The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 28, 1931, Page 8

8 P — THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, DEC. 28, 1931. r. and JEMOCRATS OF ( HOUSE TO NOW | MOVE SLOWLY | Have Hurried Through the| Last of Emergency Legislation RECOMMENDATIONS WILL BE STUDIED 12 t Opposition Arises to Home Loan Dis- count Banks SHINC n recommended by g couple entered R y leaving the church the ties of matrimony in one of the on. Jame g Green the lucky man. His lovely bride Hous home the to the among = Smith, Upheld as Power Board Head, Is ( Unruffled After Battle a billion dol- throu; of help unemployed - RITES HELD FOR NELS B. JOHNSON VASHINGTON, C., Dec. 28— Otis Smith has emerged ths ictor in a fight over his post Chairman of the F 1 Power Commission and the Maine Yank: curly head came through the ba! unruffled. G v De Senal wardly ite the swirl caused by the rial tempest Smith was out- calm. )i erside Cathedral, ) te most brilliant Mrs., Now PROTESTS HALT | SALE OF CABLE, SAYS DELEGATE War Department Advises| Wickersham Will Not Reintroduce Measure Alaskan protests against the sale | the Alaska cable and radio 1 have halted that step, it was icated by a communication just ived from Delegate Wickersham 'ne Empire. He has been in- jformed by the War Department that. pending further instructions from President Hoover to the con- | |trary, it will not seek Congressional | authority for the sale. | A bill was intrduced in Congress |last year authorizing the Depart ment to sell the system. Advices received several weeks ago from | Washington by the Chamber Commerce here said the measurc |would be re-introduced during the | current term. Many Protests Filed ‘The local Chamber took the lead | filing a protest against the sale. Tts action was followed by {other Alaskan communities and | {the All-Alaska Chamber of Com- merce. Their protests were for- | warded to Delegate Wickersham | one, after having been bound by ' who wrote a vigorous letter to the 5 . ol iy n the Delegate's weekly lett the ‘o,lmft 7Mary Hunt &» Marston. to The Empire, the results’ were yset forth as follows: | “A very gratifying reply has just | been received from Douglas Mac Ar- thur, General Chief of Staff, at the |request of Secretary Hurley, who jenclosed various correspondence ! with the President. and ended with the significant and very pleasing paragraph: ‘As you will see from | s e this correspondence, the War De- [ | partment is in general agreement H I G H UFFIGiAL | with your point of view. In the ab- |sence of further instructions, the | Department does not intend to | reintroduce the legislation in ques- | tion.” | n addressing President Hoover | “J ‘i |on the important subject Secretary | | ' | Hurley among other things said: ‘T | letter from the i am enclosing a | in ew York, as two; Is Calm and Mil]ionail‘ At 15 Months AR < Ira L. Hill Stodie. Many men work a lifetime to amass a million or less, but John Mitchell Reynolds, 11, shown viewing the world with utter nonchalance with his mother, Mrs, John Reynolds, Jr., has been a millionaire since he was 22 days old. Less than a month after John was born, his maternal great-grandmother, while hurrying to see him in New York, was killed. She had, however, willed him '$1,785,415. Not only that but the I uow 15 months old, eventually wil} inherit $20,000,000. What a life SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO ELKS PARTY TONIGHT nel. He is anxious that every one of them be present. The Elks committee having charge of the affair consists of ‘George Messerschmidt, chairman; M. S. Jorgensen, John Hermle and Dr. R. E. Southwell. ——.,— CARD OF THANKS The Sisters of St. Ann wish to Free Show and Present for thank all the kind friends who - ~e sent donations of flowers, sweets Every Boy and Girl |and other gitts to the hospital, and C . l thus helped make Christmas a at aplto happy day both for the patients !and the staff. make his last| A very special word of thanks is Santa Claus will GAMBLE FACINGIMAKE PRISON FIRST DEGREE BREAK, SHOT MURDER CHARGE e o - - —J. L. Haynes, lifer for murder, | and W. E. Collingsworth, serving U S A Fl M ten years for robbery, were wound- (U. O. Attorney files Mur-/ed and recaptured by a tower ! der Charges After Death | of H. C. Davis Haynes was shot fh both legs and Collingsworth was shot in the right A charge of murder in the first |arm. guard when they attempted to escape from the State prison here. degree has been prepared by the United States Attorney's office and | — o Early in the 1931-1932 season was expected to have been filed | Kansas City had 4,140 bowlers roll- late this afternoon against Walter ing with 828 teams in 77 leagues. | z | Gamble, for the death of