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The Alaskan., 1932-08-19

H. Loy, local jewellery, spent q couple of days in Wrangell over the weekend visiting in the Stikine River metropolis.
 Mrs. Rachel Peratrovich was la passenger on the Admirsl Rogers bound for the Juneau hospital from Wrangell. An operation for the removal of her appendix is in order. She had been working in the shrimp lcannery, Wrangell when she was taken ill.
 x
 Monday morning the Wrange'l fishing crews were put on 3 limit of 1000 dog salmon per
 day. The run of dogs is excep- Itionally heavy this year with but a thin sprinkling of pinks in the
 run.
The Alaskan., 1932-08-19

The management of the Coli scum Theatre announces that a change has been made in the price of admission beginning this week. Adult, 40 cents; youths, g cents; children, l5 cents, no tax. Pal Mite admission straight 25 cents whether you bring a Pal along or not.
 Fritz Willard has been ill and was entered in the Wrangell General Hospital, last week.
The Alaskan., 1932-08-19

The work of surveying the road for improvements continues The work had not been okeyed up to present writing but it is expected that authorization for the work will be received shortly.
The Alaskan., 1932-08-19

Commissioner Carroll ClauseI left for Juneau this week or official business.
The Alaskan., 1932-08-19

Mrs. Frank Hermann left or the motorship Northland fol Juneau where she will join hel husband who during the past year operated the Hermann Caff in Petersburg.
The Alaskan., 1932-08-19

Frank G Johnson of Rake was in Petersburg Sunday and re- turned to Port Alexander where ha has been fishing.
The Alaskan., 1932-08-19

MT. M. K. Sniffen of Phila- delphia was a visitor in town foc several days and then went to Wrangell and Ketchikan.
The Alaskan., 1932-08-19

Mrs. Sarf and Children too passage on the motorship Nortl land for Seattle.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-12-09
NUCLEUS OF TRUTH
IN ANCIENT MYTHS
Some Old Beliefs Upheld by
Science.


It is advisable to be careful with
skepticism in dismissing ancient
superstition. Science has exploded
many legends and myths, but science
has also discovered the nucleus of
truth around which some fables are
fabricated. And science sometimes
matches an imaginative fiction with
fact which is no less extraordinary.
This seems to be the case with the
superstition of the evil eye, which is
nearly as old as human history. The
Greeks and Romans took 1t quite seri.
ously, the Middle Ages made much of
it. and primitive peoples have gen
orally held in frightened respect the
magic powers of the evil eve. And
though DR.. Otto Rain. of Cornell
university, made no mention of this
ancient myth in his address to the
final sessions of the American Asso-
citation for the Advancement of Sci
ence. he was discussing powers and
properties of the human eye which
seem little less than magical.
The discussion concerned the phe-
nomenon Of active radiation from the
human body and from particular
parts of it. This does not refer to
the radiance which emanates from
an unpowdered nose, though Doctor
Rain has detected ultraviolet eman.
atoms from the nasal organ suffi.
GENTLY powerful to destroy yeast
cells or seriously retard their growth.
Similar waves of force seem to come
from the fingertips. and one case was
referred to of a woman who could
wilt a flower by touching it.
But the eye, it seems. has a rather
formidable ability to discourage a
shrinking yeast plant. The yeast
cannot bear to be stared in the face
at close range, a discovery described
In scientific terms as ''the influence
of human radiation on micro-organ-
isms." 1t is sheer speculation. of
course, to suggest that this accounts
for the fact that well-made cake will
sometimes fall" for no reason with
the cooks cognizance. Possibly the.
cook Is to blame for looking too hard
at the cake at critical moment in
its rising.
Doctor Rain was willing to admit
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-12-09
Rat.

