The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 18, 1934, Page 4

I ¢ = VSV ) " to the commercial side of the industry, he said: T4 e _THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE SA'I'URDAY AU IGUST 18, 1934, Daily Alaska Em pire ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER blished cvery eveming _except BMPIRE PRINTING ‘COMPANY at Streets, Junenu, Alaska. Fntered in the Post Office in Junca matter. “Sunday by _the Second and Main SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per_month. il, postage paid, at the following rates: | .'in advance, $12.00; six months, in advance, month, In advance, $1.25. if “they will promptly will confer a favo y failure or irregularity I the delivery of their papers. Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, BER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. | is exclusively entitled to the 374, The Associated Press use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the | local news published herein. ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER | THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. | AIR TRANSPORT DEVELOPMENT. ! Nothing better demonstrates the potentialities | for Alaska in the latest advances in air fransport| than the remarkable flight of the Army's squadon of | Martin bombers from Fairbanks to this city and] from here to Seattle. In flying time these planes| flew from Fairbanks to Seattle in nire hours and | 30 minutes. From Fairbanks here it required three hours and 50 minutes; from Juneau to Seattle, five hours and 40 minutes. From Fairbanks to Nome | would require about the same time as from the| former city to Juneau. Thus it is evident that | planes could leave Seattle in the morning and arme‘ at Nome on the same day. ‘ The Army bombers have a cruising speed of 180 miles an hour. While this is much faster than| planes now operating in Alaska, it is not as fast as planes recently put into service on transcontinental | routes. Early this month the long dream of trans- ‘ port operators to link the Atlantic and Pacific in: an overnight service for passengers and merchandise came to realization. Douglas liners with a speed of 200 miles an hour are now on a scheduled operation of 18 hours between New York and Los Angeles. Passengers on these routes, and on routes; between Chicago and New York and Fort Worth and Los Angeles now go to bed just as the travelers on railroads do in sleeping cars. | That similar development of air transport in Alaska would be possible with the advent of the necessary facilities is Indisputable. As Col. Henry H. Arnold, Commander of the Army bombers’ flight said to a representative of The Empire during his brief stop here, “Alaska offers better opportunity for air transportation than practically any other part of the United States or its possessio Only through it will “real development” ever be realized he predicted But there are certain essentials needed before we can attain the statvs which the rest of the country enjoys. He pointed these out as follows: To prepare for this transportation it is essential that satisfactory airports, with well-equipped airdromes, radio beacons and compasses be installed at Juneau, Fairbanks, Nome, Anchorage and Point Barrow. There | should also be good landing fields at Valdez, Cordova, Kuskokwim Valley, Ketchikan and Skagway, with emergency landing fields in between. He was speaking in this connection from the | standpoint of military need. Turning from that From a commertial standpoint it is be- lieved there should: be established in Alaska three principal airways; first from Juneau to Fairbanks and Nome; second from Anchor- age to Point Barrow; and third from Valdez and Cordova through Anchorage and the Kuskokwim Valley to Nome. This system of airways would connect all of the larger cities and important centers of Alaska and would cover practically the entire Territory. Naturally it is gratifying to this community that Col. Arnold so quickly realized its strategic | importance in air transportation, both military and civil. In this he agrees with Admiral Alfred W.