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The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-15
PAUL REYNAUD, FRENCH MINISTER
 OF FINANCE, Is DYNAMIC CHARACTER

that his theme would be the radical statesman, Waldeck-R Rousseau, and the judges told him he could net be heard because his subject smack ed too strongly of politics.
 All right" replied 5eynaud, then I'll talk about the execution of Charles I of England" and he made a speech that not only aston ished the lawyers, but thrilled the daughter Of Henri Robert, the then leader of the French bar. She be- came Madame Reynaud.
 M Reynaud was liaison officer with the British at the start Of tho war and had his automcole shct cut from under him in tha forest of Ccmpeigne just as the Germans were marching into it. Ee had to walk and run thirty miles to keep from being made prisonec.
 M Reynaud is 52 yeas old lut looks scarcely 40. He fences daily and drives a motor car at least as fast as the law allows. His cabino. post is his first big office, although he has been prominent in the chamber of deputies for several years.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-15
Four Nominations Are
 Oked; One Is Held Up

WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 15.- The nomination of four of the Federal Power Commissioners has been approved by the Senate Inter state Commerce Committee. Flank R. McNinch's nomination has been held up
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-15
LONDON IS CENTER or
 ENGLISH PROSPERITY BELT

LONDON, Dec. 15.-The south eastern part of England has con- stituted a prosperity belt" the elesen counties nearest to London being in the happiest economic state in the country.
 When official returns showed g.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-15

Rain tonight and Tuesday; moderate eastery wind ]
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-15

Tue Weather

(By the U. S. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau vicinity, beginning at p.n
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-15

The United States patent office granted nearly 50,OOO patents dur ing the last fiscal year while re- ceipts totaled s400o,o00, new record.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-15

Sixty-five percent of the students at Southeastern State Teachers college, Durant, Okla, work their way through school.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-15
- AN~s---a---'---------- HONOR LOAN OF ARC

ROUEN, France-The city coun- ell recently voted $10,000 to cele- brate in 1881 the 50oth anniversary of Jean Of Arc.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-15

unusually low the Gulf of Alaska in southern Boring moderately low elsewhere Alaska It is Pacific States Moderate Cape Fatery southern and light in portions of the Interior Clear weather vals Northwestern Alaska fallen the north northcenra the Territory have
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-15

O72,O00 people unemployed in Great Britain, the percentage of insured workers idle in the southeastern division was only 69 and in London 7.S. In South Wales and Lancashire 26 out of every 100 insured workers were idle
 Experts attributed the good level of employment around London to the increasing variety of occupa- tions open to willing workers.
Evening star., 1930-06-21
Schmeling.Shar Again.

On the night of the twelfth of this
month two men met in the ring in New
York in a fstic bout that was supposed
to settle the question Of the heavy
weight world championship. Max
Schmeling, German, and the Lithuan-
ian-American known in sports circles as
Jack Sharkey were TO 60 fifteen rounds
or less-for the title and q generous
share of the gate" evenly divided.
Sharkey was evidently the better man,
being slightly heavier and with longer
reach. His victory by O knockout was
the general expectation, which seemed
likely to Be met as the fight developed.
In the third round shsrkey was within
q narrow margin Of success. In the
fourth round he actually knocked his
man out, with a savage blow. Imme-
diately foul was claimed, and this
claim was granted and the German was
declared the winner in consequence, q
decision In which Sharkey acquiesced
though he denied any intention of de-
livering q foul blow. In this denial he
was generally sustained. II was clearly
an accidental blow. which landed low
In part because schynellng ives On tip
Evening star., 1930-06-21

