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The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-23
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Parade, Mrs. R. B. Lesher, Guard Leader. Thursday, 1:3O pm. = Home League Meeting.
 Friday, 7:sO p.m,-Holiness Meet ing. All are welcome at these meetings. Officers in charge: Adjt. and Mrs, Stanley Jackson.
 THE CHURCH or THE AIR
 CHAS. E. FULLER, Minister Broadcasting over station K1NY "The d-Fashioned Revival Hour every Sunday evening, 6:30-7:30 o'clock. Be sure to tune in.
 SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST
 CHURCH Corner Second and Main Streets
 H. L. WOOD, Pastor
 CNote: The services of this church are held on Saturday, the seventh day of the week)
 Sabbath School 10 am. Saturday with Bible classes for all ages. HOO a.m.-Sabbath Worship, Sermon by minister or local elder. Wednesday 7:30 p.m.-Midweek Prayer Meeting and Bible study. Dorcus meets every second and fourth Wednesday at pm.
 All are invited to all the services of this church.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-23

DIR. STEyEs, CHIROPODIST. Makes Arch Appliances to measure office, 10 Valentine Bldg. Phone 648
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-23

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-23
THE SALVATION ARMY Willoughby Ave.

2:30 p.m.-Praise meeting. GOO p.m.-Sunday School. 7:3O Salvation Meeting Tuesday, 7::30 p.m.-Prayer and Testimony Meeting.
 Wednesday, FOO pm. - Guard
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-12-23
A CHRISTMAS ADVENTURE

 .ALL GOOD THINGS MUST END EVEN AVlSIT 10 CARISTMASE EoMN.
 ITS CHRISTMAS EVE, TIME RoR JANE AND JOHN 10 REuRh AoNe, HEY BEG SANTA 10 7AkE 'MEh MYTH 'H!h
 IN'HI5 FAMOUS SLEIGH
Evening star., 1939-08-05
Republican Charges
ArthurdaIe Project
Is Failure
Representative Johnson
Sees Misguided
Obieetives'
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Representative johnson, Repub-
lican, of Illinois informed Congress
today he had found IAN amazing
story of misguided objectives" dur
ing a personal investigation of Gov
ernment subsistence projects near
Arthurdale and Elkins, w. Va
Writing in the Congressional Rec
ord, he said that persons living at
Arthurdale apparently were con-
tented. because it certainly is a
paradise for any one who has had
to struggle on his own initiative, as
in this place everything is handed
to one" He added, however, that
farm. poultry and other projects had
failed. and estimated that the Gov
ernment had spent nearly $4,000
for each of the 165 families at
Arthurdale last year.
"On investigation, I found the
large farm of 442 acres, about half
under cultivation, had been a
financial loss since its inception five
years ago." Representative johnson
said.
He said he had inspected a poultry
and broiler plant and that "any one
who has ever raised poultry could
readily see from the general con-
dition of this project that it, too, is
doomed to absolute failure under
present operation"
He said at the project near Elkins
the cooperative farms 'have also
been failure, and the Department
of Agriculture has had to send an
expert agriculturist to boss these
farms"
Evening star., 1939-08-05
Reciprocity Club Hears
Commissioner Hazen

Commissioner Melvin c. Hazen
outlined the District construction
program yesterday at a meeting of
the Washington Reciprocity Club
in the Mayflower Hotel. He also
discussed congressional appropria-
tions for the District.
The Commissioner protested
against making more appropria-
tions for plans to reorganize the
local government. He declared he
was 100 per cent in favor of the
commissioner form of government,
under which he said there had
been no corruption, as against a
city manager plan. Mr.. Hazen also
predicted that, like the Griffenhagen
plan, similar plans in the future
would be dropped.
More than 80 members attended
the weekly meeting. Plans were
made to have a ladies day next
Friday, the first for the club, with
Mrs. Arthur Clarendon Smith in
charge of arrangements. William
j. Mileham, second vice president,
presided yesterday.
Evening star., 1939-08-05
Paul D. Sleeper 10 Head
Chest Drive Division

