The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 23, 1935, Page 9

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” . ]UNEAU ALASKA, MO\JDAY DI:CLMBI;R 23, 1935. VOL XLVII NO. 7151, SECOND SECTION—PAGES I' TO 8 MINE OPERATORS CONDBMN REX BEACH’S PROPOSAL " SCHEME PROVED e UNSUCCESSFUL, OPERATORS SAY * Mining MenA N;zar Anchor- ! age Find Prospect Plan Impractical TRAI]E TREATY END OF FOSHAY WITHHOLLAND BUSINESS NEAR AIDS FARMERS BY COURT ACT Greater E)V(V;;t;rt of U. S. Wheat to Be Sent to Netherlands WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 |ed purchase of U. S. wheat by | Netherlands, were disclosed Sunday | as one of the conditions of the reci- procal trade treaty signed on Friday Vi ks v kEiOnS | The receivership is to be extended The pact becomes effective Febru- (30 or 60 days to clean up details ary 1, and provides for mutual tariff |Pefore being dissolved. When this is concessions. Duteh duties are al- |done and the final discharge signed, ready so low that the State Depart- | the third and last of the Foshay en- ment said they didn't constitute a | leFPrises which collapsed in 1929 will serlous obstacle to American trade, | Dave been written from the books. but emergency trade control mes 07 G T ures have operated to Testrict Amet~ | Bought for Shilling, ican imports. The new agreement is expected to HOI'SC wmner 0‘ ssoo remedy the situation, and a number | I e e O veStriction duties were granted. | ‘ MELBOURNE, Dec. 23—Bougnt for The Dutch treaty is the ninth such |one shilling, a horse named King Omons Ha"e“ed agreement signed to carry out the Siris won a hurdle race worth $500 Administration’s foreign policy at Moonee Valley course recently. - |The horse had developed tendon 4 § 4 |trouble and was considered unfit .Circus Aids Policemen Third and Last of Great Enterprises Now Be- ing Liquidated Increas-| MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 23.—The fi- The | Dal report on the receivership of the W. B. Foshay Company was ap- proved here Saturday by the Federal Court ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec. | 23.—Mine owners here looked * 'with disapproval en and are skeptical of Rex Beach’s plan recently announced in Wash- "ington to grubstake prospect- ors and send them out looking for Alaska gold. Operators said the plan had been tried in Alaska and Canada and resulted in noth- P R ik i i Scenes like this are to be witnessed in “Toylas rougho econn as the L gl ot of Kafing " Lh:‘m.mn shoypmg season reaches its height, These youngsters, intensely interested in » on the part of the prospect- 2 . Such the opinion of g ¢ " 373, MeDonald, Superintend-| Red Sox Buy Athletic Stars If It’s a Literary Christmas cnt of a mine on Willow i i . Creek. Bartley Howard, an- \ ; Put These on Your List Now other operator, said the plan was tried without success in L b, : { By . 1925, but he believes it might > Kt VORK. e 25 = work if properly admin-| g ’ | have nobody else you can give “An istered. : i ? % | thony Adverse” to, and still feel like v~ Several operators express- o i ! lgo:snsktlli;lh Christmas, try a bigger ed the intention of writing| [ 4 F ! This is the Columbia Encyclo- Beach and Delegate Dimond o ’ pedia, Prepared at Columbia Uni- 3 % of | versity, it will take care of anybody :}(:ndem:;intthf)ple)lrzl:mg“:vho‘ who has even a beer and light e proi S, ™ Santa and the mechanical gadgets, unknowingly provided photographic studies = Camerartist Samuel Shere. LAREDO, Tex—wiien it's onion lanting time in South Texas, about *,500 persons, including children, are mployed in the onion growing area rere. The harvest, beginning in Ap- for further racing. His owner sold {him to a friend, Miss H. Andrews, Proceeds from | for a shilling, suggesting if given a should be given Will Durant’s “The |y} is expected to provide shipments|a circus here went to buy warmer |good rest the horse might later be Story of Civilization,” volume one | »f 1500 to 1,800 carloads. uniforms for Muskuu.