The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 3, 1937, Page 2

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, i OHLSON CANGELS SAILINGS OF ALL A[ASKA_VPSSELS, Ummel Says Nobody Satis- fied—Action Indicates Strike Settlement HIHHHHT T BRI SEATTLE, Feb. 8+~J. R. Ummel, urchasing agent of several Federal rtments and who has had harge of the emergency ships sent | to Alaska during the maritim rike, | announced today that the remain- |ing scheduled sailings of Govern- | ment chartered ships has been can- i | celled | Ummel said the Government has {been criticised on the way it per- mitted ships to send food supplies | to the north and stated Col. Otto F' | Ohlson had ordered the cancellation |by telegram from San Francisco. Two other sailings were scheduled for early next week. | | Ummel said both merchants .and iinions complained about the seérv- lice, the unions charging incompe- !tent men were hired at the docks, | 1he ships loaded were too small and | Alaska merchants complained they | | did .not get foed and other froight" gl ke o TREEE NEWSVENDOR " OFNEW YORK - slows Pt IThis Is All Abou‘t:D;w.,e Far- Prezicent Hoosevelt seldam it augural day despite a driving rair exclusive picture was made s ti Or It Is Mighty In- teresting Story ley e st % e —-Smtmet S —— ) By GEORGE TUCKER- i, | ' REW ORK, Feb. &% Almost erybody kmows Dave Farley, '‘the wsstand man, who Has Beephand- |ing out magazines and periodicals from the same. L-shaped honth. he Times building, for 26 years. Dave is one of the: land~mari: [ of New York, just like: Billy the ‘erman, or Oscar of the Wal- dorf, and he is as well acquainted with the reading preferences of the le‘ariat and celebrity worlds as and Oscar are with foods. You've seen him, bald as a fresh peeled Bermuda onion, rich in Irish wit as a Wicklow squire at a county jdair, .proud..of -his . business, his “Let’s see something better”—that’s what we and more men nave bheen saying dur- he past few months! The trend is defi- v toward finer quality, and we're meet- at trend with a fine quality group of ond overcoats at a price that is within of zll. and Double Br ted Suits Breasted 5 1S 10\% und ;A Speli ROOSEVELT SMILES IN THE RAIN i rides n a closeo g 16 shown here with He 1e President left the House (Assaciated Press Photo) ath to Aviators® U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Burcau, Forecast for Junesu and vicinity, Lo inring at 4 p.m., Feb. 3. i | Fair and continued cold tonizght a wsdoy; moderate easterly winds., d LOCAL DATA Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity 29 NE 20 27 NE 24 23 NE 12 CABLE AND RADIU REPORTS YESTERDAY FODAY Hizghest 4o.m. Lowestda.m. 4numn. Precip. 4am, temp. temp. | temp. temp, velocity 24hrs. Weather 33 34 31 18 12 Rain 24 5 — -8 16 4 12 0 0 14 -18 34 33 34 40 34 42 18 42 26 15 13 22 14 22 10 22 14 ~12 18 44 34 38 34 54 44 26 18 14 14 . 30 26 | 22 22 WEATHER CONDITION AT 8 A. M. TODAY Seattle (airport), snowing, temperature, 32; Blaine, partly cloudy, 28; Victoria, cloudy, 36; Ajert Bay, cloudy, 30; Bull Harbor, Cloudy, 31; Triple Island, cloudy, 20; Prince Rupert, cloudy, 22; Langara, cloudy, 23; Ketchikan, clear, 12; Craig, clear, 15; Wrangell, clear, 15; Peters- burg, clear, -1; Sitka, clear, 16; Soapstone Point, clear, 24; Junean, clear, 14; Radioville, clear, 16; Skagway, clear, 7; Cape St. Elias, carried him and 11 other persons {91014y 37; Cordova, partly cloudy, 5; Chitina, cloudy, -18; McCarthy, heir death on a rocky hillside, clear, -24; Anchorage, clear, 5; Fairbanks, cloudy, -16; Nenana, clear, The invesligators reported Fer-i g. manana, partly cloudy, -12; Ruby, clear, -8; Nulato, clear, -20; uson was flying too low anyway. —liggitag, clear, -16; Flat, clear, -13. The beams are sent by automatic/ WEATHER SYNOPSIS | equipment, and operate 24 hours a| interrupted only for hou‘rlvw The barometric pressure continued low this morning off the Wash- itirer reports and Yleeting smt:un{ingtoh—oregon coast, the lowest reported pressure being 28.74 inches, fications, such as “OA” forigwhije high pressure cbntinued throughout Alaska and over northwe: ern Canada, the crest being 30.86 inches at Mayo, Yukon Territo: | Light rain was reported at Atka, elsewhere over Alaska fair weather prevailed. Light precipitation was reported over the Pacific Northwest ‘Weather Clear Clear Clear Time 4 pm. yest" 4 am. toda Station Atka Attu Anchorage Barrow Nome Bethel Fairbanks Dawson St. Paul Dutch Harbor Kodiak Cordova Junesu Sitka | Ketchikan Prince Rupert Edmonton | Clear -12 -32 36 34 30 26 13 12 22 -12 36 34 44 P R-R=R NP f ’ 42 38 52 Cloudy Snow Cloudy Clear clear s ccHBBHooosoococcoocooo nd n Francisco & York & | Washington o exception on his seund in n the open car they used. This it the ceremonies to return to the White Mountains Affect Beams In the west, however, the beams sometimes get shifted out of place.