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vertical drop Of 1900 feet, is in

vertical drop Of $500 feet, is in
tended as purely recreational trail,
with magnificent scenery.
Canada offers the longest season
and possibly the most colorful and
varied programs. Its deep. pow
derry snow makes the practice slopes
a continuous Joy and to start out
on one of the cross-country trails,
stopping at the tiny villages and
chalets for the excellent soup and
crusty bread that is always piping
hot. for rest and an hours gossip
with the innkeeper, makes the Lau-
rentians a never -to-be- e-forgotten ex-
perience.
Sun Valley, in the Sawtooth Range
In Idaho, is one of the newest and
most fashionable resorts. Yosemite
National Park offers all sorts of
sports, facilities and rates and this
season announces many new i'm
provements. Rocky Mountain Ma
tional Park, Berthoud and Aspen,
in Colorado. have an ardent crowd
who take their skiing as it comes
and like the wild, open country for
cross-country runs without ele-
gance. A shelter and a roaring
campfire is all they like at the top
Of the slope, and old-timers that
they are, will guarantee to christie
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Quebec Christmases
Long Remembered

QUEBEC, Dec.,, 10.-Quebec,
Canada's interesting winter capi-
tai, provides a perfect setting
in which to celebrate the festive
Christmas-New Year holiday
period, with their parties. dances
and trips into the snowy country
side. AS both these holidays fall
on Sunday (and are to be cele-
brated on Monday Americans
will be able to make long week
end trips. Skiing. skating, tobog-
gaming on Quebec's world-famous
triple track slide, topped of by
Christmas dinner at the Chateau
Frontenac. is an appealing pro-
gram, so various travel agencies
have again organized all-expense
holiday tours to Quebec from New
York and other large Eastern
centers. arriving in ample time
for the various holiday "doings."
Christmas dinner at the Cha
teau Frontenac is a function to
long remember. The huge baro-
NAL dining room. barking back
to olden times, is appropriately
festooned with holiday greenery,
favors are at each place at the
tables, and chefs carrying such
Christmas delicacies as boars
head, plum pudding, baron of
beef and huge mince pies march
through the room.
New Year Eve all Quebec and
her throng of visitors goes to
town" at the Jour de IAN Ball,
one of the chateau's chief winter
functions, an event always we'll
attended by local celebrities and
socialites from across the border.
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and the last few years have seen
such improvement in American
manufacture that it is now possible
to purchase skis here that are COM
parable to all imported makes.
Bindings vary In design, but the
best for perfect control is the KAN
dahar type, with long, high ad-
Unstable toe irons, leather toe straps
and steeI cable and heel clamp
to hold the boot firmly in the toe
irons. The low hitch provided on most
modern bindings is essential for fast
downhill and slalom skiing. Bind
ings which provide this along with
an optional touring connection are
ideal. Poles and ski wax complete
the list of essential equipment.
Clothing would include trousers of
hard, smooth material, heavy woolen
underwear, windproof jacket,
sweater, wool socks, cap, mittens and
goggles. Mittens with leather or
canvas palms are waterproof and
do not slip. Clothing should be
warm, windproof and light, with a
minimum of weight and bulk.
Information on Accommodations at
the various points may be secured
from the travel bureaus, the rail-
way companies and Chambers of
Commerce in the States. Special
trains will be announced on de-
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tain for hot soup and sandwiches.
Washington has its first ice skat-
ing rink now in operation. All the
shops are full Of smart skating
costumes and the best skates one
can find. Soon after Christmas a
larger, out-of-door rink will be
open. 1t will seat 5000 people for
hockey games, and will have a floor
space 200 by IS feet for skating.
Open to the public morning, after
noon and evening, it will be cleared
at certain times for figure skating
and special events.
Careful selection OF the very best
in equipment will make your ad-
venture on ice or snow safer and
more enjoyable. Most important
for the skier are boots, skis and
bindings. Most modern boots are
built with steel shanks, grooved
heels and box toes. There should
be metal sole protectors to prevent
the bindings from chaflng. They
are also more comfortable If they
are leather lined. Get them large
enough so that there is plenty of
toe room. Good boots are vital to
the skier's control and safety, and
should be the first investment.
Hickory skis are best if you are
really serious about this. All hick-
ory skis are made of native hickory
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mand and in the meantime trains
out of Washington on regular sched-
ule connect with others for New
York, New England and Canadian
points.
Here is a schedule of events Of
interest to winter sport fans.
International ski meet, December
6-10, Madison Square Garden; Bear
Mount Palisades Park, N. Y, Jan.
uary 7-February l6, ski jumping
and ice skating, international stars.
Lake Placid-Christmas week
through February, winter carnival
and bobsled racing.
In Canada-Feburary 16 to March
S. ski meets of the various provin-
ces.
All of this-and much more
awaits the one who likes a white
landscape framed in spiky green
trees, with just a curl of smoke on
the horizon to indicate where food
and warmth may be procured when
the days run is over.
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the shores Of the blue Mediterra-
mean from December till spring will
be found thousands of American
laborers who. had they remained on
this side, might have been with the
unemployed throughout the winter.
BY far the largest group among
the departing passengers, however.
are those thousands of our people
who enjoy the privilege Of a winter
vacation, or who postpone their
annual vacation till winter. In
business and industries where the
peak is in the summer months, 1t is
now quite common for the execu-
tives to take their annual holidays
between December and Easter. Some
will travel to we'll known warm
strands in our own country, and
the steamship lines will tell you
that thousands cross the sea to en-
joy leisurely Europe of charm and
festivity that the summer tourist
hardly knows.
During the opening months Of the
year, apart from the warm climate
hunters, on the shores of the Medi-
terranean, a large number seek out
the worlds famous winter sports
resorts. Inland by the wildly beau-
tiful fjords of Norway and on the
pure snowy runs of Sweden. at the
fashionable centers of Switzerland.
France and Germany, and in more
recent years, the very attractive ski
resorts in Poland's Tatra Mountains,
the tourist finds as gay life and
as comfortable a one as can be
found anywhere on earth.
For those who feel no appeal in
skis. skates and sleighs, Europe in
winter is very pleasant place to
live. Everywhere the musical and
choral season is on. At the great
opera houses the worlds best is
being performed every week. In
numerous places, particularly in
France and Germany, King Carni-
val comes to greet the fun-loving
and high jinks" fill the days with
balls. dancing, songs, cos
tuned professions till Ash Wednes-
day ends it all in fireworks.
To suppose that transatlantic
liners fill quickly for return jour-
ney as soon as Lent begins does in
justice to the facts, for there are
always large numbers of winter
tourists who stay over to see the
bulbfields of Holland bloom in spring
or who wish to participate in the
Easter ceremonies at Rome.
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Atlantic City's Fame
AS Snowless Winter
Resort Grows

