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The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-03

Grant Price was discharged from St. Ann's Hospital today after hav- ing received surgical care.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-03

Lode and placer location notice. br sale at The Empire Office.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-03
COBRA AT BOSTON

CODhA Al DOo1O
 Sometimes the cutters run into
 fantastic jobs A while back ship
 loaded with ZOO animals which it had carried 6.O00 miles from South
 Africa was turning into Boston harbor, when it hit an uncharted submerged rocks in a fog, 10 miles from home port.
 Coast guard boats and other res- cue vessels swarmed about. remov- ing the animal cages. It was nice clean rescue job until somebody discovered that cobra had escaped on the stranded ship. That put the rescuers on edge until a reptile ex- pert assured them that the cobra, a jungle snake, would be paralyzed or killed by the northern cold in 10 minutes.
 Half the hull still dangles on the rock. The other half broke off and sank. But imagine finding an ur- Icharted rock in Boston harbor, busy these 300 years.
 In late years flying boats have speeded up rescue of sick or in- jured men at sea Tn two or three hours a plane can drop down be- side a vessel whole days sailing distance from shore.
 We must tell you about Oscar. He is the dummy who is thrown overheard from the cutters to give the crew practice in life saving. In the water Oscar shows only from his chin up and is hard to see amid the frothy waves. But Oscar never has been lost.
 Incidentally. we asked every sea- |going man we met. and they all thought it was pretty silly for captain to go down with his ship. just for the principle of the thing.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-03

barking when the ice breaks to make the long journey completely around Alaska and head East to his little mission on top of Canada.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-03
SISTER TRAVELLING

.. Sister Emily, after. six years serv- ice. at St. Joseph's Hospital in Fair banks, will pass through Juneau shortly on her way to Mount St. Vincent, in Seattle.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-03

Jackie Burford, son of MT. and
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-03

Try an Empire ad.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-03

little schooners and live fairly we'll"
 Mixed RaciaIly
 Most of his parishioners are of mixed blood racialIy, because of the comparative nearness to Alaska Farther east, however, the natives are of a purer stock, and more primitive.
 And they have embraced the Catholic religion almost completely with the medicine man and other ancient institutions on the way out rapidly, he said. Many of them will come fifty miles or more by dog sled to attend church, making thir- ty miles a day over the rolling hills which characterize the terri tory.
 Bishop Has Plane
 In the vicinity are six missions, with from 100 to 300 Eskimo par ishioners in each. Each mission is equipped with a power schooner, and the districts bishop is furnish ed with an airplane to visit them.
 No, it isn't the tough life it used to be-and Father Griffin, a short, chunky man of powerful build, con- siders himself an awful softie, with his mail delivered promptly every six months, and a metropolis of at least fifty persons called Aklavik, but few miles away.
 Of the Order of the ObIates of Mary Immaculate, Father Griffin is on vacation until spring, and has stayed with friends on Vashon Is- land the past week. He will visit New York and Texas before em-
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Empire classifieos pay.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-03

prosperous with them as some years ago when they received $50 for a single white fox, they own modern little schooners and live fairly well D
Evening star., 1938-12-19

and Mr.. Roper have, it is known
rendered inestimable service to the
public, but what they did will re-
main secret for a long, long time
because under our system it is con-
sidered partisan and disloyal to air
differences Of opinion which arise in
the cabinet of a President, or to
make an issue by resignation at
critical points in the evolution of
national policy.
Under our present system of rigid
four-year tenure, Americans protest
vehemently against a third term for
Presidents, but they often overlook
the fact that two terms and even
one may be too long if the people
have no way of getting rid of Chief
Executive who abuses the immense
powers vested in the presidential
office. Flexible tenure for Presidents
has often been suggested, but it is
more likely to become a subject of
discussion among true progressives
and true liberals now as democracies
grid themselves to organize their re-
sources against the one-man ma
chimes Of totalitarian states.
Copyright. 1881
Evening star., 1938-12-19

