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The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-01-01
FinIanders Are Reported 10 Have Struck Ter
 rifle Blow
TlTANTIC STRUGGLE
 CONTINUES IN EUROPE
Twenty one Chinese War; planes BroughfDown by
 Japanese in Battle
(By Associated Press)

A roundup of the dolorouS heri- tage of unrest around most of the world, greeted the newborn year 194C ;.
 Germany, and the British and French Allies, are locked in titanic struggle now near four months old. {, It is agreed the year will be a momentous one.
 In the grim cold nOrth of Fin
 land, reports are that the Fin
 flanders have cut an entire Di-
 vision of Russian invaders to
 pieces, and thousands of the
 Soviets have been killed.
 NIPPON-CHINESE WARFARE
 Girded for continued warfare, Ja- pan, now in the third year of the undeclared warfare in China, is re- ported to have shot down 21 Chin- csc planes in a great aerial battle over Louchow, while China's Gen. eral, Chiang Kai Shek, began the New Year exhorting the Chinese Nationalists to further vigorous ac- tion.
 Civil Strife Abroad
 Civil strife looms on Ireland's horizon and Indias restless mill lions are seething with demands for independence from Great Britain.
 Thousands Dead, Turkey
 Turkey is counting thousands of dead as the result of natural cal- amities earthquake, blizzards, and floods.
 The Nations not yet touched with violence started the New Year trod- ding paths of peace with trepida- tion.
 Secretary of State Cordell Hull expressed hope that 1940 will see the return of peaceful relat tio1ls among all nations but warned that warfare will affect Amer ica more heavily than it has so far.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-01-01
Years S22, 100000 Is Just Short of 1938 Record
 Copper Cut Off TERRIT0RY'S MINES
 YIELD S24,88S, 900 Geological Survey De- CIares Results Eneour-
 aging for Future
WAHINGTON. Jan. 1-Mineral production in 1899 in Alaska had a value of $24,888,O00, a decrease

WAHINGTON. Jan. 1-Mineral production in 1889 in Alaska had a value of $24,888,O00, a decrease e. S5,700.OO0 compared with the
 qstous yeEsf. 'r-''' V -''p
 The Geological Survey in an- nouneing preliminary figures said copper and silver mines which in the previous year produced nearly three million dollars worth of cop per were not operative in 1889 but results as a whole were good and encourage a belief in the continu- ing high rate of output of min erals from the Territory"
 Fourth Highest in History
 Production in 1889, the survey pointed out, was the fourth high est in the history of the Terri tory.
 Total worth of minerals produced since the 1880 survey is set at $500, 100000.
 Gold production last year was the second highest in value in history, only 1888 topping by S270.- coo the s22.eOo,ooo worth produced in 1929
 Before 1894 gold brought $2067 per ounce, compared with $35 an ounce after that date.
 Quantity Not Impressive.
 The Geological Survey said on a quantity basis this years produc- ton was exceeded by not only 1888 but each year from 1905 to 1917 exclusive.
 Gold produced since 1880 was announced to be worth s535.557 GOO and gold production to have been 68 percent from placer mines and g percent from lodes.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-01-01
ED. x. SiiII Big Newsin
 US. poIifits
Nation Waiting for His An sWer Concerning
 Third Term
By MORGAN M. BEATTY
 AP Feature Service Writer

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1--The po- litical decade began and ended with the outs blaming the ins for haywire economics. Nineteen thirty was hard ly month old before Cactus Jack Garner charged President Hoover with lack of capacity or courage or both.
 The country has ios5 confidence in the President, he said. That's what's causing chaotic economic conditions
 Almost to the day, nine years later, former President Hoover charged the New Deal had tried to make extravagance a virtue.
 Songs of economic hallucina- tion,' he said, substitute for the brutal clang of the cash register"
 Authorization or chaos, or what ever the thirties were definitely packed with political action.
 Hoover's Reconstruction Finance Corporation and debt moratorium failed to stem panic.
 President Roosevelt promised to drive the money changers from the temple. Whether that's what he did is still moot, but there did follow the most vigorous reform era in American history.
 Before he was swept back into office in 1886 the stage had been set for the decades bitterest political set-to, the Supreme Court Revers- als of such New Deal legislation as the MIRA started it all
 The President proposed to Increase the court in order to overthrow the so-called conservative majority. On that issue he took his first political licking, in '37
 Next the voters sent back to the Senate three out of four Democrats the President suggested should be kicked out of office. And the Re-
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-01-01
RUTH GOULD, ". K. CLARK
 ARE WEDDED
Former Member of Empire Staff, PWA Employee,
 Married in Seattle

