The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 30, 1939, Page 4

Daily Alaska Em pire R. L. BERNARD vi Becond and Main President ness Manager nd Bu Al au as Second Class Matter Eatered in the Post Office in tion to be highly critical of the press of an outpost like Alaska. They found the newspapers of the Territory measured up to those Outside and are giving us a| much-appreciated pat on the back. Greetings to Notable Alaskan (Fairbanks News-Miner) %roscofie “The stars incline but do not compel THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1939 YEARS AGO From THE EMPIRE 2 AUGUST 30, 1919 Breathing a spirit of optimism and | having great faith in the properties of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1939. JHappy PBirthday Directors Drs. Kaser and Professional Fraternal Societies Gastineau Channel O. ELKS meet every second and fourth Wednesday at 8 p. m. The Empire extends ton'utulc-l tions and best wishes 17day, their | birshday annivessi.,, to the Toi- lowing: Visiting brothers wel- tome. H. C. Rl AN, Exalted Ruler; M. HW. SIDES, Secretary. Eighty-two years ago tomorrow—August 24—old | Ilinois gave to America a son destined to become one | of the most distinguished in establishing her institu- | As summer wanes, kindly stars| COTPAnY s e T gy smile upon the Earth. According to °Bmdli CPT sli’de:t o e AL > astrology, aspects stimulating and Y. - 14 Mini Company tic and building an enduring empire within her |peipful rule today. | Treadwell Gol ining 5 pany, lar territorial domain, Alaska. | The morning promises success to| the Juneau Gold MmmgX ompane» hat son was James Wickersham, today Judge |any project launched while the oon-|2nd famous ]mlr}lnsuengtseexzo tri- James Wickersham, most notable of contemporaneous | figuration prevails. This is a sway ;u:m‘ld from his lengthy trip e Jaskans—now resident of Juneau, and approaching |encouraging to plans for autumn [ThreriOf the sunset of life vigorous and enriched with memories | pysiness. of a life of extraordinary experience and achievement. | ynder this rule the mind should Jurist, author, legislator and authority on many |pe clear and the judgment reliable a Northland phase of life, few anywhere can claim a | peception is easily disctrned and more varied career of service and accomplishment realities are generally recognized. Thirty-nine years of his remarkable life have been | constructive activities flourish to- given to Alaska. His hame has been indelibly written | day, Building should be pushed en- into the history of the Territory during this period of |ergetically and preparation for com- laying of the foundation upon which is being builded |ing months should be made without he future state or states within the borders of this | delay. vast domain now awakening under the impetus of a | Summer temperatures will linger| FTI QU ETTE new era of undoubted destiny | through September in many places p Coming from a pioneering family who early shared | byt the seers advise Americans to be bR T Rooms 2.3-4. Triangle P 1g. the conquest of the Pacific Northwest, young Wicker- | ready for unusual demands upon | y Roberta PHONE 667 sham, winning his first spurs in public life in the |tjme and energy. - S ——— Territory and latet'tie state of Washigton, cate 10| Taternal g yeilias HebesT wixt- | B A i‘;fl;’:"‘ezfiefie"‘rlmf Q. What is the correct way to Alaska in 1900. Commissioned as a judge, he set up |eties will be presented to the na-|pnay pecyin ’C " a;y as in Ju. |Eive @ tip? i the first district court that brought law and order |tion as the culminating effects of | paai 8 R A. A tip should be given quietly nr. JO]III H. GO’GI‘ to the great Interior Empire of Alaska—participated |recent unsolved economic problems i““’ J and courteously, without showing the DENTIST in the dramatic events incident to, the establishment | Girls will find this a favorable| cparles Goldsteln, Dr. Robert :f‘a;t c?)les:gfiofi?i. ‘:v::ergni;a:afia:lg Roon: 9-Valentine Ridg. g FHONE 763 Hours: 9 am. to 6 pm. ISt of Fairbanks, Nome and many other enduring gold- |day to plan their fall sock s y ot | day plan their fall social cam impson and B gers left fields and centers of present-day industry. | paigns. They are warned that young ‘Sh’? e e;l"‘ ?;z;tmg “A:’: doisr;fio to impress those who are ‘| watching. | LETEOPATH | Freeburger DENTISTS lomgren Building PHONE 56 MEMBER —_— AUGUST 30 Mrs. Minard Mill Mrs. Katella Kendall Lucy Stilliwell Herman Randall Tiny Caldwell Hiram Flanigan Elizabeth Wells ‘T, M. Ferguson MO JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 Second and fourth Monday of each month > in Sectuish Rite Temple A beginning at 7:30 p. m. “HAS. W. HAWKES- WORTH, Worshipful