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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-13
ARRIvE0k ALASkAFR0M
 PORTS SOUTH

Capt. o. c. Anderson docked the steamer Alaska in Jun ca uaatt v o'clock this morning with 31 pas sengers for Juneau from Seattle and Southeast Alaska. Pursera of the vessel is Dave Doran. ' tN'
 Passengers arriving from Seattle were Miss L. Booth, Mrs s. Brad burn, Mrs. David Farrell, Flo Fer- guson, c. Froid, Mrs. B. O. Graham, Mary s. Gruenine, Virginia Martin, Mrs. B. R. McDonelly J. w. McKin- ley. Mrs. John Notar, Scottie Notar, Kieth T. Petrich, c. Kicker. Roy Rutherford, Alma Savage, Goldie Senter, Harriett Shaffer, Mrs c. G.. Stillman, Mrs. Alice Thomas, Miss B. Travis, E. Brandt, Art Conley, Edwin Hasu and Jack Miller.
 Passengers from Southeast Alaska W. G. Nix, Mrs c. Hayward, T. Packard, Lillian Hanson and Lee Johnson. i'e a
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s HaIibuiers
 Seattle

SEATTLE, May 13-The follow ing halibuters arrived today and sold as follows:
 From the western banks-Liberty 10000 pounds, l0as and 9 cents a pound; Aleutian 40,000 pounds, 1014 and 9ls cents; Nordby 36,000 pounds, 10ls and 9is cents; Vansee 35,000 pounds, 10 and 9is cents; Lituya 31,OO0 pounds, 10A and 9 cents.
 From the local banks-Kingfisher 10000 pounds, 10as and 9 cents; Hoover 10000 pounds, 103s and 9 cents; Normandy l4,000 pounds, 10la and 9ls cents.
 RUPERT PRICES
 At Prince Rupert yesterday 395,- 900 pounds of halibut were sold at S.oo .o $50 and 7.50 cents a pound.
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MARINE NEWS
STEAMER MOVEMENTS k s~3.a # 4NK N&
. NORTHROUND

s Taae -.-er fNOh hhDOCAND
 . North Coast scheduled to ar e. rive sometime tomorrow. ss Denah due Saturday. . SCHEDULED SAILINGS . Princess Louise scheduled to .. sail from Vancouver at 9' e o'clock tonight.
 s Taku scheduled to sail from ss Seattle May Is. e Nonhland SsScheduled to sail e. from Seattle May 14. . North Sea scheduled to sail c from Seattle May l6 at 10 se am. seaw as& e Columbia scheduled to sail from ss Seattle May IT at 9 am. = SoUTHBOUND SAILINGS . Baranof scheduled southbound C. Saturday.
 e Tongass due southbound about . noon Saturday.
 . Alaska due southbound Monday. e LOCAL SAILINGS . Estebeth scheduled to sa II . every Wednesday at 6 pm. s for Sitka and wayports. Nalsa leaves every Wednesday . at pm. for Petersburg, Port c Alexander, Rake and way C. ports. nsg
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vessels out of combat zones, it was reasoned we would have no excuse for war if our ships were no t sunk, if American lives were not lost
 More recently, the Congress and the President amended that law to provide all aid to Britain short of war. The bill is known as the lend-lease bill. But so far, all aid has gone to Britain in other than Americans ships.
 Still more recently, Secretaries Knox and Hull, American joint defense chairman LaGuardia, and Winston Churchill have injected new meaning into the phrase "aid short of war
 Knox of the Navy says we can
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-13
OVER 10000 POUNDS
 OF HALIBUT UNL0ADED

Three Juneau halibut schooners unloaded a total of 10,400 pounds of fish at the Cold Storage dock this morning, all selling to the New Eng land Fish Company at approximate prices of 8.15 and 660 cents per pound.
 The Vigilant, skipper George Day. is, unloaded 5000 pounds; the 31-A- 303, skipper Ingvald Anderson, un- loaded 1900; and the 31-A-694 un- loaded 600 pounds.
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TI[)E1

