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Ll o At b i " THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY ||||||||||||||||I|||||||||||||||||||||l||||||||||||I|I|||||||||||l|||||IIII||||!||||||||||||||||l|! BIRT"S GHEATER 1 937 THE G : - e | AT A i Ianuar .y. By THE AP FEATURE SERVICE E AI-ASKA IN l 937 | Ten stories that didn't shake the world, but shosk yeur sides during s A the year 1937, are here recorded foi posterily. . . . The world gol 2 i Registrar’s Records Shows| '™/" eut of them—anyway a chuckle or titter—and the year gould - ]%03 Births R ded "1 have been worse than it was without them. . . . War, floods and H . H 192 DIFLNS INECOrded as | ;je horrors. Hilled the news. bul there was always room for the B F Against 1,234 Deaths light side of things in your newspaver, Lest you forget— -] i |0 i ] There were a total of 1,503 re- ] THE ©lcorded births in the Territory dut- B S “ling 1937, according to filings with ] i|the Registrar of Vital Statistics, Aue E] ditor Frank A. Boyle. Of that num- H ber 787 were male and 716 female. | The First Division recorded the {largest number, 489, of which 250 were male and 239 ferhale. The Sec- | ond Division recorded 857, of which v l“ s to 75 oo_s oo %1198 were male and 169 female; a e . o Third Division, total 398, of Which 202 were male and 191 female; | ; {Fourth Division, total of 264 of | which 137 were male and 127 fe- | mate | or oatls o |mate. | Whites predominated in the First| Division, Eskimos in the Second, Values to $30.00 |whites in the Third and Indians in ; . ; B ; i the Fourth. The First showed 217/ y ! i SRS, & - . , |whites, 181 Indian, 87 half-breed, 1—D igs' tail 1 168 "oF 2.—The British empire held its breath while Edward sienped down 3.—Al Mingalone, newsreel pho- s Gll‘ls coats o, “ 12 Japahese, onie brown and one not| . .o Pigs' tails curl s ) B g0 tographer, went up in the air ; lstated. The Second 35 swhites, 7| M8N? America could hardly from the throne a year ago and his brother George stepped wp. But SEFRRET B0 0 o | s |’ ; ; . wail to find out. The depart- ot vl e ol ¢ Values to $13.50 g [ndian, 59 half-breed; 236 ESkimo,| .., “o¢ sgrieulture surveved Antheny Hall an ex-police inspector who once lived in Cafifornia, ~ He was doing fific wntil his H £ (20 brown; Third, 213 white, 88 In-| ine {ails at the government’s safefy line snapped. After that : £ dian, 85 half-breed, one’ Japanese,| Percine tal at the sovErne didn't his. Instead he proclaimed himsel al 1tag of he sailed threugh ‘the air with : H 9 coats 95 B 'two Eskimo, ohe brown and three| wrbc mental farm, Beltsy the greatest of ease. The Rev. B ren’s > £ not stated; Fourth, 76 white, 82 In- | Md"‘w':" e ':’"““""‘”"" ‘_[' England as “Antheny the First” He claimed d 1 ienry James J. Mullen brought him 4 - fipidl, 3 . ceunt: curling to the left, % bl e 36 : - Bt ivends ¢ skt~ | ’ back (e earth in Maine by yop- i Values to 56.50 ;‘r:“)' S¥Eatl-eeds dnd SEVEIEAS R et borderline cases, VIIT and Anne Boleyn and played at king by printing up his ewn At 1 e : Sizes 2 to 8 {7 “Against the bieth lst of 1,681 S0 K Boume eals, ther, tof pis B AT bt iR R s 1l 1Zes 4 10 O B i ded 1235 deaths | M Pig to curl his to the right currency. Here he is shewn signing a few notes of i - nere were recort 1235 ea g if he wants to. : = the Territory of which 835 were T E i male, 399 female and one not stat- oy B 1 last June twe members of the house of rep 1—Sclomon R. the famous mi . nounced a p imbered their veices for a hog ticn of non-ok art, His : WLiEE spekesman, the Baroness Hilla 5 5 : 1’ contest. Otha Wearin & ed. Tuberculosis was the principal M Behrends 0 nc £ cause of death, 219 being attributed| s § oy ® [sto that source. Heart disease was| enza 30, meningitis, 25. There were NO EXCHANGES - : i ran the long list of disease and ac- ey 4 previous year, the Registrar's report = 5 . l 223 in the Fourth. I-L SUUGHT y | connccted with the fiying personnel G 0 0 TR e and § |of the crulser Chicago: divorces, the Registrar stated: tact was lost with their big bomb- .