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The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-02-28
OLD LEAGUE
 IS REVIVED l

SUPERIOR, Wis, Feb. 28. = The old Northern baseball league, which closed about Is years ago, is to, be revived this summer, with an eight team circuit in three states and Canada. . @a The league has booked a sched- Iule of 112 games, with teams en- tered from Superior and Eau Claire, Wis; Grand Forks and
 Fargo, N D.; Moorhead, Crook ston and Little Falls, Minn., and Winnipeg, Canada, with the eighth team to be Chippewa Falls. or La Crosse, Wis.
 Among players in the old North ern League who became major league stars were Dave Bancroft, new Minneapolis manager. with
 Philadelphia, Boston and the New York Giants; Otto Miller of the Brooklyn Dodgers; George Dauss pitcher with Detroit for severa, years; Don Pube Marion. with the St. Louis Cardinals, Brooklyn Feds and Milwaukee. and Rube Echauer pitcher with the Giants and latel with Minneapolis. , s.N-s a ..s
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-02-28
ALASKA AIR
 LINES URGED
Planes Needed for Discov- cry of New Sources
 of Gold

OLYMPIA, Wash, Tieb. 28.-A memorial was introduced in the Senate today by State Senator Reardon, of Snohomish County, which asks Congress to appropriate $1 100000 yearly for four years to operate airlines from Fairbanks and Anchorage to places in Alaska not reached by the regular airlines. This is with the idea of discovering new gold sources.
 Upon sufficient showing, the ore planes are also needed to carry mining machinery to start devel- opment and the government in re-. turn would receive 212 per cent. royalty on all gold discovered with in a. radius of 20 miles by the person who aided in finding the mineral, because of the free trans pOrtatlon. .~ es., = sss.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-02-28
JOHN GILBERT AS ROUGE IN
 DOWNSTAIRS
Popular Star Plays Part of Blackmailing Chauffeur
 at Capitol Tonight

Filmgoers are offered a two- fold surprise in John Gilbert's new est talking picture, Downstairs, ; which opens tonight at the Capitol Theatre. In the first place the picture introduces the star in a characterization totally different from any. he has ever attempted before, that of a sinister villain of the Von Stroheim type; in the sec ond place, the leading feminine role is played by Virginia Bruce, who has since become Mrs. John Gilbert in private life.
 Star Wrote Story Himself
 Of additional interest in connec- ton with Downstairs is the fact that the plot of the new Gilbert drama was written by the star himself.
 The plot of Downstairs" con- cerns the absorbing adventures of a ne'er-do-well chauffeur who dis rupts the entire household of the aristocratic Austrian family by whom he is employed. Not con- tent with merely blackmailing his mistress whom he has caught in an intrigue with her lover, he steals the life savings of the TO- mantle cook and then attempts to bring dishonor to the young bride of the butler. It is the butler, played by Paul Lukas. who brings the action of the tale to an as- founding climax with the villain getting his just due.
 Downstairs" was directed by Monta Bell, one of whose recent successes was East is West. To- gether with Miss Bruce and Paul Lucas the cast includes Hedda Hopper, Reginald Owen, Olga Bac- lanova, Bodil Rosing, Otto Hoff- man, Lucien Littlefield and Mar ion Leasing.
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HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Feb. 28. = Because she danced as child back in Creston, Iowa, and kept on studying dancing as she grew up Alice Jans has future as a film actress.
 It wasn't quite so simple actual ly, but it was a dancing hit that won her executive attention and caused her to be offered film contract.
 With her love Of dancing, Alice first came into pictures when mu- sical films. with their large chor- uses of dancing girls were in their heyday. She danced in the line with numerous other equally vig- orous youngsters in many an all dancing, all singing, all talking
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film. and like the rest, lost her job when studios lost interest in that type of picture.
 She wanted to be a movie ac- tress none the less, and began playing bits and extras roles. She was an extra on set where Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., was mak- ing a picture, when Director Al Green having tried several rhum- ba dancers and finding none sat- isfactory,. sent for new order of candidates. While the company waited, Alice piped up- with the news that she could do a. rhumba --and would they let her try? s
 They did, she got the assignment and was good enough to cause an executive, when the rushes were
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-02-28
OLD INDUSTRY
 BEING REVIVED
Demand for Wild Horses Increases-Old Days
 Coming Back

