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The Washington times., 1937-01-16

Before Henry dies he makes long speech denouncg tne
court Love goes through it the first time without Slip
Az he hes suped back the throne the extras break into
applause.
It Is tribute Mr.. Love be proud Of haven't seen
It happen more than half dozen times IN Hollywood
P8sthrow1ng Is almost lost art In Hollywood, but Hal
Roach man of sentiment and keeps the custom alive IN
his comedies. I watch how it is done this week.
The film is "Pick Me STAR" featurelengh musical IN
which all the Roach avortes appear The actorargets
Mscha Auer Jack Haley Tommy Dugan and Harold Carlton
Four hundred pies hand and eight changes OF linen
for each The pies buebery and custar are bought
from bakery but treated at the studio with further
application Of whipped and powdered sugar The
powdered sugar to make them stick better to the face
Except in the coseups where it impossible to miss the
pies are thrown by propmen Bob Sanders and
Oeze They have been at for and can make
direct hit in the face at Is feet.
Director Edward Sedgwick explains that get the proper
effect it is necessary take the victims by surprise Even
old timers are apt finch when they the pie coming
and first experience for Auer Haley Dugan and
Carlton
Sedgwck works He has the players rehearse the
several times up the point where the thrown
Then he takes several times calling Cu just be-
fore the barrage.
Finally when the victims suspicious lued, he gives
signal the propmen They let The expressions
of the four players they get the gooey mess right In the
The Washington times., 1937-01-16
Douglas Fairbanks Is Busy on
New Marco Polo Story

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 16.-Doug-
las Fairbanks, homeward bound
from a visit to England, where he
conferred with Capt. A. Pogson,
his collaboration in the screen story,
''The Adventures of Marco Pole" !"
will arrive here Monday after a
quick trip abroad aboard the Bre-
men. He will be accompanied by
his wife, the former Lady Sylvia
Ashley.
"The Adventures of Marco Polo"
will be produced jointly by Fair
banks and Samuel Goldwyn, and
viii star Gary Cooper, with Basil
The Washington times., 1937-01-16

quite long scene and It is Jonah They tried
to take several days before and JOEL i'll with the flu folded
up before they could finish.
He's just back and today, everybody is nervous
Barbara Stanwyck calls to Director Al sane: Come on
Daddy Dear let's take it."
They do. 1t goes through without hitch Then some
body says:
'Wait minute Wasn't Barbara supposed to be wearing
bandage her wristf"
There is pause the truth sinks in
Then, resignedly they prepare to take it again
The Washington times., 1937-01-16

Pauper," he is doing it on the
throne, wearing his royal
robes of office and sur
rounded by his courtiers.
This is not an error of ig-
norance, but a deliberate one.
1t serves the purpose of the
story better and, as Director
William Keighley points out,
is a less serious lapse from
the truth than when Charles
Laughton played the King as
a clown.
Montagu Love is the
Henry of this story. Mr..
Love is becoming famous for
portraying important per.
sonages in English history.
At another studio, he just
finished playing Gladstone.
Today he is wearing a cos
tune weighing $50 pounds.
He looks like a king.
The courtiers are i'm
pressive, too. Warmers are
paying from $3.50 to 5000 for
the rent of each Of their cos
tunes.
The Washington times., 1937-01-16

'Rathbone in an important sup
porting role. The origial story was
authorized by Fairbanks, under his
screen pen name Of Elton Thomas,
and will be his first production in
which he is not starred.
1t will be released through United
Artists.
The Washington times., 1937-01-16
Doq Fancier

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 16.-Frank
Lloyd, producer director of Maid
OF Salem,"! Claudette Colbert's
new Paramount romance, main.
tains q kennel Of blooded Irish
The Washington times., 1937-01-16
King Henry VIII Dies in Royal
Robes As Warner Bros. Film
Prince and the Pouper'
By HARRISON CARROLL

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. licking Henry VIII is dying on a
Warner Brothers sound stage. Actually the monarch
breahed his last in bed but, for "The Prince and the
The Washington times., 1937-01-16
Iona Time Auo

