The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 2, 1936, Page 2

o MEERBEY o BN Dt w——. Sale of emnan WOOLEN FABRICS $1.65 Silks Satins Tatfeta Georgette Chitfon Velvet Corduroy Values to : $3.50 $1.00 YARD L e e D ,,,,-,m-m--,"—»e--ww | B.M. BEHRENDS “Juneau’s Leading Department Store”, . yard H 8 R R 81 Site of 1936 Republican National Convention e | Cleveland public auditorium Here is a mew photo of the Cleveland public suditorium which will be the scene of the 1936 Republican national convention in June. is expected to be the Democratic choice. Chicago CLEVELAND, Jan. 2—The Re-| East Sixth Street runs north and REN, publicans will have a $12,500.000 south. Across Lakeside Avenue to M"“T LAGERG! 8 building, and more than 250,000 the north is City Hall. Beyond City CHANGE RESIDENCEI square feet of flaor space, if they Hall to the north is the lake front | need it all, in which to nominate | jand the municipal stadium. Across| Mr. and Mrs. Milton Lagergren a candidate for President next|St Clair Avenue to south is the celebrated the New Year by moving June. \Bomd of Education Building. On |from their Third Street residence Public Audiworium, built by the‘thc west is an open space being into a recently-renovated suite in Jeity in 1922 on tie proceeds of a|developed as part of a city mall |the Grand Apartments on Front bond issue and since enlarged by project. \Slreel. wings and annexes, stretches a full| Eight downtown hotels are with- block along East Sixth Street in|in 10 blocks of the hall. The Union downtown Cleveland. At one end| Terminal, built by the Van Swerin- su e BOY SCOUT TROOP Gingham Cretonne : 'O., Inc. Rayons | Dimity | Batiste | Lawn Calico Sateen l Effort to Keep Up luth Johnny Jones Diagnosed as ‘School Sickness’ Cau NOW - IS ORDER OF DAY IN CHINA MILITARISM Keeping pace with the new cteps in education, Horace Mann School at Teachers College, Cclumbia University, has long been battling the danger of “pressure” on children. There’s no evidence of “school sickness” here, where children in the first, second and third grades are seen at work at their typewriters. By QLEXANDI' R GEORGE This meant, he says, that only| about 100 pupils out of some 75,000 in that city were wholly exempt from which might produce ness.” He believes, fur- thermore, that undoubtedly some of It is “school sickness” which re-|4he 100 were in the special class ontly has been definitely identified | Pecause of poor nutrition prod as a nerve iliness brought about by by anxiety over school work in lezuA‘ “pres on the more or less sensi- |Jar classes. **We make much tod: d,» of med WASHIN(‘TON Jan. 2. — The is e 2d i James F, Rogers, con- sultant in hygicne of the United | iDspection but i Li)b”rculm.w will not work such havo | Parison with mental | Learn Art of Warfare— |stages” e, loss of welghtand, epey . SO Tha diease Is charme o A Seek Na“onal Salvahon i ity, restlessness, anxiety, and Yyt By C. Y. McDANIEL NANKING, Jan. 2—Three bowls badly and may | of rice, or a few wheat cakes a day The | when dead. cnes, and in the civil wars of the | (BllV republican era which turned g ambitious bandit chieftains and army |whom are al ‘mb,\lberns into “warlords” and “mar- twins) are ex shals.” “Every Man A Soldier” |of the day in China, “Every able- | “National salvation can only be achieved if the people of China are |ready and willing to lay down thelr |lives for their country,” is the slo- |2an flashed to Young China rrom‘ | moving picture screens, highway bill- |boards and over the radio. 1 New Yorker. Draws Plans This is the spirit which prompted the, national government to spend $1,000,000 on a memorial at Nanking to honor the heroes of the revolution of 1911 and inspire the youth of the land to emulate their deeds of brav- ery and patriotism, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek provided the authority and funds.