The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 17, 1938, Page 2

Reefers and . ... Dressy Swaggers Tailored . . Crepe All Expertly Lined Gay New Prinis Jacket Frocks . . Bolero B. ¥. BEHRENDS €9, Inc. I L Juneau's Leadir Department Store E.T. STOTESBURY . STRICKEN WHILE - DRIVING TO HOME 1g enterprises in that ci f painting and of ke i had one of the la galleries in America at his one time mansion on Walnut Stree - — Philadelphia Internation a”y Known His donations to charity and pub- e Y ] lic movements were generous and Banker Dies Suddenly— | oered a wide range in character. Distinguished Career For many years Mr. Stotesbury's : principal diversion was the rearing Coninian 8o Bive One) of thoroughbred horses on his farm — at “Wingo,” Chestnut Hill, a suburb of Philadelphia. blooded stock, him more than to take a spin kb He was a lover special ctivities, and contributed to its civic and intellectual dev 3 opment. A liberal patron of music, \us inferest’ in the art campelled %y ik amie champion trotting mare, | owned. WAKE UP YOUR LIVER BILE — Heads Horse Show Mr dent Stotesbury served of the as pre k Witheut Calomei — And You'll Jump Out of Bed Full of Vim and | tion. February 26, 1849, and made and on January 1, mitted to partnership Drexels. r the name tiie red packe G, Price: 256, with QRAYBAR ELECTRIC SEWING MACHINES Home sewing comes back during these hard times. Let GFAYBAR help with this chore INVESTIGATE THESE FEATURES Full Size Rotary Head, i Powerful Built-in Motor: venient Builtin Light. g active Cabinets. ! Year-round Service. ! Easy Payment Plan. s mAL TRADE-IN ALLOWANCE C LIGHT & POWER CO. G e A e 50 him to assume the indebtedness of the yndicate to purc merstein’s A lover art Philadelphia Grand Opera Com- and led to the formation of ase Oscar Ham- works of owned a valuable collection, of and nothing pleased hind Sweet Marie, one time world's which he | suavest, In 1874 he married Frances Berg- man Butcher of Philddelphia. She died many years ago. They had two' daughters, Edith L., wife of Sidney | . Hutchinson, and Franci: R, wife of J. Kearsley Mitchell. On January | 18, 1912, Mr. Stotesbury married » |Eva Roberts Cromwell, widow of Oliver Eaton Cromwell of New t, | York and daughter of John H. Rob- erts of Washington Known Abroad During the later years of his life, | Mr. Stotesbury probably came in contact in a greater variety of ways with Philadelphia interest: than any man of his day. Probably | no Philadelphian was as widely known throughout the nation and | abroad. The fortune which he built up| during more than a half century of uninterrupted activity “in the | financial field is a subject largely |of conjecture. He was popularly | |regarded as the richest Philadel- i- | phian, but it was not upon the| National Horse Show 'strength of any intimation drop- 1 S of America, Ltd., and was American ped by him that estimates of his | representative at the International wealth began Horse Show, Olympic Meet, London, | soared to double and triple that! in 1908, as well as honorary presi- |total. dent of the Road Driver’s Ab.,ocm-\ at $25,000,000 and D He was born in Philadelphia omJUNEAU COUPLE IS his | home there throughout his life. He | started business at the age of 17, 1882, was ad- the LICENSED TO WED| | i ! A marriage license was issued this| | afternoon to George Homer White,| son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert White of | Juneau, and Miss Roberta Wood-| house, Juneau girl e e YURMAN RETU ING H. Yurman, wellknown furrier of Juneau, is returning to this city aboard the Baranof which left Se- attle this morning, He has been south on a business trip. - e TO VALDEZ Mrs. J. M. Regan, wife ot a Lepu- ty U. 8. Marshal at Valdez, is a pas- senger oh the Alaska. - VETERAN FUR BUYER O. Swenson, veteran fur biyer of Seattle, who has been miaking trips | for many years, was a passenger | through Jiineau oni the Alaska thi§ morning. Swenson will buy beaver and othet sking in the lower Kuskokwim-Yu- | kon country. He is not going to Si- | beria. Swenson is remembered most for the heroic winter spent by his ves: | sel, Nanuk, when that craff was [ i beria, Swenson was flown to the | mainland from the ship by Col.! | carl Ben Elelson, just before thal | famed pilot’s last flight. | There is money in furs in Siberia, [ but Swenson has no more urge to |20 to Russla, “The Soviet Governmeht Won't Tet | you operate eéxcept under contract, | and then they take the cream of the | profit away from you. Thére’s too | mueh red tape and it isn't worth | the effort any moke.” |1ast fur trip to Sibetia. Today he s 'lookm: forward to this year “and many more” ifi AlaSka. ON ALASKA, WEST BOUND{}, |to the Alaskah and Siberian Arctic| frozen in thé ice of East Cape, Si-| ‘ Six yedrs ago Swerison made his| By, ROBBYN COONS | HOLLYWOOD, May 17. — Right up in the “Snow White” class for popular appeal should_ go “The Ad- ventures of Robin How a film to delight all ages. The new R,obln Hbod is Frml Flynh, this tow! jer “swash- buckling ' star, onl}’ ofi¢ of conse- | quenge since Dougla’ Fairbanks set- | tled down, The tall rangy frishman brings the rémantic figure to bril- liant and dashing life in a produc- tion so0° well-proportioned through- out that no single performance can § dbhifmate “it. The pictiire répresents ‘a happy projection of the Splrl't of adven- ture and romance, 1t§ élements wov- en so skillfully that even it§ super- lafive Color photogFaphy intrudes no more than ich | Wolfgang Rotngold's fine miiSical scorin Into the screen play are blended many of the familiar’ Robin Hood legends, pointed up to fit haturally into the _exeiting, ‘well-knit plot It ‘the story, and ‘Robin’s herof deeds to cofifound Prince John and Gisbotrné, “sometimes Straln cre dulity, it must be remembered that this is a lege’nd a' l’fifc\l’ul adven- ture . 'rhe Creaits Robir’s Mdid Marnm is pretty Olivia Dé Havilland. Ufié ‘O'Connor only other ‘woman cast, lays her maid for _eXcellen édy with Herbert Mubdin as Mueh the mifl- et’s on.” Basil Rathlore is His blackest "Villdin a5 Gis- bourné, and Claude RémSs as prince John 15 remarkable in a role that might Have been “hegifive, Patric Khnwles is Will Searlétt, Alan Hale ttlé “John (the rore hé played in' thé Fairbanks silent version) and Eugepe Palette Is~Friar Tuck Ian H l@ is 'd "kindly " figure as Richard the Lion Heart. Other Films viewed Credited for direction are Mi- chaél Gurtiz dnd William Keighley |The lattér—in a gésture unusual to | Hollywood—has publicly thrown the laurels to Curtiz, insisting he walk- ed ‘off the ignment, midway in {convietioh it wolld Be a “turkey In “Vivacious Lady” boy meel | girl, bOy mafries girl—and then Ihas several reels of trouble break ing the news to his parents and |claiming his bride. Ginger Rogers | |is the cabaret singer and. James Stewart the young college professor | who, instead of rescuing his cousin (James ENison) from Her clufches, falls hard himself, marries her— land then must introduce her to family and edmpus at ddar old |Alma_ Matef. His_collegé-president | father is Chatles Coburn, his moth- er Beulah Bondi, his fiancee Fran- ces Mercer. As a human comedy with human | characters, “Vivacious Lady” is sure to find favor with audiences sated with insanity on the screen, hungry for sincere romance minus 5 and socks. George Stevens' dirs n | displays originality, frequently is | brilliant, rarely strained. “Vivacious | Lady” should be seen “Kentucky Moonshine” is the lat- est from the Ritz Brothers’ bag of |movie tricks—an audience comedy whose high point is the trio's pres- entation of “Snow White.” Pretty Marjorie Weaver shines. It's very | funny—especially for Ritz enthus-| | lasts. “Sinners in Paradise’ is a sort of | “Grand Hotel” on a tropical island An assorted cast of characters is pitéhéd thereon by the crash of & trans-Pacific air liner. John Boles and servant are the only inhabi- | tants—and then a lot of f.mngsi ‘ha])pen Madge Evans is the girl. 1 | “The Saint in New York”: Louis \I-I ayward smoothly impersotiates | that mysterious fellow who goes! |about attending to other people’s | business, 'in cms case wiping up a New York gang The attractive ‘mnnard Rowe. | 83 Wits: Sticker ! Cnm st