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Mail Carriers Aid
In HOusinO SurDeu

BALTIMORE, July 1O.-Letter-
carriers here today are aiding city
authorities in a survey of city
housing needs. AS the carriers go
their rounds they note how many
houses on their routes are vacant
and how many are homes for sew.
eral families together.
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YOU TOO can increase Vim and Energy. .. quick

tell Baseball is full of tough spots that take it
out of pitcher who works his regular turn
and stands up to the grind for seven long
months.
"Like most of the big-league pitchers, I
smoke Camels. And when come out of a
game after nine hard innings there's nothing
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-01-01
TAPS SOUND AS LEROY vESTAL
 LAID TO REST
Baby Soldier : of Alaska in World War Rests
 in Last Bivouac

Taps sounded Sunday afternoon for Leroy Vestal, Alaskas ~baby soldier" who, at the age of Is years, enlisted and served in France during the world war, one of the youngest, if not actually the youngest, soldier in the American Army.
 It was a touching and impressive scene as his "buddies" of the Am erican Legion, few intimate friends and his relatives stood in sub-zero weather in biting wind and two Boy Scout buglers sound ed the saddest and sweetest of Army calls.
 One stood at the graveside and blew the call. Then as the notes died away, from a distance, as if in echo from the dark, mysterious forest on the neil g hboring hills, came again the plaintive, haunting call blown by a second Scout bug Ter. It was a fitting tribute to the 15-year-old lad who served in
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Legionnaires, members of the Aux Hilary and other friends. Many beautiful floral pieces were banked around the casket which, draped under a big American Flag, stood before the altar.
 Of all the tributes offered. none was more sincere or more touching than many that were voiced by in- dividual ex-Soldiers who gathered in groups outside the church and at the cemetery during the progress of the ceremonies. Low voiced they related of occasions whn Roy, as he was affectionately called, had aided them or some one else they had known get hospitalization, or his adjusted service certificate strengthened out, or rendered some other equally timely and important service. T don't know what I'll do now" said one man. T have to get some records fixed up and Roy was going to do the clerical work for me. I don't know who'll do it now" he lamentsd He was always at the command of the ex-soldier and anxious to be of service to him or his in the time of need said another, and the little group to whom he was speaking nodded in agreement.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-01-01
THREE THINGS TO REMEMBER

Signs of revolt among Demo- cratic members of Congress, grow ing palmer every day, would be more impressive if there were any, thing like an even party division in either house.
 Those who forecast defeat for the administration on any major issue must remember three things:
 That MT Roosevelt starts with an extraordinary margin of safety in the Democratic House majority of upwards of 200, out of total membership of 435, and a similar Senate majority of 25 out of a to- tai of 96.
 That the Republican minority is even weaker than it appears on paper, in both Senate and House. because of the presence of con- siderable bloc of Republican in- surgents who not only supported MT. Roosevelt for President, but in the main have supported him since.
 That an unusually large amount of federal patronage still is undis- tributed, supplying the administra- ton with an arsenal of the most potent sort oi political ammunition.
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SMITH WANTS
 TO LIVE LONG;
 ANYWAY TO go

NEW YORK. Jan. 1.-Al Smith celebrated his sixtieth birthday last Saturday. In an interview he said he hoped to God he'd live to be 90."
 The former Governor said there was decided better business con- dition and he was looking forward to a still better rise at the begin ming of the New Year He at tributed the most of the improve ments to a general restoration of purchasing power.
 Asked what attributed to the restoration of the purchasing pow CT, he answered: why. operation of the natural economic laws" and then added. "and unquestionably the hours brought about by the MIRA Act and to fixation of mini mum wages"
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the tank corps, better known as the suicide corps" taking part in four major offensives, suffering wounds and from gas, the effects of which he never recovered from
 Not less impressive were the serv- ices at the Northern Light Presby- terian Church under the auspices oi Afford John Bradford Post No. 4 American Legion, of this city which he helped to organize and in which he was rated as the most active member. Capt. J. NJ. Clark, Past Post Commander, and T. B. Setzer, Post Chaplain, said the solemn rites of the Legion ritual and a solacing eulogy was spoken by Rev. John A. Glasse, pastor of the church.
 Mrs. Carol Beery Davis at the pipe organ and a Legion quartet composed of Messrs. E. M. Policy, Max Scriber. H. G. Nordling, and Jack Fargher, accompanied by Mrs. G. E. Krause, rendered short musical program. Mrs. Davis play ed Consolation by Mendelssohn, and Crossing the Bar" The quar- tette numbers were Lead Kindly Light" and Abide With Me
 The buglers were Billy Lowe and Victor DeVault.
 Members of the Post firing squad were: F. A. Metcalf, in charge, R. s. Raven, Steve vucovich. F E. Mills and H. J. Leonard
 Pallbearers were: G. w. Nos- trand, M. s. Jorgenson, H. D. Stabler, M. H Sides, John McCor- mick and Victor ManviTle.
 The church was well-filled with
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others lost in other floods as the result of torrential rains, the heav- jest on record and in traffic acci- dents.
 Every river and creek in the area is overflowing and inundatine large, thickly populated sections wi.nin (. radius of 50 miles.
 Highways, electric lines and rail- road tracks are washed out in numerous places.
 Three persons have been killed also in traffic accidents.
 Hundreds of people are home
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M CENTHAU IS
 NOW SECRETARY U. s. TREASURY
President Accepts Resigna. ton of Woodin, Who
 Is Now Tn Arizona

