The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 19, 1931, Page 2

EXCELLENT VALUES IN Blue Chinchilla COATS (3!}“,])“[{\'5 FLANNEL I,IN]'}D BLUE CHINCHILLA COATS 3.4,5,6 Special Price, $4.95 Sizes 2, BOYS’ BLUE CHINCHILLA COATS Sizes 6 to 9 Price, $6:75 GIRLS’ FLANNEL LINED BLLUE CHINCHILLA COA'l Sizes 7 to 12 Special, $Z:5() MEN’S BLUE CHINCHILLA OVERCOATS Sizes 34 to 44 51975 e BLUE CHINCHILLA TAMS, BERETS and HELMET CAPS ‘ FOR CHILDREN Special, $1.00 B. M. BEHRENDS CO., Inc. Juneauw’s Leading Department Store e S cupied by Mr. and Mrs. Stephen | Stanworth; ewners of the building: The damage was about $100; no urance, ANDORA COMES TO REPLENISH SUPPLIES To replenish supplies the yacht| Pandora, having aboard Capt. Adel- bert Zuckschwerdt of Berlin and , W. C. Maeser of Seattle, big game | hunters, put into Juneau today. ‘,Sho will remain until tomorrow | morning. Tha craft was here last Thurs-| day and since then has cruised | long the shores of Admiralty| IIslsmd. the sportsmen landing sev-| eral times to hunt bear. They fail- ed to get any animals. Capt. Zuckschwerdt was master | of the Cormorant, German sea raid- er, in th: World War. The Pandora was formerly the United States submarine chaser| 294, built at the Puget Sound Navy vard in 1917. She is 1044 feet| “T0 FIGHT BLAZE IN TRADE AREA Cuftain and Wall Blaze in' Archway Building Is Speedily Extinguished Quick werk by the Pyre Depart- | ment. Sunday forenoon put oul flames that if they had been giv-| en slight opportunity might hav developed into a destructive blaz> in the business district. Curtains in one of the living rooms on the second floor of the| Archway Building on Front Stre near Triangle Place, caught fi and the flames quickly mad: the:r‘ way between the innmer and outer| | men |and THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, OCT. 19, 1931. World ITor He Found One lackinig all that is now called “modern.” His genius transfcrmed the cially practicable. and Left Another . ‘Thomas Alva Edison found a world like that in the upper picturces, lighted with kercsenie lamps and THREE INJURED' IN AUTO WRECK * CAUSED BY COW |Three Have Narrow Escape when Cow Wrecks Two | Cars at Switzer's (Continuea from Page One) trayeling at about 45 miles an yhour. Heavy clouds and rain and i izh wind made visibility poor. y a cow moved into the |rcad directly in the path of Cleva- land's machine. He had no time | to check his speed and no chance |to swerve around the animal. | The Elder Geddes, who was { watching the car ahead, said it seemed to rise on its rear wheels |and then the car in which he was riding was on it. Warren tried fo slow down and swerved his car, for- :gemng he was on the high em- | bankment. | The Geddes car grazed the rear lend of Cleveland's then went 'whirling into space. Mrs. Geddes | apparently attempted to jump from | the moving machine before it left the highway. The pocket of her coat caught on the door and she {was dragged with' it down the embankment and as it turned over land settled down in'thé mud and water she was hurled béneath it. Mre. Geddes Under Car * Mr. Geddes was thrown to the * 34 home and office with cuch gifts as electrie Tights, telephones, the phonograph and its kia, the radio, dictating machines, stock #ickers, and a floor of the car and his right arm host of other ccnveniences which he had invented or improved in such a way as to make them cemmer- caught b:tween the' open door and frame as the door was jammed back againsi the car’s side. His face was ed.” Thereafter, he adhered strictly to that rule. During the greater part of his active life, Mr. Edison devoted himself largely to inventions of an electrical nature, foremost of which wete the incandescent lamp and HAS PASSED ON \parntus and machines to improve Death Comes to Aged In- systems of communication by tele- phone and telegraph; the phono- ventor at His Home, Sunday Morning THOMASEDISON |graph and moving picture machine. l In 1926 in connection with the| 47th anniversary of his invention of ithe incandescent lamp, Mr. Edison !said that his inventions that un- derlie the electric light and