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The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-04
GAMER PUNCHES WAY TO VICTORY
 OVER SIMMONS

NEW YORK, Dec. Al Gainer, of New Haven, last Saturday night won over Marty Simmons of Sagi- nav, Mich, light heavyweight, by technical knockout in the fifth of their scheduled ten-round bout
 Gainer weighed 172 pounds and Simmons 170h pounds.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-04
Beats
 Rice by 10-7

HOUSTON, Texas, Dec. 4.-The Baylor Bears chugging along be- hind the mighty Texas A. and M. in Southwest Conference game last Saturday, finished the season with a 10 to victory over Rice.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-04
CARNEGIE STILL HIGH MAN; ELkS
 BOWLING LISTS
Mrs. Martin Lavenik Re. tains Lead in Women 5
 Pin Averages

Bowling averages computed to date for the Elks mixed tourney, show Claude Carnegie still leading with a l84 average, with Mrs. Martin La venik leading the women with l65.
 Second high in the mems averages are Mike Ugrin and Frank Metcalf, each with 181
 Womens second high is Mrs. H. l.. Faulkner with 1856.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-04
F0RDHAM COMES TO LIFE WHILE
 N. Y. UNIV. DIES

NEW YORK, Dec. 4.-Fordhams power came to life last Saturday afternoon in the second half to defeat. New York University 18 to ' in their fiftieth clash on the football field.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-04
TULANE ENDS
 SEASON WITH G00DREC0RD
Defeats Louisiana Staie for An Expected Sugar
 Bowl Bid

NEW ORLEANS, La, Dec. A. Tulane's Green Wave cleared the last hurdle Saturday to an expect ed Sugar Bowl bid and finished the season undefeated by turning back the traditional rival, Louisi ana State, by a score Of 8 to 70 in a wild game.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-04
Sophomore Johnston Plays Game

FORT WORTH, Texas, Dec. 4. Sophomore Johnston made a couple of stunning touchdown runs last Saturday afternoon, thus en- abling Southern Methodist to beat down Texas Christian IA to T.
 The battle was tingling one. with breaks, wild passes and runs.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-04
u1>-EsU WOMANs CLUB

17usine ' II eet ng 2 pm, Tuesday, Dec. ,. nt thc Alaska Electric Light and Power Company's Pent llouse.
 MRS. c. c. RULAFORD. adv. Secretary.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-04
FooTBALL SCORES

The following are final scores of football games played last Satur- day afternoon:
 Georgia 0; Georgia Tech B. Southern Methodist 14; Texas Christian 2.
 St. Louis University l7; Wash ington University 21.
 Baylor 10; Rice '.
 Tulane 33; Louisiana State 20. use. 9; U. of Washington 2. Stanford IA; Dartmouth 3. Navy 10; Army 0.
 Fordham Is; New York Univer- sity '.
 Holy Cross 0; Boston College IA. George Washington 13: West Virginia 0.
 Detroit 10; Duquesne 10, tie. Ohio Wesleyan T; Dayton 19.
 ORDER TREES NOW
 Order your Christmas trees, spruce or Jackpine. See the Hi-Way De livery adv
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-04

Empire Want Ads Bring Results.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-17
TRUITT GOING
 TO 9TH CIRCUIT
 COURT IN MAY
Compensation Case Calls Attorney General 10
 San Francisco

Attorney General James s. Tru- it will go to San Francisco again in May to appear before the Unit ed States Circuit Court of Appeals in connection with the Workmen's Compensation Act case of the Ter ritory of Alaska versus the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company.
 The Territory is appealing from a judgment of the District Court here last September which denied Territorial compensation in con- nection with the accidental death of Eugene Quackenbush in 1885.
 While Attorney General Truitt is at the Court he hopes to be able to plead further in the case of Carscadden versus the Terri tory of Alaska, which called him to San Francisco several weeks ago.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-17
LIBERTIES ovERRIDEN

WASHINGTON, March 1.-The United States Government today expressed condemnation at Ger manys wanton lawlessness and ar bitrary force in occupying Czecho- slovakia
 With President Roosevelt's ap- proval, Acting Secretary of State Summer Welles, issued formal statement which spoke of Ger manys absorption of Czechoslovak- ia as a temporary extinguishment of the liberties Of free and in dependent people.
 The statement also says that when the Czechoslovakia Republic attained independence, the people of the United States maintained specially close and friendly rela- tionS.
 Tt is manifest that acts of wan ton lawlessness of arbitrary force are threatening World peace, plus every structure of modern civiliza- tion," the statement says.
 The statement was issued after Acting Secretary of State Welles conferred with President Roose- welt.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-17
Tension Reported Inoeas- ing Between Japan
 and Soviet Union
NIPPON FORCES BEING
 RUSHED TO NEW AREAS
Troop Movements Indicate Clash Likely, Present
 Bitter Dispute

