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Evening star., 1939-12-24

stroyed. On Friday, Reds we're reported
back-tracktng toward Petsamo.
On central front, Leningrad COM
muniques still claimed progress vest
ward in direction of Swedish border
as Soviet armies attempted to cut Fin
land in two. Dispatches from other
points, however, indicated that Reds
had not advanced more than one-third
of way toward objective at most-more
likely less than that in view of generality
of their own claims that important
Finnish supply and communication
lines with Sweden and Gulf of Bothnia
were still open.
AS before. bloodiest fighting of Baltic
war occurred in Karelian Isthmus Sec
tor, where concentrations of Red tanks
and troops have marched only to their
deaths.
Apparently placing great faith-as yet
unproven-in overwhelming numbers of
snow = tractored tanks,
Russion 1onks Russians have driven
Are Trained these land battleships
IclcIlllcSSly UlIO Gull.
ningly contrived Finnish traps. lost an
estimated 300 through destruction or
capture in three weeks of war.
Accurate artillery fire and continuance
of their swift guerrilla tactics enabled
Firms to inf1ict heavy casualties while
repulsing every advance of Reds around
Lake Ladoga. In one engagement north
of Ladoga, Finnish communique claimed
1900 Reds caught in flanking move
ment, driven back with losses In
thousands.
Failure of Soviet armies to make more
impressive showing against Firms, par
ticularly in southern sector where Red
defensive" action on behalf of Lenin-
precipitated studious analyses of fight
ing qualities of the Russian Bear.
Broadly, experts" agree that Soviet
officers-too often purged-are inferior:
that Russian-made ammunition is faulty
in large percentage, and that reliance
on tanks in difficult Finnish terrain has
been strategical error.
In Europe's other war, land operations
we're inconsequential. On several occa-
sions both French and German head
quarters announced successful patrol sor-
ties, capture of small groups of prisoners.
One Nazi communique complained that
no British could be found on entire
western front, that Tommies apparently
preferred to remain "at safe distance"
in rear.
To the strains of Roll Out the Bar
REL" first contingent Of Canadian dough-
boys arrived on British soil early in past
week.
Where the hell is Hitler?" they quip-
ped, spreading plentiful supplies Of
American money around for the knick-
knacks, bric-a-brac, and what-nots that
soldiers seem to want.
Heading the force was dour little Maj.
Gen. Andrew G. L. McNaughton, World
War veteran, who left the singing and
horseplay to his men. This isn't a
glorious adventure" he remarked from
the depths of experience, but job
that has to be done"
On hand to greet troops (their port
of arrival not being publicly disclose6
was Anthony Eden, Dominions secretary.
Evening star., 1939-12-24
Review of 10Th Week of War
By John C.. Henry.

Brish breathing proudly confidently this
closed exutan the deeds their vaund Sunk
Graf Spec fighting ships and liner Columbus
ranking Na damaged sunk according
three other total of so
British naval might that made it
giving its all with reckless
which results
German certain direction at least that
sinking raw miscellaneous small
of North
Baltic
Arctic
them
off attempted
adva
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-09
CHURCH FINDS
 FREE FOOD x
 SPLENDID BAIT
Plan Succeeds in Getting Buyers 10 Auction
 Sales Held

CLAYTON, N. C. Feb. 9.-When- ever the Mount Moriah Baptist Church needs money to make church repairs, buy equipment or pay the preacher, it does not have to take up collection or sell bonds. It just holds a harvest auction to which everyone within 25 miles around is invited.
 The church has 260 members, all- farmers. They bring their contri- buttons in kind, deposit them in front of the white clapboard church and go inside to hear the pastor preach
 Then they go out into the church yard for a gigantic picnic style din ner. A long, rough-hewn table is loaded with barbecued meat, sand wiches, chicken. pies. cakes, pre- serves, salads, deviled eggs, corn pone and coffee-all provided by the women folks.
 After everyone has done justice to the dinner, the auction sale be- gins. Saleable goods which members have donated include pigs, chick ems, hay fodder, kindling wood, po- tatoes, apples. walnuts, hom e. canned vegetables, preserves, pickles, cakes, pies, collard greens. home made blankets and fancy work.
 The big dinner, which is free to all, not only attracts big crowd of buyers but it has put everybody in a generous mood. A dozen eggs bring 50 cents.
 Pastor Powell's face beams. Well build whole new church if this keeps up," he says. An average auc- tion day brings in as much as $l50 for the church.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-09
DEFIES LAW'SATTEMpT
 10 SEIZE CABIN
Showdown Is Expected in Colorado When Spring
 ThaWs Come

