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The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-04-11
BEER, BY WEIGHT OR VOLUME.

Now that beer of 32 per cent alcoholic content by weight is legal, the old controversy concerning alcohol percentage by weight and by volume takes on more meaning than that of academic discus sion, such has has been the in recent years The argument hinges the way in which an alcoholic content of beer at 32 per cent by weight is equivalent to per cent alcohol by volume
 The basic reason is that alcohol is lighter than water If weighs given volume of alcohol and compares it with the weight of equal volume of water the ratio of the weight out to .793 plus. The scientific term for this ration is specific gravity. For alcohol it simply means that quart bottle of alcohol will weigh less than quart of water. Substances heavier than water have specific gravities greater than Those lighter have speci- fic gravties less than one. The specific gravity of water of course, is taken unity.
 Another way of saying the same thing is that for equal weights alcohol will occupy less space than water Treating all substances in beer, except alco-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-04-11
THE TRADE RESPONDS.

Ordinarily trade reports are dull and uninter- esting documents except to business experts whose duty it is to study such statistics Under normal circumstances press associations serving newspapers would pass them by with casual mention. Not SC today When commerce has reached the low leve now prevailing for long any appreciable uptuIr is widely heralded. Thus the Associated Press cir culates throughout the country the weekly Dun and Bradstreet review showing mounting business the highest in many commodities of the current year
 Many factors probably contributed to this show ing. Confidence in the Administration at Washington in President Roosevelts brilliant lead ership is one. Easters demands upon women and men also aided These were duly chronicled by Messrs. Dun and Bradstreet who added, however that merchants of leading centers report that toners are responding most favorably to increased newspaper advertising"
 stored confidence, necessary it is, cannot unaided build up volume business Special occasions of which Easter is most important in certain busi- nesses aid but experience, particularly in the past three years, has shown they are not direct trade builders Sound merchandising and salesmanship of which continuous and intelligent advertising constitutes very large part, is the keystone of trade success. The successful merchant of today is usually the one who makes the most judicious of printers ink" in the daily newspapers
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-04-11
PUTTING MEN TO WORK.

The Forestry Conservation Corps the agency through which President Roosevelt plans to put 25O,0O0 idle to work in the next few months is entity It has enrolled first contingent of 25,0oO and launched the reforestation program that President Roosevelt, during his campaign last Fall, outlined as one means of providing useful unemployment relief
 At that time he was severely criticised and the then Secretary of Agriculture, Arthur M Hyde, ridiculed the suggestion impossible and the plan unavoidable. President Green of the American Federation of Labor another outspoken critic, complaining when the introduced in Congress that it would operate to reduce wage levels now in existence over the country.
 And it is quite true that the wages to be paid the enrolled in the Corps-a dollar day and subsistence-are low. But the men undertaking the work getting far less than that, if indeed they getting anything except their groceries. Pos sibly some were not getting many of them. MT. Green assumed that the Government would go into the open market and set low-wage precedent for other industries driving wages downward.
 This not part of the Presidents program it the idea behind the bill that is law. It was intended to absorb some of the unemployed and give them something, rather than nothing Wages in money are fixed at low rate in order to aid as many as possible with available public funds
 As matter of recorded fact, wages in some industries now as low as sao per month plus board and
 Yet the problem involved in the reforestation program is not one of wage levels. That plan is simply emergency device to relieve the strain charitable agencies and municipal relief organi- cations The wages paid not intended as a precedent but an emergency aid to those now unemployed There is not the slightest reason to that these wages will have any influence on existing wage levels in industry
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-04-11

hol as equal in density to water, (which is almost truly the easel consider the legal 32 beer.
 This means 3.2 per cent by weight Since alcohol is bukier than water it will occupy greater per- centage of volume. To calculate what this percent age will be it is most convenient to go over to the metric system of units. In this system the density of substance is numerically equal to it's specific gravity. Alcohol in this system has, therefore, a density of .793.
 Now the of a substance, its density and its volume simply related by the relation: density equals mass divided by volume The density is 793 The mass is 3.2. The volume comes out to be 409 per cent alcohol
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-04-11
VALIANT DUsT !;


