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Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-30
Get an Oar And Live to
Be Hundred. OIdster Saws

I could have jumped through our
drawing room window into it," he
recalled.
It was a natural for him TO row
as it is for American youths to
ride bicycles. Instead of cycling
to school or to work, he took a
punt up the beautiful, winding
Thames, and for exercise he would
scull down to Windsor, 18 miles
away, where the towering turrets
of old Windsor castle grope toward
the sky
eve had rowing clubs, you know.
I belonged to the Falcons and we
took many trophies. I remember
in the Henley regatta, the national
championship, we placed third with
our eight-man boat. I rowed strike
that year. Isn't it funny how one
remembers? Strange, after all
these years that 1 should still re-
member the feel of the coxswain
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-30
BY LOGAN JENKINS

Get an oar, my son, and live
TO be 100.
Such is the advice of 81-year-
Frank Dalton (no relation TO Jack
Dalton) of Fresno, father of Mrs.
r. J. Mcnamara, visiting i'll Ell
Centro.
Although more than half a CEN
tury has passed since last he wet
an oar, Dalton would talk of little
else beside oarsmen of the past
and the coming OXford-Cambridge
race on the Thames.
Rowing is bad on the heart?
Well, look at me" The former
rowing champion, whose clipped
speech still retains trace OF En-
glish accent, although SO years
have passed since he left the Brit
ish Isles, flashed quick smile.
mo deaths in my family, and
I owe it to the rigorous training
between the time l was II and
when I left for British Columbia
when l was 49," he declared.
One Famous Race
Who do you like between OK
'OIu dllu OdiilDIluBt III bilC IdCt9
he asked. Il like Oxford. My good
ness, I'll never forget :" With
eyes sparkling, the white-haired
old gentleman retold the tale of
that famous race between the two
Blues, rowed 81 years ago.
Il watched that race from the
shore. The course starts at Put
ney and runs four miles and a
half to Mortlake-" he pronounced
1t "Mortlick" - land both crews
held to killing pace all the way
from Hammersmith bridge to the
finish. They crossed the line neck
and neck, the only dead heat in
history!
Il can still name the Oxford
crew. One afterwards became Lord
Grenville, another Sir Henry Moss"
Natural to Row
Dalton, who as a youth achieved
fame as one of the greatest oars
men of his district, was raised
near Reading.
1.-THE Thames was SO close that
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-30

shouting:
"Pick up, No. 81 Pick up, No. A.
Gathering Speed
and the way it felt to move up
the stroke from % a minute to
30, then TO 35 and finally up to
40, when the sweeps were moving
so fast they were just haze to
your eyesl"
Dalton left England and rowing
behind when he was % and came
to Canada.
"You know how it was with
younger sons" he explained.
From Calgary, which was then
just city of tents, he moved to
Fresno and became a rancher.
"I've hardly touched an oar
since" he said. Raising three boys
and three girls is too much of a
job. Besides, over here the rivers
are like the people, always rushing
to get somewhere in hurry. Not
like the Thames. I call It the
graceful river"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-30
News Men Named
Stanford Profs

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Cal,
March 30. UP)-President Ray
Lyman Wilbur of Stanford Univer-
sity today announced appointment
of five San Francisco newspaper
men to be associate consulting pro-
fessors of journalism in the STAN
ford school of journalism for a
term of three years.
They are: Paul c. Smith, general
manager of the San Francisco
Chronicle; Clarence Lindner, pub
Usher of the San Francisco Exam
iner; Paul c. Edwards, associate
editor Of the San Francisco Call
Bulletin, Frank Clarvoe, managing
editor, San Francisco News, and
Miller Holland, Pacific division
news manager, United Press.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-30
Trophy Put Up For
Horseshoe Experts

A handsome trophy, gift of the
Ell Centro chamber of commerce,
will be the reward of the Ell Cen
tro business establishment which
produces the champion horseshoe
pitching team.
Plans for a city-wide tourna-
ment for teams are being formed
and the rules governing play are
being prepared. They will be an
nounced later.
Games will be played on the new
horseshoe pitching courts in the
court house park.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-30
Resident Since
1911 Dies on Coast

Albert S. Pruet, 68, resident Of
Imperial Valley since 1911, died in
San Diego late last week, friends
in Imperial Valley were informed.
He was buried in the coast city.
He was III business in Seeley 20
years ago with Sebe Robinson and
few years before his death oper-
ated a pool hall in Calipatria.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-30
Hiteman Member
Of Survey Group

