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The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-17
DOG DERBY IS PLANNED
 BY S0V|ETS

MOSCOW, Feb. l7.-The gruelling 200 mile "dog derby" at The Pas, Man, Canada wouldn't make a suitable curtain raiser for dog test being organized here.
 Purposing to ascertain the en- durance powers of sledge dogs, the soviet's Aviation Chemical society is promoting a test for mushers and dogs over a route of between 7200 and 8,400 miles.
 The drive, which is to stretch from Petropavlovsk on Kamchagka to Moscow, also is designated to popularize the great northern route.
 Chicken pox is common afflic- ton in Cordova Parents whose children have contracted the ail- ment have been warned to keep them in quarantine at home by Dr. w. H. Chase, Health Officer.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-17

a new deal all-around, especially IS charity brought the two rivals together again last December on the gridiron, but there is as yet no indication of a permanent peace pact.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-17
LIKE A DIFFERENT
 PERSON, SHE SAYS

When I started taking Sargon my stomach was in such terrible condition I couldn't even digest milk" declared Mrs. Charles E.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-17

For a business man golfer merely engaged in a little pot t-hunting," George Von Elm has done pretty well in the few months since he forsook amateur ranks. The blond rover, after picking off a few $500 chunks in Salt Lake City and San Francisco, sliced himself a $6,750 share of the Agua Caliente purse.
 This makes the winter season a success, especially so if there is any foundation to the rumor that a wealthy admirer of Won Elm in De- troit agreed to double anything George collected in the way of purses.
 Von Elm always has been a fine medal player. In fact his scoring record over the past few yoars of tournament competition has been more impressive than his match play record He is bound to fig ure well up in the open competi- tion this year, up to and includ- ing the national championship scramble at Inverness in July.
 The departure of Navy Bill" In- gram from Annapolis, to accept the head coaching post at California, removes the last of the four prin- cipal figures in the famous Army Navy football break of 1927
 Ingram's Army rival, Riff" Jones. left the coaching field year ago to continue his career as an ar tilleryman.
 The two superintendents, Brig. Gen. Winans and Rear Admiral Mutton, who figured in the break, both have been replaced.
 This might offer the chance for
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-15

One of the possessions which MT. Belasco held sacred and which none but himself ever saw was his "vio- let beck" containing many of these little flowers pressed between its leaves. One of tbe earliest recol- lections of his mother was gather ing wood violets when he was a child in California. He, himself, used to pick them for Cecilia Low erish when he was courting her. In after years, whenever things were not going smoothly with him, his wife or his mother would send a bunch of the violets to his New Ycrk studio. From each bouquet a flower was saved and put into the book. The first flower there came from his wife's bridal bouquet.
 After his wife had followed his mother in death, MT Belasco in his lonely moments derived much consolation by peering through the leaves of his book, each with its lit tle pressed violet.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-15

Army tents from Fort Sam Hous- ton will be used to furnish 1,2O0 feet of emergency floor space for the post office at Longview, Tex, center of new oil boom.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-15
Curtain Run Do,Un on Dauid Belasco, Dean of
 Theatrical Producers

Gontinued rom rage One)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-15
Homeopaths Favor
 "Death-Cure" Plan

CHICAGO, May 15.-Administra- tion of a painless death sleep to imbeciles and sufferers from incur able disease is advocated by the Illinois Homeopathic Medical As sociation in a resolution drafted for su b m ission by it's legislative committee to the State General Assembly,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-15

