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The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-31
VACCINATION AT DOUGLAS

Vaccination against smallpox will be given free tomorrow afternoon from l to o'clock at the Health Center in the Douglas City Hall. pr. Palmer Congdon and Public Health Nurse Oygard will do the vaccinating Both children and adults are urged to take advantage of this opportunity
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-31
HERE FOR VISIT

Miss Phyllis Lundell arrived here by plane yesterday for a short visit with her mother before leaving for skagway to look after health condi- tions in the school.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-31

If your vacuum cleaner has sev- eral attachments, make the best use of them. They come in handy for cleaning behind the radiators, book cases and the refrigerator.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-31
P. T. A. PROGRAM

The following program has been arranged for the Douglas Parent Teacher Association meeting sched- uled to be held tomorrow evening in the school assembly room.
 Songs, Sailing" Dixie" and
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-31

ersburg, and Henry w. Strafuss, Ju- neau, arrived in Sitka last week to start an interior decorating and paperhanging business. Both men have lived in the Territory for more than 20 years, and both are mem bers of the Master Decorators and Painters Association.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-31
INJURIES EYE

Grant Logan has been having an enforced weeks vacation due to get ting devil club thorns in one of his eyes while out hunting recently Sur
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-31

evening in the ANB. Hall. Three officers of the A.N.B., President David Howard, Financial-Se Secretary David Davis, and Treasurer Thomas Sanders Sr., were reelected. Other officers for the Brotherhood are as follows: ce-President, Frank Price; Recording Secretary Robert Martin; Corresponding Secretary, Lawrence Midmark; Councilmen, Frank Paul, Billy Williams, and Peter John; Sergeants-at-Arms Ar thur Littlefield and Peter James.
 Officers for the ANS. are: Presi- dent, Mrs. Cyrus Williams; Vice President, Mrs. Rudolph Walton: Recording Secretary, Mrs. Flors. Cock; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Flora Hamre; Financial Secretary, Mrs. Martha Young; Treasurer, Mrs. Julia Widmark; CouncilWomen, Mrs. Frank Paul, Mrs. Peter Sing, and Mrs. David Howard: Sergeants-at- Arms, Mrs. Lottie Dick and Mrs Esther Simpson.
 Sitka firemen sponsored a Fire tmen's Ball Saturday night, October 28, in the High School auditorium gymnasium. Proceeds from the dance will go into fund to replace old equipment and to buy needed new equipment.
 The committee in charge is com posed of Lloyd Tilson, T. c. Strom, | Charley Peterson, and Jim Bright man.
 Bud Carmichael, former book keeper for the Columbia Lumber { Company in Sitka, has been replaced | by Frank Richards, who came over from Juneau on an Alaska Air ! Transport plane Monday afternoon | with Tom Morgan, a Columbia Lum- | Der Company official Carmichael returned to his former position with | the company in Juneau.
 The council meeting postponed | last week, was held Thursday eve ming. Acting Mayor Leslie Yaw of ficiated in the absence of Mayor | Tom Tilson who left recently for an extended vacation in Seattle.
 A Chamber of Commerce commit { tee, composed of N. E. Bolshanin, A. | B. Holt, and Leslie w. Yaw, is CO., operating with the Trollers' Associ- [ ation in preparing brief presenting < the facts in regard to obtaining a | Coast Guard cutter for Sitka The \ brief is expected to be finished soon [ and will be sent to authorities in { Ketchikan and Washington, D. C.oa
 Mrs. Harriet Anderson, about f85, \
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-31
MOVING

Mir and Ms. l.. B. Nelson are transferring their residence from the Africh home to one of the lLli- burn cottages on Fourth Street
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-31

Election of officers of the Alaska Native Brotherhood and Alaska Ma tive Sisterhood was held Monday
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-31

These cards are designed with inc sole purpose of making if possible for you to select Christmas Greeting Card that will express your personality exactly as though ii had been created for your exclusive uSe
 exclusive
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-31

Mrs. F. Syverud of the Home Ex- tension Department of the Univer- sity of Alaska, is conducting a series of home demonstration meetings in SitKa caring this and next week.
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DIR. STEvFS, CHIROPODIST, Makes Arch Appliances to measure office. 10 Valentine Bldg. Phone 64a
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Today's News Today Empire.
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gical care was made necessary by the accident
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Mrs. Harriet Anderson, about 85
Evening star., 1939-02-03

