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Matanuska Valley pioneer. (Palmer, Alaska) 1935-1936, 1936-11-12
Architect And Nurse
Wed November 9TH

Alta very pretty ceremony held
at the Staff Dormitory on Satur-
day afternoon, Nov. 7 tn, Miss
Pearl Williams, Red Cross Public
Health Nurse, became the bride
of Harry K. Wolfe, Assistant
Architect with the A r re.
Friends of the couple filled the
spacious living room and prior 60
the ceremony Miss Peggy Pimper-
ton sang Because" Miss Pimper-
ton and Miss Ruth De Almond
also sang I Love You Truly" as
duet.
To the strains OF Lohengrin's
Wedding March, played by Miss
De Almond, the bride, wearing
white satin and a tiara of crystals,
descended he stairway on the arm
OF Dr.. c. Earl Albrect, preceded by
Mrs. Leo Jacobs as matron of hon
or. The groom entered from the
end Of the room accompanied by
Mr.. Jacobs and passed between
two lines Of uniformed Colonial
Volunteer Firemen, of which or
ganization MI. Wolfe is a member.
The ceremony was performed
tefore the fireplace which had
| been lastly decorated with green
spruce boughs.
The informal sermon delivered
to the y-ung couple by Father
SHlzman before the ceremony
may well have been taken to
heart by all present, whether
married or not.
Immediately following their
marriage Mr.. and MRS. Wolfe were
deluged with CONGRATULATIONS and
were the recipients of many
beautiful gifts.
Mrs. Wolfe was presented by
Johnny Osseward with a check
for twenty dollars presumed to
have come from the office of the
Federal Biological Survey as
bounty for capturing a Wolfe.
The neWlyweds departed
for parts unknown in the hinter-
lands of the Matanuska Valley"
rat it wasn't long till all Palmer
knew that they had taken posses
sion of Skip Coudens cabin on
FiSh-hook road.
Matanuska Valley pioneer. (Palmer, Alaska) 1935-1936, 1936-11-12
Here A Chance
For Christmas SS9

The corporation will pay Csc a
pound casa for all sucking pigs
delivered not later than Nov. ID.
These pigs must be thoroughly
cleaned and Tree from cuts and
scars as they are To he served GA
Thanksgiving tables. They should
weigh between Is and 20 pounds,
though few weighing % pounds
will be purchased. See Mr.
Cronin first on the larger animals
Matanuska Valley pioneer. (Palmer, Alaska) 1935-1936, 1936-11-12
Harry O'Neill Has
Attractive Store

Harry O. Neil, operating un-
der the name of The Palmer
Trading CO., has a fair stock in
his new store despite strike con-
ditions and reports a brisk trade.
Mr.. O NELL has been in the
General store business in Alaska
for years and knows the wants Of
the people of the Territory. He
knows their favorlte brands, end
stocks them.
Matanuska Valley pioneer. (Palmer, Alaska) 1935-1936, 1936-11-12
Legion Auxiliary
Observe The 18th

