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The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-06
President Coolidge.
(Boston News Bureau l


 mere Is popular impression in this coun try that when President Coolidge retires he will oe uhder some kind of a Carnegie pension fund a' matter or fact there is no Carnegie fund ioi eA-ffesidents either in the Carnegie Founda 'ion or py the will of Andrew Carnegie.
 m ms will MT. Carnegie provided that ox- rresldent Taft should be the recipient of sIo onn per ahhnm and Mrs Theodore Roosevelt and Nis. 1rover Cleveland $5,OOO each
 rresdent Coolidge had an estate of no ,,ou. ,nan ,, ten thousand dollars when he entered tb . e "ni,e House, and some people, realizing that bo "ouiu leaVe It a relatively poor man omered . imunu m ol two million dollars, the income of wbioh ~as 'o go to ex-Presdents When pres;dant oooiiuse heard of it he said: "Al right for otbor presidents. but not for me-" o'Aei
 Ihe presiding officer of the Houso s c nons nnn IS now retiring with the customary goo , ooo per annum pension after a few vear;s sor, ice, put the Presidents of the United ctatos ~ ou' cl onlce to work for a living or to se,, their names. e oi 'o sell
 our generous Congress increased tbo cor ooo p.. annuh paid George Washington to o0oo aulins fresident Grants second term ana ~ s'o'ovo ourlng the Taft administration Out of tnis the Presidents must pay the food hiu ~ n '"en ialiiies their guests and the White uousa servants "ni'e House
 President Harding complained that when ba was entertaining members of Congress from oreaklast to dinner in daily discussion of poos ures of legislation his White House food hill wo e just twice his salary ~
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-06
WAITING FOR ACCEPTANCES OF
 SMITH AND HOOVER.

Perhaps never before has the country waited for the letters of acceptance from Presidential nominees with the same degree Of interest that they are waiting to hear from Mr. Hoover and Gov Smith Never before was it so necessary to hear the candidates speak in order to know exactly how the issues would be joined
 The attitude of the parties on. the Prohibition question: on farm relief, foreign affairs and other things will not be wholly made up until the nominees have spoken.
 This suggests another thing: Never before during the present generation have both nom nees been the colorful, as well as able char acters that are racing for the White House goal They are men from whom people like to hear.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-06
More or Less True

With these big, flowered pat terms girls summer dresses ought to be heard even if they are too small to be seen
 It is getting so a man is almost as ashamed to admit he can't play golf as he would be to have to admit he had been misappropriat- ing the firms funds.
 In this age of enameled complex ions the soft, velvety skin We hear so much about must be so much excess baggage.
 You can convince a poor mal, the world is round, but you cant convince him wealth brings great CT worries than poverty. Human nature is human nature and most of us are not so keen about being rich for the good we can do as we are to be able to feel that important too. When women realize how much clothing men wear it's dollars to doughnuts men are going 10 be in no danger of having to share their glad rags with their wives and daughters.
 One of the saddest things of | life is that a woman can lose her youth and beauty only once, but can lose her temper continually 1 We reckon there would have been more domestic happiness in
 this old vale of tears and joke husbands if women had been born
 with less intuition and a keener sense of humor.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-06
LARCH CANkER MENACE TO
 WESTERN TIMBER.

