The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 20, 1931, Page 2

Jresses - Coats - Hats A All B.M, Behrends Co., Inc. Juneau's Leading Department Store Elelmmenfnmenix NAVY BALLOON July Clearance Children’s Summer A pparel Redueed for Quick Selling DRESSES Plai 8 to 16. - €0AT On tweeds. \ HATS Clearance Price B 190 miles to mad Sev 1 or Printed Silk Dress- es for girls and misses. Sizes Sizes 6 to 11 only, in fine early shoppe THE DAILY ALASKA EMPI RE. Y 20 MIAMI, July 20.—Not since th¢ real estate boom collapsed has ther; I‘been s0 much optimism in Miami ‘When the state legislature over- rode the veto of Governor Doyle | E. Carlton, thereby legalizing dop and horse racing and the pari- | mutuel system of wagering, an im- promptu celebration broke forth. Parades formed in the downtown {secticn and terminated in a mass meetng in Bayfront park where speeches were made amid noise- making race fans. Martin Whelan, city judge of the | township in which is located the | Miami Racing association's Hialeah Park plant, said many persons now | are paying taxes on property in| | the community who had not both | ered to do so for several years. He ! | predicted a general revival of real lestate values as a result of legal- |ized racing. | Frank J. Bruen, manager-director | |of the plant, already has announc- | ed improvements costing $1,000,000 will be made. Hialeah, he said, will { be made the most beautiful track {in the country. Similar statements were made by Joseph Widener in New York, Chairman of the Miami Club board, | Warburton, president of the racing | association. | Other investments may be made lat dog and horse racing plants in| Miami, St. Petersburg, Tampa, | Jacksonville and other places, but! | race promoters outside of anmll‘ lare not so sanguine. | $5.95 ly a few left for $6.95 TS, {must be approved at a county ref- (erendum ,and already opponents | }are preparing to wage vigarousi Icampaigns at the polls where re- iquests for racing licenses are con- ‘templm,ed. 1 Dr. E. O. Heath, Methodist pas- | Racing Bill S pu;s Brings Jockey ¥ and Major Barclay (= Under the new law race meetings the Florida Le permit this terrible wr o steal ong {tor at Jacksonville, has issued a | statement saying: “I speak for my, i church and I know that I speak for | {all Methodist churches in the| {state when I say that we never will $1.00 unchserved into stalutes country.” Dr. Heath said mass and committees will be to i racing and pr Dade county (Miami) lone exception if “there is a break in the ranks.” A fight over racing legislation has raged in Florida sinee 1911 d Racing has been conduc but ALEUTIAN HALTS IN STORM TO AID' IMPERILED TUB Steamship Stands by Aku- Gl ENFORCEMENT heme building materials. to offer you first-grade, » such price B G build now. }JUNE L Phone - 358 y will Home is where the heart is, and our heart is in as we can quote today. » yeur specifications and let us s a mosl convincing argument to AU LUMBER MILLS QUALITY and SERVICE 11 be established, if plans of the se Telegraphic Bureau mate- ful been conducted. tests already | hav MATERIAL PRICES ARE DOWN Everyene wants a home and at present prices every- cne can have one. Build new and get materials at lowest nrices. We have never been able high quality materials at Come to us with how you the actual 127,300 POUNDS OF : The Detroit Radio Station WJR| ! tan and Will Be Here 7 made 116 and landed | IN BAD WAY Al " N\ | near Erie, Pennsylvania ! at Midnmight 5 The Atmy enity was -aloft only| 1 By ] 85 ey : I a terrific storm in the Gulf AKRON, ©hio, July 20—The Lt. R. G. W. Settled piloted the wNEmem;tKi:'?l;lxymf&:g:rfmgi‘Of Alaska, the passenger steamship oon has won the Na Navy bal and Frank Trotter| - Woodcock, Proh { Aleutian hove to for the purpose ation Ball . = ¥ |sioner, has returned here from | 8 e Goodyear-Zeppelin. | g of rendering assistance to the b (Porto Rico. He said efforts for,ccean goifg steam tug Akutan e i ) Bl et ing a bad time in weathering the tween this city and the Philippines| “There is @ great deal of smug-} g!;gu_ b Rl ekt |cock said. SALMON UNLOADED hundred pounds of king salmon | were lifted from fishing boats here | over the week-end. All the fish | was bought by the Juneau Oold | Storage Company, Wallls 8. George, | president. 