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The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-06
Red Cross Chief Ans,vers
 Critics on Drought Aid

WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. G. The American Red Cross replies to it's critics on the drought work of last year in an official report just submitted by Chairman John Barton Payne. It sets forth the slow development of conditions caused by the drought, pointing out that the Red Cross is always watchful of situations that call for relief"
 The Red Cross disaster relief handbook is quoted in citing the organizations obligation to carry on relief work if continued drought conditions produce a famine situa- ton. As these conditions appeared it is declared, the Red Gross went into one county after another, its task difficult because of the varie- ty of measures required, outside the usual line of trained workers.
 Red Cross Defended
 The Red Cross was criticized by some who, accustomed to city prices, thought of the money spent
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-06
GIRL DANGER IS QUESTIONED
 ON PAST LIFE
Defense in Pantages's Case Takes Advantage of
 Granted Rights
MISS PRINGLE HAS HARD DAY ON STAND
Attorney Ciesler Attempts to Bring Out Repu-
 tation of Dancer

LOS ANGELES, Calif., Nov. G. Defense attorneys of Alexander Pantages, millionaire snowman, gave evidence yesterday they in tended to use fully their newly granted right to attack the con- duct, motives and reputation of Eunice Pringle, who has charged him with attacking her.
 Miss Pringle's answer of mo- became most automatic as defense Attorney Jerry Giesler showered her with aggressive questions as to her mode of living preceding a day in August, 1929, when she claimed Pantages attacked her in his office while she was asking him to book a vaudeville act in which she was to dance.
 Questions Are Asked
 Attorney Giesler asked Miss Prin
 Attorney Giesler asked M S Pringle if it were not fact that she went to the office to put Pan- tages in a compromising position; if she had not spent a night in the apartment of Nicholas Deneau, au- thor of the vaudeville act she sub- mitted to Pantages, and if she had not fooled her mother by attending parties in hotels, drinking liquor. General Denial
 To all the questions Miss Pringle invariably returned denial
 The defense endeavored to place in evidence the $1,OO0,000 civil suit the girl had filed against Pan tages. The prosecution objected to this and Judge Clair Tappaan said he would rule on the matter when the trial is resumed next Monday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-06
ARMY REDUCES EXPENDITURES
 COMING YEAR
Forty four Million Dollars Topped from Bud
 get for 1852 CIVIL AND MILITARY FUNCTIONS TO BE CUT No Lowering of Wages, Sal- aries Contemplated in
 Hurley's Plan

WASHINGTON, D. O., Nov. G. The Army stepped forward like a good soldier yesterday to say 1t would get along during the next fiscal year with $44,00O,OoO less than it received during the present fiscal year.
 Secretary of War Hurley said the reduction has been arranged wltn the utmost harmony between the War Department mad Presldent Hoovers Budget Officers.
 The cut, Secretary Hurley saio' would apply to civil as well as military functions. This is taken to indicate less money would go for flood control and rivers ana harbors improvements. This does not mean less work will be accom- plished as lower costs of materials have made the Army Engineers dollars go farther.
 Lower wages and salaries are not contemplated, the Secretary Salo.
 With the cut, the tentative Army Budget for the next fiscal year amounts to $437 .565,ooo.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-06
PROTEST FILED
 TO CABLE SALE. BY W|CKERSHAM.
Delegate Advises Chamber He Will Fight Admin
 istration Proposal

The protest of the local Chamber of Commerce against the sale of the Alaska cable and telegraph system, as proposed by the Hoover Administration, has been presented to the War Department, according to advices received today by the Chamber. In telegram to the local organization Delegate Wicker sham declared he would fight the administration if the bill author ;zing the saie should be introduced
 In the meantime he said he had made strong appeal to the Seer tary of War not to have the bill introduced. He did not say what response, if any, was made.
 The Fairbanks Chamber of Com merce has also taken an opposing stand to the sale of the system to private interests. It, too, has tele- graphed Judge Wickersham to pro test, and has asked all other Alas kan commercial bodies to cooper ate with it in fighting the pro- posal.
 The Territorial Chamber of Com merce, it is understood, will pre- pare referendum on the question and submit it to all member bodies It is probable, if action on the matter can be had in time, that the subject will be presented to the forthcoming meeting of the West ern Division of the United States Chamber of Commerce at Spokane next month.
 Judge Wickersham in his tele- gram to the local Chamber said:
 Have made a strong appeal to the Secretary of War not to intro duce the bill in Congress author izing the Secretary to dispose to the highest responsible bidder the Washington-Alaska cable system If decided to introduce the bill, will use every effort to secure it's defeat in Congress"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-06
CONGRESSMAN H,M,WURzBACH
 PASSES AWAY
Texas Representative Dies Following Appendix
 citis Operation
Associated Press Photo

