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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-03-25
Diseoyerer Of Wireless,
Preceding Martoni, Dies
In Paris Home, Age Of IS

PARIS, March Is. - Edouard
Brandy IS, French physicist who
preceded Marconi in experiments
resulting in the invention of wire
less telegraph radio, died yester-
day at his home here. In latter
years, when radio became propa-
gandized in Europe, Brandy re-
fused to have set in his home,
saying: ITO think had something
to do with its invention"
Branly was acknowledged in SCI
entific circles as discoverer OF how
to detect and receive wireless i'm
pulses, although credit for har-
Messing them goes to Guglielmo
Marconi.
When the Italian inventor in
1899 sent his first wireless telegram
from England to France he trans
mitted this:
IN. Marconi sends NJ Brandy his
respectful compliments by wireless
biography across the English
Channel, this splendid achievement
being due in part to the remark
able work of NJ Brandy"
Detected Principle
Branly's discovery was that Of
the principle of the coherer, one of
the first successful devices used
as detector of wireless signals. He
got his first inkling of it in 1885
rather accidentally but it was six
years later before he demonstrated
it before the French Academy OF
Science and thereby won member
ship in that body.
His demonstrating apparatus con-
sisted of glass tube filled with
loose iron filings, galvanometer
and an electric battery in a closed
circuit. Electric sparks were pro-
duced Is yards away and the cur
rent, causing the filings to adhere
together, brought a deviation in
the galyanometer. BY tapping the
tube, he knocked the filings apart
and cut the current, making the
tube ready for the next spark.
He was studying medicine when
he stumbled upon this principle.
Finding that his salary as a re-
search physicist at the Institut
Catholique in Paris was insuffici-
ent for his needs, he decided to
become a practicing physician. This
was in the early 80's when M.
Brandy was already of middle age.
Tested Theories
Testing different theories as to
how nerves carry messages from
the skin to the brain and back
again, he learned that nerves are
not continuous fibres, but formed
of neurons, massed closely but not
necessarily touching. Application OF
this fact to physics gave him ul-
timately the coherer.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-03-25
BY J. J. ECKLES
Secretary to Delegate DimOnd

Secretary to Delegate Dim0nd
WASHINGTON, March 16-(Spec-
ial correspondence The right oil
Alaska residents to employment in
the Territory's fishing industry pro-
vided the chief topic in the discus
sions at the hearings held before
the House Committee on Merchant
Marine and Fisheries on seven bills
which Delegate A. J. Din on d is
sponsoring which relate to the AL
aska fisheries. The hearings COM
menced on schedule the morning OF
March IL and were completed in the
afternoon of March ID
Bills taken up we're as follows:
HR. 5476-To establish an Alaska
Fishery Commission, composed of
eight citizens who are residents of
Alaska
H.R. 7542-To prohibit seizure of
boats and fishing gear for alleged
violations of fishing laws prior to
conviction.
H.R. 8172-To permit trolling for
salmon during weekly closed per-
iods when such fishing is otherwise
legal.
HR. 7987-Directing Secretary of
the Interior to provide priority of
employment for Alaska residents
when making annual regulations.
HR. 7988-To provide priority of
employment of Alaska residents in
fishery industry by law setting up
graduated scale of increasing resi-
dent employment under which by
1916 such employment would be linn
tied to residents.
H.R. 8115-To provide that all
fishermen operating in Bristol Bay
region in 1910 shall be residents of
Alaska.
Unique But Justified
Admitting that national legisla-
ton to provide priority of employ
ment to residents of a region is
unique, Delegate Dimond told the
Committee that Congress could be
justified in providing such legisla-
ton in the case of the Territory
because conditions in Alaska are
unique, and that ''it is obviously in
the public interest, in the interest of
the nation as a whole, that Alaska
should have much larger resident
population" To accomplish this it
is necessary to do whatever is prop
erly possible to provide adequate
incomes for the residents the Ter
ritory now has and to encourage
others to live there THE opposite
policy" Mr.. Dimond stressed. which
contemplates the moving of thou
sands of workmen from California,
or Washington, or Oregon, or some
other place in the several States,
to Alaska each summer and remoy-
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-03-25

