The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 30, 1936, Page 2

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1936. $21.50 -.smart ‘525.00 Choose one of valt tion to the new our tailored suits for fabric, for fit, for Tailored by a maker who gives much atten- seams and the button holes. shoulder line, the smooth lapels, taped Smart Accessories to Harmonize B. M. Behrends Co., Inc. “Juneau’s Leading Department Store” ALASKANS ARE COLUMNIZED IN SEATTLE PAPER : Captain Bamacle Writes Up"” Several Aboard Steamer Yukon Several prominent Alaskans were mentioned in the “Down The Hatch’ column, by Captain Barnacle, in last Monday's Seatle P Intelli- | gencer, There is a two column pic ture of Ben L. Grimes, wife and baby son and a single olumn pic- ture of J. L. Galen. The article is as foliows There’s a country up north of here—starts in a few hundred miles awey and runs north and west*with a corner near the pole (that far section is sort of in cold storage— under ice, but those people up there will dig it out when they need it) and they call it Alaska It must be a mighty fine place, too, judging by the class of people who go there on these regufir lin- ers, and I reckon I ought to make a trip myself. Now the Yukon, of Alaska Steam, out over the week-end and winding through the Inside Passage about now. She has a lot of passengers— most of them, those who make the wheels go around (you see I got “them those” past the copy reader) and a par, or really a trio, who are gong North to help. I mean Ben L. Grimes II, Mrs Grimes and Ben L. Grimes III They came all the way from Texas where he was state sanitarium engi- neer (I mean Ben L. II) and they're going to Juneau, where he has been appointed to a similar post for the whole territory. ‘When Ben L. IT introduced me to Jr., { \ Ben L. III I thought he sad “been | ill” and T just couldn't figure it out for I pever saw a healthier young- ster. Bet he was never sick a day in his_life. | | of her | body strikes any matches on the but she’ll get over that the first day. People like S. N. Goodwick helped a lot to develop the country. He must have been called the bc}\ sourdough” for while he has been North for mor than thirty years and is an old-timer around Kobuk, > looks like a bond salesman just ated from the football, team l e is going back to Kobuk after wintering “outside.” Go to Seward, then Fairbanks and fly across Here's J. L. Galen, president of the Mount McKinley, Tourist and Transportation Company, heading back to the second largest national | k on the continent and the far-, st north for all countries, mrlud-! the Scandinavian. Put in couple of months down South t]m iter and they all want to know about Alaska. He told 'em, too, you bet Going strong up our way,” he sald. “Building a 200-room hotel and cabins to accommodate 125 persons. Greatest place for game! in the world, have to shoo bear| and moose off the roads to pro-| tect the autos. It may come to traf- fic lights to let the wild life cross.” (The trouble is the wild life down| here won't pay any attention to| traffic lights.) | And another is putting Alaska | travelers on rubber, and not boots! or shoepacks either. He's G, W. Edgecumb, manager of the Alacka, Motor Stages, and he came down to | buy about the slickest article of | highclass bus that ever took ship| to Alaska. It looked so shiny and| new and comfortable on the fore- deck that they had to put a sign on it, “Keep Out” or some of the steer- age passengers would just take over the de luxe job for the voyage. Edgecumb is proud of it and T'll| bet he sits up nights to see that no- | thes finish. He will drive her off at Valdez and she’ll operate as far as| Fairbanks. There were fifteen passenger au-| tos went up on the Yukon, all se-' dans and brand new cars. That new‘ | price for gold is showing results ——————— jo TWINS BORN [ Twins, a boy and a girl, were burn‘ Mrs. "Ben L. §aid $he was scared to death—all that sea voyage ahead to Mr. and Mrs. W. Jones at. the| {government hospital Saturday ev- ening. BRIT. GENERAL STAFFNOTTO START STRIFE Cabinet Wlll Revnew All Agreements in Confer- ence to Be Held LONDON, . March 30.— Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin today, as- sured the House of Commons that the British General Staff will not be allowed to involve the British Gov- ernment in any committments at the forthcoming consultations with the French and Belgian army commands concerning mutual defense against | possible German aggression. A wave of distrust has swept Par- liamentary quarters but the Prime Minister said the Cabinet would re- view everything to which the Gen- eral Staff agreed. TOASTM, cLus FLECH NEW OFFICERS The Tonstmnsurs Club whleh meet in the parlors of the Northetn , Light night at 6 o'clock elected officers for the year. Those . elected were: President, George Folta; Secretary, Jean Tay- lor; Treasurer, Dean Williams. Lou- is Taylor was chosen to represent | the organization at the annual bud- get dinner which will be held at the church tonight. The next meeting of the Toast- master’s Club will be April 19, whén the members will have a table at the Fellowship dinner which will be held that evening, and will partic< pate in the service. —_——r « John Harrin, Jr, underwent & tonsilectomy operation this morn- mg at the Government Hospital. - —_— warrack [l - Construction. Juneau ' % md is registered at the Alaskan Presbyterian :Church last! DECISIONS IN 2 BIG CASES ARE DEFERRED Supreme Court Delays Ac-| tion on Guffey Coal, Securities Acts WASHINGTON, March 30.—The ' Supreme Court has deferred for at least cne week, decision on the con- stitutionality of the Guffey Coal and 1933 Securities acts. The Supreme Court however de-! livered 14 unanimous decisions to- day. Some of the practices of the Sugar Institute, Incorporated, were held in violation of the Anti-Trust Act! despite arguments the practices were intended cooperative in public | interest Chief Justice Charles E.| Hughes held that thc ‘end does nox Justify illegal means.” Granting the request of the Govy- | ernment, the Supreme Court re- fused to pass at present on the Pub- (lic - Utility Holding Company Act which is_enroute to the Court in| other cases. The provisions of the Washington | State law imposing an occupation tax on radio broadcasting was rul- ed illegal. The State of New Mexico lost an effort to tax a nickle on a gallon of fuel busses purchased outside of the state and used in traveling through | the state. Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt lost her attempt to obtain custody of her wealthy 12-year-old daughter Gloria as the court refused to re- view the decisions of the lower court of New York. EARL SIMONS 1S GOING TO BOSTON ; Earl M. Simons, of the office staff of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company, and formerly | connected with Ordway’s Photo | Tobey Jones | Shop, ‘will 'be a passenger on the Princess Norah, bound for Boston, Mass. | Mr. Simons will join his mother in Boston. He has accepted a position | with a nationally known oil com- pany. .- CASH COLE UNDERGOES OPERATION IN SEATTLE Cash Cole, candidate for the nom- | ination of auditor on the Republi- | can Ticket in the coming April pri- | maries, underwent an operation in| the Virgina Mason hospital in Seat- ! tle Saturday. The operation was to| relive nerve tension in a hand which | was badly injured by a rope burn here last winter. According to advices, Mr. Cole stood the ordeal in fine shape, and expects to return to his home here within the next three weeks. g SAM THE TAILOR MOVES Sami the Tailor has moved his business from the Grand Building to ‘the store formerly occupied by» ‘the Juneau Sample Shop on South | | Franklin Street. | Mr. Bhabildak said the new loca- | tion, " opposite the Connors Motor | Co., gives him more room for an mcreused business. The tailor also | has installed a new type pressing machine, which he said is in popu- lar use by. tailors all over the coun- try. B — FROM. WYOMING J. Manning, of Rock Springs, Wyo., arrived on the Northland American Minister ZELLER NAMED | 'T0 CARE FOR ALASKA GASES ‘Ic Ebs Cpliien Pennsyl- vania Doctor for Post at Morningside Hospital Struck on Jaw By Nazi Workman EERLIN, March 30.