The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 9, 1935, Page 8

HOPE SEEN FOR END OF FERRY UNION STRIKE Matthewson, Federal Con- ciliator. Offers New Plan Voted on Today SEATTLE, Dec. 9.—Striking un- jons today voted on a new compro- mise plan to end the ferry tie-up, now a month in duration Walter G. Mathewson, Federal Labor Counciliator, said he believed prospects of ending the strike were good The new plan, worked out in a conference with Gov. Clarence D. Martin yesterday, was reported to call for a new arbitration board to adjust wages and hours, with sumption of ferry sex negotiations. MEDICAL OFFICERS WANTED FOR EAST The United States Civil Service Commission has announced open competitive examinations as fol- lows Junior medical officer (interne) £2000 a year; junior medical offi- cer (psychiatric resident), $2,000 a vear, St. Elizabeths Hospital, Wash- ington, D. C. For junior medical of- ficer (interne) applicants must be sepior students in a grade A medi- cal school; for junior medical offi- cep (psychiatric resident) they must have been graduated from a grade A medical school with a degree of M. D., not prior to January 1, 1934, and must bave completed an ac- credited interneship of at least 1 year. Full information may be obtained at Room 311, Federal and Territor- ial Building, Juneau re- o ce during the Victoria Will Be ‘Christmas Special’ Ship Gifts, Santa Claus, Enter- tainers Will Be Aboard Steamer Next Trip gift laden, and Santa Claus equipped, the Vic- a will be the “biggest” Christ- hip ever, according to L. W Traffic Manager of the Steamship Company. The will leave Seattle next morning the Christ- Christn decorated Victoria Saturday mas trip. on In addition to calls at all regular st and Southwest ports, s have been made for nta and his group of entertain- ers to go on the Alaska Railroad Anchorage and Palmer where they will also distribute candy and gifts to the children and provide entertainment for the “grown ups.” to e Chris entertain cast a half-hour Christ- Station KFDQ on Palmer, accord- mas on their return ing to Mr from Baker Kenneth Cross, of The Alaska Line, will be Santa's chief assistant and will be in charge of the enter- tainment, Besides the orchestra, consisting of Ida Dillon, Betty Shil-| ton and Viva Ford, Master-of-Cere- monies Cross advises there will be such feature artists as Helen Gut- oski, accordionist, Beatice Nelson and John Walker, vocal soloists. A fine program has been arranged for each port, and Ken and his gang will give the older folks a good show, while the children rush Santa for their gifts. George Poin- jer, who so successfully portrayed | | { | | ) \ \ \ N \ \ \ \ 3 4\ b4 \ N \ \ \ 3 RAILWAY | save you money you send to Seatt \ \ 3 ) ) \ \ N \ \ ) \ \ \ \ \ \ ) ) \ \ \ \ SHIP BY THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, DEC. 9. 1935 ‘S:mla last yea 11 again be his role of genial old Saint Nick. Santa plans to call on shut-ins| | along the route and to visit the Pioneers' Home at Sitka DOROTHY RECK HAS BIRTHDAY AFFAIR Little Dorothy Reck celebrated her tenth birthday Saturday after- noon, when her mother, Mrs. Wil- liam Reck, entertained a number of her small friends at an elaborate birthday party in their Distin Ave- nue home. ! Refreshments were served and games played. Little Astrid Varness won the prize in the spelling bee. Those who attended the affair were: Colleen and Eileen Hellan, Betty, Dorothy and Beatrice Keith, Verna Mae Gruber, Dorothy Ensch, Norma Burford, Astrid and Cath- erine Varness, Jeanne Butts, Char- line Arnold, Beverly Leivers, Irene Williams, Mary Margaret Femmer, Doris Meitanen, Esther George, Markus Russell, Doreen Hienke, and Rosie Maier Mrs. W. G. Hellan and Bernetta Rieck assisted in serving. S e 'YAKOBI WEE in For Winter Sports P T | K Tallapoosa Is to Leave on Search for Vessel Early Tomorrow A skiiing enthusiast, Marian Marsh of the films, is dressed in her new sports costume which cshe will wear this winter at mountzin playgrounds. (Asso- cizted