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The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-01-22
THE PRESIDENTS POPULARITY.

Gov. Troy, in his interviews and public utterances since his return home has repeatedly called attention to one fact that is significant. That is the ever mounting popularity of President Roosevelt. The President the Governor has said, is more popular now than he when he elected in November, 1892, and even when he assumed the duties of his high office March 4, 1883 In this the Governor agrees with most if not all political writers Wash ington correspondents of newspapers of all shades of political opinion have chronicled this fact. On the of the opening of the current term of Congress it stressed and not single cores pendent. writing the outlook for legislation, failed to predict that MT Roosevelt would control it and get anything he asked for The reason, they invariably pointed out, is that members of Con gress know they risk political demise if they seek to place Instructions in his way.
 In support of this view is the mail that daily swamps the White House from all sections of the country By Christmas Day a total of 182000O letters and 22OooO telegrams had been received by the President since he took office The incoming mail reached a record volume in December when daily average of 18,000 letters received to December 25 in addition to 14000 telegrams neces- sitating night detail in the clerical force. Of course many thousands of Christmas greetings swelled the volume during the holiday season.
 Rather than attributng this great mass of mail to his personal popularity MT. Roosevelt in it slgn of increasing and wholesome re awakening Of public interest in the affairs of Government Pos sibly that has something to do with it. Yet he is too modest. Most of it to him because the people of the United States believe in him and have confidence in his judgment, in his willingness and ability to fight the battles of the common man. No President, it is probable in the country's history ever possessed that confidence in such a marked degree and popular throughout the country at the end of his first year in office as MT. Roosevelt is today They accept his new deal' because he has voiced it in terms the average understand and has made them understand that it designed to replace old system that had failed disastrously with evil consequences to millions with one that will insure tranquil, safer happier and infinitely fairer one That, believe is what Gov. Troy had in mind when he told the Chamber of Commerce here that when prosperity returned 1t would be on new basis which most of the evils of the old system would be entirely eliminated
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-01-22
An Officer Of tine Legion.
(NeW York Times.)

(New York Times)
 Dumas's Guardsmen live not only in his books. The line is perpetually continued A writer in Rigaro celebrates Henry de Corta who died recently Legion magnificent manageable, violent" He lsounds as though he came from the Midi. His citations for bravery, his escapes from German prisons might have been told of others. Some anecdotes of him have individual accent One Iof his men steals his commanders revolver and shoots at another soldier Corta makes an inquiry. After ripe reflection he sentences the culprit to thirty days in prison flor having made use of an article belonging to his superior officer" He adds Extraordinary At this rate they will be
 using my razor my shaving brush Put this chump who merely grazes his man at ten meters back at platoon firing again. Corta was always indulgent to his at the proper time. He let them get drunk payday. They will be on the march tomorrow and some of them won't come back" Once he was somewhere south of the Grand Atlas His company and most lof his officers Germans. At 5 o'clock one morning he learned that at the French officers, commissioned and non-commissioned, to be killed and the whole force to go to the enemy. He got the of the fifteen ringleaders. He summoned the sergeant who had engineered the plot and told him that he had little recon Inoitring to do with few resolute men, naming the fifteen accompliees. The sergeant didn't say la word. The squad marched out into a solitary place Corta orders a halt aims his revolver at the sergeant, faces the men and says
 Eight o'clock, wasn't it, when you were
 going to do me? Eight o'clock it is. Go
 ahead The don't move. T warn
 you," says Corta that if you miss me I
 won't miss you' Not a peep from the
 mutneers. Then Corta continues: "As things
 are I've changed my mind We'll settle l this business among ourselves, as man to Sergeant" The sergeant comes for ward at the order. He gets whale of blow in the jaw, which sends him sprawling
 ten meters [scl away. Man by the
 same vigorous treatment by the fist is
 given No trouble. The company is
 cited three times thereafter
 Cortas motto that of mehitabel the cat. He was always gay, wanted everybody else to be gay, devoted to elegance" music and the dance. He was in Morocco, where gayety was "a matter of health" After sleepess festive night in which his German chauffeur had participated, the latter was told that at dawn he must start for a drive of nine straight hours:
 How about sleep?" murmured the martyr of the steering wheel "Sleepl" answered Corta. Do I sleep?"
 When finally at halt the chauffeur sinks down bed, Corta says scornfully "A weak constitution" out of Dumas, legendary and superhuman.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-01-22
The Widows Might.
6New York Herald Tribune.)


