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The Alaskan., 1931-11-06
A PRINCIPLE OF JUSTICE

The California State Board Of Prison Terms has ruled that Will liam c. Cooney, 23, and George I. Keller, 26 convicted of burg lary, may be paroled to attend Redlands University.
 These men, both former stu dents in the university were captured on Christmas of 1928 attempting to rob 9 Berkeley store. A companion, also a stu cent in the university, was shot and killed while attempting to escape.
 Tn granting parole, the prison board needed pleas of the pa rents of the prisoners that "our boys need a college education and not an education in crime. '' The pair were released only on condition that they return to school.
 Revenge seems to rule in the meting of justice these days and the action of the board in releas inC the men annears Out: Of tune with the times. However, it is to be noted that fewer cOllegians are in prisons than any other class of prisoners.
The Alaskan., 1931-11-06

H. L. Faulkner recently advis- cd the local council that it was without authority to pass ordi- nance against soliciting SUD- scriptions for charity.
The Alaskan., 1931-11-06

Joe and Mrs. Walmer, Juneau have as their guest Mrs. Petel Kostrometinoff.
The Alaskan., 1931-11-06
WORK OF VANDALS

The fabric covering of an air rlane stored in the Fairba ,;Ls .":irplare Corporation hanger, Fairbanks, was cut and slashec to total destruction. The plane had just had a new set Of wings put on at a cost Of $500. Boys are blamed for the vandalism.
The Alaskan., 1931-11-06
PULP INDUSTRY IMPROVING

Tn 1921," said E. H. Naylor. executive secretary of the Writ ing Paper Manufacturers AsSo- citation of America, i've were operating at 51 per cent of ca pacity and now we are up to TO per cent and getting better every day" He said that letters to Congressmen were among those on the uptrend.
The Alaskan., 1931-11-06
nEATH AND CONTROL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Control of the House of Repre- seHtatives of the next Co1.gres; will depend on fate-for death first teetors on the Democratic then on the Republican side ot the House. With the death 0 FletIner Hale of New Hamp. sDire, the Democrats had a leai of one vote over the N.O.P.' .'s- 214 Democrats, 213 Re publican and l Farmer-Labor
The Alaskan., 1931-11-06

labor done without charge would otherwise have cost $350.
 Printing was done without charge by the News-Miner and advertising was likewise free. c. W. Joynt was architect for the building and Charles Schiek was head carpenter.
 Total cost of the building is estimated at $20,699.5O, includ- ing the $9,OOO mortgage assumed by the city.
 By October of 1927 the Com munity building was in use. II gave space for several addition al school rooms as well as gym nasium.
 Not only has the four year |perod since then seen the retire ment of all debts but improve ments have been made by the City from time to time.
 When the municipal govern ment took over the mortgage the Community Center Corpora tion deeded the building to the city.
 YOUR DUTY TO YOUR HOMI TOWN
The Alaskan., 1931-11-06
WAS IT NECESSARY?

A legal decision in Ontario, Canada, permits children of the province to attend school in their bare feet.
The Alaskan., 1931-11-06
Dance at Sales Inn, Novem-

Dance at Sales Inn, Novem- Der 25.
 Thomas Lewis, arrested in Pe- tersburg for passing worthless checks, was sentenced to serve six months in the Anchorage jail by Judge Price. Lewis was ar rested in Petersburg on tele- graphic warrant and taken to Anchorage for arraignment.
 The diesel tug Yacobi, which worked in the Narrows couple of years ago, just returned to Juneau from a five-monthS sur vey trip which took her into the Arctic seas. Floyd Betts, survey chief, Thomas Mccarthy, Forest Gardner, Leonard Berlin and C. Ccllen were on the vessel along with Capt. Tom Smith.
 The gasboat Selma of Juneau was driven on rock off False Point Retreat in the recent storms and destroyed. Owner skipper Al Forsythe. Capt. J Stevens, of the Sadie took the crew to Juneau.
 Miss Helen Taft, boys super visor at Haines Home, Haines was a visitor at the home of Rev c. c. Saunders, Juneau.
 Charles w. Hawesworth, Act ing Chief of the U. s. I. B., Alas ka Division, and Mrs. Hawkes. worth returned to Juneau after spending several weeks in Wash ington, D. C., where MT. Hawkes. worth was called in connection with the 1931-32 budget for hi! department.
 Alfred Bowman, fisherman O1 Wrangell for the past fourteer years, died last week. Rev. Ped erson preached the funeral ser man; a choir from the Wrangel Churches sang the hymns anc the pall-bearers were Charla: Moore, L. M. Campbell, L. A. Ol sen, James Nolan, Norman Bak Ike and James Lovett. Henr, Bowman, his son survives him il Wrangell.
 H. L. Faulkner recently advis cd the local council that it wa l without authority to pass ordi nance against soliciting SUD scriptions for charity. l w. P. Mills, merchant of Sit ka was a passenger on the Ad miral Evans going south.
 Joe and Mrs. Walmer, Juneau have as their guest Mrs. Pete Kostrometinoff.
 Fire destroyed the gasboa Thistle as she lay anchored il Angoon. The fire was probabl, caused by spontaneous conrbus tion as no one was on board a the time. The boat was owned by Maurstad and Carlson, log gers operating for the Hiddel Falls mill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-01

