The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 19, 1938, Page 2

3 “Juneau’s Leading Department Store” Your Coat Is Here! Daytime Now at DOUBLE YOUR Gay prints, boleros, Slim one-piecers Crepes, sheers. STEPHEN EARL FUNERAL TODAY The funeral ol Pel ephen EaEarly, wellknown Gastineau resi- dent who died last week on the Taku River, was held at 2 pm. today at the Charles W. Carter Mortuary, with the Rev. W. G. La Va ficiating. Interment was in the Douglas cemetery Pallbearers were W. C. White, August Colbey, C. H. Groves, Bert Berthold, Eric Conn, and Chester Woman, 84, Runs Her Own Grocery WEYMOUTH, Mass., April 19.— Claiming her inabilit to jump or climb as high as I used to” because of lack of practice, Mrs, Sophia Matilda Orcott, who recently cele- brated her eighty-tfourth birthday, is probably the oldest store owner and keeper in the coun Working a twelve-hour, seven-day shift, Mrs. Orcutt believes the world would be much better off if all well old people had a job. SURPRISE DINNER | FOR FRANCES PAUL Frances Honoring Paul on her fourtcenth birthday, school mate| of her daughters, Mrs. Russell Clith- ero entertained a small group of Saturds ening at a surprise dinher, with Easter decorations | forming a background. After the din- ner most of the guests attended the| meeting of the Rainbow Girls girls Those present were Dorothy Fors, Isabe! Parson lvia Davis, Betty Rice, Laura Jean and Gordon Clith- ero, and the guest of honor - - Boy Hangs by Toes To SavefiHAis Friend SACRAMENTO, April 19.—Be- cause fourteen- old Colin Lewls of Modesto can hang by his toes, Bobby Harmon, fourteen, is alive today. The two boys were playing near a cement tank, containing several feet of water when Bobby toppled | over backwards, fracturing his knee ar- | cap, With the aid of a two-by-four plank and hanging suspended by | his toes, Colin pulled Bobby out . ‘HA ':D-ME-DOWN‘ from wife of Danlel Webster, early U. 8. i u.lk toq'“ famous old h omes ~ historic value—is owned nicely Miss a., where preparations Lorraine Littlefield who modeled are being made for a and buildings. The gown—rich in by Mas. Fitzhugh Talman. ONE GROUP OF New Spring COATS Now sl‘s;(m AND ONE GROUP OF DRESS WARDROBE ——AND SAVE!— jacket frocks, Prints, pastels, navy, black———12 {o 46. B. M. BEHRENDS CO., Inc. s Price 1 NEW YORK, April 18.~It's a mat- ter of form, in more ways than one, just what milady should wear on the beach, and, since the season is| about to start it seems fitting that this matter should be given | some consideration. | There are several angles to be considered. Especially if said angles belong to a comely blonde. What 1} had in mind, though, before allow-| ing the fancy to drift on the .\nh-‘ ject, was the problem confronting those whose duty it is to rule just| what goes and how much shows. 8ilk worms aren’t going to have to work overtime this year, judg 4 ing by previews of beach styles. Grand Officers ND:tHat' the dusigna of labt season = taxed the imagination unduly; bus Replacing the regular feature to- some of the more extreme new night at the Capitol Theatre; the models are so streamlined they prac- Rainbow Girls will sponsor “There tically float way—or would if a Goes the Groom, starring Ann young lady wore them into the Sothern and Burgess Meredith. | water. Funds raised from this affair will. It seems hardly fair that any one be used to enfertain the Grand Of- committee should be burdened with ficers of the Washington Chapter of deciding what standards of deco- Rainbow Girls, who are expected rum should govern beach wear Lo visit in Juneau this coming sum- What if they try to be liberal and mer. let slip by some daring design Miss. Kathryn. Torkelson, Miss which would give the life guards Mildred