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The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-10-25
Radio Behavior In Alaska
 Battles Experi

Over Alaska the stratosphere is warmer than 1t is ever the States
 Over Alaska. where the northern lights are bright, aurora displays dc not interfere in the least with radio-Sonde equipment while in the States the slightest aurora con- dition puts identical equipment out Of order
 These were observations Of Ray Powell, Weather Bureau expert, who returned to Juneau by PAA Electra today after installing CT checking radic-sonde equipment at Ketchi- kan, Juneau, Anchorage, Nome, Bethel and Barrow.
 Connected with the Instruments Division of the Bureau, Powell has specialized in radio sonde, the weather-cbserving balloons which send information back to earth by radio.
 The seven Alaska stations making daily observations compare with "A in the States.
 Powell said that, of course" the suatosphere is warmer the farther north one goes. But he's at loss to explain why the northern lights have no effect in the North.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-10-25

are insisting, perhaps to Adolf Hitler himself, that solution of the problems surrounding the new French government lies in making the count a sovereign Henry VI.
 On Leave From Legion
 The pretender normally would be taking things easy since he is on leave from a period of incog- nito soldering in the French for eign legion
 But the business in hand leaves few idle moments.
 Political matters come first, of course. closely allied with his au- thorship of Royalist newspaper articles.
 A consuming interest in avia- ton also takes it's toll in hours.
 And not overlooked is the nc cessity of making his athletic fig ure, delicate features, little smear of a moustache, blue eyes, and calm thoughtful manner as fla miliar as possible.
 As pretender to d non-existen'
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-10-25
Hollywood Sighn find Sounds
By sosb,c Ceo~s. l.

HOLLYWOOD Cal, Oct 25.-Confessions of Holywoods half after his interior varnish
 Am I havin' fun? We'll and no Yep it's won derfu the mornings That's fine. Birds singing rising Oakie shining = wonderful
 Parties different though Hardest is before dinner Everybody sitting around chaterng and glowing and don't know what With myself hold glass of soda pop in hand I walk and say something bright and amt bright and know it. coupa drinks and I'd thing I'd So always try to the parties late.
 After dinner keep the same line drink soda pop pop Sometimes pop isn't than the sllelac
 You know what's happening to me? Terrible thing The drunks annoy mel sit off in the me and look and think wfo-am-I get annoyed? it's shep and my buddies
 T was party the night the shelac flow ing the floor. but all around me. The host and hes talking and pulls him closer Talk right me = m drinkin breath Ha ha hohoi
 But parties cramped nowadays like days. Eveybodys guard People saying they're they afraid it'll get back the boss somebody who matters There used be real clambake Hollywood
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-10-25
WOMAN ATTACKED
 BY GOLDEN EAGLE

WALLOWA, Ore, Oct. 25.-Mrs. Barton Wade is in hospital to- day suffering from serious cuts in- flicted by a huge golden eagle that attacked Her.
 The bird swooped down on Ms Wade as she rode horseback near her ranch gme. The woman man aged to fight off the eagle, break ing one of it's wings. but the bird slashed ner again and again with it's beak and talons. The eagle was later shot. It had wing spread more than six feet.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-10-25
AP Feature Service

South of Gibraltar, far from France in miles yet near in flying hours, a trim, moustached aristo- crat busies himself at the task cf awaiting events
 He dictates to two secretaries. He sends many telegrams. He ln- tervieWs countless visitors.
 Over the activity hangs an air of expectancy, its pulse rising of falling with arrival of each mes sage from the north.
 The Count of Paris a young man who inherited a fortune esti- mated at s20,0O0,oo0, is awaiting word which would make him King of France.
 Scion of the House of Orleans, the 32-year-old nobleman believes restoration of the throne may be just around the corner"
 So from a retreat at Larache, in Spanish Morocco, he IS pulling strings. keeping in. close touch with Royalist sympathizers who
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-10-25
Boat, Bigger Blast, Bigger . Hole

Fisherman John Fujimori is in St. Anns Hospital today suffering from burns received when his 27- focs trolling boat blew up for the second time in as many days at the City Float.
 Fujimori was at loss to explain the explosion, but Waterfrcnters said gas fumes exploded.
 Bremen last night playsd water and chemicals on Fujimcslis beat for the second time, bat from the looks of the shattered cabin and wheelhousc, the 3lC97 has heard it's last call.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-10-25
Daddy Siand!ey Is Dead

