FIVE-DAY WEEK
WOULD PUT BILLIONS
• DOLLARS CIRCULATION
SAN FRANCISCO, May 12. (/P)—
Several billion dollars annually
would be tapped and put in cir
culation if the five-day week was
adopted for the 40,000,000 gain
fully employed persons in the
United States.
This message, announced in San
Francisco, s the opinion of Ethel
bert Stewart, Commissioner of La
bor Statistics in Washington, D.
C. Stewart said the increased
spending and consumption result
ing from increased leisure would
mean greater production and more
jobs.
M • All phases of the transportation
industry would benefit, Stewart
said.
PHEASANTS IINTEBED
WELL, 15 0. BLITZ
To the varied game on Kenai
Peninsula, noted as the game in
cubator of Alaska, a new specie
w4s planted last fall by a devout
sportsman of Seward, Mel Horner.
<3tto Glatz, of Lower Kenai Riv
er brought in a report to Mr.
Horner the other day saying the
tvpo Chinese pheasants he left
d<i>wn there last fall wintered very
well and that he and the birds had
become quite friendly. Soon, he
expects, a new brood will be chirp
ing and cackling around his home.
There was little snow through
out the winter and under trees,
none at all. Cranberries and moss
berries were plentiful as well as
millions of rosebuds.
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1:45 p. m.
;Court convened at
Monday, May 11.
Brehmer vs. Brehmer; motion
afcid order of default; motion and
order of reference.
i Urbach Sc Valade v s. Oscar
Ebhl. Trial continued. Mr. Ur
ch testified on behalf of plain
ts; Mrs. Dorothy Urbach, like
se.
May 12, Tuesday, 10 a. m.
Panel petit juror reported and
re excused until May 13, at 10
m.
Urbach & Valade vs. Oscar
Ipahl trial continued. Mrs. Ur
bach continued her testimony. D.
35. Valade testified on behalf of
plaintiffs. Continued to 1:30 p. m.
a.
NEW CRUISER OVER
EPTOR FIRST ME
SAN FRANCISCO, May 12, (£’)
A wireless message has arrived at
the Mare Island Navy Yard to
the effect that the yard built
cruiser Chicago had crossed the
equator* on her first trip from
Hawaii to Samoa and that the
land lubbers and the pollywogs
* had been well initiated.
Among the list to receive the
official diplomas was Commander
B. S. Bullard, U. S. N., assistant to
the superintendent of the Mars
Island Navy Yard and the Yard
representative on the ship while
she is on her “shakedown” cruise.
k LETHAL GAS FOR PUNISHMENT]
SACRAMENTO, May 12. (IP)—
After weathering legislative chan
nels with record speed, a Senate
bill substituting lethal gas for
hanging as a method of capital
\punishment in California was up
for consideration in the Assembly.
The MS Discoverer, Capt. Heinie
Berger, loaded culverts here to
day for transportation to Hiamna.
The U. S. S. Cutter Talapoosa
eft port shortly after 12 today.
l*ractical and Mantua) bridge gttta at
he Alaaha Step.
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AWARDED MEDAL
MELBOURNE, Australia, May 12.
(/p) _ wing Commander Charles
Kingsford-Smith was awarded the
Oswald Watt Medal for the most
conspicuous feat performed in
1930 by Australian born flyers.
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1,000 MEN EMPLOYED ON DAM
LAS VEGAS, Nev., May 12. (&)
—Approximately 1,000 men were
employed on the Boulder Dam
project and allied construction ac
tivity, engineers reported.
Equipped with two tips, an elec
j trie soldering iron has a switch in
the handle so that current can be
I turned on or off.
_
Dr. H. M. Hand, physician and
surgeon of the U. S. S. Tallapoosa,
was to assist Dr. A. D. Haverstock,
of the Seward General Hospital,
in the operation today on the
compound .fracture of the jaws
of Everett Alkiry, member of the
Tallapoosa crew.
The MS Discoverer, Capt. Heinie
Berger, expects to return to Sew
ard in two weeks. On the return!
trip he will pick up deputy mar-1
shals and prisoners on the Inlet
and take them direct to Valdez
where a term of court will be
under way next week.
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GOLFERS SAIL FOR ENGLAND
NEW YORK, May 12. (/P)^Tohn
ny Farrell and Gene Sarazen, for
mer holders of the United States
open golf championship, will sail
for England next Wednesday night
in quest of the British open cham
pionship, which will be contested
over the historic Carndustic links,
in Scotland, starting June 1.
Three signs like “hen tracks, ’
cut into a broken scrap of pottery
jar, are considered a fresh evidence
of the antiquity of the alphabet by
Prof. Remainutin, of the Catholic
University of America.
Brown * Ilnwldna,—Fjrrt
fills Ml KIM
1621—First marriage in Plymouth;’
Governor Winslow and the Wi
dow White.
1869- The shore end of the Fran
co-American cable landed at
Brest. France.
1893—Bering Sea patrol of Great
Britain ordered to seize all seal
ing vessels.
1931—Gateway predicts -oil well
will be brought in Chickaloon
district this summer.
“Two Hearts In Waltz Time,'* one of the
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