The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 15, 1931, Page 2

shioned Beautifully Fe WINTER COATS with Rich Fur Trimming These are Winter's Dress-Up Coats for o » vou want to Fabrics are vica and warm. Each coat re- flecting some differ- } ence thai makes them and attractive ap- pealing. Be sure to see the newer coats, and their low prices. $17.50 TO $59.75 B. M. BEHRENDS CO., Inc. Juneaw's Leading Department Store 1 SIX DEAD AFTER RUNMNING BATTLE A 7 i Avincrated Prosy Photo tright, a threc year i in a running Lows bandits' , who had partici- Three gunmen and two police old girl was fatally wounder an: fight in New York's residential taxi riddled with bullets after the thr pated in a $4000 daylight robbery, had b OIL TERMED IRRITANT FOR WORLD | WHOSE MACHINERY IT LUBRICAT LONDON, Sept: 15—O0il, an in- dustrial lubricant but an inte tional irritant, is th of petroleun tional trade LD Association in other day. mmodity is as valu- old, no other commod- ernational jealousies 7 like the same extent. inclined to say mstitute a serious cause of peace, and uld almost constitute calamity, if an- field should be dis- the same potentiali- wse of the Iraq. fields . arrangement is the allotment of discovered oil fields : interests on a rnational com- with extreme Middle E London the | | BLACK CAT _ | CANDY SHOPPE I suggest HENRY L. BAHRT, Prop. v Dinher from 5:30 to 7 p.m. to th ) y agreement e powers event of scovered ion shall auspices of in such tions may portion modity.” 3 ha' of | To build a business you must |first build big men American * | Magazine, - | nearly resulted in his death. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, SEPT. 15, 1931. SELF-RULE IS DEMANDED FOR INDIA PEOPLE {Mahatma Giainld hi Places Complete Proposals Before Conference |OTHER CONDITIONS ARE MADE KNOWN [Round Table Delegates Sit in Silence as Plans Are Unfolded LONDON, Sept. 15. — Mahatma |Gandhi has presented to the In- dian Round Table Conference de- mands for complete self-govern- ment for India and the granting of all other conditions enumerated |in the Karachi mandate .given to |him by the Nationalists qf Indla. | Gandhi said India was willing to iwmain a .partner of the British |Empire but that partnership must |be such that it may be terminated at will by either party. | When the proposal was made by Gandhi, the remainder of the dele- |gates at the Conference sat in silence. REAR ADMIRAL IS GIVEN RIS LASTCOMMAND F. J. Higginson, Who Wt.| nessed Evolution of U. S. Navy, Is Dead (Centinued from Page One) tinguished New England family. As a youth he frequently heard t stirring appeals against slavery cred by his celebrated uncle, Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Starts Carcer at 14 He began his naval career at the age of 14. Graduating from An- polis four years later, he was ned to the West Gulf Block- g Squadron and immediately plunged into the Civil War. He was detailed to the Colorado, and s after joining the ship was out on an expedition that was with the row-boat expe- n sent to burn the Confeder- steamer Judah ' in Pensacola ate harbor in 1861. Higginson was one jof the first to climb aboard the |enemy's ship. Fighting hand to |hand with the steamer’s crew he fell with a serious wound that threatened his life for many weeks. Wins Citation | Though young in years many cxacting responsibilities fell to |young Higginson. He was given command of a fleet of launches to | patrol Norris Island, and won com- mendation from the commander of the army forces, General Gilmore. | During the blockade of Charles- | ton, Higginson was executive officer | of the Housatonic. One dark night | the Confederate submarine torpedo | boat, H. L. Hunley, slipped from shore and ran a torpedo under the ship. The explosion sent her to | the bottom like a stone. She