come to no decision. Cummings
would be private citizen by the time
the trial comes up. To date, $36 900
has been contributed for Grynsz-
pans defense, as result of public
appeals by Miss Thompson and some
fellow columnists. Although the
committee has stopped campaigning
for funds, checks continue to come
in. The group feels it has enough
money already, but is spending noth-
| ing until it knows what the total out
| lay may be- One of the most famous
trial attorneys in Paris has been
retained actively to defend Grynsz-
pan. He is M. Moro-G Giafferi, Cor
sican and non-JeW, who is convinced
| of the Righteousness of defending
Grynszpan and of insuring a fair
! and open trial. The trial date Is
still indefinite. The case may not
be heard before next summer.
Despite the Attorney Generals
reputation as a trial lawyer, atten-
ton to his special eligibility as coun-
sci in the Grynszpan case undoubt-
edly was attracted by Cummings
record in Connecticut VS.. Harold
Israel in 1924. The present Attorney
General was States attorney of
Fairfield County and in charge of
Israel's prosecution for first-degree
murder The charge grew out of
the death of Father Hubert Dahme,
pastor of St. Joseph's Catholic
Church at Bridgeport. While the
priest was walking along one of the
| main streets of that city, a man
approached from the rear and, rails
ing his right hand, placed the muzzle
Of revolver at Father Dahmes
head and fired a fatal shot. On
FEBRUARY Is, 1924, Israel was bound
over to the Criminal Superior Court.
All the evidence pointed to his guilt
EyeWitnesses, ballistics evidence, even
confession, all told against him.
Notwithstanding Cummings became
convinced that Israel a man without
influence, wealth or friends, was
innocent. On May q, 1924, the
States attorney arose in court and
proved beyond a doubt that the
prisoner was guiltless and recon-
mended that the case against him
be nolle pressed. This was done.
The Wickersham' Commission on
Lawlessness in Law Enforcement, in
August, 1881, reported that The
Israel case is noted illustration of
the proper discharge of the prosecu-
tors duty" The chief justice Of
the Connecticut Supreme Court of
Errors declared that mo finer ex-
ample of adherence to highest public
duty. OF patient investigation, of
steady and unbending courage and
OF quiet disregard of clamor and
prejudice can be found in all the
annals, of all the administrations, of
all the States attorneys in our State
from the beginning of that office,
than the Israel case furnishes"
Herbert Hoover has revisited
Washington only twice since he left
the White House on March 4, 1893.
He returned for the first time in
December, 1886, and again 10 DAYS
ago. The occasion of both trips was
to attend a board meeting of the
Carnegie Institution. The Chief"
in accordance with a rigid rule of
his. checks politics along with his
baggage at Union Station, for the
period of his brief sojourns on Cap
ital soil. The limited number of
friends and former associates whom
the Californian sees here know what
his inhibitions are, and never try
to 60 through a red light.
Evening star., 1938-12-19
Washington Observations
Cummings Retiring Attorney General, May Guide
Defense Of Youth Who Killed Vom Ruth

Secretary Ickes minced no words,
in addressing a Jewish meeting at
Cleveland, in condemning the action
of Henry Ford, Col. Lindbergh and
some other Americans in accepting
decorations from the Nazi govern
ment. Many Of Lindberghs friends
discern in his reported decision to
live in Paris instead of Berlin this
winter an indication that he has
needed the widespread disappoint-
ment caused throughout the United
States by "the Lone Eagles" origi-
nal plan to spend some months in
Hitlerland.
With retirement of Attorney Cen
eral Cummings and Secretary of
Commerce Roper from the cabinet,
tWo-thirds of the For Roosevelt
before Chicago" high command will
leave the administration. The other
third Is Secretary of State Hull
Jim Farley, of course, was in a class
of his own, in plotting Gov. Roose-
velt to the presidential nomination.
Cummings, Roper and Hull, for the
better part of year before June,
1882, rendered yeoman service in
lining up Roosevelt delegates in New
England, Dixie and elsewhere. AS
ex-national chairmen, Cummings
and Hull had far-flung party con-
facts. Roper, too was a seasoned
wheel-horse, especially during Will
liam Gibbs McAdoo's protracted
effort to become a presidential
nominee.
Despite the steady increase in car
loadings-barometrical index of in
dustrial conditions-during the last
year, the American Car & Foundry
Co., Of which the late William H.
Woodin, Secretary of the Treasury,
used to be president, has just re-
ported another deficit season. Its
operations and those of its subsid-
iaries for the six months ended Oc-
tober l, 1898, resulted in a net loss.
after depreciation and normal Fed
eral tax, of 1888 ,494.
To commemorate the silver jubi-
lee Of the Federal Reserve System,
created by act of Congress December
%, 1913. the Board of Governors next
Thursday will install bronze plaque
of Carter Glass. 1t will adorn the
wall of the lobby of the Federal
Reserves marble palace on Con-
stitution avenue and hang exactly
opposite plaque of Woodrow
Wilson. The Virginian, in the midst
OF his career in the House of Repre-
sentatives, was patron and floor
manager OF the Federal Reserve
Bank Act, in his capacity of chair
man of the House Committee on
Banking and Currency.
Copyright. 193sJ
Evening star., 1938-12-19
|HeudIineFoIk
And What
They Do
Dr.. John D. Long Aids,
U. S. Diplomacy
In South
BY LEMUEL F. PARTON.

