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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1937 New Arrivals BABY NEEDS complete new line of needs for the NEW ARRIVAL! ilems Infants’ Blankets—all colors and kinds Infants’ Sweater Sets Infants' Shoes and Booties Silk and Knitted Caps Rattles Bibs Floater Sets Diapers Stuffed Animals Teddy Sets Bath Robes —and— NOVELTIES We have just received a Listed here are just a few ROSA DANNER TAKING LEAD CONTESTVOTE Geraldine Bodding in Sec- ond Place and Four Others Close Up The Daily Alaska Empires’ Good Will Contest and On To Mexico| Tour has not as yet swamped the official ballot keeper and vote coun- ter but it is beginning to tak- on that aspect. All of the contestants must hav been extremely busy over Sunday for the votes turned in to be ac- counted for cn Monday and show- |, ing into today’s tabulations runse in to many thousands. | Rosa Danner Takes Lead | In today's standings, Rosa Dan- |ner is leading with 224450 votes |with Geraldine Bodding in second 'place with 168,350. Betty Whitficld, Birdie Jensen, Clara Hansen, Mar- garét Lindstrom follow in the order named, with several girls showing Jower in the list with a large re- | | | | | BeLudvLvou0OUVeOOYeo improve their chances most. Good Will Votes Free | The Daily Alaska Empire is giv- ing a certain number of votes [ree with every paid subscrintion; these votes can be voted or handed yowr favorite contestant in the On To, Mexico Tour. The votes cost you absolutely nothing over and above the regular subscription price to 1 ne P Daily Alaska Empire and each ond every vote can be made to apply on| DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE'S e GOOD WILL CONTEST ° AND ON TO MEXICO TOUR e . Following is the list of con- e testants and their standing; ® all votes counted up to 6 o’clock e last night: L] . Danner, Rosa 224,450 © Bodding, Geraldine 168,350 o Whkilfield, Betty 70,050 o Jensen, Birdie 40,750 Hansen, Clara 33,950 o Lindstrem, Margaret 33,050 o Nelscn, Le 24,150 o Lynch, Lucille - 21,200 @ Edwards, Phylis 22,800 © Lokken, Astrid 20,200 Barrager, Harriet 20,100 o Hildinger, Madge 20,100 o Brown, Virginia 20,000 © Berg, Sylvia 20,000 o Couiter, Etolin 20,000 o Green, Dorothy 20,000 ¢ Haviland, Edith 20,000 » Johnson, Jennie 20,000 » Kneceland, Beverly 20,000 o Lea, Meriam 20,000 o Pauisen, Helvi 20,000 © Pusich, Helen 20,000 o Sutherland, Sadie 20,000 e Stone, May Elizabeth 20,000 & ° e 00000000000 serve of votes, which they hop- to H R vote at the proper moment (o NEW DIRECTOR OF AIR BUREAU roblem of W;xelhel' Gov- ernment Should Tell Air- :LEFT WINGERS | U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAT THE WEATHER (By the U. S. \Weather Bureau, "IN WASHINCTON } | Forecast for Juncau and vichity, beg! BATTL |Cloudy tonight and Wednesday, probably | ing at 4 pm., Mar, 2. snow; moderate S.E. winds. | LOCAL DATA | B . . ‘Time Barometer Tem,. Humidity Wind Velocity Weather |Governor’s Social Security 4 ;. e 3 9 g e clouay A Program Going Through (¢ @ ot 203 22 ok p T dibidy | ~—‘L b Bl] 1 112 noon taday 22.8 3 o4 w 3 Cloudy ‘ abor Bill in Doubt i CABLE ANL RADIG REPORTS L | OLYMPIA, Wash, March 2. — YESTERDAY 5 TODAY Rushing down the Left Wing op- Highest 40.m. Lowestda.m. d4um. Preclp. 4am. position, the Senate majority stee: Station temp. temp. temp. temp. velncity 24hrs, Weather ed Gov. Clarence D. Martin’s So- Atka 40 3t | 32 32 6 60 Clear cial Security program for the up-| An-horage 22 =i - 0 per house’s approval but the Exe-!Barrow -10 | =12 =10 6 0 Cloudy cutive’s Labor Disputees bill how-'Ncme 14 8:: 8 4 02 ' ever is in danger after the Senate Bethel 8 252 4 0 i passed it, backed by organized la- Fairbanks 10 -1 -14 4 3 bor. | Dawson -2 -26 -26 0 0 The Senate took ' tHe' Governor's' St. Paul 36 28 3¢ 22 04 : H measure from the Left Wing con-| Dutch Harbor 36 32 34 4 0 Pt Cldy ' trolled committee to pass it. The Kodiak 30 13 18 4 0 Clear k! te has passed four of the five Cordova 30 18 22 6 0 Clear bills in the program, covering un- Juneau .. 