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The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-15
OO YEARS AGO Ll From THE EMPIRE
DECEMBER Is. 1918

DECEMBER Is, 1918
 Influenza had appeared in Juneau again, with about 30 cases in the city. Generally speaking the disease was not as severe as the first out break The officials were watching the situation very carefully, and as yet had not felt that it was neces- sary to re-establish the restrictive regulations that were previously in Noked.
 c. Fenton Cramer, Secretary to Gov. Thomas Riggs, and Mrs. Cra- mer returned home after an eX- tended visit in Washing ton, D. c. The Governor was to leave for home after Christmas, according to word brought by MT Cramer. Mrs Riggs and children were to remain in Washington for two months.
 Mike Avoin, the Juneau shoe maker who was in the last draft call and who was training at Camp Lewis, returned to Juneau from the south. He was registered at the GaStineau Hotel
 E. Engstrom of Aux Bay was in Juneau and was guest at the Hotel Gastineau.
 
 Miss Lena Nelson arrived from Se- attle and was registered at the Bergmann Hotel.
 The Misses Celia and Ann Me- Laughlih had taken an apartment at the Bergmann Hotel for the win ter months.
 F. ". Williamson returned to Se- attle on the Alameda. Mrs. William son, who went south with MT Will Hanson several weeks ago, remained in California where she was to re- main for the winter
 Weather: highest .35; lowest 34; rain.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-15
DANCE SATURDAY

Auspices of the Juneau Ladies' Auxiliary, at the Union Hall Lillian Uggen's Orchestra. Turkey Door Prize. adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-15
cHGtby
 Birthday

The Empire eTtends congrdtuld- tions and best ,DisheS today, their birthday anniUersar!' % the folloiU- ing:
 DECEMBER Is
 Mrs. H. T. Tripp M Chede l. Paul
 Donna Jean Jewett Patricia Diane Walther James Gilkey
 Steve Gatana Edward J. Giovanetti
 R. B. McIvor
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-15
NOTICE TO AUTOMOBILE

owners. 1889 license plates are ready for distribution. Car owners are warned not to operate their cars after December 31, 1888, with out the 1889 plates attached A fine will be imposed for so doing 9T'he new plates may be secured now at the City Clerks Office.
 ETTA MAE KOLASA, adv. City Clerk
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-15
M o D E R N
 ETIQUETTE I E
By Roberta Lee

Q. What is the best way for girl working in an office to re- member her employer at Christmas?
 A. If her work is closely connect ed with her employer, she may send a Christmas card addressed to him and his wife If she is merely typ ist, file clerk, or some such posi- tion, all that is necessary is to wish him a merry Christmas before leav- ing the office.
 Q. When man and girl are dining in public place, and an- other couple stops at their table for minute, should the man and the girl rise?
 A. The man should rise, but the girl should remain seated.
 Q. What kind of dress should a brides mother wear at an afternoon wedding?
 A. She should select the same kind of dress she would wear to a tea or reception.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-15

Americans consumed 24,000,000 cases of fruit juices in 1887, or "A times as much as in 1929.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-18
i. s. ARMY PLANES
COMPLETEFL|CHT
TO BUENOS AIRES
Five Arrive Together, Sixth
Coming on Behind After
Delay by Propeller
Trouble
THEY CROSS ANDES
AT FAMOUS STATUE
5,OOO-Mile Goodwill Flight
Ends Successfully AS Huge
Army Bombers Reach Ar
gentine Capital for lnau-
guration of New President
Monday .
THEY CROSS ANDES
AT FAMOUS STATUE

Buenos Aires, Feb. 18.-(AP)- A
squadron of five hombers of the Unit
ed States army roared over Buenos
Aires at 11:O8 a. m. eastern standard
time today at the end of 5,OOO-mile
goodwill flight from Miami, Fla.
When they passed over Mendoza, in
western Argentina, around o'clock,
the most hazardous part of their trip
was over, the crossing of the Andes
mountains. They had good weather for
the rest of their way about 600 miles
almost due east to Buenos Aires.
The terrain for most of the 600 miles
was for the most part like that Of
western United States. They negotiat-
ed the Andes crossing near the famed
mountain-top statute, 'The Christ OF
the Andes"
The sixth plane of the original
squadron, which yesterday flew non
stop flight from Miami, to Lima
Peru, was following the other planes
from Lima. 1t had been held up by
propeller trouble. Adjustments were
quickly made, however, and Major .
c. Melloy, it's commander, was able
to take off at $40 a. M, seven hours
and 20 minutes after departure OF the
other five.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-18
President Makes 1t Clear,
However, He Does Not
Think All Prices
Should Go Up
EASY CREDIT STILL
ADMINISTRATION AIM
Senate Committee Approves
5O,O0O,OOG Relief Bill
After Stripping 1t of Alien
Provision Voted by House;
REA Allotment for Tar
Heels

