The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 3, 1936, Page 2

THE DAILY ALASKA E.MPIRb MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1936. u. 8. DEPARTMEN‘E OF AGRICULTURE, WEA'I'H.IR BUREAT! H(]TARY CLUB ¢ II l ‘O§€ THE WEATHER | i WELGUMES |N (By the U. 3. Weather Bureau) ' Forecast for Juneau aund vicinity, beginning at 4 pm; Awg. 3: Fair tonight, Tuesday increasing cloudmess rain by nlghl mod- . erate southerly winds. SUMMER BAGS and GLOVES Fioesss Tme | uomer Tomp. Bumialy Wod Vet Wostna Ju ge Alexander Tells of| ¢ pm. vesty 3023 74 9 8 8 Clear 4 am. today 30.20 51 97 Caln 0 Clear” Increased Business Nodh todhy 3017 68 56 w 1 Cléar SCARFS uosu-: Y e B Ly - ! YESTERDAY TODAY i | Juneau Rbtaridns assembled at Highest dpm. | Lowedtadm. dam. Precip. éam lL L l N | their weekly meeting in the Term Bratidn temp. ‘temp. | temp. temp. veldeity flhra Weath( inal Cafe this rioon and welcomed| Anchorage 5 e oAy = L la new member to the club, W. §,| BArTOW b B 38 ™44 © 0 Pt Cldy |Pullen, Manager of the Alaska El- | N“‘:“ ‘r’: "fg 54 58 14 Trace Cldy lectric Light and Power Company.| Bethel . o 54 54 12 0 Pt Cldy ALL SUMMER HATS—Grouped to Seu, Your | Howard D. Stabler, Past Presj-| Fairbanks 418 i) 50 ‘52 + 0 Pt. Cldy Chiéés—NOW $1.00 {dent of the Club,”tade & tark on| Dawson o b A 0 Pt Cldy 10Ce— o {Rotary in Juneau and welcomed| St Paul 2 §o 48 290 2 120 Rain .y I8r. Pullen To:this- elib: Dutch Harbor 56 54 50 52 8 32 Rain FABRIC GLOVES 561‘. | Judge George F. Alexander’was| Kodiak 58 56 54 54 8 16 Rain A lintroduced to the club as a guest| COrdova 64 60 54, 34 0 0 Pt. Cldy SUMMER GLOVES __$1.00 Iby ‘Acting President’ Charles Beile.| Juheau - S RS | 0 0 Clear : {The Judge told the assembled Ro- | Sitka - = A AT 0 — WHITE KID GLOVES $1.95 jtarians - tHat “he Was ~impressed| Ketehikin 1 {1 TR 4 0 Clear et ; |strongly by twd’ things during his | ;;‘"‘;9 tRupm ;G ;6 52 o 4 0 Clear B {recent trip' to the' States, during gt 0 4 A 6 0 Cldy SILK SCARFS 50c and 51-00 {which he attended the Shrire Gon. | Seattle 80 80 60 60 8 0 cldy LACE UNDERWEAR 50 il ‘$lw {vention in ‘Seattle. ‘One was the| Portland , 84 84 [ oS ey 6 01 Clear c and = 1 greatly incrensed interested in Al- i';:, F“:‘ar;(cmco gg gg | G’J 73 10 0 Cldy ) s b {aska by the many he'talked with A 2 @ g 0 Clear SUMMER BAGS $1.00; $1.95, $2.95 et et R b B g 8 WOl o t . . Gk € |travel to'Alaska, which ransporta- WEATHER CONZ‘VHONS AT 8 A. M. CHILDREN'S LONG HOSE 8 ptflr—fi‘!.m ;lun:‘k ct:lmpnmzs btom1 him w‘on;ld Ketchikan, clear, temperature, 59; Craig, clear, 61; Wrangell, . W break all records by a large margin.| clear, 60; Sitka, clear, 56; Radioville, cléar, 56; Soapstone Point, cledr; CHILDREN'S HALF SOCKS . pair:_25c e general, Judge Alex| guneali, cléar, 59; Skagway, clear, 54 ‘Vakutat,' clear, 5; Cordota, " 3 ander said; was decidedly up. Julius| < cloudy,' 58; 'Valdes, cloudy, 56; Chitina, partly cloudy, 56; McCarthy, CHILDREN'S ANKLETS ‘pafi'—‘asc | Meter, - of "the MelerFrank store| ‘elear, 52; ‘Seward, ‘cloudy, 62; 'Anchorage, partly cloudy, 60; Portage, KS lm 1‘:1!1 Portland - told the ' Judge tha‘; cloudy, Nenana, partly cloudy, 64; Hot Springs, clear, 62; Tanana, 3, 7 $ he store was now employing 3,00 artly cloutly,'80; Ruby, cloudy, 60; Nulato, cloudy, 52; Kalt - Y o %, cmd /B len thS 3 flil' p ‘ partly y, '60; ¥y, cloudy, Nulato, cloudy, 7 Kaltag, ram. Bo S S g p ' | !ggfipll’. that ' its hflsmtu“ was \lg ing; 54; Crooked Creek, cloudy, 60; Flat, cloudy, 56; Golovin, raining, R ' CPRR 8 { { per cent over Jast ‘year, and| s8; 'Council, raining, 55; Solomon, raining, 54; Nome, raining, 56; LITTLE MEN'S SOX pair: 20¢ ‘and 25C I that the year before had shown a| Bethél, cloudy, 58; Kanakandk, partly cloudy, 61; Kodiak, foggy, 55 2 E Y. marked increase, and' that fts| ¥ SILK HOSIERY—Odd lots, Women's VER | {present number of employees was WEATHER SYNOPSIS ! greater than at any time in the| The barometric pressure.was high this morning from the Tanana ! 