SHANGHAI, March IT. = Heavy movements Of Japanese troops to Sakhalin Island and also Manchou- kuo, Japan's Protectorate bordering Soviet Russia, are reported by neu- tral foreign observers.
 The movements of the forces have been underway for the past week, it is said.
 The report arouses apprehension because the troop movements coin- eide with the present bitter dispute between Japan and the Soviet Un- ion over the Japanese fishing rights off the east Siberian Coast.
 It is claimed that most of the soldiers are from Japan proper, indicating a possible slowing down of the Chinese and Japanese hos tilities.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-17
(ENSURE OF LABOR SE(Y.
 I5 SOUGHT
Republican M e m b CTS of Committee Demand
 Criticism

WASHINGTON, March 17.-Re- publican members of the House Judiciary Committee have decided to insist that the committee incorpor- ate strong criticism of Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins in its re- port.
 Most of the Republican members of the Committee agree privately with the Democratic members that Labor Secretary's procedure in the deportation proceedings against Harry Bridges. CIO Chieftain on the Pacific Coast, were not illegal but they said some steps in the case were unusual enough to merit cen- sure.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-17
Nazi Regime Gives World
 Sharp Shock
British Premier Declares Public Opinion Re-
 Ceiyes Blow

BIRMINGHAM, England, March 17.-Premier Chamberlain declared here today that tremendous events which have taken place in Europe this week have thrown everything else into the background.
 The British Premier spoke before the Birmingham Unionist Associa- tion on the eve of his roth birthday.
 "One thing is certain said the Premier" and that is public opinion of the world has received the sharp est shock ever administered by the German regime. As to what may be ultimate result of this profound dis turbance cannot be foretold but I am sure the effect on the future is far reaching"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-17
Once Again ihe Question Is:
 Who Owns fIie Oceans Oil!
 Subjet Is Really a Rot Baby
By PRESTON GROVER

WASHINGTON, March IT. - A century battle between the States and Federal Government over which owns the sea bottom out to the three-mile limit has blos- somed anew with the conflict cen- tering about a politically dangerous commodity oil.
 Charles Edison. Assistant Secre- tary of the Navy, has just asked Congress in letter to lay claim to California's off-shore oil lands. The idea, he explains, is to give the Federal Government a stronge eI basis for a suit to determine which
 -state or Federal Government may grant leases or refuse leases, as the case may be-
 The thing started on a far broad CT scale. Senator Nye of North Da- kota tno sea coast of it's own) in- troduced a bill last session laying Federal claim not only to Califor- nia's off-shore oil beds, but to all cff-shore sea bottom Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and Pacific. It di- rected the attorney general to be- gin suit to establish Federal owner ship before the oil was all pumped out.
 Nye steered the bill through the Senate before anybody really took notice. When it reached the House, alert Texas and California mem bers shunted it into the judiciary committee headed by astute Repre- sentative Summers of Texas, and gave it the ride of its life.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-17
HALIBUTERS IN AGREEMENT FOR
 PLAN ON LAYUp
Area Three Boats to Take Ten Days Additional
 HoIdoyer This Year

SEATTLE, March IT. Vessel owners and union halibut fisher men have agreed to the proposal of vessel owners regarding layup of vessels for this season.
 Under the agreement. Area Two boats have the same layup as last year, Area Three boats take ten days additional layup and all Area Two goats going into Area Three will be compelled to take an addi- tional layup time to a limit of ten days.
 The agreement is that vessels in Area Three will lay over in port fifteen days after each of the first three trips and ten days after each trip thereafter.
 Area Two boats will lay over 30 days after the end of the first trip, twelve days after the second trip and ten days after each trip therefater.
 Secretary of the Fishing Vessel Owners Association Harold Lokken says the opening date of the sea- son will remain April l, the same as last year, but vessels will leave here March 23 or PA
 Tn Area Two, boats will go to the banks between April l and April 10 and in Area Three be- tween April and April IS.
 Reason for this staggering of sailings is to prevent all from heading for the banks the first day.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-17
 REPUBLICAN, OF
 MICHIGAN, DIES
Passes Away as Result of Heart Attack Combin-
 ed with Influenza

