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The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-30
Couple Club Meets
 Tuesday, 6:3O p. M.

The Couple Club will meet on Tues at 6:30 o'clock at the church parlors of the Northern Light Presbyterian Church. There will be the usual dinner followed by social evening.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-30
NewIyweds Honor
 Guests at Party

For MT. and Mrs. John w. Jones, who recently were married in the States. MT. and Mrs. J. s. Jeffery will entertain group of close friends of the couple this evening with a buffet supper.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-30

 WILL MEET

Members of the Musicians Union, Local No. 672 will hold a meeting Sunday afternoon at o'clock in the AFL Hall and all are requested to be in attendance.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-30

WALKERS DELUE is always of
 the same uniform quality because it
 always comes from the same distil- lery = the worlds largest Hiram
 Walker & Sons. adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-30
ATTENTION MAsoNs

There will be a stated Communi- cation of Gastineaux Lodge 124, F. & AM. on Tuesday, Dec. 3, at 7:30 pm, in the Eagles Hall ill Douglas. Election of officers. Menl- bers are urged to attend. Visiting brethren welcome. By order of the VIM.
 SAMUEL DEVON, adv. Secretary.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-30
Missionary Society Has Crowd at Dinner

Over 40 persons met at the Mem
 orial Presbyterian Church at 5:30 o'clock last evening for dinner sponsored by the Missionary So- ciety. Following the dinner there were talks by several of the guests.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-30
MUSICIANS ATTENTION

General meeting, Musicians To- cal 672, AFL Hall, Sunday, Dec. l, at pm. All members urged to attend. adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-30

every single day.
 Let's turn to todays public no- tices and see what we see.
 CHEF = Don't let your pride keep you from coming home. We understand perfectly Mother"
 MI offer thanks for having known you and pray to the full fillment of our dreams. Love. H"
 ''RAE-Don't worry over me. am well and working. Eddie"
 Please meet me at Mothers. am sure we can settle our problems. Pete" "ED-Mal is prostrated. Every thing will be arranged. Think of Mother Urgent you return at once We need you. Strictly confi- dential. Sol (brother- in -law)."
 "JOHN-Aunt Ella has your birth certificate. You will need this when you apply for your drivers license. Happy birthday Cathie."
 "BARBARA-Send Janet back tc school Uncle Bob will take care of tuition fees. I will take care of rest. Margaret"
 MY WIFE, Carmen, left my home and board. I am not respon- sible . for any debt incurred by her. S.C.P."
 "WANTED-Name of owner of dog which bit girl, 86th street and Broadway, Wednesday. Informa- ton desired only to permit ex- animation of dog. L234 Times"
 HARRY = Job open Every thing OK. Contact me (your wife). Leila"
 "K.T.-Real estate agent enroute to Florida to look over our proper ty. Communicate with Uncle Harry. Hold out for 5000. LC"
 The more l look through these notices the more I am convinced O. Henry himself was an agony column fan. All the old Four Mill lion are here (theyre 100000 now) The Cabbages and Kings.
 Boy meets girl. .. Dog bites girl. Boy loses girl Come nome, all forgiven. l won't pay my wife's debts. .. We can work out our problems, honey, now we can, if you will meet me at mothers.
 In some of these notices you will find material for sermon or play. If Johnny hasn't got his birth certificate, they won't issue nim drivers license. This may .eem funny to you, but not to Johnny.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-30

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ROGERS LEAVES HOSPITAL

William Rogers, who has been in St. Ann's Hospital for surgical treatment, is expected to be able to return to hs home today.
 Subscribe to the Daily Alaska Empire-the paper with the largest paid circulation.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-30
HEART SKIP ROMANCE IN
 DAILY LIFE
Plots for Short Stories Re. veaIed in Agony Col
 umn" of Newspapers
By GEORGE TUCKER

