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066000000000000008000800000000000 56;.in $ $ Wear | | : | : | ; | $ ‘)/(?LJTEEG>/VF.S(D/77€? SPRING CLOTHES/ 56 in. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRlDAY MARCH 1, i i i : ; | : i Full Ridge Woolen Fabries « Heatherlaing,, Heathertwist 2.50. yard 56 in;; Tweed. Ridge 165 yard SPRING "SILKS Tarkan:Plaid Taffptd: -a-beau Crepe Opportine Crepe 1.25 yard City Square Novelty Crepe $LT5 yard Beau-Monde Silk Prh} B. M. Behrends u;., _l;’ “Juneau’s Leading Dep;utmm iStore” “mmommomouoooou 0“000”“00““““0 FEBRUARY WAS “WARMER, BUT - SUN OUT LESS & Wcather Bureau Report 1ni- dicates More Rain, Lmle Snow Mere Giving it toYou Straight 'STRAIGHT KENTUCKY BOURBON WHISKEY The month nl February, just pass ed, averaged muech warmer | than usual, with precipitation much labove the normal, and sunshine correspondingly below the normal, | according to the monthly meteoro- ‘]cglc.u report issued today by the i | | | | | Juneau Weather Bureau Office, The mean temperature for the month was 37.0 degrees, or 6.5 de- | above the normal, being the i second warmest February on rec- ;rrd over a period of 40 years. The warmest February on record was ! that of 1912 with a mean tempera- | ture of 37.3 degrecs and the cold-| e+ wes that of 1890 with a mean of 224 degrees. The highest tem- ' parature last month was 48 de- grees on the second, as compared | STRAIGHT - | BQURBON § his 80 Proof 2 est for February over a 40-year pe- |, riod. The lowest temperature last Bourbonata STRfl iGHT lowest ever recorded was -15 de- grees in 1917, ‘otal precipitation was 7.48 1L 05 EIGHT STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY g3 | m of rain. The wettest February on record was that of 1923, with a 156 inches. Snewfall Off The total snowfall (unmelted) 100 “An Excellent Whiskey Moderately Priced GENERAL MOTORS 1 | and { MAYTAG PRODUCTS | W.P. JOHNSON {month was only 28 degress. The| most of which was in the | servations. {total of 13.39 inches, and the driest | tion) | was that of 1911 with a total of from the west-southwest. ' 480440 4 wwosonly“ inches below age. The grea snowfall over a pél was 645 inohu est amotint of M Ill' The great- lmh' At sea ; Was no_snow ylnse of thé days, 1,"0 cloflay d;y: Sible unl f ’;mahme talled ML ‘hours," dF 81 'Pér o which 1s 7 per cetit gem thé Feb-| The total Ludry averag % s wiilp Wind . 'month was w ‘or an aver- lage hourly vw m mijes. Th te mayimuim . e it the month o o 5 minutes s from | psevlfillll g3 Ym wlhdsnéh on Was sou‘bb, ok Bl ud | The average ) tyu Dérfldt !4 am. was | n‘t hoon, 17 pB{ cent, and at 4 the sht sleet owuur) |96th an aurora was Observed. |ppi! dyring_ the WINDS ALOFT ; \ énhbrumfl at 9:52 am,, oo- cufred the highest, recorded wind veloclty of the upper, air currents | for. the month over Ju and !its_vicinity, 8s computed t leyel ln Juneau \h on t};‘e ground, ‘5 pfl%' &:fi fllQ with 53 degrees, which is the high | The _velocity 6f the wind at an elevalion of 38,780 lwl | (the 99th minute of the © n- Was 1085 miles velosity at the same moment of | time cp the earth's surface was 13 miles per hour from the east. ., ATTENTION RAINBOW GIRLS There will be a business mee;- |ing Satuyday. afternoon, &t .1:3 oclock All members are urged (u —cdv od ot 40 years | t.' sent for the! et FISH-INDU! TRY i PLEANS CADSE. BEFORE SENATE rnes Agulhst }hrt}xer Taxation Burden as ¢ Recovery"Loom's (Cortinued fpm{ Pa,”pnev waie e industrial foundation of ' the '"Territory; Gilbert . sald. Stresting “the: need of offering ev- ery ‘encouragement to bustness iny hn Ite t!1 the Administration’s wish teite cmployment and have ihdw ry share a greater burden -hrou i siving more employment, ‘ psaker pointéd out that in- di1 try ‘cannot do its hnmrll part | of it 15 tt be smbthered At every tirn With mountihg taxation. He! explained how the cannery indus-| g try was co-operating with the na- tlonal program now {o the fullest, haviiz adopted the NRA code and Was carrying 1t out fo the letter. “The r-pase of this bill is op- pression and discrimination,” he sald, “while the NRA code ox-| plicitly says just the opposite.” tiere he quoted from