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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, MARCH 17 Announcing Further Arrivals ?f Ad(éilt'ipnalf ; Spring and Easter Wearing Apparel BEGUILING NEW BEA HATS TIFUL DRESSES RICHLY DESIGNED COATS COSTUME SUITS JACKETS and FROCKS BLOUSES, SWEATERS GLOVES, ECKWEAR SCARFS, HAND BAGS Also Othe r Accessories necessary for Correct Dress B. M. Behré;lds Co., Inc. Juneauw’s Leading Department Store | receive extra compensation for {their services on the Supreme Court. As this bill carries no extra cost or appropriation it is ex- pected to meet with favor by the Department of Justice and the MAIL CONTRAGT * The Alaska Radio & Service Co., Ketchikan, has been granted per- mission by the Federal Radio Com- | mission to install a 100 watt trans- | mitter immediately and on Bept. ylsrh. to add additional eguipment to increase the power transmission to 500 watts. Southeast Alaska Project May Be Eliminated— Economy Program ‘WASHINGTON, . C. (8pecial Correspondence) The Bureau of Fisheries rts Chamber of Commerce of |that the 355 whales taken n'fvfm‘ ted States has been 'COOPEXating |scan waters by two whaling sta- with « Delegaté Wickersham in the during 1930 yielded products effort ‘ to- secure air mail service | worth $470,265, making the value from Seattle to Alaska, but ihisior each whale more than $1,300. crganization has about concludediwwnale oil, sperm oil, fertilizer, that the general cry of economy jp;ckl:d meat and whale bone were in public éxpenditures will tend 10 /the commodities secured from the destroy any hope of having this|animals, says the report. The sec- new project carried out under the |tion of the report which deals with appropriations being made for thelalackan whaling follows: fiscal year starting July 1, 1932.| -The port Hobron and Akutan ations of the American Pacific Whaling Colnpany were again op- erated in 1930. Séven steam whalers were used, and employment was £pent ten days in Washingion inigjven to 190 whites, 14 natives, connection with his off busi- (and two Japanese—a total of 206, mess. They left for the west March 1. Dr. R. V. Ellis, of Ketchikar Assistant Surgeon of Publi Service, accompanied by Mrs. | ber reported employed in the indus- : |try in the previous year. The whales When Delegate Wickersham in-ltaxen consisted of 50 finbacks, 191 troduced his bill for the creation hymphacks, 76 sulphur bottoms, of a Supreme Court for the Terri-|anq 36 sperm whales. This is a fory of Alaska it provided for a|gecrease of 30 from the number membership of the four district|iapen in Alaskan waters in 1929, Judges and a presiding judge 0| Tne products of the whale fish- 'been favorably 9 'or a decrease of 27 from the num.- | e appointed by the Attorney Gen- eral. Because of the expense of an 2dditional judge the Judiciary Com- mittee did not favor the bill. As a consequence the Delegate has prepared and introduced a new |ery consisted of 816,700 gallons of |whale oil, valued at $371,272; 121,- 150 gallons of sperm oil, valued at $45431; 815 tons of fertilizer |from meat, valued at $40,750; 355 |tons of bone fertilizer, valued at bill that provides for a membership | 10650 37,000 pounds of pickled of only the four district judges|maai valued at $1850; and 5600 three of whom shall constitule 8 pounds of whale bone, valued at quorum for transacting the busi-\g308 g total value of products of ness of the Supreme Court. The g470965 and a decrease of 6% from judge in the First Division shall|jgo9 when products were valued be jat $502,081 " The nomination of Charles B. [Jones for a second term as U. 8. Marshal in the Nome db , has reported by a sub- committee and hi§ eonfirmation is expected ifi & few ' days. Complaint has beén made of the alleged unlawful residence of certain aliens in Hyder ahd the U. 8. Departiient of Labor 18 investigating the cases of several who are reported as being em- ployed in that Vvieinity, to de- termine whether they have been lawfully admitted to this countfy. s The Delegate has been asked to use Mis ehdeavors to have the bridge replaced actoss the Matan- uska river @t Palmer Chnyon Crossing, ‘on the representation that from 12 to 90 families will be located on theé east side of the river. ‘The Alaska Road Comimi- ssion giVes ~ asstitafice that this surance that the cotitetiplated fam- fly settiement has Materialized, . = With various requests tor the Oreek, in the jtry, asking jto McCarthy, from which point it lis easy to secure the mail by the | prospectors ' anid mining operators, land at which poiit they do thelr trading. Willlam MacDotiald, a building |contractor from St Louls, is now | In ‘Washington to get some concession In it rates on the Alaska Rallroad, gh the Sec: retary of the Interior. He the contract for erecting the Fair- i ieonmgz. In making his