NEW YORK, Nov 30.-Want a little romance, little heart-skip little disillusionment, with maybs a little remorse and a good. sound real estate tip? Want to think oi a plot for a short story, or a thread for a novel. or maybe a background for a symphonic movement? If so, we recommend for your perusal the agony columns of the metropolitan newspapers = the public notices, where, in little sprays of heart-broken type (at % cents a line), the age-old story o1 y-meets-girl boy -loses-girl is tolo every single day.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-30

sons interested in the said estate may appear and file objections, in writing, to said Final Report, and contest the same.
 GIVEN under my hand and the seal of the Probate Court this 9th day Of November, 1940.
 FELIX CRAY,
 Commissioner and ex-of-
 ficio Probate Judge. Juneau
 Precinct. First publication, Nov. 9, 1940. Last publication, Nov. 30, 1940. adv
Evening star., 1940-04-01
Prices Of Farm Products
Down During Month
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A drop OF points In the general
level Of farm product prices during
the month ended March Is was re-
ported by the Agriculture Depart
ment.
The mid-March level, the depart
ment said, was 81 per cent of that
of the base. 19l0-19l4 period. In
mid-February. the index stood at
l0l. However, the mid-March in
dex was 6 points above year earl
ier.
Seasonal decreases in prices of
dairy products and a sharp decline
In quotations on eggs and cut crops
contributed largely to the loss dur
ing the month.
The department said prices paid
by farmers for non-agricultural
products remained practically un-
changed during the month at l22
per cent Of the 19l0-19l4 level.
Minor price advances were record
ed for grains and meat animals from
February Is to March Is, while mid
March cotton and cottonseed prices
averaged unchanged from the Feb
ruary IS level. Truck crop prices
dropped 10 points during the month,
but on March Is still were Ia points
above year earlier.
Evening star., 1940-04-01
Manufacturers 0pen
Campaign 10 Sell
Free Enterprise
Year or So Without
Interference Would End
Unemployment. Is View
Nv the Associated pre6S.

~ the Associated Press.
LANCASTER. Pa. April 1.-THE
organized manufacturers OF the Ma
tion started out today on campaign
to sell free enterprise" with the
prediction of their leader that a
year or so" without interference
would eliminate unemployment in
the United States.
The call was sounded last night In
a radio speech by H. w. PrenGs, jr.,
Of the Armstrong Cork Co.. presi-
dent OF the National Association Of
Manufacturers.
Mr.. Prentis said the association Is
starting a campaign for industry to
meet "unjustified attacks" to make
the public understand the funda-
mentals Of the private enterprise
system and to mobilize all business
men for a long-range re-employ-
ment program,
Urges Full Understanding.
A full understanding OF free en-
terprise, he asserted In a press con-
Evening star., 1940-04-01
Youthful Attendant
Is Hailed as Hero
In |nfirmaryFir
Battles Flames Alone
As $50 Elderly P6fients
Flee Baltimore Hospital
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, April l.-Firemen
today credited a youthful attendant
with averting major tragedy when
fire broke out this morning in
the huge main infirmary building of
the Baltimore City Hospitals and
sent $50 old people fleeing into the
streets to safety. =
| Eddie Knott, 81, stood alone with
a building hose and battled the
flames in the 75-year- -old building
until firemen arrived. They found
him semi-conscious in billowing
smoke, but with the hose still play
ing on the blaze
/ Two other attendants carried more
than 80 helpless women from rooms
Immediately above the Are. One of
the rescuers, Clarence Osman, COL
lapsed from smoke later.
| One patient, Miss lGeorRianna
Fletcher, 70, was cut on the leg,
and three tlremen were injured
slightly.
The flames broke out shortly after
am. and soon six alarms brought
heavy detachment OF ire-fightinR
equipment to the three-block long
hospital.
Firemen carried or assisted l3
persons down ladders and helped
scores of other dazed patients To
nnd their way out Of the smoke
and flames.
Flremen said the blaze apparently
started in locker room, and burned
card room. lavatory and part Of
| the roof.
Nurses brought blankets to the
patlents some of whom collapsed on
the lawn after reaching safety, All,
however, were returned to the hos.
pltaI when the smoke cleared.
Evening star., 1940-04-01
Antarctic Expert
Returns Tomorrow

DR.. T. c. Poulter. scientific di.
rector OF the United States Antarc.
tlc service. will arrive in Los An
geles tomorrow aboard the cargo
ship Besholt Norge, it was an.
nounced here today.
DR., Poulter will be the first man
10 return from the present Antarc-
tlc expedition. He supervised the
unloading of the SNOW cruiser
the building of which he conceived
before leaving. The $150,0O0 cruiser
is loaned to the expedition by the
armour Research Foundation. of
which DR.. Poulter also Is scientific
research director.
Evening star., 1940-04-01
Play Tomorrow Opens
tournament Series

