The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 18, 1931, Page 8

LIVING COSTS ARE DROPPING, FIGURES SHOW - 1926 Dollar $1.42 Last Labos \‘i':~.< onth Says Department ce 4.6 per t com- - MATE DEFEATS TWENTY GRAND IN GREAT RACE Preakness \1c10| —lnumphs Over Winner of Ken- tucky Derby CHICAGO, Ju it colt, who y nd in the st to him in the again triumphed | ey's won- | e favorite, today in | Classic. Twenty 1. C. H. Knebel- kamp's bay colt, Spanish Play, tor in the American Derby, d. Mate won the stl)uoo\ added pu The ra was the fastest ever| run on the Arlington tr: break- ing all Arlington recor: for the m and a quarter. The course was run in two minutes and two and two-fifths seconds. The furious rack battle was witnessed by 67,000 50nS. e —— | Plan Start Late Today, World Trip Herndon and Panghorn to Cut Time of Post and Gatty NEW YORK, July 18. — Hugh Herndon and Clyde Panghorn hope to make another start late today | on a flight around the world, un-| perturbed by the narrow escape yesterday. The route of the fliers will be to Harbor Grace, Croydon, England; Berlin or Moscow, to Nome, Al- aska, and return here. The monoplane has dual controls and long cruising range. Herndon and Panghorn have hopes of beating the time made by Wiley Post and Harold Gatty in the plane Winnie Mae. - e HALL OFF T0 BEAT RECORD NEW YORK, July 18. — James Goodwin Hall, New York stock broker and war aviator, hopped off at 4:30 o'clock this morning, E: ern Standard Time, for a nonstop flight to Havana. He is attempt- ing to shatter the record made by Capt. Frank Hawks. WACKAY WEDS OPERA SINGER NEW YORK, July 18—Clarence H. MacKay, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Postal Teles graph-Cable Company, and Miss Anna Case, concert soprano and for eight years a member of the Metropolitan Opera Company, were married today at St. Mary's Cath- olic Church at Roslyn, Long Island. D ENGINEER FLIES BACK To Hawk Inlet and back to Ju- noau was the only flight made by the seaplane Petersburg yesterday afternoon or today. The airship labe yesterday flew to Hawk Inlet and brought to this city M. J. Mc- Donald, mining engineer, who had flown to Hawk Inlet a few days previously to examine mineral bear- ing ground. —_——— ON SOJOURN IN STATES Dr. W. J. B. McAuliffe, physician | in charge at the Government hos- pital, left yesterday for a sojourn in the States. He took passage on Worth ‘ Daily Cross- ACHUSS Squine an. al 4 Likely i. Upen Protuse talk Money hoarder Entertain I ather of ow old enus of the mavle tree Smooth Is profitable 31416 5. Poems Clamor Spring church 42, testival 43, Exist Leave 44, Opera ny Unit of weight Horatio Cone-bear- Parker tree § en courts 1ale horses ooth doetor rowing out inish French mar- shal Small horse 9. Crafty . Cut oft 41. Citrous fruft BB AN BURFORDS BACK; 10,000 MILES ARE MADE IN AUTO |Merchant, Wlfe and Child Return from Long So- journ in States Burford and Company, who with Mrs. Burford and little child tuned on the motors Northland last night from a visit to the States. The Burfords left here May 9, shipping their automobile to Se- attle. From the Puget Sound me- tropolis they motored to Houston, Tex. After a sojourn there with relatives, the travelers went to New Orleans. They returned west over the southern route. In reach-| ing (California, they encountered | temperatures as high as 112 degrees | in the shade. They hastened to, Cambrian Pines, a California sum- mer resort in the mountains. Therei the thermometer registered only 50, re- and they remained two weeks. | “We are mighty glad to be back in Alaska,” declared Mr. Burford “This is the place where life upplosl along like a song in summer." S eee J. G HOWARD PASSES AWAY SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July 18. —John