A newly imported tree disease lurking in small area of Eastern Massachusetts is now DO ental danger to our most valuable forest tree he Douglas fir and also is a menace to WesterI yellow pine according to the United States De ,artment of Agriculture.
 Writing in the 1927 Yearbook of the depart nent Dr. Haven Metcalf of the Bureau of Plan says the importation of the European larch canker may cost this continent hundreds O millions of doars The disease has long beel known in Europe its native home, and in tn last hundred years has caused great damage t the larch there. Says pr. Metcalf
 If the disease would continue to limit it's attention to the various kinds of larch it's appearance here would not be a matter of alarm The Eastern North American larch, tamarack or hack matack, it is best known in New Eugland, is widely distributed, practi- cally covering the north of the con tinent from New England to British Co., lumbia and Alaska.
 But, as is often the case with in- troduced disease, the larch canker is not behaving in Massachusetts quite it does in Europe. It is not only attacking European and American larches. would be expected, but is also attack ing Douglas fir. What is even un- expected, it has attacked planted trees of western yellow pine. Douglas fir is perhaps the most important single species of forest tree in North America, and western yellow pine is widely dis tributed and valuable. Any disease that could make serious inroads on either of these trees would quickly assume the proportions of a national calamity.
 The European larch canker is bark disease of the same general type the chestnut blight, which 1t strongly re- sembles. On European arches it grdles and quickly kills young trees, but is not inclined to girdle older completely Instead it forms more permanent cankers the trunk, spelling the tree for timber and producing weak spots at which the tree readily breaks under stress of wind snow. In Europe the disease is distinctly favored by moist or foggy climate, which is the prevailing climate of those parts of the Pacific Coast where Douglas fir grows best
 Up to October 1927 the European larch canker has been found only in an in Eastern Massachusetts about IA miles long by 4 miles wide. If it has not been introduced in any other place within attacking distance of the hack matack, and is really restricted to this small area. it might still be possible to stamp it out, although both the prac- tical and technical difficulties of such an undertaking would be serious But whatever is done must be done soon, for If the disease once becomes established in the tarmarack of Northern New Eng land and Canada it win be beyond prac- tical control and will spread unhindered to the Pacific Coast.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-06
Couldn't Make 1t Stronoer

Did you miss me while 1 was gone?" asked the wife, who had returned from a two-weeks' visit with her mother
 "I missed you" he declared, "as much as the pockets of my vest which I have shed for the sum. mer."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-06
That's That

where some big bargain has been advertised"
 Jinks: Well, men will rush tc a house that is known to have I good cellar too."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-06

ment outfit to criticisms. Too often they have been told to shoot first and argue afterward , That was what they did when they attacked the sherin and his deputies. They shot first and then investgated-after they had been driven to cover by the return fire
 There is little wonder that the people want the Volstead Act changed One of the things they want is to the Prohibition enforcement bunch retired from office and relieved of the gun-toting privilege.
 It is appropriate that the who started the shooting at Wenatchee is the who was fatally injured. He shot five times by the Deputy Sheriff he first shot, and whom he would have killed if the Deputy had not been so close that he struck the Federal officers gun with his hand and forced the bullet into his foot instead of his heart where it was intended to place it.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-06
ALONG LIFE'S DETOUR
 By SAM HILL

Lesson Fish Need to Learn From The skeeter gets no praise,
 And yet l think it might If 'twould devote it's time
 To teaching fish to bite.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-06

Republicans it is said than ever fearful that they will lose New York and New Jersey to Gov Smith. Maybe that is the reason that they have decided to go after the Solid South for the purpose of capturing State or two down there.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-06
She Couldn't Have Been So Very

Idle
 In a committee room sat young man sulkily chewing a cigar and an idle stenographer.-Cleveland Plain Dealer
 Maybe she had asked for refer ence and he was finding out if he could recommend her as a young lady of good taste.-Houston Post Dispatch.
 Some stenogs look sweet enough to just melt in your mouth, but
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-06
Why Jacks on a Diet

Jack Spratt can eat both lean and fat,
 And how he loves a heaped-up plate. But Jacks wife is cornfed dame Who's trying to reduce har weight.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-06
The Colleoe Boy

Those who demand classy car He always looks upon with scorn: He IS content with any wreck If it has got sassy horn.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-06
Boy, A Microscopel

Said she: "Oh, Dearie, don't you thing that my new cne-piece bath ing suits a beaut?"
 But grumbled he, Though yon I see, dern if I can see the suit.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-06

The novelty manufacturers declare that Al Smith buttons and other novelties signifying ad- herenee to the candidacy of the New York Gov ernor are selling more than ten to better than Hoover emblems This is accounted for in part at least, by the fact that up to the present the big market for campaign buttons and en- blems is in New York City and the metropolis seems Co be almost unanimous for Gov. Smith
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-06
Paesinq Observation

