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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-01-08

have invested in skis, poles, shoes
and woolens are not going to lay
them aside after one or two whirls
along the trails. Once they have
had a taste of the charm of the
snow packed hills, the pines and fir
trees dropping with snow, the sill
yer birch trees and the dazzling
sunshine, they are certain to come
back for more.
And then too, after they realize
that with little patience and
practice, they can whiz downhill
in cloud of whirling snow they
will make every effort to improve
their form and thereby widen the
scope of their pleasure. The great
majority of the newly interested
ski addicts will not develop into ex-
perts, but that will not keep them
from having world of fun, and at
the same time improving their
health by the vigorous exercise.
In the cases OF many new winter
sports enthusiasts, they are merly
being won back to a sport which
they enjoyed in their youth. Re-
member how you awaited the first
snow of the winter with the great
est expectation? The thrill of Gid
ing along swiftly on a pair of ice
skates or rushing doWnhill at a
breakneck speed on sled was some
thing to look forward to. Then, as
you grew up, the snow lost some of
its thrill There were things like
having to keep the sidewalk cleared;
trouble starting the cold motor of
your car; the difficult driving on
snow covered streets, and the like.
Then it wasn't so much fun.
U. S. Needs Skiiers
Now there is the other slde OF
the picture. 1t is not at all sur
prising to learn that 250,000 enthus-
lasts on skis enjoyed themselves
over Washington's birthday, 1885, on
the snow-covered slopes of New
England, New York and Punnsyl-
vania.
In the recent winter Olympic meet
at h-Partenterchen, Ger
many, the participation of the
American ski teams was a futile
gesture as far as winning was con-
cerned. America did not take a
single championship. But by the
time the next set of games rolls
around the case is likely to be diff
ferent. OF the thousands who have
become interested in the sport, some
are sure to become capable perform
ers.
The recent winter sports show
in Madison Square Garden was
revelation to many. Some $4,000
spectators witnessed the 4-day COM
petition and exhibition-just about
as many as could jam their way
into the famous sports arena.
Before they could realize it, per-
haps, the manufacturers of skis
are likely to have major industry
on their hands. The ski factories
are working night and day in an
effort TO meet demands for equip
ment. 1t is interesting to note in
connection with the business of
manufacturing these glorified barrel
slaves that the best wood for max
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-01-08
JUNEAU PASSENGERS
ARE FLOWN TO W. H.

Chef Brown arrived at Whitehorse
by plane from Fairbanks with the
following passengers for Juneau,
who went from Whitehorse by train
to Skagway and are coming south
on the Estebeth:
William Faulkner, Grover c. VIM,
Dorothy Hanson, G. Coffey, G. Cox,
Mike Koofoff.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-01-08

Lode and placer location notices
for sale at The Empire office.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-01-08
CLOUDY SKIES KEEP
JUNEAU PLANES OUT
OF AIR ALL TODAY

All Juneau airplanes were ground
ed today by short visibility and
low ceiling.
Lode and placer location EOtices
for sale at The Empire office,
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-01-08
BOOST
IN REQUESTS
FOR TERRITORY
Blu dget Recommendation
Asks $4,o03,6OO for
Alaska Activities
Continued from Page One)

Reindeer maintenance, $33,500;
public schools, $4,000; care and
custody of insane, $4,000; wagon
roads, bridges and trails, $4,000;
construction, maintenance of other
roads, bridges and trails, $685., 1000;
Alaska Railroad fund, 100000; AL
aska Railroad permanent appropria-
ton, 81 100000.
Other recommendations are 1000
and $500 for flood control surveys
on Lowell Greek and Salmon River,
respectively.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-01-08

Totals .............. 500 All 482-1433
Average score. Did not bowl.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-01-08
FROM HAINES

A. E. Bevan, of Haines, stopping
last night at the Alaskan Hotel,
was the only guest newly registered
at any of the Juneau hostelrres to-
day.
The Washington times., 1937-12-16
Bon Scouts
Jups Disband Girl
and Boy Troops

PE1pTNG UN.s0-Until the
japanese army seized Peiping. the
Of the Peiping American Boy
Scouts was common on the city's
streets. Now it Is seen. no more. j.
Upon Japanese insistence, local
authorities ordered the d1sband-
ment Of all native troops.
Left alone is the Pagoda Troop
Of the Peiping American Boy
Scouts, which has many Chinese
scouts among its American mem
bers. Being American, the Japa'
nese could not strike at it.
The reason given by the author.
tiles for its ban on this worthy
worldwide institution Of youth
was that It savored Of military
training, and the Japanese did not
want any Chinese, no matter how
young, to have either that train
ing or to listen to patriotic inspira'
ton.
thousands Of Girl Scouts were
likewise forced to put aside their
skirted uniforms. The Japanese
we're apparently afraid Of them
also,
The Washington times., 1937-12-16
LEADERS NAMED
ITO DIRECT COP
CAMP PAIGN IN '3S
Choice of Chairman Is
Kept Secret

