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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1931-12-22
S A N IA Gil
C ONES DEC. "a
TO GEORGE BROS.
All Boys and Girls on Chan
mel Urged to Come
for Presents

Santa Claus will be at George
Brothers Grocery Store Christmas
eve. A large tree, lighted and
decorated will occupy a cleared
floor space inside one of the front
doors and on it and beside 1t Will
be presents for all boys and girls
on Gastineau Channel.
This will be Santa Claus eighth
annual visit to George Brothers
establishment. He has sent WORD
that he hopes more children Will
be present this season than on any
previous occasion. He wants little
ones from Douglas, Thane and
Glacier Highway to come just as
| if they lived in Juneau. He is
anxious to have them all, irrespec-
tive of whether >their parents have
traded with the store.
Chief Will Be Present
Chief of Police George A Get
chell will be present to form the
boys and girls in orderly lines SO
they can enter one front door, go
to the Christmas Tree, be greeted
by Santa Claus, receive ther pres
ents and then depart through an
other front door. Proprietors, cler-
ical, office and delivery forces will
be present to care for and look
after the little ones.
Santa Claus will arrive at the
store promptly at 8 o'clock the
night before Christmas. He will
start distributing his presents i'm
mediately after his arrival.
Greater Numbers This Year
| Last Christmas, at George Bro
theirs he met more than 500. This
season, he has arranged greatly
! to exceed this number
I'VE feel sure this Christmas viii
be better and merrier than any
previous Christmas" said Gu:
George, one of the proprietors, this
morning. Santa Claus hope!
.every little boy and every little girl
irrespective of creed or color, vii
J come to meet him."
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White Shoulders Reveals
Lives of Playboys
and Playgirls

white Shoulders which begins
showing tonight at the Capitol
theatre, may be likened to an x-ray
that is turned on playboys and
playgirls.
The world anc its gay places
are presented in a giddy array
from the pent houses of New York
to the slums; from the cabarets OF
Paris to the gambling salons OF
Monte Carlo; from the honeymoon
suites of palatial liners to the blue
skies of Spain and Italy.
Lives Of Stage Beauties
The picture gives insights into
the lives of stage beauties and of
their wealthy admirers.
white Shoulders" was written
by Rex Beach. The character of
Gordon Kent" played by Jack
Holt, is one of Beach's typical two
listed males.
Kent, after establishing himself
as Gotham's prize playboy, sud-
denly marries the beautiful Choir
inc, Norma Selbee, played by Mary
Aston, the romance beginning with
an episode new to the screen.
Marry me-" Kent pleads.
But I do not love you," pro-
tests Norma.
Urges Impulsive Marriage
Fine" Kent replies. Think OF
the love marriages that have gone
on the rocks. Let's make ours an
impulsive one"
Kent, however, failed to reckon
with the immensely of his love, and
when a third man appears on the
scene a tense drama emergas.
| 1t is a sixty-minute picture with
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1931-12-22

JUNEAU CHORAL CLUB
Next meeting Monday, December
%, at 7:45 P. M. adv
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new TOWN HALL
AT METLAKATLk
BEST IN MORT H
Would Be Credit to Any
Community, Declares
Flory, Returning Here

CONTINUED from rage one)
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ALASKA SNOW COVER

The following amounts OF snow,
in inches, were reported on the
ground at various Alaskan stations
Monday afternoon, December I'll:
Barrow 8, Bethel IA, Cordova II,
Eagle 10, Fairbanks %, Fort Yu-
kon 16. Juneau 3, Ketchikan trace,
Kodiak 2, Nome as, Sitka /, Tana-
ma A.
Ice on Cinema slough at Fair
banks was 81 inches in thickness
and on the Snake River at Nome
20.5 inches.
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DAILY EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY
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fifty minutes of climax. 1t is a
succession of punches with a snap
per at the finale. b
Tonight is "Chinaware Night
A piece of chinaware will be given
to every woman attending either
of this evenings performances.
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used by the community band for its
practice sessions.
Band Is Feature
The Metlakatla band is a first
class musical organization, de-
clared Mr.. Flory. Its concerts were
greatly enjoyed by those attending
the dedication and were featured
throughout the day.
The City Council recently pur-
chased $1,000 worth of instruments
for it, and the presentation was
made at the afternoon section of
the dedication program.
List Of Speakers
Among the speakers of the day
were: Mayor Roderick Davis, head
of Metlakatla's city government,
Rev. Edward L. Marsden, r. H.
Murchison, prominent leaders of
the community, Mayor N R. Wal
ker of Ketchikan; J. A. Talbot, j.
r. Hickman, DR.. R. V. Ellis and
Rev. Paul Mather, also of Ketchi-
kan; Charles w. Hawkesworth and
Mr.. Flory.
During the evening session, Mr.
Flory presented the Forestry Asso-
citation medal for the best essay on
Alaska Forests to Anna Baxter
Seventh Grade pupil, winner of the
First Division. award for Indian
schools.
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CIVIL SERVICE EXAMS

