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HUGE TORTOISE
 FALLS VICTIM ID
 kETCH|KAN FISHERMAN

Ketchikan people were recent ly given chance to view big porpoise which had been caught by a Ketchikan fisherman and which was placed on display in the Tongass Trading Co.,, reports the Tribune, Of that city.
 It isn't often that one has an opportunity to study a porpoise at close range so everybody who passed stopped to exclailn at the beauty of it's body and shiny black back that looked like it had just received a coat of lac quer.
 The animal was over five feet long and weighed 300 pounds The head had short nozzle with no beak and had a blow-hole between two small eyes. Each jaw had about 40 or 50 sharp teeth. The under part of the body was white and the upper, glossy black. This skin is a half inch thick and makes good leath- CT. Shoe strings are made of it.
 The porpoise swims high in the water rushing along at top speed. They cannot swim very long under water; they have to come up for air and make 9 great noise in discharging and taking in air, which is the ori- gin of the expression blowing like a portoise."
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GOLD MINING PAYS

The Juneau Emipre reports that the Alaska Juneau mine showed net profit on it's operations for 1850 of $831 ,085 after the deduc- tlon of all charges except ore de- pletion. The company earned fifty-eight cents ia share last year on 1,443,OOO shares of stock issued and having a par value of $1O. This is 13 cents less than in 1929 when II per cent per share was earned.
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LIGHTHOUSE BASE WAS SHATTERED BY QUAKE

This winters earthquakes have crumbled the foundations of one of the governments northern most lighthouses, at Cape Hinchen- brook in Alaska.
 In announcing plans for a new one there, the lighthouse service said the rock base of the old one had been shattered, but depite the imminent danger of its toppling over, light was still maintained.
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VILLAGE CuT-UPs GIVE
 JA|LER RASPBERRY

HANFORD, Calif., Mar, B, (4) To get sample of plain and fancy vituperation just sing "The Prison Song" to J. A. Romine, King County jailer.
 The reason is that he is still the butt of the village cut-ups over the escape of Preston Boze- man and Alfred Lopez who lock- ed him in their cell, pried a screen off the jail and went right away from that place, un- noticed
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SEEKS PERMISSION

Setting forth that the impend- ing higher freight rates on coal will burden it with a heavy ad- ditional expense, the Northern Commercial Company of Fair banks, through it's agent George Preston, applied formally to the city council for permission to adjust steam heat and water rates in accordance with the in creased price of fuel, reports the News Miner.
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According to recent issues of the Fairbanks News Miner the five miles of ground at the mouth of Canes Creek, in the upper kuSkokwim country, may be dredged this summer. It is ex- pected that drilling will start at an early date.
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A road meet was to be held on Friday, Mar. B, at Seldovia with the object of discussing the Sel- dovia Thoroughfare and matters incident thereto, and to take such action as may be best to effec- tuate the construction of same reports the Seldovia Herald.
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Nurses of the Seward General Hospital have moved into the former Banbury residence which has been rented by the hospital III order to afford more facilities III the hospital proper, to pat tents.
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A son was born last week to MT. and Mrs. L. H. Stephanson of Anchorage, reports the Anchor age Times. Another postal off, cial because his daddy is assistant postmaster.
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Mrs. HaSkins of Anchorage who recently took the remains of her beloved mother to Seldovia where interment was made, returned on the SS Starr.
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JUST PLAIN "WHOOEE"

MIAMI BEACH, Mar, 24, (R- Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin said that third party, which he called the bugaboo of nearly every political campaign, often is talked of but never develops into anything serious. He said he thinks no third party will devel- op in 1882.
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Chas. Lechner, proprieor of Seward Machine Shop and local Ford agent, pulled a fast one last week. Said Lechner: Bring your brake jobs to us; we'll give you an even break"
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LEGAL NOTICE

