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The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-24
COAL KICKER STILL POWER
 ON CRIDlRON

CHICAGO, Dec. 24.-yietory and defeat still swi:.g on the boot of the goal kicker, despite the foot ball rules committees efforts to reduce the number of one-point margins by setting the goal posts back ten yards.
 Not so frequently this year as in previous years have games been won and lost because som player missed goal after touch- down and another did not. but many important battles have gone to the accurate toe.
 In tha Western Conference. two games of one-point margins and one of tied score changed the whole complexion of the race.
 Mnnesnta-s Att..a-s.Ke horde of devastators. a preseason favor, ite for the Big Ten banner, oa- capped a defeat at the hands O. the discounted Indiana Hoosiers after a goal had been missed only because a Hoosier was offsi,lc. The score was 14-14.
 Northwestern watched its aspir- ations soar out of Dyche Stadium on the successful boot of an Hi nois tackle. the illini winning 7-G. Purdue with it's Pest" Welch and win over Harvard. lost to Chi cago by the margin of a goal after touchdown. each team having been able to cross the others goal line once.
 Missouri Valley fortunes swung Columbia-ward when Missouri made good a goal. and Nebraska missed, the score 7-6. West Vir- ginia twice this year was tied. once because its opponent also missed a goal and again when each kicked the extra point. Yale's eye for the cross bars was the measure of the Blues snperi- ority over the Army. Each SCOT ed a touchdown and Yale the point afterwards and field goal.
 The Oregon. Aggies on the Pacific coast missed two goals and Southern California .ma.'c one to win 1912. and week la ter both Southern California and Stanford missed one and made one to tie at 13.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-24

Advertising a1ways pays. Us tho columns of The Empire.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-24

Day. The Shawmut and another one of Uncle Sam's ships were Q: their way from Weymouth to Nor folk and reached Bermuda of Christmas Eve.
 There wasn't great deal tho boys from the ship could do. Mr Nostrand said. but some of then got their shore leave and saw the country for a few hours. It was hot and so white clothes were 1T order-which also seem ont ol place in way. so we shift oul thoughts to those who were 1T France at the same time, wallow ing around in the mud in thS front line trenches or behind the lines.
 They had a Christmas dinner in Bermuda too, although there wasn't any turkey, but then, being in such a place where the sun was beating down and everything was peaceful there wasn't any need of turkey dinner
 Jump Again
 Take another imaginary jump from Bermuda to Camp Kearney, California. where. on Christmas of 1917. there were four men who are now residents of Junean: Dr. H. c. DeVighne. A. J. Millison, Harry Sperling and Walter King
 As usual, they didn't care to say much about what happened except that. most of the men got leave to go to San Diego or Los Angeles to spend the day in ce,e- bration.
 And of course there are others. but if they did something unusual or something that they shouldn { have they wouldn't want it known and If Christmas was the same as any other day to them they would say so and let it go at that and so either way there wouldn't pc any more story.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-24
WATERFRONT
 OF JUNEAU IS GROWING
Emery Valentine Tells ol Early Days Down to
 the Present

There arc proDa1ly only a few residents of Juneau at tho present time who can tell stories of Jn neau In the old days as can Emery Valentine. who first cams to Juneau in 1886, has made his | home here since that time and who has seen the town grow fro1a a few shacks in q small clearing to a prosperous little city of ,an proximately 4,000 persons.
 Looking at the business end es the city, especially Front Street as it is today, il is indeed diff cult to visualize what Mr. Vaiel. tilaA saw when he stepped onto { tho beach of the little village Z which stood here more than forty. one years ago.
 With the exception of the Franklin Music House, which stood then where Tom McCaul'. garage now stands. there was not a building on the bay side of Front Street. there was no wifarf. while the nroperty where the California Grocery and Connors <garage stand was considered well out in the wilderness,
 There were few clusters of \ piles on the beach. but the water. tfront was wide open. On high tides the small boats would come In to the board walk that ran along the land side of what is now Front Street and discharge their cargos and passengers.
 In the bring of 1886 Carroll and Murray built Juneau,Sfirst wharf where, later. Forests Machin , Shop stood for many years. All boats coming into Juneau lande l 5 at this wharf, which was consid. cred well out of town at that time.
 The next dock came five years later, the Peoples Wharf Conn pany, of which MT. Valentine was General Manager and one of the principal owners. The northern entrance to the dock was the q street which now runs between the Jnneau-Young Hardward Com, pany and the New York Exchange on out to the Pacific Coast Dock. The face of the dock was about where the street runs past the ferry float, while the other ent- rance. was the street that is bull. nut from between the California Grocery and George Brothers Store,
 Tho following year Carroll, of Carrdl and Murray built anothe: wharf where the Juneau Motor Company is now located. Short iy afterward the Pacific Coast
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-24
Farm Rents and Taxes
 Decrease in Michigan