GRAND LEDGE, Michigan, March 17.-Gov. Frank D. Fitzgerald, Re- publican. who defeated Frank Mur- phy, now United States Attorney General, for reelection last Novem- Der. is dead as the result of an at tack of the heart.
 Gov. Fitzgerald had also been sui fering from severe attack of the flu
 Gov. Fitzgerald began his second term as Governor of Michigan last January l. He was the first ChleI Executive of the State to be returned to office after once being defeated for reelection. He previously was defeated by Murphy.
 Lieutenant Governor Dickinson' 30 next month, himself confined to his bed with an attack of the m fluenza, succeeds to the Chief Ex- ecutiveship.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-17
SAYS JAPANESE FISHING BOATS
 DOING spy JOB
Nippon Fishermen Charg. ed with Following U.
 5. Navy Fleet

LOS ANGELES, Cal, March 17.-United States District Att terney Ben Harrison, today charged that Japanese fisher men operating out of West Coast ports "know every foot of the North and South American coasts, including where cables are located and where mines could be laid".
 Harrison said it had been re- ported that Japanese fishing boats followed the American fleet all the way to the Carib- bean Sea-.
 1t seems strange" Harrison said, That they chose that per- iOd to find for the first time, that any fishing was there."
 Harrison suggested that all fishing boats operating out of American ports be registered strictly to American citizens.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-17
Chas. Ashby Sights Wreck age Four Days Ago.
 Claims Reward
hA!DA LEAVES TO
 PICK UP REMARKS
Two Bodies Seen in Tail of Plane-Sample Case
 Is Evidence

The Lon Cope seaplane missing since February 12 at 2:15 o'clock in the afternoon with five passengers and pilot Cope in the vicinity of Grand Island, IS miles below Ju- neau, was found today a short distance back of the beach on Glass Peninsula across from Grand Island, all six aboard apparently killed instantly.
 The news vas brought to Juneau this afternoon by Charles Ashby, young min er-prospector who found the wreckage four days ago only a scant six hundred feet be- hind his camp on the beach. l Ashby was put off on the beach below Doty Cove nine days ago and found the wrecked plane five days later, but was unable to come to Juneau with his small skiff until today because of rough seas.
 Ashby brought with him for proof of the wreck, a heavy black briefcase, exam ination of the contents of which, proved it to be the property of Earl Clifford, travelling man who was a pas- senger on the ill-fated plane. Passengers a board the plane with veteran Alaska pilot Lon Cope, were: Earl Clifford, John Chappell, in- surance man; George Cham berlain, travelling man with headquarters at Anchorage; E. E. Elk, a travelling man on his. first trip to Alaska for Swift Company, and Jack Lennon, former Juneau High School student.
 Ashby said he found the plane right behind camp" and that it was in a little clearing about as big as the plane."
 l Tt apparently spun straight in and hit on it's nose and one wing" Ashby said. "It's badly smashed up. l could see two bodies in the rear end of the plane, but the rest was such a mess I couldn't see much" ~s
 The Coast Guard cutter Haida left this afternoon with a Commissioners party to bring the bodies in.
 It was on the afternoon of February 12, at 2:15 o'clock, that Cope, enroute to Juneau from Ketchikan with four
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-17
Bill Drafted Giving Pre- mier Semi mi-DiCtatoriaI
 Powers for Move IRON CLAD HOLD lS
 PUT ON CZECH REGION
Nazi Secret Police Making Roundup of All Un-
 desired Persons
CBy Associated Press)

Tranea has drafted a bill to give Premier Daladier semi-dictatorial decree powers to make the French nation ready to fight at a moments notice.
 France has joined Great Britain in considering making protests to Germany in seizing Czechosloyakia.
 Advices state that the Nazi re- gime has clanped as iron clad hold on CzecnosIcvakia.
 Great Britain has instructed Sir Neville Henderson, Ambassador to Germany, to return home immedi- ately to report on Nazi gains in Central Europe
 The recall is considered a gesture of disapproval of Hitler's methods.
 Arrests and suicides are reported increasing among the anti-Nazis and Jews in Czechoslovakia.
 Secret police are reported mak- ing a systematic cleanup of Nazi undesirables.
 Hitlers movement from town to town is shielded in secrecy.
 Armored cars are reported travel ing with the Nazi Chieftain and the care are also ruthlessly travel ing to all parts of the seized ter ritory enforcing drastic regulations.
 Thousands of university students in Sofia and Bulgaria have been chased by the police after demon strating against dissolution of Czechoslovakia.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-17
STATES LEAD FIGHT

