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Evening star., 1936-11-05
ROOSEVELT IN TRIM

President Roosevelt will 60 back to
the White House in excellent physical
trim.
Such is the verdict Of DR.. Ross Nc
Intire. White House physician.
There may be q few more seams in
the face and bit more gray at the
temples Of the 54-year-old Chief Ex-
ecutive. but otherwise he. appears
about the same as the day in March,
1888, when he took office.
Evening star., 1936-11-05

SlTl before SnG
left the earth.
And who could tell? Auntie had no
relatives that Slim could discover,
outside of himself. After all, it was
worth a few months of detestable
work to run the chance of being cut
in on all. or at least goodly portion,
of Auntie's dough after it was all over.
Slim went to work, and what I mean,
he really Slaved!
LIE TOOK full advantage of the
fact that, aside from her nu-
merous ailments. the Pekingese was
her only weak spot. Early in the morn
ing Slim began his duties with the
dog. Under Auntie's fond supervision
from her wheel chair, he petted the
creature, washed 1t, took 1t for airings,
combed and brushed its struggling
hair, treated it as though it we're q
very treasure. Which it really was, ac-
cording to Sims line of thought.
The expected few months until
he should reap the just rewards of
all this detested and unaccustomed
toll stretched into year, a year and a
half. But Slim never relaxed his won-
derful care of the hound - while
Auntie was around. II he booted
the mutt few times when he
wasn't observed, maybe he could be
excused.
To Sims vast relief. the day ar
rived when Auntie had him telephone
to her lawyer. 1t seemed that Auntie
felt that she hadn't much longer to
live and wished to revise her will.
Sims heart bounded when she shyly
mentioned that she wanted to leave
him something to repay all his kind
services. Slim protested that she must
be needleSSly alarmed, that he hoped
she would live for another 10 years,
which pleased Auntie. Slim had his
fingers crossed
THE old lady proved to be a good
prophet. Slim sat in the musty
parlor after the funeral. drying his
eyes while the lawyer began reading
the last will and testament of dear
old Auntie. The tears stopped flowing
miraculously when the lawyer brought
out the startling news that Auntie's
money was to 60 TO dog and cat
hospital!
The lawyer cleared his throat and
began afresh. Slim heard, ITO my
dearly beloved nephew, Percival Aber.
nethy, leave my most dearly loved
possession, because he is the only one
who will appreciate It'll"
Slim leaned forward. This was more
like it! Visions of valuable collection
of jewels or bonds fitted across his
mind and he smiled complacently to
himself. The lawyer resumed read
ing, and then Slim almost tainted.
Auntie had indeed left him her
most dearly loved possession - the
Peke!
Copyright. 1850
Evening star., 1936-11-05
Mrs. Simpson Asks
Mandan,us to Keep
School Board Post
arlington Resident Files
Plea for Writ in State
Supreme Court.
By the Associated Press.

RICHMOND, Va, November 5.
The Virginia Supreme Court Of Ap-
peals yesterday reviewing a petition,
which was not argued, in which Miss
Ruby G. Simpson asked q writ of
mandamus to compel the School Board
of Arlington County, John M. Stewart.
chairman, and Rev. Walter r. Wolf,
q member, to recognize her as men,
ber of the board.
She contends she was appointed to
the board, and, after qualifying. took
office on July /, 1882. On July 49,.
1886, she contends, the chairman of
the board refused to recognize her as
q board member and informed her
that Rev. Wolf had been appointed
In her place.
She had the right to hold the office,
even though her four-year term had
expired, her petition claims, because
q successor had not been legally ap-
pointed She maintains VOLTS ap-
pointment was Illegal as it was made
on July g, 1886, and not prior to
Julyf as statutes cited by her provide.
Evening star., 1936-11-05

