The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 3, 1929, Page 5

| I I - THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” © 4 T 7ty B STSE k VOL. XXXV., NO. 5270. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1929. NEWS NERVE OF LoTT NATION GENTERS IN WASHINGTON Capital of Eited States Important in Affairs | Even of World By HERBERT PLUMMER WASHINGTON, Dec. 3—In noj other city of the United States does the business of writing for news- papers take on the importance that it does in Washington. The news nerve of the nation and to a large extent of the entire world, the capital attracts reporters from everywhere. There are more than 340 accredited to the press galleries of Congress alone. More than seven pages of the Congres- sional Directory are required to list them and the newspapers and press organizations they represent. Hallam, in his “Constitutional History,” says: . the gallery in which the reporters sit has become the fourth estate of the realm.” And Oscar Wilde observed that “In America the President reigns four years, and journalism governs forever and ever.” Washington newspapermen are of all types. There are those who wear spats and carry canes. And there are those who possess only one suit. ‘There are those whose hair has grayed in the profession and there are those only a few months out of the schools of jour-| nalism. But almost without exception each enjoys not only the respect and good will of those high in the affairs of the nation, but their con- fidence as well. A 13-Story Club The headquarters for most of them, the Natjonal Press club, is in the heart of the capital. It is the site of the historic Ebbitt house, famed in national history. Recently erected, the club building towers 13 stories at the corner of Fourteenth and F streets. All of the common stock of the building corporation is owned by .the club itself. Even- tually the club will acquire complete control of the building. For a number of years the press club has looked forward to the time when it could offer an award for the most meritorious work done by a Washington correspondent over a period of a year. But it was not until this year that it was possible. A New York lawyer, Chester De- | Witt Pugsley, has placed at the dis- posal of the club $1,000 to be given to the Washington newspaperman who, in the opinion of a jury of| five, has done the best work on the | subject of national interest during: 1929. 1 The club merely administers the | award. nalistic Award.” Dr. James Melvin Lee, director of the department of journalism of New York university; Theodore P. It is to be known formal- | ly as “The Chester D. Pugsley Jour-| Lottle Pickford, sister of Mary Pickford, and her husband, R. O.— IE PICKFORD ON HONEYMOON | Associated Press Photo @Glllard, leaving Los Angeles for the Orient, where they will spend a part of thelr honeymoon. HONOR PRIEST WHO INVENTED CARTRIDGE T R e SR R R ‘ LONDON Plans Flight from Berlin to New York | !parish priest of Belhelvit, in Aber- Scotland, who in 1800 invented a detonating powder and % the first percussion lock for small Dec. 3. — Coincident with the world trend toward dis-| MAKES HERO OF “BUFFALO BILL" CODY, Dec. 3.—Buffalo Bill and | characters of the early west, are brought to life in an all-Wyoming light opera written and directed by | Corrine Barrow Williams, of Cody Tribal melodies of the Shoshone | Indians, and tunes of oid time fid- | dlers provide motifs of the musi- cal score. | “Cody Big Chief"—the name the | Indians gave the famous scout—is Ithe title of the opera which has been presented in this city for the first time under the auspices of the Buffalo Bill Museum association in Cody - Through the composer’s close a~ sociation with the members of the family and old friends of the scout, he was able to weave into her music story much of Colonel Cody's personality and character. Claire Montgomery of Boston, ward of Colonel Cody, Wahtahsah, ‘aughter of Chief Washakie, and Broncho Nell, a frontier character, vrovide the feminine interest in the ctory which revolves about a stir- i incident of the history of Fort Washakie. The colonel's ward was seized (by Indians, incited by an insane | medicine man, to be a human sac- rifice to the hunger god. This | leads to an interesting denouement. i - - Soviet Government Plans $300,000,000 Industrial Center armament, a tablet has been un-| veiled in the Tower Rev. Alexander John Forsyth, deenshire, arms. His finding laid the foun- dation for the modern rifle cart- ridge. Before this invention the powder of London to ” a |published of plans for a huge MOSCOW, Dec. 3.—Details are |$300,000,000 industrial center to be Ibuilt by the Soviet Government the banks of the Dneiper River adjoining the $110,000,000 hydro- electric plant now being supervised by Col. Cooper, American water- | power engineer. | Equipment for the factories, mills, warehouses and railroads for the .m thg ?](1 n.\uzzlo loading: mu.sfl:e!s new city, will be ordered largely was fired by match locks or flint o the United Stites at a cost locks. Besides be_mg slow, this | ¢ $100,000,000. tmethod ‘was uncertain as the pow- E RN jder would not ignite if it became ,damp. “Keep your powder dry” had' e ® @ ¢ e ¢ @ ¢ 0 0 6 v & o {more than a figurative meaning in | e those days. Forsyth’s invention revolutionary military in 1841, - FRENCH CASINOS TAKE HUGE SUMS FROM BRITISHERS ¢ | PARIS, Dec. 3.