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The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-02-25
B. N. BEHRENDS
 RETURNS FROM
 BUSINESS TRIP
Combines Banking Affairs with Buying Trip for
 Conditions Good

After an absence of about five weeks on business in the south, B. M. Behrends, President of the B. M. Behrends Bank and B. M. Beh- rends, Incorporated. returned to his home here on the steamer North western.
 While he was in the south, MT. Behrends combined banking busi- ness with his semi-annual buying trip for general merchandise and eady-to-wear clothes for his mer- cantile store. He spent week each in Seattle and San Francisco and was in Chicago for about two weeks. Tn the latter city he selected com- plete stock of new spring merchan- disc from wholesalers of Chicago. New York and other Eastern points.
 Better Grades Purchased
 There is a decided trend this year towards the purchase of better grades of merchandise on the part of peo- pie throughout the country and 1t is interesting to note that many of the better of the Eastern retail es- tablishments purchase the majority of their higher quality of formal and dinner gowns from wholesale houses of San Francisco and Los Angeles. This is an entirely new de- velopment in the mercantile busi- ness, as in former years, the East ern wholesalers practically mon- opolized the markets, Mir. Behrends said.
 The majority of the ready-to-wear suits, coats and dresses, which Mr. Behrends purchases for his firm here, are bought from the same wholesalers that supply the ready to-wear for Marshal Fields retail store in Chicago Through this arrangement he is afforded much larger selection of attractive and up-to-date styles than would be possible otherwise.
 Styles Prettier Than Ever
 That styles are prettier this spring than ever before is the opinion ex- pressed by MT. Behrends. Suits are particularly good in both light
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-02-25
DENIES THREAT


 GRAVEHURST, Ontario, Feb. 25. w. H. Anderson, Red Cross exc cutiye and chief guardian of the Dionne quintuplets. denied here that the parents had been treated brusquely when they visited the babies in the private hospital as claimed by the parents. Alderson said he thought it would be un- wise to take the Dionne quintup- lets from the government appointed guardianship before its expiration July l9, 1936, and believed it should be continued after that date. As to the parents obtaining any of the money held in trust for the babies, he said that the matter was for the courts to decide.
 Premier Mitchell F. Hepburn of Ontario indicated his opposition to any proposal of the parents to receive a share of the money.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-02-25
TN TE R NATIONAL
 ROAD BILL HAS PASSED SENATE; GOES TO HOUSE
McNary's Proposal for Op- ening of Negotiations with Canada and for Sur
 vey Is Approved

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.- The Senate has passed and sent to the House the Me Nary Bill to authorize nego- tiations with Canada for the construction of the Interna- tional Highway to Alaska.
 The measure also author izes an appropriation of Sl00,- 900 for negotiation plans and $2,000,000 fer construction.
 The negotiation plans cover a survey.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-02-25
2 OLD GERMAN SYSTEMS WILL
 NEVER RETURN
Aggressive Address Made in Munich by Presi-
 dent Hitler

MUNICH, Feb. 25. President Adolf Hitler. in an aggressive ad- dress commemorating the fifteenth anniversary of the party's founda- ton, told the old Nazi campaigners that Mcnarchism and Republican ism are both dead in Germany.
 T prophecy again" the President shouted that none of the old sys- tenn will ever return to Germany.
 What we have created in two years is only a forecast of what is coming. We have fulfilled the mis- sion bequeathed to us by our dead comrades and will continue
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-02-25
L LEGISLATURE. 6 WARNS AGAINST
 COL LONIzATION
Points Out Hazards of Set clement Plan Unless
 Funds Provided

In line with the sentiment Of the Alaska Territorial Chamber of Commerce expressed last week at it's session here, two mem orials were introduced in the Territorial Legislature today, one in the Sen- ate and one in the House. ad- dressed to Secretary of the Inter for Harold L. Ickes and Delegate A. J. Dimond, warning against sending settlers to the Matanuska Valley unless ample funds are provided for caring for them ana paying their return transportation if the colonization plan is not a success.
 The Senate memorial, by Roden, goes further and asks a thorough investigation be made first to de- termine if the proposed plan is practicable and that pending such probe no settlers be brought to the Territory.
 Stress School Costs
 The House suggestion, introduced by the Education Committee, points out that it would require some S40,000 to erect schools for the children of the colonists and an additional s75,OOO for their main tenance. It is pointed out the Ter ritory is in no condition to shoulder such a burden; that none of its revenue is derived from property tax which has been impossible to levy and thus the settlers would be paying nothing toward the con- struction or upkeep of the schools
 The colonization plan calls for bringing 200 families to the Mat anuska and it is estimated this would mean about 300 children of school age.
 Points tc Previous Failure
 Stressing the need of thorough study before the plan is carried out, the Senate memorial. cites that some settlers have heretofore come to Alaska for the purpose of developing farms and have become charges of the Territory and that in the past two years hundreds of men, attracted here in search of work which industry has been un- able to provide, have become de- pendent on the Territory and Fed eral Government for support.
 It also is proposed to amend the Senate request, pointing out that rates over the Alaska Railroad for farm and other commodities to markets be thoroughly examined before final action on colonization is taken.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-02-25
Chief Eaecutiue
 Takes i. Night or On Hmumd Visit

