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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-01-16
The Lighthouse Service.
New York Times

Included in the annual report of the Secretary
of Commerce is account of progress in the
Lighthouse Service. The ninth law enacted by the
first Congress, on August 9, 1889, provided for
organization to maintain lighthouses. The Colonies
had built a considerable number of these aids to
navigation The Boston Light had been in operation
since 1716. Lighthouse keepers had to be men OF
character, willing to endure solitary life and ready
to put up with hardships Ebenezer Skiff, who tend
enjoyed salary of $50 year, and found it not
enough. He complained that cleaning the light
glass when storms covered it with "clay and oker
burdensome, especially in Winter, and carting
his drinking water with horse and wagon from
spring mile away took up too much of his time
He asked for raise" and President jefferson,
who read his humble application, cheered him up
by advancing his pay to $3.50
They were queer chaps these lighthouse keep
ers. One at Buzzards Bay required inspector
to wear felt slippers over his shoes ito keep the
stairs clean" At Isle Royal Lighthouse on rock
of Lake Superior keeper had obtained his post by
agreeing to marry, with the result that his wife
brought twelve children into the world. Appoint
ments used to go by political favor until in 1896
Grover Cleveland put the lighthouse people into the
civil service. light-keeper the Columbia River
had only two days off in twenty three years, and
on of these days he got married. A hard life,
but it developed sturdy race.
This latest report is devoid of such simple tales
1t deals mainly with improvements, increased use
of radio electric lighting radio beacons automatic
gas signals and economy of operation. One is fas-
cinated by the names of lighthouse tenders-Sumac
Myrtle Hickory, Pansy Tulip, Cypress Tamarack
and Hollyhock. Most of them have radio COM
passes. Radio telephones have been installed Many
cases of Efe-saving reported. Cost of MAIN
tenance $11,159,928.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-01-16
MARSHAL WHITE RETIRES.

After almost eight years in office, Albert White
yesterday retired as United States Marshal for the
First Division Of Alaska. 1t said of him when
he was nominated by President Coolidge that he
was not an Alaskan, that he resident of and
voter in Idaho, and that ground his confirmation
was opposed, without success. Mr. White had been
Alaskan for many years prior to that time, a
large property and than ordinarily
public minded citizen of his home town, Valdez
Whatever justice there might have been in the
nonresident criticism, time and his voluntary
actions have removed all cause. He has, since
coming here, invested his savings in local real and
personal property. He owns his own home. He is
opening law office here. In this manner those
who put carpetbag in his hands when he came
to Juneau have been proved to be unwise prophets.
He is staying on to do his part in making Juneau
better, more prosperous community
Marshal Whites administration has had its critics
and its defenders Under the most aucpicious cir
cumstances this would have been the case And
those attending his coming were not suspicious. He
appointed over local candidates and against
the protests of local Republican politicians During
all of his tenure, except the last few weeks the
Prohibition law was in force and as head of the
Federal Governments largest and most effective law
enforcement system, he had to bear part of the
storm that beat around efforts to enforce that
noble" but unfortunate experiment"
We believe, however, that most people who came
into contact with him and his office will agree
that he has made good Marshal He made mis-
takes. That is the way of human beings. But he
was broad in his viewpoint. He proved on many
occasions he could be saunch friend. Politically
minded, he played that game hard and with much
eni husiasm. He is Republican to the and will
CONTINUE to be AS Divisional Committeeman fol
his party here he will add to the zest of life fol-
the Democrats in the next few years.
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Alaska and Siberia.
anchorage T'iiles.)

