The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 25, 1939, Page 2

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" KINY Sél-up | *Tt win take more tham 30 tube |'to ecarry: KINY's programs when | the '1,000-watt transmitter goes !the afr early in November. This will establish Alaska’s most dominant ) radio’ voice: | The tubes, so-called, ‘represent an investment of over $2.000 “When we speak of rddio tubes,’ said Harry Long of KINY often think about the little SS or metal tubes. which.we use in our radio receiving sets, The ne tubes which will go into the new KINY transmitter 1look like in- verted ‘fruit jars, with horns at top '‘and bottom. There are four of these modern transmitting tubes in this new 1940 transmitter. M Kraft, the construetion engineer in charge of the installation, has in- 'mmvd a po&sible opening date of ive “to the finish” on west- | While anes were reported striking at Britain's shofes in Hitler's new. dr ern powers, Soviet Russia was still dealing with Baltic diplomats, with the threat of neighboring. states. Pictured above is a Soviet machine gun crew wearing white sheouds and settled deep in snow near the Finnish frontier. Early winter in northern countries has slowed military activity throughout the regions, would make for paircul fighting i BABY ELKS BOATS ARE WINTERED q . q 31 m[l([ WAR Mrs. Primavera. Is Called South 'zeneratl.on James Primavera will'1ea¥e | qountivof leeway on Hallowe'en tomorrow merning on the steamer |p.¢ won't concede that the leeway Princess Louise to join her daugh-|peging: this early: 3 ter, Beatrice; who is ill in Seattle.| gunean youngsters foutid on Miss Primavera, a graduate ' of | sireets at/'night plaging their capt.' G prack e ¥ rentinds - over-zealoous celebrators. H: doing the past few monhths. e THATCHER HERE A. Thatcher, traveling mer- chikan yesterday and is at the Bar- | SLATED TONIGH anof- Hotel Annal toll call of the Elks Lodge will be held tonight at the meetin here.” ANl Elks, whether members of ‘the Juneéau or some other lodge. are urged to be present. e HOW i HAT'S jon October 31 and-mot before, the Cmef ad»uses TRl for T WHAT.YOU © N5 . N & Relief At Last For Your (:ough A feed will be held at the con- S e L of the fheeting; under the di- o n germ laden phlegm, on of Willlam ' Garbter. on and aid nature to - and heal raw, tender, inflag- m\onu:, CASE Sut for «divorce was ‘filed in the (-] any medicines ydu :r"’dr\.ngjs: to%%ll District Court today by’ Harry J. ff‘ o'nulsmnthh Whitten against l~‘|’m:‘e~ Marj ml are to like nys,the eough C PEOMULSION Try The for Coughs, Chest Colds, | lmuhhs | resuits. e SEATTUC ]vw on'grounds of incompata- TELEPHONE 249 hility Office—New York Life . D Contest Today Bon’t Forget to Ask for a Guessing Ticket with Each $1 Purchase ¥ AY'N TAKIT 5. W, BEHRENDS aad GEORGE BHOS. P 3 VALUABLE CONTEST OPEN EVERY DAY ENDS NOVEMBER 15 TEE SIMPLE RULES OF THE EMPIRE CENSilS CONTEST: m oy uneaut. The total as announced by rinhers. furnished by the participating s or to The Em winr merchar ticipa the niest. par i final. Merchant as His Own Individual Contest. Given fo Winners by Ea ONE CENSUS TICKET WITH EACH $1 PURCHASE AT ANY OF THE ABOVE STORES. tanela & oo W Dsdan wli of on Hallowe’en/'is nm almmt aweck | carts, away, Chief of*Polive Dan Ralston 38th and 42nd Streets. FADE OUT IS ORDER ‘Manhaffan Eliminates Rag Man, Umbrella Man, Or- | gan Grinder, Push Carts By GEORGE TUCKER NEW YORK, Oct. 25.