Washington, Feb. 18.-(AP)-- Jesse
Jones, chairman of the Reconstruo-
ton Finance Corporation, announce
today the RFC would resume imme-
diately the making of loans to "all
deserving borrowers whom the
agency is authorized to aid.
President Roosevelt said, meantime,
ga moderate rise in the general price
level is desira tle," but he made it
clear he does not believe all prices
should go up.
Answering a multitude of questions
aroused by his recent assertion that
prices were too low, Mr.. Roosevelt
read to his press conference a state
ment of administration policy as set
out by the secretaries of agriculture
labor and the Treasury, and by the
Federal Reserve chairman.
Subsequently, he brought out that
the maintenance of easy credit con-
ditions was part of the general pro-
gram, and that the Treasury and Fed
eral Reserve Board would cooperate
to that end.
."Our program" this statement said,
"seeks a balanced system of prices
such as will promote a balanced ex-
pansion in production. Our goal is n
constantly increasing national income
through increasing production and
employment. This is the way to in
crease the real income of the con-
sumers"
Meantime, the Senate Appropria-
tons Committee reported favorably
Con tir led on Page Two.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-18
Claims
Farm Act To
Be Solution
Idaho Senator And
HutsOn State New
Crop Control to S.
600 at Raleigh

Raleigh, Feb. 49, (AP)-Five thous
and farmers from three states attend
ing a mass meeting here today heard
Senator James Pope, Idaho Democrat
promise that the new crop control
law would "go a long way toward
solving your riddle-how to make a
living"
j. B. Hutson, assistant AAA admin
istrator, explained the farm measure
to the growers from Virginia, North
Carolina and South Carolina.
cit is up to us to make it work, SO
that it will result in continued soil
conservation, and so that it will help
to maintain farm prices and farm in
come" Hutson said. He warned that
if farmers raised as large a flue-cur-
ed tobacco and cotton crop this yea:
as last, supplies will be nearly as ex
cessive as those of 1881 and 1882 i'll
the case of tobacco, and far more sc
in the case of cotton"
Auditorium Filled.
Growers attending the meeting
sponsored by the State Farm Bureau
Federation, filled every seat in Mem
orial Auditorium here.
J. E. Winslow, of Greenville, ano
CONGRESSMAN Harold Cooley, of Nash
vile. introduced tho speakers.
Pope said passage of the bill was
merely the first step in the flight fo'
equality Of the farmer" and that ne
would champion the farmers cause II
Congress until growers received sub
Continued on Page TwoJ
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-18
TWO WHITE MEN DIE
AT STATES PRISON
ON MURDER CHARGE
Turns 500 Into
$40 Million Total

New Bern, Feb. Is (AP)-FrOm
an automobile salesman to a multi
millionaire was the experience of a
New Bern man this week when he
sold for S1O,OOO,OOO a total of $40
acres of Texas land he bought in
1922 for 81 an acre.
TIL man is Ferry Bland, original
ly from Raleigh, but who now lives
at VancebOrO, ard works in New
Bern. He returned today from AL
phine, Texas, where he said he
closed the deal for the property on
which oil was recently found. He
made the trip both ways by plane,
leaving here Tuesday.
Bland said he bought the land
through real estate friend as an
investment while on visit to
Texas, end had almost forgotten
about it when he received a wire
this week saying that oil had been
found on it.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-18
N. c. CAN FURNISH
SOUTH'S PULPWOOD
Forests Amply Sufficient If
Handled Through the
Years Properly
Daily Dispatch R-,reau.

=
Raleigh, Feb. 18.-Properly manag-
ed, North Cardinals forests will pro
vide annually at least twice the pres
ent consumption of the pulp industry
in the entire South, it is pointed out
in an article by John G. Baskervill,
of the Department of Conservation
and Development, in the February is
sue of the Manufacturers Record.
Mr.. Baskervill cites the fact that the
State has at least 100000 acres of
pines available to furnish pulp wood.
It is conservatively estimated that
each acre will produce almost a cord
of pulp wood year continuously, if
cut properly; but if it be estimate
that each acre produces only half a
cord per year, North Carolina is still
capable of producing 100000 cords
annually, or more than twice the pre-
sent consumption by the industry in
the South of something in excess OF
100000 cords per year.
The forestry division of the Depart
ment of Conservation and Develop
ment, through the forest management
bureau, is trying to get farmers and
landowners to think of their timber
and pulpwood as they would any other
crop and to harvest it from year to
wear Just as they do their other crops
says Mr.. Baskervlll.
The pulp companies operating in the
State are giving whole-hearted coop
Grafton to this effort, since they are
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-18
Milford Exum, of Wayne
County, Executed for
Murder of Negro, First
Such To Die
sMOAK KILLED FOR
Staying DAUGHTER
Exurn's Death Slowest On
Record Since Gas Chamber
Was Installed; Smoak
Takes Less Time; Exum
Leaves Poem He Wrote;
Little of Dramatics Seen

