The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 22, 1939, Page 11

PflT LY AND HER PALS AUNT SUSIE'S OUT AN' SAID FER ME ' SERVE Lrifi‘i/ [1i§ 24k DhEY Je e Damage, unofficially which d cet of the oe E & W arroll, young film rically in Hollywood recently Preity Peggy recently estranged from his shapely blonde wife, Betty Grable. walk, several 0,000 Blaze Htt.s Famed Coney I mul W(l estimated at $290,000 was done to the famous board walk at Coney Island, b; rt of the park itself, THI e flames Se fire- v shows the fire at its peak, actress had her name linked ro- with Jackie (“The Kid”) Coogan, Miss Carroll, who has described Betty as “my best friend,” admitted hav- ing been out with Coogan many times. Coogan said he and the starlet had known each other for a long time, but, despite denials of a romance, mutual friends smiled knowingly. DOUGLAS LORRA E FOUR YEARS OLD TODAY Lorraine Carlson celebrated her fourth birthday today by inviting a number of her little friends to a ion. Besides the usual routine: of games a birthday cake fashioned like a bunny rabbit and ice cream clowns with ice cream faces and candy fea- tures, wearing paper cone hats and sineapple slice ruffs, also gumdrop | ited the children. cluded the fol- and Allan Savikko, rea Fleek, Elton Eng- Tommy Bobby Paxton, Billy and k, Con and Cather Billy e, Sheila Car- Dorcus Richardson and Beth Fl mick WAHTO FLIE to left yesterday on a for celebration of the occas- | Cashen, Bobby | (Marine Airways plane for Pelican City on Lisianski Inlet where he will teach school this s It will be the school’s first term. Eight pu- ml\ are expected to be in attend- | ance, four in the first grade, and |one each in the 4th, 5th, 7th and | 8th grades. S e GOOD FOR F OCEANSIDE, Cal-—Although on- ly five weeks old, a calf an a local dairy ranch gives milk. e Emphe Want Ads Bring Results. Be .w! é”qm um,uua Lmlwd SOME SPEED Sept. internal TULSA, Okla 22 about speed agents said a man liquor -Talking revenue uspected of illegally, homa highway HOW'D YUH LIKE TH' PUDDIN', UNK2 I BAKED L 5 MYSELF, I DID/ E DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, NOT BAD IN A WAY , SON. BUT TELL ME .- Ik Where There Is Smok King | There's Flre—ln New York By The AP Feature Service NEW YORK-—The cigarette boot- legger has New York tax officials worried. ! He is supplying out-of-state cig- | 1{"’0[.1.05 to smokers who resent city | | | | \ and state cigarette tax These | { make the cost 17 cents a pack for | cigarettes that can be bought for | | 14 cents just across the Hudson Riv- | | er in New Jersey. | As New York's cigarette retailers moaned that business was off 25 per cent, salesmen in New Jersey gloat- ed over doubled and tripled business. Boys began hawking cigarettes at | Jersey ferry landings which New- Yorkers could reach by paying a | nickel for the round trip. New Jersey firms offered to send cartons costing $1.55 in New York for $1.25, plus postage. On five car- tens this meant a saving of .$1.33. officials couldn’t do much to stop this, but when the bootlegger appeared they warned that anyone | caught smuggling cigarettes to New | Yorkers was liable to a $5,000 fine \ year in jail, or both. ‘To make their rulings stick they | vent out agents to watch for boot- h"u.g(‘l& FRIDAY, SEPT. 22, 1939. By CLIFF STERRETT WHO HELPED YuUH LIFT IT INTA TH' you urge,” the judge: retorted, and | dismissed the defendant. This snag worries tax officials but | | they think they can still bring down the bootlegger: who smuggles for profit. + 16,390 CANDY - BARS IS COST OF ELECTION SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Sept. 22 Sheriff Harry Elelson, after travel- ing 2,208 miles and ' visiting 203 | schools, said he thought he had fulfilled the campaign promise of | his daughter, Judy, nine, would “give every kid in Sangamon ‘Cnum_\' a candy bar” if he were elected last November. Eielson said he had distributed 16,390 candy bars. A Bronx youth was nabbed after «J think I contacted cvery young- he had imported and scld 15 car- gter in the county,” the sheriff said, tons to factory workers. A magis- «and quite a few oldsters.” trate made an example of him with - ay jail sentence. But next SILVER LINING day another judge in another case RAYDON, England—When Alex asked the prosccutor: Kerhle, 18, went to London to join if|the Royal Navy, he did several “Do vou mean to tell me that my wife took a drive through New Jersey and I told her to bring back | was his first trip in a train, and he a couple of packs she would be Vio- | lating the law “I do, sir, plies “I can’t read info the law what - FOOD SALE Eastern Star Fopd sale, ' at Hollmann's Drug Store. the prosecutor re- Saturday, that he | things he had never done before. Tt | had never seen the capital | ur@uxba '3-Year-0ld Likes Big Black Cigars Betfer than Candy | HARRISBURG, Ill, Sept. 22. —| Jimmy Parish started smoking when he was 16 months old and now—at | three and one-half years—he lm.«-, to have his cigars daily. [ Jimmy started by popping Grand- 1 | I | socked him with a rail. | i i JIMMY PARISH pa William Sakovich’s unllghu-d‘ pipe into his mouth. Everyone | laughed because they thought it was Started on Grandpa's Pipe cute. Jimmy did, too. Then grand- | pa gave Jimmy a lighted pipe, think- | ing the smoke would make hin¥ sick. Instead of turning green, Jimmy settled into a confirmed smoker, which the elders don’t think is so | signed for | feet T1 funny. He graduated from pipes to cigarettes to cigars. Candy won't wean him from the weed. His father and mother assert he is large for his age and runs and plays as hard as ull)('r kids. ONE WAY OUT CENTRALIA, Wa.\h.. Sept. 22— When a $250000 fire swept this southwest Washington city. recently it destroyed an ornate float de- a Longview, Wash. pa- rade. Unable to assemble another float before the celebration, city officials |rented a goat which trotted along the parade route carrying a banner that read: “The fire got our float—but didn’t get our goat.” - it STRANGER IN TOWN BUCHANAN, Va.—Eugene Karnes didn’t like the looks of the stranger he saw crossing Main Street so he The rattle- snake had 7 rattles and was three long. Town residents believe the snake came in from the moun- | tains in a truck load of wood. Empire classifieds bring results. SAN FRANCISCO'S Finest Moderately Priced Hotel 2.50 300 3.!0 | 1iyou'll Say 100% WOOL Is GEI' the style you like best, in genuine Utica- Duxbak 100% wool hunting or work clothes, for sure comfort and long wear. Thoroughly shrunk and highly water-repellent. Cor: styled. Hu naw, crui hat-caps, socks, Duxbak-Newton ing plaids and other colors, Mackis r and cossack coats, Jaced pants, caps, Shirts, Right prices, Ask your dealer, Style Book FREE. mnwmu&q.u.v. 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