acceptable. and he discontinued tha experiment.
 C Worked Early and Late
 As late as his 75th year Mir. Be- lasco's workday ran from Is to 18 hours. After the evening a. the theatre he usually went to his room where he worked until mid night and often until 2 am. He upad to say that he found recrea- ticn in going over the manuscripts of plays and in occasional attend ance at boxing bouts and baseball games. He did not smoke and took only one drink a year-a glass of champagne on his birthday
 Hearts Of Oak which he wreta in 1880, was regarded by MT. Be- lascoss as. his favorite among all hcgs which he had written or stag ed, but he considered "Deburau, D "The Merchant of Venice with David Warfield as Shylock, and Mimi" as his outstanding contri- buttons to the art of the theatre.
 Gave Mary Her Name
 It was David Belasco who was credited with having changed the name of Gladys Smith to Mary Pickford. She went to the producer with a note from Blanche Bates and after he heard her recite said he would give her part.
 "But Gladys Smith is no name for an actress" said MT. Belasco. T don't like Gladys either" she said.
 What name do you like best?'
 Mary"
 All right" said MT. Belasco, Mary si it is. Now, what are the names of some of your relatives?" The young actress. recalled the name of a number of relatives and was interrupted as she uttered the name of her uncle, John Pickford
 eThat's the name" exclaimed MT. Belasco. Mary Pickfordl7
 And thus Mary Pickford became a member of the cast of 'The Warrens' of Virginia"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-15
HELENE BEATS 1 FORMER TIME,
 SEATTLE SWIM
Miss Madison Also Aids Tn Cracking Medley Relay
 Time for Women

SEAT ILE. asa yl5-Helene Mad ison bettered her own Northwest record for 100 yards, free style for women, swimming the distance in 6l seconds, beating her former time by three seconds in the Pacific N ort h W est AA.U. championships here last night.
 Miss Madison also aided in crack ing the 150-yard medley relay for women when the Washington Ath- letic Club team won the event in 1:44:6 The former time made by the same team was one minute and fifty-seven seconds.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-15
WHEN THINGS WAKE UP

WHEN THINGS WAKE UP Sprng-hanging up another worn-out Winter unlocks the sunshine, flowers and bunnies Mankind to begin again with new hope new ambition and new determination to be prudent, learning what to seek and what to shun.
 bank account of your own is thing worth striv. ing to have. Make this your Bank.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-15
VALUE OF S48.c00 PLACED
 UPON 1881 NOBEL AWARDS

STOCKHOLM, May lJ.-Each Of the five Nobel prizes for 1891 VII amount to little more than $48,- 900, according to calculations of the administrators of the prize fund.
 The original value Of shc prizes was about $37 300.
 The prizes are given for lisara- ture, physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, and the cause of peace.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-15
WALBERC WINS ANOTHER GAME,
 ETH OF SEASON
Holds White Sox Almost
 Helpless Athletics .l Still in Lead

CHICAGO, H., May IS. Rube Walberg held the White Sox help less in all but the sixth inning yesterday and won his fifth game of the season to 2.
 It was the sixth straight win for the Athletics and kept them in first place.
 Vic Frasier started for Chicago but Al Simmons's homer in the fifth, with Cochrane on base, brought Ted Lyons into the game in the next inning.
 Simmons's home run was his sixth of the year and placed him in first place in the American League with circuit blows.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-15
Worked Early and Late

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-15
Farm-to-City Tide
 Goes Into Reverse

! LOUISVILLE. Ky, May 15.-A well defined trend of migration from the city back to the farm has been noted in Kentucky by A. c. Brown, president of the federal land bank here.
 Whether the trend is due to un- employment in the cities" Brown states, T am unable to say, but it is certain that we are receiving more inquiries from the cities con- corning farms for sale"
 Good farms are now cheap, the banker believes, when figured in terms of their earning power over a period of years. Shipment just received of 1881 Victor Orthophonic Portable Phon- ographs. Anderson Music Shorps.
 adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-15

Old papers at The Empire.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-15

The except North moderately high States falling de- cdedly this Showers portions of the weathet Boring he Interior the part nearly portions Territory.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-15
GAMES THURSDAY
 Pacific Coast League

Seattle 5; Mission 2. Night game. Portland 2; Los Angeles 6. Night game.
 San Francisco 2; Sacramento G.. Night gan.e.
 Hollywood II; Oakland g, four teen games. Night game
 National League All scheduled games postponed.
 American League Philadelphia 5; Chicago 2. Boston 4; Detroit 3. Washington 5; Cleveland 4. New York IA; St. Louis 2.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-15
American League
SAM GAZALOFF HERE: MARRIED IN SEATTLE