planes during the last war in the Royal Naval
Air Service and is today continuing at the game
he learned in wartime camps.
Dickins last year ran up a thousand hcss=s of
flying, all of it in the Barrens. Few mail and
transport pilots of flying regular lighted routes
have made such marks. But here is chap
who did it IN country where in Summer he can
fly nearly "a hours day and in Winter per-
haps but two. where there are few aids to
aviation, and the pilot has to trust to luck to
get through If he should lose his way.
Fly you anywhere" is in brief the schedule
of the company Dickins serves as one OF the
chief pilots. Even the North Pole is not ex-
cepted if there Is any one who wants to go
there and is willing to pay for it, though no
, customer has yet appeared for this trip A
trapper one Winter sent word by dog team and
through q government radio station that q
cargo Of fur was waiting at Fort Good Hope.
IL miles south Of the Arctic Circle, to be
rushed to Edmonton. The trapper figured II
he could get his catch in by plane the cost
would be worth while for the higher price his
newly -caught furs would fetch, months ahead
of the regular time for furs TO reach Edmonton.
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over bush and lake. That started Harry Oaks
on the road to fame Today he Is acknowledged
the best flyer in Canada, bar none.
There are many stories told about Oaks.
When DOC came back from overseas he
did some transforming. Then they formed
the Ontario Provincial Air Service In that
province to fight fires and protect virgin
forests IN the northern parts of the province
Oaks joined, as did so many others whose
names have since become famous. Here came
the first experiences In bush flying, experiences
which have been of use over and over again.
Here it was ne learned that lakes had a dam
gerouS way of belying their depth from the air.
From this force which has turned out Duke
Schiller Al Cheeseman, Tully and Medcalfe
Of Inflated transatlantic fame, and many other
war veterans, he went into flying the Red Lake
gold fields.
Then came mining by plane on Million
dollar SCALE doc" Oaks was put IN charge.
Right across Canada's northland he laid his
tran before any one else could get into the
country. From the east coast of Hudson Bay
right around to the west coast Of the bay,
then overland throughout the entire Northwest
Territories into the Rocky Mountains Of the
Yukon he laid a trail of gasoline caches by
air. Fifty thousand gallons of gasoline, well
as food and oil, he dumped across the north
land by plane that his outfit could operate
efficiently for two Summers.
A COUPLE of Winters ago doc" played
Santa Claus to a bunch of prospectorS
at work on q development at Richmond Gulf,
on the east shore of Hudson Bay. He started
out with Pat Reid the man who helped in the
search for Ben Ellison OF Alaska, another war
time airman. The two planes had store of
Christmas gifts aboard, while Oaks had q mis-
sionary and wife for delivery at RupertS
House, on the way and Pat Reid had q pros
pector with him. Winter is hard in that coun-
try Storms forced them down shortly after
leaving Moose Factory, at the bottom Of James
Bay. The two planes became separated.
Reid and his companion were marooned for
three days. They had plenty Of grub, but they
had to use lee hooks and an anchor to keep
their ship from being blown out on the bay
by the winds.
With doc" things Jared worse. Before he
reached Rupert House he was forced down in
a binding snowstorm There was ice ON the
bay when he came down, but it was not solid.
A ski snapped as he came down in upper
layer of shell ice. He repaired his ski, was
host to his passengers for three days. then
was able to proceed to Rupert House. There
Reid arrived day later. Together they con-
tinued to bring Christmas cheer to those iso-
lated miners at Richmond Gulf. It took them
19 days in ali to make their destination. Then
they few back in 2 days. That's flying in the
Northland.
IT'S on the records of one Western aviation
concern which has the finest array of pilots
of any company in the British Empire that one
Of its pilots was the first to ny plane across
the Arctic Circle The pilot is Punch" Dickins.
another young fellow who brought down enemy
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Tarious Kinds Of GIue.

