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The daily worker., 1934-07-16

SA ANnASoN ouA fCy, ouD4illb-
ted yesterday by a supposedly i'm
partial committee hand-picked by
Mayor LaGuardia, confirms beyond
question of doubt the treacherous
role of Mayor LaGuardia against
the taxi drivers. 1T represents the
continuation of LaGuardia's policy
IN the last two general strikes in
which he completely BETRAYED his
pledges to the taxi drivers to re-
turn the 5 cent tax in February and
dared to offer them company
union under the infamous auto pact
in April.
These two great betrayals by a
supposed friend of the hackmen,
who wen their vote during the last
elections on the fake promises of
improving their conditions, have
not been forgotten. LaGuardia's
treachery has burned deeply into
the hearts and minds of the hack
men.
New Attack on Drivers
To-day the Mayors Commit
tee iomeS forward with an
other masterpiece of demagogy.
containing the most bitter attack
on the taxi drivers. In issuing this
report, LaGuardia hopes to be able
to whitewash his former betrayals
and to bolster up his prestige so
that he may again mobilize the
hackmen'S vote in the coming cleo
tions.
THE Mayors report presents a
damning picture of the intolerable
conditions under which $1,000 taxi
drivers are. compelled to toll in New
York City. 1t is a living vindiation
for the heroic strike struggles of
February and April. But how does
LaGuardia's S committee propose to
improve the lot of the hackmen?
Proposes Starvation Minimum
While admitting the plight of
the taxi drivers, the report has the
audacity to recommend the starva-
tion minimum wage of $12 a week
on the ground that the fleet owners
are victims of competition and loss
in profits. The taxi drivers cannot
and will not submit to the degrada-
ton of their conditions to such a
level and declare that the fleet own
ers have built up powerful in
duStry on their sweat and toll and
must be compelled to provide liy-
ing wage for the hackmen. Did not
baGuardia himself make this state
ment in the February strike? His
deceit and demagogy are now clear
to the drivers, but the fact remains
that General Motors and the fleet
owners as a whole have piled up
millions in rrofits and can we'll af-
ford to provide a decent minimum
standard.
THE report proposes to keen the
hack bureau In the hands of the
Police Department in order to
strengthen its authority over the
drivers. It therefore gives official
sanction to the brutality and vi
ci9usneSs of the bureau which has
for years left the men completely
at the mercy of the fleet owners
and has served as an axe over their
heads. Not only are the police to
have greater powers of discrimina-
ton and persecution, but the estab-
lisfment of the Boston card system
is recommended which will set up
the most comprehensive system OF
blacklisting yet devised In any in
dustry in the country. BY this
means they hope to drive out OF
the industry the militant fighters in
the taxi drivers interests and deny
ICaoafi.n1axI a.a. pnnn. y
The daily worker., 1934-07-16
PAINTERS MEET TONIGHT

A meeting of local No. of the
Alteration Painters Union will be
held tonight at 1900 Coney Island
Ave- Elections of new officers will
take place.
The Kusko times., 1934-12-08
MCGRATH GIRL HAS UNUSUAL
 OCCUPATION.

An unusual occupation for women is that followed by Miss Helen Koe- nig, of McGrath, who has contract for servicing the planes of McGee Airways and several independant flyers. She also checks and handles all freight carried by the planes.
 Clothed in brooches and blazer she goes about her work quite natur- ally, handling a case of gasoline or sack of flour as easily as most men,.
 During the summer when part of the planes use pontoons and land on the river and others on the river bars she uses a. small outboard motor boat for transporting the freight and oil. In winter she uses dog team.
 In cold weather it is part of her duties to warm up the engines for the pilots. It is not unusual to see her out in the first faint streak of dawn with the mercury at 30 or 40 below, tending the fire pots with which the planes are warmed.
 Helen is part Eskimo and proud of it, slender, graceful and just eighteen.
 She finished the elementary school grades at McGratth and is carefully saving her money for course at Fairbanks College, after which she would like to be flyer.
 Miss Koenig has been to the coast but much prefers the interior and cares not at all to see the great out side. That she is efficient and re- liable is plainly shown by the non- chalant manner the pilots reach out and initial her slips with scarcely a second glance.
The Kusko times., 1934-12-08
ADVENTUROUS AMERICAN OF
 A CENTURY AGO.

