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The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-19
HALIBUT PRICES

PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., Aug. 19-Two hundred and thirty-one thousand pounds of halibut were sold here Monday. American hali- but sold for and Il cents and Canadian for and 9.5 cents.
 SEATTLE, Aug. 19.-Six vessels with 78,800 pounds of halibut sold here yesterday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-19
MISCELLANEOUS

Prof. Wardle, THE NEW MEDIUM. He tells your troubles before you ask a question. Room 5, oyer Gastineau Grocery.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-19
LODE CLAIM NOTICES

[ American or Canadian at The Empire.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-19

= Experienced mangle girl, head folder. Good salary, steady work. Apply at once. Snow White Laundry.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-19
AVIATOR ON HONEYMOON

Joseph Crc5son, aviator who makes his headquarters at Fair banks, and Mrs. Crosson, were passengers on the steamship Alaska yesterday bound for the states. They are on their honeymoon.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-19
LOST AND FOUND

comb and pencil in black velvet case. Return ito Empire. Reward.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-19
WANTED

WANTED-Young man wants job as delivery truck driver. Call the Empire.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-19
NOTICE

NOIICE
 The Public Library will be closed Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday on account of redecoration. adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-19
TIDES TOMORROW

Low tide, 3:32 am, 1.2 feet. High tide, 10:09 am, 11.8 feet. Low tide, 334 pm, 5.8 feet. High tide, 9.39 pm, 15.4 feet.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-19

LCST-Conklin fountain pen. Re-
 turn to Empire. Reward.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-19

Old papers Ter sale at The En- pire office.
The Washington times., 1930-11-26
Sermon Tomorrow
Ru ReD. DIR. DudLeu

The Rev. DR.. George tiske Dud-
ley, rector of St. Stephens and
the Incarnation Episcopal Church,
will preach tomorrow " special
Thanksgiving services at 10:30
q. m.
Holy Communion will be cele-
brated at 7:3O a. m.
The Washington times., 1930-11-26
Benz. Franklin Stresses
Blessings of Lord

posed in the assembly to proclaim
another fast, a farmer of plain
sense rose, and remarked, that
the inconvenience they suffered,
and concerning which they had
so often wearied heaven with
their complaints, were not so
great as they might have expected,
and were diminishing every day,
as the colony strengthened; that
the earth began to reward their
labor, and to furnish literally
for their subsistence, and above
all, that they we're there in the
full enjoyment of liberty, civil
and religious. .
He, therefore, thought that 1t
would be more becoming the
gratitude they owed to the Divine
Being, if, instead of a fast, they
should proclaim a Thanksgiving
His advice was taken, and from
that day to this they have. in
every year, observed circumstances
of public felicity sufficient to
furnish employment for a Thanks,
giving Day, which is therefore
constantly ordered and religiously
observed.
The Washington times., 1930-11-26
CHURCH To LAY
CORNERSTONE

The cornerstone of the new
Sunday school building Of the Cen.
trail Presbyterian Church, Fiji
teenth and Irving Streets. will be
laid tomorrow morning, following
the special Thanksgiving services.
The Rev. DR.. James H. Taylor,
paStcr, will preside at the ceremo,
I1ies, assisted by r. P. Clarke and
=. D. King.
When the Central Pre- byterian
Church erected it's present build
ing, in 1918, the cornerstone was
laid by President Wilson, a 'eG :
lar worshipe. at the church. The
same trowel used -: the President
will be used at the ceremony TO-
morrow.
Deposited in the cornerstone,
among >ther records, will be
copies of The Washington Herald
and other newspapers, an account
of the fiftieth anniversary cele-
uration of the church, with a copy
of an address delivered by Presi-
T Mt Wilson; a booklet containing
q historical skeLch of the church
and a program of the service at
the unveiling of the memorial tab
let by President Coolidge, in 1925.
The Washington times., 1930-11-26
DR., W.-L. DARBY
WILL SPEAK

The Rev. DR.. w. L. Darby
executive secretary of the Wash
ington Federation of Churches
will be the speaker at Thanks
giving services tomorrow morn
ing in the National City Chris
tian Church. His subject will be
New Grounds for ThanKsgiV-
ing"
Evangelistic services will be
held the evenings of December
4, S and 6. The services Will pe
under the auspices of the young
peoples organizations OF the
church. The general theme Will
be Portraits of Jesus"
Speakers will include Miss
Janet jackson, Robert M. Lyon,
Miss Irene James, Fred Chase,
Miss Maise Hosick, Miss Eula
Mae Emick, F. E. Estes, and
William C. Bond. jr.
The Washington times., 1930-11-26
Thanksgiving Text
For ReU. DR.. Bird