 The election of Mrs Marian w. Clarke to suc- ceed her late husband as Representative in Con gress from the 34th Congress District adds an- other to the growing list of widows of political leaders carrying on the careers begun by the hus- bands. The names of Mrs Ross Mrs. Kahn and Mrs. Rogers naturally to mind Doubtless Mrs. Longworth, had she wished political office could have been elected to Congress to succeed her late husband.
 The system has brought up some excellent public servants This is fortunate in view of the fact that it originated in combination of sentimentality and courtesy-perhaps with the expectation that the offer of the nomination would be rejected In most cases the widow chose to run If she had been closely associated with her husbands public work she brought to her duties in Washington a useful familiarity with important political problems
 Nowadays the practice is acquiring the sanctity ol tradition, even though it is by-product of the Nineteenth Amendment which many of the original movers Of the amendment would doubtless disap- prove They believed in woman's right to office in her own name and on her own behalf They now see widows raised to office out of respect to others memory and services.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-01-22
AMERICAN PRIZE WINNERS.

The current award of the Nobel Prize in Medicine to Dr. Thomas Hunt Morgan of the California Institute of Technology brings to eight the total number of prizes given Americans in science and medicine, and three of these are for contributions for medicine, Science Service points out.
 The last American-won medal prize was that of 1930 to Dr. Carl Landstainer of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research Dr. Landstainer's discovery that the human blood is of four different types and that the blood of type does not always mix with that of another type has been of tremendous importance in the life-saving operation of blood transfusion
 In 1912, the prize in medicine was won by Dr. Alexis Carol, also of the Rockefeller Institute In 1907 the late Prof. A. A. Nicholson, Uni prize given an American. The late Prof. w. T. Richards was awarded the chemistry laureate in 1914
 Other American Nobelists all living are pr. R A. Millikan of the California Institute of Technology, physics, 1923; Dr. Arthur H. Compton, University of Chicago, physics, 1927 and Dr. Irving Langmiir, Schnectady, N. Y, chemistry, 1892.
 Nobel prizes have been given since 1907 for con- tribuons to physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace. In addition to world wide honor, they carry cash award of several thousand dollars which is derived from the income of $9000000 bequeathed by Alfred B. Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, when he died in 1896 The recipients are chosen by Swed- sh agencies such the Swedish Academy of Science and the Swedish Faculty of Medicine.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-01-22
WALL STREETS WEALTHY HOUSES.

The aura of mystery which always surrounded the finances and operations of J. P. Morgan & Com pany, or the Corner House." as it is familiarly known on lower Manhattan was completely dispeed when the Morgan partners were forced by the relentless Ferdinand Pecora counsel for the Senate Banking Committee, to reveal to the pardonably curious public their exact resources It is exag- geraton to say that though the statement of con- ditions disclosed a conservatism of banking man company, some of the practices disclosed, such as the preferential list of customers did not appeal to the public at large as being altogether polite or conducive to the upbuding of public confidence One real surprise was the actual size of invested capital which stood at only $53000OOO at the end of 1883 having actually shrunk from over sll8- 100000 three years earlier
 Later on, Otto Kahn and the Kuhn Loeb part ners journeyed to Washington and gave another shock to those who had supposed that the two most important houses of issue in the country had pos sessed the fabulous wealth of the Indies For the Kuhn Loeb statement showed the maximum capital employed had been only $25 000000 at the end of 1929, and at the end of 1881 was only $2l 25O O0O And while the House of Morgan was carrying de- posits of nearly times its net worth the Kuhn Loeb deposits at the end of l93 were only s29OoOoOo or about 40 per cent of its capital
 After these revelations the natural inquiry arose as to now financially important other less we'll known flrms might be. Prompt to be mentioned was Hayden, Stone & Company which in lieu of exact information is generally supposed to have S30-000,0O0 or more in cold cash of which the bulk belongs to the senior partner Charles Havden dominant figure on any number of major industrial mining and bank drectorates. The general feeling still is, however, that the largest house in Wall Street is Ladenburg Thaman &s Company com monly reputed to have invested capital of s45Ooo- 900 with partners backing sufficient to bring it resources up close to nine figures
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-01-22
TRINITY GUILD