Master; JAMES W. LEIVERS, Sectetary. GuySmith DRUGS PUROLA REMEDIES PRESCRIPTIONS CARE- FULLY COMPOUNDED Front Street Next Coliseum PHONE 97—Free Delivery SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Douglas for §1 he following x months, in advar Dafivered by B: r——'—_——_I Tr. A. W. Stewart DENTIS. Flows 9 am. to 6 pm. £ EWARD BUILDING Office Phone 469 one month. in advance Bubscribers will conf Word had been received here that the Territory had been awarded a |German captured cannon for its record in the last Liberty Loan drive. Alaska made the best record of any state in the Twelfth Federal Reserve District. ey will promptly notify gularity in the de- livery of their paper ? Telephones: News Office, s Office, 374. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Assoclated Press is exclusively to republication of all dispatche to otherwise credited paper the published herein the use for it or not local new [ Dr. Judson Whittier | CHIROPRCTOR Drugless Physician Offi¢ rours: 10-12, 1-5, 7-3 M ODERN ON GUARANTEED TO BE LARG ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. ALABKA CIRCUL THAN THA Manual training and full commer- cial course, taught by Mr. and Mrs. John E. Lanz, were to be added to the courses for the school year at this time. OF GEORGE D. CLOSE. tives, with office Beattle, Chicago. New Yor SEATTLE REPR American Bank By r Representa Portland. 101 | Tomorrow’s Styies Today” Halvgnemy Juneau's Own Store ALASKA'S NEWSPAPEF | s T, | ROBERT SIMPSON, OPT. D. Graduate Los Angeles College of Optometry and Opthalmology Classes Fitted Lenses Ground A source of Association members while they were in the i and of contir 1g interest since they have home is the excellence of Alaska’s These surprised to find in the far no; press editors trom throughout the nation were h, laboring under severe handicaps, as fine a group of small daily newspapers "The Rexall Stcre” ‘Your Reliable Fharmacists Butler-Mauro Drug Co. PRESCRIPTIONS as serve any section e country Outside. Alaska’s newspapers are being complimented hig ly in articles appearing throughout the nation “Daily and weekly newspapers job in Alaska,” writes Miss Mae Bashore, of the West Schuylkill (Pennsylvania) Press and Pine Grove Herald last frontier with the | The Charles W. Carter Mortuary Fourth and Franklin Sts. NI I PHONE 136 are on the publisher furnishing lents of America’s latest local and national news just as they £ are in the s, “Despite the ¢ each of the lead — ede. Have Your Eyes Examined by Dr. Rae L. Carlson OPTOMETRIST Blomgren Bldg.———2nd Floor Front Street————Phone 636 tory and many of the smaller communities have the weeklies. And they keeping their readers informed on current events cities has a daily newspaper Brevity, briefness, terseness, ~conciseness, own are doing a mighty fine job of H. S. GRAVES “The Clothing Man” HOME OF HART SCHAFFNER | & MARX CLOTHING the | “Because of the isolated position of Alaska, the newspapers are doubly important as a source of in- formation. Radio receptione from the States is un- certain most of the time and the newspapers are the only reliable the world “The Alaska buck ying on their publishing business. Costs are But they are attractive Released to Morning Papers - - (New York Times) THRIFT C0-OP Phone 767 Phone Groceries [ BTG It was clear at once, when Robert A. Taft an- | nounced that, despite the sacrifices involved, he could | obstacles in|be persuaded to run for President, that here was a unu- | candidate to reckon with. Having made the statement | | of willingness to run, in a letter to an Ohio political | leader, which was in the best tradition, he didn't| as advertising media because of the intense reader merely sit down in dark seclusion to await the national | interest—they have almost a monopoly on the dis-|reaction. | semination of news. The letter was made public in afternoon news- “Associated Press news goes to Alaska from Seattle | papers. It was desirable that morning newspapers | over the U. S. Army Signal Corps. It is dispatched by should have something that would make a new “lead,” short wave radio and the paper is charged at the rate| OF b least add new matter and freshness to the story. of one and one-half cents a word. When messages|Mr: Taft was on the job, and very helpfully, too. _He; are sent in “combination” to all the newspapers, the| IPicKlY Broduced, alficet 85 Siough g el 1 ght | ~ 3 S ST | have been anticipated, a tentative campaign program cost is three-quarters of a cent a word ',0{ principles, with such time-tested planks as a bal- radiograms are one of the major expenses anced budget and the suggestion of a new approach to business. | the farm problem. He even found occasion, this