The Rev. DR.. Andrew Reid
Bird, pastor of the Presbyterian
Church of the Pilgrims, will
preach tomorrow morning on
THANKSGIVING That Clouds Can
not Shadow"
The Washington times., 1930-11-26
CHURCH 8 last
THANKSGIVING

The final Thanksgiving service
in old Metropolitan Methodist
Church will be held tomorrow at
10:30 a. m. The pastor, the Rev.
DR.. James Shera Montgomery,
will preach.
The church is building a new
house of worship, to be the Ma.
tional Methodist Church, opposite
the campus of the American Uni
versity. The old church will be
abandoned January /.
The Washington times., 1930-11-26
Columbus y. Teams
Contend in Debate

Elimination of jury trials was
advocated by a team which
emerged victorious last night in
the first of a series of inter-class
debates at Columbia University
School of Law.
The winners were Byrnes F.
Bentley and John T. Burns of the
Columbian Debating Society. They
took the affirmative side of the
question, Resolved that the right
of trial by jury should be
abolished in all cases. civil and
criminal, except capital cases, in
the District of Columbia"
The Washington times., 1930-11-26

"The Origin of Thanksgiving"
By Benjamin Franklin, appearing
for the first time in Richardson's
American school reader, published
in 1910.
The Washington times., 1930-11-26

and Mrs. Leslie Hammersley
Roosevelt, AZ, of Sayville, L. l.,
a widow, today had filed notice
of intention to marry.
The Washington times., 1930-11-26
INTEND TO MARRY

LOS ANGELES, Calf, Nov. 26
uN.S0 Capt. Charlse E. Court
ney. SO, of the u. S. s. Tennessee,
The Washington times., 1930-11-26
LUtherGnS Arrange
For Union Service

A union service of Lutheran
churches will be held tomorrow
morning at st. Johns Lutheran
Church, in which St Marks
Church and the Church Of the
Reformation will participate. The
Rev. DR.. H. D. Hayes, pastor of
st. Marks Church, will preach.
The offering will be devoted
to the Lutheran Home for the
Aged. A special service, with a
flag presentation. will he held at
the home at 4 p. m.
The Washington times., 1930-11-26
BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN


There is a tradition that in
the planting of New England, the
first settlers met with many diff
culties and hardships, as is gen
orally the case when civilized
people attempt to establish them
selves in a wilderness country.
Being piously disposed, they
sought relief from heaven by lay
ing their wants and distresSeS
before the Lord, in frequent set
days of fasting and prayer. Con
slant meditation and discourse
on these subjects kept their
minds gloomy and discontented,
and, like the children of Israel,
there were many disposed to re-
turn to that Egypt which persecu-
ton had induced them to aban-
don.
At length, when it was pro.
The Washington times., 1930-11-26
PrOtestGfuts Plan
For Thanksgiving

A union Thanksgiving Selv.ce
of the Protestant churches OF
Chevy Chase will be held tomorrow
morning at 1920 o'clock in Christ
Episcopal Church. The Rev. DR..
]. Hillman Hollister, pastor Of the
Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church,
will preach,
The Washington times., 1930-11-26
DR.. Cornelius Abbott
breaches Tomorrow

The Rev. DR.. Cornelius Steven
son Abbott, of the Episcopal
Church of the Good Shepherd,
will preach at Thanksgiving serv-
ices tomorrow morning at II
O'Clock.
Holy communion will be cele-
brated at 7:30 a. m.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-03
AERIAL WAR FLEET
!. TUNED FOR REVIEW
200 Pilots Man $4,000 900
Planes at Sacramento Dur
ing Army Maneuvers.
BY the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press
] MATHER FIELD, SACRAMENTO,
Calf, April 3.-Five million dallars'
worth of airplanes were tuned up and
polished ard more than 200 Army pilots
donned their best uniforms today for
formal review by the commanding OH
Ger of the annual Air Corps maneuvers
here, Brig Gen. w. E. Gilmore.
The review, however, was not per-
mitted to interfere with the mock war"
activities for which 159 planes have
been gathered here from all parts OF the
Nation. The operations Office ordered
the morning spent in maneuvers de-
signed to promote airdrome discipline.
With the object of approximatlng war
time conditions, the hour for COM
mencement of the several missions, as
the maneuver flights are known, was not
given in preliminary orders. Headquar.
tiers said the exact time for the attack
would be given squadron commanders
shortly before the take-off. Mobilization
of the Air Corps tactical units was
completed yesterday with arrival from
Selfridge Field of group OF planes de-
layed en- route by stormy weather.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-03
INCREASE FILM BUDGET