SYNOPSIS: Herr Schlacht. apparently a C erm n agent, plotting with the Kaid of Me kazzen in his Citadel, proves to Margaret Maligni that he knows more about her precarious posi- tion in the Citadel than she herself does. Margaret, smart ing under insulting advances from RaisuI, son of the Kaid, distrusts Jules, her husband, and is disliked by all the Moor ish element in the castle. She demands to know what Herr Schlacht is doing in Mekaz- zen.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-04-11

APRIL II, 1913
 Robert Simpson arrived in Ju- neau on the Spokane. ] P. H. Ganty was chosen mayor of Skagway.
 The baseball benefit at the Or pheum the previous night was a huge success. Special mention was made of Denny Malloy's recitation of a new version of Casey at the Bat.' A vote of thanks was given to the Spicketts and the people of Juneau for assisting in the bene- fit.
 Juneau stampeders who accom- panied George Carmack and Skoo- kum Jim into the Teslin country, had returned and claimed that the strike was nothing to get excited about.
 John Johnson's team of twenty one dogs was leading the Nome dog race.
 1 Deputy Marshal Hector Mclean left for the South on the Mariposa
 Judge Thomas R. Lyons denied the application of Joseph MacDon- aid for bail and aroused the ire of the prisoners attorneys, Helen thai and Hellenthal, to the point where they accused him of preju- dice and asked that another judge be sent here to rehear the appli- cation. Judge Lyons very emphat- ically denied that the court was prejudiced but said that he would endeavor to get another judge here to accommodate the attorneys and their client. To this end he said he would communicate with Judge Peter D. Overfield.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-04-11

Senator Fess, explaining his vote against the beer bill: "On moral question l propose to do what my people ought to want me to do."-Detrot NewS.)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-04-11

The best joke to emanate from Washington in many months the report of the spectacle of the Drys trying to tell President Roosevelt what he can't do.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-04-11

Indications on all sides are that when beer does start back it will not have to come far before it runs into the Reception Committee. Lexington, Ky. Herald)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-04-11

All indications point to Juneau having gardens other than the kind that father has to hoe before breakfast and after dinner during the spring and summer days.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-04-11

AS in the case of the ninety and nine that safely lay in the shelter of the fold it is the lost piece of the jigsaw puzzle that creates consternation-- (Toledo Blade)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-04-11

Out in Illinois they're mixing corn liquor with gasoline, but whether that si to supplement the gasoline but whether that is to supplement the Philadelphia Inquirer)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-04-11

When Gambrinus peeps forth, can Barleycorr be far behind?-( Washington Post)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-04-11

According to the Democratic plan, it takes the berries to make the plum pie.-(Ohio State Journal
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-04-11

Citizens want S4OO,- 900 instead of $2O0,0o0 for a new federal building here. Senator Piles asked $400,O00 but was turned down by the senate.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-04-11

OLYMPIA.-Con n tract ts for the cons tru tion of the governors mansion at cost of $28,0O0 will be let about July l and the struc- ture is expected to be ready for occupancy about Jan. l.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-04-11
 Q NORTHWEST NEWS BRIEFS Q OF 25 YEARS AGO
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TACOMA-A resolution offered by Sen. w. H. Paulhamus at a meeting of the Republican central committee of Pierce county en- dorsing the candidacy of w. H. Taft for president, was adopted aft CT a lively discussion.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-04-11

Margaret has a narrowing scene tomorrow, with her husband.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-04-11

Use Type ano 1nk-and Why?
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-04-11
20 YEARS AGO
 From The Empire

APRIL II, 1913 Robert Simpson arrived in Ju- neau on the Spokane.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-04-11

Deputy Marshal Hector Mclean left for the South on the Mariposa.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-04-11

John Johnson's team of twenty one dogs was leading the Nome dog race.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-04-11