(Sun time-May IA
 High tide-2:38 am, 18.8 feet. Low tide-9:12 am. 80 feet High tide-3:38 pm, 1892 feet. Low tide-9:24 pm, 2.2 feet.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-13
DendIi Now
 Northbound

SEATTLE, May 13 = Steamer Denali sailed for Alaska ports at 9 o'clock this morning with l67 first class and fl steerage passen- gers aboard.
 Passengers booked for Juneau on the Denali include the following
 M. A. Pinska, J. L. Mollitor and wife. M McKas, Walter E. Mikkola, s. E. Hoover and wife, Robert c. Boes, Miss Evelyn Dewitt, Philip J. O'Connell, w. E. Klosterman, c, A. Cornforth, w D. Gale and wife.
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One Thousand Mile Defense Zone; Jusi
 What Does x Mean

tContinued from Page One)
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area he has already announced to be the combat zone?
 If he ordered his raiders to fire on patrol vessels, what risk would he run? Would America decide to fight?
 As the cards have been played in the war game up to now, Roosevelt Churchill ct al, have checked the bet to Hitler.
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The Dally AIaska rmpire guarap-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-13

not allow our goods to be sunk ill the Atlantic, aIter specifically making them for Britain. Hull Jf the State Department says the safety of the hemisphere requires resistance to the Axis wherever resistance can be effective. The President puts teeth into what his cabinet officers say by declaring to the world that American naval vessels would patrol as far into the seven seas as may be neces- sary for the defense of the hem isphere.
 Finally, Winston Churchill says United States naval patrols have been ordered to warn the peace- ful shipping of all nations outside the combat zone of the presence of lurking U-Boats or raidiag cruisers.
 Washington observers add all these statements together, conclude that the American patrol puts a mighty ticklish point up to Hitler.
 Raiders and submarines are ef- fective only if their presence at a given moment in a precise spot $ not known. If American patrols were to broadcast the presence of German raiders, would Hitler or- der his raiders to attack American patrol vessels? Or would he pre- fer to limit raider actions to the
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can file written statements with the presiding officer or with the Ad- ministrator not later than the date of the hearing.
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ATTENTION REBEKAHs

Regular meeting Perseverance Rebekah Lodge, Wednesday eve ming, May IA, at pm. All mem- bers are asked to attend.
 EDITH TUCKER, adv. Secretary.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-05-13
HERE FROM BERKELEY

Travelling man s. Richer of Berk- eley. California, arrived in Juneau today on the northbound steamer Alaska and is stopping at the Bar anof Hotel
Evening star., 1941-07-19

stupidity exhausted to pay much
attention to it until Bob Low Of
Liberty Magazine, who had the ad-
joining cabin came in and shook
me. I followed him up onto the boat
deck.
Once out of the door I felt as if I
had dived straight into the sea.
Water was breaking over the bridge
and sluicing down the deck almost
knee-deep. The gale was coming
straight from the North Pole and
I was dressed in torn pajamas, a
raincoat and lifebelt. I remember
wishing that had put on my shoes.
In the scant light of a dim flash
lamp, you could make out glimpses
of the crew turning the screws that
swung out the davits. The men
seemed to be tied to something
with length of hawser. AS twined
myself about an iron stanchion and
tried to keep from getting knocked
unconscious by flying debris or
blown completely overheard, I en-
Wed them the rope.
What Bob Said.
From somewhere in the dark, Bob
came up close to me. He was saying
something but I couldn't understand.
At first it didn't seem to make much
Evening star., 1941-07-19
about IT." We wanted to know.
Sparks shook his head.
Fifth Since 3 AM.