Prize Bichard R. Rowe, grade school s q@ent announced as the winner | t the Elks Safety Sticker contest |todn\y His motto on a round sticker | !wna, “Be Wreck-Less.” ‘\ | | ! other schdol students were honorsbln mention 'l‘hey follow: Patricia Berg, Charliene Ar-| pold, John Tanaka, Maudie Kunz,| Jim Wilcox, Gene Brostrom (2),] | Patsy Radelet and Malcom Faulk- Pajé [ Bents g After 16 Years HAs'mwGs Neb., May 17. — Jack | Mills, manager of a Hastings dr'lk | store, marked a sixteen-year-old- | debt of 10 cents “paid”—and some-| how in Los Angeles a man’s consei- | | ence quit Qoth,er\ng him Mills received this letter with &) lnim eles postmark: : ne:dsed you will find 10 cents for a_fountain drink that I walked out without piying for. T was nlgvy | of eléven fii the year 1822 T want to maké this thing right, though lmfll it tily be.” | l S few year: EMPIRE, TUESDAY MAY 17, 1938 ‘Loons Rates “Robm Homl e In the “Siow White” Cla MARY BERNE ARRIVES HERE FOR SUMMER Wé']lknown, Popular Con-| cert Singer, Comes North with Husband Bernc . i proféssior to hundreds of musi and other citie a, But privately Mary ally known lovers in Juneau in Sotitheast Ala Mrs. Ernest Ehler, arrived herc 2) d the Princess Louise. She i the sister of J. B. B fer, o Juneau, and Mrs. Ehler and he: husband, who accompanied he north, may remain in this sectior during the summer Mrs. Ehler, who was born in Al- aska, at Skagway, has given manuy delightful ¢éoncerts here during va- cations from studying abroad and also cperatic tours throughout th United States. Mr. Ehler is a known vocalist and both his te ted wife may be concerts in Juneau during also he and heard in their vislt Héfe, They sBent thb: Wikiter in Seattle. Sugar from Apples Now VVASHTN(;TON_._ May 17.—Pacific Northwest apple growers, concerned now by diminished foreign markets and low domestic prices, may find a prosperous future in the sugar | mdll»tl\ r production from apples md\ of the numerous by-products be on . 1of the fruit studied if and when the establishes a u':'\xdv governmnt laboratory. The new farm bill authorizes the establishment of laberatories, “ea Lh in a major farm producing area. “Experienced chemists in the sugar industry have ared that the apple has trmendous possibil- ities as a source of sugar—that it equals or even surpasses sugar beets | commercially.” To Washington and Oregon, with their abundance of apples, and Utah | and Idaho, with an equal abund- ance of sugar beets, any move in the sugar direction would be too far- reaching importance in the PM‘)HL‘i Northwest High production costs and J(m‘ prices have made apples a more or less “troublesome” crop the past | There have been great | surplus; the farmers red” have ended “in the - -ee — TO VISIT DAUGHTER Mrs. T. Scheibelberger, mother of Mis. Percy Reynolds, arrived the Alaska for a visit with daughter and son-in-law. - KINY ’lONl(-"’l‘ Mrs. Lola Mae Alexander, accom- panied by Mrs. E. A. Kraft at the| piano, will be heard over station KINY this evening between 8 and| 8:15 o'clock. Mrs. Alexander will| present four musical selections. R Star in Court Hrnners.shnlA-ld Buet]by new legal troubles, Stan Laurel, screen comedian, appears in Los Angeles court, al , with ,his third wife, known on ;a lli.‘ua.na. to mwufi‘er is first wife, Who seeks $1,335 a month M to support herself and 10-year-old. daughter, Lois I.A\lfd. nationally | on| her | "TRUCKMEN DRIVE | THROUGH CLERKS IN-SOFTBALLTILT Ringer Twirler Yields 14 Runs While Fresh Air Bogs Down Countermen | en after laying themselves to charges of proselyting and pré-| fessionalism in the effort to emerge/ triumphant, the Grocery Clerks came out on the short end last eve- ning at Evergreen Bowl in the first| f their series of jousts to the death {on the softball diamond azainst the! Truck Drivers. Depending on their own battery| »f Art Burke and Frank Behrends, the Drivers held the .Clerks to 7| runs while themselves rapped uuh) 14 tallies off the Clerk’s ringer hurl-f or, Leonard Holmquist, who caught by Jay Williams and Jimmy Ramsay. The contest was really a duel through the first four frames; the first of the fifth opening wiflh! |the count at thréé-all. But then,! "lm Drivers cut loose with a five- ppines Rupert run spurt and were never again Efimontot headed. The clerks lay much 6f their' de- feat to thé fact that they could hot| gin Francisco set out of their counter-jumpiig| New York habits and dodged imaginary cans| | Washington of tomatoes while on their wzv around the bases. Meanwhile, the| Drivers followed their regular prac- ter how thick the traffic. | T¥iple ' Tsland, clear; U. 8. DEPAR’lm OF AGR*:ULTU&E. WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. 