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'Cumdian politics. The bride, Mrs. George Black, was in Juneau only a week ago heading back to Daily Alaska Empire %roscopé Published evers evening ercept Sunday by the he Klondike. She has been a member of the Do- EMPIRE PRINTING r(mr.\n:l b minion Parliament since 1935. ..Th. t i h Becond and Main Streets, Juneau, MafkS. . ¢ The big strike on the Tanana River at Fair- stars incline h but do not compel WELEN TROY BENDEI R. L. BERNARD dent and Business Managef japks in 1904 didn’t draw Scearce from Dawson | vhere he had become a successful businessman. He/| - | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23 did steke a party of six men to some cargo which they planned to freight down the Yukon to Circle| This should be a fortunate day as Secord Class Matter. Y City and overland to the new goldfield. They left|in trade and commerce. Those who 3 Dawson too late and were overturned in the grind-{l'xerclse power delegated to them may suffer under this sway from “The following spring,” Scearce T dictation on the part of superfors. ng ice of the river writes, “a few scattered corpses were found along It Yhol di f lghi Yoai — b ol BAY o banks of the Yukon. None ¢ identified is a lucky day for sighing.Jdegal| B i o - any industries are indicated. = | eltvered by earrier in Juneau and Doulas for §1.25 per month. By 1 at the f oWing rates: , postas s, in advance, $6.00; in_advarce, $12 $125. 8 favor if they will promptly notify . celetons r g s e human skeletons were but instances of the end of | poirt and Home: the trail some who had left distant homes to Women _ are well-guided today when the heart One yea one month. in advan for g Suscrivers il conter b farer KRRty i whe do. challenge with puny strength the might of the|jeads them. In the household, prac- livery of their papers, Yukon.” tical matters should engage atten- ‘Telephones: News Office, 802; Bustmess Office, 374 CIATED PRESS ively entitled to the use for Much in “Northern Lights to Fields of Gold" is|tion, especlally the use of money, strained and overdone, as in the passages in which as food prices are likely to soar. MEMBER OF AS The Associated Press fs ex republication of all = atches cred vm'm ‘" ] not {he author tries to attach a supernatural significance Cooking should be conducted sci- cred Japer and also the local mnews ” G T e I e to the Aurora. But for pure adventure and action, entifically. Classes In home eco- e R AbARA the story which Scearce tells is one which you will [nomics will be popular. This is an M.AS¥‘?’\§AR AT rl'\_(‘\r S njoy reading | auspicious date for love affairs. | Letters may bring urgent proposals of marriage. The evening is most propitious for callers. , Business Affairs: Efficiency should brothe Earl, has lost political mark all business enterprises, large ontrol of Louisiana, The many year reign of the and small, for while the year Is Long machine, a reign prolonged by political ruth-|to be remarkably prosperous for Jessness and shortened by unexampled graft, ends|Americans, there are sinister por- h the nomination of Sam H. Jones in yesterdays' | tents for the future. In this period v A g . [of change there will be added de- run-off Democratic primary. Jones, a reform czn\dl-!mm‘ds on the prosperous to aid date behind whom all anti-Long forces united, is as| the under-privileged of this coun-) good as elected Governor. Other State officials andi“.y and war victims of other lands. | the majority of the Legislature are anti-Long. | Thrift should be the watchword | 3, LO END OF THE LO + TRAIL ! Huey Long's he promised to make every farmer, laborer | advances there may be a general| 21l businessman a colonel if he won the elec- |realization that world peace may | ma Huey would have laughed at such a modest be far off, and that supreme re- | cponsibilities will be given to the In the old days in Louisiana every man ; ‘houd of the United States govern- ample and promise e T ke ment, responsibilities more grave| 4 3 4 . WIS S A [ R Y at the Gastineau Hotel. ! A KLONDIKE STORY i han those previously borne. For B | T3 Taw The “Threat” to India this reason both national conven-| we,ther: highest 36, lowest 30,1 The g days of the rush to the Klondike Feae |tions may be long drawn out “““'dm:‘ = gy 0. | DAILY LESSONS and to live again in the pages of 8 new (New, York Tiimes) ( urpr ing in their results. Thr‘ % gty G IN ENGLISH book “Northe 1ts to Fields of Gold” by Stanley = | ctars presage the