The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 2, 1936, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JAN. 2, 1936. Daily Alaska Empire KOBERT W. BENDER Editor and Mx.nuer Published every evening except Snnd.\y by the SMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carrier In Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per _month. By mail, postage paid, at the following ra‘es: One year, in advancey 312.00; six months, in advance, $6.00; one month, in advance, $1 Subscribers will confer a_favor notify the Business Office of any failure in the delivery of their papers. Telephones: News Office, 602; t they will promptly or irregularity 374 Business Office, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entit use for republication of all news dispatches cry it or not otherwise credited in this paper and local news published also the ALASKA LATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION THEY'RE GROOMING LANDON | Gov. Alf Landon of Kansas is momentarily the bright bubble of Republican hopes, judging from the recent trek to Tepeka. Even Mr. Hoover, who apparently still controls the destinies of the Re- publican Party, has dropped in to see the Governor, and, undoubtedly, to sound him out as potential timber. The former President doesn't like Senator | Borah and may be dubious in his own mind whether he can win the nomination at Cleveland if Borah opposes him, which the latter is apparently going to do, so he is looking for the compromise candidate. Gov. Landon can be identified as the man who balanced the Kansas State budget with the aid of ten million dollars from the Federal treasury. Little is said by the Republicans about the little item of ten millions from a kindly Government when stress is being laid by the party chieftains on how Landon balanced his budget, but, of course, why bring that up when the Governor is tabbed as the “economy candidate.” None other than Mr. Hearst, the pub-| lisher, has labeled Landon the economy standard bearer, and the publisher has been among those visiting in Topeka. Ever since, his papers have been printing countless pictures of the Kansan and Mr. Hearst and Arthur Brisbane, his right hand man, having been writing columns about him. Yes, Gov. Landon has arrived. Whether he will be able to enter the sacred portals at Cleveland is still another matter. There are, of course, Mr.| Frank Knox, Mr. Borah, Mr. Hamilton Fish and a/| few others who might hke to puncture the Landon | bubble. U. S. AT THE NAVAL CON FERENCE Position of the United States at the London Naval Conference which reconvenes next Monday after the holiday recess has been causing some | concern to other nations, particularly Japan, which feels that Uncle Sam with the aid of Great Britain is keeping her from gaining naval parity. The fact is that this country is seeking nothing at the naval conference, asking no increase in naval power, con- | tending, as ever, for only sufficient defensive power to guarantee defense. In his opening address Norman H. Davis, Chair- man of the United States delegation, stated the position of his country fairly and clearly when he said: On behalf of my Government I declare emphatically that the United States will not take the initiative in naval competi- tion. We want no naval increase. We want limitation and reduction. Our present build- ing program, which is essentially one of replacement, is consistent with this desire. For ten years we ceased naval construction. Under our present plans, the strengths allotted to u§ by the London treaty as of the end of 1936 will not be attained until 1942. We have no wish to exceed those treaty limits. I may say also that the United States, which is now definitely on the way to recovery from the severe de- 1 pression through which it has been going, and from which no nation has escaped, is most anxious to devote its energies and material resources to the upbuilding of the country. As Mr. Davis indicates, this country cares not for war or aggression. It is interested primarily in devoting its energies and material resources to the upbuilding of the nation. If we are strong from within, we need have no fear of trouble from without. | READI ,» A WORLD FIGURE In the death of Lord Reading of