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The Washington times., 1938-02-08
GIVES TWO NAMES

The girl gave her name as Mil
dred O'Connor. and later changed
it to Mildred Shea. Police stated
she has a court record. including
Jail sentences for drunkenness, dis
orderly conduct and carrying fire
arms.
The Washington times., 1938-02-08
ADMITS "FINGERING"

She confessed, police said, that
she and her boy friend fingered"
the South End racketeer for an
imported assassin in the lobby of
q South End hotel last Decem-
Der II.
She also confessed, police said,
to eight armed robberies, inClud
ing the kidnapping and robbery of
Policeman Earl Smith last night,
followed bY two other holdups.
Milford chronicle., 1938-12-09
Christmas Tree Trade
Is Worth $1O,OOO,OOO

Few people realize that the
Christmas tree that stands in the
house for a few brief days during
the holiday season represents a $I0,-
100000 industry.
AS early as the Fourth OF July
scouts of the Christmas tree con-
tracing companies are combing the
woodlands for likely looking trees
to be cut and shipped TO all corners
of the world. Early fall finds chop
ping gangs following in the foot
steps of the scouts to harvest the
annual crop. estimated at 9,O00,OO
trees.
Two areas in the United States
bear the brunt of the Christmas
tree harvest-Maine and the State
of Washington. From the cut-over
lowlands of these states come the
trees that are of ideal size for pub
lie taste, the most popular species
being balsam, spruce, and Eastern
Milford chronicle., 1938-12-09

red cedar from Maine, and Douglas
frs from the West.
Cut by Halloween
BY Halloween the trees are cut
and have been sledded to truck CEN
ters. BY Thanksgiving the crop is
aboard trains in shipment to all
parts of the country, and to South
America and the Orient.
Forestry experts do not consider
it destructive to cut off these mill
lions of trees each year. 1t is claim
ed that trees Of this type. springing
up in logged-off lands, would not
become valuable timber even II al
lowed to grow. II takes five years
to grow the ordinary size tree that
goes into your house, OF the smaller
type that goes on the table; while
the large community trees require
20 to 40 years TO acquire their bushy
50-fOot heights.
Once considered a major fire haz-
ard, the tree with wax candles has
been replaced by electrically light
ed trees with fireproof decorations
and asbestos flakes TO simulate
Milford chronicle., 1938-12-09
HOUSTON

The Houston New Century Club
will meet on Tuesday night, Dec. 13.
in the club room, with Mrs. Franklin
Slaughter as chairman. Her subject
is delaware" All members are
urged to be present on this date as
plans are to be made for Tuesday
night, Dec. 20. as on that night the
club members entertain their hus-
bands.
MIR. and Mrs. Lawson Harris are
receiving congratulations on the
birth of a daughter on Friday, Dec.
md. who will be named Eileen Fay.
Mrs. Joseph Hayes who has been
quite i'll for the past two weeks. is
improved at this time.
Mr.. and Mrs. John II. Bennett of
Milford. Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Hatfield
Mrs. Burton Case and son Rondal OF
Greenwood, were the guests of J. C.
Parvis and family on Sunday.
Mrs. Elmer Dawson is confined to
her home with rheumatism.
MIR. and Mrs. Fred Hayes visited
Mrs. Rodney Sharp at Milford Neck
on Sunday.
Mr.. Jack d. Kennedy of Whining
ton spent the weekend with his wife,
who is taking care of her sister, Mrs.
Paul Greenlee. and little son, Law
renee Paul, IL.
Mrs. Phil Harrington and Doris of
Harrington spent several days with
her sister, Mrs. Joseph Hayes, who
has been quite ill.
Betty, the little daughter of MIR.
and Mrs. Russell Hayes, has been
quite i'll but is much better.
Rev. and Mrs. w. H. Kohl and son
Delbert of Blades. visited Mr.. and
Mrs. VIM. Coulbourne.
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Simpson and
Mrs. Augustus Morgan spent the
weekend in Washington. ID. c., with
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Hawkins and
son, Ray.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Sharp and
Mrs. Amanda Lofiand visited Elsmere
and Wilmington on Sunday.
Mrs. Cora Satterfield spent We'd
nesday in Dover as the guest Of Mr.
and Mrs. Stephen ShOckley.
Milford chronicle., 1938-12-09
The Tracks That
Lead to Washington

The ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Committee on monopolies is ready
to go into action. Hearings were put
off until after the elections, for ap-
pearance sake.
The plan is to find out what in
dustries, big or little, look like
trusts and monopolies and then to
reduce the individual management
to a degree that will make them for
ever and a day trot in and out of
Washington for orders, and permits
sion to earn their daily bread. The
railroads. communications, banks,
and other forms of interstate busi-
ness all know the tracks that lead
to Washington.
Milford chronicle., 1938-12-09
". ". HARRINGTON
IS CONFIRMED AS
CHAN CELLOR.
CONTINUED from FIRST Pass,

of Chancellor Harrington. 1t Wi
delivered by then Secretary Of Sta
Terry who read the letter from II
Governor, accompanying the al
pointment.
Late Chancellor Praised
The letter follows:
ION the eleventh day Of No
vember of this year, we were
deeply shocked and saddened to
learn of the death of that great
jurist, Chancellor Josiah o. VOL
colt, who so ably served his
State and nation and whose de-
cisiOns in our Court of Chancery
stand out as a monument to the
man himself.
Nov, under a. mandate Of the
Constitution of the State of
Delaware, you are assembled
here today, within 80 days from
the date of his death, to pass
upon his successor.
I'm selecting his successor, l
have spent many hours OF medi-
tation, endeavoring to select a
man, who in my opinion, has the
necessary qualifications and
would approach the duties of
the office of Chancellor in a
manner consistent with the OBJ
legations thereof.
1.-THE man / have selected you
all know, he is not u stranger Q
to any of you and ! sincerely
hope that he will meet with your
approval"
Harrington FelleltatP3
Chancellor Harrington was I'd
ninistered the oath of Office by Chief
Justice Layton in TIE presence OF
Governor McMullen. Judge Terry
ir. Marvel. Herman c. Taylor
hartman Of the Kent County Demo-
ratio Committee, anj a newspaper
nan. Chief Justice Layton and Gov
rnOr McMullen were the first to
fer Chancellor Harrington their
est wishes.
Miss Elizabeth ]. Newkirk, secre-
airy to Governor McMullen. the. Z
DOk the appointment of Judge Terry
D the Senate for its action. II was
Onllrmed in short order and he took
is oath of Office in the presence of
Governor McMullen, Mr.. Marvel. Mr.
aylor, Max Terry, his brother;
'eputy Attorney-General William J.
torey of Dover; Fred Whitney. of
georgetown, an attorney; Deputy
tate Auditor Jessie Cooper, and
ewspapermen.
Secretary of State Marvel was
worn into Office shortly after his
was confirmed by the
enate.
Before the appointments were sent
D the Senate. President Pro Tenn
David Wilmer Steele submitted a
epOrt containing the names o; the
0llOwing as members of the Senate
xecutive committee: Senators
Iteele, Benjamin F. Simmons. Paul
/. Rinard, Hector w. Hannah and
H. Moore. This committee
ecelves appointments from the
OvernOr.
Notification Committee
The Senate then adopted Senator
inard's resolution authorizing the
resident pro tenn to appoint a CON-
littee of three TO notify the Gov
nor it was organized in extraordi-
ary session for the transaction of
usiness and the reception of any
he may desire to
resent. Senators Burton S. Heal.
annah and Daniel E. Kelly were
AIMED on this committee.
Milford chronicle., 1938-12-09
snow.
Data from Ie0s


Although palms and conifers were
used by the Egyptians for their mid
winter festivals. the first instance OF
the FIR tree being used as a Christ
mas symbol is found in the year
1905 in Germany. II is said that the
custom was brought to this country
by the Hessian mercenaries OF
George III during the Revolutions
ary War.
Farmers with wasteland on their
hands are being encouraged by the
government to plant Christmas trees
TO be harvested in regular rotation
as a cash crop. Several places in
the country have novel cash and
carry" systems under which a GUS
toner walks into tree plantation"
and selects his own. Then the tree
is cut down and delivered on the
spot.
Milford chronicle., 1938-12-09

THE THING that means progress
in a town Is not so much the COM
petition OF other places, as the failure
of its own people TO realize the pos
sibilitiec within their reach.
Milford chronicle., 1938-12-09

THE PEOPLE who can remember
their home merchants only when
they want to get some favor cut Of
them. don't help the home town
grow very fast.
Milford chronicle., 1938-12-09
Relief for 'Riters

The Federal Writers Project was
lifeline for INDECENT writer's and
regardless of what the intentions of
the WPA were-its series of guide
hooks for different parts of the coun-
try included mess" of material.
Milford chronicle., 1938-12-09
HOUSTON CHURCH NEWS

