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The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-10-07
Tomatoes Grow
 On Potato Vine

JACKSON, Miss, Oct. 7.-In- stead of potatoes and fishes" it's potatoes and tomatoes now. Three farmers in the vicinity of Laurel have exhibited there potato vine which is growing Irish potatoes at it's roots and on it's vines-toma- toes.
 Skeptics had to Hull their doubts as the inhabitants of this region, who know their vegetables, declar- ed the potato esto be potatoes and the tomatoes to be tomatoes, but what made the story hard to take was the consideration of the to- matoes. On an Irish potato vine they came out the right color green.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-10-07

Marines had his turn. While the military appropriations were swell ling toward the billion dollar level, he said invasion of this country was impossible" There aren't ships enough, he said, to bring to Amer ican shores a landing party big Ienough to beat us.
 He also took time out to initiate the Senate two years ago with a story of the battle of RuSSelTs run" Butler said General Russell, who was up for confirmation by the 1 Senate as marine commandant, had been frightened with his battalion almost into panic at Vera Cruz in 1914" by the appearance of a lone Mexican with a white flag"
 General Russell denied that, was confirmed, and Butler and his story were taken under fire.
 General Hagood long has criticised the armys service of supply as anti quated and cumbersome Soldierly shanks quivered at his proposal that the next war be fought in overalls because they could be supplied quickly in quantities.
 He capped his criticism by refer ring to WPA funds as stage mon- Iey." and soon afterward concluded he would be more comfortable out of the army than in it.
 Thick. too, must be the skin of the gentleman who takes a fling at veterans benefits. So far only the youngsters have done that very much. Remember the Veterans of Future Wars? and the Gold Star Mothers of Future Wars?"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-10-07
Shirley Hoffman BetrOthed Today
 To Albert FIeGk
Sister of Roy Hoffman to Marry Douglas
 Resident

Announcement was made today by MT. and Mrs E. w Hoffman of the engagement of their daughter Miss Shirley Hoffman to MT. Albert Fleek of Douglas.
 Miss Hoffman who has made her home with her parents in Juneau for the past year is a sister of Roy Hoffman assistant Chief of Police, She is also the sister of Mrs. A. c. Hyckenbottom of Laredo, Texas. Before coming to Juneau, she at tended school in Seattle.
 MT. Fleek is the son of MT. Will liam Fleek of Douglas and is en- ployed at the Alasks Juneau mine
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-10-07
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Oct. 2. Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is Il, American Can 98, American Light and Power 67s, An aconda 355s, Bethlehem Steel 60A z, Calumet 10, Commonwealth and Southern 2, Curtiss Wright A , General Motors 461s, International Harvester 891s, Kennecott 429s, New York Central 25la, Southern Pacific 29M, United States Steel 71#, Pound $4953s, Bremner bid l asked 3, Re- public Steel 213s.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-10-07

He attended school in Douglas.
 No date has been set as yet for the wedding of the well-known young couple. The Hoffmans make their home in the Reck Apartments.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-10-07
KATE TO FAIRBANKS

Karl K. Katz, Alaska representa- tive for the Northern Pacific Rail- ways, is a passenger on the Yukon enroute to Fairbanks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-10-07
SAILING PUT OVER

Sailing of the motorship Estebeth for Sitka and way ports has been delayed until Friday evening instead of Wednesday evening. adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-10-07
POSTMASTER VILE IS
 OFF FOR WILLY DUCKS

Postmaster Albert Vile is in the field again on his annual duck and goose hunt to flats near Hoonah. He left on the Northland yester- day
 This trip is ritual with MT. Vile and effective, too, because usually the Postmaster comes back with a good bag of webbed-feet. Try Top Notch Lunch-35c. adv.
 
 Todav's News Today -Fmpire
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-10-07
PALMER DEATH WITNESS GOES
 TO WESTWARD
Says Deceased Was Eating Nuts When Bullet
 Struck

Called to Valdez to testify in a grand jury investigation of the death of Mrs. Zelda King Pilkenton in Palmer last year. Miss Beatrice
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-10-07

MRS. CLEGG HOME BOUND
 Mrs. 0. H. Clegg, wife of Judge Clegg of Fairbanks, is passenger on the Yukon enroute to her home.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-10-07

to any of us who knew her that 1 a person about to commit suicide would be eating"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-10-07
DOW. JONES AVERAGES

The following are todays Dow Jones averages: industrials 146.59, rails 38.67, utilities 2307.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-10-07
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. WEATHER BUREAU
THE WEATHER
(By the U. S. Weather Bureau

