The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 6, 1931, Page 2

Feburary Clearance MEN’S, WOMEN’S and CIIILDREN’S FOOTWEAR priced footwear, but in buying True sho my is not fooiw good lowest pe save ”ll)“"} on Slfll‘ Bl‘fll’ld style the kind of shoes that are ¢ every family to consider foot- Clearance reductions. Many are Clearanc family has ce to Footwear 'cpendable quality and We u February zood service. at the meant o giv wear 1931 puicl se now Children’s Shoes and Oxfords 1.50, $1.95, $2.95 Women’s Oxfords Grouped $2.95 $3.95 $4.95 pair Men’s Shoes and Oxfords BLACK AND Values up $8.50 While They Last $4.95 and $3:95 a pair You'll have to hurry!! to HOME OF DR. SHOLL'S FOOT COMFORT APPLIANCES No Exchanges No Refunds No Approtals B. M. Behrends Co., Inc. “Juneau’s Leading Department. Store” During our February Shoe e T T | ; R;m Prison ALASKANTELLS -OF SIBERIA'S GOLD FIELDS John Hosler, Fairbanks Miner, Writes of Inter- esting Conditions |had done the same. 100-pound limit. Delays Are Innumerable ‘Jaftra’ erica. Some of the conditions gold mining “regtons -of our shopping. It is considered quite are described by John Ho: degrading for & ‘man ‘to codk ar banks m r, who was en| t summer by the Soviet Government to introduce American methods into the Siberian fields. He is at Associated Press Photo Neezametnie, Aldan, Siberia, 400' Rt. Rev. Irving Peake Johnson, | better food ind imafe of it thin ‘milés from a raiiroa In part,| Episcopal bishop of Colorado, was |they serve t! his letter to his folks in Fair- appointed by Governor Adams to a Rest | .,_., Fifth Day anks, as inted in the Fairbanks Place on the state prison board aft. i, o g " e members of the board had re- “From W ¥ cunibe. th signed as an outgrowth of the 1929 " riots. great deal of lding all over Rus- sia. Even in the more out of t morning. We have horses with way places they are building n e Russian girls are|ejther saddles ar sleds, even for ] fine big buildings, mostly of ver or striking in{gour own personal use. I haven't It seems wrong thoug 0 much work on log bui e logs all hewn hand down to s end to end, hewn flat on the $ide and then gouged out on the women I have m much easier; to talk to the men. Probably because rive to please more than the by n do. Geing to Drill Camps ower _side so they fit the round in a few days the boys will go(license, which is very difficult to upper side of the log below per- out to on he drill camps to|get. You' must be an expert me- fectly. The cracks are calked t he of instructing the|chanic and the llcense has your > which makes gome sort of wery tight jo Built-in Brick Stoves “Thelr stoves are almost enti built-in brick affairs of ma: ‘construction extending from “first floor clear to the roof with one & firebox on each floof. Thelvery hard r fhuilt-in stoves and the cracks in costs : the unfinished logs make fine n what they should be. The machine | ifor the breeding of cockroaches and| will have to be gotten in shape . ‘pedbugs, which are certainly plen- | first—then see if we can {mprove fiful. T guess it is a matter of actual drilling proeess. A short fgetting used to them as no oneltime ago & commission inspected -geems to mind them much. the boiler and set the maximum ting two Keystone and fixed up a la epaired than a pn.-pport e one Keytsone here ry shot drilling and no one ever saw. They are drilling in k. but I think their to twenty times and most louse-riddefi. The lworklng pressure at 75 pounds | merely because someone before them ) I am trying jto arrange for a new commission, which I hope will convert it to | “The most difficult thing about our work here is the lack of equip- ment and the most discouraging part is the innumerable delays. (tomorrow) is used here| in the same WAy that ‘manana’ is used in Mexico and South Am- “My interpreter and’'I iive in a fairly decent little one-room cabin. We have a woman cook, who does chop “wood. There is one large community restaurant here, but it is nearly as expensive as having a woman, and besidds we are allowed “We are sumnud to work eight hours and héve a rést-day every fifth day. We are not expected to start to work till § o'clock in ‘the driven an automobile since I came to Russia. . The manager of Soyuz- zolota here is'the only one who has a car and he has a private ohauf- feur. In order for one to drive here one must have a