The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 19, 1939, Page 8

'COMMITTEES OF CHAMBER NAMED FOR 1939 HERE Juneau Gr&u? Adds New Channel Dredging Committee Committees for 1939 were an- nounced today for the Juneau Chamber of Commerce by President Charles W. Carter as' follows: Aviation—L. E. Delebecque, S B. Simmons and Norman Banfield Boy Scout§— Charles H. Burdick, J. A. Glassé and Wellman Hol- brook. Civic Improvement — John Jones, Harold B. Foss and Dr W. Council Community Welfare—W. B. Kirk, Charles W. Hawkesworth and G E. Knight. Pire Prevention—V. W. Mulvihil N. Lester Troast and J. S. Mac-| Kinnon. | Forum and Policy—George W. Folta and other Past Presidents. w. w.{ Legislative — H. L. Faulkner, Howard D. Stabler and W. G.| Smith. Reception—H.I, Lucas, & g MecKinnon and R. L. Bernard { Local Industries—F. E. McDer-| mott, B. Frank Heintzleman and 8. J. Paul. 1 Membership and Pinance—Keith | Wildes, Rev. C. E. Rice and J. J Stocker. Mining—N. G. Ricketts, Stewart and H. L. Faulkner. Program and Attendance—A. B Phillips, Dr, M. J. Whittier, Harry Sperling and Lou Hudson. | Retall Trade—Frank Garnick, A.| van Mavern, Harley Turner and Henry Meler. Radio Interference—H. L. Wood, M. E. Monagle and George W. Fol-. ta. | Small Boat Harbor—Allen Shat-| tuck, M. S. Whittier and W. S George. ‘Tourist Holbrook, Charles Keith Wildes. Transportation and Trade—| Thomas H. Dyer, H. O. Adams and B. D.| Advertising — Wellman Goldstein and | D. B. Femmer, | Channel Dredging—R. E. Robert- son. Tke P. Taylor and Dr. R. M Coffey. Eight Women Caught With Their Hair Down| LONDON, Jan. 16.—Eight women in a Richmond hairdresser's shop were halfway through a permanent waving operation when the elec- trie lighting in the district failed. The hair-dresser took his clients in taxis to Putney about five miles | Treasurer, Free of Marital Bonds THAT'S ODD Quarter of—Divorcees Would Remarry Their Former Mates CHICAGO, Jan. 19. — Every fourth divorced person would like to re-marry the former partner if | circumstances were favorable. Clar- Jence Wesley Schroeder of the Uni- versity of Chicago discovered | through interviews with several |hundred men and women whose I marriages were terminated by the courts. | Schroeder made his study in| Peoria, Ill, which has a divorce |rate of 223 per 1,000 population | |annually, nearly twice as high as| the Illinois and United States av-| iemgec. | Schroeder found the highest di- | vorce rate to be in sections of the | !city termed “squalid” by the Fed- | eral Housing Administration. | S eee 'SIX BIDS OPENED, | ROCK FILL PROJECT Six bids were opened before the | & | City Council in the City Hall at 2 Constance Talmadge Free of marital bonds, Constance Talmadge, once a glamorous screen player, is shown in New York. Miss Talmadge won a di- vorce from Townsend Netcher, wealthy Chicagoan, in Chicago. ACCOUNTANCY BOARD DS IN REPORT TO LOWER HOUSE TODAY Thé report of the recently creat- ed Territorial Board of Account- ancy, James C. Cooper, Secretary-| was received by the House of Represenattives today. Board members, Harley Turner, Ted Hellenthal and James C. Coop- er, turned in a report stating that five certificates had been issued in Alaska from June 11, 1937 to December 31, 1938, They were issued to Harley Tur-| ner, James C. Cooper, Ted Hellen- thal, all of Juneau, John White of Fairbanks. and W. R. Bjorneby, of Ketchikan. ee—— The raccoon is one of the clean- est of animals, washing and rewash- ing it food in stream or lake water | o'clock this afternoon, on the rock & | fill project at the small boat harbor | The bids, which called for figures | on the hauling of approximately 16,- 1000 cubic yards of waste rock from | the loading bunkers just outside the | | city limits to a site shoreward of the | | proposed boat harbor, will be pub- |lished and the successful bidder made known tomorrow night at the | | regular Council session. | Besides the bid turned into the City Council for the construction of | a rock fill to extend from the Doug- las Bridge aproach to a point con- necting with the north breakwater and to serve the dual purpose of & road and dike, another bid from the | ‘War Department for more rock fill is to be awarded at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning. This additional bid is to provide irock for a south breakwater, 430 feet in length, running parallel with the Douglas bridge, beginning with the end of the bridge approach, and | also for additional rock fill to com- | plete the 600 foot west breakwater. | At present there is approximately | 90 feet left before the last named | unit is complete. | Plans regarding the road-dike rock | fill are to have it intersect the Doug- las bridge approach road and pro- | vide a causeway directly to the harbor docks. Material dredged out| of the harbor will be transferred to fill the area to the east of the (ll-“ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JAN SOMETHING | - .. . the HAPPY COMBINATION (blend) of American and Turkish tobaccos in Chesterfield which gives millions more smoking plea Chesterfield combines in rare degree qualities you’ll find in no other cigarette. In Chesterfield you’ll find refreshing mildness.. . better taste...more pleasing aroma. 