RIFLE, Colo, Feb. 28. Wilo horses, for many years vagabonc rulers of the ranges of Western Colorado, are feeling again the slithering lariat and the branding iron. After almost a score of years they are being herded again into corrals and freight cars as an ole western industry is revived.
 Not since the early days of tht World War has there been sucf demand for horses as there is to- day, wild horse dealers and wrang- lers declared today. The roaming herds, descendants of Spanisl horses of the days of the conquest have been unmolested for many years and have increased greatly.
 Shipments to Every State
 The wary old leaders who kept out weather eyes for water holt traps and hiding cowboys are gont and the new leaders are learning anew of the fence pole traps.
 The new demand for horses has led to shipments to virtually every State, but the South and Middle West are the best markets. Almost any kind of horse, and even ths midget burro, are in demand. Wilc broncos, retired saddle horses mules, but most of all the savage mustangs, are wanted.
 Keeping up with the revived in- dustry, carpenters are busy re- pairing old traps and woodsmen are cutting poles for new traps.
 Wild or Tame
 The Rifle horsemen deliver them wild or tame preferably wild Buyers who don't specify get car loads of raging horse flesh right off the range. For the benefit of the others, impromptu rodeos stii prairie dust into the air every day as the "hoss-wranglers" ride them into shape for saddle use.
 Horsemen here. are not. concerned with the causes of the sudden re- vival of their trade, but they acal, culate"s it's because farmers car raise hay for horses but. not .gaso, line.sfor. tractors and automobiles
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-02-28
IDEAS ON SALE

The usual procedure when a writer has an idea for a scenario is anything but logical, unless GUS tom makes logic, which 1t doesn't especially not in Hollywood.
 The writer dashes off, on a page or two, the essence of his plot. He submits this to the executive, who if it appeals to him, purchases the idea" and employs the writer, al so much per week Cor possibly two or three writers) to prepare a film treatment or screen play. .e
 Then the circus begins, the lit erary Roman holiday. Often the idea" emerges on the screen; of ten again it is lost and the result ant hodge-podge is put forth te become just another movie The costs, meanwhile, have mounted daily.
 It was such a haphazard sys- tenn, for instance, which produced one of Ann Harding's less praise worthy films Prestige. It sounded great in the sales. talk of the scen- artist, but the completed script was nothing like the promise.
 Sturges points out. that a play wright never attempts to sell Q play from a short outline and holds that the same should be true oi pictures.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-02-28

 INCREASING

COLUMBUS, O., Feb. 28. A higher rural birth rate than urban centers, plus the fact that in the past two decades many young per- sons are leaving the farm, is caus- ing an increase in the number of dependents per rural worker.
 These conclusions are from a four-year study made in eight ty- pical Ohio townships by two rural economists at Ohio State Univer- sity.
 The rural population has 50 per cent more children under IS years of age and twice as many persons 5 years or age or older per 1000 population. compared with urban populations.
 The investigators found that of every 100 farm boys, Al remained to farm, most of them coming from families that had been the most successful in agriculture.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-02-28
CONFIDENCE IN l. PREM. DALI ADLER

PARIS. Feb. 2S. The French Senate has passed motion of confidence in Pr mier Edouard Daladier on the reduction of mili- tary expenditures by $20,0o0.000 on assurance that the decrease in no way impairs armed efficiency.
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be much money saved the studios and at the same time a be tt c ' quality of 2 pie lures. @f When Sturges, W h ose D. a y S, Strictly Dishon- orabl e'' an d Child of Man h a t t a n :" both have reached the
 screen. wanted to
 sell Jesse Lasky
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-02-28

Q l1lIif oVOKJ " brought with him a complete screen play script. Lasky looked 1t over, bought it, and The, Power and the Glory" is on his schedule to star Spencer Tracy. es ,..t.,s..s,
 That, is, such logical way to sell a screen story that it may appear to be scarcely worth comment. But if you think that, you don't know Hollywood.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-02-28
TIES 6O-YARD MARK