power, !industry he considered the most gards as his greatest invention, Xlmportant of his works. Two years the incandescent lamp. |later Arthur Williams, vice-presi= Workmen Review Remains | dent of the New York Edison Com- For an hour this morning, work- pany, estimated that the valuc of of Edison’s factory passed the enterprises which owed their slewly through the little building origin, in part at least to Edison | just off the main streét where the genius, represented five /times all| inventer's son Charles received |the money in circulation. them. | Synthetic Chemistry - y ‘Later the public was admitted | with the outhreak ¢f the Warld and a long line of men, women|war, the Edisoh works, among the children began moving many American industries, faced through the quiet room. a serious situation because of the The body will lle in state until|cessation of imports of various Tussday everiing chemicals for which the United Private Funeral States had dependéd upon Europe. Private funeral setvices will be The “Wizard of Menlo Park,” as Wednesday in the Edisen home| Edison had come to be known,gh and the body will then be laid| plunged into the mysteries of Syn-! to rest in Rosedale Cemetery in|thetic chemistry &hd evolved pro- Orangz. | cesses for the manufacture of var- Edison slipped quietly from a ious products that avere needed in| deep coma into the lasting sleep,|industry and which became essen- holding the hand of Mrs. Edison,| tial in the manufacture of muni- for 45 years his constant compan-, tions after the United States en- | (Continued from Page One) iom. tered the war. | At the bedside were also his) Basfore that step was taken byl children, the American government, Mr. Edi- | After death, Dr. Howe sald he{son had been named by Josephus discovered that Edison, learning|Daniels, then Secretary of the that recovery was impossible, did not desire to live. Dr. Howe said Edison said his life's work was done and he did. not wish rlace an invalid’s burden on e family. Navy, head of thé Naval Consult- ing d, the membership of which' included a score of Americans pre- eminent in the field of inventive! research. At tHe time Edison was| working mearly 18 hours a day tol help . overcome the handicap with| el ( almost buried in | Trunk Railway between world over. rhildren, ‘Marion Estelle, Thomas A.,' wall of the wooden structure. An | alarm, given at once, brought the depariment immediately. A hole fwas cut in the roof through to Icng, 146 feet wide, 85 feet deep and can da2velop 130 horsepower. e ————— Miss Irene Burke, member of the Given Gold Medal In October, 1928, Thomas Alva | Edison was presénted with the gold medal of Congress of the United which his own indistries were con- | fronbed, but he said he was “not, too'hilsy to lend & hand to Uncle) Sam.” Later wheh the war became the attic and then another hole|clerical force in the office of H. ‘was cut through the ceiling of the, 1. Rcdlingshafer, Fiscal Agent for room in which the blaze started.|the United States 'Forest Service The flames were extingu here, left Sunday for Seattle to with chemical fluid and with water |spend her annual vacation. from the 80-gallon tank that is e carried on one of the fire trucks., T. L. Allen left Sunday for Se-‘i The origin of the fire has not attle on the steamer Alaska for | been ascertained. hort business trip to the north- The second floor rooms are o HARKRADER ALASKA COAL Call 412 $14.25 Per Ton F. O. B. Bunkers L T T T T an ‘actual part of the nation’s busi- | ness he devoted his entire time in his laboratory and aboard a ves- sel provided by the Navy Depart- | ment to government problems of | the war and contiriued those ac- | tivities until tbe’ signing of the armistice. Yeét wiin ail inal he had con- tributed to the progress of life and and vividly what M. Edison did,{for the benefit of mankind, Mr., and was, and ehcotipess the ach-|]Edison was not coftent. He turned, ievements of one of the most use-}in his latter years to a new field ful and fruitful of American lives.]of endeavor, devoting a great deal) For more than 50 years Edisonjof his/time to investigations