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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, MARCH 19, SR RN |934 I — T AR —cape collars —scarf collars —ruffled collars ve Collared the Smartest Coats Come prepared to find the cream of the coat crop—the close-fitting “Directoire” collar; the cowl collar; the untrimmed eolse-fitting ruffled collar. Or the button-up collar, most often found with tweed. Take your choice. Ouils Spend Easter in a Suit Suits are better than ever for Spring. So suit yourself. Ours is a grand collectign. Ther: the finger-tip to full-length coat with skirt to suit. DI’QSSQS One Group-- ecial for 2 days dnly $4.95 See Our Collection of Easter Toy The Big Bad Wo B.M. B for the Kiddies If—Three Litile Pigs—Puss in Boots, ete. 50 cents each ehrends Co., Ine: Juneau’s Leading Department Store Mussolini Talws as Example to His People in Training for Next War By ANDRUE BERDING | i ROME, March 19.—I1 Duce, skis, is leading his people snow-clad Apennines to s an example in traini next war—which he s fought among the mcummm on | to the| them | for the already an skilled fencer expert and a breath speedster-motorist, has taken £kiing as his late: port Drives To Ski Field Each week-end finds him in the Apennines, near Rieti, a to contributed from his own purse to the new motor road that leads to the skiing field of Terminillo. Winter sport enthusiasts see a powerful low car each week to Rosce, the terminus of the road: The driver climbs out, while those about him salute in Roman fashion. He wears golf stockings, knick- ers, a rough sleeveless sweater drawn a bel and a black beret. From the b of the car he draws out a pair of skis. He ties them on, himself and strides away with determined | paces, body forward but head up,| t0 the long glides of Terminillo, 5,000 feet above sea level. Recalls World War And thus, by personal example, Mussolini hopes to get his people away on week-ends from the heavy atmosphere of the plains to the in- wvigorating air of the mountains. He wants to get them used to cold, the snow, skis and snow- shoes. Every inducement is offered them to reach the mountains. Spe- dfl(nmmmwlhe mountain stations and a ticket to Celano and return, a total of five hours ~and a hll of travel, costs only| little | more than 50 miles from Rome. He | there | drive up | the to .Shun o among the peaks. ' Ttaly’s four | frontiers, France, Switzerland, Aus- tria and Yugosiavia, are all mountainous. So if and when that trial comes, he wants his people to be prepared. ALL JUNEAY SCHOOL. TEACHERS REELECTED BY BOARD MEMBERS| At a meeting of the Juneau Public School Board held om Fri- day afterneon election -of teachers for next year was held. * All of those who have taught during the last year were re-elected, it was announced by the Board. Names' of those who have' sigtiedt their coniracts for mext year have not yet been announced, but’it is’ expected that practically all will laccept for another*year.” et S e — OHN AHLERS RETURNS | ' FROM' ROUND 'TRIP -TO ; LYNN CANAL ON ACE John Ahlers, of the firm of Rice and Ahlers, retwd last ev-| ening from a round trip to-Haines 71 and Skagway oh business. ' He made the trip on thq Ace, Capt. Al Weathers,” owner. *“ They left |! Fritz Cove on ‘Thursday and en- countered considerable snow on the trip. ! Dr. and Mrs. Clayton Polley, !of Skagway, came to Juneau with 2 | the party and expect to take the i Fornance back t their Lynn | | Canal home Wednesday. - e BENITO MUSSOLINI MONAGLE BACK | M J. Benito Mussolini slides down a mountain slope in the Ap- penines. He is trying to popu- larize skiing because he be- lieves skill on the Norwegian | snow shoes will help Italy de- | Siele | fend her mountainous fron- |p R| STIVERS ENTERS tiers. i M. J. Monagle, well knéwn lo- | cal attorney, Teturned on the | Northland ' from a short business |trip to Seattle. * | E. R. Stivers, Depuv.y Y. 8 ‘Cal- | lector of Customs, enteréd St. Ann's | | Hospital yesterday to receive treat- ment for a severeé cold. ———— Shop =1 Juneau among the mountains ~between | Austria and Italy. He himself was ‘3 corporal on the rugged slopes of u.he Carnian Alps. He feels sure that the next war,| if it comes, will be waged also, ‘ SMALLER FIELDS, LARGFR CROPS, DECLARED GOAL By F. B. COLTON WASHINGTON, ‘March 19.