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The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-29
Our Elections as Viewed Abroad.
(NeW York Times )

It is an old saw that the contemporary opinion of foreign nations anticipates the verdict of his tory No saying is more in need of definition or qualifications. Alien outsiders often make ptiful bunders in interpreting political movements which only natives truly understand AS modern instance of this. one has only to read the solemn conclusions of the French and Italian press about the significance of the rising vote against Pro- lhibtion in the American elections last Tuesday. Already vintners in Italy and France see the Egh- Iteenth Amendment repealed. with a great market lin the United States soon opening for their wines. British commentators less creduous. They vis luaze merely the beginning of fight against Pro- hibition which must long be waged before it is successful in the form of repealed modified Legislation
 It would be only fair to the would-be eX porters to shores of Marsala and Chablis that jeven if American Prohibition done away with,
 there might be still barriers to their seeking to enter this country Largely driven in upon their own efforts for ten years past, Americans have, under the spur of Prohibition, leaped forward a long way in the art of distilling their own liquor and fermenting their wine and beer By the time Prohibition is repealed may have devel- oped, under it's stimulus, great new infant in- dustryn which it will be necessary to protect by pro- hbitive duties. Can one not easily imagine Senator Johnson of California transferring for the moment his zeal for homegrown lemons to the glorious native wines of his State? Are they to be cheap ened or pushed aside by spurious foreign importa- IuOnS! It IS not nara GO lOreSee d powerful move ment in favor of American drinks for Americans, with confusion to all nterlopng foreigners.
 In another way, what the touching sim pcity of European expounders of Tuesdays political reverse for the Republican Party is disclosed in their apparent belief that it will lead to can celation-at least a drastic cutting down-of the debts owed this country They do not see that the question in way entered this years campaign. Nor is there any clearly defined party difference in respect to that subject It to be thought abroad that the Democrats if they came into power would be more lenient generous than the Republicans have shown themselves. But it should not be forgotten that it Democratic President that the European allies gave their O US in wartime, and that the Democratic Party has been just as insistent the other the policy of demanding payment up to the capacity of the debtor.
 | It is true that the whole matter of trade rela- tions and debt readjustment will have to come up for reconsideration in this country. But the time for it is not yet, and it's coming has not been hastened by the results of the Congressional eec-
 tions this year. The diplomatic agents of foreign governments now in the United States will be re- miss in their duty if they do not make this very plain to their superiors when writing their official reports.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-29
Railroads and Vitamins.
Louisville Herald-Post.)


 With so much emphasis placed on the importance lof vitamins in the diet it behooves us to realize how vegetables get into the market If Vitamins IA B, c, D, E, F and G are the by which stay alive and prosper the process by which milk and fresh vegetables arrive from far and is greater matter than foreign politics and some other Supposedly weighty concerns.
 The Bureau of Railway Economics has completed la survey of the origin and distribution of fresh fruits and vegetables during the year 1929 But while the figures and percentages gathered may be highly valuable to experts, they by no means tell the story which the American ought to con- slider.
 They do not tell of the refrigerator cars used on all lines, the care of dispatcherS and their assistants facilitating fast freight laden with pershable food do they go into the elaborate speed the produce of the winter truck garden mar kets.
 When you stroll into your green grocers it be- comes fascinating study in geography and trans portation if you induce him to tell you how the spinach you have just purchased got there from Florida Texas and Arizona in prime condi tion how the orange conveyed and how the tomato reposes in his window that wintry gales and frost have hit
 Tn all this matter of freight rates and railroad regulation it is important to remember that the railroads are performing services more complete, more vital and more economic than ever before, in face of greater odds than they have ever had to encounter.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-29

Lewis was asked by reporters how he could recon lcle it's acceptance with his refusal of the former lThe main difference, he told them in the enormous difference in the two prizes. which he proceeded to outline One of the big differences which is fair to say MT. Lewis did not enumerate was in the amount of money. The Pulitzer Prize carried with it LOGO and the Nobel Prize this year was s4635O
 When George Bernard Shaw awarded the prize in 1926, he declined to accept the money for himself but established fund to create an Anglo publication of great literary works of both nations, Possibly it this which led reporters to ask MT. Lewis what he planned to do with the money, to which he retorted in his best vein:
 My answer is that I shall use it to
 support a well-known young American
 author and his family and enable him to
 continue writing"
 He was at a loss to understand why some of his questioners not able to at once identify the author" in question as "the chap named Sinclair Lewis" Possibly it would have been wiser for the "gag to have been stricken" he suggested, for the following day MT Lewis was widely praised in Berlin newspapers for his generosity toward some unknown and struggling young American writer to whom he was turning the money.
 The local public schools recently passed the G0O-mark in enrolment for the first time n the history of the community. There could be no more convincing proof of the growth and pros perity of the city.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-29
GOV. PARKS'S REPORT A SPLENDID
 DOCUMENT.