and conceived ideas dnd then turned |experiménts looking toward the out devices founded upon them.!production of rubber from plants, An invention was born of the Edi-}shrubs. and bushes in the United| son brain on the average of about{Statés in order fo meet a possible | one every two weeks, and his regis- | national emergéricy and to give the! tration of approximately 1200 pat-|rubber trade a new “miracle” to ents at Washington made him tHa{sound out his career of invention. most prolific inventor of his time, Alva Edison was born and, perhaps, of all time. at Mian; Ohio, February 11, 1847, Edison was foremost not only {n{the 80h of Samuél and Nancy El- the number of his inventions, but|lott ®dison. His ancestors emi-; also because of the remarkably high |grated from Holland to the United percentage of his discoveries and |States in 1730. The family of the evolutions that became practical |laventor was, noted, especially on factors, both commonplace amd %‘MT side for longevity. His | States, the reverse side of which bore the inscription: “He illumi- nated the path of progress by his inventions.” On that occasion President Cool- idge saluted the venerable and re- nowned invenltor thus: “Noble, kindly servant of the United States and benefactor ‘of mankind.” These two sentemces tell tersely 2250504580 0 NERARRAREE marvelous, in the life of the world: 2 iR, & prosperous The latter fact probably was due|New’ ¥ork banker of ‘Revolutionary, to cconomic and financial failure, times, lived to be 104 and his| of his first patent. grandfather 102. His father was 94! water and he was e unablz to frez himself. Warren broke the 'glass in tHe front dodr engaged in gnd was abl? to Work himsalf froa, enterprizos, With Mr. Cleveland's assistance the Grand they freed Mr. Geddes, tilen the Port Huron three of them went to ‘work to of a news- freo Mrs. Geddes whose body was stand and bodok ¢ and of a veg- gquarely beneath the runnihg board etable market, and employing 11 and who was a'most submerged in boys to assist him in these various the water. Their unitel sirength works such as “Gibbons’ “Degi and Fall of the Roman Empi About thai tine he a variely of business including newsboy on and Detroit, proprietor activitics. At 15 he turned to jour- was not cnough to budge: the car. nalism and with some old equip- Mons Anderson and Windsor, who ment purchased from the Detrolt were enroute home from town, Free Press, set up his shop in the came to their aid anhd the baggage car of his train. There he them s had Mr. published the Grand Trunk Her- My, Cloveland ald, said to have been the first tire party to town ir ;. negwspaper ever punlished aboard a Geddes w: taken to tha hi frain. This venture continued for where she has been under me nearly a year and was suspen care since. It was caid dhen he was denied further use was suffering from intes the baggage car. and scvere bruises, but that thore From his early reading was no symptoms of serious inter- entific bocks, Edison was nal injury at this time. One of chemical experiments, one of which yyarren's arms was badly burnad put an end to his railroad ne and showsd some signs of infec- paper. While experimenting in .he tion today. He wa$ being treated v of fire 10 the' pe at work today. i# and he was custed. | D8ggage car, a bottle of phosphorus g¢ home, Mr. Geddes ‘was able to ) over and set aiem 7 \ “ePhe ‘Cleveland car hadl its fender " one ~* nls runs as a train badly tent and the headlights were . Edison proved a hero at jammed back against the radiator Mount Olemens, Mich.,, where he by the impact in hitting the cow. snatched the young son of the sta- The Geddes car was badly bat- tlo;'f‘ agent from in front of a train. tered. In gratitude, the father taught —————— telegraphy. When he Dbe-' 7 N. Henry, Special Agent of the A proficient as an operator, his Byreau of Investigation, Depart- rience proved an aid to his na- mont of Justice, left on the Alas- tural bent for sclentific work. The g Sunday for Ketchikan on offi- increased knowladge of the possi- cia] business. bilities of electricity which he had | ————————— gained from