Galen Howard, aged 67, widely known architect, died in a room at a bath establishment early | today. The Coroner’s office said death was apparently due from na- | tural causes, Mr. Howard was dean of archi- e of the University of Cali- and served as consulting ar- | in 1901 at the Buffalo Ex-| also for the Alaska-Yu-! kon and Panama-Pacific-Interna- tional Expositions. - e position, In Illinois 37 countles are mar- keting produce co-cperatively. word Puzzle Peer Gynt air | ssert 6. County in | Nebraska Contradict Pace . ‘Take dinner Set free Pronoun 34. Hair ointment 36. Body of burn- ing gas or vapor DOWN 87. Citizen of an 1. South Ameri= ancient em- can river pire 2. Biblical coun- 38 Pasten try 89 Drinking mng | 3. Lines of type 4l. Be defeated In one plece 42 Dexterity 4. Hail! 5. Hebrew letter 43 6. Vestiges 7. Persian poet 8. tnergy L ENE an HIIIWIII%II wEE JdEEE & LUGAS RETURNS FROM 2 MONTHS ON WEST GOAST ]uneau Busmess Man Mot- ors to California and Mexico “We motored 10,000 miles and' After a business and pleasure never experienced the slightest trip of two months in the States, mishap, not en a tire owout,” Harry I. Lucas returned on the said J. B. Burford, proprietor of motorship Northland last night to the stationery and ty riting ma- Juneau. Mrs. Lucas, who left here chine and supply business of J. B. with Mr. Lucas, came back two weeks ago. On arriving in Seattle, Mr. Lucas obtained delivery on an automobile, purchase of which he had ar- ranged from hcre. He and Mrs. Lucas motored south from the Pu- get Sound metropolis, going as far as Tia Juana and Agua Caliente in Mexico. They visited in Los An- geles, Pasadena and San Diego, and took the drive through the Yosemite National Park. In returning north up the Pa- cafic Coast they journeyed by way of the Redwood Highway. At Seattle, Mr. Lucas delayed ! his departure for home until after the Elks national convention. ————,——— BANK ROBBED; TRIO SOUGHT EVERETT, Wash, July 18— Search is under way for three men who held up the State Bank at Silvana, 17 miles north of here, and escaped with between $3,000 and $4,000. The trio is believed to have es- caped in a stolen automobile. MOTOR TRUCKS ARE WARNED BY CHIEF Failure of motor trucks heavily | loaded with rock to observe the traffic signs is imperilling street travel, declared Chief of Police George Getchell. “I intend strictly to enforce the traffic rules against these motor trucks,” the chief announced today. L LSRRG e M Old papers at The Tmpire. SWIFT’S 4 pounds to can, $1.70 At GARNICK’S--Phone 174 FRESH CANNED CHICKEN BEST WHOL E CHICKEN, averaging | the steamship Princess Alice. MEN’S SILK SHIRTS Worth $6.50—NOW $4.95 Leader Department Store THE DAILY ALASKA EMPlRE SATURDAY JULY 18, 1931. NINE MEMBERS OF HOUSE ARE IN BIG PARTY Twenty-three in Official Party Sailing from Se- attle This A. M. (Contipued from: Page One) Associated Press dispatches re- celved by The Empire said Con- gressman Will Wood, chairman of the House Appropriations Commit- tee, was also in the delegation, but a telegram received from Mr. Saw. yer by the Governor and The Em list. the ports on the Seattle-Seward route except Petersburg. The entire party will go over the Alaska Rail- road to Fairbanks, visiting Mt. Mc- Kinley National Park, and return to the coast over Richardson High way to Chitina, the Copper Ri and Northwestern Railroad to Cor dova. There six members will tak a commercial steamer via Juneau and Ketchikan while on the cutter Tahoe. Represent Commitiees The members of Congress aboard Messrs. and Appropriations Committee. M:. Taylor is dean of the House Dem- Murphy, Byrns, Hastings Mr. Byrns is ranking minority member on the Appropria- tions Committee and if the Demo- ably will be its chairman. ‘Addison T. Smith is