The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 2, 1937, Page 2

N THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, NOV. 2, 1937. QL HUPE HAMPT“N TUNES UP AND - MAKES IT 600D Singer Tells of Her Ambi- ; tions and Does It, : Modest Way HAMPTON g a Song for George Tucker) NEW YORK, Nov. 2. Unaccus- PY tomed as I am to public guest-col- umning, T've been told that there must be a first time for everything So here goes. And, please, George, . dont pan my act Remember that simon-pure amateur standing. And inyway you're in on a pass! Furred It would be more pleasant, don't you think, if there didn't have to be a first time for everything. If, c°ats for instance, we could begin with 4 the third or seventh time. Just kipping the first. Then we'd know what 1t's all about [} Certainly I didn't know the first time 1 sang before an audience. I was no operatic prima-donna Aulhentic upon that stage, but a movie actre: greeting theatre-goers “in person.” | Styles It seemed to me silly to mumble| inanities about “I-hope-you-like-my! picture,” that I determined to give| ® the paying guests more than al mumble for their money. So I told! the “Professor’ to sound his A. And I sang a song { ExPert c i Actually that little number was Workmanship £ the tidal turning that carried me| w from the screen to grand opera. Al i generous audience gave the girl an| encouraging hand. I began to pay' attention to my voice, and plunged) into a strenuous course of muscal; Every coat & study which still continues. 5 § Anyway that “personal appear-| a Real Buy ant caused me to step from bv-} fore the movie cameras to behind operatic footlights. I believe the! accomplishment unique in the- atrical history, although now, go- ing into reverse, and turning from opera to screen, I join Grace Moore, Lily Pons, Gladys Swarthout and the others who 'seem to agree that is "’A discession regarding the city or-| sent. There were no communica- tions. The chairman of each standing committee made report as follows Mr. Riedi on wharf, railings need- 'ed around the approach to the city float to safeguard persons therc {When it is dark; Mr. Nunamaker— streets in fair shape again; Mr Bonner—public properties, told the Council that the Natatorium was very much in need of being looked tafter to make the plumbing con-| ditions sanita also that he had discovered a fire had been built in the heating stove when the pipe | was disconnected, endangering the |building. Chairman of health and police Carlson was asked to take the matter up with the school board |The latter recommended the ap- (pointment of a temparorary mar- shal during Mr. DuPree’s indispo- |sition. That matter was also left lin his hands. | Clerk Tuckett reported on fi-| nances in connection with the bus- {iness of the wharf; receivables of | |$515.08 were reported and an ex- penditure of $82 due the Northland |Co., to be paid which was author- |ized. Further action on the Wright | (& Stock account was taken, with an agreeable adjustment the objective, after further consideration. The misuse of slingshots by some of the children was brought up by | Councilman Bonner who urged t)ml\' |cllmm Balog and Cashen being ab- M o ODES ‘zhe MOMMENT U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICUUTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4 p.m., Nov. 2: Rain tonight and Wednesday; moderate to fresh southeast and east winds. Weather forecast for Southeas Alaska: Rain tonight and Wednes- day; moderate to fresh southeast and east winds, except fresh to strong lover Lynn Canal, Chatham and Cla ‘ence Straits, and Dixon Entrance. steps be taken to abate the nuisance. | dinances, reported to have been destroyed in the fire, then