—The old rag the umbreila man, the org: der with his monk, ‘the pusk man—especially the ke Horatic Alger !hln( systematically driven from “Picturesque but ‘a is the way Commissioner Morgan sums them up. re they a nuisance? “They d pt traffic. They pa No City* tax or ‘sAles’ tax: Thay buy nolicenses. ‘1t 1’6" fair“ to’ rent- payers and ‘legitimate merchants to let these fellows wander through the ctreet, 'peddling 'everything” from spare atitomobile parts to shoestrings | and cabbage. ... ./ They’vergot to go. It was Commissioner Mo u.m\ who sneered at public ~rnum9n m cart hombr are beir the stree nuisance, of Markets And how and rightly so—when the pe lers | |were driven from Paddy’s Mnrkel some time ago. Paddy Market for 50 years was the heaven of push- on Ninth Avenue bm\vv:'n‘ ‘There was an outcry when the market was] - the Open Air Divisions regulations | the Juneau High School, has been jewe'en pranks arel being sent home | They cost the city half a million dol-| secretarial work in Seattle!py the'police. Celebrate Hallowe'en larsa year, picking up the trash the_', Empire classifieds for The Chief agrees that the younger | finally closed, wheteupon Commis- | should have (@& certain sicner Mo dumbfoundad, in- n, quired: “Don’t ‘these who \\l[‘])‘ sentimental tears for Paddy's Mar-| ket realize that it was the 1‘.mm-~\} in the ecity? The pushcarts violate ! THE DAILY /\LASKA EMP[RE WEDNESDAY, OCT. 25, I939 JOINS ‘MET’'_—Golden horseshoe” audiences at _the Metropolitan opera in New York will hear for the first time this ason Jarmila Novotna (above), Czech lyric soprano who counts nerself lucky to be now out of couniry absorbed by Germany. SHIPWRECKED MEN SAFE AT PORT MOLLER |Martha’s Crew fo Be Taken| to Unalaska by Mot- orship Fern The \hm\\x!‘vk‘d crew of the throw away.” |rescue ship Mertha and the two So 1939 is twilight for Manhat-|men they rescued have all reached tan's street -criers - One- Wil pare Moller sately, - Oolibbor iof miss' the chestnut vendor, with his| gucioms James ConHgE WS black, sooty; charcoal roaster, stand- | | iifieq today by U. S. Commis- ing oh bleak corners in winter. One | gone jack Martin at Unalaska \\l'l miss him and all his tattered| =y 0 the men got to Pert Moi- ethren who, like everything else |, O weth. s A here, must give way to the it blel Siatang: or bt law of Change. v Charles 'Atlas runs into himself shem: t6 Un"ill*i'a ';\1‘\1|1’\ t every time he turns a corner. The| e Bl all ave safs man whose physique is-said to be as|ST8m i meile. o)l are (5318 the human figure can be, has been sought after by sculptors In se ma climes that | wherever he goes he discovers him- elf standing in town squares, or nearly perfect as statuary ‘halls, or adorning the fac for sculptors that, as- they | Mrs. William T. Mahoney will| v. he is resident in -effigy in leave for States on the North virtually every state in the UHion. Sea tomorrow to visit her sister That ‘statute of an--early, great|who is reported to be ill at A American in Washington has Alex- | Cal. ander Hamilton's head, but Atlas > body. In' Jefferson City, Mo., he is RANGER IX IN PORT a ‘Centaar. In New York he is| The Forest Service launch Ran- George Washington “in- stone. He ger IX ‘returned to Juneau last| everi graces the battle fields of njght from work in Chatham | Prance, ‘being the dominant' figure | giraits and at Sitka. Little Port| in the Marne Memorial. Today you wyajter, where the Bureau of Fish- see him ‘here and there about the town, seemingly as graceful and eries laboratory €CC help, was visited and adequately housed Marshal's Wife is being built with The IX also vlhhe aE 46 as ?19 ever was. He I‘ws assisted the Bureau of Census by a job, a career, that of Perstading | (ayy,g the count in out-of-t ay thousands of ‘others everywhere| . ..o to actept the benefits of sensible = i physieal culture. Atlas still racalls Y WORK E his embarrassient at being under- pighoes ; N Werk on the Nome s ended gizsticand sickly ‘at’17. Being siokly | ¥ Ok o1 the 7B DREL is dumb, he says, bcc.nyv. 99 times ! o, completed. the out of a hundred, it isn't necessary. | oo oo The story cf the week concerns four Harlem lads and Jimmy Shields, the singer, who came upon them simultaneausly with a cop. They were throwing the dice on a street corner “But we weren't| are already nual basketball FOR HOOP Elks of Anchorag pls - - ~ ATTENTION REBEKAHS shcoting craps,” one small lad pro- tested. No, no,” boomed the| Covered dish dinner at 6:30 