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The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-31
BUILDING YEAR BREAKS RECORD
 FOR THIS CITY
Construction Permits Show Over, Half Million
 Dollars Expended

The past year of building in Ju- neau has broken the previous l93t record by soaring well over the hali million dollar mark, according tc building permit records by City En- gineer Milton Lagergren.
 In 1886, record was hung up at S4l7.O0O plus, but this year. Juneau building construction went to S604,- GOO. little over half of that sum be- ing made up by the construction oi the seven story Baranof Hotel.
 In pertlsing the records, it is no- table that $223,l555o was spent in residential construction, with busi- ness construction making up the balance.
 Thirteen permits were issued dur ing 1888 for Juneau residences call ing for expenditure of more than $5,000.
 The bulk of residential construc- ton was made up of less expensive new home. construction and great deal of improvement work on estab- lished residences.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-31
FIVE SAW OUT FROM JAIL IN
 YAKIMA, WASH.
Confessed Slayer Amonq Fugifives-0n Man
 Is Reeapfured

YAKIMA, Wash, Dec. 31. = Roy Wright, 18, confessed murderer and four other prisoners, escaped this morning from the County Jail by saving their way out of their cells.
 The five slipped through ths sawed bars and scattered on gain ing freedom.
 One was captured a few hours later He was Eugene Terwillinger. B, serving a term for petit lar cency.
 Wright was facing a life sentence for the murder of John D. Moore. automobile dealer.
 Other escaped men are Cecil D. Chappelle, 35, former bank robber serving a term for assault. Rector Watson, 31, forger, and James Tu- dor, 39 Federal prisoner who was being held for a train mail box rob- bery.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-31
WHITE PASS SHIP BRINGS pAA LOAD
 FROM WH!TEH0RSE

The first White Pass Airways plane to land in Juneau in many weeks. was due late this afternoon from Whitehorse with PAA Elec- tra passengers who were snowbound with PAA there until today.
 Joe Flakne, Mrs. John Cross and Patsy Cross are known to have been on the passenger list with the White Pass. plane, and three other passengers are also aboard
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-31
ALASKA GIVEN ONE MILLION
 FOR AVIATION
Budget Bureau Loops Off Two Million from Re-
 quesfed Amount

WASHINGTON, Dec 31 - The Budget Bureau is reported to have reduced by more than 50 percent the Civil Aeronautics Authority s request for $15,000,0O0 to provide for air navigation aides in the states and Alaska
 Under the reduced allotment, AL aska will get about $1,000,000 The Civil Aeronautics Authority had sought more than $3,000,000 for air way beacons, radio direction appara- tus and new landing fields in Alas ka.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-31
Began Child Dies
 Here Last Eveninq

Glenn Began, two-year-old son of MT. and Mrs. T. J. Began, of this city, passed away shortly after 9 o'clock last evening at St. Ann's Hospital.
 The boy had been ill for the past month, but had been patient at the hospital for only the past four days
 The remains are at the Charles w. Carter Morutary, and funeral arrangements have been tentatively set for l:30 o'clock on Tuesday, from the chapel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-31
SN0WB0UND ELECTRA
 PASSENGERS GO OUT
 OVER W.P. GY. ROUTE

Snowbound for the. fourth day today at Whitehorse, passengers on PAA Electra have taken rail trans portation to Skagway and will em- bark from there for the States.
 Another Pacific Alaska Airways plane is due in from the Interior tomorrow on regular mail schedule, weather permitting, and will pick up Joe Flakne, Juneau-hound passenger snowbound at Whitehorse.
 Other passengers believed to have gone over the railroad are: Grant Jackson, s. Ruiz, K. Knight, Mrs. John Cross, Patsy Cross, Emma Davodivich, and H. Meyers.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-31
MISS CARPENTER
 RETURNING HEDE

Miss Clara Carpenter, secretary in the office of the Federal Com munications Commission, is return ing to Juneau on the steamer Bar anof.
 Miss Carpenter has spent the past six weeks visiting with her parents in Hollywood, Gal
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-31
SIMMONS MAKES
 L0CkHEED TRIP

With skies clearing today and air planes once again able to take the air, Shell Simmons flew the Alaska Air Transport Lockheed to island ports this morning.
 Joe Waise was an outbound pas senger for Hirst, while six passengers came in.
 w. H. Cordle was flown in from Hoonah, and Oscar Clark, George Mccoy, John Davidson, Helen Rev. anda and John Maurstead were flown in from Hirst.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-31
HOPKINS IS Ex0NERATED
 ONE CHARGE
Senate Committee Finds Him Not Involved WPA
 Political Activities