On numerous occasions a young
North side housewife reported to her
husband of seeing very large rat
in the back yard. where she usually
spent her afternoons. Whenever she
went into the back yard she was con-
stantly alert for the sight of the ro-
dent. She told of throwing stones at
it and how lazily it strobe off into
the bushes. One evening the husband
was greeted at the front door and
told If he would hurry out to the
rose bed he might catch sight of the
rat. His first thought was to get his
rifle and to take shot. but thinking
this might arouse the neighbOrhUod,
he grabbed a mop instead and hur-
ried to the back yard. He was all
set for action when golden brown
guinea pig wiggled from the rose
bushes and came almost up to his
feet.-Indianapolis News.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-12-09
Only a Small Part Of It

demonstrated that with the solving of various
problems, flights on regular schedule and in
all kinds of weather could be made with cred
liable degree of performance.
1T was exactly one year following. the naug-
uration Of the New Washington route that
service was begun between Cleveland and Chi
cago, designed as the first leg of a prospective
transcontinental system. The second leg. New
York to Cleveland was established less than two
months later-Juy l. 1919 1t was September s.
1920, before landing fields had been laid out and
other necessary work completed to permit OF
operation from one coast to the other
1.-THE transcontinental operation was not a
through service Planes flew in the daytime car
rying only such mail as could be advanced in
delivery or speeded on it's way at a saving of
from IL to "a hours. 1t was called an "advanc-
ing" service It resulted in clipping something
like "a hours from the best possible transcon
tinental train time of 81 hours.
an August 1923, the first continuous flights
from coast to coast were made AS they blazed
the way for a new worlds record In aviation.
the pilots were guided by the newly Installed
land lighthouses. For days and nights
gallant group of air pioneers spanned the con-
tinent with air mail times in each direction.
At the end of the days they quit with record
of 100 per cent perfect.
"The next important steps in the progress and
growth of the air mail came with the Inaugural.
ton of the contract service and the reliqush-.
ment by the government to private initiative of
the operation of the transc0ntinental route
"The first of the contract routes was placed
In operation February Is, 1926 between Detroit
and Cleveland and Detroit and Chicago Other
contracts we're awarded from time to time and
the service expanded rapidly, many of the con-
tract routes operating as feeders to the trans
continental and the overnight New York-Chlcago
lines.
'sThe acknowledgement route between Chi
cago and San Francisco went into private opera.
ton July /, 1927, followed two months later by
the double-daily service between New York and
Chicago"
Since that ACKNOWLEDGEMENT route went In
to private operation many more advances in air
mail transportation have been made. No longer
Is the danger imminent of pilot landing some
. place only to discover that he has been flying
for hours In the opposite direction from his
destination, as happened on that first air mail
fight In 1918.
Now besides the magnetic compass, the earth
inductor compass, and numerous other naviga-
tional aids the pilot is aided by the use of the
directional radio beam. Stations which trans
NIT this beam are located along the flight route
and each station emits radio beam towards
the other so that the two beams converge and
form a direct line for the airplane in flight
to follow The beam, of course, is not visible
to the human eye but n receiving apparatus in
the cockpit of the airpane is sensitive to the
beam and indicates by a radio dash-dot system
whether the ship is on its course. or or its
course either to the left or the right.
20 by Western Newspaper union.) 5t
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-12-09

as a guide. With such a tremendously rapid
medium of transportation as the airplane that
accomplishment fell into the realms of the COM
monplace. No more precautions were taken for
preparing that fish for 2500-mile ride across
the continent than would be taken by con-
fectioner preparing an icing to be delivered to a
suburban customer 20 miles away. The FISH was
packed in bit OF dry ice, placed in the COM
partment Of an airplane and about 48 hours
later was served in the course Of a Christmas
dinner for a group Of New Workers.
young woman living In Los Angeles sent as
a Christmas gift to friend living on the snow
swept praires of Illinois bouquet of orchids.
Santa Claus with his very swift reindeer couldn't
have done much better in delivering perishable
gift such long distance.
Many shipments of toys, such as little sets Of
tin soldiers, dolls and mechanical gadgets form
a part of the cargo of a mail plane. An ex-
quiste, beautifully set pearl bracelet, whose
value was almost that of the ship which carried
it, was once part Of the cargo In shipment
of air express
What about the mail pilots on Christmas day.
Do they share in the festivities Is 1t just an
other work day for them? In the isolated dis
tricts In the Far West and Northwest it Is GUS
tomary for the people to come from miles around
and gather at the airport to see the ship come
In just as it used to be customary in small
communities TO go uOWn TO the uepOt anu see
the train come in.
At many airports on Christmas day the at.
tendants there prepare a Christmas dinner for
the incoming pilot who will descend from Bit
terly cold sky. throw off his fur-lined flying
suit and join with ravenOus appetite in as fes
tive Christmas dinner as will be served In the
land.
The story of the development of the air mail
service in this country Is an interesting one. On
the tenth anniversary of It's establishment, Har
ry S. New. then United States postmaster-gen-
eral prepared an article on the early develop
ment of the service from which the following
excerpts are taken:
ut was May is, 1913 that the department
, over which ! now preside took the initiative
and with planes and pilots borrowed from the
War department essayed a regular service by
air between Washington and New York.
ION that eventful day the stage was set, and
rightfully so, as in celebration of major event.
high officials were present to witness the in
auguration of the first air mail route. They were
kept waiting quarter of an hour when 1t was
discovered that the plane, ready to start other
wise, was without gas. This inauspicious begin
ming was by no means redeemed when the in
experienced pilot landed near Waldorf, Nd, to
discover that he had been travelling almost in
the opposite direction from Philadelphia, which
had been his goal.
Subsequent efforts at flying the mail proved
more efficient, however, and, three months later,
the Post Office department took over operation
of the route furnishing its own equipment and
personnel. Before the end of year it had been
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-12-09

