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Dennis Returns
 to Headquarters

J. F. Dennis, Territorial license officer for the First Division return ed to his Juneau headquarters on the PAA plane from Fairbanks yes terday afternoon.
 For the last 40 days MT. Dennis has been in the Second Division, which is without the services of a license officer, checking liquor li- censes and looking over the situa- tion generally.
 He flew to a number of places out from Nome. There is hardly creek said MT. Dennis, that does not have from four to 10 men on it where couple of years ago not a soul would be found. Min ing revival has just started that is apparent. What has occurred in the last two years, in my opin- ion, will be entirely dwarfed by the developments of the next few years if the price of gold remains up'
 Mining is a subject upon which MT Dennis speaks with authority. For many years he was with the Kennecott Copper Corporation in the Third Division.
 MT. Dennis is paving the way for and in general looking after three oldtimers who are bound from Nome to the Pioneers Home They are A. s. Doc) Kemp, Fred Liner and Jas. N. Gasoline Red) Earle.
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WEATHER CONDITION AT 8 A. M TODAY
 Ketchkan, cloudy Radiovie cloudy cloudy, 50; Soapsone Point missing Cordova, Chitna, Fairbanks cloudy, showing, Springs raining, 32; cloudy 22 Unalakleet missing Flat foggy, B.
 WEATHER SYNOPSIS
 Two charted this being southeast lowest reported prevailed Aeuians inches Atu High upper and Mackenzie valleys southward waan distribution pep tation of Alaska northwestern
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Lode and placer location notices {0r sale at The Empire office.
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AT THE HOTELS
Gastineau

Gastineau
 J. B. Thompson, Victoria, B. o.; F. A. Edwards, Victoria, B. o.; Bill Knox, Fairbanks; Al Monson, Fairbanks; Jerry Jones, Fairbanks; Murray Stuart, Fairbanks; MT. and Mrs. Luther Hess, Fairbanks; T. Gutavson, Vancouver, B. O.; Andrew c. Olson, Flat; Viv Sjolseth, Fair banks; Eugene Uotela, Fairbanks; Roy Uotela, Fairbanks; A. s. Kemp, Fairbanks; Joe Earle; Ferdinand Kleiner; Frank Slaven; Melvin Berg; Roger Knutsen; Mrs. Wm. Strong, Tulsequah; w. J. Nelson, Tulsequah.
 Alaskan
 MT. and Mrs. Samuel G. John son, Angoon; Ole Goodwin, Seat tie; MT. and Mrs. A. Ginarto, Ju- neau; Henry Pigg, Juneau.
 Zynda
 M. D. Mccarthy, Poorman; A. Norbert, Fairbanks; Sandy Smith, Camp s.
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GRIDLEY IN SEATTLE

Ross A. Gridley, State Engineer Inspector for PWA, who has beer in Washington in connection with public works projects for Alaska, has returned to Seattle and will come north on the steamer Yukon which is scheduled to sail from Seattle next Thursday, according to word to his office here.
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--adv.
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LOCAL DATA
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BRUNSWICK AND ELKS PIN TEAMS TO MEET
 AT ELKS TOMORROW

Meeting in a special match, the five-man bowling teams of the Elks and Brunswicks will oppose each other on the Elks Alleys at 5:30 o. clock tomorrow afternoon. accord ing announcement today from Frank Metcalf, captain of the Elks' team So far in their current ser ies, the Elks haze VOL two out of three matches from the Bruns : wick, all played on the Brunswick alleys, and now, rolling on their home maple, figure to really snow under the Brunswicks in tomor- rows match.
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ATTENTION MASONS

There will be a Stated Com munication of Mt. Juneau Lodge, No. 147, Monday evening at 7.30. Short lectures. All Masons urged to attend. By order of the w. M.
 J. w. LEVERS. adv. Secretary.
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JEWELL RETURNS

Deputy Game warde e n Homer Jewell, who flew to Haines and Skagway in connection with a Alaska Game Commission mission returned to his Juneau headquart- CTS yesterday afternoon on the Tallapoosa.
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WEATHER SYNOPSIS

