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Evening star., 1940-01-28
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Evening star., 1940-01-28

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complete operation of the new TIN
is now merely matter of seconds.
This advance is in keeping with the
public's interest in the improvement
and refinement Of home equipment
and makes the TN more than ever
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Evening star., 1940-02-11
9y the Associated Press.


L1NCOLN'S NEW SALEM, ILL.,,
Feb. 10.-A modern airliner and
an old-fashioned stage coach will
carry the mail" again to New Salem
Monday. celebrating the first postal
service here since Postmaster Abra-
ham Lincoln lost his job a century
ago.
The little log post ONCE, where
Lincoln held his first Government
job, will be reopened on the 131st
anniversary of the Civil War Presi-
dents birth with more ceremony
than this reconstructed village ever
saw.
For three years-from 1883 to
l836-young Lincoln handled the
mail at . little hardwood desk in
the Hill-McNamar store. Here he
studied Law from borrowed books
and campaigned for the State Leg
islature while delivering letters,
stuffed in his hat, to neighbors.
Postmaster General James A.
Farley will lead the ceremonies
Monday when = fourth-class post
ONCE is opened in the rebuilt log
structure. Gov. Horner and H.
linois' two Senators, Scott w. Lucas
and James NJ. Slattery, will partici-
pate In the program to be broad
cast from 1::30 to 2 pm.
The first incoming mail will ar
rive after an eight-hour stagecoach
trip from Springfield. An hour later
. modern mail plane will make
the trip in 10 minutes and drop
another bag Of mail.
The new postmaster-the first
since Lincoln lost his job when the
post ofIice was moved to nearby
Petersburg on May 80. 1836-is John
w. Gellerman, = Menard County
farmer.
Gellerman, who will be paid &C.
cording to postal receipts expected
from the thousands Of tourists who
visit New Salem State Park yearly
hopes he will make more than the
t25 to $50 q year that Lincoln Il
reputed to have received.
The new post omce's cancella.
Evening star., 1940-02-11
LincoIn's 'Boot-Lifting' Device
Is Shown at Patent Office
ExponsibIe Air Chambers Were Supposed
To Help Croft Over ShooIs

Patent No. 6489 is Just another de-
vice registered by the United States
Patent Once. Like thousands of
others. the contraption never
amounted to anything. The inventor
sought to lift, so to speak, 4 boat
by its own bootstraps.
Probably the only earthly good the
invention has served is to illus
trate another little known but warm
ly human side Of Abraham Lincoln,
who, like millions Of others, dreamed
futilely Of making = fortune on 4
patent.
The model that the then Repre-
sentative from Illinois filed with the
Patent once In 1849 was taken from
its glass showcase yesterday while
United States Patent Commissioner
Conway P. Coe explained its opera
ton to M. L. Wilson, president OF the
Lincoln group here.
Queer Looking Device.
The model is miniature wooden
boat about 2 feet long. Lincoln's
queer-looking device on the sides
was supposed to provide additional
buoyancy for boat In shallow water,
thus permitting the vessel to navi-
gate safely over dangerous shoals.
- The device consisted Of two ex.
pensible chambers running length
wise on either side Of the boat.
Lincoln thought the chambers could
be pumped full Of air when shallow
water WAS reached. forcing the cham
bery down into the water and lifting
the vessel up.
Whether the contraption ever was
actually fitted to q boat. or whether
it would work II 50 fitted, is not
known, but Lincoln managed to get
patent any way. Mr.. Wilson be-
lieves Lincoln himself might have
whitfield out the model. since he
was quite proficient in handling 4
jackknife. The model, in an excel
lent state OF preservation. is well
constructed, but not highly nm
ished.
In Own Handwriting.
Lincoln's original application for
the patent, in his own handwrit-
ing, is one of the highly -prized pos
sessions Of the Patent Once, which
on April 10 celebrates the l50th
anniversary of President George
Washington's signing Of the first
patent act. Mr.. Wilson's visit with
Mr.. Coe, Of course, was prompted
by Lincoln's 131st birthday anni-
versary, which is tomorrow.
Historians generally agree that
Lincoln first saw the need for some
kind of q device that would enable
Z boat to navigate in shallow water
while engaged rs . hand on nat
boats, which were vital part of
the transportation system before the
full development Of railroads.
Mr.. Wilson, an ardent collector
Evening star., 1940-02-11
|LincoIn's S Parents
Were Not Poor,
Cleric Thinks
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
CHESTER, N. j., Feb. l0.-Popu.
lar fancy likes to depict Abe Lin
coin as the offspring Of poverty
stricken parents.
The Rev George T. Lennon, pas
tor OF the Chester Federated Church
and owner of one of the worlds
largest collection of Lincolniana,
prefers to think he wasn't.
To back up his belief, the clergy
man-hobbyist produced today docu-
ments found after q years search
which purported to show that the
Civil War Presidents father, Thom-
as Lincoln, paid 1850 for his we'd
ding outfit and still had $l25 left in
q drawing account.
THE fact that Thomas Lincoln
was dolled up for the occasion in
dicates that his wife-to-be was
dressed accordingly, and therefore,
she was no pauper either" the Rev.
Mr.. Lennon asserted.
He expressed opinion that the
young Lincoln was - fair sample Of
the pioneers" who had to endure
more than the average number of
hardships and fight for everything
he achieved.
But the belief that his parents
were poverty stricken Is . untrue ~
the clergyman asserted.
I'm those days no poor man could
afford such expensive clothing, not
even for his wedding"
He said he located copies Of an
account book Of 4 store in Hodgen-
vile, Ky, where the elder Lincoln
fwas buying agent showing that he
paid $08 for "the cloth and trim
'1nings" and $3.50 for his wedding
hat.
Facsimiles Of those entries and
another showing that Thomas Lin
coin had $l25 left in the drawing
account after acquiring his trous-
seau are in the possession Of Judge
Otis H. Mather, Hodgenville banker,
the Rev. Mr.. Lennon said.
The Lennon collection, which has
been bequeathed to Drew University
at Madison, N. j.. includes 800 books
and more than 10000 mounted and
5000 unmounted items of Lincoln
likenesses, speeches, plays, menus,
dedication and unveiling programs,
jokes, editorial and oratorical ref
erences to the President.
The owner has extended his in
terest in Lincolniana to determine
ing the extent to which Mr.. Lin
coins name is commercialized
through such media as trade marks,
corporate names, hotel and tnsur-
ance advertising and radio pro-
grams.
Evening star., 1940-02-11