England, former | Viceroy of India, another world wide figure pa.sses‘ from the international picture. He will be recalled | to Americans as the man who headed the Anglo-| French loan mission to this country during the !save by act of Congress. ¢ | know, America has never claimed anything in the iscaled down, to the advantage of all nations which | | policies are slipping they can win, whomever they to find the needed and we were hard 1ue<sed metallic reserve,” he said. “In the vaults of the American treasury there were vast stores held as the backing of notes issued by act of Congress—but this silver could not be disturbed. No matter how much it might be wanted, it could not be taken out of the vaults “It was then that the United States admin- istrators and members of Congress of every party, joined in passing an act practically without discus- sion, because any debate would have been serious. “It became a law in a few days and vast mil- ions of ounces of silver from the vaults were sent across the ocean to India—a country with which America had no concern—simply because America’s leaders saw how necessary it was at that particular moment to help the British empire. S¢ far as I way of recognition for that service.” | Only once was his probity ever questioned, and he won vindication then. That was the celebrated “Marconi Affair.” Before the war, Lord Reading bought 10,000 shares of Marconi stock from his brother, who was 1its manager. He sold 1,000 shares to Lloyd George and another 1,000 to Lord Murray. | This would have been an ordinary event exc )(,; that the Government had some weeks before con- tracted with the British branch of the Marconi| interests to build a series of wireless sLaLions‘ HAPPY——— — BIRTHDAY The Empire extends congratula= tions and best wishes today, their birthday anniversary, to the follo:s-| ing: | JANUARY Arthur Burke Elma Olsor Hattie Stanton Helen Hansen W. E. Cahill R. E. Ellis 1 Myna Lynn Butler William J. Koshak ‘, G. R. Isaak oo frrr et s et \ 2 | From. The,Empire | 20 YEARS AGO i" JANUARY 2, 1915 Mrs. Orloix King, tormerly of Whitehorse, had taken over the throughout the empire. There was much criticism of Reading’s part in this. [ Through a libel action against a French news-| paper Lord Reading established his case. Later| it was investigated by a parliamentary committee. Eventually, in a speech before the House, he ex- plained the affair with such thoroughness that he was censured for only a tactical error. Maybe, Jim Farley has the right idea. let the Republican aspxmnts shake dice nomination? Why not for the| We haven't figured out yet which is right. The Literary Digest poll or Yorgie Yorgesen and his crystal ball. A New Trade Treaty (New York Times) | Secretary Hull's newest trade agreement, with| the Netherlands, is an ingenious bargain. Dutch tariffs are relatively low, and have not constituted | a serious barrier to commerce; but the Netherlands has an extensive system of ‘“quotas” under whlch- jour trade has suffered. We have no “quota” system, | but many of our tariffs are prohibitive. The agree-| ment, the terms of which were published recently,| adapts itself to these circumstances. We reduce a number of tariffs on Dutch goods, and in return| | the Netherlands liberalizes a number of quantitative | restrictions on our exports. The result should be| mutually adventageous. The agreement applies to trade not only with the Netherlands, but also with the Dutch colonial possessions—including those in the East Indies and West Indies, as well as Dutch| Guiana. As in the case of all Mr. Hull's earlier trade| treaties (this is the ninth he has negotiated) the tariff reductions made in this particular agreement |will be generalized for the benefit of all other na-| tions—excluding only those which (like Germany) diseriminate against our products. Approximately forty classifications of imports are thus affected by the present treaty. The recent treaty with |Canada lowered tariffs in twenty classifications; | occupied by the J. J. Connors garage |the treaty with Sweden made reductions in thirty- and automobile agency. five cases, and the treaty with Belgium made re-| ductions in forty-seven. The significance of what is happening should | Be- cause of the practice of