WASHINGTON. Jan. i.- Henry Morgenthau, Jr, has been named Secretary of Treasury after Presi- dent Roosevelt accepted the resig- nation Of William H. Woodin. now in Arizona, on account of ill-health.
 Morgenthau was sworn in today
 Woodin's resignation was dated December l3.
 'Morgenthau also become a mem- Der of the Federal Reserve Board
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Train for Air Raid

WARSAW-Polanu, following the example of other European nations is training citizens in how to mini- mize loss of life from hostile air raids. Offensive but harmless gases are used in the demonstrations.
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less.
 Seventy homeless children arc housed in the Venice Ball Room.
 It was still raining at II o'clock this morning. Since the rain started last Saturday, GOT inches have faHen.
 No dams are threatened, it is said.
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STRUGGLE 6VER LIQUOR IS NOW
 ENDED, OPINION
(Continueo rom Page one.)

silent Cl express hope that the strong federal control set up by Mir. Roosevelt will be perpetuated by Congress.
 What the President is doing consciously or not. is taking steps toward forestalling any charge in 1886, when some sort of reaction normally would be expected, that he is under the domination of the 'whiSkey interests"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-01-01
AS FOR MIR. HOOVER


 Reports that former President Hoover is contemplating a return to party leadership in 1886 are de- nied by closest personal friends. These visitors to MT. Hoover have come away saying both pub licly and privately that it would be foolish in the present situation for any presidential aspirant to make plans.
 They say further that the former President is not worrying about either the past or the future; that he has not been shaken by his defeat; and that he observes with detachment and perfect calm the events in Washington
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Pension Dill High

CANBERRA-War pensions cost Australia more than s34, 100000 in the last fiscal year, the Repatria- tlcn Commission reporting also that o,Oo5 pensions lapsed but that g. os3 new claims were granted.
 Daily Empire Want eas Fay.
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LOS ANGELES
 BEING SWEPT
 HEAVY RAINS

