The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 8, 1935, Page 4

é Dady Alaska Emplre ROBERT W. BENDER - - GENERAL MANAGER every evening except Sunday by the mm!: wa'nr.fl COMPANY at Second and Malc Streets, Juneau, Alaska. Entered in the Post Office In Juneau as matter. | deposits. ccond Class SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Deilvered by carrier In Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per month. tage paid, at the following rates: - g e o B #jx months, fa advance, #4.80; one month, in advance, $1 bubscribers will confer a (mor if they will promptly notity the Business Office of wny failure or irregularity ™ the delivery of their papcrs. Telephone for Editorial and Bunlmn Olflcen, 374, lers. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. 21 The Amsocrated Press ls exclusively entitled to the | April, 1921, ublication of all news dispatches credite 4 morlor:o(mgxhuefis? credited in this paper and also the until July, weal news published herein. SLABKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER | THAN THAT CF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION point | business by fabulous \from 30 to 40 per cent. reported, is no less than 56 per cent—a clear indica- tion of better conditions both in the automobile industry and in the banking situation in that city. Thus far there has been no expansion of bank |credit to accompany the more active turnover of In leading cities loans made on other than |security collateral were reported this week by the Federal Reserve Board to be about 6 per cent less |than on the corresponding date last year. But the present figure is above the level of midsummer, and experience has taught that there is a normal lag of bank credit behind business activity, both on the down-swing and on the up-swing. Evidence of this was presented in a recent report published by the President. of He pointed out that in the depression of 1920- industrial production reached its low point in while bank loans continued to decline 1922, fifteen months after business had started upward. activity in England, during the depression from which we now seem to be emerging, reached its low in October, Detroit's gnm. '.he largest the Association of Reserve City Bank He also pointed out that business 1931, while advances made to the London Clearance House banks did not turn up until January of this year. The Royal Naos of Manila. | (New York Herald Tribune.) [ It is a writer in the current “Proceedings” of the |United States Naval Institute—that insidious con- |sumer of time which busy men ought to be spending |on something else—who pauses to recover from the mists of legend some authentic details of the great |Manila galleons. Who has not heard of those vessels—“the Philippine ships,” were also called, |Naos of Manila"—with their towering sides, their as they “the State galleons or the Royal |high poops under the great stern lanterns, their WELL EARNED. crowded decks and the incredible wealth which they —_— were supposed to (and very often did) carry under Former Postmaster Mrs. Josephine T. Spickett, ‘thexr hatches? They were the annual grand prize sald yesterday in retiring from her office, “After for generations of piratical adventure in the Pacific; eight years and seven months in office, I am look-"Hakluyts freebooters used to live in wait for them ing forward to a rest and vacation.” The Postmaster’s job in a town such as Juneau| is no easy one. With mail delivery entirely con-| tingent upon water transportation with its more or * less irregular schedules, with some times as much as ' eight days accumulation and the public's eagerness| for immediate local distribution when the boats rive, man ating situations unavoidably rise. Sound re io. slight d s do not al hed impress the lette: er public who at times prcut the impossible. |ex Through eight and one-half years Mrs. Spickett |, has undoubtedly listened to many complaints, some nerhaps justified, others mnot, but