Nothing" he said quietly. Were
forbidden even to answer their
signal" He had to raise his voice
to be heard over the screaming
night. They'll take to the life
boats. And, of course, they'll die.
And they're the fifth since 3 o'clock
this morning. None of those ships
was farther than so miles away
from US
We went to bed but it was hard
to sleep. Out there in the gale were
probably 500 persons in little boats
or clinging to RATS with death
standing by to pick them off one by
one before morning.
At Lagos we pulled into dock for
a survey of cargo ruined by water
and the repair of some mysterious
damage to the bows.
Guess we really did run into
something" said the captain. Il
thought so at the time. I said to
the mate: Either the sea is getting
pretty thick nowadays or we're SAIL
ing through a junkyard.' l guess
1t was iron all right. Water never
Evening star., 1941-07-19
STAR WASHINGTON, D. c. SATURDAY, 49,

"Airplanes overhead" he said.
But they signaled us and they
turned out to be American. They're
flying from Canada to England"
They've got fine night for 1t"
I said.
And we had more OF this. The
storm lasted for a bone-breaking
week, during which the clock went
steadily back until we were within
an hour of New York time. We
zigzagged back again. One wintry
night when we seemed to be close
to our starting point, we sat in
Sparks cabin, warming ard drying
ourselves over his kerosene heater.
And then we learned the rest Of
this mercantile marine business
all there was to learn of it short
of practical demonstration. For
suddenly we heard the group of
dots and dashes he'd been teaching
us all morning-the distress signal
and a lot of grouped call letters.
That" said Sparks, looking at a
chart, comes from Is miles away
just over the horizon. The ship has
just been torpedoed. There are 80
people aboard.
And what are We going to do
Evening star., 1941-07-19

difference. We could talk 1t over,
whatever it was, when we should be
outward bound-and that looked
like matter of minutes. Then it
occurred to me that he wouldn't be
going to all that trouble if he didn't
have something pretty important
to say. So l unlocked one arm and
let the gale turn me about until my
face went plop against the fur collar
of his jacket.
"How's that?" I asked He took a
deep breath and screamed into my
ear. I heard him clearly, though
distantly, against the shrieking
racket of the storm.
II was just saying" he said, that
this is a hell of way to earn
living"
1 guess neither of us had any idea
at the moment of what all the riot
was about. There hadn't been any
explosion-or at least none that We
were aware of-and there wasn't any
unusual sluggishness in the ship't
roll. The boats were swung out and
waiting, the crews standing by.
Then suddenly whistle blew and
we all went below again. The
second officer came down presently
to give us a bit of news.
Evening star., 1941-07-19

made scratches like that. Well, II
1t was a submarine I hope 1t was
big one"
What Happened to the Ship.
We shall probably never know.
We went away by air across Africa.
The ship got her repairs, sailed
north and was sunk off the north
end of ireland on her way home.
The captain went with her, and
Sparks and the chef, and the second
steward who'd been torpedoed
aboard the childrens ship.
The censors refused 10 pass this
story on the ground that ths ship
wasn't a blockade runner because
no German blockade existed.
There once was a yokel who looked
at a hippopOtamus. There ain'-
no sich animile," was what he sai<-
Copyright, l94l. by Chicago Daily News
Evening star., 1941-07-19
An Adventure in Running the U-Boot Blockade
Felt Like the Ship Hit Something and the Copton Said Later
1t Did, Although He is Si|eneed Now Forever

got under way toward the stairs the
floor began to vibrate. The chief
raised a finger.
The engines" he said, somebody
started them. Just as I said" But
the bishop was too old traveller to
be kidded
I'VE hit something" he said. I'VE
ran squarely into it. You could hear
the metal scraping."
You think SOP" inquired the chief
politely. We'll, maybe. 1t it's seri-
Gus we'll find out soon enough. If
it isn't we have plenty else to think
about"
Plenty else to think about! We
picked a careful course from there
to our lifebelts and our hunks. There
wasn't anywhere else to go and the
storm was getting worse. The
screaming noise of it was every
where, like a fingernail dragged
Evening star., 1941-07-19

across a blackboard. only terribly
magnified. The chill of 1t was
getting down into our marrow. such
marrow as we had left. And even
the hermetical seal of the ships
blackout couldn't keep out the wet.
Strange Awakenings.
There was little rest. If you went
to sleep you were presently tossed
out onto the floor and rolled until
you couldn't think where your bed
was. If you didn't sleep you felt
the shock every time the ship tried
to capsize, and you counted your
bruises and tortured yourself with
mental bets on the time of the
next terrifying swing.
Some time around midnight I
must have discovered a way to
brace myself in my sleep, for I was
thoroughly unconscious at l am.
when the Klaxon went. I was too
Evening star., 1941-07-19
Film Produces Sleep