Paul D. Sleeper, general agent of
the Aetna Life Insurance Co.. will
head one of the Community Chest
Advance Gifts Units five main divi-
sions as unit vice chairman, it was
announced today by Thomas P.
Morgan, jr, unit chairman.
Those who will solicit advance
gifts" under Mr.. Sleeper's leadership,
Mr. Morgan said, include Francis C.
Addison, jr, president of the Security
Savings g. Commercial Bank;
Fontaine G. Bradley, attorney; E. D.
Merrill, president of the Capital
Transit Co.; Charles c. Morgan of
Laidlaw & Co., bankers, and the
Rev. Albert H. Lucas, headmaster
of st. Adams Cathedral School.
Other Advance Gifts Unit vice
chairmen, who have accepted ap-
pointment previously, are John G.
Folger, Charles Carroll Glover, jr.;
John Parker and Richard H. Wilmer
Evening star., 1939-08-05
Reorganization Fund
S|ashed a., Roosevelt
Studies Procedure
MeReynoIds Advises Him
On How to Garry on
Executive Order

Recommendations from William
H. McReynolds, presidential adviser
on administration, regarding pro-
cedure to be followed in Federal
employe reorganization, now that
almost 100000 for that purpose has
been slashed from the third de-
ficiency bill, are being considered
at the White House.
Mr.. McReynolds met yesterday
with personnel and other admin
istrative officials to discuss what can
be done toward employe reorganiza-
ton in accordance with the June,
1888. executive order-now that the
funds have been cut.
The personnel officers. it became
known, agreed to resubmit the nee
essary appropriation requests in the
194l budgets, it being thought pos
sible that some of the funds might
then be voted for immediate use be-
fore the next fiscal year.
An important purpose of the con-
ference, it is understood, was to
MAINTAIN morale among personnel
officers and to lay plans so the Gov
ernment could swing into program
when funds finally were made avail
able.
Civil Service Commissioner Ar
thur S. F!emming last night in an
address before the District Council,
United Federal Workers, said the
commission was mot discouraged" at
the curtailment and expected prog
ress in the next IL months in the
employe reorganization. Mr.. Flem-
ming told the council it was un-
fortunate the requests for funds had
been submitted "all at once in the
deficiency BILL suggesting that it
would have been we'll if they could
have come before Congress many
months sooner. He expressed the be-
lief that each department would
carry out the program as best it
could, under the handicap of fund
shortage.
The commission still is discussing
the possibility of holding the Gov
ernment-w wide promotion examina-
tions, to have been conducted by the
commission for jobs common to sew
eral agencies, it is said.
Evening star., 1939-08-05
Ex-U. 5. Agent Attached
To Pancho Villa Dies
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LAKE HIAWATHA, N. j., Aug. 5.
George Cupples Carothers, 63, who
was United States consular agent
attached to Pancho Villa in Mexico
from 1918 to 1915, died of q heart
attack last night at his summer
home here.
He was born in Austin, Tex, and
went to Mexico as boy when his
father, the late DR.. Andrew Caroth-
ers, was a United States consular
agent there. The son later served
Is years in the same capacity. He
had his headquarters at Torreon and
spent most of the years 1913-1915
with his car attached to Villa S
train.
After leaving Mexico in 1918, he
entered the merchandising and min
ing business in New York and at
the time of his death was employed
by the National Paper & Type Co.
as manager of its publication, II
Tipografica.
He leaves his wife, the former
Minna Hall; a son, w. c. Carothers,
of Buenos Aires, and a sister, Mrs
Alice Reed, of Charlotte, N. C.
Evening star., 1939-08-05
Court Upsets Wage
Determination for
East Steel Zone
Prevailing Pay Case Is
Remonded for Further
Hearing by FL Decision
b the Associated Press.