4 | Vessels, captains and hailings | foltow: ; | Alms, A. Bartness, 6000 pounds; | Bagle, Henry ¥rjana, 5,000; Elfin; | E. O. Swanson, 600; Emma, John Winther, 6000; Ford, Ole Brensdal. |5900; Sadie, Sandy Stevens, 3300; | T. 3380, John Pademeister, 500. | —————— | NOTICE TO MARINERS Chatham Strait—Alaska — Hood Bay Entrance Buoy 3, prismatic | reflector temporarily discontinued | January 28, was restored June 30. Dixon Entrance—Alaska — Cape Muson Light established July 7, on southern part of Cape Muzon, flash 1 second duration, of 310 candlepower, on a small white !house, 70 feet above high water. | Light is obscured from 0% degrees |to 285% degrees. Cordova Bay—Alagka — Round | Islands Light, characteristic chang- l'ed July 17, to flash ev-ry 8 seconds, fnash 5 second duration. No other change. I Cordova Bay — Alaska — Turn Point Light will not be maintained this season. . Cordova Bay—Alaska — Simmons Point Light will not be maintained this season. Revillagigedo Channel — Alaska— Black Rock Light, reported ex- tinguished June 18, was relighted June 30. established June 19, on rock awash at north side of entrance channel; structure is a white slatted day I-beam mast on pyramidal con- crete pler. 22 soon as practicable. Prince William Sound — gling and enforcement ‘is handi-; capped by lack of agents.” Wood—l 4 not arrive here until midnight. Twenty-seven thousand three; |is flashing white every 12 IQ('AH\dS,K Sumner Strait—Port MeArthur— Alaska—Lemon Point Rock Beacon mark 17 feet above water, on an Icy Strait—Alaska—North Inian Pass Light, reported extinguished June 15, 1931, was relighted June Chatham Strait — Alaska—Hood Bay Light reported extinguished July 9, 1931, will be relighted as cldent, the Aleutian, enroute, frcm Seward to Seattle and due at Ju- \neau at 4 o'clock this afternoon, was delayed eight hours and will The Akutan, when overtaken by the storm, was on her way from Seattle to Seward. She is towing a large barge having aboard a suc- tion dredge and other equipment for the making of a harbor of irefuge at Seward, for which im- provement the contract was ob- tained by the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging company of Seattle. The tug’s owner is the Alaska Sal- | vhge and Towing Company, of Ket- |ohikan, Her skipper is Capt. L. H | Jennings. ‘According to reports received in! Juneau, the Akutan and her tow, when left by the Aleutian, was pro- ceeding in moderated seas at the western end of the gulf toward her destination. | W. 6. TWITTY | | Baptist President Plioto "Assoclale Mattison Boyd Jones, a layman who lives in Glendale, Cal, and practices law In Los Angeles, was elected president of the Northern Baptists’ convention in Kansas City. Mo. McLEAN OF MOVIES MAKES TRIP NORTH Douglas McLean, the motion pic- ture ‘actor, and Mrs. McLean, are passengers on the steamship Prin- cess Charloite, which called at Ju- neéau Saturday evening on reut from Vancouver, B. C., to Skagway and, which will be back here carly tomiorrow morning on the return voyage south. DRSS S ADMIRAL ROGERS HAS Tess " PASSES AWAY | CHICAGO, I, July 20.—Walter |G. Twitly, aged 78, oldest member {of the Chicago Board of Trade and who had a reputation of handling more transactions than any other man, died this afternoon as a re- sult of heart disease. i ASKREN AT JUNEAU | LODGE WEDNESDAY Masons of Juneau were compelled today to announce postponement of the contemplated official visit to their lodge tonight of Thomas M, Askren, Grand Master of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Washing- ton and Alaska. He is a passenger from the Westward on the steam- ship Aleutian, which was due here this afternoon but which will not arrive until midnight. ] Mr. Askren will ma¥e his sched- uled visit to Gatsineaux Lodge at Dauglas tomorrow night. He will attend a session of the Juneau lodge Wednesday night. ANOTHER WEDDING - FOR JUNEAU MAN M. B. Dragnich has arrived in Juneau with his bride, the former Helen Vuckovich, of Helena, Mon- tana, where they wWere recently ‘Imarried by civil authorities. A Sor- bian marriage ceremony will be Bligh Island Reef Lighted Buoy 2, |performed by the Rev. A. P. Kashe- reported extinguished July 10, will|varoff next Sunday in the Russian be relighted as soon as practicable. | Church. i 200 PASSENGERS Two hundred passengars are aboard the steamship Admiral Reg- €rs, which is scheduled to arrive in Juneau from Seattle early to- morrow morning. Eighty of (hosa boarded the craft at Victcria, B. C., to which city they had hoon brought by the steamship Emma Alexander from California. — e Cl:ioir Ga“e'ry Drops; Two Hundred Injured LOANA, Portugucst West Africa, July 20—The hospitals are crowd- ed 'with 200 persons injured when a choir gallery in a church drop inuthe midst of the congregation. A panic ensued. Killed by Monoxide Gas Repairing Auto SEATTLE, July 20.