The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 15, 1930, Page 16

8 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1930. 4 L =i 5 \IAD WO\IEA\ IN EX- E\IIR BOKHARA, Aug.15 —Inline with their policy of converting royal pal- aces into public institutions, the! soviet authorities have turned the palace of the former Emir of Bok hara, now an exile in Afghanist into a sanitarium for mentally de- ranged women, The palace, one of the show ' places hara. Within the spaciou which are surrounded by walls, is a great open-a pool where the emir wives and cone disport themselves. When the emir fl CENSUS in days gone by of ple SAN ANTONIO, Texas, ug —Wide open spaces in the map of Texas have been dotted with towns | | and cities in the last 10 years, the | census figures of 1930 show. Most of the new towns sprang up | because of oil booms—some of t in spots where no one ever amed there would be even a vil- One of the new towns is Best, on the lands of the Texas, built soon after the discovery of oil in the Big Lake field McCamey was a spot on between two hills until 1925. it- has a population of 5,000. Crane City was born a short time after McCamey. Less than five years ago Iraan a flat FORMER CATCHER ON RECALLS GAME, University of | Today | oy Sy H()l SED EM HARE! hara in 1920, to have taken with 1anistan $10,000,000 amels and |10 concubi he left all the [ art objects in his palace in which h furnished with a bi- > of Persian, Chinese, and German| v converted into T the local prole- may see sométhing of the| wvagance and luxury in which | i~1w rulers of Bokhara lived in the past SH()W S NEW NS DOT TEXAS was .\\An.cd and now a model small city Bake was built in a day in| the T: : oil area of Pecos :mun:} to a population has had, a phe- led by the.town of 1,200 in two W Winkler county nomen. h, of Wink, one of the largest boom cities ever founded in Texas. Kermit, the county seat, had only | 23 votes in 1925, but now is a good- sized town. Cheyenne, another Winkler county town, was founded | recently. | Other new towns that have grown up in the last few years because of oil booms are Hilton and Penwell in Ector county; and New Drum- wright, Midway and Ross City in Hux\nrd county. 89TH BIR’IHI)AY S, (Il IL W /IR DECADE - RALEIGH, N. C, Aug. 15—Base- ball, says Maj. A. M. Wheeler, who was famous as a catcher nearly 75 | years ago, always will remain the American national game. Major Wheeler, after celebcating | his 89th. birthday recently, scorned the idea that the game has been weakened by home run orgies, the lively ball, big-score games, and the competition of golf. He won fame as captain and catcher of the Niagaras in Buffalo just before the Civil war. Modern slugfests paled into insignificance when he recalled with many chuc- kles the time the Niagaras defeated | one of the early professional teams, 209 to 10. Looking back over 72 years of baseball, Major Wheeler said among the first professional outfits were the Brooklyn Atlantics and the old | Philadelphia Athletic clubs. These were organizations about 1864 and Wheeler's Niagaras down- ed the Atlantics 17 to 13, the ma- jor recalled in a big game at Buf- falo in 1865 or 1866. Major Wheeler observes that sev- eral changes from the old times rules have given the game wider appeal. Among them he noted are that the pitcher now gets speed through the overhand delivery where for- merly he had to toss the ball to the plate, and that the catcher is now up close to the batter instead of yards back. The revision which now makes it necessary to throw out a batter at first base instead of hitting him with the ball also is beneficial, the major believes. fllIHIIIIIIIlI||||I|IIIIIII||IIIIIIllllIIIIIIIiIlIIIlHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII|IIIIIIIillllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII||I|IIIIIIIIIIII|IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIII|||IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII|||IIIIII'IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITI e T OO |TALKIES DRIVING SILENT FILM FROM GERMAN STUDIOS BERLIN, Aug. 15.—The talkie's smashing victory in Germany over |the silent film is shown by the M:Arch report of the Berlin Cham- [ber of Commerce. A steady in- |crease in the production of tone films almost in inverse proportion te the diminution of silent film /productions was recorded. It is pointed out that the stu- { pendous popularization of the talkie is all the more surprising in view ‘ol the comparatively limited num- |ber of movie houses in this coun- try with installations for tone films. This popularization of the talkie has already led to a very notice- able dearth of silent films quality and - therefore obliged an ever increasing number of cinema owners to adapt their theatres to the new order of things. At present there are 461 talkie cinemas in Germany, which num- ber, however, is expected to be in- creased to beyond 900 by fall. Ger- man cinema owners sent a com- mission to London and Paris to propose an agreement with other European centers for raising the admission fee to talkie perform- ances. | | | | | —_—ao—— The American Library Associa- tion has received more than half of & proposed $1,000,000 fund for the extension of county libraries. > held his | of | 000 s 00 cece . . ® WORLD CINES FOR . . U. S. FALSE TEETH e . o e WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. @] e —The world buys its false ® e teeth from America, and ® likes them better and better. o . In the first three months 0{ ® of 1930, 7,548,713 false teeth e 1® worth $358908 were exported, e/ | ® a substantial gain over the e ! | same period for 1929. . . Dental instruments and e ® suppl also showed a gain, e ® as did dental office furni- e ® ture o . . (e essceoceeoeeoeoe - ‘ e i Child, Travel Stories ‘ For Prison llliterates | iTON, Aug.15.