The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 28, 1936, Page 3

Armstrong ana Gibson ALSO CHAM Universal \ Picture TLAKATLA AC 100PERS WANT of Metlakatla Quin- Wires for Games n January mpetition for Ju- teams became & this morning on Connors of vach John W. Metlakatla Athletic ball lity Jimmy th's wire inquired as arrangements can be team to play a series Juneau, during the lat- anuary. as been turned over hn Fowler of the sketball League, who natter up with the and is expected to to Metlakatla in 50, RLD TUBERCULOSIS WARD TIENTS, GOV. HOS. L4 DULY REMEMBERED A ri !m;:;r gl g the Ju- R . n’s Club played Santa ients of the tubercu- of the Government hos- the patients who were the girl's ward had decorated a four ered the patients sang carols. in, Frank Fawcett, Al- J 1, Joe McCormack were | > musicians. s Tcne Wood, dressed as Santa distributed presents, candy, - NOTICE TO FPUBLIC -s—— ’s News Today-—Empire. eee an Empire ad. Try it T ar id left an of many The still- ta S has a new love n-haired Princess "Lilibet” to the may some day Read about her in a e - part -illustrated series ng tomorrow in The Em- sne v PR “Born To Be Queen” By Charles Norman Ty of the| their banjoes and gui#| | locomiotives. Rl !' 5: & g | The yea VI RYU O ed as follow: JANUARY— Following an unex-'usual. There was no seasonal droj HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 28 one | pectedly fast December pace, indus- in steel operations. Cotton' manu-| ‘pir Temple (autographically 1 operations slipped back a little. ' facturing ran at the hest sum worth three )Arthu | Invadidation of AAA brought a pass- | mer rate on record. Miscellaneous five Robert Ker !ing quiver of apprehension that farm demand for steel held steel opera arket in stellar prices might skid. Little happened | tic more than 70 per cent o | ures fluctuates nstantly, pric |as heavy farm purchases had al- capacity. . letermined by two factors ready been sharply reduced, with| SEPTEMBER—Cotton goods sale " of the player, and scar- the exception of cotton. Heavier boomed, moving swiftly into con-| ity of the signature railroad buying helped cushion 2 |sumption channels. Automobile op-| The “autograph ring” of Hollywood fall in steel operations occasioned |erations slid further as the 193¢ WS studies the by slower automobile output season ended. Industrial demanc of fe people with a truly FEBRUARY—Cold and blizzards 'helped steel operations lump to 7 . 1" Anfbods: pan eh- boosted sales of winter merchandise | per cent of capacity, a new top fo sravh secking game @ {and hoisted coal production to a six- | the year. Many industries took stee n but traffic in the year peak, but cramped general bus- [in advance bf expected p. n f controlied” by iness and blocked freight move-'c % 75 boys and girls ments. Forerunner of other similar], OCTOBER — New modec!l motors | ap from eight to 13 steps to come was registration by swur produc J Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporati 1 ation ¢ Departmentalized of a $40,000,000 bond issue with the on g Securities Exchange Commission and anno Like the vie companies, their largest issue yet filed for construc-, tion project fc usi i wre divided intc tion funds. | cotton goods industry did s epartments of “production” (or col- MARCH — Farmers’ cash income /mous business. Commodity prices | lect and “sal The youngster swelled to $528,000,000 for the month, |cdvanced, some to recovery peaks.|ollect anywhere stars may gather from $479,000,000 in March, 1935.| NOVEMBER-—Wage incr W yreviews popular cafes, outside Floods put a drag on operations in |posted for entire ste tudio g They sell (mainly to {the important industrial regions of | for motor and textile wor ourists) in hotel lobl the choic- {the Ohio River basin and New Eng- | y others. Wage bonuses spre st sales locations going each week land Steel, coal, construction and{A burst of extra and special year-|to the autograph-broker who has railroads suffered worst. Trade in|end “surplus profits tax” dividends |excelled his rivals in size and value lafflicted areas slumped. Elsewhere | sluiced more than $800.000.000 into|of his week’s collection it expanded. > hands of shareholders. Bet “Knowing the m: t” means APRIL — A financial crisis in hem Steel announced major c cnowing not only today’s quotations France shook stocks lower. Flood |struction plans. any given signature, but also losses in many sectors of industry| I MBER—Railroads, with ear- | what tomorrow’s are likely to be. A were quickly made up. Motor sales |nings swelled by the best carloadings |comparatively unknown player makes spurted. Automobile makers stepped |since 1930, bought heavily of locomo- {& hit in a new picture, and—presto on production acceleration. Bene- . cars, rails and other equip-|the collector is glad that he has had ficiaries were produ of steel Electric power output hit un- | the foreisight to get several copies parts, tires, accessor and gaso- edented peaks. Retail pre-of that former nonenitity's signa- line. Retailers did a brisk, Easter! t Christm: ure. trade. years or longer. Analysis,| Willie Camphell, autograph broke for the past seven years. By THOMAS E. FLANAGAN Associated Press Financial Writer NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—Heavy in- try drove home the rivets of bus- improvement in 1936 with more force than any year since 1930. Sentiment may have been warmed