The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 26, 1937, Page 8

MRS. S. DUNBAR PRAISES WORK, WOMEN'S GLUB Federation Bf—ficial Speak to Joint Group Meet- ing Last Night Speaking before a large group of Juneau and Douglas club women, Mrs. Saidie Orr Dunbar, Pirst Vice President of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, outlined the.work of the General Federation of Wo= men's Clubs as carried on by its nine fépartments, each of which 1§ divided into various divisions. There 1s," she declared, “literal- Iy nothing that touches human life today, that some one of these var- jous departments does not handle in its program of work And. wo- man, whatever may be her special interest, can find something in club work to help her develop this inter- ést.” She spoke briefly also of the re- cent council meeting held in Tulsa, ©kla., the home town .bf the pres- ent - Federation President, giving S YOUR FIRST R WE HAVE THEM: in both Velvet and Veil." Chopse yours from this group of Very Newest Hats, for Fall. “THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1937. not only a resume of the work trans- clubs in the Alaska Federation. atted at this meeting, which was| In order to confer with E. L. attended by “more than eighteen Griffin, Secretary of Alaska, who hundred wornen, but 4lso’ some of |is chairman of the Tuberculosis Seal the lighter and more amusing inci- | Salé, Committee, Mrs.. Dunbar has dents of the meeting. |changed her itinerary as previously ecting Well Attended |announiced. She will return to Ju- The meeting 1ast night, which was|heau Sunday, spend most of next held at the home of Mrs. Ray G.|Week here in conference with Mr. Day, President of thé Juneau Wo- | Griffin who is expected to arrive the men's Club, was well attended by members of the two channél clubs |and others interested in affiliating with one or the other of the organ- | tions. Delicious refreshments were |served at the close of the meeting. Assisting the hostess were Mrs. A: M. Geyer, Mrs. J. M. Clark, Mrs. John Kliein and Mrs. R. Bu Lesher. Previous to the meeting the Ju- |néau Wothen's Clup preberited Mrs/ | Dunbir as guestspeaker 6n @ spec- ial radio program, at Wwhich time 4{she reviewed thework: of the Al- laska Tubeérculosis Assocfatioh since |ita organization two years ago, and | pointed out some of the things it expects to achieve in regard to tu-| berculosis ‘control in the Territory. | southward from here at the end of |next week. If time and transporta- tion facilities pefmit, she may also make a short visit to Skagway and Haines, before sailing south. AMBASSADOR IS WOUNDED IN AIR ATTACK lP]anes Swoop Over His s o i | Automobile, Bullets Mrs. Dunbar left_this morning by plane for Sitka where she will re- | Poured Into It main until Sunday in the ln(vrcsts{ of the work of the Alaska Tuber-| ~ (Continued from Page One) culosis Association. She expects — also to meet with merhbers of the;said the airmen evidently had mis- Sitka Women's Club, one of the|taken the red and blue British flag newest, but also one of the largest|for a Chinese emblem of the same = s color. He declared the Ambassador should have had a flag big enough to cover the whole roof of the car. JAPS THREATEN AMERICAN, OTHER SHIPS IN BLOCKADE SHANGHAI, Aug. 26.—Japanese Naval authorities today threatened 'to include American and other for- cign shipping in an. 800-mile block- ade established along China’s coast i to bolster a hard-pressed attack by W||-|- B l [the land forces in the drive against | | Shanghal. | On battlefronts around Shang- "hai, ‘the Chinese have fallen back fon a broad front while the Japanese Army established a firm foothold on the Yangtze coast north of !Shanghai for landing divisions. Japanese officials, however, feared i'heir Chinese opponents were plan- ning another trap in which to slaughter Nippon soldiers. High (sources believed the Chinese were |playing a wary game by getting out jof range of the cannons on Jap ships and are contemplating a rout for the Japanese army. | --Meanwhile, Japanese soldiers were jlanding under protection of Naval Iguns. JAPANESE SCORN U.S.