Forecast for Juneau and vicinity beginning at Oct
 tonight and Friday cooe onigh moderate to fresh south
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-10-07
DEBUNKERS OF
 us. DEFENSES
 LOOK OUT NOW
Wrath Very Likely to De- scend on Many Thick
 Skin Needed

(Continued froll. Page Onc)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-10-07

Try Top Notch Chili-15c. adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-10-07

Today's News Empire.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-10-07
LOCAL DATA
RADIO REPORTS
TODAY

Lowest fam. fam. Precip.
 tenn. tenn. velocity 24 hrs.
The Washington times., 1937-02-15
Spanish |nHufgent Plane Bombs Two British Ships
Save Man
Trapped
In River

A few minutes more Of incom.
ing tide and the icy waters Of
the Potomac River early today
would have drowned John w.
Mills, SO, of 1908 Twenty-fodrth
st. N. W., an engineer at the
smoot Sand and Gravel Com
pany. in Georgetown.
For 20 minutes he had been
trapped beneath dock at the
gravel company's wharf at Thir-
ty-first and K Streets Northwest.
Four inches of space separated
him from the rising water. His
body was numb with cold when
he was rescued.
He had fallen from a gravel
barge and the current of the
river swept him under the dock.
There in complete darkness he
hung on, unable to fight his way
back to open water.
Gradually the water rose above
his chin. Members Of the Fire
Rescue Squad arrived and used a
long pole to guide Mills from be-
tween the piers of the dock.
Exhausted and chilled, he was
taken to the Emergency Hospital
where his condition is said not to
be serious.
The Washington times., 1937-02-15
. | MIN j NJ.
OF $500
: KEPT IN
MEASURE
McCarranA Amendment
Follows Farley at
White House

A new pay increase bill for Gov
ernment employees was introduced
in the Senate today by Senator Pat
McCarran CD of Nevada, de-
signed to meet all criticism raised
against a similar measure he in.
troduced several weeks ago.
The new bill is offered as an
amendment to the first bill so
that it will not lose it's previous
number.
The bill was put in at the open
ing Of the Senate, shortly after
the author returned. from g. visit,
to the White House where he dis.
cussed the situEtians, nth: tbs
President. Senator McCarfan said
he could not disclose the details 0f
the conversation.
Approves Survey
Senator McCarran said that he
approved a survey of salary and
conditions by the SEN
ate Committee on Civil Service,
and recommended that the CON-
mittee "get right at it," He said:
"The sooner we get to work
on a survey like this, the better.
We haven't much to do right
now; after q while we will be
very busy"
While the new bill in general
closely follows the first measure
providing a minimum rate of
$500 for full-time service with
raises for employees receiving UP
to $4,000 per year, there are sew
eral distinct changes. In a state
ment issued at the time the bill
was introduced, Senator McCarran
said:
TN order to insure that each
emplOye receiving $500 per an
mum or less will benefit from the
measure, Section IL specifics
how it shall apply. This section
is designed to carry out the in
tent of the bill and prevent such
intent being defeated by admin
iStrative construction as was the
Continued on Page 3, Col. ~
The Washington times., 1937-02-15
BILL
ACTION IS
DELAYED
President Is Expecting
Farm, Labor Aid to
Move Congress
BY WILLIAM X. HUTCHINSON
International News Service

Fully aware that President Roose-
velt's proposal to enlarge the lSu-
preme Court is unpopular on
Capitol I'LL, Administration lead
ers today adopted the strategy Of
delaying a vote on 1t in either
branch cf Congress until sentiment
back home" can be created in its
favor.
The President was reported to
have told congressional visitors in
his recent conferences that he ex-
pected farm and labor organiza-
tions to support his judicial re-
forms. He plainly intimated he be-
lieved this support was necessary
to get his program through Con-
gresS.
Party Whip Swings
All the influence of the Demo
cratic national organization also
will be thrown into action to keep
party Senators and Representa-
tives in line for the Presidents
plan.
This activity was evidenced in
the flood of congressional mail on
the issue. At first, members Of
Congress were inundated with pro-
tests against the plan. &
Over the weekend, letters began
reaching the Capitol from labor
leaders and party workers, urging
support Of the presidential pro-
gram. The protests, however, re-
manned in the overwhelming ma
jority, with an unusual number
from women who apparently were
housewives and not identified with
politics.
Meeting Called Off
The Administrators dilatory
tactics were disclosed in the action
Of Chairman AShurSt (D.) of Ari-
Continued on Page 2, Col. y
The Washington times., 1937-02-15
George Washington
Will Have Birthday
Date With Judge

