The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 5, 1931, Page 2

JANUARY CLEARANCE VERY LOWEST BUY NOW AT THE PRICES ALL SILK FABRICS SALE PRICED These are not sale goods or goods specially bought for sale purposes. But they are all our regular stock and you can rest assured of getting the very best of goods at the lowest prices at which they could possibly be marked. Crepe Satins Charmeuse Satins Reg. $3.50 value Reg. $2.75 value ] e NOW $1.95 yd. Plain and Checked Taffeta 50 value NOW $2.50 yd. Plain or Printed | ¢ Crepe Values to i Reg. NOW $1.95 | NOW $1.75 yd. Baronette and Spun Silk Many Other Silk and Crepe Reg. $1.25 and $1.00 | Fabries at NOW 75¢ yd. \ 75¢ yd. B. M. Behrends Co., Inc. s Leading Department Store” “Junear’ OCEAR FLIERS TURN BACK ON PARIS FLIGHT Stock Market Tries In Vain to Get Back Ground it Has Lost (Continued from Page One) led to an assumption in s that the so-called e era was at an end,| Unable to Locate Bermuda | s do not as yel support . Lrre 1 & conclusion, meg to leflcully | Siock held in speculative broker- acounts has been drastically with Instruments RETRACE AIR ROUTE, LAND NAVAL AIRPORT Lleut MacLanen and Mrs. Beryl Hart Exercise . Due Discretion CCEAUN FLIGHT— 1st NORFOLK, Va., Jan 1 in volume, but at the same lists of stockholders in indi time, to huge to Unwilling ‘Invesicrs’ It is probable that many snec- ul have become investors against their wishes, that is, that they have decided to pay for their !stock in full and take it out of | their brokers' hands with the de- — The termined intention of keeping it transatlantic freight plane Trade untll it commands a price some- Wind landed at Hampton Roads where ncar that paid for it, no Naval Air Station last Saturday matter how long it may take. night at 9:25 o'clock Eastern Stand-| PBrokers state, nevertheless, ard Time. large section of the public Lieut. Willlam MacLaren ‘Mrs.- Beryl Hart said they had dif- the past year and a half, and now ficulty with the missed Berumda so they back for the Naval airport as the, nearest availa field with m:h: cteady stream of cdd lot purchases landing facilities. Iduring periods of extreme pressure Mrs. Harf, red-haired widow and against prices. one of the féw women to hold ani Still Double Values of 25 unlimitedl transport license, and, A glance at the total quoted Ligut. MacLaren, who taught her to value of stocks listed on the New b ‘ths Queens Airport, New | York exchanggé shows that m Yotk OWy,4last Saturday morning remains of the great bull market before dawn, bound for Paris, via,which started in 1924. that a has turned‘tcm rather than the top. The result has been a small but the Bermudas and the Azores, with| The latest figure for December 2 pay load. Several hours ter 1, 1930, shows a total quoted value their departure steamers rep d'of roughly $58,000,000,000. While sighting the plane 375 miles out al|this shows a shrinkage of some {40 per cent from the peak reached when no word was received from|in autumn of 1929, it is still about the couplc late 1a=L Sat urd.\\ after- (L")I)." the quoted value of all list- L 5 at foreed -down. The plane gallons of gasoline and J ule called for its arrival at muda Saturday afternocn c'clock for refueling. 7 "d- Ber- ab In fu r efforts wider distribution of re of the 1 { up their | together |of values their sharos, stocks, an with the reduced START AGAIN TOMORROW NOR.FOLK Jan. b5~ Mrs, jho missed-Bermuyda by 50 miles §40, the lowest level in years. a 16-hour flight from New York{ on Saturday, will not resume the flight to Europe before tomorrow. The plane Trade Wind is {0 can-y‘hrr half of the year ‘the first- freight pey 1pad .acrpssiket experienced one Turnover Smaller Trading was fai and the mar . {overs in November, 1929, exchange ‘was about -Business., and_ esslom; chazes, against 1,125.058.620. in wl@29. m: Club of Juncau will hold mseting Mondsy nigh. (oclock in. Miss food # county | since as-a primary marke: it gen. QI cnly introduces new shares. 