The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 7, 1932, Page 8

JUNEAU'S FAIR WILL BE OPENED NEXTWEDNESDAY Four Day Gaily “Prosper-| ity Frolic” Starts Week from Today om today, ne: rnoon, the Sout will be opened formal exercises place at 8 o'clock in the evening. In preparation for e “Pros- dox of the| iing are to be| ock in the morn- sk in the afier-| bitors to arrange 15 eliminating 1 ations and husaling the only one to be perity Frolic,” big exposition opened from 8 o ing until 5 o'cl 1 noon for the ex held in Alaska year, prom- ises to beat al in the r of worthy jons and There are j enough ing” booths to insure a good for the public and also profit the concessionaries. he management has received mest encouraging Teports from distant points regarding floral and | Jtural products which will be exhibited during the four days. The amusement program is be- ing rapidly shaped up and only local talent will b2 used but there will be plenty and it is said of an exceptional variely. ADVERSE FATE | FAILS N EFFORT T0 FOIL STORK Associated Pr time was 10 hours and 19 minutes. NO SCHEME T0 WIPE OUT WAR DEBTS DEVISED Indian Woman, After Ard-| wous Trip in Boats, Gives Birth to Twins Fate last night played pranks vith Rudolph Gomez, Filipind cannery worker, and his Indian wife, an expectant mother, but fi- nslly tossed them into the Gov- ernment hospital where the wo- man gave birth to twin girls. The couple yesterday forenoon started in a gashoat from Excur- sion Inlet, where Gomez has been employed by the Astoria and Pu- ce; Sound Packing Company, ‘o come 1o thiscity. On reaching Mendenhall Bar at the head of Gastineau Channel, about 9 o'clock last might, the gasboat grounded Get Into Skiff Thereupon, the skiff on the craf! was launched, and Gomez, having put his wife in the little boa:, started to row %o the City Float Juneau. Opoosed by a rather £tiff wind and contrary currents, he worked three hours at the oars before reaching 4 point in the har- bor almost opposite the City Float. Just then the steamship Queen, coming from Skagway, rounded the Rock Dump and proceeded to her moorings at the Admiral Line ‘Wharf. Boat Is About Swamped Waves made by her almost swamped the Gomez boat, and he fearing his wife, who was almost unconscious, would fall into the water, went to her assistance. In- advertently he foiled to' pull in one of his oars nnd it got away beyond recovery. With one oar, Gomez could only partly guide his craft. It drifted with the tide and current to a point opposite Thane. There at 1 o'clock this morn- ing, he managed to beach the boat. Leaving hiz wife in it, he went to a house in which he saw a light. It was the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Campbell. Gomez made known the situation to them Makes Fast Run In their automobile, they took him and his wife to the Govern- ment hospital, making the run| as fast as the car could travel. | With Dr. W. J. B. McAuliff= physician in charge of the hos- pital, in attendance, the were born at 4 c'clock this morn- ing. Mother and Tttle ones “are do- ing fine” Dr. MzAuliffe said today Gomez, a spare little man in happy mood this afternoon, was receiving the cougratulations of countrymen at tae Brunswick Pool Hall. —o——— Old papers for sale at Empire Office. CHICKEN DINNER THURSDAY EVENING From 5:30 to 7 85¢ The E;ffee Shoppe . Mrs. Katherine Hooker twins | Senator Smoot, Adminis-| tration's Spokesman, | i Makes Statement [ ah, Sept. SALT LAKE CITY, U — United States Ser Smoot, Republican -of Utah, said 1in an address here last night that! “no scheme has been devised under which war debts will be wiped out as every remedy would merely transfer the debts to the Ameri-| can people.” U. S. Debt | Senator Smoot declared there is no connection, legal or otherwise, on the debts European nations owed the United States and parations ass:ssed against many by the Allies. The Utah Senator said France| made no effort to link debts and| reparations in early part payments | explaining that the move had been taken only after Germany had been drained beyond the possibility of paying any more. Senator Smoot said the total| amount of reparations received by | France from Germany was prob-| ably ten times the amount France | paid the United States on debts. Senator Smoot has been regarded | as the Administration’s spokesman in Washington. | —— e — Mrs. M. S, Jorgensen and daugh- ter Joan will arrive tonight on the Northland after a visit in the Pacific Northwest. Mrs. Wayne Aho is a patient at St. Ann’s Hospital. She en tered late yesterday aftermoon to Ger- re-| AN P SR SR RPN LA RN - M SRR SN telephoto of Roscoe Turner (left) and Jimmy Haizlip at Floyd Bennett field, Long Island, N. Y., after breaking the transcontinental flight record from Los Angeles. Haizlip's elapsed Turner was 38 minutes slower. BIG BUILDING PROGRAM BEING RUSHED AHEAD Progress Reported in Gov-| ernment Construc- tion in Nation WASHINGTON Sept. 7. — The day that rapid progress in the $700,000,000 public building program is being made with spacific authori- zations of $496,463,942 There are 382 projects, costing e than $324,000,000 under con- m The entire program calls for the ruction of 1,800 buildings throughout the country. e Flying Hutchinsons Off on Another Leg In Atlantic Flight OTTAWA, Sept. 7—The Flying Hutchinsons took off from "God- MOUNTAINEERS FAIL TOREACH Head of Washburn Party and One Associate Leave for States Efforts of the party of mountain climbers, headed by H. B. Wash burn, Jr., to scalz Mount Crillon, a peak about 12,000 feet high, in the Fairweather Range distrit, were foiled by drenching rains, which prevented the transporta- tion and preservations of provis- |ions. Some members of the ex- ‘pedmon reached an elevation of 18000 feet and then had to des- cend. " Fairweather Effort Failed | A previous attempt by the Wash- burn party to asecend Mount Fair- | weather failed. | Mr. Washburn, whose home is in | Cambridge, Mass, and Walter A Everett, of Arlington, Mass, who |came to Juneau yesterday in the seaplane Chichagol, from the ex- pedition’s main base on Cenotaph !Island in Lituya Bay, left last night on the steamship Queen for Seattle. From there they will go to Cambridge to re-enter classes {at Harvard University. i Other Members Coming The other five members of the Washburn party, together with | the expedition’s equipment, will be | brought from Cenotaph Tsland to {this city by the power boat Ya- kobt, Capt. Thomas Smith, which is believed to be there mow. They | will return to the States early next :veek. ( The Washburn party came norta lin June on the mountain-climbing | venture. WHO’S WHO | AND WHERE | Eo (] | | Miss Harriet Barragar, Miss Betty | Barragar and Miss Verna Hurley left yesterday for Eugene, Ore., r Reed Treasury Department reported to-|where they will enter the Univer- sity of Oregon. F. S. Gordon, ow#'r of the Gor- |don chain of women's wear stores in Alaska, left yesterday for~Ket- i chikan to look over his store there. |He was here a week. | H. B. Crewson, well-known mer- | chandise broker who makes his headquarters in Juneau, left yes- |terday on a business trip to Ket- chikan and other Alaska towns | south of Juneau. | Mrs. Frank H. Foster and son, | Frank H. Foster, Jr., have returned {home from a visit of several weeks lin Cordova. y C. J. Sullivan, Deputy United States Marshal at Haines, has re- [tumed to his home. Mr. Sullivan, on an official visit to Juneau, was acompanied by Mrs. Sullivan. Territorial Com- TOP OF CRILLON thaad, Greenland, today for Ang-| W. K. Keller, magsaik, Greenland, on the East missioner of Education, has left for Coast, continuing their flight from‘Huines. and will' visit other towns New York City to London. }in Southeast Alaska on official SPERRY’S 10-pound receive treatment for severe cold. 95¢ Pair Sizes 5 to 7 | | LE e | , CHILDREN’S SANDALS | $1.85 Pair OXFORDS—Boys and Girls Sizes 815 to 2 Leader Dept. $3.95 Pair It’s Time for Pancakes bags .. - GARNICK’S—Phone 174 SHOE SALE | NEW STOCK PURCHASED AT NEW LOW PRICES! GENUINE LEATHER SHOES---MONEY BA(JK GUARANTEE 3 JUST A FEW OF MANY PRICES LADIES’ OXFORDS Values to $6.00 New Styles LADIES’ $5.50 Pair LEATHER HIKING E BOQTS—Values to $9.00 Col. Bennett C. Clark, son of the late Speaker Ckamp Clark, who won the democratic nomination for United States senator in the Missouri primary, is shown with Mrs. Clark and three sons at their suburban home. Champ Clark 111 is at the left, the other boys are three-year-old twins, Kimball and Marsh, (Associated Press Photo) business before returning to Ju-| came to Juneau this week. He has