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The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-14
PREyIOuS FLOOD

The previous heavy flood at Fair banks occurred September 1, 1887, when a crest of 1912 feet was re- corded, having been caused by ex- cessive rains over the Panama Val ley during the month of August. There was much damage to prop erty from the flood
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-14

The large city school of Fair banks, accommodating several hun dred pupils, is being used by ref ugees. School is expected to be forced to close.
 City officials are taking precau- tions to guard drinking water against contamination.
 Unless the ice jams break on the Panama, the situation may become worse.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-14
TANANA, CHENA RIVERS CHOKED
 BY JAMS, ICE
(Continueu rom Page One)

blocked in front of Fairbanks. but is damned full below the city.
 The jam has marooned a movie company on an island near Graehl but the members have plenty of supplies
 Railway and all other routes of communications are cut off from Fairbanks, but railroad speeder is expected to make the trip south ward as colder weather is predicted for tonight.
 Airfield Flooded
 Planes may not be able to oper- ate because the fields are flooded and none O. tile pianes are yet on pontoons. 9
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-14
MRS. FREEBuRN SOUTH

Mrs. Nellie Freeburn. mother of Lawrence Freeburn, president of the Pyramid Packing Company at Sit ka, is a passenger back to Seattle from Sitka aboard the steamer North Sea.
 Mrs. Freeburn recently accom- panied her son north. He is remain ing at Sitka for the fishing season.
 Lode and placer location notices for sale at The Empire Office.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-14

was received from the Fairbanks office: Panama River reported blocked by ice jams. and all water flowing through Cinema River. Che ma River now at 12la feet, having dropped 6 inches since last night. Most of Fairbanks flooded. Avia tion field flooded-no landings"
The Washington times., 1937-10-19
WOMEN BACK
SYPHILIS TEST

CHICAGO. Oct. 10 (C.TP.S).
A syphilis test for every woman
in Cook county was set today as
the goal of % Cook county
women's organizations with q COM
bined membership of 100000.
Six hundred delegates meeting
at the Chicago Woman's Club
Theater to mobilize club women
in the city's campaign against
venereal disease, voted unani-
mously to adopt a plan of action
presented by DR.. Bertha M.
Shafer, medical clinic director of
the Illinois Social Hygiene
League.
Under the plan the delegates
agreed to take the blood test
themselves, recommend that all
members of their clubs be tested,
have their families take tests, use
the influence of their organiza-
tions to persuade non-club women
to take tests, and aid the board
of health and social hygiene
league in spreading anti-Syphillis
information and in establishing
centerS for treatment.
The Washington times., 1937-10-19
Air Hostess
HereTOdGyfOr Flying
Style Display

StewardeSs Suzanne Nalvanko,
of American Airlines, Inc, who
sees Washington regularly from
the window of a 21-paSsenger
plane, will come down to earth"
here today as a guest of the Hecht
Company.
She is coming from Chicago to
appear in the Algora Fashion Dis
play, and advise Washington
women on the best apparel to
wear while travelling by air.
She will be able to discuss with
visitors of the Hecht Company
every phase of air travel from
items which should be included in
luxuries offered feminine pas
Sengers
The Washington times., 1937-10-19
N. Y. Balm: Law
Upheld By Court

G.N.S.) The Supreme Court
has rejected an appeal attack.
ing constitutionality of the New
York "anti-heart balm" law which
prohibits suits for alienation of
affections and criminal converse
ton.
Lawrence Hanfgarn appealed
from a decision of the supreme
court in Queens county in a suit
against George Mark. He con-
tended that the law deprived him
of constitutional rights.
The high court at its last term
dismissed an attack on provisions
The Washington times., 1937-10-19
Relief For The
Itching of Eczema

It's wonderful the way soothing, COOL
ing Zemo usually brings relief to Itch
ing, burning skin. Often in severe
cases itching is relieved when zemo
touches tender and rritated skin.
To comfort the itching Of Simple
Rashes, Ringworm, Eczema and Pimples,
always use clean, soothing zemo. 1t
should be in every home. Insist on
genuine zemo. Approved by Good
Housekeeping Bureau. 35c, 6oc, 81. AL
druggists,
The Washington times., 1937-10-19
By.
Alma Sioux ScGrberry|
NeU Architecture
Makes 1t Easier
For Housewife

went into an architects office
to cut his eye teeth; then into
real estate with his brother in
Connecticut.
In 1884, Vermilya went with
FILA as an assistant director,
and has worked himself up to
be Big Boss of the technical di-
vision. He is married to a New
England girl. His pet hobbies,
outside of planning the perfect
little house on paper, are SWIM
ming and hiking.
But when we asked him how
far he could hike in a day, he
grinned and went right on
smoking his pipe!
The Washington times., 1937-10-19
Il Work for Uncle Sam
VernliLyd, Housing
official, LdudS
Small Homes

