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Imperial Valley press., 1930-12-19
FEAR EDITOR SUICIDE

ALEXANDRIA, Calf, Dec. 10. {U.P)
Police instituted a search today
editor of this city, on the supposl-
ton that he had killed himself. Two
notes, indicating suicide, were sent
to Los Angeles newspaper friends
Imperial Valley press., 1930-12-19
PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN

Childrens' festival service will
take place tonight at st. Pauls
Episcopal church. All parents and
friends of the children are invited
to attend. The church is situated
on Fifth street between Orange and
Holt streets.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-12-19

northeast winds this afternoon
The wind will shift to northwest
tonight from Savannah northward
Strong southeast winds are shifting
10 southwest this afternoon ano
will go northwest south of Savan-
nah tonight
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-02
FAREWELL PARTY IS GIVEN YESTERDAY
 FOR MRS. KENDLER

Tn honor of Mrs. Joseph Kendler, who is leaving for her native home in Germany April 12, Mrs. Martin Lynch and Mrs Dewey Frankforter entertained seventeen ladies at a bridge luncheon at the home of Mrs. William Beck yesterday after noon.
 Following luncheon Mrs Render was presented with a beautiful suit case. Mrs. Watkins won the prize for high score at bridge.
 Guests present were: Mrs. Ray Peterman, Mrs. William Beck, Mrs. Walter Robinson, Mrs. Ralph Beist- line, Mrs. Watkins, Mrs. Jack Laurie, Mrs. Ted Laughlin, Mrs. Joe Kendler, Mrs. H. L. Redling- shafer, Mrs. Walter Hellan, Mrs. Talmage, Mrs. Harry Stonehouse, Mrs William Douglas, Mrs. Jessie Harman, Mrs. Walter Heisel, Mrs. Martin Lynch and Mrs Dewey Frankfurter.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-02
VERDICT OF GUILTY RETURNED BY JURY
 IN ROBBERY TRIAL

E. Jacobson and T. Brown were found guilty of robbery late yes terday by a jury in the Federal District Court. They were accused of robbing cabin on Willoughby Avenue several weeks ago.
 The case went to the jury at 435 D. m. and verdict was re- turned in about 30 minutes.
 Today, William Bigoff, accused of assault with a dangerous weapon, was placed on trial He is alleged to have stabbed Steve Ward with knife in local hotel on the morning of March 1. Bigoff plead ed self-defense.
 The jury trying the case is com posed of: Trevor M Davis, w. J Harris, John Lawrence, Frank Mer- Ger, Roy Noland, J. w Woodford William Walton, Anna Zuboff, For rest E. Bates, Ludwig Nelson, Mrs I. J. Sharick and w. c. Maeser.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-02
PALMER LEAVES FOR INTERIOR FOLLOWING
 LOCAL CONFERENCES

L. J. Palmer, head of the Rein deer Experiment Station maintained at the Alaska College by the United States Biological Survey, left here last night on the steamer Alaska for Seward enroute to his head quarters at Fairbanks. He has been here for the past three weeks conferring with Gov. Parks, B. B. Mozee and J. A. Ramsey on pro- posed changes in the reindeer ad- ministration program.
 MT. Palmer will stopover in An chorage for few days to discuss certain phases of the reindeer ad- ministration with Col. O. F. Ohlson, general manager of the flask Railroad. MT. Mozee and MT Ram sey are continuing the conference with the Governor for another week, and will leave next week for their respective headquarters at Nome and Anchorage.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-02
COMING 1.-THE IRON MASK
 with
 DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS BIG DOUBLE
 BILL

made to disappear when we see Children of the Ritz" a new First National picture to be shown at the Palace Theatre starting to- night.
 In the whirl of New York's dizzy high social stratum this fifty thou sand lasts Jack Mulhall and Doro- thy Mackaill very short time in- deed, and four thousand dollar fur coats and fifty-dollar a plate din- ner parties help in the reduction process.
 This high society comedy is packed with amusing and pathetic sidelights on the difficulties. encoun- tering an extravagant girl whose spending money is suddenly reduced from thousands to hundreds, mar ried to a boy who thinks he is rich. He learns that fifty thou sand dollars in the Ritz" is actu- ally almost poverty.
 John Francis Dillon directed James Ford, Kathryn McGuire, Doris Dawson, Edward Burns and Lee Moran are among the support ing artists in the picture.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-02