far |in advance of the election of 1940, to declare that| | President Roosevelt was the weakest candidate the | Democrats could possibly name to run against him. All this, of course, with charity in his heart for the | morning papers. Soon the candidates will be fore- | seeing the relative scarcity of news on Sunday after- noons and be delivering to the press large mimeo-\ graphed texts of statements and speeches “For Release | | in Monday Morning Papers” and the campaign will be really on. It will be a fine year, 1940. daily contact with events of [ Gastineau Motor | Service PHONE 727 GENERAL AUTO REPAIRING Gas—Oil—Storage dailies terrific ca sually high, circulation low New England Maple Syrup and a variety of other Natural Foods. Health Foods Cenier Krafft Building—2nd Floor 204 FRANKLIN ST. FINE ‘Watch und Jewelry Repairing PAUL BLOEDHORN 8. FRANKLIN STREET e e e PROPHETIC GENIUS | OF 16TH CENTURY IN CAPITOL FILM Nostradamus, the man whose LOOK sad LEARN k4 By A. C. Gordon HARRY RACE DRUGGIST “The Bquibh Btores of Alaska” 1. Who was the tallest President ever to reside in the White House? 2. Which is quicker, the eye or the ear? 3. What is the Hippocratic oath? 4. What percentage of a water- melon does water comprise? 5. What is the largest inland body of fresh water in the world? ANSWERS 1. Lincoln. 2. The eye. 3. An oath administered to those entering the practice of medicine. Charges for of the “As a result of the high cost of Associated Press news, the Alaska papers get comparatively brief ac- counts of the main news of the world. Much of the color and background is omitted from the news stories. Thus the papers will have in one column the stories sometimes spread over several pages of metropolitan dailies in the States. “News gathering facilities of Alaska hark back to the days prior to the Civil War when compared to “The Store for Men" SABIN’S Front St—Triangle Bldg. A tireless worker, endowed with great physical men will be ardent suitors disinclined strength and extraordinary mental calibre—a fearless | toward constanc 4 A4y S Q. May a fork handle rest on the fighter, hard hitter in debate, Judge Wickersham found | June graduates who now seek vo- Jlfi’]‘;:“u"{;:"‘t‘hfeéi'fy“:: Lo arvive in|table, with the prongs on the edge time aside from all his service in public life to compile | cational training are told by those|was to teach in the Public School of the plate, when not in use? eight volumes of Alaska Law Reports and publish a |who read the stars that the demand | quring the winter months. A. Never. The fork should rest voluminous “Bibliography of Alaskan Literature;” |for nurses and physicians will b(\‘ 2 = ort '-hg plate, the prongs pointing o Ttath d i | make one of the most extensive collections extant of | greater than in previous years. | . a . upwards. gy iy g | books, photographs, early newspapers and other his- |~ persons whme}blrthdm: it is hnw'lm};;&k‘ls?:tfi:;lixiw;:oLs‘lLT;S wxl;(-) oAl 18 the P celusenay T | toric records of Alaska—now one of the most treasured | the augury of a year of hazards that | turned to ey ¥ when a woman telephones another Téo mo bynnp luf‘tmm"' collections in Alaska may be avoided. Litigation will be g woman of her own social position? | | g ekl S Phone 177 | During eight years as U. S. District Judge and 14 | especially unfortunaie. Fair pros-| Oliver Drange of the Juneau Cold | A: “Ms. Baker? This is Dorothy A | years as Delegate to Congress his interest never lagged | perity is indicated. \Swn\gp Gompany, returned to Ju- Moore.” constant wonder to National Editorial in the opportunity to gather and preserve what he! Children born on this day prob-|neau on the Alask: Territory! could for future generations of Alaskans. |ably will be imaginative and in- G S He has given to Alaska perhaps more of lasting ' ventive. These subjects 55 TOHIE it . ol Keaiihad With er TR | have. iriane e Mat sty DAILY LESSONS At anAithe Diiyarsity UL ATREE bt of WEER ey ot aibe s o : IN ENGLISH came into realization by virtue of measures which he | (Copyright, 1939) NEW T introduced and fought for through hectic sessions of Bl 0 T il By W. L. Gordon Congress. - —— The recent movement for establishment of a Wick- A'.ASKA S : FOUR LEAF CLUB PARTY Words Often Misused: Credible ersham Day in Alaska bespeaks an appreciation that | AlMoN Four-Leaf Clover girls enjoyed |means worthy of belief, creditable should extend to all who know him. Tod irrespes | an afternoon party yesterday at ‘the | means worthy of praise. “His story tive of political affiliations, Alaskans everywhere may | ]'o BE BOOSIED | home of Grace Pusich, member of |is credible, and his work is credi- graciously acknowledge his great service—his