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The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-29
WEATHER HOPS MADE NOW FOR
 THREE MONTHS

The following article written by R., L. Frost. official in charge of the Fairbanks Weather Bureau, ap- peared in the Fairbanks News Miner of December IT and should prove interesting to all readers:
 Yesterday marked the end of the third month of the airplane weather flights being made at Fair banks. During this time Pilot Bert Lein has made a total of 130 of these flights. At dawn and again at. dusk each day the pilot dons his furlined "rompers," pulls the fire pot from under the motor, climbs into the cockpit of the big Pilgrim plane and takes off for some in definite point up in the sky some 17,000 feet over Fairbanks.
 Most planes leaving Weeks Field carry full loads of passengers or freight but the weather ship flies empty. The only load carried is full tanks of gasoline and a small inEtrument weighing about four pounds attached to a wifg-strut. The flights usually require about one and one~half hours and the time is spent in circlnig over town within radius of about twenty miles. Although the pilot flies abo t three hours each day he goes no- where and he carries no load, yet making weather flights is perhaps the most strenuous kind of flying. The twice daiy flights to an alti-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-29
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By VOLTA TORREY AP Feature Service Write,

1 Time, the old gypsy man, darting down many nations streets last March, must have smiled wryly, wanly
 ] Busy, broad Unter den Linden was hushed From loudspeakers Der Fuehrers voice proclaimed: Ger many has regained her honor, re- found her faith, conquered the greatest economic distress and fi- nally inaugurated a new cultural ad- vance"
 The Ghost Goes West" said movie marquees. But worse than Glourie was the ghost beside Herr Hitler For even as he spoke men were marching westward as to war into the Rhineland, an arena of hate and slaughter since the year 843
 That was when Charlemagne's empire was divided into three parts, che to become France, another Ger many the third Middle King dom.' Schoolboys know how that Middle Kingdoms" ghost haunted Burgundys dukes, Charles the PSld, Louis XIV and Joseph II, embit- tered the long feud between Bour- bons and Hapsburgs and robbed Frances revolutionary armies Of their winnings.
 Flood Ravages East
 Out of Johnstown, Pa. streets, where 2.200 died in 1889, fearful folk fled from another flood. In Pittsburgh's golden triangle, a swimmer could not have touched bottom. Without electricity, with no gas for stoves or steam for ra- diators, the city saw muddy waters course through its store windows and fill two theatres to the bal cony.
 Down both sides of the Appalach- ian watershed the water roared; IS states, including New England, counted the dead in the hundreds, the homeless by hundreds of thou sands, and losses of $3oC. 100000 1 A blizzard followed in the east; dust blew in it's western bowl
 Edward Hints of Queen i Along Americas Main Street, Red Cross solicitors made their way. For gotten for a time was the bonus clamor of Veterans of Future Wars and President Roosevelt's request for a new corporation tax to yield S1 ,614, 100000 year.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-29

Try an Empire ad.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-29

tude of 17,ooo feet is very trying work.
 Continuous Record
 The aero-meteorograph on sne wing of the plane makes a contin- uous record of temperature, humid ity and air pressure. The record for each flight is worked up on an adiabatic chart and from this the maximum altitude of the plane can be determined as well as the al titude of the clouds. The record f is examined for significant eleva- tions which include sudden changes in temperature or humidity, icing conditions. turbulent or bumpy air or in fact any unusual conditions. The altitude, temperature, humid ity, vapor, air pressure, specific humidity and potential temperature at each significant level is calcu- lated A coded report containing all this information for each flight is telegraphed to Washington and San Francisco.
 Many Inquiries
 So many inquiries are being made regarding the weather flights that the Fairbanks Weather Bureau of flee has been asked to give the purpose of the flights and the benefits derived from them. The Weather Bureau service has real- ized, for some time, that it has practically reached the limit of it's ability in foreeastipg the weather from the old style weather maps. It is evident that new technique of forecasting should be adopted. Recently the NorWegians developed new system of forecasting based on air mass analysis and investiga- tions have proven this system to be superior to our old method The air mass analysis is simply meth cd of tracking air masses and in- cludes the use of meteorological data taken at high attitudes. The old style weather maps show only the weather and atmospheric con- ditions that prevail at the earth's surface while the new system in cludes records from the air aloft, thereby providing third dimension al data to help round out the whole picture from which the forecaster makes his deductions about the weather ahead.
 Compared to Ocean
 The atmosphere is like a huge ocean with cold currents coming down from the north and warm, humid currents flowing in from the Boring Sea or the Pacific Ocean. The currents are like great rivers or like the Japanese Cur rent and the Gulf Stream, in the atmosphere. They follow more or less well defined but continually varying paths over the country storms and quick changes of tenn perature occur where they meet. A careful study of the new lair mass analysis system in the States has demonstrated an improved &C., curacy in forecasting the weather.
 Value of Reports Shown
 When the Fairbanks flight re- ports are received at San Francisco and Washington they are studied and compared with similar reports received from points in Canada and the continental United States which constantly move from one part of the world to another may be fol- lowed The cold waves which move down from Alaska and on across the plains of Canada may be dis covered and mapped several days before they reach the thickly set- tied regions of the States. The airplane has made the mass air study possible as it provides an ideal method for exploring the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-29