Is Rumored
For British
May Be Composed Of Five
Members Chamber
lain Keeps Mum

LONDON, March 25--Prime Min
lister Neville Chamberlain kept his
own counsel over the weekend con-
corning the expected changes in his
Cabinet
There are predictions that a War
Cabinet" of five members will be
named
The London Star today declares
that well informed political circles
assert the proposed War Cabinet
will be composed of Foreign Sec
rotary Lord Halifax, Chancellor OF
the Exchequer Sir John Simon, Lord
of the Privy Seal Sir Samuel Hoare
First Lord of the Admiralty Wins
ton Churchill and Chamberlain.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-03-25
MAYOR LUCAS
FILES; THREE
(0UN(|LMEN
Peoples Ticket Includes
Ralph BeistIine, Harry
Lea, Emil Krduse

A Peoples Ticket, headed by
Mayor Harry 1. Lucas, today filed
for election at the municipal bal
loting of April 2.
Besides the Mayor, other filters
on the ticket are Ralph H. BEST
line. Harry Lea and G.. Emil
Krause, all for the Council. Beist-
line and Lea are incumbents
Krause was Councilman from
1929 until year ago.
Filing closes Wednesday at 4:3C
o'clock. To date the only other filler
is r. r. Hermann for the School
Board.
Five Offices
Offices subject to the election
are: Mayor, three Councilmanic
seats, and School Board Director.
The incumbent Councilman who
has not filed is Sam Feldon. Gro
yer C. VIM is the incumbent
School Director.
Lucas was appointed City Clerk
by the Judson Council in 1887. He
was elected Mayor in 1888 and re-
elected in 1899.
During the past year, Mayor Lu-
cas- has not been absent from a
single one of the 48 Council meet
ings. Twenty-one of these were
regular meetings, % special and five
Board.
In all these meetings, the only
Councilmanic absences we're: E. j.
kelly Blake. one; Oscar Harri,
three; John Mccormick, two; Harry
Lea, none; Ralph Beistline, two;
Elroy MINIS, two; Henry Messer-
schmidt, five, and Feldon, none
In nearly every case of absence the
Councilman was out of the City.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-03-25
CHINESE
vICT0RS
7 FRONTS
japanese Advance Stop.
ped in Far North
Nippons Retreat

HONGKONG, March Is. The
Chinese report successes on war
fronts as far separated as South
China and Inner Mongolia.
In the far north, near Wuyuan,
the. Chinese troops have stopped
the japanese advance and seized
large quantities of war material
including several field pieces and
81 military trucks.
The retreat of the japanese is
reported impeded by destruction of
bridges.
In the far south, japanese rem
nants are surrounded
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-03-25

President Andrew Jackson was
the posthumous son of Andrew
Jackson, who came to America
from Northern Ireland.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-03-25
ALASKA FISHERY BILLS
THOROUGHLY DISCUSSED
AT COMMITTEE HEARING

! ing them from Alaska in the fall OF
each year leaving the Territory va
cant and leaving little in the way
of permanent structures and no con-
tinuous human life therein surely
cannot be In harmony with the aims
! and detectives of the national gov
eminent"
Referring to the historical back
ground supporting preferential en-
/ ployment of residents in the fisher
les of several nations. the Delegate
said, The principle, and / think
it can be justly be called a princi-
pie, is that those who reside on the
shores of any sea have the first call,
or the first claim, or prior right,
whatever it may be denominated, to
the fisheries of the adjoining sea
as against those who reside in the
more remote places"
Alaska Development
In developing the point that ma
tional policy requires the develop
ment of Alaska, Delegate Dimond
said, Without going into any de-
tailed study of foreign relations or
of military or naval strategy, it is
obvious that the fertilization of
Alaska is necessary for the national
defense. This has been recognized
by the military and naval branches
of our Government and SO at the
present time we have under con-
struction naval air bases at Sitka
and at Kodiak and an Army air
corps experimental station near
Fairbanks, Alaska and another one
is proposed to be located near An
chorage, Alaska. Surely, national
defense will be promoted by having
Alaska populated, by having ma
tive people in Alaska who can par
ticipate in that defense. 1t is scarce
ly necessary to argue that point. A
million people in Alaska, or even
a few hundred thousand would I'M
mensely promote the safety of the
people of the Unied States States.
Therefore it is all the more vital
that every reasonable effort should
be made to increase the popula-
ton of Alaska and in any event to
see that it is not depopulated by
the enforcement of the mandates
of nonresidents of the Territory,
who insist that they shall have all
of the best jobs in Alaska connect
ed with its most important indus
try, the fisheries, and that none, or
at the most few, of these jobs, can
be enjoyed by residents of the Ter
ritory, In advocating what I am
urging upon the Committee here. /
am not only endeavoring to pro-
mote the welfare of all of the peo-
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-03-25
anti -lYNCHING
BILL APPROVED
BY COMMITTEE
Senate Judiciary Group
Gives 0kay-Filibusfer
Is Threatened

