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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-01-20
20 YEARS AGO
From The Empire
JANUARY 20, 1917.

JANUARY ~, 1911.
1t was announced that the reserv-
lists of the Swiss in all foreign
countries had been instructed to
return. Fears of Germany violat-
ING the neutrality of Switzerland
was believed to be the cause for the
orders.
Capt. j. T. Martin, with his son
Roland, were found by party from
Petersburg with their boat, the Sc
vance. frozen solidly in the ice at
Thomas Bay The two men were
getting short of provisions and were
taken to Petersburg where they laid
in a new supply Anxiety for their
safety was felt in Juneau as they
were long overdue.
j. p. Anderson, who arrived here
recently from Sitka with the inten-
ticn Of establishing a green house
in Juneau had secured a location
in the Scatter Tract and within the
next few days planned to start work
en- a building with a total glass space
of 5000 square feet. Mr.. Anderson
built the greenhouse at the Sitka
experimental station and for the
past three years had been in full
charge of the work there He re-
signed for the purpose of going
into business for himself and it was
his plan to specialize in the raising
of carnations and chrysanthemums
The pageant of Alaska, Seven
Yesterdays" written for the Doug
las Island Womens' Club by Mrs
Alice Henson Ernst, formerly of
Douglas, was successful beyond all
expectations both from a financial
standpoint and from the standpoint
of entertainment.
C. w. Hawkesworth, superintend-
ent Of schools in the First Division
for the Bureau of Indian Affairs,
left on the Jefferson for Haines and
Klukwan
On the program of the Juneau
neau Woman's Club were Mrs. F.
A. Metcalf who read a paper about
a Cruise Through the West Indies. 3"
an address on South American Jour-
nalism by John W. Troy; the Rev
A. P. Kashevaroff, who spoke about
the Russian Orphanage at Sitka.
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The United States may not belong to the League
Nations, but it subscrbes heartily to English plum
adding and German Christmas cakes-I Indianapolis
Gar.
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Working double shifts and Sundays the bombers
eculd have Madrid in shape by spring to hand
the Observation-Disclosures News
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The wars that really concern America tn
Industrial wars Let Europe go her way.-St Loui
Cilobe-D Democrat
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Europe's dictators by foolng around with MATCHES
keep Great Britain and France busy running to fire
Chicago News.
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RHODA MAY CLARK-Foot cor
rectionist. SIT Goldstein Bldg. adv
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Lode and placer location notices
for sale at The Empire office.
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Can You Remember-Away back when a ma
New York Sun.
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Current Observation-Disclosures The state OF
wondering when will break out.-Chicago Tribune.
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Today's News Today--Emplre
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certain promise of 1897, it is said is the worlds
biggest naval race Promise or i'll omen?-Kansas City
Star
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H "A P P Y-
B I r T HID AY

The Empire extends consrataId-
lions and best t3tshes today, their
birthday anniversary, to the tolloto-
ing:
Joann Sabin
John H. Newman
Mrs. Arthur Bringdale
Spencer DeLong
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-01-20

When Spaniard meets Spaniard the best that can
e expected is sudden death-Newark Advocate.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-01-20

BY now there may be some worked toys that
do not choose to run.-Buffalo Courier Express.
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After the war the German colonies were distri-
buted to various countries of the Allies follows
So. Miles Population
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-04-22
Camera Man

