The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 3, 1937, Page 4

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1937 H. M. Hollmann {blocked the efforts of the United whatever interests them. Subjects) Mingled good and adverse plane- 5 g = ——————a D -l l ka Em ire be found in the following account in af:ecent issue of H A P P Y lvemmm or improvements will be 3 (ll y A (ls p | the New York Times on the Douglas fire: of supreme value in war prepara- “Smiling Service” I hick ticall BIRTHD H tions. | momeme wmmen - -t |, NS sty o o | X 20 YRS S OTOSCOPE | 1“un v wrnaue 1 || Ber’s Cash Grocery eilie eXoRbt ¢ MPIRE | P r e Empire exte congratula- From The Empire have the augury of \ N Published every evening t Sunday by the EMPIRE ka’s capital, recalls a region where man and | gury of a year of fi-|) PRINTING, BOMBANT ot Second and. Main Strects, Juneats; pature struggle on a mighty scale. tiony and best wishes today, their L “The stars inclice nancial gain and general good for-| | Free Delivery Juneau i R il ] “Douglas, just across the Gastineau Chan- | irthday anniversary, to-the follow- | \—— st but do not compel” | |tune. Discords in love affairs may|*———— Entered in the Post Office in Juncau us Scco.d Class| nel from Juneau, on the Alaskan ‘panhandie’ - A;RH;‘ 3F ;193; R becmheltd by n;any young women. 3 2 P R el ! | that stretches 600 miles down the Pacific ' Robert o aFollette, nite ildren born on this day may . SUBSCRIPTION RATES. | Coast, literally ‘sits on a gold mine’ and once APRIL 3 States Senator from Wisconsin, SUNDAY, APRIL 4, 1337 be keen of mind and active in | Winter Rates \ | SITKA HOT SPRINGS Delivered in carrler in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per month. By mail, postage paid, at the following rates Ome year, in advance, §12,00; six months, in advance, $6.00; one month. in advance, $1.28 Bubscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify | the Business Office of any fallure or irregularity in the delivery of their papers. News Office, 602; Business Office, 374. MBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Assoclated Press s exclusively entitled to the u:e for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. Telephones ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION A FINE M/ The tragic accident at the lower city float yester- day afternoon, resulting in the untimely death of Charles G. Warner, has taken from Juneau and Alaska | one of our best known and best liked citizens, and an | able craftsman. “The best machinist who ever came the| north” was the high compliment paid by a friend of| long standing who had known Mr. Warner when he was chief mechanic for the Copper River and North-| into westorn Railroad, later when he was master mechanic | for the Alaska-Gastineau operations on Salmon Creek dam and through the years that he operated the War- ner Machine Shops in Juneau. His fine humanitarian characteristics known to his countless friends and may best be illus-| trated by the incident which is history in the Interior. are well was one of the richest towns of Alaska,” a bulletin ciety. “Penetrating deep into the rock of Douglas Island, where the town of Douglas stood, is the famous Treadwell gold mine, one of the largest and richest of the world’s quartz gold mines, in which gold is found sprinkled through veins of hard rock. Since gold first was discovered in this region in 1880, the ore removed has equaled many times over the price of $7,200,000 pnld for Alaska by the United States to Russia. | R SRS | We have an idea that proposal of the Los Angeles | sociologist to pay married men more would rally a |lot of votes. As we recall it, Mussolini has a similar plan. says of the National Geographic So- Millions are spent in teaching thrift, Tacoma who saved $8,205 in 16 years out of a total wage of $9.600. Just supposing the taxpayers would organize and fgo on a sit-down strike? The “Business Cycle” (New York Times) The upward movement of the past year in prices and business activity, lately much accelerated, loccurred in England as in the United States. British n more rapidly than ours, and‘ talk of a possible clical reaction” has been heard at London as well as at Washington. |The London Economist, citing Professor Macgregor, admits that the cycle of