NORMAN. Okla, Feb. 28.-Stop watches have caught Whitey Cox, University of Oklahoma sprint can- didate, in 6.2 seconds for the 60- yard dash, equaling the world mark. Cox led his nearest rival to the tape by two yards in try outs.
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WRITER'S GAMBLE

But the novelty of his arrange ment with Lasky does not end there. His monetary reward is to be exactly as it would be on the stage on a royalty basis. The down payment" is comparatively small and the total amount of his remuneration will be determined at the box office. s a ass. S1
 If his picture is failure, he will receive little. .But if it is a big hit, he stands to get much more than is ordinarily paid for 8 script boughts outright over thes deskr top.,s { sss. .sssl [ esx s.sa ae&.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-02-28

Mrs. Cordelia Karshner passed away in Fairbanks February 4, as the result of a heart attack. Mrs. Karshner was member of the Pioneer Women of Alaska and a longtime resident of Fairbanks and Manley Hot Springs. She was seventy-two years old.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-02-28
2l5-POUND END MAY BE CENTER
 FOR 1883 TIDE

TUSCALOOSA, Ala, Feb. 28.-- Out of spring football training at Alabama has come news that Coach Frank Thomas may shift Jim Whatley, 215-pound freshman end, to the pivot post on the 1883 var- sity.
 Centers at Alabama are not too plentiful. since the graduation of Rip Hewes and Red Houston, while tackles and ends are abundant. Whatley played end in high school and as a freshman, but fitted into tackle position with only two weeks practice.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-02-28
NEW PLAN TO
 SELL STORIES TO BE FILMED | M!
Complete Script Replaces Scenario-Producers
 Act Quickly
By ROBBIN CooNs

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Feb, 28.- If all screen writers followed Pres ton Sturges' scheme there might
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-02-28
PAL NITEe-2-for-1 Tuesday and Wednesday

Tn every office. some work slow. Some are fast. And the bosses never know what plots are being cooked up-until dinner is served, for two! Such funl Such excitement
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shown that night, to exclaim, "Who is that girl?"
 That meant the contract. She has had parts in several features since. -g..
 Her hair is black and her eyes are blue.
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Classified ads pay.
Evening star., 1933-03-19
Thousands of Caches Were Buried
by Mobiles Fleeing Before the Ad-
vancing Reds at the Time of the
Russian Revolution. And the Soviet
Government Offersa Percentage to the
Person Who Locates Any of Them.

rency not later than a week after the treasure
is handed over to the state authorities. In
some cases the reward is waived by a loyal
citizen for the good of the five-year plan, and
the citizen is then highly commended in the
Soviet press.
Sometimes, hidden treasures run in the walls
and in the Easements as gold runs in the hills
and diamonds in the veldt-in veins and rows
Thus, late in 1925, in Odessa Easements of sew
eral houses along Marazlievsky street yielded
a number Of carefully concealed trunks full Of
rare slverware and rich jewelry. This was a
neighborhood formerly populated by mobiles and
wealthy traders.
Some Of the flights Of the Whites and their
rich charges were unbelievaby chaotic Often,
the Reds would come so suddenly that no one
would be able to get away, still less to take
his gold and jewelry along.
Not only private citizens but entire White
regiments were compelled to bury their treas
ures in the walls and in the soil before they
dispersed to distant points Of Red Russia. away
from their native haunts. where their recog-
milton would have been all too certain.
About the same time that the Soviet authori-
ties made their discovery Of Odessa caches.
another discovery was made at the opposite end
Of the republic. In Blagoveshchensk, Eastern
Evening star., 1933-03-19
By ALBERT PARRY.

of caches have been
buried in the soil and in house walls
throughout Russian since the Revo-
luton of 1917. There are caches Of
gold, silver, diamonds, pearls, rubies,
emeralds-of all sorts of jewelry
worth millions of dollars.
They were buried by mobiles and wealthy mer-
chants fleeing before the advancing Reds and
yet hoping to return to Russia some day and
claim their hidden treasures in triumph.
But the Soviet newspapers in Russia and the
anti-Soviet emgre newspapers abroad regularly
publish reports of this or other treasure un-
covered through chance or an informant and
handed over to the treasury of the Red re-
public.
Many an emigre driving a taxi on Paris
streets washing dishes in New York hotel
pales as he sees headline: Another Cache
Discovered by Soviets." He drops his work to
read the news.
Sometimes he curses wildly for he recog
nizes his own cache in the report, or even
sees his own name mentioned Is that of the
owner Of the ill-fated treasure.
Sometimes he sighs in relief For it was
the treasure of someone else, perhaps of a
Evening star., 1933-03-19

