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The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-13

Victory or defeat at the polls is not always conclusive of everything Former President Coolidge is said to be getting dollar word for his "reminiscences and the same authority tells that Al Smith is getting two dollars word for his autobiography that is running in the Saturday Evening Post.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-13
Hats Off to Him

Some motorists, we know, are meaner'n snakes, But that's not true of Elmer Glover For when he honks before he tries to pass, Sound like he's saying-"PLEASE, move over!"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-13
REBEKAn soCIaI.

All Odd Fellows, Rebekahs and visiting m m bers on Gastineau Channel are cordially invited to spend social evening on Wednes- day, August 14th, 8:3O D. m. | a O. F. Hall. aa,,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-13
Why They Fail.
Valdez Miner.)

Some men habitualy get better than on oou
 oreak when it comes to holding cards, but they never Win because they do not play the game with skil' 50 1t is in business. Some have the advan- t,s se ol location fine fixtures, good display, but game-they don't advertise p' 'Ae
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-13

Another success story which may be told in a few words F. H. Ecker, President of the Metro politan Life, began with the company office boy at $4 a week His new job pays $2OoOOO a year
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-13

very easily spare not less than 1400 of the invaded laws. It is barely possible that the Supreme Court saw an opportunity to serve great good when it decided upon it's wholesale statute assassinations
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-13
Wrong Kind of Making In

You and that boy friend of yours do an awful lot of quarrel ing, seems to me-" said her young CT sister.
 "Yes," she replied; The gets sore because he says I spend all my time making up when he calls"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-13
What Parents Know

Nov, listen, get home early!" is The parents final warning And kids do get home early-but It's early in the morning.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-13
ALONG LIFTS DETOUR
 By SAM HILL,
Dangerous as Chicago

Ddh6Clouo dS ShiSdSO I've got a great scheme to make some money"
 Yeah? What now?" Selling bullet-proof clothes, to people living along the Canadian border"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-13

The Soviets don't think the Dawes naval idea than ever of MT. -(Cncinnati Eno,,,ra. S
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-13
Passing Observation

It's easier to understand the Fin stein baloney than why some wom- en cant be happy unless they are making somebody else unhap- py.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-13
Interesting Information

Do you, or don't you, know that Rev. Plus is minister in Colum- bus, Ohio.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-13

50 far the drys haven't succeeded in cbaneng .ile name or the Brandywine River or Bar Harbor Me.-( Florida Times-Union)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-13

Our northern frontier is 4000 miles long. ST smuggling will end only when prohibition does-(St Louis Globe Democrat)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-13
So Runs the World Away

So Runs the World Away The electric refrigeration also is going to send the old wise cracks about forgetting to M T. the ice pan into the discard along with the poor old iceman himself.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-13

Another of solving the emu,oyment nrob- lem is suggested Let all who are out of work enlist in the prohibition enforcement army. = (Boston Transcript)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-13

NeVer yet have the people scorned good wis and just law.-tAkron Ohio, eacon-JournaD
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-13

A Brooklyn matador talks of introducing bpll khlng into America. He should know that ovar here we only throw it-Qndanapolis storl
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-13

It may be well to invite rum runners and en- iorcement agents to disarmament conference Philadelphia Bulletin)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-13
Is His Name Percy?

Blinks-He is the most tender hearted man I ever met"
 Jinks-Say, he's so tender hearted he even wouldn't kill time or mur- der the Kings English.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-13

At any rate, Al. Capone has a permanent aa- dress for while Indianapolis News)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-13
Ho, Hum! On Monday morn From bed I creep, But wish I could Go back to sleep.

Rare One His wife is a wonder, they say" Yes; she is as quick at getting ready to go out as most women are at taking offense.'
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-13
So Different

So Different SCORE FOR POLICE"-Caption over editorial in Buffalo Courier Express.
 Quite relief from the POLICE SCORED" so often lamped.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-13

Evidently Nothing in a Name Jean Vile was one of Kansa. City's June brides.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-13