SEATTLE, Oct. 25. J. F. Daddy" Standley, 96, longtime proprietor Of "Ye 0Ide Curiosity Shop" and one of Seattle's most widely known citizens, died tc- dr-- He '''~ result Of pneumonia.
 The little man with the black sAa, Cap, moved through the shadows cf his waterfront tour ist attraction, overflowing with curics and museum pieces from al ever the world, fer Al years.
 C. lloctors said his shop c0n- tained the worlds largest col lection ef Alaska curios and handicrafts.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-10-25
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Oct. 25. - Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is As, American Can 94. Anaconda 233s, Bethlehem Steel 831s, Commonwealth n q Southern K, Curtiss Wright 79s, General Motors 50, International Harvester 49, Kennecott 32a4, New York Central 14lla, Northern Paeif- ic T, United States Steel 63ss, Pound S4O3
 DOW, JONES AVERAGES
 The following are today's Dow Jones averages industrials l31.l5, rails 2S.57, utilities 2227.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-10-25
INVESTIGATING
 ONE NAH AGENCY

WASHINGTON, Oct. -o-Attor- rey General Jackscn alncunced to- day that Grand Jury proceedings have been instituted against the President of the Transocean News Service for possible violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Head of the organization was recently accused by Martin Dies of being Nazi agents.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-10-25
SOME STRICTNESS

MEMPHIS, Tenn-Ihe Tennes- see Powder Company plant is guard ed so closely, and the rules for ad- mittance are so strict. that even the guards mascot, a friendly liz tie pooch, wears an Identification badge.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-10-25
WEATHER SYNOPSIS

have fall during the the with the precipitation inches which recorded Ketchkan reported Yakutat Anchorage northward and ally clear Kodiak Peninsula the Seward Peninsula Mostly moderately ceilings visibtes prevailed this Ing the northern the Seattle Juneau
 weather art indicated O low of9 milibars t294 inches miles north of Atk high locate at 32 degrees north west.
 Juneau, october 26~--sunsse 7.5e m 525 pm
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-10-25
ANN|vERsARY

Twenty five years ago, Miss Cor della Davis became the bride of MT. William O. Carlson.
 Tonight, MT. and Mrs. Carlson will observe the event by a quiet family gathering at their home on Sixth and Seward. The couple has resided in Juneau since their wedding.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-10-25
ALICE CoUGHLtN ENRouTE

Alice Coughlin, in the cffice of inc Unemployment Compensation Experiment., is returning on the North Sea from a months vacation to the States.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-10-25
PERCY'S CAFE
s N eh Hs
AT PERCY'S CAFE Breakfast Dinner or Liqht
 Lunches . DELICIOUS FOOD . FOUNTAIN SERVICE . REFRESHMENTS

laughs Like when fellow took beefsteak to walked around that all
 party thought that funny But they'd prob say Throw that They definitely funny they walked and caught saving legs piano laughed like everything that.
 "Hollywoods different way remember when producer got in meeting and said about big This drunk night and nsulted but happy that we've signed him year contract
 Those the days when could get by with thing. used big names, big imagine the movies without em, but gone can't with step open and you knocked by the of people comin' take their place.
 Yep fun, all right what to do with the that's leave it alone play Fellow feel is the wagon sleep He bed early good after of ossin' turnin he's crazy thinks maybe sleep if takes two and he's 
 '.A1e? have trouble sleepns Not
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-10-25
f'tsT NT9" DEFf7 Returning from a visit to the

: t. ~.-. -1 ,.i1.s S-----As> / and child are passengers enroute here on the steamer North Sea MT. Swap is an employee at the Sanitary Piggly Wiggly.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-10-25
THE WEATHER
tBy the U. S. Weather Bureau) IT 6 DEp,RTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU

ara showers urday much change R highest Saturday gentle southeasterly
 Forecast for >o.he.s, portion Saturday ot temperature; )derate variable winds
 alpng tonight partly cloudy Saturday aste winds Cape Spence Cape Hnchnbrook gentle moderate easteIy northeaely Resurrection cloudy Kodiak, partly cloudy,
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-25
By JOSEPH S. HUFHAM
(Star CORRESPONDENT