Alaska will do well to keep in mind her big
neighbor, Siberia.
Alaska a part of the United States, and
Siberia as part of Russia, the two big contact
territories of the two great nations which have
recently absolved their abnormal relations and
resumed their ancient friendship
Alaska and Siberia may be said to have good
deal in common. They have similar climates similar
resources and largely similar local problems Both
are richly endowed with minerals timber fisheries
and fur bearing animals.
Russia has fought to conquer Arctic conditions
for generations and her influence this part of
the world is evident here to the extent that small
percentage of the earlier settlers Russian and
the Orthodox Greek Church still exists in Alaska
lin its original form.
The Russians discovered and opened the great
seaeries in possession of Alaska, and were the
first to exploit Aaskas fur resources and establish
settlements in this part of the world. Sitka was
la thriving capital and shpbuiding and manu-
featuring center long before the prows of Spanish
ships carried the first settlers to California, and
bells manufactured in early Sitka have changed for
generations from the steeples of many Pacific mis-
sions north and south
| Americans have forged ahead in the science of
mining and in exploitation of the resources of Alaska
They have developed placer and other mining
in Alaska far beyond the Russians have opened their
fisheries far greater scale. Many Americans
years ago onged to invade Siberia for placer gold
For years they traded with the people of Siberia
] Now that new treaty has been formed between
Russia and America Americans may find new oppor-
tunites in Siberia. 1t will be well for the members
of Congress and Others and particularly those safe
guarding the interests of Alaska to work toward the
establishment of friendly and advantageous re-
lations between Alaska and Siberia ash is possible
Residents OF Nome already are reportded keen to
trade opportunities in Siberia Visions of round the
world airway routes via Russia and Alaska are also
being brought to mind now by aviation projects
These two great territories may soon be the contact
point of great airways service between the old
world and the new.
! Whatver may be the developments, Alaska should
not be asleep to the position of Siberia and should
be alert to that the interests of this Territory
be adequately safeguarded and promoted fully as
possible along friendly lines
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with apparatus in the city streets instead of the
laboratory DR. Chrstman's method was announced
in the Journal of Biological Chemistry
Previous methods took more time to work out
and involved equipment and skill seldom found out
side of the larger hospitals and college laboratories
Carbon monoxide asphyxaton, not because
oxygen cannot be drawn into the lungs with air,
but the gas displaces normal oxygen in the carrier
cells of the blood and prevents oxygen from being
transported about the body. The cells take oxygen
going from the lungs and bring back carbon doxide
on the return trip Oxygen displace COZ but
cannot drive out carbon monoxide. The result is
that one may die of lack of oxygen just as surely
as though the throat closed
In DR.. Chrstman's test the dissolved gases of
the blood are passed through solution of pal
lidium chloride. The resulting compound when
treated with potassium odide, gives red-colored
solution which, by shading of the color as compared
with standard color chart show the proportion of
carbon monoxide present in the original blood
sample
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-01-16

Four Indians recently killed as the result
over dispute arising from game of checkers.
Boy if they ever start playing contract what hap
pens will make the Custer incident sound like a
Sunday school picnic
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-01-16

From all accounts Of the blend whiskey
that is being marketed by distillers in the States
is the best in the world why bootlegging is
still reckoned as major industry
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NEW CARBON MONoxIDE TEST.

Few poison gasses are more dangerous than car
bon monoxide. Where phosgene and wartime gases
have characteristic color, taste and action which
warn everyone of their presence carbon monoxide
is colorless and tasteless.
What makes matters is that carbon
monoxide is given off in the fumes of motor cars
and the fumes of certain chimn.ys when there is
Incomplete combustion. Tests in cities where motor
traffic is heavy indicate that carbon monoxde pos-
oning can and does occur among traffic policemen
and other persons who must work city streets
Science is well aware of the problem and ever
seeking more facts about the poisoning either to
build up preventative measures devise better
diaQnostic tests A new simple test has just been
announced by Dr. A. A. Christman, Of the Depart
ent Of Physiological Chemistry at the University
81 Michigan which has all the accuracy of the older
more complicated methods and yet can be made
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-01-16

Daily Empire yTers Ads Pay!
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everybody is demanding that the bootlegger
be driven out of American life. If this is done
who is going to buy all those imported limousines
twin-screw yachts and Florida palaces-New York
SUM
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-01-16

Would you-or wouldn't you-regard this as the
psychological moment for hen to lay an egg with
the letters standing out in bold relief
on same?-(Macon telegraph
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-01-16
20 YEARS AGO
JANUARY I6, 1917
From The Empire

JANUARY 16, 1914
Stanley Griffiths, head of a her
ring fishing industry, with head
quarters at Yes Bay, said he didn't
agree with the Alaskan fishermen
who heaped )animadversdons on the
heads OF seagulls. He said the gulls
were an aid rather than detri-
ment to the herring industry, as
they save the fishermen more time
in locating a school of herring than
they cost the industry by feeding
on the fish
Lieut.. Glenn e. Edgerton, u. S.
A., member of the Board of Alas
ka Road Commissioners, and the
engineer officer on the board, was
westbOund passenger on the
Mariposa on his way to the West
ward to start construction ON the
Nazina bridge. This bridge was to
furnish better means of getting
into the Nazina mining section
Men and horses we're working on
the rink floor preparing it for the
big race to be held in the evening,
and judging by the speed that both
skaters had shown in trying out,
it was expected to be a tast and
furious race. The winner was to
draw down tidy sum for his
trouble. Those to take part were
Ray Rohrabaugh, of Juneau, and
Van Der Wyer, of Douglas, and
the prize was to be the gate re-
ceipts and 5000 side bet.
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Apparently more people interested in lower
prices for whiskey than in higher prices for gold.
indianapolis News)
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III .44FORBIDDEN VALLEY
l-A1z1eSzss- ~ uJilGnsm 3qnon fsloue,ul