35 2 2 82 10 T Cloudy cmployment insurance, the $43,- |Sitka 41 = o et 1 es - T 30,000 Social Security bill, meas- | Betchikan RS R A LS Rain ure establishing a Department of Erince Rupert 42 42 36 42 6 38 Pt. Cldy Social Security and blind pension | Edmonton 38 28 | 22 o 4 0 Cloudy At 1 Seal]tlv W ;g 52 | 46 46 10 .5:; Cloudy e et i | Poptian 50 | 48 48 10 5 Cloudy i Tl:fqgf";n‘;‘”'C‘r’l'p‘;fl‘(gl"]“df‘?l‘d:;‘_ San Francisco ... 64 60 | 52 52 4 T Cloud eoihial Bt dey |New York 44 38 | 32 32 14 0 Clear The opposition forees have been Seastimgion 2 " [/ 38 cxth 4 v el unable to muster more than ten| THED CONDITION AT 8 A. M. TODAY of the bi | Seattle rt), cloudy, temperature 46; Blaine, cloudy, 44; Vic- s T | toria, cloudy, 44; Kelchikan, raining, 38; Craig, raining, 41; Wrangell, "mo\vmg. 35; Petersburg, snowing, 33; Sitka, cloudy. 34; Radiovi |cloudy, 32; Soapstone P partly cloudy, 32; Juneau, cloudy, § Skagway, clear, 20; St Elia partly cloudy, 34; Cordova, cloudy, 21; F . Copper River, partly cloudy; Chitina, cloudy, 0; McCarthy, partly I-I KE OLD s 0 A K | cloudy, -10; Anchorage, partly clordy, -1; Fairbanks, clear, Nen- L |ana, clear, -20; Ruby, cloudy, -3; N dato, partly cloudy, -4; Flat, cloudy, : Savoonaga, cloudy, 11. WEATHER SYNOPSIS ¥, one of the two ~ajor prize rips| lineswhen toFly Is Faced from Juneau to Old Mexico «nd return with every item of expense paid. To Join Alaska Group The Empire’s Good Will Contest winners will leave Juneau on the; WASHINGTON, Mar. 2. — Fred {D. Fagg, Jr, new director of the |Department of Commerce Air Bu- | reau, said that his first task was the realignment of the rank and file BOSSES SALOON ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., March 2. —Jimmy, a pint-sized parrct that spends his days and nights par Low barometric pressure continued this morning from the Gulf of | Alaska southwestward to the Hawa ian Islands, there being tow storm centers, one lo sd a short disiance west of the Queen Charlotte Is- lands, where a pressure of 29.60 inch>s was reported and the second storm area centered over the Pacific Ocean at latitude 38 degrees and S S of All Descrptions ALL PRICED trip of their lives on the steamer|of divisions in his bureau in con- Yukon about April 1. When they|formity with the new administra- board the ship they will find Miss|tive system and pledged a “reason- Charlotte Wehner and Hiss Helen|able middle road” policy to all Junes, Fairbanks winners, and Miss| The new director said that he Peggy Marsch and Miss Alma Mary would not plunge into hurried Mitchell, Anchorage winners. Other|schemes of federal regulation; that winners from similar contests will! harmony between the Bureau and join the party from towns in Alaska | industry could not be accomplished south of Juneau. The trip will be|by drastic action. RIGHT inz up and down the bar of a longitude 150 degrees, where a pressure of 29.1¢ inches was reported. o locn, must e his nip of beer ev- High barometric pressure prevailed from the Seward Peninsula and »' ery few minutes | Alaskan Arctic coast southeastward to northern Alberta, the crest # or three years Jimmy has | !being 30.42 inches at Barrow. The air pressure began falling rapidly ‘ virtual boss of Jimmy's bar, ide- | at St. Paul Island. This general pressure distribution has been at- < |tended by precipitation over most of Southeastern Alaska and south- 1 street saloon here. Jimmy drinks like an old s and rarely gets drunk When he first began his iniquitious career, he used to fall off the bar and fly into the big mirror he-| ward to Oregon and over the Bering Sea region, and by generall fair weather over the remainder of the field of observation It was colder last night over the interior of Alaska and over the upper Macken: Valley. B. M. Behrends Co. Inc. Juneau's Leading Department Store | - Northland, in port here Xis after- noon They are returning from an ex- tended trip East, on which Mr. An. derson, prominent Sitka merchant 12“ cuRPflRALs underwent an operation at the Mayo Hospital at Rochester, Minn. Mr. AnZerson says his health is much improved. 