The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 6, 1937, Page 2

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Stationed in Fort Hill fire house, which answers alarms for a tion of South Boston, leather dis- No More Fleaé On Cat or Dog! Here's a quick, sure, easy way to get rid of the fleas without harming your pet: Simply sprinkle the anima with BUHACH, sifting the powder lightly through the fur. Then wateh the fleas roll off ! For they hate BUHACH, and no wonder— it is sure death to insect pests. | BUHACH is safe—cheap—odorless— keeps pets healthier—free from flea In Handy Sifter Cans 25¢ up at al Drug, Groeery, Seed Stores, Pet Shops. was that “if an hour Marr. the average are doing of sec- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1937 Bride-to-.Be and Mrs. Hiram Tuttle, of Boston, | Francis A. Clark, New York social- ite and sof Clark. Miss Folsom most beautiful of Boston's younger set, BRITISH KILLER ~ WINS REPRIEVE | | | | | | LONDON, M; — Three days before date fixed for his execu- | tion ut Wandsworth Gaol it was an- nounced at Arthur Jefferson Peake, ¥ ex-sports prieved He will ent to Broadmoor | Criminal Lunatic Asylum Pe entenced to death at Sus for strangling Ar- thur G Noyce, his twenty-year old secretary-chauffeur, in a flat at Hove His appea inal appeal w Study, book by its cover. promoter, had been . re- do! But that isn't be that you are your know men and we 3 to the court of crim- s dismissed and sub- sequently the attorney-general, Sir Donald Somervell, refused leave to appeal to the House of Lords. Peake was medically examined after his sentence, and home office experts were consulted about his |condition. Tt is understood that it was the report of experts which led to the reprieve. Mrs. Peake, his wife, who was staying at the Brighton hotel, was overjoyed when told of the decision of the authori 00¢ - Got a Kangar PITTSBURGH, May 6 The zoo is looking tor some one who wants to give away a male kan- garoo. A mother and a young kangaroo have been received from a New York Spear, merchant. The little kangaroo was the first baby animal at the zoo since a lit- ter of lion cuds was born two months ago. | Counterfeit Coin Is Better than Real One LARION, Pa., May 6. — Edward Trunk found a counterfeit silver dollar which he prizes more than any genuine dollar he ever owned. Trunk, owner of a hotel, picked up the bogus piece when workmen raised the floor to install a heating |plant. One of the workmen also trict, business district, theater dis-!found a similar coin. Both are dated trict, Washington and Tremont jggq Streets, and Sccllay Square, 8s, They said they believed well as the entire waterfront, Marr | jieces were . moulded and circu went on record with the declara- jateq by the notorious Ross Buck tion that a tight corner on Kl]hyfg;lng bt the '90’s, which operated Street was the only ore that both- near Lucinda, eluding federal au- ered him. |thorities for a long time. Although ver | rolls along as though he were on a joy ride, Marr admits he has some ticklish moments on the rear seat of his monstrous truck, and! often breathes a short hymn of | thanksgiving to all drivers who ob- | serve the rule banning parking | | Department Store the front end « - Try an Empire ad. within twenty feet of corners. Frank in his spare time can of-| ten be found at the Broadway!| South End, fire house where with other members of the Firemen's| Band he practices every Friday af- | ternoon. He also is director of the Yankee Division Junior Bugle and | ‘Drum Corps, including seventy-five boys and girls, as well as playing in the Metropolitan Firemen's Post American Legion Band. - Dr. Burton R. Morley, professor,; of economics at the University of | Alabama, says the minimum num-| ber of workers to be protected by, unemployment compensation in Al- abama is 216,000, -o Dr. C. D. Grinnells, veierinarian | at the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment station, saays swine ery- sipelas, or diamond skin disease,| is spreading from North Carolina e by Lester D. e Today's News Today—Empiré. Physicians at Santa Ana, Cal., a doctors he fi Henderson. | jn his orange Negro. The picture at the left At right, Morrison “Alaska” groves last January. Natalie Folsom, daughter of Mr. | Mass., will be the June bride of | of Mrs. J. Francis A. | is one of the dealer as the donation of Nathaniel | the Morrison, a white man who is gradually rst noticed the change when ft was taken before the is shown as be is today. FEDERAL HOME - ORGANIZATIONS b MAYBE MERGED 'Suggestion Maée by Sena | tor Byrd—Would Make | Creat Saving, Expense y a proy » the threz Federal izations declaring that the merger would save $24,500,000 a yea in the newest economy move { Senator Byrd, who is chairmar of the Committee on Governmen! | reorganization, said other sugge: tions for subsequent vings are | “sure to follow” if the dations are given Red “Ideals” Make Culprits home log 1 earing. MOSCOW, May 3o.—Soviet au- thorities recently have reported the voluntary surrender and confession "lll scores of criminals anxious atone for their crimes may start anew and above board | Officials credit this to the suc- cess of socialistn. Police activitie and the greata difficulty of avoiding detection in the Soviet union (play a part in t criminal Ito legalize themselves Backing up the official view, many of these who have surrendered have credited the new constitution and |the successes of socialist a well-known 'tion as the major factors impeliing them to abandon crime. cere Desire Seen ishinsky, chief public attribute move desire of criminals | A3V |ecutor, genuine form. “These people leave no doubt in my mind that they sincerely wis! for a new life,” Vishinsky says. “Of course some of them may be back- sliders. But such will be individual cases, Most of am estion ably will step out on the wide path of socialist construction, and will pull with them some of their part- ners in crime who still hesitate to start on the road to correction and liquidatioh of the past.” Educated For Future Vishinsky believes that where ,dozens now are surrendering, hun- dreds soon will give themseives up to the prosecutors. Prisoners are being offered the |opportunity to go to the vocational iprison camps, where educational \programs looking toward their re- |habilitation and teaching of a vo- cation have been instituted. | - U. S. Representatives to Coronation Have Arrived in London LONDON, May 6—Gen. John J. |Pershing and Admiral Hugh Rod- |man, United States representativ at the coronation, arrived here to- {day. pro: to a | | | | WARRACK TO SITKA Flying to Sitka in connection with the new building which his company is ereeting there for the Federal Government, J. B. War- rack, head of the Warrack Con- struction Company, took off from {Juneau this afternoon with Pilot |Sheldon Simmons. | Mr. Warrack returned to his head- |quarters here from Ketchikan this \week aboard the steamer Victoria. | - D Fersons who undertake part- time farming with a view to finan- cial gains “are likoly to be disap- (pointed,” says a bulletin of the Kentucky Agricultural Experiment station. ., Empire classifieas pa! Disease Turns Man Black re studying the case of William L. b ytufning black. Morrison told he was burning smudge pots e then he has turned as dark as @ Sine S disease attacked him recommen- Gq§traigmf also | [latter area. Lamson’s Second Wife Files Petition to 4 1 L 0 that they| | David acin: % daurhier of charges to Lamsen, adept Allen A who won f feur juries, Mrs. Stanferd University court recently. when her bedy was found in @ first jury convicted him, the was dismissed and the feurth alsc Genevievs edem on Seeking ler Wher Ruth Rankin Lan nresent wife of the former petiticn in a Los Angeles ced with {he murder of nis wife bathtub in their campus home. The second jury failed fo agree. ihe (hird ailed to agree. Photo shows Lam- hter in Los Angeles, where executive a Lamson was cl construe- | sen with his present wife and his & 1e a film writer, U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF THE WEATHER (By the U. 8. Weather Bureau, AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BURLAL Vorecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4 pm., May Cloudy tonight and Friday, probably rain; light e rly night, increasing Friday and becoming moderate to fresh. LOCAL DATA Humidity Wind Veloctty 59 SE 10 39 0 0 38 s 5 Weathe Clou Cloudy Cloudy Barometer 30.30 30.17 30.02 Time Temj. 4 pam. yest'y 49 4 am. today 12 noon today 53 CABLE AND RADIG REPOKTS 1 rODAY Lowest4a.m. 4a.m. Precip. 