The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 5, 1935, Page 7

WHEN I WAR A~c UP FRUM TH' STILL JES' AFORE SUN -UP I SEED_TH' BUZZARD 4 AN HIS Ol WOMAN A-SETTIN' IN TH' DQOR TH' MEETIN' 'M ATHINKINGY WE'LL HEV A LEETLE FUNERAL OCCASION EF THET VARMINT, I SNUFFY SMITH, | COMES A-COOTERIN' ‘ROUND HYEH -~ Ring Feawres Syndicate, Inc.. Great Britain ights te American F actors I nfluence Maiden Voyage of Normandie | When the new 79,000-ten French liner Normandie (below) enters New York harbor for the first time next June, the man on the bridge will be Capt. Rene Pugnet (left), a grand-nephew of Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, sculpter cf the Statue of Liberty. Under his feet the gigantic hull will house motors, refrigerators and much other apparatus “made in U. S. A” By ROBERT 3. PARKER |ment. Motors manufactured by an ST. NAZAIRE, France, Feb. 5— American company are being plac- When the giant liner “Norman-|ed throughout her enormous bulk. die” first salutes Bartholdi’s St The searchlights are American- of Liberty on her maiden vo; made Air-conditioning apparatus in June, a grand nephew of th |and electric refrigerators from the monument’s sculptor will be m‘Umted States have been purchas- command. ed. Rene Pugnet, boxer, painter, mu-| Details of the liner's construction sician, inventor, and ranking com- | are being carefully guarded. Exceps mander of the French Line's fleet, for a few figures, given in an ef- will be in charge of the 79,000-ton | fort to prove the “Normandic” is vessel whose building here he has bigger than her British rival, supervised almost from the mo- | “Queen Mary,” data on her con- ment she first began to take shape. | struction is being withheld. Only a| American Fittings Chosen | few weeks before she pushes heri American materials play a big' 79,000 tons out into the sea for the | part in the big liner's equip- maiden voyage to New York, now Daily Cross-word Puzzle . The staf? of lite Obhlncd ACROSS 1. Long narrow board 8otution of Yesterday’s Puzzle 8. Ore of three equal parts 10. Sign of addi- tion 14. Learning 15. Hindu princess 16. Mature 17. Indigo plant 18. Joint between the foot and leg 19. Presently 20, Marriage 22, Encompassing on all sides 24, Take solid food 25. Stainers 26. Playful 30. Make more * profound 34. Moccasins 35. Italian coins 37. Worship 38. Slamese coin 39, Wished 41 Orlenw l.th olding o M!nnh orifices 3 nu o inside Isle 39. Distributes card; the s . Religious chiefs of Indll.n . Handled 47. Lariats 9. Seaweed 51. On high . Removu the . Motion of the sea . Was carried . Burning . Send out 7. Féthale shee, c& Lining of a well ug rooms DOWN 1. Cabbage sala Solitary Dry 4. Bank officers 6. Capable of being drawn out in length 6. Quantity of arn 7. Writg fufd 8. Fresh supply 9, Judged 10, Extolled 11. Short letter 12, On 13. Dispatched 21, Cereal seed . Sufficlent; m &oguct rref archalc w the speed o ¢ g 3 Chlzz Norse L1 . Bxposes to olsture 62. Form into a knot 3 r 0. Dillseed 61. Indian fetish // w w i, = lpumnd for June 3, will views oi | iiids; 49 Wi the plans; tom the“c"'en pilots an airplane, for in the HOUSE - her intéftior be avadlable, ‘The length of the ship, says the French Line, is 1,030 feet, 12 feet longer than the ‘‘Queen Mary.” She will carry more than 3,000 passen- gers ahd a crew of 2,000. Her 160,- 000 horsepower : is counted -on to drive her through thé wavés at 30 khots, expected ‘to ' senid ‘her from Le Havre to New York in four days flat or less: Butchers, ‘Beanticians in Crew Her crew will include such wide- ly diversified members as three doctors, nine butchers, and 20 bell boys. There will be nine hairdress- ers, seven printers, 16 musicians and 187 cooks. Literally enough food, Hnen and other supplies will be carried for an army. Each of the 3,000 pas- sengers, for example, will have the exclusive right ito 43 napkins, two thickens; tengpounds of ite, a carafe afid four knives, as well as! similar quantities of other neces- sities. Although he has been at sea since eéarly youth, Captain Pugnet has found time to accomplish as much as three or four men ordi- narily do in a lifetime. The vig- | ln he plays was fashioned by his pedals to the ivory keys. He’s Artistic Sea Dog It was while he was master of the liner “Paris” that his talents| as a portrait painter first became known, for his passengers often sat for him. His experiments in| color photography have taken priz- es in Paris salons, and he also has been successful in séulpturing, a talent he says he inherited from his great uncle. Between inventing “Pugnet holes” which allow firé hoses to be play- ClL ARDEN For long, luxurious eyelashes;, an occasional application of MNquid petrolatum is beneficial. ed in any cabin without damaging the cabin structure, and deciding where to place the ship’s equipment and personnel from 20,000 bottles of beer to 31 messenger boys, Cap+ tain Pugnet has found time to keep up his boxing. At 53 he continues also to fence, and shoot. On occasion he world war he commanded