The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 4, 1932, Page 6

g TO THANK T CARRIE? g = PE < 7 = pa \WE ELMER THEM RN Y/ THINK THE I TOLD igv% Sc\ltl‘;—w’s L H} SETN PORE SAP’LL HIM TO THE ROSE IS RED GIVE YOu (R AN || |HAVE THE SPUNK PRACTICE & THE VIOLET BLUE GIVE HIM? (HE 5AYS TO SAY EM ‘BEM, AN/ HE/ SAID HE THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1932. By CL 1 A§4 SUGAR IS SWEET AND SO ARE of Séd;on ace at Start —_—Yflliko(? Sluggc;rs.(}ot Off at Gid(l:;f P ZERI, 28 | h . averaged better than two homers a contest. Babe Ruth, the old maestro, is shown above looking over his slugging playmates on the New York Yankees. The boys in early games BYRD,CF NEW YORK, May 4—The Yanks \ have started swinging from their B u s RI v A L R Y | theels, and it is beginning to look | like they are going to have a lot of American League teams run- nng to cover hefore the season is over. In their first six games of the | season the Ruppert Rifles, collect- | | ed 16 home runs, and there ap- pears no - sign that the bombard- Ohlson Won'l Cooperale ment will slacked to any great : y F degree as the campaign settles Wllh Rxchardson ngh_ down. Babe Rutn and Lou Gehrig, who | way on Tourists collected 46 homers apiece last soason, naturally were in the thick of the firing, but tie lopg driv- — ing of Sam Byrd proved a sur- ment to handle the sale at our prise. Chicago office of sight-seeing bus Byrd started the season at cen- tickets for your company. We will tor field and immediately pounded also discontinue to handle free over out thres homers, which equalled the Alaska Railroad any baggage his entire output for lasi r. of passengers traveling over the Sammy explained that he had se- Richardson Highway. : cured a lghter bludgeon and was, “I have also instructed our Chi-/ taking a longer cut at the ball. |cago ol’fldce u; iiésc;nunuf l:a:; of | st . any Golden Bel our tickets inj uflg;gox:fiz :;mef:i f::‘:,:g?; either direction, and you are also| “heme Tun” bat when inserted in 2dvised that in our next folder noj the lineup in the place of the mention will be made of the Rich-| R temporarily out of action ardson Highw ay Transportation wig:'a cold. Combs, & line hitter, Company and ghe Golden Belt elevated his sights and drove two Tours cut cf the park in the first two gamoes. Teny Lazzeri celebratéd his re-| turn to second base after it had tegun to look as though he had lost his job to Jack Saltzgaver by | patterning a powerful home run that gave the Yanks a vic eenral Manager, Alaska Railroad, over Boston. Bill Dickey, big “Anchorage, Alaska. cacher, is another who has been! My Dear Col. Ohlson: gdriving the ball to the far reaches| .yourg of March 23rd recsived, € Yo pulc | contents duly and carefully noted, The Yanks last season perform- |, 1 wil say in reply that I o .”“”‘"h‘“ astounding [,e‘l‘: otwthink you are taking a rather seoring 1,067 runs and not Wi~ opitrery attitude toward the Rich- the pennant, Gove, Barn-|geon Highway Transportation chaw and Walberg, great hurling Company. trio, cf ihe Puiladelphia Athleleh,| "oy state in your letter that mubzsfm bz: g:;w?ms ??:, ‘;:f you have instructed your Chicago cause the current Yanks appear office to discontinue selling both a ginch o collect more than 1,000 the Golden Belt Line tickets in Tuns. |either direction over the highway i {and the sight-seeing tickets in Fair- .ba.nks Up to the present time your Chicago office has never sold \ (Continued mom Page One) “Yours very truly, “0. F. OHLSON, “General Manager.” Mr. Breedman’s Reply Mr. Breedman's reply follows: | “Cordova, Alaska, April 11, 1932 ‘Col. O. H. Ohlson, - J. F. D. MEETING Regular meeting of Juneau Fire 4 japy sight-seeing and very few Department Thursday, & b |Golden Belt Line tickets. The! s i 2 Secreba.;'y. Richardson Highway Transportation lcomplmy has always done all it jcould to promote the tourist busi- L e Daily Empire Want Ads Pay frrrrrreee Scandinavian-American DANCE TONIGHT L. 0. O. Moose and Harry Krane's Arctic Players MOOSE HALL . Admission $1.00 Wmv 1' he Leader De[;artment Store ; Ladies Free GEORGE BROTHERS | Railroad would see fit to reduce its | ' i - DOUGLAS Transportation Company. ness in Alaska, over the Alaskal Railroad as well as the highway, and has probably done much more to help the Alaska Railroad than the Alaska Railroad has ever done to help the Richardson Highway | |in Fairban! ALASKA MINERS IN SIBERIA PAID IN PAPER MONEY Capture of Harbin by Jap- anese Seemed Like Festival Occasion Fairbanks—American mining ex- T employed by the Sovie: mment o oduce modern ds in the Siberian gold fields paid in paper roubles—not h much outside of Russia—and the Japanese took Harbin, huria, the occasion seemed a val instead of war- s John Hosler, a Fair-, diamond drill and dredge pert, who has been in the Siber- | ian fiolds for the Soviet for the ra: 17 momniths. He was granted a vacation and was in Harbin on s way to Shanghai and Peiping the Japamese