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 16 G.N.SJ.
Selection Of the program commit
tee, to map plans for the 1888 con-
gresSional elections, has been com.
pleted by the Republican execu.
tive committee here, 1t was
learned today.
$50 MEMBERS PICKED
The group will consist Of ap-
proximately $50 members, and
will be announced today.
The chairman Of the program
committee also has been agreed
upon, but no announcement will
be made until he has been con-
tacted and indicates he will &C
cept. it was learned from reliable
sources.
MRS. sIMNdS NAMED
Thirty-five prominent Repubh-
cans have been put forward for
the post Of chairman. Mrs. Ruth
Hanna Mccormick Simms Of New
Mexico was reported to be almost
q unanimous choice for vice-chatr-
man. It was learned she had al
ready been named to the COM
nittee.
The Washington times., 1937-12-16

Although he and his suite were
housed at Buckingham Palace
and were ostensibly the guests OF
his cousin" His Britannia Maj
esty, yet from way back into medic
val times q visiting sovereign
must be generous with his largesse.
Most Of this money was taken
up in tips to the royal servants,
flunky grooms and housemaids-
there are literally hundreds Of
them swarming around the royal
De laces Of England, and it is part
of their peruuisites to cash in on
the regal 1argesse" Of q visiting
monarch.
COMPARISONS WITH OLDEN
DAYS
In olden days when the royal
procession wended its way through
the streets, the largesSe used to
be literally thrown to the popu-
lace lining the way, but modern
times demand Just as heavy q tax
on the visitors purse, but Is dis
tributed in q more formal way.
Apart from the royal servants
the soldiers forming the guards OF
honor have traditional expecta-
tions in a spot Of generous was
sailing at the expense Of the Wis
itor. The driver Of his trains
whenever he uses them, must get
his "whack" at the tips. The sol
diers at Dover were regaled with
beer, and non-commiSsioned Of
ficers with whiskey and the Of
ficers with champagne.
LASHINGS OF ALE
The Household troops forming
the Royal Guard at Buckingham
Palace during his stay were all
"solaced" with laShings Of ale
and officers with champagne and
a personal present from the Bel
gian King.
The courtiers and officials Of
Buckingham Palace all have to be
given presents of jewelry as me-
Inentos of the visit. So, although
he was wined, dined and feted in
The Washington times., 1937-12-16

manner commensurate with his
royal dignity, nevertheless it would
have been much cheaper for him
to have taken q floor Of rooms at
the Ritz Hotel and paid for his
own wine and entertaining.
LEOPOLD WELL ABLE TO PAY
Happily as monarchs go Leo
pold is rich. His private income
far exceeds that Of King George Of
England, although his stipend as
King may be less. Few monarchs
reigning in Europe can afford the
luxury Of a full state visit to Lon
don.
The Washington times., 1937-12-16
DOG ACE COON HUNTER

GREENFIELD, Mass, Dec. 16
QN.S0-Loss Of a leg may termi'
nate the usefulness Of scme dogs,
but to the animal owned by
Charles Avery, 13, Of Rowe, the
accident brought to light hitherto
unsuspected ability as a coon
hunter. Yielding to the advice Of
friends, Avery took the dog cocn-
hunting one night and the dog
treed three coons.
The Washington times., 1937-12-16
Tips in London
Cost King $4,000

LONDON, Dec. 16 INS).-King Leopold Of the Begians
left London after his recent state visit nearly five thousand
dollars poorer.
The Washington times., 1937-11-03
MINISTER 5-YEAR
CAPTIVE IN WAR

Five years spent in an internment
camp during the World War was
the lot of the Rev. w. K. Ising,
who has been named associate
secretary of the Sabbath School
Department of the General Con-
ference of Seventh Day Advent
lists at Takoma Park, Md.
A native of Germany, the Rev.
Using was serving as missionary
in Alexandria, Egypt, when he was
seized at the outbreak of the war
and sent to the island Of Malta.
1t was on this island that the
Apostle Paul was cast ashore when
the ship on which he was being
taken a prisoner to Rome was
wrecked.
The clergyman served as chap
lain for the prisoners Of war, and
later returned to the mission
field,
The Washington times., 1937-11-03
TAYLOR'S RISE.
IN BIC" STEEL
PHENO N EMAIL
Retiring Chairman Out
did EIbert Gary
By JAMES L. KILGALLEN