Excuse Us, Please Line across that community's lo- cal paper:
 PATRONIzE YOUR PRICE HILL UNDERTAKERS Another Finger for Them to Feed (Birth note in Milwaukee Journal. ) Daughter-Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Finger. .
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-12-06
WOMEN GET HOMES FOR
 WHITE RUSSIANS

lief societies. the League of Ma tions, the Laura Spellman Founda- ton, the relief workers have spent $90,000 supplied by private funds. The services of Miss Mitchell and Miss Ruggles have been entirely voluntary and the funds have gone directly into relief work, with no overhead expenses.
 These funds have supplied medi- cal care, clothing, food and lodging for thousands of destitute Russians. They have also furnished transpor- tation.
 Many have been sent to South America, which is still open to the White Russians, most European na- tions having closed their doors. Those sent to South America re- port that they have found work un- der better conditions and at better wages than they could in Europe and urge their friends among the 1900 still in Constantinople to join them.
 But money for this final migra- ton is lacking. A small American committee and the League of Ma tions are still actively interested and it is hoped that the most ur- gent cases of relief can be helped.
 In addition to their achievements
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-12-06
JOHN A. GARDNER

me, I didn't sleep well and I was constipated and bilious.
 q tried different medicines and tonics that friends would suggest, but I didn't get any lasting bene- fits from any of them. Then I started Sargon. I have taken 3 bottles, and honestly, it has done more for me than all the rest of them put together Now I eat good square meal any time I want it, digest it fine, and don't have bit of stomach trouble of any kind. I sleep good, and I never saw such medicine for building up run down system I have gained ten pounds, and feel at least twenty years younger.
 "Sargon Pills are everything that goes to make a real laxative. I wish was in position to tell every sufferer what this treatment has done for me"
 The above statement was re- gently made by John A. Gardner of w. 1905 Third Ave, Spokane, for the past twenty six years lino- type operator for the Spokesman Review.
 Sargon may be obtained in Ju- neau from -Mauro & O.. Inc. adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-12-06
SPOKANE CITIZEN EI:
 GAINS 10 POUNDS TELLS LIKE NEW

Before I started this wonderful Sargon I was rundown losing weight all the time and suffered a lot with my stomach. I was nervous, my food didn't agree with
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-12-06
 RICHARD DIX Al COLISEUM, SUNDAY

Yesterday Gladys Belmont was one of the thousand unknown girls in the ranks of motion picture ex- tras
 Today she is a girl that Holly wood envies.
 Ending in Q search of nation wide pcportion in which 463 candidates were camera-tested, Miss Belmont was chosen to play the leading fem mine role opposite Richard Dix in his new starring picture, "Redskin. :" "Redskin," much of which is pre- sented in natural color, will be shown at the Coliseum Sunday.
 Paramount's latest find" is a native of Pueblo, Col, but her par ents adopted California few years after her birth and Miss Rel- mont grew up in Sacramento and
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-12-06
NABESNA GOLD MINE
 MAKES GOOD SHOWING

Two bars of gold and silver melt cd from concentrates of Nabesna free milling ore arrived in Chitina Saturday from a Seattle assay of flee. The two bars are valued at S912O0 by the assayers and were obtained from nine pounds of con- centrates taken from one of the lodges owned by the recently or ganized Nabesna Mining Corpora ton, the headquarters of which are in Chitina. With a stamped content of about 75 per cent gold and 20 per cent silver, the. heavy pieces of precious metal created a sensatin in Chitina as soon as the officials of the company exhibited them. They will probably be dis played at the Chitina Drug Com pany for a time and then trans ferred to the Bank of Alaska in Ccrdoya, for permanent exhibition. ,-tCordova Times)
 clited because American philan- thropy has made possible a steady evacuation of refugees.
 Apart from funds given by the American Red Gross, Russian re-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-12-06
- UNUSUAL PICTURE
 COMING, PALACE

The Palace Theatre announces that 1t has obtained for it's first local presentation a new German film production from the studios of the Defu Company in Berlin, a foreign producing unit of First National Pictures, Inc. It is called "The Strange Case of Captain Ramper," and was brought to this country by First National. The premiere of this picture took place at the big Roxy Theatre in New York and it was s. L. Rothafel ('Roxy') who selected it for that honor.
 The leading role is played by Paul Wegener, perhaps the greatest figure of the German stage and screen.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-12-06
Attractions At Theatres
STUNT KING IN
 PALACE FEATURE