Little America after the City Of New
York started her journey back
through the 400-mile ice pack, leav-
ing them alone and forlorn and
surrounded by infinite wastes Of wind
swept ice and snow. It Is another
thing to see the group, giving three
hearty cheers as the ship cut her moor
ings and plowed away through the
pack. Epics Of adventure have been
written before, and they have kept more
than one good man awake and reading
through the night. Here Is an epic that
by daring and beautiful photography
transports the staid man-in -the-street
to the position of a fur-bundled eye
witness Of feats that make his heart
pound.
Rediscovery Of the South Pole, ac-
cumulation Of scientific data, wonders
of aeronautics and radio and human
perseverance-all these be hanged The
Byrd expedition has brought back a
real movie! And the movie men, as
well as the explorers, certainly knew
their stuff!
Evening star., 1930-06-21
Death Valley as New Garden
Gives Hope for Barren Areas

even before they can reproduce then
kind, for May showers in Death Valley
may be easily forgotten in June The
remarkable factor in this blooming Of
Death Valley is where the seed that Il
few days of rain brought into life came
from-myriad varieties of seeds that
apparently had lain dormant for many
years. Every sand dune and every bare
butte must have held their secrets for
unestimable seasons"
mo blossoms are expected" COM
ments the Toledo Blade, amid the
sands of that floor of desolation In that
awful basin. It is place of death, not
life. 1t was named 80 years ago wheu
a party of pioneers died there Of ttixak,
1t is place of fraction Of an to68
annual rainfall. It's blazing sunshfno
even routs the lizards. These
are thousands of acres now heavy b
fruit and flowers In the Western seo-
tions which were once arid wastes.
Water brought In by great engineering
feats has changed desert to fairyland.
Flowers in the desert should inspire
America to reclaim all such waste
spaces for glorious beauty and substan-
tial usefulness"
Asserting that Mature broke prece-
dent" the Youngstown Vindicator de-
Scribes the valley as $50 miles long by
l5 to 35 miles wide and more than 100
feet below sea level" and holds that ''it
was well named, for nothing could grow
or live there save lizards and horned
toads, which disappeared for several
months in the heat of the year." The
VIndicator sees a fine opportunity for
study by botanists and irrigation advo-
Gates"
Evening star., 1930-06-21
toe as he advanced for an exchange

toe as he advanced for an exchange
Of buffets.
After some delay the boxing COM
mission, which has Jurisdiction, declared
Schmeling the champion, by a vote of
two to three, the veteran william Null
doom voting may" Thus for the first
time . virtually beaten man was given
the crown on foul. Immediately came
Sharkey with a challenge for a return
match. He offered concessions in the
matter of the division of the purse,
giving the title holder all the better of
the bargain. He agreed to fight on al
most any terms, but with the stipula-
ton that the German drop his former
manager, who seems to have aroused
the Lithuanian Americans ire. And
now comes Schmeling with his prompt
acceptance of the challenge, with agree
ment to the condition about the mana
ger, but with some stipulations of his
own, notably that the fight be radio
broadcast by another than the cele-
brated Graham McNamee, whom he
accuses of undue favoritism toward
Sharkey In the bout of June IL.
There is little likelihood of serious
bitches occurring. The situation, in
deed, demands another bout. The Ger
man cannot rest upon his laurels, or
hold the title on the two-to-one deci-
sion of the boxing commission which
gives him the championship on the
strength of foul blow that knocked
him out. So there will be another
period of training, lot of maneuvering
about time and place and officials and
the like, and soon the two men will be
again in the ring and this time, it is to
be hoped, the fight will be fought to a
clean conclusion, without question or
doubt or shadow on the title when it
is finally awarded. Both men have
shown good sportsmanship in their ac-
ceptance of the situation and their de-
sire to bring about another meeting for
the sake of a decision that Is beyond
cavil.
Evening star., 1930-06-21
Hone for the Paw Bill.

