The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 12, 1938, Page 2

2 —————————————————————————————————————————————— For Your OLLAR $1.00 $1.00 $1.00 $1.00 $1.00 $1.00 $1.00 50 in. Drapery Damask, yard 56 in. White Coating, yard 32 in. Silk Pongee, yard 39 in. Silk Georgette, yard 54 in. Table Felt, yard 54 in. Table Padding, yard 50 in. Drapery Crash, yard 81 in. Unbleached Sheeting, 2 yards 3 Embroidery Linen,.yard House kining, 12 yards Baby Blankets, 2 for Baby Bunting Fringed Robe Burlap. 5 yards Glass Towels, dozen Barber Towels, dozen Kapok, 3 pounds Towel Sets Girls’ White Middies Girls’ Slacks, 2 for Boys’ Overalls Cottage Sets $1.00 Curtains $1.00 B. M. BEHRENDS CO., Inc. “Juneau’s Leading Depariment Store” $1.00 $1.00 $1.00 $1.00 $1.00 $1.00 $1.00 $1.00 $1.00 $1.00 $1.00 $1.00 $1.00 $1.00 PLANS ARE COMPLETED evening of July 18, and who wish to attend the dinner, are requested FOR REBEKAH DINNER i ‘mere ' et Mrs. Hooker, or Mrs Tucker as soon as possible The following women will be charge of the affair, July 18: Mrs. Tom Gardner, Mrs. Ernest Polley, Mr: rvations either Katherine Iva Plans were completed last ning committee meeting the home of Mrs. Kelly Blake, for the Rebekah dinner given by the Juneau and Douglas chapters July 18. in honor of M Rose Haw- kins, president of the organization from Seattle, who will visit her eve- at in refreshments; dining room; A THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1938. U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU |unde 'NO - THUMBING, | HITCH HIKER MAKES RECORD WEATHERFORD, Okla., July 12 On a warm afternoon eight years ago, M. D. Smith; retired Spanish- Ameriean war veteran, started for a walk. He hitch~hiked' to Clinton and back, 30 miles. He liked the experience so well he made the trip almost daily, then'started vis- iting other towns. He estimates he |has hitched-hiked more than 100,- 000 miles. There is scarcely a sales- man in Westerh Oklahoma who | doesn’t know him and he's ac- quainted with at least one family |in every village surrounding Weath- erford. He’s never thumbed anyone. | “T just start walking and if no- | |body stops I call it exercise, even- |tually turn around and go back home,” says Smith. —_———— | . |LEGION. COMMITTEE .. - | NAMED ON BY-LAWS| | Change in'the by-laws to be con- | |sidered by the Department at its | |convention in Ketchikan in " Sep- tember was taken up by Alford John Bradford Post, American Le- gion, last - night at its regular meeting and & committee of William | ©O.'Johnson, ‘¢hairman, E. M. Polley and J. T. Petrich was named ?0‘ study ' the ptroposals and report to the Post in: two weeks. 'One of the major changes proposed is to con- fine proxies only to post members: | In other words; ‘if a post had no | tepresentative at the Depm‘(memi | | Conventiot, it would have 1o vote. Some of the smaller posts are:re- | ported to be oppesing the action. | >oo | Currents ‘ 'Alternate , | = | OKANE, Wash., July 12—An “alternatograph” has been' built by | la high school student here. | Spokane sclence teachers believe it is the first instrument to dem- onstrate visibly that alternating ;\-- ric current actually alternates. Royal Ostby, physics student at the John R. Rogers high sehool, is the ternatograph’s” inventor. With his device' hé' has obtained'a perfect 'check on' the Spokane 60- cyele 'elecric supply. 1. R. Minzel, physics instructor whom 'Ostby studied, believes the “alternatograph” may become a standard piece of laboratory | equipment | Ostby firét stepped down' the 110= volt current to six volts with’ a toy transformer, then led it to & tele- | phone 'receiver, ' where current vibréitions, or ' altéernations, were recorded bn the" disk. A bamboo stylus, disk, ‘was' reguldted to mark each wired ' to the | Light Hat I's i = s | | | | | | A Black and white star=ptinted cre| The white straw hat is York Ritz. By ADELAIDE KERR AP Fashion Elitor Light hats are making headlines in New York’ luncheon spots. White, natural colored and pastel chapeaux are seen on some chic heads as accessories to sober clothes and even the dark hats are often brightened with a giddy touch of vefling! ' At Uthe receht opening of the Japanese Gatrden at the' Rilz a number “of women toppeéd their black atid ‘navy blue costuries with brimmed white hats, sometimes en- veloped in white veils. One wore a wide brimmed natural Straw chapeaw - having a erown covered with tiny bright flowers, as acces- sory $6'd suave black crepe frock and ' arother set '‘a vivid orange straw sailor trimnred in b gros- grain ribbon above her navy blue suib. Gladys Swarthout, opera ond mo- tion ‘picture star, capped her brown eostume with a chartreuse velvet fashior smart Kelly Blake, general arrangements. | vibratiori on & chalk-whitened glass |y 0,6 ‘orowned with a huge white g for Lunche the Thi % o | | southerly i | Barrow | Cordova | Edmonton | i pe makes this spring frock, seen at lunch time recently in the New | n black gros ribbon. | Spy | cloudy, | cloudy. THE WEATHER (By the U. 8. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and Rain tonight and Wednesday; Weather fo ast for nesday; moderate southerly ce Strait m winds, wind Bay and fresh winds LOCAL easterly Thae 4 pm 4 am Noon Barometer 29.83 29.90 30.01 yest'y today today 58 50 55 Southeast Frederick Sound, Chatham ‘orecast of winds along the Coast of the tonight and Wednesday from Dixon Entrance to Dry from Yakutat to Cape Hinchinbrook. Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity ty, beginning at 4 p.m., July 12: ite southerly winds Alaska: Rain tonight and Wed- except fresh over Dixon Entrance, Strait, and Lynn Cana Guilf of Alaska: Fresh DATA Weathes Cloudy Lt. Rain Cloudy 58 89 KLY SE SE k] 11 7 12 RADIO REPORTS Max. temp. last 24 hours 44 61 50 Station Atka Anchorage 42 47 36 50 a6 46 Nome Bethel airbanks Dawson Paul 12 46 46 20 50 50 48 40 54 58 52 70 72 Juneau Sitka Ketchikan Prince Rupert Seattle Portland San Prancisco New York | Washington 96 | Lowest 4am. 4am. Precip. temp. temp. TODAY 4am Weather Rain velocity 24 hrs. 44 | = S Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Clear Cloudy ow R Cloudy Cloudy Rain Rain e Rain Rain Clear Clear Clear Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy C R NS :04 WEATHER CONDITIONS AT 8 AM. TODAY Seattle (airport), partly cloudy, toria, cloudy, 52; Alert Bay, mistin , showers; Langara Is Ketchikan, misting Petersburg, cloudy, 54; Hoonah, cloudy; Hawk showers, 52; Juneau, cloudy, Yakutat, raining, 50; Cape Hinch partly cloudy, 50; Cordovar, raining thy, cloudy, 50: Anchorage, tly eloudy, 65; Nenana, p 62; Hot Springs, partly clou cloudy, cloudy. 54; Platinum, cloudy; 50, 13.—Sunrise, WEATHER pressure Juneau, July 3:13 Low barometric of Al sure being 2940 inches a short dis barometric pressure prevailed over Skagway, cloudy. Council, cloudy, 48; Nome, cloudy, continued and northward to the Arctic Coast tance southeast of Kodiak. | pressure was also relatively low over 57; Blaine, partly cloudy, 48; Vic- 47; Bull Harbor, showers, 52; and, misting, 51; Prince Rupert, Craig, showers, 60; Wrangell sitka, cloudy, 52; Cape Spencer, Inlet, rainin 50; Radioville, cloudy, 53; Haines, cloudy; nbrook, raining, 49; Cape St. Elias, 48; Chitina, partly cloudy, 52; Mc- ; Portage, raining, 50; Fair- artly cloudy. 64; Tanana, partly 62; Ruby, cloudy, 52; Nulato, | 60; Kaltag, cloudy, 62; McGrath, cloudy, 58; Flat, partly clou- |dy. 55; Styahok, clear, 50; Crooked Creek, partly cloudy, 50; Bethel, Golovin, cloudy, 52; Solomon, cloudy, 51, am.; sunset, 8:57 p.m. SYNOPSIS this morning over the Guif the lowest reperted pres- The air the MacKenzie Valley. High the Pacific Northwest States. This | zeneral pressure distribution has been attended by precipitation along | the coastal regions from the Aleutiins southeastward to the southern portions of British Columbia, als ) with local scattered showers over | the Interior of Alaska, and by generally fair weather over the Pacific Joast States. Ward for Insane Felons Planned LOS ANGELES, July 12.—Plans for a psychiatric hospital, to house prisoners whose plea was insanity, were announced recently in San Francisco by A. R. O'Brien of Ukiah, state prison board member. O'Brien said that the hospital would be part of the new California near Chino, 600D PRICE FOR SWEETS | | 1 SRl | CLEMSON COLLEGE, 8. C., July | 12.—South Carolina farmers are get- | ting from 10 to 15 cents a bushel more for their sweet potatoes, al- | though the price in the big eastern markets is generally less than it was last season They obtained the price boost by Pl sting the Juneau committee is|slide, 'while another stylus, O & ,gangy flower and several women Fred Schindler, and Mrs. Sara|pendulum, marked passing seconds.