The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 4, 1936, Page 2

CLEARAWAY SUMMER BAGSand GLOVES HOSIER Y SCARFS MILLINERY ALL SUMMER HATS—Grouped to Sell, Your Chioce—NOW FABRIC GLOVES SUMMER GLOVES WHITE KID GLOVES SILK SCARFS LACE NECKWEAR SUMMER BAGS $1.00 50c and $1.00 50c and $1.00 $1.00, $1.95, $2.95 CHILDREN'S LONG HOSE . CHILDREN'S HALF SQCKS . CHILDREN'S ANKLETS . BOYS SOCKS—% and 7/s lengths LITTLE MEN'S SOX st Jeabsis Ve, 3 pair—$1.00 - pair—25¢ _.pair—25¢ 3 pair—$1.00 pair—20c¢ and 25¢ SILK HOSIERY—Qdd lots, Women’s VERY SPECIAL—To clear SUMMER DRESSES $E.00 Worth Much More—Final Clearance Price B. M. Behrends Co. Inc. “Juneau’s Leading Department Store” SECRETS BARED BY GUN RUNNER Arms Bootlegging in Pales- | tine Revealed by Mas- ter at Business By EDWARD J, NEIL JERUSALEM, Aug. 4—This old Arab is a Mukhtar, a sort of a mayor of a small Arab village south of Jerusalem. He's a big, vil- lainous-looking codger until you get to know him. Then he smothers you with kindness, chokes you with endless cups of syrupy Turkish cof- fee, ruining your digestion Then, if you hammer hard enough at him, and he really trusts you, he tells you about his special- ty, gun running Yes, sir, the old Mukhtar is about the eleverest Arab in Palestine at sneaKing rifles and ammunition from Trans-Jordan, where rifles and ammnition are lawful, into Palestine, where they most cer- tainly are not, particularly since the revolt against Jewish immigra- tion and land buying started almost three months ago. Losses Heavy “But even knowing all the little wais (valleys) and every inch of the hills in the dark of night, we lose 75 per cent of the shipments,” he says sadly And how is business at the mo- ment, with the revolt freshening every day, the death toll rising steadily, tempers fraying, hatreds more bitter, violence more ex- treme? bad, very bad,” he says after a whole week's ached here with 47 rifles, 10,000 cartridges. But the more the British capture, the more we smug- gle, and the more we get through.” The northern border of Palestine now is so well protected by British troops that practically has Jordan River ceased along the line north of the Arab arms smuggling | series of twisting wadis along the southern frontier between Ghamr and Rashrash, and in the camel packs were 1,000 army rifles and 20,000 - cartridges. As we drank more coffee the ! old Arab gentleman who is' head of all this received a telegraph ' message from Gazm, another gun running center in the south. “Chickens and eggs have arriv- ed,” he read off} cransluclng the Arabic. e CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Evans of Fairbanks recently celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. ‘The Dead Sea. But east of the roasting |EVADS were among the first resi- valley of biblical fame, some 2,000 feet below sea level, there stretches | a wide desert, most difficult to patrol but simple territory Arabs and camels. “Chigkens and Eggs” It's not far to the Sy for | | an border | dents of Fairbanks, from Juneau B o LAST RITES HELD Funeral ‘services were noli in Fairbanks last week for the late Paul Hopkins, resident of that city going there along this desert corridor, not far|for more than 20 years, who pass« either to Iraq, where arms also are |ed away after a long illness. The easy to procure. And coming into |services were under the auspices Palestine from the south, more bleak desert and hill country, there are many places for gun run- ners to slip through the British cordons. | | through | of the B. B. O. E. ————————— AERIAL PHOTOS MADE Aerial pictures for the study of flood conditions in Fairbanks have The Arabs say they have brought | been completed by Dan Wilder and in at least 10,000 rifles and hun- |w. J. Barrows under the sponsor- dreds of thousands of rounds of |ship of the Fairbanks Chamber of ammunition through these holes.