\ iments and these records can | i , second, causing 153 deaths. Pheu-| { 40 suicides, 49 drownings and 13 ‘ S ALL SALES FINAL : & cident, Numgier gl on. S8 po:i.h:: reveals, Of the marriages, there| death list was Aviation Cadet SCOW ..\ 9gg i the First Division, 80| Hawkins who fell with his scout- The seven Navy fliers being Plane from SqUAdIoh YR only be secured from the courts of «“Juneau's Leading Department Store” | monia claimd 124, cancer 40, influ- : died of explosure. The remainder H , 1| Marriages reached a total of 775 T e e i son ehe| ' Slane’ into "the 'k, 'Sboth in the Second, 186 in the Third and | sought, have been missing since 111;:;:]0:;1: :‘:ep;’:;:‘t’;:"f’r"]l“‘“"“{:‘l" SEAR Wednesday evening when radio con- Statistics any record of divorces or " cornbelt b language, while ir i The craft is believed to be down Rebay, had this to Bob Menion of Louisiana bellowed, “Eh, la bas,” pig call in the Cajan o . each of the four divisions. The law : S P()Sbl[)le De a!l] Lls! Grow rewhere u:,u r:gulux.u‘t:“xu;vlul {SHBt1A b EhAnigea to Bive. subh recs :::‘." "\.- ,,(‘1':.:'.“.1\.': i Pt S el RS o e R i As Scouting Pilot WS F sl S reorn e s on file with the Registrar the p Fofl. &% GOtk InCE S Jcouting ¢ ne of the new twin-motored planes this nen rtive picee b Falls to Death O O e i for the Navy by the same as all other recotds are filed” Kandinsky s called “Above later shouted it out fo SRR it the Deits aariv ioe T alls 23 recently t for ¢ Navy by ¢ an s is called “Above Consolidated Aircraft Corporation And Left.” ferson island. We thought you'd like (o knew gl e U S e - SAN PEDRO, Cal, Jan. 7--The whole air force of the United Stat W merset Maugham has had a fleet today is combing sixty thou- basis in 1 own life for many qi sand square miles of ocean and the experiences attributed to his su s STE Coastal areas of Southern California ' fictional characters. He was born for seven missing Navy fliers and in 1e, educated in England and raised Germany, #ained as a physician t agent to eight, as one s r was aud surgeon, and was a ¥ cidentally killed. during the World War. U. s. DEPARTMENT OF AGRIcULTURE, WeATHER BUREaU Green Boosting New Legis- THE WEATI{ER lation ‘16 Stem Re- |1 | | cession Tide | (By the U. 8. Weather Bureau) ! Forecast for Juneau and vicini'y, beginning at 4 pm, Jan. 7:| WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.-William | Rain and cooler tonight and Saturday; fresh to strong southeast winds Green, President of the American | Weather forecast for Southeast Alaska: Rain and cooler tonight Federation of Labor, who helped to Ten Yarns You’d Never Baxter, Charlie an alarm clock.” Atop a 20-foot pole he sounds “time {s get up” every morning for his felicw townsmen. He's been blowing his horn for years, d here he is at it. Though he dcesa't bugle at night, Charlie w Hy climbs the pole of an eve ¢ just to make sure he can do it next morning. he Fry Products company of De- imself after 150 of his employees showed him the way. “I do 99 percent of the selling,” he said, bring- ing a bed inte his office in preparation for a long stay. “If I go Guess he had them there, for this labor-dispute-in-reverse was ironed out. The sitdown boss, no 0ld Ham Question | Seftled by Testers WASHINGTON, &~n. 7. — The Department of Agriculture, through tests completed to the satisfaction of official tasters, decided a hog's right ham is just as tender as his The question was an old one, growing out of the theory a hog e: ercises his right leg more, there 4 B et foatt Gl titm st Ao Diron Eninagl) (St NI kA suion. b | Lynn Canal, Chatham Strait, Clarence Strait and Dixon Entrance. Congress’s recent special session, has | Forecast of winds along (he Coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Strong advocated a maximum hour regula- southesst winds from Dixon Eniranze to Cape Hinchinbrook. tion in industrial employment as a LOCAL DATA means of ending the business “re- Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity ~Weathe |cession.” 