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The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-01-20
AUTO MAKERS
 ATTEMPT I TO SPUR TRADE
Mo d els Being Improved for Purpose of Launch
 ing Selling Drive
By J. R. BRACKETT

NEW YORK, Jan 20.-One of the most aggressive campaign in auto- mobile history to build new busi- ness is now in progress.
 Under the stress of general busi- ness difficulties and preliminary to the automobile shows in New York and Chicago this month, car makers have embarked on advertising cam- paigns, larger in some instances than during boom times; they are offering technical improvements in almost unparalleled plentitude: and they have cut prices.
 This effort to get business is based on the thesis that large re- placement market now exists and will be satisfied if purse strings can be loosened.
 y-v- Business Outlook
 About a half million fewer cars were registered in the United States in 1881 than in 1880, but this fewer number travelled farther by 8,000,- 100000 miles this year. They also used at least 0,000, 900 more gall Ions of fuel than in the previous year-about 300 miles more per car. Autos, in other words, are being worn out.
 Companies hope the automobile shows will be productive of some buying, though the shows never have been held with primary pur- pose of selling. They point to the $490,000 worth of cars sold at the recent automobile salon as indica- tive of the purchasing power now dormant.
 That manufacturers are attempt ing to stimulate business is especial ly shown in the concentration on efforts to improve the 1892 auto mobile. These examples are indica- tive:
 Dual ratio, providing a low low speed and. high high speed. the extra low and high speeds to be obtained by dashboard adjustments.
 Ignition Starter
 An ignition starter mechanism which starts the engine simply by turning on the ignition. The starter operates automatically to keep the engine going so long as the igni- tion is on. a.s,
 A centrifuse brake, said to pro- vide greater and more equal brake pressure.
 Ride control, whereby dash ad- justment fixes shock absorbers for various degrees of road surface.
 Drive control, whereby a cylinder on the bumpers ends, containing a suspended weight, provides a sec. ondary vibration to break up en- zine vibration and give smoother riding.
 Engine suspensions which pre- vent motor vibration being trans mitted to the car frame Rubber
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-01-20
ALASKA SNOW COVER

The following amounts of snow, in inches, were reported on the ground at various Alaskan stations Monday afternoon, January 18: Barrow, 8, Bethel IT, Cordova 37, Eagle 16, Fairbanks 25, Fort Yukon IT, Juneau 12, Ketchikan 2, Kodiak |3, Nome 45.
 Ice on Cinema Slough at Fair banks has increased to Al inches in thickness, and on Snake River at Nome to 31 inches.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-01-20

faloes, four of the images being a foot long.
 The clay had been first thrown on the wall and then shaped by hand, the marks of the primitive sculptors' fingers being plainly visible.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-01-20
French Cavern Reveals
 Prehistoric Fmgerpriint,

PARIS, Jan. 2o.-Finger prints left by prehistoric artists were discovered in a grotto of the Pyre- ness by M. n. Mandement and Jau7e, archaeologists.
 Crawling into the cave, they found on its walls ten high reliefs in clay. All depicted charging buf-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-01-20

Public typewriters in Germany allow 1000 strokes to an operator on insertion of a coin in special attachment.
Evening star., 1932-06-28
Empire Toppled by MOSQUITOES.

The marvellous remains of the Mayan
empire Of South America have in recent
years come in for a great deal of scien-
tlfic attention. Highly artistic archj-
tectural ruins indicating a civilization
which fiourished thousands of wears ago
are still standing, the silent witness of
a great population that once existed
and the question is, What caused ths
abandonment of these once thriving
centers OF activity? DR.. c. Wyeth Cooke
OF the Geological Survey, who has been
investigating these ruins in Guatemala,
says that mosquitoes wrecked the en-
pire. His study of what is now sPeten
district in Guatemala reveals that the
Mayan empire began to decline when
the lakes dried up and the fish all dis
appeared. With the fish. the natural
enemies Of mosquitoes, gone, the mos
quitoes began their deadly malarial
campaign against the Mayans. The
geological change also filled up the lake
beds and the jungles of the region of
today took root. Notwithstanding, the
2,000-year-old temples and massive
palaces stu mark the site -
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-01-21

asparagus brought out the infor-
nation that the canned product
put up here in the Yakima valley
has been practically cleaned up
even for such a year as this and
that at least a reasonable amount
of expansion of the acreage could
not hurt if especial attention was
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-01-21
FEEDERS DAY AT
EXPERIMENT STATION

