The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 19, 1936, Page 8

] 4 CITY COUNCIL LEARNS JUNEAU IS VERY NOISY| Motion Passedfaosing Por- tion of Seward St. for Safety of Children | for the safety of the school chil- | dren, 300 of whom have to cross it ‘every day in going from one school building to the other. The Coun- cilmen voted in favor of the plan to block off the street, and Mr. Phillips obtained permission to con- | struct a sidewalk in the middle of the block from the grade to the high school. A resolution was passed to give a | quiet claim deed to Nels Sorby, who | more than 10 years ago purchased a tax delinquent piece of property | from the city and never obtained a deed for the lot. The Standard Ofl Company or- Little do tourists obtaining their ginance was passed for the krmnn‘ first impression of Juneau as a beautiful, peaceful little city nestled in a s real facts, at the City Council meeting last evening. For Juneau is, just full of unnecessary noises of the sort that make radio reception here extreme- ly poor. Juneau has noisy oil heaters, hair dryers, and signs, etc., the City Inspector found after go- ing over the city with his noise lo- cating machine. Those wishing to have the noise locator work may call 206. t was decided that Mr. Hixson and Mayor Goldstein would visit some of the noisy places today and see if something could be done to improve the situation. R. R. Brown, President of the Terminal Company, appeared be- fore the Council to obtain approval an amphitheatre know the| ceived for the repair of according to testimony of City Radio Inspector Bill Hixson, reading, after which the iMayor| stated that as no bids had been re- | the city jail, the city would hire someone to do the job under the supervision of the City Engineer. | New Cemetery Site Mayor Goldstein also ‘told the Council of going over the proposed crmeer) site on the Glacier High- ! way near the wireless station vn!h‘ Charles Flory and Charles Bur- dick of the Forest Service. The site chosen is a 25 acre plot on a side hill, well drained, and very scenic. Mayor Goldstein stated. The May- | or reported signing the apphcatmn‘ | for the property in the name of Lhe} city. The piling for the lower city float bought from the Juneau Lumber Mills will arrive here on Sunday, it was reported. ! The four bids for tires for the | | 21. Volcano in | 29. Out of date of a dispensary license for half of | fire truck were opened angd the con- the Terminal. Mr. Brown exX-jtract given to the Juneau Motors plained that the present dance hall| with the lowest bid. portion of the cafe would be shut| Following this the meeting was off from the cafe section and a gdjourned. door opening onto Front Street il oy constructed. The license was ap- MRS. CONWAY GOES HOME proved. Mrs. Jack Conway, wife of the Street Blocked Off | sitka merchant, and infant son Superintendent of Schools A. B. John Martin, were dismissed from Phillips presented to the Council St. Ann's Hospital today and book- a plan for closing Seward Street| ed passage on the Northland to Sit- between th and Sixth Streets ka. Dinner Dance—6-to 8 p.m. Sunday |, Always... the Best Time TERMINAL Where the Strains of Alexander’s Ragtime Band | INVITE YOU TO ‘ DANCE | 9:30 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. TONIGHT Luncheons Dinners Suppers Parties Cover Charge Saturdays AN Datly Cross-word Puzzle ACROSS Solution of Yesterday's Pukzle 24. Mexican 1. Widen ||n f A dl’nm... 5. Actot kindness [PICITTAINITRASIOTAIKIEID] 26, Atter song o hontres - [SENITIORIRTEIRIIVIE] . faag e 1. spantan wiae NTETL [T [RIEAA] 15. Senseless ICIR]Y] 16. Cl:y lnl Por- uga 17. Sleepiness [EID|UICIE] 19, Gambling ATIEIR game 20. Type measures Martinique 22. Mnde I mis- 23, Dnmlnur over 25. Inxredlenl of varnish 28. Grasp 31. What person 34. Epic_poem 62. Discharge of 36. Astern duty involv- 37. Burn . ing frequent 38. Indefinite change of quantity residence 64. Fastener Article of bellef 41. California 65. rockfish 6. Triangular 42. Paradise 43. Solemn wonder 67. Insects 44. Kind of wine 68 Condition 46. Thrice: prefix 69, Was under 47. Climb obligation 49 Fat 50. Dispatched DOWN 62. Statutes 1. Card of a' 54. Prepared mariner’s 56. Extra part compass 88 Mournful 2. A judge of . Small case srael (PP TP | JEEN//dN WA =l | T | | | | ] b o o AICIORIN] @BE AISIKIAINICIE BAFE R IMERARIE|ISIT] W e W/////<Ammn// 1 l% i}fll.