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The Coolidge examiner., 1937-10-14
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The Sourdough Hotel
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IF YOU'VE ever been to Alaska
you probably thought it was a
good joke on your friends to write
a letter to them on the stationery of
the Sourdough hotel, and you
chuckled to yourself when you visu-
allied them puzzling over some of
the statements on the letterhead.
The Sourdough hotel is located at
1888 Icicle avenue and among the
house rules are these: towels
changed weekly; spiked shoes must
be removed at night; anyone trou-
bled with nightmare will find hal
ter on the bedpost; don't worry
about paying your bill-the house is
supported by its foundation.
This hotel was the creation of a
young newspaper man named 4. j.
White who went to Alaska during
the gold rush of 1898. The primitive
living conditions in the boom camp
of Dawson appealed to his sense of
humor so he had printed several
hundred sheets of stationery for his
Sourdough hotel.
The gold seekers, seeing in this a
chance to play joke on the folks
back home, eagerly bought his sta
tionery at 81 dozen sheets. Whites
clever foolery landed him job on
the Klondike Nugget and started
him on the career which has made
the name of Stroller" White IA
nous. He's still a newspaper man,
publisher of the Juneau Stroller's
Weekly, and tourists in Alaska are
still writing letters back home on
the stationery of the Sourdough
hotel.
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most-daily cablegramS sound pretty
blue over the prospect of long alb.
sence from Hollywood. She won't &C
over to see him, though, partly be,
cause she is all signed up to make
a lot of pictures in Hollywood.
ODDS AND ENDS-May Robson
t0ho is playing Aunt Polly in "The Ad
uentures of Tom SdiUyer," celebrated
her ftty-tourth anniversary as an ac
neSs recently at the Dauid Selznick
studios Red Shelton made such q
knockout test for r. K. o. that he has
been giuen the role intended for Mil
ton Berle in "Hauing a Wonderful
Time" ). Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., tOas
summoned back from London Ui0
telephone TO play opposite Katherine
Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby" .
If Hollywood moguls really t0ant to
lure Irene Rich atUay from radio and
back to the screen, she says that they
UiH hdUe to let her play giddy siren.
She tOOn't play any more neglected
UiUeS So strenuous is the dance
hat EIednOre Whitney t0iH do in Para
MOUNTS ThriH of LIFETIME" doc
OrS haze prescribed six-,0eek health
outline that includes fue meals a day
nd ten hours sleep night as prepa.
alton.
% wee4arp Nauepapar TTrjo1
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-10-14
Auto Union Shake-Up

CEVERAL times Homer Martin,
- president of the United Automo-
bile Workers of America, has init
mated that there were too many
radicals among the leaders of that
union. Now, allegedly for reasons
of economy, he has got rid of some
of them. These organizers have
been left out: Victor Reuther, one
of the leaders in the General Mo-
tors strike at Flint, Mich, last win
ter; Robert Kanter, Stanley Novak,
Melvin Bishop and William Tom of
Detroit; R. D. Richter of Saginaw;
Charles Rigby, Ohio; Frank McMil-
Ian, Kansas City; Eugene Stauder,
Frank Bartee and Frank Schultz,
Indiana.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-10-14
Hands OF, Saws Japan

Japan doesn't like the British
- plan for an International confer
ence to mediate the Chinese-Japa-
nese war, so Tokyo issued stern
warning to the rest of the world not
to interfere with her doings in
China.
japanese government circles were
visibly perturbed by the turning of
world sympathy to China, and with
out exception attribute this to sue
cessful Chinese propaganda.
The United States government re-
Gently told Japan it would be held
strictly accountable for injury to
Americans or their property in Chi
ma. Tokyo responded with a firm
refusal to accept such liability, and
our Department of State didn't know
just what to do next.
Member nations Of the League Of
Nations had a plan to raise large
fund to fight the cholera and bu-
bonic epidemics in China. But the
Japanese told the British that this
would be interpreted by Tokyo as
foreign intervention in the war, so
the British delegates backed down
and persuaded the league council
TO content itself with a resolution
recommending to the assembly an
increase in the allotment Of money
for health work in China.
The League of Nations adopted a
resolution severely condemning Jap
an for the aerial bombardment of
defenseless Chinese cities, and
Tokyo, indignant, charged the league
of acting without verifying the facts.
To the protest of five great powers,
previously filed, the Japanese gov
ernment replied with the assertion
that the bombing of Marking was
necessary for our purpose.
The British public is becoming in
creasingly aroused against japan
and there is a general demand for
a boycott of japanese goods.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-10-14
Black Joined Klan; Quit

