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The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-26
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 MARK EXCEEDED LAST SA TURDAE
Salmon Pack for This Year Probably Will Aggregate
 5,250,000 Cases

With complete reports lacking from two districts and fishing still ir progress in three districts, Alas ka's 1881 salmon pack last Satur- day night had passed the 5000, ,000- case mark and the final pack may attain 5,2500o0 cases, it was indi- cated by statistics compiled at To- cai headquarters of the United States Bureau of Fisheries.
 Packs aggregating 5,013,965 cases of all varieties had been reported as of the close of August p, and this total included the Kodiak Is- land pack to August l, only. No rack figures have been received from that district for this months operations
 Fishing is still in progress in the South Prince of Wales Island dis trict, where the season will end on August 28, in the Yakutat area. where Fall fishing is permitted, and on the Kodiak-Afognak district. Fall fishing is permitted in the IIaines region and at Whiting Riv- CT but it is not known if packers in the vicinity will operate.
 The final pack, in the opinion of Capt M J. O'Connor, Assistant Agent of the Bureau of Fisheries, probably will reach 5,250,000 cases.
 The Southeast Alaska pack to Saturday night was 2,42l ,059 cases; Prince William Sound, 459,452 cas- es; Resurrection Bay 3941 cases; Copper River, where Fall fishing is also permitted, 7l,l11 cases; Cook Inlet, 135,248 cases; Chignik, 77,624 cases; South side of the Alaska Peninsula, 330,504 cases; North side of the Alaska Peninsula, 63,663 cases; Bristol Bay, 1,099,000 cases, Kodiak Island to August l, 354 1863 cases; total, 5,O13,965 cases.
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Mesicdls' Shoulders Droop
 Under Loads of Heary Coin

MEXICO CITY, Aug 26.-Fin- ancial burdens are literal things these days in Mexico.
 Withdrawal of gold from circula- tion left the silver peso as the only legal tender. But the largest denomination is the one peso coin and there is no paper money.
 Hence people enter or leave the banks with sacks of silver pesos over their shoulders. When the payments are large, hand barrows are used
 Men almost staggering under the weight of money bags are common sights on the streets. Yet holdups are rare. This is due to the fact that daylight street robberies never have been popular with Mexico's footpads and also because it would be physically impossible for rob- bers to carry away enough of the heavy money to make the risk of capture worth while
 Rules Out Gold
 It all started when Plutarco Elias Gales, Mexico's strong man was called from retirement on his ranch to wrestle with an economic ogre that was threatening to down the government. Conservation of gold was the crying need and Gales brusquely ruled the yellow metal
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room bathing apartment.
 The chief difficulty for bathers lies in the shortage of soap, not to be had here at even the most ex- orbitant prices. Many meet the s1t- uation by beating their bodies with bundles of birch twigs, the theory being that this opens the pores and permits steam or hot water to com plete the cleansing process.
 Costs 45 Kopeks
 A first class bath, which costs 45 kopeks, gives man the use of the swimming pool-after he has had his bath-and the choice of a tub or shower, often in a private compartment.
 Second class baths have only showers or tubs, no swimming pool, and the accommodations are more simple.
 In third class, where the bather stands on a bare stone floor, scrubs himself first and then rinses off with buckets of water, there is the Russian equivalent of Turk ish bath.
 Here the bather enters a small room filled with steam and is able to soak as long as he likes.
 Mixed bathing, so common up until a few years ago, now is ta- boo,
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out of circulation.
 The silver peso therupon began rapid descent in its quotation against the dollar, falling in week from 2.25 to 1 until the ratio be- came to l. This put the dollar well beyond the reach of ordinary people.
 One immediate result was to set up a barrier against imports more elective than tariff wall Import ed goods almost doubled their former prices and only an exclu- sive few could afford to buy them.
 Pin Money Burdens
 The government hailed this as a boon to home industry, seeing both an early expansion of exist ing domestic enterprises and the establishment of many new ones.
 The amount of pocket money that the average person carries was also reduced. To have s5 on ones person means loading the pockets with 20 heavy metal pesos. If $10 is carried, pockets bulge and sag and suit pressing bills, if one is inclined to look neat, increase.
 To carry more than 10 is just as much a nuisance. Few people do SO and thus, if nothing else good comes out of the situation. habit of thrift is formed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-08-26
CLUB STARTED BY DEMOCRATS
 FOR 1882 RACE
Shattuck Heads Temper ary Organization Formed
 at Last Nights Meet