telegraphy impelled * 9 5 1 him to delve further into its mys- buljlnegs ::::m}'s ‘;:i}:;:wx;n lo‘c}:e teries and into the work which gopmer Alaska to Seattle on a eventually made him famous the p cinecs trip. ! COMING: 1In 1873, Mr. Edison married Mary | | G- Stillwell, by whom he had three * Jr, and William L. Mrs. Edison! died in 1884 and two years leier the inventor married Mina M. Mil- ler. Thrés children, Madeline, Charles and Theodore, were born of this ‘union. Besides’his' Llewellyn -Park home at ywese Orange, N. J., the invent- or maintdined a residence at Fort Myers, Fla., where he spent the winters for several years past. FARMER DANCE MOOSE HALL Wednesday Night,” October 21 TN 222385R0RIRIINRSINNEEETNINENTRAN FUR COAT NOW: | Annual Clearance Sale ALL FUR COATS IN STOCK AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES = - , PR i See. our Specials in Foxes, Mink, Marten, Fisher' and Sable First Work Rejected when he died. When a young man working as| Commenting on that family rec- a telegraph operator at Boston,jord when he was 76, Mr. Edison Mr. Bdison perfected an electricalysald he was only middle aged and vote recording machine, which he[“I don't wt B e S endeavored to have Massachusetts jily age.” officials adopt. It was rejected be- ’s_ mother, lot of time and money, the young his early education. It has been| inventor resolved “never to work|recorded that (Edison spent not upon any invention unless before- {more than two months altogether hand 1 satisfied myself beyond |in school. At the age of 12 he had |@ doubt that it would be useful in read a number of treatsies on sci |the field for which it was intend- entific subjects as well as other who was & cause “it would work” and thus W‘flew !fighnd: had been a e T i would prevent filibustering. Thus 19 Candian High school > —— convinced that he had wasted &|and’ from her he received most off.«an o8 Bring in your repairs and cleaning jobs ! CHAS. GOLDSTEIN & CO. ECoRTREEA TN TERRR TSN EN RN RN ANRT AR IR ERE NP RS E AR RO RN ANRS R INR RN AR ETREN The Weatier i (By the U. 8, Weather Buresa) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4 p.m., Oct. 19: ‘Rain tonight and Tuesday; fresh southeasterly winds. LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity Weather 4 pm. yest'y 29.81 42 80 SwW 4 Pt. Cldy 4 am. today 29.90 38 69 w 3 Cldy Neen today .-29.82 42 3 S, 5 Cldy mu AND BADIO REPORTS YESTERDAY ) TODAY Highest 4pm. | Lowest4amm. 4am, Precip, 4am. Suation— temn. temp. | emp. temp. velocity 24 hrs. Weather Barrow 18 18 | 18 18 16 0 Cldy Nome 18 18 | 2 2 6 01 Clear Bethel 22 22 | 20 20 8 40 Clear Fort Yukon 28 28 | 26 28 14 0 Cldy Tenana 30 30 | 22 21 - .20 Cldy Fairbanks 36 32 | 16 16 4 02 Clear Eagle 44 44 | 28 28 4 0 Cldy St. Paul . 32 32 | 32 36 30 01 Cldy Dutch Harbor ... 40 36 | 30 32 8 0 Cldy Kodiak 38 38 | 26 28 0 0 Cldy Cordova 46 42 | 30 34 6 04 Clear | Juneau ... 45 42 | 38 38 3 03 Cley Ketchikan 50 48 | 36 10 4 16 Cldy Frince Rupert ... 50 48 | 40 40, 4 40 Clear Edmonton . 52 44 | 40 40 8 .06 Cldy Seattle . 56 56 | 50 &2 * 0 Cldy Portland ............. 58 58 | 43 48 0 Clear San Francisco ... 68 64 | 56 56 0 0 Clear “—Less than 10 miies. The pressure is moderately low throughout Alaska except in the extreme Southeast and the Aleutian Islands and lowest in the lower Kuskokim Valley, with showers from Cordova to Prince Rupert and snow from central interior to Boring S:a. The pressure is high over most of the northeastern Pacific Ocean. Temperatures have fall- en in nearly all portions of the Territory. % 0ld Papers for sale at Empire Office Be-- Careful of your WA_VE this year . . Everyone SEES IT! THE AMERICAN BEAUTY PARLOR Telephone 397 for Appointment ALSIE J. WILSON Paul Bloedhorn JEWELER and WATCHMAKER NEW LOCATION—The Wright Shoppe Bldg. Frye-Bruh ‘ Phone 38 L1 YOUR " ALASKA LAUNDRY CLEANING - PRESSING Télephone 15 yio DIAMQNDS are ‘gendibe ‘digmonds, of cenifid i#rigin and gharawreed quality, han- dled sy by Authorized Jewelers. See These At THE NUGGET SHOP Pioneer Pool Telephuns 188 Hall POOL—BILLIARDS . THE CHAS. W. 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