The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 29, 1935, Page 2

Lingerie! Rayon Knit Gowns, each ... 5100 Printed Ravon Gowns, each .$1.95 Silk Gowns, each . ...$2.75 to $6.00 Dance Sets . .........$1.95 to $2.95 Silk Stips. ............51.00 to $3.75 Lace-trimmed Satin Stepins .$1.00 Silk Chemise ............$1.00 up Silk Pajamas ........5100 to $7.50 Rayon Vests, Bloomers and \ Panties for women, each .....50c Children’s Vests, each ........35¢c Children’s Bloomers, each ....45¢ STORE CLOSED ALL DAY MEMORIAL DAY " bask at B. M. Behrends Co., Inc. “Juneaw’s Leading Department Store” SCHOOL WORK, ‘PAVING MADE Threg Proposed Expendi- tures Now Open for Compehhon Here (Lontinued from Page One) active bul not particularly hazard- ous service to $263 for commission- ed afficers who encountered great risks. U. S, Privates et Most In, previding compensation. and | relief for disabled veterans of the| world war, comparative statistics show that the United States has been, in general, considerably more No less than three calls for bids liberal than European countigs. have Heen issued this week by eith- canada, however, has been gener- er the City Council or the School gue in the, treatment of her war- Board. maimed and, in some pension classi- The bid involving the largest fi- fications has magde larger allow- nancial consideration is the call fOr arces than this country. bids on the city's second Public mne United States private, whe is Works Administration street PAVINZ | permanently and. totally disabled, P ct. This call was made first yeseives compensation of $1,200 a last Friday and another ome is 10 yeqr g5 compared with. $900 for the be made this Friday. The bids are canadian, $520 for the British, $286 0 opened at the Council meeting for the French, $214 for the Ital- uled Friday, June 7, jan and $125 for the German vet- This paving project calls for ap-ieran. : ximately 6,160 square yards of Widows'’ Pensions ete pavement and 1,660 square In cases of temporary total dis- of concrete sidewalks o be apility, Canada grants the largest, on Lower' Front Street and yean)y alowances to veterans with| cen the new trestle and Main | yives apd children, the Canadiani Streetjon Calhoun Avenue compensation for a private with! The School Board's major.bid call wire and one ohild being $1,380 is one for sanding and repainting .ompared with $1,140 in this coun- iines an ¥loows: ofs both the High iy “Tne British allowance in such School:and Grade School gymNas- ; 'case is $747, the French, $327 sndi jums. The bids must be in the in. reaian, $225. | hands * of Superintendent A Canada also leads in pensions ta Phillips by next Tuesday in order wiqows of men who were Killed to be constdered. | during the world war or who died School authorities also are is-or gisabilities arising out of the “““B copies of lists of school sup-!yar A widow without children 're- s needed for the school year of c.ives $720 a year in Canada and 193a to interested firms. Bids On g360 in the United States. A widow any part or all of the supplies will under 40 years of. age in Great be received by Superintendent pritain recgives $260 while one over, Phillips, {40 gets 3496 [ i -e MEMORIAL DAY Cut ‘Sweet Peas and Potted Plants for Memorial Day at Guy's Drug Store in Douglas. —adv. BRINGING UP FATHER 1 WONDER WHEN MAGGIE 1S COMIN ON B8OARD!