| Johnson, who commanded the recent Naval air expedition here. Their recommendations ought to| have a great deal of weight with the Government in its future policies. The essentials he has set up will be of interest | to the Post Office Department, and should be brought to the attention of Assistant Postmaster General Harrlee Branch when he visits here late this month. The Department of Commerce, which has charge of development of airway facilties, will be deeply interested in them also. The visitations of the Army and Navy planes should give an impetus to air transport development in the Terri- tory that will put it on a par with the best in the entire country. WOULD DIVORCE ALASKA FROM THE NATION. Despite the fact that they are attacking New Deal and President Roosevelt's recovery pro-| gram, characterized by Frank H, Foster as “riotous expenditure and rottenness,” local Republican can- didates are endeavoring to persuade Alaska voters that the local campaign ought to be entirely divorced from the national one, In the G. O. P. meeting here last night each of the speakers tried to stress that viewpoint, which is. of course, too silly to need disputation. For instance, in his introductory remarks, Judge LeFevre asserted the campaign “is a vast one of two great issues: one party (the Democrats) would eradicate everything that has gone before, all that is precious; and the other (the Republicans) would revert to the old system, the old customs.” And in the next breath he declared the national issues do not concern Alaska except to an infinitesimal degree. There might be logic in that conception of the local campaign if the candidates themselves, and their party to which each of them gave outspoken allegiance, had not made the New Deal the one issue of the current campaign. Henry P. Fletcher, the _National Chairman, bas pqi_lcly challenged the the {for it | Legislature, last night {Mr. Foster, lThE Q. 0.0 P, oppose the Democratic nominee. that takes a year {Portland and Seattle, several interesting facts are jcent of Seattle homes have no toilets, and 13 per Roosevelt Administration and has nppcnled to the voters of the country to vote on the New Deal policies. Mr. Foster, at least, was frank enough to recognize that, although he, too, would make an exception of Alaskans. Their attitude is unique to say the least. In effect they say: “Let all the rest of ‘the United States vote for or against the New Deal, but keep it out of the Alaska campaign.” That, naturally, isn't a logical development. No matter what the local G. O. P. candidates have tc‘ say about it, -the rest of the country is going to} regard the cutcome of the Alaska election as an expression of the sentiment of Alaskans on the New Deal. Mr. McCain realizes that very clearly for he pofesses to approve of certain unspecified policies| of the President, whom he lauds as a courageous leader, yet he, too, joins in the chorus of disapproval with unsupported charges against certain specific New Deal activities. His attitude seems to be that he is against the New Deal as a Republican, but if it will win votes for him and get him elected to the House of Representatives. three times a member of the Alaska told his audience that that organization is composed of 32 members. Wrong, there’s only 24—eight Senators and 16 Representatives. Mr. Foster, Mr. Shepard “scooped” his party at Friday night's rally by announcing it had endorsed Delegate Dimond’s candidacy for re-election. That would be news if true. However, there was no endorsement. just couldn’t find a candidate to Harry McCain, who used to be a regular enough Republican to serve as Assistant United States Attorney at Anchorage, is willing to be a progres- sive now if it will elect him to office. Between the Stars. (New York Times.) Ten thousand million stars in our own small galaxy alone and incalculable millions more in other galaxies that only the eye of a camera can see! Yet, in accordance with what are now the orthodox teachings of astronomy, Dr. Anderson of Mount Wilson assures us that space is relatively empty. The best vacuum that can be produced in |a terrestrial laboratory is thick with molecules com- |pared with the vast void. A puff of smoke expanded a thousand cubic miles is denser than all the stellar matter in space Yet that word “empty” is out of place in any modern description of the universe. Thirty years ago Dr. Hartmann of the Potsdam Observatory found ,that there are gossamer veils of calcium and sodium Ibetween the stars. The fine