estimate it seems he was by putside persons a8 to freight schedule on reiufdh steel ship- ments, which is than he figured on. 1 te 1is assisting him in trying to have ithe matter adjusted with the rail- . i construction will be included in|’ thelr program upon definite as- |biOR banks TFederal Building, his bid being $392,000, now he is in doubt to wi he wants the |- road, for if MacPonald does not g0 ahead with the contract a delay will result beécause bids would have to be advertized again and possibly the specifications changed some- ‘what. ‘The next lowest bid was by Severin & ©o., of Ohicsgo, Wwhose Tigures ‘were $422,000. While $450,000 was appropriated for this building but $404000 was allotted by the su- for furtishings, e, The Fair- ‘batiks peoplée are quite anxious to have constructioneommenced and the Chamber of Commerce is doing what 1t ‘eah to gét the differences adjusted. ———,—— 'BEGISTRATION OF VOTERS n Book for Registra- , General Municipal Eléction to be Held Thesday, April 8, 1983, ' will be opened Tuesday, 5 1932, rémain open m 'g, March 26, wediately preceding election are uw_qumcatxens re- quired. H. R. SHEPARD, City Clerk. First publication, Feb. 17, 1932, Last publication, March 25, 1932, b o o S:I‘. PATRICK'S CARD PARTY The fourth of the series of card | parties given by the Catholic Ladies will be héld at Parish Hall March 11, The dflmof the Parochial Scliool will a short enter- tdinment, starting promptly at 5| o'clock, followed by bridge and| whist. Prizes. Refreshments. Music Admission, 50 cents. Everybody wel- —adv M’*’Q‘*’*’o JUNEAU FROCK SHOPPE come. Dresses, | paign have been ordered. CHAMBER PAYS ARC. FOUNDER WARM TRIBUTE Praise Bestowed on Gen. Richardson and Organ- ization He Founded for 1 years, business where he For a good many years, Mr. Troy added, Mr. Bender and he had planned a union of effort, and finally the time had arri “I am glad to be saved from the ies,” retorted Mr. Bender, “I ad to be here and intend to stay, with your permission, at least | as long as the new water pipe Mr. going to put in and which will last 120 years.” | e B. (Gee Bee) Rice, re-| cently returned from a pleasure trip to Seattle and Portland, re- fused to make a speech but dis- tribu his new business cards. Urges Permanent Improvements In asking the Civic Improvement Comm to confer with the City Council on beginning a policy lead- ing to permanent improvements .to Fourth and Franklin Streets, Presi- dent Shattuck declared Juneau is on as permanent a basis as any comunity of eomparative size in the whole country. “It has mining, fisheries and timber industries, and itis permanency is assured,” he as-| serted He pointed out the shortsighted- ness of making temporary public improvements that later would have to be abandoned and more lasting ones made at greater expense. C. W. Carter, he said, is about to a new plant on the corner of Fourth and Franklin Streetsand has offered to build so that the ©City can cbtain additional footage dor the widening of Fourth {o a 40-foot standard, conditioned on @ certain amount of cc-operation from the municipality. This ought | to be done, declared Mr. Shat-| tuck Downtown districts are becoming d with traffic at certain To relieve this situation, he advocated routing traffic over Franklin to Fourth and across the | latter street to and beyond thej 1 building. To meetthese de- | , Franklin Street needed so! ments and Fourth Street would have to be widened, he ad-| ded. \ ! Aerial Mail Blocked There parently little chance for extension of aerial mail service from Seattle to Southeast Alnskn[ during the coming fiscal year, the; Chamber was advised by the United States Chamber of Comerce which | has been actively supporting the local Chamber in urging this step. It has been informed by Postal authorities in Washington, D. v. that cuts in appropriations, due to the national economy program, will render it impossible to extend the service next y: said a letter re- ceived from N. Barber cf the National Chamber. Twenty-five requests for infor- mation were received and answered during the past week by the Cham- ber, Secretary G. H. Walmsley re- ported. Posiers for the Chamber's annhual cleanup and paintup cam- FOR SALE | A NEW STOMACH BUSY 1932 Follows DUTCH HARBOR | Kreuger | wEATHER DATA in Death M. Ma\'cusjssociale of “Match King,” Takes ) : JTemperalure Records Call- Life by Hanging ed for by Orientals for Predictions BERLIN, March 17.