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

\Im’pm;: Girl's lle Grows Shorter | During Slumber CHICAGO, 11, April 4—One of the legs of Patricia McGuire, ‘ sleeping sickness victim in Oak LUMBER MILLS TOSTARTAT 8 FRL, MORNING Official Announcement To-| day Indicates Entire | Plant to Resume y at 8 operations in the Juneau one of the citys ustries. nouncement mill offi- the week. start of Park, has grown shorter than the other during the long slum- ber that started February 15, 1932, Dr. Eugene Traut said that despite all obstacles, the woman is now waking up. Her eyes ceem alert. The woman's right leg is now half an inch shorter than the left and the circumference of the thigh is an inch less. tomorrow be Lumber most im- Promy o morning sumed Te- - MOVIE COLONY IS THREATENED This of was made thi cials, who T had for tentative operations I’)I today. Tow logs ar- rived Sunday from lumber camps. The announcement did not dis- close how many men would employed, but did state entire mill would be in operation Tomorrow's start marks the be- ginning of spring and summer op- erations after a several month win- ter shut-down - COUNCIL APROVES ELECTION RETURNS There's no doubt about it now, for, in special session last night at City Hall, the City Council gave official approval to the votes cast ieral municipal election by in LOS ANGELES, Cal, April 4— Scores of petitions are in circula- tion protesting against the propos- ed new tax measure aimed at the motion picture industry which has \warned Los Angeles she may lose the “favorite city” of Hollywood. Citizens and the downtown shop- ping area are confronted with lengthy scrolls to sign, objecting to the “tax on movies” legislation un- der consideration at Sacramento. Louis Mayer, Vice-President of Metro-G old wy n-Mayer, declared the movie industry is being forced 1dore to move out of the state and added that he did not believe anyone cculd stop “what is going on at the State Capitol.” ans that May Goldstein officially is de elected.. The same is true Coun- am J. Reck, Art Me- the election of G. E ‘Wal- re- Kinnon and Krause, and School Director ter P. Scott Last night's meeting was held as a matter of course in following the election law which calls for an official canvass of the vote The only other item of business was the authorization given City Clerk A. W. Henning to issue the usual call for .i))phculllllh to the Schlllmg Poultry . Seasoning rtive positions to be chosen by the City Council. These applications, Henning said, must be on file in the City Clerk's of- fice in time for the special Council session which is scheduled to be held Friday, April 12. —,r——— verious appo Policeman Fined \ for Gun Threat ‘ NEW YORK, april 4. — A $600 \{me, the largest ever assessed against a Portchester policeman, | was imposed by the Village Board on Patrolman Simman for threat- ening a civilian with his gun. Simman had taken a woman rid- ing. While parked in a lonely road he was seen by Luigi Confone, who was out picking grass for his rab- bits. When Simman realized he had been seen, he pulled out his pistol and told Confone to “beat it. Confone did—to another police- man, who arrested Simman (A delicious seasoning for (soups, stews, all meat and poultry dressings. COMING TO THE UPTOWN ANNA MAY WONG GEORGE ROBEY FRITZ KORTNER Prodyced by \ '/ Gaumont British A L LOID RAPID DRYING Any one can produce a fine lustrous job on furniture and toys with S-W Rapid Drying Decorative Enameloid. SWP House Paint FLAT-TONE Lasts lunm, covers more, costs Washable interior flat finish Less per iob. wall paint. IN CALIFORNIA & \Trainmen Die When Truck of Tank Car On Freight Breaks MANY ELKS ON HAND FOR BIG LODGE AFFAIR neer Rxchaxd Wolff and lmnmn William House, of a Rock Island freight train, were killed and three others injured, when a truck of a | westbound tank car broke hurling the tank into the path of another freight train bound east. More than a dozen cars were de- railed and 100 yards of track was torn up. —————— {Past Exalted nulers Night | Proves to Be Enter- 3 taining Evening With some 175 in attendance, Juneau Elks gathered in their temple last night for the annual | Past Exalted Rulers’ night, a gala |event for the fraternal order. Past |Exalted Rulers in the various }chan-s for the evening were: M. S | Jorgensen, Exalted Ruler; R. E. | Robertson, Lecturing Knight; Hen- |ry Messerschmidt, Loyal Knight; J. A. Hellenthal, Lecturing L. Gray, Esquire; Harry Sperl- ing, Secretary; H. E. Biggs, Treas-| USED ON NAVAL SHIP CONTRACTS Knight; | [Letter from?iend of Pres- ident’s Son Read Be- fore Senate Group urer; R B. Martin, Chaplain; C. P. , Inner Guard; L. W. Turoff,| Organist. and George Messer- schmidt, Tiler. The entertainment program in- cluded songs by Leo