CONFER, Col, Feb. g. When the spring thaws come showdown is scheduled between a mountain dwelling widow and the law
 The law-the state land board wants the log-cabin site of 65-year- old Mrs Le Ora Orr.
 Says Mrs. Orr:
 After building it with my own hands and living in it for 30 years I won't give up my home without l struggle"
 The land board. with supreme court decision behind it now, has claimed for 10 years that the Orrs built their place on school land through a surveyors error and has sought to oust Mrs. Orr.
 Two eviction orders, no good after 90 days. have expired in the desk of Sheriff Willis Morris. With a third gathering dust there, the sheriff says.
 '"The snows too deep now to be running around in the hills with a simple eviction order When the thaw comes maybe we'll get around to serving it.
 State Attorney General Byron Rogers thinks the sheriff feels sorry for Mrs. Orr and has warned that If he doesn't serve it we'll take drastic action" He added such ac- ton meant citation for contempt
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FLORIDA WILL TRY 10 REGAIN
 LETTUCE SALES
Southern State Growers Gird for Fight with Cali
 fornia, Arizona

BRADENTON, Fla, Feb. 9.-Flor- ida is ready for a comeback in its lettuce war with California and Ari- zona.
 This region used to ship thousands of cars of lettuoe-but it was the old loose-headed Boston variety. When the firm, crisp-headed iceberg variety, grown largely in California and Arizona, came into widespread popularity 15 years ago, the local lettuce industry faded Even Mana tee county grocers found they had to stock the California product.
 Hampered by their warm climate, growers in Manatee, Sarasota and a few other Florida lettuce belt counties had about given up hope of competing again in the lettuce mar ket. But now seed breeders have per- fected new firm, crisp head of let tuce they say will grow here and compete with other areas. The hope of Florida growers is soaring.
 approximately 400 acres of the new head is being harvester in Man. atee county alone.
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that might put the sheriff behind his own bars
 Meanwhile, Mrs. Orr observes that a person makes lot of hill folk friends in years of living on a mountain and ventures the opinion she'll be in the old home for some time. Then she tells about the time she got out small-bore rifle and chased away man tc whom the land board had given @ lease on the land she claims.
 And while the land board frets at the delay, Mrs Orr just rocks in her chair beside the window from where she can get a good view of all the pathways to hei valley-and observes:
 "Ill be sitting here whenever they come-and my friends will be up on Black Mountain behind my place"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-09
HISTORIC LINE TO END SERVICE
 FEBRUARY 70
Buses Doom Everett Inter urban Inaugurafed in
 May, 1910

