The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 16, 1940, Page 2

2 GIANT WARSHIP PLANS DTYATED Vinson of Nava! Aifairs Condemns 75,000- Ton Ship Proposal Chair- Naval WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 man Vinson th Affairs Committee, is opposed to eny move by the House to force he Navy Department to build of Mouse We're headquarters for Lenten foods this season. We have everything you and your family can imagine for your meals during Lent. quality is' highest — so, foods, Piggly Wiggly is ENDIVE, super battleships 75,000 ton: on said that all the naval experts had opposed the construc- of such large battleships on srounds that their effectiveness ustify the added ex- dvantages Funeral services for James 000-ton ship | Bertrand, who died seve ral day $130,000,000, while a|as the result of injuries sustained vessel can be built for when he fell from a house on H 0,000,000, He the super Street. which was being moved un- fight ships have no der WPA suprvision, will be held reg speed larger ar- tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 o'clock nts than the ves! in the chapel of the Charles W - Carter . Mortuary. - Interment will be in Evergreen Cemetery ——.———— ranging up to Se:rvices Tomorrow For J. Bertrand not D, ago and other di that a said would and no mar maller Bullets of stone were in use in 1514. Iron ones were used in 1550, Emplre ciassiffeds bring results. LARGE FRESH ORANGES 2 dozen DRY ONIONS, 7 Ibs. 25¢ SPECIAL "A” LARGE Qur prices are lowest and our if you’re looking for Lenten the perfect place to get them. WIHITE EGGS 2 doten65¢ HEINZ CHILI, 2 tins - - WHITE STAd TUNA FISH, lg STANDBY CORN, No.Z%ins, 2 SCHOOL BOY Peanuf Butler, 2 SCHILEIING DEVLIN'S Print Dresses SIZES 12 TO 20 NEW SPRING STYLES Variety of Prints and Colors $495 06 5535 - | DEVLIN'S tin -3 Tor ce. 15 oz tin 10c 4[RoiLs 4 th.tin 33¢ PUREX, each -------I%¢ SARDINES, each - . -5¢ 3% Tomato Juice, for 25¢ Super Soft Tissue - - --2%¢ § COFFEE, perlb.25¢ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, FEB. 16, 1940. HAVE Am|VED ith the darker colors for dress- ! L maker and tailored models. " " Skirts AT I,EOT A great deal of thought hasbeen T oo | styles, th with front fullness, Styles This Season Will|sored and aso swings. No aer ite length has n set for the H , f | smart well dressed girl chooses signers (fea"ons | the length that is most flattering to her particular height and weight with costume necklaces and lapel pins in pastel shades added for finishing touches to the various SPRING MODES SPRIN s and checks are for sport styles given to skirts—there are pleated D|sp'ay Ameri(afl De. ‘ t. While they are short, the Necklines are both high and low, costumes Blustery winds and graying skies were completely forgotten today | “Leota,” busy unpacking new Spring styles, gave a few hints as to what Juneau women may expect in the way of fashions this season. American designers have been given an opportunity to display their creations this year with Euro pean styles being represented only by the military trend, copied in the pocket effects and buttons as | well as the braid trimmings. Lead- ‘mg designers have clung to the romantic trend, in Keeping with the “hands off” poliey this coun- try has taken in connection with troubled skies across the 'waters. New _Shades | speaking of skies and waters— |the new shades that have been | chosen by the Color Affiliate Group | to, dominate this year includes | those of sunrise pink, sunset rose heart red, heaven blue, sea spray, | dawn gold, moon mist, and hot Americana red, white and a Hats VG Hats this season are more wear- able, with deeper rowns and si masses of flowers and veiling used accentuate the various types— ni definitely out. “Gone @ With the Wind” styles are predom- inating in tri co turbins pill is and also in sailors. of are in tweeds and trico St weave and the fleecy materials M will be found in pastels and darker IS Fitted and also loose styles SC found. Evening Gowns Jersey evening gowns as well as the ever-popular la chiffons and crepes, are all outstanding this season. They are designed with full skirts, the predominating color for