The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 8, 1935, Page 7

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, OCT. 8, 1935. . By BILLIE DE BECK OING BUS' YORE \' HIOE, LO- WIZIE-- TWO STHREE: WORLD IMPORTERS. INC. SEATTLE GOOD HEAVENS \€ YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A PICNIC--WON'T YOL USE SOME. OF THE BREAKEAST OISHES -- THESE PLATES RUSTLE YORE BONES, JEDGE-- AN' GIT ALL THEM THAR PLATES WIPED OFF AN' FOTCH 'EM QUT _IN TH' VARD:" OISREPUTABLE L\TTLE GUTTERSNIPE -- ONE OF THESE DAVYS telt-- el I A\RR FEELIN' PLUMB BODACIOUS TERDAY-: - e o (/4 o B | W ur;May Come but Ethiofia’s ‘Tt;y Railroad’ Chugs Along on Same Semi-W eekly Schedule HAS ELECTION o y presented in Ethiopia. Sea port Italy attacks the African kingdom. The illustration shows passengers ARE GENUINE T7t® CENTURY - THINK OF (T A neutral railway, operating a narrow gauge line into the heart of a war-torn country, may be the Officials of the French-owned line from Addis Ababa to Djibouti, Red in French Somaliland, have announced that they intend tc keep their trains moving even if aboard the “European white car” of the semi-weekly passenger train and Somali portcrs handling baggage at the frontier. TERGETHER - PLANNING FOR BFUFHBERSE MASKED PARTY ‘Permfihené_o;gani{alion leufiness Session Is Held Perfected at Dis- | Last Evening in City covery. Party | ~ Council Chambers In honor of Columbus' discovery | Plans for a Hallowe'en Masquer- of America, the Couple Club, social | ade, reading of an article on a pro- crganization of the Northern Light|posed Constit utionalamendment, Presbyterian Church, held a Dis- | and election of new members, con- covery Party lest, night in the|stituted the important moves of the church parlors. | Business and Professional Women'’s The party began with a pot-luck|Club in their last night’s business| supper at 6:30 o'clock which was| meeting, held in the City Council followed by a brief business ses-|Chambers. Three new members.were sien, i {added to the club. | The nominating committee—~Clar| 14 was decided o hold the soctal ence Rand, Chairman; Stan Grum-|maeting on the third Monday of mett, and Mrs. R. R. Brown—re-|ne month—in this case, October 21 ported on candidates and election| ang to make the next meeting| was held for permanent oflicers.‘a Hallowe'en masquerade. The oc-| casion will be under thé. direction| | Those elected were: | President, Tom Morgan; Vice-| | 1 ¢ of .the Membership Committee, President, R. R. Brown; Secnelary,‘whmh Mrs. Jenn’: Bruml:e’:; ‘;_: ‘Mrs, John Hogins; Treasurer, Frank | opoirman. The committee for re- Rouze. | N ¥ | freshment: ration | These officers will be empoweredi:o":ws,x;:rs a;)dv d;::& Mrs. ;?m:? to set up whatever committees they | o gmien- Mrs. Walter Bacon: and deem necessary for the efficlent| nroo carol Davis ; continuance of the club. | Clamiok - Werd, (gl Amiong b Following the club program, which B, CLUBIS ticular reference to women at each meeting, Mrsi Pearl: R. Burfordy |president; read: an argicle regarding | the, poposed: amendment. now: pend-+ | |ing.in Congress; . delegating the ! | 1ights: and privileges of the Consti- sex. Mrs. JJ. V. Goss. won the door prige of $5, registration for. which: was taken at the social meeting two weeks ago. WORK STARTED ON PARKING LOT AT Uky. B 'BUILDING YA 3 i 3 Work started this week on lev‘el,-‘ Ing off the lawn on the north side ~f the Federal and Territorial build- ing preparatory to. making a park- | ng, spate in the location. About 15 men from the FERA are engaging | "n the project which is expected to ake about a month, The: space will ‘be levelled-off, “ravelled -and entrances made from scth Seward and Main streets al- ‘owinz for easy. access. It is anticipated the parking lot will relieve the congested traffic that often forms in front of thy| building as a result of parking in the street by those having business in the building. most interesting of which was a contest to see which group of guests could devise the most fetch- |ing costume for the Juneau Queen. | Those modeling for these some- what starting costumes were Mrs.