The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 6, 1939, Page 2

'IHE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE MONDAY FEB 6 1939 of LINENS 1-4 Ofl Begular Pnce IRISH LINEN TABLE CLOTHS Matching Napkins Arthur B, James is embraced by his 23- thousands of Pennsylvanians thronged Harrisb: for his #s governor and resumption of Republican rille ?fiu muml‘(mn;:::: will be omcul hoatess nnd first lndv of the state. DOUGLAS NEWS ENTERTAINMENT | OF LEGISLATORS PROVED ENJOYABLE | Four Senators and twelve Repre- | sentatives represented the Terri- torial Legislature at the social ses- yenr—old dlmm. Dmfihy as Luncheon Sets BRIDGE SETS Brea.it?a:lr Sets LACE CLOTHS ALL AT ficiated at toastmaster. He called upon the guests to say which they did, with the resul that those responsible for the so- cial session felt amply rewarded. Humor and good fellowship pre-' dominated in 4ll the talks made., Although not arranged to make an! with the new school, each speaker Pennsylvania Hails Gov. James [NEGOTIATIONS 7*,(0 take only a_definite maximum | Douglas Chamber of Commerce, of- |1055: something, | | ¢ in case of general conflagration all issue of Douglas’s need for a gym- M. nasium to be built in connection dénh John Chappell; " ARE COMPLETED FOR NEW FRM Treaty Signed with- lloyds of London: by Alaska " Insurance Concern | Treaty arrnngenini(.s between the newly projectéd Alaska General In- surance Company of Juneau and | Aunderwriters of Lloyds of London | were completed Iast week at the of- | fices of the Alaska concern in the! Goldstein- Building, | The treaty, effected through m-rzo» tiations of I. C. Rowland, American representative for Liloyds, ‘and M.| | Heneghan and John | Chappell, acting | for the Alaska General Insurance| Company. here, guarantees to (he' Territorial firm full ability to write fire insurance policies involving any size risk. The completion of the treaty sign- ing opens up the future program of the Alaska General and agents writ- ing their business should be in the field within a few months. | Under the terms of the agreement Lloyds will take 90 per cent of all risks, the balance, 10 per cent, han- dled by the local institution. Pre- dicated upon a primary and second- arw treaty structure, the connection | with Lloyds prevides sufficient back- ing to insure any risk in the Terri- | tory and still allewing the firm here | | Under a stop loss agreement the ! Alaska company is guaranteed that losses over a certain amount will he paid by Lloyds. nwastn\ent of .premiums will be largély made in the Territory. - Qfficers of ‘the Alaska General Insurance Company are President, Heneghan; Executive Vice-Presi- Secretary- Treasurer, J. F. Mullen; Counsel, | Modern Arfist Sees Brush As Vital Weapon, Next War sion arranged for them by the Douglas ©hamber of Commerce Saturday night, and held in the City Hall | With a number of the business- men and other residents on hand to greet and welcome the visitors, there was a total assembly of about thirty men present and from all reports the occasion was undoubt- edly one that will be remembered a long time, by guests and hosts alike. Principal entertainment of the af- fair centered around a long table extending the full length of the Council Chamber, and it was laden with delicious salads. sandwiches | and other refreshments. | Arne Shudsh)fl President | 25% NISCOUNT [ ] B. M. DEHRENDS CO0., Inc. “Juneau’s Leading Department Store” e ———— sz o P . of the Daytlme, They re Mechamcs expressed sympathy and promised g p Robertson, Three members of legislative support if finances are yno Boarq of Directors are Hector found to be available. Mayor Kil- 'npeyean H. P. Sprague and J. W. burn wound up the talks planned prendenhall, with remarks of appreciation and good will toward the solons. The following Senators and Rep- ‘resentatives were among the guests present: N. D. Walker, Henry Red- en, O, D. Cochran, C. H. LaBoy- teeux, Edward D. Coffey, H. H. Mc- | Cutcheon, James V. Davis, Leo W. llquor Purchase | Rogge, Harvey J. Smith, John Me- | | Cormick, A. P. Walker, W. J. Dowd, | - On the floor of the House of Rep- Chester T. Spencer, Karl A. Drag- resentatives this afternoon, Attorney Frank S. Gordon, and G. w. General Judge James Truitt said the Legislature has -the right to 0 gt trs O RN | deny liquor to natives. CHIMNEY BLAZE GIVES Judge Truitt.said: “The fact