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The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-02-20
VALDEZ CANNERY SOLD 10 p. 4. E.
 
Company Now Operates IA Canneries in Alaska
 Adds to Payroll

BELLINGHAAd, Wasn., Feb. 2o.-- The Pacific American Fisheries has completed negotiations for the pur- chase of the Valdez Packing Com pany's salmon cannery at Valdez, Alaska, F. B. Demi1ig announced in a telegram from California
 Acquisition increases the Pacific American Company's canneries in Alaska to IA and will add 125 men to the payroll.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-02-20
O'Connor Resigns As Chairn,ar, of Shipping
 Bomd; Health Poor

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2O.-Chair- man O'Connor of the Shipping E ard has requested President Hoover to replace him as Chair man but said he would retain membership on the Board. O'Con- nor said his health made it neces- sary for him to be relieved Of the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-02-20
MONSTER BEACON PLANNED

BUENOS AIRES - A 35,00O GOO candlepower airway beacon, to be visible for 100 miles on a clear night, will be erected here. It is the first of it's class planned for South America.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-02-20
ROUGH WALL SLOWS AIR

URBANA, H., Feb. 2O.-The en- gineering. experiment. station of the University of Illinois finds that smoothing the sides of air passages in mines reduces friction so much as to result in appreciable saving in expense of operating the air pumps that force the air into the mines.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-02-20
LONDoN-PARIs RECORD SET

LONDON = A British airplane carrying 20 passengers and weigh ing nine tons set a record in flying to Paris in 95 minutes. The dis tance is 200 miles,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-02-20
EARS RECORD WIVES

SAN FrRANCISCO-Husbands in the Solomon Islands group wear quills in their ears to mark the number of wives they possess,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-02-20

kins Ggw sr >.r,ssrs Wilkins), Arctic explorer whom he was pilot ing on a flight over the North Pole, became stranded 100 miles from Point Barrow when their plane became disabled, and for 9 days were reported lost.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-02-20

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-07
MORMON FOUNDER
IS PAID TRIBUTE
Prophecies of Joseph Smith
Are Recalled by Smoot
in Speech.

Members Of the Mormon Church liv-
ing IN and near Washington, led by
Senator Reed Smoot Of Utah, met in
the Washington Auditorium yesterday
and paid tribute to the life and prophe-
cieS OF Joseph Smith, who, 100 years ago
yesterday, called small group into his
religion IN Fayette, N. Y.
The principles enumerated by Smith,
which have become the creed and be-
lief Of more than 100000 members of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
Day Saints, were discussed by Senator
Smoot in the tprincipal address. A
message from Heber j. Grant, president
OF the church, was read. Centennial
services also were held at Salt Lake
City, Utah, where the first presidency
OF the church Is situated, and in other
cities.
REST Case on Revelations"
Senator Smoot is next to the senior
member OF the council of IL apostles
OF the church and it is supposed that
IN time he will succeed to the presidency
Of the Mormon organization. The Utah
Senator told his audience of about 500
persons that the church is willing to
rest its case on the revelations" Of
Smith. the founder.
Addressing himself to the question
as to whether Smith told the truth,
Senator Smoot cited several prophecies
credited to the founder and described
how those prophecies came true. No
one has ever disproved one of Smiths
prophecies, the Senator said.
A prophecy of the Civil War and one
touching Stephen A. Douglas were
referred to by Senator Smoot. Smith
was credited with having published in
1882 prophecy that the country would
become involved in civil war, that it
would commence in South Carolina and
that Great Britain would be called on
for assistance. The Utahan recalled
that these predictions came true.
Cites Douglas Incident.
Senator Smoot cited an experience
Of Stephen A. Douglas as confirming
the prophetic powers Of Joseph Smith
Smith told Douglas in 1843 that he
would aspire to the presidency, Mr..
Smoot said, and warned him that If he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-07