loyalty | the Club, for their annual picnic. | table.” and achievement on behalf of the land to which he Nine girls and their leader, Mrs,| Often Mispronounced: Entree has given his life and which he continues to make his Io HouSEvaES Hilja Boylan, were the guests, each |Pronounce an-tra, first a as in ah, home. { bringing their own refreshments, |second a as in tray, accent first | Hail to the Old Roman and the grand old man of | _ T i The afternoon waa enlivened ‘with |sylable; t population of the vast Terri-| Alaska—eighty-two and going strong—and may he | S ckers s Often Misspelled: Precede; vo SndoSoguiyiow it wihis g o =ai v 1 Big ANIEUONE ERIEIR ol e Rl B e e T |symbol of the pioneering spirit of which he is the '0 Be Pushed io Se" B Skl i Synonyms: embodiment and inspiration to youth of a newer and MESOJEDIC LEAVES shortness, greater Alaska. | 1939 Pa(k Jacob Mesojedic sailed south on |succinctness. | the Prince George enroute to his| Word Study: “Use a word three W 7 - |home in Cleveland, Ohio, after a|times and it is yours.” Let us in- Harepuogon the M | LICE Y- & MY calsihes” o g ot RO i MY 3 _ A States | g g1as. He stated before leaving |one word each day. Today's word: will be reached during the intehsive | i H; 1: of taining t fall ‘advetising ‘campalgn 0D Al | SAC De_ expected B0 et A | e Nk a1 a8 g 4 Spring, but most likely would goiriage. (Pronounce hi-me-ne-al, i as aska’s canned salmon. r i These messages to the nation’s ST O, 1, B 8 e e Wnireassd, meal planners which present new 5 % jpousig 2 iinne Rockpk ird - ways to serve canned salmon in hot CPaorRTs: TN N e Blihés foriooal wasther Wil 40cins Ly Y- e Oultbereand (emily vers | 6o B R0 ol AmE BT et : . . S busy today moving into their new |earl.’—Mrs. Gaskell. canned salmon’s twin appeals of | 5 | home, the Rokavich house near nutritious meals and economy. Eneadwell Housewives will be told how canned | : salmon makes a well rounded meal both attractive and inexpensive. A full page advertisement in color | in Good Housekeeping together with | smaller colored messages in Wom- an’s Home Companion, American | Home, and McCall’'s September is- sues start off the annual fall drive, reaching more than nine million of | America’s 33 million homes. To Sell 1939 Pack | ‘s p The advertising pressure on retail Rpopaniic g {nystified $he sales of canned salmon will increase| WOrld of his own time, now steps in October issues, as supplies from|Cut of the Sixteenth Century to the 1939 pack will be availible in|POse @ puzzle for modern science. stores by then. During this month.‘The secret of his uncanny ability twelve and a quarter million homes | t0 foretell the future that is just will be reached with salmon’s sélling | "OW becoming history apparently message through the pages of lead- | died with him, but the remarkable Phone 221 Alice Clark those of the States, deaths, marriages, accidents, crimes and other spot news is flashed almost immediately to newspapers in the States, but in the Northland weeks sometimes pass before the papers get the information. There is no telegraph system other than the Army Signal Corps’ chain of stations, and a large part of the Alaska news is carried by travelers, “New arrivals in Anchorage, for instance, are in- terviewed by the local report.. for information on the Interior. Some- weeks old welfare of each community in the times alarming news is brought in but it is published with great int the States when only a few hours old.” Editors from the more effete States were in a posi- many rest, just as it is in In Puerto Rico it is charged that the pupils know more than their teachers. Up this way they only think they do. Modern civilization: A state of affairs in which everyone sits around dreading what a failure as a house painter may decide to do next. Those two polar caps on Mars appear and dis- appear regularly. Do you suppose the darned planet could be wiggling its ears at us? The New York World's Fair covers 1,216 acres, a field which is producing a new crop of bunions. Looking for Something New?