-dlam ‘and a former New York architect, of the building is Lakeside Avenue, | gen interests, is only a short walk | at the other St. Clair Avenue. from the building. The hall was enlarged several| The Socialist National Conven- years after Calvin Coolidge re-|tion jis scheduled for the hall in ceived the 192¢ Republican nomina- | May and the American Legion Na- MEETS TONIGHT | Henry Killam Murnhy, the azchitec- | | tural inspiration which have trans- . formed the ruins of a ljth.century The Norhtemen Boy Scout 'l‘roopl B AR e S e meets this evening. at 7:30 o'clock in the parlors of the Northern | | morial and heroes' cemetery. tion for President there. Delegates could find no place in the hall then to get away for a quiet conference, 4nd they were forced to use Cen- tral Armory across Sixth Street and the Federal Reserve Bank two | blocks away. Criticism of this shortcoming led A few years later to the construc- tion of north and south wings. Still later an underground exposition hall was added. The main auditorium seats 12,000 persons. A music hall, which opens into the auditorium, seats 3,000 more. If necessary, hundreds more | cap be accommodated on the spa-| cious stage of the auditorium The hall has served as a seumg for basetball games, grand operas, | prize fights, three-ring circuses, au- tomobile shows, political gatherings, ond various sorts of conventions, Floor space in the main audnlonum‘ fotals 39,760 square feet, but space | | in adjoining halls and in the vari- | Mrs ous rooms of the entire structure| Vrs. brings the total to 250,046 square | 'A' Jarge balcony, with tiers of s running to the roof, stretches the main hall on three m Hoover spoke ip the 1932 campaign. tional Convention for September. In gddition, civic bodies have plan- ned a Great Lakes exposition for the lake front and stadium next year. The hall has an air purifying system said to change the air in the auditorium once a minute. A Republican Mayor, Harold H. Burton, will welcome the delegates to the city. Burton, who cam- paigned as an independent Repub- ican, defeated his Democratic op- »onent, Ray Miller, n November by a majority of about 36,000 votes. NURRIS RICHARDSONS WIN BRIDGE TROPHIES At the New Year's Eve bridge sarty given by Mr. and Mrs. Earl F. Watkins of Thane for Mr. and Collis Druley of Chichagof, Norris Richardson won first prize, Mr. Norris Richardson, sec- ond, and Mrs. Druley received the special guest prize. Refreshments were served and & good time enjoyed by everyone | present. S e SPEND WHERE YOU MAKE IT! at the election | regular weekly session. RUDOLPH IS LEAVING TOMORROW ON VACATION William Rudolph, of the Sanitary | Grocery staff, will go south tomor- row on. the Northwestern op a month’s vacation to Seattle, joining his wife, who is galready in the states. During Rudolph’s A absence, |Sam Feldon will take his place. -, ADAMS GOES SOUTH Horace Adams, formerly of Ju-r neau, now agent for the Alaska | Steamship Company at Petersburg |and Wrangell, left for the south on | the Victoria recently, accompanied by his daughter Louise, They will | return north late this month. Professor Tosses Eom for Disclminn or Qu; STILLWATER Okla., Jan. 2. — Dr. J. F. Page, professor of sogiol~ ‘ngy at Oklahoma A. & M., tosses & coin as his class meets. Tails! Just a_nice disqussign. | Heads! A quiz. | - — | SPEND WHERE YOU MAKE IT! Light Presbyterian Church for its Ancicnt Place Glorifies War Visible for miles, a reinforced con- crete pagoda overlooks the “hall of "\ hizhl or b(-‘ labelled. “T But militarism is the new order g4 » or | bodied man a soldier,” is the motto | cannot keep up |ef a program which compels every {more subjects, dees his utmost un Klem‘lrki when living—an unmarked grave sc q las tha term Such was the lot of the common 'gravated, physi soldier in China for centuries through examinations and by a the struggles which overthrew