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. ACleverN etw‘ Fashion Idea-- . Brings the Newest 1931 Feature NOVELTY “Scarf Frocks” In a Specially Planned March Event VERYONE is talking Scarfs—Everyone’s talking Color Contrasts — Everyone’s talking Becomingness — and these' brand new SCARF-FROCKS score on all points. French and Algerian Scarfs introduced by Rodier at the Conti- nental Exposition lend marked emphasis to importance of this New fashion feature, they’ll be worn both here and abroad this season,—and identical effects will be sold at considerably higer prices. Combining Pure Silks and Highest Grade Rayons - - - ‘ Glorious new 1931 colors both bold and mellow—embracing all the outstanding color contrasts and enticing color themes that fashion 1 your favorite colors. i sponsors assuring y Youthful, vi them. They’re 15, debonair—these are the orly words for thing to wear this spring and summer. Sizes 14-44 SIX MODELS SKETCHED — OTHERS EQUALLY CHIC B. M. Behrends Co., Inc. “Junean’s Leading Department Store” TP P OO PO T T OO T T OO OOOTOCOOT U. 5. DEPARTMENT OF AGRIOULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU The W eather (By the U. S. Weather Burean) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4 pm, March 18: Tair tonight and Thursday; gentle easterly winds. LOCAL DATA THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1931. Modern Girl a ‘Savage,’ Says Explorer ok Kk sedkeck sk Kok IN EVERY PART Mitchell-Hedges, British Scientist Exploret, Stiident of the Anierican Indian, Finds Milady Steering to the End of Primitive Avenuie and, Like Her Indian Sister, in Dress and Decorations, ITEMS GATHERED| Really worth much more than our special price— RS e e - emm—————— e T N it e | G SAVAGE W YORK~—Is woman gradu- g When the Indi FA MiTcHELT, - Hepees lothes to hamper running and dancing. And vain, just as vain as ny « beautiful showgirl. shock, isn't it, this deadly parallel, The explorer cites the Indian : to a an verting « back savage state. woman is at ; o between girl- nhood, she has her he transition s 100d and worr 0 00 for road building in that hajr cropped closed to her head. neighborhood. Thus her world knows that Miss i ¢ Indian is of mar: cable age— S8 o Talkies were presenied for the Jur ccunterpart of a dekutante, as s | 1nuary 19.] the close- is ultra lege girl and it were. Incidenta cropped style of pepular with the c the professional v The primitive wo n discardéd k y returning to a primitive st:\t}e clothing, her nudeness was evi- | Are her clothes, her bobbed hair,|qence of her primitive state, just | 0S| > Jewelry with its large | o5 jt is among savage races to- ed necklaces, her fac-|gay And civiized woman is go-! ~up but indications of her | jng pack to the sclf-same idea, al to savagery? | wr 2s few clothes as she pos- | ©Of course there are a great many icm'puu crities who will loudly de- clare that woman is as savage to r was, even in pri- But there is one man | i to have completed a analogy between modern nd her primitive sister and enty of proofs for his is = Frederick A. noted British ex- Indian. ntures are noted not on laymén but among scienti: d over and even the most | modern of modern women must | | listen to him with respect if not | | with interest. 1-Hed ery whety re Jjudgment on his findings. is vastly interested, however, t his discovery that highly zed wom e quite plainly Z to th of primi- women. He pai a picture ivid colors of the present day {woman with her bobbed and often fuzzy hair, cupid's bow lips and | cheeks in glowing carmine, exposed | knees—well they were until a year anyway—intencely vain, ath-| lletlc, and few clothes to hamper | her movements. *And now I to the specifications of a girl: Dusky—remember too had the sun-tan las !bobbod hair, sometimes fuzzy, face| lips reddened, few if any| | painted, ithe sport under the control of t Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Winda Velocity Wentheyi . 4 pm. yest'y ... 1181 39 E 5 Pt. Cldy OSS'blY ! 4 am. today {10 (198 60 SE 6 cuy | Neon today 2057 32 56 S 5 Cldy | | | CABLE AND RADIO REPORTS you YESTERDAY | TODAY Highest 4p.m. | Lowest4am. 4am. Precip. 