The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 7, 1939, Page 4

Daily Alaska Empire EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY HFLEN TROY BENDER Alaska. ce in Junesu as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Juncau and Douslas for $1.25 per month. we paid, at the fol on e, $12.00; six m one mon 5 Eub a favor if the Busine fallure or lvery of thele they irregularity in the de per Wews Office, 602; Business Office. 374 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press i y entitled & republication of all mews dispatcl to otherwi dited this paper the published ‘t or local credited no in and also WH \'; HAPPENED TO THE SOVIET POLAR FLIERS? August 13, 1937 disappe Pole the Soviet of six mer ed somewhere on the Moscow di side of orth during to Fs message fly from hatik. Tk - ot tre chat, for certain from Pole and crossed th % President and Business Manager will promptly notify the use for news airplane H-209 with the an attempt to was he plane came two hours after the airmen had| THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, FEB. 7, 19 two companions, was found until 33 years ater. The Andree party was camped on a small Arctic island, had plentiful food, good health and warm lothing. when death overtook them. By a. study of Andree's diary and of the campsite which was still well-preserved when it was discovered in 1930 during 1 search for remains of the Nobile balloon expedition of 1928, Stefansson concludes that the men died from carbon monoxide gas which filled their tent while they were cooking with a kerosene stove. “Unsolved Mysteries of the Arctic,” whether or not the reader agrees with Stefansson’s conclusions It is published his not ontains a great deal of good reading. 'y the Macmillan Company, New York Too Much to Eat? t (New York Times) In 1898 Sir W hortage of wheat by might be postponed were found for ext fertilizer. The cheap W iam Crookes predicted a world 1931. He thought this calamity but not averted, if a cheap wa acting nitrogen from the air for y was found. In 1931, for his, among other reasons. there was a world wheat urplus of 400,000,000 bushels. This year, according 10 the estimate of the International Institute of Agri- culture, there will be a surplus of 1,140,000,000 bushels by July 1. Just now, the world over, we are producing four bushels for every three bushels we eat. ing of the International Wheat Advisory Committee, delegates from twenty-two nations found no solution other In reply tomatoes and quantities. vegetables be raised in greater it was pointed out that some countries, such as France, weren't eating enough wheat. Switzerland proposed “a universal import restriction on vegetable fats.” Farmers would then raise more cattle and could feed their cereals to these amiable animals, other countries retorted that such a plan would glut the beef and veal market and hurt the producers of vegetable fats. The truth is that world agriculture is suffering Wrestling with this problem at the London meet- | The Australian members suggested that such foods as | Delegates from the Netherlands and | %roscope “The stars incline i but do not compol" WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY §. 1939 According to astrology this should be a fairly fortunate day. In the early morning the stars encourage the signing of contracts including | those between labor and industrial | leaders. There is a sign inimical to em-/ ployees and threatening to the best | interests ‘of employers. The winter fwill bring much suffering to certa | classes of workers. Manufacturers of motor cars ar to profit through an extraordinar: | demand for heavy trucks. Own |automobiles will increase in numbers. This is a promising date for law- yers. physicians and members of other learned professions. Need of wise planning in everyday affairs will be recognized. { Old age pensions are to be sligh increased in certain states but travagant standards of compen-; sation will be ignored. The stays &p-| |pear to presage practical help.that | will not encourage idleness amongf { families belonging to pensionersg:: of great astrologers forecast many sudden | deaths among prominent pmx‘ Diseases affecting the lungs are! likely to be unusualiy prevalent. As machinery eliminates power in many factories there is| | to be opportunity for trained hands| in new industries. This year is 0 be noteworthy for its advancement| ‘ 2 YEARS AGO | Prom THE EMPIRE FEBRUARY 7, 1919 A. H. Ziegler, well known Juneau awyer, recently discharged from the United States Naval ser Juneau