Raleigh. Feb. 18.-(AP) - Milford
Exum. 80. of Wayne county, the first
white man executed at States Prison
for the murder of a Negro, and Edgar
LEROY Sneak, 40, of New Hanover
county. convicted of poisoning his
daughter. Annie Thelma, died by gas
today.
II took administration of gas for
16 minutes 20 seconds before Exum
was pronounced dead, and prison Of
ficials said that set record. H. H
Honevcutt, former warden and now
penal division disciplinarian, said the
previous longest asphyxiation was
about Is minutes and 80 seconds.
Smoak was given gas only ID min
utes, SO seconds.
Exum entered the death chamber
shortly after 1870 a. m.
The chamber was installed here in
1910 and records of executions before
that year are not available.
Exum smiled and waved to wit
nesses watching through heavy glass
walls
Goodbye, gentlemen" he said. He
then shook hands with each person
inside the gas chamber, including
minister, his executioner, guards and
Warden H. H. Wilson.
After he had been strapped into the
chair, the Wayne county man again
had each man inside the death cham
Der shake his hand as it was held
tight against the chair arm.
I'll see you in heaven if you live
right" Exum had counselle1 a few
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-18
Steel VIII
AlterPart
OF Stocks

New York, Feb. 18.-(AP)--Direc-
tors of the United States Steel Cor
poration today authorized changes In
the common stock of the corporation
from $500 par to no-par value and an
increase in the authorized common
from 1250O,OOO to 100000 shares.
thus clearing the way for further fl
nancing when it may be deemed nee
essary
It was stated there were no imrne
diate plans for new financing. Stock
holders were also requested to au-
thorize the board to issue bonds, de-
TEXTURES and other convertible OBJ
legations.
The statement made by a spokes-
man for the company said that In
changing the common stock from 500
par value to no-par value, the direc-
tors proposed that the stated capital
for outstanding common. stock will be
SIS share, thus decreasing the capt
tai and increasing the capital sur
plus of the corporation by $217, 581 300
to 1928. 1871, 321.4 AZ.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-18
CountyMem
To Discuss
ABCStutMS

Wilson, Feb. IS (AP)-T. H. Wood
ard, of Wilson, chairman of the ad-
visory committee of the Eastern caro-
lima Association of County Commls-
sioners of 81 counties operating Abe
stores. The meeting would be helo
here March 4.
Woodland said it was the opinion OF
those present at today's session that
such a meeting should be held to de-
termine as nearly as possible the wish
es of counties with reference to the
legal sale of alcoholic beverages.
We think that boards of commls-
sloners are in the best position to de-
termine the wishes of their people,
he said.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-18
KANNAPOLIS MAN is
DEAD OF INJURIES

Kannapolis, Feb. 18.-(AP)-Pollce
Chief Ira Chapman said he had been
informed that Lester Baxter died to-
day in a Mooresville hospital of
head wound received February 6 in an
altercation Chapman said Clyde
Iona textile worker, was under
$500 bond
The chief said witnesses had told
him that Lomax struck Baxter with
an automobile crank after the latter
had chased him with an open knife.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-18
Fl Persons Killed
When I ornado Dips
In. Louisiana Town
At Least 60 Others Reporte Injured Rodessa With
Property Damage Above $3.50, 1000; Accurate Check
of Dead and Injured Not Yet Completed

Rodessa, La, Feb. 18.-(AP)-A
cracking, roaring tornado that
dipped into the industrial section
of this north Louisiana oil boom
town last night brought death to
at least FL persons, injured three
score and caused damage various
ly estimated at between $25O,O0O
and 100000.
An accurate check Of the dead
and injured had to await the re-
stOration of order here and re-
ports from Shreveport, Vivian,
La, and Atlanta, Texas, where
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-18
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.