— Work- man who struck the acting pas- tor of Berlin’s American church, the Reverend Stewart Herman, of Harrisburg, Pa., is the object of a police hunt. The. spokesman for the Pro- paganda Ministry said: “If the culprit is found, he will be se- | verly punished.” i The workman apparently | WASHINGTON, March 30.—Sec- thought the pastor showed a | retary Harold L. Ickes of the In- lack of reverence for the Nazi |terior Department has confirmed flag and struck him on the jaw. |the appointment of Dr., Charles This happened last Friday, and Zeller of Pennsylvania as Medical the culprit'has rot yet been ap- | Supervisor at Morningside * Sani- prehended. tarium in Portland, Ore. This is b 11101 Ry the institution which cares for Al- !aska mental cases and that part I of the work of the hospital is ad- ministered under the Interior De- partment, although the institutlon' Former Head of Episcopal' is still a private enterprise. There | dre some 300 Alaska eases ih the Diocese of Spokane Passes Away hospital at the presenb time. 1-DAY PERIOD SWIM EVENTS SEovee 1 TACOMA, Wash, March 30— Men and Mermaids Head Lemuel H. Wells, aged 94, formerly » Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of | for Olymplqs, By Way Spokane, died at the Frank Tobey gf CthagO Jones’ home here. He had been ill for several months CHICAGO, March 30.— One of! Bishop Wells was born in New (ne final tests of America’s great-' York State, served in the Civil War, | est men and women swimmers be- | was ordained in 1868 and held pul-{gore the selection of the United pits in the ecast before taking up| giates Olymple team is on the | work in Eastern Washington | program for April 1-4 in Chicago. He ‘came to Tacoma first in 1872\ [n. o weo.ed” water carnival forl riding horseback from Walla Walla, | {10 girct time in A. A. U, history.' hn-gd a boat and 1:owed to Seattle. Hitherto, the men and women com- Bishop Wells retired in 1915, mak- peted separately. | ing his home here since the death |Pled separatel : i of his third wife. He lived at Frank \];fc“i;uf”'[z;k“‘gr by “éh::, o Athletic Club and the Olympic overlords will be on hand for a‘ MARSHALS RETURNING | preyiay of the talent that will seek | to win back international swim-; U. 8. DEPARTMENT GOF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) recast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4 p.m., March 30: F‘axr tonight and Tuesday; moderate east to north winds. LOCAL DATA Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity = Weathes 3047 31 27 NE 13 Clear 30.51 33 26 NE 22 Clear 304.4 34 26 NE 10 Clear Time 4 am. today 4 pm. yesty Noon today . CABLE AND KADIO REPORTS YESTERDAY | TODAY Highest 4p.m. | Lowest4am. 4am. Precip. sam. temp. temp. temp. temp. velocity Mhra Westher 38 18 34 .42 30 18 36 44 38 40 33 40 40 36 8 40 42 - 60 Station Anchorage Barrow Nome Bethel Fairbanks Dawson St. Paul ... Dutch Harbor “Kodiak . Cordova ... Juneau Sitka Y Ketchikan Prince Rupert Edmonton Seattle Portland : San Francisco New York 66 58 Clear ‘Washington 72 54 Clear e i G S N A S AN 57 WEATHER CONDITIONS AT 8 A. M. 0 04 0 0 0 Trace 66 Cldy Snow Cldy Cldy Cldy Cldy Rain Cldy Clear Clear Clear Clear Snow Clear . Cldy Rain | Bawi 5 8 32 48 EE- TSSO coRBo8ccceco Sitka, partly cloudy, 31; Radioville, clear, 3; Juneau, clear, 31; Skagway .clear, 26; Cordova, clear, 28; Chitina, clear, 0; McCarthy, clear, -4; Anchorage, clear, 26; Fairbanks, cloudy, 26; Nenana, clear, 24; Hot Springs, clear, 10; Tanana, cloudy, 23; Ruby, cloudy, 30; Nu- lato, cloudy, 28; Kaltag, cloudy, 30; Unalakleet, clear, 26; Crooked Creek, clear, 13; Flat, clear, 30. WEATHER SYNOPSIS High barometric pressure continued this morning from the Ber- ing Sea region eastward to the MacKenzie River Valley and south- eastward across the Gulf of Alaska to the Pacific Northwest States, the crest being 30.82 inches at Fort Simpson, Canada. Low pres- sure prevailed from San Francisco westward to Midway Island. This general pressure distribution has been attended by precipitation over the Bering Sea region, the Aleutians, Alberta, and from Portland southward to California, followed by clearing at Portland, eleswhere over the field of observation fair weather prevailed . Ccol weather prevajled from Southeast Alaska southward to Ore- gon, Seattle and Portland having rzported a temperature of 32 degrees at 5 am. Deputy U. S. Marshal Ben Ficken | \ing sypremacy from the Japan-| and Mrs. Flossie Doolin are return- | ese next summer. ing to Juneau on the Alaska. Mrs.