The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 6, 1947, Page 2

PAGE TWO THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1947 SUMMER T ERM AT NORTHWESTERN _ s tudents wait in line at Der- ring Library of Northwestern University in Chicago to sign with prefessors for summer school courses. 1% M i ) I Let 2 slip: re. He VICE 33UAD HEAD o ek one g L& He 1 imes bat- MIGHT CONCLUDE B f cou had all kinds of HE IS UNPOPULAR - in the way LTIMORE Capt nder o I n figures hi 4 > has he says high price you can add: ‘Pushed Hiis natod s yword in Balti- cenerally.’ " for he is the police B partment’s vice st and the i e T i s o SGROPTIMIST CLUB POLICEMAN MEETS TOMORROW ctently the cap‘a - ” i nursing a ser: ed hand The regultir businéss'and lincheon iises about the abdomen meeting of the Soroptimist Club will | re a character kifked him dur- pe held tomorrow noon at the Bar- | raid, and minus three teeth anof Hotel, it announced by character swung on Mildred R. Hermann. Committee : a crutch reports, particularly the report of In the he's been on the Planning Committee will b ¥ ¢ on nas ied 1,- heard. and parliamentary drill wili G {s, arrested 9,061 persons, he held 8904 charges. His victims oo id an estimated $500,000 in & ) S e of we on e e TS, 160y RooSeEvell 1 [ x has been stabbed with a I E ghiy- I d y i e S K SiX 100G on the thumb, slashed with a ra- clubbed with beer bottle, OYSTER BAY, N. Y., Aug. 6@ with monkey wrench, | -~Mrs. Thecdore Roosevelt, widow ouged in the eye, and clawed in Ol t President, observed her ighty-sixth birthday today her PLENTY BURNED heme, Sagamore Hill will He was burned ng to retrieve:spend the day quietly 15 said 6 HERRING FLEET TO SAIL_ Relatives of sailors You trust its Quality DRINK BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF Holland's famous herring fleet prepares to sail on largest expedition since ‘the”war. JUNEAL COLD STORAGE COMPANY 'EXPLOSION, FIRE, ~ PLANES ARELOST MIAMI, Fli., Aug. 6 (P-Dat- | age cstimated at more than one million dollars was caused by a fire early today when a mysterious ex- plosion touched off a blaze in hangar No. 3 of the Miami In- teinational airport near here and destroyed two 2l-passenger DC- 3's and an undétermined number of smaller planes. Aug. 6—(P—Sixteen | persons were reported killed and 35 injured today when Tthe ‘Bra va-Prague express jumped the tracks near the border station of Kuty, in Moravia. 1 The condition of 17 of the injur- ed was said to be crit - -, S. J. Terrant of South Belling- ham, Wash., has arrived in Juneau 'so tired of the middle aged spread | land is a guest at the Hotel Bar-| anof. He is w'th the Pacific Am-| erican Fisheries R Mr. and Mus. of Skagway are Juneau visitors, | {and are guests at the Baranof Ho- tel during their st here. % ot = Keith T. Feirich and R. Joy are| among Pan American Airways per- sonnel registered at the Baranof| Hotel. | crowd dock at The Hague as’ THE COCA-COLA COMPANY 8Y 1NEW | coats '(lubwomen Say No fo - Long Skirts 1 By ADELAIDE KERR (® Newsfeatures Writer YORK — Will American | clubwomen acccpt the new fall fa- shions=the most drastic change shown in years? Hng slopir shoulders larger-crown- some ed close-. g hats and bunt on 1920 wrap-around lines) have beengasking themselves that question So I put it to a half dozen club- women attending the 1947 con- | vention of the General Federation | |of Women’s Clubs in New York and | the answers popped as fast as pop- corn over a fire. This is what they |said: Mrs. H | dressed in conservative white) : “¥Women won't They are unbecoming and they {don't give as much freedom either. Shorter skw'ts are more becoming and youthful. And when you're on the wrong side of 40 you want to look as well as you can.” Mrs. Willlam Adams, of Philadel- phia, Pa. (who topped her grey heir with a red headband and wore a printed frock): “I wouldn't wear them either. Tt means a whole there is a now. They think prices are too high for the value reccived.” Mrs. Tuella Laudin, of New York (a dark-heired younger woman in a red and green print frock): “That’s richt. Every time I have