The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 11, 1932, Page 2

& B S 36 in. DRILL, 3 yards 1 yard RESTAUR/ uary Clearance Dollar pecials UNBLEACHED MUSLIN, 8 yards 45 in. PILLOW TUBING, 3 yards BLEACHED SHEETING, 2 yards........ RED AND BLUE TABLECLOTH, ~...$1.00 and Cassidy bayou. d the railroad line in the foreground endangered by the high water. LANDLUBBERS TAKE TO BOATS 5 } LADIES’ HOUSE SLIPPERS, pair ... 1.00 BATH MATS, each 1.00 KIDDIES’ CAPS, each ... ... . 1.00 || LADIES’ COTTON VESTS, 3 for 1.00 CHILDREN’S UNION SUITS, each . 1.00 || RAYON PRINTS, 2 yards ... .00 || COTTON CREPE, 4 yards 1.00 et LY. S e sl ! \ Ladies’ Silk and | § Union Suits i { High neck, long sleeves, ankle length. Regular $3.50 value for { $2.00 B. M. BEHRE Juneau’s Leading STOCK ISSUES HOLDING FIRM; SOME ADVANCE Security Prices Take Lead in Trading Today— | Big Turnover | 11.—8ecurity 1 NEW YORK, Jan. prices continued to advance today but railroads and other groups showed little disposition to follow. The market closed firm and sev- eral issues made net gains of one to four points. The turnover was 1,800,000 shares. Tssues points included Allied Chemical, urn, New York Central. Unioa ific, Southern Pacific, Santa Fe United States Steel dropped more than two points at the start but recovered all losses then dropped off a fraction. ———— CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Jan 11.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 13%, American Can 61%, Anaconda Copper 11%, Beth- lehem Steel 20%, Curtiss-Wright 1%, Fox Films 4%, General Motors 23%, Interantional Harvester 25'%, Kennecott Copper 12%. Packard Motors 5%, United States Steel 42%, Bunker Hill, no sale. Dawes Declares Political Talk “Damn Nonsense” _ CHICAGO, Jan. 1L—Charles G. Dawes, Ambasador to Great Britain, whese resignation was announced in Washington on last Saturday, effective after «Geneva Disarmament Conferance dismissed all questions about his | potential candidacy for President “It is all damn nonsense. There up about two to four the | kmfluhltufllwm’trvmi I S b b e i o A R s i i NDS CO., Ine. I)rparmu‘m Store CHAMBER HAS “OLD CLOTHES" DAY TOMORROW Business M;Wi“ Stage]“ Meeting to Aid Wom- en’s Club Depot The Chamic: oI Commerce Lo- morrow 1lll stage “Old Clothes Day.” Not as a tribute to the ra ment the members themselves ha worn through trials and tribula- tions jut as a means of co-operat- | ing with the Juneau Women's club | and its old clothe sdepot. | George Gallety, radio engineer, will be the special guest of honor. | Every member of the Chamber is urgde to attend and bring wi(hi them some garment to be turned | over to the Club to be put into the depot’s stock from which many un- | employed and needy persons are | jsupplied with wearing apparel. A box placed at the entrance to| |Bailey’'s Cafe will be handy for| | members to deposit their contribu-i tions to the cause. The Chamber has just received a | | communication from Judge James| Wickersham relative to radio in- terference and plans of the War| Department to better the local| ituation. This will be made p ‘ lic at tomorrow’s meeting, it was sald. | \ | | | | Associated Press Photo Lifeguards of Long Beach, Cal., were drafted for inland duty when abnormally heavy rains flooded a low section of the city. Residen's of inundated sections were transported abeut in lifeboats. Here's a boy being taken home from a neighborhood grocery store. STORM KING REIGNS IN SIERRA WI’ Associated Press Photo Snow reached almost record depths in Truckee, Cal., during one of the heaviest storms in years. Passenger trains ¢ held up, motorists marooned in the high Sierra Nevada mountains and plows were put to werk to open snow-clogged roads. GERMANS SEND TEAM JULY 10 LOS ANGELES Cal, Jan. 11.