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The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-05
HUNTERS REPORT NO DUCKS"

Duck shooting for the first days of the open season according to local hunters hasn't been 'so hot The group including A. E. Goetz John Laughlin, Joe Riedi and John Mills returned home Monday empty handed after several days spent in Divers Inlet. Too many hunters in that section had scared all the ducks away, they said. Early yes terday morning Gordon Mills, Or vile Gulhaugen, Albert Stragier and Joe Riedi Jr., went to St. James Bay and returned in the evening with but one duck.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-05

After a only creatures of nature Or why is it that will lay in tideflat muck trying to disguise himself as a rock hoping that duck will come flying over? Tomorrow looks like good morning, too
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-05
GRIZZLY BEAR DUE

The Game Commission vessel Grizzly Bear is scheduled to arrive in Juneau this afternoon from Wrangell. Aboard are Wildlffe Agent Gerald Banta, Assistant District Attorney George w. Folta, who has been trying game law violation cases at Wrangell, and District Ranger w. A. Chipperfield of the Forest Service, who accompanied Robert Marshall, of the Forest Service in Washington, as far as Ketchikan.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-05

have achieved a position which will be hard to dispute.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-05
DEMOS MOVE

MT and Mrs. Alex Demos today moved from the Runquist house on St. Anns Avenue to their own home, corner Third and streets.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-05

Over 10& million women were gainfully employed in the U. s. at he time of the 1930 census, six ines as many as in 1870.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-05

Reporter looked nudist colony and said only one man in 10 is good-ooking in the raw; only one woman in 20 Shows what dressing does for women.-- Globe.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-05
HAPPY BIRTHDAY

The Empire ertendS congrdtuld- lions and best ,DiShes today, their anniUersary. to tue folo10- ing:
 OCTOBER 5
 Hans Berg
 John E. Click
 Matt Dimonich
 Mitchell Daniloff
 Harry F. Starr
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-05

More than 100 claimants are still seeking title to 9,752 acres of land along the Mississippi north of St. Louis, in dispute based on grants given by Spain in 1902
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-05
Could They Be Fatheads?
lNew York World-Telegraml

Harvey Stowers a sales expert of South Bend, Ind, maintains that wide-headed people make the worlds decisions. The husband wife whose head is widest just above the rules the homes says MT. Sowers and he points to Mussolin "a first class example of a wide head"
 It may be true But if so, we are compelled to conclude, observe some of the decisions being made these days, that a great many of the worlds wide heads must house terribly narrow minds.
The Washington times., 1938-12-09

Of his relatives, declared he was
anxious to see them again, and
insisted that the matter Of his
wife's rank could easily be ami
cably settled.
The informant declared, how
ever, that it was the view of the
court that Edward would not
make a permanent return to his
homeland for various reasons, but
would prefer to make periodical
visits here, making his permanent
home in France.
Edwards former bitterness
The Washington times., 1938-12-09

Undisputed is the fact, however,
that relations between the duke
and his family are better today
than they have been at any time
since the abdication.
The court authority, who spoke
to the writer more frankly than
is usual in such matters. insisted
that the recent visit of the Duke
of Gloucester to his brother in
Paris fully confirmed that the ex-
king bears no ill-will toward King
George, his successor.
The Duke spoke affectionately
The Washington times., 1938-12-09
F. {. Strickland
To Wed N. J. Girl

PASSAIC. N. j., Dec. 9.-Invita-
tions have been sent out for the
marriage of Miss Edith Adams
Greene, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Allen Greene, of Passaic,
to Francis Cowles Strickland. of
Washington, D. C. The ceremony
will be performed at the First
Presbyterian Church here by the
Rev. Dr.. George H. Talbot on
December %.
The Washington times., 1938-12-09
MRS. D. B. MERRYMAN
Presents International
Problem

coupled with the role of sedate
chaperone, for Wallis. But to
Washington society she is truly
an August parsonage. No coming
out tea "a favorite presentation
method in the CapitaD nor any
other top-flight function is con-
sidered complete without her.
So-yeS, you've guessed right
what will Mrs. Roosevelt and other
Washington hostesses do about
Mrs. MerTyman during the visit of
the King and Queen? King George
probably spurred by conjugal ad-
vice., has definitely refused to
receive the American duchess as a
member of royalty.
Does it then follow that kindly
Aunt Bessie must be scratched
from social lists during the most
spectacular Capital social event in
years?
Veteran Washingtonians say
that Aunt Bessie, as a frequent
attendant of official and diplo-
matte functions. simply cannot be
snubbed. But, on the other hand,
can she be presented to those
majestieS who have proved so
adamant on the subject of her
niece? It's more than enough to
give Solomon, or the late Ward
McAllister-or even Emily Post
a case of filters.
WE SHALL SEE
Perhaps the Roosevelts. with
their uncanny gifts for social
diplomacy. will devise a way out.
Perhaps Mrs. Roosevelt will limit
White House invitations strictly
to diplomatic and official circles.
In that event, the visiting
sovereigns would meet-well, say,
the Supreme Court, and lot OF
ambassadors from other nations,
and the Cabinet members-and
few others, all. of course, with
wives.
But it doesn't sound like much
finn
The Washington times., 1938-12-09
Mrs. Doyle 10 Talk
Before Welfare Group

Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, pres
ident of the Board of Education.
and Mrs. Mary Steele, director of
Women'S and Professional Pro-
jects of the District WRA will
speak today at the regular lunch
con meeting of the Council of So
cial Agencies at the Y. w. C. A. at
Seventeenth and K Streets North
west.
The Washington times., 1938-12-09
Overdose Of Druq
Killed Atlanta Maj

An overdose of sleeping tablet
was responsible for the death d
jefferson c. McMautrey, 38. d
Atlanta, Ga, a former Govern
ment Printing Office employe. al
autopsy revealed last night. Mo
Mautrey was found dead In /
downtown hotel by Randolph
Brown, a porter, last Wed lesday
The body was identified by hi
father who came to Washington
from Atlanta
The Washington times., 1938-12-09
Jersey Society Set
For Yu|etide Party

Members of the New Jersey
State Society will hold their an
nual Christmas party next Thurs
day, at the Hay Loft, 1900 block
Massachusetts Ave. N. w. A
chicken and spaghetti dinner will
be served from S to 8 p. m. 1t
will be followed by a floor show
and dancing until midnight. Pro
ceeds will be used to provide toys
and dolls for children in Washing.
ton Hospitals.
The Washington times., 1938-12-09
Continued from Page II

court official close to King George.
No pressure is being brought on
him lone way or the other" it was
stated.
But according to this authority,
there is only the slightest possibili-
ty at the present time of King
George revoking the old order in
council, which laid it down that
the title of royal highness, be-
slowed on the duke when he &C.
quired his dukedom, could not be
taken by his wife or by any chill
dren of the marriage.
The Washington times., 1938-12-09
PEACE FARLEY
CALLED OFF IN
OYSTER WAR
Dredgers FIay Board as
Trial Opens

ANNAPOLIS. Md, Dec. g,
Tension between oystermen and
Conservation Commission officials
Increased here today when con-
ference over the arrest of %
dredgers, charged with invading
closed oyster bars, was called off.
The reason. Robert F. Duer,
commission chairman stated, was
that the men we're scheduled to
20 on trial today.
About so oystermen from
dredgeboats ordered into Annap-
oils Harbor by conservation dep
uties had crowded aboard the
steamer McLane, the conservation
fleets flagship, Ito talk things
over"
The Washington times., 1938-12-09
Aunt Bessie
Is Royal
Riddle
BY NANCY RANDOLPH

NEW YORK, Dec. 9.-Interna-
tional diplomatic society does its
social planning on a long-range
SCale-as witness the seven
months of build-up we'll enjoy be-
fore the King and Queen of Eng
land arrive in these parts next
June 4.
But the hurdles surmounted to
give their majesties three nights
sleep on Mrs. F. D. Roosevelt's
feather beds are as nothing COM
pared with the situation brewing
around dignified Mrs. D. Blu
chanan Merryman.
She, you recall. is Aunt Bessie
to the Duchess of Windsor. And
thereby hangs as irksome a prob
lem of etiquette as our capable
First Lady has ever been called
upon to face.
The Washington times., 1938-12-09
Addiction Anniversary Finds Dukes Exile Nedr End

against most things English has
been considerably softened by the
passage Of the years. it was de-
clared. He has made many last
ing friendships in France, has
been able to renew a good many
of his old friendships with Eng
fish people who have visited him,
and is by no means the lonely
man that he so often Is pictured
to be.
The Washington times., 1938-12-09

Christmas Eve and santa sleeps. He got
the night off. EveryOne's handling their
own gift problem this year. the easy
way. Through the Herald. Times Christ
mas Gift Directory. Turn to It now.
The Washington times., 1938-12-09
AUGUST PARSONAGE

Mrs. Merryman, during the alb
dication crisis of two years ago,
burst into the limelight merely as
a kindly shoulder-on-which-to- weep,
The Washington times., 1938-12-09
FEELING RUNS

