The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 28, 1933, Page 2

! LnAL CLATG LA Pre-Inventory Sale Satin Slips Pastel shades Now Half Price Regular $2.00 values Cotton Blouses Odd lots—Sizes to 40—Values to $3.75 Now $1.00 Each b ol Glove Silk Vests to $3.00 5 Now $1.00 Sizes to 42— Values Pure Silk Gowns 3.00 Values Fach $1.00 $6.00 and $: ~Just a few left A lot of new remnants in silks, cottons, i { woolens, prints, cretonnes, scrims, etc., E at reduced prices. % ! BE SURE TO SEE THESE § \ y B. M. Behrends Co., Inc, Juneau’s Leading Department Store whole car- half specials: Steers, at 8 cents per pound, deer cass, majority of artists or actors expect- ing to continue work in Germany. FREE SHOWS ACROSS . Bird used for food . Carpenters’ tools . Box . Seat of the University of Maine . Set cf three . 1o this place Places for storing water . Flower - Devour . Mere). . Aromatic seed Inventor of the sewing machine . Egg dish 6. Dininer course . Impels Improves . Playing cards . Large serpent ell . English school . Surrender 3 Cnrd game Father 66. Jury list Craving for Convene liquid 46. Witness 48. South Ameri- can moun- 1. Central p. tains 2. Open cou: 49. Wading birds 3. Pillar 62. Polnted tools 4. United 4. Resume 5. And not 55, Easy gait 6. Pelted with 57. Statute rocks “DRUNK'S BLUE BOOK" ISSUED; “Where Pans Dines”’ Also Off Press—Other Late Publications SELBY By JOHN s NEW YORK, Dec. 28.—It is r: |idly becoming impossible to kee fup with repeal in the book busi- | ness In addition to those tome |of one or another sort as havin Ito do with legal liquor, there now lappears another set. The most hilarious, indeed the only one intended to be humorous. that comes to mind is “The Drun! Blue Book,” which has been com- piled and given the world by Nor- man Anthony and Otto Soglow. It |is quite mad, and often really fun- ny in addition. In addition, there are two in the serfous class, both {hurried through a groaning by the same publisher. ‘One is by Julian Street, whos “Where Paris Dines” is one ol the few books on food and wine in Paris that is both reliable amusing. Mr. Street's new one is called “Wines,” and should contain the ripe experience of an accom- plished diner. hooks being pres; The chamber plans free ente! carcass, 9 cents; fawn, whole car- tainment for the masses consist-|cass, 10 cents and half carcass 11{ And the- other is a reissue, FUR GERMANS ing of concerts, vaudeville and of | cents a pound, “while they last,” Prought up to date, of one of the films. It expects that employed for cash famous books of the past—‘Jack's > talented persons will take advan- R PSR S iy iMa‘mual." It contains more than a tage of the government's offer to thousahd recipes, and is the work BERLIN, Dec. 28.—Artists and | regiment their are time in the Arrowhead in Olk {of J. A. Gruh_usko‘ who in the old actors have been asked to give one Way other activities have been reg- |days was wine steward at the month’s time yearly without pay ulated |Plaza Hotel, and also manager of to the committee in charge of the ————— IUKA, Miss—Woodoutters felleq |Uhe Knickerbocker's bars. . building up of leisure time pro- CINDE oY ATS a gigantic oak near here recently grams for the German masses BEINDEES SPECIALS and embegded in its heart they ABOUT ALBERT *The request was made by the The Lomen Commercial Com-|found an Indian arrowhead ot flint. J. B. Priestley is quite likely reich’s “Kultur Chamber” and w pany recently advertised in the Rings on the tree indicated it was pick a young, lower middle class in all probability be granted by the Nome Nugget the following rein-'more than 130 years nld‘ Englishman as a hero. And he is Maxim Litvinoff (left), soviet commissar for foreign affairs whe was Russia’s envoy in negotiations ing to American tion, is shown consulting with Benito Mussolini, Italian dlctator, in lhc lat. leadi ter's luxurious private office. (Associated Press Photo) b TRV 1, qulte likely to use him as a means of satirizing something So with Albert, the hero of “Al- berl Goes Through.” The book is ‘as slight as a book well could be, {but not amusing. Albert is a movie celluloid heroine. He is, indeed, so enamoured that he goes to see her nursing a bad cold or similar. Albert