The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 21, 1936, Page 8

8 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, FEB. 21, 1936. HOLIDAY WILL Presid;entie;l Campa;gn BAig' 'Guns and Target e || MARK BIRTHDAY OF WASHINGTON Stores and Ofilces in Ju- neau Close for 204th Anniversary 1 Juneau will join in observ- ance of Washington's Birthday to- rking the 204th an- f the birth of the father ountry s and offices Gas- T remain closed nd employees in the City the Federal and Ter Building will be given a da) Drug stores in Juneau will regular Sunday hours, shops will remain on 1 day Hall torial holiday keep their while barber open all day post office will be clos® although mail arriving to- afternoon on the Norco will > boxed Public as us schools were closed today pense pupil their ed Christmas holida Washington's Birthday be the formal Shrine Dance w evening in the Scottish mple. Many and infor mn ) arranged - CATCH OF MINK HAS BIG DROP ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. 21 Game Warden Jack Connor said t the mink catch has dropped t 70 per cent of the normal amount in the Yentna, Skwentna Matanusk and Chickaloon dis- s, because the lakes were frozen when the water was high, and left ned for s “Big Guns” hough not a candidats torah of Idaho (top left) ; “blisher, are Republican l’ shelves of mink travel 1 of coming Connor said scarce this year known cause under out to t Weast to the food, X P \'ic!or H Metcalf, Served Under Theodore Roosevelt, Succumbs OAKLAND, Cal,, Feb. 21.— Victor / H. Metcalf. twice a member of the Cabinet in the administration of Prc Iheodore Roosevelt, died last night at his home He 83 years old. Mr. Metcalf had the distinction of having ved as Seccretary of Labor and Commerce when that department was one, and Secretary of the Navy under his warm personal friend, Theodore Roosevelt. Born in Utica, N. Y., in 1853, Mr. Metcall was graduated from Yaule and admitted to the New York bar He practiced two years at Utica and then moved to Oakland here he became one of Califernia’s leading citizens. He served in Con- gress from the third C trict from 1899 to 1904 during his last term to become Sec- retary of the Department of Labo and Commerce. He served in that capacity from July, 1904, to Decem- ber, 1906, when he was transferred by President Roosevelt to head the Navy department, a capacity in which he served until 1908. Mr. Metcalf was a life long Re- publican and was one of the most distinguished members of the Cali- lnl nia bar. sident both The man on the flying trapeze has nothing on me when Schilling Coffee fills my morning cup. It's Wings of the Morning. There are two Schilling coffees. One for drip. One for percolator. Each one will give you more delicious coffee because it was specially prepared for the particular method you use. Schilling Coffee - MINK FURS IN FAVOR West Coast Fur Sales vl Tacoma report good attendance at their auc- tions, with mink leading in the price advance. Alaska collection brought 35 percent above last year, with Iynx also holding at high figures S SPECIAL WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY MENU § W We CANNOT Tell a Lie! TONIGHT The Eve of Washington's Birthday We are all ready to show you a REAL TIME, with NEW DANCE TUNES by the TERMINAL TRIO And Remember—No Cover Charge DANCING UNTIL 2:30° 4 Who Night Session He ed Thursday afte from 1 to of modate Mmflh‘ of Mine Fire at the mouth of the War tr W of the 1936 Presidential campaign fire their opening salvos Al Smith (below center), al- leads President Roo: G Landon of Sty bossibilities while Governor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia (below left) leads a threat of southern Democratic secession. FORMER CABINET Cooking Schoc! MEMBERPASSES Demonstrations CAUSES DEATH, lt’s opponents in attack on New Deal policies. Senator Kansas (top right), and Frank Knox (below), Chicago SCARLET FEVER For Next Woek ANCHORAGE GIRL Lillian Seaberg First White Victim — Had High School Standing ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. 21— aged 16, is dead as sult of rlet fever. The girl, ter of Mr. and Mrs. Gus Sea- the first white victim of r let fever in this section. She held L, |the highest scholastic standing in "|the Junior High school and was iil only one week. Kathryne Kennedy, another stu- dent, is quarantined in her home as a result of scarlet fever. - | MRS. FLuYD BETTS WILL TRAVEL EAST Floyd Betts is leaving next a two months' trip. She | will meet her son, Robert, now in |Salt Lake City, in Detroit. They ! purchase an automobile -and T8 south to New Mexico then out to the coast and north again - @HOP IN JUNEAU, PIRST’ | Wednes- day With Day Class Thursday 1 free cooking demonstra- _ Lillian Seabe the daugt berg, i The cn under the au: will be 10on, February 27 30 to 4 o'clock the purpose of the enin demonstration Mrs. C. N. Crone, the cooking classes, is to accom- the business and profes- nal women who are unable to tend th classes. The dem- identical in con- te program will Presby iemons Wednesday accordin, supervisor Mrs. | week for ater issue - - Damaged by Fire ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. 