The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 31, 1940, Page 8

: P : THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, DEC. 31, HIGH JINKS OF ELKS IS ON TONIGHT The annual Elks' High Jinks, ore of the outstanding dances promoted by the Elks lodge of Juneau, is scheduled to get undsr way at 10 o'clock this evening and until “the wee small hours” is the report given Shavey Koski, dance manager <8 SAVE THIS DATE! ELKS' ANNUAL High HOTTEST TIME IN TOWN! 1 - BICGEST AND THE .~ INew Year’s Eve TONIGHT — December 31st — TONIGHT OM 10 O'CLOCK ‘TILL THE WEE HOURS! be offered dance-goers t} n the Snowball Shower a minute for all Lillian Uggen and her archestra will play for the dance with fun, frolics, tavors, hats and ncise o ers promised to round out a fine ev- ening of entertainment | THe public is invited Some l;r;lls s year too A thrill of R ' Faneine = Welsemalke . znd for the FIRST TIME:— A SNOWRALL SHOWER! ~ AreHealthy | ; LILLIAN UGGEN'S MUSIC - *In Army li'e; ADMISSION §1.10 LADIES FREE! i HILDRE-FLOBERG MARRIAGE IS T0 i Means BiggeT Chests and Muscles - Average | Weight Increases AP Featlure Service NEW YORK, Dec. 31. — Suppose |vou do get drafted. Maybe it will be good for your health. Further- more, mayvbe taking 900,000 men (the attend the “opén nhouse.” Both Mrs, Floberg and Mr. Hildre are well known here. Mr. Hildre is captain of the fishing boat Lou- helen ntinde | Something new and different is to| ' Ob, Boy, for New Year’s Evel | | | | Those interested in celebrating New Year’s Eve with champagne should find especial attraction in this picture taken on a New quk pler. The boxes contain champagne, from Argentina. The ship- ment is the largest ever made to the U. S. from Argentina, which is replacing the supply of French champagne cut off by the war. In the picture, Carlos Quiros, left, Argentine consul in the U. 8., pours a glassful for Leon H. Robinson, importer, RIZAL'S Machines MEMORY Invade HONORED (ane Fields (AP FEATURE SERVICE) 1940. | 'WHOOPEE! New Year’s Fve Celebration AND DANCE TONIGHT TO NEW MUSIC BY ® Ted Auslerman @ Joln Tonkin @ Emil Loughran (Recently from Seattle JUNEAU'S NEWEST AND HOTTEST PIANO PLAYER A Red I_Iot Time . FIUN - MUSIC - PANCING - WHOOPEE! | THE FINEST DRINKS AND SANDWICHES IN TOWN! CELEBRATE TONIGHT AT THE CAPITOL CAF “The Bright Spot in Juneau®’ BE HELD TONIGHT pEN HOUSE AT GOVERNOR'S WILL BE TOMORROW At a quiet ceremony to be per- formed this evening at 8 o'clock in the Resurrection Lutheran Church Mrs. Sigrid Floberg will become the r bride of Mr. Andrew Hildre. The I EL ] service will be performed by the | Open House will be held tomorrow 4 Rev. John L. Cauble. | afternoon at the Governcr's douse 2 The wedding will be private and | An invitation to call between 3 and : attendants will be Mr. and Mrs. |6 oclock is extended to the people $ Frank Olson. of Juneau by Gov. and Mrs. Er- ) At 8:30 o'clock, a reception. in the |nest Gruening form of a smorgasbord, will be held e 4 at the Calhoun Avenue home of Mr.| Subscribe to the Daily Alaskus 4 and Mrs. Olson, All friends of the Empire—the paper with the larges: i couple are extended an invitation to paid circulation Ttalian Victim of RAF A British’soldier looks over the remains of an Italian Fiat bomber which was shot down 5y British anti-aircraft fire during an attack on thd «qutheas: soast of England. ; WHERE? . ‘ weighing more than 200 pounds, the General Chairman < | “At the same time, underweight of our maximum for any one year) into the Army would improve the public health as well. | Metropolitan Life Insurance Com- pany statisticians have assembled some figures based on examinations of 100,000 men at the time they were | The Juneau Filipino community demobilized from the Army in 1919. and their guests—almost 200 in all— Many of them had actually served last night paid tribute to the memory through a year or more of com- of Jose Rizal, national hero of the . ¥ Philinpines. at a Rizal Day banquet “About the best and most trust- and dance in the Gold Room of the worthy evidence of the improved Baranof Hotel. condition'! of these men,” the com- Judge George F. Alexander, guest pany says, “is the fact that there speaker, remarking on the admirable was an average increase of approxi- spirit shown by the Juneau Filipino