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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-22
Stole RIDE;
PAYS FOR IT.

CHEYENNE, Wy, March 2l.-Ine
moral of this is that even for con-
tributors to the conscience fund
railroads have no cut rates.
A Salem, Ore, businessman wrote
to r. M. Reed, Cheyenne agent Tor
the Colorado e. Southern line that
is years ago he was stranded in
CHEYENNE and hoped a freight
to get home His conscience was
bothering him, he said, and if the
agent would let him know the price
of a train fare from Denver to
Cheyenne, the distance he rode,
he would send a check.
He added that he thought he
should get half price since it was
a freight train.
Reed replied that the cheapest
fare was $214, in a coach, and he
had no authority to make a reduc-
ton. Back came the check for
SPA.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-22
PLACE FRIENDSHIPS
OVER SCHOLARSHIPS

NORMAN, Okla, March 21.-
Their principal purpose in coming
to the university was to make
friendships, 313 of the 1913 fresh
men women at Oklahoma univer-
sity said recently in a question
naire.
Second most important reason
was to learn how to study" and
third to become more self-reli-
ant"
Far down in eighth place was
the misunderstanding motive, jot-
ted down as the make friends
with men" purpose on the ques-
tionnaire.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-22
WANTS SOME
OLDCL0THES

DALLAS, Tex, March 81. = The
Dallas Historical Museum has
plenty of brocaded waistcoats, top
hats, opera capes, Spanish armor,
wedding dresses, evening gowns,
elaborate nightgowns and black
corset, but what it needs is a good
fashioned set of red flannels.
Herbert Gambrell, museum di-
rector, is on the hunt for some of
the common, everyday clothing
the pioneers wore in settling Texas.
Hos seeking such things as gall
fuses, socks, aprons and trousers.
The trouble was" he said,
clothing was worn until it was
threadbare, then cut down for the
kids and finally made into quilts.
They didn't waste much in $780,
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-22

Among the most common prod
ucts that Portugal exports are olive
oil, canned fish, Port wine, resins.
turpcntines, cork, tangerines and
dried figs.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-22
TALL YOUTHS FORM
TIp-T0ppER5 CLUB

SACRAMENTO, March 21.-A de-
scription of the disadvantages of
the life of a tall girl, published in
Los Angeles magazine, brought a
flood of sympathy to the author,
Miss Kae Krysler, so today she is
charter member of the California
tip toppers. The clubs forty lanky
members, averaging six feet six
inches in height for men and six
feet two inches for women, create
a sensation during the night club,
ice skating and beach parties. Tall
est of the tall is young man six
feet IL inches.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-22
U. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. WEATHER BUREAU
THE WEATHER
(By the u. S. Weather Bureau
tBy the U. S. Weather Bureau)

vicinity beginning
22 Mostly cloudy and warmer probably with ure tonight
and Thursday moderate southerly
Alaska: Mostly
probably with occasional showers
portion tonight and Thursday moderate
cep Entrance Canal
CT Fresh
fresh Cape
Spencer to Cape Hincinbrook
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-22
CLAUDE N. HIRST
ENROUTE JUNEAU

Claude M. Hirst, Director of Ed
ucation for Alaska of the Office OF
Indian Affairs, left Seattle today on
the Mount Mckinley for Juneau at
ter trip to Washington. He has
been in the States since the first
of the year.
Hirst plans to stop off at Ketchi-
kan on official business, possibly
going out to Hydaburg and Klaweck.
He will take the following boat for
his headquarters here.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-22
SEATTLE FIRM
LOW ON SEWER
PROJECT BIDS
Bio Fairbanks Job 10 Gel
Underway-S Shepard
Notifies Office

L. J. Dowell. Inc, entered low
bid of $224,305 on the Fairbanks
sewer project, according to word re-
ceived here today from j. G. Shep-
ard, PWA Engineer Inspector, who
opened bids last night at Fair
banks.
Other tenders were as follows:
r.. J. Sommers Construction Com
Ipany, $257,000 r. H. Stock, $278,-
796, and Seims-Spokane Company
$313,4 ABS
The City of Fairbanks will award
the contract, after approval by the
PWA.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-22
CONSCIENCE
is RELIEVED

