The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 4, 1939, Page 2

Women’s and Children’s SKIRTS WOMEN’S SKIRTS Values up to $7.95 Clearance $3.95 CHILDREN’S SKIRTS WOOL PLAIDS--CORDUROY Solid Colors Clearance $l95 B.M. BE]IREN])S CO..In¢. Juneau's Leading Department Store { What Tlley Have Read 1. - Memory { 'LAURA INGALLS TURNS ACROBAT; shown sixth grade school | children forgot what they had read almos: as soon as they read it Herbert F. Spitzer made the tests | for a msater’s degree. He gave each child two 600-word articles and | quizzed them after the readings. | Laura Tnealls, He found the children forgot 44|"‘Men O per cent of the facts contained in muly the articles shortly after reading. A week later they had forgotten | 67 per cent. | Spitzer thereupon devised a ‘“re- call” test to be applied immed- jately after reading. - These were found to reduce forgetfulness con- | siderably. ,—e PUBLIC CARD_PARTY By Womgn of the Moose, IO.OF.| Hall, Wednesday, 8 pm. Prizes and refreshments. adv, | Of speed records; PRE-INVENTORY SALE WE MAKE A VERY SPECIAL OFFER ON: 1 Electrolax Refrigerator Combination 1 Magic.Chef Range $169.00 Complefely installed with Flamo tank. RICE & AHLERS CO. Third ‘arid’ Franklin Streets——PHONE 34 By DEVON FRANCIS AP Aviation Editor NEW YORK, Jan. 4. outside ed an airplane 344 times | merry-go-round. at Muskogee, Okla., only She Set Records COLUMBIA LUMBER COMPANY OFAI.ASKA Liumber and Building Materials PHONES 587 OR 747—JUNEAU SECURE YOUR LOAN THROUGH US To Improve and Modernize Your Home Under ’l’itle L E.-H A SHE MUST EAT Little who says married | 1t {0 enjoy an emotional their homes, back in town with a spanking new airplane, a lot of ideas and no job. Miss Ingalls is the girl who loop- back in 1930 just to show it could be done, then | came down and took a ride on a Three weeks later she did 980 loops and stopped “becuese it was supper time.” She has established a number she is the only RADIAL WIRING SYSTEM Madsin Bomes are only as elficient, economical and ¢da- venient &x thidic electrical wiritig ens. The new G-E Wirhg System insure Radial o mx:::n efficiency, protec- tioa ard control ‘of electricity. Voltag: a‘w%flw widnbrlho-dnmul Wiring System is adequate. #We are Centilied Instellati ) 9 nnl Cpo:!ruélm $r G-E Radigl :fir- ems. Come ‘ifi or telephone us. We will be glad to mmt detailed specifications and costs without ohfl'qcflon. * The electricify you pay for but never use. It is lost between metdt and ‘appliances. JUNEAU—DOUGLAS—ALASKA ALASKA ELECTRIC LIGHT & POWER Co. is | j|and no job. I asked her why. | last July, Howard Hughes & Co .{1,” clamored for freight-rate revi- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 4, 1939. liq VOLTA 'rolm;y AP Feature Service Writer In 3 days, 19 hours and 8 minutes flew 'round the world. But July's jolliest, junket was the comic-strip- style, surprisé sky-solo of Douglas “California Here I Come™ Corrigan from New York to Dublin, Hughes' cal maestro, W. Lee O'Daniel, gover- ‘ nor of Texas. Dixie, “Economic Problem No. ttes there for 11 hours before into oblivion Treuble, Trouble . . . Mexico’s Gov. Clyde most of the s and after one hurtling Tins- immer long New ley passed hunting folks. slon ICC decided eastern railroads lcould charge coach passengers more. Dr. Arthur Morgan, TVA's ousted kingpin, sued for his pay. Mme. Antenor Patifio, wife of the ' ] Bohmmmmgh is ie ve, Parls fashion mu’ 02 54 th buf.’ | dressed woman 1938, Last | year’s leader, the Due!m- of Wind- | sor, was second. Americary woman ever to have crossed the Andes mountains solo. Now she shows up with a plane “That,” said Miss Ingalls, “is be- cause I have been sequestering my- self to learn acrobatics so I could get a job. “You see, there are very few things a woman can do in aviation to earn a living, but acrobatics is one of them—at air meets. and to advertise toothpaste, and things’ like that.” We checked over the names of | women fliers of the last decade— | Amelia Earhart, Louise Thaden, Jacqueling Cochran, Ruth Nichols, Phoebe Omlie and. Blanche Noyes —came to mind. Most of them followed the famil- iar routine of getting into the headlines and then cashing in on the publicity. p Miss Ingalls has done any hum- ber of things, but the most signifi- cant was going through a couple of tidy legacies and getting pract- ically disowned by her family be- cause she refused