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Hyder weekly herald., 1931-06-13
ENCOURAGING NEWS
 REGARDING SILVER

Proponents of the world wide movement for the restora- ton of silver as a money met al received considerable en- couragement during the week says the May 22 issue of the Western Mineral Survey.
 Some of the encouraging news follows:
 Advices from Tokio to the New York Times stated that Japanese government officials and leading bankers favor the calling of a silver conference by Japan. This development was considered to be of great moment since it had been thought earlier in the week that Japan was antagonistic to a conference.
 Announcement by Senator William H. King of Utah after conference with F. II. Brown ell and William Loeb of the American Smelling and Refin- ing company, and the New York representative of the Ranking government of China that silver could be stabilized at a price of 50 to 60 cents an ounce, pending an information al agreement, if only Great Britain will join in an under standing of that kind.
 Prediction that silver will be a vital issue during the next campaign.
 "Silver is both an economic and a political question:" Sen ator King said this week. Tt is bound to be a factor in the next campaign. The whole credit system of the world is now involved in the movement. It goes to the basis of trade and commerce. StabiliZation of silver would mean for the United States alone solution of the unemployment question, in- creased value for farm pro- ducts and materially increased foreign trade"
 Even so conservative a writ CT as Mark Sullivan observed this week:
 Sympathy for the idea of an international conference comes from some of the most power full and most conservative if nancial circles in the east. It is equally clear that thought about silver is increasing throughout the country as an incident of the business de- pression. It would not be inn possible for this thought, some sound, some unsound, to be- come a formidable wave ap- proximating the one which eliminated in the free silver" presidential campaign of 18- 96.-Wallace Press Times.
Hyder weekly herald., 1931-06-13

Cy Wyckoff, U. s. Forest ranger for this district, ex- poets to come to Hyder in a few days, according to infor- nation received by Curtis Gar dner, of the Johnson-Gardner Company.
Hyder weekly herald., 1931-06-13
p o W E R EN G N E E R
 C o M N G T U E s Q A

E. R. Wright, resident engineer os the Portland Canal Power Company, promoter of the big power develop ment project on Davis River, is scheduled to arrive next Tuesday on the Prince Charles, according to ad- vices received today Saturday, by Oren r. Hill.
Hyder weekly herald., 1931-06-13
LEAVES FOR GOLD STRIKE

w. J. Crawford left today enroute to a reported rich placer gold strike in the Nation River District in North ern B. C. Full details of the alleged strike are not yet available here. Ma tion River is situated about 100 miles east of Hazelton and about 75 miles southwesterly from Finlay Forks,
Hyder weekly herald., 1931-06-13
Senator King Urges Silver Conference

Senator Wm. H. King of Utah is apparently determined to force the silver conference issue on the admin istration and announced Wednesday that he intended to call at the State department and ask that the United States call an international confer ence to study the silver question, ac- cording to Washington, D. c. reports.
Hyder weekly herald., 1931-06-13
ASKS CHANGES IN
 ROAD CONTRACTS

Radical changes in the pres ent system of handling con- tracts for Territorial road con- 1 struction work are proposed in i the following petition of the Hyder Chamber of Commerce to the Territorial Road Com- mission.
 Believing that the road building program of the Ter ritory can be advanced in such a manner as to contribute to a more economical result, and to the upbuilding of the Ter ritory, we hereby submit to your Honorable body our pe- tition; That, hereafter all road contracts be arraigned in units which may be suitable for small contractors or workmen to bid upon, believing that such a policy will not only re- suit in substantial saving in expense, but will also distri- bute the funds in such a man. ner that will result in a far greater benefit to the Terri tory.
 Tn support of our conten. tion that the above method would result in a substantial saving we cite the fact, that nearly all contracts heretofore let in the Hyder District have been performed by sub-con- tractors and at a price so much below the original bid as to leave no doubt that if the contracts had been ar ranged in units suitable for small contractors or workmen, such bids would have been made at a price below the larger contractors bid and the work would have been per formed in as satisfactory a manner as could be required.
 Bids for contracts could be called for in units and for the whole contract, and where the unit bids in the aggregate did not meet the larger bid or exceed it, the larger bid could be accepted, thus protecting the government fully.
 We are impelled to ask your body to give this petition your earnest consideration, be- cause of the fact that many of the contracts heretofore obtained have been sublet to Workmen at rates so low as to preclude them from even mak- ing expenses on them, and iii many cases Workmen have been imported from the States thus giving no relief to the un- employment situation through out the Territory,
 Another method we be- lieve superior to the present one would be for the govern ment to perform the work by days wage. In as much as either one of these methods would abolish the present un- desirable condition under which workers are at the mer- cy of outside contractors, (who have no other object in view than a profit to themselves, and bend every effort to that motive, regardless of the re- suits to the community in which they are located) we re- spectfully request that your body give this proposal care f,,l oopa;J orot;op ,,
Hyder weekly herald., 1931-06-13