1t must be understood at the be-
binning that Percival was not all that
the name might conjure up in the
imagination. In fact, for quite num-
ber of years the name Percival had
been supplanted for a coarser but
more serviceable cognomen, Slim"
in those intervals when a number had
not been more practical.
Having sprung from a more or less
distinguished line. the name is un-
derstandable. But it is also under
standable that a black sheep without
benefit of an immediate family has
distinctly no use whatever for
fancy name. What Slim really had
need Of was shelter, clothing and
food. with perhaps enough money
thrown in along with it to satisfy
gentlemanly craving for participa-
ton in various games of chance. He
rarely lost any money-long years
Of practice took care of that!
Slim knew where he could pro-
cure all these things. He was by
turns moocher, petty thief. gambler,
confidence man or whatever best suit
ed his welfare, yet withal he was a
very likable chap. The education he
had absorbed before he turned out to
be a rogue Of sorts stood him in good
stead in many an emergency. All OF
which serves to show what sort OF per-
son Slim was.
He hadn't been in town week
before he realized that conditions
were not what they might have been.
IT WAS a condition which called
for thought. and at that Slim was
very adept. Like great many peo-
pie, Slim was fond of having money
the more the better-but likewise had
an inherent aversion to working for
It. For two days Slim mulled over
great many schemes whereby he might
repienish his depleted capital. and on
the second day a grand idea Smote
him with the suddenness and clarity
Of a bolt from the blue.
He had a wealthy elderly maiden
aunt living right in town. He remem-
bered hearing his father speak of her.
And here he was going around mooch-
ing meals and a flop from grudging
friends! Hastily he sought out tele-
phone directory and feverishly looked
up her address. The old girl should
be good for a lot more than he was
getting by his present tactics!
The same afternoon Slim rang the
door bell of the old-fashioned man
sion, actually looking presentable in
his borrowed suit, fresh haircut and
shave and suave air. The old lady
received him icily; but Slim went to
work on her in earnest when he per-
ceived that she was due for not many
more months on this earth. He cast
about for some method by which to
break the ice of her reserve.
Il
LIE FINALLY discovered it. Auntie
was almost morbid on the sub
Evening star., 1936-11-05
z MEN ARE FREED
IN HOTEL Staying
New York Police Without
Clue in Killing Of For
mer Virginian.
By the Associated Press.

ny the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 5.-Police
said today they had freed IL men
after questioning them In connection
with the staying Of r. Walton Ford,
35, an interior decorator whose body,
bound with a lamp cord. radio wire
and belt. was found on his bed in q
fashionable midtown hotel yesterday.
His sister, Miss Inez Ford, came
here from Roanoke, Va, where he
once lived, to identify the body in the
Bellevue Hospital morsue. The medi-
cal examiner said Ford died Of
strangulation.
Police were without a suspect, al
though they were studying many clues
Evening star., 1936-11-05
CAB DRIVER GUILTY
OF ROBBERY EFFORT
Court Told Toy Pistol Used to
Rob Meadows Merchant
of rs Cents.

- Stan Correspondent OF The Star.
UPPER MARLBORO, Mo, Novem-
Der 5.-Mark H. Dulin, 26, Washing
ton cab driver, yesterday was found
guilty in Circuit Court here Of at
tempted robbery. Sentence will be
pronounced later by Judge Joseph C..
Mattingly.
Francis White. Meadows, Nd, res
taurant owner, testified that the man
robed him Of IS cents at gun point
Evening star., 1936-11-05

left by two men who were intercepted
by the hotel clerk as they left rord's
hotel, carrying with them two suit
cases of Ford's clothing and belong
mgs. The two disappeared after the
unsuspecting clerk insisted on their
leaving the suitcases.
Evening star., 1936-11-05

ject Of dogs, espe.
lially the bulging-
eyed Peke, which
was her sole COM
panion. outside OF
the butler and the
cook. He petted the
mutt, praised 1t,
remarked on how
fortunate Auntie
was to possess such
q paragon OF ca.
nine pulchritude.
And Auntie fell for
1t like q ton Of
bricks. Before he
left, Slim had q
promise of n Job
taking care Of the
pooch in return for
his food and lodg.
ing! He gagged IN
wardly. He hated
dogs, but this was
a golden oppor-
tunity to get in
solid with the old
girl before she
Evening star., 1936-11-05

on August IA. When the suspect was
arrested by Washington police snort
ly after the robbery a toy pistol was
found in the cab drivers car. It
was this toy gun. it was testified, COW
cred partly by handkerchief, with
which the robbery was staged.
Evening star., 1936-11-05
Engagement Announced.

LONDON, November R.-The
engagement was announced today Of
Miss Margaret Drummond, eldest
daughter of Sir James Eric Drum
mond. British Ambassador to Rome,
and John Walker of Pittsburgh, Pa.
Sir James is heir presumptive to the
fifteenth Earl Of Perth.
Evening star., 1936-11-05
XX1HEN Percival
w Abernethy hit

Abernethy nit
town, arrivi n g
blind baggage on
one of the more
pretentious a n d
fast trains from
the last town he
had been run out
Of, Perciv ! no
doubt was broke.
Or at least he was
SO nearly debated
financially t h a t
there was no hu-
NOR in the situa-
ton. The fact
did not fail to reg
lister upon Perci-
val, as he heard
the faint jingling
Of a few coins when
he slid with prac-
ticed grace onto the
gravel of t h e
darkened upper
stretches of the
Evening star., 1936-11-05
Will Mechanic Industry.