Armistice Day belonged to the
Legion and Auxiliary here in the
valley last Wednesday. At II
o'clock services were held in the
Community Hall and at noon the
two organizations were sponsors,
of a banquet served to all ex-
service men and their wives.
with Boy and Girl Scouts as
guests. Many comrades and
their wives were up from Anch-
orage.
ComFade Pat Hemmer threw
digs around as Master of Cere-
monies and called upon members
for talks. Those who spoke were
Ener Huseby who was elected to
succeed Neil Miller as Post Com
mandGr at the last meeting held
at the HuSeby home on Tract "a.
Other speakers were Sid RayDor,
Department Commander; Mrs.
Eleanor Marsh, End Vice Depart
mental Commander of the Legioa
Auxiliary; Mrs. Grace Anderson,
President of the local Auxiliary
unit; Miss Janet Borges, Walter
Huntley and Neil Miller. Re-
sp0nses by representative boy
and 6irl scouts were made by
Dorothy Vasenoja, RutheIyn
Elliott, Merle Anderson, William
BouwenS, Jr. and Don Huseby.
Reverend B. j. Bingle gave the
invocation and later during the
dinner gave a short talk. The
quartette as Pat Hammer said,
set a fine example to che Boy
Scouts they were prepared.
The members are Walter Hunt
ley, Claire Nichols, Leonard
Capps, and John Hoekzema.
After the banquet installation
services were held in the Com
munity Hall. Sid Raynor, Depart
ment Commander brought two
Past Commanders with him from
Anchorage, Maurice Sharp and
Hugh Savage, who assisted him
with the the ritual of replacing
retiring officers with their success
sors. Officers installed were:
Elmer HUSKY replacing Neil Miller
as Commander Matanuska Valley
Post No. Is; Lawrence Rorrison
was re-installed as 1st Vice Com
mander;; Chris Anderson succeed
ed Elmer Huseby as End Vice; TX
Moore replaced Emil LaWalters
as Adjutant, Frank Worden as
Continued on page g.
Matanuska Valley pioneer. (Palmer, Alaska) 1935-1936, 1936-11-12
Zelda Pilkin gton Dies
From Gun Wound

At 1880 the night of Amistice Day small group Of
Palmer citizens gathered eXcedley tie and Mrs
Alv9h Pilkin9on the edge of town.
What they upon entering the will forever ndeby
stamped upon their On the noeum floor
the kitchen lay the body Of Zelda Pngton Kng bullet
Matanuska Valley pioneer. (Palmer, Alaska) 1935-1936, 1936-11-12

from a % caliber rifle had passed
directly through her heart. She
Law, fully clothed except for her
shoes, with one arm crossed be-
meath her as though thrown out
in an effort to break the fall. At
her head knoeled Alyah Pilking-
ton, her husband Of five months.
Behind the stove stood the
rifle where it had been placed by
Mrs. James Smith. The Smiths,
neighbors of the Pilkingtons, had
been called by the husband and
were the first upon the scene.
All efforts on the part Of DIR.
Albrecht to revive a spark of life
in Mrs. Pilkington failed and he
pronounced her dead.
Mr.. Pilkinaton's story of what
had tFanspired was somewhat
confused as he was obviously
under the influence of liquor and
he was detained by Marshal
Hermon until an inquest could
be held.
Commissioner Huntley took
charge and at two o'clock the
body was removed to the morgue.
The bullet had passed COM
pletely through the body and all
efforts to find it that night failed
but in the morning it was located
where it had gone into the wall
and buried itself in a two by four
studding. It was then determined
in just what position Mrs. Pix
ington had been standing when
the bullet entered her body.
At the inquest Mr.. PiIkington
told an incomplete story, but
later, behind closed doors, gave
testimony that brought in a yer.
dict Of suicide from the jury.
Mrs. Pilkington was a daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur King CT
MabloD, Washington, who have
requested that her body be sent
to them. She had been in Alaska
about five years, having taught
school at Seward and later in the
valley. This year she had been
a substitute teacher.
Mr.. Pilkin9ton, whose parents
live in Miami, Florida, came
north summer before last with
the transient organization and
stayed on with the AFRO as an
employee in the accounting de-
partment.
Mrs. PiikinStor's body will be
shipped to the States on the MS
Discoverer, leaving Anchorage
on Tuesday the 18th.
Evening star., 1936-11-20
ADVISORS URGED
+. BY REALTY GROUP
Organization of Staff of
ConSuItants Studied at
Convention.
BY JAMES Y. NEWTON,
8taff Correspondent of The Star.