—| Germany became the first nation | to complete arrangements for send- ing athletes to the 1932 Olympic games when it officially advised heads of the organizing committee recently that its team will arrive in Los Angeles on July 20 and will remain here until the day after the close of the sports celebration. Plans for sending a strong Ger- man team to this year's Olympics were transmitted to the organiz- | ing committee by Dr. Carl Diem. |an air line in the interior, is a Germany’s bid for a leadinz | passenger south on the Northwest- place in the 1932 games, especially ern, accompanied by his wife. in the track and field and eques- | sy trian events and in the rowing| H. L. Blunt, interior airplane races, will be made by one of the |pilet, is a passenger for the States greatest teams ever to represent aboard the Northwestern. the German nation in any of the modern Olympics, Dr. Diem indi- cated. The German team, consisting of 1125 athletes and officials, will sail |for the United States on July 10 aboard the S. S. Europa.. The ath- letes will have with them their own shells for the rowing races and a stable of Germany's best traied horses to be entered in the equestrian events. Disembarking in New York, the athletes will board a special train that will be waiting to bring them across the continent to Los An- geles in record time. “WHo's WHO g AND WHERE Karl K. Karz, representative of Miss Marian Ganty, of Skagway, came south on the Northwestern Associated Press Phote Almost the entire town of Glendora, Mise., was inundated by flood waters from the Tallahatchie river Hastily re-enforced barriers weakened under the steady battering of the water. aerial view of Glendora shows how a bend of Cassidy bayou, at left, Has risen until streets were flooded This CONFESSES TO KILLING GIRL Kidnapping, Slaying of Six- Year-Old Child, Is Cleared Up CINCINNATI Ohio, The kidnapping and Jan. 11— slaying of cleared up today when a con- fession was made by Charles Bis- choff, aged 45, a shoemaker, Prose- cuting Attorney Gorman ancunced. The body of the little girl was found December 22 in the basement of a tenement occupied by Bis- cheff, who first reported the dis- covery. Girl Lured Away The girl was lured away from her home five days before the body was found. Death was caused by, internal hemorrhages caused bysa criminal attack. Bischoff has | been held ever since and has been | questioned | said. intermittently, Gorman A first degre murder indictment against Bischoff will be sought to- morrow. The authorities believe Bischoff is insane. Confession Made Bischoff in his confession, said: “I done it. It's done.” Bischoff said that at first his victim was quiet but the next night after he had injured her, she cried iand he tied her up. The next day the girl died. Two days later he took the body to the front of the cellar of the tenement, where the next day he reported to the police he had found the body. BEHRENDS GOES TO STATES ON BUSINESS B. M. Behrenas, merchant and banker, left last night on the steamship Northwestern on his an- {nual business trip to the States. He will be gone about six weeks. After arrival in Seattle, he will go East. He will visit Chicago, Cleveland, N:w York and other large cities. On coming back West he will stop at San Francisco and Portland. He will confer on financial mat- ters with banking interests and will purehase stock for his general merchandising store. ——————— STORK RIDES IN PLANE BELGRADE—Not to be outdone swallows to Italy by air, the Jugo- slay Society for the Protection of Animals sent & stranded stork to Istanbul by plane with a letter forward it to Cairo for the winter. ———eeo MADRID COUNTS NOSES MADRID—This capital has a population of 894,000, according to the City Council which has just completed the registry begun in 1930, . This is an increase of 80,009 over 1923 when the last official count was taken. ————————— GARNER ONCE BASEBALLER CLARKSVILLE, Goon Soup Holigw, i AFTERASSAULT Marian McLean, aged six years was | i by the Austrians who sent stranded | asking the Turkish 8. P. C. A, to]. { , Tex.—Old timers of this vicinity recalling boyhood days of John Garner, new Speaker | of the House, tell of his playing _|with the conmunify baseball inne RED CROSS IS "FACING 4 BIG ' AD PROBLEMS Chairman Payne Says | Available Resources Will Be Used for Needy | WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 11.