ST DID join the Ku klux klan-
later resigned. 1 never re-
joined"
Thus Hugo L. Black, now Asso-
ciate Justice Black Of the Supreme
court, admitted to an immense radio
audience that the charges against
him were true.
Black asserted that since he quit
the Klan he has had nothing what
ever to do with it.
He cited his record in the senate
and in private life to back up his
assertion that he was entirely free
from religious or race prejudices.
While he apparently repudiated the
principles of the Klan, he did not
explain why, on receiving a life
pass card after his election to the
senate. he said to a gathering OF
Klansmen:
II realize that l was elected by
men who believe in the principles
that l have sought to advocate and
which are the principles of this or
ganization."
Black emphatically declared his
devotion to the principles of the
Constitution and the Bill of Rights,
and said that he was of that group
Of liberal senators who have consist
emily fought for the civil, economic
and religious rights of all Ameri-
cans. without regard to race or
creed" Some of his best friends,
he added, were Catholics and Jews.
and members of the colored race.
At the outset of his address Black
undertook to turn the tables on his
accusers by asserting that the
Campaign" to discredit him fans
the flames Of prejudice and is cal
culated to create racial and re-
ligious prejudice"
when this statement is ended"
he concluded, my discussion Of the
question is closed"
There was a definite note of de-
fiance in Blacks address, but it is
fair to assume that the American
public was not satisfied with his eX-
PLANTATION. From all parts of the
country came renewed protests
against his presence on the Supreme
court bench, and various large asso-
Citations ''resoluted" about it. Many
of the senators who voted to con-
firm his appointment because they
accepted the assertion of his friends
that he was not a Kluxer are re-
sentful at the deception practiced
on them-but what can they do
about it now?
President Roosevelt, up to the
time of writing, had maintained ST.
lence. One of his aides explained
that the President decided some
time ago that there was no course
of action open to him in the Black
case.
When Justice Black took his seat,
the chamber of the Supreme court
was crowded to capacity. Albert
Levitt, an attorney, was on hand to
ask permission to file suit seeking
to force Justice Black to show cause
why he should not be declared con-
stitutionally ineligible to sit. The
court deferred action on the request.
Another motion to the same effect
was filed by Patrick H. Kelly, Bos-
ton lawyer.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-10-14
Letter of Light

The great comprehensive truths
written in letters of living light
on every page of our history are
these: Human happiness has no per-
feet security but freedom; freedom
none but virtue; virtue none but
knowledge; and neither freedom nor
virtue has any vigor of immortal
hope, except in the principles of
Christian faith, and in the sanctions
of the Christian religion.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-10-14
STAR :
DUST :
Movie . Radio :
*** BY VIRGINIA VALE*tA

\ N ANNIVERSARY cele-
L n bration that meant much
to motion-picture and radio
folk, took place a short time
ago at Loew's State, one of
the few remaining vaudeville
houses in New York. On it's
sixteenth birthday, players
who got their start or revived
their careers there sent tele-
grams and encouraged the
manager to keep vaudeville
alive.
Among the many famous names
who graduated from this theater are
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-10-14
Rail Strike Averted

THERE VIII not be Nationwide
l. strike of railway workers. Such
a disaster was averted when the
five operating railroad brotherhoods
accepted an offer of the companies
of a fiat raise of A cents a day.
They and the fifteen ''non-operat-
ing" unions had demanded 20 per
cent wage increase. The latter al
ready had agreed to raise of 40
cents day.
For FIVE weeks DR.. William M.
Leiserson, member of the national
mediation board, had been holding
daily conferences with representa-
tives of both sides.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-10-14
Ed Howe Dies