4am. temn. temp. velncity 24hrs. Weathey 34 26 42 35 08 8 0 24 24 YESTERDAY Highest 4p.m. temp. temp. 36 34 51 8 28 34 52 54 34 42 44 40 50 48 52 56 60 60 Station Tika Cloudy Snow Clea: Cloudy Pt. Cldy Clear Rain Rain Rain Cloudy Nome 3etnel | P4 banks Dawson S8t. Paul Dutch Harbor Kodiak Ccrdova Juneau Sitka Ketchikan Prince Rupert Edmonton Seattle Portland San Francisco New York Washington Clear Clear Cleax Cloudy Cloudy Pt. Cldy 68 70 82 WEATHER CONDITION AT 8 A. M. TODAY Seattle cle clear, 44; (airport) Alert Bay. cloudy, 40; Triple Island kan, clear, 42; Craig, cloudy cloudy, 49; Sitka, clear, 41; cloudy, 44; Rad ¢ ralning, 40; tempe: ature, 50; Blaine, clear, 44; Victoria 42; Bu 1 Harbor, clear, 44; L: partly clear, ; Prince Rupert, clear, 43; Ketch 46; Wrangell, clear, 44; Petersburg, partly Soapsione Point, clear, 48; Juneau, partly Skagway, cloudy, 45; Cape St. Elias, 40; Chitina, cloudy, 38; McCarthy, cloudy, 36; Anchorage, cloudy, 41; Fairbanks, cloudy, 40; Hot Springs, cloudy, 44; Tanana, partly cloudy, 38; Ruby, cloudy, 28; Nulato, snow- ing, 30; Kaltag, cloudy, 31; Ohogamute, cloudy, 26; Flat, partly clou- dy, 30, | May 7, Juneau — Sunrise, 3:52 clear ning, am.; sunset, 8:02 p.m, WEATHER SYNOPSIS The barometric pressure was ligh this morning from the upper }Mackenzie Valley southwestward t)> Southeastern Alaska, the crest being 30.17 inches at Juneau. Lowv parometric pressure prevailed |over the Aleutians, the lowes ported pressure in that area peing 12890 inches a short distance sou h of Atka. This general pressure | distribution has been attended ty p pitation along the coastal 1remnns from the Aleutians southeastward to the northern portion of | Scutheastern Alaska, followed by fiir weather this morning over the Hy rain was repo.ted at Cordova, the 24-hour amoun: ending 4 am. today was 2.60 inches. Generally fair weather prevailed over the Tanana and upper Yukon vaileys. The 24-hour temperature charges have been small throughout Al- aska, the lowest temperature at Fairbanks last night being 30 degrees 7 degrees. | FINEST MATTRESS $24.50 10 $45.00 Juneau-Young Kardware Co. i Adopt Stepchild Rain R Tvice as old, twice as good! Aged in “Guarded Weather warehouses,” G&W MILL FARM is one of today's biggest bargains in bourbon. The proof is in the bottle. G W ...it’s Good Whiskey Gooderham & Worts; Ltd. 'Detroit,-Mich. . . . Est. 1832 General Sherman Tree Once Called ‘Karl Marx’ CANTA CRUZ, Cal, May 6. The vacation trip of Charles F. Kel- lar of this city recalled the days when a Socialist colony occupied much of what is now Sequoia Na- tional park. ;)ml Signs “Killed” by Vandalism CHARLESTON, W. Va., May 6. —How long should a road sign stay | The 90-year-old ex-soldier want on the job? About five years if pack to where he established the everyone would let it alone. Kaweah colony in 1886 and built Chief Engineer Mortimer W. the first road to the giant redwoods. €mith, explaining what an impor-| What is now the General Sher- tant part a uniform sign system man tree, often styled the oldest plays in the lives of motorists, has and largest of living things, w discovered that too many persons originally named the Karl Marx like to take highway markers home tree by Kellar. or something. He sa The Kaweah colony disbanded “Replacement of signs is fre- after a long struggle with the gov- quently nec ry, not so much ernment over whether the land because they naturally become ob- should become a national park, solete as because of vandalism. An - - undisturbed sign should last for A magistrate in Tahasien, China, five or more years without replac- de school or government kitch- ment. It is probable that over half in the city to serve three meals of the signs replaced are because g The food saved was to be cf vandalism.” used for naticnal defense. OPENING If you are interested in Washing Machines Electric Irons Coffee Makers Cleaners or Toasters VISIT OUR GRAND OPENING SATURDAY, MAY 8 Each adult visitor gets ticket on door prizes. Alaska Electric Light 8 Power Company