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DRESSES Many styles and col- ors to ¢hoose from. Mcther will be de- In all the new spring and sum- mer shades. COATS Why not give mother a new spring coat? Select from many styles. | §15.00 to $35.00 HATS 8 A chic new spring hat is sure to please her. Many colors and l /1 95 to $6.00 SUITS Mother will appre- & spring and Many styles B. M. BEHRENDS CO., inc “Jupeau’s Leading Health Program Will Be Given By Grade School Plays, Songs to Be Pres- ented in Gymnasium Wednesday Representing every class in the Grade School, a health program in keeping with May as the national health month is to be given at 2 p. m. Wednesday in the High School gymnasium where more than a hun- dred students will take part. The public is invited to attend the pro-| gram. Hawaiian May Day songs will be sung by the third grade, directed by Miss Donie Taylor, while the third and fourth grades under Miss Mary Kolasa and Miss Marion Taylor will be seen in the play “Going to Mar- ket.” Miss Cynthia Batson'’s Kind- ergarten children will give a May Pole dance, and the play “Milk Bot- tle Mansion~ is to be presented by the second grade. directed by Miss Velma Bloom. A folk dance featuring first grade students will be directed by Mrs. Iva Tilden and Miss Dalma Hanson, while the “Magic Oat Field,” a skit, will be given by Miss Edward's fourth grade class. Songs will be sung by the ABC Glee Club, with Miss Mabel Monson in charge, and the play, “Class Health Well” is to be presented by the hygiene stud- ents of Miss Margaret Colwell in tHE fifth grade. The Court of Health $100 CASH REWAF t May We Suggest . . Smart Levely THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, MAY 2, 1938 ——Senator—— ———— MANY CHILDRE TAKE PART IN Soiihi MAY DAY EVENT Juneau Weman's Club Sponsors Health, Enter- tainment Program With a erowd that filled Elks’ Hall‘ to capacity, young.Juneau turned out en masse, Saturday afternoon, o partieipate in the second annual day festival held by the Juneau an's Club, under the auspices of the Department of Civic Improve- ment. The affair held this year in collob- oration with the annual Child | Health. Day oservance, was a zala and colorful event, with May Poles to provide the traditional lancing, and program affording a ariety of entertainment. Participating in the event were nembers of the Girl Scouts, who pened: the program with an impres- ive presentation of the colors, the Boy Scouts, who formed a guard of w0nor for the crowning of the queen ‘estivities, and later lent a hand lere and there in scene shifting; »upils of the parochial school, who urnished a short dramatic skit, and 1 vocal trio, the pupils of the Doro- hy Sterns Roff School of the Dance in a group of five delightful num- bers; the Rainbow Girls in a May- sole dance and the winding of the May Pole, and three groups of pupils from the Govermment School, pres- ented in dance and song Enthusiastically applauded were the Hi-Lo Tap Dance featuring Emma Neilson, with Eleanor Wig-| master in the role of a diminutive| “taker-off,” and’ the Rainbow Scarf | 0S19DTY u Juneau No. 1 Juneau No. 2 Juneau No. 3 Bheep Creek | Jualpa Salmon Creek Lynn. Canal Mendenhall Douglas Wacker Saxman Skagway Haines Klukwan Metlakatla Petersburg West Petersburg ‘Wrangell Stikine Ketchikan Bitka Craig Chilkat Scow Bay Pennock Island Kimshan & Douglas Bridge . Klawock Baranof Hydaburg Windham Kake Hoonah Elfin Cove Chichagof Goddard Killisnoo Jamestown Angoon Hyder Funter Agassiz Bell Island Next Sunday, May 8th, #s Moth- a day when all of us ute to the sweetheart of Let us gladden her v a charming gift that gift te. heart w is