admired the clothes women were wearing at this convenfion, they itold me that they didn't buy one néew thing for this trip.” M#s. Sam Rennick, of El Paso, Texas (dressed in smart white and nearls): “J like the longer and I'm going to wear them. I'm above those short skirts. It isn't necessary to buy a whole new wardrobe. There are so many pep- lums and additions to waistlines from the top.” Mrs. Laudi “I can't lengthen my dresse And I'm going to wear I'm the last woman in New York in a short dr Mrs. Avthur 1. (youtnful Jehli, of and pretty Chicago, grand- hat): “I have been through book I have shapshots of myself ferent silnouettes and hats. And I have feit good in every one of themn. I think women will probably myself whion I look at those pic- tures.” Mrs. John T. Rogers, of Laramie, round-trip tickats. When you ship or o Clipper Express saves val slashed on many items. Buyers who saw the collections | 1 i (stressing longer skirts and featur- | so they don't have small waists. |threesring circus.” Leslie Howard, of Ft. | Lauderdale, Fla. (silver-haired and black and stand for {long skirts. An inch longer maybe, | {but not il inches from the floor. charnige of wardrobe, probably. And | decided tendency for women to tpend less on cxmhes,‘Hou_onoo SIARS; skirts | When you travel . . . go by comfortable Flying Clipper. Daily Clipper service to: Seattle and key points Inside. Fares are low, with 10% off for i Clipper Exprese, now available to 6 continents. i markets, results in faster turnover. Rates recently ! _For details, call or write our nearest office: i : Baranoi Hotel-Telephone 106 N AHERICAN Romw ATRHAYS e Sstem of e Tuny Clppers | blue with a wide-brimmed hat): “It's not long skirts we need. It's | long sleeves. Why don't they give l41s long sleeves? | Mrs. Adems: “I hear they are doing away with such wide exag- | gerated shoulders and making | shoulders more natural. I'm cer- tainly glad to hear that.” | Mrs. Jelui: “You have to have | some sheulder padding, though, to | balance that middle-aged spread You have to give nature a little help.’ | Mts. Rogers: “T den't like the {idea of that figure eight silhou- ette, though. I couldn't wear it.” Mrs. Renick (dryly): “Neithe: {could your daughter probably. e They say some furriers showed coats witk big shawl collars and sloping shoulders and wraparound lines. I think T should like them They coula be very elegant.” Mrs. Adams: “I think I should not like them. With those big col- {lars, they would probably be very expensive.” Mrs. Rennick: “I'm glad to hear that hats are coing to be larger. We have Lad enough of little hats. [’I'h('}. have bheen on the nose, on the ear, a lon top of the head of it.” Mrs. Acdams: “Women don't like hats any more anyway. I just wear this little band and many other women like the same thing."” Mrs. Laudm: “One thing I won't do, and tiat is wear a cloche, if it’s the last hat left in New York. I'll go bareheaded first. But don't make me sound like Carrie Nation, | dear.” | > | SECRETS TOLD ON | and I'm tired | | 1S ABOUT CLOTHES By G_NE HANDSAKER | HOLLYWOOD — Fred Astaire is “fussy, Bing Crosby shows up too joften in blue neckties—his favor- ite because they match his eyes. Dorothy Lamour's waist is too slim, and Ingrid Bergman simply isn't |interested in clothes Such are the worries of ward- Irébe workers. | Veronica Lake is so small she's practically a miniature. Designers |must be careful not to let her seem ilike a little girl in her mother’s clothes. Barbara Stanwick’s waist David J. Mulcare | that many skirts can be lowered |is too long. Joan Caulfield has such that she looks skirts hang the inches from the an athletic stride { hampered if her ! fashionahle 15 jout my old clothes. I don’t care if floor; they must be an inch higher. | Approximately one feminine star tin 10 wears sponge-rubber pads to | amplify her bosom, but don’t ask | mother in a blue and pink veiling | Edith Head—or any other studio i all | X {these phases before. In my scrap- wearers. fashion designer—to identify the | “I know enough dirt to fill a l4n all lengths, and in lots of dif-,book,” Edith says with a laugh, “and I may write it some day— |when I'm ready to retire!” Small |and dark, with black hair that [take to the long skirts. They have |sweeéps from bangs in front to a !done it before—though I laugh ati bun in the back, she's chief of wo- |men’s wardrobe at Paramount, but the has clothed nearly every fem- inine star in town. 