sank | so quickly that Higginson on. watch | below decks, and the crew ‘scarcely had time to clamber into the rig- | ging which' remained above water. | There they clung until . rescued many hours later. Evolution of Navy ‘ During the following 30 years Ad- miral Higginson witnessed the cvo- lution of the American navy from a fleet of wooden sailing vessels several fleets of steel battle- ships propelled by steam. At the cutbreak of the Spanish-American War, he had risen to the rank of Captain and commanded the Mas- sachusetts. At - the blockade of {Santiago it was his duty fo keep a searchlight turned upon the har- AMER, LEGION - GETS WARNING, BELIEF PLANS James Hatbord Tells Or- ganization to Slow | Down on Bonus MANUFACTURE OF BEER BEING URGED Federation .of Labor Offi- cial Gives Tip for More Employment WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 15—~ | Relief plans of the American Le- glon's Employment Conference here were interrupted by a warning giv- en by James Harbord, Chairman pf the Board of the Radio Cor- poration and former Chief of Staff of the American Expeditionary | Torees. Harbord warned that bonus de- mands should be slowed down. i “You can't go to the American Leglon National Convention in De- | troit next week with a program of relief in ofie hand and a tin cup in the other and expect to get gnywhere,” said Harbord. Harbord demanded that the Am- | erican Legion take care of its own 750,000 unemployed. One relief plan propesed to tho American Legion Employment Con- ference here was legalization of beer. This plan was proposed by M. J. McDonough, President of the | Building Trades Department of the Federation of Labor. McDonough | sald the manufacture of beer would | result in the speedy employment of 1,250,000 men. . —————— : LUGAS PLEASED WITH AFFAIRS INCOAST CITIES Territorial Bank Examiner! Returns from West- | ward, Southeast Condltions generally in the coast citles of Westward and Southeact | Alaska are making good progres in the opinion of H. I. Lucas, Ter ritorial bank examiner, who re- turned to Juneau this week from | an official trip that teok him as far Westward as Anchorage and! as far South as Ketchikan. “It was -my first trip to the; Westward,” he declared. “Develop- | ment surprised me. I made many | delightful acquaintances. I enjoyed | visits of several days each in An-| chorage and Seward. While the| steamship called at Valdez and Cordova I took advantage of the opportunity to see those places. | “In Soptheast Alaska, I was at! Hyder, Ketchikan, Wrangell and| Petersburg. 1 had been in all of | them severdl times previously. Bus- iness and industrial conditions throughout Southeast Alaska im- pressed me favorably. All the com- munities are enterprising, and for- tunately situated with respect to naturdl advantages.” | Mr. Lucas was away from Juncau six weeks, On his trip to Southeast Alaska cities he was accompanied | by Mrs. Lucas. i Mg Al Australians Except One Face Income Cuts i CANBERRA, ‘Sept.” 15—The onlyi man’ in Australia whese slary would not be reduced under the| government economy scheme is the governor general, Sir Isaac Isaacs. | He gets$50,000 a year but took | office <1880 .under an: economy | | | | bor’s exlt to prevent, the escape of the Spanish fleet. When the Riena Mercedes appered thére oné night, Higginson- turned loose: the guns of the Massachusetts ahd ‘dided by the Texas, sent her to the bottom. His gallantry during the war earn- ed him advancement of thréee mem- | bers in rank and a title of Commo- dore for ‘“Conspicuous service in | battle.” The tille of Read Admiral came seven months later. His last command Wwas the entire | North American Fleet. After re- tirement he lived in Ulster County, New York, the native state 6f his wife, Grace Glenwood Haldane, whom he married in 