ATLANTA, Ga, April 2.-The newest vitamin, G, will be explained by chemists at the American Chemi- cal Society meeting here April T to II.
 It is chemistry's latest discovery in the diet line, so new that its values have not been agreed upon yet by the medical profession. The chemists will undertake to show it's existence, source and some of it's healthmaking powers.
 Some of the sources will be de- tailed by Paul L. Day, of Columbia University. Beef, he says, con- tains this vitamin In the order of their vitamin c content he ranks the parts of beef as follows: liver, kidney, heart and muscle.
 Professor Henry c. Sherman of Columbia and Anne Bourquin, re- search assistant, will tell how they have been able to measure the vit- amin c values of various foods. They will describe animals which took on weight and showed growth
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-02
NEWEST MEMBER OF VITANIN FAMILY
 TO MAKE BOW AT CHEMIST MEETING

apparently due to the new vitamin.
 Miss Hazel E. Munsell of the De- partment of Agriculture, Washing ton, will tell how vitamin c diet can be prepared outside of lab oratory. Other vitamin c re- search will be reported by N. B. Guerrant, professor of chemistry of Oklahoma A. & M. and by w. D. Salmon of the Alabama Experiment station.
 Some new information on pella- gra, indicating that many persons not considered victims, really suffer from milder forms of the disease, will be presented. The chemists hold that pellagra is diet disease due to improper amounts of vita min G.
 The first announcement of vita min effective against pellagra was made in 1927 by the late Dr. Joseph Goldberger of the U. s. Hygenic laboratory. He called it vitamin P-P and demonstrated that proper diet cures this often fatal disease.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-02
LEOTA HARRIS IS WINNER OF PRIZE
 IN BIG CONTEST

Leota Harris, daughter of MT and Mrs. Frank Harris, brings to Juneau a high honor in a national contest conducted by Curre n Events, condensed newspaper, week ly, for use in public and private schools. She is the only student in Juneau to win a prize and only one other student of Alaska, Nels Konnerup, seventh grade of Kenne- colt, came into the honors in the contest.
 Leota Harris is pupil of the seventh grade. Juneau, Mrs. Jose phine Tupper, teacher.
 In the September issue of Cur rent Events, appeared pictures of four national characters. The stu dent was to name each of the pictures and write not more than 40 words about them. The pie lures were of President Hoover Charles G. Dawes, Mrs. Hoover and Thomas A. Edison. Miss Harris named the entire group.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-02
For'instance

Some of the studios fashion men have such stylistic prognostication reduced to a science full of guess work true, but based on what one Of them calls common sense. In other words, he explains, what women wear today is pretty fair indication of what is to come next. Illustration:
 The present vogue for long skirts. Flappers brought it on, never hay ing known them. Having them, soon they will tire of their re- striction, and will want change. But long skirts will have accus- toned them to angle-length gar ments, and that too will have its effect. Therefore: next will come modified trousersw Yea, even for evening year.
 Flowing pajamas, seen more and more on the beaches, are another indication of the trend, he says. No, he isn't trying to promote any such designs yet. That'n take time, he says.
 Is it all quite clear? I don't either.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-02
Attractions E 4s1S At Theatres
THE COCOANUTS" IS
 BIG HIT, COLISEUM

Marx Brothers famous Broad way musical comedy hit, "The Co., coanuts" opened at the Coliseum last night. It proved to be a hit. It is a marvellous entertainment, which you will laugh and sing and talk about for weeks. If the low CTS have song in mind when they are in conversation, they sing If the chorus feels like interrupting with one of their dance numbers they step right out, and through it all, those inimitable foolers, the famous Marx Brothers, keep bang ing away with their inane, ridicu- lous lunatic testing.
 Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zep- DO! Who has ever seen of heard of them, would ever miss an oppor- tunity to laugh with them again? They are superb and they register just as perfectly on camera and microphone as they ever did on the StdSC. II WAiO oCSii bC Cocoanuts," at the Coliseum theatre will see the same show as those who saw "The Cocoanuts" during it's year run at $6.60 top, on the Broadway stage.
 And they'll see and hear more Irving Berlin, who wrote the origi- nal music and lyrics for "The Co., coanuts," contributed the catchy new theme song, When My Dreams Come True" to the screen presen- tation. And Mary Eaton, zieg- fields scintillating blonde star, and Oscar Shaw, Broadway's favorite leading man, have the romantic leads. And choruses of unsurpassed beauty and settings of lavish gor- geousness, beautifully photographed, entertain.
 Every item in the production has been provided with generosity and the result is entertainment, delight ful entertainment that sweeps you away in a fairy-land of laughter and music and romance.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-02
(& HoIlyT%0od Ngts RM AZ HM aal Sounds M&

