The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 18, 1938, Page 2

After Easter Savings-- ONE GROUP OF New Spring COATS Now $ 5.0 Your Coat Is Here! AND ONE GROUP OF Daytime Now at DOUBLE YOUR DRESS WARDROBE —AND SAVE!l— Gay prints, boleros. jacket frocks, Slim ope-piecers! ('repes, sheers, Prints,pastels, mavy, black B. M. BEHRENDS CO., Inc. “Juneau’s Leading Department Store PHILLY GETS Man Uses Kemsene UWNiA!RPORT For Wate_raiTvm Die ELMONT, N. Y. April 18.—John Jackson and his friend, John Hec er, both forty-two, were fatally burned because Jackson did the natural thi when an oil lamp on the Kkitchen stove caught fire, He grabbed a pail of “water” and splashed it over the blaze. The pail, however, contained kerosene, not water, and in a moment the house was wrapped in flames. The two men died in a hospital from burns. Take Ufmur . Shoes and Dance DON'T SLEEP WHEN | GAS PRESSES HEART eat or sleep because g you up try Adlerik One do e :l?mmh g “Do this and youll avoid flat ika cleans ou upper nd Jower bowels. Butler-Mauro Drug Co., | feet, weak and enlarged ankles and in Douglas by Guy's Drug Store. udv. | crooked toes,” said Dr. William J. % " | Stickel of Chicago at the conven- Try The Empire classifieds for | tion of the Mid-West Association of results. Chirepodists. A REALLY GOOD BUY this General & Electric WASHER $60.00 PHILADELPHIA, Philadelphia’s drea municipal airport is ing reality From & we swamp, 10,000 Works P s Ad- ministration workmen, aided by $4,- 000 in Federal funds, have con- verted the 200-acre ite ele- phant” that was Hog Island into ily packed landing fi g three million cubic yar without the aid of ma- April 18 having a approach- of fast chinery Mayor S. Davis Wilson recently speeded the work to completion when he started the city's tractors rolling to supplement WPA work- men, now cut down to 350, and forecast opening of the airport to passengers by November 1. CHICAGO, April 18—It might not look quite as graceful, chiropo- dists agree, but it'’s much healthier for ladies to dance the big apple | barefooted ou can't $6.00 DOWN $6.00 A MONTH Why Pay More When This Model AW-201 Will do all your washing? ; SIMPLE TO OPERATE QUIET RUNNING NO GREASIN EA Alaska ElectricLigh't and Power Co. JUNEAU—ALASKA—DOUGLAS o _‘l b 12 to 46. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1938 NEW INDOOR NET STAR IS SHY, DEMURE Virginia Hollinger Explains | P | Success: Psychol- v . » ogy Did It. DAYTON, O., April 18 —The na- tional indoor women'’s tennis cham- pion—shy. demure, red-haived ginia Hollinger—ranks psychology ahead of her net triumphs. Tennis is just a “serious hobby” to this 21-year-old Wittenberg col- lege senior, who learned the game eight yea 20 with a $1.50 rac- juet her father purchased so she could “knock a ball around the yard with her sister.” But frem her psychology studies. Miss Hollinger has developed seme fancy defensive feints d tricks, which she credits witl corrying her to a topflight position among women tennis players. Virtually unheralded when went to New York early this ye the 5-foot, 100-pound Dayton upset all of her oppenents in t indcor championship matches I a flawless defense and a sharp vel- leying attack. The young Vir- DRESSES l/f_,’ Price rl _concentrated or her defensive play in the indoor matches, but her coach-father william P. Hollinger, declares she was developing an offensive game n preparation for the 1938 nationa cutdoor women’s matches., “She didn't use it much in the recent New York tournament Hollinger explains, “because {idn't. have full confidenge in it. T believe that she can be snccessful in her present type of play and I she has an excellent chance at Forest Hills,” The strenuous baseline play, which has mal most of Miss Hollin- matches, does not tire her, her father adds. Miss Hollinger of her success accountant, who was n his younger da mostly with masculine opponents and declar that their hard stylc of play has improved her game. A year after starting to play Hollinger won her first title. a communily championship. She followed it with other triumphs in the midwest and won the K. Browne Lake Erie women's in- vitational towrnament four. years . succession. Somewhat attributes muct to her father a tennis tar She play said “is 8. to | “Modern dancing,” he causing young persons to flock foot doctors.” He explained: “If women dance barcfooted in golf shoes therc would be trouble. But when you modify tive dances like the tango for ball- | rooms the aches begin,” the decto: ->o College Carries On Without Endowment TACOMA, Wash,, April 18.—The College of Puget Sound celebrated its golden jublice this year with a | unique record. It h survived 50 years without ‘an endowment | It has passed through the |eight years with its income al exceeding its budget. The school, which obtains “moral | support from the Methodist Epis- | copal Church, North, has some 1600 students, four buildings and a | 40-acre campus 'FATHERS AND or no na- Mary reticent about dis- her achievements on the , she is planning active campaign in baration national outdoor women’s Forest Hills. N. Y, in cour summer for the matches at the fall. N D Judge Tries to Dismiss All Cases He Can ATHENS, Ga., April 16.