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:. MARQUIS a]AcESIF- (ooGfN bAe1 LEROY
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 child directors predict Baby Leroy who made his first the who paraleed Coogan
 ip his performance with Wallace Bcery in "The Champ.
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"That's for her to decide,
isn't it?" Allen asked. There
was infinite tenderness in his
face as he looked down at
Susan. How about it, Susie?
You're coming with me. aren't
your"
It was Aunt Edna who spoke
then, her face shaking pite-
ously, all her forcefulness gone
from her. Standing at the
foot Of the steps she began
to cry.
Susan, what are you think
ing OFF" she sobbed into her
handkerchief. Even If you
weren't engaged to poor Wal
lace you wouldn't think of
walking out like this would
you?-Lutie sick and I with
my knee in such shape that I
ought to be flat in my bed
this minutel You can't run
out Of the house at a moments
notice like some common crea-
ture, to marry this fly.by-
nighter that you hardly know!
Susan lifted a blanched face
to Allen. "1'd better stay to-
night, at any rate" she said.
"You can see for yourself that
I can't leave now"
IF you don't leave now you
probably never will" he an
swered. She felt his arms fall
away from her. He turned and
went upstairs to his room, and
after a few seconds Susan went
out to the kitchen filled now
with the Savory smell of the
dinner cooking on the stove.
No one ate dinner that night
but Aunt Edna. Lutte went
back to bed and had a tray
there, Susan was not hungry
and Uncle Worthy closed HIM
self into his study and refused
to come out when Susan told
him that the soup was on the
table.
Il feel Very queer-very
dizzy" she heard him say to
Aunt Edna who got up from
the table to try to coax him in
to dinner. 81 couldn't eat .
bite, thanks"
It was the first time that
Susan had known him to refuse
to come to q meal and she
watched him close the door on
Aunt Edna with troubled eyes.
The flush seemed to have deep
ened on one side of his face
and he fumbled for the door
handle.
He was still in his study
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lay on the marble topped table.
There was . coal fire in the
parlor crate. Lutte and Aunt
Edna were sitting as close to it
as they could get, and as Susan
came into the room she had
q swift conviction that nothing
not even flood or earthquake
or sudden death-could oust
them from those old red plush
chairs. The chairs were part
of them: she couldn't think Of
them without thinking Of the
chairs any more than she could
visualize the gold fish without
their little glass bowl.
"Well, we've been struggling
with the furnace all morning
but it's gone out three, times"
was Lutie's greeting to her.
"The wind seems to be in the
wrong direction, or else the
new CRATE that the furnace
man put in isn't the right kind.
Maybe you can make it work"
She was dressed in q flowered
challis wrapper that she had
called her tea gown" for more
years than Susan could clearly
remember, and around her neck
was q flannel band yellow with
camphorated oil. Aunt Edna
had the hot water bottle on her
bad knee, and the two women
were a picture of misery.
Susan went down to the
basement and made up the fire
in the furnace. There was not
very much coal in the bin and
she wondered if she ought not
to speak to Aunt Edna about
getting some housekeeping
money from Uncle Worthy's
wallet.
Up in the kitchen two stacks
of dirty dishes showed that
Lutte and Aunt Edna had
breakfaSted, and on the stove
was a little stew pan in which
last nights meat had been
warmed over. There was q
bowl Of prunes on the kitchen
table and beside it lay the heel
of q loaf Of rye bread.
When she had put the room
in order she went back to the
two women in the parlor. we'll
have to have some money for
groceries. There isn't any but
ter left in the crock, and there's
no fruit for tomorrow morn
ing" she told them, rolling
down the sleeves Of the blue
flannel dress over wrists that
were chapped and slightly gray
from the coal dust that seemed
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busted the room. She saw
that it was covered with cir
cles and triangles and mum.
bers, and all across it, from
corner to corner, the word
bankrupt" had been scrawled
three times. Bankrupt.
Bankrupt. Bankrupt.
1t was eight o'clock.
DR.. Kendall had come and
somehow or other he and
Susan had carried Uncle
Worthy upstairs and put him
into the four.poster bed where
he had slept all his life. He
lay now as II he were asleep,
a heavy rolling sound like
constant snoring coming
through his lips. But he was
not asleep. He had had a
stroke and he was unconscious,
DR.. Kendall told them.
CHAPTER XXI
ALI night long Susan sat in
her uncle's room in an armchair
covered with wine-colored wrap.
she had put on a sweater and A
fur coat, and laid a comforter
over her knees, but she was so
cold that she could not sleep.
Uncle Worthy'S broad figure,
outlined by the candle-wick bed
spread, never moved. The
hoarSe bubbling sound Of his
breath never stopped.
At 8 in the morning when
Aunt Edna came limping in to
take her place, Susan was so
stiff and aching with fatigue
that pains ran through her like
the Stabs of a dagger when she
moved. She went into her own
room and slept until noon as if
she had been drugged.
There was thick white frost
on the lower panes of her win.
dows when she awoke, and she
could see her own breath on the
cold air Of the bedroom. Evi-
IDENTIFY Lutte and Aunt Edna had
let the furnace 60 out.
She looked in at her uncle
on her way downstairs. He was
lying just as he had lain the
night before in the middle of
his big bed with its pineapple
topped posters. His breathing
was still terrifyingly loud and
his flushed face was greatly
swollen. No one was with him.
Lutie'S bed had not been made
up, Susan saw as she passed
her doorway, and in the down
stairs hall the gray cardboard
box and the piece of gauze still
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when Susan came home from
the drugstore at half past seven
and carried the bottle Of medi-
Gated oil upstairs to Aunt Edna
who was sitting beside Lutie's
bed.
Catastrophe
AS she stood there she heard
q sudden terrifying sound from
downstairs. It sounded like a
chair or table going over onto
the floor, and then there came
the thud of something else
falling.
She stood dead still for a
second and then rushed down
to the lower hall. "Uncle
Worthy?" she called as she
went. She knocked on his door
but there was no answer; and
after an instant she turned the
knob and went in.
Her uncle was lying on the
floor with his big head rolled
to one side, his eyes closed and
his face swollen and purple.
The swivel chair was over
turned beside him, and the
'bitters" bottle lay on its side
on the desk, staining the blot
ter and some loose papers with
the brownish fluid that trickled
from its neck.
AS Susan dropped OF her
knees beside him Aunt Edna
and Lutte came down the hall.
"What is it, Susan? What's
happened? - Oh, my dear
Lord" It was Aunt Edna's
voice and it rose like a scream
as she saw Uncle Worthy's
PROSTATE body. "Get the doc
tor! Get Doctor Kendall,
Lutte! Don't stand there-get
him!" with one hand pressed
to her swollen knee she knelt
on the floor beside him.
"He must have struck his
head on the corner of the
desk as he fell," Susan said,
holding her handkerchief to a
dark mark on her uncle's tenn
pie. "It'S bleeding" Aunt
Edna looked up at the corner
Of the desk as if it could tell
her what had happened and
Susan's eyes followed hers.
A pink glass paper weight
stood very near the edge of
the desk top, and under it lay
a large sheet of writing paper.
Uncle Worthy had taken it
from the box some time during
the day for it had not been
there that morning when she
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By Beatrice Burton