the Code of, Fair Competition as set up by the! National md\utf}a.l Recovery Ad- Wittt ‘Gu adopt- | ai ui Wi’ “hot of il enterprises and will not oq— ©:3té to di‘efiminate agalnist them" No ‘Bénefit to Small Opetators The ‘Hofman® Bfi, e said, was ‘almed by fts-author s 4 benefit bl “operhtde ‘48" ndinst | : but’ that 1t 'does” mot do fihnf sue T ws additional | arden on’ ‘small independent \ canrier the s@ie as the rest, thus (it ts I diveet’ g ‘with' the ode thé" national’ administration | | Lad ‘Asked hdustry t6 ascept in | tie climb ml %9’ ‘fiormal condi- | Cigert reltergted to’' the 'Benate iie statément- he Had’ previously made in the that it was |6 tually'a’ mabter of Surtival while | secovory Wi yet m " “He 'ex- | plairiod " hbw L year ‘the indust ad lost mufihy but had ten 3y “hiing ' on glving em- usands ‘always an- | “things wodld ad- Last “Sedson, he m Ve At indieation’ of real| Bub' thab it Would take | sga¥ons Pefore ‘the in- | mp ‘sgmw Ald honestly say it was vM\lhfig Toney Hue to the several yenrs #flér 1020 when hundreds * thousands of dollars were pour- ‘nd int6 it to keep it alive and | Hothing i the way of profits ta- .k out, deglared it Was unfair to the s who ‘haye put their mon- he ipdustdy with the hope fair return'to increase the 'mden ivbeh, “there lppetredl & ‘kay ' of hopt for them ‘to! “s8mefhing on thelt’ invest- ; @tresEiy again the Oanad- uhmm anbrt said his com- “alowe" paid ihto the: Territory | 8 Ajaskn two “to seven times as m&&itm bigtife tax bill of the f ' (Phekios” to’ ‘thelr gov- btnment. - Theile’ Says Unfair ¢ flnl T) , for 12 years Secre- ‘o Alatka afid pow an inde- m JI owrler at Wran- “eommittee he was in T know the Territory | ‘not need mote money; that “Whtalr’ tq burden ihdustry vhen t \hs struggiing 0 u’*flmmnm again’t - this P My, Thelle asked. Bv-| ! “Hiad 'to ‘Bt down expens- | o4, i ' Sald, why cahnot the Ter: e aréd ‘he was paging' | 7 IR taKes ¢ 0 ‘the 'Territory * M ‘while ¢ ér. Theil N ebioperate In trying to, f ~"wnm‘r problems | te it out eof 56, ’m:l the dangers selérg who come ‘in ' money tuc pay nothing ths' TerFitory, Traps and seln- re’ niboessary to the in- inetl, to bring about Dot , for the sein-’ /Nirpish fish’ When the traps ‘ not ‘onkrating’ and the traps * other’ ‘tinles’ witen - the * seiners "ot furnishing sufficient sup-| pligs. - Aldska Selfwrs and the pep- ple , Theile asserted, wang |ni§ cmaih, He explamed] | how “he Hisd mleed 1ocal labor and 965,000 to Wrangell work= ers the past seéason. He said the snu.ll packer does not need fur- Mfl. as the Hofman bill pupond “but it does reed to be left t0 work out its salva- jut ‘too great interference. thm speaking were J V. Da- he |vis, of Juneal, Indcpendent can- 176 inches above the 8 a.m. and 1 pm, pilot balidon ob- Wet, and Tom OCardner of the Ju- neau Logzing Company who poitit- | od dut the benefits the logging hi erfves frdm the opera- Won' BF' the canherles and fish, g&'&.‘ He sdld he lost a $5000 Week because of pres- eht' ‘tncertdinty brought on For 'Herring Inaustry ch pointed out to the lhe herring industry ‘over a D’i:od of years there wi nothing to pletibn 51 tih s chagged ‘thk” Walket memorial. Her- J by legisfation beforé the Lag- % 193 ng, he said, are where you get {them and because herring cannot | be found in certain localities in, co ain years is no sign of deple-' {tion. The fish move from one | area to another and years later | will come back to a place they haye long deserted, he said. w0 vumesses Peter La.rson, nsh- erman on Prince Willi land Rev. F‘ather A b 2 Kashevarorl both appeared before the com- mittee asserting they did not be- lieve there was a depletion of her- | ring. Dumping of fish during the years of 1922 to 1926 is in large part resporisiblé for the scmity‘ of fish in ,those sections, Larson ) caid, because polluted waters drives the herring away. FPather Kash- evaroff said he believed more her- | ing were destroyed through the' | taking of spawn by natives than |was used in all the fish meal| plants. r Winn, Juneau attorney, voke in behalf of the her- industry, urging the Senate o legislate an industry out of nce when industry is so ur-| ly needed. ,oe