With "1932-A Democratic Year, for rallying cry, more than 50 of Juneau's Democrats met last night at Council Chambers in City Hall to lay the groundwork for suc- cessful campaign in next years election. It was one of the most enthusiastic meetings on record and movement was launched to or ganize at once local Democratic Club as sort of training camp for next years battle of ballots.
 Senator Allen Shattuck was un- animously elected President of a temporary organization authorized to go ahead with plans for making il permanent. J. E. Pegues was elected temporary secretary.
 Name Enrolment Committee
 President Shattuck was directed, by a resolution, to appoint com mittee of ten to enroll members for the clubs charter list. As soon as this list is sufficiently large, an- other meeting will be held to elect permanent officers, name commit tees, draft constitution and by laws and otherwise perfect the or ganization.
 It is understood that the person. Del of the committee will be an rcunced within a day or so. By the middle of September, it is the hope
 Continued on Page Eight)
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rYPHOON HITS FLOODED COUNTRY
HOOVER LIMITS BIRD HUNTING
 TO ONE MONTH
Duck Season Here Limited to September Order
 Affects Whole Country

Under the provisions of a proc lsmation issued yesterday by Presi- cent Hoover, the open season for hunting ducks, geese, brant, coot, and other migratory wild fowl cov- cred by the Bird Treaty Act of 1912, will be cut from three and ope-half months to one month throughout the United States.
 Notice of the Presidents drastic action was received here by The Empire in an Associated Press des- patch from Washington, and later confirmed by a telegram received by the Alaska Game Commission.
 September fer Alaska
 The hunting season will vary in different sections of the country. In Alaska, President Hoover desig- hated the month of September. Normally the season opens here on September l, and closes on Decem- Der 15. The reduction made by the Presidents order is two and cIe-half months.
 The order came as a total sur prise to local officials as well as sportsmen. In response to a query, H. w. Terhune, Executive Officer of the Alaska Game Commission, said the Commission had not been asked to make any recommenda- tions on the subject, and it's first knowledge of the Presidents ac- ,t:on came from the telegram it re- cttved yesterday afternoon.
 MT. Terhune added he had tele- graphed Washington authorities for detailed information, asking par ticularly what action was being taken by Canadian authorities, es- pecially in British Columbia, Yu- kon Territory and the Northwest Territory.
 Hits Local Hunters
 The limitation, it is generally agreed, will affect Southeast Alas ka sportsmen more than those in and other section of the Territory. Wild fowl found in the Panhandle curing September are very largely local bred birds. The flight birds from northern and interior breed ing areas usually do not reach here before early in October, and in some years when the freezeup is delayed in the north, 1t is late in that month before the migrating flocks show up on the southern coast.
 Therefore, this seasons hunting in Southeast Alaska will be con i (Continued on Page Four)
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STOCK TRADING { TAKING SLUMP l N. Y. EXCHANGE
Practically Abandoned with No Indications as
 to Next Break

NEW YORK, Aug. 26.-Trading on the New York Stock Exchange today was all but abandoned.
 A hopeful glimmer was provided by the strength of the sterling.
 Signs as to which way there will be a break are lacking.
 Shares sagged a little at the opening and stiffened later.
 Pivotal issues showed negligible changes.
 Chemicals were firm.
 United States Steel, American Can and New York Central sagged point but recovered.
 American Tobacco "B" rallied a point and then fell.
 New Haven sold up two and then reacted
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TODAY'S STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Aug 26.-Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 17is, American Can e2%, Anaconda Copper "A, Beth lehem Steel 397s, Checker Cab BIZ, I8, 8, Curtiss- Wright 27s, Fox Films I13As General Motors 36A Inter national Harvester 38h, Kennecott 1873, Packard Motors 6ss, Standard Brands 1873, Standard Oil of Cali fornia AIS, Standard Oil of New Jersey 413s. United Aircraft 28ss U. s. Steel 88l2,
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WILL PROHIBIT
 WOMEN DECOYS
 BY DRY AGENTS
Director Woodcock Sa y S Orders to Be Issued
 Against Practice