prosperity and adversity is |real, and recksons that in the past—it carries its fig- ures of the alternating upward and downward swing lonly to 1909—the interval between one cyclical “high point” and another averaged about eight years. That would be the interval between autumn of 1929 and jautumn of 1937, But both The Economist and Professor Mac- gregor make the mistake of not distinguishing be- tween major industrial reactions and the minor set- | prices have in fact ris “ey but they: | want to appoint a guardian for the chap down in) Many years ago Mr. Warner was on a mining ven- ture in the region north of Fairbanks. He was mush- ing his dogs along the trail when he encountered two backs which occur more frequently. For instance, it is assumed in the figures cited that between 1873 and men who had been badly injured in a powder blast | 1909 there were five formidable depression periods, 2 ¥ e v Ay ... blaced respectively in sequence to 1373, 1881, 1889, during their mining operations. “Charley,” as he was 11897 and 1906. This conception of economic history universally known, threw his own belongings off Lhe‘doubxl(w underlies current telk of “another 1929.” sled alongside of the trail, loaded the injured men|p,; the reaction in business following 1881 and 1897 aboard and set a record for fast dog-team travel from | woc in each case short-lived. | Fort Yukon to Fairbanks with his suffering passen-| In our own trade history, much the same may be gers so that they could receive medical attention |said of the set-backs in 1903 and 1921, on each of Charley Warner was that sort of a man. which occasions business activity soon rose normally The terrific shock of his sudden and tragic death|to a higher level than before. The explanation is that will pass with time. But the place that he held in!depression after a major set-back and the earlier the life of the north and in the esteem of his friends' Stages of recovery, which together usually occupied will never be filled. | five or six years, were apt to create conditions under No more will the mechanical staff of The Empu.e_;'.vmch Imvance. industry and prices had moved ahgad; and other places as well, sing out “call Charley War- more rapidly than [‘he growth of actual consumptmn.‘ ner,” when a piece of machinery refuses to function Beadiustment, yas ioviiable; nvaits wil! térlibreary: ¢ 2 7 ca | The next really severe depression period came only I Ghacley Wamer couldn’t fix it, it was beyond repair.| ypon brices and use of credit, in the course of an in- Thes fine man and expert craftaman s gone. !fatuated boom, had been carried to a disastrous Not only Juneau but all of Alaska mourns this!preaking-point. { untimely passing of one of our first citizens. The philosophy, once very generally accepted, of L the “busin cycle” was that eight or ten years after ALASKA NEWS |a major crisis was not a long enough period for the —_— financial and business community to have forgotten the lessons which that crash had taught. It was only after the smaller intervening reaction had been sur- north which do not have wide news interest. The 5 recent, fire at Douglas was a typical example. The re- mounted wilhvout serious tmu_b]e. and when memory lof the last disastrous reckoning had begun to fade, port was spread in newspapers throughout the nationithat the TiHanCial Tind weuld bighh 10 be. poansisis S mhod f)ver e tiilo statine:, Liatnepn On,the3w1ll\ the notion that we were living now in a new era short wave in Douglas and Juneau were not a little| ¢ o qless prosperity, in which old rules of busi- surprised to hear the Douglas fire news broadcast|pess prudence and financial common sense might be from London as a matter of international interest. |dismissed. This was distinctly the community’s atti- A key to why Alaska makes news, particularly|tude on the eve of 1907 and 1829. That its attitude is incidents touching on the Territory’s earlier days, may | the same today wm hardly be contended “wir & |DVORCE ENDS HER ROMANCE Daughter of Senator Given' Decree from Holly- wood Film Actor It is a tradition that few things happen in the MENDENHALL C0. LOW BIDDER ON WATER MAINS Front Slrefi’ork to Be mal provisions of the ordinance. Mine Shipments The Council authorized the pur- chase of a new electric hoist for | loading and unloading at the City | Dock and Norman Banfield, repre- | senting the Polaris-Taku Gold Min- | ing Company, told the Council that the mining company could guar- antee around a 1,000 tons a year for handling over the dock and has between 500 and 600 tons com- ing in shortly. The hoist will be Undertaken at $6,300 placed at the north end of the LOS ANGELES, Cal, April 3.