practical and lovely . he will cherish and appre Select cne at BEHRENDS'. PHOENIX Full-Fashion Sheer HOSIERY $1.00 Calf, Suede and Patent HANDBAGS $3.75 new styles in costume shades. dark and pvely Smart, Kid GLOVES $2.50 SWAN A RS OW N WD - 9 6 0 |l cosaRomrcasownaoRoweom | own f RESULTS OF CONTESTS IN DEMOCRATIC PRIMARIES — FlRST DlVlSION - — Rmptoenhtlvn JPIMYISIISSIN uosIated Brwo crhoRewcouRowwow®e 1079 stylish white nd colors. gloves in Dance presented by Barbara Jaegel, Berniece Flebergsund, - Jacqueline Schmitz Agnes Tubbs, Willane Roff- ind, Gloria Gudbranson, both of | Mrs. H. B. Humphrey, Mrs. J. M. which numbers were contributed by Chase, Mrs. Gunnar Blomgren, Mrs. Mrs. Roff’s pupils. A Chinese num- | Gertrude Lackey, Mrs. John Mar- ber given by Patricia Oakes, and shall, Mrs.. Viva Haviland, Mrs Barbara Reid, a toe dance by Sylvia John Rogers, Mrs. Joseph Kendler, Anderson, and a Sailors Hornpipe, Mrs. Russell Cook, Mrs. Jonn Chap- danced by the Rainbow scarf group Pell, Mrs. Walter G. Hellan, Mrs ugmented by Irene Williams, con- Thomas: Haight, Mrs. C. C. Rula- cluded the group given by Mrs. ford, Mrs. J. J. Klein, Mrs. Reid, Roff’s pupils. |Mrs. Sawyer, Mrs. Nina Cheney, A Butterfly Dance by the Primary Mrs. J. C. Cooper, Mrs. E. E. Rob children of the Goverment School,|ertson, Mrs A. E. Karnes, Mrs. John a sunflower dance by the intermed- | Glasse, Mrs. B. Hunsbedt, Mrs iate girls and a Southern dance by|Claude M. Hirst, Mrs. R. W. Mar- the advanced pupils added to the shall, Mrs. Henry Larson, Mrs. J afternoon. M. Clark, Mrs. Clarence Wise, and A feature of the afternoon was the Mrs. Rita McCaul. coronation of the May Queen. Pre- Mrs,Ray G. Day, president of the ceded by a guard of honor composed Juneau Woman's Club, assisted in by five Boy Scouts in uniform;, two| general arrangements for the entire diminutive pages, played by Diane | Program. Hunsbedt and Carolyn Reeber, and flower girls, Patria Oakes and Flor- % ence Hawkesworth, the Queen, Bar-| | HOSPITAL NoOTEs || Skasva + bara Rands, marched across the long #—==t Hegaes The Catholic Daughters of Amer-|hall to her place on the dias, where| RO0ss Peterson underwent an ap- Klukwan ica, Court of the Little Flower, en-|her ladies’in 'waiting, Paula Kay Pendectomy at St. Ann's Hospital | Metlakatla tertained at breakfast on Commun-{Cook and Carol Karnes, placed the Saturday afternoon and is resting | Petersburg ion Sunday yesterday in the Parish|crown of flowers upon her head. comfortably today. | West Petersburg Hall gathering more than 40 for the| preceeding back across the hall the | > | Wrangell g - | |894 k [ SPECIAL GIFT WRA AND MAILING SERVICE FOR MOTHER'S DAY! Department Store” BREAKFAST IS GIVEN SUNDAY C. D. A. Entertains at Af- air l()”uwmu Com- munion Services Jur No Ju No. 2 Juneau No. 3 Sheep Creek Jualpa Salmon Creek au Mendenbal Douzla J Wacker 4| Saxman occasion which was marked by tiny queen then presented a May| O W. Nostrand, who recently setting of daffodils and blue berry|pasket to E. W. Griffin, Secretary underwent a major operation at blossoms. Bishop A. J. Crimont was speaker at the breakfast, outlining the work of the Catholic DAughters and stat- ing that in view of the outstanding accomplishments of the organiza- tion in Juneau it is hoped that more Courts will- be formed throughout Alaska Mrs. Walter G. gent, was toastmistress for casion, which was one of the standing events sponsored by Court here. committee were Mrs. H. G ley, Mrs. J. Arthur White, E. C. Herron. -~ South Dakota became in 1898 the first state to permit the initiating of legislation by the electorate. will be held as the concluding num- presented