Once, at an alleys end in Guaya.
quill. this reporter, then young and
indiscreet, became involved in an
argument with certain OF the native
citizenry. who insisted that North
Americans ate only dog meat. Your
correspondent knew only enough
Spanish to get him into trouble,
and was using 1t diligently to that
end when DR.. Robert Entwistle, once
of Philadelphia. later a student and
practitioner Of tropical medicine
along the west coast fever forts, ap-
peared. He Gained the excitement
and saved his countryman much
embarrassment and possibly a brok-
en- head. 1t was like magic, the way
he piped everybody down. They
loved and trusted him and he was
their authority on everything from
international relations to beriberi.
found nowhere, in any country
down there, any such command OF
confidence and respect by any con-
sular or trade official from our
country.
So today. it seemed almost like
old news to read in dispatch from
Lima that it was an American doc
tor. and not statesman, who, DOS.
slbly more than any other one man,
has induced respect and good will
for this country down around and
below the Equator. With a number
of other American doctors, DR.. John
D. Long of the United States Pub
lie Health Service, has been carry
ing on a fight against the bubonic
plague, malaria, chagres fever and
other tropical curses in Ecuador,
Brazil, Peru, Chile and other coun-
tries. He holds decorations from
half dozen South American coun-
tries. He and his colleagues have
served only in response to specific
requests for their services, and the
sum of their efforts has been to
allay i'll will, dispel prejudice and
misunderstanding and promote
friendly relations.
DR.. Long, 81 years old, quiet, pre-
else, unassuming, is typical Amer
lean professional man. whose home
town was Mount Pleasant, Pa. After
his graduation from the Medical
School of the University of Penn
sylvania. he entered the National
Public Health Service, became it's
assistant surgeon, and, assigned to
the Philippines, won eminence in his
profession in his work in sanitation
and in fighting disease In 1926,
he was loaned to the Chilean govern
ment for a similar encounter there.
In this writer's observation Of
South American countries, particu-
larized instances of civilized behavior,
fair dealing and regard for native
traditions and amenities, once the
fear OF predatory designs had been
overcome. were effective where all
else failed. including our most elo.
quent offerings of official friendship.
The doings of our doctors down there
and their felicitous results would
seem to sharpen this point.
(copyrght, 1889
Evening star., 1938-12-19
The Capital Parade
Retirement Of Roper, 'Contented Job Holder
Is Seen Marking End Of an Era

JOSEPH ALSOP and ROBERT KNITNER
has with retirement Hon Daniel
Roper from his beloved offices at the Commerce Department
out Of his probably for the arch
Commerce frankly his delight
He was the perfect the
e
to figure the the whole department
ssse%
S ~ fs5x % i.
n9 }a, f9e ses s;s RES
the Of the American State
right POLITICAL contestant 'D' 70 men
Commerce The early and plugged
an py was a in as s 1882
"a d hours m Uncle Dan stred into Jim
was na corae hu appointment was thought to give the South
Having picked him as Secretary Of Commerce
m up ~ M h hannv W tn be- hurt by ns Dan
n m mt. teemng huteu Of political apponee
deed he n enoyed them much that practically took
offers OF alternative empoyments. But he
Then fall cabinet reconstruction was decided On Uncle
Dams led the list seemed about to fall
lunch Uncle Dan announced to the press that % had mo @
Of esgning Thus the exeeutioners briefly STAYED
friends that he finally day so
before his resignation was published to the world.
Although Uncle Dan born Carolina, plays
Caronians he actually Washington ob-holder
most OF his life From the
clerk OF the Senate Committee
was steady upward climb through the hierarchy political place
He off the public roll
until 1920 when Hardngs election
missonershp years devoted to
amassg fortune as LAWYER often practicing before the
ernment departments and hen 1888
pay roll again.
He peculiar being
kindly Invariably softspoken well
ing He always ready with
tacfu always loyal to the President
Commerce Department virtually
produce adequate commercial statistics
Dan nice old fellow imagine value of
the system which him
at least to be questioned.
Evening star., 1938-12-19
Scholarships Open
To NeWspupermen

BY the Associated Press,

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Dec. 19.-
American newspapermen today
were invited to apply for one-year
Nieman scholarships which Harvard
University is offering, experiment.
ally, for the second year.
The scholarships provide for elec-
tive courses of study for American
newspapermen. Each pays the
holder an amount corresponding to
the salary received from his news
paper.
The scholarships were made pos
sible by gift of Mrs. Agnes Wahl
Nieman, widow of Lucius w. Me
man. founder Of the Milwaukee
Journal.
Evening star., 1938-12-19
Studios Rushino
Films Based on
Drug SwindIe
BY the Associated Press.