by sharp retail gains, by the high- est electric output ever recorded, by |sweeping wage boosts, by the sud- |den flood of extra and special year- lend dividends. But nothing did so |much to buttress hopes of sustain- |ed progress as the gradual mount- |a | Railrcads bought JUNE—Drought poned m di d trade. In “normal” bonus bonds, But reit; drought areas. sections got sc ple tactor losses in blistered inued to fight o ling of the tide of orders for rails, s of | construction steel, freight cars and ploy business story unfold- Vacati MAY—Motor makers drove stead- {ily along. Steel mills held gain: urveying the yea stubbomly Cotl,on consumpuon hit | made by heaw industry peak for the month since 1929, more than in any month since 190 roduction ibuted $1,600,000.000 in ‘u' JULY—Retail trade was which trade and industry was sm gains and best progress had been |natures will “go up.” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE. MONDAY, DEC. 28, 1936. 1932 This chart, based on The Associated Press index of industrial activity with 1929-30 as 100, traces the course of the business tempo The latest upturn has carried the index to 1929 levels, AUTOGRAPHS OF SCREEN STARS DO FLUGTUATE tellar Signatures Go Up and Down Young- Run Market cquipment 0. threats loomed de giving a fillip tc hit in th farmers in other y price helped offse areas. Ind ff summer drow conflict betwee ers in st as str t or kening o r tha By ROBBIN COONS r's ed 10, thinks Arthur Treacher sig Willie, who )lwl(l forth in a popular hotel lobby employment i ag Sweepmg Llnes Mark New Outfits for Winter Here are three Hollywood celebrities garbed in cos- tumes which are among the smartest being shown. Sune Lang sports a baby leopard coat which is <=t the new lines, flaring at the bottom. The frock which Virginia Bruce is wearing is of black crepe with a front vest of pleated silver cloth which Virginia Bruce is also repeated in the tight cuffs. The gown which Ann Sothern models is definitely shorter and has an uneven hem line, sweeping the floor i» back and raised to expose the ankles in front. With the dress is a draped cape which exactly follows the uneven silhouette of the skirt., with many lines showing a marked upswing. rocen(ly, contributed other “market information,” to-wit: The three Ritz brothers sold for 30 cents apiece, and drew two dol- lars when al! their signatures were on one piece of paper. Individually, Yacht sokl at all, but were worth $2.50 on a single sheet. Biggest individ- ual seller of the ‘Whalen who, 12 times. at 75 cents, was sold One woman bought four. Men'’s autographs, according to Wil- lie, generally sell better than wo- men’s—because women are the buyers, Bargain Sale Marjorie McAtee, aged nine, credited with one of the best recent cales. She sold five Shirley Tem- ples to a woman who wanted to take them home to her children. Quoted at a dollar apiece—which generally | speaking is tops for a grade A star| ~the Temples were sold for $4.30 as a group, little Miss McAtee'’s spec- ial bargain rate for the jubilant occasion. These youngsters, as can be sur- mised, make a good deal of spend- ing money besides adding to their | own prized collectins. rate collection, and a good tourist | hotel lobby to work from, a child has made as much as $12 in a week. Pat O'Brien and Barbara Stan- wyck, who always seem to find time to stop and sign for the fans, had stop if they want to join the | s well as “popular” auto-| aph group. And Charley Chaplin | and of course Garbo—could sign a | With a first- | few more without hurting the young business men and women's feel- ings — ‘Rag-time Kid’ Gives Lowdown on Dan M'Grew Original Flgme in Klondike Shooting Visiting in New York | | | | “A bunch of the boys were whooping | it up in the Malamute Saloon; The kid that handles the music box was hitting a jag,time tune. Back of the bar, in a solo game, sat Dangerous Dan McGrew. And watching his luck was his light- | o'-love, the lady that’s known as Lou.” (“The shooting of Dan McGrew", by Robert W. Service. ) The kid that handled the music box on the night of that famous shooting scrape came to town yes- terday. Still dapper, but matured into something of a philosopher, he gave the boys of the press the low- down on just what happened when, cording to Mr. Service, the lights | | went out and two guns blazed in the dark. | The rag-time kid is Philip Ger- | shel, now seventy years old and a | traveling salesman working out ol | | Minneapolis for the No-Vary Pro- ‘ducts Company, a grocery firm. He uold the facts of the Dan McGrgw (case yesterday in his hotel room | at the Hotel Barclay, 111 East Forty- elghth Street. Sitting there with an unlighted cigar butt between his |fingers, his appearance was some- what reminiscent of the days when | he tickled the rattle-box in Dawson.