The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 9, 1937, Page 2

O FINAL 'CLEARANCE bxssstg 1-3 o# ORIGINAL PRICE Pick your first Fall dress from our col- lection of “blacks.” Every one a "find"” at the price. Colors...; » Prints.. .i. 1o wear right now. Untrimmed coats in designs that'll stay smart for many season. All reduced for immediate disposal. Early Fall Merchandise [ ] NEW FALL HATS $4.00 to $7.50 NEW COTTON DRESS PRINTS Suitable for School Dresses 25¢ to 50c yard NEW CURTAINS AND DRAPERIES and a complete line of COTTON AND WOOL BLANKETS, COMFORTERS AND PILLOWS ALL MODERATELY PRICED [ ] B.M. Behrends Co.; Inc. “Juneau’s Leading Department Store” SEERENESERRNEEINNNSAEE IillllllllIlIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllllIIIIIIIlIHIIIIIIlIIIllflfllllmllllllIIHIHIIIIIIIHIIHIIHIIIi Effectively silenced the Stalin- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, AUGUST 9 - Deserted by its passengers and crew, the and fire boats attempting. to put out the flames which breke out while in the hold. Two persons were kndwn dead and one passenger and two crew members were missing. lTwo Dead and Three M issing in Fire Aboard Ailantic Coast Boat | | ! ‘smeoldering hulk of the City of Baltimore is shown as it lay off Bodkin Point, Md., with police the ship was enroute from Baltimore to Norfolk, The fire started POST-MARITAL SCRAP BOBS UP Grace Darmond, Former, Screen Actress, Sues Ex-Husband LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 9. Grace Darmond, once a glamorous actress vof ‘the silent screen, and Randolph P. Jannings, millionaire oil man and her ex-husband, clash- ed in Superior court over the aetress claitn for a $163,000 trust fund. When the actress and Jannings ended their married life the oil man settled upon her a trust fund with a $500 monthly in- come, Miss Darmond asserted. But Jannings later changed his mind and dissolved this trust. i Jannings, in answering the ac- itress' suit and denying her allega- REBEEENTRERIRNNINTIE SESEENERERENSNREARERARARTRERIE 358 REYNOLDS HOME "’Constructio;_Also Started on New Residence for Halms : Resounding reperts that shattered ‘,‘:l‘\he silence prevailing over Juneau E’iy“' intervals yesterday, and continu- = |ed today, sprung not from an aer- % |ial bombardment, mor -yet from "1nm range of the Juneau Shotgun Club, ‘where ' the lacal group was E“emzngad in potting pottery pigeons; “|but, rather from the brow of Courts & | house / Hill, - where irock excavatien| % )is under way for the new residence “lof Mr. and Mrs. Perey Reynolds. | The attractive. modern home is| . ibeing built on a view lot xtvcs'l‘ched"‘m’m _he heg wt aside iby ."mfl on the slope at the west end ofllund u.m cousidclatl.on of .her giving 1?:::; zi'“ij g‘;efi:::;og' f:ng a;‘::; she v‘i‘olated certain of the mfll‘l‘iagul £ Company, architects. VoRs: i 2 Phis 1weakasnd ; siw . constriotion Jannings also denied he had B | COMSReANBIih SR St IReDoRe wrongfully induced the actress; to & 'residence. R. D. Peterman, contrac- release legal uu_e to many of the tor, breaking ground Saturday - for l:unds Bl:d;emr.‘acsmlws;fi]d “‘"’}fd { o provide her with the month- | the -new home for Mr. and Mrs.]ly PRI (RBome: |John Halm, at Tenth and € Streéts, irl the Casey Shattuck Addition. The $500,000 Spurned \ CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 9.—Elaine {Halm house was also designed by Harnétt, nine, spurned a home of the H. B. Foss Company. 3 TN |wealth and a possible $500,000 in-/ {heritance for a life with her mother, 1 A $ 508 IR PR NOR |brother and a promised puppy dog.' She went recently to live with her 525 EEERRIREE; BERERE FRENEEE Following a flying trip: through Alaska, going to Fairbanks and Nome, as well as hack into the Yukon Territory, John J. Galla- her, of Z b , Philippine i o D | thirty, estranged from her husband,’ ) i k1 neau | fi;fl :seek?;(‘i’e:ho::; mnp;:: ;_;Eafl.l Mrs. Harnett said she could| |support her daughter. ‘(ectra plane, and this afternoon| | | called on Gov. John W. Troy. hElnine" live;‘l for e;gmtgefars wh.h1 Mr. Gallagher was a Kondike}Mer p‘:_ekrmu‘gkran ;"0 el.hMrs.\ stampeder, coming north in 1897, 8 o U e T Not too ucky in the big ¥ush, he ™"y, "y patricics brother-in-law, headed south again in 1800 and =Y made his way to the Phxuppine‘w“"“m Gaertner, manufacturer of Islands, where he statted a wm“t}scienmic instruments, told the, i id 2l sl o_}co_urt he was “worth about a half 252“;[?)