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Feb. 3-Most bonds
extended their recovery lines today
as the market responded to moderate
buying orders.
Many issues were up fractions to
more than point around midday.
Utilities continued prominent in
the rise, spotlighted by indications
of intensified efforts to iron out con-
troversial angles of the industry's
relations with the Federal Govern
ment, especially in the Tennessee
Valley.
American Telephone 314s moved
up little following the company's
announcement Bell System tele-
phones in use last month increased
to new peak.
United States Treasury issues lag
gad behind the move in most cor
porate issues. Some showed minor
losses in rather quiet dealings.
Among the wider corporate gain
ers were American & Foreign Power
5s, Santa Fe General As, Interna-
tional Telephone SIS, Laclede Gas
5l2s, Western Union 4l2s, Nickel
Plate 5l2s, North American SIS and
Erie First 4s.
Slipping little were Bethlehem
Steel 4l4s, Illinois Central A.. S
Southern Pacific 4'2s and Youngs-
town Sheet As. German Govern
ment 5l2s and Is were up fractions
in the foreign list.
Evening star., 1939-02-03
nge for January. 1889.
Bank Stock Average.
$53, 900, 900 Assessment
Lifted for Two Firms
By the Associated Press

NEWARK. N. j., Feb. 3.-The
Tidewater Oil Co. and the American
Can Co. were free today of $53,-
100000 in intangible personal prop
erty assessments levied by Newark
for 1887.
The dismissals. $36, 900, 900 for the
can company and S17O0O,000 for the
oil company, were made yesterday
by the Essex County Board of Tax
alton which held in allegiance action
on similar assessments against II
other national concerns.
Newark, Jersey City and other
municipalities in a drive for tax
ratables last December filed assess
ments of $4,362 100000 against the
Intangible personality of corpora
tions having statutory Offices in New
Jersey.
The can company contended the
city had failed to prove it's chief
Office was in Newark, while Tide
water cited dissolution in 1886. The
Tidewater Oil Co. became part Of
the Tide Water Associated OIL Co.
Evening star., 1939-02-03
Maryland Service Places
1,523in Private Jobs
BY tie Associated Press.

BY tie Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Feb, 3-The State
Employment Service doubled Its
effectiveness in January, as COM
pared with last year, and placed
1923 persons in private employment,
Director David L. B. F'ringer re-
ported.
Public placements were Loaf.
bringing the total for the month
to 2,570.
The Virginia Unemployment
Compensation Commission reported
it paid $685. ,69810 in benefits dur
ing 1888 and ended the year with a
balance of S11191.395.72.
Chairman Frank P. Evans said
contributions Of employers subject
to the law during 1898. the first year
the benefit provisions were effective,
totaled SO 294,09988. which with in
terest of S2076l252 earned on the
commissions trust fund, made the
total net collections and interest
S8 SOL ,71240 Net collections and in
terest for the previous year amounted
to S8,325. 81 AZ, making the total for
the two years, s16,827 08382.
Evening star., 1939-02-03
Maritime Commission
Awards $10,400,000
Ship Contract
ingalls, Iron Works Co.
Of Birmingham Gets
Big U. S. Order
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Maritime Commission today
awarded the ingalls, Iron Works Co.
of Birmingham, Ala, a contract, for
the construction of four cargo YES
sells costing total of s10,400,000.
The commission said the ships
would be built at the company's
plant at Pascagoula, Miss.
The ships are of a standard de-
sign, officially known as the C-3.
They have a speed of 1872 knots,
492 feet overall, beam of SO feet
inches, and depth of AZ feet inches.
The award, the first made to the
Birmingham company, is the second
by the commission this year. Previ-
ously it had awarded contracts for
the construction of 10 combination
passenger-cargo vessels of the C-3
design, including six to the Newport
News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.
Since starting it's building pro-
gram, the commission has awarded
contracts for 81 ships costing an
aggregate of about 100000.
Evening star., 1939-02-03
Income Tax Receipts
Luq Behind Year Aqo
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 3.-Treasury
income tax receipts last month were
about per cent behind the like
period a year ago and revenues for
the fiscal year to date (seven
months) Jagged roughly 2 per cent
Bankers pointed out, however
that tax receipts so far in the fiscal
year have been on 1887 income
which in most instances was rela-
lively good.
Beginning in March, taxes will
be paid on last years income, which
was, by and large, the lowest in four
years.
Income tax revenues for the first
seven months of the Treasury's fis-
cal year totaled 81 1000, 100000 against
ST 300 900, 900, the year before, ac-
cording to the daily Treasury state
ment.
Evening star., 1939-02-03
Insurance Stocks Go
Moderately Down
sye cial Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, Feb. 3.-Insurance
stocks in the New York City market
were slightly lower for January, &C
cording to Holt, Rose & Troster.
Weighted average of 20 issues
opened January at 5035, and after
reaching months high of 5l.34 on
January 20, eased off to months low
CT 4889 on January 26. Close jan
Uary 81 was over one point better at
1892.
The January high of 51.34 came
within one-third of point of equal
ing the 1888 high, established No
,vember IL, 1888.
Calculated on closing bid prices,
range for the month was as follows:
Range for January, 1889.
Evening star., 1939-02-03
National Refining Sells
Canadian Oil Stock
Bs the Associated Press.