LANSING. Mich, Dec. 24.-Real estate taxes on rented farms in the lower peninsula of Michigan last year were the lowest since 1919, a survey by the Michigan State College and the United States department of agriculture shows.
 The average tax per acre on these farms was s1.37 in 1926 compared with S1.46 in 1925 and $1.29 in 1919. Gross rents aver. aged $4.S2 per acre in 1926 com pared to s4.S4 in 1925. Lower farm taxes have not increased the average returns to farm own. CTS during the past year. tho study shows.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-24

Steamship Company negotiated for and purchased both wharves paying $1S,000 for the People Wharf.
 For a decade and one-half the waterfront was changed but little Then. in 1907, the first part oi what is now the City Dock was erected. In 1908 MT. Valentine was elected mayor and immedl- ately enlarged the wharf, started coal agency and succeeded in bringing the Canadian steamships in here.
 With this increased trade in the south end of town it was not long before Juneau began to build up in that section. The fish house was built later on the City Dock and the float and other dock addi- tions were erected about the same time.
 During the years from 1912 10 1914 radical changes were made in the appearance of the water front In that period the Alaska Supply Company Wharf, the Ju. neau Lumber Mill wharf. Fem mer's dock and tho Alaska Jun ean Wharf were erected, the latter in 1914 when the mill was establish. ed
 Later additions were the Ad miral Line dock. built in April, 1917 by the Pacific Coast Com pany. During the past summer further activities were begun. The Juneau Cold Storage Company purchased the southern end of the site of the Admiral Line whars and constructed new wharf. The Government wharf was begun during the summer of 1927, also, although most of the construction of this dock is yet to be done.
 Probably the most noticeable feature of Juneau's waterfront is the rock dump of tho Alaska Jp- neau Mine. Permission to extend this out into the channel was giv- en the Alaska Juneau interests i.i 1924 and work was begun at once. Not only was the Mine given a place to dump it's tailings but at the same time the dump afford ed protection to small boats from southeastarly gales.
 Harking back to the old days again, MT Valentine told of tae first Fourth of July celebration n Juneau which was held on French tPetes fish scow on the beach. There were several speakers and somebody read the Declaration of Independence.
 In every day life French Pete's fish scow was the local fish mar ket, and all one had to do was de posit twenty-five cents and pick out any salmon on the scow.
 Where Wolland's Tailor Shop is located there once stood the log cabin of Joe Juneau, who, with Richard Harris, was one of the founders of this city. A sa- loon occupied the space now talk en up by the Butler Mauro Drug Company, and some place, MT. Valentine did not say where, Casey Moran had an office where he took orders, so his advertise ments read, for Ice, by the pound, ton or berg"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-24
BOSTON MAN
 GIVES DINNER
 TO DOUCHBOYS
Juneau Veteran Tells of 1917 Christmas
 Others Tn California

l Just what some of the Ameri , can Doughboys. who were enlisr- ed in the World War during the Christmas holidays of 1917. dfl for a celebration. especially those over here, is hard to determine from the answers most os ths m give. for they are rather reluctant to talk about it.
 Perhaps it's merely that they are modest and don't like to re. fer to the army or navy days and again it may be they had too good time to relate. but al any rate most of them. when asked what they did on December %. 1917. say, "Oh. nothing at all. no. thing that would interest any one."
 There are few. though. who were in unusual circumstances. at least in circumstances that seem unu sual as we look back uron them at the present time, when the holidays came during the year that we declared war on Ger many and went overseas to help the Allies defeat their enemies.
 Take the case <of Al Zenger. who is a member of the force at the Sanitary Grocery. When the war broke out MT. zenger en- listed in that branch which inter- ested him most, the radio depart ment. For a while he was on the west coast, enlisting at Bremer ton. but in the early part of De. cember he was sent east to Har- yard where radio men were given training at that time.
 About the only thing wrong with the Christmas Day which he spent in Boston. according to his story. was that he didn't in herit fortune and the war didn't end It seemed that he had be- come acquainted with an art col lector named Thomas Allen, now deceased, who had a big heart.
 