overturning of| ., ik S o) Scearce, Wt an oldtimer will remember Not so long ago the Italian press reported that!,recedent and the establishment of | * as one of the ts at Dawson Russia was massing 700,000 troops along the borders|,mazing policies in party proced- LP v ‘ By W. L. Gordon 5 o5 1 et i ot aaidan oHdbter |Of 1ran and Afghenistan for a tarull et dndis Ru- | yre | I 00 little bered hat golden chapter : s b The Bartin- | . L iy ot oaly o'yl e o e mors emanating from somewhere along the Berlib-| pnternational Affairs: Possibility 1’ ASKAN Words Often Misused: Do not 9 “‘"]‘ ol % S O ey (1 " Rome Axis, suggested that the Northwest Frontier ot peace in Europe next autumn | 4 «sink down.” Down is super- remembers -\.\v ar his ”“. of retire- ,f India was seethir with unrest and that there|i; geen in the stars, but it is| Telephone 713 or write fluous, as sink means to go down. ment in the States sends us a story which is well had be a serious outbreak in Waziristan. The|,nly a vague promise which, if not | The: Algaks frarritatial | Often Mispronounced: Occult. worth reading rumors made exciting reading, and the map-make fulfilled, presages a long period of | ‘LL )l,;d'?ngm esrewmr: | Pronounce o-kult, o as in of un- It is a story ny another who came got busy with impressive black arrows showing where| onlict. In May of this year the | | LYoy ) stressed, u as in up, and accent rth ir how he freighted the Russian colossus might strike at the heart of \ iars iaile | G iR north in 1898 r how he freighted the Russian colossus might st ke at |stars seem to smile on peace ef-| \ATD-HOUSEKEEPER— Alaskan 1ast svllable : by hand sled over 1w the birds darken Britain's ove empire | forts, but there is an omem Of | jative single. age ¢ % Often Misspelled: Necessitys; one e o Y : sl B Ital men. two| . native, single, age 21, high school the sky over Klu despaired in the first Now ‘we have & Raqle our Itallan men, WWOlgoupt about the result. It s im-|graquate, born and raised in In- @ WO S Jong, dark winter at Dawsor de and lost several German women and a Netherland woman have bes portant for the people of the ORiL- | oorine : 2 PIET P Synonyms: Strange, singular, 8 eated in Botababion’ charges.of SookriRioatme | ¥ . | terior Alaska. Neat, conscientious fortunes, and finally went on to the r goldfields arrested OMBAY SUAIGES ating| o4 sStates to engage in persomal| worker. Good as dome: help, dueer, quaint, odd, peculiar. i Neeans with persons in Germany “and neutral European|,eparedness for inevitable effects|maiq or housekeeper. Trained in Word Study: “Use a word three it bt e DS of . 8 : which few countries At the same time the British have ad-|,r another world war. ihmm‘ -cnm-x‘x e w\;n‘ ‘(‘ oking, times and it is yours.” Let us in- mhm,\m,.x::“,‘,T‘,',([]M‘,‘,S.“'" g Faro bangohavied “a certaif ampunt of troubler:in the form of |~ persons whose birthdate it is| can m:- ES',»);" Sewing COOKINE: | . rease ou rvocabulary by master- D: ® : i h ',.| "y S “,. %Y renewed kidnapping and looting by tribesmen in|jave the augury of a year ofwfalr-| — — s s ing one word each day. Today's i s Te b SpdWemtstan. But uole is elwayg endentc J thel 1y good fortune, It is well to watch].. .~ | word: Indeterminate; mot settled dog team from Dawson to Nome; how he cornered territory of the Wazirl and Afridi fribes, and there pealth conditions in the family. CERTIFICATE OF DISSOLUTION o1 fived; indefinite. (Accent fol- the North's potato market for one prosperous WinteT, is nothing unusual in the recent kidnapping of one| children born on this day prob-| 1 FRANK A, BOYLE, Auditor|joys the r). “He was given an in- and how he steadily built a Klondike fortune, not Indian medical officer, the ambush of an ammuni-|4ply will be imaginative and in- of the Tf-;'mory of Alaska and CUS-| geterminate sentence, depending by gold. but by apples, cabbages and carrots tion truck and a tribal raid on a frontier village. |yjtive. These subjects of Pisces| todian of corporation records for | upon good behavior.” Stanley Scearce, as he tells the story, missed a Elsewhere along the frontier conditions were re-|pave foresight, and they make said Territory, do hereby certi(y} e B i fabulous cieanup on Topkok Bay by not turning his ported as ‘“exceptionally quiet” a short time ago.