The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 8, 1940, Page 2

2 Mine ts Pritish ¥ RS ST S Viewed from an approaching boat, but part of the superstru coast of England. RANGER'S LIFE IS ther up the river was another bad place. ' “Here 1 was in serious tiouble deep channel, where T could reach no bottom by sounding with my swim to get the sled out. What T really saved my life was Tige, The dog had been sick and I was 1ot using him in the team, but let him follow behind. While I was work- Ranger John Rumohr’s life was saved by his lead dog. Tige, when the river ice broke during a re- cent patrol in Mt. McKinley Na-|ing with the sled he ma i to tional Park. The district ranger get up ahead of the team and sent the wing T to Park really coaxed them along. Superintendent Frank T. Been i . wh}: RIS RunbHr ofié of the . Lhe sled floated but wil oSt thoroughly experienced dog | Standing on a8 zunng! 4 tednt dviVers i ) down behind until the water was ning through the front of .my “The river ice w p: But it kept of in a few places on sled from catchin: 1T the about 10 miles up the Wi t was quite a struggle, for we where the water wds o derp in ha t 100 feet to go before the snow that I decided not to x¢ reached solid ice 1 The dogs never would has turn to the ranger station way. if Tige had not been & “On Toklat the overiic he Whenever he A about eight mile: e L - pla vhere * ice would car \ to the team trol statfon and seven mile. [ he we : First of Uncle Sain’s Eagles The first co-ed in the northwest and one of the first in the nation to make a solo flight under the federal civil aeronautics program is Maxine (' shown in her plane, at Eugene, Oregon, after a successful sol Honor student at the University of Oregon, she was one of { and 4 men taking the course at the univers: Starvmg Wild l)ucké Recéive Food from the ‘Alrplanes are being used to drop .demhohki\ r. 1 are X :;.p with Henry Meznarich (left) and Mike Looke, two of the Illinois sports iag romm - G——— Liner Off English C All 48 of her passengers and all but three of her crew of 150 got away in lifeboats. £00d for more than 50,000 wild ducks which faced m}‘% o in the lce- Some of the hundreds of ducks which nfiarved before n mfi Lower, loading a plane with grain at the La Salle-Peru (IIL)’ airport &re (left i L Hahn and John Coleman.: ~ " (111 clure of the 10,002-ton British lier Dunbar Castle was visible after the boat nad been torn in two by a mine explosiori January 9 off the southeast a little and wag his tail. That would put new spirit in them and they would struggle ahead even if the ice broke under them. “I hope Tige will get a long life. He earned it that day. I managed to change into dry clothes without freezing myself.” Ranger Rumohr’s modest use of “we” is reminiscent of another Norseman who made that appela- tion famous. - Fireproof Clothesto BeFashion Women's Clofhing Blamed for Many Deaths, In- rance Opinion By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE AP Scie=ce Editor NEW YORK. Feb.' 8—Women's clothing is to blame for about'1.600 American women burning to death annually | These victims of feminine dress fashions are listed by the statistical bulletin of the Metropolitan Life | Insurance Company “It would seem by this time,” the bulletin states, “that people would | have learned how to use matches safely and to smoke without en-| dangering their lives and the lives of others.” i Yet, in this study, matches and cigarettes hold third place ‘as’ the | cause of setting fatal fires to wom- en’s clothes. Stoves, furnaces':and | grates rank first, and inflamable liquids second. The liguids' ate ‘both | those used for cleaning textiles and | for starting fires in stoves. £ 1 Last place for firing dresses goes | to candles. Next to ‘last”dre’ the| widely-used electrical utensils of the household. 1 The “trend of loss of ‘life from | | Heaven | playing such a short THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, FE Fiction | Wriers' |AllThey Have to DoinNew . York Is fo Observe People Ry GEORGE TUCKER | NEW YORK. Feb. 8—It is | tle thines like this that exy | why fiction writers in New Yo | merely observe people and find their plots without having to wrack their brains. Noel Mills is an ‘actress, I don't| know her, but they say ‘she is quite” prétty. Not so long ago her mother fore a ‘page from the New York Times to ‘wrap a small pi thre’ in.' She was putting it away, in a drawer when her eyes hap-| pened to ‘fall on a paragraph in| the personal column, which was on | that page. The paragraph asked | information as to the whereabouts | of '“her daughter. ‘Someone, it| seems, had left Her a considerable amount ‘of money. | The plot now thickens. While all ‘this was 'going on Noel was being auditioned by an agency| | { i a prefty’ good lead. If she made it. she would be signed to a fea- tured role. But the audition had to be held on a Thursday night—and that was |the night her mother had ar- | ranged “for her to”ifterview the attorney for the estate. What does a gal do in a situation like this? ‘Give up her chance for glory—or perhaps risk losing a handsome | legacy? | Well, money talks. even on | Broadway, and so Noel begged off ! from the audition and claimed her estate. To do this she had to go to Montreal, come back to New | Yotk, and’ go on back up to Can- {ada. It took a lot of attorneying [nnd