—Try These } Gadgets of all types and descriptions were put on display City. Here are three inventions which struck popular by typing words which take place of notes on sheet five &. at a‘time, Right, & doughnut with handle, music. providing a neater way to dunk without solash orburn, - Seattle, at the Inventors’ Exposition in New ¥ork Left, a musical typewriter. Melody is ed fancy. r A Center, a venetian blind mop, which ns Iing women’s and household maga- zines. Three million homes will be reached by the full color photo- graphic page in Ladies’ Home Jour- nal showing “Salmon Jolly.” Need for intensive selling pressure during the fall months is pointed out by Walter H. Tuesley of Kelley- Clarke Company of Seattle and a member of the salmon industry ad- vertising committee His organiza- tion is regarded as one of the best informed primary market distribut- ors of canned salmon. He stated that government reports showing the amount of salmon in wholesaler and chain store warehouses. July 1 this year was 63 per cent above the supplies in these warehouses of the same date a year ago, even though these supplies had been re- duced eight per cent from. April 1 this year. Pinks in distributors’ ware- houses on July 1 were 92 per cent above the same date in 1938. “This indicates that the industry still has a selling job to do to move this salmon into consumption be- fore the 1939 pack can be sold,” Tuesley declared. “The salmon jindustry and the ‘Territory of Alaska need a strong demand for canned salmon during the coming twelve months if the short pack of this year is to return enough money to permit full opera- tion of the industry next season,” Tuesley concluded. — e - {DR. KING HOME FROM VACATION Dr. Luella King, Associate Super- visor of Elementary Education for the Office of Indian Afairs, returned to Juneau last night on the steamer | Princess Charlotte after almost four months’ vacation Outside. She vis- ited her former home in Minnesota and visited in Montana apd at accuracy of his predictions has opeped a present-day quest for means he employed to peer into the world ahead. The tragic success achieved by Michel de Nostradamus, medieval doctor of medicine and scholar is visually related in the short fea- ture entitled “Nostradamus” which | is to appear commencing next Sun- day on the screen of the Cap:to! Theatre here. Born in 1503 in Provence, France, and granted a doctorate by Mont- | pelier University, Nostradamus first demonstrated his ability to lift tne veils that shield the future by fore- telling the great Black Plague that swept Europe in the 16th Century and developing in preparation a cure that is still used today, known as Nostrum. Unsuccessful howeve:, in saving from the plague his »wn immediate family, Nostradamus shunned the haunts of men and retired to an abbey to write the now famous book thal at present rests in the British Museum, “Prophetic Centuries,” telling in verse of great events to come. In his volume, Nostradamus fore- told the succession of three kings of France to follow the tragic death of Henry II, he predicted the exe- cution of England’s Charles I, Am- erica’s battle for independence, in| which John Paul Jones would fig- ure strongly, Marie Antoinette and the French Revolution, the rise of Bonaparte and other events that now form a part of the history of the world. Venturing through his gift into present times, Nostradamus wrote that an English monarch would abdicate for the love of a woman of another country and that a man named Hisler would conquer 4. About 92 percent. 5. Lake Superior, HELP THY | NEIGHBOR | Telephone 713 or write The Alaska Territorial Employment Service for this qualified worker. COOK—BAKER — Age 27, mar- ried. Member AFL. Cooks and Waiters Union. Learned trade when very young, has had ten years ex- perience as baker, fry cook, and dinner cook. Six years as baker with one of the large Pacific‘steam- ship lines; three years with leading restaurants in Alaska. Is an able all-around cook and baker. Has also had training in pressing and dry cleaning. Call for ES 02492. — .- world and the film depicting his career is expected by Charles D. Beale, manager of the Capitol Theatre, to create as great a sen- sation in Juneau as it did during the months just past in New York and other large cities of the States. MRS. HOOKER IS AT MRS. JARMAN'S Mrs. Katherine Hooker, who has been residing at the Nordling home during the absence of Mrs. Homer Nordling and children in the states, is now the house guest of Mrs. Kate Jarman. Vienna and Austria. Plucked from the dark ages, the visions of this almost legendary man are now the center of wide- spread interest throughout the A . FIRE AT CIRCLE SPRINGS Fire of an undetermined origin re- cently destroyed the Circle Springs Hotel power plant, loss $1,500. Peter Pan Beauty Shoppe Superior Beauty Second Floor Triangle Bldg. Service JUNEAU ALASEA GASTINEAU CAFE L. C. SMITH and CORONA TYPEWRITERS Sold and Serviced by “Our Doorstep Is J. B. Burford & Co. Worn by Satisfied Customers” Music and Electric (Next Irving’s Market) Front Street Juneaun Hglody House Appliances Mnfg. & Building Co., Ine. CABINET WORK—GLASS Phone 6§ PHONE 62 TELEPHONE—SI COMMERCIAL AND SAVINGS ACCOUNTS CAPITAL—$50,000 SURPLUS—$100,000 2% PAID ON SAVINGS SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES First National Bank ' JUNEAU—ALASKA