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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-02-07

win be sponsored this year, as
usual, by the Phyllis Auxiliary,
Mrs. Frances Duncan, president,
and will be celebrated by a din
ner and program at the House,
Tuesday, February IL, at $50 p. m.
Other Years
In former annual meetings it has
been possible to send outside the
city for a speaker, with a special
message. In later years, owing to
changed economic conditions, it has
been found advisable to substitute
for this feature presentations from
the work actually carried on in
the House. This change has fitted
exactly to the moods of it's patrons
and the affairs have gone forward
to the perfect satisfaction of the
hundreds who crowd the big gym
at the House to capacity.
Eleventh Annual
This year marks the 18th mile
stone in its history and Miss w.
Gertrude Brown, head resident, is
expected to report no lessening of
its activities and a decided increase
in the value Of the service it has
offered the people of this commu-
nifty.
Mails are not always de-
pendable. If you do not receive
your card of invitation, phone
Cherry 3O9S. Phyllis Wheatley
does not want q single friend
overlooked and you are ex-
pected.
The program, chief feature of
the entertainment accompanying
the dinner, will be one of those
charming slits by one Of the dra-
matte groups directed by Miss M.
Louise Bohanon, dramatic depart
ment head.
Music
The evenings musical numbers
viii be given by a newly formed
chorus developed from the WPA
sewing unit, employed at the house
and trained by Mrs. Blanche o.
Mason, head of the department of
music.
e .1 Service
Service at the dinner, an always
important factor in the annual din
ner, will be in charge Of members
from the goth Century Club and
walters from the Curtis Hotel.
Menu
The menu will be prepared under
the critical eye Of Mrs. Wayne
Battles and the guests viii be well
coined by groups selected from the
staff and auxiliary.
Reservations
Invitations are already in the
mails and those who are intending
to come are urged to make prompt
reservation by mail, phone or in
person. This will enable the man
agement to exercise its usual care
I'm looking after its guests. The
small price Of 5Oc per plate has
not been changed this year.
After three consecutive victories
the Border Basketball Team ran
into an unexpected tartar in the
Fremont Congregational outfit on
the Jordan Junior High floor, and
went down to defeat by the mar
row margin Of two points. The
game ended 1927, with the home
boys still fighting with their last
ounce of energy to overcome that
two point lead.
The race entry in the fight for
the North Side Championship was
forced to play the greater part of
the game with the starting line
up intact, because no substitutes
were available. During the last
few minutes, Stafford Lott was
forced to leave the game on per-
sonal fouls, leaving only four men
to finish the game. The Border
boys tired soon after the second
half opened and saw their lead Of
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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-02-07

Pastor Thompson.
begin his workRsv. ]. n. Thompson
here Sunday, February 9. The
public is always welcome at st.
Thomas.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-30
COMEDY FILM TO BE SHOWN
 AT COLISEUM
The Bishop Misbehaves ; Opens at Local The
 atre Sunday

One of the most charming anc humorous stage hits of the current Broadway season has been filmed and is being shown at the Coliseum Theatre Sunday It is The Bishop MiSbehaveS.
 Maureen O'Sullivan, fastest-ris- ing young screen actress who re- gently scored in a prominent role in Garbos Anna Karenina," plays the romantic feminine lead opposite Norman Foster, popular young lead ing man.
 The story deals humorously with the madcap revenge of young Eng fish girl on an old dodo who has embedded her ailing fathers mon- ey. Failing to find justice in the courts, she resorts to an ingen- iously planned robbery, in which she is aided by young American architect, who sets himself up as a friend of Al Capone's, and clus- ter of enthusiastic but non-p profes- sional English characters.
 A double bill playing for the last times tonight includes, "Wanderer of the Wasteland,' and His Fam fly Tree"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-30
DRAMA OPENING AT
 CAPITOL SUN.
.'Barbary Coast with Mir fam Hopkins Billed for
 Local Showing

