The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 9, 1939, Page 3

THEATRE SHOW PLACE OF JUNEAU LAST TIMES TONIGHT with JUNE TRAVIS - { Cotrimb; SHORTS Tree of Life MIDNIGHT WHEN G- DICKIE MOORE ¢ Pictu Buckaroo Broadcast N E“’S MEN STEP IN . . and PREVIEW WHO KILLED GAIL PRESTON HOTEL BUILDER HAS RECORD OF BIG STRUCTURES Many of Leading Edifices in Northwest and Al- aska BJI“ by Quist Contractor of the new Baranof Hotel, A. W. Quist has behind him thirty years of activity in the build- ing game during which time he er- ceted many ¢f the prominent build- ings in Alaska and the northwest coast Coming to the United States while still a college undergraduate frem Finland, Mr. Quist landed at New York and f his education there. by easy stages ontinent Seattle in 1992 where he accepted a postion in architect’s office in that city. He later became asso- ciated th Portland Cement Company where he remained until 1009, In that year, in partnership with A. 5. Dewney, he ccmmenced opera- tions in the contracting field. This partnership persisted until the death of Mr. Downey two years ago. Mr. Quist now conducts his business | alone, During the spread of years ~in(-e 1909 to date the firm handled a to- tal of 192 jobs. Most of the promin- th the ent buildings of Seattle were rvared‘ by his company. Structures Amceng this number of structures are: Exchange Buiiding costing $2,- 500,000 and 24 steries in height; Med- ical and Dental Building, Seattle Times Building, Roosevelt Hotel, St. Vineents Hospital, ¢ tle Brewing Plant, Seattle “Rainiers” baseball stadium. At other cities up and down the Northwest coast he has built the American Can plant at Mount Baker Theatre at Belling- ham, Tacoma Medical Arts Building | at Tacoma, St. Peters Hospital in Olympia. Providence Hospital in Ev- | erett, St. Johns Hospital in Port RANGER WORSTEDS 1f you're tired of the extravagant claims of adver- sised merchandise, let us claim just one thing for our new Ranger Worsteds, tailored for us by Timely Clothes. We'd like to claim tem minutes of your time 10 let these suits speak for themselves| TIMELY he landed in, Townsend, St Astoria, Oregon. In Bremerton, Washington, during the World War, he erected for the U. S. Housing Corporation a 350 room hotel, three apartment houses, anc 250 homes, the work all run- ning concurrently and costing over $5,000,000. In Juneau, he has built, besides the Baranof Hotel, the Juneau Ice and Cold Storage Company, the old Charles Goldstein Building, and the original Cold Storage plant on the City Dock in 1913. The New England Fish Company Buliding were erected by Quist in Ketchikan Marys Hospital 'in At Petersburg The Petersburg Cold Storage plant and the reconstruction of the Pet- ersburg dock was also done by him. Another sizeable dock built by Mr. Quist is that for the American Can Company at Seattle costing $3,- 500,000. The Barancf Hotel contractor has two daughters and one son. daughter, Doris, graduates this year from the University of Washington. His other daughter is Mrs. Robert Schoettler, wife of the manager of the Baranof Hotel. His son Eugene Quist is bccupied on the building project here with the company. Regarding his latest building, Mr. Quist states the Baranof Hotel takes its place among the best structures in the United States. The people of | Juneau have an unusual oppor- tunity to enjoy one of the finest ‘hme]s of its kind. D GRAFF WlllIAMS JOIN H. McLEAN IN INSURANCE AGENCY' Raymond Graff, who for the past vear has been associated with Wat~- kins Products in Juneau has made a connection with the McLean In- surance Agency. Jay Williams, a resident of Juneau One | THE DAILY ALAbKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1939. | LARGEST U. S. SHIP PASSES UNDER WORLD'S lARGESI SPAN \ "THE GLADIATOR' IS COMEDY BILL NOW AT CAPITOL Joe E. Brown Is Hilarious in Newest and Nuftiest | of His Pictures Joe E. Brown in “The Gladiator. with June Travis, Robert Kent and| Man Mountain Dean, the bearded behemoth of ring fame, ends at the Capitol Theatre tonight Department. from his customary | | characterizations, the cavern- mouthed tomedian, in his newest of= fering, portrays the role of a scien< tifically-created superman. Those | who read Philip Wylie's novel of the| | same title will remember the humor- | ! ous circumstances under which “The | Gladiator” was launched on his col- | lege misadventures Brown, returning to Webster Col- | lege as a sophomore, is beatén and | bludgeoned on the football field in the spirit of gond clean fun when he attempts to impress Miss Travis, the | belle of the campus. That night the| Professor who owns the boardhig house where Brown resides, selects Brown as the unwitting subject’ of | an experiment to increase the hu=| man normal sirength manyfold. The experiment works From that point on the story of | “The Gladiator” is an amazing as it it amusing, picturing Brown as a, virtual one-man Olympic team and | a co-ed favorite from coast to coast. [ RETURN or Senate