The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 7, 1938, Page 2

R e g . ‘ V i . E ) v H » > v ' ' ' ] i ‘ ‘ ' ' i i | ; BE CHARMING IN NEW Cotton Housecoats! New for Kall . . . and sale priced! ( y cot- ton print housecoats . styles so beguiling B. M. BEHRENDS CO., Inc. “Juneau’s Leading Department Store” 1 i GOES DOWN EASILY! VSTRAIGHT RYE WHISKEY—100 PROOF — COPYRIGHT 1938, GIBSON DISTILLING CO., ALADDIN, PA,, EXEC. OFF. N.Y.C. EVERY-DAY PRICES THE LOWEST BY FAR! PSUSAR—!OOIIDS 35 ~Case $3.25 doz. 85¢ | ' Bordens or Carnation H.fllfll—-fl Ibs. $l. nsll;er’is Blend omato Juice—¢6 tins 40c ch 7¢ mfi';: Juice—6 tins 52¢ tih_s-—‘mch 9c You're Sure to Pick a Winner . THEY'RE ALL BEAUTIES . . . in the selection of 1938 CHRISTMAS CARDS waiting for you NOW at the EMPIRE Call in or Phone 374 far a look. T T e e | hearing his cries in the water, young men, earlier, had ignored the man’s cries and dismissed the occurrence as “just some drunk in the water.” you'll lounge, live in them and love them! : $9.95 Wancannate with o new Tall 1aple n navt eav. " «~rpharm! Now WD ! chanldarg, re rn s ot Mg 4 e il el Department L “Grosvenor” i | gold and silver stones valued at $25,000,000. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY OC"l 7, 1938 ELDERLY MAN TAKES PLUNGE INTO HARBOR Lloyd| “Chuck” B(-!lifi]gcr, Ritter, Save 60-Year- Old Scandinavian An unidentified Scandinavian, | 60, was rescued from probable death | by drowning near the Ferry Float last night when two Juneau men, ef- fected his rescue. “Chuck” Bettinger and Lloyd Rit- ter, walking along the Denali, heard cries from the| water beneath the dock adjacent to| the Marine Apartments, saw the| elderly man clinging to a pile, and | with a flashlight and rope went| Mary K. Caitiorme Sails for Westward Mary. K. Cauthorne, Advisory| Nurse for the Division of Maternal | to his aid. Pulled to safety, the dripping gen- | tieman declined an automobile ride home. “I may be sixty years old, by vee!” he is reported to have said to the crowd, “but I can walk yust as good as any man.” Mrs, George Sarvela, living in the Marine Apartments, was awak- ened from her sleep by the man’s cries and was about to call the Fire when Bettinger and Ritter went to the man’s assistance. Other witnesses reported that two strolling by the scene The man was reportedly sober and evidently slipped on the wet planking in the dark. Ritter, one of the rescuers, nearly lost his own life by drowning a few feet from the scene of night’s accident when he tumbled off the dock as a youngster several years ago. last ———.——e—— Company fo Hunt JOHANNESBURG, Oct. 5. — l\ company has been formed to at- | ship | | the salvage of the which was wrecked near Port S$t. John in 1782 It is believed she carried an ex- eptionally large cargo bars and precious empt HOTeMw K- WAm!_S An ideal breakfast for snappy mornings —at home or on an outing. Asl: for the 2-Ib. Ask for Your Coupons—With Every 50c Purchase During October including | HOLDEN GOES TOKETCHIKAN TO MEET B0A off in the Marine Airways Fairch for Ketchikan' 1o catch the steat |North, ;Sea with, E. Goss and infant, Mr. ing. Lon Cope went to Sitka tod: | with four ,hncu | Jacobsen. — e and Ohild Health, with offices the new Territorial Building this «city, left for on the steamer Denali. Dr. Marcia Hays, Director week to join Mrs. Cauthorne Cordova, public health nurses and residen! in the Westward towns and vi lages. T Alex Holden this afternoon took ild ner five passengers |brought in from Fairbanks by PAA * | Electra. . | Pagsengers werg, B. F. Ryan, Mrs. and Mrs. | | George Schiotsfeldt, and Don Her- ay passengers in the Bel- He took over 'Weels Bowen, | the dock to meet| ;. “5one 5 Anderson and T. J.