The 'Barbary Coast" Americas last frontier of untamed emotions lives again in all its stark rowdy realism in a production of that title opening at the Capitol Theatre Sunday.
 Miriam Hopkins, Edward G. Rob- inson and Joel McCrea are cast in the leading roles. Miss Hopkins plays the role of Swan, beautiful girl who invades the goldmad city and becomes hard and cold as the diamonds with which she is deoked by Chamalis. the powerful ruth less owner of the notorious Bella Donna Cafe, over whose crooked roulette table she reigns.
 Into this struggling mass of hu- manity wanders Jim Carmichael. a fine, clean-cut young chap, who had made his strike He and Swan fall in love, but the man meets bitter disillusionment when he dis covers her connection with the Bella Donna.
 Death and destruction stalk the scene and Chamalis' jealous rage nearly turns the romance into trag- edy before the lovers are free to face the future together.
 Playing for the last times tonight is Beyond Bengal
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-30

to have the girls listen to records o1 their own speaking voices. but this is a rare eXpedient because u IS apt to make the speaker self. conscious
 ! Try Vocal Exercises
 For the most part suggest ex- ercises' says the teacher. Sister, SuSie-Sewing- rts-for- soldiers and other routines in enunciation Imi- tation of good diction is the finest method-I tell them to see and hear films of Helen Hayes, Margaret Sullavan, Ann Harding, John Bar rymore, Paul Muni, Franchot Tone, and other actors I consider have excellent diction. Our policy with an accent is always to make haste slowly.
 But they can do it. Ann Evers has had training in New York all ready. and Wilma Francis and It, tie Jeanne Perkins are very will ing workers They have some good examples to follow: Miriam Hop- kins, Margaret Sullavan, Gertrude Michael and Gail Patrick = all southern girls who lost or are los- ing their accents"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-30
By ROBBIN COONs

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, May 30.-- There are three new Dixie belles in filmland, and their biggest job is to ring in accents clear.
 They have cleared the first hurdle in their path to film careers, with the renewal of their optional con- tracts for another three months. And. from now on, much will de- pend on their success in dropping the Dixie drawls they brought from Louisiana
 So Jeanne Perkins from Baton Rouge, Wilma Francis from New Orleans, and Ann Evers, from Clarkesville, Va, by way of New Or leans, are watching their Is and their final g's" and sounding their consonants with determination and zeal.
 Phyllis Loughton, head of the Paramount school for stock con- tract players, is sure the trio can
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-30
"Smiling Mac" Metcaife Is Celebrating

Smiling Mac" Metcalfe, of the firm of Rice and Ahlers, is enjoying the start of a two-day holiday to- day celebrating his first aniver- sary as a member of the firm. Met calfe says that business generally has been very satisfactory during his first year with Rice and Ahlers and that a greatly increased de- mand for their lines is anticipated this year on account of the new construction now under way or being considered in and around Juneau
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-30

vention seats mean anything-and it usually does-political interest is running extremely high this year in both parties
 Those who allot places in the press gallaries are smothered under an outpouring of applications num- bering many hundreds more than there are seats available.
 The crush for spectators tickets likewise is overwhelming, many of the applicants are willing to spend hundreds of dollars of their own money journeying from far points to see the show.
 Even at Philadelphia where the Demo rat!c proceedings are ex- pected universally to follow a pat tern well-understood in advance, the demand already is heavy and insistent.
 Evidently the country is going to have one grand time over it's poli- tics in 1886
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-30

ing declared himself an active can- didate, he has felt no responsibility for speaking out. Should he for mally be declared the spokesman of the Republican party, however, he would assume new obligations, and find himself in an entirely different role.
 Of course none of these friends assume to speak with the author ity of the Governor himself. They merely venture the opinion that, 1886 being what it is, he would not sit down at Topeka and hope that the Presidency would come his way. They foresee him stalking every thing on an active campaign.
 They acknowledge that such a course might expose him to exper- fences quite new to him, but they figure that's what will happen-if and when the opportunity presents itself.
 If the demand for national con-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-30
LEADERS LEAVE FOR
 BOY SCOUTS CAMP

In order to get the Boy Scout camp in readiness for the arrival of the boys Monday Camp Director Wayne Young, Carl Alsteau, his assistant, and J. E. Ransom, cook, left Juneau this morning with Sid- ney Dennison of the Forest Service, who is taking out the supplies. The four men will pack the supplies in from the end of the road and ex- pect to have everything in ship shape by Monday morning.
 The Scouts are to meet at the Fire Hall at o'clock Monday morning where private cars will be available to take them to camp.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-30

overcome what she considers the greatest handicap to any player; an English or a southern accen,.
 SOutherners Not Sough.
 We don't sign accents as a rule, " she says. Generally speaking, the southern girl and the English girl have less chance than others in pictures. These girls were signed because they are unusually attrac- tive and talented, but they must overcome their accents before there can be a real place for them"
 The southern drawl," charming as it is in fiction and often in real life, becomes handicap because a film player must be easily under stood in dialogue-and. says Miss Loughton, in many parts of the country the drawl is regarded as a foreign language.
 Overcoming the accent, she em- phasizes, is up to the girls indi- One method she uses is
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-30
BARR PLANE FROM ATLIN
Three Passengers Brought to Juneau Return
 Flight Monday