MYTH telephoto lens to aid them
w in getting long distance
"shots" and high-speed film to re-
cord the scene even when the light
is poor, it's not so difficult for the
camera man of today to cover" a
modern war. But it was very diff
erent when the first camera man
who ever covered" a war went into
the field to do his job.
His name was Mathew Brady,
the son of Irish immigrants to New
York state, who was engaged in
the trade of making jewel and in
strument cases when he became in
terested in the art of daguerreo-
typy soon after it was introduced
into this country in 1889. The man
who brought it here was S. F. B
Morse, a painter, later famous as
the inventor of the telegraph.
Brady learned his first lessons
from Morse and learned them so
well that by 1853 he was this ma
tons outstanding photographer.
When the War Between the States
opened he was both famous and
wealthy and he could have lived a
life of ease on his income. In
stead he chose a career of priva-
ton and danger on the battlefelds.
Brady fitted up a canvas-covered
wagon to carry his equipment and
to serve as his dark room in the
field. In it he had to make his
own emulsion to coat the large
glass plates that were his negatives,
for the convenient film roll had not
yet been thought OF.
His wagon became a familiar
sight to all the armies. 1t plowed
through muddy roads, it was fer
ried over rivers in constant dam
ger OF being dumped overheard and
all his precious equipment lost.
But fortunately for posterity
Brady came safely through all these
dangers and the United States gov
ernment now owns colectlon OF
his negatives, which are priceless
records of one of the greatest trag-
edies in our history. 1t is also the
symbol of tragic career. After
the war was over Brady found him
self in financial difficulties. His
negatives were sold to pay stor-
age bill and in 1874 the govern
n4ent acquired them by paying the
charges of $2,840. Brady did not
benefit by the deal but later-much
later-the government did give him
5000 for the collection which was
then valued at $15O,000. In his later
years Brady lost his pre-eminence
as a photographer and he died in
comparative poverty and obscurity
In 1896.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-04-22
Farmers Must Pay More
to Raise 1887 Crops

4 CCORDING to the Department
"A Of Agriculture American farm
ers will have to pay more to raise
their crops in 1887 than they did
last year. Farm labor will cost
more. Seed prices already have ad-
vanced sharply, and feed prices will
be materially higher than in 1896.
The department said farm wage
rates will continue the "slow rise
Of the last three years" due to an
increase in both the agricultural
and agricultural demand for labor.
Farm wage rates are now the high
est since 1881.
The department forecast that
production and sales of farm ma
chinery during 1897 probably will
exceed those of 1936-which were
the highest since 1930-and equal
the 1925-29 average, especially if
crop conditions are more nearly
normal"
Fertilizer sales and prices, it was
said, probably will average Some
what higher" than in 1886.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-04-22
British Navy Ordered to
Protect Merchant Ships

= REAT BRITAIN will respect
~ the blockade of the northern
Spanish port of Bilbao established
by General Franco, Fascist leader.
But her navy has been given or
ders by the cabinet to protect to
the fullest extent all British ship
ping outside the three mile limit.
The huge battle cruiser Hood and
other warships were sent in hurry
to the Bay of Biscay, and orders
were given to open fire on any
Spanish vessels interfering with
British cargo ships on the high seas.
The cabinet, it was said, decided to
continue to withhold the granting
Of belligerent rights to Franco but
regarded the blockade of Bilbao as
a special case since Frances forces
surround the town by sea and land.
Six British ships had been waiting
at ST. Jean de Luz and one at
Bayonne, unable to land food car
goes at Bilbao because of the pres
ence of Frances warships.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-04-22
Italian Editor Accuses
France and Russia

THAT France and Russia are
l. fagrantly violating the Spanish
civil war neutrality agreement by
sending aid to the Madrid govern
ment is the charge fatty made by
Virginio Gayda, Italian editor who
is generally regarded as voicing the
views Of Premier Mussolini.
Gayda said Is officers of the
French general staff were mapping
the strategy of the loyalists espe-
cially on the front northeast of Ma
drid, and that transshipment had
been permitted through France Of
much war material made in the
United States. He alleged that Ed
Guard Daladier, French minister Of
war, is receiving reports on the per-
formance of the new 1856 millimeter
(6.1 inch) French guns sent to Spain
and used extensively in the Guada-
lajara battle.
The Spanish steamer Mar Negro.
Gayda declared, was en- route to
Valencia from Odessa, Russia, with
a cargo of munitions of war for the
Spanish government.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-04-22
UNCOMMON
AMERICANS
@--o--O
By Elmo G Western
O. Ty Newspaper
OCOLL ~ uCSOH Union
Founder of the Chautauoua

