The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 29, 1938, Page 2

2 P Revival of the Saturday and Monday doz. $1.00 each $1.00 3 for $1.00 5 for $1.00 each $1.00 yard $1.00 yord $1.00 4 yards $1.00 ASH CLOTHS HEE IS—54x90 PILLOW CASES TOWELS CURTAINS—Assorted DAMASK—S0 in. DRAPERY CRASH—0 in. CRETONNES Qac ' E 63x99 ! BOYS' WASH SUITS each $1.00: WOMEN'S GOWNS each $1.00 WOMEN'S COTTON JSPS o) te) each $1.00; 4 for $1.00: 5 for $1.00 BLOU BOYS' SHIRT GIRLS' RAYON [ CHILDREN'S LO ‘N HALF HOSE BOXED STATIONERY WOMEN'S SILK SIERY fel SHORTS >ANTIES NG HOSE 4 for $1.00 ! 2 for $1.00 $1.00 | ,--5., ® = = Q ~ =S !” § = O = & B. M, Behrenéé é&» iH& LA “tuneaus LEADING DEPABIMENLSIQBE«NWM_‘“M the Gastineau Channel district, the soiree marks the combination of a social and musical evening with the original presentation of the Boreas Irio earlier this month, winning \ht appreciation of the audience. Boreas TrioIs to Give Musical on 4 Helen Arlene Parrott, violinist; | Mu“dav Evenlng Edythe Reily Rowe, ’cellist, and| Carol Beery Davis, pianist, com-| pose the trio. Mrs. Rowe is to be - heard as soloist for the occasion Residents from both sides of the| Following the program, in keeping Channel are planning attendance at with the dition commenced at ee, coffe will be ved Rooms of the Lodge. - | for sale at The Empire Office. Try an Empire ad. the first s i the Blue the eoncert of the Boreas Trio to be given Monday evening, beginning at 8:15 o'clock in the Scottish Rite ‘Temple. A new type of musical program in “The Talk of the Town” HEAVY FUEL OIL AND DIESEL OIL BURNERS -q—Sold Exclusively by— mce § Ahlers Co.~Phone 34 RLC LS PAT. OFF CASE LOT AT A REAL SAVING TO YOU.... Announcing "Make Your Dollars Have|\More C, CANNED GOODS IN CASE AND} HALF CASE LOTS OTHER MERCHANDISE, RETAIL FRESH FRUITS and VEGETABLES “MARSHALL ERWIN THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE Old Fashioned BOYS' OVERALLS AND COVERALLS . GIRLS' AND WOMEN'S WASH DRESSES WOMEN'S SMOCKS MESH and FABRIC GLOVES PRINTED SILK PRINTED COTTONS i 4 Wl‘d KNITTING YARN' _5'skéins $1 00 CURTAIN SCRIMS _ “ ' 5 yards'$1, flfl‘ WHITE (,OATING~54 in. wide'yd.'$1, dfl WOMEN'S HANDBAGS _.eéath $l: WOMEN'S BELTS': __etéh’ $1.00° COSTUME JEWELBY iy .,,each $l 00 GIRL'S'SLACKS 'N a SWEATERS) . SE each $l 00 LDREN'SY 10%'WOOL sci $1.00 UNDERWEAR .\ 1Lt ; each $1 .00 CHILDREN'S ONE-PIECE PAJAMAS 120k ... BRIGHF FLOWERS: . ooc. each $l.00 eqch swo CHI _each $1.00 _each $1.00 piiii II 4N W‘v .\.1., | prrsry program he | Sirthday Pasty AMARTLL& Tex., April 2914 The't I greatest tree planting program the Bmhdky Pflfly hssen)b'les United States soil conservation ser-| Large Cl’UWd from )u_ vice has attempted and perhaps the ! . | greatest in the history of the na-{ . neau and Douglas | | tion is underway. More than 150,000,000 trees and! | shrubs are to be planted, about | one-half of them in- the: semi-arid | | plains of ‘the “dust bowl” country: | H. H. Finnell, regional soil con- | servation director, ' said experi ‘ments have indicated trees ' will {grow in the semi-arid regions. 3 E v g | despite the fact that many farmers,m::‘aa;':;mg‘ Faiie of fne gl fonee thought b was & "hOPElesS| sqnteq fwith a 25 year jewel by Carl | [ Ihe trees are useful as wind| Lindstrom, Douglas Noble Grand.| % Ahd G i In the gn\'vrn-lThc Rebekah drill team took an| % important part 'in the evening's| ust sto EAR ¢ “’h‘_snlm s ; s program, led by Mrs. Nadja Ves-| | Lode and placer location moticet | 12l il master. | 1o PRy - Charles' W. Carter, genial © Odd {for. sal it mpint QFtie. Fellow leader, was toastmaster, and | explained the Odd Fellow symbol- | ism represented in the large birth- day cake. Daneing concluded the evening. H. Vaughn Callow, Juncau Noble Grand, and Carl Lindstrom, Doug- las Noble Grand, were in charge of the, program which eelebrated thc; 119th gnpiversary of the Iodl,e | “ S B DENIS PARENT IS VERY MUCH ALIVE Fairbanks friends of Denis Par- ent are ‘joking him about being “raised from the dead,” says the News-Miner. Mr. Parent came from his road- house and trading post at Crooked| Creek to Fairbanks last week to file| a second application for citizenship, but he discovered at the office of the clerk of the court that he was listed as “deceased” after he failed to complete the requirements of his first application. Erased from the dead list, Mr.