The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 9, 1936, Page 2

i ; T ' Hallinan, New York, Grand Exalted THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1936. QEIIIII|IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIHIIHIIHIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIl||IIIIIIIHINIIIIIII!!IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINIINIIIIIIlllllllllililllilllllll_lla'é T 65¢c GEORGETT; 75¢ ¥ WHITE GOODS—Nainsook, Voile, Sateen Printed Sheers, Cretonnes, Glazed Covering, Drapery Gauze 50 in. MONKSCLOTH—Red, blue 50 in. DECORATIVE LINENS for draperies 50 in. RAYON DRAPERY DAMASK natural 36 in. wide—25¢ yard | 0000000000000 i 2 Al ELKS T0 HOLD CONVENTION IN LA, NEXT WEEK Complete Program for Week's Doings—Big Public Session LOS ANGELES, Cal, July 9 Highlights of the program arranged for the Elks 72nd National Con- vention to be held i this city the | Grand Exalted Ruler Hallinan wi | propose the Elks' 11 o'Clock Toast “Foothill Day” Grand Lodge sessions will be con- tinued Wednesday, which has also been designated as “Foothill Day” with lodges in the famous “Foothill (Region” (Pasadena, Alhambra, Bur- |nando and Whittier) as hosts Wednesday's events will be climax- |ed with “City Hall Night” in the Los Angeles City Hall under the auspices of the “City Bills Club.” Thursday is “Parade Day,” the Elks annual daylight parade to move through the downtown streets lin the afternoon and the Elks Mo- tion Picture Electrical Pageant to be presented in the Los Angeles Coliseum in the evening, the latter 8an Diego, officiating A public session, celebrating the opening of the convention will be| held in the Biltmore Bowl Monday | evening at which Governo; nk Merriam, Mayor Frank L. Shaw and other State and city officials will welcome Elks and families with the response by Judge James T week of July 12, follow to be the most spectacular illum- Sunday, July 12, will be devoted inated night parade and show ever to religious services with special|staged in America. programs in churches of all de-| ppgay is “Harbor Day” with San nominations, among these a PON- | padro and sister, lodges. as. hosts. tifical Mass in St. Vibiana's Cathe- PR SR o dral with Most Rev. John J. Cant- well, Bishop of Los Angeles and RENTs GLUT"ES LINES BY DAY: OTHER ODDITIES By GEORGE TUCKER NEW YORK, July 9-—Personal notes off a New. Yorker's cuff: The strangest vocation in New York is followed by an enterprising fellew who lives in the tenement section of Brooklyn He rents clothes lines by the day. | Only a few real Chinese stores I rem in the vicinity of Pell and ilies will be held Tuesday evening Mott streets, but they are intrigu- #The Palomar’ with music for ing. There one may have such sing to be furnished by one of items as bird nests, lichee nuts, the country’s most popular “big- bamboo shoots, ancienl eggs, and name” bands. A beauty revue will |stringed shrimp. § also be presented, and at 11 o'clock,| One of the town's pioneer sky- Ruler. First Session The first Grand Lodge session will be held in the Biltmore Hotel Tuesday morning, and Tuesday has also been designated as “Sea Shore Day” with Santa Monica and Re- dondo lodges as hosts-to visitors to their respective beach communities. A Grand Ball for Elks and fam- uly Clearance SILK PRINTS--NOVELTY CREPES $1.00 yard RAYON FLAT CREPES—RAYON TAFFETA CHIFFONS $1.00 yard VELVET*CORDUROY WOOLEN FABRICS-Regular $2.75-—$1.95 yard NOVELTY WOOL CREPES $1.00 yard S s, : Batiste, Flaxon, Percale, Pique, Dimity, Dotted Swiss, Nurses' Suiting, Checker Mesh Clearance 25¢c yd. COTTON CREPES — Broadcloth, Tissue Gingham, BRIGHT NEW COTTON PRINTS B. M. Behrends Co. Inc. “Juneau's Leading Department Store” ||I|||J|fl|]]!![llll[|flfljllIII,Ililml[lIll|!I|Il|!ll|lmIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!|II_IIIII,I,I,IlII[IIIIIIIIIIIIII|IIJIIIlllIIIiIl[IJIIIIIII!