The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 31, 1931, Page 3

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A complete line .of both awaits your in- spection. —gt— 7|l southbound from Skagway, with the {NORTHWESTERN FISH AND GAME CLUB TO MEET THIS EVENING of Bird Hunting The Alaska Fish and Game Club, Juneau’s organization of fishing and hunting enthusiasts, was today making plans to voice a vigorous pretest to Washington against cur- tailment of the Alaska hunting sea- son on migratory wild fowl. Far from discouraged over the failure of the Chamber of Commerce here to obtain consideration of local requests for modification of the Presidential order limiting hunting to the month of September, the Club will probably work through other sources. It will meet at the Chambers in City Hall at 7:30 p.m. today to discuss the situation and ways and means of obtaining a modifcation for the entire Ter- ritory, said President Grover C. Winn. “We ought to give the Chamber of Commerce our support and make every effort to present Alaska’s case to the authorities in such manner as will convince them of the unfairness of curtail- ment here,” he declared. Last week the Chamber of Com- merce was informed by Delegate Wickersham that President Hoover was “sfanding pat” and insisted that the people all over the coun- try should co-operate to make thz restricton effective. Telegrams sent by the Chamber to Senators Fred- erick Walcott and Peter Norbeck of the Senate Commitiee on Wild Life Conservation, and Paul G. Reding- ton, Chief of the United States Biological Survey, asking for their intervention had not been answered late today. ROBBERS STEAL SAFE BUT MISS MONEY INSIDE Break Into Sitka Store,| Take Safe, But Cannot Break It Open Robbers Sunday night forced an |entrance into a Sitka store, stole |an office safe containing some |$3,000 in cash and an unknown amount in signed checks and haul- ed it away. But they had their | Council {work for their trouble, nothing | else. | The safe was recovered about noon today by United States De- puty Marshal William Schnabel after several hours search. It was found in the brush near the town. ‘The robbers were apparently ill- equipped to open the safe. Possibly ia sledge hammer was their sole de- vice, as their onslaught resulted in but two broken hinges. The door still held and they abandoned it without getting inside. When it was taken back to the store, owned and operated by Ed Harris, it was readily opened and all of its contents found to be unmolested. IS SOUTH TODAY The Northwestern: arrived in Ju- neau at 9:30 o'clock this morning, following passengers from Skag- way: Warren R. Fenn, Mrs. Thomas Reed, Miss V. Pugh, J. A, Handra- han, Joe Seymour, Al Seymour, George Baum, H. M. Fraser. From Haines — A. L. Dunham, James Young. Sailing for Seattle and wayports at 12:30 o'clock the Northwestern took the following passengers from Juheau: For Sitka — Eva Seivers, Clara Seivers, Herbert Willard, Willlam ‘Wanamaker, Frank Lee. For Tenakee—Helen Alexander, Bart Kirby, Mrs. H. F. Alexander, | Dorothy Alexander, | For Petersburg Rudolph. For Seattle—Harold Sisson, Mrs. Fred D. Rangard, Fred Rangard, Jean Rangard, Mrs. I. F. McClure, Tom Lukor. This “is the last trip the North- western is making to Alaska until next December. CAMPOLO MEETS SCHAAF TONIGHT NEW YORK, Aug. 31. — Both Campolo and Schaaf are slightly lighter than last week. They weighed in this afternoon for the fight which was postponed from last week because of the weather, until tonight. Campolo weighed 225 pounds and Schaaf 205 pounds. - e~ NEW TEACHER FOR JUNEAU Mrs. R. R. Miss Ruby Apland arrived here last Saturday night on the steamer Northwestern to take up her duties as teacher in the Juneau Public Schools. She is from Bismarck, North Dakota. I ‘ . THE Contract Bridge War Has Its Horatio E. V. Shepard, Who Defended Game Against the Confusion Ca}ls_ed bv Di- versity of Systems, Wins Experts’ Agreement on “Official Game” He Tested for More Than a Year. NEW YORK.