WASHINGTON, Dec. 31-Inform- ed persons said report of the Senate Campaign Expenditures Com mittee due next Tuesday, will exon- crate Harry L. Hopkins, as Admin istrator, of participation in WPA political activity.
 Although the report of the com- mittee is expected to deal extensively with the alleged political coercion of Federal Relief employees, it is said the committee will report it found no evidence that Hopkins knew of any incidents.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-31
md stood high in the party councils
 Made. EnyiabIe Record

During his service as the second highest official of the Territory the Secretary has made an enviable re- cord. His vast Knowledge of the north has stood the Territory in good stead on countless occasions. He kept in close touch with every ccmunity; took a keen interest in all their problems and did every thing he could to help them. He vase strong force in procuring the Douglas Island bridge in Jun eau; he was instrumental in getting a hospital in Kodiak. There is scare ely city or village in Alaska that has not through his efforts been as sisted in. some way or another.
 The Secretary is survived by his sister, Miss Helen Griffin, who was his hostess and companion here in Juneau, brother. William V Grif- fin of Chicago, an official with the Chicago Rapid Transit system, and
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-31
ELKS' HUNKS TO OFFICIALLY
 USHER IN 1939

Welcome to the New Year will be extended in traditional style by the hundreds of Gastineau Chan nel residents at the Elks Hi-Jinks this evening in the Elks Ballroom
 Music will be furnished by Wes- ley Barrett and his Royal Alas kans, and will start at 10 o'clock
 Those in charge of the festivities include Rod Darnell, chairman, Art
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-31
MARINE AIR MAKES
 TUiSEQUAH FLIGHT

Taking advantage of the break in the weather this morning, Marine Airways Pilot Lon Cope flew the wheel-equipped Fairchild to Tulse-, quah with Superintendent Bert Neid- ing aboard
 Five passengers were to have been brought back by Cope this after noon
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-31

Burke, Bill Franks and Bob Day. lin.
 A dancing crowd in holiday spirit, bright colored caps, favors and noisemakers will all add to the festivities this evening, to which cordial invitation has been ex- tended to the public
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-31
Gooy 38 Puts Sreef Reason Back Of ThroneF rinsancc
By THE AP FEATURE

SEVICE
 o. e nfcrting thought on the rv uts of IS3S--they did follow the rulss of logic. Not only the biF. wc Id shaking ones, but the bue,1 league occurrences showed a sweet reascnabIeness comfort ing to reporters gone gaga with the dizzy sequences of recent years. F'rinstance:
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-31
NEW ENGINE FOR
 YACHT BOBBY C,

I. Goldstein, who owns the trim yacht Bobby G., is boasting of the nice blue paint on a six-cylinder, l20-horsepower Chris-Cra engine he has purchased for the yacht.
 Besides buying the new engine for the boat. Goldstein has se- cured { he Chris-Craft engine agency.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-31


 eral Auditor for NAT. & T. with blanket authority In other words, MT. Griffin was the NAT. & T., in the north, having complete charge of its p separate companies which made up the giant organization. op- kon.
 ~, Starts Own Company
 About four years after coming to Alaska he became interested at Cinema Station with Ralph Miller of R. H. Miller & Company, man who years later became one of the outstanding paper wholesalers of the country. Two, years later, he bought out Miller and established E. w. Griffin, &s, Company In addition to the trading post at Cinema, he es- tablished posts on the various min ing creeks of the Interior. He was one of the first into the Kantishna. He followed the .stalrpede into the Irhoko, into the Iditarod and into Huby with the supplies of the Grif- An Company, and was interested. in countless mining ventures. He was kno&n the length of, the Yukon from Dawson to St. Michael, and was held in high esteem by all. It was Getradition in the north that yHd Griffin never turned man ft1wn ,,
 fsxn incident which ,typifies the Secretary's early years in the north is told by close friend, Senator La BDyteaitx,rs f
 The Senator. commonly kpown as :Alabam,p was standing at the wharf in Dawson, broke and trying t6get aboard the down. river steam q. hopeful, of getting to Nome which Nas then booming. He was having hAtie success with s'the boat opera tors until E. W. came along. Grif- fin listened to his story and then said
 OViAy yoo 6<t @pb9Au
 Son, if you want to go prospect ing, you just get aboard that boat and Ill-see you get there,' and he qId.
 a;That wast in Dawson in 1902, but countless instances of similar na- ture are recolinted by his friends of those golden days of stampede when he was known far and wide as the biggest man in the north.
 {Mr. Griffin operated his vast lsc'd'~os uptil around tIre start of the World War in; 1917 when he sold to the. Northern Commercial Company and others for what was generally said along the Yukon to be more than half million" [ In Fishing Business
 .1He was in poor health at the time afiu went Outside to recuperate and rest, But in something moe than a wear he was heet in the north, this time at Seldovia and assaiak Where ne became m.elesteu m the fishing business, operating in herring and halibut. He was in thai business for about 10 years and aeain went Outside for rest. Mrs. Griffin tdied in Seward on August 2i, l930,r and MT Griffin. deeply moved. disposed of his holdings and again went to the States. He re- turned later and was interested with ", J. Erskine at Kodiak for a time but finally left the north to return toI his old home in Chicago. The passing Of Mrs. Griffin had left 5 deep mark upon him.
 But he returned again to Alaska, the land he loved; being appoint ed Secretary of Alaska by President Roosevelt in June of 1883, filling recess appointment until January of 1884 when he was appointed for the four-year term. Last January he wds' reappointed for another term He was life long Democrat kgE -
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-31
Government
 Goes in Red
 Another Year

