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The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-03
VALDEZ HAS FIRST
 WOMAN MAYOR IN
 ALASKA TERRITORY
(Vaidez Miiner)

tNdtutl MlliCip
 Valdez has the distinction of hay ing the first woman mayor in Al aska.
 Mrs. H. P. Sullivan was the re- cipient of that honor at meeting of the City Council, held at the city hall last Monday night.
 Although the incoming council always votes on the chairman of the board, it has been the accept ed custom to elect the candidate who received the highest vote in the general election, should he be wiling to accept. Pleading lack of time to do justice to the position of Mayor. c. J. Egan, who, receiv- ed the highest vote in the cleo ton, withdrew in favor of Mrs | Sullivan.
 Mrs. Sullivan is a real pioneer of Valdez and has held several re- sponsible public positions at vari- ous times through the years and iil each place she proved a capable and gracious official. She has al ways taken an active part in the civic affairs of the community ailc was fonored by her fellow citizens to a place on the City Counci last year, and again for the comine term.
 Her selection seems to meet witf almost unanimous approval. Sht is the wife Of H. P. Sullivan, form CT United States Marshal for ths Third Division
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-03
Illinois Group Teaches
 Home Turkeys Are Best

URBANA, H., May S.-The new est thing in Illinois agricultural circles is the State Association of Turkey Growers. ts -ift
 The purpose of the organization says H. H. Alp, of the University of Illinois College of Agriculture, is to demonstrate to residents of the States that the 1000 turkeys rais- ed at home are superior to those imported
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-03
COLLEC TON OF AUTOGRAPHS ON
 COMMON APRON
Frankie Bailey Started Something Brought
 Right Up to Date
By BRIAN. BELL

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, May 3. = Hollywood is the happy hunting ground for autograph seekers, but perhaps the most interesting col lection in the movie capital is older than Hollywood itself.
 Nearly. two score years ago Frankie Bailey, then the toast Of Broadway, was attending a beef steak dinner at a famous old New York hotel She was wearing an apron, & garment well worth while for utility but not to be considered an artistic possibility. A fellow guest scrawled his name on the apron and an idea was born.
 Miss Bailey recalled that Lillian Russell had bedSpread with some 100 or more names of well-knoWn actresses and actors written on it. She decided to have the apron bear the names of famous people and all who could qualify at the dinner WCIc dShcu UO olSll.
 Original Apron Filled
 Later, she elaborated on the plan oy working the signatures out in red cotton so the names stand out just as clearly now as they did in 5he gay '90s
 The original apron was filled .ong, long ago and additions have been made on napkins, parts of able cloths and a towel or two
 Names of stage stars prominent before the movies were born dot the original and some who signed as stage stars have since become famous on the screen. Starting as a who's who on the stage" ths apron broadened it's activities tc Include famous folk in other lines Names of William H Taft, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roose- welt are included. And hardly 6 pig movie name is missing.
 The collection includes approxi- mately 700 names. Some POO ol more are dead
 T started to count the ones whC have passed on,' said Miss Bailey But I soon stopped. It was to, depressing. There were too many. The former stage star will bt 75 years old in a few months.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-03
SEAPLANE nATCO TAKES
 3 PASSENGERS TO TAKU

The Panhandle Air Trans sport Company seaplane, Patco, Chet Me- Lean, pilot, made a flight this morning to Taku with L. H. Smith, Miss Mary Joyce, and F. A. Burgy.
 Yesterday, the plane went to Skagway with Zalmain Gross and Charles Whyte. Rough water at Skagway forced them to return to Haines from which point the plane returned.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-03
Big AlIigator's Age
 Placed at 900 Years

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla, May L. Old Ponce huge alligator on display in park here, was about 800 years old when Florida was dis covered by Ponce de Leon, the Spanish explorer, for whom the reptile was named
 Biologists have estimated the crusty old fellow was matched about 900 years ago. But despite his age, ''Old Ponce is fairly agile and has an appetite equal to that of dozen lions Sometimes he eats 75 pounds of meat at one meal
 He weighs around 1,200 pounds
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-03

teaspoon lemon extract; one-eighth teaspoon salt; two cups pastry flour: two teaspoons baking pow der; three egg whites, beaten.
 Cream butter and sugar. Add milk, extracts, salt, flour, baking powder. Beat two minutes. Fold in whites. Half-fill greased muffin pans and bake l5 minutes in mod crate oven. Cool.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-03
ICE GOES OUT
 AT DAWS0N;N NO
 JAMS REPORTED