NEW YORK, Nov. 3.-With the
earnings Of the United States Steel
Corporation showing UP more than
they have in years, Myron c. Tay-
lor, chairman Of the board, is
moving toward retirement next
April 4 with the knowledge that
he has more than made good as
the successor Of the late Ebert
II. Gary.
Mr.. Taylor's past 10 years Of
achievement is one Of the most
absorbing industrial stories OF the
present era.
PROMPTED BY MORGAN
In 1927, after the death of Judge
Gary, Taylor was persuaded by
George F.. Baker (senior) and j. P.
Morgan to take a more active in
terest in the United States Steel
CORPORATION. He took the post
as chairman of the finance COM
mittee in 1927, and becoming, in
1882. chairman Of the board and
chief executive officer-a post he
will continue to hold until next
April.
Taylor's job in reorganizing
United States Steel embraced three
major phases:
Cd Revision Of the capital
structure; (2) revamping of the
corporations physical proper
ties; and 90 rehabilitation Of
personnel.
REORGANIZED IN 2 YEARS
Taylor brought the first phases
Of the reorganization plan-the
revision of capital Structure-to q
successful conclusion in 1929 with
the redemption of bonds of the
parent corporation having an ag-
gregate value of $4,000, 900.
Later $4,000, 900 Of the bonded
debt Of the subsidiaries was also
retired The net effect was to re-
duce annually by approximately
$50, 100000 the fixed charges
which must be met before earn
ings became available for preferred
and common stocks.
This capital revision stood big
steer' in good stead in the trying
period of the business depression.
The second phase of Taylor'S
plan-the rebuilding Of plants
was a $400, ,000, 900 program. Great
changes have occurred under the
Taylor regime, embodying the re-
construction of plants, relation
ship of properties to markets,
freights, availability Of raw ma
terials, etc.
The net effect Of the physical
readjustments has been an in
crease in blast furnace capacity
from 19,847, 900 tons in 1928 to
20,665, 900 tons in 1897; an in
crease from 23,T61 600 tons to 25,-
772, 400 tons in steel ingot capacity,
and an increase from 16,750,000
tons to 1929. 400 tons in rolled
and finished steel
The Washington times., 1937-11-03
1000 Chickens
Give Fire Alarm

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. S.-Cac-
king Of her 1000 chickens awak-
ened Mrs. Theresa Kola, 48, owner
Of a poultry farm near West Tor
resdale. She found the roof Of her
home On fire.
Engine Company No. 81, after
making the four-mile run to the
farm, found the nearest city water
main was two miles away. They
put out the blaze with chemicals
and well water.
The Washington times., 1937-11-03
Shark Hunting
To Aid Germany

BERLIN, Nov. UNS).-Be-
lieve it or not-sharks will have
to help Germany carry out her
four-year plan! An experimental
shark fishing company" has just
been founded by a group Of Ham
burg business men and a we'll
known leather manufacturing COM
pany Of Offenbach, to try out
shark hunting on big scale in the
West Indian waters,
Evening star., 1937-08-22
Radio Is Seen Confronted Soon
By Need for Neau Amusement Ideas

by radio, leaving only some unusual
new idea to attract the listening
audience"
Musical comedy, drama. burlesque,
concerts, operas. symphonies and even
circuses have been brought to radio,
Voorhees, points out The Fred Allen,
Jack Benny and Phil Baker programs
are really condensed musical comedies.
The Radio Theater and Hollywood
Hotel" look after the dramatic end.
Edwin Franko Goldman, Arthur Pryor
and the Lewisohn Stadium broad
casts are responsible for band con-
certs. The orchestras Of Frank Black,
Leopold Stokowski and Ferde Grofe
give US our share OF symphony music.
And the Metropolitan Additions of the
Air care for our operatic needs.
Even .circuses," says voorhees,,
have been represented on the air by
jimmy Durante's Jumbo and Joe
Cooks Circus Nlghts'"
Evening star., 1937-08-22
Lopez Changes His STYLE.

LOPEZ has changed his
musical style for the second time
in Is years. Patrons Of the club at
Saratoga Springs, where the Lopez
band is holding forth during the rae
ing season, have noticed a decided
difference in his music recently He
came back from Hollywood with an
entirely new band and now is going
in for swing. but with the suave touch
for which he is famous. Back in
1921, at the start of his seven-year
stay at a Manhattan hotel, the con-
ductor did the same trick by dumping
out the clarinets, saxophones and aero
batic drummers, which had been a
feature Of jazz up to that date, and in
jecting \ new tone and quality into
popular music.
Evening star., 1937-08-22
Dolan's Repute Is Wide.

