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S $350,000 GIVEN BPR FOR WORK, 38 FISCAL YEAR With Spec:ml‘ Allotments Brings Total Sum Avail- An allotment of $350,000 has been approved for the Bureau of Public Reads for the 1938 fiscal year, starting July 1, according to in- formation to the BPR office here from Washington. This brings the bureau allotment to $545,500 as $195000 was received previously. $20500 for the Gold Creek bridge on the Basin Road and $175.000 missing link" near Moose Ps Under the $350,000 regular appro- priation, included Replacing Lake Creek bridge on the north side of Auk Lake, $10,- 000; replacing Hyder dock ap-| proach, $75,000; replacing bridge | (& Thimbleberry Creek at Sitka, §7,000; replacing California bridge at Girdwood, $20,000; replac- ing three large bridges on the Moose Pass Highway, $110,000; lo- cation and surveys, $20,000, waintenance, $108,000. Bridge replacements are to be of steel, concrete and treated timbers, cfficials said, and advertising for Lids will be placed in the next few days, the hids to be opened in July. e .- RAINBOW GIRLS CONFERENCE TO OPEN SATURDAY Grand Officers Will Arrive from Ketchikan This Week-End Arriving in Ketchikan today and scheduled to remain there until Friday, 15 Grand Officers of the Order of Rainbow Girls accompan- ied by three members of the East- ern Star, will arrive in Juneau next Saturday to remain here in conference until June 25. The group, which left Seattle aboard the Yukon Saturday, in- cludes: Billie Laidlaw, Dayton; Helen Woodward, Dayton; Raye As- tenberg, Cashmere; Marlea Dodge, Fallon, Nev.; Margaret Fleet, Van- couver, Wash.; June Duell, Che- halis; Mary VanNoy, Kelso; Edith Carlson, Seattle; Virginia Simon- ren, Spokane; Rose Marie Body, Spokane; Betty Armstrong, Seattle; Eleanor Yost, Edmonds; Pollyanna Daniel, Spokane; Constance Hol- thorp, Seattle; Eleen Haubner, Se- attle. Members of the Order o Eastern Star who are chaperoning the group are Mrs. Simm of Cash- mere, Mrs. Ebert of Bremerton, and Mrs. Broughton of Dayton. A varied program of activities is being planned to entertain the of- ficers upon their arrival in Juneau. to Over Half Million ! the following projects are | Creek | and 3 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, JUNE 14, 1937. 160th Birthday of American Flag Is Being Colei)rate(t Today Today marks the 160th anniversary of the making of the first cfiicial American flag, and the birthday is being celebrated nationally as “Flag Day.” Among leading affairs will be a re- ception at the Scottish Rite Temple, Saturday evening; a picnic Sunday at Lena Beach at the Blomgren, Scott and Ficken cabins where Eastern Star members will also be invited gues and s eral other informal occasions. A meeting is to be held tonight by the Girl Advisory Board at which chzirmen of the various committees V- will be assembled to complete fur-| ther arrangements. Miss Patricia Harland, Worthy Advisor of the local chapter, is| general chairman, ed by the following committees: Publicity, Mrs, Helen Webster, Miss Alberta | Porter; Housinz, Mrs. Hawkesworth, Miss Entertainment, Mrs. N. Lester Troast, Miss Edithbelle Heller, Miss Katherin: Torkelson; Program, Mrs. Edward Sweeney, Miss Lazette I Miss Clara Hanson; T ation, Mrs. Waller Scott, Mi Jokhn God Mother Advisor, is plans for the confer- suporvicing ence On the committee for the recep- A. tion Saturday H. Westall, Miss Miss Mazjorie St night are Mrs Mildred Webst 1, Miss Beatr Elizabeth Tuck- Sunday morning the officers 1l be guests of the various local bow Girls at church before pro- ceeding to the picnic. e NORTHLAND IS DU Bothwell, and M: er TUESDAY MIDNIGHT Motorship Noriand is scheduled to arrive in port at midnight to- morrow night. This is according to radio advices received this after- noon by Agent Fred C. Charman ‘““JUNO- MAID”’ Butter—Milk Produced in Alaska’s FINEST DA A new product IRY PLANT of the JUNEAU DAIRIES, Inc., is now available to you through our reqular de- livery. PHONE 638 or place your order with the driver. You will enjoy this healthful drink. JUNEAU DAIRIES, Inc. oS YOUR LOCAL is equipped to give you well as glasses. equipment obtainable your We also offer an all year service which is depend- able, and conveniently located for your benefit. work is guaranteed to give satisfaction. Dr. Rae Lillian Carlson ! OPTOMETRIST Graduate: Rochester University of the State of N. Y. Post Graduate: Northern Ophthalmology and Otology. Office Ludwig Nelsoen’s Jewelry Store nd Masons | Charles W.