im- tests | perial dynasties and established new‘ y emotional state. The child MILLERS, BLYTHES | usually has a peor appetite, he sleeps HONOR NEW YEAR’S have night terrors. IR JOMUALERIS | i L4 Aees. Armur Miller sntees _ tained friends at their home in the Jensen Apartments at a New Yea:'s _ Eve party in which the horn of plen- ty amply provided a bountiful buf- fet supper. ptam s b i l"""“fayf‘ Pes) %, The merry folks gathered to wel- neal systems children (no ¢ 39 1hie New Fear Ware Megers sad e aren (h6 e o Mesdames Bill Taroff, Bill Sund- s’ & ewst, John Blythe, Louis Delebecque, UAroUsh v 'c. Jensen, Carl Jensen and Mil- t the same 1 ; ; dred Hill.. ey After reposing a few hours in the | £rms of Morpheus in their respective homes, the guests athered at the John Blythe demiciie to partake a Learty breakfast. P - B P MARTHA SOCIETY ' : PLANS LUNCHEON some | ed the |the same cou: “inferior.” “The more child in one o sitiv the pac: who £chool and college youth to learn the | |the well-Intended stimulus and the | art of warfare. rezult is an illness as real as measles and unfortunately far more drawn cut and full of misery,” he said. Te prevent thi health specialists have suz child's report card bear (m]y t A covered dish luncheon, to wel- | ‘satisfactory” or “uncatis. COMe back members who have been | factory.” Sa ctory would mean S°Journing in the States, will be that the child was doing as well as D€ld by the Martha Saciety of the| De could be expected taking into con- | Northern Light Presbyterian Church sideration his age, mentality, health, | I the church parlors at 12:30 degree of social adjustment in Lhc‘°°1°°k tomorrow nogn, according school reom and emotional poise. -t.o announcement by Mrs. Charles Few Exempt ! Sey, President. Dr. J. V. Treynor, of Council Bluff,! Members to be welcomed back Ia., credited with being the first to 8re Mrs. O. E. Sullivan, Mrs. Gun- use t term “schcol sickness” in nar Blomgren, Mrs. Walter White ing the di advocatad and Mrs. J. Laurie. | |that “the so S of the ank E. J. Cowling is in charge| great evil, rangements. The luncheon will Dr. Rogers says that while he 3 followed by the usual business visiting a class for physically d session. | cate and possibly tuberculosus cY o i S e dren in an eastern city, the special! The ground-parrot, a flightless | teacher informed him that t) pu- bird inhabiting New Zealand, is| pils were permitted to proc at their own pa in called “Kakapa” by the Maori pro- | e.” 'ple. commemoration,” old Chinese in ap- | pearance. but thoroughly modern in construction, and the serpentine wall enclosed area in which neat rows of headstones mark the last resting |of those. who fought on the “right” sige.in the yarious stages of the rev- olution., Long-robed nrlests walked and { echanted, and incense burned for four centuries in the great hall in whose “walls stone slabs bearing the names |of the revolutionist martyrs have been set. This building was one of medieval China's repligs to the challenge of fire, rust and decay. No wood is found anywhere in the structure; successive tiers of 132-foot-thick brick arches support the high vaulted roof. For several hundred years a sacred shrine of Buddhism (the religion which above all others opposes war- fare and death), this beamless tem- ple is now a shrine of patriotism, 'glorifying battles and the soldiers 'who fight them. el . | A recent military pageant at Schos ifield Barragks, Hawaii, showed the waiian division of the army to be completely motorized. The army mule has vanished, i | O MGG 8 | | | LE.S. Study Lamp | SPECIAL | Why ruin your eyes reading by poor ! light when you can have one of the new— Better Light . . Better Sight Lamps? $3.75 Complete Alaska Electric Light & Power Co, JUNEAU 6 DOUGLAS 18 U. 8. DEPARTMENF OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) Forecas! for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4 pam., January 2: Snow tonight and Thursday; moderate southeast winds. | LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Vei Weathes 4 pm. yest'y 29.36 30 82 w Cldy 4 aum. today 2047 28 88 s 7 Lt. Snow | Noon today 29.60 30 88 K] 8 Lt.Snow CABLE AND kADIO REPORTS YESTERDAY | TODAY Highest 4pm. | Lowest4am. 4am. Precip. 