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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1934 BARNEY GOOGLE AND SPARK PLUG LISSEN, YOU BIG SAP- THIS ISLAND 1S JUS’ LIKE BAH A VOLCANO === YOU'RE GOMEZ \S APT TO SPRING EXAGGERATIN'~ THE REVOLUTION ANY 1 %%;ERASAW MINUTE — HE' Azli‘oET T‘O,éoé g NICE PEACEFUL GORILLAS ON HIS LITTLE PLACE- SIDE - ALL SET TO ‘OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT - AN‘ MARCH WARM oR™Y 10T 5AY 10 FOR MAY QUEEN Wilt AND DRY WITH [EXAMINE PROSPECTS BE IN EMPIRE THURS. ] M. D. Williams, former residem‘ Nomination coupons for the May MUGH suNsHlNElox Valdez and Anchorage, and Mrs. Queen Contest, sponsored by the | / { Williams, who were married last American Legion Auxiliary, will in Oregon, with a party of |appear in the Empire Thursday. Fast Month Showed Up Several New Features, | Al Shanbeck, Leo Linder and | This contest is open to girls of n Werelius, are leaving this Gastineau Channel communities Declares Mize March was warm and compara-|gasboat th M. afte: oon for Lituya Bay where | between 15 and 18 years of age, ) ve promising mining prop- | inclusive, it was announced today. erties Each coupon will count 100 They are making the trip in the | votes for the contestant, and must Alzark, Capt. Shanbeck, |be in the box at the Juneau Drug tively dry with considerably more| than the average amount of sun- shine, declares R. C. Mize in his monthly weather report issued to-| day. | The mean temperature was 362 degrees, ‘or 2.5 degrees above the| normal. The warmest March of| record was that of 1905 with a mean of 42.6 degrees and the cold- est was that of 1918 with a mean of 276 degrees. The highest re- corded during the past month was/ 57 degrees on the 10th and the| lowest was 18 degrees on the Tth Previous extremes were 61 de; and 5 degrees below zero, respec- tively. Temperature was below normal from the 3rd to 8th, in- clusive, and above normal during the remainder of The total precipi inches, or .80 inch v the nor- mal. The wettest M of record was that of 1930 with a total of 10.12 inches and the driest was that of 1906 with a total of 0.56 inch. The heaviest precipitation i1 any 24hour period was 137 inches on the 1st-2nd. No meas- urable quantity fell from the 21st to 29th, inclusive. Measurable precipitation was recorded each day from the 13th to 20th, and on 18 days during the month. The total snowfall was 7.8 inches, 6.0 inches below the normal. The heaviest 24-hour snowfall was 2.2 inches on the 19th. The mean relative humidity was at 4 am. 74 per cent, at noon 62 per cent, and at 4 pm. 56 per cent. The prevailing wind direction was from the west and the average hourly velocity 8.0 miles per hour. The maximum velocity was 27 miles per hour from the north- east on the 28th. There were 10 clear days, 4 partly cloudy and 17 cloudy days; 173.7 hours of sunshine, or 47 per cent of the possible amount, and 10 days with 100 per cent sunshine. An aurora was observed on the 5th, and dense fog on the 13th. T CAPITAL Beer Parlors and Ball Room Nufsed IIIlIIIIIHIIIIIIIIHIIllLIl_lllJfl]_l!lIllllIll DANCE WEDNESDAYS SATURDAYS Mandarin Ball Room Revelers 26-foot craft in which they came |Company by 11 o'clock, Saturday | DOUGLAS NEWS P.-T.A. MEETS TONIGHT The April meeting, next to .the last one of the school year, of the Douglas Parent-Teacher Asso- ciation, will be held this evening in the assembly room of the high school. The annual election of of- ISIX MONTHS IN .IML aded Blitich to desist. He did. He put on his coat. After walking FORCARD GAM.EDEAT 150 feet from the scene of the fight, he dropped dead, 3 | Following the performance of an (Fairbanks News Mier). autopsy, Dr. Burke, - physician at | ©Six months in jail is the pun-| the Fort Yukon hospital, certified ishment imposed on Nathaniel En- | iy a written statement that Blit- glishoe, Indlan, aged 24, as the re- | jch's death was cause by “a blow sult of the death. February 26 3t | rupturing a blood vessel of the Fort Yukon of John Blitichy M,ihean;v Wwhite man, prospector and road-| Englishoe is now in jail in Fort )l;:;xsv ke;per, after a fist fllh‘riYukon. but will. be removed to ween the two over a card game. rve His -y g rrisisscnty o ey Fa.ubanl{s ta serve his sentence. lowing a hearing before United States Commissioner = Winnifred e CANDIDATES IN FIELD New Drug Store NOW .OPEN FOR BUSINESS Wright Bldg., F ;‘ont St. New Fresh Stock—Drugs, Household Remedies, Toiletries and Sundries ALL POPULAR BRANDS GUY L.SMITH DRUGGIST s|in that State this year. or| ficers who will direct the affairs of -the Association next term will be held as the . important, part of the business session. An interesting . program of six numbers which includes an address by Hazel James Ferguson on “Pioneer - Women - of . Yestefday” will provide the entertainment of the evening. The. Senior class will serve refreshments. e north from Seattle. The trip north | morning so that the contestants’ was made in 21 days, during which | names may be published in The h encountered much stormy Empire of that day. weather. The boat is comfortably | At the May Day Dance, to be furnished and has been used to held in the Elks’ hall on Tuesday fishing parties in the Puget |night, May 1, the winner of the