The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 10, 1936, Page 5

BRINGING UP FATHER SEVEN CONTEST GIRLS PREPARE FOR BIG TIME Ida Roller R?g-i;ters for Old| Mexico Trip — Win- ners All Going Miss Ida Roller, seventh winner | in the Better Times Drive, has registered for the Old Mexico Tour, to leave Juneau on March 18. This completes the list of candidates. Ruth Lundell, Thais Bayers, Eleanor Gruber, Catherine York, Elisabeth Kaser and Esther Davis are the| other girls preparing for the 20- day trip down the Pacific Coas | | Extensive entertainment plans a e| | already underway by local and Se- attle organizations for the bevy of| local beauties, and according tol reports from the Seattle Chamber | of Commere, the Alaska represen- | tatives of this Better Times move- ment along the coast are going fo| be the “main show” of the tour. This is the first time that Juneau, | or Alaska, for that matter, has m(-r cooperated with Washington and Oregon press associations in send- ing winners, and the arrival of| the local contingent is awaited by | the Seattle Chamber and the Se-| attle press. It is going to be great publicity for this Territory, and are as aware of the fact as Junmx and Douglas civic leaders. Ladies’| ready-to-wear shops here have been busy sisting the young ladies in preparing their finest wardrobes,| and March 18 can't roll around too soon for the seven x.,irIs GOOD FRIDAY SERVICE | AT LUTHERAN CHURCH A special Good F‘rxday service, to be held jointly by the various con-| gregations of the community in| the Resurrection Lutheran Church, was decided by the meeting yes- terday, at the home of the Rev. John A. Glasse, of the Ministerial Association of Juneau. The service, to last three hours, is similar to that held last year in the Holy Trinity Cathedral. | New sacred records, to be used in the Morning Thought radio broadcasts, were also ordered pur- chased LABOR HEARING PUT | OVER UNTIL THURSDAY | The National Labor Relations | Board hearing, scheduled for to- morrow, has been postponed until Thursday, March 12, due to the de-! layed arrival of the steamer Vie- toria. Charles W. Hope, Regional Director from Seattle, who is a pas- senger aboard the Vietoria, due to arrive here at noon tomorrow, has been appointed Trial Examiner for the hearing to determine whether | there is any basis for charges brought by Local 203 of the Inter- national Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers against the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company. E. J. Eagen, attorney for the board, arrived here on March 3. ———,—— DR. BARTON DELAYED ON JUNEAU RETURN Dr. G. L. Barton, who recently announced he expected to return| to Juneau by March 1, writing to The Empire, from Edmonton, says it will be at least another three months before he can break away from “this 52 degrees ,below zero weather that you don't fi Writing on March 2, Dr. Barton stated it is thawing but “our base- | ments are In many instances just the place for kiddies to puddle around with their boats.” Nenana-Marshall River Service Starts May 17 ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March 10. —J. T. Cunningham, Alaska Rail- road Transportation Superintendent, announces that the Nenana-Mar- shall river boat service will start from Nenana on May 17. .- MRS. KANN RETURNING Mrs. Louis Kann is aboard the Northland returning to her Juneau | home, having recuperated from a! recent operation for removal of her appendix. ————————— SPEND WHERE YOU MAKE IT! |exerting AW-HOW IS NY PATIENT TODAY P M GOING TO GIVE YOU A VERY THOROUGH EXAMINATION - Mermaids Who Pose for a Living Find Lot IU's a leng way down and a long way up, but Aileen Perry er occupation, posing at the bottom of Silver Springs, Florida. is 80 feet up. of Room at the Bottom (left) and Hedwig Koepke like their Note with what unconcern they feed ST. PETERSBURG 10.—Two comely Flor have proved to the that there “always is room a bottom.” For Aileen Perr and Hedwig Koepke earn their living, and & | eicocod by g giapt fish nice though damp living it is, by| mermaids, as part of their posing in the deep, crystal clear learned to grip unseen waters of Silver Springs. some part of the tree trunk upon ropping to the bottom of the which they pose. This combats the pool, they perch momentarily ON|ngprg) tendency of water to dis- some sunken giant of the primeval| 1o " o “Ueont and force the Florida forests while cameras click girls to the surface. and tourists applaud The camera man descends with the young ladies, but he’s protected by a glass box, spurned by his sub- jects. After long training the mermaids can open their eyes, smile while sufficient mouth pressure to keep the pressing water outside, —adv. and wiggle white toes as a signal they are ready The photographer kes a shor signals from his s inclosure, and the girls shoot upward 80 feet like a cork bobbin time exposure, The have