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The Washington times., 1936-11-05

food prices ris-
ing be a u S e,
when we had
to m u c h of
everything, we
turned to the
fantastic d e :
vice of killing
live stock and
blowing under
crops. In Ger
many, they're
eating W h a ! e
m e a t because
they have too
lit tie m e a t
raised on land.
The Washington times., 1936-11-05
Business and Relief


Figures of the Bureau of the Census showing boom
ing wholesale trade in the Disrctcomparng favoraby
even with the peak year of 1929-are made public sim
ultaneously with the plea of the Board of Public Wei
fare that it be given supplemental appropriation OF
nearly million dollars to meet relief needs for the last
half of the current fiscal year.
Relief in the District has been cut down during the
last year
But it has been cut dOpn simply because Congress
refused to appropriate more money to be distributed
to those in need.
Apparently the improved condition of all lines of bust
in the city has had material reaction on the
employment situation and the need of distributing
funds to those who unemployed.
The residents of the District would like to know why
They UOuId like to knOIU hOLV long it is going to
be necessary to carry tremendous relief load Wen
the city is enjoying as great business prosperity as
it eUer had
THERE ISN'T ANY DEPRESSION IN WASHING
TON NOW AND THERE NEVER WAS GREAT
DEAL.
Most of the money which the Board of Welfare seeks
as supplemental appropriation is to take of the
needs of "employables' whom the Board believes
in distress.
All of the empoyables were supposed to have been
taken care of by the Federal Governments work pro-
gram with the unemployabes' being left to the at
tention of local authorities.
The Board finds-and the Board should know the
problem if anyone doesthat about three thousand such
cases will need assistance here during the coming year.
This can only mean that the Federal Government has
fallen down what it proposed to do.
But that is not the main point which Wash
ingtonians
The principal point is: HOW MUCH PROSPERITY
DOES THE CITY HAVE TO HAVE BEFORE THE
RELIEF PROBLEM DROPS BACK TO EVEN NOR
NAL PROPORTIONS?
And what could be done now to expedite that return
of relief to normal?
ALL LINES OF BUSINESS ARE HIGH HERE
NOW WHOLESALE, RETAIL, BUILDING CON-
sTRUCTIoN BUILDING OCCUPANCY, BANK DE-
POSTS, EVERYTHING
Many induces of economic prosperity above
the 1929 mark.
Are the jobs which being created by this returning
business activity being given to persons from outside the
District?
COULD THE RELIEF AUTHORITIES OR OTHER
AUTHORITIES CONDUCT A SUCCESSFUL CAM
PAIGN NOW TO GET THOSE WHO ARE DEPEND
ING ON LOCAL RELIEF BACK INTO HONEsT-TO-
GOODNESS JOBS?
Wouldn't it at least be North try?
The Washington times., 1936-11-05

lenged the vote
of a resident
Of the county
who has been
paying he1 taxes
since 1923.
The recipient
of this unkind
attention is so
upset over the
humiliation &C
corded her that
she is deter
mined to make
an issue of it
if the opportu-
nifty affords it
.A1F
The Washington times., 1936-11-05
EMBARRASSING ERROR

Somebody in Arlington county
court house got SO excited about
Yesterdays election that they chal.
The Washington times., 1936-11-05

Great nations shift and dodge
these days like a quarterback IN
a broken field We now find
The Washington times., 1936-11-05

Does your husband talk in his
sleep about some mysterious Flos-
sic YOU never met? Does your wife
The Washington times., 1936-11-05
Greatest Show on Earth
Bv Frank Miller Smith

etheir bosses reelected than it does
to the bosses.
The Washington times., 1936-11-05
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER S, 1886


1917 H Street Northwest Washington D. G.
Arhur a Nevmy j j
The Washington times., 1936-11-05
Listen, World!
BIZ Elsie Robinson
THE MIGHT-HAVE.BEEN ADDICTS

Again Jennie See-sawed. Until
Edward caught her, on one of her |
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-05

Emma Jackson was admitted to the Government Hospital yesterday afternoon for medical treatment.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-05

Carl M. Brosius, of the Seward Lumber Company, is a passenger aboard the Yukon for his home town
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-05
HARRY HUMAN TALKS BEFORE
 ROTARY CLUB
Organizer from Ketchikan Makes Speech at
 Meeting Today

