The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 8, 1931, Page 8

R S — 78“ HOUSE PASSES | TEN MEASURES: TWO BY SENATE Tuesday Biggest Day of Session for Lawmakers in Lower House | | | | legislative ma-! Tuesday and disposed of more legislation than| on any previous day during the session. It passed five House bills, | two House memorials, two Senate measures and one Senate memorial. The Senate passed one Senate bill and a resolution. Both bodies were in session most of the after-| noon. Underwrites School Bonds By a vote of seven to one, tne Senate passed Benjamin's meas- ure directing the Treasury to in- vest $40,000 in the Wrangell School Bond issue, using the annual al- lotment for the Pioneers’ Home Building Fund for that purpose.| The resolution is expected to reach the House today where an effort| probably will be made to expedite, Who was the former Mrs. Laura Vi action on it. | shortly after their wedding in Brad, The Senate also passed a defic- | - TR iency bill carrying in excess of HA NLUN LUSES The House set i chine in hig e $9,000 to cover deficits in several funds including Mother’s Pensions, Destruction of Dairy Livestock, and others. Pass Movie Exemption The House by a unanimous vote passed Foster's measure exempt- ing movies and theatres from the operations of the Sunday blue laws of the Territory. It passed Mr. Allyn’s bill providing that property owned by associations of World War Veterans and not used for commercial purposes shall be ex- cmpt from municipal taxation. | A measure to reimburse Peters- burg in the sum of $1,610 for| transportation of school pupils, and | a similar one for $87 for a Falr- clerk and S. N. Laurle was re- banks company, were also pas'wd'wc]emcd City Treasurer. A measure to appropriate $150 to| defray the cost of moving the Li-| brary and Museum into the capitol | VALDEZ, Alaska, April 8—In was shot through the hopper. I the city election here yesterday The House passed & Senate bill| jonn Cook, A. J. Dimond, A. M. ving $2,605 for the relief of Dieringer, George Fawcett, Bruce George H. Wagner, Nome, for serv-| Haines, James Patterson and A. T. ices performed during the small-|giewart were elected to the pox epidemic on Seward Peninsula|ci] Mrs. C. H. Wilcox was elect- two years ago, and one for $150, eq to the School Board. There was; for the relief of Harry Gnvm:no opposition. Seward Peninsula prospector. This was a cut from the amount passed | BROWNELL, SEWARD MAYOR by the Senate which was $284. Mr. | | Ziegler led a fight to retain the| SEWARD, Alaska, April 8.—In Senate’s provisions but. was unable | the municipal ele n here yester- to muster but six votes. It also|day, D. C. Brownell was elected passed a memorial sponsored by |Mayor over P. C. McMullen by a Scnator Lomen and the late Sena- Vote of 200 to 106 | tor John W. Dunn asking the De-| Councilmen elected were G partment of Commerce to throw Manthey, A. H. L. Meyer and Jos- open the Yukon River to limited €Ph B. Stanton commercial fishing. i Seeks Flood Control | Territorial financing in whole or | in part of a flood control system| ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 8— to protect the Ketchikan water-| V- J- Delaney was re-elected may- i |or yesterday for his third term, [ —— 4 |unopposed. Carl Martin was re- elected to the city council with Robert H. Romig, and Ira H. Bailey in the order named. There was! only one other candidate. Of three candidates for one school board position, Chic Knapp won by a big majority over Dr. Walker and Mrs. Gertrude Mul- casy. Registration was 583 and 1425 voted. Walker Is Reelected Mayor in Ketchikan — Re- sults Elsewhere (Continued from Fage One) EASY VALDEZ ELECTION | DELANEY RE-ELECTED I Hardeman i Hats New shipment just received | AR | front along Ketchikan Creek is Latest Spring and sought in a measure introduced yesterday afternoon by Represen- Summer Styles tative J. E. Johnson. It carries a clause for a direct appropriation of $10,000 and an authorization for an additional $10,000 from the Di- vision’s road funds. Reimbursement of Ketchikan for past and future expenditures for flood control there is also sought See Them At - > The Martha Society will hold a} chicken dinner at the Pr Church Parlors on Wednesd 15th, between the hours of 5 and 7 pm. A charge of 75 cents a plate will be collected at the door. SABIN’S “Everything in Furnish- ings for Men” THE FINEST LI OF Imported Delicacies EVER SHOWN IN JUNEAU GEORGE BROTHERS Telephone 92 or 95 “Purveyors to Particular People” Five Fast Deliveries SITKAEEBTIUNV Coun- | Associated Press Photo Burleigh Grimes, St. Louis Cardinal star pitcher, and his bride, rginia Phelan of St. Louis. shown enton, Fla. Engaged Associated Press Photo Elizabeth Lee Saltonstall, daugh- ter of John L. Saltonstall of Boston, Is engaged to marry August Bel- mont of New York, a Harvard ! senior and son of the late August | Belmont, jr. Belmont is a member | of one of New York's wealthiest families. PLEAD GUILTY: ASSESSED 00 Millionaire and Former Secretary Plead to Statutory Charge PORTLAND, Oregon, April 8.