The annual report of Gov George A. Parks for the year ending last June 30 is a splendid docu- ment covering the activities of the previous year adequately It contains vast amount of detailed information about Alaska, it's trade, resources pro- gress in development social life, Territorial and Federal Government activities, in short a complete picture of the conditions that exist in the Ter ritory.
 It is written informatively and with an under standing of the subject and clarity of vision that has characterized all of the Governors earlier re- ports His several recommendations to the Secretary of Interior evidence keen realization or the Ter ritory's greatest needs. He has asked for nothing unreasonable and his requests should have the hearty endorsene of all Alaskans. All who can should obtain copy of the complete document and study it carefully for there is enlightenment in it for even the best-posted student.
 It is greatly to be desired that the Secretary of Interior and other departmental heads in Wash ington heed his recommendations. All of them are timely A cutter on station in Western Alaska wat CTS has long been outstanding need for the pro- lection of shipping and to give succor to fishermen and others navigating those waters Concentration of all law enforcement agencies under the Depart ment of Justice is desirable, and would affect material economies for the Federal Government. No one questions the need for new Federal build ings in Ketchikan, anchorage and Fairbanks.
 Of great interest to Southeast Alaska is his recom- mendation that action be expedited by the Federal Power Commission on applicationsIsnc grantedlmade by the Cameron and Zeerbach interests for final water power licenses for their projected pulp and paper mills Air mail is another service that Alaska needs and which the Governor seeks to have ex- tended on the same basis is being used in the States.
 Approved projects for harbor improvements cer- tainly justified by the esisng needs betterment Of
 h1oey yo'c aborginies increased funds for fisheries surveys in Boring Sea consideration of the necessity for ad- ditional corservation the halibut fishery, funds for sceuti1lc study of diseases affecting the pros perity of the reindeer industry, some of the other subjects embraced in the Governors recom- mendations. All of them should receive favorable and early acton q the hands of the Administration
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-29
FROM RED CAP TO LEGISLATURE.

From a Red Cap" in New York City depot to member of the Empire States Legislature is the record of James E. Stephens, Negro, and Demo- crat who rode to office the Democratic wave that spelled disaster to the G. O. P. early this month Stephens will have the distinction of being the only Negro in the New York Legislature at its next session
 He has been working as a Red Cap in the Pennsylvania Railroad station, and is the first Democrat to represent his district the Sixteenth in seven years. He is a graduate of the Brooklyn Law School and of Howard University. He is veteran of the World War, serving with the 92d Division His unsuccessful Republican opponent Myles A Paige, is also Negro
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-29
SINCLAIR LEWIS JOINS ILLUSTRIOUS
 COMPANY

In awarding Sinclair Lewis, temperamental Am ercan author the Nobel Prize in Literature recent ly, the Swedish Academy admitted him to an illus trious group of writers similarly honored in the past including such George Bernard Shaw Thomas Mann, Anatole France, Romain Roland Maurice Maeterlinck. Kipling, Tagore, W. B. Yeats Henri Bergson, Mrs, Undset, Sienkiewcz back to the first winner Sully- -Prudhomme.
 In the twenty-nine years since the prizes were established under the will of the Swedish scientist Alfred B Nobe inventor of dynamite, MT. Lewis is the first American to be so honored France Germany, Belgium Norway, Sweden, Spain, Poland Italy England India, Switzerland Holland and Ireland have produced Nobel prize winners in lit- erature But it remained for the creator of George Rabbit to crash the gates for the United States And it was Rabbit, himself pathetic and frustrated typical American" given to the world by Lewis ir 1922 who brought the prize the Atlantic Ocean for the first time. The Swedish Academy made il clear that its choice was based on "Babbtt" while expressing appreciation for Elmer Gantry9 "Dods- worth" and others of his novels
 In 1926 another of MT Lewts's novels picked for prize He was offered the Pulitzer Prize o 1928 for "Arrowsmith" as the most representative of American life published that year. The author declined to accept the award After he had an nounced his acceptance of the Nobel award Mir
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-29