Concurs in House Amendments-License | $500 to $1,000 } | 1 (Continuec from Page One) istrator’s salary from $4,000 to $10,- | 000 and by increasing the appropria- | tion from $50,000 to $200,000. Malt | and vinous liquors also were exempt- | ed by the Senate from provisions of the act, Also passed by the Senate late yesterday was a House bill author- | |izing Mayors to make appointments, | with the confirmation of* City | Councils. A tie vote of four to four killed |the Drager dependent children bill. | | Club Licenses { | This morning the Senate killed | wby a vote of five to three, the Mc- | Cutcheon club liquo: license bill, | which would have allowed bona {fide clubs to serve hard liquor un- der a license costing $200 a year. A move by Senator Walker to re- !duce this amount to $100 also was defeated five to three. Those gang- | ling up to kill the bill were Sena- | tors O. D. Cochran, Joe Hofman, SRS w Steaming into the Golden Gate, America's bridge acress San Francisco's Golden Gate. and expesition dignitar sailed back to New York from San Francisce Electioneering a la Mexico Greeted by civic \rgest ships, steamsship Wa shington, s the huge liner was docke d and a luncheon for 600 people was with some 600 passengers. Baranoi Friday Opening tomorrow ! pageant of activities commcncing | with a program of flag raising to hv kl.igcd in front of the hotel shortly | ‘hv)ou- sundown tomorow. the elab- {orate new Baranof Hotel will take its place among the leading struc-| | tures of the Territory and Pacific, »Northwest | Seating arrangements and pro- % | gram plans have been virtually com- ‘p]eted and for the numerous guests lat the reception and banquet there | will be offered many novelties of | |entertainment and high light fea- | tures. | Under the direction of Hotel Man- ager R. J. Schoettler several com- | mittees of local townspeople have prepared and outlined the plans for the evening in order that those in attendance may participate in a memorable event at the-dedication ©.& | of the finest hostelry in the country. ——————— DEBTORS HELP N i Not bullets but biscuits were the persuaders used by opponents of Presi | DOCIOR BU"-D dent Cardenas of Mexico as they staged this huge open-air lunch i1 Mexico City in preparation for u|npmachm;z presidential election, Diner, heard Cardenas’ social innovations condemned. - HIS RESIDENCE Portland, | for the past three years, has also C. H. LaBoyteaux, LeRoy Sullivan recently joined the agency. |and James Patterson. Graff and Williams are represent-| Tabled by a vote of eight to ing the Mutual Benefit Health andnothing, was a House bill providing Benefit Life Insurance Company of | ¢ Education. Senate President | Omaha, Nebraska, through their Al'tWalker. moving for tabling, said he | |believed the drafters of the bill | aska Manager Hecmr McLeBn =7 had worked backwards and should instead have provided for Board Accident Assaciation and the United |for election of the Commissioner | Laurence Painting In Baranof lof Education members to be elect- | led. Delegate Election A bill by Representative Harvey | |Smith calling for direct election | |of National Committeemen, Nation- | {al Committeewomen, Delegates and |Alternates to the National politi- ical convention, apparently met | |death this morning when the Sen- |ate refused to suspend the rules with ciaims? !vote ‘was five to three; with two- | thirds being necessary. | The Senate mustered six vows{ |{this morning to receive House Bill | appropriating” $10,000 * to | pay the Territory's share of a pro- | |posed investigation of the Bureau | |No. 144, of Fisheries, but a move to place it on the calendar for today was defeated when ‘it fell one short of the required two-thirds vote. | Stays in Committee Senator Victor C. Rivers attempt- |ed today to call dut of committee |House Bill No. 118, setting up a | Territorial constabulary, but the | Senate ‘voted” five to three not to | bring it out. A conference committee with free conference powers was at work to- day trying to come to an agree- | |ment with a similar House com- mittee regarding the Goddard Hot Springs bill. As the House killed |a Senate bill appropriating $150,- !000 for an addition to the Pio- | neers’ “Home ' at Sitka, it will *be | necessary for additional funds’to | be provided for operation of the Goddard home. ' - e | London's first “water bus” to| operate on the Thames from West- | minster to Southend, was launched Irecently in Cowes Shipyard. A | The earliest “reciprocal trade treaty,” involving the reduction of duties, was made between England and Portugal in 1703 | to advance it to final passage. The ! | A famous cdnvas py the noted | Alaskan artist Sydney Laurence was hung in the main lounge of the Bar- | anof Hotel today where it will re- main on exhibit. The huge picture titled “The King of the Arctic” measures nine feet | by seven feet. It is one of the artists best pictures of his favorite subject, | majestic Mount McKinley. The picture in possession here af | Dr. Robert Simpson was painted ten years ago. e, — lina farmers installed home water several hundred dollars. e DCol]ege was Henry Dunster. déwn a 20-foot embankment. In 1938, nearly 2,000 North Caro-| system ranging in cest from $15 to| The first president of Harvard LEMON GROVE, Cal,, Mm"ch 9.