The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 20, 1939, Page 5

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1939. By CLIFF STERRETT POLLY AND HER PALS 10 AND WANTS 70 FLY SAPULA, Okla. — Lizzie Devers, who says she has had 198 birthdays, | told newspapermen at her home | recently that there is only one pres- !ent she wagfs this year. It's an | airplane rig€ and a plain autome- | bile ride Won't do “because I want | to soar up toward beautiful heav- |en.” FDR STILL TH' PORE FELLA AIN'T CASTIN' CRITICISM AT YER DRIVIN' BY CLIMBIN' AN' WOT'S FURTHERMORE , YUH WALL-EYED WEASEL --- TRIP NORTH _ WASHINGTON, June 20.—Pres 7 \\1 dent Roosevelt said today that Con- S é\ gress is moving along so rapidly \\r& that he has pretty well made up all his mind to postpone his trip to| the West Coast and Alaska until AS ‘Mrs. Clarence Wise ' Yankees Win From Tigers; Take Series St. Louis aH_Washingfon Play One Game Lasf- ing 14 Innings (By Associated Press) Oral Hildebrand limited the De- troit Tigers to six hits yesterday, three of them homers, as the Yank- ees took the series. The Yanks scored five runs in the first inning off Paul Trout. Bill Rickey and Red Rolfe hit homers. Vernon Kennedy scattered six hits over 14 innings to help St. Louis beat the Washington Senators in the first game of the twin bill. ‘Washington won the abbreviated nightcap. The Cubs and Dodgers were dead- locked at 3 all going into the ninth | inning when a downpour brought | the game to a finish. | GAMES MONDAY | National League | Brooklyn 3; Chicago 3, tie, game | called at the end of eighth inning | on account of rain. American League Detroit 5; New York 8. St. Louis 2, 1; Washington 1, 6. Pacific Coast League Title Fight No games were played in the Pa- e, et yerdey v e JogJacobs, Manager -for on the Tollowing schedule for this| Tony Galento, Makes Surprise Request GLITTER AMUONG 'JITTERBUGS —The vote of 3,000,000 “jitterbug” members of National Swing Club of America is represented in troj Patti and LaVerne (right), by Ned Harris. The N, phy given the Andrews sisters, Maxene (left), 5.C,A. voted sisters most popular vocal trio ROOKIE |ENGLISH YACHT ! . SPENDS NIGHT IN }12:2;:":&!”322; ‘oo wwey JUNEAU HARBOR Stout Producing Guinness between . Elma and Shcltcn‘ point to last year’s Callow grade | One of World's Foremost Yachtsmen Visits Here school team as a rival of Athol, | Idaho, high when it comes to sparse (Continued ‘from Page One) baseball turnouts. United States engineers, | |boys, one in each of the eight | grades. | | In order to form a ball team, they i 'roped in the school marm. She played right field and caught flies on the first bounce. with a 'Had Cha r—g—(—e_of Nation’s| Child Welfare Exponent, Dies: Efforts in Battling for Children (Continued from Page One) divector of the Chicago School of Civics and Grace as director of the Immigrants’ Protective League. This! gave the latter opportunity for post- graduate work at the University of Chicago and she won her master’s| degree in political science in 1909. She held the League directorship until 1917 and meanwhile was a resi- | dent worker at Hull House with Jane | Adams until 1915. One of her col- leagues there was Frances Perking, Secretary of Labor in the cabinet, of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Administers Statute | ‘When Congress passed the first| federal law against child labor, Miss Abbott went to Washington to ad- minister that statute for the chil-| dren’s bureau. ‘When the law was, held unconstitutional she served as advisor on the war Jabor policies board, as secretary of the child wel- fare conference and on the chil-| dren's commission of the first in- ternational labor conference. Then she was executive secretary of the llinois immigrants’ commission un-| til she became director of the chil- | Five Alaska Non - Federal _| the rate of nearly two a da; $36,000 INPWA PROJECTS HERE | ARE COMPLETED t Jobs Finished-Region " Office Is Busy PORTLAND, Oregon, June 20.— Non-Federal PWA projects in the Northwest are being completed at des- | pite the fact thit the Congressional deadiine for completion of the cur- rent public wcrks program is more than 12 months away, the regions! office reported. Out of 281 projects which com- munities in this region placed under | construction in the 1938 PWA pro- | gram, 43 subsequently were trans-| ferred to the Bureau of Public Roads. Of the remaining 238 proj- ects, a total of 90, or nearly 38 per cent, having a construction value of | approximately $3,273,000, are sub-! | stantially completed. The region in- cludes Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Alaska. The Public Works Administration contributed more than $1,553,000 in loans and grants to help finance the 90 projects substantially completed. The distribution and . estimated cost of completed projects in this