The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 13, 1935, Page 3

RE Lioael BARRYMO! as Dan Peggotty MADGE EVANS as Agnes Masresn OSULLIVAN as Dora EDNA MAY OLIVER Aunt Betsey Midnight Preview ‘Rhumba’ MARY BRIAN STARS IN COLISEUM BILL “Monte Carlo Nights,” entertain- ing Monogram feature which opens tonight at the Coliseum Theatre, is the latest vehicle of Mary Brian, whose' success as Wendy in Herbert Brenon's screen version of “Peter Pan” won her a long term starring contract. Miss Brian, who can al- ways be counted upon to present a competent performance, first ap- peareq in talking pictures in a fea- ture entitied “The Man I Love.” S eee MRS. STREED HERE Mrs. A. J. Streed, wife of the baggage master of the White Pass and Yukon Route at Skagway, ar- rived from Juneau fl'Orv that port on the Victoria. il 2 JEFFREYS LEAVE Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Jeffrey left Juneau for Skagway on the Vic- toria. Jeffrey is associated with M. Seller and Company. NOTICE OF HEARING FINAL ACCOUNT AND PETITION FOR DISTRIBUTION In the United States Commission- er's Court for Juneau Precinct, Division Number One. Territory of Alaska. In Probate. In Re the Estate of MICHAEL J. O'CONNOR, Deceased NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Howard D. Stabler, adminis- trator of the estate of Michael J O'Connor, deceased, has filed herein his final account and report in said estate, together with a petition for distribution of the residue thereof; and that the court has set Wednesday the 25th day of Sep- tember, 1935, at ten o'clock A. M. of said day as the time of hear- ing the same in the above entitled court in the Federal Building, at Juneau, Alaska; that all persons interested therein, are hereby noti- fied to appear at said time and place and to file their objections if any to said final report and petition for distribution. (Seal) J. F. MULLEN, U. 8. Commussioner, ex-officio Probate Judge. First publication, July 23, 1935. NATIONAL'FHA PROGRESSES IN MONTH OF JULY | Last Day of Month Show-|{ ed Largest Daily Vol- ume of Business Progress of the Federal Housing Administration during July was the greatest since it was established, Acting Administrator Stewart Mc- Donald has notified Territorial Di- rector John E. Pegues. The last day of the month showed the largest daily volume of business. | Insured modernization and repair | notes for the day of July 31] amounted to $2,144,710. For the month of July they totaled $21,- 084,565. For the entire period of operation since the Modernization Credit Plan was begun in August, 1934, they amounted to $113,071.642 Notes for amounts of more than $2,000, insured under the amended provisions of 'the National Housing Act, are not included in these totals. Mortgages 3 Mortgages selected for apprisal with fees paid for the day of July 31, amounted to $1,242355. They totaled $31,712,769 for the month of July and for the entire period of ‘operation since the Mutual Mort- gage Insurance Plan began to function last December they totaled $112,518,711 All the money advanced under both the Modernization Credit Plan and the Mutual Mortgage Insur- ance Plan is private capital pro- |vided by private financial institu- |tions released to individuals and business concerns through the in- | provided by the Federal | surance |Housing Administration. In addi- i“"" the general program has di- Irectly stimulated cash moderniza- |tion work estimated by field di- |rectors of the Federal Housing | Administration at more than $670,- | 000,000. Modernization | These figures bring tne grand total of insured modernization and | repair notes and mortgages selected for appraisal to 63,387,420 for the largest day, to $57,797,325 for the est month, and to a grand total of $285,590,358 for both parts of the Federal Housing Administration progr The Modernization Credit Plan began in August, 1934. The Mutual Mortgage Insurance Plan was an- | nounced in November 1934, the first returns ' being reported in Decem- !ber. As enabling legislation had to be passed in practically every State of the Union in order to allow full co-operation