MYTH the passing of Ed Howe
w of Atchison, Kan, the country
loses one of its best-known and best
liked philosophical commentators
on current events. He was eighty
four years old and died as he had
wished, in his sleep after days
work. The Sage Of Potato Hill'
founded the Atchison Globe in 1887
and retired 81 years later. There
after he busted himself with the
publication of ''Howe's Monthly"
which he called a journal of In,
dignation and Education.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-10-14

the radio pets Ed
gar Bergen and
Charlie Mccarthy,
M a r t h a Raye,
James c a gn e y,
Walter Huston who
played a dramatic
sketch fifteen years
ago, and Joe E.
Brown, who was one
of a team of aero
bats who called
themselves artists.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-10-14

Screen stars too Joe E. Brown
numerous to men
tion have played personal appear
ances there, and it was during an
engagement of Buddy Rogers and
his band that his romance with
Mary Pickford first became widely
known
Tex Ritter's musical Westerns
made for Grand National are be-
coming so popular he is looming
up as real rival for Gene Autrey,
who is currently the screens num-
ber one attraction. No drug store
cowboy is Tex Ritter-he really
comes from Texas, and every so
often he bolts from his stage,
screen, and radio successes to go
back to ranching. The first time he
was lured away from ranching, it
was for role in Green Grow the
Lilacs," the Theater guild play
which also launched a young actor
by the name of Franchot Tone. The
next time he came East to appear
at the Madison Square rodeo, the
radio moguls grabbed him.
x
Gordon Miller, who threatens to
become matinee idol, reached pic
lures by the hitch-hike route. He is
slated for the very important role
opposite Deanna Durbin in her next
picture, Mad About Music" He
hitch-hiked from his home in Flint,
Michigan, to New Orleans, where
he went to the Plantation night club
and offered to sing for his supper.
He sang himself into steady job.
Universal pictures talent scouts
heard him and signed him up.
The same men who picked Tyrone
Power and Don Ameche out of OBJ
scurity and guided them to film
fame think that they have a new
matinee idol in the person of Dick
Baldwin, whom you will see in the
Ritz Brothers new picture, Life Be-
gins at College," Baldwin was just
about to Leave Hollywood, discOur-
aged over his failure to get parts,
when he was called to the Twen-
tieth Century-Fox studios for test.
A day later he was given a contract.
Eleanor Holm Jarrett, the beau
tiful swimming star, who has been
thrilling the customers at the Great
Lakes Exposition since early sum-
mer, is going to be Tarzan's mate in
motion pictures this winter. She will
play opposite Glen Morris, world
decathlOn champion. Eleanor was
in pictures for a short time two
years ago.
Barbara Stanwyck surprised even
her closest friends when she got on
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-10-14
Special Session

ON HIS way from the West Pres
~ ident Roosevelt made a speech
at Grand Forks, N. D., in which he
declared his intention of continuing
his fight to reform" the Supreme
court. He also announced attempts
to pass crop control and labor legis-
lation would be made at a special
session of congress which probably
will be called about November Is.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-10-14
Red Officials Executed

EXECUTION of the president, vice
IL president and six other high off,
cials of the Adjarian Republic of the
u. S. S. R. for reasonable plotting
was reported to Moscow from Tiflis.
At the same time, reports from
Leningrad province told Of eight en-
ployees of the grain trust there be-
ing sentenced to death for allegedly
reasonable damaging Of grain sup.
plies.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-10-14

present an optimist-
ic picture of the fu-
ture of unified labor.
The battle with John
l.. Lewis and his c.
1. o. continues un-
abated, and there
a r e "dogfghts"
among the unions
all over the country,
generally concern
ing jurisdiction dis
putes or shifting of
amliation.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-10-14
SX2avuNd W. NGck0td
~ SUMMARIZES THE WORLDS WEEK
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In announcing the terms of the
agreement, Leiserson praised the
cooperation Of both parties, saying
the manner in which they receded
from their original positions was the
biggest factor in the settlement.
H. A. Enochs of Philadelphia,
chairman of the carriers confer
ence committee, estimated the in
crease would mean an average raise
of 6.6 per cent for the $4,000 work
ers.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-10-14

d DOat headed Tor
the Panama canal
and the Pacific coast
instead of one going
to London where
Robert Taylor is.
She said she has no
idea when she and
Bob will meet again.
1t has been raining
so continuously in
England that out
door scenes of his
picture have been
DELAYED and his al.
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WNUM
z33; PEN

