The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 18, 1937, Page 4

4 ka F mpire Editor and Manager | Daily Alas ROBERT W. BENDER Published every Aluska. Entered in ter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES, Dellvered in carrier in Juneau and Douglas fo y mail, postaze ¥ One year e, §1 one month, Subseriber the Business O of their paper Telephone N MEMBER OF The Assoct r republic wise cr herein AUASKA CIRCU THAN T ASSOCIATED PR ntitle JUAILANTEE ANY OTHER PUBL OUR FUR-PRODUCING I While \Ias the fur farming in g ood many they pioduction of furs on steadily from time to time Southeast, deter success it should xperts agreed that the n dvent of parasites over which as no control.. In an effort in this respect there i present time a bill to an experimental fur in doldrums for a it over in Canada are in the farms have been made ticularly in the farming is not the ritor of is incr o have thus far the lature at the priation ha trouble getting the any rate, it should not have for fur is o three big and if i successfully on farms in Canad why fur farmer for far) endorsement of ritory’s industrie: duced to be no good reason with success in Alaska The fur Indianapolis Star, commentir the farm situation in C a, ha The average person probably we of fur coats and other fu are dependent on the hunter who go the wilds after game. We course, that there are rabbits and animals that contribute to the fur tnat there no dearth of them Most of us may have heard abou ilof Island seal herds that are s guarded against extinction by our and furnish an annual quota of 1 sands of pelts for the fur trade. Few may realize that fur farms are ar factor in keeping the et prov Silver fox farming 1 boom a few years ago that created a re fancy prices. Prize animals were high as $35,000 1ey were sought ing purposes and the supply equal to the demand. Fifteen ye: per cent of the receipts of fox farms the sale of live animals and 34 per peits. That has been changed so than 90 per cent of the revenue ¢ farms in Canada now comes from pelts During 1933, the last year for tistics are available, the Canadian sold the skins of 135,572 animals. fox, whose hide s or $29 to $36 ol 1y Sol New Memorial = Would Protect | Alaska Workers Wi Walker '\4easu1 e Urges Con-| Ho gress to Put Up Bars | " Against Non-Residents Notice of appointment of Clarence | res | def (Continued irom kuge One; | der | st that brewers be paid in cash \\hoxh f disposing of their produc | Another measure was introduced by Senators Cochran and Roden and pushed through to final pas- sage under suspension of the rules It id appropriate $600 to pay legislators who were late arriving for the ion. The late arrivals, who were delayed by bad weather and lack of transportation, were Senators John F. Devine of Nome and John B. Powers of Eagle, Rep- res ative John Lichtenberg of Nome, Representative Nerland of Fairbanks and Representative Tol- bert Scott of Nome. Aeronautics Bill Withdrawn . The aeronautics —bill, schediled to come up for final action in the Senate this morning, was with- drawn President Brunelle, its| author, v objection. It was understood ti 1 similar bill would be introduced House with | some revision: original Brunelle mea: Four other passed the S B veting law ing to cast suc! to notary public vision or to the 8. B. 30, pern to appoint U other persons licenses and collect fees mercial clam-diggers S. B, 31 frelating ta fees on other kinds of license which agent handle for the Treasurer H. J. M. 37, requesting torial Road.. Board roads in the Second Di pre |ret con thi ele for 0'c] A he m An, the minor measures The; absentee | were | were: | AN b; Senate 24, broader s0 on desir- | ..pm\ ’, pic cial di po asurer ioners agent fron or e | om- as hi n H the Terri- 25 construct | & 1, name- | me D TO BE LARGER s been set up an appro- it can not be produced With a saddle on it all are was CLARENCE WlSE IS RESIDENT AGENT FOR | commerce, |today with the Territorial Anditor. The nesota, {and ESTEBETH REPORTS After the motorship Estebeth returned to' Juneau from Sitka and Wi The Esfebeth is due to sail again Passengers coming to Juneau on i the Es Mary K. Brewer and H. Mose: | ake | Frank |and Mr | ‘rom Outbound { Pot whe _THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, FEB. 18, 1937. was the leader with 5,507 farms devoted to his production Canada also has 577 mink farms, 236 raccoon ms and 157 farmers who raise a variety of animals, including marten, coyote, lynx, bad- ger and beaver. The industry is growing steadily in importance and is believed to be only in its infancy in Canada. It is a natural trend. The fur farm must be " |looked to for production of the bulk of the pelts r §£1.25 per month. | for the fur markets of the world. As a matter of fact, northern Canada and Alaska are about the only places left in the world where fur can be taken in and that