The North Canada Air EXpre Ss Pilgrim plane piloted by L. F. Barr, with Flight Mechanic Lee Bar ragar, arrived at the Army airport from Atlin at 230 o'clock yester- day afternoon, with three pas |sengers from Atlin, E. Drexler, M Johnson and Elliott Tyrer.
 Following week -end scenic flights lover the Juneau area, the Pilgrim plane will make another flight to Atlin next Monday morning.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-30
NURSE HERE FROM
 WASHINGTON, D. c.

Mary Keith Cauthorne, of Wash ington, DC, arrived on the Alaska and will take up her new duties on the medical staff under the Social Security Act. She receives her ap- pointment from Dr. w. w. Council, Territorial Health Commissioner.
 Miss Cauthorne is for the time being guest at the Gastineau Ho- tel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-30
Young Woman Given Maximum Sentence,
 Ba d Check Passing

SEATTLE, May 30.-Mrs. Ventres Porter Vincent. aged g, former Uni- versity of Missouri coed, has been sentenced to 20 years, the maxi mum penalty. in the state peniten- tiary after pleading guilty to issu- ing IT worthless checks. She mar ried naval seaman while in jail.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-30
TO START EXCAVATION
 FOR APARTMENT HOUSE

At 8 o'clock next Monday morn ing the H. B. Foss Construction Company will start excavation for the new Diston Avenue apartment building. Al Dishaw will be foreman in charge of excavation.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-30
LEA GOES TO sITKA

Robert Lea, local manager of the West Coast Grocery Company, and Mrs. Lea are roundtrip passengers on the North Wind to Sitka.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-30
ANDRAE ON ALASKA

P j. Andrae, interested in the Icy Strait cannery at Hoonah, and Mrs. Andrae arrived on the Alaska
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-30
BRADLEY IS HERE

B. B. Bradley, of the Pacific Mar inc Supply Company, arrived on the Alaska.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-30

J. B. White sailed for Sitka on the North Wind enroute to the Pio- neers' Home.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-30
GoURLEY RETURNS

Frank Gourley, of the B. M. Beh- rends Co., Inc, returned from 2 vacation in the States aboard the North Wind.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-30

Elmer Jakeway, of the Jakeway Distributing Company, arrived from Ketchikan on the North Wind
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-30
Congressional
 Independence
 Hints Changes

(Continued from Page One,
The Washington times., 1936-09-04
POLICE HUNT.
MISSING BOYS

Two youths were reported miss
ing from their homes today and
police were requested to search
for them.
George Ogden, Is, disappeared
yesterday, his mother, Mrs. Anna
Ogden, $500 @ st. S. E., reported.
He was riding a red bicycle and
was wearing a green shirt and
white trousers when he left home.
The boy is S feet tall, weighs ITO
pounds and has light hair.
Homer Corso, 10, left home Au-
gust 81 and has not been seen
since, his mother, Mrs. Laura
Corso, 529 Quincy st. N. W., re-
ported. He is described as 5 feet
8 inches tall, weighs 1870 pounds
and has dark hair and eyes. He
was wearing a yellow sweater and
brown trousers when he left home.
The Washington times., 1936-09-04
POLICE
AID PROBE

Organization of a "secret serv-
ice" within the local Police De-
partment will be perfected in an
effort to run down rumors of
graft and police tie-ups with
racketeers, it was learned today.
Under direction of Capt. Ira
Keck, acting chief of detectives,
and Lieut.. Floyd Truscott, a
group of policemen and detec-
tives will be assigned to run
down the rumorS.
Only Keck and Truscott will
know the identity of the special
agents. Members of the special
squad will not even know the iden-
tity of other members, and the
investigation will extend to every
one of the IL precincts as well as
headquarters and the detective
bureau.
Each man on the squad will be
given one specific job, and from
the composite reports conditions
in the department will be revealed.
Any money needed in the inves-
tigation can come from an emer-
gency fund used to pay informerS.
The Washington times., 1936-09-04
HOBBY OF VET
GETS BONUS