—A new Horatio has arisen from the war which has brought order out of the conflict of ideas on how to play contract bridge. E. V. Shepard proved himself a true defender of bridge for the average player, by winning an aEreement from the leading au- thorities to adopt a standard sys- tem of bidding conventions, to be known as “The Official Game of Contract Bridge.” Only one national bridge au- thority refused to join the move- ment to make contract bridge a game for the average player as well as the expert. Noted bridge players like Milton C. Work, the late Wilbur White- head, Shepard Barclay, George Reith, R. R. Richards and Sidney Lenz all agreed to drop their pet ideas “for the good of the game.” Shepard’s remarkable victory —for it required diplomagy and inrefutable facts to win over the other experts—is the result of more than twenty years’ scientific study of the game. For more than a year before the great bridge con- troversy was settled, he used “The Official Game” in teaching at his bridge college here, the only insti- tution of its kind in the world. “The chief difference between the new game and the old is that the new game restores to bids of one, two or three of a suit their true significance,” says Shepard, E. V. Shepard, one of the four rec- ognized leaders of Contract Bridge play, shown above with some of the students on whom he tested and perfected the system of bid- ding adopted by all but one of the country’s experts as “The Official Game.” whom Sidney Lenz regards as the player best informed on the new game, “The forcing bid of two—an artificial convention at ‘best—is eliminated, and true value bids re- stored.” The confusion of systems in con- tract bridge developed through the necessity for experts “explaining” the new game to their followers, before they had had a chance to reach agreement among themselves as to the best methods of biddin and playing. Fach man develope: his own system, basically the same and good enough for the expert, DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 1931. F but - confusing to the average -| player. “An expert’s card sense and ex- perience enable him to avoid the defects in his own or his partner's system of bidding,” Shepard ex- plains. “But it was absolutely es- sential to standardize the system if contract was to become as popular as its merits justify.” Shepard, who now is almost a “dictator” of the game, rose to the heights from being one of the worst of dubs. He took up bridge as an avocation when he retired from the engineering profession more than twenty years ago. “I joined the Knickerbocker Whist Club, and took my beatings go regularly that I decided to find out what made the game go for others,” he reminisces. “After spending more than two years figuring out the mathematics of the game—the distribution of cards, the percentages for and against certain plays—I wasn't any better off than before. “Then 1 discovered that there were more than 150 important plays in bridge, and set out to mas- ter them. It wasn’t long until I was recognized as one of the best players in the club.” Aided by his wife, who also is a noted bridge player and teacher, Shepard founded the bridge col- lege, where he has worked out th principles of “The Official Game.” More than 10,000 persons take les- sons from him and his wife every year. HOLLYWOOD TOPICS By Robbin Coons HOLLYWOOD—Jimmy Durante of the goofy stage and night club team of Clayton, Jackson and Du- rante is a Broadway mole exposed to California sunshine, in large quantities, and he likes it. For 18 winters Durante (he pro- nounces the final e) and his team- mates have lived by night, in the lowly cabarets in which they made their start, later in big time shows followed by all night' appearances in the biggest night clubs. And mole suddenly trans- planted into beaming sunshine couldn’t be mare out of his element | than was Jimmy during the first days of studio work here. Add to that his confusion over| movie technical terms, and you have a minor comedy entitled “Du- rante in Hollywood, or A free Show | from Broadway.” { Durante supports William Haines | in his new “Wallingford” picture | a woes studio attendant work to initiation “Wnen the call comes for speed, I think they mean for me to hurray up,so I dash through my lines fast as I can. Then I find out they mean for the cameras to get going. “Once when the marker boy claps his hands I think he's calling for me, so I walksoff theset and goes over to him. And 1 come back ard find I've spoiled the scéne. He was only getting things started, or something, and didn't want me at all. Funny thing,” he went on rem- i ently, “they aren't putting me; in any of the pretty sets around | here. “Every time they have a fine| hotel or ballroom scene I get ready to do my stuff, but Sam Wood—he's the director—steps up and clamps| my spirits down with the word that I just wait outside.” l i Valuable Nose It's true that in such a set Jimmy could serve only as effective con- tast, but his singular lack of beauty has proved a strong asset | in his career. | Variously known as “Schnozzle” and “Cyrano’—nicknames amply Jackson, who came with him, plays |explained by one view of his bul- golf, and, I suppose, kibitzes, an'li Clayton is to follow shortly. Ther a chance the three of them ma do a feature together, No “Ups” Durante is famous on Broadway | as the originator of the “So I upsto him” expression, but not once did| he use it in telling of his Hollywood | | springs bous, elongated nose — Durante | from the same madhouse school of wit as produced the Marx brothers, inexplainable lunatics of stage and screen —————— N. A. McEachran, representative of Schwabacher Brothers, of Seat-| tle, left on the Northwestern to call on the trade. 1 i} | U,S.TOBUILD 6 DESTROYERS Construction of at Least Two Will Be On Pacific Coast MARE ISLAND, Cal, Aug. 31.— Five navy yards, including Mare Island and Bremerton, are said to be in line for new tracts. None of the navy yards, however, will be given more than one of the destroy: Three At- lantic yards will be given three jobs. Contracts for the remaining six destroyers to be added to the fleet jn 1933 will be awarded to private shipbuilding. (GONSTITUTION AT NEW YORK NEW YORK, Aug. 81.—The Fri- gate Constitution, more than a century old, entered the Hudson | River last Saturday afternoon. More than 72 policemen were sent to the Battery to preserve order and found the place almost deserted. P (T Henry Robertson, Oklahoma am- ateur golf champion, considers knickers a jinx. They brought him bad luck once, and he has worn trousers ever since. o Texas Nauo:? orders of Gov. _Wonu! reading the martial law proclamation, TROOPS MARCH INTO TEXAS FIELDS TO CLOSE WELLS ? b 3 g Is Guardsmen starting to make camp on the S. 8. Laird farm near Kilg s Sterling in shutting down oil wells to curtail production. Inset Associated Press Photo ore to carry out of Gen. Jacob Fy destroyer con- | lw teach school, FLOOD DENIES WAGES CUT ON CAPITOLWORK {Says Complant that Paint- ers Are Underpaid Is Entirely Unfounded Charges that the painters em- ployed at the Capitol are being paid less than the going wage scale for similar work were emphatically denied here today by F. Flood, Superintendent in charge of the {work, who stressed the faet that practically every workman on the job was employed locally and that none of them have joined in the complaint which was reported to have been filed here last week. “We are paying from $7 to $10 per day to our painters, each ac- cording to his ability, and to our laborers who are not concerned with painting we pay $3.50," Mr. Flood asserted. The complaint made here last weck alleged the contractor was paying $6 for paint- ers and $3 for helpers. Mr. Flood said he had no men on his payroll at that figure. Sev- en dollars is the lowest paid any painter and $10 to the highest. And only one of the painting crew, he added, was not employed locally. Laborers are also local help. “The. scale of wages paid for laborers by the Government to men employed in the Capitol is $3.33 per day. We pay $3.50," he asserted. “It is our policy to give prefer- ence to local workmen and we have carried it out here. However, if we cannot do so satisfactorily, I am authorized by our Denver head- quarters to make other arrange- ments, and, if necessary, to lay off the labor we have here and replace it from our regular crews in the States. I do not desire to do this, nor do T believe it will be necesscary. Our local crew is ap- parently, well satisfied with the wage scale we are using and I am sure the criticism, which was not founded on fact, must come, at {least in part, from two or three |men whom we originally employed but were forced to discharge owing to unsatisfactory work,” Mr. Flood said. GRAF ZEPPELIN OFF T BRAZIL {Huge Airship Is Reported from Two Places in Atlantic FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, Aug. 31—The Graf Zeppelin took off at 9:36 o'clock last Saturday fon a nonstop flight to Permam- | buco. A radio said the Graf passed over the Canary Islands today en- route to Brazil. The weather is |reported fair and all is well aboard the craft. The Graf was later sighted over the Cape Verde Islands. SEATTLE MAN REFUSED BAIL SEATTLE, Aug. 3l.