SYNOPSIS. After tracking Igor
KdrdkhGn, International crook
1rIo Is responsible for the death Of
her brother and father. into the
Canadian icflderneSs Sonyd Koikou
fails in her plan 10 shoot him and
Is bound aud gagged Instead. Curt
Tennyson Uho loves Sonyd aud
aodnts to bring Rdrdkltdn to ms
fice as aceH. inst has landed his
plane on the Take near Kdrdkhdn's
cabin. Kdrdkhdn plans to iedce
Sonvd to the "mercies" OF the Tn-
dams icio have guarded him. Curt
sees Smash Despldines lighting
cigarette.
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TELEPHONE DIRECTORY

Advertising copy IS now being
assembled for the new Telephone
Directory of Juneau and vicinity.
Interested parties should commune
cate at once with the Telephone
Office.
JUNEAU AND DOUGLAS
adv. TELEPHONE co.
Evening star., 1934-06-07

at Four Corners; Wheaton VS.. Be-
thesda A. c.. at Wheaton; White
Haven VS.. Cabin John, at Cabin John.
Heurich Brewers, 10-to-4 victors
over Western Electric in their game
dedicating the Brewers new field at
Wisconsin avenue and Upton street,
will swing back into action Saturday,
when they play host to the Police De-
partment nine at 4:30 o'clock.
Heurich's are booking at West 1883
before pm.
Results of games played yesterday:
Controller of Currency, Ia; Weather
Bureau, 2 Federal League.
Union Printers, IA; Navy Yard, 9
Departmental League).
Rayem A. c., 8; Jockey Club, 7.
Sanico, IA Premier Cab, 6 National
Capital League.
Shell, 8: Chestnut Farms, '(Na-
tional Capital League.
Ross jewelers., Is; Thompson's
Dairy, 8.
Games are wanted by the following
teams:
Emergency Works Administration.
Adams 5788.
Soldiers Home, for Saturday. Adams
9l04.
Falls Church, for Saturdays. Falls
Church 434, between 7 and pm.
st. Martins Insects. Call North
5O12-W.
Evening star., 1934-06-07
YOder Has Beaten Pitt.

NNE of the gents who may cause
quite a rumpus in the Colum-
bia affair is Lee Yoder. trans
planted North Carolinian from Lin
vile in the Tarheel State. Yoder has
been around Washington for two
years or more. but has not played in
a tourney. He is capable of quite an
impressive brand of golf. and only re-
Gently gave Harry Pitt a trouncing at
Indian Spring after playing the Five
Farms course In II.
Pitt. former winner of the Ward
man trophy, will be in there trying
to cop the event again. Other out
standing entrants will include Miller
B. Stevinson, home club champion
and winner at least twice of the Co.
lumbia tourney; Gene Vinson. victor
at Chevy Chase; Roger Peacock,
Maryland State title holder, and
Richard Lunn. District champion.
Following the Columbia event most
of the stars will trek over to the
tricky course of the Rolling Road
Golf Club during the week of June 18
to play in the Marylanl State cham
pionship, which found Pitt and Pea
cock battling in the final last year.
with Peacock the winner by virtue of
Evening star., 1934-06-07
LIST IS EXPECTED
TO co ABOVE 400
Yoder, TarheeI, Playing in
First Tournament Here,
May Cut SWath.
TIME largest turnout of anna
l teur golfers around Wash
| ington this year is antici-
u -z41L for @ba iy,uif q finy,


teur golfers around Wash
ington this year is antici-
4 pated for the invitation
tourney of the Columbia Coun-
try Club which will start next
Tuesday over the course on
which the National open cham
pionShip was played back in 1921.
More than $50 entries already have
been corralled by J. P. Darcy Bana-
gan. hard-working assistant pro at
Columbia, and with entries to close
tomorrow night the list is expected
to go we'll above 400, which will make
the Columbia tourney the largest
around Washington this year. The
Chevy Chase tourney had few more
than 300 entries and the Beaver Dam
affair, now in progress. had about
$50 entrants.
Columbias invitation events in past
years have been the biggest golf af-
fairs around the Capital in point of
entry, with the record list having
been achieved back in 1881, when
over 500 entered and played in the
qualifying round.
If any such number enters the
tourney this year the field will be
split into three groups, with Monday
being added to the qualifying days.
Tuesday, June II, and Wednesday,
June Is, already have been set aside
as qualifying days. The tourney this
year is the first invitation event Co
lumbia will have staged in three
years. In 1882 the Middle Atlantic
Golf Association championship was
staged at the time of the invitation
tourney in June of that year and last
year no tournament was held.
Evening star., 1934-06-07
Course Suits Runyan.

