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The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-02
FRANKIE. MOANs

PORTLAND, Ore. Miss Fran kie Baker, a negress, recalled to- day how the jury in St. Louis in l899 acquitted her of shooting AL bert Britt in self defense.
 She complained that "all these writing fellows made fortunes out of the incident, while she didn't get anything.
 All Charged to Jchnny
 Albert Britt's name was changed to Johnny by song writer for the sake of euphony.
 "All these writing fellows and such have been writing about me for years" Miss Baker said here today One man made $25, 1000 on a book about Frankie and Johnny and I never got a quarter fer his writing me up that way. Not even five cents.
 Here I am, sick and almost broke, and they all are making money writing my life up. I'm sore. They've got to pay me from now on."
 Frankie declared she makes her living by running small shoe shine stand.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-02
OFFICIALS RETURN

J: Newm arker and Capt. J. Clark, connected with the steam boat inspection service, and John Mccormick, Deputy United States Marshal, returned to the city from Ketchikan on the Northland. MT. Mccormick accompanied a prison ers' party bound for Seattle as 'ar as Ketchikan recently.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-02
STOCK PRICES KEEP CAININ 6,
 SHORT SESSION
Metals Continue Advance Upward Many Other
 Issues Are Firm

NEW YORK, March 2-Fraction- al gains predominated for stocks today at the short session
 Metals continued to push ahead along with a number of specialties.
 Advances of around one point were reduced by United States Smelling and Case
 Other firm issues were Westing- house, erican Telephone and Telegraph, Bethlehem Steel, De- pasco. Ward, United Aircraft and Chrysler.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-02
KORAN FUNERAL IS
 SCHEDULED MONDAY

The funeral of Phil Horan, vet eran Alaskan and citizen of this city since 1900 who died recently, will be held from the Church of tn eNativity at o'clock Mnday morning.
 The Juneau Igloo of the Pion- eers of Alaska will participate in the funeral, as Horan had been member of that organization.
 The details are being arranged by the Juneau-Young Undertak- ing Parlors,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-02
HELEN WILSON AND
 HARR DICKERSON
 ARE MARRIED TODAY

Helen T. Wilson became the bride of Harry G. Dickerson at a ceremony performed in the United States Commissioners Court this morning by Judge J. F. Mullen.
 Witnesses to the wedding were Miss Phyllis Friend and Lawrence Kerr. Both MT. and Mrs. Dicker- son are residents of Juneau and the former gave his occupation as mariner.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-02
MISSIONARY IS REP P0RTED SLAIN, WIFE NOT FOUND

SIAN, Shensi Province. China, March 2.-The staying of the Rev. s. c. Frenchan, missing mission worker, was reported by Chinese soldiers here today.
 Searchers have given up the hope of finding Rev. Frenchans wife. She was a former London girl who set out a week ago, afoot from Nanking.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-02
FRANKIE SAYS. SHE REALLY WAS. DONE W WRONC C.
Portland Negress Sues Mae West for $l00,0OO
 Damages, N. Y. I

NEW YORK, March 1-Miss Frankie Baker, who claims to be the original Frankie of the Fran kie and Johnny duo, charged to- day through an attorney that the motion picture She Done Him Wrong had done her wrong, too.
 Miss Baker, negress who lives in Portland. Ore, brought suit for $100,000 in damages against Mae West and Paramount Pictures, Inc. for public scandal, infamy, shame and disgrace"
 Is Respectable
 The complaint says that where as Miss Baker was and stil Is" a respectable woman. she was al- legedly portrayed in the picture as a woman of easy virtue, con- sort of gamblers, and notorious criminals and that she was mur- deress.
 In discussing the homicida1 as- poets of the case, the complaint said that the plaintiff, in truth and in fact, was the fiancee of Johnny who was killed in St. Louis by the plaintiff in self-de- fense, but that Frankie Baker fwho is the plaintiff is made to kill woman in the thinly dis 'guised end of the motion picture entitled She Done Him Wrong. |"
 Paramount's legal department today called the action ridiculous" declaring the story was based up- on fiction.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-02
MILLIONS ON
 U. s. PAYROLLS

WASHINGTON, March 2.-Al- though the exact information is not available, estimates in Gov. ernment quarters indicated that persons on Federal payrolls last month, or who received payments by virtue of EZRA, AAA and PWA laws. exceeded l7,6Oo,000.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-02
iAduocates Marriage,
 Euen # Public
 Dole Extended

BROMLEY-ON-BOW, Eng land, March 2.-Marriage on dole is advocated by the Vicar of St. MichaePs Church, the Rev. Kenneth Ashcroft.
 Tt is no more shameful or unreasonable for a man to mar ry on a public allowance than for the Duke of Kent" the Vicar said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-02
CLOSING PRICES TO-DAY