HOLLYWOOD. Jan. 16.-Cecil B.
DeMille, motion picture pioneer
and producer of THE Plainsman,"
starring Gary Cooper and Jean
Arthur, was a stage star at 20.
The Washington times., 1937-01-16

lace are S0meLhlng TO Watch.
Tommy Dugan, however, is
a quick thinker. As the shot
ends, he drops to one knee,
throws his arms out and lifts
up his blue berry smeared
features.
"Mammy!" he shouts.
The company howls.
Barbara Stanwyck and
Joel McCrea are playing op-
posite each other again in
"Internes Can't Take Money"
They were married in "Gam-
bling Lady" and in Banjo
on My Knee" Now, they've
gone back and are only
sweethearts.
This set is a contrast from
the pageantry of ''The Prince
and the Pauper." It is the
inside of a shack and both
Barbara and Joel are cheaply
dressed.
They are supposed to eat
a meal of hot dogs as they
talk.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-03-27
MAKE FILINGS
 FOR ELECTION
 AT FAIRBANKS
Mayor Collins Enters Race New Factor Springs
 Up in Interior City

FAIRBANKS, March 27.-Incum- bent city officials, headed by Mayor E. B. Collins have entered the mu- nicipal campaign subject to the election on April 6. Others seeking reelection are Councilmen Irving Mex Reed, P. J. Mcdonald and Paul c. Greimann, also Frank Degree for school director. Others may enter later.
 A new factor entered the cam paign within the last few days. Un- der the name of the Citizens Pro- gressive Committee, 25 members, with Frank Gordon, Chairman, and R. K. Lavery, secretary, have re- quested audit of the city's accounts with the object of improving the vice. The Council agreed to the service. The Council agreed to the expert.
 The executive committee of the citizens group is composed of N w. Jacobs, Arthur s. Brown, Jess Bryant, James Barrack and Joseph H. Smith.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-03-27
NOME TO HOLD !. FAIR STARTING
 WED., MARCH 31
Dog and Reindeer Races FeaturedMiss Alaska
 Is to Be There


 NOME, Alaska, March 27.-Prep- arations are under way for an In- dustrial Fair opening next Wednes- day, March 31 and continuing fol four days.
 Features of the fair include dog races over the John Borden mara thon course to Cape Name and re- turn, a distance of 26 miles foI which more than $500 in prizes have been put up by the Nome Kennel Club; exhibits showing native craftsmanship, provided by the Blu reau of Indian Affairs; reindeer races and mineral displays.
 Miss Marguerite Lee, chosen Miss Alaska at the Fairbanks Ice Car nival, will present the awards.
 Weather conditions are ideal A large number of outsiders are ex- pected here, many having already arrived
 The fair is the first since 1881 and is being sponsored by the Northwest Alaska Fair Association
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-03-27
Publishers Son
 Is Charged with
 Killing Editor
Fatal Shooting Brings Quick Action Tn California
 District

ALTURAS, Cal, March 27. = A charge of first degree murder has been filed by District Attorney K. A. Wylie against Harry French, 36, in connection with the fatal shoot ing Thursday night of Claude l.. McCracken, 46, editor of the Modoc Mail.
 A coroner's jury previously found that McCracken's death came from bullets fired by Harry French"
 French is son of Bard French, publisher of a weekly newspaper.
 Sheriff John c. Sharp said the two newspapers have been battling back and forth on every issue that has come up.'
 McCracken was shot in his home Thursday night while at a dinner table. He was rushed to a hospital, then dictated story of the shoot ing and filed it, addressed to the Associated Press, San Francisco He died two hours later
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-03-27
ELLIOTT IGNORED BY EMPLOYEES IN
 TREASURY OFFICE

Tn compliment to J. R. Elliott, U. s. Treasury Department disbursing head in Alaska, members of the Treasury disbursing office yester- day noon held a luncheon at the Terminal Cafe at which Mir Elliott, who plans to leave next week on the North Sea for the States. was presented with an attractive brief case.
 Last night MT Elliott was honor ed at an affair at the home of Mrs. Frank Rouze given by the same group.
 The Treasury official is reporting first to Washington, D. C.. under his new instructions and plans to drive across the country, stopping at Grand Fork, N. D., to pick up Mrs. Elliott, who is visiting with her parents there.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-03-27
GEORGES BONNET WILL HUNT BEAR ON ADMIRALTY
Representative of French
 Governments Wants to Kill Alaska Brownie

H. E. Georges Bonnet. represen- tative of the French government who recently arrived in this country for conference with high govern ment officials in Washington, is planning to come to Alaska bear hunting before returning home, ac- cording to information to Executive Officer Frank Dufresne of the AL aska Game Commission from Col. H. P. Sheldon, Chief of the Public Relations Department of the Bio- logical Surveyl.
 Col. Sheldon says that MT. Ben- net is going to California and wants to fly from there to Alaska to get Brownie. Arrangements are now being made and the French official will be accompanied by Pierre Charpentier. second Secretary of the French Embassy in Washington. and Col. Sheldon, who has suggest ed Admiralty Island, adjacent to Juneau. as the probable hunting ground.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-03-27
NEGOTIATIONS PROGRESSING,
 AUTO STRIKE
Leaders of Chrysler, Work. CTS Continue Confer
 ence Tn Lansing