5 e, BASKETBALL FIVE FROM PETERSBURG HERE FOR 'GAMES Arriving in Juneau today aboard the motorship Northland were four members of the basketball team of Petersburg High School, coming to Juneau for a playoff series with the special courses while serving With| juneay High Crimson Bears to de- the colors, to teach reading ““dlmde the Inter-scholastic champion- writing in elementary schools—to'shin of Southeast Alaska. aduits as well as children. The four Petersburg players com- From time to time they will also jng here on the Northland were: ANKARA, Turkey, Maich 1.—One hundred and twenty corporals of the Turkish army have been de- mobolized and scattered as school teachers throughout the villages in Anatolia This special corps was created by a new law requiring non-commis- sioned officers who have undergone for geisha entertainment. creased rather than charges. figure, lecture to the villagers on air raid Donald Lewis, Andrew Grenier, patrons to other establishments: dangers and explain how the pop- Norman Hammer, and W. Israel- ulation can protect itself. son. The law also provides that their b e Youl House Kills ms must be met by the itenance S.S. INSPECTORS BACK Coffey Bill villa during their three-year per- Returning from a vessel inspec- iod of service tion trip to Ketchikan, on which On Fish Traps - they sailed south from Juneau on —_— RETURNING TO SITKA and Mrs. Neil Anderson, of assengers through Ju- neau enroute to their home city from the South on the motorshi; the last voyage of the Northland, Capt. John M. Clark and Chief John Newmarker, steamship inspec- tors, arrived back here aboard the afternoon killed the GEISHA GIRLS WIN DEMANDS TOKYO, March 1—In the first strike of its kind on record, pretty geisha of the Shibuya dis- \trict have won their demands that restaurants reduce their charges The strike was unique in two ways—it was the first joint effort by geisha to dictate terms of employ- ment and it was a request for de- increased value of $100 each. FIRST, you need a theme—some- thing to "swing” from. Let's take & horse (above). Horses suggest Elsa Maxwell's barnyard party, high of New York's 1937 social season. Here is . . . personally escorted by Don Eck, of| the Don Eck Travel Tours, with headguarters in Chicago, represent- ing the advertising departments of the Alaska Steamship Company, “he Northern Pacific Railway and tne Southern Pacific Company. —— WASHINGTON COMPANY NAMES D. A. STEWART ITS RESIDENT AGENT In declarations filed with the Ter- ritorial Auditor today, D. A. Stew- art, of Nome, Alaska, was regis- tered as resident agent in the Ter- ritory for the Casa D. Paga Gold Company, which operates a dredge on mineral claims held by it in the ‘Territory. The company is incorporated in the State of Washington for a periord of fifty years, and has a capital stock of $50,000, divided into 100,030 { shares of common stock which are non-assessable and have a par value of one cent each, and 499 shares of preferred stock, with a par ! The head office of the company The girls, gaily kimonoed but is in Seattle, Wash. and members grimly determined,-held out for a of its first board of five directcrs charge of three yen for two hours are: A. C. Stewart, Edna M. Stew- entertainment rather than the pro- art, Carl J. Smith, Donald Stewart, posed rate of four yen. The higher and R. S. Stewart. all of Seattle. they argued, would drive A. C. Stewart, Donald Stewart, and R., S. Stewart are incorporators of ,the company, which is authorized to conduct all kinds of mining busi- ness. i - - ! MRS. RACE ARRIVES ' He said that an involved problem |facing the Bureau is the question of whether the government should {assume authority to tell the airlines ‘when they can or can’t make flights. Wing Stork Race Over Auto Crash GREENVILLE, O..