by ber on the program, the upper hygiene classes of W. P Hautala, Miss Elma Olson, and Miss Alice Johnson. Hellan, Grand Re- the oc- | out- | the | On the breakfast com- mittee were Mrs. T. J. Jacobsen and | Mrs. A. Goodman, and on the table | Walms- and Mrs. | St. Ann’s Hospital, is Teported to /be improving rapidly. | |~ Mrs. Wharton Mellor underwent ia major operation Saturday night | |at 'St. Ann's Hospital, coming here | {from Sitka. ~She is reported to| be in a satisfactory condition. of Alaska, who was the official rep- resentative from the Governor, A grand march led by Anne Morris as Drum Major, concluded the pro-| gram, and in keeping with the child| health theme, of “milk for health,” each child was presented with a half pint of ‘milk and cookies. The milk was confributed by the Juneau Dair- ies. Mrs. H..8. Graves, Ghairman of the Department of Civie Improve- Mrs. Ralph Fair underwent a major operation this morning at St. Ann's ‘Hospital, after several & days of confinement in the hos-| ment was in general charge of this special event. Assisting Mrs. Graves :‘“w Her. congition is , favorable. were the other members of this de-|" "/ ; R partment, Mrs. Clarence Rands,| Miss Henrietta White, o:l S‘“}x"’fll | Mrs. William T. Mahoney, and M»s. patient, ,Wu dismissed today from J. E. Neate. &4 Ann's Hospital. Other members who assisted. in| " e | making the affair a success were George“m'::-xos n.nc: Gt:r?e JOI:}X‘]- the following committee workers: son, tonsilee my gelen "?m. 6 Mrs. R. R. Hermann, Mrs. J. Wil= Government Hospital, were dismiss- | liams, Mrs, E. M. Richardson, Mrs,|6d vesterdgy. H. L. McDonald, Mrs. ~Katherine %, Sams, Mrs. George LeVecque, Mrs. Virginia Dennis, a surgical pa- Garry Banta, Mrs. Fred Tiedt, Mrs, |tient, was dismissed yesterday from Hussey, Mrs. David Wood, Mrs. H.|St. Ann's Hospital. G. Wilcox, Mrs. O Eikland, Mrs. W. O. Carlson, Mrs. J. Muteh, Mrs. M, L. Mnrs'padden. Mn A. F. Knight. | Kii | Mrs. Gertrude Peters and son| were dismissed yesterday from the | Government Hospital. 4 Thelma Edwards, a medical pa- | tient, was dismissed yesterday from | |/ the Government Hospital. ! Mrs. Ruth Martin and daughter | i ‘lefl fhe Government Hospital - to-| dfly Stikine Ketchikan Sitka Craig Chilkat Scow Bay Pennock Island .| Kimshan Klawock Baranof | | iy | ues | 85 | 899 REPUBLICAN ONTEST—FIRST DIVISION Representatives ———— | | En U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. 8. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginming at 4 p.m., May 2: Ehowers tonight and Tuesday; mocerate southerly winds. Weather forecast for Southeast Alaska: Showers over north por- tions, rain over couth portion, toright and Tuesday; moderate south- o erly winds, except fresh Tuesday over Lynn Canal, Chatham Strait, Clarence Strait, and Dixon Entrance. ¢ Forecast of winds along the Coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Moderate southerly winds tonight from Dixon Entrance to Dry Bay, becoming | frésh Tuesday. From Dry Bay to Cape Hinchinbrook fresh to strong ! southeast winds tonight and Tuesday. LOCAL DATA Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity 29.95 43 86 s 4 30.01 39 93 N 1 20.93 44 66 SE 10 RADIO REPORTS TODAY "4am. Precip velocity 24 hrs. 26 .36 Weathes Lt. Rain Cloud+ Cloudy ’ Time 4 pi. yest'y 4 am. loday Noon today 1am Weather Lt. Snow Max. terap. iast 24 hours i Lowest 4am. mu temp. B4 0 32 36 34 26 32 36 36 36 39 36 40 42 42 42 48 60 54 | 1 S8tation | Atka | Anchorage | Barrow Nome | Bethel | Fairbanks Dawson St. Paul Dutch Harbor Kodiak Cordova Juneau Sitka Ketchikan Prince Rupert Edmonton Erattle Portland San Francisco New York | Washington 30 -2 30 34 32 Clear Clear Clear Cloudy Clear Cloudy . Lt. Rain Lt. Rain . ~Cloudy Cloudy -t - Sclesabon '~ Clear Mod. R. Mod. R. Lt. Rain Lt. Rain Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy 54 58 58 68 0 B ED®O B 0 WEATHFR CONDITIONS AT 8 AM. TODAY Seattle (airport), cloudy, temperature, 43; Blaine, cloudy, 42; Vic- toria, clear, 40; Estavan, clear, 45; Alert Bay, clear, 38; Bull Harbor, partly cloudy; Triple Island, cloudy; Langara Island, cloudy, 40; Prince Rupert, cloudy, 40; Ketchikan, cloudy, 43; Craig, cloudy, 44; Wrangell, partly cloudy, 39; Petersburg, cloudy, 44; Hoonah, clear; Tenakee, cloudy, 50; Sitka, partly cloudy, 43; Soapstone Point, clear, 46; Ra- | dioville, clear, 44; Juneau, sprinkling, 41; Skagway, cloudy, 43; Cape St. Elias, partly cloudy, 40; Cordova, cloudy, 42; Chitina, clear, 40; Mc- ! Ccarthy, partly cloudy, 40; Anchorage, partly cloudy, 40; Fairbanks, partly cloudy, 46; Hot Springs, par.ly cloudy, 40; Ruby, cloudy, 38; Nu- lato, partly cloudy, 48; Kaltag, partly cloudy, 38. Juneau, May 3.—Sunrise, 4:02 am.; sunset, 7:53 p.m. WEATHER SYNOPSIS The barometric pressure was above normal this morning over the Aldskan Arctic coast and from Southeast Alaska southward to Cali- fornia and low over the remainder of Alaska and over the North Pa- cific Ocean, there being a storm area of marked intensity centered over the western portion of the Alaska Peninsula, the lowest reported pres- sure being 28.90 inches over Unimak Bay. This general pressure dis- tribution has been attended by pre:ipitation along the coastal regions * from the Aleutians southeastward to Southeast Alaska and by gen- erally fair weather over the interior, western, and northern portions | of Alaska. The hlf,]l(‘sl lvmpcmturr at I’aubanks vestexday was 54 degrees and FRED MILLIGAN MAY DAY DANGE QUITS MUSHING WELL ATTENDED American Legion Auxiliarys FUR MRPI'ANES Entertains at Affair (Sells Dogs wherdPAA Takes| 1-xoiPJiths. Flall Preceded by a number of infor- ‘ Over Mail Run — Be- | comes Flight Mechanic \ B8 rBwaa 53 Fred Milligan used to mush dogs} ‘and mail, until the airplane came |along and beat him out of a job, but Fred did not bemoan the passing of | {the old and the advent of the new—| he sold his dogs and got a job in the airplane business. Srrame®8 Hydaburg Windham Kake Hoonah Elfin Cove Chichagof Goddard Killisnoo Jamestown Angoon Hyder Funter Agassiz IS E8uvlrvorsora 'S cowBwmmnO o ® W R e ) oo S3&~8Bo I CHARLHNNNHIIRAWNEO WO NG - comBmunumo OO W O D D08 N W R W =T FowShwmro Totals mo | 6% | s | 4w Pop, Pop, Some Kids Are Going to Pop Into Trouble Small, as well as older children, | |are reported peppering milk bot- | tles and window panes out the Gla- cier Highway. The youths are shoot- | ing indiscriminately and causing . much trouble. The authorities have | been notified and trouble for kid- dom is expected unless alr-shooting\ lis giscontinued. 7 1-418TOP HALIBUT Pfllfif SEATTLE, May 2.—Halibut land- | | ings today were as follows: ‘From ‘the western batiks, Pacific, 40,000 pounds, Majestic, 37,000 pounds, “Havana, 40,000 pounds, Mc- Kinley, 40,000 pounds; sélling for an | Milligan flew down from Fair- | banks to Juneau Saturday to take |part in the air mail inauguration ceremonies scheduled for tomorrow. | In 1931, Fred Milligan was mush-, 20 days one way over a tortuous distance of 380 miles. The next year| he was flying over that route with| | Pacific Alaska Airways as a flight 'mechanic—two and one half hours from Fairbanks. For the next five years, Milligan Manager of the Airport at r'anr- ‘banks. The Nenana-Flat run was not Mil- | ligan's only dog-mushing trail. He: used to