mathematical imagina- tion of Eddington drew startling conclusions from the discovery. Fully as massive as all the stars {combined are these mere wraiths of calcium and ‘sodium. Whence do they come? Are they the Iresidue of the great act of creation? Eddington has suggested as much. As light speeds on for centuries it strikes a calcium or a sodium atom now and then and strips it of an electron or two. Nor does it escape un- scathed. With some hues lost in the encounter, it arrives on earth a partial ruin. Dark gaps in the spectrum tell the story. It was by their aid that the cosmic cloud was discovered at all. The light- wrecked atoms wander around looking for their lost fragments. Eddington presents an almost pathetic mathematical picture of their plight. In a quest on the average and involves a journey of nearly 100 million miles, a damaged atom at last meets a bit of wreckage and heals itself, only to be eventually robbed by another light bullet. !So the struggle between matter and radiation goes jon and on Light cannot travel over infinite paths in a finite universe. It is a prisoner. What becomes of it? Why are the heavens not in a perpetual blaze? Perhaps in this interaction of the cosmic ¢loud and light, in this never-ending destruction of light by matter and matter by light, in this quest of battered atoms for missing parts, the answer may yet be found. Einstein has told us in a simple equation, now a useful tool of the physicist, that mass can be changed into energy and energy into mass. All the light hurled forth by the spendthrift |stars may be the stuff out of which the universe is rebuilding itself. If so, creation is not a single act, like the starting of a clock by the tapping of a pendulum, but a continuous process in which worlds die only to be reborn, Housing Conditions. (Daily Journal of Commerce, Seattle.) The survey of housing conditions made by PWA workers in larger cities of the country last winter does not altogether support the boast of remarkably high living conditions in all parts of the countgy. Certainly Seattle housing conditions are amenable to improvements in many respects. Comparing three cities at random, Indianapolis, revealed. Seattle is the largest of the three cities. There are 12,071 structures in this city, and 63 per cent need repairs. The 102,071 structures house 135,609 dwelling units. Ninety-two per cent of the Seattle structures are of frame construction. Present va- cancies here (102 per cent) are higher than in Portland (8.8 per cent). Under the heading “rental values” it is shown that Seattle rentals are higher than in either of the two other cities—$23.01 in Seattle, $19.80 in Portland and $21.15 in Indianapolis. Our homes are more crowded than those of . Port- | land, and fewer have central heating plants than in the other two cities. Forty per cent of the homes in Seattle still use coal or wood ranges for cooking. Both Portland and Indianapolis use electricity and gas for cooking more generally than do Seattle householders. Ten per cent have no tubs nor showers for bathing. Twenty- two per cent have mechanical refrigeration, while only 16 per cent of the homes in Indianapolis have refrigeration. The reports show many other points of interest. After studying the figures, one is impressed with the fact that, while we are quick to explain to visitors that Seattle has no slums, there is ample oportunity to raise the general standard of housing conditions locally. The fact that 63 per cent of Seattle structures now require repairs tells the story briefly. The fact that the plumbing in an even larger percentage is in need of modernization, and the roofs of about half our homes need repairs, that thousands of residences need painting would seem to indicate that the national housing act may prove exceptionally opportune and that home repair and modernization work here will start the wheels moving again in the building industry—an industry always among the first to feel business depression and always the first to feel the effects of improved business condition. Europe's chief ill these days seems to consist of attacks of Nazia.