occurred. | Question kas raised as to their ef- fectiveness should they be lost Effort to locate them in the old vault besides having all of the old' records there removed to the new {city hall vault is to be made. Cop-| ies of ordinances not found are to be secured as soon as possible, it was decided. Guy Smith offered to give the city his radio pole, if it was acceptable. | The pole, towering over a hundred feet in the air would serve as an excellent flag staff for the town, he said. The matter was laid on the table for further consideration Bills totaling $334.99 were au- thorized for payment, concluding business matters until next Monduy‘St""tlng a"e evening. DUPREE HOME Robert Dupree was dismissed from St. Ann’s hospital this morn- ing and returned to his home to ————— | | 2 i | Forecast of winds along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Fresh to strong southeast and east winds tonight and Wednesday. LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity Weathes 4 pm. yest'y 29,86 46 54 s 6 Cloudy 1Noon today 20.74 45 7 w 2 Cloudy 4 a.m. today 29.78 42 76 SW 3 Cloudy RADIO REPORTS TODAY Max. temp. Low:st 4a.m. 4am. Precip. 4am. Station last 24 hours | temp. temp. velocity 24 hrs. Weather Anchorage 40 | 29 - - 0 Barrow 10 | 6 10 4 0 Cloudy Nome 38 28 28 4 o Clear 1; Bethel 38 | 26 30 4 02 Pt.Cldy Fairbanks 28 | 20 26 8 0 Cloudy Dawson 2% | 20 22 12 0 Pt.Cldy St. Paul 42 = Ll o - : {Dutch Harbor 4 36 38 6 0 Cloudy | Kodiak 44 40 40 8 34 Rain | Cordova 46 42 44 14 2.90 Cloudy | Juneau 52 | 1 42 2 (] Cloudy | Sitka 56 | 49 — - [ ¥ | Ketchikan 58 | 52 56 10 0 Cloudy | Prince Rupert 58 50 50 6 0 Pt. Cldy | Edmonton 40 | 26 26 6 0 Clear | Seattle 68 | 52 56 8 Cloudy Portland 64 | - - — — E | San Francisco 68 | 52 54 0 0 Clear | New York 54 46 48 22 0 Pt. Cldy ‘Washington 58 46 46 8 0 Clear | 1 WEATHER CONDITIONS AT 8 A.M. TODAY | Seattle (airport), cloudy, temperature, 53; Blaine, partly cloudy, 48; Victoria, partly cloudy, 51; Alert Bay, cloudy, 43; Bull Harbor, raining, ' 48; Triple Island, cloudy; Langara, showers, 49; Prince Rupert, clou- I dy Ketchikan, cloud, 6; Craig, raining, 49; Wrangell, cloudy, 45; Hawk Inlet, cloudy; Petersburg. cloudy, 46; Sitka, cloudy, 53; Soapstone Point, raining, 40; Juneau, cloudy 44; Radioville, showers, 46; Skag- |way, cloudy, 42; Tulsequah cloudy; Cape St. Elias, raining, 46; Cor- | dova, raining, 44; Anchorage, partly cloudy, 31; Fairbanks, cloudy, 33; ! Nenana, cloudy, 30; Hot Springs, cloudy, 34; Tanana, cloudy, 26; Ruby, cloudy, 26; Nulato, partly clsudy, Kaltag, cloudy, 24; Una- GLITTER I8 GOOD {lakleet, cloudy, 26. | Juneau, Nov. Glittering silver lame makes a suave dinner gown seen recently at the | : Ritz in New York. It is finished with a narrow girdle of vivid cerise PR STNUPSIY velvet. 1 Low barometric pressure continued this morning throughout Al- __'aska and over the northeastern portion of the North Pacific Jcean, there being two storm areas, one being centered about 250 miles west of the Queen Charlotte Islands where a pressure of 29.10 inches prevailed and a second stormt was centered over the Bristol Bay region, the low- est pressure in that vicinity being 29.00 inches. High pressure pre- RS vailed over the Mackenzie valley and southward to the Dakotas, the Grashes H 2 nflafl 'crest being 30.56 inches over the southern portion of - Saskatchewan. ] Miss Beity Whitfield of the Hi- Precipitation has fallen over the coastal regions from Kodiak south- y Delivery, is peeved, downright eastward to Vancouver Island while partly cloudy to cloudy weather sore. prevailed over the remainder of the field of observation. It was warmer last night over Southeast Alaska and over the in- 3.