The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 14, 1932, Page 2

R e THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, JUNE I4 1932. Summer Dresses In Stout Sizes also to the wearer. in one and two piece styles espec- fashioned for stout women at \l'!'} l"l‘il.\'()nil])h' l)l'i("'fi.’ ially Women who desire larger s distinctive designs styled to give slenderizing lines require Here are dre Regular $21.50 ow $14.75 Regular $11.95 Now $7.50 85e8 B. M. Behrends Co., Inc. Juneau’s Leading Department Store They Represent Agriculture Two of the nation’s farm deaders are looking after the interests of agriculture at the Republican cenvemtion. They arc Louis J. Taber Bureau Federation. at (above), Master ¢f the Natienal Grange, and Edward A. O'Neal (below), President of the American Farm — e John H. McDonald, Fairbanks . 76, a resident wow. of the North for 33 years, died at KCMO but ‘TWD SIDES T0 G.OP. Coavention | cch AGD M E ET - ARE EVIDENCED Cdlm, Harmomom on Sur- deE, DlVlded and Dl&' ! turbed Beneath (Continued 1rom Pagé One) blings against renomination of Curtis, A rcal boom for Charles G Dawes, sccmed to be in progre Scme still_think he would get the nomifiaticn ‘for Viee-President and would accept. Restless Convention Keynoter Dickinson talked to | restless Gelegates and half filled galleries about almost everything 'but Prohibition. Passive faces of the delegates testified the dele- gates were preoccupied with other things than party principles. Wet-Dry Issue Up The wet and dry issue was brought officially to the notice of the convention shortly before ad- | journment this afternoon but hard- ly any one on the floor or in the galleries knew it. Nicholas Murray Butler sent his famous repeal resolution to the desk for reference to the Platform Committee without asking that it be read and it silently went into the hopper to be heard from later. JONVENTION OPENING i IS HEARD m JUNEAU Junecau radio - fans in about 6 o'clock this morning heard the opening of the Republi- can National Gonvention in Chi- cago. They heard the cheering of the delegates, band playing and ral commotion attending the ning of the big political pow- The broadcast was made over the sun disturbed the speech being heard here. 1o keynote —_— J. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU The Weather LOCAL BATA (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicihity, beginning at 4 p.m., June 1a: Probably showers tonight and Wegdnesday; moderate southeast- erly winds. Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity ~ Weather | 4 pm. yest'y ... 3016 62 42 w 6 Pt. Cldy 4 am. today .....30.00 41 96 w 4 Clear Noon today 29.90 58 50 w 4 Cldy CABLE AND RADIO REPORTS YESTERDAY Highest 4p.m. ‘Station temp. temp. Barrow . 32 32 Nome 56 52 Bethel 50 50 Fort Yukon 58 56 ‘Tanana 46 46 Fgirbanks 66 62 Eagle . 62 62 St. Paul 2 4 Dutch Harbor 50 4 = 52 50 . 4“4 44 . 62 62 62 62 ... 60 60 . B2 8 82 82 88 88 .. 62 58 TODAY { Lowest4am. 4am. Precip. 4am. temp. temp. velocity 24¢hrs. Weather 26 26 12 0 Cldy 38 38 8 01 Rain 4 M 12 08 cldy | 4 80 4 0 Pt.Cudy | 4“4 44 4 234 Rain 44 44 E Trace Pt.Cldy 38 88 4 0 Clear 3% 38 8 Trace Rain | 36 40 4 0 Pt. Cldy 40 42 0 34 Cldy 40 40 4 1.02 Rain 41 1 4 Clear “ u 4 0 Clear 48 52 0 0 Pt. Qldy | 5 5B 4 0 Clear | I 58 s6 6 0 Pt Cldy 58 58 4 0 Pt. Cldy 52 54 6 0 Cldy Th.preuurelslownea: the Gulf of Alaska and from Seward to Canada. Heavy rain fell at Tanana and show- were reported on the Bering Sca coast and in the Guilf of Al- mmum»vumemwmu(mmxmsma ‘The weather is cloudy over Alaska *mvfimmmw !\npermus slightly over imost of the Territory. who tuned | IDEMOCRATSBEST ‘PAYING GUESTS' AT CONVENTIONS That's Dok, They Ling er Longer Trymg to Nominate (Centinuwea from Page One) lits two-thirds majority rule, holds | Chicago's hopes for a financial harvest. A glance at the records gives considerable foundation for those hopes. The longest con- vention, of course, was the 1924 mesting in New York, when the delegates wrangled for 17 days be- fore they nominated John W.Davis. | ‘There have been other long Demo- cratic conventions, however, not-| ably the 1912 and 1920 meetings of nine days each. If they hold an average conven- tion jthe Democrats would adjourn just in time to get home, or be |well on the way, Sunday. Their meeting this year starts Monday, June 27. Tickets have been prinf- ed for 12 sessions or for six days if the practice of holding two ses- sions is followed. Past Performances The following