to give up flying. “I would rather fly than eat, di or run around,” she says. “Ideas and emotions, those are the only things worth while in 1fe, and you get them in flying.” AN The Tricks Miss Ingalls seems to have learn- ed all the tricks i the Book: stall, the Cuban eight and the re= versible spin, which is like having, a nightmare in a hammock after eating caviar and sauerkraut. “The trouble with women in avia- tion” said Miss Ingalls, “is that they are naturally shy, and they hate like mischief to appear to disadvantage in front of men.” She has a lot of ideas about ap- pearing at air shows, flying for ad- vertising and, possibly, making a distance attempt. She is doing very nicely for the present, flying every day and living by herself and mak- | ing her own coffee because nobody else knows how. ¥ “The real tipoff on flyihg, for | women,” she concluded, “Is that it' an emotional outlet. They need it. mat thrill at 10,000 feet, that know- dom!” | BIG BUSINESS | | Cleveland's s Job Conducted: vtigflhtng now to keep the city’s poor | Immelman turn, the hammerhedd Their homes can't satisfy that latent cry for self-expression, can". sapply ledge of freedom. That's it, free-| ~ Eimer F. Andrews became wage- mick, newspaper heir and his hour chief. Anti-trust charges were ccmpanion on a mountain -climb filéd against movie-makers. Lib- were found. Grim, too, Wwas the mls discussed group-health pro- item from Portugal about firemen who put some boys in a building and set it afire to demonstrate res- cue methods—10 lad ! jects, the Maytag strike and the civil liberties inquiry. Conserva- tives cussed NLRB and Jimmy | Roosevelt’s insurance income. And Palestine Jews | third-term talk was on the upbeat. way American The Nationals won the All-Star tled Indians. Pho showe ball game. Japan surrendered the man rulers provi: their fitness 1940 Olympics. by hopping through fiery hoops, Headlined Names and Ttaly’s press began baiting Count and Countess Haugwitz- Jews. France eed to share control Reventlow’s sensational squabble of Alexandretta (a 10,000-square- was publicized and they subse- mile state in Syria) with Turk quently were separated. Simone | And Bolivia and Paraguay assent (l to arbitration of t& century-old Simon’s secretary, Sandra Martin won't be able to have more until the legislature m in January. Eleven year go Ramsey was sit- ting, on top of his own pret sized world as president of a $30,000- 000 metal products concern He had started at 14 as a stocl rcom boy. Successively, he wa: | tice boy, timekeeper, salesms ‘])\.lrhu\mg agent. Then president With that, Ramsey decided he had nnde enough money. But ins retiring to a coun estate he plunged into social s never misses catching the 5:156 home of an evening 'MAN HANDLING “CITY'S RELIEF Made Fortune at 40 |sey has been Cleveland’s chief ‘;nu.uuy- iser. He has served most 7 f those years as chairman of the CLEVELAND; Jan. 4. — Many | O X : : ‘ men tiream pf making § fortune and | Community Fund. For a while he retiring in their forties. Fred Wil- | General Secretary of the YMC- liam-Ramsey did it—and then ac.,A~ National Council ; quired the biggest job of his career. Three years ago, Ramsey (who is liste s Blue Book, a ‘welfare here, he's | is listed in Cleveland’s B ] g o | who's who of the social elite) be- came director of welfare in the cit considered a thankless) from going hungry. His money from | the State Is running low—and hel generally | | It sounds ominous to a man who‘ i & ribbed cutf. WRONG-WAYER AND GLOBE-CIRCLER DOMINATE| J U L Y 1 9 38: MONTH OF TRAVEL NEWS d search the bodies of Medill McCor- | MODES o[t/:e MOMENT by Adelaide Kerr — tumble with grace in a ski suit tailored with the same trimness as a professicnal’s, Here is cne | NEW YORK.