The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 27, 1939, Page 2

YS5c yard special! Washable Ray New Tiny Prints! Geometrics? THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, MARCH 27, 1939. on Prints! Sparkling rayon prints that will sell by the MILE at 75¢ a yard! We sug- gest buying YARDS for Spring Frocks, Suits, Blouses—SPECIAL dress length $2.65 4 yd. all 39 in. wide. Monotones Splashy Florals!? Deots! B.M. Behrends Co., Inc. "JUNEAU’S LEADING DEPARTMENT STORE" f LITHUANIAN | CABINET OUT Members Resign Follow- ing Cession of Memel fo German Regime KAUNAS, Lithuania, March 27— The Lithuanian Cabinet has re- signed, less than one week after it agreed to the cession of Memel (o Germany. Affairs are said to be in a muddled state. WIFE-BEATER - OUTOF JAIL | JUST ONE DAY Dave Willa;a_ Freed Yes- terday, Charged with Same Crime Today Freed from jail only yesterday after serving 25 days for allegedly beating his wife, Dave Willard was back in the Law’s toils again today, charged with assault and battery on his wife. City Police arrested Willard after he allegedly administered a severe | beating to Mrs. Willard last night He was arraigned this afternoon in the Court of U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray, denied guilt and was held under $500 bond Previously, through lenciency on the part of the Court. Willard was charged only with being drunk and MODES of che Here | rails 29.74, utilities 23.88 disorderly. The present assault and battery count is much more severe, - Stock QUOTATION! I NEW YORK, March 27-—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 9'4, American Can 90, American Power and Light 5%, An- aconda 27'%, Bethlehem Steel 67, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright common 6, General Motors 46%, International Harvester 57%, Kennecott 35%, New York Central 17%, Northern Pacific 109 Southern Pacific 157, United States Steel 56, Pound $4.68%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: Industrials 141.14, \ e — ELECTRA ON WAY WITH FULL LOAD | FOR THIS CITY Eleven passengers, two of them children, left Fairbanks this morn- | ing with PAA pilots Al Monsen and | Murray Stuart for Whitehorse, where they will spend the muhl.i coming to Juneau tomorrow, weath- er permitting. ‘Those aboard the ship are R. E. Murphy, J. G. Shepard, A. L. Kaye, T. Mack, C. M. Hansen, Mrs. M. Swenson and children, Jerry and Janet, Steve Carey, Della Hill and Charles Goldstein > INTERIOR MEN | Among well known Interior men! arriving on the Yukon tomorrow and flying to Fairbanks with Pacific Alaska Airways, are Edgar M. Claw- son and J. H. Livengood. SHRINE CLUB DINNER DANCE S CHARMING EVENT In the Gold Dining Room of the Baranof Hotel Saturday evening over one hundred and fifty members of the Shrine Club gathered for a! no-host dinner dance, which proved to be one of the most charming events of the social season. A reception between 7 and 2 o’clock preceded. the dinner, and Judge G. F. Alexander presided as toastmast- er for the evening. Favors, singing and dancing marked the festivities for the oc- casion, with Shrine decorations, in- cluding a huge neon emblem, adding a more serious touch to the atmos- | phere. Arrangements for the evening were in charge of Simpson Mac- Kinnon, Dr. G. F. Freeburger, R. E. Robertson, Wallis George and Walter P. Scott. INFORMAL TEA YESTERDAY FOR MISS SIMPKINS An informal tea yesterday aft- ernoon between 3 and 5 o'clock at the home of Mrs, A. Riendeau hon- ored Miss Mary Simpkins, bride- to-be of Edward Metzgar, with Mrs, Lu Liston and Mrs. Roy Carrigan co-hostesses for the occasion. A charming atmosphere was pro- vided, the tea table being most at- tractively centered with a huge bowl |of aaffoatls snd tulips, off set by tall white tapers. Pouring between 3 and 4 o'clock was Mrs. Minnie Hurley and Mrs. by Adelaide Kerr is an Easter bonnet designed for the woman of forty or ‘more made of navy blue Swiss tapestry straw with a slanting brim topped falls a blue chenille-dotted veil, Howard Hodge designed it to wear MOMENT G weary of dizzy chapeaux. It is curls. of the same straw. From it i {3_”‘1!;-:!1“: blue wool. Goerlitzer station in Berlin, “never to relinguish this’ gigantic, may. Calls Hubby Nazi Mrs, Anna Trunk Mrs, Anna Trunk of New York seeks annulment of her marriage to, Adelph Trunk, charging that he claimed to be a Nazi with nc jous connections and refused to follow up their civil marriage rites with a religious