The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 26, 1930, Page 8

Christmas Is Crucified by Communists | CHRISTMAS DAY IS MERRY, HAPPY TIME IN JUNEAU Churches, Mine, Homes, Stores and Jail Enjoy Festival Occasion W YORK CITY, N. Y, t of Christ- crucified by Young | Communists in the Céntral Opera House yesterday before | an audience of 1,500 persons, | mostly children. On the center of the stage stood a great Christmas tree. At the top of the tree in the | place of a star was a huge dol- | lar sign. 3 From the sign hung a card- | board with the figure of a | worker stripped to the waist, | and a rope about his neck. | Other decorations on the tree | were cardboard cut-outs of a | ckjack and revolvers. While the proceedings were going on within the opera se, hundreds of charities and duals were feeding thou- ices of Elks sands of the city’s poor. cted many. | - Christn in Junea Christmas idnight masses at scopal and Catholic church- largely attended, the ca- f each edifice being taxed| > limit Dances under and Moose I But Christmas is primarily a|jaxation an dren. | dges | afforded oppor- ity to enjoy e holiday. Hotel Lebbics Deserted cept for hotels, restaurants, of|drug stores, billiard halls and the wn shades in innumerable dwel-|inqoor golf courses, all plac parents, tired perhaps from |yyginess were closed. Hotel lobbies g day’s toil but happy in the| almost deserted. Some res- | of their own youth, plac :]ll.nll’:nn.\ served dinner parties but | s and stuffed in stockings—| not many of them. Drug store trade nces much too I €|was dull, the hours of trade being 10 hung them—the ljimiteq from 9 am. to 3 p.m. a Claus had been| rne piliard halls had com- paratively few patrons. Only the Children Arose Early {indoor golf courses and theatre ap- before daylight Christmas|p,eareq to do normal business. guided by the unerring| At the United States jail, the 31 ct of childhood, bare feelprisoners had occasion to be hap- tumbled and little hands reached sy Sbuld! ferash ContinEriehE out towa wealths of gifts that|j, the feast given them. They ! really exceeded all expectations. |paq turkey, dressing, cranl Quite generally Christmas | sauce, pudding with whipped ¢ tself was a home day. MOrniNg|.angy nuts and raisins. Afterwards services were held in a few of the fthay were generously supplied with churches, but otherwise there Was!izarc' cigarettes and pipe to- nothing of public or quasi-public|yaecne | character. | | Nature Proves Kind Christmas is one of two days In| watyre was kind. A trace of early year—the other being thel | | morning snow yesterday disappear- | Fourth of July—when the Alaska|eq i the mild temperature of day-| cau Gold Mining Company sus-{jont and for a few minutes in ids operations. Accordingly ¥es-|iye afternoon flakes were discern- terday the more than 600 employes|y,o iy the air, but they melted on | of the company had complete Ye-|¢o,ching the ground. Warm, light midnig i Christmas, gleamed at the edge rre things th asked to b Lc ning |py. the interspersed by many periods | cessation, was the prevailing| Since 1926, every Christ- has been marked | | | condition mas but yesterday ih_v a fall of snow. | ? 70 OPEN BIDS | | { “Tomorrow’s Styles Toda;” FINAL CLEAN-UP ON VELVET HATS Values to $12.25 " ONKETCHIKAN JOB JAN. TTH Truitt to Have Engineering Charge of Big Harbor Project There Bids for the Thomas Basin Im-! provement project, estimated to jcost $272,000, at Ketchikan, will be opened here and at Seattle on January 16, according to an an- nouncement made today by Maj. /Malcolm Elliott, District Engineer. At the same time bids will be open- ed January 21 on the Port Alexan- der improvement job, estimated at| $17,000. | Plans and specifications for both projects are completed and calls for “Juneau’s Own Store” ||blds were issued in Seattle today. Plans for the Seward breakwater - —eeeeeeeeeeeeei | jobs are finished, and M. C. Ed- A 5 munds, District Superintendent of the Alaska Road Commission, has been assigned to have charge of the work which will be performed by day labor in co-operation with the Alaska Railroad. Mr. Edmunds is now conferring with rail repre-| sentatives on the co-operative pro- Shown in many styles and colors All for This Sale $3.00 each o, i e New Selection of Holeproof G. Truitt, of the Road ion's engineering staff, will |day