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The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-10-30
JUNIOR 6. c. HEARS TALK
Members, Recently on Visits to States, Give
 Their Highlights

Bob Phillips, Malcolm Faulkner and John Bavard spoke on their recent trip in the States at the Jun for Chamber of Commerce lunch con held yesterday in the high school
 1 We went swimming at about ev- cry place we could except at Soap Lake in Washington" stated Phil lips, who spoke first.
 T was interested to learn that the huge Norman Temple in Salt Lake City doesn't have nail in it, but wooden pegs instead remarked Faulkner, second speaker.
 Our Biggest problem was trying to find auto camps" said Bavard. Noted places of interest that were visited include Mt. Rainier Na- tional Park, Glacier National Park, Yellowstone. the Grand Canyon, and Mt. Wilson Observatory. It was also pointed out that swimming was enjoyed in various places in Washington, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, California and Ore gon.
 | Guests at the luncheon were Billie Wood, Bobby Vernon and Robert Satire.
 ] Jack Newmarket, ch irm n, Simpson MacKinnon, and Harry Sperling were named to serve on the sled derby committee.
 Bop Phillips, chairman, Jim Will cox. and George Walmsley were named to serve on special Armis- tice program committee. | A sports club committee was also named, being composed of John Bavard, chairman, Rodney Nordling, and Fred Sorri.
 1 Edward Wood received the prize | for the best current event on Italy, and Jim Wilcox was awarded the best joke prize.
 Raymond Reaber, Harry Sperling, Bob Phillips, George Walmsley, Jack Newmarker, Malcolm Faulkner, and Jim Wilcox received perfect scores on the written current event quiz.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-10-30
JEAN HARLOW AT CAPITOL
 WITH TAYLOR
Personal Property Begins lhree-Day Showing
 Tomorrow

Robert Taylor and Jean Harlow are seen at the Capital Theatre tomorrow, starring in Personal Property" which will play a three day run in Juneau.
 Taylor appears in the amusing role of family black sheep who is reduced to service as deputy bailiff, assigned to guard the chattel of a charming woman whose debts have gotten beyond her. Miss Har- low is the lady in question, of course, and it becomes a pleasure for the deputy to stand watch in her home. He even serves as butler on an occasion of social emergency and visiting ladies are all eyes for the handsome servant who admits them.
 It is foregoing conclusion that this mirthful couple fall in love, but in the interval they encounter many adventures that keep the au- dience laughing steadily
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-10-30

in England, but according to official reports, in all British possessions.
 Unofficially the Govern m n takes the position that as there is no war declared against China, the British can defend their nationals and support China with just as much respect as the Japanese have in invading China and moving de- fenseless down and also continuing in real war, even if not declared.
 Great Britain, it is unofficially said, has suffered many insults from the Japanese, an Ambassador was wounded in an unwarranted airplane raid, many British soldiers have been killed or wounded and British property has been destroyed or damaged.
 The Cabinet, it is said, will meet early Monday, possibly Sunday, tc review the entire situation and also discuss the resolution of the "Coun- cil of One Hundred"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-10-30
BLACK LEGION COMES SUNDAY
 TO COLISEUM
Humphrey Bogart Plays Lead in Dramatic
 Feature

The films write page of cur
 rent history in Black Legion" a
 thrilling melodrama produced by Warner Bros, which will open at the Coliseum Theatre on Halloween
 night, tomorrow.
 The main character in the screen play is a young workingman de- iuded into the belief that it is a duty to take the law into his own hands.
 Because the job which he thought he deserved was given to a foreign CT, he feels that he has been cheat ed of his rights as an American citi- zen
 By so doing, he spells beautiful romance, utterly destroys the hap ipiness of his neighbors, and in the end kills his own best friend. The part is played by Humphrey Bogart, who was the outstanding bandit in "Petrified Forest" As a picture of an actual phase of Americas complicated social struggle, Black Legion" is said to be unusually interesting and pos sessed of greater dramatic force than any previous movie from the headlines"
 Dick Foran, Erin O'Brien- Moore, Helen Flint, Ann Sheridan, Jos eph Sawyer and other well known players are among the principals.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-10-30
MILLARDS LEAVING ON EXTENDED TRIP
 EAST NEXT WEEK