4 :fn"f‘.esl-y B";’E:,E“" 42 i i 16 LtRain | Green testified before a Scnate % St 1odfly 20.93 44 84 E 12 Lt. Rain Committee before he took the stand . £ & : 3 Noon today 2969 45 [ SE 10 Lt.Rain |in support of his proposal 7.—And from Hollywood the 8—Charlie McCarthy is a 9—M, C. Blackman of Little Drisiaent o '{ RADIO REPORTS | President Robert Wood, of Sears| glamorcus came a new game, famous dummy (in s R I T | TODAY |and Roebuck, told the Senate Com- | “Tepsy Jes' Grows.” To play it, aboul the only dums e . trolt, went on a ailipem strike Max.temp. | Lowest 4am. 4am. Precip. 4am |mittee that in his industry it was| you pile up bottle caps — as call a dummy without g 3 Hie s ‘”fi"""";"['_' ‘ 'r e i Station last 24 hours | temp. temp. velocity 2:hrs. Weather ‘f’xm‘('u‘d there would be an increase) upgve. Scme fun, eh? Jean into treuble), and he gol Society for' the Booing of Com- Atka 30 20 24 6 26 . Clear in consumption and hence employ-| Regers, blonde film actress, the papers ag: W mereial Advertisements in Mo- " Anchorage 44 28 — 0 .......|ment durinig March ot ‘April. started it. ‘In Cleveland, Dr. Canova, film singer, blamed b Picture Theaters. As an Barrow -6 | -8 -6 10 T Cloudy| Wood added that the recent| qgpomas Staggers varied the for breaking off her romance cofficer, his prowess at booing Nome 0 VR 't 4 13 Clear Speeches of Secretary of Interior| plyy py pyramiding match sticks with Charlie’s voice, Ventrilo was considered superior on, strilie, they won't have work.” Bethel 0 -20 0 26 01 Cloudy Harold Ickes and Assistant Attorney| o g pottle. When last heard of, quist Edgar Bergen. But who's was, as the expression < 2 -6 2 6 0 Clear |General Jackson, attacking the| pe pad stacked 12,000. The pic- kissing Edgar here? Why, i's this picture of Mr. ;Z"v e 6 0 6 0 0 Pt.Cldy abuses of some business interests,| tyre shows Jean, not the doc- Loretta Lee, New Oriears, distributed for purposes of in- > wligul 13 3 12 20 T Pt_ClLly\“"'rv“ “frightening” business gener- tor. Charlie looks on. structing other booers biuffer, is shown at his eoffice phone. 3 30 14 14 16 05 Cloudy 211y, but he called President Roose-| ——— . . 3 gu;ci:k Harbor & | 45 38 12 42 Cloudy |Velt's recent message to Congress § . " A 106-oF HisasieoiE: thife 3 Benon 34 ¥ a0 18 188 Jy | TenstR ‘Ymm Emsun depressions and 5o forth—have oc- g o Beloi FD R a"d AI Are Juneau 4 | 2 4 12 112 LtRain| 3 e o cutred since young Huste Steering Deigium ibaile Sitka 47 36 - — . - | . . . catapulted to fame the prot = & Prince Rupert 48 | 46 48 14 0 Cloudy | these have influenced deci o A 5 ’ 3 n Edmonton 26 14 16 4 0 Clear | | J . Huston is only 25 7 : & E : Seattle 40 30 32 4 0 Cloudy| INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Jan. 7.— looks forward to e i — | Portland 40 34 34 4 0 Clear Indiana has gone up in the air in u va"ge lsm career in personal 1 EW YORK, Jan. 7—DBook sales, €an Francisco 50 | 42 44 6 0 Cloudy |an attack on Dutch elm disease. | believes Edison woul politics, make strong odd-lot New York 50 42 48 4 130 Cloudy | Ap autogyro plane, flying at slow —_— proved his change of p es. | Washington 54 2 4 8 82 Cloudy speed and low altitude, spots dis-| ! e 1o current ome, at the Anderson 2 WEATHER CONDITIONS A% 8 A.M. TODAY \eased trees. Ground crews then go SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 7. The ; o ’ ileries here, former Governor Al- ‘. s B » ag. wia. fto Work. |“boy genius” selected in 9 by “Spacimen’’ Check AR 5 |lred E. Smith is paired with Pres . Seattle (airport), fog: temperature 2; Blaine, foggy, 33; Vic 1 e idor Hds hitned i P e i e i 181t one 3 S 28 Ale ‘lear, 3>: Bull Harbor, cloudy, 41; Triple| Frank N. Wallace, state entom-|Thomas o s B L Way 7 dent Franklin D. Roosevelt. RN e 30: Alerk By, clodr, 95 44: Prince Rupert, eloudy, 47; [0logist, says air scouting has been back on science and invention in ounces Long Way The hooks' afe » sighed’ copy af i{’?fif e g O, e 45, Wreangell, tloudy, 47; Pet- |mote