table shows the duration by days of the conven- tions since 1880: REPUBLICAN DEMOCRATIC 1928 4 (Hoover) 4 (Smith) 1924 3 (Coolidge) 17 (Davis) 1920 5 (Harding) 9 (Cox) 1916 4 (Hughes) 3 (Wilson) 1912 4 (Taft) 4 9 (Wilson) 1908 4 (Taft) 4 (Bryan) 1904 3 (Roosevelt) 4 (Parker) 1900 3 (McKinley) 3 (Bryan) 1896 3 (McKinley) 5 (Bryan) 1892 4 (Harrison) 3 (Cleveland) 1888 6 (Harrison) 3 (Cleveland) 1884 4 (Blaine) 4 (Cleveland) 1880 7 (Garfield) 3 (Hancock) | | i On June 14, 1777, the Continental | Sun Never Sets on Old Glor y ,Revered Since 1777| the Stars and Stripes became the off flag of our couniry on June 14, 1777. observed as Flag Day. At right: U. mental colors. S. Marines on paradge with the march of daylight catches the e We Americins may well be proud | war of our flag. Tt is the most beau- |fiuitering folds of the Stars tiful of all national colors, and |Stripes flying over the American has pointed the way to freedom |Consulates in the Near East or in 1 for countless thousands. Tt stands | and when the sun has for patriotism, loyalty and fidelity d its zenith in the Old World, | 2. to the ideals of America. For 155 ‘flag is again fling to the| years it has been waving in' the e on the Atlantic seaboard. 3 breeze, the most-beloved symbol of | Thus the Stars and Stripesmakes | 4. our country. |its appearante in the early morn- Woodrow Wilson said: ' “This | inz in all parts of the globe, and flag, which we honor and under remains flying until the sun dis- 5. which we serve, is the emblem |appears over the horizon. of our unity, ourpower,our thought | Our flag has never baen a sym- | and purpose as a nation. Tt thas bol of military agression. At home seven | rooms. Pas Exali st stanzas. no othe: charadter than that which or abroad, afloat on the we glve it from generation to gen- |seas, or in some far distant out- | eration. | post, it is America’s guarantee of “The choices are ours. Tt floats |J e %o those who seek protec- ler its folds. in majestic silence above the hosts | that execute those choices, whether | And, yet, 1 in ‘peace or in war. FLKS WILL HOLD FLAG though silent, it speaks to wus—| EXERCISES THIS EVENING v speaks to us of the past, of the| At 9 o'clock this evening, the |c~ men and women who went before ‘J“l au' lodge of Elks, No. 420, blue us, upon it.” Decide Upon Flag and of the records they write Congress decided “that the flag of the thirteen United States be thir- teen stripes, alterndte red and white; that the union be thirteen % stars, white in a blue field senting a new constellation.” the intervening years it has mained unchanged, save only repre- In for an occasional variation in the num- ber of stripes and the addition of a star for each mew state The story of the flag is the, stury ¢f the nation. Tt has kepi! pace with the march of events that followed ‘the Revolution, and haa\ braved the battle and the breeze | during more than a century and a half of national growth. { | Its influeice has gradually ex- tended around the globe, and in| our gemeration the sun never sets, - ‘on ‘the Stars and Stripes. Ev minute of the twenty-four hom somewhere on our planet, he | felds of Old Glory are flying to abductors’ clutches. Relatives terrific ‘prices’ for. the]safety, of victims, but still the one ‘woman five men were not_released) This is the story of | i the breeze. | | 1t is the custom of the U s.‘ iMarines to raise the flag every morning &t eight oclock. It re-! (mains flying until sunset. Ceremony | ‘Three hours after the U. S. Ma- 'rines at New York, Boston, Nor-| folk and other East Coast naval| stations have raised the flag, the| Marines at posts along the Pa- | \cfl'xe ‘seaboard present arms to the |colors -as they are hauled smart- i {1y to the top ‘of the flagstaf(—! ‘the time interval varying only when daylight saving is in vogue. About two and a half hours la-| Iter the ceremony is repeated in |the ‘Hawaiian Tslahds. More than | |five hours haye Tolled around be- | | fore the ' flag 18 raised by the| |Soldiets of thé Sea in Yhe far-off uflhmnpmes and at virtually the; same time the Marines of the| Tourth Regiment ' hoist ' the flag| above their regimental headquart- ors. 3 BSeveral hours later the I Especially treated to wi and changing atmosphe: surfaced for paipt, tint, P iagg SCHUMACHER PLASTER W ALL-BOARD ECONOMICAL—FIRE RESISTANT and SOUND-PROOF Thomas HardwareCo. Vnchms!{\ dare* devd”. ithstand damp, cold, heat, ric conditions. 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