BJ the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, Feb. 3.-Edgar c
Hill, new president of the National
Refining Co., announced today the
sale of Nationals stock holdings in
Canadian Oil, Ltd, of Toronto to
that concern.
National owned 74,194 shares in
the Canadian company, Mr.. Hill
said. for which it received $24 a
share. The net sum received, after
allowing for taxes, was $1,779,079,
which was added to Nationals work.
ing capital, Mr.. Hill reported.
National has under consideration
a broad modernization program for
it's 800 Enarco gasoline stations, pos
sibly including abandonment of the
familiar hoy with slate" sign bear
ing "Enarco-grams.'
Evening star., 1939-02-03
Continental Baking
Reports 1888 Profit
Best Since 1890
S4,4e3,80z Compares
With $4,150.683 in
Previous Year
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 3.-Net income
of Continental Baking Corp in 1888
of $4,493 1902 was the highest annual
profit since 1880, M. Lee Marshall,
chairman of the Board of Directors,
told stockholders in the annual re-
port, released today.
This was equal to $1121 share
on the 8 per cent cumulative pre-
ferred stock-Which was $3.50
share in arrears at the end of the
year-and compared with S4,150. .6S3,
or Sl035 preferred share, in 1887.
Bakeries are throughout the country.
Sun Oil Co.
Sun Oil Co. and subsidiaries, in a
preliminary report for the year 1888,
reported net income of $3.0o5,l19,
equal after preferred dividends to
SLOT share on 2,3l5,9l6 shares of
common stock outstanding at the
close of the year.
This compared with 1887 net profit
of S9,5i4,0o5, or SALT a share on
2,144 .440 common shares outstand-
ing December Is, 1887, prior to dis
tribution of an per cent stock
dividend on that date.
Flintkote Co.
Fllntkote Co., manufacturers Of
roofing materials, reported net in
come for 1888 of s311,818 after
charges, equal to S12l a share on
common stock, compared with
81 l,005 ,423, or $3.50 a common share.
in 1887.
Chicago Mail Order.
The annual report of the Chicago
Mail Order Co. showed 1888 net
profits of S218431, equal to 63 cents
a share, rejecting SO per cent de-.
crease from 1887, when profits we're
S518,929, or 81 so share. President
E. NJ. Schnadig said 1888 sales totaled
S24,073 $50, per cent decrease
from the 1887 total OF s26,406, 1876.
Howe Sound Co.
Howe Sound Co., mining enter
prise, with properties in Canada,
Mexico and the State of Washing
ton, reported for 1888 net income
| of 81, ,153,662, equal to S455 share
on the capital stock, compared with
S4,753 ,044, or sl003 a share, in 1887.
Consolidated Cigar.
Consolidated Cigar Corp. and sub
Sidiarles reported for 1888 net profit
of s844,459, equal to Sc cents a share
on the common stock, compared with
S892,574, or SO cents in 1887. The
company's manufacturing and dis
tribution facilities are Nation wide.
Riverside Mills.
DANVILLE, Va. Feb. 3.-The Riv-
erside and Dan River Cotton Mills
showed loss of Sl,017.227.7l dur
ing the year 1888, it was disclosed
with the issuance of the balance
sheet. Unsatisfactory marketing
conditions were regarded RESPONSE
BILE for the loss which compared
with profit of s1270 46496 made
in the year 1887. The surplus was
shown to be s6,316 ,33012, with to-
tai current assets of S11.642 29343
and total liabilities of $3.50, 1881.
Evening star., 1939-02-03
New York Bank Stocks
Up Slightly in Month
Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK. Feb. 3.-New York
City bank stocks closed January
with moderate net gains, Holt, Rose
& Troster report.
Weighted average of II leading
issues opened January at ALAG and
declined to months low of 4l.24 on
January II. In the following week,
however, an advance of over 8 per
cent carried the average to months
high of 4463 on January 20. At this
high, the appreciation from De-
cember low to January high totaled
over SIS points, or IA per cent.
Close January 81 was 42.69, net
gain of about per cent for Janu-
ary. Range of the average for the
month was as follows:
Range for January, 1889.
Bank Stock Average.
Evening star., 1939-02-03
Dollar Is Unchanged
In London Trading
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
LONDON. Feb. 3.-The United
States dollar closed net unchanged
to 4677s to the pound in foreign
exchange trading today, compared
with 467 1916 for sterling in New
York overnight.
French francs finished 1868 to
the pound, against 17700 yesterday
PARIS, Feb. 3. (P).-The United
States dollar was quoted 1882 francs
(2644 cents to the france in final
foreign exchange transactions to-
day and corresponded with SINH
lar New York overnight franc rate.
Exchange On London, 1865.
Three per cent rentes in the
Bourse were $3.50 francs; 41as a.
86.75; 41as 1887, 1885.
Evening star., 1939-02-03
Average Stock Values
Decline in January
BY the Assoc,.,ad pros.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 3.-The New
YORK STOCK Exchange reported a
total OF 1926 issues listed in the ex-
change on January 81 had an aggre-
gate market value of s44,884. .288, lat
ana an average value of $31 so a
share.
This compared with 1,236 issues on
January l, having market value of
SAT, 400, ,739, 1863 and average value of
$33.34 a share.
Evening star., 1939-02-03
Wholesale Commodity
Index Up Slightly
Ey the Associated Press.