— Chairman John Barton Payne sald | the American Red Cross “available | resources” will be used by the or- | ganization to help meet the relief needs of the four current emer- gencies, including miners’ unem- | ployment. U. 5. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICOLTURE, WEATHER SUREAU The W eather (By thc U. 8. Weather Burean; Foreeast for Junean and vicinity, beginning at 4 pm., Jan. 1i: Fair tonight and Tuesday; moderate nortHerly winds. LOCAL DATA 4 pm. yest'y -29.37 29 50 NwW 7 Snow 4 am. today 6 Clear Noon today . 5 Clear Chairman Payne said it will be impossible to allocate any specific amounts to any of the four prob- lems, unemployment, Tallahatchie river flood victims, needy Indians of the West, and drought relief. REFUGEES RETURNING | GLENDORA, Miss, Jan. 11. — Aided by the Red Cross, refugees are returning to their homes and | mopping out their dwellings in the | wake of the Delta’s greatest flood utaries are falling after devastating the rich cotton belt. | There has been no /but the property damage has besn | huge. { Dreary Songs Out | Assoclated Press Photo Ethel Merman, who specializes s'nging blues, says hard-boilec America Is growing more sentimen. *+al by the hour. Dreary stuff is out, a few blues all. right but senti. mental ballads of 30 years ago are in demand, she says. COURT LEAVES FOR KETCHIKAN TERM To hold a verm of the United States District Court, in Ketchi- kan, Judge Justin W. Harding de- parted from Juneau last night on the steamship Northwestern. With him went offictals of the clerk’s office, the United States Attorney's office, other officers and various clerks. Several in the party were accompanied by their wives. . Daily Empire Want Ads Pay. Barrow . -14 Nome . -20 Bethel . -18 Fort Yukon -30 | Tanana -46 ! Fairbanks -38 Eagle -10 St. Paul ... 34 | Dutch Harbor .. 32 Kodiak .. 8 Cordova . 14 i Juneau . 29 Sitka - Ketchil - 40 Prince Rupert 40 Edmonton 36 Seattle 48 Portland .. Y 52 San Francisco ... 68 68 | YESTERDAY ] TODAY —mmm Stat! 4 3 3 . -30 -30 * 0 Clear 22 -8 337 03 8now -20 14 14 01 Snow 42 -42 4 0 Clear -54 -28 0 0 Pt.Cldy -48 -46 0 0 ar -4 -14 8 .02 ogdy 3¢ 36 42 0 Cldy O MR 0 Cldy 6 18 36 12 8now 1216 [] 0 Clear 1 22 6 31 Clear 20 — 8 10 Clear 2% 18 B Show 30 30 4 3 Cldy 3¢ 36 4 0 Clear 4 50 32 60 Rain 52 54 16 .38 Rain 56 58 4 0 Clear *—Less than 10 miles. i 3 The pressure is low from Alberta to the GuM of Alaska, in the ie Ri d trip- Western Aleutian Islands and near Hawaii, and snow has fallen in The Tallahatehle River and o Southeast Alaska, the western portion of the Gulf of Alaska and on the Bering Sea coast Pressure is high in the Interior and from the loss of life eAstern Aleutian Islands southeastward, accompanted by clear colder weather in the Interior and the eastern portion of the Gulf of Al- ern Alaska ,aska, and lower temperature in Southeast Alaska with clearing {weather in the northern portion Temperatures are rising in West- THREE ARRESTED AT KETCHIKAN CHARGED WITH DELINQUENCY Charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor child, Bert Vogl, Oscar Case, and Fred Pet- erson were arrested at Ketchikan Saturday by Federal deputy mar- shals, acording to advices received by United States Marshal Albert ‘White. They were arraigned before United States Commissioner W. C. Arnold, who fixed the bond of each at $1,500. Clara Varney was held as a material witness on a $200 bond. e, John Beaton, interior mining man, accompanied by his wife, is a passenger for the south aboard the Northwestern. L e Daily Empire Want Ads Pay. TALLAPOOSA LAUNCH RUNS DOWN CANARD On a report that a man was adrift on an upturned boat off the southern end of Douglas Island yesterday afternoon, the United States crulser Tallapoosa manned one of her launches and sént it to investigate. Information collected on Douglas Island proved that the report had been circulated by an irresponsihle Indian and that it was entirely untrue. ——— Harry Cribb, proprietor of a wood-turning establishment ir An- chorage, is a passenger south &n the Northwestern on a business trip. ——,—— H. I. Lucas left on the North- | western this morning on a business trip to Seattle. o homas Har_dwaré Co. 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