b the Associated Press.
The United States Court of Ap-
peals yesterday upset Labor De-
partment determination under the
Walsh -Healey Act wich found 621a
cents an hour to be the prevailing
wage of the steel industry in an
Eastern" district extending from
the Atlantic Seaboard to Western
Pennsylvania, Ohio and Kentucky.
The Walsh Healey Act requires
firms which receive Government
contracts to pay the prevailing wage
in their localities and empowers the
Secretary of Labor to determine the
prevailing wage in each locality.
A number of little steel" COM
panies filed suit in District Court
here for a permanent injunction
against the finding, but their COM
plant was dismissed. Then they
obtained a temporary injunction
from the Court of Appeals pending
further proceedings.
The Court of Appeals, in a 81
decision, found yesterday that the
lower court erred in the dismissal
and remanded the case for further
hearing there. meanwhile continu-
ing its temporary restraining order.
The memorandum decision did not
state the grounds for the finding,
but said opinions would be filed
later.
The steel companies contended
that seaboard States should not be
included in the same locality" with
Western Pennsylvania, Ohio and
Kentucky, where 621a cents is the
basic hourly wage, but that a divi-
sion should have been made by a
line drawn through Altoona, Pa.
The basic wage east of that was
lower, they said, and no more than
3 out of so companies in the Eastern
area paid more than 81 cents an
hour.
They also argued that the Labor
Departments inclusion of all the ter
ritory in one locality" was arbitrary
and capricious and was done with
out a fair hearing.
Other departments which award
Government contracts we're named
defendants along with the Labor
Department.
The suit was filed by the Lukens
Steel Co. of Coatesville, Pa; Alan
Wood Steel Co. of Conshohocken,
Pa. South Chester Tube Co. of
Chester, Pa; Central Iron & Steel
&c
Harrisburg, Pa; Eastern Rolling Mill
Co. of Colgate, Md, and Atlantic
Wire Co. of Branford, Conn. A score
of other firms filed briefs as friends
of the court
Evening star., 1939-08-05
j. ). and Soviet Union
Extend Trade Pact
Another Year
Russio to Buy at Least
SAC, 900, 900 Worth Of
American Goods
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The United States AND Russian
have extended for II months, effec-
tive tomorrow, an agreement under
which Russia will buy at least $40,-
100000 worth of American goods.
The United States will accord Rus
sia the same tariff reductions as
countries with which it has trade
agreements.
Russia agreed to restrict coal
shipments to the United States to
100000 tons.
officials predicted that Soviet
purchases actually would total far
more than the s40000.0 900 minimum
In II months OF the 1888 1899 agree
ment they aggregated $58, 100000.
American imports from Russia
amounted to $1,000 900 in 1887.
United States exports to Russia con-
sist largely OF machinery. Imports
are principally furs, flax fabrics and
non-metallic minerals.
The State Department released to-
day the texts of notes between the
peoples commissar for foreign trade
of the Soviet Union, A. l. Mlkoyan,
and Stuart E. Grummon, American
Charge d'Atfaires at Moscow.
THE successive commercial. agree
ments between the United States
and the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics" said the State Depart
ment, have provided a basis for
the gratifying expansion of trade
between the two countries which has
taken place in response to a num-
Der Of favorable factors.
"The Soviet Union has profited
under the successive commercial
agreements. United States imports
from the Soviet Union have in
creased steadily from the low of less
than $4,000, 900 in 1892 to $27 ,OOO,-
900 in the calendar year 1887"
Evening star., 1939-08-05
live Ticks Bite
BocterioIogist
In Disease Test
By the Associated Press.