Webster, Miss Lagette stiff necks and perhaps result in SPONSOR SHOW Funds Raisefiill Be Used to Help Entertain Shearer, and Miss Edithbelle Heller some unfortunate drowning? Or will serve as ushers. they might, in reactionary mood, The show will begin at 7:30 o'clock 80 to such lengths of modesty in and will be given at popular prices. | their decrees that the beaches R g e | would be deserted and more than : one resort owner go bankrupt as a TrappersGet = 3 No longer is it simply a manner ¢ O3 ¢ 7 of donning something designed to Year Each fur {adequately cover a person and yet |stand up under water treatment. - % 5 ik | Today a beach outfit is almost a Al . | wardrobe in itself. A bathing suit ame I“a u is only incidental—although still | rather. necessary—to a smart sum- & — i | mer resort ensemble. The modern g 3 3 .| maid must have slacks, robe, sun Pfl“ n KUSkOk“:“!‘ Sald toi‘honnet‘ swim cap, beach sandals, Have Been Killing and |ba for accessories, sun blanket. in T d ith Aband | shade and design matching the rest rapping wit andon (of the outfit and various other | items. Two trappers, D. E. Block, 42,| Bronze Suits Shown! and R. W. Dunkin, 28, have been ar-, One of the smart new numbers rested on their 100-mile trap line|js, appropriately enough, made in the Swift, Stony and Holitna riy-| from a material called “blister ers_country in the. Kuskokwim for crepe.” Probably the idea behind the game violatigns and sentenced. tO;na;ne is that after the first couple| one year in jail by U, S..Commis- sunbaths of the season, it will be| sioner Widman at MeGrath,, ac-|impossible to tell whether it's blis- cording to word to the Alaska Game ter crepe or blistered epidermis. | Compmission from Warden = Sam| That isn’t the only new material White of Fairbanks, who.flew into on the market, however, Swim the region with Warden, Jack Ben- suits are being shown which have son and apprehended the offendexs. been fabricated frem glass, rubber, White reported that so flagrant newsprint ahd even bronze! I were the violations. of .the two men haven’t seen any of these bronze that the residents of McGrath, were creations, but it strikes one that it aroused over it, They were found| might be a bit awkward to arrive| guilty of illegal trapping, illegal|at the beach and find that a most| killing of game, out of,season and | necessary rivet was missing! | possession. of .illegal ;meat. There seems to be only one thing | ;A cow moose with calf which had the stylists have overlooked in| been shot was part of the evidence creating their fashions for the ! used against the men, White said, forthcoming beach season. There in reporting that the trappers had are suits for lounging, sports wear, been killing mgose = regardless of tea on the beach, sunbathing and season or sex and feeding their dogs Promenading. But apparently they with the meat. Some poisop also have neglected to design any for was_found at their headquarters swimming. Certainly there must cabin, he said., . . be one or two girls left who are iy Z————— cld-fashioned enough to want {o Y J actually go in the water. For oduna c“mus In these apparently there is no hope| * " ven | unless they resort to the old swim- | 5% s 4 i 4, 4o ¢/ Ming hole and go their sisters one! ; wlln mfi 85 | better by, adopting a style a littie| r ,more streamlined than ever! $.4 b lgas T TR T s The Heightér Oduna brought HOME ECONOMIST powder and coal and gengral cargo GIVES RADIO TALK to Gastineau Chanpel M rs. Florence Syverud, District Home Demonstration Agent, . will Ix;clude& ip the déck cafgo qeré speak o;/er Station K}lNY Lk.fls after- steam shovels, caterpillats, apd a :x;‘)o B, fram 5. to BN dREETa raflroad car for the Alaska .