Sunday School $3.50 A. M.
Morning Worship and Sermon by
the pastor 1880.
WilllamsvlIle-Sunday School 200
p. nj.
Preaching by the pastor 300 p. NJ.
Rev. Frank Willis will bring the
message Friday evening.
Closing service Sunday evening.
Ira r.. crum, Minister.
lIlIhlll
SEE the New Gifts in the GIFT
SHOP at Brereton's. Milford. 1t
Milford chronicle., 1938-12-09

The street repair creA Is doing n
most excellent and mucn Leeded job.
Milford chronicle., 1938-12-09

Read the classified eOIumnl
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-01-01
Hundreds Attend Annual Hi-JinkS
 New Years Eve
Elk.s Sponsor Traditional Gala Festivity in
 Ballroom

Announced by all the noise-mak- CTS of the city, the New Year was greeted by crowd of several hun dred at the Elks' Hi-Jinks dance last night in the Elks' ballroom.
 With Wesley Barrett and his orchestra playing, the dance was climaxed by a special New Year program presenting Mary Lou Tom kin. Adrienne Glass, Willane and Dale Rolf. Mary Lou, as briefly be-ribboned 1888, put Dale Rolf, elderly 1887, through a series of acrobatic stunts which revealed that there was life in the old year vet. But before long, Miss 1888 had shooed 1887 away, complete with his hour glass, sickle and flowing beard.
 Added features of the program were the dances by Willane Rolf and Adrienne Glass, the first pres ented in a Spanish tap dance, ana the second in gypsy dance.
 Howard Simmons was chairman of the dance, annual New Years Eve event sponsored by the Bene- volent and Protective Order of Elks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-01-01
 Compensation
 Tax Statement

The Alaska Unemployment Com pensation Commission today noti- fled employers who have allowed their Alaska unemployment com pensation tax to become delinquent that interest on this tax is accru- ing at the rate of six percent per annum. Furthermore, any en- ployer who is liable both under Ti- tie TX of the Federal Social Se- curity Act and the Alaska Unem- ployment Compensation Act must pay the Alaska unemployment com pensation tax by January 3l, l93o in order to obtain credit for the AL aska tax on the tax levied under Title TX of the Federal Act An employer who fails to meet this re- quirement will automatically forfeit the right to credit and will be sub ject to double taxation.
 Any employer, as defined in Sec ton of the Alaska Act, who has had in his employ eight or more individuals for twenty or more days, each day being in different week, during the calendar year 1937 is subject to the Alaska unemployment compensation tax.
 Forms may be secured by applying to the Alaska Unemployment Com pensation Commission, P. o. Box 266l, Juneau, Alaska.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-01-01
Farm Prices Drop But Income Rises
 During Past Year
By A. A. PATTON Associated Press Statistician

NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-Farmers the past year reaped the best dollar harvest since 1929
 Preliminary government es ti . mates of farm income from 1887 indicated a total around $8,5J0,000,- coo compared with SLS65 000,000 a year ago. This would approxi- mately double the 1892 receipts.
 Government payments to farmers were sharply higher i'ull-year es- inmates were about S375, 900 900. against actual outlays a year ago ot S287 100000
 The Il per cent gain in farm in come over 1886 resulted largely from huge crops of various agricultural staples-cotton wheat, corn and the like-that lifted total intake despite q drastic decline in average prices.
 Prices Fall As Crops Rise
 The year was ushered in with quotations of the principal farm commodities high, and Ii Q n g higher. The 1886 drought had sharply curtailed supplies of grain, livestock and other items. Domes- tic and world consumers were eager to bolster depleted stocks, and bids moved up steadily
 The upsurge was augmented some- what by scattered indications of dry ness during the spring. Rains came however, and crop prospects began locking up. As commodity men stepped up estimates month after month, prices of most agricultural staples hit the togoggan.
 Cotton crashed from above Is cents a pound in the New York spot market to less than seven cents as experts placed the years harvest at 18,700,000 bales = the largest ever grown. Never before in history had any crop yielded more than 18,000,- 000 bales. The 1886 total was 12,400- 600.
 With the wheat crop jumping from 626,000, ,00O bushels in 1886 to 837,C00 ,0O0 bushels-roughly the lev el of the 20's = the Chicago price slid from S150 bushel in the spring to less than Sl
 Tc.al Sales Higher
 Corn, the important item on the livestock menu, dropped from Sl.36 in April to under $l a bushel at the recent low point.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-01-01

