The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 25, 1931, Page 2

. Week of Sales RAINCOA 16 CHILDREN’S FL Values Sale Price, CORDUROY COATS 12 children’s lovely Spring Coats, just the thing to start schoel with. Values to $22.50—Sizes 6-10 Sale Price, $6.95 Rubberized Leatherette Raincoats $56.50 and $9.00 16 CHILDREN’S CRAVANETTE and Reversible Raincoats Values to $12.50—Sizes 6-14- Sale Pru‘(’, $4.95 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE TUESDAY, AUGUST 25 1931. ANNEL LINED , $2.00 LINED 6 ONLY LADIES’ SPRING COATS zes 16 to Values to $32.50— Sale Price, $6.95 B. M. Behrends Co., Inec. Juneaw’s Leading Department Store l)ady Cross-word Puzsle / ACROSS 1.'Portions . of . Largent vege- 3 ", Solution of Vestirdny s .Pules I e curves 13. Acquire by . Selze labor _Before: prefix 18. Goes ahead ; 2. Quiets 3 cheme 5 Small carry- g z ing cu:e‘ punishment . Goddess o discord = E‘n?:;nan a4 30. Things (hat - pateh . n::. h’: ;l i. 35 fi“’ / 1 . Uriev Y ‘ncm.e- 35, Denudes 36, Mixed snow #nd rain 8. windering nnlhmo name ' gffi;’; idlys B rapased tor 40. Out of the right way ““""“8”“;"1 42, Capital of Nor- ~~"wxy | Likelx. . 44. Not far G 4 ong fish NSk l\fi\ & F‘.'xx:g‘a‘ ikl ) s*,'m“lm A9 Distnite 10 Beam - - o - beniy 52, Impudent & Cdible mher ga garked T‘rmy 2 i:"fe: g 5 i;g.pnindl]‘; beasta. .. e /sanjan . E] 04 14 Withered haracier : Double-polnted $3. Ttie min who : Exvunges £8. Sea_north ot could eat no “M post- lnd connect- 5. UnlL ol welght : fat £ Fith e 59. Marries fi Lvigerstand lfl 8. Rodent 60. Phillppine py for . Scareer Zdna line sz, sovhite ant mpfl & 71 Scandinavia 8. Breathe 2. § rin & n. 14 Reamatia wo’};a oudly In 64, Welrd &2 Ong Who ear- 74 Anclent Irish sleep 5. Fractional 3 : B city 9. Leaf n]{ a part of an b, Yhoroughfare: corolla ounce & bbir, fl Growlog out & o 67. Lair i3 ‘}’ . Primitive o millar ap- 0. Largs tob i A{ v:ndxy “root word pellations Agaln;: prefix ‘Start Drive 40, 3 1 U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRIOULTURE, WEATHER RUREAU The Weather (By the U. §. Weather Buress; Forecast for Junéati and vicinity, beginning at 4 p.m. August 25: Generally fair and cooler tonight, Wednesday fair and warmer, gentle easterly winds. . LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity Weather 4 p.m. yest'y 3011 51 99 s 1 Rain 4 dm. today 30.08 51 98 S 3 Rain 12 ‘noon today 80.07 55 91 SwW 2 Cldy. CAGLE AND RADIO REPORTS e UESTERDAY | TODAY Highest 4pm. | Lowest4am. 4a.m. Precip. 4a.m. Station— temp. temp. | emp. temp. velocity 24 hrs, Weather Parrow 36 36 28 28 12 0 Cldy Nome €0 60 46 46 &/ 0 Clear Bethel 66 60 50 50 10 24 Clear Fort Yukon 5 52 34 34 : 0 Clear Tanana 62 62 30 32 -_ [ Clear Fairbanks 66 65 38 38 0 0 Clear Eagle 60 60 30 30 s 0 Clear S¢. Paul 56 52 44 50 10 0 Cldy Duteh Harbor 56 66 50 52 4 0 Cldy Kodiak 58 54 50 52 0 Trace Rain Cordova @ 58 42 44 . 0 Pt Cldy Juneau . 54 51 | 51 51 3 £9 Rain Sitka . 68 - 51 57 0 70 Pt Cldy Ketchikan 66 64 46 48 4 02 Clear Prince Rupert 62 62 50 60 0 [ Cldy Edmonton 82 70 50 50 4 02 Clear Seattle T4 4 b4 54 % 0 Clear Portland 94 82 58 58 . 0 Clear San Francisco 88 70 52 54 . 