B ATTENTION REBEKAHS There will be a regular meeti of the Rebekahs Wednesday even- ing at 8 o'clock in I. O. O. F. Hall. All members requested to attend. MILDRED CASHEN, Secretal LEGlON PLAY‘HED TO BE MOVED TO GOLDSTEIN zon pla the American Leg to be moved from pany propert stein lot near was decided A'f(ud John Bradford It is being company the new company will erect. at a meeting lot Plans for the Jiggs dinn completed last night. Tt held next Monday night Dugout at 6:30 can War Veterans will guests for the Le occasion ses to be an especially spot in Legion affairs OF RICH, light to the Charles Gold- Second and Gold, it Post removed to building nd Spanish-. LOT ed is com- of the last from mak. the ¢ wera'§ will in Ameri special which bright be the HELLO~ | por e e | DOUGLAS NEWS The annual sale of delinquent taxes in Douglas was held in the office of the city cler yesterday ~iterncon at two o'cloc! Paying up the amounts against their property prior to the sale were the Mormon Church of Latter Day Saints, Jake Manning, Jim Fox and Thomas Willis. Mrs. J. W. Brown bought the Merriman Charles Schramm acquired Lot 52 in Block 48, Ruth Brevig, former own- er, for the amount of the taxes as the only bidders. All the remaining pieces of property in the list as ad- vertised reverted to the city for lack of other purchasers. A total of 13 separately listed pieces of prop- vere included in the advertised e LIMITATIONS ON FIREWORKS CELEBRATION RECOMMENDED Meeling yesterday with commit- teemen Charles Naghel and John Keyvser frora the Juneau Chamber of Ccmmerce, Tom Cashen and Guy Smith, representatives from the Decuglas Chamber, concurred in fav- oring the following restrictions to be recommended to the City Council at its regular meeting to enact legis- lation for a safer and saner Fourth. First, that the days of sale be lim- ited to the Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth, and the size of fire ¢ ers sold must not exceed 2 inc in length. The matter will be p! before the Douglas Council at its regular meeting tonight by the local committee and the Juneau commit- tee will contact the City Col there when they next meet. Johnson and Mrs. A H. Campbell will be co-hostesses to the Douglas Island Women's Club at the home of the latter, Wednesday evening. Featured on the program will be a reading on music and arts by Mrs. Van Dugteren, of Jur M ABRELS o 75 il BILLY PAUL DI Billy Paul, aged 15, only son of George Paul, died in the Govern- ment hospital in Juneau last night as the result of tuberculosis. The TOASTED" CENTER LEAVES The top leaves of all tobacco plants tend to give a definitely harsh, IS THIS YOU, OR HUGH CUT TEM ? WELL, THIS IS DR LEWIS JONTS - COME RIGHT OVER TO MR JUIGES' HOME. HURRNV-NOW- { BROADCAST ON at the wharf | property, | INTERIOR TRIP Program Released from Plane Over Interna- tional Boundary | { The PAA Lockheed Electra flown | | by Pilot W. J. Barrows and Copilot | | Murray Stuart, carrying L. S. Peck, | | Vice-President of the Pacific Alas- ka Airways; J. W. Baker, RCA Op- | erations Supervisor, and Don; Thompson, NBC Special Events Pro- 1 a radio broadeast tour of | left Whitehorse yesterday | morning and arrived during the at- ternoon in Fairbanks. A broadcast program was released | from the plane in the air over the International Boundary Line during | the flight north. The short wave broadcast was received by the RCA radio station at Point Reyes, Cali- fornia, and released over the NBC coast-to-coast network. | body was brought to Douglas this morning for funeral arraneements, hie boy’s mother died last fall, > TO JUNEAU | some good | deposited | River shortage Joe | George Bettel of Rub; vesterday on the Als the Pioneers’ — - SHOP IN JUNEAU. | Last year's brought farmers | drifts of wood the Republican potential nux_ .| Pe arrived here | a enroute to | Home at Sitka. | FY®ST! Kas floods Great here by eliminated a this winter - - ® FOR PIONEERS' HOME The luxury of good pepper is anyone’s. It costs no more. Mrs. Ethel Geddes and two chil- dre have moved to Juneau to re- side. -oe New Chief Named in Field Division ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March 10.| —O. E. Shirley, of San Francisco, is the new chief of the Field Di-| vision, Department of Interior, In-| vestigation Bureau He succeeds Miss Donna. Davis who' has been ansferred to San Francisco. ‘ > | RIFLE suoo‘r CONTINUED | oy mndm- shoot of the Juneau' Rifle and Pistol Club were held| night on the range in the A. B. , and will be resumed Friday. - - | VIFQUAIN FOR DAWSON | C. J. Vifquain, agent tor the White |Pass and Yukon Route at Dawson, |was a through passenger aboard the Princess Norah, returning from a va- |cation. alkaline taste. The bottom leaves tend to acidity in the smoke. It is only the center leaves which approach in nature the mostpalatable acid-alkaline balance. 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