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

- e | Pay’'n Takit PHONES 92 or 25 Free Delivery Fresh Meats, Groceries, Laquors, Wines and Beer We Sell for LESS Because We Sell for CASH Leader Dept. Store George Brothers e S i SIGRID'S f BEAUTY 'SALON { | antee by the government of debentures issued by the H A P p Y Federal Housing Administration. B l R T H D A Y | February 24.—Making funds available for health |ana sanitation activities in the flooded areas. Who Embire sxtends GOROAHNIS ions and best wishes today, their February 27.—Extending the terms of the Railway Pension Act until June 30, 1938. birthday anniversary, to the foilow- ing: | i ! March 1.—Estending for three years the authority lot the President to enter with other nations into I reciprocal trade agreements March 2—Providing for the construction and maintenance of the Mellon Art Gallery. May 1—The War-Policy (mis-named the ) Act of 1937, applicable for two years. Ten of the pieces of legislation enacted were laws las contrasted with resolutions, and the dates given s |below are those on which the President signed his led to the use 1% | name %o them: ; news published January 23.—Extending the time within which O AT e A " | administrative powers may be exercised relating to A CIRCULATION GUARAMIEED TO BE LARGER ,.|the stabilization fund and the alteration of the gold ey S e e weight of .the dollar { January 26.—Continuing the functions of the Re- | construction Finance Corporation until June 30, 1939.! | January 29.—Providing farmers' loans for crop| | production and harvesting in 1937. | February 9.—Enacting the First :|)ropriations Bill February 11.—Providing flood damages in 1937. March 1—Extending the period during which direct obligations of the United States may be used as " HOSPITAL NOTES | i Daily Alaska Empire Editor and Manager 20 YEARS AGO From The Empire Horoscone “The stars inclice but do not compel” ROBERT W. BENDER Richard Welcome was admitted to St. Ann’s Hospital today for surgi-| cal attention. Publisbod e.ery cveming cxcept Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY &t Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Aluska Enterea in th Frank James was dismissed yes- WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1917 terday from the Government Hos- Benefic aspects dominate today,|Pital following medical attention. cording to astrology. It is a time for using all one’s energies to prof- it by the kindly rule of the stars. Merchants and manufacturers have the promise of intense de- mands upon them. Prosperity through the summer is forecast. Dealers in hardware, lumber and tools are to benefit greatly. This is a fortunate sway for mem- bers of the legal profession and presages honors for judges. Law- yers will serve as diplomats. Whatever concerns any construc- tive plan will prosper greatly. The seers foretell for contractors, build- ers, utilities managers, electrical +MAY 18, 1937 ! China Joe, one of the original)® settlers in Juneau and perhaps the best known Chinaman in the Ter- ritory, had been found dead in his old home at Fourth and Main |Streets. A resident of Juneau since 1880, he had operated a bakery land sold bread to both white and Inative settlers MAY 18 Guy Westall Chee Hermann Helen Ritter Grant Ritter Malcolm Faulkner Mrs. E. E. Somers Joseph Riedi Harold T. Jacobsen Ray G. Day John Hermle Hans Floe — e MOPERN ETIQUETTE By Rcberta Lee UBSCRIPTION RATES. ) Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per montk. following rates iths, in advance, $6.00; | | | Agnes Dilts underwent a minori operation at St. Ann's Hospital yes-| terday. “Neu- one month, in advance, Bubseribers will cun of suy fa hey will promptly notify | trality the Business Office gularity in the delivery of their papers Lk el BLOOMQUIST OUT Office New Telephones M Sons and Daughters of Norway had entertained at a dance on Mayflower Island, for which a large group of guests were in attend- nce The 2usociat>d Pres ' republicatsin of all news wise credited In this paper herein Mr. and Mrs. Al Bloomquist sailed for Seattle from their home here aboard the steamer Alaska.| Mr. Bloomquist, who has been act- ing as manager and catcher for the Merchants team in the Gas: itineau Channel Baseball Minior! league, recently injured his back| and is to receive treatment.for his injury in Seattle. They will also |pay a brief visit to Mrs. Bloom. “YOUR APPEARANCE IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY” Shattuck Bldg. Phone 318 | }| On one of the boats which had} {arrived here recently, 14 tons of lmulmml‘ including wire, motors, Ispmk gaps, and necessary material {for the completion of the 10 kW.|experts and all wko contribute to | ! 