NEW YORK, March 2.-Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is IS, American Can 117A, American Power and Light 2A, Anaconda lOtz. Armour N 5, Bethlehem Steel 27iz, Calumet and Hecla 3, General Motors 29%, In- ternational Harvester 39al, Kenne- colt 16, United States Steel 32% Pound s4.77, Bremner 56 at 50.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-02
JOHNSON FROM wRANGELL

Chet Johnson, salesman for the National Grocery Company, was an inbound passenger on the North land. He took passage at Wrangell,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-02
INTEREST KEEN IN MORGAN SALE. OF ART OBJECTS

LONDON, England, March a. There is much interest here today in the coming sales of the art treasures of J. Pierpont Morgan, American financier.
 However, there is little specula- ton as to whether he will desert his huge business dealings in Wall Street for the life of an English country gentleman, as has been rumored he might.
 Ernest Blessing is the name of clergyman living at Peters Landing. Tenn.
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The Washington times., 1935-04-23
Odds on Crime

Representative William Schultz of Indiana has to
the aid those who like make small wager and then
but who firing of playing the familiar number game
The Indanan who has been busy investigating crime in the
District for weeks finds that healthy book might be
made what will happen to the who commits
felony in the National Capital
With the help of investigator for the crime committee
Representative Schultz able to quote the odds which the
Book would OPEN These figure out he finds to- two to one
against arrest against Indictment ten to against
conviction fifteen against Jail sentence and two to
one on top all that that jailed the prisoner will be
leased parole.
being familiar with similar quotations in other cities
which above laying bet the chances of successful
law breaking not in position to judge whether Repre-
sentative Schultz in his odds whether he pinch
ing the chances.
But we do know that the numbers game will pay you
better odds-if you win.
odds the lawbreaker quoted by Representative
Schultz however be readily reduced and they should be
reduced The Indiana Congressman is position to aid in
their reduction and we believe he wants to do it.
These odds not governed by the people of the District
They are governed by the Congress of the United States
That body authority drive down those odds any time
it thinks it worth while.
Give the District the policemen it needs cut out political
interference with the Police Department. speed trials in the
Police and Supreme Courts AND THE FAVORABLE ODDS
ON CRIME WILL SPEEDILY CHANGE.
The Washington times., 1935-04-23

lively shod, he would deign to
look at her face. But if her
FEET offended his eyes, she
was off his list, no matter how
clever her mind or how raviSh-
ing her face and figure. Many
men have the foot-compleX!
Other men have a stocking
complex. They can endure,
without wincing, a pair of sun
burned, splotchy bare legs on
the beach. But a crooked stock
ing seam causes them terrible,
terrible pain. They might for
give a woman for moral slip
but never for a Zig-zagging
stocking, running from north
east to southwest.
Some men hate to see wom-
an display too much of herself
in an evening gown. She may
loll around all day on the sands
in shorts and a silk handker-
chief; but a bare-baked effect
and the great open spaces of a
modern evening gown just kill
all the romance for man who
thinks of women as ladies"
I have seen a man shudder
and turn away his eyes from
the too, too obvious flesh of an
Embarrassed female, and glare
balefully at his wife when her
shoulder-strap slipped.
Some men hate brains in a
woman. They will shiver and
prepare to escape at the mere
suggestion that you want them
to meet "a bright, intelligent
girl" They don't care what a
The Washington times., 1935-04-23
rid = = By Elsie Robinson
By Nelson Harding

Or crusades, or rebellionS-
A vast nation
Of men, women and children
Growing up
Without an aim
Or a plan
Or a future
They can bank on
A vast nation
That was beautiful and free
And proud and strong,
Turning into a muck heap
And all for why?
All because
YOU aren't interested-(not
really)
YOU aren't excited,
You aren't mad
You like to read about 1t
And talk about it,
And issue warnings,
And make prophecies
But when it comes
Right down to brass tacks
Observation-Disclosures!
A great, fine nation
The greatest nation
Men have dared to found
The greatest vision
Men have dared to grasp
Rotting into a muck heap,
Going back to the jungle
And all for why?
Because you're too comfort
able
Too afraid or Indifferent,
Lazy, disguised,
Peevish or stupid
To do anything about it!
That's why.
My God, that's awful
Shameful-indecent!
How can you stand it?
Com'on-let's not!
Com on-get mad!
Copyright. 1885, by King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1935-04-23
"Admiral of the District