PROBATE COURT, TERRITORY OF ALASKA, THIRD DIVISION, BRISTOL BAY PRECINCT, Es- tate of J. c. Lowe, deceased;
 NOTICE OF HEARING
 Notice is hereby given that hearing of objections to the fin al account of the undersigned and the settlement thereof will be held on May l9, 1881.
 Dated March 19, 1881.
 Marguerite Lowe, executrix, First pub. Mar. 20, 1881, last publication April T, 1881.
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ChaS. Williams, colOred, died in Fairbanks recently after an ill., ness of several weeks, reports the News Miner.
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YOUNG MEMS ATTENTION! Come in and inspect the fanciest line of waist belts that came to Alaska.
 Seward Leather Works.
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IF YOU HAVEN'T TRIED HORLUCk'S DANISH ICE CREAM YOU HAVE MISSED SOMETHING GOOD. Sold only at the Candy Cottage.
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large new shipment of shoes just re- ceivcd Urbach and valade.
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Betty Coed" is now on sale at the Alaska Shop A splendid record!
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When you think shoes think Urbach and Valade
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193l Almanacs and Date Books in at the Alaska Shop.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-07-03

Revered Is the name of Paul Revere,
But listen, my children, and you shall
hear
The truth about that midnight ride
That reused every man in the country
side.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-07-03

An unknown grave in Philadelphia
holds the body of Haym Solomon,
whose loans to aid the struggle for
Independence were regarded by Rob
ert Morris as having saved the Ameri-
can Revolutionary war from disaster.
That relatively unknown grave of
the financial benefactor of his adopted
country is on Spruce street, between
Eighth and Ninth streets, in the Gene
terry established by Spanish and Portu-
guese Jews in 174O, the year that
Solomon was born in LISA, Prussian
Poland. e6
Although born in Poland Solomon
was of Portuguese Hebrew descent.
While youth. he visited many coun-
tries, acquiring various languages. and
came to the United States before the
Revolution. He was in New York
when the British took possession of
the city, and was arrested with other
patriots and thrown in prison. When
released, he went to Philadelphia and
settled as a merchant and banker. He
handled the war subsidies of France
and Holland, and became the French
banker in this country. fG
Throughout the Revolution he de-
voted his money and services to tinanc-
ing the American cause. He lent $780,
600 to Robert Morris. financier of the
Revolution, and gave funds outright
to several leaders, including jefferson,
He financed agents or ministers of for
eign countries when they could not
get money from their governments.
When. he dice. in 1855, the govern
ment still owed him 100000, which
Morris had borrowed, and his relatives
sought to claim it. The matter came
to the attention of congress, and, al
| though committees reported at sew
eral sessions that the claim was just
and should be paid, shlomop's de-
| scendapts never were ahlk TO cAIiset
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-07-03

Colonial soldiers regarded the Hes
slams as paid hirelings of King George.
That was true, but they were sold
by the prince of Hesse- Darmstadt and
obliged to come over and fight. for
England.
Many Of the Hessians hated the idea
of having to fight against the liberty
which they themselves had dreamed
of, but the old Colonial soldiers had
no knowledge Of that. A Hessian in
their estimation was no better than a
rat. Many were butchered ruthlessly /;
and Of course, in their desperation,
they retaliated in like manner.
No. General Washington did not
stand up in the boat on dress parade"
as portrayed by Leutze. He obeyed
the orders of the "Marblehead Fish
ermen" and lay down during the peril
Gus crossing. Thereafter he was on
his feet most emphatically.-Kansas
City Star.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-07-03

The battle at Kings Mountain, S.
c., is known to historians as one OF
the most brilliant victories in the Rev
olution. Henry Cabot Lodge described
its effect as electric"
Kings mountain country, still wild
and picturesque, was stark wilderness
in the days when the 900 backwoods-
men. wearing leather jenkins and
bearing fiintlock, muzzle-loading fire.
arms. charged up the seemingly inn
pregnable slope in the face of fire
from LOO well-armed troops under
Col. Patrick Ferguson, crack officer
Of George Ill.
Under leaders such as Col. John
Sewer, who had come from warfare
with the French and Indians in the
West, the valley pioneers gathered to
turn the loyalists back to the sea.
Their answer to Ferguson's shout of
Crush the rebels" was to gain the
top of the ridge and take more than
half his men captive. With Ferguson
out of the reckoning, CORVALLIS had
to concentrate his army. Yorktown
was then only year away.
AS a military exploit, despite the
thoroughness of the victory, the battle
in itself was of small import. Yet In
it's effect it was another Bennington,
coming as it did at time when hopes
were lowest and it seemed the low
burning fame Of the patriotic cause
was about to flicker and die. 1t heart
ened and stimulated the whole coun-
try and put an end to the wanton
cruelty of Tory groups which had
prosecuted patriots and driven them
from their homes throughout the
South
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-07-03