What a grand world this would be for the middle-aged if patent medicine ads were not just fairy tales for grown-ups.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-06
His Busy Season

"Why do you keep open so late these days?" we asked the proprie- tor of the fish market.
 "So the great host of amatel" fishermen won't have to go hone empty handed" he grinned.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-06

US Democrats aim to relieve the farmers hut nis' we want the farmers to help us relieve the fepublicans-tDallas News)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-06

mere are two men dislike intensely ana rom Hethn IS both of them.- Philadelphia In quirer.) A-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-06
Forty Years Auo

Nobody worried about install ments on a car coming due.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-06
Intere stinu Information

Society .tem in an Asheville paper says Miss Oyster was en- tertained at the Graves home.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-06

What Has Become of The
 Ten-gailon Hat?
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-06
Poor Traininu

Say growled the manager of the amateur team, "I thought yod told me you had had lots of ex- perience in pitching"
 ''I have" replied the raw recruit. I've spent many a summer pitch ing hay out on the farm"
 Is Vice President Dawes going to put over that reform of Senate rules before he checks out next March 4th?
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-06

'others-and tnls one may have been of that type-look so tough they sure would require a lot of chewing.
 She may have been idle, but ou. bet is she was chewing the mop with him.
 Maybe, too, the reason he chew ed her was because she was old fashioned and didn't have light CT to loan him to light that cigar
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-06
Pretty Soft

Pretty Soft ''I wish 1 was a political bee" Why such a focl wish?" Tt doesn't have anything to do lut rest during the four years b.. tween presidential campaigns"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-06
Ho, Huml

Ho, Hum! Said she, My hair Doth need a wavei" Said he, And your Neck needs a shave.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-06

ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARoEF
 THAN THAT ANY OTHER PUBLICATION
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-06

Speaking of Business Depression
 Probably the output of no plant has shown a greater falling off iE recent years than that of the one which provides the material for the feminine bathing suits.
Nogales international., 1928-05-15
SENIOR PLAY, 1.-THE ARRIVAL OF
KITTY" BE PRESENTED TONIGHT

part in the Senior play last year,
and also played the lead in the
operetta, "Once in a Blue Moon. -
Henrietta Renshaw, Ruth Gatlin,
Esther Greason, and Mildred
Damn have taken part in various
operettas an d assembly plays.
Leads in some assembly plays
have also been the lot of Allyn
Watkins and Arsenic Espinosa.
The two funny characters in this
play, Milford Noon and Joe Caste
Ian, have not had any acting ex-
perience, but rehearsals show that
the only reason was that had not
been discovered yet.
Between acts, Natalia Saracho
will dance a few numbers, while
the 25th Infantry orchestra will
furnish music. Admission to the
play will be seventy-five cents. A
matinee will be held this after
noon for the children of the
school other than the high school.
Nogales international., 1928-05-15
$. CAR. DEMOCRATS MEET

Columbia, S. G. May Is (U.P.)
South Carolina Democrats will
meet here tomorrow to select the
states delegation to the Houston
Convention, with indication point
ing to an uninstructed group.
Recent action of supporters of
Representative Cordell Hull of
Tennessee may cause an upset at
the convention and sending of a
delegation instructed for the Con-
gresham.
Former Governor John GRAY
Evans has been active in efforts
to have the delegation instructed
for "dry". AS state chairman
ne has many supporters.
The Smith strength is unknown
although the recent drift towards
the New York governor may bring
unsuspected action at tomorrow's
session. United States Senator
Blease will undoubtedly control
the meeting. He is known to be
strongly opposed to abolition of
the two-third rule and has threat
ened to promote organization of
a third party in the event the
Houston convention abolishes the
long standing rule.
Nogales international., 1928-05-15
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100000 To Be At
Legion N Getting