NEW ORLEANS, November 40
Means of offering better service to the
public and establishment of sound
foundation policies to serve the in
dustry in the anticipated period of
great realty activity, we're sought to-
day by specialized groups of the Ma
tional Association Of Real Estate
Boards, holding its twenty-ninth an
nual convention here this week.
The advisability of creating an or
ganization of real estate consultants
to perform the same service in the
realty field as investment counsel in
the banking world was being studied
by group headed by Alfred Wagg of
Palm Beach, Fla. vice president of
the association. 1t was thought like
ly the group would organize and form
new council within the association.
The need for specialists to advise the
public on real estate investments has
been apparent to the realtors since
the collapse Of their business in 1929.
Another group of the association,
headed by Robert w. Semenow of
Pittsburgh, was busy drafting model
real estate license law to be used as a
guide in States where efforts are being
made to have enacted law to license
real estate brokers and statesmen.
Members of the Washington Real Es-
tate Board are particularly interested
IN this model legislation, F. L. Sandoz,
head of the Capital delegation, stated.
He said renewed effort will be made
when Congress convenes in January to
push through a bill to establish a
licensing commission for the District.
Delegates today were busy winding
up the business of the largest and
most successful convention held by the
real estate industry since 1929. Elec-
tions we're being held by the specialized
M. Babcock of the Federal Housing
Administration was the only Capital
delegate to be named to the officials
stats of any of the organizations af-
fliated with the association. He was
selected to serve on the Governing
Council of the American Institute of
Real Estate Appraisers.
The Nominating Committee for the
whole association is endeavoring to
persuade J. c. Nichols Of Kansas City,
Mo-, to serve as president for the next
year, it was learned. The election of
: the official staff of the association will
be held at the concluding sessions Of
the convention tomorrow. Nichols, one
of the country's outstanding home
builders, is well known in Washing
ton, as he is a member of the National
Capital Park and Planning Commis-
sion.
Evening star., 1936-11-20
HUSBANDS DEATH
COMPLETES PACT
Autopsy Reveals Woman
Died of Poison-TWo Cans
Found in Waste Basket.