-e policemen. |useful as a hunter which is about the Orient, Of per 4 i haps Harry Elmer Barnes' “Histor, of Western Civilizatior Walte Millis’ “Road to War” is a grace tc any shelf. Murder with a Laugh We may be wrong, but some o the best humor, conscious and un- conscious, seems to have been ir JOHN SELBY Those who delve intoc the pas MUSKOGEE, OKla. v If you wines thirst for knowledge. It's refused to be quoted, said the cheme was un-American, and would trespass on private! enterprise. He added that his‘ conducted sur-| organization veys on the same plan, but they did not produce. | GARDENER SAYS | good for college hoys and girls es- | pecially. The suitable novel crop is espe- cially good this Christmas. -For those who can take their reading rough-hewn, there is Vardis Fish- er's “We Are Betrayed,” in which a man’s tattered soul batters against life. These have their place also. A Whole Shelf “A House Divided,” Pearl S Buck) ; “Lions Starve in Nagles” | (Johan Fabricius, and one of the good ones which was passed by); “Forgive Adam” (Michael Foster, of “Of Time the blood-and-thrills literature this year. Those who can take murde) with a guffaw will delikht in Ed- win Greenwoods “The Deadly Dow- ager” or Richard Hull’s “The Mur der of My Aunt.” Intended ser- iously, but quite funny nevertheless is “Vidocq, the Personal Memoirs of the First Great Detective. Gerald Bullett's “The Jur is a grand crime story; the stories of & number of real life murders may be found in Fletcher Pratts “The Cun- ning Mulatto, and Other Cases o Eilis Parker, American Detective. ] | L poolls //zw ' for Mothers Gift Instead of a es of meaningless trifles, why not have all “chip in" and give Mother this gorgeous new Hotpoint elec- tric range. Miracle Cookery is now the MATANUSKATO THRIVE IN 193 Sears Plan—s—to Quit His Federal Post to Be- come Colonist which the same is true) ; |and the River” (Thomas Woife); |“A Few Foolish Ones” (Gladys Hasty Carroll) ; “Europa” (Robert | Briffault; a dig at' intellectual | snobs) ; “Claudius the God” (Rob- lert Graves); “Roll River” (James |Boyd); “It Can't Happen Here | (Sinclair Lewis best {“Vein of Iron” | admirers) ; For your communist. friend, Fran Mehring’s “Karl Marx; the Stor; of His Life”; for your musical friend, “A Musical Companion,’ edited by Bernard Jaffe; for you literary friend, “The Life of Wash ington Irving,” by BStanley Wil | liams; for the children, “The Turf- Cutters Donkey” by Patricia Lynch: “The Bear Twins’y by Inez Muddle | by Mary Graham Bonner. talk of the nation and this electric range is truly the last word as a gift. Marcum Cramer Foxx One of the most sensational deals in recent baseball history was completed at the Chicago meeting of major leagues whett Jimmy | Foxx, slugging first baseman; Johnny Marcum, star pitcher; Roger | Biwin Lastier: “Gtiang Batil o ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec. 23. — | Cramer, ace outfielder, and Eric McNair, shortstop, all 6f the Phila- | 1/ “Honey i Ahe Hflgm “(H. L.| » Harry Sears, chief gardener of the| delphia Athletics, were traded to the Boston Red Sox for $300,000 | py,yis; strong novel of Oregon.) ‘ Eases Tourist Tax and two Boston players. In another transaction Al Simmons, slug- For the slghtly more literary, | Palmer colony who is now supervis- ing land clearing, says the colony's | ging Chicago outfic!der, was punhaqed by the Detroit Tigers. [ what could be wiser than Vincent; BUENOS AIRES—Argentina, by next produce will be next summer, R 20, % Sheean’s “Personal History” or| | abolishing a 10 per cent tax on al! Francis Hackett’s “Francis the steamer tickets; hopes to get more contrary to the belief that it will be wages of commercial employers, to » three years before crops can be rais- | ANs T or south of the Mason-Dix- | visitors from North America and ed. | care for orphans until they reach the | First,” lo Douglass Southall Free- Euxope Tourist agencies protestec ! Sears is enthusiastic about the ag- | BE AnnPTEn Give Mother what she really wants . . . more leisure time with which to do the things she wants to do. Miracle war orphans and soldiers who werz' o eabrook’s sylum,” and Walter now applies only to persons who sta; crippled in the three-year struggle | py onvoe’ «1 wWrite as T Please.”