that FIREMEN EARLY RUN TODAY they are citizens does not have any b effect on the matter. The Territory A chimney burning out at the has been given the power to deal| Kibby residence about 5:30 o'clock with its. liquor problem as it sees | |this morning was the cause of an g . |alarm being sounded by Jimmy . «plgbam” LaBoyteaux;Senator Manning, night watchman. There from the Fourth, has a bill in the was a good turnout of volunteer genate pending approval on “‘9| firemen and with hand chemical guestion of whether or not natives the first was quickly extinguished |y be denied the right to purchase without any damage Hquor in Alaska. PSP | WIRES DOWN AND OTHER DAMAGE—CAUSED BY STORM ‘Wires were reported down in sev- eral sections this morning as a result of the strong wind, but line- men of the Alaska Electric Light and. Power Company were on hand to take care of the situation. | At the school, the plate glass in the front door was shattered this morning when the wind slammed Judge Says Indians (an Be Denied. |er, | Martin. \Dance And Be AR .2 o Rich NEW YORK, Feb. 6 — If enough young men can afford din- the door shut. ner jackets — according to one e school of thought—this country can D.IW.C. MEETING just about dance itself into pros- SCHEDULED THIS WEEK Mrs. James Hopgood and Mrs. C. A. Wilder will be the hostesses at.|Retal perity. That idea was given the National fl Dry Goods' Association by This is a camou By ELIZABETH INSKIP WYE NEW YORK-—The dictatorships are going to be mighty sorry—come the next war—for the way they've treated artists. That's the theory of Abraham Rattner, tousle-h: American artist and camouflage ex pert, whose paintings are on ex tion in New York Why? Because it's the modern artist, condemned by the totalitarian state as “degen * who will bring his imagaination and flexibility problems of camouflage, the way the Cubjsts did in the World War Rattner explains: “The modern artists uses color and form form of the object he is painting demic artist of the totalaitr! must paint just what he He paints a nice healthy, juicy mother with half a dozen kidds da. He i$ too restricted to be equal to the emergencies of camouflage Rattner Ilustrates Rattner whisked out a sketch book to illustrate a few principles of cam- ouflage, learned from his experience Th e aca- s. in the Toule sector and 'at Chateaux | Thierry. “This is a gun in an open field," He sketched a gun and then scrat- ched in the sun with three atter hibi- | | to n state | propagan- | iflaged airplane EPICURES WILL | PAY IN JUNEAU | ltems Shipped During ‘ Strike on Norah Subject j fo Cusfoms Tax s the American steamers start | ! | operating in the very near future, | Juneau residents who want to live | on the fat of the land will have to| pay for the privilege of doing so. | Main item on the “haven't got”| list of local grocers is butter. House- wives exhausted the local stock Sat- | urday affernoon in a heavy buying spree, stocking against the even- tuality of short stocks until the strike is setteld. Only source for the commodity in Juneau must come ' from the Outside as no creameries here manufacture butter. Eggs are also on the wanted list | Although a few are produced by FOR FOODSTUFFS the February meeting of the Doug- las Island Women’s Club, planned for Wednesday night of this week. The meeting will be held in the government - school. e DOUGLAS INOCULATION Diptheria immunizations will be given again on'Tueadsy afternoon in the Douglas school, from 3 to 4 o’clock. All children who received toxoid for the first time should have a se- cond inoculation. This will increase the effectiveness of the immuniza- tions. Berr! Mercury Here Stips fo Four Above A whistling Taku wind kept Ju- neau’s temperature in cold storage all day today, with the reading hov-! ering between four and five degrees above zero. At 9 o'clock this mern- ing the temperature was four de- grees, coldest since hbmry.ejflt. when three above was. record the 7th of the month. Even )l.te | in the afternoon, despite the efforts, Nightelub entertainers in the evening, automobile mechanics by day, is the ambitious program of Libby Frazier and Howard Topham, shown in a Washington, D. C., hot spot. During the day, the couple don overalls and operate a service station, with beautious Libby zs much at home with a grease gun as when warbling before a mike. Winter Clearanée USED CARS 