Among some Mayan relics recent ly brought back from Central Am erica and placed in the Metropolitan museum in New York City was an old pistol. It is an old muzzle loader said to have belonged to William Walker, American soldier of fortune, whose exploits thrilled the world nearly 100 years ago. Walker, a Tennesscan, was successfully doc tor, lawyer, editor, soldier and ad- venturer. As glamorous as any fig ure in a novel, he. led an army of 200 men as adventurous as himself into sthe country overcoming the government and established himself president. He was president in name only, ruling the little country with an iron hand and leving tri bute until rebellion aided by near by Guatamela overthrow his govern ment and captured Walker. He was executed by a firing squad in 1860, the usual fate of frcebooters.
The Kusko times., 1934-12-08
WHAT DO PHYSICIANS DIE OF?

A record of 2,354 deaths of med ical practitioners in the United States in 1883 shows the average age at which death occurred was 64.4 years, as told by the Journal of the American Medical Associa- tion. Two doctors lived to be 100, 46 reached 90 or more, 357 died be- tween 60 and GA. A toal of 450 died before reaching 50. Thirty-o passed on between the ages of 25 and 29. Heart disease which took 1,131, was the chief cause of death. Next came cerebral hemorrhage which was fatal to 360; pneumonia, 313; cancer, 286 and arterial scler- osis, PAS. There were 70 suicides and 10 homocides. Of the 3,354, 83 were women
The Kusko times., 1934-12-08

President Wilson used to find great pleasure in relating how he once had his special car sidetracked at Hannibal, Mo-, so that he might make quiet pilgrimage to the mon- ument erected on the bluffs to Mark Twain. Unknown to the nat ives, he asked one of them if he re- membered Tom Sawyer.
 "Never heard of him." the Mis- sourian made answer.
 Do you recollect Hucklcberry Finn?" asked the president.
 "Finn? Finn?" unused the native. "There was family of Films down the road apiece but I don't think there was Huckleberry among'em."
 Do you happen to recall Pud- dinhead Wilson?"
 "Oh, yes, sure, I voted for him twice, suh!"--Cappsr's Weekly.
The Kusko times., 1934-12-08
PREDICTS BOOM IN MINING IN
 TERRITORY FOR 1885.

J. H. Wheeler, president of the White Pass and Yukon Route, who has just returned to his home in Seattle after spending the summer months as usual at Skagway, be- ieves InterioraAlaska%and the Yukon Territory will be invaded next year by an army of miners and prospect ors and that next spring will wit ness a renewal of the gold fever of the Klondike days.
 Through the supplying of equip ment and supplies, Seattle will play an important part in the intensive revival of placer mining in the North next year," MT. Wheeler said to the Alaska Weekly, land in that section. The new and higher price of gold gives the miner double break, for it has occurred without being caused by boom and when the cost of supplies is not excessive and the miner secures an increased of more than TO per cent for his labor. Another important factor in the development of placer operations is the cold water thawing process, givng low cost of preparation as compared with the old method of using wood fires to thaw promising ground. The water thawing method makes it possible to- work gravel
The Kusko times., 1934-12-08
ALASKA COLLEGIANS DISCUSS
 ESKIMO DIET.

The College is becoming Eskimo conscious" since the return of the St. Lawrence Archaeological Expedi- tion. When conversation llags in the dormitory dining room, one of the
 Islanders can usually liven it up oy telling how the Eskimos live. The most natural dinner topic is that of food, but whoever brought up the subject of Eskimo food habits may have regretted it before the Island err finished. At any rate the re- porter gleaned some interesting facts from the discourse.
 Eskimos have been greatly af- fected in their diet by the coming of the white man, according to members of the expedition. Strong black tea is served at every meal and old and young are equally fond of it. It is not unusual to hear little children crying for "kaya" which in their language means tea. Pilot bread and baking powder bis cults are especially relished, for it isc seldom that they are obtained. Perhaps the lady of the house viii get really ambitious and make batch of tasty doughnuts, using baking powder, flour and water, which she mixes and makes into little round balls that cooked in seal oil. The Eskimos consider this a great delicacy which is to be in dulged in not more than once year Some of the wealthier people are able to obtain rice, raisins, and can- ned fruit, but not often.
 Their main food is meat, mainly that of the walrus or mangona as it is known to them. This they eat either cooked or dried. Dried walrus is eaten by dipping the meat first in bowl of blubber oil. Whale meat is eaten in much the same fashion except that they relish the portion directly below the skin, <' sort of a slimy, greasy substance. This is eaten directly after the kill ing of the whale which is always the occasion of great feast.
 In the summer they break the monotony of their diet by obtaining bird eggs and later in the season young auklets, seagulls and cormor- ants. They eat a little reindeer meat but do not much care for it, prefer ring walrus and whale.. Strange as it may seem, fish does not enter In as an important food. Always meat comes first and only when it is scarce does the Eskimo resort to sea foods.- -Farthest-North Collegian.
The Kusko times., 1934-12-08