|Commerce. The pictures will be There seems plenty of truth such a statement, for only a week who is due to arrive in the In- ago one caravan was caught in a | terior to study flood control. SHlPS LOCKED IN CHESAPEAKE BAY COLLlSlON lmnlon stea ighter had shoved ti shows the steel) State o other craft aground to -“ attending a sea-going convontlon, were safely removed. (Amcm« Press Photo) Virginia afllrn eolllulan juma’?m ep.it from sinking. Two hundred to given to the U. S. Army officer, | €S MOMENT THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1936 » First Fall Blouses Are Tailored This is one of the new fall blouses made of soft yellow loom knit rayon which has a chamcis-like finish. It is cut like a man’s shirt with a convertible neckline which may be worn high or low and is finished with broewn composition buttors. For traveling or spectator sports wear, it steps cut with a brown wool suit. brown felt hat is trimmed with russet-toned grosgrain ribbon. Top wa Top.s Current let | The | i | | tifies. TOP ROW ‘ LT |Cabins Reconstructed NEW YORK, Aug. ¢ A. A.| on Roughrider's Ranch training that has_won more than | cabins in which Theodore Roose-, $200,000. | velt lived as a rancher, cowboy and Alfred 'Gwynne Vanderbil's Dis-|hunter in the picturesque Badlands | covery, though suffering a setback ! of 'western North Dakota are being |in, she Stars and Suipes hundicap {rebuilt on his old Maltese Cross | at ‘Arlington, is within st g dis- \ranch just south of here. o The old ranch lies in the beau- ) cle, |received when she fell from a rail- nected with his compa o3 spent most of his wife in Alaska, PhRY S & haying ‘been éne of the early busi: | plane Friday. nessmen of Valdez. He is survived R ) 2 — by a son in Alaska and severnl| Lode and B} d placer location notices lolher children in Sea for sale at The Empire office, | ala way trestle. Pilot Frank Pollock | ade the mercy " Death took an oldti i bimis 0 5. A dez when Harry B. G JUDSON IS IN TOWN away in Sewar Thomas B. Judson, mill super- ‘Gre?nlkg had l'x'm 4 to Seward | intendent for the Admiralty Alaska 'xang“?:omm;dpd lhul suffer-| Gold Mining Company, of Hawk ! arti He was | Inlet, is in town on i - born in Salt Lake City in 1881, but o pects to return to the mine by, Women Dislike British Ban on | Consular Jobs Owens in or ed to her. the government Claud Schustter. ernment’s announcement. brains for the job, wherever they may be found.” “In most foreign countries wo- | men are admitted to these services| now,” ‘said Miss ‘Marjorie Green;| secretary of the National Council for Equal Citizenship:. “I am afraid we are behind the tims Lady Snowden commented: “T see no reason why all women should be excluded from these posts. It has not been suggested that the average woman should take up this work, but only ones eminently suited for it Work Too Difficult | “In the very large majority of; consular posts,” the government an-| nmmced, “officers have to deal with | a number of matters which it would | Of Bang[(ul Gold W"”[()r,s \’ be difficult ‘for the average woman | to handle. . . women would in prac- | tice find themselves hampered and|They are owned by Frank Conway, restricted. At the same time diplomatic and|completed; were closed to|Peterson. consular British careers women, a recruiting drive { for more women police was started Baroni's Top Row, winner of almost | 18215,000 during his rac career,| & s g lis the ‘only thoroughbred now in| MEDORA, N. D. Aug. 4—Two |tance of the charmed c with total’ earnings of approximately [l valley of the Little Missouri $175,000. |River, surrounded by buttes, and ‘Willtam Woodward’s Omaha, naw‘cavum-d with purple sage and |racing. ih - England, was prevented | P!@PMing cactus | | tebro’, maving clase to the $200000| W- O Trenor of Roanoke, Va., |plags when he was defeated by a|PPesent owner of the ranch, had niose ‘in the Ascot Gold Cup by the DS cowhands reconstruct the two unfashionably bred filly, Quashed.|C3Pins. observing details of their Omaha has earnings of .mproxx-‘“”g”"‘l appearance as outlined by mately $150,000. Josth A. Ferris, who was a part- | The first young horse to mmmer of Roosevelt, and George W.| the $100,000 class this year was|MYerS, former cowhand of the [Hal Price Headley's Hollyrood, The | ROUShrider. lonly 1935 leading juvenile to show RRANK et Pl among the leaders of current RECEIVES TREATMENT raysars-gg ti?