1937 DELUXE SIX FORDOOR TOURING SEbAN, hot water heater, mileage 8.740 only five degrees above. ‘The cold weather closed Junepus WPA projects, ‘workers finding it. impossible to grade streets and build | walls in the frigid wind. : 1935 PLYMOUTH FOURDOOR TOURING Wind velocity reached a maximum ) Oscar SEDAN, heater, mileage 34,007 1931 CHEVROLET COACH 1932 V8 FORD COUPE in the morning, although an | gust of 26 miles was recorded for ||a very brief period. Thé wind came straight out of the North. At Fairbanks today the tempera- '| zero. ————————— } number of horses, Connors Motor Co., Inc. cond with 746, | ping-out of ‘the reach of a large Hildegarde Fillmore of a style mag- azine, who told convention dele- gates jitterbugs have given the jit- ters to the dress and cosmetics businesses. They asserted girls couldn't be very glamorous while trucking or doing the Baltimore Bubble, for they have to wear oxfords, socks, casual skirts and sweaters. -*“The kind of glamour that makes profits for department stores,” said Miss Fillmore, “seems to be slip- section of the population. of ‘& bright sun, the temperature was |® e e of 24 miles an hour at 9:22 o'clock | ner, John Clausen, Glen Kirkham, e | Mrs. Esther Sommers. ture was reported 51 degrees below|noon on, the Barapof after a two Towa—in < 935—had the greatest|return to Alaska next year on his with ‘902, Min-~i| 68-foot ‘diesel powered yacht to nesota and Illinois were tied for se-|sample the famous fishing of this “What this country needs is not a good 5-cent cigar, but a good modmu-pnced dress outfit for ‘lmen which the boy on a tiny sal- ary can afford. And we can't fool ourselves. ahout, the fact that mas- culine company brings out the most ¢oncentrated effort toward glamour in the feminine contin- FenLt) LOSES T In a suit brought this morning in District Court by C. E. Gordon against Marshal William T. Ma- honey, asking damages for alleged | ngful arrest, a jury brought in vgx‘q(ct for the defendant on the of insyfficient evidence. were Nellie Kitkpatrick, Betts, Jenkin Williams, Archie et, Winifred Williams, Alleine Isabelle Jorgensen, Christensen, Mrs. John Tur- RES 5 S PERS R _LLOYDS MAN OUT 1 C. Rowland leaves this after- | week stay in Juneau on business for underwriters. of Lloyds. He plans to country. l ALASKANA, ted rays. “Camouflage has to fool local poultry raisers the supply is| the camera as well as the eye. When almost 100 per cent inadequate for the gun position is concealed by a | city demand. ‘ solid covering it throws a shadow| Stocks of greens and meat are| like this in the morning—and like running low and it is estimated that | with half a dozen Kids—propagan- a few days will see the finish of from an enemy aeroplane w the | these essentials. Canned goods are | two shadows, and give away the gun | in plenty. position.” | A few retail merchants of the city Covering the “gun with chicken shipping some produce to Ju-| wire and.tying on strips of burlap neau via the Princess Norah. All painted various ‘earth colors solved | foods that come in on this craft are | the problem by producinz an irreg- of Canadian origin and subject to| ular shadow which looked like shrub- import tax. bery from the air. Assessment on butter collected by | Rattner thinks modern advances the United States Customs is 14 in observation facilities, such as the|cents a pound, eggs 10 cents per| telescopic lense and color ])hl)Lu-rdOIefl potatoes 75 cents per hun- graphy, will make the color man |dred pounds. Greens, such as let- much more important in the next tuce, squash, celery, are taxed 2 war. cents per pounds, levy against toma- | toes is 3 cents per pound. Meat eaters will pay a cover charge |of 6 cents a pound for eating beef, 2% cents for fresh pork and 3% cents for smoked pork. Mutton is ] Can Look Too Real The aerial camera takes a picture under pressure—like a candid shot rather than a posed studio portrait. For that reason a faithful repre-| sentation of a tree (which might be |5 cents extra and lamb 7 cents. the approath of an academic artist) | According to law, if any foods would look less real than something | come in here on the Princess boat that gives the impression of a tree.