8. Weather Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, Generally fair tonight and Wednes Weather forecast for Southeas! Wrdneqclay gentle variable wind: Bureau) peginning at ‘4 pm;- May H: gentle variable winds. Generally fdir tonight and lay: Alaska: orecast of winds along the Coast of the Guif of Alaska: Light to 'modvraw variable winds tonight from Dixon Eound, bécoming mbderate easterly Entrance to Salisbury Wednesday. From Salisbury Sound nd Cape Hitichinbrook, moderate easterly winds tonight and Wednes- | day, beconiing moderate to fré$h Wedhesday between Yakutat and Cape | Hincliidbrook. ¢ d “ $ - LOCAL DATA X Timé Bdrofeter Temp Humidity Wind Veloclty ~ Wethel o | 4 bt yesty 30.19 51 40 w Pt. Cldy 4 anm. today 3033 35 a w 1 Clear Noon today 30.32 53 41 s 8 Cloudy RADIO REPORTS TODAY Max. temp, Lowest 4am. 4am. Precip. 4a.m Btatlon last24hours | temp. temp. velncity 24hrs. Weathet Atka - | 38 38 14 — Cloudy | Anchorage 58 12 - e 0 Barrow 32, 24 2 12 T Cloudy Nome 48 [ 30 32 6 0 Clear Bethel . 48 | 38 38 4 02 Cloudy Fairbanks 58 | 34 34 4 0 Clear Dawson P 52 | 28 30 0 02 Clear Was| st paul 36 | 32 34 18 05 Cloudy Dutch Harbor 43 40 42 6 03 Rai : | Kogiak 40" | 40 40 16 . 113 Rain pitehers'! cordova 48 40 42 8 0 Cloudy Jiireat 54 | 31 35 1 T Clear sitka 49 | az i L 02 Retchikan 48 ; 34 36 4 1 Clear 48 - — - —_ 60 | 36 40 4 01 Rain seatté 66 | 48 48 18 0 Cloudy Poftland 66 | 48 48 10 0 Cloudy 60 | 58 54 4 0 Pt.Cldy i BB | 56 58 24 0 Pt.Cldy 2 | 52 60 6 0 Cloudy WEATHFR CONDITIONS AT 8 AM. TODAY Seattle (airport), raining, temperature, 49; Blaine, cloudy, 48; Vic- | tice and busted right ahead, o mat-' totia, cloudy, 47; “Alért Bay, partly cloudy, 40; Bull Harbor, cléar, 45; Langara Island, partly cloudy, 43; Prifice Ru- ': Scorer for the contest was one‘perl dlear, 48; Ketchikan, clear, 46; Criig, cldudy, 48; Wningell clear, >f the losers’ own men, Gus Georgp“& Petersburg, clear, 50; Sitka, clondy, 45; Soapsténe Polnt cléar, 50; | <0 the Clerks could not call for a|Tenakee, cléar, 55: Hawk Inlet, clear, 46; Port Althorp, clouidy; Radio- recount, even though they did think | ville, cloudy, 48; Juheal, c¢léar, 43; Skagway, clear, 41; Yakutat, clou- | | next struggle between the {squads is set for tomorrow evening |and the Clerks are sworn to win | that one, even though they have | to hire Dizzy Degn. | | {zie Vdlléy southward to Southéast Alaska, | Pacific Ocean to latitide 40 degrees, with a crest of 30.48 inches over SCORE BY INNINGS Team 1234.»6’189 TR | Drivers 200 5303014 Clerks A1 0 (J 020 0 2— 1 d ‘SALMUN BUYERS PRICE OFFER IS VOTED REFUSED [ Trollers’ As’soclahon Turns Down Scale of 7-4-2 for Grounds The price rhkpulc‘ between trollers |of Southeast Aiaska and fish buyers s still deadlocked today. The two trollers’ unicns, Pacific Alaska Troller’s Association, are| ‘mqkmg an attempt to get together | while the question of jurisdiction is| | before the National Labor Relations| Board. Ralph Jameson, Juneau represen- tative of the ATA, said today he had | received word from Ketchikah that i ATA had requested thie PCFU locals !lto join under the ATA banner dur- una the present price dispute while! | the National Labor Board irons out 1£he Jjurisdictiondl differences. Chances for trollers of both groups | umtmg seemed improbable today.