The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 5, 1937, Page 2

glad you waited when you see what you can buy in this remark DRESS UP . . Office Dresses . . Street Dresses . . Afternoon Frock: Some Evening and Dinner Dresses . . Cotton House Dresses Half-Price ALL MILLINERY THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, JAN. 5, 1937. Volunte SUBJECT OF CONVERSATION Mary Astor Takes Stand in Child Custody Suit TORREY ervice Writer Last August the Fascist forc neared Madrid and the war dogs growled louder far fram Madr: Berlin, furious when Spanish Leftists sentenced four Gemmans to die, ordered her fleet to attack if Spain went on halting ships, Moscow thundered “war is near and accused the Reich and Japan of forming an alliance. Paris, aided by London, bustled with efforts to ‘keep hands off the By VOL AP Feature {hot Spanish fireworks. B. M. Behrends Co. Inc. Juneau's Leading Department Store D e e e B e e B e B B B B B R I E E nY Tu WASHINGTON, tary of Labor Perkins conferred |with President Roosevelt today re- AGT wlTH GuvT garding the strike in the plants of b ABE : LEGION _AUXILIARY TONIGHT Presidenl, UAWOA. Makes| The regular business meeting of 4| General Motor: | i ST the American Legion Auxiliary has Pledges But Walkout |icen caned for 8 oclock tonignt Continuing a statement to recognize “any one union.” IN in the Dugout and President Lu- cille Stonehouse asks a large at- tendance as many matters of im- portance are coming up. S e DETROIT, Mich.,, Jan. 5—Hom-~ er Martin, President of the embat- tled United Automobile Workers of | America, today pledged cooperation | IS LUNCHEON GUEST with “all Government agencies| Mrs. Grace Burrell, an exchange seeking to conciliate” the present|teacher from Skagway, was enter- strikes but asserted that a “gen-|tained last Saturday afternoon at eral stoppage of General Motors|a luncheon given at the home of is under way.” {Mrs. H. S. Graves. The visitor is The strikes have resulted in a | planning to return to Skagway shortage of supplies and have clos- | soon. ed fiffeen of the company’s sixty- | nine plants. | President Alfred Sloan refused in for sale at The Empire offi - > Lode and piacer Jocation nolices ce. - «Above is shown an air view of Hillcrest, a project of the that average 60 feet in width. There are 43 acres in the Wund, which is insured by the Federal Housing Adminis tration. One Santa Claus ~ Prevented from Comingto Alaska (Seattle Times) There will be many. disappointed | children along the far-flung Alas- an Coast this Christmas, for | George Poinier, the Alaska Steam- | ship Company’s 225-pound Santa | Claus, is strike-bound. The Christmas ship was posted {to sail December 12 for a range of |ports from Ketchikan to Seward, laden with tons of toys, candy, fruit and other yule,cargo for dis- tribution among the little folks in the north, but the maritime strike has disrupted the plans and she as forced to tie up at ‘West Seat-| tle moorings. A trip over the Alaska Railroad from Seward to - Palmer: to. dis- 000 was secured from the Pennsyl Washington warned Americans they could continue siestas in Spain only at their own risk. F.D.R. Bares Attack Rapid City, S. D., the Presi- on a “journey of husbandry At dent Itribute gifts to the children of the Matanuska Valley, was planned for Santa and his party, but had to be abandoned when there was no ship in which to get the jolly old fellow |to Alaska. . | Members of Santa's party, who | were selected to aid him in spread- |ing good cheer along the Alaskan Coast, were K. D. McKenzie, K. A |Cross, Mrs. Ida Dillon, c. mu- |sician; Miss Bee Nelson, contralto, |and Johnny Walke baritone. | Santa Claus Poinier, who tower. to an altitude of six feet three, is tone of the Alaska Steamship Com- pany’s stewards. In previous years |he has headed for the north wear- ting a fur-trimmed parka, snowy whiskers and hip hoots, ready for his ‘role as jolly old Kris Kringle. This Christmas he is strike-bound |and -the little folks up north will have to wait until another year rols around before they are alle to weleome him LS e ERICKSON LEAVES HGSPITAL C. Erickson, who w#s been in St. Ann's Hospital since September 25, was dismissed. today from the hospital. e The standing armies of the world totalled 7,600,000 men at the end of 1936, the League of Nations has computed. 