The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 22, 1938, Page 8

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, SEPT. 22, 1938. LEASE SITEFOR ' cCobb Shatters Land Speed Record of Eyston’s [E"glaflfl Striving RADIO STATION | AT FAIRBATKS i Cor N Aeronautics P anning Other Aids to Aerial Navizat'on PAIRRANK ka ept munications Commission h ed from the cily a site on Birch Hi at the border of g the ¢ of a serving 1 v irn 1 the proj hich 1 500, 35 expcled to ately PLANNT OTHER STATIG The Tt 3 ation is ond on the program the commis- ¢ion has undertaken to aid avia- ec- the $ion I Alaska. The station at An-, SVAdl'E, LubD, EuEDSD sporsman, chorage is now under construction over the Salt Flats at Bonneville and Fairbanks will be next. Tem- of Cobb is shown as he porary buildings will be erected at on his first run, and 347.16 o two funds time at these to the limited The commission, when the Legislature, was $40,000 the present places due available. set up given an appropriation of and received a small grant from the Federal government, giving it a total of approximately $50,000 to start its prog n. Plans are underway for extending the gram further with PWA assistance and stations are contemplated Juneau, Ketchikan, Nome and other points on the air lines. The mission, the Weather Bureau and the Civil Aeronautics Authortiy are cooperating in the program. by now pro- for com- e Pair Sell Street Car To Visitor LOS ANGELES, Sept. 22 Tsk, tsk what these confidence men won't sell! Farly this week they peddled a street car to Bill Zion of Arroyo Grande, Cal., for $100. | And while those who smile at the gullibility of others were still pok- ing fun at Zion, Walter Torgenson, middle-aged former Newton, Kan resident, supplanted him as most gullible victim of confidence men Two men sold Torgenson exclu- sive rights to convey tourists through Hollywood film studios for $80 down payment. It wasn't until Torgenson appear- ed at the gates of R.-K.-O. Studios with a group of fifteen eager-eyed tourists in tow that he discovered he had been gypped. Police believed the two men who “sold” Zion the street car werc at work again. LB b S - ir on final acceptance test In the armed seaplane, is shown as it win - I OKLAHAMA CITY, Sept. 22.—Af- ter a solemn conference Mayor J. ¥ Martin and W. A Quinn, city manager, handed newspapermen this proclamation: “Whereas, telegraph companies bhave discontinued giving the time of day to all and sundry callerg, and, “Whereas, the citizens have turn- ed ' to the city hall and cluttered up the switchboard with such calls| as to render impossible the switt dispatch of city business, and, “Wihereas, to be blunt the situa- tion is getting on the nerves of city officials, “Be it resolved, that all citizens| of the city of Oklahoma City res-| gy '\ ;o Blasch, star 21-year-old pectfully be requested to quit do-' Ghicago athlete, is pictured in New ing the same.” York City, where she revealed that T YT, ; Lithuania had offered her a place on A pound of soap dissolved in- a| jts 1940 Olympics team. “But I'm gallon of hot water and added to| going to get into the Olympics the five gallons of whitewash will give| hard way,” she said, “by going out the whitewash a glossy appear-| for the American team.’ ance. | Another Cantor ... «0 Wed Edna June wood, Cal., tor, 19, daughter of the comedian, is pictured in Holly- with James McHugh, Jr., executive of the Music Corporation of America, whom she will wed. Edna will be second of the five Cantor devohters to become a bride, Can dated Aircraft, the planc is powered by feur moters a Fm World Peace, uncau Attorney Tells J jons polit- 1in hat G i two major goals unifice n of its colonies and peace for the world. There was ome criticism of the Chamberlain government, he said, but the great rank and file of Englishmen ap- a “Raon of 350.2 miles per hour rd speed 19 set by € iroy o <ing the mark of pt. George Eyston, also s mile on the record run. Cobb made |, .4 t5 lean toward peace even n the return. Two { are mecessary te establish a record.—AP Photo. |ir §t means concessions. %9 ryv . In Italy he found the Italian F}fl”!