{gau- 2 Iegular Tuesday progimm. g ThRR the Juneau Woman's Club. Mrs, | Syverud’s topic will be, “Balancing k!.he Budget.” —————— ] Today’s News Today.—Empire. | turned MISS ALASKA FLYING HOME Found Circus More to See than Movie Actors in California Somewherc around five foot twc yes, and eyes of blue, 17-year-old jrace Bailey, Miss Alaska, has re- to Alaska after a tour of California’s bright spots, and the circus she saw in California macde more impression on her than movie actors She saw Robert Montgomery anc wouldn’t say whether she likes him or not. She sat next to Barbava Stanwyck in the Coconut Grove and she met a list of film notables that would reach over the end of the desk, but it was the circus that made the hit. ers have to face grumpy men and babbling publi- city hounds and it is disconcerting enough to have to face a cute lit- tle blonde with the litle “Queen when she is dolled up in a dazzling white parka. Hard enough, yes, but throw in' three pretty girls and three dazz- ling parkas, and that another thing. In the lobby of the Gastineau Ho- tel this morning there was no ask- ing of coherent questions, for Miss Alaska was accompanied by last year's Miss Alaska, Marguerite Lee, of Nome, and Mrs. Zelma Frizell sister of Joe Crosson, all of them with parkas and all of them attrac- tive, They said the parkas “made a big hit” in California, and they were not too warm—but pleasing to Ala: kan ears, they are “glad to be back.” Miss Bailey flies to Fairbanks with PAA tomorrow morning, Ma1- guerite Lee flies in from Valdez, and Mrs. Frizzel goes to Seward with her husband, who “sort of tagged along as entourage.” >+ — - New Maid Cleans Out $4200 Lo CHICAGO, April 19—Using the noise of a vacuum cleaner as cover while her mistress was occupied on the telephone, a new Negro maid with excellent references fled with $4,200 worth of jewelry and stocks belonging to Mys. Clara Narrod, 425 Surf Street. From a strong box the maid took $200, jewelry worth $2,000 and stocks of the same value, - e - 1 Move Makes Many ABERDEEN, Wash., April 19, — When William A. Hiller moved away, is | Aberdeen hegan looking for board members.. Hiller resigned as a member of (1) the school board, (2) the junior college board, (3) the boy scout board, (4) the Red Cross board, and (5) the annual funds drive board of the Salva- tion Army. e ———— WARRACK RETURNS J. B. Warrack, of the J. B. War- rack Company, arrived in Juneau aboard the Aleutian from Seattle. ‘New Streamlined 1938 Bathing Suits Reveal Several I nteresting Angles Modern model DAVIS NAMED ON TVA PROBE WASHINGTON, April 19-—Vice President Garner today announced the appointment of Senator James J. Davis of Pennsylvania as a mem- ber of the Joint Conzressional Com- mittee to investigate the TVA. It was indicated that Davis would accept the appointment. He would fili the vacancy on the committee caused by the refusal of Senator Capper of Kansas to serve. He Loves Her, So Givesfie_r Smack 10. — “It's NEW YORK, April spring and I love her,” explained Hyman Seidorf, twenty, as police asked him why he had smacked Miss Ida Sherman, seventeen, in the eye. ALASKA'S SMQH W’S’i‘RY is i:d'nfi'niuing its new role —in teaching U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU (By the U. 8. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4 p.m., April 19: Partly cloudy to cloudy, possibly local showers, tonight and Wednes- day; light to moderate variable winds, mostly southwest. LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp Humidily Wind Velocity Weathes 4 pm. yest'y 2091 39 67 w 3 Lt. Snow 4 am. today .25 37 86 s 3 Cloudy Noon today 30.29 43 69 SE 12 Cloudy RADIO REPORTS | TODAY Max. temp. | Lowest 4a.m. 4am. Preclp. 