The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 10, 1938, Page 2

‘est. Tabulation as follows : THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, FEB. 10, 1938. With a full cargo of NOW § No AMerations One Broken-Size Lot of MEN’S SHIRTS Values to $3.00 Now sl. ! Merchandise already on the way here we must MAKE ROOM FAST. MICHAELS-STERN SUITS SIZES 35 TO 46 Regulars—Longs—Stouts—Shorts $4o Suits NOW 528.15 5 Suits NOW 26.25 o Suits NOW AND—A group of 33 suits in BROKEN LINES and values up. te.Hb40——— Continuing Our February Sale s e We are clearing our decks for action— Spring and Summer & 1 8.75 ! No Approvals | HARDEMAN H AT ALL SHADES Five Dollar Values at ‘$3.95 B. M. Behrends Co., Inc. “Tuneau’s Leading Department Store” OVERCOATS DOUBLASSCOUTS WIN TROPHY IN CHANNEL RALLY Large Crow?;ttenas Com- petition Held Here Last Night Pronounced winners of the Hol- brook trophy, Boy Scouts of the Douglas troop took highest honors in the Scout rally held' last night in the High School gymmasium, ‘where close to 200 parents and friends assembled for the climaxing event of Boy Seout week. Taking 42 points, the Douglas troop, Richard MaeDbnald, Scout- master, led the American Legion and Norlite troops who totaled 338 and 29 points respectively, Gene Rhode is the American Legion troop Scoutmaster, and Darrel Naish, Norlite troop Scoutmaster. Most important of the single tests was the First Aid competition, won by’ the American Legion troop with Lew Williams as patient, Lee Lucas anid Griffithy Nordling, rescuers. Douglas came in second with Billy Spain as the patient, Frank Krsul and Robert Fleek, rescuers; Nor- lite, third, Jim Glasse and Bill Wood rescuers. In the Knot Tying contest, Jim- my Devon of Douglas won first place; Roy Brown of the Legion second, and Jimmy Johnson of the Norlite troop, third. In signalling, Frank Krsul, Robert Fleek, Billy Cashen and Jimmy Devon of Doug- las came in first; Bill Wood, J. Tru- itt Moehring, Hallie Rice and Jack Glasse of the Norlite, second, and Lee Lucas, Eddie Saloum, Fred Sor- ri, ahd John Plobergsund, Legion. . [third. Robert Fleek placed first for Douglas in the O'Grady drill, with John FPlobergsund of the Legion troop, second; and Malcolm Faulk- ner, Norlite, third. Kenneth Loken of Douglas won |first place in the compass test; Roy {Brown, Legion, second; Cyril Zu- boff, Norlite, third. In the Judging tests, Kenneth Loken of Douglas came in first; Dean Allen, Norlite second; Eddie Saloum, Legion, third Charles G. Burdick, chairman of the District Scout committee an- nounced the winning troop, stat- 30 WINTER Single and Double-Breasted BLUE GRAY SILVER TONE Values to $23.50 NOW AT $1475 No Exchanges! UPTOWN SOLID LEATHER OXFORDS FOR MEN $6.00 53.95 Values for Number A KA EXPGRT | Planes in Passengers ¥ Year Service Carried | 1929 8 2,171 E 1930 24 3,654 1931 26 7,947 1932 31 6,637 1933 42 7,743 J U M P 1934 56 10,194 11935 % 13,318 11936 79 16,982 ‘1937 101 20,958 Outbound Shlpmen ts In-| crease $4,329,318, In- bound $3,750,000 The number of plane miles in- creased from 33,591 in 1929 to 2,209-( 1209 in 1937. \carried The mail and ireight increased fr om 118,951 pounds in 1929 to 3,184,263 pounds| (Continued rrom Page One) yet the major loss was suffered by the canned salmon industry. The total shipments of fish and fish{ products egated $49,561,300 for the past year, as against $51,971,206| for 1936, or a loss of $2,409,906. Can- ned salmon shipped during 1937 amounted to 316,438,386 pounds at a declared value of $42,026365 as| against 407,619,414 pounds and $46 173,176 in value shipped in 1936. This represents a decrease for this, year as compared with 1936 of| 91,181,028 pounds and $4,146,811 in value. Detailed statistics following in this report, however, show sub- stantial gains in both pounds and values in the following fish and fish| products: Fresh salmon and hali-» but; sable fish; cured salmon; crabs, fish oil Shipments of furs and fur skin: from Alaska in 1937 (exclusive of) sealskins and manufactured mm‘ aggregated $2,323428, which was an increase over 1936 of $360,885. The %faking of beaver skins throughout| Alaska was prohibited in 1937, oth-| €rwise this increase would have | have been aungumented by approxi-| mately $250000, according to pu:l‘ beaver catches. Platinum Future The mining of platinum. particu-| larly in the Goodnews Bay section of Alaska, promises to be un im-| portant future industry of the Ter- ritery. New dredges and drag-line| equipment was added to lnis in- dustry during 1937 but