to have worked into her skin
during the days since Anna's
departure.
Aunt Edna with a groan
reached for her handbag that
was tucked down between the {.
cushions of her chair. Il took
all the money that was in your
uncle'S clothes this morning"
She took a handful Of bills
from the purse and handed
Susan three dollars. There
wasn't much in them. Only nine
dollars and a few cents. Well
have to do something about
getting q little money out Of his
account ct the bank. thought
perhaps Wallace could tell us
just how to 60 about it,"
She put one of her hands,
with its rings of dirty" mine
cut diamonds, to her eyes. II
can't get used to your uncle ly-
ing there-not knowing any
thing, not being able to advise
US and help us. Susan, you'll
have to telephone Wallace or
run down to see him. I can't
go, and Lutte certainly can't
and we must have a little money
to turn round with"
Susan said that she would
take care of it. There was
nothing else for her to say.
"Dr. Kendall was here at 9
O'clock" her aunt'S voice went
on drearily. "He says that un-
less Worthy has another stroke
he'll get over this. That is,
he'll regain his consciousness
but he'll never be able to walk
again or use his left side. It's
completely paralyzed."
Susan remembered then that
1t was the left side of her
uncle'S face that had worn
that purplish flush the day be-
fore.
He'll probably spend the rest
Of his life in q wheel chair-and
he may live like that for 20
years, DR.. Kendall says" Aunt
Edna had put her hand down
in her lap, and her face was
bloated with crying, her eye
brows twisted up high on her
forehead in a look of diSmay
and astonishment at the blow
life had dealt her. cts going
to be terrible for him-and it's
going to be much more terrible
for me, having to take care of a
helpless cripple all the rest of
my days. Susan, have you tele-
graphed your father and John?"
Ito Be COntinued)
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gone there to meet him as he
came in.
And just who and what are
you, Mr.. Sholes, IL I may ask
in the interests Of my niece?"
Uncle Worthy was saying in
his booming voice as Susan
came into the little hallway.
Allen shot q look at Susan
before he answered. There was
a tiny twinkle Of amusement
in that look, and he did not
seem to be at all disturbed by
what was happening.
We'll, I intend to be law
yer, SIR" he said in a pleasant
good-natured tone.
Uncle worthy grunted. IT see.
You're not anything now, but
you intend to be something by
and BY" he observed.
Eyes, sir" Allen was still
courteous, still pleasant. I'm
studying law at night. In the
daytime 1 work down at the
Court House. Deputy clerk"
Uncle Worthy made that
grunting contemptuous sound
in his throat once more. "And
what makes you think you can
come into a house like this
and force your attentions on
a girl like my niece, you-you
jackleg!' he roared.
CHAPTER xxx
Allen glanced up at Susan
again and smiled. The smile
was more than Uncle Worthy
could stand. He had always
suspected John of laughing at
him in secret, and the thought
had maddened him. He was
maddened now.
You'll get out of this house!
NOW! Tonight" His whole
body shook with rage and his
words slid together as they
always did when he had been
having an overdose Of his
bitterS.
That's all right with me,
Mr.. Broderick," said Allen
quietly. II was leaving tonight
or tomorrow in any case-just
as soon as Susan could get
ready to go. If you'll be kind
enough to let me pass" The
black wall parted and he came
up to where Susan stood.
II got the license today. The
clerk in the bureau is q good
friend of mine, and he let me
have it even if you weren't
there" he said, his arms
around her. 81 knew every.
thing about you except the
date Of your birth, and I
guessed at that" He grinned.
I'VE can be married tonight.
Get your things together and
I'll get mine"
Uncle Worthy came up the
steps. Susan saw that one
side of his face wore its dark
flush, looking as if an east
wind had cut it. She won
dered, with some remote part
of her mind, why only one side
was flushed. The other was
ghastlJ pale.
He took her by one shoulder
with a hand that shook vio-
lently. You're not going to
leave this house tonight"
He glared up at Allen with
eyes that looked smaller than
usual and blood shot. "You
hear what I'm telling her?
She's not going to step one foot
out of this house tonight"
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GIRL IN THE FAMILY =:

