The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 23, 1937, Page 2

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, DEC. 23, 1937. IEE I HED stAirplane Cases P b e e e ‘The motorship-tanker, H. T. Har- per, Capt. L. C. Hansen, anchoraged | in Gastineau Channel last night and docked at the Standard Oil dock this morning. . The tanker is discharging 10,000 gallons of gasoline, diesel oil and | aviation gasoline for the Standard Oil Co. Coming from Richmond, California, the tanker will go to Skagway from Juneau and thence | back to its California base. | > The number of rights that can be sold to a popular work of fiction are many. The most profitable are American and English magazine rights and motion picture rights, The Salton Sea of Californja lle: beluw sea level 0. B. WlLLlAMS CO. SASH AND DOORS BELIEVE IT or NOT It's time for Btorm Sash. Order now and be prepared to laugh at Old Man Winter. 4 Lt. STORM SASH 1% and 1% inches thick Outside Measure of Sash 1'8"x3'11” 18"x¢ 7" 18"x4'11" 2'0"x3'11" 20"x4’ 7" 20"x4'11" ... 24"x3'11” . g R 2'4"x411" . 2'6"x4'11” 2'6"x4 17 2'10"x4’ 7" 2'10"x4'11" 30"x¢ 17 .. Note—Ventilator 15c extra Any size made to order at pro- portionate prices, Write for FREE ceislog. 0. B. WILLIAMS CO. 1933 Fiest So. Seattle, Wi YOUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED BUILT BY DURABILT FOR EVERYONE. Michaels - Stern Suit or Overcoat or a latest Slippers —BUT GIFTS ARERA NUMBERLESS FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY B.M. Behrends Co., Inc. "Juneau’s Leading Department Store” . A variety pack of World Famous Whitman Candies. THE BUTLER- DRUG CO. “The Rexail Store” U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICUUTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. 8. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4 p.m, Dec. 23: Feir and colder tonight and Friday; fresh to strong northeast winds. Weather forecast for Southeast Alaska: Fair and colder tonight and Friday; fresh to strong northeast winds except strong over Dixon Entrance, Clarence Strait, Chatham Strait and Lynn Canal. Forecast of winds along the Coast of the Gulf of Alaska: northeast winds from Dixon Entrance to Cape Hinchinbrook. LOCAL DATA Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity 30.42 30 K w 3 3031 29 34 NW 16 30,24 25 42 NwW 10 RADIO REPORTS TODAY Max. temp, Lowest 4am. 4a.m, Precip, Station last 24 hours temp. temp. velocity 24 hrs. Atka 42 | 38 40 16 10 Barrow, | 8 0 Nome 10 0 Bethel 0 Fairbanks 0 Dawson 8t. Paul 0 Dutch Harbor 40 Kodiak 2 0 Cordova 0 Juneau 0 Sitka - 0 Ketchikan 3 0 Prince Rupert Edmonton T Seattle -y Portland 42 3 03 San Francisco 56 03 New York 48 | 2 2 0 Washington 58 | T WEATHER CONDITIONS AT 8 A.M. TODAY Seattle (airport), cloudy, temperature 28; Blaine, cloudy, 26; Vic- toria, partly cloudy, 29; Alert Bay, cloudy, 25; Bull Harbor, cloudy, 34; Triple Island, clear; Langara Island, cloudy, 32; Prince Rupert, clear, 27, Ketchikan, clear, 29; Craig, partly cloudy, 29; Wrangell, partly clou- dy, 28; Petersburg, clear, 28; Sitka, clear, 29; Radioville, clear, 25; Hoonah, clear; Hawk Inlet, clear; Scapstone Point, partly cloudy, 28; Juneau, cloudy, 26; Skagway, cloudy, 31; Cape Hinchinbrook, clear 37; St. Elias, clear, 30; Cordova, clear, 27; Chitina, clear, -6; McCarth, clear, -8; Anchorage, clear; Fairbanks, cloudy, 12; Nenana, cloudy, 12 Hot Springs, cloudy, 8; Tanana, partly cloudy, 0; Ruby, cloudy, -15; Nu- lato, clear, -6; Kaltag, clear, -18; Unalakleet, clear, -6; Flat, clear, -14. Junpau, Dec. 24. — Sunrise, 8:49 a.m.; sunset, 3:10 p.m. WEATHER SYNOPSIS The barometric pressure though falling generally was still high over Alaska this morning with the central pressure of 30.96 inches at Nome. The barometer was'low from northern British