| Parent now jocosely says he:is en-{ joying ‘second’'ehildhood.” i Sixty-three years old, he has lived | in Alaska since 1909, and has al 4 family of grown-up children at Crooked Creek. His roadhouse is re-| [ sarded by m. ny travelers as the best| in the whole Kuskokwim country. i His large garden at the peak of cul- tivation in summer time, is one of One hundred and fifty members and friends took part in the anni- versary eelebration of the Odd Fei- | lows lodge last night, when danc- ing, entertainment,-and birthday re- freshments added ‘to the gala event in the I.O.O.F. Hall. 240 FRANKLIN ST. 5" t Rain tonight, and i tor strong tonight over Lynn Canal | barometrie | degrees. | eastward to the northern portion of British Columbia, and by |47 d(‘grt' |the fine sights of the Northland | FRIDAY APRIL 29, 1938. U 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGR.(CU'LTUEE WEATHLR BbREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4 p.m., Rain tonight and Saturday; Weather forecast for Southeast Alask. aturday; moderate sout and Showers tonight April 29: moderate southerly winds por the northern portion fresh winds, except Strait and orly tham Saturd For the southern portion; moderate southerly winds, except fresh tonight over Dixon Entr and Clarence Strait. Forecast of winds along the Coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Fresh !southerly winds tonight and Saturday from Dixon Entrance to Diy Bay, and fresh to strong southeast winds from Dry Bay to Cape Hin- "Iun')runl. LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp Humidity Wind Velocity ~Weathes 4 pam. yest'y 2069 42 86 SE 12 Lt Rain 4 am. today 2090 40 83 SE 13 Lt.Rain Noon today 3006 41 86 SE 12 Lt Rain b RADIO REPORTS TODAY Max. temp. Low:st 4am. 4am. Precip. qam Station last 24 hours | temp. temp. velocity 24 brs. Weathe) Atka 38 34 3 12 15 Snow Anchorage 49 35 - = Barrow 0 -4 -4 18 0 Pty Nome 44 | 26 26 6 0 Clear Bethel 52 | 28 30 4 0 Olen: Fairbanks 56 | 32 32 4 0 Clear Dawson 50 | 26 26 8 0 Clear st. Paul 36 | 28 30 18 01 Cloud Duteh Harbor 42 | 36 36 8 01 Cloudy Kodiak 40 36 38 12 22 Rain Cordova 42 | 34 36 18 244 Rain Juneau 43 | 39 0 13 a5 Rain Sitka 48 37 - - 93 Ketchikan 48 | 40 40 4 50 Cloudy Prince Rupert 46 [ 38 40 10 60 Pt.Cldy Edmonton 70 | a4 46 6 0 Cloudy tle 4 52 52 4 0 Clear land 74 52 52 6 0 Clear san Francisco 54 50 50 0 19 Cloud New York 8 62 62 10 0 Cloudy Wacshington 86 62 68 4 0 Cloudy WEATHFR CONDITIONS AT 8 AM. TODAY Seattle (airport), partly cloudy, tem ., 60; Blaine, clear, 41 Vietoria, partly cloudy, 47; Alert Bay, cloudy, 42; Bull Harbor, clea 38; Triple Island, partly cloudy; I cloudy, 43; Prince Rup sprinkling, 42; Ketchikan, show Craig, showers, 44; Wrangell, cloudy, 42; Petersburg, cloudy, 41; Tenakee, cloudy, 39; Hoonah, rain- ing, 42; Stika, cloudy 40; Soapstone Point, raining, 40; Radioville, chowers, 44; Juneau, raining, 40; Skagway, cloudy, 41; Cape Hinchin- brook, raining, 40; Cape St. Elias, raining, 38; Cordova, rain and snow 35; Chitina, cloudy, 38; Mcf thy, cloudy, 40; Anch cloudy, 37; Fairbanks, partly cloudy, 4 Ruby, clear, 36; Nulato, clear, 40; Nen- ana clear, 40; Hot Springs, clear, 44 April 30.—Sunrise, 4:10 am.; sunset, 7:46 p.m WEATHER SYNOPSIS centered over the North Pacific Ocean yesterday morning between Kodiak and Dutch Harbor has moved in- land to the vicinity of THamna Lake, decreasing in intensity with its passage inland, the lowest reported pressure this morning being 20.00 inches. The storm area will continue to decrease in intensity. High pressure prevailed from Petersburg southward to Oregon, thence southwestward to the Hawailan Iclands, the crest being 3032 inches over the Pacific Ocean at latitude 46 degrees and longitude 140 This general pressure distribution has been attended by pre- cipitation along the coastal regions from the Aleutian Islands outh- general'y Juneau 'Fhe stcrm area that was fair weather over the remainder of the field of observation It was cooler last night over the interior and western portions of Alaska. The highest temperature at Fairbanks y was 56 de- grees, at 2 a.m. today the temperalure was 32 degret and at 8 am Few 1o Watch Eclipse of Sun Near Antarctic By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE AP Science Editor the Antaretic circle, due north a short distance then begin curving back like the water shot up from a hose on one | side of the street, that falls on the cpposite sidewalk. It drops down again to the Ant- arctic circle where it ends at sun- set. The total path is unusually short, even though it covers the set. The brevity is due to the fact that the shadow falls on the end of the earth where the speed of revolution on the axis is slow. NEW YORK, April 29.