formal wear being white The black and white, navy and white, ccmbinations this year are being replaced by pastels. Bags and as well as belts and cos e jewelry are to be had in all Spring shades. feathers are boxe oats tones are to be of Su i of the beautiful shades thdt have imade this year's colors more ap- | pealing to the eve. Suits are very, very good for Spring. Severely tailored and dress- i maker. For sport styles the short | o - Teday’s News Today— SCHILLING COFFEE OF COURSE/ s WHAT'S THE HIGHEST DEGREE IN FLAVOR? Ti it in some form, th pl Nar day The young couple repeated th Douglas Commis- present | Miss Min- Reaber | home for the ceremony er S and N 5 and 10 cent store here.| He is the son of Mrs. Myrtle Nance | of equiest support, of REVEALED TODAY | BY YOUNG COUPLE Miss Judifhfi Nsfead and W. L. Nance Wed Since Jan. 10 7 . Miss Judith Alstead, who for over (Bud) marriage to- | month has been Mrs. W. L. revealed her to Juneau friends. at January 19, United Gra WS tes Also were Rogers, Mrs. Evelyn Robert Stoft cnown in th ner Fe 1 M Wel city employed in the Federal tigation office as se e the daughter of Mr rs. Bert Alstead of a graduate chool Mr. Nance has the Capital Ci al years and is been a re: for the p co-owner Juneau The newlyw to their many friends nday. > WALLACE URGES FARM PAYMENTS 16:48eere- | WASHINGTON, Feb of Agriculture Wallace for nto effe appeared before ouse Agriculture He said farm cultural wa 1at parity program vital to the but 1ey be finar instead of by direct priations Folks with edutated coffee tastes choose Schilling! The reason? It's a matchless blend of the world’s choice sl coffees, skilfully roasted to bring ¢ b sl Two Coffees-2Péreolator and Drip t out delicious full flavor and strength. Mount Juneau and whi th 11 c’clo > oo NO SLIDE Many on the streets, shortly after this forenoon believed d occurred in the Basin as Tele- phone inquiry at the Alaska Juneau was no at that snow off ling it down de I ouds snow rose . high. there wind house said the high wripping the arding ide but me was e canyon and basin VALUES-SHOP AT HOME SATURDAY SPECIALS 5% OFF ON ALL VANRAALTE ‘e il’aiamas ® Gowns o Slips é Hali Slips @ Bed Jackets Sunset (Muted A Wide Variety of Colors! Almost All © in the dew Trénd of €Colors Heaven Blue Simrise Pink Sea Spray-Aqua Moon Mist-Gréy HOT PINK Heat Red NAVY BLACK Prints—Plain Colors ALL SIZES WHEN YOU Buy at Home You Are BUYING THRIFTLY Do you s-t-r-e-t-c-h every dollar so that every cent of it does its work well? If you do, you know how all-impor- tant these questions of what, where and how to buy really are! You' know that a real bargain is a standard piece of merchafidise selling below the standard price But did you krow that ‘the best and eas- iest way of finding real bar- gains §s simply occupying your easy chair and checking every Empire advertisement? This way leads to dependable merchants and merchandise without physical effort! Rose Red) Read Your JONES- STEVENS Leota’s ifi the Barariof Hofel DPAILY ALASKA EMPIRE 1 This Week NEW SILK JERSEY DRESSES in Prints New Swing Skiris NEW SPRINGSHADES and BLACK * Vogue | ir | LOCAL the bride | Bureau retary. | and Juneay, a of the Juncau High| dent | t sev- | of the| Dutch Harbor are residing at the Coliseum Apartments and will be at home legislation his proposed certi- | plan to finance farm parity Committee the Federal ag- program | payments be continued uggested that | ced by the certificate | appro- | a W | T A Thatcher, || ever f|of weeks. Sharing the cabin || residence is Francis Snyder who | U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicini Light rain tonight; rain Saturda; about 38 degrees, moderate to fresh southeaster wind. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Rain tonight and Saturday, ex- cept light snow tonight over northeastern portion; moderate to fresh southeasterly wind over south portion and east to northeast, becoming southeasterly Saturday over north portion except northerly over Lynn Canal. Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska. Winds from Dixon Entrance to Sitka fresh to strong easterly, be- coming southeasterly Saturday; from Sitka to Kodiak, increasing easterly wind, becoming fresh to strong Saturday or later to- night. beginning 0 p.m., Feb. 16: ; minimum temperature tonight DATA Time 47 37 42 Barometer SE 6 NE 20 SE 16 Humidity Wind Velocity 3:30 p.m. yest'y 29.87 | 3:30 am. today . 2977 Noon today 2957 Weather 43 40 40 Temp. Cloudy Clear Cloudy | RADIO REPORT TODAY 3:30am. Precip. temp, 24 hours 2 3:30 a.m, Weather Cloudy Clear Clear Pt. Cldy Cloudy Clear Cloudy Cloudy Rain Clear Max. tempt, Lowest last 24 hours temp. 30 25 Station Anchorage Barrow -15 Nome 2 | Bethel 4 Fairbanks 9 St. Paul 4 22 39 39 45 47 45 55 52 57 Kodiak Cordova | Juneau Sitka Ketchikan Seattle Pertland San Francisco Cloudy Rain Rain 49 Cloudy WEATHER SYNO! i Modérate rain, accompanied by strong Southeast wind was re- | ported this morning from the coast of Oregon to the southern portion of Queen Charlotte Island, as a severe pressure disturbance continued to advance northeastward. Ancther | disturbance, also moving eastward, was centered south of the Aleutians. Cloudy to partly cloudy weather was general over Alaska, except. that clear weather continued over the northwest portion. No marked tempera- ture changes were reported, * Juneau, Feb. 17.—Sunrise 7:29 a.m., sunset 5:00 pm. Mrs. F;irbanks, §r. Allowad $3,000 for Her Monihly Living LOS ANGELES, Cal, Feb. 16— | An order of the Superior Court has becn issued granting Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks Sr., an allowance of $3,- 000 a month from her deceased's husband estate. The former Lady Ashley was named heir to the bulk the estate estimated at about cne million dollars. The $3,000 will furnish Mrs, Fairbanks with living expenses pending final settlement of the estate. - - EARLYS SAIL ON TRIP 70 STATES Mr. and Mrs. Rex Early sailed on the North Co: this morning for an indefinite visit in the States. The Earlys plan to visit in Se- attle and Tacoma and will possibly spend some time in Portland. - - WILL MARRY Gordon Peterson sailed on the North Coast this merning, a pros- pective bridegroom. Peterson is to be married in Wrangell this evening at. 8 c'clock, but will not arrive un- til midnight. He will bring his bride back to the Channel with him | S e | THATCHER LEAVES traveling man, sailed on the North Coast this morn- ing to return to his Ketchikan head- quarters. { SALESMAN BACK | Dell Fett, General Paint sales- 'man, came back from a roundtrip | to Sitka on the North Coast and is |at the Baranof Hotel. - - NEW REGISTER Gastineau Hotel Manager Wilbur | FANCY ORE- Wester today is registering guests | GON ONIONS cn the individual card register in | . place of the now mnearly extinct STALEY’'S CORN and system of registering guests on a 4 ey long sign-on-the-next-line register. | GLOSS STARCH tpr Wish Dish Towel C 19¢ F. D. R. Listened Sondra Glatt Sondra “Bunny” Glatt, 7, writes let- ter to President Roosevelt thanking him for mailbox put up near her house in Newark, N. J. The little girl had written the President ex- plaining mailbox was too far from her home. The postoffice soon reme- died the situation. In the middle ages abduction of women was regarded as gal- lantry rather than crime. TR FOOD SPECIALS! EIEIFT CO-OPA COMBINATION STAYMAN 4 1bs. for 25c APPLES. 1bs. for Zsc DOUMAKE MARSHMALLOWS 1 pound pkg. . STANDBY FREESTONE PEACHES an. 2% cans 43e Home Style NICE FIRM HEAD LETTUCE—each THIRTEEN TON TRANSFORMER GOES THROUGH TO FOUNDRY Perhaaps the largest transformer seen in Douglas passed through the streets this morning on an A. J. trailer for the Tread- well Foundry where it will be put in service to increase the efficiency | NUSPREAD VEGETABLE of the plant. SHORTENING T & I 13 oz. ck: HICKMAN OF TACOMA e LOCATES IN DOUGLAS | Jack Hickman, tonsorial artist of 22 years experience and practice | at the trade in Tacoma, Washing- | ton, has established a shop here, location in Frank’s Cabin. He has | | been on the channel only a couple | for | SUGAR 10 ™ 63c 25 Ibs. for m HEINZ PURE CIDER VINEGAR—quart POTATOES— YAKIMA GEMS MISSION BRAND SEA SHELL made the trip north from Seattle | || MACARONI with Hickman. | """ Ye THRIFT COLISEUM - Donglas THURSDAY and FRIDAY ‘Will Rogers in Judge Priest _ | CO-0P