VXIITH the exception of the long
wv second and fourth holes,
Merton appears to be made
to order for the slender White Plains
N. Y, links marksman. On those
holes Paul may require three shots
to reach the greens.
Bunched behind Runyan. and with
plenty of takers at 10 to l. was
triumvirate of COLTS old guard-Gene
Sarazen, Walter Hagen and Tommy
Armour, all former titleholders. KY
Laffoon, the tireless Denver shot
maker, elbowed his way into this select
group because of his sparkling prac-
tice rounds as we'll as his perform
ances on the Winter tour
They do not by any means complete
the list of contenders or those with
an outside chance to crash through
the field. There are Denny Shute,
British open champion, who has a
habit of letting his shotmaking speak
for itself Bill Burke and Phil Perkins
of the Cleveland delegation Craig
Wood, the long hitting Jersey pro-
who completed his workouts yesterday
with a So; Mcdonald Smith, Bobby
Cruickshank, Horton Smith, Olin
Dutra, Witty Cox. Johnny Revolta and
Willie Hunter, the former British
amateur who has projected himself
into the front rank of the profess
sional sharpshooters.
Evening star., 1934-06-07
Goodman Retain Open Title Golfers Flock Into Columbia Tourney
he hottest round Of competitive golf

the hottest round Of competitive golf
played around the Capital in 1888.
The Maryland State affair is open
to members Of clubs forming the
State association and will start with
a 36-hole qualification round on June
20, with 80 to qualify. followed by
four lS-hole match rounds, with a
36-hole final.
The tourney at Rolling Road con-
f1icts in dates with the woman's Dis
trict championship. to be played at
Columbia, starting June 18. So that
for two straight weeks Columbia will
be the battle ground for a host of
divot lifters of both sexes, all striving
to equal that elusive par of 10 for the
men and II for the women.
Evening star., 1934-06-07
TIE FOR GOLF TROPHY
Mrs. Clark and Miss Brawner in
Play-off for Herald Cup.

Mrs. David Clark of the Army and
Navy Country Club and Elizabeth
Brawner of Chevy Chase teed off this
morning in the play-of of the fourth
annual Herald Trophy tournament,
for which they tied yesterday.
Mrs. Clark, with only three-stroke
handicap. shot a net II. The Army
and Navy Club star toured the course
in a pair of 40s. Miss Brawner had
a A and As with her 12-stroke
handicap. Mrs. Clark's score was the
lowest ever recorded in a women S
tournament at Manor
Three tied for third place. They
were Mrs. Norman Frost OF Columbia
Miss Nellie Neff of Manor and Mrs
E A Rule of Kenwood, each with TO-
Less than half of the field of 80 COM
pleted play due to the driving rain.
Evening star., 1934-06-07
WOMEN PICK GOLF SITE

KANSAS CITY, June 7 [P).-Direc-
tors of the Woman's Transmississippi
Golf Association have selected the
Omaha Field Club. Ohama. Nebr., as
the scene of the organizations 1885
tournament.
Mrs. c. R. Bangh, Omaha, was
elected president. Other officers: Mrs.
Dean Stacy, Oklahoma City, first vice
president; Aniela ForcZyca, Fort
Worth, Tex, second vice president,
and Mrs. c. r. McCubbin, Kansas
City, third vice president.
Evening star., 1934-06-07
DAILY ARMY CAPTAIN.

WEST POINT, N. Y, June T.
Charles ]. DAILY of Washington, D. c.,
has been elected captain of West
Points tennis team for next year.
Other captains elected are as follows
Golf-John j. Duffy, Pittsburgh
Base ball-John H. Caughey, Belle
vue. Pa. Polo-John K Brown, Cleve-
land. Lacrosse-Robert M Stillman,
Pueblo, Colo. Rifle-John Williamson,
Brooklyn. Pistol-William w. Laps
ley, Selma, Ala.
Evening star., 1934-06-07
62 PAY TO SEE NET PROS
See New England Event Reduced
to Semi-Final Stage.