| 60 days. s : ed a place. Sears was connected with the Mat- with Paraguay. They suggest special - o l'l[//// anuska Federal Experiment Station FOLLow //// issues of postage stamps, with the Cookery compliments Moth- » from 1928 to 1931, e SUN 10 THE DAWN © A sew Hmml electric range, mow the talk of the Slyhl by Helen Hughes remost womar industrial the thinking of mod- Kitchen applsances. er’s skill by eliminating the Charitable organizations have pre- | Man’s “R. E. Lee"? | when British trippers, who spent 24 anuska Valley, and plans to quit his ure as War Relief b ey | Two of the best personal stories,|hours here, were taxed $50 each for sented another project to aid both |y,gqes My, Sheehan's, are William | their look at Buenos Aires. That tax official work to become a farmer himself. He has already homestead- Project ‘ —————- & Acorns Poison Milk age of 16, iy, ricultural potentialities of the Mat- Bolivia to Adopt New Meas- proceeds devoted to caring for war | He says Walter Pippel, colonist | i king fail- §¥rom Michigan, has 15 acres of lani | o eyt i cleared and plowed, ready for seed.| LA PAZ, Bouvia, Dec. 23.—Chaco Sears added that the corporation | War orphans of Bolivia will be de- | took 120,000 pounds of potatoes from |clared wards of the state, if a pro- 4 25-acre plot last summer. |Ject of the federal commission in ARGRENAL 9. TR N 1:‘narge of orphans’ relief is adopted tby congress. BI'WIIICO|'I| Trail Leads | The commission has recommended a tax of two per cent gn the wages Nowhere in Theft CIle(or miners, and one per cent on the ures —unreliable heat. SEDAN, Kas—Poisonous milk may result if cows are allowed to eat -acorns, Chautauqua County physi- | cians said, blaming such a feeding habit for the deaths of two children of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Anderson, near here. Anderson's cows had been eating acorns from jack-oak trees. NG = But Miracle Cookery does SPECIAL TERMS downtown shopping. Learn how the “Chef’s Brain” (automatic timer clock) turns the current on and off— safely and surely. Come in and find how the clean, glowing heat of Calrod $20 Down Balance Monthly more than that. It cooks en- tire meals while Mother is ! OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec. 23.—Far- \ ¢ mer Lige Moseley was “just sure” that was his broomcorn. After the theft of 600 pounds oH “electric embers” minimizes pot washing and scouring. . broomcorn from his Garvin County | farm, Moseley testified he and a neighbor followed a trail of broom- | corn ears several miles, to the home 6f a farmer accused—and later con- | victed—of the theft. | Defense attorneys summoned wit- | nestes who testified that more than | 100 tons of broomcorn had been haul- * ed over the same road. Mosely alleged he knew every stalk | picked up along the highway was his. But the state criminal appeal caun.1 set aside the conviction on the ground of insufficient evidence. | i ————————— Hangman Broke | | { VIENNA —Franz Cauffer, sued for ! back alimony by his former wife, tes- tified he was an executioner by trade | but couldn't afford to pay the sums | alleged due because the oottom had\ fallen out of his business. It was otherwise in 1934, he said, when Aus- tria was hanging rebels. The B. M. 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