The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 10, 1937, Page 3

Imagine famous Robert E.Sherwood, who thriiled the world with “Tova- rich*, *’ Idiot’s Delight’ (Pulitzer Prize winner), Petrified Forest”, ' Re- union In Vienna" end “The Road To Rome"... now going to fown fo give “Little Caesa.’ the most excitement-packed role of his hit-filled career! 10 BRINGOOWY.THE \HgusE Wi eeeS? With celebrated Aben Kandel, av- thor of the current best-seller, “<City ForConquest”, addingmorethrills for good measure! EOWARD G. ROBINSON HUNDER, 1y, THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 10, 1937. EASTERN STAR Pratt Sailing | COUNTRY FAIR GATHERS MANY Mrs. Williams Makes Report | at Meeting Preced- | ing Dance Assembling in the Scottish Rite Temple where appropriate decora- tions provided a setting for the barn |dance and country fair, close to 100 Iastern Star members and Ma- sons attended the noval O. E. S. event last evening. Most popular during the evening were the fortune telling booths where Mrs. Harold Smith and Mrs. (Robert Rice presided. Women guests were dressed in gingham and a large number of men went dressed as farmers. Mrs. Chris Wyller was general |chairman of the event, assisted by| |several committees. The barn dance and country fair was held following the regular Eastern Star meeting earlier in the evening. Mrs. J. P. Williams, Ju- neau delegate to the National East- ern Star assembly, presented a com- prehensive report on convention ac- tivities. At the next meeting of the or- ganization on November 23, Past Matrons and Past Patrons will be honored. fi | | e vecivitisr il AT THE HOTELS Gastineau S. E. Robbins, PAA; Thelma Hunt 7. E. Hopkins, Fairbanks; D. A. Run- rie, Fairbanks; E. O. Laughlin, Fair- banks; C. M. Hawl , Fairbanks; Murray Stuart, PAA; Mrs. Leslie Almquist, Fairbanks; Herb Dunlop, Seattle; John Chamberlain, Ket- Regional Fiscal Agent Is for the south tomorrow on the North Sea to accept a promotion with the Ward, who arrived here some time duties here. will route to Washington where their n son, The Mrs, daughter, La Grande, Ore. was presented with'a beautiful pic- ture, “The Lights of Juneau” by| the Forest Service staff in token of the high regard in which he is| held with his fellows. ment of Agriculture service on Jan- | transferred On North Sea For vg_shingtun Promoted to New Posi- tion in National Capital L. C. Pratt, Regional Fiscal Agent/ or the U.S. Forest Service is sailing iscal office in Washington. Ray ago, will take over Mr. Pratt's Mrs. Pratt is now in Seattle and join her husband there en- home will be established. A Robert, is in San Francisco. Pratts also have a daughter, . Sam Moyer, i Mrs. ew This morning the Fiscal Agent| Mr. Pratt entered the Depart- National Education ’ Week Being Obser_vedi uary 2, 1909. He served in the) States until 1918 when he was trans- the foundation of democratic gov- ferred to Alaska as executive as-j sistant and deputy forest supervis-| or in the Chugach forest. He was to Juneau in 1931 as Depusy Fiscal Agent and in 1934 ———————# was transferred east to assist in or- November ganizing accounting and procure- ment work in the Atlantic States and Puerto Rico and later went to, the Washington office. In 1936 he returned to Juneau as Regional Fiscal agent and has been here since until his recent transfer to a new position in Washington. “We have faith in education as having said: “A popular govern- ernment,” stated President Frank-| lin D. Roosevelt in recognition of .. American Education Week which is being celebrated throughout the United States this year this week, 7 to November 13 Education and national life has been chosen as the general theme for the occasion. Such topics as, “Can We Educate for Pea Buy- ing Educa\pnal Service,” “Youth Faces the Future,” “Schools and the Constitution,” “Life-Long Learn- ing” and “the Horace Mann Cen- . is but the prolog to a farce a tragedy or perhaps both.” “Oon among the peoples rests the pres- ervation of our free emphasized Daniel Webster. And today, the National Educa- tion Association says, “Your child which he lives. The power of self- government to survive and the suc- cess of the individual citizen alike depend upon the wise education of all the people. P FXRIRT ment without popular 1n(ormauon: the diffusion of (‘du(‘anonl ins(l\ullons.”‘ RADIO EXPERT ROBERT COOKE BARROW BOUND Low Power_e;JuB_gttery Wire- less Outfit Adapted to Arrtic A one-act newspaper dialogue. Scene: hotel, Characters: Robert W. Cooke, 25 years old, an expert in wireless who has become front page news in many papers because he is going to the Arctic to assist Sir Hubert Wil- kins in his search for the lost Rus- sian polar fliers; and a newspaper reporter who is attempting to make a hero of Cooke “Hero?” laughs Cooke, fingerng a roll of official looking charts, “I'm Just an ordinary workman with wireless direction finding equip- ment.” “Have you ever done anything like this before?” “Ive worked for the Canadian Marconi Company for five years.” “I mean,” flounders the reporter, “Have you ever gone into the Arc- tic like this before?” “I've been to North Vancouver,” front page Cooke answered — still laughing. “on.” Curtains: tragedy in Lobby of the Gastineau is not a thou ipment Poin Robert W. Cooke, then, hero, but by the looks of } sand pounds of radio that he will have flown to can not rise above the country in parrow he must be somewhat of a1 |radio technician He was employed to ald Wilkins, 3 CHAMBER OBSERVES ARMISTICE i*3"JDAY There will be no meeting of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce to= morrow due to the Armistice Day holiday it was announced by Press ident Georgé W. Folta. The next regular meeting will be next Thurs- day, Nov. 18, ek ; STOCK QUOTATIONS £ o NEW YORK, Nov. 10. — Closiig quotation of Alaska Juneau 12, Ams erican Can 89, American Light ant Power 7%, Anaconda 30%, Bethlg= hem Steel 53, Calumet 9%, Com= monwealth and Southern 2%, Cuf« tiss Wright 3%, General Motors 41%, |Curtiss Wright 3%, General Motors 141%, International Harvester 63, |Kennecott 35%, New York Central |21, Southern Pacific 22%, United |States Steel 60, Cities Service 2%, Pound $5.004, Bremner bid 1 asked 3, Republic Steel 19%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 13216, rails 34.03, utilities 23.48. e GUCKER IN TOWN | J. W. Gucker, wellknown local broker, returning to his Juneay home and headquarters on the Al- |aska after visiting merchants in | Southeast Alaska ports. B i — i DUNLOP ARRIVES | H. C. Dunlop, traveling man, ar- !rived in Juneau aboard the Alaska. | - SCOUT MEETING A meeting of the Norlite Boy Scout troop has been called for 7:30 this evening in the Northern Light Pres- byterian church basement by Scout~ Darrell Naish, t is understood. because he is an expert. His equipment was decid- led upon because it works a long |time under severe weather condi- chikan; A. L. Florence, Ketchikan; |tennial are being discussed through- LULI DESTE - :NIGEL BRUGE, - CONSTANGE COLLIER: AN“ATLANTIC FIL-M PRODUCTION Directetl by MARION.GERING < A GOLUMBIA PICTURE. PLU WRONG ROMANCE—COCKTAIL [ of m pY PARTY—M-G-M NE Muae Mrs. Ethel Moran, Ketchikan; Dor- thy Bender, Seattle; C. B. Ship- nann, New York; R. W. Cooke, lontreal; Kenneth Lowe. Juneau Mina Olson, Petersburg; Mina Cline, Sitka; Chet Johnson, Ketchikan; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ha- . d out the country. “If there ever was a cause, if {tions on low battery power—a de- | cided advantage in the Arctic. +‘ { ; s bl * HOSPITAL NOTE! ool ot Bl 4 ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil of sacrifice George Smith, a medical patient, that the human heart can endure, was dismissed today from St. Ann’s it is the cause of education’ re- RIFLE CLUB WILL HOLD TURKEY SHOOT Cooke, no hero, just an expert| jradio man, left this morning with A turkey shoot is announced by Pacific Alaska Airways for Fair-| the Juneau Rifle and Pistol Club, banks whence he will fly to Barrow | the first shoot to be held Saturday where he will set up his wireless Hospital following admission for marked Horace Mann, father of the free school movement in the Unit- night at the new range in the Fair station. It is understood that an- ” medical care yesterday. gen, Mr. gnd. Mre_Rlgbey W, Nk 2 decades ago. He building. Another shoot is planned other station will be set up, perhaps | ROBINSON IS FEATURED IN CAPITOL HIT m M a high-pressure American who involves the City of London in one of the most- amazing tangles ever {la ted in Big Ben's face. Robinson is supported by an Eng- lish cast that includes Nigel Bruce, Constance Collier, and Ralph Rich- ardson, who wen critical acclaim in America for his work in “Things To Come,” and “The Man Who Could Work Miracles,” both H. G. E nan and two children, Portland; frs. M. Harvey, Ketchikan; Mrs. Laura Elkins, Ketchikan. Alaskan Bachelor L. Asp, Tenakee; Frank Matic, At- lin; W. G. Robertson, Atlin; H. B. Hari Arnold Waruck, C. B. Shipmann, was admitted yesterday to the Gov- New York; Charles Whyte, Peters- ernment Hospital. burg; F. P. Salef and Stanley Pou- s, H. M. Dunlop, H. Martinson, cke. e e Try an Empire ad. Sam Larson of Unalaska, who was admitted to St. Ann’s Hospital sev- eral days ago, left yesterday for the Pioneer’s Home at Sitka. ed States, many added “In our country and in our times, no man is worthy the hon- ored name of statesman who does not include practical education of for Sunday afternoon and evening and shoots are expected to be held next week. The shooting will be with .22 caliber long rifles. on Prince Patrick Island. bl s W i | The word “El Dorado,” meaning |“the gilded one,” was first applied | Schilling Tea /as more the people in a plane of administra- Alice Harris, a surgical patient, tion.” Thomas Jefferson is known to |have said, “I have sworn upon the |altar of God, eternal hostility Jean Edwards was admitted to the 'against every form of tyranny over to a South American tribal king, GIVEN FINE |or priest, said to cover himself wlth“ John Mitchell, charged with 88-y.q gust at an annual religious fes- | saulting Hugo Bergstrom, was fine tival $50 in U. S. Commissioner’s court | i yesterday afternoon. RS e “Alaska” by Lester D. Henderson. flavor because': its toasted S . T T— Government Hospital yesterday for treatment of ‘a fractured leg. the human mind.” James Madison is quoted | with Wells stories. Miss Deste, the lead- ing lady, was signed to a long-term contract by Columbia Pictures be- Thunder in the City Plays Here Tonight and Tomorrow 5 it ->-oo DOROTHY BENDER OF SEATTLE IS | JUNEAU ARRIVAL' Miss Dorothy Bender of Seattle arrived in Juneau on the Alaska, fulfilling an ambition of long stand- ing to travel in the Territory. Formerly associated on the nurs- ing staff of the Swedish Hospital in Seattle, Miss Bender ted with | Miss Olive Myers of Percy’s Cafe today, renewing just by chance a friendship started in the Seattle hospital some time ago, when Miss Myers was in training. Miss Bender traveled north with Miss Ellen Swalling of Cordova who | introduced her to the Wilbur Ir-| vings last night. 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