o'- cop. “Then what were you doing? cleck p.m., tomerrow. Regular meet- " For one brief moment the kid|ing and roll call at 8 p.m seemed panic-strciken, - then he KAY HALM, grinned. “We wus going to play |2dV. Secretar, parchesi—but we forgot the board.” e [HELP THY | | NEIGHBOR | Telephone 713 or write | The Alaska Territorial | Employment Service for this qualified worker. TRUCK DRIVER-MARINE EN- GINEER—Native boy, age 24, si gle. Attended Douglas high scho Has Master’s license for boats to| 65 ~feet. Good mechanic on boa(i engines; knows waters in Southeast | ’Alaska Also good truck driver with | i two years’ ' experience; -also ~has | chauffeur’s license. This is a mmve| boy of ability who has a good rep- umtion Call for ES 1147 'RANGER HERE ON.. KLASKA VACATION E. L. Thompson, Forest Service | | Assistant Ranger from MeCall, | | 1daho, is in Juneau in the course | | of & vacation visit to Alsaka. He | | | wnccompflmed by his wife. Thomp- son is a son-in-law of W. O. Carl- {son, New England Fish Company | buyer here. R NO COMMUNITY CENTER The community center contem- plated at Fairbanks with a $175,000 PWA loan has been disapproved by the Public Works Administration. » ries to be played | during the winter months. rWrater Rises Behind Grand Cdulee Dam U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Burcau) Forecast for Jun~au and vicinity, beginning at ) p.m., Oc Cleudy snow flurries beginning late this evening, snow chang ing t 1 ay: moderale easterly winds tonight becomin scutheas Minimum temperature tonight about 3 degr Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Over northern portion, cloudy with sr flurries. tonight changiny to rain Thursday; slightly warm | er tcnigk moderate to fresh nor.h' to easterly winds becomin cutheast Thursday ept mo lerate to fresh southerly over Lyn: southern portion, cl>udy with light rain tonight anc moderate to fresh sout erly winds. ecast of winds along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Tendency for increasing winds over the gulf Thursday. Win alon the coast Entrance to Sitk ill 'be fresh southeas erly ar h to strony Thursday; from Sitka to Ca chinbrook fresh t asteri? becoming southeaster and from k to Kod sh t tr LOCAL DATA | Time Barometer Temo Humidity wma Velocity Weather 3:30 p.m. yestly 30.15 39 54 w 6 3:30 a.m. today 2090 35 45 E 6 Noon today 29.68 36 42 NNE 12 Cloudy 1 RADIO REPORTS | 1 TODAY | Max. tempt. Loxest 3:30a.m Precip. 3:3Cam, | Station last 24 hourt | temp. temp. 24 hours Weathar | Anchorage 24 28 0 Cloudy | Barrow 24 29 0 Cloudy | Nome 33 34 .06 Snow | Bethel | 31 33 11 Cloudy Fairbanks { 10 16 .03 Cloud | Dutch Harbor | 37 38 0 Cloudy | Kodiak | 38 38 42 Cordova ] 28 31 0 | Junean | 31 35 0 Sitka | 35 0 KRetchikan | 30 81 0 Clea Seattle | 31 32 0 Clea Portla ‘ 38 39 0 Fo, | 50 51 03 Clea WEATHER SYNOPSIS A trough of low pressure extended this morning from a low cen- tered near Nome, thence southeastward to Southeast Alaska coast The lowest reported pressure at Nome was 29.37 inches. A well de- veloped disturbance was indefinitely located about 300 miles soutl of the Aleutians near longitude 18) des Pressure continued high over 'the Tower Gulf to the coast of California. Cool and partly « cloudy weather continued over Southeast and Interior Alaska and cloudy weather with some light rain and snow occurred over the western portion of Alaska. Oct. Sun: A Champion Milkmaid se, 7:00 am.; sunset, 4:27 p.m Geraldine Beversluis, of Belleflower, Cal., won the titlé of American Farm Girl Champion at the Los Angeles County Fair in Pomona. She is shown milking a cow, in training for international champmn!hxp context. l'I'h'ere is no subsmuie ior Newspaper Adverhsmg This new picture of Grand Coulec Dam shows the huge lake forming above the dam as work on the con- erete barrier progresses rapidly. adian border, The dam eventually will cause a lake to stretch 150 miles to the Can-

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