//filfil o Vuam fillllV//flllll// U an heels over head Picture stand Conditions . Biblical city Make speeches: humorous . Excess of the solar year over the lunar year Crustaceans . The mllkflsh . Let dow) . Bend ln l.lrnha Bird of prey ) . Supervises a 3. Charity literary pub- 4. Chess piece lication 6. Placed away 63. Rugged moun- for future tain ridge reference 54 A king of 6. Anoints idial 7 Wind indicator 55. English school 8. Formerly 56. Proof reader's 9. Female sand- direction piper 67. Cone of spong: 10. Wood used for silver left making after retort- flutes ing In all places 58. Crystallized . Sheet of glass ‘water vapor alked 59, City In Pales- tine . Colored . Female sheep 6 X Pruno\ln . Come to ma- turity 1n 12 13 18. Think 22, 23, / _uEEm ! -// /w7l Wl dEERd7/JdEEEE MWl ////flfllly///é//é fl "W Man Thml\s 1894 (Lucky, Gives [Data to Prove It Snake’s Rattle Wakens ROBERT LEE, Tex., Sept. The rattle of a snake awakened 19— | WASHINGTON, Kas., Sept. 18— Mr. and Mrs. Will Woods one hot | Sherman F. Lull believes in a Dight when they were’ sleeping in | lucky number and its 1894. a low farm wagon in their )ard' 5,000 FARMERS INQUIRE ABOUT COMING NORTH Want to Leave Drought Sections for New Life in Alaska ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 19.— Five thousand inquiries from farm- ers, mostly in the drought belt states, have been received at the Chicago office of the Alaska Rail~ road, said H. W. Snell, Chicago representative who is here on his annual visit. Snell said the influx of farmers is greater than before and many are settling independently on Ke- nai Peninsula and northward along the railroad belt. g: BROWDER, CANDIDATE, 18 BIVING VIEWS Says Majority of Sentiment | in United States Is Democratic By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Sept. 19. — Earl| | Browder, the Communist Presiden- tial candidate, stepped into Wash- |ington recently and deplored what ';ln- termed lack of freedom of the press in America. His speech was delivered before | the Naticnal Press Club, hearing speakers groups. The principal reason for report- ing this is that Browder, a slen- der, with dark sandy hair and mus- |tache, argued that the American public was not getting a fair break from all political |newspapermen there did not up in indignation at the assertion so, and he told them. “SENTIMENT UNREFLECTED” He did not say where he got his |figures, but he said 90 per cent of the newspapers in the country were owned by Republicans and were which is| pleasant fellow of 45 or 50 in the newspapers. The several socre: rise | |but simply asked why he thought | Couple Asleep in Yard| Lenore Miller, former actress and Chicago dancing teacher, filed a $100,000 breach of promi in Florida against David Scobie, Chi- cago insurance broker. ie's heiress-wife said she would help her husband. (Associated Press Photo) ,Adventnts Cut Votes ‘ADULT BIBLE CLASS | After Close of Pollsy WILL MEET SUNDAY KEENE, Texas, Sept. 19.—Resi- | Thé Rev. John A. Glasse has an- dents of this village cast their bal- | nounced the formation of an adult lots in State elections after all Bible class to hold its first meeting lother polls have been closed. |at 10 o'clock Sunday morning al Keene is inhabited by a colony of | the Northern Light Presbyterian Seventh Day Adventists, who ob-|Church. The high school = stu- serve the Sabbath from sunset Fri- dent's class, which meets at the day to sunset Saturday. Texas elec- | same hour, has been turned over tions are on Saturday and polls|to C. B. Arnold. here are held open until after 8i D pm., an hour after the regular | BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL closing time, so Keene citizens mayf WOMEN'S CLUB 1vote after their Sabbath ends. | The first GET-TOGETHER SRV MEETING after the summer recess COATES RETURNING HOME |will be a NO-HOST dinner at the C. D. Coates, wife and son, after Terminal Cafe Monday evening at iting in the states for several|six thirty. As September is mem- | weeks, are passengers for their Ju-|bership month, each member is {neau home aboard the motorship urged to bring a guest interested in Zapora. | club work. —adv. He and his wife were born that year. For years they have had car | |license No. 1894. In the Republican primary this | the race for nomination for County Treasurer. It appeared he was beat- en with 1,873 votes to 1879 for his opponent. The absentee ballots came in, boosting Lulls' total to 1,894, enough to win. . Spurs Buckled Wrong AUSTIN, Tex.