The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 30, 1934, Page 8

@@ I THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, OCT. 30, 1934. " G. F. ALEXANDER RETURNS AFTER THREE MONTHS RS, Dislr—i:—‘]udge Back| at Headquarters After | Ketchikan Term | months a month’s the last. two presiding at in that city. “It seems home again. I enjoyed my in Portland where I made home for many years and also in Missouri, where my family has liv- ed for more than a hundred years. but felt as though I were heading ati d months in a term of s spent | etchikan held to be visit my awfully good for home when I boarded the steamer to return to Jdaska,” Judge Alexander said today. He| will now make preparations for the term of court that opens in Ju- neau November 12, Visits in Oregon Judge ~ Alexander visited for a short time in Portland, Oregon, after his arrival in the States in August and continued East to Mis- souri where he visited his parents, Judge and Mrs. Joshua W. Al(’x-‘ ander in Gallatin, and other rela- | tives throughout the State. e returded to the West Coast by way of the Canadian Pacific Reilway, taking the northern route in an effort to get rid of an at- tack of hay fever he had acquirid‘ in the East. “I have heard %0 much of the Canadian Rocxs, and their great beauty, but in opin- fon the scenery doesn't compare v.o" that of our own Rocky Moun- tains,” he said | New Deal Praised “Every where I went I heard praise of the New Deal and of the | efforts being made by the Roose- | velt Administration ‘to speed up| the recovery program of the coun- try. Particularly in the Middle West, the so-called where the people generally seemed more than pleased with the Presi- dent’s program. While Republicans in Oregon are making a stiff fight to come back to power, all indica- tions were that a Democratic Gov- ernor would be elected this fall,” Judge Alexander said. Court Party Returns Others in the court party re- turned here on the Alaska this morning. ' Judge Aléxander; U. S. | chikan where Miss Pugh will re- ‘Corn " Belt' | | Mrs. Mildred Holi Nev., attire—a man’s shi n of Long and a sc: (Associated Press Photo) the Southampton social set doesn’t wea§ shoes because she thinks they are “barbaric.” Mrs, Holmsen is expected to file a divorce suit in Reno. ] Island, N. Y., in her usual Reno, anty pair of short he member of [ Wrangell on the U. 8. Coast Guar cutter Alert and hunted for two days on the Stikine flats. Suc- cess of the hunt was mediocre, though a few ducks were obtained. Weather conditions were unfavor- able, with a stiff Stikine wind blowing and ice on the flats, Mr. Folta said. 'W. C. Stump, Assistant U. . Attorney at Ketchikan, made the huntingstrip with them, re-| turning' to Ketchikan from Wran- | gell. Others of the court party who arrived in Juneau on the Alaska were Lawrence Kerr, Clerk in the U. S. Attorney’s Office; Melvin Grigsby, Bailiff, and J. H. Newman, Court Stenographer. Miss Venetia Pugh, Deputy U. S. Clerk of the Court and her mother, Mrs. T, M. Reed, remained in Ket- lieve Ruth Russell, Deputy U. S.| Clerk of the Court, in that city, while the latter takes her annual vacation in the South. They will return to Juneau in about a month. WHITNEY TO STRING WITH SANTA ANITA LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 30.— The fastest horses of the famous stables of Cornelius Vanderbilt | Whitney will be brought here for |the Santa Onita race tfack sea- “.xon opening in February, he an- | nounced before he left for New | York. | The horses will iriclude Equipoise, | | Clerk of the Court R. E. Coughlin, Assistant U. 8. Attorney George W. Folta, made the trip as far as | Roustabout, High Glee and Jabot. "They also will be entered in the| Bay Meadows races. FUR COATS as low as $89.50 et et FUR JACKETS as low as $45.00 -~ THE LEADER —~ 2-WAY RADID PLANNED FOR ARMY PLANES WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.— The War Department special air corps committee announces that all fu- ture army planes will be equipped with two-way radio ahd;all instru- ments necessary to fly commercial airways. Delivery of $7,500,000 worth of new planes is expected to start in | April, 1935. These will be fully| equipped. Few present planes can be given additional instruments be- cause of lack of funds, officials said. Lack of proper equipment was blamed for troubles of the army in flying the air mail last spring, when 11 pilots los their lives. Trusty Went: Fisilifl’ in '25; Just Gets Back BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct. 30.—In 1925 a Jefferson County prison camp warden permitted trusty Ar- chie Harris, then 23, to go fish- ing. Archie did not return. Now Archie’ssback, ready to take his “medicine” after tiring of elud- ing the law. He said he made his way back from Seattle. His medi- cine is more ‘than a year of an eighteen-month sentence at Hhard labor for burglary. | BAD BLAZE IN GRAND APTS, THIS MORNING Vern M. Soley Severely Burned and All Contents of Apartment Lost Vern M. Soley, Manager of Race's Drug Store, is in St. Ann’s Hospital, severely burhed about the head and face as the result of a fire which (=] [} & [o} E. = w ] S [+] o = = = = — = = - — i " CALL OF ELKS IS TOMORROW Elaborate Arrangements i Made for Event Includ- ing “Dutch Lunch” The annual meeting of the local |Elks Lodge at which all members’ are expected to be present will joccur tomorrow night. | | broke out at 5 o'clock this morning in the Grand Apartments on Tri- angle Place, in the suite shared by Jack Metzgar and Edward Towns- ley. Mr. Townsley was also burned and all clothes, belonging to him and to Mr. Metzgar were destroyed, | with the exception of a garment ' or two hanging in the bath room, as was the furniture of the apart- ment. | The blaze broke out in the living room, where Mr. Soley was sleeping on the davenport and quickly swept through the clothes closets, and into the kitchen destroying wear- rest in Detroit as the writer of an extortion note received by Edsel Ford demanding $5,000 under threat of death, Edward Lickwala (above) was guilty and wa .