|giates. | The misleading signals, which are af- Temperatures continued below normal throughout Southeast- | fected by the mountains, are called | .., Alaska and over northern British Columbia, the lowest reported iple ranges.” Whether they|iemperature being 1 below at Petersburg. e a factor in the crash of a sky| liner in Utah December 15, with| " o seven persons aboard, is not known.vS W k S ‘I 0 ost beam trouble is held to be| tars Or ln ame 1 Otle to misinterpreation of the sig-| in other words, to the human | Featur(:s But Nerv()r Meet t. H 5 § i he latest ana is by the bureau {of air commerce lays 41.67 per cent | By ROBBIN COONS f ents to errors by person-| HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Feb. 3. *In{tor McLaglen ages 20 yenrsi, bl;; 10 per cent to power plant |movie-preoccupied Hollywood, some |Professes no ‘-‘“fi"s‘zy to see hms:{ S, 23.08 ructural of the top-ranking stars never meet ::lavecl'halsiicste{heox:lail};'e “x:;‘;:;, an; 08 per cent to es and 2115 per cent t0|or gee each other. This seems less . “‘Cl“d“"si:,yl'ange when it is considered that rarely attends previews. The reason stars take a mose- 1e0us causes, oo pp— Ifio,oou different periodicals - pub- B.% “ehrends Co., Inc. Juneau’s Leading Départment Store i Y IS Seals Like [Musics It I's Proven GLASGOW, Scotland 3. lief h H croon to ac from Zat ch greup Was Annie sly approached within ome seals near Argyll,” “and crooned a simple| rus which dist thm of s that ipatiiment Harp) my song. The nad similar to that try & broad- R cial 2 fad in an att friends who numbers. numbers security er the 1 of & sing- | kerchiefs. Laurie.” nishment, the ani= mals creoned in a recognizable har- Tt A responded. with a low y followed the not s have started a, new npt to remember their |swank Fifth Avenue shops, tarries v ! instead their initials on $weaters and hand- chickens. It goes this way for hours, | | Tiger. He and Postmaster Jim aren'v |blood kin but they cut their teeth ‘on the same Tammany soupbone. | | They speak the same language. | oo o t As for the slicks, the pulps; the magazines of the fancy ar lesser | variety, they're Dave’s business, just | |as fighting is Schmeling's, singing | Lawrence ' Tibbett's, Babbit-baiting | | Sinclair Lewis'. He knows them, he | loves them, and he can identify any ‘of hundreds, in: the dark by their || heft and feel. There are, he'll have you know, AVIATION NERVE CENTER This is the board controiling intricate equipment which sel beam equipment signals to fiyers from Oakland, Cal. Hour} ther reports are sent in addition, By SAM JACKSON four directions, or “legs.” AP Featurc Service Writer | Within the beam proper, the das OAKLAND, Cal, Feb. # — Two dot of the “N” (— -) and the dot. 1 letters, “N and “A,” can spell life dash of the “A” (- —) merge into a ]llshed S e o ammrt md'or death to airplane pilots and pas- straight hummin This is ;;m:fl{en,:ly Daye has mesbiotuthiom || oo called the “on c gnal, and 4 el e lngm::tn prople SREY ® | They are broadcast along the na- |when a pilot hears it ’;‘51 ta,;fiemnd,f & :my wsmre' tion’s airways in the dot-and-dash [radio earphones he zine preferences. o e oy Bl g {Morse code and constitute the heading for the : b lirink i AR i dio beams” designed to guide a! straighter than a y pige | Broadwaylsh,; too ‘perfeetly. dressed | o " "o jandings from cloudy| If the hum is broken up and the :;t‘;:“iz:'mYW l;fl: }l?ri bt dt o skies | flyer begins to hear “A’s” or “N's” h: R nk. ad guess, | " ¢ 5 ¥ is |knows he is off to one side, so he that. He says, “I'll have & copy: of Interest in these beams now is € 1 i : yeers back Dr " % \om |CSPECially keen in the far west, |veer S ,heugw:;ph::f yandpi 28 SRR tere unprecedented winter air a Th ustomer cidents have killed at least 26 pe! Wh fww;hne:.ncvwgn se‘:—u: d”hk: sons, including Martin Johnson, the | cloud: ably in’ the money: He ,mmp;:g’ flying explorer. A major eastern Wall street broker. only he isn't, | LSaster associated with beam trou- | with tt Not by the magazine he'BiysihesDlc, occurred near Uniontown, Pa, reau of a { 1o eé i ugbcm' Py B ast April, when a transport crashed | tion to find out. {can Puneral Director, 35 cents, - |With' & loss of 12 lives |is_“personnel.” M Two BIrls, hauss. botore T How Beams Work | Latest of the bureau reports, desl- [ School tesehierse “T1l huve Fhe Bas|. Coast headquarters of th ing with the Uniontown |ral New Yorker,” says one. The other i“em::am?fv y‘: :zmcz””:‘ltw il “‘;‘;"’i’ fll’:“ ]I[\‘,f:,\xgr C::;tppy with s, oohy SRl | Unlike ordinary broadc whose | Ferguson, r o EeRE e " |waves spread in all directions, the |route from New: |“NA” combination \ | % confined to . lieved he had crosse 1’ ppow I am wholly GolTUsell. . Alaoenipe: channels. “hic woman of 30, wh t el |beam of the Pit hi . who must surely 5 s | swerv f i eau of air commerce sends | swerved to the be a purchaser for one of those| T har {these “beams” along all principal | Actually he was on airlines, from stations never, more |leg where the “N" and positions than 200 miles apart. They run in were reversed, and his sudden tum knows nding Personnel Big Factor crushed airliner indicates that may have gone wrong stem, experts of the bu merce swing into a he answer usua on a crask is lar- is em- briefly, says, “Is the Leghorn Woarld ot |In?” You'd never think she fancied l\mh endless patrons demanding, jand obtaining. Ice Cream Field,Fire | Protection, Glass Digest, The Rab- | "]’." Journal. others as vaguely start- | ing. ¢ As for the Westerns, the Adven- | | tures, the Railroads, the Weird, the Amazing rip-snorters—only a hu- man adding - machine like Dave cowld keep up with that tumultuous ' f over-the-counter flow, “Look," said Dave, “here's an old |customer. Guess wliat he wants.” A | fall Chinese ambles through the sub- way gate and I make a final attemot | iryoyance. “Surely,” I conclude, “he must be after a paper from home, one of those curious Chinese . Pittsburgh Allegheny ,VCauntg Airport Pittsburgh ,Radio Ranges S e NIGHTLY GUEST OF RADIC PATROLMAN ON ATLANTA “BEAT” ATLANTA, Ga. Feb. 3.—Maybe it'’s something about the uniforms (of Radio Patrolmen J. H. Langley land H. D. Henshaw that attracts e, liver-spotted setter. rate she has a rendezvous h them every midnight, rain or | fair weather. | “It started about two months Langley explains. “I stroked e's head. She liked it, I con, and followed me into the io patrol car.” ley says ever since then the has met the car at the same around midnight and that setter corner 1e jumps in and rides the “beat” juntil morning. | Then they let her out. home, wherever that is. (ficers don’t know. “She’s the smartest dog I ever saw,” declares Henshaw. “Don’t think for a minute she doesn’t recognize the car. And she meets She goes The of- “jus on a highway, too.” One night it was raining, the of- ficers velate. They thought they'd just stop and say Frankie. They knev we'd b m a1 think?” says y climbed right n the window. But she was considerate—sat on the back seat that night.” Henshaw says Frankie likes it when “the going gets rough.” “Stays right with us when things |are hot and had rather hear a | pistol shoot than eat a hamburger,” he declares. “Smart dog . lovable . . . and ia lot of compan concluded Lang- !ley, with a note of affection. | to Mayor Peter Gostrometinoff. e 01 Feud Brings - Murders in India JLHI, India, Feb. 3. — Mass continues vo be the chief She m recr or |sometimes players in the same pic- |ture don’t meet. | “Call 1t a Day,” a good current {example, has a large cast in which jev top names — Olivio de H: nd and Ian Hunter—don't |get around to scenes with all the {others, | Marcia Ralston worked only with Hunter, and Roland Young only with Alice Brady and Frieda Ines- {cort. Anita Louise appeared in |scenes only with Peter Wiles, the new English youth. And Peggy Wood |and Walter King worked with Oli- |via