—(Ohio State Joournal) ———— 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire o it ) AUGUST 18, 1914, John Reck, J. G. Heid, F. Wol- land, J. T. Martin, Ralph Robert- son, E. C. Russell, R. A. Gunni- son, Willlam Britt, J. McKanna, Mark Russell and J. B. Caro were | named at the primary meeting in | the Juneau City Council chambers to be delegates to the non-partisan convention called by the Mayors of different towns in the First| judicial division to place a ticket in the: field for members of the Territorial Legislature. F. Wolland was made chairman of the meet- ing and Mr. Robertson, secretary. ‘W. P. Mills, Bernard Hirst, T. F. Demidoff, Nick Trierschield and J. E. Gamble, all well known in Sitka, arrived in Juneau on the Jefferson for Jury duty. The deer season had opened on August 15 and persons could kill | | BUSY] WHY Not Because We Are RICE & AHLERS CO. deer any place in Alaska exoept, on the reserves, until the season | closed November 1, providing they | observed all regulations. Miss Madge Case, who was v)sn- ing her aunt, Mrs. M. A. Goding, | in Skagway, had entertained a| number of her friends in that city | with a motion picture party with Mrs. Goding and Mrs. D. W. Me- Kay as chaperones. . Guests of | Miss Case were: Misses Vern Mil- | ler, Gertrude Liddicoat, Ermine| Lathan, Ellen Rogers, Katherine Hahn, Sarah Friedenthal, Marian | Wurzbacher, Vivian Talbot, and| Lois McKay. After had a feast of Vienna Bakery. ice cream at the! | ‘Weather for the previous 24 hours continued overcast and rainy. ‘The maximum temperature was 59 degrees and the minimum was 51| degrees Precipitation was 43 inches Albert Wile, postmaster at Idit-| arod, was also representing the Royal Fruit Company, operating at Juneau, Nome, Seward and Iditarod. Harold H. Post, cashier of the' First National Bank, returned on the Admiral Evans from a trip to Seattle where he visited his fam- ous actor brother Guy Bates Post - The remains of Emeline Pigott, famous Confederate heroine and spy during the Civil war, are buried | at Morehead City, N. C. NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF OPENING Or' BIDS The time winm wnich the City will receive Dbidg the construction of the new w: distribution system has been ex tended to August 27, 1934, at 2 lo'clock p.m. and bids previo called for will be received at office of the City Clerk at way, Alas until August 27, 1934 at 2 oclock p.m., at which hour they will be opened. City of Skagway, Alaska, i By L. E. REYNOLDSON, | City Cl 13, 11934, | H}st publication, Aug. Last publication, the play they| :: Cheaper BUT BETTER IT’S PROFESSIONAL J' 5 gy e [“Helene W.L. Albrecht | PHYSIOTHERAPY | Juneau Transfer Co. Massage, Electricity, Infra Red | Ray, Medical Gymnastics. | 307 Goldstein Building H Phone Office, 216 | when 'in need of e - MOVING or STORAGE = S o Fuel Oil Coal Rose A. Andrews Transfer Graduate Nurse | Electric Cabinet Baths—Mas- ) a5 sage, Colonic Irrigations | | Office hours 11 am. to 5 pm. ¢ H. S. GRAVES | Evenings by Appointment | “The Clothing Man” | Second and Main Phone 259 y Home of Hart, Schaffner and | e 2 Marx Clothing | | E.B. WILSON | | Chiropodist—Foot Specialist MIDGE T LUNCH TOM and MARIE STURGE Blue Ribbon Beer—Hot or Cold Lunch—Steaks and Chops Open 8 a.m. " LADIES’ HEEL LIFTS to 8 pm. Leather—25c—Composition The Best Shine in Town HICLLYWOOD SHOE PARLOR | 403 Goldstein Bldg. Phone 357 FRED LEHTO MODEI BEAUTY SHO?P ALICE CLARK i PHONE 36 LIQUOR DELIVERY “THE CORNER DRUG STORE" H \S - ] N ] \ RADIO REPAIR Telephone For very prompt JUNEAL Drug Co. P O. Substation Ne. & FREE DELIVERY or Quick b3 -4 | ey | F Guns and Ammunition SEE BIG VAN LOWER FRONT STREET Aug, 25, 1934, .. Next to Midget Lunch o tuae tor cor £ 1A check yi NO OB LI D sAFE ' Don’t Wait the snow ¢I ies AT I O1L HEAT SPECIALISTS Harri Machine Shop “ELECTROL—Of Course” IDEAL PAINT SHOP 1f I¢'s Paint We Have It! PHONE 549 - Wendt & Garster ALASKA MEAT CO. FEATURING CARSTEN’S BABY BEEF—DIAMOND TC HAMS AND BACON—U. S. Government Inspected g | ! | | | I If Possible to Weld We & Can Do It = o Willoughby, Near Femmer Dock PHONE 441 | PAINTS——OILS L ———— ] Builders’ and Shelf | 3 HARDWARE Hours 8 am. to 9 p.m. PIONEER CAFE J. K. PAUL | Dr. C. P. Jenne DENTIST ‘THE HOME OF Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine GOOD EATS"” Building Telephone 176 Dr. J. W. Bayne DENTIST Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. i | Office hours, 9 am. to 5 p.m. Evenings by appointment PHONE 321 THE MISSY SHOP Speclalizing in HOSIERY, LINGERIE, HOUSE DRESSES and accessories at modera'e prices s —~—& s 3 £ WARRACK Construction Co. | Robert Simpson Juncau Phone 487 | Opt. D. i | Graduate Los Angeles Col- lege of Optometry and Opthalmology Glasses Fitted, Lenses Ground DR. R. E. SOUTHWELL Optometrist—Optician Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted | | Room 7, Valentine Bldg. Office Phone 484; Residence | Phone 238. Office Hours: 9:30 | to 12; 1:00 to 5:30 | & \ of Guaranteed Qualities! The assurance that you are || buying the purest and BEST || BEER is yours when you pat- ' ronize this establishment! 