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The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-01-21
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6Y A L A N GOULD ASSOCIATED RRE SS SPORTS EDITOR

Fer no particular reason, from an adjoining steam cabinet in Artic IAcGcvern's gymnasium, I started talking about great infielders witF Babe Ruth, the great ousfielder.
 The Babe was a great pitcher before he was a greater outfielder end home run hitter, yet he has always harbored an idea that h. would have made whale of a first baseman. He studied that po- s.ticn closely and many of the greatest stars who have played it.
 Hal Chase was in a class by himself at first" said Ruth. "He made 1t look like einch until somsbcdy else tried to do the stunts he did. He was chain lightning on slow rollers or bunts down the first base line. He had
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-01-21
FORMER LOCAL PIONEER DIES
 IN MICHIGAN
N. A. Fuller Dead-Figur- cd in Mining Here and
 Later Tn Klondike

1 An outstanding figure in the de- velopment of Alaska and the Yu- 1 kon passed to the eternal camping grounds recently in the person of 1 Newman Andrew Fuller, former Ju- neau resident. MT. Fuller was one Of the founders of Juneau and the great mining industries of this dis trict, and likewise one of the most conspicuous and influential figures ] in the opening of the great Klon- i dike placer fields.
 He was a native of Michigan, and passed away in his native state at his home, 4873 South Mar | lt.ndale Avenue, Detroit, November 21 in his 82 year. News of his death has been received here from his widow, Mrs. Lenore Fuller, now living in their Detroit home, with their two children, Mary and Jack. i Grubstaked Discoverer
 Mr. Fuller was one of the grub stak2rs of Joe Juneau and R. T. Harris, who staked the first placer and quartz claims in what is now the Juneau district, in 1880 Juneau was named after one of the grub staked prospectors, and the name Harris is synonomous with the thriving modern town in the minds Of all present day Juneauites. liar ris Street is named after him. MT. Fuller, when young man came west to San Francisco, later was i purser on coast steamers, and aft erward opened a trading post at Sitka, Alaska It was while there that he furnished the supplies for Juneau and Harris after the origi- nal finding of gold placers and quartz here. Some of the claims now being worked at Juneau by the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Com pany bear the name of MT. Fuller. After disposing of some of his earlier holdings to John Tread well, who was instrumental in the founding of the Alaska Treadwell Gold Mining company, :. MT. Fuller, having acquired a large stake, re- tired to Michigan and embarked in the furniture business. Meeting with reverses there he returned to the North, and was among the first to go to the Klondike over the old Dyea trail in the stampede days. In Dawson he started in with q pick and shovel but it was not long until his organizing ability as- serted itself again, and as purchas- ing agent for the North American Trading and Transportation Com pany, then represented in the Klon- dike by Capt. John J. Healy, Fuller bought from various original hold CTS many of the richest placer claims in the district for the big company of which the Cudahys of Chicago, were the chief sharehold- CTS.
 Claims Big Producers
 Some of the claims Fuller bought turned out enormous producers, and were a testimony to his good judg- ment. For his services he was awarded something over quarter of million dollars and the com pany reaped in time far greater reward. With his new stake Fuller branched out, and became part ner of Capt. Norwood, well known pioneer mining operator of the dis trict. They more than doubled Full ler's fortune, and he then acquired and turned over numerous other groups of claims in the Klondike,
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an old time sourdough friend who is now in Seattle, and who has just received the news of the passing of the distinguished northern pio-
 neer in letter from Mrs. Fuller.
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drawing power, to make him good card"

drawing power, to make him 8 good card"
 Credit for bringing about one of the most radical sports innovations of 1880, notes Earl Coughlin, sports editor of the Cedar Rapids Qowe) Gazette, goes to Lee Keyser of Des Moines, the man who changed minor league baseball from mati- nee to an evening pastime.
 Keyser was a pioneer in install ing the lights for his club and the idea, Coughlin points out, spread rapidly throughout the country The Western league, of which Des Moines is a member, and the Mis- sissippi Valley league will operate entirely under the lights this year The Pacific Coast league also is completely equipped for night work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-22
Marchers Report
in Long Branch
100 Hear Delegates
Tell of Solidarity