ATLANTIC CITY. Dec. 10-This
famous seashore resort first attained
prominence as summer play
ground. Since the early '90s, how
ever, people have learned to realize
that Atlantic City is also delight
full vacation ground during the win
ter months.
A warm breeze from the Gulf
Stream, 20 miles of shore, which
sweeps over the land. holds the
temperature four or five degrees
higher than that Of the nearby in
land cities. The combination of
that breeze and the salt from the
ocean also keeps the resort almost
entirely free from snow and pro-
vides the basis for the boast of no
snow on the Boardwalk.
The Boardwalk, warmed by the
breeze and the direct as we'll as re-
flected rays of the sun. presents
a glowing invitation to the strollers.
Those here for a complete rest can
also enjoy the famous promenade
through the medium of the rolling
chairs. At a leisurely pace they
can move along past the multitude
of attractive and interesting shops,
past the great skyscraper hotels,
or stop and visit one of the exhib-
its Of nationally advertised prod
ucts.
A guest in any of the larger ho-
tells could spend his entire visit
on the hotel property and still have
a most enjoyable vacation.
There are ample sports for those
who desire them. Equestrians can
ter their mounts up and down the
broad, fiat beach, safe from auto
mobiles.
A short motor trip brings one to
any of the five golf courses at North
field. Seaview, Linwood, Somers
Point and Brigantine. While the
ocean is too cold for surf bathing
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Jan. H. 19 doys $225 Up
Feb. IL 10 doys $225 W
To San Juan. Barbados. Trinidad.
La Guayra. Curacao, Colon Pan
anna CanaID, Kingston. Havana.
Feb. II cruise omits Barbados.
adds St. Pierre and Fort de France
TRAVEL AGENT,
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Six to Win Places