By lNE ASSOCIHIbU FTtSS.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics re-
ported yesterday that its index Of
wholesale commodity prices rose OIL
per cent during the week ended jan
uary %, due largely to advancing
prices of livestock, fruits and vege-
tables.
The advance brought the index to
76.7 per cent of the 1926 average
0.3 per cent below month ago and
As per cent below a year ago.
Evening star., 1939-02-03
Brokers' Looms Down
$4,000, 1000 Week
Rv the Associated Press.

BY The Associated PreSS.
The Federal Reserve Board re-
ported today that last weeks loans
to brokers and dealers on securities
held by reporting member banks IN
New York City totaled $642 ,000, 900.
For the week ended Wednesday
the total represented decrease of
$39 100000 when compared with the
previous week.
Loans for the corresponding week
. year ago totaled $611, ,000,0 900.
Evening star., 1939-02-03
Treasury Asks Bids
On 515C. c. c. Trucks

BY the Associated Press.
The Treasury asked bids today
on sis heavy-duty motor trucks to
be used by the Civilian Conserva-
ton Corps. The offers will DO
opened February q.
Evening star., 1939-02-03

Chicago, Milwaukee, st. Paul &
Pacific r. R.-It is said company
has placed contracts for 10000 tons
of rails.
Evening star., 1939-02-03
Gold Certificates Increase
In New York Reserve
by the Associated Press.

tBy the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 3.-Gold cer-
tifcates on hand and due from the
United States Treasury at the New
York Federal Reserve Bank in
creased around 100000 the past
week. rejecting drawing down of
funds by the United States Treasury
the banks weekly condition state
ment revealed
Deposits of the United States
treasurer with the bank increased
around $17000,000.
Federal Reserve notes in actual
circulation also increased around
Sl7,000000.
The condensed statement follows:
Gold certificates on hand and
due from U. S. Treasury $1,000, 764 600
Tot oil
Evening star., 1939-02-03

WV With warrants. XIV Without warrants
n New. st tstp) Stamped.
sNegotiability impaired by maturity.
Evening star., 1939-02-03

Weighted average 134 1850 1922
Evening star., 1939-06-18

travel and writing career born.
Recalling interviews she had with
the man who made adventure topu-
lar, Margaret Ann Fraser said that
when she listened to radio an
nouncement that the pilots Of the
California Clipper had been request
ed to search for the Sea Dragon, a
friend turned to her and Said:
wherever he is, al.G whatever
he's doing, you can bet your last
nickel he's pursuing adventure. It's
not possible to think of MIN as CO.
ing anything else"
Miss Fraser's impressions Of Hal
liburton, gathered in the talks she
had with him, follow, in part:
Ever since The Royal Road to
Romance" was published in 1925 the
name of Richard Halliburton has
been synonymous with the word
adventure! Mentally I skinned the
pages of his books, letting the leaves
slip through the fingers Of my mind.
Promise to Go Travelling.
THE two volumes of his latest
work, The Book of Marvcls'
Written for all the young geography
students yearning to go Places Just
as he did back in Brownsville, Tenn,
where the turn of the 20th century
turned him up one day-and where,
while perusing his geography he dis
covered maps and mountains and
made a solemn promise to himself to
go climbing, and voyaging, and jour-
neying, and seeing these things with
his own eyes some day . a prom
ise he kept the very minute he could
tuck the bran'-new sheepskin that
Princeton handed him into the
pocket least apt to be picked, and
get his toothbrush safely slowed in
another!
"'seveh League Boots into the
few hundred pages of which ne has
packed enough exciting incident to
take any other man contentedly
halfway through life And where,
for the first time, the silver thread
OF maturity touches the temples of
that brand Of contemplative Writing
that has always distinguished his
work.
I'VE were discussing everything
from what he thought of Dcbussy to
whether or not he had any qus Inns
over the broadcast he had just fn-
ished over at Columbia's studios on
Evening star., 1939-06-18