Press Photo) Mild fears were aroused today for the safety of persons aboar | the gasboat Yakobi, a -veek cver | due in Juneau from Chicnagof. The | Coast Guard cutter Tallapoosa was i standing by today, ready to start | search for the vessel tomorrow morning. The cutter originally was to leave | today, but visibility at Soapstone Point and other places was re- ! ported very poor. The only person known to be aboard the Yakobi in addition to| Capt. Tom Smith is Mrs. James| R. Freeburn, wife of the Manager TU BE INVALID of the Chichagof gold mine. Free- burn wired Guy McNaughton of Newest Blow at New Deal Juneau Saturday night, saying that ~ k%) Held as Guidepost in his wife had left aboard the vessel December 1 and asking if she had, Fu“her Decisions yet arrived. COURT DECIDES b EXPRESS EXPRESS AGENCY can Reports are being awaited from the Estebeth, due in today. It is thought that Capt. Smith probably hove to waiting for an improvement in weather. - SEA SCOUTS AR TO MEET TONIGHT Juneau Sea Scouts, including all members and past members of Sea Scouts organizations, are urged to attend the meeting to be held at on every package WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—That sec- | tion of the Home Owners' Loan Act of 1933 authorizing Federal incor- poration of building loan associations despite state's wishes was invalidated today by the Supreme Court, when, in unanimous decision, the court | struck another blow at the New Deal. | The ruling was viewed in some quarters as a possible guidepost to the extent of Federal pow | state affairs, LIBRARY ADDS FAMIOUS BOOKS TOITS SHELF [Sinclair Lewis’ “It Can’t | Happen Here” — Will | Rogers’ Sayings, Here | sinclair Lewis' smashing tirade | against incipient Fascism in the| | United States, “It Can't Happen Here,” has recently been added to| | the Juneau Publc Library shelves.| The book is a challenge to every-| {one who has ever used the title| { phrase with political - connotation. | Sweeping away the common Amer-| ican fetish that this country, as a| | nation, is immune from the follies of Europe, Lewis steps.ahead not| too many years to draw an imag- inary but effective picture of what! this nation could be under the rule| of a native version of Hitler or Mussolini. Also of interest to Alaskans is Joseph O'Brien’s “Will Rogers,” a collection of the sayings and wise- cracks of the inimitable humorist.| Other books added during the Just the thing for starting fires| past week, and available to anyone possession a library card or will- ing to fill one out, are: Davis: Honey in the Horn; best- selling “saga of the soil.” | A. J. Cronin: The ‘lars Look| Dow) a_ sensitive a1l poignant| story of the struggle of =oal mine- workers against the greed of v,heir‘ employers. | Briffault: mkuropa; a study of | the decay of European aristocracy and the rising social conscious- | ness of the present world. ‘ Yutang: My Country and My | People; a study of Japanese life,| philosophy, and humor well worth reading. Elien Glasgow: Vein of Iron; a satirical character study. With a Local Import Among the books having a spec- fal local significance is the volume | Pole Star, in which Stewart Ed- ward White and Dr. H. C. De- Vighne collaborated, and which was | previously reviewed in The Empire; | and Rex Beach's Jungle Gold, a, story of the romance of the banana | industry in Central America. | Other books, whose merit depends | more or less on whether or not you Ilike the author, are Willa | Cather’s Lucy Gayheart; Kathleen | Norris' Hands; Lanham’s The Wind | Blew West; Lorimer, Heart Spec-' ialist; Max Brand's Hunted Rider; | Young’s White Ladies; Wodehouse's | Blanding's Castle. There is also a new Tarzan book and four new mystery stories, and in the non-fiction: Sandoz' Old Jules; Day’s Life with Father; Ad- miral Byrd’s Discovery; Unofficial Observer’s American Me: hs. COUPLE CLUB WILL MEET IN PARSONAGE | 5 i | The Couple Club, which meets to-| night for its Christmas “kid"” par will assemble in the Northern Light parsonage, rather than in the church as originally scheduled, it was an- nounced by Rev. John A. Glasse to- day. Change in the prog sitated because of the improvements being added to the church. - ORECON DOWNED BY ST. MARY'S U, SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 9.