ever turned against the Mormons he
would be defeated. Douglas, II years
later, when a candidate for the presi-
dency against Abraham Lincoln, de-
nounced Mormonism in a political
speech. He was Overwhelmingly de-
feated, and Senator Smoot said he died
disappointed and grief-Stricken man.
The services were presided over by
DR.. E. B. Brossard. president of the
Washington branch. Representative
Don B. Cotton of Utah, a prominent
Mormon churchman, delivered the in
vocation. Congregational singing and
a duet by Jesse r. Smith and Mrs
Claire Murdoch formed the musical
phase of the service. Frank Murdock
pronounced the benediction.
Sunday school exercises were held In
the morning and in the evening Repre-
sentative Cotton was the principal
speaker at priesthood meeting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-07
Scholar Believes
Trees Rings May
Predict Climate
Arizona Observatory Pro-
fessOr Carries Records
Back to 700 AID.

By the Associated Press.
TUCSON, Ariz, April 7-Dr. Andrew
E. Douglass, director of Steward OBJ
servatory at the University of Arizona,
today said accurate prediction of cli-
matte conditions may become possible
through study Of growth rings in trees.
Through three decades DR.. Douglass
has translated the story Of weather
conditions in the past as told by tree
rings, and has discovered what he be-
lieves are relationships between tree
rings and sun spot cycles.
DR.. Douglass in 1901 conceived the
idea of tree ring study and in 1904
began developing it in his spare time.
During the intervening years he has
used tree rings as a substitute for a
telescope in making calculations Of the
suns effect on the climate of the earth.
The study of solar variations in COM
parison with tree ring growths checked
up nicely, he said, except for a period
at about TOO, at which point the record
seemed obscure.
The cross-dating has been accom-
plished as far back as TOO AID, "but, +"
says DR.. Douglass, II am not stopping. !"
He looks upon tree ring investigation
as the first precise extension of nat
ural records to any length.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-07

Poisonous waste stagnates in the
bowels and causes most of our ills. If
you feel languid, headachy, half sick,
take DR.. TUFTS Pills for quick, sure
relief.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-07

Woman Made Professor.
AMSTERDAM P.-The FIRST woman
professor In Holland has been installed
at Leyden University.
The new professor, DR.. Sophie An
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-07

Seventy men are kept busy this sea-
son repairing lifeboats Of England.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-07
100000 Children,
Aged IL, to Receive
Cameras and Film
Gifts to Mark Anniversary
of Patent Grant to
Company Head.

By the Associated Press.
ROCHESTER, N. Y, April IA plan
to give away more than half million
cameras to children whose twelfth
birthday falls in 1880 was announced
yesterday by the Eastman Kodak Co
through its founder, George Eastman.
The gifts are to mark the fftieth an
niversary Of the first Photographic pat
ent granted to Eastman.
The children, the announcement said
have only to go with parent or guard
ian to their local Photographic dealer
between May and June / to receive
the gifts. Each camera will be supplied
with one roll of Aim.
George Eastman, who started life as
a poor boy, is noted for his philan-
thropies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-07
Italian Exports Increase.

ROME OP.-Italy imported goods
worth $1,123.s41, 1873 in 1929, and her
exports came to $7s3 ,4e4,73l. This rep
resented net gain in exports of $47,-
095,262 over the previous year. BY an
intensified wheat-growing compaign
It is hoped further to reduce the i'm
ports
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-07
TREES SHIFTED ABOUT
TO SUIT MOVIE SCENES
Giants, Weighing IL Tons and
Ranging From 80 to 100 Years
Old, Moved in Short Time.

LOS ANGELES (R.-Many fine trees
Of this locality never know where they
will be rustling next.
Duels are fought and love trysts are
held beneath them. They weave as
man-made wind means through their
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-07

toniades, delivered her inaugural lecture
on the importance Of modern Greek be.
fore a distinguished audience, which in
cluded Princess Juliana and the Greek
minister.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-07
,ughs and an ARTIFICIAL rain beats down

boughs and an artificial rain beats down
upon them.
These trees are rented by movie firms
and society natronS on various occa-
sions. It Is not unusual for a tree
weighing IL tons to be shifted within a
short time.
I'VE frequently move trees 80 years
old and have moved one that was 100
years old" said w. H. Smitter, nursery
manager.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-07
A KINGS PROMISE
IS NEVER BROKEN!