THERE was a time when the
l. chautauqua was next only to
the public school system in bringing
to the masses of people some share
of their inheritance in the worlds
great creations in art and litera-
ture." 1t was literally the uni
versity of the people" and it was the
creation of man who did not him.
self have a college education.
He was John Heyl Vincent, born
in Alabama in 1882 of a line of Penn
sylvanians who moved back to that
state soon after John was born.
Educated at Wesleyan institute in
Newark, N. j., he began to preach
at the age of eighteen and later was
ordained into the Methodist min
istry. Transferred to the Rock Riv-
er, ILL.,, conference in 1857 he be-
came the pastor of a church at Ga
lena, Ill, where one of his parish
toner's was a quiet little ex-captain
of the army named Ulysses S.
Grant.
After a trip to the old world Vim
cent was elected general agent of
the Methodist Episcopal Sunday
School Union in 1866 and two years
later corresponding secretary of the
Sunday School Union and Tract So
ciety in New York. In these offices
he did more than any other man to
shape the international Uniform
Sunday School Lesson system.
In 1874 Vincent and Lewis Miller
founded a summer assembly on
Chautauqua Lake, N. Y, for the
training of Sunday school teachers
and in 1878 the Chautauqua Lit
erary and Scientific Circle was in
stituted, providing system Of pop
ular education through home read
ing and study. The next year the
first of the summer schools was or
ganized and these developed rapid
ly.
In speaking of his work at Chau-
tauqua Bishop Vincent said, II do
not expect to make second Har-
ward or Yale out of Chautauqua,
but I do want to give the people of
this generation such a taste of what
it is to be intelligent that they will
see to it that their children have
the best education the country can
give"
How well he succeeded in doing
that is shown by the extension of
the idea-to the summer schools of
colleges and universities, the sum-
mer assemblies, conferences and
training schools of the various re-
ligious and secular organizations
and the summer courses of lectures
and entertainments which made the
word ''Chautauqua" common
noun. 1t is also shown by the dec
laration of Theodore Roosevelt that
"Chautauqua is the most American
thing in America"
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-04-22
what <(Lb
-. about:
California COndors.

CANTA MONICA, CALF
~ Local naturalists are all
agog over the discovery
that the California condor is
coming back in numbers to
his former haunts just up
country from here. In fact,
they are going out of one vio-
lent cog right into another.
Because the condor, the
mightiest winged creature in
all North America, was sup
posed to be practically ex-
tinct, along with such van
ished species of native wild
life as the great aux, the pas
senger pigeon and the light
ming rod agent.
So now we have SCI up a new
mark for envious Florida to shoot
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-04-22
G. I. 0. Men Shoot Several
Foes in Galena, Kan.

l. SSo llA So4SAAoS 4Aolks
n RGANIZERS of the Internation-
" al Union of Mill, Mine and
Smelter Workers. an affiliate of the
C. I. O., invaded the lead and zinc
field of Kansas, Oklahoma and Mis-
souri, and were forcibly resisted
by the "blue carders" of the Tri-
State Metal Mine and Smelter Work
ers' union, which the c. l. o. says
is a company union. The latter dis
mantled the c. I. o. offices at Picher
and Treece and then moved into
Galena, Kan, where they paraded.
AS they reached the c. I. o. head
quarters one of the marchers
smashed a window. There was a
burst of gunfire from the building
and at least eight men and one lad
fell wounded.
Leaders of the blue card union
say nearly every miner in the region
belongs to it, that they are draw
ing higher pay than ever before
and are interested only in keeping
conditions as they are and in an
opportunity to work.
The c. I. o. has started a cam
paign to organize the 100000 en-
ployees of the American Telephone
and Telegraph company, the largest
corporation in the United States.
Local unions are to be chartered
by the United Electrical and Radio
Workers of America. Promotional
literature is being distributed.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-04-22

embittered frenzy that the studio
had to give in. All three Ritz Broth
ers will appear in the picture. The
appe arance of Alice Faye with the
boys should add to the fun of the
picture.
Gertrude Niesen's first song num-
Der in "Top of the Town" is "Where
Are You," her lucky number. Jimmy
McHugh anG Harold Adamson
wrote it for her three years ago, to
use when auditioning for a big COM
mercial radio program. She got the
job. Last fall while in Hollywood
for a vacation after a strenuous
stretch on the radio, she sang it at
a party and was Immediately Of
fered a screen contract by produc-
ers present.
While producers of "Gone With
the Wind" are still arguing over
who should play the leading roles,
Paramount is stealing march on
them. They have bought story
called Gettysburg" which has the
same setting and similar characters
and are putting it into production at
once.
AS fitting salute to Spring, War
ner Brothers have released THE
King and the Chorus Girl and Unit
ed Artists have put out History Is
Made at Night" They are both
giddy and romantic and have set
everyone to arguing over who is
the greater matinee idol, Fernand
Gravel or Charles Boyer. They are
both grand romantic heroes. 1.-The
King and the Chorus GirP' is some
thing of nine-days wonder because
it is a Warner Brothers musical
without a big production number to
interrupt the gaiety. And History
Is Made at Night" is completely
battling because it mixes spectacu-
lar scenes and grim tragedy with
farcical situations.
Talent scouts from the motion
picture studios are suspected of do
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-04-22
Transatlantic Air Service
Soon to Be Realized