HOLLYWOOD, Dec. ia spir-
tied race was on today between two
movie studios to be first on the
screen with the dramatic story of
the Musica brothers far-fung
swindle operations.
Warner Brothers announced it
would begin work within seven
days on THE Drug King" starring
Claude Rains, Fay Banter, Mar
garet Lindsay and Victor Jory.
Bryan Foy, who will produce the
picture, said the script was in prep
aration and would adhere closely to
the newspaper stories of recent
days unfolding the manifold rami-
f1cations of the arch swindlers.
In all my years in the movie
business I've never seen a newspaper
story with 50 many dramatic posi-
bilities," Foy said. THE thing is
handmade for the screen"
Columbia Studio announced last
Friday it would go ahead with a
picture based on the McKesson &
Robbins financial tangle, with Ed
ward G. Robinson starred. The
title has not been selected. Robin.
son Is under contract to Warmers,
but has been under option to Co.
lumbia.
Evening star., 1938-12-19
Five Are Killed
At Grade Crossino
Py the Associated Press.


PORT CLINTON, Ohio, Dec. 19.-
Five persons were killed and a sixth
was injured when fast passenger
train struck an auto on a grade
crossing at nearby Rocky Ridge
yesterday.
DR.. R. r. Semon. Ottawa County
coroner, said the victims were
Arthur Below, AZ, of near Rocky
Ridge; Mrs. Arthur Below, 38. wife
Of Arthur: Calvin Below, IA, their
son; Martin Madison, SO. neighbor.
and Alice Floriana, 9, of Oak
Harbor.
Orlena Below. II, a daughter,
suffered serious injuries.
DR.. Semon said a westbound New
York Central train struck the auto
at f1ve-track crossing. He said the
bodies and wreckage were strewn
more than 500 feet. The coroner
said there were no warning lights
at the crossing. A watchman is on
duty during the daytime.
Evening star., 1938-12-19
Circuit Rider III,
Wife Assumes Duties
By the Associated Press

oy Ine Associated Press.
WAYNEsBURG, Pa, Dec. 49,
The 6l-year-old wife of the Rev.
O. w. Bolton is doing his circuit
riding while he lies in a hospital
seriously i'll with pneumonia.
Travelling by automobile instead
of the horse-drawn buggy in which
she toured the same route as a
bride 80 years ago, Mrs. Bolton filled
pulplts in two of the five churches
IN the Methodist Protestant Monon-
gahela circuit yesterday. She re-
ported real nice turnouts."
This is old stuff to me-" declared
Mrs. Bolton. II was always a
teacher. I started speaking by
filling engagements for my husband
when he had so many he couldn't
attend to them ALL
She plans to continue her hus-
bands work over the 28-mile circuit
until he RECEIVERS.
Evening star., 1938-12-19

Oriental borers could poor folk
began svampng California the State struggled
immigration offices
not Ito put mildly
and vigilanes
It Is easy for people remote from the
tragedy to indulge in moral criticism but it thing
for community State already heavily burdened
to accept sudden rush of 100000 needy Driven
cotton lands by the tractor driven off
drought and the combine that
the white westward the people pouring
the empty lands of the West dogged hunger
is condition which calls for national action
While this has been happening the Townsend
erng the force and pectabiy of political
OF older
their little incomes by the Hoover depression Dr.
send OF Los Angeles devised the 5000
plan which getting in the Republican Sheridan
DoWney Senaoeect from California
the Democratic leaders adopt hosptab
the old-ag pension
Now here the curious thing The Townsendes longer claim
be interested pensions SUCH They promoting
scheme for national effect
to receive and spend 5000 month from
is make fun of this attitude
doubt that their
economy OF abundance must
by providing wide of people with
A scheme which would take of economic
competition with their grandchildren provide
the aged with the financial with
produce of the young would stimulus to eco
nomic activity would
dimensions that the is
Evening star., 1938-12-19
Propeller Delays Wedding