PATCO MAKES TRIO OF SEAPLANE TRIPS | Afier “refurning from an! over- | night trip to Sitka yesterday morn- | sent out on three trips. | Early yesterday, Pilot Sheldon | simmons drove the craft to Oliver's Inlet where supplies for the DeWitt | Logging Company were left. ‘ Then, a jaunt to Bullard’s Ranch on Taku Inlet was made. On this |return trip, weather: became so “heavy” that the night was spent at Annex Creek. Mr. and Mrs. A. |B. Wilms were brought back from Bullard's this ‘morning. Later, today, the seaplane was |Fown fo Chichagof with a party »[ miners. JEEECE S ANt LILLIAN KENDRICK AND PETER KIRKEBOW ARE WED Lillian Kendrick hecame the bride ' of Peter Kirkebow at a quiet cere- mony performed by the Rev. Er- ling K. Olafson at the Lutheran parsonage this afternoon at 1:30 c'clock. Both bride and groom are resi- dents of Juneau and the latter is employed at the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company. Witnesses to the ceremony were Mrs. Alfred IZonger and Mrs. Oscar Gudbran- son, —— o ANNUAL DRIVE Of the Salvation Army, Loca’ "Vh ntenance Fund, starts Feb. 28 ‘gr one weck. —adv. e SHOP 1N JUNEAU! | to have the Communists surround- +their posts to escape the Red men- lace and fled through the ice and|] mg the seaplane Patco has been ia“ 5. TERROR REIGNS AS RED CHINESE LOOT ON MARCH Wholesale Executions Are Reported — Mission- aries Are Fleeing SIAN, China, March 1. Al roign. of terror, accompanied by wholesale . exceutions and lootings of .tewns, marked the passage of 25,000 Communist troops through the southeast section of the pro-‘ vince of Shensi during the past| fortnight, according to advices re- ceived here. Government troops are repon.eil ed however, and expect to anni- hiliate them. Some 25 missionaries abandoned new covered mountains in quest of a sanctuary. Some of the wo- men carried children in their arms. | TWO ARE SAFE PEIFING, China, March L—‘ Tie. United States Legation offic- have been informed that two| missing missionaries, Miss. R. V. ‘Thompson, of Towa, and Miss Alma Argibey, of Chicago, have arrived| cafely'at Fengsiang, 90 miles wmt‘ of Siam. AT 310568 1 £ In the 1934 Indiana high school| basketball tournament Indianapo- lis. Tech., coached by Tirn Camp- bell, eliminated Hammond, coached | by Tim’s brother “Spud.” Between the years 1920 and 1934 nearly four times as many fresh-| men at Harvard selected tennis as their favorite sport as chose base- ball. Last year the order fo pref- erence was swimming, tennis and | Lquasi ADVICE 10 WUMEN, R U 8 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATEER BUREAU The Weather (By the U. 8. Weather Bureau) Forecast for juneau and vicinitv. beginning at 4 p.m., March 1: Rain tonight and Saturday; light southeast winds. LOCAL DATA Baremeier 29.95 29.89 20.81 Time 4 pm. yest'y 4 am. today Nocn today Temp Humidity Wind Velocity "Wealuer 35 8 s 4 Lt. Rain 36 91 w 4 Lt.Rain-Sleet 37 81 6 Misting RADIO 2EPORTS YESTERDAY | TODAY Highest 4pm. | | | | Lowest 4a.m. 4a.m. Precip. 4a.L temp. temp. velocity 24hrs. Weatler 4 0 -6 20 18 Sration Anchorage Barrow Neme Bethel | Fairbanks | Dawson | St, Paul 2 | Dutch Harbor | | temp. temp. .~ 34 o - -2 22 26 16 Cldy Cldy Snow Snow Clear ’I‘race Pt. Cldy cldy Cléar Clear -4 22 30 Kodiak Cordova Juncau Sitka Ketchikan Frince Rupert Edmonton Scattle Portland San Francisco 22 48 52 WEATHEE CONDITIONS AT 8 A. M. Nenana, snowing, temperature, 6; Fairbanks, saowing, Springs, snowing, 4; Tanana, cloudy, 1; Ruby, cloudy, 0; cloudy, 5; Kaltag, cloudy, 3; Unalakleet, foggy, 15; Flat, snowin1, , foggy, 9. WEATHER S YNOPSIS A slight barometric depression was centered this morni the Gulf of Alaska attended by precipitation along the e al ri rom Cordova southward to Britich Columbia. Precipitation was also -reported over the Interior. A storm area centered about 300 miles west of California had caused heavy precipitation over paris of California, the 24-hour amount at San Francisco being 1.40 inches. Moderate temperatures were reporated this morning throughoul the field of observation. be awarded Saturday night at o'clock at George Brothers. 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