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, April 81. L. Warner,
vice president of First National Studios,
announced today that program calling
for expenditure of $17,500,000 on 40
pictures had been decided upon by the
company for the 1930-31 period. The
budget represents an increase of $780,
600 over last year. Warner said 10
technicOlor films would be made.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-03
EXISTENCE OF PLANET
CONFIRMED BY PICTURES
Egyptian Observatory Places Dis
covery As Times Distance of
Earth From Sun.
NV the Associated Press.

ny IIle taSSUCIdItU EItsS.
CAIRO, Egypt, April ga photo
graph taken at the Helouan Observatory
confirmed, it was stated today, existence
of the transneptune planet recently dis
covered by the Lowell Observatory at
Flagstaff, AriZ.
Photographs of the plant were taken
March II, "a and 81, tie body appearing
on the sensitive plates after an hours
exposure in each case.
The planet is less brilliant than Nep-
tune, which formerly was thought to be
the outermost planet, but it apparently
is larger than the earth. Its distance
is about As times the distance of the
earth from the sun.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-03
MICHIGAN. HUNTS TWO
WHO SHOT GARAGE MAN
Victim Declares Pair in Car In
Ditch Had Body
in Machine.
~ the Assnciated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MENOMINEE, Mich, April 3.-Mlcn-
igan State police and sheritt's otncers
Of Upper Michigan and Northern Wis
consin late last night were searching
for two men who shot and dubbed
Alex Andrews, proprietor of garage
here, on Highway U. S. 2, about II miles
north of Menominee.
Andrews drove to a garage five miles
north of the city about $50 pm: the
bones of his left hand shattered by
bullet and his head bruised and bleed
ing from the clubbing.
He said he was asked to go to the
place II miles from Menominee to haul
a car out of the ditch. He drove alone:
After getting the car back on the ROAD
he noticed a fiat tire and opened the
front door of the car to look Tor
spare tube. Andrews glanced at man
sitting in the rear seat and saw that
he had beside him a bundle which ap-
peared to be human body.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-03
FINANCIER ANSWERS
LA GUARDIA CHARGES
H. G. Dalton Declares Counsel
Approved Plan for Steel and
Tube Merger.

BY the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, April 3.-H. G. Dalton.
Cleveland financier who was named by
Representative F. H. La Guardia as
"go-between" in negotiations for merger
of Bethlehem Steel with youngstown
Sheet & Tube, yesterday answered with
a statement which said:
Counsel for both companies were
consulted and approved the proposed
transaction as entirely legal before the
negotiations were completed"
La Guardia had called the merger
plan combination lin restraint of
trade" and introduced resolution ask
ing Attorney General William D. Mitch
ell to investigate it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-03
The ''LittIe Bride ShOD'>

On the third floor displays effectively
everything for the Easter bride
from lovely lingerie, frocks, suits,
coats to the wedding gown and veil.
(Third FIoorl
The Washington times., 1930-01-23
SCHOOL STRIKE
CONSIDERED

Transfers of pupils from the
Burroughs School to Langdon
and Langley Schools may call
forth another student strike.
At meeting of citizens of the
Woodbridge section last night in
the office of Kenneth P. Arm
strong, 1000 block Rhode Island
Ave. N. E.. it was decided to call
a strike mass meeting" if the
school board does not reScind the
order 20 transfer students of the
seventh and eighth grades from
Burroughs.
The proposed meeting will be
held January 30 in the Burroughs
School. Letters were sent to
parents of school children in the
Woodbridge section inviting them
tC attend the meeting and par
ticipate in the discussion.
At last nights meeting several
parents asserted the transfers
would increase crowding in al
ready congeSted schools and force
children to go unnecessarily long
distances to school.
The Washington times., 1930-01-23
FOR NEW
BUILDING MADE
At HEARING