—Seasoned rangers grinned when they learned that (spurs on a statue of a “typical” Texas Ranger at the Centennial exposition were buckled on the in- filde of the feet. year Lull wa: E | : by s running second in| oo o the wagon, its head danc- | near here. Afraid to move or lie still, they | called for help. Their son-in-law, | Jake Sparks, brought a flashlight, found the snake draped over a ing arcs near the couple. ured six feet, had 14 rattles. T 7 A ATTENTION O. E. S. All Eastern Star members and their escorts are invited to a cov- ered dish dinner Tuesday, Sept. 22, at 6:30 p.m. Unless contact has previously been made, those desir- ing to attend should telephone Mrs. Chas. Flory. LILLIAN G. WATSON, Secretary. will be organized unless at least discontinued your money will each course. to dine well and rest well at Seattle’s most distinguished ad- dress. Here, you will find all the modern hotel conveniences necessary to your complete com- fort and all those old fashioned ideas of friendliness and -hos- pitality that are necessary to a good hotel well operated. Alaskan Headquarters—Ask for Permanent Rates | HOTEL NEW WASHINGTON | INSURANCE Allen Shattuck . Established 1898 Seven to Eight o'Clock . FIRST YEAR SHORTHAND Seventy-thirty to Eight-thirty . ORCHESTRA Please enroll me for night courses I am enclosing check for $ ENROLL NOW! NIGHT SCHOOL High School Building The first session is from September 29 to December 3, with class- es meeting one hour each on Tuesdays and Thursdays. No class twelve persons enroll. Each class costs $5.00 per session; if you pay your fee now and the class is be refunded. Absolutely no en- rollment accepted unless accompanied by the fee of $5.00 for Enrollment may be made by mail only, and blank is provided at bottom of this advertisement for that purpose. THE FOLLOWING COURSES WILL BE OFFERED: ADVANCED SHORTHAND BEGINNING FRENCH ADVANCED ALGEBRA FIRST YEAR BOOKKEEPING Eight to Nine o'Clock . .. ... . FIRST YEAR TYPING SECOND YEAR TYPING ADVANCED FRENCH USE THIS BLANK (Cut out and mail with your check to A. B. Phillips, Box 1271, Juneau) school. I wish the following Sparks killed the snake. It meas- | |therefore not reflecting the ma- Jjority public sentiment. The latest votes to test that, he said, had indi- cated the majority of the sentiment was Democratic. g | The newspaper men had come to listen and so did not argue with | him, as they did later among them- |selves, that perhaps ownership was |not so much the test as whether all sides in a controversy are given an jopportunity to be heard through the |newspapers. Browder agreed his speeches had been reported by the { newspapers | | He was thoroughly questionec on how the press was operated in a | Communistic state, like Russia. | A EXPLAINS SOVIET PRESS \ Why, he was asked, were all Rus- | sian papers for the Soviet Gov-| ernment? Because, he answered,| all the people were for the Soviet| Government, or at least 99 per cent | @s ;shown in the most recent roll call. | Did the remaining one per cent’ have freedom of the press? ‘ because Communists believe in ma—l Jority rule. ! | There was a sort of mass lifting |of eyebrows at such an interpre- | |tation of freedom of the press, which | (Browder frankly conceded was not| the interpretation placed upon it/ {in America. | It doesn't necessarily imply any- (thing, but the day Browder spoke | {in Washington, two men were ar-| [rested on the Capital streets for distributing Communist handbills, There is a law in the District of Columbia prohibiting distributon of any kind of hand bills. { —————— | | 1§ AT THE HOTELS — & Gastineau R. H. Stock, Petersburg. Zynda _ E. J. White, City; G. W. Ham- ond, City; R. D. Walkley, City; O. H. Lippe, Oregon; H. G. Nite, Petersburg. Alaskan C. W. Christoffel, City; Joe Mar- tin, City; E. C. Michels, City; Peter Gusdal, City; C. Bettinger, City. -, COMING TO JUNEAU Mrs. Don Gallegher and two chil- dren are passengers aboard the Za- pora returning to their home in Ju- neau after visiting in the south. RUTH LEWIS RETURNS; STARTS BUSINESS HERE Ruth Lewis, who left Juneau for the States last April, has returned to make thki: city her permanent| home. She has established a ladies tailoring business in the Goldstein Building, bringing with her special machines for covering buttons and hemstitching. i ENTERS ST. ANN'S ‘Mrs. Jack Glendon entered St. SONS of NORWAY MEETING Saturday Nite, Sept. 19 AT 8 O'CLOCK ‘ L OO, Dancing Refreshments —GEO. JORGENSON F. HALL Melons as Vote Getters Replace ‘ Baby Kissing DALLAS, Tex., Sept. 19.—Water- melon feasts are oogd vote get- ters, candidates in a recent Texas primary discovered. In fact, they were more popular in Dallas Coun- ty than kissing babies, orchestras, steak fries or morning coffee. 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