5 i SPECIAL—To clear ... i oo pair-—50c | { history of the long ‘establishied| Valley southastward to Alberta while a storm area over the North 5 i {mereantile firm. Pacific Ocean was wedgeéd beétweén two high pressure areas. This G. E. Goudie, n SUMMER DRESSES $K.00 Worth Much More—Finéal Cléarance B. M. Behrends Co. Inc. Price " j » “Juneau’s Leading Department Store” with his announcement. that: e intended to fly across-the English | Channel. He accomplished the feat on July 25, 1909, flying from Calms‘ to Dover. The destroyer Escopette was assigned to steer the course. Apparently, the idea that Bleriot's | LOUIS BLERIOT DIES SUDDENLY, machine might move faster than a destroyer never entered anyone's | head. Pulls Away Lindbergh 0[ Air, in His At first Bleriot's machine moved above the vessel. Then, seemingly Time, Passes Away at |yoinered by the smoke from tne His Home in Paris destroyer’s stacks, it steered slightly away. Little by little, it pulled (Continued rrom Page Cre) despite the efforts of the —— —_— - opette to keep ahead. In exactly 38 minutes the air- plane covered the 38 kilometers (235 miles) between France and © England, and Bleriot by his feat § won a prize of $5,000 offered by a London newspaper for the first ! [light across the channel. Acclaimed rywhere i Bleriot was acclaimed every . he went in England and was greet- © ed by a characteristic wild French # demonstration on his return to i Paris. He was congratulated by ~! the Government and made an of- ] ficer of the Legion of Honor. His plane was placed on exhibition and | among many offers he received was | one for a vaudeville engagement in the United States. Several years elapsed before Bler- | iot confessed what was the great moment of his channel flight. It was not the safe landing, but the sight of the chalk cliffs of Dover il after they had been hidden from ASSOCIATED PRESS LOUIS BLERIOT In the early days of his flying career, Bleriot had many exciting studied the problem of making a moments, and mét with many mis- practical airplane. He conducted haps during the experimental | tioning {ml and Jerry Jones, PAA pilet| sight for more than ten minutes,| 3board, the Lockheed Vega of the ,ytenged Southern Methodist uni-| 'B0Y WRITER, " THREATENING LETTER, FREE Youth Whe Demanded; $25,000 from Shitley | Temple, Out on Bond | fisherman, a terrible golfer, | dbstainer from liquor and tobacco; Whité Lace Goes Dancing Slim and cool is this evening August dances. It combines a sk same material. Note the tailored PACHYDERM KING ISFAMILY MAN New Tin-Eared Mat Cham- pion Has College Degree —Wife Helps Him By FRIF/ HOWELL COLUMBUS, O., Aug. 3.—College graduate, husband of his childhood weetheart, father of t a fine total —that's Everett Marshall, new rul- er of the heavyweight wrestling ranks (in certain sections) ‘When the La Junta, Colo. grap- pler dumped Al Baba, the pseudo Turk, on his back here to ascend the throne, his mpnager, Billy Sandow, said “At last the wrestling game has {a champion worthy of the name. GRANT, Nebraska, Aug. 3. __| Everett is a fine family man, a Sterling W. Powell, aged 18, who real American of the highest sort, admitted writing a letter threaten- ing the life of the little child film star, Shirley Temple unless $25- 000 was dropped from an airplane near Grant, is free under a $1,000| bond to await the action of the Federal grand jury. Powell, who was traced down by Federal agents, said he wrote the letter but did not intend to go| through with it. The Temple family, now vaca- in the Pacific Northwest, according to Associated Press dis- patches, is ot disturbed by the ex- tortion threat, ” | MRS. HAYES JONES ARRIVE BY PLANE = FROM KETCHIKAN With Mrs. A B Hayes Wite of | the PAA and Pan-American offic- | | Irving Airways, with Pilot Gene Meyring at the controls, arrivéd here shortly before 4 d'clock this after- noon from Ketchikan, where Mey- dozens of experiments at Issy-les stage of his flying machines. Moulineaux and lost most of the fortune he had made with his au- One Early Feat tomobile searchlight. In 1906, aided One early feat that pleased him the ereatly was in July, managed to remain in the air eight minutes against a gale. Another by two friends, he founded first airplane factory in France Finally, on September 17, 1907, his wildest dreams came true, 1908, when he | He Was in June, 1909 when he broke | ring had flown to meet the steamer | Alaska. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Crosson, | and Mrs. Wiley Post, widow of the | famous avtator who was killed in the north last year, did not come | by plane but will arrive on the Al- | aska tomorrow. e and probably the most clean-cut fellow who ever held the title. And | costume of white seashell lace for ender frock with a jacket of the belt. Maybe but I wouldn’t try thes won't in- find smoke. jure me, out.” The champion generally enters the ring close to the mark, and if the n half hour or more, 15 pounds. The next day, how- ever, he is back at “fighting weight” most of the loss having been mois- to h he loses about of the wunique 40-foot “floating | {radio laboratory,” which is now| moored at the city float | a guest 'now Juneau aboard the M. S. Electron, entertainingly told of the building| Kelly Blake told the meeting of the Rotary Clubs he had visited on| A recent trip south | - Unusual Camel Fossil NORMAN, Okla., Aug. 3.—The; fossil of a prehistoric camel, a rare | find in Oklahoma, soon will join ture \other remains in the museum of Marshall is a far cry from the Paleontology at the Unive oL “dese, dem and dose.” figures OKlahoma. i popularly associated with the mat _First discovered in Roger Mills game. Out of the ring he is al- COUNty near Cheyenne, Okla., three! most as shy as his wi but is Years ago, the bones of the huge able to hold up his end of the con- versation in any company on prac- tically any subject. In the ring he is the “killer” type, especially when he applies his favorite “full Nelson” gtip. —- > LABOR TRIAL - STARTS TODAY Lewis and His Associates | Fail to Attend—Out- i look Gloomy he won it on merit and real wrest- ling, with no ‘hippodroming.’ The “Little Woman” Helped Marshall required five years to plow through the wrestlng ranks from. the Bottom to the top, and| through those years Mrs. Marshall was his greatest booster. During the lean years, when he barnstorm- | ed all over the country, living “nut of a suitcase,” she w side for each of his bouts Two years ago their son, was born. Soon after that shall established residence in Col- umbus, and although Mrs. Mar- shall does not travel with him as e)'(tenslvely as before, she always | watches matches in this vicinity. Marshall and his wfe, both child- | ren of Colorado ranchers, met while attending high school at La Junta. After graduating, Marshall went to | the University of Iowa, while she versity at Dallas, Tex .. For two years, following her graduation from college, Mrs. Mar- shall taught school in Colorado, but when Marshall entered the mat game they ‘were married. Mrs. Marshall, strikingly tall, gray eyed and rather shy, doesn't object to her husband being a professional wrestler. She even says if- Bobby becomes a wres ‘I wouldn't m'nd if he the ring-| Bobby, | Mar- | WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor, said hopes for | a settlement of the con ersy be- | tween craft unionists and John Lewia, of the Mine Workers, is “not as bright as they were prior to to- day’s conference.” Neither Lewis nor any associates were present at the trial before the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor for “insurrec- | tion and rebellion.” I Lewis and his allies are in a big | fight to bring all workers in each | large industry into one big union | in violation of A. F. of L. policy of | eraft organization and he was cited | with eleven other union leaders for | “insurrection.” OUCH! i ‘No More Bottled Beer for L. A. Wrestling ‘ Fans 1 0S ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 3.— Bottled beer and soda ! pop have | |been banned at wrestling matches | here. | ! It seems that the spectators, \cumcwha[ annoyed at performances | camel were carefully transported to the State university's department of paleontology here. J. Willis Stov- B B R R R R R R “Alaska” 1all | said general pressure distribution has been attended by precipitation over thé Seward Peninsula and along the coast from the southern Bering Sea eastward to Kodiak, and by fair weather over the field of observition director of the nearly restored it ‘Camels were rare in Oklahoma,” Ralph B. Shead, of the pal- eontology project, “and this speci- men is the most complete of any et found.” museum, has [Rejects Wedding Rings Offered for War Chest WARSAW, Poland, Aug. 3.