THE reputation of Robert Emmett
Dolan, musical director OF the
Sunday Night Party. has gone as far
rs British Guiana, in South America.
From the director of radio program
there has come request to Dolan for
metronomic timings on popular music.
The man explained that the musl-
clans down there just could not seem
to get the tempo of American rhythms
right Consequently, he asked for
metronome figure on fast, medium and
slow fox trots Dolan could not an
swer him at once because he had to
look around for metronome and then
work out just how fast he had been
conducting in the rehearsals and
broad adcasts
Finally he got it reduced to exact
figures and dispatched the informa-
ton to British Guiana.
Evening star., 1937-08-22
Radio Gets Museum Space

r Ado finally has progressed to
stage where it is to be awarded
space in an art museum Raymond
Paige's recent visit to New York was
for two purposes. In addition to hud-
ding with his sponsors of the new
show which starts September 7, he had
three agents securing New York for
ancient radio equipment.
Prior to his departure for the East,
Paige had obtained permission from
one of the State officials to esta blish
radio exhibit in the California Art
Museum. AS far as is known, this is
the first time that the broadcastine
industry has obtained recognition OF
this nature.
Paige. who made the first trans
continental broadcast from the Wes'
Coast over the C. B. S. network, hss
acquired many interesting objects for
the exhibit. He has parts of the first
transmitter used in the West, various
types OF early day microphones, the
musical scores. covered with notes, OF
his initial broadcast; quaint chim5
signals, several styles of crystal sets
an antique control panel and man
other objects which, no doubt, Wi.
amuse and interest future genera
tions.
Evening star., 1937-08-22
Radio Held Responsible for Trend
To Sylphs as Operas Prima Donnas

the ordinary radio quota Of six songs
per half hour. one evening a week.
Hence, in order to fortify herself for
this arduous schedule. the prima
donna Of the Gay Nineties piled her
soon-to- be-overworked system with
heavy foods in lavish quantities.
Spaghetti dinners were part of their
training.
Even these fatten;ng iibations
would not account for these ladies'
avoirdupois, however. for they worked
it on But the remainder of the
year. when the opera season was
over, was often one long banquet
the Schumann-H -Heink or Tetraxzini ate
what she liked and in as large guam
titles as she pleased, without the opera
work to whittle down the weight she
accumulated"
Further, Miss Manners reminds that
the opera stars Of today do not operate
on so short q season. Most of the
topnotchers keep busy the year around
in the broadcasting studios; hence,
they must keep In prime condition.
Evening star., 1937-08-22
Announcers Are Actors.

An ANNOUNCER must be a con-
summate actor before he can be-
come successful. Carlton KaDeI, who
does the commercials on the w. c.
Fields and Hal Kemp programs, says
that an announcer must be able, by
means of his voice, to stir the imag-
nation of listeners.
You have to know how to beg,
plead. cajole, command, request and
suggest in such manner that no
listener can take offense, especially if
the commercial is overlong," says Ka-
Dell You have to run the gamut of
emotions while extolling the praises
OF your sponsors product and giving
glamour to bag Of sugar or a dozen
eggs is 6 job that only real actor can
accomplish
Evening star., 1937-08-22

songsmith in the country, and a
great many from other parts of the
world, too, believes Alice can put
over" his creation in one Of her
movies or on her c. B. S. radio pro-
gram each Friday night, and make 1t
famous.
Alice couldn't possibly begin to sing
all the songs sent to her If each day
contained 48 hours and she were able
to be on the radio every minute of
those hours, or to make movie every
day. So Alice has to inform the fedg-
ling composers that the songs she
sings are restricted to the works of
such topnotchers in music as these
aforementioned gentlemen and others
Of the same musical stature.
Evening star., 1937-08-22

~ Ado Is responsible for the
streamlining of current prima
II donnas Gone are the days
L \ when, in order to be consid-
cred an artist Of stature, coloratura
had to acquire the stature of a masta-
don. It was not so long ago that An
applicant for An operate role would
be turned away soornfully. without
an addition, unless she tipped the
beam at 180 pounds or 80.
Lucille Manners, herself 1l2 pounds
OF dainty good looks. is favorite ex-
ample OF a soprano star worth far
more than her weight in gold. and it
is she who insists that radio is to be
thanked for our new crop OF singing
sylphs.
Before radio, the diva had a short
performing season." Miss Manners
points out, comprising some 10 weeks
of opera, with only occasional concert
dates spotted throughout the rest OF
the year. The strain of singing four
hours of Wagnerian score is mani
festly = greater physical strain than
Evening star., 1937-08-22