- . BRITISH PEACE EFFORTS TOKYO, Aug. 26.—Premier Fum- imaro Koneye today declared that Japan considered Britis's-American Btforts to halt fighting in the Shanghal area as of little impor- tance. This was taken to mean, among high sources, that Japan was intent on carving an additional section of choukuo. Stout resistence put by the the |Chinese to this land raid has irked, and surprised, Japan. {ENTHUSIASM GREETS { OPENING SESSION OF | | i Smart little creations Felt, with or without Reporting an enthusiastic and ,well attended opening meeting last |first part of the week, and proceed | ] ried people do, don't they? And she'’s { | | Duchess of Windsor ‘While watching her husband, the Duke of Windsor, play a round of golf at Salzburg, Austria, the for- mer Wallis Warfield was surprised by the cameraman and snapped in an informal pose. | MANY YORKERS RELAX TO ROAR, | | | KICKING GUNS Staid Men Are Members of | Manhattan's School of Firearms By GEORGE TUCKER NEW YORK, Aug. 26. — In.a ”Cmnn into another one of their crooked little street in downtown| autonomous” states, such as Man- Manhattan, where street lightsiare | dim and elevated structures cut off the sky, guns blazed with cruel ageu- racy today. 3 | The same,thing happened yester- day and will occur tomorrow. Its been going on for years, and the gunmen are very serious about it all. For they are the members of Man- BIBLE CONFERENCE hattan’s school of firearms — their | daily task is to rip the black out of a tiny target at 20 paces. They succeed, too. These men i 11 | BEAUTY WILL SEEK DIVORCE ried Life—Adven- ture Failed | NEW YORK, Aug. 26.—Beautiful | Natalie Carr, quixotic’ heiress who forsook the peace of a nunnery for| Ithe worldly adventure of married ! |life, now finds that her choice did | I not bring happiness. For -the former Vassar student, | who recently became a mother, has| filed suit . for divorce in Bridgeport, | Conn., against Walter Burke Coll, a | Stamford engineer. This new chapter in the life of| |the twenty-three-year-old wife be-| {came known only after stringent at- tempts had beenn made to keep it| secret. Despite the non-committal atti- {tude of Mrs. Coll and her family, it| was nearned that she has establish- | led residence in New York with her| |six-week-old baby. | Her grandfather, Richard W. El- |liott, at first refused to confirm the |estrangement but did unbend enough to say: | “Sure she had a baby. That's |nothing unusual. Most young mar-| ivismng us, all right, but there's nothing unusual in that, is there? | But where grandfather wouldn’t | talk, legal records would. And what| ilhey said was that Mrs, Coll had for- mally taken the step she hopes will |sever her from her husband. e - — ;Glucli Stopping Sm@s_ Theatre, NEWPORT, R. I., Aug. 26.—If a clock had not stopped today, the Colonial theatre might now be a shambles. The clock was part of a time! bomb, connected with eight sticks| of dynamite, found in a washroom | of the theatre. Set to explode at| 4 a. m. the hour hand stopped. only a ‘hair-line away from the “‘zero hour.” Authorities blamed bles. NORTHWESTERN IS ; DUE IN MORNING Steamer Northwestern is due from | Bkagway, southbound to Seattle via Sitka, at 5:30 o'clock tomorrow ! morning. This is aceording to ra-} dio advices received this afternoon by Agent M. J. Wilcox. RN A T T, 3 labor ' trou- | When Stanley Healey, head of! an Australian farm school, sailed Forsook Nunnery for Mar-; |entertained at many prenuptial par- |ties at Chichagof, béfore her de- | parture for the south, among those | Mrs. Newell Ray, Mrs, Jack Ballin- BRIDE-T0-BE ENTERTAINED Miss Annabel Freeburn, whose marriage to Mr. Albert B. Flory will take place in December, has been, | | | this week being the luncheon given by Mrs. Frederick Albert Hills, wife of the superintendent of -the Chich- agof Mining Company. The guests present were Mrs. James Leslie Freeburn, mother of the bride-elect; Mrs. Blanche E. Counter’ of Bremer- ton; Mrs. George Ira Counter, Mrs. Claude Rhoades, Mrs. Jack Phil- lips, Mrs. Cyril Leeson Atkinson, ger, Mrs. Paul Sorenson, wife of| the superintendent of Hirst-Chicha- gof; Mrs. A. Bloomquist, Mrs. Axel Johnson, and Mrs. B. Tibbetts. Sweet peas and pink snap dragons decorated the beautifully appoint- ed tables. 