George Washington will face
charges of stealing property be-
longing to the Cheapeake and Po-
tomac Telephone Company on-of
all days-February %, birthday
anniversary of "the Father Of his
Country"
Celebration of such an auspi-
cious occasion did not deter Cir
cult Judge Walter T. Mccarthy Of
the Arlington county court from
setting that date, however. The
George Washington in this case is
an alias used by James Johnson,
colored, who is accused Of having
taken the telephone company's
property from it's plant in Claren-
don, Va.
The Washington times., 1937-02-15
TRAIN STRIKES
TW0CH|LDREN

Tossed 30 feet by freight train,
two colored children suffered un-
determined injuries today and
were rushed to Casualty Hospital.
They were Joseph Thomas, 7, Of
44O0 w st. N. E.. and Eloise
Owens, IL, of 4420 Douglas St.
N. E., students at the Deanwood
Grade School.
The children were struck while
crossing the Pennsylvania Rail
road tracks near the 1900 block
of Kenilworth Ave. near Nash st.
N. E. on their way to school.
According to witnesses, the boy
and girl were about to cross the
northbound track when a freight
train leaving Washington ap-
preached. They stepped back, into
the path of a Washington-bound
freight from Baltimore.
Confused and terrified, wit
neSses stated, the children were
sideswiped as they scrambled to
avoid the onrushing south-bound
engine,
The Washington times., 1937-02-15
q. vi. and Union Ready
For Terms ParIey

Gates short bargaining confer
ence.
4. Flint unionists back home
from Anderson, Ind, scene of
last weeks riot between union
and nonunionists.
S. Seven auto unions in De.
troit approve plan to demand q
5-cent-an-hour MUM for
night workers.
6. John L. Lewis back in Wash.
ington after predicting union
membership Of 100000 by mid
summer.
7. Twenty.eight hundred Ma
tional Guardsmen remain in
Flint awaiting orders to de-
mobilize. About TOO have re-
turned to homes. Flint facto-
CONTINUED on Page 2, Col. A.
The Washington times., 1937-02-15
D. {.
GIRL FOUND

Found after police search that
started February 6, Marjorie
Smith, 15-year-old daughter Of
Charles P. Smith, member of the
Board Of Tax Appeals, was being
detained today at the Receiving
Home after being taken in custody
by police yesterday in a drug
store at Eleventh and G Streets
Northwest, on the Tip" of an un-
identified boy friend.
After q three-hour questioning
at the Women's Bureau Marjorie
said she had left home because
IT was sick and tired of school"
Up to a day before her disappear
ance, she had been attending a
Continued on Page 3, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1937-02-15
Soviet Envoy Dies
While WAITING Trial

LONDON, Feb. IS Q.N.S0.
General Putna, former military
attache at the Soviet embassy
here, has died in a Moscow Jail
while awaiting trial as an alleged
anti-Stalin plotter, it was learned
in reliable London quarters today.
Some circles suggested without
confirmation that General Putna
took his own life rather than face
a firing squad, the fate of 13 con-
victed "TrotskyiSt" Schemers three
weeks ago.
The Washington times., 1937-02-15
Bell 10 Leave Post
As Director Of Budget
international News Service

International News Service
President Roosevelt probably
will name director Of the Bureau
of the Budget to succeed acting
Director Daniel w. Bell, according
to testimony made public by e
House appropriations sub-commit-
tee today.
E. F. Bartlett, Commissioner Of
Accounts, asked the subcommittee
handling the Treasury bill to pro-
vide funds to pay Bells salary.
Bell, a civil service employe, is said
to be unwilling to give up that
status permanently to take the title
of director Of the budget.
The Washington times., 1937-02-15
TuqweII Girl Is III;
Father Flies 10 Her

NEW YORK, Feb. IS 0.N.S).
After an airplane flight from the
Barbados, Rexford Guy Tugwell,
former Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture, today arrived at the
bedside of his 20-year-old daugh-
ter, Tanis, ill in a hospital here.
Tugwell flew in a chartered
plane from Bridgetown, Barbados,
to Trinidad, connected with a
Pan-American Airlines plane for
Miami, and came from Miami to
Newark, N. j.. in an Eastern Air
lines ship.
The Washington times., 1937-02-15
Mother and Girl, 5,
Die in Virginia Fire