For the first time since he came to Alaska 34 years ago, D. F. Willard of the Alaska Road Commission is going back to his old home in Chippewa Falls, Wis, to visit his mother, other relatives and old friends.
 Mith Mrs. Willard, he expects to sail on the Alaska the first of the week, and at Seattle the we'll known Juneau couple will be join ed by their daughter, Bess, for the trip east. They expect to be gone until around the first of the year
 MT Willard has his mother, two brothers and a sister in Chippewa Falls, and a brother in Minneapolis all of whom he expects. to visit.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-10-30
This is the last or four articles
 in which Brian Bell, Jr., son of the western division manager of The Associated Press, tells what he saw and heard in Hollywood.
By BRIAN BELL, JR.

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Oct. 30. - One of my ambitions was realized on my visit to Hollywood when I had lunch at the swanky Cafe de Paris, the famous restaurant on the Twentieth Century-Fox lot. The main dish of the meal was roast duck, and the chef served me him. self from a silver container.
 The restaurant is called the Cafe de Paris, but the walls are covered with paintings wing street scenes and buildings in cities all over the world. I was told that visitors from these foreign cities have at once recognized their home scenes.
 A glass cage near our table was filled with flags of almost every country I had heard of and some I had not known before.
 See Fred Allen
 Many of the actors came in wear ing their makeup, as they were to return to the sets as soon as they finished their lunch. It was queer to see American cowboys laugh ing and chatting with soldiers and policemen wearing strange foreign uniforms.
 Many stars were in the festau- rant. I saw Fred Allen, the funny man, but did not have a chance to speak to him.
 did meet Jean Hersholt. I would not have known him, for his face was covered with whiskers He had long hair and was dressed in the garb of a mountaineer He was not a "hilibilly,' but was play ing the grandfather of Heidi, the little Swiss heroine of the we'll known book being made into a pie ture. Shirley Temple plays Heidi.
 And Ride on a Dolly
 After lunch I went to the set where Heidi was beng made and met Shirley Temple. I saw one of the scenes in Heidi made. After the scene was finished Shirley drank soda pop. Some of the people on the set tried to find bottle for me, but it was all gone.
 Shirley, her stand-in, Mary Lou, and I had a ride on a dolly" A dolly is platform on wheels used to move cameras. Mary Lou's fa- ther pushed us first and had hard time. He found later he had been pushing with the brake on. Others took a hand and the director gave us a final shove.
 I met Shirley's schoolteacher, and this was an unpleasant reminder I had to return to school from which I had been excused for few days to get these Hollywood stories So, back to school.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-10-30
TREASURE HUNT
 PARTY IS GIVEN
 BY MISS MORLEY

Miss Virginia Morley, daughter of pr. and Mrs. J. F. Morley, was hostess at a treasure-hunt Hallo- ween party, last evening, assembling twelve guests at the Morley resi- dence in the Fifth Avenue Apart ments.
 Enjoying hunt which took them to many far corners of the apart ment building, the guests ended the search with success when Althea Bands and Josephine Campbell cap- tured the prizes. Following the treasure hunt. Halloween games were played and Mrs. Harold Foss became the center of interest as a fortune teller.
 Guests of the evening were Miss
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-10-30
TWO GIRLS ARE
 HOSTESSES AT !. EVENING PARTY

At Halloween party, last eve- ming, Zaida Carlson and Kathleen McAlister were co-hostesses to a group of fourteen guests, entertain ing at the Carlson apartment on Seventh Street.
 The affair was marked by tradi- tional Halloween. James and scav- anger hunt. Bright Halloween dec- orations formed an attractive set ting.
 Invited to be present for the oc- casion were Patricia Gullufsen, Isa- bel Parsons, Dorothy Fors, Dorothy Larson, Doris McEachran, Sylvia Davis, Marjorie Shell, Lila Sinclair, Cecelia Thibodeau, Lenore Kauf- mann, Bernice Mead, Beryl Mar shall, Jerdith Winthers, Laura Jean Clithero and Frances Paul.
 