DAWSON, Y T., May 3.-The ice in the Yukon River in front of Dawson went out at 9:57 o'clock Wednesday morning.
 There are no jams and it is be- lieved the river will be ready for navigation within a few days from Whitehorse to St. Michael
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-03
BARANOF FOR SITKA

The seaplane Baranof, of the Alaska Southern Airways, is to take off at o'clock in the morn ing for Chichagof and Sitk& under charter to Alex Macdonald, prom inent mining man of the Territory
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-03
MRS. TUPPER WILL GO
 TO FAIRBANKS SHORTLY

Mrs. Josephine Tupper, Seventh Grade teacher, has resigned from the public school staff here to accept a similar position in Fair banks, it was announced today by R. $. Raven, Superintendent of Schools. Mrs. Tupper has taught here for 10 years. Prior to coming to Juneau she taught several years in the Fairbanks schools.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-03
FRENCH MAKE
 DEMAND UPON
 JAPAN NATION

PARIS, May 3.-The Ere n h Government has called upon Japan to observe the nine power treaty to the letter. A straight forward note has been sent to Tokyo in re- ply to the Japanese Government's $ note explaining the Asiatic doc urine.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-03

Alaska of southwest of the Gulf with in Arctic Boring Sea the portion of Tenn perature changes J-t
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-03

Rum bottles dating from the days of the old Caribbean pirates Istill are washed up in the surf off |the Honduran coast.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-03
MARBLE WORKS OPEN FOR
 RITSINESS

A. F. Knight of the Juneau Marble Works, has just arrived from the south after a protracted stay, and is now ready again for busi- ness in all kinds of monumental and marble work. Contact him for your monuments. adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-03
Ham Supreme

l0-pound ham; three quarts co.d water.
 Scrub ham, place in kettle, add water. Cover, simmer for IF hours Let ham cool in stock, remove and cut off rind. Fit ham. fat side up in roaster. 4add syrup mixture.
 Syrup Mixture
 Two cups dark brown sugar; 30 whole cloves: one-half cup vine gar; one-half teaspoon cinnamon: one-half teaspoon powdered cloves one cup pineapple juice; one cup water.
 Score the fat side of the ham with back of knife to shape into one inch diamonds. Stick cloves in centers of diamonds. This gives an ornamental top. Press half the su- gar over top of ham, add half the pineapple juice and water. Cover Bake slowly one hour. Baste fre- quently. Add rest of ingredients and bake one and one-half hours or until ham is very tender.
 Crowned Pineapple Rings
 Six slices canned pineapple; three tablespoons butter; one-half cur brown sugar; one-half cup pine apple juice; one-half teaspoon cin. namon; one-eighth teaspoon salt.
 Heat butter in frying pan, ado and brown pineapple. Add rest O ingredients. Simmer for 25 minute or until pineapple is very tendel and well glazed. Turn frequent. to allow even cooking.
 Spring Cakes
 One-half cup butter; one cul sugar: two-thirds cup milk: on teaspoon vanilla: one-quarter tea
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-03
INDUSTRY CHIEF, !l!I MAKER ! ! OF SOAP, DIES SUDDENLY
Col. w. C. Procter, Who . Started Wilson in Pol-
 itics, Passes Away

(Continued iron. eage One)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-03

Mining Location Notloes at Elm pire office.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-03
MENUS TODAY
By MRS. ALEXANDER GEORGE PREPARING HAM SUPREME
 Dinner Menu

Ham Supreme Crowned Pineapple Rings Buttered Potatoes EScalloped Turnips
 Bread Butter Spring Cakes Coffee
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-03
Spring Cakes

One-half cup butter; one cup sugar: two-thirds cup milk: one teaspoon vanilla: one-quarter tea spoon almond extract; one-quarter
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-05-03
National Baby Week

