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The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-29
MONTANA INSECT
 DRIVE I5 SUCCESS

BOHEMIAN, Mont, Feb. 29. - Montana farmers and ranchers were told today that their campaign against grasshoppers saved them seevea million dollars this year. Dr. Harlow B. Mills, state entomol- ogist, said the widespread and CO., operative insect control program the past year, conducted at cost of $35,000 in state funds, was the most successful in the past three years and saved farmers and ranch CTS seven million dollars.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-29
Demon Fire
 Persistent

POTTER, Kans., Feb 29-When Harold Rice, who's away on a visit, returns to his farm home he's going to find his wife chopped a couple of holes in the house, but he's lucky he still has a house.
 Mrs. Rice discovered a blaze on the roof and she climbed across icy hIAgies to put t out with bucket of water.
 The fire broke out again, coming farcueh the roof She chopped a hole, carried another bucket O CT and put it out
 The third time 1t came through the upstairs floor and she had tc Ehack out more timber to pour more water
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-29
Eskinlos Go Strong
 For Teas

NOME, Alaska, Feb. 29-Eskimos particularly the 5000 primitives at .he mouth of the Yukon, are heavy tea drinkers. Tea tops the list of commodities they call for when traders make the rounds each fall.
 R. M. eBus) Boyd, a trader, re- ported that after tea in the list of winter staples come flour, sugar, heavy clothing and firearms.
 Trade with the Eskimos is still mainly on barter basis, although trading checks ranging in value from 25 cents to $5 are also in use. The Eskimos buy almost no canned goods.
 Boyd said the natives on the lower Yukon are among the most primitive in Alaska.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-29
Russ Flag Run Up
 kf Kansas School

HAYS, Kans., Feb. 29.-City off, cials have offered $100 reward fol information leading to arrest and conviction of whoever was respcnSi- ble for lowering the Stars and Stripes from the High School flag pole and raising the Communist flag instead.
 The hammer and sickle of Soviet Russia was painted on a towel with an encircling inscription:
 May the rivers run red with Erg- fish blood"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-29
FRIEND OR FOE

VERMILLION, s. D., Feb. g. County Judge Raymond L Collar doesn't know whether his garage man is friend or fee.
 In 15 below zero weather, the mechanic gave the judges car 6 good push, and it started. Happily the judge drove around the block He saw a car approaching in the icy ruts. Both drivers slammed on their brakes, and there was gen. tie head-on collision.
 Slightly irritated, Judge Collar poked his head out the window. Yep. The other drive was the helpful garage man.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-29
PAYDAY MOVE UP

HOUSTON, Tex, Feb. 29. = A woman wrote County Judge Roy Hc tleinz asking him to make arrangements to have a $50 gov- ernment compensation check deliv- cred to her day earlier.
 The money is mailed her by a trust company acting as empo- rary guardian, under appoint ment by the Harris County Court, for her husband, who is in a Vir- ginia veterans home.
 Her reason = the check arrived on the 18th of each month. Oblig- ing Judge Hofheinz arranged fer her to receive 1t on the l2th.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-29
TRACK THIEF

PUEBLO, Col, Feb. 29 = The thief who stole 14 hens and two r9osters from Mary Terlip's coop fsathered his trail instead of his nest and so police caught up With him. Officers said the chickens made such a fuss as the raider carried them away that feathers were scattered from the coop to the house where the thief dis posed of his loot. The officers easily
 ollowed the trail and eventually captured the guilty man.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-29
Pheasant
 Intidenf

GREELY, Col, Feb 29.-A pas senger train, travelling 80 miles an hour, collided head-on with pheas- ant hen flying the opposite di- rection at about 20 per. The hen crashed through the headlight lens and jammad into the concave heed lamp so tightly that it was damaged almost beyond repair.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-29

ing and the word got around that possibly Miss McAeod would lose her stand.
 Letters came in from Governor w. Lee ODaniel, Railroad Con- missioner Jerry Sadler and others, urging that she be allowed to keep it. The bus company announced Miss Mcleod could keep the space, rent free.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-29
GO BEklN0