When. following a private con-
ference between Duer, Capt. Amos
Creighton, commander of the con-
Servation patrol, and several cap
tains. it was announced there
would be no conference. feeling
ran high.
The oystermen declared they
had received unfair treatment" y
Several threatened to pull OUT
instead of appearing for trial.
One FISHERMAN shouted:
They're trying to make us
out as pirates. All we want is
fair treatment, and we're not
getting it. Why don't they come
out and talk in public?"
The Washington times., 1938-12-09
DECLARE PROFITS LOW

Mixed reactions from the water
men greeted the sternest move
launched by the commission to
date to stem assaults on seed beds.
Some welcomed arrest as an op-
portunity to test the States au-
thority to close the areas. while
others we're openly belligerent in
denying their guilt.
Feeling was bitter as conServa-
ton inspectors directed the cap
tain to remain at anchor in the
harbor and not to attempt to un-
load oysters now aboard.
Most of the dredgerS contend
they have not made sufficient
money this season to pay fines,
should they be imposed.
Smyrna times., 1938-12-29

U. S. Craneship No. /, shown pass
ing through Panama canal, was
once one Of worlds greatest ships.
first-line ~2ttleship not named for
state. Instead she commemorated
a naval vessel Of Civil war fame,
which in turn was named for Mt.
Kearsarge, n. 4.
The Kearsarge's career was not
warlike. Completed too late for the
Spanish-American war, she was on
the reserve list and serving as a
training ship for the Massachu-
sets naval militia when the World
war came. Her only casualty was
suffered through the peace-time ex-
plosion of a five-inch gun-With the
theoretical exception of one occasion
when she was ''put out of action" in
a sham battle.
Made Craneship in 1920.
The Kearsarge was one of the l6
battleships composing the United
States feet which circumnavigated
the globe in 19O7-19O9. Not long
after the Kearsarge was extensively
refitted, cage-wire masts substitut-
ed for her stick" military masts
and four ive-inch guns added to her
secondary armament. But the rap
id advance of naval architecture
had already overtaken the ship and
she was put on the reserve list In
1920 her masts, turret guns, propel-
ling machinery and one funnel were
removed; a wide bulge fitted to her
sides to increase her stability; cranes
and deckhouses added and the Kear-
sarge became Craneship /. The
cost of reconstruction was nearly
S2,000,0 900.
The naval progress which put the
Kearsarge into the discard is strik-
ingly illustrated by the contrast be-
tween that ship and the two battle
ships North Carolina and Washing
ton, now under construction. The
new vessels will be more than twice
as long as the 370-foot Kearsarge;
their displacement, $4,000 tons, will
be three times as great, with the
broadside of their 16-inch guns in
the same proportion. Finally, the
estimated cost of the new ships is
$40. 100000, whereas the Kearsarge
was completed for about $4,000, 000-
not enough to pay for a modern
destroyer.
Smyrna times., 1938-12-29
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH
Report of Church Services For
Next Sunday

First Churcn Of Christ, Scientist
Wilmington, at Park Place and
Van Buren Street: morning service
IL a. m, Sunday School IL a. m,
evening service 500 p. m, Wed
nesday evening service at 8 D. m.
Christian Science Society, Milford,
meeting at Grange Hall: Morning
service IL a. m, also meets on first
Wednesday evening of each
month at s p. m. Subject for Sun
day, January !. God" Golden
Text: Isa. 44:6. Thus saith the
Lord the King of Israel and his
redeemer the Lord of hosts: I am
the first, and 1 am the last; and
beside me there is no God. A bible
citation fro mthe lesson-sermon:
Isa 42:8. I am the Lord: that is
my name: and my glory will not
give to another, neither my praise
to craven images. Correlative
from the Textbook, Science and
Health with Key to the Scrip
lures" by Mary Baker Eddy:
Question there more than one
God or Principle? Answer There
is not. Principle and its idea is
one, and this one is God, omnipat-
ent, omniscient, and omnipresent
Being, and His reflection is man
and the universe.
Smyrna times., 1938-12-29
Firemen Answer Call
Half Year Too Late

LAHORE, INDIA. WV When a
house caught fire in a Punjab
state the owner sent an urgent
letter to the state fire brigade as
there was no telephone.
The chief fire brigade officer
acknowledged the letter and left
il for his successor, as he was
going on leave.
The successor arrived about
five months later, found it was a
case for immediate" attention
and forwarded it to the Dewan
Cminister) ''for favor of neces-
sary action"
The Dewan in turn submitted
the request to the ruler for ia
vor Of immediate sanction"
The ruler ordered that the state
fire brigade proceed forthwith
to the scene Of the occurrence to
avoid further damage to the
building"
When the fire brigade arrived
at the scene new building had
sprung up in place of the one
destroyed six months earlier
Smyrna times., 1938-12-29
More Conveniences Help
Keep En- Down on Farm