MONTREAL, Quebec, Dec. 10
Out of the more than 1000 Cana
dian girls who made applications,
six will become stewardesses of the
Trans-Canada Air Lines this month.
After informal schooling lasting
two weeks. they will be given actual
flight training over the route be-
tween Winnipeg and points west.
twenty-five stewardesses will be
employed in all. the remaining 10
to be chosen early in the new year.
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Garden from December 6 to 10.
Here they have a ski jump seven
stories high, skating exhibitions by
international stars, as well as snow
shoe and dogsledge racing.
Whatever your sport, there is a
time and place for 1t, equipment and
clothes for it, and best of all train
that will take you there. Don't
miss the good health and good fun
that a vacation of winter sport can
offer you this season.
Reports coming in from all over
the country announce many new IA
cilities in the way of new practice
slopes, new cross-country courses,
many new ski-tows, as well as other
attractions in the way of exhibitions
by famous experts, mushing and
sleighing, for those who like to fol-
low the sport but not participate,
and many new courses of instruction
for the novice as well as the year.
lings. which will remove fear and
danger from the first try on the
slope.
Deer Valley, up above Cumber-
land, Md. is the nearest spot for
Washingtonians. The Poconos-at
Mount Pocono, Mountain-home and
Skytop- mountain trails and
open slopes for the skier, skating
ponds and some new toboggan
chutes that will give the newcomer
thrill. In the evening the days
experiences are retold around the
fireplace and the more energetic
ones will snowshoe or sleigh by
moonlight.
X \ X X
New England has many famous
resorts where the same crowd re-
turns year after year to try the
run they could not do last season.
"Pecketts on Sugar Hill," at Fran
coma, N. H., is one of these.
Here too is evidenced the growing
disposition of snow sport sponsors
to provide facilities and tanner fun
for spectators.
The Berkshire Inn, at Great Bar
rington, Mass, and the Lodge at
Smugglers Notch, at Stowe. VT,
are just a few of the ones that
predict-by the stores OF nuts in
the squirrels nest. by the whiteness
of the fur on the cottontails-that
this will be the snowiest winter
since way back.
x4 X Il
Even before snow sports began to
catch on generally, Lake Placid was
synonymous-in winter at least
with daredevils who performed on
the waxed boards Ordinary citi-
zenry held them in awe, but not
nearly so much now.
The Adirondack Lodge area. a
short drive from Lake Placid VIII
lage. now boasts a varied ski de-
velopment-Mount Marcy, Whales
Trail and Wrights Peak for down.
hill running and Avalanche Pass,
Lake Arnold and Klondike Notch
for touring. The open slope and
slalom development at SCOTS Cobble,
new last winter, is not far away.
A new intermediate downhill run,
"a miles long is now being COM
pleted on Wright's Peak and will
bring the mileage of the area inter-
locking network of ski trails up to
$50.
The Wright's Peak run. with a
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at this time Of the year, several Of
the hotels have fine salt water
swimming pools which are open to
the public. Large sun lamps sur
round the pools and coat Of tan
can also be acquired.
The Boardwalk Is open to the
bicyclists every morning before 8
o'clock.
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1O8 Atlantic
Ships to Sail
For Europe
Picturesque Holiday
Season Abroad to
Draw Travellers
0recial Dispatch to the Star.

special Dispatch to the star.
NEW YORK, Dec. l0.-During the
10 days between December is and
the beginning OF Lent, on Ash
Wednesday. February %, 1899, a
grand total of 108 ans-Atlantic
liners will leave the Eastern sea-
board ports of the United States
and Canada with winter tourists
for Europe. The ports at which
they will disembark are scattered
all over the European continent and
include 81 calls on the other side
of the Atlantic: Antwerp. Alex
andria, Beirut, Belfast, Bergen, Bou-
logne, Bremen, Cannes. Cherbourg
Cobb. Copenhagen, Galway, Gdynia.
Genoa. Glasgow, Gibraltar. Goth
enburg, Hamburg. Havre, Jaffa,
Kristiansand, Liverpool, London,
Londonderry, Marseille, Naples, Islo,
Plymouth. Rotterdam, Southhamp-
ton and Stavanger.
There are yet large numbers of
persons on this side of the Atlantic
who wonder why over 100 liners
are able to find passengers for Eu-
rope and the Near East at this time
of the year. but stop those passen-
gers as they depart and ask them.
They seem to have many reasons
and often express surprise that the
question should be raised at all.
The pre-Christmas sailings are
among the heaviest, and survey of
the liners decks makes it clear that
thousands have responded to the
call of the home countries to come
home for Christmas" When it is
remembered that there are millions
of Americans and Canadians, many
of them fully naturalized, who look
upon lands across the sea as home,
1t is natural that the lure there
should fill all the ships leaving the
first Is days of December.
Christmas and New Year festivals
In the Old World are events which
even attract Americans and Cana
dians born on this side. The chance
to see real Yule log blazing on a
wide hearth, the opportunity to eat
real wild boar, launches of venison
and other Yuletide dishes of Europe
puts ordinary turkey in strong COM
petition. To see fire-encircled
plum pudding carried into an Eng
lish dining hall on December Is,
to celebrate Hogmanay in Scotland
on the last day of the year, which
is St. Sylvester's eve in almost
every country of Europe, celebrated
with scores of quaint old customs
all make an attraction hard to re-
sist. Christmas is a much longer
season in Europe than here and
usually continues to Twelfth Night,
which comes on January 6.
X X
During all the years of the present
century thousands of foreign-born
workers on this Western Continent
particularly those whose economic
existence is threatened by winter
weather, have annually left this side
for the warmer homelands, where
living is cheaper. 1t is as certain
an annual migration as is made by
the birds of the North. All arounc
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American Honored

