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Secretary Hyde's Executive Order.
(St. Louis Post-Dispatch.l

MT. Hyde has completely reversed himself He says sugar is wholesome food product Nobody questions it. He cites the necessity of stimulating the use of corn and thus helping the farmer Nobody questions that fact; the con trary everybody agrees with it earnestly and sym pathetically But his own unanswerable objection to the proposal remains unanswered-that this ex- ecutive order will legalize deceptive labels that il violates the basic principle of the pure-food law that it is invitation to other interests to ask fol the same privilege, which, in his prophecy they will be sure to do; that it is the opening wedge which, in the end, will effective re- peal of the pure-food law
 The prospect is disturbing
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-13
SPEARLIKE GRASSES KILL ELK AND
 DEER.

To the poets eye dewy blade of grass may be "a cleaning sword" but the similarity escapes the more practical eye of the elk, the deer, and the moose These unsaspectng animals frequently learn, however and painfully so, that clump of grass may be only a sheath Of spears" disguised as forage.
 The Biological Survey of the United States De- 1arsnaent of Agriculture finds that the sharp. saw
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-13

The Illinois Collector of Internal Reevnue who lost S50,000 at the old faro swindle has resigned probably to devote some time to external revenue Qndianapoc News)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-13

Oklahoma's State Legislature has declared by official resolution that Will Rogers is that com monwealth's most useful citizen He probably will survive it. as he has had things than that said about him.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-13

As long as the Alaska Juneau continues to show a monthly net operating profit from it's local mine of more than s125oOO, Juneau need not worry greatly about depression.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-25
Yes, WeyAreNotActresses,
but Research Librarians
Wh0 AnszUer One Million
Questions a Year to Make
HeMo0iesRight- WHO?
VII Y i? WHEN i?
WIFE x E d.? HOW i?
b I
DAN THOMAS

arose recently during the filming Of Secret
Service" Richard Dix's latest picture
What food was eaten by Confederate and
Union soldiers during their campaigns? Did
Gen. Grant drink from the neck Of bottle
or did he use a cup? Did clean-shaven soldiers
or those with boards predominant? What did
the field telegraph instruments look like?
The average layman might figure that none
of those items are of much importance. But
they are And they had to be absolutely cor
rect.
A FEW other unusual questions which at one
n time or another have puzzled studio
search workers are:
How many shots were fired to start the Okla
homa land rush?
How was the Red Sea parted?
Did Abraham Lincoln wear flowing night
gown and walk in his bare feet through the
corridors of the White House when he was
troubled at night?
What pet name was given the first locomotive
to enter Deadwood?
How many inches from the ground did the
1924 fapper wear her skirts?
What would a railroad ticket for a train run
ming between Paris and Berlin look like?
What style nightgowns did English girls wear
in 1918?
When did the Chinese cut off their queues?
What would a Norwegian family eat for
breakfast?
What kind of surgical instruments were used
IN the early nineteenth century?
A stroll through the Paramount research de-
partment-made possible only after getting
passes from six or seven different executives
really Is a revelation to the magnitude of the
work which must be done
IN the library are more than $1,000 books and
! bound volumes of periodicals from the princi-
pal countries of the world, some of them dating
back as far as 1870.
There also are on file more than 1000 900
photographs, historical documents, maps, gov
eminent seals, coats Of arms, passport forms,
menus and wine lists from the worlds leading
hotels and steamship lines; birth, death and
marriage certificates; Geographic, cable and
wireless message forms: railway tickets time
tables, letter-heads from hundreds of firms and
scores Of other things which might be required
n the making of motion picture.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-25