21 Bab) | Id mine, in the Willow Creek dis- d damage of $2,000 accord- | to a report received here. No one as injured as a result of the blaze DS L SHOP IN JUNEAU! ACROSS . Break . Viper Fellow Scent . Solemn wonder City in Nevada . Fabled mountain at the earth's ct, cause =] T Ho] center . Denoting the central part Ireland . Item of property DOUGLAS TO Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle . ENTERTAIN JUNEAU CLUB Island Women Plan Enter-| tainment, Supper at _Gov- ernment School Tonight | A one-act play, games and re- | freshments with a Washington's | Birthday motif will feature the en-| tertainment of the Juneau Women's | Club in the Douglas Government School by the Douglas Island Wo- men’s Club this evening at 8:30 o'clock, aceording to announcement today by Mrs. Charles Fox and Mrs. E. E. Engstrom, hostesses-in- charge. Shortly after the abled, an amateur The Rostoff Pearls. will be presented owing cast leste the guests have performance " one-act with the | Clarence Maid—Mrs Miss Perkins, Mrs. | Burr Johnson. Mrs. Ransdell, Society Mrs. Andrew Campbell Janet Ransdell, Bride—Mrs. Leon- Jobknson Winifred Edwards Mrs. Ames—Mrs. A. J. Balog Count Rostoff—Mrs. Marcus | Jensen, | Also on the program will be two. violin selections by Gifford Car- ter, Mr Ma Jensen at the Detective — Matron- | Ransdell—Miss Phyllis | of piano. Mrs. Rose ‘ress at the will follow. Davis will be toa. informa -+ Burned to Death in Fire Started COOK CLAIMS in Movie Films From 17 trow 30 Persons Lose Lives—Three Buildings Razed VALPARAISO, Chile, Feb. 21 Between 17 and 30 persons were burned to death by a fire which started among movie films in the Ttalio-Chilean Cinema Company tuildinz Two residences next to the three story building were also destroyed. Firemen_recovered 17 bodies from the ruins of the cinema building. The bodies were mostly those of women employes. It is feared that many other persons perished as the flames KD pad with great rapidity. e—— — MRS. TURNER BETTER Condition of Mrs. Harley J. Tur- ner, at present undergoing medical treatment in St. Ann's Hospital, i: somewhat improved, hospital au- thorities reported today. - TIE PRICE ADVANCES Cutters have been informed that the Alaska Railroad is in the market for 80,000 to 85,000 standard | No. 1 cross ties at 92 cents each, | an advance from the old price of | 85 cents. 1 Daily Cross-word Puzzle Plant withouy a woody stem Source of indigo . Southern Johnnycake . Narrow fabric . Pronoun 23. And not . Flow back 5. Sheep-killing parrot Response to a Mentionable . Disputes . Piece out . Author of “The Raven' il Al T(S] [E] o=>} stimulus 2, Tavern Pigpen . Capable of E]EEII . Goddess of discord being held or maintained . Mixin implement . Zealous . Uncovered . Kind of horse 9. Color - Bleces of Paked clay sice 2. Motal fasterer roduciny . Sout ar d . ‘American river . Sel . Indefinite quantlty . Postponed legal case 5. Made a preliminary ‘wager in voker . Wander 55. Small island Meshed fabric . 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Cock, storm Pole fr: the claim to the n 1908 In a letter te the graphical Soc { full | clear “ARMY ADVISOR ey Winter visitors at Tahiti Beach, Florida, find the little bears there & source of interest, particularl, This little cub pauses in the mi when they keep such good company. st of his pranks to take a snifter of milk as Lois Smith watches from a point of vantag.e EXPLOSION IN DISCGVERY OF DAIRY WRECKS NORTH POLE —No Milk Wars, Labor nition of His Claim Troubles, Etc., Present 21.—Dr. Frederick North came OLYMPIA, Wash., Feb. 21.—Three explosions early today virtually de- stroyed the plant of the Sanitary Dairy, member of the Olympia Milk Producers’ Association. center of the a generation ago, of his demand retirement today with sciente recognize his discovery of the Pole | ymination showed the blasts to be caused by a high explosive, the na- American Geo- | ture of which is undetermined he requested 2 of his story to No labor troubles and no milk war could be responsible. 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McMullen, legal ad- visor to the Assistant Secretary of War for fifteen years, guilty of dis- honcrable conduct, and sentenced him to demotion, partial forfeiture of pay, and an official reprimand, Col. McMulien was found guilty on two of four specifications brought against him, all centering on the charge that in 1934 he accepted two and-trip railroad and Pullman from Washington to San 0, both valued at $369.70, from Joseph Silverman, Jr., New York dealer in surplus army goods. man's companies were then ng favorable changes in their War Department contracts. McMullen’s attorney said the were not a bribe, since. the money involved was to be applied to the purchase price of an auto- mobile which McMullen had sold Silverman. The decision must be reviewed and approved by the Judge Advocate- General, Secretary of War, and the President before it becomes effective. This procedure usually requires month or six weeks. - SILVER FOX RAISING SHOWS STEADY GAINS M: new uses for silver fox fur and a steady customer demand has aided the fur trade in keeping pace th the rapidly growing fox farming ney v, accerding to The Fur Jour- nal. In less than 15 years the annual ou'put has increased from 6,000 pelts in 1923 to more than 170,000 in 1934 ce 1923 pelt production has nereased steadily,” the Journal tates. The number of pelts produced ind their total sales value were both 1bout ten times as great in 1928 as hey were in 1923. Sixty thousand pelts produced in 1928 brought fox farmers $7,719,600 as compared to the $579,000 they received for 6.000 pelts in 1923. Sales values dropped in the three years following 1928, but from a low point of $3472,000 in they advanced to $7,000,000 in 1934. During that period the annual rop increased from 110,000 to 170,000 pelts. 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