The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 19, 1940, Page 2

2 GOT KINKY MUSCLES! ONE MAN THEN STRETCH A BIT LEADING BETTY CLARKE Writer By AP Feature out or under lot —and most If youre all Wi nervous strain a women stay keyed up most of the time—stretching is a good idea Here are some relaxing routines to untie knots and renew your en- ergy Its geod to that stretching is alwa of the simplest remedies. It can be done many times during the day. Stand on your tces and raise your hands high as you can without over- straining. At home you can std in the doorway and try to reach the frame overhead to get the same , result Ann Rutherford movie star, does in the gymnasi um, Try to better your own mark each. time you repeat. Breathe deeply each tiwje you raise your arms, strgtch up and come dGown to relax. Stretch again to feel a puil on all your muscies. You, can stretch in the and in bed. Starting at bend them over tightly them several times. h the and relax them, Work the circular . movement at the ankles, then let them dangle. Stretch the legs stiffly from the hips. then re- lease your muscles. So with the rest of v.h.c body, taking the fingers separately, the hands, arms and neck, énding with the facial mus- cles which ean be tighlened and stretthed by droppiug the jaw and the nd toes, relax feet Ar stretching the mouth, then relax- ing. Several (lunes a day stand or sit very straight. drop tn: head as for forward us possible : roll it to the left shoulder and cron L Lack, then to the right aud dron ward. Reverse and 1:peat alopg at a good pace when walk- wwin ing. Al elements of limbering and stretching are found in Kkicking. By. daily exercise you can increase the height of your kick and pro- vide the limbering you want, It kicking is difficult at first, let your roommate help by wy forcing your leg as high as she can with- out hurting you. First kick front, then side and then, with knee bent backward. Gradually you can in- clude kicks that are waist high chest high, eye high and fan- wise. Safe Safe; Cash Gone DENVER, Col, Feb, 19—Flying high over a huge wheat field near Denver, Claude B. Thompson, avia- tor, saw a black object in the stub- ble and thought it resembled a safe. He landed nearby and his sus- picions were confirmed, The ob- ject was tbe remains of a safe that had been stolen the night before {rom a restaurant and taken to the field to be battered open. About $400 had been taken from it but the burglars left couple of bottles of Chinese herbs, which the safe also had contained, in the field. mmmmmmm||mmmmumauuummmmmrmmmmmmmmmmmmmlmmmmm bath wb | feet in glIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllIIIIIIIIIIIlHlIIlIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIiéli! illll!l"lII|lIIIIIIIII!!IlIIIIIII||I|||IIIIIIIIII“||I|II|II||§I_ Phone 374 for PRINTING FOR EVERY Pllll’flSE nonznn nuu:rnmrr EXPERT mm:ns mm IDEA MEN ARE ALWAYS A'l' YOUR SERVICE m:m: I o g C(ITIZEN | When He Takes Vacafion, Town Virtually, Closes Up Shop By Associated Press) UNION CITY, Okla., Feb. 19.— When Dr. D. P. Richardson takes a vacation, the town of Union City, pepulation 500, virtually closes up | shop until he returns. | For you might say Dr. Richardson @ | is Union City and that its residents are just members of his family. ! doctor in town, the only dentist, president of the only bank, the only % 4% qruggist, the postmaster and a lead- ing retail business man. And, to top it off, cotton gim. . . thmlSymsotnwdAcalpmo tice, Dr. Richardson has dehvered | 2500 babies, estimates. he was on hand. for the agriyal of half the present, population of, Union City. Just out, of medical school, he came here with 10, cents in his pock- ! et and ideas abgut, making money. He sayed his earpings and when | " the. business. .. Later, he bought a controlling; interest. in ‘the bank. . In 1914, he was.appointed post-| ma.stnp, He has served as pmldenl, of the Oklahoma State Bankers' As ! sociation,.and .in 1038 was npnomt.d State Banking, Commissioner. When he ‘went. out & year later with a ‘ .x _que&f No {Only Ann Ruthérford takes an afoh stretch as a means of relaxation. BUT COUNT TEN BEFORE MAILING, LARAMIE, Wyo., Feb. 19—Many | people believe that once a letter enters the United States mail postal | regulations forbid the recovery of the family budget problem. it by the sender before it reaches | wait. ddressee. This unmonied emporium, a pre- hat isn't so. says Postmaster A.|mjum store, is the clearing house E. Holliday of Laramie. Postoffices for savers of cOUpODS OD every- have instructions to go so far as t0 thing from tomatoes to tobacco. telegraph distant cities, if necessary. \ost any kind of coupon, box top, to extract a letter from the mail if 5. Jabel is worth something, There the sender suddenly changes his 3ye 20p products from . which & to mind and decides he wants to take «,ve coupons and more than 1,000 back what he said ticles given for them. It is only necessary to identify - founder of the “something vourself as the sender of the letter, Jothing” store, Clyde B. Tyr- by describing it minutely and Pro-| ., “covc that so far as he knows viding a sample of your handwrit- < the only one of its kind in the e LCHX“X‘V He gets his' cut from manufacturers and retailers who redeem the coupons. Coupon Payments ST. LOUIS, Feb. 19.