—Perhaps the earth bt wool gabardine, closely weven to keep oat ccld and snow, and designed without any nonsénse. The plain jacket fastens slightly to one side under a high ccllar and the trousers ccme to a smooth finish A red cap and white mittens add a little fashion sauce. U. s DBPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER By the U . Weather Bureau) Forecast for Junead md vicinity, beginning at 3:30 p.m., Jan. 4: Partly cloudy tonight amd Thursday, slightly colder tonight; gentle to moderate east and northeast winds. $ Weather forecast for sSoutheast Alaska: Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday, slightly colder tonight over northern portion; gentle to moderate east and nortreast winds, except moderate to fresh over Dixon Entrance and moderate to fresh north wiid over Lynn Canal. Forecast of winds along the Coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Moderate to fresh east and northeast winds tonight and Thursday from Dixon had the Best available assistance | | Entrance to Lityya‘Bay and moderate northerly winds from Lituya and equipment; Corrigan sneaked to | Bay'to Cipe Hinchinbrook. glory in a_jaloppy. | ‘LOCAL DATA k‘:ghz:;“fige“e;e::e::fl::d;flg];“n‘:l:’ | Time Bnrc;neter Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity - Weather e : . yesty ... 2008 32 the Union Jack and the Tri-Color ggg :::: ‘y:)(:“; 20.62 34 §: g : :;:3: piggy-back Plane flew photos of | RADIO REPORTS the French frolic to America. Vis- I TODAY count Runciman was ordered to | Max. tempt. Lowest 4am. 4am. Precip. 4am. Czechoslovakia to check central | Station last 24 hours \ temp. temo. velocity 24 hrs. Weathet Eurgpe’s cancer. Thirty-two coun- | Atka 32 28 32 10 0 Cloudy tries’ delegates met at Evian to see | Anchorage 20 18 18 4 10 Pt. Cldy where refugees could go. And | Barrow -8 -20 -20 8 0 Clear President Roosevelt went from coast | Nome 8 -6 -4 Calm 0 Cloudy to coast—attending Gettysburg's | Bethel 0 -18 -16 6 1dy 5th and the Northwest Territ Fairb: ¥ 0 Pt.Cldy kKt and the Northwest Territory's| | ; B, " > Fairbanks e - -4 4 .01 Snow 150th_anniversary ceremonies, re- 'ROUND THE WORLD® . . and it DAL e v | Dewon -4 -10 -4 4 Trace Cloudy viewing the fleet at San Francisco, Mushes gets back with new | SEAE: ¥ | st. Paul 26 | 20 22 14 09 Cloudy and beaming blessings on candidates _ record. i 1) . | Dutch Harbor 2 | 24 2 4 16 Pt.Cldy whoml "NIS"' foes calléd & “rubber(r— o . : Kodiak 30 | 22 2 4 0 Clear stamps.” convicted of forgery, was ordered Gran Chaco frontier feud. Cordova 34 | 26 28 8 22 Clear 4 » to lock her lips and throw the k Spain’s war ‘was two years old Juneau 28 | 32 34 4 24 Snow mur:;r “C";‘:_';’ ““"”flev urgeq | 2¥AY. Sinclair Lewis acted in a and China’s was one year old last| Sitka 40 | — 38 4 a8 Rain OTeEs Hioh. o, “UrhORE” thatr chiet, | U2 Hat” theater, July. | Ketchikan %" 32 34 Calm 16 = Pt.Cly Regublithn Chairman Hamilton Rumania’s Queen Marie, Justice | Prince Rupert ... 48 | 34 36 4 26 Clear s‘lgugrass Wwould be growing in the LUlamin Cardozo and muel Edmonton 14 | -2 14 6 0 Pt.Cldy Straots but for the mimp'lng feet of | 10 11 died in July. But no notable | Sgattle 48 40 42 8 15 Cloudy 13000,000 people looking for work got more attention than did John | Portland 48 | 40 40 4 a7 Cloudy Ar’m ,hmbmies Weiit 36" town - and Warde, 26, a little man who L’,M | San Francisco 58 | 48 48 4 0 Cloudy SRR fher punp, dimpies, politi- | °UF O0 8 ledge 17 stories above the New, York 42 28 32 6 0 Cloudy oR: g walks of New York and smoked Weashington 56 36 40 6 0 Cloudy WEATHER CO%DITIONS AT 8 AM. TODAY Victoria, cloudy, temperature, 40; Bellingham, partly cloudy, 38; Seattle, cloudy 38; .Mr.rt Bay, partly cloudy, 36; Bull Harbor, partly cloudy, Pri)ice kupert clear. 37; Langara, clear, 35; Ketchikan, cloudy, 33 Craig, clear, 32;. Wrangsll, clear, 2t Petersburg, clear, | 30; Sitka, cleay, 33; Jinfau, snowing, 34; Cape Spencer, partly cloudy, 37; Hoonah, clear, 30; Tenakee, clear, 28; Radioville, cloudy, 34; Skagway, cloudy, 25; Haines, cloudy; Tulsequah, snowing, 21; Wind- ham Bgy, cloudy, 35; Cordova, cloudy, 32; Chitina, cloudy, -10; McCar- thy, cloudy, -8; St. Elias, cloudy, 34; Seward, cloudy, 22; Anchorage, | clear, 7; Fairbanks, clgudy, -12; Nenana, cioudy, 2; Hot Springs, clou- dy, -2; Tanana, snowing, -2; Atlin, clear; Nulato, clear, -4; Ruby, clou- dy, -10; Flat, cloudy, -18; Stuyahok, cloudy, -11; Bethel, partly cloudy, -14; Nome, cloudy, -1; Solomon, clear, -2; Golovin, clear, -3; Council, clear, -5; Taku Lodge, cl:udy, 18; McGrath, clear, -10. Juneau, Jan. 5.