A human guinea pig of the Pub
lie Health Service today added a
new chapter to the history of dis
ease detection.
DR.. George E. Davis, bacteriologist
OF the services Rocky Mountain
laboratory at Hamilton, Mont, DEM
onstrated that ticks which live on
ground squirrels and other rodents
and which carry relapsing fever
will bite human beings.
He proved it by placing five of
the ticks on his arm and letting them
feed on his blood until they dropped
of. For all he knew, the chances
were 100 to that he would con-
tract the highly dangerous disease.
He hasn't yet developed the dis
ease, but is continuing the expert
ments incidentally" to his major
work in the laboratory. DR.. Davis
identified himself in his report
merely as a human volunteer"
and declared mo sensation was felt
by the volunteer"
Evening star., 1939-08-05
International House
Tax Exemption Bill
Vetoed by President
Measure Held Unfair
To Other University
Organizations

President Roosevelt yesterday
vetoed a bill which would have ex-
empted from taxation the Interna-
tionai Student House, 1708 New
Hampshire avenue.
The student residence is the prop
erty of the American Friends Serv-
ice Committee, philanthropic Or
ganization to which Mrs. Roosevelt
has donated money earned from her
radio and writing activities.
The committee is a non-profit
corporation organized under the
laws of Pennsylvania for religious,
educational and social service work
International Student House is used
as a home for students attending
educational institutions here.
In a brief message explaining his
veto, the President told Congress
that to- exempt the property would
be an unfair discrimination against
other university organizations, fra
ternal and otherwise, which would
provide living quarters for students.
Mr.. Roosevelt added that such an
exemption would create a precedent
for similar demands. He explained
the District Commissioners recon-
mended adverse action.
The President said in his message:
In recommending disapproval of
the bill, the president of the Board
OF Commissioners raises a number
of fundamental objections. The
basic theory upon which exemption
from taxation is granted certain
institutions is that the exempted
institutions perform work which
might otherwise have to be carried
on by the government at the ex-
pense of the taxpayers, and con-
versely that the exemption of such
institutions contributes to the con-
tinuance of their work, thereby
materially lessening the burden upon
the taxpayers.
Discrimination Seen.
''In the instant case, the exemp-
ton of this property from taxa
ton would increase the tax bur-
den on other residents of the Dis
trict of Columbia, since the use of
the premises as living quarters for
students of different nationalities
so per cent of whom are reported as
Americans, does not in any sense re-
lieve the local government of any
definable public burden.
LAS matter of fact, such exemp-
ton would unfairly discriminate
against and create a precedent for
similar demands from numerous
other university organizations, fra
ternal and otherwise, which provide
living quarters for students in the
District of Columbia.
Il concur in the objections and
adverse recommendations of the
Board of Commissioners and am
therefore withholding my approval
of this bill.
"FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT"
Evening star., 1939-08-05
Novojos Pray Hard After Devil
|nvodes Healing Rite, Kills Rider

"Chindi," said their medicine men,
got into that horse and made him
kill our brother"
Quickly the Indians departed. No
heed was paid the sick Indian for
whom dances have been offered for
the last six days. Those who know
the Navajo ways said the Indians,
realizing a mistake" had been made
somewhere, might later start the
ceremony all over again.
A Navajo Of the new school took
Mikes body to Fort Wingate for
burial. AS for most Of the rest, it
would have been impossible to have
them as much as view the body.
What happened to the horse that
killed Mike was not known.
Evening star., 1939-08-05
Many Articles Banned

New Zealand has banned the i'm
port of many articles. including radio
sets, assembled automobiles, tobac-
cos and classes of foodstuffs and
hardware. Finance Minister Nash
explained in Wellington that the
fund accruing from exports is not
sufficient to cover the cost of such
imports as we'll as debt services and
other oversee charges.
Evening star., 1939-08-05
Youth Held as Bandit
Admits Killing
And Nine HoIdups
Runs Away From Home
After He Tires Of
Working for Father
BY the Associated Press.