— dock. |Divorce has ended the romance of Figure—PWA Project The Mendenhall Burr Johnson told the Council of plans of the R. J. Sommers Ellen McAdoo de Onate, daugh- ter of United States Senator Wil-| Construction £ 2 i Construction Company to erect a Company was low bidder and yyo.story building at Marine Way |ter of the late President Woodrow awarded the contract for laying and South Seward but it was Wilson. new water mains on Front Street pointed out by some of the Coun-) and Shattuck Way by the cuy!c:l that the buiiding as proposed | husband, is the handsome Spanish Council last night when bids for | Would not come within the require- | Follywood actor, known on the the PWA project were opened. The ments of the new fire ordinance, screen as Ralph Novarro. | company bid $6,300 on the job and the matter of issuing a permit Mrs. De Onate charged neglect which had been estimated by the finally was tabled for later action. and non-support. City Engineer at $6,505 Bill Hixson, Radio Inspector, re- e ee——— The R. J. Sommers Company Ported that returns, while com-| offered the only other bid, a figure Paratively few, on interf erence Lnss Re uned of $7,345 {questionnaires sent out had been | valuable in locating causes of in-| terference and he reported progress | in getting assurance from owners that certain causes of radio recep- | tion interefernce would be removed. -ee There is $1,200 left from previous PPWA money. an additional grant of $2200 is forthcoming and the balance of the cost of the project, about $3,900, will be taken -out of the general fund. The Juneau Wat- | er Company will share part of this|:! expense as it will use the same!| | ditches for laying its mains. Fire Ordinance The proposed new city fire ordi-| By Mining Co. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 3. s .. (—The Treadwell Yukon Company, owner of gold, silver, lead, copper / THE HOTELS | land zinc mines in Canada l::md iy T+ |Nevada, reported a net loss for the Gastineau |year of $646,967, a reduction from nance came up for discussion but| Walter Hall, Fairbanks, J. s.|the $715832 loss of the previous action was held in abeyance until Huntington. Nulato; W. J. Jones, | V4T next meeting for the purpose of Fairbanks; Nancy Burke, Sitka; Ed- | >~ {“The Town of the Queen of An-| Eleanor Millard Henry G. Davidson i Mrs. Guy Smith Armond L. Duncan Lee Quong APRIL 4. David R. Hill Edw. C. Hanson Norma Homme Orrin Edwards John Feero John J. Costello | SRR MODERN ETIQUETTE By Roberta Lee yis it all right for him to suggest certain dishes to her ? A. Yes; if she seems unable to about what she should order. Some ispect. Q When a person has finished | Treadwell mine. i it all right merely to lay it on the ash tray? A. No. or cigar, are sometimes very offensive. Q. What characteristics are us- | ually possessed by the person wh make up her mind, or uncertain; Q. When a man has taken a girl|Museth and Mark Russell. to some public place for dinner,!| | lgirls are rather timid in this re-jand H. D. Nordling went to work diplomatic difficulties through their has Smoking a cigarette or a ecigar, is| shortly ahead will always extinguish the cigarette W as the remaining fumes Territorial Legislature who stopped gecret of this sign are doers as well as dreamers. Sir Joseph Lister, English sur- geon, was born on this day 1827. Others who have celebrated it as a birthday include Samuel F. Mll-! ler, American jurist, 1816; Elihu|) _ Yale, philanthropist, 1648; Jules! Dupre, French Ilandscape painter, 1811; Jonas Chickering, manufac- | turer, 1797. <Copynght, 1937 D |States Senate to rush consideration of the war measure and the Senate adjourned without acting on the Administration’s state of war res- | olution : The American steamer Aztec, the |first armed commercial ship to {sail from an American port, was sunk by a German submarine and went down in seven minutes. No |warning was given. Twenty-eight mvmlx"n of