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The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-12
ELLEN REEp IN CONCERT FRIDAY
 AT TOWN HALL
We'll Known ConfraIto SoIoist Makes Debut
 Tomorrow Evening


 Proving that she is not supersti- tious Ellen Repp, well known con- tralto, who appeared in concert in this city last summer will make her debut at New York's Town Hall to- morrow evening at 8::30 o'clock (4;30 o'clock Juneau time).
 Miss Repp has many friends all through the Territory, and at pre- sent her mother, Mrs. E. c. Keep, of Everett, Washington, is visiting with her niece Miss Maghild .Oygard, in this city.
 On her program for tomorrow ev- ening, Miss Repp has chosen sev- eral selections which she presented during her appearance here last summer, among them, melodies from the "Norwegian Nursery Rhymes" and an Amy Worth sell. ection, Softly the Snow" which piece was dedicated to Miss Repp by Amy Worth, well known Seat | tie composer.
 Previous important appearances of Miss Repp in New York include her performance in the contralto role of "The Messiah" during the holiday season at Carnegie Hall last year, and as one of three soloists at the Westchester Music Festival in May. Following is a review of concert given in New York, December g. Those who attended the seasons first concert of the Jackson Heights Chorale, on Thursday evening, Dec- ember l, came away with new en- thusiasm-Ellen Repp, the young American contralto of Norwegian extraction who was the much her aided soloist of the occasion. Y
 Miss Repp justified the claims made for her-and they were not modest ones-with an extraordinar- fly beautiful and vital performance. Her voice has immense volume, yet her control is perfect, her pianissi- mos exquisite The richest texture is the middle range, but the lowest notes are strong and musical, the upper register clear and unforced Her interpretations are subtle; she is beautifully at home in several languages; her instinct for the mood of lyric is infallible, and she ,infects her audience with that mood with the uncanny surety of great singer
 Recent musical history makes one speculate as to whether eventually most Of the great singers will not originate in the strong Morse races rather than in the exhausted and over complicated nations of central and southern Europe. Flagstad, Thorborg, Melchoir, help to estab- fish that conviction. This young Naumberg Prize winner, just enter ing the lists, does nothing to shake it.
 Thoughts for her success at Town Hall will be in the minds of music lovers of Juneau tomorrow, and numerous telegrams will be received by Miss Repp from well-wishers in this city.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-12
WEATHER CONDITIONS AT AM. TuDAY

Beingham cloudy 43 Alert Bay Bull Harbor, ing, dzzling,
 
 burg raining 40 Stka drizzlng, 4 raining 41; Wndham raining Kuckwan drzing raining, Skagway raining & Hanes cloudy Tusequah raining 34 St Elias cloudy Fairbanks, 10 Nenana clear A. Nuato cloudy A. Kaltag, McCrath atok Crooked Creek clear 2 Bethel cloudy cloudy g. solomon clear 2 Goovn cloudy B Council clear 5 CiambeI clear, 0s
 Juneau ls--sunrise, am sunset s3s pm.
 WEATHER SYNOPSIS
 barometrc prevailed this morning the north portion North Pacific a
  reported pressure pressure vailed the the distribution has attended the euion oregon generally weather the western portions the interior portions of the Territory slightly
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-12
By ADELAIDE KERR AP Fashion Editor.