New Zealand's labor government
has decided to mechanic industry as
rapidly as possible.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-17
Kashevaroffs talk Annabel Edwards

Kashevaroff's talk Annabel Edwards recited a poem entitled Bill and America sung by the audience was the concluding number
 Alaska, Past and Prcssa
 The Rev. Kashevaroff's talk on Alaska centered around the cul4urs ! development recorded in the Ter ritory. Early in the 18th century, Sitka, the most cultural city on the Pacific Coast at that time, had fine churches. schools and art gal ieries. The manufacture of copper bells was a principal industry
 Bells from Sitka were shipped all over the world Due to the rapid growth and expansion of business going on in the Territory at the present time, the speaker said, we Ire too apt to forget the early progress For twenty years follow ing the transfer of Alaska to the United States everything was prac- tically at a standstill Then gen. eral growth and increase in. popu- lation started, until today there is scarcely any community where one would not find an American lady, he said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-17
NEVIS DOUGLAS
TALK ON ALASKA |CIvEN, DOUGLAS
Rev. Kashevaroff M k ke $
 Address at School on '' Early North

That Sitka was once the mes cultural city on the entire coast was related before the students and a number of parents aIid patrons of the Douglas Public Schools in a talk by the Rev A. P. Kashevarofi yesterday afternoon, principal num- Der on the program celebrating the 69th anniversary of the purchase ot bAlaska
 'Alaska, My Alaska" sung by the pupils, lead by MT Clifford Garter and accompanied by the school or ohestra, opened the program which was held in the high school audi torium at 1:45. Recitation, Alas ka's Flag" by Lucille Goetz and Curtis Bach was next, followed by Historical Sketches" by Doris Ca hill, Borghild Havdahl and Ken neth Shudshift. Following Father
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-17
Wool Leads Full Fashion Purude

"away this falls of fashions Evening gowns cOa street clothes it. Copeland aater- slender molding lines anu quilted The breast pocket kerche wine colo Ass
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-17
PASSES INSPECTION

Herbert Redman, FILA. inspector, was a visitor on the island yester- day, looking over some of the new construction. Progress made so far on the Bacon and Devon jobs were given his official okey.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-17
LUNCHEON HONORS
 GUEST AT HOME
 OF MISS E. PULLEN

For her house guest, Miss Helen Kinkaid of Port Townsend, Miss Elizabeth Pullen entertained with a bridge luncheon at her home today.
 Her guests were Miss Dalma Hanson, Miss Anne Rohwer, Miss Pearl Peterson, Miss Gladys For rest, Mrs. Iva Tilden, Mrs. Fred Johnston, of Fairbanks: Mrs. w. E. Kimball, Mrs. Robert Bender and Mrs. w. $. Pullen
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-17
LOCAL HUNTERS LEAVE

A. E. Goetz. Lew Nunamaker, Charles Schramm, Ken Jones, Joe Riedi and J. o. Kirkham with sev- eral hunters from Juneau have chartered the boat of Al Weathers for a trip to St. James Bay, leav- ing here early Sunday morning.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-17
Douglas Church Services

Notices for this church column must be received by The Empire not later than 10 o'clock Saturday morning to guarantee change of sermon topics, etc. ST. LUHE's EPISCOPAL CHURCH The Union Sunday School will be held in the Episcopal Church at 1:30 pm.
 7:30 p.m.-Evening Prayer and sermon DOUGLAS CATHOLIC CHURCH
 St. Aloysius Church 800 am-Holy Mass. ~ DOUGLAS COMMUNITY
 CHURCH
 I. w. RISVOLD, Pastor. 11:00 a.m.-Sunday School and services.
 Everybody welcome.
 DOUGLAS PRESBYTERIAN
 MISSION DAVID WAGGONER, Minister Sunday services:
 1:30 pm.--Bible School 2:l5 p.m.--Preaching service. All are invited to these services and to worship with IS.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-17
LAST RITES FOR o. SWANSON
 SET FOR 200 P. M. SUNDAY

Tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock funeral services for olaf Swanson are scheduled to take place from the Charles w. Carter chapel in Ju- neau. Interment will take place in the Odd Fellows cemetery in Doug las. The eulogy will be spoken by the Rev. o, L. Kendall and Monte Snow will be soloist.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-17

