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" MARCELLY ! DON'T SKEET OFF - I CRAVE TER HEV SPEECH THE DAILY MARCY SAKES--- WEASY " EF VE HED BEEN A HARNT A-POPPIN' UP OUT'N TH' GRAVE, VE COULDN'T HEV SKEERED ME WUSS WIF YER SUDDINT MOT(ONS --- DOUGLAS NEWS ATER SUPPLY IS READY FOR - DOUGLAS CITY Properties Must Be Con- nected with Mains by | September 1 The _regular montlily meeting of the Douglas City Council, p ostpon- | ed from last week, was held last| evening. The business consisted | largely of matiers pertaining to! the water system, sewers and strects. A | Engineers Stratton and Hough | presented the July estimate due| Wright & Stock Comps amount- | ing to $11,29879 which was ap-| proved by the Council. The pro-| posed change of order in connec-| tion with the St. Ann's Avenue| { extensions was discussed at somc length. September 1st is the date set for | all properties to be connected with | the new water system as no fur-| thor repairs will be made to the| old lines after that date. City| Marshal DuPree was commission- | ed to inspect all private line con-| nections with the new system to see that they are properly made. | City Clerk G was instructed to order a siamese coupling for a one and. one-half-inch hose with | two shut-off nozzles for the Fire Department. ‘Service lines to cer-| tain private properties were or-| dered installed as was also some additional ditching to turn drainage | water on Fifth Street into Bear Creek. | Plans to have the streets grav- rled were also made, and several| Issues of varying importance were| discussed. A. Shudshift, of the | Douglas public school board ex-| hibited to the Council proposed | plans for a new school building. | Twelve bills amounting to $731.14 were approved and ordered paid. . COMING FOR VISIT | Miss Ann Henning, sister of Mrs. Erwin Hachmeister, is ex- | pected to arrive here from San| Francisco, on the Aleutian about| the 20th for a week’s visit. — - MISS AALTO RETURNS After six weeks’s attendance at the Bellingham State Normal sum- mer school, and a visit in Port-| land, Miss Impi Aalto arrived home | on the Yukon last evening to vi ‘ [a few weeks with her parents be-| fore going to Petersburg for an-‘ other term of teaching. Miss Aalto reported Mr.. and | Mrs. M. J. O'Connor getting along fine in Bellingham and wishing| to be remembered to all their old friends. Mr. O'Cennor was the leading citizen and Mayor of Doug- | las for several years prior to 1917.! e JOHN MARTIN GOES WITH SEATTLE REAL ESTATE FIRM John Martin, who left about a month ago for a vacation south, has sent up his resignaticn as guard at the Federal jail in Juneau, hay- ing taken a position as salesman with the Puget Sound Mill Com- pany, Seattle real estate firm. He expects to secure a suburban home there for himself and family and sometime in October Mrs. Martin and son and Mr. Martin Sr. will! join him there. B ON OFFICIAL VACATIONS Charles E. Ward, Vice-President of the Western Line, Canadian | National Railroad, is vacationing! aboard the Prince Robert as that' vessel makes its last Alaskan cruise| of the season. / €S the MOMENT O 0;“g | R NEVER YE MIND HOW T GOT OUT'N TH' CABIN, MARCELLY-- 1 KEM A-PURPOSE TER TELL YE T HAIN'T GONTER LET THIS FEUD-WAR BETWIXT OUR FAMBLIES BUST UP 0UR FRIEN' SHIP--- ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1936. FURIATION ALIVE YE NEEDN'T LOOK AT ME CIKE THET, WEASY-- YE ORTER KNOW I HAIN'T SOLEMN AN' WISTFUL FER NOBODY (N TH' WORLD 8UT FOTCHED MAH SHOOTIN-ARN TH' BUZZARDS WOULD BE B, A, GUNNISON AND BRIDE ARE THROUGH HERE SO” Of FO\’I“CI‘ Juneau Judge IS NO\\',PI’O”]inent Lecturer, World Events Royal Arch Guunison, Jr., of Cambridge, Massachusetts, son of the late Royal Arch Gunnison, at one time Judge of the First Ju- dicial Division with headquarters in Juneau, and his bride were through Juneau last night aboard the Can- an National steamer Prince Rob- mak the Southeast Alaska Arch Gunnison, the father * youlig wan, came to Juneau in 1909 from New York State to serve on the bench here. He held that position until 1913 when went into a law partnership with E. Robertson. This partnership continued until Mr. Gunnison's th in 1918, at which time Gunniscn and young Royal attle to make their home Since that time Royal Gunniscn has risen to prominence in the 1d of international politics and newspaperman. He is now em- ployed by the Christian Science| ¥ he { Monitor. | ference in Geneva about two For the Early Fall Voyager This roomy comfortable travel coat is ready for the first cool days on deck or a long motor trip. Beatrice Lillie (British actress) wears it in brown fleece with a tremendous collar of lynx which sweeps on down the frent. Tle big sleeves are finished with a seam which runs down the arm from shoulder to cuff. ! " | islatively by the new Congress. World-Consciousness Is Now Felt by U. S., e One) Small Part of Story Far into the future, and deep into a thousand by-ways runs the un- der-surface speculation about this latest European flare-up and the possibilities of those which may ccme after it.' The guarded pub- hed statements of officials tell only a small part of the story. The determination to keep aloof from European troubles cannot be ques-' (Continued irom iu to enter a war zone, it should be done only after Washington has considered the risk. It is recalled that as late as '98, a war was touched off by the blowing up of an American battleship which was standing by at the Spanish fortress of Havana Many Considerations Involved in the determination of According to informaiion received by Attorney R. E. Robertson, Young Gunnison received a special com- | mission to attend the Peace Con- i Since that time he has tained prominence as a lecturer on foreign relations. While visiting with his mother in Seattle before making the Alaska trip, Mr. Gun- guest speaker at the| amber of Commerce,| on “Europe from the Press Gallery.” Mrs. R. A. Gunnison, mother of | the journalist, who is a well-known | Christian Science practicioner in| Seattle, entertained honoring her| quarrel within the ranks of union son's bride at a large reception,| labor, which #eems now to be draw- while (he couple visited in Seattle.| ing toward a final open break | To the previous indicators of re- the | viving industry has been added still practical means of such a policy | another. Visiting the President at much remains to be decided. There| Hyde Park, Chairman Eccles of is no excitement, no tension, no|the Reserve Board reported an up- an immediate crisis at all,| turn in private borrowing from pri- but there reflec- | vate sourc That is one wheel in tion, | the recovery machine which has In the domestic field, events con-| broved very hard to start, and the tinue to follow the pattern of recent | industrial community will be much weeks. | interested to see whether it keeps | going, and with what velocity. 5 Wdlsial 190 < el 2go. will await Mr. Roosevelt’s { with his drogght! committee in the West. In non-official circles the draw- ing card has been the continuing tioned; but with regard to sense of is constant sobe Other Activities Officially, Washington's greatest | outward activity has centered this| week around drought relief, with no deviation from established poli- cies. If new policies are to be brought forward, they apparently Mabel Linehan will leave on the Princess Louise tomorrow morning for Edmonton, Alberta, where she will with friends and rela- By BILLIE DE BECK d MAH DARTER CONSORTIN' WIF A SMIF !t DING BUS' YORE HIDE, WEASY, EF T HAD HEVIN' A HIGH T(ME MONGST YORE BONES BY TER-MORRER- SENT HERE BY, Young Men Will Make‘ Headquarters in This Area for Several Months New arrivals in Juneau on the vukon yesterday included William Umpleby and Wendel B. Férn- young missionaries for the hurch of the Latter Day Saints, will locate here for several onths organize a branch of church among members of residing in the Gastineau rea. v vho to hanne sent the young men arc in Douglas, but persons in- in their work may learn about by telephoning Umpleby is a journaiisi, and been engaged in missionary v ouver, B. C. Mr. ¥ had -three years it the University of Utah, has been working in the Mission Office of the church in Portland. He intend. to return to Utah soon to complete his work for a degree Interveiwed here today the mis- sionaries stated that no ministers nor missionaries of the Church of the Latter Day Saints are paid, all tayin, ted awu Mr. has has The Ohia State negro, Jesse Owens, became the first athlete since Paavo Nurmi to score a “triple” in the Olympic Games. Owens won the 100, 200 and broad jump, with record performances in each. Jesse is shown in action in the broad jump in this radio photo. (Associate} Press Photo) meetine. MEMBER OF FAMOUS FIELD FAMILY HERE, Among members of the