district. | contest will be crowned Queen, From Lituya Bay, the party will 'and the second and third highest work inland toward the Canadian)in the contest will be maids in at- border. tendance to the Queen, Auxiliary The . Illinois primaries will give‘OmCifllS said. little indication of the outcome of | the race as there are neither gub- ernatorial nor 3 Those entering the contest are i | requested to be at the American Senatorial contests | yooion Dugout. Saturday evening | April 7, at 7 o'clock when tickets | for the three prizes to be awarded will be given out. Each tickat McCORMICK GETS CAR Ed McCormick is the latest re- cruit to the ranks of Douglas au- tomobile owners having received a car from Juneau, via the North- Speaker Rainey brought the White House angle strongly into he picture when he reported ad-| ' s b ks .| sold will count five votes for the , ?“f[:fiimfiq flflle:m‘;oikm; i‘:m;:?'}‘comeslmt. and the holder of the land, on Saturday. It's a Dodge = B Pre 1 { ticket will have a chance on tho | COUPe. ning to donate money in an ef-| ¢ e — j 4 a8 prizes which will be on ort to defeat him because of his in variou® stores of the WARNING stand for the Roosevelt measures. o "| Five dollars reward is offered e [ for dnformation leading to the ar- ® e 20000000 * * Something entirely different in| rest and conviction of anyone . AT THE HOTELS ® the way of entertainment preced- |breaking city street lamps. ® 0000049 e o 0 0 i he dance, is being planned by CHAS. SCHRAMM, ©® 00000 000 0 e o finance committee of the Aux-|—adv. City Marshal, Douglas. Zynda | iliary, which is in charge of the| - eee Mrs. W. E. Gann, Goddard Hot | affajr, Springs; R. M. Shepard, Juneau. | s “Minnow” submarines welghing Gastinean Shop in Juneau |only 12 tons and measuring 29 Dr. R. L. Carlson, Ketchikan;| — R ‘ feet in length have been given suc- J. M. Fraser, Sitka; Lynn Pressler, | ** £3 | cessful undersea tests in Japan. ; J. Barbeau; G. R. Hopkins,| | Dr. A. W. Stewart | e | DENTIST } Scripture lessons, from a Bible | Hours 9 am. to 6 pm. I eight feet long and six feet wide SEWARD BUILDING ) | were read during- a religious cam- | | - - Rainfall at Houston, , in January, 1934, totaled 9.94 inches, the heaviest January precipitation in 43 years. Office Phone 409, Res, palgn a¢ Vich Okim Phone 276 | S o IS Daily Empire Wau. Ads Pay Dalziel, was held to await the ac- tion of the federal grand jury on a charge of manslaughter. Conviction Would Be Impossible Subsequent investigation of the evidence in the case, however, con- vinced the district attorney's of- fice that an indictment was im- | probable and a conviction impos- !sible on a slaughter accusation, and the Commissio: was. directed to change the charge to assault. To this accusation Englishoe pleaded guilty Saturday. Both Agreed to Fight After a dispute at a card game, the two men left the building in which the quarrel took place to fight out their differences with their fists in the open air. They {took off their coats and proceed- ed to battle. In a short while Blitich got so much the better of the encounter that Englishoe said, “I got énough.” 'Withesses 'pérsu- Jus . gllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIiIIIIIIINIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIII|IlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIHIIIIIlllIIIIIIIIIIlllllllll“llllllllllllllllIIIHIIIIIIIIII Mayor Goldstein shortly after assuming office asked the local manufacturer of sewer pipe to furnisk him with a price on sewer pipe for the year. less than had been charged the City for the preceding five or six years. IT HAS BEEN MY POLICY AS COUNCIL.- MAN TO INSIST ON BIDS FOR EVERY- THING OVER ONE HU .. Rice & Ahlers Co., Inc., who have been in the sewer pipe business for many years, were low bidders and were awarded the. contraet by the City Council. Rice & Ahlers Co., Inc., bought this sewer pipe from the same place that the local manufacturer has been buying thousands of feet for the City this last year. As sewer pipe ing, the local plant was evidently unable to season and cure it as cheaply, as they could buy it from the Concrete Pipe Com- pany of Seattle. v+ It jis &, faet that local dealers have no more large size con- cxetg,pipe;in stock or on hand as the supply has been purchased 0000000000000 A AT WRANGELL ELECTION| The following have filed candi- dacies for the city election on Ap- ril 3 at Wrangell: { Mayor—C. P. Kirtland, Frank S. Barnes, Thomas Dalgity, s Council, 3-year term—F. Angen-‘ man, F. S. Barnes, N. Nussbaumer, George Gunderson, T. J, McBride, | Arnt. Sorset, George Sumption, L.| M. Campbell, A. R, Brueger. | Counecll, 1 year term—Harry. R.| Coulter. { School, Board—Charles Darwell. | it ) e AR ik | ATTENTION AMERICAN | | | { | LEGION UNITED FOOD CO. ; ~ CASH GROCERS Phone 16 .. We Deliver Meats—Phone 16 All members are requested to at- | § tend the funeral of A. C. Pisher | which will be held from the Epis- | copal Church tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. WAINO HENDRICKSON, —adv. Conifnander. - taSquare Deal The price furnished was 25 % R \DRED DOLLARS. has to be seasoned and cured before install- - 1 fact that by the City of Juneau. ~ COUNCILMAN GEO. B. RICE Eleven Years in Juneau—Twenty Years in Alaska /