Now that a woman is no
longer a slave to pots and pans,
small houses must be built to
blend in with her new career
and her new slant on life.
That is the expert opinion Of
a man who should know whereof
he speakS-Howard P. Vermilya,
director of the technical division
of Federal Housing.
Sad real estate figures prove
that the rambling big house
that required a corps of hard
working women slaves to keep it
spick and span is definitely
paSSe. Except, of course, for
the millionaireS-and they are
somewhat in the minority in
these United States these days.
SOCIAL CENTER SHIFTS
Architect Vermilya. young and
much interested in his job with
Uncle Sam, sat back in his chair
and elucidated
"In former days man
could afford to try to build a
bigger house than the Jones'.
A home was mans castle then.
and the center of practically all
his social life. Then along came
the auto, country club, movies,
nursery schools for the young
Sters.
All those things took money!
1t was no longer necessary to
hold the taffy pulls and dances
in a barn or a front parlor.
There was some place to go and
it saved the little woman all that
trouble and fuss. So the big
house went on the market in
favor of a small bungalow with
all the comforts and none of the
inconvenience or expense"
EXPLAINS HOUSING TREND
Sounds like a logical explana-
ton for the way the small places
are selling and the larger ones
being turned into rooming
houses or apartments, or stand
Ing empty and left to the spi-
derS!
Director Vermilya prefers the
modern type of architecture.
And he has a logical explana-
ton for his new-fangled tastes,
too. The modern igloo, says he,
is so much easier to keep clean.
There are palmer surfaces. For
instance, the doors are flush"
without panels or Lodges to
collect dust.
The kitchen has progressed
far and away beyond the other
rooms of the houses, declares
this young man, born in East
Orange, N. j. Architects have
burned much midnight oil on
milady's kitchen problems and
its planning has been much more
functional"
KITCHEN A WORKSHOP
It is designed so as to make it
a workshop. The kitchen no
longer takes up acres. but is
compact and saves the busy lady
many steps when she is tired
after a hard day at the office
and comes home to prepare a
home-cooked dinner for her hus-
band. In turning-around space
she finds stove, ice box, sink
everything at her well mani
The Washington times., 1937-10-19
Report on Jews
Ousted by Hitler

MUNICH, Germany, Oct. 10
G.N.SO Extent of the Nazi
purge Of Federal offices was re-
vealed today when the German
Public Employees Association an.
nounced that 1884 Jews lost their
Federal jobs since Hitler came
into power in 1888. Also removed
were 5433 other Anti-Nazis, the
Association said,
The Washington times., 1937-10-19

cured fingertips. Otherwise.
friend husband would probably
have to do with a snack from
a neighborhood restaurant.
Now, what has all this to do
with Federal Housing and Mr..
Vermilya? Well, it so happens
that FILA does research work on
all this sort of thing. When
Uncle Sam gets behind mort
cages for lower priced housing
projects, he wants to be sure his
children want those houses.
It is the business of FILA to
improve housing standards.
This means it sees the places
are constructed properly, are of
good designs located properly in
protected areaS-a reaS that
won't find themselves surround.
ed suddenly by factories, board
ing houses, stores, ETC.. when
the project started out to be a
nice, quiet little residential Sec
tiOn
The Washington times., 1937-10-19
REARED IN NEW YORK

Howard Vermilya's family left
East Orange when he was four
years old and settled in New
York city, so that he was really
brought up in Washington
Heights. Graduated from Am
herst, brave Amherst, in 1919
with a B.A., he got his Bachelor
of Architecture at Columbia. He
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-08-27
DURHAM SUFFERERS TELL HOW
TO FIND PROMPT RELIEF!
Seventv-Ftine Years Of Age, This Dur
ham Farmer Finds POW-O-LlN "A
Blessing-Tells NeighbOrs AbouU
Great Relief New Medicine Brings!