Let fashion go to your head this winter while you're waiting for spring to brighten the rstyle-scape.
 Lilly Dache showed how it could be done-with hairnet, bow and bit of sparkle-at one of the recent luncheon fashion shows at the New York Ritz Most of the hairnets were worn under hats, and remained to add little midseason mystery to cultures when chapeaux came off, but others were splashed with flow CTS or sequins to ornament heads at night. They were brown, often double mesh and covered hair dress ed both high and low.
 A shiny black straw sailor with forward-jutting yellow quill was worn with hairnet splashed with yellow chenille dots, slung like a hammock over the hair above the nape of the neck. A taffy colored leather hat with rising cuff brim topped a veil covered with brown wood dots which covered the back of the head and a vitriol blue felt ap- peared over a black snood hairnet tied round the head with black satin ribbon. Satin bows, perched on one side of the net so that they showed beneath the brim of the hat or a series of little velvet bows ac- cented others.
 Snood hairnets covered with hy- dranga petals, or splashed with flowers or sequins stars, covered ev- ening coiffures.
 Like Harlem Veils
 Veils which promise to reach a new high this spring, are another way of letting fashion go to your head. They were never more color ful, nor more intriguingly used than they are on the new hats. In blonde, green, rose, pale blue and lavender they are tied over hats to end in la big butterfly bow under the chin, used to wrap up chapeaux like a precious package or worn draped from the crown, slanting across the face like harem veil.
 Colored yeilings, folded in many thicknesses to make a flat braid-like band, are coiIed round and round on edge to make thick sailor brims and dotted veilings are swathed l about heads to make misty turbans 1 with trailing ends which swath Il the throat. It's all very come hith- l CT" in effect.
 Disks And Plateaux
 Higher crowns have come to towr
 with the advance spring and mid. season hats Both Paris and New
 York designers are making sailor.
 with crowns two to four inches higl 1 trimmed with a bright chou of plai( I taffeta ribbon or quill Fedora' land positions of sewn braid are be- I ing shown, too.
 | There are also some flat disk land plateaux, but these are gen 1 erally frivolously trimmed witt
 flowers or wings in way to giv'
 height. Pink, blue, hydarangea ant
 cyclamen shades appear in the trims
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-12
$5o,ooo 'MoR1H
 OF GOLD FOUND


 PALMER, Alaska, Jan. 12. - "A poke under an unlikely looking boulder was worth a small fortune to John E. Carlson.
 Carlson, head of the Tunnel Min ing Company of Cantwell, says a large part of the seasons final gold cleanup of $50.0OO- came from be- heath boulder the miners nearly overlooked.
 "The boulder was about two feet off bedrock" Carlson says. slt didn't look as though there was anything of value under the rock but we took a pan as a test and the one pan was worth ,$70. Then we took all the gravel from under the rock. using props to hold the boulder up"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-12
FISH BITS OFF MORE
 THAN COULD SWALLOW

OKMULGEE, Okla, Jen. 12.-Phil Nicholas was in duck blind when he heard a .commotion nearby and
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-12
Four Flat
 Tires

EVANSTON, Ill. Jan. 12. - One might expect culture in this uni versity town but Policeman Ed Fellows report about four flat tires found on John ,Kelly's van dalized car seemed like culture plus.
 This is what Fellows wrote:
 MT. Kelly parked family jail lopy at 951 Sherman, MT. Kelly came out few minutes later and found the inflated apparatus that carries the car on it's horizontal plane had lost their pristine TO- tundity on the posterior Side.'
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-12
WEATHER SYNOPSIS

found a big bass madly whipping the shallow water. In the bass mouth was half swallowed 127inch catfish.
 The fin of the catfish had stuck in the bass eye. causing him mad dening pain. Nicholas brought home the. evidence.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-12
Buys 8 Automobiles
 For Just One Dollar

BUTTE, Mont, Jan. 12. ' One Butte city employee thinks he has made the record buy in automobiles for all time. He bought eight Of them for $1-12h cents each-re- gently when the city advertised for bids but none was received. The cars were junk models that had been abandoned during the year on city streets.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-12
Give Drunken Driver
 Piece of Their Mind

TAYLORVILLE, Jan., 12.--A let ter signed by 118 Taylorville busi- ness men and addressed sto the drunken driver" was published in a local newspaper as part of a highway safety campaign,
 Brother, you're not the big shot you think you are" the letter read. You're just fuzzy -brained, liquor ed-up, obstinate ass.'
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-12
ISLANDS ARE NOW MADE M0hukEAI5

SANTA BARBARA, Cal, Jan. 12. -Anacapa and Santa Barbara is- lands, off the coast of Southern Cal ifornia, have been transferred from the Bureau of Lighthouses to the Department of the Interior, to be established as national monuments The islands are considered of spec ial interest because of their geology and their numerous fossils.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-12
War,ts Wife With Pension. Is Request

TAYLORVILLE, H., Jan. 12.-A classified ad appearing in a local newspaper read: ''Wanted--A wife. Must be over 65 and drawing pension" The advertiser told the newspaper he was in the seventeis and drawing pension himself.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-12
DOOM" IS TOO GOOD