IS Red Cross Workers
Dispatched 10 Georuia :

Fifteen Ped Cross disaster workers
today were 1t work In Albany, Ca,
to help succor mors than $50 persons
caught In . tornado which struck
tho town early yesterday.
They were dispatched from vari.
Gus points yesterday upon receipt
Of telephone reports Of the storm,
DR.. William De Kieine, medical
director Of the Red Cross, and Miss
Helen Dunn, Red Cross Nursing
Service assistant director, and three
other workers departed from WASH
ington by train and automobile. Six
nurses were sent from Macon, Ga.
and flve other members Of the Red
Cross who were in Georgia and Ala.
Evening star., 1940-02-11
bsma were. instructed to 60 to the

bsma were instructed to go to the
scene. 80
Three workers from Washington
were Miss Charlotte johnson and
Preston Belts.
Blankets. cots and first aid were
being rushed yesterday from Fort
Benning, Ca, Army post.
Dewitt Q. Smith, who dispatched
the party, said yesterday he had in
structed John Phillips Of the Albany
Red Cross Chapter to meet all emer-
sency needs.
Evening star., 1940-02-11
First Postmaster Since Lincoln
To Be Installed at New Salem

ton stamp will bear the words,
"Lincoln's New Salem" to avoid con-
fusion with . modern New Salem
in Pike County, which sprang up
after the old village tumbled into
decay. The rest Of the villagers
moved out one by one not long
after Lincoln left in 1887 to seek
his fortune In Springfield.
Evening star., 1940-02-11
Dynamite Cops in Cool

NEWARK. N. j., Feb. 10 R.-Mrs.
Mary Murphy noted 4 can in coal
she was about to shovel into the
furnace. An inspection revealed the
van contained Is dynamite caps.
Police said the caps probably had
been intended for coal mine blast
ing and had been dropped into the
coal accidentally,
Evening star., 1940-02-11
Wrong Number Aouin

RENO. NeY., Feb. 10 R.-A Reno
citizen picked up his telephone.
dialed 313l. The hre department
quickly responded. Shortly after
ward the station received another
call. Sorry" IN apoloeetic voice
said, II meant to call taxicab."
Evening star., 1940-02-11
To Aid FOREIGN Students

Universities and colleges Of Japan
will sponsor = young mems cultural
association which will extend neces-
sary help to foreign students study
ing there.
Evening star., 1940-02-11