—To meet | the preference of convicts for stor- ies about children and travel, Mrs. ‘Corn Wilson Stewart, director of the nati illiteracy crusade is | preparing a series of books especial- |1y designed for teaching prison il- | literates. Mrs. Stewart has just returned from a tour of southern prisons. A {warden's wife told her that men in prison read all the women's maga- zines they can get and are especial- |1y interested in stories about chil- dren. Mrs. Stewart found that Virginia | has a model system for teaching orison illiterates with a paid out-| side educational supervisor. Some states have no teaching in their prisons while others have the | prisoner pupils packed together in corridors trying to study under | feeble flickering lights. | —,,——— FILIPINOS RECORD MUSIC | IN NATIVE LANGUAGES | MANILA, Aug. 15.—The Filipino | has gone into the phonograph rec- ord business. Records in native| languages for distribution in the Philippine Islands are. being manu- factured by Filipino dealers. Fili- pino singers and musicians are be-| ing encouraged to record their bal-; lads and folk songs. CONGRATULATING GEORGE BROS. on their SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY from a SEATTLE FRIEND T0 CORVALLIS, Ore., Aug. 15.—T: insure the public against eatin fruit tainted with spray poisons, - scientific discovery said to e worth a small fortune, has been given without profit by two re- search specialists of the Oregor tate college of agricultural experi ment station. The scientists are Henry Hart- man and H. R. Robinson.. Their unusual gift is a present to th fruit growing industry of a process for removing spray poisons from ripe fruit. The formula is protected agains private exploitation by a publi service patent. For many years fruit containing residue from heavy arsenate of leac spraying was sold uncleaned, a the normal amount of poison re- maining in the skin was not con- sidered dangerous Recently the federal government ordered that all fruit be cleanc thoroughly and that none'showin a trace of spray be exported. Robinson and Hartman perfecte a wash that costs about one-hal cent per bushel to clean fruit. Their process has become standard in th fruit growing districts of the west and is reported spreading to the midwest and the east. - — OZARK CAVE IS EXPLORED FOR BURIED SPANISH GOLD JOPLIN, Mo, Aug. 15. — A leg- endary Spanish treasure cave in Marion county, Arkansas, south of here in the Ozark hills, is being |explored to find a source of gold reported to have been removed from "the cavern years ago by Osage In- dians. George and Jake Bauman, broth- ers who explored the cave in their youth, declare the treasure is bur- ied a mile from the entrance. |SCIENTISTS SCORN PROFIT AID HEALTH OF PUBLIC N HARTMAN] B.H. RO BINSON ) - {FORMER BRAKEMAN MADE BISHOP BY METHODISTS BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Aug. 15 From brakeman to bishop is the '191:0? of the Rev. Arthur J. Moore, {of Birmingham, recently elevated ito the College of Bishops of the IMethodlsc Episcopal Church, South. Born in Georgia in 1889, Mr. vMoore neglected his early education !for the most fascinating business lof becoming a brakeman. He spent {most of his time on the railroad juntil he was 20 years old, serving in various capacities. He was mar- ried at the age of 16. Turning suddenly from railroad- |ing to the ministry He soon became ia sensation as an evangelist. Dur- !ing the last 20 years he has served |many important Methodist charges |in the south, and now becomes the youngest bishop in the history of | Southern Methodism. AL P AL STOR! EXPERT % NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 15.—Naval !stores and allied industries are he- -men occupations, but a woman is | telling the operators what it is all |about. She is Eloise Gerry, senior | microscopist in the United States | Forest products laboratory. She ;xs in the south cooperating with the southern forest experiment station in New Orleans. | 1 & ——— Ola papers to: sale at [he Em- bire ofrice, i It was 200 years story goes, entered the ago, cavern, tacks of Ozark Indians. to legends the Spaniards concealed the treasure and then were massa- cred. so the the Spanish explorers kndwn as Dated cave, and hid to escape at-| According ' Canterbury Chocolates “The Messenger of Sentimen t” GEORGE BROTHERS JUNEAU TACOMA, WASH. WEST COAST GROCERY CO. = Models “Pose” for Jobs Before Artists in Paris | PARIS, Aug. 15—Because mod- ern artists paint paster, there is now a “model market” in Paris. Every morning hundreds of girls gather in the halls of art acade- mies while artists survey them and choose the ones they wish. ‘Three sittings is about the aver- age nowadays, at $1 for the three hours, whereas before the war a model hired to pose was assured of at least a dozen. With shorter jobs the hunt for work is keener; hence the “models’ market.” There are always plenty of mod- els. Some girls seek the work deliberately, but many fall into it by chance, through another mod- el's suggestion or an acquaintance with an artist. Not even all girls with beautiful faces or figures are successful mod- els. Remaining absolutely im- mobile for as long as 25 minutes is not easy. BOULDER DAM EXPECTED TO ATTRACT TOURISTS WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—When it is completed, with a column of water 575 feet high behind it, Boul- der dam will be one of the tourxst 'wonders of the wesu, says the In- terior Department. Elephant Butte dam on the mu Grande, in New Mexico, 306 feet high, is the nearest approach to the spectacle which Boulder will present. ' At Elephant Butte dam, air vegts left at the bottom to relieve suc- tion cause dby the rushing waters led to a peculiar tragedy. 'l‘wa tion caused by the rushing watérs air hole, were impalled and killed by the suction. 6t English Women Ask Short . i Skirts’ Return LONDON, Aug.15.—English wom- en want an even break with a rym in chasing a bus. So the National Union for Equ‘l Citizenship has organized a back-to- short-skirts movement. The union has sponsored a -se- |ries of propaganda teas with man- g nequins showing the many advah- tages of the old-time length. “Woman have won their freg- dom and' they don't want to lose it,” said Mrs. G. Horton, secretary of the union. “Long skirts are a setback.” - THE + Washington Co-operative Fog and Poultry Association THE CHOICEST OF EGGS AND POULTRY i» FOR ALASKA TRADE Represented By . MAVERN === == AMOU 3 —— AMOCAY o