their erec-| tion was not completed in time to| be operated for but only a shortj lime near thé close of the season. Shipments aggregafed 2,377 ounces, at a declared value of $118,3850, were made during the year. However. this office has information tha - | ditional 7,271 ounces, valued £076- 638 was produced during 1937, but statistics regarding its shipment did not reach this office in time to be included in this report, but| will be included in our 1938 report. Passenger travel from the conti-| nental United States and Canada| during the year represented a satis-| factory increase and was probably' due to the placing of better and larger vessels on the Alaska run by/ transportation interests, A total| of 36,043 persons arrived in Alaska during1937, as against 33,653 during| 1836, or an increase of 2,390 persons. Airplane Gains Requests for information concern- ing aeroplane travel within the Ter- Titory indicated a continued inter- lnlsmu of a subcommittee that the ln 1937, Refusal 1o Kt Barred at School Feb, 10—To| that is the| the| PERTH, Scotland, knit, or not to knit— jucstion at the moment for Perthshire Education Committee. | Here's the situation: An eight-| year-old school boy of Cupar An-! gus refused to do knitting as part| of his class instruction. His fta-| ther had instructed him to refuse.| Gravely the committee deliberat- ed this defiance of authority and| \Xpl' 2ld by a vote of 14 to 9 the de- pupil must conform to the school regulations, A dissenting member of the com- mittee called to mind Scotland’s great figure of the past. What | would Robert Bruce, or Wallace or Bobby Burns have said about boys learning to knit at school? He said: “You are making them sissies enough without making them any worse.” The nonknitter is excluded from classes unuil the parent allows him 0 knit, g Ar ol well in Jetferson Davis parish, Louisiana, that accidentally became ignited, shot flames in the air that could be seen at night 50 =% ing that presentation of the Hol- brook award will be made as soon! Ifldlct Mlaflll Mayol‘ as the trophy atrives from the south. . The Reév. O. L. Kendall made pre- i |[sentation of last year’s award to Hallle Rice, representing the Nor- lite Scouts, 1937 winners. Lee Lucas officlated at the open- ing exercises, following which Rev Kendall took charge of the Judgc § were John Keyser, J. A. Par-| ,ldlse, Sherwood Wirt, Dr. W. M Charged with soliciting a bribe from' the Florida Power and Light | company, Mayor Robert R, Wil- | liams of Miami was indicted by a | special grand jury. Two city com- missioners and a rate expert also | were indfcted. Mark Twain Memorial Is “Mark Twain” High ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 10.~A monu- ment to Mark Twain, author, and to Ossip Gabrilowitsch, orchestra leader, has been erected in. Wood~ lawn cemetery by Mrs. Clara Cle- mens Gabrilowitsch, grand-daugh- ter and wife, respectively, of the two! men. The monument, a five and one- half ton shaft of granite, is 12 feet high—or two fathoms—a measute which Mississippi rivermen termed “mark twin” and from which Sam- miles away. ANN EARLY BARR Telephone 723 uel L. Clemens took his pen name. p The Proper Thinning and of the hair is your assurance of a Perfect Permanent. The ROYAL Beauty Salon 115-Second Street BE YOUR LOVELIEST FOR HIM Valentine Day Shaping |ments were served in the Methodist Thirty-Second Annual Ball JUNEAU VOLUNTEER FIRE Music by Wesley Barrett’s MODES of the MOMENT by Adelaide Kerr | i i |Partly cloudy tonight and Friday; moderate to fresh U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICUUTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U, 8. Weather Bureau) Ferecast for Juneau and vicini -, heg'nning at 4 p.m., east Feb. 10: and north- east winds Weather Friday forecast for Southeas Alaska: Partly cloudy tonight and moderate to fresh east and northeast winds except fresh to strong over channels with an east-west direction and fresh to strong northerly over Chatham Strait and Lynn Canal. Fer t of uimh along the Coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Fresh to strong east and northeast winds along the coast from Dixon Entrance to Cape Hinchinbrook LOCAL DATA FRIVOLOUS AND FLATTERING This friveicus white bolero is made of dozens of yards of narrow lace shirred in a scalloped design on white net. It makes an airy top for a black, midseason dinner gown. CHARLES DAZEY DIES AT HOME QUINCY, I, Whitehead, H. B. Humphrey, Cur- tis Shattuck, J. Irvine Noble, Charles G. Burdick, and J. W. Leivers. Skip MacKinnon closed the rally with taps, following which refresh- Sea Scouts. Church parlors by the No Room For Lawvers o LUBBOCK, Tex., Feb, 10. — Pio- neer day :aw praciice in Texas would have been all right if there had been more of it says Judge J. J Feb. 10.