The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 1, 1939, Page 2

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Eloctric wng THE DAlLY ALASKA EMPIRE, WhDthDAY MARLH I, k Women In The News | And They All | Have New Jobs IN CHICAGO Viviane Eugenie Allenby, 19, cousin of the late Viscount Al- lenby, British World war hero, disappeared from New York and was found in Chicago, working as a nursemaid, IN NEW YORK Roberta Semple, daughter of Evangelist Aimee Semple Mc- Pherson, gave up church work in California to go ‘to New York and a job as research di= rector for a radio hobby pro- gram. IN WASHINGTON Mary Elizabeth Thompson, of | Syracuse, N. Y., has been ap pointed socxcl.ny to the associate justice of the Su- pu-mc Court, Felix Frankfurs ter. IN DALLAS The former Mrs, Mattie Sand- fifer has just taken on the job of being stepmother to those famous baseball boys, Paul and Dizzy Dean. She married the Dean boys’ father, Albert M. Dean, at-Dallas, Texas. / FORMER THANE - MAN IS LOCATED IN PHILIPPINES Frank Hedges, tormerly connect- ed with the old Alaska Gastineau | Company at Thane, writing to The Empire, states he is now with the Demonstration Gold Mines, Ltd, | at Baguio, Mountain Province, Philippine Islands. B i e cm— GUCKER HAS HIS ' OWN AGENCY NOW; E. REYNOLDS, ASST. i J. W. (Jack) Gucker left for the westward and interior aboard the Yukon and will be absent from his Juneau headquarters for five or six weeks. Mr. Gucker recently disposed of i his interests in the Jakeway Com- | pany and has now established his agency office and warehouse on the Alaska Dock and Storage Company. | Mr. Gucker remains the exclusive | dealer in Juneau for Rainier Beer. | He also represents a line of liguors in ;udmtion to his other beverages and | merchandising commeodities. Ellis Reynolds, brother of Percy Reynolds, will represent Mr. Gucker. | in his Juneau business. Reynolds has made the announcement that a truck and driver are also ready for Juneau buyers, affording constant aud immediate contact. [FIRE FOLLOWS - /EXPLOSION IN JAPANESE (ITY {Extent of f)_igster Is Not Known But Qver 5,000 Men. Rushed.fo Scene OSAKA, Japan, March 1, explosion of a military magazine in suburl Kirakata, has spread-fire throughout the dis- trict, and led the army to mass 5,000 soldiers, fire fighters and lief workers to the neighborhood The number of casualties is 1ot immediately learned but the ex- tent of the disaster seems to be {increasing as fire trucks and spec- ial police have also been rushed to the area from Koyoyo, 20 wmiles away. s LR 'GERMANY PLANS " LEAD POSITION . WORLD AFFAIRS Military, Aviation_Forces |- to Be Equal to. Those of Other Nations BERLIN, '‘March | 1.—Prime Min- nounced today determination i“mnmwin Germany's leading posi- tion among the world’s military and aviation forces.” 1 An | powder | re- ! | ister and Field Marshal Goering an-| to| Helen strean waer’'s e her Recently selccted as the Goering said Germany will contin-| ue to play an important role also in| world politics. | An Essen newspaper, National Zei- | tung, which is close to Goering, dis- # | closes that “several hundred thou- sands of workers are employed in | several tremendous German air- plane plants now.” 'HOUSE MEMBERS WILL BE GUE: 5 OFLOCALC. OF (., The. sixteen members the | Territorial House of Repr ‘Lives will be guests of the Chamber of Commerce inoon at Percy's Cafe, acc 1an announcement made ‘noon by sauvtary Rdy | = . | | | ‘DEREI.ICT scow - LEAVES STRAIT Wreckage: of . a . derell |floating in the middle | Straits has apparently | | | { | SCoW Peril 121 sunk to Capt. Gus Gustafson of 1w0torship Estebeth who was over (e o ‘llast Saturday mornin: The wreckage was first sighted 23 while on an air flight to Sitka i land was reported as a menace to navigation. | CATHOLIC WOMEN PLAN FOOD SALE At last night's meeting of the Catholic Daughters of America, plans for a goody sale, to be given March 11, were formulated. March 17 is the date set'for the third of a series of card parties sponsored by the Catholic women, the affair to be held as usual in the Parish Hall It was announced that the sew- ing group would meet tomorrow at Mrs. Walter Hellan's, with a des- sert-luncheon being served at 1:30 o'clock. Those who wish are invit- ed to bring their sewing any time after 9 o'clock in the morning, or if they prefer, wait until the after- noon. INSTALLATION OF SCOUTS AT HAINES ‘Haines will inaugurate théir first Boy Scout Troop at a ceremony to | be held in the Presbyterian Church of that city ext Sunday, Maxch 5. The p, which consists of 20 memben, received its charter from W Scouts of America from Ng Scput, headquarters in New Llsb