The suicide pact which took the
life of Mrs. Minnie Glatzel, 48. yes
terday, was. completed today with the
death Of her husband, william ].
Glatzei, 40, who died in Gallinger
Hospital this morning.
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
issued certificate of suicide in the
death of Mrs. Glatzel after an au-
topsy revealed she had died of poi
soning. A post-mortem will be per-
formed on the husband today. DR..
Macdonald said. Two empty poison
cans were found in waste basket Of
their room in the New Colonial
Hotel, Fifteenth and M streets.
The couple had registered at the
hotel Sunday. Mrs. Glatzel. who
lived with her mother in Baltimore
while her husband was travelling. left
home last Friday. telling her mother
she was going on a trip" with him
Glatzel told officials Of the building
materials firm in Richmond, where
he had been employed for about two
months, tnat he was coming TO
Washington to visit his wife over the
week end.
About l am. yesterday Glatzel
telephoned the hotel desk and told
the clerk his wife was dead and that
he had taken poison. A physician
was summoned and found Mrs. Glat-
Eel lying on the bed. clad in a dress
ing gown. She had been dead several
hours. Glatzel was seated in a chair
Police said Glatzel told them that
he and his wife had entered into a
suicide pact the previous night. ex-
planning they had been worried by
financial matters.
Evening star., 1936-11-20
SOVIET SABOTAGE
D00MS EIGHT MEN
7 Russians and German Are
Said to Have Admitted
Mine Wreck Plot.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NOVOSIBIRSK, Western Siberia,
November 20.-Eight men-seven Rus
slams and a German engineer-faced
death sentences today on charges Of
anti-communist sabotage.
The government announced yester-
day the men pleaded guilty to de-
liberate attempts to wreck the great
Kamerovo coal mines, which cost the
lives Of IA miners.
A ninth defendant pleaded guilty
in part to the offense, for which the
penalty is death.
Aimed to Disable Mines.
According to the indictment. one Of
the defendants, I. Noskoff, told the
prosecutor:
Our work was directed at disabling
mines. We used a number of different
methods, principally allowing mine
chambers to be overfilled with gas
and turned, thus, into explosive
cellars ready to be blown up"
The indictment said another alleged
cOnSplTatOT, a man named DrODnlS,
confirmed Noskoff's S testimony and ex-
planned the idea was ito destroy the
economic success of the Soviet govern
ment"
Noskoff. the prosecution contended.
admitted the plotters hoped to foment
discomfort among the workers and to
destroy enough mine machinery and
equipment to put vital pits out of COM
mission.
Accuses Trotzky and Fascists.
The prosecution accused Leon
Trotzky, exiled former minister of war,
and German Fascists of conniving di-
rectly with the nine defendants.
The chief defendants were E. Stick
ling, a German citizen; l. Pershen-
honof. chief engineer of the mines.
and Noskoff. The others were F.
Shubin. M. Kuroff, I. Lashenko, v.
Andreiff, l. Kovlenko and N. Leonenko,
who admitted partial guilt"
Evening star., 1936-11-20
CELANESE UNION
DEMANDS LISTED
GROUPS Position Outlined Before
United States Labor Con.
ciliators.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Union demands which resulted in
closing of the textile plant of the
CeIanese Corp. of America at Cum
berland, Nd, were before Federal Labor
Department conciliators here today.
The unions position was outlined at
conference here yesterday. No
Celanese representative attended the
conference.
Francis J. German. vice president Of
the United Textile Workers of America,
outlined the demands following the
conference. He said the union called
for union recognition as agreed to
and signed by the representative of
the CelaneSe Corp. on the question of
collective bargaining"
German outlined that agreement as
The employer will deal with the
union as the representative of its
employees who are, or may become,
members Of the union, in collective
bargaining.
aa The employer will not discriminate
against any employe because of union
membership or union activities.
THE employer will Immediately
meet with the accredited committee
of the union from each department
Of. the employers plant with view
to arriving at an agreement with
regard to seniority rights, wages, hours
and working conditions"
German also said the union was
demanding Is per cent wage boost.
The company has offered a $900,0 900
annual increase and German said the
union wanted a clearer explanation
of how that 100000 would be dis
tributed among the 5000 employees.
The union vice president charged
that the company had deliberately
confused" the collective bargaining
agreement "by attempting to inject the
process Of individual bargaining, not
acceptable to the union
German also said it was decided
yesterday that in the future confer
ences should be held in Cumberland
with responsible officials of the COM
pany."
Evening star., 1936-11-20

upon a small series Of cases We wish
again to define our position in regard
to the operation. We have undertaken
it as a measure OF relief from symp-
toms that were causing great distress
to the patients and to their families.
These symptoms have been worry,
apprehension. anxiety, sleepleSsness
and nervous tension. These symptoms
have tended to subSide following OPP
Grafton, and the patients have become
more placid, more content and more
easily cared for by their relatives.
The symptomatic relief has been al
most immediate and has persisted to
the present time. We have not yet
been in a position to establish con-
trols satisfactory to ourselves or TO
others. such as simple anesthetization.
incision of the scalp, drilling holes in
the skull. unilateral operations or par
tial operations. in an effort to deter
mine what part is played by the
procedure other than the actual re-
duction in the number of axis cylin-
ders interrupted. That such expert
mental procedures should be carried
out is highly desirable, but our duty
to the patients has precluded these
and We have followed to the letter the
suggestions of Moniz
We wish to emphe size also that in
discriminate use of the procedure
could result in vast harm Pre-frontal
lobotomy should at present be reserved
for small group of specially selected
cases in which conservative methods
of treatment have not yielded salts
factory results. 1t is extremely doubt
full whether chronic deteriorated patti
ents would be benefited. Moreover.
every patient probably loses something
by this operation. some spontaneity.
some sparkle, some flavor Of the per.
sonality, If it may be so described. In
the patients operated upon up to the
present, memory has not been obvious
ly impaired and concentration has
been improved, possibly on account Of
relief of the preoccupation. Judgment
and insight are apparently not dimin-
ished, and the ability to enjoy external
events is certainly increased. Special
psychological tests will be used to de-
termine whether learning ability has
been affected, and only return TO
the previous occupation will reveal
whether these patients are able to
function satisfactorily at the socio-
economic level"
Evening star., 1936-11-20
MAN ENDS MURDER
HEARING BY SUICIDE
Leaves Note Blaming Foot Ball
Injury for Death Of His
Stepson.
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
POCAHONTAS, Ark, November 20.
John r. Kizer, ga, left behind him in
death today a charge that foot ball
injuries-not poison-killed his 16-
year-old stepson, Arnold Bonner XII
ger, last October 81.
Kizer, well-to-do landowner and
stockman, collapsed yesterday as OH
GERS started to lead him into court
for .arraignment on a charge he muir
dered the youth.
Coroner H. @. McNabb, finding the
planter died of self-administered
poison, made public today letters found
in Kizer's clothing which protested
his innocence and indicated the youth
was trampled fatally while playing
with the Paragould High School foot
ball team.
State chemists were examining the
internal organs of his wife, who died
IN 1929, and his mother-in-law, who
died last July, at the time of Kizer's
death.
Evening star., 1936-11-20