with the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Plan, this part of the program did not get under- way in a truly national sense until March 1935, at which time a ma- jority of the State Legislatures had passed enabling acts. - MRS. LOWE TRAVELS | Mrs. Alice Lowe is traveling from |Juneau to Seattle on the Victoria {for her health. PR SN ! STRODE RETURNS HOME C. D. Strode, A. J. employee, who was admitted to the hospital on July 24 for treatment of back in- juries received in a fall, was dis- charged today. S GEORGE TROYCHAK Piano Accordianist and enter- tainer, now open for engagements. | Experienced instructor. Phone 288. | —adv. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE. Film Stars riit oy Nazi Ban Racial ban placed by German movie industry upon “non-Aryans” by zovernment order, won’t permit three famous German stars to appear in pictures there now—Lillian Harvey (center), Emil Jannings (left), and Elizabeth Bergner (right), all of whom are well known to Americas audiences. Jannings, incidentally, was born in the U, 8. TU DIMOND NAMED VICE-PRESIDENT NRH CONGRESS Recognition of His Interest Is Rewarded by Appointment WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—(Special Coge por ~— 1In recognition of hi tent interest in the sub- Ject s and harbors, Alaska Dimond has been appoint- > President for the Territory of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress. In the General Rivers ahd Har- bors Bill now before Congress, the | Delegate has had the following Al- aska projects included in those items that are eligible for immedi- ate prosecution of work on enact- { the bill: rbor, Wrangell Nar- ss, Stikine River, Ko- | Petersburg Harbor, 1y Cordova Harbor, Sew- bor, Nome Harbor, and Sit- ce) con also includes the follow- for which House Joint Resolutions were introduced au- th preliminary surveys with a vies toward the improvement of respeftive harbors: Bethiel Harbor, Douglas Harbor, Haines Harbor, Kake Harbor, Met- lakatla Harbor, Ship Canal across Prince of Wales Island, Sitka Har- bor, Unalaska Harbor, Valdez Har-~ bor, Skagway Harbor and Homer Harbor ALASKA VISITS HERE BRIEFLY LEG PULLED (COREY FORD TO0 INTO GEARS ARRIVE IN CITY ABOARD SHIP THURSDAY NIGHT Well Known Wiritér Says| He'll Be Here on Prince Rupert This Week Ford, well known writer | addict, will arrive in ay night on the/ , according to a tele-| Skipper of Mailboat Fair- banks Meets with Acci- dent at Ketchikan Corey and fishing Juneau Thu Prince Ruper gram received by Frank Dufresne, Assistant Executive Officer of the Alaska Game Commission today | It is believed he was running|from Jasper Lodge, Alberta. Ford the winch and the strap on one|said he had changed his plans and of his rubber boots caught in the|would be in Juneau Thursday night.| gears, pulling his leg into them. | Ford, who was here a year ago, Johnstone has been skipper of)is making a special study of wild | the Fairbanks since May this year.|animal and bird life at the in-| His wife and two children reside|stance of several outdoor publica- in South Bend, Wash. tions with the aim of writing sev- - eral articles on the national out- BALL LEAVEY HOSPITAL | look. & { Harold Ball, who underwent an| Several fishing expeditions are oper: n for appendicitis at the being planned py_ Dufresne for the hospital on July 31, was discharged | Widely known visitor. today. KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Aug. 13— Roy H. Johnstone, aged 35, skipper of the mailboat Fairbanks, slipped into the running cargo winch aboard ship ‘Sunday night and lost a leg and knee in the revolving gears. - — RAILWAY MAN TRAVELS Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Watkins, resi- dent of Denver, Colo.,, are passen- gers on the present trip of the Aleutian from Seattle. Watkins is treasurer of the Denver and Rio | Grande Railway. P cele LS IS OPERATED UPON Miss Evelyn Jenkins entered St Ann’s Hospital Sunday and under- went an operation for appedicitis yesterday. Grace A. Cole, secretary with BOTHWELL LEAVES b PRIN. LOUISE FROM WESTWARD Steamer Brings 13 Pas-| sengers, Takes Five on South Run | peka Daily Capital. ESDAY, AUGUST. 