E. L. Hiteman, superintendent Of
Imperial county schools, is chair
man of special committee form
ed to study problems of migratory
children in southern California.
He was appointed by officers of
the southern section of the Cali
fornia Teachers association and
will assume his duties Immediately.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-30
Ex-Convict Wanted in Los Angeles
For Murder Held in Bank Robbery

TACOMA, Wash, March 30
(UP) - A 36-year-old ex-convict,
wanted in California on a murder
charge, was accused today of be-
ing one of three men who held up
five employees of the Central bank
here March Is and escaped with
$500
Identification of the suspect was
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-03
Te(hnieian
MustDefeat
Jinx 10 Win
Bluegrass Addge Must Be
Beaten 10 Capture
Kentucky Derby
BY JUSTIN ANDERSON
GAP Feature Service)

LOUISVILLE, KY, May g. Is
Technician doomed by an old "jinx'
from winning the Kentucky Derby
this year?
mo says Trainer B. A. c'Ben'o
Jones.
He scoffed at an old Bluegrass
adage that offspring of the same
sire never win the Derby in sue
cessive years, saying I'VE aren't
worried about traditions, jinxes or
anything else"
If the tradition proves true as it
has in the past 81 Derbies, Tech
nician, son of the late Insco, which
sired Lawrin, 1888 Derby champion,
won't come home first May 6.
zev, by The Finn, won in 1928
and Flying Ebony, another of The
Firms progeny, captured the 1925
race-and that's the closest APP
proach. of sons of one "pappy" to
consecutive conquests.
But don't sell Herbert NJ Woolf's
fine colt short on that account.
There's a chance history might re-
peat itself in that the same owner
has won successive Derbies. Woolf
also owns Lawrin.
Col E. R. Bradley, whose colors
have been run up four times
more than any other sportsman
competing for Kentucky Derby
glory and gold won in 1928
with Burgoo King and Brokers Tip,
respectively.
There's another old spell shroud-
ing Technician's chances. 1t is that
Winter-raced horses never win the
historic Churchill Downs classic.
This has been broken twice, how
ever, by Black Gold in 1924 and by
Lawrin.
Technician, as did numerous other
Derby nominees this year, competed
on the Winter tracks, winning the
Flamingo stakes in Florida, dupli-
eating the 1888 performance of
Lawrin.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-03

both the farm and factory are
going to hunt new and wider IN
dustrial uses for farm products.
Greeks Had Two Words For 1t
That is exactly what the chemur-
gists had in mind a few years ago
when they coined their catchword
from the Greek "chemia," for chem
istry. and. "ergon," which means
-'o <.
~ shc 1905 the iron horse welded
together q continent and put COM
merce on steel wheels.
In The teeming twentiess of this
century cheap car set off big
time boom. And Edison's wild
dream of perpetual daylight came
true to help things along.
It's supporters see chemurgy as
means of creating another new
age-this one for the American
farmer.
Round-faced, merry-eyed Will
liam J. Hale, inventor of the word
'chemurgy." caught the ear of
Henry Ford during the depression
years. Three hundred representa-
lives OF agriculture, industry and
science uooped to the first chemur-
gic conference at Dearborn, Michi-
gan, in the spring of 1885. Other
conferences followed and the Ma
tional Farm Chemurgic Council
began to enroll members n d
] spread the word.
! Then they found that for 80
years Department of Agriculture
scientists had been searching for
new ways to put farm products
into industrial markets.
/ With limited funds these gov
eminent scientists already had
learned, for instance, how to make
| building board and high-grade pa
per from cornstalks, straw and
other wastes; starch from sweet
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-03