NEBRASKA CITY, Neb.. March
2l.-Fourteen years ago Julius Bar
ron, former Nebraska City junk
dealer, bought some old rags and
papers from two boys.
The present owner of the bust
ness received a letter recently from
California which said:
"a boy and myself in the year
about 1925 sold you some old rags
and papers in sack. 1t amounted
to about 20 cents. We placed a
brick or so in the bottom of the
sack to make it heavier
Enclosed was 20 cents.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-22
HOUSE 0kAYS
F.D.R. Defense
PLAN MONEY
Over One Hundred Million
Dollars Earmarked for
Critical Needs

WASHINGTON, March 22.-An-
other integral part of President
Roosevelt's emergency defense pro-
gram, calling for $116,500,000, start
ed in Congress today with the ap-
proval of the House Appropriations
Committee.
The money will be earmarked in
the deficiency bill to supply 'criti-
cal" need for equipment and to boil
ster seacoast defenses.
The Deficiency Bill carries total
of S195 ,672,00 for direct appropria-
tons and contractural authorize
lions.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-22
WEATHER SYNOPSIS


Northwestern Mod
Inlet and Prince fundamentally low covered tn
Southeast northern
with
Light precipitation
except
portion
northern
erab
portions
Territory.
Juneau 23-Sunrie 5:55 @m sunset, pm.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-22

American women will spend 200
million dollars for hundred mill
hon hats this year, it is estimated.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-22
HOUSE APPROVES
WpAP PROBE; few
OBJECT TO plan
Representative Cox N ay
lake Stand TO Testi-
fy at Hearing
By adelaide Kerr

WASHINGTON, March 22.-The
House Rules Committee. today APP
proved a resolution directing the
Appropriations Committee to make
a thorough investigation" of WPA.
Committee members said the vote
was overwhelmingly in favor of the
investigation, with but three or four
opposing.
Representative Cox, author of the
measure, may be brought before the
House later in the week.
The resolution contains no refer
ences as to particular points of in
quiry to be dealt with.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-22
BANK BOARD MAN
(0NFERRiMG HERE

J. w. Allen, Field Representa-
tive of the Federal Loan Bank
Board, with headquarters in Wash
ington d. c., is comforting here with
officials of the Alaska Federal Saw
ings and Loan Association.
Allen arrived in Juneau on the AL
aska with Mrs. Allen and is a guest.
at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-22
ALASKA RAILROAD
BILL Is 100000

WASHINGTON, March 22.-The
Deficiency Appropriation bill was
introduced today The bill carries
100000 for the Alaska Railroad
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-22
AskDropping
OF Probe on
Labor 5eey.
Subcommittee Says Judi
eiary Has Found Nothing
Worth While in Case

WASHINGTON, March GA five
man subcommittee today asked the
House Judiciary Committee to drop
its Investigations of impeachment
charges against Secretary of Labor
Frances Perkins.
The committee was vested with
authority to recommend final dis
position of accusations made by
Representative Thomas in the Har-
ry Bridges case.
Report of the committee was that
nothing was found to justify furth-
er inquiry.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-22
DR.. WHITE TAKES
OVER AT kLAW0(k

DR.. Leslie White, formerly of Jul
neau, arrived at Klawock yesterday
to take over Office of Indian At
fairs medical work there. DR.. White
has been studying at the Naval hos
pital in San Diego. He was formerly
stationed at Unalaska.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-21
WetIs Fiue Women iIa 1T Years