amendments to the capital gains and undistributed profits taxes, which business and financial lead CTS asserted had tended to stem the flow of private investment and to discourage business initiative.
 Conferences between the Pres ident and leaders in the electric power industry. These were an effort to work out a truce between the New Deal and major power inter- ests. The President also interested himself in the depressed state of railway finance and expressed hope the ICC would deal with the matter promptly The utilities, including rails, are normally among the na- tion's heaviest buyers of materials, and it was estimated they would spend billions on their plant and equipment under favorable condi- tions.
 4. disappointment of John w. Hanes, Wall Street broker, to fill a vacancy on the Securities and EX- change Commission. He was the first stock exchange member chosen for the Wall street policing organiza : tiCn. The federal reserve board earlier had eased and simplified its regulations concerning tn c amount of money margin - re- qlired for security purchases.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-01-01
QUIET, CHERRY WELCOME FOR
 NEW YEAR '3S
Juneau Watches l937 Pass Without Any General
 Disturbance

Almost as silently as the snow fall, did Juneau formally welcome the New Year. Not a whistle blew, not a bell rang out and there was a dearth of auto honking and revolver firing also For the first time Ill several years, there was not a Coast Guard cutter in Juneau to welcome with noisy blasts of the whistle the New Year and not steamer was tied to any of the local wharis. Even the vessels of the fishing fleet, moored at the various floats, forgot to tie down" the whistle.
 There were a few revolver shots heard but then they were heard beginning shortly after 8 o'clock last night and intermittently until early this morning.
 So much for the general celebra- ton. but at the annual Hi-Jinks given by the Eiks in their ballroom, there was plenty of noise. In sev- eral homes where guests had gath cred there was pronounced hilarity and firecrackers played a part in the general welcome.
 Religious services, watch night meetings, were held by two organ- izations and they were well attend ed.
 There was a general Happy New Year" exchange on the streets and finally merrymakers in homes, ca tes and restaurants dispersed and the dawn, with light dry snow fall ing on the city and surrounding ter ritory, arrived.
 Today business is practically sus- pended. In many stores. behind locked doors and drawn curtains, clerks were taking stock No offic- es, city, Territorial or Federal are open Many open houses are sched- uled for this afternoon and the us- ual holiday dinners are slated for late this afternoon or evening
 Tomorrow is Sunday, with usual services in Juneau's churches, and the next day is Monday, when bus mess again resumes with no holi- days for some months.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-01-01
BONDS RESIST
 STOCK SLUMP

NEW YORK, Jan. l. Listed bond prices dropped in 1887, but the decline, approximately 6,5 per- cent between January l and Decem- Der l, was far less than the 33 per cent fall in listed stocks.
 Market value of all liens traded by the New York stock exchange on January was placed by the ex- change at $45, ,053, ,593, ,776. On De- cember l it was $42, lO9, ,l54 ,661. The high for the year was about Feb ruary l, when total value was S45,- 113,047, ,758.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-01-01
By CLAUDE A. JAEGER Press Financial Editor

NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-After five years of acceleration, finally reach ing a pace reminiscent of boom times, the nations business machine slackened abruptly late in 1897, CO., incident with a resounding crack in the stock market.
 Controversy between b business leaders and the New Deal flared anew A substantial sector of busi- ness said the New Deals planned re- covery had Topped, that finance and industry had begged down un6er government controls and fin terference.'
 Administrati ton spokesmen blamed unsound business policies and specu- latiCn.
 President Roosevelt in his Novem- Der IS message to congress recalled "as far back as last spring l called attention to the rapid rise in many prices-a rise that threatened in particular the anticipated revival in building"
 Bu. out of the debate, and it was bitter in spots, came with striking frequency the word "coopera ton. ''
 The President said in his mes sage, private enterprise. with CO., operation on the part of the gov elnment, can advance to higher levels
 The National Associa ton of Man ufacturers at its annual convention early in December adopted a plat form complaining that business could not advance "shackled by re- stIictive legislation" and crippled by labor difficulties, but it called for cooperation" with government agencies. Through it's chairman, c. M. Chester it invited government to sit down with business and with labor to cure the present depres- sion
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-01-01
Moves by the Government

Outs landing developments in Washington late in the year de- signed to further cooperation and recovery:
 IA special housing message Mo- vember % by the President. To re- duce financing costs. it proposed major changes in the federal hous- ing act, and it called upon manu- lecturers and labor to cooperate toward reducing material and wage costs, which the President said had advanced too rapidly, causing a building slump that contributed to the autumn business recession.
 "A move to change taxes. The senate finance committee, with White House approval, worked on
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-01-01
Labor Takes the Stage