BASEL, Switzerland Feb. 29.- The rationing of gasoline and the requisitioning of private automo- piles an dtrucks for army use has taken 41 per cent of Basels yen4- cles off it's streets. but has been a boon to Swiss bicycle makers. The number of bicycles in Basel has leaped frcm 33,oo0 to 6oO0O since war began.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-29
CHALK ON SHOES
 BRINGS DIVORCE

MILWAUKEE, Feb. 29. - Mrs. Arthur Poelke told Family Judge William Shaughnessy that her hus- band secretly put chalk on the soles of her shoes so he could tell wheth- CT she left the house in his absence. The judge granted her divorce on the grounds of cruelty.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-29
WEATHER SYNOPSIS

The disturbance that moving norhward the of Ore
  E located this morning about 00 nie  forna Island while the extended north Dixon Entrance The intense disturbance widespread, with pressure 400 miles south this ther with prevailed Aeuans William Sound weather with partly
 
 Is m, sunset4: pm.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-29
FALSE TEETH AND
 MONEY RECOVERED

SA NANTONIO, Tex, Feb. 29.- Frank Handles jumped out of a window when his house caught fire, forgetting his wallet and his false teeth. Bremen found the wallet in a shirt which had burned except around the pocket containing the billfold. The false teeth, in a bowl were not harmed, either.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-29
When Is a Drunk Not
 IA Drunk!

CONVICTION, Ky, Feb. 29. = Newly-elected Police Judge Eugene Benzinger has declared persons ad- judged guilty of drunken driving will be dealt with severely" but, at the same time, he warned police officials evidence against such persons must be conclusive.
 He directed police to take sus- pected drunks to a physician for examination and present the phy- sician's certificate in court.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-29

questioned by Los Angeles police in connection with the accidental Heath of Marilyn Bunker, Il, and he wounding of another child Donald Rogers, IT, above, was quoted as saying he fired bullet ifter bullet into a group of fright sned children to scare 'em." Pc ice quoted the boy as saying that when they waved a white flag thought they were kiylding and
 I shot more.'
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-29

WACO. Tex, Feb. 2y.-Df. Ira Cox Gardner of the Baylor Univer- sity psychology department thinks public schools teach English courses backward"
 Students are taught the language by writing but she says the great est use to which they put 1t is in speech.
 "T'he same accusation applies to the oral teaching of spelling" she ads. Although the only time one has occasion to spell is in writ ing, most spelling lessons are given orally"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-29
WAR HYSTEplA

VIENNA, Feb. 29.-Hoarding rugs and carpets is the latest wartime hysteria on the part of customers. Officials stopped it with an order forbidding a retailer to sell more carpets during any month than he sold in the corresponding month of 1898.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-29
SHINES ON

HOUSTON, Tex, Feb. 29.-Miss Maida Mcleod, and her family before her, had operated @ shoe shine shop for 27 years in the old city hall
 A bus company leased the build
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-29
PING-PONG

Ping-pong Expert Rosemary Lane 'as developed a much more diff ficult game by covering her table Tith mirror glass--two ping-pong pellets come at you.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-29
GOOD oLD DAYS

SALTWATER, Okla, Feb. 29- Among the campus rules when Ok lahoma A & M College was es- 7bhshed in 1891 was one that re- uuired the students to check" all their firearms with the president
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-29
PITCH AND PITT

Wayne Morris is building a pitch and putt golf course in his spacious backyard. including one green with five different approaches.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-29
Helen Hayes Grand, Says
 HonlefoIks
Aefress and Husband Play. wright Thought We'll
 of at Nydlk
By GEORGE TUCKER