0 Clera *—Less than 10 miles. The pressureé has Tisen n the Interior and fallen In Southeastern Alaska, It is highest east of Barrow, and between California and Hawaii, and lowest south of Unaluska and in central Canada, Show- ers have fallen in Southeast Alaska and the lower Kuskokwim Val- Jey. Clear and cooler weéather prevails over the Interior and the Bering Bea coast, with freezing temperatures in portions of the Yukon Val- y. Cloudy weathier is genmeral near the Pacific Coast except the ex- freme Southeast where it has cleared. FOREST FIRES SPREAU BEFORE | WINB N |IlAHO PR SO ¢ ex \ca.mps as the fires have spread vir- 'm mnn Aug fi—flripe f [tually to all mines in Boise Bas- Haviilg ' Gtimes ‘Pass ‘and “Ploneer- in which i5 becoming deserted by Fille” from forest fires in Cem.ralwme workmen and - their families. Idaho waned as the Tlames leuped i ’ uation looked bad as the wind was h‘o“lng hard. The firefighters ‘are short of pumps thus handi- ‘cdppmg their efforts. 8ix hundred men are on a 40- mile front’ fighting the ' fires. One hundred Ida ho National Guardsmen have been ordered -out HAROLD SMITH LEAVES TODA FOR NEW PflS Moves (o Lordova to Take Charge of Prince Will-" iam Sound Division To take overthe management of}. the Prince William’ Sound Division of Chugach . National ~Forest, re- placing Spervisor W..J. McDonald shortly to be transferred to Ket- chikan, District Forest Ranger Har- old A. Smith’wil] leave here to- night on the stni;ur Aleutian for Cordova where he will make his headquarters. He is accompanied by Mrs. Smith and his two dnugp- ters, Lorraine and . nia. Mr. Smith has resided here for the past dacade as ranger in charge of the local district. He has beer identified with local clvic move- ments during all that period, and|: owns residential property here. Mrs. Smith, also, has been closely con- nected with social ‘and civic or- ganizations during her residence in Juneau. Picked on Qualifications “Mr. Smith was selected for the % ,,y cause of his familiarity with all phases of the Forest Service's work, not only in Alaska, but in the |States as well, and on the fine record he has made during his connection with ' this organization which extends -over a: period of one-fifth of a century,” M. L. Mer+, ritt, Assistant. Regional Forester sald today. “In 1911, he entered. the Service on the Deschutes For- est in Oregon and for eight years remained in the State in various capacities. I have known him per- sonally during the entire period and wherever he has been sent he {has made good in all capacities. | “He is entirely familiar with the 'types of service - required - of -the Prince Willlam Sound position be-|; ‘ mderAmst l in New York g @&an Rewltl “on Criminals g |ABDUCTS TWO SONS, STEALS PLANE, FLIES PARKS VISITED BY HIS FORMER —WARTIME CHIEF Memories ofiining'(:amn Days Revived by Visit | of Gen. Holbrook Mémories of tfaining camp days during the World War were revived for Gov. George A. Parks yesterday when Maj. Gen. Willard Ames Holbrook, U. S. A. Retired, paid Lim a, visif while the steamer Yu- kon. was in port. The. General was Commanding General of the Ninth Division of the National Army at Camp Sheridan, Alabama, and Gov. Parks was attached to the same division as Gas Instruc- tion Officer with rank as Cap- Method in Murder- - ous Scheme BISHOP, Cal., ing his two children, two boys aged 5 and 8 years, from his estranged sife, Henry Billingsly, a painter, yesterday fled to an alrport, stole an airplane, which which he had cnly a limited experience, and flew away, announcing that he intended to wreck the ship and kill his chil- dren and himself. Billingsly headed toward Nevada. Mrs. Billingsley said her husband came to her home, seized the chil- Holbrook remarked yesterday. And the Governor, whose recollections of military service probably have been softened by the passing years, assured him he hadn't been. Gen. Holbrook’s military career started back in 1885 when he grad- uated from West Point and was commissioned a second Lieutenant of cavalry. It ended with retirement 11 1924 at which time he had at-| tained -the rank of Major General and was Chief of the Cavalry sec- tion of the Army. In the interim he had seen service in the War PLANE IS FOUND LONE PINE, Cal, Aug. 25.