WASHINGTON, March 25.-The
Senate Judiciary Committee has APP
proved of the controversial anti
lynching bill by a vote of 10 to 8
The bill has been passed by the
House.
Senator Tom Connally, of Texas
leading the Southerners opposed to
the bill, again threatened a fill
buster similar to the one which
killed the bill at previous ses-
sion.
1--WE are going to resist it and
the Mannerheim Line will not even
be a starter said Connally.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-03-25
RUMANIA
NOW GOAL
OF NAILS
Charges Made Germany
Stheming 10 Get Lii
lie Nations Oil

LONDON, March 25.-Newspaper
dispatches received here charge
Germany with scheming to get Ru-
mania's oil by absolute underhand
methods of throttling.
One correspondent, the Daily Mails
representative, declares that ten
thousand German agents have be-
gun a vast campaign to undermine
and disintegrate the Rumanian ma
ton"
The diplomatic tug of war over
the ecoomic wealth of the Balkans
is reflected also in some quarters
as Hungarian Foreign Minister Pal
Teleky and Italian Foreign Min
lister Count Ciano conferred in Rome.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-03-25
Swank Club
IsRaidedAf
Hollywood
Officers Swoop Down on
PIace-Smash Doors,
Secret Panels

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, March 25.-
Deputies of the Sheriff's office are
trying to identify the owners Of
swank club near here which was
raided Easter morning by smash
ing in doors and secret panels with
battering rams
A card index, containing thou
sands of names OF film stars and
other notables was found, Police
Capt. George said.
No arrests were made as partici-
pants, attired in evening clothes,
fled.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-03-25
SLAYER OF
MOTHER IS
RUN DOWN
DenzeI Davis Is Captured
by Seattle Author
ities-Confesses

SEATTLE, March 25.-Repudiat-
ing all gifts of food to supplement
the Jail fare because everything
I eat tastes like powder anyway"
Denzel Davis has rejected his wife's
suggestion that he plead insanitay
as his defense in Staying his moth
err, Mrs. Harriet Arnold, As.
Davis was captured last Saturday
afternoon in a closet in friends
apartment near the downtown dis
trict, haggard, hungry and un-
shaved for five days.
After the Staying, ne hid in
basement for two days before seek
ing out friends apartment for
hiding place.
COnfesses
Deputy Sheriff Bodia said Davis
confessed Staying his mother. CIV
ing as the motive that "she had been
calling my wife names and / could
not stand it any longer"
Davis told the newsmen II would
rather they give me capltal pun
ishment and get 1t over with"
Davis pretty 21-year-old wife said
Davis was injured in an automo-
bile accident when he was IA years
old and wore silver plate in his
skull. Davis denied telling her that.
Beaten, Stabbed
Mrs. Redding, who is reported to
have a fifth husband living in Nc
Grath, Alaska. was found beaten.
stabbed and trussed last Tuesday
in cupbroad under her sink drain
board in her suburban bungalow.
The woman had been garroted
and trussed with two electric cords
and a dog chain In the cupboard
which had been nailed shut. Au-
thorities Immediately began a search
for her son. Davis and his wife had
been estranged for several months.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-03-25
FOLTA LEAVES

