The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 4, 1937, Page 3

AR TONIGHT is the NIGHT Show Place of Juneau dames aren’t ut make us @ offert we know evarything—b better Directed by Erle C. Kenton A COLUMBIA PICTURE ALSO Motion Pictures of Mickey Mouse Parade Ik of the Town MIDNIGHT PREVIEW WORLD PREMIER SR with 20 GREAT STARS IlllllII!IIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIII!IIIIIIII“IIIIl FRENCH CRAFT IS SENT DOWN. SPAIN CORST Insurgent Craft Believed to Responsible — Bat- tle in Air MADRID, Nov.. 4—Reports from Barcelona state that the French merchant vessel Corse has been il sunk by an unidentified seaplane,| off Mataro, Catalian coast. Three Government pursuit planes, met an Insurgent plane, be- lieved to have been responsible for the sinking of the French craft, and a spirited air battle followed. One government plane was downed and the Insurgent plane escaped. The crew of the government plane and also the ship' was picked up by fishing boats. o The term “to Bowdlerize,” mean- ing to censor or cut out, comes from a squeamish editor named Bowdler who flourished in the early 19th century. Q) To help end it quicker, rub throat and chest with Not Fo {| The 5 | STARS THREE AT CAPITOL ‘Devil's Playground’ to End Juneau Showing Tonight A martitime romance of dramatic intensity, “Davil’s Playgre brings Dolores Del Rio, Rict and Chester Morris to of the Capitol Theaire Directed by Erie C. Kenton, Columbia picture will end neau showing tonight “Stranger Than Fiction, “My Little Fellow” and Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer news also will be shown at the Capitol. As a special feature at the Capi- tol on Friday and Saturday, Wal- Wanger's “Fifty-Second Street will be presented MAL TRUCK ROBBED;LOOT S RECOVERED the its Ju- ter Druggist Suicides as Stolen | Packages Quickly Trac- ed to His Home LOS ANGELES, Cal, Nov. 4— Sheriff's office has recovered $6,000 worth of registered m stol- en from a Government truck last night. The loot was rec ed from un- der the home of iburban drug- gist who had just committed sui- cide when the officers trailed the stolen mail to his residence early this morning. Officers said all but one pack- age has been recovered from a hid- ling place under the residence of Q. " hardson, 34, Lawndale drus | | | a ison shot himself in front of the cffice of his attorney shortly after midnight. One man is already in custody in connection with the robbery. @Nnrlhlalffiakes | | | The Morthland loaded fish yes- terday at the Cold Storage wharf There were 191 boxes of frozen hs ibut, totaling 45,000 pounds sent |to Seattle and 242 boxes of halibut {to Prince Rupert, totaling 64,000 pounds. Also to Prince Rupert were 1300 boxes of salmon weighing 30,- 1000 pounds. Three tierces of mild cure salmon were sent to Ketchikan and seven |to Seattle, and Sebastian-Stuart, |the only company shipping besides the Alaska Coast Fisheries, shipped eight tierces of mild cure salmon to Seattle. The Sadie took bait and ice today after selling 1700 pounds of salmon to Sebastian-Stuart. 'HIGH SCHOOL GIRL | SCOUTS ORGANIZE WITH NEW LEADERS Meeting at the Episcopal deanery !last night, high school Girl Scouts jassembled with Scout leaders Mrs, Charles G. Burdick and Miss Mary Simpkins for troop organization. Mrs. Burdick, assisted by M Barbara Winn and Miss Elizabeth Terhune, took charge of patrol di- vision of their troop. Betty Wilcox was named patrol leader and Bar- bara Hermann, corporal of the pa- trol, including Sue Stewart, Gloria ‘White, Ethel Fukuyama, and Betty ‘Wilms. Ruth Allen is patrol leader, and |Mary Fukuyama, corporal of the |patrol including Virginia Dufresne, Dorothy White and Mary Stewart. Organization of Miss Simpking’ troop will be announced tomorrow. { Figh Load South THE DAILY ALAS NAVY FEATURE Golf Wizard Acquitted. | Acquitted on a seven year old charge of robbery, John Montague, Hollywood's tery man,” recently started plans for a new and richer chapter an Elizabethtown, N. J,, jury freed announced that will appear in pictures, on the r tague (left), Mrs. Mary Moore, his ALASKA STAMP 'DECLARED ONE OF BEST ISSUED Post Office Department Chief Tells Chamber It Rates “Tops” O. L. Re Superintendent Philatelic Agencie for the Po: office Department, and F. J. 5 his assistant, who are here in con- inecticn with the issuance of the |new Alaska stamp, were guests ol the Juneau Chamber of Commerce at its weekly luncheon at Percys Cafe today. ) | | cribed best Rogers the Superintendent the new stamp |the Postoffice Department gotten out. While som agree with the design | must be remembered that there are 10 million stamp collectors in the |country and the task of pleasing |a fair portion of them along with all the rest of the stamp users is |almost an impossible Though there sure to be