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The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-15
} JUSTICES OF SUPREME COURT
 READY TO QUIT
designations, It Is Said, De. pendent on Withdraw
 al of Court Bill

WASHINGTON, May 15.-Oppo- nents of the Roosevelt court bill said three early retirements from the Supreme Court is assured if the President drops the judicial reor- ganization program.
 The President, who mas returned from his fishing trip on the Gulf of Mexico, declined to discuss com promise, it is said, and directed the Democratic leaders to carry on the battle for the measure.
 High opposition Senators said the Associate Justices ready to re- tire are Brandeis, Van Devanter and Sutherland.
 From other sources came the hint that Van Deyanter will retire soon regardless of the continuance of the court dispute. He is 78 and the oldest member except Brandeis, who is 80 and senior member in point of service.
 The Senate Judiciary Committee votes next Monday on the court bill.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-15
JOB COMMISSION WINDS UP WORK
 UNTIL IN JUNE
Director Sharpe Going to Washington-Miss Mol-
 yer Named Assistant

The Unemployment Compensation Commission completed it's delibera tions here today and adjourned it's session until late in June. Mem ters of the commission are leaving immediately for their homes. E. l.. Bartlett of Miller House, Chairman, took the plane this afternoon for Fairbanks, Richard Hardcastle ex- poets to sail on the Alaska for his home in Ketchikan and R. A. Bragaw is returning to Anchorage on the Yukon the first of the week
 The commission delegated Di- rector Walter P. Sharpe to go to Washington, D. C., to corelate the Alaska setup with the Federal machinery and he expects to sail or the south next week. During his absence, the new commission of fees in the Shattuck Building will be in charge of Miss Randi Molver, who has been named as assistant to the Director.
 Under the tentative program now drawn up, the first tax period under the law will be September 30 when collection will be made for the first three quarters. After that taxes will be collected on a quar- terly basis. Taxes for 1887 will fall on employers having eight or more employees and the rate will be Ia per cent on payroll. Next year the rate jumps to 2.7 per cent. Director Sharpe announced that no additional staff will be em- ployed until after his return from Washington.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-15
Flood Waters Rise

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 15.-- Flood waters started to rise again at ? o'clock Friday afternoon, an inch an hour. but not as rapidly as Thursday when an all-time high of l3 feet 2 inches was reached. The previous high was 12 feet 6 inches above normal
 The jittery condition of the pop ulation on Thursday subsided al- though half totwo-thirds of the people have been driven from their homes to refuge in hotels. public buildings and the dry zones.
 Covered by Water
 Over IS percent of the town was still covered by water at 10 o'clock last night. especially along the river border. where ice has also accumu- lated. The flooded district includes the long residential sweep along First Avenue below Cowles Street.
 No complaints of absolute desti- tuition have been received. The CIVIC autnorltieS are cooperating with the Federal agencies in giving assistance to the refugees.
 No Aid Needed
 Mayor E. B. Collins emphatically asserted last night that If conditions get no worse, there will be no re- quest for outside assistance.
 The spirit of the residents is splendid.
 The San Francisco Red Cross headquarters radioed offers of as- sistance which is not expected to be needed.
 Damage Estimated
 Property damage, up to last night, was impossible to be accurately es- timated and no survey has yet been attempted
 Leading construction firms esti- mate however the damage to private homes, business houses and city property, including streets, ranges from $lOO.OO0 to $200,OO0 with pos sibility of as much more to high
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-15
BATTLE RACES
 WHOLE LENGTH
 BASQUE FRONT
Government on Defense as Insurgents Press
 Against Bilbao

VITORIA, Spain, May 15.-The Insurgents are pressing an offensive against Bilbao and there is heavy fighting the whole length of the Basque front.
 The spokesman of the Basque government reiterated the Govern ment's determination to defend the city until death and declared flatly there is no possibility of media tion"
 Reports from Gen. Mola's field officers said the Government village of A'Orebieta, pivotal center in the defense line, is virtually sur rounded.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-15
HUNDREDS OF PERSONS STILL
 OUT OF HOMES
Civic and Federal Author ities Act Jointly in
 Giving Aid
COLDER WEATHER IS
 INDICATED, INTERIOR
Property Damage Unesti- mated But Runs Into
 Large Figures, Report