in one scene Joan and Neil Hamilton sit on
Partisan back porch and drink bottle OF
milk Naturally, the bottle had to be authentlc.
Can a man be forced to try on hat found
in the room of a murdered man? That ques-
ton had to be answered before scenarist could
write in one of the main scenes in Norma
Shearer's last picture, "A Free Soul"
And Director Jack Conway wanted to know
how to get scene with some bees without
having all his players sent home with bee
stings. Consequently he had to know the
habits of bees so that he could tell his players
just how to act and be safe.
Seventeen years ago Mrs. Elizabeth McGaney
organized a small research library for Cecil B.
de Mille. Now she is head of the entire Radio
Pictures research department, with supervision
over the huge library containing thousands OF
books and photographs, employing dozen or
more assistants to unearth all Of the mforma-
ton necessary In making pictures.
Research work has passed through many
distinct stages since first started II years ago."
she explained. when I started out the main
concern of directors was architecture Their
theory was that buildings best established the
character of a background.
Little attention was paid to costuming IN
those days. Costuming, however, came as the
next phase. Then every detail OF dress had
to be exactly as it was during the period por-
trayed by the picture.
1.-THE third stage was devoted TO details OF all
kinds Everything had TO be just 50.
~ T present. our work embraces all Of these
n things and goes farther delving into the
habits and obscure customs peculiar to certain
groups of people. For instance, I might be
asked, What would q farmer be doing with his
hands as he sits on his porch?' The answer, OF
course, would be that he might be whiting ON
o stick, playing with pebbles or lacing his
boots"
One Of the most important functions Of
research department Is to aid writer's in devils
ing novel ways and means for killing people.
To aid In this, newspaper clippings Of all
strange murders and accidental deaths during
the last 10 or 20 years are kept on file. If
writer must get rid Of one Of his characters, he
calls upon the research department to help
him devise Q means that actually has been used.
Several questions pertaining to the Civil War
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-25
Ten Busy Counties

TEN counties and the free city of st. Louis
accounted for more than so per cent of
the Nations wholesale business during 1929.
The total goods sold was just short of $40, 0OO,-
100000. The counties making up the select
group which saw most of the activity were Los
Angeles and San Francisco Counties Calf:
Cook County, Ill; Suffolk County, Mass; Wayne
County, Mich; Jackson County and st. Louis
Mo-; New York County NJ Y; Cuyahoga Coun-
ty Ohio; Allegheny and Philadelphia Coun-
ties, Pa.
There were IL StateS-South Dakota, Della
ware. Maine, Utah, Montana, Idaho, Arizona,
New Hampshire, Vermont New Mexico, WyO-
ming and Nevada-which ranked below the
District of Columbia in total wholesale business
for the year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-25

Looking over this mass of data, 1t is little
easier to see how the research department can
supply weird bits of information on a moments
notice
Ruth Chattertons latest film, "Once a Lady"
is laid in England and France during three
periods-1913, 1919 and 1891. Naturally the
director required considerable information re-
garding the people of these countries during
those periods. He had to know how persons
in various walks of life dressed, what they did
for amusement and what particular habits IL
any, they had Digging up al that information
was man-size job, but it was all IN o days
routine for the research department.
Josef Won Sternberg needed data and photo
graphs of Chinese armored trains which will be
used in his next production, THE Shanghai
Express" All the information he desired was
supplied to him within two days after he asked
for 1t.
NY question, no matter how hard, is all In
Va days work to these people. Situated in
the heart of an industry known the world over
for its haphazard methods, these research work.
ers are eficient to the nth degree. Every bic
of information Is filed away in such a manner
that it can be referred to without moments
loss of time.
How such efficiency can be found in such .
diSorganized business often has been puzzle
to those who are served. But it exists just the
same. And executives insist that it be kept
up to that standard. No matter how lax they
may be in their own departments, they demand
prompt answers to all questions from the re-
search department.
The influx of the talkies heaped new burden
on these workers who know everything" Now
they must know the correct pronunciation OF
all words as well as the different dialects spoken
in this country as well as others
For example, it never would do TO have .
Virginian talk as they do in Oklahoma. The
majority OF people might never notice the diff
ference but the Virginians would As an aid
in this, numerous pronouncing dictionaries are
kept on hand and many language experts are
consulted frequently.
The unseen and unsung brains of the
movies" So much is said and written about
the amazing things accomplished in movieland.
Yet SO little credit Is passed ON to those who
furnish the information which makes these
things possible.
In the old days research department would
have looked like idiotic bit of extravaganza.
Directors used their own judgment on things
and what they didn't know they guessed ut.
So did the costumers, property men and scene
designers
As a result the old movies were fun Of
anachronisms. For long time nobody cared
much. But complaints and criticisms began TO
come in and at last the movie men set out to
make each picture absolutely authentic.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-25
Hollyh0ck NahiUe of Syria