| Preparations are being made for ia large turnout by. Exalted Ruler John H. Walmer, who promises an 'oldtime “Dutch Lunch” with ail| | the trimmings including the tradi- tional, keg of beer. |s It ‘was also announced today ithat a group flashlight photo of the meeting will be taken for the lodge records. DAWES’ RETURN SPURS MEDICAL B.P.O.ELKS |/ ROLL CALL |! WEDNESDAY October 31 8P. M. i S Less than 24 hours after his ar- . arraigned, pleaded indicted, sentenced to 10 e ing apparel and furniture ‘before years in the Leavenworth federal aid could be reached. The bedroom Prison. (Assoclated Press Photo) was scorched but not as seriously e —] cLlNIc FUH GITY damaged as the remainder of the 5 1 o ere apartment. Marina Names Her TR T B Visiting Brothers Cordially | Awakened by Smoke Md. Soley and Mr. Townsley were awakened by the smoke,and rushed to the window opening on the side of the building. Mr. Soley jumped to the alleyway a floor be- low:and turned in the alarm before he rushed to the hospital in a taxicab while. Mr. Townsley de- scended from the window by’ a ladder brought from a nearby building. Mr. Metzgar was on shift at the Alaska Juneau when the fire took place. Quick work on the part of the Juneau Volunteer Fire. Department was all that prevented the entire building from being completely de- stroyed, according to C. F. Brown, whose apartment is on the first floor, below that in which the fire occurred. Much of his furniture was damaged by water used in ex- tinguishing the roaring flames. Cause of the fire has not besen determined by either the firemen or the occupants of the apartment.| The exact damages caused have| not yeéb been determined, { neither Mr. Metzgar or Mr. Towns- ' d o of e p! Ji d ol sonal effects nor did Mr. Brown|f have fire insurance on his furni- f; ture. e States with her prince next year, N she has confided to friends here, his wife, They arrived on the mirerer of the freedom and inde- ' Westminster Abbey November 2! Princess Ingrid of Sweden, erine of Greete and Princess Kyra, Margaret Rose, Duke and Duchess of York, also will participate in the wedding. but | States Marshal for the First Ju-I ley carried insurance on their per- neau headquarters this morning rom Ketchikan where hq has been cent term of court in that . cily. Bridesmaids; May Visit United States conditions exist now, each doctor —_— ,must be ready to do any and all PARIS, Oct. 30—Princess Marina kinds of medical work. A properly ¢ Greece, betrothed of the Duke Organized clinjc would eliminate ¢ Kent of England, is hopeful— this duplication of service, Dawes ven anxious—to visit the Unitea ‘Said. ‘Accompanying Dr. Invited Dawes was Rebekahs Card Party WEDNESDAY NIGHT 1..0. 0. F. HALL AUCTION BRIDGE—WHIST . GOOL PRIZE REFRESHMENTS Admission 50¢ PUBLIC INVITED! | Miss Bruce, “and we talked a little John Gllbert May | while together. As to the future Rewed Miss Bruce vou never know.” { Gilbert has been married four | times, Miss Bruce being his latest wife. They were divorced last Ma | and are the parents of a daughter, Susan Ann Gilbert, 19 months old. Alaska this morning. Upon leaving Juneau for the endence of American womanhood, States, they first visited the fa- Princess Marina has chosen as '@CUs Mayo Clinic in Rochester, bridesmaid for her wedding at Minn., where Dr. Dawes perform- 9. ed several operations and did oth- Princess ©r clinical work. Similar work was na of Holland, Princess Cath- done in Chicago at the Augustana Hospital. There, Dr. Dawes said, the finest feat of operatory work he has seen, was done by Dr. N. M Princess Fursey, of Chicago. Dr. Pursey is of the & golter specialist. Visits were made to relatives in ;Wiscon.sm and in Kansas City on ithe return trip to the West Coast, |accomplished in a smad touring automobile. The Lincoln Highway United Was the route followed to Seattle, where the Alaska was boarded. — e — HALLOWE'EN DANCE In Douglas Wednesday night, Oc- several weeks during the re- tober 31, Eagles’ Hall, Admission 50 cents. Good Music. —adv. ' Good Taste. Sne expressed herself*a great ad- z o aughter of the Grand Duke Cyril f Russia. Princess Elizabeth and daughters AL A A MAHONEY RETURNS HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Oct. 30— John flbert, whose romantic film voles ‘arned for himl the title of the “screen’s greatest lover,” and i iy his divorced wife, Virginia Bruce, University of California’s out- acttess, may remarry, Miss Bruce | patient clinic gives to the public indicated today. | nearly 200,000 consultations and “I met him at his request,” said | treatments yearly. William T. Mahoney, icial Division, returned to his Ju- or ? | Thay Tadls Beller . . You get in Luckies the finest Turkish and Domestic tobaccos that money can buy—only the clean center leaves—for these are the mild- est leaves—they cost more—they taste better. : “It’s -toasted” §at i