January 26 has been set aside
as Feeders Day at the Irrigation
Branch Experiment Station. The
experimental feeding program
with lambs will be completed at
that time and the data for this
year as well as formers years will
be available. The lambs will be in
the feed lots and visitors will have
an opportunity to see the lambs
will be in the feed lots and visitors
will have an opportunity to see the
lambs and observe the method Of
handling the feeding work.
No additional program has been
planned, according to H. P. Single
ton, Superintendent.
The feeding program this win
ter included the fattening of 1000
lambs, $50 Of which were fed in
experimental lots of Is lambs
each, Various grains which are
being fed with chopped alfalfa
hay are: Turkey, Jenkin and
Baart wheat; Baart wheat, whole
steam rolled, and ground; Barley
whole, stem rolled, and ground;
Oats, whole, steam rolled and
ground; Thayer and Reid corn. The
/ relative value of potatoes, silage
/ and apples, when fed with whole
wheat and chopped hay is also be.
ing studied.
The feeding operations are par
of the soil fertility program at the
station. It is the general practice
to feed all forage and cerea
crops grown. The feeding program
| is also of value in determining
L i s.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-01-21

given to the development of new
acreage of high producing abil-
ity. This means giving careful at
tention to details of preparation
of soil and planting only the right
type of plants. Early onions were
suggested by Mr.. Lampson as a
possible crop from which good re-
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-01-21

turns could be expected. Potatoes
lettuce and spring peas and mel.
ons were not looked upon os truck
crops which would net the average
grower over a long period Of
years. Too much depends upon lust
the right climatic conditions for
these crops.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-01-21

which crops and varieties to grow.
Feed values per ton and tons grown
per acre are used as the basis for
this determination.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-01-21
Facts for Farmers

Hinder this heading will printed from week to week. articles
Of timely the farmers of this community as selected
and prepared by E. c. Durd extension agent for enton
county cooperating the u S. Dept of Agriculture and
+ho washington State College.
Evening star., 1932-05-27
A Firm Hand in Manchuria.

If the world required any evidence
that Japan intends to retain strong
grip on Manchuria, it is supplied by the
eleventh-hour reappointn ent to his old
post of Gen. Sadao Araki as minister of
war 1t was under his military die
tatorship in the late Inukai cabinet that
Japans invasion and occupation of
Manchuria was carried out during the
late Fall and Winter.
To the last 1t appears to have been
Premier Saitos expectation that he
could construct a new cabinet minus
Gen. Araki but that doughty warrior
tcnaciously declined TO follow the ex-
ample Of other Inukai ministers and
resign. Defending hts failure to do so
Gen Arak cites historical examples "oi
leaders Who pursued their own courses
IN lxmsa NJ emergency Mapyes,ly. he
fssb y his duty N ace ,hro,ish 10 the
hsilsT end the adventure upon which
Evening star., 1932-05-27
Break This Log Jam!