the crew were missing, ‘mx! 13 were picked up by a French tary influences are discerned in the horoscope for today, according to astrology. The morning is marked by threatening portents. ‘Women are well directed under this planetary government. It in-: dicates deep interest in religious and occult matters. A new cult will gain an army of followers. Prophiecies of world war and perils to civilization will cause unit- ed prayers for deliverance. The new era is to bring with it events that I patrol boat are overwhelming in their poss News Today—Empire. - bilities, the seers prognosticate. ), P TP City election discussion led to) This is a fortunate day for en- -’ s o e e i the comment that the election of |tertaining friends. Informal home 4 2 ! George F. Miller and Gunnar|hospitalities may be exceedingly| HOTEL IUNEAU ’ from Formerly Hotel Zynda | CLARENCE WISE | | | lucky. Benefits may follow guests who are welcomed. Mars agein threatens and the |ill omen may encourage domestic as well as governmental difference| of opinions. Quarrels may be eas- Miss Ida Orenshaw, of the B. M. jly started under this sway. Behrends store, was planning an; Uranus strongly threatens lhe“ extended trip south. peace of the world. Plots and strat-!| egms may be many in the coming|| summer when Americans may cause &* Blomgren for Counciimen was con- lceded and that the race for third > on the Council was between rby, 1. Goldstein, John L. Manager 282 8. Franklin Open 6 a.m.—8 p.m, LUNCH i | | Robert Massemer, Frank Ziegler Accommodations to suit every taste. Reservations Alaska Ailr PRONE 36 For very prompt Q\J.IQUOR DELIVERY ’ *® ! Pay’n Takit PHONES 92 or 35 Free Delivery Fresh Meats, Groceries, Laquors, Wines and Beer We Sell for LESS Because | We sSell for CASH | Leader Dept. Store George Brothers Mineral Hot Baths I lin the electrical department of the sympathy with Spanish loyalists. Liberal ideas now may be pro- {mulgated in universities and the Passengers for Juneau aboard the American intelligentsia . will gain aska were G. F. Davis, Louis supporters in their radical activi- The well-bred person | Shulman, Nikola Povolovich and W. ties. Getchell, member of the First| In the national capital work by representatives of foreign ver in Juneau on his way to i governments may be uncovered. ome at the Westward. | Americans will be found among them according to astrologer: Company A., Mrst Military Train- 16 jcalled “6 good riiS ling Corps was the name adopted| Persons whose birthdate it is have A. He possesses the pleasing )" o0 present at a meeting to the augury of a year of good for- manner of saying nice things al"’“‘|m~un'zu a military body on Gas- tune. Speculation may be profit- othe mentions the good points about a person, overlooks the faults, does not speak ill of anyone. D LOOX cuid LEAEN |/ By A. C. Gordon | 1. tion of Independence boldly wrote his name in huge letters? 2. How many stars can be seen with the naked eye of a person whose vision is normmal? 3. What language has the larg- est vocabulary? 4. What is a brothel? i 5. What U. S. city, founded by the Spaniards, was called by them, gels”? | 5 it | ANSWERS { John Hancock. } Between 5,000 and 6,000. | English language. A house of lewdness or Los Angeles. without undue flattery. He, What signer of the Declara- ::- | | || Fried Frog Legs and Other | | IN ENGLISH By W. L. Gordos. SRR S | DAILY LESSONS i ' | 2 i | Words Often Misused: Do not say, “We are forwarding the ship- iment as per your instructions.’” |Say, “in accordance with your in- structions.” Often Mispronounced: Transit. Pronounce tran-sit, not tran-zit. | Often Mispelled: Pain (an ache) \Pane (a square of glass.) Synonyms: Manage, conduct, direct, govem | Word Study: itimes and it is yours.” Let us in- crease our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: control, “Use a word (hreel u Channel for the purposes of able. Women will benefit through assisting the government in event velatives and friends. of war. Appointed to act as an| Children born on this day prob- executive committee until a per- ably will be exceedingly lightheart- Many sub- Josephine Soule You are invited to present this coupon at the box office of the Capitol Theatre and receive tickets for yocur- self and a friend or relative to see {manent organization had