2 —_— e — — | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, ’VIONDAY ]AN 5 |93I May Débem berMarriagesFindHappiness i Dc\])ll T mversal Beljef in Fallure, Many Men and Women of 7as'ly Bifferent-Ages Find Their Marnage Successful: By ALICE ALDEN. NEW YORK, can. 2—Can men and women of vastly different ages |find happiness in the short span lcf 1de that their union encom- tended by her schecl chums, thy bridegrecom by his grandchildren. ‘According to every theory and loud prophecy, the union shoule have terminated long ago. Bull on to the ne by the the Rockefeller s to marry the man of her | were also fined $1,000 ~ Isentenced to one year in jail. Doc’ | passes? i Time and time again this ques- | tion 1is debated ‘andethe answer is we learn that the strangely assort- ed couple have a baby son whieh proves exactly nothing or a great vidual corporations have increased | and profited from the experiences of | instruments and is anxious to buy stocks at the bot-| the beginning 'of to gain the orations split these splitups, harp shrinkage | the average price Beryl|per share of stock listed on the Hart end Lieut, Willlam MacLaren, {New York Exchange to less than ¢ heavy in the| &4e wrdler sidls. 8,000,000 share the . m Mg Bepmuda-gndithe i day, but nothing comparable to tha 12:600:608 and®16000,000 shgre turn- THe 1930 turnover on the stock 810,000,000 The miarket ail but-fadsdroué for a large number of issues traded in the* curb market. The curb, fur- —adv. | thermore, suffered from the shark decline: in common stock financing deal. Despite the difference in years, friends are predicting success for jinvariably in the negative. And then one reads or hears about such |a marriage that has,turned out to be extremely successful and all|the union cf New Jersey's Gov- theories and ideas on the subject|ernor, Morgan F. Larson, who i have to be readjusted. 48, with M Ada Schmidt, who is exactly 25 years of age. The strong community 'of interest between the pretty bride and the man who has known her ever since she was a little motherless immigrant girl be- friended by his mother should do much to make the union a happy one. Ada became his mother's | The bellef humans have in their 'own po is amazing. Women of advanced years imagine that their beauty is still #mpelling enough to Hold a young man to their side. And eld men believe that they are attractive enough to make a young woman, sometimes more sec= 5 than a generation their ' junior,|retary after mother and son had| ., o pruce log disks, from heppy and satisfied with her mar-|financed the girl's education. After Bcutheast Alaska ‘;rn ts oMl bs ) LA .- SKA SPRUCE | WILL BE SHOWN AT PARIS FAIR foraet Skace w Fugish! Two Spruce Log Disks for Exposition |ital bargain. Yes, this is,a strange|thé death' of Larsoi's wife some|p.o1dsd in Alaska’s exhibit at the | world and thes strange unions that|years ago, the friendship between Cverseds Colonial Expos n slated nstantly cccur are among the|the two became warmer and has fo open in Paris, France, it was had a story-book conclusion. And everyonz ‘hopes that New Jersey's popular Governor and his charming young bride, will “live happily ever after.” of human phenomena. One Romance Henri Marchand, the famous art- ist, sat in court in Buffalo and |I tened to the testimony that de- | scribed his seduction of the Indian lmrl who later murdered Marchand's | wife, He didn't cut a very gallant | figure- and certainly looked. his 53 vears. And women spectators in the | Buffalo court hblise were united in | thoir sympathy for the bewiltisred little Inglan in ‘their condemnation of Marchand. Yet an elghteen-year jold girl, Lilllan Copper, has had cufficient' faith in Marchand to]are honeymooning down in sunny marry him, The two are still hon- Florlda, where the Larsons are also eymooning in up-State New York. vlsmnz A May and December un- Perhaps the young bride fzll inlion that attracted much attention loye with his distinguished appear-|some time ago was that of mil- gnce or his mind. As yet, she has|licnaire’ John Boyle of Peabody proffered no explanation. ‘Mm. who is 67 years and telephone Groom 73; Bridé 16 operatér Gertrude Hines, aged 23, Abcut four years ago, newspnpexs'of Boston. And ' in society circles recorded the marriage of Dr. Silas there is the marriage of Almira Rogers Cornwith, 73, to Viola Marie | Rockefeller with Roy Jackson, who Alter, who was all of sixteen. The|is thirty-two years his wife's sen- towngof Patchoque, L. I, was stun-|ior. = A mutual love of horses drew ncdlzy the news. The bride was at- | them together “ahd although there $ stran t ) : : 78 and 26 In Brockton, Mass., a