davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-05
STEWART GOES
 TO ANCHORAGE
 AND FAIRBANKS
Mining Supervisor Leaves Today for M o nth s
 Mining Investigation

Enroute to Anchorage and other points for conferences over the 1881 seasons mining investigations and inspections, under both Fed eral and Territorial appropriations, B. D. Stewart, Supervising Mining Engineer and Acting Territorial Mine Inspector, left today on the steamer Alaska for Seward. He will be absent about 30 days.
 MT Stewart probably will ap- point full-time assistant mining engineer to aid him in the Terri torial work after his return here. Funds for this were made avail able by the recent Legislature.
 At Anchorage MT. Stewart will confer with J. J. Corey. Coal mine expert, Maurice Sharp, in charge of the laboratory there, and George H. Miller, Foreman Miner Of the United States Bureau of Mines, re- garding their work this season Lat CT he will visit Fairbanks and con- fer with Prof Earl Pilgrim and Irving NICK. Reed, special assist ants, who have aided him in field studies during the past two years. Continuation of this work is con- templated.
 Mir. Stewart will also visit all of the operating coal mines in the Healy River and Matanuska fields, and look over all of the coal units held under development leases.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-05
MAD w Q RL D' H EADS BILL ON CAPITOL SCREEN
B a sil Rathbone Stars as French Spy in Play
 with Small Cast

Basil Rathbone, who has the leading part in This Mad World which comes to the Capitol The ater tonight, is well-equipped to en- act the role of the French spy which he assumes in the produc- ton.
 Rathbone, lieutenant of the Liverpool Scottish in the World War was assigned to intelligence , duty with the British army for a long period and made many trips behind the German lines. In This Mad World" a trip into German territory results in a love affair between Rathbone and Kay John sen, who plays a German girl.
 There are only five major roles in the play. They are taken by Miss Johnson, Rathbone, Louis, Dresser. Veda Buckland and Louis Natheaux. Of these, Rathbone Miss Johnson and Miss Dresser car ry cut 80 percent of the action.
 William de Mile directed the pic ture from a script prepared by Clara Beranger. The plot is not concerned with scenes of the ac- tual warfare, but rather depicts an interlude occurring behind the Ger man lines between the hours of 1 pm. and 10 am. of the next day.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-05
" 3TF BAKER IS BURIED

NEW YORK, May 5.-George F. Baker, dean Of American bankers, who died last Saturday night, was buried today with simple services.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-05
NOT DAMAGED SHOWS TONIGHT
 AT COLISEUM
Romantic Play, with Music Features Walter Byron
 and Lois Moran

Lois Moran, who is co-featured with Walter Byron in Not Dam aged,' an all-talking movietone TO- nance with music, which will be presented tonight at the Coliseum theatre, is right at home in the department store setting of this picture.
 Until recently, Miss Moran was the owner of one of the most ex- elusive sports wear shops in Holly wood, catering to the motion pie ture colony.
 Business was so good that Miss Morans shop had to be expanded several times, and it finally assum- ed such proportions that she could not devote the necessary time to it. So she sold out.
 Active Tn Management
 However, when she was the pro- prietress of the shop, Miss Moran tcok an active hand in it's manage msnt, and frequently would go behind the counters to assist the sales girls when they were rushed.
 In her current picture she pre- sides over the mems shirt counter in large New York department store. Her sweetheart, Robert Ames. is the radio mechanic for the store, while her girl friend, Inez Court ney, presides over the photograph record counter. Inez's sweetie, George Red" Corcoran, is the store detective.
 Serenity Is Disturbed
 All is apparently serene with this little foursome, although Lois is not entirely satisfied with her radio lover, when in walks Walter Byron, who plays the role of wealthy young man about town. He falls in love with Lois at sight and con- plications develop rapidly, with Ames' violent jealousy playing quite a part in the affair.
 Chandler Sprague directed this picture, while Harold Atteridge and Frank Gay adapted the story from the magazine story by Richard Connell. Cliff Friend and Jimmie Monaco, well known writers of popular music wrote the songs for the picture.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-05
NOTICE

On and after this date the Web Der Beauty Parlor in the MacKin- non Apartments will give QUART Permanent Waves for 5000 each.
 adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-05

Commercial bankruptcy causes a loss of about $75O,O0Oo0 a year to American business.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-05

Of six blacksmith shops remain ing in Dodge City, Kas.. only two are equipped to shoe horses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-05
The Declaration of independence.