Flora Finch, former star now play ing small roles, has appeared in 1000 films in 27 years.
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Some dental experts say good teeth aid in developing and shaping each bone in the head.
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RHODA MAY CLARK-Foot COT
 rectiof1ist. SIT Goldstein Bldg. adv.
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In Irish mythology Damona was the sheep goddess or the goddess of cattle Dana was the mother of the gods.
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HALIBuT sCHooNERs IN

Two halibut boats delivered trips on the Juneau market today. The Sitka, Capt. Bill Doucett, halibut schooer belonging to Mayor I. Gold stein, brought in 10000 pounds of halibut from Area III, which was sold to the Stuart Fish Company for 760 and 630 cents.
 The halibut schooner Resolute, came in from Icy Bay with 36,000 pounds of halibut, but had not sold up to press time today. An- other halibut schooner, the Explor- CT, took bait and ice here this morning, preparatory to leaving for the Area III banks.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-13
Gen. johnson Says

A7ASHINGTON March 13-The minimum cost
w of family home for decent living is about
S4O00-Say rental value of $50 a month That is
the most that can be afforded by family income of
$4,000 But 100000 families do not have incomes
of as much as S2000-and so can't have decent
housing
That is shocking conclusion 1t is the sort of
unbalance that makes everybody want to increase
these small incomes. Nobody has shown way But
can the same problem be solved by decreasing the
cost Of small houses?
Hundreds of people are working on that problem
from a dozen angleS-new materials lower costs for
land, labor, finance and supervision. This has for
SO long been business problem that there will be
no sudden magic.
DUT there might be answer in the peculiarly
- American institution of quantity production. If
there were vast capital. using the fun force of mass
purchasing power, willing to forgo speculative
profits in land values, with money and equipment
sufficient to maintain uninterruptedly a rate of
production yet imagined, with a continuously
employed construction at fixed annual salaries
it might be able to produce small decent houses at
half their present cost.
If that could be done it would open up market
hitherto undreamed of-just Henry Ford did.
when he made his first magnificent gamble that there
is some price low enough to move unsupported
masses Of any product, but that you must make the
price regardless of COST and gamble quantity for
your profit. In this it's gamble worth taking.
The opening of such tremendous new industry
could bring prosperity back.
From a cold business angle there is another adj
vantage; a hedge against imitation nothing could
equal such scheme
Copyright 1886, by United Feature Syndicate, 1ncl
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sh in this business? Or is he climbing out of hole
to fasten his personal grip more tightly upon the
German people? Several weeks ago the Berlin cor
respondent of the London Economist reported that
German industry was faced with embarrassment
which might be saved by rearmament activity in
other countries. He suggested that in default of
private initiative. German rearmament would give
the required impetus
He thought then that the government already
had decided to keep industry going with rearmament
orders. Apparently he was correct. Within a few
weeks. on a monetary system supported largely on
thu air-Germany's gold reserve is 1872 per cent
Hitler tore up Locarno and stepped up the manu-
facture OF war materials
THERE appears to be another factor at work
which feeds the personal vanity of Hitler An
astute German correspondent here Kurt G. Sell
who may be regarded highly intelligent spokes-
man OF his government explains Htlers psychology
in reoccupying the Rhineland in terms of personal
heroics. He says in an article in the Washington
Daily News. that If America had lost war and the
vctors had ordered American troops to stay out of
New England, an American President who sent his
army back into that territory would "be hailed as
hero and as great emancipator'"
Likewise French politicians are talking about
french honor being at stake and how this is an in
-toleraole humiliation which has just been perpe-
trated OF course French politician is ignorant of
the fact that general election is in the ofing and
that the nation faces the painful task of oeyaluing
the franc 1t is easier for politician to talk about
avenging national honor than to break the bad
news to the French peasants that they are about
to have another slice taken out of their savings nv
devaluation.
AS for Mussolini, yet has figured out any
reason for his raid Ethiopia except his urge for
"prestge-personal, selfish glory at the expense of
his people.
WEARS ago Lemuel Parton brought back story
i which is as good today as it was in 1914
A British patriotic speaker was trying to inspire
Welsh miners to larger output to meet war needs.
DO you want to be digging coal for the kaiser?"
he shouted.
From the rear Of the crowd came the piping
question: How much does the kaiser pay?"
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BY ROBERT w. HORTON