for Ketchikan where he was to open a law office. James E. Wilson, Territorial Road Commissioner for the Third Divis- ion. arrived in Juneau. He was con- |, sulting with Major W..H. Waugh, | Capt. John Zugg and Lieut. S. &L. Carter, the Alaska Board of Road Commissioners, with reference to oad work in the Third Division. Tial E. Bishop of Behrends Store had taken an apartment at the Bergmann Hotel, where he was to reside during the absence of his wife who was visiting in the south Alvin Weathers and P. L. Viles | were stopping at the Bergmann and for to were completing preparations thle halibut season, planning leave soon for the banks. J. M. Morrison was an arrival on the Alameda and was registered at Care of the health is stressed ‘8s| the Bergmann. Mr. Morrison came | out from Nome and in Juneau for a time Glen Bartlett and A. Morley were was to remain MAaN|made new members of the Elks| Lodge at the Past Exalted Rulers’ Night. Those taking part in the ceremonies were: Charles D. Gar- field, N. L. Burton. William Dickin- 39. ce, left \Fappy | Pirthday)| The Emptre extends congratula- tions and best wishes today, their birthday anniversary .o the follow- ing: ! FEBRUARY 17 Ed Jones Dr. A. W. Stewart Myrven H. Sides Wilbur B. Converse Richard ‘L. Schulta’ Bernard Boyle Doris Ann Bartlett | MODERN ETIQUETTE # Q. When there is some item on the menu which one does not under- | stand, is it all right to ask the wait- ler what it is? A. Yes. Only a timid person would hesitate tg do so. | Q What should a person say | when being introduced to someone whom he has met previously? i A “I think T met Mr. Marshall | several months ago.” Q. Is it proper for one to use aj telephone to acknowledge receipt of | ja gift? | A. No, it is not good form. DENTISTS Blomgren Building PHONE 56 DENTIST Hours 9 a.m. to 6 pm. SEWARD BUILDING Office Phone 469 Dr. Richard Williams ., DENTIST OFFICE AND RESIDENCE GOLDSTEIN BUILDING Dr. John H. Geyer DENTIST 310 Goldstein Building PHONE 1762 Hours: 9 am. to 6 p.m. Ur.A.W. Siewart l_I?irector 1 DRS. KASF™. & FREEBURGER B. P. 0. ELKS meet every Wednesday at 8 p. m. Visiting brothers welcome. DR. A. W. STEWART, Exalted Rui- er; M. H. SIDES, Sec- retary. 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Gordon : ‘_—,'——“—-' r T e said that one of the four motors | gom almost every possible ailment: countries trying to be self-sufficient are raising wheat on land which | ought to be devoted to other uses; Germany and per- nearly 20,000 feet (where it had been flying haps seme other countries are going in for ersatz pro- bright sun and dry & the clouds) to ice-forming | ducts in a big way; some of our most productive soils 13.000 feet |are wearing out, so that it costs more to grow crops .scage | 0N them; finally, for a great variety of reasons. the ShESaREYn MesSAge] orld’s eating habits are changing. in the development of new vocations.! son, Claude Ericson, Harry E. Biggs, The evening should be auspiciod§| and Barney Rosselle {for conferences and discussions af| S |public questions. Governors of state8! A p. Luxton, tt — | e Crown Cmu\sell east and west wi , | east and west will confront serioW for Canada, looking after the Princ- | | problems affecting human welfa: fard ecs Sophia wreck investigation, wired | | Fame is to come to an Americ: the Governor's office that the hear- woman who does to accuse men i the H-209 had gone dead through damage to an end from its altitude | in a » forcing the plane to de e. ir above Two or three radio stations re final cloud at ported shortly receiving a ‘We are landing in 18 reh of rch of months ago and despite a the polar seas and of the northerr we know nothing the fliers was 1ere is still hope, and will be or more men of the Soviet plane crew will make thei way to a settlement This is the opinion of Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Arc tic explorer, who thi published a book “Un solved Mysteries of the with the mor Arctic which deals Soviet plane Tt of his disappearance. crew will come through to safety yet Stefansson as follows: chance of death 50 percent oned up by Original ugh a or crippling ad landir becau wings and summer corrosion of ice flyi n holds there is moisture above the polar seas which will ice plane; and only in summet that almost everywhere on which to make a landing.) C fe landing, of being able to liv food el secured on the island, percent ky wa there is not smoot ice by ha he party were ice, or on bite 50 The chance till alive one year from a descent upo the pack If the therefore, 25 percent, survivors