— Nelson C. Bowles, millionaire, and Miss Irma Loucks, his former sec- retary, recently acquitted of the charge of alleged slaying Bowles's wife, today pleaded guilty to sta- tutory charges and were fined $300 each. KING GEORGE BETTER TODAY LONDON, April 8—The British| public was heartened today by an official statement from Windsor Castle that there was a slight im- provement in the condition of King George. He has been suffer- ing since Sunday with a cold in the chest. He is still in his room but is favored by an improvement in the weather. His condition, however, is such that it will take some time to clear up. - -—>e NO CHOIR PRACTICE There will be no practice of the Holy Trinity Cathedral Choir this evening. NOW OR NEVER FINAL LIQUIDATION SALE Leader Dep'’t. Store MKINLEY PARK WONDERS SEEN ON SGREEN HERE Senator Brag;v's Address Feature Fine P.-T. A. Program | Wonders of Mount McKinley | National Park proved a delightful subject for the illustrated talk of | Territorial Senator Robert S Bragaw of Anchorage last evening at the meeting of the Juneau Par- | ent-Teacher Association. He gave |grnpmc deseriptions of the natural | attractions of the great Fed--al | reservation, and supplemented his | words with motion pictures. H? ! showed on the screen rugged mouri- tains, fields of snow, dense forests, verdant plains with veritable gor- dens of flowers—there are 500 var ieties, he said—rushing rivers, qui.t lakes, the whole teeming with in- finite kinds of wild life. Doctor Bunnell Talks | In addition to the set program | i last evening, a brief address was | delivered by Dr. Charles E. Bun- nell, President of the Alaska Agri- cultural College and School of Mines near Fairbanks. He sketched the| growth of the institution in the! eight years of its existence—from 6/ | students in the beginning to 191! | now. He expressed gratificatica |that its educational merits were | recognized by authorities of higher | education in the States, and ne| P | predicted its continued growth and ! expansion. ! Little Children Dance A minute dance by eight klnde-; garten children, trained by Miss| Turner, was delightfully entertain- | ing. | Mrs. Crystal Snow Jenne and| 'Mrs. W. E. Ellis sang beautifully | | “Awake, Alaska,” a composition by Mrs. Jenne's mother, Mrs. Anna| E. Snow. i The “Antimated Cartoon,” little | moving figures on a translucent | curtain, were diverting. | At the conclusion of the program in the Assembly Room of the Grade | School, refreshments were served | in the Domestic Science Room of | the High School building. . D ELKS T0 GIVE- BASEBALL HOP ON SATURDAY Prizes Will Be Awardéd Men and Women in Waltz and Fox Trot Contests | Under auspices of Juneau Elks a dance will be given in their hall Saturday night for the benefit of ,the baseball team that will repre- sent them this season in the Gas- ! tineau Channel League. | Prizes will be awarded men and women in waltz and fox trot com- tests. Announcement of the win- ners will be made at 11:30 o'clock. Prizes and donors are: ‘Waltz—Men's, Stetson hat do- nated by the B. M. Behrends Com-~ pany; women's, genuine imported silk lounging robe, donated hy George Brothers’ Leader Store. . Dinner Jburse . Polsonous tree of Java . River mud e Rise ana fan the sea College game Long tish . These are sometimes spllled . Ripple against . Soft mineral Feminine Plane surface North Ameri- can trout . Before . Noncommis- sloned officer . Grent Lake . Burn Expression of contempt . Public speaker . Regret B JdEEN JdEEN Scoteh . . Japanese harp inlet 60. Spread loosely . Burmese nill ¢2. Baking 18 Unit of work 6L Genus of the dweller chamber $9. Kina of sail- olive tree 3. Member ot & ¢3. Interpret: ing vesrel 63 Within: oumb. oity govern archale 41, Asiatie ;‘or ing body 44. Small singing oeninsula 63. Numeral ! Smah fish bl 11 In what place 54. Tear . Postponine ¢8. Mexican rub- 5. Mustonl 55 Meat alsh 6. Preas - ber tree prelude OOWN T Short tor & 48. Kemnle saint: “1. Point of the L Quick to South Amer- abbr. comonase learn tean sity 49 Pull after "/ 0 /70 Ad ol G A Al (T ] T 23 WOMEN ASK FOR REPEAL, One Hundred Thousand in Finland Fear Spread of Drunkenness HELSINGFORS, Finland, April 8. —A petition signed by more than 100,000 women of Finland asking for speedy repeal of the country's