~ Ado, greatest consumer Of ma
terial of any entertainment
n medium. is going to find itself
4 y worrying for new program
ideas within the next two years, be-
cause every phase Of popular enter
tainment has been adopted by the
microphone industry. Such is the
opinion Of Don Voorhees,, maestro Of
the "Calvacade of Music" programs,
who wonders what radio is going to do
next to please It's tickle public. Says
Don:
Engineers have agreed that tele-
vision Is at least nve or six years
away, that 1t Is now far from f1n-
ished product and that even after 1t
is perfected there will be considerable
litigation before it Is introduced rs =
public luxury But when it becomes
. reality, it will give radio chance
to adopt motion pictures, too.
Meanwhile, virtually every medium
Of entertainment has been gobbled up
Evening star., 1937-08-22
Man Who Controls Stadium, Concert
Broadcast Is Only Musician-En gineer

TNHE man who holds the Sun
day night broadcasts of the
Lewisohn Stadium concerts in
L the hollow of his hand is q
musician as we'll as an engineer His
name Is Charles Kleinman and he is
the only staff engineer with a music
background. That's why he has been
the Official philharmonic-symp
engineer, Summer and Winter, ever
since he came to Columbia three years
ego.
In his engineering training he never
counted his 10 years piano study with
the sister of Hans Kinder. the con-
ductor OF the National Symphony Or
chestra, but it won him the philhar-
monic-symphony assignment Because
Of his knowledge Of music he can read
scores. which means that at rehearsa1s
Evening star., 1937-08-22
O'Keefe lust Like Father.

THAT ef1ortless delivery character
istic of Walter O'Keefe may be
traced directly to his father, famous
comedian from Hartford, Conn. who
had the reputation Of never getting
ratified under fire. One time the elder
O'Keefe gave two-hour benefit per-
formance when it Was los degrees in
the shade, and held every member of
his audience spellbound.
Evening star., 1937-08-22

ute they were on the air, for q full
l5-minute program, full network.
HE bane of Ted Husing's life-the
necessity for mumbline into a.
mlcrophone lest he disconcert
golfer dropping putt-has been over
come by . new invention constructed
under the direction Of Paul White. Co.
lumbia's director Of public affairs.
Husing will put Whites invention to
its first test at the national amateur
golf championships at the Aldervood
Country Club, Portland, Oreg., this
week
The same principle involved in the
perlscopes that are used on submarines
applles to the new device. 1t is
tall umbrella topped stick with a
heavy point which enables it to stick
solldly in the ground. Attached to
this stick is a periscope When the
players reach the green, Husing sticks
1t into the ground behind the crowd
at the green and looks into the peri
scope which he focuses on the player
away. or the first to putt. The
periscope magnifies the ball, cup and
player 10 times.
Attached to the pole is a micro
phone. which slides up and down to
accommodate any talker Husing NAV
call upon. This microphone is easily
detached and is connected to nearby
short-wave equipment. The periscope
is constructed so that the bottom is on
level with Husing's eyes, and the ton
about 3 feet higher A few feet above
the top Of the periscope is a huge
umbrella which protects the equip
ment from rain. With this equip
ment Husing can stay quite a dis.
tance from the actual play and give
an accurate story Of what is going on
Previously, Ted has had to chamber
up ladders or trees to broadcast tha
putting portions Of golf match.
A HAMMERED brass FIRE bell, once
used by the New York Fire De-
partment, which for nearly a decade
has quickened pulses of listeners t.
Goldman Band programs, will clanE
out no longer its exciting message OF
alarm. The bell. set in a 6-foot-higt
frame, weighing several hundred
pounds, disappeared into thin air from
the bandstand in Prospect Park,
Brooklyn, N. Y, where Dr.. Edwin
Franko Goldman left it after a con-
cert recently.
How and why anyone should have
taken the huge bell remains a myz-
terry to DR.. Goldman, who thought its
weight was sufficient insurance
against theft.
The bell, according to DR.. Goldman.
has been popular with radio audiences
since it was added to the equip
ment OF the band 1t was used reg
ularly in a novelty march entitled
The Third Alarm" and also in the
finale of the Tschaikowsky 1872
Overture DR.. Goldman obtained it
from the New York Fire Department
through Fire Chief John Kenlon, who
enjoyed The Third Alarm" but
thought the bell changing should be
more authentic
When We first used the bell on
our broadcasts.' DR.. Goldman said.
Its realism had strange results. There
were dozens Of letters describing how
radio listeners started to run for the
doors of their houses when they heard
the Changing of the bell because it
seemed so realistic that they didn't
connect it with the musical program
to which they were listening"