The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 2, 1937, Page 2

. ! THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, FEB. 2 000 0O OO FOUNDATION SPECIALS Vogue Corsets With back lacings—strong and durable — Vogue Gir- dles in wrap-around and vogue Foundation Garments In brocades with plisse or lace tops. Also two-way stretch with lace tops, es- pecially nice for evening wedar. step-in styles—a girdle for every figure. Clearance Price 1—3 Oft Carter Belts Al] sizes in Garter Belts | To Close Qut At ‘ @c each Clearance Price 1-3 Oft Brazsieres All Vogue Brassieres To Close Out At 0@ and $§.00 B. V.. Behrends Co. Inc. Juneau's Leading Department Store AL AR O AR OSOARRR OO mation fund to help build marel Appearing last spring at a hearing NEw H A n | dams for more reclamation. |to disouss what ¢o0 do With Bonne- | | 1vme power, Ross proposed a vast; WATER IN CINCINNATI BUSINESS DISTRICT The wholesale grocery and provisions business area of Cincinnati stood more than four feet deep In water when the Ohio river flocded the area. The men in the boat are making a survey of damaged prop- erty. Police estimated damage would exceed $1,000,000. THUUSANDS OF Byrd’sEconom—yZ(’al Marks DOLLARS LOSS FROM STORM Windows Broken, Roofs Torn Off, Other Damage, Severe Taku Hurricane (Continuea from Page One) | and set upright on its floats once more on the ramp in front of the hangar—but in sorry plight; its wings broken and tail assembly smashed. Hangar lestroyed Damage to the plane is estimated at sbout four hundred dollars, while the hangar building is in al-| most irreparable condition. As the hangar roof went flitting by on the breast of the wind, it neatly be- funneled the boiler on the pile-| (Associated Press Photo) U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHKR BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinily, beginning at 4 p.m., Feb. 2. Fair and continued cold tcnicht and Wednesday; fresh to strong easterly winds. LOCAL DATA Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity 13 28 NE 22 NE 0 NE Barometer Wesather CABLE AND RADIU REPORTS YESTERDAY IODAY Highest 4p.m. Lowestda.m. 4am. Pracip. d4am. Station temp. temp. | temp. temp. velocitv 24hrs. Weather o Atka 40 | 40 30 4 02 Pt C! Attu - - Anchorage Barrow ( 0 Nome Bethel 4 ( Fairbanks -8 | ( Pt. € \ 2 2 2 Cloudy # i Paul 4 g 3 2 Cle h Harbor 3 Ketchikan Prince Rupert Edmonton ttle Portland San Francisco New York Washington o talking, but he’s a hard hitter. He lost his first fight for economy |when the Senate passed a recent |bill extending the reconstruc finance corporation for two y WEATHER CONDITION AT 8 A. M. TODAY Seattle (airport), cloudy, temi erature, 39; Blaine, cloudy H toria, cloudy, 37; Alert Bay, cloudy, 28; Bull Harbor, cloudy, 27; gara, snowing, 19; Prince Rupert, clear, 14; Triple Island, part C cl Ketcnikan, cloud; Craig, cloudy, 18; Wrangell, glc WhOle AF @I 'ay. 15; Petersburg, cloudy, ca, cloudy, 15; Juneau, cloudy, 12; 3 a lie, clear, 14; Skagway, clear, 12; Anchorage, clear, 7; Capc . Elias, cl Cordova, clear, 29; Chitina, clear, -20; McCar -10; ars:, partly cloudv, -20; Nenanam, clear; Hot Sprin artly cloudy, -2; Tanana, partly cloudy, 4; Ruby, clear, 0; Nulato, clear, -12; Kaltag, clear, -12; Fiat, clear -16; Ohagamute, clear, -1 [ WEATHER SYNOPSIS Low barometric pressure centnued this morning fsom Wrangeil southward to Oregon, thence southwestward to the Hawaiian Islar the lowest reported pressure g 29.40 inches a short distance w of the Washington coast, elsewhere over the field of observation h pressure prevailed, the crest being 20.90 inches at Mayo, Yukon Tt tory. Rain was reported last night over the Pacific Coast States, tended by thunder at San Franci Generally fair weather prevail throughout Alaska and northwestern Canada. It was colder last night over Southeastern Alaska and over ir |and western Alaska while warmer weather was reported ovér the Pa Coast States, the temperatures being above freezing at Portland Seattle. Easterly gales prevailed at Juneau last night and today, a miximum | velocity of 46 miles per hour for a sustained period of five