but with no other cast mem- bers. | Walter King Returns | Archie Mayo, the director, will have to give a get-acquainted party. Incidentally, this film marks the ireturn to Hollywood of Walter King, once known as Walter Wooll lof the stage and early talkies. He was, in previous film incarnation, {a singing star. He made with Viv- ienne Segal one of those all-color musicals that turned, at the box- |office, all “red.” | A few years later, as Walter King, he made a solid impression in Ja- net Gaynor's “One More Spring,” and this promised well. But the ise was broken. or something, 'a weni back to the stage. studio that signed him under- went one of those periodic cata- : clysms mildly termed an “executive 3 |shake-up” and King was buried in | the debris. | He likes being back. | “And its odd,” he says, “that it should be in scenes with Peggy |Wood. For a long time the two of |us were considered for various stage | operettas, but the teaming never worked out. And here we are to- | gether—for the first time — and ineither of us has a song. In “Nancy Steele Is Missing,” Vie- dive in popularity, he says, is that the public gets tired of seeing them. “Now would't it be a terrible thiny if I got sick of myself?” he says with finality. A Chorine Shuns Dates From “On the Avenue” sirolls Es- ther Brodelet, attractive stock girl, with the observation that popularity —for the chorine—is to be shunned rather than sought. “Parties cut into your sleep so heavily that you lack the vivacily necessary to show your hest every day before the camera,” she af- fairs. “Girls who don’t sleep sim- ply don't stay in the movies. “And going out almost every night makes it impossible to keep the same weight and figure. Irregu- lar hours will do surprising things to you over a period of time. And that, says Esther, is the an- swer to the recurrent question about movie chorus girls and “dates.” The movie chorine is a 10 o'clock girl— if she's smart and wants to win a career. Bill Seeks Tests of Brides-to-Be SALEM, Feb. 3—If a bill intro- duced in the house of representa- tives by Daisy Bevans of Clackamas County is passed, women 2as well as men will be formed to undergo a ohysical examination before being granted a marriage license. The proposed measure would pro- vide that women take the same ex- amination now taken only by the prospective bridegrooms. ——————— Sixteen states have established venereal control divisions in their health departments in a national campaign to stamp out social dis- ease. Olaf Bodding You ate invited to present this g f A bo Capitol Theatre newspapers which only the Chinese can read.” The Chinese shakes Dave's hand. In clipped Oxford accents he in- quires, “Mr. Farley, let me have the latest Corset & Underwear Review!” ——————— Texas and Louisiana produced more than 95 per cent of the 2,000, | 000 tons of sulphur mined in the | United States in 1936 S e R Motor roads in Manchoukuo have | |Increased from 400 miles to 4,000 | miles since 1933, according to Jap-i anse figures. ————— Lode and piacer location rnotices for sale at The Empire office. AIRLINER CRASHED HERE FATAL CO; Resigents ot Cannes France, present home of Mrs. Wallis Simpson, from Pittsburgh. A pilot, @re specuiating on the poss ty the Duke of Windsor will pay her an early visit. Mra. Simpson shown in this radiophoto as she left a hotel. The m in the picture was unidentified. (Associated Press Photo) April near Uniontown, Pa, Note the “N” zones on each side of the “A” zone in the radio beams off his intended course, thought he was crossing the mertheast beam leg when he aclualiy was cressing the southeast leg—hence the crash fatal to 12 last ation of two large families of Sikh landowners in a village in | the Punjab. | But not a living member of ecither family knows the scurce of | ‘(ho feud between them. All they| ‘kunw is that it began more than| 100 years ago. The head of each !family, with his dying breath, ex- |torts a vow from the eldest son| that the feud-will be continued. | The 14th battle of the past 40‘\ years occurred recently when onei family armed with axes and batons | attacked the other family by sur- prise one night. l Two men were killed on the spot and a number wounded. 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