Found snoring in a movie theater
in Mexico City at o'clock IN the
morning, a man explained that the
film shown the night before was E1
soothing that he could not keep
awake
The Valley settler. (Palmer, Alaska) 1937-195?, 1941-01-31

Meeting Dairynon at the Exton
sion office Monday night, Fob. 8.
to determine the amount Ct hay nee
ed to place order for carload lots
othor fa1rlcr rs nee ding hay should
ct tend this NEE ting.
The Valley settler. (Palmer, Alaska) 1937-195?, 1941-01-31

TAX FILLS PROPOSED CONT
from Alaska in 1910 Ter viii CHI not
one cent OF tax was paid.
The governor S message show
cd til at regular dopar tments Of the
terri orial government show In
creased requirement is Of about
$500, 600 while other appropr1ation a
should be made for Natl onol Guard
CrroriCs, for which he requested
$500, 600.
Regarding the University Of
Alaska, the governor said this "un-
protontious insti tuti M is of groa1
social and economic Value and said
he sincerely hopes that the leg
islaturo would appropriate the re-
quostod 1885 900.
The governor referred to "ocon7
ony" as the favorite and usoful
wat chword, viii Oh he thoroughly en-
dorsed, but add ed that "economy
do cs not moan how much you can save
but how much value you get for what
you sponC".
He recommended the extension
of mothers aid, giving employment
preference to A1cslzons, extending
unonlp loymont compensation to ALL,
enacting territorial traffic Laws,
logalizi12G mum cipali ties to hire
~ ~ ii1~'41N-t5OIo, A41d OI'OiACGl!LIlto Cl1G
Worlanon' IS Comp onsati on Act.
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All Cow Tos ting Club llombors
Will meet ct the Extension Off &C
Friday evening, Feb. to go over
record books and complete business
for the year. All re cord BOOKS
should be up to date and final
mi TX samples brought in for tos ting {.
Plans Will be made for sl1oti ng
party and Wiener roast OF King,s
Lake at VII ich time All club pins
wi IL be awarded. All members arc
urged to ottond this meeting.
Howard Estollc
The Valley settler. (Palmer, Alaska) 1937-195?, 1941-01-31
SNOW AND WIND CONT

and pull. Even tho Butte di s tri ct,
the Banana Belt scott on Of tho Valley
was hit by this storm. tho first in
years. It was reported that two
cot of SLOW foil in Anchorage.
SEVENTH GRADE CIVIcs GLASS TRACE
POSTERS
The ovonth grade Civics Glass
is tracing pos tors in connection
vi tn thoir civics studios about
good citizenship. The posters are
going to be photographed and given
to various toa chors Of the choo1
whore they Will be colorod end radc
into attractive posters for their
rooms. The class plans to mako
@ bordor for their own room also.
Barboe LOSING
PUPILS STUDY AMERICAN FLAG
The sixth grade pupils Of Miss
Dorsh's 70 On arc studying tho his
tory Of void Glory.
Miss Dorsh's purpose is to got
the children ocqua intod wi tn tho
United S+atos flag and to know the
story and moaning behind the stars
and strips.
Barbara McAllis ter
iISS VILLIt.Ms RO> NJ MAKES MAPS
Miss Williams is touching hor
pupils to draw maps.
The purpose OF this study is
to teach them principles Of loo
att Ons,
Each pupil is making nap Of
each state in the United States.
Tho maps are oil tho size Of the
regular 8 IL sheet Of paper. After
they finish putting in tho rivers,
c lt1os, crd noun tains they wi IL
GO lor thoE2. Whom They have con-
2lotod tho individ dual states thoy
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-11-13
Healing Sp'gs News!
BY FlOye Owen