| DONT EVEN KNOW TW' R SPECIAL DELIVERY To Thane at 11;45, a, m. daily. Phone 442, for pickups. MEMORIAL DAY : CAUSE FOR NO CHAMBER MEET - Secretary Will Take Appli- 2 cations for Informa- tion Booth Job While Juneau’s Ghamber of Com- merce will not hold its regular weekly Juncheon tom.orrovl noon, there still was Chamber news to- day. Secretary Curtis , Shattuck ab- nounced that applications for Ins|. formation Booth attendant would be received by him. The salary was not disclosed, but the Secretary indir cated the booth would require an attendant for about three months this summer. At the next Chamber meeflnsa.b. jis likely that a definite degis type and location -of this, booth, will be made. That next meeting, though will ‘not be until a week from, tomgr- |row, inasmuch as tomorrow is morial Day and a general business | holiday has been called, S e TO STRAWBERRY POINT Hawley W. Sterling,. Assistant | Chief, Engineer for the Alaska Road Commission, went. to Strawberry. Point today to look over road work; leaving on the PAA plane. He was, planning to. stop off at stuwberry Point, whne the plapg made m regular, run tq Chichagof and come back.on the return flight this even- DE 3 NOTICE. noeitig Memoria) . Day, d#: Mag 30, all barber shi be closed all day. will HEY-You! COME #.1935, Kiog Features Syndicare, I, * Great Britaia sights rescrved, 7nleipal i DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1935, RF 0T SEVEN HALIBUTERS SELL AT SEATTLE SEATTLE, May 29— Halibuters arriving _today, catches and sale | prices, follow: From the western banks—Kodmk 35,000 pounds, 6% and 5% cents; Arthur H 35,000 pounds, 6% and 5% cmn..s Fairway 15,000 pounds, Pierce t11,000 pounds, Repeat 9,000 pounds, all for 6% and 6% cents. Eleanora 11,000 pounds, Sylvia 15,000 pounds, both 6': cents stralght. - LEAVE SCHOOLS ;P A B};lne fr it Thls lthog On his weekly Wu}uf flight to l agol, Kimshan Cave, Hoonah, Por& Althorp, Pilgt. Alex Hold- en left here at moon today in the Faaltic 3 Adrw ehild | sedplane cwfi;p-.med‘s flight me- chanic » ‘&J{i_oyd Jarman, -wmm flrst FEEEEER FOR VACATIONS Kgb exgét nieau base late ternoon ax T ”l'—‘“"" leavinig here for chi-|C ommencemenl Exercises cliagol aboar . . . D kiie Bhee %‘;‘":, =S Due Tpmghl in High ':ng Jor- School Gymaasium or the More than 700 Juneau youngslers ~Ineaved long sighs of relief today. -|with the receiving of report cards Al )t the one-hour session at 11 elock this morning, the 520 chil- dren in the Grade School and the more than 200 students in the High School were dismissed for a thiee-months’ summer vacation. The only other official event of ~{the school year will be held in the High Schol gymnasium when 33 eniors will be honored at appro- .'T;mu graduation exercices starting at 8 olcl The theme of “service” will 'be followed through tonight's program. A. B. Phillips, Superintendent of Schools, will be the principle speak- er and will deliver the commence~ ment nddrup Students to Tllk H 6 o'cloek here o Sterling n,nfl were rQ_un4 th: Rev. | Sitka and Infet. udde, from mr Slndt, fmw Hawk “Service N‘P\SCOLL Ford’s talk. Miss Anabel Noyes ' Simpson, another senjor, also will! ic Ais lquov. the general theme with her lek, “Qur Service. Spiro Paul, class president, will be the other d student speaker. the seniors' gift. However, entations, Palll myf hett this Vega :gl ) tne' couph.. other students will Islahd. scheduled Roben,scn will play “Ave Maria” onv the violin and piano. The. High rwa School Orchestra will be heard in the processional march, “The March” from Aida, Two other g yes- ' musical features will be two se- w:lpck qn‘uct)om “Where My Carayan Has| , ar- [Rested” and “Fallen lLeaf,” sung t in the!by the High School Chorus. Rand to Play hfifience and will haphone solo Mystery of Life.” terday qzim Y its weekly gu into rived gt ¢ mmxo; ! Mra Hun Chqfl nnd bsby, H C| He will present Minnie,” | telligencer through musical pres- not run in today's issue, possibly be indicating some developments haye in evidence on the program. The taken place which have not been Misses Corxinne Jenne and Carol made Dubhc FINAL DAY IN WHICH TO PAY IS UP TONIGHT Ransom of $200 000 Musl Be in Hands of Kid- | napers of Boy m Page One) | might Bdve decided, to kil the df to rid themselves of the embirass- |\ ing impediment to: their flight and‘. I hiding. " | No Second Note Unless | ‘the ! Weyerhaeusers have