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The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-25
BAKING DEATH OF 4 CONNECTS
 CAUSING STIR
Eight to Be Arrested as Punishment Cell Pris-
 oners Succumb

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Aug. 25.-- The arrest of at least eight persons is predicted in connection with the baking death'' of four convicts who led a hunger strike in the county prison.
 The prediction was made by Coro- ner Charles Hersch who said at the investigation findings indicated at least eight were implicated in the deaths of the four convicts who died in steam heated and almost air tight punishment cells.
 Two guards are already being held as material witnesses.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-25
LOYALISTS ARE HOLDING LINES
 ON ZERO RIVER
Admit Insurgents Have Taken Only Few Advance
 Posts in One Month

HENDAYE, French-Spanish Bor- der, Aug. 25. Government dis patches report that the main line of defenses on the Ebro River Val ley front in Southern Catalonia are holding against the diminishing fury of the Insurgent attacks.
 Although the Government troops admit the Insurgents carried some advance posts by storm, they in- sist the actual battle lines have changed little since established a month ago.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-25
AIRLINE
 OVER PACIFIC
 NOW LOOMING
Imperial Airways May Op- crate Between Calif-
 ornia, Australia

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. 25. Treasure Island, man-made. in San Francisco Bay, may become the terminus of an America Aus tralia flying service.
 Utilities Manager E. c. Cahill announces that if the international negotiations are successfully con- cluded there is a distinct possibility the Imperial Airways of Great Bri- tain will establish and operate be- tween San Francisco and Australia.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-25
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR
 C. G. GREN TOMORROW

Funeral services for Carl (Charlie) Gynnar Gren, who died at St. Ann's Hospital Tuesday evening. will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock in the chapel of the Charles w. Carter Mortuary, with the Rev. John L. Cauble reading the service. Interment will be in Evergreen Cemetery.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-25
WORK ON INT.
 HIGHWAY MAY
 START,SPRINC
Ch airman Magnuson, of Commission, Finds B. C.
 Premier Enthusiastic

SEATTLE, Aug. 25. - Congress- man Warren G. Magnuson, Chair man of the American International Highway Commission, who has re- turned from a conference with Brit ish Columbia Premier T. D. Pattul- To, said actual work on the Alaska highway may start next year. He said he found the Premier enthu- siastic about the undertaking and wants to get work started in the spring.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-25

 STOCK QUOTATIONS

NE WYORK, Aug. %. = Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 105s, American Can 1011a, American Light and Power 51a, Anaconda 35A, Bethlehem Steel 61, Commonwealth and Southern 1A, Curtiss Wright 5%, General Motors 49%, International Harves- ter 6OA, Kennecott 421a, New York Central 19A, Safeway Stores 19h, Southern Pacific 20, United States Steel 61A, Pound $4.88h, Bremner bid 2
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-25
BRIT. OFFICIAL IS SHOT DOWN
 IN JERUSALEM
Arab Hunchback Pours Five Bullets Into w. 5.
 Mofatt

JERUSALEM, Aug. 25.-An Arab hunchback is held on charges of the assassination of w. s. Moffatt, Brit ish Assistant District Commissioner.
 Moffatt died last night from five bullet wounds suffered at the hands of the gunman who invaded the Dis trict Administrative headquarters late yesterday afternoon.
 The authorities said the Arab was captured while trying to escape after the shooting.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-25
Federal Reserve
 Says Business
 On SwiftUptrend
Seven Months Losses Are Gained Back in as Many
 Weeks, Is Report

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25. = The Federal Reserve Board today re- ported that United States business is much better"
 The Board estimated that indus try had gained back in the last seven weeks all it's losses in the past seven months and that the index of industrial production has climbed from TT percent of the 1923-25 av- craze to 83 percent, as figured in July.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-25
FLY TO KLAwOCK

N. Lester Troast, Juneau archi- tect, and M. M. Custard, of the AL aska Construction Company, left by AAT plane this morning for Kla- wock in connection with construc- ton on the water system, PWA project, in that town.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-25
CHATHAM IS DUE IN
 PORT THIS EVENING

Freighter Chatham is scheduled to arrive in port at Il o'clock to- night. After discharging freight here, the vessel goes to Skagway and then calls at Taku Landing on the way south.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-25
DEATH TOLL MOUNTING UP,
 JAPAN CRASH
Two Transport Planes Col lide, Fall on Foundry,
 Sets It Afire

TOKYO, Aug. 25.-The death toll of the city's largest aviation disas- ter grew to 28 victims with 130 still in hospitals, 20 in critical condition.
 The disaster was the result of a collision between two transport planes which plunged into an iron foundry, setting the plane afire with exploding gasoline.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-25
NORRIS PORTERS
 END VISIT HERE