Practically every sea coast state in the union sent lawyers to fight it. Most concerned were:
 TEXAS Which has valuable off,
 shore oil fields returning fat in
 come to state schools.
 LOUISIANA--With newly devel-
 oped off-shore fields.
 CALIFORNIA-With tremendous
 ly rich oil beds near Los Angeles
 Harbor and at Long Beach.
 Navy lawyers asserted that the Federal Government should lay claim to every inch of sea bottom and all beneath it--out to the three-mile limit By the time New York, Florida, Mississippi and a covery of other coastal states had put in an appearance. advocates
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-17
ARMY OFFICERS
 SEE NEW MODEL
 BOMBING PLANE
Six-MiIe- Minute Attack Ship 10 Be Made
 by Hundreds

WASHINGTON. March 17.-The Army got its first official look to- day at several of the worlds fastest light bombing planes which will be turned out by the hundreds under the Air Corps expansion program.
 The new model bombers are att tack planes with two motors They were submitted by their builders at Wright Field, Dayton. Ohio, in Air Corps design competition.
 The accepted plane is reported in official circles to have speeds ap- preaching six miles minute.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-17
Supplement
 Sex Appeal with Sfomath Appeal

BATON ROUGE, La, March IT. -Co-eds at Louisiana State Univer- sity don't depend on their home eco monies courses alone to learn how to handle a skillet.
 Kitchenettes in their dormitories are almost in constant use. The girls say they believe in the old saying a mans stomack is the best way to his heart.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-17
ROAD BOARD IN
 SESSION TODAY

Plans for road construction for the biennium were being outlined in preliminary form today by the Terri torial Board of Road Commissioners which met in the office of Gov. John w. Troy.
 Other members of the Board are Oscar Olson, Territorial Treasurer, and William A. Hesse, Territorial Highway Engineer.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-17
MRS. TOM MORGAN IS RETURNING HOME;
 MOTHER IS COMING

Mrs. Tom A. Morgan is return ing to her Juneau home aboard the North Coast accompanied by her young son. They have been spend ing the winter months in California.
 Also aboard the North Coast is Mrs. J. F. Hogin. who resides in Ark ansas, mother of Mrs Morgan who is coming north for visit of three months with her sons
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-17
Revision ai Present Ses- sion of Congress Is
 Urged, Roosevelt
FORMAL STATEMENT lS
 ISSUED BY STATE DEPT.
World Peace Threatened as We'll as Structures,
 Modern Civilization

LETLN - WASHING TON, March F. Y President Roosevelt, this afternoon, said that European developments dSmonatiated the need for a re- vi1icn Of the American neutral ity act by the current Congress sional se5siCll. He did not go into details relative to pro posed changes.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-17

Thomas Jefferson Randolph, old est grandson of the third President of the United States. in 1929. in- troduced bill in the Virginia legis- lature for the gradual abolition of slavery, but the proposal was defeat ed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-17
DOLPHIN BACK

Fred Dolphin, National Grocery Salesman, returned on the North land from trip to SitKa and is registered at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-17
FROM wINDHAM BAY

Ed Eismann of Windham Bay is in Juneau on business in connec- ton with his mining claims.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-17
MRS. FIX, MOTHER LEAVE
 FOR SOUTH ON NORTHLAND

Mrs. E. E. Elk, accompanied by her mother, Mrs. Oscar Carlson, left for the south on the Motorship Northland.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-17
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, March 17.-Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 9, American Can 9O, American Power and Light 55s, Ana conda 27, Bethlehem Steel 677s, Commonwealth and Southern 15s, Curtiss Wright 6, General Motors AT, International Harvester SIS, Kennecott 35sl, New York Central ITS, Northern Pacific II. Southern Pacific 16ss, United States Steel STA, Pound $467 7-16.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-17
DOW. JONES AVERAGES

The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: Industrials 14389, rails 30.19, utilities 24.35.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-17

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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-08-24
ELIHU A. MCNEIL