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Feb. 25. President Roosevelt took night off" last Saturday night tr enjoy himself as proud parent.
 Franklin ID. Roosevelt, IT,, his con was initiated into the exclusive Fly Club at Harvard.
 The Fly Club is one of the eldest of Harvard's clubs and admits only ten m m bers yearly.
 Last Saturday nights visit of the President was his first to Haivard since the rounicn of his clats in 1929.
 He hft Beaten shortly after midnight Sa lrday to spend ti,e VIC k-end at his Hyde Park home. '.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-02-25

"On one occasion" Mrs. Dionne related, T wanted the little shirts for the quintuplets had outgrown and one of the nurses ordered me out of the hospital, threatening to strike me with flashlight.
 Dionne said he had enough of being a proxy papa" to his daugh- ters and he and Mama Dionne are going to see about taking the gov- ernment out of their home life. We don't like the way the govern ment is splitting up our family, " he said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-02-25
OPPOSED PROXY PAPA"

SOUTH BEND, Ind, Feb. 25.- We have 10 children Mrs. Dionne said here recently ''and we do not favor having five of them million aires while their brothers and sis- ters are brought up in comparative poverty.
 Papa Dionne declared the other five children had seen their little iSters but twice and that behind Lass while other people can get -lto the hospital at any time.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-02-25
House Democrats
 Pertecting Secret
 Organization NOtU

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. The creation of secret organization of 100 Democratic members in an at tempt to consolidate dissatisfied groups into a cohesive voting unit is under way in the House
 The exact plan of strategy is no exactly mspred cut as yet becaus, inc movement t s.il in a forms tive state.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-02-25
15,O00 ARMED
 MEN ARE OFF
 TO WAR FRONT
Italy Moving Soldiers in Large Groups to Af-
 rican Coast

ROME, Feb 25.-Ten thousand soldiers moved aboard fleet of seyen ships last s tnr day night bound for Africa and the theatre Of the Italio- Ethiopia dispute.
 Five thousand went aboard ships Sunday, bound for the same trouble spot.
 Observers estimate that about 35.- GOO Italian soldiers will be on the African shores by the end of this week.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-02-25
TWO MONTHS OF CONGRESS 0vER;. LITTLE ACTION
Virtually No Major Legis- lation Out of Way
 Thus Far

WASHINGTON, Eco. 25.-Admin- lstration leaders stood face to face today with the realization that for the first time since President Roosevelt took office his control of Congress was seriously threat ened.
 Jolted by the sudden Senate re- volt against the s4,880, ,OcO00o work relief bill, Democratic chieftains stopped to survey the situation. They found Congress nearing the end of it's second month of this session with hardly single piece of major legislation out of the way and not much on the way.
 Claim Growing Resistance
 Various theories were advanced relative to the situation. The Chamber of Commerce of the Unit cd States attributed it to a grow ing resistance sweeping against pro- posals advanced by the Adminis- tration as well as the determina- tion of an important bloc to follow more deliberate independent course.
 Democratic leaders, howeve~, said there was little significance in the situation; that Congress started late due to the lame duck amend ment and that first issues pres ented were more than ordinarily controversial.
 Bills Passed
 Republicans said the character of their mail indicated a swing away from the President but Democrats denied there had been any change in the character of their mail. The Democrats said the Administation's defeats on the World Court and relief issues was due to campaign pledges and the strong personal convictions of tn rose particular questions.
 Bills passed thus far include in- dependent offices appropriation measure; deficiency appropriations; the bill carrying restoration of pay of Government employees; the crop lean bill, and the measure prohib- iting shipment of "hot oil' in inter state commerce.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-02-25
KIDNAP PLOT
 IS ONLY HOAX,
 AGENTS CLAIM
Threatened Abduction oi Steel Executive Not
 Taken Seriously