| in | in the Westward of Maternal and Child Health, will| |leave during the early part of next in The two will spend the next two months visiting hospitals, | ts §3 D ECIS!Q N by Publsher olph Hearst (above) to sell his 14th century St. Do- nat's castle in Wales puts on market one of England's fines! orman structures. t Loso v B CAUSTIC THRIFTY. WEEKLY FOOD Garnick's Chats “4 Newspaper Wuhm a Newspaper” THE I‘RILNDLY STORE PEANUT | BUTTER Reliance Assorted Flavors B¢ glass of intelligence for a man in y, [ ] og_sm soup l 06 can . Lawyer (cross-examining .wit- ness): “You seem to have plenty our H 4 l wasn't on oath RNICK’ ERY QA \NIC S GROC! British Planes liners Atlantic may shor [N | Arriving for tea at the Ritz, two young New Yorkers appear in 1938 ! fall suits. At the left is a tailleur of black and whitg Scotch iweed, | worn with a wool bleuse. The costume suit at the right, designed by Helen Cookman, combines a gray wool dress and jacket trimmed with | gray Persian lamb. | dropped on the sea, so that pilots ;can check on their drift. Often they | fly for hours without sighting a | ship to enable them to make a drift | calculation. | Experimental bombs now being | tested explode on impact with the water and throw off enough white foam to be visible from a great height. To Drop ‘Bombs’ To Glieck Drift LONDON, Oct. and flying boats cros - > Benjamin Franklin invented bi- focal spectacles and George Wash- ingten was one of the first to adopt them. The “bombs™” are intended to be MEETS 1. A.MACHINISTS LOCAL 514 ODD FELLOWS' HALL MONDAY 7:30 P. M. e i THE FRIENDLY STORE STRING BEANS Pioneer—Tall Cans 10¢ Blackberries Reliance—No. 2 Cans POETIC LICENSE Friday, Sept. 7, 1938. CORN FLAKES Kellogg’s l oc pkg. RECE: ON A woman walked into a cer- tain store and asked for a pack- age of limburger cheese. She was not satisfied to buy sight unseen, so the grocer unwrapped it for her to sniff. “It doesn't smell as strong as the kind I used to get,” she cnmphlned Little Tommy was asked the difference between prose and “Well, ma'am,” drawled the|poetry. He pondered awhile and proprictor, “i's hard to dis-fthen said, “There was a young tinguish the odor nowadays with business so rotten.” man named Rees, who went inté the sea to his ankles.” “That’s prose,” he explained, “but if the water had been a few inches higher, it would have been poetry.” Date Nut BREAD Dromedary 20¢ s 5e Ib. PHONE 174 i U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By (he V. S. Weather Bureau) Forecast ftor Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 3:30 p.m., Oct. 7: Rain tonight and Saturday; moderate to fresh southeast winds. Weather forecast for Soutbeast Alaska: Rain tonight and Satur- day; oderaté to fresh southeast winds except moderate to fresh southerly winds over Lynn Canal. Forecast of winds along the Coast of the Gulf of Alask-. Fresh southeast " w s dlohg the coast from Dixon Entrafice to “Yakutat; fresh mstmly winds from Yakutat to Cape Hinchinbrook. 7 LOLAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity = Weather 3:30 p.n. yesty .. 29,57 54 82 SE 3 Li. Rain 3:30 a.m. today 29.68 50 g2 8 3 Cloudy Noon today 20.75 51 79 SE 10 Sprkling RADIO REPORTS ' TODAY Max. tempt. Lowest 4a.m. 4a.m. Precip. 4am. Station lask24hours | temp. temp. velocny 24hrs. Weather Atka 50 | 2 42 06 Cloudy Barrow 30 | 28 30 18 0 Cloudy Nome 50 36 88 4 0 Cloudy Bethel 52 30 36 4 Q Clear Fairbanks 56 32 a2 4 0 Cloudy Dawson 46 | 36 38 0 21 Clotidy St. Paul 44 | 40 ] 16 0 Cloudy Dutch Harbor 44 | 42 44 12 46 Cloudy Kodiak 46 | 44 44 6 18 Cloudy Cordova 52 44 6 213 Cloudy Juneau 55 47 50 3 14 qmu{y Sitka gt 55 47 - o 2. Ketchikan 54 52 52 4 461 Cloud y Prince Rupert ... 5§ 52 52 16 92 c’loudy Edmonton ............. 96 32 36 4 0 “Clear Seattle . 64 8 50 4 0 Cloydy Portland 66 50 50 4 0 Cloydy San mnc 0 ... 68 56 56 6 T Cloudy New York 58 42 48 10 124 Clear Washington 62 42 44 8 02 Cloudy WEAT;I,BB (&) D!TIVNS AT 8 AM. TODAY Seattle (airport), foggy, temperature 46. Blaine, foggy, 40; Vic- toria, foggy, 49; Alert Bay, showers, 52; Bull Harbor, raining, 53; Triple Island, Dfl-rtly cloudy; Langara Island, mey cloudy, 51; Prince l}uperr., cluudy 52; Ketchikan, partly cloudy, 49; Oraig, clou- dy, 53; Wrangell, partly cloudy, 49; burg, cloudy, 50; Sitks, rain- ing, 49; Cape Spencer, raining, 50; Hi h, ‘cloudy; Juneau, raining, 50; Skagway, cloudy, 48; Haines, cloudy;’ St. Ellas, ly -cloudy, 50; Cape Hinchinbrook, cloudy. 