—Lonely | residents of the South Georgia and South Orkney islands — fishermen and weather observers—don't havrw much fun, but they will have .n‘ practical monopoly on the fun of seeing a total eclipse of the sun May 29. | On that day the moon's shadow will trace a path Burved like a| magnet across the far South At- lantic oeean. ¥t vull bégin inside | OO s ot Starting SUNDAY at the COLISEUM Juneau’s ,};_2@3 WHY NOT PUT IN ANOTHER BATHROOM? . .. or a Third bathroom. A modern household calls for a private bathroom for guests or for the semsible conven- ience of the family. A i Tt saves annoyance to have a servants’ bathroom. The cost for this need not be great. We have Jatest in bathroom conveniences, luxuries, istic fixtures. The bathroom sheuld smartly up-to-date room in your ho mate the cost of putting another bathrgom house. You Can Easily Finance That New Bathroom Now Under An FHA Modernization Loan. Pay oif acgaovd,mg 09 yourfconveryenw—ASK Us! travel almost| and | distance between sunrise and sun-| “PUPMBBILE" in on the Kougarok placers this summe: hich area is tapped from Eunker Hi and expectations for ireightin: over the railroad this We'll be pulling tank cars over the road this summer for the first time,” Powell said The oil will be taken in to Bunker Hill and ‘tractored” over the tundra operations on the Kou- to mining 0. M. Powell, Operator of =arok : ) . « Mrs. Powell, who joins Mr. Powell Nome's Unique Rail | cvery summer'in Nome, is in Seattle, Linc GOCS lhrough where the couple spend the winter ey and will be coming north soon, Mr. O. M. Powell, of Nome, operator of Powell said. ad i Alaska’s oldest and most unique | railroad, stopped at the Gastineau o ARMY ENGINEERS' o i fuees w5 " GOING TO NOME Powell owns the rolling stock on the Seward Peninsula Tramway, _ Lieut. Col H. J. Wi and James an unincorporated railroad, ~The 1MUitt, of the U. S. Army Bugineer- Territory of Alaska owns the road, N8 Corps. will be in Fairbanks in the Federal Government pays for|July. en route to Nome, to supervise its upkeep along its 85 miles of construction of the new jetties and Federal Building there this season. length from Nome to Bunker Hill and Powell owns and operates the COl Wild and Mr. Truitt made the gas car trains. preliminary examination of the site “Pupmobile?” asked Powell. “No, of the proposed Chena flood con- trol project at Fairbanks summer before last, and it is surmised they may look further into the matter when there in July. The U. S. Army only one dog team pulled a car over the road last summer. We have an eight wheeled locomotive for our best piece of rolling equipment, and we make a round trip a day.” mendetl construction of the project, Powell has been in the Nome country since 1900 when the “Pup- Put funds have not yet been appro- mobile Railroad” was first builg|Priated. The road fell inio disuse, and then et ye—— p rehabilitated and the LONDON, April %—Thé Countess ngement mac> with of Carrick, formerly Marion C. Ed- the Government. Powell, who used WArds of Philadelphia, today granted a preliminary divorce de- to operate gold dredges, turned to his first love—locomotive engineer- ing ‘It runs in the family,” he con- fessed at the Ga 1 Hotel this morning. “My fathe d my uncles were all engineers, and I was raised a railroader. We not have the biggest road in the world up there, but we carry a lot of tonnage.” There are three employees on the “farthest north rail line” and Powell himself operates the big eight- wheeled gas car locomotive. Powell said two new dredges and a dragline are expected to be put| 24 flHIIIIIII[H_Il!lll_l|!IIIH!IlIIlIIIllIIIIIllIIIIIIIiliIIIilIilllImlliIIllllllllllllllllllllliil SATURDAY and MONDAY at “The Modern Pure Foods Store” CALIFORNIA GROCERY LYNDEN CHICKEN and Noodle Soup — 4 tins 45c HIEARTaOF-FLOR:DA Grapefruit — NO. 2 ('ANS crec at the Lewes, Sussex, assizes on grounds of the Earl's misconduct with Miss Phyllis Teague of London. The thirty-four-year-old noble- man, scion of an ancient Irish fam- ily and friend of the Duke of Wind- sor, did not contest the suit. e NOTICE TO MOTORISTS Parking of cars is prohibited on Sixth St. between Seward and Main during construetion. 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