San Antonio, Tex, May IA
The American Legion, in handling
housing arrangements for 100000
World war veterans and members
of their families coming here for
the organizations national con-
vention October 8 to IL, is carry
ing out very comprehensive
program which, it is believed, has
never before been attempted for
a national convention.
In several major respects, the
plan being followed by the Le-
gion differs from the housing
program of the Republicans for
their national convention at Kan
sas City and from that of the
Democrats for their gathering at
Houston, a survey just completed
reveals.
The Legion, through it's con-
vention bureau, is entering into a
definite legal contract for every
room in all the hotels in the con-
vention city, according to Philip
b. Stapp, general convention di-
rector. Assignments are being
made by the bureau on receipt of
Nogales international., 1928-05-15
US. CELEBRATES
AIR MAIL WEEK
By JOSEPH. S. WAsNEY

by JOSEPH >. WASNEY
United Press Staff Correspondent
Washington, May IA. (U.P.)-
The United States today began
celebrating "Air Mail Week" in
commemoration Of the 10th an
niversary of using air service for
the transportation of mail.
Postmaster General New, in
designating the week, said air
mail service had expanded from a
Crawling babe" until now 63
cities are served by the modern
type of pony express.
Air mail service was inaugur-
ated between New York and
Washington on May Is, 1918, but
this route soon was abandoned
because of the time lost between
postoffices and flying fields.
"This experiment with planes
and pilots borrowed from the War
Department furnished the nucleus
and the experience that later de-
veloped the trans-continental sys-
tenn and the widespread net work
of contract lines today" New
said.
~ Hours Between Coasts
"Mail service between til e
coasts was operated both by plane
and train. This service developed
until in August, 1928, the great
transcontinental service went liz
to effect, bringing New York and
San Francisco only about q hours
away by mail.
'"The next step was the estab-
lishment of an overnight service
between New York and Chicago.
Then when these two enterprises
survived all tests and proved the
feasibility of continuous transport
by air over long distance without
regard to darkness or ordinary ad-
verse weather conditions, til e |
government was ready to step out
and let private initiative take
over the new systems it had de-
New pointed out there are now
% routes in operation covering a
total mileage of 9,916 miles. Ev-
cry day mail pilots fly distance
of 22,110 miles, carrying an
average of nearly $500 pounds. +
Nogales international., 1928-05-15
RENOON INJURY
SEVERE IN FIRE

Tucson, May ID. = The condi-
lion of Gabriel Rendon, former
Nogales- Tucson stage line owner,
who received severe burns about
the face and body in gasoline
explosion early Saturday morning
when he lit match near the gas
tank of a car belonging to Greg
orio Herran, eight miles south of
Tucson on the Nogales road, was
said to be serious by hospital at
tendants late last night. Rendon's
face and throat were terribly
barned and he has great difficulty
talking and eating.
The explosion which caused
Rendon's injuries also destroyed
the car, garage and house belong
ing to Herran. According to the
report turned into the sheriff's
office, Rendon stopped at the
home of Herran and asked for
some gasoline, stating that he had
run out. Herran told him to help
himself from the car in the garage,
which he proceeded to do. After
having taken the gas from the
car, and placed the can to one
side, he lit a match to see if he
had replaced the plug correctly.
Immediately there was an ex-
plosion and the fire soon spread
to the garage and home. Rendon
was rushed to the hospital, where
examination showed his burns to
be serious.
Following the fire, Herran, who
did not know the identity of the
stranger who had caused the ex-
plosion, found light truck with
no license plates parked before
his property. He later learned
that Rendon had been the man
who borrowed the gas. His home,
garage and automobile were COM
pletely destroyed by the fire.
Nogales international., 1928-05-15
(By Ulpiano Sortillon)