supply is no where near| fill the ever-growing demand. So as | Canada makes marked advance in the production e for|of fur on farms, Alaska can do-well to look to her {heri{own future in this industr, in advance, $6.00 notify the delivery | jts natural state, 374 ;um'q'mu' to ESS, d to tise It develops at long last that there is a bonus [ for U. S. Senators. All the boys have to do is endorse cigarettes and get'a $1,000 honorarium, as one Sena- termed it. But what he actually did name to a eigarette company for a thousand dol- You can’t hide that kind of practice behind honorarium ICATION [ tor was sell ns to be no question but that the people Territory are unanimous in asking the Troy. There of the entire reappointment of Gov. at dentist The won't Loyola university hasn’t since instructor and what t profession? dental hurt, of the says | fit the | beginni \ l’elson.nl Tnumph RIVAL jthinks the HAPPY BIRTHDAY The Empire extends congratla-| tions and best wishes today, their| birthday anniversary, to the follow- ing: FEBRUARY 18 Edithbelle Heller Mrs. William Maier Monte Snow Martin Munson Paul F. Schnee Jean Norestrom G. H. Skinner MODERN ETIQUETTE By Reberta Lee i Q. Isn't one justified in pro- testing when overchgrged by a taxi driver? A. Yes, in a quiet way, if one mistake is unintention- al. Otherwise one should obtain the driver’s license number and take it up with the company latér Q. When the bride wears a veil over her face, time that the veil should be raised? A. At the conclusion of the cer mony. This duty belongs to the maid of honor, (New York \’an!(l Tvlt‘”l'unr long and honorable roster, which ogn- | reports | tains the names of men who have done their par-| making rapid |ticular stunts first, farthest and fastest, and Howard | farms and the Hughes may rest assured that his memory will live| ing. Studies |long in that company. ; Alaska, par- Even this present day of restlessness and hurry | more or) It is a years n back the bouquet to the bride. Q. Should a comma he placed | at the end of each line when ad- |dressing an envelope? A. No; the modern stylesis omit the comma. to mine why fur must gasp to contemplate his new record—flying the be in the Ter-|2490 miles from Los Angeles to Newark Airport, major difficulty |clean across the continent, in 7 hours, 28 minutes, | the fur farmer|25 seconds. His rate was a little faster than five toward aiding land a half miles a minute, or a specific distance, | say, from City Hall to E. 88th St. each time the|: second hand ticked around on a watch. 1 Yes, that's flying. Most of us can remember s in the Legis- m. It already go a mile a minute or for Lou Dillon to trot a mile in 2:05 the other. At one of the Ter- t can be pro- But now Howard Hughes climbs aboard his racer, ia there seems which the mr(lmm(\ describe as “a big gas engine " and, zip, he streaks across the |United States between early breakfast and luncheon.! ! He is a wealthy young man, to be sure, free ng recently On |, pyy himself the fastest ship engineering skill can d this 0 8y proquce. But he is more than that. He blazed thinks the |{his trail into the future at a cost of the highest ')(f:"\:]ll‘l::; courage and skill, by tremendous personal wear ;,N.m.(,_ of and tear. He had the plane, but he also had the| Bomé otlier daring and spirit to flash across with throttle open supply and magnificent and superlative performance. It is a fine achievement which the world, we believe, | will recognize generously is in a 1t the Prib- o carefully government many thou- . however, n important ided. in Canada al stir and sold for as for breed- nowhere Where There’s Smoke There’s—Pyridine | (Philadelphia Record) | If you should suddenly discover twirling around ! you in foggy form such mysterious elements as pyri- dine, thiotetrapyridine, isodipyridine, prussic acid, py- Irolin, ammonia, collidine, formaldehyde and carbon monoxide—don't be frightened. The Journal of the American Medical Association | explains perfectly that you have simply got hold of | ars ago 66 : -4 a lighted cigarette and what you see is nothing more | came from ! ths ain smoke denuded of its mysteries. | ent o x(lun pl old smoke der d s my ies. ! that more > of 6473 fur the sale of ; ‘ e I The moving picture, “Mutiny on the Bounty,” has been barred from Japan. What with unemploy- ment, low wages and high living costs, it might go putting ideas in people’s heads.