With an opening statement by
Chairman Britten that the pres
ent Naval Hospital and surround
ing buildings in this city consti-
tuted fire trap" and menace
to several hundred sick patients
housed therein, the Naval Al
fairs Committee of the House be-
gan hearings today on the bill
for a new hospital.
This bill, offered by Repre-
sentative Britten, proposes the
replacement of the existing struc-
lures at a cost of $3,200,000.
Admiral Riggs Heard
Rear Admiral Charles Riggs.
surgeon general of the Navy, was
the first witness upon the bill.
He said that the present build
ings were antiquated and consti-
tuted a fire hazard. The Fine
Arts Commission, he said, wanted
them all demolished, Admiral
Riggs said further that nearly
300 of the patients in the hospital
were disabled men sent by the
Veterans Bureau. and the average
number of patients altogether
was about 400.
Il introduce this bill not at
the request of the Navy Depart
ment, but because I visited the
hospital and found that it is a
fire trap, loaded down with sick
human beings. The buildings are
not modern and should be re-
placed"
McCIintic Is Doubtful
Representative McClintic. Okla
homa, said that if the buildings
were needed for humanitarian
purposes he could support the
bill. However, he said, if it were
Just another plan for an orna-
mental structure in the Wash
ington building program, he
would have to oppose it. Certain
people back in the country dis
tricts, he said, are making criti.
cisms that too much money is be-
ing spent by the Government for
Washington buildings and not
enough in the country at large
where the Government has owned
unoccupied sites for many years.
The Washington times., 1930-01-23
HEART DISEASE
LEADS CAUSES
Of DEATH

Organic heart disease consider
ably outnumbered other causes of
death in the District during 1929.
according to statistics released ~ d
day by the Health Department
Deaths from heart ailments
totalcd 1892. Cancer and pneu-
monia second and third highest
caused 693 and 637 deaths re.
spectiVely. Pulmonary tuberculosis
was responsible for 507 deaths
and influenza for SO. Deaths
from epidemic diseases such as
typhoid fever. scarlet fever.
measles and Whooping cough were
comparatively few in number.
d, Ceath Rate Up
Both the birth and death rates
based on available estimates of
the total population showed in
CreaSes over 1928.
The birth rate was 1929 per
1000 population, in 1923 and
1886 in 1929. The death rate
advanced from 1911 to 13.45.
Rates for both years, however,
are based on the same figure
of population, $4,000 the latest
available estimate from the
Census Bureau and the rates do
not take into account the natural
increase in population of one
year.
Adds $4,000 Yearly
Generally the Health Depart
ment adds an arbitrary figure
of 10000 each year, but in view
of the forthcoming census this
procedure was not followed in
the estimates made this year.
An estimate making allowance
for the natural increase may be
made later to be embodied in
the formal report for last year.
The Washington times., 1930-01-23

ShiUerS, that he IOGS going to
try to get his UGcdtiOnS in the
Winter from nOW on, in order to
90 back to the home to1Dn.
When spring arrives, a young
man in the trees and DarkugS
division, District government.
will take wing along with the
robins and all air+minded Gre
atureS.
He is BARNES D. PRICE,
who has been recently appointed
a flying cadet in the Army.
Price is to report at a West
ern flying field in the latter
part of February. He is a grad
uate of George Washington
University, and has at various
times studied sculpture and
journalism, in addition to aVia-
ton.
Price possesses a pilots license,
which he secured by a course
of training at Hybla Field,
in Maryland, but when he ar
rives at the Army field, he
says, he will say nothing about
it. He would rather start all
oven again and learn flying as
the Army teaches it.
The Washington times., 1930-01-23
SENATE DOCTOR
BILL DELAYED

The Senate again today de-
layed action on the proposal of
Senator Royal S. Copeland, New
York, that a special physician
be assigned to the Senate.
Copeland is the author of
resolution which would direct the
Secretary of the Navy to detail
an officer of the medical corps
for duty as physician to the
Senate, a condition which pre-
walls now on the House side.
The measure was called up to-
day by Copeland, and after de
bate, was referred to the Com
mittee on Naval Affairs. Sell
aJor Walsh, Massachusetts, ex.
pressed fear at the precedent
which would be established under
the measure, saying that it might
lead to the designation of free
medical officers to other Gov
ernment departments and bu-
reauS.
The Washington times., 1930-01-23
NEW TAXI CODE
STRIKES BLOW

Under it's new set of rules gov
erning taxicabs, over which it
exercises jurisdiction because the
cabs are common carriers, the
T Lblic Utilities Commission is
going to do its best to eliminate
the old-time hack driver"
The old-time hack drivers"
were, for the most part, re
Sponsible for the attitude of the
public toward taxi drivers. Those
drivers took all the chances in
the world and were the cause of
many accidents. serious and
trivial.
Now the commission is going
to keep record of each drivers
difficulties with the police and is
going to hold the owner of the
cab responsible for the acts of
the drivers. If a cab owner in
SiStS upon employing drivers who
have bad police records, as far as
traffic violations are concerned,
the owner will be warned, and, if
the warning is not needed, his
license to operate taXicabS will be
taken from him "in the public
interest"
The commission also has de-
c,ded to follow the lead of the
police and traffic bureau in set
ting the minimum age for drivers
at 81 years. It previously had
put the age limit at 18. The
commission also decided to strike
out the regulation that a cab
must be able to make 35 miles
an hour on a level street. This
was done out of respect for the
Districts speed law.
The Washington times., 1930-01-23