morning at RUSSIAN CHURCH| BISHOP VERY ILL AT UNALASKA Right Reverend Amphito- phy Suffers Stroke Day Before Christmas Bishop Amphitophy, in charge of the Northern diocese of Alaska, of the Russian Church, suffered a cerebral hemorrhage Wednes- his home in Un- alaska and as a consequence he has been afflicted with par: of the left side and his mentality ast is impaired, according to a message | received today by Rev. Father A. P Kashevaroff, pastor of the Russian church in city. The bishop is the only clergyman of his faith at Unalaska; and intelligence of his illness was communicated by J. A Yatchmeneff, cantor of the con- on sad news was transmitted by Father Kashevaroff to Metropol- es of ltan Paton of New York, head of | the Russian Church in the United States, and Bishop Antonin of Sit- ka, in charge of fhe Southern dio- cese of the churcn in ska. Bishop Amphitophy is 68 old. He was made bishop of Ala: ka 10 years ago. His diocese cluded all of the territory until last fall when a conference of ec- clesiastics of the Russian Church iat San Francisco, Cal., was divided | into two dioceses, Northern and Southern, Bishop Amphitophy be- ing assigned to the Northern and retaining his headquarters at Un- alaska and Bishop Antonin being ppointed to the Southern and e tablishing his headquarters at Sit- ka, where he had served as priest Bishop Amphitophy was advised by his physician last summer to take a complete rest in the interest of his health, and at the time he intended to. spend this winter in California. Clerical duties, however, caused him to change his mind. He visited Juneau about three years ago. e Santa Claus Message Over Radio Causes Much Excitement SEATTLE, Dec. 26.—A Santa Claus message intended for only Patricia Renahan, aged cight rs, of Bellingham, caused a stir in radio and news- paper circles on Christmas night. Learning that Patricia had written to Santa Claus asking him to return her daddy, F. J. Sprott, of the Vancouver Avia- tien School, decided to brighten her Christmas by broadcasting from Vancouver: “Your daddy is well and happy in the hills. He will be home within a few days.” Immediately newspaper of- fices and radio stations were besieged with telephone calls and telegrams asking for veri- fication of the report. Pilot Robin Renahan and his two companions, Sam Clerf and Frank Hatcher ,have been miss- ing since October 28. MAKES THREAT; PLEADS GUILTY AND SENTENCED Extortion Plot Is Sprung and Quickly Termirrated —Prison Term KANSAS CITY, Mo, Dec. 26.— in- | Autogarts The sock that supports itself You'll like them! SABIN’S “Everything in Furnish- ings for Men” | e s ) T o e e et IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC PERFUMES | project, be engineering representative for the Government on the Ketchikan Maj. Elliott said. He is familiar with the details of the improvement plan and made the engineering study on which the project is based. He was also in charge of engineering on the big ‘Wrangell Narrows job. The Ketchikan project involves the construction of a breakwater, rubble mound in type, 950 feet long, and the removal by dredging of a large quantity of silt and oth- er material. Work is to start with- out delay upon acceptance of the bid, but no time has been fixed for completion. HOUSEL-NORDLING YARDS DECORATED Fourth Avenue, and Homer G Nordling on Twelfth Street, adding to the many other out-of-door decorations in Juneau over the Mr. Housel had two il- luminated trees on the steps at his home. Mr. Nordling's tree was set in the yard. Both gave a fes- tive appearance to their respective districts .- TEACH RESTAURANT WORK LONDON — A school to teach girls catering, tea-room and res- taurant work has been opened by the London County Council. Tlluminated Christmas trees deco-| rated the yards of Dave Housel on| | Charles Duncan, aged 23 years, has |been sentenced to two and one- | half years in the penitentiary of | this State by Judge Ralph Latshaw lon a plea of gifilty he attempted | | extortion from R. A. Long, wealthy | lumberman. Duncan was arrested Wednesday. He confessed to officers, it is said, that he sent two letters to the lumberman demanding $25,000 in bills be dropped at a designated { street corner. Duncan was apprehended when he stepped forward to pick up a decoy package detectives tossed out |of an automobile. | Duncan came into court today {and made his plea of guilty and |asked to be sentenced immed- | iately. can advertise profitably... THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, DEC. 26, 1930. Daily -Cross-word Puzzle ACIONS . The ones there Wanderer 12, Danger 3, Plume gr . 