the possibility that a magnetic per-
sonality" might depend on actual
physical factors and the potency OF
radio-emanations from the body it.
self. This might account for many
social phenomena. 1t might explain
why some handshakes are unconvinc-
ing, while others are alive and cleo
trio. 1t might explain why the smit-
ten swain feels a physical shock
from the glance of his lady's eye. 1t
might make the. holding of hands in
the moonlight scientific as well az
a romantic experiment.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-12-09

ROar0O alrpIaneS anu pliOCS new oaula CiluS
band
might be aptly used to describe the situation of
air mail and air express this Christmas.
Truly airplane pilots will be roaring through
the skies carrying Christmas gifts and greetings
from one end of the United States to the other
And quite fitting it u.s. too, that gifts should ar
rive In this manner, for isn't 1t true that those
reindeer steeds of Santa's always had pro-
pensity for air travel? Always the pictures we
have seen Of them show them coming down the
sky about to settle on the snowy roofs of houses
below them.
But now instead of Dasher and Dancer, Pran-
Ger and Vixen Donder and Bitten, the six fast
animals who for so long have pulled Santas
sleigh loaded with gifts to our chimney tops,
1t is Pratt and Whitney. Curtiss and Fokker,
Boelng and Corsair. airpianes and engines, that
xoom through the skies carrying the great load
Of Christmas mail.
And that rotund figure with white beard and
jolly face who dressed in bright red costume
trimmed with Arctic fur has been supplanted by
a different breed of man, one who Is eaner of
figure and sterner of face. He is no less jolly
by nature, perhaps, but he is serious with the
new intelligence of air navigation He and his
fellow pilots are men who have been selected
to dy the mail because of their superior qualities
as aviatOrs
Inc Wellpiaceu Taltn winch the pubic mas
In the accuracy and speed of air mail dispatch
Is more than usually evident at Christmas time.
BEGINNING about the first of December air line
employees start preparation for the rush of air
mail and express that will begin about that
time and by three days before Christmas will
have reached an almost cyclenic pitch AS the
influx of mail increases extra planes and pilots
will be called into service and in some instances
1t win be necessary to cancel passenger reserva
lions SO that the space passenger would oc
cupy In a ship can be utilized for carrying more
mail.
It Is a common sight around an airport at
Christmas time to see people who have delayed
their Christmas mailing until the very last min
ute come hurryng in their cars on foot and
on street cars to get their packages In plane
which win get them to their destination In time
Practically all types of merchandise is ac-
copied by air lines for transport and variety
of gifts find their way into the cockpit
A Chinese fisherman who lived on the coast
OF Alaska last year sent 40 pound Alaska
salmon to his sportsman friend in New York
for whom he worked during the fishing season
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-12-09
III .AsPla11e Fill Of -
Christmas Cheer
tMap and Pictures, Courtesy United Air Lines.)
BY ELMO SCOTT WATSON

PARAPHRASE such as this
Of a famous poem:
Twas the night before
Christmas and all through
the house
Not a creature was stirring,
not even a mouse;
But up In the sky over all Of
the land
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-12-09

w. N. u, BALTIMORE, NO. 5o--1ss2
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-07-28
At the Movies
CAPITOL THEATRE