Madison avenue, and while I lis
tened to him tell Of his encounters
with adventure in the raw, in the
farthest corners, I was trying to
reconcile the picture in front of ME
with the one his voice was draw
ing. =.
I'VE had walked-he walks every
where-through the cold, slushy
February dusk over to the Waldorf,
where he was staying, and there he
stood in the warm, brightly lighted.
silken-cuShloned atmosphere, hands
clasped behind his back, not dark
ly-blond hair out of place, and a
shine on his shoes! I looked into
his eyes, and that helped . they
didn't match the Bond street cut of
his suit. They were bright with
remembering, but the lure of some
thing far off darkened their blue
depths and they seemed to say What
is that see just over the shoulder
of this corner of the world? Well,
Ill have to 60 and find out tomor-
row. - And tomorrow would find
him in Greece or Brazil . or
Timbuctoo :. Timbuctoo? The
Flying Carpet" took him there.
Flight Around World.
I'm planning to get plane and
fly around a Bit he said, and told
me about it quite casually, as though
he weren't years ahead of the Clip
pers and flying halfway round the
world was not still looked upon as
a breathless sort of exploit!
And The Royal Road to Rom
ance'-that was his buffer book
The one that received all the hard
knocks of the pioneer in the field
-. The one that took 1t on the chin
for all the others
Its acceptance determined the
course of Richard Halliburtons life
and before it had been fairly
launched on the literary sea, its au-
thor was off sailing another kind
of sea!
Back and forth across the big
ponds several times. : Up and
down little-known rivers with un-
pronounceable names. Sailing
the seas of both hemispheres, boats
have been taking Richard Hallibur-
ton wherever he has wanted to go
Odd craft, coming to port in odd
corners of the world, landing him on
top Of odd adventures! How easy
Evening star., 1939-06-18
Clark Gets ; Years
In Tax Evasion Case
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CAMDEN. N. j.. June 17.-Austin
Clark, West Indian-born colored
man convicted of evading income
taxes on his Atlantic City and
Washington numbers business. was
sentenced yesterday to three years
in a Federal penitentiary and fined
$4,000.
The Government contended his
numbers banks took in S540 day
during 1885, 1886 and 1887.
The 43-year-old gaming operator
was convicted nine days ago of at
tempting to evade income taxes in
1886 and 1887 and of filing a false
return in 1887. The jury found he
defrauded the Government of $31.-
4O8 in taxes and owed S16,774 in
penalties.
Austin Clark is known to WASH
ington police as Dick Austin. He
was regarded at ctle time as one
of the city's largest numbers oper-
ators. Two of his headquarters
were raided and a number of ar
rests made, but no convictions were
obtained, despite the seizure of large
quantities of numbers slips.
The raids were conducted before
the passage of the more stringent
lottery law in 1888. Clark himself
was not present on either occasion.
He was reported to spend most of
his time in Atlantic City, leaving his
Washington business for lieutenants
to run.
Evening star., 1939-06-18

schooling. But could not overcome
the urge to travel.
Richard went to see c. P. ].
Mooney then editor of the Mem
phis) Commercial Appeal. To Mr..
Mooney he confided his ambition to
travel around the world. starting
with nothing.
"All right" Mr.. Mooney said, "you
write me an article once week and
send it to me with pictures and tell
me where you expect to be month
or so later and I'll have money there
to pay you for the articles you've
sent"
Thus was Richard Halliburton's
Evening star., 1939-06-18

seemed at the time to his distracted
parents. was when he ran away
from home at II. He was to have
spent the week at Brownsville,
Tenn, while his parents attended
house party in Mississippi
He had only enough money to 60
to Brownsville" Mr.. Halliburton
said. land when he packed his bags
he took just few summer things,
I took him to the station snd
thought it queer that he should
stand on the back platform and
wave and wave to me until I could
no longer see him. The first intima-
ton I had that he had run away
was the next morning when the boy
Evening star., 1939-06-18

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