MT. and Mrs. Norris K Porter ended a several days visit in Ju- neau yesterday evening when they embarked on the Mt Mckinley for Seward from where they will go to Flat where Porter teaches school
 Last year Porter taught at Aniak He was married shortly before re- turning for this years teaching.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-25
Seal Take Is Record One.
 PribiIOfs
Reported Over 58,000Furs to Be Shipped-Larg
 est Tn 49 Years

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. 25. The Bureau of Foreign and De- mestic Commerce reports that seal hunters of the Pribilofs took 58,364 furs which is six percent more than in 1887 and the largest take in i9 years.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-25
German Maneuvers Said to Be Fastening Toward
 Major Campaign
DALADIER INSISTS
 FRANCE ENDANGERED
Asks Immediate Increase in Production to Prepare
 for Eventualities

BULLETIN-PARI Aug. 25. The Radical Socialist Party has given it's President, Premier DaIadier full backing for his plan to abandon the 40-hour week.
 This announcement came after the Premier had warned France that German military preparations made it necessary that France strengthen it's de- fense.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-25
RETURNING TO ANCHORAGE

Miss Betty Casey visited friends here during the stay of the Colum- bia. She is returning to Anchorage after a visit Outside.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-25

American exports to Soviet Rus sia amount to. $42,90O,000 in 1937, mostly in machines and industrial equipment.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-25
DOW. JONES AVERAGES

The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 144.07, up .54; rails 29.6l, up Al; utilities 2025, up IT.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-25
High Court Wants Western
 Expert on Mining and Water
By PRESTON GROVER

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.-Thls department gathers that the Su- preme Court would like MT. Roose- welt to appoint member who knows western irrigation and mining law and that calls for western man.
 And the western men most often mentioned hereabouts for the job are William Denman of San Fran cisco and Sam G. Bratton of AL buquerque, New Mexico, members respectively of the ninth and tenth circuit courts.
 Senator Norris of Nebraska, who himself could easily be called a westerner, already has recom- mended Felix Frankfurter, Har- yard law professor.
 Lacking on the Supreme Court bench just now is a specialist in irrigation and mining law as 1t is known in the west. Besides native sons, potatoes and cowpunchers, the west has contributed two com plete branches of basic law, those dealing with water rights an d metal mining.
 Justice Van Devanter of Wy oming handled the bulk of such cases when he was on the court but he retired year ago.
 WATER-NOT EVERYWHERE
 Just now really serious test of the whole basic law of irriga- tion rights is arising in Nebraska, Wyoming and Colorado. The U. s. Bureau of Reclamation has inter- vened in a suit involving alloca- tion of waters of the North Platte among the three states. Tn it's sup porting brief the government lays claim to certain water which here- tofore the states have claimed as subject wholly to their own juris- diction.
 While the west is young. 1t nevertheless has built up a law ex- perience in mining and irrigation dating back nearly 100 years. That is older than most corporate law. Moreover, much mining and irriga- tion law is based on local practices whose origin could be as mysterious to resident of -watered state as the fourth dimension.
 At present Justice Butler is "farthest west" member of the court, and he is from Minnesota That may sound far west" to a Broadway habitue but to tn e Rocky Mountains and Pacific Coast states Minnesota is about as far east as Rhode Island.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-25
FAIRBANKS BOUND

Mrs Cyrias St. Amand and daugh- ter Dolores passed through Juneau on the Columbia bound for Fair banks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-25
THERE'S NO HURRY

Both Justices Bratton and Den- man were suggested for the high court at the time of the Black and Reed appointments. At one time
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-25

A camel has twice the carrying power of an OK.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-25

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Twin-City herald., 1938-11-26
VANN'S SPEECH LEFT OUT OF
INSURANCE MINUTES

RICHMOND, Va, (C)-The min
utes of the 18th annual convention of
the National Negro Insurance Asso-
citation, held in Cleveland, O., last June
1917, have just been published, and
nowhere appears the. speech of Robert
L. Vann, who delivered the principal
address of the association on Wednes-
day evening, June IS, at Antioch Bap-
tist church. On page 81 it iszrecord-
ed that Mr.. Vann's speech was pro-
posed as part of the minutes, but un-
readiness was registered, and after
lengthy discussion, in which exception
was taken to Mr. Vann's remarks
about practices of some insurance
companies, the following motion was
seconded and carried: THAT the speech
made by Mr. Vann be excluded from
the Minutes of the Association and
that the whole matter be referred to
the Executive Committee for final dis
position"
Twin-City herald., 1938-11-26
is THE PRESIDENT