—Philadelphia Record. which sta- fur farms The silver n ll\t' falm Bunker Hill- K«deluk omon extension, i Nome- Tollm- The ambulance has become the national emblem. Atchison Clobl‘ i e TERR c OF C. T0 ELECT C"""“I;OFFICERS FEBRUARY 22 President M. E. S. Brunelle, of the Alaska Territorial Chamber of today announced that e chamber will hold its biennial ting for election of officers here February 22, and that representa- | {tives of nearly all of the fifteen members chambers are now in Ju- neau and will attend. Several other matters of import- jance will be considered by the compaby’ I incorparatedsits Chamber, including reports of com- 3 % i \mitees. Outstanding among the the laws of the State of Min-j ., imiitee reports to be heard will 5 1““]“ ]"'_‘l headau ‘!”l““‘ “]“b( that of the committee on rec- “last sessiol < officers are: Adfimm Mlllu | dations o Ave pmblem b » devar and M. J. Schiffer, ""("[mnn of research and publicity for| the Territory. That committee is| headed by Victor C. Rivers. Another report will be heard| jfrom the committee appointed last| meeting to draw resolutions oppos- |{ing the views of Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Tickes, regard-| ng the lv'sm" of puhlic lands. port:| SIMMONS FLIES TWO -wite| LOADS OF DREDGEMEN TO SITKA FROM HERE king off from Gastineau Chan- 1ls morning at 10:30 o'clock, n the Alaska Air Transport Lock- of - | heed seaplane, 'Pilot Sheldon Sim- om mons flew to Sitka six members of goon. M. F. Abraham, from Ten- | the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredge e: G. W. Samples, Roy Wright, PATty which is to remove a ledge McKinley, John McKinley |ffom the Channel at Sitka this Willie Mills, from Hoonah;|Summer S’ v Crimtas Ofts Returning to Juneau empty at Funter 1 o'clock, Simmons hopped again for Sitka at 1:45, with five more members of the dredge crew, under foreman Ben Howland. Simmons is expected to return to Juneau from % his second trip at 4:30 o'clock, and BRSE these e is scheduled for a flight to Peters- n_«;-h'd hem to “0'" burg and Ketchikan tomorrow they will return to Seattle on morning. mtorship Northland - BIG HOTEL CONCERN ¢ se, new operator of the Zynda| tel in Juneau, by the Territorial tel Operating Company as its; ident agent in Alaska, was file esident, ary. | Ié ROUGH VOYAGE TO SITKA AND RETURN R | battling wind and almu\l ntinuous snow on the entire trip,| s afternoon at 12:30 o'clock ven passengers for Jumneau. 6 Sitks. tomorrow at lock. evening ebeth Jobn . Kal; were nie, from Chi i esen Tuesd e Esteb icked up at Chaik Bas 13 members the crew the motorship Za- which was wrecked at vt nt Passengers flying to Sitka with ' €immons to were: First load— midnight, December 1, 1936, Mr. and Mrs. E. Warren and their Andresen completed his daughter; L. Anderson, C. Stoner, year in the groeery business—'C, Odom; second load — H. B. for any Auburn, Neb. Howd, Ben Howland, Jack Green- h record LOOK cnid LEARN By A. C. Gordon 1. Have any U. S. postage stdmps lever borne the portrait of a Hving passed one house and probably will have little without a strain when it was flying for a train to ,oyqon2 2. How many miles of under- ground railways, or “subways,” has "New York City? 3. Who ranks second to Shakes- peare among English poets? 4. What is the youngest agc a member of the House of Represen- tatives of the United States may 5. In what state of the United States is more than one-fourth of its wheat grown? ANSWERS No. 313 miles. John Milton. 25 years. Kansa: DATLY LESSONS IN ENGLISH By W. L. Gordou =t Words Often Misused: Do not say, | “Her home to yours.” your: Often Mispronounced: Foundry. Pronounce foun-dri, i as in it, and not found-der-i. Often Misspelled: udr not side. Synonyms: Melancholy, tion, despondency, sadnes: hypochondria Word Study: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us in- jcrease our vocabulary by mastering ‘one word each day. Todays' word: Perdition; entire loss, especially the utter loss of the soul. “If we re- (ject the truth, we seal our own perdmon —J. M. Mason. not to be compared Say, “compared dejec- SOrrow, S —— .4 P~ HARRY RACE, Druggist “The Squibb Stores of Alaska” exactly as written by your Juneau Drug Co. -—cf | |was a former Attorney General, for- what is the proper | when she hands 2 # tion on the Juneau gas plant would 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire Horoscope “The stars_incline but do not compel” FEBRUARY 18, 1937 Saying that the country was on the brink of war, William Howard Taft sent out an appeal for a mil- lion more members of the American Red Cross and urged the estab- lishment of a base hospital in Se- |attle | col. Melvin Grigsby, driginator of {the idea of Rough Rider cavalry, frontiersman, leading lawyer of South Dakota, of which state he FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1937 According to astrology this is an uncertain day. There is one dom- inating benefic aspect, however, which is read as favorable to wo- men. This is an auspicious date for girls to seek employment and there s promise of success in any posi- tion. Musicians and artists in many mer United States Attorney in the'lines of achievement should bene- Second Division, father of Attor-|fit under this rule of the stars, ney General George B. Grigsby of lbut the. winter's close may be fi- Juneau, died at Birmingham, Ala-|nancially