H. C. ——— (Lisle) Davis, which ocgurred here Sunday afternoon, Death was caused by a knife wound in the side, which, it was said by Asst. United States Attor- ney George W .Folta, Gamble ad- mitted he inflicted. The Ilatter has been held in the Federal jail since last week on an open charge. It will not be necessary to hold any inquest, Mr. Folta said today. It was established that the wound was the cause of death, and Gam- ble acknowledges he did the stab- bing. He will be taken before Judge Charles Sey in the United States Commissioner’s Court to- morrow or shortly thereafter for arraignment and a time fixed for a preliminary examination. Gamble has retained Grover C. Winn to represent him, it was said. —————— No dearth of backfield material seems likely for Wisconsin's 1932 football team. 'At least 12 backs from this year's squad will return | PRE-INVENTORY SALE OF STATIONERY 33 1-3% OFF Regular Price Butler Mauro Drug Co. Phone 134 We Deliver Express Money Orders i GOOD ANYTIME PHONE YOUR ORDERS SWEET JUICY ORANGES FOR ORANGE JUICE 6 dozen for $1.00 ALASKA PIONEER Funeral Services Conduct- ed in Lutheran Church by Pastor Juneau tmas eve, pon in Resur h. The r * | been heads were Louis Linge, sterson, Thomas Topness, h Thompson, Ingvald Martin,| Andrew Rosness. | Interment, under direction of the| Charles W. Carter Mortuary, wa in plot of the Pioneers of Ala ka Evergreen cemetery. - | THANKS EXPRESSED | | in The telephone operators wish to| ; their thanks for the lovely received at Christmas, and wish eve: a happy and| prosperous New Year. -0 SPECIAL FERRY A special ferry for the Rebekahs and Odd Fellows will leave Juneau 7:30 Wednesday night to attend Christmas tree in Douglas. —adv. | expre gifts - > | IN HOSPITAL FOR OPERATION John Juravich of Douglas, is @ tient in St. Ann's hospital. He is| cted to undergo a surgical op- eration tomorrow morning | eo———— | DAILY EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY | | WE SELL ALLENRU For rheumatis m —fever — gout — neuralgia and muscular aches and pains | { { § Price—85 cents DARE'S MENTHA PEPSIN Reconstruetion Tonic for Stomach—liver—nerves blood Juneau Drug Company Free Delivery Phone 33 Post Office Substation No. 1 e held |# 1% survey the day after he had grad- His chair a Senate Hoc was the focal point of ument W President that body sought to revok ious confirmation Smith's nomination. But Smith came out op when the District Supreme Court up- of iment in the his g vic eld assistant geological y college in 1893. father, he ha i for a newspaper career until college studies placed goology in the forefront “Fa Was lates Smith, “when I broke the th I would not follow in his fod :ps. He merely said: ‘Af- ter all, it’s just as well. Tt takes a good man to succeed in news- uated from C N philosophical,” re rs in the far west and five in the east with the su vey, Smith was appointed dire by President Roosevelt, a post I had administered continuously with but a few year's interruption until resigning last December to become Pow Commission Chairman. C vation has been his work and his main hobby. As ecarly as 1900 when, he conservation was not spelled with a capital C,| he advocated wise use of the na- tion's resou From the logical zest for wall exercise and recreation. When he can get up gan, Me., wh he mal legal residence, he likes to putter around in the garden. - STATION KGBU 1S SET AFIRE AT KETCHIKAN y days of his geo- » Skowhe- iins his |Kerosene Is Thown Into| Operating Room of Broadcast Plant KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Dec. | officers are hunting for an cendiarist who threw kerosene into room of the radio broade; |sence of the manager. The flames were evidently smothered by smoke from phono- |Moses graph records. The station is located in a sma honse on the Tongass Highway and |c the flames were not not Discovery of the fire was made by the =nd of the manager, James Britton irned to the station early Sat- urday morning The loss is vari up to $8,000 Wwith no ins -oo NOTICE Juneau Choral Society until Monday, Jan. 4th The not meet Members please take notice. D York City sportsmen for deep sea fishing been asl to give a | their for dist ilies, go d District Deputy George Talbot to Visit Alaska delegate dated Nov. 2, 1931, ?ppearance in Juneau this evening. | extended to Mrs. Ellis and her wherein he urges on the part of |He will attend the Christmas tree |class of carol singers. Their sweet | the people of Alaska that no legis- |party that the Elks have arranged music spread through the hospital !1ation be initiated authorizing the [for the children of Gastineau halls and chapel, and flooded th2 hearts of all with the Christmas : | Burford. will adv. who | have | portion of |ville, Mo. n to the Salvation Army ibution among needy fam- Juneau Lodge January 14, and is expected to ar-|egate might well be taken into |xive in this city January 15. | consideration before resubmitting Will Go to Skagway legislation to Congress. rh;m L ;m :l‘w *“{‘L\l;lwhip Ne _linto consldgration the letter of the western shaut January 38 or ‘23|00Ua0e WiSh tho. somid Soa. e e 8 2 OF 23 'sale of the system will not be au- (ur VSk"t"\}‘:'y‘ me"“ | S'j;l;l‘d;‘x":" v‘,‘; thorized, and the people of Alaska i ““i_?m “:‘l;‘{:“-‘sk;g'w o x;‘nl;}!