The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 4, 1948, Page 3

TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1948 French Markel Women | 4 Dior, “nice | h Christian Dior gold letters.” | fans not only clreulated the | 1t circulated the name of Dior ically every other fashion | Lous: in town bec they were | That is the opinion of such a SuUCCess as souvenirs. { nant in the Dior or “I'll ngver forget the sight in the | The feeling Dior has for 19th cen- |room,” a )n writer { tury art and motif has long been | «“There were hundreds of blac known, but the ad m of the|p ing up and down like butte: costume worn t -backed, flies and everyone was saying French peasan nen who 1 | ‘Christian Diox Christian Dior’ their crates of vegetable to the over and over wholesale market in Paris every Dior was born in Normandy 431 morning is a revelation. years ago and he still likes to go| “If you go down to the Frenchpack to the country. This year, market at three o'clock in the mom-= 'month _after the spring. showings | Ing,” the young lieutenant said, "you | opened, tut whije the crowds were | will see the dress. It is a poor dress|still jamming his place, Dior toock ! of coarse, hard-wearing material fq trip to a £mall farm he owns just| but the lines are there, Its tight|injang from Cannes. bodice buttons down the front and| «rm going to dig in the garder flows into a roomy skirt. She even|and really enjoy life,” he said wears a little thing around her neck.| Trained for the diplomatic ser-| “What we call the new look is not | yice, Dior disappointed his parents new to her,” he said, “she’s always py changing his mind and opening worn it for comfort and utility art gallery in Paris in 1928. In Dicr is the b the organiza- 1931 he gave that up and went to tion he has brought to the front of g ta study architectur the Paris fashion picture in 18| By 1935 he was back in Ps “and months. bruke, ue remembers. He found He designs e dress himself, | joh on @ newspaper as a fashion 1z advice only from Mme. - | ustrator. It wasn’t long until he wa r-old fash {oning hats for Agnes and in 1938 pert who gives him the woman's he pecame an assistant of Piguet. viewpoint while he is working on 2! During the war, Dior left Paris and . worked as a day laborer on the quick thinking has been|rajlroad. He came back to Paris in decidedly in his favor on his sudden 1941 and went to work for Lncien vault to the top. The 700 members LeLong. Here Dior came into prom- of his staff are still laughi ineince by creating hobble skirts and | the presence of mind he showed|rounded drapes.t . when his spring showings opened| By 1946 Dior’s position in the fash- last month |ion world was clear. All he needed It seems r circulation sj s the money 1t is reported that in the new showroom hadn't beemMarcel Boussac, the Fr turf installed in time and there was n ikmg, supplied that, doubt that the show was going to { Dior gave his first showing Feb. flop if the persons in the packed|12 1947, and the fashion World is house had to sit in a stuffy, smoke- stjll rocking from the blow. His suc- filled room cr a couple of s s stupendous. The boss himself came g in a small establishment the answer. e Avenue Montaigne, Chritian 7 * now occupies three buildings land s trvine to get a fourth. Despite the size of the staff, if you crdered a dress from Christian t ou would have to wait ¢ix weeks for the first fitting. The same plessant atmosphere that goes into Dior's 19th centu anartment in Paris prevails throughout his business. The fur- nishings, walls stairways and all e Fifhe v . Dior order- ed it made that way. His employes know they are on a winning term. and all speak of the e “We'll have fan big black fans w Dior tcok the|inted on them e French market|{ oy 19th century ele-| iy created the new |in an, gave it eute- nan fask n | ss of ng a wem | up with o W As Students 0f Russian TAYLOR MARKE Writer On By DAVID NEW YORK Americans 50,000 native 1ted to study Rus 1. T sted should apply the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East Euro- pean Languages According to the latest estimates cof the AATSEEL, more than 35,000 Amer of every category will study Russian during the acade- mic year 1947-48. Most of these will stud with private teachers, since probably ‘no more t} enrolled in sity course “Yet, mates 1 leaders of the Armed no ze or finiver- conference industry, education and Fo! there is ineed at present for at least 50,000 | perscns who can handle Russian effectively. To meect this need, at least a quarter of a2 million Ameri- ans ought right now to be study- ing Russian.’ Emergency’ to a national mergency,” says Dr. Arthur Prud- den Coleman, assistant professar, department vic Languages, Columbia University “Russian should be added to the list of foreign langu tudied in eve large high s 1 in the country. Dr »man, who is secretary of of Cc AATSEEL, has just issued a report| on the status of Russian and other | !Slavic and East European languages in the educationl institutions of the United States, its territories, pes sessions and mandates, wah addi- tional data on similar studies in Canada and Latin America Co'lezes and universities have done their art in the promotion of the study of Russian in this coun- Dr. Coleman says. Br vic and East European studies in our colleges and universities had be- come very great, but still the lang- uages showed no signs of penetra- g to the high schools, where, as it was clearly foreseen ,they would have to be accepted if colleze and y university work m the field was te be on the level of that in other modern languarges,” he says. High School Objections High school administrators are reluctant to introduce Russian be- cause of the expense involved, says Dr. Coleman, adding: more ~ serious objection is, HAVE YOUR PAINTING and WALL PAPERING DONE NOW WALLPAPER - CANVAS Also Suitable for Curtains BEAUTIFY YOUR HOME or PLACE of BUSINESS with Custom-Made, Perma-Kleen, Conaten Sicks Select BEER SICKS’ SEATTLE BREWING & MALTING CO. SEATTLE, US.A. One Of The Worlds Great Brewing Organizations 3 Distributed throughout Alaska by ODOM COMPANY Removable Slat VENETIAN BLINDS SOLD and INSTALLED by D. FIELD Painting Contractor BOX 754 — PHONE 581 late 1946, the interest in Sla- | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA would the language be accepted for | entrance credit by colleges and uni- ities—and incidentally also cal schools—which the student | might later wish to attend?” | A study of 236 institutions on the collegiate level shows that under pro- (per conditions full credit would be {given Russian language for admiis- sion, Dr. Coleman reports. | The “proper conditions,” he says, were that Russian language should have been taken in an accredited high school and in a class conducted by a certified teacher, under - the same conditions as if the language offered were Geérman or French or Spanish. Of the medical schools studied, nearly a third are ready to accept Russian language credits at face value. Many schools of theology and law will do the same, he says Most state boards of education will accredit a teacher for Ryssian on the same terms as for any other | foreign language, Dr. Coleman con- culdes. 5,000 will be; wom oo Whal MakesRegistrar | - And Whal's Register! BALTIMORE--(#—One who regi- sters things is a registrar, A regis- |ter i “a written record containing ‘regular entries or details.” So says | Webster’s dictionary. That should be good enough for all hands, but Maryland beg: |differ. In the Free State, the offi- {cial who registers wills isn’t a regis ter. Fe isn’t even a registrer or regis- treur. which Webster's gives as old |form 4 He is the Register of Wills, That's |what the state constitution calls him, and that’s how he is described in ali subquent statutes. On the {other hand, constitution and stat- utes call the official who registers voters a registrar. “I can only say that it has always Leen that way,” declared Dr. Horace {Flack, head of Maryland’s depart- }mem of legislative reference and ed- |itor of its codes. “We're individua- lists, that's all.” - eee WILL STUDY PAPUA IN NEW GUINEA ; CANBERRA, Australia—M— A jeint British and Australian mission will study Papua in New Guinea as a food producing area, says External Territories Minister Edward Ward. Some farm experts will be transfer- red from work in Africa. One autho- rity believes ground nuts, cocoanuts tand tea can be produced in large quantities in New Guinea. We have a fine selec 311 Seward St. * RADEN ADIPATI to] seeds 1o help you make this dream ceme true. JUNEAU FLORISTS Roger enrolled at the U tember. last Sep-( BROWNIE SCOUT NE A marionette show accompanied by the “Music to the Sorcerer's Apprentice” by Dukas will be pre- sented by the Brownie Scout Troop | No. 7 at 3:30 p. m. Thursday, May 6, in the High School auditorium Following the prog , tea and | cookies will to those atténding and the Scouts will aiso have strawberry begonia plants for sale with all the proceeds to be! used for Scout activities and a luncheon at the Baranof Coffee ‘polntcd regent (sug-governor) of | ghop By Reporter, Stuart John- Sampang and Banglakan, on Madura | g !igland | | When the Jaanese invaded they | VACATION IN STATES i appointed him resident (governor) | pgert Havdahl left on the steflmw‘ {of all Madura island. He held the|e. Alaska to spend his vacation| office until 1945, when the Japan- with his family in Seattle. Also ! ese surrendered and the I“d""es"““,pxpoctrd hnm("n“ leave from the ! Repullic appointed him on the same | ;" g Nayy at this time will be 98k his son, Obert, which will make ! | their family reunion complete. | When the Dutch recaptured the fsland in their “police action m}andahl will be outside about six | . weeks. o APPOINTED HEAD MANREGARDLESS BATAVIA Jav {P—Politicians leoking for a magic formula for stay- ing in office should study the career of Raden Adipati Ario Tjakranin- grat, 6l-year-old Indonesian, for possible clues, though how he does (it 1s not Before the war he was Dutch-ap- last summer, they appointed as resi- dent, Raden Adipati Last Feb. 20, when the semi-| autonomous state of Madura w set up, the chosen “chief of state” for the island’s 1,000,000 inhabitants NEW BUS SCHEDULE | The following bus schedule will| be in effect while the bridge is un-' i ok N . der repairs: | e Leaving Juneau: 7:35 a. m., and | | 1750 a. m.; 12:50 p.m | | Leaving Douglas: 7:20 am., 7:35 \ D‘ UGLAS inm., 7:50 a. m. and 11:50 am. | i ! The evening schedule will be the ' { NEWS | same as usual. N pd adv. | i - - o { \......‘...‘r.’ o . . | | CANNERY SUPT. ARRIVES | M. M. Miller, superintendent of the Douglas Canning Co., inc., was |a passenger via PAA yesterday | lirom Seattle. Accompanying him | ® was a mechanic, Oscar Storm, who | ® is also from Seattle. | TIDE TABLE MAY 5 Lew tide, 5:53 a.m., ft. Hizh t.de, 11:53 am., 13.9 ft. Low tide, 17:56 pm., 22, ft. 2.7 . W HOME OWNERS Mr. and Mrs. W. Charles Gray | and young daughter Cathleen, are | TO DISMISS APPEAL ! new Douglas residents, having pur-! U. S. District Attorney P. J. chased the William Seaman home Gilmore, Jr, today filed a motion and moving in during the past'to dismiss the appeal of Miller et | week. Gray is an engineer for 8l against a recent U. S. District KINY in Juneau., Mrs. Gray was a | Court decisicn in which the Gov~ |resident of Douglas until her|crnment won title to 1095 acres |eighth year, and is the daughter of Juneau tidelands. Gilmore's 'of Hans Lokken, so coming here motion was based on the expiration {16 more like returning home, |Of the time limit for completion of H = | the appeal. " "‘ /e @ 0 0 0660 00 0 0 | - CING CHAMPION Word was recelved by Mrs, Harry Wordbec this week, in a letter from her son, Roger Connor, a student at the University of British Col- umbia, that he has been awarded the fencing championship of Brit- ish Columbia, in the Prep Class. Like every flower-lover you will want to kave flowers of such exquisite lovelinzss and fragrance ihat they will be tha envy of all, tion of nursery stock and nice dream! Phone 311 CLEAN-UP WEEK( Spring Cleaning Time! Time to put your house in Apple-Pie Order. Clean-up, Paint-up, Fix-up the interior of your home and business property during this period that has officially been set aside for the purpose. Reduce fire hazards, increase property value, insure health by cleaning up now. Ii's an owner's wise investment . . . CLEANLINESS MAKES FOR BETTER LIVING! City of Juneau, Alaska |a COOTIES MEETING Sourdough Puptent No. 4, Mili- tary Order of the Cootfe, will hold regular meeting tomorrow at 8| p. m, in the VFW Jeep Club. Two| Atems will be initiated as Nits at the Wednesday Scrateh. - .o REPLACEMENT ARRIVES Regina Hetfleisch arrived here| on board the Aleutian from the U. 8. Fish and Wildlife Service head- quarters in Washington, D. C, to replace Mrs. Gladys Vuille in the Payroll Division of the Juneau Regional F and WL office. Mrs. Vuille resigned on May 1 to join Pan American Alrways. - TEA AND SEWING Lutheran Ladies Aid Tea and Sale, 1:30 to 5 p. m, Wednseday, May 5, at the Lutheran Church. 1t Please be seated 7 P a new (‘()Ifl/()l‘[ awatls your guesii...you // /mve ‘a new /@a/[ng o/ prr'c{e ’ '...(I/I?l‘ you /l(l\'(’ your old sofn and c/mi:;_re-fi up/zo/sicrer[ Sofas Re-Upholstered as low as . Chairs Re-Upholstered as low as $85.00 $42.50 Juneau Upholstery 122 Second Street s Phone 36 FE THIS SPRING! We hope the day will come when you can get your Spring cleaning done by pressing buttons. This atomic age hasn’t produced this miracle yet—but it's a This however—can be your easiest Spring in years. How? Come in and see our new stock of house cleaning aids . , . your old favorites and many newcomers are here to help you along. THOMAS HARDWARE