efficient and faster than the|favor of religion ; i Up to Now,” Smith's autoblography geeeaen, raining, 41 p L B e : 6 3 Picked by Edison after a nation-| CHARLOTTE published in 1929, and “The Happy ining, 45; Sitka, raining, 45; Radiowille, raining, 40; Hoon- [ground searches. b ! L fia 2 : : ), a PPy :fib‘ggfid;a.":g‘:)s:::i»inu Point, raining, 40; Juneau, raining, 44; Skag- e wide investigation, Wilber Huston|When Kenneth Warrior,” a biography of him writ- 3 attle was sent to the Massa- | Charlotte Hig way. raining, 37; Cape Hinchinbrook raining, 42; St. Elias, raining, . y of Seattle was sen e 0 {rng .'"!mmwo} ':""3';.‘ :;(fi .“.t{h». Z\muds 20 Movie Star’s Namesake |chusetts Insetitute of Technolozy o class 2 . 40; Cordova, showers, 39; Chitina, cloudy, 36; Carthy, A “ e s b Bl cae R 3 + Epati 3 v, 20; rings, cloudy, 7; . Tanana, y, 14; (% | e A ten by Roesevelt in 1928, with a letter by the President in- > Happy Warrior,” a phrase - e: S illiantly and after gr Brown pas blank ehecks 1 the ot Wadsworth vas the [ 4 3 o 5 7 . snowing, 8 residents have presented a new did hrllll1q ’ rom the poe ‘adsworth, was the S e, A A Showine, u gl:r:)ta;‘,',;:;t g claim to distinction—that the fown|tion established himself as a con- and told the students how to f bestowed on Mr. Smith when SO Jui. §. — Duotise, 8:4% 4.8 it is the namesake of Arlington|sulting engineer. them. out. After class a % | his name was placed in nomination WEATHER SYNOPSIS ; Brugh, better known to movie-go-| But now he declares the world cept one for $2 wa ) for the Presidency by Mr. Roosevelt. | § . targe depression of low barom ter covers the Bering Sen, Alaska o, oo Robert Taylor. can get along without his contribu- him. The $2 check, signed e n S andthe north Pacific Ocean this morning with one center of 870} ‘ruyiors fathier lived here as a|tions to science. He will devote his| the puils, was lost. It ti finches southwest or Kodiaw Island and another of 20.24 inches at Bar- v uh, they point out, and liked the|life to the Oxford group, a world- a bank. row, Barometric pressure is high ovcr tthe mid-Paeific and over thef,up, s, et he named his son af-|wide movement to bring relicion Inves Portugal Honors Byron igation showed Coast States, also over cen ral Canada. This pressure distri-|y "5 “ayihough residing elsewhere|home to the individual. check was presented (o a { .| LISBON—The highest rock on tion has b;n attended by light rain over Kodiak Island and Jower|F o £ 90K the boyl':;blnn." “Instead of building bigger and by an unidentified The M Kalls Ieneenof Bel* | the mountain at Cintra, Portuguese utheastern Alaska, moderate to heavy rain from Cordova to upper P e better bridges and machines” he gave it to a Battle Creek Paul Van Zeeland, Jans | Deauty spot, is to be carved into the putheastern Alaska and light snow over western Alaska and northern| o oi; a5 just caught up with fexplains, “the need is to build bet- driver. The truck pass cawn up @ far-reaching |Profile of Lord Byron. The British o0 Generally fair weather has prevailed over the rest of the her Confererate veterans' pension [ter individuals. Today there is a glong and after through sev~ program of intornal reform. | poet is said to have written part of of observation. Temperature: this morning were higher OVel .....nc ine first time since the real hunger on the part of the eral hands the check returned 10 {“Childe Harold” there, hern Al from Kodiak to Ketchikan with other parts °r‘cn4u ‘War, people for spiritual values.” !the bank for payment, i l toughening those muscles. Tests disclosed, however, a group of hogs which had not exercised at all turned out tougher than mates which had trotted all around the pen. e — The bureau of agricultural eco- nomics estimates the production in- crease in vegetable oils from major |erops ilke soybeans, cottonseed, jcorn and peanuts to be 500,000,000 ‘pounds a year. rs for the United States Coast Guard are trained in a four- year course conducted at New {London, Conn. ofr & [ (vt A e