13, 1935 KANSAS TOUR PARTY OF 64 | ON ALEUTIAN Senator Capper Group, Two Others Noted on Vessel Here | | | | ! Almost one-half of the 259 round- trip passengers aboard the steamer Aleutian on her present voyage from Seattle are cohinected . With one of three cruise parties. The largest tour party aboard is headed by Roy R. Moore, resident of Topeka, Kans. This party in-! cludes 64 Kansas farédrs It was organized by Senator Arthur Cap- per, veteran political ‘leader in Kansas and publisher of the To- Another large party is headed by E. J. Smith, Battle Creek, Mich,, and is under the auspices' of the Burlington Tours. There are 14 | middle-westerners in the group. A third tourist group is a small party from California. Miss Julia Hyde, agent for the Pacific Steam- ship Company at Santa Ana, Cal, is the organizer and guide for the expedition. Other members of the party include: Tessie Childers, San- ta. Ana; Ruth. Hood, Waltville; Mrs. Sara Haddon, Santa Ana; and Helen Jeffrey, Irvine. B E. M. GODDARD OUT OF CAME COMMISSION Terhunne Announces Res- ignation of Former As- sistant—Selfridge in Resignation of E. M. Goddard,| Supervisor of the Wardens of the Alaska Game Commission, and ap- pointment of William R. Selfridge, who recently resigned as Chairman of the Commission, to succeed him . Berthing at Pacific Coast Dock at 10 oclock last night from the Westward shortly after the Aleu- fian had come alongside the same Wharf from Seattle, the steamer Alaska brought 13 passengers to the city. Five southbound pas- Sengers left on ‘'her ‘When she Bleared port at midnight for Se- ttle. The inbound list: 1 From the Westward—Mrs. N. Lester Troast, Lester Troast, Jr.| Richard ‘Troast, C. Troast, Ethel Klem, Fern Dysart, Dora Dysart,| J. C. Lennon, E. A. Rasmuson, J. W. Gucker, Jackie Gucker, O.| Tibo. The outbound list: | For Seattle—Albert Wile, Jack Emel, John Emel. For Ketehikan—D. M. Bothwell, Bob McComb. | HAS 5 ABOARD FOR THIS PORT the McCormick Steamship Com-, D. M. Bothwell, merchandise pany of San Francisco, is a round- broker, is traveling to Ketchikan trip passenger on the steamvr\on the steamer Alaska from Ju- Aleutian. neau. Last publication, Aug. 13, 1935. Hollywo;) d Queen s Don Latest of Creations ollywood’s stylists, whose ideas influence women's fashions the world over, produced these stunning creations which are modeled by ns of the movie colony. At left, dainty Margaret Lindsay wears an Orty-Kelly design of pliant silk jersey. Center, Princess Natalie Paley, sughter of the late Grand Duke Paul of Russia, is shown in a gown by Walter Plunkett, suggestive of the Renaissance. Right, beautiful vretta Young displays a luxuriou: ening cape of silver fox over a rich gown of metallized fabric. (Associated Press Photos) |ver, B. C, at D o'clock last Sat- Canadian Pacific steamer Prin- cess Louise, sailing from Vancou- urday night and due In Juneaun' late this afternoon or eafly even- ing has many tourists aboard, ac- cording to advices, and also the following local passengers: W. Lowe, Miss L. Motrls, W. E. White, F, Cameron. HEAD OF IND| BUREAU NURSES ON ALASKA TRIP On a trip to confer with nurses and look over the work in the Ter- ritory, Miss Eleanor Gregg, Super- visor of Nurses for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington, D. ©., arrived in Juneau last night on the Aleutian and today was in confer- ence with Charles W. Hawkesworth, ¢hjet of the Bureau In the Terri- tory. Miss Gregg will visit virtually all points. in Alaska, goving as far north as Point Barrow. 