difficult for many Amer-' bama, aged 72, of pneumonia. In jcans. addition to his son in Juneau, he| Love affairs flourish under this was survived by two other sons, a 'sway, in spite of deceit pracuced daughter, his widow and his fa- by both men and women. It is well ther, who was 97 years old. All of to let the head direct the heart. iis sons were attorneys of note. This is a = ships and shipping. Storms may and Mrs. H. C. DeVighne cause delays and damage on both arrived in Juneau on the Spokane the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. after a trip south. Uranus continues in a place sup- |posed to increase egotism and stub- Herbert Sauer, arrested in New bornness. The greatest good to the York for the murder of an aged greatest number should now be con- woman, was found to have maps of | tumpL\th with ‘special attention. aska in his possession which hel Workers under this plentary d stolen from a revenue (‘llltl‘l";.,mvn)mvnl will meet with contrary from which he had deserted. He'or conflicting influennces which | confessed to stealing the charts and (will cause perplexities. Strikes said that he had intended to return, ,may be ominous, despite winter ex- to Germany and give the chs 'igencies. to the government, thus making; Both men and women should a name for himself. Ibe cautious about their signature. It |is unlucky to sign legal papers un- eorge Irving, who had just re- der this configuration and the stars turned from Seattle where he had warn of increase in counterfeiting. sold his rights in a gas franchise]| Persons whose birthdate it is held from the City Council, to Se- have the augury of a year of hard attle interests, said that construc-'work which is profitable. Friends ‘wm be valued greatly and their numbers should increase. Children born on this day prob- 3 p ably will be talented in the acts of gram, given in the high school by expression. Subjects of this sign members of the Seward Society, usually succeed through extraor- were Madge Case, Roy Torvinen, dinary gifts. Sybil Campbell, Donald MacKin-| Adelina Patti, famous singer, wa non, Olive LaBounty, Nesbit Tuck- born on this day 1843. Others who er, Harry Clements, Edward Do- have celebrated it as a birthday in- lan. |clude Nicolas Copernicus, astrono- mer, 1473; Maurice Jokai, Hungar- lowest, 26; ian author, 1825; David Garrick, E‘m,mh actor, 1717. !Copynghl 1937) D start in the early spring. On the Washington-Lincoln pro- Weather: clear. | ! | Highest, 30; —,,———— The most populous prison in e - Great Britain houses fewer than! Lede and_piacer location notices 1000 men. Many in the United for sale at The Empire Office. states hold twice that number. |gz A e 0 DANCE MARCH 6TH | With American Legion Auxiliary, Elks Hall. adv. O S S, | Winter' Rates | GENERAL MOTORS and MAYTAG PRODUCTS | | | : I W. P. JOHNSON [ f ! | = ! | SITKA HOT SPRINGS | | | Mineral Hot Baths | | Accommodations to suit every I taste. Reservations Alaska Air l Transport. SR with | f Coincide; J i 9, e Pay’n Takit PHONES 92 or 35 Free Delivery Fresh Meats, Groceries, Liquors, Wines and Beer We Sell for LESS Because We sell for CASH Leader Dept. Store George Brothers i PHONE 36 | For very prompt LIQUOR DELIVERY - — The B. M. Juneau, Resources rchan {wood, J. 0. Johnson, L. A. Boyle. Bank COMMERCIAL and SAVINGS Over Two and One-Half Million Dollars Behrend Alaska { tion gained under this con(lgura- and 3 threatening day for, Smugglers Turn Mine Into Sub Rosa Road GLEIWITZ, Feb. 18.—Smuggling across the German-Polish border n the mining district of upper-Silesia has reached the under-ground stage. For weeks customs officials no- ticed the appearance of large quan- tities of smuggled goods without being able to discover how the goods were transported. Concerted action by Polish and German authorities finally revealed an abandoned mine on the Germas side of the frontier with gallerics running into Polish territory. Miners had built new entrances nd used the passages to smuggle silver ware, rubber goods and clocks, |Cuba to Deport | 50,000 fo Make Jobs for Natives HAVANA, Feb. 18. — Concentra- tion camps for Haitian and Jamai- can workers, estimated around 50,- 000, whom the government expects to deport in order to provide labor for Cubans during the present su- gar esting, arg being; construct- ed atBanfidgo. on the south coast, Antill, on the north coast ofg, Oriente Province, the quartment 'of Labor announced today. The army will be used to round |up these foreign workers and hold them in concentration camps until the government can transport them thome aboard merchant or naval | vessels, Last winter's extreme cold weath- er, coupled with three successive dry ' seasons,’ caused considerable damage to fruit trees in Southeast- ern Nebraska. ———————— Pajamas, Mohammedan in origin, were worn in India centuries ago. 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