Prohibition law will be presented to' the President within the next few days. The women, in the petition, de- clared themselves to be “advocates of true temperance.” They express anxiety over the fate of future allege is the continuous spread of statute. ——eee BENEFIT EASTEX DANCE Under auspices of Nativity Club April 9, at 9:15 pm. Novelties, 5- plece orchestra, refresnments. Ad- mission 75 cents a couple or stag. DRY STATUTE generations because of what they drunkenness under the present dry; at Parish Hall, for general charity, | Che Hon. Moya Beresford (above), jaughter of Lord Decies, arriving at New York on the S. S. Maure- tania to visit the family of the late Lady Decies, her mother. Lady Decies, who was Helen Vivien Gould before her marriage to the titled Englishman, was a daughter ¢ George J. Gould. Her marriage in 1911 was a society event of in ternational interest. | Fox trot—Men'’s, Palmolive Shav- —adv.| Old papors ws 16 Empire. (ing set, donated by the Butler- i —, | Mauro Drug company; women’s| ileather purse donated by the But- ler-Mauro Drug Company. FLOWER SEEDS I i . THAT GROW | NOTICE - After April 10th no telephone Mandeville ng Co. rentals for the month of April will be accepted at a discount. All remittances by mail must bear postmark of not later than Ilast discount day. Please be prompt. JUNEAU AND DOUGLAS TELEPHONE CO. ——————— NOTICE | On and after this date I will not be responsicie for any indebt- 'edness incurred by Mrs. Harry L. Rust. (Signed) HARRY L. RUST. —adv. adv., Telephone 134 Butler, Mauro Drug Co. “When We Sell It—It’s Right” WE DELIVER Express Money Orders - ¥ orings. NEW HATS Every fascinating new tendency you'll find in these new hats from the rustic straws to the soft straws, from little toques to large cape lines—for every occasion. In all the new spring col- Specially priced—$4.95 to 12.50. g GORDON’S, Inc. Daily Cross-word Puzzle ALASKA - JUNEAU! Hubby All Wrong i p—_ OFFICERS T0 BE HONOR GUESTS Mining Con-zp_any's Activi- ties to Be Featured at Chamber Luncheon Tomorrow will be Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company’s Day 'at the noon luncheon of the Chamber of Commerce. The occasion will serve 4s an expression of apprecia- | tion by business and professional men particularly and citizens gen~ erally of the company’s importance in the welfare and prosperity of the community. Past activities give promise of enlargment, ‘according to the optimistic report.for 1931, and future operations are expected to add greatly to growth and progress of the city. L. H. Metzgar, General Superintendent, and de- partment heads of the company will be present as guests of honor. Annual Clean-Up Period | Juneau's Annual Clean-up Period | will begin April 15 and will end when the work of cleaning up has, been completed, the Chamber and other civic organizations have de- cided. The Clean-up announce- ment will be formally made at to- morrow’s luncheon. “All agencies,” declares G. H. Walmsley, Secretary of the Cham- ber, “should continue in a persist- ent and constructive effort in cleaning up ur®il the city is clean. In this worthwhile effort of clean- ing, painting, repairing, planting| and general rehabilitation ard beautification every citizen is urged to do his or her part to make the city clean, healthy, thrifty, safe That the wives of distinguished! men do not always see eye to eye with their erudite hubbies is a fact which has just been established by Mrs, John ii Priestley, wife of the English author and critic. While { her husband, on his arrival in New. York, made many disparaging re- marks about Americans and their ‘intellect, Mrs, Priestley takes the ‘opposite view.: Among the com- primenury things she said was that American women are the nicest 'she has met. ELKS’' BASEBALL DANCE Saturday Night, April 11th. ELKS HALL. adv. | | and beautiful All clvic forces will‘ o TE be enlisted. General Cooperation Asked “Mayor, potice, firemen, fraternal orders, health officer, schools, STATIONERY churches, newspapers, women's clubs and City Council will be asked to aid in this campaign.” Dr. Charles E. Bunnell, Presi- dent of the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines, near Fairbanks, will be asked to be a luncheon guest, and will be re- quested to make a few remarks —— .- - SPECIAL VALUE Newest Novelties with Lined Envelopes 50 CENTS Juneau Dru Z Company Free Delivesy Phone %8 Post Office Substation No. 1 BENEFIT EASTER DANCE Under auspices of Nativity Club at Parish Hall, for general charity, | April 9, at 9:15 p.m. Novelties, 5- plece orchestra, refreshments. Ad- mission 75 cents a couple or stag. —adv. 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