|genned out in the new “peewee” members of the Douglas| hats of light colored felt—doll-sized penitentiary in San ! growing a more popular strain, more | Bernardino County, a five million |careful harvesting and marketing dollar institution which is expected methods and selling the potatoes | Mr: Paul shortly. The covered dish dinner will begin at 6:30 o'clock at the T.O.O.F. Hall Chapter. |ehapeaux set aslant on top of the to be completed within a year. "under a uniform trade name. - - Air mail service between the United States, Buenos Aires and Montevido was inaugurated in 1830. and all Gastineau Channel mem- bers of the Rebekahs, Odd Fellows, their guests, and escorts, and mem- bers who are to be initiated on the ALL-WHITE BEAUTY ACTIVATOR WASHING ACTION EEasto ot B2 0 2L anE LOVELL SAFETY WRINGER FE BTSN TS QUIET WASHING OPERATION PERMADRIVE MECHANISM CEMFRAL ELECTRIC MOTOR QUICK-EMPTYING PUMP SOLD ON EASY TERMS 3 ALASKA ELECRIC LIGHT & POWER CO. Juneau Alaska Douglas 1 ERInTINT BAINS FOOTHOLD SANTA BARBARA, Cal; July '12. —Rugene Kellogg, of the county| agricultural department, believes | the ‘puncture vine is going to be-| come “oné of the worst weed men- | |aces of the Southwest.” The plant, introduced from abroad, was so named because its |sharp barbs punctured tires in horseless carriage days: - Present- day tires resist the plant, but it renders feed unfit for cattle and {s painful to farmers working in fields. ~—ee MAN RESCLE ST, BERNARD; THAT'S NEWS PORTLAND, Ore., July 12. — In the 8wiss Alps they send out St Bernard dogs to rescue stranded | mountain climbers, but on snow- covered Mount Hood the roles are | reversed. ‘When Bfuel, 200-pound dog mas- cot of Timberline lodge, followed climbers to the summit he got stall- ed on a ledge and refused to climb | down. The climbers were too weary to go back for him, but notified officials and Ranger Henry Lewis rescued the dog himself. —And You'll Jump Out of Bed Full of Vim and Vigor. Your liver should pour out two pints of liquid bile into your bowels daily. 1¢ this bile It just decays in the bowels. Gas bloats up your stomach. You get conatipated. Your whole sytiem is paloned and you fel our, sunk and t] pul M 'R inere bowel movement dosin't get sl the -n-. lt" m thnl-: Inn;n- Carter's ver o wo M arrie fresly and make you foel ib and up’ ‘Su. fi.--b I-l.‘ entle, n}. -mm ing in w w. lor pame making A o o ref Fame age. Refuse anything else. Price: 26¢. L} | ruffling. flfit U EOUR] isnot flowing freely, your food doesn'tdigest, | ints of | | colffure. Dark hats’' were there in number too, ‘however, and many -of them reflected’ the 'season’s vogue for veils: ‘One' wide -brimmed black straw sailor' was wrapped up neat- ly in 'a ‘bight 'red 'veil and a dark blue toque was swathed in a veil woven in as many colors as Jo- seph’s coat. Black or navy blue costumes— often linking' a 'dark simple wool coat with a printed frock — were worn by the majority of the wom- en.. Many others topped their dark or printed frocks with brief silver fox or mink jackets. Most of the prints were woven with dark grounds splashed with small dis- creet white figures. A number of frocks were designed with lower necklines—vee, square, or round edged with ruches or narrow double Several of the smartest women wore their sleeves pushed up the arm, sweater-fashion, to re- veal gold or silver bracelets. ——e e JUMPED BUN ON SUFFRAGE LODI, Cali., July 12.—Mrs. Arthur | Scott claims to be the first woman to vote for a President of the |United States. She explains: When Wyoming became a in 1890, women retained the frfage granted in territorial days. Mirs.' ‘Scott’s husband, an election offtcer, opened the polls for the 1890 election two hours ahead of schedule to accommodate a friend who was leaving on a business trip. Mrs. Scott voted then, for |Benjamin Harrison. e — state suf- To Submerge Town KENNETT, Cal, July 12—With |the completion of the giant Shasta |dam, this almost deserted copper mining town will be submerged by |the newly-created reservoir. Kennett once had a population |of 2,000. When the proposal for the dam was put to a statewide vote in 1933, the 153 remaining resi- dents voted in favor of it, York by three 1 neld wn ment’s investigation their way to Pleas of innecence were made in New espionage charges which resulted from the Gov intc German espionage in this country. Shown on District Court are, left to right: Guenther Gustave Rumrich, former U. S. Army sergeant; Otto H. Voss, airplane mechanic; and Erich Glaser, U. S. army private. Mechaniz;a Colof-Guard So mechanical-minded has the United States Army become that even its color-guard is motorized these days. Here are the national and First Cavalry regimental colors, proudly flying from staffs attached to an | armored car, and escorted by motoreyclists armed with sub-machine guns, at Fort Knox. Kv. 1934 LICENSE PLATES “GOooODn’ . UNTIL THE LAW SAW THEM RAWLINGS, Wyo., July 12. MOSCOW, July 12.—A world Sea~ | myay were good in 1934, 1935, 1986 AR b L and 1837 and so one puzzled western of their sex is claimed | . B women. 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