SEATTLE, Feb. 9-Another trans portation landmark will pass into history on February 20 when the last car will make it's run over the Seattle Everett Interurban line
 The service, lnaugurated more than twenty-eight years ago, will be discontinued at midnight of that day. the electric cars, creaky with age, will go to the barn and work men will begin taking up the rails,
 The announcement was made by w. H. Somers, traffic manager of the North Coast Transportation Go. He gave reason apparent to every one familiar with the intercity transportation situation-that motor coaches are now carrying nearly all of the traffic
 Old-timers, however, will S zig h reminiscently and recall highlights of the lines history.
 Rails Laid in 1906
 The first unit was constructed by the late Fred E. Sander, pioneer Seattle railroad builder and real estate operator.
 He laid rails fourteen miles north of Seattle to the vicinity of Hall Lake in 1906 and there he ceased I,,,;ldi,,o onerot tiopc
 Several years later, the Pacific Northwest Traction Company, a Stone and Webster subsidiary, took over the enterprise and extended rails to Everett.
 With joint celebration by Seattle and Everett delegations, music of bands, speeches and trips over the line in bunting -decked cars, the new service was opened in May, 1910.
 At that time, the only other trans portation between the two cities was by steamer and railroad so the new electric interurban did a thriving business.
 For the first few years of its career, old timers recalled yesterday the line ran through magnificent forests and motormen were ire quently bothered by deer on the track.
 Since then, the timber has been cut away and the territory settled into farms and suburban communi- ties.
 For number of years, the Seattle depot was in a hotel office on Fifth Avenue, between Pike and Pine St It was later moved to car barns at Sixth Avenue and Olive Way.
 For a number of years the Seattle Everett Interurban cars have oper- ated out of the North Coast Trans portation Company's Central Term inal at Eighth Avenue and Stew art Street.
 When the eattle-Taeoma inter urban went out of business number of years ago because of motor coach competition, it became evident that the demise of the Seattle-Everett line was only a matter of time.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-09
KEEPS PLANES
 FROM SPRAYING

LONDON, Feb 9.-The robot pilot George is said to be largely re- spcnsible for the smooth straight flying of the "Pickaback" plane Mercury" on it's recent flight to South Africa.
 George is compact mass of high tensile steel, swiftly spinning gyros, and finely balanced levers.
 He" is able to sense the slight est deviation from the course This" human colleague has set, and cor- rects it instantly.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-09
TWO PIONEERS PASS AWAY AT
 HOME IN SITKA

Edmund Hathaway and Albert Osmond Brown. two pioneers at the Sitka Home, have passed away, &C., cording to advices received by The Empire from Superintendent Filler Hansen.
 Hathaway, born in Michigan, April 27. 1863. died at the Pioneers Home on February 4. He was a carpenter by trade, came north in 1910 and was admitted to the Home from Sel- dovia
 Brown, native of Wisconsin, born March 19, 1867, arrived in Alaska in 1897. He had been Deputy United States Marshal at Nome. He died February 6.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-09
SPECIAL MEETING

Of the Pioneers Auxiliary called for pm, Friday, at the Episco-
 pal Parish Hall. KATE E. JARMAN, adv. Secretary
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-09

ROYAL BEAUTY SALON Will again be ready to serve pa trons Friday morning, at l22-2nd St-Ann Early Barr. adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-09

WILL person who found black purse on Franklin Street keep the money and return the purse to Empire Office.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-09
THE MoToRsHIP EsTEBETH

Starts loading at 1oO0 tomorrow morning (Friday) and sails for Sitka and way ports Saturday morning at 8 o'clock. adv
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LOST-Elgin wrist watch--has link
 chain. Kindly return to Empire
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-09
LOST AND FOUND

FOUND-Bunch of keys on key ring. Owner may have by proving property and paying for this adv.
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Today's News -EmpIre.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-09
MISCELLANEOUS

GUARANTEED Realistic Perma- nents. $4.50. Finger wave, 65c. Lola's Beauty Shop, telephone POI, 3l5 Decker Way.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-09
FOR SALE