Inc first program of short
dramas in the preliminaries of the
l4th annual One-Act Play Tourna- :
ment, sponsored by the Community
Center and Fairgrounds Depart
ment' Will be presented tomorrow
at 8 pm. in the Roosevelt High
School auditorium.
The opening performance will in
clude Only the Birds" by the
census Bureau Dramatic Club.
Dreams, by the Prince of peace
PLAYERS; The Sister Who Walked
IN Silence by the Interior PLAYERS
and Never Too Old" by the drama
section of the Women's Club of
Chevy Chase.
preceding and between the four
plays there will be musical pro-
gram, directed by Miss Kitty Hore
pianist of the Lovett Choral Club of
washington, with Howard Crawford
violinist. VI u
Evening star., 1940-04-01
THE EVENING WASHINGTON, c. MONDAY APRIL l. eo
ference before the broadcast, would
lead to expansion Of present indus
try and rrnafior ~ ,,ou, .ot.~r,;c~.

ference before the broadcast, would
lead to expansion Of present indus
try and creation Of new enterprises
The combination, Mr.. Prentiss de-
clared would absorb the Nations
unemployed 'in a year or So"
1--WE have got to develop new en-
terprises. The willingness to ven-
ture has been seriously interfered
with, through taxes and so forth"
Mr.. Prentis explained that all
business men lined with the CAM
paign will be asked to pledge to
clean up your own houses and op-
crate on an ethical" basis first
After that. it would be up to the
organized movement to SELL the
principle Of free enterprise" to the
point where "the original principles
Of this democracy would crop out
again."
Hits Planned Economy.
He hit at national planned econ
omy as something leading to what
you see in the dictator countries, ;"
and described private enterprise,
civil and religious liberties as "the
tripod Of freedom"
Industry is convinced that much
OF the economic stagnation in which
this country has been wallowing re-
suits directly from an attitude of
covert or open hostility to private
enterprise =" he said. Industry
has made Its mistakes and acknowl-
edges them. But let's not look back:
let's look forward"
Evening star., 1940-04-01
10000 Sunday Visitors
At Botanic Garden

An influx of visitors from Wash
lneoon and distant points to it's
spring flower show kept the Botanic
Garden open an hour late yester-
day. ''''ei
len thousand persons filed
through the exhibit, and Assista nt
Director w J. Paeet said officials
haont the heart" to close the
doors on the display of rhododen-
dron and other seasonal plants
yesterdays attendance was sur
passed this year only by Palm Sun
DAY and Easter crowds. Regular
hours are 8 am. to pm.
Evening star., 1940-04-01

"The police, the district attorney
and the criminal courts have all
been aware Of what was going on,
but have been frustrated in their
efforts to suppress it,"
Judge Taylor praised the energies
OF District Attorney William
ODwyer Of Kings County, by whose
efforts, he said, I'VE seem at last TO
be getting somewhere"
Evening star., 1940-04-01

Voicing his belief that Wholesale
murder was not peculiar to Brook
lyn. but existed in many cities, Judge
Taylor said, in part:
For many years organized gang
sterism has made murder a busi-
ness. Pistols and machine guns
have. done their work and defied
the law and its penalties. Murder
has been SO expertly arranged as
to battle successful prosecution.
Evening star., 1940-04-01
Poor Aid St. Peters Fund

approximately 100 of Washing
tons poor yesterday contributed
to fund for st. Peters, historic
church recently swept by fire, al
services at the Volunteers of Amer.
ica Mission, All Pennsylvania ave-
nus, NV. 1t. Maj. H. Mills Eroh
! IN charge of the Volunteers of
America, Washington ,Dnch, took
up the collection and esented it
to the parish.
Evening star., 1940-04-01
Catholic Mems Council
Chooses Officers

-Four Washington men were r..
etected or reappointed officers of tle
national Council of Catholic Mer
a! the directors annual banquet last
nlght IN National Council headouar-
ters, 1872 Massachusetts avenue NV
Ihey are Grattan ,Kerans. re-
elected treasurer, andEdward ]
Hebron, executive SECRETARY: Henry
r. Lefebure, assistant executive sec
le.ary' and DR.. John G. Bowen
neid secretary, all reappointed
Wilbert j. O'Neill of Cleveland
was elected president.
Evening star., 1940-04-01