BULLETIN-Fairbanks, Alas ka, May 15.--AIthough the flood waters dropped IA inches yes terday, they came up four inch es during the night and remain about that level this forenoon. This morning the water guaged 12 feet and 3 inches.
 The homeless are still being cared for.
 Probably late today or to- morrow, those driven from their homes may be able to return. WEATHER BUREAU ADvICES
 The Juneau Weather Bureau has received advices that the flood waters were 12 feet and 3 inches this morning at Fair banks. Colder weather is i'm dicated in the upper Panama Valley which may ease the flood situation. Enormous jams in the Tanana continue to divert the flood waters.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-15
BRITISH LABOR PASSES
 AWAY IN LONDON
Philip Snowden, Dynamic Cripple, Hated, then
 Praised, Dies Today

LONDON, May 15.-Philip Snow den, 72, former Chancellor of the Exchequer and British labor leader, died here today.
 Philip Snowden, dynamic cripple was the Moses of the British labor movement, the firebrand of its youth, the leavening agent and law giver of it's more mature years.
 Reduced to a mere shell of a physcal man by an accident sui fered when he was only 27 years old, he battled his way from ob- scurity in Lancashire to hold twice the post of Chancellor of the Ex- chequer, one of the highest offices of the British Empire.
 In House of Lords
 Finally forced by his physical ail- ments to give up his strenuous post after the second Macdonald labor cabinet had been overthrown in August, 1881, he put on robes of scarlet and ermine and took seat in the House of Lords as the first Viscount of Ickornshaw. This ac- ceptance of a peerage added strength to the labor represention in the upper house and kept his tal- ents at the disposal of the coalition government which had the big task of steering the British Empire
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-15
 WRECKACE OF PLANE CRASH
 MAY BE LOST
Air Veterans Give Opinions on Airliner, Which Down.
 ed Five Months Ago

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. May IS. The possibility is discussed that the airplane which vanished five months ago with seven persons aboard. may never be found.
 Air veterans said the wreckage may be buried under five feet of snow and in a few weeks the snow will melt, the canyons will be filled with the rushing waters and the debris of the plane may be swept down and scattered for miles. then buried under rock and silt.
 There are still hundreds of can- didates for the $l,000 reward and searching plans went forward to organize a new hunt for the plane.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-15
Kermit Roosevelt
 Is On Way North
Son of Teddy, Accompan- led by Wife, Kodiak
 Bound oHunt Bear

SEATTLE, May 15. = Kermit Roosevelt, son of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, accompanied by his wife, sailed today for bear hunting trip on Kodiak Island. Certainly I'm excited about the trip" said Roosevelt. T have hunt ed in Africa, South America, Tibet and other places but this is the first time any of the Roosevelts have invaded Alaska. We are going to unlimber our old Springfield army rifles"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-15
Ta||apoOsa Has EventfuI Jaunt
 On Seal Patrol
Weddings and Inquest Con. ducted Aboard Ship
 Census Taken

Smooth but eventrul was the de- scription brought back by officers and men of the U. S. Coast Guard Ship Tallapoosa when she arrived back at her Juneau base at the Government dock late yesterday af- ternoon. after being out since the morning of April 20, on her annual seal patrol.
 Besides charting the course of the northward migrating seal herd the cutter called at nearly every village between Dixon Entrance, where she took over the patrol from the Cutter Redwing, and Kodiak Island, where she relinquished it to the new Cutter Samuel D. Ing ham and the patrol boats Cyane and Morris
 Caring for the sick and taking census was the principal duty of the cutter and her crew at the points touched, but the highlight of the cruise was the double we'd ding ceremony performed by Lieut. Comdr. Noble G. E!cketts, com mander of the Taylapoosa, at Ak hiok, on Altak Bay, in the southern tip of Kodiak Island. Captain Rick etts was also forced to exercise his powers as a United States Com missioner to hold an inquest at Kanatak.
 Take Census
 After making her way from Ju- neau to Dixon Entrance to contact the Cutter Redwing, the Tallapoosa called at Sitka, and Yakutat, to take census and tend the sick, then make her way to Cordova, where she re- ceived a motor launch from the Cutter Haida. From Cordova she called at Valdez, then continued to Seward, where she refueled.
 From Seward she headed for the Kodiak Island group, under orders to put into all ports in the section. She made calls at the Kodiak Is- land points of Old Harbor, Port Hebron, Kagnayak, Aiaklalik, Lazy Bay. Akhiok, Karluk, Uyak. Dry Spruce Bay, Afognak, Litnik, and Nzinski. Many sick were found and treated in the district.
 Play Cupid
 On arriving at Akhiok, one native couple was found poised for the jump into matrimony, while wid- ow, with two small children, was most anxious tc re-marry, but had no prospective groom. However, she stated her hard plight, the long hours she had to work to support her children, and her inability to properly care for them, so ably that, with the aid of the Indian Bureau school teacher, a determined search was conducted for a prospective husband for the distressed lady, and the search bore fruit in time for her to follow the first young couple into the welded state. Captain Ricketts admits that he was bit keyed up when the time came for the we'd
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WESDAHL COMES IN