The physical value of the Declara-
ton of independence is, of course, in
estimable. Ownership of the original
document would make anybody indie
pendently wealthy. The possessor could
ask his own price.
Fortunately the owner is the United
States Government. There is only one
original copy. The Declaration was not
prepared in duplicate. Since the pre-
olous document Is at the Library of Con-
gress, nobody is going to attain sudden
wealth by finding it in an old trunk, or
pile Of rubbish in the attic, or pressed
between the covers of an antique family
Bible.
Nevertheless It continually is being
found" Newspapers constantly are re-
porting its discovery. The Library Of
Congress receives frequent letters. Folks
refuse to be disilluSioned. It Is a curl
Gus turn Of human nature. The reports
have become so frequent that a form
letter has been prepared by the Manu-
scripts Division of the Library of Con-
yress stating precisely and Internationally
the facts.
All the documents being discovered"
are well executed facsimiles. They bear
plenty Of egtdsnes. - the 90 q a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-05

shake-ups that will tend to reduce the
expense of governing.
The subject of penal reform and of
punishment for capital crime is interest
ing in view of some Of the contrasts
presented. In Massachusetts,, for in
stance, there is a proposal to abolish
the death penalty. In Kansas, which
once abolished it, there is a proposal
again to legalize it. Arizona joins
Massachusetts, with a proposal to
abolish the death penalty, and the
Associated Press links the proposal with
the fact that the State is still shudder-
ing over the grim spectacle of the
execution of a woman last Summer.
Several States will tackle the sub
ject of prohibition, in one way or an
other. Missouri sees a possible $3,000,-
900 in revenue that might be raised by
taxing products, such as malt strip,
used in the manufacture of "home
brew" Several proposals for repeal
of the State enforcement acts are pend
ing in Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, West Vir-
GINA, California, Pennsylvania, Wyo-
ming and New Jersey. West Virginia's
is linked with economy and
not with the moral aspects of prohibi-
ton, If such divorce is possible.
Blue laws, unemployment relief, the
gasoline tax, with Kansas alone of many
States proposing to reduce instead OF
to increase it, will be studied along
with such bizarre proposals as one in
California to prohibit married women
from working as long as their husbands
are gainfuly employed.
Some day some Legislature will write
history by repeating half the State laws,
refusing to pass any new ones and CEN
tering its attention exclusively upon
of the expense of government.
Perpetual motion will be invented about
the same time, to be closely followed by
the dawn of the millennium. But 1t is
a nice thing to look forward to, any
how.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-05
Wage Maintenance.