icism, he Ipointed out, the new Alaska st lis one of the most {put out, only two !being in the same cla | Mr. Rogers complimented Post- |master Albert Wile and his staff on the efficiency with which they| were handling the influx of mail aused by the d and for the new| stamp and gave assurance that Ju- neau mailers would be given com- plete service on the day the stamp |goes on sale, November 12. | Mr. Salb spoke briefly, giving in- teresting impressions of first trip to the northland { Juneau is losing between $100,000 | and $200,000 in business annually | by not having more adequate trans-| portation service to Port Alexander. Tom Gardner of the Juneau Lum- ber Mills told the Chamber. He said there is a vast amount of bus iness in Port Alexander and that Juneau could share in it if better transportation facilities could be | afforded. President George W. Fol-| ta turned the matter over to thej Transportation committee for fur-j ther study. The Dry Pass dredging is now completed, Mr. Gardner reported, and he suggested the Chamber, which backed the plan originally, might get in touch with the Light- house Serv relative to placing light markers in the area as a fur- s one Gf | will not [ it said, job. cri mp or thr his Mysterious Monty” 0o and as a professional golfer, < Offered Film Contract rd golfer and “m an already amazing lif Shorlly after the gelfing pal of Hollywooed's stars, of 0S had signed a contract amounting to $1,000,000 in seven He it was announced. Photo shows Mon- Ailen, a sister, outside the courtroom at the y mother, and Mrs. Mary close of the trial Nature Goes Mirror One Betier S a8 “opportunity had ever, Even the most flawless mirror can’t better the work of nature when it comes to the Brewster twins, Gloria, left, and Barbara, right, who are such exact images of each other that even the casting director at the Hollywood studio where they work can’t tell the shapely beauties apart. FIRST DANCE OF SHRINE SERIES TO Invitation to send a to 2 conference called to 1 building slump received the United E Chamber of Commerce. The meet- ing is planned for Washington, D C. November 17 and 18. Commis- sioner of Education A. E. Karnes expects to be in Washington about that time and has been asked to represent the local Chamber. L S representa- tive udy the resider W Invitations will be in the mail to- morrow for the series of Shrine dances which will commence with the opening affair of Saturday eve- ning, November 13. Spénsored by the Juneau Shrine Club and under the chairmanship of J. W. Leivers, the dances are held in the ballroom of the Scottish Rite Temple. June, 1938, will be observed as tercentenary of the establishmen of “New Sweden” in the Delaware rgetting HAPPY NEW YEAR! with GREETING CARDS BE NOVEMBER 13 A EMPIRE; THURSDAY, NOV. 4, 1937. 1 Insured Mortgage System Going Big, Third Anniversary | Statement Made on Accept- ances l)\ F(’(Il‘l’fll Hnus~ ng Administration | WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.— Mort- y accepted for insurance by the al Housing Administration wssed the billion dollar mark according to nnouncement today Administrator Stewart McDon- 1 By a coincidence this recorded just as the insure gage system was rounding third year of its existence. Although the National Housing Act was signed by President Roose- velt on June 27, 1934, much prelim- | inary k had to be done before |the insured mortgage program could be put into operation. Rules and reg- ulations were promulgated on No- vember 1, 1934. Also, it was neces- sary to have the laws of all of the States amended to enable the pro-| gram to function effectively, and it| was not until the late spring of 1935 | that it began to gain substantial volume, Virtually 99 percent of the insured morigage business has been | done since April, 1935. Growth of Program “The figures strikingly illustrate| the growth of the insured mortgage program,” said Administrator Mec- Donald. “The amount insured in the| closing months of 1934 was negli- gible. In 1935 we did a little over $170,000,000 in mortgages accepted | for insurance. During 1936 the vol-| ume of mortgages accepted for in- surance reached $438,000,000. So far | in 1937 we have accepted for in- surance approximately $385,000,000. Indications are that the total for the year will be slightly larger than for 1936 | “The early part of the present| year witnessed an unusual increase in home building activity. After May, however, this activity declined somewhat, due to a variety of causes some of which are now showing| signs of being corrected or are cor- | recting themselves. Indications now | are that total residential construc- for 1937 will be slightly above that of 1936 Foreclosed Properties i “One of the reasons for the lag| in residential construction in some | areas is the fact that