The proposed compromise on the
police and flremen's pay bill is gratify-
ing, not only to the men of these serv-
ices who will become the direct benefi-
ciaries of the legislation, but to the tax
payers who have supported the prin-
ciple of higher pay and are willing to
furnish the money for it. It is also
satisfying to know that the spirit Of
compromise is not wholly dead and its
revivification at this late date is hope
ful sign. not only for the bill directly
concerned, but for another and more
important measure now languishing for
want of 1t.
The only real obstacle that ever has
threatened the smooth passage Of the
pay measure was q "take-it-or-leave-it"
attitude assumed by some Of the men
possessed Of a strategic advantage in
the parliamentary routes that had to
be followed. The merits Of the amend
ments themselves have never been put
to the test Of open discussion and de-
bate, but one is willing to give their
enicacy the benefit of the doubt It is
to be hoped that the promise shown
now for the passage Of this measure
will be fulfilled.
Evening star., 1930-06-21
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES Z. TRACEWELL.

This is the season when Rhus toxi-
| codendron of the natural order Ana
| cardiaceae gets in its dirty work.
Poison ivy Is the culprit, in case you
don't know, and we hope you do not
an acquaintance with the word is bad
enough.
Poison ivy is the glossy green fellow
that turks on banks, around trees, along
fence rails, almost any place where he
can catch the unwary.
1t crops up in the most frequented
places, and perhaps is unrecognized by
9e9 persons out Of 1000 who see it.
The fact that often every one of the
thousand escapes the typical inflamma-
ton which its oil sets up, on contact, is
due to the hurry of us moderns.
X X X
On prominent avenue there is a
| beautiful batch of Poison ivy, growing
along bank or terrace.
1t is bright, green, Acknowledgment
with the peculiarly glossy character
distinctive of this plant and its cousins,
! the Poison oak and the Poison sumac.
There is another beautiful street in a
| suburb where Poison ivy grows along
the hedges by the sidewalk, mingling
with the leaves of privet.
The peculiarly sly nature of this
plant-and one must attribute such a
| fact that it's leaves, although different
| enough, are not so much so as to at
! tract the attention Of those not plant
WISE
Now most persons are not plant-wise.
They may have nodding acquaint-
ance with the daisy, and be friendly
with the rose, which they know mostly
as it grows by the dozen in the florists
box, but when it comes to knowing
| plants by leaf, stem and habits of
! growth they are ignorant, indeed.
1t IS amazing how many persons,
even, who grow flowers and vegetables.
| never stop to look at their plants, at
least with that clear vision which the
botaniSt must possess.
Those who have taken Botany" in
high school or college know that not
every one is gifted along this line.
Many Of us merely took" the subject
| we gave back nothing to it.
One must have certain ability to
recognize plant characteristics, even
| though he have Grays Manual in his
hands at the time.
| We will never forget our own expert
ence as an amateur botanist.
Our copy of Gray's was bound in
leather, too-it was not the books fault
| that we could not recognize three
lobed leaf from flve-lobed, and so on
The task was to collect IL different
wild flowers.
We spend all day in the woods at it,
and when sunset came had but half Of
our flowers.
Meeting a flower-wise classmate, we
| prevailed upon him to make us the
gift Of the remainder of the plants de-
sired.
Our mark" of course, was 100 pei
cent, perfect, of course, but still we
didn't know one plant from another.
How much education" is of a SINH
| lar nature?
| X
| Many persons will have to look at
Poison ivy many, many times before
they will be able to tell the difference
between it and the innoxuous Virginia
creeper and yet the two are not so very
much alike, after all.
Evening star., 1930-06-21
An Epic Motion Picture.

Members and guests of the National
Geographic Society privileged to hold
priceless seats in the Washington Audi
torium last night may have left their
homes looking forward to the cere-
monies incident to the return of a con-
quering band of heroes. But they left
the Auditorium a band of rabid movie
fans. They had the honor of witness
ing the preview Of what is probably the
greatest movie ever made. And If there
disappointment that the whole thirty
miles of film that recorded the amazing
exploits. of the Byrd party had been
trimmed and cut to mere tens of thou
sands Of feet. One easily could have
witnessed miles and miles more of it.
But the film as shown is one Of the
most wonderful results of this wonder
full expedition. 1t brings down to the
standing and realization some of the
things that heretofore have had to be
taken for granted. It is one thing tc
read the printed word description OF
whales that gamboled in the back
yard" Of the community settlement al
Little America, but it is an altogether
different thing to see-and by clever
If artificial synchronization, to hear
the whales as they poked their glisten'
ing and pointed ''prows" through thu
cracks in the ice. 1t is one thing tt
attempt a minds-eye visualization o.
ths little band of heroes. stranded o.
Evening star., 1930-06-21
Mr.. Mellon on the Tariff.