and then some unintelligible concen- | at all about what the|with pick, shovel, axe, saw or hammer. | shifts in food consumption took place almost every- | until 1943, that one |* injury. the worst possible time of the year,| 1ce it is only in the summer that an unin- that landed where commonly supposed, and if | they drifted with the ice pack or on a floe toward the | Atlantic as did the Papanin expedition the same year ' in a somewhat similar circumstance, the Soviet plane would have died by drowning before the|of the Te Oid people eat less than young people, and the world’s civilized populations are aging. Heavy labor is being taken over by machines, and a machine 1| tender may eat a third less than his father, who worked Interesting here after the World War. In this country we a less cereal food, more sugar, more fruit, more m vegetables. Until Hitler came along to iteach the superior nutritive qualities of guns and “|{bombing planes, post-war Germany was consumin; “|less rye and potatoes, more eggs, butter and sugar. ;| eating milk the tmal chapter of | twice as many oranges, three times as many bananas {as before 1914. The period of Weimar and Locarno chances that Sigismund Levanesvsky or some | was pretty good in all countries, so far as eating went are reck-| It was good for people with food to sell as well as for those who wanted to buy: half a dozen little countries |in Central Europe were peacefully exporting increased quantities of butter and eggs, and far-off New Zealand se of summer i ‘1‘" MET | was using improved refrigeration devices to place its (Levan- | dairy products in the European market, All this has been changed. People are as hungr; as ever—in myriads of ¢ a, —but purchasing power that might have gone for h | food has gone for less edible goods. There is no simple | solution. What we can be sure of is that trade wars e | flow of goods to and fro acr | opposed any solution plenty lasting peace the world are hideously to whatever, any world-wide any n | “Bob” Bartlett, Alaska’s New Secretary (Fairbanks News-Miner) | capable and energetic young Alaskan for Secre ritory, E. L. “Bob” Bartlett, the new incum- end of the summer of 1938, the ice on which they 1 bent, confirmed Friday by the United States Sena drifted melting under them being alive on January 1, 1939, unless, just conceivably, they left passing Peary Land or farther southeast they have a tiny chance northeast Greenland Stefansson mentions the The chance of the: will then be z the ice 2r0- to 1 possibility, however, tha there could be a Y in the polar current somewhere not far on the Al that the plan south of it, in which cs as it was 0 that canal of substantial interests in the Territory, and ye ach the Norwegians in ir | Mr. Bartlett doubtless will discharge his duties with __!dignity and ability. As an Alaskan of life-long residence and holder rs of experience in private and public life, none can accuse | him of not knowing or being devoted to his Alaska Coming of pioneer stock, there is not a phase of Alaskan life or conditions with which he is not ac- quainted. His years of experience in the newspaper [ it ka side of the Levanevsky descent and| field and service for a period as Secretary to Alask may have descended at this ¥ or even | Delegate at Washington, and member of the Unem- e they would find themselves | Ployment Board and other public services have given in more or less of an eddy in cold seas which would | Pl an intimate knowledge that stands him well in never melt the Borden If floe, they thus drifted of towar Island and their chance one of the Canadian isi of the previous quarter i is, is again 50 percent. Ha percent If the party should live through the present year' they would Ri n first ve indefinit sailors of Spitsberg: who had much (roub! little en year on meat d and none during the picked up dliest part of the exclusively wer efansson says the Arctic globe in which to live It hat white wit solid ice be | Stefans as Eskimds can thrive on a diet of polar bes it underfoot has edly on Argues. t exclusively they are careful to es s well as the an. fet decision to close the search on th v of the H-209's leaving Stefgyishon says. If the drift was towar tic as¥the Russians believe, Levanevsky as melted under him and all trace i party i now at the bottom ¢ t Why soe othe ar Moscow was. in prac Atlantic we have no final’ ghence that one or more members ¢ will ‘win through is only per Stefansson des. for ce unknown a ppearance, | whateve bited islang \ppear- gone apters in book ancient history and of