George w. Folta, for many years
Assistant U. S. Attorney here, left
on the steamer Yukon this morn
ing enroute to Washington in con-
nection with his new duties as
Counsel at Large in the Solicitors
office of the Department of In
terror.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-03-25

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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-11-01
Ask Me 4nother
. A General Quiz
The Questions

I. What does Old Bailey mean
to a Londoner? 49, BIZ
2. What is the island where Co
lumbus first landed now called7
8. What is a petard?
4. Does any law prohibit the to-
tai destruction of u. S. coins?
5. In ancient times what people
worshiped Apis, the sacred bull?
6. How many different peoples
claimed the discovery of America
prior to the voyage of Columbus?
7. What insect is sometimes
called the mud dauber?
8. What bird has been chosen as
the "official bird'' of seven states?
9. A person in his homage is
go or more years old, feeble or
imbecilic, or not of legal age?
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-11-01

PlayfOOt-SO you are the kind Of
girl who brings out the beast when
. young man calls?
Enthusiastically; l always
make my boy friends take little
Fiji for a walk.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-11-01
The Answers

I. The chief criminal court Of
England. ID
2. Waiting island.
8. A firecracker.
4. No. There is a federal statute
against cleaning and polishing
coins because of the resultant
abrasion.
S. The Egyptians.
6. Ten-The Arabians, Basques,
Chinese, Danes, Dutch, Icelanders,
Irish, Portuguese, Venetians, and
the Welsh.
Z. Wasps.
3. The meadow lark.
8. One not of legal age.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-11-01
HERBERT r. OCONOR
By the Governor:
s~a..AnD/ FRANCIS PETROF1
0 Secretary Of SeoeA
Spotless Floors

The right finish will make your
kitchen floor easy to keep spotless.
A special varnish designed particu-
larry for linoleum will not only pro-
tect the inoleum by lessening wear
and sealing out dirt and stains, but
will reduce laborious scrubbing. Old
wooden floors can be refinished to
good advantage by painting with
floor and-deck enamel.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-11-01
Won't Be Caught Napping

Robert o. Wright, a baker of Shell
byville, Ind, won't be caught nap
ping, should he awake from the eter-
nal sleep. The mausoleum in which
he will be placed, after death, will
contain rug, bed, artificial flow
ers, cigarettes, matches and brandy
glasses, also a mirror. comb and
soap. @
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-11-01

gch0Oner-------------- u cargo Ok
oysters caught within the limits Of the
State of Maryland, sold o.,
and found the same to contain
bushels Of merchantable oysters ana
Sec. z. And be it further enacted, That
added S to ss. Article ~ Of the Annotated Code
of Maryland 1924 Edition., title "Oysters,S
subtitle General Measures and Inspee-
tors said new section t. Be known 9s.v 2.
ton IS and to read az follows:
quired BY Sections 81 and So hereof every
packer or commission merchant pnying
nish to the inspector assigned TO his 9is.
trict, weekly report under oath showing
the number Of bushels, bags or barrels
of oysters purchased by him during the
Sec. 8. And be It further enacted. That
Section 129 Of Article 72 Of the Annotated
"Oysters," subtitle "Oyster Culture" be
and the same is hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, to read a. fol-
100. It shall be lawful at any time after
the closed season for taking oysters, to
take oysters from such natural beds or
bars In Chesapeake Bay as the Commits
at such time as the Commission may desig-
nate, but not to exceed one month In any
one year and under such regulations al
said Commission may from time to time
prescribe; and, provided, however, that
said oysters may be sold only for the pur-
poses now permitted under the existing
laws of Maryland. during the season Of the
year above. mentioned; and in addition
thereto, to persons engaged In the indus
try OF planting and cultivating oysters
within the State of Maryland, the same TO
be delivered only upon land which may
have been leased under the provisions Of
this subtitle for said purposes Of plant
Sec. 0. And be It further enacted, That
II any provision Of this Act shall b de-
clared Unconstitutional or invalid By any
pair or invalidate the remaining provisions
thereof, but shall be confined in Its opera
tions to the specific provision 30 held un-
constitutional or invalid and the tnapphca-
bility or invalidity Of any section, clause or
provision of this Act In any one or more
instances shall not be taken to affeet or
prejudice in any way its applicability or
invalidity in any other instance.
Sec TO- And be 1t further enacted, That
this Act shall take effect on June !, 1859.
Approved: May 3, 1899.
CHAPTER 7s2
AN ACT to repeal and re-enaet, With
amendments, Sections /, 2, and Q Of
Article 101 of the Annotated Code Of
Maryland (1935 Supplement-, title work
mems Compensation" subtitle Estate
Industrial Accident Commission"
Section /. Be It enacted by the General
Assembly Of Maryland. That Sections !. 2,
5 and 9 Of Article I01 Of the Annotated
Code Of Maryland (1935 supplemantl, title
I"Workmen's Compensation" subtitle "Stats
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-11-01
Knew the Trick