WASHINGTON, D. O., Aug. 26.-- The Prohibition Bureau is to issue an order prohibiting the employ ment of women as informers or blinds" in the Federal Dry Law Enforcement activities This is the announcement made here today by Director Woodcock who has re- ceived various reports that Dry Agents are associating with lewd women and using them as bait to get" violatorS.
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FORMER JAP AN p RE MIER DIES
 AT AGE OF 61
Warrior for Peace . Pass es Away in Tokyo
 Once Wounded

TOKYO, Aug. 26.-Yuko Hama guchi, aged 61 years, former Pre- mier who won the appelation of he Warrior for Peace by his es- pousal of the London Naval Treaty. despite the opposition of influen- tial groups and extreme patriots and militarists. is dead
 After the ratification of the Treaty, Hamaguchi was shot and seriously wounded by Tomeo Sago- va, aged 23, described as having been patrioticaily misguided and mentally deranged.
 Hamagichi headed the Premier ship in 1929.
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THREE GEM CLIPS
 SPARKLE ON FROCKS

LONDON Aug 26.-Three dia- mond clips instead of one orna- ment milady's frock these days. The glittering baubles are used in diff ferent ways. Sometimes the three are placed together like barette on one side of cowl neckline. Again one is used on each side and the third in the center of the back.
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MRS. COWLES
 PASSES AWAY

PENNINGTON, Conn, Avg. &c., Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Cowles, sis ter of the late President and wid- CIV of Rear Admiral William Shelf field Cowles died at her home here today. She was 76 years old and had been in poor health for several years.
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CANDHI WILL
 GO TO LONDON

SIMLA, India, Aug. 26.-Gan- dhi has agreed to take part in the Second Round Table Conference in London and will sail for England newt Saturday, it is officially an- nounced.
 Previously it had been announced that Gandhi would not attend the conference
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COL, LUKE LEA
 IS CONVICTED

ASHEVILLE. N. C.. Aug. 26.- Col. Luke Lea, Nashville newspaper publisher and former United States Senator, has been convicted in the Superior Court Of conspiring to aefraud the Central Bank and Trust Company of $1I36,000. His son, Luke. junior. and Wallace Davis, president of the bank, which failed, were also found guilty.
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LIEUT.. BARKER HERE BRIEFLY

Lieut.. F. V. Barker, m charge or the Naval Radio in Alaska with headquarters at Mile Seven, Cor dcva, was a home-bound passenger on the Aleutian last night. Lieut.. Barker has been with the U. s. s. Swallow, radio supply ship, on her trip to the various radio stations in Alaska. He joined her at Ket- chikan and proceeded with her on the voyage to the Pribilof Islands and radio stations along the Alaska coast. The Swallow sailed from ketchikan for Bremerton last Fri day.
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MARSHAL. WHITE LEAVES
 ON INSPECTION TOUR

For an inspection of conditions in tliis district, United States Marshal Albert White left here today aboard the Helmar He probably will be absent four days. touching at a number of smaller communities and cannery ports before rsturn- ng.
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U. S. HAS 2O6 NEW AIRPORTs

WASHINGTON-Airports in the United States increased by 206 dur ing the fiscal year of 1881, says the Department of Commerce.
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Mrs. Charles Perelle, visiting in Juneau for several weeks, is a southbound passenger aboard the Yukon.
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FLYING COUPLE
 !. COMPLETE TRIP, U. s, TO ORIENT
Men, Women and Children Fight for Chance to
 See Famous Pliers
LINDBERGHS HAILED
 PEACE MESSENGERS
Enth usia sm of Throngs Grow as Couple Near
 Japan Naval Base

TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 26.-- Men, women and children fought in a wild scramble today to get a glimpse of the Lind berghs, famous couple, who en- tered Tokyo by train after land ing at Kasumigaura, 50 miles away.
 At the Ueno Railway Station, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and his wife encountered probably the most dense crowd in their experiences.
 Several times the immense crowd became manageable and for a time it looked like their auto would be overrun.
 The Lindberghs are praised for their flight across the Pa cific and are hailed as mes sengers of peace.
 Col. Lindbergh stressed ap- preciation of the hospitality ex- tended.
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yERDANT JAPAN GREETs LINDBERGHs

26A magnificent fecked with flowers Japan's greeting to the Lindberghs
 the of the contrast with the darker the the uxant the mulberry ar deeper the encad hills
 this landscape Fuyama the perfect mountain visible miles the is clear.
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DEATH TOLL UNEsTIMATED

SHANGHAI, Aug. 26.-There is TO authoritative estimates of the death toll in the floods in Central China although unofficial figures place the mortalities as high as 100000 in the vast area of many thousands of square miles between Nanking and the tri-cities of Han kow, Wuchang and Hanyang which are under water with only the tops of hills rising above the murky waters.
 Millions are absolutely destitute and it is feared that many more thousands must perish before the waters subside.
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REACH KAsuMGAURA

KASUMIGAURA, Japan, Aug. 26. -Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and his wife landed here, at the naval base, completing heir 613-mile flight from Nemuro in five hours and forty-eight minutes.
 tContlnued on Page Two)
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STRICKEN AREA STRUCK SECOND
 TIME BY BL L0W
Fears Felt for Hundreds of Thousands of Chi
 nese Refugees WAR SECRETARY OF
 U. s. IS AT SCENE
Arrives in Shangh al to Witness Disaster
 Marines Reviewed