Will sponsor a card party Friday, February ?, at Trinity Hall start ing at 8 pm. Contract and Bridge Whist and Pinochle will be played Public is invited. adv
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-01-22
EXAMINATION IS ANNOUNCED,
 CIVIL SERVICE

The United States Civil Service Commission has announced an open competition examination as follows, Selection of Chief Statistican.
 The United States Civil Service Commission will accept applica- tions until February, 1884, to fill vacancy in the position of Chief Statistician under the Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Department of La bor Washington, D. c.
 The entrance salary is $500 a year, less a deduction of not to exceed Is per cent as a measure Of economy and a retirement deduc- ton of 313 per cent
 The duties will be to initiate
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-01-22

plan, and have general charge of major statistical and economic in vestigations in labor statistics, both in the office in Washington, D. C., and in the field service; to make special surveys and studies in the industrial and economic fields, in- yolying difficult and technical re- search, as required by the Secre- taly of Labor, Congress, or coopera- tive arrangements with State gov- ernnents: to act as consultant to ether branches of the Federal Government, to State bureaus, or private organizations, in planning statistical or economic investiga- tions; to act as consulting special ist to the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, and to serve as Acting Commissioner of Labor Statistics in the absence of the Commissioner and the Assistant Commissioner. The qualifications cf applicants will be passed on by a special board of examiners composed of Dr. Winfield Riefler, Chairman of the Central Statistical Board, Wash ington, D. O.; Dr. Bryce M. Stew art, Executive Secretary, Commit tee on Labor Statistics of the American Statistical Association New York City, and Dr. Howard A. Edson of the Commissions fceee, who will act as chairman Of the committee. For the purpose of this examination, all of these men will be examiners of the Civil Service Commission.
 Applicants must have had educa- ton and experience of such length and quality, and such personal qualifications, as to demonstrate clearly their ability to perform the duties of the position.
 Full information may be obtained from Secretary of the United States Civil Service Board of Examiners, at the Alaska Road Commission, 311 Federal Building, Juneau.
 The United States Civil Service Commission will accept applications until March 2 for positions of As sociate Social Economist and As sistant Social Economist to fill va cancies in the Children's Bureau, Department of Labor
 The entrance salary for Associate Social Economist is $3,200 a year, and for Assistant Social Economist S2,S00 a year, less a deduction of not to exceed Is per cent as a measure of economy and a retire ment deduction of 3ia per cent.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-01-22
Princess Leaves SecIusion;
 With Sisters Married, Maria
 Takes Up Duties of Royalty
By ANDRUE BIRDING

ROME, Jan. 22.-Princess Mar ia, pretty and youngest daughter of King Victor Emmanuel and Queen Elena, left her closely chaperoned seclusion this winter to represent the royal family at numerous in augurations and charity affairs.
 This became necessary through the departure of her elder sister, Princess Mafalda, for Germany Mafalda is the wife of Prince Phil ip of Hessa, warm adherent of Hitler, who has made him a pro- vincial governor.
 Last in Home Nest
 Maria's other sisters. Yolanda wife of Count Valvi di Bergolo, and Queen Joanna of Bulgaria, live out of Rome, the first in Tur- in, the second in Sofia. Her broth CT, Umberto, is in charge of the army corps area at Naples.
 Thus numerous demands have been made on her time that pre- viously were addressed to others.
 The young princess was 19 the day after Christmas, and thus be- gan practicing for being in the public eye.
 Many Betrothal Rumors
 Italians hope that some day she will be a queen in her own right.
 Several young princes have been mentioned at various times as pos sible claimants for her hand. They include:
 Archduke Otto, pretender to the thrones of Hungary and Austria
 Infante Juan Carlos, son of ex- King Alfonso of Spain, and heir pretsnder to the Spanish throne.
 Crown-P Prince F'arouk of Egypt
 One of the British princes, Hen ry or George.
 At present, however, none Of these reports is given any confir- nation in royal circles.
 Outside Visits Barred
 The Italian girl of good fam fly does not go out until she is married, and Maria is no excep- tion
 But unlike other Italian girls, she is not even permitted to visit her girl friends at their homes They may come to see her, but she may not go to see them.
 Dark-eyed Maria seldom has been seen in public, except at the opera or a concert, when her mother or sister Mafalda accom- panied her. She likes music.
 She has learned to dance, but does not dance outside the royal palace and royal villa. She partici- pates discreetly in sport; she skis and swims.
 Is Mothers Helper
 She is the loyal assistant to her mother in that worthy lady's uh- ceasing charity work
 She has had wide education under private tutors and speaks excellent English.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-01-22