LONDON, Feb. 2l-A romance may be the spice of life, but to ordinary, unprepossessing forty -year-old Patrick OBrien of London. romance recently brought eighteen months imprisonment and the title of being a professional polygamist."
 Brought up at the Old Bailey court in charge of bigamously marrying Gladys Thompson of Bury St., Ed munds, Suffolk, and stealing ring from her, O'Brien was revealed over a period of eleven years to have had five wives" lived with other women, and made capital out of his curious fascination over them.
 Here is his record:
 1927--Married Beatrice Howard at Battersea, London.
 -Bigamously married Con- stance Batchelor. Convicted the same month.
 1892 Marriage with Beatrice Howard dissolved.
 May 1933-Legally married Mrs. Lydia Rolls of Highgate, London, a widow Marriage dissolved 1885.
 December 1935-Legally married Rosia Eleanor Pike. She divorced
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of the interviewers are intimat,ng that Katie is now a penitent lass. Pertinent for what? For abusing the feelings of few reporters. or run ming away from few photograph CTS?
 In a recent interview Miss Hep burn made some such remark as this: "Seme of the writers were pret- ty hard on me. but I deserved it. Ii I were a critic know l would never be able to keep my personal feelings out of what I wrote7
 Some of the writers certainly did deal severely with her performances, especially in "The Lake luckless assignment for any actress, but if The Lake is to be used as an ex- ample, I should like to see what some of our really accomplished actresses could do with it. Katie certainly didn't do much, but then there wasn't much that could be done.
 Lou wait. She's rehearsing cur rently a new Barry play for the Guild 'The Philadelphia Story and let the notices be good, you see how docile this Connecticut doctors daughter will be. She has always de- spised the business of being pretty pease for the camera. And she can't understand why it isn't her business if she ''vaunts to be alone"-like Garbo.
 I am very curious to see what some of her sisters under the skin will write about her the first time she leaps through the kitchen win dow when they ring the front door bell or what the new Dorothy Park CT gags will be when she is glimpsed at the ringside tables in the night clubs. Very curious.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-21
PORT OF SEVEN
 SEAS" ENDS RUN
 TONIGHT, CAPITOL
Wallace Beery Is Starred in Current Feature al
 Local Movie

Horatio Alger is brought back to life in the person of Marcel Pagnol, author of Port of Seven Seas new Wallace Beery starring vehicle which is based on Pagnols trium- phant stage play, Fanny" This is the picture which is ending tonight at the Capitol Theatre
 Pagnol, today one of Frances most successful playwrights. as a boy lived in abject poverty among the gay and colorful people he has pictured with such vitality in Port of Seven Seas"
 There are many stories told about Pagnol as a young student working for his Doctor of Philosophy degree. This one is typical.
 Pagnol had no money for fuel and he was numb with cold. With his final examinations only a few days away he found it difficult to work in the shabby room he occupied. So he went to a dentists office where it was warm and light For three days he remained in that dentists office. Each time the dentist would stick his head out of the door Pag- mol would politely give his place to the next customer.
 When he subsequently wrote the play, "Topaze," it ran for 1850 per formances. Incidentally, it was in the limitation of this play that Myrna Loy made her first bid for stardom. following years of parts as an oriental siren.
 Pagnol next wrote "Marius," a two-year sensation in Paris follow ing it with Fanny" which now comes to the screen as Port of Seven Seas" Frank Morgan, Mau- reen OSullivan, John Beal and Jes- sic Ralph head the cast in support of Wallace Beery.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-21
MISS KATHARINE HEPBURN $ BACK
 tN GOOD GRhCES
Metropolitan Writers Aoain Fair to Atfress-
 What + Is About
By GEORGE TUCKER