GO much is said of fish CLUES that it is often
assumed that fish CLUES lead in production
in this country, but statistics issued by the
Bureau Of Census show that CLUES originating
in vegetable sources led all others In 1929, with
q total production Of more than 133, 600 Geo
pounds. Animal CLUES were second with 121,-
100000. and fish CLUES third with 10000, 600
pounds. Clues from the casein of milk were
produced in excess Of 100000 pounds.
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Dickins was given the job. Fifteen hundred
miles north of Edmonton the trail led. Quite
trip in Summer, 50 much the more difficult in
Winter. But he arrived at the fort with his
mechanic, q newcomer to the country, but a
erackerjack at engines. They drained the oil
from their ship for fear it would freeze The
mercury was well under so below zero. The
machine was loaded, and the day for departure
was clear of Arctic fog Tor change.
So Punch" and his mechanic with their
heavy load Of smelly fur decided to hop on.
But the engine was cold and the mercury had
dropped to 81 below. Despite their efforts of
keeping the engine warm with lamps overnight,
it was seen to be some job to start the big
motor. The native help baked at the job.
The weather was too cold. But Punch" and
his mechanic turned over that engine after
battling and coaxing it for two hours in that
81 below zero atmosphere. Then she roared
and they were on.
THEN there is "Wop'' May Of this trio of
trophy winners. judged in that way the
best airman in the Dominion, He's fair, despite
his name, and was born in Manitoba. He's
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FLYING ACES in the Barren Lands

Canada 'sWar-Time Pilots, Who Gaze
Britain More Than Third of HerFamous
RoyaIAr Force, hHFly Their Ships
Daily ON Unknogvn AdUentures Keeping
Their Engines Going Above the arctic
Circle at Fifty Degrees BeIoev Zero.
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BY JAMES MONTAGNES.

-DHE Mckee Trophy is the highest award
in Canadian aviation. It is open to
all and is awarded annually to the
person who has done the most meri-
- forio,,s work in the advancement of
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-08-21
Turks Shaken in Their
Veneration for Koran

Arabic, being a sacred language,
the ecclesiastics have cried out
against their holy book, the Koran,
appearing in any other tongue. But
the Turkish government has in spite
of this allowed the publication of
three separate translations. Four
teen thousand copies have been sold
Turks, who formerly heard the
sounding Arabic of the Koran with
out understanding anything of its
meaning, imagined it charged with
tremendous and mystic meanings.
That impression melts away when
the Koran is read in the vernacular.
1t is sometimes enough to place a
Koran and a Testament in the hands
Of a Turkish reader and leave him
to draw his own conclusions. 1t is
said that Kemal Pasha in disgust
threw the book across the room into
corner. Yet in the Sudan the pri-
mary textbook in all the government
schools is the Koran, and Islam is
gaining ground constantly in the
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. - Sunday
School Times.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-08-21