minutes (5:36 a.m. and the velocity for one mile was 60 miles at 5:38 a.m. ELECTRA OFF FOR FAIRBANKS WITH TWO THIS MORNING | ] The going became doubly hard lee, Bonneville, the Seattle and Ta- n BUREAU LOOMS when crop surpiuses began to pile|coma municipal systems, and pro-| up and lend fuel to the eastern and|jects as far squth as northern Cal-| John C. Page Wants Posi- tion While Former Seat- tle Man Also Bidder WASHINGTON, Feb. 2—So much | o-scured by newer and busier WPA and PWA is the reclamation | ure-u that a growing battle to head > Bureau almost has been over- locked. | The Reclamation Service, which has the job of building dams to make the desert blossom, was di-| oted by Elwood Mead for so many | acrs that Mead and reclamation ome almost synonymous. Months > he died and since then John| C. Page, Meads second in com- mand, has been acting as commis- | sioner. | The long-time problem of recla- mation enthusiasts has been to demonstrate that federal money ad- veneed for reclamation is mot lost, but will be repaid into the recla- midwestern argument that the gov-|ifornia. |driver standing behind the hangar. ernment was bringing more land Acting Commissioner Page also : ther principal sufferers alon, into production with one hand while|wants to be commissioner, and gt procies i IS the waterfront were: The Juneau | trying to throttle production on the'looked upon 4s less power-minded Commercial Dock, where the wind other. Desperately reclamationists | than Ross. argued that settlers on irrigation| Several favorite sons have been projects consumed as much as they |put forward, too, latest of whom is, | produced in the long run. | An old and smouldering idea also deemed a stout friend of reclama- | helped the dam builders. Why nottion, but is not an engineer. In- develop power to offset part of thelside talk is that an engineer is cost, and also charge some to flood |wanted. i control and navigation? Under that| ——————— theory Boulder Dam on the Colo-| = rado and Bonneville and Grand| Coulee dams on the Columbia river| jobs was taken out of the reclqma-‘ tion service and the bureau’s pres- R oy and part of the Tennessee Valley[ project found shelter. piyig ey | TRENTON, Feb. 2. — Arthur C. ] But handling of several of these‘ | Trentonian, has been sentenced by HOBs SHOGRGKER | Mercer Court Judge James 8. Turp! Probably the most powerful mind-| i to serve life imprisonment on & kid- ' d candidate advanced for the office e g {napping charge. is J. D. Ross, until recently Securi-| ties and Exchange (:omrmssioner,lwml an 11- mfi:dm‘l:lcisdks‘ug:? and for many years superintendent quently '“y mesug at N Ha- ::m the Seattle municipal power sys- ven, C ., and sent to pri Bhere f on a statutory charge. He was re- Ballet Building Hollywood Graces in Preliminary Paces For 4% minutes of dancing in Grace Moore’s “When You're In Love,” 400 girls were called to tryouts and 60 were chosen, then drilled for six weeks in groups such as this by Ballet Teacher Aida Broadbent (in dark dress). | leased recently after serving !and one-half years and was sur- |rendered to police here. Cunning- ham asserted the girl’s knew she was going with him. Judge Turp, passing sentence un- der a State Jaw which fixes thirty vears as the minimum ferm, said to the defendant: “Coming at this particular time, T do not feel disposed to exercise discretion allowed the court toward |Gov. €. Ben Ross of Idaho. He is gige |Cunningham, 24 years old, a former é first broke in the large loading door, then bellowed out and ripped off | the corrugated iron roof, from in- e Across Willoughby Avenue, the Juneau Motor Company besides hav- ing one of the large plate glass win- dows of its showroom blown in, saw the total destruction of the recently added parking shed adjoining the main building. Jagged scraps of metal roofing, snarled timbers, and shattered glass, all remaining of the ill-fated shed were this morning scattered over all the empty lot be- hind the garage, across Willoughby Avenue, and mingling with the flot- sam pounding on the shore of the Dock Damaged Femmer’s Dock did not entirely escape the