SEATTLE, San. 1-At private New Years Eve ceremony Ruth Eli zabeth Gould, of Weston, Massachu- setts, wed William King Clark, of Seattle, at the Trinity Episcopal Church.
 Attendants were MT. and Mrs. Ear ling Hendricks Bugge, former Ju- neau residents.
 Also present were several members of the groom's family.
 MT. and Mrs. Clark will be at home in Seattle about January 15 after a jaunt to Sun Valley.
 Mrs. Clark, the bride, is we'll known in Juneau where she was on the staff of the WPA office for some time.
 The groom, Bill, as he was known to his hundreds of friends in Ju- neau, was reporter on The Empire, news commentator for The Empire on the broadcast over KINY and for the past several years, up to last September, advertising manager on The Empire. MT. Clark resigned from The Empires staff to go to Seattle in the interest of his estate left by his mother.
 The Empires staff and scores of others, wish the couple all the hap piness attained by married life.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-01-01
16,ooo-T0N
 NAz| LINER
 GOES HOME
St. Louis Reported 10 Have Slipped Through Bril-
 ish Blockade

BERLIN, Jan. l. = The official German News Agency DNB an- nounces that the 16,000 ton German liner St. Louis has slipped through the British Naval blockade and reached a home harbor" after an absence of seven months.
 The announcement does not dis close the homeward route.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-01-01
AIR RAIDER SHOT DOWN
 BY BRITISH
Other Germ an Bombers Are Driven Off Over
 Shetland Isles

LONDON, Jan. British fight ing planes are officially reported to have shot down German plane over the North Sea while British pursuit craft and antiaircraft drove off two German planes flying over the Shetland Islands.
 Some bombs are reported to have been dropped on the air raid over the Shetland Islands but no damage is said to have been done.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-01-01
GRATEFUL ADOLF

VARAZDIN, Yugoslavia, Jan. l Hitler has presented the town ot Varazdin with an auto-bus. The gift is in recognition of the hospi- taIity the town accorded Austrian Nazis who fled there after the as- sassination of Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss in the attempted Nazi putsch in Vienna in 1884.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-01-01
British Ship
 IsSent Down
 ByExpIosion
Craft Sinks So Quickly 20 of Grew Believed fo
 Have Perished

LONDON, can. l-The British steamer Boxhill, $500 tons, sank in the North Sea after an explosion
 Twenty members of the crew are believed to be lost. Twelve survlv- ing members of the crew of 32 land- ed at British port.
 Survivors said the Boxhill sank so quickly there was no time to launch many of the lifeboats.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-01-01
Spanish Ship
 Burns ai Sea
Over Four Hundred Pas sengers, Grew Rescued
 in Answer 10 sos

MADRID, Jan 1.-The Spanish steamship Cabo San Antonio is a smoulderirg derelict about 500 miles off the Canary Islands.
 The 40S persons aboard the ship, including 280 passengers and 128 crew members were rescued by ships which answered the sos sent out by the Cabo San Antonio.
 The steamer was on voyage from Buenos Aires to Spain when the fire broke out
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-01-01
THE FIRE SEX

MACON, Ga, Jan. 1-The ladies of the quitting bee at the First Baptist Church smelled smoke They tossed down their sewing, grabbed axes and buckets and went to work on a partition inside of which flames were cracking. By the time the firemen arrived, the ladies. thank you, had the blaze well i'll hand.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-01-01
OLYMPIA, Wash, Js

OLYMPIA, Wash, Jan. 1. = Thanks to State Liquor Board funds, a prosperous water system and pinball machine license fees, the town of Ridgefield, near van- couver, Wash, will NOT ask its citizens for one penny of taxes next year. Ridgefield's 600 citi- zens were assessed on a 6-rnilf besis this year; 2 mills in 1888.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-01-01
Old Investigations Flushed Quarry But Modern Type Now
 Hunts If Down, Then Kills fl
By PRESTON GROVER