NEW 1Ohh, FeD. Zo. A4iS 5rades-people in Nyack, New York, mink Helen Hayes and Charles Macarthur are strictly topdrawer to do business with. They see a
 idle of this actress and this play wright which you and never see- the home side, the flreslde and slippers side.
 The man who brings the milk and the man who leaves the butter and the eggs knows a Helen Hayes who has freckles on her nose. The man who cuts the grass and waters the flowers knows Char lie Macarthur who waddles about the yards sometimes in slacks that are rumpled and slippers without seeks. The maid who made Charlies bed this morning knows how many cigarettes he smoked last night while he worked at that great table, under mountain high shelf of books, in his own room
 In other words, they know MT. and Mrs. Charles MacArthur, Of Nyack. The people you and l know are merely the actress and the writer, pleasant, fascinating people. But when the last page is read, or the last curtain drops, chat shuts off our view That ends it. We go home then, or go out to some game and sit there and talk about how she read those lines and the way her voice sometimes makes you want to cry.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-29
FUTURE CoRsAGEs

Claude Rains grows rare orchids n his hothouse.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-29
U S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULfURE, WEATHER BUREAU
 THE WEATHER
(By the U. s. Weather Bureau)
Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at

Forecast beginning 3:SO Feb 29 Cloudy warmer temperature tonight about degrees; gentle southeasterly winds
 theast cloudy warmer Friday southeaserly northerly moderate souheasterly wind
 Forecast of winos along Alaska Dixon and souheastelly Hnchinbook Kodiak to fresh southeasterly
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-29

Domestic money orders in the United States were first issued on November 1, 1864.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-29
PENNY FOOLISH

Gale Page cashes in her penny collection at the end of each year ito buy something foolish"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-29

But in Nyack, where the butcher and the caretaker and their fel- low tradesmen come in contact with the MacArthurs daily, the picture is different
 They know a lot of things and they look forward to lot Of things, and one of the things that they plan for and anticipate the most is perhaps the annual party that the servants giv> every year.
 It happens like this. Everyone who has served the MacArtflurs in any capacity all year is invited. Helen and Charlie arrange this as carefully as they do any of their own entertainments. But, for that day. the servants themselves are host and hostess. All the good things to eat that you can imag- inc are laid by One presumes that plenty of cooling beverages are laid by too. for this party is always given in summer, when the stars hang white and low over the Hud- son, and thirsts run high.
 Then Helen and Charlie go away for the day. AS they depart, the quests begin to arrive The whole house, which means the library and the music room, the upstairs and the downstairs, the kitchen and the cellars, are turned over to them. They have picnic. They have a feast. They have ham and turkey and salads and cheeses and beer and wine and fruits and ices and everything that one could pos sibly want.
 If there was sound of revelry by night on the eve of Waterloo it is no less true at Nyack. Th' party may last ten hours or 2 hours. There are no rules. Th' only thing hard and fast is tha this house-party takes place with out fail every year.
 Last summer as usual, after al preparations were made, Helen an Charlie went away for the day They went somewhere on yacht It was three o'clock in the morn ing when they returned. As tn yacht neared the dock they coul' see the couples dancing and hea the music from the river. !. They could hear the far langhte and see the brilliantly lit windows and they had no intentions of m i truding at a high festive momerl such as this. .
 | They eaSed the yacht away fro- the home dock, and moved o down to the next dock, where the tied up and went ashore. .. The they went to 8 hotel and registere for the night and remained u the next day, so that all tn guests might stay and have tui as long as they liked.
 That's MT. and Mrs. c. MacAr thur, of Nyack.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-29
EDUCATION CHANGE IS
 SUGGESTED