BETHLEHEM, Pa., Feb. 25.-The Department of Justice agents today discount the alleged plot to kidnap Eugene G. Grace, President of the Bethlehem Steel Company, for a ransom of $25,0O0.
 The agents claim the "purported conspiracy ''is lot of wind"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-02-25
Pm-American to HaUe
 DiUision Headquarters
 at Airport at Alameda

OAKLAND. Cal {. Feb. 25.-Offic- ials of the Pan-American at the Alameda airport are to organize a division headquarters for the pro- posed air route acrrss the Pacific Ocean to Shanghai. The test flight is scheduled for spring.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-02-25
WORK RELIEF UPPERMosT

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.-Con- gress approached the third month today and practically all the big controversies unsettled. The work relief struggle became quiet con- test by opponents seeking to apply mass pressures for and against the McCarran prevailing wage amendment. Administration strat- egists awaited for what they hoped would be a tidal wive of telegrams and letters in behalf of the Ad- ministration's plan of fifty dollars monthly wages under the proposed work relief setup.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-02-25
CAPT. J. M. CLARK MAKES
 OFFICIAL BUSINESS TRIP

Capt. J. M. Clark. of the United States Steamboat Inspection Serv- ice, left his Juneau headquarters on the Victoria for a trip to Ket- chikan on official business.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-02-25
TO FAIRBANKS

Mt Berry. who operates a ;silor shor in Fairbanks, is re- prning to that city via Seward from Seattle on the Northwestern.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-02-25

The Philippine Islands export ed 5,324,874 cigars to the Unit ea states last September, less than one lieu th the experts 10 5epsem--r, 1933.,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-02-25
FREAK WEATHER CONDITIONS HIT
 COUNTRYSUNDAY
Premature Spring Given Sudden Shock - Army
 Planes Get Studying

KANSAS CITY, Feb. 25. = The blizzard moved into the Midwest this forenoon and has already left 13 persons dead and lCo injured. The blizzard is cen tering over the Great Lakes and has sent temperatures reel ing downward.
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-03-01
PATTERN sose

For a tiny girls play or school
frock nothing could be very much
nicer than this adorable little bloom
er frock with it's quaint over-the-
shoulder yoke and prettily pulled
sleeves. The frock Is simple to slip
into, too, buttoning up the front, with
only three buttons to be fastened.
And it allows plenty of room for
romping-the skirt is gathered to the
yoke at the back and box-pleated in
front. A smart checked or plaid
wool or cotton would be pretty for
this frock-little girls always seem
to love gay colors-and be sure to
make up four or five of those crisp
white collars in linen or pique. The
boomers, by the way, are included
in this pattern.
Pattern 90S6 may be ordered only
in sizes 2, 4, 6. and 10. Size re-
quires 25s yards SO inch fabric and
4 yard contrasting.
SEND FIFTEEN CENTS in coins
or stamps (coins preferred) for this
pattern. Be sure to write plainly
your NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE
NUMBER and SIZE.
Complete, diagrammed sew chart
included.
Send your order to Sewing Circle
Pattern Department, 232 West Eight
eenth Street, New York.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-03-01
No Wonder

'Is somebody sick at your house,
Johnny?" asked the neighbor. II
saw the doctor going in there last
night"
"Yep, pop u.s." replied the kid.
"The stork brought nom triplets."
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-03-01
Smiles *
CONCENTRATED CARE

did Crimson Gulch go Democrat
ic?"
"Of course" answered Cactus Joe.
eve was havin' one quarrel after an
other, and we jes' decided to let po-
litical leaders take the full respon-
sibility for carryin' on the argument"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-03-01
Two Kinds

give pounds!" exclaimed a parish
Toner. ''Is that all the squire is CIV
ing to the church fund? Why, he
ought to give at least fifty"
"Ah," said the vicar gently, 81 ex-
pect he forgot the ought !''-Toronto
Globe.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-02-09
REALTORS FETE
PLANS READY