—Superior Judge Otis Brinker has denied the application of Harry Loy, charged with the alleged murder of Louis Todd, brother of Hugh Todd, prom- inent Democrat, for release on bail. Loy will be tried September 321. He said Todd tried to break up his home. A.P.DENNIS 1S SUICIDE Member of Federal Tariff Commission Takes His Own Life BAILEY ISLAND, Maine, Aug. 31.—Alfred P. Dennis, member of the United States Tariff Commis- sion ,committed suicide last Satur- day in Sacco Bay. Members of Dennis’ family said he was despondent because of ill- health. Dennis was 62 years of age. He was appointed by Calvin Coolidge, when President, to the Tariff Com- mission, in 1925, and two months later he became Vice-Chairman of the Commission. * | | Mercy Plane Alaska Missionary Reaches Seattle Northbound SEATTLE, Aug. 31. — Brother George Feltes, Jesuit, has arrived in the mercy plane Alaska Mis- sionary. He flew from Alameda, California, yestérday and will re- main here czveral days before his departure for Holy Cross, Alaska. - eee TEACHER FOR TENAKEE Miss Bessle Rowe, of Newport, Oregon, arrived in Juneau on the Northwestern, enroute to 'reflpku N RIVER LIFE IS SEEN IN ‘WAY OF ALL MEN' Mississippi Is Background for Drama at the Coliseum “Lightnin’,” the delightful com- edy-drama of the Novada divorce courts, will be shown for che last time at the Coliseum tonight, with Will Rogers playing the fitle part. Actual shots of divorce famous Reno are a feature of “Lightnin’” Included in these scenes is the court house and the court room where upwards of 2,000 divorces are granted ,annually by Judges Bart lett and Moran. Appearing in support of Rogers is a cast that includes such notables as Loulse Dresser, Joel McCrea, Helen Co- han, Sharon Lynn, J. M. Kerrigan, Jason Robards, Luke Cosgrave, Frank Campeau, Charlotte Walker, Ruth “Warren, Joyce Compton and Rex Bell. “Way of All Men"” “Way of All Men" will be featur- ed at the Coliseum Tuecsday ‘Wednesday. The story is laid in Cottonia, a middle-sized Southern cotton town. Located on the Mississippi, pro- tected by levees, most of its busi- ness and interest is tied cotton shipping. Billy Bear is a typical Southern youngster, ' lovable, good hearted, but forgetful, For five years he had worked in a stock broker’s office, but was suddenly fired be- cause of his lack of interest. He conceived an idea of how fo “get it back™ at his late employer and get himself a million at the same time. - — Reciprocity Adds 25 Cents Here To Cost of Coal When “Reciprocity with Canada” was put forward by the Administration of President Willlam Howard Taft, it was designed to low- er costs on commerce be- tween the United States and its great northern neighbor. In these days of the Hawley- Smoot Tariff and Canada’s new nationalism under Pre- mier Bennett's Conservative regime, it has taken on a different garb. This was concretely illus- trated in Juneau today. The latest Canadian tariff sched- . ules - slapped a 25 cent per ton duty on American coals. The United States tomorrow puts reciprocity into oper- ation—by putting the same duty on Canadian coals com- ing into the United States. And this sum is passed along to the consumer. “Our margin of profit on the Canadian coals we carry is too small for us to ab- sorb the duty .All we can do is to add it onto the re- tail price,” said G. H. Walm- sley, local agent of the Pa- cific Coast Coal Company. ees0vcc00 00 R e0e08esessccetescsensessece Old papers at the £mplre office oo e 183 TAXI STAND AT PIONEER POOL ROOM Day and Night Service e { o) | John Golden’s mns!orpxecs‘,} and up in} COLISEUM LAST TIMES TONIGHT DON'T MISS | | { | You'can lead a woman to the altar, but she’ll find her own way to Reno TOMORROW “THE WAY OF ALL MEN” [P Tell Us Your ELECTRICAL TROUBLES Repairing / | Contracting Agency Westinghouse Products Capital Electric Co. Second at Seward HOLLYWOOD STYLE SHOP PHONE 487 MARKOE STUDIO Photographs of Quality Portraiture, Photo PFinish- ing, Cameras, Alaska Views, Ete, First National Bank Bldg. LUDWIG NELSON | | JEWELER ‘Watch Repairing Brunswick Agency FRONT STREET ‘hTh ——— WHERE? 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