1878, CHARM OF JUNEA! LURES SEATTLE GIRL Charmed by the delightful cool summer weather and: the: baautiful nery of Southeast Alaska, Miss Aileen Barton of Seattle prolonged to two months a visit that was originally planned to last only two weeks. The young K woman came this city her headquarters,during her sojourn taking beat, trips to nearby places. “I regret my vacation. is.over; |turn North next summer,” she said lon the steamship Alaskg yesterday | while awditing the vessel's depar- ture for Seattle, to Juneau early in July. She made | my consolation is that I.shall re-} i i . The ;hvmm proposes that ody~ in * the commonwealth | ‘Sonie e in an effort to | rehabilitate., Australia. Qvil. W -people and all wage éarners Wollld recéive lower pay,| business m;q:d eapitalists would | pay -highfir .texes and holders of 8OV ponds would accept lower. intéreSt rates under the plans, ————t Night Pdys Its First Fall Visit Jack Frost last night paid his first official visit to Ju- neau ‘and its environs, ac- cordiig to Weather Man R. c. The executioner of summer, however, dealt gently with the lawns, gar- dens and other greenery, as his hand fell but lightly in this vicinity. ‘The lowest temperature re- corded ‘was 39 degrees above zero, .0r seven above freez- g, The frdst' was not not- iceable on the higher levels ee00e®s0caccoesvoe Ltheir arrest fol: violation of Japanese aviation laws. fined $1,025 apiece, for flying over Japanese territory without a per- mit ‘and taking pictures, unwittingly, of fortifieations, the men were depressed at the bad luck which had trailed them around tha warld U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRIOULTURE, WEATHER RUREAU The W eatier (By the U. S. Weather Bureszj Forecast for Junean and vicinity, bcginning at 4 p.m. Sept. 15: Fair tonight, Wednesday cloudy; gentle, variable winds. RIATD | FounD! LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Bumidity Wind Veioclty ~Weather | 4 pm. yest'y 30.04 60 8 NwW [ Clear 4 am. today 3005 40 72 NW 2 Clear | 12 noon today 30.02 55 31 E 4 Clear| wABLE AND RADIO REPORTS YESTERDAY | ___TODAY i Highest 4pm. | Lowest4am. 4am. Precip. 4am. Station— temn. temp. | emp. temp. velocity 24 hrs Weathes | Barrow 28 28 28 32 10 Trace Cldy. | Nome 46 44 2 42 12 02 Cldy. | Bethel 50 52 42 42 5 0 cidy. Fort Yukon 45 45 40 42 4 02 Cldy. Tanana 46 45 42 42 0 54 Cldy. Tairbanks 48 46 42 a2 4 20 Rain’| Eagle 50 48 36 44 12 .01 cldy. { 8t. Paul 50 50 ) 16 0 Cldy Dutch Harbor 52 52 48 48 14 0 Kodiak 58 56 46 48 0 0 Cordova 64 62 i3 i3 0 Juncau 61 60 39 4 2 0 5 ta S Sl o A comfortable pleasant place to obtain all 62 60 40 42 0 your Beauty Aids. 60 60 44 44 0 0 ! Bob g o el 1921 GRADUATE OF COSMETOLOGY o 6 % s88 iLE AND HAIRDRESSING 68 62 58 60 * 0 *—Less than 10 miles. I have made a thorough study of hair and will cheerfully tell you the kind of Permanent is falling throug cept in the Southeast. J t n the Aleutian Is al in the Interior, Wave best suited to your type of hair. and highest between Soutl awail, Showers have!| z 4 fallen in the Hnterior and Coast. Clear weather Consultation Free Phone for Appointment rd. om the Gulf of Alaska southe: t night near the Gulf of Alaska a S Ve A ;h R 1‘ The American trans-Atlantic fliers, Clyde Pangborn and Hugh don, Jr., were not what might be safely termed jfibihnf asHet;ri‘s in a Tokio hotel following Detained and picture was taken of them in their “cell” REBEKAHS CARD PARTY WOMAN'S CLUB TO MEET Th2 The first of a series of four| card parties will be given Wednes- | son Tuesday, Sept. 15, at 8 Temperatures wers are mild in the Inter- Juneau Woman's Club w held the first meeting of the se: American Beauty Parlors ALSIE J. WILSON Valentine Bldg. e e s——een. e e A} T L L L L L et Popular Coals F.0.B. 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