| | He Tilts His Cigar | His head was bald in front and 2 large nose supported his glasses, When the cigar was not in his hand | iit struck from the corner of his| mouth with a slight tilt. He wore a dark blue suit, blue tie, blue-and- white striped shirt and a stiff col- Jar. The tie was adosed with an Australian open stickpin and a size- able diamond sparkled on one fin- ger. Service had a great imagination,” he said. “It was just a case of | drunken jealousy. In the first place, | it wasn’t the Malamute Saloon as he |said but the Monte Carlo Dance | Hall. Service said “There was none could place the stranger’s face” but it was Siwash Bill from over on| Eldorado Creek. Service called the | woman Lou, musta’ rymed better. We used to call her Lil around the joint. And there was three shots |fired instead of two. One of them |went through my hat. I still got | the hat.” Club boys could not be| day was Michael | most often | |son,” he s together. {near broke my |who was dark-complexioned. THE SHOW PLACE OF JUNEAU with LORETTA YOUNG ROBERT TAYLOR AFOX PICTURE ALSO— story as the kid told it. He started his tale in South Africa and unfold- ed a strange career in leading up to the Klondike trage First he told of his participation in Jameson's raid, which led to the Boer War Tf the raid had been successful, he aid, he would have received some £1500 and a grant of land. But after the surrender they were takey to England, where, although sen- tenced to a year's imprisonment they | were released on parole with an al- lowance of £1 a day Tiring of England, jumped his parole, came to New York and cross- |ed the continent to Seattle. There he and three others bought an outfit and joined the gold rush. They went over the Chilkoot Pass, built a log raft and drifted across Lake Ben- neft and Lake LeBarge (where Sam McGee was cremated. “The four of us split up in Daw- said. “In that country it seems that nobody could bet along I lasted one hour shov- dirt into sluice boxes; darned back. I saw piano players were in demand and I land- ed a job at the Monte Carlo Dance Hall. It was run by Jim Dougherty, | he elin’ Got $50 a Night “I was gettin’ $50 a night in gold dust for playin’ the piano. Every morning I'd take my dust over to the Canadian Bank of Commerce. Ser- vice was a clerk in the bank. He'd spread the dust on a green cloth and run a magnet over it to get the iron filings out. When he got through there’d be about $30 worth of dust left. Didn't pay to kick, though. omebody’s shoot your head off. | “It was in November or December | of the winter of 1898. The joint was crowded when Siwash Bill walks in. He'd just come down from his claim and he was loaded for bear that night, drunk as a goat. He had on\ dungaree pants moccasins and a parka. He had a full beard and| long hair. He hadn’t shaved for months nor bathed either. A man| didn’t take a bath up there; took it off in superficial layers in the spring. “I left the piano for something and after. having a drink at the| bar Siwash 8ill came over and play- | ed. He could play, too. No doubt| about that fellow was from good stock. I was back at the piano| when he started shooting’. I dldnt‘ notice the lights go out, like Service | sald. This bird he called Dan Mc- Grew, that wasn't his name, but he was a miner, too. “When Bill saw him on the dance | floor with Lil or Lou, as Service calls her, he got lumbago of the tongue, frozen feet and a rush of blood to his head and thought he| was in love. He shot the miner first. Then I think he took a potshot at Lil. Anyway, he missed her and the bullet went through my hat. Lil Jittle Sinner—Our Gang—I'm a Big hot and Daily. Alaska Empire | It's not all money; | ticipste was only about twenty feet from my piano. Then Siwash Bill shot him- self. don't know about this business Service had in there, about her kiss- ing him and punching his poke. I ran out of fhe place without even gettin’ my coat or my night’s pay. The next day T went around and drew my wages and quit the job, told 'em I was all washed up. You never can (cll when you're goin’ to get it in a place like that.” Lectures To Reporfers n the kd staked a claim and d_mi e came out of Al- <o with £32.000. went to San Pran- cisco and lost it ail in three months in the stock market. Then eame more years of wandering in Afriea, Australia and all sorts of odd places. Finally we went to Minneapolis, got a salesman’s job and has been &t the selling game ever since. Having' finished his tale he gave someé phil- ophical advice to the reéporters. “After all, boys, all vou've gof 1t vour integrity and your ability dhd when you lose your integrity ‘your ability isn’'t worth adamn. No-use cryin’ over spilt milk; milk; pick up the bucket and go to the next cow. it’s contentmen And don't forget an education Wil never hurt you and it's no trouble to carry around. I wouldn't’¢hange places with the best millionafié i the country. And say, boys, if You'te ever out in Minneapolis be sure afd look me up. I'm pretty well known out there.” The kid stuck his cigar in his mouth and the diamond on his fin- ger glittered as he shook hands around the circle. He's going to par- in a radio program over WJZ at 5 p. m. tomorrow. He's not ared, though. He said he had been hrough worse lhings than that. SHRINE DANCE . SOCIAL AFFAIR Holiday merrymakers turned out in large numbers to make the sec- ond Shrine dance of the season at the Scottish Rite Temple a popu- lar one on Saturday night. Refreshments were served in the banquet hall at midnight and in keeping with Christmas color, lime punch was enjoyed during the in- termissions. Cluldrens Colds . Best treated without *‘dosing” Y £t PRDVPD BY 2 GENERATI| IN\ NOT MONDAY at 7:30 DECEMBER 28 at the Odd Fellows’ Hall b ICE Carpenters Local No. 1944 Will Give Their Christmas Celebration for their families and invited friends EVENING o’Clock Telephone 476 Tells of Jameson's Raid But this is getting ahead of mel FRESH TENAKEE CRABS EVERY MONDAY California Grocery THE PURE FOODS STORE