traveling to make things nice :rmd legal ‘and fool-proof. | | ‘When' it ‘was satisfactorily (tled she was morosely wonder- ing about her interrupted career | when' this same agency telephoned Iber againh. Apparently a satisfa | tory player had not been found, and to her delight, she was lected. | "What made it even more than a | “personal experience” to Noel was that this show was “The Court of Missing ‘Heirs,” 'a show that spe- cializes in' finding people who are missing, but who have legacies coming to them. et- They say you have 'to be every- thing from a good business man, to ‘& Swingali, to betome a suc- cessful ' orchestra ‘leader. T do not know whether these characteristics have influenced Glenn Miller’s rise, but T ean tell you he is one of the most unfailingly courtecus men you have ever''met. The other night in the Cafe Rouge, in the Hotel Pennsylvania, Where he.is playing, Miller sud- deflly ‘stopped’ playihg after only two numbers. I suppose the danc- ers were disappointed. But at this moment Miller stepped to the mi- crophorié' and ' said| “Lddies and gentlemen' 7 want"to apologize for dance sat, but we are going on the air in a feminine clothing 1s downward. Thls‘,coupm" f'mittutes, dnd if you will the bulletin attributes to the Steafly modernization of American homes, replacinz oil and gas lamps with electricity, and coal with gas and electrical stoves i Chemists have begun to produce fire-proofing for flimsy fabrics, and this seems to be the best hope of ‘the future of cutting down the dress fire fatalities. News Todav--Empire. ik e B2 be “patient tifl then we will have a half an hour of dancing.” Just that. . . . Little words to his “dudfence.’ .". . He didn't have "|fo say anything, but he did. . . . I heard one girl say to her escort, “Wasn't that nice of him?” . . . Mdybé' it is things as 'this that help explain Glenn Miller. i Lrsmdipy T DR T HOURS OF SINGLE MEN ON-WPA (LT T0 65 PER MONTH . Effective this month, single men \ on WPA crews will work only 65 hours. per month, half the number | of hours worked by married men, and be paid accordingly. it was an- nounced today by the Department of Public Welfare and the Alaska Terri 1 ‘Employment office. Th‘;’;"? ve' 0 g made in order to spread the work as widely as pos- sible and to take care of more de- | pendents. u{‘r GUILTY PLEAS | ENTERED IN COURT| Pleas of not guilty were entered ifi “Dibtrict Court this afternooh’ by two prisoners indicted by the Grand | "'‘Pete Chernoif of Sitka pleaded not guilty to'burgldry and Richard Trask pleaded not guilty to contributing to the delinqueri¢y of a minor. LITTLEPAGE VISITS -Jack Littlepage, Superintendent of “the Chichagot’ mine, was in Juneati ovérnight on an abbreviat- éd business ‘trip; flying in" yester- day- afternobon with Shell' Simmons and returning this morning. e et ] Try an Empire ad. for'a part in"a radio show. It was _ 1 Spirits. Copyright 1940, Calvert Distillers Corporation, B. 8, 1940: Snow and Canadians in England | *he weatherman made Canadian soldiers, training in «t home as he brought snow and cold to the British Isles, as part of the ténieral world cold wave. British Tommies are joining in the fun as the varriors make up for quiet on the Western front with a good olde fashioned snow fight. . Flobd : Hits Massachusetts Tide and wind combined to flood scores of homes in Quincy, Ma marooning the families in them. Heavy ice cakes floated in with th. and battered at porches. James Ellis is bus from front of his home to keep them from ¢ s., tide removing chunks of ice shing through the walls. : At GOP KansasirDay Rally oulder at th ph W \’s greatest dange Left to right, Got| oy Frost, and Col. Theodor Roosevelt, who represented Thomas E. Dewey. ublican party are shown shoulder to shy Kansas Day gathering of the G.0.P. in Topeka, where Rep. Jose] ''Martin, Jr., House minority leader, declared Ame js not foreign war but unsolved internal problems. Payne Ratner of Kansas, Rep. Martin, R Pillars of the Rep Ci.EAR HEADS (CLEAR-HEADED BUYERS] CALL FOR Calv ert BLENDED WHISKEY Calvert “Reserve”: 90 Proof —65% Grain Neutral New York City. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER U. U. (By the S. Weather Bureau) at ¥eb. Forecast for Juncau and vicinity, beginning pam., Light rain t i and Frid slightly watrr will ast for Southeast Alaska: I L § slightly wa ov orthern portion tonight, Forccast of winas coast of the Gulf of Alaska Winds fr: Dixon Enir iwrcok fre soul by crez Fre to Kodiak fresh stron ea ter! Humidity W. ity , Barometer 71emp. 3:30 p.m, 29.67 33 9 2 Lt.Sn Noon today 29.31 31 ) 6 Ci RADIO REPORTS TODAY n. Precip. Station T 24 ho Anchorage 23 0 Barrow 0 Nome 3ethel 39 R 42 Ketchikan 42 94 Seattle 4 43 06 Ra Portland | 45 47 05 R San Francisco .. 59 i 52 52 0 Cles WEATHER SYNOPSIS ce, with the the lowest Teported centr pre: 3 inches, has been moving ea ward cen located this morning at latitude 5 5 north tude 1. S we ith a trou i Yukon Light to mode Y was contin !} orning, ex ) Alaska Pe ard and so [e] » and above n TONGASS IS TO (ALL SIMMONS FLIES FAIRCHILD OF AT (HICHAGOF PORT from Sit R nd Jack Try an Empire al T }\/\ODES o[ hlwe MOME by Adelaide Kerr Flowcr hats are going to cap some smart heads at mid-season cocktail parties. Sally Victor fashioned this one by perching pink roses on a Zoundation of pink veiling spattered with black chenille dots.