The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 2, 1940, Page 2

memos THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, AUG. 2, GUR NEXT V. P.IS AFARMER - AP Feature Service Ne November, the next Vice-President matter which party wins in of the United States will be a farmer. Here's proof: McNARY liyes on a farm near £alem, Ore. “Fircone,” as he calls his home, is a community show- place., has filbert, walnut, cherry and. pear orchards. McNary devel- oped the largest prunc on the mar- ket, sells its juice breakfast as a Oregon in 1926 sponsored the Mc- Nary-Haugen bill (veoted by Cool- idge) to-subsidize U, S. grain grow- ers to sell abroad. He has always supported public electric power—one reason being to get cheaper electric- ity for farmers WALLACE. has achieved marked sugcess as a corn husbandman and cattle breeder. Incidentally, he founded those corn-husking tests. He raises corn and wheat in Towa, developed a new (“Hi-Bred™) corn that yields four to 10 bushels mof'e an dcre than ordibary Va- rieties. He is the, third of his fani- ily 1o " edit “the weekly ““Wallace’s | Farmer and Iow1 Iinmcs!cad He (lunks reciprocal trade treaties help agflcumuc And e was one' of the foundcls of the AAA. and, Mrs. Alfred Lind, Enumclaw, X 34 rhc 8 oclqck service was read; by the Rev. John A. Glasse anH weddmg music was played by Mrs. | Garol Be;er’,y Davis, orgamst % Huge, . haskets or muu; gladioli, | tied with white ribbon ,bows, and| white . tapers in candelabra, were placed upon the church altar for the, cer¢mony. White candles were also ‘armnzed at each ‘of the win- dnv. uon.%. % y Uw pmw ‘blunrk‘ nride chaiming . in - ber lightweight wool | eostume . subl 0f seaweed.. grepn, con- on his Ofegon ¥ahch MISS HARRINGTON BECOMES BRIDE OF MR. ARTHUR LIND Popular Yourg Couple Wed at Church Here Last Evening nlso o A simple but very lovel -white | degigned. with & ballerp. jacket of wedding was perfory eve~ | the same aterial. trimumied wilth ning at the Northern <ht Pres- gray kidgkin fur, Hex accessorics byterian Churea when Mics June | wexe of matching, colors. §he wore Harrington, daughter of Mi. and a corsage of white orchids and a Mr Brazille L, Harrington of eold lapel wawh wh“) ad been Enumelaw, Wash., beca the bride Hom’ W“fl angn of Mr. Arthur B Lind son of Mr. ~Mrs.-Ralph ‘Brookhart; I lIIIIII|||IIII!|||I|IIIIII||IIII|IIlljlllliil|l|ll|lI|II|I|IIIIIIIl|. Hollywood Sights And Sound: By Robbin Cooms. HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Aug. 2.—It was gravy for Jones. day All he had to do was sit on a moyie sef and walch hi§ cab work. Jones doesn’t movies, but he does go for a Jones is a cab driver, and when a gravy day Combes sure of collecting $4' by sitting. ~An ordinary (lfl) in his cab and worRing on fares, he has to hu.\.tlc to make fhat much for himself. In mcuucs Lhe cab gets slo i dm $6 for the company and $4 for Jones. It's sixty- fm‘ty on fnrcs‘ too, so the only difference is that in pictures there’s no hustlug The boys at the cab station shave the gravy. After Jones threugh his stint on “Before I Die,” his nnme goes, to le bottom of the gravy Mst. Tomorrow the top man on'the list will get the job Jones is witness to some nice movie stuff today. It’s a Ben Hecht movie, directed, written and produced hy‘Ben Heécht. care much for gravy day along he’s when he's gets Hecht, coatless and hatless, cigal in bls mouth, is directing in leisurely fashion. s rain in the c.