seventeen- year-old 'school girl, Sybil Buck, has just married John Horner, who is thirty-four:years her senior. And out in Great Bend, Kansas, Charlie Andress, ‘a mere child of 78 has just taken unto himself a wife in the person of twenty-six-year-old Virginia Pritchard. And the pair MODES = THE MOMENT‘ OF | | PARIS Rose veliet ‘wu- - g arap brivmed | | ;M wide fandr gray fox. 8 &tdes are s‘&'t b e e“GWm made Known here today by M. L. Merritt, The Ferest Service has been asked to and will obtain the disks a turn them over to the Governor’ Office tc forward to the American | Commission. One of the disks will be from an 85-year-old Sitka spruce, showing the type of timber that is to be| ytilized in the manufacture . of wocd pulp for newsprint making. The other. will be from the oldest and largest spruce it is possible to get, One of the faces will be sur- faced and historical events coinci- dent with the age rings at various perlods will be recounted on it. KIDNAPPING NOW INVOLVES THREE Warrants Plepared in New Year's Eve Case in | e ‘ St. Louis ST. LOUIS, Mo., Jan. §—War- rants charging Pearl Abernathy, 8t Louis negro realtor, his son | Charles and niece Frieda Robb Ab- ernathy with complicity in the kid- naping New Year's Eve of Adol- | phus Busch Orthwein, aged 13, have been prepared at Clayton, county | seat. The maximum sentence is tén years. Abernathy named his son as the | abductor. The Orthwein boy was returned to' his parents unharmed and ‘with HOONAH JUDGE SENTENGES SIX T0_LOCAL JALL Bone Dr'y—L.;W Violatorst Hit by Heavy Sentences of Hdonah ' Court With | tences six prisoners under srn-' ranging from 45 days to| one ycar in the local Federal jail| tand finos in varied amounts, Dep- | uty United States Marshal Georgs | | Jenes arrived here yesterday. from | | Mconah. It required the services | {of three small gasboats to transport | | the cix, witnesses, guards and four | | emall children dirzactly affected by | the ences. i All of the prisoners were tried, | convicted “@nd sentenced by United States Commissiongr Edwin Cooper, | who is also teactier of the Federal| ernment school at Hoonah. The es were brought under the Alas- |ka Bone Dry Act for possession and | barter of illicit liquor, 3 Mr. and Mrs. Jack Austin, 13-} tans, who were each fined $1,000] ‘und sentenced to one year in jail, had to bring with them four chil- dren who were to be turned over} to the Board of Children's Guard-| ians for Territorial support while | ithe sentences run as there is no, | other source of sustenance for them. J. D. Houston and John Marks each and Gilvers, ex-prize fighter, drew six ricnths in jail. The sixth defend- ant, Frederick Lawrence was sen- tenced to serve 45 days in jail. All of the arrests were made by y Jones who was recently ap- pomtcd to the Hoonah station. GUUPLE FOREGO CHURCH FOR HRE M. and Mrs‘ James l c- Alister Call: Department and Save ' Home Mr. and Mrs. James McAllt>r were just about to go to church at| 11 o'clock yesterday morning w ‘they noticed their house was a | | ‘ i | Instead of proceeding with th original intentions of laying up lstores in the Kingdom . coming, of the ggods they have collectad; in this world. They live on Gold Street near Seventh. The fire department was called, land with chemicals extinguished lthe blaze. Ignition was in the ‘ba<exN‘nt from the defective oil burner of the heating plant. The ! damage was slight, and caused | chiefly by smoke. NEW CHARGES MURDER GASE Bowles and Stenographer Indicted - Separately, - « | Stabbing Tragedy i PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 5—Two indictments charging each separ- ately with first degree murder have been returned against Nelson Bowles, millionaire, and Irma Loucks-Paris, his former stenogra- pher and “office wife,” in_connee- tion with the fatal stabbing of Mrs Leone Bowles, wife of Bowles. The two are charged jointly with murder in the indictment which was returned last Tuesday. It is also brought out that a joint in- dictment has been returned against Bowles and the ‘woman charging ‘a statutory offense. Another secret indictment is be- lieved in connection with an at- tack od Mrs. H. W. Howard, who was beaten and bruised by two| men who thma;,gned her with death if’ she talked. She is a state wit- ness. P T R e e U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU The Weather (By the U. S. Weather Burean) Forecast. for Juneau ane vicinity, beginning at 4 p. m, January 5: Rain and cooler tonight and ‘Taesday; moderate southeaster- ly winds. ; 3 LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity ~Weathep 4 pm. yest'y 29.25 2 ‘g3 SE 20 R 4 am. today 2040 40 gy E 10’ Mist Noon _ today 2054 30 94 SE 2 Rain CABLE AND RADIO BEPORTS Tt YESTERDAY | TODAY Highest 4pm. | Lowest-4am. 4a.m. Precip. 