PEMBROKE, Wales-House . to = house visits have to be made all over tQwn to collect the voluntary fire brigade. Police refused to use the. alarm gun after its first deto- nation broke all the windows in |the sergeant's house.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-12
When Va Goifa
 Sneeze, You Geiia Sneete

CHICAGO, Jan. s12.-Albert Hum phreys. used hay fever as the req son he drove past a stop light and he got off with light fine.
 My hay fever made me sneeze and I failed to see the traffic light" :" he told the judge.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-12
40. GOO CHRISTMAS TREES

DENVER-Forests of the Rocky Mountain region supplied approxi- mately 40,000 Christmas trees for the United States trade this sea- son, Forest Service officials esti- mate.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-08-17
TUCKERDALE NEWS

Several folks from this place
have been attending the revival
meeting at Apple Grove Baptist
church.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. E. Tucker made
a business trip to West Jeffer-
son Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wade Stansberry
left Sunday to spend a week in
w. Va, visiting relatives.
Mrs. Avery Darnell visited her
daughter, Mrs. Gray Farmer who
is confined in the Wilkes hospital,
Monday.
Misses Francis and Rhea OAR
nell spent the weekend at ST.
gar Grove.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Edd Bald
win a girl, August 5.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-08-17
HeltOn News

A large crowd attended the
communion meeting at the Lit
tie Helton Baptist church Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn Paisley and
daughter, Glenna June, of Crab
Orchard, w. Va, spent the week
end with Mr.. and Mrs. J.R. Pas
ley.
Miss Eloise FISHERMAN of Trout
dale, Va, is spending some time
with her grandfather, Rev. Dan
iel Blevins.
Mrs. Mack Buttery of Penn
sylvania has been spending some
time with her parents, Rev. and
Mrs. E. A. Eller. She will return
home this week.
A number of folks from this
community attended the service
at Mt. Pleasant Chapel Saturday.
Mrs. Dwight Cooper has been
indispoSed for a few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Paslev and
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-08-17
Plan Better
Business Drive

A group of business men, to-
gether with number of the Off
Gals in Washington who are
wont to take an intelligent and
sympathetic interest in whatever
transpires in the big business
community, are, seeking, quietly
but persistently, to set in motion
drive for better business be-
tween now and January l.
The objective is to enlist the
active support of the leadership
in American finance and indus
try in a concerted effort to put
men and money back to work,
to dispel fear and to convince
men of affairs that they may
once more proceed safely in the
once familiar spirit of the Ameri-
can frontier.
Those concerned in this under
taking do not share the misgiv-
ings of President Roosevelt, sug-
gested by the letter to Senator
O'Mahoney, chairman of the So
called monopoly committee, that
this body should ascertain whe-
Their the country is moving out
of an era of expansion. On the
contrary, those who are hopeful
of another forward movement
are convinced that the opportuni-
ties for American enterprise are
no less numerous and no less pro-
missing than those of frontier
days. They recall that in the mat
ter of plant equipment, for exam
pie, there is an accumulated
shortage, in the values of such
equipment, of around $2O,OOO,-
100000, and this as Mr.. Roosevelt
himself recently said, is the face
OF the fact that billions of idle
capital re-progressively moving
into stagnant pools.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-08-17

Miss Virginia Ruth Price Of
Clifton is the house guest this
week of the A. A. Prices
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-08-17
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Million And Half Acres OF
Land Destroyed By Erosion

ing materials such as phosphate
and lime" Floyd declared.
He urged that farmers carry
out enough soil-building practic-
es to earn their maximum pay
ments this year, and that if there
is any doubt in any persons
mind about any phase of the
program, that he get in touch
with his county agent Immediate
ly.
it is one of the reasons why the
government is offering farmers
cash payments to conserve and
build up the fertility of their
soil through the planting and
turning under Of legumes, the
planting of forest trees, terracing,
and the use of certain soil-build-
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-08-17
About One-Fifth Of Land In
State Is Affected. Sug-
gestiOns Made.

