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The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-28
SAN FRANCISCO FOR THE
 CONVENTION.

Chairman Farley's advocacy of San Francisco as the next convention City for the Democratic Party will be hailed with delight by Pacific Coast Demo- crats who would like to attend the gathering. but history holds out slight hope that 1t would be helpful
 to his party in the West. The location of Demo- cratic Conventions has not been translated into electoral votes in recent years. The Democrats had their convention in San Francisco in 1920 four years after California gave her electoral vote to their party and lost the State and all the Far West
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-28

Trying to dry up this great ana glorious nation is on the order of trying to mop up the Pacific Ocean with handkerchief. Florida Times Union)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-28

Norris says he prefers Pinchot to Hoover. Well Norris would-(Cincnnau Enquirer).
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-28
VILE MAKING TRIP

Albert Vile, we'll known travelling man is a westbound passenger on the Aleutian. He is headed for Cordova and Anchorage and ex- poets to return to Juneau in about two weeks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-28

Col. Charles A. Lindbergh wrote a letter to the Fairbanks News Miner thanking it for it's invit-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-28

Tn view of the fact that Canada already had a per capita tariff higher than ours it is a little difficult to get excited over Pat Harrson's charge that the new Can adian tariff is Retaliation" Olympia Olympian)
 "Per capita?" Whatd'ya really meanP
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-28
ALASKA NEWS

Fifty ounces of gold were re- covered from a cleanup on claim of the Cassiar Hydralic Co.,, on Dease Creek in the Cassiar dis trict, reported J. G. Grant and L. M Campbell of Wrangell and J. F. Chamberlain of Ketchikan, who are interested in the company, on their return to Wrangell after ten days visit to the property. Develop ment work continues. They visited the Elise and Leeds ground also on Dease Creek Elise and Leeds are drilling the benches and are getting good prospects.
 Dennis Kane of Wrangell came to his death as a result of heart trouble, a coroner's jury decided
 Chris Wedo slipped on a rock while working on the new school building at Wrangell and broke his left ankle.
 Six bidarkis full of King Island Eskimos arrived in Nome recently and reported a tremendous catch of wslrus last winter They brought a large quantity of belts and ivory.
 Construction of the addition to the Petersburg Cold Storage building is completed All machinery has been installed and tested.
 Charles Frederick Herring and Constance Johansen, who gave their place of residence as Juneau. were married at Petersburg Im- mediately after the ceremony they boarded a southbound steamship for a honeymoon in the States.
 While A. O. Elstad, editor of the Petersburg Press was fishing near that town, he was spied by young deer. He tried to chase the ami mai into the woods, but it staid with him and followed him home. Hunters in Petersburg judged from the appearance of the lawn that it had been without food at least four days and presumed it's mother had been killed The animal was turned over to the Willard fox ranch and is happy in its new home.
 Mrs. Thorpe Johnson who was engaged to teach in Petersburg school next fall has made other arrangements, and Thomas K. Win som from Tacoma, Wash, will take her place.
 The body of John CTimberline) Madnick, who disappeared from Seward May 30, was found in shal- low shore water near there the other day, having been deposited by the high tide. He had been in ill health a long time, and it is possible he may have drowned himself. He was 50 years old, and had lived in Seward many years.
 Five fishing boats have filed salvage suits against the steam CT Northwestern, which lost her rudder in Cross Sound, last Nnv- omber. The suits total $49,000.
 Col. Charles A. Lindbergh wrote letter to the Fairbanks News Miner thanking it for it's invit-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-28

James L. Freeburn is of the best of miners, and most conservative. He does his mining on the orebodes and not with his voice typewriter When he intimates that the old Chichagoff may soon again become a producing mine it means
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-28
Seattle's New Mayor.
(Cle Elum Echo-MinerD