P. H. Ganty was chosen mayor of 5kagway.
The Washington times., 1933-02-02
TO ATTEND Meeting

Albert A. Ady, assistant agent
for Montgomery county. will at
tend the meeting of the Mary
land Jersey Cattle Club. Febru-
ary IS, at Bel Air, Md.
The Washington times., 1933-02-02
MARCH 4 PRIZE
AWARDED

First prize of $1OO for the Of
ficial Inaugural program cover
design was awarded to Norman
S. Sudduth today, it was an
nounced by j. Fred Essary, chair
man of the Roosevelt Inaugural
program committee.
The design was selected from
more than a score of entries
by jury headed by Clifford K.
Bergman. Honorable mention
was given the design of Julian
Middleton Archer. Mr.. Sudduth
is a member of the Evening
Stars art staff.
Lloyd D. Wilson, chairman of
the finance committee, reported
increases in many subscriptions
to the guarantee fund over
amounts subscribed ~ the same
local business establishments and
individuals four years ago.
Total subscriptions were re-
ported at 1870 with amounts vary
ing from $4,000 to $1OO. The
chairman stated advance ticket
sales, hotel reservations and re-
ports from railroad companies
indicate a big crowd will attend.
The Washington times., 1933-02-02
True to Type
FRESH EYES WANTED
TO SEE CHARMS
OF AMERICA
BY GILBERT SELDES

N his recent and highly entertaining novel, "Going
Somewhere" Max Ewing has scene at morning
musicale at the Plaza the climax of which is when MARY
Garden casped her jeweled hands, tangled her heavy
bracelets and the twentieth centurYs greatest emhod
The Washington times., 1933-02-02
ROBBERY IS LAID
To GYPSY FEUD

A strange feud between rival
gypsy tribes is believed by police
to be bacI: of the robbery of Mrs.
Tinker Demetro, so, who was
bound and gagged last night with
her daughter, Rosa, 20, in their
home in the 800 block Florida
Ave-, N. w.
Today police sought three men
and two women, members of a
gypsy family from Detroit.
The women were trussed in
inhumane fashion and their home
was looted of $49O.
A grudge borne against the
Demetro tribe by another tribe
because of an unsuccessful mar
riage of a daughter of the lat
ter to a son of Mrs. Demetro
was given police as possible
motive.
The Washington times., 1933-02-02
FOUR BUILDINGS
REPORTED
IN NEED
Official Points Out Economy
And Improved Service
To Follow Action

Prompt action by the District
Commissioners in replacing old
fashioned heating plants at four
schools was urged today by the
Board of Education in a com.
munication to the District Of.
ficials.
Replacement of the plants, all
of them hot air equipment, is
urgent at the present time to
furnish better heating facilities
and also to effect large economies,
it was pointed out by Jere j.
Crane, first assistant superin-
tendent Of schools.
The funds for the requirements
are included in the 1888 appro-
priation and must be made avail
able before July /, 1884. The
equipment is to be replaced at two
white schools, H. D. Cooke and
Towers, and two colored schools,
Morgan and Cleveland.
The replacement would mean
an expenditure of approximately
$4,000. Mr.. Crane pointed out,
however, that installation Of
modern steam heating will effect
savings by curtailing the number
Of men employed for the extra
duty of tending the old fire plants.
At the Cooke School, the present
seven furnaces will be replaced by
two boilers and five at the Cleve-
land will give way to two boilers.
The Washington times., 1933-02-02
MERCER MOVES
To COMPLETION

A committee will be named by
the Washington Railway and
Electric Company in the near
future to negotiate with a
similar committee of the Capitol
Traction Company to take steps
toward redrafting an agreement
for merging the city's two street
railway companies under terms
of the resolution recently en-
acted by Congress.
A committee. composed of John
H. Hanna, president, and George
E. Hamilton, G.. Thomas Dunlop
and John M. Perry, directors, has
been named by the Capitol Trac-
ton Company.
In 1928, a merger plan was
worked out but failed to receive
Congressional approval. This
year the companies will use the
1923 plan as basis for negotia-
tions, making such changes
necessary because of the Capper-
Blaine amendments to the resolu-
ton passed by Congress. It was
predicted that the merger would
be conSummated by next fall.
The Washington times., 1933-02-02
F|REMEN LASSO
WILD BULL