Our Infants Department is nearly bursting with everything dedicated to make every baby comfortable, happy and healthy. We have luxuries, necessities, extravagances, ev- erything and anything baby may need, at prices that will please.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-20
Speed-up, Insults,
Spying in B.M.T.
Power Station
By a Subway worker Correspondent

By a Subway Worker Correspondent
BROOKLYN. n. Y.-Here are a
few things that are happening in
the B. NJ. T. power station at 500
Kent Ave. Brooklyn: While the
Company is getting richer every
year. We. the workers Of the com
pany, are getting worse with the
terrific Speed-up and spy system in
the plant.
Engineers and foremen are worse
than the CoSsacks Of the Czarist
Russia. They use such bad man
ners and insult us so, that we have
to DO something to improve our
conditions and destroy this slavery
system.
Workers are told to report to the
office whatever they see or hear
about their fellow workers.
Few around trust their fellow
worker on account of the many
stool pigeons sent by the bosses.
There is no freedom of thought
there.
In the fire room there used to be
seven or eight helpers, but today
three are forced to do the work
Of seven or more men. Those men
who work in the condensers, used
to get from the company waterproof
clothes and boots, but now they
have to buy them themselves.
Notwithstanding the N. r. A, the
watchmen still work 10 hours a
seek We belong to the company
union. In the elections in Deem
Der. the company assigns the
watchers and the officials. They
tell the men to go to vote. not to
ask questions, and to shut up.
Keep your mouth shut" they say,
and so on. The men, afraid Of
losing their Jobs, vote for the bosses
officials.
A BM.T. Slave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-20
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
Cancer of the Esophegus

Middletown Citizen-We cannot
urge you to go to Russia for DR..
I. N. Kazakoff's glandular treat
ment. If you have plenty Of money
and if the radium treatment is not
improving you, there is no reason
why you should not take the trip.
We wish we could go there ourself.
AS far as the scientific value of
the new glandular treatment is
concerned, we regret that we can
not express an opinion on the re-
port of one case, published in the
Times from second hand informa-
ton.
So far, glandular treatment has
failed in cancer. From time to time
a notoriety- physi c "a n
breaks out in the public press with
the announcement that he cured "a
number" of cancer cases by gland
ular extracts or what not; but the
ballyhoo he creates is soon silenced
by facts, leaving a number of bit
terly disappointed and financially
depleted patients. his applies also
to those who report about other
physicians successes" There is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-20

Always news 10 pick up by
dropping I'M at the headquarters
OF the U. c. w. C. Vivid word
movies, newsreels showing how the
Women's Councils become a force
in the neighborhood where they
Develop force, we predict with
assurance, which will be highly
potent in determining the future
economic and social life of
America.
1t seems there's a small market on
Suffer Avenue, near Saratoga, in
Brownsville. In the market is-or
WAS-a vegetable stand, the owner
of which hired several sales-clerks.
Few days ago he got new one.
New worker sold a dimes worth of
fruit to a housewife, who, after
rendering the dime, decided she
wanted something else. New worker
held dime, awaiting her complete
selection of goods.
Another worker" of the stool
pigeon variety, sneaked back to boss
and informed him a dime was about
to be stolen. boss and his aide
ds-camp attacked new worker-in
rear of shop where they thought
themselves unobserVed-and beat
him badly. Worker was taken to
hospital, it was reported.
But woman had witnessed the
beating, spread like wildfre
No time at all until a great crowd
of Workingclass housewives = and
unorganized, mind you-had sur
rounded the vegetable mans stand,
demanding redress for beaten work
er. plenty of excitement. use
your Imagination about the vege-
tables. one or two Of the women
thought worker had been killed. i.
Women's Council 7 of the neigh
borhood held open air meet, telling
of what happened and commencing
workingclass solidarity in defense
of beaten worker, whom they had
failed to find through a checkup of
hospitals, but whom they found at
his home next day: hospital had
bound up his wounds and released
him. He appeared on platform at
another open air meeting by the
Council and, like Mark Twain, as
sured the anxious populace that
reports of his death had been ex-
aggerated.
The vegetable man, naturally, is
out of the market. One woman was
arrested "disorderly conduct" of
course-when crowd of angry wom-
en- surrounded stand. She's out
On $500 bail Members of Council
will aid in her defense.
And Discrimination Against Foreign
Germ Kids Forbidden in Red Hook!
Council 81 of Red Hook discovered
that discrimination was being prac-
Used in selection of kids to be sent
to Charity Camps. Selection is
made through schools Red Hook
population mostly foreign born
many Spanish yet selections we're
made on basis of one foreign born
kid to nine native. Council sent
delegation to principal of school,
forcing him to register all kids re-
CARELESS of nationality.
Council 81 is trying among others
to finance trip to camp for a couple
of kids. Councils having member
ship in better circumstances try to
help those having utterly impover-
lshed membership They find that
even when arrangements are made
10 send the kids, the youngsters are
practically naked, SO they have to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-20
SHORTCOMINGS IN THAEL-
MANN MEETINGS.