J. Jewett; a| WASHINGTON, April 4. — Evi- quartet. composed of Keyser, Pol-!dence that friends of James Roose- ley, Fargher and Nordling, and velt, son of the President, had in- songs by Sam Ritter, all of whom | terceded at the White House for were accompanied by Mrs. G. E. naval ship building jobs for the Krause. Another feature was the Bath, Maine, Iron Works was in- Paris Inn Entegtainers who gave|troduced yesterday before the Sen- piang, banjo and jvocal numbers.!ate munitions committee by chair- The evening was concluded with a!man Nye, who asserted the ‘“Jap- buffet Tunch with beer. {anese war scare” had been stirred At the business meeting carlier | up to help pass every naval appro- in the evening the following nom-|priation before Congress. inations of officers were made: R.| A letter written by Roger Mc- E. Southwell, Exalted Ruler; W. P.|Grath, agent of the New York Life Scott, Leading Knight; N. C. Ban-|Insurance company, to Louis Howe, field, Loyal Knight; F. H. Foster, Secretary to the President, was Lecturing Knight; M. H. Sides, Sec-|read before the committee. It said, retary; William Franks, Treasurer;)“the psychological effect of the George F. Shaw, Tiler; Ralph|Administration awarding to Bath Beistline, Trustee, and Dr. George'Iron Works the contracts for two F. Freeburger, alternate delegate to'new destroyers would be' looked the grand lodge. Sides, Frank: J‘upon very favorably by the people Shaw and Beistline are present of- of Maine and would be helpful to ficers. | the upbuilding of the Democratic | Nominations will all| party in this state.” | month with election held B | the first week in May. Teacher Shows 'Em F. J. Waite was initiated into the; YREKA, Cal—Though no pupils order last night. { Dr. Freeburger was chairman of | " s Pttended Mrs. Katherine Nash Siskiyou county teacher, went to the committee for last night's b l'hc Edgewood school every i school fair. |day for six months and rahg the ON BUSINESS TRIP ‘bell In a dispute over the geacher be open to be —————— On a business trip, J. C. Thom- as of the Thomas Hardware Com- | pany, took passage for Vancouver to draw her salary. B. C, on the Norah. - | e S The Michigan Schoolmaster’s club California annually reaps a har- | is celebrating its fiftieth anniver- vest of around 600,000,000 pounds sary this month. lot fish from the Pacific ocean, (Pils had sent them to other dis- tricts, and Mrs. Nash lived up to the letter of her coptract in order ENFORCEMENT IS CLAIM PRESSURE " STRESSED UNDER BOARD RULINGS | newspaper, George Two Thirds Vote Required to Set Up Local Op- tion in Cities (Continued from Page One) into three classifications: (1) Gen- eral Wholesale Ligense, providing for wholesale of all kinds of liquor with the fee set at $150; (2) Whole- sale Hard and Distilled Liquor Li-! cense, allowing the right to sell only hard and distilled liquor in quantities not less than five gal- lons with the fee of $100; (3) | Wholesale Beer and Wine License, allowing wholesale of beer and wine with a fee of $100. A new distillery license was pro- vided with a license fee of $100. It allows the holder to operate a distillery and sell his wholesale. The boat license was raised from $50 to $100. More Stringent Regulations on outside wholesal- ers were made more stringent. This provision of the law reads: “Any distiller, brewer, or wholesaler whose plant or principal place of business is outside of the Terri- tory of Alaska, but whose products are sold in the Territory, shall be required to obtain a wholesale li- {cense for the sale of his products | tenure law, parents of the 19 pu-' in the Territory, and a separate li- cense shall be required for each wholesale distributing point within the Territory. Any distiller, brewer or wholesaler not resident in the Territory, selling intoxicating li- quors in the Territory, shall be- fore solicitating any business in the Territory, designate a principal place of business or headquarters in the Territory, and appoint an agent upon whom service can be had, and shall also obtain a li- cense under the provisions of these regulations.” Any liquor shipped in without a license will be confiscated, sold by the Board and the proceeds turned intc the Territorial funds. The Board reserves the right to limit the number of licenses in any locality. Penalty for violation is fixed at $500 and revocation of license for one year. - - WINE WINE WINE Port or Muscatel, $1.50 per gal. Bring your jug. TOTEM GROC- ERY. adv. product “Public Bore No. 17 Title |Voted to Shuu LONDON A.I.Jnl 4.