_g":: bank, Glendale, Monrovia, San Fer- | yard ES—PRINTED yard , Broadcloth, Chintz, Slip 3 yards $1.00 _..75¢ yard Special 95¢ yard 50c and $1.00 yard T e AR scrapers is the Singer Building. It |is all steel. No wood in it at all. More than a million and a |quarter newspaper clippings are preserved in the morgue of the Columbia School of Journalism. The oldest park on Manhattan (Bowling Green), has but one sta- tue, that of Abraham de Peyster, 'who was a press agent. Ned Wayburn, noted as an |authority on the dance, didn't begin life as such. He was formerly an |usher in a Chicago theatre. Eddie Hunger, the Negro come- dian, went oh the stage because Caruso thought he was the fun- niest fellow he had ever seen. Hunter was Caruso's elevator boy. Among celebrated people who have operatéd tea shops in Green- wich Village s, Mrs, Will Durant. . | | Eugenia Clair.Smith is a disturbs /ing sort of helress—in this respect: | With one .evening. gown she is apt |to wear $600,000 worth of emeralds. iTth makes. a glittering display in the night clubs, but . actors: would |Just as soon she left the gems at home when she attends: the thex |ater. Reason: Such.a display usual- ly makes a more exciting: spectacle than the play. The actors say they can't compete .with,that many emeralds at one time,. | This flame-haired heiress (to the |Arbuckle coffee millions) has also |gone in for racing..She and Bing |Crosby have purehased a track |south of Hollywood and plan to stage their own derbies. If you know where to:go, you can still find the Village'’s quaint Gar- dens stuck back in forgotten little !courts. One of the most pleasant of these is J. G. Phelps Stokes’ at /88 Grove Street, which was made |up of donations from the Stokes. |friends, in the city’s suburbs. The Stokes family. once owned & great deal of lower Fifth Avenue property. The old house at No. 88 Grove has been in the family for MODES of the MOMENT LARGE TURNOUT White Accents Spell Summer Chic White pique gardenias, scari and gloves add cool touches to this black frock of sheer crepe desizned for summer wear in town. It is fashioned with the short puffcd sleeves which marks a number of this season’s models and worn with black kidskin pumps stitched in white. A final white touch appear- in the winged pique togue. PRIVATE PLANE MEXICAN RUNS IS MAKING HOP AMUCK, KILLS T0 SOUTHLAND EIGHT TODAY Party of Three, with Pilot, Mother and S Chleen Leaves Fairbanks Found by Police, for Seattle Slain with Axe FAIRBANKS, Alaska, July 9 Dr. and Mrs. Mart LaRue and Frank 9 Yasuda hopped off in a plane pi- INDIANA HARBOR, Ir Cele July ales, a Mexican diana, tino Gor killed his wife anc childrer loted by Jimmy Dobson yesterday an_ axe, s and for Seattle via Whitehorse and Haz- ki a ' ho! Jose elton. Aro d then committed suicide The plane is owned by LaRue, Aro was killed in a steel com- who 1s a local dentist. Yasuda is a pany locker room where Gor s trader and postmaster at Beaver confronted him as he was coming on the Yukon who is going to Se- from work. Gonzales turned the attle for medical treatment gun on himself after firing twice The party will return by plane, at Aro. according to announcement, pos- Ppolice went to notify Mrs. Gon- sibly next week zales at her home only to find the L B, g B doors locked. They broke in and TOM RYAN ARRESTED found scattered around the house Charged with disorderly conduct the bodies of Mrs. Gonzales and but a possibility of facing more ner six children, ranging in age serious charges, Tom Ryan was ar- rested by Deputy Marshal Walter Hellan yesterday afternoon near the Krause concrete plant on Twelfth from two to 17, four boys and two girls, all slain with an axe. Lacking definite evidence to the contrary, police listed Gonzales as Street. Ryan, who figured in a|the murderer of his wife and chil- shooting escapade on the Glacier |dren and Aro. Highway, last year, is alleged to - have pointed a .44 caliber revolver at Mrs. G. E. Krause. - e HIGHWAY GOES SOUTH Ivan Winsor, Assistant District Engineer for the Bureau of Public Roads, has returned to his head- quarters here from road inspection work near Skagway. He arrived on the Highway which leaves tomor- row for Wrangell to take Resident Engineer Frank M. Swartz to ¥ to carry on further work. | - - BUILDING ICE SLED G: W. Shuster of Seward i ing an ice sled which will travel 55 miles an !winter on Lake Kenai NEW SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED The Alaska Railroad has announc- ed a new schedule of three trains each way a week to run between Seward and Fairbanks. Trains will leave Seward on Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday and will leave Fair- banks on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. ¥ build- Is expected hour next The sled is about 14 miles long and will glide alonig on 20 foot skis. It will be powered by an engine driving an airplahe propelier. | - eee APPLE TREE:! BLOOM | Alex Bolam of Lower Lake Kenai {has: five apple trees now in bloom aecording to word received thepp, Last year Mr. Bolem won first prize in ca, natienwide potato grow mg1 contest with potatoes produced in | Kenai garden. geperations, and the r been: there since 1828, when the house was erected. Ernest Poole, the writer, once lived there Perhaps the most famou N has garden. John's by died care- the col= and an 1ins h these JAn the Village is in st |court.: This garden was b Bishop Charles Gilbert several years ago. It has bee: jfully nurs€d in memory of ,bishop. - He brought colonia umns from New Orleans for ancient Roman wells from TItaly altar from Spain and ir Irom, Venetian gondolas. Wit he trimmed the garden Tall trees line the windin ged walks. And from Holland, a flag- lips vhite there gleamn picket fence, a little patch of green ! W lawn, and innumerable bencnes| WA which are reasonably comfortgble. Among those Who have joked down on St. John's cour rom | their Greenwick Village ap, are Eva Le Gallienne, Al mova and Lawrence Stall | |ington Legislature; U. S. DEPARTMENZ OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAI* THE WEATHER (By the U. 3. Weather Bureau) LUNCHEONTODAY Rain tonight and Fr moderate southeast winds. LOCAL PATA ! Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Veloclty Weatheq ; e S . | 4 pm. yesty 2068 58 8 s 3 Cldy Col. Wild, R. F. Lewis, C.| 4 am. tod 941 52 87 s 16 Rain M. Granger, Morris Star- S ~roifgri 2 o i ey g L CABLE AND KADIO REPORTS rett Among Speakers VESTERDAY | A (Continued from Page One) | Highest 4pm. | Lowest4am. 4am. Precip. 4am L il | Station temp. temp. | temp. temp. velocity 24hrs. Westh: ; e Anchorage v = 30 s s ™ 35 1} st U, B Foceatats WhS b been | Herew il A | g M on a several weeks visit to the Ter-| NoWe r b O T e g ritory. Mr. Granger declared this| Lethel e it < b4 section to be particularly adapted| Iairbanks 0. % o Qlcy to recreational promotion and said| D2Wson o o2 AR R it was his belief hotel development| St- Paul 3 e by ey would be one of the major things| Dutch Harbor .56 54 e Qe by to further the tourist trade in the| Xodiak ol ey gidy north. Pointing out the many nat-| Cordova 56 B . % Cldy ural’ advantages, such as glacler! Juneau 58 - e R Balp historic Sitka, hunting the fa-| Sitka AR i s (- £ Brownie on Admiralty and| Ketchikan 68 62 52 52 [ Rain scores of other tourist lures, the| Prince Rupert .. 62 62 L 4 Cldy Forester declared a hatel project| Edmonton 80 7 54 54 4 0 Clear should .be one of “first priority.” | Seattie 70 68 5 56 6 0 Clear Other guests of the Chamber to-| Portland n mn 60 60 4 Trace Cldy day were A. W. Quist of A. W. Quist| San Francisco 62 62 58 58 4 02 Cldy and Company, Seattle; Morris Star-| New York 5 8 LA e rett, Postmaster at Port Townsend,| Washington 4 o Cldy and former member of the Wash- Harry Williams of Ketchikan; Ed Lake, new manag- | er of Piggly Wiggly here, and Joe | Sitka, cloudy, 56; Radioville, raining, 50; Soapstone Point, Juneau, raining, 52; Skagw raining, 5 Yakutat, Barnett U-i_‘t’hni; Sal.t“man | raining, 51; Cordova, cloudy, 54; Chitina, clcudy, 52; McCarthy, cloudy Brings Greetings 54; Portage, partly cloudy, 54; An:hcrage, partly cloudy, 55; Fair- Mr. Starrett brought greetings| panks, eloudy, 50; Nenana, Hot Springs, Tanana, Ruby, Unalakleet from the Port Townsend Chamber|{ and Crooked Creek, missing; Nula'o, cloudy, 54; Kaltag, cloudy, 53; and said the Washington group is| Faq, raining, 41. sarticularly interested in air mail! e - to the north and the radio beacon | e T AT | Low barometric pressure prevaied this morning