1 R TR * (plant of the Marconi Wireless com-|comfortable housing—including - ar-|4UiSt's parents at Hoquiam, Wash- loans for the repair of| o gnouid a girl wear her'en- pany had been discharged and was|chitects and interior decorators —| nEtOn. ~They expect to be gone \gagement ring before the enghge- to be installed soon. W. J. Mana-|a season of supreme activity about two months. ment has been publicly announced? han was local manager. | Industry is to be hampered al A. She may wear it in the pri- through the summer by strikes, collateral security for Federal Reserve notes. vacy of her home, when there are| The Juneau Women's: Club was those who read the stars prophesy. March 1—Enacting the Sumners bill, providing nho guests, but she should not wear to hold regular election of officers Organizers of unions are to succeed | for the voluntary retirement on full pay of justices|it publicly until the engagement has at a meeting in the Council Cham-|in many parts of the country where of the Supreme Court. been formally announced. bvern of lhnj Clt._v YHJ“, with st workers are susceptble to propa- | “April 22—Amending the Federal Housing Act to| Q- When a young man helps a|Vera Kaser, president, and Mfs. ‘ganda. AR 4 girl on with her coat, or some simi- J. G. Valentine, secretary, lakmB‘ Changes among labor leaders are authorize flood and disaster insurance I1ar act of courtesy, should she thank charge. |prophesied. A woman is to gain' April 26 —Enacting the Guffey Coal Law, designed ( L fetb il Hbr Vel to: ettt Tac Compounaed Deticiency Ap-| “Smiling Service” Bert’s Cash Grocery PHONE 103 ! Free Delivery Juneau Drug Co. Lode ana pracer focaiion notice. for sale at The Empire Office. Juneau | [ | ! INTEREST IN ALASKA AT ) him? Prospectors rushed .into Southwestern Al- te meet some of t aska last week at the news of a gold strike at Goodnews Bay. Platinum and palladium were A tent city sprang up; price: One miner was stabbed in a gambling as tent-city life got under way April 27 Considering tl since Congress cor also rep ocared game appeared in a Impressive if the the heading legislative body is not be overlooked something about the word Alaska which Proposed bills aft item under The recen above of enlightening sue an ea paper Gold Rush.” T'here them in the.Stat to the Atlantic, from north to south. Like the in the non-Alaskan’s mind it furnishes ro- hung up, to date Tradition has made Alaska ment rush counfry, dating back to the rush @ays £ress. truly depicti turn of the century. Those conversant with it to Washington. tnat the Territory has produced ticularly submissiv gets s ci movi mance drama, gla Alaska vast amounts in gold and other mineral wealth and millions more in but there isn’t half as much ample, revealed it romance in a can of salmon as in that magic word gold figures know trary fish to the average person But what one in Alaskans, living in this last frontier, are inclined And, perhaps, there may be some advantages in not pjen o We mumble rushing too hastily into law every scheme that is pre- to discount value of Alaska information slightly less than four bills a month. Its appeal is from the, Pa- airing is often a servic That is not to say that the present Congress has he objections raised to the first he five months which have elapsed wvened the record is not impre: That is, it is not purpose of Congress or any other primarily to pass laws. But it can- that failure to enact into law some er ihey have been given thorough to the country. any remarkable record of achieve- Rather, it would appear to be an average Con- ve of the average voters which sent It hasn't shown itself to be par- e to the President, but, on the con- it has, with the court reform program for ex- Quired to constitute a farm? self to be on the independent side. It may be that Congress has been a little slow. the history of Congresses has not? that this report and that report appearing OQutside sented before that body. was “exaggerated.” What if they are, like the report of Mark Twain’s death, “slightly exaggerated? So long as they are not wholly inaccurate they can not damage the the Territory A famous editor once had two rules for his edi- torial workers. They and make it accurate.” Subtle reporters used remark that “interesling” came first in the order but they kept right on trying to be accurate. That old rule would be a good nm-A to adopt in would have beeg i Alaska, We need to place more emphasis on making y,0" 4 office. eve the Territory interesting to the Outsiders. We need Al two counties fo make it so interesting that they will come and seé for themselves, and many of them will stay to help overwhelming develop the country and make it their home. Mass, The progress of The lesson of were to keep the Army thority The Hayashi is TH has doubles Fathers Were Wise (Phfladelphia Record) the Japanese elections is the lesson “Make it interesting. the Fathers wrote into our American Constitution— g ). and g Navy subordinate to civil au- Cabinet, after the recent elections, in much the same position that Herbert Hoover n 1932 if he had