neau. | bezn retained to examine mining Joseph J. Meherin, mcrchnndx;c:m‘t)pex-ty on Chichagof Island. broker, has gone on a business trip| Glenn Carrington, Juneau and to the Westward, His first stop|Ketchikan business man, is back will be Cordova. in Juneau from a business trip N. L. Troast, well-known archi-|south. tect, has returned to his head-| Mrs. Henry Meier has returned quarters in Juneau from a busi-|home from a visit of several months in Seattle. | Mrs. George H. Walmsley and( . | son, George H. Walmsley, Jr., have ness trip to Ketchikan. Allen Craig Faith, A of the Cordova Time: Fa&_m, visited Tnere yesterdav|returned home from a visit to while the steamer Yukon was in|geattle. port. They are enroute to Virginia | Harry Race, proprietor of drug where they will spend sometime. Mr. Faith may go into the news- paper publishing business there. stores in Juneau and Ketchikan, |is in town on matters in connec- | tion with his business here. He is Sam Godfrey, owner of extensive | N g placer ground on Nome Creek e e Mrs. C. E. Harland is a pas- the Fairbanks district, is a Yukon passenger enroute to Seattle. Casper Ehlingen, mining man of the Circle district, is enroutc to Seattle on the steamer Yukon. He will spend the winter on the | senger aboard the Northland ac-| | companied by her daughter and son, after a visit to Sealttle. John H. Ahlers, of the Rice and Ahlers Company, who has been Pacific Coast. | south for several weeks, accom- Harry Townsend, mining engineer | panied by his wife, is returning whose headquarters are in Seattle,) to Juneau aboard the Northland. ~ LEIGH GOING T0 VISIT PORTLAND WASHINGTON, Sept. 7T—Two navy cruisers in charge of Ad- miral Richard H. Leigh, command- er-in-chief of the United Statos fleet, will visit Portland, Oregen this month during the National convention of the American Le- gion. ‘The Navy Denartment said today Admiral Leigh will travel on the U.8S. Omaha, with Rear Admiral Claude C. Blech, on the USS. CAMPAIGN PLAN FOR DEMOCRATS NEW YORK, Sept. 7—A new plan to raise the Democratic cam- paign funds by the sale of bronze |medallions of Roosevelt and Gar- ner is announced. The medallion was designed by Gutzon Borglum. — e 'PLANE LEAVES WITH FIVE. PASSENGERS Bound. for Chichagof with a woolens, and rough weaves. Fine fur trims. 1 i | Concord. * Admiral Leigh, in the Omana, PArty of five, the airship Chicha- will make an inspection tour of {80f Pilot Ansccl Eckmann and the Hawaliin ‘asea’ from mechanic Gordon ' Graham, left 10 to October 30, then returning|Juneau late this afternoon. 3 to the San Pedro-San Diego area.| Tnose making the flight were: | o8 Cora Smith, Nick Bez, James PDavis, Willam Wicker ‘and Matt Woman Robbed Bilinich. * 9 . After reaching Chichagof, the of 3700 o plane will go to Lake Renahan to Daylight Holdup get Mike McKallick and & mining SEATTLE, Sept. 7. — Mrs. engineer and bring them back to 'p Grace Whaler, collector for a | Chichagof. 2 retail groccry company, was s robbed today of $2,000 in a ket she was carrying the money & daylight holdup in which she in as she entered a store. She battled with the robber and fought and screamed. The rob- §r saved several hundred dollars ber got the basket and escaped b sthe dumped on the sidewalk, in a car driven by a confed- The robber grabbed the bas- erate. ; / 1 neau 1roc oppe . (Exclusive But Not Expensive) i w THIS YEAR'S SMARTEST ‘ b COATS, DRESSES, HATS I ; ; o ‘e OU don’t have to pay a penny more if you shop - wisely . . . and that means shopping here. Suede-like “n Your FUEL BILL Can Be REDUCED y installing a MONTAG PARLOR CIRCULATOR Extra large Firepot, Ash Pan and Doors BUILT RIGHT and PRICED RIGHT J uneau-Young Hdrdware Co. To introduce U. S. Tires, until Sept. 12 we. will sell them at 10% off the regular price. The new tempered rubber is tougher and makes for longer life. All stock fresh, received with- in the last 60 days—youw'll see no yellow, fad- ed wrappers on our tires. “THE BIG SWING IS TO U. S. TIRES" DUTCH’S ECONOMY GARAGE 20 Years in Juness : tional values. CLOSING OUT CHILDREN’S COATS 1 dozen fur trimmed and plain. Excep- WHILE THEY LAST $6.25 and $7.50 Luxurious fur trim- mings or clever lit- tle stand-up collars mark them brand NEW! FALL COATS 'DRESSES and MILLINERY A COMPLETE SHOWING AT THE NEW LOW PRICES