received a sécond ransom medsage and have: succeeding in keeping it a secret, they have no means of knowing how, when or where they are to pay the money. Two men, believed to be the father of the abducted boy and his| brother-in-law, F. Rodman Tit-| comb, left home last night and returned this morning. Exclusive of cameramen, there are about fifty out-of-town news- | papermen here. | George's grandmother, Mrs.! George Walker, is critically ill with paralysis and does not yet know of his abduetion. Sympathy Note It was not an abductor’s note that Mrs. John Philip Weyer-| haeyser clasped last night, but one of sympathy from two of George's| schoolmates, Thorwald Hansen apd Hunter Simpson, who played with Gegrge. hey sat after class yes- terday and wrote a2 note, then walked to George’s home, handed | it to a maid, telling her to give it to the victim's mother, Young Simpson told the news- men: “We said we hoped George *“will be the subject of|would be home soon and asked his mother not to feel sad.” Young Hansen said: “We told her we know God will help him.” Some Developments The note “we are ready, Percy in the Seattle Post-In- classified column, did - ESKIMO GIRL TELLS = | OF FIRE AT PILGRIM SPRINGS MISSION An interesting description of the| {ire of May 10, which caused con- siderable damage to the Pilgrim ’ present, .a+SPrings Mission, north of Nome, “Ah, sWeulwrmen by Egga G. Buck, fifteen- [year-old Eskimo girl who Is a stu- High School Principal Alex S.| | dent at the Mission, was Iorward-; P Lm fqr Fair- Dpnhnm will receive the seniors’ | gift from young Paul. Grover C‘ Winn will represent the School| l}gn.rd in the presentation of diplo- mas, the fina] act of the progrum gnd the school year nsu cuunmuns* ZBRIGHT IN SITKA DISTRICT, REPORT Trolling Returns A‘bovee Last Year—200,000 Lbs. | Kings Already Shipped J‘ b mk: neer : tmk m i Bilibe swnhnfin mpany,. . for, Jungau. Tha! expect .o arrive here late this ternoon... The Stearman piqne. pll | Studrt, will be based at Jun charter work during the present season. Mr. Burows 'wlu continue from, hg;g a vacal ?3‘ g xmgofiu Barrows an ildren who have been souts ar_geveral month, Fishing conditions are bright in the, Bitka area, according to in- formation gathered there by Don-| ald 8. Haley, Warden for the| sqmu of Fisheries, who has ]ust regurned , . from several weeks m tsmct taking seals for the Survey. | | 0 u:ng while light so far aver- | | Lucky ngu tter than a year ago at chorage, arrived in Juneau shortly|this time, Mr. Haley was told, and | befote *nioon today in his Waco|ine vegular run is expected to start ‘mln plane on his way West from}inis week. Already 200,000 pounds | Seattle. - of kipg salmon have been shipped | ‘My. Dunkle stopped for thirfylup to May 25 and 80,000 pounds mum to gas up his phne when hulihut has been frozen by the | nd south the Iatter part of last companies. A total of 150 wegk' orl- @*SHart business trip.’He t, boats have iced up and| is plloting hig own’ plane-and hopes|taken bnlt at the Sitka cold st,or- musyuuoomm.mmxus, t this season. the’; Westward. across. the Gulf ything in Sitka is moving | A.lukn mmww #» aley reported, and mer- | - e encouraged and opnm- pf @ good season. | mrgovED 4 | cAlister, wife of James | A r of the Territorial Audl-l '8 office, is reported improved to- at St. Ann’s hospital where she y‘bderwent a major operation yes- \{iom,; Offctive. a3 of. the first of Jung, fo. enter private husifigss as) con! -and- architect: No, suc- { yet,, Com-. said. and with them expect coo, clean, air-conditioned travel on the OLYMPIAN.... all the way ta Chicago aver the short line .. 