Eventually some remaining models
were removed to a temporary building
on the Mall, occupied by the Bureau
of the Census, and sold as junk to
recover the copper, brass and other
valuable metals. Director Of the
Census william L. Austin visioned the
importance of these miniature repro
ductions and salvaged dozens of those
which will give posterity an insight
into the mechanical advancement of
farming. Later the census required
all the space in the temporary build
ing. but Mr.. Austin saved his collection
by transferring it to Samuel H.
McCrory, chief of the Bureau of Agri-
culture Engineering, and there today
it grows In value.
y
FIGURES.
Certdin types OF mind, as eDery
one knoiOs, 90 completely berserk
U1en called upon to deal Nth
figures.
A newspaper erecutiue, pho has
the other kind OF mind and has
learned to use it in connection iutth
the, 30 to speak, number pork of
his associates. insists that he has
found new high In arithmetic
delirium.
1t took the form OF q hst Of en-
Evening star., 1936-11-20

tries in a long statistical tabulation
which began 3,o36, went on log
ically through 3,037, 3,03S and
3,03s. and reached q crashing cli-
mar in $3.50.
Some minutes Uere required TO
convince him that 30,3f0 and 3,040.
In such a sequence, were not pre-
ciselv the same thing.
Evening star., 1936-11-20

UIIU V-CC PIcSIUc1IV'
Elected to the board of directors
were: Everett j. Boothby, James G..
Dulin, jr.; Edwin H. Etz, Roland p.
Harrington, Frank E. johnson, j..
Frank Kelly. George w. offutt. jr.;
Edward S. Pardoe and George G..
Scharf.
A Joint meeting with the Rotary
Club will be held at the Mayfiower at
1880 pm. wednesday.
Evening star., 1936-11-20

elected president
Of the Washing
ton Kiwanis Club
yesterday at a
meeting in the
Mayhower Hotel.
He succeeds By
mum e. Hinton.
Albert B. Van
Voorhees,, omcer
manager Of the
Maydower, W a S
named first vice
president, an d
John S. Bennett.
superintendent of
the Central Un-
ion Mission, sec
Evening star., 1936-11-20