four feet in area and replaces it with soil known to be free of root rot He mixes this with one part copper sulphate to 50 parts earth. Dr. Rogers says chemicals will not peneraate deeply enough to kill all rot infection when applied at the surface or even at blow depth. Thor ough mixture of the chemical with the soil kills the disease.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-29
New Root Rot Control
 Is Developed in Texas

TEMPLE, Tex, Dec. 29.-Dr. c. H. Rogers, plant pathologist of the Blacklands experiment. station here, has developed a new method of root rot control for small plots of shallow rooted ornamental plants.
 He digs the soil from around the plant to depth of three feet and
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-29
NOTICE TO PUBLIC

On and after Jan. l, i937, coal and feed will be sold only for cash on delivery, D, B. Femmer. Phone IA. --adv.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-06

Of conditions that I invite you. 80
A new exhibition of Christian heroism
is called for today. A church that is
militant and daring In its presents
ton Of truth is more needed in our
life than the recovery Of the gold
standard or the rehabilitation Of in
dustry. If there be no moral and re-
ligious standards, our man-made
standards will prove valueless to us.
1.-THE craftsmanship of our time
calls for something other than the
clever and adroit politician. The
curatives for our naladies will not
be found in halls of legislation; the
guarantees of a peaceful world will
not be determined in secret Schancel-
lories. Today, as 10 centuries ago,
we shall find the satisfaction Of our
highest hopes in fresh and obedient
recognition of Him who gave Himself
for the sin of the world"
Bishop Freeman struck passing
but forceful blow at games Of chance
theoretically operated for the benefit
of church organizations. ut has long
been my definite conviction that in
diligence by the church in any prac-
tice that the civil and moral law for
bids is reprehensible." he affirmed.
1T brings shame and dishonor to the
church as an institution"
National Church Center.
Answering a question concerning
the proposed establishment of national
headquarters of the Episcopal Church
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-06
M0DERNPAGAN|SM,
SCORED BY BISHOP
Sermon at Epiphany Opens
41st Annual Diocesan
=
Convention. /
BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.

Preaching In the pulpit of the
Church of the Epiphany, from which
he was called to the episcopate IN
1928, Right Rev. James E. Freeman,
Bishop of Washington, last night
opened the forty-flrst annual con-
vention of his diocese with a chal-
ienge to the manhood and the woman
hood of the Nations Capital to wit
ness for Christ against 1.-The neY
paganism" everywhere rampant in the
world.
A paramount issue, he declared, is
whether America is to continue
Christian or to revert to heathenism.
more important than all political
or economic questions, the bishop
argued, this one occupies a fore
most place. At no time in our his
tory have our moral and religious
standards been subjected to such Sc
we're tests as in the present age.
1.-THE enemies of Christ and His
cause within the church bring it into
disrepute, especially with the younger
generation. The reasonable
disciplines Of our Christian profess
sion are essential parts of the Chris
tian ideal of life. But we have SO de-
limited this ideal within restricted
areas that it is becoming meaningless
and unappealing. That Christianity
as a rule of life is related to public
policies. industry and the whole So
cial order, and is the professed as
sumption on which we act, has been
our proud boast as a people. That
its standards are little by little being
undermined is increasingly evident.
Nothing that we face in our corpo-
rate life is more menacing than this
situation. 1t affects every institution
that we most cherish.
Binding Optimism.
"Unresisted, it means their ulti-
mate destruction. There is species
OF optimism that blinds itself to
perils, even os there is type of pes
simism that casts dark and forbid
ding shadows over the fair prospect
Of life itself.
at is to fair and sane appraisal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-06