—Sunrise, 8:46 a.m.; sunset, 3:25 p.m WEATHER SYNOPSIS Low barometric pressure continued this morning throughout Al- aska, northwestern Canada, and ‘over the northeastern portion of the North Pacific Ocean, there being a storm of marked intensivty area . e g centered over the Pacific Ocean at latitude 46 degrees and longi- TO ETERNITY . .. Thousands | qo 136 degrees where a pressure of 2870 inches prevailed . High waited heurs for his jump. | parometric pressure, prevailed over Canada in the vicinity of the Hud- son Bay. This general pressure distribution has been attended by job. He s¢ light precipitation over most of Alaska, following by clearing this I took the job purely on a ser : 4 morning over the Territory except over the Aleutian Islands. basis. I felt I had to have something It was warmer last night over the Alaska Railroad belt from 0 do, and this seemed worth-while.” Anchorage to Fairbanks and colder over the western and northern n smack into a spring when relief money state ran out. Cries of »a” were heard in Cleve- 00 families became depen- tent on his ability to find relief for them portions of the l(‘luwx} new device which everyone will w-.:mLi Discovery of a sharp change in and need—an era such as the inter- |the properties of the earth at that nal combustion engine brought. depth is reported in Nature by K. “Pre-fabricated houses may bring |E. Bullen of Aukland, N. Z. The it, or possibly television. Then again |evidence is an increase in electri~ Ran Out Of State Funds perhaps there can be no solution |cal conductivity, obtained by pros- He combed the relief rolls to find without a world-wide economic ad- | pecting with electric currents sent he neediest cases, and kept the re- justment and an international short | dcop into the earth. lief machinery functioning on a mukmg v\e(‘k ! i Backing up the electrical evi- hand-to-mouth basis until new state - | dence, says Mr. Bullen, is the fact money was obtained. When his ad- that earthquake foci, the subter- ministrative relief workers went un- AI.ASKA jolmNG |ranean points where the quakes seem to originate, do not go deeper paid, he dug down into his own ocket. He sums up his economic AN than about 400 miles. “For many years to ‘come, and There is also the evidence, he perhaps permanently, millions of said, of quake waves. They in- |crease speed about 400 miles down, the higher rate is apparently due to entry at that point . into denser material. The findings of electricity and seismographs would be explained. Mr. Bullen says, if the earth at 400 |miles down is made of olivine. | This is a greenish stone, also called |chrysolite. Some of the forms are — Alaska semi-precious. They are some- unemployed must look to the federal government for their work. “We all live in the hope that a new industrial era \ull dawn in some . DISEASE' BAHIL Marchmgvon tnfanhle Par- . alysis-Support Presi- | dent’s Birfhday Ball NEW YORK, Jan. 4. |today joined the parade in this times called green garnet. {year's march against infantile | fmra]ysis,' 3 o B €| The 400-mile form, suggests Mr. |” From far-off Fairbanks came Bullen. would have to be made of cubic crystals to account for its density.- Normally chrysoitie 'crys- tals ave orthohombic, an frregu- lar form in three planes. Indicted word to Keith Morgan, Chairman | of the Committee for the Celebra- tion" of the President’s Birthday, that Alaska is enthusiastic over the new program of the National Foun- dation for Infantile Paralysis. Mr. Morgan was further told that | Alaska will break all former records in raising tunds for' the drive. C. R. Settlenrier, prominent Fair- banks publisher, declared Alaskans are wholeheartedly behind the campaign. From -Juneau, Ketchi- kan and Petersburg comes infor- mation also that those cities are in | the campaign. Mr. Morgan said Alaska would ‘be completely organized for the' ’campaxgn. and that the same plan of the Foundation to establish | permanent chapters embracing all | counties would be followed in Al- |aska as in the various states. ! | Under this pregram the funds | raised will be divided on a 50-50 | basis, one-half of the funds will be sent to the Committee for the Cele- bration of the President’s Birthday | to be turned over to the National | Foundation, the, other half of the | funds will be held in trust by the "Fnundation and turned over to the permanent chapters when they are | organized after January 30—Presi- “dem. Roosevelt's 57th birthday. GEE WHIZ! JUST - GET-ONTO THIS By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE ' AP Science Editor ’lctured above 8" , editor' of the: Journsl of: tlmv Lmenc-n Medical Association, who, vith twenty other prominent medi- :al .officials, was indicted by the federal Grand Jury at Wuhmztnn m anti-trust charges. The men are obstruct' has a “basement” of green semi-