Plans for Washington's first
annual Cherry Blossom Festival
this spring are nearing compile
ton, it was announced today by
Dorsey Hyde, secretary of the
Washington Chamber of Com
merce, sponsoring the festival.
Lieut.. Col. U. S. Grant Sd,
director of public buildings and
parks, has granted use of the
public grounds in Potomac Park,
where the festival will be held,
Hyde said, and arrangements for
the seating of spectators are
being made by the committee,
which is headed by Maj. Gen.
Anton Stephan.
Plans for the regatta to be
held are in the hands of sub
committee headed by Commodore
Conrad Smith.
Pageants and folk-dances are
being planned by a subcommit-
The Washington times., 1930-01-23
Man Injured by Auto
In Avoiding Collision

Endeavoring to avoid a COLI
sion with another automobile in
the 300 block Maryland Avenue
N. E. yesterday, William Brown,
colored, 10. of the 1900 block
Sheriff Road N. E., struck and
knocked down Charles Wesley
Warner, 81, of the 500 block
Maryland Avenue N. E.
Warner was removed to Cas-
ualty Hospital where he was
found to have suffered a possible
fractured skull and severe lacer-
ationS of the scalp. His condi
ton is serious.
The Washington times., 1930-01-23
MERCER IS SEEN
FOR TRACTION
COMPANIES

Legislation authorizing a mer.
ger Of the street car companies
Of Washington along the lines
suggested by the Public Utilities
Commission in a resolution now
before Congress, but embodying
compromises on controversial
items, will be worked out in
executive sessions of the Senate
District Committee.
Members of the committee to-
day seemed of the opinion that
prospects for merger legislation
are particularly bright owing to
the conciliatory attitude shown
by all those who testified at the
open hearing on unification last
night.
Capper To Call Meeting
Senator Capperasaid today that
he will call a meeting of the
committee some time next week
at which the compromises will be
taken up. It is expected mem
bers of the Public Utilities Com
mission will be called into con
ference with the committee TO
iron out changes which will be
necessary in the proposed legiS-
lation before it is reported out.
With the statement by mem
berS of the commission at the
hearing that they are willing to
yield to the demand of the com
panieS that amendments to the
public utilities law now embodied
in the merger resolution be dealt
with separately, there is only one
big rock left upon which the
merger could founder.
This principal difficulty, upon
which the companies and the
commission seem hopelessly split
is the matter of continuing the
present rate of fare for two years
after the merger is effected.
Opposed by Companies
The companies maintain that
they should not be bound to ex-
isting fares for any period, be
cause of changing conditions.
They want the present procedure
in regard to fare matters to con
tlnue. The utilities commission
ers, on the other hand, believe
that the two year period should
be kept in the resolution.
The row which threatened to
develop over alteration of the
legal procedure to be followed on
appeals from orders and decisions
Of the commission. subsidized when
the commissioners announced
that these changes need not
necessarily be carried in the mer-
ger resolution but could be acted
upon separately. 1t is probable
that this procedure will be fol
lowed on this point.
1t became apparent at last
nights hearing that Senator
John j Blaine, of Wisconsin, who
principally blocked the last mer-
ger proposal with his amend
ments, is in favor of the existing
basis for legislation and that he
will fight Strenuously for the
early passage of the modified
resolution.
The Washington times., 1930-01-23
to Fraternities
Plea in Congress

Benevolent and fraternal cor
porations which have been created
by special act of Congress would
be permitted to separate their
insurance from their fraternal
activities under a bill introduced
today by Senator Tom Connally
of Texas.
A similar bill was introduced
in the House before Christmas
and is now on the calendar Of
The Washington times., 1930-01-23
Cherry Blossom Fete
Plans Announced
staff Photo

tee of which Mrs. Marie Moore
Forrest is chairman.
Plans are being made for a
float, constructed on a aSlow-lying
barge, and bearing the queen of
the festival, which will sail from
Analostan Island. near George
town, down the Potomac River.
around Potomac Park and up the
Washington Channel. The party
on the float will then disembark
and the coronation ceremonies
will be held.
Arrangements for the musical
part of the festival are being
made by John A. Eckert.
First-aid station will be under
the direction of DR.. j. A. Flynn.
The festival committee will
meet February at 4::3O p. m.
in the offices of the Chamber of
Commerce, the Homer Building.
to discuss further plans.