LANSING, Michigan, March 27.- Peace prospects frightened today with continuation ef negotiations between the opposing leaders of the Chrysler Corporation and United Automobile Workers of America at conference in Gov. Frank Mur- phys office, seeking a satisfactory answer to the unions recognition demand for sole bargaining agency for the corporations 67,000 work CTS.
 Gov. Murphy reported progress is being made and both sides seem striving earnestly to reach a settle ment."
 Approximately 9o.oo0 automotive workers are now idle in Detroit alone.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-03-27
TAKE YOUR UMBRELLA
 TO CHURCH ON EASTER WEATHERMAN ADVISES

Cloudy tonight and Sunday; probably showers or snow flurries. That is weatherma an Howard Thompsons prediction for Easter weather.
 Probably umbrellas should be ta- ken to church on Sunday morning to protect new Spring hats from Easter Sunday showers.
 However, when considering Eas- ter weather, Dean c. E. Rice of Holy Trinity Cathedral, mentioned in The Empire office this morning that on every Easter and on Christmas, too, for that matter - for the past sixteen years, the wea- ther has been such that the Trinity Choir has had an outside process sional as a part of Trinity services.
 Which indicates that the weather hasn't been too bad on Easter dur ing the last sixteen years. Every one hoping that, in spite of wealth CT bureau indications, it won't be TOO bad tomorrow.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-03-27
JUSTICES ASKED VIEWS, PENDING
 COURT REFORM
Schwellenbach Drafts Reso- lution Calling for Opin-
 ions of Court Members

WASHINGTON, March 27.-Pro- posal that the Supreme Court give advisory opinions on the constitu- tionality of pending legislation is made by Senator Lewis B. Schwel- lenbach, of Washington. as the de- bate over the Presidents Court plan continued.
 Senator Scfwellenbach has draft ed resolution asking that the nine Justices agree to express their views on the legality of the major bills before Congress. He said that such action would prevent long de- lays and uncertainty.
 The Senate Judiciary Committee which is engaged in hearings on the Court plan has recessed until Tues day.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-03-27
EASTER BELLS
 RING OUT IN
 ENTIRE WORLD
w ars and Rumors ol Wars in Prophecy of
 Christ Here Today
lBv Associated Pressl

Church bells throughout the Christian world will peal glad tid- ings to the risen Christ tomorrow but to a world torn by war, the thought of war and by religious conflict
 Christ, Himself, knowingly on the way to His Death on the cross, spoke to His Disciples of wars and rumors of wars,D of brother that shall betray thy brother" of cen- sure for the church.
 And today, nations everywhere have speeded the pace of arma- ments; civil conflict has gripped Spain, brother against brother; Protestant and Catholic alike are engaged in controversy with Nazi Germany over the question of relig- ious freedom.
 Encyclical
 Pope Plus xI drafted an encycli- cal to Mexican Catholics, beseech- ing them to hold fast to their faith in the face of conflict and appealed flor greater intensifying of Christian life so as to have true peace and prosperity; in every coun- try the secret and guarantee of peace and prosperity is Christian life carried on in its multiple works he said
 Roosevelt At Church
 President Roosevelt and his fam fly will attend Easter services in Washington.
 The Duke of Windsor made East CT plans to attend church services in Vienna, then to make prepara- tions to depart for new retreat in the Austrian Tyrol He has ar ranged to read part of the service in the Anglican Church which he will attend.
 Holy Land Unrest
 Unrest in. Palestine, the Holy Land, has brought out armed guards to watch over the temples during the Passover worship by Jews whom the Arab population has been fighting.
 Strange rites took place among the Indians in the Southwest of the United States, where hundreds of years ago Spanish defenders of the faith planted the cross. In their own fashion, Arizona Yaqui Indians in half pagan and half Chris tian version, shot Christ with a popgun to portray His Crucifixion
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-03-27
s. E. OFFICIAL. INVOLVED IN
 VICE REPORT
Claims He Is Under No Moral or Legal Obliga-
 ton to Holder of Note