Beginning his predecessors in that he
throws hands holy horror the unspeabe ouages
preaed against the Jews Germany but didn't have much
the bombing of Ethiopian children that that
going on in Spain?
Presidents supposed be farsighted but 100000 Negroes
this feel when they American C
subjected probably brutality than inflicted German
Jews. Hitler has burned Jewish subject as far known
He has placed concentration which doubt
hardship but the survive and where there life there
hope for Picture the lot of the Negro who when
in Germany, would be a Godsend to him.
There be for consistency only the economic
angle considered Mobs seldom kill that they do destroy with
the gesture.
Picture the mob the southland that found outlet for their
hate burning schoolhouse This penny loss compared
that of Tulsa, Oklahoma, time ago.
1t is small loss Germany if the losses sustained by both Ne
gro and white added the that have been INDUCED
in the twenty-five and nhng has been prevalent
twice that long Probably Negroes have been
shed America by heous practice have unfortunate
German subjects Even winning their
the buzzng America with the unusual
sage, there another ynchng down there
AS said BEFORE Presidents supposed
wonder that good for sghtedness.
Twin-City herald., 1938-11-26
FINDS RELIEF NEED
PERMANENT

New York, Nov, (CNA)--A report
that despite any future business inn
provements a large army of workers
will remain totally unemployed was is
sued this week by the governing board
of the Emergency Relief Bureau Of
this city.
The report which covers the period
IRON January |, 1884 to June 80, 1887,
declared that "our economic system is
now so geared that the volume of
business activity can be expanded
enormously without corresponding
increase in Unemployment" Pointing
out that the greatest number of per-
Esons on relief in the city was reached
Fin March 1886 when the case load was
44o, 900 cases, representing 1,466,0OC
persons, the report said that relief had
risen 40 per cent, and one out of every
five New Workers was dependent on
public support.
Twin-City herald., 1938-11-26
RED CAPS FIGHT SABOTAGE
OF THE PAY-HOUR LAW

Chicago, Nov, (CNA)-Telegrams
protesting chiselling by the railroads
on the earnings of red caps were sent
this week to Administrator Elemer F.
Andrews by trade union and civic lead
ers in this district
The International Brotherhood Of
Red Caps has petitioned Andrews to
halt the attempts of the companies to
circumvent the provisions of the new
Wages and Hours Law by deducting
tips received by the red caps from the
required $11 weekly minimum wage,
Andrews was asked to rule that the
grattlities received from the travelling
public do not constitute any part of
the wages which the carriers are re-
quested to pay.
Twin-City herald., 1938-11-26
BORDER BRIEFS

Methodist Fellowship Week was fit
tingly observed at Border, with most
of the special days observed Begin
ming with the Safari Tuesday, and clos
ing with the special program Sunday
evening. The high point in the Eel
lowship came on Friday evening, the
18th, when the officers and members,
together with their many friends, en-
joyed our annual hostess dinner. Mr.
David R. Francis was elegant as toast
master, Mr.. Ray 0. Hatcher, director
of boys work, Phyllis Wheatley
House, spoke to the satisfaction of all
present, and Rev. H. w. Bolts, pastor
Zion Baptist Church, fittingly got
things off to great start with his
soul-uplifting invocation. The hostess
es were very beautifully gowned, gra-
cious and charming in their service,
and made the occasion all that we
could have hoped for it to be- Too,
the youngsters of the Church surpassed
our fondest expectation in the manner
and precision with which they served
the tables. Every committee did its
work we'll, and we had one Of our
greatest experiences in each fellow
having a specific job and each doing
that job well.
Among the hostesses referred to
above were Mesdames Helen Morris,
Mamie Whiting, Ebzania Riley, Maude
Francis, Hattie Jones, Josie Daniels,
Louva Turner, Rosa Minis, Leila Ban
narn, Myrtle ok, Edith Lee, Lucille
Woodard, Katie Gresham, Misses June
Hawkins ard va Jean Officer. Special
music was rendered by Miss June and
,,n-toru 4laryhlns and John w. Moul-
RE, Jr. Among the special guests in
troduced were Mrs Mary Palmer
Fisher, mother of Mrs. D. P Young,
Mrs. Clarence T. R. Nelson, wife Of
the minister OF the Camphor Memorial
II. Z. Church, St. Paul, and Mrs. Ray
.. Hatcher, wife of the guest-speaker.
Last, but by no means, the rleast, was
the Invaluable contribution made to
the success and enjoyment OF the-eve-
ming by Islrs. Iva Walker Taylor, who
te.d three numbers in her own mimi
table manner. And the pastor was
more than grateful to Mr.. Taylor who
like Mother Francisco" came despite
personal illness, to manifest his spirit
of good will and cooperation. For all
of these fine things we are more than
grateful to our many friends and to
Almighty God, the Giver of every true
and perfect gift.
Twin-City herald., 1938-11-26
NOT ONE COLORED STENOG-
RAPHER IN ALL so. AFRICA