On July rally was held in
the Needle Trades Market, 36th st.
and 9th Avenue, for the freedom Of
Ernst Thaelmann.
understand this meeting was
held under the auspices of Section
2 Of the Communist Party.
However, while great interest
was expressed by the workers, the
meeting did not accomplish its full
task.
There was not a single pamphlet
on faScism. AS a matter of fact
there was no literature at all. There
were no Daily Workers, no Thael-
mann postcards. The workers were
eager to learn more about the stu
alton than they could hear in the
IS minute talk. There was not any
sign on the platform to indicate
what kind of a meeting was being
held. There was actually no COM
mittee that could make any or
ganizational gains from this i'm
portant rally.
Such Reorganization must not be
repeated at other meetings.
L. L., NEW YORK.
The issue raised in the above
letter is of basic Importance to
the work of the Party in pene-
trating the masses, not only In
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-20
How Dining Car
Waiter Paid Penn.
R. R. for Working
BY a R. R. Worker Correspondent

BY r. R. Worker Correspondent
LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Vt.
r. johnson, waiter. leaving on train
129 from New York to Washington.
paid the Penn for the privilege of
working.
He lay down in Washington for 4
days and was even refused food
for one day For the days it cost
him Csc. a night for sleeping, or ST.
On the run down he made 15c.
tip. Working time was 4 hours and
so minutes, 90c. Out of this he has
to pay for the 75c. month relief
and the 10 per cent cut.
The sign-out man in Washington
sent him on train as It'll man.
The steward refused him and wrote
on his slip: Am very sorry. This
man deserves something good. I
have a 7th man"
Our conditions are getting worse
and worse because we haven't got
any organization to put up a fight
against the Penn.
johnson ought to get his dollar
back that he paid for sleeping over.
We ought to get our protecting time
back and straight time for dead
heading day or night. We have to
stop supporting the Penn with our
Csc. per night for sleeping quarters.
We want to be fed by the Penn when
we lay over out of town.
Let's get together in groups and
join the Brotherhood of Dining Car
Cooks and Walters and make it our
fighting union. We go in there and
put up fight for our conditions
We must get leaders who fight.
SUNNYSIDE YARDS WAITER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-20
BY H. S.

CHICAGO, Ill.-Gradually push
ing aside the lsgalistic restrictions,
which have kept them at the mercy
OF their employers and their servile
union officials, workers on the Chi
cago and Northwestern Railroad are
developing a movement against lay
offs. declaring that the right to
work stands above the profit de-
mands of the railroad stock and
bondholders.
A few weeks ago the Railroad
Brotherhoods Unity Movement, re-
alizing that mass lay-offs were ap-
preaching, issued a leaflet to the
men on the Northwestern, warning
them to mobilize their forces and
unite around a program to protect
their jobs.
Many workers thought we we're
crying wolf" but sure enough it
was only a week later that lay-off
notices were posted on the bulletin
boards on the Northwestern. One
sweeping order furloughed 5000
men, while the union leaders did
not move a finger to rouse the
workers into militant action to pro-
tect their jobs.
But a wave of anger swept the
shops. Lodge 915 of the Interna-
tional Association of Machinists de-
cided to elect a delegation TO visit
their brother Lodge 478, to propose
joint action for a mass meeting TO
protest these lay-offs and develop
a campaign for the sixhour day.
a campaign for the six-hour day.
tically accepted and ATS in addition
proposed a parade.
These proposals, while a sign of
militancy, showed that the rank
and file leaders were still under the
influence of their top officialdom,
who had taught them that the
right of the railroads to hire and
fire was sacred. The proposal for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-20