along with | the rise of building costs came an| for holders of fore- closed properties, who had been | carrying them along for the last few years, to unload them with the result that real estate developers with new properties to sell have been meeting the competition of these repossessed properties. When | these properties have been disposed | of there should be improvement in the demand for newly constructed homes. [ “Reports recently received indi-| cate that in many leading cities vacancies are declining and rentals | are increasing. This is usually a good sign for shadowing increased building activity in the near fu- | ture.” { Including mortgages selected for | appraisal, large scale rental pro- jects approved, and modernization | and repair notes insured, gross busi- | ness transacted by the Federal| | i > was d mort- out the Housing Administration is nearing the two billion dollar mark. Losses under the insured mortgage tem have been less than $10,000. To meet such losses the FHA has a \mutual mortgage insurance fund of {more than $20,000,000 available. | MRS. R. R. BROWN, | MISS CRAMER ARE HONORED AT PARTY Mrs. Louis Delebecque was host- ess last evening at a party honor- ing Mrs. R. R. Brown and her sis- ter, Miss Marian Cramer who are leaving for the south aboard the Yukon. Miss Cramer will be mar- ried to Mr. George Whyte at her home in Bothell, Wash., this month. Guests were Mrs. Tom Moyer, Mrs. Monte Grisham, Mrs. Stan- ley Grummett, Mrs. Dewey Baker, Mrs, James Orme, Mrs. James Mat- tox, Mrs, H. M. Hollmann, Mrs. Ar- | be | CAREER WOMAN COLISEUM SEEN TONICHT 2ok o AT COLISEUM (‘Iilil(' vl'r(‘\“l' (Hl(l :Vli('ll“"i Whalen Star in Dram- atic Film Playing Tonight Only Tonight Is—“THE BIG NIGHT” N Claire Trevor len ar st a bat each other to free a lonely backy accidentally killed he in “Carect Wom the Twe Century-Fox dramatic se playing tonight only at the Coli- seum Theatre | In addition to Claire and Michael the rest of the featured cast in- cludes Isabel Jewell, Eric Linden,| Virginia 1d and Gene Lockhart.| Executive Sol M. Wurt-| zel selectéd Le ciler to direct| with Milton H wssociate pro-| ducer. Lamar wrote the| . screen play a story by| | Gene Fowler 6 ¢ Py :"é/di'm TREVOR Michael WHALEN Delightful Short Subjects te Fox Movietonews they Fi L Feld Trotti on E3 STOCK QUOTATIONS 4 based L3 Mrs. E. J Mrs. Roger Stevenson, Blake, Mrs. Willlam M. Whitehead, Mrs. Elton Engstrom, Mrs. Alvin Anderson, Mrs, Kenyon MacLean and the honor guests. Mrs. Moyer was high and Mrs. Grisham, low. mett was high in poker, and Baker, low. Mrs. Brown and Cramer received attractive prizes. NEW YORK, Nov. 4 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 12'4, American Can 88%, American L and Power 6%, Anaconda Bethlehem Steel 50, Calumet 8!, Common- |wealth and Southern 1 Wright 3%, General Motors | International Harvester 71, Ken- {necott 31%, New York Central 19', | Southern Pacific 20%, United States Steel 57%, Cities Service 2, Pound 1$4.98, Bremner bid 1 asked 3, Re- public Steel 18% in bridge, Mrs. Grum- M Mis uest e DUCK CREEK BRIDGE OPEN 5 P. M. TODAY Though not quite completed,) work on the Duck Creek bridge will | : b b suffictently okd b0 nl)l.“‘Jonm averages: industrials 128.84, Nl down 1.30; rails 32.27, down .11; it to traffic at 5 o'clock tonight, it|° e : oo is announeed by the Bureau of Pub-|iHlites 2140, down 08. lic Roads. T DOW, JONES The following AVERAGES are today’s Dow, - Edgar Allen Poe printer to print his first book, “Tammerlane and Other Poems, Now it brings $15,000 to $20,000 in the book market Dr. Samuel Johnson, great 18th century author and critic, when ask- ed if many men could have written MacPherson’s “ Ossian,” replied: Yes, many men, many women and any children.’ paid a Boston Twins Who Twice Wed‘;l'wins liepare To Return to Their First Twin Mates Maritally twisted twins, Lois and Louise Sebring, recently had their present marriages to Hubert and Herbert Sharpe, twins of Marian, Ark., annulled after they discovéred their divorces to Roy and Ray Sebring, twins of the U. 8. Marine Corps, were only interlocutory de- crees. The court annulling the Sharpe marriages decreed the girls were still married to the Sebring brothers. Lois (left) and Louise Se- bring, nee Coats, are pictured as they arrived in Los Angeles, where they will await return of the Sebring brothers from Honolulu next "thur Judson, Mrs. J. B. Burford, Februar NOW IS THE TIME—and as always the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY has a large assortment, including the finest lines of Holiday Greeting Cards—your old favorites—as well as the newest. An Empire represen- tative will be pleased to call on you—MAKE YOUR SELECTION EARLY! Just Telephone 374 or call at the DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE Office.