party of Eastern mining men, who have been inspecting the White Water of mines in the distr T. F. Field. mining engineer, Duluth. Mr. Field is the grandson of Cyrus W. Field, who ponsible for laying the cable. The Field family has had many other illustrous members, including Stephen Field, Supreme Court Justice and brother of Cy-' rus Field. Mr. Field has made many trips to Alaska, but admitted here today that “he enjoyed it more every time." faku Atlantic - > Foreign-born tes in the Unit- ed in 1930 numbered 13,- 366,407 this' question are many other mili- tary and diplomatic considerations What the final answer will be can only be conjectured, but it is cer-| tain ‘that no subject will receive more careful consideration during the next immedi: ase of Amer- ican relationships to Europe. The trade-in-wartime problem much more complicated. It runs the whele scale of martitime prac- tice from supervision of clearance | papers to the operation of submar- | ines. One single section on this' wide front will illustrate the diffi- culties;: Suppose an arms em- bargo to Spain is agreed upon by | European powers and such anj embargo has been discussed—what | ought the United ates to do about it? Neutrality Law There is a guestion w! thing at all could be dc abou Ccngress passed a neutrality a year ago, and revised it la ruary, but it spes thi about embargoes to belligerent na- tions. Spain is not a belligerent in the accepted sense that she is at war with any foreign nation. Here is something for Congress to think about when the present statut 5| is her any- Wheat Haryest Progresses Despite Rava oes of Drouth Loading wheat on wagons l a WRIGLEY'S HAS OCFANS 3 MORMON CHURCH »... MISSIONARIES ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION Marin, of Douglas Inn, ans Big Time on Saturday Night John Marin will celebrate First Anniversary as proprietor the Douglas Inn, located . in the Eagles' Hall in Douglas with a huge dance and entertainment. Sat- urday night. Starting promptly at 9:30 o'clock, Rands' Orchestra will open the affair and according to Marin, many new, novel stunts of ertainment will be offered his patrons for the first time on the Channel Many door prizes will be award- ed and preparations are under way to handle huge crowd of the many patrons and friends of the Douglas Inn. his of must be told of launched all their ment The elf-supporting the program recently by their church to take mmebers off the Govern- relief rolls by early winter. “Mormon” church will divide bran into divisions with a in charge of each. These n e use of all urces of producing both k and commaodities, and devise new projects for unemployed church members, The plan is not a charity scheme but a project to give work with remuneration to all who are physically capable of working, the young men said. -ee MRS. GEDDES LEAVING also Mrs. William Geddes, accompan- ied by Billie and Junior, will leave on the Princess Louise in the morning for a six weeks' vacation trip which will be spent with friends and relatives in Seattle, Bellingham and Port Townsend, Washington. Mr. Geddes is a mem- her of the sales staff of the Ju- neau-Young Hardware Company. REVERY MEA WINDOW CLEANING PHONE 48% INSURANCE Allen Shattuck Established 1898 JUNEAU CASH GROCERY CASH GROCERS Corner Second and Seward Streets.. Free Delivery b GRNE 58 R o Juneau Lumber Mills, Ine. AFTER 6:00 P. M.!!! 226 If your Daily Alaska Empire has not reached you PHONE 226 and a copy will be sent by SPECIAL CARRIER to you IMMEDIATELY. expires next May.- | Of course if the discussion were | broadened to deal with food em- bargoes and other questions involv- ed in the general subject of neu- trality, the complications also would be increased almost with-! out limit. No one was well satis- | fied with the neutrality measure either when it was passed or when it was revised. * Certainly there is a possibility, growing out of the! Spanish disturbance, that the en-| tire subject will be overhauled log-1 Ready for the thresher ‘While the drouth took a terrific toll in most parts of the midwest, Jn some sections farmers benefited by the rampage of nature. In the vicinity of Topeka, Kas, where the above harvest scenes were taken, wheat growers are busy harvesting a crop above normal in yield. And the high prices paid for wheat as a result of the shortage An other sections has made their crep the most profitable in years.