—M. Marcus, | head of the Esthonian match monopoly, associate of Ivar Kreug- | er, hanged himself at Reval. His body was found this morning. Fi-| nancial difficulties is believed to great deal of valuable data tofarm- have been the cause. jers of all kinds in the West and Kreuger, reputed one of the rich- |Midwest, but that the information est men in the world, and called|it collects is also highly valuable The United Statess Weather Bureau's Alaska service, it has been long and widely known, furnishes a USED BY JAPAN burned in fires caused by the great earthquake of that year. Temperature records of Dutch Harbor are also called for each year by the Meteorological Service of India for use in forocasting the onsoon season several months ahead of its occurrence. |Dole Given to Crooks | Under Australian Law | SYDNEY, March 17.—Australian | criminals are drawing unemployed | dole and it is proposed to amend |the law to prevent this abuse of the system. | Any man who has been unem- ployed for a fortnight can legiti- | mately secure the dole, and as crooks can honestly declare they have not worked for years they are giveqr unemployment relief. | ©One man on the dole was fined |$1,250 for peddling cocaine and ‘bmid up promptly. WOEL; CLDEST EGGS CAIRO—An earthen jar con- taining ostrich eggs 50 centuries cld was unearthed by workmen digging for foundations for a radio mast in a suburb, The eggs were said to be well preserved. King “Tut” used to hunt ostriches here- abouts. ——————— A lighted airway is to be built between Albany, N. Y., and Boston, | by way of Springfield, Mass. the “Match King,” took his life|for Oriental nations has not been in Paris, last Saturday. so generally known. g T ey o Both Japan and India reiy upon some of the data recorded for vit- ally important predictions. The service rendered to Japan is !in(licfltnd by a letter from the - c APTURE FU-YU | rector of the Central Meteorological Observatory in Tokyo, requesting the Juneau office of the bureau to furnish the temperature records MficrglAf’II(iChirgi ]teb:f;nf)};‘;:‘:_’ of Dutch Harbor for several years S B s % |in the past for use in comparative ing the new regime, have captured in the yield of “rice in Fu-Yu, a city of 80,000 people, loolsmdxes i ¥ « | Hokkaido. miles west of Harbin, i These records are regularly furn- MARCHIN!Y, ON MUKDEN ished the Japanese Meteorological SHANGHAI, March 17‘_Rep°ns‘5ervice but those prior to 1923 were from Manchuria said 100,000 Chin- |~ ese volunteers are marching on! || Mukden from three different di- rections. The volunteers are de- | stroying the flags of the new Man- churian State in all villages. oo — i DIG UP ELEPHANT IN ITALY CASSINO, Italy—A fossillized | armpit weighing 220 pounds and be- ' lieved to be part of a prehistoric clephant, was dug entire skeleton of a similar beast was found six years ago. No More Piles | 4 You Can End Your Awful Misery Quick Without Cutting or Salves Thousands of Plle sufferers do net know that the cause of Piles is internal—bad circulation of blood in the lower bow:l. That is the scientific truth about Piles — the real reason why salves and suppositories do not give perm- FOR INSTANCE: anent relief, why cutting does not as low as 79.50 remove the cause. - T Your itching, blesding orprotrud- & Walnut finished Rockers as low as ... 6.75 g Piles will only go when you Snatar X ar v 4 actually remove the cause—and not 9x12 Axminster Rugs as low as ... 27.50 {one minute before. External treat- Ox19 ‘elve! as 7 ag 35 ments can't do this—an intern x12 Velvet Rugs as low as 35.00 medicine should be used. HEM- 9x12 Tapestry Rugs as low as . 14.00 ROID, the prescription of Dr. J, S. g : Leonhardt, sold by good druggists 9x12 Wilton Rugs as low .as........__ 67.50 everywhere, succeeds because it stimulates the circulation, drives out congested blood, heals and restores | = the almost dead parts. Dr. Leonhardt’s HEM-ROID has an almost unbelievable record ‘of success right in this city. So why waste time on external remedies or worry about an operation when Juneau Drug Co. invites every Pile sufferer to try HEM-ROID with guarantee of monsy-back if it does not end their Piles, no matter how stubborn the case? —adv.‘\ e —— - | SHOP IN JUNEAU 1 Juneau to furnishing the Home. Your dollar will go farther TODAY than at any time since 1906. Today You Can Buy Walnut Finished Dressers as low as . Walnut finished Chiffoniers as low as 14.00 Mohair Overstuffed Suites as low as... 87.50 Eight-Piece Dining Room Suites THESE ARE REAL FURNITURE VALUES, where you can examine them at your leisure Hardware Co. '|||||||||llllllll!“llllllul"lll"||||||m||||lI"||ll"lllllulllmmm_“llmlml"m AT PRICE Is always an important factor when it comes -$16.50 -Youing R L DT T e T O T T LT e T T T Rt T R P T T Odd as that sounas, it is vlnually‘ as true as though a new stomach | weré really bought and paid for— | that’s what thousands of former | stomach sufferers tell us. If UL- OERS, GAS, ACID STOMACH and | indigestion have made you miser- ' able for years, what would you do for a new stomach that made eat- ing and living a pleasure again? ‘Would you spend a 2¢ stamp? Write to Minneapolis Von Co., Dept. 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