Now that we are on the subject of the graves.
there Is the story of Young King. In the
village of Aktepa. in Russian Middle Asia.
there was q cooperative society, and Young
King was its president.
One day he wrote letter to the commits
sariat of finance in Moscow that under the
skeletons of a gigantic common grave Of revolu-
tionary times he had found gold and silver
that would fill IS peasant carts
IT appeared that during the Russian Civil
War, three citizens were placed in charge Of
a treasure taken from the Turkestan vaults
and bound for an unknown destination. As
Evening star., 1933-03-19

friend of his No. he says the Soviets won't
find his cache. He will live to return and
claim it!
WEARS 60 by, and the owner of q treasure
is as yet an exile. More and more often
he thinks of the cache He begins to plan
cautious expedition into the Red republic or
to commission some daring foreigner to make
such an expedition
Maps are consulted with many hopes and
misgivings. Finally the expedition IS decided
upon and carried out.
There were, for instance. not 50 long ago.
two Russian refugees in China who decided
to attempt the rescue of their trunk OF gold.
The trunk was buried in the field just out
side of village near q river which was the
Russo Chinese border.
The expedition to place near the border
was both easy and difficult. It seemed easy
because there was not much Soviet territory
to traverse A single night would suffice for the
entire journey there and back.
After two weeks of watchful waiting in a
Chinese village in view Of the Soviet land the
adventures set out
It a stormy night. The plotters hoped
that on such a night the border guards would
not patrol the river, and their hopes were full
filled They recognized the spot of the treasure
burial quickly enough.
THEIR spades struck the trunk after very
little effort. But when they lifted and
opened the trunk they saw that it was empty
except for small piece of paper on which
was written: Thank you"
Some one had found the treasure-some one
with sense of humor and q feeling that the
owners of the trunk might yet return and ap-
precate little joke at their expense. Just how
deeply the joke really was appreciated is, per-
haps q slightly different matter.
Within the Soviet Union, citizens who divuge
secreted treasures rewarded by the gov
ernment. decree, signed by President Kalinin
late in 1929 and still in force, maintains:
Citizens who report precious metals, jewels,
pre-revolutionary gold and silver coins, also
foreign currency buried in the earth or hidden
in other secret places, will be rewarded to the
extent of IS per cent of the valuables which
may be found"
The reward is usually given in Soviet cur
Evening star., 1933-03-19

Siberia, huge silver goblets and valuable sets OF
silver plates were extracted from their secret
vaults. It was ascertained that they used to
belong to former Amur Cossack regiment. q
White fighting unit, long since vanquished and
dispersed.
children at play are often responsible for
such discoveries Workmen digging for
foundations or repairing old houses bring to
light other treasures of the revolution.
In one case, 1t least, children and workers
combined their efforts to cause one such chance
discovery. In the Red Presnia district Of Mos
cow former mansion Of Count Uvaro6, now
children's home was undergoing repairs.
Children followed the workers from room to
ROOM
Soon the workers turned around to see the
children playing with large diamonds artisti-
cally mounted. The children explained that
they found the pretty playthings in hole
ripped by the workers in one of the walls
1t was the old counts cache made by him
before he fed abroad Or perished in the
revolution. Later the Soviet experts adjudged
the stones to be Of considerable value. Natu-
rally the treasure forthwith became the prop
erty Of the state.
It is doubtful whether the children received
any part of their find, for they were under age,
and besides they themselves belonged to the
state. Most likely they would enthusiastically
waive their share of the treasure for the good
of the state, were they given such a share For
in the Soviet Union politics and economics are
taught at an early age.
IN Moscow courtyard two brothers, IL and
! II years old, were solemnly digging grave
for a dead raven. The grave was almost ready
when their small shovels struck . hard object.
The object glistened IN the sun in a most en-
chanting way.
The boys went on digging, and presently
they uncovered large bar Of gold. They
showed 1t to their parents, and anon the gov
ernment officials and experts were on the spot.
They appraised the ingot at some ZOO and
vertured q guess that 1t was buried In the yard
by some unknown jeweler Or m assay oncial
In the Cars employ
Evening star., 1933-07-21
20 YEARS AGO
WASHINGTON defeated Chicago,
IN THE STAR.

