The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 22, 1932, Page 2

2 7 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1932. gastersrasnions | Step Blithely Forth! Smart young fashions as gay and bright as spring itseif are assembled for choosing. Garments that achieve un- usual chic through exquisite needling and clever manipula- tion of fabric are shewn in the very latest Fashion conceils for spring 1932. If Youre Hard To Please We'll find jt a pleasure to please you! We'll please you with the style of our garments as well as the fine quality and low prices. Coats, trimly tailored, are furred or self-trimmed. Dresses of silk crepes, triple sheers or lightweight woclens. Suits in {weed mixtures and silks, COATS $13.50 to $42.50 DRESS Up to S 1.50 SUITS | ; Up to $21.50 Dress Special -« $2.95-$3.9 We have placed this group of dresses on one rack for your convenience and have priced them exceedingly low. . on this rack you will find wool knit suits and dresses, also dresses in rayons and printed silks, many in gay colorings and some plain solid eolors. AT A VERY SPECIAL PRICE ' B. M. Behrends Co., Inc. Juneaw’s Leading Department Store ~——————HER WAY SOUTH AT HIGH SCHOOL 1Vessel Times Departure to{Members of Faculty Will i Catch Wrangell Nar- Act as Instructors rows Tide of Athletes Bound from Skagway to Vancou-| Indoor basketball classes have Norah, Capt. W.. Q. Palmer ami}Juneau ‘High School and & schedule Purser A. N, Taylor, called at Ju-|of games to be played in the gym- neau this morning, coming at 3)nasium of the institution has been o'clock and . leaving at 7. Her de-|arrangéd, according t announce- e was timed to enable her | ment made today by Pref. R. S. to catch a flood tide in Wrangell | Raven,’ Superintendent of Public Narrows. Schools, Persons who beoked passage here Classes And Instructors _: 18 CALLS EARLY ON SQUADS FORMED ver, B. C., the steamship Princess|been organized by students of the | Kitchener the Victim of Vengeance * * * * * * * Sinking of Cruiser Hampsnire with Great Soldier Attributed to Boer Mascer Spy Who Sought Revenge for Sonth Africa. | 5 ' SR HMS Hamesuiee. T,0RD KITCHENER. Man Who Killed Kitchener,” England’s great soldier- | ta ed i The man who enacts the title ‘ole in the story is Fritz Duquesne, or that was the name by which he was known in New York, where 1e worked as a newspaperman. He was also an acquaintance of the President Roosevelt. A Boer oy b Duquesne is said to have bee, ith an overmastering hatred for England, since the 'his country under the jurisdiction of the British Gevernment. Accordingly, on the outbreak of the Wor'd War he set out to damage the country he hated ery manner possible. He is credited with be- ng the guiding hand that caused the sinking of many British troopships and merchant vessels and the ex- | ent ot his operations would require a volume to enumera But his crowning achievement was the lay- | mg of tue trap that caught and killed England’s greatest military geni Posing as a Count Zakrevsky, upposed (o have been sent by the Czar to accompany Kitchener to Russia for a conference of the war efs, Duquasne sailed aboard the ill-fated Hampshire with the Field Marshal. As the cruiser plowed through a stornt off the Orkney Islands, a flare-bomb from the perthole o the spy’s cabin nigmled to a | 4 king German submarine and in a few moments the great cruiser went to the bottom, taking with her | £ oland’s gremtest soldier since Wallington, tvivor was picked out of the boiling sea by the U-boat. . He wi ritz Dugussne. MAY DAY HOP 13,000 POUNDS FREIGHTER iS 1S SCHEDULED OF HALIBUT SELL [Amesican Legion Auitiary FOR 4 A!p 1 €18, Plans Usual Danc- ing Event oyage of San Angelo Is Reported [Fremont Comes to Port| from Banks with 3 Light Catch Four cents a pound, first grade, | cents a pound, second grade, | | | | The American Legion Auxiliary |held its second monthly business {meeting in the Dugout last Friday |evening. A good attendance was |present and much business was|, ! ixiliary is planning upon | SAN PEDRO, Cal, ofe ond