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OPEN SHOP
CHARGE IS
NOW pR0BED
LaFoIIette Civil Liberties
Committee al Work
in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jan. IL
The La Toilette Civil Liberties Com
mittae have turned attention to the
open shop labor policy that for years
has been the traditional policy III
Los Angeles.
Labor leaders have charged re-
peatedly that Los Angeles employ
ers have attempted to lock out I'M
ion men, and to stop all organiza-
ton.
The general manager of the Los
Angeles Merchants and Manufac-
turers Association, Fred Fysch, ad-
mitted before the committee that
organization has been maintaining
an open shop as its principal pur-
pose.
Fysch denied that the 1900 firms
represented in the Merchants and
Manufacturers Association attempt
to prevent their employees from
joining unions. He insisted the only
purpose was to see that the joining
was matter of choice, and that
no closed shop contracts were forced
on employees.
The business service manager of
the Los Angeles Chamber of Com
merce, FRANKLIN Cole, told the COM
mittee that the Chamber approves
the open shop. He said that the
Chamber has nothing directly to do
with the operation of the Merchants
and Manufacturers Association.
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THRILLER AT
CAPITOL ENDS
this EVENING
Fast and Loose" Is Com
edy Mystery Hit
Showing Here

Something new under the sun is
revealed at the Capitol Theatre
where Robert Montgomery and Ros-
alind Russell race across the screen
in Fast and Loose" rip-roaring
sequel to last years comedy hit,
Fast Company"
Montgomery is seen in the role
of Joel Sloane, a young devil-may-
care dealer in rare books who in
evitably finds himself in the role
Of amateur detective surrounded by
mystery which he eventually solves
Miss Russell plays his charming,
fun-loving wife, Garda, in Thin
Mannish" fashion and shares all his
adventures and few of her own.
Montgomery has been assigned
by an absent-minded client, played
by Etienne Girardot, to purchase
a certain rare and precious book.
His search leads him and his wife,
as week lend guests, to the Torrent
estate While there. Reginald Ow-
en-, another guest, is mysteriously
slugged and Montgomery proves
that the rare book, still n the crack
ed safe. is forgery.
Before Montgomery solves the
multi-mysteries that revolve around
the disappearance of the rare book
and the substitution of a faxed copy,
Miss Russell is held captive by gang
sters and rescued by her husband.
Together they face death in faxed
auto collision and three mysterious
murders are committed.
This feature is showing for the
last times tonight.
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railroads.
SET RECORD
LAST YEAR
New National Policy How
ever Needed TO AeCel-
crate New Era

