The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 3, 1936, Page 7

Sma LAWS-A-MARCY -- PAW--- LOOKY --- THEM WILKINSES HEV ARRIV-- YE HEERED This vivid night photo shows Gov. Alf M. Landon (indicated by arrow at left) delivering his speech accepting the Republican nomination for president. The scéne is a special stand in front of the Kansas state SHAW CALLED DOWNHARDBY : lean: s a performance rxing Katharine As Shaw's cont 1 atge ow to the last c f his H ) g S d.) But the Texas miss wasn’t satisfied with deliber- ately ignoring an error just because the irrepressible Irish wag doesn't want people to tamper with his manuseripts. She wrote Miss Cor- nell, and the letter was duly for- warded to the playwright. NEW YORK. Aug. 3—Ray Hen- “Yes,” Shaw replied, “of course derson reported just before he sail- it should be April. The English ed for London the other night that | cleared out on May 8. Many thanks for pointing out the blunder; but Error Discovered in Writ- er’s “Saint Joan"—Is Corrected Now By GEORGE TUCKER a Texas 1 had discovered an 4 . v error in George Bernard Shaw's Why did JORE Wi 12 ven Sl I “Saint Joan.”,,For more than 12 |Instucting the nters to correct. years the printed text had placed the scene before the raising of the siege of Orleans as May 29, 1429. Baseball History Repeated in to witches (hon- slipped cut) there est, ne ju " THEY'RE ROOTIN' EROUND ~ Mgéfgo_l%g b GET THAT TH' SHACK LAK' A SHOOTIN- AR THING AWAY PASSEL 0' HOG AN' MAKE FROM ME--- L AINT GITTN' YORESE'F MIXED UP (N HOL' ON, SNUFEY ! NOBODY'S FEUDS !t D'YE RECKON BE FIXIN'UP GIT ON HUM, MARCELLY AN' SET WIF YORE PAPPY --- THAR'S GONTER BE SOME® POWERFUL SHOOTIN' 1N THESE PARTS AFORE TH' MOON UPS--- T ORTER A HOLE FER Scene at Topeka When Landon Delivered Acce NEW SCHEME FOR CONGRESS 1S INDICATED Trend Is Seen to Legisla- tion by Committee— Tax Bill Example (Continued from Page Cne) ptanro |sitting alone in concentration, can think more clearly about a sub- Jject than he can when sitting with |a committee. But the view of the committee, on the other hand, rep- | resents more factors. It is a step down from the clear, idealistic thinking of the individual to the | more practical compromising of views in a committee. The question is, just what is like- ly to remain of the idealistic think- !ing of the one man if his thought product, in the form of a bill, must be paddled and patted here and the to meet the views of, say, 435 House members. If anyone doubts that much leg- islating is done in committee, t in the gallery during cal- when as many as 300 hurried through Never more than two to three let him endar day bills will be eapitol at Topeka, where a throng o nation’s political leaders, gathered news cameramen below the speaker’s stand. (Associated Press Photo) men on the floor will know the contents of any one bill. The other: take the committee’s word that it is all ri ¢ thousands, including many of the for the event. Note the battery of D is the case of that old crone who ives in a hut not far from Brook- lyn bridge — on the Brooklyn side. Her d ter is a modishly dressed chi ly comely, wh rushes up to nice elderly men with outstretched hands and a big cheery ‘Hello there! I'm de- y YOU in—of all peeple. You know, something most embar 1z has happened; I came up town to shop and left my purse in the taxicab. Could you let me have $5 until I get home? My hus- band will bring it over to you to- night.” femme, fa to see Sometimes the nice eldorly gen- tlemen refuse the bait, but that's all right with her She merely apologizes for having mistaken an identity and ambles around a con- venient corner. Often it does work — you know. that big cheery smile—and, while the victim can’t recall the young woman, he is afraid that if he re- fuses he will offend or unduly em- 1936 Race Baseball history is repeating itself in the current race in the American and National leagues. For the past several years midseason has found the National league struggle a tight affair with four or five teams bunched up near the top, while the can league. Ameriean race has been virtually decided by the middle of July. Joe McCarthy and his New tional league race York Yankees are way out in front in the Ameri- But in the race for the National pen- nant there are four teams fighting it out Bill Terry’s Giants, Frankie Frisch’s Cardinals, Charlie Grimm’s Cubs and the Pittsburgh Pirates, man- aged by Pie Traynor. dicates that history may be repeated and the Na- And the present outlook in- decided in the last week of the muhn_pguuthgm@elpthepnfllymygy suit Try The Empire quick results classifieds for he knews that the barrass someone The answer is the daughter the old crone at all. She is one of half a dozer young belles employed to bring home the bank notes. And they play fair with her, turning in a percentage of every n” acquired from the nice elderly gentlemen The reason they play fair is that the old crone—who has pler takes care of them during lean times. If they run into poor luck, “Mother” gladly provides victuals and a bed lass isn't 15 1 of “My Skin Was Full of Pimples and Blemishes” Says Verna Schlepp: “Since using Adlerika the pimples are gone. My skin is’" smooth and glows with health.” Adlerika washes BOTH bowels, rids you of poisons that cause a bad complexion. Butler, Mauro Drug Co. in Douglas by Guy's Drug Store. —adv. {in REYNOLDS MAKING QUICK TRIP SOUTH TO MEET HIS WIFE Perey Reynolds, manager of the Juneau Ice Cream Parlors and the Juneau Liquor Company left early Sunday morning on the