 and who would do most anything for young fellows and for the men who had enlisted in the ranks 70 help protect the Stars and Stripes.
 Some Dinner!
 On Christmas Mr. Allen had a number of the young men who were in training out to dinner at his town house. Everything was set before MT. Zenger, he said from oysters on the shell to ice cream, served in the form of a statue.
 Now jump all the way to Ber- muda and see G. w. Nostrand on the mine layer Shawmut lying in
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-24
Equipment of Office
 Costs Dentists $5,O00

CHICAGO, Dec. 24.--The average dentist must spend $5,0O0 for of- flee essentials before he can start to- practice, the Chicago Dental Society has reckoned in prepar- ing exhibits for it's annual cor vention in January.
 The figures show that the pa- tient sits in a $500 chair. His mouth is x-rayed by $500 ma chine and the drill that bites into his teeth is a $1.20O unit. powered by a $250 motor A set of instru- ments for probing and the like costs $500 and a machine to ster- ilize them costs another $100 For equipment to administer anaes- thetics S275 more must be ex- pended.
 Advertising a1ways pays. Use tho columns of The Empire.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-24
More Girls Studying
 Art of Housekeeping

LINCOLN, Neb., Dec. .24..-Home economics stuGents at the college of agriculture of the University of Nebraska increased 10 per cent in number this year, bring ing the total enrolment to 275 girls,
 A new phase of work is being tried out in the food study class es, in which each girl is required to prepare and execute food demonstration before an audience of classmates. Officials observe the increase as indicative of q rising demand for home econom- ics trained women in the. con- mercial world.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-12-24
KNIGHTS OF COIuMRuS
Douglas Aerie IF Fraternal
 Order of Eagles

Meets regular 1st. 2nd, 4th Mon days in Douglas at p. nj. Eagles Half. And the third Wednesday Iof eaoh month, 7:30 D. m. in Odd Fellows Hall, Juneau, Visiting brothers welcome.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1927-09-23

A. Slx-thlrty.
MR.. BABCOCK: That is all.
@. And how long do you work then?
A. Oh, l go off and on. | haven't got no hours.
| work until about nine-thirty, go off until about
t~en-thirty, and then work work from then until two,
back at six until eight.
@. You say you wash dishes?
A. Yes.
@. That is all you do around there?
A. deliver ice; that is not included.
@. You just work then when there is dishes
to wash, is that it?
A. Yes.
@. What time does Mrs. Gunderson come to
work in the morning?
A. Six or ~six-thirty.
q. Is she there when you come to work?
A. Some mornings she is; some mornings she
is not.
Q. And she is still working when you leave
between nine and ten?
A. No. Nine and ten?
@. Yes?
A. In the morning?
: Y Yes
@. And is she still working when you come
back agin?
A. Yes.
@. How long does she stay there?
A. Two o'clock.
@. And what time does she come back to work
again?
A. Five or fve-thirty.
Q And how long does she work then?
A. Eight.
@. And what are the hours of employment of
the other girls, if you know?
A.. | don't know.
q. What does Mrs. GundersOn do there?
A. Pastry cook.
9. In what part of the restaurant does she
A. Kitchen.
u. And where do you work?
MR.. ERICKSON: That is all.
CROSS EXAMINATION:
BY Mr.. BABCOCK: @. Of course, you are not
in the kitchen all the time?
A. No.
@. You come there in the morning about six
or eight?
A. About ~six-thirty.
@. And you are off part of the time?
A. Yes.
@. Mrs. Gunderson is off part of the time?
A.. Yes.
@. Of course, you have no way of knowing
what agreement or understanding she has with the
proprietors of the Elgin Cafe as to what hours she
should work?
A.. l haven't.
@. You simply know some of the times she is
there when you come and some of the times she
isn't?
A. Yes.
Q. And some of the times she goes away and
sometimes she doesn't?
A. Yes.
c.. And sometimes she is back to work before
you are and sometimes not?
A. Yes.
@. You never kept any track of the hours she
OAh IdNC "
A.. No.
G. And as far as you know, she may or may
not have worked more than eight hours in any one
day?
A. / never figured it up.
@. 1t wasn't any of your business, was it You
didn't care?
O.. You was getting paid for what work you
did and wasn't paying any attention to what some
body else did?
A. 1t wasn't any of my business.
Q. And you couldn't go on the stand and tes-
tify how many hours Mrs. Gunderson worked or
didn't work in any one day. In other words, you
don't remember of any single day you could go on
the stand and testify Mrs. Gunderson worked more
than eight hours, could you?
A. Well, | don't know. | never figured up her
hours. Didn't keep track of it.
@. Didn't figure it was any of your business,
did you?
A.. No.
G. And you don't know now, do you?
A. No, | don't know.
Mr.. BABCOCK: That is all.
MR.. ERICKSON: That is all. Call Mrs. Cum
derson.
Mrs. Gunders0n:
A witness produced on behalf of the State hav-
ing been first duly sworn, was examined and testi-
fed as follows, to-wit:
DIRECT EXAMINATION:
BY MR.. ERICKSON: @. Your name is Mrs.
Gunderson?
@. You live in Plentywood?
A.. Yes, sir.
@. What is your occupation?
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Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1927-09-23