 It is with a tinge of pride that local folks point to the fact that the who this week became Seattles Mayor once coal miner at Gle Elum, working coal digger and later as checker weigh man in Mine No T.
 Not unlike one of Horatio Algers famed stories of success reads the life of Robert H. (Bobbie) Har lin when reduced to writing.
 He was born in Cumberland, England, November 10 1883.
 He is AT years old. In his AT years he has grown only five feet four inches in height. He is still known "the little coal miner"
 Harin was brought up in the coal mining town of Plea Tales they told of the opportunity to be found on the North American continent excited him and caused him in his early teens to migrate to British Columbia.
 Twenty y-five years ago he married Sarah Hind at Vancouver B. c. He till working in coal mines In 1907 Harlin moved his family to Seattle, seeking employment himself in the Gle Elum mines. In 191O when he 26 years old he was elected President of the United Mine Workers in Washing ton Two years later he became member of the International Executive Board and in 1917 editor of the United Mine Workers Journal Somewhat later he became statstician for the United Mine Workers and assigned to work in cooperation with the Federal Fuel Administra- tion during the World War position he filled so satisfactorily that he assigned to accompany Dr. Henry A. Garfield Federal Fuel Administrator when the latter attended the Paris Peace Confer ence.
 Later Harlin assigned by the then Presl- dent Wilson to work with Herbert Hoover and Col Nj House in France and with Minister Brand Whtlock in Belgium fuel supplies for these na- tions
 It was at London, while in conference with British miners that Harlin was notified of his elec- tion to his office President of the United Mine Workers
 Prior to his election a member of the Seattle City Council Harlin served a term Secretary of the Washington State Federation of Labor.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-28

by overwhelming majority at the following cleo ton Four years later they went to New York and lost that State by more than half million. In 1928 they reversed the former policy and took the convention to a State regarded as solidly Demo- cratic and for the first time in all of its history Texas voted against the Democrats.
 Bring the convention to San Francisco by all means but count something else to win final election votes for Gov. Roosevelt.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-28

One more less useless gesture is that of presenting distinguished visitors keys to cities. Most of them are wide open anyhow.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-28

A very slow motion picture The movement TOT Milwaukee Journal0
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-28

In the underworld now rich and powerful thanks to the Prohibition folly, sentence of death means death and no delay-(Seattle -Inteigencer)
The Washington times., 1931-08-01
TAXI MEN GIVE
REGATTA CUP

The Independent Taxi Owners
Association, operators of the Dia-
mond Cab system, have con-
tributed a handsome trophy for
one Of the speedboat events on
the program Of the Presidents
Cup Regatta, to be run on the
Potomac next month, Harry c.
Davis, president Of the company,
announced today to Commodore
Edmund F. Jewell, of the Chesa-
peake and Potomac Power Boat
Association.
This cup, which is in the
hands of the manufacturers, is
to be two-year trophy to be
permanently awarded to the per-
son competing in an all-WaSh-
ington event winning it two years
in succession and is one of the
finest trophies yet contributed.
The Presidents Cup Regatta is
held under joint auspices of the
Chesapeake and Potomac Power
Boat Association and the Corin-
THAN Yacht Club and is endorsed
by the leading merchants of
Washington. Among those who
have contributed to make the
meet a success are:
American Oil Company, Poto-
mac Electric Power Company,
Washington Gas Light Company,
Capital Traction Company, Dia-
mond Taxi Company, Occidental
Restaurant, Olmsted Grill, Ma
tional Electrical Supply Company,
Washington Rapid Transit Com
pany, Palace Laundry, Sears, Roe
buck Company, Eastern Air
Transport, Ludington Lines, South
ern Dairy and Willard Hotel.
The Washington times., 1931-08-01
Local No. 2 Endorses 9
Resolutions for Meet

4. Advocating Civil Service
Court of Appeals.
5. To permit employees Of the
Government to take examinations
for certain positions which now
require outside experience as a
prerequisite for examination.
6. Advocating a central person
mel agency, uniting the Civil
Service Commission, the EN-
ployees Compensation Commission
and the Personnel Classification
Board.
Salary Increases
7. Urging regular. periodic sal
ary increases of employees at
regular, stated intervals.
8. Declaring that the Post Of
flee Departments mail equipment
division is not filling personnel
vacancies as they occur, but in
stead is turning over work to
prisons; the resolution asking
that these positions be filled and
the mail equipment division con-
tinue to do its own work accord
ing to the intention of section 3
Of the congressional act.
9. Providing for Qualification of
the law which fixes legal resi-.
dences and declaring that at pres.
ent the decisions as to the legal
residences of employees are in.
consistent, not uniform and vague.
The Washington times., 1931-08-01
Salary Checks Stir
Clerks Who Want
Pay in Cash