| Jane Blomgren; ' Washingten, and 1 repres Pénn Grid Hero and Bride tobert Howell McNamara, University of Pennsylvania football captain for 1937, is pictured with his bride, t .t Philadelphia. They were m | +o his football prowess, Mc) ed secretly early in May. In addition | Namara stands high ifi schelastic work. cntaticn ¢f Betsy Ross at work. he former Caroline Christy Murphy ONE BOOT FOR ~ SALE-CHEAP! Though they brought back no fish, four psendo anglers who flew to |'Taku Lodge with Pilot Holden Sat- urday evening and returned by !small boat last evening, did not (come back. to Juneau completely empty-handed. They brought back (the take of the fifth member of |their party, Fergus Hofmann, and 'his missing shoe. After sleeping through the night {and the morning fishing hours, Joe |Werner and Lu Liston, two of the {five heroes went in search of Moose |Creek in a small boat, while Hof- |mann, Sherwood Wirt and Kelly Foss headed for Canyon Island, to visit Bob West, in Miss Mary Joyce's |viver boat, Mary J. | An extra pair of fine new boots was carried along by Mr. Hofmann, and through some circumstance, (part way on their journey one of |the new boots went overboard. Just |as the boot started to float downl {stream, the boat’s engine went |dead, and the boot travelled faster {than the boat. Just as the engine |was put back into action, and the |boat had almost caught up with the iboot, the boot gave up the ghosf land sank. | But, that was not finis for Mr | Hofmann’s day. The five started We have the most modern optical with |back for Juneau in the Mary J. with |Miss Joyce, but, met Bert Caro off | Annex Creek and transterred to his {Umpquah, Coming in on the Ump- quah, fire was noticed whipping about one of Mr. Hofmann’s ankles, |originating in one of his trouser cuffs. Fire the other four shouted. {“Fire yourself,” Hofmann yelled {back, but finally took time to put out the blaze. 8till, that was not all, a short time later his other trouser cuff came alight. After that, he| watched where fell his pipe ashes. Fishing with Bert Caro yesterday ! \were B. M. Krafft and Dr. S. K.' |Claunch. Dr. Claunch went back with Miss Joyce to continue his fish- | ing at her lodge. R — FISH, MINE TENDERS HERE OPTOMETRIST complete eye comfort, as which to examine eyes. Our Here from Petersburg after lum- ber and other cannery supplies, the PAF cannery tender Howkan, mak- ing her first call in Juneau this season, was moored today at the Ju- neau Lumber Mills. The Windham Mine tender Phea- sant also was moored at the Lum- ber Mills, following her arrival in port this afternoon. School of Optometry Illinois College of Phone 331 Wien o Kiss Worries Goeds at Mfiifichigan U ANN ARBOR, Mich,, June 14.— When, »#ow and whom to kiss has | caused a controversy at the Uni- versity of Michigan. It started when Fred A. Thomp- son, sophomore, wrote a letter to the university paper criticizing the reprimanding of a coed “accused of holding a boy’s face against her in an affectionate manner.” “The girl was fined for being sweet, loving, affectionate and at- tentive,” Thompson complained. “What a price for possession of such lovely virtues.” Miss Isabelle Dudley, social di- rector of the woman's dormitory, denied the girl was fined. “The dormitory council merely acts to correct flagrant breaches of good taste,” she added. “We expect the girls to show. a proper affection for friends and to display a certain amount of emotion. I recently informed a young man I had no objection to his kissing a girl good night when The photes show the home of Betsy Ross, in Philadelphia, where the “Star-Spangled Banner” was made at the order of George NEW USES FOR VACUUM TUBES ARE FOUND NOW University of Washington Professor Discloses In- teresting Features SEATTLE, June 14—When milady steps from her morning tub in the modern home of the future, vacuum tubes may tell her whether she chould continue her diet of lettuce leaves and salad dressing or give way to that longing for a juicy steak, potatoes au gratin, creamy coffee topped off with a chocolate eclair, That is one of the many uses, s says Austin V. Eastman, as professor of electrical engineering at the University of Washington, to which the vacuum tube, now com- mon in the home only as part of the radio, may be put in the future. Eastman described sensitive weighing apparatus, now being used for the measurement of wind tun- nel force by Fred S. Eastman, his Ibrother and an assistant professor of aeronautical engineering. Simple Apparatus It is a simple apparatus, Eastman said, explaining that it would weigh anything from a feather to an elephont instantaneously with- out any adjustment or change in equipment. ‘When a person steps on the scales, or force is applied, a contact is made through a vacuum tube causing cur- rent to flow through an electro magnet. The magnet pulls until it balances the weight or force on the scales and opens the contact. The resulting weight or force is record- ed instantly on an electric meter. Thus, the electrical engineer ex- plained, a person could get his or her weight, accurate to a small frac- tion of an ounce, by merely stepping on the scales and moving on, the action is so rapid. Another Easy Stunt Also, if milady is an apartment dweller, it may be necessary no longer for her to struggle to get the disappearing bed into a wall. She may merely point her finger at a concealed plate under the plaster- ing and immediately vacuum tubes will go into action and the bed will disappear gently into its daytime position. The furnace, garage doors and now-a-days sometimes demand . labor, with dispositions, may also become do- Sitdown Siikes Credited o U, S. cile and obedient to the little va- cuum fube. Tubes are taken for granted in radios, but little progress has been made toward their use in the Home, said Eastman, author of