Why so much talk about sell
conservation? About planting
trees? About winter cover crops
and legumes?
What is the significance of
deep gullies which mar the land
scape of North Carolina. The riv-
ers that run red after heavy
rains? The channels of streams
that become shallow?
E. Y. Floyd, AAA executive Of
ficer of State College, supplies
the answer with data collected
through a recent reconnaissance
erosion survey of North Carolina.
1t showed that 1,41O,49O of the
31,276,299 acres of land in the
state, exclusive of barge cities
and waterways, has been essen
TALLY destroyed for tillage by
erosion. That is As of the crop
land.
The survey further revealed
that 12,187, 448, or 80 per cent OF
the farm land, has been affected
by erosion, and that 9 per cent
has lost over three-fourths of its
topsoil and some subsoiL That
was only through sheet erosion
A total of 5,647,54O acres, or
1871 per cent of the land, has
been affected by Outlying, or Sc
we're erosion.
'This is one of the major pro-
blems with which the Triple-A
farm program is concerned, and
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-08-17
Southwest Va.
Fair, Aug. 22-26
Large Crowds Expected. Will
Hold Horse Show. Many
Exhibits Planned.

Plans are now being perfected
by the management to make the
Southwest Virginia Fair and
Horse Show, at Abingdon, Vir-
ginia, August % through 26, one
of the most successful events OF
it's kind in that section.
In line with the policy estab-
lished last year, the management
offers six good running horse ra-
ces every afternoon; three night
horse shows; large dairy and cat,
tie exhibits; largest exhibit OF
heavy draft horses ever assem-.
bled in this part of the State, anC
the best and largest exhibit OF
ladies fancy work, canned good:
and culinary arts.
''This fair is for the entire
Southwest Virginia, as entire:
from your county will be on pa
with any other county. Abins
don will be the meeting place
for Southwest Virginians dunng
the five days and nights Of the
fair. Catalogues may be hal Ov
written request to the SecEsaEy, :
the management stated. q
The races each afternoon will
be open to the world for thor
ough-bred runners. Entries have
already been received from sta
bles in Eastern Virginia, Ken
lucky, Ohio and Tennessee. Eight
horses already entered hive just
closed the summer sesOn at
Charlestown, w. ", anC Hagers-
town, Md.
The three night hose shows
on August 23rd oath. and 25th,
will find nearly $50 h:aa # fam
cy saddle hcrses ard jumpers
from the foremost tam rs and
breeders throughout he Atlantic
Seaboard
Virginia's oWn-the largest pro-
Queer and breeder If purebred
Hereford cattle East OF the Mis-
sissippi River-will have repre-
sentative entries. 1t i expected to
have their fifteen Id cow and
her two-month old calf--one Of
the living daughters Of Prince
Domino the famous hereford bull.
This cow is fifteen years old and
has produced twel7e calves. the
last now being tW. months old.
These Herefords vii be from the
herd of Mr.. Tyler Snodgrass of
Russell County. AIo ontered are
six purebred AIerdeen-Angud
cattle from the he'd Of the Mon
ocacy Farms Of Fedrick, Mary
land.
Climaxing the i've days and
nights of the fai will be bril-
liant arrays of fireworks and
thrilling circus fre acts. On the
midway will be HeIlers Acme
Shows. direct fOm a ten days
run in Philadelphia, moving to
Abingdon by tran.
Opening day, august 22nd. will
be given over b the children,
and any child Welve years of
age and under will be admitted
free, irrespective Of residence.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-08-17
Young Democrats
To Meet Sept. Z,
8, 9 In Charlotte
Expect A Large Crowd. Cam
paigns Now Under Way
For Various Offices.