onslaught, either, several new-torn openings showing in the metal roof covering the dock ware- house this morning. The old PAA ramp, ordinarily moored along the length of Keeny’s Float, near Fem- mer’s, broke entirely loose and went travelling during the storm, finally being captured and lashed to the face of the City Dock, at the other end of the bay—a skiff and pon- toon-boat still aboard it, having ridden safely throughout the storm. Although they were tossed around a great deal—small boats suffered 1little damage. Only one was reported missing. Shortly after the city was plunged into darkness with the failure of leniency. I feel that the more eX- p,uerlines on the mountainside, the | treme penalty will make others real- top layer of roofing paper on the HARRY FLOOD BYRD A Business Man Since | By SIGRID ARNE | AP Feature Service Writer | WASHINGTON, Feb. 2—Senator Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia start- |ling his mother when he was only 14 by acquiring the Winchester, Va., “Star,” thereby becoming its pub- |lisher, editor and copy boy. Now 49, he still owns the paper, in addition |to many other things. | His father was a brilliant law- \yer and once speaker of the Vir- |ginia house of delegates, but when |Harry was 14 the family was not jwealthy. It included his mother | who still manages her own affairs jand refuses to tell her sons her | age; his brother Tom, who now | | manages the family’s huge apple | torchards; and his brother, Rich- | |ard, the polar explorer. Harry ran his paper, made other | | investments and before he was 21, | and could vote himself, he was jelected to the Winchester city | jeouncil. In 1926 he became gov inor of Virginia, and in 1933 he was jappointed to the Senate, to fill the | post of Claude A. Swanson, who was |made secretary of the navy Finances Intrigue Him Threughout this busy career |Byrd was interested most in finan- ize what a serlous matter it 6 to take piks Club building gave way and cial matters. When he entered the | “If we are to start economies, now is the time to begin,” Byrd pleaded. The bill passed, 73 to 1,| d casting the lone vote against Taking advantage of a lull in t local winds, the Pacific Alaska ways Electra plane, piloted by Al |Monsen and Walt Hall, took off |from the PAA Airport here s morning and headed for Fairba | with two passengers: T. M. O land Ed Townsley, aboard. But that experience will hardly |stop him. When he began talking governmental economy in Virginia there were more than a hundred agencies in the state machinery. Jobholders and peliticians howled | against reorganization. But Byrd GALEN) WESTWARD |went over their heads to the voters,| BUSINESSMAN, GOES has traveling all over the state, lectur- SOUTH ON PRINC!’.‘S‘ I been announced and there are ing about his plan, which called for | whole sections of it which Byrd 50 changes in the state constitution. does not like. That means this ses-| When he finished his lecture tour | sion of Congress will see a tug-of- he threw the issue into a special | ar between Byrd and Presidential election and won. The state ma- spokesmen in the Senate, because chinery was classified under 12 de- Byrd is a tenacious fighter not easi- partment heads, and its income and ly dismayed by odds against him. |expenditures so systematized that Byrd is an erect, nervous-talking the Governor gets a daily balance man with chubby, pink cheeks, dark sheet. blue eyes and curly, light-brown hair. He often seems shy when he's He Was 14 Years Old same subject. Disagrees With Roosevelt Now the President’s plan James L. Galen, manager of (he tourist and transpoftation company at Mt. McKinley National Park prominent Cordova businessman, was a southbound passenger on (he Princess Norah. Mr. Galen, who is on his annual trip south in connection with his business, arrived in Juneau on the PAA Electra Saturday. - Try an Empire ad. New S;érs VAchar on Hollywood Horizon a child of tender years away from its parents.” W. 0. CARLSONS SEE ROSE BOWL GAME ON TRIP TO CALIFORNIA Returning passengers on the Prin- cess Norah were Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Carlson, who