WACO, Tex, Feb. 29.-Dr. Ira
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-09-12
CUNMAN HAS
BEEN CAUGHT
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were holding as hostages, was absent
when Gurino arrived. Rev. William
Rinschler was pareparing to perform
a marriage. Gurino asked him for
help, saying three killers were after
him. Rev. Rinschler called po-
lice but Gurino grappled with them
and had to be carried away bodily.
His hysteria increased when he
learned he was bound for the Office
of Brooklyn's District Attorney Will
liam ODwyer to he questioned.
IT never was rat in my life" he
screamed. "If they let me alone I'll
60 away. But if they don't I'll squeal.
Get me my wife and kids and I'll tell
everything"
Gurino already had been implicat-
ed in the ice pick killing of George
Rudnick, one of the Murder, Inc,
victims. Two members of the mob,
Harry (Happy) Malone and Frank
(The Dasher) Abbandando, have
been convicted and sentenced to
death for that murder and Gurino
involved himself in it by slipping into
the Queens county Jail while he was
being hunted last March and trying
to intimidate Joe (The Baker, Liber-
to, who was being held as witness
in the case. How Gurino got in and
out of the jail has not been deter
mined but deputy sheriff has been
jailed because of it.
Many Murders
ODwyer said Gurino would be
questioned about the following Muir
der, Inc, jobs:
The murder of Irving Shapiro,
July 10, 1880, and of Irving's
borther, william, in 1881;
The murder in 1881 of a Mineola,
N. Y, man known as John the
Pollack";;
The murder of John Friscia, June
Is, 1888;
The double murder, on February g.
1899, of Antonio Siciliano and Cesare
Lattaro, as they lay asleep;
The murder of Harry Schaber
January 16, 1889.
Gurino has long criminal record
Of robberies, rape and racketeering
His pretty, red-haired wife was held
for time under 100000 bail as a
material witness to his disappear
ance, but was released in the belief
that she might lead police to her
husband.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-09-12
PRESIDENT HAS
OPENED CAMP AICN
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Used that the administration in this
emergency would not back down
from it's social detectives, including
the 40 hour week and overtime pen
altieS.
Progress Shoppers
"There are some," he said, "who
would not only stop now the pro-
gress we are making in social and
labor legislation, but would even re-
peal what has been enacted during
the past seven yearS-on the plea
that an adequate national defense
requires the repeal. They would seek
unlimited hours of labor, lower
wages, cancellation of those safe
guards"
His address contained tip to Ia
Dor to clean house where necessary
there is no room in the labor
movement for the racketeer and the
strong arm man." But such in
stances of scoundrelly acts are rare
and occasional, the president said,
and all trades and professions SUI
fer alike, even his own profession OF
the law. He promised government
aid to labor in getting rid OF the
scoundrelS.
Loyal cooperation Of the American
Federation of Labor, the Congress
of Industrial Organizations and the
Railroad Brotherhoods in national
defense undertakings gave the pres
ident reason to hope for more
friendly relations among the war
ring labor factions.
Look To Future
Mr.. Roosevelt,s bid for labor votes
as he stated 1t to the teamsters last
night, is:
1--WE must look forward to certain
definite things In the near future.
For example, the benefits OF social
security ought to be broadened and
extended; unemployment insurance
ought to cover O larger number OF
workers. Our old age pension system
ought to be improved, and, above
all, the pensions must be given IN q
manner which will respect the dig
nifty OF the life OF service and labor
which our aged citizens have given
10 the nation"
He hoped for q national system
soon that would provide every needy
person with adequate food, clothing
and lodgings IN old age. But he
looked forward 10 q system eplng
beyond that 10 enable faithful toll.
eFs 70 build up additional seeuEl1y
for their old age.
Mr.. Roosevelt tagged as appeasefs
bis national defense opponents end,
indirectly, Mr. Wiilkie whos last
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-09-12