Of Lincolnia, recalled this saying at
tributed to the then 40-year-old
would-be inventor:
With this invention could float
. nat boat in = heavy dew"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-21
AihIeiics
 Are 10 Be
 In R!.lln.lnin!lq .l
Connie Mack Reaches Coast with Ball Team-His
 Prediction

ANAHEIM, Cal, Feb. 2l. - The oldest man in the baseball busi- ness, Connie Mack, predicts that his Philadelphia Athletics will be one of the toughest clubs of the American League this season.
 The veteran manager has arrived, with his team, to open the spring training camp. The Athletics have 5een near the league cellar most 3f the time for the past several 5ears, but Mack has turned cut yorld champions more than once n his long career.
 Mack said the Athletics will lose time in getting down to busi- ess. Said he: We'll start work immediately and that means now tt will take some time to get oning. but everything points to ne of cur best seasons.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-21
Enemies Are Enen1ies;;War
 Rules Given
Ndzis Must Not Contact Prisoners-Iredson
 10 Do So

BERLIN, Feb. 2l.-"The enemy remains the enemy" the German people have been told in cam paign to prevent citizens from contracting the several hundred thousand war prisoners taken by the German Army.
 Treason is the charge placed against Germans who smuggle let ters or other written matter to prisoners or who assist escape. Any contact whatsoever, without permission, is punishable.
 Prisoners must be isolated, in the official view. although this is difficult, for they are being worked in fields and other places where they must be close to people who are not their guards.
 Prisoners are held responsible for the seepage of much military information across frontiers dur ing the World War. Women who unwittingly sympathized with pris- oners are held up as their great est accomplices. In this war, they must not offer prisoners food or drink. Some, during the World War, even accompanied prisoners to the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-21
HOW THEY STAND
FOUR GENERATIONS OF ALASKANS HOLD
 OAKLAND REUNION

Four generations of Alaskans saw their picture on the front page of the Oakland Tribune recently when the family group held reunion in the California City.
 Pictured were Mrs. H. D. Mac Leod, formerly of Juneau, who now lives in Oakland her daugh- ter, Mrs. G. M. Crowther, formerly of Juneau and Ketchikan and now of Seattle; Mrs, A. M. Mackenzie of Ketchikan, and her 15-morth- old daughter Heather Kay Mac Kenzie.
 Mrs. Macleod is the mother Of Stella Young of Juneau. Mrs. Crowther is her sister, Mrs Mac Kenzie her niece and Heather Kay her grandniece.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-21
EIks
 Triumphin
 Pin0per,er
Juneau 182 Ahead of Ket. ehikan Rivals as Bowl
 ing Tourney Begins

Juneau Elks bowlers got off 70 flying head start away from their Ketchikan rivals last night, winning two cut of three games and marking up an evenings total of 2,5O9 pins, 132 ahead of the visitors
 The annual tournament will be decided on a total pins basis for five matches.
 High man for the evening was pr. A. w. Stewart of Juneau with 589. Two other Juneau Elks Claude Carnegie and Mike Ugrin posted scores of better than 500. High man for Ketchikan was Ready with 492.
 The visitors dropped the first two games by large margins, but finally hit their stride in the final game of the night, beating Juneau by 54 pins.
 Today is a breather for the bowl CTS, who will attend lodge this evening and later be guests at the Shrine dance Bowling will re- sume tomorrow at o'clock, with another three-game match at 7::30. Scores were as follows:
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-21
SEARCHLIGHT I5
 INSTALLED HERE
 TO SCAM CLOUDS

A giant searchlight has been in stalled here to stab into the night over Juneau at three hour inter- vals to measure the height of clouds above the earth.
 The apparatus. known as ceiling light protector" will go into opera tion tonight-if there are any clouds Meteorolcgist H. J. Thompson of the U S. Weather Bureau said.
 Throwing beam from a 450 watt lamp the searchlight will measure cloud height accurately up to 75,00o feet. The light has been installed at the Forest Service warehouse and will be operated by the Wealth CT Bureau office in the Federal Building by remote control
 Wires Leased
 A pair of telephone wires have been leased for turning it on and off. A switch in the office operates a relay switch at the warehouse, which trips the light on.
 AS the light throws. vertical beam, and the distance from the Federal building to the warehouse is known, all that must be learned to determine the height of the clouds is the angle from the build ing roof observation point and the illumination on the cloud This angle is measured with a clinometer.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-21
RAY WARD WINS LYING CONTEST
 OF FEDERATION
0ufdoes Four Competitors for Honors at Lunch
 con Session Today