4am. d Station— | emp. temp. velocity 24 hrs. Weather wonaer I v 1 & e { R e R : why some good coffees || Bethel i 18 0 vary in flavor from time Fort Yukon J 0 to time. How could it be Tanana — 0 Clear . B ihanks 0 Clear otherwise when they are I ‘ Eagle * 0 clear! Bl made side by side with l , 8t. Paul 24 o1 Clear 4 i1 ! Dutch Harbor s vl c(hup coffees. .If .Schxl § | Kodiak 0 cl ling never varies in fla- Cordova £ 04 Olea vor it is because it comes Juneau 6 0 Cldy £ i g+ olace ; Sitka N 0 Clear rom the onty place in Ketchikan 0 Pt.cldy Ml America where onlyfine Prince Rupert 4 02 Cldy S Srniton s R coffee 1s made. Seattle 8 8 Rain| f| Several years ago Schil- Portland 8 12 124 Cldy H s San Francisco 56 58 8 32 Rain | lmg StOPPCd ying ito *—Less than 10 miles. is moderately high in Northern and Interior districts. showers and snow flurries in Sou'hern A by clearing except in the extreme Southwe: yails in nearly all of Alaskd this morning ahd rain is general i _the Pacific Staté Temperatures have fallen in parts of Sout XM Alaska and risen over most of the remainder of the Ter- The pressure is moderately low in Southern Alaska, lowest off| Vancouver Island, and falling moderately in the Gulf of Alaska. It Scattered have been followed | and clear weather pre- | | I make both good coffee and cheap coffee. It just can’t be done, and keep good coffee at its best. coffee, any more than it can with other things— I‘::#63——' : ' S W FARRAGUT'S CRADLE | BANANA savEs : Tenn —The cradle | COLONY tagious. y | the begin Tuesday, March 31, |March instead of the first day of ! April was reached in order to kecp' |faith with the horsemen no racing on Good Friday. | German Fascist, Loyalty ‘Tested’ by New Cigarettes| S an. Having emerged from ddling clothes of the fash- that (ypilied * doesn't look as though s Quite a women to further annotate his con- - sention that modern woman is re- i Her CIVITIZED SISTER The Pacific Air Transport " | OFNORTHLAND ~= |[nteresting Facts About | Various Places and Per- | sons Are Assémbled Cordova will establish an air- port, with hangar, ramp and moor- | ing facilities on the shore of Lake Eyak. There will be accommoda- itiuns for four planes. | By the Fairbanks School Board, | Harry E. Moore has been re-elected Superintendent of Fairbanks schools Ifm‘ the scholastic year of 1931-32. He has been Superintendent four | years. Increase of the bounty on wolves and coyotes to $15 a head was| indorsed unanimously by the Cor- dova Chamber of Commerce, which | accepted the resolutions recently | adopted by the Petersburg Cham- ker. 1 George King Ussery, generally| Lnown as Tom King, pioneer and | prominent mining man of Fair- ( banks, and Mrs. Bennie Clashy | were recently married at Fair- banks. The bride arrived in Fair | banks from Casper, Wyo., last sum- | mer. They will make their home | in Fairbanks. | i Residents of Seldovia at a mass { meeting cdopted resolutions urging | the L ature to appropriate $20,- was. given ab| m Theatre. Admis- | $1 for adults. No reduc-| was made for children tha! night on account of ‘the nited capacity of the theatre. | NEW DEAL IN AIR TRANSPORT .2 for Nome’s I:mous . Gog! ave been set by the Nomo, <ennel Club. The Borden racs will | be held March 25 and the Al- Alaska Championship Racz, Nome to Golovin and return, April 8. First, second and third prizes in the All-Alaska Wwill bz $1,000, $350 races SAN FRANCI , March 18+ Boeir cub a T —— will ever thus burden herself again, Ty I The 1 is m and $150 respectively. ven if she has returned to long- public The line will iz the only i 8 & When she wants {0, gne operating bstween San Fr Fur bearing animais in Interior he will again ask for freedom of cisco and Scattle. 4 are Bcirger thiz yoar than 'h‘"\ l;“”"’"v T | T AR ithey were las, year, which was a ; ”m;l‘u‘\} Cmqufi the- demand of P 1 “Col 1” e b g e T o a 2y all, the emand + 1 savs ¢ i S @ ANy opular olone chant of Falrbanks, says present I otvil Worman, {otgcompiee p | conditions are similar to those in emancipation. Mitchell-F of many Indian tribes wk en choose their own mates. These women take their chosen husband to their home and he is never al- lowed to do a thing unless wife zives the order. There are lots of highly civilized women—who al- though they would not admit it— would regard such a marriage o ideal. —_—————— TANFORAN 70 | | OPEN RACING ON MARCH 31 | SAN FRANCISCO Cal., March 18, | —Spring racing at Tanforan will for a riod of twenty-one week da Preparation for the third session { Pacific Coast Breeders’ Assocm\lm‘ are well under way. The determination of the man- gement to open