The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 14, 1937, Page 2

2 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1937. BY POLL-PARROT e S TR T SR DAD TO THE RESCUE L BUNCHED UP Al LEAGUE BALL PLAYER WHEN | GROW UP. iy X (TM GOING TO BE A B1G ... two patterns that help to de- velop healthy feet! They’re built of all-leather to wear! . . * B.M. Behren Juneau's Leading Department Store YOU WONT EVER BE A BALL PLAYER WITH THOSE KIND OF FEET MY TE Gitls, top, need healthy are dainty yet sturdy ds Co., Inc. “We recommend to you the Music Festival Concerts.” MEET TONIGHT & Wild Life Pictur at Coliseum | thus ‘mong Viewei o ¢ G Du wvhich discussion ¢ i on Senators McAdoo, Austin and Representative Sumners Camera catches two senators in happy mood in Washington as they take an interlude from the senate judiciary committee hearing (o talk things over with F ntative Hatton W. Sumners of Texas, chairman of house judi committee, right. At left is Senator William G. McAdoo of lifornia, and center, Senator Warren R. Austin of Texas. prope ns, received their here, anc enthusiasm C when shown in K Varsity Queen added attraction e film: - ceived very fav 1aft evenin? the Bu birds in the Provol one sequen of migrator the resider 30! 1 Iportune time to withdraw him. JAPANESE AR 'PEEVED; RAID MADE CAMERAS } All Kodaks Are Collected | on Steamer—Torpedo Boat Photographed YOKOHAMA, Japan, April 14 |Japanese police collected all cam- (eras aboard the German liner Pots- |dam today and questioned 135 pas- |sengers for two hours in an effort to find the film of a picture sup- ‘mmdly taken of a Japanese de- | stroyer. | Many Americans, among them |the pilot of a naval plane, informed the authorities he had seen pas- | sengers on the ship photographing | the destroyer while passing the | Yokohama Naval station. | —— FAVORED SONS “BEING SENT T0 - UNITED STATES ;Change i Foreign Diplo- mats Shows Trend of Affairs at Home By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, April 14, — The United States has become a haven for diplomats shoved upstairs to make vacancies for favored sons of the dictatorship. | Long has it been known that Dr. Hans Luther, German ambassa~- dor to the United States, was “out of touch” with the Nazi adminis-, tration. The La Guardia name| calling incident furnished an op- i Poll-Parrot shoes for them 0AD 5AYS NINE OUT OF N GROWNUPS HAVE AW] YOU OONT NEED TO WORRY, LET'S GO ASK YOUR DAD TO BLY YOU POLL PARROT SHOES LIKE Gosu! | DONT I've gor. WANT MY FEET TO BE LIKE THAT — teet. MARINE AIR HANGAR : [ GETS FINAL DRESS | With the Superior Paint Shop, the | painting contractor, putting the fin- ishing touches -on the interior this afternoon, the Marine Airways float- ing hangar. recently re-built byl contractor Ray James, now gleams | forth from its mooring at the cud‘ of Keeny's Float in the company colors of glossy black and dazzling yellow. Atop all is the newly hung | individual letter sign proclaiming | the identity of the structure. Painted in diagonal panels in the two colors, the hangar is now a worthy match for the similarly dec- orated Marine Airways Bellanca sea- ane, and also for the company’s | Fairchild seaplane which is now in Seattle being be-decked llk(‘-! wise. i | TOAGAINPLY MISSISSIPPI Demand for Passenger Service May See New Lines Established i By TOM HORNER i ST. LOUIS, April ]4.—7"5[4'1\"]!)1):!11 omin'!” i Steamboat 'round the bend!” | These joyful shouts, which once | announced the arrival in sleepy Mis- sissippi river villages of the p(ctur-’ esque stern and side wheelers, may} soon herald the return of river craft to glory—and profits. “No longer an idle drean says Captain Donald T. Wright, “but an | imminent reality is the return of passenger boats to the Mississippi and Ohio.” | Wright, who is editor of “The| | Waterways Jeurnal,” says river men just how s nual mi east Alaska W {report a steadily increasing demand | /| Replacing him is Dr, Hans Hein-\for passenger accom m o dations. & |rich Dieckhoff, who was acting Sec-|Plans for luxurious “tonrist steam- | 1!'6[8)'}' of State at the German For-lers” already are under way and |eign Affairs office.; Succeeding him|groups of capitalists are consider- | WIEE ElpiREg Lo AU (3] ) ANDATD AAQE SACRAM X\"li(; [ April 14 District Att id Deputy ¢l O’Shea nfe Un of Nevada vearbook, has Genevieve Hansen, editor of the G been ch 1 as Queen the University’s Mackay Day celebration. : honering the Mackay family, who donated large sums o the school. Cecile B. DeMille called Miss Hansen “most lypical of American wemanhoed.” She is sun-bathing in the snow on the campus at Reno. results. i Old Liner