generalizing all reductions, | it is gradually rewriting the Hawley-Smoot tariff {of 1930. About 150 of the rates established by that celebrated “tariff of abominations” have already been | |trade with us without discrimination. Secretary | Hull is accomplishing indirectly, and with some compensaton in each case, what the advocates of a unilateral reduction of our tariffs have long urged | but long regarded as politically impossible. | Defeating Roosevelt. (Detroit Free Press) [ Eleven months from now, when the Amerlcan} people go to the polls to elect a President, they will pay at least as much attention to the character and reputation and personal attractiveness of the Re- publican and Democratic nominees as to the policies | which those nominees are pledged to carry out. | The’ Republicans will doom themselves to defeat if they get the idea that because Mr. Roosevelt's nominate. | Their hope for victory lies in presenting to the country a nominee who will appeal strongly to it, as well as a program that will appeal to it more strongly than Mr. Roosevelt's policies do. , (Newark News.) | The people invariably dread the approach of a| Congress session, and there is no disputing the fact that there has been greater equanimity since the national lawmakers adjourned August 31 after eight | months of continuous activity. A short session with few important measures] on the agenda is good psychology from the Admin-| istration standpoint. It carries the implication that in almost three years the big work is done and out of the way and that ®xperimentation is a thing of the past. To load down the session withw new and big undertakings wou!d be a confession | of ineffectiveness. World War, and borrowed a half billion dollars when the Allied cause was in jeopardy. | At the top of his powers Lord Reading probably | was England’s most skillful diplomat. His talents| gave brilliant service to his country, and perhaps| the most important was his mission to America. He was a personal friend of Lloyd George, then llor of the Exchequer, when the Allies came to their desperate pass in 1915 and Lloyd George | picked him to head the money-finding commission | to America. His job in America, subsequently, entailed far more than the securing of the loan. Among the activities he initiated, was the movement of silver from the United States vaults to India at a time when scarcity there was great and meant trouble Lord Reading told the story at a public dinner just before he sailed for India. “There was a great scarcity of silver in India, Four young men are searching for 40 barrels of beer which their father's will says was buried in a Minnesota hillside 60 years ago. This, of course, has Captain Kidd's treasure faded.—(Philadelphia Inquirer.) Landon of Kansas says nothing short of r.ommon| sense can save the country. Well, desperate oc-| casions, they say, demand desperate remedies.— | (Detroit News.) The Greeks, gn historian says, had a law against bringing liquor into their stadiums. They certainly | would make poor football spectators these days.— (Boston Transcript.) War correspondents in Etliopia overlook the inti- mate bits of news. Whatever became of the gold chain with which Haile Selassie kept his de- throned relative in prison?—(Toledo Blade,) where it was essential that the paper note should be convertible immediately into the silver rupee, Says Japan to the naval conferees, “No pn\‘lv: no party."—(Boston Globe.) - |opinion was that the Juncau-Douz- |1as Telephone Company was giving {ing “one fourth off on every wom- |contract to erect for the B. M. Behr- Heartsease boarding house at Third and Gold. Two telephone systems were being proposed in Juneau but general good service, that a second company would double the cost to business men and others and would not ne- cessarily improve the service. B. M. Behrends Co. was advertis- an’s and miss’s coat, suit and skirt in the house.” Ernst Biesold, baker, returned from the south. He was at one time thought to have been a victim of Edward Krause, as no word had been received from him since starting south. Eight inches of snow had fallen at Ketchikan on New Year's Day. At Pasadena, Cal, on New Year's |Day, Washington State College de- |feated Brown University 14 to 0 on (& muddy