—Ther= is a store in St, Louis where no money is needed, none changes hands, and there is no cash register. Sounds like an easy solution to But | e Fmoire ciassamiens nay e TI'IE EMPIBE Pl.Ml'l' DOES IT BEST! CRAFTSMANSHIP. s -the word ‘that best expresses the _quality of' printing work. that we- turn- out, and thdt' means complete satisfaction for you. ‘No job is too big ner teo small for"THE EMPIRE Plant to handle. “Phone 374 for 'full information. Sae lls for Pnnlng Since 1894, he has been the only | he operates | three farms and. is \x\wrest.ed in aj the, Jocal druggist. died, he, acquired | | | Binice the wnqm of Bthiopia by the forces of Premier Benito- Mussolini, the capital city, Addis THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, FEB | Ethiopian Capital Now Being Modernized Drives B_us ;o | _| SALEM, Virginia, Feb. 19—Fred Scott, a strapping youth who quit school ;when he was in the sixth grade, got a job three years ago | driving -a Roanoke county school bus. He had to wait for his young 50 with | ‘he decided to go to school | them. ‘ Scott picked up where he I \left off in 1929 and now, at 2 is a sophomore at Andrew Lewis team will be honor guests at a | for the ministry. | He's studying hard, and finds | he learns more easily than he did as; a boy. His favorite subjects are are civics and science. ‘ Each day Fred drives 47 n\h(s u:ldng pupils from the Br | Mountain, Ashbottom and Ke | Mill. sections to and from schools here. On Saturdays and during vacation he works as a stone ma- son. } SOME RECORD ITALY, Tex, Feb. 19. — Italy closed the decade with three re- cords proudly filed away in its ar- chives: No white person has been mur- dered and mo white person has committed murder there in the 60 years of its existence No death has been caused with- in its corporate limits by truck or automobile, although one of the most heavily traveled state high- ways runs a half mile through the town and Italy is noted for the numbe' of motor vehicles on its - IN JAPAN’S oldest city, Nara, there is a bronze Buddha so large that a mature man can casily pass Lhmugh one of the nostri e ACROSS 1. Equality 4. Mother Goose character 9. Make into leather 2. Copy 3. Running knot 4. Town in Penn- sylvania 5. Anxious 7. Cereal grass 8. Toward the sheltéred side . Japanese measure Scene of Christ’s first miracle . Utter . Peruvian Indian . About . Symbol for nickel . New: comb. torm ,34. Faucet . Assemblies . Metalliferous rock . Preceding night . Along . Whirlwind oft the Faroe Islands 3. Eternity v 47. Proceeds AEE B 19, 1940. Ababa, is undergoing modernization. This picture shows how old buildings are being replaced. Solution to Saturday’s Puzzle Young bear Body of water Epoch Opposing 50. Went swiftly 61. Pertaining to a region 62. Englieh letter 63. Complement of a hook 64. Title of the Japanese emperor 65. Female sheep s IIIWIII gain the planned Bt. Lawrence waterway of the United States and Canada, gigantic seaway into the news as en from Duluth, Minn., to the Atlantic ocean, of the two coun- reach a “substantial agreement” on the proj- feasibility. The cost of the project is esti- OrTAuw, E Al T S El 7 W, N| R 7 IE] D DOWN 48, 1 Lumlnlmuxl 50. half- 3. French 62 author arge knife inute orifices 6. King Arthur’'s lance 7. Peer Gynt's mother 8. Spreads loosely [ FPOETFEl 7 "1 ENERE 2N 1 . B Dail;y Crossword Puzzle . Capital of Ontario . Some . Misery . Ringing metal- lic sound . Exclamation . Beverage . Before: nautical . Celestial being Affirmative Light boat Parts of churches . Anger 33. Indian . Geological period . Bar of cast metal . The Greek N 6. Pertaining to bees Fatty fruit Contemptuous name for & child . Capital of I\orv\ ay Mer ry Hdnl e Japanese coln Recently acquired . Turn to the right N/ ann o l// P ////47 St. Lawrence Waterway Plan Rev1sed Agaln INTERNAT|ONAL. leT'ION mated at $250,000,000 and it would take about seven years to complete the seaway. A main dam in the vicinity of Barnhart island, with a power house in each country, is planned. At the same time, the project includes development of Niagara Falls, both scenically and for power purposas, . I U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER | (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at light rain Tuesday; Cloudy, tonight, intermittene tonight about 34 degrees; gentle Forecast for Southeast Alaska: intermittent light ly warmer tonight, treme northeast portion Tuesday, tonight and Tuesday. | Forecast of winas along the wind except northerly over Lynn Canal. Moderate southeasterly wind. 0 p.am., Feb. 19: lowest temperature variable winds. Northern portion: cloudy, slight- rain - except snow over ex- Geéntle to moderate southeasterly Southern portion: light rain coast of the Gulf of Alaska. From Dixon Entrance to Cape Hinchinbrook, moderate easterly, be- i | coming moderate to fresh southeasterly Tuesday and from Hinch- | inbrook to Kodiak, moderate to fresh east to northeasterly. | LOCAL DATA } Humidity Wind Velocity =~ Weather Time Barometer emp. 1 3:30 pm. yest'y 30.21 42 41 SE 6 Pt. Cldy | 3:30 am. today .. 