—Elected Eng- land’s “Public Bor¢ No. 1" by an overwhelming majority in a com- petition conducted by a London Bernard Shaw | feels he is approaching true fame “That's really wonderful,” claimed the famous author. truly distinguished.” Shaw received 2326 adverse popularity contest com- pared to 186 for his closest rival, Amy Mollison, the aviatrix. Third place was decided when 181 pro- fessed boredom at reading about Sir Oswald Mosely, leader of England's fascists, x Others in the list included Greta Garbo with 166 votes; Hitler164; Lady Astor 150; Doug Fairbanks, Senior, 136; Max Baer 110; ‘the Mdivanis 80; Mae West 68; Mary Pickford 64, and Aimee MacPher- son -61. NRA CASE FOR HIGHEST COURT WASHINGTON, April 4. — The Department of Justice announced today that a NRA case will be carried promptly to the Supreme Court in an effert to test the, Recovery Law, during the present! term? The case appealed is the. one against the A. L. Schecter Poultry Corporation of New York. It in- volvers 19 criminal counts of the violation of the live poultry code. ' The Government’s attorneys said 17 of these counts have been up- held by the Circuit Court of Ap- peals, Two counts were lost, those! involving wages and hour pro- visions of NRA. Murder D;; iot Stop Card Game NEW YCRK, April 4—The prize in card-ta oncentration goss to Mrs. Sarah Bi Brooklyn “pi- nochle fiend.” She was at the home of a neigh- bor for a game of pinochle. An- other friend dropped in, said she had just noticed two men prowl- ing in the Bines backyard Shortly afterward, a detective reported two men had been sur- prised in the house. Resisting ar- rest one had been slain, the other captured. ‘The pinochler’s was: B : held a hundred aces.’ g reel only comment votes in the | led as mmkely by Berlln spoktsw men. | Captain Eden, British Lord Privy, Seal, arriving at Praha to con- fer with Czechoslovakian states- men, found the Little Entente's attitude one of watchful waiting. WEALTH, WOWA LEADS TO DEATH " CRUEL TORTURE ‘ Oddes Parlmg Excuse; ‘Husband Kills Wife After But it Sure Worl(ed Good. She Burns, Slashes Him), | in RageOver Nelghbor NEW YORK, April 4—“This is .the oddest of all the thousands of Xplanfations I've heard. Sentence KANSAS CITY, April 4. MY‘- Nellie Hurd, 64, died here ;today of bullet wotnds. inflicted by her husband, 77, who said he. was-tor- tured by his Wwife in.an‘effort. to make him disclose the hiding plage, of hidden wealth. Mrs. Hui-dndled after an opération to remove four bullets from her body while 1n} another ward in -the_hospital lay| TUSHto New York Hospltal for her husband crazed from knife and | STagigency work. He was in such flame wounds which he said were ® HUFTY, he told the magistrate, inflicted by his wife “because the| that he did not have time to put spirits told her I had a hidden! 1S ¢ar in his garage. fortune and was giving it to the O, 2 woman next door.” FORD c:ohdms ICY LAKE Detectives gasped when Hurd | stripped off his clothing showing | |evidence of Mrs. Hurd's alleged inquisition. They said probably his story was true. Miss Nellie Hurd, an adopted daughter, de- nied her stepfather was tortured and insisted he had signed of his own free will a confession of in- fidelity with the nmghbor woman. EUROPE'S PLANS FOR PERMANENT PEACE CONFLICT France See k ing Double Barrele d /\greement to anhten Germany ytrate Burke was speaking ln§ ic court after he had lis- tlsqd.«ta Frank B. Elinore explain why: he had got a ticket for park- ing'his car in front of his house nll«;, t long. e said he was a blood don- " or a had got a sudden call to — Driving a model-T Ford road- ster, Andy Wilcox and John Bate- * man crossed Lake Kenai from Cooper's Landing, then to Seward, March 13, making the first trip across the lake on the ice that has ever heen recorded, according to the Seward Gateway. The coat- ing of snow on the ice induced slew driving, and they found the going a little bit bumpy in places. e —— SHOP IN JUNEAU FIRST! EASTER SPECIAL! Duart Permanent W aves $3.50 For a limited time ounly [ ] MODERN Beauty Shop 403 Goldstein Bldg. Phone 357 PARIS, April 4.— Conflicting views on the best methods of guar- anteeing peace is apparent in the capitals of Europe as statesmen made ready for a conference of the Powers at Stresa April 11, From French sources it was dis- closed Foreign Minister Pierre La- | val would seek a double barreled agreement designed to “frighten™ Germany by the creation of a for- ! midable united front among Italy, Great Britain and France at the same time laying the basis for a general security pact to which the Reich could adhere. | German participation in the z1='an~!-:ux'ope:=m scheme was describ- ....from one end to the other From one end to the other—never a bitter, undeveloped top leaf in me. Never a grimy, tough bottom leaf. I use only the fragrant, mellow, expen- sive center leaves. ..the leaves that give you the mildest, best-tasting smoke. do not irritate your throat—that’s why I'm your best friend, day in, day out.