“” ever hold in grateful remem- lm‘M“ » by % brance the kindly consideration of > their interests by President Hoover Juneau Elks plan to extend a i and Secretary Hurley.” arty welcome to Mr. ’mlb’ov.‘ a‘nJ‘ g contemplate a series of entertain- s !ments for him during his sojourn. [ s ol J. TURNER WHO BOSSED | The committee making arrange- [ AP]TOL WORK DIES [ments for the visitor is composed | |of Henry Me*.?'snrsdmudt, Ralph | John Turner, superintendent of Martin and 'Winn Goddard | construction of the Federal and Mrs. Talbot will' accompany her | mo . itorial Building in Juneau husband on his trip to Juneaw.| i pecember 24 at his home in While here she will be the house | pioniand Park, T |guest of her cousin, Mrs. W. K.| "M g sides, Secretary of the Juneau Lodge of Elks, which Mr. “Tomorrow’s Styles Todas” 28, H - — A Turner joined when he was in SENATUR MusEsmxember in good standing at the | time of his death received the !word of Mr. Turner’s passing. | | When the N. P. Severin Com- | pany, the firm having the contract | | construction work, Mr. Turner came as the boss of the bricklayers. Later he was made superintendent of the entire job by the contracting Financial Leaders Declared @ | toBe More than | ptimistic United States r George Moses said here urday that | t conversations with financial at Washington, D. C., had nation's business prospects for next . | SPECIAL on “I found them much more op imistic as to the future of Ameri news reports from New York would DRESSES lead one to think" said Senator | 3 3 “One of the foremost of e infancial leaders said there was | | ons of an upturn and he very | $3'953 $10°00q y was of the opinion that A 1932 the nation will 13 ()5 a level of business .. this city and of which he was a for erection of the Capitol, began {firm. He lived here for more than CONCORD, New Hampshire, Dec > ven him a reassuring view of the PRE-INVENTORY C bus! than the genera cernible many v direct indi- preceded the crash.” Real Values Offered | de: be well ba activity whic g | A NUT THAT'S NOT A NUT ‘ | WASHINGTON. — The cashew | | “nut” is not a nut. It is a seed and |is found at >d to the lower out- side end of shy fruit borne in | clusters on a large evergreen tropi- | cal” tree. Kemper M ry Academy, Boon-’ a5 withdrawn from the | £ conference. ——- RE WANT ADS PAY i » b Missouri Juneau’s Own Store DAILY EMPI le of the Alaska Communications |Channel in the Capitol theatre ystem. As expressed in my letter | pzace and good will. of Dec. 3, 1930, the War Depart- Ketchikan, ment, per se, had no objection to Ruler of | this sale; however, it is understood | t and Prot Or- |that the committee which origi- the District of nated the recommendation for sale Southeast Alaska, will make an of-|did not at any time obtain a per- ficial call to the Elks lodge in tinent expression from the people |Juneau the evening of Wednesday, | Or Government of Alaska. This January 20. HE Tl leave Ket- |being the case, it would appear |chikan on the steamship Victoria that the enclosed letter of the Del- The motion picture entertainment will begin promptly at 7 o'clock. Besides the feature photopk “Reaching For The Moon,” with Douglas Fairbanks in the leading role, the screen program will con- tain short comics. The Christmas tree will be in the foyer of the theatre. Santa Claus will have gifts for all little boys and girls on Gastineau Chan- Gratitude is likewise due the Juneau Band for its serenade early on Christmas morning. This was a surprise for the patients and its spirit of kindness added much to |the cheerfulness of the patien's }nnd the happiness of the nurses. —a¢v. | PHONES 92—95 . —— Daily Empire Want Ads Pay. George Brothers Five Fast Deliveries WE HAVE A BIG SHIPMENT OF NAVY BEANS Ask us about the tw and we are selling them at 5¢ a pound Sto GEORGE BROTHERS RE YOU one of those who received money for a Christmas present? Or one of those who did not receive exactly your desire? Our stock is still replete with many choice items and you can have a cer- tain advantage of unhurried service pre-inventory price. Let us figure with you. The Nugget o tickets to Seattle January 15 at Capitol Theatre The Leader Department re Telephone 454