The largest gathering of Young
Democrats ever held in North
Carolina will be at the State
Convention in Charlotte Sept
-ember z, 3, 9, according to preli-
minary estimates of General
Chairman Frank Exum, who said
yesterday that the Convention
probably will draw two thous-
and visitors to the Friendly CT
ty' for the occasion.
The only political convention
in North Carolina this year, the
Young Democrats annual con-
clave is expected to be breed
ing ground for the campaigns of
political bigwigs who will take
part in the major campaigns next
year. "The Young Democrats, of
course, take no part in fac=
tionaliSm being interested only in
the well-being of the Democratic
Party as a whole. Therefore, the
members of every group and
cliche will descend upon Char
lotte assured of a whole-hearted
welcome, General Chairman Elk
UNI explained.
Conferences between State
President Gordon Gray and men,
bers of the Convention Commit
tee are being held in Charlotte
from time to time and plans for
the Convention already have been
formulated with the exception of
certain details which are being
worked out. Mr.. Gray announced
yesterday that selection of the
principal speaker will be an
nounced shortly. Expectation is
that Democrat of National sta
tue Will DE invited for the main
address on the final day of the
Convention.
headquarters for the Conven-
ton will be the Hotel Charlotte
and already advance registrations
for the meeting are being receiv-
ca. Mr.. Exum explained that in
'ormation as to registration may
De obtained from his office in
the Law Building.
Candidates for the various
state offices of the Young Demo-
Gratis are beginning to bestir
themselves to obtain support
rom other counties, and the ses-
SONS in Charlotte are expected
20 develop a number of red-hot
contests for the posts now held
by President Gray and members
OF his official family.
Miss Virginia Ruth Price Of
Clifton is the house guest this
week of the A a Pricos
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-08-17
WANT A HOSPITAL?

"31NA IA AO0A 41SAAS
If you want Hospital in Ashe
County, JOIN the ASHE COUN-
TY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION.
Cooper alton and support from
everybody is needed to put the
movement over. We now have
a Golden Opportunity!
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-08-17

children, Mary Lou and Dawn,
were Sunday dinner guests of
Mrs. Genetia Blevins.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bruner Davis
have moved mot the house va
Gated by Ramon Francis and
family. We heartily welcome
them into our community.
Mrs. Graham Witherspoon, Mrs.
Jane Waddell, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Cap Waddell all of jefferson
were dinner guests of Mrs. Mary
Hurley Sunday.
Mrs. Ocena Segraves and Mrs.
Nancy Blevins are spending a
week with Rev. and Mrs. C. L.
Denny.
Mr.. Ida Paisley left Sunday for
Crab Orchard, Va.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-08-17
AsHE COUNTY

Is the unconditional section of
North Carolina whose altitude
ranges from 5000 to $500 feet
ABOVE sea level. twenty-five miles
OF the PARKWAY run through
the county.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-08-17
SUCCESSFUL REVIVAL

Rev. T. w. Haes has recently
closed very sccessful revival
at Pleasant GrWe church near
Miller's Creek l. Wilkes county
with II professios and 10 addi-
tons to the churh.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-08-17

Miss Bertha ClSk of Los Ange-
les, California, ad Mrs. D. M.
Marshall and daghter, Lois of
Toulon, Illinois, are spending
some time with teir father, Mr..
Harvey Clark of Tuckerdale.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-08-17
MILL CREEK NEWS

Mnss Edna Scott has returned
from the Elkin hospital after
having undergone a throat opera
ton.
Mrs. H. D. Tayes CT Durham, N.
c., is spending her vacation with
relatives here.
Mr.. Worth Howell who is work
ing near Asheville spent the
weekend at his home here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hoyle Howell are
visiting relatives in Madison this
week.
Mr.. William Howell left last
week to enroll in Cecil's Business
College at Asheville.
Mr.. Charlie Wilcox of Lexing-
ton, spent the week with his
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. Sam
mic Wilcox of this community.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-19
Resolution No. l.

Tn conformity with the historic Democratic principle of the great est good for the greatest number, the Democratic party in Alaska, gen. erallv. and the Democratic party in the First Division specifically, has from time to time gone on rec ord as favoring abolition of all sal mon traps in the waters of the Ter ritory. Since the reasons for such abolition are now more compelling than ever before,
 Now, therefore, be it Resolved, by the Democratic Convention of the First Division of the Territory of Alaska. that it favors enactment and approval of H. R. 1868, 76th Con- gress, being a Bill introduced by the Honorable Anthony J. Dimond, Delegate in Congress from Alaska, to eliminate gradually the use of traaps in Alaska, to confine certain types of seine fishing to residents of Alaska, and for other related purposes, also, all oJneT plIlS Hioio duced by our Delegate and now pending in Congress.
 Be it Further Resolved, that copy of this Resolution be forward ed to Honorable Anthony J. Di- mond, Delegate in Congress from Alaska; to Honorable Harold l.. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior; to the Committee on Commerce of the United States Senate and to the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries of the United States House of Representatives.
 Resolution No. IT.
 With continued industrial expan- sion in Alaska there is evident an