DELCO, Nov. 24.-There are at
least three specific reasons that fur
bearing animals are on the increase
in Columbus county. They are: for
est protection against fire, trapping
prohibited and low prices on furs.
For the past few years more and
more interest has been shown in
forest conservation. Hunters have
become nor educated against care
lessness with camp fires and matches
thrown down after lighting pipes
or cigarettes. They like to cooper
ate against destruction that will
handicap them in game hunting.
A few years ago we were in the
fur gathering business, via traps.
guns and dogs. We saw some OF
our best game haunts made desolate
by ravaging flames. One after an.
other Of these haunts was burned
out and wave after wave Of lone
illness swept over us as we surveyed
these old game ranges without find
ing fresh signs of valuable little
.fur-bearing animals.
And we are speaking about a
peculiar kind of loneliness that is
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-25
Huffman Explains Why Fur-Bearing
Animals On Increase In Columbus

They say that the price is too dis
couraging. They can't trap legally
any more, and good, reliable tree
dogs are scarce. But the most dis
%couraging factor in hunting these
animals is the consistent low prices.
1t will be remembered that Ger
many was n of the best markets
of 'possum furs that America had.
That was before the powder key
blew up over a year ago in Europe.
But the prices had already gone
down here. Revenue collected by
Germany saw to that, and the trap
pers bore the major portion of loss.
Some Of the finest old trappers
of the game have quit hunting en-
tirely. They used tn frequent the
same hunts that we did. Some have
gone to farming, some to public jobs,
some are dead, and some have grown
too old to wabble about through
the bushes.
All in. all, the little ~fur-bearina ami
mails seem to like this new situation
fine. For the most part they can
ramble all night now without find
ing their toes crushed by steel jaws,
and if a hunter and a dog comes
along, all they have to do is jump
into the hollow of a tree.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-25

hard to describe. There r various
stages and promotions of loneliness,
but we know of but only n or two
degrees that surpasses that castaway
feeling a trapper feels when his game
infested trap lines are deserted by
little animals and the beautiful for
est has been made desolate by fire.
Getting out of the fur business did
force us into a more profitable
channel of business, but it didn't
take that old longing for the wilds
out Of our blood. The wilder a ciump
of swamp was the better we liked
it. And so it was with sincere re-
greet that we had to give up our old
trap lines and get out after a more
profitable income.
Increased interest in forest con-
servation of Columbus county, how
ever, has become encouraging. Hunt
ers of the old haunts we used to
roam have informed us that the
woods are filled with 'possums, rae
coons, skunks and foxes. The
streams have pretty nearly all dried
up, but evidence has been seen rela-
tive to an increase in minks, musk
rats and offers.
Hunters don't go out after these
animals SO regularly these days.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-25
CANNING CONTEST
WINNERS LISTED
Mrs. H. B. Bowman, Of San
ford, Takes First Place In
Kerr Competition

RALEIGH, Nov. 24.-Mrs. H. B.
the winner of the first prize in the
1910 Kerr Canning contest for farm
women in North Carolina, Mrs. Cor
nelia C. Morris, Extension economist
in food conservation at N. C. State
college, announced today. Mrs. Nor
ris vas in charge of the contest,
sponsored by the Kerr Glass Maru-
featuring corporation of S n d
Springs, Okla.
The contest has been an annual
event for many years. as a means
Of encouraging better and more
home canning for a practical live
at-home program among Home Dem
o%nstration club members.
The Lee county farm woma will
receive $40 in cash. Other prizes
awarded went to: Miss Ethel Sher-
mer of Yadkinville. Yadkin county,
second award of SIS: Mrs. ]. o. Prit'
chard of South Mills, Camden coun-
ty, third prize of SO; Mrs. Eason
Liiley of Williamson, Route ., Mar.
tin county, fourth prize Of 81; and
Mrs. Ben Fitzgerald of Pelham, Cas-
well county, fifth prize of 81.
Miss Mary E. Thomas. Extension
nutritionist, judged the 1910 state
contest. They announced that the
quality of the products entered SEEM
ed to be better than those entered
in past years.
Each exhibit consisted of n jar
of fruits, one jar of vegetables, and
one jar of meats. Three prizes OF
a dozen quart jars each were award
ed in county contests. The winning
entries in the county contests were
Judged for the state awards.
The contest was open to any bona
fide Home Demonstration club mem
Der and it was not necessary to
use Kerr jars. Prizes winners II
former contests were barred from
the 1910 competition.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-25
TO VISIT i
DUKE FOREST SOON
Arrangements Made For
Groups To Inspect Woods
In December, January