 A total of 138,230 persons were in jail in this country on January 1, 1935. The most prisoners any one state had was 1o,748 in Illinois
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-10-30

Great Britain is helping China in the present war" and warned that Anglo Japanese diplomatic relations might be broken off if such actions continue.
 This stand IS made n a resolution passed by the Council of One Hun dred on the current situation in China.
 The Councils resolution accuses Great Britain of being the main driving force in the convocation of the Nine Power Conference to be held in Brussels, apparently to start intervention and the resolution fur ther declared the Japanese cannot allow the British. to continue un- molested in the present improper doings."
 Anti-British feeling is steadily arising among the Japanese, ac- cording to local Japanese sources. It is believed here that Hongkong is the main source of the Chinese mu- nitions.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-10-30
La Paugh and Viola Converse.

La Paugh and Viola Converse.
 Present for the evening were Ju- dith Alstead, Lenore Anderson, Thais Bayers, Viola Converse, Els peth Douglas, Vivian Gruber, Will letta Kendall, Margit Lindstrom, Lola La Paugh, Pauline Mestrezat, Edythe Marshall, Minnie Rogers, Dorothy White, Gloria White, Betty Wilms, s. J. Greiner, Harlan King, Earl Miller, J. P. Mestrezat, Bud Nance, Charles White, Bill Wood Sam Zarek, Maria Lund, and Gene Rhode.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-10-30

Florence Monsell, Miss Betty Will COX, Miss Josephine Campbell. Miss Sue Stewart, Miss Althea Bands, Miss Mary Stewart, Miss Ethel Flu kuyama. Miss Isabelle Dobson, Miss Barbara Hermann, Miss Frances Paul, Miss Ruth Allen, and Miss Mary Ann Skinner.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-10-30
HALLOWEEN PARTY GIVEN LAST NIGHT,
 EPWORTH LEAGUE

Decorations in orange and black formed a Halloween motif for the Epworth League party. given last evening at the Methodist Church, with Le,lore Anderson and Willetta Kendall in charge of decorations, and Bud Nance and Vivian Gruber in charge of games.
 Refreshments were served by Lola
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-10-30
DIR. KING RETURNS

Dr. Lucia M. King, Associate Su- pervisor of Elementary Education with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, returned last night on the Dart from routine inspection work in Rake.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-10-30
Safety of AirfieId
 Depends on Lengtf

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30. Air fields should be J,c7- rect long at sea level to provide safe landing foi large transport planes, says the Bu- reau of Air Commerce.
 At higher attitudes, where the air is thinner, fields should be lon- ger. Landing avenues should be 150 feet wide and should be paved or made of hard sod, according to the prevailing weather.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-10-30
MAJOR GEIB HERE

Major George A. Geib, supervising engineer for construction of the new Federal building in Ketchikan, is in Juneau inspecting the repairs to the Federal and Territorial build ing here.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-10-30

Mae West quit vaudeville in 1922 to play farce she had co-au- thored.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-10-30
CHINA FORGE,
 CHAPEL AREA,
 WALKS FORTH
Humiliation of Brave De- lenders Prevented
 Final Hour
Continued from Page One)

The bombardment began after Rear Admiral Tadao Honda issued a demand on the Host battalion" to surrender or die.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-10-30

CHARGE AGAINST BRITISH
 TOKYO, Oct. 30.-An unofficial group of Japanese in official high position made charges today that
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-10-30