Prepares For Lasi Voyage { o B B e | Doomed to a Japanese scrapheap, the old liner City of Los Angeles, which formerly was in service between Los Angeles and Honolulu, is shown being loaded at San Pedro with an additional cargo of serap iron and steel for her last voyage across the Pacific under the Japanese flag. Originally & German vessel seized during the World War, she was rebuilt as a luxury liner for the run ¢» Ha- waii. (Associated Press FPhoto), e Hans G. ven Mackensen, son. of !the famous World War, field mar-; But von Mackensen's “fa-| vored son’ status comes from the|ing more freight today than in fact that he also is the son-in-lawiprightest period of river traffic. | shal. |of Hitler's Foreign Minister, Baron | Konstantin von Neurath. Fulvio de Suvich came to the | United States as Ambassador from | Italy under circumstances strik- |ingly similar. He was the man who *did all the work” in the Foreign | Affairs office. in Rome, -although Mussolini held for himself as one of his titles that of Foreign Min- |ister. When Suvich came to Wash- jington, he was,succeeded by Count |Ciano, son-in-law of Mussolini. | | STRAW | Here is a straw in the wind: |There is an organization of clerks 'and secretaries of representatives |known as the “little house” which ‘elects a speaker and often votes its own ‘views on issues before the -——— 'House even before the House acts. When the President first made 'his Supreme Court revision propos- lal the “little hduse” toak up the lissue. There was a real fussle and }tho President’s plan emerged vic- |torious by only two votes, as one report had it. | But the, guestion was voted on again recently ang the President’s plan won out by a vote reported at two to one. 'To value this vote it |shauld be recalled that these em- | ployees are in close contact with itheir bosses, see all the mail from Ithe constituents, and likely the limporum‘ mail coming in from 'administration sources. | NAME Senator O'Mahoney of Wyoming |writes a ‘“letter to the editor” to {explain that his name is not pro- !nounced ‘‘Oma-hoony” or “O-may- ‘ony" but “O-mah-onecy,” the I“mah" as in ma and pa, and the “oney” as in honey but evidently | without the “h” sounding too strong- ly. The accent is on the “mah.” | coBs | Senator Duffy, who comes from Wiisconsin .not a corn state, has |found a new use for corn cobs. An expert whittler, he has carved out walnut letter openers for several !of his Senatorial friends. The han- dle of each is composed in part lof a section of corn cob, neatly and Ismoothly fittéd in. |ing proposals to build them. | Cites Excursion Lines | Wright says barge lines are carry- | the | For proof of the renewed inter- est in passenger travel, he cites the successful seasons of an excursion boat operating out of St. Louis, |burgh and Cincinnati. l “Romance still lives on the river,” {Wright maintains. “The world is hungry for the gaiety and color typi- fied by the river boat period.” 1} River Alteration May Aid He does not envision an imme- diate boom but declares that with the completion of the nine-foot channel from New Orleans to Min- neapolis, and the elimination by government-constructed dams and locks of high and low extremes on the river, passenger trade may be ! expected to increase to a par with THEY'RE SWELL GOSH, DONT DRINK THIS New Liquid Is Discovered that Will Dissolve | Nearly Anything i CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina, April 14—The American Chemi- cal Society today reported the dis- covery of a straw colored liquid capable of dissolving almost ev- erything but glass, platinum and tungsten. The new liquid is called selenium oxychloride. BRISEE % " HEADON CRASH; MAN I8 KILLED SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 14. —An automobile, crashing headon into a cement signal post, killed Louis V. Reardon, 27, son of Tim- jothy A. Reardon, Chairman of the State Industrial Commission. Miss Edith M. Tally, a nurse, rid- ing with Reardon, is near death REBEKAH DELEGATE IS TO BE ELECTED AT TONIGHT’S MEETING Members of the Rebekah lodge meet tonight in the 1.O.O.F. hall in regular session, the main business of the evening to be eléction of a delegate to attend the Rebekah convention in Vancouver, Washing- ton, in June. Mrs. Bert McDowell, Noble Grand, § will preside at the meeting, which ’ will be followed, by drill practice. C. Y. 0. WILL SHOW MOTION . PICTURES members of the Catholic Daughters of America, and to the Knights: of Columbus, - the Juneau Chapter of the Catholic Youth Organization is to present. a showing of Alaska mo- tion pictures, taken by Fred Ord- way, at 8 p. m. tomorrow in the Par- ish