The toreadors of Petworth
finally captured bull today, but
not before the entire neighbor-
hood was panic stricken, school
children scattered in all direc-
tionS, much damage done and
one fireman injured.
Ranting and raging in the vi
cinity of Sherman Circle for al
most an hour, the bull, escaped
from the slaughter house of Frank
j. Miller in the 800 block of Ken
nedy ST.. N. w., was the object of
an all-community chase in which
Is policemen, three radio cars,
half a dozen firemen and the
fire rescue squad also partici-
pated.
Private P. ]. Wheeler. who with
Lieutenant E. j. Carroll, finally
captured the bull, was injured
when he was thrown down a 10
foot terrace at Ninth and Allison
Streets Northwest. The bull
lunged into Wheeler and injured
his back.
After running wild up and
down the streets, the bull was
finally seized by Carroll, who
grabbed hold of his tail, and las
seed with a heavy rope by
Wheeler.
The Washington times., 1933-02-02
HOUSEBREAKER
ADMITS GUILT

Accused of number of house
breaking cases which have al
ready resulted in the detection of
a woman said to be a fence" for
local thieves, Lester c.. Jackson,
colored, was held for the Grand
Jury today under $4,000 bond
after he pleaded guilty before
Police Court Judge Gus A.
Schuldt.
Jackson was arraigned on
charges of stealing $7OO worth of
clothing and jewels from the home
of Mrs. Frances Hurley, 43OO block
Tenth st. N. E., and more than
$40 worth from the home of
Frank E. Elder, 800 block Twenty
eighth st. N. w. Other charges
will be filed later.
In connection with the cases,
Winnie Darlington, colored, 200
block K st. N. w., was held for
the Grand Jury several days ago
on a charge of receiving stolen
property. Police say she disposed
OF stolen goods valued at more
than 100000, among which were
the articles jackson is accused
Of taking.
The Washington times., 1933-02-02
CARROLL
AAs-sASO ~ AH
Broadcast Results
In Speedy Arrest

Fifteen minutes after a look
out was broadcast from the
Washington police radio station
today an Alexandria cruiser,
driven by Patrolman Boley, had
arrested Will Ellis, colored, 73,
for an assault in Washington.
Ellis, who admitted striking a
colored youth with an iron bar,
said that he had been lying on
the ground and the boy had told
him to get up and hold his hands
up, and that when he got up he
came up with a length of pipe,
with which he struck the youth.
The Washington times., 1933-02-02
TypOthetGe Head
VIII Broadcast

Gerald A. Walsh, secretary OF
the Typhotehtae of Washington
will discuss the printing industry
of Washington in a radio talk
over WJSV at 7:3O p. m. Satur.
day.
The printing industry is the
largest in the National Capital,
according to officials of the
Washington Chamber of Com
merce, under whose auspices the
series of talks on the city's indus
tries is being given.
The Washington times., 1933-02-02
BALLOU BLOCKS
CHILD RELIEF,
PROBE HEARS
Mrs. Patterson, Herald Editor,
Voices Charge at House
Inquiry on Loan Plan