Harry c. Nunan was the principal speaker at the Rotary Club meet ing held at the Terminal Cafe al noon today He is from Ketchikan and is the main organizer of the Rotary clubs in Ketchikan and Ju- neau.
 Following MT Nunan's talk, A. B. Phillips told of his trip tO Spo- kane recently and described meet ing of the Rotary club which he at tended in Ketchikan on his way south.
 J. B. Burford is the acting sec retary during the absence of Sec retary O. L. Kendall who left Ju- neau Sunday to attend the Rotary convention in Vancouver, BIC.
 It was reported to club members that MT Kendall is doing every thing possible to bring the 1888 con- vention to Juneau He has taken with him photographs of Alaska prepared by E. Delano into a scrap book.
 A vote of thanks was given MT Delano for his help and his work on making up the book.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-05
FIRST CHICHAGOF IMPROVEMENTS ARE
 NOTED FROM AIR

Extensive improvements at the Hirst Chichagof mine have been completed and operations have been resumed with increased production, according to Pilot Sheldon Simmons of the Alaska Air Transport. Seen from the air, the new buildings at the mine, including snow sheds, a new bunk house and a new diesel engine house, indicate prosperity Pilot Simmons said
 Complete identification of the mine, including hoists which were formerly operated by air, has been effected and new diesel compress sor for ventilation has been in stalled under the supervision of Paul Sorenson, mine superintend- ent.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-05
. . . A. THE HOTELS
GdStinedu

=
 GaStineau
 MT. and Mrs. A. F. Parker, Gus tavus; A. c. Adams, Excursion In- let; Carl Kimnes; Ada Faunef and Etta Salo; Ed Christensen and wife, Sitka; Mel Hall and wife; Harry Sans, City; Mrs. c. H. Smith, Tulsequah; Mrs. I. Clements; Earl Michael, Excursion Inlet; H. w. Roslund. Chatham, !. T. renne"on Jack Simpson, San Francisco; Rob- ert c. Wakelin, Seattle; Sam A. Light, Seattle; Paul w. Jones, Ev- erett. Wn.; A. H. Ziegler, Ketchi- kan; P. M. Reed, Vancouver, B. c.
 Zynda
 H. c. Nunan, Ketchikan; Eliza beth Haviland, Juneau; Mrs. Vera Haviland, Juneau.
 Alaskan
 Ed Mccormick, Juneau; F. F. Smith. San Francisco; c. Johnson, City: Johnny Schaefer, Dallas. Ore 2
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-05

Vernon Sandy, who was admitted to St. Anns Hospital last night, underwent surgical operation this morning.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-05
ORANGES LEAVE FOR INTERIOR
 ON PA PLANE
Elapsed Time of Shipment from Los Angeles to Nome
 Will Be l20 Hours

California oranges picked in Los Angeles last Friday. were delivered this morning-just four days later to Gov. John w. Troy, after a record breaking plane-steamer- plane dash up the Pacl1ic Coast.
 Dispatched by the California Fruit Growers Exchange, the fruit flew from Los Angeles to Seattle aboard a United Air Lines plane in less than nine hours then was transferred to the Alaska Steamship Company's steamer Yukon, which arrived here today. Upon receiving the greetings" from Southern Cali fornia, Gov. Troy dispatched indi- vidual shipments via Pacific Alaska Airways to Interior points.
 The novel shipment signalized re- sumption of Pacific Alaska Air ways schedules out of Juneau as well as inauguration by United Air Lines of third daily round-trip on its Pacific Coast route between Se- attle and Los Angeles.
 The Governor sent a dozen of the oranges to each of the follow ing: Commanding Officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police at Whitehorse, Mayor E. B. Collins of Fairbanks, Mayor Ed Seidenverg of Nome, the PAA agent al Flat and Thomas DeVane at Ruby.
 Those dispatched by tne Cover nor from here will reach Fairbanks tonight and will leave that city to- morrow morning, arriving in Nome at l2:30 D. m. tomorrow noon, mak- ing total elapsed time from Los Angeles to Nome on the Boring Sea of exactly l20 hours.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-05
ARCTIC VETERAN GOING BACK TO MARTIN POINT
Gus Mask on Yukon, Head ing Back to Where
 1 Belong

