The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 3, 1936, Page 2

ARG WA A AR A A A & e HALF- PRICE Barely Covers the Cost of the > Furs THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, FEB. 3, 1936. | | /SUPREME COURT RULES A STATE MAY TAXR.F.C. Decision Gives Maryland Power to Collect Levies on' Preferred Stock WASHINGTON, Feb. 3—In an| opinion further clarifying the rela- | tionship between Federal and Qtate governments, the Supreme CourtI has held that Maryland may tax| preferred stock of the Baltimore National Bank owned by the Re- construction Finance Corporation. The decision is applicable to all { States. \Walks Out of Prisen on Forged i Release Order Stunning winter coats, rightly described by superla- priced at twice their present cost. tives Forr Reduced to clec new spring merc lined fine ¢ styles chased at this nerly p “handise. uality {urs L (1Ce. ar our stocks rapidly in preparation for All wool fabrics . . . inter- newest of the winter Probably the finest coats you've ever pur- GET YOUR BETTER TIMES VOTES HERE! B. M. BEHRENDS CO., Inc. Juncau’s Leading Department Store Plan “Suicide Proof” Fence, Pasadena Bridge Here is how the famous Cclorado Street bridge cver the Arrcyo A dleel woven fence five feet high and topped by barbed wire will make it im- ible fer despondent persons to leap to their deaths, according te Chief of Pclice Charles Kelley Plans are being made to start in the near future on the work, the autherities in an effort to halt the suicides on the bridge. made “suicide procf.” po of Pasadena. advecated by have plunged fo their deaths fro JANUARY CODLER WITH SUNSHINE ABOVE NORMAL Lowest Recorded Was 10 Above on the 14th— Preclpllallon Low The month of January was slig ly cooler than the normal, with | cipitation below normal, and sun- shine about normal, according to the monthly meteorological report issued by the Juneau Weather Bureau Of- fice. The mean temperature for the month was 26.6 degrees, or 0.9 de- gree below the normal. The mercury reached its highest point during the month on the 20th when a temperea- ture of 42 degrees was registered, an< the lowest was 10 degrees on the 14th The highest January temperature on record over a period of 41 years was 54 degrees in 1935, and the low- est January temperature over a simi- lar period was 15 below zero in 1916 30 Inches Snow ‘The total precipitation for the month was 4.86 inches, or 2.37 inches below the normal. Precipiiation (0.01 inch or more) occurred on .% days, as compared with a normal of 20. The total snowfall for the montl was 30.3 inches, as compared with 1 normal of 30.9 inches. The maximum depth of snow on the ground at any . time during the month in the vicin- fict the Juneau Weather Bureau | m the span. Office was 14.7 inches, on the $ih. At the close of the month there were 7.2 inches of snow on the ground. There were 4 clear days, 4 pa:'l” cloudy, and 23 cloudy d: dnring the month. Out of a possible 22‘1 hours, the sunshine totalled hours, or 256 percent, which is 2 cent above the January average. 2 per Wind Movement The total wind movement for the month was 4,707 mile:, or an aver- age hourly velocity of 6.3 miles. The maximum velocity for a sustained bd of 5 minutes was 25 miles from rtheast on the 11th. The pre- vailing wind direction was from the south The average relative humidity at 4 am. was 82 percent; at noon, 77 percent; and at 4 p.m., 81 percent. iroras were observed on the 12th and 26th and dense fog on the 10ts, 22d, 25th, and 30th .