Time and time again, you've read
statements in this newspaper from
vour neighbors, men and women
whom you know and respect. These
sufferers have found relief from their
troubles tell you, in their own words
what to expect from POW-O-LIN, the
new medicine that has created SO
much favorable comment throughout
this entire section.
This time, we have statement
from MIR. 1. M. PICKETT, RID, I,
Durham, N. C. Mr.. Pickett is 70 years
of age, farmer, and a respected and
beloved citizen of his section. re
says: 1T have been greatly troubled
with pains across the small of my
back, night-rising, nervousness and a
generally weak and rundown condl-
ton. Constipation and billousness
were constant companions until
started taking POW-O-LIN. One bot
tie Of this fine medicine has really
made me feel like new and dlfIer-
ent person. My nerves are quiet my
appetite better and / do not have 70
be up and down all night as Delore
taking POW-O-LIN. / am relieved o.
constipation and feel better imam
have in long time. 7 recommends
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-08-27

lier and lasting to the end of 1887.
Directly after that the 1888 regular
e session will begin and continue at
least until April 1.
- This means that the legislators will
he on the job in Washington from
3 Nov. 1 until very close to their pri-
mary dates Thus couple of months,
right now, is about as long an interval
as they have to attend personally to
their denomination chances, regard
less of reelection later.
Anxious Democrats.
Republicans now in Congress ex-
pect to win again anyway. They must
have rock-ribbed constituencies or
they would not have won against the
last Democratic sweep. True, there
ESare other Republicans, now out of
office, who want to be nominated,
hoping to GUST incumbent Democrats
on election day. However, such Re-
rpublicans have been at home all along
and are in position to stay there,
trying to undermine the incumbent
DEMOCRATS in the latters' absence at
.athe capital.
= The ones who are worried, and
anxious to put in their best ticks be-
asstweer congressional sessions, are
-sDemocrats--D who fear They
3 will not be .renominated at all, in
which event election day no longer
asrwill have any Significance to them.
axss Democratically speaking lis it need
s@sful to say?) there never was. so jun
sbled an outlook
H. A purge?
ssxa AS we know, many Democratic leg
islators are hostile to New Deal DO
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-08-27

arrive wrapped in a glow Of pale
green! Larry, pray that nothing
will happen to these jewels or else
I'll be back in New York doing
illustrations Of happy little fam
lilies enjoying their garden tools
for the United Lithographing
company. That's what I did, you
know, the first year I was out Of
art school"
Larry tore his hair and took a
great gulp Of ice water. He COM
posed his face painfully and led
Mari to a sofa. Sitting beside
her, he took both her hands in his
and spoke very gently:
"Please, please, Madame! You
NEVER did anything but design
clothes! You gave up a social
life in America for your career!
Your father was a mining engi-
neer, and when he died he left you
a little money with which you
embarked on your meteoric career
in Paris! Don't mention Brook
Ign! AS far as you know. it's
only a place that was necessary
| for the other end of a bridge. You
belong to the world, not to New
York;
Mari smiled wanly. It'll re-
member, Larry, but I won't tell
lies. TIL merely keep quiet"
eff only you can" -
The chauffeur came in to. take
her suitcase.
Mari got up, rearranged her
scarf and held out her hand.
"Goodby, Larry. I'm going to
London to see the queen"
you're going to London to be
the queen!" he corrected.
And so she was.
The moment that Ellen, Wis
countess .Verlaine, welcomed her,
coming across her drawing room
with both hands outstretched to
her, Mari's fear that she might
not 'tfit'' dissolved.
Ellen was like her brother
large, handsome, assured. She
had, in addition, the quality OF
sincerity which Mari felt at once
wherever or under what circum-
Istance Mari might have met her
lshe would have wanted her to be
her friend.
Having her first tea the after
moon of her arrival in the drawing
room of the house in Berk1ey
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-08-27

Square, Mari felt as though she
had come home to the kind OF
house that she meant to have one
day. It was a room out of an
English drawing room play. There
were wide spaces, large chintz-
covered chairs, cleaning woods
and the flowers that bloom in
England in the spring.
In that short, filed week, Mari
and Ellen came to know each
other and Mari had no need to
call upon the lines that had been
prepared for her. Larry Holk
had advised her well not to speak
unless she had something to say.
Her gracious attention, her
queenly manner of accepting the
attention that came to her. won
her favor at once.
Her beauty and her presence
were the talk Of London. Ellen's
secretary was called in to arrange
her engagements, for Mari, her
self, could not have arranged the
clockwork management necessary
to keep them straight.
She wasn't presented at court.
It was almost the only thing she
didn't have on her calendar. She
went to teas, to the theater and
the opera, to the House of. Com
mons and to the House of Lords.
And, like any tourist, she charmed
her new English friends by ask
ing to be shown the Tower, West
minister, Hyde park and The
Cheshire Cheese.
She found in London an atmos-
Iphere that blended the. Victorian
era and the modern world and
Ifelt akin to it. She was as thrilled
by the Changing of the Guard at
Buckingham Palace as she was by
the ball hastily arranged for her
and magnifcent1y staged by H.
H., the Maharaja Of Rajsimbla.
But when the last day came and
there was a cable to say that the
decorators were ready to go to
work on the shop, she was ready
to leave. =
| She'd come back soon, she
promised. .
But thereafter her life was not
to be her own. Mari Barat had
become a part of plan and she
was to learn the price of her posi-
ton. ,..z.,>
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-08-27
in an adroitly caught-up train.
Perhaps it wouldn't be q bad