Sam Gazaloff returned to Juneau a few days ago for brief business visit. His home is in Aberdeen. Wash, where he is proprietor of the U. s. Club.
 MT. Gazaloff left Juneau last De- cember. In Seattle, January 26, he and Mrs. Sharick, widow of the late MT. Sharick of Wrangell, were married. Mrs. Gazaloff is now in Aberdeen.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-14
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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-07-07
n. u. Farms Increase
In Number Since 1920

North Dakota farms increased from
77,690 in 1920 and 1870 in 1925 to
1875 in 1880, according to a bulletin
issued by the Bureau Of the Census.
Farms in the state include: 20 to
40 acres, 1876; SO to 80 acres, 1851: 100
to TIA acres. 9.641; IT'S to 259 acres.
5,505; go to 400 acres, 33,450; 500
acres or more. 26,499.
OF the 77,975 farms, 0.105 we're op-
Grated by owners. 47O by managers,
and 27,400 by tenants. Land in state
farms decreased from 36,214,751 acres
in 1920 to "a, ,410 acres in 1925, but
increased to 38,657, 1894 acres in 1880.
Value Of farm land and buildings de-
creased from 81 ,488 SCI ,495 in 1920 and
81 ,020 ,103,O52 in 1925 to 1851 ,225 ,446 in
1880. Value of farm implements and
machinery in 1890 was $l18, "a ,521
compared with $76, 63l OILS in 1925 and
STA 186, 1865 in 1920.
Crops were harvested in North Da-
kota from 81 ,254,6 $50 acres in 1929. as
compared with l9, 877 1872 acres in 1924.
The total for 1929 includes 1853 $40
acres of wheat with a production of
80, l54, 988 bushels; 1884 Is acres OF
oats threshed with a production of
81 LA 1886 bushels; and 1,338,961 acres
of flax threshed with a production OF
5,616,087 bushels. In 1929, 1881, $40
acres of hay of all kinds were cut with
a production of 1882 ,585 tons.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-07-07
Animals Clipped by Mexican
Crews at Worlds Largest
Primary Market

San Angelo, Texas, July T.-Onc
hundred Mexican shearing crews have
finished removing the fleece from
$500 900 west Texas sheep, and the
first OF a $4,000, 0OO-pound clip is NOV
ing from this city. the largest primary
wool market in the world.
The present wool clip is said to be
the best the state has produced in 20
years. Although prices are off a few
cents this year, the average has been
around ID cents a pound, placing the
value Of the spring clip at around
5000, 900.
This wool is being sold from 80
wool houses in the state, and buyers
from Is eastern wool houses are bid
ding in competition for the clip.
Agents from the National Wool Mar
keting corporation, Federal Farm
Board Cooperative. are seeking con-
signments for the vast cooperative
pool that organization is forming,
while railroad and steamship repre-
sentatives are soliciting shipments.
Competitive Bidding
Much of the wool is being sold
through the warehouses. There buy
ers go for sealed bid sales. They take
samples of the wool. write their bid
on a slip Of paper and hand it to the
sales committee of the warehouses
which consults with the ranchman
who owns the clip. The bids are then
either accepted or rejected.
The warehouses will handle about
10 per cent of the entire clip of the
state this year.
The Mexican shearing crews fur
ish most of the color in the sheep
business on Texas ranches. Modern
shearing is done by machines with
motors that transfer their power into
clippers held by the shearers. An ex-
pert Mexican can clip about $50 sheep
daily while the west Texas record is
205 sheep.
Shearers are hired by captains, who
get eight to nine cents a head. OF
this the shearer gets half, the rest
going to the captain, who also owns
the shearing machines.
How Shearing Is Done
The shearing of sheep begins under
the stomach, goes to the neck, thence
to the head. shoulders. back and tail.
When the sheep is shorn the ranch
man who owns it places a pant brand
on it's almost naked body and
counts it.
AS the wool falls it is picked up and
tied by a "tier," who next hands the
fleece to a packer. The packer tramps
the wool into sacks. from 200 to $50
pounds of wool to each bag.
In March advances are passed out
to the captains who use the money to
secure the best shearers they can find.
There is work for the crews from
January through June, the busiest
months being April, May and June.
Shearing was delayed this season by
heavy rains throughout the ranch
country.
The average crew will handle about
o 1000 to 10000 head of sheep a year.
In another month the wool season
will be ended. the banks of the south
west will have added deposits and the
sheep men will have little to do until
shearing time next fall.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-07-07
6.5OO.0 TEXAS SHEEP GIVE
5o,oOo,ooo POUNDS OF WOOL
Scout Troop
On Black Hills Trip