- MARTHA SOCIETY PLANS LUNCHEON Plans for a Valentine Day Lunch- con will be completed in Friday's L ng of the Martha Society of the Northern Light Presbyterian church, according to announcement today by Mrs. Charles Sey, President. Members are reminded to be on hand promptly at 1:30 o'clock for participation in a dessert Iuncheon, to be served by joint hostesses Mre. Ruth Coats and Mrs. Ernest Davis. —————— FERN BEAUTY PARLOR Closed during the absence of Mrs. H. C. Shippey in California. Will reopen for business March 3. adv. e SPEND WHELE YOU MAKE iT! | | l | | Seco in Pasadena, Oul.. wlll be which has long been A total of 72 persons SOVIET AGAIN WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—The Department of Justice an- nounces the capture of Hobart Rakes, who forged the name of a Federal attorney to secure hii ‘cwn release from Atlanta Penitentiary. Rakes has been arrested by Federal Agents and the Virginia State Highway patrolmen in Danville, Virginia. FARM HOUSE FIRE, 1 SAFE Father and Four Children Perish — One Girl Es- capes Through Window LEMBERG, Sask., Feb. 3—Five persons burned to death in an early morning fire which destroyed the home of J. Jost, a mile and a half northwest of here. Jost and four children were vic- tims. One girl escaped from a window and ran a half-mile through 30 below zero weather in scanty night clothes to a nieghboring farm house. Her legs were badly frozen. Ground Hog Sees Shadow While Juneau Folk Enjoy Day Six more weeks of winter, or so says the ground hog, and chilly breath of a threatening Taku this morning gave indica- tion that the well known mar- mot may 'know what he is about. At any rate, the traditional weather prognosticator had about two hours of sunshine yesterday in which to see his shadow, and, if he ventured out, he returned to hiberna- tion for another six weeks, if the old theory holds true. Unmindful of the ground hog, | Juneauites enpoyed a fine day Sunday, many taking the ski trail, others enmjcying skating | out the highway and still others | hiking up the Basin road. LEGION MEETING OF SPECIAL INTEREST IN DUGOUT TONIGHT Tonight’s meeting of Alford John Bradfort Post, American Legion, in | the Dugout at 8 o'clock promises to be one of special interest and a large attendance is expected.! | Commander E. M. Polley, who, with ¢ PROTESTS ACTS OF JAPANESE Claim Scoullng Nipponese Enter Russian Territory —LClash Is Reported MOSCOW, Feb. 3—In a com- munique received here, the Higih Command of the Soviet Far Eastern Army accuses the Japanese-Man- choukuan troops of taking up a po- sition facing the Soviet border and of sending scouts into Soviet terri- tory. The scouts, according to the com- munique, were compelled to retire under fire of the Soviet frontier guards. One scout was killed and he { was left on the field. MRS. A. STURROCK ‘ BACK FROM MONTANA |the national capital. Mrs. A. Sturrock, wife of an Alaska Juneau employee, and her two daughters are passengers on the Northwestern. They are return- ing from an extended vacation in Montana, where they visited rela- tives. ——————— GRIMES ARRAIGNED | 7:30 o'clock, meeting to be followed Ibanl, Mrs. Polley, has béen on an extend- | ed trip to the States since before the holidays, will be back and will give a report on his trip, especially that portion of it dealing with American Legion conferences in Commander | Polley spent several weeks in Wash- | ington taking up matters pertain- | ing to Lefion welfare, and his| report will be of unusual interest.| Another feature of tonight’s meet- | ing will be information brought to | the Legionnaires on the Juneau Riflé and Pistol Club by Jay P. Williams and Leo J. Jewett of that | organization. Visitors are cordially invited. DRAMA CLUB CHANGES TUES. MEETING PLACE Meeung ln the grade school audi~ torjum, rather than in the study hall of the high school, which has been its customary place of as-| semblage, the Juneau Drama Club will hold its first business meeting of the month tomorrow night at by a program under direction of Louise Blanton. Prominent on the program will be a one-act play in which the | following have roles: Mrs. Elizabeth | Parker, Louise Blanton, Orrin Kim- Ted Brown, Frank Jackson, Joe Prucha, Mrs. Grover C. Winn. | e George Grimes, forgery suspect, was arraigned before Commissioner M. E. Monagle late Saturday