Ray Ward. who stage-managed the recent Aranias Club session at the Elks' Club, won first prize ii, another liars contest today when he was awarded a pair of lollipops for telling the best story at tthe monthly meeting of tn National Federation of Federal, Employees.
 Wards lie, which he told with as much aplomb as if it had been true concerned some of his relatives and a terrible storm in the dust bowl.
 Other contestants were Fred R Geeslin of the Office of Indian Af- fairs. Carl Russo of the Weather Bureau, John Newmarket of the Bu- reau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection and Floyd c. Betts oi the Public Survey office.
 President Harold Smith presided Judges were John M. Clark, Sally Shafer and Walter B. Heisel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-21
GR0(ERS WIN
 SIX SET T0'S
 AT BRUNSWICK
Ketlhikan EIks Are 10 Bowl Aoainst Two Other
 Teams Tonight

Down at the Brunswick last night Home Grocers won three games from Percy's, George Brothers won three from Takus and Home Groc- CTS also won three from Brunswick Cafe.
 No remarkable scores were rolled and few tallies went over 500.
 At five o'clock this evening. the first of series of three game matches will be bowled across the three alleys of the Brunswick be- tween te ms representing the Brunswick. the Commercial League and the Ketchikan Elks.
 To bowl on the Commercial team are Radde, Metcalf, Stevenson, Ugrin and Carnegie and for the Brunswick, E. Galao, M Rayela, B. Mangalao, and L. Hildinger.
 Scores last night were as follows
 Gpn~c.. RrOfher
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-21

kept the Elks in the running.
 Stack for the Haida continued to play stellar brand ball, mark ing high for the night with l6 points.
 But one thing became certain during that game-the Elks are no longer anybody's push over.
 Tom Greenhow, sports broadcas- ter, gave another good description of one of the games over the mike.
 Summary of games last night fol- lows:
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-21
'0Ikfll pASScs
 c0ND ORDINANCE

A re-0'1ltion and ordinance talk lg e cG a technicality in con- recticn with municipal bond re- inanc. ag were passed by the Ju- ,eau City Council at a special meeting called for that purpose ast night.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-21
Lombardo
 Boys Keep
 Up, Sporfs ---H-s m
Members of Popular Or (hestra Are Accom-
 pIished on Skates
By GEORGE TUCKER

NEW YORK, Feb. 2l.---It happens every night at precisely the same time and in the same way. It hap pens at nine o'clock, and it is all ways accompanied by rush for a taxicab. 1t is simply that at this moment a group of young men rush out of the Roosevelt hotel, pile into a cab (last one in pays the fare). and hurry away to one of the city's numerous ice rinks.
 They skate for thirty minutes then shake off their skates, pile Into another cab. and hurry back to the hotel A few minutes later they are in their positions, and promptly on the stroke of ten one of them lifts baton, and the dance is on.
 These are the Lombardo boys Guy Lombardo and his Royal Can adians. They have hockey team and play matches with semi-pro and amateur outfits. Being Canadians they are sure-footed as cats on the ce. Carmen Lombardo even has a rink in his yard. and all last week his daylight hours were spent in teaching the Filipino cook next door how to skate He falls down so often the Lombardos call him the little man who wasn't there.
 There wasn't much skating for Guy during the recent motorboat how. He spent most of his time walking around the show rooms and climbing into and out of the ,ewer models. The new one he or 1ered will make 87 miles an hour which means he hasn't any further
 se for that big 57-footer he owns now . Hence that flor sale" sign in the ads. He also has a 35-foot- 9r that goes about 65 miles an hour, md he had another--a 38-footer. but that burned last summer.
 Fred Browning, sports writer, re- ports finding evidence of some last minute instructions to a visiting friend in one of the elevated sta- tiofls. This Is the Fl that runs through Queens and as Fred ana yses 1t, somebody on 10th Street had given the wrong address to an un- expected visitor and was trying des- perately to correct the error Ap- parently telephoning had failed. so the fellow raced down to the Lowery Street station and in foot high let ters chalked this note on the side of the wall
 George, the address is 4787 40th Street, and NOT 7487 as I told you"
 Whether George ever got there could not be ascertained
 And now there is just time for that admirably original bum who was hauled into 47th Street police station on charge of picking pock- cts. They had caught him with his hand in a mans overcoat pocket and with much presence of mind the intended victim seized the of- fender and clamored for the police.
 Guilty or mot guilty" poomed the judge.
 Your Honor came the aston jshly reply, my hand was in this gentleinan's pocket, but I wasn't really stealing. I'm on Scayenger hunt and was looking for Can adian penny"
 There is, of all things, cam eraman in the village whose name is-Camara. His first name is Cesar and his address in No. 10 Sheridan Square.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-21
KRAU5E IS WINNER IN
 HOOP TILT
Haida Downs EIks' Squad as Lodgemen Show
 Surprising