Ulas Blevins, who has been in
the Wilkes hospital as result of
injuries in ball game is back
home and doing well.
Fred Fender who went into the
army as a member of the Mary
land National Guard, returned to
his post Sunday after spending
several days with his parents, J.
E. and Mrs. Callie Fender.
Mrs. Daisy Eller, Mrs. Fanny
Porter, Mrs. Dora and Mrs. Elite
Holmes who spent the summer
here have gone to Wyoming for
the winter. ~ -.
Miss Lucille Carson who will be
employed at Crumpler for some
time is staying with her aunt,
Mrs. Glessie Blevins.
Mrs. Margaret Mcmillan, of
Route /, is very sick.
Mrs. Jettie Francis and family
have moved to L. w. Owens
place.
Mr.. Hubert Francis, of Johnson
City, Tenn, spent Sunday with
home folks.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-11-13
6 PERSONS DIE IN TRAIN
CRASH IN OHIO SUN

Kenton, Ohio.-At least six per-
sons were killed Sunday night as
a Pennsylvania passenger train,
identified as the Pennsylvania,
crashed into the control tower at
Dunkirk, nine miles north of here.
About 40 were reported injured.
Five of the dead were passen-
gers, occupants of the second car
from the locomotive, and the sixth
was the fireman.
None of the victims was iden-
titled Immediately.
The train was bound from Chi
cago to New York.
c. S. Killeke, Dunkirk barber
said he saw IL bodies and estimat-
ed Eat least IL or Is more are
dead" Only six dead were Off
cially accounted for, however.
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Silas Greek News

The revival meeting at Liberty
church is still in progress. Rev.
Gideon Shepherd, of Clifton, and
Rev. Sapp, of Piney Creek, are
assisting the pastor, Carl Rich
ardson and Rev. Ed Mcclure.
The school children and the
teacher have done some work to-
ward cleaning off the school
grounds of the Silas Creek school.
Rev. J. F. Startling preached his
first sermon for the new confer
ence year Sunday morning. Mr..
Startling is now serving his fifth
year on this charge.
MIR. and Mrs. c. M. Dickson, ac-
companied by their daughter, Miss
Bonnie, spent the week end with
their daughter, Mrs. J. w. Huney-
cult, of Pfafftown, N. c.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-11-13
Social Security Payments
In Ashe Total $166,652.OO

as services, are handled by
State Departments. Three of them
Maternal and Child Health Ser
vices, Services for Crippled Child
rem and Public Health Services
= are administered by the State
Board of Health; one, Vocational
Rehabilitation, by the State De-
partment of Public Instruction
and the other, Child Welfare Ser
vices, by the State Department Of
Public Welfare.
Distribution of funds in the
three services" relating to health
is made through district, county
or city health departments, and
only 80 of the 100 counties ope-
rating such departments June 80,
1941, participated in this distri-
button. Zone county, Carteret.
started organized public health
work August I, 1941.) Twenty
counties, therefore, received prac-
tically no funds in these divisions,
and what they would have re-
ceived, and didn't, went to in
crease the funds going to coun-
ties with health departments.
Ashe county, with a health de-
partment, received $5,114.78 for
Maternal and Child Health Ser
vices; $4,12O.59 for Services to
Crippled Children and $14,822.74
in Public Health Work, from the
beginning of the program, or
since organized health work was
started in the county, all approx
mate.
In Vocational Rehabilitation ap-
proximately $3,598.87 has been
distributed in the county. In case
of Child Welfare Services, coun-
ty funds are not available. Four
teen counties, Arson, Buncombe,
Burke, Caldwell, Chatham, Che
rokee, Cumberland, Du r h m,
Mecklenburg, Nash, Orange, Pitt,
Rockingham and Sampson, coope-
rated by supplying $13,O26.78 and
participated in distribution of
$27, 6O5.63 in the year 1940-41, and
80 other counties had consultant
service.
The county figures for the four
"service" divisions above are ap-
proximate, and not absolute. They
are arrived at by prorating the
funds, made up of Federal allot-
ments, most of which is matched
by the state and counties, on the
basis of state and county popula-
tons, 1910 census, and the length
of time the counties have had
health departments and thus par
ticipated in the three "services"
relating to health, Chairman Flet-
cher explains.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-11-13
Laurel Fork News
BY Wade Key