falls ill in the theatre, and has a delirious dream. He is the something fore he wakes up in the manager’'s office he has afforded his creator opportunity to poke fun at almost all the standard varieties of cellu- loid entertainment. Obviously, in a book of this type, there must be both point and love interest Mr. Priestley’s point apparently is that a little experience will cure almost anyone of a desire to live the life of a movie hero. And the love interest has to do with a girl named Nellie. CURIOUS NOVEL “Yesterday’s Burdens” is ostensi- bly a novel, and actually almost everything else but—which does no: mean that it is not thoroughly wcrth the attention of the read- ing public. Robert Coates has presumably written the history of a man nam- and | hero of a string of movies, and be- | Dml y Cross-lwrd Puz*lo Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle HEn an G %0 mEE it 8 %Wgflfill / HILARIOUS ONE : Is osa | Of the ye { | fan, vastly enamoured of a certain!_ 4 latest film when he should be home | | strictions, { pressed Austria, 26. Rescue be it Give for tem- porary us . Garden | ments . Congealed water Stakes for roasting meirt Poet ‘rench river vies Meat dish Masculine nickname . Concerning 7. South Ameri- can animals v part of milk 0. Knot again . Positive electric pole . Dampen . Volcanic matter Unclose ow road n solar disk . Part of a shoe . Central por- tion of an ear of corn Prosperous periods Fold over on ds held at 8 deal - l-% T Hflll%%fil 11 | | Vi I flfl ed Henderson, who pops up in and out of his creator's life like a grain of corn in a skillet. Appar- ently Mr. Coates has read and a mired Andre Gide's “The Counter- feiters,” for his idea is a version the Frenchman's idea. “Yeste day’'s Burdens” is a sort of lor with here a novel tossed in y about writing bi! of the story and there. It bounces back and forth be- cen New York and the Housa- ¢ Valley, and is altogether un- predictable and fascinating - World Heartened as 1934 Dawns on Signs. Economic ‘Unfreezing’ (Conunued from ragze One.) production year progressed, trade exceeded levels oi 1932. The gold bloc improvement at times, and employment as the and her export the corresponding but France found herself hampered by contro- versy over balancing her budgat and by fears over ability to maintain the gold standard. Never- 1 theless a somewhat makeshift bud- get avas accepted toward the ond T - Employment and production held up relatively well in France, but France's erstwhile lucrative tour- ist trade dwindled and export in- dustries were harassed by the rela- tively high level of the franc. Among otner countries in gold bloc, Holland balanced her budgst by vigorous measures, anc better prices for tin and rubber helped her colonies. Belgian industry remained rela- tively depressed, but employment improved somewhat. Unemploy- ment reached its peak in Italy in February, and thereafter gradually | declined Switzerland felt adverse effects cf the high level of her currency upon tourist trade and exports. The central European countries still labored under currency re- but even in long-de- industrial produc- tion reached its best levels since January, 1932, and employment im- | proved. Russia, was’ encourageé by, re- 4 p m. yest'y 29.94 25 Clear Profll Taking Shade Somt‘ 4 am. today 2081 20 34 NE 24 Clear Gains — Curb Also | Noon today 29.70 17 41 NE 20 Clear ACthe and Stlong { CABLE AND RADIO REPORTS | YESTERDAY | TODAY (Continued mnuia Page One) | il 470 L 5N et - | Highest 4p.m. | Lowest4a.m. 4am. Precip. 4am. graph and Allied Chemical held| _/Station temp. temp. | temp. terp. velocity 24hrs. Weather four point advances { Baoy -30 -30 -30 14 0 PLCldy Dupont, Sterling Products, In-| Nome 10 2 : 0 Clear : e sa | Refbel 4 2 0 Clear ternational Business Machin cSilin 2 United States Steel (prefer Yukon 82 -m 0 Clear 3 51 o Fairbanks -32 0 Clear were up t E 48 % b Shares up to two or more| = Clear points included National Distillers St. Paul 34 0 Cldy Johns-Manville, Westinghouse, In-| Dutch Harbor 38 1.60 Rain . M AR 5 T 34 0 Clear dustrial Alcohol, United States Eivdiva 2% 0 Clear & Steel, Case ar I,D:‘ Juneau 25 0 Clear . e v sitka - 0 PtCud "LOSING PRICES TODAY et y oo Ketchikan 28 Trace Snow NEW YORK, Dec. 28.