71he guests were enter- tained by an afternon of contract. Sunday, August 22, Mrs. George Ira Counter entertained Miss Free- burn with a lovely Junchéon and linen shower. The guests included were Mrs. ¥reeburn, Mrs. Blanche Counter, Mrs. Hills, Mrs. Ballinger, Mrs. Phillips, Mrs. Rhoades, Mrs, Atkinson, Mrs. Ray, and Miss Free- burn. The room was decorated with flowers from Chichagof, and a pink motif was carried throughout. The shower was followed by an after- noon of contract. The bride-elect is leaving for the south next week, where she will be a house guest of Mrs. Godding Rutherford, who resides at Gravel- ley Lake, in Tacoms . Mrs. Ruth- erford will be remembered as Miss Ula Beck, sister of Mrs. Freeburn. P ———————— BROTHER OF HAROLD J. GRIMSTAD WILL ARRIVE AUGUST 31 Funeral arrangements for Harold J. Grimstad, whose body was taken off the burning gasboat Mergoe Monday afternoon, are pending. Mr. Grimstad’s brother, who .will be here August 31, will complete ar- rangements for the last rites. The rémains are at the Charles W. Car- ter Mortuary. Inquest was held in the case yes- terday by U. 8. Commissioner Fe- lix Gray and a jury, but no verdict was reached, pending the arrival of H. C. Bryson of Juneau,*who is trolling at Shelter Island, and was the man who $aw the tragedy and cared for the body pending the ar- rival of officers. He is to come to; Juneau in the next day or two to| give his version ‘of the tragic acci- dent. ———.——— Larry Bunger pleaded guilty to assault and battery in U. S. Com- missioner’s court today and was fined $250 and given a six months suspended jail sentence. Bunger for England, he took 300 Iletters from his pupils. He planned to read/ one a day. was charged with striking Chief of Police Bob Dupree of Douglas,; breaking his jaw: rroM Suez to o i—————————— T e Singapolr Sk |the tanks have been destroyed by anti-tank guns. “Light tanks are mere tin cans. |They have been overcome by ma- | chine guns with armor-piercing bul- lets. IN SPAIN'S WAR | “It has also been proved that |tanks cannot precede infantry and ROME, Aug. 26—“The Spanish|preak through the enemy resis- war has marked the eclipse of nearly;mnce, On the contrary, if they are all the hopes placed in the tank,” not preceded by mfant;-y they are in the opinion of a leading military | doomed to destruction. . authority writing in the Regime Fa-‘ “Best use for tanks is as carriers scista. d | for artfllery. They may also be used Many other Ilalian military ex-|fof breaking the last resistance of perts agree with this statement. |an already defeatod enemy and for “Heavy tanks succeeded at Tala-|pursuit.” vera de la Reina when the Red| militiamen were undisciplined and | frightened by their appearance, but | since then they have failed consist- ing in Sitka, returned to his Ju- ently,” says Maurizio Claremoris.|neau home yesterday by plane. The “Heavy tanks such as the Rus-|young man said he watched the slan ones have been captured by mountains as Pilot Alex Holden flew a few daring infantrymen when over them and says there seemed they have acted independently. to be many deer along the sides of When they have acted collectively, the various hills. lita S e YOUNG VESTAL BACK Leroy Vestal, who has been visit- Eight Reasons Why It Pays to Have Your Eyes and the Eyes of Your Children Cared for by Your Local Optometrist. BECAUSE your Juneau Optometrist (Eyesight Specialist) is here the year round and MUST make good every FIRST— evening at the Resurrection Luth- spend their days in Wall street. of- 'eran Church here, Dr. W. E. Peitsch, fices, behind law books, in hospifal heading the Alaska Evangelization operating rooms—but in the after- Soclety’s Bible Conference, has an- noons they relax to the roar of Kick- | nounced that the subject of his ing guns. address at this evening’s meeting | i will be: “Christianity in the Home.”, The doctor is unhappy because Also, Dr. Peitsch announced that only eight of his 10 shots hit the to better accommodate the many bullseye—the others were half an| who are interested in attending the inch off. The lawyer is disconcerted evening sessions each day at the because his 10 shots, although all Lutheran Church, they will be in the “eye,” weren't grouped to his opened one-half hour later each satisfaction. The novelist, trained to evening, beginning tonight at 8 o’- a fictional career, imagines his tar- claim. BECAUSE your glasses require occas- jonal adjustment and this expert serv- ice MUST be done by a resident Op- tometrist. BECAUSE quality for quality, you pay no more than you would from any legitimate (non bait-advertising) out- side practitioner. BECAUSE your local Optometrist is equipped’ with the latest and most. PRICED SECOND— $2.95 UP . . FOURTH— clock “instead of 7:30. v/ /8 /.’471[ i /”1////7/] - CRYSTAL PALACE DRY GIN 85 PROOF ALASKA FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASSN. You have probably dreamed for years of the home you would like to o ome day Nothing in this world equals the sense of security and the joy of‘y:wsning tah‘e home in which ya& live. . . & place to return to will supply up to'80% o You want a home for your children . . . a haven of rest at the end of the day. Why not let us help you? We f the cost under the FHA insured mortgage plan. OUR CURRENT RATE ON SAVINGS 4% Accounts Insured Up to $5,000.00 P ost Office Box 2718, Juneau, Alaska Temporary Office: Columbia Lumber Co. ... Telephone 3 get to be the baleful eye of some !sinister character in his newest |book, and pulls the trigger. | ‘There is no banter or small talk at this session. They speak in low |tones, when they speak at all. {They rest a few minutes after ‘wzlklng down the two flights of stairs to the sub-basement, where 1thc range is located, then they enter | their private booths which look out 'on the long gallery. ‘They load their pieces with in- | finite care, meticulously wiping their |hdnds afterward to guard against| | perspiration or cartridge grease. They fire, and after each . trig- get “squeeze,” they glance through |’ a fixed telescope to determing ' thie exdct position of the builet hole] RN Who are these men in real life? Here is Kurt Steel, the detective story writer whose detective, Hank Hier, is not nearly so good a shot as the author. Morris A. Doob, for- mer Olympic performer. is the elub's coach. Karl T. Frederick is noted lawyer, but he was the world's champion pistol shot in 1920. Wil- liam T. Dewart is a gunman, t00. He is president and publisher of ihe New York Sun. Lucian Cary, the novelist, Dr. T. Olan Meeker, surgeon; Mitehell Kennerly, Jr., publisher; Dr. Miguel Di Capriles, of N. Y. U.; Leo 8. Pavelle, the photographer . , there are many others, business and professional men during office hours, but each a Bill Hickok when it comes to guns in that sub-base- ment range in lower Manhaftan. > | a for sale at The Empire Office, Lode and placer location notfces (where it sometimes reaches 105° in the shade) the pleasantest traveling companion is a tall, iced Johnnie Walker and soda. Johnnic Walker Red Label is all 8 years old; Black Label, 12. Both are 86.8 proof JOHNNIE BLENDED SCOTCH WHISKY JWALKER EW YORK, N. 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They need corrective exercises to develop fusion and binocular coordination, and such exercises can only be obtained at sthe office of your resident Optom- etrist, who has special instruments for that particular purpose. SEVENTII —BECAUSE many cases of progressive MYOPIA (near sightedness) need be and can be checked and reduced by proper exercises for which your resi- dent Optometrist has the needed -in- struments. AND LASTLY BECAUSE your local Optometrist needs your business in order to make possible that you have a competent specialist in this line in your commun- ity at all times. DR. RAE L. CARLSON OPTOMETRIST Office in Ludwig Nelson’s Jewelry Store .PHONE 331-2 rings