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There are great‘ | tea and coffee houses here, ware- | houses and central offices of East- | ern princes who deal in spiced mer- chandise from the Orient. And there are goodnatured but iron-fisted Irish | cops who keep an eye on the long- | MARYLIN MESEKE, of Marion, Ohio, chosen away and completed their “Per NO EXCHANGES NO REFUNDS NO 'APPROVALS before it feasts. ture causeway. Iymrs ago somebody wrote a book |about South Street. It was a very should have been, for féwkstreets ad the romantic appeal of this old center of Yankee trading in a day when white-bosomed square riggers dotted the waterfront. | But for all its glamorous bygones and maritime legends, I think it | must take second place to West Street today. Few streets anywhere | have the meat that West Street has. | The scene of trading operations has | shifted from East River to the Hud- L son. Here the big liners report and depart. Here are outlets for two eastern rail centers, the Erie and the Lackawanna. And here comes | the produce from Jersey and New England. Four-fifths of New York's green vegetables, apples, tomatoes, pears, cranberries, citrus fruits, potatoes, lpcmm'y, grapes—indeed everything that grows which New York uses | shoremen, and the motorists, and | street idlers. | West Street is a bad place in| green salads, fruits and vegetables. Is Proposed dull book and not at all,what it | | Having witnessed these operations | on frequent occasions, it never fails !to astound me to find the street comparatively clear in the morn- truck to thousands of confederate retail stores and shops throughout | | the city. And as completely as they have disappeared from the street, | so in a few hours will they disappear from the shops—into the throats of New York's hungry seven mil- lions. But West street, widest of Man- hattan’s thoroughfares and a scene | of humming activity ‘day and night, is not given entirely to produce. It has it’s shipping too. All the major | liners creep past. Here all the great | | modern mechanized docks are lo- cated. From West Street you may see buoys floating in the river’s| ing, with only a few crates of cran-| berries here, a few bags of potatoes | there. They have been whisked by | | bel Goodman. which to engage in fisticuffs. Thei |brass-knuckle and the jimmy are | An item of $3,000000 for work in |not unknown here..And the dock- Alaska is included in the budget | wallopers know how to accommodate | submitted in Washington by the Civil Aeronauti Authority, it was | announced here today by I. K. Mc- | Williams of Anchorage, Gerfie Olson HeadS ;(ativo of the Authority. | anyone looking for trouble. —————————— This amount was reduced to $1,- | 000,000 in President Roosevelt's re- Women Of Moose‘commendation to Congress, McWil- | liams said. If this amount or any | part of it is made available for work Mrs. Gertie Oison was elected as|in Alaska it would be of great value Senior Regent at last night's meet- | to the Territory, he stated. ing of the Women of the Moose,| McWilliams spoke briefly at to- due to the resignation of Mrs. Isa- | day’s Chamber of Commerce lun- | cheon. During the session, Mrs. Olson| Joe Crosson of Fairbanks intro- gave an interesting talk concern-|duced McWilliams and other mem- ing the Moose Women's chapters bers of the Alaska Aeronautics Com- visited during her recent trip to the | munication Commission, M. D. Kirk- | states, in which she told of the|patrick of Cordova and John Cross ritualistic work exemplified by the|of Deering. Les Cook of Atlin also represen- | Many Items Marked Below Cost to Clear Now: HOUSE DRESSES—50c¢ ~ $1.50 BLOUSES $1.00 and $1.95 SKIRTS Now Only $1.95 . COAT Munsingwear Hosiery 40e¢ Munsingwear balbriggan pajamas for women and children onl FINAL SLASH IN Values to $35 in sports models and furtimmed styles— $9.50 10 $16.50 DRESSES {ANY HATON 1 rack of values to $14.50 in Cleal'allee silks, woolens, velveteens— now-—— Now Only $l.95 2 for $9.00 RUMMAGE TA values SO— 4 t 1 rack of values to $16.50 Hosiery, Lingerie, Brassieres, ES:filnqwm]ens and %fliii(‘umm ———grouped at @ Dresses z loc, 250, 35c1 mc' 15: JUNO in its daily cuisine is dumped in here in carload lots. These cargoes arrive after dark, when traffic is at low tide, and for several hours before and after midnight in the | channel, and hear the wail of sir-| |ens, and the throaty bawl of fog |various lodges. horns. | Plans were also formulated for a The great river craffic of the Hud- | PUPHC card party to be given Feb- | ruary 1 in connection with their re- son plies to and fro 24 hours a day. L, P IOURE & COY: §gular meeting, with the Moosehaven | was_introduced. | Other guests of the Chamber were | members of the Alaska Game Com- | mission, Earl N. Ohmer, Chairman, | of Petersburg, Frank P. Williams of PHONE 723 FOR A LOVELY YOU after a visit to the \ ROYAL . . . your hair gleaming with health to make you twice as charming . . . done in a coiffure that's ‘right’ for you —— at —— THE ROYAL Beauty Salon ANN EARLY BARR Owner-Operator * SAMPLE SHOP . T THRIFTY OIL HEATING! FULLY AUTOMATIC FOR THRIFT WEEK AND ALL THE YEAR ‘ROUND Ben Franklin, himself, would approve the many economy features of the RICE 8 AHLERS CO. Third and Franklin Streets—————PHONE 34 -l REC.U.S. PAT. OFF | committee, jand Mrs. Millie Hooker being charge | John Haidukovich of Fairbanks and Mrs. Anna Rodenburg|St. Michael, Andy Simons of Kenai, |of the affair. The kitchen will be | Frank Dufresne of Juneau. | supervised by Mrs. Ralph Reischl, Mrs. J. Soufules and Mrs. Elizabeth | i Bender. ‘ Tefl('h ‘Originator of “Foxy Fur . Grandpa" Dies, East : | NEW YORK.pJanA 19.—4:':“1 E“Farmlng Schultz, comic artist, who caricatur- | ed his own grandfather as “Foxy WINNIPEG, Jan. 19.—University | Grandpa,” ingenious, kindly and of Manitoba is offering a special sly, died here in his sleep. He was |short course of lectures on fur 172 years of age. {farming. The first lecture was at- the country’s most utiful girl of the year. Copyright 1939, LIGGETT & MyERs ToBacco Co. b ] Eskimo Gets Taste of i Civilization | ——— | CHICAGO. Jan. 19—How night | clubs, “swing music,” canned dog |food and sheet metal houses are | changing life for the Eskimo is | described by Rev. Bernard R. Hub- S e 4 04 4 bard, the priest who clambered over < Alaskan glaciers until he became |an authority on them. | Father Hubbard says the Eskimo is now addicted to bacon instead of whale meat and that many a husky dog is being stuffed with canned dog biscuit. Eskimos near Nome had no idea what an igloo lco':2d liF», he said, until a Hollywood motion picture company arrived to make “an north.” The motion picture people though igloos but they had to build one so the Eskimos could see what it looked like. The Eskimo, Father Hubbard said, prefers sheet metal houses, Some of the Eskimos have taken up the night club idea and assem- ble in a community center for their version of it. Stock QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Jan. 19 — Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 9%, American Can 98%, American Light and Power 3'%, Anaconda 32, Bethlehem Steel | 73%, Commonwealth and Southern | 1%, Curtiss Wright A 25%, General Motors 477%, International Harv- |ester 55 %, Kennecott 397%, New | York Central 20%, Northern Pac- ific 13%, Safeway Stores 337%, Sou- thern Pacific 19%, United States Steel 65%, Pound $4.68%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, } |tended by 25 men and one woman, | The latest figures available, 1935,|all fur farmers. | show that United States’ cattle pop- B | ulation is around 68,000,000 head. Today's News ‘roday.—Empire. BENEFIT DANCE Under the Auspices of the JUNEAU SKI CLUB Saturday—Elks Hall ADMISSION ONE DOLLAR Tickets Now on Sale il‘afls 32.11, utilities 24.69. EPoIite Let Drivers Know llhey're Aro_uln! | CHICAGO, Jan. 19.—Neon signs eight inches high, reeding “police,” v b authentic film on life in the frozen ' ¢ al Eskimos lived in ice » ¥'# “swing music,” or what passes as PR ¥ by Jones averages: Industrials 14947, « &, e have been placed on top of certain & Chicago park district squad cars |as an experiment in helping mo- torists maintain legal speed limits. | The squad cars are driven along |the park roads at legal speeds. Mo- |torists can see the signs a quarter {of a mile distanct and govern their !speed accordingly. | “We don't want to operate speed |traps in the park district,” ex- |plained James B. Kerr, chief of |the park police. “We want people * |to know a police car at night when they see one. There won't be any camouflaging.” ¢