NEW YORK. Feb. 21.-Miss Kath- arine Hepburn, the de-glamorized morning glcry is back in the good graces of the metropolitan press, and all the movie writers seem too, too pleased. In fact, they seem just shade too benevolent for my sensl- tive craw. and if 1 were Hepburn I'd ask them how the hell they get that way
 They are saying nice things about her now, but it was only a couple of Februaries back that they were writing how she ran the gamut of am tion from A-to-B" and jeering at her Garbo manner.
 It is true that Miss Hepburn fre- quently covered her head and fled frcm photographers. It is true, in my opinicn. that she was very bad in all of the pictures she made in Holly W. d except the very first the one in which she played hardly more than bit with John Barrymore.
 But what I can not understand is why any newspaperman or wo- m q should ever become excited ov- CT the personal whimsies of an actor or an actress to the extent of be- co .aing bitter in what they write Af5er all, who is an actor or an &C., trc ss tc make you mad?
 I think Hollywood made a fine mess of a very nice package when it gave pouting lips to Hepburn. caved in her cheeks, and hung floppy bangs over her forhead That first slight role she played in Bill of Divorce ment" was the last glimpse anybody ever had of the easy. natural kid who went to the studio lots looking for a career Thereafter she was made to follow some of that fine Hollywood reasoning, so that it was only a matter of time before Hep burn pictures began to be no especial draw at the boxoffice.
 In any case she is back and some
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 ward cannery unions and fishermen painted a picture of his version of ~the menace of traps" as "monop- olistic. and heavily destructive of halibut codfish and other fish
 When faced by the question as to where the Territory would get an equal amount of revenue to that lost in trap abolition, both Kayser and Brunstad insisted the fishermen will subscribe to every dollar of that tax
 Brunstad condradicted statements of Arnold, and other trap propon- ents by insisting that seine caught fish are better fish than trap fish on the whole" claiming that traps are often left working fer week at time and fish become bruised and torn while behind the tarred web ping.
 Denying charges that "95 per cent of the traps in Alaska are absentee owned Arnold said at least third, and nearly half of them, are owned by independent trap men, or one line canneries,' and that purchase of individual-owned traps from AL askans by the corporations, has in turn, poured additional wealth into the Territory.
 Site Sells For Si00,000
 Arnold cited one instance where trap site was sold by Ketchikan people for over $1Oo,OO0 to cannery interests.
 As to blame for certain traps which fishermen claim are "destruc- tive" and "monopolistic," Arnold said Don't blame the industry. Take that criticism to the Bureau of Fisheries"
 F. J. Gunderson, of Wrangell, an independent trap owner, spoke against the measure also, as did Grover Vim, Juneau attorney who is also an independent trap owner Besides Brunstad and Kayser, John Olafson, seine boat operator from Ketchikan, also spoke. Frank Lloyd, independent cannery man from Ketchikan, facing Repre- sentative Karl Drager on the floor, answered Dragers question as to whether he would want immediate abolition or gradual elimination of fish traps" by saying, Would you rather be hung a little bit today and a little bit tomorrow and so on until you're dead?'
 AS lobbyists finished their argu- ments, Drager, speaking for the bill, asked Lets vote the Democratic ticket as we promised to do--for inn mediate and total abolition of fish traps"
 Representative Davis, indepen- dent trap owner himself, and bitterly opposed to the measure, said, When you find it expedient to ignore your platform, do so. No man should be bound by his platform beyond his own reason.'
 Representative Gordon called the whole idea of immediate abolition" ," as action that would bring chaos, :"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-21
MAYOR IN TAX PLEA; DOESN'T PAY 0W N

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 21.-Mayor Cornelius D. Scully's face was red der than ever.
 The mayor has been campaigning for weeks to get residents of this metropolitan center to pay up their delinquent taxes and slave off an impending financial crisis.
 Then, the unhappy truth came out. It was learned the mayor hasn't paid his own taxes yet, be- ing about $500 in arrears on prop erty.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-21
Buried Gold Lures
 Australian FaYmegs