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, March 27.-Matthew Brady, veteran Dis trict Attorney and technical head of the current vice investigation was ordered before the Grand Jury today to explain charges that his note is held by bail bond broker whose concern was named as "a fountainhead of corruption" in the report of the investigators.
 Brady admitted the existence of such note, on which he said he had been unable to make payments for more than twenty years, i.i con- nection with buying car.
 But he denied "any obligation moral or legeal," to Peter McDon- ough, the broker.
 The Grand Jury is studying the recent report that a million dollars year are paid to police here foi protection of gambling and prosti- tuition.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-03-27
LOCAL BUILDERS
 WILL BE ACTIVE, COMING SUMMER
Apartment to Be Started Here Next Week Much
 NewDouglas Construction

With the end of winter heralded by the several days of sunshine re- gently experienced, plans are now being speeded for construction of several new buildings and residence es on Gastineau Channel.
 Looming large among the new structures conceived. is the four apartment building to be erected by Sam Feldon at the juncture of Cal houn Avenue and Fourth Street, on the rocky promitory command ing view of both the city, the channel, just below the Federal jail, and above the Cliff Apartments.
 Unnamed as yet, the structure will be approached from Fourth Street, will be of two-story, frame and stucco construction, with flat roof, and will be modern in style of de- sign. The building will include eighteen rooms in all, and will have one apartment, the boiler room and laundry on the first floor, and three apartments on the second floor.
 The structure was designed by the H. B. Foss Company. Juneau archi- tects, and construction is scheduled to be started April 1, by Larsen and |B m, general contractors. The building is being financed by an FILA loan, secured through the new ly-formed Alaska Federal Savings and Loan Association.
 Besides the development being planned this summer by the Alaska Realty Company on the Gastineau View Addition, formerly known as the Sheldon Homestead, just out side the city limits on Glacier High way, large crop of new residences should be harvested by the Chan mel District this year.
 New Residence
 Within Juneau, construction is al- ready well under way on the ten room home being erected for Homer G. NordIing at Twelfth and c Streets. Plans, drawn by N. Lester Troast and Associates, call for a two-story and basement frame structure, finished on the exterior in bevelled cedar siding It is being built by Vic Manville, contractor.
 Nearby, at Eleventh and c Streets, M. J. Musser, local builder, is con- structing for himself, five-room frame residence.
 Across the Channel, Douglas will |soon have a modern business dis trict built upon the ashes of its former commercial center. Smiths New Building
 Bids are to be let tonight for perhaps the most imposing of the new Douglas structures which have (Continued on Page Three)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-03-27
26 PASSENGERS FOR THIS PORT ABOARD ALASKA

SEATTLE, March 27. = Steamer Alaska sailed for Southeast and Southwest Alaska ports at o'clock this morning with PIT first class and 83 steerage passengers.
 Passengers aboard, booked foi Juneau, include H. H. Steerns Floyd s. Volk, Lucille Wilson, M Schmidt, Mrs A. Cohen, Helen La very, Daniel Ross. Patrick Savage and wife, Jack Schoonover and wife Fred L. Littlefield, Miss M. Giles pie, Dr. F. D. Gillespie and wife E. E. Crosson and wife, D. E. Fras- fer, T. w. Hunt, w. A. Potman Fred Barragar, Mrs. Ole Westby Shirley Tripp. Jennie Tripp, 0. T Swanson, J. F.. Murphy.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-03-27
TO RIVERS LIQUOR
 LAW IS SOUGHT
Senate Measure Would Eliminate Churches from
 Restricted License Zone

Amendment of the Rivers liquor law, which was passed at the regu- lar session and becomes effective June 1 at the expiration ot existing licenses, is sought in bill intro duced in the extraordinary session of the Territorial Senate this morn ing by Senator Norman R. Walker of Ketcnikan to exclude churches from the section which provides that no beverage oispensary license shall be issued for sale of liquor within two hundred feet of a school building or church.
 The bill, which Senator Walker said was being urged by the Eagles, Elks and Moose lodges as well as others, is to protect those establish ments which now are located within POO feet in a direct line from churches, but it was reported that it will be amended so no licenses will be granted to new places with in the prescribed distance.
 Another provision in the new bill, which was received by the Senate, would amend the new liquor law to provide that where liquor is sold for medicinal purposes a retail li- cense will be required.
 The Territorial House this morn ing passed the Senate bill creating a Department of Public Welfare and a Board of Welfare, but 1t goes back to the Senate carrying two amendments. The original bill called for the naming of q Welfare Direc- tor by the Board at a salary of $3,600 per year. and who should have lived in the Territory for at least five years immediately pre- ceding his appointment. The House raised the salary to s4.200 and changed time of residence to 10 years immediately preceding ap- pointment Proposal was made that in view of other salaries and the amount of responsibility resting with the Director that the salary should be $4,800 but after consider able discussion compromise was roonhnI af eA DnA
 The school transportation bill, in- troduced yesterday by Representa- tiyes James V. Davis and Harry Race of the Frist Division, was withdrawn this morning in the House, but it is understood simi- lar bill was to be offered later by the Ways and Means committee asking an appropriation of $65 900 to provide transportation for chil- dren outside of incorporated towns.
 An informal joint session as com mittee of the whole is planned by the two houses for o'clock Mon- day afternoon for general discus sion on the Social Security Legisla- ton.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-03-27
WHITE OBJECTS TO COURT PLAN