Conrad III at the surrender Of Weinsbes 4o demanded
mems execution but permitted the away os much
they could Every through the opened aoes
carrying her back her husband her brother
King kept his word them Weinsbera chcmino
Mose the Block Foestin that lovely movnton
lake. and woods flowers rich beou cemonyhe
post eeoms in eoste town. Obeommeraov Position Play
The present enens great cities health resorts modern spo
No wise Charge modern comfort moderate prices golden Cermon
Going 10 Europe" means going cermony.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-07
CHARLES B. PAXTON
EXPIRES AT AGE OF 81
Native of Washington Dies Sud-
dently-Funeral to Be Held at 2
Pm. Tomorrow.

Charles Benjamin Paxton, 81 years
old, a lifelong resident of Washington,
died suddenly yesterday at his resi-
dence, 4804 Forty-f1rst street.
During his early life, Mr.. Paxton, who
was widely known here, was employed
by G. W. Offutt, grocery dealer in
been connected with the hardware firm
of w. T. Weaver & Sons He was a
member of the Junior Order Of Amer
lean Mechanics
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Fannie Paxton. Funeral services will
be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow after
noon at st. Columbus Chapel, on Muir
dock Mill road. Interment will be in
GlenWood Cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-07
BOAT BLAST HURTS 10

Several Hurled into Water by
Force of Explosion.
LAKEPORT. Calf, April z (P).-Ten
persons were injured seriously yester-
day in the explosion Of a pleasure
launch on Clear Lake.
The explosion was said to have oc-
CURED while the launch was at anchor.
Fire followed the blast.
Several of the injured, including a
3-year-old girl, were hurled into the
water, while others unable to swim
jumped overheard and chung to the
side of the boat to escape the flames.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-07
Colored Blouses for Spring.

PARIS R).-Colored blouses, pink
and blue shades preferred, are newer
than white for wear with Spring suits
Materials may be wash satin, crepe
de chine or light weight wool jerseys
preferably Of fancy, open weave. Col
ored wolfe and handkerchief linen also
are widely used.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-26

how to bring down the fabulous cost
Of maintaining health or restoring it,
once lost or impaired. II the objective
can be reached, DR.. Wilbur Is not going
too far when he declares that the COM
mittee will have given to the peo-
pie of the United States, and indeed
to the people Of the civilized world, data
that may well be termed priceless"
The Secretary of the Interior is him
self physician. He points out, with
pardonable emphasis, that, contrary to
popular belief. the doctors bill is by no
means the principal item in the costs
of medical care. The committee dis
covers that In many instances the doc
tor gets considerably less than half the
total expenditure Hospitals and nurses
are we'll paid. The drug stores cash in
substantially. In one typical county in
the Midwest the cost of medicine was
found to be more than one-third Of
the total medical expense and twenty
per cent greater than the costs of
physicians services.
Next year, when the committee is
ready to report, it will submit exclusive
ly facts and refrain from recommends
lions. But its findings promise to be
so thorough and so clear-cut that
feasible remedial courses to cut down
the price of health will stick out con-
spicuously. Perhaps some scheme of
public health Insurance, National or
State, will enter into the realm of en-
suing discussion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-26
Time to Order Your Tags.