WASHINGTON, Dec. 31. The Government ends this year, again in the red
 Expenditures exceeded the Gov ernment's income by more than two billion, one hundred and forty-two million dollars.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-31

a brother. Frank Griffin of Or lando, Fla. The latter many years ago was interested in mining in the Iditarod for some time
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-31
OFFICIAL
 STRICKEN
 AT BANQUET
Atiine Governor viefim of Heart Attack While
 Guest of Honor

: (Continueo froIn Page One'
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-31

Empire Ads Pay.
The Washington times., 1938-06-22

Films of the Max Schmeling-
Joe Louis fight will be shown
at the Cameo in Mount Rainier
beginning at noon Friday, or if
you live in the other direction
of the town, you may catch
them at the State Theater in
Bethesda.
From a box office standpoint
q Max Schmeling victory would
make this celluloid a late June
gold mine for Sidney Lust or
Henry Hiser, the two Maryland
exhibitors who have contracted
for the pictures. Should Joe
Louis topple the German films
would still be good, but not box
office dynamite.
DON ZELAYA CALLS
Don Zelaya, the Nicaraguan
pianist who philosophers on
emotions in music, is back home
in Washington, after 10 weeks
in the music 'alls of England,
Scotland and Ireland. .t
The cherubic Mr.. Zelaya saw
Will Mahoney married in a suite
at the st. Regis Hotel in London,
The Washington times., 1938-06-22
KELLEYGRAMS

but it takes six weeks to go
through the Nazi red tape and
get the cash. So most perform
ers stay away from the Rhine.
Pianist Zelaya played Glas'
gov, Belfast, Cork, Dublin,
Blackpool, Finsbury Park. the
Holborn- Empire, Palladium and
Dominion in London, got bang
up notices everywhere. In Dub
lin he was royalty welcomed by
the Lord-Mayor. Goes back i'll
October. Two-aday and week
bookings make the English
dates attractive.
England, like America, is
swing mad and the London pro
totype of Major Bowes is the
current radio fad with the
vaudeville houses playing the
amateur units.
Until the fall, Don Zelaya
will maintain an artists studio
for advanced pupils of piano
and voice at 1888 R st. N. w.
His associate will be Frank
Davenport, of London, who
came over with him on the lie
de France. Davenport has sung
in concert with Martinelli and
Jeritza, was for three years with
the Philadelphia Grand Opera
and is a veteran of Covent Gar
den.
I'VE hope to interest and help
those who want to take up con-
cert, opera and stage work as
a career" said Mr.. Zelaya dur
ing his short official visit yes
terday. I'm improving them as
artists we also expect to teach
something about showmanShip."
HELEN HAYES, OCTOBER 3
Helen Hayes will play "Vic-
tOria Regina" for IL weeks next
season. four on the road, eight
on Broadway Washington
will get the first week, the play
opening at the National The
ater, October 3 A Senti-
mental gesture to the old home
town. since Helen began her
career here at 5 Stars lit
tie 7-year-Old daughter, Mary,
has been walking in on the Dia-
mOnd Jubilee scene of the play
during the Coast performances
Shirley Temples dad does
not entrust the safety Of his
precious to chauffeurS, no mat
ter how careful George Tenn
pie is at the wheel of the 16-
cylinder Cadillac in which they
are touring from the Coast, has
Mrs. Temple as a back seat
driver who never permits the
speedOmeter arrow to pass As
1 like to read the letters
from defenders. of swing, regard
less of their abusive nature &.
But please sign them. It's no
crime to disagree Max
Schmeling can have $500 for
three days work at Atlantic
City'S Steel Pier, If he wins TO-
night.
The Washington times., 1938-06-22
New Program
AtTrons-Lux