-m.l:m‘ H ‘21“&0’833 Marion Lysetle of Healy was tak-{ d 4 ® 4 len to Fairbanks recently from during his two years ing Healy suffering from a broken arm | in London. With some 70 women in its serv- ice as police, Scotland Yard began to look for more unmarried “women of character and keeness, 3 sing good education and sound phy- sique.” Their starting pay lIs ly $13.75 a week, with for lodgings extra. allowance i LN o e T e (11 laska” U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AQRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREA® « THE WEATHER (By the U. 3. Weather Burean) Forecast for Juneau aud vicinity, beginning at 4 pm., Aug. 4 Cloudy tonight and Wednesday, probably rain; moderate south- erly winds. ! LOCAL DATA By OSCAR LEIDING Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Veloelty — Weathet LONDON, Aug. 4.—The British| 4 p.m. yest'y 30.11 k() 39 E} 2 Clear government wants no Ruth Bryan, 4 am. today 3000 © AN &4 Y8 s 3 Rain 1 its foreign service. Noon today 30.09 63 69 S 14 Cldy A woman may sit on the throne, | CABLE AND KADIQ REPORTS in the House of Commons or YESTERDAY TODAY in the Cabinet—but diplomatic and | Highest 4pm. | Lowestdam. 4a.m. Precip. ¢am consular careers are tg remain eclos- Station temp. temp. | temp, temp. velocity 24hrs, Weath: | Anchorage 1 - | 51 — - 0 | i “The time has not yet arrived,”| Barrow 60 50 | 40 40 18 .01 Cldy has announced, | Nome .. 58 58 52 52 4 12 Rain when women could be employed | Bethel 72 70 56 56 0 0 Pt Cidy either in the consular service or in| Fairbanks 80 8 56 56 4 14 Cldy the diplomatic service with advan-| Dawson 8 - 44 46 L] 0 Cldy tage to the State or with profit to| St. Paul 54 52 | 48 48 10 04 €Cldy. the women." +| Duteh Harbor 58 54 50 52 4 56 Cldy This decision was announced af-| Kodiak o6 56 54 54 6 a8 Rain ter the question of admitting weo-| Cordova 64 64 | 56 56 8 [ Cldy men had been surveyed by a gov-| Junean 6 76 | 571 58 3 Trace Rain ernment committee headed by Sir| Sitka ... 68 — a4 - - .03 —_— Ketehikan 8 2 58 58 4 0 Pt. Cldy Well-known women were quick to| Prince Rupert 68 68 50 62 4 0 Cldy express their dissent with the zuv- Edmonton 70 68 46 46 4 0 Clear Seattle ... 8 2 58 58 0 0 Clear American-born Lady Astor said:! Portland 84 84 60 60 4 0 Clear “The old diplomacy has failed as| San Francisco 62 58 | 52 52 Q 0 Pt. Cldy the chaotic state of thé world tes- New York . 92 84 % 6 12 Trace Cldy The very dupelr-uon of civ-| Washington N T SRR 4 ) Clear | ilization’s plight should be suffic- d ient for us to insist that these pet- WEATRER CORPITIOND AT § A, M, ty barriers of sex be swept away | Ketchikan, cloudy, temperature, 64; Craig, cloudy, 60; Wrangell, to give place to the larger and far| partly cloudy, 61; Sitka, cloudy, 61; Radioville, clear, 60; Soapstone more vital consideration of the best| Point, partly cloudy, 64; Juneau, cloudy, 58; Skagway, cloudy, 53; Cardoya, eloudy, 86; Chitipa,: cleudy, 54; McCarthy, eloudy, 50; Val- dem, cloudy, 57; Seward, raining, 52; Kodiak, raining, 54; Anchorage, cloudy, 60; Fairbanks, .cloudy, 60; Nenana, clear, 60; Hot Springs, cloudy, 60; Tanana, cloudy, 60; Nulato, raining, 56; Kaltag, raining, 54; Crooked Creek, cloudy, 55; Flat, cloudy, 58; Bethel, cloudy, 58; Kanakanak, cloudy, 69. X WEATHER BYNOPSIS A storm area prevailed this morning over the northeastern por- tion of the North Pacific Ocean, the lowesi reported pressure being 29.44 inches. This storm area was wedged between two well defined high pressure areas, one over th: Aleutians and one over the west coast States. This general pressuve distribution has been attended by precipitation from the Aleutians eastward to Seward, also over the western portion of the Territory, and over the Pacific Ogean along the Great Circle route from Vancouver to Attu, while fair weather prevailed along the immediate coast line from Cordova southward to California. SAILING AT FAIRBANKS There are now three sail boats in use on Harding Lake at Fairbanks. recently | and P. whese 18-foot boat was F. L. Baker elicate= Aaver lasts i Schlllmg“ E. Bunnell, President of the Uni- POSSES- | yorgity of Alaska. Miss Abel suc-| FPWANRE a”’//fl |ceeded Miss Margaret Flanigan, | who resigned on July 1 | approximaie- - Try The Empire classifieds for BLEei s f snnm‘AnY APPOINTED | Jfit Announcecent has been made of | the appointment of Miss Gladys | Abel as secretary to Dr. Charles Empire ads are read. ;qulck results. Its Scenic Featlu-es, éeography, History and Government . . . By LESTER D. HENDERSON Newly Revised 1hird Edition NOW ON SALE AT ALL, DEALERS OR CALL AT THE EMPIRE OFFICE [ |