After nearly a year Outside, Gus Mask is bound back for the Arc tic, where, he says, T belong"
 The widely known trader, trap ! per, prospector, dog musher and 1 author is a passenger on the Yu-. ken, and dropped in to sec his old friend Frank Dufresne, Assistant Executive Officer of the Alaska | Game Commission, this morning while the boat was in port
 Gus Masks life is tale of glam- orous adventure. He's faced the Arctic at it's bitterest, and loves it. Mask is one of the men who spent "A days on the trail locking for the late Col. Ben Eilsen, famous north ern flier. He's the same man who put in 1894 days with Dr. Vilhjalmur | Stefansson on the latter's widely heralded Arctic expedition in 1918 and 1919, the most of it on drifting ice.
 Mask knows the north as few men do, and now he's going back to 1 what he reverently refers to as Gods Country" up there at Mar tin Point, away east of Point Bar row and some 30 miles west of Herschel Island. On the map it is just a spot over near the Canadian boundary on the Arctic Coast but to Gus Mask it's home.
 Gus, as he prefers to be called, sees trapping, prospecting, mushing on mercy expeditions and so on just every day routine but what he gets real satisfaction out of is his book, Arctic Nights Entertain ment," on which he collaborated with Miss Nobel Wylie Hutchinson in writing. Miss Hutchinson spent the winter of 1883 at Martin Point and she got from Mask his story of the north and put it on paper. Today it is among the best sellers of adventure books One of the Arctic veterans proudest posses  sions is book review clipping from the Cape Town Times, Cape Town. South Africa, in which the book is highly recommended; one of those cases of a book being known and enjoyed from pole to pole.
 Born in Elstonia 50 years ago, Mask has lived always an interest ing life, including narrow escape from the Bolsheviks in Russia in connection with fur business, but he says his most depressing mo- ment was at Point Barrow last summer when Will Rogers and Will ey Post were killed in a plane ac- | cident. Mask was in Barrow when they brought the bodies in and at first it was decided he would fly down to Fairbanks with Joe Cros- son, who went to get the bodies, but this later proved inadvisable and Mask came out in another plane and went on out to the States for a little vacation and treat ment for his stomach which had been bothering him some in the north. He says he feels fine and is anxious to get back home.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-05
BUSINESSIS IS BOOMING SAYS
 JACK SIMPSON
Local Manager of Gray Line Arrives Roosevelt to
 Be Reelected

Back in Juneau in preparation for the opening of the tourist sea- son is Jack Simpson, Traffic Man ager for the Farthest North Gray Line. He arrived on the steamer Yukon, and is registered at the IGastineau Hotel.
 Simpson stated that another huge Gray Line bus will arrive within a few days to augment the tourist service throughout the Glacier High way tour schedule of the company. This brings the total to four for Juneau, which MT. Simpson be- lieves, will be insufficient to handle the volume of business this sum- mer.
 Business Booming
 Tn San Francisco" MT. Simpson said, we enjoyed the biggest winter in the history of our business and already have more business booked for the summer than we can expect to handle'
 In speaking of the coming PreSi- dential election, Mir Simpson said that President Roosevelt is certain to be reelected, and predicted that FDR will carry all of the 48 States. Business is getting. better by leaps and bounds in the States" MT. Simpson said, and I look forward to the best season in the history of Alaska"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-05
MRS. GROVE GOES SOUTH

Mrs. c. N. Crone, who conducted cooking demonstrations for Voca- tional Training for the Juneau Pub lie School, sailed for Seattle on the North Sea- Mrs. Crone will stop over for a week at Ketchikan where she will conduct cooking demonstra tions there before going south.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-05

day and was given time to obtain counsel before trial of the case.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-05

SAVE THE DATE B. P. w. c. Scholarship Dance, Elks' Hall, Saturday, May g. adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-05
Will Ship Cattle to Shonbeck Ranch,
 Matanuska Valley

ELLENSBURG, Wash May s. Dick Van Woerdan, stockman, is prepared to transport 200 cattle to Seattle for shipment Thursday to Alaska. He will deliver the cattle to the long established ranch of A. A. Schonbeck, in the Matanuska Valley.
 Shonbeck is an Anchorage resi- dent and one of the pioneer cattle breeders of Alaska.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-05
PAA SEAPLANE
 OFF TO SITKA

Ebert Jones was passenger to Sitka today on the scheduled flight of the PAA Fairchild seaplan flown by Bob Ellis with Flight Mechanic Paul Brewer. leaving Ju- neau at noon.
 W. J. Barrows and Hjalmar Nor dale, PAA officials, were round "trip passengers on the plane.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-05
GOING HOME

Mike Ofkoloff, who was receiving surgical treatment at the Govern ment Hospital, was discharged to- day and left on the Yukon for his home in Ninilchik.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-05
ARRIVE ON PATCO

Gus George and A. Factor were passengers arriving from Chichagof on the Patco this afternoon
 At o'clock this afternoon the Patco left Juneau for Sitka with three passengers: Dr. and Mrs. H. J. Hodgins and Nick Trierschield.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-05
PLEADS NOT GUILTY