Miss Anna Hackland, of Mrs. Camp bells boarding house staff returned today from q visit of several months in the States.
Hyder weekly herald., 1931-06-13

Dr. J. T. Mandy, resident engineer for the Stewart district left Mon- day evening after short visit.
Hyder weekly herald., 1931-06-13

Leonard Fisher, who has been at tending a school of pharmacy in the south, returned today to spend his vacation.
Hyder weekly herald., 1931-06-13

Frank Reichenback and J. H. Hewitt planned to leave this week for Texas Creek to start assessment work on the Ibex group.
Hyder weekly herald., 1931-06-13
ANNUAL ASSESSMENT
 WORK UNDER WAY

Oren F. Hill has sent a crew of men to do the annual assess ment work on the Crest group, above Ten-mile.
 Marius Pederson and Albert Johnson have taken a crew up to the Stoner group to start work on that property, which belongs to the widow of the late Mathew Lodge.
 John Hovland and Arthur Moa are down from the Uni corn mine to commence their annual assessment work on the Unicorn group.
 All the above properties lie on the northwest slope of Sal mon River valley and the snow has been exceptionally late in leaving this summer. After reaching an altitude of 1900 feet there is still lots of snow. However with these three properties and others in the valley working the roar of the ehooting will be heard all day long from now on.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-31
ROBBERS STEAL.
 SAFE BUT MISS
 MONEY INSIDE
Break Into Sitka Store, Take Safe, But Cannot
 Break It Open

Robbers Sunday night forced an entrance into a Sitka store, stole an office safe containing some 5000 in cash and an unknown amount in signed checks and haul ed it away. But they had their work for their trouble, nothing else.
 The safe was recovered about noon today by United States De- putty Marshal William Schnabel after several hours search. It was found in the brush near the town.
 The robbers were apparently ill., equipped to open the safe. Possibly a sledge hammer was their sole de- vice, as their onslaught resulted in but two broken hinges. The door still held and they abandoned it without getting inside.
 When it was taken back to the store, owned and operated by Ed. Harris, it was readily opened and all of it's contents found to be unmolested.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-31
NORTHWESTERN
 IS SOUTH TODAY

The Northwestern arrived in Ju- neau at 9:30 o'clock this morning, southbound from Skagway, with the following passengers from Skag- way: Warren R. Fenn, Mrs. Thomas Reed, Miss " Pugh, J. A. Handra- han, Joe Seymour, Al Seymour, George Baum, H. M Fraser.
 From Haines = A. L. Durham, James Young.
 Sailing for Seattle and wayports at 12:30 o'clock the Northwestern took the following passengers from Juneau:
 For Sitka = Eva Seivers, Clara Seivers, Herbert Willard, William Wanamaker, Frank Lee.
 For Tenakee-Helen Alexander, Bart Kirby, Mrs. H. F.. Alexander, Dorothy Alexander.
 For Petersburg Mrs. R. R. Rudolph.
 For Seattle-Harold Sisson, Mrs. Fred D. Rangard, Fred Rangard, Jean Rangard, Mrs. l. F. Mcclure, Tom Luxor.
 This is the last trip the North western is making to Alaska until next December.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-31

woes attendant to initiation in studio work. 8f
 "Wnen the call comes for speed, I think they mean for me to hurray up, so I dash through my lines fast as I can. Then I find out they mean for the cameras to get going
 Once when the marker boy claps his hands I think he's calling for me, so walks off the set and goes over to him. And come back and find I've spoiled the scene He was only getting things started, or something, and didn't want me at all
 Funny thing" he went on rem iniscently, they aren't putting me in any of the pretty sets around here.
 Every time they have a fine hotel or ballroom scene I get ready to do my stuff, but Sam Wood-he's the director-steps up and clamps my spirits down with the word that I just wait outside"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-31
FISH AND GAME CLUB TO MEET
 THIS EVENING
Plans to Con tin u e Fight Against Curtailment
 of Bird Hunting