tun ‘the mail from Tanana to Unalakleet, in the long lap of that marvelous mail-mushing run between Fairbanks and Nome. Horses took the mail from Fair- banks to Tanana, over a seven day trail. At Tanana, Milligan pushed |out behind ‘dogs and sled for 18 days of travel to Unalakleet, and there the mail was transferred to| another dog team for an eight cluy Tun into Nome. ing the mail from Tanana to Fiat,| flew as flight mechanic. He is now| mal parties, the May Day dance of the American Legion Auxiliary as- sembled a large number of Juneau and Douglas residents, Saturday evening, i Elks Hall As a special feature of the ev= | ening, award 'of the cedar chest was | announced, with Miss Margaretc Colwell, Juneau Grade School teach- | er, named as winner. For the second award the numbers 610, 237, and 150 were called respectively. « The Big Apple was danced as a specialty number by ‘Henry Satre and Miss Phyllis Jenne, applauded by the scores of couples in attend- ance. KING TM\!ELS BY LONESOME: Leopold foes o Swiss Mountains on Jaunt by Himself BASLE, Switzerland, May 2. — King Leopold, of Belgium, traveling along in a third class railway com- partment, arrived here Saturday to go mountain climbing. The King refused a police escort and set off alone with a battered knapsack on his back for an un- ® will be given for cerlain information that will lead to the arrest and conviction of a person, or persons, who mutilated Nast 2794 between the hours 29, 1938. Dated: April 30, 1938. rehenswe WHAT YO utomobile Pollcy? \ Brougham automobile license No. of 7:30 and 9:20 P. M., April fi ©INs. GO, N, & ‘This unique policy prohects you against loss of or da.mlze to your ‘car from prnmeally ANY cause, including’ fire and t.hefL It can be secured with or without collision coverm It provides much more protection, yet costs my mflemnrefinnmenndthutmmnnudm SHATTUCK AGENCY NE 249 W. S. PULLEN, Manager, Alaska Electric Light and Power ,Co. average of 7% cents and 6% cents. ‘Loeal ‘banks: Mariner, 14,000, Wireless, 15,000, Woodrow, 15,000, Lane, mit 17,000, Dawn; 10,000. The aver-| | age price was.7 and 6 cents. PRICES ELSEWHERE Prince Rupert landings totalled 7.20 and 5 eents. + Ketchikan buyen peid 6.70 and las0. "*"““i’én'é’%fi"oha The 'American 'Legion Auxillary | Dugout tomérrow night, beginning |at 8 pm. when'" final arrangements \for Poppy Day will be made. A report on the dance given 13,000, Pioneer, 18,000, sum—! meets in regular session ‘at the “That was 33 days, Fairbanks lmmm’“m destinadon. K Nome,” ‘Milligan reminisced today.| “Today we hop a letter over m\mm Yomg three and a half hours by plane.” And Milligan, who has mufihed | more miles perhaps than any zmzn |it used to take days” Milligan will New juneau Amva] Suc- :;el::ng"";'m;‘e‘:“ he admits he is 2 cymbs at St. Ann's Hospital Today in Alaska, does not feel jealous of | Lahm unm | John Young, a new comer in |the advent of the airplane. etk Juheau who has been confined to “It's pretty soft to sit in a warm !St. Ann's Hospital since April 21, gmm by died from pheumoriia. at the hos= |pital at 9 am. today. | Funeral services will b~ snrmunr- |ed later from the Chariws . Car- t.er Mortuary. CHICAGO, Tll, May 2.—Dr. Fran- NOTICE cis E. Townsend, criticized labor | Business meeting of Juneau Wo-, lunions for what he said was their | /man’s Club, 2 p.m. Tuesday, Alaska | “selfish attitude.” The criticism was Electric Light and Power Company |made in an address before the!pummue Townsend Union Club, an AFL ROSE HARRIS, Jaav. * Secretary 121,000 pounds, bringing 7.10 to|plane and get here in minutes when pr group.

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