field in the New Year’s Day game. Justice Joseph Bucker Lamar, of the Supreme Court of the Umlerl States, passed away in Washington, | D.C. Cordova had been dark for five | |days owing to the power line bvmu carried away in a blizzard. John Ronan was visiting in Juneau {from the Moose Pass country where he was engaged in mining. Emil Pohl had been given the ends Company the building to ke Vincent Dortero, junior member of the Skagway firm of Dortero and | |not be overlooked. The Government is not merely Son, passed through Juneau after a'tempt, essay, endeavor, experiment, |negotiating a series of bilateral trade pacts. visit in California. The swimming tank in the new Arctic Brotherhood building was to be opened tomorrow night. Weather—Cold, snowy, - SHOP IN JUNEAU! raw. !should enjoy dances, |man or woman. lour vocabulary by mastering one {word each day. Today’s word: Dif- P 5% I.ook and Learn Horoscope “The stars 7acline but do not compel” S By A. C. Gordon large a cube would all ever mined in America 1. How the gold make? 2. What famous general was only five feet tall? 3. Of what two chemicals is table salt formed? 4. What is a yen? 5. If the state of California were placed with upper end in New York FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1936 Benefic aspects rule strongly to- day, according to astrology. The sway encourages journeys, arts and | inventions. Women are subject to the most guspicious planetary influences. It is a happy wedding day that pre-lgjpy how far south would it extend? sages long partnership. ANSWERS This day is lucky for entertain-| ; a 49_foot cube. ing and especially so for formal 2. Napoleon Bonaparte. | parties. Both young and near young| s goqiym and chloride. for romance will be prevalent under this config- uration. Workers of every class should | benefit, for there is a forecast of steady employment for the skilled craftsman and the trained 0“'16(" 4. A Japanese coin, worth at par about 50 cents in gold. 5. To Florida. .-~ ~ e e S i St St Modern Men and women in public nr(mv‘ % are subject to planetary conditions | Ethuette hat are most promising to all who are efficient. Many investigations | By Roberta Lee i are presaged and scandals are fore- | | Phone 431 ——— = - |av v shadowed. i & - g Unusually brilliant social events in e A New York and Washington are prog- Q. Isn't it permissible for the nosticated for the winter. It will be|mother of the bridegroom to determ- Dr. AI‘DEW' sfitewart profitable for florists, caterers ‘md ine how many attendants the bride all have, and also select them? A. No, it is not. The bride alone has this privilege, and the mother- in-law-to-be who even suggests such proprietors of fashionable hotels. Congress will be the scene of acri- monious debates and secret planning ‘0o overcome many oppositions. A woman member will gain great pub-‘ lcity. | interfere in matters that do not con- < Sudden fluctuations of the stock cern her. Q. market may be expected throughi the month in which speculation will P show that 1929 is forgotten. Persons whose birthdate it is have dent Hoover?” the augury of a year of gain in whivifi A. No. “Mr. real estate will be a factor. Perils rect form. ‘urk in journeys and strangers should | Q. Should the prongs of the fork be received with caution. be pointed upwards or downwards, Children born on this day prob- when placed on the plate after fin- ably will be keen of mind, artistic ishing a meal? and changeable in method but de-' A. The prongs termined in purpose. downwards. Lucretia Mott, reformer, was born & on this day, 1793. Others who have Kolchak, celebrated it as a birthday include ent of the United States, Mr. Hoover” is the cor- - the Russian Admiral, Henry Holt, author and publisher, kutsk in 1920. 