a new text book “Fundamentals of Va- cuum Tubes.” The field of usefulness for such equipment, both eommer- cially and in residences, is almost PARIS, June 14—As far as France | unlimited, he added. is concerned, the -down" strike is an American invention, Officials of the General Confed- |eration of Labor told the Associat- ed Press that the stay-in strike of Goodyear ‘fire's Akron plant in March, 1936, was probably the first! practical application of the new occupational method. Inspired by the success of the 'Goodyear strike employes of three Goodyear strike, employes of three Paris district occupied their plnnt.sl for four days until they got higher wages and paid vacations. They were the sit-down pioneers in France. | This was the signal for the epi- demic of strikes that spread over: France in the summer of 1936. - Some marine worms have green Controls Furnace He explained that by use of va- cuum tube control on a furnace in connection with an extremely sen- sitive thermostat, heat could be reg- ulated in a home, office building or Schilling blood instead of red i numerous other mechanisms that accompanying disaster to clothing, not to mention irritated CHICABO FIGHT GATE MAY HIT MILLION MARK IWindy City Running High-' est Ring Fever Since Epic Dempsey-Tunney Fracas CHICAGO, Hl, June 14. — This “fight mad” Windy City has not been so steamed up since the sec- ond Dempsey-Tunney clasn here ten years ago drew a hundred thou- sand fans into Soldiers’ Field for the | biggest gate on record, more than two million smackers. A gate such as that does not seem {likely for June 22 when Heavyweight | Champion James J. Braddock and | Challenger Joe Louis collide, but| beaming Mike Jacobs is willing to lay odds that the receipts will hit( {the million mark. - | factory to a variation from con-“ stant of less than one-tenth of one | degree. While sensitive thegmostats | |already have been developed, East-| {man said, vacuum tube equipment | could be used to improve the opera-{ | tion. { The professor pointed out that, [commercially vacuum tubes now are |being used to control locomotives on | imany large railroads, to bring ele-| {vators, both automatic and manu-| ally operated, to & stop at floor lev- els, and, in conngction with photo-| electric cells, to control traffic| lights, operate burglar alarms and| numerous other uses. i | R. R. Mechanism | | It is a simple mechanism, East- man said. For example, in control- | ling railroad locomotives, two small | colls placed close to the rails at| the front end of the engine pick up' low voltage signals from the track and transmit them to the tube! equipment in the cab, he said. If danger is ahead, such as an open switch, broken rails or sigAI nals, a stalled train, the tube equip- | ment is so adjusted as to pick up! the warning impulses and smoothly apply the brakes, bringing the train to a stop without any action by the engine crew. Thus, in modern day| railroading, Bastman said, even| failure of the human element in op- | eration of a train, such as, in an| extreme case, death of the engine! crew, would not necessarily endan-| ger the lives of passengers. | ——o——— Today's News Today,—Empire. I “Perfect Couple” Is Divorced Jean Bennett, moticn picture star, whe was recently divorced frcm Gene Markey, screen writer, in an uncontested suit in Los Angeles. The couple was married March 16, 1932, and had been regarded as Heilywoods' most “perfect couple” until April 29 this year, when they separated. Their daughter, Me- linda, 3, will remain in her mo her’ custody until she reaches 12 when she will spend one month a year with her father. EORER s Today's News Today,—Empire. | A rare and special | ing water, combined with skill and fine': | ingredients, has made certain European | beers world famous for quality . . .} | Likew | wells at H»e Mlist Support | Daughter—in-tavl} QUEBEC, June 14.—Even if it res duces him to penury, M. J. Bous, chard must contribute to the aup‘]; port of his widowed danghur-lnp law and her family. Fighting the claim of the daugh: ter-in-law, the seventy-seven year- old farmer admitted possession of $7.600, but argued that if he helped his late son’s family, he and his aged wifé ‘would eventually” be forced ta the poorhouse. Judge Romeo Langlais ordered |him to pay $10 a month from hi§ little hoard, remarking that if this allowance impoverished him he | |could obtain an old age pension from the government. K ot FRANK V. FREY HERE Frank V. Frey, law book publish- ing representative of Chicago ar- rived on the Mount McKinley, mak- ing his first trip to Alaska. Mr. Frey will be in Juneau for another week, and then go to the Westward and plans to fly to Nome from Fairbanks. - .- The sea whelk has a rasp-like N organ with which it can bore clear °* through the shells of oysters to: devour them. I IMPROVES EVERY. * PROCESS ' “Its the Water” of natural brew- . | in America, our subterranean|” % ‘'umwater have made Olympia r internationally’ recognized for fina flavor, clean taste, con- stant purity and re-; freshing goodness. ‘» WHAT TO DO | If you desire to get out of debt and have a good credit standing. 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