—Gen- eral Edward Rydz-Smig Pilsud- ski's pnlmml heir as Pnlnh ‘strong man,” has refused to follow the example of Mussolini, who accepted Ttalians’ wedding rings to help car- ry on war in Ethiopia. In answer to an appeal of the the remainder of War Minister for extra funds to complete Poland’s armaments, a couple sent their wedding rings to the war office. A few days later they go them back with a letter from General Hydz-Smigly. He had been much moved by their offer, the generalissimo said, but after thinking the matter over he had decided “such a donation is something like the last car- ridges in the rifle of a soldier, which must be used only in ex- treme necessity.” e GOES TO ST. ANN'S Herbert Gilligan entered St. Ann's Hospital for medical treatment yes- terday afternoon. RO Try an Empire ad. Its Scenic Features, Geography, llwtory and Govemment sid Newly Revised By 'LESTER D. HENDERSON 1hird Edition NOW ON SALE AT ALL flew 186 meters in a monoplane ;_1“' d}\"fl“(m “‘;0“]1 n‘h;:“ ‘"“:* ‘WOmgn Drinkers is s good at it as his father.” The|rendered by some of the mat vil- built by his own hands first he remaifed slo Intanies Marshalls’ other child is 5-month-|lains, tried to show their feelin A f s § | S, to s elings | After that progress was rapid. and 30 seconds; then 36 minutes | May Lose m' to old Ann. by hurling empty bottles at the DEALERS OR CALL AT Other young aviators and airplane @nd 55 seconds, and finally 3°|Re’t Fe‘t on m . Wanted To Sing Opera entertainers. constructors entered the field, Bleriot, by a daring flight June 29, 1908, managed to win the “Be- ginners’ Prize,” of 200 francs (then about $40). but Startles World On October 31 of the same year he startled the world by making the first cross-country flight on record. With one stop, he flew be- tween Toury and Arthenay, a dis- tance of about 60 miles. At that time the idea that anyone would leave the ground again in one of those wild contraptions after hav- ing landed safely, was almost un- believable. . Then camerthe great experience —the greatest stunt of pre-war aviation. Bleriot caused a sensation, minutes and eight seconds. Between 1009 and 1911 Bleriot | made many flights over the var-| ious capitals of Europe. He devoted | much time to the training of young pilots who succeeded to his laurels, | while he dedicated himself to the construction of airplanes. During the World War his fac- tories produced thousands of ma- chines for the French and Allied | Armies. Afterwards they turned .out a large number of planes for use by the French military forces. R VACATION ENDS | Mrs. E. L. Hunter Jr., and son | | returned on the Baranof after a| visit in Oregon. e Empire classifieds pay. mission was considering a propos- [ | more recent privileges—the right to | Austin Flegel, attorney for the com- PORTLAND, Qn.. Aug. 3.—The Oregon State liquor control com- al which, if adopted, would take | away from women one of their | rest their feet on a bar rail while drinking. The proposal was suggested by mission. “Women standing at the bar in front of beer places are causing resentment,” the attorney stated. The proposal will be acted upon at the commission's next meeting. - James Ramsay, Sr., enteréd St. Ann’s Hospital last night for med- ical treatment, Marshall, 218-pound blond, has many hobbies, but the two greatest are his family and trout fishing. During his youth he wanted to be an opera singer but he gave up that - idea and now confines his vocal efforts to the bathroom He says his hardest match was with a bear, which he raised from| a cub on his fathers’ ranch, he finds “Frankenstein,” filled robot designed by dger as a training easiest opponent. “Wrestling several times a week, I have been doing while a spring- partner, ical condition and mental are the most valuable parts of my wrestling equipment “That's why I don't drink or his man-| has Marshall says, “has convinced me that phys- | ; This would have been o. k., buL‘ {unfortunately some innocent per- | !sons were struck by the missiles, | And sports writers were annoyed | |by the boitles. Hence the scribes ,pemioned the city fathers to draw | jup an ordinance calling .for paper cups instead of the more damaging containers for the liquid refresh- ments. | — .- LEAVES HOSPITAL Carl Lindstrom of Douglas, who | has been eonfined the past ten days in St. Ann’s Hospital with a badly infected leg as a result of a boil, was discharged yesterday. He ex- jects to be able to return to his position with the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company within a week or ten days. THE EMPIRE OFFICE _Price $1.00