IN FRANCISCO. Cal, Jan. IL.
-"RaI-oad enterprise and ingen-
u I 'oduce1 for the American
r. &c in 1853 the best rail service
j. hist 1ry at the lowest rates any,
whare. except in Japan, where costs
ere no5 comparable to ours" A. D..
IcD9nali, president of the South
n Paei ic Company, said in re-
ew O. 1929 railroading.
"D9" -aad employees received
wages at an 'all-time high level.
National and local government re-
ceived in taxes an all-time high
proportion Of railroad revenues.
Heads Above Water
But the railroads failed to
achieve hardly more for themselves
as business enterprises than just
t. keep their heads above water.
The increase in general bust
ness and in volume of railroad
traffic during recent months has
teen most helpful AS a result Of
better operating methods and equip
ment and of shippers cooperation,
a greatee percentage of the in
crease went into net than in for
mer years. But in spite of this it
seems unlikely that either increase
in volume Of traffic or increased
efficiency achieved within the rail-
read industry will serve basically to
solve the problem.
Nc Special FavOrs
THE railroads do not need and
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do not ask any special favors; but
they are entitled to public recog-
milton of the fact that they now
ton in nearly every phase of their
ton in nearly every phose of their
business. Basic need is for a ma
tional policy under which regula-
ton will be evenly applied to all
forms of transport, SO that each
will be able to serve where it can
provide the best and cheapest
transportation, considering all true
casts"
Referring to important steps
taken by the Southern Pacific in
1889 to abandon, curtail or readjust
improbable phases of service, Mr..
Mcdonald said further moves in
that direction seem inevitable I'M
der present conditions
Service Explained
Average speed of freight and
passenger trains continued to in
crease in 1889" said Mr.. McDon-
aid. THE fast merchandise train
truck coordinated service, pioneered
by this company, was further ex-
tended, SO that such service is now
maintained from nearly every prin-
cipal center to its jobbing or
wholesaling territory over the en-
tire Southern Pacific System. Pop
ular low cost passenger train serv-
ice was extended and 100000
worth of new lightweight modern
passenger cars were purchased.
Fifty new locomotives, costing more
than $3,000,0o0 were bought also,
these including forty heavy duty
road engines and ten modern Diesel
electric switchers. New heavy steel
rail was laid on more than 200
miles of track, at a cost of over
$4000,000, in line with the gen.
eral trend for faster, heavier trains
with consequent greater efficiency
and economy. These are typical
features Of the new era in rail-
reading that has developed strik-
ingly during the last ten years"
NOTICE
To Scottish Rite MasonS: Regular
meeting Friday, Jan. IL. Degree
work, election of officers, etc. adv.
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Sued for divorce recently i'm
Bridgeport. Conn. was Daniel
Topping, Jr, millionaire sports
man, by his petite wife, Film Ac-
tress A ri en- Ju dge Topping
(abOve), whom he married in Vir-
ginia City, New, in April, 1887.
The California starlet, once wed
to Film Director Wesley Ruggles,
charged extreme cruelty" in the
action. Topping, heir to the Reid
tinplate millions, will not contest
the suit, mutual friends reported.
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STOMACH RELIEF
OR MONEY BACK

Ada Tablets help bring quick re-
lief from an acid stomach, pains be-
tween meals, indigestion and heart
burn due to excess acidity. If not,
your money is refunded. At all lead
ing druggists,-in Douglas by Guys
Drug Store. adv.
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NEW MEMBER

Archie Belts, public accountant,
was introduced at today's luncheon
meeting of the Juneau Chamber of
Commerce as new member of
that body.
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News ITEMS
FROM SITKA

SITKA, Alaska, Jan 10.-(Special
Correspondence)-At a special City
Council meeting last Tuesday night
at the Sitka Territorial School mem
bers of the Council decided to order
La France fire truck, which will
cost $6,110. All fire fighting equip
ment is included with the truck ex-
cept two and half inch hose which
must be ordered separately.
The special meeting was called
after members could not agree on
the make of truck to purchase for
the city at the regular Council meet
ing Friday night.
j. E. Johnson of Ketchikan was
appointed to appraise all real and
personal property in Sitka.
A house on the Sawmill Creek
road belonging to Maud Anderson,
was looted of many personal belong
ings and furnishings between De-
cember IL and g. Deputy Marshal
Henry L. Bahrt is investigating the
burglary but as yet has no informa-
ton leading to the offenders.
Miss Laura D. LehtoSaari and
William r. Seymour, both of Jul
neau, were married January 3, by
the Rev. Ryan of the Church of the
Nativity, Juneau. Seymour is an
employee of the Seims Drake Puget
Sound Company.
The mean temperature for Sitka
during the month of December was
Al degrees. The highest temperature
recorded during the month was So
degrees on December Is, while the
lowest temperature was Al degrees
on December 80, according to Mrs.
T. w. Pelton, Always weather OBJ
server for Sitka.
Total precipitation for the month
was 1880 inches. There were no
clear days but three were just part
cloudy.
Prevailing winds in December were
southeast. On December 2 there
was a thunderstorm.
Seven Sitkans have been sum-
moned to appear before the grand
jury in Juneau January 80. Those
served by Deputy Marshal Henry
Bahrt are George Fenton, Dave Fen
ton, Dr. William c. Charters, Ed
Hansen, Thomas Wood, Ray Nc
Graw and Ole Larson.
Adjutant C. A. McKinnnell, for
merly of Wrangell, arrived last week
in Sitka to take charge of evangel-
istic and other activities of the Sal
walton Army. Adjutant McKinnell
plans to hold her first meeting
January IA.
Five local Presbyterian Church
people left January on a weeks
trip to Kake and Angoon to assist
churches in conducting services.
Those making the trip on the S. J.
S. were Rev. ]. L. Webster, Frank
Price, Dick Nelson, Mrs. Roland
Wurster, and Miss Gladys Whit
more.
Sunday services in the local church
were led by Leslie Law, Superin-
tendent of the Sheldon jackson
Mission, and Roland Wurster.
r. L. Dyer, Camp superintendent
and personnel officer for the tri-
company contractors on the Sitka
naval air station, opened an office
in the Federal Building last week.
All employment applications for
work on the station will be placed
through his office.
Filler Hansen, Superintendent of
the Pioneers Home, is offering a $40
prize to the resident of the Home
who writes the most interesting
story of his own experience or OBJ
seryation.
Under authority of the new char
ter of local 1929 of the Painters
Union, A. F. of L, affiliate, fourteen
members were initiated and became
charter members Of the group last
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Five Reasons Why Hollywood
Never Lacks Leg 10 Stand On