LONG BRANCH, N. about 100
workers, the ma jority of them Negroes
listened to the report given by the
local delegates to the National Hun
ger March. One marcher wildly de-
scribed the solidarity between the
white and Negro workers on the
march. On hearing how the chief of
police of Baltimore was forced to
draw back his Jim Crow rules and
apologize to the marchers, those pres
ent applauded enthusiastically
The conditions of the unemployed
in this city was discussed at the meet
ing. There are over 1000 without
jobs. The city government does
nothing and the only relief is the
old stale, rotten food given by a
charity outfit to a few workers. Even
in this miserable handout the Ne
gro workers are Disseminated against.
There is job registration line
where some jobs are given for a day
or two. If worker has previously
received some charity slop he is
forced to work day or two for moth
ing. At the meeting 10 workers
joined the local branch of the IN
employed Council.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-22
PERTH AMBOY CITY GOVT VOTES
HALF OF BUDGET TO BONDHOLDERS

PERTH ANfBOy, N. almost
ore-haR Of the budget of this city,
which amounted to s1,484,537 for
1892. was scheduled to go TO stock
ard bondholders as interest payments
while the unemployed were left to
starve. The budget came up for pas
sage yesterday.
There are more unemployed, yet
appropriations for the so-called poor
for 1882 is $17,98o as compared to
$4,000 in 1881, a decrease of $500.
There are more workers sick and
IN need Of medical care, and yet ap-
preparations for the City Hospital is
$500 for 1882. as compared to $4,000
in 1881, cut Of 50 per cent.
More children are undernourished
and suffering from malnutrition this
year than last year, due to the ef-
fects OF the worsening crisis, and yet
In the 1881 budget $3.50 was approp-
rated for the Kiddie Keep Well
Camp, while in 1882 budget not one
cent is appropriated for the "Kiddies"
Camp. This camp is where under
nourished children from all cities in
Middlesex County are supposed to be
taken during the summer-during
school vacation.
Perth Arnboy is a city of $4,000
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-22
Cancer Deaths Among
Workers Rises So p. C.

The direct effect of the crisis upon
the health of the workers is seen in
the announcement of the Metropoli-
tan Life Insurance Co. that the can
Ger death rate among workers rose by
So per cent during the first nine
months Of the year. The sharp eff
feet on workers health is brought out
by the fact that among the general
population, which includes both rich
and poor, the increase was only 3
per cent.
The Metropolitan Life insurance co.
adds that the analysis they made
show that the digestive tract" was
most affected. In other words, star
Walton and bad food, is the cause in
the rise of this dread disease.
This rise in cancer only tells a
fragment of the story, as medical
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-22
WAVE OF BANK
FAILURES R OBJ
WORKERS CASH

NEW YORK.-A new series of bank
failures hitting tens of thousands of
depositors have been reported in the
last few days in the various cities.
One of the outstanding bank
crashes is the closing of the Standard
Trust Bank in Cleveland, O., with
$14,000,000 in deposits tied up. This
bank was one of the institutions orig
inally established by the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers, headed then
by Warren S. Stone. The labor fax
ers, along with Green and Vol made
thousands out of establishing these
banks, and now they are crashing,
robbing workers out of their last hard
earned pennies.
In Chicago a number of banks
have failed. The most recent are as
follows: Ashland State Bank, deposits
$1,800,000; haywood State Bank, de-
posts, $1,100,000; Park Ridge State
Bank, deposits 100000; Melfore
Park State Bank, deposits $2,oO0,OO0
The Connecticut River National
Bank in Charleston, N. H, closed de-
priving depositors of 100000.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-22
Protest Murder of
Chinese Students
Tonight at s P. M.

AS a demonstration of their solid
arity with the 10000 revolutionary
Chinese students who storlned the
city of Marking last week in a protest
against the Kuomintang government
of China, the New York Students
League of college students is holding
a mass meeting this Tuesday evening
at 8 pm, in the North Study Hall
of the School of Commerce, New York
University, Washington So.
This meeting will protest the bru-
tai shooting down of Chinese stu
dents and workers by the new hang
man of the Chinese masses, the Eu-
gene Chen government.
The speakers will be Chang Su
Fang, revolutionary Chinese student;
Joshua Kunitz, author and lecturer;
Mac Gordon, New York Student
League.
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starving workers. Alone, the mothers
had been sent back and forth from
the police station TO the Community
Settlement for weeks, without any
results. All of them owed rent, many
had no gas or electric. One woman
told of having six children at home
sleeping on the floor, the beds hav-
ing been sold. Husbands and chill
dren in the hospital with no money
to pay the doctor bills.
The social worker in charge of the
charity joint was taken back at the
lareg delegation and pleaded that the
Unemployed Council should only
bring the names of those who need
help and everything would be taken
care of. But the crowd was there and
later in the day the charity was
forced to pay rent, gas and cleo
tricity, $50 doctor bill and promise SO
a week in food for one family and to
the rest give IS in food Immediately
and promise to keep up the payments
as long as necessary Also, every
worker registered through the I'M
employed Council will not be evicted.
Sixty workers joined the Unem-
ployed Council on the day the dele
cation visited the charity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-22
1000 Workers Back Strike of
Portland Postal Messengers