quehanna or where the certain
stone was found.
The District of Columbia Indians
were in the Stone age and imperish-
able stone tools left in the soil are
silent though eloquent of the old
times.
The river life of the Potomac in
1908 must have been very interest
ing. John Smith tells of divers say
ages in canoes, we'll laden with the
flesh of bears, deer and other beasts.
Some of these dug-Out canoes are
in the Potomac mud no doubt now.
There were many places to paddle
not open today. Boats could move
about freely where the new govern
ment buildings are going up, and the
eastern branch was a great river
300 years ago. At night, reflected
in the undulating Potomac, were the
lights of the torches of fishermen,
and over the smouldering fires of
the primitive gridirons the catch
was smoked for the winter.
Land trails also centered in the
District, leading to the Susquehanna
and on to the West BraddOck used
an old trail to Cumberland worn
deeply in old times by Indian
mOccasins.
In its natural conditions or only
slightly aware of the presence of
man, the District must have been
an ideal place for savage life Every
family could have a deer a day and
not decrease the herd; a bear once
in a while, wild trukey, what birds,
fish, roasting ears and ripe corn
would vary the fare.
The coming of the white man to
jamestown in 1907 was a small en-
tering wedge into a vast territory,
and perhaps we would think it of
little effect on the District. On the
contrary, in 75 years there was not
an Indian left in the valley of the
Potomac, the same story that be-
came old as the white man pushed
the remainders west. The District
was settled by hardy pioneers and
a new line of history began.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-08-21
BEFORE THE COMING
OF THE WHITE MAN
Abundant Proof That In
dians Had Villages on
Site of the Capital.

There are many evidences that be-
fore the coming of the white man In
dians spoke the language of the
great AlgOnquian family which COW
cred the East coast, and for this rea-
son the Algonquians were met by
John Smith at jamestown and by
the Pilgrims at Plymouth, DIR. Wal
Ter HOugh writes, in the Washington
Post. Accustomed as we are to the
buckSkin of the western Indians,
we will be surprised to know that
POwhatan's braves had nary shirt
to their backs. robes taking their
place. The women wore short skirts
and the children dispensed with
clothes. OF course, in the cold
months of winter the Indians with
drew into their houses and enjoyed
the stores of corn, smoked fish, hick-
ory nuts and such things as they
had laid up. The houses We're of
bent poles covered with mats and
were in shape like a hayrick seen
DiI III lllS.
1t may seem unfortunate that the
District of Columbia Indians left 50
few traces of their life here. Archie
ologists trained to the work are
able to see much in small things and
TO tell the story without straining
the Imagination. One picks up IN
arrowhead, say, at Anacostia. 1t is
of a certain stone and worked from
a bowlder most likely at the Piney
Branch quarry. He knows that the
arrow was fixed with sinew at the
end of a wooden shaft, straight and
smooth, which was nOtched at the
end to receive the string; also that
it was feathered to guide its flight.
The arrowhead was found at An
acostia and belonged there because
it is the right kind of stone. An
other variety of stone would indi-
cate that it was a point made by the
hostile Indians living on the Sus-
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-08-21
Counts Time Spent on
Study of "Math" Wasted

l believe that an appalling amount
of time is spent in childhood In
learning things which don't matter,
remembering things which will never
be needed, and doing silly tricks
which an intelligent man need never
waste his time upon.
Let us contemplate. for example,
the absurdities and denominations of
arithmetic. At a conservative esti-
mate, | have myself wrestled with
arithmetic and its related studies
through ten years of my fireplace
able youth.
was, moreover, pretty good at it;
| could throw mean logarithm and
chase a cOtangent into a corner and
hang my hat on it. l have done all
the geometry, plain and fancy, and
dabbled delicately in calculus.
could once make an advanced alge-
braic equation say "Uncle"
| assure you that not a trace of it
is left, and that Furthermore l don't
miss it. There must be a large blank
area in my brain which was once
full of arithmetic, but it isn't the
least painful. Except for a reason
able facility with the multiplication
table there isn't a particle of arith-
metic left in my system.
| can make change, but so can a
street car conductor. But l can't re-
member more than five telephone
numbers, and so long as they con-
tinue to print telephone books /
won't need to.-DOnald, Rose in the
Forum and Century.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-08-21
Jewish SurnameS

The American Hebrew says that
Jewish surnames date only from
1912, when Hardenburg, the Austri-
an, devised a specious and ingeni-
Gus form Of tyranny by which to
afflict the Jews. Since they had
never had surnames and had pre-
ferred to remain without them in
the thousands of years of their ex-
istence, Hardenburg saw a new
means whereby to inflict discomfort
upon the Jews. In this wholesale
naming the two most common
sources of names were the Bible
and the occupation of the person.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-08-21
Mighty Mites