FOR SALE-Oil circulating heater and accessories. Cost $93.50, S60 cash. Phone Black $50
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TURN your old gold into value,
 cash or trade at Nugget Shop.
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 We accept ads over telephone from persons listed in telephone directory.
 Phone 374-Ask for d-taker. FOR SALE FOR SALE-Oil circulating heater and accessories. Cost $93.50, S60 cash. Phone Black $50. PR. Gift. Ain anderson-T Thompson skis, Apt. A, Shabaldak Apts. BROOM house with bath. fur nished on acres deeded land 2 miles from Juneau on High way; electricity, big chicken house. Priced low See Sparks, Federal Bldg.
 FOR SALE-Pair of white elk shoe skates, size g. Phone Green 147. INCOME property for sale. Phone Blue 135.
 FORD TUDOR, driven only 5000 nIes. New tires, deluxe radio and heater. See Elroy Ninnis FOR SALE-U & I Lunch. Owner quitting business. Write 20. Box c274 or phone 334. FCR SALE-City Float Beer Parlor Phone 541 after 4 pm.
 FOR RENT TWO-ROOM furnished Apt. with bath. 337 Willoughby. FOR RENT-Warm sleeping room, 437 Seward St.
 MODERN room for single person in private family. Phone Red 295. BROOM house, West 9th Street Mrs. McMullen
 BOAT STALL, by Douglas Bridge, $2 per month. Green 475. COZY, warm, furn. apts. Light water, dishes, cooking utensils and bath. Reasonable at Seaview
 LOST AND FOUND FOUND-Bunch of keys on key ring. Owner may have by proving property and paying for this adv.
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 MISCELLANEOUS GUARANTEED Realistic Perma- nents, $450 Finger wave, 65c. Lola's Beauty Shop, telephone POI, 315 Decker Way. z TURN your old gold into value, cash or trade at Nugget Shop.
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PR. Gift. Ain Anderson Thompson skis, Apt. A, Shabaldak Apts.
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WANTED

WORK WANTED: Call at AZ. of
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 laborers, bod carriers, building laborers, etc. Local 1895.
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BROOM house with bath. fur nished, on 5 acres deeded land 2 miles from Juneau on High way; electricity, big chicken house Priced low. See Sparks, Federal Bldg.
Evening star., 1939-01-24
BY the Associated Press.

.
BUFFALO. N. Y, Jan. pa
Curtiss Hawk IS, a pursuit plane,
one Of 100 being constructed for the
French government, has "substan-
TALLY exceeded all known speed rec
ords' with free dive of more than
SIS miles per hour it was announced
today.
The speed mark was established
yesterday while the ship was under
going acceptance tests. officials of the
Curtiss Airplane Division of the Cur
tiss Wright Corp. said.
The tests were made by H. Lloyd
Child, chief test pilot of the Buffalo
Curtiss plant. who said he felt no
Ill effects and did not realize that
the speed was presumably the fast
est man ever has travelled
National Aeronautic Association
officials said that no Federation
Aeronautique Internationale records
even approach this speed"
Indicator Of Its Graph.
The speed of the dive was so
great that the marker on the re-
cording airspeed indicator exceeded
the instruments range and moved
on the paper on which the graph
Of the dive was recorded
Aviation experts. who declined to
be quoted directly, estimated that
the speed may have exceeded 600
Evening star., 1939-01-24
us. 0b|igationtoD DC
Should Precede Tax
Plan, Says 0verton
Senator Speeding Bill
To Base Amount on
lond Area in City

The amount of the Federal obli-
cation toward upkeep of the Ma
tional Capital should be determined
and fixed before a permanent new
tax program to be paid by local resi-
dents is announced. Senator Over
ton, Democrat, of Louisiana declared
today.
The Senator said he expects to
nave ready in few days bill set
ting forth his plan to settle the fisca,
relations problem by basing the Fed
eral payment on the percentage of
land area in the city used by the
National Government. He began
working on this formula as a solu-
ton of the fiscal relations problem
shortly after his appointment last
month as new chairman of the SEN
ate Subcommittee on District Ap-
preparations.
The Federal contribution ought
to be fixed first" the Senator said
today, commenting on the recent
tax report, which outlines a long
range program to raise from local
sources additional revenue needed
to meet future requirements.
Would Remove incentive.
Pointing out that the tax program
IS based on the present lump sum
Federal payment of 5000 900 a
year, the Senator said that if the
tax measure is enacted first there
would be no incentive for consider
ing the question of a fiscal relations
formula.
He began preparing the land area
formula after reaching the conclu-
(See OVERTON, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1939-01-24

The work will be done under a
subcontract by the Eichleay Engi-
neering Corp. of Pittsburgh. For
this company the task of taking
Gen. Thomas for a ride is "just
baby job" The same company
moved the old Calvert Street Bridge
and has moved a number of large
buildings, including the telephone
building in Pittsburgh and a 10
story store building in Hartford,
Conn. These buildings were moved
without disrupting elevator service.
water or sewer connections or inter-
fering with business activities.
The statue of Gen. Thomas, by
the New York sculptor J. @. A.
Ward, was erected by the Society of
the Army of the Cumberland and
was unveiled November 10, 1879, with
a ceremony which included a two
hour military parade in which
thousands of Civil War veterans
marched.
Evening star., 1939-01-24
Thomas Statue to Go for Ride,
Return When Pass Is Finished

Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas, who
for so years has held his statuesoue
pose in Thomas Circle, will ride
again tomorrow afternoon or Thurs
day morning.
He will ride in the direction in
which he has been gazing for more
than a half century-75 feet to the
south and IS feet to the west, to
the edge Of Thomas Circle.
There he will lapse again into
customary immobility for a number
of months while steamshovels dig q
great ditch through the circle for
the Massachusetts, avenue under
pass. When the underpass is COM
pleted, Gen. Thomas will ride again,
backward to his old stand.
The granite pedestal and bronze
statue, weighing about $50 tons
after the removal of the stone steps
around the pedestal base, will be
moved on rollers over q wooden
platform.
Evening star., 1939-01-24
u. S.-Buit Plane Sets Record
With Dive at SIS N. P. II.
Pilot Feels No III Effects, Not Realizing
Speed Fastest Ever Man Travelled

miles per hour, compared with the
normal falling rate for a 170-pound
man of $50 miles per hour.
The dive was begun at an alti-
tude of $4,000 feet, and the record
speed was attained during a 9OOO-
foot dive.
At no time during the dive. Child
said. did the engine exceed 1850
revolutions per minute, its normal
rated speed in level flight.
No Extra Strain on Motor.
Hence, he explained. the strain
on the motor during the dive was
not increased, but was held to the
speed of normal operation by the
Curtiss electric propeller, with its
unlimited blade pitch range.
Previously, company officials ex-
planned, a limiting factor in the
speed at which an airplane could
dive was the engines revolutions
per minute, since overspeeding
would result in serious damage to
the motor.
The Curtiss Hawk IS. a pursuit
plane, is similar to the Curtiss
P-36A, the standard pursuit air.
plane of the United States Air
Corps.
1t carries two machine guns and
Is equipped to carry bombs under
each wing when on a fighting mis-
sion.
Evening star., 1939-01-24
Cruiser to Evocuote
20 Americans in Area

BARCELONA, Jan. "a LP.-United
States Vice Consul Douglas Flood
said today the U. S. S. Omaha would
evacuate about 20 Americans from
the hard-pressed Barcelona area to-
night or tomorrow morning.
previous reports said approx
mately 120 of the $50 Americans in
Barcelona had decided to remain
in the government capital)
The United States cruiser, ordered
here from Villefranche, Southern
France, was expected to arrive at
Caldetas, "a miles north of BARGE
Iona this afternoon to take the
Americans aboard.
Officials said the expected Red
Cross funds to aid penniless Amer
leans here had not yet arrived.
Some Is persons with United
States citizenship were reported to
be having difficulty in obtaining
last-minute French visas for travel
in France.
The French cruiser Suffren ar
rived at Caldetas to remain at the
disposal of the French Ambassador
Jules Henry.
Many government ministers left
Barcelona for the north this morn
ing while the beleagued capital,
pounded by enemy bombs and with
its public services failing, became a
military camp.
With an icy wind blowing, refugees
crowded the streets leading out OF
the city. Bombs crashed from the
skies at brief intervals as the in
surgent air force heavily attacked
(See SPANISH, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1939-01-24
Mrs. Roosevelt Kept
From Ball by Strike

Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will
not go through a picket line to
attend the birthday ball at the
George Mason Hotel in Alexandria.
Va, next Monday night, though the
ball is in celebration of her hus-
bands birthday and part of a
Nationwide campaign against in
fantile paralysis.
She told her press conference to-
day if the strike of employees con-
tinues until Monday she will skin
the hotel in making her round Of
balls.
She said she had once gone
through picket line, but only after
arrangements were made with the
strikers who agreed to discontinue
picketing for the duration of her
visit.