The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 23, 1941, Page 6

THE D AILY ALASKA EMPIRE — JUNEAU, ALASK THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 194| PAGE SIX 1 . POLLY AND HER PALS YEAH. THOUGHT IT MIGHT HELP YER ACTIN, IF Y’ BELIEVED YUH HAD A SECRET ADMIRER k./\rJ I WOULPN'T'VE TOLD YUH, IF YER SHOW HADN'T CLOSED. HOPE YUH AIN/T SORE, POLLY. WHY, ASH/ You [MEAN THAT You HAVE BEEN SENDING IME THESE ELOWERS? «BUT IT WAS SWEET OF YOu TODO IT. (7 LSS0, - [ MARINE NEWS | "peNs s own OBIT AND HOW NO"hland ls RupertHJé_llesTeIIs of Bound North Hughes, from Start fo Fin- | ish — Very Much Alive for tor 10 o'clock ti STEAMER MOVEMENTS NORTHBOUND Denali d urday. SCHEL ) SAILINGS Tyee cheduled sail from Seattle today. Princess to scheduled to 9 pm Oct. 23 Louise sail from Vancouver famous author, jack-of- believe in the old can e laughing, the scene yours,” Hughes, writing his ewn advance obituary in the October Coronet, condemns himself to death by laughing gas. And in “The Happy Death of Ru- pert Hughes,” the latest i Coro- net's series of auto-obituaries of prominent personalities, Hughes concludes that it is a fitting exit for one who thought life so amus- ing. ! “He always maintained,” Hughes about Hughes s as good as anybody lived, bkut ied this hardly - to - be - disputed that anybody clse who ever lived was as good as he was” A quick) review of Hughes' career shows an impressive list accomplishments. | He admits to newspaper reporting, editorial work for various mag zines, several years as chief ant editor of a history of the world He compiled singlehanded a musi- cal cyclopedia, spent a great Rupert playwright all-trades, one, “If Hughes, iled % and scholarly sail at scheduled to tomorrow Alaska a o must you is with 45 passengers aboard Seattle A M ed 5 pm North Coast scheduled from Seattle October Notar, 10 A Mrs Al Swi 1 scheduled M M. CGiutsche fr sattle at 10 - - r 31 ALEUTIAN SAILS Alnska seheduled TOMORROWP. M. 1 pam. tomorrow Ad for Denr to sail Mr 28 at D am sail Oc-~ to am BAILINGS outhbound southbound evening south- Yukon scheduled late tomorrow Columbia scheduled Saturday reports hat he that ever by admission the Te Al- » Company southbound Sun- the morning ail from Se ck in y'clock Northland scheduled south- bound from Sitka next Wed- nesday LOCAL SAILINGS Estebeth scheduled to sall every Weanesaey at 6 p.m. for Sitka and wayports. Dart leaves every Wednesday at 7 a.m. for Petersburg, Port Alexander, Kake and way- (PR SUSPENDS o NIGHT SERVICE, = TRIANGLE RUN VANCOUVER, Oct —G. Bruce Burpee, General Passenger Agent, Canadian Pacific Railway, announc- ed today “temporary withdrawal” of direct overnight beat service between Vancouver and Seattle. Effective November 1, nightly sail- ings of the Princess Charlotte from Vancouver at 10:30 p.m. and the 11 pan. sailings from Seattle of the he tomorrow cording ailed fror to pram, ; at 9 o'clock ka ports -~ © 00000000 002000 e0c000000000000000000G0SS ° o fin- which Patent He as a he never works, The Washington which ished. His publishe include novels like Leather Kid, would fill has directed movies, served major in the army, and authore many stage hits Couldn’t Sing—Wrote Music nough he neither nor play, he an amount of mus about himself, “some of which was actually sung in public. He dab- bled in sculpture, gave lectures and {did an appalling amount of public speaking van (Sun time, October 24) High tide 30 am, 165 feet Low tide—9:17 a.m., 1.9 feet High tide—3:21 p.m. 183 feet Low tide—9:58 p.m. -1.6 : AT AR Denali Is Now could feet wrote deal "; of time on a biography of George ,. 1 here are some others: sing highly immense sible says Mr. Hughes aerial Princess Alice will be canceled. WHEN IN NEED OF Diesel Oil—Stove Oil—Your —General Haul- and Crating CALL US! Junean Transfer Phone 48—Night Phone 481 TRAVEL on a "PRIN- CESS"” LINER CANADIAN PACLFIC RAICWAY ST COMMUNICATIONS JUNEAU TO VANCOUVER VICTORIA OR SEATTLE SOUTHBOUND SAILINGS Princess Norah November 6 October 28 V. W. MULVIHILL Agent, C.P.R.—Juneau, Alasks CANADIAN PACIFIC S i THE ATCO LINE Alaska Transportation Company - BAILINGS FROM PIER 7 SEATTLE 'EVERY THURSDAY 10:00A. M. 3. 8 TONGASS 8. TYEE . Oct. 30 Oct. 23 PASSENGERS FREIGHT REFRIGERATION ~ ° A L 'D. B. FEMMER—AGENT PHONE 14 NIGHT 312 “It was inevitable that a person doing all of these things should do none of them well,” continues the author-playwright, “b this troubled Hughes little. Of course the flittings of such a bird could never win the respect of p but he included in 5 | affectionate spects.” Self-de- ! ceived pomposities who pretend that Mrs. Roy E. Bennett, H. Burk- they are working for halter, Earl F. Russell, M, E. Mon- amused him. As he once put it agle, Howard Mercer, Catherine| “The oaf who writes for posterity Mack, A. Hagerud, Murs Lee i Smith, M. D. Williams, Mr and|an envelope with no address on| Mrs. S. Fause. it JuneauBound SEATTLE, Oct. 23 Steamer Denali of the Alaska Steamship