PARIS, Dec. 10.-An avenue with
out a house upon it. Such is an
old Paris thoroughfare which has
just been rebaptized the Avenue
Edward Tuck, in honor of the Amer
lean banker and philanthropist.
This avenue extends from the Place
de la Concorde to the Petit Palais
(Which houses the remarkable Tuck
are collections presented to the city
of Paris. This thoroughfare never
had a house, and it never will.
since it goes through the gardens
between the Champs Elysees and
the Seine River.
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-03-09
GREAT BRITAIN
 WANTS CONTROL. OF PACIFIC ISLES
Ambassador Told by Pre- mier to Give Informa-
 ton to U. 5. A.

LONDON, March 9.-Premier Ne vile Chamberlain today told the House of Commons that Sir Ronald Lindsay, Ambassador to the United States has been instructed to in form the United States that Great Britain reserves her right over the islands of Canton and Enderberry.
 The Premier said proposals will be submitted in hopes to end the controversy and it is believed some form of joint control will be pro- posed
 The Islands of Canton and Ender- berry are in the Phoenix group, occupied by Hawaiian parties land ed by a United States Coast Guard
 Previously the islands had been treated as British Territory by the British Government. The United States Government recently an- nounced it would take possession of many Islands in the Pacific hay- ing fitness for air bases The ma jority of islands have always been considered American, it is said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-03-09
PRAYER FOUND, SECRET POCKET
 OF TREAS0NER
Moscow Trials Will Go Soon to Secret Court
 Sessions

MOSCOW, March 9.-A scrubbed prayer was introduced yesterday as further evidence of guilt against one of the 21 high Soviet officials on trial in Moscow who have confessed murder and treason in a purge of blood
 This dramatic incident and fur ther confessions with regard to four bizarre medical murders, ended the examination of the defendants in open court and a secret court ses- sion now follows.
 The prayer was found in a secret pocket of former Commissar of For eign Trade, A. P Rosengoltz, when he was arrested.
 The Prosecutor said the prayer said: May God be resurrected and his enemies be smitten by arrows of his faithful servants
 Rosengoltz quailed visibly in the face of this evidence as to his re- ligious tendencies. He said his wife put it in his pocket and he did not know what it was
 Medical experts named by the court, found that Maxim Gorky, writer, his son, Maxim Pechkoff, and Vyacheslaff Menzhinsky, once head of the Secret Police, had suf- fered from treatments administered by three eminent physicians who are accused of their murders.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-03-09
SALARIES OVER s75,0O0 ARE TO
 BE MADE PUBLIC
House Compromise on Amendment to Debat-
 ed Tax Measure

WASHINGTON, March g. = The House has compromised on pub licizing corporate salaries voting into the tax bill, now being debated, an amendment directing the Secretary of Treasury to publish salaries in excess of $75,000.
 The House last year voted to re- peal the salary publicity law.
 President Roosevelt recently said There is no valid reason for re- peal"
 Amendments requiring the publi- cation of salaries over $l5,000 and $200O0 was overwhelmingly de- feated
 This afternoon the House tenta : lively struck from the Administra- tions tax revision bill the pro- posed surtax on family owned and closely held Corporations The vote was 180 to 142. This controversial item in the measure has thus been defeated in the initial attempt to make it stand.
 Administration forces said they will demand another vote before the House ballots on final passage of the bill
 A coalition of Republicans and Democrats passed the amendment striking the levy from the bill
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-03-09
SEATTLE HAS NEW MAYOR,
 A. B. LANCLIE
Conservative Chosen Over Vic Meyers by Over
 3O,000 Votes
ALL PROPOSITIONS
 ARE THUMBED DOWN
John C. Stevenson Defeat ed for Membership,
 Port Commission