Coming into Juneau for her regu- lar weekend stay, the U. s. Coast and Geodetic Survey tender Wes- dahl, which is charting in Taku In- let this summer, arrived at the Low CT Government Float here this morning. She is commanded by Lieut.. H. Arnold Karo
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-15
Jealous Woman
 Causes Big Fire

NARA, Japan, May 15.The ancient Korakuji Temple was set on fire, the police claim, by a jealous wo- man who sought revenge against the Chief Priest fdr unrequitted love. He had married young wo- man, as permitted by his sect.
 The fire spread to 122 other build ings and the total loss is estimated at $140,000.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-15
AL SMITH ON
 TRIP ABROAD

NEW YORK, May 15.-Al Smith sailed today for Europe aboard the liner Conte di Davoia. It is his first trip abroad.
 The Smith party includes Mrs. Smith, State Supreme Court Jus tice Edward McGc.drick, and the Right Rev. Fulton Sheen.
 The party is going to Rome and will be absent for about six weeks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-15
FORD GIVING WORKERS HIS
 UNION VIEWS
Announcements Will Be Circulated to l50,000
 Employees on Monday

DETROIT, Mich, May 15.-The first apparent move of the Ford Motor Company to oppose uflion- ization of it's 150,0O0 employees is revealed in announcement cards bearing Henry Ford's views on la bor organizations and policies. The announcement will be circulated among the workers on Monday
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-15
FLIES TO WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, May 15. - Dick Merrill and Jack Lambie, Atlantic fliers, arrived here by plane shortly before the noon hour and went i'm mediately to the White House and delivered coronation letter to President Roosevelt which had been written in England by Former Am basSador Gerard.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-15
PREMIER OF
 SPAIN QUITS
Caballero, May, However, Immediately Head New
 Republic $ Cabinet

VALENCIA, May. IS. = Wartime Premier Caballero, who has been di- recting the Spanish Republics af- fairs since his flight from Madrid last November, has resigned. It ls expected he will head new cab inet.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-15
Sift Ashes on Garbage Dump for
 $15,OO0 in Jewels

GREAT NECK, N. Y., May 15.- Three detectives directed squad sitting the ashes on the city gar bags dump for $l5,000 worth of jewelry that Dennis King, the actor. said his wife threw away in a hat box.
 King said the jewelry was not insured
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-15
DICK MERRILL QUALITIES FOR
 BIG AIR RACE

NEW YORK, May Is. Dick Merrill, the only m an who ha flown the Atlantic ocean four times, said today that his experience gives me a pretty good chance" at the prize of the air race to Paris in August to commemorate Col. Charles A. Lindberg's epochal flight to Paris.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-15
ON FIELD TRIP

George A. Dale and Dr. Butler Dale, Associate Supervisors in the Indian Office, are sailing Tuesday on the Yukon for the Westward to carry on field work in the Anchor age region.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-15

With the influx of immigrants into Palestine during recent years the demand for shaving creams and tooth paste has increased substan- tially.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-15
NEW STRIKES
 ARE PROPOSED
 STEEL PLANTS
Lewis Organizing Commit tee Ma kes Plans for
 Further Conquests

