The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 19, 1935, Page 14

COMPLETES 50 YEARS SERVICE WITH N. Y. LIFE Started as Office Boy, 'Is Chairman of Execu- tive Committee NEW YCORK, July 19, — Walke: Buctner, Vice-President and CHair- man of the ecutive, Committee of the New Y Life Insurance Com- pany, complcted’ fifty yeats oF Sarv ice with the New ' York 'Difé ot July 15, Mr. Buckner started as an-offiec boy a half-century #go, whepn ‘he was only 14 years o}, ahd, ha: been with the New, York Life con. | tinuously since that time. The Ex- ecutive and junior officers of the company presented Mr. Buckne with a silver table servico in com memoration of his fiftieth anni- versary. As head of 'the agency depart- ment, Vice-President Buckner is re- spensible for' the direction of the company's branch offices with an organization of about 250 agency men and 10,000 agents throughout the United States and Canada, and is Chairman of the Annual Con- vention * of Agency Dh‘ecwrs e WASHINGTON NOW ‘STRONG FOR BOXING WASHINGTON, July 19.—-In the national capital’s first outdoor show of the season, approximately 10,000 spectators watched Tony Canzoneri win | from Frankie Klick. The crowd was only a few thousand less than witnessed Canzoneri's title fight with Lou Ambers in New Yorkj a city 12 times ‘Washington's size. Pitcher Now Um pire Fred Marberry * Fred (Firpo) Marberry, Detroit pitcher, was signed as an umpire by President Will Har- ridge of the American League. former the league. Alaska Museum and Post Office. assume regular duties in During his career, BOY SCOUTS T0 RETRACE OLD ROUTE: NEW YORK, July 19—Once azain the Pony Express route from St. Joseph, Mo., to Sacramento will re- sound to the pound of ponies’' hoofs when Boy Scouts retrace the old trail during their silver jamboree in August. The seventy-fifth anniversary of the Pony Express is being observed this summer with a series of cele- brations along the route, by the Oregon Trail Memoria sceiation. This group has issued a diamond jubilee medal to raise funds for permanent markers of the route. The pony riders galloped through with thc mail in 10 days back in the ' The Scouts will try to ride fa: following this itinerary: Sacra 0, Carson City, Nev., Salt Lake, ' Wyo., Scottsbluff, North Platte, Fort Kearney and Fairbury, Ne Marysville and Seneca, Kas., St. Joseph. - - Schoolman for 52 Years, “Wears Out” 3 Buildings GALVESTON, Tex., July 19—After a half-century of teaching, J. M Fendley admits he “knows a little” about his profession. Fendley, 75, has been of the same school for 50 ye and has been teaching for 52 years. Fendley has three bulldmgs principal s, “worn out” ¥ mewww flIIIIlIHIIIIlIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllIIIIIIIIllllllllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllllllIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIII|IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHII'IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII | Government Building in Juneau in which is housed Federal and Territorial offices, It faces on Fourth Seward Streels. CAPTAIN BREAKS LEG Y Capt. John McDonald of the steamer Tuthi plying between Car- cross and Taku, slipped on the sidewalk at AtHd and’ sastained a| broken leg. He was taken to the Whitehorse hospital. Avenue between Main and OLDTIMER DIES George Baird, resident of Sulphur | Creek, Dawson district, since 1904, | died suddenly in the Dawson Hos- pital, following a prolonged illness from cancer v , €nl Lou Broulllard (right). Young Corbett 111 of Fr in this bit of action dur easterner was award: of the welterweight t Finest Bakers North of U. S. A. Henry Meier, Proprietor CORBETT OFF BALANCE IN BOUT . Mass., middleweight, caught ance as did the cameraman d fight in 8an Francisco. The 1 Loxers are former holders -~ Photo) R TR IIIIIHHIHIIllllfllllimlIIIHHIIMIIImlllllmllflllHIIIillllluHflmflmmlll|||IIIIHHIIIIHM|HII|IH1 |IIHIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIHIHHHHHIIHIIIIIIII T I | past Iy bad dream Buildiz~ 'Boom in British Building Quickens Prosperity as Shipping Revival Grows By lecad o reduc 1y. Mza of all 000 ove year. In the f. year Britis of cargo d tons. The provement maintained, The GAYLE the TALBOT July 19 pangs and has trod a 1 toward recover take giant strides 1 of ty hipping and building, the money-stream 1 the chan- dustry, the na-= records month by memories of the m like a particular- Room Appears anceuor Neville econd successive | budget, with its con-| ion of income tax ome word of a building premises to release mil- \ s officially an- ot for almost construction worth an increase of $7,500,~ of same month of last irst three months of this 1 ships laid up for want | ased by 285,000 gross | s every sign of the i in'the figures 'Being even quickened. - ] | cluded England | dwelling of depression | $8,500,000 is te ollars of idle mohey and | unemployment material- than $33,000,000 for alone.- More than be spent on the churthes, schools and public build= mare houes ings; and there will be 14000 new homes. | Real Apartments Appear The building boom is perhaps' most noticeable in the number of great, mos 1 apartment buildings that have sprung up in London within a year and a half. A year ago, even, Americans 'settling in | London found their quest for up-to~ | the-minuté lving quarters a dis- | couragihg proposition. | There were a few buildings with | steam heat and the other ameni- ‘ues to which Americans have grown | acoustomed, but they were in such | demand that the prices were clear |out ‘of reason. A simple two-room land bath apartmént with steam | heat cost at least $125 a month, | with plenty of ‘extras. And even those were so sought that their occupants, leaving, passed them on to | special friends. ‘ ‘Luxury Flats' At Discount The unhappy foreigner who didn't happen to have either a’ special friend or the $125 a month to spend on quarters, usually ended up in one ‘of those ancient “luxury ‘flats" indig eagerly upe their to London, with a grate’ lmng room, a umopbd bed a. fwelve-montH: ztm there already DAILY EMPIRE WAN3 ADS PAX! BRAILING A FISH TRAP mo in which King Edward I once med to sleep ‘and a cold-water bath in a disused hallway All that 1s ended now. American flats” have mushroom- ed in eir hundreds. A trip hrouga near-suburbs brings them o light in serried rows, many of them so hurriedly thrown togethdr that vegrant mortar still clings to he brick. They all boast of “central heats any even have mechani= al rvrx geration. Bo fast haye shey sprung within plans passed in Mm‘m in- i Wo VISIT BEAUTIFUL Dance L & eOr - CiRenes D Ypoisiby Smokey in the Terxélory.’ Wo odland Garde est Floor ] Wme “Special'P rogram Arranged for § OPEN FR odland Gardens FLEET WEE OMSA.V FRANCES REYNOLDS, Proprietor NO COVER CHARGE! Modern | Typical scene of any Alaskan cannery. Taking the sal- fl'om a |r.|p nnd hm~||mz thm\ aboard a tender. s talk of “over-building” a phrase hat somehow sounds famillar. At | least, they are to be had for much less than“$125 a monsh, and they have brought a ' mew ' standard of living to London. D | NO. 1 FOR BELL Berkeley Bell of New York City, seventh ranking gennis player in |theUnited States, was seeded No. 1 for 'the fopty-fifth annual Wash- ington ‘State tennis tournament af | Seattle. - | IIIII!IIIIIHlIII-INIII|IIIlIIlIIIIIlIIIIII|||IIInmullfllflllllllllllllll x COM e} | . 0000