AP Feature Service
shall be
still
examples study these pictures show
ing that.
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ter season on Swan Lake, which
was covered with three inches of ice.
Wives of Navy men stationed at
the Sitka naval air station are plan
ming to meet this week to form a
Navy Wives Club. The local club
will be the first to be organized in
Alaska, although Navy Wives clubs
have been formed at all naval sta
tions in the States.
Jack Conway, owner and manager
of the Conway Dock Company, left
last week to attend a meeting of
Alaskan agents of the Alaska Steam
ship Company in Seattle.
Mrs. Teresa Grossman, proprietor
of the Teresa Hotel, her daughter
in-law, Mrs. Dermot O'Toole, and
three weeks old Sharon Maureen
O'Toole, left Sitka Saturday for
Tenakee on a Marine Always plane.
Twenty-four hour service was in
augurated January by the Sitka
Telephone Company.
Per capita fire loss in Sitka for
1889 was $0.847, according to a re-
port issued this week by Art Frank
lin, Fire Chief. A total of so alarms.
involving $1,684.50 damage, was an
swered by the fire department dur
ing the year. Total value of property
protected was $229,705 Defective
flues were responsible for 10 of the
fires.
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NOTICE TO AUTOMOBILE
OWNERS

All night parking on the streets
absolutely prohibited as it inter-
fereS with snow pillow and other
night operations.
DAN RALSTON,
adv. Chief of Police.
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week. Harry Lockridge was named
President and Chairman of the new
local, Walt Smith, Secretary, and
H. Wagner, Treasurer.
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Students of the Sitka Territorial
School were dismissed from classes
at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon to
take in the first skating of the WIN
ter season on Swan Lake, which
was covered with three inches of ice.
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Try The E..-plre Ciassifieds for
results.
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Try an Empire ad.
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Under authority of the new char
ter of local 1929 of the Painters
Union, A. F. of L. affiliate, fourteen
members were initiated and became
charter members Of the group last
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NOTICE