=, haleigh, Feb. 18-Edgar Leroy
oinoak' stoical railroad carpenter
"hose life was snuffed out in the gas
- rndnber this morning, will in death
.41 side by side with the daughter for
mnoSe cold-blooded poisoning he was
,lAecuted' if his brother carries out
-~'s' wish, expressed in Smoak's Will,
laoe on Death Row" and turned
poer 10 your correspondent to be pro-
"ared IN New Hanover county.
Inc smoak will recites a realization
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-18
AUSTR|ANS RESENT
INSTRUMENTATION
OF THEIR AFFAIRS
Opposition Groups Uniting
To Resist, All Fearful of
Dictation of the
Germans
BRITAIN HINTS AT
TAKING HAND ALSO
Mussolini's Envoy In Lon
don Asked for Real Facts
as to Italy's Role in Crisis;
Catholics, Jews and Bust
ness Interests in Austria
Alarmed
(By The Associated PressD


Nazified Austria rumbled with OPP
position Great Britain limited she
would not watch idly the Hitlerization
of central Europe. But Germany went
ahead today to extend her domination
of Austria.
In Austria there was talk of rails
ing barbados, diverse groups, all
fearful of National Socialist plans,
found common ground in anti
NaZiism.
Monarchists, their hope OF empire
glimmering, met to form an agree
ment with socialists, irreconcible
enemies of Nazidom. The fatherland
front, Austria's only legal political
party cried out for a voice in Aus
tria's destinies, and was rebuffed by
Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg. The
tough anti-Nazi troopers were aroused
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-18
BY ROGER w. BABSON,
Copyright 1888, Publishers
Financial Ry1roau Inc.

Babson Park, Fla, Feb. 18.--Busi-
ness sentiment is about as lad as L
ever remember l think it is even flat
ter than in the 1928 period. Yet.
strange as it may seem, this is good
sign. American has pulled herself out
of former tailspins. The turn has al
wavs come quietly and unseen while
nessimism and uncertainty were at
their peak. Today l am convinced
that the despair and gloom of bus'-
nessmen has gone too far. We may
even be making the turn right now.
Among the most important reasons
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-18
Fortunes Can Be Begun
In Slump, Babson Thinks
Economist Advises Wise Purchases During Present
Business Decline; Says Advertising One of Best
Pump-Priming Me thods to Be Used

why / think this is possible Is the ex-
cellent performance of retail trade.
Industrial output has fallen like a
comet, yet retail trade has held up
remarkably well. January Clear
ances''. while not quite matching the
whirlwind 1887 season, were good
Merchants cut prices much more thar
usual in order to keep their good,
moving. These recent sales have Of
fered some real bargains and there
will be more between now and the
Easter season. Not only grocery, meat.
department, clothing, furniture and
shoe stores, but the big mail-order
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-18

many of the victims were taken.
Ten bodies were counted in NOR
CUES at Atlanta. SIX others lay in
Shreveport and at least two were
in an improvised grocery store
Enorgue here.
Doctors George Morrison and
Charles Holt, who directed treat
ment of the injured here, agreed
the death list might run between
20 and 25 and the injured above
60. Together. they treated more
than a score i'm their offices, eight
of whom died.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-18
FURTHER GAINS BY
COTTON ARE NOTED
Price Level at Midday Slightly ABOVE
Previous Periods With Sma1
Net Rise

Now York. Feb. 18 (AP)-Cotton fu-
lures opened six to ten points nigher
on active general buying and hlgner
markets abroad. May sold of to S.!l'
leaving quotations shortly AFTER the
first half hour five to seven points net
higher. May eased to 1893 and around
midday was 9O6, when the list was
two net higher to five lower.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-18
Smoak Requested Burial
By Side OF His Daughter
For Whose Death He Paid

"that in all probability I shall be exc
cited by the State of North Carolina
on the 18th day of February, 1888" and
in one of it's sections says:
sI hereby instruct my brother, S. O.
Smoak (who was named executor) to
give my body Christian burial, same
to be buried at Edisto church, near
Orangeburg, S. c., as near my daught-
err, Annie Thelma, as possible"
Nor did Smoak overlook the two
New Hanover county lawyers who
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-18
Japan Plans
To Forward
MoreTroops
Will Be Replace
ments, Not Rein
forcements, State
ment Asserts

Tokyo, Feb. 18.-(AP)- Imperial
Headquarters announced tonight that
fresh contingents of troops were be-
ing sent to China "in order to streng-
then the army to fight to the last"
The announcement gave no details
as to numbers, nor did it mention to
which of the many fronts OF the far
flung conflict the new levies would be
sent.
It declared that the fresh troops
Continued on Page Two->
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-18
Seven Saved
From Floods
In Coal Mine
EIGHTH Man Perishes
in Penns y w MA
Shaft Before Res
cuers Arrive