Announcement of the realtors
dinner and dance to be held at
the Columbia Country Club Satur,
day, March 2, has met with the
hearty enthusiasm of members of
the Washington Real Estate
Board, sponsor of the affair, &C.
cording to ]. c. Weldon, jr.,
chairman of the ticket commit.
tee.
Approximately: 100 reservations
have been made and, as the
attendance at the dinner and
dance has been restl icted to $50,
it has been stated that the sale
of tickets might necessarily be
closed on or about February 20.
At a recent meeting of the gen,
eral committee Edward R. Carr,
chairman of the entertainment
committee, said he was working
on some unique features of enter.
tainment, the details of which
would be announced later AS
| SlStlng Mr.. Carr are S. S. Spruce
and Fred A. Smith.
The ticket committee comprises
the following: Thomas Sandoz,
vice chairman; Edward H. Brent,
! Walter A. Brown, jr: j. Wesley
Buchanan, Frank M. Doyle Owen
Howenstein, H. F. HUMPHREYS, C,
A. Metzler. C. H. Hillegeist, 10.
seph B. Schaaff, Walter L. Fun,
derburk, Joseph D. Sullivan, L.
H. Brodie, Carl G. Rosinski, Claud
Livingston, jr.; Herbert w.
Prirm, Hollis Fritts, John Saul,
Ralph A. Weschler, Ben T. Web.
ster, William M. Throckmorton,
Frank J. Lucils, Henry C. Cryer,
B. H. Parker and M. P. Candy.
Karl E. FARRELL is chairman of
the general committee.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-02-09
SURVEY SHOWS
HOME NEEDS

A wide field for the sale Of
essential home equipment for
lighting, heating, cooking and
sanitary requirements, most of
which are eligible for financing
through modernization loans in.
sured by the Federal Housing Ad.
miniStration, is revealed in the
real property inventory conducted
in 81 representative cities by the
Department of Commerce.
Out of every hundred homes
surveyed in the inventory, 80
actually have no hot running
water, % have no tub or shower
bath and II have no indoor water
closet.
Stoves still lead in the list of
equipment for heating the house
as a whole, with 42.4 per cent.
Warm air systems heat 31.1 per
cent of the homes, steam or vapor
IL per cent, hot water IA per
cent, and "other systems" Sc per
cent, the remainder having no
heating systems or not reporting
While the great majority of
the homes are equipped with
electricity for lighting and with
gas for cooking, 4.37 per cent
of the owner-occupied homes and
1857 per cent of the rented
homes are equipped with neither
electricity nor gas for lighting,
% per cent of the owner-occupied
homes and 3O.71 per cent Of the
rented homes are equipped with
neither for cooking.
Only 20 per cent of the owner
occupied homes and IA per cent
of the rented homes have me-
chanical refrigeration. Figures
for homes equipped with other
means of refrigeration are not
given.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-02-09
REAL ESTATE UP
Prices Rising, Rents Increasing, Report
Most U.S.. Homes
Eligible for
FILA Loans

Fully SO out of every 100
owner occupied homes in the
United States come within the
$4,000 value limit of the Federal
Housing Administration for in
Sured mortgage loans, according
to the real property inventory
conducted by the Department of
Commerce.
Under Federal Housing -egula-
lions for insured mortgage loans,
the maximum loan allowable on
any one residential property is
$4,000, or 80 per cent on the
appraised value of $4,000. The
table of values for oWner-occupied
homes shows that only Las per
cent of the homes studied in the
inventory were valued at $4,000
and over, while the value of 0.49
per cent of the homes was not
reported.
This table further reveals that
the average value of owner.
occupied homes is $4,000, with 29
per cent falling within this CLASH.
fication: Nearly Is per cent av'
erage $4,000 and "a per cent less
than $4,000. Less than a third of
the homes were above the $4,000
mark, II per cent averaging
$6,250 and IL per cent $500 or
more.
1t was further shown that 81
per cent of these homes were
mortgaged, the range being from
Is per cent in Frederick, Md, to
rs per cent in Waterbury, Conn.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-02-09
FILA OCCUPIES
OWN HOME

The Federal Housing Admins.
tration is now occupying newly &C.
quired leased quarters in the office
building at 1901 Vermont Ave.
N. w., recently vacated by the
Department of Justice.
In keeping with the spirit of the
property modernization and repair
program it is sponsoring, the ad-
ministration had the entire build
ing renovated and rehabilitated by
It's owner at an estimated cost of
a quarter of a million dollars.
Reconditioning of the building
has provided 400 men with work
since November /, in the installa-
ton of an air-conditioning sys-
tenn, three new elevators, new
plaster throughout. refinished
flooring, new plumbing, heating
system, electric fixtures, boilers,
pumps and automatic stokers.
Occupancy of the building con-
solidates all divisions Of the Fed
eral Housing Administration under
one roof for the first time since
it's organiZa ton last summer.
An entirely new plumbing sys-
tenn was also installed, IS per cent
of the new equipment being cop.
per pipe fixtures.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-02-09
TODAY
CIVIC AND SOCIAL