MO person can be we'll and happyh
~ constantly distressed with the evil
effects Of constipation. And no person
needs to risk i'll health by neglectine
to keep the bowels wholesomely
clean. Yet so many suffer- Are you
one Of them? Is constipation keeping
you unfit and uneomfotable-oiIious.
bloated, tired; without appetite, amoi.
ton or enersy7 Then try Doan's Resu.
lets. They act mildly and without dis.
sress, contain no calomel nor habit.
forming drugs; tone the liver, stimu-
late the flow OF bile and promote we'll.
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tract. Be regular with ResuleE. Sold
at all drug stores.
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A. F. of L. May ExpeI CLIO.

AHEN President William Green
w opened the annual convention
of the American Federation of La
Dor in Denver, he was not able to
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-10-14

Improved 0 SUNDAY
Uniform CO,0~r
-:-LESSON = =
By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST.
Dean of the Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
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Lesson for October II
CHRISTIAN SPEECH AND
CONDUCT

LESSON TEXT-James. Chapter 3.
GOLDEN TEXT-Let no corrupt COM
municatiOn proceed out of your mouth
Ephesians 4:29.
PRIMARY TOPIC-The Words l Say.
JUNIOR TOPIC-A Bride on the
Tongue.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP
IC-Christian Speech.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP
IC-Christian Words and Works.
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LIVE STOCK

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West Get a copy without cost or obllgaT
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The Coolidge examiner., 1937-10-14

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Send dime for complete catalogue.
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Barbara Stanwyck surprised even
her closest friends when she got on
Evening star., 1937-10-17
Aosozins Section

The room darkened abruptly, and
she glanced out of the window. Heavy
clouds we're piling up. Could there be
more in store for them? Hadn't they
horne enough?
Through the haze of dust she saw
John Dawson standing by the fence,
looking down the road. He had seen
Millie 20. She wondered what thoughts
we're in his mind. He stood there for
quite a long while before he turned
back toward the house. He stopped
after a few yards, and stared down at
the ground. working the soil beneath
his feet. Then he gathered a handful
and worked it between his hands,
gazed up at the sky. The new storm
was approaching rapidly. with the
clouds racing over the horizon toward
the farm. Harriet marveled that there
was neither fear nor rdiscouragement in
the set of his shoulders He straight
ened and hurried directly to the barns.
She moved away from the window.
Jim's arm lay out along the side OF the
bed, and his eyes were closed. 1t
seemed natural, suddenly. for her to
resume her old place beside him while
he slept. She sat quietly. watching
him, and rejoicing in the needed
respite that sleep gave him.
All at once the room grew black. and
a breathless silence fell over every
thing. Jim was awake, and lay tense
and waiting. She said nothing. but
braced herself.
Rain" Jim whispered. Listen"
At first it was only light patter on
the roof. Then the heavens opened =
heavy, blanketing, drenching rain.
Lightning cut across the sky. In the
brief, luminous pulse. she saw that
Jim was looking up at her. I'VE made
it, Freckle-Fac The thunder broke
into his words.
The lightning slashed the room into
brilliance again. Jim was still looking
at her as if he were seeing her for the
first time His voice was unsteady. Il
oughtn't to call you that any more -
you've lost all your freckles, do you
know it,"
She laughed. but there were tears in
her eyes. i've known it for long
time"
Il guess l was pretty blind" he
mumbled. He found her hand and
held it.
III Ed
Evening star., 1937-10-17