4am. | Station temp. temp. | mmp uemp velacity 24hrs. Weathe~ | Anchorage 19 — | gl 15 phaite Barrow -8 -12 | -24 -22 4 0 Clear Nome 8 6 | -2 0 26 0 Clear Bethel 2 0 -6 -6 16 0 Clear Fairbanks -6 -6 | -12 10 4 0 Cldy Dawszon -4 -2 || -18 -8 20 0 Clear St. Paul 30 18 14 14 22 02 Snow Dutch Harbor 40 38 | 2 28 12 01 Cldy Kodiak 32 32 30 3 4 Trace Snow Cordova 36 32 3 30 8 12 Snow Juncza 31 30 2 28 7 08 Snow | Sitka . 39 - | 29 - o A2 o Ketchikan 42 34 30 30 El 0 Clear Prince 'Rupert 40 40 | 32 38 4 10 Cldy Edmonton 10 4 | 4 8 6 0 Cldy Seattle 50 48 | 44 4“4 16 .70 Pt. Cldy | Portland 52 48 | 46 50 4 120 Rain San Francisco 54 52 438 48 4 16 Rain |New York 36 34 26 32 4 0 Cldy | Washington 40 34 26 30 4 Trace Rain | WEATHER CONDITIONS AT 8 A. M. Juneeu, Ajrport, snowing, temperature, 30; Taku Pass, snowing, 10; Whitehorse, snowing, 26; Burwash Landing, cloudy -5; Cordova, ,rfl‘nlng‘ 34; Anchorage, cloudy, 18; Nenana, clear, 0; Hot Springs, clear, -2; Fairbanks, clear, -10; Tanana, clear, -12; Ruby, clear, 0; Nulato, clear, -4; Kaltag, cloudy, -5, Unalakleet, cloudy, 0; Fiat, cloudy, . 0, WEATHER SYNOPSIS Low barometric pressure prevailed this morning from the Aleu- tian Islands eastward to Alberta, Canada, while high barometric pressure prevailed over the Alaskan Arctic Coast. High barometric pressure prevailed over the Pacific Ocean from the California coast southwestward to the Hawaiian Islands. Precipitation has been gen- eral from Prince Rupert southward to California and over the northern portion of Southeast Alaska. Fair weather continued oper the interior and western portions of Alaska. Moderaté temperatures were reported throughout Alaska today. DOUGLAS . NEWS EAGLES NEW YEAR PARTY WAS ENJOYABLE AFFAIR young friends gt his home yesterday | efternoon. Games and refreshments | plentiful were enjoyed by the chil- | dren. BACHELORS MOVE Martin Pedersen and Frank Petty- | grove have taken the Shudshift cot- tage at the summit of E street for their bachelor quarters. They for- merly occupied one of the Kilburn apartments. - D D. F. D. MEETING Tonight is the regular meeting night for the Douglas Volunteer Fire Department. D FRANK PIERCE ILL Frank Pearce has been at home for several days suffering from a evere cold. b s e AUTO LICENSE PLATES While not as many persons ai- tened the card party event of the Eagles new year celebration, as in former years, by the time the dance got under way, the hall was well filled and all present had a wonder- ful time. Cotfee, sandwiches, and cake were served after the card playing. Prize winners at cards were for wrist—Mrs, Joe Riedi and J. R. Langseth, firsts, Mrs. Langseth and Erwin Hachmeister— consolations; bridge—Murs. Henry Langfeldt and Ed Andrews, highs, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Gair—lows, e e——— BIRTHDAY PARTY By way of celebrating his eighth birthday which fell on New Year's, Lindy DuPree was host to 18 of his Get your 1936 license plates NOW wnd operate your car with a clear sonscience, Territorial fee, $10; City fee, $5. Get your plates NOW! A. W. HENNING, City Clerk. - SHOP IN JUNEAU, FIRST! —adv. ‘PIGGLY WIGGLY ’ — ~rrreme—— f e RICE & AHLERS CO. Heating Plumbing Sheet Metal Work PHONE 34 UNITED FOOD CO. CASH GROCERS Phone 16 We Deliver Meats—Phone 16 »e LOW-ASH BRIQUBTS All Ammd l‘uel! For fireplace, furnace, range, u-' heater. Low- ash briguets are a free-burning fuel — low in ash content, high in heat. Clean, odorless, $13.50 per ton F. O, B, Bunkers PACIFIC COAST COAL COMPANY —PHONE 412— Juneau Cash Grocery "