nomination Of Gov. ALI Landon
of Kansas or any other potential can
didate for the Republican presidential
nomination.
81 don't join combinations" the
idaho Senator said in the second
speech Of his final week of campaign
ing for Ohio delegates. II have not
joined combination and I don't in
tend to join one to stop any one.
"If Mr.. Landon or Mr.. Knox comes
up to the Cleveland convention with
a fair expression Of the people that
he Is their choice, I'm not going to
stand in the way"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-06

tinue to be q church Of divided in
terests and unattained statesmanlike
accomplishment.
washington is not like other great
centers. The fact that the national
headquarters of many of our civic and
church institutions are conferred here
indicates the widespread feeling that,
as a city. 1t offers altogether unique
advantages for administrative work.
The church's expressed wish
that we give this matter sympathetic
consideration compels us to respond
to the church's appeal"
A congregation which crowded
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-06

in Washington, the Bishop said: II
have believed that the Federal Capt.
tai should be the national center Of
the church. This diocese in all
its planning should seek to pursue a
course that contemplates the needs
of the church throughout the Nation.
Provincialism, diocesanism and pa
rochialism are the triple evils that
hinder the church from fulfilling its
high mission as spiritual leader.
Until pride gives place to
humility, arrogance to self-effacement,
a party spirit to one Of cooperation
and fraternal service, we shall con-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-06

Epiphany Church to its outer walls
heard Bishop Freeman's appeal.
Today's program for the convention
provides for morning and afternoon
sessions, at 10 am. and pm, re-
spectively, at st. Stephens and In
carnation Church, Newton street, and
q fellowship dinner at $50 o'clock
this evening in the parish hall of the
same place Of sacred assembly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-06
"HALT LAND0N" PLOT
is DENIED BY BORAH
Says He Will Not Fight Kansas
Governor or Knox If People
Back Them.
By the Associated Press.

ny tIlt ASbUCIHIcu FIe18.
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, May 6.-Sena-
tor william E. Borah Of Idaho said
here last night that he was not q
party to any combination to stop the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-06
Chile Gets u. S. Fuel Oil.

Three fourths of the fuel oil i'm
ported into Chile in the last year was
from America.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-06

Thomas o'Neill, a hermit, recently
disappeared from Castlecaulfield, In
Northern Ireland, leaving $2,750 sewn
in the lining of old clothing.
Montana labor news., 1936-09-10
HARRINGTON Tells
OF HIS COAST TRIP

Stating that he was glad to be
back to Butte again and enjoying
the associations of his many friends
in the organized labor movement,
Tim Harrington, looking a little
heavier through the acquisition of
several pounds weight garnered
from the ocean breezes of San Fran
cisco and Los Angeles, gave some
interesting sidelights of conditions
on the Pacific coast, at a meeting of
some of the union members at the
Carpenters hall last Tuesday. Mr..
Harrington and his wife have Just
returned from a delightful visit, en-
bracing several weeks, among
friends and relatives.
They first visited Glacier Ma
tional Park and from there spent
several days at Crater Lake. Ore
gon. In Frisco Mr.. Harrington Wis
tied the Civic Auditorium where
the unions hold their meetings. One
absorbing question that occupies
the minds of most of the people is
Continued to Page y
Montana labor news., 1936-09-10
SILVER BOW COUNTY UNIONS lay PLANS
TO PASS CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