—St Marys out-powered the strong Uni- | versity of Oregon eleven 18 to versity of Oregon eleven 13 to 0 nual game between the two rivals Oregon has won one gume of the series. D o OLD NEWSPAPERS In large bundles for 25¢ per bundle. these chilly mornings. Get them at THE EMPIRE'S office. ram was neces- | /ANOTHER JAIL - BREAK SHAKES - WALLA WALLA 'Seven Long-Term Prisoners Hunted After Tunneling from New Cell Block WALLA WALLA, Wash., Dec. 9.—| iSevenlong term prisoners are seing ! hunted herz, after making good their | escape from a new cell block of the | state prison by tunnelling. They stole two machines. Mrs. | Pearl Rust, telephone operator, from | whom one machine was.taken, said | she was confronted with a pistol in the hands of convict Henry Rule. Eight convicts were recaptured by1 !two citizens. S eee—— | LEAVES ON VACATION I Miss Mary Nordness, Clerk in the {Commissioner of Education’s office, | |left on the Northland last evening | Ifor a six weeks' vacation with her| | family in Ketchikan. | SHOP IN JUNEAU, FIRST! e SHOP IN JUNEAU! LAUNCH WORK ON HIGHWAY T0 GOVT. PROJECT M. C. Edmunds, Forgman, Says Road Will Be Open by July 4, Next Year ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec. 9.—A power shovel and a fleet of trucks will leave here this week to start a fill of a four mile stretch of swamp land which will be part of the work to complet~ the road connecting the Matanuska Valley colony with An- chorage. M. K. Edmunds has charge of the work and he said he expects to have the road open by July fourth. A crew of men is now at work con- structing a bridge, 1500 feet long over Knik river. This work will be rushed so the bridge will be completed before the ice breaks about the middle ot April. Cold weather is now hampering the work which has always been dizcontinued before during the win- ter months FENANPRPG X A SHOP IN JUNEAU! 810 PREFER . COBBS CREEK TO ANY WHISKY AT ANY PRICE! IN TE CERTI BY PU STS HIED BLIC \ 15 in he In taste tests in leading bars in city after city, more than 8 out of every Blended and bottied by CONTINENTAL DISTILLING CORPORATION, FHILA., PA. 10 | | l | Al CLOSING OUT STOCK OF CHRISTMAS ITEMS FOR GOOD! NEXT BOAT SOUTH Northwestern Thursday the A. B. Hall tonight at 7 o'clock. George Jorgensen, Chairman of the Sons of Norway committee, spon- HOUSTON FLOOD ASK USFOR RAILWAY § | { § } i { E i § { -Special Express Service- DELIVERY BEFORE CHRISTMAS ——and other FRAMED ART PRINTS will be delivered to any part of the UNITED STATES,, INSURED, by AGENCY PHONE 345 sorinz the local Sea Scout troop.| has announced that matters of spe- | cial interest and importance to Sea | Scouts will be discussed at the| meeting tonight. e | EHLING HAS OWN SHOP RATES NOW! EXPRESS Charles D. Ehling, well-known local | barber, has taken over management | of the shop at the Alaskan Hotel, 0 started business at that loca- tion this morning. — .- 1 GUCKER TO WRANGELL | J. W Gucker, merchandise broker, | left for Wrangell on the Northland | (to call on the trade. | | Week Ending December 14 “Lights o’ Juneau” EXPRESE .. AT OUR EXPENSE NOW RECEDING HCUSTON, Tex., Dec 8.—S ,\irllng‘ flood waters in Buffalo Bayou 'e-, ceded slowly today, after causing at least one death and damaze estimat- | ed in excess of $2,000,000. r | Searching parties redoubled their | efforts to find several persons feared | to have been drowned. i OLD NEWSPAPERS In large bundles for 25¢ per bundle. Just the thing for starting flresi these chilly mornings. Get them | at THE EMPIRE'S office. | ~ Winter & Pond Co. CHRISTMAS SHOPPER - WHY NOT SAVE MONEY—SEE OUR STOCK BEFORE YOU BUY! OPEN EVENINGS! The Bon Marche Dept. Store VISIT The Bon Marché Important To You! 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