NOTICE
To Scottish Rite Masons: Regular
meeting Friday, Jan. IL. Degree
work, election of officers, etc. adv.
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Eiler Hansen, superintendent of
the Pioneers Home, is offering $40
prize to the resident of the Home
who writes the most interesting
story of his own experience or OBJ
servation.
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they call this year. Well if you get
the lineup" give us the dope in your
column.
l note that you suggest increasing
the membership in the ancient order
of AABF. Better be careful Jake,
you might contaminate the organiza-
ton. Most of the "boys" are taking
in, not giving out anything; perhaps
storing for rainy day, and if so that
type added to the organization would
be hard on the supply of spirits of
frumenti If possible try and get a
few extra bottles of "tonsil varnish,'
the "freekind," and should l be in
Helena in the near future l will meet
you in the corridor; or perhaps in
would be better to arrange a meeting
in the reception room" in the "big
building"
Yours for better and larger or
ganization of the AABF,
T. 0. p, Roman, Mont.
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not be carefully guarded (the govern
ment is not the best place in the
world for keeping secrets), and Ger
man scientists are known to be work
ing on the very same thing. 1t has
some people plainly worried.
Uranium is to be found in great
quantities in the state of Colorado in
this country, in Germany, the Belgium
Congo, and many other places.
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DEFENDS PITKIN
May suggest that Kay Files study
very thoroughly those Liberty maya
zine articles that he SO bitterly de-
nounces, rather than just CHANGING
hurriedly and disdainfully through
them. If he does I'll wager he will
find a ray of sunshine filtering
through to the pessimistic heart of
him.
He will also find that Professor Pit
kin paints a very frank and realistic
picture of our depression ridden coun-
try; that he offers youth no false
hopes and Illusions; that he gives
them enough hard, cold, unpleasant
facts and statistics to satisfy even Mr.
Files, and that he does not try to en-
tice all farm boys and girls to leave
their nests. He merely suggests that
the youth who feels that he has some
definite skill or talent to offer the
world to go out and try to find place
where he can use it. He tells them to
travel and see the country, but he
S1i Cluiiy oICClo tuCul away lIOu tuO
blighted regions with heavy relief
rolls.
The confidence that Professor Pit
kin attempts to build up in our young
fry is merely self-confidence and
nothing more. Most of them could
certainly use a little self-confidence
at the present time It's been a long
while since have read anything so
chock-full of inspiring horse-sense as
these articles
Such desperate determination as Mr..
Files shows to keep our youth under
a somber cloud of hopelessness and
despair seems just little mite" red
he may not have meant it
that way.
GRACE PASMA,
Box 381, Havre, Montana
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KEEP OUT OF WAR;" SAY
COMMUNISTS!
Box 381, Havre, Montana

In transparent attempt to provoke
a situation" the Montana Standard
added to its series of hysteria-creating
front-page editorials in it's May 18th
issue. Hidden behind it's wordy name
calling, slanderous filth is The real in
tent of that agency of Wall Street
propaganda the source and inspiration
for which comes from London.
The aims and purposes of the pres
ent trend of controlled propaganda in
our country is to involve us more and
more into the European war on the
side of the Allies. Nobody, not even
the monopolistic friends of Hitler,
would dare try to involve us into the
war on the side of German Imperial
ism; but, they still seem to think that
they can trick us into fighting for the
British Empire as in 1917.
Anyone who opposes that is mem
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Dies Nazi-Communist "PIot" in
Mexico Has Odor of American Oil

Martin Dies promised expose of al
alleged nazi-communist "plot" to over
throw the Mexican government, from
United States is then presumably tt
be undertaken, is being awaited here
with keen interest.
There is going to be an election in
Mexico this fall and from all indica-
lions, President Cardenas' man will be
elected president. This is something
that the American oil interests, whose
vast holdings in Mexico have been ex-
propriated by the Cardenas govern
ment, do not like very well.
Some rather disturbing reports have
been reaching Washington dealing
with plans to foment a revolution to
overthrow the Mexican government.
But these stories dealt not with a
nazi-communist plot, but rather with
one allegedly financed by powerful
American oil companies whose prop
critics have been taken away from
them There's no denying the fact
that in the past revolutions have been
financed by American gold not only
in Mexico but in other Latin Ameri-
can countries as well.
Mr. Dies has been talking about
arms being struggled into Mexico
This strangely comedies with reports
of arms smuggling activities below the
Clio Grande by members of the So
called Golden Shirts, fascistic or
ganization which emanates a rather
strange, oily odor An armed upris-
ing by this army of hired thugs (paid
off in American, not Mexican, dollars),
the instigators of the revolution"
hope, will bring about intervention by
the United States.
Naturally, a revolution which can
be made to resemble nazi-commun-
list uprising, threatening the United
States, would make American inter-
vention easier. 1t is entirely possible
in reality the fifth column" in Mex
leo that they are talking so much
about.
The Mexican government announced
last week that it is going to pay the
American oil companies for their ex-
holdings. knowledge of
the alleged plot to foment a revolu-
ton may account for the changed at
Litude of the Cardenas government.
Many on Capitol Hill are asking |
Mr.. Dies has been taken in |
by those alleged to be plotting the |
evolution in Mexico, or is knowingly |
playing their game.
Meantime the United States senate
las come to the rescue of the Ameri
IAN oil companies by voting repeal
# the silver purchase act of 1884.
That the main purpose of those spon-
oring repeal was to teach Mexico
lesson" was quite obvious from the
ebate, although many senators voted
or its repeal for altogether differ
mt reasons.
iousing- Forces Unite
In an effort to secure passage of !
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SKETCHES
FROM LIFE
By JIM STRONG