Company sailed for Alaska ports at 9 o'clock last night with 179 pass- engers including 22 steerage. Juneau paseengers on the Den- ali include the following: sterity, | post Abuses Conceited ‘He was not much humiliated,” | | admits Hughes in. his _obituary, ' “when eritics attacked his work | PPt B SRR | (as so many so ardently did) nor| The miver boat Taku arrivedgue pe myph puffed by the pmise‘ safely at Wrangell late yesterday, s et on a trip from Taku Lodge to ;\l:u,\e'u‘udfd to make him cnncm-‘ Wrangell which was started @, weelg|©0 While -pralse filled him withi ago today. The boat had been de- gratitude rather than pride. S;mk(‘n[ layed by bad weather and was | Of as a fiend of tireless and un-| forced to put in at several coves|T€mitting toil, he felt himself to to ride out storms, it was explained, | be a lazy procrastinator and waver- | . er from one thing to another.| There was hardly a field he did | not rush into and tread upon to, the dismay of those who wisely| vtlt‘\‘lHF‘Ll their lives to one subject.” ! “But,” suggests Hughes in Coro- (net, “while Hughes had become a | general nuisance and his departure ! will not be lamented, he may be ! fergiven much now that he is out |of the way because of his desire | to hurt nobody and his futile | eagerness o help everybody. At |icast we can say that he lacked malice.” But in summing it all up Hughes | declares, “il seems there's not much | *t him." | - {to do wut for | = |T0 CHANGE ROUTE, WRANGELL NARROWS A new tow channél for use of tug beats in passing through Wrangell Narrows will’be recdmmended by the United States Engineers in order to | | safeguard aids to navigation in the | | waterway. | The action is being taken as the result of the receipt of an applica- tion from the commander of the ! Ketchikan district of the Coast o Guard for a change. Tt is reported ‘ EITTLE that aids to ngvigation particuarly Prank W. H wasHinGTON | In Tecent months, have been fre- | manaGiNG ci quently passing through. SEATTLE LIFE To thoroughly enjoy your visit to Seattle, stay at the Olympic. Luxurious surroundings . . . fine foods . . . outstanding eatertain- ment. Not expensive; from $3.50. | g posterity | § H.!is mailing an anonymous letter in| % damaged by various craft | TH’ FLORIST SAID Y'COULD PAY HIM ANYTIME ! YEAH/ BUT DON'T WORRY ABOUT THAT/ THEY MUSTVE cosT A LOT OF MONEY/ THIS 15 WHAY WARFARE LOOKS WHEN STYLED BY EXP e | ALASKA . ge tank, b ed in the ground and connected with sprink- nnec the fuel mixture. m automatically blows up the structure. | “Inflammable bridge” is fuel b lers on the floor of span ell with either yst An el e, ¢ t by a switeh, ignites into panic. ged tank trap. ffective in a m be 0 appe Trealls in the tar. der grinding out in indescribable | acophony sounds calculated to make lose their minds. And soldiers, in his scheme of | attack, might well be painted to my | appear as monsters—much as the would be | fluorescent, green-hued parachut whom Germany sent agains Crete. SERVICE Loewy, (icularly ¢ who became climate, would h styling stream- tar, camouflag and ultra-modern te busy these #ays ank and formidable ) {in a riare | Raymond | hearers H.!l'l\ ural | gooe mess, rendered | ists Dlustrated are two of them, and AlL ot theie. tiney. - At paet have moved across the drafting| board of this engineer-designer | whose services and advice are being used by the Army ordnance de-| * partment and other government | agencies. { | | [ also envisions a troop! that could be converted motor truck with a flip of It ravel rails highway equal ease also “n which vermilion liquid, almost impos- Designed 7 for might drive “Blcod bombs, would would with ested packages ist on or release, they of thun- “Deathtrap airport” mined to the teeth ections and makin: Explozives arve set off simultaneously, blowing from position an encmy landing suicidal. Where runways cross, circular el, expose parachutists to withering erossfire. ‘What Price Speed? A Traffic Safety Lesson for All runway s huge ' concrete machine gun nests rise from ground I > e 1111 g 1 Limpact of this sedan against a réetaining wall on New York’s west side highway must have been ter- rific to shear off virtually the whole top half of the automobile. Two of the three occupants of the car ~were killed, the third seriously injured, H. B. FOSS as a paid-up subscriber to The Daily Alaska Empire is invited to present this coupon this evening at the box office of the—— . CAPITOL THEATRE and receivé TWO tickets to see: "SCATTERBRAIN" Federal Tax—>5c¢ per Person ———WATCH THIS SPACE——— Your Name May Appear! et S e ) | [tk TLV L ; Due Juneau Northbound Due Juneau Southbound Fri. Fri Sat. Fri. Sun. Thu. Steamer YUKON ... Seattle Oct. oct Oct. Oct 3 Nov. Nov. 6 2 i O % 24 COLUMBIA . > hnachon - PRI S DENALY Sat. Oct. 25 ALEUTIAN Mon. Oct. 27 YUKON . Fri. Oct. 31 Oct. 24 Oct. 28 Fri Tues. FOR PORTS OF CALL, Phone Local Office of Company. H. O. 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