chairman of the Committee on Irrigation and member of Reclamation, Civil Serv- ice and Public Lands. He is a friend of former United States dis- trict attorney Arthur G. Shoup. Scott Leavitt is Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, and member of Immigrations and Nat- uralization, Irrigation and Recla- mation and Public Lands. He was also a member of Secretars Wilbur's Reindeer Advisory Com mittee. Mr. Colton is Chairman of the Public Lands Committee, and a member of Irrigation and Recla- mation, Roads and Expendnures of Executive Departments. Mr ann Ss Chaxrma'n of Elec- {ment in the Territory, |Federal funds are being expended, pire failed to include him on the! The two vessels will call at all of ! for Seattle| the others will sail directly south | represent some of the most im-| portant committees of the House Taylor are members of the| ocrats and has been in Congresa‘ Is'mce 1909. crats organize the next House prob- REMEMBER - $3.00 - $4.00 - $5.00 ARNOLD'S NOW IN NEW LOCATION tions Committee No. 2. and serves {on Public Lands and Revision of the Laws. Mr. Luce is chairman of the Committee on Banking and Cur- rency, and member of the Com- mittee on Library and World War Veterans’' Legislation. Inspect Interior Projects The Congressional delegation has been making an inspection of pub- lic works under the Interior De- partment for several weeks. It will continue that mission in Alaska. Projects fostered by that depart- on which will be studied with a view of | familiarizing the several Congress- men with their present status, con- TELEPHON dmons surroundlng them and to obtain information on which fu- ture action may be based. - MAN'S TOE INJURED P. E. Becker of Juneau is in St.| Ann’s hospital because of an in- jured toe on his right foot. He | ntered today. -, —— DR. BARTON TAKES TRIP Dr. George L. Barton left yester- | ay on a visit to the States. He | vas a passenger on the south-| »ound steamship Princess Alice. ]’ —————— |“Away With the Vatican,” has been offensive to the Holy See. Old papers at the Empire office Empire. Five Italian Editors Are Ordered to Trial |« ROME, July 18.—Premier Mus- isolini has ordered to trial before a special tribunal, five newspaper editors accused of writing and distributing a pamphlet entitled which The defendants are Amilo Set- timelli, Ottome Rosia, Bruni Rosai, Remo Vhiti and Alberto Maurizio. — s, HENRY MOSES RETURNS Henry Moses, Southeast Alaska | fur buyer, returned on the North- land after a business and pleasure Itrip to the States. L T FEATURING The Largest and Most Complete Line of FRESH FRUITS and VEGETABLES PHONE US YOUR ORDER EARLY George Bros. FIVE FAST DELIVERIES “PURVEYORS TO PARTICULAR PEOPLE” IIIIIIIIllllllllIIIIHIIIllIIIlIIIIIlIIIIIIlIIIlIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIH|IIIIIIIIIIIIllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIlIIIIIIIIIIIllllI|IIHIIIIII|IIIIIIIIIIIllllIIIIIIIlllllII||IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIII We have decided to discontinue all of our present lines of Men’s and Women’s Shoes. A REAL OPPORTUNITY IS OFFERED to purchase $5.00 to $10.00 values at $3.00, $4.00 the world over at $5.00 and $6.00 and $5.00 VERY SOON, we will carry a complete stock of nationally known shoes retailing P | AT THE HOTELS Gastineau Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Mead, Point Retreat; J. M. McDonald, Seattle; E. M. Grant, Juneau. Alaskan D. Ross, Ketchikan; vich, Juneau. C. Raden- Zynda 'C. Heilman, Seattle; Elliott ming, Juneau. — e — The Craven, N. C., farmers mutual exchange did a business amounting to $131,133.53 last year, earning a profit of $1,688.76. ——— Old rapers at The Emprre. Frem- -- All Our Present Stock to Go at SALE PRICES BOOTERY OPPOSITE BRITT’S PHARMACY f i