TRANSATLANTIC air service
l. between the United States and
Great Britain may be expected to
start almost Immediately, for the
last obstacle in its way was re-
moved by an agreement with Can
ada concerning routes through the
Dominion.
Assistant Secretary of Commerce
J. Monroe Johnson announced that
two routes through Canada had
been made available for trans-At-
lantic flying craft that will make
total of four trips a week. One route
is by way Of Shediac, N. B., and the
other through Montreal. The hop
off point for eastward flights over
the ocean would be from BottWood,
N. F., which also would be landfall
on the westward flights.
Johnson said that under the agree
ment British and United States
planes would make two crossings
apiece weekly.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-04-22


In his Worcester address Mr..
Baldwin said: lit is far better to
60 when people may still think of
you as perhaps not incompetent
in your work than to stay until they
know before you do that you are
becoming incompetent.
"In a democratic country the
prime minister is not only the head
of a government, but he is the lead
er of a party and the leader of the
house of commons. To carry on
that tripartite task for many years
beyond the age have now reached
is, in my belief, beyond the strength
of human nature"
The prime minister's long service
to his country will be rewarded by
elevation to the peerage.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-04-22

eral Motors plant in America would
be closed unless the Oshawa strike
were settled soon with recognition
Of the union demands. Homer Mar
tin, president Of the u. A. w. A.,
called Hepburn a number of un-
pleasant names. The Toronto Trades
and Labor Council pledged the sup
port of its 10000 members to the
unions strike against General Mo-
tors.
Notwithstanding all this, it ap-
peared likely at this writing that
the trouble at Oshawa would be
brought to an end very soon by
the agreement of General Motors
of Canada to recognize the United
Automobile Workers and to increase
the wages of its employees. To
some unbiased observers it seemed
that Premier Hepburn had inter-
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-04-22


cision supported the constitutional
basis of the Wagner act, finding
it legal scheme" to protect COM
merce from injury resulting from
the denial by employers of the right
of employees to organize and from
the refusal of employers to accept
the procedure of collective bargain
ing"
The broad constitutionality of the
act, was strongly noted by the chief
justice. He declared that:
I'VE think it clear that the ma
tional labor relations act may be
construed so as to operate within
the spirit of constitutional author
ity."
Hughes defined the right of EN-
ployeeS to self-organization and to
select their Representative for col
lective bargaining as "a fundamen-
tai right
Regarding the vital point Of the
application of the interstate COM
merce clause Of the Constitution,
Hughes declared:
1.-THE congressional authority to
protect interstate commerce from
burdens and distractions is not
limited to transactions which can
be deemed to be an essential part
of a flow of interstate or foreign
commerce. Burdens or distractions
may be due to injurious action
springing from other sources.
In the case of the Associated
Press, concerning the dismissal of
Morris Watson, a New York edi-
torial employee, the court was split,
to 4. The majority opinion, read
by Justice Roberts, held that the
act does not "abridge the freedom
of speech or of the press safeguard
ed by the first amendment" to the
Constitution. The court took the view
that Watson was dismissed not be-
cause his work was unsatisfactory
but because of his activities in the
Newspaper Guild, and ordered his
reinstatement.
Dissenting conservatives, COM
prising Justices Willis Van Devan-
ter, George Sutherland, James c.
McReynolds and Pierce Butler, con-
tended that the act should not be
applied to the Associated Press be-
cause its provisions violated the
freedom of the press" clause of
the Constitution. They found that if
the act interfered with the ability of
the Associated Press to maintain
policy of impartial news reporting,
it must fall under the freedom of
the press guaranty.
The three other cases, in each of
which the Wagner act was upheld,
involved dismissal of 18 employees
by an interstate bus company; a
dispute between tn Fruehauf
Trailer Company of Detroit, Mich,
and the United Automobile Workers
Union; and a dispute between the
Friedman Harry Marks Cloth
ing Company of Richmond Va, and
Amalgamated Clothing Workers. In
the bus case the decision was unani-
nous; in the others the division
was 5 to 4.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-04-22
STAR
DUST
Movie . Radio !
Xxx By VIRGINIA VALE*t'