}1;0 Ss:“:edn:us.r::ed‘m'm‘m dollars” and intended to| SEEZEREBREEEETENIE together, * Secret Marriage Revealed Hutchison al The secret marriage of Tom Brown, 22-vear-c'd juvenile film actor, and Natalie Draper, 18, Beverly Hills society girl, on the Fourth of July in a ceremony performed by the captain of a specially chartered yacht beyond the 12-mile limit was revealed in Lus Augeles. The couple, shown dancing at a Hollywoed night spot, will have a formal ceremony within a few weeks. mother, Mrs. Veronica Hamett, Read the Class 1 TROTSKY cASE leaning Confederation of Workers of Mexico, which some govermment BEARING FRUIT FOR CARDENAS Mexican President Proves More Fnresighted than Counsellors By J. e aGHT MEXICO CIT Aug. 9. — Now that the smoke is clearing away, hind-sighted observers of the Mex- ican scene declare that President Cardenas was more foresighted than his counsellors when he invit- ed Leon Trotsky to reside in Mex- ico. The famous Russian revolution- ary has pretty well dropped out of the news since the bargain he offered a month ago: “I am will- ing to let the world alone on the one condition that the world lets me alone.” quarters thought was getting too obstreperous. 3. Gave the lie to critics who charged Mexico was under Soviet Russia’s - influence. | 8. Reiterated Mexico's absolute adherence to the doctrine thav asy- lum shall be granted all political yrefugees, no matter what their creed or faith. 4. Demonstrated his confidence in the stability of his regimg his belief it had nothing to fear even |from such an influence as Trot- |sky’s might be. | ‘Trotsky’ is abiding carefully by his promise not to meddle in Mex- }1co's politics. The Moscow trials over, he has |lapsed into silence. He lets Mu- |ralist Diego Rivera, his friend, dis- ciple and host, answer attacks upon him while he devotes his own time to preparing doecumentary evidence to present to the international com- (mission of inquiry he hopes will some day “smoke out the truth” about the trials — “the greatest frame-up in the world.” —— — a family, “Everything was going along fine| this summer,” he said, “so I packed| up to come back north and see again the places where I 'had been, also to meet my old friends. I have seen many of them on my gquick trip through and I will stay in Juneau about a week, during which I in- tend to visit the Pioneers’ Home at| Sitka, just to sec if there is anyone| there that I know.” When Mr. Gallagher left his plan- tation, he essayed to set aright the impression about tailless monkeys in his part of the world, declaring that to sing “The Monkeys Have| No Tails in Zambuango” is “fight-| ing words.” “It is hard to raise coconuts in| the Philippines?” Said Mr. Galla- gher, “Anyone that can get along in Alaska, can get along anywhere.” Mr. Gallagher hopes there will be no more changes in government i the Isla Each gevernment 'is worse than the+last, he contends. {er promised me a black puppy dog | “leave 1t all fo Elaine” uniess she| was permitted to live with her moth- Judge Walter J. La Buy said to, Elaine: “You are an intelligent girl; will let you decide.” “My mother has been very nice. to mie,” said Elaine. “I would like' to Hve with her. and my brother Bobby (three years old). My moth- Il and tap dancing lessons and 1 cal play with two little girls next door. - .. “Potait Alcohol” Emer'_mg Canada, TORONTO, Ont., Aug. 9. — The! police have commenced a search of supply of alcohol which caused | the death of three men and serious | illness of a fourth recently. | Alexander McKinnon, the third| BOY RESCU (1), |victim of alcoholic poisoning, died | {in an ambulance when being rush- | ‘ed to the hospital. | The police stated five empty rub-| ified Ads in THE EMPIRE} U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU | THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4 p.m., Aug. 9. Showers tonight and Tuesday; gentle to moderate southerly winds LOCAL DATA Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity 51 88 s 4 |4 am. today 30.01 50 93 SE 4 | Noon today 30.01 56 65 s g RADIO REPORTS TODAY Lowest 4a.m. 4a.m. Precip. temp, temp. velocity 24 hrs. 38 30 40 42 44 40 46 48 40 44 50 | 48 | 50 | 44 | 48 | | Barometer 29.97 Weather Lt. Rain Cloudy Cloudy Time |4 pm. yest'y 4am. Weather Max, temp. last 24 hours | 60 | 34 G0 Station Anchorage | Barrow Nome {Bethel Fairbanks Dawsony St. Paul | | Dutch Harbor | Kodiak "Cordova | Juneau | Sitka | Retchikan | Prince Rupert | Edmonton | Seattle | Portland |san Francisco | New York o | 72 1 Washington | 68 i WEATHER CONDITIONS AT 8 A.M. TODAY. ! Seattle (airport), cloudy, temp:rature, 58; Victoria, foggy, 53; | Blaine, cloudy, 54; Alert Bay, fogg/, 47; Bull Harbor cloudy, 51; Triple ! Island, cloudy, —; Langara, cloudy, 52; Prince Rupert, partly cloudy, 52; Ketchikan, cloudy, 52; Craig, coudy, 54; Wrangell, cloudy 55; iPetcr.sburg. cloudy, 53; Sitka, cloudy. Tenakee, cloudy, —; Port Al- |thorp, cloudy, ; Juneau, raining, ; Radioville foggy, 50; Skagway, cloudy, 53; Cordova, raining, 45; Chitina, cloudy, 44; McCarthy, cloudy, 46; Makataga, raining, —; Anchoraze, partly