The Alaska Fish and Game Club, Juneaus organization of fishing and hunting enthusiasts, was today making plans to voice a vigorous protest to Washington against cur tailment of the Alaska hunting sea- son on migratory wild fowl. Far from discouraged over the failure of the Chamber of Commerce here to obtain consideration of local requests for modification of the Presidential order limiting hunting to the month of September, the Club will probably work through other sources.
 It will meet at the Council Chambers in City Hall at 7:30 pm. today to discuss the situation and ways and means of obtaining modification for the entire Ter ritory, said President Grover c. Vim. We ought to give the Chamber of Commerce our support and make every effort to present Alaska's case to the authorities in such manner as will convince them of the unfairness of curtail- ment here" he declared.
 Last week the Chamber of Com merce was informed by Delegate Wickersham that President Hoover was standing pat and insisted that the people all over the coun- try should cooperate to make the restriction effective. Telegrams sent by the Chamber to Senators Fred erick Walcott and Peter Norbeck of the Senate Committee on Wild Life Conservation, and Paul G. Reding- ton, Chief of the United States Biological Survey, asking for their intervention had not been answered late today.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-31
RIVER LIFE IS SEEN IN WAY
 OF ALL MEN
Mississippi Is Background for Drama at the
 Coliseum

John Golden's m masterpie ece. "Lightnin'." the delightful com edy- drama of the Nevada divorce courts, will be shown for the last time at the Coliseum tonight, with Will Rogers playing the title part.
 Actual shots of divorce famous Reno are a feature of "Lightnin' !" Included in these scenes is the court house and the court room where upwards of 2,000 divorces are granted annually by Judges Bart lett and Moran. Appearing in support of Rogers is a cast that includes such notables as Louise Dresser, Joel McCrea, Helen Co., han, sharon Lynn. J. M. Kerrigan. Jason Robards, Luke Cosgrave, Frank Campeau Charlotte Walker, Ruth Warren, Joyce Compton and Rex Bell.
 "Way of All Men"
 Way of All Men" will be featur- ed at the Coliseum Tuesday and Wednesday.
 The story is laid in Cottonia, middle sized Southern cotton town Located on the Mississippi, pro- tected by levees, most of it's busi- ness and interest is tied up in cotton shipping.
 Billy Bear is typical Southern youngster, lovable, good hearted, but forgetful. For five years he had worked in a stock brokers office, but was suddenly fired be- cause of his lack of interest. He conceived an idea of how to "get 1t back" at his late employer and get himself a million at the same time
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-31
DENIES WAGES CUT ON
 CAPITOL WORK
Says Complaint that Paint CTS Are Underpaid Is
 Entirely Unfounded

Charges that the painters em- ployed at the Capitol are being paid less than the going wage scale for similar work were emphatically denied here today by F. Flood, Superintendent in charge of the work, who stressed the fact that practically every workman on the job was employed locally and that none of them have joined in the complaint which was reported to have been filed here last week.
 We are paying from ST to $10 per day to our painters, each ac- cording to his ability, and to our laborers who are not concerned with painting we pay $3.50," MT. Flood asserted. The complaint made here last week alleged the contractor was paying SC for paint CTS and $3 for helpers.
 Mir. Flood said he had no men on his payroll at that figure. Sev- en dollars is the lowest paid any painter and $1O to the highest. And only one of the painting crew, he added, was not employed locally. Laborers are also local help The, scale of wages paid for laborers by the Government to men employed in the Capitol is S3.33 per day. We pay $3.5O," he asserted
 Tt is our policy to give prefer ence to local workmen and we have carried it out here. However, if we cannot do so satisfactorily, I am authorized by our Denver head quarters to make other arrange ments, and, if necessary, to lay off the labor we have here and replace it from our regular crews in the States. I do not desire to do this, nor do believe it will be necesscary. Our local crew is ap- parently, well satisfied with the wage scale we are using and I am sure the criticism, which was not founded on fact, must come, at least in part, from two or three men whom we originally employed but were forced to discharge owing to unsatisfactory work" MT. Flood said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-31
HOLLYWOOD
 TOPICS
By Robbin Coons