When AL Bricker, a war veteran,
spent nearly 500 of his bonus
money to buy supplies for his
hobby of making model airplanes,
he had no thought that within a
short time he would be teaching
some 35 boys the art of building
miniature airShips.
Bricker, who celebrated hi S
seventeenth and eighteenth birth
day anniversaries in France dur
ing the World War, opened an cleo
trical and mechanical repair shop
at 2513 BladenSburg Road N. E.,
with his bonus money. Since he
also wanted to pursue his hobby,
he bought plenty of supplies. And
when business was slow he would
sit in his shop and fashion his
models.
Then he hung several of his tiny
ships in his shop window. Several
boys, interested in model plane
building, came in to ask about the
ships. Many more boys frequented
the shop to watch and question
the veteran, who is a former en-
ploye of the Washington Airport,
and former pilot. So he decided
to unite the boys into a club, which
he called The Propeller Club. So
far the club has IS members, rang
ing in age from the youngest, four
years old, to the eldest, about IA.
This is what Bricker said about
his club members:
"These boys have a tremen-
dOuS interest in flying. They all
tell me that they are going to
become aviatOrs when they grow
up. Aviation has progressed
1000 per cent since the time of
the war, and if these youngsters
of today keep up their ambitions
there will be as complete a
change in aviation during the
next 20 years as there has been
in the past"
The boys make all kinds of model
ships and zeppelins, as we'll as
miniature motors. Before a boy
can be a member, he has to make
at least one model plane which
must pass Mr.. Bricker'S inspection.
The Washington times., 1936-09-04
Ken Murray
SAYS:

While we thought there was
nothing new under the sun,
David CuShman Doyle, PWA
economist, now comes along and
says that the 1929 crash was
caused by too much savings.
See the point? From now on
the New Deal taxes will quietly
remove your savings and you
won't have anything to worry
about.
What Mr.. Cushman says
about too much saving in 1929
may sound logical, but those de-
pOSitOrS certainly found an
awful lot of empty banks when
they finally looked into them.
1t seems the main difference
between the Democratic and G.
o. p. policies is whether we
should spend money, or save
it Most of us would be salts
fled If someone could just show
us how to make it.
After all, now that we've
shelled out so much for pros.
perity, it's high time that some
body Speeded up its delivery.
Copyright. 1885, by Mcknight
Syndicate, Inc
The Washington times., 1936-09-04
Hole ORDERED
PLACED UNDER
MERIT PLAN
President Moves to
Establishment as
Permanent Unit

Moving toward having the Home
owners Loan Corporation eStab-
lished as a permanent office in
the set-up of the Federal Govern
ment, President Roosevelt has
issued orders to the Civil Service
Commission to aid the corpora
ton in extending the merit system
to it's $500 workers, it was
learned today.
Blanketing the agency into the
competitive cleI sified system is
prohibited under the Hole or
ganic law, but it was indicated
that President Roosevelt will seek
at the next session of Congress to
have the agency established per-
manently under Civil Service reg
ulationS.
Survey Expected
Officials at the Civil Service
Commission today forecast an i'm
mediate survey of Hole personnel
to see what steps will be required
to produce adequate merit system
conditions, and it was said that
future jobs in the agency will be
awarded to eligibles from civil serv-
ice registers. Numerous applicants
now on file with Hole for non
technical posts, however, will still
be eligible for appointment, subject
to examinations given by Hole
based on civil service test outlines.
It was pointed out by John H.
Fahey, chairman of the Federal
Home Loan Bank Board, that the
merit system extension does not
mean that Hole employees will be
required to take civil service exam
nations as a requisite to holding
their positions, nor that they will
be replaced by workers from the
certified lists of the Commission.
The order was sent to both the
Civil Service Commission and
Hole by the President. In his
missile to President Harry B.
Mitchell of the Commission, Mr..
Roosevelt said:
"The corporation has been in
Continued on Page ~, Col. q
The Washington times., 1936-09-04
PRIEST FAST
THIRD DAY

Ready to lay down his life for
what he believes is his just cause,
the Rev. John Bajcura, of the
Byzantine Rite of the Catholic
Church, today entered the third
day of a self-imposed fast.
He has vowed that he will neither
eat nor drink until he has had an
audience with the Apostolic Dele.
gate here and the Archbishop has
agreed to recommend that priests
of this rite again shall have the
right to marry.
The Byzantine or Oriental Rite
became part of the Catholic
Church in 1916, the priest said,
and it was only in 1882 that cell
bacy was ordered by Rome. Com
menting on this, Father Bajcura
said:
81 am doing this to save the
church, to restore peace.
Already, because of this ruling,
more than $4,000 people have
left the church. They have
more confidence in a married
priest"
Father Bajcura, who started a
hunger strike here last March
for the same cause, was ordained
in Czechoslovakia IA years ago.
He is married and the father of
three children. He now has. a
parish in Homer City, Pa.
There are approximately $780,
900 members of the Byzantine
Rite in the United States, he said,
largely of Slavic descent.
The Washington times., 1936-09-04
DISTRICT HEAD
ADMITS H F
IS BEATEN
Promises to Speed Up
Work at Fairgrounds;
Still Defends WPA