Chris Mathieson, charged with being drunk and disorderly, plead ed not guilty when arraigned in U. s. Commissioners Court Satur-
Milford chronicle., 1936-10-23
FELTON,

The FELTON, Canning @Faetory is
working full time on apples and ex-
poets to have work for quite a few
weeks.
Miss Dorothy East has returned
from visit with friends IN Philadel-
pbia and Allentown, Pa.
Mrs. Lu Sipple Is spending some
time with her daughter. Mrs. Roland
Dufendach. in Wilmington.
Mrs William Hargadine and Miss
Nellie Hughes attended the executive
board meeting of the Delaware state
Federation Of Women's Clubs held in
Dover.
Mrs. Maude Reynolds has been the
guest Of Philadelphia friends recent
ly
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Tatman Of
Wilmington are being congratulated
on the birth Of a son, born az the
Wilmington General Hospital
The supper held by the w. C. T.
U. At the Grange Hall was a sue
cess.
A meeting Of the Home Missionary
Society Of the N. e. Church was
held at the home Of Mrs Layina Ros-
coe.
Milford chronicle., 1936-10-23

feFed a similar award.
Mrs. E. A. Bonner, first vice pres
ident Of New Castle county, announ-
ced that on November 12, the Della
ware City and New Castle units will
have joint installation and urged
that all members of the auxiliary at
tend. Mrs. Fader, department pres
ident, win install the officers, after
which the first county meeting for
the year will be held. Mrs. Fader
accepted invitations TO install the
auxiliary officers OF the Delaware
Unit No. in Wilmington, who were
installed on Wednesday evening of
this week, and at Georgetown on
November 2. Members Of the auxil-
iary are invited to attend these In
Mrs. Leon Case Of Newark pre-
sented Mrsh Fader with a lovely bou-
quet Of roses as a token Of esteem
and pledge Of support from the mem-
bers Of her unit, ]. Allison O'Daniel.
The members Of the Walter L. Fox
unit Of Dover. presented Mrs. Geo.
Hill, the retiring president, with a
ovely gift to be used In her new
home into which she has just re-
,ently moved.
Milford chronicle., 1936-10-23

Mrs. William Hufnal was hostess
to the Oak Grove Blue Hens Chicks
Club at their October meeting. This
group Is sponsoring a dance ia the
Milford chronicle., 1936-10-23
Flfty-Seven Years Of
Hardware Retailing
Hnmes Firm Vas Founded In 1878

There are only a few old folks
alive today who remember when a
young man and his wife came to
Milford to start a hardware and i'm
plement store. An unheard of thing
1t was in those days for a store to
sell only those lines. But William
Alexander Humes, Sr., had the cour-
age and foresight to see the need. In
June, 1873, he came to Milford with
his partner, and brOther-in-law. Abel
Taylor, and opened up his shop in
what is now the Odd Fellows Build
ing. Those first years saw many lean
days, but some announcement to-
wards a future.
Two years after the start of his
venture, the partnership with Mr..
Taylor was terminated, and the busi-
ness was moved into larger quarters.
His new location was what is now
the present site, corner Of Walnut
and Water streets. With the addi-
tion Of farm machinery a new sign
was displayed, "W. A. Humes-Old
Reliable-Agricultural Store" Those
were the days of kerosene lamps;
long hours with the store open from |
A. NJ. to 9 P. NJ; goods we're set |
out on the sidewalk for display as /
show windows were hardly what the /
name implied; Milford then had five
shipyards which hummed with ac-
ivtty; twenty-One sailing vessels
'lied the Mispillion bearing passeng-
RS. lumber, coal, fertilizer, wheat
md corn, ETC., dirt streets poured
orth clouds Of dust in dry weather
lnd In wet weather were bogs of
nuds; buggies, dearborns and wag-
ms were hitched along both sides of
be street, but even with all the ac-
ivity money was not plentiful as
RACES were low. The lines Of mer-
handise we're increased, paints
'ere added, then stoves and house
old goods. (Cast iron tea kettles
nd cooking pOts). Gradually evoIv-j /
a complete hardware store,
breast Of the times.
In 1899, ]. Harry Humes, who had
sen working In the store for some a
me, was made a partner and the n
anne Of the firm was changed TO 2
umes & Son. A few years later,
I08, the old building, which had
en- known as the New York Store
was partly razed and re-
Milford chronicle., 1936-10-23
SAD STORY TOLD
IN U. S. TRADE