RALEIGH, Nov. "a Arrange
ments have been made for groupa
of farmers, accompanied by theil
county farm agents, to visit the
Duke Experimental Forest during
December and January, it was an
nounced today by R. w. Grae-
Der, extension forester Of N. c.
State college. He urges farmers to
contact their county agents and
tc take advantage of the oppor-
tunity.
Graeber said that DR.. c. F. Kor.
stan, dean of the School of For.
estry at Duke university and di-
rector of the Duke Forest, has Of
fered to make arrangements for
escorted tours of the forest by
groups organized by county agents.
Agents requested that Graeber
make up a tentative schedule for
the trips.
He has suggested that is to 20
farmers from each of two DUN
ties visit the forest on the same
day, and he has sent farm agents
the following suggested schedule
for their consideration. Alamance
and Orange counties, Wednesday.
December 4; Durham and Cas-
well, Wednesday, December IL;
Granville and Person, Friday,
January 3; Vance and Franklin,
Friday, January 10; Wake and
Lee, Friday, January II; and
Chatham and Randolph, Friday,
January "a.
The Duke officials have offered
to have a forestry representative
meet the farmers at the main gate
to the university at 10 o'clock on
the mornings selected for the visits
Dinner for the party will be ar.
ranged for in the public dining hall
or cafeteria on the Duke campus.
Graeber said that a group of IL
farm agents from six counties, to-
gether with other extension leaders
and himself, recently spent a day
inspecting the many interesting ex-
periments and demonstrations in
the Duke Forest.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-25
GRANGE PRESENTS
PLANS FOR 1871
Call For Strong Defenses And
Fair Share Of U. S. In
come For Farmers

SYRACUSE, N. Y, Nov. "a
R-The national Grange unveiled
today a 1871 platform for agricul-
ture - a fighting program" its
leader said,-embodying recon-
mendations for strong American
defenses and "a fair share of the
national income for agriculture.
The 12-plank platform, drafted
by the executive committee after
study of legislation and nearly 200
resolutions approved by delegates
to the million-member farm organ
ization's 74th annual convention,
also calls for:
Continuation of some" govern
ment benefit payments, elimina-
ton of trade treaties harmful to
agriculture" incentive payments
for production Of new crops need.
ed in national defense, develop.
ment Of cooperative marketing and
establishment of a voluntary quota
system to maintain prices.
ut is a fighting program" com,
mented national Grange Master
Louis j. Taber, a member of the
committee, which began its work
after close of the convention Sat
urday.
1T is one on which all sections
of the country can unite for the
best interests of the nation and the
advancement Of agriculture"
Also on the committee are Fred
J. Freestone, Interlaken, N. Y,
chairman; Ray W. Gill, Portland,
Ore, and Eugene A. Eckert, Mas
coutah, Ill. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-25
PROPER HANDLING
OF CURRENT URGED
Electricity Remains Threat
To Persons, Property IN
less Care Used
BY GENE KNIGHT
Assistant Extension Editor,
N. G.. State CoIIeoe

RALEIGH, Nov. 24.-R-Elec-
tricity has done wonders in tighten
ing the burden of farm families,
but it still remains a constant
threat to persons and property I'm.
less handled properly, D. E. Jones,
rural identification specialist of
the N. C. State college extension
service, said today.
Since prehistoric man discovered
the use of fire, probably no scien-
tific achievement has contributed.
more than has electricity to the
life, comfort, and power of human
beings. Yet it causes much death
and destruction, due largely to its
improper use.
Recently a special committee OF
the American society of safety en-
gineers conducted a study of 1O7
deaths caused by low voltage cur
rent. Of these deaths, 81 occurred
in homes. Appalling was the fact
that all of these home accidents
could have been avoided if only
Gil SASAAlS1AtoAy h41OW1COSC VI C1SC-
tricity had been observed.
Twelve of these were bathroom
fatalities due to the individual
making a damp contact between
some electrical fixture, cord, OF
appliance and some plumbing fix.
ture, seven were deaths from cleo
trical contact while on wet earth
or basement floors; six came from
ill-advised use of portable appli.
ances; one from amateur expert
mentation; and five from unclas.
sified causes.
The tremendous amount oil
rural electrification work now 60
ing on in North Carolina makes
it necessary that farm people,
many of whom r having theil
first experience with electric pow
err, be doubly cautious" Jones
said. Electricity can be made
practically a fool-proof form of
light, heat, and power"
First essential in the safety pro.
gram is that the home be wirec
properly. The wiring should be
done by a competent, financially
responsible, electrical expert who
can be depended upon to interpret
correctly and follow the national
electric code regulations. Many
amateur electricians and handy
men are not properly informed
Users should remember, too,
Jones said, that water is a 5000
conductor Of electricity. Touching
an exposed current-bearing part O.
an appliance or handling with
damp hands an electric cord, fix
ture, or appliance is dangerous.
With the approaching Christmas
season, thousands of newly-wirel
homes will have electrical decora'
tons for the first time. Designs
made from cotton, cardboard, OF
tinsel offer potential fire hazards.
IF "icicles" are used on trees.
they should be draped so that they
will not make contact with two
lamps on a string, since a short
circuit might result.
"A primary knowledge OF how
electricity works and the use o
common sense will save untolc
damage and injury to usars O
electric current" he said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-25
Triple Superphosphate
Recommended In Yancey