Observation-Disclosures it is known
what's been keeping 'em down on
the farm in recent years. Census
Director William L. Austin dis
closed that a sample survey" of
5000 farms in 40 states showed that
the level of living on the nations S
farms has risen materially since
1880. 1t revealed that seven out Of
every ten farms had automobiles;
six had radios; and four were light
ed by electricity.
On three farms out Of every nine,
water was piped into the dwelling.
and on two of these into a bath
room. Three out Of eight farms had
telephones, one out Of three had
tractors and one out of four had
motor truck.
Smyrna times., 1938-12-29
Post Office in a Cave
Interests Collectors

ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA.-Stamp
collectors in all parts of the world
are taking sudden interest in
Cooper Pedy, the remote South Aus
tralian opal field, because it has the
only underground post office in tie
world.
All the prospectors live in rooms
dug into the soft earth of the low
sandstone hills. The bank also is
underground along with the post
Office. The demand by philatelists
is for envelopes and other mail COW
erings bearing the postmark of the
underground Cooper Pedy post Of
fee.
Smyrna times., 1938-12-29
Floating Post Office for
Sailors on Great Lakes

DETROIT.-The federal govern
ment's only floating post office
has started its forty-third year OF
service on the Great Lakes. This
sea-going postal substation is a mail
boat equipped to give all the serv-
ices of land post Office to crew
members and passengers of boats
cruising the lakes. 1t has a postal
savings department. can cash or
issue money orders, and maintains
a parcel post department.
For men who ply between ports
all summer, it functions as the only
tie between them and their wives
and families. Many sailors find its
parcel post service a happy solution
to the laundry problem. This sea
mans substation handles about g.
100000 pieces of mail season.
Smyrna times., 1938-12-29
Collecting Driftwood
This Mans Unique HobbJ

RANGELEY LAKES, MAINE
Collecting driftwood and fallen
limbs and stumps that resemble ami
mails in shape is the unique hobby
of Harry F. Allen, brother of former
Gov. Frank C. Allen of Massachu-
sets.
These pieces of wood have beer
fashioned into their strange shapes
by the forces of nature-the waves,
the rains, the blasts of winter, and
the whitening rays of the summer
sun.
AS one approaches Aliens cottage
he is greeted by an alligator poking
its head over a boulder. The alliga-
tor is of wood. On the piazza, a
fine buck deer of wood can be seen.
Inside, other wooden images in
clude reptile with what appears
to be the leg Of another animal in
its mouth. Some clever touches of
paint on some of the specimens
make them more life-like.
On one wall there IS strange
looking creature which a small card
informs is the Gyasticutus or Cave
CAMS. Lives on fish or trouser
seats. Dangerous when angered,"
the sign reads.
In other parts of the room there
are q seal with metal ring around
its neck, lizard on a mantelpiece,
an eagle above doorway, a Rocky
mountain goat, chin whiskers and
all.
Smyrna times., 1938-12-29
MOVE TO SAVE
BIG TOP CIRCUS
Rain, Recession and Labor
Grief Gives 1888 Worst
Season
OUTLOOK HOPEFUL

DETROIT.-The combined forces
of rain, business recession and la
Dor troubles have given the circus
business the worst drubbing in its
history-but the big tops aren't out
yet.
Veteran circus men and close OBJ
servers predict the sawdust rings
will be back bigger and better"
next year, if the business pickup
continues and normal weather pre-
walls. But just so everything won't
be left to chance, an organization
of circus fans has mapped out a
nationwide program to keep the
circus from going the way of the
small-town opera house" and
vaudeville, too.
Ringling First to Fold.
The Ringing Brothers, Barnum &
Bailey circus first ruptured the
''show must go on tradition, when,
beset by labor troubles and dwin-
ding receipts, it packed up at Scran-
ton, Pa, early in the season and
moved into winter quarters at Sara
sofa, Fla.
The DoWnie Brothers circus,
owned by Charles Sparks, closed in
Delaware in midsummer.
When the Cole Brothers-Clyde
Beatty circus pulled stakes at the
height of the season and headed for
winter quarters at Rochester, Ind,
it became the third major big top
to fold this year.
Misfortune also overlook the
little shows. The Sels-Sterling cir
Gus, a motorized show well known
in the Middle West, closed at She
boygan, Wis. Two smaller shows
folded up in the East.
Circus lovers, however, aren't tax
ing this sitting down. At Madison.
Wis, the Circus Fans Association
of America assigned subcommit
tee to work out a plan for preserv-
ing an institution typically Ameri-
can" Cooperating with the associa
ton, groups of advertising men have
banded behind the leadership Of
Frank w. Magin of Detroit in
save the circus movement.
Smyrna times., 1938-12-29
.CRANESHIP OF
''98 OBSOLETE
One a Powerful Battleship
Was the U. S. S. Kear-
sarge
DARING CONSTRUCTION