Like an electric current, the news of
Elihu A. McNeills sudden and untimely
death flashed over Ashe county last week
women and children in every community.
A canopy of sadness fell like brooding
dove over the bustling business district in
West jefferson where MIR. Mcneil had a
store and other business interests; over
JeffersOns where he lived and was a neigh
Dor and friend to everyone in the county
seat town and over all Ashe county whose
mercantile interests he served for nearly
fifty years with a spirit of service and
charity
The fact that MIR. Mcneil was the old
est merchant in the county is adequate
proof of his exceptional ability as bust
ness man. He made money, he saved money
and he gave money. He contributed liberal
ly to the church, to his family, to his fri
ends requests and to the needy.
He loved children and many are the
tots in Ashe county, over a period of a
half century, whose eyes twinkled when
they thought of him because he was a
Santa Claus to them at one time or an
other.
Above everything else, Mr. Mcneil low
ed his church and served it with a loyalty
and devotion that is seldom found He was
a charter member of the Jeffersons Presby-
terrain church and was an elder for SO
years.
He was man with kind and genial
disposition. He never got excited or enrag-
ed. He was cheerful, knew the value of a
smile and comforted those in trouble.
know We not that there is a prince and
a great man fallen this day in the Jeffer-
sons, but let not your heart be troubled"
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CONFISCATION

Statistics, presumed to be reliable, are
to the effect that the ten million men, own
ers and non-oWner workers. employed on
the farms Of this country have an annual
cash wage of $780, or $13O a day. That is
not counting what they eat, and what the
remainder of the farm population, women
and children, eat. For those who manage
to have plenty of the right sort of food, it
is a fairly decent wage as wages go
throughout the world, although by no
means the equivalent of the "American
standard of living" wage
This computation, which is an arbitrary
classification of returns as wages, leaves
nothing by way of profit on the invest
ment of $50 billion dollars in farm proper
ty If you figure any capital return at all,
it decreases by so much the return for la
Dor
Taking the computation as it stands, it
is apparent that taxation of farm proper
ty is, under existing circumstances, con-
fiscation. Yet it is necessary; for this vast
investment, the property of so great por-
ton of the people, must have some protec-
ton of government The taxation of farms
is mainly local, for local purposes We
know that in our own state, and have good
reason to believe that it is true of states in
general, in such things as duplication of
functions there is field where tremen-
dous tax economies might be made. And
therein is opportunity, if we people are
wise enough to work it out, for some profit
on the farm investment Greensboro
Daily News.
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REV. w. ]. HUNEYCUTT

The news that Rev. w. J. Huneycutt
has resigned as pastor of the West Jeffer-
son Methodist Church to accept fellow
ship at Boston University where he will
continue his educational pursuit in the
graduate of learning, cause us to expert
ence mixed emotions.
We deeply regret that he is leaving the
Jeffersons and Ashe county where he has
served for the past three years with
distinction and because our intimate know
ledge of his unlimited possibilities, we are
delighted that he has received this excep-
tional opportunity to train himself further
for greater and broader ministerial service
to society.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-08-24

Although young in years, Mr.. Huney-
cult possesses mature and seasoned view
point toward life and towards the applica-
ton Of the principles for which Christ lived
and died on this earth He has brilliant
mind and yet he is practical. He believes
in Christianity with all his heart and real
ICES that tolerance broadmindedness and
sympathetic understanding accomplish a
great deal.
AS pastor of the church here, he has
done an outstanding piece of work. He has
increased the membership from 40 to over
200 members. 1t was his leadership that was
largely responsible for the erection of
fine parsonage And above all, he has put
his heart into the community. It's problems
have been his problems. He believes in
progress, in cooperation and has devoted
much time to the civic and social develop
ment of the Jeffersons as we'll as to the re-
lgious life.
Our sincere best wishes go with Rev.
and Mrs. w. ]. Huneycutt to Boston,
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-08-24
Auxiliary Met
With Mrs. Speers

The Ladies Auxiliary of st.
Marys Episcopal Church met last
Thursday at the home of Mrs. J.
c. .Speers. This was the first
meeting since the Auxiliary was
organized in July.
Mrs. T. c. Bowie presided at
the meeting after the devotional
service which was led by Miss
T. Evelyn Howe of Glendale
Springs. Mrs. Bowie read a
brief history of the Auxiliary in
this country.
The next meeting will be a
joint meeting with the Glendale
Springs Auxiliary at the Mission
House at Glendale Springs in
September, at which time Rev.
and Mrs. Butt, of Valley Vrucls
and Rev. and Mrs. Stoney, Of
Morganton, are expected to at
tend.
Officers appointed at the first
meeting were Mrs. T. c. Bowie,
president; Mrs. E. A. Ray, vice
president; Miss Elizabeth Speers,
secretary and treasurer; Mrs. Ed
NJ. Anderson, chairman CT the
program committee.