LONDON, oct. 30. = The feeling against Japan is growing. not only
Evening star., 1937-12-26
INDUSTRIAL RATE
WELL BELOW PEAK
Activity Now About 80 Per Cent
Under March Level, According
to Standard Statistics.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK. Dec. 25.-In it's weekly
summary of the general business situ-
alton, the Standard Statistics Co. of
New York currently comments as
follows:
industrial activity Is now about 80
per cent below the recovery peak es-
tablished last March. At no time dur
ing the 1929-1932 decline was there
so great drop in so short a period.
All Of the recovery which took place
after the autumn months of 1885 has
been completely erased, wiping out in
nine months the gains scored over q
period Of year and half Present
levels Of industrial production are
only slightly above the average for
1885.
The velocity of the recession, how
ever, now shows signs of slowing, and
it is expected that at least a tempo
rary low will be witnessed some time
within the first quarter of the new
year. This forecast is based on the
prospect that excess inventories will
be worked off some time within the
next few months and that price re-
adjustments will have been largely
completed. The Standard Statistics
Co. production index for the first
quarter is expected to average around
II, decline of about IS per cent as
compared with the corresponding 1897
months"
Evening star., 1937-12-26
BALTIMORE TO GET
BIG RADIO PLANT
Entire Division of Westinghouse
Chicopee Falls Factory to
Be Shifted,
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Dec. 25.-
The entire radio division of the West
lnghouse Electric & Manufacturing
Co.'s Chicopee Falls plant, normally
employing about 325 persons with an
average weekly pay roll of s11 900, will
be moved to Baltimore, Md, during
the next 10 months, according to a
statement by Walter c. Evans, man.
ager of the division.
The removal will be to bring the di-
vision nearer its sources of materials
and also nearer its most important
customer, the Bureau of Air Com
merce of the Federal Government,
Evans said.
Probably so per cent of the employees
affected will be taken to Baltimore,
Evans said, and the remainder will be
laid of. but because of the necessity
OF cleaning-up work now in process no
layoffs are likely for about five months.
The plant will move into q modern
factory purchased by the company
about 4 miles from the center Of Bal
timore on the Washington highway. A
new Office building will be constructed.
Evening star., 1937-12-26
LOCKHEED AIRCRAFT
WILL ENLARGE PLANTS
snecial Dispatch to The Star,

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 25.-With cur
rent backlog of untitled orders stand
ing at $6,125,0O0, the highest figure
in the company's history, officials of
the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. an
nounced plans for immediate construc-
ton of additional plant units designed
to increase the present factory floor
space by $4,000 square feet.
Upon completion of these improve
ments, total floor space Of the factory
will be 100000 square feet.
Largest Of the new units will be
q finished parts stockroom adjoining
the main assembly hangar. Finished
parts for the three types Of Lockheed
transports will be stored here, within
easy access Of tbs major assembly
HneG.
Evening star., 1937-12-26
FRUIT SUPPLY LARGE,
PRICES HOLD STEADY

The orange crop available for use
this winter is about 8 per cent larger
than last year and about Is per cent
above average Q931-35). according to
the Bureau of Agricultural Economics
in it's current summary of the fruit
situation. Total production of all va
rieties of oranges, except California
Valencias, is placed at Al, 500, 900 boxes.
Preliminary reports indicate that
citrus crops in Florida were not seri-
ously damaged by the low tempera-
lures in early December.
Orange prices have been running
about like last year. California navels
in early December being slightly low
er, but Florida oranges slightly higher
than year ago. Grapefruit prices
are above last year, although they have
been declining some, as is usual in the
late fall and early winter.
Apple prices have been fairly steady
during the past month. Stocks Of
apples in cold storage on December /
were the largest on record, being q
third larger than the stocks Of q year
ago.
Evening star., 1937-12-26
AVIATION FACES
VARIED OUTLOOK
Transportation Firms Held
More Speculative Than
Other Branches.
BY TIE Associated Press.

BY t.e Associated PleSS.
NEW YORK, Dec. 25.-1n a COM
prehensive study Of the American
aviation industry, Charles D. Barney
& Co., members of the New York Stock
Exchange, made public eight con-
clusions" as to investments
Among the conclusions were these !:
That transportation companies are
highly speculative, that manufac-
turing concerns are NOSE predictable
that engine manufacturing is rela-
lively stable and that military pro-
curement policies are a vital factor
in the manufacturing picture.
William Barclay Harding, a men,
ber of the firm, said that to his knowl-
edge the study, issued in book form,
was the only one of its kind ever
prepared
P0tentialities Seen.
Harding warned that the reader
should recognize that, because of the
rapidity with which changes in the
industry occur, an aviation study, like
an airplane. is in danger of becoming
obsolete by the time it has been COM
pleted. =
'The aviation industry Is young,
hopeful, cropping, potentially great"
On transportation investments, the
company observed: Many unpre-
dictable variables in air transporta-
ton make airline securities extremely
speculative. Given favorable weather
conditions, friendly attitude on the
part of the Government. good acci-
dent record. satisfactory competitive
conditions and good judgment on the
part of the management in purchasing
equipment to suit the requirements
of traffic, an airline operation might
be very profitable"
Engine Field Stable.
Among the manufacturers, those
making engines were found to have
the greatest stability of earnings
"The Army and the Navy" went
on the study, "are the (manufactur-
ing) industry's principal customers.
Profits of military aircraft and engine
manufacturers are, therefore, largely
Oll Vic PoAA@
cies of the Army and Navy.
Army business is generality more
profitable than Navy business, but the
Army method of procurement involves
financial risks to manufacturers COM
peting for orders, frequently
out of proportion to potential profits.
Changes in procurement programs of
both services favorable to the indus
try are expected"
He looked on transoceanic trans
portation a. having promising out
look" with the greatest expansion
possibilities of any division of the in
dustry, both from the standpoint Of
the potential volume Of traffic and
production of equipment to handle it"
Other conclusions were: Companies
catering to private flying are generally
unattractive; the export business cur
rently is most profitable, and a short
term viewpoint is desirable.
Evening star., 1937-12-26
BRITAIN IS LEADING
US. COTTON BUYER
Japan Drops From First Place to
Sixth During Year, Bureau
Reveals.
By the Associated Press.