| By RICHARD G. MASSOCK PARIS, Oct. 8—War or no war Fthiopia's cnly railroad plans to cperate its two re‘ular passenger trans a week, witt stops overnight, its through boat trains whenever there is boat at Djibouti, and freight trains as the traffic justi- fies. Italy’s dispute with Ethiopia up to new has made little difference Bi- to the French-owned line, which | bas not even had its carloadings || Mncreased by munitions shipments, | cfficials say. H They hope hostilities will not dis- | rupt a traffic which had suffered already from the depression. The dinky little trains of the narrow-gauge line between Djbouti at Awash at p. m. he again sieeps in the station buffet until resumes his trip at 6:30 a. m. on the third morning to arrive finaliy at Addis Ababa at 4:20 in the afternoon. The boat trains, operated dufing the dry season from October to May when the roadbed is more secure, creep along in the night, their na- tive engineers and firemen peering to make certain with the aid of a powerful headlight that the tracks are clear. Freight Just Now and Then Thus traveled 115,000 passengers |, last year, of whom 108,000 were white swathed natives in third class passage. For them the fare between Djibouti and Addis Ababa is $5.57, Bob Davlin, Mr. Alec Jones, and| |Rev. John A. Glasse. Badminton, pingpong and deck-| shuffle were played. Fifteen couples | | were present. The next social activity of the| b will be a Hallowe'en party, {on October 28, for which the com- |mittee is as follows: Mrs. Byron ARE REQUIRED (th clares| Duncan Smith Declares . m"“‘”“_sm“ PROSPECTORS ‘ {The Thompson snd Hattrick De-: | partment: Btore in ‘Ketchikan, scene | lof various burglaries during the | past.. year, suffered: again recently GroundNot Touched Duncan Smith, mining engineer Vast Tracte of Virgin | : 2 K- | tution to-all citizens of the United | { States and possessions, regardiess of ! |, | very Purse and Every i’nrpose ~ PACIFIC COAST COAL CO. i PHONE 41% Ji The “Afaska Friackiitg Co. annourice their new down town location has been removed to the NEW ‘RAINIER ERUB, telephone 436.- All AT ‘Wil Feckive the fost pronipt and court- cdts attention’ ai 4l times. TFFICIENCY—-OUR SLOGAN Reasonable Rates WEEOMATE SUMARA, Secretary and Treasurer g3 LEE ROX; Gcne‘ml Manager The earliest newspaper'always printed a sign at the top of the first page of every issue depicting the points of the compass. of the partnership of:Baueris and Smith, with offices in Seattle, Van- | when, a runaway. auto truck backed down the lower. Rawden Street hill The letter:N, for North, was placed at the top. Below it appeared a “plus” sign. At the right E, for East. At the left W, for West, } ¢ mountains, climbing 7,900 feet tOtheir friends turned out last night | & bidden without written permission | i Plyend Addis Ababa might rival Eu-|pyt for the European in second class [\ fi i f | “ Y B Guns Stop at Frontier | % important than it seems, since big | | ¥ yrdays. These are made up of one 4 rope’s famous Orient Express, or an|i; js $18.98 and the de luxe traveler | . American transcontinental limited. |in first class plays $39.10. | for adventure, picturesqueness and| Freight trains, which take five| @clamor were it along the hard-days for the one-way trip, are made worn routes of tonrist travel. {up only when enough goods accu- ¢ Daylighi Satety Factor | mulate to warrant the trip, There Except for the through boat trains | has been a slight increase in freight | which cover the 486 miles of the|traffic this year, officials say, and line's entire length in 27 to 33! perhaps this indicates the move- hours during the dry season, it takes ment of war materials. three days to make the journey, for' But the freight embargos against *“daylight is an important safety Ethiopia have, the officials assert, factor on the Ethiopian line. | deprived the railroad of any heavy Wild tribes have been known to |munitions traffic it might have ex- steal the ties from under the rails | bected. and the tropical torrents sometimes | wash out track or dump boulders' JIGG on it. Hence the regular passenger | trains stop before sundown. Some indication of the adventure | of railroad travel in Ethiopia as| the trains crawl through desert and | .- — S DINNER GAY | EVENT FOR MEMBERS OF AMERICAN LEGION More - than ' 50 'Legionnaires and Addis Ababa, is afforded by the|for the Jiggs dinner given by the | en the North Sea today. couver and New York City, returned ang ingo the building. Sunday on the Electrs from 8 injured fn the .m;n):f :1’,‘;0:::1 four-months inspection trip on the \the truck was damaged and "wi Seward Peninsula, He wernt south large plate . glass wiridows, wex'e1 | Smith, who arrived in Nome h_n} . %~ ; June, on an inspection trip in the |SPECIAL DELIVERY. T DOUG interests of New.York clients, spent |LAS! Daily at 10:00 s.m. and 2:30 the summer examining claims on pm. Kelly Biske’s SPECIAL DE- the Seward peninsula, and cxpressed | LIVER X—Phone ke, the opinion that Alaska had much to offer the prospector. Y “There are vast tracts; of virgin zround that have never been pros- pected,” he said. ‘It would be a wonderful thing for the Tm}wr_vl if a way could be found. $o make prospecting of these tragts possible | in 'the near future.” k Smith, who spent 16 years in Af- rica as a mining engineer for a| Belgian-American exploration com- pany, was enthusiastic over aerial reconnaissance as a method of . dis- | covering