| “gninconc say 21 championships Doolin has been attending the court will be wide open to attack in the term in Ketchikan while Ficken has 4-day period. Along with all the been in the east where he was call- | big ;lumes ot 'the Amerlchi " tanks ed by the death of his father after hand, the management expects [ takdng some bifaniss Chile. !the added incentive of Olympic year | ARRIVES HERE ;lmd ;z po&slbllr: borm, ride to Berlin | g : rHER 0 act as a lure for newcomers. | NI e PO AEE The well-knowns among the men i #o sn-mmjfi&-amn arrived | include Jack Medica, fastest free- on the Northland for a visit with | St¥ler in America; 17 -year -old his jbrother, W. C. Strang, of the Adolph Kiefer, whose back stroke staff of the Signal Corps United |Das made him the most talked-of States Army natator of the day; Peter Fick, New g i York; the Spence brothers; Elbert‘ LEAVES HOSPITAL | Root and Dick Degner, both from | Jack Zavodsky, a medical case, Detroit and both diving champions; was released from St. Ann’s Hospit- | Ralbh Flanagan of Miami; Jim| al this morning | Gilhula of Los Angeles, and Dan - | Zehr, Northwestern University. NEW DELIVERY TRUCK | The Lake Shore Club has a big W. John Harris, sign-painter, is | delegation ready for the try at the completing the lettering of a new | titles in the home pool—and Olym- Dodge delivery truck, purchased |Pic glory later. by the American Meat cflmpanyw The feminine contingent is head~ for delivery service starting April | ed by Katherine Rawls, who will 1. try to dominate the women's events as she did last year in winning three championships. Others include > the comely Eleanor Home Jarrett, MINERS FOR SQUAW CREEK the Kiefer of the girl back-stroke A party of ten miners, enroute to | artists; Lenore Knight Wingard, the Squaw Creek country, across| holder of the women’s 220- and the border line from Haines, are|500-yard free-style titles; Erna and passengers aboard the Princess Nor- | Elizabeth Kompa of New York; ah enroute to Skagway. The miners Dorothy Poynton Hill, Claudia Eck- will travel by air from Carcross to|ert and Marian Mansfield of Chi- their destination. cago, and Helena Tomski of De-! - troit, the real “dark-horse” threat. FUJL HOUSE | e ] “You caz get a FULL HOLSE‘ ENTERS ST ANN’S for, a dollar o1 less — and It's a | Dan -Buchanen. was -admitted: to Winner! Ask your liquor dealer.” | St Ann's ths morning for treat- STRA The truck was purchased mraugh1 the McCaul Motor Co. otel. B R S For h..hh -ul hppum.z For fun and fellowship! A pale bottle beer of zest and sparkle. Definitely the finest. 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HENNING, Registration Officer. | Reasonable Prices—Expert Beauty Work PHONE 627 “PAY CASH AND SAVE” | T WINTER COATS AT HALF PRICE | Juneau Frock Shoppe | “Exclusive But Not Expensive” f l | —adv. CAPITOL CAFE AND BALL ROOM : Lunches Dancing Every Night Private Booths THE HOTEL OF ALASKAN HOTELS The Gastineau Our Services to You Begin and En Gang Plank of Every Passenger | FRESH Fruits and Vegetables ——ALWAYS! California Grocery THE PURE FOODS STORE Telephone 478 Prompt Delivery t_the g Boat MIDGET LUNCH Featuring Home-Cooked Meals and a choice of Beer, Wine or any 10c drink with meals or sandwiches Open daily from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. including Sundays TOM and MARIE STURGE UNITED FOOD Co. CASH GROCERS Phoie 16 We Dehver Meats—Phone 16 i 'loll " .Iuneau Cash Grocery CASH GROCE! Cerner Second and nsgwnd