—Gambling fev- er has British holiday makers in and the gamblers are its grip, encountered |the usual opposition accorded to e | innovations, | ® but it was finally adopted by the|® | British army and was first used in ® ’action by British troops at Amoy . ® pouring their shillings and pounds into France in almost enough vol- ume to pay the French war debt Noyes, associate editor of the Eve- ning Star, Washington, D. C.; Roy | A. Roberts, managing editor of the| Kansas City Star; Grafton S. Wil-| cox, assistant managing editor of | the New York Herald-Tribune, and to Britain. Within a few hours travel of Southern England, including Lon- don, there are dozens of French seaside resorts, and all these re- sorts have .casinos. Le Touquet, Dr. Henry Grattan Doyle, associate editor of Hispania, will select the| winner. A Hobby Pugsley is an attorney and bank- er of upstate New York who has long been interested in national affairs. At one time he was men- tioned for the United States Sena- torship from New York. One of his hobbies is a thing like this. He has given liberally of his wealth to various enterprises in the past, mostly in the field of educa- tion. There are 60 scholarships at Har- vard, involving a principal of $500,~ 000, & $10,000 scholarship at Vassar and a number of scholarships at various universities for sons of United States consuls that were es- tablished by him. B — COW’S MILK SERUM HAILED AS MEDICINE eecee PARIS, Dec. 3. — Healing powers for wounds are claim- ed for serum obtained from cow's milk by Baron Henri de Rothchild and Dr. Pierre Maze. . The serum is said to cause slow healing injuries to mend rapidly. Dr. Maurice Heitz-Boyer, who attended Marshal Foch for many years, reported to the French Academy of Medicine that the serum is specially valu- able in surgery. Prof. Pierre Delbet and other well known physicians have reported favorable re- sults. . . 3 @00 000000000 ® Karee Desert, South Africa; i 9 | George E. King, well-known Ameri- ean aviator, has left Berlin for Mos- cow to make final arrangements for o flight from Berlin to New York via Siberia. He expects to start his 'flight before Christmas and plans to leover the 11,000 miles in less than | |twenty-eight days. | International Newsreel i | Chicigo Scientists In All Hemispheres CHICAGO, Dec. 3. — The sun never sets on the University of Chicago’s efforts to find out more about man and his environments. In virtually every clime and in ‘every division of time there are }archeuloglst.s, palentologists, botan- | ists and zoologists representing the school. ! Individual expeditions are in the in Borneo, Palestine, Hawaii, the Sa- moan Islands, Australia, Sicily, Al- geria, China and Japan. GET PEEK AT MAJOR BALL LINCOLN, Neb., Dec. 3.—John Stoneham, leading state Yeague slugger, and Andy Bednar, pitcher, both of the McCook team, will get a peek at major league baseball next spring with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Stoneham has been hit- ting 444 and Bednar has won 16 and lost two games in his first sea- son. Deauville, Trouville and Dinard, are the chief ones, but there are scores of smaller ones studdying the | Emerald Coast. The La Touquet | casino alone made $2,000,000 last | year, and the French Government | collected more than that in taxes. | British consuls are kept busy| sending the losers back to England. | Belgium has now added to the| facilities for taking the British tripper's money by making roulene; legal in all Belgian casinos. Rou- lette has hitherto been more or ! less confined to Monte Carlo. | There seems to be not the slight- | est chance of a reform wave strik- | ing France and causing prohibi- | tion of gambling, which happened | periodically before the war. The reason is that the Government makes millions from gambling by | taxation, and the Government needs the money badly. Bt LS PG © 00000000000 . ® EX-CHAMP'S CULTURE IMPRESSES BRITISH LONDON, Dec. 3.—British sporting writers found Fidel LaBarba a “quiet, cultured young man who speaks Eng- Hsh with scarcely a trace of American accent,” when the former flyweight. champion visited London on his Euro- pean tour. LaBarba showed enthusi- asm for the monuments of English history and displayed particular interest in the Tower of London, where Henry VIII won his famous axe decislon over Anne Bol- eyn. T've just been reading a J book about Henry VIIL” he J R R R {e ST. LOUIS SOOTFALL 425 TONS PER MILE ST. LOUIS, Dec. 3. — St. Louis’ “sootfall” this year was 425 tons over a square mile, according to the Citi- e zens' Smoke Abatement League, which studies those things. Education in fuel and fir- ing will bring a still further decrease, the experts believe. . . . ° . . 3 . . . . . . . . . The Senatorial lobby activities in the United States, rised of Senator Borah, of Idaho, Republican (left) 3 itor Robinson, of Indiana, Republican (right)s meor Walsh, of Montana, Democrat (above), and itor Blaine, of Wisconsin, Republican (below). EWING QUITS AS DIRECTOR AVALON, watalna TIslaa, <alif.. | Dec. 3.