With the last District day" so called.
gone over the hill in the House and
with the usual accumulation of ma
tionally important legislation in the
Senate, it may be futile even to hope
for much more consideration by Con-
gress of the local bills that contain
controversial elements-such, for in
stance, as the merger and the blue
sky" securities measures.
But tied up in the same log jam that
threatens the controversial measures are
others, over which there is no known
controversy or opposition. These relate
to the routine matters of legislation
necessary for the municipalities normal
transaction Of business. 1t might be a
wise thing to lump them together and
get rid of them when opportunity is
presented. leaving the controversial
measures to take their chances.
Two of the important bills now
awaiting action, although coming under
the general classification of routine
measures, are those for the opening
of the Buzzards Point area for indus
trial development for which it has been
heretofore set aside by the Park and
Planning authorities. In these days,
especially, nothing should be left un-
done that will encourage commercial
development and hasten expenditures
fnr MI of nd of
materials. In the case of Buzzards
Point the industrial development is
waiting for legislative authority to pro-
ceed. The money is ready for spending
and the only delay anticipated is that
which is associated with congressional
consideration of the two bills in ques-
ton. One of these bills allows the Phil
adelphia, Baltimore e. Washington Rail-
road to extend spur track from Second
and streets southeast to Buzzards Point,
buying or leasing that portion of pub
closing of streets that run through the
area acquired for its new power plant
by the Potomac Electric g. Power Co,
the street area so closed to be bought
by the company under the usual terms
The power company is ready to proceed
Immediately with construction of s4-
100000 plant, ultimate investment in
which may reach s20,000.0o0. The
railroad company has authorized i'm
mediate expenditure of between sl25 900
and s15O,0o0 on the spur track, sid
ings. etc. The power company's con-
tract, already let for construction of the
plant. stipulates the employment Of
local labor.
There are other routine bills. but
these two are especially important at
this time, and the unexpected situation
already developing, which actually en-
dangers their passage. demands the
serious consideration of the responsible
leaders in Congress. 1t is situation
that could develop in no other city in
the world.
Evening star., 1932-05-27
Mayor Jimmie's Second DaY.

Mayor Walkers second and possibly
his last day on the witness stand
before the New York Legislative Com
mittee which is seeking facts relating
to metropolitan management did not
materially advance either the prosecu-
ton, as it may be called, or the defense.
The court room was again overcrowded,
mostly with partisans of the mayor,
but there was somewhat less disorder
than on the first day owing to threat
by the chairman that the room would
be cleared if the partisan demonstra-
tions we're repeated. Yet the mayors
retorts and sallies evoked whoops and
shouts and cheers and some Of the
minority members Of the committee
INDUCED in furious denunciations OF
the "indignities" to which the chief
executive of the city was subjected.
The examination of the mayor ELECTED
nothing definite in either confirmation
or refutation of the charge that has
been virtually brought against him that
he has profited richly from the favors
of friends who we're concerned in mu-
nicipal legislation. He admitted that
he had received some s26,500 in bonds
from a taxicab financier as part of his
profits in a stock deal in which he had
not invested. but declared that his veto
of bill which would have brought a
fortune to the company in which the
broker was interested should remove
any suspicion of bribery. He could not
explain the intervention Of a coach
company promoter in the matter Of
letter OF credit which supplied funds
for the mayors trip abroad in 1927 or
the overdraft which that promoter had
adjusted. He denied that Sherwood.
the missing law clerk. supposed to have
been his financial agent. whose bank
and brokerage accounts In lem than sis
years to,aled more than ssa4 600, vas
ever IN hls personal employ or acted o.
hN agent. though no admitted that
Evening star., 1932-05-27
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