The cutter Haida basketball five and the Krause squad matched races last night. each winning Q ball game as fans sat through a fast doubleheader.
 Haida beat the Elk5 only after a fourth quarter rush, and h c Krause five beat the fleming cloth iers after repeatedly throwing bac., Henning onslaughts in the night cap game which was probably the best of the two.
 Krause went out ahead 12-7 at first quarter, but at halftime, with big Ed Metzgar potting ten points, : Krause only led 2622.
 In the third quarter, Metzgar was covered like a blanket and Krauses Erskine went on with his scoring spree to put his team ahead 38-33 at the end of that quarter, although ChapadoS of the Henning five, had tied the tally at B points.
 Pull Game Out
 In the fourth quarter. with the score ' B, Chapados sunk drive-in shot and potted a free toss to go with it. Lawson fol- lowed with follow-up slapper for two points and Metzgar pot ted pusher for two more points which put the Krause five ahead only 44-41-but that's where Krause pulled the game out of the fire again
 Erskine hooped one and Jensen dropped one That was the end of the scoring, although there were two minutes left to play - long though for Claude Erskine to take a header into the Sixth Street door and cut a deep gash in his forehead, leave the floor for a dressing and return to the game.
 Erskine, high point man for the evening with II points, played cracking good game-as good as he has ever played on the local courts.
 ElkS-Haida
 ElkS ano Haida battled it out in the first game with the Elks play ing fine heads-up ball and nearly matching hooper for hooper with the bigger and more powerful Hai- da squad.
 The first quarter ended in an 11-11 tie, but at halftime, the Haida had two-point edge, and at three quarters of the route. the Haida had pulled out to 32-27.
 At that stage of the game, Cabe of the Haida, who is hardly eyer noticed on the floor and infre- quently dares a shot at the basket. started to let fly with long one- handed push shots and rung up nine points that effectively damp ened any Elks hopes of closing the gap.
 Behrends for the Elks played fighting game all the way through. It was his frequent scoring that
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-21

A permit for remodeling the sec- ond floor of building at 172 South Franklin Street belonging to the Jaeger Estate was issued to- day to Don Abel Cost of the inn provement will be $600
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-21
NO TRANSFER OF
 FOREST SERVICE
 IhMINENT, WORD
Chamber Is Notified from Washington that Plan
 Not Proposed Now

No proposal for transfer of the Forest Service to the Department of the Interior will be made in the forthcoming reorganization order according to information received from Washington by the Juneau Chamber of Commerce.
 Replying to a Juneau protest against such a transfer, Julian D Concver, Secretary of the American Mining Congress, notified H. l. Faulkner, Chairman of the Juneau Chamber Legislative Committee, by telegram from Washington as fol- lows:
 Definite advice White House sources no transfer Forest Service will be made in forthcoming reor- ganizaticn order. Mining Congress protested vigorously any such action. Best regards"
 Dim0nd Replies
 Another telegram received by Charles D. Beale, President of the Chamber, from Delegate Anthony J. Dimond brings further information on the same point. The Delegates message is as follows:
 Upon my personal Knowledge of subject I agree that Forest Service should stay where it is and not be transferred to Department of In- terior. Believe no immediate change is contemplated but no assurance can be obtained on that point. Am sending copy of your telegram to the President"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-21
BOUNTY FOR pELTs

Ninety-four belts of predatory animals-l2 wolves and, 82 coyotes were presented at the office of Wildlofe Agent Sam o. White at Fairbanks recently for the bounty of s2o on each pelt and were certi- fled by him as having been law fully taken. -
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-21

frontier. protecting them enroute through their knowledge of thu language and geography
 Mere than 107,C00 out of 2526,- 922 captives escaped abroad be- tween 1914 and 1918 carrying in- formation and strengthening the enemy.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-21
U. WARRINGTON NOSES OUT IN
 CLOSE CONTEST

In basketball game played last night between the University of Washington and Washington State, the former won out by a score of B to 52.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-21

The worlds greatest sanctuary for wild life is in northeast Trans vaal, South Africa. It is 220 miles long and 40 miles wide.