\?.y, and rain is stream- ing down from overhead pipes. It streflms down on the city streets outside the “Sunset Hotel” ‘which “flashes & rieon light over the doorway, and it patters on the hood of the cab as it patks at the curb. The rain splashés’ Rita Hayworth and ‘Doug Fairbanks, Jr., and Thomas Milcheli agd’John Qunlcn As they. ct out of the cab and go inside, ] ‘They rehearse it once, mllmu&y)‘mn 3 in the can in_onc take,” with rain, and it's j I at PERCY'S ANY TME for Dinners or Light Lunches that all Juneau is talking about. TRY OUR FOUN- TAN, TOO! how little Hecht knows about producing and dirécting, because if. he doesn’t watch out h\"l] get the pl(‘lure flnlsh(‘d ahead of {ime and then the bosses will'think he's no good Bt let’s zet hack to Jones, who's sitting oh a box 'way in the background and isn't interested. " ieen ofit “here 15 vears and I see 'em make plenty of says Jon “In the old days, a driver used to drive his ¥ and he'd collect for béing in the picture (it a stop to it. If we'd put up a squawk be .getting it, but we didn't squawk. Now rive and we just §tnhd b) movies,” cab in the pict The aetaors’ guild maybe we could st they get an actor fc Jones says the taxi business is:not what it used to be in Ios Angeles: Too many private cars and nof enough “riders.” Used to be. he s-vs, thal people fsom the movie studios would call a cab to ride a block. Now they wal; ‘or drive themselves. But he still gets pleaty of movie calls — and tips are even better than in the good old @ Used to be, he says, that 15 cents or @ dime, a tsrict 10 per cent, was all a driver could hope for. Now it goes over — fram two-bits to 40 cents to half a buck. One of fhe regular “riders” from studio to home is Alla Nazi- mova (in “Escape’”) and Nazimova spends two bucks a trip. One- sixty in fare, 40 cents in tip . The g! &mo“”lh Rita Hayworth passes by, ang Jones’ ‘doesn’t, un his eyes. Glnmuur is just another item that's ail in a gravy WWWWWWW“IIIIIIIIIIIIllIlII|||III|III|IIIIIIIIlllllllI|" Laeh, Lo 5 5 drink. The G6-year-old Senator from | up\rliv AGARD, w'u.lfAu; on lnAs luwa mlly .10.«:ndant chose suent length frock. of blagk silk, tyimmed in velvet. She woxe matching’ ac- cessories, and. her corsage . was of yellow rosehuds, My, Silas Glogkley acucd as hest | |man_ for the grpom. I a After. the cergmony 8 reeeption ™ was held at. the. Baranof apart-| | ment of Mg, and Mrs. C. W, Stev- enson, where- the newlyweds groet- | ed scores of friends who csLLcd to! wish . them happiness: White tapers and foral | I NMC' ground -for, the reception. and Lhe bridels cake was tiered and topped hya tiny bride and. gyoom.. Assist- ing during the eveping weye Mra Evelyn Stavenson, Migs Ethel Smith and Miss Katherine Mack., Mrs, Lind. is. well knowu Jmc‘ and, is, an employee of the Bar- lanol Beauty Salon. Mr. Lind, came Lo this city about two years ago and is connected with the Alaska Daily Press Sailing tomorrow on the smnmm Mount McKinley, the bride and| groom will spend a month honey-| tooning ‘in the”state of ‘Washing- sin’i' Cou ( ple Marned Yesterdayr | at Northern Light | Church =~~~ The Northern Light P;esbyl,eruml |Church was the scene yesterday. of |a 4 o'clock wedding ceremony when Miss. Mary Elizaheth Cockburn, . daughter. of Mr. and Mrs. O..G. Cockburn of Lake Stevens. Wash- m)gtau became the bride of 3 | Edwin Johnson, son-of Mr. and Mrs. | George Johnson, also of Lake Stev- ens, The bride choso wool frock, for her cmarriage: and - wore | ¢o- responding accessories, Hex corsage was talismani roses, . B i Mus. *Edward, Metzgar -was the’ matren of hepor. She wore a-bejge lightweight wool gown with -brown aceessories and a gardenia corsage. Mr.. Milton Nyman was Jgst man for.the greom. After, the ceremony :an. informal wedding' supper was held at: the George M. Simpkins residence on Pifth Street. | -~ The bride, a former University. oI Washington student, arrived here Tuesday - evening -on the steamer Aleutian. Mr, Johnson, an employee of the Juneau Cold Storage Com- pany, has reSided in thl§ city for the past three years. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson plan to make their jiome in Juneau and! have’ taken ahy i/p:fiaflcnt at the Fosbee. 4 i ' Mrs. C. Daiglet * ** Is Party Honoree | Mrs. Charles Jerabeck and’ Mx- J. C. Michaelson entertained last evening with a surprise gift shower for Mrs. C. Daigler at the Michael- son apartment in the Fosbee Flowers carried out the color scheme of blue and gold and Tri- poli provided entertainment for the occasion. Honors were won by Mrs. James Ramsay and Mrs H. Timmerman. During the evening a supper vu.s served by the two hostesses. % The list of guests included Mes- | MIsS COCKBI vim a lightweight dames H. Timmerman, H."Y Han- son,” E. V. Shaffer, J."J. Prlmn- depigned . princess. style, | Bessarabia Is 13th of Reds Union MOSCOW, ,Aug. 2. — Supreme 1940. ANOTHER SWEEP IN NOVEMBER, OLSON PREDICTS National Comm i ffeeman Returns from Demo Cenvention Council of the Russian Parliament unanimously. adopted a resolution | today creating the Moldayian Union | Territorial Treasurer Oscar G Republic which incorporated the [Olson, new Democratic National larger part of Bessarabia recently |Commilteeman for Alaska, returned obtained from Rumania,. |on the Alaska Clipper yesterday Republic is the [after attending the Democratic The Moldavian | thirteenth member.of the Union of ‘n‘vil‘l Republies B JEWISH RAIDS MADE ¥ NICE ON BIG SCALE Germans Report Whole- | I sale Riots—Revolvers Fir- ed, Wmdows Smashed 9 BERLIN, August »-Thc Ge d today anti-Jewish (Mm cutred .on. A large,. seale in Nic | France, last night. s Large ' plate glass windows I Jewish .owned . shops, apd depart tment steres werg .cmashed, revolve shots were fiveds amd slogans de lar, own gith, the Jews and E% 5% W Zfi tten in large E { Lmncns (llPPEfi‘ fii’fi o 15 CANCELLED The Ala»(ku Cupper cancelled its seheduled, flight ‘te. Seaftle today ‘because of unfavorable weather con- ditdons; while the northbound Elec- e was waiting gt the airport at press thme. for fayorable. takeoff weathen to. Fajhanks, fus Was ments, provided @, ghmmmg hack- ;; Scheduled to, legve: with, Electra pilots Captain Al Monsen and Chicl Officer »Herman Josyln ave Burks Whllc Hassie dHunby Don- Moulden ld I\ndch K. Farrmgl,on R gl\mw“ph.«r- lr{ 8 al mnne or Katherine Rabinson In commlmcm to ms cousm Miss Katherine Robinson, Mr. John Jones was host last evening with an in- formal dinner party given in the hm]qum, room of Percy's Cafe. Miss Robinson is visiting in Ju- neau from Lm Angeles. 45 SIAIIQ!‘ KINV : oo 10 MOVE STUDIO S,l.udlm_ guu,i office of radio sta- tin KINY arve.to be moved from the Triangle Building to the Deck- ~Building on.. South Franklin fi;reey, gecording to = permit is- sugd by the C\Ly Building Inspec- tar, Remodeling QI L}c ‘Decker Build- 'C%’;é; izq;fitoy:; thefis:}tgfigl: \MAS Chertington And Daughier Here| HM CA\emugth Acting Manager of, KINY, flew. to -Petersburg last ni;m with Slmu Stpmons, to meet his owife, @ng. 8-yeax-old . daughter mnorthbownd, en the steamer Yukon which arrived lere this morning. The,Chy tons are stopping at BS,"M; teliuptilthey choose Family on Norihland Dr. and Mrs. E. F. Vollert, ac- cempanied by their daughter, are enroute . here: on the ; Motorship, Northjand. .. Dr. Vollert is the physician in charge of the Government Hospital | here. He angd his family, have spent | the past few months in the States, | ——————— SKAGWAY MERCHAN " ON STEAMER YU KOV Harry G. Auk pmmnwm Skag- way merchant, is enroute home on | the, steamer Yukon. He and his | ftamily bave enjoved a trip to the