BURNSVILLE, Nov. PAR. V.
Angel is one Yancey county farmer
who highly recommends the use of
triple superphosphate on permanent
pastures, says Farm Agent r. H.
Grouse.
He said he had not realized the
value of the program until he re.
ceived 300 pounds Of triple SUPER
phosphate through the AAA last
spring. He applied it broadcast on
his two-acre COW pasture.
Before. the land received the ma
terial, he said, a COW could hardly
live on the pasture. This year. how
ever, he was able to Craze his COW
one month longer. In addition, she
came off sleek and fat.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-25
Farmers Asked To STUDY
Blue Mold Control Plans

than from untreated beds. At the
time of the first pulling, an aver
age of 3,474 more plants were pull.
ed per 100 square yards from the
treated than hom the ~untreated
(check) beds. An average of H..
929 more plants we're pulled per
100 square yards of plant bed space
from the fumigated areas than
from the untreated beds.
The red copied oxide spray
treatments in six demonstration
plant beds resulted in an increase
of -2,045 plants pulled per 100
square yards Of treated bed space
at the first pulling, and 1927 for
the season.
The P. D. B. treatment is effec.
tive after blue mold has appeared
in the plant bed, while the spray
is chiefly a preventive and must
be applied when the disease first
appears in the community, but be-
fore it reaches the plant bed to
be treated.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-25
Repairs May Be Made By Fill.
ing In Eroded Space With
Soil And Reseeding
GUY A. CALDWELL
General Agricultural Agent
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co.

NOdSC Lille ndllFOaU ".
eff the terrace outlet is a meadow
strip, repairs may be made by filling
in the eroded space with soil and
r%eseeding. Paving such eroded
places with light brush firmly an
chored to the ground, followed by
reseering, is often effective. These
repaired places should be fertilized
or MANFRED literally to stimulate
rapid growth. Repairs should be
made at once to any place where the
sod begins to wash off. Sod washed
out from a sodded ditch should be
replaced Immediately and, if neces-
sary, staked down.
prevention of erosion in water
ways is better than repair and the
best prevention is to keep the sod
in condition to Withstand at all times
the securing action of the water.
This may require an occasional ap-
plication of lime and fertilizer. If
the sod is Of Bermuda grass, well
established, and on a slope suf-
ficient to prevent an accumulation
of silt, very little maintenance will
be required. When silt accumulates
in any vegetable outlet it should be
loosened with a harrow or disc SO
hat it may be flushed out by the
next heavy rain.
eff the channel is of rock masonry
or concrete, pot holes will often form
due to the whirling of the water.
These are most apt to form just
below the dam and should be filled
with loose rock before they attain
any great size.
"Where engineering structures are
used. maintenance can be educe
materially by the use Of sod, prefer
ably Bermuda grass, around the ends
of the structures and on the slopes
of the banks.
eff a terrace discharges its water
into a wooded area, care should be
taken to prevent any undue wash
ing. bv the use Of brushs O II stake
dams maintained at points where
such erosion is beginning tc take
place.
Gully Control Maintenance
sMost gullies should require very
little maintenance. However, q few
minutes spent in repairing a diver
sion ditch or brush dam, or the plae.
ing of a shovel full of sod in a weak
place at the right time may mean
the difference between success OF
failure of previous work. More main
tenance will be necessary for gullles
in pastures and fields than for those
in woods, Gullies in pastures may
require protection from the trampln2
of cattle until vegetation is estab'
lished.
1.-THE chaff and light seed from
lespedeza seed cleanings or other
seer cleaning operations may be
used to good advantage in the sullles
tn mulch small areas with brush or
manure to check any erosion which
might get started.
"It is also necessary to keep IRE
out of the gullies as n small lire
can destroy all the work and pro-
sress of several years.