Men in Medicine-1938" is
the subject in No. II, the latest
issue of the March of Time, -
coming to the Trans-Lux Thea
ter for the week beginning Fri
day.
Men of Medicine-1938" is
the story of the modern present
day practice of medicine, its
functioning and its problems.
The March of Time" staff has
been at work on this picture for
over a year. Many of the scenes
were taken at Walter Reed Hos
pital here in Washington.
This picture has had the un-
restricted cooperation of the
American Medical Association,
the United States Public Health
Service and the medical depart
ments of the U. S. Army and
Navy.
Then there will be Paramount
Pictorial taking you to trip to
the moon via telescope; au-
tumn in the Alps in Sepia tint,
and a shadow-man making sill
houettes with fingers and hand
and with additional accessories
producing remarkable effects.
"The Orphans Picnic" is the
title of the cartoon for the week
and, as usual, the show will be
dominated by 35 minutes of the
latest in neWsreel events from
all corners of the earth.
The Trans-Lux management
announces that it will halt it's
regularly scheduled 9 p. m. show
tonight long enough for its
patrons to hear through its
house system the broadcast of
the Schmeling-Louis fight. The
broadcast can be heard in the
theater lounge and outer lobby,
as well as in the theater and
auditorium.
The Washington times., 1938-06-22
Marriage or Career
Is Issue for PLAYER

Will acme Mcdonald,
wealthy young San Francisco
business man, cause Harold
Llyod's new leading woman.
Phyllis Welch, to forfeit the non.
marriage bond she posted some
time ago with officials of the
Lloyd company?
This question rose on the
comedians Professor, Beware!"
set today, when Mcdonald paid
the young actress a visit at the
studio.
According to friends of the
couple, Mcdonald makes a hur-
ried airplane trip from the Bay
City each week in order to spend
some time during Week-ends with
the young actress, who has sew
eral weeks yet to go before she
is freed from the nonmarriage
obligation imposed by Lloyd.
Virtually all former Lloyd
leading ladies entered the bonds
of wedlock just after the pictures
ended.
The Washington times., 1938-06-22
The Barker al
Monument

"The Barker a comedy
drama of American life, oy
Kenyon Nicholson, depicting the
joys and sorrows of a cheap
carnival troup of players and
laid in the Middle West of the
present day. will be the offering
of the Wilson Windjammers, di-
rected by M. Forney Reese, at
the National Sylvan Theater in
the Washington Monument
Grounds, as the second event in
the 1888 summer festival series
and the first play to be given
there this summer.
To be preceded by a half-hour
concert by the United States
Navy Band conducted by Lieut..
Charles Benter, this drama will!
offer an exciting evening for
summer festival fans, for one of
the leading roles will be essayed
by no less a popular figure in
local sports circles than the we'll
known Buck Barbee, of Wood
row Wilson football and base
ball proWesS. He will play the
role created on the professional
stage by Walter Huston, and an
other role will be played by
Larry Lawrence, who in the past
two years has come to the fore
as one of Washington's most be-
loved young leading men,
The Washington times., 1938-06-22
O'ConneII Louds "BIockode"

During the filming of Block
ade," Producer Walter Wanger
wired Secretary of State Cordell
Hull that attempts were being
made by "insidious forces" to
coerce him to make certain
changes in the picture.
Mr.. Wanger stated that such
changes were not only of a
Shocking nature" but that, if
made, would alter the entire
connotation of his production.
He cited similar difficulties
on previous pictures, particu-
larly Gabriel Over the White
House." but that attempts in the
past were not as blatant as
those which concerned Block
ade."
Il do not intend to be coerced
in any way and will resist any
attempts to force me to curb or
alter the picture as it now
stands" Wanger stated in his
wire. IT have no desire to be-
come involved in any contro-
versy, but I will not permit any
foreign censorship of this nature
before any American audience
has a chance to judge the pic
ture on its merits.
In speaking of the picture
now showing at the Capitol The
ater, Representative Jerry O'Con-
nell of Montana said:
GAS an American believing
strongly in the American prin-
The Washington times., 1938-06-22