HOLLYWOOD-Jimmy Durante of the goofy stage and night club team of Clayton, Jackson and Du- rante is Broadway mole exposed to California sunshine, in large quantities, and he likes it.
 For IS winters Durante Che pro- nounces the final e) and his team mates have lived by night, first in the lowly cabarets in which they
 made their start, later in big time shows followed by all night appearances in the biggest night clubs.
 And mole suddenly trans planted into beaming sunshine couldn't be more out of his element than was Jimmy during the first days of studio work here.
 Add to that his confusion over movie technical terms, and you have minor comedy entitled ''Du- rante in Hollywood, or A free Show from Broadway"
 Durante supports William Haines in his new "Wallingford" picture Jackson, who came with him, plays golf, and, I suppose, kibitzes, and Clayton is to follow shortly. There's chance the three of them may do feature together,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-31


 NEW YORK; new Horatio has arisen from the war which has brought order out of the conflict of ideas on how to play contract bridge.
 E. V. Shepard proved himself a true defender of bridge for the average player, by winning an agreement from the leading au- thorities to adopt a standard sys- tem of bidding conventions, to be known as "The Official Game of Contract Bridge"
 Only one national bridge au- thority refused to join the move ment to make contract bridge a game for the average player as well as the expert.
 Noted bridge players like Milton c. Work, the late Wilbur White head, Shepard Barclay, George Keith, R. R. Richards and Sidney Lenz all agreed to drop their pet ideas "for the good of the game. !"
 Shepard's remarkable victory flor it required diplomacy and inrefutable facts to win over the other experts-is the result of more than twenty years scientific study of the game. For more than a year before the great bridge con troversy was settled, he used "The Official Game" in teaching at his bridge college here, the only insti- tuition of it's kind in the world.
 .'The chief difference between the new game and the old is that the new game restores to bids of one, two or three of suit their true significance" says Shepard,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-31

whom Sidney Lenz regards as the player best informed on the new game.
 "The forcing bid of two-an artificial convention at best-is eliminated, and true value bids re- stored"
 The confusion of systems in con- tract bridge developed through the necessity for experts explaining" the new game to their followers, before they had had chance to reach agreement among themselves as to the best methods of bidding and playing. Each man developed his own system, basically the same and good enough for the expert,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-31
A. p. DENNIS
 IS SUICIDE
Member of Federal Tariff Commission Takes
 His Own Life

BAILEY ISLAND, Maine, Aug 31.-Alfred P. Dennis, member of the United States Tariff Commis- sion committed suicide last Satur- day in Sacco Bay.
 Members of Dennis family said he was Respondent because of ill., health.
 Dennis was 62 years of age. He was appointed by Calvin Coolidge. when President, to the Tariff Com mission, in 1925. and two months later he became Vice-Chairman of the Commission.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-31
GRAF ZEPPELIN
 OFF TO BRAZIL
Huge Airship Is Reported from Two Places
 in Atlantic

FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, Aug. 31.-The Graf Zeppelin took eff at 9.36 o'clock last Saturday on a nonstop flight to Pernam- buco.
 A radio said the Graf passed over the Canary Islands today en- route to Brazil. The weather is reported fair and all is well aboard the craft.
 The Graf was later sighted over the Cape Verde Islands.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-31
but confusing to the average

but confusing to the average player.
 "An experts card sense and ex- perience enable him to avoid the defects in his own or his partners system of bidding" Shepard ex- plains. But it was absolutely es- sential to standardize the system if contract was to become as popular as it's merits justify"
 Shepard, who now is almost a "dictator" of the game, rose to the heights from being one of the worst of dubs. He took up bridge as an avocation when he retired from the engineering profession more than twenty years ago.
 q joined the Knickerbocker Whist Club, and took my beatings so regularly that I decided to find out what made the game go for others" he reminisces. After spending more than two years figuring out the mathematics of the game-the distribution of cards, the percentages for and against certain plays-I wasn't any better off than before. "Then 1 discovered that there were more than 150 important plays in bridge, and set out to mas ter them. It wasn't long until I was recognized as one of the best players in the club"
 Aided by his wife, who also is q noted bridge player and teacher, Shepard founded the bridge coi- lege, where he has worked out tfre principles of "The Official Game" More than 10000 persons take les sons from him and his wife every year.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-31
SEATTLE MAN
 REFUSED BAIL