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, (C)-
Bishop R. r. Wright, Jr., in letter TO
friend in America, says: Il would
have written earlier, but | have to do
all my writing by hand, and | have had
writer's cramp' more than once.
have done more writing with pen
since | have been in Africa than | did
for the 80 years previous, although |
was an editor for % of those years.
Reason: there is no colored stenogra-
pher in all the Union of South Africa
that | have been able to get hold of.
| have inquired for year and not
found one. Yet | have found several
who want to learn and our Mrs. White
at Wilberforce Institute, formerly sec
retary to the President of Wilberforce
University, Ohio, will teach shorthand
and typewriting. Although she is a
thousand miles from here, Capetown
/ think she will get few students
from this section, as there is, / think
a future for this type of work, if the
young people will learn it"
Twin-City herald., 1938-11-26
SCHOOL FOUNDED IN S. c. BY
WOMAN HAS % BUILDINGS;
WORTH $z5s, 1000

DENMARK, S. c., (By E. L. Her
cules, Calvin Service)-Forty-one years
ago, Elizabeth Evelyn Wright, grad
uate of Tuskegee, began the Voorhees,
School under the most impoverished
and discouraging conditions. From the
small beginning, has evolved an insti-
tuition which today has four hundred
acres of land, 28 buildings, and an en-
rollment of 720 pupils, "a teachers,
helpers, and total valuation of $685.
900. Indeed, Voorhees, began as an
ungraded school, and has grown. to a
standard high school and Junior Col
lege, and is accredited by the State
of South Carolina, and by the South
ern Association of Colleges and Sec
ondary Schools.
Twin-City herald., 1938-11-26
S TAVERN OWNERS FINED
SIS EACH

Five tavern proprietors were fined
$25 each in Municipal Court yesterday
when found guilty of washing beer
glasses in water not hot enough to
meet requirements of the city ordi-
nance. All were convicted of health
ordinance violations.
Fined were Adam Paterek, 826 Hen
nepin avenue; Ann Tomak, Az Sixth
avenue S.; F. c. Libau, 818 Sixth ave-
nue. S., Wong Hing, 2l9 Hennepin ave-
nue., and Carl Anderson, 305 West
Broadway.
Similar charges against Rose Miller,
641 Sixth avenue NJ, and George T.
Schulenberg, 1923 Second street S.,
were continued without plea to Fri
day and Wednesday respectively.
Twin-City herald., 1938-11-26

locate on a side street, then we would
have the pleasure of chasing them out
of the alley. We say this with all sin
cerity, partly because we believe that
the disease is incurable, partly because
we believe in the proverb which says
some thing about, "As a dog returns
to his vomit, so does fool return to
his folly"
1t must be said to the eternal credit
of those shopkeepers in presumed Ne
gro districts such as Fourth Avenue
south, and Sixth Avenue north, Min
neapolis, and the deep" Rondo dis
trict of St Paul, that those shop
keepers do not indulge in this large
gesture of superiority, and strange as
it seems, many's the white person that
drops into these places, devours his
slug of barbecue without conjunction,
and seems to get kick out of his sur
roundings.
Many!'s the white person who hap
pened to remember that he passed dear
old Jim's place the other day, and see
ing the color of the cook, thought it
was the color of the custom, was
sorely disappointed when he found an
entirely different atmosphere.
If Negroes ever expect to wage a
successful war against discrimination
in Minnesota, they may as we'll start
in their own back yard. We would
suggest that all of our dear old Jim's
be sent back to the colonies where
they can worship their gods without
unwilling persons paying the tithe.
Twin-City herald., 1938-11-26
FATHER DIVINE GROUP
DEFENDS NEW NAMES

New York, (AP)-Skippy Love,
Faithful Sparrow, Wonderful Wisdom
and some 200 other followers of Har-
lem's Father Divine, Negro evangelist,
went into court Thursday and asked
permission to vote under their adopted
names. They said these names were
the only names by which they are now
known. Among petitioners were,
Bunch of Love, Rolling Stone, Ador-
ing Meekness, Virtue Bloom, Joy DAN
Ger, Righteous ]. Truth, and Faith
Hope Charity.
Twin-City herald., 1938-11-26
DOES SOME NEGRO
BUSINESS AID
DISCRIMINATION