—8Sci- | ence may make farms of the fu- |tute twice as productive as nowl but this will not confliet with ef-| forts to end agricultural over-pro-| lduction, in the opnion of ‘the sec- retary of agriculture, Henry A Wallace. ' Continuing scientific research to make human labor more produc-, tive and increase yields of the best | fiand is the only sound eourse to| | 3 pursué, for any other will lead to| “barbarism and chaos,” the secre- tary said. “Larger yields from smaller flelds” is his answer to the ques-| tion of how the government with oné hand can encourage scientists | %0 keep on seeking new aids to the | growing of larger crops per acl(" and with the other can tarry out a | uprogram of crop reduction, restric- | tion ‘of acreage and the taking of ‘marginal lands.out of. .production. Sées No Incongruity ‘The' Secretary, himself a scien- tist, has gained fame for his breed- ing “experiments leading ‘to im- proved ‘types of ‘cotn. 'He finds nothing icongruous in such a pro- grdm. Tt is“true, he said, that a policy 'of encouraging Increase of pro-| duction ‘indefinitely without sup- plementary planning to insure con- | sumption would lead to disaster.| As long as the government failed! to face the results of increased, productivity it was almost “crimin- ally negligent.” But it is perfectly| SIX CONVICTS " FACE MURDER CHARGES NOW [Bloody Rlot in Walla Walla Penitentiary Taken Into Court | WALLA WALLA, Wash,, March 19.—First degree murder charges have been filed against six con- victs who participated In the | bloody prison riot on February 12 in which nine were Kkilled. The accused are Lawrence Col- | ton, Thomas J. Woods, Phillip Wallace, Robert Bain, Frank But- ler and Lea Lynch. The Prosecuting Attorney indi- | cated in the Superior Court he would ask the death penalty. | Herbert ‘L. Briggs, prison guard, and eight convicts lost their lives in the riot. TRIES 3 TIMES T0 SNUFF LIFE “Stavisky Ciites” Respon- 18 DIPARTHKNT DP AGR!OVLTUBI. wn'mn BUREAU The W eather By the U. 8. Weather Bureau) LOCAL DATA Forecast for Jumeaw and vicinily, beginning at 4 p.m., March 19: Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday; gentle variable winds. Time Barometer Temp. 4 pm. yest'y 29.65 40 4 a.m. today 20.69 33 8 SE 12 Bnow Noon today 29.92 36 9 w 4 Pt. Cldy CABLE AND RADYO REPORTS YESTERDAY | Highest 4pm. | i | i Humidity Wind Velocity Weather 81 E 18 Rain TODAY Lowest 4a.m. Za.m. Preclp. 4am. termp. temp. velocity 24hrs. Weather -16 -18 16 0 Clear -14 - -14 6 0 Clear 14 -12 6 0 Clear -2 -2 4 Trace Snow 14 16 0 [ Cldy 10 10 0 Trace Pt.Cldy 26 28 .01 Cldy 26 0 Cldy 34 12 Cldy 30 49 Snow 45 Clear 34 Cldy 34 Rain 16 Cldy 0 Clear 0 Clear Cldy Statlon Barrow Nome Bethel Fairbanks Dawson St. Paul Dutch Harbor Kodiak Cordova Juneau Sitka Ketchikan Prince Rupert .. Edmonton Seattle Portland San Francisco temp. temp. -4 -16 6 6 -8 -8 14 12 18 16 135 30 30 3 36 38 38 a w0 42 52 48 46 62 7 64 3 44 46 42 62 68 56 34 36 32 42 46 54 8 8 4 2 0 4“4 2 4 4 4 4 The barometric pressure it siest near tne middle Aleutian Islands and moderately low throughout the remainder of Southern Alaska with rain or snow in this area. The pressure is high over the re- mainder of the Territory with clear weather in northern and west- ern districts except the Aleutians. Temperatures have risen in ex- treme Western Alaska and have fallen in the Southeast. A pretty girl in a nifty one-piece bathing suit is Hester Jones of Bir- hingham and New York, shown sun- ning herself at Miami Beach, Fla., | sefore taking a dip in the surf. (As- sociated Press Photo) sible for Attempted Suicide of Official : PARIS, March 19—The “Sta- visky Curse” fell again late last research on a large scale, and|Saturday in the attempted suicide therefore new knowledge must be of Emile Blanchard, official in gained by federal and state re-|the Agriculture Ministry. He was search agencies if progress is to!found on the troops’ firing range | 5 e FROM BUSINESS TRIP HOSPITAL WITH COLD sound, he ‘believes, to strive to|be made. imiake human labor increasingly more productive. ' Tn 'the" public eye ‘the -emphasis (0t the ‘new' deal seems to be upon economic matters,” said the Secre- ary, “but it is important as we| perfect better social machinery not to forget that so far we have mere- 1y scratched the Surface of scien- itific understanding, Equitable Distribution “Science can readily enable hu- man labbr to be twice as produc- tive, but ‘it "is important that in- creasing productivity resulting from the application of science be equal- ly distributed so there is a decent adjustment between productive power and consumptive power. “THe ability of science to in-| crease productivity, however, is no| reason why we should not strive for continuous understanding gand application of natural laws.” Daughter of Captain of Constitution Weds SAN DIEGO, Cal, March 19.