LCoatiHEeS from First PsgeI
eral imports" include goods brought
in which are not consumed in the
United States. BY this juggling the
report makes it appear that the ad-
verse balance of trade during the
eight months ending August Of this
year is only $4O,6O7, 900 as compared
with the corresponding period of
last year.
The true picture is revealed when
re-exports and imported goods not
entering into consumption are ex-
cluded.
The authentic adverse balance
of trade during the eight months
ending August, 1886, as compared
with the corresponding period last
year, is 1856, 900.
The rapidly growing adverse ball
ance of trade against the United
States as a result of the Roosevelt
reciprocal trade agreements points
a deadly finger at the disadvantages
of American industry, agriculture
and labor under trade agreements
which open the American market to
foreign countries paying low wages
to labor
Americans are losing in competi-
ton in their own market. They are
losing In competition abroad
The increases of total trade from
he low point of the depression es-
.ablish the fact that foreign coun-
ries, and not the United States, are
naking headway under the Roosevelt
rade agreements.
Milford chronicle., 1936-10-23

modelled into the finest store In
town. It was three floors high, five
large display windows, had a freight
elevator, and was covered with met
al. At that time it was the talk of
the community, and considered a
credit to the town.
BY 1916, conditions had changed
greatly. The World War was on: au-
tomobiles were chugging about the
streets soaring the horses. merchan-
disc had changed. many lines had
been added to the stores stock and
VIM. A. Humes had worked hard
building a business on the finest
and was ready to retire
from active work. The firm became
Harry Humes. With the excellent
foundation which had been laid, bus
mess was good. In 1925, J. E. Humes,
son Of J. Harry Humes and grand
son Of VIM. A. Humes, was made a
partner and the firm name became
J. H. Humes & Son, which name is
Used today.
Now looking back 50 years it can
De seen where the business passed
through prosperous years and panic
lears. And with the same progress
i've spirit which was followed dur f,
ng all that while, the present firm J
pen their new building. Modern in
very respect and detail. it is a
designed for the selling of
eneral hardware under the best and
lcst pleasant conditions. Buying is
eally a delight today where goods
an be seen and handled. Such a
tore is now ready for the public Of
Iiiford. and ]. H. Humes & Son will
e glad to have one and all inspect
I
Milford chronicle., 1936-10-23

Oak Grove Community House on
Friday evening, October 80. Austin
Hufnal and Phyllis Dixon are in
charge Of music.
Kent County Club members are
submitting their entries in the Six
National Contests sponsored By the
National Committee on Boys, and
Girls Club Work. The county win
ners will be submitted to A. d. Cobb
at Newark who viii decide the State
winners. The State awards in three
contests, canning, home economies
record and food preparation win be
trips to the National Club Congress.
Other State awards are a gold watch.
a radio set with 100 records and a
$4,000 merchandise certiacate for
electrical supplies. Those who are
competing are: Beatrice Moore 81
Fraziers Club; Ellen Vlnyard 81
Houston; Louise Meredith Of Oak
Grove; Violet Long Of Westvlile
Am Tuil Of Farmineton
Mary Louise Deakyne, Of Smyrna
Walter Downs and Karl Vbgel 81
smyrna; William Dawson. oE Cam
len; Smyth Roland and Virgil Jar
ell Of Viola; Desmond Crair ana
Ian Watson Of the Union Club,
Milford chronicle., 1936-10-23

Insects work scientifically.
Milford chronicle., 1936-10-23
Organization Meeting Of
State Advisory Committee

State Director R. w. Helm Of New
ark has been appointed by the State
Board of Education to serve on the
State Advisory Committee on Trade
and Industrial Education for Della
ware. The committee had its first
meeting on Friday in Hotel dupont,
Wilmington, at which time an organ
izatiOn was effected. The functions
of the State Advisory Committee as
outlined by the State Board are to
act as an advisory capacity on gen.
eral policies and plans to be follow
ed in a State program for Trades
and Industries, approve State Plans,
determine the OceupatiOnal commit
tees to be organized and to appoint
members for the same; and deter
mine general policies for the Oecu-
pstional committees. The member
ship of the State Committee consists
of: representing employers, Harry
E. Speakman of the Speakman Com
pany and J. Warren Marshall of the
National Vulcanized Fibre Company;
labor. John c. SaylOr,
s6itOr of the Labor Herald and Gran
Vile Walker, president Of the State
of Labor; representing
service. Howard p.
Young. State director; representing
A. B. Anderson, State SUI
for trades and Industries,
md R. w. Helm. State director for
'Ocational education. State Director
ieim acted as chairman Of the or
.anization meeting in Wilmington at
he request Of DR.. H. v. Holloway,
tate Superintendent OF Public In
Dover. A.