Secretary Mellon has not ranked as
an ardent advocate of the kind of tariff
enacted by the Hawley-Smoot law. But,
the tariff law having been enacted, the
Treasury chief now leaves no doubt of
his opinion that it is a boon, because
1t substitutes certainty for uncertainty
In the business world The dean of
the administration and of all Secre-
taries of the Treasury, in a statement
characterized by his accustomed cau-
ton, today expresses the belief that the
gloomy prophecies" which emanate
from enemies of the law are, like the
'fears and criticisms" directed against
It, greatly exaggerated"
The unmistakable purpose of Mr.
Melons manifesto is to calm the
nerves of that section of the American
financial community which pivots on
Wall Street. There, ever since the new
tariffs passage became assured a week
ago, fear, rather than faith, has ruled
the street, with disastrous bear mar
ket in securities as the consequence.
The Secretary of the Treasury makes
plain that any Stock Exchange alarms
and anxietieS based on possible effects
of the Hawley-Smoot act are unjusti-
fed. He rightly reminds us that dire
forebodings of the sort have been con-
conitants of all new tariff legislation
and that, as regularly, they have turned
out to be foundationless and foolish.
Echoing the Presidents admission
that the new law is not perfect" Sec
retary Mellon aligns himself unreserv-
edly with Mr.. Hoover's view that its
flexible tariff is a highly important"
apparatus. The chancellor of the Amer
lean exchequer holds that the flexible
provisions are entirely capable of eradi-
eating those inequalities which are in
separable from tariff revisions, under
taken amid 1.-The pull Of sectional and
political interests"
Reduced to its essence, Secretary
Melons counsel to the country and to
its business element is to buckle down
to the realities they must now face in
an act Of Congress become the law of
the land. He assures US, speaking with
the fun authority of his responsible
position, that. far from retarding busi-
ness recovery, the new tariff. because it
is now an accomplished fact, can only
promote q return Of normal economic
conditions.
No American speaks with greater in
duence or conviction than the veteran
flnancier who is in the midst of his
tenth successive year at the Treasury.
What Mellon says should be a steady
ing factor in an unbalanced situation
Evening star., 1930-06-21