Termites cause $1,000,000 worth
of damage in Illinois every year,
according to a bulletin of the Amer
ican Institute of Architects.
They are second cousins of the ant
family, and formerly lived almost
entirely in the woods de-
struction of the forests is driving
them to the cities, where they get
into fireproof steel and masonry
vaults and destroy valuable papers.
The wood sills of buildings
are their favorite dish, and after
they have held few banquets in a
sill nothing is left but a shell.
1t may collapse, carrying the house
with it.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-08-21
Salt Statistics

The man who isn't worth his
weight in salt" and the one. who
feels like so cents" seem to be on
a par, judging from the salt sta
tistics of last year. During that
period, 100000 tons of salt were
produced and the total value was
about S25,000OO0, which on the basis
of a 200-pOund man works out at
about the rate of 80 cents.
Michigan led in production, and
with New York, Kansas and Louisi-
ana accounted for 9S per cent of the
national production.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-08-21
How Il Happened

Josephine had a pet lamb, Billie.
We noticed that it showed signs of
butting, but felt it would break her
heart to separate them. One day she
came in crying and rubbing her back
and said:
billie ran up behind me and for
got to stOp."-Liberty Magazine.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-08-21
Some Howl

O'Fuddle-That boy of mine is
just the kind of a boy to make a
noise in the world.
O'MuddIc-Oh, he is that kind of
a boy all right! Just wait until you
put it up to him to look for a job
New Bedford Standard.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-08-21
And He Doesn't

How do you keep such a fine pol
ish on the flOOr?"
"Well, my method is to place little
Willie on it and ask him to keep
still"
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-08-21
Up in the Air

'Klymer has a high position,
hear"
Eyes, he builds smokestacks."
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-08-21

After a boy has been going on er-
rands for five or six hours, does it
ever occur to you that he might like
to sit down?
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-08-21

Most of the disappointments are
due to depending on some one else.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-04
RALPH JENNY TO BOX BILLY LYNCH IN HARTFORD
Crack Lightweights Top Benefit Program at Hur- ley Stadium Monday Night

Hartford, Aug. "A lightweight battle which will bring together two of the most popular 135 pound-
 CTS who have appeared in Hart
 ford in the past few months has been clinched. Ralph Lenny, one
 of the best lightweights in the East,
 will meet Billy Lynch, aggressive Providence boy, in ten rounder at the Hurley stadium August l0'
 This fight will top a benefit card. Lenny has been out of the ring recently with an infected arm which caused him to cancel an appearance in Cincinnati. But Pete Reilly, his manager, vouches TOT his condition at present, says that |Lenny is training in New Jersey and that he will bring him here in as good condition as he has ever been.
 Reilly knows that Lenny must be in good condition for Lynch. when they were both starting in the ring, stopped the Italian lad in the only knockout which marks Lenny's ring record. Lynch, who has been ap- bearing regularly and is in win ming streak, thinks he can tip Lenny over once again and he makes no secret of the fact that he plans to do 1t.
 The show, which will be staged in the Hurley stadium. will be run At popular prices. A complete un-
 dercard probably consisting of an
 eight rounder and three four
 rounders will be staged. The make
 Ip of this under card will be an- nounced within a few days.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-04
JUNIOR BASEBALL COMMISSIONER FOR CONN ZONE NAMED

Charles NJ. Wilson, assistant di- rector of the National America nism com mission of the American Le- zion, has been appointed commis- sioner in charge of the American Legion junior baseball tournament for this region to be played at Bridgeport, Conn. August 18th and l4th, according to an announce ment by Russell Cook. Legion Ma tional Americanism director at na- tional headquarters in Indianapolis. The teams that will play in the regional tourney are the state championship junior hines of New York, Connecticut, New Jersey and Rhode Island. The winner in this region will earn the right to com pete for the championship of the
 East to be decided at the Eastern sectional which will be played at Manchester. x. H., August goth 2lst and 22nd. The champions of the East and the West will battle for the junior world series honors at Houston, Texas, August 28th to 31st.
 Wilson is from Altamont, Ill.,. and before becoming assistant Ameri- canism director he was connected with the administration division at national headquarters. He served overseas during the war with an infantry outfit and was wounded in action one day before the Arm isticc was signed He also served with the army of occupation in Luxembourg Germany. He holds a commission in the organized re- serves.