Nine members of Troop 6 of the
Bismarck Boy Scouts left Monday by
car, in company with Rev. Floyd Lo-
gee, Russell Reid and Alfred Rannald.
for a weeks camping trip in the Black
Hills.
In the party are Dayton Shipley,
William Tillotson, William Mote,
Emerson Logee. George Brittin, How
ard Lawyer, Robert McCurdy. and
Ben Cave. All are high point winners
in a contest conducted in their troop
during the last year.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-07-07

One pound Of gold a be pulled
into a wire more than 700 miles long
and sheets can be beaten from it less
than one-two hundred and fifty thou
sandth of an inch thick.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-07-07

The value Of farm crops produced
in Ohio in 1880 was 20 per cent less
than in 1929.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-07-07

The surface of the earth contains
So, 900, 900 square miles Of land and
141 900 900 square miles of water.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-12-05
LYNCH|NG Of DYING
MAN TO Be PRObED
Wounded Slayer Of Maryland
Lumberman Is Taken From
Hospital and Hanged.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SALISBURY, Md, December s.
Wlcomlco County officials planned to
confer today on what action would be
taken in connection with the lynching
last night of Mack williams, 35-yearo
old colored man, who was taken from
a hospital cot and hanged in the
court house yard few hours after he
mad slain his employer, Daniel J. Ell
lott.
states Attorney Levin C. Bailey, alb
sent when the mob of 1000 burned
Williams body after the hanging. said
ne would do nothing until he had con-
1erred with Sheriff G. Murray Phillips.
Richie Plans Probe.
Gov. Albert c. Richie cut short a
VlSlt to New York and started for Bal
tlmore to conduct an investigation.
The lynch spirit famed a short time
before the actual attempt when it was
learned Williams had not died, as first
reported, from wounds inflicted by
himself and by Daniel j. Elliott, jr., son
OF the man he had slain.
Men standing on a street corner dis
cuSsmg the killing of Elliott, 67-year-
olo lumber dealer aud box manufac-
Eurer, raised a cry of Let's lynch Will
mans and 1t was taken up by others
as the march to the hospital started.
Body Is Burned.
When the mob reached the building
a delegation of six, repulsed at the
front by Police Chief N. H. Holland
and Deputy Sheriff John Parks, entered
a side door and dragged the colored
man from his cot. He was taken 10
the court house yard and en- route a
rope was procured
Williams was hanged from a tree and
lett swinging for 20 minutes before the
BODY was cut down and Sheriff Phillips
sought possession of it. He was brushed
aside and 1t was taken to a vacant lot.
saturated with gasoline and burned.
Williams admitted to States Attorney
Bailey that he shot his EMPLOYER be-
cause OF the low wages paid him. He
entered the lumberman's Office while he
was alone and shot him through the
head, killing him almost instantly. He
then wounded himself.
Shoots Fathers Slayer.
The younger Elliott, attracted BY the
shooting, ran to the office. He carried
his father to an automobile to send him
to the hospital. Re-entering the Office,
he saw the colored man staggering from
the room. He picked up the discarded
pistol and shot the fleeing man.
The lynching was the outgroWth of
the third case in the last four weeks in
which colored persons have been
charged with crimes against whites on
Maryland's Eastern Shore Yuel Lee,
slayer Of Worcester County family of
four, and George Davis, accused of at
tempted assault on a white woman, are
in the Baltimore City Jail, where they
were taken for safekeeping from mob
violence,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-12-05
1850 TO PARADE
BEFORE GRID GAME
Mrs. Hoover to Head SpeCta-
tors at Marine-Coast Guard
Clash Today.