WASHINGTON, Jan. l. The day of the Congressional killer" investigation has arrived to dis place the long series of whoop-er- up Investigations designed to put across pet pieces of legislation.
 Many of the methods adopted by the one are about. as fantastic as those of the other.
 Two killer" investigations are underway and third has already completed it's work. The Smith committee Investigating the Ma tional Labor Relations Board has already brought out enough evil dence of dissension and peculiar performances to put the boards life in some jeopardy at the com- ing session of Congress.
 The Dies committee was largely credited with bringing about the defeat of Frank Murphy last year in his race for reelection as Gov ernor of Michigan. It is adding to the shelling directed by the Smith committee at the Wagner Act.
 The House investigation of WPA activities last summer killed the Federal Theater Project by ex- posing an ver-dosage of Commu- mist influence.
 What a contrast are these to the pattern of earlier investigations of the type which began with the securities and banking investiga- ton in 1883 and 1884. Banking practices, stock market manipula tions and phoney security flotations were paraded before the incredu- lous eyes of newly critical Con- gress and a country at large, both of which were smarting under the scorch of the depression But of it came the Securities and Exchange Commission and a volume of legis- lation designed to make good bankers out of bad bankers and to wipe out trick security issues al- together It has worked so effec- lively that now the cries arise from the other direction-that regula- tion is stifling enterprise.
 The InSull debacIe brought a de- mand for drastic utility reform. The holding company bill result ed At the hour of a crucial test as to the kind of teeth it would have. the Black anti-lobbying in- vestigation got busy. A utility com- pany had tried to drum up an ap-
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-01-01
WISE DOG OBTAINS
 HIS OWN LICENSE

RADFORD. Va, Jan. 1. = Folks here say w. R. Withers' dog is plenty smart and that the dog catcher hasn't got a chance.
 The Withers had been talking Gin the pups presence about get ting 8 license, which the state would require at the age of four months. And, they will tell you, the dog appeared next day hold ing collar in her mouth with a l939 license tag attached.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-01-01

BRYANT. Ind. Jan. Farmer John Thorton wondered why one of his Jersey cows was getting skinny and giving less milk.
 A veterinarian examined the COW and decided to operate.
 Inside he found a staple, piece of glass, two shingle nails and pins, pieces of fence wire.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-01-01

ARIZONA'S EIGHT national for ests have total area of more than 100000 acres.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-01-01
ROBERT FE(HNER
 |S DEAD
Organizer of Civilian Con- servation Corps
 Passes Away

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.--Robert Fechner, who put depression's idle youth to work rebuilding Americas forests and parks. is dead, at the age of 63.
 President Roosevelt said Fech- ner brought to a public service a great industry by great adminis- trative abaility and interchangeable efforts
 Fechner died Sunday as the re- suit of complications of heart and lung ailments.
 Fechner formed forest army of unemployed young men and war vet erans in the early days of the de- pression in the New Deal and this army is now known as the eco, Civilian Conservation Corps.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-01-01
VISITED ALASKA

Robert Fechner visited Alaska sev- eral years ago.
 Today Gov. Ernest Gruening said the CCC Directors loss was a great loss to the Nation
 No other Government program has been so universally praised, the Governor said.
 Fechner had been i'll for a long time, the Governor said. so the news of his death was not great surprise, but it was. the Governor emphasized, great loss.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-01-01

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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-08-16
0stlund Runs
On His Record
He's Candidate in
First District

In statement recalling his
previous service as a county COM
missioner. Carl Ostlund Of Park
land announced Thursday his can
didacy for the Republican nomins-
ton for commissioner from the
first district
I feel" ostlund declared. that
having filled the office Of county
commissioner before. there are
many people in Pierce county who
are familiar with nv record then
and know Of my fitness TO serve
again.
NY engineering training was an
advantage 10 me then and IL should
prove Of value in estimating nv
competency to deal with county
business Of the future.
For one thing. pertinent to the
primaries. ! am on the side of
those who feel that no small clique
should seek to perpetuate its CON
troll by debating who a district
candidate should be. and endeavor
10 exclude all other candidates for
the same position.
A number OF my friends have
urged me 10 file. independent Of
any such eliques. and that / have
done"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-08-16
Navy Reserve Will
Get More Bases

WASHINGTON = Secretary Of
Navy Frank Knox announces three
new naval reserve air bases will
be established immediately. and
facilities Of Is others win b ex-
panded TO handle the training Of
1 500 reserve aviators monthly.
Knox said the new bases. fol-
lowing recommendations OF = spe-
cial board. will be established at
New Orleans. Dallas and Atlanta.
In addition. facilities at reserve
bases at Philadelphia. Squantum.
Mass: Anacosta. d. c.; Seattle;
Oakland. Calf. Long Beach,
Calf: Crosse Islen. Mich: Grand
view. ILL.,: Minneapolis. St Louis,
New York. opalocka, Fla. and
Kansas City, No.. are to be en-
larged.
Knox said o.0oo 900 had been
made available under the first sup
Elemental defense appropriation
bill for this purpose. The bases
viii be able to handle about 100
flyers apiece when the program il
at a peak. At present, reserve
bases are handling Is to % per
month.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-08-16