In Paris, you find them at the
smart bars, at the races, or at the
opera-these expatriated Russians.
But there are others of them to
whom life has become a weary bur-
den-who have not even the fire of
hatred left against the rabble whose
revolt made them homeless. They
are those White Russians, men and
women, who have become a part of
that half-world, just removed from
the very dregs of life itself, in China.
Thousands of beautiful, once re-
gal expatriates are congregated in
the border towns in Manchuria," ac-
cording to the distinguished General
Lodijenski, formerly a division COM
mander in the Cars army and now
prominent in Hollywood.
"Embittered, demoralized, bereft
of even the inherent pride which once
marked the real Russian aristocrat,
these refugees have become the spe-
cial prey Of the lower caste Chine >.
in many of the frontier towns" 10
reports. "The fate of many white
women, homeless, penniless and
broken in body and spirit, is the
most pitiable spectacle of the Far
East"
1t is such an outcast that Gwili
Andre plays in "Roar of the Ora
gon," the moving, dramatic story of
war-torn Manchuria in which Rich
ard Dix is starring at the Capitol
Theatre tomorrow.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-07-28
FORECASTS
DEMOCRAT VICTORY
Oklahoma Governor Encour-
aged by Victories of Favor
ties in Primary

Oklahoma City, July 28-(P)-Gov-
ernor w. H. alfalfa Bid Murray,
encouraged by the success of his fav-
orite candidates in the Oklahoma
run-off primary. declared Thursday
that the Democrats are going to
elect everyone on the ticket in this
state"
Murray, assured of control of the
state legislature, barring upsets in
the general election, announced he
would campaign in every county in
the state, beginSing probably early
next month.
Murray's choices won e house OF
representative races, and lost 81. In
l3 other races, Murray's endorsement
was not an issue.
The election was held Tuesday
Will Rogers, 32-year-old school
master, with the magic name, was
the darling of popular fancy, polling
the largest vote ever accorded a can
oidate in the state. He defeated Mrs
Mabel Bassett, state charities COM
missioner, for the Democratic nom
NATION to the new congress- large
post.
With 1927 out of 1911 precincts
reported Rogers had 281, O12 votes tc
l47,5 for Mrs. Bassett.
Defeated four times previously ir
comeback attempts, Ex-Governor J
G. tJack Walton, impeached in 1928
won a close victory over A. S. j
Shaw former state auditor, for nom.
lnation to the important state cor,
poration commission, charged with
regulating Oklahoma S oil production
The latest tanulation gave Waltor
220 ,446: Shaw, 2l2,036.
0. B. Mothersead, Democrat, wa,
the only candidate able to eliminate
an incumbent congressman. HI
squeezed out an 37-vote margin or
the basis Of complete but unofficial
returns i'll the fifth district over Rep
F. B. Swank.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-07-28
10 Capital City Girls
Enter Screen Contest

Ten Bismarck girls have entered
the Paramount Theater's Screen OPP
portunty Contest, according to word
from those in charge of the nation
wide search for a girl to portray the
Panther Woman in Paramount's "Is-
land Of Lost Souls"
The role to be enacted by the
young woman chosen through this
countrywide search is that Of a
beautiful girl with the fascination,
1.-THE grace and menacing personality
of a primitive beast.
In addition to the extraordinary
opportunity Of playing this role, the
fortunate girl will be awarded con-
tract for five weeks at 5000 a week,
her transportation to Hollywood, and
hotel accommodations, including
meals, for the five-week period at
the world-famous Ambassador Hotel.
Every opportunity will be afforded
for the Panther Woman to make
good, and should she exhibit unusual
ability her contract will be extended,
and other screen roles given her.
Screen tests of the winners of con-
tests now being held throughout the
country will be forwarded to Para
mount Studios in Hollywood. There
they will be screened by a committee
Of studio Judges.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-07-28