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gin Cafe you were to work more than eight hours :?
A. No, sir, there has never been any agree
ment.
@. If you did work more than eight hours, it
was simply voluntary on your part?
A.. Yes.
@. And not by request of anyone else?
A.. Not by the request of anyone else.
@. And if you wanted to let things go kind of
easy like and work a little bit longer some evenings,
instead of digging in and working hard, you figured
you had a right to do SO?
A. Oh yes, / did.
@. The fact of the matter is, Mrs. Gunderson,
as long as you were doing the work you figured you
were your own boss?
A. / did, yes.
@. And you ran that part of it just as you
saw fit?
A. Yes.
@. And Mr.. Popescu never dictated to you
what hours you should come or go and what you
had to do?
A.. No, sir.
@. You knew you had certain work you were
supposed to take care of like making the pies and
things of that kind and you looked after it?
A. Yes, sir.
G. And took your own time to do it?
A. Yes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-21
ASKS S1O0,0D0,0)D
YEARLY FLOOD AID
Report to Mississippi Com
mission Forecasts Petit
ton to Congress.
Ev the Assnciated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS, August 20.--Congress
at it's next session, will be asked &c
set aside an annual fund OF 500. 900,
000 or whatever amount may he
necessary, to be used in fiood-pre
Vention work. according TO Il report
submitted q a meeting here today Of
the Mississippi River Commission.
The report. which also provides
that the Federal Government shall
pay the present Indebtedness Of all
local levee districts in the Mississippi
valley said TO aggregate $3.50. 600 600
was presented to the meeting by its
author. w. G. STREET., vice president
OF the Mississippi Valley Flood Con
troll Commission
Street,, in discussing the report
said It has met the approval Of his
orga nizatirn and 10 or IL United
States Senators who have read it and
have given il their informal sanction.
Portions of the report were suggested
by Secretary Of Commerce Hoover.
who, STREET. said, also has approved
the proposal.
Delegations from Tennessee. Arkaa-
sas. Mississippi and Missouri attended
the meeting
A section If the report provides
that the jurisdictin OF the Mississippi
River Commission shall be extended
to include the entire basin Of the Ma
ton. extending from the Rocky Noun
tains to the Allegheny Mountains and
including all streams which directly
or indirectly are tributaries of the
Mississippi River.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-21
DEFENSE OF NATIONS
INSTITUTIONS URGED
Legion Official Declares American
Manhood Must Protect
Country.


MARINETTE Wis, August 20
Rather than nave the courts tit their
procedure to least offend radicals.
Ferre c. Watkins. commander of the
Illinois Department, American Legion,
declared 1T was better if need be for
the manhood Of America. emhattled
and fearless, to stand in defense of
American institutions with the UNI
sheathed baYonet and the machine
gun to protect them
Tadicalism, he asserted in address.
ing the Wisconsin Legion here today.
has challenged those institutions and
Of every movement to defend them.
The world has been rudely awaken
ed recently and Americas selfcUm
placency has disa ppeared. Radicalism,
varying from the red flag to the in
ternationalistic slogan. has aligned It,
self with Sacco and Vanzetti. The
bomb and dynamite have sought 10
take the place Of the books OF the law.
The red flag has sought to replace
the Stars and Stripes. and violence.
intimidation and threats have sought
to COW and conquer the courts and
the processes Of Justice.
1.-The present radical crisis is a chal-
lenge 10 American institutions and
those who believe in this Government,
and must be met firmly and fearlessly
by an awakened American public and
its officials, If we are to continue
under this Government with any hope
for its future"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-21
SIXTEEN MINISTERS
ASK CONF UTAT|ON
Petition of Clergymen Is Sent to
Fuller-Holds Guilt Is
in Doubt.