—Col. Ewing, veteran head of the Oakland Coast League Club. | has resigned as a director of the | circuit and became the unofficial | choice of midwinter meeting dele-; gates for president. Ewing sold his Oakland team after long years of activity in the league. The league voted approval of the | bonus division plans submitted by | a committee. The division would be $10,000 to the teams in the play- off, to be divided 60-40 with $3,000 for third place and $2,000 for fourth place. o LODE MINING ZLAIM LOCA- | TION NOTICES AT THE EMPIRE | Prosperity indicased By Turquoise December's Gem By PAULINE “Decembder gives her fortune, love and fame To those who wgar & turquoise in hor name.” l,‘. like St. Nio- holas, you came into the world in the J month of Decem- ber, you have as your birthstone the turquoise, em- blem of prosper- ity. memento of love, and long re- puted charm against colds and throat complaints, 4 5 This gem the distinction of heing more wide- 1y used as an amulet in all periods of the world’s Bbistory than any other In the turquoise talismans on view in our museums may be| e, traced the religious bellefs and superstition of nearly every people from the first barbarians The. ylelded a particularly lovely deep|ly prized by horsemen, who, blue variety, wore turquoise bead it they did not necklaces to bring themselves pos- therr the favor of sess a flne tur- the gods. n quotse, woulal Persta, wherc the hire one as an stone has been amulet to wear in steadily mined for thousands of year, it is known as the Gem of ‘Wealth. The early Hebrews valu- ed it highly as & mascot in trade transactions, and the American Indians set turqu- olses In their ar to its wearer and protecting against the evil thoughts of others. A pop- ular charm among the Tibetans is a small gold or silver box, en- crusted with turquoise, and con- little scrolls marked with down. |guffered by its wearer. Egyptians, whose mines|of this useful trait it was high- |points produces enough ecld and | «CZ ARINA” OF MOVIES TO ACT thwart the malevolent schemes of evil spirits. They belleve, too, that the turquoise will turn pale with the il health or fortune of its wearer—a bellef appearing where- ever the stone has been worn a4 & charm, and finding expression 18 the lnes of the poet Doone— | “As a compassionate turquoise that doth tell By looking pale the wearer I8 not well.” | Concerning this acute sympathy | of the turquoise with its wearen| Boetius tells of a remarkable tur-| quoise belonging to a Spanish gentleman, which entirely lost ita color after his death. At the sale Of his effects it was bought for a| | mere trifie and given to Boetius,! who did not highly regard the gift. Great was his surprise, therefore, | a month later, to discover it had| resumed all of its former beauty and color. A pecullar virtue assigned to| e turquoise during the Middle | Ages was its power to divert to it- self the consequences of any fall Because the chase or| tournament. Later this bellef ; became extend- ed so that it was sald a turquoise would divert every | evil from. its wearer as a light- ing rod diverts | lightning. Thus by | the seventeenth | #ts popularity was so great Burope that no man considered dress complete, we are told, unless he wore a ring of turquoise. Incidentally, at this time, it enjoy- ed & reputation for curing colds— an especially interesting attribute in view of the recent use of tur- quoise colored light rays for that purpase. taining imystis eharacters, guarantesd 10| The holly is December’s flower. SECOND SECTION AMEH"}AN []PERA: Appointéd to [fivestigate Lobbyfi - 6 investigate will be com- Princess Mary Viscountess Lascell vify ti These men are to make a sweeping investigation of the varied lobby activities t! | influence everything from Prohibition to tariff, and it is not unlikely that they will uncover something of decided interest to the nation. t have been going on to ational Newsred PRINCESS MARY AND HER SONS Associated Press Photo es ADTOKING ' IN 1651 PAYS H large ONEMANNOW WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—A royal haircut September 3, 1651, bulks in the reason why George W. Pendrell, retired Brooklyn laundryman, receives $400 a year from the British crown. | It was the cavalier locks of Charles II of England which fell before shears wielded by Richard Penderill, who trimmed the sover- eign's hair to typical “roundhead” appearance. Disguised King | George W. Pendrell is one of |forty descendants of the ancient |Penderills who disguised King !Charles and helped him escape his Cromwell pursuers, and the perpet- ual annual grant was established for the family after the Restora- tion. Just what the Penderill family did for the sorely pressed sover- eign, fleeing after the battle of Worcester, and what the king theught of the aid is told in an old volume owned by Jacob L. Eze- kiel of Landover, Md. It is “A Pictorial History of England,” by 8. C. Goodrich, auth- of “Peter Parley’s Tales,” orig- inally copyrighted in 1845, and pub- l'shed in Philadelphia in 1866. Mr. Ezekiel studied the text book in school 63 years ago, and brought it to light when he read that George Penderill of Brooklyn had marked another