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Nov. G. Representative Harry M. Wurzbach the only Texas Republican in the National House of Representatives is dead as the result of complica- tions following an operation fol appendicitis
 Congressman WurZbach repre- ssnted the Fourteenth Texas Dis trict.
 The death of Congressman Wurz- bach further reduces the strength of the Administration party in the House and the lineup now gives the Democrats PIT members, Re- publicans PA.
 Congressman Wurzbach was born in 1874 He was first elected tc Congress in 1921.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-06
STOCK PRICES
 TAKE ADvANCE; METALS GO UP
Alaska Juneau Among Is- sues Gaining Today
 Bar Silver Rises

NEW YORK, Nov 6-The man. ner in which the wheat market was able to absorb a fresh furry of profit taking prompted further bullish efforts in stock prices to- day.
 The stock market began the day feebly and was then strengthened by the buying of nonferous metals food and merchandising shares as the session wore on.
 The bond market slowed up some what but gilt-edged bonds were well bought up.
 Early losses in the general trad ing of stock issues were generally recovered Issues rising one or two points over yesterdays close were Anaconda, Kennecott, Alaska Ju- neau, American Metals, American Smelling, St. Joseph Lead, Inter national Nickel, General Electric Sears Roebuck, Woolworth, Safe way, Drugs Incorporated, Corn, and American Sugar.
 Gains of three to five points were made by International Silver, Homestake Mining, Federal Mining and Smelling.
 A fresh stimulus was given all metal issues by the further rise of bar silver which added one and one-fourth cents over yesterday $ close, bringing the price to 34 cents an ounce, the peak for the year.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-06
CARDIN FER IS SUPPORTED IN
 NAVY ATTACK
Executive ommi ttee of Navy League Is Be-
 hind Statements

WASHINGTON, D. C., NOV. D.. Full support to the statements ol William Gardiner, in attacXlhg eiie Administrations naval policy, mas bean given by the Executive com mittee of the Navy League. Inere was only one dissenting vote.
 Gardiner is President of the Navy League and he charged President Hoover with "aoysmai ignorance and effort to starve the Navy"
 President Hoover took exception to the charge of the head of the militant navy organization and has appointed a committee to probe the charges. The President insists that Gardiner apologize, declaring the claims made are "untruths ana a distortion of the facts
 The committee appomteo Oy Hoover to investigate Gardiner's re- marks is also in session here.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-06
APPEAL MADE TO
 WORLD WORKERS TO FIGHT JAPAN
Statement Issued by Ex- ecutives of Interna-
 tional Party
LEAGUE MEETING
 CALLED BY BRAND
Fears Expressed War Will
 Result Over Manchur- ian Trouble

MOSCOW, Nov. 6.-An ap- peal to the members to SUD- port the "Chinese prOletar- fat" against Japanese occu- patton of M a n c h u ria, and warning t hat war against China ''is a step toward war against Soviet Russia" has been issued by the Executive Directorate of the Interna- tiOnal Communist Party. The appeal was made on the occasion of the celebra- tion of the fourteenth anni- versary of the revolution in Russia, and says:
 Leaders of all capitalistic countries are wandering about and searching for an outlet, afraid of co m pl e t e bank ruptcy, before the mounting swell of the proletarian class.
 "The fig h t is becoming more acute.
 "Imperialists have already begun a war in the Far East in hopes of attaining this outlet.
 "This war is against the working class of China and is a war against us. Let us organize revolutionary bar riers against it in the inter- est of the United Independ- ent Soviet of China" The statement is addressed to "all workers of all coun- tries and to oppressed people of the capitalistic world"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-06
NAN BRITT0N
 LOSES ACTION
Federal Jury Returns Yer. dict that Author Was
 Not Libelled

TOLEDO, Ohio, Nov. 6. - Nan Britton, author of the Presidents Daughter" has lost her S50,0Oo libel suit against O. A. Klunk, Mar ion hotel operator, who helped dis- tribute a book entitled, Answer to the Presidents Daughter"
 The Federal Court jury returned the verdict saying "she had no cause for action"
 Miss Britton charged in her suit that she was libeled because the book circulated by Klunk defamed her character.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-06
High Court Upholds
 Chain Store Tax Act