The civil Service Commission
has announced an examination for
Foreman, Road Construction, and
for Foreman, Bridge Construction,
receipt of applications to close Feb
ruary 10, in Juneau. Application
blanks and information may be OBJ
tanned at 311 Federal and Terri
torial Building.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-22
By Bruce Cation.

penmanship, the paper the ink and the stains
for bringing out invisible ink all identical.
Cuper was thus established as Townsend, the
most active spy of the American Revolution.
Study Of the documents of Townsend and
Cuper jr.. further confirmed their identity.
Their movements on certain dates conceded,
and now an irrefutable chain of evidence has
been produced to make possible this most i'm
portant unknown chapter of Revolutionary War
history.
Townsend's spy work during the Revolution,
naturally, was kept carefully guarded secret,
known only to Gen. Washington and one or two
other American officers. After the war, fear
ing that some harm might come to the man
if the part he had played became known,
Washington continued to keep the secret.
Townsend's books, which reveal the role he
filled remained sealed for century. Only
row has 1t been possible for the story to come
to light.
To understand the part Townsend played in
the war, it is first necessary to sketch the
military situation at the time that this first
branch of the American Army Intelligence
Service was founded
The Fall of 1776 was a dark hour for the
Colonists. Washington had been overwhelmed
in the Battle of Long Island, and was with
drawing slowly up the Hudson. Sir William
Howe was establishing himself in New York,
1inging patrols out over Long Island and gath
ering his forces for a new move. The British
feet had dropped anchor in New York Harbor.
1t became imperative for Washington to know
what was being planned.
Washington, accordingly, asked Col. Knowl-
ton, commanding an infantry regiment in the
van Of the American Army to fined young
officer who would 60 beyond the lines to get
the needed information. Nathan Hale, captain
in Col Knowlton's regiment, volunteered for
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and, with rope around his neck,
stepped of into eternity, George
washingtons first attempt to set up Army
Intelligence Service came to a dramatic and
tragic end.
For Hale, who paused before stepping into
history-book immortality, to turn a phrase
familiar to millions of school boys ever since,
was not only the most notable Army spy of
the American Revolution; he himself in his
slender person. was Just about the entire
American Army Secret Service. And his pass
ing left George Washington blind, and without
any inside means of knowing what the British
were doing.
Armies in those days needed espionage
systems quite much they do now. And
the ragged Continentals Of Washington, who
lacked many things, sorey lacked spies. Lack
ing spies, they could not tell how many British
there were, or where the American force should
be chiefly concentrated, or what it might expect
from the fates, and If Nathan Hale had never
been replaced it is quite possible that the
American Revolution would have been snuffed
out, IN which case Washington and many an
other patriot would have followed Hale to a
similar gallows.
But as a matter of fact, Hale was replaced.
Washington found another spy; a who
Iisked his life for several years to Turk within
the British lines and send out invaluable news
Of British troop movements, arrivals and de-
partures, British headquarters rumors, official
orders, the conditions Of supply and the morale
OF British troops
The identity of this man has always been
unknown even to most historians, and Hale,
vino tried espionage only once, and paid for it
with his life, became a national hero almost
before the British cut down his body from the
rope, and he has remained a national hero
ever since.
NOW. however, Morton Pennypacker of Kew
Gardens, New York, has brought to light
the facts about this other spy. He has shown
how the man worked, what he did, and how
ineton and to America, and he has also shown
who the man was
This man-George Washington's other spy"
as he might be called-has been identified by
Mr.. Pennypacker as Robert Townsend, native
Of Oyster Bay on Long Island.
recent book by Mr.. Pennypacker, 1.-The
Houghton Miffiin Co, tells Townsend's story
portant sidelght little known phase Of
the Revolutionary War.
Mr. Pennypacker has been able to make these
revelations by what amounts to a surprising bit
OF detective work. In Gen. Washington's papers
were found many reports from a spy who signed
himself Samuel Culper, jr. Who this Samuel
Cu1per, ir, remained mystery until Mr..
Pennypacker came upon a chest of old docu-
pnents belonging to Robert Townsend.
The similarity of Townsends handwriting
and that Of the unknown Culper were at once
apparent Experts were then called in, and
Albert S. Osborn, one of the worlds greatest
authorities on handwriting, pronounced the
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The only RnOUn likeness OF Robert
Townsend, ''WGshington'S Other Spy"
The silhouette bears Totcnsends sigma
ture.
the duty, passed in disguise to Long Island and
got some detailed knowledge about enemy
troops and movements. While trying to get
out of New York Hale was seized, taken before
Sir William Howe, court-martialed and hanged.
His death spurred the American cause.
Eale'S capture, incidentally, chiefly the
result of bad luck. He had entered the city of
New York by going from Norwalk, Conn, to
Huntington, Long Island by boat, and pro-
ceeling thence to New York in boat carrying
farm produce for the redcoats' commissariat.
HALE then nosed about New York, got most
of the information he wanted and started
back toward the American lines by simply
walking up the shore Of Harlem Creek. He had
only three miles to go and with ordinary luck
would have made it, for he had already passed
the British sentry line. But the great fire of
that day, in which 1000 houses we're burned,
caused heavy cloud of smoke to overhang
Manhattan Island, and a British warship sent
a picket boat in to investigate. Hale saw this
boat coming, and-aS the warshp out Of
sight-aSsumed that it was manned by Ameri-
cans. He had hailed the boat and attracted at
tention before he discovered his mistake, and
then it was too late.
Hale was executed, and the information he
had so carefully gathered went to the grave
with him. And Gen. Washington, for some
time, had to get along with only fragmentary,
sketchy and unreliable reports about the doings
of the British. So, eventually, Washington de-
cided to establish regular Secret Service
Bureau in New York smack in the center of
the British territory; and the man chosen to
manage it was this Robert Townsend of oyster
Bay.
Robert Towpsends father a trader i'm
porting flax and sugar and molasses, tea and
coffee and rum and similar commodities; and
Townsend, the son, acting as his fathers pur-
chasing agent had established himself in an
of1ice in New York before the Revolution
opened. Mr.. Pennypacker studying old docu-
ments of the period thinks it possible that the
young man may have joined in the "Sons of
Liberty" movement as early as 1772, collecting
funds for that organization long before hos
tilities commenced. 1t is known that Town
send was appointed a commissary to supply
Brig Gen. Nathaniel Woodhull'S brigade with
provisions in 1776, but that assignment evil
IDENTIFY was short-lived, as Gen. Woodruff was
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RECENTLY DISCOVERED PAPER