terest ! with the disappeara f € £ 9000 Europeans Greer an examinatio Thomas Simpson, d e North 100 years a, a new sty f the Perhaps, though it riddle wilEbessolved some day by of relic of a tragedy’ as occurred i the case of Andree, ti Swedish tarted from i suicide ¢ vere: st Pas w not likely, the discovery S pan, who itsberger balloon in 1897 and whose body, aleng with those of rd living | through the present winter, either on the ice Or On|faple and courteous the remaining four years till men of the|eral & where to| . hundred-to-one is still a ray of hope for Levan- f]ta w,] tart Andree mystery Levanevsk stead in his new office. . As a miner, he familiarized himself with a major industry of the Territor A good mixer, always af- Mr. Bartlett measures up to his If inew position way no non-Alaskan could have hoped to do. Fairbanks in a lis home town, and other Alaskan sson says, like the communities may depend upon it that they have a le| tried, loyal and capable Alaskan representing them {In the important position ranking second only to that of the Governor of the Territory 1s = h Oo n (Philadelphia Record) for the myth of the frugal, ponny-watching, et-balancing New Englander. Governor George of Vermont, who was trundled out recently las an authentic Coolidge-type politician, has made a mistake of $1,000,000 in the State budget Governor Aiken recently scrambled up on a ped- especially constructed for him by the conservative 's | press and proceeded to po: a bulwark against Fed- pending. He actually opposing the construc- .. | tion of a dam at Union Village, Vt. The reams of favorable publicity Governor Aiken has been recefving for this stunt are now rudely in- terrupted by an examination of the budget he present- ed to the Vermont Legislature. It showed a surplus of $653,212, but on closer examination this turned out to be a deficit of $586,000 Tut, tut. Governor the budget b AT At D. A \- d | gst ri[ vou'll never do as a hero of wers. Even the New Dealers can add, bill that would y to pay for their s high enough and | Colorado 1 | require prisoner | board | the legislator introduces in the penitenti and lodging. Make place will iamberlain express follow policies aimed at mainte With two better determination e en taking aim when the | the new get had uch the ha Hooy ) employed in a Boston department promoted from the basement to the That makes it Ume for wisecracks about impossible to keep a Roosevell from rising in | | o been { s Chicago man and wife hoped for & daughter and us abead of Canada? s tragically near starvation | real wars and all other interferences with the natural | | Alaskans can congratulate themselves on having of peace, says | shooting | Why didn't they hope for twins and put | the insanity of promoting wars,| | Peace movements will multiply with | | tle chance of making any lasting |impression upon international af- | fairs Persons whose birthdate it is have | (the augury of a vear of ups and | downs. They should be careful about| | business associates. Care of the | health is especially enjoined Children born on this day may be endowed with keen minds and high ideals. The subjects of this sign of Aquarius are usually observant and inclined to Be critical. They usually attain success (Copyright, 1939) [ 'DEMOCRATIC WOMEN - ELECT OFFICERS AT SESSION LAST NIGHT | Election of officers was held. at st night’s meeting of the Demo- ratic Women's Club of Gastineau Channel, held in the Parish Hall of Trinity Cathedral, with Mrs. Wil- liam A. Holzheimer re-elected /as| president Other officers elected include: Mrs. C. P. Jenne, first Vice President;| Mrs. Oscar Olson, Second Vice Pre-| ; Mrs. Kenneth Junge, Sec- y: Mrs. Alice Coughlin, Treas- | urer. Members of the executive board | are: Mrs. C. E. Rice, Mrs. Walter | FEDERAL POWER COMMIS- SION, Washington, D. C. Public no- | tice is hereby given, pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Power Act | (16 U.S.C. 791-825r), that Vincent Soboleff of Angoon, Alaska, as trus- | tee for the owners of the Hidden Falls Lumber Mills of Hidden Falls, | Alaska, has applied for a license for | the hydroelectric project designated | as No. 1502 at the outlet of Hidden | Falls Lake upon an unnamed stream | at Kasnyka Bay on the east shore of | Baranoff Island, Chatham Straits, Alaska, formerly licensed to John R. Maurstad of Killisnoo, Alaska, and | consisting of a dam, flume, penstock, | pipe lines, and four water wheels ! capable of developing an approxi- mate total of 262 horsepower, all used for the operation of the Hidden | Falls