The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 19, 1935, Page 7

SAAY, LO-WIZIE--DO YOU TH BUTLER QUITTING 1 FOUND HIS OUDS THCLOSET S+ 4 \ UPHAM GAVE HIM TH BooT 222 _®.19%. Kine Features Synd, B REV. HUBBARD Value Secured on Expedition ‘The Glacier Priest,” who returned to Juneau today from an extensive trip to the ice cap, Taku River, 'win Glaciers, and the Taku, Tul- was the most hazardous. A storm was encountered off Point Bishop this morning that repeatedly threat- ened to swamp the light, specially- constructed boat, used by Father Hubbard on his trip, but although considerable water was shipped at times, the party including Father ubbard and his assistants, Chisholm, Ed Levin and George shortly after 1 o'clock this after- | noon. Much information of great scien- | | tific value which will be released | later was developed by the Father Hubbard expedition. Many of his findings will be sent to the Inter- inational Glacier Society in Belgium | and the United States Department #f the Interior. Father Hubbard will lecture at | the Uptown Theatre tomorrow night and will show motion pictures that | have never before been exhibtied | in Juneau. —— - Fred A. Jaegel, baker at the A. ' J. Boarding House, has purchased from W. E. Wakeham, the latter's house located at Fifth and Ken- | nedy. FIRE BELL TOLLS WHEN JOHNSON IS BURIED, WRANGELL Funeral services were held last -week in Redmen's Hall in Wran- gell for Ole Johnson, who died in +8t. Ann’s hospital here on Septem- ber 2. The deceased helped organ- of Wrangell and was an active close of the services the fire bell was tolled in his memory. BARNEY GOOGLE AND SPARK PLUG KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT LAYIN' ON TH' ELOOR OF D'VA SUPPOSE JUDGE RETURNS;WILL GIVE LECTURE Scientific Information of The Rev. Bernard R. Hubbard, | 'quah and Inklin rivers, reported | tNat the final stage of the journey Ken | Getty, arrived here wet but safe| vize the Volunteer Fire Department | T OECLAR, I HAIN'T HEERED OF ENNY DISTURBAMINT-- 'LL AX PAW--- i though these Efhiopian planes, lined up iy 3 ‘:medflutt tion experts are Ethiopian Planes Easy Prey for 1l Duce KEM R'AT IN, LO-WIZIE--T WUZ IS TELLIN' JEDGE fl UPPYHEM WHUT A NO-COUNT ] SUF'LESS SKONK HE AIR-- WE-UNS ORTER HEV SUNTHIN' FUR HIM TER 00 -- OURNED EFE HE HAINT GITTIN ON fl MAH NARVES--SETTIN' 'ROUND LIKE A TOAD FROG- at Addis Ababa, make a brave display of fighting strength, avia- hey would be easy prey for Mussolini’s modern air force, “Rain Insurance” Game Cuts Austria’s Revenues from Gov VIENNA, Sept. 19.—Hundreds of chance-taking Viennese are, liter- ally, betting on the weather. Those !who can tell when a storm is com- |ing, intuitively or by the twitching of their corns, are gathering a |fine pie of Austrian schillings. Poor prophets are losing their money. | | The fad has grown until it is cutting into the revenues of the State lotteries. Betting on horse racing is languishing, because loose |change is being diverted to bets on whether the sun will shine to- MOrTow. The new form of wagering is rain nsurance—modified and developed (to make it easy for the masses to }get policies on a minute’s notice | It started as a legitimate business. Jlnn keepers, ready for a rousing week-end, took out policies to pro- tect them against financial ldss in the event of rain. | Wet Sea on Started It ! Two years ago came a wet sum- tmer, and the inn keepers who javailed themselves of insurance made handsome profits. So the in- rance became popular. Now, if a Vienna family plans |to go on a picnic dad gives the member until very recently. At the|outing the added zest of a finan- |tables covering scores of years are centrating, driving, rallying, or stir- cial adventure. He estimates his | picnic is worth a certain amount, Deily Cross-word Puzzle l ACROSS Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle 4. Clique 1 Open hostilities 5. Wilingly 4. Having little 6 Richly . spee decorated 8 Metric land 1 Marriage theasures 8. Seasoning i3 Kind of parrot for use 12 Ireland 9. Curls |” One fourwn of 0. Old cloth a pint measure 15 Repeating part L Crafty of a cir-ulat- 6 Compound ing derimal ether 17 Within 20 Put in 13 Small rugs 22 Hateful 19 Losing City in Penn- brightness sylvania 21 As far as Pouches 13 Bxperiences a Bugle call certain Dismounted sensation Marchers v6 Bound with Provided and narrow fabric served food 2y Lype measures 14 Free from flaw 8% Period or defeot %1 Kind of the 41 Prench pronoun 55 For fear that 37 Cylindrical Visigoths 42 Abandon 5% Skin: comb. 10 Article of @ Relating to 44 Field of form belief bodily motion granular 61 Bievated rafl- - 43 Extended as in dancing snow wavs collog journey (3 a 48 Heated Ik 45 Relleve Moham- compartmert al 46 Small bottle medan saih1 50 Decree ngi Mudetn 1y hot 47 Terminates Cereal grass. 52 Metni thread 48 Wise old bird Flowers 53 Small rase 49 Contend law 54 Daleful 51 Margin .| A portion of volume of rain in- DUCK SHOOTERS TAKE T0 FIELD AT T TOMORROW ernment Lottery pays the appropriate premium, and ~ashes in if it rains. The housewife may relieve the| Cr\ange in Re gu l atio n| drudgery of wash day by investing| in a bit of insurance. 