VXTASHINGTON, March 49,
w Capt. Anthony Eden is cred
tied with having said that Adolf
Hitler is "a better eggplant than
some people think" The remark
may hold key to England's po-
sition in the Franco-German crisis
today.
England's 3S-year-old foreign
secretary once had an eight-hour
conversation with the Nazi die
tator, over Germany's rearming in
defiance of the Versailles Treaty.
Exactly what was said is not
known-but Germany went on re-
arming.
Capt. Eden has background
of typical British civil service
training but his best lessons in
diplomacy are said to have been
learned from Frances Pierre La
val and Soviet Rusia's Maxim Lit
vinoff, both friends of his.
Eden is a firm believer in the
necessity of collective action
through the League of Nations to
preserve peace if it can be pre-
served at all.
LIE takes the position that Brit
i i ain should assume leading
role in Continental politics. 1t
was he who was largely RESPONSE
Bile for creation of the .'interna-
tional army that policeo the Saar
during the plebiscite last year.
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Not Entirely Accurate


ITO be sure, that is not entirely accurate For
- one year I was minor newspaper executive and
theoretically I had the power to hire and fire.
I never fired anybody, but the one writer whom
1 engaged turned out to be top man in his division
Not only did pick and choose Bill Mcclellan for
the sport page of the Tribune, but I exploited him.
The bargaining base on which 1 empowered
to operate was very slim. The managing editor said
could have him if he would come for $50 week.
and If he wouldn't take that 1 could go as high
as SIS.
Mr.. Mcclellan" said at our conference Il am
empowered to offer you either $50 or $55 week to
come to work. Which would you rather have?"
Bill chose $50, and in few months was the
best-known sports writer in New York
My mother thinks l "phoney,' although
l am pretty certain she did not use that word in
the matter of parading and pioketng,
However if anything of the martyr complex
turks in me have right to assert that it is heredt
tary. For one afternoon there was no elevator
service in the apartment building in which my
mother lives, and now it has been restored, which
makes my mother pretty indignant. The service
came back because the landlord signed up with the
union. My mother is considering walking up and
down the five flights of stairs as protest
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
by DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN-

several days preparing it. The
document is now in the locked
personal file of the President.
Note-Mr. Slemp is not the only
Republican or New Deal critic the
President has secretly consulted
of late. Several leading congress
sional foes have had candid talks
with him at his invitation.
Reason for the Presidents STRAIT
egg is not clear, and he has not
seen fit to elucidate. But it is
supposed that he wants to figure
out ways to meet Republican ar
gumentS.
president ROOSEVELT may
l. pull another rabbit out of his
hat-just as startling as the cor
poration-surplus tax proposal
when Me sends Congress his spe-
cial message on relief.
He is seriously considering
plan calling for a relief program
of seven months instead of IL.
That is, instead of submitting a
budget covering the whole of the
coming fiscal year-Jllly 1, 1886 to
July l, 1937-he would ask for
funds to cover the program only
up to Feb. l, 1887.
Several ends could be accom-
plished by such maneuver.
l. 1t would be possible to reduce
greatly the relief appropriation at
the current session of Congress.
With the billion or more saved
from last years $4,000, Doc, 600
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Eden Is Bold Conci|iator
Tempered by Traditions

He is called "the best-dressed
statesman in the world" However,
since he assumes the conventional
striped trousers and black jacket
of British diplomacy, this does not
mean that his clothes are conSpic-
uouS.
EDEN has mischievous sparkle
~ in his eyes. The story is told
of a dinner to Aga Kahn. Eden,
called on for speech, arose with
a smile and addressed the guests
in Persian. Gle took honors at
Oxford in Oriental languages.
Mussolini was said to have been
annoyed to have England send a
"boy" to see him in Rome. But
Eden subsequently impressed his
ability on Mussolini, during the
early Ethiopian disputes, by vir-
tually forcing the dictator to ac-
cept the preliminary draft of the
Leagues resolution on the Italo-
Ethiopian conflict.
Eden's boldness in the cause OF
Cancellation was illustrated during
his visit to Moscow. England was
bitter against the Communist ma
ton at the time. At the official
dinner in Moscow, however, the
Russians raised their glass to
Comrades, the King Of England.
Eden replied with: Gentlemen,
Lenin."
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She's Very Executive