By RoBBIN COONS

HOLLYWOOD, April l. = Even weather prophets have softer job than that of the movie fashion creators.
 The forecasters are called upon to treat only with the comparative ly stable whims of the clements; the studio fashion designer, luck less individual, has to fortell what women will be wearing three months, six, or a year from now.
 The movie fan viewing today q film of ten years ago probably will chuckle a bit at the sight of the heroine's picturesque" gowns.
 To some movie fans among women, beholding a six-months'- old style on an allegedly up-to-date screen character inspires equally critical mirth, and it is part of the designers job not only to create variations on today's styles, but also to produce what he thinks will be fashions mode tomorrow.
 For the picture made this month may not be released for three or four months more, and in that time in the little world of fashion star ting things may happen.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-02
CENSUS TAKERS
 WORKING TODAY
One Hundred and Twenty Thousand Begin Count
 ing Population

WASHINGTON, April 9. = AT. army of 10000 census takers en- tered energetically today into the gigantic task of counting the Am erican population.
 Each worker carried a large port folio containing a dozen copies of a long questionnaire that will be put to everyone in the country.
 It is expected that the count will show gain of 17,ooOO00 from 10 years ago, making the popula- tion of the United States over 122,00o000. The population in 1920 was 105,710620.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-02
HOOT GIBSON IS
 AT PALACE FRIDAY

Hoot Gibson, peerless western star, whose exciting Universal pie ture, "The Long, Long Trail" comes to the Palace Tn a ter Friday, knows his west from cover to cover. Born in Nebraska, he was in the saddle in his early childhood, and for years worked on ranches in Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho and oth- CT states. Hoot does his stuff as cowboy in The Long, Long Trail one of the most stirring and color full of his many successful pictures. Sally Eilers has the role of leading lady and Arthur Rosson directed. It is Hoot's first talking picture.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-02
MAN ON
 FIRST ALASKA TRIP

A. c. Black, new representative of Blumauer Frank Drug Company of Portland, Oregon, was an arrival in Juneau this week. He has been with the concern for seven years.
 This is his first trip to Alaska. He declared himself as quite pleased with the Territory and expects to make at least two trips a year. Af- ter his visit here he will go to Skagway, Sitka, Cordova, Latouche and Kodiak.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-02
LOCAL STUDENTS TO
 DECLAIM TOMORROW

Final selection of representative for Juneau in the Southeast Alaska Schools Defamation Contest to be held in Ketchikan April 10 will be made tomorrow at the high school, it was announced today by Miss Dorothy Israel, English instructor.
 Only two contestants are to de- claim tomorrow. These are Claire Weller, who entered here recently from Occur d'Alene, Idaho, and Muriel Jarman. The latter has chosen for her subject "The Prom ise," by Catherine Dennell, while the former will give "The Little Girl" by Catherine Mansfield.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-02
INCOME TAXES
 SHOW INCREASE

WASHINGTON, April 2. The Treasury Departments final state ment for the month of March showed income taxes aggregating $627 ,50O,000 were collected during the first quarter of the calendar year, sending the total for nine months of the fiscal year to one billion, eight hundred and twelve million dollars, an increase of $l25,- 100000 over the same period the previous year.
 The Treasury Department be- lieves the receipts will fall during the next quarter.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-02
By SUE MCNAMARA
{ Associated Press Feature Service
 Writer)

Associated Press Feature Service
 Writer
 WASHINGTON, April 1.-There are few wall flowers at debutante parties in Washington.
 Though the ratio of women to men in the capital is reckoned at 16 to 1, careful mothers and chap erones see to it that winsome debs have plenty of cavaliers.
 Because of this wise and deter mined foresight, the girls fairly dance the soles off their slippers in a single evening. There are no disconsolate damsels draped along the walls.
 Stag lines often extend half the length of the ball room. A deb- utante must divide one dance among three or four men. That makes her look very popular. The stags "cut in" without ceremony. Debs smile and not graciously and moment later they ditch these partners for new ones. Midshipmen and cadets in uni form. young men with a foreign accent from the legations and em- bassies and bachelor members of Congress line up along the dance floor. As the evening progresses lthe cutting in becomes fast and furious.
 Debbie's spirits must never flag her smile never wayer, no matter how many hours she has been dancing. That's the social code.
 Next seasons debutantes are be- lginning now to plan for their com
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-02
Jottings