in an adroitly caught-up tram.
Perhaps it wouldn't be bad
idea -.
She rang for her chief cutter
and ordered him to duplicate the
gown in scarlet.
It was that way with every
thing she did; nothing had a per-
sonal relationship to her. 1t was
THE SHOP.
It was well that she had the
shop-the new one-to engage
her that spring. Spring always
did things to her. This was her
fourth in Paris. It was five years
since the spring when Tony Castle
| had come into her life, but he
came back anew to her whenever
spring came.
| SOMEDAY HE'LL KNOW had
changed to: PERHAPS, HE
HAS HEARD OF ME- BY NOW.
Yet, curiously, she had no feeling
that she would ever hear from
him. If, perchance, some thought
winged its way swiftly through
her mind telling her that he would
write to congratulate her, she put
it from her. It was not good to
invite disappointment.
| But surely he must hear of her,
| for the whole world was hearing
of Maribarat.
If thew talked about her in q
limited social world in London
[if her name was known to Ameri-
can manufacturers and to fashion
; writers ever on the alert for rising
stars, it was beginning to appear
elsewhere, too.
In London she had posed will
, Hal Joffre, editor of the widely
read CINEMA ART, and tha
magazine had done a story abou
, | the possibilities of her going tt
Hollywood to- design clothes TO-
! the stars.
"Bosh!" said Mari when sh
r heard of it. ST wouldn't go TO
all the gold my phantom fathe
: was supposed to have minec
lLetitia, tell Dumonde he'll hav
t to take the molding off thos
E walls in the East Blue Room. IT
E too wide. And tell him to hurry
r TIL want to have that room read
: to show in the week before W
OPEN" ~
e Things were beginning to &c
frantic then. The opening wa
o only two weeks away. Alread
q the sewing staff was installed
n the workroom, the last of tt
(. models was in the process
d making, and the usual maddenin
d | things were happening. A piet
of brocade that was especial
o ordered was being held up. TT
3 embroiderers were alarmingl
d slow getting the green woods vii
le the quail pattern finished.
le Mari was on edge, nervou
t. frightened a little. $50. ..
FL A Hollywood producer wro
# and asked her if she'd like
= screen test. A woman she M
~ met in London asked her to 10
81 her party leaving for Switzerlan
nf A little girl in Birmingham, ALI
70 wrote and asked her if she won
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-08-27

At Smithfield Dixon Wallace, board
of trade member, said tobacco sales
for the day would amount to about
$4,000 pounds. The price average, he
said, was not. as high as yesterday,
when 1924 pounds yielded an aver
age Of $25.97 per hundred pounds.
At Wendell, Dallas Madison, sales
supervisor, said volume amounted to
about 100000 pounds for an average
of approximately $22.7O per hundred.
Nine Wilson warehouses sold 5OO,-
600 pounds of the weed clearing all
floors. Sales Supervisor George Vain
right said prices averaged ABOUT $25
per hundred pounds.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-08-27

an average of $22.O4.
Washington's market experienced
the largest opening day in its history
and Supervisor Edmund Harding es-
timated 100000 pounds would be clear
ed this week. Yesterday 211, 464
pounds sold for an official average
of $23.32. Lugs constituted the great
bulk of the offerings, with some sec
ond primings. Poorer and medium
grades were strong in price, but bet
ter grades appeared slightly weaker
than last year.
At Tarboro it was estimated d.
coo pounds were sold for an unofficial
average of $23.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-08-27
NRUSTLE Of SILKS
COPYRIGHT RELEASED BY CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION

design a graduation dress for 49,
Mari threw all of them o, ner
except for the letter from tho a% mty
tie girl in Birmingham. Tn NJ NJ
she sent a length of embroido~eess
organdie and a sketch. teu
II had to do it, Larry 81.
said. cts my only link with one n
own country. Of all the mess y
things that have been pourin~ ~
here, that's the only real sign fha.
I have that I'm known at all ~
home"
'That reminds me, Mari! Hin.
about going through this batch =.
photographs? international New.
Photos wants an action picture ~
you"
ooh, Lord, another one? An
right Letitia! Viii Won
please bring me that batch Of nic.
lures somebody took when wa,
getting on the plane to leavs
England?"
Letitia brought them. Mari
showed them across the desk ia
Larry. "Take your pick"
"I'd rather you made the selec.
ton. This picture is going home,
you know. Lots of people YOU
know will see them"
Mari lifted her eyebrows, and
with an unbelieving smile ran
through them hastily.
She selected one of herself
about to board the plane. Her
: face, with a radiant smile, was
/ turned toward the camera. Her
, arm was raised in a gay gesture
of farewell. The picture had life.
It showed a stunning, smart
, Young woman, a radiant success.
' full young woman.
t "How's that ?" she asked. Larry
t said it would do, and pasted a
D strip of typewriter copy across
r the back. It was the usual thing:
Mari Barat, rising young
q couturiere, returns to Paris
- for opening of her new estab-
p lishment after successful social
|, season in London. Among those
q who entertained for her was
q the Maharaja of Rajsimbla
: who gave ball for her at his
!, famous house at Windsor"
:, "Tripe! But no one know will
. see it," Mari said.
# Tony Castle saw it nearly {
- month later. His own shadow fel
:, across his easel. It was too lat
= :, to work, too hot in the late after
- noon to walk to the village. H
~ seldom read newspapers thes
=, DAYS, but there was the villag
% paper where Duke, his setter, ha
~ dropped it in his effort to be Q
20 service.
~ Tony turned the pages idl.
- And there SHE was!
He clipped the badly reproduce
% photograph, and studying it,
~ saw the one thing he wanted
70 do. the thing that would give h
q work purpose. Regretting Il
,d dying light that prohibited hi
in from starting at once, he put Il
a clipping away in drawer with
, red ribbon he had won long ago.
Id (To Be Continued)
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Continued from Page One.)
about % IL cents. Greenville report
ed light sales. with prices lowering
around the 1882 average Of yester-
day, when 1,133404 pounds were sold.
Warehousemen predicted a big break
Monday. .e . M
Rocky Mount registered 100000
pounds this morning, with prices rang
ing from 20 to 25 cents. Goldsboros
floors had an estimated $4,000 pounds
today, which included carry-over of
10000 pounds from yesterday that
saw the selling of 196794 pounds for
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CHAPTER 33

u15EN MARI returned to
Paris she had to describe the
Maharaja above everyone else.
"Did he look like an lnolan
Letitia Higgins asked, eyes agog.
"Well. he didn't look Spanish.
And he didn't look like an Amerl-
can Indian. And he was sweet:
Mari said. Imagine, Letitla, ne
had ~ tennis courts, g movie
picture auditorium right IN the
house. a ballroom and dining
room where 80 people could sit at
one table" !.
Mari laughed. Certainly not,
except at court functions. But
he did give the ball for me-"
"And he did invite you TO
India? My goodness, I read
THE SHIEK' and I don't think
YOU ought to go there"
"Letitia, he doesn't live IN a
tent. And someday, when TINS
shop belongs to me and not 10
INV creditors, I'm going there.
I'm going everywhere! Travel
does something it helps you
not to feel alone"
Poor Lett ia! Her short
sighted eyes peered out OF her
thick glasses at her employer and
she sighed, thinking of all that
some women had.
Mari had no idea Of what her
secretary was thinking. She hadn't
much time those days to know
what she was thinking herself. !.
She found it almost possible tc
he in three places at once. Miss
HIGGINS seldom found it possible
to keep up with her. Mari was
lat the new shop during the morn
ling, hurrying from there to the
small one to meet her customers
to direct the sewing women, ant
later to receive the army of rep
resentatives attendant on he
opening. Her evenings were re
served for Larry Holk, the pub
licity man. M
The Jewels and the magnifcen
,ermine cape had gone back to tn
houses from which they wer
loaned to her, having served thei
purpose of having been photo
eraphed on. "the b e tut i "
Madame Maribarat" with du
jcredit to their source.
Mari scarcely had time t
GLANCE through the mountin
press notices which poured !
through the offices of Larry Holl
They lay for days on her littere
desk, under sketches, invoices an
receipts. ..,..,..s..*, 3,s3..sss, .
She was pleasantly stunned !
pick up a copy Of British voGU,
and see her photograph they
given a whole page to tin Il
White gown she'd worn to Il
Maharaja's ball. Almost instan
IL the dressmaker in her r
sHpocinrded critically and she forg'
her personal pleasure. Shed bee
afraid that it was too daring, Is
theatrical. The way that pan
swept down from the center
her turban to make a panel end1r