It is predicted that buildings of the future will be built of glass with rubber foundations and beams. Isn't that appropriate?-( Cincinnati En- qurer0
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-29

Then there's the hardy optimst who declares that while Wall Street is bearsh here and there political tidings sound rather beerish-( -(Ch- cago News)
The Washington times., 1930-03-18
MOTHER SEEKS
GIRL MISSING
|. FROM SCHOOL

A grieving mother today asked
The Times Missing Persons
Bureau to aid in the search for
her 15-year-old daughter who has
been missing since January 80.
The girl is Gertrude Ripple,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Ripple. 800 block Jackson Ave,
Riverdale, Md. She was last seen
at the HyattSville High School,
where she was a pupil.
II have no idea where Gertrude
could have gone," Mrs. Ripple
said. "She was happy at home,
30 far as I know, and there is no
reason for her leaving. She is
our only child and both Mr.. Ripple
and myself are heartbroken at
her disappearance. If she has
any fancied grievance. would
like to assure her it is forgiven
and We will welcome her back
home"
Shortly after Gertrude's dis.
Appearance, Mrs. Ripple appealed
to the Department Of Justice and
to the Women's Bureau of the
washington Police Department,
but their efforts to locate the girl
have been unsuccessful.
The Washington times., 1930-03-18
LISTS
HONOR PUPILS

LEEsBURG. Va, March 1s.-
Honor students of the Lincoln
High School for the period end.
Ing March IA are as follows:
First yeRr-Thomas Clagett.
Kate EdmondSon, Dorothea Erbe,
Clarke Milbourn, Lawrence Lee
Taylor, Sarah Tribby, Louise Of
ley and Esther Rogers.
Second year-Maude Hampton,
Hilda Gochnauer, Esther Smith,
Pearl Grubb and Benjamin Hick
man.
Third year-Fulton Alder. Es-
tella Norman, Eleanor Smith, viii.
liam Sydnor, Margaret Ward.
Fourth year-Herbert Brown,
Warner Janney and Lula Neill.
II. P. White is principal of the
Sch0o1. Other members of the
high school faculty are Mr.. and
Mrs Jennings Potts. Misses Lucille
JoneG. Izola Akers, Elizabeth
Thorn as and Matilda Coleman.
The Washington times., 1930-03-18
Dwellings Cover
Crime, Woman Alleges

Elimination of alley dwellings
as quickly as possible in order to
better living conditions of the
present dwellers in dilapidated
novels was advocated by Mrs.
Archibald Hopkins at a meeting
of the Monday Evening Club last
night.
In her talk Mrs. Hopkins said
more than $4,000 persons are liv.
ing in squalor in houses built
originally to house soldiers dur.
ing the Civil War and later for
freed slaves. She added that
such dwellings offer an excellent
cover for the nefarious activities
of the underworld.
The Washington times., 1930-03-18
D. C. Man jailed for Fine
After Wild Auto Drive

ROCKVILLE, Nd, March ID.
James McGill Williams, 20, of
Washington. was committed to
jail for $50 days by Police Judge
woodward here Saturday in de-
fault of a fine Of $3.50 on a
charge of reckless driving.
The Washington times., 1930-03-18
G. w. Smith, Architect,
Dies in Santa Barbara

SANTA BARBARA, Calf, :,
March 10 U.NS0.-Funeral ser.
vices were arranged for George
Washington Smith. 81. native of
East Liberty, Pa, internationally
known architect.
The Washington times., 1930-03-18
o. {. S, CARD PARTY

st. Johns Lodge Chapter. Order
Eastern Star. will hold a card
party and dance tonight at the
Wardms n Park Hotel, at $50
o'clock.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-07
BRANCH OF Az. A.
 ID BE FORMED HERE
Junior Order Of B'nai Birth
 Proposed for This City