—The plane in which A Henry Billingsly abducted his two small sons, threat- ering to kill them and himself, was found undamaged on the bed of a dry lake, four miles from here. Billingsly and the two boys were not seen and it is believed they went in the direction of Los An- tgeles. plane showed the method of es- cape. He is complating a tour of Alas- ka that took him to Fairbanks and back. He is seventy-one years of without a mishap. The plane has been taken back to Bishop. age and still going strong. He|at the scene of the landing by pre- msekes his home in Washington, | arrangement. D, C. PR BEZ FAMILY LEAVES ON i P P A} ES | . ALAMEDA FOR CANNERY | WHO'S WHO i | AND WHERE | Mr. and Mrs. Nick Bez and their | .q. 3 . daughter, who visited here yester- | day, left this morning on the| steamer Alameda for Todd, where Mr. Bez is general manag:cr of the . & g fy o e Miss Donniz Taylor, teacher in Peril Strait Packing Company’s sslmon cannery. They will go south | {he Juneau Public Schools, has re- ou the steamer Northwestern next! s aek. |short vacation to the States. Mr, Bez reported work progress- A. Van Mayern, local broker, left |ing satisfactorily on the Alaska f";;gg‘iw}fy;b;‘z‘;‘je“;fh?‘}‘;es"been | Chichagot’s property on Chichagof 5 June]'\ulse\l/eral A e Island where a shaft is being driv- g A sl ok pth en on a new ore body. The vein is":f’;g"r o I SO 0 widening with depth and indica- |F¥incess Louise. tions look favorable for the devel- John Stenbraten left on the Ala- meda for a trip “to interior mining property, going via Skagway. SURSIPPY Bom%s "Are Thrown at Resi- Scores of Suspicious Char- dence of Prominent acters Are Arrested in | Leg;slalor | First Roundup HAVANA, c\m,q, Aug. 25.—De-' NEW YORK, Alig, 25. — Scores tention -of four leading figures in have been arrested as a drive the Cuban feminist .movement in started against crimeé by the police the hombing of a Representative’s in a roundup of suspicious char- home ‘marked. Cuba’s waning.revo- acters. . . lution. | Twenty thousand persons crowd- The arrested women are Mrs. éd Madison Square Garden in an Pllar Jorge de Telie, Reyes, Miss Ana Juintana and Miss| Prohibition and crooked politics Leonora Fereira. ,were blamed by the speakers for ‘“The police are searching for four the gang outbreak. more ' prominent Cuban women. | Police cars are to be equipped Two bombs were thrown at the with radio and there will be no residence of Dr. Felipe Gonzelez | vacations for policemen. On> of the bombs caused some| Hundreds of clerical workers last damage. night went on duty either in ‘squad cars or on foot. —— .- — ‘I knows the problems and has suc-i cessfully met most of them. We w0ULn P—LANT Has Same Authority In Cordova, Mr. Smith will have| William Sound, the Katalla district a call for a special session of the and Afognak Islands. | State Legislature to consider pass-| work up.to now,” Mr. Merritt said. Steriing ,of Texas, challenged Lou- “In Oregon from 1911 to 1919, at isiana to act first in the prohibit- |héive no hesitancy in sending him to Cordova to replace an efficient authority in dealing with local tim- cnm"c YEAR ber sales and special land uses as “We' are confident Mr. Smith age of a statute prohibiting plant- will ‘be. as successful in his new ing of cotfon in 1932, Craig, Ki kan and Juneau since ‘M of cotton planting. then, he has made friends for, Forest officer as Supervisor Mc-| Donaid,” Mr. Merritt added. was vested in Supervisor McDonald. BATON ROUGE Loulsdann. ‘Aug. He Will be in charge of all Prince 25.