region is as follows: Oregon, 48, $1,- 300,000; Washington, 23, $1,264,000; Idaho, 15, $532,000; Alaska, five, $86,820. l 21,000 Employed dren’s bureau in August, 1921. | . She represented the United States the regional office indicate that 4t Geneva on the League of Nations commission for the protection of children and on its inquiry into traf- Employment figures submitted to more than 21,000 workers are em- ployed on construction sites and in lumber mills, forests, mines, steel after adjournment. for the west coast July manager of the Hotel Juneau, Mrs, and San Frar | for sale at The Empire Office. | HOTPOINT'S ‘That you can get a Kentucky straight bourbonwhiskey like CRAB ORCHARD for under a dollar a pint. Quality- made since 1880— richer, smoother, mellower. 90 Proof He said he is considering leaving 2 ,ee - Back from Vacation Clarence Wise, wife of the re- urned here today on the steamer Mrs. ON SALE North Sea following a month’s va- cation trip to the states. During her sojourn in the south, Wise visited in both Seattle neisco. R Lode and placer Crab O WHISKEY rcha | | ‘ocation notices f | Where quality counts and economy rules The Demand Is for PLUMBING and HEATING _ by the HARRI MACHINE SHOP Insist that your house has plumbing and heating by the HARRI MACHINE SHOP It is your assurance of comfort complete. ° HARRI MACHINE SHOP 'AMAZING NEW SELECT- n fic in women and children in the mills, cement plants, factories and week: San Francisco at Seattle. Los Angeles at Portland. San Diego at Oakland. Sacramento at Hollywood. SEAGER T N Jun. B0 Atike Jacobs, manager of Two-ton Tony STANDING OF CLUBS ;Gnlenw. challenger of Joe Louis (Official Standings) for the heavyweight crown, is going Pacific Coast League to ask the New York Athletic Com- Won Lost Pet,|Mmission to have Arthur Donovan .48 593 | referee the title bout on June 28. 575 The announcemernt comes as a 545 | surprise since Donovan is well liked by Louis and has worked practically ‘agg | 81l of the champion’s fights. | & ELKS CROSSING = T0 ISLAND FOR ar GAME TONIGHT }Lodgemen Must Win fo Stay in Running for, First Half Los Angeles Seattle A San Francisco . Oekland San Diego .. Sacramento Hollywood .. 3B 4 Portland .. 31 41 National League Lost 18 23 41 41 41 36 29 .29 26 . 27 24 Cincinnati St. Louis New York Brooklyn Chicago Pittsburgh Boston .22 30 Philadelphia .18 32 American League Won Lost .. 41 11 29 21 28 25, .28 25 . 29 <21 .22 .15 462 423 .360l | Pct. New York 188 Boston Cleveland Chicago Detroit - Philadelphia ... Washington . 528|bali game of the year on the Doug- 518 | 1as Island diamond tonight with the .306 |Elks scheduled to go across the .393 |channel for a game at 6:30 o'clock. ,273’ Douglas is hopelessly out of run- ning for the first half pennant, and Pet.!the Elks have to win tonight to 667 stay in the running. 556, That “necessity” element for the .300 | Elks, and the fact that Douglas lost {to the Moose on the first game of |the season at Douglas, making to- Won 6 5 4 3 1 Lost 3 . Elks Douglas Last year the school had eight pair of 750 horsepower America e transportation agencies as a result 486 528, Douglas will see its second base- | L] v MODERATO R—Electio; of Dr. Sam Higginbottom, 64, as moderator of the Presbyterian church in the U.S.A., marks the first time since 1927 that a lay- man was named to this office. He’s-been engaged in missionary work in India 38 vears Wooden Wear | | | ' second story widow of his home and | June 20.—Athol built diesel engines propelling her €ast. She served as President of thi twin screws. National Conference of Social Work And the Fantome is as royal a @nd was on the boards of many yacht as she looks. She was built Other national agencies. ! of the PWA program in the North- | west. | Throughout the nation more than' : Muir glacier |in Genoa, Italy, in 1927 for the Duke of Westminster, who never used her. Guinness purchased the craft two years ag oand still hasn't gotten over the novelty of it. Lavish Private Suite His privte suite is beyond de- scription in lavish furnishings and | appointments. His breakfast room is as large as any hotel lobby in Ju-! neau. i While cruising Icy Straits and' surrounding waters, the Fantome was sailed nearly to the face of i in Glacier Bay by veteran pilot Capt. Moore and Guinness frequently made short runs with his party in a new Chris- Craf cruiser he recently purchased in Seattle. \ many men to d bhis tasks, crew members say Guinness likes to op-. |erate his own boats at times, and' | “is right smart about engines and things.” In Guinness’s party are his sec- retary, O. S. Baker, Capt. and | Mrs. Goshen, of England, and Dud- |ley Ward,, of Vancouver. From here the party will sai]! for Vancouver, “cruising a bit” en- "r.cu(e, making a stop at Saginaw | Bay on Kiui Island for a little trout jand salmon fishing. Raising Tomafoes By Hooking