He was old,
So were his clothes
And patched
He walked
With a limp
And a cane
Pulling a child's wagon
With chirrupy step
To the commodity warehouse
To get relief rations.
And I wondered
What his frail form
Had looked like
In youth,
And what hopes
He had seen
Wither
Into destitute
Old age,
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subsidy checks from the failed divide
tenants especially provided by law that
negroes, fearing ynching, afraid to protest
All this submit is un-American, and wish that Mr. Dies
would suspend his investigation of bunds and boshes
long enough make survey of his back yardKenosha
(Wis.) Labor
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and the $SOO,OOO,OOO housing loan auth
orization measure in the present con-
gress, supporters of both bill have
decided to combine their forces.
Housing opponents, now certain that
the bill will pass once it gets on the
floor, are endeavoring to cut it down
to $400,000,000. In as much as it is a
loan authorization measure rather
than an appropriation bill, economy
argument advanced are specious, and
merely intended to cripple the slum
clearance program as far as possible
The combination of forces, while
virtually assuring passage of the hous-
ing loan bill, has also greatly en-
HANGED the chances of the farm bill
Opponents of the farm bill, however,
are conducting one of the most vicious
fights against the measure ever seen
on Capitol Hill.
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Current Capital Chatter

The annual year book being pre-
pared by the department of agricul-
ture this year will deal with problems
of the farmer in a changing economic
world, as a consumer as we'll as
producer. the hottest day of the
spring, 81 degrees, came to the Cap
ital last week, stimulating talk of adj
journment. They are going to try to
adjourn sometime between June 10
and June 20 s. Tests of the new
Garand and Johnson rifles were held
at Fort Belvoir last week. A private
from the New York National Guard,
demonstrating the Johnson, outshot
captain of the regular army using the
Garand but a United States senator,
Lundeen of Minnesota, outshot both
by making perfect scores with each
rifle
In debate with Senator Pittman, Ne
vada, Senator Vendenberg, Michigan,
COP presidential aspirant, virtually |
admitted that he does not believe in |
parity payments for agriculture
Johnny McDonough, st. Paups new
labor mayor elect, called on the Pres
ident last week to ascertain what |
federal aid can be obtained for his
city's unemployed -. Some of House
Minority Leader Martins friends say
hat since he's become possessed of
he presidential bee he is afraid of Of
ending labor. They don't like his
attitude A rather new
md novel argument being advanced
against high wages for workers is
hat high wages will stimulate home
'wning on the part of the workers,
nd that in turn will stimulate specu-
alton in real estate
1t is generally the case that a can
idate in a political convention who is
sed to kill off another candidate must
imself be sacrificed Anti-Dewey I
trategists at the coming COP ma {
ional convention are planning to use
enator Taft for the purpose of kill t
ng Dewey off. But Taft has no in c
ention of being eliminated Rep. y
.ankin, Mississippi, is trying to get t
he $40,000,000 budget estimate for il
ural electrification upped to 500, OOO,- s
90. :. Rep. Harrington, Iowa, tells t.
armers to beware of promises made b
them by eastern politicians f