The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 22, 1936, Page 8

8 STOCK PRICES TAKE DECLINE, PROFIT TAKING Some Issues, However, Emerge with Gains Other Shares Drop nterru stocks merck seues em jers yielded than taking to more one point the profit spree. Commoditics were gn exchang in terms of the do Corn was stronz today. were irregular sales totaled mixed were ar, casier, 1,450,000 CLOSING PRI( NEW YORK, July quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 13%, Am n Can 135, American Power and Light 13%, Anaconda 39, Bethlehem Steel 53%, Commonwealth and Southern 3%, Curtiss Wright General Motors 70, International Harvester 82%, Kennecott 43%, United States Steel 622, United Cmpmm'un 8 Cities Service 4%, Hecla Mining (Chicago stock) 11%, Calumet and Hecla (New York Stock) 11% Pound $5.02'%. [ODAY 2.—Closing DOW, JON AVERAGES The following are today's Jones averages: Industrigls rails 5291, utilities 35.03. e Bible Best Seller Dow 164.49, LONDON — The Bible still tops the list of “best sellers” in the 11,000,000 copies, in whole or part, and printed in 692 languages or dialects, were tributed in 1934 by the British and Foreign Bible Society. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY JULY 22, FIGHTS SPANISH COUNT’S DlVORCE sl The Countess of Covadonga announced she would resist the action at New York of her husband, Alfonso, to break their marriage. A Cuban commoner, the former Edeimira San Pedro, she was married to the former crown prince of Spain in 1933 Iron in Scot’s Eye for Fourteen Years SALCOATS, Scotland, July 2 A piece of iron which lodge hfhd a man's eye 14 year was removed by an operation here. The metal broke from the patient’s ammer in 1922 but no symptoms develc until recently black appeared inner corner of the eye be- ago spot inder (Associated Press Photo) Women Clean Up Slum and Give It New Name | Had No Fraudulent In- CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., July 22 -“Hell's Half Acre,” considered by police authorities to be a spawning — place for petty crime, has been re- christened by women of the Wesley community center as “Sunshine Acre.” The women worked in homes with rub brushes and brooms, on va- cant lots with rakes and hoes and planted rose bushes in sidewalk park lanes. 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Green or Rust—Priced from $42.50 B — COME IN NOW AND SELECT THE FURNISHINGS FOR YOUR NEW HOME . . Our stock is large and includes everything neces tive home. ary for a comfortable, attrac- J UNE AU -YOUNG HARDWARE SEARCH PARTY TO DRAG LAKE, RHODES' BODY {Four Leave for Scene Where Juneau Man Lost Life by Drowning | A search party, bound for Warm | Springs Bay %o drag the lake | the body of Milton “Dusty” Rhoc ! who drowned yesterday morning, lleft at 4 o'cloc k this afternocn aboard Steve Ward's boat Betsy Ross, with grappling lines hooks. A diver may be eng: | from Port Althorp if the search not successful Members of th: party included Dan Ralston, Mr. Ward, Chuck | Dominy, and W. E. Kilroy, step- father of Rhodes. Rhodes, widely-known in south- east Alaska, disappeared in lake yesterday, when a skiff over- turnc«. His body never came to the surface and the Betty Ross c to Juneau for assistance in finding the body. Rhodes is survived by his wife, mother, Mrs, Kilroy, and a half-brother, Al Rhodes, all of Juneau. = (AL GOVERNOR VETOES RETURN OF WHITTELL Hearing Shows that Man the tent, Alaska Checks SACRAMENTO, Cal, July 22 Gov. Frank F. Merriam is with- holding action on the requisition of Gov. John W. Troy of Alaska for the return to Kodiak of Al- fred Whittell, who was taken into custody recently in San Francisco on a charge of issuing checks with- out sufficient funds. Governor Merriam said he would write the Alaskan Governor that the hearing has convinced him that Whittell didn't intend to de- fraud when he issued checks total- ing $1,657 for mining machinery payment Whittell back in cisco awaiting Governor tion. He is San Fran- Troy's ac- not under bond oo Ohio Béauty Experts Mob Llcense Bureau is COLUMBUS, O. ity note in the beauty business: More than 300 women appeared to take examinations for beauty licens- es before the Ohio Board of Cos- | Thetology. The last 50 to arrive couldn't squeeze into the examining room and had to write their examinations in a state office building corridor. | D and mules in Oklahoma Y 2,000 between 1 according to a census, -1y 1075 30 and | recent farm | TR o She Won’t Talk Avonne Taylor (above), once & front-line ornament of the “Fol- lies”, refused to tell why or where- fore of her divorce from Carlyle ckwell, former movie star. Miss Taylor was formerly Tommy Manville, Jr., hanta. " » MINERS SEND yboy as- | denominations [SECRETARY OF M. E. MISSIONS ARRIVING HERE Extensive Tour of Church Projects Is Planned by Dr. Kohlstcd! D. Kbohistedt, Executive Secretary of the Board of Home Missions end Church Extens‘on of the Methodist Episcopal Church with headquarters at Philadelphia, Pa., is expected to arrive in Ju- neau Friday on the North Sea Before coming here Dr. Kohl« Dr. E. Ketchikan, g o the former city to acquaint himself wi condi- tions there because he was recent- ly appointed co-trustee of the Wil- liam Duncan estate. After representing several and including following contacts Valdez, ard, Nome, Fairbanks, Valley, and