The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 27, 1936, Page 2

B L B b Hallowéen IRE, TUBDAY OCT. 27 I936 gency feeding and she]lcr We do much more than this fov our assis- tance is limited only by the needs of the families. It includes household goods, clothing, rebuilding and re- pair of homes, medical attention, | farm supplies, livestock and occu- pational assistance. We try to re-| establish families in as near their position before the disaster as is possible. The resources of the fami- |lies in money, credit, friends and relatives are expec/d to be drawn | upon, but the gap that the famx-‘ lies cannot fill, the Red Cross fills, not by the loan of money, but by ! STIFF BATTLE BEING FOUGHT IN 1 BISTRICT Writer Uses Q Queer Tactics in Campaign in Massachusetts OALL I ONERD Ka'un for Campdign from rmstice to Than ksgiving record, he asked inrcrmatlon on a|the knowledge:of its being there Swedish security act of about!suffices. 1883. “The wealthiest family on the is- Well, Democratic headquarters land is so by virtue of possessing didn’t have it, but did something & fei, the largest.eyer made, which about it, although the staff remain-| Was shaped in Pelags and lost when ing here was not quite certain what. the raft was wrecked. The fg Johnson followed up with a w_‘mat it is on the bottom of the sea quest for data on how the British|does not detract from its purchas- government. dealt with a general, |ing power. strike in England a decade back. | . “For ‘small chahge’ the people of “These novelists go at things a| Yap use flat pearl shells, also °h' little different,” was the only com-|tained from the Pelags.” ment headquarters could muster. | That may help when you seek, in Money in le:r | your mind an explanation for bury- New, peak-of-the-fashion dresses at holiday prices right now! Peplum and tunic styles—plenty of silks and crepes regal evening they are in tailored and dressy dre Made to sell priced in two groups at $ 800 Plenty of Black . . . for much more . . . and si 9.75 Bridge Frocks . . . Formal Evening Gowns . . . LISSES’ Tunics. Peplums, Flares . . . SIZES—14 to 20 WOMEN'S SIZES—34 to 46 S Juneau'’ Bright Gold To wear with black. Clips—Earrings—Bracelets B. M. Behrends Co. Ine. Leading Department el | | Jewelry Store W R U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU ' THE WEATHER (By the 8. Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, Cloudy southerly winds. LOCAL Temp. 51 50 48 Time 4 p.m. yest'y 4 a.m. today Noon today Barometer 30.18 29.88 30.09 tonight and Wednesday, Humidity Wind Velocity Weather Bureau) October 27: moderate beginning at 4 p.m., probably showers; DATA Weather Cldy Rain cldy 83 91 90 SE SE SwW 8 16 4 CABLE AND RADIO REPORTS YESTERDAY Highest 4p.m. Station temp. temp. | Atka | Anchorage Barrow | Nome Bethel Fairbanks Dawson St. Paul Dutch Harbor Kodiak Cordova Juneau Sitka Ketchikan Prince Rupert Edmonton . Seattle Portland San Francisco New York ‘Washington | Lowest4a.m. 4a.m. Precip. temp. temp. velocity 24hrs. Weather TODAY 4a.m. 34 37 -4 18 32 30 36 -4 8 42 5 Pt. Cldy Clear Clear Pt. Cldy Sprinkling Cldy Rain Rain . Cldy . Cldy Rain Rain Cldy Clear Cldy Cldy Cldy Clear Clear 0 Trace 30 04 WEATHER CONDITION AT 8 A. M. TODAY Ketchikan, raining, raining, 51; Sitka, cloudy, 4 partly cloudy, 46; Juneau, age, cloudy, 43; Cordova, partly cloudy, 34; McCarthy, Springs, foggy, cloudy, 22; Kaltag, cloudy, WEATHER rainin; clou The barometric pressure was low reported pressure d to move pressurc westward to the Hawailan and Midway isl- sure distribution has been attended by regior aska, the lowest This storm area is expe Valley. High barometr ward to California a ands. This general pr cipitaticn along the coastal temperature, Radiovi 8 47; cloudy, 45; 28; Tanana, cloudy, 20; Unalakleet, cloudy, 28; Flat, cloudy, 35. 50: Craig, raining, 51; Wrangell, cloudy, 48; Soapstone Point, Skagway, cloudy, 48; Anchor- Copper River, raining; Chitina, airbanks, snowing, 30; Hot 28; Ruby, cloudy, 30; Nulato, SYNOPSIS this morning over most of Al- being 20.34 inches at Fairbanks. castward to the MacKenzie prevailed from Ketchikan south- pre- 1s from the Aleutians southeast- ward to Seattle, the rain being excessive at Cordova, where 6.38 inch- es fell in the 24-hour throughout the interior clearing this morning over It wa sula, Barrc HOLDEN HOPS TO TAKU MINE TODAY With Lloyd Jarman as flight me chanic, Alex Holden, piloting the Marine Airways Bellanca seapl: hopped for Tulsequah this noon at 1:15 and returned at 2:30, bringing back four’ passengers from the Whitewater-Taku mine. On his return, Holden reported the Taku River had receded suf- ficiently to allow Pilot L. F. Barr to take off from the sand bar where | his North Canada Air Express Pil-| grim plane is now down. Barr plans to attémpt to get the ship into the air nutn and brlng it to Juneau to- uneau from Tul- n this afternoon | ‘Gardner- _has period ending 4 a.m. today. and western portions of Alaska, followed by the western portion. colder last night over the Arcti coast and Seward Penin- w having reported a te * | ful Snow has fallen nperature of 4 below at 2 am: D. C. Sharpstone