hibition in Paris for eight years and
is making its American debut in Wash
ington. The canvas is 402 feet long
circumference and As feet high, re-
quiring a diameter of 1876 feet. Packed
for shipment to the United States. the
Pantheon de Ia Guerre" made tidy
parcel weighing 1872 tons.
The G. O. p managers and the partys
respective candidates for President and
lieve in doubles. Both Mr. Hoover and
Mr.. Curtis are to be placed in nomina-
ton at Chicago next month by men
named Scott. The Presidents Scott
halls from California, the Vice Presi-
dents from Kansas. Both have repu-
tations as spellbinders. They'd better
have, for nothing much else than ora
tory is now in sight when the Republi-
cans foregather at Chicago. The pre-
diction Is for one of the shortest. most
cut-and-dried and colorless conventions
on contemporary record. Only a floor
fight. which viii be averted in advance
if humanity possible, over the liquor
plank promises to relieve the routine of
utter dreariness Chicago hotelkeepers
are glad that room contracts call for at
least flve-day reservation for each
party convention.
Former Postmaster General Harry S
New contributes to current weekly
periodical an article disclosing that the
Indiana Republican veteran, now a resi-
dent of Washington, has evidently in
herited Chauncey NJ Depews mantle as
the champion G. o. P. national con-
ventionite. Gen. New says he's at
tended every convention held by his
party in the past so years, has been a
delegate to four, and. by designation of
the National Committee, of which he
was for II years a member, made the
arrangements for three. News article
is designed to explode for all time the
yarn about the Chicago smoke filled
hotel ROOM in which the senatorial
oligarchy' is supposed to have dictated
Harding's nomination in 1920. The
Hoosier politician says no stranger
myth ever rooted itself In the popular
mind.
Representative Charles r. Crisp
Democrat, of Georgia, acting Chairman
of the Ways and Means Committee.
taunts President Hoover for only belated
conversion to "the necessity for econ
omy. Mr.. Crisp rises to inquire why
the alien property custodian's Office and
the wartime United States railway
administration "are still both flourish
ing. with personnel drawing good sala-
ries. 13 years after the WARP" The impli-
cation is that Mr.. Hoover ought to have
wiped them out
X **
Here's the kernel, if not the exact
language, Of the Republican LIQUOR
plank to be hewn into the Chicago
platform according to one of the best
carpenters now on the job.
The Republican party reaf1irms its
belief in the merits of national prohi-
bition. 1t rededicates itself without
reservation to the principles of law en-
forcement so long as the eighteenth
amendment and the Volstead act are
laws of the land 1t acknowledges the
right of the American people, under the
wise and beneficent system of popular
government handed down to us by the
fathers Of the Constitution. to bring
about through orderly processes such
changes In the law as experience and
expediency may dictate"
tcopyriRht. is57l
Evening star., 1932-05-27
Smiths Policies for Nation
Received as Timely Warning

you soak the rich. This Is something
not understood by the rich when af-
fairs began to tighten before the stock
crash OF 1929. AS revenues fell OF and
the question was whether to maintain
dividends or employment. only too often
the decision was made in favor of divi-
dends. Then, in almost Immediately
reducing buying power it became clear
that II you throw a man out of a job
you kick customer out of a store. II
the merchant cannot sell. the factory
lacks orders. The former finds the door
closed to the market. Prices slump.
Thus the very values collapsed that
were sought to be maintained by let
ting the workers go. We have had as
a result the hardest lesson We have ever
been called upon In our folly to learn
that human values are essential to
property values"
Perhaps it is too much to hone" II"
comments the Oklahoma City okla
homan independently, that the habit
ual radical may take unto his heart the
wise words Of Gov Smith. But among
the thousands who have not yet bowed
the knee to the Baal Of confiscation
those words may find lodgment and
pear wholesome fruit. 1t may possibly
dawn upon the consciousness Of Okla
homans that mankind has never vet
discovered any means of soaking can.
ltal with oppressive tax laws without
soaking labor at the same time"
With fearlessneSs." declares the
Minneapolis Journal independent Re
publican), "Mr. Smith assails the costly
faults that have been woven into the
fabric OF veterans relief. chiefly by the
acts OF tlmorous Congresses. He calls
1or elimination Of all the unmerited
pensions which have been superinnosed
upon the original Wilson plan Of caring
generously Tor men manned in war. and
Tor the widows and orphans of men
slaln In war. He would restrict relief
70 these cases and would scrap the as
sumed obligation to pay hundreds OF
millions of dollars yearly in annual
compensation to men who are either
sunering from no real disab bilities. or
whose disabilities are in no way trace
able to war service
Evening star., 1932-05-27