WINCHESTER. Va. Feb. IS.
Mrs. Daisy Pennington ReTode.
%, and her daughter, Lille Mae,
5. were burned to death early today
when fire destroyed their four.
room dwelling at Jordan Springs,
five miles north of here. Mrs.
Rexrode was carrying the child
down stairs when the stairway col
lapSed.
The husband, James, escaped
with their son, Vernon, 8, and a
16-lnonths-old daughter from a
second-story window. Hospital at
tendants here said father and son
were badly burned but have fair
chance of recovery. The baby was
unhurt.
The Washington times., 1937-02-15
Treasury-POstal Bill
Asks $2,969, ,359y6 y62I

A 1898 fiscal year Treasury.Po Post
office appropriation bill, swollen
to $1,500, ,955,151 in annual allot-
ments as a result Of social security
costs and interest on the public
debt, was reported to the House
by it's appropriation committee to-
day.
The bill-biggest of the annual
supply bills-also lists 1,468. .404.-
47O in permanent appropriations
on which specific action is not re-
uuired. This would make the
The Washington times., 1937-02-15

total for the two departments
So, 1856, ,359, ,621.
The measure shows an increase
of 1924, ,90O,1 over last year, but
President Roosevelt's budget esti.
mates were slashed $15,041.
S5OO,OOO,OOO Pension Reserve
The committee recommended
$500, 900, 900 for the old-age reserve
account in the Treasury, a reserve
fund set up to ultimately pay old
CONTINUED on Page 3, Col. II
The Washington times., 1937-02-15
international News Service

Developments on the auto labor
front today:
/. Tension relaxes in Ander-
son, Ind, as General Motors
workers there join thousands Of
other men and women in Gen
eral Motors back-to-work pa
rade. Martial law continues.
2. General Motors to have
215,000 of it's 235, 900 American
workers back at posts tomorrow,
with all Of it's SO plants operat-
ing full blast within two weeks.
3. General Motors and United
Automobile Workers officials
plan separate meetings over pro-
cedure to be followed during to-
morrow's collective bargaining
conference under terms of strike
truce. G. MS Knudsen indi-
The Washington times., 1937-02-15
.DESTR0YERS
REPLY WITH
GUNF|RE
Drive Off Big Junkers
Bomber in Battle
Near AIgeciras
International News Services

Entering its eighth month, the
Spanish civil war began a critical
phase today with q new inSurgent
offensive aimed to encircle Madrid
Major Developments are:
/. Spanish insurgent airplaHle
dropped several bombs near two
British deStrOyers off Algeciras
and was driven off by return
fire.
2. Fifteen thousand inSurgent
troops fighting way southwark
to join southern force now bat
tling for control Of Madrid-Va-
Iencia highway.
5. Lisbon hears 5000 soldiers
of International Brigade killed
in 10 days struggle defending
Madrid.
4. Main line railroad cut and
many injured in inSurgent air
raid Just below French frontier
at Port BOu.
5. Fourteen killed when inSur-
gent mystery ship shells Valen.
Cia.
s. Insurgent Gen. QueipO de
LlanO says hundreds Of lOyalists
slain as insurgents advance on
Almeria.
7. Britain and France striving
In force effective nOn.interVen-
ton over opposition Of Portugal
as Europe faces new crisis.
LONDON, Feb. is G.N.S0-A
clash between two British destroy
ers and a Spanish insurgent bomb
ing plane was disclosed by the for
eign office today.
The plane, a huge Junkers,
dropped several bombs near the
deStroyers Havock and Gypsy, IS
miles off AlgeciraS near Cape
Tenez. The destroyers immedi-
ately opened fire, the plane disap-
pearing in the direction Of the
Balearic Islands. Protests have
been ordered.
In the meantime new interna-
tional crisis over Spain threatened
Europe today.
France, diSgusted with the futil-
ity of Anglo French efforts to in
duce the fascist powers to agree to
Continued on Page 3, Col. p
The Washington times., 1937-02-15
Cost Of u. 5. Red Tape
(The Tangible Stuff
Causes House Worry
: international News servIce

International News Service
Cost of Government red tape is
going up.
A House Appropriations Sub
committee, considering a Treasury
request to boost the appropriation
for red tape (the real stuff from
81, 400 to $4,000 expressed appre-
nenSion.
ut is q very important item"
replied L. C. Spangler, chief of the
Division of Printing. when Repre-
sentative LUDLOW CD of Indiana
inquired the reason.
The Washington times., 1937-02-15
More Books For
Times Readers