Some good organization work at the
District Building by those who have
been able to profit from lessons learned
! last year should avoid much of the con-
fusion in January over the issuance of
automobile tags for 1881 Last years
initial experience with the new law
requiring payment of personal taxes on
automobiles at the same time that tag
fees are paid was painful to the public
and the administration at the District
Building alike. Applicants for tags on
January 2-and they were not made
available before that date-were forced
to stand in line for approximately
two hours and a half, according to q
careful check made at the time. For
several days thereafter the long waits
and the lengthy queues brought de-
served criticism of the unnecessary
inconvenience thus added to the ordeal
of taxpaying.
This year the District Building
authorities have sought to encourage
applications for tags en- bloc, with the
Government departments, such organ
izations as the American Automobile
Association and others taking care of
large patches of applications in ad-
vance. The tags for these applicants
have already been set aside, the assess
mentS computed and the transactions
reduced to the final stages. For the
public in general, which must apply
individually for tags, additional clerks
have been assigned and trained in the
work, and there are hopes that on jan
uary 2, when the rush begins, the
inconvenient standing in line and the
ping-pong Journeys from window to
window and back again will be reduced
to minimum. The time granted for
tag application has been extended until
January II.
According to literal reading of the
new law, these arrangements may not be
strictly legal, as the law requires prop
erty valuations, etc., to be made in the
year for which taxes are paid, and
while there is nd provision for issuing
new tags in advance, they are required
to be on automobiles on the first of the
year. But the steps taken this year
have been based on the desire to make
the enforcement Of the law practical
as well as possible and no challenges
Of the method are anticipated.
The States, especially our neighbors,
Maryland and Virginia, long ago adopt
ed the practice of making tags avail
able through the mails and delivering
the majority of them in advance. While
use of the mails to deliver tags has not
been possible in the District, every ef-
fort Is obviously being made now to
make the business as easy as possible
for those who are willing to cooperate
with the District Building.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-26
The Communist Campaign.

Further disclosures in the inquiry
under way in New York regarding the
causes Of the recent bank failures there
strengthen the belief that those and
perhaps other financial troubles re-
suited in part at least from deliberate
attempts by Communists to destroy pub
lie confidence in the institutions. Posi-
tive evidence was obtained that one day
last week, following meeting at which
an undermining campaign was planned,
town, going into stores and talking
about the weakness of a certain bank,
which has not been publicly identified.
This activity aroused depositors to start
withdrawing their funds, until within
two hours after the beginning Of the
whispers" fully a thousand had pre-
sented themselves at the bank with their
passbooks. All these demands were met
by the bank and, the day being Satur-
day, the windows were closed at noon
without any undue strain being felt by
the institution. On the following Mon
day morning the bank was fortified
against a run, but there were no further
concentrated withdrawal demands.
Furthermore, evidence, 1t is reported,
has been obtained to show that there
is connection between the Bolshevik
propaganda organization, which is OPP
Grated in New York under the guise Of a
trade bureau, and certain brokerage
concerns which have been engaged in
systematic short operations in bank
stocks. The suspicion, founded upon
more than mere surmise, is expressed
by the investigators into this situation
that recent short-sale operations have
in fact been directly financed by Soviet
funds. At meetings of the Communists
held lately there is frank talk Of the
campaign against banks, with mention
of names Of those institutions upon
which it is directed. Restaurants, tea
houses and small shops are the outposts
of the "whisperers," where the agi-
tators take position and spread Their
lies about the condition of the banks
that are cheleh for attack. Such banks
1t has been observed. are in al cases
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sion, has just returned to the Capital
to close up his official affairs before
going back to Berlin to live. He retires
from the German consuate-general-
ship at New York in order to resume
private law practice In the Fatherland.
Herr Lew1nski is the recipient OF
sporting congratulations from q host
OF American friends, especially in the
diplomatic and legal fraternity, for
ms victory In the recent SAC, 000, 00O
BLACK Tom and Kingsland sabotage
cases. Mainly because of his able de-
tense, Germany was acquitted before
the Claims Commission of responsibility
for those explosive affairs in 1915 and
1917. The Reich treasury saves a tidy
$50 100000 perfectly good gold marks as
a result. Nine. Won Lewinski is an
American, formerly Miss Pomeroy of
Colorado, and longtime favorite in
Washington society.
A certain highly distinguished mem
Der Of Congress has just taken possess
sion Of beautiful new home in the
swagger residential section of the Capt.
tai. The property's rear slopes down
into sylvan grove so situated as to cut
the place completely from view on that
side. The gentleman from was
being complimented on his picturesque
establishment. Eyes, we like it." was
the retort. TITS about the only place In
Washington where you can serve cock
tails outdoors"
William N. Doak-everybody soon will
be calling him Billy Doak-the new
Secretary of Labor, was recently re-
ferred to on the radio by this broad
caster as hailing from West Virginia.
That brought forth q sharp protest
from Roanoke, which claimed Doak as
Virginian. Jim" Davis successor was
asked to clear up the facts once for all,
and writes: IT was born in Wythe
County. Va. left there when I was
about 18 years of age, going to Blue
field, w. Va, where resided for nearly
10 years, and then moved to Roanoke.
Va. lived in Roanoke until a few
years ago. when I moved to Arlington
County, Va. I voted in West Virginia
for several years, but have been voting
in the old Commonwealth for nearly
10 years. hold my membership in the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen at
Bluefield because worked on the Poca-
hontas division of the Norfolk g. West
ern. Therefore. the West Virginia claim
that am a West Virginian in reality.
However I am native Virginian and q
voter In Virginia"
Copyright. 1930)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-26
English Sports. and Ours.
he Worcester Evening Gazette.