ceremony. Grover C. Winn. Between 4 and 5 o'clock the tea table was presided over by Mrs. Arthur Adams and Mrs. Wesley Overby. Mrs. William Trumbo and Miss Louise Kemper assisted during the afternoon. DART RETURNS 10 PORT; REPAINTING ~ BEGINS AT FLOAT The motorship Dart came in over the weekend from its regular run to Petersburg, Kake and wayports, bringing in May James from Kake. ‘The Dart leaves again Wednesday marning on its short trip, the last short trip of the season. While in port today, the crew of the little vsesel is wielding paint brushes in redressing the vessel's interior. New paint work will go on | the outside “as soon as the weather breaks,” ——— —— LEGION TONIGHT Plans for Iocal Army Day, April 6, will be formu- lated tonight at the regular week- ly meiing of Alford John Bradford Post of the American Legion. The | Legion meets at the Dugout. .- HEINTZEEMAN TRAVELS Regional Forester B. Fyank Heintz- leman has left Portland and is how. on his way to San Francisco Forest Service headquarters, according to word received at his office here. Heintzleman will go to Washington. before returning to Juneau. ———— l HIRST DUE TOMORROW Claude M. Hirst, General Superin- tendent for Alaska of the Office of Indian Affairs, is due back’in Ju- neau tomorrow on the Yukon. He has been to Washington since leav- ing here the first of the year, and on his way home, stopped off in Ketchikan for a few days on busi= ness, ¢ " FASTAGROUND . | Freighter Bound from Se- observance of | Hitler Returns from Triumphant Tour Back in his capital after a triumphant tour of his new provinces of Bohemia and Meravia, Chancellor Hitler (right center, foreground) is greefed by Field Marshal Hermann Goering (left foreground) at In an address of welcome, Goering praised Hitlér and gave him a pledge this great and tre mendously ccurageous creation of yours, come what Plea Made To Women 0f Poland Asked to l;;[;are fo Re- place Men on Battle- This picture was sent by radio frem Berlin to New York. NAVY RESCUES " CREW OF SHIP, aftle fo New Orleans in Accident WASHINGTON, March 27 *Th(‘} Navy has rescued about 32 members | H Bl s ey of Clhdrcignien Do) field If Neecssary Vincent which went aground on| ok Sy Bona Island, east of Panama. | WARSAW, March 27.—A The freighter was bound from Se- | prepare themselves to replace men attle to New Orleans. {on the battlefield, if necessa is — e — | being made by Madame Alexandra Pilsudski, widow of Poland’s First NOMINATION OF - | The appeal is made in a letter to | the “Women’s Preparation for Mili- DOUGLAS GIVEN o | ONE MORE BOOST tary Defense” The plea is acclaimed by . the young Girl Scouts and also white- Senate Judiciary Commit- fee Give Unanimous Approval haired women WASHINGTON, March 27.—The| Senate Judiciary Committee has un- | animously approved of President | Roosevelt’s nomination of William | O. Douglas to be Associate Justice | of the Supreme Court of the United | States. | 40-8 TO DINE The winners in the recent mem- | bership drive of the 40 and 8 will | dine tonight at Kaufmann's Cafe | starting at 6:30 o'clock, the losers paying for the feed. e R ] = Quarrels Over (ard Games Not \Divorce Grounds OMAHA, March 27.—A witness in | District Judge Herbert Rhoades’ |court testified he heard the two ;principals in a divorce action quar- rel over a card game. | The judge exclaimed: “My wife makes me mad lots of times when |T want her to finesse a queén and |she plays her ace, but that isn't | grounds for divorce.” e AT McGRATH | Bertha M. Tiber, Supervisor of | | Nurses for the Office of Indian Af- |fairs, is now at McGrath awaiting fransportation to Bethel, the Office ;h(’ro was informed today. Miss Tib- |er is on her annual field trip all | through the Territory. She is ex- | pected back in Juneau within a { month. | TIBER SRS 5 DALE AT FAIRBANKS Dr. George A. Dale, Acting Super- | visor of Education for the Office | of Indian Affairs, has completed a plea to! : Triplet'sr Correct technique of the Lambeth Walk is demonstrated the Van Ardoy boys, at a birthday party at Roosevelt, L. " THE WEATHER (By the U. 8. W eather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 3:30 p.m., March 27: Rain or snow tonight and Tuesday; moderate to fresh southeast winds. Weather forecast for Southeast Alacka: Rain tonight and Tuesday except rain or snow over northeast portion; moderate to fresh south- east winds except fresh to strong over Dixon Entrance, Clarence Strait and Frederick Sound and Chatham Strait and fresh to strong southerly winds over Lynn Canal. Forecast «f winds along the Coact of the Gulf ¢f Alaska: Fresh to strong southeast winds along the coast from Dixon Entrance to Cape Hinchinbrook tonight and Tuesday LOCAL DATA parometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity 30.2 36 81 SE 12 30.18 37 K E ¥ 3017 34 87 SE RADIO REPORTS 1 TODAY | | Time 3:30 pm. yesty 3:30 a.mn. today Noon today Weather Lt. Snow Lt. Snow Max. tempt. last 24 hours 40 28 12 22 32 26 Lowest 4am. 4a.m. Preeip. 