On January II all Pennsylvania, as
well as other states, pays tribute to
the memory of Benjamin Franklin, on
his birthday anniversary. Here is his
statue at the Post Office building in
Philadelphia, and it marks the spot
where he stood when he flew the kite
In thunderstorm and discovered the
first rudiments Of electricity.
Benjamin Franklin lies in little
cemetery at the corner of Fifth and
Arch streets in Philadelphia. The
burial ground is somewhat neglected.
The claim has been advanced from
time to time that Franklin's remains
should be removed to Boston, the city
of his birth, or to Washington, where
a memorial should be erected in his
honor to match that of Lincoln. Ow-
ing to the fact that this was known
to be contrary to Franklin's own
wishes, the movement never progressed
far.
1t Is one of the paradoxes of man.
kinds reverence for dead heroes that
the simpler the memorial the less at
tention it receives. And yet there is
much to commend this simplicity, all
the more so when it expresses the
character and wish of the man him.
self. Great and varied as was Frank
Inns life, he never lost the unaffected
naturalness which was his birthright,
even when he was the idol of the most
sophisticated court in Europe. Sim
plicity was part of his charm when
living. 1t is part Of the distinction
of his final resting place.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-07-03

Gen. John Stark, hero Of Benning-
ton, Bunker Hill and Trenton, was one
of the outstanding figures Of the Rev.
dictionary war. Washington had inn
plicit faith in his patriotism and abil-
ity. His soldiers loved him and would
wade through anything if he gave the
command. And New Hampshire has
always looked upon him with deep
pride as one of her most distinguished
sons, and ideal soldier and citizen.
At Bennington he had 1,750 men in
his command. He was opposed by Il
force of veterans under Colonel Baum,
a man of military skill and experience,
who had a battery posted upon com
handing position. Stark had no can
non and scarcely any bayonets. The
battle was fought several miles from
Bennington, on New York soil. Il
lasted two hours and resulted in the
complete rout of the British with q
loss of POT killed, $50 captured and
an unknown number wounded. Four
cannon and much other equipment
were taken by the Americans, who lost
thirty killed and forty wounded.
AS showing the Importance of this
battle, Washington said, on hearing
the news: "One more such stroke and
we shall have no great cause for anx-
iety as to the future designs Of Brit
ain." The zone more stroke" came
sooner than he expected-the surren-
der of Burgoyne.
Stark fought in the battle of Spring
field, N. j., in 17S0. He was mem
Der of the tribunal that tried and con-
victed Major Andre as spy. WASH
ington sent him with twenty-five hum
dred troops to surprise the British on
Staten Island. He was given, charge
of the northern department, with head
quarters at Saratoga, and while there
learned of the surrender of CORVALLIS.
In 1888 he was ordered to headquar-
tiers by Washington, and received the
warm personal thanks of the comman-
der in chief. He was given the rank
of major general by brevet.
He returned home and resumed
farming and saw milling. He lived
forty-five years after the battle of Ben
nington, surviving all officers of equal
rank in the American army.
He was the father of eleven chill
dren, five sons and six daughters. He
lived until he was ninety four years
old, dying May s. 1922
:
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-07-03

The brilliant theology Of the Ameri-
can Reyolutionists and their military
inexperience attracted gallant or
needy soldiers whose hands were free
and whose courage was bright, or
whose necessities were great and
whose prospects were dismal. Great
Britain drew upon the German reser.
voir and the French helped America.
Johann de Kalb was born at Hut
tendorf, Bavaria. July 90, 1921. He
had military experience in Europe,
chiefly with the French army, which
he entered in 1743. He served through
the seven years war and came out Of
it with the rank of major general. In
176S he was sent to America as
secret agent of the French govern
ment, and that visit accounts for his
subsequent service in the RevOlu-
tionary army. Like John Paul Jones
it was his acquaintance with the Col
onies and with the American people
and their ideas that made him sympa-
thetic and eager to be of service when
military service was needed.
De Kalb Joined Gates, the general
, in command of the surviving American
army inNthe South, at Camden, S. c.,
in August, 1880, just in time to be in
volved in the final collapse Of that
generals reputation and pretensions.
In the defeat the Delaware troops
were almost annihilated and the Mary
land regiments lost half their number.
The desperateness Of the resistance
offered by De Kalb in this shocking
disaster to the American army in the
South is shown not only by the cas-
ualties in his ranks but by the fact
that he was wounded eleven times and
when taken was dying.
A monument to his memory was
placed at Camden in 1926. Lafayette
laid the corner stone of. this memorial
to his old comrade in arms.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-07-03