The Legislative Committee of the
Silver Bow Trades and Labor Coun-
Gil at Tuesday nights meeting,
brought in a very important report
concerning the proposed amendment
to the Montana State Constitution,
relating to the reduction of hours be-
low that of eight which is now re-
gulated by several different state
laws. The proposition to reduce the
number Of working hours below that
of eight hours is an initiative mea-
sure and will be voted on at the
coming election. The voters will
be given a separate ballot for Con-
stitutional Amendments and this
proposition is one of them. Under
its provisions the Legislature will
have power to reduce the number
of hours. There has been quite a
demand throughout the whole Unit
ed States for a 6-hour day in indus
try and while this particular pro-
posed amendment does not specify
6 hours, it is designed to effect such
a change.
The Silver Bow Trades and Labor
Council went on record last Tues
Montana labor news., 1936-09-10
Anqstman Battles For
Reduced Rates

A rate hearing of vital interest to
the people of Montana was begun al
Helena, Montana, before Clyde "
Atchison, a member of the Inter
state Commerce Commission.
The hearing is upon an application
by the Railroad and Public Service
Commission of Montana, for a sub
stantial reduction in freight rates
upon concentrated feeds, principally
cotton seed cake and meal from
South and Southwest points to Mon
tana.
This newest effort of the commits
sion to bring real benefits to the
farmers and consumers of Montana
is highly commendable and it is to
be hoped will bring actual help to
the people of the state.
The Montana Commission is rep
resented by A. H.. Angstman, former
Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court of Montana, and present can
didate for that office. Judge Angst
mar has been eminently successful
in his rate battles, both before the
Interstate Commerce Commission
and the Supreme Court of the
United States, and his persistent
and successful fight for lower util-
ity rates is bringing real benefit to
the people of our state.
Montana labor news., 1936-09-10

day night On a recommendation of
the Legislative Committee to endor-
Sc this particular measure and the
local Trades and Labor Council is
going to take the lead in attempting
to get the cooperation Of all the
other central labor councils and I'M
ions in the state of Montana to teach
their members to vote for this mea-
sure. The delegates at the Silver
Bow Trades and Labor Council last
Tuesday were instructed to go back
to their respective organizations and
tell the members to support this
measure. A reduction of hours in
industry is the very vital thing to
labor whether organized or unor-
ganized. One of the great obstacles
in our present economic system is
the fact that the working people
put in too much time in labor. It
is necessary that the working peo-
pie vote for this Constitutional
Amendment so that it will be with
in the power of the Legislature to
reduce the number Of hours in
Montana to any figure below that
Of eight.
Montana labor news., 1936-09-10
Social Security Board
May Place Large Order
With Sirikehound 60.
By Federated Press


WASHINGTON. - (FP) - Posi-
bility that the Social Security Board
may soon place a large order for Of
flee equipment with the Remington
Rand Co. was discovered here.
Employees of the Remington
Rand concern have been on strike in
seven plants of the company for IA
weeks and strikers have faced i'm
ported thugs and gunner used by
the concern in a desperate effort tc
break the walkout.
It was learned that a large order
for a visible index filing system was
placed with the Post Index Co. on
July 81. A few hours after the or
der was given it was withdrawn
upon representations by Reming-
ton-Rand attorneys that their con-
Germ had not been afforded an equal
opportunity in the bidding.
The Social Security Board prom
ised to investigate the claims of the
Remington-Rand Co. and is still in
vestigating. The company contends
that it was not in full possession Of
the required specifications and de-
tails.
A spokesman for the Social Sc
curity Board declared that the labor
strike in the Remington-Rand con-
Germ has no part in the considera-
ton that the Board is giving the
claims of various companies.
The Walsh-Heale bill, passed al
Continued to Page a
Montana labor news., 1936-09-10
GOuging Workers Goes
MeriIy On Al The
Poison Dam

POISON, Montana.-White men
r being put on every day or so
now at the Poison dam. They have
possibly 125 whites working down
there now and a bunch of Indians.
Wages are 40c an hour with 55c an
hour for machine men. Rent is out
of sight in Poison with $4,000 for
one-room shacks, without even a
stove in them. One-room cabins
that were renting as high as $500 a
month were hiked up to $3.50 be-
fore the dam started and then to
SIS, and now more.
The cost of living has gone up
here in other respects. Meat is Csc
a pound for the cheapest cut. But
ter is 45c a pound and everything
else accordingly. The proprietor of
a small restaurant here had her
Continued to Page a
Montana labor news., 1936-09-10
THE MONTANA HI-WAY
news

