The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 12, 1940, Page 2

2 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1940. SHIP MISSES COLLISION; GOES AGROUND Suiddeby st | TR TR o !umping4ou! (By e U. S. ‘eather Bureau) Forecast for Juneaw and vicinity, begibning at Mostly cloudy with occasional lig pm., April 12: ¢ rain tonight and Saturdaj | M much ¢! temperatu inimum temperature tc ht abou | 37 degr ntle variable winds in temperature tonight and Saturday! gentle to uth and southeasterly wind, Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of te south and southeasterly wind from Dixon Entrance to Cape Hinchinbrook, and moderate easterly from Cape Hinchinbroo Hotel Men in New York Turn Pale When In- aska cident Is Reported e R LOCAL DATA i By GEORGE TUCKER Time Barometer ‘lemp. Humidity Wind Velocity Weather NEW YORK, April 12.—This 3:30 p.m. yest'y 41 84 w 4 Cloudy sn't a very pleasant theme. I sup- 3:30 a.m. today 40 98 8 2 Raii one could complain that it is Nocn today 29.90 48 ki S 6 Cloudy ntively uncalled for. I will not 10ld it against you if, after a few RADIO REPORTS paragraphs, you turn elsewhere | TODAY some people do not care to read Max. tempt. | Lowest 3:30am. Precip. bout unpleasant subjects. But thi ation las: 24 hours | temp. temp. 24 hours We: a real, if minor, part of New Gambkell 20 21 29 0 Clo zork life, ‘and’ I should Le' Te: Fairbanks 58 28 0 « han honest if 1 omitted it Nom¢ 49 5 03 Rain 3 This 'is about Jumpers. Do you Dawson 0 Cl Seberndisrene & : . tnow what a Jumper is? If ! Anche 0 ; 7 LML 0 i walk up to any New York hotel Bethe 5 e ' man and say, ““There’s just been St 'Paul 36 is a Jumper,” he will'turn pale Ak 15 T A Jumper is cne who ends his Dutch Harbor . 42 | 8 28 12 ! life by jumping from a hotel win- Wosntesenski 43 20 39 4 R dow. Kanatak 52 40 40 12 \ There are sometimes five or six Kodiak 30 39 1 : Jumpers in a single week in New Cordova 39 41 30 2 yYork. But if this seems high, con- i Koo ki Juneau | 20 0 26 Rai sider that they were only five or ke i 1 bl i it 10 [«7» !\ n six out of seven millions. 2 monument to “hik 47 1.00 Hotels in this town have Jumper P. Long, United Priniéd Rupert 47 118 Rair | 'squads. They have special Jumper | o, ato- and political dicta- Btk George 14 36 v equipment, The news of a Jumper tor, kc ¢ capitol build- deattle 48 o ik & 3 is bad news indeed for any hotel The mont- ' podtand i 54 0 ok The Army transport St. Mihiel is shown aground off Jefferson Head in Puget Sound April 4, where she struck prow first after changing her | Tt hurts business. Many people will| ment is of 1 bronze and cost | oot 63 o Slohr ision ' i 9 ihi ith ai . as e Seattle supplie y a 1 where some 50,000, voi lig with fishing boat. The St. Mihiel, later refloated with aid of a navy tug, was enroute to Seattle to load supplies ‘Hr)l stay in a hote ; : 5 colirsé' to avoid s’ collision ke 5 | neadline figure recently has ended WEATHER SYNOPSIS life. Yet suicide is news; and for a Fairbanks, Alaska, pl;lmfl base. She’ll said to Seward, S i o The barometric gradient was weak over most of Alaska on thi st fir its way into e [ ‘ "(A(TUS HARRY" et iR ' HEN STORY morning’s chart while presure continued reallively high over th Ioed Man Ha'er ! | The hotel people minimize this AR A4} western. states and low south of the Aleutians, The old western dis- d | MODE O[ tfie M MEN GIVES DOPE ]'0 | news as’ best they can. The news- i S turbance was located aboul 400 miles south of Dutch Harbor bu }pupvrx govern themselves by the % ' 2 another disturbance has appeared some distance to the west of it by Adelaide Kerr | g RRIER, Okla; Aprii Wil a thy ) it And ‘ k M I ‘ . N St = sl e e along the coastal Are "[A(]’US JA(K"] liam Hatficld’s hen puzzles him.| Moderate and lécally heavy rains occurred g astal area Jumper equipment consists of a|She started laying egas branded TCAChINg from the Alcutians eastward to Vancouver Island, Over | | ! |1arge canvas cloth, usually eight by | 11, «np nd “Ws" and now fo! 'he Interior and Yukon Territory the weather continued partly cloudy 3 | (Continued from Page One) ‘ilL,IIL A Jumper is not a very s R T s with above normal temperature: ANN ARBOR, L e, A'“l:: l’]z &) R — | pretty ~spectacle, after he has| PIoCt “\‘ Sacn agbhaat i Juncau, April 13.—Sunrise, 4:35 a.m. sunset 7:07 p.m Plump and pretty Marian ‘; 'l’~“ [ “Well that was the last I“”‘Jlun]wr[ The moment the alarm 1s| " i 19+ year-ok;l University of 1]"“&‘;“‘;‘3\ | ever heard of that {given one squad hurries outside to s student who a 'year ago listed | s cover the remains and keep the, Married people make up more f’ = e —— reasons why she disliked men, is 4 oM vt I | inan &2 bereett 68 povulekion MODERNIZING? i “He did have a little L;oublu later | are old Immlf,”m.]Jmlnptr'li iluz\;lmll‘ ! po NoT FALL {on when they were building a|They know all the hotel people by #2% | woodén bridge across City ‘Island.