BROOKLINE, Mass, June 7 (P.
The last of the second-stringers
have been ousted from the New Eng
land professional tennis tournament.
with the singles field reduced to the
semi-fnal stage before So paid
spectators.
Today the stars of the Tilden-
Vines troupe will start their round
robin play with Big Bill opposing
Texan Bruce Barnes and Vines clash
ing with Keith Gledhill, his doubles
partner.
Evening star., 1934-06-07
Would Check Amateurs.

rALL have one idea in mind-to
n capture the title which not only
will mean a rich reward for the
successful pro but check the amateur
tide which, instead of ending with
the regime of the great Bob Jones,
continued to roll on with the triumph
of Goodman at Chicago last year.
The amateur cause has the support
of a crack brigade, including William
Lawson Little, jr., the new British
amateur champion; Gus Moreland,
the always dangerous Texan; tower
ing Johnny Fischer of Cincinnati, and
Howard Creel, left-handed Denver
ace.
Actually the championship resolved
itself into a pitched battle between
determined battery of pros-120 OF
them-against clannish and capable
delegation of 20 amateurs.
From a betting standpoint none OF
the amateurs was given a good chance
Of winning the crown.
Evening star., 1934-06-07

who defeated Mrs. w Smith of Bal
timore yesterday. 4 and 3, was playing
Dorothy London Of Woodholme to-
day.
Mrs. Leo Walper of Manor Club,
only other Washingtonian in the
tourney. was beaten by Mrs. D. c.
Wharton Smith Of Eldridge yesterday,
up.
Evening star., 1934-06-07
Hot Fight Is Certain.

THERE was one thing the rival
forces generally agreed on
that out of what appears to be
one of the hottest championship
fights in years will emerge new scor-
ing record for the 72-hole test. Gene
Sarazen and Chick Evans, veteran
Chicago amateur, Jointly hold the
present mark of 266.
Even an old conservative like Mac
donald Smith freely predicted there's
a good chance that the winning total
will be approximately 284
Mindful of the big galleries which
were on hand in 1880, when Jones
took the last trick in his grand slam,
United States golf officials have en-
gagged State and local constabulary
to marshal the narrow course, which
allows little space for spectators.
Evening star., 1934-06-07

duplicating I IL Z
trick turned by
Bob Jones in 1880,
Indeed. Goodman
was cast much in
the same dark
horse" role that he
occupied last year
at Chicago.
Held down to
two days of prac-
tice, @ o. o d m a n
wasn't quite able
to bring his game
up to champion
ship pitch. He re-
sponded t o t h e
Evening star., 1934-06-07
FENLoN BECOMES COACH.

Johnny Fenlon, former George
Washington foot ball, basket ball and
base ball luminary, has been named
director of athletics at the Fredericks-
burg (Va) High School. He will as
sumo his duties in the Fall.
Evening star., 1934-06-07
WINS REVOLVER MATCH
Moore Shoots Fine Score of 26S
in Club Tournament.

in Club Tournament.
In spite of a high wind, Ed Moore,
shot the fine score of 268 to win the
Spring revolver match fired among
members of the National Capital Rifle
Club on the Camp Simms range.
Raymond Davis, sr., was second, and
B. F. Bean was third.
Firing was in classes A and B. J.
]. Duffy won first place in class B,
capturing bronze medal. The course
of fire was 10 shots slow fire at so
yards, 10 shots timed fire at IS yards
and 10 shots rapid fire at IS yards
All competitors used the 38 special
revolvers.
Members of the club will fire the
Dewar course with the % rifle June
IT. The course will be 20 shots at so
yards and 20 shots at 100 yards
Metallic sights only will be permitted.
Scores Of Spring match:
Evening star., 1934-06-07

toscin, however,
brimful of confidence and with char
acteristic nonchalance.
Because this severely trapped 6,694-
yard. par-70 course of the Merton
Cricket Club requires accuracy more
than it does distance, sharp p-shooting
Paul Runyan, big money winner
around the professional Winter barn
storming circuit, started out in the
position of top favorite at to l.
Evening star., 1934-06-07
RUNYAN FAVOR|TE
AS DRIVE STARTS
Quoted at 6 to 1-Sarazen,
Hagen, Armour, Laffoon
Held at 10 to |.
BY BOB CAVAGNARO,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

~ HILADELPHIA, Pa, June
l. Johnny Goodman step
ped down from his throne
4 yesterday to answer the
challenge of one of the most avid
armies of crack professionals
and amateurs in 10 years of
national open golf champion
ship tournaments.
The 25-year- old Nebraska amateur
took his position in the ranks of l49
title hopefuls with the betting odds
Is to l against his repeating and