The Montana Labor News is
pleased to announce to its readers
and patrons that a new born babe
has arrived in this state, in the form
of a publication entitled "The Mon
tana Hi-Way News"
This paper was created and is be-
ing maintained by the Independent
truck and bus operators of Montana,
exclus -Nlv. 1t is therefore pub
lished % aeir interests and in OPP
positi 6 all out of state interests
who I perating in competition to
then . transportation agencies.
T olicies of the paper ex-
pre- 3 ~editorially in the Hi-Way
Ne self explanatory.
Montana labor news., 1936-09-10
'OLICIES OF THE MON,
FANA HI-WAY NEWS.
. policies of The Montana
'ay News is one of cham

pOllcleS OF Inc montana
'ay News is one of cham
ing the rights of Montana
citizens who are engaged in
transporting in Montana, and to
relate all facts and advantages
to the general Montana public
concerning their existence. Our
slogan is, Keep Montana Money
in Montana"
We invite discussion through
our columns of all the issues con-
corning Montana transportation
affairs. For instance, if the Of
ficials of the Northern Pacific
Railroad were to submit an ar
ticle to this paper for publication
in defense of the Public Land
Steal committed by that corpora
ton or any other subject per-
tanning to thei r~affairs, it will be
published in these columns pro-
vided it is courteous. However,
we also reserve the right to make
reply to it editorially.
Montana labor news., 1936-09-10
Continued From Last Week.

Continued From Last Week.
Last year the business of the Brit
ish co-operatives took a $50, 1000, 900
jump. Last year the banking bust
ness of the wholesale amounted to
a $4,000, 900 turnover every day.
Their insurance business ranked
with that of the big companies.
In Sweden consumer cooperation
came to the nation when trusts and
monopolies controlled the price
levels of commodities. The move
ment was some little time growing
through the retail stage. But when
there were enough retail societies,
the Swedish Wholesale was organ
lied and became the spearhead of
the attack on the existing economic
order. There was an overshoes
trust that fixed the price of galoshes
at $50 kroner a pair. The Swedish
Cooperative wholesale went into
the overshoe business to see if they
couldn't bring down the price. They
had already broken the margarine
trust and e beginning to feel
their strength. When the overshoe
Continued on Page p
Montana labor news., 1936-09-10
Insurance LAW
SHOULD Be kept

The State Insurance Fund Law
which was enacted at the last ses-
sion of the legislature has been the
cause of considerable controversy.
1t has been tried in the courts sew
eral times as a result of actions in
spired by the Board of Fire Under
writers who opposed its enactment
because the functioning Of such a
measure naturally interiors with the
business they have enjoyed. All
court actions have so far resulted in
decision supporting the law. The
opponents of the law finally succe-
eded in obtaining sufficient sigma
lures to petitions to bring it to a re-
ferendum vote at this next election.
At that time, the voters of the state
will decide whether or not the law
shall stay in force.
This arrangement by which the
state insures all public property has
been in effect since January 18th,
1886. During this short time about
$13,000,000 of insurance has been
written. The State assumes no dir
ect liability, but r%e-insures all risks
as fast as they are written. The
fund shows an earning of forty-sev-
en- thousand dollars already. This
fund is a reserve which is set aside
to be used to carry insurance and
to draw interest. It represents the
profits aceruing from the business
transacted. When this fund amounts
to one million dollars, the Insurance
Commission will have the authority
to furnish free insurance to all
State, County and School Institu-
lions.
A like law in North Dakota has
proven to be a huge success. After
having been in force seventeen
years, the fund has reached $4,000
900. The public property has re-
ceived 1925, 10000 of free insurance
and judging by past experience, the
State expects to be able to keep ali
property insured without cost fol
years to come, the interest earned
by the fund having paid all losses
since it approached the two millior
dollar mark. The records in Nortl
Dakota show that the law was bit
terly opposed at its inception tht
same as is being done in Montana
Finding that they were unsuccessful
in destroying it, the insurance in
terests ceased opposing the move,
ment and now are very active il
competition for the Reinsurance
business which they write for the
state.
We predict the same will happier
in Montana if the voters see fit tc
vote for continuing the law at the
November election.