1f rain wets| Opens Mendenhall Flats —Rifle Range Closed the leundry she is paid for the| bsther of drying it mext day. (Continuea mom Page One) The fly in the ointment is that policies muse be taken out a week| in advance. Provable Losses Waived | Bag Limit At first there was some pretense| Daily baz limit on Gucks—10 in in the game. The purchaser of a|the aggregate of all kinds. policy announced an. intention of | Daily bag limit on geese and going to some such place as the brant—4. Prater (Vienna's Coney Island) and| Daily bag limit on coot and jack- wished to be paid if rain inter- snipe—I5. fered with his outing. He could, Unlawful to have more than one within broad limits, place his own day's bag limit in possession at any, financial value on his little ex- one time. : Further Rules cursion, so long as he paid the ! premium, usually 9 per cent of the It is unlawful to use live decoys| in taking any specie of waterfowl. policy’s face value. v But pretense has been dropped It IS unlawful to use ‘any kind of . e bait in taking waetrfowl. [ at the busy little offices where 4 | clerks hand policies over the count- 1t 18 unlawful to use any gun ers. In effect, one bets it’s going but a shotgun and not larger than ¢ 5 10 gauge. i to rain Sunday, and the insurance 3 | companies beLy it won't, Tt ism't 1018 unlawful to take any water-| necessary to prove that the policy Iowl(lby “Sib‘" by ::rplane, auto=} holder would even get his feet Mobile, sinkbox (battery), power-| wet, boat, sailboat, any boat under snu.: b and floating craft or device of any| So home-spun meteorology- has .. | become a serious subject. Weather iyl GONSE Gy i 8 ayitton o to use same for purpose of cong |scanned. The law of averages is ap- K | plitd to nature. Weather-wise old- m;f ;;p u':;:;‘,m”;ow;fle: g atory ist,ers who can interpret their bun- waterfow! from a point morir Lhani ons are consulted. | o 100 feet from the shore line as Tg""‘l""‘“ Adjust Premiums qeiermined by ordinary hide tide I e insurance companies, of ;. where there is natural growth | course, have a little the better of ;. yegetation extending beyond such! |1t, for they have made an exact gore line, not more than 100 feet |and scientific study of the weather. g.om such growth protruding above They know they will have t0 DAy the surface of the water at the |on 5 to 6 per cent of their poli- tjme of taking such birds. |cles. So premiums are adjusted s e i %3 STUDENTS NOW ENROLLED {ernment requires that they be re- First Week of Instruction |turned to the warehouses in good by i Y in Five Clasces condition and pressed. 1 Should rain soak 10,000 uniforms Compleled With instruction proceec ' ng on s,‘ the tailoring bill would stagger the !trensurx So a rain policy guar- ian/ees that the uniforms will be yegular basis, it was learred today |returned creased and brushed and that Juneau’s revived Nigit School without cost to the parading army. classes have a total enrollment of R e O 193 students. Five classes, meeting PAA LGGKHEE |every Tuesday and Thursday, are passed with the opening Hour being changed from 7:3 to 7 o'clock. Three classes start at that hour ed by Jerry Jones and Bill Knox, Period is 1% hours in length. arrived in Fairbanks late yesterday Beginning typing in the typing afternoon. The Electra left Juneau room; advanced shorthand in the yesterday by unfavorable weather.| Advanced typing in the typing Six - passengers were aboard the '00m and beginning shorthand in plane: Mrs. E. L. Disel, Louise the Study Hall start at 8:15 o'clock. surance remains legitimate busi- | ness. And among the best custom- ers of the companies are Austria’s private armies. These armies, always pinched for cash, stage parades to impress the public with their strength. But they do not have uniforms for all their | | being offered. AT FAIRBANKS in the High School building, the Tuesday for the Interior but was Study Hall, and Spanish in Room | The first week of instruction has The PAA Lockheed Electra, pilot- Other two at 8:15 o'clock. Each class held at Whitehorse until after noon 12 convene at 7 o'clock. O'Loane, Gordon H. Proffitt, W. P.| T, Y Barry, L. K. Edwin, and A. V, Cor- - WRANGELL COUNCILMAN dovado. i gee Do ! At a regular meeting of the DRAWS FINE | Wrangell Town Council, T. J. Tomas Magseno, charged with McBride was appointed to fill the assaulting Joe Leyson in an alter- unexpired term left vacant by the cation at the Brunswick card room, death of Ole Johnson. |was fined $25, which he pald, in' ———eo———— U. 8. Commissioner’s Court, | SHOP IN JUNEAU: THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, SEPT. 19, 1935. PAW - LOOKY WHUT MIST' GOOGLE HEV FUND --LAVIN' IN A HEAP ON TH' FLOOR-, [NORLITEMEN SCOUT y The first meeting of the newly-| thode, a new arrival here, will be backed Norlitem-n Boy Scout troup | Scoutmaster in charge at the meet- has been scheduled for Saturday|ing Saturday, the Rev. John Al afternoon at 3:30 o'clock in the Glasse announced today. parlors of the Northern Light byterian Church, By BILLIE DE BECK DZ/B2 VARMINT 't g RUSTLE YORE BONES, AN HOLP LO-WIZIE DISH LUP TH!' DWNER-- ™M HONGRY ‘ All boys who have reached th:ir "twelfth birthday and wko are no TROOP wn‘L MEET members of other Scout troops in | he city are eligible to join. 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