Jehuda Halcvi lodge, I. o. B. E. will hold q surprise meeting WcG- nesday evening at the Burritt hotel The lodge will be hosts to the A. /. A. club Of Hartford, members of which with their advisor, Charles Shane. will provide the program for the evening.
 The A. z. A. is the Junior Ord 1T of the Bnai Birth and the visit to Jehuda Halcvi lodge is the first step in the formation of a local chapter.
 The Hartford chapter is only about one year old and recently It Atlantic City was runner up in the eastern sectional convention debate tournament.
 Mir. Shane is a former grand aleph Of the A. z. A. in Topeka, kansSS, and was one of the pioneers in it's work. The order was founded in the west about seven years ago and IS said to be gaining ground rapidly.
 A report will be given by the committee appointed 10 look into the advisability of renovating and furnishing the property on West Main street for the B'nai Birth.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-07
with regularity.


 In the spirit of the real golfer, he pitches more often than he attempts the safety-first run up" type of ap- proach.
 Based on his scores for eight holes, which range around 50, MT. Rockefeller seems well able to do the nine in 55 but he finds a longer route now a bit too taxing. He stops at the eighth at Ormond because the green is beside the road, where his car waits to take him hom". Too, this seaside course is & stiff test, well-trappcd, wooded and rolling among the dunes on which it IS built. There are water as we'll 3s sand hazards. It is far from soft
 Throughout his matches, Mr. Rockefeller is kecnly alert to every shot and situation. exchanging pieasantrics, rewarding a compan- ions shot with a "bravo," or, f very well played, with a bright, new nickel. The famous dimes are dis tributed only at the start and finish. His favorite exclamation is My Conscience"
New Britain herald., 1930-03-07
M00NSHINE MAJOR
 SOURCE OF LIQUOR
Doran Lists Ways in Which
 BootleggerS Get Supplies

Washington, March lPl-The moonshner has become the big shot of bootlegging.
 He now is the biggest sourse of supply of illicit liquor, says pr. James NJ. Doran, federal prohibition commissioners.
 Federal enforcement has changed it's objective at regular intervals through the first 10 years of the Volstead act. As one source of sup ply was shut off, another cropped up.
 The means by which bootleggers obtained their principal supplies, down through the decade of prohi- bition, are outlined by Dr, Doran as:
 Pure whisky; pure alcohol; rum TOW; denatured alcohol; industrial alcohol; toilet water, perfumes and like preparations.
 With industrial and denatured al cohol. and preparations with an alcoholic base, rcdistillation is used
 In order Of importance In supply ing liquor. Dr. Doran lists the fol- lowing sources: moonshine, alcohol diversion, and smuggling.
 Striking over widely scattered areas of the country during the last year, government officials made some of the biggest hauls in en- forccment history. Immense liquor rings were put out of business arg comprehensive marketing systems disrupted.
 Those results, said Dr. Doran, do not indicate a new policy of con- centrating forces at strategic points. They represent. he said, the climax of careful under cover work that began as long as three years ago.
 Three thousand moonshine dis tilleries were destroyed last year | by government prohibition forces.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-07
Little Hope for Man
 Crushed by Bus Wheels

Boston, March ' (CP)-Little hope for the recovery of Richard Munster. 5. of Cambridge, was held out today at Massachusetts General hospital where he was taken after he had lain IS minutes under the double rear wheels of a Boston clc- vated bus last night.
 The bus pinned Munster when he ran across the street to board an other Bost on elevated bus. An emergency crew eXtricated him with great difficulty.
 Several women in the crowd Of 800 that gathered tainted.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-07
SILK MERCHANT KILLED

Boston. March UP)-Noah E. Levine, 45, of Brooklinc, a silk mcr- chant, was fatally injured late ycs- torday in a fall from his sixth floor office in q north end building 10 inc street. He died shortly after arriv- al at Haymarkct Relief hospital. A brother. Dr, Samuel C. Levine. of Newton, said the victim had been despondcnt because of ill health and business depression.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-07
HIT SAFELY 325 TIMES

Organized bascball's record num- Der of base hits for one season is 8 | and was made several years ago by Paul Strand.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-07