~ son of West Orange, N. j.. as
~ the new Assistant Secretary of
4 n the Navy by President. Roose-
welt recalls a story of his nlustrious
father, the inventor, Thomas Edison.
During the World War, the elder
Edison spent a great deal of time in
the National Capital, working closely
with the Navy and group of civilian
scientists and engineers, to aid in win
ming the conflict.
The elder Edison had impaired hear
ing and sometimes, during the ses-
sions of the wartime brain trust"
some of the members tried to put
something over" on the old gentle
man, taking advantage Of his deaf
ness.
But Thomas Edison was an old teleg-
rapher and knew his Morse code
well. He had confldante, who used
to sit next to him during the ses-
sions, and tap out with his finger on
Edison's knee a digest of what was
going on.
And the "conspirators" were not Q
little nonplussed to find that Thomas
Edison was able to speak out the cor
rect answer and spike any plan he
thought was not best for the Nation.
HAT.
1t ,ons not such an ill ,pind that
bleD Lieut.. H. L. Young, U. S. ~.
s12 hat.
Lieut.. Young berdted the ,Dind
bitterly When, ,ohile in flight oper
South Carolina, 1t bleD the hat
out of the cockpit of his tUo-sedter.
After bidding the hat good by, ho,o-
eper, he looked back and found that
the ,Dind, ,Dith final redeemtng
gesture, had bloiDn 1t into q hori-
sontal stabilizer brace wire.
Praying that the wind iDould
hold good and keep the hat jamned
against the wire, Lieut.. Young
headed for the nearest Commerce
Department emergency field and
there recovered the hat.
+& ~
WIND-BREAK.
WHAT looked like a new game, or
w an idea for ballet. was invented
by playful wind on busy corner in
Northeast Washington of recent
afternoon. A group of pedestrians,
collars about their ears. had just scam
pered across the street. A young lady
had one of those hats which offer spe-
cial temptation to gales. A gust
twitched it off and sent it rolling down
the gutter. A gallant young man gave
immediate chase.
Evening star., 1936-11-20

He reached the errant hat, and bent
down to get it. At this point. the elfin
wind promptly pounced on his own felt
and whisked it across the street. As
II at a cue, girl detached herself
from her group and rushed after his
hat. cornering it against the op-
posite curb, while he restored his cap
ture to the young lady who was the
first victim.
Watching was fun.
UNSHIPPED.
THE embarrassment of the horse
man who finds himself going
over a hurdle without his horse is as
nothing to the embarrassment of F. w.
Evans, aviation machinist,s mate,
U. S. N. Evans found himself flying
through the air without his airplane
the other day.
He was flying as passenger in a
two-seater Navy fighter when his
safety belt evidently slackened off
during maneuvers. While the plane
was in spin the safety latch let go
and Evans found himself sitting in
the ozone and the airplane going away
from there. A quick pull of the para
chute ring, however, and all was well.
He landed in the outskirts of Phila-
delphia, all measured for membership
in the Caterpillar Club.
X
MODELS.
A N interesting retrospect relating to
the one-hundredth anniversary
Of the granting of the first patent in
the United States concerns the dis
position of the thousands of models
which had been built to scale, COM
plete in every detail and exact dupli-
Gates Of the machine which was to
be put to actual use
When the Patent ONCE moved to
the new Commerce Building and the
law was changed to make written
specifications basis for patent appli-
cations, these models proved to be a
white elephant. The Patent Office
selected some two score machines
marking milestones in the country's
mechanical progress and these repose
in glass cases in the ante-room to
Secretary Of Commerce Roper's Office.
Evening star., 1936-11-20
Operate One Vehicle.

According to the American Truck
ing Associations. Inc, 1885 analysis. 81
per cent of for-hire trucking enter
prises operate only one vehicle.
Evening star., 1936-11-20
KlWANIANS ELECT
MANGAN PRESIDENT
Van voorhees, and Bennett Are
Chosen Vice Presidents at
Meeting Yesterday.

George p. Mangan, sales manager
of the Potomac Electric Power Co., was
Evening star., 1936-11-20
FINLAND TO PAY
War Debt Installment Will Be
Met, Authorities Declare.

HELSINGFORS, Finland, November
20 R.-Finland will pay her war debt
installment due the United States De.
oef1ber Is, authoritative sources said
today. -
Evening star., 1936-11-20
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