AUGUSTA, Ga, Dec. 10 R.-A
spinning airplane propeller caused
postponement of the wedding of
John Gearing, 81, of limo, Mo-,
scheduled for last night at Tampa,
Fla.
Mr.. Gearing, his fance and q
party OF friends were en- route to
Tampa, when they stopped at an
airf1eld, attracted by a transforming
plane. Gearing took a ride, stepped
from the plane and accidentally
turned his head into the path of the
stick" He was taken to University
Hospital, where his condition was
reported fair.
Evening star., 1938-12-19
Ellen Glasgow, Wilder
Elected to Academy
By the Associated Press,

by lHe hSSUCIHleu FIeSS.
NEW YORK, Dec. 19.-Election of
Ellen Glasgow, author. and Thorn
ton Wilder, novehst-playwright. to
the American Academy of Arts and
Letters was announced yesterday by
President Nicholas Murray Butler.
Membership limited to so chosen
only from the National Institute of
Arts and Letters, is now full.
Miss Glasgow, the sixth woman
elected, will have chair No. 38, va
Gated April "a by the death of
George Grey Barnard, sculptor.
Mr.. Wilder was elected to chair
No. 2. vacated by the death July 81
of Owen Wister.
Evening star., 1938-12-19
13 Hurt in Accident

SPRI- FIELD, Tenn, Dec. 10
(P).-Thirteen persons were injured
when two automobiles, one of them
pulling house trailer. were in coll
lision S miles north Of here last
night.
G. c. Mcmillan. 81, of Nashville,
was the most seriously injured. He
suffered lacerated jugular vein.
Evening star., 1938-12-19
YuIe Tree to Be Liohted

Under the auspices of the North
Woodside- Montgomery Hills Citizens
Association, community Christmas
tree will be lighted Friday at pm
at Ridge and Glen Ross roads. North
Woodside, Md. Mrs. ]. G. Pratt is
in charge.
Evening star., 1938-12-19

mOnCn, When the
lad goes on
trial in 1899.
The suggestion
that Mr.. Cum
mings be associ-
ated with Grynz-
pans trial pre-
sumably origi-
mates with the
American Jour-
nalistS' Defense
Fund organized
by Dorot h Y
Thompson. He
has given the
proposal consid-
erQfinn hut
Evening star., 1938-12-19

m O c + a llC
| Homer
Fnings a n d
FL Roper
ret they did
represent
S e rvatisn
a sort of
le - of the
liberalism
lgllout their
d Of service
: President
nvelt.
Q m S o m e
S Of view
retirenent
.ileSe men
Evening star., 1938-12-19
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.
1t is possible that Homer Stille
Cummings, retiring Attorney Cen
eral of the United States, may be in
strategic charge of the defense of
Hershl Grynszpan, the 17-year-old
Jewish boy who killed Nazi Embassy
Attache Vom Rath at Paris last
Evening star., 1938-12-19

petuate Itself except by the
working of all society. 1t
seems to me that the New
Dealers have been short
sighted in their failure to
adopt Townsendism in
principle.
Perhaps it is not unfair to
say that in ToWnsendism and
other unorthodox proposals, the
American West is coming to the
rescue Of the rest of the country.
The neculiar nrnhlems Uhich he.
Evening star., 1938-12-19
We, the People
Townsendism May Be Forced Upon U. S.
As One Way to Solve Vests Crisis
By JAY FRANKLIN.

Political eens have long been frothing
the old wine into the
bottles OF wide and land For
OF Statue
stockbroke
home the macay took lo-year
droughts which
to bring the Pacific Coast States face to with destiny
Now Caifornas Gov-Eec is headed
White House. determined the urgency of
Evening star., 1938-12-19

set our civilization have stricken the West the
struck the South Sea andera heap forced
to devise remedies which applied country Ger
tany the problems OF andless farmers and
the whole problem OF modern these
particular problems
will also be solved in the process.
Evening star., 1938-12-19

the West Coasts problems. He
probably will ask the National
Emergency Council to follow its
famous report on the South as
the Nations mo. ! economic
problem" with report on migra-
tory farm labor in California as
our mo. 2 economic problem.
The Okes and the Arks-the
drought refugees from Oklahoma
and ArkansaS-are making Cali
fOrnia farm hjstory as the Meyi.
Evening star., 1938-12-19

opinions OF the Urtters this page their oaDn
necessarily TIE Stars Such opinions presented
readers although such opinions contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
Evening star., 1938-12-19
y. S. Cabinet
Yictim Of
! ystem
Weakness Lies in
Very Fact Of
Party Loyalty

BY DAVID LAWRENCE,
o men leave the cabinet
lv who have been associated
le public mind with the So
conservative wing of the
Evening star., 1938-12-19

Copyright 1881