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Evening star., 1940-04-01

Doggy uses plenty of horse
4 sense in picking her horses.
plenty of common sense in pick
ing her cigarette. Like millions of
Others, she finds that a slower
burning cigarette gives more mild
ness and GOODNESS, and smokes
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Evening star., 1940-04-01
Assassination Orgy
Must Stop, Judge
Tells Special Jury
ODwyer's Investigation Of
'Murder-for-Hire' Ring
Praised by Jurist
By the Associa ted Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 1.-Kings
County Judge Franklin Taylor, ad-
dressing a special grand jury which
will hear evidence amassed In the
investigation of Brooklyn's grisly
Murder, 1nc.," today assailed what
he described as this orgy of as
sassination," and declared:
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ensign
of the underworld must come down."
Evening star., 1940-04-01

Mines OF Portugal are increasing
their output Of coal, copper, copper
pyrites and tin.
Evening star., 1940-04-01

Cuba shipped over 2,40O,0 900 tons
Of sugar to other countries last
year.
Evening star., 1940-04-01

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Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23

the Ell Centre hospital for treat
ment of shock and bruises. His in
jurieS were slight, his phiIcian
said.
No one was injured a mile west
of Meloland at 1903 a. m. Monday
when a tire blew out and caused
an accident. William D. McLemnan,
%, of the Naval air station at Cor
onado, told Highway Patrolman
Tillman Daley that a tire blew out
on his sedan. The sedan swerved,
crossed the center line, and travel
ed 1876 feet into the left borrow
pit. turned over and came to rest
right side up. Don Blake of Van
NuyS, E. j. Fivel, Coronado, pas
sengerS, escaped injury.
Julio z. Abril SO, Tucson truck
driver, told Daley the Aycock car
was driving all over the road as it
came toward him. Abril said he
Swerved to avoid a collision but
the on-coming car swerved into
him. The Aycock car was demolish-
ed.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23


torpedo. Some went overheard try
ing to get on life-boats. Some drown
ed when boats they had taken were
swamped by heavy waves. Many
died of exposure in the boats be-
fore a warship arrived.
In all 112 persons we're saved out
of 406 aboard. Out of 90 refugee
children, seven were saved. Of eight
other children aboard, six were
saved. Seven of the nine women who
were caring for the children perish
ed OF the total of 191 passengers,
16 women and As men were saved;
of the crew of 215, SO we're saved.
Among those who died were five
children of a single family, whose
mother and father are refugees in
London. because their home has been
destroyed by German bombs.
Among the grown-ups who died
were Col. j. Baldwin Webb, men,
ber OF the House OF Commons;
DR.. Gallinsky, on his way to Wash
ington to be charge d'affairs of the
Polish embassy; Rudolf Olden, pre-
Hitler publisher of the then famous
Berlin newspaper Tageblatt, and
Mrs. Olden.
Among those saved were Arthur
Wimperis, playwright, on his way
to Hollywood to confer with Alex
ander Korda, and Prof. G. P. Day,
professor of economics at McGill
university, Canada.
Two of the children who died,
Patricia Allen and Michael Brooker,
had been on an evacuation ship
which the Germans torpedoed last
month.
The youngest of the refugee chill
dren was five; the oldest Is. One of
the survivors was a 71-year-old
woman, on her way to visit a mar
ried son in Canada.
Survivors told how, in the moon
light which prevailed at first after
the torpedoing, they could see the
Continued on Page 8, col. a
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23
Barrymore Files
Suit for Divorce,
Charging Cruelty

LOS ANGELES, Sept. %. CUP)-
John Barrymore, known as "the
great profile" of stage and screen,
today filed suit for divorce against
Elaine Barrie Barrymore. He charg-
ed cruelty.
The suit, filed in the Los An
geles superior court, climaxed the
on again off again marriage Of
Barrymore and his beauteous Elaine
which began four years ago when
the pair eloped to Yuma on Nov.
8, 1886.
Twice before dark haired Elaine
had sued Barrymore in the Los
Angeles courts; each time, however,
she had dropped her suits and an
nounced a reconciliation with the
great profile"