A military parade was in prospect to-
day as prelude to the annual Presi-
dents Cup foot ball battle between the
Quantico Marine and United States
Coast Guard elevens, in Griffith Sta
dium, to be witnessed by a host of the
Capitals leading folk, headed by Mrs.
Herbert Hoover.
Starting shortly after noon, 1900
Leathernecks from QuantiCo were to
march behind a 110-piece band from
their detraining point at the Seventh
street station to the stadium.
The game was to start at 2 o'clock,
but from ITO until that time the field
was to be given over to crack drill units
OF the two services. Several battalions
of Coast Guardsmen came here from
New London, Conn, in a fleet of cutters
and destroyers, and many other mem
bers of the service made their way to
the scene OF battle in their own con-
veyances.
Al the conclusion, the First Lady
was to present the Presidents Cup, en-
blematic of the Eastern Service cham
pionship and placed in competition
originally by Calvin Coolidge
The Marines are to defend it today,
having defeated the Coast Guard in
the last two games. For the first time
in the seyen-year history of the trophy,
the Leathernecks are on the short end
of odds. The Coast Guard is one of
the few unbeaten and united teams of
high standard in the country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-12-05
REICH PREPARES
FIGURES TO PROVE
DEBTS TOO HEAVY
Delegates Reach Basel for
Conference on Nations
Capacity to Pay.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BASEL, Switzerland, December S.
Armed with bundles of figures and
statistics, Germany's financial statesmen
prepared today to begin another ex-
haustive attempt to show the world her
war reparations are more than she can
pay.
The sessions Of the Young Plan Ad-
visory Committee, before which the
German showing will be made, do not
begin until Monday, but the national
delegations were gathering today and
many informal conferences seemed
likely to take up the week end.
DR.. Theodore Melchior, head of the
German delegation, is believed to have
so much material prepared that an ad-
journment of the committee for two or
three days may be necessary to give an
opportunity to the members to study
the figures.
Walter Stewart. United States men,
Der, with the English, japanese and
Italian representatives, are not looked
for until tomorrow.
The committee was appointed by the
seven central banks affiliated with the
World Bank for International Settle
ments, and its first task will be to de-
eide whether to appoint four more
members, privilege the Young plan
accords it. If the additional members
are appointed they will probably be
chosen from Holland, Switzerland and
the Scandinavian countries.
1t was indicated today that at least
a part of the group may go to Berlin
before the meeting ends, to go over the
situation on the ground there.
Conference of the governments will
probably follow the committee ses-
sions, which will probably last six
weeks. The committee itself is en-
powered only to make recommendations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-12-05
IS INDICTED I'M OIL
FRAUD BY U. S. JURY
Officials of $1o,ooo,o0o California
Company Charged With
Conspiracy,
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, December Sin
vestigating the collapse of the Italo
Petroleum Corporation Of America a
year ago, with an estimated loss Of
Sl0000,00O, Federal grand jury mas
returned 10 indictments against former
officials Of the corporation which
charge conspiracy and use of the mails
to defraud.
Those indicted, all said to live in San
Francisco, are Alfred G. Wilkes, gen.
eral manager John M Perata, presi-
dent; Paul MaSoni and John B. de
Maria, directors; Maurice C. Myers,
counsel; E. Byron Stems, James V.
Westbrook, Howard Shores, John Nc
Keen, Robert H. McKeon, Raleigh B.
McKeon, F. P. Tommasini, Edgar P.
Lyons, William J. Cavanaugh, Fred
Shingle. Horace J. Brown, Axton F.
Jones and Rossiter L. Mikel.
The indictments charge misrepre-
sentation in the purchase of the
Brownmoor Oil Co. and McKeon Drill
ing Co. in letters to financial bidders,
the United States district attorneys
Office revealed.
Other charges include the allegation
the directors received stocks for their
own benefit which were to have paid
part of the purchase and the financial
condition of the organization was mis-
represented to stockholders and the
dividends were taken from the capital
stock.