Japan embarked under his driving
command when the banners Of the
Rising Sun were planted in the three
eastern provinces Of China.
Still other proof Of Japan's determi-
nation to yield no inch in Manchuria is
the effort to persuade Viscount Uchida,
now president OF the South Manchurian
Railway, to become foreign minister in
the Saito government. There could be
only one deduction from Viscount
Uchida's presence at the head of the
Toxic foreign once. 1t would denote
the emphasis which Japan now bestows
vate it to the premier place in her
international policies. The Japanese
have fortified their strictly military po-
sition In Manchuria beyond all pos
sibility of destruction except through an
insonceivable combination of outside
armed force supplied by powers willing
to ally themselves on China's behalf
Even now the Japanese, through new
operations ranging around Harbin, are
bent upon further consolidation of their
Manchurian position. The purpose OF,
or alibi for. these activities is the So
called qualification" Of Manchuria, and
particularly the suppression OF the
rebel" forces of the Chinese General
Ma, who is in revolt against the puppet
State of Manchoukuo set up under jap
anese military protection.
If Viscount Uchida transfers from
the South Manchurian Railway presi-
dency to the foreign ONCE at Toxic. his
prospective biggest Job will be to bring
about international recognition of
Manchoukuo. In light of the Hoover
doctrine" of outlawing conquest,
which has the approval OF the
League of Nations under the Assembly
resolution CT March IL. it is not going
to be easy to persuade the rest OF the
world to look upon Manchoukuo as
state which came legally into existence
Evening star., 1932-05-27
Roosevelt's Speech Like
First s"COriOlanus" Scene
10 the Editor of The Star.

10 the Eoltor OF Inc star.
In reading Mr.. Roosevelt's speech, in
which he warned that people would not
always be content to suffer hunger with
plenty within reach, and then Mr.
Hoover's letter to the engineers vigor-
ously holding out against public works
only for public employment, with the
doctrine of productive" lending advo-
Gated, I was reminded of the opening
scene in "Coriolanus"
Here Shakespeare stages an unem-
ployment and hunger protest which at
least merits contemporary reflection. I
quote briefly. First citizen says: I'VE
are accounted poor citizens, the pa
tricians good. What authority surfeitS
on, would relieve u.s. II they would
yield us but the superfluity, while it
were wholesome, we might guess they
relieved us humanely; but they think
we are too dear; the leanneSs that af-
f1icts us, the object of our misery, Is an
inventory to particularize their abun-
dance: our sufferance is gain to them.
Let us revenge this with our pixies,
e'er we become rakes; for the gods
know I speak this in hunger for bread,
not in thirst for revenge"
In hunger for bread, not in thirst
for revenge" So begin most social
revolutions, but revenge soon directs
them and other 'thirstS" arise in their
course. Then there arises the accusa-
tions of wrath and Of pillage as seen in
the instance of this play. which we feel
sure will not have re-enactment in
these times and this country, save upon
the stage.
They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer
us to famish and their storehouses
crammed with grain repeal daily
any wholesome act established against
the rich.
been writing for the American democ-
racy OF mutuality. Yet we hear out
cries against "doles~ directed nc pro-
posals for distribution of the surpluses
of the people lying In the United States
Treasury. !. u. PAI'rERsoN.
Evening star., 1932-05-27
Investigating the Cost of Food.

EioHh tHe CnlcARo DAILY News
Food cost is a matter OF vital con-
Germ In Chicago under present condi.
tlons. Mayor Cermak has taken a
EmeIy step In ordering an inquiry into
tne prices OF commodities that are e.
SehIial 70 the maintenance of life and
For the products Of his land and his
labor the farmer now receives louer
prices than in many years. The mavor
raises the question whether consumers
are getting the benefit in full measure
only an expert investigation can show.
IN a city having more than 100 600
families enrolled on its relief list and
thousands more strugglink for existence
on The narrowest margin of self-sup-
pot. no investigation could have a
more important objective.
Ihe reduction Of / cent in the price
OF quart Of milk will save Chicagoans
$1,000 day. That saving could be in
creased were sbme way found to end
the extravagances OF the present sys-
TEN OF milk distribution Extravagances
In distribution and disproportionate
prcnt- taking exist In the marketing
OF other necessary food products
Marked variations In the prices Of vege-
tables and meats can be found even In
restricted competitive areas. while IN
others a higher level OF prices than
IL justifiable may be maintained by
understandings between merchants.
Regulation OF food prices lies be-
yond the power of constituted authority.
hut publication of the facts can do
much To persuade dealers who are
holding prices higher than source eos,
Mstlhes 10 come down 20 the fair
marie, basis