— Miss Grace Gulliver, -daughter of ‘cBmmandm Louis J. Gulliver, cap- |Tain of the frigate {and Lieut. Wells Thompson, of the |U. S. S. Barney, were married last Saturday afternoon in the gate. It was the first wedding| ever celebrated aboard the famous Old Ironsides. - NITY HALL AT CoOMM Over one hundred persons from | Anchorage and scores from other " nearby sections went to Matan- To turn Back or stop the WHeels|, g, recently to attend the open- of time by -ceaging research, "h‘|mg of the new $2,000 community secretary went on, would be “Q‘hflhall Dancing started at 9 o'- ing short of a calamity, On theigaeg At 10 o'clock a hot lunch- contrary, there is every mcennv:;eDn was served and dancing again for continuing research, for the recymed until 2:30 o'clock. lowest possible costs of production, Ehh b he belleves, can be attained best| ANCHORAGE CANNERY TO by taking the poor lands out of| BE OPERATED THIS YEAR production of erops and putting 'the best scientific efforts into im- The F. T. Toman cannery, proving high grade land and live-|cated on the Anchorage waterfront, stock. {has been purchased by Al Jones, h .. Industry an example | well known Cook Inlet cannery- Continuing scientific efforts t man, and will be operated this improve agriculture also are justi- season. Resident help will be em- fied by the example of i"dUSirY-‘ployed and Jones plans to triple the Secretary said. !the output. Progress of industry is made/ing, Mr. Jones plans to pack razor possible largely by the research clams. carried on in private laboratories, (and plants, alming at better prod- ucts. ‘ — ., R. L. BERNARD RETURNS R. L. Bernard returned on the little or no possibility for private trip to Seattle. Trfiék Owners Association A MEETING TOMORROW NIGHT AT 7:30 O'CLOCK . At Femmer’s Dock FULL ATTENDANCE DESIRED e s Gt e D USSR B SR e o e e e LOCAL EGGS 35¢ dozen lfORNIA GROCERY t TELEPHONE 478 PROMPT DELIVERY i3 Aboard Old Ironsides| Constitution, | Captain’s quarters aboard the fri-| MATANUSKA 1S OPENED} lo- | Besides salmon pack-| In ggriculture, however, there is Northland from a short business | at Fountaine Bleau, lying in a pool of blood, his throat cut end the knife still in his clutched |hand. He was taken to a hos- pital. | Blanchard is charged with swindling in his affiliations with BOWLING [ [ «p s omorrow’s Style: Nothing lke the thrill of ! A | | | [ Today” a ten-strike! Develop your game on the finest alleys you ever played on. Brunswick Bowling “Juneau’s Own Store” | Serge Staviskey, ‘late founder of the Bayonne Pawnshop, which | | crashed with a loss of forty mil-' lon dollars to investors. The | scandal resulted in suicides, over- | throw of one government, thirty | killed in riots and numerous other | disorders. Blanchard twice before tried to | kill hlmsell | | | Attorney Kills Wife I with Axe, Slashes Own | Throat with Knife ‘ |R. B. Newcomb, prominent attor-! |ney, killed his wife with an axe| and then suicided, the police said, | {by slashing his own throat with a | | knife. He had been under treat- ment as the result of a nervous breakdown. ———————— Daily Empire. Want Ads Pay Time To Eat AT ANY time—break- fast, lunch or dinner— you'll find at Bailey's a great variety of tasty dishes. You'll like our | special business men’s | lunch. BAILEY’S BEER -If Desired i | o | INSURANLE Allen Shattuck, Inc. Ectablished 1898 3 Juneau, Alaska [ CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 19.—"’“’"“"‘”"’"""‘" FOR INSURANCE See H, R. SHEPARD & SON Telephone 409 B. M. Behrends Bank Bldg Juneau Cash Grocery CASH GROCERS Corner Second and Seward Free Delivery LUMBE J uneau Lumber M llls Inc. Phone 58 e I e ALASKA MEAT {T CO. FEATURING CARSTEN’S BABY BEEF—DIAMOND TC HAMS AND BACON—U. 8. Government Inspected PHONE 39 Deliveries—10:30,°2:30, 4:30 WINDOW CLEANING PHONE 485 | | Old Papers for Sale at Empire Office Z FOR SALE G.B. ‘AdaMay’ for Trolling or Seining Register length 31.3; overall length 39.5; round stern; her register beam 9.4; depth 4.4 GROSS TONNAGE—10.8 20 Horsepower Heavy Duty Regal Engine NET TONNAGE—9 Boat in best condition and enginé practically new George Brb’th«iers” THE SANITARY GROCERY PHONES 83 OR 85 “The,Store That Plegses”

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