WASHINGTON defeated Chicago,
w 5-l. in the opening game of
their series in the Windy
City. Joe Boehling held the losers
to five hits. Larry Chappelle, $4,000
recruit. was not SO impressive in the
Chicago outfield Danny Moeller's
homer about clinched the game for
the Nationals. Doc White. who
hurled for the Sox for the first time
in a long while. showed fairly well.
but was by no means the White of
old George Mcbride. Washington
shOrtstop. played a great game.
American Security Il Trust Co.
and Cornell mines meet today in an
important Capital City League game.
IN battle between mines OF l3-
year-oldS, the Athletics defeated the
Nationals, 8-5. Seibolt is booking
tor the winners at 1927 North Caro-
lima avenue northeast.
Jack Coombs is recovering his
health after an attack of typhoid
fever and soon will return to the
Athletics pitching staff.
Nap Rucker, Brooklyn southpaw,
is suffering from slight attack of
neuritis.
Sir Thomas Lipton's yacht, which
will try for the Americas cup in
q series of races in 1914. the condi-
tons of which have been signed
and forwarded by the Royal Yacht
Club to the New York Yacht Club,
will be named Shamrock w.
Ernest Barry of London. world
champion professional sculler, sue
cessfully defended his title. defeat
ing Harry Pearce, champion OF
Australia. on the Thames in London.
Evening star., 1933-07-21
500 SIMON PURES
SEEK GOLF CROWN
Virtually All Of Country's
Stars in Preliminary
Test August 8.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
n JEW YORK, July 21.-Ap-
M proximately 500 players,
4 Y including virtually every
leading SimOn-pure in the
land, have entered the national
amateur golf championship to be
decided at the Kenwood Club,
Cincinnati, starting September II.
Tllirty-six hole qualifying rounds In
% districts August will cut the start
ing field at Cincinnati to $50 including
o. Ross Somerville, Canadian holder OF
the title who Is exempt from the quail
flying test.
other leading entrants include john
nv Goodman of Omaha, American open
champion: Francis Ouimet Of Boston
and Chick Evans of Chicago. former
winners Of the title: Walter Emery OF
Oklahoma. 1898 intercollegiate cham
pion: Johnny Fischer, George T. Dun
iap. ir., Jack Westland, Gus Moreland,
Don Nice and DR. Oscar F. Willing.
Evening star., 1933-07-21
TOURNEY BACKERS
/ ISSUE ULT|MATUM
Sarazen, Defending Attacked
Group, BIames Hardness
of Governing Body.

Dy IHe ASSOSldtcu
NJ ILWAUKEE, July 21.-The
M most recent flare-up in
| VI the ranks of the Profess
sional Golfers Association,
occasioned by the outspoken re
fusal by several members of the
Ryder Cup squad to play in the
annual title tournament at Blue
MOUND unless a change in dates
is made, had reached the confer
ence stage today.
Gene Sarazen, Walter Hagen, Denny
Shute, the new British Open champion;
Craig Wood and Joe Kirkwood started 1t
,by saying they would not play unless the
tournament were shifted from August
8l3 to Steptember
c. B. johnson, chairman Of the Mil
waukee Committee, which has arranged
for a guarantee to underwrite prize
imoney and expenses, yesterday coun-
ttsred by announcing the guarantee
would be withdrawn unless the Ryder
Cup stars compete, leaving the pros with
the alternative of playing for shares OF
whatever might be taken in at the gate
johnson and Albert R. Gates, business
manager Of the P. G. A., and r. w
.Treacy, secretary of the organization
planned to confer today on what to dc
about the situation. Johnson said there
was no possibility that the dates would
be altered, and that the P G. A. either
would produce Sarazen, Shute, Hagen
Kirkwood and Wood, or the tournament
could get along without the $4,000 guar
antee.