mately one inch in chest circumfer- community, said “these boys should ence, a figure that is greater than would be accounted for by the in- crease in average weight and age tive country on its feet and give it | during the time of service.” a good start.” He said it was his Average weight of the draftees personal opinion, however, that the | increased, too, but it was mostly day of Philippine independence, now ‘vmusclu set for 1946, should be postponed n | “Thus the proportion of men the face of grave international un- | weighing 190 to 199 pounds decreas- rest. ed from 7.9 to 7.2 per 1,000. Of those Eladio A. Belarde, ity and Guests Meet at Banquet giving their ability to put their na- who was also for the affair, proporton fell from 54 to 4.6 per | 1,000. erica to fullfill her solemn promise freedom” the Filipinos in men likewise decreased. The propor- America should not forget their |tlon of men weighing less than 130 homeland and its problems. ‘pnunds dropped from 254.7 to 1794 Rizal Fulogized | per 1,000.” Fred Fulgencio, dressed in native | General health of the drafteés Philippine costume, eulogized Rizal ould improve, too, the company as “ope of the world’s greatest mar- vs, because of better food, housing tyrs, willing to sacrifice himself for and physical education. his nation’s rights.” Fulgencio said As for public health, the company Rizal, who*was executed by the | forecast’ sthat vaccination against Spanish overlords of the Philippines small-pox, and innhoculation against December 30, 1896, “belongs not only typhoid fever will educate 'nany to onerace but to all races for yen- men to its value and some “may erations and generations to come.” later become advocates of vaccina- Rizal's famous poem, “My Last | tion in their home communities.” Farewell,” was recited by Arsenio £ -, Credo. FLYING PARTS ! Toastmaster Max Rayela, in bpen- ing the program, said not the death Cver 12,000 different articles are of Rizal but the birth of an ideal kept in the huge stockroom at the was being celebrated last night. “He nternational Pan American Airport showed what man can be and what n*Miami, home base of the inter thenation can become,” said Rayela. American flying Clipper ships. | Little Juanita Diaz, also in native ISR e 7 R costume, placed a wreath before a ! picture of Dr. Rizal, while Marcos Sison played taps. Musical Program Empire Classifieds Pay! S Juneau Filipino Commun- think seriously of going back: and ° urged that “while we wait for Am- ° BATON ROUGE. La.—The sugar industry, long the support of thou- sands of resident and migrator: laborers, is rapidi mechanizing. Plantation owne y it is mech- anizing for dear life, that adminis- tration of the Sugar Act has cut sugar growing profits and that ev-| €ry possible corner must be cut The Department of Agriculture contends that more sugar has beeen produced in Leuisiana since the 1937 act became law than ever before (6,250,000 tons in 1938, the peak year, 500,000 last vear) and that sugar cwers are in a preferred class as enefit payments, receiving an ge of $19 an acre University Proving Ground Louisiana State University oper- atcs a completely equipped sugar factory—the only experimental one of its kind in continental Americ The factor the Unlvarsity's eane fiel on a proving greund for improvements in grow- cessing University’s Audubon sugar ring the way for the machines. Automatic weighers, tested and pproved by the Unlversity, already are increasinzly in uco on the re- ceiving platforms for cane. ‘Nct By Choice’ “It isn't by choice that the pro- ducers are making their economies ot the expense of labor,” explained Dr. Arthur G. Keller, chemical en- ¢ naering professor and factory su- ntendent | “An industry which is on the raged edze has to make its savings where it can. i “When sugar sold at $3.25 a hun- dred pound-, the industry made meney: Tk price now is about $2.05. Sc the producers are ont to cut production costs 60 cents a Lundred ponnds.” / ‘That is why, he says. sales of trac- | ‘ors and of special high-wheeled harvest wagons designed to be pull- ed bv them hav~s hoomed. The ne- gro mule-driver apporently is go- ing the way cf the negro who cut cane with a broad bladed knife. | { A Painful Side sprawling sugar The industry | . Come Gne ————— Come All THE DOUGLAS EAGLES | The musical program included se- | 9 i g lections by the Islanders String En. | IS0’ changing its pace without ad-, semble, banjo solo by Danny Con- Justment plans. ! stantino and sones bv Peter Talaga,| The harvester. for example, does- | The audience sang “The Star Span- n't leave the cane as clean as didI gled Banner” and “Philippines, My the negroes who trimmed off top Philippines.” As a surprise number and trash with a few slashes of their Miss Jackie Schmitz sang, accom- Fig knives. ; panied by Mrs. Arthur Uggen. i The displaced field hands are Guests of honor were E. L. (Bob) 808 on the public relief rolls. | Bartlett, Secretary of Alaska: Mayor u‘:‘“d “:dgm d'he story of w re- ‘, Harry 1. Lucas, and J. A, Willlams, 8lon making adjustments to meet| General Superintendent of the Al- N€W conditions. Community of Juneau is Max Ray- ela. Qther officers are Brigido Go- mez, Vice-President; Tony Florendo, vesident of tne New 21115 1o eI, SN SERAOGHROAAEY Hopsonls TALY HAS Convided DICTATOR, Of Frauds INDUSTRY Federal Jury Finds Former Renao Ricca o Have Ab- solute Control Over Utilities Titan Guilty All Raw Materials on 17 Counts ROME, Dec. 31- Minister -of the Guilds, came a virtual Dictator industry. Ricci will have ahbsolute control 10 handling and distribution v rials. Renao Ricei, today be- NEW YORK, Dec. 31. — Howard % Ty n Hopson, former untilities titan, has been convicted by a Federal Grand Jury, of mail frauds It is alleged he defrauded the i d : Associated Gas and Electric System ointment was made by of nearly $20,000,000. Premier Benito Mussolini The jury convicted Hopson on 17 TR mail fraud couan‘ but acquitted him The famous Butterfild stage fJf a single conspiracy count in the route of frontier days extended infligfmente: Tl |2759 miles from San Francisco 7 |to St. Louis by way of Los An- The original circumnavigation of geles, Yuma and Tucson, Ariz, and El Paso, Tex. made in 25 days, the globe by Magellan’s fleet took The trip was 1,083 days, Sees Mussolini’s O\IIVerthrorwr (Count Carlo Sforza (left), former premier of Italy, declaring that the ‘mass of Italian people are dissatisfied with Mussolini’s regime, predicts thatithe days of fascism in Italy are numbered. Now an exile in the United States, the count is shown in New York with Dr. Friedrich vor Prittwitz und Gaffron, former German ambassador to the U. S. R0 Iillllll|lmlllIIIIIIIIIIIIII!IIIIIIlllIIIIIIIIIIHIHIHIIIIIIIMIIIIHII, TOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Dec. 31.—Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock at the last secsion cf 1940, is 4%, American Can 88's, Aniconda 26%, Bethlehem Steel 86':, Com- monwkalth and Scuthern 13-16, Curtiss Wright 9!y, General Mot 48, Internaticnal Horverter 50%, Kennecctt 37!, New Yor< Central |13%, Northern. Pacific §'s, Tnited States Steel €0%, Pound §1.04 DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: Industrials 131.13, rails 28.13, utilities 19.85. —————— Subseribe to the Daily Alaska Empire—the paper with the largest paid circulation ‘ Start the New Year Right SAVE with | INSURED SAFETY With both safety and income in mind, place your savings where they’re INSURED up to $5,000 by an agency of United States Government. Our investment of savings funds in safe home mortgages increases your sav- ings income. Open your account with anv amount. Current 4% Rate | ALASKA FEDERAL | SAVINGS and LOAN | ASSN. of JUNEAU TELEPHONE 3 NEW YEAR'S DANGE and CARD PARTY At the Eagles Hall DANCE and PLAY The 01d Year Out -— The New Year In With the DOUGLAS EAGLES! : k . SOUVENIRS Secretary; Bennie Campos, Treas- urer; Mike Seludo and Gabriel De Vera, Sergeant-at-Arms; Dalmacio Sarabia, Louis F. Zarate and B. K. Samaniego, Auditors. Committees Committees were as follows: Gen- eral Chairman Eladio- A. Belarde, Assistant. Chairman Tony Florendo. Finahce: D. Fulgencio, B. Campos, D. Mationg, K. Domingo and E. A. Belarde. 3 Program: M. Sison, D. Constan- tino.. F. Campo, P. Térencio and F. Pineda. Invitation: G. Ocjanas, M. Rayela, C. Barril, E. Galao and T. Florendo. Decoration: T. Florendo, J. Bel- tran, P. Erig, Mrs. M. Diaz and T. Campos. Reception: M. Ravela. G. Ocjanas, C. Barril, C. Malilay. M. Seuldo, D. Sarabia and E, Galao. IO : AR . 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