been ac- ed, happy and witty. I(nx' plished were Charles Naghel, jects of this sign are talented and | Jan cs F. Hurley, George Vingar, F. Morton and M. 8. Perkins. H Weather: Highest, 44; 255 ]\ml\ cloudy. SIG R I D R BEAUTY SALON | “YOUR APPEARANCE IS | OUR RESPONSIBILITY" | lowest, Shattuck Bldg. ‘KO' K. ” LUNCH Delicacies 257 S. Franklin Phone 324 %= z/~ £ THE BEST TAP BEER IN TOWN! THE MINERS’ Recreation Farlors » BILL DOUGLAS Incentive (noun); that which in- } cites to determination or action, B———""""— i “The love of money, and the de-l&———————-m—-—— * ‘mcennves to action.” | ——— HARRY RACE, Druggist |l “The Squibb Stores of Alaska” —_— Rafael Lopez de Onate, her ex-’ liam G. McAdoo and granddaugh- 'sire of promotion, are two powerfur| Juneau Drug Co. —— —— e A A3 The B.M § Behrends Bank Juneau, Alaska Phone 318 | | ! (for an extended period. allowing the City Engineer to L0n~i“fird Hendrickson, Comet; F. Al- HALEY GOES SOUTH fer further with the Standard and |bertson, Comet. — Union oil companies. repre.senw»l Alaskan Warden Don Haley of the U. S. tives of which were present last| G. B. Phillips, San Francisco; Dan | DUreau of Fisheries sailed last night night protesting that the proposed !Jones, Jifieau. new regulations were too stringent. | Juneau on the North Sea for the Seattle office of the Bureau where he has COMMERCIAL and SAVINGS Tom Dyer of the Standard and | James E. Boyle of the Union point- ed out what they termed as ob- Jjectionable features and further analysis will be had before action is taken. Mr. Dyer said the Stand- ard had a crew ready to come north from Seattle to erect the companys' new plant here but that officials were waiting to learn the Mrs. Tom Skeek, Kake. ?Zcrn )det:alled for apout a month 4ot ] | before proceding to his summer sta- OUT OF HOSP. TODAY | !° at Craig S RGN L ! OUT ON VACATION Three surgical patients were dis- missed from St. Ann’s Hospital to-| James Milligan, Alaska-Juneau day. They were: Ivor Anneson, and employee, sailed south aboard the Miss Zora Brown, dismissed this af-{steamer North Sea. He is bound for ternoon; and Miss Martha Peter-|Hollywood, California, on a vaca- son, discharged this morning. ‘tion trip. Resources Over Two and One-Half Million Dollars “Sitting on the Moon” As a paid-ap suwvscriber of The Daily Alaska Empire Good only for current offering. succeed in activities connected with the theatre. | Lawrence Barrett, actor, was born on this day 1838. Others who have celebrated it as a birthday include Grinling Gibbons, woodcarver, 1648; Thaddeus Stevens, statesman, 1792 Delavigne, dramatist, Your Name May ‘Appear Tomorrow | e WATCH THIS SPACE MONDAY, APRIL 5, 1937 | = R e e Bonefic aspects strongly domin- ' te in the horoscope for today, ac- ording to astrology. ‘The morn- ing is especially fortunate for the \launchinz of big enterprises. | The planetary government en- courages leaders to exercise their best energies. Manufacturers and merchants will profit, in coming months. While this may not be an aus- picious sway under which to enter into longtime agreements there is a good sign for workers. Many la- bor difficulties should be settled 230 South Franulin ‘ferepnone 113 | CONNORS MOTOR C0., Inc wistributors CHEVROLFT PONTIAC LUMBER Juneou Luiaber Mills, Inc. B Financial sensations have been prognosticated for this month when some sort of an 4international al- liances will affect the stock markets ‘ior the world. i | Secret agreements concerning currencies, tariffs and customs are §|o create serious antagonisms \ . lamong nations and a great fraud | = Imay have a grave influence in the YEuropean sltuatmn. London astrol- | WINDOW CLEANING Stationary Mars seems to men- | PHONE 488 lace many nations and to presage| |for the British Empire new prob- ilems of grave moment. Warning is given that divorce jcases will be widely discussed and {criticized. Blackmail may be an added feature in certain domestic scandals. ¢ E Wireless regulations now will be of special importance and new in- Allen Shattuck Established 1898 “Tomorrow'’s Styles Today” Alaska Juneau Juneau’s Own Siorel ! | A o Remember!!! If your “Daily Alaska Empire” has not been delivered By 6:00 P. M., PHONE 226 A copy will be sent you IMMED- IATELY by SPECIAL CARRIER. CARDINAL CABS 25¢ Within City Limits @ “ £l o o)