potato pulp, and paint and plastics
from soybeaf1s.
That was a prelude to the new
program which experts say will be
the biggest scientific hunt along
that line III history. The new bat
terry of scientists WIN have some
thing like million dollars a year
to spend in each of the four new
ultra modern laboratories
In the South they'll try first to
find new industrial futures for
cotton, sweet potatoes and pea
nuts, crops in which the major
SURPRISES have occurred or are
likely to occur, says Secretary
Wallace The three-story labora-
tory, to be built in New Orleans.
will serve n inc southern states
covering the area from Oklahoma
and Texas east to the Atlantic.
The laboratory at Peoria, Illinois,
will concentrate on the m os
troublesome mid-western SURPRISES,
corn and wheat.
In the east scientists at the lab
oratory near Philadelphia will work
on apples, milk products, potatoes,
vegetables and tobacco Its territory
runs as far south as North Carolina
and Tennessee.
The western laboratory near San
/ Francisco, at Albany, California,
will experiment with fruits, vege-
tables, potatoes, wheat and alfalfa.
The tentative program for cot
/ ton covers the whole cotton plant.
| Already the fine white hairs
from the lowly cotton seeds have
helped build the biggest success in
the synthetic fiber field. Rayon
made from cotton linters, and from
wood, has skyrocketed from two
by-four industry of pre-war days to
a giant among the textiles,
! It's brother, a, transparent
cellulose wrapping material, is Just
one more of a long list Of test-tube
triumphs credited to scientific re-
search.
On the millions of dollars worth
of crop consuming industries scien-
lists have created in the past, the
chemists and gengineers baset their
hopes Tor the future ss5s hi.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-03
$4,000 POUNDS Or ''''H
HALIBUT ON LOCAL
FISH MARKET TODAY

Three halibut vessels sold and one
was to be, bid on this afternoon at
the local fish mart, to bring total
landings for yesterday evening and
today to $4,000 pounds.
The Fern. Capt. Chris Bjerkeland,
sold $4,000, pounds to Elton Eng
strom at $50. and 4.25 a pound for
freezing.
The Hyperion, Capt. Oscar Oberg,
sold 14,5o0 pounds at 635 and 4.25
to Alaska Coast Fisheries The Helen
H.. Capt. Richard Young, sold $500
pounds at $50 and 4.25 to Alaska
Coast Fisheries. "a
The nikoh, Capt Emil Baglpelson
brought in 10000 pounds, but had
not sold thas, aftfrnqQH at press time
- e.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-03
By JACK THOMPSON
AP Feature Service Writer

WASHINGTON, May 3.-Chem-
.urgy!
Can it pull the farmer out of the
red-and help cut The Federal sub
sidy Of agriculture which has cost
lat least three billion dollars since
Hoover Farm Board days?
J The chenurgkAs ay yes-and EN-
sphatically:
Wen turn farm products INTO
salmost anything from eyeglasses to
sairplanes and nut the farmer into
sthe business of supplying raw ma
sterials for the factory"
! Maybe" says Uncle Sam. suffi-
sciently interested to spend millions
to find out inst how much chemur-
sgy can help.
Right now he is building -four
million-dollar laboratories spotted
in the major farm areas of the
U. s., north, south, east. west
Eight hundred scientists test
tube economists with an eye OF
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-03
20-Fooi LETTERS
Spell Out
Juneau for Air

Starting at the middle and work
ing both ways. painters today had
got as far as UNE toward painting
JUNEAU in 20-foot letters on the
roof of the Standard Oil Company
warehouse on Willoughby Avenue.
The word, which will be 100 feet
long, is for the information of avia-
tots and is the only such airway
sign in Juneau. A similar label
topped the old Standard Oil ware
house here.
Manager Tom Dyer said the
painting was in line with Standard
Oil Company policy everywhere of
labelling the cities for the avia-
tors.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-03


Like ancient aichemists--bnt
in ultra modern laboratories
ard with infinitely greater
chances of succcss-gOvernment
scientists are going 10 hunt new
ways to turn things like corn
and cotton and potatoes into
things like steering wheels ana
airplanes and cigarette eases.
"Chemurgy" has been coined r
describe such work. but UD,-e
Sans scientists prefer to call
it "chemistry's hunt for new
factory markets for the farm"
Whatever its name, it is twenti-
eth century magic. This is the
first of three articles telling how
Uncle Sans dabbling in il.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-03
Mrs. Mclaughlin
Dies, kefthikan

KETCHIKAN, Alaska, May 8. -
Mrs Martha Mclaughlin, 10, pio-
neer of Alaska, died last night here.
The well known woman came to
Ketchikan. in 1903 and celebrated
her golden wedding anniversary in
1928.
Surviving her are Mrs. Maude
Wakefield, a daughter in Ketchi-
kan; Arthur Wakefield and Jack
Sayles, both grandchildren, in Sc
attic: and grandchildren Irwin
Sayles, Aberdeen, Mrs. Streeter
Beall, Puyallup, Mrs. H. B. Camp
bell, Washington, D. c., and Mrs.
NELL Anderson, Sitka. ar
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-03
B. PR. TO BUILD Nj
NEW WAREHOUSE I ! !
soon AT SEWARD
Executive Order Increases
Property Of Bureau
Plans Announced

Three lots at Seward have been
set aside by executive order of Presi-
dent Roosevelt to enlarge the Bureau
of Public Roads warehouse property
which formerly consisted of three
lots.
"A new warehouse is to be built on
the site, the bureau announced here
today. Maintenance equipment will
be moved to the new headquarters
from other places ii the vicinity OF
Seward. e. q /.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-03
.DIM0ND BILL WOULD
ALLOW p05TMA5TERS
TO SIGN DOCUMENT!