San Francisco Fair and visits to the coast cities. Mrs. Ask and her two children will remain south for a short while before jmniug Mr. in’ Skagway. e JUNEAU PLANES MAKE THREE FLIGHTS: ALL PILOTS TAKE TO AIR Three flights were made out of Juneau. by local fliers today, Shel Bimmans flying Jack Littlepage and Paul. Sorenson to Chichagof and Hirst respectively. Alex Holden fly- ing E. Withrow to Sitka, and John { vera, James Ramsay, G. lsm Thompson and " G. - : y ‘Jotves, »| Amundsen flying a trip to the Pol- aris-Taku mine. straticns are reported to have cc- | Ask | Couvention in Chicago, | Olson was emphatic in his praise | for the work of Delegate James V {Davis of Juneau before the Rules ing i the' cownt of U. S. Commis- | Committee in retaining Alaska’s six | sioner Felix Gray yesterday that otes. Due to Davis' fight, Olson he had-bgen stabbed “lots of time: ‘ aid, a proposal to cut the Alaska Neilzon; called & witness in iupws(nmuun to three votes was a. case Arminta (Sunshing) defeated ® Osi BETe aid of Every indication points to another bein Democratic sweep in November, Ol- “Tt feel bad; it feels good son said {The blade ind pleas- Since the convention and meet- |, ing of the new National Committ e Cif't Retheinber \0]\01\ has been visiting relatives in{ ppo 00 (G RRTIY Michigan, Wisconsin and Minne- | ", b RNt ke he adn didn't feel anything at 2l was stabbed during a visit to Miss Osborne’s cabin on In fact, Neilson couldn't remem- | Returns South‘m. ; happened that night. He admitt | . Mrs. Miriam €. Schoettler r|he was drunk, but not as drunk a { Mr. Robert Schoettler, manager | he had been “lots of times” be { the Baramof Hotel, returned to|fore. And on none of these former her heme in Seattle this morning | occasions, he said, had he been n the Canadian Pacific .‘-HHI[H‘:"»IHMUU' to recall what went on about Princess Charlotte. him . Duzing, Jher . twe .wgeks visit, in Knife Identified Jyneaty Mrs. Schogtfler was the) He identified a blood-stained iffcentive for” maily Socidl affairs.|butcher knife introduced in evi- - > |dence yesterday as one which his Miss Oshorne, kept in her to “cut up salads scuthbound passenger on the steam- er Princess Charlotte this morning.| She is Socail Welfare Director of the office of Indian Affairs here. - | | DIS WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. — J. C. { McCarl, 61, former Comptroller of the United States who became known as the “Watchdog of the Treasury” in controversies with the Roosevelt Administration and New Deal expenditures,. died suddenly in his office today. { McCarl retired from office four years ago, - > Subscripe to The Daily Alaska Em- pire —the paper with the largest guaranteed circulation, i | Subscribe to1 The Empirs. pleaswre of Ju STOCK QUOTATIONS " It's Fun fo Be Stablied Says Ollie Witness in Assaull Case| Refuses to Blame Friend “Sunshine’ the bacl Ne tabbed in according to Ollie whe' testified at a he Being ¢ eau NEW Y(ml{. Raaia Closing| Newson was found by policemen auatation of Alaska Jumeau -mine, oUtside his After he was stock today is 4%, American Can BIVeD 1 R and. taken %14, Anagonda 20%, Bethlebem |0 12l e was arrested, Stecl 80, G.ommanwealth, and|and, according to police office Southern 1%, ., Curblss-Wrizht, 7,1 testimony, admitted stabbing Neil- General Motors 45%, Internatic son during a I ST Harvester 44 ennecotlt 20’4, New| Neilson was m the City York Cer 1 Northega, Pacific Jail to St. Ann’s Hospital the fol- ¢ United States Stecl 54, Pound Vowing day by ambulance, when 33.88 his condition became worse, He ed eight days in hospital DOW, JONES AVERAGES All Is Forgiv The following arestoday’s Dow,' Bul ver Arminta may have Jgnes .averages: Tndubtriplst 196.37, done im, Neilson made it plain ralLs 126,95, ufilities 4 4 by his testimony at the hearing | yesterday thav he has fo; 5 H f her once before, when she t ) at him several Baseball Today .. o has been treated for severe scalp v e injuries uffered, attendants sur- The following are scores of games mised, from being struck on the vlayed this afternoon in the (WO head with a rock. She didn't blame major leagues: anybody on that occasion, either onal League At the hearing yesterday, Ar- Chicaga 4; -Braok mina refused, on the advice of her Cincinnati 3; Boston 0. first giiormey, Mrs. Mildred Hermann, 8, 4 4 1to say a word. St. Leuls 4;.New York 5 | She was ordersd bound over to American League |the Grand Ju unde $2,000 bond Washingten 2; Chicago 10, lion: & chirge oF assault with a. dan- New York 10; Cleveland 2 bobndia Weapon e - ALASKAN TO WE | SEATTLE, Aug. 2—A marriage| icense has been issued to James Sayles, 61, of Seaftle, and Ann Jen- sen, 43, of Ketchikan, Alaska. | - e MRS. HARMON LEAVES ! Mrs. Vera B. Harmon was a T RA DE TRI P—More busi- ness between U. S. and his coun- try is goal of Eske Brun (above), Danish governor of Greenland newly arrived here. War has a(l'ected‘ Ms nation’s trade. - S s N FIR'I NG LINE...AFTERWAR D_Mughty:lad ey weren't inside at the time are these soldiers at Fortalewis, Wash., peering out of a tank of world war vintage, ripped apart by U. S. army practice fire with 75 millimeter shrapnel. and| : U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juncau and vicinity, beginning at 4:30 pan., Avg Light showers and little change in temperature (onight and Sat- urday; minimum temperature 53 dégrees; moderate southerly winds. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Light showers with not much change in lemperature tonight and Saturday; moderate southerl winds except moderate (o fre over sounds and straits and Lynn Canal Forecast of winas along (he coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Moderate to fresh southerly Winds. from Dixon Entrance to Cape Hinchinbrook; and amoderate,. south and = southeasterly from Cape Hinchinbrook to Kodiak but winds becoming fresh Lo stron, neay Kodiak LOCAL DATA Time Barometer ‘Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity Weather 4$:30 p.m. yest'y 20.91 57 80 k 11 Rain 1 m. today 29.93 55 43 10 Rain Noon today 30.00 54 90 10 Rain RADIO REPORTS | TODAY Max. tempt Lovest 3:3Gam . Precip. 3:30am St n last 24 hours | te np. temp, 24 hours Weather Barrow 50 42 42 0 . Foggy Fairbanks (&} 54 54 0 Cloudy Nome i1 3 14 0 Cleas n 69 47 7 0 Cloudy 10rage 67 37 57 0 Cloudy el 8 46 51 0 Clear St. Paul i 44 46 0 Cloudy Dutch Harbor 5] 8 48 02 Rain Kodiak 50 19 0 PL. Cldy Cordova 64 | 0 0 Clear Juneau 57 51 g1 heont Sitka 60 | 3 58 111 Rain Ketchikan 63 | 6 57 30 “Kaun PBrince Rupert 63 a1 i) Y Rain Prince George . T1 70 51 08 Clpudy Seattle (! 53 54 0 Cleat Portland 7 ! 58 01 Clear y Erancisco . 65 i1 i1 0 Clear WEATHER SYNOPSIS A deep depression which appeared to be mov northeastward was centered near Dutch Harbor es this morning, while pressure continued relatively low over th» Gulf and over most of Alaska proper Cloudy weather was neral over all of Alaska during the last 24 hours, and there was raii in the Yukon Territory, in Brit- ish Columbia 1d in Southeast Aliska, There were I clouds and rain this morning over the north portion of the Juneau Seattle Air- ways, but it was fair over the & hern h of the route. Juneau Sunrise 4.53 a.m., sunset 9:i5 p.m Aug. 3 IT’S A CRUEL WORLD — with mistrust bruins view iheir arrival at Gray, Maine, game farm, after mother was killed. 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