year ifi the receipt of the grant. The name is spelled Penderill in the volume. Given Safe Conduct George Penderill gave King |Oharles safe conduct. Brother Richard trimmed the kingly locks |and loaned the sovereign his best |clothes “which were a jump and | breeches of green, coarse cloth, and a doeskin leather doublet.” Broth- |er Humphrey presented the King |with his hat, “an old gray one |that turned up its brim.” | The King first reached the home |of George Penderill at Whiteladies. twenty-six miles from Worcester. :George thought he would be safer |at Brother Richard’s home atBos- cobel, a mile distant, and saw him there. | 'The narrative of the escape was | published in the King's name after the Restoration, says the ancient history book. | e N SAN FRANCICO BUILDING OWNED BY 9,000 WOMEN | SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 3.—Nine thousand women own a $2,000,000 enterprise here. It is the San Francisco Women’s Club 12-story building, an income property. The club is declared to have the largest membership of any in the country. Life membership values have increased 500 per cent since its founding in 1922 when a nums ber of units merged to found & central home for club women. Contributing and trustee mems berships, originally $20 and $50, re- : spectively, have likewise ¢ in value. Life memberships, 80 daughter of the King and Queen of England, in one of her most recent portraits with her two sons, George (left) and Gerald. club, THORNTON GLOOMY ABOUT RAILROAD CONSOLIDATION | now are worth $500. BRI Sl e at $100 each at the inception of the Copper Mine Revived After 25-Year Rest SYLVA, N. C,, Dec. 3.—Dormant for more than 25 years, the Cul- lowhee Copper Mine near here is about to become active again. Men and machinery already bave moved to the main to resume op- eration. Negotiations for resump- when picking up the stone about !tion of work have been in progress|e for weeks. It is expected that for the pres- ent, at least, ore will be shipped to the Tennessee Copper Company's smelter at Ducktown, Tenn. The North Carolina Flux Company will operate the mine, which yields not only copper and iron, but at many silver to pay for the mining opera- tion. e RESTORATION OF GAELIC COSTLY TO FREE STATE DUBLIN, Dec. 3.—It costs the Irish Free State half a million dollars yearly to enforce its com- pulsory use of the Irish language lamong coming professional men|P! and women. This figure was announced by ponents of the policy contend that the cost, directly and indirectly but only to boys and girls under 15 who are in - professional schoai: Eamon de Valera's party is as eager for restoration of the Gaelic tongue as is the Government and the opposition is believed to have little chance of success. ee0 0000000000 . |® ILLINI'S' ZUPPKE e COINS A NEW ONE . i . URBANA, I, Dec. 3.— e Bob Zuppke, fiery little foot- ® ball coach at the University |® of Illinois, has a reputation |® for wisecracks. e His latest epigram goes ® this way: “Football is a bru- tal game, but brutes can't play it.” Just the same, Zuppke was glad when some veteran brutes showed up this fall. NEW YORK, Dec. 3.—The move- ment to combine railroads in the United States into a few enormous | systems will not bring about the " increased efficiency and in operation that its sponsors hope | for, in the opinion of Sir Henry' Thornton, head of the Canadian ™ National Railways. The best thin about the American railroad mer- ger movement “is its lethargy,” he said. “The trouble with enormous enterprises is that all personal lationship between officers and n tends to be crushed out. The efficlency of discontent and understanding creeps in.” Sir H 1y doubts whether State own of railroads would succeed in United States. By SUE McNAMARA (A. P. Feature Service Writer) | WASHINGTON, Dec. 3—Sitting in her special camp chair on Holly- | wood movie sets, Mrs. Thomas G. Winter, prominent club woman, is to wield a scepter of power over ctures in behalf of all women. Mrs. Winter is now in Hollywood‘ 'as an employe of the motion pic- |the Finance Minister, though op- ture industry, to act as link be- tween it and the feminine public. ! When a scene verges on the |is much greater. The requirement cheap or salacious it will be Mrs. | does not apply to present lawyers, Winters province to suggest to the 'doctors and others, director or producer that it be ton- ed down or eliminated. Her duty is to present to the picture men the intelligent thought and practical demands of the women of the coun- try. The sight of this dignified, moth- erly, well-groomed ex-president of 1 1 AS BUFFER FOR WOMEN MNQ , | 2 |the General Federation of WM | Clubs sitting on a movie set an | making suggestions which are tened to with respect, will be a diss | tinct novelty. 4 | The dream of club women at | has been realized—to have a say in the making of what think is the “right sort” of p Producers gathered in New York . a national conference with rep sentatives from many organis welcomed the suggestion of & man adviser. 5 Although her home has beem to the make-believe world of and spangles and make-up “I am not going to H reform the movies,” says My ter. “I am not to be a o even a critic. I'll just make