come across. From beginning to
end it serves every purpose of the
company, and does absolutely
nothing for the men. 1t contains
an open strikebreaking, anti-union
clause.
To the eternal credit of the I.RT.
men it is fact that they are
showing determined resistance to
the adoption of this signed wage
cut" Every form of pressure is
being applied to these men in an
effort to bully and itimidate them
into signing application cards au-
thorizing the company to make the
necessary deductions from their
measly pay.
The Henry Dubbs' of the I.R.T.
that is, the foremen. trainmas-
tiers, inspectors, etc.-are being used
by the company to apply pressure
upon the men. Men are told, IF
you don't sign you will have to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-20
Pacific Electric
Offers Crumbs AS
Wage Restoration
BY a Pacific Electric Worker
Correspondent


LOS ANGLES, Collaborating to
stories by officials. the railroads
are in a sorry plight. Among the
Sorriest, according to this story, is
the Southern Pacific. It is practic-
ally on the rocks, so to speak, in
spite of the $4,000 900 profit in 1898
covered in the books by "deprecia-
ton of equipment'O and the addi-
tional loan of $4,000 900 the same
year of the peoples money from the
R. F. C. Perhaps its most impor-
tant subsidiary, the Pacific Electric
is characteristic cross-section of
the conlpany's business.
The P. E. is the largest electric
interurban line in the world, oper-
ating daily over 1900 miles of track
age. Its extensive freight service
which includes nearly all of San
Fernando Valley and large portion
of San Gabriel Valley. In 1929 the
company was, according to its own
statement, barely breaking even. AS
a result Mr.. A. T. MERCER was inn
ported, to cut expenses ito the
bone"
With no regard to promises,
service was cut numerically, leaving
in some cases only the franchise
runs. 1t was estimated that this
act alone decreased the operating
expense nearly 10 per cent, mostly
through dismissing employees, AS
the next step, 10 per cent was cut
from the wage rate of all remaining
employees.
Then, men who had been getting
10 hours work daily, six days per
week, were cut to three or four
days per week. Next came another
pay cut. Five per cent straight
seemed little drastic, so all workers
receiving more than 500 for a given
month were cut per cent of their
total salary, with the proviso that
no salary Of 500 or above could be
reduced below 500.
Various cuts after that brought
the standard down to approximately
20 per cent less pay per hour, so
per cent fewer hours per week, and
an average of about 60 per cent of
the previous total number of men
employed. This brought the oper-
ating down to level at least 70
per cent lower than it was in 1929.
When the Brotherhood unions
made their requests for more money,
the company offered, after five
months elaboration, a and half
per cent increase, in the early part
of this year This was not accepted.
Now comes a headline in the
capitalist press that the P. E. has
increased wages 5 per cent. In
fact, wages were increased 2 and a
half per cent. Probably the reason
for the 5 per cent announcement
was the fact that the nation wide
sellout agreement of the Brother
hoods with the steam roads calls
for another 2 and a half increase
next January.
This agreement, to which the Paci-
fic Electric is not party unless it
feels inclined to be in order to avert
union organization among it's men,
calls for pay restoration of 10 per
cent by April, 1885, as "compro-
mise" when the original agreement
with the Brotherhoods was to re-
store this cut last January.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-20

join and that it was very easy to
make new men out of the employees
by firing them and taking them
back again. He said this while talk
ing to men who would not Join
at the both st. terminal.
When asked why men had to
subscribe 3 per cent of their paw
according to the rate men got be-
fore the 10 per cent cut, he said,
On the books you get the old rate
OF pay. We have to take the per
cent according to that"
AS you know says Crosse. st
was not the company who gave
you the 10 per cent cut. Mr.. He'd
ley was very much against the cut.
1t was the receivers
think more publicity should
have been gotten out dealing with
the pension as the company off,
Gals and the Brotherhood people
are rushing around forcing the men
to join, although it is stated that
we have three months to think
the matter over.