THE hollyhock, which makes such fine show
in the garden while at the height of its
bloom, but which is considerable of the pest
the rest of the year is a native of Syria. A
member of the mallow family, it has through
development been changed to double Towering
and highly beautiful flower while in bloom.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-25

~ Would o footTnan ct the Russian court
before the war wear knee breeches?
How is q corpse laid out in Germany
What is the exact wording of the Buddhist
marriage ceremony In AMMAN?
At what hour was Lincoln aSSaSSinated?
What are the habits Of swarm OF bees?
How many shots does machine gun IRE?
What does Phoenician car look hke2
How many people are employed In the larg-
est department store in New York?
What happening in the cottonf1eld dis
tricts the day war was declared?
What Is the uniform of q poStman IN Ice
land?
How soon can one marry in France?
How do you address o duke?
Can q man be forced to try on hat found
in the room of a murdered man?
What does billiard table measure?
What is the exact procedure Of q Catholic
confession?
How did they run the 10O-yard dash in 1857?
Natalie Bucknan, chief of the Metro-Gold"
Nyn-Mayer research staff recalled these ques-
lions in an offhand manner as she explained
just how she and her staff operate in answer
ing approximately $4,000 questions every year.
gIN lOR does our job end with answering Ques-
v tions," Miss Bucknan said. I'VE also
spend a great deal of time digging up pictures
which will show costumes properties, furniture,
architecture and location OF buildings In any
given town at any given period"
Here are q few of the things upon which
Miss Bucknan has had to supply directors and
writers with pictures during the last month:
A typical small inn in Spain.
Construction work in the Holland Tunnel IN
New York.
French handouts.
long shot of a French race track and close
ups showing all the details of the seating
arrangements.
Partisan milk bottle
All stages of an English fox hunt.
Interior Of a typical jury room of q United
States Federal court.
A hibiscus in bloom.
True many of these questions don't seem to
have much connection with the production of
talking pictures. But let's take look and
see just why they must be answered.
THE director of Joan Crawford's new picture,
Girls Get Together" had to know the size
and shape of Partisan milk bottle because
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where. TIE real stars do not fade. Through the
wears they continue to shine briliantly-using
that word in its fullest sense. They are bril-
liant people, the brains of the motion picture
industry. Yet not a one of you knows the
name Of single member of this corps. They
are unseen and unsung-yet without them good
pictures could not be made.
These brains of the industry" are the per-
sons who work along quietly in studio research
departments, answering questions all day long.
Writers, directors, supervisors, actors techni-
clans and others all descend upon the research
department to have silly but important queS-
tons answered.
And the department must never say I'VE
don't know"
Whatever their other faults may be, studio
executives do make an attempt to have their
films authentic. To this end each studio re-
search department is equipped with huge
library containing thousands Of books on all
conceivable subjects.
Very often the men and women working IN
these departments can answer questions without
first going through volumes Of books. The
majority Of them have been employed IN such
q capacity for many years and as a result have
become very familiar with most Of the facts
of history No college professor could stump
them on single question pertaining to history
or the customs or costumes Of all peoples
back through the ages.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-25

. OVIANA'S real stars are not the
4 ones you see on the silver screen.
To be sure, these actors and &C
tresses whose faces are so famil-
lar glitter brightly. But then
they fade and go-nobody knows
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PACIFIC HAL!BUT FISHING AMOUNTS y PER CENT
 ENTIRE WORLD CATCH