SEATTLE. March 9.-Seattle'S un- practicable voters went conserva- tive by big margin yesterday after several years of leftists tendencles when they elected Councilman Ar thur B. Langlie to be Mayor to suc- ceed the fiery John F. Dore, defeat ed in the recent primaries by Lang lie and Victor A. Meyers.
 Langlie, who is 38 and who cam paigned on conservative platform led Meyers by over 30,0oo
 The vote given Langlie is 78,997 and the vote drawn by Meyers is AHA
 Mrs. F. F. Powell, John E. Carroll and Samuel J. Humes were elected to the City Council.
 John c. Stevenson, liberal Demo- crat and former gubernatorial can didate, was beaten for the Port Commission by Commissioner Smith B. Wilson.
 All proposed propositions were de- feated including the seaplane base
 The three councilmen chosen were elected by wide margins. They were grouped with Langlie. on the Conservative ticket.
 Robert s. MacFarlane and John B. Shorett were reelected school directors.
 Mayor Elect Langlie said he will seek to balance the city budget and hopes to improve the transporta- ton system with busses, trackless trolleys and modernized street cars.
 Besides the seaplane base, the voters also rejected the three pla- toon system for the Fire Depart ment, a special three mill levy to relieve the city's financial crisis and charter amendment providing ex- tension of civil service pension.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-03-09
TRAPPER GETS
 SIX COYOTES
 ABOVE HAYNES
Reports Biological Survey Scented Bait Is Ef-
 fective Lure

Dan Sooter walked into the AL aska Game Commission office to- day with a bale of fur for the commissions approval that includ- ed six coyote skins for which Sooter was given warrants for $20 apiece
 Sooter did his trapping in the Haines country and reported coy otes thick" in that area. He also reported that the United States Biological Survey scented bait is sued to coyote and wolf trappers, "does the trick"
 In addition to the coyotes, Sooter brought in one wolverine, 10 mink (of which number coyotes ate two), and one marten.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-03-09
PAST MASTERS OF MASONS TO
 HEAD MEETING
Thirty-third Anniversary of Lodge to Be Observed
 Here Monday

Observing the thirty third anni- versary of the Mount Juneau Lodge, No. 147, F. and AM, Masons of Gastineau Channel are meeting next Monday evening for thelr annual Past Masters night.
 Held each year on the Monday meeting date falling closest to March A, date of origin of the Lodge, the gathering this year falls on the exact date, just B years after the original granting of the charter in 1905.
 Homer Nordling will be in charge of the evening, and all positions will be filled by Past Masters of the Cas- tineau Channel district.
 All Masons of the Channel are to be present and the officers will con- fer third degree.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-03-09
HAL|BUT QUOTA IN TWO AREAS
 IS NOW RAISED
Juneau Fishermen to Bene- fit-NewR wRegulations
 Are Issued

SEATTLE, March g. - The h. ternational Fisheries Commission has announced million pound in creases in the halibut quotas of the North Pacific.
 Area 2s quota is raised to 22,- 100000 pounds and Area to 25,- 100000 pounds.
 Both areas are along the British Columbia and Gulf of Alaska coasts.
 Areas l and 4, from Willapa liar bor on the Washington Coast south and Boring sea on the north have no quota limits
 The new regulations also prohibit the taking ofs halibut in set nets of any kind
 The halibut season opens April l, two weeks later than last year
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-03-09
W.C.T.U. WILL HEAR DR. w. TORBET AT
 DUGOUT TOMORROW

Dr. Walter Torbet will be the speaker at the luncheon-meeting of the Women's Christian Temperance Union at the American Legion Dug out Thursday night.
 The meeting will begin at 6:30 pm.. and those who wish to partici- nate in the luncheon are requested to take their own sandwiches and a covered dish"
 People unable to attend the sup per. but who wish to hear Dr. Tor bet. are requested to be at the Dugout by 8 o'clock when he is scheduled to speak.
 pr. Torbet, who is western repre- sentative of the Board of Home Missions and Church Extension of the Methodist Episcopal Church, is in Juneau from his headquarters in San Francisco.