PORTLAND, Ore, Dec. alone of
the biggest and most militant demon
strations was held here Thursday to
back up the strike of the Postal Tele-
graph messenger who are fighting
against a IS per cent wage cut.
Wages are down to 81 to SIPS a day
Over thousand workers assembled
with the striking messengers at the
Civic Emergency Committee which
was furnishing scabs to break the
strike. When the workers protested
this action, the bosses at the Civic
Emergency Committee, which OPP
crates under Giffords national COM
n1ittee, complained that they had to
operate, according to the city Or
dinance which required them to fur
nish workers whether there was a
strike or not. 1t is significant that
the Postal Telegraph Co. is con-
trolled by the International Tele-
phone and Telegraph Co. subsidiary
OF the American Telephone g. Tele-
graph Co., which Is headed by Wal
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-22
REDSPARK TEAM
PICKED TO WIN
SOCCER TOURNEY
Soccer League Games
Next Sunday for the
young Worker"

After winning seven consecutive
games the Red Spark "a" team was
held to a p tie by the Tfco A. c
in Metropolitan Walkers Soccer
League match on Sunday. The
downtown eleven are strong favorites
to cop the championship, but with
Spartacus A. G. pressing hard or
their heels, and Tico and Neckwear
A. c. not far behind, the Red Sparks
will have to hustle to accomplish the
feat.
The Maltese Rangers continue to
lead the "B" Division by small mar
gin. Close behind them are the Sons
Of Malta and the Red Spark A. c.
The Pirates, trouncing Brownsville
80, are still atop the &C" Division
A feature of next Sundays sched-
ule will be the benefit game for the
Dung Worker, arranged by the Met
ropolitan Workers Soccer League, to
take place at. Dyckman Oval. The
proceeds will go to the Dung Worker
to help insure its regular appearance
as fighting organ for the lettering
Of the working conditions Of young
workers in the shops, mines, mills and
factories.
Admission to the field is only %
cents and the first game starts at
II am. The results of last Sundays
games:
Metropolitan Workers League
DIVISION A
Italian Americans, l, Olympic, 0.
Neckwear, 8; Falcon, 1.
Red Spark, 2; Tico, 2.
Spartacus, s; Juvenile. 0.
DIVISION B
Armenians, 4; Neckwear, o.
Ital-Americans, i; Sons of Malta, 0
Harlem Prog, 2; Red Sparks, l.
Jack Gordon, 3; Mt. Vernon, 0.
Maltese Rangers, Q; Alb. Adilena, 2
Spartacus, /; Estonian Workers, 1
DIVISION c
NccuIS 1IducS, q, t1eIOi "
Crotona A. c., 1; Downtown
Workers, 0.
Red Spark A.C., S; Adriatics, 0.
Williamsburg Workers, /; Pros
pect, 0.
Dauntless, 2; East NY, 2.
Pirates, 8; Brownsville, 0.
E. Side Workers, /; Harlem Prog,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-22
"KNI.ING TO LIVE" BRINGS Us SOME
THING NEW IN SOVIET FILMS