45; Cordova, raining,” 46; Chitina, "cloudy, 42;, McCarthy, cloudy, 36; Seward. cloudy, 46; Falrbahks, cloudy, 31; Hot Springs, cloudy, 30; Tanana, partly cloudy, 29; Nenana, partly cloudy, 28; Ruby, cloudy, 25; Nulato, clear, 22; Kaltag, clear, 34; Bethel, cloudy, 37; Platinum, partly. cloudy; Golovin, partly cloudy, !n Solo- mon, cloudy, 34; Council, cloudy, 36; Nome, cloudy 36. Juneau, Oct. 8—-suxmse. 6 18 a.m.; sunset, 5:16 p.m. WEATHEII SYNOPSIS A widespread low pressure trough covered the north Pacmc Ocean, all Alaskd and northwestérti ' Cnnada with ‘the central pressure; 20.i8 inches at Kodiak this morning and a secondiry ceriter «=/29.30 inches at latitude 48 dezrees ndrth, longitide 158 degrees west. "Thé barome- ter was moderately high over southern Cahada ahd the Pacific North- west and off the Washington-Oregon coast.” Moderate to heavy rain fell during the last 24 hours from Prince * Willlam Sound ‘to Queen Charlotte Sound with light to modefate précipitation over the rest of southern ?la&ka and scattered local preéipitation over the upper Yu- kon and Tanana vnflcys Temperatiires were colder this morning over most portions of Alaska, especially over the annor and lowér“Kus- kokwim regions. Hollywood Sights And Sounds| - By Robbin Ceons HOLLYWOOD, Cal,, Oct. 7.—Latest George R.an-?lramount squabble sounded like a publicity gag in reverse. Georgq wnll- ed and was cut off his weekly pittance because hc didn't like his role in “St. Louis Blues.” . . . But it should've been Dorothy Lamonr—becnuse Sarong- Sarong Is to play a movie star who walks beca,use she d want to be sa-wronged any more. . Reel wak bgcomc., real, see ..., = By this time the formal announcement of the Joan Fon- taine-Conrad Nagel hook-up should be in the mail. . . Jt'll be her first, his second adventure. . . . Comfort for the glammer-less little gals everywhere who have to wear braces on their teeth: the Lane girls, Priscilla and Rosemary, have been wearing 'em, too —but only in private. . . . Irene Castle McLaughlin isn't going to see herself played by Ginger Rogers in clothes she hasn't selected Irene’s three-way deal with RKQ on the Astal Castles” Iets her write, advise beclwically. AND esisn thge wardrobe Rh:hnrd Sherman, the nostalgia expert ("To Mary Qlexnnders Ragtime Band”) is doing the screen Garbo's first on her return will be “Madame Curie,” once scheduled by U for Irene Dunne. . Metro bouaht “ from U, same as they did “The Great Zlegfeuli,’ does “Ninotshka"—which ougtit to be good. . girl, full ‘of' the Soviet spirit, goes to Parls on & d loma sion, falls for a dirty p Count—but don't worty, polnlcnl thorns are going 0 be taken out. . Memo, lmpersoml and. impertinent, to Eh'ances Mercer: The The Newer — Finier 'PERC boys and girls on “The Mad Miss Manton” aren't liking the way you're u;klng the little success you've. had—and you so' young and nice, . Better come down to edrth. . They give Allce Paye whnl they cn;l! her first singing role’" the Early us her as dlrecwx Gregory R,awfi Holl edian on and off! (How can a gn\ iook told to look “pansive?”) Temporarily Closed “drlnutlc ron- Anne Shh'ley w John Payne schemed a year to get two weeks' off—at 'the same time—for thg)r deln,yeti hpgeymoon s Planned a trip to Coromda ... They'ye never M more a week-end off—at (.he um\: Mme—s ice t.hey were mrr August. . ] Movie vseatkms are funny. . Wn“.er Bxennnps never had two weeks between pictures alnce “Barbary . Coast” three years ago—but before thnt he had time—and lots of hunaer—on his i Ed Lowry, the nd entertainer, is erlm -Laugh- mcmedn'n.nd.uleoper lmuini regimented Giggling. T don't want to HAVE to laug youae !! T