INDIVIDUALLY the elevator boys are all right by
a her. She furnishes ice cream on Sundays and
takes up the Christmas collection from the tenants.
! forgot to say that my mother is very executive
She would make excellent agitator herself but
she doesn't like to see anybody else agitate I can
easily imagine situations in which she would picket
for Eddie and George and Caleb But they mustn't
do it themselves.
am using them symbols. She has different
landlord. Mrs. Haywood Cox Broun has been in
the same building for IS years, and to my certain
knowledge she has called that landlord every con-
ceivable name short of profanity and obscenity,
which my mother does not employ, that gentle
woman can lay her tongue to. But when it's union
fight my mother switches sides. She does not
think that anybody else should employ violence.
When the revolution comes it's going to be a
tough problem what to do with her. We will either
have to shoot her or make her commissar In the
meantime We still dine together
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W G. Bascom Slemp, secre-
tary to the late President Cool
idge and one of the canniest
strategists in the Republican Par
ty, got the surprise of his life re-
Gently. He was summoned to the
White House by President Roose-
welt for advice.
No word of the secret conversa-
ton has leaked from Mr.. Slemp,
but White House attaches have
been less circumspect.
Mr.. Roosevelt welcomed him
warmly and then floored him
with this question: "Bascom,
what's wrong with my Admins
tration?"
do you want it straight
from the-shoulder, Mr.. Presi-
dent?" asked Mr.. Slemp.
That's why I sent for you, Bas-
com. Don't pull your punches. ;"
Mr.. Slemp didn't. For over an
hour he told Roosevelt in detail
what he thought was wrong.
Frankly and bluntly he criticised
policies and individuals and gave
his reasons.
The President listened intent
ly and sympathetically. When Mr..
Slemp finished he thanked him
warmly, asked him as personal
favor" to send him a written
memorandum listing the points
he had made.
Mr.. Slemp agreed, and spent
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he recounts, "to see these fine peo-
pie reduced to such dire condi-
tions. Many, many of them
committed suicide"
No matter how long he had
been thinking along social lines,
the idea terminated about the
time he found himself in the
position described.
The OARP plan started on an
absolute shoestring. He had
some blanks printed, with the
plan at the top, space for sigma
ture at the bottom. He advertised
in the newspapers for canvaSsers
to go around and get sigma
lures. First signatures, then
money support, began to come in.
DUT DR.. Townsend didn't and
~ doesn't pretend to have any
financial or business ability. BY
the time he was ready to rent, on
credit, a headquarters with a huge
sign across the front, he felt the
need of an associate trained in
business.
The logical man was Robert
Earl Clements, for whom the doc
tor had worked as part-time
real estate salesman.
Clements came along, and re-
mains today as the business man
ager and executive spark plug of
the Townsend organization.
DR.. Townsend has three broth
ers and two sisters, all living. Bert
Townsend is postal employee in
Long Beach, Walter sells airplane
tickets in Hollywood, George is a
farmer near Franklin, Neb. The
sisters are married.
Francis and Minnie Townsend
have a son, Robert Craig, q,
student of farming at San Luis.
Obispo Polytechnic School. A
daughter is now Mrs. Robert Shev-
lind of Long Beach. An adopted
daughter died only a few months
ago.
DR.. Townsend speaks and
dresses quietly, favoring gray. He
likes to play cribbage, and eat
boiled cabbage. 6
Few who have talked to him
have ever questioned his evident
sincerity, or that, as Mrs. Town
send says, 'he has always been
an idealist, seen beautiful visions,
and hoped things would turn out
the best for everybody"
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Times Books