Now here is something new. If
some of us began to think that the
Soviet films were beginning to sort of
run to a type, with the later ones
only improvements over the earlier,
history-making productions, we get
our answer here in the Amkino re-
lease, killing to Live" running at
the Cameo.
Soviet ingenuity Is not dead or even
sleeping. There for the first time,
and there only, they put actual work.
ers and the general population into
the pictures. Now the Shock Bri-
gade of the Educational Film Studio
of Suyuzkino has started out to illus
trate the MARKHAM precept: "Philoso-
pliers have only explained the world,
what is needed now is to change the
world" And their present effort has
cast Of plants, wild animals, birds,
fish, bugs-and finally men-as re-
makers of the world.
All the first part of the film is de-
voted to knocking out the back-to-
nature freaks sentimentalities. Sure,
you could go back to nature, after
seeing this picture, but you would do
1t with a knowledge of the ruling
spirit in nature, which is: "Kill or
be killed; eat the other fellow or he
will eat you" The frog eats the
butterfly, the snake eats the frog and
the mongoose eats the snake-the
picture Of this shock brigade shows
it all. 1t shows the competition of
grasses and plants for sun and grow
ing space and the fierce battles of
male animals for possession of the
| female.
The pictures are excellent, on the
whole. and you wonder how they got
| them. These are not Gagged animals
The aligators swim in a swamp and
catch wild duck. The hawk swoops
down out Of the sky and claws a
rabbit, then you see her feeding her
voracious young in a lofty nest Once
In a while there is little distortion
perhaps telescope lenses were used
for some of the pictures. Sometimes
they are absolutely clear You Car
see the glare In the eyes of a bob
cat after a chipmunk, as real as the
scoW on the brow of a Tammany
cop smuggling a woman.
The helplessness of natural wild
life before fire, draught and flood is
shown.
Then is shown Man, the re-maker
OF the world. Where Man has re-
gained what he lost when he ceased
to be a wild animal; when Man is no
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-22
ter Clifford.

ter Clifford.
From the Civic Emergency Com
mittee the workers marched to the
main office of the Postal Telegraph
Co. There the crowd grew to about
5000. Several of the strikers spoke
and told of the conditions, not only
the wage cut but charges for uni
forms, and all responsibility for acct
dents on the messengers themselves.
The present cut is the sixth cut
in year and a half According to
information this cut is part of a
nationwide cut. This strike in Port
land should be the signal for like
action all over the country. Out of
this strike will develop a union of
the messengers affiliated to the
Trade Union Unity League which
should include all others in the COM
panies.
The demonstration ended at the
police station at Second and Oak Sts.,
where the arrest of two workers for
distributing leaflets was protested.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-22

longer exploited by other men, giant
socialized undertakings are possible
you see part of the Dnieprostroy dam.
You also see how workers take over
and guide the blind forces Of evolu-
ton, producing in a few years
changes it would take nature a mil
lion to make. You see wheat that
yields Is times as much grain as the
original wheat did; chickens that lay
IL times as many eggs as the parent
stock, and those eggs twice as large.
You see marino sheep with enormous
coats of wool as compared with the
wild sheep. Well, nature would prob
ably never make these particular
changes at all. The lesson of the
film is that socialized man can tap
enormous forces, of which Humanity
has SO far only begun to stratch the
surface.-V. S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-22
JAMAICA JOBLESS
HEAR REPORT ON
HUNGER MARCH
Sixty Join Council to
Continue Fight for
Jobless Relief

NEW YORK.-Over 200 workers,
half of whom were Negroes, jammed
into the large court room In the old
Town Hall at Jamaica, to hear the
report of the National Hunger March,
ers on Thursday, Dec II.
The report reached a high point
when the speakers touched on the
numerical strength, burning enthusi-
asm and the leading role the Negroes
in the march took in the struggle
for unemployment insurance.
The mass Of workers present, which
also included many women who came
with their children, let it be known
they stood for the Workers Unem-
ployment Insurance Bill and winter
relief. a spirited resolution, backing
this bill and immediate winter re-
lief, was unanimously adopted.
No less than so joined the Unem-
ployed Branch in Jamaica, which al
ready has membership of 5, and,
although in its infancy, has already
forced a certain meaure of relief to
number of starving families. The
meeting concluded with the election
OF mass delegation to present on
the following day number OF local
demands to the president of the Boro
Council in Queens and to Mr.. Hoff-
man, head of the fake emergency re-
lief committee in Central Queens.
Workers spontaneously rose from the
audience and offered to be spokesman
for these demands. Many others will
accompany the delegation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-22
Celebrate s Years OF Daily
: Workers Fight on Capitalism
Daily Worker Leads Struggle Against Govern
ment Terror Against Foreign Born Workers!