Yesl During this Pre-Labor
Day Sale Wards allow you
from 1910 to $7.35 from the
regular low list prices of De-
Luxe Tires and Tubes! This
liberal allowance includes a
trade-in on your old tirel Save
in this salei
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-08-16
HERE'S MORE ABOUT
Page One. Column One
ARY1 nN paaw ~

McChord Field officials would
prefer 4 development close n.
but Just outside the city
limits.
Nevertheless. It seems that
the housing authority, once It
IS created. can DC trusted -
select a proper location and
city sites presenting any adj
vantages over suburban ones
would find favorable consid-
GRAFTON.
Those who are best inform
ed are not certain whether
there would be any tax value
to such a development The
city needs taxable develop
ments, though it could afford
TO enter into this kind of
project. tax or no tax, on the
basis that project improved
acreage would undoubtedly
stimulate other real estate
activity in the vicinity that
would be taxable.
In any event. expenditure
of approximately 81, 900, 900
for $50 more homes in Ia
coma means another big pay
roll for the building trades
and purchase of much locally
manufactured material - be-
tween now and Christmasl
Port of Tacoma commits
sioners say they are pre-
pared TO put a survey crew
into the field to locate a deep
extension of Hylebos water
way and TO relocate East Tay-
Tor way-lust as soon as they
receive from the county COM
missioners the deeds to the
900 acres of tidelands author
lied by vote of the people to
put into industrial sites.
County commissioners say
the deeds are in the process
of drafting right now and
that the transfer of title to
the Port is a mere matter of
legal and clerical detail TO
make certain that descrip-
lions are sound.
Port eommi ssioners say
they expect to move rapidly
as soon as the deeds are re-
eeived, but can't make a step
until then.
They expect to spend some
money to start the waterway
extension from its present
terminus at the turning basin
in front of the Penn Salt
plant. The survey they con-
template would locate the
waterway and dedicate the
strip to waterway purposes.
That would be the basis for
all other development of the
area.
Port commissioners have
some important development
ideas for major industries if
they can ever bring them to
accomplishment.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-08-16
Main Street
Gotngs, Conin0s and Do,nos
Of Tocomans rs the Re-
porter Found Them.

Jane Kirkland Stilwen and hus-
band. Ed. starting ont for n. Y.
Worlds fair and planning stops
In Michigan and Illinois en- route
Elizabeth Lay of Rosedale consid-
sring trip to Mexico-Lyle Iath-
rop explaining he is not a CONNER
oisl photographer 49, Bill n ilder-
brand finding il difficult to stay
on his diet-BlIl Fisher deliver
ing Photographic. v. Munsey
keeping business appointment -
Robert Wilson visiting from Cali
fornia - Alice Clark shopping
Mrs. Irene Barnwell and Barbara
Scribner enjoying a short talk
Barry Glen recalling old Tacoma
high school pals Of 30 years ago
Dick Greenwood feeding popcorn
TO Music Box theater cat Whitley
Dahlager whistling tune while
waiting for elevator.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-08-16
Authorities Hunting Ships Maid in Death Of Nome Woman

BUFFALO, ". "a Great
Lakes cruise ship maid was sought
by police today for questioning
In the death Of Mrs. Benjamin
Aozee, 50. Of Nome. Alaska.
Authorities said the maid, whose
name was withheld. ieft she steam
err Seeandbee here under mystic
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-08-16

investigating the possibility Of
murder. when Frank Elliott. a
brother Of Mrs. Mozee. said he be-
lieved she had been slain. Elliott
said his sister had carried a large
sum Of money. A coroner's report
said Mrs. Mozees head had been
bruised and that her hands were
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-08-16

smeared with grease.
Mrs. Mozee boarded the Seeand-
bee at Cleveland July %. but her
disappearance was not noticed un-
til this week. She was the daugh-
ter of the late Henry Wood Elliott,
of Cleveland. a prominent figure in
the development OF Alaska.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-08-16
Michigan Places Ban
On Caddies Under IA