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6. = The Supreme Court holds constitution al the North Carolina anti-chaln store tax, under which every firm operating two or more stores under one management must pay S5O annual privilege tax for each store. The case was appealed by the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, after the North Caro- lima Supreme Court held the act valid,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-06
DEMOCRATS AT ANCHORACEARE
 GETTING BUSY
Name Delegates to Attend Divisional Conven-
 ton at Seward

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. G. The Democrats of Anchorage, even though they are without voice in electing a President of the United States met yesterday and started plans for an active campaign for Territorial offices in 1882. Ten del egates were named to attend a Divisional Convention at Seward early next month.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-06

for rations in terms of city store or restaurant" the report states. TO an unemployed laborer in great industrial city g or S3 al- lotment for a thirty-day food SUD- ply for one person would have looked like cruel jest. Yet in large drought areas it gave the re- cipient all the food he needed of the kind to which he had been ac- customed.
 If the unemployed city laborer with a wife and two children had, instead of s8 to Sl0 in food orders, received 125 or 150 pounds of food for a thirty-day period. If he had no rent to pay and besides had chickens and vegetables gardens, he would have thought himself in- deed fortunate.
 Not All Destitute
 Tn considering the feeding prob lem, it is important to bear in mind that the drought was not like
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-06
CLOSING STOCK PRICES

NEW YORK, Nov. 0. - closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 15A, American Can 83M, Anaconda 17A, Bethlehem Steel 29, Curtiss- Wright 2, Fox Films 7A, General Motors 28, h. ternational Harvester 35A, Kenne- colt l61s, Packard Motors 5%, Stan dard Oil of New Jersey 36aS, United Aircraft 17A, United States Steel 70
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-06
OHLSoN GOING
 TO WASHINGTON
General Manager, Alaska R.R. Leaves This Month
 to Get Funds

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. G. General Manager Otto F. Ohlson' of the Alaska Railroad will leave November IT for Washington, D. e. to obtain funds for operation of the railroad for the next flsca1 wear. It is believed the General Manager will advise a downWaro revision of the present freight and passenger tariffs.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-06
Capt. Baker to Wed
 Washington Woman

WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. G. Capt. Ira Baker. chief pilot of the Army endurance plane Question Mark" and a figure in other mo- table Army Air Corps exploits, is to be married early in December to Miss Ruth Anderson Of Wash ington.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-06
Magruder, Critic of
 Navy, to Be Retired

WASHINGTON, D. e., Nov. G. Rear Admiral Thomas Pickett Ma gruder, who in 1927 unleasheo a storm by publishing severe criticism of the Navy, has been ordereo re- tired for old age at the end oi November. He commands the naval district and yard at New Orleans,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-06
PLANE CRASHES, CATCHES AF|RE, '5 PERSONS DEAD
Passenger Aircraft No e s Down Suddenly When
 Making Landing

CAMDEN, New Jersey, Nov. 6. Crashing to earth on a golf course as it attempted to land at a nearby airport, a Washington bound passenger plane burst into flames, killing five persons.
 Those killed and whose bodies were burned beyond recognition, were identified by the company records.
 The plane was apparently gliding to safe landing when suddenly it nosed down and burst into flames.
 The plane was landing to dis charge the passengers.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-06
J. B. TREADWELL
 DIES IN sour H

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Nov G. John B. Treadwell, aged 84 years, drummer boy during the Civil War. and associate of Lucky" Baldwin in the early development of the west in the most productive mining properties, is dead here.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-06
SUEZ TRAFFIC SLUMPS

WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov G. Traffic through the Suez Canal for the first half of 1881 was re- ported to the Department of Com merce as being more than half million tons under the same period in 1880. The drop is believed large ly due to the worldwide economic slump.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-06
WAR FEARED

PARIS, Nov. 6. Aristide Briand, fearing war in Man. churia, h a s called for a League of Nations Council meeting fcr November IT. He is acting President of the Council.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-06
WALTER M'KINNoN LEAVING

Walter MacKinnon is leaving on the Northland Saturday morning for Seattle, where he plans to at .end school,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-06
PROTEST FROM U. S.

WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. G. A renewed American protest against Manchurian hostilities lies before the Japanese. The contents of the note are carefully guarded. The note has been presented to the Japanese Government at Tokyo by United States Ambassador w. Cam
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-06

South China's first long distance telephone line has been installed, connecting Hongkong and Canton.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-06
TWO OTHERS DIE

SAN PEDRO, Cal, Nov. 6.-Clar- ence E. Swift. seaman, of the bat tleship Colorado; J. J. Hummer, chief petty officer on the Mary land died today as the result Of yesterdays accident and two other officers and another seaman are reported dying.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-06
4 MEN KILLED IN EXPLOSION
 ON BATTLESHlP
Lieut.. Bradford and Three Seamen Dead in Acci-
 dent on Colorado

SAN PEDRO, Calif., Nov. G. Four men were killed, including Lieut.. Ralph F. Bradford, jr., in an explosion of an anti-aircraft gun yesterday aboard the battle ship Colorado, off Santa Rosa Is- land, 45 miles northwest of here.
 The others killed were:
 l.. A. Clark, seaman of Los Gatos California; Maurice G. Hawkins, seaman, of Hastings, Mich; and J. J. Schnur, seaman of St. Louis.
 Lieutenant Bradford, jr., lived at Pontiac, Illinois.
 The cause of the explosion has not been determined. The explo- sion occurred at 3:l5 o'clock yes- terday afternoon.
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Evening star., 1931-12-20
Electric Railroads
Planned bv Sweden

STOCKHOLM. SWeden.-Nearly 900
males more OF Swedish railways are due
to be electrified within the next few
years. with notable advantages to both
the tourist and the Swedish business
man. By the end of 1888 Stockholm
will be connected with Malmoe, at the
southern tip of Sweden. by all electric
line 599 kllometers long.
Stockholm IS already connected with
Gothenburg, the great west coast sea
port. by 456 kilometers of electrified
line. The state railways are also plan
ming to electrify the 3l5 kilometers be-
tween Stockholm and Ange. in Norr-
land, two projects which VIII cost ap-
proXlmately SO 900 900.
One Of the finest electric railways IN
Sweden Is the line stretching from
Luleaa, on the northern shore Of the
Gulf OF Botlauia. to Narvik, the Nor
@egian ore shipping port on the other
side Of the Scandinavian Peninsula
This latter line is one Of the most
strategic in Sweden. because OF the
tremendous quantities Of iron ore
which it hauls from the mines at
Kiruna to Narvik and Luleaa Two
thirds Of its stretch lies above the
Arctic Circle.
Evening star., 1931-12-20
Rates Cut for Delegates
To Honolulu Meeting

HONOLULU, HaWaii-Rail, steam
ship and hotel rates have been substan
italy reduced for delegates and their
families attending the National and
Pacific Foreign Trade Conventions in
Honolulu next MAY.
Word has just been received here that
ali the lines in the 1ranScoutmental
Passenger Association have agreed upon
round trip rate of fare and tenth
an extremely low figure. These lines
operate west OF Chicago, st. Louis and
similar points. 1t is expected that the
Eastern lines will make the same figure
Steamship companies have guaran-
ICED a horizontal reduction of 10 per
cent in any class of accommodation
bought and local hotels have promised
rate reductions averaging 20 per cent.
Meanwhile assurances are being re-
ceived from both sides of the Pacific
that many leading business men of
America and the Orient will attend.
Evening star., 1931-12-20
Happy Christmastime