Vines To Radio Aerial SACRAMENT, Cal., June 20. Archibald Dickson c¢+n lean out the | | | | | pick tomatoes. He says the vine | grows that tall and yields heavily | because of a mysterious wiring sys- tem. | Dickson, using brass tacks, con- nects a common radio aerial to Although a wealthy man with|W! Pithy Phrases Win Battles a million men are at work on PWA Miss Abbott had an aptness of projects and in private industries phrase which often served her well SuPPlying materials for these proj- in the many battles into which Ad- €cts, according to reports received by ministration of Federal Bureau pre- Administrator Harold L. Ickes. | cipitated her. When faced with cur- Nationwide reports show that 1,- tailment of funds for child health 818 PWA projects' valued at $65,-| work, . she clinched her argument 914500 have been completed and are with: in use. Thees includes 328 Federal “The time to save the children PWA projects and 1,490 non-Federal who will die this year, is this year.” projects. Meanwhile, work is pro- | One time she went down to de- gressing rapidly on 4,669 non-Fed- feat. 8he administered the federal eral projects costing $648,000,000 and maternity and infancy act during constituting the backbone of the its life, 1921-29, spreading it to 45 present construction revival all over states. Then Congress refused fur- the nation. The, current PWA pro- ther appropriations for the work. gram will reach its peak in mid- But Miss Abbott, was not discourag- summer. ed, and quietly predicted eventual —————————— victory. Her working philosophy, Try The Empire classifieds for as: results. “Look on the ‘now’ with confidence in the ‘to be.” e g s WOMAN PERILED - BY DEADLY GAS CINCINNATI, June 1lo. — Mrs. Henry Kesse, thirty-nine, was awakened today, she told police, by a “soft, sizzling sound” and found on the inner ledge of her bedroom window a jar containing a deadly gas-producing acid. Her grocer husband, woh pushed the quart jar out of the window, saw a man flee from the yard. The cou- ple’s son, Thomas, sixteen, said the fumes awakened him in the next roam. Two similar cases, neither fatal, have been reported within six months. Investigators believed a maniac was responsible. i | side in identical soil. Those grown normally rose to five feet and av- eraged 14 tomatoes a vine. Dick- son says he plucked 60 tomatoes from the wired vines—which grew 11 feet tall. | Then he took two fig trees—part A-SPEED COOKING UNIT is the SPEEDIEST electric cooking unit known. Cuis electric cooking costs as much as 64 per cent. Hotpoint's revolution- ary vooking unit. § dife forent cooking epeeds. Prices in line with other merchandise of equal quality. TERMS Rice & Ahlers Co. Third and Franklin PHONE 34 THE BIGGEST, MOST PRACTICAL BOOK O GARDEN INFORMATION EVER PUBLISHED for AMATEUR GARDENERS At last, a complete garden encyclopedia s ONE volume! 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He|to results. » : {won't tell what's in the cylinders,) Four state and county agricultural, | apparently water tight, but says|experts have looked over his work. Nearly 1400 Pages—750 Pic Over 10,000 Authoritative A all the elements of a fan's dream SELL, SEATTLE ot pucns: - | SEATTLE, June 20—Only two this ‘afternoon. Prom the western banks—Aleu- From the local banks—Garry Lee| ATHOL, Idaho, T baseball league for the second 000 pounds of halibut were sold at [school—but the turnout was an im- | ; B 0 0 D A G O G G |—but one didn't play baseball. 2 | S HAlIBuIERS |night 'a “must win night” for the 'home town team, gives this set-to A bus will leave with the Elks ball |team. from- the Elks Lodge at. 5:45 halibuters sold here today as fol-i ———.- o TURNO T tian 40,000 pounds, selling for 7% | u cents a pound straight. | 12,000 pounds, 8% and 7 cents a high school won the championship pound. * |of the Idaho Panhandle Class B AT PRINCE RUPERT |straight_year. At Prince Rupert yesterday 166,-| There are only 10 boys in the ° 7.70 to 8 and 5.50 cents a pound. | provement. . | Last year there also were 10 boys | HENDRICKS RETURNS | —————— | Miss Rulaford | & ABOARD NORTH SEA Miss Rulaford Is it Mail This Coupon to | their purpose is purely electrical. ,They declined to take a stand one Jim Hendricks returned to Ju-i neau today, coming back on the| North Sea. | Back from School Miss Garnetha Rulaford, daugh- | Just what, if anything, the plantsi way or another. B Hendricks has been vacationing ter of Mr. and Mrs, Cecil Rulaford, around Portland and Seattle for returned to Juneau this morning the last six weeks, and also spent on the steamer Yukon to spend the a week visiting in Ketchikan on summer months. thHe way north. [ ‘Miss Rulaford has completed her R, o g ol Jjunior year as a student of Wash- Empire Want Ads Bring Results, ' ington State College at Pullman. 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