—A mere au- tomobile accent couldn't keep Frank Miley of Gettysburg from winning a race with the stork The auto he was driving behind one taking Mrs. Miley to a hos- ipital was stopped by a collision. {Undaunted despite severe lacera- ticns Miley “thumbed a ride” and |l'eached the hospital in time to greet this newly-born son. Gunmen Steal GoII | | | | DENVER, Colo, March 2.—"Say I'AH’,” said the gunm to John Boleman as they accosted him on a dark street The four men peered inside his mouth. “Sure enough, they decided Then they tapped Coleman on the head ‘with a pair of pliers and took he's got (hem,” ‘Lhe gold bridges from his mouth —value $66. In on th tripped (him of his clothing, glasses and Mrs. Harry Race, wife of Rep- shoes. resentative Race, of the Territorial By a vote of 11'to 5 the House this Legislature, arrived on the North-' Coffey bill land from her Ketchikan liome. which would have put the question of fish traps or abolishment of the traps up' to a referendum vote. ———.———— Try The Empire ciassifieds £ ICT — e Several small oaks enough to give young hedg tween b s atop Reidsville, Ga U and s be- building in émflgh;, i937. By The AP Feature Servicd i from Vicim’s Mouth ; hind, knocking glasses and bottles| from the shelves.” Jimmy often s a nip from a customer’s beer or cocktil with or without invitation. He climbs upon shoulders, and likes to explore o coat pocket One tipsy custol my away in his overcoat pockst a couple of years ago. Maynard Cad- mus, the proprietor, traced Jimmy and his escort from one saloon te another. Wi he finaily caught up, they beth drunk i y is about 15 years d the country with a g n who pulled him out of a kizh silk hat every night > - r carried Jim- old and Better Liquor Is Consumed In Dry City OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., March 2. Leo Menten, Oklahoma City health department secretary, is cer- the quality of liquor consumed in this cne city of constituticnally dry OCklahoma is improving—and he cites stattistics to prove it. “In 1835," said Menten, * re 18 deaths directly olism. In 1936, there were on- Since good whisky became patrons of bootleggers ng poisons that dam in the OCiient, costing around $20,000,000, will be crected for hydro-electric purposes he Manchoukuo goy spring on the Sungari Harbin. river near - e Red flannels, on the “out-of-style” <t for 20 years; are becoming popu- ar again in the midwest. Blue flan- establishing a theme an swing music is the rage, out of "swing pictures, idea. We're not sure where we're going, but here goes! . . nment this| THE IDEA:—Dance bands produce thing leads to another in rapid, haywire succession. Since | Prisoner Drinks 5 Liniment Instead ‘ of Rubbing It In ‘Ariel’ Prepares | For Role In Play | l | CHICAGO, narch 2 liams took his medicing, but no the way the doctor crdered. Williams was in the county jal, serving a year for fraud. In pain, he called the jail physi- cicn, and asked for a remedy for | rheumatism. He was given some {liniment to rub on his A stead, he swallowed it — and died soon after Williams v sixty-two. He came to Chicago from Cincinnati, Ohio. | He was marri but when he was asked for the address of his wife he ! replied: “Never mind—she'll never be here to see me.” GORE IN TOWN Attorney Lester O. Gore, of Ket- chikan, arrived on the Northland. e — pry viassifieds for Try The Empire results. 3 S ‘Alaska” by Lester D. Henderson. ¥ Elaine Barrie Barrymore, who sepa- rated from her husband of 53 days, | John Barrymore, for a stage career of her own, is shown getting ready | for her west coast debut in San Francisco in the role of Claudia in | “The Return of Hannibal.” Miss | | Barrie is still wearing the ring | Barrymore gave her during their romance when she was “Ariel” and ns was “Caliban.” (Associated Press Photo) swing music” by d then playing ali around it. One we thought you might get a kick " based on the same / TOMORROW we swing to Gypsy Rose Lee!