DR.. Frank w. Ballou, superin-
tendent of schools, was charged
today with blocking efforts to
raise a fund to feed undernour-
iShed school children.
The charge was uttered at a.
hearing before the Senate Bank
ing and Currency Committee in
testimony given by Mrs. Eleanor
Patterson, editor and publisher
of the Washington Herald, who
discussed the necessity for i'm
mediate relief.
Makes Personal Survey
Testifying on the Wagner bill
to extend powers of the Recon.
Struction Finance Corporation so
as to permit loans to communi-
ties for relief purposes, Mrs. Pat
terson declared:
81 was told hundreds of
children are suffering from
cold and hunger in the Dis
trict. After a personal survey
1 found that this was true.
II telephOned DIR. BalIOu and
offered to aid in raising a
fund to supply food for school
children. DR.. BalIOu told me
that there were no facilities for
extending this aid and finally
declared why Mrs. Patterson,
there are always undernOur.
ished Children
'He has blocked us straight
through"
Mrs. Patterson declared she
went to the Volunteers of Amer
lea where 12) school children are
fed daily. sri
Bride Urges Loan
She said one school teacher
told her that the Volunteers fed
Is children in one school every
day.
Corporation Counsel William
W. Bride declared the District
should be given the same priv.
ilege of borrowing r. F. C.
money as any other community.
The necessity for procuring
money from the R. F. C. was
stressed by George S. Wilson,
director of the Board of Public
Welfare, who declared that de-
mands for relief were urgent and
funds available were decidedly
insufficient.
The Washington times., 1933-02-02
Rotary Club Hears
L0LUnlUker on PUylicS

Representative Arthur M. Free
(Calif0, guest speaker at the Ro.
tary Club meeting at the Willard
Hotel yesterday. told the mem
bers the rule that "the riches of
nations can be measured by the
violence Of the crises they en-
dure" is well exemplified in the
United States, where it has been
found that as the population
grows, panics expand in force
and volume.
The subject Of Frees address
was "Panics," in which he. traced
the history Of nine major depres-
sions through which the country
has passed.
The Washington times., 1933-02-02
D. c. RED CROSS
MAY RECALL
MAGAZINE
Officials Eager to ForestaII
Any Criticism Of Alleged
SaCriIegiouS Sketch

In an effort to forestall any
protest in Washington over the
alleged sacrilegious story and
cartoon appearing in the current
Junior Red Cross News, local
Junior Red Cross officials will
attempt to effect an adjustment
as soon as possible, it was said
today.
The drawing shows a child and
donkey before a priest in vest
ments. The priest has in his
hand a cracker, which, it is
charged, might be mistaken to
represent the Sacrament of the
Eucharist.
Barred By Two Cities
The publication, official organ
of the Junior Red Cross, has been
barred from the schools of New
York city and also from the
schools in Somerville, Mass, a
suburb of Boston.
Mrs. Agnes Kinnear, principal
of the Eliot Junior High School
and director of Junior Red Cross
activities in the local schools,
said today she will discuss the
matter with w. G. Gard, in
charge of the national Junior
Red Cross, as soon as possible.
Mr. Gard is now in Somerville
where he is attempting to ad-
just the complaints. He also is
expected to go to New York.
Chairman Payne Apologies
John Barton Payne, chairman
OF the American Red Cross, is
also apologizing by letter to
every Catholic bishop in the
United States for the publica.
ton. He blamed the drawing on
the haste incident to getting the
magazine to press.
The publication is distributed
in Washington to each class en-
rolled in the Junior Red Cross.
The Washington times., 1933-02-02
82,431 ENROLL
IN SCHOOLS

Enrolment for the first day of
the new school term reveals an
increase Of more than $500 over
the same day last year.
A total of 82,431 was enrolled
Yesterday, which is just 1859 over
the first day last February. Sec
ondary schools jumped from IT,.
731 to 19,209 and the elementary
schools showed an increase from
60,360 to 61,207.
The greatest single increase was
in Eastern High School. where
2,746 were enrolled, as compared
with 2,367 last year. Congestion
at this school has necessitated
placing claSes on a staggered"
schedule.
The Washington times., 1933-02-02
TECHNOCRACY IS TOPIC

Both Sides Of Technocracy'
will be discussed at the meeting
Of the Cosmopolitan Club at the
Carlton Hotel today at 1890
o'clock, the speaker being Art
Brown, director of promotion and
associate editor of the Nations
Business.
The Washington times., 1933-02-02
BIDS FOR PARKING LOT

Bids for leasing vacant park
ing lot opposite the Navy Build
ing entrance on Constitution Ave
nue. today are being prepared by
order of Lieut.. Col. U. s.. Grant,
Director of Public Buildings and
Parks. They will be advertised for
this week.