Only the other day we heard of new cocktail T It was new to us. Get this: Sauerkraut and oHiato Julee, equal portions; add dash of horse raolsh' out ot six persons at the table, only two ;huddered-( (Toedo Blade)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-01-22

Judge w. G. Boyle, Ira Bronson. w. B. Stratton and Bruce Shorts, all well known attorneys of Se- attle, who were associated with local attorneys in the big trans portation suits that were to be held early in February, arrived in Juneau on the Princess Sophia and were staying at the Alaskan Ho- tel.
 Action was taken by the Juneau Democratic club, at it's meeting in the club headquarters in the Ma lony building to become affiliated with the National League of Demo- cratic clubs throughout the Terri tory, were read before the meet ing.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-01-22

Bar leaders propose drastic cut in new ad- missions to the bar This is on top of the stagger- ng blow already dealt the brief case industry y repeal Detroit News)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-01-22

Mayor LaGuardia continuts to demand that he be given power to be dictator of New York What man to satisfy! Can't he be content with jus. being a tiger tanner?
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-01-22

By his formal resignation from his position as secretary Of the Treasury MT. Woodin has at least aken the zther menace out of politics. Boston Globe)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-01-22
9 YEARS AGO
JANUARY 22. 1914
From The Empire

JANUARY 22. 1914
 The basketball game given by friends of the Juneau high school basketball team in the Elks' hall was a pronounced success and everyone present had fine time. The hall was crowded with people from both sides of the Channel, and excellent music was provided by the Juneau orchestra with Prof. Sumpf as violinist.
 Announcement was made that the We Should Worry club was to give a dance on February 2l for which invitations were to be issued soon. The delightful dances given by this club were eagerly looked forward to by those fortu- nate enough to belong, or be on the invitation list.
 Juneau was having cold snap which had started on January II, and it's severity was noticeable to those living here. The weather for the previous twenty-four hours was clear and calm and the maximum Ssmperature had been 28 degrees above zero and the minimum 21 above
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-01-22

No less an authority than the World Fashion Court at Paris has awarded Mrs. Harrison Williams, New York society woman, a place among the ten best dressed women in the world. Here is Mrs. Will Hams, wearing a Summer pajama ensemble. She is the only American
 named among the ten.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-01-22

After all the money question finally returns % the starting point, how to get it-(Detroit Free PresS)
Evening star., 1934-05-20

venture, the eternal search for
lost and buried treasure, is
again attracting attention with
Evening star., 1934-05-20
LINDBERCH HOP ENDED
PERIOD OF ILL FEELING
Landing in Paris Soothed People, Who
Believed Americans Had Suppressed
News of Nungesser and Coli.

Seuen years ago today Charles
A. Lindbergh, then q little knoDn
air pilot. took of from Roosevelt
Field, L. L.. In the Spirit OF st.
Louis for Paris. His flight not
only Das the signal for important
Developments in aviation 1t also
ended q period OF i'll feeling in
France for the United States. Will
bur Forrest, Dto at that time tDds
a Paris correspondent, in the fol-
loUing article describes Ltndberghs
dramatic landing at lie Bourget
and tells of the effect of the flight
on French opinion.
Evening star., 1934-05-20
1,5OO-Mile Trip in Canoe
Revealed by Monument