So Commissioner George Allen wants admrals to
play with?
And his FRIEND Corporation Counsel Barrett Prettyman,
ndugng this penchant of the Commissioner he may
have them and furthermore that the admiras may all
the gold braid they carry while rowing the cys scows
up and down the Potomac River
Now the only thing to be determined whether the other
two District Commissioners will go along with Mr. Allen and
vote to create the admiras
Commissioner Melvin G. Hazen is not inclined to the life
on the bounding is Commissioner Allen. He likes
horses and you can't put bebraided admiral on horse
Commissioner Hazen may vote to from the doubtful
fame that has visited Kentucky with its arung phaanx Of
officers by virtue of certificate
Engineer Commissioner Sultan not known to have any
prediction for the and in addition being colonel in the
Army by virtue of long and faithful service he expected
to defend the integrity of titles He might vote against his
colleague
So Commissioner Allen may not get his admirals
The Washington times., 1935-04-23
Bridging the Pacific
BIZ James T. Williams, Jr.

Japan has not waited until
the eleventh hour to project an
intensive development Of com
mercial aviation in the vast
area of the Pacific.
Before the American Congress
even considered authorizing the
negotiation of an airmal con-
tract for a four-day airmail serv-
ice between San Francisco and
Manila, beginning with an over
night mail service between the
American mainland and its main
outpost of defense in the Pacific
the Hawaiian Islands-Japan's
aviation program in the Pacific
had been formulated and ap-
proved by the Government and
announced to the japanese
people.
In the japanese program the
first part consists of the follow
ing specific projects for the de-
velopment of commercial avia-
ton in the Pacific:
JAPAN'S PROGRAM
First: A regular airmail serv-
ice between Japan and FOrmOsa
just across from the Philip
pine Islands. Test flights have
already been made over this
stretch from Japan proper to-
ward the Philippines. These
tests are said to have been
highly successful. 1t is expected
that the service will soon be in
augurated with a flight each
way every week.
Second: A new airmail Serv-
ice between Japan proper and
Korea. The terminals of this
new airline will be Tokyo or
Osaka in Japan and Tanan in
Northern Korea.
The great advantage Of this
line will lie in the fact that it
will result in a great saving in
time between Tokyo, the capital
city of Japan, and Tsinking, the
capital city of Manchukuo,
Japan's new tally" and COM
pletely docile "neighbor"
retically an independent state.
actually, according to the world
point of view, a Japanese de-
tendency.
Third-An airmail service be-
tween Tokyo and ParaO, the ad-
miniStrative center of the man.
dated islands in the Pacific. To
the United States was coded by
Germany a one-fifth share in
the sovereignty of these islands
but their administration has
been inundated by the League
to Japan. This is not neceSsar-
lily permanent mandate.
The approval of the United
States to the continuance Of
this mandate by Japan is nee
essary. The route from Japan
for the projected airline to the
The Washington times., 1935-04-23

ISLANDS would run via the BONN
Islands, concerning the fortifi-
cations of which there has long
been much speculation.
Fourth-An airmail service be.
tween Tokyo and SapporO, with
stops planned at Sendai and
AOmOri.
Fifth-An airmaiI service be-
tween Tokyo and Kochi or Shi-
kOku.
Sixth-An airmail service be-
tween Osaka and Matsuc, Shi.
name Prefecture on the Japan
Sea.
Seventh-An airmail service
between Osaka and Nagano. by
way of TOyama on the Japan
Sea.
Eighth-An airmail service be.
tween Tokyo and Niigata on the
Japan Sea by way of Nagano.
This would presumably Supplant
the summer service already pro
vided by the ASahi Air Service
Association.
What the Japanese are doing
to develop commercial aviation
in the vast area of the Pacific
is in line with what the other
great powers are also doing to
the same end.
The British have an air line
operating between the British
Isles and Australia. Soon they
propose to provide connecting
link with Hong Kong.
The Dutch are operating an
air line from Amsterdam to
Java and are projecting a link
with Canton, China.
OVERNIGHT SERVICE
The French intend to pro
vide a connecting link with
Canton for their air line in
operation between France and
Indo-China.
If the present Congress gives
it's support to American avia-
ton in the Pacific, there will
before long be an overnight air
mail service between San Fran,
cisco and Honolulu and later
a four-day daylight air service
between there and Manila.
This is why a two-million-
dollar appropriation has been
requested to enable the Federal
Government to contract for air
mail across the Pacific as soon
as the Pan-American transpa-
cific line begins to operate. The
pioneer in this new conquest
of the air. the Pan-American
Clipper, which has just COM
pleted it's initial overnight
flight between the American
mainland and Hawaii. h S
blazed a new trail for all
American commerce with the
Far East.
Copyright. 1885, The Washington Times
The Washington times., 1935-04-23
Wise Words