Columbia along the coast to southern California with a central pressure of 29,70 inches west of Vancouver Island and also over central Canada with the cen- ter near Hudson’s Bay. Light rain fell over the Aleutian Islands and from Puget Sound to the San Francisco Bay region, light snow over the MacKenzie River basin and fair weather prevailed over the rest of the field of observation. Temperatures were lower this morning over western, northern and interior Alaska. R A Is E M I N K ‘515 to $25 for his skins last month | That is encouraging news to many FHUM ALASKA | fur ranchers { — .- i STOCK QUOTATIONS | Number One Grade Ranch"r————- Strong ‘Weathes Cloudy Cles Cloudy 4 pm, yest'y 4 am, today Noon today 4am. Weathel Cloudy Clear Clear Clear Cloudy Pt. Cldy Cloudy Rain Pt, Cldy Clear Clear Clear Pt. Cldy Cloudy Cloudy Clear Clear Cloudy Cloudy [uelungfd to the Glacier Fur Farms owned by Charles Goldstein. With mink prices approximately 50 per cent lower this year than wld&t' Waris received prices of from Watkins, —% | NEW YORK, Dec. 23. — Closing | NEWNURSE AT MAE WEST GAGS NOME VISITS ARE BANNED ON HERE BRIEFLY N. B. C. NETWORK Phoebe Sheppard Trans- ferred from South Dakota | Miss Photbe Sheppard, recently | 'tmmlmed to Nome, where she will uwke over duties of traveling nuxsc" {from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, |was a visitor in Juneau yesterday, |during the stay of the Alaska in port| |and is now enroute to Nome to ac-| |cept her new position, Protest ‘ NEW YORK, D tional Broadeasting Co bapned th; use of Mae 1 scripts broadeast over aged or operated stations. The ban is to be effective im- |mediately. The action was taker Miss Sheppard comes to Alnska"]l"‘fndNiS’O;’xfit‘r’""‘l' naigivesd ,‘ffj [from the Cheyenne’ agency of the|oil% ¢ B TEF AOTMe W EeES | |Bureau of Indian Affairs in South| by b IDaEota result of her. broadcast on tmnl During her stay in Juneay yes-|Chase and Sandborn hour two Sun-| ‘vud.u, Miss Sheppard, was enter-! (lu_]v; ::%0' sommercial broadds SR |tained informally at dinner. by, Miss . . ¢ © E;;‘e,,"‘“u:g;;“‘:;h‘;fl\ Vera Liebel, head nurse at the 2 e of Government Haspital of Juneau (was presented. which, met listeners'| 1 i R0 el protest on propriety of the scnpl‘ e | Federal Offices | CHRISTMAS PROGRAMS | Declare Holiday {OF SUNDAY SCHOOLS ‘ Here Tomorrow SCHEUULED TONEGHT | All Federal offices will be closed here tomorrow and most of the | Territorial of s are planning on The Na-) pany hasi ‘ests’ name | any of its Christmas exercises are being held tonight by a number of churches ot { “ Draws Storm of k | | the community. The Chapel by the Lake is holding unday Schocl program at 7:30 k at the Chapel where Santa is scheduled to be present. the Methodist Church, the school 1s program also begins at 7:30 p. m. Sunday School Christmas services of the Resurrection Lutheran church wil n at 7:30 p. m., as will ex- Assembly. Finest British Defn R for:the' HOLIDAYS £ World-renowned for its distinet mellow- ness and smooth flavor. ‘Copyright Julius Wile Sons & Co.—151 Proof” [Lemon Hart 420 "RUM- @ YULIUS WILE SONS £ CO.inc NEW YORK] | |a holiday, as well as municipal of-| Federal offices have been 5 by Execuiive order of the | President, to permit employees a day \m which to prepare for Christmas. |1t is not a Territorial holiday, but {most of the Territorial offices are |falling in line as is the City Hall | Private business will take its hig holiday on Saturday, = Christmas |day, tomorrow being the last day be- |fore the great day and most stores |are expecting their busiest day of |the season. ¥ Ao S i MISS PEARL COY WEDS MR. WATKINS | Miss Pearl Coe became the bride ‘Of tarl F. Watkins at a 3 o'clock {ceremony performed today by the th'\ John A. Glasse, in the Pres- byterian