— 4 | After six years of an unusual debt- payment system, Dr. Ebon B. Mc- Gregor has moved into a substan- tial two-story dwelling. Unable to collect his bills in the worst of the depression, the physi- ician wrote some 50 patients sug- & |gesting they contribute their labor 4 lin building him a house. Not one # |refused. The “first shift” did not com- § plete the house, but subsequent lealls on delinquent patients gradu- lally finished it | Since he had fixed his profes- |sional fees, he insisted each work- ler fixed his own “wages” for con- strucuon work. >ee - — Rep Dowd Has Big Mileage \Check A i T e | AT ‘ The Federal Government pays | Legislators in the Territorial as- }semblv “fifteen cents a mjlé going BAR’ ASSOCIATION delegates mecting at_Chicago nominated Charles A. Beardsley (above) of Oakland, Cal., for the Ameérican Bar association presi» } dency, the election to be held at the coming July convention, He would succeed Frank J. Hogan. the " session. i Largest mileage check is for W- Iresentauve W. J. Dowd, from {otzebue— near- the- Kobuk, ' whose Nineteen H mt in Wy ummg Tram Wreck Nlr:uen persons, many ol them enroute to San Francisco to visit the Golden Gate International lx,-l. tion, were injured when the Union Pacific’'s Pony Express was derailéd near Bosler, ‘Wyo. Five cars rolled Injured were treated at hospitald in Laramle and’ Rawlins, Wyo, ‘ Above is a general view of the wreck, | night with a s shewn about to pass under the world's largest single span Aboard the Washington w ere 750 passengers bound for the Golden Gate International Exposition. held in the vast dining room. 'WAGES, HOURS ULAW IS CAUSE She " HOUSE BATILE Speaker lyng Threafens | ; Removals for Second Time of Session !Contmued from Page One) the House elever. to four against receding and a conference commit- 'tee was appointed. | Two House bills were concurred in, however. They were House Bill '139, by Drager, giving the mayors lof municipalities appointive powers over the city councils, and House Bill 33, appropriating $25,000 out jof First Division road funds for sohool construction work at Skag- way and Douglas, the Gastineau Channel town to get $15000 of |the sum, dealt in by Representatives in their |arguments on the floor, and at one time three Representatives were talking at once, when Speaker Lyng rose to rap his gavel and “insist” on harmony and decorum “for these last few hours.” travel check amounts to $1,023— while Representative McCormick, who lives within the city of Ju- neau, gets the handsome sum of fifteen cents. Representatives J. P. Anderson checks, but because they live out than McCormick. Anderson gets mile trip in and mile trip out, while Davis, who lives around the corner, gets 45 cents. >-ro Kentucky started the year 1939 with schoolboy patrols in 25 counties to add to traffic safety in metro- politan areas. It was after the vote that bitter | argument arose as to personalities and James V. Davis also get small | the Glacier Highway, they get more | 30 cents for hlsl I.ISEUIII anlu AND ODIRATE Juneau'’s Greatest Show Value LAST TIMES TONIGHT Vitaphone Novelty Cartoon———————News . Benny Meroff and Orchestra MYSTERY HIT ENDS TONIGHT, COLISEUM BI Death deals 2 hand at the gams| ing tables and “Charlie Chan Monte Carlo” gives you your mystery bet in his most case, which ends tonight at the | Coliseum Theatre. | The world’s ace detective at the | world’s gayest playground takes 8 million-to-one chance to solve .| triple muvder as he mingles with ti millionaire playboys, b beauties and gay adventurers. . Behind the laughter and banter thousands of pleasure seeking inters) nationals, there is a million-dolias !stake in stock manipulation which spells success for one man and ruin| for another. Into all of the gayety and si seething counterpoint of this and best of Twentieth Century-] Chan thrillers comes Charlie and his Number One Son Keye They are greeted effusively at th | Casino deMonte Carlo by the W 1(ect of polieo REORGANIZATION BILL IN SENATE WASHINGTON, March 9. — Government’s Reorganization has gone to the Senate after p in the House by a vote of 213 to | The measure gives President Roosevelt power to abolish or res |shutfle any or all of the Government agencies anytime within the next two years. land coming from their homes to they RAVE about o« Lo FULLY AUTOMATIC RAY HEAT is the highest peak of oll burner efficiency it assures ECONOMY and COMFORT. RICE & AHLERS CO. Third and Franklin Streets——-———Pfim M JUNEAU'S ROTARY CONFERENCE—MAY 18-19-20 Lammmr i il Notice All Juneau Contractors The scale for 1939 beginning April 1 be $1.25 per hour, 48-hour week. All con- tracts signed before exempt. Mamh}51939m PAINTERS LOCAL 1092