4 R Enipire ads-are read. Large Scale Housing Project at Méadm’lle Meadville Housing Corporation. - The development contains 202 houses on lots plot, 27 of which have been used for the development, 11 have been given to the of Meadyille for park purposes, and 5 have been reserved for additional development. There are 162 garages for the residents. is doubly insulated and has a full basement equipped with furnace and stationary washtubs. The Chamber of Commerce and th Meadville raised $212,000 to finance the project, and a mortgage of $800, city Each house e people of vania State Workmens Insurance | L S DARKEN THE ers Fight a Blaze Near Superior, Wis more foreign news: A royer had been attacked e times by an unidentified air- plane off the Spanish coast. It had fired back. “I hate war,” Roosevelt had em- phasized earlier. A battle of another sort was be- ; fought at home: ESearing sunshine sent swarms of farmers onto WPA More than a thousand. forest fires darkened the sky. Food price rises were force- cast. released [ \ | i Landon Lambasts Goovernor Landon sought emer ney rail rates of livesteck and d. Returning to the eastern scenes of his childhoed, the horse- | and buggy candidate lambasted the | New Deal *pig-in-a-pooke policies” | and celled the new tax on corpora- |peighbor call on Canada (he had Kenzie Valle tions’ undistributed earnings “cock- | publicans posted $1,000 in priz- es for letters .on “Why I Am for | Roosevelt.” John D. M. Hamilton citing reasons galore for fa- voring Landon. Lemke was backed by the Nation- al Union For Social Justice meet- ing at Cleveland, 8,153 to 1; Father Coughlin promised to swing him 9,- 000,000 votes or retire. Calmly men of science journeyed > Boston. Sir Arthur Eddington had ecalculated the number of elec- trons in the universe (a figure 80 digits long; he couldn’t remembs it all offhand) and Dr. Edward Kasner had solved the Greeks’ born angle riddle and evolved a non- Archmiedean geometry in which the consin was less than the sum of its The widespread parts knowledge were to be co-o into a whole, insofar as po E » Harvard tercehteénary What They Talked About ‘Knock, knock" the Wind"” parts. man’ dintec of wtioners played “Gone With d about: ry Astor’s diary. Helen Stephens, Jesse Owens and other U. 8. my . John and Ma Rust’s me- chanical cotton picker. A Rector’s recommendation of a two-year moratorium on sermons. The AF.L-CIO. dispute and the Senate’s labor syping in- quiry. His vacation ended, after shaving off his heard and paying a good- d talk delighted Quebec by spes g in French). Roosevelt toured former flood zonmes and ry spots to 5] enemies of the earth. Bombardments Begin To combat a strike in Greece Premier Metaxas assumed dictatc ial power. Palestine’s strike death toll reached 435 Death in August took the War Department’s Secretary Dern, Min- nesota's Governor Olson, aviation Louis Bleriot, literature’s Lincoln Steffens, Congress’s Zioncheck a some of Russia's former leaders— accused of plotting with exiled Leon Trol to kill Stalin, The aerial bombardment of Ma- drid and the political barrage in Maine began. general 33 PASSENCERS ABOARD GORGAS ' FOR THIS PORT | The Libby, McNeill and steamer Gen. W. C. Gorglls, sailing as an Alaska emergency ship under |charter to the Alaska Railroad, warped up to the City Dock here this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. There were 248 southbound passengers {aboard the Gorgas, 33 of them for | Juneau. The vessel is posted to sail from Juneau for Petersburg at 8 o'clock ‘Lhis evening. | Passengers for Juneau aboard the | Gorgas were: Mrs. B. M. Guillan, Miss Mar- | garet Ronan, George Munroe, from | | Fairbanks; Mr. and Mrs. F. L | Biggs, from Palmer; Mrs. Nell Scott, | { Libby |MRS. KASER ELECTED PRESIDENT, NURSES Members of the Gastineau Chan- nel Nurses' Association met I night at Ann’s Hospital for the lection of officers for the r y E. H. Kaser was che for the com term and Vice-President, Mrs - Treasur Mrs Board Members, Mrs. J. C Thomes, Mrs. Lola Hunnicutt, Mrs Caroline Garster, Ida Hendrickson The proposed bill for the regis- tration of nurses in the Territor; was further discussed and it is hoped that it will be presented and passed at the coming session of the Legislature. A social time followed the busi- ness meeting and refreshments were served. W. L. Garster, o) B A S s News Today—Empire. Today - warmer weather U. S. DEPARTMENT OF-AGRICULTURE, WEATHKR BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Rurcau; Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, cloudy tonight, Wed moderate casterly winds L LOCAL Temp. 23 B cter 30.83 30.79 | | | Statien Atka | Anchorage | Barrow | Nome ‘ Bethel | Fairbanks { Dawson | St. Paul Dutch Harbor Kodiak Cordova Juneau Sitka temp. 38 10 5 | Ketehikan jPrince Rupert Edmonton Seattle ‘| Portland San Francisco New York ina Washington Coy omai Humidity Wind Velocity Lowestda.m. temp. temp. velocity 24hrs. Weather t 4 pm, Jan. 5: cloudy with rising tempera- yuthesat Wednesday. DAT. Weather Clear Clear cldy 54 90 78 S w 5 5 2 5 ND RADIO REPORTS FODAY 4am. Piccip. 