parsonage. | A candle-light and OChristmas |setting provided a background for the ceremony at which Mr, and Mrs. Clarence Rands and, Harry brother of the bridegroom, were the attendants. The bride has |been associated with the health store {on Second Street, while Mr. Wat- |kins is employed at the Alaska Juneau mine SPECIAL CHR An attractive FUR SCARFS—in si white fox—also offer the I lem of the worthwhile, priced from $35.00 up. Mormons consiitute 90 percent of the church members in Utah, 53 per selection in prices yotf can afford to pay—as low enduring gift. ISTMAS SALE of FINE FUR COATS late models—at as $29.50. the lver, red, cross, blue and happy solution of the prob- They are Store Open Evenings CHAS. GOLDSTEIN & CO. Largest Fur House in the North Mink Being Reared on | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine |Cent in Idaho, 24 per cent in Wyom- | stock today is 11%, American Can ing and 11 per cent in Arizona. S |ed through Juneau aboard Alaskan Stock |73%, American Light and Power Mink raising is paying returns 65, Anaconda 32%, Bethlehem Stee to some ranchers, that much is evi- 61, Commonwealth and Southern dent in Andrew Waris and Cecil 2, Curtiss Wright 3%, General Mo- Montgomery, of Clatskanie and Al-|tors 32%, International Harvester bany, Oregon, respectively. 67%, Kennecott 377%, New York Cen- Both are mink ranchers who pass- | tral 187%, Southern Pacific 21 the United States Steel 60, Cities Serv- steamer Alaska yesterday, bound for|ice 2, Pound $4.99 15/16, Bremner Yakutat to buy new ranching stock. bid 2 asked 4. Mr. Waris last month received DOW, JONES AVERAGES high fur price on mink at the Se-| The following are today’s Dow. attle Fur Exchange with mink stock Jones averages: industrials 127.63 he had purchased in Juneau eleven down .92; rails 31.76, down 54; utili- years ago. ’I'he original stock had ties 2131, down .11. It Speaks Its Own Gift Message! Christmas wouldn't be Christmas with- out a tinseled ever- green in the corner .. . nor would it be Christmas without a delicious box of Whitman's Favorite Chocolates. The Whitman PERFECT GIFT. Whitman and Augustine & Kyer Candies sold in Juneau only by Butler-Mauro. REIED B RS T R e e s PR You'll avoid that “GIFT OBLEM" headache by shopping—{irst or last—at THE NUGGET SHOP Rings — Blooches—Alaska Ivory —Baby Rings, Cups — Bookends, Billfolds —Clocks — 8-day and El- electric, Cameo Rings, Carving Sets, Crystal Beads, Gold Crosses. —Diamond Rings Dinner Rings —Elgin Watches, Em- blem Rings and Pins —Fraternal Emblems. Flatware, Fostoria Glass G —Gruen Watches “-Hamilwn ‘Watches —International Silver— Ice Tongs, Golden Dawn Table Pieces wenreeogs GAY GIFT PACKAGES FOR EVERYTHING — Of course; and lots of room here to lay your gifts away till Christmas. GIFTS————fromAtoZ “GIFTS THAT LAST” need not be expensive, as you will see at once when you finish your shopping and select QUALITY at THE NUGGET SHOP T—TOJ Sets, Toilet Sets U~Ul'n Sets —Vanity Cases, Vases Vegetable Dishes —Jewel Cases, Jelly Spoons —Cut Glass, Kitchen Clocks L —Lavalliers, Lighters Leather—Men's Traveling Sets Napkin Holders —Pendants — Pottery — Child Sets—Pens— Pencils IEEEREEEEEE —Quality—the kind —Waltham Watches— Wall Clocks Ery i - 3 Xmas Gifts and now you thought we'd stopped — but they're all X-ceptional, X-quisite —Yellow Gold—Rings, Watches, Jewelry of all kinds. —Rings—Rubies, @%W@&‘ Rhinestones —Zircons and many , other precious stones. About 1001 other items we lack space to mention, but which you ought to see before -you call your gifting finished. —Silver — Sterling, 1847 Rogers Bros.,, Wm. Rog- ers Sons. Spectacles for Mother or Dad. The Nugget Shop A Small Deposifi Will Set Your Choice Aside. < ‘Adam and Eve’ Broadcast exercises for the Bethel Pentecostal ) e Pl 9