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Store Open Evenings PHONE 454 GEORGE BROTHERS | {Dr. Loftus Will Show Films FUR RANGHERS T0 SEE FILMS ON' INDUSTRY on Foxes and Diseases Here Next Monday Two moving picture films of un- usual interest and value to fur- farmers will be exhibited Monday evening in the grade school audi- torium, by Dr. J. B. Loftus, Terri- torial veterinary surgeon, it was made known today. All fur-farmers, and particularly fox raisers, and anyone interested in the industry, are invited to attend. There will be no admission charge. One of the films shows the methods of handling foxes, and the other is a pictorial record of the diseases of foxes. Both films were| prepared by the United States Bio- logical Survey, the first at the Government’s experiment station at Saratoga Springs, New York, and the other in conjunction with Uni- versity of Minnesota authorities. | This will be the second time the | films have been shown in Alaska, Dr. Loftus said. He gave a re- cent showing of them in Petersburg where they attracted wide atten- tion among the fur growers. Later they will be exhibited in other cen- ters of the industry. | Dr. Loftus recently returned from Petershurg where he inspected dairy stock. While there he saw a number of lots of fox pelts taken in this season's operations from nearby ranches. Although the pelts| were of good quality, the returns| will not be large this year, owing to the low market quotations pre- vailing everywhere. He will spend some time in this vicinity, inspecting dairy herds and visiting various fur farms adjacent to town. | | | | | New Slit Skirts i Show Knees Again, PARIS, Dec. 26—Milady seems | determined to show her knee in one | way or the other. Slit skirts—remi- niscent of the styles of 15 years ago—are seen on several of the winter evening models. One gown.of brown satin, made along semi-fitted lines, is slit to the knee—a slit that widens noticeably a5 the wearer walks. - e ELECTRICAL WORK Call Schombel. Telephone 4502 ' LADIES’ HOSE A very good value at $1.00 Says Puffy: “Once a year's enough to act as Santa Claus. Since Christmas Eve I've been what you might call a total loss. { You see, the chimney on the Hen | house is a small affair— If the Chickens hadn't pulled me out I'd still be stuck in there.” RS & Ty Secret of Fate Of Missing Fliers Found in Forest MONTREAL, Dec. 26.—The for- est of the Northland has yielded the secret of the fate of two airmen missing since October, 1929. Pilot E. P. Cannon and his me- chanic Leonce Lizotte died in a crash in the Chibougmau district. ‘The bodies of the two men were found in the wreckage of their plane by Indians who stumbled on the scene and brought the news. It is believed a snow storm forced the fliers off their course. WIEN FAMILY . REACHES NOME (Christmas Mail and Pack- * ages Also Arrive in . Young's Plane NOME, Alaska, Sigurd Wien, arrived from Fair- Sigurd Yien, arrived from Fair- |banks late last Wednesday after- |noon by plane to spend the Christ- | mas Holiday with Mrs. Wien's par- ents. Ed Young arrived Wednesday aft- ernoon with a plane load of Christmas mail and packages. Nome enjoyed ideal holiday weather. — Play Indoor Golf at Tre Alaskan Hotel, Dec. 26.—Noel N i WEATHER CHART CALENDAR HAS ARRIVED BUTLER-MAURO DRUG Co. e e ASK US FOR YOUR 1931 WEATHER CHART CALENDAR Juneau Drug Company Free Delivery Phone 88 Post Office Substation No. 1 e AND Not Only Cheaper but Better RICE & AHLERS CO. GOOD PLUMBING “We tell you in advance what job will cost” H SSissmerasssssabesss: = “ T NG SELi;cTION OF SPORTWEAR JACKETS SPECIAL PRICES SALOUM’S We Are Taking Stock Getting Ready for the New Year THEREFORE Have Many Bargains to Offer You GARNICK’S, Phone 174 We wish to thank Chief of Police Geo. A. Getchell- and. Night Patrolman for their assistance Dec. 24, in keeping the 300 children under control while pres- ents were passed out by Santa Claus. Without the ‘aid of the Chief of Police our store would have looked like cyclone had struckit. GEORGE BROTHERS Telephone 92 or 95 a Five Fast Deliveries