4 PICTURE that will en-
L n dear itself to every dog
lover in the world and every
humanitarian, based on that
heart warming institution
known as "The Seeing Eye"
is planned by Warner Broth
ers. AS you probably know,
"The Seeing Eye" is a school
at Morristown, N. j., support
ed by public subscription
which trains police dogs to
lead blind men.
Started soon after the war by
Mrs. Eustis who had seen what Won
derful work was done in Switzer-
land by giving blind men dog COM
panionS, "The Seeing Eye" has
trained hundreds of dogs, who have
completely changed the lives of
their formerly helpless masters.
The dogs lead their men through
traffic tangles with perfect safety
but better even than that provide
understanding companionship.
*
Far away in Boston making per-
sonal appearances, the Ritz Broth
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-04-22
Italians in Spain.

TT MUST be slightly annoying to
l. those Italian soldiers who were
flung headlong upon Spain to fight
in a war in which they had no per-
sonal interest, when, through mis-
take, they are mown down in hun
dreds by their own troops, and then
the bewildered remnants find them
selves in the hands of the oppos-
ing government forces, who have a
reputation for sometimes being a
trife with prisoners whom they
capture.
Still, it must be a great COM
fort to the confused captives-and
to the relatives of the fallen back
home as well-to have assurance
from Mussolini that they are win
ming the way for fascist doctrines.
Until they heard that cheering mes
sage, those battered survivors prob
ably thought that they had been
licked.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-04-22
Senator Lewis Urges
New Peace Conference

CENATOR JAMES HAMILTON
OLEWIS of Illinois told the senate
that he believes the time has come
for President Roosevelt to call an
international peace conference that
would revise the treaty Of Ver-
sailles. He said the object Of the
conference would be to reach
new disposition that might content
the nations that are now in revolt
and which continue in conflict be-
cause of the affront and injury they
feel was worked upon them under
the terms of the treaty"
The senator asserted the popular
ity of Mr.. Roosevelt abroad would
lend much to the success of such
a conference.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-04-22

wanted, but Robinson said it must
be concurrent, because he would
not put Mr.. Roosevelt in the posi-
ton of having to indicate his posi-
ton on the sitdoWn strike by either
signing or vetoing the measure.
Besides declaring the sitdown
strike "illegal and contrary to sound
public policy the resolution as
adopted took a double slap at the
employers by also declaring:
THAT the so-called industrial spy
system breeds fear, suspicion and
animosity, tends to cause strikes
and industrial warfare and is con-
trary to sound public policy; and
THAT it is likewise contrary to
sound public policy for any en-
ployer to deny the right of collec-
tive bargaining, to foster the COM
pany union or to engage in any
other unfair labor practice as de-
fined in the national labor relations
act."
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-04-22

veled at her talent. She is prac-
tically middle-aged, though, COM
pared to their newest discovery, for
the new contract player is Suzanne
Larson, aged ten, who will be fea-
t11red in a musical, "B Above High
C" which gives you an idea OF her
voice range.
ODDS AND ENDS . Freddie Bar.
thoIome,U stayed up past his bedtime
to see the prepietU of captains Cou-
rageous," the screen uersion OF Kip
plinR's immortal noueL and the lads
greatest picture since coming to Holly
,uood Franchot Tone recently cele-
brated his birthday ipith a party at q
popular Hollywood night club In
her current picture, "When Love Is
Young" Virginia Bruce tUedrs a dress
that required 80 yards of material
anthony adverse" got a cool recep-
tion tUhen it iUas gipen its premiere in
Paris recently. The Parisians t0ere not
at all pleased ,Uith the ,Uay Napoleon
,cas presented in the picture While
Gloria Spanson's return to films has
hit temporary snag, those in the knot0
say all the present difficulties tOiH soon
be ironed out Deanna Durbin is
about the busiest young lady in Holly
,Uood. Just as soon as she completes
"One Hundred Men and Girl" she
piH go into production on another pic
fure.
G Western Newspaper Union.