WASHINGTON, May ALASKA
Delegate Anthony J.. Dimond has
introduced a bill to authorize Alaska
postmasters to administer oaths and
affirmations.
q Object of the measure is to give
remote villages some means of COM
plying with legal requirements in
notarizing documents.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-03
mrs. WHITE JOINS ;.
DOCTOR AT KLAW0(k

Mrs. Leslie White, formerly of Ju-
neau, and three children Travelled on
the Office Of Indian Affairs vessel
from Seattle to Klawock where her
husband, DR.. White, was recently
transferred as Government doctor.
Mrs. White is a sister of Mrs
j. w. LEVERS of this city. The
Whites were formerly stationed at
Unalaska.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-03
SIX ARE ORDERED
TO QUIT GERMANY

BERLIN. May 3.-Hugh Carleton
Greene, chief Berlin correspondent
of the London Telegraph, and five
other British subjects have been
ordered to leave Germany by May
"a. 1t is claimed by the ousted men
that the order is in reprisal for the
ousting of Germans, especially Nazi
newsmen, from England.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-03
BLACK BEAR HERE
FROM PETERSBURG

The patrol launch Black Bear of
the Alaska Game Commission is at
Juneau, brought UP from Petersburg
by Capt. Howard Jensen, now in
charge of the district in the absence
OF Wildlife Agent Hosea Sarber, now
at Kodiak. Jensen will be at the
office here for several days.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-03
MiItards Hosts
With Beach Party

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Willard were
hosts to a number of friends last
evening at their home, Rocky
Ledge" on the Fritz Cove road, when
they entertained with a beach party
Guests for, the OCCASION included
Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Acton, Mr.
and Mrs. Virgil Newell, Mr.. and Mrs
Tom Cole and Miss BesS Willard.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-03
BANK SUES MINING
FIRM OVER NOTES

Suit to collect on two notes total
ing 5000 plus interest and attorney
fees was filed in District Court to-
day by the First National Bank of
Juneau against the Alaska Empire
Gold Mining Company, which has
property at Hawk Inlet.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-03
WEATHER SYNOPSIS

trough of baromeic covered
Gulf and the adjacent
this of 20
prevailed the
field observation cooler western Alaska
AL
last night with little other the Territory
Juneau, May 4.-Sunrse I'M. sunset, pm.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-03
GAMERS, BEER
DEALERS FINED
IN TAX SUITS
Seven Firms Plead Guilty
to Non paYmenf-As-
sessed S13,H4.64

The Territorial Treasury has been
enriched by $l3,474.64 as a result of
three salmon canneries and two
beverage distributors pleading guilty
at Ketchikan last week to charges
of not paying Territorial taxes.
j. B. Carlyle, Chief OF Territorial
Enforcement Officers, has returned
to his Juneau headquarters after
assisting with prosecution of the
cases during the Court term at
Ketchikan.
Pleading guilty to charges OF not
paying salmon pack case taxes, the
Diamond K Packing Company was
fined $6,O92.76 and costs; the Lin
denberger Packing Company, $4,-
36716 and costs, and the Ocean
Packing Company, $2,564.72 and
costs.
A similar charge against the
Burnett Inlet Packing Company was
dropped when the. company made
payment.
Distributors Fined
Charged with distributing beer
without being properly licensed, four
firms pleaded guilty. The Seattle
Brewing and Mating Company was
fined $3.50 and costs; w. j. Lake
and Company, 5000 and costs, and
fines have not yet been assessed
in the case of the Alaska Distribu-
tors and the Golden Glow Distrib-
uting Company. On motion OF At
torney A. H. zeigler the trial OF the
Jakeway Distributing Company on
the same charge was postponed.
Judge George F. Alexander, in
sentencing the companies, an
nounced that the fine in each case
was more than double what the tax
would have been if it had been paid
as Territorial law requires.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-03
BASEBALL TODAY

