The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 19, 1938, Page 8

Atheists Working, Armenia Communist Newspaper Says Godliness Christ- mas Promised Land MOSCOW, Dec. 19.—Atheists hard to make this the hristmas viet Armen- have ever had t newspaper, publish- Capital City of spublic, reports with ap- t satisfaction, that there has never been a better year for Godli- ness in that section of Armer of the ¢ t homes of e COOK AMERICAN, BEGINNERS TOLD Lu and a, one TUSKEGEE, Ala,, Dec. 19. ins Boomer, New York hotel taurant executive, told members of Tuskegee Institute’'s class co; mercial dietetics not to try to French cooks or Ital cook “Be American CO0OKS Boon advised the class during a visit & the famous Alabama negro sck “There is a great future American cooking he contin “Americanize the menu; never foreign terms if you can avoid i make your dishes American -> PROFS. URGED, TAKE EXERCISE ZNORMAN, Okla., Dec 19.—Univer- sity of Oklanoma professors are being urged w go “back to school” The University has established a new course in physical education and all faculty members are urged to enroll — e They Have Hobby Digg[ng for Gold HELENA, Mont., Dec. 19.—Outsid of working howis two Helena busi nessmen, fathe: znd son, have be come gold ininers with their ‘dig- gings” inside the city limits. The two, Dean Kranich, clerk in the Federal District Court, and his father, George, are sinking a shai in their backyard. They intend t> dig until they strike granite mated to be 125 feet below the sur- face “It's entirely to give us exercise Their theory is that there should he a denosit of gold at bedroc carried there by seepage throug limestone. Gold has been found ai other places inside Helena's city limits. esti- an elbow gres ' says Dean -oo Empire Ads Pay EVERYONE INVITED. s This Evening at 7:30 Toviewa FREE SOUND MOTION PICTURE showing the PRODUCTION, PERFORMANCE -ALL THE "INSIDE" FACTS ON- OLDSMOBILE THIS FILM WILL BE PRESENTED BY C. M. WELLS -ALASKA DISTRIBUTOR- «a PERCY’S THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, DEC. 19, 1938. Graphical Studies of Territorial Administration, Basic Industries (HAMBERLAIN LEGEND LopE LODE, AuAsKA | OOLOH xte | PLACER, paoats I | SuneAy b A JCOPPER —LVER B JorHers LD, puar coaL,ores wamme | | = -0 TERRITORY OF ALASKA B b MINERAL PRODUCTION [ | 1900-1937 US.GEOLOGICAL TERRITORIAL COMMISS SOUACES OF DATA! ALASKA PLANNING COUNCIL NER OF MINES, APRIL 1938 M H | | 4ZMmZ<Orvxm Ther (This is the eighth of a series | features of the graph is the white cf graphs prepared by the staff |space (A) which extends from 1910 of the Alaska Planning Council, 0 1¢33 and marks a distinct copper jealing with the administrative | mining period d fiscal affairs of the Terri- tcry. Others will appear in later issues of The Empire. It is the tirst study of its kind ever to have bcen made in Alaska and of government uctuations in silver production tand out well in the solid black strip near the border of the graph The comparatively small value of combined other mineral pro- including lead, platinum, tin the u gives a pi and of industries based on min- siashle, gfeuts. st sbine crals, fish and wild life never prodsats, s Andlcated By, th before made available. w iter sirks (8 the graphs are plotted Production: latively, showing the in s sfory. of Alaska’d gold pro- values 'in subsequent strips of | ,04i0n since 1900 is represented by different shading as explained . antive square-ruled area occupy- | in the legends.—Ed. Note) ing the lower portion of the graph. | . * Cpen squares denote gold value ob- Graph M.1 tained from lode m while a' MINERAL PRODUCTION dotted squares represent the value Te'al Mineral Production: of placer output. The strip of small The top line of the graph repre- squares depicts the development of sents the total value of Alaska Alaska-Juneau Gold Mining mineral production in million dol y, which from 18 e lars. Distinct peaks of production ceeded all other lode m nurred in the vears 1906, 1909, 1812, tions combined 1915-1918, 1620 and 1 7 1 In the placer mining ficld th minor fluctuations between. Each of zraph dstin hes between the these peaks can be seiated with values produced by small and medi- some major event in the history of um sized operations and the value the mining industry, or with the cbtained from dredge operations major fluctuations of base metal The adual shift to large-scale 5, eg dreds ning is especially conspic- 6—Large production from the from 1927 1508 uous on old beach placers in Nome and A comparison of the two y the Fairbanks camp 1204 and 1833, both showing about 1909—TInnoko-Iditarod equal values practically made up by 1212 Bez’'nning of large produc gold illus th from Kennecott. techr gol 1€15-18—War per: with increased il 4 demand for copper. Employment in the Mining Indus- 1€35-37—F ed price of gold. try: In comparing