Seldovia sion projects attle on August 25, according GOLD DUSTTO | BANKS EARLY, Recent Rams Have st pelled Danger of Inter- ior Water Shortage ANCHORAGE ‘Alaska, July 22— Gold nuggets and dust from the interior placer fields are trickling into the banks here from the first cleanups of the season Winfield Irvin, banker, said that the first virgin gold received, worth approximately $75,000, came consid- erably in advance of the usual time. He said the peak was usually reached late in August or early September. The banks are forwarding the gold to the United States assay of- fice at Seattle. O. 8. Sullivan, Internal Revenue Collector, said that the recent rains in the interior have dispelled the danger of a water shortage for pla- cer operators and added that the mines in the interior are worl full blas s Aerial Eagle Hunter Slays Birds in Pairs 22 SAN ANGELO, Tex., July “When you kill an eagle,” says Ray Baumgardner, Fort Stockton aviator who hunts the birds by airplane, “its mate comes to see what has happened and is slain easily.” Baumgardner says eagles been causing more losses lambs than have coyotes “An eagle carries its kill to the nest of its young. One of the pair stays on the nest while the o.her hunts and when the one on scout returns the other take place,” he says. Baumgardner estimates speed of an eagle al 60 & have among the top an Ciano Successor to Mussollm? Count Ciano Benito Mussolini 4 Mussolini has apparently answered a question long troubling Europe as to who will be his succagsor to the Fascist leadership. His recent appointment of his son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano. as minister of foreign affairs suggests ,that this talented young man may be considered the logical candidate to take over ifussolini’s position as dictator of Italy, advancement. Cmnos career has been marked by steady He has served as envoy to the Far East, commander of the “Desperate Squadron” in Ethiopia, minister of press and propaganda and is now only 35, plans, ——e———— SNAKE CAUSES 'DROWNING OF FIFTY PEOPLE Boat Capsizes in Indial when Passengers Are anhtened by Reptlle LUCKNOW, India, July 22 Fifty were drowned when a caused a stampede on a ferry boat running on a tributary of the Gan- ges River, causing the craft to ca size. The passengers became fright- | ened when the snake boarded ship in midstream and rushed to one side overturning the boat e HarvarTi Men Make New Flu Discoveries BOSTON, Mass., July 22 Harvard scientists have a method for killing influenza. The two men said they have recovered influenza virus from the air and killed let rays W. F. Weils and H. W. Brown both professors, said that persons| having influenza can sneeze and leave a germ in the air for other persons to get for a period of thirty minutes. an extensive tour of Alaskan mis- | snake | (\«“ — Two| announced | KIDNAPER KARPIS PLEADS GUILTY stedt has visited at Metlakatla and | | leaving Juneau Dr. Kohl-| stedt will continue northward for| the | Sew- | Matanuska | | He will sail from Seward for Se-| to Alvin Karpis (right), dethroned gang leader, and Edmund C. Barthol mey (left), former postmaster at Bensenville, I1l., are pictured as they | went to court at St. Paul, Minn., manacled together and under heavy federal guard to face charges of conspiracy in the William Hamm kid- naping. Karpis, jailed since his capture at New Orleans May 1, and PARTS OF SHIP WASHED ASHORE MAY BE CLUES _|Fate of Vesael Missing Sinee. July 4 May Now Be | Learned TAMPA, Florida, July Parts of a ship washed in by lm U(h and | reports of oil drums floating near- { by, provided possible clues in search |for the British motorship Nuno- | ca missing since July 4 when the | vessel left Georgetown, Grand Cay- | man for here | “There were | the hoat including nine and four Britons. iy e DISTILLERY EXECUTIVE l IS ABOARD CHARLOT SOUTHEAST ALASKA CRUISE 22 persons aboard Americans it by contact with ultra vio-| | Passengers aboard the Princess hlmxlnur include Mr. and Mrs. Wal- ‘ ter W. Furey and Mr. and Mrs. M. Case, both of Peoria, Illinos |Mr. Furey is an executive of the | Hiram Walker Co., wellknown distil- lers. Bartholomey both pleaded guilty. (Associated Press Photos) FOSSIL EXPERT STATES ALASKA ONGE TROPICAL Alaska Peninsula Finds Wil Be Shown to Dr. A. Hrdlicka K CHIKAN Charles Henry old fossil hobbyist, the Alaska Penins he says, that Al once tropical Among Harrison’s finds are what he calls petrified snails which he intends to show to Dr. Alex Hrd- licka of the Smithsonian Institute, who is now in Western Alaska - TO TEACH AT UNALASKA Mr. and Mrs. Chester C. o have been in Ju 1 for 1 weeks after coming here Middle ve been aged to teac! will leave the first of next on the Yukon for their new - - back from with proof, ska’s climate was w from en- and week post SHOP IN JU\!LAU F'RQ'I Find Old Quaker on the list and taste “A Barrel of Quality!” It doesn’t take a barrel of money to buy it oo« It’s ““The Friendly Whiskey” The next time you are ordering drinks, ask for your friend, Old Quaker! For Old Quaker straight whiskey has a mighty mellow way of pleasing customers. Just as there’s a barrel of quality in every bottle of Old Quaker, there’s a barrel of quality in every highball, cocktail, sour or julep that’s made with Old Quaker. 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