30.30 34 79 calm 0 Cloudy | Noon today 30.39 40 64 w 5 Cloudy RADIO REPORTS TODAY Max. tempt. Lowest 3:30a.m. Precip. 3:30am. Station last 24 hours temp. temp. 24 hours Weather | Atka 36 33 34 A1 Rain | Anchorage 28 | 23 23 0 Cloudy Barrow =11 | =20 =11 0 Clear Nome 18 4 4 0 Clear Bethel 19 10 12 0 Cloudy | Fairbanks 14 | -1 -5 0 Clear | st. Paul 23 f 21 23 0 Foggy | Dutch Harbor .. 38 | 35 36 Trace Rain Kodiak 39 37 38 1.15 Rain Cordova 37 30 30 0 Clear Juneau a2 | 3 34 0 Cloudy | Sitka 45 34 0 | Ketchikan 48 38 39 01 Cloudy | Seattle 52 | 43 4 [ Cloudy i Portland 50 | 39 40 03 Cloudy San Francisco .. 57 466 48 0 Cleéar WEATHER SYNOPSIS The pressure was low this morning over the Aleutians, with the center of lowest pressure 29.23 inches about 200 miles southeast of | Dutch Harbor. A weak trough extended eastward across the lower | portion of the Gulf of Alaska to lower British Columbia. High pres- sure prevailed from the interior of Alaska to Yukon Territory, thence southward and off the coast of Washington and Oregon. The weath- | er has been cloudy to partly cloudy over most of Alaska, with in- r the Aleutians, the Alaska Penin- | termittent light rain occurring ove | sula and along the coast from th Alaska to the coast of Oregon. Juneau, Feb. ZO—Sunrise 7:21 e southern portion of Southeast a.m., sunset 5 07 pm . Feminine name | ;No Foolmg, ~ She's Winner | PUEBLO, Col, Feb. 19.—A wom- | an watched from the window of her | mountain cabin as a carload of | ladies from the city overran her | property and began gathering au- |tumn leaves, breaking limbs from aspen trees, bushes and shrubbery. “Ladies, do you know that some of those leaves you have gathered are poison ivy?” she asked And she wasn't fooling. She in- vited the trespassers to come inside and wash their hands and faces with strong soap, supposed to be an anti- | dote for po)snn 1vv | z = { | UPSETFOR 2 TRADITION : SACRAMENTO, Cal., Feb. 19. — Throngs of migratory farm workers | have created grave problems for California, but 8 sudden rise in the birth rate is not one of them. The! entire state had only 1000 more| births, the first nine months of last year than in the same period in 1938, {he Department of Public Health | reported. Some of the counties | most heavily populated by mlgrant.s‘ ‘mhowed a decrense in births. i Hard Come | Easy Go BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 19.—Poor old Sarmiento Thompson, all his life of a plunger, still doesn't know what it feels like to have 1,510 pesos (380 dollars) to spend. He won that sum in the races at Palmero Race- track here and five minutes later someone stole his wallet. —————-— MANY farm boys make extra money by trapping, say the New York State Colleges of Agricul- ture and Home Economics. l P Try an Empire ad. Three Men, 'Three F atos BALBOA, Cal, Feb. 19.—Eleven years ago, three young men were fellow workers and friends at a big ballroom here. Recently they met again—in court. One was Judge, one was arresting officer, the third the culprit, charg- ed with taking a radio antenna from a police car. The Judge gave his old friend a suspended sentence. - e — Boy Bomb Victim Going Home Soon CHICAGO, Feb. 15. — Alexander Krzyston, Harrison Technical High School student, who lost both his arms and almost his life when a bomb he made exploded in his hands in the school yard a few weeks ago, is rapidly improving at . Anthony’s Hospital. He is able I to sit up and within a week may be able to retum to his home Bllll MlllE ARE TEAMED ON FARM - TOHANA Pa. Feb.' 19. — Paul Williams boasts of an unusual team * of a seven-year-old bull and a six- year-old mule—a supposedly irrec- oncilable combination—doing gen- eral work on his farm. Williams says thé team has worked together peacefully for four years. NUF SED HOUSTON, Tex., Feb. 19.—Two young persons were married in Memorial Hospital here while the _glll'oom. L. C, Rudd of Houston, lay ill. Explained the bride, the former Miss Violet Lange of Beaumont: “We had previously set the date and didn't want to postpone the wedding.” Empire classifieds bring results. it e = SO, 'S TIME TO CHANGE YOUR THINNED - 0UT LUBRICANTS! pipy g CONNORS. Hlfl'llll YoU Cllt T wnl: a OIL REC U.S. PAT. OFF THE BIGGI-BT BUBNER&B{EI‘WT!ONS NEAU " PHONE 34 RICE & AHLERS CO. W L BURNER ARE RAYS! & / “Third and Franklin 4 - - .