Labor legislation was a storm cen ter. One of the reasons President Roosevelt called congress in special session November Is was to enact a bill cn minimum wages and maxi mum hours. He asked immediate action If we are to maintain wage income and mass purchasing power of the nation against recessive fac tors in the general industrial situa- tion"
 But the manufacturers associa- ton at its heavily attended Decem- Der convention came out flatly against the wages-and-hours bill and blamed part of the business slump on the national labor rela- ticns act, arguing that it aggravated rather than ameliorated labor strife.
 With the rapid rise of CIO and with strikes in the spring the most numerous since 1916, labor strife came to the very center of the stage in 1887 Labor leaders claimed credit for wide increases in wages and mass purchasing power, while many business leaders charged that or ganized labor was blocking recov- cry Among them was Ernest T Weir chairman of National Steel Corp, who asserted strikes in 1887 cost the nation five billion dollars
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-01-01
oil Production
 Is High in 1887

NEW YORK, Jan. l. = Record billions of gallons of gasoline power ed the nations trucks, automobiles, and power plants in 1887 as oil out put rose to an all-t time peak.
 A total of 21,80O,0 100000 gallons was manufactured, according to estimates based on American Pe- troleum Institute data. Last year production was 20,22O O0OO,0OO gall Ions, in 1892 it was 15.9OO, GOO 900 and in 1929 it was Is, 100, 100000
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-01-01
Pump Priming' at Fault?

Economists said any analysis of the background of the sudden slump should take into account the gov ernment's pump priming expendi- tures." During 1885 and 1895 the treasury was borrowing and spend ing hundreds of millions a month with the spending reaching a peak in 1886.
 It was the governments theory that business, fully stimulated by this spending, would be able to carry on under its owIl steam.
 In 1937, spending was curtailed, and the government began to collect social security taxes, with the result that in the latter months of the year, the treasury was not going to the banks for new money.
 How much this spending stimu- lated business, and how much it's curtailment had to do with the slump. is a matter for debate Some economists say the spending was not curtailed soon enough, that it caused price and cost mal-adjust- ments early in the year.
 In any event the government hopes that despite the slump, pri- vate capital will loosen up, carry the recovery load.
 l Secretary MOrgenthau said Mo- vember II: The basic need today is the driving force of private capi- tal," and, We believe one of the most important ways of achieving these ends at this time is to con- tinue progress toward a balance of the budget"
 The administration has made it
 clear, however, that budget bal ancing may be deferred because of
 the business setback.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-01-01

The year began with government emphasis on preventing a boom; ii ended with stress on preventing a depression.
 Even late in 1886 some leaders in business and government were talking of the necessity of pre- venting an unhealthy boom" as prices rose and business expanded The federal reserve board had moved to curtail the volume of po- tential credit.
 Early in 1937, consumers goods lineS-like shoes and textiles - began to slip. but production of dur able goods-like steel, copper, auto nobiles-raced ahead. Prices and wages mounted. As plans developed for active building operations in the spring. complaints of high costs were heard with growing frequency
 March 15, Chairman Eccles of the federal reserve board urged government intervention through higher taxes to prevent "infla- tion, and warned:
 "The upward spiral of prices and wages into inflationary price levels can be as disastrous as the downward spiral of deflation."
 April 2, President Roosevelt said prices in steel, copper and other kasic products were too high, an- nounced that government would shift it's expenditures from durable goods to consumers goods
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-01-01
B. P. w. (. MEETING
 TO BE HELD MONDAY

The regular business meeting Of the Business and Professional Wom- ems Club will be held at pm. Monday when members will meet for routine work and discussion of the article Take Hint from the Men from the B. P w. c. maga- zine
 All members are to read the article before attending the meet ing. Miss Caroline Todd, president, will preside.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-01-01
NURSES TO MEET

The Gastineau Channel Nurses Association is to meet on Monday at 8 pm. at St. Ann's Hospital where Mrs E. H. Kaser, president, will preside at the regular session.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-01-01
STUDENTS RETURN
 TO SCHOOL MONDAY

After vacation of several days over the holidays, Juneau students will return to school Monday morn ing in regular session.
 An extra week of vacation was decided upon for the winter season, extening the original time from December 28 to January 3. As result of this change, summer va cation will commence a week later this year.
 
 Empire classifieds pay.