:
NEW YORK, Aug. 5.-Working for
his father bored Leonard Nugent,,
20, a high school graduate, so he
ran away-and today police charged
him with having killed a man,
wounded his sweetheart and staged
nine holdups in one-crime filled
week.
The youth tainted when police
told him of the death of Isadore
Cohen, AZ. button broker who
police said was shot under the heart
while graphing with Nugent.
Inspector John J. Gallagher said
the frightened boy had made
complete confession and gave this
version of his weeks activities:
firing of working as a printers
devil in the engraving plant owned
by his father, he left his Staten Is
land home after a bitter family
quarrel.
| He rented room, then found his
funds running low and turned to
ROBBERY. Working alone, he pulled
off eight holdups successfully, in
one of them robbing eight men in
washroom.
Yesterday Mr.. Cohen entered a
washroom in building where
Nugent had just taken $22 from
Charles Getzel.
Mr.. Cohen gave Nugent some
small change in his pockets, then
grabbed suddenly for Nugents gun.
Nugent stepped back and fired three
times, two of the bullets going wild.
Panic-stricken, he fled to the Of
flee of DR.. A. M. Mulholland, where
his girl friend, Elizabeth Collins, 18,
worked as receptionist.
Shaking with fear, he told her of
the holdups and babbled:
Its the first time I've seen blood. +"
Nugent tried to pull the gun from
his pjocket but it accidentally dis
charged. The bullet ripped through
the girls jaw. She dropped, seri-
ousiy wounded.
The youth ran from the office but
was captured by passersby and
police.
Evening star., 1939-08-05
Contract Assures Minimum
Salary Throuqhout Year

RICHMOND. Va, Aug. S P.-Joe
Knapik of Paterson, N. j., pres
ident of the Federation of Dyers,
Finishers, Printers and Bleachers of
America, announced yesterday a
contract had been signed with the
Richmond Piece Dye Works assuring
the firms 200 employees of mini
mum weekly salary throughout the
year.
Labor leaders said signing of the
contract was significant in that it
was the first time any affiliate of the
Textile Workers Union of America
&C. I. o. had successfully negotiated
contract with yearly salary guar
antee.
Evening star., 1939-08-05
State Police Called
In Strike al Plant
Al Cumberland
5000 Workers Holt
Operations at
Celonese Corp.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated PreaS-
CUMBERLAND, Md, Aug. S.
State police, augmented by Allegany
County and municipal authorities,
patroled the gates of the Celanese
Corp. of America plant today, where
5000 workers halted operations on a
strike called by the local unit of the
United Textile Workers, c. I. o.
affiliate.
There was no disorder, and no
non-union employees sought to enter
the plant after the first group of
workers-2,500 on the night shift
walked out of the factory in orderly
fashion yesterday afternoon.
Neither the midnight shift nor
the early morning group reported
today, although hundreds of specta-
tors and pickets gathered outside
the buildings.
Meanwhile, company officials and
spokesmen for Local 1847 issued con-
f1icting statements on the work stop
page. In full-page newspaper ad-
vertisement, the company said, For
more than year efforts to settle
the wage question and other points
in the contract have failed because
of the impossibility of agreeing on
the closed shop question. The COM
pany is not willing to enter into a
closed shop contract ="
James Dundon, president OF the
local, said:
AN agreement was not reached
because wages proposed were made
quate and not up to the standards OF
the rayon industry and because
of an inadequate recognition clause
THE management sought break
down in negotiations on the closed
shop issue to avoid the issue OF
wages
He also charged the company
/ failed to provide proper protection
for the hundreds of workers who will
be displaced by the installation OF
labor saving machines"
Evening star., 1939-08-05
7 roops
Continued From First Page)