While other movie stars and To- cal residents have been incensed over malicious poisoning of their dogs, Louise F,azenda has two pets which sought out grief for them selves A friend sent the com edienne box of reducing tab lets" to try, Louise forgot about them, the dogs found them |. Both are in the hospital, looking like straws,' says Louise 2. Hugh Trevor's on crutches Sprained his angle when he fell under a blow from Ivan Lebedeff = in a picture, of course.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-02
CAPT. O'CONNOR LEAVES
 FOR TRIP TO SEATTLE

Capt. M. J. O'Connor, Asst. Agent of the United States Bureau of Fisheries, left this morning in the steamer Northwestern for Seattle. He was called there to attend a conference of Fisheries officials, and expects to return in two or three weeks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-02
ONE HUNDRED
 LIVES LOST

TOKYO, April 2-More than 100 persons are believed to have drown ed when the ferry boat Wakato Maru, carrying 300 Japanese from Wakamatsu to Tobata, capsized.
 The ferryboat was overcruwded and high sea was running.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-02
GARDENERS ARE TAKEN TO
 HOSPITAL WITH INFLUENZA

MT. and Mrs c. T. Gardner were last night taken to St. Ann's Hos pital suffering from severe attacks of influenza. Their condition was not considered serious.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-02

The Mid-week Lenten service will be held tonight in the Resurrection Lutheran Church at 7:30 o'clock. A cordial invitation is extended to all to come and worship with the congregation.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-02
MARGUERITE HERE

The Marguerite, Capt. John Eric son, Diamond K cannery tender, arrived in port from Wrangell last night and is to leave again to- morrow morning.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-02
"CHILDREN OF RITZ"
 AT PALACE TONIGHT

Many of us who have Imagined how content we would be with fif- ty thousand dollars in the bank will have an opportunity to learn how quickly that amount can be
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-02
NO WALL FLOWERS IN CAPITAL;
 CAREFUL MOTHERS SEE TO THAT

ing out parties while those of the present season are announcing their engagements. Several of the past winters crop have married.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-02
SALLY S. izy TORT

The Sally S., Alaska Pacific Sal mon corporation boat, is in port to- day.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-02

Old papers at sTne Empire of- flee.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-02

Old papers for sale at The Elm pire.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-23

non. He heard me 70 the end-at FIRST
laughed heartily-and then lapsed into
an excessively grave demeanor, as If
my insanity was q thing beyond sus-
picion.
At this instant again had a distinct
view Of the monster-to which, with a
shout of absolute terror, I now directed
his attention. He looked eagerly, but
maintained that he saw nothing-al-
though designated infinitely the
course OF the creature as 1t made its
way down the naked face of the hill.
was now UNNECESSARILY alarmed, for
considered the vision either an omen
OF my death or, worse, as the forerunner
of an attack of mania. threw myself
passionately back in my chair and for
some moments buried my face in my
hands. When I uncovered my eyes the
apparition was no longer visible.
My host however, had in some degree
resumed the calmnesS of his demeanor
and questioned me very vigorously in
respect to the conformation of the
visionary creature. When I had fully
satisfied him on this head he sighe d
deeply, as If relieved Of some intoler-
able burden, and went on to talk, with
what I thought cruel calmness, of vari-
Gus points of speculative philosophy. l
remember his insisting very especially
upon the idea that the principal source
of error in all human investigations lay
in the liability Of the understanding to
underrate or to overvalue the iInpor-
lance OF an object through mere mis-
admeasurement of its nearness.
ITO estimate properly, for example"
he said. "the influence to be exercised
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From the trunk there were outspread
two pairs of wings-each wing nearly
100 yards in length-one pair being
placed above the other, and all thickiy
covered with metal scales, each scale
apparently some 10 or IL feet in diam
eter. I observed that the upper ana
lower tiers of wings were connected by
strong chain.
But the chief popularity of this hor-
rible thing was the representation OF
deaths head, which covered nearly the
whole surface of its breast, and which
was as accurately traced in glar1ng
white, upon the dark ground OF the
body, as il it had been there carefully
designed by an artist While re-
garded this terrific animal, and more
especially the appearance on its breast,
with a feeling of horror and awe-with
a sentiment of forthcoming evil per-
ceived the huge jaws at the extremity
of the proboscis suddenly expand them
selves, and from there proceeded
sound so loud and so expressive OF woe
that 1t struck upon my nerves ike a
knell, and as the monster disappeared
at the foot of the hill, fell in
faint.
Upon recovering, my first impulse
was to inform my friend OF what had
seen and heard. At length, one eve
ming, some three or four days after the
occurrence, we were sitting together in
the room in which had seen the APP
parition--I occupying the same seat at
the same window, and he lounging on q
sofa near at hand. The association OF
the place and time impelled me to
give him an account of the phenome-
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THE EVENING STORY
One of WorId-FamOus Works of Literature