6S Tie ASSOCldtSQ EleSS.
The Bureau of Agricultural Eco
nomics said today Japan had dropped
this season from first to sixth place as
a foreign market for American cotton.
Great Britain became the No. pur-
chaser.
Japanese purchases during the Au-
gust October quarter this season, total
ing only $4,000 bales. dropped 1886, 900
bales from the corresponding quarter
last year. whereas British purchases
rose las. 900 bales.
Combined exports from principal
cotton-producing countries totaled
2,862,000 bales during the quarter,
compared with 2,911.0 900 last year. The
United States exported 1,757 900 bales,
or 81 per cent, compared with 1884,
600. or So per cent, last year, the bu-
reau said.
The bureau reported that latest Of
ficial estimates place India's cotton
crop at 4.547 900 bales. compared with
a crop Of 5,278,oo0 last year. Chinese
production, forecast earlier at 4.393.-
600 bales. is now estimated at about
1850 bales.
Evening star., 1937-12-26
GRAIN MEN LOOK
FOR EARLY RISE
Small Supply Leads Many to
Predict Advance After
Holiday.
BY JOHN p. BOUGHAN,
Associated PrASk Market Editor.

CHICAGO, Dec. 25.-Myriad lights
shining down from the Chicago Board
Of Trades big Christmas tree are
brilliantly typifying the exchanges
hopes of higher prices after the holi-
days.
Most of the men in the grain pits
have about quit expecting WORTH
while market activity or decided up
turns of values until then. but many
are prompt to suggest that the turn
of the year will bring real improve
ment. In particular. some repre-
sentative wheat specialists base such
suggestions on unusual smallness of
the Southern Hemisphere's wheat
surplus supply as well as dearth Of
readily available wheat in Canada.
Poorer Quality Used.
A further reason assigned as likely
to stimulate price gains is that the
world trade has been figuring on more
wheat in the United States than as
fact can be obtained. In this con-
nection personal reports from widely
scattered areas are cited indicating
that q surprising total of poorer
quality wheat was fed on farms be-
fore new crop corn could be had with
out stint.
Compared to one week ago, present
prices of Chicago wheat futures vary
from y cent to 1ss cents bushel
advance, with corn is to l34 up;
oats at y to cent gain, rye showing
7s-15s bulge and provisions 10 to %
cents dearer.
So far the only pressure of new
wheat from the Southern Hemisphere
has come about through shipments
out of Australia. The bulk of clear
ances of Argentine wheat have gone
to Brazil, a situation that is expected
to continue for some time-namely,
until the big movement of wheat gets
under way from the Province of
Buenos Aires. Wheat in volume from
that province, trade authorities say,
will not reach European mills sooner
than in February, and then only with
favorable weather.
Argentine Yields Low.
There is still considerable question
as to the size of the Argentine wheat
crop, and some private estimates have
been received of late indicating
yield as low as 170,000,O0O bushels,
22,0OOOO0 bushels under the recent
official returns. In the past the first
official crop figures from Argentina
f0 IA
final estimate. Last years Argentine
wheat harvest was 8,000,000 bushels,
about an average crop.
Farmers continue to hold corn for
so cents q bushel at country loading
stations. Oats and rye take their cue
largely from corn rather than from
wheat.
In the main the provisions market
shows the effect Of hog price Jumps.