—Sunrise, 7:18 a.m.; sunset, 4:08 p.m. ROSEVILLE, Mich., Nov. 2. You see, Betty is building her terjor and northern portions of Alaska. . he ve brilliance it 18 1 r men fell to death today in the ¢ ] ds 0 nc mightiest multitudes through the| man suffer~d serious injuries. . “n\. on her homestead. Bare b v . * .’ ® movie medium. | The dead are leut»Juhu Britt, 50, Sunday morning she went to the : (b:v_ecn Novex'nhe.n, .“33 and n_a-‘ . During the pastvy(far there were . Thus far siveen song ke’ Hedn of Detroit, and Dennis Keohane, 34, place and was prepared to put the Cem s 1936 nearly $316,000,000 in |reports of 3,412 missing persons in . confined mostly to operettas Eut ‘l)v\roil salesman. tar paper on the roof for shingling. Federal .Govcrnmcm funds was |St. Louis, 5,103 in l?hlladrlplm‘a; Juneau's Leading Department Store B the e aE i U Mrs. Florence Mauser, 41, of Rose-| Not a tool was left in the house. SPent for the construction and im- 10,796 in New York City; 2,638 in ; full-fledged ‘1 era will be IN TERRI HY l ville, was injured. Saws, levels, squares had all Provement of recreation areas in|San Francisco, and 3,082 in Los An- i i RE B R s S - - been stolen, undoubtedly sometime the various states. geles. O preceniea pictorias. | s copmeanr il Tl : , Miss Peggy McLeod, of the Unit- | Furthermore knows the toolS g (Nordling as chairman of the dance And why not? Opera, both in SAME As BEFORE ed States CI office, who has|and woe be to the person having l N PDST TD committee with Tex Leonard, Tom $0ng and story, has been popular| been vacationing in the south, re- them if she finds them. Prutchings and John McCormick to fOF <i<““”'"l‘-*‘» R“;m"l“"’- “"l“‘"“ st turned to Juneau aboard the Yu-| And is she sore—and you would i tragedy and comedy have always 4 “ " sery n held the popular imagination. op- General Outline Given by ™ iy AP0 i s ; On November 15 the Leglonnaires and Auxiliary will hold a joint meet- INSTALL TAKU |for that event. Several such meet- ings are planned during the winter . . November 12 and 13, the Legion Joint Session Is to Be Held s sponsoring a show, “We're in the Next Monday Evening at :f:lx!.‘x.x\ Now,” at the Coliseum The- 7:30—Feed Planned | BYopA e KANE FUNERAL WILL ing in Douglas with Legion and 1 |Auxiliary members of that cit and |a gala program is being arraned cratic legend lends itself exquisitely | f rers | o the e ot mation, otwey| Lo Oldroyd, Direc- | I hope to be a part of this. I, tor of Extension want ‘to bring song and color to the! | screen. For certainly both are a| The 1937 Soil Conservation pro- part of life’s beauty worthy to be'gram for Alaska will be practically mirrored in the movies. As Wwe|the same as it was last year, ac- were saying, George, there must be ' cording to Lorin J. Oldroyd, Director a first time for everything. But of Extension, University of Alaska. so sure am I of The public affection |payments will be made by the Fed- | for, and appreciation of, the im-leral government through the In_‘l mortal melodies that T'll be proud sular Region of the Agricultural Ad-| Do You Catch Cold Easily? @ To Help e PREVENT mdny colds™ Juneau Lumber Mills, Inc. - x A To Help END a Cold quicker o i g t-of Y to be among the first to face the|justment Administration to those| anstaliion OF opers o B film-goers as a movie “Manon,”|farmers who carry out any of the »I‘immlwnl- :1‘ of . ‘J\I;" "‘I‘ x:‘ BE HELD TOMORROW ‘mimi® or “Marguerite.” Th:\tsifunuwjng Soil Conservation prac- Legion, ' bas been advanced trom| my song. And if it sounds like|tices | s e b it Bawtey vians| AT CATHOLIC CHRINOH 57 woe. G il b Lo o e i November 8, at the regular session| o A 'ger's way of tuning up. Even in| 2 Control of erosion by terrac- | of