NEW YORK.-When the United
States Craneship recently arrived
at the New York navy yard, Brook
lyn, IN tow of the transport Sirius,
her strange appearance-swollen
sides, odd deckhouses and huge
crane-disguised former pride of
the feet, the y. S. S. Kearsarge.
One OF the most powerful battle
ships in the world at the time Of her
launching in 1898, the Kearsarge
was brought from Bremerton navy
yard, near Seattle, to assist in the
construction of the two battleships
on the ways at Philadelphia and
New York.
Ordered in 1895 and built at New
port News, Va, the Kearsarge and
her sister ship, the Kentucky, were
put in commission in 1900. Their
11,52O tons displacement made them
the heaviest vessels in the United
States navy; main batteries of four
13-inch and four 8-inch guns, each
firing a broadside weighing three
tons, put them in the top rank for
fire power.
Had Daring Construction.
The turret arrangement was con
sidered a daring innovation. and
was a precursor of the now ia
miliar system Of having the turrets
in series, one over the other.
Another distinction of the Kear-
sarge was that she was the last
Smyrna times., 1938-12-29
DIVERSION OF ROAD FUND
State Grange Adopts Resolution
to Present to Legislature

State Grange Adopts Resolution
to Present to Legislature
Delaware State Grange at its
closing session at Laurel recently
adopted resolutions opposing di-
version of highway funds and IA
voring a reduced fee for licenses
Of trucks used exclusively on
farms, uniform traffic signals
Throughout the state, a member
ship drive, and temperance activ-
ity. SUPPORT for the platform
adopted by the National Grange
also was voted. All officers were
reelected for two year terms. The
installation ceremonies will be held
at Milford on January 26 and will
be open to the public. State Lee
tured Robert Yearsley will be in
charge. Officers reelected are:
State master, Clarence z. Jester,
Milford; overseer, A. Bailey Thorn
as, Camden; lecturer, Mr.. Years
ley, Hockessin; steward, Bailey
Maul, Rehoboth Beach; chaplain,
Howard r. Moore, Milford; treas
urer, Robert P. Robinson, Will
mington; secretary, Harry C.John-
son, Smyrna; gatekeeper, William
H. Naudain, Marshallton; Ceres,
Mrs. Pearl E. Mills, Greenwood; /;
Pomona, Mrs. Helen B. Thomas,
Wyoming, and Flora, Mrs. Uellie
F. Jester, Wyoming.
Smyrna times., 1938-12-29
Grape Vine Grows
Peaches i'm Bunches

WELLINGTON, OHIO.--A wild
grape vine that grows peaches in
punches has been discovered by
John Hilliker, music store pro-
prietor here.
The clusters Of the strange fruit
look exactly like punches of
grapes except that the fruit is
covered with the usual peach fuzz
and is not as nearly spherical as
the grape. The punches of
peaches are much larger than
punches of grapes which are
growing on the same vine.
The center of the peach is hard
and contains what appears to be
a developing peach stone. The
grape vine which bears the hy-
brids spans a scrawny-looking
peach tree and Hilliker believes
this made cross pollination pos
sible.
Smyrna times., 1938-12-29
Rare Marsupial Tiger
Believed Extinct, Found

HOBART, AUSTRALIA. ~ The
Tasmanian marsupial tiger, rare
animal Of the living FOSSIL class,
and which was believed to have be-
come extinct, has been seen again.
according to the Hobart animal and
bird protection board. A sanctuary
will be established for the few ami
mails that have been found in an Ell
fort to prevent extinction.
Smyrna times., 1938-12-29
ng Plant at Ridgely, Md.

W rant at Ridgely, Md.
a.a new bottling plant of
Il y, y. Marvel Company at
~ nder construction
H.. - mOnths Is nearing
Il aad IS expected to be
i January.
Smyrna times., 1938-12-29
Music in Vienna Library

The music department of Vien-
mas national library contains some
20, 600 books of printed music, some
$4,000 volumes Of M. S. S., and
more than 5000 books of musical
literature for reference.
Smyrna times., 1938-12-29
Rirds Have EQUAL Rights

The female phalarope attained
equal rights ages ago. Its plum
age, contrary to general rule, is
brighter than the males and it runs
at large while the male minds the
eggs.