insisted on remain- n though he had carried only Palo s in Vermont, and Bronxville. The forces against the Hayashi Government are he new Japanese labor party, Social d its representation. Of 466 men Accuracy is a worthy goal, and one from which elected to the new House of Representatives, 400 are we should never deviate, but making it interesting COmmitted to opposition against the Hay Of the remaining the Cabinet Unfortunately loophole as wide People g0 formed without t the navy. is equally important. There is still much to do in making Alaska interesuing; making it interesting enough so they will come north. Alaska needs, primarily, population where the interest lies. CONGRESS UNDER SLOW BELL largely navy. Arthur Krock, who writes ably of political affairs against the bonu the fact that Congress has passed only eighteen pieces ballot-box went into session in January up to the first of May. £ight of these are resolutions and were signed by the President on the following dates: January 8. — Prohibiting exportation of weapons to Spain. February 3.—Creating Federal reorganization. party from taking the joint committee on ashi Cabinet 66, only 11 have promised to support for Japan, her democracy has a as the Pacific. No Cabinet can be he approval of both the army and They can appeal over the heads of the “No paper is satisfactory for nux: civil government to the Mikado, and the Mikado is purposes besides this kind.” a figurehead manipulated by the army and “except this kind.” Herbert Hoover raised a storm by sending troo: 1s marchers. A Japanese Hoo General MacArthur would but to prevent the Democratic office despite its victory at the polls. H We wonder how much longer Japan’s underpaid er, able. workers and underfed / lethal kind of a “democracy.” péasants will stand for thau Freedom is supposed to be fore all, no matter how one word each day. Today's word ‘» this man or that man voted at the last presidential Province; function of a person or February 19.—Extending for two years the guar-lelection.—Toledo Bls ]qu-vd her he |with a bodyguard since the strike JUNEAU quEN |started and at the moment he didn't ifeel any too safe. {travelers crossed the famed San [Francisco bridge and took in other| . 0 ~ |HOLDEN ON 'GLACIER Honolulu Travelers Hav €| FLIGHT WITH FOUR Dubious Pleasure of | Climbing 7 Floors OFF YUEQN TODAY DA 1 their flight to Sitka and way the sunshine of| vesterday in the Marine Air- | perience of liv-!ways Bellanca seaplane, Pilots Alex | the seventh floor | Holden and Chet McLean carried | i n all|as passengers outbound J. B. War- Gert-|rack, Vernon Sahdy and W. R. Mc-| Carter. On their return flight, they flew two passengers from Sit- ka to Tenakee, and arrived back here last evening at 7T:30 o'clock. Pilot Holden made a pleasure return | hop over Mendenhall Glacier this per- rning in the Fairchild seaplane in | with four passengers off the steam- {er Yukon: Tomorrow morning Pilots Holden and McLean are to fly to cannery points between here and ched|sitka with mail, leaving, at 9 y and o'clock. Ha Honclulu & nd Miss Nell Closkey men are ful time While couver wa Van- m troubles. Havin, & woman friend one ¢ ifornia city, the as they ha t asked if the check now they had not finis eon and asked why quest. “The place is on the waiter's reply | Cal- - :|FORMER GOVERNO RIGGS IS TO VISIT TERRITORY IN JULY And been traveling sion and with him will be Noel it is the province of God to ehd Ogilvie, the Canadian G-MAN ENROUTE TO JUNEAU ON NORTHWESTERN John S. Bugas, who is to have charge of the Alaska office of the representa- |Federal Bureau of Investigation in Juneau, is a passenger from Seattle on the Northwestern. Mr. Brugas will open the new G-men office here - - SENIOR BANQUET, FACULTY PICNIC HELD LAST NIGHT Juneau High Schedl seniors and faculty members jgelebrated the clase of the spring $emester with a banquet apd a picmic last night. Seniors met in Percy's Cafe wheré the class banquet was held, while members of the family were entertained at the country home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter P. Scott. e SISTER OF MRS. VANCE BLACKWELL Miss Esther Sell, sister of Mrs had of The Juneau traveler pleasant experience back and forth to her seventh room from then one during her in San Francisco. finally did talk a Chinese employee into car rying her bag down stairs when s Former ov. Thomas Riggs of Al- ternational Boundary Survey will be here around July 1, ng to word to Gov. John W. floo Troy Mr. Riggs is the American repre- Vance Blackwell, three weeks. | her home in Chicago. Mrs. act| } “ i as in it, a as in may, principal in Washington, in a recent report calls attention (o can use the army to wipe out the verdict of the accent on last syllable A Japanese of what might be termed major legislation since it Nave had power not only to turn fire and sword against eq end). unarmed veterans, IS ENROUTE