|.nany friends. ‘Lhrfm there h_as been filed in my ATED, @' cofporation, is dissolved betors wave of ereeting. The Certainly there is no trace of the “threat to India” (C ht, : |office on this, the 14th day of ¢ ‘ 7= b sled ‘arouitd at a prospector’s wave of greeting e opyright, 1940) | pursuant to Section 924 of the Com- prospector and his partner, who followed Scearce which the Italian press discovered ahead of the| V5 February, 1940, the written consent 1150 T of Kisska’ 1088 Sl Woms » 1év wiens Ikter, panncd 8,000 cunces T2t Of the world. The Afghdn Government, accord- of the stockholders of CONNORS t’}“c T ioing ; A5 flm -r“f‘}’x“ e e e 10 OWN®S ing to London, has detected mo signs of unusual MOTOR COMPANY, INCORPOR- |{he filing in this office of (tHe s e di s e e e bl M€Y hilitary concentrations along the Afghan-Russian OK and LEARN ATED, a corporation organized and ”"’{’?’ praol oL BHICAAN e A took a thousand ounces a day for the fust three poa’ placl i e rimor of an mpending| 1O an existing under and by virtue of | “°Tl ‘C%‘;é e O AR R days; then the crowds came, and “the length of pysgian invasion is said to have frightened tribal * the laws of the Territory of Al-| ‘0 i fpsric: gl our shovel handle was the size of the claim We jeaders along the Afghan-Indian frontier; and Bad- By A C. Gordon |aska, to the dissolution of said rarw de“‘“““’ ny 113“1 o could hold.” shah Gul, the most anti-British of them all, is | corporation, said certificate of con- |2ffixed my official seal at Ju- | neau, the Capital, this 14th day of But if he missed gold so narrowly, the author reported to have urged all good Moslems in his came just as close to death, and was spared. C: territory to resist any Russian aggression to the| ; what is the Gulf Stream? ing a thousand ounces of gold dust from Dawson limit. 2. What general of Israel com~ to Skagway, he escaped an ambush which had been manded the sun to stand still? laid for him because another sled had passed that A heart specialist says there’s no such thing as| 3. What war was terminated by way the day before and been mistaken for his.'a broken heart from love, We deem it careless of [the Treaty of Versailles? One of the two desperadoes who had lain in wait him not to have added, however, that broken ribs| 4. What state’s laws for Scearce was later hanged at Dawson for murder- | are possible. on the Napoleonic Code? are based ing three men in the party which he mistook for| apemer - o 5, {-Who . proyed/;tist lightningaly Scearce’s, Again, the author's life was spared when,| Germany permits the Cgechs a ration of one | clectricity? on finally coming out of the 1 with his fortune, | C2¢ each per fortnight, a generosity which shows ANSWERS he took the little steamer St gway in.|DOW nice it is for the nation fo be under & L‘;‘“f 1. A great warm-waler ocgan| | “protectorate.” They're protected against overeating!| .. ...¢ which flows out of the| stead of the lus ophia which left on rious Prince: Gulf of Mexico, along the east| the same day. The Sophia struck Vanderbilt Reef and every soul aboard was The year 1940 is certain to be at least one|coast of the U. S, and then di- e b ARy ol ,vtandmg\fifly-sccondlh better than 1939—in view of the can- | agonally across the Atlantic from| Sharacters. H R l'" Skag. | cellation of Father Coughlin's radio address last|the vicinity of the Newfoundland siat gl SR y. banks. way. He told Robert W English- | Supday 7 S e a(' Dfl“‘b',] B e \'\l?ivh e English business firms apparently are having a| 3. World War. Rty o dU8 IR D of the Yukon. His| iy good time out of the war. One firm adver-| 4. Louisiana. | 1 at Dawson, the man who brought & tices “Nazi” coke. It gives, the firm claims, “more| 5. Benjamin Franklin n Outside at the same time as Scearce and | goyttles to the ton.” _— L 849 married life and the to challenge the old cus- ps.” was George Black, »d Conservative leader in i the “ir —ee that was A columnist remarks that it takes more than a mink coat to make a success of marriage. Whew, ays a bachelor friend, it sure sounds expensive! NOTICE OF SALE ‘ No. 4440-A | {IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA, DIVISION NUMBER ONE, AT JUNEAU. | LENA PERELLE, Plaintiff vs.’ JAMES J. BERRY, Defendant. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that by virtue of a writ of execu- tion issued out of the above en- titled court on January 31, 1940, in favor of the plaintiff against the defendant above named, I have levied execution upon all of Lot Two (2) in Block One Hundred Twenty (120) of the City of Juneau, Alaska, according to the official plat thereof filed in the office of the Recorder for the Juneau Recording Precinet, and the dwelling house and all structures of every nature erected thereon, which premises bear the Number 718 East Fifth Street, Ju- neau, Alaska, together with all and singular the tenements, here- ditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging: and the above described property and prem- ises will be sold at public auetion to the highest and best bidder.for tom of who b » compa the distin, 1517 COLD ENOUGH FOR YOU, NEW YORK! THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, FEB. 22, 1940. Hamby arrived here of Seattle to be United States Cable Obviously Earl lacked the stuff his brother had.{in the realm of finance. Mr, nnd‘ M_rs William Pfitlcrsf)nj A. The water goblets should be His imagination was more circumscribed. For ex-| National Issues: As thé spring and their little daughter, Miss three-fourths full and placed above s imagins as Cums . il 0 5] Betty, left on the City of Seattle|the knives visiting arrival on the Estebeth and was = | sent having been adopted and exe- | and | YEARS AGO | FEBRUARY 22, 1920 Thirty oil stampeders who 1eft.1 Seward on the Admiral Watson ar- rived at Kodiak and found only| The Empire extends congratula- one available gas boat for charter.|ions and best wishes today, lheir] The others were taken by parties| pirthday anniversary, to the fol-! who sailed for various coast sec-|lowing: tions where oil prospects had been | reported as soon as the bill passed\ FEBRUARY 22 | Congress. Several representatives of | Mrs.: J. A. Hellenthal l big eastern companies were on the Evelyn Hollmann ground and were expected to file Mrs, Ed Jahoda ! as soon as the President signed ! Mrs. Tom Greenhow the bill = which provided for a/ Dave Davenport maximum acreage by applicantson Bob Rupe ofl lands of 3,200 acres. Christine Nelson | Alvis Oriffith Cache Creek, in the Cook Inlet — — 1 country, was to be the scene of __—_,I active mining operations during the summer, according to C. C. Mur- ray, manager and chief owner of the Cache Creek Mining Company, | who was in Juneau. | MODERN ETIQUETTE ° * By Roberta Lee The gas boat Caesar, after hav- ing been blocked in by ice in Ten-| Q. When hearing that a friend, akee Inlet for 'several weeks, ar-|who lives in another city, has re- rived in port. icelved a nice promotion in busi- | ess, what should one do? A. Write this friend a nice note of congratulation. Q. How full should the water | goblets be poured, and where should | they be placed on the table? First Class Sergeant George B. on the City attached to the| office. for their home in Wrangell, after| in Juneau. Thomas of Sitka was Q. Should the hostess, when en- | tertaining at a club or restaurant, | wear a hat? an| A, Yes; this is customary. - J. C. February, A. D. 1940. cuted by all of the stockholders of ! S s o el FRANK A. BOYLE said corporation on the 29th day of December, 1939 Auditor of Alaska. WHEREFORE, in view of the Publication dates, Feb. 15-22-26, above premises, I DO FURTHER |March 7, 1940. adv. CERTIFY that the CONNORS S B g e B Y Y A R MOTOR COMPANY, INCORPOR- Empire ciassifeds bring results. HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT the side of the British? 2. Why was Washington’s face pitted? i 3. Washington was not made commander of America’s forces until the Revolutionary war was a year old. True or false? 4. When did Washington cross the Delaware? Why? 5. Where was Washington’s army when he complained his men were “barefoot and otherwise naked.” 6. Following the war Washington rejected proposals that he be made king of America. True or false? 5 7. Was Washington’s wife (1) the daughter of a Vir- ginia blacksmith, (2) a wealthy widow from Massachu- setts, (3) Alexander Hamilton's sister? 8. Ts it true that Washington campaigned strenuously to get himself elected America’s first president? 9, What was the margin of his victory when he was first elected? cash at a sale which will he held at the front door of Federal Building on Fourth Street in Ju- neau, Alaska, at 10 AM. March 2, 1940. WITNESS my band at Juneau, Alaska, February 1, 1940, WILLIAM T. MAHONEY, United States Marshal, . . i First Judicial Division" of " : . . ,‘ . S : Alaska. &l This was a typical Times Scuare scene in New York as the big city, along with the rest of the East, was | Publication dates: Feb 1-8-15-22, swept by snow storms that tied up traffic, e . 10. Washington died during his second term. True or false? Lauswer Uil FHgE DIN) | GROCERIES = | Drs. 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