from Nome and project which is now under ('\m-{ sideration. Barrow southeastward to California, the lowest reported pressure be- | John E. Pegues, Chairman of the| ing 2018 inches at Barrow. Another storm area was centered over Fourth of July Committee, gave n, the area between Cordova and Dawson, the lowest reported pressure In a colorful ceremony aboard the flagship Pennsylvania the command | of the United States fleet was shifted at San Pedro, Calif. Admiral | Joseph M. Reeves, retiring commander, is shown bidding good bye. His successor, Admiral Arthur J. Hepburn, formerly commander of the ecouting force, is just to the right of the right hand 14-inch gun, hig orders in his hand, (Associated Pre: in that area being 29.22 inches at Dawson. High pressure prevailed from Dutch Harbor southward to the Hawaiian Islands, the crest be- 20.60 inches. This general pre:sure distribution has been attend- hward to northern British Co- brief report of the celebration, and brought to the attention of the Chamber the matter of shooting fire-| 108 ed by precipitation from Aklavik so crackers during the parade. He clared there had been several com-| lumbia, also at San Francisco, and by generally fair weather over plaints and suggested a remedy by| the remainder of the field of ob servation. next year. ( It was cooler last might from Eairbanks ' northeastward to Ak- - - o | lavik and warmer along the coast from Bethel to Barrow Kldnaped Coflin | .' o 2% PR R L T R R Lids Profit Hitler, Bachelor, Gets World War Chinese Thieves Layettes for Birthday Brain Bullet CHINKIANG, China, July 9—| BERLIN, July 9.—One of the Shifts Lawless persons here are said to be |birthday gifts for the bachelor reaping large profits by stealing |‘realm leader,” Adolf Hitler, con- ~ BATH &England, July 9—Herbert Phillips of Bath is in a hospital waiting for a world war bullet in to become firmly lodged in his brain. He was wounded in France coffin lids and holding them for sisted of 1456 baby outfits, com- ransom plete with cradles; from the wom- It is the custom among well-to- €n of the Reich’s Civil Servants’ do Chinese to buy coffins in antici- |Association pation of their death, and store! One half of the layetes were dec- in 1916 and got along all right until hem in special buildings near their |crated with blue ribbons, for boy he bumped his head, loosening the ancestral temples. babies, and the other half pink, bullet . Doctors ord n to re- Owners of the coffins usually pay for girls main quiet until the missile becam the ransom because it would cost| The gift will benefit an approv- fixed more to purchase a new lid. If the ed list of needy mothers of large —_— e — owners refuse payment, the thieves |families. DOCTOR PRAISES HOSPITALS chop up the covers and sell them e e According to Dr. Horace Whit- for firewood. “Leggers” Stopped acre of Tacoma who recently visited Anchorage, the equipment and ser- vice of Alaska Hospitals are “ex- cellent.” PERFORMS MARRIAGE - —e-e | Only One Child in Ten 1‘ MIAMI, Fla, —Two liquor run- s 2 ners, Federal agents' reported, Rated Healthy in Chma‘muppcd for a traffic light and were TN overtaken. Hailed into court, the NANKING, July 9.—That more two were given 18-month sentences than 90 per cent of China’s school-|in the Federal prison at Atlanta. age children have physical defects,| more than 80 per cent are under- nourished and many are diseased, is the startling finding of the na- - tionalist government. | Such elementary practices as bathing and brushing teeth scarce- ly are known in millions of Chin- ese homes. In view of this serious situation, the government has ordered health education and physical trais Vera Toloff and Ralph Mochel were married recently by the Unit- ed States Commissioner at An- criorage. T Lode ana placer focation n lices for sale at The Empire offic.. tensified, with special training courses here for doctors, nurses and health technicians. ——r————— Ollie Jensen, Lucky Shot mine employee, is in the Anchorage Hos- | pital suffering from a broken an- kle. TAKES THE QUESTION OUT OF GIN DRINKS! 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