Douglas Barber Shop will be re- opened October 15. by Herb Wen ding, barber. M adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-17
CHIEF NEEDS AUTO

Ketchikan's Fire Depart ment needs a new car for runabout pur- poses, such as trucking, repair of hydrants and other routine duties of the fire department, Stanley Adams, Fire Chief, urged before the City Council recently.
 Commenting that the old car has "completly expired and is ready for the junk yard,' Chief Adams asked that some sort of new con- veyance be provided.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-17

SAVE THE DATE Dance D. F. D. October 24. a
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-17

MRS. SWANSON, DAUGHTERS
 ARRIVE HERE FROM SOUTH
 To attend the tuneral of the hus- band and father, set for Sunday afternoon, Mrs. Freda Swanson and
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-17

daughters, Mrs. Ida Likens and Mrs. Florence Young, arrived here this morning on the Northland. They will be the guests of Mrs. J. R. Langseth and other friends, during their stay here.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-17
ATTENTION ODD FELLOWS

ATTENTION ] ODD FELLOWS
 Members of LOOT. are requested to attend the funeral of our late brother Olaf Swanson, P. C., of AL aska Lodge IA, Douglas. The ser- vices will be held at the c. w. Car ter Chapel, Sunday afternoon at ? o'clock Interment in Douglas cemetery.
 J. R. LANGSETH,
 Sec'ty Alaska Lodge IO.OF.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-12
Local Group Entertained at
Mud Creek C.C.C. Camp
Delegation of Ely Men Enjoy Dinner and Program Guests
of c. c. c. Company 370S on Goodwill Visit Company
Voted Royal Hosts by Elyites

On the invitation of the Commanding
officer of CCC Camp 37O8, two cars of
Ely men visited the camp on Tuesday
evening. In the party were: John Rik-
hus, DR.. j. E. Thompson, Barney Swift,
James I. Laing, Harold Dillon, Ernest
w. Hanson, Norman Brown, j. v. Carl
son and Peter Schaefer.
The party was warmly welcomed by
Commanding Officer Lieutenant r. A..
Clough; Junior Officer Lieutenant w.
H Ward; DR.. o. E. Snyker and Educa-
tional Advisor H. B. Ause who with the
Forestry Department under D. H. Will
son as superintendent, Ted R. Miller,
Leo Wiljamaa, Herley Janelle, Urho
Salminen, willard Wagner, Emerald
Gould and M. A. Allison with $50 enrol
lees make up the handsome camp
known as the Mud Creek, or Camp F.
Sc.
A most appetizing dinner was served
to the party in the mess hall at which
the entire personnel of the camp was
present. Arrangements had been made
for a larger attendance from this city
but for some unaccountable reason only
the above named responded although
the dinner was deferred for nearly a
half hour in the hopes that tardy ones
would show up.
Commander Clough. in brief talk
welcomed the guests and made short
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-12
NeU Rules Knocked at
ELy-BiUdbik Game.

A ruling in basketball was invoked
at the Ely-Biwabik tournament game
in Virginia last week which was new
to the larger part of the fans present
who were rather surprised when the
teams walked off the floor after BIZ
wabik had scored the two winning
points on free throws
The rule provides that when the score
of the game is deadlocked at the end of
the regular playing time the first team
to score two points in the overtime
period is declared the winner.
The old rule was to play fiat three
minute overtime periods and the game
did not end until one of the teams held
a margin in points at the end of the
overtime. One overtime period would
follow another if the score remained
deadlocked.
The majority of the fans and re-
porters present did not know of the new
rule because it had never been invoked
in this district in tournament play
Hence the surprise.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-12
District Court Jury
Acquits Tony Pulls of
Manslaughter Charge
BIWABIK AND BUHL
ARE RANGE REGIONAL
BASKETBALL ENTRIES.

Biwabik won the right to contest
for the 9th district in the Regional
basketball tournament by defeating
Gilbert, Saturday, at Virginia in the
district tournament. The score was
"a to 20 in favor of Biwabik in a
holly contested game.
Buhl defeated Coleraine in the dis
trict % tournament played at Hib-
bling, on a score of 81 to 10.
At the same time Duluth Central
won over Two Harb0rs in the 2Sth
district, % to Is, and North Branch
beat Pine City for the 25th dis
trict championship on a score of 20
to 16.
The Regional tournament opens
tomorrow evening in the new Hib-
bling Memorial building. 1t is ex-
pected that the games for the honor
of defending the region in the state
meet will be holly contested.
Buhl, by reason of their win over
the fast COleraine team and their
past reputation is given the edge al
though the other three teams in the
contest will make them hump to
keep in front, especially Biwabik of
this district.
Biwabik is slated to play Duluth
Central i'm the opening game to-
morrow night. Bull will engage
North Branch in the opening game.
Scores of fans from this city will
be in attendance at the Regional
meet.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-12
played TO A
RECORD CROWD
Slovenian Thespians Win the
Plaudits of Standing Room
Only" Audiences.