IF you like to curl up in a coy chair and lose
l. yourself an evening hunting treasure in the
South Seas land who doesn't?), then you have a
treat in store for you in kind of treasure book
They Found Gold" putnam; $3.50
say new kind of treasure book because this
fascinating series of yarns by A. Hyatt Verr1ll is
based fact. Verrill himself has hunted for more
than one fabulous cache buried on Southern isles,
under coral reefs, or in the steaming jungles of
Centrai America. His book is review of the worlds
famous treasure hunts many of which still being
carried on.
You'll find most of the worlds lost loot still is to
be recovered; but Mr. Verri warns that treasure
hunting IS hard and usually hopeless task (By
Bruce Catt0n)<
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Certain picturesque incidents
begin to take on the form of Cos
pei, such as the one about how
he was shaving one morning,
saw elderly people delving in the
garbage cans in the rear of his
apartment building, and then and
there conceived the Townsend
plan.
But the main facts of Town
sends life are clear and simple.
Up to the time he began promot-
ing his old-age revolving pension
plan, his story was that of an or
binary American who worked
hard all his life, drifting from one
job to another, from this town to
that, coming to old age without
having made very much money or
achieved very conspicuous success.
II II
TOWNSEND was born little
Il more than SO years ago, on
Jan. Is, on farm near Fairbury,
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fail to make second, but your con-
tract will be defeated.
The opening lead of the deuce of
diamonds must be won in dummy
with the ace, to keep the lead in
dummy.
The second play is also impor-
tant. You must lead the king of
diamonds from dummy and dis
card the king of clubs, and on the
jack of diamonds you must dis
card the ace of clubs. Now, dunn
my's three clubs are good, and on
these you discard your three
hearts.
A spade is led from dummy and
the illnesses taken. The ace of
spades is played, capturing East's
king, and you now can spread the
hand for the rest of the tricks,
making a grand slam.
This hand brings out the impor-
lance of being careful about study
ing out a hand before playing to
the first trick.
copyright. 1895 bv NEA Service Inc
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Ill. He went through the Nc
Guffey readers in country schools,
and did the usual farm chores
and labor of all farm boys.
When he was in his teens his
father sold out and moved to
southern Nebraska, where young
Townsend went to a. private acad-
envy, now abandoned.
He cut loose from home with
$1,000, which amount his father
gave each of his sons, and went
through it pretty quick" he tells
you.
There was an unfortunate hay
raising venture which went wrong
when the baled hay was shipped
to California in 1889 just in time
to meet collapse of a real estate
boom.
He sold groceries, tried home
stealing, "bummed it" on freights
from town to town. working on
farms or at odd jobs. He tells
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you stories of sleeping in sheep
cars through Kansas, of bum
ming freights" in Nebraska. FL
nally he sought a settled profess
sion.
LIE worked his way through
a Omaha Medical College (now
part of the University of Nebras-
ka) by keeping books. raking
leaves, waiting on table.
On graduation, he found
chance to become associated with
a small hospital in the Black Hills
country north of Deadwood, at
Bell Fourche, S. D.
The head nurse was Minnie
Bogue, born in Milwaukee, and
then a recent graduate of nurs-
ing school in Omaha. Today she
is the wife, short and plump, with
horn-rimmed spectacles hiding
bright eyes. She accompanies the
doctor on his continual travels.
During the World War DR..
Townsend was stationed as
medical officer with a state uni
versity training unit at Vermilion,
S. D.
Then he returned to his hos
pltal at Belle FOurche. But his
health began to fail.
He underwent a serious APP
pendix operation, and then gen
eral periJonitis set in. He de-
c1ded to remove to southern Cali
fornia, where he had been before,
and where he had relatives.
Settling at Long Beach, DR..
Townsend practiced, on and off,
and then became one of several
physicians hired by the health
department of Long Beach to at
tend the INDECENT. Many were
stranded and the city had to pro-
vide for medical care for hun
dreds.
A LITTLE more than three
L N years ago, when the number
of cases dropped back to normal,
he lost the job. He had very
little money, though he was not
entirely broke.
That the things the doctor saw
among the many elderly people
who for years have flocked to
southern California Influenced
his OARP plan there can be no
doubt.
"It was bitter experience, !"