time on the present 2 broke cut aboard the shter San Angelo, bound from phia to Seattle. Fire is reported today in number T freighter is 200 m Jun 'giving its regular May Day Dance| g, 3 this- ye nd a committee to by the ing by. appo! to mal all Thon: AR Gabeh e was on March 6 In the past ay at this the 4 San Juan Fish mphny of by { Packing San Ang: hed Nor- chest, fi 4 “with - hands {1t has been iced and boxed many other useful articles, and a|yi) be shippsd fresh to the Puget e committee was also appainted t0!gound n opolis on the steam- i i oA purchase- this chest, solicit lts con-| Ty tents' and dispose of the tickets. | Beecause of the inclemency of the o 1 { Fremont Has 2,500 Pounds oo i e weather, the Auxiliary has been un- | | conscious” by chemical war Two thousand, five hundred it g | L | 2 { demonstrations able to hold one of its Baby Clinics, pounds of halibut arrived in Ju- | _ Admiral Evans, scheduled south | |from here tomorrow night. Second Blaze on Present McBride, = custodian of Vi «d March 8 i Daily Empire Want Ads Pay ELKS WILL HOLD BIRTHDAY PARTY TOMORROW EVE | . {Entertainment Arran ged | and Refreshments to Be Served Juneau’s Lodge of Elks will be entertained tomorrow evening by members of the“order whoss ‘Wirth- day anniversaries fall in March. {An interesting program has been arranged for the occasion. Refresh- ments will be served. The festivities will begin immed- iately after adjournment of the regular meeting of the lodge. | The committee of 2ntertainment, whose members have birthday an- niversarie§ this month, are: M. Bavard, Chairman; George Danner, G- W. Folta, C. T. Gard- ner, Joseph George, J. M. Giovan- Martin Lynch, D. J. Oliver, L. H. Smith, W. G. Smith, R.. H. Stevens, O. Torkelson, M. S. Wil- son, ‘'H. W. Terhune, F. Betts, J. L. Hill, J. H. Hunter; J. H, Walmer, S. Zenger and John ‘Silva. i PRSP FEr BIDS OPENED ON ' IMPROVEMENTS FORPOSTOFFICE ;Wire Partitions and Bulle- tin Boards to Be Put Up For turnishing material for wire mesh partitions and for bulletin oards in the Juneau postoffice and bi cdoing the work of installation, bids wera opened late yesterday by J.°C. Federal Buildings in '‘Alaska. In most in- stances the figures were unusually close. The tenders follow: Usonia Manufacturing Company, March 22.— St. Louis, Mo., $1,050; Pacific Wire Works, Inc., Seattle, $1060; Rainier Ornamental Tron and Wire Works, Inc., Seattle, $1,105; Ace Tron Works, Seattle, $1,650. All bids have been forwarded by Mr. McBride to the Bupervising | u Fish Exchange ves ¥ f The freighter Architect of the Treasury Depart- i ment, Washington, D. C., who will make the award. The mesh partition work includes ening off that part of the main work room of the postoffice that is devoted to parcel post déliveries. The Dulletin ‘board improvement | consists of the placing of two bul- tions in Esthonia are endeavoring letin boards in the lobby of the to make the civil populations“gas postoffice. e |however, arrangements are being neay today on the Fremont, Capt. | | madgto hold one during the after-iojaf Winther. The catch will be {noon of March 29, at the Dugout.|cfrered at auction late today or | | It will be managed by the members | tomorrow forsncon. {of the Auxiliary who are nurses,| | with Miss Mildred Keaton, R. N.'of 'Seattle, Capt. Martin Selness, | in charge. All mothers are urged' moored to the wharf of the Juneau | |to take their children for exam- Cold Storage Company today to| {ination and professional advice, take bait and ice. She is bound' | which is given gratis. | f6r the Yakutat banks. It was decided at the meeting Portiock's Seoond Trip jthat the Auxiliary would hold its This is the Portlock’s second trip | regular busk and social meet- of the season. |Ings; beginning on April 7, on the = “Ws lay in Seattle 10 days after |first - and second 'Thursdays of gelling our catch,” said Capt. Sel- each menth. For a few months, ness. “Our trip required about |the Auxiliary has been holding its three weeks. We got 33,000 pounds. {meetings on the first and second The men cleared $7 each on the Fridays of each month, but because trip. \We hope this trip will turn so many were unable to attend on -ont better.” |those “mights, it has decided to change.” | SMALLPOX 1 SCHOOLS HONOR The nine-man schooner Portlock > o DRI-BRITE LIQUID WAX No Rubbing—No Polishing For use on Linoleum, Hardwood and Composition Floors Dries with a high luster finish in 19 minutes. FOR SALE AT Thomas Hardware Co. “BREAKNG our WASHINGTON ON - cuin cmesNEX T FRIDAY iLloyd Vincent to Speak UNITED FOOD CO. “CASH IS KING” e Mok el The o e e been | Refugees * Reported Eatingl and Students to | For Vancouver—J. Sargent. tormed ' are the Beginning Boys'| Bark from Trees Give Readings | F— For Scattle—Mr. and Mrs. R.|Class, with Prof. E. G. Wentland, | d Also Weed i i Pelton, Mrs. Roy Rutherford, H. B. | instiuctor; Beginning Girls' Class,| # and Also Weeds | In both High and Grade schools LeFevre, R.. F. Lewis and A, C. Prof. ven, temporary instructor; Adyan Boys' Class, Prof. ‘A. S, Dunhama, . instruetor; .~ Advanced Girls' Class, Enid Burns, instructor. Time Of Games Regular scheduled games are set for .Monday, Tuesday, Wednesdy and Thursday afternoons, 3:30 to 5.0'clock, leaving Friday afternoons for play-offs. - Indgor tennis will gontinue for a| ‘menth or untl . permics outdoor uhm?z-xm. SHANGHAT, March 22.—As the| result of the crowding of millions | of -refugees in the Chinese cities, an epidemic of smallpox is sweep- ing @ Wide section according to a report made today by Dr. Wu Lien TTeh, Director of the Chinese | Quarantine Service. PFifteen Chinese died within two| days. here. Within week 142 died at Hongkong and: Sir John Hope Simpson, of the British Famine Commission, said the people are eating bark from trees, chaff from threshed grain and weeds. Desperate measures | Gecrge ‘Washington Bicentennial exercises will be held next PFriday jafternoon, Prof. R. S. Raven, Sup-; erintendent of Public Schools, an-/ nounced . today. { The High School program will be ! given at 2:30 o'clock in the auditor- ium of the institution. Lloyd Vin-! cent, of Seattle, who is engaged in future, will be the Speaker of the occasion. Readings will be given' by several of the students. i In the Grade School, programs will be presented by .pupils in the' Tespective rooms. | ——.———— FRIENDS— We are having a nice quiet little Silk and Parchment Lamp Shade Sale. If you need new shades an inspection of able to all parties concerned, yourself in particular. Yours Very Truly, No Responsibility Fixed in Disaster Which Took < SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, March Seven Lives 22-~The appeal of the Home Sav- ings and Loan Association of Se- REDLANDS, Cal, March 22.—An|attle from'the action of the Dis- open verdict, fixing no responsibil-|trict Federal Court at Seattle in ity for the plane crash at Calimesa | dismissing ‘its petitions that it be last Saturday night in which the|adjuded bankrupt, has been dis- seven persons aboard were killed, | missed by the Cireuit Court of has been returned by the coroner’s| Appeals. Jury here.‘ ! ‘The ' Circuit Court of Appeals The accident is attributed to held it had no longer any juris- local freakish and treacherous fog.|diction due to' the recent amend- The trimotored plane struck & |ment ‘of the bankruptcy law. high power line and burst “into ——-—— flames, Old papers &t ‘fhe Empire. EMPIRE Will Serve You More Satisfactorily A;iéa;; }:::;je and st mmu.-:m e Rt When You Want PI.ANE GRASH ';"_ R | ~ DUE TO Fog DEFUNGT FIRM Job L with Style and Quality More Promptly aboard the craft from Skagway. j¢f the White Pass and Yukon Route More Reasonably | Printing Phone 374 LOSES APPEAL , he said, are i flopd. relipt work and. prevent WISTH SINGLE GOLF BALL TALLADEGA, Ala., March 22— idespread starvation. Judge M. V. Lanning has a golf ball money cannot buy. It's old and ———————— INDIANS ILL; =4 worn, but a valued relic. The judge used it to play 43 ! 4 consecutive ‘games of golf, for a total of 828 holes, without losing it. 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