The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 13, 1937, Page 2

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, DEC. 13, 1937 (Ve a DRESS LENGTH it Choose a Dress Length from Our Exiensive Collection of Dress Goods TAFF WOOLEN FA B. M. Behrends Co., Inc. “Juneau’s Leading Department Store” Ex - 51AO THREE SMART GIRLS, ONE UNHAPPY sailed off for Europe all alone, tucked away in a berth on the Enropa. These motherless ehildren of Henry A. Coelln, Bettendorf, Ia., foundry worker, are en route to their grandfather’s home in Schleswig Holstein with no one to look after them but a ship’s stewardess. Twin Helen (left) faced the voyage cheerfully, while Twin Hertha looked for comfort to big sister Anna Margareta. The twins are four months old, the sister, two years. Grand- daddy will sure be happy to see them. - - < STOCK QUOTATIONS g -+ NEW YORK, Dec. quofdtion of Alaska stocke tr 1y is 11, 73, Ame.can Light Anagonda 30%, Bethlehem 54'.% Calumet 8 and Boutherr General Motors 33 HarVester 64%, Ke 4 soufhern Pacific 21%, United States Steek 55%, Cities Service 2%, Pound $4.90%, Bremner bid 2 asied 4 13. — Closing Juneau mine Ameic Re- 3 All-American All-Everything! Tf any title might adequately cover’ the accomplishments of Byron “Whizzer" White, senior at Col- orado university, it would be “All- American All-Everything”. Be- sides being the nation’s leading scorer and one of the most sensa- tional football players of all time, White is president of his student council, a Phi Beta Kappa, an E student, Rhiodes scholar and still finds time to work himself through school! public Steel 17%. 5 DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are D Jonfs avera: industrials 122.83, 1.30, utilities 2150, Schilling pepper - will (j season a today’ million steaks tonight A FACTORY TUNE-UP will make your radio “Sound like New” Let us renew the performance of your radio set. Don't miss the rich musical tones and distant stations your set was built to receive — for the lack of accurate adjustment. With our new “‘Cathode-Ray” Servicer it can be quickly “made like new."” Phone Us Today JUNEAU RADIO SERVICE 122 Second St., Next to San Francisco Bakery All Work Fully Guaranteed 60 Days — Our Prices Are Lowest for Satisfaction Guaranteed Work *First accurate measure of radio _ set performance. S e GONGERT T0 BE GIVEN BY HIGH SCHOOL, DEC. 21 “Chrislmas Program Will Be Outstanding Musical Event ‘ With Tuesday, December 21 set as the date, plans and rehearsals are |now nearing 'completion for the| Christmas concert program to be| |presented by music students of Ju-| |neau High School, beginning at 8 |p. m. in the high school gymnas- lium. Directed by Miss Alice Palmer, vocal music instructor of the Grade School and High School, the con- cert will present more than 150 stu- \dents _included in the following/ |groups: Girls Glee Club, 71 mem- |bers; Boys Glee Club, 38 members; a Cappella Choir, 50 members; Boys Quartet, composed of Philip Har- land, first tenor; Lyman Snow, sec- ond tenor; George Alexander, bari- |tone, and Ned Rowe, bass. | Miss Anne Morris will accompany the Girls' Glee Club; Miss Sylvia Davis, the Boys Glee Club, and Miss Katherine Torkelsen, the Boys' | Quartet. The instrumental trio, composed |of Anne Morris, double bass viol; |Shirley Davis, ‘cello; Katheryne | Torkelsen, piano; Sylvia Davis, vio- |lin; Althea Rands, violin, will play |opening and closing selections for the concert. Among outstanding selections which will be presented on the pro- lgram are “Silent Night” by PFranz {at Northwestern Universit; “It’s professor at Northwestern. Two sel-‘ ections will be sung in Latin, “Glo-| irio Patri” and “Adeste Fideles.” |, Colorful decorations are being as a cpecial project under direction, lof Miss Marjorie Tillotson. Jimmy ! | Wilcox is in charge of art work for| |a major part of the decorations, and | | Dallas Weyand is in charge of ever- qqyirrel to the so |green decorations in the gymnasium. | A special matinee for school chil- dren only will be held Monday at| 2p m | JUNEAU WOMAN IS | OWNER OF VIOLIN | . ‘to the anxious father squirrel and| The distinction of owning one of the world’s rarest