BY the Associated Press
BOSTON. August 20.-A petition
asking communication of sentence for
Sacco and Vanzetti to life imprison
ment was sent to Gov. Fuller today
by l6 clergymen of various denomi
nations in this and other States.
I'VE petition your excellency." the
petition said, "to commute the sen
tence of Sacco and Vanzetti to life
imprisonment that the people of the
United States may not be responsible
for the death of two men whose guilt
still remains in rea sonable doubt.
The Signers included Hubert O.
Herring. secretary of the department
Of social relations of the Congrega
tional Churches of the United States;
Harry Emerson Fosdick. Union Theo
logical Seminary. New York; Dan F.
Bradley, Pilgrim Congregational
Church, Cleveland; Henry Sloane
Coffin. president Union Theological
Seminary; Clement G. Clarke. First
Congregational Church. Portland.
Greg; Albert c, Dieffenbach, editor
of the Christian Register, Boston
Charles w. Gilkie, Hyde Park Baptist
Church Chicago; William +. Gilroy.
editor the Congregationalist, Boston
Lewis o. Hartman. editor Zion
Herald, Boston; Charles Clayton Moi
rison. editor the Christian Century
and Paul G. Macy. Washington Coz
gregational Church Toledo, Ohio.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-21
ONE STRIKE
ORDERED IN MEXICO
Regional Confederation of Labor
Protests Sacco and Vanzetti
Conviction.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
MEXICO CITY. August cO.-The
annual convention of the Regional
Confederation of Labor. the dominant
labor orga IMITATION In Mexico. at its
opening session today adopted a reso
luton protesting against the eXecu
ton of Sacco and VanZetti
The resolution ordered one hour
general protest strike throughout
Mexico in the event that the con
dcmned men are executed and in
structed officials of the confederate
to telegraph the United States Supreme
Court appealing for action to prevent
the execution.
The resolution, which was written
by the federation labor syndicates of
the federal district. declares that
Yankee capital. in opposition to the
laboring people of the world. is execut-
ing Sacco and NanZetti because they
symbolic socialism. and making these
innocent men pay with their lives foi
daring to rebel against the old social
order
The resolution urges laboring classes
throughout the world to resent this
bloody sacrifice and take necessary
measures against Yankee capitalism ="
Police and detectives continue
guard ut the United States embassy
the consulate general and at the
homes of all American officials.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-21
Latest War Figures
Show That 77,77l
Died in A. f. F.

Latest official figures show there
we're 77,77l deaths in the American
Expeditionary Forces. including
those on transports. The number
Of graves registered to June 80,
1927. aggregated 77.701. or 99.9 per
cent Of the number Of deaths.
OF the total. 46.2S4 bodies have
been returned to the United States,
Cos we're sent to foreign countries
for interment and 30.S12 remained
in Europe. OF the number remain
ing In Europe buried I'm American
cemeteries. four are to he returned
to the United States. 29.8S0 are
buried In France. 431 in Great
Britain, 373 in Belgium. while 123
have. at the request OF their fam.
tiles. been left undisturbed where
they were originally buried, OF the
bodies returned to the United States
i4.o per cent are buried in national
cemeteries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-21

Brig. Gen George s. Simords, who
has just been appointed assistant chief
of staff OF the Army and placed in
charge of the War Plans Division, was
chief of staff of the Second Army
Corps during the important operations
along the HindenbuFg line in the
region Of Samhre Canal and was
awarded the Distinguished Service
Medal for his great administrative
ability in handling large force of
American soldiers serving with the
British" during the World War. He
also was awarded the Legion of Honor
by the French government, the Order
Of the Bath tcompanion1 by the Brit
ish government and the Order of the
Crown by the Italian government.
Since the World War he has served
successfully as instructor and later as
assistant commandant of the Army
War College in this city, as COM
mandant of the tank school at Camp
Meade, Md. and as commander of the