week. qunlnrs of the new troop are Scoutmaster, Ed A. Johnson; Ghair- man of Tropp Committee, Sam P. Troutman; Troop Committee Treas- urer, the Rev. Ralph Wheeler, Troop Adviser, Henry Hertz. At the ingugural ceremony, flags, registration cards and badges will be presented to the traop members. Tong g gl ELKS BIG NIGHT Past Exalted Rulers will eccupy the various stations at the meeting of the local Elks tonight. A large attendance of members is anticipat- e i PR S SOy SHONBECKS LEAVE A. A. Shonbeck and Mrx, Shon- beck, who have been in Juneau for several days, left on the Yukon on fmesr way home in Anchorage, ector | by pilot Shell Simmons February | TEACHER SALARY | 'BILL UNDERGOES SENATE CHANGES INo Increase by Years in Committee Measure- Other Changes Stripped of its provision that p is to increase at the rate of $45 . the teachers' salary bill came . lout of the Senate Committee on Ed- ucation today. The new substitute for Represen- ative Ed Coffey’s House bill 17 pro- vides that the Territorial Board of Education and the School Boards of incorporated cities shall pay teach- at least $1800 per year in the First Division, $1980 in the Third Di- vision, and $2100 in the Second and Fourth Divisions. Refunds would remain the same as at present, instead of being chang- ed as the House bill provided so that the Territeyy would refund the to- tal amount of salaries. Salary Reimbursement To make School Boards live up to the salary scale, the bill provides that refund shall not be tade to any incorporated city for a salary less | than the minimum specified for that | Division. | The Territorial Board of Educa- tion, under terms of the Senafe biil, would determine how many teachers may ‘be hired in‘a municipality to come under the reimbursement clause, Today nate session was in the nature of the calm that follows the storm Seunator Cochran’s Senate bill No. 188, establishing a permit liquor sale, was passed by a vote of five to three without a word of dis- cussion. Now the measure will at tempt to gain entry into the Hous where a two-thirds vote will be nec- | essary to admit it. Hospital Claims The Senate passed House bill No. 84 to pay claims of the Seward Gen- | eral Hospital and the Maynard Col- | umbus Hospital at Nome for hospit- | alization of indigents. The Seward claim is $222750 and the Nome claim $1.781.20. Also passed was House bill No. 93 appropriating $195 to pay Felix Andrea of Holy Cross for expenses of burial of Sam Callahan of lone- ( some River in 1932, { House bill No, 92 appropriaun«v $17.976 for repairs and mainten- | ance of the Territorial building was defeated. chwmmn\'o Howard Lyng's House bill No. 60, reducing the inter- est rate on loans from 10 percent to | 8 percent, was continued in second | reading after Senators criticized a | ;xumber of alleged flaws in its word- ng. MEDAL AWARDED €CC YOUTH FOR SAVING A LIF Chickering_[):a}orated for | ... Resuscifation of Juneau Boy old Peterson after the youth had fallen in Gastineau Channel last October 10 was rewarded last night when a Natlonal Safety Council .| DENVER. March 1. Herojsm in saving the life of Har- | I 939 Courtesy Paul Stone, Chicage Hansen Jlined girl” in a beauty contest in Grove, now is in Hollywood. Some in the movies as a "s(‘_lr. medal was Chickering. Chickering, a CCC enrollee from St. Helens, Oregon, applied artificial respiration to Peterson's body after the youth was pulled from the water by Carl Hagerup, Forest Service sign shop employee. The accident occurred near the Forest Service warehouse when Pet- erson and another boy fell from a dock. The other youth swam out of the difficulty without help Presentation the medal was made last night by Harold E. Smith, Assistant Director of Alaska CCC, on behalf of the National Safety Council. The brief mony took place at the Forest ice ware- house before 15 CCC enrollees and several Forest Service officials e - | (. HILL VICTIM | OF HEART ATTACK Charles Hill, 50 year-old Bristol Bay fisherman, dropped dead yes. terday near the Home Bo mn]mv,‘ House on Gastineau Avenue. Hill had just arrived here from the south on the steamer Yukon |and was on his way to see friends whom he thought lived at the Board- | ing House. He had planned to stop ver in Juneau for a few days and | then proceed to Bristol Bay for the fishing season Dr. William M. Whitchead was called for an examination and stated | that death was due {0 a heart attack. | The body was identified by George | salo. The remains are at the Cha W. Carter Mortuary pending funer- al arangements. 