Poison oak, first cousin to Poison ivy
has thicker and smaller leaves, less
sharply lobed. Poison ivy leaves come
in threes, instead of fives, and are Of q
peculiarly dark green, glossy as II waxed
and of good size.
The amateur may better recognize II
by its attractiveneSS. He may be sure
that the bright green leaves which ap-
peal to him are Poison Ivy. This may
not be scientific way Of detection, but
it is practical one.
1t works.
If you want to avoid coming in con-
tact with this plainly pestiferous plant
! do not touch any leaves, In strange
places, which you do not know about.
r x *x
Many persons, especially children
boast of being immune to Poison ivy.
They will seize its leaves in Their
hands, and some foolish persons have
been known to chew them.
But there is legend in this towT
to the effect that a prominent man
when boy, did this once, to his great
sorrow, his tongue, mouth and lips being
swollen for many weeks with the poison
The oil of the leaves land later the
berries) causes a severe Inflammation
accompanied by intolerable itching.
1t is said that washing with q strong
soap and hot water, Immediately aftel
contact, will help prevent the trouble
Sugar Of lead Is the old standard rem
edy. Experts of the Department o.
Agriculture have perfected a wash
which may be applied before going
where the plant may be encountered.
The trouble with this is that ont
would never have bottle Of it handy
when needed.
Poison ivy is good thing to let alone
at all times.
Even in the Fall, after the leaves dry
up to an attractive color, and thu
smooth greenish berries arrive, ONT
should leave it strictly alone.
Even then the oil in its composition
| is fully able to cause trouble to thosC
who are sensitive to 1t.
We have heard it said that these may
"catch" the poison merely by unlacint
their shoes, after they have walkec
through bed of it.
The seeds of the plant are trans
mitted by the birds, which eat the ber
ries; the seeds may spring up into
full-fledged Poison ivy plant almos
anywhere.
The oil, which causes the trouble, II
particularly virulent when the tncon
spicuous greenish flowers are on th'
plant
Dogs and cats seem to be immune
and many lie on the leaves without get
ting poisoned. Whether human beinl
might catch" it from Stroking the ami
NAL we do not know. 1t may be SuS
pected that an animal which ha'
been shaved for the hot season woulC
be in danger of catching the aff1iction.
The average person, who does no
pretend to be plant expert, had bette
be cautious than run the risk of com
ing in contact with Poison ivy.
The things he may do are these: H
may tread cautiously, when in th'
woods, and even along streets keep hi
hands off nice shiny green leaves
When on outings he by all means shoult
not put his hands up to his face, es
pecially not rub his eyes. An ounce o
sensible caution, with Poison ivy, i
| worth a gallon of lotion later.
Evening star., 1930-06-21

Many readers send In questions
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The space Is limited and would not ac-
commodate q fraction Of such requests.
The answers published are ones that
may interest many readers, rather than
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All questions should be accompanied by
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Send your question to The Evening
Star Information Bureau, Frederic j.
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@. During Clemenceau's last years
was his private secretary q man or
woman?-H. S. G.
A. Marcelle Perrenoud was Clemen-
ceau'S private secretary during the last
three years OF his life. She is the only
member of her sex who ever worked in
close collaboration with him.
@. What is meant by the Romantic
School of MuSic?-R. B.
A. De Bekker's Music and Musi-
cianS." says: Romantic: A term like
classic borrowed from literature and
used as its antithesis. 1t seems to have
been adopted generally about the time
Beethoven and Schubert are alleged to
have been Romanticists although they
are undeniably classic and Schumann
considered himself the apostle of
RomanticiSm.
@. Is Basil Rathbone married?-T. F.
A. The popular stage and screen
star married Ouida Bergere, a writer.
@. Is Capt. Dollar. president of the
steamship line, a self-madei mani
o. E.
A. Capt. Robert Dollar was born in
Scotland, March 20, 1874, the son of
parents in moderate circumstances.
At IL he left school and went to work
in a machine shop in Scotland, where
he received half crown $50 centS) a
week as wages. At 13 he went to work
in a machine shop in Ottawa, Canada
Subsequently he took a place as chore
boy at a lumber camp 100 miles from
civilization. In six months he learned
| to speak French fiuently. So proficient
was he in his work that he remained
at the camp for many years. When
only 20 he was boss of so loggers. In
1880 Capt. Dollar migrated to Mich
| igan, where he entered upon his first
private venture in the lumber trade.
From this early start the Dollar
lumber and shipping interests grew to
their present proportions.
@. What can be done for cracks be-
tween the toeS?-R. M.
A. Cracks or abrasionS between the
toes should be carefully cleansed with
soap and water, then dried with alb
Sorbent cotton, and covered with zinc
| ointment. Absorbent cotton should be
used to keep the raw surfaces apart.
Q. Why are automobiles prohibited
in Bermuda?-J. M.
A. Automobiles are prohibited in
Bermuda because the people do not de-
sire to have the noise and confusion
which arise from automobile trafic.
Q. What is the game called Dough-
S. L. G.
A. This new sport is a combination
of the English game badminton and
tennis. The game is played on a court
one-third as large as tennis court
and with the net raised in the air well
above the players heads. RacketS
much lighter and with smaller grips
than the tennis rackets are used.
cork with feathers in one end is sub