From the Charleston (S.C) Evening Post
The one outstanding achievement of
American industry to date in the pres
ent depression has been the mainte-
nance of the wage level. The year 1880,
a hard year, has passed with the bulk
OF American industry adhering firmly
TO the promise which it gave to Presi-
dent Hoover and to the public at the
beginning OF the year that 1t would not
cut wages. Men in great numbers have
had to be laid off, but in the average
industry those who have been retained
have been paid the same rate of wages
that applied at the height of pros
perity and this has been a notable
achievement.
There have been some who argued
that it would be better If the money
available for wages could have been
distributed among all the workers so
as to avoid lay-offs, but, obviously, 1t
would be uneconomic for any plant to
keep more labor than enough to produce
what 1t could dispose of, no matter how
much or how little 1t had to pay the
men. Overproduction was one of the
evils OF the situation and to produce
still more at low wages instead of less
at the old rate of wages Whould have
aggravated the situation.
The industries are by no means out
VI tAlS WOONo, anu II UltoAllCoS uOco IlOb
improve. 1t is a question how much
longer the wage rate can be maintained
without serious injury. Some argue that
lower wages are justified by the decline
in commodity prices, since dollar will
now buy more, but. unfortunately, to
the average man the dollar does not
seem to go any farther than it did
before, no matter what the statistics
say. Should conditions improve before
long, the problem will have been solved.
industries can afford to continue to pay
good wages, and the fact of their MAIN
tenance will become a powerful con-
tributing factor in speeding up the re-
turn of prosperity. 1t is probably the
first time the Nation has ever gone
through major depression with so ex-
cellent wage record and 1t is some
thing to be scored to the credit of
American industry, provided, of course,
that conditions do not become worse
or continue bad so long as to make it
impossible not to change the policy.
When all is said and done. the first
interest of labor and capital alike is that
industry be preserved and not sacrificed
to any hard and fast rule.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-05
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

maybe in bed, but the fireplace can be
enjoyed no place but where it is.
x K
To give the fire ones whole attention
Is TO lend it dignity which it deserves.
If we are engaged in the fictional adj
ventures of some one else's magma
ton, how can We do justice to this
queer backlog?
Among the many backlogs which have
gone up in smoke so far this Winter,
this particular one alone has a habit
OF popping at one end, and of sending
up smoke at the other.
Other logs have sent out sparks, but
this one INDUCES in cannonades.
If We insist on reading, we will never
know that this log Is different from
the last one.
And surely it is essential that we
know our logs. Life is such big propo-
Sltion, and there are so many things
that we cannot observe in it, so much
we will never know even exists, perhaps
1t is much more to our individual pur-
pose II We spend some time on these
things We can see, watch, smell, taste.
touch, understand
Let nations fight nations, let interna-
tional politicians write their variouslv
coloreo books, while we sit by the fire
and enjoy the natural conduct of I'M
sophisticated logs.
Such has been the good nature of
our logs OF recent days that not one
of them has sent forth a shower of
sparks beyond the hearth.
Since We have no fire screen, this
exemplary conduct on the part OF our
freWood Is very much appreciated.
Before Christmas we made a personal
search OF our favOrite stores in order
to flnd fire screen. Nothing seemed
more essential. But the stores were
almost sold out, and the only one we
fancied cost too much for our rapidly
dwindling purse.
Since that time we have begun to be-
lleve that a fire screen is not as essen
tial as we once thought. No sparks
jump out, in the first place. And in
the second, our view of the burning logs
is totally unobstructed.
III some day we get a screen, We be-
lleve we will only put it in place after
the fire has died down and It is left to
Its own devices. Bits of smoldering logs
left alone have a way of bursting into
flame hours later. To keep their way
ward sparks chimneyward, a fire screen
would be of real service.
While the flames are 1eapinR. how
ever. a fire screen is rather in the way
OF genuine fire sitters. We would have
an unhampered; clear view of the field.
Men like the bleachers and pavilions
at the ball park because there is no
chicken wire in the way, as there is
in the grandstand just behind the
plate.
Just settin'" has its happiest mani
festation in front of the home fireside.
after the cares of the day are over
and the early Winter twilight comes on
apace, as they used to say with a fine
flourish.
Then let us sit with aplomb. talking
when We will, but always watching the
burning logs as their flames leap and
sparkle In the black depths of the
chimney.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-05
An UnpatriOtic Proposal.