the widths of the The employment ph. W in various strips in these peak years, part intersects the production ph, t can easily be told which mineral shews trends similar to tho: was mainly responsible for the in- creased production, parallel trend of total employment | One of the most characteristic| and employment in lode mining. of th SEE THE NEW SERIES “60" OLDSMOBILE SEDAN NOW ON DISPLAY AT GASTINEAU MOTOR SERVICE i production values. Noticeable is the Employment in placer mining ex- ceeded that of lode mining in all years except 1916, when, because ¢ the phenomenal incre in copper production, lode mining was at | peak, In general exhibit a rather y. The slack of copper mining towards well taken up by the incre the employment in gold minin both lode and placer. From 19 employment in all categories a steady increase -+ - WINDOWS OPEN AT POSTOFFICE UNTIL 8P. M. TONIGHT mp wir employment figure striking uniform- employment in 19 cecov®eceececeoe 1 be open until 8 ¢’ he Postoffice to enable late 1 ffice in time to catch the M cKinley which is schedt bound at 4:30 in the ced today by Albert Wile, - > PLOYEES MEETING cal No 1 of the Federation Federa vill hold a meeting at P ing the noon hour W cember 21. A special Ck FEDERAL EM wtional yee dur- De- gram has been arrang nounced by Sally i- - D GOLDST GO SOUTH Mrs and Charles Goldstein E thbound on the Prince: Norah and expect to go to Californ- ia for the holidays. e scu WANTS NALZIS AS 'PARTNERS' Only Way fo Assure Peace and Progress of Eur- ope, Says Premier LONDON, Dec 19. — Premier Chamberlain today told the House | | of Commons that Nazi Germany must taken in as a “partner to instire s peace and pro- | In 1s defense of his forei policy, the Premier also declare there is “no sort of dif- ficulty or difference between the United States and Great Britain which gives us the ghtest shade I tly denied reports that nded to cede British Somaliland to Italy and said “no suggestion has been made by aly. he Premier declared he uld never take the responsibil- ity for entering war “unless it is forced upon me by madness of Germany, he said “we have iction that unless this of firm cc virile nation can be induced int partnership with others to improve -the general lot there is neither peace nor progress for Eu- things which m: life rope in worthwhile. T am still waiting a sign from those who Sp German language that they share this HONORS PAID SOVIET FLIER desire The annual Christmas edi- ® tion of The Empire, 28 pages, ® HERO Moscow will be issued tomorrow. It is ® [ fuil of Christmas suggestions tc shopper as well as the usual ® to- © news section. It morrew. Be sure o TURKEY SHOOT Wednesday, is issued and read it. e o 00000 00 e o0 . MOSCOW, Dec. 19.—Joseph d carry the urn contain- of Valeria Chikaloff niche in the Kremlin the o army jeined in a military for the hero who flew across the North Pole to Vancou- ver, Wash., in a Soviet plane. He was killed while testing a plane helj as r according to local PAA officials. School Chi | e | WAVE SWEEPS Longshoremen Quit | OVER EUROPE SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Dec. 1#—Longshoremen who listened | to the clamor of 2,300 Chinese | cchocl children pickets, have | stopped werk leading the Greek l | | British Shiv)gfias Mercury Drops fo 30 Degrees Below Lero ghter Spyros with scrap on destined for Japan. The C.LO. longshoremen, for it the sccond day, refused to pass e N N e 9.—Icy, north- through.. the pibkRc iNas: ot | (LONDON, Dec I ? children although threatened east winds from Siberia, laden with with punitive action by the snow and sleet struck Europe from Waterfront Emploxers Associa- Scotland to southern tion. recce today, sending temperatures e r——— Ny t na to record lows. Official forecasts said even worse was com- PAN AMERICAN | ing. g | Londen temperatures dropped (llppER SHlp IS from 42 degrees Fehrenheit to 26 in 24 hours, bringing hte coldest COM!NG AGA‘N day in 10 years. At Hastings, one u of Great Britain's warmest south i coast resorts, water froze on the beach and temperatures from i in. to 30 degrees below zero were Will Ma_ke Second of Win- © % ter Flights, Taking Off bt S NOTICE from South Tuesday ; e Liquor dealers are advised they must have applications for new li- censes in the Clerk of the Court’s office not later than 3 p.m. Decem ber 27, if they are to be approvea for the new year, as City Council will hold but one special meeting to act on licenses. ROBERT E. COUGHLIN, The second winter trial flight of the Pan American Seattle-Juneau clipper, Capt. James Mattis in com- mand, will take place tomorrow, 1t is not known yet whether or not the big amphibian will come straight through to Juneau or stop over in —adv. Clerk of Court. Ketchikan, much depending on the - | state of the weather tomorrow. News Toany.—Empire. 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