NORTH! is a northbound ska is coming north with the In- passenger aboard the Northwestern and enroute to Juneau to visit here for| Miss Sell, who is visiting Alaska for the first time, comes north from Black- was leaving, but that worthy as-sentative on the boundary commis- 'well is the former Henrietta Sell. A. It is never out of place to Q. What are the proper re- shipman in the Naval Academy. freshments to serve at a children's party? Mrs. T. M. West had entertained nopelis to begin studies as a mid- now come Simpson MacKinnon had left on tory employees, by the Supreme Court in the Carter coal case decision. say “thank you” for any act of cour- the Admiral Watson enroute to An- Enacting the Naval Appropriations Bill. tesy Government officials of high rank under a planetary in- fluence which seems to presage in- crease in popularity. Tension in the Far East is not to A. Nothilng is as popular with @ number of friends at a paty at . jecsened as the summer advanc- children as ice cream. cake, can- the Gastineau Cafe followed by a diesand - nuts swimming party at the A. B. Nata- torium. LOOX wmid LEARN { By A. C. Gordon ‘ The wire drag survey of the Coast and Geodetic Survey had ascer- tained that the charts which gave a depth of one fathom over top of Spuhn Rock at the entrance * of Fritz Cove were in error and that the real depth was two feet. Announcement had been made the United States when Washing- l)“l the Hirst Chichagof mine on ton was President? Chichagof Island was to begin mill- 3. What is the temperature of ing operations soon, and active work on installing the machinery to begin on June 1. 1. How large an acreage is re- Who was Vice President .of ava? What is “Akron” | What southern state leads in manufacture of cotton goods? Of all the Sta 4 to be called to the Federal service between July 15 and August 5, it had been announced. 4 word 5. the the meaning of the ANSWERS In the United States census, three acres or more is ccnsidered: a and even a smaller tract: if it produces $250 in crops yearly. 2. John Adams. 3. Often 2600 degrees Fahrenheit 4. It is a Greek word, meanitg summit, 4 5. North Carolina. Gl TSN 1 Numerous Japanese gunboats had submarines on the Mediter- The tempeyature im.Juneau had reached a4 low of 45, and a high of £ 47, with”rain prevailing. S e | *Alaska™ by Lester D. Heuderson Ia DAILY LESSONS IN ENGLISH By W. L. Gordow Words Often Misused: Do not s = 300 Roams . 300 Baths m $2.5C 7/ S{ucial Weekly Kates Often Mispronounced: Negligee.| ALASKANS LIKE THE Pronounce neg-li-zha, e as in egg, Often Misspelled: Peak Peek (to peep). (a feeling of resentment.) Synonyms: Talented, gifted, cley- (point- Pique| f Visit the ‘ | SITKA HOT SPRINGS Mineral Hot Baths Word Study: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us ip- crease our vocabulary by mastering Accommodations to suit every taste. Reservations Alaska Alr Eody; office, sphere. “It is the pro- it vince of kings to bring wars about: them.”—Cardinal Pole. D Thirty-five states and the District of Columbia provide through leg- islative enactment for the granting of scholarships to World War or-! phans and 11 states provide schol- arships for the veterans themselves. ? RCA VICTOR dios————— —————Records Radio Tubes | (Next Gastineau Hotel) | Mrs. Pigg Phone 65 HOTEL JUNEAU Formerly Hotel Zynda CLARENCE WISE PHONE 36 For very prompt | | i '| S 5 rg‘@(' 2 i The B. M. Behrends Bank Juneau, Alaska COMMERCIAL and SAVINGS | Resources Over Two and One-Half Million Dollars the tive ventures The National Guard organization Ak tes in the Union was ! arrived at Marseilles to aid in fight- talli Femmer, phone 114. es. A new problem from the Orient will create great concern in Wash- ington. Persons whose birthday it is have the augury of a year of great good fortune. Success through specula- is foreshadowed. Pro- motion for employes is predicted. Children born on this day prob- ably will be ambitious, well-bal- balanced in mind and generally suc- cessful. Subjects of this sign may be studious and given to intellec- tual pursuits. Johns Hopkins, financier and phil- was anthropist, was born on this day 1795. it Others who have celebrated a birthday include Carl Ethan ey, explorer, 1864; Johann Got b Fichte, Germen philosopher, 1762, (Copyright, 1937) — eee NOTICE For special fresh dressed chickens, adv. Work gnd Dress 228 Front St. f S COAL For Every Purse and Every Purpose PACIFIC COAST COAL CO. PHONE 412 —— . e e ; “Tomorrow’s Styles l Today” 4 \ | S e " CARDINAL CABS 25¢ Within City Limits Jladzmers| LIQUOR DELIVERY . {Tuneau’s Own Store -Olaus Larsson You are invited to present this coupon at the hox office of the Capitol Theatre and receive tickets for your- self and a friend or relative to see “The Road to Glory” As » pai¢-up suvscriber of The Daily Alaska Empire Good only for current offering. 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