—Judge Vincent Matthews of police court had the stripes taken off prisoners at the city stockade. Now he is trying to see how many sases he can dismiss. If he can’t dis- n the charge, he tries to put the offender on probation. ! “My idea,” he explains, “is that the chief aim of police court should be to make good citizens. Give the tellow another chance if you can. “This policy spells the end of the old rock-pile, pick-and-shovel basis for conducting the court.” ————— GOES TO KETCHIKAN Charles Devlin, of Devilin's S8hoe Store, left for Ketchikan aboard the Yukon on a business trip. last AND ‘SONS " WILL HAVE DINNER THURSDAY EVENING The Fathers and Sons banquet of | the Juneau Boy Scouts, will be held ‘Thursday evening at 6:30, at the | Northern Light Presbyterian Church |it was announced today. ' Mrs. Lena Crone will prepare the | dinner. It is expected that approxi- {mately 60 plates will be served. Toby Tries ‘Out Television Taking no chances with their new equipment, ,u‘f‘vfim station, W8XE, easy-ou-the-Jens Toby Wing, of screen and stage, as their in the first test of their newly-designed |transmitting and receiving apparatus. The demonstration was of the nev 441-line method of transmission and was pronounced g success. mob“ Philadelpbia’s ‘New Type of Strong Man i America Facing in Mexico Will Strong Man Cardenas ¢} Mezico be strong cnough to buck the international sttuation created by the expropriation of the Mezican cil induslry? Hcre’s an art that helps you judge, for your by telling just what scrt of a son streng man i Ie U, the By J. P. MCKNIGHT MEXICO CITY, April 18.—Politi- cal know-it-alls wagged heads when Lazaro Cardenas beeame Mexico's president December 1, 1 “He won't last threc some predicted “He will be just another tool for Calles,” said others. They were wron It took the quiet-spoken veteran of revolution, youngest of all Mex- ico’s constitutional presidents, just three weeks to demonstrate that he was running things. Puts Revolution To Work Three years more and he really had put the Mexican revolution to work and seen far-reaching socia periments under way Now, with the fourth year we started, he has fun headlong int by nationalizing months, toreign interests the Mexican oil industry A dark, heavy-set powe with ecrisp black hair and close cropped black moustache, vigor- ous and full of life at 42, the ol dierly executive, who has Indiar as well as Spanish blood in hi veins, contrasts with the traditiona Mexican politician Taciturn, he speaks in a mono tone, uses few oratorical tricks. In personal habit he is almost Spar- tan, He seldom drinks, never smokes Impatient of pomp, he has abol- ished formal dress for official cc casions. He likes the rude life of the country and feels at home witl the villagers. Filees With Prisoner At 11, Cardenas quit the tiny school in his own village of Jiquil- pan, Michoacan, to work in the tax collector's office and help suppori his widowed mother and six broth s and sisters. Later he worked 1r a print shop and served as a tow: jailer. Onz night he ang his single pris- oner slipped away and became sold- iers of the revolution against Huerta At 19 he was a captain of cav lalry, rising steadily then to the 1Lop rank of division general. Hc |got his military experience in the field. Four times he was near death Then came political experience, a: |governor of Michoacan, secretary of interior, president of the National | Revolutionary party and secretary of war. That was the post he let {to run for president, as protege o! Calles. Later, Calles critized him for |a “radical marathon.” For his pains | Calles was exiled. | Cardena’s program, in its essence. |is to help Mexico's 150,00,000 Indian; and Mestizos (half-breeds), the forgotten men of the country, by | “revolutionary” action. His pred- |ecessors had such programs too |largely on. paper. | Since Cardenas came to power, |he has taken over big estates, di- 'vlded them up and distributed tc cqgmmunal farm groups 35,000,000 acres of land. He has built more | than 5,000 schools .He has laid rail- |ways and highways across jungles |and mountains. He has given hun- dreds of villages and towns water and sanitation. His term does not end until 1940 but he has hurried to get every- thing done he can, despite the cost He does not want to leave too muc {to a successor. There’s a constitu- tional provision against his succead- |ing himself, although ‘strong men” | sometimes are urged to disregard it. Even before Cardenas took over | the oil industry, e who approved | | nis general objectives were asking,| |“Isn’'t he going too fast?” Huge government expenditures in | financing the business of giving the| |1and back to the Indians, they said, |had strained - national finances.