LANSING. Mich.-Miehigan de-
psrtment of labor and industry
has ruled that boys under IA will
not he allowed to work as caddies
on Michigan golf courses. Bows
past IL must place on file with
the golf club a working permit
from local school authorities
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-08-16
Executive Turns to
Labor of War Coll

BIRMINGHAM. Eng.-To inn
press upon his workmen the ne
cessity Of concentrated effort, N.
C. Lancaster. finance director of
Fisher and Ludlow. well known
engineering firm of Birmingham.
rolled up his shirt sleeves and
went TO work as a laborer in his
own factory.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-08-16

rious circumstances" at the end of
a cruise during which Mrs. hozee
disappeared. Mrs. Aozee's body
was washed ashore near Geneva
township. o.. two weeks ago, but
was not identified until yesterday.
Federal bureau Of investigation
agents and Cleveland police began
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-08-16
fatal Accidents Occur
In arm Homes, Too

MONTGOMERY. Ala.-Approx-
mately two-thirds of all fatal farm
accidents in Alabama in the past
six years occurred in the home.
according to q state health de-
partment survey.
Evening star., 1940-02-07
Natures Children
Walking Fern
CamptOsOrus rhiZophyllus

along over them, beautifying every
spot it touches.
The unusual little fronds spread
about in circular tufts. They spring
from small ebony rootstock and
they rarely rise very high in the
world. Their mission is to cover
ugly spots, and to this end they
devote themselves so completely that
once you have seen the results of
their efforts you are convinced they
have done well.
The fronds are heart-shaped at
their base or cared, tapering to a
long slender tip. Some have been
found to be IS inches in length. Peep
under the fronds, for some have
secrets you may learn. On the broad
basal portion of a frond you will
discover the sporangia, which are
borne in linear or oblong sort. Some
are oblique to the midrib, others par
allel. Those close to the midrib are
generally single, but the outer ones
are usually double or joined with
others at the ends, thus forming
strange and charming patterns. The
early fronds found In the spring are
short, blunt at the tip and as a
rule do not bear sori. Their mis-
sion is to grow and attend to other
functional duties.
Your attention Is attracted to the
habit of the fronds as they arch
over until they finally touch the
earth. Then they take root, form a
new plant and are the length of
themselves farther on their journey
In a way they are something like
the measuring worm. only they are
fixed and the new plant steps for
ward.
You will be delighted at the num-
bers Of walking ferns you will see,
once you have located your first
ones. Keep your fern articles in
their special section, for they are
among the most numerous and in
teresting plants you will be able to
identify as you investigate the in
! habitants of the woods.
Evening star., 1940-02-07

ing fern, whose dark green, leathery
fronds endure the winters cold with
apparent unconcern.
Showing decided preference for
limestone rocks and growing where
the soil is pliable and thin, the roots
pressing their way toward stone,
shale, granite, gneiss and quartzite-
If they are nearby-grow into fine
specimens.
Because of its sturdiness, this fern
is fast becoming a favorite in pri-
vate fern gardens. Where there is
deep shade, it loves to step out of
chinkS in the rockery and move
Evening star., 1940-02-07
Bunkheud to Address
Democratic Club

Speaker of the House Bankhead
will address members of the North
Carolina Democratic Club at its po-
litical rally at pm. Friday in the
Raleigh Hotel, Wesley E. Mcdonald,
club president, announced today.
North Carolina Senators Reynolds
and Bailey are expected to attend.
The Metropolitan Police Boys Club
Band will play before the rally. A
Cherokee County hillbilly band will
entertain,
Evening star., 1940-02-07
Romspeck Bill Urged
On hutch Act Supporters

Supporters In Congress OF the
Hatch Act, banning political activity
by Government employees, are urged
to vote for the Ramspeck bill to
cover into civil service thousands Of
exempt positions in letters which
Jacob Baker, president of the United
Federal Workers of America, is send
ing out.
The Ramspeck bill is pending in
the House, where a special rule has
been granted for its consideration.
Evening star., 1940-02-07
BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY.

The walking fern must have been
quite a pedestrian. Whether it
walked from Georgia to Kansas or
the other way round, we are not
likely to have fully established in
our mind. The chances are the trek
was from the South, since ferns
are tropical plants.
In the early spring days a little
perseverance on your part, when
out on your nature walks in the
woods, will reveal some of the more
hardy ferns. One Of the most
charming and ambitious is the walk