Check versus cash. That's
the argument going the rounds
in the Veterans Administration
today as to preference, after
the employees took their end
of-the-month salary in checks
for the first time in many
moons. Brig. Gen. Frank T.
Hines directed the check policy
as an experiment with the idea
checks would be better protec-
ton to the employees. Some
workers agree with him; some
do not, emphatically not.
Whether the check policy will
last depends on a lot Of things,
chiefly expressed opinions of
employees. Those who have
never had any currency stolen
or lost, and find cashing checks
a nuisance, protest the check
idea. Those who find it easier
to keep their pay intact a week
or so, hence save more of it,
if paid by check, are strong
for the check. Meanwhile,
they're arguing it.
The Washington times., 1931-08-01

At a special meeting this week
of the board of representatives
of Local No. 2, Fedora Employees
Union, nine resolutions were
adopted and will be submitted by
the delegates to the National
Federation of Federal Employees
in convention September Z at
Seattle.
Local No. 2 is the largest local
here. Some of the resolutions
adopted had been previously dis
cussed by this and other locals,
and some represent major plankS
in the platform to be urged upon
Congress by the entire National
Federation. The resolutions fol
low:
/. The inclusion in the pro-
posed classification bill of provi-
sionS (a) limiting overlapping
salaries to a minimum compatible
with administrative practicability,
and (b) providing equal opportu-
mites for salary promotion in
passing from one group to an
other.
Efficiency Rating
2. Opposing any efficiency rat
ing in any classification bill, and
asking that a new efficiency
rating system be worked out.
3. To extend retirement bene-
fits to employees of the Co.
operative Extensive Service, De
partment Of Agriculture.
The Washington times., 1931-08-01
Personals

The Shipping Board force is
busy this week. Mrs. Alice
Nollner is visiting her daughter
in Joliet, Ill. Mr.. and Mrs.
Kenneth Patton will spend two
weeks, motoring in Maine.
Thomas Deckelman is on a
two weeks vacation. Mrs. Mar
garet Hickey has returned to
the office after two weeks in
Boston. Mrs. Elizabeth Price
will spend two weeks in Bangor,
Me. E. C. Kunz is on vacation
in New York. Kenneth Ekman
has returned from a two weeks
motor trip in the New England
States. Mrs. Maude Morgan
will leave August 3. for three
weeks in Kentucky. E. W. An
dersen will report back Mon
day after visiting g on Long
Island.
Miss Era M. Tillotson,
Appellate Clerk, Board of Tax
Appeals, will sail this week
end on the Leviathan to Europe.
DR.. Ales Hrdlicka Of the
Smithsonian Institution, who
is conducting an expedition on
the Nugashik, Molchatna, and
Woods Rivers, Alaska. writes
associates that "archeologically,
the region proved exceedingly
poor"
DR.. Webster P. True, editor
of Smithsonian Institute publ
cations, is on a five weeks vaca-
tion to North Brookland, Me.
E. C. Moore, Agriculture press
room, let the heat keep him at
home a day this week.
Miss Helen Ruff, Board of
Tax Appeals, is expected back
from her vacation shortly.
Mrs. Inez M. Pugh. press con-
tact Of the Veterans Administra.
ton, is back at her desk after a
visit to the beach.
The Bureau of Agricultural
Economics, Department of Agri-
culture, had a number Of Off.
cial, semiofficial, social and
other personnel activities dur
ing the week. w. A. Wheeler
fractured his right arm at the
elbow when he fell en- route to
the office, but is still at work.
The Washington times., 1931-08-01
DOak Names Clark
On Press Relations

Secretary Doak of the Depart.
ment of Labor has announced
the appointment of Col. Edward
B. Clark as executive assistant
to the Secretary, his chief duties
being contracting with the press.
Colonel Clark, once of West Point,
served in the last Sioux War and
also in the World War. He was
Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Evening Post for a quar-
ter century, was with the Chicago
Tribune Is years, was a press
representative for Roosevelt and
Gen. Leonard Wood and for the
Republican National Committee
in 1920
The Washington times., 1931-08-01
Rudy VaHee's Story of
His Great Romance