the French naval aviation base in Cor- sica and distinguished himself at the defense of Corfou B MIZE TO WRANGELL Ralph Mizé, formerly connected with the Indian Affairs service at Kanakanak and Eklutna, left on the Yukon to accept a position as electrician and mechanic at the Wrangell Institute. Empire Classified Ads Pay. Advertisements areaguidetovalue stands. Hsre is the most certain Gelasio Caetam Early Em- ployee at Treadwell Gains Prominence A Tormer ‘IreadWwell employee. later a’ Prince, and who rose 'to Breat prominence, died last October in Rore and left beqiists which havée been incorporal in the Vatican library. ‘The following article, umder a Vatican Oity date line, will' prove interesting reading to oldtimers ahd others now on Gastineau Channel: The precious archives of< the |feudal princes of Caetani were i+ corporated today in ‘the ' Vatiean library through a bequest by thé late Prince Gelasio Caetans; forther Itallan Ambassador in WasHingtoh. The Princé 4lso left his own private library to the Vatiean, | The archives comprise mote than | 200,000 documents, 2,700 volumes of | history, philosophy and literature and 4,600 parchment folios dating from 954 to 1832. The library con-| taihed 8,000 volumes. The archives included Onorato | curdinal Caetani’s correspondence | with the Encyclopaedists (iritellec- | tual leaders of the French Revolu- tion) and the letters of Captain| Caetani, commander of the Papal militia during the battle of Lepanto, Greece, in 1571, when Don Juan of Austria defedted the Turks, as well| ’fls dmumems by Enrico Cardinal| | Experts can roughly esfimate the value of a product by looking at it. More accurately, by handling and exammmg it Its appearance, its texture, the “feel” and the balance of it all means something to their trained eyes apd fingers. . B FORMERALASKAN = DIES AS PRINGE IN ROME, ITALY | Draftsman (Highway), silary $1,800 | STIRRIN' U AAL == Caetani telating to the time he -;dmwhi‘x\filnu by AMDASSABOI Prince Gelasio Caetani, who was Italian Ambassddor to Washington ' from 1932 to 1925, died in Rome on October 24 last at the age of 57. A member of one of Italy's most illustrious families, he was & Sen: ator, diplomat, patron of the arts and an engineer, As plain Gelasio Caetani he was graduated from Columblé Univer- sity in 1903, hdving takeén up ap- plied science. From there he went West and becameé a minet in Idaho and’ {readwéll, Alaska. In theé World Wat he directéd the explogioti of fines whith blew the top 6ff Col df Land, ¥he moih. taih ' summit where Austrian ‘ in- tantry were intrenched, Efiflnl the way for’a sucbessful Ttal His mifiing knowledge, acquited T the Uhited States, thul stood ‘him 10 good stead. “Céietani cameé north to Tréadwell | #bout 1904 and 13 sald to Have béen {h chargeé o( installing the old ppwer plani CIVIL SERVICB EX AMINATIONS ARE ANNOUNCED| The United States Civil Service Commission has announced exam- inations for the following posi-| tions: Asdociate Supervisor of Elemenit- | ary Education, salary $3,200 a year; | Jtiniof Mediedl Officer (Interne), salary $2,000 4 year; Engineer a year. Further informatioh may be ob- | tained at Room 311, Federal und\ Territorial Bulldmg [ seience tries its hand at magic in the construction of Pl;napflml the American Museum of Natural History vmli the use of rock cork on the walls and ceiling @th.l, which will serve as a sound-deadener, 'lvl ¥ the feeling that he is not in a room but out-of- doon u‘nd'er s ’éihf Hight sky. Officials hope to' provide' the im- pression that ‘the spéctator is looking at the sky itself when the celestial bodies are projected on the dome of the building. Ml But no person can be an’ expert on stee] brass, wood, leather, foodstuffs, fabrics, and all of the materials that make up a ligt of personal purchases. And even experts are fooled, some- times, by concealed flaws and imperfections. There is a surer index of value than the senses, of ngln and touch . . . knowledge of the mal’cer s name ahd for. what it , except. that of actual use, for jiidging the value of any mlfiuflaumd goods. There is.. the only guarantee against careless workmnnshlp, or the use of shodd y materlals. Thls is one unportant reason why it pays to ren\d adver-- tisements :and t6 buy advertised goods. The product that,is advertised is worthy of your confidence. Merchandise must be good-or it could not be consistently advertised. Euy‘mivertued goods and buy those goods adyertised in the Daily Alaska Empire I// el LET US HELP YOU.TO MODERNIZE YOUR HOME Krafft’s Cabinet Shop and Millwork PLYWQOD—Any Size and Quantity PLATE and AUTO GLASS—Mirrors and Window Glass HARDWQOD and FINISHING LUMBER FOR SALE or CHARTER 10x12 heavy duty 2-drum Clyde Hoist. 150-ton scow; also 120-foot barge. Sturdy 50 H.P. towboat, 52 feet long. Five 3,000-gal. shipping board water tanks. 6 H.P. single drum hoist. Anchors (200 1bs. to 3-ton patent anchors). Cables, blocks, shackles and miscellaneous ship chandlery. 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