Scotland Yard of London reports it has made 100000 identifications by the fingerprint system in the last 30 years without a single er- TOT being recorded. Fingerprints may be accepted as infallible evil. lence of Identification, Scotland Yard officials declare, as there is no known instance in the world his- tory where two prints of different persons have been exacly alike.
The Kusko times., 1934-12-08

After trying for an hour to get his old car started, James Duncan, Brandon, Manitoba, was so mad he picked up an axe and with it's flat side struck the engine blow hard enough to shatter it. It barely made a dent in the surface but to Duncan's amazement when he tried the starter the next time the motor began pu'rring and has been run ming perfectly ever since. Now Duncan carries the axe in the car with him wherever he goes.
The Kusko times., 1934-12-08

Customer-I want to buy three potted geraniums.
 Florist-Wc have no geraniums but I can give you chyrsanthemums.
 Customer-Chrysanthemums won't do. These plants are to replace some geraniums I promised my wife to water while she was away.-Path- finder.
The Kusko times., 1934-12-08

A. H. Twitchell is at present res pairing the telephone line between here and McGrath. There has been no communication between Takotna and McGrath since the storm on Wednesday when the line was blown down.
The Kusko times., 1934-12-08

beds in few hours.
 Reports from all sections of the Yukon and Alaska indicate that hun dreds of old time miners will rehurn to the mining game in the North next spring"
The Kusko times., 1934-12-08

John Beaton arrived in town dur ing the week, from Yankee creek. MT. Beaton is now waiting for a plane to return him to Flat from where he intends to~ leave for the outside shortly.
The Kusko times., 1934-12-08

Owen Gray, Canes, spent several days in town during the week.
The Kusko times., 1934-12-08
TABLE OF DISTANCE BE-
 TWEEN NENANA AND FLAT

Niles Nenana .--------------.----------.--... 00 Tavern Roadhouse .-..-.. TIA Knights Roadhouse .-...--. 23h Ninteen-Mile Roadhouse .--..-. 58 Roosevelt Roadhouse .-.-..--.-. S9 Lake Minchumina ...-.. 115 Trapper's Cabin ..--...--...--..---.---.. 132 Lone Sstar Roadhouse .--.... 151 Telida Roadhouse ......---..-.-. 1691s Slow Fork Roadhouse .----.. 187 East Fork Roadhouse ..-......... 206 Berry's Landing Roadhouse -------. z27 Big River Roadhouse .--... 241 McGrath ---...--.---...-.---..~.-..----..- 2'3 Takotna ..........-............ 28O Bill Goss' Roadhouse 291 Ophlr SOU McCafferty 300 Brown Creek shelter cabin .... SIS Fritz shelter cabin ..--...-....---..... 338 First Chance shelter cabin ..------ 346 Sshermeyer R. H. ...-.....----......----- S60 Flat ...........-....- 384 Bonanza shelter cabin, 12 miles fron
 Flat.
 Crooked Creek shelter cabin, 10 miles from Bonanza.
The Kusko times., 1934-12-08
OPH1R
November 24.

November 24.
 Waino Puntilla, and Robert Jaque- mai here on business concerning transfers of mining property. Robert Jaquemai having finished .hia. summers work on Spruce creek moved to Little creek to prospect his ground there this winter. Eric Hard arrived from Tolstoi and left by plane for Takotna. Ali Greenberg went by plane to Cripple.
 John J. Geskey, who is prospecting his ground on Niggerhead Bench, on Canes, was in Ophir the 26th. Max Simel, mail carrier, arrived from Tolstoi by dog team the 18th and left on the 18th.
 J., M. Howard
The Kusko times., 1934-12-08

Eric Hard arrived from Tolst' and left by plane for Takotna.
The Kusko times., 1934-12-08

Ed Adams, A. R. C., with Curly Anderson and John McCIung, is en- gagged in repairing the winter trail to McGrath.
The Kusko times., 1934-12-08

Ed Nolette of Yankee is in town on businesss-
The Kusko times., 1934-12-08

Ali Greenberg went by plane t. Cripple.
The Kusko times., 1934-12-08

Lee Lamprecht came in from Yan- ke, Tuesday, and will remain at his home here for some weeks.
The Kusko times., 1934-12-08
TAKOTNA