PITTSBURGH, Pa, May 15. = The John L. Lewis Steel Workers Organizing Committee heralded the victory in the Nations first major steel strike in IS years, then sum- moned leaders among the workers in three other big independent companies to meeting at which will be outlined strikes in the plants.
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Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-06-03

Work that is well done never wor-
ries the laborer.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-06-03
DO O
News Items Taken from Files a
The Plentywood Herald
20 YEARS AGO

No. it is not a prairie schooner coming down the
street. It's Charley Turner's new ice wagon.
Jack Wagner of Daleview was in town Wednes-
day to witness the ball game between Outlook and
Plentywood.
L. Burger, head of the Grayson Bros. store at
Antelope, and his family, drove up Sunday in their
Overland car.
The P~lentywood Creamery has started again
with a competent butter-maker in charge. The large
number of farmers starting dairy herds should make
this venture a success.
Friday night what might have been a disastrous
fire started in the back-end of the Valley saloon and
the Ford pool hall. Only the prompt and efficient
work of hremen kept it from being a big fire.
The best baseball game of the season was played
on the Herald grounds Wednesday when the Plenty
wood Gophers shut out the Outlook Orioles to the
tune of l to 0. Both teams showed up like major
leaguers and the game was featured throughout by
brilliant fielding and dazzling plays. In action for
Plentywood were Reuter-, Dean, Munson, G~ullikson,
Newman, Gavin, Sunderland, Wheeler and Patterson.
For outlook, LELAND. Prescott. Grubbs, Swain, Blake
ly, Tickleback, Thompson, Reuber, Wunderlich, Eek
land.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-06-03
eell nc
~ by Rev Cha~1es E. Dunn.

Isaac had died lest the old mans
heart be broken.
To Esau's everlasting credit this
VOW to kill Jacob was smothered by
the healing processes of time. One
of the most touching traits of Esau
is his magnanimity, his big-hearted
capacity for forgiveness. The scene
of the reunion of the brothers. after
90 years of separation. Esau run
aing 10 meet Jacob, then embrac-
ing and kissing him Is unforgetable.
OF course In the famous passage
chosen for our lesson, where Esau
apparently sold his birthright for a
mess of pottage, he appears, at hrst
thought. in a bad light. as though
he were a greedy glutton eager to
sacrifice a future good for a merely
temporary pleasure. But as DR..
Black shows. In his brilliant study
of this scene. the bargain was not
at all real. 1t was "a comedy OF big
children They were fooling, jok-
ing. We can hear Esau's roar OF
laughter. He could not sell his birth
right and did not do so. Jacob never
received 1t. The incident Is clearly
a "mock auction" Esau here is
big boy having his bit of fun.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-06-03
Price Fixing Hits Everybody

The idea that the artificial maintenance of pric-
es at high levels is the way to Drosneritv -a@nse6euhe
of things. The President. in expressing his d%isapproy-
al of the Miler-Tydings price-maintenance bill, point
ed out the injustice to the consumer if manufactur-
ers were permitted to set the retail price of their
products and the authority of government were in
voked to punish anyone who sold goods at less than
the fixed prices.
That is sound than the
common-sense or lack of it shown by legislators in
many states who have enacted price-maintenance
laws which are resulting in increased prices to con-
sumers and higher profits to manufacturers, but not.
so far as anyone has reported, any corresponding
benefit in the shape of putting more workers back on
the job or paying higher wages.
The motive back of these attempts at maintain
ing high prices is the theory that only by getting
more money for his wares can the little man" in bus
mess survive. Facts and government statistics explode
this theory. There are more little fellows"-that is,
Independent merchants-in business in the United
States today than ever before. 1t hardly seems to be a
proper concern of any government, state or national,
to protect incompetents, but that is the tendency of
every legislative effort to prevent price competition.
1t deprives the distributor or merchant of superior
ability of the right to profit by the exercise of that
ability. because it makes it illegal for him to sell
more cheaply than his competitor does.
The real victim Of price-fxing laws is the ordin-
airy citizen, the consumer, who is usually overlooked
when such legislation is being drafted. Behind every
such measure are pressure blocs' composed of man
ufacturers and middlemen seeking their own financial
advantage at the expense of the public. They are well
organized and vocal. They send representatives and
delegations to committee hearings-and the law-mak-
ers seldom hear from the consumers as such. They are
not organized and have no spokesman.
A real consumer organization with no pet theo-
ries or gads to air and really representative of the
average American home could do a lot to stave off
the steadily rising cost of living and might be able to
block ill-considered efforts to keep prices high and
push them higher.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-06-03
BLOOD BALANCE