Maj. Andre began to search idly
through the cuPbOdrds. When he came
to the letter he hurriedIy hid it in his
pocket, picked up a dish of doughnuts
to couer his action, and stroILed leisurely
out Of the room. But he toaS not unob-
served.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-15
Hospital Workers
Slashed to $40
A Month
CBy a Worker Correspondent

HOBOKEN, N. YIN the Saint
Mary's Hospital (the human butcher
shop many hundreds of workers are
speeded up at the worst starvation
wages. The young student nurses,
who must serve three years appren-
ticeship. are forced to work the first
three months for nothing. Then for
the next 80 months they receive $40
a month. The station men who take
care of the wards are working IL hrs.
day, seven days q week, and re-
ceive SIS a month.
The bosses of this human butcher
shop have now started a campaign
of firing the older workers and hiring
new ones at still lower wages: $40 to
$3.50 a month
1t is about time that the workers
in the hospital organize against the
terrible conditions. Build ward COM
mittees. Demand no wage cuts, the
eight-hor day, the five-day week,
without reduction in pay, immediate
increase Of the hospital personnel, ade-
ouate wages for nurses and pharma-
cists, equal pay for equal work, no
discrimination on account Of race,
nationality or color, elimination OF
free work. Join the Medical Work
ers Industrial Union, 5 E. 10th ST,
New York City.
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Demand MONEYS
Release at b e
iii. Conference
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONEl

December 81, 1881, at the Labor Tenn
pie. "A call for the conference will be
sent to all working class organizations
of Southern Illinois and the necessity
for developing broad campaign to
free Mooney and Billings and Illi-
nois class war prisoners will be
stressed.
Schedule IL Conferences
The International Labor Defense,
under whose auspices the whole cam
paign for the release of class war
prisoners is now being arranged, has
scheduled twelve conferences
throughout Illinois, Wisconsin, Indi-
ana and Missouri TO further the
struggle for the release of Mooney,
Billings, the Illinois prisoners. the
Harlan miners and the ScottSboro
boys.
A state conference on the repeal of
thee Criminal syndicalist law will be
held in Springfield, Ill, February T.,
1882, where delegation will be sent
to the governor and state legislature
presenting demands for the release
Of class war prisoners and demanding
MONEYS release.
A resolution adopted at the Noven-
Der % conference pointed to the fact
that the seven workers arrested in
Southern Illinois on criminal syndi-
calism charges were active in organ
izing the miners and were active in
the Orient mine strike, and also in
preparations for the National Hunger
March. The resolution demanded the
release of the seven workers and the
immediate repeal Of the criminal syn
dicalism law.
Besi5@s the nine United Mine
Workers local present, Local Union
100 of Gillespie endorsed the resolu-
ton and sent copy to Governor En-
merson and State Attorney Marion
Hart.
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MINERS UNION
LEADS FIGHT IN KENTUCKY

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONEl
ment Of the eight hour day; all min
ers to be paid in United States cur
rency and not scrip, and to have the
right to trade wherever they wish.
The keynote of the convention was
contained in rank and file speeches
scoring the United Mine Workers OF
America and the IWW as "leaving
the miners in ditch where the Ma
tional Miners Union rescued them. ~
Who Are Reds?
In answer to the coal operators
calling the miners reds, the miners
say: ut seems like anybody who is
hungry is red.'
Great applause greeted Ike Haw-
kinS, Negro leader of the National
Miners Union, as he came forward to
speak. Frank Borich, national secre-
tary OF the National Miners Union,
outlined the organizational tasks OF
the union, the setting up of strike
apparatus and drawing all of the
miners into active participation of the
struggle. Vincent Kamenovich, secre-
tary Of the Western Pennsylvania
district of the N.MU., and Bob ST.
vert, an official of the union, brought
greetings from the miners of Penn
sylvania and Ohio. Mary Smith urged
the women to join the men
START RELIEF DRIVE.
Alfred Wagenknecht, secretary of
the Workers International Relief,
which has now begun a nation wide
campaign to raise funds, food and
clothing for strike relief, pledged
the support of the W.LR., and de-
clared that the organization and
workers everywhere would exert
greatest effcrts to keep the miners
from starving while striking. BY
unanimous vote the delegates called
upon the W.I.R. to issue an appeal
nationally for support Of all work
ers and organizations in a relief
drive to help win the strike.
Bill Meeks, Straight Creek miner,
was chairman of the convention;
Bessy Wells, was secretary, and Perry
Atkins, vice-ctair1nan. A district
board Of the NM.U. consisting of ~
miners was elected.
The rank and file miners described
their horrible conditions. One miner
said he left his wife and five kids
that morning without breakfast
"Our houses are SO bad" q miner
said, Eve don't call cats and dogs in
through the door. They come right
through the cracks"
1.-THE sooner we go to war against
such conditions" said one miners
wife, "the sooner we will win the
battle"
District Committee Acts.
The District Committee of u elect
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNEo

and Police Chief Luksich VINO are
starving the Monessen unemployed
through the measly baskets of food.
Led by Red Haqulett, local stool for
the U. S. Steel Corp, the police sur
rounded the speaker, Edith Briscoe,
MWIL organizer, and attempted to
place her under arrest. However, their
attempt failed, for the workers would
not leave the hall and demanded that
the meeting continue. They booed the
attempt of the police to threaten the
crowd with tear gas.
The wives Of the steel workers pres
ent at the meeting surrounded the
speaker and led her out of the hall,
thus preventing her arrest. Later the
police picked up for resisting arrest"
a young worker who militantly pro-
tested against the attempt on the
speaker.
The workers Of AIonessen are deter
mined to smash the police terror in
MonesSen which is controlled by the
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DOAk SNARLNG
new LIES ABOUT
HUNGER MARCH

CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNE)
have the T.U.U.L. outlawed by fed
eral courts.
But in this case the fish is father
to the thought and away ahead Of
the facts.
Still Another Lie.
Doak's statement includes still an
other lie. The events of Oct. IA, to
which he refers, was statement OF
detailed instructions to those pre-
pairing the National Hunger March
It was not issued by the Communist
Party, nor even directly by the Trade
Union Unity League. These instruc-
tons were issued by the National
Hunger March Committee of the I'm
employed Councils.
Certainly both the T. U. U. L. and
the Communist Party supported fully
the National Hunger March. Doak
bases the claim of the virtually
wholly Communist participation" in
the march on list of the speakers
at the National Hunger March meet
ings in Washington and the names
of leaders of the march. Among
these appear Communists, of whom
Doak mentions; William z. Foster
William Weinstone, william F.
Dunno, Herbert Benjamin, John Bal
lam and Fred Biedenkapp. He cites
their membership on various Com
munist leading committees as though
that were great discovery. None
of them has at any time denied their
Communist membership.
The vast majority of the delegates
in the march were not Communist
Party members and were elected from
mass organizations, conferences and
endorsed by mass meetings, in which
the political opinion of the workers
voting was not point tissue.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-15
Use CRIMINAL SYNDICALIST
LAWS TO PREVENT STRIKES

send these workers TO jail for prac-
tically life term.
No better exposure of the close col
Elaboration of the bootlickers in the
officialdom Of the UAIWA and the
coal operators and their courts has
ever been shown than the Indictment
against Bill Gebert and the other
workers. 1t shows that the UNIWA Of
ficials, acting as stool pigeons, faith
full to their masters the coal oper-
ators, went before the grand jury and
told how the National Miners Union
was organizing the workers for strike,
exposing the scab policy of the
UNWA. On this ground, the UMWA
paid agents asked for an Indictment
as well as to protest the Chicago,
Wilmington g. Franklin Coal Co., in
its policy Of slashing wages and en-
forcing furious speed-up.
While the indictment contains the
usual phrases about the defendants
seeking to overthrow by force and
violence and by physical injury to
persons and property the representa-
tive form of government" the brunt
of the charge is that Of organizing the
National Miners Union and winning
the rank and file of the UNIWA for
| struggle against starvation.
Defeat the Frame-up,
This criminal syndicalist indict-
ment is even more vicious than the
action Of the Kentucky coal operators
who would never dare SO openly to
expose the hand Of the coal operators
and the United Mine Workers of
America as strikebreakers and stool
pigeons of the bosses.
On this sort of indictment, made
just as much by the officials of the
UAIWA as by the capitalist state,
these militant leaders of the Illinois
workers, and particularly the miners,
face 90 year Jail sentences.
Rank and file members Of the
UNfWA should raise militant pro-
test against this action Of their Of
ficials. Line up behind the National
Miners Union! Demand the immedi-
ate release of all these workers and
smash the terror drive Of the bosses
which is aimed to enforce their hun
ger-program.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-15
Many Musicians Are
In Great Distress,
Admits n. Y. Post

mo less than 10000 musicians are
in distress in New York alone" is the
admission made by Louis Sherw1n,
writer for the New York Evening Post
in writing of the efforts Of the Bohe-
rnians, a musicians organization, TO
aid their destitute members.
Fully SO per cent of the teachers
in one or another branch Of music
have lost their pupils as a result OF
the crisis. Sherwin reports.
The endowment fund which was
used to aid especially hard hit mem
bers of the musicians group Is now
depleted. The club has no program
outside Of raising few dollars by al
fairs and appeals to the rich.
Telling of the extent Of misery
among the musicians and teachers
Sherwin writes, even some well
known artists are in distress"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-15
Starving Man Tried
to p Ian Against
Worse Hunger

NEW YORK. Wilson Casio, starv-
ing, but trying to hang onto his last
dollar for the weeks of still more
CHASTITY hunger he saw ahead this
winter, collapsed from lack of food
in Times Square subway station We'd
nesday night.
He was trying to find place to
sleep out of the cold in the subway,
and had nothing to eat for four days.
Capitalist newspapers give space to
his story in preference to that of
dozens of others who are never men
toned, because OF his apparently
ingrained thrift. But the capitalist
virtue of Saving your money didn't
help in the midst of a crisis.