Gcebel, the bird-man! Better than that, for no bird ever learned to fly upside down
 Arthur c. Goebel, reputed to be one Of the screens most daring stunt and trick aviators and win nCr of the Dole prize flight from San Francisco to Honolulu, won many laurels in flimdom before making his epochal trip across the Pacific, among them being that of setting the worlds record for up- side down flying.
 Just previous to grooming his his- torical trans-oceanic air race, Goe- bel appeared in support of Al Will son in a series of aerial thrill pie lures for Universal, the last ono of the series being Won in the Clouds" which is the feature at- traction at the Palace tonight. In this masterpiece he illustrates ta the fullest his great and unerring skill in the plotting of a plane.
 Tho picture registers a thrill a second and Goebel was filmed doing tail spins, tight-spirals, b barre,- rolls, side-slips, loops, and the fall ing leaf, as well as whole dic- tionary of aeronautical stunts well known to daredevil sky riders.
 The cast of Won in the Clouds" also embraces such players as Hel- en Foster, George French, Frank Rice, Al Priscoe and others. Bruce Mitchell directed the picture.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-12-06

SAN DIEGO, Cal, Dec. GA record of safety in flying unequalled by any other group Of American naval aviators has brought the 1929 award of the Herbert Schiff Memorial trophy to training plane squadron No, 7 of the San Diego naval air station.
 When an accident claimed the life of young Lieutenant Schiff in 1924, his family, instead of being embittered, gave 6 trophy in his memory in an effort to make flying safer.
 From 1925 through 1928, the tro- phy was awarded to individual avi- ators establishing the best an- nual records of safe and efficient flying. This year, for the first time, the rules were altered to award recognition to an entire squadron.
 Lieut.. Reginald D. Thomas, Capt. H. D. Campbell, U. s. M C., Lieut.. Arthur Gavin and Lieut. James E. Dyer, were the four individual win ners.
 Lieutenant Dyer's record of 1,25l hours, Is minutes of flying, without accident or injury to anyone, con- stituted the best records of the fret four years of competition.
 This year Lieutenant Dyer again [ is honored, as executive officer of the winning squadron. Other off, cers of the honored squadron are Lieut. Thomas Gearing Fisher, con- mander; Lieut.. B. H. Johnson, Lieut.. J. c. Cronin, Lieut.. Champ bell Keene, Lieut. Warren Berner, Lieut.. c. w. Greber and Chief Boatswain A. E. Baker. They are assigned as instructors at the elinl- ination school for officers and en- listed men of the battle fleet at San Diego.
 Lieutenant Fisher is executive off, cer of squadron VB2-B of the airplane carrier Saratoga. Lieuten- ant Dyer is attached to the sister plane carrier Lexington.
 Lieutenant Fisher, representing the squadron, will receive the tro- phy from President Hoover at the White House.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-12-06

here, these two Americans also hold important places in the records of world war relief work, having been active in post war reconstruction in Siberia and France. Tn recogni- tion of these services, Miss Mitchell was given the medal of Recon naissance Francaise and the French Croix de Guerre.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-12-06
BOX AND MOONEY SECURE CONTRACT TO MOVE MILLER
 HOUSE TO NEW LOCATION

Lee Rox and Tom Mooney, form erly known as the Jiggly Higgly Wrecking Corporation. now the Free Lance Workers, have con- tracted to put the finishing touch- es to the Miller residence which was recently damaged by slide. Charles Miller is remodeling and repairing the house and will move it to a location near the Moose Hall and Box and Mooney have the con- tract.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-12-06

MRS. ANNA W MITCHELL, in-law of the Reverend Anson Phelps Stokes, and Miss Alma Rug gles of Washington, D. O., daugh- ter of Gen. George D. Ruggles, U S. A.
 After eight years here, during which the two Americans have as sisted in evacuating all but 1900 of the 60,000 White Russian refugees whom they found in Constantinople in 1921, Miss Mitchell and Miss Ruggles are leaving Turkey, but will return if they procure funds for handling the 1900 remaining cases.
 These remnants of Wrangels thousands who poured into Con Stantinople ofter the rout of the White army have been under Fur keys orders of expulsion since 1927 --orders which have been unexe-
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st is as follows: :
CITY COUNCIL TO HOLD
 REGULAR MEET TONIGHT