15 Rhinelander ’ Dr. Richard Williams | and | DENTIST Alt Hei || OFFICE AND RESIDENCE dclberg i Gastineau Building ON DRAUGHT w" Phone 481 i T Dr. A W. ; i The Mlners | ” Dmnsitewart | Hours 9 am. to 6 pm, SEWARD BUILDING | Office Phone 409, Res. Phone 276 | Recreation Parlors BILL DOUGLAS T TOTEM MARKET | —‘_‘——'_T | Groceries—Produce—Fresh ALASKA WELDERS TOUGHEY Aven WILLOUGHBY AVENUE J. R. SILVA, Manager | CASH AND CARRY Thomas Hardware Co. Smith Electric Co. Shattuck Building EVERYTHING l |55 Mining Location Notices at Em- ELECTRICAL pire office. THE HOTEL OF ALASKAN HOTELS The Gastineau Our Services to You Begin and End -at the Gang Plank of Every Passenger-Carrying Boat FRYE’S BABY BEEF- “DELICIOUS” HAMS and BACON Frye-Bruhn Campany Telephone 388 A Good Business Reference Just as you judge a man by his business con- nections, so, too, you are inclined to judge a bank by its known patrons. The B. M. Behrends Bank likes to be judged in this way. This bank is the oldest and largest bank in Alaska and it has operated under the same manage- ment since it was founded forty-two years ago. Throughout this period it has been identified with the industrial and commercial enterprises by which all this section lives. An alliance here will help you. The B. M. Behrends Bank JUNEAU, ALASKA 1 I ,‘ Gastineau Channel ‘brothers welcome, Fraternal Societies oF 2 | | B. T 0. ELKS : ecets M every second and fourth Wednesdays a. 8:00 p. m. Visiting brothers welcome. J2hn H. Walmer Exalted Ruler. M. H. Sides, secretary KNIG"TS oF COLUU“BI!S Seghers Council No.1760. Meetings second and last Monday at 7:30 p. m. % ‘Pransient brothers urg- ? ed to attend ' Council Chambers, Fifth Street. JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K ' H. J. TURNER, Scretary o R 7 e T R R MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 Douglas Aerie & 17 F. 0. E. Meets first and third Mondays, 8 pm., Eagles Hall, Douglas. Visiting Sante Degan, W. P A Cashcn Secretary. PLUMBING HEATING | 401 Goldstein Building Second an- fourth Mom- SHEET METAL s \PHONE 490 'dw of each month in “We tell you tn advance what i | ? GARLAND BOGGAN 1 —————-d_tl fgg"f;’:}:w“_‘t‘; ;’:‘Pfi o T ‘ ) Hardwood Floors | #———————————| "5 guNpricKson, [Eeaaian s e e i . s 1 | | PRS.KASER & FREEBURGER | . James W. LEIVERS, Sec- ! | | Waxing Polishing | || DENTISTS [ 1} James W. : = ke [ Blomgren Building | Sanding PHONE 56 i | —gs | Our trucks go any place any | time. A tank for Diesel Oil | | and a tank for crude oil save i burner trouble. PHONE 149; NIGHT 148 | | RELIABLE TRANSFER l |2 '] Commercial Adjust- | al ment & Rating Bureau Cooperating with White Serv- | ice Bureau | Room 1—Shattuck Bldg. | We have 5,000 local ratings | on file | Jones-Stevens Shop 1 LADIES'—CHILDREN | READY-TO-WEAR | Seward Street Near Third | JUNEAU-YOUNG | Funeral Parlors [ Licensed Funcral Dircctors | and Embalmers | Night Phone 1851 Day Phone 12 SABIN’S Everything in Furnishings for Men fi: 3 | THE JUNEAU LAUNDRY | | Franklin Street between } l | Front and Second Streets | PHONE 359 JUNEAU FROCK SHOPPE “Exclusive but not Expensive” Coats, Dresses, Lingerie, Hosiery and Hats L e HOTEL ZYNDA Large Sample Room ELEVATOR SERVICE S. ZYNDA, Prop. 2 GARBAGE HAULED Reasonable Monthly Rates E. 0. DAVIS' TELEPHONE 584 Phone 4753 e GENERAL MOTORS and MAYTAG PRODUCTS | W. P. JOHNSON o i McCAUL MOTOR COMPANY Dodge and Plymouth Dealers 1] The Florence Sho Permanent Waving a Spec Florence Holmquist, Prop. PHONE 427 | Behrends Bank Building TYPEWRITERS RENTED $5.00 per month J. B. Burford & Co. “Our doorstep is worn by satis- fied customers * Juneau Ice Cream Parlors Exclusive Dealers HORLUCK'S DANISH ICE CREAM Ul e e shue s S _"SHOP IN JUNEAU!