ITO us on the Pacific Coast our halibut fishery is rather com monplace thing: we know it is big and important. but probably few of us realize that, with its annual production of over $5O,- 100000 pounds, it represents over 57 per cent of the entire halibut catch of the world. A British authority cites the latest available figures for various halibut pro- ducing waters as follows: Euro pean fisheries, 36,307,00O pounds, or 36 per cent; Atlantic coast of United States and Canada, 6,O95,- 779 pounds 1928 statistics), or 6 per cent; Pacific coast of United States and Canada U929), ST. 692 1895 pounds. or 57.l per cent; and Japan N928), 871, ,488 pounds, or 09 per cent" reports the Pacific Fisherman
 Calling attention to the fact that the Pacific halibut fishery is the only marine fishery in the world under international control aiming at conservation of the stock, the same authority says:
 For this reason, the measures being adopted in the actual con- trol, the success attending these measures, and the manner in which the responsible administrat- ors are tacklnig the great prob lens with which they Ire faced, are all being carefully studied by the nations generally. In way, I suppose, the feasibility of inter national cooperation in fisheries control is being put to the test"
Seward daily gateway., 1931-05-30
LEGAL NOTICE
IN THE UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE FOR THE JUNEAU LAND DISTRICT,

IN THE UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE
 FOR THE JUNEAU LAND DISTRICT.
 AT ANCHORAGE. ALASKA.
 In the Matter of the Application of CROSBY FISHERIES INCORPORATED. A corporation. for soldiers additional home stead embraced in U. s. Survey No. 1926. NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR PATENT
 SERIAL NO. 06981 ......
 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN That Cros- by Fisheries Incorporated. corporation or ganized under the laws of the State of has filed application Serial No. 0Sssl for patent under Sections 2306 and 2307 Revised Statutes of the United States for a tract of land embraced in U. s. Official Survey No. 1926, and situated on the south shore of Zacher Bay. west side of Kodiak Island. Alaska, in latitude 57 deg. 32 min. % sec. N. and longitude 153 deg. 45 min. 20 sec. w.. and more particularly described in the field notes and plat thereof. and containin, survey is situated at 2 point on Zacher Bay from whence U. s. L. M. No: 1926 bears south s6 deg. 59 min. ol sec. E s.17 chains distant.
 Any and all persons claiming adversely any of the above described land should file their adverse claims with the register of the United States Land Office at Anch. orage, Alaska. within the period of publica- tion or thirty days thereafter or they wi be barred by the provisions of the Statutes
 DATED at Anchorage. Alaska. this day of April. 1881.
 J. Lndley Green,
 First Publication May IS, l9si. Lat Publication July 13, 1881. D-May 1S. 2S. June 1. 8. l6. P. 20, July 6, IS, 1881.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-05-30

Large assortment of fine sta ti0nery at ALASKA SHOP.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-05-30
MANY SURPRISES IN STORE FOR VISITORS
 TO THE N0RTHLAND

Many yachts already have visit ed Ketchikan and Southeast Alas ka the present year and guests on board on their first trip to the north invariably are impressed with the bustling up-to-dateness of Ketchi- kan and Alaska towns which they visit says the Chronicle.
 One of these the other day mar yelled at the variety of goods car ried by Ketchikan merchants and especially in the wide range offered buyers in grocery stores.
 He stood in front of one grocery store and made a notation in his diary for sending letters back home. In this store he noted fresh straw berries. cherries, apples, bananas, rhubarb, radishes, onions, turnips. celery, oranges, lemons. tomatoes. cantalopes, pineapples, carrots, cau- liflower, etc.
 A resident could have told him that Alaskans have a longer straw berry season than any places in the states. They get the earliest straw berries from Florida and Mexico, later from California, Oregon and Washington, and after these are all gone, still later from Alaska gar dens. During the summer also are added from Alaskan gardens, and growing wild, blueberries, huckle- berries, entrants, gooseberries, rasp- berries, eldeberries, and many kinds of vegetables and other small fruit.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-05-30

Walter Blue, son of MT. and Mrs. Wayne Blue, wil be among those who will be leaving Seattle about the middle of June for Seward to visit his parents during the sum- mer vacation. Walter has been at tending college.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-05-30
TEAGUE IN CHARGE