captured Har- Traveling became so difficult| he decided to return to his He has besn transferred to Irkutsh gold fields. Russian Clothes not Stylish H fost of the clothing that I ht from the United States wcrn out,” he writes to a friend , as published in the Faibanks News-Miner. “In the Soviet republic, I have never been able to buy a single article of wear- ing apparel that could be worn anywhere except in the land of he proletariat. As a result of this I have several thousand ‘rubles in currency that I won't know how to spend unless I am luckier in the future and find something to buy that will be worth taking home. I suppose you know ‘that the rubl e ive are ot convertible inio wi ks the | NEWS Refers to Scenic Grandeurs ' “Judging from your letter, I infer" it is generally conceded that the Keystone Canyon, the Richardson Highway and the Copper River and Northwestern Railway are the three DISCUSSED BY Kinley Park. Further, for your in- formation, in regard to the few tons of possible freight with two small trucks, I cannot see what Rev. Cadwell Makes Ad- difference that would make with inasmuch as most scenic trips in all Alaska, ex- cepting only, of course, Mt. Mc-‘ “- M dress at Douglas at Monthly Meeting the Alaska Railroad, the Piggly Wiggly Company had already decided not to use the Alaska Railroad for perishable freight. i “As you know, last year we did not go into competition with the Alaska Railroad or the Valdez freighters for the reason that we were in hope that the Alaska “Child Welfare” was the topic of the Rev. J. W. Cadwell's ad- dress before the Douglas Parent- Teachers’ Association last " mnight. Rev. Cadwell said ‘that preciate a child wherever we go and should not punish them for asking questions. Every child js (born with a certain amount of | intelligence and should critieised passenger and freight rates. Wouldn’t Have Been Necessary “If this had been cone, it would not have been ssary for the Richardson Hig! Transporta- tion Compdny to enter into the Valdez freight or passenger busi- Co-operation of Parents ness. The Fairbanks people are now, «“Everyone thinks his own chil- advertising an $18 fare from Valdez gren perfect, but the child’s char- to Fairbanks, or vice versa. Of aoter depends upon his surround- course our company cannot COM- ings, [Parents are not co-operat- pete with such rates. We ‘are charg- | with the teachers Bs they ing $35, which fact will mean that should. A parent ‘should not be we will probably not get much, “‘prejudjced any of their business. 1 not be is considered the mearest to the Kingdom of God. thing against their child's Further- | teacher since this leads the child more, my personal investment to defiance against theteacher. The amounts to ximately WO relations between the parent and hundred thousand dollars, which teacher toward the child should intend to fully protect to the best pe quite intimate.” {of my ability. So, if your instrue- 4 Child Life |tlons to your Chicago office in F€=| Rey. Cadwell declared that.a gard to the sale of Golden Belt!sun normal child needs spevial on- Lihe tour tickets stands, it will N}mw and help. In con- | neosssary for us to much further {cugion he said that the greatest {in order to get ss enough 10 ascet in the werld today is the | protect our investment. |child life of our nation. Will Advertise Railroad l It was anmounced during the “However, no tter what your " t . ; personal attitu |business meeting that Miss Fras intend to ignor: road. We shall complete Golden shall still include the Alaska Rail- animously elect- road in that advertising. Our 05“2: o};mfsfi{ ;;s:anmcyous;;\m:m‘ Ject is to get as many tourists as gy Kirkham appodn‘t,ed M}s J. possible, In I think it our R. Langseth, Mrs. William F‘leek duty to conti > boost the Alaska's "Wk Feero to serve on the Railroad since it is owned by the puoo e Board for the 1933 term. | advertise the|rom Mrs Helmi Bach, resigning people, and the people are the, Singing Games stockholders and taxpayers, apd| .. e pro- |should be treated as such. It is feet Pamber gn the gram was Singing Games enacted by the First and Second grades. |1t is privately owned and g per ?;ms@:hxm*é?u;g«n Pfi: jcent of the stock is MY OWR. Lon”oiine piano. Mary EMen Neither the Alaska Steamship Com= oo hiaveq 1; piano selection, ipany, nor the Alaska Railr DOr e enmre} was a piano <uet by jany other transportation company has any i Mary Eller. and Margaret Pearce. y interest in the Riehardson "y b Tooneusion of the pro- |Highway Transportation Company.! This fact should make my attitude 573 the Seniors served refresh- clear, ‘mem.s. o —m “I sincerely hope that you will : receive this letter in the spirit in which it is written, v At “Very truly yours, {quite different with the Richardson |Highway Transportation CHICKEN DINNER Mrs. Hooker's Coffee Shop ,Thursday, from 5:30 to 7. 