CINCINNATI, O., March 27. - William Allen White is returning to his home in Emporia. Kansas, with criticism of the Presidents Court proposal.
 White said he had no desire to see the Government on stream line train, hell bent. its goal"
 White addressed business men here last night.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-03-27
Three Bodies
 Unclaimed in
 Bus Accident
Charred Remains of Three Women Be Placed in
 Unnamed Graves

SALEM, Illinois, March 27-The charred bodies of three women will be placed in unnamed graves to re- main as memorial of the motor bus tragedy here several days ago.
 The condition of three survivors, who have been given blood trans fusions, remain unchanged.
 Twenty passengers were killed, all badly burned, when the motor bus crashed into an abutment of a bridge
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-03-27
HIGH GRADING
 IS DISCOVERED AT HOMESTAKE
Homes of Miners Are Being Searched Fortunes
 FoundHidden Away

WOOD, South Dakota, March 27--Tiny Black Hills homes of miners are proving treasure houses, concealing fortunes in mug gets stolen from Homestake, the worlds largest gold mine.
 Police said secret investigation, lasting for months, ended in a search of houses of the miners.
 Chunks of gold worth hundreds of dollars were found hidden in fish bowls and similar places.
 Gold was also stolen from the mine in lunch boxes.
 Five miners have already been arrested for high grading
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-03-27
JAP AN REFUSES LIMITATION ON
 GUNS FOR NAVY
Position Is Made Clear in Note Made Public To-
 day in Tokyo

TOKYO, March 27-Japan of ficially declines to accept any tri- power Limitation on naval gun cal ibreS without a simultaneous re- duction in naval tonnages by the United States and Great Britain thus holding the nation free tc construct guns of any size.
 Japan's position is outlined in g note that was today handed tc British Ambassador Robert Give.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-03-27
AMELIA MAY
 FLY MAY ONE

BURBANK, Cal, March 27. = Amelia Earhart said today she ex- poets to be on the way on new projected world flight by May l. Repairs to her $80,000 flying labora- tory will take about three weeks, she said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-03-27
Indberghs Reach
 Bagdad on Long Trip

BAGDAD, March 27--Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and his wife have ar rived here after flight from Bah rein Islands where they spent the night. Early today the two fliers stopped at Basra,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-03-27
ALASKA JUNEAU PAYS 30 CENTS
Extra Dividend to Be De. clared Along with
 Quarterly Payment

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, March 27. Officials of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company announced the usual extra l5 cents share will be paid along with the regular quar- terly dividend of Is cents on May first for stockholders on record on April 10.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-03-27
'SITDOWN STRIKE
 DISCUSSION NOW IN WHITE HOUSE
President Asks Congress sional Leaders to Meet
 at His Office

WASHINGTON, March 27-Pres- ident Roosevelt's return to Wash ington from his fifteen day vaca- ton in Georgia shifted the center of the Governments discussion of sitdown strikes from Congress to the White House.
 Tn the wake of Secretary of La bor Frances Perkins assertion that the aims of the sitdown strikers are the usual objectives of unions in labor disputes Congressional leaders were invited to meet at the Presidents office soon after his ar rival
 Vice-President John Nance Gar ner made public a telegram from A. Lawrence Lowell, president em- eritus of Harvard University and six other Bostonians in which it was said they regard such strikes as armed insurrection in defiance of the law and order of duly elected authority; that they were spreading like wildfire."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-03-27
IS LARGE VESSEL

NEW ORLEANS. La., March 27.-- The Volunteer is one of the largest ships operating out of this port, TIT tons and 40 feet long.
 The Volunteer left here February 2 and cleared from Honolulu March IS for Kobe
 The vessel is under command of Capt. w. w. Geldert.
 The Volunteer was recently re- conditioned after laying up here for over year. Lykes Brothers op- erated her under charter from the Shipping Board. The vessel was built in Alameda, Cal. in 1918.