is part of the summer maneuver of
the 1st Army.
For the District Guardsmen it will
be an experience in contrast to their
regular summer activity-two weeks
at Camp Albert c. Ritchie, where
there are modern camp facilities
and cool mountain breezes. Their
life will be that of Regular Army
soldiers in battle, with pup tents
their only shelter at night during the
training period When the big day
and maneuver begins, the night of
August 13, and continues without
interruption for four days. they will
travel with their knapsacks aback
and sleep where they can.
Others Due in a Week.
The provisional division, COM
manded by Brig Gen, Maxwell Muir
ray of Washingtons provisional
brigade, will not move into the
maneuver area until a week from
tomorrow, travelling there from Fort
Meade, Md, and Fort Belvoir, Va.
The battle will be fought with
blank cartridges and shells from
rifles and artillery and with the alb
sence of trenches and other artificial
earthWorks, the victor will have to
be determined by Army umpires as
signed to maneuver duty.
The 28th and 29th Divisions are
designated as the Blues" and will
be directed by their own commanders
under 3rd Corps Area headquarters
Maj. Gen. James K. Parsons, corps
commander, will be commander in
chief. Gen. Murray's forces, consti-
tuting the invaders, are labeled as
the Blacks"
During the first week of the en-
campment, the first bugle call for
rising will be sounded at $50 am
with reveille blown at $40 and
breakfast at 6. Taps will be sounded
at 10:30 pm.
Part of the field paraphernalia will
be mosquito bar, one of the necessi-
ties for life in the open air. The
camp water supply already is in full
o Grafton, with sufficient water for
drinking and for a bath a day for
each man. The daily bath has been
advised by medical officers not only
on general principles but as a pre-
cautionary measure against infection
from the wood tick.
1t. Col Churchill Gibson, chap
lain of the 29th Division staff, an
nounced religious services will be
held for the Guardsmen each Sunday
while they are in camp. Field mass
for Catholic soldiers will be cele-
brated each Sunday at 9:15 am al
Linton Hall Academy, Bristow,
miles from Gainesville, with di-
visional organizations furnishing
transportation. Protestant services
will be held by organization, with
chaplains of various military units
setting the time and place.
Evening star., 1939-08-05
British Plane Storts
Atlantic Mail Service
BY the Associated Press.


SOUTHAMPTON. England, Aug
5.-Imperial Airways' 24-ton flying
boat Caribou took off this after
noon, inaugurating British trans
Atlantic airmail service with a load
of 1,5O0 pounds of mail for Canada
and the United States.
The Caribou will take on more
fuel in the air over Foynes, Ireland,
and then head for Botwood, New
foundland. Another stop is to be
made at Montreal before flying to
Port Washington, N. Y, where the
Caribou is due at pm, E. S. T.,
tomorrow.
The Caribou and her sistership
the Cabot, will operate weekly mail
service during August and Septem-
ber, but will carry no passengers.
Evening star., 1939-08-05
BY the Associated Press.


GALLUP, N. Mex, Aug. 5.-Dis-
mayed Navajo Indians offered up
many q fervent ''hojini" today to
ward of the devil, "Chindi," whose
presence over a healing ceremony
was brought on by sudden death.
Navajo Mike, 55-year-old stock
man of Tah-la-le Springs, was killed
yesterday when a wild horse threw
him in the presence Of large gath
ering Of Navajos near Pinehaven.
Nearby, his tribesmen were dane
ing the "squaw dance" q healing
ritual for q wealthy, ailing relative
of Mike.
CONSERVATION gripped the Indians
as the word Of Mixes death spread.
Evening star., 1939-08-05
Man Injured by Mixer

Ernest Carter, colored, %, of 26
o street NV, was seriously injured
yesterday when he fell from truck
into a concrete mixer, police re-
ported, on a construction job at the
Soldiers Home. He was taken to
Casualty Hospital and treated for
skull injuries and shock.
Evening star., 1939-08-05
Garner Tells Roosevelt
And Cabinet Good-by
By the Assoc,atad pr.s.

BY the Associated Press.
Vice President Garner attended
his last cabinet meeting yesterday
before the adjournment of Congress.
He said good-by to President
Roosevelt and cabinet members, and
on the White House steps wished
reporters pleasant summer"