The recruit tUas a simple-Looking lad
from the country, so the sergeant thought
he soould pull his leg.
"Here, my lad," he said, "Iet's see hosO
far you can climb up that searchight."
"Ah, you can't catch me-" said the
recruit. Il knoU that trick. As soon as
l get half-Vay up you'll turn out the
light"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-11-01

hereby certify that I have this date
inspected for Captain-- :.
oysters caught within the limits Of the
State Of Maryland, sold 90,
and found the same to contain
bushels Of merchantable oysters and
---bushels Of understandable
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-11-01
FOre!

''We were surrounded by ma
tives," related the explorer. "They
uttered savage cries, danced mad
ly, and beat the earth with their
clubs :"
Sounds like golf," said the
bored listener.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-11-01

Marriage is the only lottery
where you go on paying for the
ticket after you know you haven't
got the prize.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-16
Our &,oOO,OOO,OD Itch

The itchy foot Of thu most pronounced Of American
eharacteristcs 10 going to hand business e6O0O0O0OO0
boost this summer
That's an estimate Of what the people Of the United
Stats VIII spsnd on travel and things connected with
n fact in the country.
This year. for the first time in many years. practically
a Of it viii be spent in the western hemisphere and most
o. it in the United States and Its possessons Europe
largely closed this year to the traveller and the quarter Of
billion dollars which used to be spent there single
summers travel win tnke In western cash registers this
season.
The New York and San Francisco fairs will continue to
draw their millions The national parks and favorite
domestic summer resorts will again be strong masnsts
But than before this year will be Pan Amer
lean year for the wayarer Cruises through South Amer
lean waters and by the southands already being
booked full.
Many thousands will become acquainted with American
territories and possessions for the first time Alaska
Hawaii, Puerto kleo the Virgin sands. Thousands will
peze the opportunity to drive the borders TO call
on next-door neighbors Canada and Mexico. The
Of huge tourist invasion Of Cuba and Central and South
America certain to streams Of tourists such as
have flowed southwark before,
1t is unparaed opportunity with Europe closed for
the Americas to get acquainted with each other And 1t
n also fine chance TO solve in little measure the
problems of inter-Amcrican trade
The southern countries, and Canada, all want to buy
more American goods. They handicapped because we
buy little of theirs and hence send them few Amer
lean dollars with which they buy our exports But
travel is thing which the other American countries
This year it certain we're going to do IT, with the
result that the western hemisphere will have million
cords Of friendship association and memory binding 1t
together into unit hsfore 1910 ends.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-16
QUESTIONS TO TEST
YOUR KNOWLEDGE

Can you answer seven of these
test questions Turn to woman's
page for the answers,
!. Who played the title role
in the photoplay, The Invisible
Man ?"
2. Male deer are called boars,
bucks or rsms7
8. Was New Mexico, Arizona
or Oklahoma the last state sd-
mitted to the union
4. In which direction do most
of the rivers of North America
flew7
5. Name the capital of HATH
6. A lunar eclipse can enl.
occur at which phase of the
moon?
7. On what syllable does the
accent fall in the noun eon-
centrate
s. What position does Henry
A. Wallace hold in President
Roosevelts cabinet?
9. II an American born per-
son loses the right to vote by
serving more than a year in
prison does he lose his Ameri-
can citizenship?
10. Where is Buffalo Bill"
buried?