and bailed fixed at $2,000, FROM TENAKEE Mrs. Mary Hardin has arrived in Juneau from Tenakee and is regist- ered at the Alaskan Hotel, BRITISH -CO-ED HOLLYWOOD NOVICE the girl in a carroll, whe attzined the heights Britich films after winning corecn test from 149 other ap- nts, is pictured as she ar- ed in this countiy on the liner Majestic, enroute to Holly- wocd, Cal. She was cducated at a Birmingham university. > oo Maaeiine POLICE STRIKE AT COMMUNIST MOVE, VIENNA Nearly 200 Pensons Round- ed Up in Drive Against Anti - Govt. Actions VIENNA, Feb. 3—The police struck today at anti-government manifesta- tions with a quick succ: on of raids. In one shoe factory 118 persons were arrested for Communist activities All will be given trials within the next few days on charges of high treason. More than 80 Nazis were rounded up for distributing inflam- matory pamphlets. D PARLIAMENTARY LAW STUDIED THIS EVE The second of a series of lessons in parliamentary law will be given tonight in the business meeting of the Juneau Business and Pro- fessional Women's Club, to be held in the City Council promptly at 8 o'clock. Various matters of business make the presence of all members de- sirable. SPEND WHERE you MAKE IT!' FUR BUYING SHIP ARRIVES HERE ON WAY T SEATTLE Mrs. Eeskine of Kodiak,| Mrs. Conn, Mrs. Skulstad | Are Passengers Aboard | | Motorship United of Seattle, Capt. | Pete Wold, comanding, berthed at| Cold Storage Dock at 6:30 p.m. yes- terday from the Westward. Mrs. Wil- kine, Mrs. Merle Coon, and isted are guests aboard the:| 1 enroute to Seattle. Irs. Erskine, whose husband and his father, W. J. Erskine, operate a general merchandise business at Ko- diak, and Mrs. Coon, whose husbard | is an agent for the Standard Oil Company at Seward. boarded the | U at Kodiak for the trip to the | Etates. Mr. and Mrs. Coon recently | nt from Seward to Kodiak, where | . Coon took over the duties of the | andard Oil representative, | ‘Tom Dyer, now on a vacation in the | €lates. Mrs. Erskine, formerly Sally | San Francisco, the her father, Capt. Louie Lone, well known Alaskan, now a pilot at the California port. Mrs. Cson expects to travel east as far as ka. The wife of the Rev. C. E Ttice is Mrs. Coon’s aunt, Cuests of E. W. Griffin < rokine, Capt. Wold and Mr. 1 tr-(l were guests of E. W. Grif- Jecretary of Alaska, an oldtime | friend of Mrs. Erskine, at a lunicheon n the Gastineau Cate today. | Mr. Skulsted is the owner of L f5% ranch on Simeonof Island. In ad- | ion to foxes, Mr. Skulsted has 100 | head of cattle—a mixed strain of | am and Jersey—on his ranch, he reported that ldast spring he | ked 16 cows. He fed 40 gallons of | © per day to his foxes over a pe- | al months, he said. | ted is returning from a | expedition to the West- | as False Pgss. Capr. ! 2 trading post At Good- but was unable to call at | as navigation is clos rom November to May. about 350 red fox pelts, 300 and a quantity of blue fox pelts, were purchased on the present trip by Capt. Wold. The United called at Seward, Seldovia. home d o ws Bay, hat port each wi A total of mink pel < FUNERAL qu\ 'ICES U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) Forecas* for Junean and vicinity, beginning at 4 p.m., February 3: Fair and somewhat colder tonight and Tuesday; fresh east to north winds LOCAL DATA Barometer Temp. Humlidity Wind Velosity yest'y 59 94 32 81 w 2 today 0.03 31 38 NwW 6 today 30.11 27 33 E 18 Time 4 pm 4 am Noon Weathe: Cldy Clear Cldy CABLZ AND KADIO REPORTS YESTERDAY | TODAY Highest 4p.m. | Lowest4da.m. 4am. Precip. 