4am. temp. temp. velocity 24 hrs. Weather 34 36 6 21 Rain 24 Cloudy 6 Pt. Cldy 16 Cloudy 20 Cloudy 18 Cloudy 26 Snow 36 Cloudy Cloudy Rain Snow Station Atka Anchorage Nome ethel Fairbanks Dawson St. Paul Duteh Harbor Kodiak Cordova Juneau Sitka Ketchikan Prince Rupert Edmonton Seattle Portland San Francisco New York Washington 0 Clear Clear Clear Clear Clear Clear Cloudy 66 Cloudy e WEATHER ' SYNOPSIS A widespread low pressure area covered the Bering Sea the north- central portion of the nerth Pacific Ocean, the Gulf of Alaska and all Alaska except the extreme southeast part this morning with a center of 28.10 inches at latitude 90 degrees N., longitude 180 degrees. A ridge of high air pressure extenled from southern Canada and lower Southeast Alaska southwest over the Pacific Ocean to the Hawailian Islands. Light snow fell along the Tanana and upper Yukon valleys and light to moderate precipitalion from tha Aleutian Islands along the coast to upper Southeast Alaska during the last 24 hours with fair weather prevailing over the rest of Alaska, western and Central Canada and the West Coast Ctates. Warmer temperatures were reported from most stations over the Territory this morning, particularly over the Seward Peninsula, the lower Kuskokwim Valley and the Interior. March 28.—Sunrise, 5:41 a.m.; sunset, 6:31 pm. Juneau, STERLING SOUTH H. W. Sterling, Assistant Chief — Engineer for the Alaska Road Com- Mrs. Don Skuse is a southbound | mission, went south on the Alaska passenger on the Canadian Pacific | to purchase equipment in Seattle. He Princess Louise for a vacation trip | will be away for several weeks three months. | g > - While in the south she will visit | ESTEBETH IN with relatives and friends in both | The motorship Estebeth returned Norwood and Toronto, Ontario, to port early yesterday morning S | from its run to Sitka and other is- land ports, bringing in six passeng- OLSONS RETURN | are Mr, and Mrs. Ed Olson are head- | e ing back to the Iditarod after a | McKENNA RETURNING winter below. They will arrive on the | phjl McKenna, well known Juneau Yukon tomorrow morning and fly | pioneer, is a returning passenger | to Fairbanks aboard a PAA Electra. | on the steamer Yukon Make a Lainbetii Sextet MRS. SKUSE | LEAE | ON | VACATION TRIP of -ee - by two sets of triplets, the De Mellier girls and 1. Caught in the act of the “0i” and the thumb De Mellier; Caesar, Franklin and Conrad Van Ardoy. tour of inspection in the Interior and is now at Fairbank$ waiting | for weather to clear and allow a | plane to come to Juneau. RS <o | SONS OF A. L. TO MEET | The Sons of the American Legion will meet tomorrow night at 7:30 o'clock in the Dugout. | | ————— UOTHLAS COMING Mr. and Mrs, Gus Wotila, of Flat, are passengers for Juneau on the | Yukon, arriving’ tomorrow morning to take a PAA plane from here to| the Interior. AN S FAIRBANKS BOUND, H. P. sheppard, Interior mining man, will arrive in Juneau with his 'wife tomorrow morning on the Yu- kon. to fly to Fairbanks with Pacific | Alaska Airways. | ——,———— | { DUKER COMING ! Sam Duker, Juneau attorney, is I returning passenger on the steam- | er Yukon. Duker has been on a short business trip to Seattle. — ., To remove spots and freshen up} 'your felt hat, rub it with sandpaper | or an emery board. First brush off | |with a clean stiff brush. This treat- ment is’especially recommended to use for water spots on hats, PHOTO MEMO | o" y little daughter’s sake, stiffe firai L flick, they are (left to right) : Ann, Betty and Carol irl thwarted as{hix one if her mother sat down and built the whole castle for her. For your own architec- urge—ca build your castles in private, By Lydia Gray Shaw- B mm The youngster gets a much bigger mal" kick out of doing the job hersé!l%— with mother willing to help at daughter’s sug- gesnom She gains resqurcefulness, indepen-. ence, and a sense of accomplishment. B e SR Y would Teel as « Let A Child Build Her Own Castles| .