the last day of| in the matter of the promised twent; one days and also to have an day, Tuesday, April 7, the opening| day of the Pacific Coast Baseball | League season, In accordance with the custom | established last.year, there will be BERLIN, March 18—Facism and tobacco habits have been linked by Adolf Hitlers’ National Socialist Party. The frue “Nazi” may smoke only 100 per cent pure German cigar- ettes, neither the tobacco nor paper of which has been touched by a Jewish hand. Adorned with the Fascist emblem, the swastika, the Nazi fags appear- ed on the market after huge post- ers and big advertisements in the newspapers had announced their advent. The promoters’ slogan reads: “Everybody who feels German must smoke these cigarettes, for he fights with us against the international enslavement of the German fi-| nances.” —e———— WORK ACROSS FRONTIER 1912 and in 192), 1921 and 1922. He thinks the supply will be back to normal in about five years. | Twelve of 16 prisoners confined in the Fairbanks jail were ill with influenza recently. One of ihem was so serious that he was removed to St. Joseph’s Hospital. i | Ewing Scott, motion picture di-' rector, and Ray Wise and Roy H.| Klaffki, camera operators, of Hol-' Iywood, Calif, have reachéd Wain-| wright on the Arctic coast by air- plane from Fairbanks. They are making a motion picture called | “Manna.” It will show the struggle of the Eskimos for existence. The' | scenario calls for a whale huat| and the killing of a polar bear. | The director and camera men will| |not return to the States until| i} | Junc. | | John Folger, who went into the! | Yukon country in 1885, died re- !cently in his cabin on the Kan- | tishna River, about 75 miles from Nenana. Emil Johnson, resident of Alaska for 25 years and of Anchorage for 14, died recently- at the An- | chorag Hospital. | | New Farm College Dean | To Be Third in 44 Years MADISON, Wis., March }1.—The | deanship of the University of Wis- consin College of Agriculture is one of long service. . When Chris L. Christensen, form- | er Executive Secretary of the Fed- eral Farm Board, assumes the chair this spring, he will be the third man in the college’s 44-year history to serve as dean. Dr, William A. Henry, now living in California, was the first dean, taking office with the establish- ment of the college in 1887. He The University of Maryland bas- served until 1907 when he was sucy Kketball team uses a guard offensive. ceeded by Dr. Harry L. Russell. Miss Isabel Hegness, of Vermillion, D., selected by popular vote as henorary colonel of the Univer. of South Dakota Reserve Of: | rg Training Corps, pr%udly displays the 1esplendent uniform ' which marks her as,the most pop- ular girl at the university, Overhauling Season During the winter months is a good time to have your automobile thoroughly inspected and put in good repair. 7 We are equipped to make any repair whether " it is a general overhauling or a minor ad- justment and will be pleaced to give you a “ flat-rate on any job. . FEATURING THE SHORT JACKETS Very Sfieci'al Sizes up to 20 New Color Combinations DECOTINT A Sanitary Wall Finish for Use with Hot or Cold Water DECOTINT is an ideal wall coating for the decoration of all interiors. It gives that soft, velvety, watercolor effect so essential to re- fined surroundings, and can be applied on plaster walls, wood, or any of the various wall boards. . Price—per 5-lb. packages, 55¢ W L Ea# e gt 4 &7 &R v L ] Thoras Hard LUMBER Juneau Lumber Mills, Inc. UNITED FOOD COMPANY MIDGET LUNCH Under the Management of Tom and Marie Siurge The Two Best Places to Eat ., .. . “AT HOME and at THE MIDGET” Closed on Sur‘xfid’ay\s’ Frye-Bruhn Company. PACKERS—FRESH MEATS. FISH AND POULTRY Frye's Delicious Hams and Bacon « { I for cheapness is con- | Schilling coffee Wings of the Morning | CONAKRY, French Guinea—The | Banana, fostered by French Gov-| ernment policy, saved this colony! pm the business depression. Be-| veen 1920 and 1930 exports grew from 150 to 9,000 tons yearly. S ENOXVI h by Admiral David s greatest sea- now ori display in the Gov- BRUSSELS A count shows| that 71,769 Belgians, including 18,- 620 women, living near the French border, cross the frontier daily ‘o earn their living in French factor- i les and building trades. '€onnors Motor Company, Inc. i e 2 £hdth Old Papers t It wan’t be done with i | | | i | | Empire Office