violins belongs to Mrs, Gerald Green of Juneau |who often has occasion to show friends the Stradivarious master-| | piece given her many years ago by lan old and accomplished violinist | friend. | Inscribed on the instrument is| “Antonius Stradivarious, Cremon- ensis Pacibet Anno 1736 Mrs. Green prizes her possession highly. R HOLDEN HOPS TO POLARIS SUNDAY| | A Polris-Taku {flight occupied| Alex Holden’s day yesterday for the Marine Airways. Alex, with Lloyd Jarman, flight mechanic, took four to the mine and | brought three back with mail and| air express. Going up were George Pierce, Bob Hemming, Ronald Evans and F. Ostregaard and coming back were R. W. Whittle, G. Chrysler and Bob! Moore. Beeitvaze s N i MKS. J. DEVINE HEADING SOUTH Mrs. J. Devine, wife of Senator Devine from the Second Division, arrived in Juneau yesterday after- noon on a Fairbanks Lockheed Elec- tra of the Pacific Alaska Airways. Mrs. Devine is going south on the Alaska to join her husband who has been ill since the last Legislature. Mrs. Devine hopes to bring the Sen- ator north early in the spring. She is stopping at the Gastineau Hotel. i ———————— SITKA FIRE RUMOR | The rumor that a serious fire had taken Told at the Sitka Naval Air Station on Japonski Island is be- lieved to be of no weight. 1t all started when a request from the air base was received by the Coast Guard cutter Haida for a refill on a fire extinguisher, which pit of news, when the refill was sought for in numerous places in Juneau, grew into stories of fire and destruction and a shortage of fire extinguishers. And ne Japanese bombs had any- thing to do with the supposed fire, either, it is assured. e Joan Davis, the “fall girl” of | comedy, once sold goldfish in a five-and-dime store in her native St. Paul. - eee - NOTICE TO AUTOMOBILE owners. 1938 license plates are now ready for distribution. Car owners are warned not to operate their cars | after December 31, 1937, without the 1938 plates attached. A heavy fine is imposed for so doing. The new plates may be secured at the office of City Clerk. H. 1. LUCAS, aav, City Clerk larranged by the mathematics class ... The | | ; | BY STRAD[VAR]US such conversation. He strolled back | - | i saw The story so far: A sailor doll has started in an ice-boat to rescue Helga, a doll, from the white fox when he is stopped by some squirrels whose son is be- witched so that he grows bigger every minute CHAPTER THinTE | The Worm and the Fir The squirrels were politeness, it- Gruber, (to be sung antiphonally) | o) when the sailor said he would arranged by LeRoy Wetzel, from pey, ynem. They untied his arms and whom Miss Palmer studied music ;.. apologizing as they did it. “Now,” said the sailor, “I think |Me, O Lord,” negro spirtual by No- y q,5;1q see this squirrel that is so \ble Cain, also a prominent music big.” | said the old man| behind {hat rock| Certainly quirrel, “He’ lover there.” So the sailor walked r to the And there he saw a squirrel| as as a bear, sitting on nis| haunches and stuffing berries mm’ his mouth. “Very warm weather,” said lor. | o said the sailor. “It's going to £no “‘Never eat berries,” said the squir-|s vel “Then why do you?” said the sailor. “Oh, because I'm getting bigger ninute,” said the squirrel ailor was a little disgusted at “Take care of my hoat. I'm going to walk and see if I can think of a plan.” The Sea Shell Talks The sailor walked along a wood- land path, picking at the snow. He many acorns lying on and you remember the that had grown so huge ground, squirrel !was supposed to eat an acorn to the make him ink again. “Ho, hum,” said the sailor. “It can’t be any of these acorns. Won- der where the Woods Fair; must be hiding to teach that squir- rel a lesson.” “He took his sea shell cut of his | sailor and he listened again. the | . She | 2 | |what to do. I can’t delay here too| long.” He listened to the shell and this is what he heard: What is it has thousands o(l needles and never sews? “Why that's a pine tree,” said the And what is it walks Loth abo\'c) ground and underground and has no legs? A Very Prim Worm shell said nothing. “That must| mezn that I'll have to find a worm and a pine tree together