"Oh, This Devilish Widow" proved
to be all that the name implied Sun
day afternoon and evening at the
Washington Auditorium when a group
of Ely actors and actresses presented
the play with the above caption to two
standing room only" audiences.
The play was given in the Slovenian
language and was sponsored by the
lodges of st. Cyril & Method, Sacred
Heart, Immaculate Conception, Arrow
head, st. Barbara, North Star and
Slovenec. These lodges combined have
a membership of over 1900 thus insur-
ing filled houses for both performances.
The play was directed by Adolph Do
lenshak and the cast included such well
known Thespians as Mrs. Mary Rebel,
who played the title role; Mary Skule,
Joseph Spreitzer, Jr., Jack Smrekar,
Frank Likar, Matt Kobe, Mrs. Mary
Shepel, and Charles Merhar, Jr.
To pick the best player would be
matter for a Major Bowes and not
humble newspaper reporter. Sufficient
to say that all are credited with an ar
tistic performance of this amusing
three-act comedy with vaudeville pro-
logue
The prologue was under the manage
ment of Matt Rom who played the part
of gypsy camp leader and whose in
Productions of the speciality acts kept
the crowd in a most hilarious mood
from the beginning to the end.
Mali and Elston Nusich of Chisholm
opened the prologue performance with
vocal numbers followed by the Shepel
Sisters as Mary, Josephine and Frances
are known. Louis Kotzian, accordianist,
accompanied the Shepel Sisters and al
so played solo number. Louis Ma
vetz the Singing Guitarist rendered
several number as did also the Harmon
lea Twisters by which term Chester
Hillman, John Glavan and Elmo Lassey
with their harmonica and guitar are
known.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-12

AS announced in these columns last
week the annual concert by the Public
School Orchestra will take place at the
washington Auditorium this evening at
8:15 o'clock.
Director Frank v. DiNino has ar
ranged an elegant program for the oc-
casion with Miss Peggy McMahan as
accompanist. The program to be pre-
sented is as follows:
First Suite from the Opera Carmen
by Bizet, (a) prelude; (b) Argonaise;
Co Intermezzo; I'D Las Dragons D.
alcala; (e) Les Toreadors.
(a) Chamber Symphony OPP. 2 Concert
No. 4, for two violins, cello and piano
Josephine Shepel, first violin; Nancy
King, second violin; Mary Elizabeth
Berg, cello; Peggy McMahan, piano
CD Violin solo, MY Old Kentucky
Home OPP. No. 9, fantasia and varia-
lions by w. F. Ambrosia, Nancy King
(a) "a Children Suite" by j. Anzell
(a) Punchinello; CD The Music Box
Co The Box of Soldiers; (d The Story
Book.
(b) 1.-The Sailors Hornpipe" fol
woodwind quintet by F. K. Huffer
Edward Shepel, flute; Edward Lake
oboe; william Jones, clarinet; Wilht
Maenpaa, bassoon, and Vincent DiNino
horn.
Unfinished Symphony by Schubert
(a) "Violin Solo, 5th Air on Them
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-03-12

address in which several members of
the staff and camp leaders were intro
duced. Each responded briefly after
which Ernest w. Hanson was introduced
as the POSTMASTER Of the evening.
Mr.. Hanson was equal to the occasion
and in turn called to the floor Chef
Campbell; First Sergeant Masitelli;
Cole, the only man from out of the
state among the enrollees, Cole being
from Kansas; DR.. Snyker. Each of
these spoke few words, DR.. Snyker
using Friendship" as his text. Ser
gent MaSitelli said in his brief re-
marks that his talk would be like a
woman's dress, long enough to cover
the subject and short enough to be in
teresting."
Newman a Bemidji boy and his gui-
tar entertained the crowd by singing
and whistling himself into immediate
favor and he was recalled repeatedly.
John Donlin was introduced as an
Indian fighter. Irving Mahar when
called upon said he felt soewhat like
Jonah and the whale when Jonah said
IF you had kept your big mouth shut
I would not be here" Mason Hoppe a
leader in the camp spoke briefly.
Seventy-nine Of the men in the camp