| 1 max | | | | | 1 | | | | Alaska | Eoutheastern £ven those from Missouri can't challenge the taste of students at ‘Washington university at St. Louis who picked pretty Jane Piou to reign as campus_queen, Anchorage and Fairbanks Get Aero-Radio Setup: Bureau of Air Commerce Agrees to Cooperate, Alaska Commission Aercnautical radio communica- tions will be cstablished at ge and Fairbanks with ins-| allation to be mad2 under the sup- rvision of an engineer from the Bureau of Air Commerce; according | 10 a message today to Gov. John W.| froy from Denis Mulligan, Directar | of Air Commerce Bureau, the Gov-| ernor announced. ng of the Alaska Aero Communications Commission the Governor, Chairman of Commission, urged the establish- ment of such swations on behalf of the Commissicn, suggesting &lso| one at Juneau, purpose of the Com- | mission being to further communi-| cation service between airplanes and ground stations. Approximately $40,- 000 is available for the work. Teday the Governor received the Today the Governor received the uring the construction: “Coneur in your sugcestion plac- nz eeronautical radio communica- | tons stations at Anchorage and| Fairbanks. Plans for housing and | installation being. mailed your ut-‘ tice. Engineer to supervise instal-| lation will be ordered to report at Anchorage and Fairbanks when houses compleied and transmitters received at those points.” American League Seasnn_ls Opened The American League baseball season opened this afternoon and| | Bethel There were expenditures too for ir- tomorrow the major leagues will | rigation, importations of machinery get jn full sway for 1938 with the land biulding material and other| opeping of the National League sea- | | matters. To get riomey, Mexico son, iraised tariffs from 100 to 500 per| Qames this afternoon, in the cent in January, to the discomfort American League, up to press time,| of United States business men. resylted in the following scores: —— | 'Washington 12; Philadelphia 8. “Alaska” by Léster D, H.endomn{ Boston 8; New York 4. U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4 p.m., April 18: Cloudy, probably showers, tonight and Tuesday:; moderate SW winds. Weather forecast for Southeas! Alaska: Cloudy, probably showers, onight and Tuesday; moderate southwest winds, except fresh to | strong over Dixon Entrance, and fresh southerly over Lynn Capa) and Chatham Strait. Forecast of winds along the Coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Fresh to strong sou‘hwest winds tonight and Tuesday from Dixon Entrance to Cape Ommaney and fresh southwest winds from - Cape Ommaney to Cape Hinchinbrook. ¢ i LOCAL DATA Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity 48 51 NE 8 10 90 SE 7 40 74 S 14 RADIO REPORTS TODAY Lowest 4am. 4am, Precip. temp. temp. velocity 23 brs. 36 38 4 166 29 - 0 24 6 0 20 4 01 16 32 Weathes Cloudy Lt. Rain Cloudy Time 4 pm. yest’y t am. today Noon today Max. temp. 1ast 24 hours 40 46 30 40 36 Station Atka Anchorage Nome | Cloiudy . Clondy Cloudy Pi.Cldv 24 20 nks 16 wson 3t. Paul Dutch Harbor Lodiak Cordova Juneau Sitka Ketchikan Prince Rupert Edmonton Seattle Portland San Francisco New York Washington . | R CONDITIONS AT 8 AM: TGDAY ure 43; Blaingifeloudy, 46; Vic Alert Bay, shower Bull Harbor, mistinz, 43; ; Langara Islani, cloudy, 42; Prince Rupert, rain- showers, 44; C-alg, show 43; Wrangell, rain- cloudy, 42; Siika ining, 37; Radioville, "showers, ; Hawk Inlet, sacwing, 40; Juneau, raining, 490; 43; Cape HinchinYrook, clear, 37; Cordova, clear, 3 St. Elias, clear, 40; Chitina, cloudy ; McCarthy, foggy, 30: Anehor- age, clear, 35, Fairbanks, tly clody. 25; Ruby. cloudy, 30; Nulato, cloudy, 26; Kalt snowir 24; Unalakleet, cloudy, 25. Juneau, April 19.--Sunrise, 4:33 a.m.; sunset, 7:21 p.m. WEATHER SYNOPSIS The storm area that was noted Saturday morning as being cen- tered over the Pacific Ocean at latitude 46 degrees and longitude 148 degrees has moved northward dur the past 48 hours, being cen- tered this morning between Dawson and Cordova. Another storm area has developed over the Aleutian Is'ands, the lowest reported pressure in that seetion being 29.04 inches. High barometric pressure prevailed from the West Coast states southwestward to the Hawaiian and Mid- way Islands. Generally fair weather prevailed yesterday over most cf except over the Aleutians and over.the southern portion of Alaska. Precipitation was also reported from Dixon En- trance southward to Oregon. Genorally fair weather prevailed this morning over the northern portion of the Gulf of Alaska and over the Alaska Railroad belt. It was colder last night over th s having been recorded at F 0 Clear bt Rain Cloudy Rain Cloudy Cloudy Rain Cloudy 40 40 48 50 58 50 56 nd, showe ing, 40; Ketcl ing, 41; Peters interior, a temperature of 16 de- anks at 2 am. Georgia’s 22 -Year Drought Ends This picture, taken at Albany, Ga., marks the énd of twenty-two years of prohibition in the state. It shows the first package of liquor being sold under the new law. Georgia has been duy since 1916, L The Kennedys at Home Ambassador Joseph P. K who represents the United States at mmas‘f:&ufiflh&umxflwm-&durg children in the grounds the London Embassy, where Mrs, Kennedy and