through it all lone her utmost to give Juneau the mail . scrvice it desired M:s. Spickett’s desire for a vacation is well justi- | fied, and when she leaves Juneau for her well ed rest the good wishes and thoughts of the nd her many personal friend o the ades; rigures, (New York Times.) One of the barometers on which business mer ocp watch is the record of bank clearances. It measures roughly the volume of business payments of various kinds, whether for the purchase of goods. payment of services or investment in Figures of Dun and Bradstreef. published show a gain of 15.7 per cent in clearings in twenty- one leading citie compared with the v i the largest increase reported since last May. With- out exception, all twenty-one cities share in it. Their gains range from fractional inereases in Richmond !® and, St. Louis to 138 per cent in New York, and then on to considerably iarger figures elsewhere | Philadelphia, Cleveland, Chicago, Kansas City and San Prancisco show gains ranging frc 20 t i percent; Baltimore, Portland, Ore nd S re € National service. SAFETY for your funds. guard ower your funds. welcome. doubloons in romantic fame Your Deposits in This Bank are Insured 100% Up to $5,000.00 The First National Bank now offers the ad- vantages of Deposit Insurance to the people of Juneau and surrounding territory. Sound managament, complete facilities, help- ful services, and willing co-operation have long been accepted as an integral part of First Now we offer INSURED Deposits in this bank are insured by the Federal Deposit In- surance Corporation, Washington, D. C., up to a maximum of $5,000.00 for each depositor. Let this additional Insurance protection stand For SERVICE plus SAFETY, make this bank your financial headquart- ers. Come in often—you are always |off the California coasts, and there was the clink their very names. So great is the which enshrouds those round-bowed il one is almost surprised to clually existed. But it seems that centuries and a half—through the which the United States was bein: ized, made independent and estab- nation—they carried on a more or less ssengex us wastes of the Pacific. was easy enough (if somewhat tedious) to get out Philippines from Mexico on the northeast but the first of the galleons did not solve blem of getling back again (by way of the itudes )65, Lwenty years before the defeat of the Spanish From that time on they made their passages, one ship a year each way. The last of the and freight service across the From the beginning and the prevailing westerlies) until iL Manila in 1811 for Acapulco, to 1 o lhe colony in 1815, the year of Waterloo. I'he galleons were the sole means of communica- ion with Spain, and it is astounding to think of a ny maintained for two centuries by that long |and fragile line of communication. 1\11 the details of how they were built and operated were constructed at Cavite in Manila Bay), hat their crews were paid and so on. y the One is grateful But one ardors of travel in them. The home to Spain caught his liner some- the end of June; he could then ird to five or six months on her rolling 1 decks. packed with passe r or three hun- { call between Mani! and the comforting assurance that the latter he would be on the lucky e, long way from Spain. Those | at the idea of a world cruise i life in the Royal Naos of Manila their defeat -(Toledo Blade g out in Juneau, Alaska First National Bank ——— 20 YEARS A(Jdl Prom The Empire e e D N Y JANUARY 8, 1915 Sharp fighting was reported on the Western battle front, with fierce skirmishes in the Argonne forests Where the French appeared to be holding the trench captured re- cently from the Germans. The Douglas Lodge of the I. O.