He who makes nocturnal trips about
the city and grows hungry will do
we'll to shove that much touted virtue
called race patriotism aside; that is,
unless he gets his thrills by way of
embarrassment. If you happen to wan
der into a colored place of refresh
ment off the beaten path, comparison
will prove the lusty insult given by
Mike, the Greek, is mild in compared
to the subtle torture you must under
go if you enter certain Afric En-
poriums.
The .keenness of the barb, the depth
of the thrust depends largely on the
number of white folk who happen to
be in the offing.
Many well meaning Negro, who
has driven or walked a block or two
out of the way to spend dime with
dear old Jim, was having wonderful
time until white customer came in.
Jim then shut up like clam, and
instead of his eyes flashing the tender
ness Of friendship, then gave way to
that roll peculiar to the emigrees from
the Congo.
Instead of his lips remaining curled
in that smile that speaks volumes, they
took sudden drop as though subject
to barometic pressure. When dear old
Jim gets an hour or two for recrea-
tion, naturally he must go back to
his people, and there he stalks the
stage impressively telling his audience
my business all comes from white
folks, don't depend on Negroes for
. dime; as if anybody else does or
cares.
II all the little barbershops and
hnchrooms of this type were cleaned
out before anybody squawked abou,
discrimination. the evil would be as
rampant here as it is in Maryland.
The next ten years would probably
be spent in driving them off Main
Street, next they would be likely to
Twin-City herald., 1938-11-26
TEXAS PARLEY HITS BARS
TO EDUCATION v

Fort Worth, Tex, Nov, (CNA)-
Denial of adequate educational facil-
tiles for Negroes in this State was
assailed here at conference called by
the Texas Commission on Inter Racial
Cooperation. The conference initiated
a campaign to obtain graduate school
training now denied the race in Texas.
The Commission on Inter-Racial
Cooperation is composed equally of
whites and Negroes. Mrs. ]. L. Brock
of Bryan is State chairman and w. r.
Banks, president of the Prairie View
Normal is secretary.
Twin-City herald., 1938-11-26
FORMER NEWSPAPER EXECU-
TIVE MANAGES CALIFORNIA"
RESTAURANT IN HARLEM

NEW YORK, (C)-James R. "Jim-
my" Smith, formerly manager of the
Amsterdam News, and later publisher
of paper in Los Angeles, is now man
aging, with Mrs. Smith, the "Califor-
mia" restaurant, 730 ST. Nicholas ave-
nue., on top of Sugar Hill' in Har-
lem. Mr.. Smiths restaurant is deco
rated in California style. and serves
exotic Mexican dishes as we'll as "home
cooked" food. Jimmie" greets his
guests personally, la Jack Dempsey,
among whom are many literary and
stage celebrities.
Twin-City herald., 1938-11-26
NEW MAGAZINE OUT IN
HARLEM

NEW YORK, (C) - The National
Review, published by Joshua McDon-
aid Mclean, 518 Manhattan avenue,
has made its appearance for the No
vember issue, replete with news and
articles of local and national interest.
Mr.. Mclean has published the maga-
Twin-City herald., 1938-11-26
side over the election.

A fire of undetermined origin DAM
aged the interior OF dwelling at $40
Lyndale avenue north early Tuesday
and forced Mrs. l.. D. Malone to flee
to the street in the freezing tefapefa-
lures. No one suffered injuries.
Twin-City herald., 1938-11-26
ROLAND HAYES IN TRUE
STORY"

NEW YORK, (C)-A short auto
biographical story of Roland HAYES
appears in the November issue of
True Story" 205 E. 42nd street, Ber-
narr Macfadden, publisher. In the edi-
tors note it is stated that Mr.. Hayes
is one of the most highly paid artists
in the history of American music.
Twin-City herald., 1938-11-26

zine intermittently for several years,
but now plans to make it regular go
ing concern. 1t is planned to circulate
the magazine throughout the country
through agents, and a subscription
campaign and an appeal for literary
manuscripts by mail has been launched.
Twin-City herald., 1938-11-26
Short News
Mrs. Alice Harris, 619 9th avenue
North is i'll at her home

Mrs. Lula Bell and Mr.. Fred Riley
were married Tuesday, November 23rd
at Bethesda Baptist Church. They are
at home, Az Colfax avenue North, to
their many friends.
Twin-City herald., 1938-11-26

Minnehaha Temple No. l2o I.P.B.
O.E. of w. will hold their annual
election Thursday December 1st at the
Elk Rest, l48 Highland avenue North.
Mrs. Cassie Hill. new deputy, will pre-