1 | B e PUSHING NOME WORK Plans and specifications for the foundation of the new 10-room grade and high school at Nome were dispatched tv that city today by A. E. Karnes, Commissioner of Education, for the approval of the City Council at Nome. 1f favorable, action Is received it is éxpected to be able to get the foundation in before winter sets in. Tentative plans call for the constriction of a $100,000 building, although only $65,000 is available at the present time. — e WILE ENROUTE Postmaster Albert Wile is en- route to Seattle on the Alaska. He will attend the Sourdough Re- union there and will confet with |WILLIAMS BAICK . Ithe work is | Academy. ‘Mrs. Preston, who will | win gg as game warden for the Ketchikan district, was announced yesterday in Retchikan by H. W. Terhune, Exec- utive Officer of the Commissfon, who is enroute to Juneau on the ‘Brown Bear. i Mr. Goddard, who has been with| the Commission since its organiza- tion ig 1925, will enter private busi- ness, perhaps becoming associated with “#he Alaska’ Sportsman, an outdoor magazine published at Ket- chikan, it is reported. Before being transferred December 29 to Ket- chikan, Goddard was located here,| being especially well known and ac-| tive in civic affairs. Belfridge, who quit as Game Com- mission Chairman last week, took over the warden’s diltles yesterday and Goddard steppetl out at the, same time. | ‘Barl N. Ohmer of Petersburg is taking Selfridge’s place as game commissioner in the Fitst Division. — | FROM INSPECTION, SOUTHEAST ROADS M. D. Williams, District Engi-' neer for the Bureau of Public/ Roads, retiined en the Aleutian | from an inspection trip to various Southeast Alaska points and reports progressing in good shape. At Skagway, Sitka and Ket- chikan he looked ever maintenance work and at -Wrangell inspected the clearing operations and gonstruction of the eight-mile extension of the Wrangell highway, which is being! done by Custard, Meddows and Oja, contractors. - At Petersburg 'two construction jobs atre underway on contracts |awarded to Wright and Stock. The first a three-1 stretch, will be completed in a wi or 10 days and the other job is well ‘under way | and probably will be finished in the | late id, Thei'. ¥ ning 7&»:% By o, Beatile next " TRA Mrs. George Preston and her daughter, Kathleen, are passengers' from SBewdrd to Seattle on the Alas- | ka. Residents of Fairbatiks, they are| travelling to Seattle where Miss Preston will attend the Holy Names _Chatles, in Seattle, i toWdlifornia for a ‘Palrbanks about meet, her, visit, the ¢ )2 MISS SHAW WILL BE NEW CORDOVA GRADE PRINCIPAL Following the announcement by A. B. Phillips, superintendent of schools, that the reésignation of Miss Marietta Shaw, former principal of cepted, it was Jearned today what Miss Shaw's new teaching role would ‘be this fall. According to a letter which she sent friefids here, she will become Seattle postal authorities before returning here I two weeks. principal of the Cordova Grade School. the Grade School, had been ac-|, HIS LUCKY DAY POLO THRILLS ARCUND ACROPOLIS NEWS CHILD PRODIGY IN CAPITOL’S FEATURE Cn-gan, Freddie remains unspoiled a2nd unaffected By his Success. He and his aunt, Miss Millicent Bar- thelomew, live modestly in a flat To the list of child prodizics of | 8nd have a small car in which they Hollywood must now be addod ths 99 asionally go for pienics in the ks. He has agreed that his earn- name of Freddie Bartholom:w, 10- years old, late of London, England. | In8s shall be saved for “when he's a4 man. Three months ago it was a name unknown outside a ‘very tiny circle | of friends and playmates. Today it | is one of the most famous names | in the movie world. He plays the part of the juvenile David in “Dav- id Copperfield,” which will be seen for the last times at the Capitol Theatre tonight. Although he greatest child NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS On August 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, at 8 pam, the City Council will sit as a Board of Equalization to hear complaints on property assessments. No adjustments can be considered after August 17. A. W. HENNING, Qity Clerk. is hailed actor since as the | Tackie | —adv. o SRR o SRS b 0 1 . 35 WS it 5. 00 ANY RAGS? ANY BONES? ANY BOTTLES TODAY? WHAT WE REALLY WANT IS OLD IRON $1.00—Allowance on your old iron—$1.00 Trade it in now on a new Hotpoint ‘Featherweight” Automatic. The “Featherweight” is fully auto- matic, has a CALROD heating unit of 1000 watts, Thumb Rest, Button Slots and Heel Stand. $6.95 $6.95 Less allowance for your old iron Alaska Electric Light and Power Co. 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