feasible lands, but warned that such -a. survey was at most DR UE 28 time tables, available in Paris hefid"‘Alford John Bradford Post of the quarters. |American Legion in the Dugout, land labeled the event one of the Travelers are warned by the time | liveliest meetings held this fall by tables that guns are likely to be;the“g:aénp%st, U’I‘)‘e' the direction ceized by the Ethiopian customs of “Che “;: 4 ;‘VeflWfl- psint- azents at Dire Dawa, the first over- ;eddbéri;:roznrlicks;n a'r::lc’z‘:m?m Hight stop. Jior e R Dr!n:d cabbage dlnne:r with the neces- arms and ammunition is strictly ‘mr-':ary oS ::w e mrids Contributing to the success of the dinner were donations of a o ‘case of beer each by H. C. Dunlop, pame hunting 1s the principal ab- by . anger distributor, and Wilbur #traction the railroad had to offer Irving, Astec distributor, and cat- tourists. | d y {sup and mustard by K. B. Edwards, Upon arriving at Dliboutl, the|y ., v, ieties representative. passengers for Addis Ababa finds a | Next Monday night the installa- boat-train awalting him—there 18 y,n " ot newly elected officers will p boat about once a week—or he may wait for one of the regular {be held in the Dugout. irains leaving Tuesdays and Sat- of the government. This is more ————— ——— ENROUTE TO TORONTO -ar divided into first and second| class compartments and three or ¢ four third-class cars, with wooden reats, in which travel the DOSY \wrongen JFecently with Mrs. Car- natives. jruthers enroute to Toronto, where Black porters put the Dassengersiney were called by Salvation Army| naggage aboard the train at Dil-ineadquarters to attend the National, Do o O o e Uy | Consress which Wil be attended by, starts. cl , groaning |General Evanegline Booth swaying from the Red Sea coast| e o L Major W. J. Carruthers, Division- al Commander of Alaska andI Northern British Columbia, left | marked that a visit o the Territory | but an introductory step. 5 A PRI A B it “Actual prospecting must be done on the ground and usually on foot,” be said. “Success in prospecting would seem. to depend largely upon the capacity to wear out shoe leather.” 3 3L ? The company. . for which .Mr. | Smith conducted ,mining examina- | tions in Africa was the Foreniemiere | Societe Forestire ete Minire der Congo, a piloneer company founded by Leopold II of Belgium and Wal- ter Page of New York City. After leaving Africa, Mr. Smith practiced his profession in Brussels, He went to Vancouver a year and 2 half ago, and there, with his! partner, opened the firm in whose! interests he is now in the Terri- tory. | Expressing the desire to know more about Alaska, Mr. Smith re- — |- “Yomarroe Seyles: <hould. be preceded by .a “thorough reading of Roberf Service's poetry.” 1t is possible, he said, that either he or his partner will revisit Alaska next summer. 5 ——er——— HAS BICYCLE SHELTER A shelter for the many bicycles while below the letter S indicated South. Later, the “plus” sign was dropped and the letters “N. E. W. S.” appeared, implying that the information printed came from the four corners of the globe. © And so we got the word “News,” meaning the information on any subject. very latest The advertising cohumns are “News” as much as the edi- torial columns. Advertising is packed with news. News of the latest styles, of a new food, of an improved household utensil, of a powerful and low-priced automobile, of trips to Europé and all poits of the world — and so on: . Advertising has become “newsy” and people depend on-advertisements for accurate in~ formation about the things they wish to know. 1 Reading advertising is a useful and, profitable hai)ii. It saves time, by telling you where desired articles may be purchas- ed. It saves money because advertised merchandise: is ‘more dependable as to quality and durability than non-advertised wares! And, advertising is accurate. You can trust the “news” that you read in advertisements. Read them as you do the news and editorials. ! L Advertising. is “news” of the latest dnd best in merchandise . . . keep posted by reading the advertisng columns of & “across the scorching desert to Dire Dawa, where it arrives at 6:10 p.| ‘t m. to put up for the night. | Sleep on Buffet Cots ¢ ' The traveler sleeps on a cot in the hot station buffet until time to start at 8:35 a. m. the second day’s zig- zagging climb to Awash. Arriving ATTENTION REBEKAHS used by school children 'is being| Regular business meeting at the constructed by the city of Ketchi- ing at 8 o'clock, e | * KATHERINE HOOKER, —adv. _Noble Grand. blocking of nearby, pagssgeways, el e | —— Daily Empire Want Ads Pay! | SHOP IN JUNEAU! vehicles dry as well as to preyent 10dd Fellows’ Hall Wednesday even- kan. I% is to be a temporary, strue- | ture and is designed to keep the| o