Alacka and in portions of jthe Yukon Valley. Temperatutes have risen in Eastern Alaska with !Hme change in other portions of the Territory. NEW 1930 PATTERNS OF ARMSTRONG’S ; LINOLEUMS J uneau-Young Hardware Compan y 1 ANNOUNCING A Very Material Reduction in Fire Insurance Rates Effective on all New and Renewed Business writien on and after November 1, 1929. Service and the principle that what is good for you is good for us have been our watch- words since 1898, Allen Shattuck, Inc. 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