ing. if you'd minded your own bus'-
nessw
Harriet's lips were white. Right or
wrong, you're going to stay until Jim's
stronger. | won't let you kill every
ideal he ever had by walking out on
him like thisr
''She can't kill anything in me. now.
Harriet. She saw Miles face. stricken
with fear and dismay. before she
turned to see Jim standing on the
stairway.
LET her Co." he said.
He didn't say anything more. but
turned and walked back slowly up the
stairs. The three of them stood as II
turned to stone Joseph took deep
breath. Its tough he heard. Better go
up to him. Harriet"
NO" said Harriet, hes better off
by himself" She remembered the time
when his mother died. He'd had that
look on his face, and had gone of with
his grief alone She had known enough
then not to talk to him or try to con-
sole him.
She walked to the window and
stood staring out into the storm. try
ing to quiet the tumult within her.
Through the tortured days and the
dark nights she had dreamed impos-
sible dreams of what life would be if
there had never been any Mile. and
yet at this moment she felt no exulta-
ton.
Joseph's voice broke in upon her
reverie. There's a train at five. We
better leave now if you want to make
it through these roads"
Millie stood in the middle of the
floor, pulling at her fingers. Relief and
shame mixed in the nervous twitching
of her face "Will you help ME get
ready?" she appealed to Harriet. I'm
sort of all unstrung."
'I'll help YOU" Harriet said.
She helped pack Miles few remain
ing things. and said gOOdby to her. She
waited until the car made the turn out
of the driveway. and the sound of the
motor faded into the fitful whine of the
storm. Then she went upstairs to Jim.
He was lying across the bed. his
head buried in the pillows. He did not
look up as she entered, and she pre-
tended to busy herself putting away the
row of medicine bottles on the dresser
Evening star., 1937-10-17

"Everything's all right" she vowed.
1.-The cattle? Did Joseph find any
water for them?"
She nodded. "He managed to dig
down farther and get the we'll little
lower, and what we have will probably
see us through until rain comes.
God knows when that'u be ="
He fell silent, his eyes dark and
brooding. 1t occurred to her that 1t
was strange that he had not mentioned
Millie again. He just lay there, his
eyes staring straight ahead, trying to
adjust himself to a world that had
been going on without him. Suddenly
he demanded, why do you look so
tired?"
The way he shot it at her took her
by surprise. The color flooded her
cheeks.
Wouldn't anyone? It's been hard
pull for all of us. But nothing matters
now: as long as you're we'll"
Nothing matters =" he repeated
bitterly. mo. nothing except that the
world has come to an end" She looked
at him. puzzled and apprehensive.
What did he mean? What was in his
thoughts? She was half relieved when
he referred to the storm. There won't
be anything left" he said. Crops
gone = cattle gone Il don't know
how Dad has the courage to keep
on"
"The land gives and the land takes
away =" said Harriet The words
threw back a familiar rhythm. The
association evaded her for moment.
Her tired brain fumbled, and then it
came to her The Lord giveth and
the Lord taketh away" The Lord and
the land. Perhaps they were one and
the same
Jim was looking at her once more.
with that searching gaze. You're the
one that ought to be in bed" he
dnSWCcu dt lCiiSlu III SCttuiS uP
out of here tomorrow"
The tears rushed to her eyes. His
sympathy overpowered her and left
her weak with a kind of fragility she
had never known before. 1t would
have been sweet beyond words to lay
her head against his shoulder, and sob
out all her WEAKNESS and confusion.
But Jim needed her to be strong now.
He was not knit together from his Ill
ness, and she must do the thinking -
straight thinking - for both of them.
She wondered whether she should re-
vert to Millie. Perhaps he was hurt
that Millie hadn't come to him imme-
diately. Jim was vulnerable. and SEN
sitive to small things. 1t was not
always easy to live up to the spiritual
giving he demanded, but if one really
loved, the eternal challenge fed that
love and made it rich and fine. 1t was
something that Millie hadn't learned
yet. Harriet suddenly pitied her lack
of maturity.
'Millie's hurrying as fast as she
can," she said. ''She looked frightfully
tagged, and she's prinking up bit so
you wouldn't notice it -" She broke
off as the grind of car sounded above
the intermittent beating of the storm.
She keyed her ears to it. 1t was prob
ably the doctor