which he himself was the day Spring,
and possibly with the help of the BROTH
erS Adam and the new coaching roads,
and afterWard of SCrCOge and Com
pany. there comes q change. as wonder
working as the old pantomime transfor-
nation scenes beloved OF my childhood.
And soon that change Is complete.
Among WordSWorth's memories of his
boyhood, that of skating is not merely
the remembrance of a deliriouS sport,
but tranSCends even his daffodilS as a
bliss of solitude, and while we truly la
ment his Lucy lost in the snow "a SEN
timental theme completely devoid Of
sentimentality) We take the greatest
possible pleasure In the scene Of the
calamity.
Sheer Magic" Rules.
AS for Coleridge-his imagination
charged with Arctic explorations-the
only difficulty is to choose for sheer
magic bttWeen the stagnant calm
and maddening thirst of the rotting
tropical sea in The Ancient Mariner, v
and its hyperborean icebergs, snowy
cliffs and cleaning, fog smoke,
Keats drear -nighted December Is Eng
land at its dismaliSt-in a thaw But
were ever utter quiet and cold beyond
even the dream of a Laplander so posi-
lively CONCEALED into words as they are
IN the first stanza Of The Eve of St.
Agnes?"?
st. Agnes Ese-ah, bitter chill it was
The OWL for all his feathers, was
a-cold:
The hare limp'd trembling through the
frozen grass
And silent was the f1ock In the woolly
fold.
Numb were the beadSman's fingers
While he told his rosary and while his
frosted breath.
Like piouS incenSe from q censor old.
Seem'd taking flight tor Heaven with
out death.
Past the sweet Virgins picture while
his prayer he saith.
And so with the poets who have
come after Keats. from Tennyson and
Christina RoSSetti and Robert Bridges
whether his theme be grief for the
child that is dead, the trees with sill
very rime bedight." or that MASTER
piece OF craftsmanship and imagina-
ton. London Snow to those Of our
day. Edward Thomas (who can ever
make beauty Of "Thaw''). Eleanor Far
Ieon, Robert Frost, Elinor Wylie. And
stern unfaltering realist though for
the time being the English muse may
tend in duty to remain, blessed beyond
words is the child who, on December
the Path Ceven though his washing
water is frozen in his Jug. peers out into
the dark at the first hesitant. falling.
drifting flakes of Winter, or 10! on the
rain gutter, a needle sharp icicle quietly
shining out TO the quiet moon, and
wakes to Christmas morning trans
mogrlfied-Within and without.
In the gloom Of Whiteness,
In the great silence OF snow,
child was sighins
And bitterly saying, oh.
They have killed white bird up there
on her nest,
The down is 1utterins from her breast"
And still it fell through that dlisky
brightness
On the child crying for the bird of
the snow
Evening star., 1931-12-20

at all To Marxist real history begins
with 1917; that which was before was
merely the oppression of the poor by
| the rich.
Moreover, propaganda thickly per-
! meateS even neutral subjects. In his
primary reader the boy finds chiefly
revolutionary hymns and poems of the
type of March ahead, Red children
be ready to fight for the VIC iner
cause" In his book of arith-
metic the text of problems is also
"revolutionized" problems deal with
the number OF Communist children in
| Germany" or the like
| From the earliest age children get
| compulsory military training. Both boys
and girls do target shooting, study the
construction OF the machine gun, drill,
etc, And the pet Communist idea that
"a final and decisive military conflict
/ between the Soviets and the captalistic
world Is bound to come sooner or later
Is being daily inculcated into these
youngsters minds.
J After school hours each boy must do
| social and political work" Children of
9 or 10 have to read Soviet papers,
gather at their own political meetings
! and discuss, under the leadership Of a
groWn-up person. the situation Of the
! american unemployed or me TEST OF q
collective letter" to be sent by them to
! the children of German coal miners or
railroad workers. This. too. is compul-
sorry without this no pupil can BE- grad
uated
All this is enforced upon children not
only from above but also from within.
For the Communist party has special
organizations for the young. The chief
Of them lie the Union of Pioneers"
for children Of Junior ages and the
| "Comsomol Cor Union of Communist
YouthS'D for youths from IT TO %
| tafter having attained this age the
Young man can apply for membership
in the Communist party. These two
organizations, numbering between them
some 100000 Cabout half of all school
children and university studentSD play
in school lite a role Of enormous i'm
| portance.
Proud Of having place in the great
hierarchy founded by "IlyiCh" IeniDp,
often arrogant and looking at the rest
OF the world with the disdain of soldiers
| looking at civilians the children of
! these organizations set the tone to the
whole school or university What is
especially important is that to great
extent they hold the teachers and the
professors in their hands.
Evening star., 1931-12-20
Russian Films Gain
Worldwide Market

MOSCOW L. S. S. R-Soviet films
are in great demand abroad This year
TO fewer than ~ Soviet films have been
sent to America. At the Congress of
American Cinema Photographers in 1880
three Soviet films The Descendant Of
Chngis-Khan," Earth" and The Old
and the New" received prizes. a fact
which Is particularly significant be-
cause. out Of 10 films only of foreign
origin secured prizes
Simultaneously the number Of cinema
theaters has been increased from 6 700
in October. 1928. to "a 900 IN January,
1881. and at the beginning Of next year
1t will reach a total Of $4,000.
Great attention Is now being paid to
the production OF Sound-producing ap-
paratuS and several factories have
already started the exclusive production
of apparatus from design of Soviet
inventors
In addition, two new factories in 1891
started manufacturing reels of Aims.