Louis Laskey, N. c. manager, made brief business trip to town during the week.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-28

I of normal feed requirements and
compulsory rationing is a posi-
/ biity. :. .
The federal emergency relief
: administration is charging grants
to states for water and food re-
lief. expanding its work program
I in drouth states, and launching a
great campaign which will en-
ploy tens of thousands OF dis
tressed rural folk at roofing IN
the fields for stubble and weeds
badly needed for forage.
RESERVE BEING BUILT
! Its federal surplus relief cor
poration kills and cans $4,000
head of cattle a day to build up
a reserve for needy unemployed
against winter, when meat prices
will scoot up, and to protect the
rest of us from even higher prices
which that reserve will prevent.
The farm credit association,
working with $100,0OO,OOO from
the congressional grant - which
isn't enough-lends for seed,
feed. summer following, ETC.,
while trying to see that the gov
eminent pays enough for cattle
to protect its existing loans.
The citizens conservation corps
has turned its tools to drOuth
work in a program for which 1t
already has received $20,OO0,O0O.
The commodity credit cor
poration is advancing S10,000,OOO
=, of RFC money to finance pur
chase and orderly holding and
marketing of hides, easing the
present market glut, averting a
subsequent certain shortage, and
turning some over to FSRC for
processing into relief shoes.
But to get a more detailed pic
! ture of the activities directed
from Washington, come down to
the big building housing the de-
ipartment of agriculture and the
AAA. when the executive staff
and at least dozen bureaus and
committees are working hard on
the drouth.
SEED BOUGHT IN HUGE LOTS
The AAA commodity purchase
section direct sthe cattle buying
at a rate of 10000 a day for
federal surplus relief corporation
canning and shipment to pasture
and has purchased 100000
bushels of wheat, durum, oats,
and barely for seed, with more
to come, including some from
Canada.
! The departments extension
i service, with it's county agents
Everything and alliances with
agricultural colleges, plays gen.
eral role in all operations, aiding
livestock purchases, exchanging
information between Washington
and farmers, and reporting on
need and availability of pasture
in dozens of states.
The bureau of animal indus
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-28
Seeks BarteII, Lindstrom

TERRY is said to have offered the
Phillies a half dozen players,
including Johnny Vergez, Blondy
Ryan. Frank 0'Doul, Homer Peel,
and George Grantham for the pep.
perry shortstop. Dick Bartell. Peel
and Grantham went to Nashville as
requirements for Weintraub and
/ Leiber.
Terry is believed to have given
up on Eergez. who is hitting only
.2lO, and has to straighten up to
throw. Roam definitely is an ALI
America out. Terry tells you that
/ O'Doul has slowed up, and no
longer can play regularly
Because he feels that Freddie
Llndstrom now has the managerial
bee out Of his bonnet, Terry would
like to bring the Pittsburgh out.
helder back to the Giants, and use
him at third base, where. he for.
Imerly starred.
Billy Myers. for whom the Giants
are reported to have given the
Cardinals Columbus branch sos. 900
and two players. is to get a thor
Ough trial at shOrtstOp next spring.
\ III he makes the hill. Travis Jack.
son will be switched to the far
turn. where Stoney will go sooner
or later i'll order to prolong hi;
brilliant career
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-28
HOOKS; 80
! and SLIDES
BY BILL BRRuCHER

CT. LOUIS. - Bill Terry, seldom
~ wrong. has an idea that Babe
Ruth will manage the Yankees next
season. with Colonel Rupert pay
Ing Joe Mccarthy $4,000 in fulfill
ment OF the third and last year of
his contract, and sending him away
from there.
Terry makes it unanimous by as
serting that the New York Amer
leans would make a grave mistake
M not retaining Ruth as a bay-er
show window. il nothing else.
But baseball men point out that
Ruth, the pinch-hitter, quickly
would take on the general dimen-
sionS Of a barrel on stills. In the
cast few years il has been difficult
enough for the BAN to keep down
TO playing weight as regular. and
his figure hasn't been anything
iglphlike.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-28