From the Ohio State Journal (Colambus),
How foolish and even reprehensible it
would be to increase the size of the ma
tional House of Representatives! It Is
already too large for expeditions and
efficient work, with its ABS members
Yet the proposal is made in Congress
with strong numerical backing that the
membership be fixed under the new APP
portionment at 491. 1t would mean
So more salaries, with perquisites, for
the taxpayers to provide, more confu-
sion and less effectiveness in legisla-
ton and. We understand, costly en-
largement of the seating capacity of
the hall where the Representatives
meet-much loss and no gain for the
public interest.
The public interest is given no con-
sideration in this proposal. It's advo-
Gates frankly admit that the purpose is
to save certain States from losing a
small percentage of their congressional
representation under the apportionment
as fixed at present. They demand more
jobs than they are entitled to, and that
is not at all an edifying position. Con-
gresS was made for the country and not
the country for Congress. The states
manlike thing to do would be to reduce
the size OF the House, not to increase 1t,
but we must not expect too much In
this old vale of tears and laughter. If
the membership is kept as at present It
VIII be as much of concession to the
for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-05

and one Of rye. It is cooked whole
without grinding. The grain is Just
as 1t comes from the field and is put
In a double boiler and cooked until
the kernels Of wheat burst open.
This sometimes takes four or five
hours. We cook up batch of it. put
u In the Ice chest and get some out
and warm 1t up each morning. I
suppose it will last week or 10 DAYS
without getting sour"
Historic Center Market. which has
Just been handed over to the wreckers
TO make way for the new Federal Ar
chlVes Building, was authorized by
congress and built by public subscrip-
tlon. BY far the largest part of the
money came from men of affairs in the
North. On the wall of the Ninth street
wing, near the entrance, is a stone
tablet bearing the founders names.
Among them are Caleb Cushing, Will
liam E. Chandler, Benjamin F.. Butler.
Alexander r. Shepherd. Hallet Kill
oourn and Samuel w. Curriden. The
congressional charter allowed the mar
ket company use of the land on which
the building stands at q yearly rental
OF $1,000. 1t was also provided that
the buildings, if undisturbed for 100
years, would then revert to the Govern
ment. If taken over beforehand, the
company was to be reimbursed by the
United States Treasury. When Center
Market was taken over by the Depart
ment OF Agriculture some 10 years ago.
the stockholders were awarded by ap-
praisal the sum Of $1,25O,OOO.
X
Washington's most striking New Year
card Is the Great Circle Map" showing
Fairbanks, Alaska, as "a geographical
center OF Europe, Asia and America"
and the terminus of the Pacific Yukon
Highway The map is the work OF
Ernest Walker Sawyer, one of the three
commissioners appointed to study the
construction of highway to connect
the Northwestern part of the United
States with British Columbia. Yukon
Territory and Alaska Fairbanks be-
strides the same longitude as the North
Pole.
Copyright, 1919
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-05
The Law Machines.

Here in Washington we have close
up view Of the grist that is ground into
law every year by the national legisla-
tive mill. An interesting summary by
the Associated Press portrays the stu
pendous task that awaits the assembly
between now and next Spring of forty
four State legislatures, each Of them
with a program designed for bigger or
better things and each of them con-
cerned with problems of its own. The
Associated Press estimates that before
the heat Of the Summer sun has melted
the enthusiasm of the lawmakers and
brought about adjournment, some 10000
new laws will have been enacted.
In nearly every American community
the people during the year will have
received some nice new law that they
have been demanding for years. When
they get it, what will they do with it?
The legislative programs divide them
selves into five specific claSSifications-
taxation, prohibition, penal reform, un-
employment relief and governmental
geform. But generally the bills propos d
can be grouped under the two head
1ngs-money and morals. These are
the things with which legislatures, and
the people represented by the legisla-
lures, care and think most about.
The legislatures are concerned in
nearly every State with taxation or with
o kindred subject, the expense of gov
eminent. Eight States. for instance,
plan TO seek the economy that lies in
reorganization and greater Capitalization
of the State government set-ups. In
Arkansas there is drastic proposal to
consolidate its more than one hundred
boards and departments and to abolish
oil State executive Offices save those Of
governor. lieutenant governor and at
torney general. A number Of other
states aEe contemplating lee painful
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-05