'SCHOOLS TEACH SWING JIGS T0 PROMOTE POISE presented to Gcnrgn} of | wing and have moved right up ooms of western| | fancy dances [ front in cla schools. At Denver and in several other cities the Lambeth Walk, the Bif Apple and even some of the ultra fancy jitterbugs jigs are taught as| | part of physical education courses. “They teach a student rhythm and the social graces and give them exercise,” says Miss Ruth Johnson, Denver high school physical edu- cation teacher. In Tulsa, Okla. even the grade | schools have taken up the Lambeth | { Walk. Miss Miriam Gray, teacher, ys, “It’s just the thing.” | “The youngsters like it—in fact, they love it,” she says. “A few boys called it ‘sissy stuff’ at first, but they soon got over that.” The Denver high school physical | education classes have all the ap- | pearance of a social hour. The class- | es are held in the school gymhasium and both boys and girls participate. The students, Lambeth’ Walking to the music of a phonograph, toss in all the sound effects and come down extra heavy on the “Oi.” Bu! Miss Elizabeth Waterman of |the Winnetka, TiL, public schoc!s who is teaching a special course in rhythm, is not in sympathy with the swing movement. “Americans like swing because | {they are lazy,” says Miss Water- | man, author of several textbooks on | thythm. “It takes less effort to react to a steady rhythm which beats its way monotonously through a popular tune than it does to follow the changing rhythms of a concerto or | symphony.” — e | TRAVELING MEN TRAVEL Herb Dunlap, B. F. Kane and J. W. | Gucker, all brokers, left for the west- | ward aboard the Yukon, I V. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bareau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, Mostly cloudy with oceasional ra moderate south to west winds Weather forecast for Souiheast beginning at 3 in or :30 p.m., March 1 snow tonight and Thursday; Alaska: Mostly cloudy with oceca- sional rain or snow over the north portion and occasional rain over the south portion tonight and Thursday; moderate south to west winds except fresh over Dixon Entrance. Forecast of winds along the C to fresh southwest and west wind trance o Ca Hinehinbrogk along the coast from Dixon En- tonight and Thursday. LOCAL DATA Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity 35 81 SE 12 34 92 w 2 91 0 0 RADIO REPORTS TODAY Lowest, 4a1n. 4a.m. Preclp. temp. velocily 24 hrs. 38 05 Tine 3:30 pm. y 3:30 am. t Noon today uamme ter Weather Lt. Snow LL.S. &R.. Lt. Snow Max. tempt. last 24 bours | 36 4am. Weather Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Clear Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Clear Pt. Cldy Station Atka Anchorage Barrow Nome Bethel Fairbanks Dawson St. Paul Duteh Harbor Kodiak Cordova Juneau Sitka Ketchikan Prince Rupert Edmonton Seattle Portland San Francisco New York 44 Washington 5 E 8 Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Clear 1.21 Cloudy 1.06 % SYNOPSIS ure extended this morning from the Aleutian Islands east over the Gulf of Alaska, Southeast Alaska, and mid-w 1 Canada to northern Allberta, with a center of 29.40 inches west of Dixon Entrance, and a secondary center near Attu Is- land. The barmeter was high over the mid-Pacific Ocean and the west coast states with a central pressure of 30.62 inches at latitude 36 de- grees N., longitude 138 degrees W. Moderat precipitation occurred over Southeast Alaska and northern British Columbia and light precipita-~ tion over the western Aleutian Islands, around the Gulf of Alaska, along the Stewart and upper Yukon ri and over southwestern Canada and the Pacific Northwest with fair the rest of the field of observation Temperature: warmer over the Aleutian Isla lower morning and colder over the A trough of low air pre: somewhat Alaska this were and ast rest of the ; sunset, 5:31 p.m. nding are invited to oe :nt with their ladies for fes CABARETDANCE : SATURDAY NIGHT APPROPRIATION LR e BILL IS TAKEN UP i e v [N HOUSE TODAY cabaret dances are being formu- Ter of lated, the affair to be an event of Satur evening in the Elks ball- room. Wesley Barrett and his orcl tra will play for the occasion, Rod Darnell, dance chairman, charge of arrangements for cabaret. All members of the The toriai appropriation bill to cover expenditur during the next biennium was taken up in the House this afternoon as nearly the first order of busines: -, Empire *Ads ray. with in the PFlks Lodge There's advance spring news here. This is one of the new dressmaker suits' combining 4 dress and jacket made of powder blue-wool in one of the sheer weaves expected to be worn this spring. The viglet- covered sailor is all wyrapped up in a dotted blue and violet veil, <4 2l of the Guif of Alaska: Moderate - Clear « LS. &R g Cloudy « weather prevailing over 4