The City Council will hold it's first meeting this month tonight in Council Chambers at City Hall. Besides routine matters to be dis cussed, the Council will take up the Front Street improvement pro- ject that, as proposed, involves widening of lower Front Street from City Dock to the Alaska Ju- neau offices.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-12-06

This poet and musician was the man who wrote Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Deep River" and Roll. Jordan, Roll"
 That trio of spirituals, as well as two score or so others, are heard from the speaking screen for the first time in Hearts in DIxie,' Fox Movieccne 100 per cent singing, dancing and talking feature, which is at the Coliseum for the last two times tonight.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-12-06
SCHOOL COMEDY GIVEN TONIGHT
 IN ELKS' HALL
Tommy Will Be Pres ented by Good Cast of
 Juneau High School

Everything is all ready for the first presentation of the three act comedy Tommy by the hig h school in Elks hall tonight.
 The cast has satisfactorily com pleted the final rehearsal and two and one-half hours of genuine fun are promised for the audience to- night and again tomorrow night, the second presentation.
 An attractive new stage set has been made and appropriate and needed furniture has been loaned by courtesy of the Thomas Hard ware and Juneau Young Company.
 Miss Dorothy Israel, who has been directing the comedy is con- fident that the cast will make good, all individual members being es- pecially picked for the different characters.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-12-06

Fresno. She had been playing oc- casional bits in films for about six months when she was chosen for the part in DiX's picture.
 'Redskin" is two-thirds in na- tural color with the improved Tech nicolor process.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-12-06
By PRISCILLA RING (A, P, Corresuopdent)

CONSTANTTNOPLE, Dec. 6. = Finding a country for 58,70O men, women and children without 6 country is the achievement of two American women, Miss Anna V. Mitchell of New York City, sister
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-12-06
HEARTS IN DIXIE"
 ENDING AT COLISEUM

One of the greatest poets America has produced, who also came near to being one of Americas great est musicians, must remain name less, as great a mystery as The Unknown Soldier.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-12-17
Consulate at Laredo Closed Order IS Efec-
 tive Today
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT
 ALSO JUMPS INio CASE
Issuance of Tourist Cards Has Been Rescinded
 -Calles Case

MEXICO CITY, Dec. 17.-The Mexican Government has struck hack at Laredo, Texas, border city, for the attitude taken by John Walls, District Attorney there, to- ward General Gales, former Mex ican President.
 The Mexican Foreign Office an nounced that effective today, the Mexican Consulate at Laredo is closed.
 The Department of the Inter for announced that permission granted to the Laredo Chamber of Commerce to issue tourist cards for entry to Mexico, has been rescinded. Inasmuch as Laredo is the principal port of entry to Mex ico of American products and tour ists, it is expected here that the action might serve to divert traf- fic to other ports of entry.
 District Attorney Valls named Gales in murder warrants charg- ing complicity in the death 1T 1922 of two Mexican officers or the Texas side of the Rio Grandt River.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-12-17
ELECTROCUTEON HELD
 NOT ALWAYS DEADLY

BERLIN, Dec. 17.-Pr roof that electrocution does not kill is claimed by Dr. Hartmann, Silesian.
 He reports successful resusctta- tion of several seemingly dead per sons by massage and artificial res piration. after hearts had appar- ently ceased beating for hours. His. experiments are part of a wave of interest that followed a re- port by Professor Jellinek, before the Viennese Society of Physicians, that electric current brings only seeming death, which he called thanatoid.
 It is asserted that monkeys have been revived readily even after electrodes were applied directly to the exposed heart.
 The interest of physicians in Ger many has stirred newspaper con- ment on the use of electrocution fo. criminals.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-12-17

LONDON, Dec. 17.-There is quiet little corner in London's West End where things American and things English blend with the hap piest results.
 And women are responsible for the welding.
 It is the American Women's club, housed in a charming gray stone house on Grosvenor street, where American women who live in Lon- don are achieving a pleasant and substantial friendliness between the representatives of the two countries. Mrs. Curtis Brown is the presi- dent.
 Every Monday all the members of the club who can find the time, gather in the spacious ballroom or the clubhouse to sew for the Royal Free hospital wards that the club supports.
 The club also sponsors an occa- sional sale conducted by the Rus
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-12-17