Exhibits-Water colorS by Rich
ard Sargent, Corcoran Gallery of
Art.
1890 AM. and $50 P.M.-Ex-
hibits, paintings by Matisse and
Duffy, Studio House, 1914 Twen-
ty-first st. N. w.
II AM. - Students Concert:
Austria, Hungary, Bohemia, Cen
trial High School Auditorium.
II AM. - Silver Anniversary
Week, Boy Scouts of America, at
the Polo Grounds. Another Chal.
lenge. The Sea Scouts signal air.
planes. City in need of medical
supplies and food. Airplanes from
Boiling Field will respond. Dem.
onStration.
IL Noon-Lunch, arranged by
the Disaster Relief Committee of
the American Rcd Cross, pre-.
pared by Scouts of Troop IA.
IL Noon - Meeting Gridiron
Club, Willard Hotel.
lis P.M.-Luncheon, Harvard
Club, University Club.
100 P.M.-Luncheon and cards,
Miss Myrtle Thorn and Miss Vir-
GINA Cook, Hamilton Hotel.
200 P.M.-ANOTHER CHALr
LENGE-Further aid to city
send scout relay to Fort Myer for
assistance to repel river pirate
looterS. Troops response demon
stration at Polo Grounds.
Sis PM.-Broadcast, Station
WMAL-"How the Chief Scout
Got Into Scouting"
3:00-Meeting, Mrs. Neuhausel,
Hamilton Hotel.
400 P.M.-Tea Dance, George.
town University. Wardman Park
Hotel.
4:3O P.M.-Silver anniversary
D. of c. Council Boy Scouts Of
America. Radio challenge, Sta
ton WRC, Scouting Comes to
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-02-09

gram to bring about a normal de-
mand.
I. Friedlander, of Houston. Tex,
president of the league, will pre-
side at the hearings of the COM
mittee, which consists of expert
enced residential financiers in the
business from 10 to 40 years.
The building-loan committee,
with hundreds of millions of dollars
ready to place into the home
building business, finds its so per
cent loan. basis at a loss to COM
pete with the 80 per cent loans
sponsored by the Federal Housing
Administration with mutual inSur-
ance provisions. But Mr.. Fried
lander says:
Building and loan asSOcia-
tiCnS are in a position and are
anxious to make credit available
for half a billion dollars worth
of construction, with all that
this activity would imply toward
unemployment. We are willing
to cooperate in any program to
Induce the people who normally
uSe this credit to avail them
selves of it at this time"
He makes the pertinent Sugges'
ton that the 1000 million dollars
of floating mortgage debt largely
in the form of applications to the
Home Owners Loan Corporation,
be serviced by private capital as
means of bringing home mort
gage demands back to normal.
The reorganization of this debt
by building and loan and other
financial institutions can be
speeded up by closer cooperation
between FILA and Hole. he says.
Let the FILA examine the appli-
cations and file them with the
corporation. They will then be
separated into two groups and
those actually in distress will be
handled by the corporation and
the others refinanced by FILA.
Refinancing of the entire debt
problem can then be accom-
pliShed by private capital institu-
tionS fitted to the job.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-02-09
KRESGE TOOPEN
On AVENUE

The S. S. Kresge Company, op.
Grating 731 S, 10 and 25-cent stores
in the United States, will occupy
property on Connecticut Avenue
in the near future, according to
announcement today.
Negotiations for a 20-year lease
at an unnamed rental on prem.
ises 5536-38 Connecticut Ave.
N. w. have been concluded, it was
stated by Carl G. RosinSki, local
broker of business properties,
whereby the chain store firm &C.
quires use of the property.
Added significance is attached
to the announcement, since 1t Is
the first time any store of this
kind has situated on Connecticut
Avenue and it is considered OF
still greater Importance that the
KreSge chain, which has invar1'
ably confined its business loca-
tons to the more populous down.
town sections, is locating in whAS
has heretofore been recognized as
an area occupied only by So-called
"neighborhood enterprises"
The property, owned by the
Jacob Varin Realty Company.
will be remodeled at considerable
cost to an area Of 1000 square
feet in the near future.