CLOCK

EARLE-H Humphrey Bogart.
Gale Page, Crime School,"
11:1O a. m, lao, 4:25, 7:05.
$50 p. m. Stage, Gene
Krupo," 1850, 3:35, $40,
9:05 p. m.
METROPOLITAN - katherine
Hepburn, Cary Grant, "Holi-
day." II a. M, los. 3:15. 5:25.
7:35, 9:45 p. m.
CAPITOL Madeleine Carroll,
Henry Fonda, Blockade"
1O:45 a. M, 1870, 4:20, 7:10,
10 p. m. Stage, Paul Draper"
1875, 1925, Sis, 9 p. m.
PALACE-Margaret Sullivan,
Robert Young, Robert Taylor,
Three Comrades" 1910,
2::30, 4:55, tbs, 9:35 p. m.
COLUMBIA-B eatrice Lille.
Bing Crosby, "Dr. Rhythm"
Ills a. M, 1:20, $3.50. $40,
7:45, 9:35 p. m.
R,K-O-KEITH'S - Danielle Dar-
rieux, Douglas Fairbanks.
jr., The Rage of Paris"
11:15 a. M, /, PAS, 4:35, $40,
$40, 9:55 p. m.
LITTLE-Marx Bros, Horse
feathers" 11:25 a. M, 1:50,
40, 6:35, 9 p. m. Alison
Shipworth. Gene Raymond,
IF I Had a Million" 1890,
2;55, $40, TAO. 1905 p. m.
TRANS-LUX - NewsreelS and
Shorts, 10, 11:45 a. m, 1890
las, 3, AIS. $50, 6:45, 8.
9:15, 10:45 p. m.
The Washington times., 1938-06-22
Wnnef fTwoA Awards
IsS nAaNe OnensBa
HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP
By ED SULLIVAN

kISCen NI0S
Hollywood June %
ago Boston professor the graduating class
University the refrain Now I've lot
more RE varieties Observed life much more intimately let
something you who have Just graduated from high schools
and colleges.
colleges against you
Certainly not t Fifty cent Of that total will
I've found that half of the intent not
sickness gambling will heavily into the
remainder.
dramatizaion of telling the Kentucky
ITO for
we'll trained and codded possible that
went to post It's the everyday fe The odds are
less when the chips are on the lines
worry opposition competition
R wont be able to 90 college that
finished high Disney: ''' ' Wy "' ''
IT WASN'T long that Disney and his brother Roy didn't
and order dinner with sets Of Knives forks and
that the generation should medals struck
% @ their G % m % and o
homes. Times always have been tough for the poor
PAUL NUM- was poor boy Sam Godwyn glove
David selnick the of rich who went broke Louis
to Disney dcued and showed around by srewder bus
HAD ANY them been cutters you would not know of them to-
for them told
@ or @ Do % t.
conditions, and that is a personal ISSUE
IF YOU listened to the radio in recent heard the broad
fights fight the
Armstrong Ross fight Baer quit and heard the referee
him while rested knee In the Armstrong
fight terrible lacng refused to let his handlers
the referee stop the fight.
LIFE take the count Max Baer did
initiate Barney Ross You quit IN
let decide which to emulate
IN IS
liberalism that has been focused the American Leg
themselves with the problems of the which
didn't happen There CCC and the WPA the
world interested in relieving distress in much greater
than before Governments actually tell off dators speak
behalf of weaker nations ALI Of these things encouraging
So TO ALL Of kids who starting out don't be too
whelmed indications. weather
analysis,
little lot of they'll
hand the winner.
The Washington times., 1938-06-22
Met Has New
Child Star

Little Miss Thoroughbred"
Warner Brothers production
which introduces a new child
actress, opens Friday at the
Metropolitan. Her name Is
Janet Chapman, she is six years
old, and Hollywood predicts
that she will be the next child
sensation.
John Litel, Ann Sheridan
and Frank McHugh have the
leading adult roles in this en-.
tertaining story of a race
track gambler who has nothing
but bad luck until a lonely little
orphan adopts him as her
father.
John Farrow who is credited
with the discovery of Janet
Chapman, directed the picture
for Warner Brothers. Playing a
short role in this picture is
Betty Ann Garner, Washing.
ton child, protege of Steve
Cochran.
The Washington times., 1938-06-22

says the only entertainer who
can play the xylophone with his
feet will not be back in America
for a long time. Doing too well
in England.
Some entertainers shy away
from English bookings because
1t is said John Bull dips too
deeply into the salary envelope
of the actor. Not so, says Mr..
Zelays. Out of the contracted
salary act pays a moderate sum
for the services of a tax expert.
He fills out the blank. taking
deductions for travel, makeup,
etc, and when these allowances
are subtracted, England takes
about % per cent of the net, not
20 per cent of the whole. In
Germany vaudeville acts are al
lowed to take out their money,