4am. temp,. Bk | temp. temp. velocity 24hrs Weathe: — paiiis = i a0 e 8 Clear 12 2 10 Clear 24 20 12 Cldy -28 4 Clear -32 6 Clear 4 24 Rain 38 10 Clear 30 . Cldy 30 Clear 26 Clear 27 Staticn Anchorage Barrow Nome Bethel Fairbanks Dawson St. Paul Dutch Harbor Kodiak Cordova Jnneau Sitka Ketchikan Prince Rupert Edmonton | aow Cldy Snow Clear Cldy Cldy Clear Cldy Cldy Portland San Francisco New York Washington 24 30 NS O SENN WEACTHER CONDITIONS AT 8 A. M. Juneau, partly cloudy, temperature, 29; Juneau Airport, cloudy, 14; Taku, partly cloudy, 20; Whitehose, cloudy, -4; Burwash, cloudy, -12; Radioville, clear, 28; Cordova, clear, 26; Anchorage, cloudy, 20; Crooked Creek, clear, -4; Fairbanks, clear -32; Nanane, clear, -22; Hot Springs, clear, -28; Tanana, clear, -23; Ruby, clear, -22; Nulato, clear, -18; Kaltag, clear, -28; Unalakleet, clear, -4; Flat, clear, -18, WEATHER SYNOPSIS A slight barometric depression was centered this morning a very short distance south of Prince Rup:rt, the lowest reported pressure being 2880 inches. A storm arei of considerable intensity prevail- ed over the Pacific Ocean in the vicinity of the Hawaiian Islands, the lowest répcrted pressure in that area being 2910 inches, elsewhere over the field of observation hig gh barometric pressure prevailed, the ® pressure being abnormally high at Barrow where a reading of 31.02 inches was reported. That is the highest barometer reading in Alaska for three years. Fair weather prevailed over the greater portion of Alaska today. It was much colder this morning over the Tanana and Yukon val- leys, the temperature having fallen 42 degrees at Fairbanks dur- mg the past 24 hours Glacier Highway. During the past year and a half Mr. Lund had been FOR LEWIS LUND TO in poor health and had retired frora BE HELD WEDNESDAY Pusiness. BERLIN RETURNS HERE Funeral services for Lewis Lund, Leonard M. Berlin, U. S. Transit- Yakutat, Port William, Chignik and well-known local transfer man and Kodiak. Fox pelts to the Westward '°ldtime resident of Juneau, who died plentiful and of better 25t Thursday at St. Ann’s Hospital than for a number of years, °f heart trouble, will be held at 2 Wold said. The United is ©¢l0tk Wednesday afternoon in the cheduled to sail for Seattle this af. |ChaPel of the C. W. Carter ‘Mortu- | noon. The vessel left Scattle on 1Y Rev. Erling K. Olafson will de- vember 39 ar d to the West- |iVer the funeral address. ward by the outside passage. SDOles. Lund: Uy Dor o' Nox - Both Mrs ine and Mrs. Coon "2¥ in 1859, and has no known rela- are excellent sailors and splendid e B e Jun?au cooke?’ CATE WAl said fodas in 1889 and established the first K S transfer company here, the Alaska Transfer Company. In 1900 he took are more Capt (man for the Public Survey Office. | nas returned to Juneau after spend- ing a six-weeks vacation with his parents in Olympia, Washington, |and with friends in Southern Cali- | fornia: g g SIMPSONS RETURNING Dr. Robert Simpson and wife, who have been south for sev weeks, are returning to their Ji neau home aboarq the Northwest- MULLENS RETURNING HOME ; MRS. BEHRENDS ALSO COMING NORTH J. F. Mullen, United States Com- missioner, and Mrs. Mullen are passengers aboard the Northwest- ern for Juneau after visiting in the States for several weeks. Mrs. B. M. Behrends is also re- turning home from a visit in the Pacific Coast States. Mr. Behrends continued on this trip, going East to Chicago. - SHOP IN JUNEAU! Dmly Lross-word Puzzle ACROSS . Strange Empty place Solution of Saturday’s Puzzle n Black bira Pronoun 10 Comfort . Flat circular vlate SMIA 11, Mouth of a . Brazilian | mr Al volcano 14. Base of the money of account decimal system . One who sup- 16. Exclamations plies with notes . Open courts . Afresh . Old_exclama- tion . A tenth part Lair Z[mo>NM=>N v mZ] E: R € e i E D Vv E N u O[T »|m|m[—|m 21. Kind of fruit 23, Melody. . Oriental up a homestead on what is now the UNITED FOOD CO. ; CASH GROCERS Phone 16 We Deliver Meats—Phone 16 WINDOW CLEANING PHONE 485 s THE HOTEL OF ALASKAN HOTELS The Gastineau Our Services to,You Begin and End at the Gang Plank of Every Passenger-Carrying Boat commander . Plaything . Old times: H{Z[>| oW X [M[H . Salt 29, Take solid food Broad street . Soften in temper 2. 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