some- where,” thought the sailor. So he walked along looking sharply to right and left. After ten- minutes, sure enough, he saw a very prim hworm walking out of a hole in a fir tree. “Pardon me,” said the sailor. “‘But have you seen the Woods indeed,” said ‘She was in a temper, an acorn with me.” | ‘Could I see it?” 10: asked the| | [said the worm. {sailor into his bright, green acorn “M-m-m,” thought the sailor. must get tha i “y Tomorrow: Shrinking | - i Administration’s Aim | To Aid Utilities Is © | Arousing Norris” Ire (state power authority defending| proposed hydro-electric development, | |along the St. | !strictly a state report—but the Pres- | ident released it. And it was high- | (Continued from Page One) utility companie; would take !courage and spend more money for | expansion, Norris wouldn't follow | him. | The President himself, on the !olhcr hand, is committed to speed- ing up enactment of the bill cre-|ion government for the services of ating seven flood control and power ‘SL Paul | sitka | Edmonton / THERE HE SAW A SQUI ! |San Francisco U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. WEATHER BUR! THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4 p.m., Dec. 13: Snow tonight and Tuesday; fresh to strong southeast winds. Weather forecast for Southeas Alaska: Snow northeast portion, rain or snow northwest portion, rain south portion tonight ghd Tues- day; fresh to strong southeast wind except strong over Dixon Entrance, Clarence Strait, Chatham Strait and Lynn Canal. Forecast of winds along the Coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Fresh to strong east and northeast winds. LOCAL DATA ‘Time 4 p.m. yest'y 4 am. today Noon today 29.89 29.64 29.65 21 27 41 Barometer Temp, Humidity Wind Velocity Weathe Cloudy Lt. Snow Cloudy prishey kb 82 87 NW w w 5 3 RADIO REPORTS Max. temp. last 24 hours 30 23 Station Atka Anchorage Barrow Nome Bethel Fairbanks Dawson 32 Dutch Harbor Kodiak Cordova Juneau Ketchikan Prinece Rupert Seattle Portland New York Washington Lowest 4a.m. 4am. Precip. temp. temp. velocity 24 hrs. 20 TODAY 4am. Weather 24 Cloudy 8 30 8 -26 -36 32 28 38 32 21 46 48 4 21 0 % 22 Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Clear Clear Clear Snow Cloudy Cloudy Lt. Snow Rain Rain Clear Cloudy Cloudy Clear Clear Pt. Cldy BE| woBeB8culBoa 4 50 46 52 22 20 8 aSowso WEATHER CONDITIONS AT 8 A. M. TODAY Seattle (airport), cloudy, temperature 46; Blaine, cloudy, 46; Vic- 47; Ketchikan, raining, Bawk Inlet, |toria, foggy, 47; Alert Bay, cloudy, 45; Bull Harbor, raining, 48; Triple |Island, showers; Langara Island, cloudy, 47; Prince Rupert, raining, 46; Craig showers, 45; Wrangell, raining, 33; | Petersburg, foggy, raining, 36; Sitka, raining, 44; Hoonah, raining; nowing; Soapstone Point, raining, 38; Juneau, snowing, ; Skagway, cloudy, 15; Cape Hinchinbrook, cloudy, 40; Cordova, clou- P ¢ 4 dy. 31; Chitina, cloudy, -10; McCarthy, cloudy, -14; Anchorage, clou- “A worm,” sald the sailor, andigy. pairbanks, clear, -25; Hot Springs, clear, -25; Tanana, clear, -18; he listened again. But this time the pyp,y clear, -15; Nulato, clear, -2; Kaltag, clear, -4; Flat, clear, -9. Juneau, Dec. 14. — Sunrise, 8:41 a.m.; sunset, 3:07 p.m. SYNOPSIS The barometric pressure was low over the Bering Sea, western and WEATHER scuthern Alaska and the north Pacific Ocean this morning with one central pressure of 28.80 inches at latitude 55 degrees north and longitude 145 degrees west and another of 28.90 inches at latitude 50 de- 'grees north and longitude 167 degrees west. | from Barrow southeast to the Great Lakes. | Barrow to the mouth of the MacKe=nzie River, over the Aleutian Is- The barometer was high Light snow prevailed from lands, upper southeastern Alaska and south central Canada, and light other parts. |rain over Kodiak Island, from lower southeastern Alaska along the the worm. coast to Puget Sound and over centrdl California, with generally fair and she left weather over the rest of the field of observation. | Alaska this morning were lower in the Interior and warmer ovee Temperatures oves with expansion programs. . . REPORT SE! 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