—Fred Shreve, mechanic, brother of Mrs. Mabel Horner of Fairbanks, Alaska, was asphyxiated by monoxide gas while | working on his automobile in his | father's garage. e M. J. SULLIVAN LEAVES M. J. Sullivan was a passenger on the steamship Admiral Watson when she sailed for the Westward early Sunday morning. He will dis- embark at Yakataga, where he is interested in oil properties. —————— Java, with a population of 690 per square mile is the most dense- ly settled land in the world, Miami Optim $1,000,000 for Hialeah Park 1981 ism; Abeve is a typical finish at Hialeah Park track, )'liami, where Joseph Widener (inset), Chairman of the Miami Jeckey Club Board, says $1,000,000 wiil be spent in improvements as a result of an act by ature legalizing racing and pari-mutuel betting. with an accompaniment of suits Various methods , from oral betling to g of stock certificates, have cmployed to dodge state gam- Under the new tax, track own- ers pay a tax on contributions to the pari-mutuel pocls and on ad- icns. Dog raci i3 pormitted racing 45 days JUNEAU MAN . FAILS BRIDE Was to F‘;u\?”cr Diamond i Ring—Police Asked to Find Him July hree-da; Saturday afterncon asked the po- lice to aid in finding her “husband who recently came from Juneau, Al She lel; him Friday afc- 1 and Apil 1.} U. 5. DEPARTMENT OF AGRIOULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU The W eather (By the U. 8. Weather Bures=) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4 p.m., July 20: Probably showers tonight and Tuesday; moderate southeasterly winds. LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wina Veioelty Weather 4 pm. yest'y .....30.07 63 67 s 9 Cldy 4 am. today ...29.84 50 94 w 1 Clear Noon ' today -29.66 70 55 w 6 Pt. Cldy vABLE AND RADIO REPORTS YESTERDAY | TODAY Highest 4pm. | Lowestdamn. 4a.m, Preclp. 4am. Station— temp. temp. | |_emp, temp. velocity 24 hrs Weather Barrow I— R TR AT W R I Nome 58 60 | 80 80 Tt g Clear Bethel .70 68 | 50 52 14 02 _— Fort Yukon 56 56 | 54 54 » 0 Pt: Cldy Tanana 64 62 5 50 — 01 Pt. Cldy | Fairbanks 66 66 | 52 52 4 Trace Clear | Eagle 68 68 52 52 o 0 Cidy St. Paul 48 46 @2 42 12 0 Cldy Dutch Harbor 52 52 | 44 46 4 08 Cldy Kodiak 52 52 | 48 48 0 96 Rain Cordova 58 52 | 52 52 8 1.84 Rain Juncau 63 63 | 19 50 1 03 Clear Sitka 65 _ | 54 56 0 .01 Clear Ketchikan i3 4 52 52 » 0 Clear Prince Rupert . 68 60 48 50 0 0 Foggy Edmonton — — 52 .54 LA Clear Seattle 84 84 62 62 . 0 Clear Portland 100 100 | 68 68 g 0 Clear ¢ ' San Francisco 62 60 [ s 8¢ * 0 Cldy 1 *—Less than 10 miles, The pressure is lowest in the vicinity of Kodiak and a trough ©f moderatzly low pressure extends from thence to the Pacific States, ‘and is high north of Hawaii. This distribution of pressure has caus- ed heavy rain in the Gulf of Alaska, generally clear weather from ,Southeastern Alaska to the Pacific States and unusually high tem- i perature in Western Oregon. Partly cloudy weather prevails in other jbortions of the Territory with light showers at . scattered points. ,Temperatures are rising in Interior and Northern Alaska. BYRD STILL BEST GOLFER | | 1\ NEW YORK, July 20—Babe Ruth, big' Yankee slugger, is improving as a golfer, but he is not get good ,enough to trim Sam Byrd, utility joutfielder of the American league telub. In a recent match, Byrd, the golf player in the big leagues, beat Ruth by three strokes in 18 holes Byrd's card was 73. | : e J Old rapers at The Emprre. “Tomorrow’s Styles Todas” Garter Belts Featured in both l “BON TON” and “GOSSARD” makes A full range of styles vtmd prices Sizes 24 to 34 Prices 50c to $2.45 | ATTENTION MASONS | Owing to the non-arrival of Grand Master Askren, the dinner and meeting called for Monday jevening will be held Wednesday erncen and he was to meet her at evening at 6:30 p.m. a jewelry store where he was to| buy her a diamond ring. She wait- ,ed hours and he failed to appear. She returned to the hotel Ritz but he did not show up. Jeanette was ;described in the police report as a manager. | sam C. Jean te, aged 34, and Miss Mary Ulin, aged 21, secured | a marriage license in Seattle last week, He is believed to have been a painter in Juneau and | south several weeks ago. There ;is a Jeanette who was discharged from the Cutter Tallapoosa about | three months ago, who then took painting contracts here. went | H. L. REDLINGSHAFER, '—adv. Worthy Master. Tll id Critrai ‘WHERE? CAPITAL LAUNDRY | Phone 356 Franklin 8t. | BALL-BAND l The Daily Alaska Empire Telephone 374 : Shoe Pacs Look for the Red Ball' The Mark of ' Quality SABIN’S Everything in Furnishings 'itgr"llu: ? —— with _each box of GEMEY FACE POWDER one bottle GEMEY PERFUME It has all the chic and verve and inimitable distinction of the city where it was created and first ‘introduced—Paris