chauffeur’s picture on it with more grimmirgs “The natives afe a cross Belwent our Indians and Esquimaux and drive teindeer up and down- the|of Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Olson, Mr, streets a good deal. There are &lso niafy Ghinese and it is these yel- low people that are the dirtiest -n, THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE FRIDAY FEB. 6 1931 (163 14} Beward will ask Cordova for the lcan of its trouble detector maching, | | Partly buried in the sand, a ‘powar boat has been found near Kanatak. The craft may be the gas |boat Tina, owned by Frank Kaza- |haya, who has been mlsslng many months. | A she-wolf, fat and lazy, lay on the track of the Alaska . Railroad [near MeKinley Park station apd |would not get out of the way of a Handcar until members of the séc- tlon crew slowed down the car and shouted at the animal. At the Silver Fox Farm near |McKinley Park station, in every, |vixen's box is suspended a micro- (phone that registers every noise, even the breathing of the animal, jand transmits the sound to the |loud speaker in the keeper's house. Any unusual noisz, particularly at whelping time, is’given prompt at- Kenai Lake fur farmers have asked Territorial Representative- elect C. M. Brosius of Seward to ,urge the Bureau of Fisheries to per- |mit the taking of salthon through- {out the year by fur farmers for use as food for foxes, mink and other fur-bearing animals. Valdez is experiencing a com- paratively mild winter. Since No- |vetfiber 1, the average temperaturc has been about 31 degrees above {zeéro. Snow is three and one-half feet deep on the level. J Miss Alverra Anderson, school- teacher at Valdez, and Russell Kelth, employed by the Alaska Road Commission at Chitina, were married recently at Valdez. erner, who stampeded to the Klon- dike in 1897, and who for the last several yeaxs been employed by the Healy River Coal Corpora- | tion, was drowned in the Nenana, River near Suntrana when the ice gave way wheh he was walking on it. He was mfive of Quebec proy- ince, Cahnd. He had lived at various plwq in the interior of Alaska, and felt boots are furnished us Practically all of our needs - work el equipment given to us by, Coyuseslota Bf charge, merely | t6 be returned when worn out or throtigh with' it. It is difficult o obtaln - some things, specially asf to luxuries, and .the food is rather rough, but we have gotten ' along quite well so far. g “The Americgn boys are not vers enthusiastic _about 1t here, bdflg\ homesick. Ilhtven't beéen home-‘ sick yet. T my work quite! lnterestlnl and not too arduous.” 6¢-o--.— ESTEBETH HAS ' s 10 PASSENGERS With 10 passengers and a capacity cargo the Mflp Estebsth de- parted from Juheéau last eévening for Sitka and way ports. ‘The veasel's passetigéis consisteal T. J. Hart and Jessie Corfiell fon iick for Chichagof, and J. P, Morgan for Sitka. The ancesieal hiome of Frances Willard, famous women’s leader, nd tention. i § Albert Herbert, old-time North- || AND BIG CARGO| and Mrs. Nick Kane, Isdac Smith, |’ nakee; Nick Bez and Mike Mg-), | puts the fluf in | Sufly muffins? It’s the millions of tiny bubbles in the batter released by the cream of tartar in your Baking Powder. Un- fortunately, there ‘are cheap substi- tutes for cream of tartar. ThcyJ make bubbles :oo, but not the tiny, fluffy kind. ' Ask any domestxc sc1ence L3 or ,teachcr, 7 St “any dxctl— ‘. "The big and little ' bubbles made by the lubnilute:., . ( Not cvery bakmg powder contains, |‘The tiny flufly bubbles made by | cream of tartar, © / cream of tartar, for the substitutes cost a lot Jess. Look on your baking\ powder tin. See if you can find the r 4 ; L words “cream of tartar” anywhere. Igs important) CREAM ofi FARTAR pure juice ciysials of gsapes COFFEE » TEA » SPICES » EXTRACTS * T R ) 1 FIRST MATCH U. S. DRPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU | 7 { Woodpeckers— T] W l : ! Metcalt 188 18 239—613 e eather - as a ews {Bringeale....... 173 164 107_4so (By the U. §. Weather Burean) \ ! —_— « ittie a8 fr | Whittier 190 150 150450 Forecast for Juneau ana vicinity, beginning at 4 p. ra, February 6: - i J 675 610 696 2011 Probably snow tonight and Saturday; moderate ecasterly winds. i St LOCAL DATA lT EMS G ATHEREB ELKS START N Bavard L e Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity ~Weather AL P Blomgren 195 154 151500 4 pam. yesty ....2981 38 78 E 8 Rain-Snow ‘ Gardner 135 150 107—392) 4 am. today ... 