"Can you come down and 60
with me for the license?" he
asked Susan when she answered
the telephone. Right away,
darling"
Susan made q sound of de-
spAir so soft that he did not
hear Sit. "Oh, Allen, I can't.
Uncle Worthy's sick, and Lutie's
in bed with a cold-and the
furnace has gone all to
pieces"
"And you have cold feet"
Allen finished.
"No-no-no. I'll tell you
all about it tonight" said Su-
son. Cans you get the thing
without me being there?"
we'll don't know. I'll see
what 1 can do. Goodby."
She stood at the telephone
for a minute or two, her fore
head pressed against the mouth.
piece. OF course, he would
think that she did not want to
go with him for the license.
But tonight when she saw him
she would make him under
stand just how things we're.
she would put all his doubts
and fears at rest.
Family COnfab
At $50, when Susan started
upstairs to change her .iress
for dinner she met Lutte COM
ting down. She passed her with
out a word, walked down the
hall and tapped upon the panels
OF Uncle Worthy's study door.
IT think he's upstairs lying
down." Susan volunteered.
mo. He's in here" said Lutte
,coldly, just as Uncle Worthy
called, "Come in"
She vanished within and Su-
san did not need her sixth
sense to tell her that Lutte had
gone to tell her brother about
the disgraceful scene in The
dining room the night before.
She was sure that Lutte would
call it perfectly diSgraceful." j"
and she could imagine just how
she would describe it-"and
there they we're, spooning away
for dear life! I was never more
surprised or embarrassed. You
could have kicked me over with
a pin feather!"
A street car stopped at the
corner. The reflection of its
lighted windows lay for a mo-
ment on the snow in front OF
the house and then was gone.
There came the sound Of Al
len wsiStling his favorite "Wa-
ters Of Minnetonka" tune as he
= came up the front walk and
around the side of the house.
= After a minute or two had
gone by and Allen had not ap-
peared she went softly down to
the landing and peered over
the railing. There was not a
sound in the lower hall and it
was empty in the white glare
OF the electrolier.
The door of her uncle's study
stood open, and the study was
empty, too.
AS she stood looking into the
small room with its books and
its old furniture and it's bottles
she caught the murmur Of
voices from the rear of the
house. From the entry way at
the end of the rear hall.
Susan pulled open the door
and hurried down the cold little
passage. At the foot of the
!. three steps that went down to
/ the side stood Allen, facing the
( three people who had evidently
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This is where Paul Jones Rye Wskey is made. In Mary
land-where the best Rye has always been made-and
where spring water bubbles from hidden
1edges The grain used is the finest money buy And
the yeast from the same perfect culture that Frankfort
has guarded for 50 years.
The Omaha guide., 1934-09-15
n. A. A. C. P, DROPS BOARD
MEMBERS NAMES FROM
LIST

The NAACP. at it's regular meeting
on Wednesday. Sept II, dropped Mr..
h. L. Anrerson from the Beard men,
bership. and declared the treasurer
Office vacant Mr.. Anderson was
dropped for non-payment Of dues.
Sect Simmons reported that he
had mailed Mr.. Anderson q letter in
forming him that his name would be
dropped on the membership liet, and
they would automatically declare his
Office vacant, unless his dues were
paid immediately. The Sect. stated
to date that he had net responded.
The President reported that he had Q
conversation with Mr. Anderson In
regards to his memhership duas, and
Kr. Anderson savs him N nnfAvors-
BIZ reety b wAat his future intention
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