4am. Station last 24 hours | temp. temp. velocity 24 hrs. Weather Atka 42 | 36 38 8 10 Lt. Rain Anchorage 51 | 28 — - 0 Barrow -8 s s g 3 e Nome 28 14 4 < o Clear Bethel 40 26 4 0 Clear Fairbanks 36 24 10 03 Cloudy | Dawson 34 18 0 08 Clear ‘SL Paul 32 10 1 Cloudy | Dutch Harbor 44 38 8 04 Cloudy | Kodiak 46 38 12 b4 Cloudy Cordova 48 36 6 T Cloudy | Juneau 11 k 39 2 Cloudy | Sitka ® 33 42 Ketchikan 14 24 34 - 09 Cloudy Prince Rupert 44 34 36 4 14 PtL.Cldy Edmonton 54 | 38 34 8 .08 Cloudy Seattle 58 | 46 46 12 01 Cloudy Portland 58 42 42 6 01 Clear San Francisco 76 54 54 4 0 Pt Cldy New York 66 | 56 58 20 102 Pt.Cldy Washington 72 54 60 6 05 Clear WEATHFR CONDITIONS AT 8 AM. TODAY Seattle (airport), cloudy, temperature 46; Biaine, cloudy, 46; Vic- toria, cloudy, 45; Alert Bay, showers, 36; Bull Harbor, cloudy, 43; Triple Island, showers; Langara Island, c Ketchikan, partly cloudy, 38; Craig Petersburg, cloudy, 42; Sitka, cloug stonie Point, raining, 39; Hoonah, ar, 50; Juneau, raining, B 3 way, cloudy, 30; Cape HinchinbrooXk, raining 38; St. Elias clondy 41; Cordova raining, 37; Chitina, partly cloudy, 36; McCarthy, partly clou- dy, 30; Anchorage, cloudy, 34; Fairbanks, snowing, 24; Hot Spring partly cloudy, 13; Tanana, partly cioudy, 12; Ruby, cl 9; Nulato, clear, 14; Kaltag, clear, 10; Unalak'eet, clear, 20. Juneau, April 20.—Sunrise, 4:37 a.m.; sunset, 7:23 p.m. WEATHER SYNOPSIS The barometric pressure was above normal this morning over the eastern and southern portions of Alaska, also over the Mackenzie Vai- ley and over the northeastern portion of the North Pacific Ocean, there being two crests, one over the facific Ocean about, 400 miles west of Seattle, and the second crest was at Aklavik. Low pressure prevailed over the Aleutians, the lowvest reported pressure being 29.14 inches near Atka. Showers were reported over portions of Southeast Alaska and over Vancouver Island, and from the Aleutians eastward to the northern portion of the Gulf of Alaska. Light snow was re- ported last night and this morning at Fairbanks. Cool weather continued last nizht over the Yukon and Tanana valleys, the temperatures at 2 am. b2ing 24 degrees at Fairbanks and 176 degrees at Dawson. ‘”"(lke War dy, 41; Prince Rupert, cloudy, 38; cloudy, 41; Wrangell, cloudy, 40; 39; Radioville, raining, 41; Soap- Lying to Police Ruleg [ln Crime | i BARNWELL, S.C., April 19 JERSEY CITY, N.J., April 19. — | Farmers in this section say coun- Common Pleas Judge Meaney ruled | try mice are just as bad as their yesterday that although “lying to|city cousins, maybe worse. a Hoboken cop may be a dreadful| One kind eats melon, cantaioupe thing,” it does not constitute a vio- | and cucumber seed in the field be- lation of any section of the New fore they can spout. Another breed Jersey disorderly persons act. ‘ cut off the growing plants and cause Accordingly the judge set aside!the farmers no end of trouble. the conviction of Frank Pasquale, The best remedy so far found is of Hoboken, convicted last August of | a poison mixed with cane syrup. having ‘“lied” to the Hoboken police | It is used on old melon seed grain, by informing them his car had been | peanuts or small pieces of cheese stolen and disclaiming ownership of 'l and scattered around where the seme 200 lottery slips found in the mice will eat it instead of the car when it was recovered. planted seed. > i \ U. S. housewives a greater appreciation of Canned Salmon’s importance in their menu-planning. This year, through more than 143 ‘million salmon selling messages in national magazines alone, the Industry is tell- ing women in the Statés how Canned Salmon helps them prepare more sumptuous meals at a saving. In this way, the packers are working to keep Canned Salmon ahead of competition from cheaper fish, and to help main- tain better times for e Territory. 1