2986 36 L E 7 Cldy I v Y A P | Geyer 148 147 118—413| Noon today 2085 36 8 s 12 Cldy s, CABLE AND RADIO REPORTS 615 619 519 1753 W— 3 LW | ! ghest 4p.m. | Lowest4a.m. 4a.m. Precip. 4am. s Woodpec!(ers and Robins gl;"l'i'; 195 153 00_sio| . Sration— temp. temp. | emp. temp. velocity 24 hrs. Weather | Are Winners—Metcalf. | cievetand 160 150 150450 | gz’;gw - ':; -1g | -23 -22 lg 7 0 Cie'n' 1 | Bernard 150 150 150-—450 v i 3 :, race Clear { Interesting Facts About Is High Man | Fhutkner 150 150 150_450| Bethel G-y 1 gl A ;15 - Trgee | Shoy i Various Places and Per: t Ciphiagnan it LS L Gl A e Cldy | ¥ The Elks bowling tournament( 636 602 652 1890| o roanke ] 4 S 0 30 Clear I sons Are Assembled {opened last night with the Wood- | Robins— g;’g’;aul f‘z’ fg | 20 TZ % 0 Cldy } i peckers taking three straight' Barragar 18 225 171—544| Dot 5 | &L 18,07 e Snow Harry Edwards, early resident of {games from the Parrots and. the|gperling 158 151 179488 utch Harbor 53 26 - ] 24 — 02 Snow Dawson and Fairbanks, died recent- | Robins winning two out of three| sides 156 198 170431 Kodiak 38 32 28 30 10 0 Cldy ly at San Diego, Cal, where hejfrom the Owls. T, George 150 167 146463 Cordova . 42 36 | 32 3¢ 10 6 Snow 3 was curator of the Junipero Serra ... ARt o st % Juneau - 39 38 | 3 36 7 09 Cldy » Museum. cteall smasued Ui ples f —_— e —— —— | ditten . 40 2 | 9 - % 02 Cldy : ;]ul.al of 8:3 :;;MCh g‘ave h;;n ey 5!:0,[670 666 1926 Kotchikan ... 44 40 | 34 34 4 14 Cldy igh average for the evening. He any of Teams Prince Rupert ... 38 38 32 34 0 54 John Radkovich, of the - < > | E Cldy chants Oute nt Faibants mecr-falso captured high honors, 230. Won Lost Pet.| Edmonton .. O T e MR S s b ,“ flk; Barragar tied the high total score | Wcodpeckers 3 0 1000| geattle 44 42 | 36 38 4 24 Clay WISt while - Gutting ek - With nvin the second match with 544 and [ Robins 2 1 .667| Portland . ... 50 48 | 34 36 . 0 Cldy d high score of 225. Owls e | 2 .333| San Francisco ... 62 58 | 52 52 ¥ 0 cld butcher knife. Doctors at St. Jo- ght the Blgebirds play the |Parrots 0 3 000 | g y seph’s Hospital say amputation}is | 0 ¢ e e BRIV s 3 *—Less than 10 miles. not “®lgparrows at 7:15 and the Crows |Bluebirds P AL 000 — Y TPoReRLY. the Eagles at 9 o'clock. Sparrows [ 0 .0001 \The" piessutd: 15 tlodbratiy Kiph. | 3 ity i Ny w as fol- | 0 000 eSS igh in extreme orthern Alaska, | With $265,000, the Fairbanks post- Alshs o Ve ,g:‘;xi o 8 ol moderately low from the Yukon Valley and. Bering Strait south- 4 office leads all postoffices in Aldgs | . 3 ward, and lowest south of Kodiak. It is moderately high from Brit- ka in postal savings deposits. An- = ish Columbia southwestward. Light snow or rain has fallen 'in chorage has $154,956; Ketchikan, _Southz‘rn Alaska and in the central Interior. Clear weather pre- $74,453; Kennecott, $62,245; Cor- vails in the northwestern part of the Territory. Temperatures have dova, $22,386; Seward, $21917; Ju T fallen in northwestern and central districts. neau, $17,555; Petersburg, $15,356; Wrangell, §13721; Douglas, u,zla. gt el CALIFORNIA GROCERY Seward radio reception machi { b ’ PHONE 478 owners have organized a o | i Club and have subscribed $100 ' j B 3 D f to employ a man to search fer | A uall | causes of interference and to refll-; ' & . - y ledy such trouble when possl!lc.‘ d A § : ¥ . oo Products | ! Overhauling Season During the winter months 'is a good time to have your automobile thoroughly inspected and put in good repair. We are equipped to make any repair whether it is a general overhauling or a minor ad- justment and will be pleased to give you a flat-rate on any job. Conners Motor Company, Inc. Service Rendered by Experts UNITED FOOD COMPANY ECONOMY CASH STORE Featuring Trupak and H. B. Brands ; Front at Main St. Telephone 91 ALASKA MEAT CO. QUALITY AND SERVICE TO YOUR LIKING Meadowbrook Butter Austin Fresh T PHONE 389 Dehverles—lo 30, 2’30 4:30 TOR LA Capital Electric Co. Second at Seward Pioneer Pool Hall Telephone 183 PQOL—BILLIARDS EMPLOYMENT OFFICE Chas. Miller, Prop. WHAT REGULARITY DOES A little water now and then keeps iife in a flower, but if watered regularly it abounds in living strength with great- er beauty and fragrance. It is the regular additions to one’s saving fund that make it grow. First National Bank g