More than a century has passed
since he died in exile, an impover-
ished and broken-hearted failure. yet
the world still thrills to tie name Of
Thaddeus Kosciuszko, the beloved
Polish patriot, who, incidentally. was
one of the most useful and popular
officers in the American army during
the Revolution.
He was less than thirty when in
the autumn of 1775 he left Poland
for France, where the conversation
was all of the struggle between Brit
ain and her North American colonies.
So enthusiastic did he become over
the prospects of fighting on foreign
soil for freedom denied his own
country, that in the spring of 1TT6 he
sailed for Philadelphia, where he vol
unteered his services and was accept
ed by the American forces, which he
faithfully served during the six years
that followed.
His first JOB was the fertilization Of
Philadelphia against possible attack
by the British fleet. So well did he
do his work that congress gave him
the rank of colonel in the engineering
corps. A second achievement of his
was the fertilization of West Point on
the Hudson, the site of which he is
said to have chosen. He threw up the
Notifications which saved Saratoga
and fought brilliantly there and at Yell
lowsprings. Later, in the South, he
succeeded Laurens in charge of mill
tary Intelligence.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-07-03

two by the village clock when he
(Revere) came by bridge in Concord
town." the great poet juggled the facts
somewhat, for Revere didn't go to
Concord on that trip.
Nevertheless, Paul Revere per-
formed a great service to the future
United States of America that memo
rable night Of April 1919, ITS. And
he, no doubt, inspired his companions,
Dawes and Prescott, who were, per-
haps, luckier than he in completing
the ride from Lexington to Concord.
Evening star., 1931-12-29

tions. In which Miss Mary NJ Burnett,
soprano. Mr.. J. Nelson Anderson, tenor;
Rev. Glenn B. Faucet, Frau Trappe
and Miss Katherine Benson and Miss
Marjorie G. Davis, pianists, will assist.
Later in the afternoon, in the Y w.
C. A.. beginning at $50, special eve
ming program will be given by artists
of the two associations, and at $50
o'clock the building will be open for
inspection to the public, when a spe-
ciai committee will receive and conduct
the guests to the many departments of
general and specific interest to Wash
ingtonianS.
The first showing of "The King of
Kings" as a sound picture will be given
at 1880 O'Clock in Barber Hall, and this
showing is open to the public, followed
by party" with refreshments served
in the spacious lobby and reception
rooms of the buildings main floor.
Mrs. selden NJ. Ely will be hostess
this evening at the club house of the
American Association of University
Women, on I street, when the Tuesday
Evening Music Club, Mrs. Florence N.
Howard, director, will give a program
of Christmas music. Mrs. Ely will be
assisted by Mrs. William E. Chamberlin
and the program will be given at $50
o'clock.
Mr.. Edward Keating, editor of Labor
was the guest of honor and speaker at
the weekly forum luncheon which the
Woman's National Democratic Club
gave yesterday. He spoke on "Labor's
Plan to End Hard Times" Mr.. Keating
was introduced by Mrs. Samuel Herrick
Some of the others at the speakers
table were Mrs. Frank Hiram Smell,
Mrs. Cordell Hull, Mrs. Edward P. Co.'S
tigan, Mrs. Ashton c. Shallenberger and
Mrs. Andrieus A. Jones.
Others at the luncheon, many with
guests, were Mrs. Robert Cooper, Mrs.
Frank Bolt, Miss Laura Ruff, Mrs.
George M. Eckels, Mrs Edward Keat-
Evening star., 1931-12-29