85 cents. “S. O. BREEDMAN” - | - e - i n that you would just as soon nuL‘cHILD WELFARE ’Wu’:h ¢ see any business, tourist or other- & gy : < 3y ; L Sees Like Celobrati wise, go over the highway. I think l ecmed Like Cel . if he is not as intelli- ek an. otfiers of HiEaae" A chilll \m Trkutsk for some time after may be, we do “"‘ier's room had won the attendance o Alaska Rail-|gward for March. After a letter)! Belt tour and o5 treasurer, was read, Mrs. Rob- |4 money unless you bootleg it! then ruble paper money is only aboutt 30° rukles to the dollar” al Writing of the capture of Har- bin by Japanese troops, Mr. Hosler 7 & hen the Japanese took Har- in, it was a very peacsful baitle. They dropped a few bombs and a few Chinese and Russian in- habitants were killed but the Chi- nese army ran away with no great losses. The town is swarming with Japanese troops, tanks end mo- bile antillery, tut ét's more like 2 big celebration than any thing £l The troops seem glad *to have ycu take their pictures and of action without restriction. Going Back to Work “Traveling is so diffcult on ac- ‘you can go ‘all over their scenes Vidtor and Gustav Enstrom (cther miners from Fairbanks employed by the Soviet) and T have con- ¢luded to go back to work. “After a tong struggle I got them e ap_'ccum of military restrictions that to tre sfer me so Il be working I get back. Victor and Gustav will go ‘to Bodaibo which is mow the biggest placer camp in the world and I hope to make @ frip there in the summer.” Y Coins Clue to Forgotten Town in Libyan Desert CAIRO, May ¢—Proof that the Libyan desert was onee inhabited, has come with the discovery by an Arab of old goin coins at & spot . The coins were shown to Pro- fessor Junter who thereupon found the remains of what is believed to have been a Romapn garrison fown. Ruins of sixty buildings have been unearthed. t e iR |mw miles from the Baharia oasis. .!!ENBY LEAVES TUESDAY FOR INTERIOR DISTRICT | T. N. Henry, Spbeigl Agent of the United States Department ci Justice, who has been here for several weeks on cofficial busipess, sailed for Seward yesterday om the steamer Alaska. He will cover central and interior districts be- fore returning here. RETURNS TO TERRITORY Stephen Foster, Territorial game warden with headquarters at Ne- nana some 12 or 13 years @go, FORMER INTERIOR WARDEN is returning to the Tuterior after i id AWARDS MADE INALASKAP-TA, ESSAY CONTEST Compositions Are Submit-| ted from All Parts of Territory Awards were in the essay c the Alaska Cou f the Parent- Teacher Association for school-| children in the Territory. The| competition was open o both grade pupils and high school students,| and compositio: re submitted | frem all princi | ies. In many inst of the literary e pezarly egual that ounced today ! sponsored by | il > judges had | culty tn finding distinttions on | which to base records | The judges were Mrs. M. L. Mer- | ritt, Mrs. L. P. Dawes and Mrs. | Charles W. Hawkesworth, all of| Juneau. Announced by Mrs. George Announcement of the awards! was made by Mrs. Wallis 8. George | of this city, secretary-treasurer of ! the Alaska Council of the Parent- Teacher Association. First prize $25, ories,” by Baard Hall Lervick, Ket- | chikan. | 2cond prize, $10, “Little Singing Bird,” by Lorene Smith, Cordova. | Ten $1 prizes as follows: “Took Tooult, Sampson of the Indians,” by Helen Mills, Sitka. “Rasputin,” by Woodrow Johan- sen, Cordova. | “The Lady in Black,” by Jane ! Mills, Sitka. | “Lost Love,” by Minnie Dooley, | Cordova. ! From Hely Cross Mission | “Who Giveth His Life for His| Sheep,” Sophie Cristo, Holy Cross. “A Thrilling Flight,” by Max- ' ine Blunt, Anchorage. ‘“The Mystery of the Stolen| Foxes,” by Irene Thompson, Ket- chikan. “Just An Irishman's Quarrel,” | by Winifred Torstensen, Sitka. + “The Epistle of Sourdough Mike"l by Constance Carlson, Ketchikan. “Kenal” by Lizette Helekal, Cox- | dova. Telepfione Conferences Delayed by Ohio Blast COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 4.—Ohio State officials must wait awhile before they can hold telephone | conferences as a result of the ex- | plosion which wrecked the new Ohjo State office building. An inter-office hookup by which officials might “listen in” on con- | ferences without leaving their desks is to be a feature of the new building, opening of which was de- layed by the explosion. Any number of officials might confer by telephone without leaving their offices through the arrange- ment. | P — IN THE FUEL OIL LINE We haul Diesel oil only. For reasonable delivery rates Phone 81. T Thomas Hardware Co.. AR O y GIVE MOTHER FLOWERS on Mother’s Day, ‘May 8th Flowers make a thoughtful gift, because in their fresh fragrance and natural beauty they repre- sent the things mother likes best. For a little care they give so much beauty and pleasure, and they add to mother’s enjoyment of the day. We have our usual abundance of Cut Flowers and Potted Plants suitable for the gecasion. Also all kinds of Plants for the Garden. . 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