The following are Scores of base
ball games played this afternoon
in the Major League as received up
to 2:15 o'clock:
National League
Chicago l; Philadelphia A.
Cincinnati 4; New York g.
American League
Philadelphia 8; Chicago /.
Boston 5; Cleveland l.
New York 10; Detroit 6.
Washington IL; st. Louis 10.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-03
wIAIFpED IS SOLD $,
70 MINER BAILoFF

The 40 foot fishing boat 'Winifred,
has been bought by Tom Ballot.
Alaska Juneau miner, from DR.. E. H.
Kaser.
Ballot, having the vessel fitted
for trolling, will make the Winifred
the latest addition to the salmon
fleet here,
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-03
q. s. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE WEATHER BUREAU
THE WEATHER


Forecast 3:
Showers tonight and Thursday fresh souhery winds
Weather forecast Showers
Thursday; moderate to fresh southerly
Forecast winds along Gulf of Alaska: Fresh
southey winds tonight
Cape Spencer fresh southeast winds from
Hinchnbrook
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-03
KLUkWAN TOWNSHIP
WILL Be SURVEYED

Joe Williamson, Cadastral En-
gineer of the Public Survey Office,
is going out on the North Star to
Klukwan to survey a townsite.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-03
NORTH STAR DUE TONIGHT

The Bureau of Indian Affairs ship
North Star is due to arrive at 1890
o'clock tonight, according to a radio
gram this afternoon,
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-03

Seventy-two percent of all per-
sons killed in traffic at night are
pedestrians,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-15
SOUTH AMERICAN TRADE
alameda Times-Star)

Ample South American cargoeS await
American merchant marine ships if they
are barred from the European war zone
by neutrality legislation, the November
issue of Fortune magazine asserts in an
analysis of the effects of impending re-
strictions on American shipping. With
four times as many ocean-going vessels
today as in 1914, the magazine states,
United States shipping can take over so
much of Europe's South American ship
ping business as to prove nearly as profi-
table as trade in contraband.
The only certain thing" the article
continues, sis that cash-and-carry, how
ever, defined by Congress, will cancel
all OF some of the voyages of over 200
United States vessels now stopping at
European war-Zone ports -"
These areas accounted for 14700,O00 of
the 32,3OO,0OO cargo tons carried in the
American bottoms in 1887, about 45 per
cent of all American shipping tonnage.
Recalling that before the last war the
20 Latin-American republics bought as
many goods from Great Britain as from
the United States, with Germany third,
and that by the end of that war, practi-
cally all the German business and about
one-third of the English, it finds that,
with Germany now blockaded from the
Latin-American market, the latter trade
already has begun to fall into the United
States lap. This follows on 1887, when
America supplied about third of the
imports to the republics to the south,
with Britains and Germany's joint share
less than 30 per cent
"If we took all the normal German
business, both export and import, and,
say, half the British, we should increase
our total world trade by about $500,
900, 900, or II per cent" the article says.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-15
THE TROUBLE WITH
THE TRUTH

(The Rotarian MagaZineS)
IF | had a son, I'd swear to do one
thing: Id tell him the truth That opin-
ion is from J. Edgar Hoover, famed
chief of the G-men, whose experience
with bOys-g -gone-wrong gives it special
point. Probably few parents will dis
agree, yet many are concerned with the
problems of how to tell the truth to a
child.
But no matter how automatically and
tactfully information is presented to the
youngster, it is true that, as Oliver Wen
dell Holmes once asserted, truth is
tough George Eliot put it even more
dramatically, saying that it has rough
flavors if we bite it through" Conse-
quently, the father or mother who de-
cides to tell the youngster the truth
chooses a troublesome-not dainty
job. There may be specific time and
place for some things, but truth recog
nices no stop signs, no do not disturb"
placards.
A youngster may break out in a rash
of curiosity at any moment. His quest
for knowledge is not confined to the pri-
vacy of some domestic laboratory and it
is seldom impersonal. Parson Jones' man.
nerisms and Aunt Lydia's hats may start
inquiries shocking to conventional par
ents, yet prompted by the most scienti-
fic attitude.
But here's the trouble with truth: Long
ago it severed all diplomatic relations
with white lies and chronological in
exactitudes, with prejudices and propa-
gandas. Unfortunately, few adults have
followed this policy; consequently, as
vigilant custodians of truth, they fall
short when a child wants to know why
some children must go hungry, why some
children must be targets for bombs.