expert, Of their real status. They are
not absolutely without value, although
this is difficult to determine. The
form letter states that excellent fac
SMILES can be secured from the Public
Printer for fifteen cents.
Properly aged facsimiles are dificult
for the layman to distinguish from
originals. The person whose hopes are
aroused by the finding of such an old
paper cannot easily appreciate the fine
marks and shadings which are indis-
putable evidence to the expert. He
often clings persistently to his illusion.
Traditions are passed on in families.
The next generation, it is likely, will
be even more convinced of the anthem
ITCHY of some of the documents because
they have the weight of the family ira
dition behind them. This tradition
crystallizes with the years. In the end
the authenticity, to the person con-
cerned, does not depend very much on
the physical evidence. When an ex-
pert insists that a pen could not have
made such microscopic mark, the
statement is equivalent to calling ones
grandmother a liar
So it is likely that more Declarations
of Independence" will be found from
year to year, and ill-advised claims on
their behalf will become more and
more sincere. Thus a tradition grows.
And all the time the original document
can be seen by anybody where it is and
where it belongs-under the dome of
the National Library.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-05
Lyle Campaign Is Watched
AS Hope of Chicago Reform

mendously impressed with the detern1l-
nation and the resourcefulness Of Judge
LYLE. 1t would create a great deal OF
confidence If q man such as he were
chosen to the highest post within the
gift of the city. 1t would give con-
vincing proof that Chicago at least Is
trying to do better"
eff Big Bill Thompson gets the may
orally, Chicago will waste its time seek
ing sympathy for anything from the rest
of the country" declares the Charleston
Is. c. Evening Post. The Syracuse
Herald holds that "the crisis is one that
calls for a formidable union of the city's
best citizenship in highly emergent ana
even desperate situation" The South
Bend Tribune suggests that Judge
Lyle has a tremendous advantage, Tor
he has gone much farther than any
other public official in the anti-gang
campaign; that ANY promises ne
makes on that score will be bulwarked
by a record of remarkable action" The
Hartford Times advises that "compro-
mise among the opponents OF Mayor
Thompson and elimination of all save
one will be essential to make victory
against the Thompson machine certain,
and will be the test of the genuine sin
certify of the Republicans who want no
more of his type of administration"
Mayor Thompson enters the cam
paign," in the judgment of the Roanoke
Times, with the immense advantage OF
having the hacking of the formidable
political machine now in the saddle in
Cook County, q machine of which he Is
the acknowledged head. On the other
hand, he mas made powerful political
enemies who will undoubtedly flock to
one or another of his opponents in an
effort to accomplish his overthrow"
THE mayor is the key to the sit
uation," asserts the Chicago Daily Trib-
une, :and it has been one of our expen-
sive utilities that public opinion has
allowed itself to be distracted from the
fact. We have talked vaguely about
getting an Army officer for chief or some
other strong and independent man. The
chief of police is as strong and straight
as the mayor and not a jot more so.
He will be as efficient as the mayor per-
mitS him to be. He will act as the
mayor wants tc act or not act, or he will
get cut. Until the law establishes COM
olete independence of the police the only
remedy is in strong and honest mayor.
When Judge Lyle says it is ridiculous
to assume that all these officers of the
law-that is, 98 judges, $500 bailiffs,
clerks, deputy sheriffs, and attaches Of
the courts and about 5000 policemen
cannot suppress and almost totally an
initiate the little bands of skulking as
saSsins, he says what is in every citt-
zen'S mind. II is ridiculous, but in the
present domination of the alliance be-
tween organized criminality and corrupt
politics 1t is and will continue to be
true unless the alliance is smashed That
job is under way, and we are confident
it will be done, but not until we have a
mayor in the chief seat of power who
can be depended upon to do his part"