at the mine for the past few days, and three min- ers—L. Morgan, Erapk Williams, and Ernest Schwolrer. Garb Made Full Dress SALZBURG, Austria—The color- peasant dress that Salzburg, like other Austrian Provinces, has chosen as the official garb of the district, has been decreed proper for school ceremonies. e e WEATHER HOLDS ELECTRA Because of bad flying weather, the flight of the PAA Electra, which was to have left Fairbanks for | Whitehorse and Juneau this morn- {ing, has been postponed, at least {until tomorrow. — e, Frank Dulaney, the south’s first male nurse, recently graduated at & Birmingham, Ala,, training school. ART SALES ARE NUW INi‘,RERSING NEW YORK, Oct 27, —lAt the | strokek of the artist's brush 'mil- \hons of dollars change hands and the amount is growing as improve-| ment is blocked into the ‘économic | picture, The painting and eu:hlpg Lndus- try—and virtually everybody. .iden- tified with it insists it is an indus- try—did approximately $140,000,000 in the year ended Septémber .1, 1936. Tis compared wi 3132000- 000 in the preceding year and 000,000 in 1932 when, sales dropped to the lowest level of the depres- sion, estimates by the American Federation of Arts revealed. The upward trend stangds in. beld relief when it is realized sales m‘ the latest period amounted to 92 per cent of the total of roundly $152,~ 000,000 in the 1929 boom year, with- out any apparent increase in prices. along the line. Russia Places Big Plane Order i U. 8. BALTIMORE, Md., Oct. 27, —| Glenn Martin, Baltimore airplane manufacture, announces, that his| company has a $1,000,000 ,contract {rom the Russian government for| airplanes mort powerful than the famous Pan American clippers. Martin said the planes will travel 4,000 miles, without refueling and will be powered with four 1,000 Texas has between 90 and 100 natural resources in sufficient quans tities for commercialization, = the Texas Economic Conference reports. | You san get Chief Jdm Newmlker Chairman of the Juneat Chapter of the Am- erican Red Cross, today announced the. appointment of Keith . Wildes as, Chairman of the, apnual .Red Cross roll call tq be held from Ar- mistice Day, November 11, " to Thanksgiving Day. The slogan this year is. ‘The People’s Red Cross,” Chief Newmar- ker said on receipt of information from Admiral Cary T. Grayson, Chairman of the American Red Cross, pointing out the needs of the organization for the year. At least five million, ,adult members are needed nationally. to carry on a wide rajige. of humanitarian service to the American people, Admiral Gray- son said in_his letter to Chief New- marker. Commenting further the Admiral stated: #1 find that many. people do not | know the extent and character ot our assistance in time of disaster Sqme think that we give only emer- i o s e - e outright gifts. people do without cur help” - L CAPT. T. SMITH TAKES MINING MEN TO LITUYA Bound for Lituya Bay. Capt. Tom Smith left Juneau this morning on his M. S. Yakobi with a party of mining engineers and mining equip- ment for a year’s stay at Lituya In the party of mining men were J. L. Smith and L. R. Craig. Mining equipment aboard the Yakibi in- cluded a Denver Silver-Gold ma- chine for forcing flour gold through quicksand by pressure. After landing the party at Lituka Capt. Smith will go to Leme urier Island and on to Glacier B: and Muir Glacier on a trip for a motion picture comparn Before returning to Juneau he will go in to Tidal Inlet and back to Joe Ibach's at Lemesuncr These Are Only a Few of the What would these | | WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—Corres- | pondence betwcin Owen Johnson, the writer, and Democratic head- quarters here indicates a very social minded campaign (although by no means dour) is being waged in the first Massachusetts cistrict. where Rep. Allen T. Treadway, Republi- can, seeks re-election. Treadway began serving in 1913 and now is seeking his thirteenth term. His bas long bgen a rock- ribbed Republican stronghold and several prominént Democrats from the Berkshires have fallen in years past before the wall of Treadway support “NOVELIST. APPROACH” vear. Johnson (The Var- Tennessee Shad, Virtuous decided ‘to run. Instead of Democratic headquarters to him data on Trendway's THE This mint, Wives) asking supply H—i—H4—H—H-H—H44+F+H++H44444+H—P+Hfl4+H—H—PHH°Hfl'H—HH++ If you are mot quite clear on the !ing three billion dollars’ worth of domestic currency system, this mny‘gold g, & vauliyin tae blls ot Pors help. In @ remote corner of the| Saies K—y_—"..—_ national museum here is a stone disk two feet in Uiaméter with | Garfield County, Okda. ranchers are two-inch hole roughly, drilled clear: registering eattle. brangs yith the through it. It is described as cur- COUnty Clerk. in an, at bt to da— rency from Yap, an island west of feat ‘modern-day, cattle, thieves. o { the Philippines, and is called 2| Lode rmd placer jocation uflou “fei.” Iror sale. s¢ The Empire office.. A show-case placard tells the! rest: “It (the currency’ consists of lens-shaped wheels of limestone ranging in diameter from a foot to 12 feet. 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