large trees which it passed. few
giants of the forest which had escaped
the fury Of the landslide-I concluded
it to be far larger than any ship of
the line in existence. 1 say ship of
the line, because the shape of the mon
ster suggested the idea-the hull Of
one of our 74s might convey a very
tolerable conception Of the general out
line.
The mouth of the animal was stu
ated at the extremity of a proboscis
(trunk) some so or 20 feet In length,
and about as thick as the body of an
ordinary elephant. Near the root Of
this trunk was an immense quantity
of black shaggy hair, more than could
have been supplied by the coats of a
score of buffaloes; and projecting from
this hair downwardly and laterally,
sprang two cleaning tusks not unlike
those of the wild boar, but of infinitely
greater dimensions. Extending forward,
parallel with the proboscis, and on
each side of it, was gigantic staff,
80 or 30 feet in length, formed SEEM
ingly of pure crystal, and in shape a
perfect prism-it reflected in the most
gorgeous manner the rays of the de-
Ginning sun. The trunk was fashioned
like wedge with the apex to the earth.
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on mankind at large by the thorough
diffusion Of democracy, the distance OF
the epoch at which such diffusion may
possibly be accomplished, should not
fail to form an item in the estimate.
yet can you tell me one writer on the
subject OF government who has ever
Thought this particular branch Of the
subject worthy of discussion2"
He here paused for moment,
stepped to a bookcase and brought
forth one of the ordinary synopses of
natural history. Requesting me then
to exchange seats with him, that he
might the better distinguish the fine
print of the volume, he took my arm
chair at the window and, opening the
book. resumed his discourse very much
in the same tone as before.
"But for your exceeding minuteness,"
he said, Gin describing the monster, I
might never have had it in my power
to demonstrate to you what it was. In
the first place let me read to you a
schoolboy account Of the genus Sphinx,
of the family Crepuscularia, of the or
der Lepidoptera, which contains butter
flies and moths, of the class Insecta, o.
insects. The account runs thus:
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-Four membranous wings covered
with little colored scales OF metallic
appearance; mouth forming a rolled
proboscis, produced by an elongation of
the jaws, upon the sides OF which are
found the rlldiments of mandibles and
downy palpi; the inferior wings re-
tanned to the superior by a stif hair:
antennae in the form Of an elongated
club, prismatic, abdomen pointed. The
death's-headed Sphinx has occasioned
much terror among the vulgar at times
by the melancholy kind of cry which 1t
utters and the insignia Of death which
it wears upon its corslet.'"
"Ah, here 1t isl" he presently ex-
claimed. ut is reascending the face
of the hill, and very remarkable look
ing creature admit 1t to be. Still, it
is by no means so large or so distant
as you imagined it. for the fact Is that
as it wriggles its way up this thread,
which some spider has wrought along
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The Sphinx.
NV EnCAR ALLAN POE.

fEdgar Allan Poe, 1sos-ls4a, was an
American poet and story-writer. author Of
"The Raven" .The Gold Bus" The Fall
the Rue Morgue," THE Masque OF the
Red" etc.
Near the close of an exceedingly
warm day I was sitting, book in hand,
at an open window, commanding,
through long vista of the river banks,
a view of a distant hill. the face of
which nearest my position had been
denuded by what is termed a land
slide of the principal portion of its
trees. Uplifting my eyes from the page,
they fell upon the naked face of the
hill. and upon an object-upon some
living monster of hideous conformation,
which very rapidly made its way from
the summit to the bottom. disappear
ing finally in the dense forest below.
AS this creature came first in sight 1
doubted my own sanity-or at least the
evidence of my own eyes; and many
minutes passed before succeeded in
convincing myself that I was neither
mad or dreaming.
Estimating the size Of the creature
by comparison with the diameter of the