SHANGHAI, China, Aug. 26. -One of the worst typhoons since 1905 struck Shanghai to- day flooding a portion of the city and caused anxiety for the safety of thousands clinging to the dykes and hills in the in- teriOr.
 American Secretary of War Hurley and his wife arrived amidst the typhOon and review ed a battalion of Marines. The American Cabinet officer is on his way to Manila.
 The typhoon uprooted trees and drove small craft ashore with a large loss of life.
 No trustworthy reports have been received from Hankow and Wuchang where 100000 refugees had gathered on high places to escape the swirling Yangtse River flood water which has already drowned thousands.
 Anxiety is felt for far off shore hipping as numerous ships are not reported.
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them by not attempting to clutter his
mind with nOn-essS initial details.
1t was an excellent lesson for the
youngster to learn. Perhaps much of
his success in the business world can
be laid to his ability to eliminate I'M
important details and get down to the
bed rock of proposition.
His college course was success.
Il didn't give him an inflated idea of
his knowledge or ability. as his letter
of application for his first job shows.
lie had learned that man has to be-
sin at The bottom to be of real value
20 himself or to a business. He was
..illing, as he wrote, to take anything.
rs long as it offered an opportunity
for advancement If he made good
He could have gone to work in
Salem bank when he was graduated.
His father would have obtained him
position but the youngster had other
Ideas. He wanted to stand on his own
feet. He did so when he took the $40
a week job with the Western Electric
company.
His first job called for him to make
the trip to Chicago. He borrowed
money to pay his fare rather than to
accept it from his father. He was
determined to make his own way from
the very outset of his business career
Wages of $40 week didn't 20 very
far even in 1904. Young Clifford man
aged TO make it do somehow He lived
at Hull House in Chicago, where he
had comfortable and congenial sur
roundings at little expense. Needless
to say. on his meager wages, he had
little chance to do anything but work.
He rose from pay roll clerk to a
position as assistant treasurer in a
short time with a good increase In
salary. 1t wasn't long before he was
chief statistician of the American
Telephone and Telegraph company.
In that position he attracted the at
tention of Theodore N. Vail, then head
of the concern, and gained further
promotion.
When Mr. Vail retired, the man. who
as college boy had made the mistake
of misdirecting his letter of applica-
ton for job, was made the head Of
one of the worlds greatest utility or
CARNATIONS.
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down and wrote a letter APPLYING
for a job He directed the envelope
to the Western Electric company by
mistake. He received an application
blank from that company in reply.
While embarrassed by his error in
writing letter to General Electric,
and then sending it in an envelope adj
dressed to Western Electric, he for
got about it when he was hired as a
clerk by the latter company. His paw
was $40 week.
His letter of application might well
serve as model to young men today
who are seeking to get their start in
the business world. He wrote. in part:
1T is my wish to enter some good
business as soon as possible after l
leave here. Now il there is only some
position (no matter what. provided
there will be a fair chance for a rise
If it is deseryed) in the General Elec-
trie company, should like to try 1t
and would endeayor to suit.
The fact that for two years out
ASAS' oNuuhSu great uedl Oh the
mechanical side mathematics, chem
lstry. etc) may help as to the kind
of a position | could fill. | began
with the intention of becoming min
ing engineer but for several reasons
have abandoned it.
If you wish any references, ETC., 1
think could get them, for, of course,
you know nothing about what sort Of
a fellow | am"
Walter S. Clifford was born in Salem,
Mass. in 1885. He wrote his letter of
application In 1901, the year he was
graduated from Harvard. His early
education WINS received In the public
schools Of his native city. He was a
bright studenf and was able to enter
high school when he was eleven years
old. He completed his course at Har-
ward in three years.
The future head of the American
Telephone and Telegraph company
was not a very husky and robust lad.
When his companions were playing
baseball, football and other games he
was generally off getting his exercise
and recreation by collecting butterflies
and other insects. He had a notable
collection when he was high school
pupil. They were all cataIogued I'M
der their Latin names.
His mother had been a school teach
er before her marriage. While she
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cables, is owned and operated by the
Cuban-American Telephone Company,
which is jointly owned by the Ameri-
can Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany and the International Telephone
and Telegraph Corporation 1t is 1875
land miles long. and at several places
lies a mile below the surface of the
Florida straits. This new under-sea
telephone cable connects with the land
lines of the American Telephone and
Telegraph Company at Key West,
Florida, and at Havana with the lines
Of the Cuban Telephone Company.
The first telephone service between
the United States and Cuba was
placed in operation April II, 1921.
Service was inaugurated by Presidents
Harding and MenocaL
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Telephone calls between the United
States and Cuba have increased SO
rapidly that it has become necessary
to install an additional cable, which
has recently been placed in service
Calls between these two countries
early this year showed a growth of
eight per cent over the same period of
1880.
The new cable contains three cir
cults. 1t was developed by the Bell
Telephone Laboratories and repre-
sents electrically the latest improve
ments in telephone cable design. BY
the application of carrier telephone
circuits using high frequency equip
ment. four telephone conversations
and twelve teiegraphic messages may
be transmitted simultaneously
This cable. like the three existing
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in the world, begin
to hunt jobs in the
spring before their
graduation. WAL
ter S. Clifford was
in this class. He
decided, in his
senior year at Har-
ward, that he want
ed to work for the
General Electric
company.
He sought no
friends to find an
opening for him.
Instead he sat
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Texas to Train Marines
Texans have started movement for
establishment Of state nautical acad.
envy for training Of 200 youths.
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| The Boyhood .
OF Famous 3,
| Americans ~;
Walter S. Clifford

College students, If they are am
bilious and need to make their way
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Drug Clerk-Your hair Is beginning
10 drop out? You've begun to use our
kair restorer, of course7
Customer-No-Can't blame It on
nat ct all,
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Reading Of the minutes, secretary general
report Resolutions Committee L.
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Better Films Mildred Russell
State and Chapter Bylaws, Reed,c airnan
Address Harry j. Ansnge, chief of Narcotics
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Address Treaties Or Thomas IIealy foreign service
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