| PCFU today shows even stronger | mclmatlon to give over its AFL| | charter in favor of CIO, while the |ATA announces it has just recently/ ‘;receivcd a charter from the Sea- /men’s Union of the Pacific, inde- pendent openly, but leaning to AFL, | PCFU is asking buyers to pay 9! |cents a pound for red Kings on the |grounds and 4.5 cents for whites. |ATA is not making any definite re-| quests, but the wire to Port Dele-! gate Jameson heére today, said the! buyers‘ offer of 7 cents, 4 cents and | 2 cents on the ground, was rejected ! in Ketchikan yesterday by a vote of 108 to 31. | and 20 in Juneau, Jameson said.| PCFU claims about 50 men here. } Any contract with buyers that might be agreed tpoh, would hold] until July 1, when a new contract would be negotiated with the advenl‘ of the cohoe season. | No salmon, weie Eeing sold on any Pacific Coast markets today. pflmgry éléction, 27 were Democrat- ic and an, it was r‘e- vealed ihfn n when they were officially_counted in the Fed- eral Clerk’s office by a canvassing board composed of Florine gouael, Gertrude Laughlin® of Douglas and H. R. Shepard. The tally gave on the Democratic, ticket: Dimond, 26, Olson, 24, Jen-| ne, 8, Roden 17, Anderson 16, Davis| 11, Hanford 7, Kratise 9, McCormick | Talbot 11 and Walkér 16. On the lican ticket: White 2, Chage 4, Stabler 4, Barnes 4, Cole 0, Foster 2, Hermann 3, Price 2, The absentee - vote makes no change in the previdus dnnounced| nomlnltm of the Fiji Islands. Mlnmewmlndhl | for Juneau. ATA trollers number between 15‘ | of 32 abséntee ballots cast in the‘ " 15, Messerschinidt 9, Peterson Ed [ Shepard 1, and Wilson 1. ¥ ! by, cloudy, 40; Nulato, cloudy,: 40« Juneau, WEATHER The barometric pressitre' was hi May , 18.—Sunrise, 3:28 am.; | there was a mistake in chahge. Thé|dy; Cape St. Eline. clm]dy. 40; Cordova, cloudy, 47; chltma cloudy, 44; two | McCarthy, cloudy, 40" Anchorage, cloudy, 45; Fairbanks, cloudy, 53; Ru- sunset, 8:25 p.m. SYNOPSIS gh this morning from the Macken- thence southward over the the Pacific Ocean at Iafitide 44 degrees and lorigitude 136 degrees. Low pressure prevailed over the southwestern portion of Alaska and over the Aleutians, the lowest reported distance south of Dutch Harbor. pressure being 29.26 inches a short Precipitation was reported along the coastal regions from the Aleutians eastward to Kodiak and over the lower Kuskokwim Valley, p(erv,ulcq f ,..,4, elsewhere over Alaska genemlly fair Wealher Snuknuus Hymg . South with Robin Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Soukoup, of Portland, Ore,, are winding up an aerial tour of Alaska that has taken | them over an estimated 25,000 m)les of airlines in the ldst few weeks. The Soukoups flew to Juneau from Valdez yesterday evening and are stopping over briefly in Ju- and for the most PArt|o,,g pisnermen’s Union and the Deau on their way south. While in Cordova, Soukoup traded his Travel- air to pilot M. B. Kirkpatrick for a four-place Robin. They are guests §' the New Alas- | | kan Hotel. ., - FORMER JUNEAUITES ON WAY TO SUMMER HERE Mr. and Mrs. John Vanderbilt left | Seattle today aboard the Baranof Formerly of Jurean, they will remain heré for the sum- | mer. -t Try-an Emipire aa: INAVY EXPANSIBN BILL IS SIGNED s WABHINGTON. May 17.—Prési- | dent Roosevelt has signed the bill authorizing the one billion dollar expansion program for the Navy | during the next ten years. DR. ]. W. EDMUNDS Optometrist of Alaska and Seattle Is NOW HERE f At the HOTEL JUNEAU Until MAY 22, inclusive; examining your Eyes for Glasses Dr. Edmunds needs no introguc- tion to Juneau citizens as this is | his eleventh annual trip throughout | Alaska where thousands of citizens: testify to his highly scientific work, backed by five diplomas from ree= cgnized Ee Colleges, besides being a Post - Graduate. Crossed - Eyes [Ircquemly straightened with glasses | only. We welcomé' @ifficult cases. Permanent Offices at 1431 Fourth Ave., Seattle, where my two quali- fied and. 4ble assistants are con- ‘stantly iy attendances: »» %< . adv. | | | | | INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION TONIGHT—TUESDAY—MAY 17 Sonis of Norway Meeting at I. O. O. F. HALL at 7:30. p. m., sharp, followed by Gmflo&—Re&eshments—Dancmg A COOKS AND WAITERS, LOCAL 871 BARTENDERS, LOCAL 869 ® IKPOR ,«ALLWBE‘. 'i'fithDAY. MAY 18 — 1:00 P, M; 2 TANT! THERE! R o