|sight. A word or a mod is suffi-| Residents of colonial New York | TO SEE BRIGGS | Pop wanted to run his horse-car | cient 3 B eaut y ware | line across there, They wouldn't| While the ground squad is thus|York only yesterday. She was 26 FIX | stand for it. So one night, after|occupied, another begins a swift,| The police TURES married womarn now. Relatives made known today lhfiL‘ she and Einar Almdale Jr., 22, had eloped to Toledo March 21. | Among her reasons for being a | “man-hater” had been these: Stockholm. In 1900 the percent- as 27, e very accurate at de- “They ‘are all t00 thin b"“’f“j the bridge was finished, Pop got|systematic search of the hotel fing o Tap Al safety bottom and se sts o more they're 30, then' all at once f"(“.y, a mixed gang of his Italian and|The room from which the acci- pretty, and alone. There were wan ordinary recess tub. = Cc n BECHI oD S divee SO0 | Irish voters together and bnlwvr‘ni(h-nh occurred, and the identity of |no notes, no names, no clues. She higher than white. . world have they been k,’:OWU .!o | midnight and dawn they laid those |the Jumper, must be ascertained| checked into her hotel at 0 in ON DISPLAY use an ash tray if there’s a rug | rails across that bridge. iat once the afterncon. By seven o'clock handy; they think you aren’t a lady ‘if you can’t hold your liguor, and, if you can, they still think you aren't.” “I didn’t mean it; I was only kidding,” Mrs. Almdale d to-| day. | The young couple, planning to set up housekeeping, intend to re- | wmain in school. - CATCHY REQUEST ROANOKE, VA\ Apnl 12—A Lu\-l payer appeared at the office of John M. Hart, Roanoke Commis- | “Tte next morning ©ld!Dobbin| 'Usually, this requires only a|was a nameless blot on the police RICE & AHLERS C©O. | was pulling the car across the|few moments. Jumpers almost in-| docket, and an item in the news- e bridge and the car was' met with|variably are people who have reg-| papers Exclusive Dealer an armed force. Pop was on bmrd]lsmcd alone, in single rooms, and and waving his umbrella. He just|nine of ten are women. The first grinned when the car was stopped|move is to check these guests, land he shouted: ‘Gentlemen, if|then go to those rooms. A careful ,you want to hold up the United|search of these rooms is made. fszates mail, yowll have to take Frequently farewell notes are in ;the consequences.” And right i vidence, directing that nearest of | their faces, he waved a full gov-‘}.m be advised. When there ure | ernment mail pouch. |no notes, no identifying clues, uw | “How Pop ever got the United|work is turned over to the police | States government to throw in s |with him on' that, I don't know,| Frequently ol 18 tiabksar Bits ‘o8 We Do Nlerchundise With This Idea ! but that horse-car carried U. S.|paper with names written on them,| mail as long as the opposition|are found. When possible, these High u“ality ronds! Low Prices! Good service! could remember. names are identified and turned| sioner_of Revenue, and asked for| | “Yessr, Pop was a geat poli-|over to the cops. The police <ond|J§ LET'S HAVE YOUR ORDER TODAY! ——— AS CLOSE AS YOUR PHONE! an “entanglement return.” It was| | tician,” concludes Carey |out a call for these people. e o e D SIS SN S finally determined that he wanted S Pop has my vote, Harry. He| Only seven of ten Jumpers a form on which to make out re- undoubtedly could give the mod-‘]oava notes, and only in- tk E__G___G—S FINEST OUALITY turns for his intangible personal ern boys aces in the hole and beaticases of seven are these notes co-| L t F h ol- c property taxes. | them with a deuce-down draw, even | herent, or even complete. Five of arges —Irres esi 4 . R ] ! with Vice-President Garner in the seven notes give only a first name. | B e T PSS S CSSSISSSI L L4 S SEHGEU USSUSN S U 58 SIS TN i SR A | game. (. . . The suicide dockets of the| 93 SCORE—DANISH HORMEL'S FINEST Butter 21bs. 73¢ g ACON, Ib.35¢ You Can Buy Cheaper, But Not BETTER! | — e - police archives list scores of mo-| | The estimated fire loss in 1939, |tives, but with Jumpers, unhappy in the United States, topped the’love affairs are the dominant estimated loss in 1938 by $15- theme. 000,000. There was a Jumper in New DOG IN STOCK BOWLING. GREEN, Ky, April —Several people felt sorry for a large dog hovering near a Bowl- ing Green street with a piece of plank swinging from its neck. When they approached, however, they saw this note on the plank: “Please do not take this off. It is a cure Sor chasing cdrs" CLEAN READING SEDALIA, Mo., April 12—Tip to husbands from Mrs. J. F. Raney of “Wing” pockets, set on a v slant, give this coat the long-torso Sedalia: She places a piece of look that is part of this spring's fashion. 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