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.-Five hundred clinics where inhlbitions and inferiority complexes Of child ren are "doctored" now operate in $50 cities in 36 different states.
 The United States Children's bu- reau lists that number of psychi- atric centers in it's latest bulletin
 Calling attention to the fact that the first clinic for study of delin- auent children was set up in Chi cago only 20 years ago, Miss Grace Abbott, chief of the bureau pro- nounced the 1929 list "a significant development in the field of child welfare in the United States today.
 "The wise parent of the future will have sympathetic understand ing of children's difficulties illumi-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-12-17
DECKARD IN SEATTLE;
 WAITS FOR AIRMEN

SEATTLE, Dec. 17.-The Canad- ian airmen now enroute to Seattle to start a search for Col. Carl Ben Eielson and his mechanician Earl Borland, missing on the Siberian Coast since November g, have about a 50 per cent chance for success, said Major Howard c. Deckard, Production Manager of the Fair child Airplane Manufacturing Cor poration. He is here to send three planes and eight fliers north.
 Major Deckard said: Everything is being done to hasten the start 7 The planes and fliers will be talk en to Seward, Alaska, by the Unit ed States Coast Guard cutter Chelan.
 Major Deckard further said: We will have the first plane in the air 24 hours after our arrival at Fairbanks. We have what be- lieve to be the pick of the North ern fliers. They are being equipped with planes that can go any, where"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-12-17
BOAT IS RUN
 ASHORE WHEN
 FLAMES RAGE 
Steam Schooner Skagway Reached Near Flattery to
 Allow Escape of Crew

PORT ANGELES, Wash, Dec. 17.-The Coast Guard Cutter Sno- homish has left here to examine the wreck of the steam schooner Skag- way which was purposely run aground near Cape Flattery yes- terday so the crew might escape from the fire which was raging aboard.
 { Capt. E. Strandquist was persuad- ed to leave the flaming ship after it had been given up as total loss. Other officers and crew, 26 men in all, were brought here last night aboard the Snohomish. Chief Engineer Cumerford, of the Skagway, is suffering from expos ure. He is the only member of the crew suffering any ill effects from the experience.
 Fire broke out on the Skagway which was heading for Seattle from San Francisco, with a cargo oi gasoline, oil and alcohol.
 Smoke from the hold prevented the crew from fighting the fire ol determining the cause. Water let into the hold made thu ship manageable.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-12-17
CHILD MIND STUDIED
 IN $50 CITIES NOW

mated by knowledge of their causes and the best methods that have been developed in d. aling with them" she said.
 Unfortunately. even the wisest parents often face problems in the development of their children which they cannot understand without expert assistance.
 Until recently. there was no agency which could give intelligent consideration to a child's problems from all points of view--physical, mental, educational, and social.
 Scientific study of the physical. mental and social makeup of chil- dren began with delinquent children just as knowledge of child health is the outgrowth of study and the treatment of sick children
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-12-17
LONDON AMERICAN WOMEN'S CLUB
 FOSTERS AMITY OF TWO PEOPLES

sian Red Cross and bridge tourna- ments for the children's and ma ternity wards of the Royal Free hospital. Mrs. Albert Halstead, wife of the American consul-general, is chairman of the maternity ward committee.
 Twice a month the art circle and the public speaking group meet sun- der the direction of competent lec- turers. The art group has pre- pared program of general interest on the modern trend of art in all countries, while the public speak ing subjects include How to Take the Chair and Platform Oratory and Debate"
 The whole purpose of the clubs program is to give a sense Of na-
 tional unity to those Americans liv- ing away from home and yet to CO., ordinate it with the life, thought and feeling of life as British sub ject leads in in London.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-12-17
MILLIONS IN BONUSES WILL
 DF n.''yl,EM INT
Despite Crash in Stock Val ues. Brokerage Firms
 Made Big Profit
A ssocintcd Press Phon

NEW YORK, Dec 17--The New York World today says that more than $lO0,0 100000 will be distributed Christmas as bonuses in the finan- cial district to clerks and book keepers in brokerage offices.
 A survey indicates that payments If Christmas bonuses will be as large or larger than in 1928, which were the largest on record. The 1929 distribution results despite the crash in stock values. Many firms made new records in net profits for 1929.