MELBOURNE, Australia, Feb. 21. -E. Richards end J. McEldrew have given up the monotonous life of farming for the more exciting one of boring for Spanish gold and treasure.
 The immediate object of their search is gold which was worth fifty-two million dollars at the time it is supposed to have been buried by Spanish pirates 150 years ago. The present value of the gold would be about eighty million dollars.
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lars in revenue
 Coffey's Argument
 Lined up for the bill, although he had introduced formerly, grad ual abolition measure, Representa- tive Coffey said traps drove fisher men out of Southeast Alaska-do you want more traps or more people. 7
 Representative Walker charged that young King salmon are killed in traps, while Representative Davis charged in turn that young King salmon are also killed in seines.
 Smith then threw his bombshell with an unusual legislative move, admitting" defeat on the measure and calling the vote at eight to eight, which perhaps changed the one vote.
 When Smith 'forewarned the Democratic party" that if the mea- sure were voted down, they'll never live it down." he questioned" Dele gate Anthony J. Dimond's sincerity in his trap abolition measure in Congress.
 Representatives Anderson an d Spencer leaped to their feet simul- taneously at that instance, and bit terly condemned anyone who ques- tions the sincerity of our Delegate to Congress, Anderson, usually mild, shouting his indignation over hand  clapping in the gallery.
 Representative Martin and DoWd, opponents of the memorial, unknow- ingly lent humor and irony to the picture when they leaned back to eat sandwiches sent in by a friend. The sandwiches were of canned sal mon-caught by seine.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-21

| Name the is following women stars: (a) She has a sandlot baseball team; (b) She's mayor of North Hollywood; Co s h e is part owner of a big racing stable; (d) She was re- gently d Q c O. rated by the French govern ment.
 2 What was A@ . the name of screend dom's m ost popular liv c a n i m a l star?
 . Name tw o . of the three characteris tics w hich distin- guish Charlie Chan from oth- CT screen detec- lives.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-21

Being a good Samaritan proved profitable for C.. J. Borman, Trans vaal farmer. Injured motorists whom he drove 200 miles to hos pital pressed a Rhodesian sweep stake ticket upon him. It paid $470
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-21

Fire loss in Nova Scotia during 1888 totalled $1,441 ,786 as compared with $1 1,4O9,249 in 1897. Fires in 1888, however, were 1898 as com pared with 1894 the previous year.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-21
Your Screen Test

I0UNT yourself 20 points for question nns'rered cor V recfIy-rc points for each part of to"r.p@t g.es II you your knocdge o he mopies and fhe sfars is good 80 ncas it's excellent, and % rates as colo
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What British actress playing English made picture re- f cenv received the unusual honor of being nominated With four Hollywood actresses for the Motion Picture Academy pest performance award2~eA@ s-e Unscrambe following ms-satements; ta) constance D. pne father was an Episcopal minister; (b) Cary Grant starred in foreign film which banned Tn ths country cl Jae Holt formerly was acrobat d) Hedy Lamars sister married to famous radio tenor.
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COLISEUM COMEDY HAS FINAL SHOWING
 HERE THIS EVENING

Deborah William Powell lovely Annahellal
 Hes the perfect butler and shes a perfect lady.
 They're perfectly sensational, CO., starred together in The Baroness and the Butler" Daryl F. zanuck's newest goth Century-Fox hit pro- ducticn which ends tonight at the Coliseum Theatre.
 It's Bill Powell at his best, and lovely Annabella in her first American made picture the most glamorously exciting person. ality ever to grace the screen.
 "The Baroness and the Butler provides a gay situation within a few seconds of the opening of the picture and carries the light tempo through the entire story.
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 SEEKING MORE DEFENSE FUNDS

LONDON, Feb. 21. F Premier Chamberlain today asked Parlia- ment to double the nations two billion dollar limit borrowing and incidentally gave a warning that even further funds might be neces- sary to meet rearmament costs.
 In 1930. textile mills with 452,- 0O7 women employed as operatives and laborers, ranked first among the women employing industries in this country.
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Today's News Ioday.-EmpIre.
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him. but before the decree became absolute, in
 December 1887, he bigamously married Gladys Thompson.
 Outlining C'2r:ens romance" re- cord, prosecuting counsel Laurance Vine, described him as a "profes- sional polygamist.'
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ABOLITION OF TRAPS
 WINS 9-7
House Fights Over Meas ure for Five Hours Yes
 terdaY Before Voting

tContlnued rom Page one)
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ALASKANA. By Marie brake, soc
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Try an Empire au-
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Coffey's Argument

and would Hose half million dol lars in revenue"