University Of South Carolina, of which
her father is librarian. She Is mem
Der of the Columbia branch Of the
Junior League. She has spent much
of her time in the last few years with
her aunt, Miss Caroline Hunter, in
Winchester Mr.. Baarcke, native of
Alabama, Is a graduate of the Univer-
sity of Alabama and member of the
Sigma MI Fraternity. He is engaged
in business in Columbia.
Guests from out Of town included
Mr.. Edmund Pendleton Hunter, Mrs.
A. B. Davis, Mrs. B. c. Grymes, Mr..
George Stuart, Miss Laura Stuart
Smith, Miss Carter Conrad and Miss
roll Todd, Miss Meredith Todd and
Miss Frances Todd, all of Washington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Dement, an
nounce the marriage of their daughter,
Mary Frances, to Mr.. Charles jerome
Dorman, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Jerome
B. Dorman, Tuesday afternoon, De-
cember %. The ceremony was per-
formed in the home OF the bride S
parents, the Rev. George G. Brown OF
the North Carolina Avenue Methodist
Protestant Church, officiating at 4:30
o'clock.
Inc bride was given in marriage by
her father and wore q gown Of velvet
in a French rose shade. her turban
and shoes matching, and she carried
Joanna Hill roses. Mrs. Henry j. Trai-
nor was matron of honor and had a
costume of flame-color velvet with tur-
ban and shoes to match and carried
talisman roses. Mr.. Harry j. Trainor
was best man.
An informal reception followed when
Mrs. Dement,, mother of the bride, re-
ceiyed, wearing a gown of brown vel
vet with which she wore corsage
bouquet of RosSlyn roses. Mrs. Dor
man, mother of the bridegroom, was in
brown silk and had a shoulder bouquet
of gardenias and lilies Of the valley.
The house had an effective arrange
ment of flowers, ferns and palms.
Shortly after the reception Mr.. and
Mrs. Dorman started on wedding
trip to Bermuda.
Miss Catherine Roberts entertained
a party of eight at the supper dance
at Wardman Park Hotel last evening.
Mr.. and Mrs w. Harry King Of Dav-
export Terrace Apartments have as
their guests Cadet Harrison King and
Cadet Morris Oswald Edwards of Salt
Evening star., 1931-12-29
Wedding in Virginia This
Morning of Interest Here.

A wedding of interest in Washington
and several Southern States took place
this morning at Gray Gables, historic
residence of the late Maj. Robert w.
Hunter, in Winchester, Va, when Miss
Margaret Stuart Kennedy, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert NJ. Kennedy OF
Columbia, S. c., became the bride OF
Mr.. John McGough Baarcke, also OF
that city. The ceremony was per-
formed at 1870 O'Clock by the Rev.
Robert B. Nelson, rector OF Christ
Episcopal Church, at an improVlSed
altar IN the library and was witnessed
only by members Of the immediate
families and small number OF per-
sonal friends of the couple. The house
was decorated with Christmas greens
and flowers and the altar was banked
with holly, pine and pussy willow
branches and lighted with a candelabra
of cathedral candles. The bridal
chorus from "Lohengrin" was sung by
Mrs. w. Nelson Page, Miss Mary Green
way Russell, Mr.. Peter Vredenburgh
aud DR.. Robert McC. Glass, with Mrs.
Harry K. Russell playing the piano
accompaniment.
The bride, escorted and given in mar
riage by her father, wore a travelling
suit of black and gold, with acceS-
sories to match, and carried an arm
bouquet Of yellow roses.
Miss Sarah Rich of Columbia acted
as maid of honor and wore a dress of
black and white with matching acceS-
sories and carried an arm bouquet of
pink rosebuds. Mr.. R. Hunter Ken
nedy of Columbia, brother of the
bride served as best man. The
brides mother wore black velvet and a
corsage bouquet of lilies of the valley.
Mrs Kennedy was formerly Miss Julia
Hunter, daughter of the late Mai.
Hunter, Confederate Army officer,
newspaper publisher and lawyer and
connected with the Department of the
Interior in Washington during the
Cleveland administration.
Following the ceremony a wedding
breakfast was served, after which Mr..
Baarcke and his bride left on a we'd
ding trip. They will reside in Colum-
bia. The bride is a graduate of Win
throp College and also attended the
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ing, Mrs. Charles 8. Hamlin, Mrs. A.
Garrison McClintock, Mrs. Henry Leon
ard, Miss Marvin Breckenridge, Mrs
Richard Snowden. Miss Mary Riley,
Miss Caroline Reilly, Mrs. j. N. Hay
Mrs. Donald Macdonald, Mrs. Frank S
Bright, Mrs. James Newton, Miss Ruth
Mills, Mrs, Florence Mills, Mr.. ana MRS
Huston Thompson and Mr.. and Mrs
Robert Woolley.
Mrs. Herrick, president Of the club
announced that Mrs. John Nance
Garner, wife of the Speaker OF the
House, has become an active member Of
the Womans National Democratic Club
Miss Josephine Roche will be the
honor guest at the dinner which the
club will give Friday evening. She vii
make an address, her subject neln6
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