1840; Larkin G. Meade, sculptor, 1835. (Copyright, 1930) \ - - - i - ’ reacaiens il ot Gy SR Daily Lessons in English By W. L. Gordon DRUGS PUROLA REMEDIES PRESCRIPTIONS CARE- a thing is beginning very early to | Is it proper to refer to an ex- | !Hoover for example, as “Ex-Presi- | should point was shot by the Bolshevike it Ir- IT_PROFESSIONAL-—‘ — '::—-— | PHYSIOTHERAPY | Massage, Electricity, Infra R~d | Ray, Medical Gymnastics 207 GOLDSTEIN BLDG. | Phone Office, 316 —&: J DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER | 1 i DENTISTS | Blomgren Building | PHONE 56 | Hours 9 am- to 3 p.m. e n — Dr. C. P. Jenne DENTIST Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine Building Telephone 176 “Richard Williams DENTIST OFFICE AND RESIDENCE Gastineau Building | Dr. Hours 9 an.. to 6 pm. SEWARD PUILDING Office Pcne 469 PleRRobert Sin Glll.. D. !l Graduate Los Angeles Col- lege of Optumetry and I Opthalmo’ ogy VI | Glasses Fitted Lenses Ground | DR. H. VANCE OSTEOPATH Consuitation a nd examination Free. Hours 10 to 12; 1 to 5; | 7 to $.30 and by appointment. Office Grand Apts., i.ear Gas- tineau Hotcl. Phone 177 GENZRAL MOTOR: and MAYTAG PRODUCTS W. P. JOHNSON [- Jones-Stevens Shop - FULLY COMPOUNDED LADIES' — MISSES' 2 READY-TO-WEAR | Front St. Next Coliseum ird | . i ) | Seward Street Near Third Words Often Misused: Do not say, i & i This is the kind of a house we TWONE %8t Delvery 3 3 ." Omit a. " ften Mispronounced: Jardiniere. Pronounce zhar-de-nyar, first a as in ask, e as in me, last a as in care, principal accent on last syllable. Often Misspelled: Occurrence. Ob- serve the cc and the rr. Synonyms: Try (verb), HOTEL ZYNDA Large Sample Room ELEVATOR SERVICE 8. ZYNDA, Prop. test, at- strive. Word Study: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase fusion; a spreading; extension, cir- culation. “A diffusion of knowledge which has undermined superstition.” —Burke. WAKE UP YOUR LIVER BILE— | WITHOUT CALOMEL out | Pounda o auid b into you Dowse daiy; | i >ee SHOP IN JUNEAU, FIRST! IDEAL PAINT SHOP 1 i \* "' 7[// % WY {;, If you enjoy indoor sports— Here’s one of the best—TRY BOWLING! BRUNSWICK BOWLING ALLEYS Rheinlander and 4lt Heidelberg BEER ON TAP If It's Paint We Have It! FRED W. WENDT PHONE 549 STRATTON & BEERS MUNICIPAL ENGINEERS SURVEYORS FOSS . VALENTINE BLDG. Telephone 502 ! Hardware Company PAINTS—OIL—GLASS Shelf and Heavy Hardware Guns and Ammunition CONSTRUCTION CO. “EP‘ORE }07 : ;tneau S ABIN S T “Everything in Furnishings BETTY MAC for Men” L BEAUTY SHOP | i, @ P Tetop | GARLAND BOGGAN I Hardwood Floors : Waxing Polishing | Sandusxg i PHONE esacn s, it sl |3 5 e — PAINTS — OILS 12 and B | Builders’ and Shelf | | | Streets H I HARDWARE | | Thomas Hardware Co. PHONE 547 The B. M. Bank Juneau, COMMERCIAL and SA Resources Over Two and One Half Million Dollars Behrends Alaska VINGS 'GARBAGE HAULED Reasonable Monua.y Rates E. 0. DAVIS TELEPHONE 584 Phone 4753 ZORIC DRY CLEANING [ Soft Water Washing [ T J Your ALASKA LAUNDRY T JUNEAU-YOUNG | i | Doage end Plymouth Dealers Fraternal Societies .{r OF —— —— Gastineau Channel Bi— B.P. 0. ELKS meets every Wednesday at & P, M. Visiting brothers wel- come M. E. MONAGLE, Exalted Ruler. M. K SIDES, Secretary. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Seghers Council No. 1760. Meetings second and last Monday at 7:30 p. m. Transient K brothers urged to at nd. Council Cham- bers, Fifth St. JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K, H. J. TURNER, Secretary, TIOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 second and fourth Mon- day of each month in Scottish Rite Temple, beginning at 7:30 p. m, HOWARD D. STABLER Worshipful Master; JAMES W LEIVERS, Secretary. DOUGLAS e AERIE ly | 17, F. 0. E. o5 E“% Ay Meets first and third Mondays pm., Eagles' Hall, Douglas. *"isiting Yrothers welcome. J. B. Martin, W, P, T. N. Cashen, Secretary. | Our trucks go any place any | time. A tank for Diesel Oil | and a ‘ank for Crude Oil save | burner treuble. | PHONE 149; NICHT 148 | RELIABLE TRANSFER | AL L | Cnm mercial Adjust- | )' ment & Rating Bureau Cooperating with White Serv- { ice Bureau | ROOM 1--SHATTUCK BLDG. | We have 5,000 local racmgs on file | r——— JUNEAU FROCK SHOPPE “E<clusive But Not Expensive” Coats, Dresses, Lingeric, Hosiery and Hats | McCAUL MOTOR | COMPANY i | } FORD AGENCY (Authorized Dealers) GREASES GAS—OILS JUNEAU MOTORS Foot of Main Street H THE BEST TAP BEER IN TOWN! [ [HE MINERS’ Recreation Parlors and Liquor Store BILL DOUGLAS Our life is searce the twinkle of a star In God’s eternal day. —Bayard Taylor. Much more than casual discharge of duties marks our fu- neral service. Every detall is personally supervised with ex- perienced understand- ing. The Charles W. Carter Mortuary !.