HONOLULU, Hawaii-Mute evil
dence of the extraordinary extent of
open-ocean voyages of the Polynesians
in prehistoric times has been found
in stone relics on the Island of Kauai,
one of the large islands of the Ha-
waiian group. Chief of these is a
sandstone slab some feet in length
by 2 feet wide and 10 inches thick,
which is unmistakably of Tahitian
origin. 1t is supposed to be a monu-
ment and probably a graveStone, as
in workmanship and general design
it is akin to early examples of such
things which have been found in
Tahiti.
The finding of the stone bears out
ancient Hawaiian traditions and also
other archaeological data that the
natives of Tahiti, more than 1900
miles distant, used to voyage to
Hawaii in open canoes Their visits
were most numerous, it is believed,
in the fourteenth and fifteenth CEN
turies. They came for purposes of
trade, and there are legends of inter-
marriage between chief families of
the two archipelagoes. Hawaiians and
Tahitians are both of the Polynesian
race, though there are now many
differences in culture. The Hawaiian
branch is believed by scientists to
nave been the most daring in explora-
tion of all the Polynesians.
Copyright. 1934l
Evening star., 1934-05-20
Guaranty of European Peace
Seen Possible in Balkan Pact

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia,-Yugosla
foreign policy faces a great problem,
the choice between bilateral rap
prochement with Bulgaria and a gen.
eral Balkan pact with Bulgaria ex-
cluded.
The general Balkan pact, uniting
Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey and Ru-
mania into a sort of Southeastern
Locarno, was on the point of sigma
ture when it became known that Bull
garia. seeing itself encircled, would
never accept an invitation to adhere
Then Yugoslavia began to hesitate,
and signature has been held up.
On the Balkan pact side Yugo-
slavia sees plenty of advantages. BIZ
lateral pacts already exist between
Turkey and Greece. Turkey and Ru-
mania, Yugoslavia and Rumania and
Yugoslavia and Greece. A new in
strumehr uniting them all into sim
gle document would neatly climax this
pactomania.
A Balkan pact would be something
of a guaranty of European peace. 1t
is in line with Yugosiav status quo
ideals. 1t fits in with general little
entente policy.
But it would ALLEVIATE the Bulgars
just at the time when the Yugo-
slav-Bulgar quarrel. so bitter for so
many years, seems on the point of
settlement.
Several forces serve to drive Yugo-
slavia toward rapprochement with
Bulgaria:
/. Rapprochement would presum-
Evening star., 1934-05-20
Hawaii Fights Japan
For i. S. Tuna Market

HONOLULU, Hawaii. - With in
creased costs in the Hawaiian tuna
fishing industry, the fishing and can
ming interests of the Islands are hop
ing that some check will be put on the
Importation of Japanese canned fish
on the American market. Recently
the largest and virtually the only ex-
porting cannery here, Hawaiian Tuna
Packers, Ltd, increased the payment
to the fishermen from $50 to SOS a
ton for tuna brought in from the sea-
The annual catch of tuna is about
5000 tons. most Of which is sold to
the cannery.
In recent years the steadily grow
ing influx Of Japanese canned fish
through California ports has made
the American industry in Hawaii more
and more costly and difficult to sus-
tain. The Federal Government has
been asked to stop the dumping"
of Japanese tuna on the American
market.
(Copyrisht, 1934) .,-.-.a4A
Evening star., 1934-05-20

ably liquidate the Macedonian prob
lem, thorn in Yugoslavia's flesh since
the peace treaties.
2. Yugoslavia has very high opin-
ion of the Bulgarian army. Fear OF
Italy makes Yugoslavia nervous about
her other borders. In case of war
Bulgarian neutrality, If not Bulga-
rian aid, would be a prime essential
to her strategy. The Bulgar- Yugoslav
frontier is TOO kilometers long and
exceedingly difficult to defend. Fight
ing Italy or Hungary, Yugoslavia
does not want any one to come in the
Bulgarian back door.
3. Yugoslavs and Bulgars are first
cousins and Yugoslavia has always
dreamed of a great united South Slav
state, stretching from the Adriatic
to the Black Sea and the Aegean
The Bulgars are fully cognizant OF
this YugoSlav ambition, but it does
not worry them. They say, with
some justification, that they would
be 100000 strong in united South
slavia, almost as big group as the
Serbs.
4. Yugoslavia has certain ambitions
in regard to Greek Salonika. Yugo-
slavia and Bulgaria would normally
tend to work together against Greece
The Yugoslavs, If Bulgaria gave up
the Macedonian quarrel, might con-
ceivably wink at Bulgarian thrusts
toward Greek Thrace, where Bull
garia. like Yugoslavia, would like an
outlet to the Aegean.
(Copyright. 1934.}