A very successful revival meet
ing which was held at the Laurel
Fork school house for the two
past weeks, closed Sunday. Eight
souls were saved during the meet
ing. The preaching services were
conducted by Rev. Stanley Wheel
ing who was assisted by Mrs. Ira
Tyndal, the singing leader, also
Mr.. and Mrs. Felt Turner.
Rev. Mr.. Wheeling will preach
regularly every two weeks at the
school house. The next service
will be on the fourth Sunday,
Nov. %, 1911. A large crowd is ex-
pected to attend.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-11-13
Complete Figures Up To July
1, 1911. Are Announced
By Maj. Fletcher.

Approximately $166.652.76 has
been distributed in Ashe County
through operation Of eight of the
ten divisions of the Social Securi-
ty Act, from its beginning and
through June 80. 1941, it is esti-
mated, on a basis of official fig
ures, compiled by M. R. Dunna-
gan, International Service Rep
resentative, and announced by A.
L. Fletcher, chairman of the N.
c. Unemployment Compensation
Commission, and formerly of
Ashe county.
Normally, unemployment Com
pensation. or benefits to workers
temporarily out of jobs, is the
largest item in the program, ex-
cept in agricultural counties. The
more and larger the industries a
county has, the more jobless bene-
fits it gets. In the 31s years of
benefit payments, through June
80, these benefits reached $751;
O84.28 included in 3,517 checks
issued to residents of Ashe coun-
ty.
Chairman Fletcher reports that
state agencies handling phases of
the Social Security Act cooperate
with him in supplying figures of
their activities, which gives him
an accurate picture of distribu-
tons in counties of the state.
These include the State Welfare
Department, Mrs. w. T. Bost, sup
erintendent; DR.. Roma S. Cheek,
secretary of the State Commission
for the Blind; DR.. Carl V. Rey-
nolds, state health officer; and the
Department of Public Instruction,
particularly T. E. Browne, direc-
tor of vocational education.
Old Age Assistance, help for
needy residents past IS years of
age, in the four years of distri-
button, through last June 80,
amounted to $9O,886.50 in this
county.
Aid to Dependent Children,
help for those deprived of their
normal breadwinners, amounted
to $23,009.00 in the same period
in this county.
Aid to the Blind, in the same
az months. amounted tn $4016.O0
in the county.
In these three divisions of the
Social Security Act, the Federal
Government provides one-half of
the funds and the state and coun-
ties one-fourth each, with a state
equalizing fund to help the small
Ter counties. Prior to January l,
1910, these three governmental
units furnished one-third each for
Aid to Dependent Children.
No county figures are available
for Old Age and Survivors Insur-
ance. Monthly payments in this
division started after January l,
1910, due to a 1889 amendment,
after lump-sum payments for
three years. This will, in due
time, become one of the most i'm
portant of the five major divisions
of the Social Security Act.
With practically accurate fig
ures, it is evident, Chairman Flet-
cher points out, that $138,995.78
was distributed in this county to
last July l, in four of. the five ma
jor divisions of the Act, exclusive
of Old Age and Survivors Insur-
ance.
The other five divisions, classed
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-11-13
SEQUOIA. POTATOES

Fred Coward, of Jefferson, who
worked with N. c. State college
horticulturists in breeding the Sc
quota Irish potato, says the new
variety is yielding better than
400 bushels an acre on hill land.