Alford John Bradford Post, and| Funeral services for Stephen J. g0 ling the time of the Legion meeting has|Kane, prominent Hoonah merchant, ey | o i e Lo kT been advanced to 7:30 pm. to allow|who died yesterday morning, have' g, 5 4 ~Coiteol of silliea for the boys to get home early. been announced for 9 a. m. tomor- | 5' Gonfhie cultlvat‘i;m Immediately following the instal-{row in the Church of the Nativity ’ ¢ Flnie Dt ron oo lation which will be Pallbearers will be James V. Da- DOYGLAS conducted by ; | | | Commander Walter Bacon and his|vis, J. McCloskey, George B. Rice,| | staff of the Post, of Taku Squad-|G. M. Samples and J. Boyle. Inter- ron will be honored feed”|ment wilt follow in the Evergreen N Ew s which is being a for by|Cemetery, Past Commander William O. John-| This evening, prayers will be held son, of Sons of the Legion|at the Charles W. Carter Chapel at; Committee, and Legionnaire Tom 7:30 o'clock. | COUNCIL MEETING Hutchings, | - - A short but snappy session of the At the meeting of the Post last| Chinese painting is a form of Douglas City Council resulted last night, arrangements were com- handwriting since a brush is used night for the transaction of the reg- for painting and writing. Ink ular routine monthly business. the favorite medium for paint- Mayor Kilburn and four members of thé Council were present, Coun- pleted for the Armistice Day dance, |bot an annual affair with the Post, and | i Commander Bacon named Homer ing Air-l\’l?i’nidediéo;i)le Marry in the Clouds 7. Applying ground limestone. 8. Applying chemical fertilizer. The two soil building practices| |which most of the farmers in Al- aska practice come under these headings: No. 6 “Planting Protective Non- | depleting cover crops,” such as| brome grass, or most any other perenial grass, alfalto or clover. Such farmers will be entitled to re- ceive $3.00 per acre. ‘If such crops perenial grass, alfalfa or clover. or most any grass which has been| plowed und erduring the summer as a cover crp, a payment of $2 per | |pleting cover crops. | | above the Little Church Around the on enthusiast, and Lylburn Albert- The marriage was performed by Atlantic City. This picture was ‘qq,gged ‘which was broadeast. 2 This wedding took place while the huge transport plane was flying abos Corner in New York. Sarah Brittingham, Atlantic City nurse and aviati son, engineer, also of Atlantic City, hired the plane at Newark Airport. Dr. Henry Merle Mellen, of the First Presbyterian Church of immediately after the ceremony., acre will be made. Under No. 8—“Applying the chem-| ical fertilizer, of which the principal constituents of value are any form or combination of phosphoric acid, nitrogen, or potash. Payment will | be made at the rate of 60 cents per/ one hundred ponds. The total pay- ment not to exceed $3.00 per acre, plus $12.00." Farmers in Alaska who desire to make application under the Soil Conservation Program should im- mediately write to the Extension of- fice at College, Alaska. e Sculptural works were first made in China during the Ch-in dyn- asty, 221-206 B. C. S 2 \ %ticare pavor ¥ Schilling PURE VAN ILLA I e o Remember [f your "Daily Alaska Empire” has not been delivered By 6:00 P. M. PHONE 226 A copy will be sent you IMMED- IATELY by SPECIAL CARRIER. (Do not call after 7:15 P, M.) Fresh Fruit and Vegetables REMEMBER TO ASK FOR YOUR THANKSGIVING AWARD TICKETS California Grocery THE PURE FOODS STORE Telephone 478 Prompt Delivery WELLINGTON LUMP COAL $l 5.30 per ton F. O. B. Bunkers ® | et e § E3 Pacific Coast Coal Co. PHONE 412 AS A PAID-UF SUSBSCRIBER TO: THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE Mrs. O. 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