Hazleton, Pa, Feb. 18-(AP)-Seven
of eight men trapped by rush OF
water in an anthracite mine at near
Nv Jeanesville were found today I'M
injured. The eighth was dead.
Officials of the Lehigh Valley Com
pany said the dead man was Paul
Kuritz, Al, of Hazleton.
Rescuers pushing through tons of
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-18
Continued on Page Two-A
FOREIGN POLICY"
TALK IS PUzzL|NG
Nearly All Wars Fought on
Excuse of Being Defen-
sive in Nature
BY CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press COlIlmniSt

Washington, Feb. 1S-Our foreign
policy has been explained to the tune
of thousands of words. But what do
thew mean? Scarcely any two recog
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-18
WEATHER

FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Cloudy, scattered showers in
north portion Saturday; slightly
warmer tonight.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-02-18

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Evening star., 1938-03-30
MAY CLOSE
BOURSE FOR TIME
New Financial Bills Must
Pass Before Monday or
Step Will Be Taken.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, March 30-Premier Leon
Blum planned today temporarily to
close Frances stock exchange. the
Bourse, unless his new program for
financial reconstruction Is adopted
over the week end.
The Premier emphasized to a dele
cation Of Radical-Socialist deputies
yesterday that new finance bills,
which he is expected to introduce in
Parliament after the closing of the
Bourse Friday, must be passed before
Monday. Otherwise he was prepared
to keep the Bourse closed to prevent
excessive speculation.
He told the deputies trading would
be stopped during protracted debate
or until solution could be found to
the cabinet crisis that might result
from rejection of his proposals. De-
tails of the bills were kept secret.
Appeal for Monarchy.
Large yellow posters appeared on
billboards throughout Paris appealing
for re-establishment Of the monarchy
to restore Frances internal stability
and international prestige.
They bore the name of Henri, Count
Of Paris, son Of the Duke of Guise,
pretender to the French throne.
Henri's father appointed him some
time ago to take charge of propag ganda
for the royalist cause in France. The
Duke of Guise lives in Belgium because
French law forbids the pretender to
reside in France.
Henri's posters declared the republic
won the World War. but "is losing the
peace"-echoing the growing popular
opinion that Germany is reversing the
verdict of the Versailles treaty.
Europe, the posters warned, is on the
brink of war, and France lacks a united
government because of political diff
ferences.
only the monarchy can unite the
French people and save the country
in its present grave danger" they said
Welter Of Rumors.
Among the welter of rumors was one
that the premier again would ask
Evening star., 1938-03-30

tional brigade was sent into the fray
for desperate stand.
In Barcelona Defense Minister In.
dalecio Prieto said 10000 volunteers
had enlisted in the last five days and
were being sent to the front.
Warning against the "idleness Of q
single man." he said that threatened
insurgent occupation of important
hydro-e electric plants south of Aytona,
near Lerida, would paralyze Catalan
industries.
Dispatches from Barcelona said 1t
was admitted the insurgents had sue
ceeded in crossing the Cinca at two
points between Pueyo and Zaidin,
north Of Fraga, now in Gen. Frances
hands, and between Abujanda and
Elgrado. north of Barbastro.
Barcelona dispatches also told Of a
government offensive launched west of
Teruel to relieve insurgent pressure on
the Fraga front.
Ground was taken near Valdecuenca,
it was said, with two towns brought
under government artillery fire.
In the Caspe section insurgents also
made progress, official reports at Bar
celona said, with fierce fighting going
on near Morella.
Three Places Bombed.
Tarragona, Castellon and San VI
cente de Calders were bombed today
by the insurgents. One hundred bombs
were dropped on Castellon, hitting the
provincial sanitary institute and the
provincial hospital. Seventy houses
Evening star., 1938-03-30

the Prime Minister the meaning Of a
foreign Office letter published today,
whether the letter constitutes diplo-
matte recognition for the Anglo-Span-
ish Duke of Berwick and Alba, insur-
gent agent, and his staff.
A British agreement with the insur-
gents November IL, 1887, established
that neither party will accord or ex-
pect to receive diplomatic status for
their agent"
The letter, published in the News
Chronicle, said "the Duke of Alba and
his staff are regarded officially as dip
lomats in all but name"
1t was written by member OF the
foreign office staff, T. H. Glasse, to
the London County Council Motor
License Department and was dated
March 3, 1888.
Glasse requested that the Dukes
secretary have his driving license re-
newed without requiring him to un-
dergo a driving test or pay the fee
normally chargeable."