Lieut.. T. T. Teague. radio engin- ger and expert for the United States Signal Corps military cable system of Alaska, has taken charge of the building and installation of the ra- dio receiving station to be erected at Mountain Point, near Ketchikan, reports the Chronicle.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-05-30

Ketchikan has been informed that the Coast Guard Cutter Alert will be placed in service there to re- lieve the cutter Cygan. The crew of the Cygan have been transferred to other cutters, reports the Chron- icle.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-05-30

Capt. S. M. Higgins, who recent ly retired from the position of hull inspector on the U. s. Board of Steamboat Inspection, is now skipper of the Virginia W, owned by the Juneau Lumber Mills, re- ports the Empire.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-05-30
WOMEN IN BREECHES

ROME, May 30. (P-Premier Mussolini literally put hte Ital- ian women into brooches. Il Duce ordered the immediate formation of women's Fascist groups thru out Italy, decreeing uniform in- cluding breechs.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-05-30

Work closed down last week at the Juneau Lumber Mills, accord ing to the Empire, cessation of activities due to large supplies in the yards and lack of orders. Re- sumption will probably start in the fall.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-05-30

Chris Stickler, pioneer troller of Ketchikan, died recently aboard his boat, the Bertha, apparently from a heart attack, says the Tribune.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-05-30

Adrift in the waters of Dixon Entrance four miles off Cape Chacon, south of Ketchikan, a British oil tank barge was recent ly picked up by the salvage tug Akutan, Capt. J. Jenning.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-05-30
AWARDS CONTRACTS

WASHINGTON, D. o., May 30. (P-The War Department an- nounced the awarding of contracts for 56 new airplanes and 13O mo- tors, involving an expenditure of nearly $2,OOO,OO0.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-05-30

R. E. Baumgartner, attorney-at- law, who has been practicing in Alaska for some time in Juneau, has opened a law office in Peters burg, reports the Petersburg Press.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-05-30

DANISH ICE CREAM YOU HAVE MISSED SOMETHING GOOD. Sold only at the Candy Cottage.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-05-30

Try our Seattle Ice Cream Fresh on every boat at SYLVIA'S.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-05-30
WOMEN TAKEN FROM ISLAND

xVOVA 10A1AAASA~
 HONGKONG, May 30. (P)-White women and children were removed from the Island of Hainan when lives were endangered by fighting between the rival military factions. They found refuge on the Brit iSh steamer Kingyuan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-25
ORDNANCE DISPLAY
SET FOR ABERDEEN
10000 Members of 0rgani.
zation to See Latest War
Equipment in Action.

Ordnance and motorized field equip
ment for all branches Of the Army Will
be demonstrated to approximately
10 900 American manufacturers and in
dustrialists, who are members OF the
Army Ordnance Association, at Aber-
deem Proving Grounds october 8. De-
velopments of the last year will be
stressed. The SD Coast Artilley Reg
iment, New York City'S principal anti
aircraft defending force, will demon
strate the latest methods and equip
ment for air defense.
The demonstration will climax two
day meeting of the association. The
first DAYS session will be held in this
city october z, with the leading indus
trialists from the fourteen ordnance
districts present.
Cabinet members, Senators and Rep
resentatives, ranking officers of the gen.
eral staff and Ordnance Department
and other civil and military leaders are
expected to attend the day and night
demonstration at Aberdeen.
The demonstrations are expected TO
bring into play recent developments in
listening devices, height and range find
ers and automatically fired artillery
pieces. Targets towed by airplanes Will
he ed Coast Artillery Regiment,
with a strength Of approximately 500
officers and men, is scheduled to leave
Fort Totten, near Bayside, Long Island,
at noon Wednesday. September 30, for
Aberdeen. The column will be COM
manded by Majs Clarence T. Marsh
and James P. Hogan. Overnight halts
will be made at Raritan Arsenal, N. j.,
and frankfort Arsenal, Philadelphia.
Equipment transported on the march
will include motorized 3-inch anti-air-
craft guns, searchlights and anti-air-
craft machine guns.