—Gov. Huey: P. Long has fssued) shflqn with its ‘increased responsi-; The call for the special session bilities as he has been in his was - issued after Gov. Ross D. fihnul.l and for the Forest Service anization as a whole by his fair, ngs ‘with whom foné’.?“w“’n&'"““ prowsie e w0 §PIREPLACES SRS xegretmc? B i HEMLOCK here the new position gives him a' wider field, an opportunity for), ea‘a&er setvice which undoubtedly |, benem not only him, but the public and the Forest Service as well,” He added. ‘The transfer of Mr. Smith is one of the steps taken by Regional ter Flory toward re-alignment “the Forestry personal in the || entire district with the object of | wOOD Telephone 92°or 95 and leave your order with GEORGE BROTHERS increasing ‘efficiency and promoting || M-so per Load more direct contacts with- the gen- 3 eral public. Under it, Ranger Chester Barneson Oharles Burdick was recently mov- Miss Perez anti-crime mass meeting. }_ cpment of a workable gold. quartz | deposit, he said. Mr. and Mrys. Bez were accom- panied here by Mrs. Louis Dawson, whose husband is bookkeeper at | the Todd plant. | B ( LISBON—Missing since Saturday enroute from. Berlin, Rody and Johannsen are here ready to at- tempt a nonstop-flight -across the | Atlantic to New York. They popped out of the fog and landed here. W alk-Over Shoes We are the exclusive agents New Shipment Just Received PHONE 487 MARKOE STUDIO Photographs of Quality We also carry Kozy Komfort and Snuggler, House Portraiture, Photo ~Finish- Slippers ing, Cameras, Alaska Views, in felt and leather Ete. SABIN’S First National Bank Bldg. JUNEAU, ALASEA e California I\E "Uses New Aug.. 25—Abduct- with Spain, in Cuba, in the Phil-| Billingsly had never landed a ippine Insurrection and the World |plane before and the feat is ‘con- War. sidered remarkable: He landed; It is believed an automobile was| tain. dren and forcibly took them away. “I hope T wasn't too hard on youdAs he drove away he shouted he|s youngsters in those days,” Gen |intended to kill them and himself. Automobile tracks from near the, FLOOD VICTIMS WILL BE AIDED BY- GOVERNMENT C h inese Offic:als Make Plans for Immediate Assistance SHANGHAI, Aug. 25—The Gov- ernment has taken a move to ald tens of millions of flool victims in Central China, Officials said the Government is contemplating . eash” purchase of foodstuffs in addition .to credit purchases of about $10,000,000 :n gold. It is declared the Government must assume responsibility for abouy 60,000,000 persons. The sum to be expended at first, it is pointed out, will hardly be fficient to furnish the bare ne- cessities of life for the flood vic- tims. ———— FISH RECEIPTS The following. salmon fares were received by the Juneau Cold Stor- age yesterday: Fremont, Capt. Olaf Winther, 16,- 000 pounds; Sadie, Capt. Sandy Stevens, 2,300 pounds; Elfin, Capt. E. O. Swanson, 11,000 pounds; T- 3380, Capt. John Pademeister, 2,000 pounds, e H. B. Crewson, Schilling's rep- resentative, is” making the trip to Skagway and Sitka aboard the steamer Queen. HOLLYWOOD STYLE SHOP 1 NEW GAGE HATS Featuring the very latest in Empress Eugenie and Der- by styles. In all the latest fall shades. Moderately ‘Priced | NEW FALL Merchandise Arriving on ol Every Boat H. S. Graves The Clothing Man your Beauty ‘Aids. ed here from Sitka. R. A! Zeller, Supervisor of Tongass Forest was to have been transferred from Ket- ehikan here but' has accepted a new assignment in the States. 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