SEATTLE, Aug. 31.-Superior Judge Otis Brinker has denied the application of Harry Loy, charged with the alleged murder of Louis Todd, brother of Hugh Todd, prom inent Democrat, for release on bail
 Loy will be tried September 21. He said Todd tried to break up his home.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-31
U. s. TO BUILD
 s DESTROYERS
Construction of at Least Two Will Be On
 Pacific Coast

MARE ISLAND, Cal, Aug. 31.- Five navy yards, including Mare Island and Bremerton, are said to be in line for new destroyer con- tracts. None of the navy yards, however, will be given more than one of the destroyers. Three At lantic yards will be given three jobs. Contracts for the remaining six destroyers to be added to the fleet in 1893 will be awarded to private shipbuilding.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-31
Reciprocity Adds .25 Cents Here
 To Cost of Coal

} When Reciprocity with , Canada was put forward , by the Admins T tion of } President William H ow ard Taft, it was designed to low , CT costs on commerce be- } tween the United States and , its great northern neighbor. , Tn these days of the Hawley- , Shoot Tariff and Canada's , new nationalism under Pre- , mier Bennebt's Conservative . regime, 1t has taken on a } different garb.
 } This was concretely illus } trated in Juneau today. The } latest Canadian tariff sched- ? ules slapped a 25 cent per ? ton duty on American coals. , The United States tomorrow , puts reciprocity into oper- , ation-by putting the same l, duty on Canadian coals com , ing into the United States. , And this sum is passed along , to the consumer.
 , Our margin of profit on , the Canadian coals we carry . is too small for us to ab- . sorb the duty All we can , do is to add 1t onto the re- , tail price" said G. H. Walm- D sley. local agent of the Pa . cific Coast Coal Company. . . . - Sss
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-31
Valuable Nose

Valuable Nose It's true that in such set Jimmy could serve only as effective con- tast, but his singular lack of beauty has proved strong asset in his career.
 Variously known as "Schnozzle" and "Cyrano'- amply explained by one view of his bull bous, elongated nose = Durante springs from the same madhouse school of wit as produced the Marx brothers, inexplainable lunatics of stage and screen.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-31
|CAMPOLO MEETS
 .SCHAAF TONIGHT

NEW YORK, Aug. 31. Y Both Campolo and Schaaf are slightly lighter than last week. They weighed in this afternoon for the fight which was postponed from last week because of the weather, until tonight. Campolo weighed 225 pounds and Schaaf POS pounds.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-31
Mercy Plane Alaska Missionary Reaches
 Seattle NOrthbOund

SEATTLE, Aug. 31. Brother George Feltes. Jesuit. has arrived in the mercy plane Alaska Mis- sionary. He flew from Alameda, California, yesterday and will re- main here several days before his departure for Holy Cross, Alaska.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-31
NEW TEACHER FOR JUNEAU

Miss Ruby Apland arrived here last Saturday night on the steamer Northwestern to take up her duties as teacher in the Juneau Public Schools. She is from Bismarck, North Dakota.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-31

Henry Robertson, Oklahoma am- ateur golf champion, co n S d CTS knickers jinx. They brought him bad luck once, and he has worn trousers ever since.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-31
CONSTITUTION
 AT NEW YORK

NEW YORK, Aug 31.-The Fri gate Constitution, more than century old, entered the Hudson River last Saturday afternoon. More than 72 policemen were sent to the Battery to preserve order and found the place almost deserted.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-31
TEACHER FOR TENAKEE

Miss Bessie Rowe, of Newport. Oregon. arrived in Juneau on the Northwestern. enroute to Tenakee to teach school.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-31

N A. McEachran, representative of Schwabacher Brothers, of Seat tie, left on the Northwestern to call on the trade.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-31
No Ups

No Ups
 Durante is famous on Broadway as the originator Of the 50 ups to him" expression, but not once did he use it in telling of his Hollywood
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-31
Contract Bridge Wur Has It's HoratiO

Shepard Against the Confusion Caused bv D versty of Systems Wins Experts Agreement "Offcial Game" He Tested for More Than Year.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-31

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