I honor health as the first
muse, and sleep as the condi"
ton of health.-Emerson.
What is fitting is honorable,
what is honorable is fitting
Cicero.
To know is not to know, un-
less someone else has known
that L knoW.-LuculluS.
Moderation should be the
guiding spirit of the legislator.
-Montesquieu.
An excuse is worse and more
terrible than a lie; for an excuse
is a lie guarded.-Pope.
It is we'll to be taught, even
by an enemy.-Ovid.
The sovereignty of man lieth
hid in neutrality-suspicious..
There is no good result when
hatred is returned for hatred.
He mourns the dead who lives
as they deSire.-Young.
The wind in ones face makes
one wise.-Herbert.
Good or bad health makes our
Observation-Disclosures.
The Washington times., 1935-04-23
Once Overs

ties for exercise are rather OBJ
liged to use their cars instead
of walking.
It is not surprising that men
old and young-are becoming
soft.
They do so little to aid their
systems in building up and re-
tanning the fitness acquired in
school days.
Many college athletes of the
past are not physically fit TO-
day.
They let laziness overcome
them.
It would be injurious now to
attempt what they did while
they were in training, but it is
a pity they have not kept in
trim by consistent work since.
Copyright. 1895. by King Features
Syndicate. Inc.l
The Washington times., 1935-04-23
Doomed by Experts

Not long ago. so-caed experts said the railroads
doomed They supposed to be unable to compete with
buses.
Along came lightweight highspeed Dieseengned ocomo-
tves of the Burlington Zephyr type and the railroads
longer doomed But then the experts said the steam
locomotives doomed.
And along from the American Locomotive Com
pany streamlined steam locomotive with guaranteed speed
of 100 miles hour in attempt to show that steam
beat electricity.
It would appear from this that things which fancy
experts choose to doom aren't doomed at ALL including
example the profit system, ndivdualsm and individual
initiative.
The Washington times., 1935-04-23
Marry-GO-ROund
Blu Helen ROWL0nd

woman thinks-the fact that
she THINKS is what annoys
them! A woman with ideas
frightens them worse than a
small boy with an air-rifle. That
is why so many clever girls pre-
tend to be dumb-bellS, and cult
vate a baby-lisp.
Most men hate loud, bolster,
GUS, fortnight girls. A woman,
like a radio, should be tuned
down to soft and unobtrusive
pitch, which does not interfere
with a mans train of thought
or drown out the sound of his
own voice.
A loud woman, however jolly
and poppy, jars mans nerves
and too much of the "good-old-
pal-three-rouSing cheers" stuff
drives him right out of the front
door, so that he can listen to
the quiet little trucks and taxi
cabs.
Some men, even in these days,
hate to see a woman smoking
a cigarette, although they may
watch her drinking a cocktail
and think it perfectly natural
and feminine. Funny complex!
And ALL men hate chatter
ing Woman-a marathon-talker.
who babbles on like the brook,
glides from one sentence right
The Washington times., 1935-04-23
To Europe in "a Hours

The who designed the clipper ships which to fly
the ranspacific regular service between California Hawaii
and the Orient says that flying boats twice large will
be in regular transatlantic service.
Igor sikorsy visionary When he says that flying
boats capable of carrying 100 passengers will be dashing
the Atlantic in "a hours he knows what he's talking
about.
These giant man-made birds will have baths dining rooms,
dance floors and motion picture rooms.
What does mean? Mr. Sikorsky thinks it the
immediate future.
We hope So We hope the flying boats will be built by
Americans in America operated from America and that they
will help cnch for America supremacy in the field of
mercial aviation.
The Washington times., 1935-04-23

into the next and leaps from
wisecrack to wisecrack or from
bromidium to bromidium, faster
than a radio comedian.
There is no accounting for
mems completes; but every man
has at least one idiosyncrasy-
one strong obSeSSion-regarding
women, which nothing but death
can cure. Just being blonde
or a dream" won't help you,
if you happen to strike man
on the wrong side of his com
pick.
Copyright, 1885. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1935-04-23