|they must come from Canada, as “Reality can not be repeated,” Section 27 of the Merchant Marine Rattner goes on, “If a thing is real- | Act states that no foreign boat may | istic, it looks distorted, so it has to be | transport commodities from one ‘distorted to look real.” | United States port to another, either Rattner's oil paintings, described directly or via foreign port, thus| in the catalog of his ezhibition as| eliminating the possibility of the showing “a boundless Nature affec- | | Norah bringing foodstuffs here from | tionately multiplied . in time und Seattle, space by a desperate tenderness,” ————.e —— bear out his theories. Abounding | /ALASKA RAILROAD FUND APPROVED in curves and angles, and overflow- | ing with salmon pink and pea green, | the paintings demonstrate the use of “color as color and form as form, | regardls of the object.” — e e oo WASHINGTON, Feb, 6. — The/ NEW TELEPHONE DIRECTORY House Appropriations Committee To be issued March 15 and forms! approved of $175,000 for the Alaska | close March 1. For space, listings .Railroad retirement and disability and changes please call Juneau and fund. ] Douglas Telephone Co., phone 420.| ady. | - e — | Making of synthetic rubber will be - | demonstrated at the 1939 California By Marle Drake, 50c | World’s Fair, U. S. DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE WEATHER BU’REAU THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) Forecast fot Junéau and vicinity, beginning at 3:30 p.m., Feb. Generally fair and eontinued cold tonight and Tuesday; north and northeast gale. Weather forecast for Southeast Alaska: For the north portion: generally fair and continued cold tonight and Tuesday; north and northeast gales. For the south portion: clearing and colder tonight, Tuesday generally fair and colder; strong northeast and north winds, except of gale force over Dixon Entrance, Clarence Strait, Chatham Strait, Frederick Sound, and over channels having an east-west di- rection Forecast of winds along (he Coast of Gulf of Alaska: North and northeast gales tonight and Tuesday from Dixon Entrance to Dry Bay. and fresh north and northeast winds from Yakutat to Cape Hinchinbrook, except strong gusty winds over mouth of Copper River, LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity. Wind Velocity —Weather 3:30 p.m. yest'y .| 29.70 7 70 NE 21 Lt: Show 3:30 am. today' |.'29.90 4 8 N 20 LtSnow Noon today 30.06 5 51 N 14 Clear RADIO REPORTS TODAY Max. tempt. Lowest 4am. 4a.m. Precip. 4am. Station last 24 hours | temp. temp. velocity 24 hrs. Weathet Atka 40 38 40 14 80 Lt, Rain Anchorage 10 -16 -16 4 [ Clear Barrow -22 -26 22 6 0 Clear Nome -6 b4 -14 6 0 Clear Bethel -10 -20 -10 14 0 Pt. Cldy Fairbanks -32 -48 46 4 0 Cloudy Dawson -22 -30 -30 6 0 Clear St. Paul 3€ 28 34 14 S Cloudy Dufch Harbor . . 4+ 34 38 8 0 Pt.Cldy Kodiak 26 26 18 0 Clear Cordova 22 12 12 4 0 Clear Juneau . 10 1 1 20 04 Lt Snow Sitka 27 13 = o 03 Ketchikan 2 | 30 30 0 46 Mod. S. Prince Rupert 36 34 4 10 Cloudy Edmonton -12 28 10 08 Clear Seattle 46 40 40 16 07 Lt Rain Portland 46 40 42 14 71 Lt. Rain San Francisco 54 50 52 12 i Cloudy New York 36 34 4 0 Cloudy Washington 40 32 34 L | 0 Cloudy. WEAZ i SYNOPSIS Low barometric pressure prevailed this morning from Southeast Aluska sothward to Oregon, there being two storm centers, one over Hecate Strait, the lowest, reported pressure being 29.44 inches and the second storm area was centered between Portland and Seattle, the lowest reperted pressure being 20.3% inches at Portland. Abnormally high barometric pressure prevailed from Nome and Bethel eastward to the Hudson Bay the crest being 30.80 inches at Fairbanks to 30.86 inches at Fort Norman. A steep barometric pressure gradient e: ed this morning between Mayo and Southeast Alaska. pressure distribution has been attended st This general by precipitation from Peters- burg south d to California, als) over the Aleutian Islands, and by fair weather over the remainder of the field of observation. Six inches of snow had fallen at Ketchikan during the 24-hour period ending 7:30 am. today, being the heaviest 24-hours snowfall at that station since February 1937 Temperatures were above normal this morning over the Aleutian d to California, elsewherc s were much below the nor- temperature of 52 degrees below zero and Fair- 51 degrees below ro at 7 aum. 7.—Sunrise, 7:5 Islands and from Dixon Entrance south over the field of observation temperat Mayo reported a reported Feb. mal. banks Juneau, am.; sunset, 437 pam. 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