Commissioner George E. Allen
today surrendered to Miss Sibyl
Baker, supervisor of Fairgrounds,
in the controversy over quality Of
WPA work furnished the munich.
pal centerS.
Admitting defeat, Commissioner
Allen stated as far as he is con-
cerned the controversy is at an
end and it would be SILLY to
carry it on any longer"
After a personal inspection Of
two incomplete field houses at
the New York Avenue and Nc.
MILAN Fairgrounds yesterday,
Commissioner Allen found that
the WPA had fallen down on the
job in these two projects, against
which the major portion of Miss
Bakers criticism was directed.
He promised work, which was
stopped abruptly last April, will
be resumed as soon as possible
and the projects hurried to COM
pletion.
Gets New Letter
Miss Baker exercised her femi-
nine privilege and had the last
word in the fight. Today Com
missioner Allen received a letter
from her carrying the controversy
further. Although admitting that
he had received the letter, Mr..
Allen said:
"T'm going to let Miss Baker
have the last word. To carry
this on any longer would be
silly. I am not going to make
public the contents of this last
letter. My investigation has
showed me that she was justi-'
fled in her criticism of the work
at the New York Avenue and
Mcmillan Fairgrounds, but the
general scope of WPA play
ground and recreatiOnaI prof.
ectS is satisfactory"
Miss Baker also declined to dis
cuss the contents of her latest COM
munication with the Commissioner.
It was intimated, however, that
she further insisted WPA could
not replace the regular playground
employees, although the Budget
Bureau apparently had assumed
this attitude in Slashing her cur.
rent department budget.
Start of Dispute
The controversy started a few
weeks ago when Miss Baker for
warded her departmental esti.
mates for the coming 1888 fiscal
year.
In urging increases of two items.
Miss Baker criticized WPA work
furnished her department as poor
in quality" the workers unable to
assume full responsibility" and the
entire program uncertain" Out
of these general charges came the
charge that WPA had fallen down
on the job at the two Fairgrounds.
Commissioner Allen found the lat
ter charge justified but declared
the general accusations were un-
fair.
The Washington times., 1936-09-04
SEAL REVAMPS
LEGAL STAFF
OF DISTRICT
Hooe Put in Charge
of Prosecutions in
Police Court

Reorganization of the Districts
legal staff, effecting both the
District Building headquarters
and the Police Court, today was
announced by Cooperation Counsel
Elwood Seal.
Assistant Corporation Counsel
Rice Hooe, who for two years has
served as attorney for the Alco-
holic Beverage Control Board, will
be in complete charge of the
municipal prosecution staff at
Police Court, Mr.. Seal announced.
Under Mr.. Hooe's command in
"both assignments and results"
will be Assistants Corporation
Counsel George D. Nelson, John
O'Dea and F. Glenn Simmon.
Sponsored By Thomas
The latter, sponsored by Senator
Elmer Thomas Cd, Oklahoma,
who also sponsored Mr.. Seal for
the corporation counselship, re-
Gently was appointed.
From the old Police Court staff,
Mr.. Seal brought to the District
Building headquarters Assistants
Corporation Counsel James w.
Lauderdale and Stanley DeNeale.
In addition to these two, Mr..
Seal also has Matthias Mahorner,
newly-appointed assistant and SON
in-law of D. j. Callahan, former
steamship company executive and
member of the District Unemploy-
ment Compensation Board.
Mr.. Seal has admitted that both
appointments of Mahorner and
Simmon we're to fulfill pledges
made while he was campaigning
to be corporation counsel.
Other Assignments
Mr.. Seal announced that Mr..
DeNeale will be placed in charge
of lunacy proceedings and prob
ably will also be assigned to coun-
sci for the ABC Board. Assist
ant Corporation Counsel Thomas
Gillispie Walsh, who has been in
chargeof lunacy cases, will devote
his future time to trial work.