656 miles of electrified roadway. For reservations or informa«* tion, cable, write or call !a.wt Al wgp ROAU Barrow .. | Ketchikan o The: W eather (By the U. 8 Weathor- Bureaun) Forecast for Juneau and vielnity, beginning at 4 p.m., May 29: Showers tonight " and pmbably Thursday; light variable winds, mostly- southerly. - LocAL n@n Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Veloelty Weathe 2987 58 53 SE 8 Cidy 29.92 41 96 w 1 Lt. Rain 2096 , 50 , =92 . SW 3 Lt. Rain 10 REPORTS Wt | TODAY ! e | | | Time 4 pm. yest'y 4 am. today . Noon today YESTERD. Highest 4p.m. temp. temp. - 62 — ] .. B2 64 .70 . 68 44 . 50 +. 481 o4 Lowest 4a.m. 4a.m, Precip. 4a.n, %D temp. velqelty 24hrs. 'uum L] Station Anchorage 40 650 52 | 48 36 | 40 42 42 3 Nome .. Bethel , Fairbanks 40 pz.cldy 2 PL.Cldy ; Dawson | St. Paul Duteh Harbor . ¢ Kodiak Cordova Junean Sitka Vs f A T S Prince. Rupert Edmonton Seattle Portland San Francisco . New York ‘Washington 18 50 56 0 66 44 50 48 8 58, 52 52 62 7 72 52 80 WD O | | | | | | | i 80 WEATHER CONDITIONS AT 8 A. M. Ketchikan, cloudy, temperature, 48; Craig, partly :cloudy, 48;} Wrangell, cloudy, 50; Skagway, cloudy, 48; Sitka, cloudy, 52; Soap- X stone, raining, 48; Anchorage, cloudy, 46; Nenana, cloudy, 54; Fair- banks, cloudy, 58; Hot Springs, coudy, 55;' Tanana, cloudy, 55; Ruby, cloudy, 50; Nulato, cloudy, 56; Kaltag, partly cloudy, 52; Un- alakleet, partly cloudy, 46; Flat, cloudy,. 5. v 't 'SVEATHER SYNOPSIS Low barometric’ pressire prevailed this morning over the North Pacific Ocean and throughout A'aska, the lowest repopted pressure being 29.00 inches ahout 300 miles south of Dutch Harbor. This pressure distribution has been atlended by precipitation. along the coastal regions from Unalaska to Oregon weather over the interior and wastern portions of the Territory, The 24-hour temperature changes have been small throughout the field of observation. (Warm weather continued at New York and Washington. it o d ed to The Empire by the Rev. Gab- riel M. Menager, S. J., who was formerly pastor of the Catholic Church of the Nativity in Juneau. The story of tne fire, told by the little Eskimo girl, describes how the peaceful Mission was roused by word of the fire on the rpof, dis- covered by a fellow student who was working in the kitchen. Sisters moving clothes and bedding from the dormitories and other rooms 3 endangered by fire and water, went to the chapel to offer prayers. The fire, which was caused by a spark from. the chimney . falling onto the sun-warmed roof was ex- tinguished after considerable dam- age had been dong to the roof and to clothes and supplies, according to and children, who had been quietly | little Etta Buck, She ends her story | mending put their work down and with a plea for help in, supplying | immediately joined Father Menager | the Mission with a needed fire- and the boys of the Mission in con- | proof -roof, cost of which is esti- trolling the flames. mated at $300. Due to the expedition with which |« The kev. Menager sends bis ¥e- all set to work with fire extinguish- | gards to all .of his friends in Ju- er, axes and water, the damage was | neau and. wrgte that. Pilgrim T kept from being too disastrous. The | | Springs, was still experiencing sub- _ children formed a line up a ladder |zero weather. In regard to the fire and passed buckets of water to thL he said that it was a miracle that men who climbed to the roof, while | | ¢he blaze had not peen mare dlslil- those not engaged in this and re-!trous. ‘-I"' SAVE TIME and MONEY MRS. HOMEMAKER. . . . D6 you realize that you're paying for home laun ry equxpment whether you awn: it or not .. paymg for jt in limited wear from clothing; in loss of time, énergy and "health, when you do it by hand. Stop this loss with GENERAL ELECTRIC HOME LAUNDRY EQUIPMENT x Iry these machines in your home SOLD.ON EASY PAY PLAN Alaska Electrie Light and . Paiver Co. JUNEAU—Phone 6 DOUGLAS—Phone re Chievrolet and Pontiac Dealérs oo CONNORS MOTOR (0. gt ' PARIS INN PEARL and BlLL Lunchies Div Hotiel, Prop. Mhd-nfiw and by« partly cloudy — e é\!‘e;—-*dfifi-«!\rw-w.“m B oo, N prgr i