try's agents decide which animals
are fit to ship. Gull herds and
save bulls which will preserve the
best strains. They have visited
more than 100000 farms, checked
more than 100000 head OF
cattle, and okayed more than s.,
100000 for purchase, certified
$4,000 carloads = about two
third of the purchased animals
for shipping and condemning or
moving the rest. The bureau also
inspects the FSRC's canned meat.
MAKE FEED SURVEY
The national livestock feed
committee appointed by Wallace
lis making a national survey of
| the location of available feed and
| forage supplies, including corn
I stalks and wheat straw Hay and
: other feed will be bought. some
to be given to FERA for penni-
less farmers and some to be held
held for sale, while commercial
agencies are encouraged to con-
serve supplies for later emerg-
ency.
The bureau of plant industry
isolates grain seed in areas where
| it might otherwise all be sold on
the market and holds it for next
year, to see that seed best
adapted for given areas will then
be available for those areas. 1t
has S25, 100000 for that.
| The forest service is planning
Its great S100,0O0,000 shelter
belt of trees, to run 1000 miles
through the plains states for fu-
ture protection. A field office
has been opened in Lincoln, Neb.,
and work will begin as soon as
organization is complete, to at,
ford further emergency relief
through employment.
SOIL CONDITIONS .CHECED
The bureau of chemistry anC
soils is helping the forest serv,
/ ice, as well as. checking soil con,
dition through the drouth area.
The weather bureau; still an
other department of agriculture
agency, prepares especially daily
reports for Wallace on rainfall
and temperatures over the coun
| try.
| The bureau of agricultural
economics provides vitality impor
tant information on the status o:
all crops, drouth conditions, farm
! prices. food and feed supplies
! the foreign drouth situation, AM
! SO on. Daily information pour
in by telephone and telegraph.
The bureau of agricultural en-
cheering tackles the seriou
drouth conditions in irrigate
areas.
The bureaus of home economic
figures out the most economics
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-28
Dean Worth 100000

TERRY puts Dizzy Dean i'm a mu-
scum setting by declaring him
10 be worth 100000. While the
Giants would dig deep for Dean,
their manager does not believe they
could afford to pay what the Car
dinalS would as! were the Okla.
homan on the market.
III the Cubs gave S125.000 for
Chuck Klein. whom l never con,
sidered a great ball PLAYER. Dean
IS worth 100000" remarked Terry.
: The Efficient guide OF the Giants
attributes the Dean brothers diff
Guilty with Frank Frisch and the
St. Louis club to 100 many bosses.
Sam Breadon. Branch Hickey. and
-Frisch each has a say i'll the direc
ton OF the Red Birds.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-28

ways of shifting from high-priced
foods to other foods, with the
relative energy and protein con-
tents.
CONSUMERS SAFEGUARDED
And the consumers counsel of
AAA, through the widely circu-
lated consumers guide and pub
lie statements. posts consumers
on price changes, enables them to
distinguish between fair and I'M
fair increases, checks their COM
plants and reports them to other
agencies for action and tells
housewives what they can do To-
cally to protect themselves against
gouging.
There are other drouth agen-
cies under Wallace-such as the
emergency drouth relief service,
which tells farmers how to make
poor fodder more palatable for
cattle and things like that. No
body can keep track of them all.
Though the emergency drouth
set-up has been remarkably eff
fective, more coordination was
needed, so a general committee
in charge of drouth relief has
just been named.
Meanwhile, the AAA, while de-
voting most of its attention to
the drouth, is planning for the
future what it hopes will be a
balanced, planned American agri-
culture.
BENEFIT PAYMENTS HUGE
Benefit payments this year will
be about $50O,000,0 900, mostly in
drouth states, and it confidently
predicts a big increase in national
farm income for 1884 despite the
drouth, the impoyerishment of
nobody knows how many farm
ers, and the uncertainty about
next year.
Private industry has supple
mented the huge federal drouth
program. Instances include the
reduction of railroad rates on
hay, feed, and cattle movements,
loan by oil men of a huge pipe
line to carry 100000 or more gal
Ions of water a day into parts
of the drouth area, donation by
California peach growers to FSRC
of peaches which were to- have
been left to rot on trees, and an
offer by the national food and
grocery distributors code author
ity to help stop profiteering.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-28

bringing reinforcements from Co.
lumbus or Rochester, clubs fight.
ing for the pennant in their re.
spectiye leagues" explains Terry.
The Cardinals losses are made
up by what is earned in Column
bus and Rochester"
Rickey'S chain store system
now is serving a purpose other
than what it was cut out for. The
children now support the parent,
through sales as we'll as gate re-
CeiptS.
When business conditions i'm
prove, if ever, Terry suggests
that the st. Louis National
League franchise be transferred
to Detroit. Newark is the place
for ii, he adds, but the difficulty
with that would be an unbalanced
circuit,