Alaska Air Transpori Bellanca Totem, piloted OH, PLEEZE -~ | UNC GUSTUS- HEV MARCY ON 'EM--EF YE ONLY KNOWED by ‘Sheldon Simgmons for Seattle HOW WEASY |/ expedting to cateh d special plane (NFETCHIATES | |from there at 7:45 p. m. Sunday evening for Los Angeles The trip, as arranged, Reynolds said, would land him at Los An- geles within twenty-four hours af- ter leaving Juneau. He will be met by Mrs. Reynolds in Los Angeles and they will drive up the coast to Seattle by auto, returning here in | about ten days or two weeks. WAYNOR ON “FLYING” FLIGHT TO SEATTLE 'SHIP BRINGS WHALE | INTO SEATTLE PORT Charles Mayor, manager of the — | Alaska Credit Bureau, who left (Seattle Times) | on the A ka Air Transport’s Bel- Captain Charles O. Hansen, mas-| }anca early Sunday morning for ter of the fastest steamship on the| Seattle is really making a flying coast run, the H. F. Ales . of | business trip—as Waynor says he the Pacific Steamship ympany | Wil be back on the job in Juneau Line, opined today his ship hardly| Wednesday afternoon. The Bel- could be called a fishing boat after| !2nco Totem is billed to leave Se- the occurrence last night of what|? tle Wednesday morning for Ju- he termed the most unusual inci-| Neau dent of his career The ship awkwardly came into| port with a huge whale—one of the| large seen in the North Pacific several years, Captain Hansen' said, wedged across the ship’s bow | just below the water line, ¥ I couldn’t figure out what was the matter with the ship coming down Puget Sound. She wasn't per- forming right and there didn't seem to be anything particularly wrong ‘We were making 22 knots an when the ship's knife-edged bow cut into the denizen of the deep and probably killed the whale in- hour stantly At first we thought we had hit a log in the Straits of Juan de Fu The whale explains it. The force of the ship kept the whale hung on t'p bow. We did not dis- cover it until we docked when the whale fell loose,” Captain Hansen said If your Daily ming into port the ship han- | dled awkwardly and I noticed Chief Officer Fred Bonham and the for- ward crew peering over the bow then Bowman shouted, ‘We got a whale’.” The ship required 12 minutes 1al to rlgr‘k‘ he said. more than usu - > {SWIMMERS ARE OUT | FORFIRST PRACTICE Olive Urlin, Mary Wildes and AFTER 6:00 P. M." MRS. SOMMERS RETURNS =P Returning on the Baranof Sat- urday evening were Mrs. R. J. Som- mers and son Robert, who had spent a month and a half & Wells, Minnesota, visiting Mrs. Sommers’ parents, Mrs. Sommers réports that the month of June was de- lightful, but that July was almost unbearable in that part' of ‘the country D ARMY FAMILY TRAVELS Capt. Whatley of Fort Benning, Georgi accompdnied by Mrs. Whatley and his soR Robert, is a round trip passenger abcard the Baranof ———.——— SEE FEMMER For nice, fresh, dressed chickens. —aav, The VOGUE Offering Savings to Cash Buyers of Ladies’ teady-to-Wear. “Save by Paying Cash” 107 Phone Seward 658 ' PHONE 226 Alaska Empire has not réached you PHONE 226 and a copy will be sent by' SPECIAL CARRIER to you IMMEDIATELY. {“Buddy” Brown, members of the |Juneau Swimming Club’s team, | which is being coached by “Chuck” |Dominy for the American Legion Convention swim meet to be held early next month turned out for their first practice this atvernoo |at Evergreen Bowl .o | Empire classifieds pay. ALASKA Corey Ford is one of the few fic- tion writers who really understands the scientific theory of fly and bait casting . . He would rather whip a mountain stream for steelhead trout than anything you can name. . If an award were to be made for New York's best dressed artist, Russell Patterson would win it. . . . On Coney Island, which is a sandy ! beach, they will toss you in the hoosegow if you go in swimming without the top of your bathing . But in City Hall Park, which is smack in the middle of town, anycne wearing more than a pair of trunks is considered over dressed. There's a fountain there beneath the statue of Civic Virtue (a strong-armed guy with his heel on a lady’s neck), but it is more than just a fountain to the young ccalawags who roam the city. To jthem its’ the ole swimmin' hole. Shippinfimses fo United States LONDON, August 3. — Twenty: three thoroughbred horses of the' | “Suffolk punch” breed have been purchased by Harry Linn of Des | Moines, Iowz, and shipped to New' York. This is the first shipment of its kind to the United States| in nearly 25 years. “These horses| { will be used principally for farm rict and also for breed- " said Linn PL > ! Karnes Flies to ! San Francisco {In 21 Hours { A. E. Karnes, Territorial Commis- | sioner of Education, has set up a | passenger speed record for travel { from Juneau to San Francisco. The | Commissioner left here at 4 o'clock Sunday morning aboard Sheldon Simmons’ plane for Seattle. He got | into Seattle in time to catch a reg- | ular airliner south and arrived in | San Francisco at 1 o'clock this morning, or an elapsed time of 21 | hours. Mr. Karnes went to San Fran- Telephone 409 B. M. | supplies for the new Nome school, | and expects to be back in Juneau in about 10 days. i ————.————— Empire classifieds pay. INSTALLMENT PAYING ASK ABOUT OUR POOLED ACCOUNT WE ARRANGE WITH YOUR CREDITORS TO POOL THEIR ACCOUNTS FOR INSURA See H. R. SHEPARD & SON INSURANCE 'Allen Shattuck | cisco to buy some $10,000 worth of Established ls“ . PACIFIC COAST CHECKER 230 South Franklin AN CHEVROLET FEATURING CARSTEN’S BABY BEEF —DIAMOND TC HAMS AND BACON-—U. S. 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