4a.m. Station— temp. temp. | _temp. temp. velocity 24 hrs. Weather Barrow - . -12 -14 |~ 1§ =12 14 0 Cldy Nome -8 -3 | -16 -10 " 0 Cldy Bethel ... 2 -2 | 30 -16 8 9 Cleat Fort Yukon -8 24 | 24 a2 4 Trace Oldy Tanana G L B S T, [ cidy Fairbanks b (R S ¢ 4 04 cldy Eagle 10 &Nl g e 4 08 Clear st. Paul 8. -28° | 1i.28 48 a2 Snow Dulch Harbor 34 32 | 36 3 — .10 Rain Kodiak T e R 23 ‘o (] g;l'b ¢ Cordova 36 32 % 30 4 80 :5 Junezu 44 41 | 31 40 10 43 Mist Sitka [ R R R | N — Ketchikan S R R TERG L e Rati Prince Rupert ... 46 42 | 36 36 6 140 R,aln Edmonton 28 24 | 2 22 % 0 Seattle 6 46 | 42 U 6 88 gi Fortland 8 4 | a0 @ 4 108 oldy San Francisco 56 54 | 48 48 12 106 Rain Spokané’ 38 36 | 34 .u . (1} Ly Vencouver, B. C. 46 46 J 130dag 9 i 66 Rain *—Less than 10 miles. The pressure is low from Northern Alnska to Northern Califors nia and is below twenty-eight inches in the middle Aleutian Isle ands. It is falling in Bering Sea and rising in the Gulf of ‘A1 aska and is high near Hawaii. Rain “fell i Southeasters, - Alaska and snow in the Southwest and Interior. The wéather i§ tloudy and unsettled over most of the remainder of the Terrltory. . Temperatures fell in the Gulf of Alaska and the extreme eastern portion of the Territory and rose in the central and extreme southwest portions. ASKSTAY N HEARING OF IEx hteenth Amendment De; cision Defenders: Seek- ing Postponment g P! WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 5— The Supreme Court has been asked . 'to postpone until April 15 the hear- ing of the Government's appeal from the New Jersey decision hold- ing the Eighteenth Amendment in- Acting Regional Forester:|they stayed at home to save -som» | valid. Counsel supporting the opinion handed down by TFederal Judge Clark said other engagements will prevent their appearing before April 15, Frederic M. P. Pierce, spokeésman, criticised the brief filed by So- licitor ‘General Thatcher as incom- plete. SPICKETT CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY ; GIVESPARTY “John T. Spickett, veteran show man and formerly manager of the Palace Theatre, celebrated his: 78th birthday yesterday. -He gave a theatre party last hight at the Coliseum and later a buffet lunch- con”‘was served in' his ‘@partments. During the film showing at the Celiséum, a slide was flashed an- nouncing “the -~ “birthday 'of our former competitor ‘and wism'ngh!m many happy returns.” P IS S SRR T AL 5 o in planaiug yo! P! of 'coughis and - colds riino bhmchul n-mmm. lxflalll(-ufly aid FEDERAL FARM BOARD AGAINST LOAN OF WHEAT Proposal Suggested by Sen- ator ‘Capper: Turned * Down Flatly WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 5.— The Federal Farm Board has re- perted unfavorably on Senator Cap- per’s proposal io nave the Board distribute 40,000,000 bushels "of wheat it holds for relief purposes: The Federal Farm Board is with- out such aubhorm!. Samuel Mg- Kelvle, wheat industry represénfa- tive, explained. If the board wolild give away the wheat it would im- pair the revolving fund the BoaM used for purposes othér thag 16r which money is appropriatéd, M”- Kelvie said. |MRS. FICKEN 1S HONOR GUESTAT GOLFPARTY In' compiimeht to Mrs! A. . Piek- en, Mrs. H. L. Faulkner gave s foursome golf party yesterday aft: ernoon on the Midget Course fn the Goldstein Building. Mrs. Ficken, Mrs. Burns, Mrs. Tillotson and Miss Yeakey ~composed - one foursome, and Mrs. Faulkner, Mrs. Coughli Mrs. ‘White and Mrs. Harding the cher bt ) United' States Commissioner Ed- win V. Cooper. of Hoppah, is amgng the guests at the Alaskap Hotel: Mrs. T.-J. Stroebe of Dupont en- tered St. Ann's hospital yesterday. She expects fo return. home' in ' a few days. Wendell Dawsortdf Retchiikan' i3 xeglstered at the Ggstineau. PINE'ifULsmN so&nme m& FXPECTQRANT Recommiefified* for thé rehel Juneau Dru e 2 & e e *Campany < Eree ‘Deliye:t ‘ Phone 84 l’o'gl Office’ Substation