—Charles T. Dazey, 82, playwright, whose “In Old Kentucky,” brought him fame, died at his home here last night “In Old Kentucky”’ was the first race track drama ever staged. It required a large cast including a big brass band of picanninies. Dillard, one of the state’s first bar- When the play was taken on the riste: road, over 60 people were in ihe “Arguments weren't settled in cast, including a race horse. The lcourt then,” he explained. “The production was popular on the stage argumentees usually resorted to fists both stock and road, for many or six guns.” year: - DEPARTMENT ELKS’ HALL February 12 Orchestra Iclear, 21; |clear, Time Barometer Temp, Humicity Wind Velocity Weathet 4 pm. yest'y 30.19 16 31 NE 18 Clear 4 am today 80.06 21 23 N 6 Clear Neon' today 2004 2 30 o @loudy RADIO REPORT! TODAY Max. temp. | Lowest 4a.m. 4am. Precip qa.m. Station last 24 hours | temp. temp. velocity 23hrs, Weathe ;:\lk.l 42 36 38 4 7 Pt. Cldy Anchorage 16 -3 0 Barrew 6 -6 6 0 Clear y Nome 2 6 12 10 34 Cloud Bethel 20 20 0 15 Cloudy Fairbanks -4 | S 4 10 ow Dawson -30 44 30 0 02 Snow Paul 36 34 3 12 26 Cloudy tch Harbor 46 38 16 6 01 Cloudy 36 26 30 4 0 Cloudy Cordova = 26 18 20 1 0 Clear Juneau E 16 2 6 0 Clear itks 12 0 Kelchikan 28 16 8 0 Clear | Prince Rupert 34 22 4 Clear Edmonton -12 ~14 6 Snow Seattie 50 38 10 Rain | Portland 44 38 6 Clear San Prancisco 58 48 12 PL. Cldy New York 50 40 38 Clear Washi 62 56 8 02 Cloudy WEATHER CONDITIONS AT 8 A. M. TODAY Seattle (airport), partly cloudy, tempe ure, 36; Blaine, raining, Victoria, raining, 36: "Aleri Bay, sleeting, 80; Bull Harbor, cloudy 31; Triple Island, partly cloudy; Langara, clear, 22; Prinee Rupert p.ll tly eloudy, ; Ketchikan, clear, 16; Craig, clear, 14; Wrangell, clear, clear, Sitka, clear, 19; Socapstone Point, clear, 28; {Hoonah, ; Hawk Inlet, clear, 10; Radidville, clear, 26; Juneau. qk.\g,\xa\ partly cloudy, 3; Cape Hinchinbrook, partly clou- |dy, 17; Cape St. Elias, clear, 26; Cordova, clear, 20: Chitina, clear, -26; MecCarthy, clear, -30; Anchorage. cloudy, -1; Fairbanks, cloudy, -4; Ne- nana, cloudy, -4; Hot Springs, clear Tanana, clear, -20; Ruby, -16; Juneau, Nulato, clear, Feb. 11. — -14; Kaltag, 18; Unalakleét, cloudy, 10 Sunrise,- 7:41 a.m.; sunset, 4:46 p.m. WEATHER SYNOPSIS A low pressure area extended th's morning from lower southeast Alaska along the coast to Califernia with a central pressure of 29.40 inches over the Pacific Ocean west to shfield. -The barometer was high over the Pacific Ocean south of the Alaska Peninsula and from Bering Straits to Hudson’s Bay with the highest reported pressure of 30.64 inches at Mayo, Y.T. Light snow fell from the Seward Peninsula and the lower Kuskokwim River eastward to the upper Yukon River, and locally over Manitoba, Saskatchewan and the interior of British Columbia, and light rain over the Aleutian Islands and Vancouver Island south to central California. Generally fair weather prevailed over the rest of the field of observation. Considerably higher temper- atures were reported from nn'ul\ all Alaskan stations this morni HELD HERE TODAY 1 in the Holy — M Funerd. services were held this afternoon for William B. McPhail, Juneau longshoreman who died fol- lowing the fire in his home here re- cently. Dean C. E. Rice officiated at the service, held at 1:30 o’clock, follow- 5 o'clock yesterday at ean C. E. Trinity Cathedral and Mrs. Wellman Holbrook 1arles Burdick were the 5. Already a well known r of Juneau's youngest set, John Michael is the son of the resi- dent engineer of the Bureau of Pub- lic Roards. ser- Rice and B ng which interment was held in/| Try the Empire classifieds for the Evergreen Cemetery. Members results cf the International Longshore- men’s Association acted as bearers for lhi‘ burial service. BLACKWELL BABY SON BAPTISED YESTERDAY John Michael Blackwell, eleven- month-old son of Mr. and Mrs Vance Blackell of Juneau. was bap- pall- meedicated with throat-soothing ingredients of Vicks VapoRub. © General Electric Hi- Speed Calrod cooking units have made elec- tric cookery faster and far more economical. Clean, intense cook- ing heat is instantly at your command at | the flip of a switch — | and is accurately con- trolled automatically. 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