had been south for some time on a business and pleas- ure trip. i On their way south they picked up their daughters Gene and Kath- leen, students at the University of ddaho, and took them to California by motor. New Year's Day they attended the Rose Bowl football game in Pasadena and witnessed the Rose Carnival Parade. ————— Excavating an Indian burial moumd on his grandfather’s farm, Howard Kohr of Salina, Kas., un- earthed 70 skeletons. With the bones were clay pots, grinding stones (and shell knives for use by the spir- |its in the next world. ———————— O. M. Merriman, Farwell, Texas, farmer, says he averaged 30 bushels |of threshed hegarl an acre on his 200-acre farm this year. st Schalaxs report that approxi- mately 150,000 variations in manu- scripts of the New Testament are inmvn. carried across Franklin street, 'sepate he turned his ati i r 3 e tul is attention im- smashed windows in Dr. J. W. mediately to the budget. There Bayne's office on the top floor of [seemed to be a big leak in it. He the Triangle I’;“"dl:l% had felt the same way about pub- nroofe: |lic funds when he was governor Other roofs losing their paper in | of Virginia and had shaved $800,- the fury of the storm were those of |90 from the state’s $15,000,000 bud- the Valentine Building, Goldstein |get, Bl:i-\dlng. and St. Ann’s Hospiul‘»j He decided millions could be Windows were smashed in parts of |shaved from the federal budget, the c:,t]}; Nearly forty small panes so last spring he had a senate reso- w”et bn.ed in the Coliseum Apart- | |ution passed creating a committee ment building alone. Among the | to investigate duplication in commercial establishments 10SiDg | ernment machinery. He was ap- large windows were: The United |pointed chairman. A week later Food Company, the Z; 2} s pany, the Zynda Hotel, | the President appointed a commil- Montgomery and Ward, the Office |tee of his own to investigate the of James Cooper and Keith Wildes, | —~ on Seward street, the Snap Shoppe, & 2 the Juneau Drug Store, Juneau Li- | CXashing in the“show windows of quor Company, Pay'n Takit, Juneau Mrs. Giovamlett.ls Venetian Shop Bakery, the White Spot, Empire ‘ at Front and Main streets, the wind Printing Company, Fred Wendt's ‘scanered baby and doll clothes far Paint Store, Alaska Music Supply |#0d near. Company, and Lu Liston's Sign | Nearly all .windows facing on Shop. | Front street in the old Occidental L patches of shingles Wel,e};md old Franklin Hotels were shat- 1 the roof of the buildlng‘temd' while the marquee on the gov- housing Lu Liston’s shop. A large imass of corrugated iron and lum- ber, ripped from the front of the George Simpkins Company building gave way and crashed to the street, |but without damaging the large bullding on Second street occupied |SPOW Windows. ] by Bert Caro’s bottling works was | One of the freak incidents oc- carried down the street and broke |curred at the Zynda Hotel, where & one of the large panes of plate glass small oval of plate glass was broken in the show room of the new Lixhh"“t of a rear window. The piece Company building. |came out whole, as though it had Windows Smashed |been cut, leaving an e_nlmosc perfect- Besides losing the top layer of its |1V smooth, clean opening in the win- roof, the Elks Club suffered a broken | dow, with all the appearance of hav- pane in one of its ballroom wlndmmlm been done by an expert burglar. | who was built up with clever publicity as the “modern Venus”. Technicolor is at last coming into its own. Rapid strides made in perfecting’ the technical process and the fact that several. outstanding pictures were made in color in 1936 indicate that there will be consigerable activity in this field within the next twelvemonth on the pa of producers. Two major developments appear to be in store for the movie industry during 1937. It seems fairly certain that a host of new stars will be established this year. Among those who won recognition in 1936 and are apparently due for stardom are Don Ameche and Dorothy Lamour who were re- cruited from radio; Frances Farmer who clicked wvarnight in “Come and Get IL”, and June Lang