Lumber Mills, Any protest| against sthe approval of this ap-| plication or request for hearing thereon, with the reasons therefor| and the name and address of the party or parties thereto, should be submitted before February 28, 1939 to the Federal Power Commission, | Washington, D. C. By order of the Commission: Leon M. Fuquay, Sec- | retary. PFirst publication, Jan. 24, 1939, Last publication, Feb. 14, 1939, | ing on the wreck was to be held in Juneau during the latter part of the month Weather: Highest light snow. 33; lowest 25; Hellan and Mrs. Elmer A. Friend. During the evening Mrs, Lola Mae Alexander, accompanied at the pi- ano by Mrs. Carol Beery Davis, sang several selections. An interesting in- terview was carried on by Friend and Mrs ters pertaining Compensation.” In charge of the social part of the evening was the following com- mittee: Mesdames C. P Frank Boyle, Oscar Olson and Alice Cough- lin Coughlin on mat- to “Unemployment W hat Is Your News |. Q. By The AP Feature Service ? Za Each question counts 20; each part of a two-part question, 10, A score of 60 is fair, 80, good. 1. Identify this Roosevelt. 2. The U. S. postoffice depart. ment made money during 1938 True or false? 3. How old is the youngest me;nher of congress? The old- est? 4. What two railroads are causing serious diplomatic dis- putes? 5. What new post has former _Gnv.” Frank Murphy of Mich- igan? (Answers on Page Six) - ! FORD AGENCY (Authorized Dealers) GREASES Foot of Main Street GAS — OILs ' * Juneau Molors o COMME ¥ - The B. M. Behrends Bank Juneau, Alaska RCIAL and SAVINGS Resources Over Two and One-Half Million Dollars Mrs. | | 1. Which of the five vowels does | not form the initial letter of any of | the United States? | 2. Who was the last President of the U. 8. to be born in New England? 3. What is an animal that has 1no backbone called? 4 | est vocabulary? | | 5. What are the seven degrees of | charity, as given by Thomas Aquin- | (as? ANSWERS | ‘The letter “e.” | 2. Calvin Coolidge, in Vermont. | 3. An invertebrate \ . English, Feeding the hungry, giving |drink to the thirsty, clothing thel| | | naked, ransoming the captive, shel- iwring the homeless, visiting the sick | and burying the dead. - e DAILY LESSONS N ENGLISH # By W. L. Cordon Words Often Misused: Do not say, “We had a glorious time.” Say, “We | ‘had a delightful time.” Glorious imeam illustrious, grand, noble. “He { related many glorious deeds of this| | hero.” Often Mispronounced: Cuckoo. Pronounce kook-oo, first oo as in | cook, second oo as in too, accent first syllable. Often Misspelled: Souvenir. Ob- serve the four vowels. Synonyms: Doubtful, dubious, equivocal, questionable, uncertain, undetermined. Word Study: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us in- crease our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’s word: | Sinew; that which supplies strength or power. (Pronounce sin-u, i as in sin, u as in cube, accent first syll- able). “The bodies of men, muni tions, and money, may justly be called the sinews of war.’—Sir W. Raleigh. — e ee—— Today’s News Tuaay.—Empire. WANT _ TO SELL v WANT . TO BUY Which language has the Iarg-\ DR. H. VANCE | OSTEOPATH \ Consultation and examinaton | free. Hours 10 to 12; 1 to 5; 1 7 to 9:30 by appointment. Gastineau Hotel Annex South Franklin St. ‘ Phone 177 L — | ROBERT SIMPSON, OPT. D.| 1 | Graduate Los Angeles College of Optometry and Opthalmology Glasses Fitted Lenses Ground The Charles W. Carter| Mortuary Fourth and Franklin Sts. PHONE 136 PP ————P | Have Your Eyes Examined by Dr. Rae L. Carlson OPTOMETRIST Office Ludwig Nelson’s Jewelry | Store Phone Green 331 | FINE Watch and Jewelry Repairing | at very reasonable rates | PAUL BLOEDHORN | S. FRANKLIN STREET | | SOt ki Con St da oSN | ON THE MEZZANINE HOTEL JUNEAU. BEAUTY SHOP LYLAH WILSON Contoure Telephone X-Er-Vac - 538 “NEW AND DIFFERENT FOOTWEAR” DEVLIN'S Paris Fashion Shoes _ [y Juneau Melody House Mausic and Electric Appliances (Next Gastineau Hotel) Phone 65 ALASKA FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASSN. Accounts Insured Up to $5,000 P.O. Box 2718—Phone 3—Office 11y Seward St., Juneau, Alaska Juneau’s Gwn Store v i "The Rexall Store” Your Reliable Pharmaclists Butler-Mauro Drug Co. | H.S.GRAVES | “The Clothing Man” HOME OF HART SCHAFFNER & MARX CLOTHING — SSRBRETEIRE 1 & 1S Gastineau Motor Service PHONE 727 GENERAL AUTO REPAIRING Gas—Oil—Storage HARRY RACE DRUGGIST “The Squibb Stores of Alaska” “The Store for Men" SABIN’S Front St—Triangle Bldg. 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