Hall. The event will assemble famil- and |jes as well as Migmbers of the Cath- of another in service between Pitts- |)jc org:nlzacl’mfs T L PFoipo: “Alaska” by Lester ,D. Henderson. | | freight traffic. Passenger business, which has dropped to almost nothing, began its decline in the late 80's with the advance of the railroads into the west. The decrease was accelterated by operation difficulties. Before BOV- ernment engineers tied Old Man River in his bed, unexpected chan- nel shifts made steamboating haz- ardous work. Wrecks were numerous and the resulting financial bankrupted many lines, SARAKOFF FUNERAL PLANS INDEFINITE Funeral arrangemeins ave still pending for Steve Sarakoff, who died at his home in the Mountain View Apartments on Willoughby Avenue Monday evening, at the age of 61. A Juneau fisherman for many years, Sarakoff was born in Kodiak in 1875. He is a member of the Russian Orthodox Church, Surviving him are his wife and three brothers, John Sarakoff of Seattle, Nick Sarakoff of Seldovia, and Andrew Sarakoff, address un- known. losses ————— STABLER TO SITK | Making a short business trip, | Howard D. Stabler, Juneau attor- |néy flew to Sitka by AAT plane | this afternoon. He plans to return 10 Juneau by plane tomorrow. | | ! TOMORROW NIGHT | Extending an invitation to all U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. WEATHKR BUREATJ THE WEATHER (By the U. 8. Weather Bureau} Forecast for Juneau and vicinily, beginning at 4 p.m,, April 14, Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday; light to moderate easterly ‘winds. LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temj. Humidity Wind Veloclty ~Weather ipmy 29.36 54 28 SE 9 Cloudy 1 am. t¢ 2058 41 92 S 5 Lt. Rain 12 ‘noon 29.42 50 64 w 13 Pt. Cldy CABLE AND RADIO REPORTS YESTERDAY TODAY Highest 4p.m. Lowestda.m. 4am. Pracip. 4am. Station temp. temp. temp. temp. velncity 24hrs, Weather Atka 40 40, | 38 38 12 52 Rain Anchorage 49 & g | e 0 g Barrow 2 2 | —_ —_ - i Nome 24 22 14 1 10 .01 Clear Bethel 28 28 10 12 4 0 Clear Fairbanks 36 36 20 24 4 0 4 gluagy Dawson 42 42 30 32 14 0 Cloudy St Paul 0 38 32 36 8 .02 .gloudy Dutch Hatbor 40 40 RGO 4 0 Pl Cldy Kodiak 50 50 32 83tiik4 04 ICléar Cordova 50 8 32 34 4 0 Clear Juneaun 51 54 41 41 4 .10 Lt Rain Sitka 52 — 39 — — 08 i Ketchikan 46 46 38 38 4 34 Cloudy Prince Rupert 50 46 34 36 B 14 Clear Edmonton 44 44 | 32 32 6 08 Cloudy Seattle 56 56 | 48 48 14 46 Rain Portland 58 52 | 48 58 10 40 Rain San Francisco 62 60 54 56 4 g\ Rain New York 60 54 ‘ 48 52 12 0 Clear Washington 68 64 54 56 4 i Ciéar WEATHER, CONDITION AT 8 A. M. TODAY temperature 51; Blaine, raining, 44; Vie- raining. 41: Tri- Seattle (airport) raining toria, raining, 45; Alert Bay, cloudy, 40; Bull Harbo: ple Island, partly cloudy; Langara Island, partly cloudy, 40; Prince Rupert, clear, 36; Ketchikan, cloudy, 40; Craig, partly clondy, 42; Wrangell, partly cloudy, 41; Petersburg, partly cloudy, 46; Sitka, clou- dy, 41; Radioville, cloudy, 42; Soa)stone Point, cloudy, 42; Juneau, cloudy, 43; Skagway, raining, 39; St. Elias, clear, 40;.Cordova, clear, 41; Copper River, clear; Chitina, eljudy. ;, McCarthy, clear, ! \d chorage, pa 34; Fairbank owing, 22;: Nendha, iclear, 20; Hot. Sprir anana, clear, ; Ruby, partly’élondy Nulato, ‘clear, 10; ¥ clear, -2; Unalakleet, clear;' ;' Flat,jclear, 7; Ohogamute clear, 18 YOONEA, SNOW! 19; Kotzebue, clwjr, -4 Thursday, April 15—Sunrise 4:50 a.m., sunset 7:11 p.m. WEATHER SYNOPSIS A storm area of marked intens'ty was centered this morning a short distance west of Vancouver Is and, the lowest reported pressure being 28.90 inches. This storm area has been attended by rain along the coastal regions from British Columbia southward to San Franciseo and southeast and southerly gales oif the Washington coast and e coastal waters of the southern poi 1 of British Columbia. Low baro- metric pressure alsq prevailed ove: the southern Bering A region and over the upper Yukon Valley while high pressure prevailed —over the Pacific ‘Ocean in the vicinity of the Hawaiian and Midway Islands. Heavy rains were reported over the Aleutians local showers Southeastern Alaska and local snow flurries at Fairbanks, elsewhere over Alaska fair weather prevailed. 1t was slightly warmer at Fairbanks last night, the lowest perature being 20 degrees. SONG WRITE tem- Howard Dietz and his Juarez bride, the formér Mrs. Tanis Guihess Montague, photographed at Dallas, Tex., on their arrival from the Mexican border town where they were marrled. (Associated Press Photo) 1 | Alaska Electric Light 8 Power Co. “We recommend to you the Music Festival Concerts.” | Sold on Easy Pay Plan BUY NOW!