4am. 36 12 32 Seaniall Clear Clear Rain Clear (lear Cle Clear Snow . Cldy Cldy . Cldy Clear Cldy 19 Trace 0 0 0 £ g el na 4 6 18 4 WEATHER CONDITION AT 8 A. M. TODAY 1 | Seattle, cloudy, temperature, 30; Blaine, cloudy, 2 ; Bull ly cloudy, Alert Bay, clear, 30 gell, Petersburg, partly stone Point, clear, 32; Juneau, clear, 17; Skagway, ¢ it McCarthy, 38; Anchorage, cloudy, v, 28; Hot Springs, pa ndy, Chitina, cloudy, 7; Nenans Ruby, kleet nowing, 16; Nulato, cloudy WEATHER barometric slouthwestward High tory. Storm areas prevailed over in-|over the southern Bering Sea region. pect the agencies arrayed against tion has been attended by precipitation over the States, the southern Bering Sea over the field of observation fair It was colder prevailed over tions of Alaska. cloudy, 30; Ohagamute, snowi pressure prevailed to the ward to Alberta, the crest being 31.08 inches last night from Aklavik the Victoria, part- Harbor, Craig, 9; Sitka 24; udy. clez cl clear. Soap- ; Cordova -14; Cape Fairbanks, cloudy, 0; Tanana, cloudy, 10; nowing, 22; Unala- snowing, 33. D 18; tly cloudy, 22; Kaltag, ng Flat, SYNOPSIS S morning from the Ma Hawailan Islands and south- at Mayo, Yukon Terri- Northwest States and general presure distribu- Pacific Coast and at Kodiak, elsewhere weather prevailed southward to Oregon while western and northwestern por- rtly ARRESTED MAN “ADMITS SEEING BLAST SLAYING Nélmé‘,s Pflil‘flof Mu!‘t](’l’ Fugi- tives as Firers of Dyn- amite Pyre SIOUX CITY, Iowa, Jan tip led to the capture in a nearby .| farmer's garage of Harry “Slim” Reeves, W. R ording to Sheriff admits having been a who, Tice, ac g witness to the blast slaying of his ster companion, Harold Baker, Reeves said he saw Baker blown to bits by a five-ton charge New Year's Eve near Sioux after a fight fired. Reeves names William Nesbeth and Lee Bradley, both fugitives from a murder charge, as the pair who killed Baker and inflicted s rious gunshot wounds on Helen Seiler, Baker's companion e LEAVES HOSPITAL Mrs. June Gibson, a surgical case, was dismissed from St. Ann's Hos- ! pital today. dynamite O ALASKA COAL I8 ABOARD GEN. GORGAS Contrary to previous reports, the sicamer Gen. W. C. Gorgas did not load any Alaskan coal for Juneau at Seward, and arrived here this afternoon with only 75 tons aboard. This is the remainder of the coal cargo she brought from Seattle. When in port here northbound, the |Gorgas unloaded half of her coal but was unable to dispatch other 75 tons which is to be un- ed at the City Dock on her pres- t call. Manager G. H. Walmsley, of the Pacific Coast Coal Company at Ju- neau, said this afternoon that he helieved the small lot of coal aboard the Gaorgas, together with that re- maining from the Arctic cargo, will be sufficient to tide the town over until the next voyage of the ves- N 0, eeoe PEREZ IS TO REJOIN CREW ABOARD GORGAS Mariano Perez is returning to the crew of the Gen. W. C. Gorgas af- ter being in St. Ann's Hospital for several weeks with pneumonia. He had been taken to the hospital ,a few weeks ago when the Gorgas \was in Juneau and is now able to return to Seaftle with the crew. [Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Trepte and| |daughter Eleanor, Mrs. K. I Sey- | !mour, J. A. Hannon, D. O. Ken- nedy, H. P. Martin, and Charles| |Lake, from Anchorage. | Mrs. E. C. Ullom, Edward Lourie, | |P, .Anderson, Paul Tuccfarber, C.| iH. Kiel, L. Lichan, L. Johnson,| (Max Schlosser, Charles E. Jones. |Senator H. H. McCufcheon, and Rose Meloof, from Seward. | Dr. and Mrs. R. Livie, and J. |Patterson, from Valdez; Miss M. {Dooley, V. Dooley, Senator M. E. S. Brunelle, Miss D. Graham, and |Charles Viech, from Cordova. T FLYING POLE BAINS FAME POZNAN, Poland, Jam. 5—In a country biacksmitn’s shop Antoni Gabriel, peasant without technical Jeducation, found time and tools to Ibuild himself an airplane. It was {the laugh of the countryside until Tony took the ship aloft for a 45- |minute flight attaining a speed ot 50 miles an hour and an altitude of from 1800 to 2100 feet. Now the village of Mnichowice is so proud {of him it has raised money to finance his further experiments. GRISHAM ILL, SO WELCH STAYS HERE Originally intending to fly to Ketchikan this week-end to take over management of the Race Drug Store there, while Representative Race is attending the session of the Territorial Legislature, Fred Welch has been forced to remain at the Juneau Race store for a few days because of the illness of Monte Grisham, who is confined to his home. — ., Empire classifieds pay. | I £ NOTICE to TAXI CAB OWNERS and DRIVERS YOU ARE INVITED TO BE GUESTS OF MIKE PUSICH at Dreamland IN DOUGLAS TOMORROW (Wednesday) NIGHT BETWEEN 6 AND 8 O'CLOCK FREE TURKEY DINNER! SALIANRARALEARRAANRLARIRARRE 222280 SO