a bitter struggle, for I never
allowed myself to be embit-
tered. I have always had un-
bounded gusto and physical
energy which were not dulled
by the exertion which my work
demanded.
So. with the same spirit of
determination I set about win
ming Fay. I was aided by the
fact, as I related in a previous
chapter, that she already felt
I was to figure in her life in
some way. So, naturally, she
had a certain amount of curl
osity about me.
She Must Be Sure
She told me long afterward
that during the early stages of
our courtship, as we dined,
danced and swan at various
places in Hollywood, Santa
Monica and Los Angeles, she
liked me more than she al
lowed me to believe. But she
wanted to know every side of
me so that she could be sure
was the man with whom she
could be happy.
In the meanwhile, of course, I
was learning more about her.
I was more and more captivated
with the revelation of each new
phase of her charm and char
acter. But I saw in her also an
intriguing mystery.
I believe that one of the
prime requisites of happy mar
riage is a community of tastes,
of likes and dislikes, between
man and wife. From the begin
ming it was evident that we
possessed this basis for happi-
ness.
We both like a simple dignity
Of life, and we particularly dis
like vulgar ostentation. Before
she came East fitted out our
apartment on Central Park
West. I spent considerably
time studying and buying just
the things I thought we should
both like. But even then ex-
perienced some trepidation
when everything was in place.
The Washington times., 1931-08-01
SCRUB WOMEN
NOT DOUBLING

Rumbles about the overlapping
of jobs at the Department Of
Agriculture and Bureau of En-
craving and Printing by "a large
number of charwomen" faded to
a dim whisper after facts were
learned.
1t was admitted at both the
department and the bureau that
there might be three or four, or
a half dozen, but no more, cha
women who work three hours in
the morning at TIE department,
and return to the Bureau of En-
craving and Printing in the late
afternoon for another three-hour
job. The buildings are close to-
gether, and from the women's
point Of view it is nice to be
able to hold two jobs and be on
two payrolls. 1t was reminded,
however, that in the first place
there are very few if any of
such job-doubling charwomen;
that none have been certified for
dual jobs since 1925 and "if
any" are holding two jobs. they
were certified before 1926.
The Washington times., 1931-08-01
EXPERT. FINDS
No POLICY IS
FOLLOWED
Dr.. Herman FeIdman, Adviser
to Personal Board, Says
Unfair Pay Causes Friction

Insisting that the existing wage
practice of the Government has
been defective and unjust" the
survey report of DR.. Herman
Feldman, which will be presented
to Congress in December, de-
clares that nothing in the nature
of a general wage policy has until
now been perceivable in Federal
service.
The survey report prepared by
DR.. FeIdman, who is economic
adviser to the field service divis-
ion of the Personnel CIassifica-
tion Board, has the general back
ing of the national federation
of Federal emplOye unions.
In initiating its report of its
findings, the report reminds that
unfair wage levels have caused
frequent misunderstanding and
friction in the civil service.
Unequal Scale
The matter of efficient admin
istration is involved, and the fact
that wage increases have been
made does not remove the l1nger-
iSr attitude that the whole wage
matter is unequally and unfairly
handled, according to the report.
Even the employees who get
raises do not have their morale
improved, it is insisted. The wage
policy is held the key to per
sonnel progress, morale and ettl'
The essentials of the wage-im-
provement question are given as
follows:
/. Grouping of positions ac-
cordin- to character and diff
Guilty.
2, Consideration of geo.
graphic and living conditions,
also hazard, in determining
wages even for the same class
Of work.
8. Consideration Of the prob
lem of whether the Govern
ment shall base its wage struc-
ture on minimum living
wage"
Three Ways Open
4. Considering, in the higher
wage levels whether the Gov
ernment (a) shall pay the least
possible wage, (b) shall emulate
the more liberal pay Of more
progressive concerns, or (c)
shall establish an Independent
high wage as a model en-
pl0yer.
s. Establishing principles Of
procedure in wage levels under
varying Iiving-cost changes.
6. COnsidc ing incentive or
piece.pIan idea in pay.
Z. Establishing the procedure
for salary increases through
promotion, etc.
s. Considering whet her
leaves, hours, allowances, etc.
interfere with standard rates
8. Considering the average
salary" restriction.
10. Establishing a continuous
fact-finding agency.
II. Adoption of auxiliary wage
plans, such as group insurance,
thrift plans, cooperative stores,
etc.
The Washington times., 1931-08-01
JOBLESSL|S 7
HERE CROWS