—Closing| Prince Rupert 30 .10 Rain quotation of Alaska Juneau mirz Edmonton -26 Trace Snow today is 213, American Can| Seattle 48 16 Rain American Power and Light| Portland 38 0 Cldy 612, Anaconda 14%, Armour B. 2%.| San Franc 50 0 Cldy Bethlehem Steel 37%, Calumet andf — s FOA o b 0 i Hecla 4%, Curtiss-Wright 2%, Fox| Baromefiric pressure continues lnzh over northwestern Canada Films 137 ral Motors 35% end most of the Territory with the Pacific low areas extending over International Harvester 40. Kenne-| Scuthwest and lower Southeast Alaska. Heavy rains have occurred cott 20%, North American Aviation the Aleutians and light snow over lower Southeast Alaska 5, Chicago and Milwaukee (pre- fair weather prevailing clsewhere. Temperatures in the In- | ferred) 7%, Montgomery Ward 22%:, or are lower this morning with mostly warmer readings over the Standard Oil of California 40 Unit-| rest of the Territory. ed St Steel 477%. | — i N TR A B = P (‘AB[N DAMAGED BY Norman and is occupied by a fam- " o ily named Bland. The loss Wwas POND FOR DE e EON FIRE EARLY TODAY fully covered by insurance. Just before tne fre on 5 S = MR. AND MRS Sunset Creck, Nome d -| A cabin between Ninth and Tenth s ter Milligan and crew of men com- | streets on the tide flats was slight- sSou ?“"BOLTM\“ teted a pond for installation of Iy qamaged by fire 5 'HE R ALASKA a drzdge ne: The dredg2 morning which started on the Mr. and Mrs. . R. Simms are will be hauled tractors OVer i and burned through into the a soutlibcund aboard th: Alaska on tic. The Department made a their way ocutside for a vacation ¥R quick run and checked the blaze trip. Mr. Simms is secretary to sumption of dips.omatic ns| before it could spread. | Col. O. F. Ohison, of the Alaska with the United States, and by The cabin is-own:d by Albert Railroad. countries show:d ' the, stantial progress was achieved. | 'J. 8. DEFARTMENT OF ADRIUULTURI. WEATHER BUREAD The W eather By the U. 8. Weather Bureau) ; s LOCAL DATA ) beginning at 4 p.m., Dec. 28: STOCK PRICES | ' TAKE ADVANGE; MARKET FIRM ~for Junean and vicinity. Fair tonight and Friday; moderate to {resh easterly winds. Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity Weather 36 NE 18 ter crops. FRESH | Fruits an< Vegetables CALIFORNIA GROCERY TELEPHONE 478 PROMPT DELIVERY WINDOW CLEANING " PHONE 485 red from low prices, but sub- Crrrrrrr s Japanese Cottcn Trade Booms | In the far east, Japar export trade, helped by the sev da- preciated yen and low labor cost swelled to boom proportions the first time in history otton exports eded those Lancashire, alarming .the Bri and Dutch. | Both India and Au i pearzd to have solved difficulties. Better wool pr helpful to Australia Canada’s export trade improved and industrial production expanded along with that of the United States. Mexico was encouraged by better silver ices were America South Am"ru‘}n count: s of raw materials, Progres: The 1f £ advan- with Argentina concluded an tageous trade agreement Great Britain. Brazilian foreign trade expandad as political conditions stabilized, but shes still struggled with excess coffee production. Plans to lower trade bairiers and expand trade between the North and South American nations were to the fore at the Pan-American conference in Montevideo as the| year neared its close. | e e e e Cigars Cigarettes Candy Cards The New Arctic Pabst Famous Draught Beer On Tap “JIMMY" CARLSON 'l Your Child’s BHEALTH, IGROWTH, FUTURE | depend upon these things Proper diet, fresh air, exercise . . . and sunshine. While they last we are, selling the table model similar to the floor model shown at a special price of only $20.50 Thursday 28, 1933. place. ATTENTION TROLLERS An important meeting of the A.T. A. will be held in the Man- darin Ball Room at 7 o’clock evening, A delegate for Juneau will be elected and balloting on the General Election’ W. H. WILLIAMS, | Special Price—Convenient Terms Alaska Electric Light & \ Power Co. JUNEAU--Phonée 6 POUGLAS—Phone 18 THE HOTEL OF ALASKAN HOTELS | The Gastineau Our Services to You Begin and End at the Gang Plank of Every Passenger-Carrying Beat December UNITED FOOD (CO. CASH GROCERS Phone 16 We Deliver Meats—Phone 16 will take :_I))clggate.\ G weknd