August II, said he feared that the
president might be leading us to
war. Certain employers, politicians
and newspapers who sought to mis-
! lead and intimidate labor in 1885,
he said, again were active in this di-
rectior.
New deal social security and liv-
ing standard detectives have not
been achieved, Mr.. Roosevelt told
the unionists, but he counseled pa
thence with the deliberate American
way.
Cruel Disappointment
Events abroad" he said, have
shown too late the results Of the
other kind Of methods, promises OF
swift, revolutionary relief. seductive
pictures Of panaceas; short cuts TO
prosperity and plenty, pictured as
simple and easy, all Of these have
led to cruel disappointment"
He said every human being must
do his share and every dollar Of
capital its share In national defense
and that compulsory industrial CO.
operation was based on the same
principle as that supporting selec-
tive universal training OF manpower
The president reafIirmed his
hatred OF war and rededicated him
self 10 the 1910 Democratic platform
plank which said:
awe will not participate In for
elgn wars, and we VIII not send our
army, naval OF air forces 70 flght IN
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-09-12
Wallace Carroll Tells
Of Germany Bombing
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| park adjoining the governmental
section.
Biggest Airdrome In World
Templehof Airdrome, in addition
to being one of the biggest in the
world, is regarded as one Of the
best equipped. Hitler in the last few
years has undertaken a big program
for improving and expanding the
field, which lies only q short dis
lance from the center Of Berlin and
south of the main business and gov
ernmental center.
There are military barracks near
the big airdrome and not far away
are barracks which repeatedly have
been used by the Gestatpo, or Nazi
secret police.
The Anhalter raidroad station is
close to the Potsdam Station, which
the British reported they bombed
and set afire night before last dur
ing a heavy raid on Berlin.
The Anhalter Station Is just east
Of Potsdam Station and is near the
heart of the German capital.
In bombing Alhalter, the air min
istry said, a large railroad yard
south of Potsdam Station also was
blasted by bombs of heavy caliber.
The Tiergarten. which is compar-
able to Hyde Park in London or
Central Park in New York City, lies
in the center of Berlin, close to Hit
lers chancellery and other govern
ment and embassy buildings.
Berlin was raided again last
night by aircraft Of the bomber COM
mand," the air ministry said.
Heavy damage was inflicted on a
railway station in the heart Of the
German capital.
First Bombs FAN
"T'he Berlin raiders arrived over
the city soon after 1880 p. m. and
within three minutes from midnight
the first bombs we're falling on
the city"
"a large railway yard south Of
Potsdam Station was straddled by
stick of heavy caliber bombs, fol-
lowed by a sa1vo of incendiary
bombs.
"At five minutes past midnight
another raider, evading the search
lights and anti-aircraft barrage cur
tanning the city attacked Anhalter
Station near Potsdam Station.
I'm a series of runs over the tar
get this raider bombed the station
building and tracks. BY the light of
parachute flares dropped from high
above the city center, salvoes Of
bombs were seen to strike the goods
yards of two stations.
"An anti aircraft battery in the
Tiergarten, Berlin's Hyde Park, was
bombed by another raider, who
turned south and dropped high ex-
plosive and incendiary bombs on
Templehof Airdrome, Berlin's main
airport and former military parade
ground"
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THOMASTON MAN
TAKES His LIFE
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the girls bullet-riddled body at the
side of narrow, rutted road. The
pretty Wildly high school freshman
was shot at the height of lovers
quarrel, believed to have been start
ed when she told Swiston she did
not want to see him again.
The father was employed at the
Plume g. Atwood Company, of
Thomaston, the same factory in
which his son had worked until his
violent end and in which worked an
unidentified man whom young Swis-
ton blamed in his suicide note for
spelling him.
Friends Stunned.
News of the fathers suicide
stunned acquaintance who were
shocked last October at the sons
death. The. said at that time that
young Swiston was gay, carefree
boy "who had everything he want
ed" and who did not seem like the
type who would kill himself for the
Waterbury girl.
When Mrs. Swiston found the
body early this morning, she i'm
mediately called Thomaston Chief
of Police James P. Ryan and DR..
James H. Kane. The two men no.
tified Medical Examiner Winfield
wight, who pronounced the death a
suicide.
F'rneral arrangements are inconi-
plete.