The demand for THE Last Of
the MOhicans" and vanity
Fan" the first two books in the
series of the worlds greatest
literature offered to The Times
readers has far exceeded all eS-
Inmates.
The publishers are rushing
additional copies to Washing
ION.
If you have been unable to
secure your volumes be patient.
The books will be here soon and
all orders will be filled.
The Washington times., 1937-02-15
WASHINGTON FORECAST

increasing cloudiness followed by rain late
tonight or tomorrow; slightly warmer tonight
with minimum temperature about 80; colder
late tomorrow afternoon and night; moderate
southwest winds, shifting to west tomorrow
afternoon; highest temperature last "a hours,
48; lowest, 20.
CWeather Details on Page 10
The Washington times., 1937-02-15

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The Washington times., 1937-06-14
Times Final Offer
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TRAFFIC DEATH
TOLL AT IS
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ton by the Bladensburg Rescue
Squad. Her sister Agnes, 16 years
old, was less seriously injured in
the same accident, and released
after treatment at the hospital.
Raymond E. Allen. "a, Of 348
Raleigh st. S. w., was treated
at Providence Hospital for q
fracture of the hand and cuts
on the body received in an acct
dent on the Marlboro Pike. be-
tween Forestville and Meadows,
Maryland.
Harvey Windsor, Of Landover,
Md. was struck by a hit-and-
run driver as he was walking
on Largo Rd. near Bladensburg
and taken to Casualty Hospital
with a broken leg.
Miss Alice Whitney, 10, daugh-
ter of Richard Whitney, former
president of the New York Stock
Exchange, and Miss Constance
Shepard, II, were released from
Emergency Hospital for injuries
received late Saturday while re-
turning from Middleburg, Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. Arnold, Of Nc
Lean, Va, occupants of the car
colliding with that in which the
two girls were riding, are still
in the hospital. Arnold suffered
a broken arm and cuts, while his
wife suffered a fracture Of the
thigh and bruises.
The Washington times., 1937-06-14
AID
AIR RESERVE
INCREASE

Florida's two Senators today ap-
proved movements on foot in Con-
gresS to increase the aviation re-
serve in this country.
There is pending in the House
a measure introduced by Repre-
sentative John w. Mccormack
Cd, of Massachusetts,, to raise the
personnel in the Army, Navy Ma
rine, Coast Guard and National
Guard aviation reserves to 100, 900.
The bill also calls for 10000 planes.
Senator Claude Pepper CD, of
Florida. said:
81 am tremendously interested
in aviation. 1 think the number
Of ships and the personnel in
our services is now wOefully In
adequate. l am anxious to see
an increase Of ships in the serv-
Ice and In the reserves as well.
I am strongly in favor Of any
increase although / am not ia.
miliar with the details Of the
Mccormack BILL"
His colleague, Senator Charles
o. Andrews CD, Of Florida, de.
clared:
81 am in favor Of increasing
the aviation reserve. I am very
well committed to the fact that
the aviation unit will face the
greatest peril Of invasion II there
is q war.
81 sincerely favor the general
principal behind the McCOr-
mack bill and will study its de-
tails carefully to make up my
mind as to just how far / will be
able to 20 on the provision.
The Washington times., 1937-06-14
1000 MILES,
HER TRIP HOME.
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Navy and 10 representatives Of
the U. S. Bureau of, Fisheries.
And the long hours between
school bells were bit lonely,
especially in view of the fact, said
Miss Wild, that she was the only
Single person" in the Bureau of
Fisheries there. Her appointment
was in the fisheries unit.
But there were more ways than
one to while away the time, she
said:
1--WE played bridge and mo-
nOpOly and penny ante"
There are many problems to
teaching the Pribilof Islanders,
Miss Wild pointed out. In the first
place, all pupils from the age of
6 to 16 60 to the same class, and
when they are 16 they are grad
uated, no matter how they come
out in their exams or what their
report cards say.
Time No Object
Some of the pupils have to stay
in one grade three, four and five
years, but it doesn't make any
difference to them. They aren't
ashamed.
The students are a little slow
catching on, Miss Wild explained,
but they are all very eager to
learn.
Miss Wild hasn't quite de-
cided whether she wants to go
back to the little dot on the
map off the Aleutian Islands.
She said:
"It's 50 far away that I've
sort of lost touch with things.
/ originally went there because
of some vagabOnd feeling;
wanted to see the world.
II think I've Seen about
enough of it for . little while
anyway. After I've been home
q little, maybe I'll be better
able to decide whether I will
go back"
once in this country, Miss
Wild launched into a shopping
spree. It has been a long time,
she said, since she has worn q
summer dress and the light
things that go with it. Up there
in the Pribilof Island, the aver
age temperature is 40 degrees,
which isn't as cold as the North
Pole but cold enough to require
the constant use Of a heavy
overcoat.