More than 1900 foreign born
workers deported in 19SoI over $4,000
foreign born workers deported in the
first nine months OF 1881 alonel In
creasing persecution in the form OF
more deportation, registration, finger
printing and intimidation on the Or
der Of the dayi
Against this campaign, and the
propaganda for it carried In the capi-
talist press, stands the only all-Eng-
lish national revolutionary daily pa
per in the United States, the Daily
Worker. For eight years it has ex-
posed the lies Of the boss papers.
Through eight stormy years it has
stood like rock of Gibraltar for the
foreign born workers against every
attempt at persecution and terror.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-22

population. 1t is the Industrial
Metropolis of Middlesex County. In
the city are located large copper
works, cable, lead, Guggenheim' s
American Smelling & Refining Co.,
as well as roofing, chemical, bakeIite,
cigar, shirt, hat handkerchief, pot
terry and other plants and factories.
More than 5000 are unemployed.
Many more work part time. Prac-
tically all shops got wage cuts, and
reductions of 10 per cent and one
per cent or more of their wages to
help the unemployed" Conditions
in the city are frightfuI Many are
in dire need and only handful get
a mere pittance.
The Unemployed Council here,
among other things, is demanding
the turning over of the $632,0s4 in
tended for interest to the bankers
and bondholders be turned over to
the unemployed for relief.
The answer of the City Commits
sloners to the above demands, to-
gether with report of the Perth
Amboy delegates to the Hunger
March to Washington will be given
at mass meeting to be held Wednes-
day, Dec. 23rd, at the headquarters of
the Unemployed Council, 1oi Fayette
St, at 7:3o p. m. At this meeting
plans will also be laid for building a
strong Unemployed Council and pre-
pairing for the Feb. 4th demonstra-
tons and for sending a strong Perth
Amboy delegation to the hearing on
the Middlesex County Budget to be
held in New Brunswick, Dec. Goth,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-22
Socialist Justice
Jails Workers for
Fighting Evictions
(By a Worker Correspondent

by Worker Correspondent
EVANSVILLE, Ind.-One Of our
socialists here, William A. Folz by
name, the justice of the peace, is
working hard nowadays, setting
the furniture of unemployed work
ers who cannot pay their rent out
in the street. When he has the
furniture put out the comrades
from the Unemployed Council put
it back in the house again. So
cialist Folz then puts the tenant
in jail for no cause at all.
Said socialist Folz: "I will stop
the reds from putting an evicted
tenant back in the house IL have
to put all the reds in jail"
am afraid they will have to
build more and bigger jaiIs in this
town, for the Unemployed Coun-
Gil Is growing and the comrades
will not stand for workers TO be
thrown out of their homes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-22

NEW YORK.--In an open letter to
the Committee of Fourteen, the Of
flee Workers Union, over the sigma
ture Of e. Rosen, secretary, answered
the appeal for funds for jobless work
ing girls that appeared in the New
York Times of December 81, 1882
exposing leading capitalists on char
ity organizations as being in the fore
front in discharging girls and cutting
their wages. The letter follows in
full:
This mornings Times printed
on its front page an appeal ad-
dressed to the citizens Of New York
City for the support of the cam
paign against vice conditions.
LAS the spokesman for thousands
Of Office Workers in the City of
New York, the majority OF whom
are young girls who are seriously
affected by the unemployment and
wage cuts of the present depres-
sion, we wish to publicly answer
your appeal.
I'VE note that among your COM
mittee of IA, are representatives of
organizations who are directly re-
sponsible for the conditions which
you attempt to expose. Mr., Stratus,
of the firm of r. H. Macy & Co.,
can inform you that the wages paid
to the girls Of that department
store are just enough to keep them
off the streets. Mr. Smull, presi-
dent of the Chamber of Commerce
Of the state of New York, Mr.. Wat
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-22

On January 8, at the Bronx Coli
scum, the eighth anniversary of the
Daily Worker will be celebrated with
a revolutionary program of pageantry,
music and dramatics. Every worker I'm
New York, particularly the foreign
born workers must jam the floor Of
the Bronx Coliseum on January 8.
Rally behind the paper of the fight
ing working classI Turn out for the
Daily Worker Anniversary! Bring
your friends and shop mates with
you!
The program includes among other
features a pageant, THE Trial of the
Yellow Press, and presentations by
the International Chorus and Red
Dancers. Admission at the door is S5
cents and Is cents with the coupons
that are being distributed now.