What is said to be the best
comedy presented by amateurs in
Nogales during the last few years,
the Senior class play, "The Ar
rival of Kitty, will be shown at
the Ali Baba Theatre tonight at
8 o'clock. Take good talent, mix
in able directing plus a good
script, stir well, and you have
what will be shown at the Ali
Baba tonight.
Here is the story: Jane, the
heroine, is to marry Benjamin
More before 6 o'clock tonight in
order to get the six million dol
lars left her by her father. But
Jane, with the well known way
of all females, will have none of
it, for she is in love with Bob
Baxter, as sweet a boy as you
could ever find, but who is, un-
fortunately, impecunious. Mr..
Winkler, James uncle, is anxious
that Jane marry Mr.. More, since
by her fathers will he is to get
$4,000 when she does so. Fur
ther complications arise when
James spinster Aunt Jane decides
she will be spinster no longer,
and offers Winkler $4,000 if he
finds her a husband. He pro-
ceeds to do so, and what results
is one of the best and most COM
plicated mix-up you could ever
wish for.
All the members of the cast,
with the exception of two, have
had experience in various school
plays, operettas, and comedies.
Howard Wilken played a minor
Nogales international., 1928-05-15
New Yorker May
Operate Mine
At Orc bIancO

George Williams, Geneva, N.
Y, newspaper proprietor, and
owner Of gold properties in the
0ro Blanco district in this coun-
y which he operated years ago.
visitor in the city.
His properties in the Orc Blan-
60 area are patented and he is
Going out there to look around
and may possibly resume opera
tiors.
He says that investments in
mining properties are beginning
to look up in the east and indi-
cations point to another mining
boom soon. This is his first visit
here since 1912.
Nogales international., 1928-05-15
NOCALES GETS NEXT YEAR
ANNUAL CONVENTION or
ELkS ASSOCIATION

For the third consecutive year
the 1928 state convention of the
Arizona Elk lodges will be held
in Nogales. At the closing ses-
sion Saturday of the 1927 state
convention, Nogales was selected
as next years convention city.
The 1926 convention was held in
this city.
Only the fact that the bylaws
Of the order prohibit the naming
of a permanent convention city
prevents Nogales from being made
the annual meeting place of Ari-
zona Elks. This developed Satur-
day when DR.. M. A. Wuerschmidt,
exalted ruler of the local lodge,
after inviting the lodge to meet
here again next year, moved that
Nogales be named as the perm
anent convention city. After it
was shown that this could not be
done, Retiring President Paul
Correll of Tucson moved that
next years convention be held
here. The motion carried un-
animously before any other city
that might have sought the meet
ing had had a chance to bid for
the 1923 convention.
Just prior to selecting next
years meeting place the annual
election of officers was held and
resulted as follows: Casey Jones,
Kingman, president; r. w. Krenl-
er, Phoenix, first vice-president;
Peter Riley, Clifton, secand vice.
president; Joe Mayer, Globe,
third vice-president; and ]. p.
Ward, Douglas, treasurer; Arthur
Turner, Miami; Mitch Mahoney,
Prescott; and A. L. Crollier, Bis
bee, trustees. President Jones an
nounced the appointment of 0.
H. Jett of Prescott as secretary.
The new president, Jones, and
the new secretary, Jett, succeed
Paul Correll and Claude Smith, |
both of Tucson, who have been i
and secretary, respect
ly, the past year.
Claude Smith was elected byI
to represent the Ari-
zona association on May 13 at
The annual meeting of the Texas
State Elks Association at Ell Paso.
He will put before the Texas
the plan of Arizona Elks
to establish national Elk tuber-
,ular sanitarium somewhere in
The southwest. Jake Gunst of
uCSOH dHLOuHCcu LIkdC HS ID III
receipt of at least 800 letters
ro m Elks in various parts.
If the United States approving
If the sanitarium matter. w. H.
rimerhoff of Prescott was named
permanent chairman of the Ari-
iona committee promoting the
Saturdays business S s i o n
opened with reports of the audit
ng committee by w. Sullinger of
tucson. Frank B. Baptist then ]
eported for the credentials COM
ittee, after which Mr.. Hender-
Nogales international., 1928-05-15
HOOVER IN ALABAMA

Birmingham, May Is (U.P.)-
Herbert Hoover is expected to
gain ID votes as a result of to-
morrow's state Republican meet
ing here.
Little opposition to Hoover's
candidacy has been voiced among
members of the party. Selection
OF delegates instructed for him
has been accepted as a matter of
course, following announcements
of support by Alabama negro
leaders.