'Wyo. (a motherly figure dressed in! She designed Lamour's first sar- rder . . . specify speedy [ luable time, opens up new little ‘happy hooligan’ | 10 MILLION CHINESE ong. Dorothy has ‘“a very round,| feminine figure,” and Edith con-' ceals its one defect—the too-small| slim, but she wears clothes per- fectly. I call her the greyhound | |type. There are also the bulldog, 1 Pekinese and boxer types, and I | won't name them.” | i | Editns job takes tact. Peppery {Olga San Juan wanted to wear her | favorite bright reds in the color |musica® “Blue Skies.” Edith per- jsuaded her that her fiery person- |ality was better set off in slim blacks and whites. “She’s so ebul- {lient you've got to play her clothe: Young people don't wear stays now. |down so she doesn't look like a|Tumisian | Dressing Betty Grable is “sheer| | joy, she’s such fun | “All' women e difficult to| dress,” Edith says, because “there’s |no such thing as a geometrically |perfect female.” | But she predicts seriously that |the next generation of beauties |girls who are eight and ten years old now—will be of nearly petfect proportions, thanks to vitamins medical ience, and health care in schools | NANKING, Ang. 6-(#-Dispateh- es said today more than 10,000,000/ persons had been made homeless | by floodwaters which broke through | Grand Canal and Weishanhu dikes to inundate move than 20 counties | of North Kiangsu Provice stretch- ing 140 miles from Suchow almost to the Yellow Sea ’ g e 'WOMAN'S SOCIETY | MEETING TONIGHT Mildred Lister and Mts. Treat will report on the| Seward Territorial Woman's Sodety! convention, and on Jessie Lee Home at the Woman's Society meeting tonight. Mrs. Treat will show slides of Jessie Lee Home and the Sew- ard Hospital. Mrs. Don Miller is| in charge of the devotions and Mrs. James Dial and Mrs. Charles Forward are hostesses. The meet- ing is at 8 o'clock at the Parso age, with devotions in the Chapel D — | Empire Wanwess rfor res | 25 DEAD BEFORE waist—with drape designs | GE"ERA[ STRIKE i “Loretta Young is possibly too IN TUNISIA ENDS PARIS, Aug. 6—#—The general| trike in Tunisia has been called off after casualties in a clash be- tween strikers and troops reached 25 dead and 60 wounded, the French Press Agency reported to- day. | A dispatch from Tunis said the decision to end the strike was/| sached by the General Union of labor after conferences| with the Government of the French Protectorate, | Leave Juneza Capital City Trailways BUS SCHEDULE Leave Douglas 7:15 AM 7:40 AM. 8:10 AM. 8:40 AM. 9:10 AM. 10:00 A.M. 11:10 A M. 11:40 AM. 12:10 P.M. 12:40 P.M. 2:10 P.M. 2:40 P.M. 3:10 P.M. 3:40 PM. 5:10 PM. 5:40 P.M. 6:10 P.M. 7:00 P.M. 7:15 P.M. 8:00 P.M. 8:15 P.M. 9:00 PM. 10:00 P.M. 10:30 P.M. 12:00 Midnight 12:30 A M. Bus leftves frem So. Seward St. (Near Teén-Age Club)—Juneau g Our careful personal atten- tion given MAIL ORDERS WE HAVE JUST NOW UNPACKED THESE Girls’ PDudettes (Fanous California design) and DAN RIVER Plaid Shirts Sizes 3 to 14 L7 [ hep 000000000 A Born’t Buy Until You See the Prices AT VICTOR'S NOW: @ New Season @ Be Ready for Now in A SMALL DEPOSIT CHOICE—OR BUY HERE'S WHY YOU SHOULD BUY Collection is Complete Winter hefore it contes - © Pricesate Lower during our August Sale than later on — they are the Lowest in Years @ Year's Guaraniee on Every Coal MARTIN VICTOR FURS, Ine. mmAchNG (Successors to Chas. Goldstein & Coy) * mms P. 0. BOX 2568 Goldstein Building Victor’s Annual . . . August —_— e They Were . Never Lower! We Bought When Fur Prices dropped — now we pass our savings-on fo you. LAYAWAY — TERMS WILL HOLD YOUR ON CONVENIENT TERMS, Wear It As You Pay. Mail Orders- A Specialty [ Coats Sent On Approval JUNEAU, ALASKA Swedish Fur Craftsmen for Three Generations : O 0 Ty e b s e