With $50 temporary employees
Of the Veterans Administration
slated to end their service this
week, the list Of Federal era-
ployees seeking other connections
in Washington has increased.
The Census Bureau began
dropping it's large staff of tenn
porary workers several weeks
ago, and estimates Of the number
now released range up to TOO. All
the census employees will be
dropped except a nucleus of 1000
to 1,500 to care for the files and
conduct minor census surveys
during the coming decade.
Other Veterans Administration
employees may also be dropped
by degrees soon. All who are
being dismissed now, however, are
of the status of temporary en-
ployees, who knew the tenure
was to be brief, and, except for
such offices as the Shipping
Board, which are gradually cut
ting down their forces, no reduc-
tions are slated at present in a
general way.
Officials of the Census Bureau
and the Veterans Administration
are endeavoring to find connec-
tions for the dismissed temporary
employees, and where they have
regular civil service ratings, it is
attempted to transfer them to the
more permanent departments
Many are trying to find work
with private firms in the city.
The Washington times., 1931-08-01
PAINT 7
JOB WILL Be
PROBED
Complaints of InfIamed Eyes
and Other Discomforts to
Get Official Investigation

Ranking officials Of the office
Of the supervising architect of
the Treasury Department, and of
the Bureau Of Internal Revenue,
promised this week to investigate
thoroughly the manner Of paint
ing the Bureau Of Internal Rev.
enue's inside walls, which for the
past two weeks has caused end
less confusion and not a little
actual suffering to employees in
the new building on Constitution
Avenue.
A large number of workers
complained to The Times that
the odor of paint combined with
the heat had made employees ill;
that employees were forced to
work at desks with canvas cano-
pies stretched a foot or so above
their heads to catch paint drip
ping; that with desks and file
cabinets being moved about by
the workmen, the office work was
difficult; that having to dodge
StepladderS, paint buckets and
workmen at every hand was con-
fuSing. and that ventilation was
poor with so many canopies and
protective coverings over walls
and doors.
Some Dismissed Early
Some of the employees were al
lowed to go home early; a few
minor employees were dismissed
for some days last week, but the
majority of the hundreds in the
Bureau have been working the
past fortnight amidst uncOmfOrt-
able surroundings.
Clerks claim their eyes have
become inflamed from the paint
fumes. Some have been made
Ill, and the heat has augmented
the discomfort.
The Times carried the matter
to the office of the supervising
architect, and was informed that
the seriousness of the situation
had not been revealed there, and
that remedial steps would be
taken at once.
Five Months Job
The contract with the painting
firm specifically states that "a
considerable portion of the paint
ing must be done between 5 D. m.
and a. M" and that ''the work
of the Government is SO impor-
tant" the employees must be put
to as little inconvenience as pos
Sible.
The Washington times., 1931-08-01
SHORTER WEEK
CAMPAIGN
PLANNED
Federal Workers Expected to
Present Cause When Con-
gress Reports for Duty

Government officials are still
silent today on the declarations
made this week by William Green.
president of the American Fedora
ton of Labor, that unemployment
conditions next winter will be
worse than now and that a five.
day week and six-hour day form
"the only permanent solution of
unemployment"
The A. F. L. chieftain and
others urged the five-day week at
the meeting here this week of
the representatives of FL railroad
unions. Green said 5,2OO,OOO
workers were idle in July, and
that 100000 would be without
work when winter comes.
DOak Is in Favor
Secretary of Labor Doak has
advocated a shorter week and day
since before entering the Cabinet.
Whether the Government should
take the initiative just now in a
five-day week, he was not pre-
pared to state, but it is commonly
understood that several Cabinet
members and other high officials
OF the various Government de.
partments favor the shorter day
and shorter week without salary
reduction, but are reluctant, for
policy reasons, to take first public
steps at realization.
Meanwhile, leaders of the va
rious Federal Employe Union To-
Gals are arousing sentiment
among their groups TO- active
and concerted efforts to be
launched in December in the
Congress.
Their efforts and aims will be
clarified and fortified in Septem-
ber, just one month hence, when
the Federation convention meets
in Seattle.
Campaign Under Way
Present efforts are devoted Cd
to gathering concrete evidence
that shorter week and shorter
day will in no wise decrease the
efficiency or quantity of work
done; (2) to assembling convinc-
ing proof that there is really a
great unemployment crisis, with
shorter week the most feasible
way to settle the crisis in a per-
nfanent way; CD to securing
whole-hearted cooperation of all
organized Federal employees, the
unions and department officials,
and 90 to the maturing of plans
for most favorable pressing of
the cause in the Congress.
Meanwhile, the agitation for a
shorter week and shorter day is
increasing, not only in Washing.
ton but all over the country, and
in many lines of private anc
public industry,