freight. Of 48 per cent. L. g. L. freight
carloadings were reduced 81 per cent.
"Other reductions in business VOL
ume as compared with last years
records occurred in electric power con-
postal receipts, building per-
mits and contracts, flour production
and shipment, linseed products ship
ment, copper and iron ore output,
grain and livestock marketings, de-
partment store sales, country lumber
sales, life insurance sales, securities
sales. and wholesale trade. Business
failures were more numerous in June
than in the same month year ago.
Hog Prices Advanced
1.-THE price Of hogs advanced stead
lily for several weeks from low level
of $3.50 per hundredweight at South
st. Paul to a peak of $50 July IL.
This advance proved to have been too
rapid, especially in view of the hot
weather, which reduced pork con-
sumption and the price of hogs de-
clined to $40 per hundred July 10.
"This rise in hog prices was due to
two principal causes-smaller than
average pork supplies and a reduction
in the spring pig crop.
1.-THE price of fed cattle increased
at South st. Paul from level Of
$6.52 per hundredweight in May to
$8.75 per hundredweight at the peak
July IL. Subsequently, cattle prices
declined somewhat to top price of
SITS per hundred July 10.
. 1.-THE price of butter reached its
season low point for the year in June
at 1884 cents per pound. This was a
decrease of az cents from the price
in May and a decrease of nearly Z
cents from the price in June last
year"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-07-28
Sterling
BY FERN r. STEWART

Homer Envick was town caller
Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Max Lang and family
who have been visiting friends and
relatives in Minnesota returned home
this week.
Henry zuraff was a town caller
Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Schmidkunz &C
companied Clifford Wright to Bis
marck Wednesday.
A. Rissner and daughter, Helen and
j. w. Boyer were town callers Tues
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Brownawell
and son, Bobby, were Bismarck shop
pers Wednesday.
Ed Schmidkunz, Miles Belcher, Mrs.
Ernest Schoon. Miss Beatrice Nerby
and Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Paulson were
shopping in Sterling Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Stewart visited
at the Adolph Hansen home Saturday
evening.
Charley Ryan left Sunday for VIC
toria, MINI. to get Mrs. Ryan and
daughter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Helmar Meland Wis
tied at the A. H. Meland home in
Driscoll Sunday.
MIR. and Mrs. j. L. Kelley of Bis
marck were business callers in town
Monday. Miss Grace johnson re-
turned to Bismarck with them to
spend the night with her mother,
Mrs. G. j. johnson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest johnson and
family, Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Stewart
and family and Miss Grace johnson
visited at the J. D. Stewart home in
Driscoll Sunday.
Those from here who attended the
50th wedding anniversary of Mr.. and
Mrs. J. D. Stewart in Driscoll July 2l
were Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Stewart and
family, MIR. and Mrs. Ernest johnson
and family, Mr.. and Mrs. +. N. john
son and daughter, Olive and Miss
Grace Johnson. Mr.. and Mrs. Stew
art were presented purse from the
community.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-07-28
ADVANCE IN CATTLE
AND HOG PRICES IS
seen AS IMPORTANT
Increase in Freight CarIoadings
Is Certainty in Federal Re-
serve District

Minneapolis, July 2a.-R The
prospects for a large crop of small
grain and the rise In prices of hogs
and cattle, were listed as the most
important developments during the
month Of June in the monthly review
Of agricultural and business condi-
tions in the ninth federal reserve dis
trict by the Minneapolis federal re-
serve bank.
These two items, the report states,
are two developments of prime i'm
portance as business factors for the
coming months. During the month,
cash income of farmers from seven
important products was AZ per cent
smaller than for the same month a
year ago. All important farm pro-
duce prices were lower in June than
year ago.
while the prevailing low prices of
grain will reduce the cash income of
northwestern farmers" the report
says, "the large crops which are in
prospect will have very definitely
stimulating effects in many ways.
Probably the most certain business
increase will be in the volume of
freight carloadings.
1.-THE northwest shippers advisory
board" the report continued, fore
casts a movement of grain in the
three months, July, August, and Sep
TENDER, amounting to $4,000 cars as
compared with 1887 cars moved last
year in the same period. Already,
the railroads have added substantially
to their car-repair crews in anticipa-
ton of this increase in freight car
requirements.
Will Aid Railroads
1.-THE report says that the record of
bank debts has been somewhat af-
fected by the federal tax on checks.
The net tax had caused some in
crease in the use of currency and
some decrease in the use of bank
checks for making payments. The
effect, however, is believed to be
small.
While it Is impossible to make
any definite estimate as to the eff
feet of the tax on the dollar volume
of bank debts, the effect is believed
to be small since most of the pay
ments which have changed from
check to cash as the medium are for
small dollar amounts.
THE other business records of the
district indicated that the volume of
business in June was substantially
smaller than the volume in June a
year ago. There was a reduction in
freight carloadings. excluding l.. G. L.