| O. F. installed the following as of- | ficers: C. L. Hall, Charles Grewar, | John Lure, M. Benson, William Stubbins, Hugo Anderson, Charles Swihart, Hugh McRae, John Hul, George Williams, David Brainard,{ Dan Douglas, Ed Asplund, Robert H. Virch, John J. Connolly, A. E. Harris, Isa.dore and Marion Goldsteln ex- pected to leave soon for the San Francisco exposition. Judge Frank Bach, new deputy marshal in Douglas, was an official visitor in Juneau. Friends of Tom G. McDonald, athletic director of Treadwell, and one of the most popular men on Gastineau Channel, learned he was to leave the ranks of single blessed- ness the following summer. It was learned that his engagement had been announced to a prominent Seattle belle. Elks and their wives enjoyed one of the best parties in years the pre- vious night. Dancing to a five- plece orchestra, and cards, follow- ed by a banquet in the lodge rooms provided the evening’s entertain- ment. The committee in charge in- cluded Claude Erieson, William Garster and Charles Ostrom. Victor Quist, aged 9 years, was accidentally hit in the eye by a dart discharged by his young play- | mate, Warren Shorthill, who was deeply concerned over his friend’s injury. H. H. Townsend, engineer and surveyor, returned from a ten weeks' trip to California. He will be associated again with B. D. Stew- art. Weather, maximum, 38; mini- mum, 34; rain. —————.——— NOTICE ! ON AND AFTER JANUARY 1,1935 | the scale of pay per hour will be | $1.20 for carpenters as allowed Northern Zone by the P.W.A CARPENI‘ERS lOCAL NO l I'IRE ALARM CALLS -3 Third ano PFranklin. ¢ Front and Franklin, Front, near Ferry Way. Front, near Gross Apts. Front, opp. City Whart. -8 Front, near Sawmill. Front at A. J. Office. Willoughby at Totem Grocery. Willoughby, opp. Cash Cole’s Garage. Front and Seward Front and Main. Second and Main. Fifth and Seward. Seventh and Main, Fire Hall. Home Boarding Houss. Gastineau and Rawn Way. Second and Gold, Fourth and Harria Pifth andd Gold. Fifth and East. Seventh and Gold. Fifth and Kennedy. Ninth, back of power house. Calhoun, opp. Seaview Apts. Distin and Indian. Ninth and Calhoun Tenth and C. Twelfth, BP.R. garage. Twelfth and Willoughby. Home Grocery. Seater Tract. adre PR Ny —bod PHONE 36 For very prompt LIQUOR DELIVERY AGENCY (Authorized Dealers) GREASES GAS ‘ OILS Juneau Motors ? * PFOOT OF MAIN ST. | “FIAPPY —BIRTHDAY The Empire extends congratula- tions and best wishes today, their birthday anniversary, to the follow- ing: JANUARY 8 Chester Johnson Roy H. Osborn Willard Robbins Donald W. Skuse Fred Barragar 1 . -Albert Uberti \ Mrs. L. M. Jones | e ViISITS DELEGATE i Among the visitors at Delegate Dimongd’s office in Washington re- cently was Jesse Growden, a broth- er of William N. Growden of Ruby, elected to the Alaska Legislature last September. Jesse Growden was formerly employed at the Govern- ment Printing Office in Washing- ton and expects to resume that work at an early date. His native State is Tennessee. JUNEAU | Drug Co. “THE CORNER DRUG STORE” P. O. Substation No. 1 FREE DELIVERY Today” “Tomorrow’s Styles ] ) ' LUDWIG NELSON | JEWELER | Watch Repairing | Philco—General Electric Agency 11 FRONT STREET b ‘———‘n = THE JUNEAU LAUNDRY | Franklin Street between i Front and Sscond Streets PHONE 35§ ‘ BUSY WHY Not Because We Are Cheaper BUT BETTER RICE & AHLERS CO. " UMBING HEATING “We tell you in advance what job will cost” ‘BET OUT OF MY’ LiFR FOREVER " Banished forever are the clothes basket, wash line, and laundry tubs. And 'S a gayer, jollier companion for her husband now that she sends her clothes to the laundry. YOUR ALASKA Laundry Florence Holmquist, Prop. PHONE 427 Behrends Bank Building i - R et e o The Florence Sho | Permanent Waving a Specialty » \ il 401 Goldstein' Building | L Telepnone 178 i [ DENTIST CONTESTS Why not organize a team among your friends, and get in on the fun? Teams from all parts of the city TYPEWRITERS RENTED $5.00 per month J. B. Burford & Co. “Qur doorstep is worn by satis- | fied customers — Juneau Ice Cream Parlors SHORT ORDERS Fountain Candy BETTY MAC BEAUTY SHOP 103 Assembly Apartments — and representing many or- PHONE 547 ganizations have already en- . tered this first series. S Brunswick || Alleys Rheinlander Beer on Draught POOL BILLIARDS BARBER SHOP JUNEAU FROCK ’ SHOPPE , “Exclusive but not Expensive” ‘ JUNEAU-YOUNG Funeral Parlors Licensed Funeral Directors and Embalmers mt Phone 1851 Day Phone 12 [ SABIN’S Optometrist—Optician Eyes Examined—Classes Fitted Room 7, Valentine Bldg. Office Phone 484; Phone 238. Office Hours: to 12; 1:00 to 5:30 HOTEL ZYNDA ELEVATOR SERVICE 8. ZYNDA, Prop. - 1891 ® The B. M. Behrends is the Pioneer bank Established in 1891 and sound banking, “PIONEER” '1935 Bank of Juneau of Alaska. . .. it has continu- ously served the people of Alaska in every way consistent with safe The B. M. Behrends Bank Juneau, Alaska 'l Rose A. Andrews | | " DRS. KASER & FREFBURGER PROFESSIONAL | Helene W.L. Albrecht PHYSIOTHERAPY } Massage, Electricity, Infra Red Ray. Medical Gymnastics. | 307 Goldstein Building Phone Office, 16 1 ) & 1] ——E3 1 5 [ = Graduate Nurse | Electric Cabinet Baths—Mas- «age, Colonic Irrigations | | Oftice hours 11 am. to 5 pm. | Evenings by Appointment | Second and Main '~ Phore 259 | | -—%3 F. R. WILSON | Chiru.podis—Fout Specialist | | | PHONE 496 | \ l DENTISTS | | Blomgren Building | PHONE 56 il Hours 9 am. to ¥ pm. — | Dr. C. P. Jenne | DENTIST Roms 8 and 9 Valentine | | Building L R A AT 2 RN AT | y\‘ | 'Dr. Geo. L. Barton | CHIROPRACTOR | 201 Goldstein Bldg. Phone 214 | Office hours—9-12, 1-5. Even- ings by appointment ! Dr. Richard Williams | DENTIST {1 | OFFICE AND RESIDENCE Gastineau Building Phone 481 | Seghers Council | 1760. Meetings second Fraternal Societies [ i, Gastineau Channel | B. P. 0. ELKS meets every Wednesday at 8 pm. Visiting brothers welcome. John H. Walmer, Ex- albed Ruler. M. H. Sides, Secretary KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS No. 7 ind last Monday at 7:30 p. m. Transient brothers urged to at- tend. Council Cham- Jers, Fifth St. JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K, H. J. TURNER, Secretary. |G. | MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE No. 147 : Second and fourth Mon- day of each month in Scottish' Rite Temple, beginning at 7:30 p.m. L. E. HENDRICKSON Master; JAMES W. LEIVERS, Secretary. DOUGLAS AERIE 117 F. O. E. Meets first and third Mondays, 8 |om., Eagles’ Hall, Douglas. Visiting Srothers welccme. Sante Degan, W. P, T. W. Cashen, Secretary. & | Our tru.“s go any place any itlme A tank for Diesel Gi/ | and a tank for crude oil save buruer trouble, PHONE 149; NIGHT 148 | RELIABLE TRANSFER Commercial Adjust- ment & Rating Bureau | Cooperating with White Serv- | ice Bureau Ro m 1—Shatty =idg. We have 5,000 local ratings | on file | ——a R R e T I e Dr. A. W. Stewart Hours 9 am. t¢c 6 pm. SEWARD BUILDING i Office Phone 409, Res. | Phone 276 ———— Cigars Cigarettes Candy Cavds The | New Arctic Pabst Famous Draught Beer On Tap “JIMMY” CARLSON e THE BEST TAP BEER IN TOWN! [ ] THE MINERS’ Recreation Parlors and Liquor Store BILL DOUGLAS GARBAGE HAULED | | “Reasonable Monthly Rates | E.O.DAVIS | | ‘TELEPHONE 584 | I Phone 4753 | e ——— } amm:;fino'ron t | MAYTAG PRODUCTS 'i W. P. JOHNSON | e iR | ® i — Robert Simpson Opt. D. | Graduate Los Angeles Col- lege of Optometry and Opthalmology | Glasses Pitted, Lenses Ground P s H DR. H. VANCE OSTEOPATH Consultation. and examination Free. Hours 10 to 12; 1 to 5; 7 to 8:30 and by appointment. Office Grand Apts., near Gas- tineau Hotel. Phone 177 Alaska Transfer Co. || GENERAL HAULING ED JEWELL, Preprietor PHONES 269—1134 " SEE BIG VAN | Guns and Ammunition | LOWER FRONT STREET | 3 Next to Midget Lunch | E -—n ] Drucs anp Sunpries or LIQUORS IN A HURRY! PHONE 971 Fast Free Delivery Guy L. Smith Drug Store Next to Colisenr: Formerly COLEMAN'S Pay Less—Much Less Front at Main Street BEULAH HICKEY Tm Style sn.TT For Quick RADIO ‘REPAIR Telephone . Smaxmee | e e e J w. Bayne ¥ Trings Bldg. hours, 9 am. to 5 pm. E'enmu by appointment | D E Rmms l PHONE 321 | | ( : i Harry Race DRUGGIST The Squibb Store AL PAINT SHOP | It's Paint We Have It! | ID I | ) WENDT & GARSTER PHONE 549 .. Old newspapers for sale at The g " ”n o© 0 " 9| “@ v “ “ “© “» e W W Ry W ¢