A heart to throb,
A fist to double?
Can or can't you
Weep, sweat, swear,
Shout, plead, pray
And raise Cain?
Do or don't you
Want to live
While you're living?
Leave your mark
On other men
And the earth you inhabit?
Take your place
In this fast
And furious rumpus
We call life?
You do?
THEN WHAT'S
HOLDING YOU?
Look around you
What do you see?
You see a great, free,
Rich, beautiful,
Powerful country
But what is happening
In this country?
Injustice is happening.
Slavery is happening.
Every conceivable kind
OF cruelty and crookedness
Is happening.
Little children
Are working in sweatshops
Because there is
No law to protect them.
Sobbing women
Are dying in childbirth
Because there is
No money to aid them.
Schoolhouses are closed;
School teachers
Are going hungry.
Ranches stand empty,
Gaping, like gnawed ribs
Against a hooking sky
Look around you again.
What do you see?
You see the soldiers
Who saved this country
Seventeen years ago
Our Heroes
You see "Our Heroes"
Standing ragged, hungry,
With wounds still oozing
Old trench poison,
With half-dead leg stumps
Still dangling
And hands still propped
In steel braces.
we owe Our Heroes money.
The Washington times., 1935-04-23

iSlation W a S
being consid-
cred one Rep
resentative AL
len T. Tread
way, Repub-
lican Of Con-
necticut, and
one of the
wheel horses
of the G.. o.
p, had some
rather Strenu-
GUS things to
COW ohOIIt tho
bill.
In one mo-
The Washington times., 1935-04-23
Greatest Show On Earth
BIZ John SHaUre, Jr

SSVS~S y
The judge was unable to get
up the plank.
Most of the other guests were
unable to get down without as
sistance some time later.
When Representative James
w. Wadsworth of New York
addressed the Gridiron Club
at its recent dinner he said:
"AlthOugh / am called a Re
publican, sometimes think
that really am an Old-time
Democrat. And in that posi-
ton I am extremely lonesome"
This remark produced a
laugh.
The other day in the House,
Mr.. WadSworth said:
"AlthOugh / am called a Re-
publican, sometimes think
that really 1 am an Old-time
Democrat. And in that position
I find myself very lonesome in
the House,"
He got another laugh.
That is what might be called
killing two birds with one stone,
Mr.. Wadsworth.
When the baseball season
opened in Washington Vice
The Washington times., 1935-04-23

menu OF ora" Ao" -
tory he shouted:
"This bill will wreck indus
try"
He added many more words
and phrases, none Of which
gave credit to the legislation.
And then they called the roll
on final passage of the bill.
Mr.. Treadway answered:
"Aye."
When the newspaper men had
their party on the "Constella-
tion," which is moored along
the washington wharves, the
other evening, one of the in
vited guests was Representative
Joseph j. Mansfield CS Texas,
one of the most pleasant men
in the House.
The judge, however, because
of an affiction of bygone days,
is forced to ride in a wheel
chair.
He 1rrived at the "ConSteIlG-
ton" Uhen the tide DGS full
and the ship 1DaS riding high
out OF the mater.
The wheel chair could not be
rolled up the gang plank so
Judge Mansfield was unable to
attend the party. He had gone
home after numerous trys at
the gangplank.
The Washington times., 1935-04-23
Guard Physical Fitness

You use your head and save
your heels to a greater extent
than is good for your health.
You go to such extremes in
saving your heels" that you
don't get enough exercise.
Most lazy persons get heavy
and slow as a result of their
efforts to avoid anything that
requires physical effort.
In winter they miss the bene-
fit to be gained from cleaning
their own sidewalks of snow and
ice.
In summer they resort to
varied subterfuges to get out of
moving the lawn or wedding
the flower garden.
Those who live in apartments
and have no such opportuni-
The Washington times., 1935-04-23

} Or God or their country
Or their fellow men
Rotting-
Pride, ambition, self-respect,
Curiosity, good nature, initia-
tive,
Friendliness, patriotism, rever-
ence,
All ,rotting-
Decaying, crumbling,
Sloughing away
Into a dreadful
Maggoty mass of indifference,
Bitterness, hate and despair.
Men rotting-
Women giving up hope,
Turning into
ShreWs and slatternS-
Little children
Growing up like weeds,
Growing up without standards,
Or faith in God
Or dreams, or adventures,
The Washington times., 1935-04-23
World

Our Heroes could use
That money;
They are starving
For lack of it,
But what of that?
Didn't we cry for them?
And wave flags for them?
And sing songs
And make promises?
Well, what more
Do they want?
Go on
Look around some more!
What else do you see
In this swell, big country?
You see
Men rotting-
Millions of men,
Standing in bread lines,
Rotting-
Walking around, rotting-
Everything that made them
Believe in themselves
The Washington times., 1935-04-23

Pre- S i d e n t
John Nance
Garner was
in the parade
that preceded
the game.
I t W a S
somewhat diff
fl ut for
Jack to pa
rade W i t h
the Army and
Navy officers,
howe ever, as
thew walked
rather fast.
Gamers pa.