From the Worcester Evening Gazette.
Information designed to shatter the
complacency Of any patriotic American
is contained in the annual report Of the
Harvard Athletics Committee recently
submitted to President Lowell.
Here we are, If our critics are to be
believed, a Nation devoted to bigness
devoted to quantity rather than quality
We want our populations big; we want
our buildings big; we want our college
enrollmentS big; we want our territory
big; we want our stage SpectacleS big
we want our crowds big.
And in our sports, our critics aver, We
are mad, simply mad about size. Par
ticularly gone are we as regards college
foot ball. College foot ball teams are
given nicknames suggesting magnitude,
StupendouSneSS, irresistibility. We have
the Big Pink team, the Big Ecru team
the Big Vernillion team, the Wildcats
the Tin Tornado. And the big teams
play in big stadiums before big throngs
of mad enthusiasts. The deplored result
is overemphasis.
Our critics are forceful, convincing
They cite the ancient Greek motto of
moderation in all things. They praise
the sane restraint which characteri7es
other countries. Specially popular with
them is the gentlemanly dabbling In
sports which they attribute to England
and the English universities.
And now come the Harvard delivers
into facts and spread before us the
startling discovery that the athletic
teams of the English universities play
through schedules far bigger than the
schedules attempted by the athletic
teams of our universities. But utterly
flabbergasting is the intelligence that
at Tinchenham, where championship
rugby matches are played, the amphi-
theater has spectator capacity of over
100000. The Yale bowl cannot accom-
modate three-quarters of that, and the
Harvard stadium scarcely one-half. To
match that in this country one has to
take the stadium in Chicago where Notre
Dame and the Army struggled a few
weeks back.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-26
Silver Loan to China.
From the oakland tribune.

From the Oakland Tribune.
There is talk of an American loan
of silver to China in the hope it would
bolster the silver market, increase the
purchasing power of silver currency
there, and enable China to buy more
merchandise from the United States.
Nevada and other Western States, of
course, are interested, for with the price
of silver at SO cents a fine ounce, q
record low, great industry has been
adversely affected A year ago, in Mo-
vember, silver's price was SO cents;
in 1925 it was $101. Many will recall
that in 1918 the United States even
melted down silver dollars and sold
them at one dollar an ounce to Great
Britain, who needed silver for India.
India and China today are the two
great Silver-using countries of the world
China is on silver currency basis and
huge supplies are there kept as orna-
mentS or boarded wealth. 1t Is pecul-
lar of silver that the production keeps
up regardless of low prices, and the
reason is, the metal is almost entirely
a by-product of copper, lead and zinc.
If the production of these laSt-named
be q continuous production or silver.
Exports to China in the last year have
fallen below those Of year previous
and by 80 per cent, with the chaotic
conditions in China responsible. Ad-
vocates of the silver loan argue it would
aid American exports as well as the
Chinese and would bring up the silver
price. The proposal has been made In
the hearings of the Subcommittee Of
Foreign Relations, of which Senator
Pittman of Nevada is chairman, and, 1t
appears likely, will be put forward in
the form of a bill.
Opponents argue that a loan Of the
kind would only replace present silver
exports to China and, as it would be
repaid in silverA would thus eventually
glut the market once more.