cloudy, 47; Portage, partly cloudy 42; Ruby, cloudy, 50; Nulato, cloudy, 50; Flat, cloudy, 44; Oho- |gamute, cloudy, 44; Nome, clear, 46; Solomon, clear, 44; Golovin, clear, 146; Council clear, 44; Candle, clear, 50; Kotzebue, clear, 45; Teller, clear, 46; Tin City, cloudy, 47; Egavik, clear, 48. Juneau, August 10. — Sunrise, 4:09 a.m.; sunset, 8:01 p.m. WEATHER SYNOPSIS A large trough of low barometric pressure extended this morning frem the Aleutian Islands over Alaska and northern Canada to Hud- son’s Bay with one central pressure of 29.60 inches just south of Kenai Peninsula and another center of 2).70 inches at Fort Smith. There was also a small low pressure area over the Pacific just west of Vancou- ver Island. The barometer was hizh over the mid-Pacific with a cen- tral pressure of 30.40 inches at lati ude 36 degrees and longitude 170 degrees. During the last 24 hours precipitation occurred generally over Alaska except over the exrem: northern portion and the lower Kuskokwim valley. Rainfall was ptrticularly heavy over the Prince William Sound region, Cordova, rejorting a 24-hour fall of 4.76 inches. Cloudy Clear Pt Cldy Pt. Cldy Cloudy Ciloudy Cloudy Olear Rain Cloudy 32 40 44 44 42 46 48 42 48 50 Cloudy Clear Pt. Cldy Cloudy Rain Cloudy Clear Cloudy 58 64 52 54 poomenan|l aBermacsceal 2 schauer. 4‘ \ ———————— It was unlawful to play Lenpts in England in the reign -of King Interior. They took advantage of from Juneau on the Prince George b e S N e S : € Spenas Lime, Mr. and Mrs. McKenzie, Mrs. S. J.| ; HIL | BROKEN JAw w E and haberdashery and purchased a is confined to St. Ann's Hospital shop, the youth followed and then |las, Saturday night. customer in the basement. They the bone sets, he was expected to be |Henry the Eighth. MILES VISIT HERE * | Jur from Seward aboard the visited Mrs. Miles’ brother, Alex McDonald, Alaska Steamship Com- 5 FDR SDUTH pany Agent for the Westward and | their brief stop here this after- noon to visit friends. calling at the Five persons left for the south office of Gov. John W. Troy. ear! Sunday morning after the ve berthed here from Skag- . These were Ed M. Williams, Pe s ¥ | i DU FREE RECEIVES CHICAGO, Aug. 9—A youth walk- ed into J. Fogeiman’s tailor shop ON DUTY SATURDAY 15-cent handkerchief. i | When Fogelman walked through | Bob DuPree, Dougias policeman, the doorway leading into the tailor itoday with a broken jaw received used the handkerchief for a mask iwhen he attempted to separate two while he and a companion locked | women who were fighting in Doug- |the owner, three employees and a | | DuPree was hit from the side by |looted the safe of $1,110 and two |a bystander. Although his jaw will |rings which Fogelman valued at |be wired closed for six weeks after $275. |able to leave the hospital this af- | ternoon. | —t——— 1 | Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Miles are| Try The Empirc ‘among those southbound through results. classifieds for HERE is the first glimpse tumes will appear in spirals up the sleeves of the crepe makes a bright stream a feather spike crowns down its front. A towering of Hollywood’s fall and winter fashions. Both cos- “Vogues of 1938,” soon to make its debut. Silver fox black wool afternoon frock (left) and crab red § black felt toque with the costume. The black wool town suit has a collar and bow fastenings of ermine. The black felt hat is trimmed with a sequins bow. The world has taken him at his| HERE FROM TANANA Falling iinto the Channel as he|bing alcohol bottles were found in| word. More timely topies divert atten- tion from the controversy which raged after Cardenas’ invitation. Four Achievements And the political aftermath has been favorable to the President. He may not have seen them (although most observers think he did) but, with his invitation, Carnedas ac- complished four things | Helen Jennings, Indian Bureau Nurse from Tanana, arrived here laboard the steamer Alaska, and is |remaining in Juneau, for a Short time on her way Outside. —————— | CANNERY MAN SOUTH G. P. Halferty, cannery man in |the Cordova district, is a passen- ger south aboard the Alaska. stood near the Forest Service ware- the room MeKinnon occupied. The! house this afternoon, a small boy bottles, it was stated, were purchas- | was rescued by Donald Fuller, after |ed from drug stores. :the rope to which the child was Authorities admitted “potato” al- clinging gave way. |cohol was being smuggled in by run- | Fuller jumped in and brought the ners from the United States and, boy to the surface, grabbing hold of that every effort they said was being a plapk until they were broughtiput forth by the police to try nd ashore. ¥ |seize it. ————————— l“Alaska" by Lester D, Henderson, ———-——— Today’s News Today.—Empire,