Ormond Beach. Fla, March 70 John D. Rockefeller is no safely first" golfer.
 The man who mastered the intri- cacies of the oil game and big busl- ness half century ago, has fouad an aid to long life and pleasure il conquering the suhtleties Of golf.
 As a young man he probably never saw a golf course, much les thought of spending his spare tim, on the links.
 Today, as he draws toward hl* ninety-first birthday golf is he part Of his daily routine in which Ao finds most satisfaction and benefit. whether it is during tho summer on the courses at PoCantico- Hills anl Lakewood, or in the winter time Jn the sandy stretches of the Ormond Beach golf club, q mashie shot from the Atlantic ocean.
 Plays But Eight Holes
 Rockefeller is among tho millions of the games followers who do not 'break 100" for IS holes.
 Unlike the others. however. n" does not even attempt it. for his winter 'round' is confined 10 cig7t holes of q morning.
 Besides, as often as not. he Will alternate with his partner in play . ing the same ball. in the Scotch foursome style. He enjoys the nov city of situations and the possibili- ties of teamwork that this method of play provides.
 The Rockefeller game is built On accuracy, not length, on direction rather than distance, on well-co1-
New Britain herald., 1930-03-07
Takes Chance on Approach

Rockefeller's accuracy in the short game, whether it is in ap- preaching from distances of around 75 to 100 wards of the green, or in putting, is the high-spot of his play. Nothing pleases him more than 10 chip nicely 10 the green and he does
New Britain herald., 1930-03-07
trolled swing instead of power,
Student Of the Game


 He seldom fails to connect fairy and cleanly with any club, for he is studious in the essentials Of keep ing the head doWli. ,ne eye on the ball the left arm straight and the weight shifted on the follow through
 In fact Mr. Rockefeller gets ais body vigorously into the finish oI lis shots from inc tee or through the fairWay, His backsNing. on the other hand, is extremely slow anl measured. He literally drags the c.ub-hcad back
 He averages around loo 10 125 yards with any ono of the three brassies in his collection Of clubs. He does not use q driver. Through the fairHay his caddy tees up the ball with a wood pes. Golf. for him. is not to be taken SO serious as to require the extra difficulty of play ing the ball from any or every liz.
 On the other hand. the elderly sportsman has on more than one occasion cheerfutly climbed down into sand traps to cXtricate a blll shot there by his partner. Rarely, OH his own account, does hc find the traps. so good is his control anl direction.
The Washington times., 1930-04-08

Being at the moment man.
ager of the world champions,
and having been around the
American League pretty much
since the day it was born. Con-
ME Mack ought to be in a pref
ty good position to discuss the
approaching baseball race. For
such a reason his words on re-
turning from the South are
worth moment of any fans
time.
Modest, if nothing, Mack
omitted much reference to his
own club. He did say he
thought that 95 victories will be
necessary for the club winning
the flag this year and added
that that isn't an easy assign
ment in view of the improve
ment that he has observed in
the league so far.
Connie says to look out for
the White Sox and the Tigers
to be dark horses, and that the
Yankees aren't out of the run
ming either.
"Tt will be q close race" he
says, "as things look now. /
haven't anything to say about
my own club, for you know
we've got a ball club good
enough to be world champions.
You don't have to say any.
thing more than that about
them.
"But honestly look for a
couple, Of dark horses to make
trouble. Sure, I'll tell you who
they arc-the White SOx and
the Tigers. / saw that the
Chicago club at the end of last
season was coming along.
"They have a young ball
club. When you look at a lot
Of baseball, naturally you see
when q team that is young
starts to move ahead. 1t was
this case with Chicago during
our last trip.
They've been pitching, too.
DOME Bush viii keep them
huStling, and ! look for the
White SOx to make a fight
this year that will make them
q strong dark horse.
"Never was any real reason
in my mind" said Connie,
"fOr the Tigers to finish where
they did. None in the world.
II always expect Harris team
to make trouble, and 1 expect,
from what / hear this year.
The Washington times., 1930-04-08
CAPITAL BOXERS
ADVANCE

BOSTON, Mass, April S.-By
virtue of three byes. the five
Washington, D. c.. boxers have
advanced to the second round Of
the national amateur boxing
championships which got under
way here last night.
Jocko Miller and Eric Sonnich.
sen were the only two Capital
City representatives appearing in
first-round bouts. Miller out
pointed Dudley Curtis. of Grand
Rapids, in the 135-pound class
and Sonnichsen disposed of Tony
Morino, Of Philadelphia, in the
147-pound division.
Angie Tardugno, 118 pounds;
Nevins Barber, 126 pounds, and
Henry Irving. light-heavyweight,
were the Washingtonians draw
ing byes.