Nothing should be appreciated
more than perfect circulation of the
blood in the body; and, very many
times we physicians meet with vari-
atoms from normal, which may be
called "imbalance." or engagements
here and there. which may vary
from CONCESSIONS TO actual citations
of the vessels-organic disease.
People with big abdomens are suf-
ferers in varying degree, from blood
imbalance. There are a great many
veins that traverse the abdominal
wall and yisceral content situated
there. Anything that aus crush
of blood to these blood-vessels. pro-
duces immediate and very evident
eff1ct IN structures elsewhere. A big
meal is an eXample-overeating; in
ems determination of blood to the
stomach and bowel, depicting the
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-06-03
The Grade Crossing Problem

More persons were killed last year at railway
grade crossings than in any year since 1881 accord
inc to reports by the safety section of the Association
of American Railroads. Nearly five thousand persons
were injured, and 1856 were killed while trying TO
cross railroad tracks ahead OF a train. Most OF these
were careless. impatient motorists, who either disre-
aarded warning signals or took reckless chances In
the effort to beat the oncoming train to the crossing.
Many of them even crashed through the crossing
gates. a form of recklessness which can only De &C
counted for by insanity or intoxication-
Of all the different kinds of accidents which be-
fan people. it would seem that there is less excuse
for those which follow the attempt to dispute the
right of way with a railroad train, than for any 9TH
er. Yet many of the reported deaths occurred because
the motor driver ran his car square into the side OF
a moving train.
The railroads are doing a great job of guarding
crossings with bells, pickering lights and other I'M
mistakable warnings, and with gates and crossing
watchmen wherever there is even moderate motor
traffic. Motoring recklessness seems to reach its peak
when crossing watchmen holding up their stop sig
nails are run down and killed. That has happened a
number of times.
The ultimate solution. of course. OF the grade
crossing problem will be the elimination of all cross
ings of highway and railroad on the same level. But
in some states where a program of embarrassing ab-
clifton has been under way for years, the NUMBER mas
actually increased. One crossing is eliminated BY a
highway viaduct or underpass, and somewhere else
a new county road is opened which crosses the rail-
road at grade. Cost enters into the question, oil
course. 1t would take billions to abolish all the grade
crossings in America, and where is the money coming
from? The railroads can't do it all, and states ano
counties are reluctant to spend highway funds fol
that purpose. Moreover, the question always arises
as to whether the highway should cross above or be
low the railroad tracks. In thickly settled district
such questions give rise to endless and obstructive 10
cal disputes.
Meantime, the old rule of stop, look and listen
is the only safe one for motorists to follow.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1937-06-03
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brain for the time being causing dir
illness. cloudy vision, staggering
gait, stupor. with heavy feeling
throughout the already o~verfeshed
abdomen. The symptoms may am
cunt to a temporary helplessness. a
not very enjoyable feeling In elder
ly persons.
| believe without accurate figures,
that one-fourth Of the blood volume
may flow in a great tidal-wave to a
ponderous abdomen. from over-exer-
ton. ~overeating, etc.; and, that this
condition reacts heavily upon the
heart and brain; Of course the veins
of such an abdomen become much
dilated from the constant sagging,
making possible. If | may use the
term, abdominal apoplexy.'
Methods of correction are slow.
d~iscouraging. and are seldom per-
sisted in to get the relief possible.
Carefully practiced exercises are
productive of results. OF course free
daily evacuation of the bowel MUST
be maintained. Here it is that star
ches in the diet must be cut down
to a minimum. Indeed, the diet must
be Just what is needed and no more.
In chronic cases patients who are
short of breath and puff with slight
RpeGnlaaS neiXaerttion1, may wear a well
ging. indolent abdomen.