( 1 akes to 14”~ people unanimously back of Pre- mier Mussolini. The Italians accept olini as a man who has moved out of a chaotic condition after the World War to one of stability, he said, and apparently he is universally loved by his fellow ountrymen. Without armed guards, wmored cars and the rest of the usually associated with a Mussolini goes about Rome { Italy unattended, Mr. Faulkner reported. The Juneat man attended huge dramatic performance where I Duce W a member of the audience. The Premier came in quietly, took one of the less ex- pensive seats just as would any of the commoners, he said. There is nothing of the glamor about Mussolini, he found, which follows Hitler wherever he goes. hings Next week the Chamber will be host to the high school teachers as is the annual custom and the following week will have the grade school teachers as guests. - They Didn't Figure Upon thefi [igmning OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Sept Ilying baltleship,” sai@ (o be the world’s heaviest hes near San Di Cal. Built by Conceli- thirty tons.—AP Photo. hts, the $1,000 000 * L g0 ged its way ove ud weighs r seven years agricultural of- als carefully selected Oklahoma seeds that resisted drought, pest and disease Finally they had strains which they believed would grow excep- tionally well in dry weather and would escape diseases. They stored beiween $10,000 and $20,000 worth in an Oklahoma warehouse, near Woodward. Torrential rains gion, lightning struck the ware- house. The carefully chosen seeds were destroyed. Now some of the experiments will have to be started all over again swept the re-! British Transfer % Bars of Bullion in Open Horse-Cart LONDON, Sept. 22. — American gangsters who are used to seeing gold transported in armored car watched over by guards with drawn | pistols will weep at this news of how the British do it Three men in an open horse- drawn van pulled up in front of the London branch of a New York bank recently with fifty bars of| gold, worth $15,000 each. A messenger greeted three cups of tea. The men set the | cups on the bars, lit their pipes. Ten minutes later they took the empty cups into the bank and casu- ally unloaded the $750,000 worth cof gold. | e | There are now 14,000,000 horses and mules in harness on Amer [ farms in addition to about race horses, 7,500 trotting and 500,000 riding horses. AR FERTTY IR et « ~ S ACVRSNFENGEY | DANCING EVERY NIGHT ALL NIGHT to the music of RUTH WOOD At the Piano . . . while you eat them with The Rev. U. E. Harding, Portland, Ore., pastor whose sight was re- horses stered with the cornea from the cye of a dead woman in an operation at San Francisce, is shewn being greeted by his daughter, Mary Lou, 9, whem he had never seen. Rev. Harding had been blind for 20 years.—AP Phovo. GO MODER Be Comfortable! REC LS PAT OFF Full Automatic Oil Burner Will Cut Your Fuel Costs. RICE @ AHLERS CO. and drink your fjll! 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News, CARL wElDMAN JR Other pians for the winter term DIVORCE SOUGHT ’ 4 will be discussed at a meeting of Margaret Andrews of Sitka has HAS PARTY HERE Mis. B. R Glass, captain, and filed suit for divorce in Federal Mrs. H. C. Humphries, lieutenant, with the sponsors. non-support. - Empire classitieas pay. charging In celebration of the sixth birth- day of Carl Weidman, Jr., a party was given yesterday afternoon at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Weidman, on Eleventh and D. Streets. - - Today’s News Toaay.—Embpire. e s T 24RO 1 R Each guest was presented with Yy N ~ a favor and the afternoon was S F Y L Ii 1) spent in playing games, with re- L i freshments being served by Mrs. Weidman. Guests for the occasion included Ann Louise Henning, Patsy Oakes, | Paula Kay Cook, Claire Folta, Peggy Forward, Bill Forward, Don- nie and Ben Burford and Arthur McKinnon. for September dancing and romancing e i TROOP 3 HOLDS 1 FIRST MEETING | September heralds the opening of the fall nd the display of the new || fan coiifures! We are prepared to com- 'l plete your fall ensemble with new fall hairdress that will give you that chic ap- for suceess. social season— Tel. 723 115-2nd St. Members of the Girl Scout Troop X which is sponsored by the Mar- | tha Society, held its first meeting yesterday afternoon in the parlors | of the Northern Light Presbyterian Church A hike was decided upon and scheduled to be held this Saturd 3 pearance nceessary social The ROY AL Beauty Salon s0 ay. | District Court against Alec Andrews, - Gangway! 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