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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-10

MT. and Mrs. Roy B. Earling are passengers on the Yukon enroute to Fairbanks where MT. Earling is Fairbanks manager of the U. s. Smelling Company. The Earrings have spent several weeks in the States on vacation and business. They will fly from Juneau to Fairbanks via PAA.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-10
FI5HERMEN'5 DANCE
 E GREAT SUCCESS

A large crowd and good time were reported at the Fishermen's Dance held Saturday night at the Union Hall under the auspices of the Uni ted Trollers of Alaska.
 The Capital City orchestra played and refreshments were sserved.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-10
Women VotersAreto
 Convene "Wednesday

A meeting of the Alaska Associa- tion of Women Voters will be held Wednesday afternoon at o'clock in the Penthouse of the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company.
 Mrs. Frank MetcaH will preside and full attendance is urged.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-10
"I'M NOT AFRAID NOW

Sometimes after eating too much I had gas pains. ADLERIKA quickly relieved me and my doctor says it's Rll right to use" (S. R.-Minn.) Get Drug Co. - in Douglas by Guys Drug Store. -adv.
 ADLERIKA today. Butler -Mauro
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-10

production of lard in 1889 and loss of foreign markets has given the United States large surplus.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-10
COUNCIL TONIGHT

Business meeting of Douglas City Council will be held tonight in the City Hall.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-10
John HaIms Have
 Anniversary Party

Celebrating their fourth wedding anniversary, which occurred yester7 day, MT. and Mrs. John Hahn en- tertained with a bridge party Sat- urday evening at their Tenth Street residence.
 Guests for the evening were MT and Mrs. Harry Sperling, MT. and Mrs. Robert Davlin, MT. and Mrs Edward Sweeny. MT. and Mrs. Burr Johnson, MT. and Mrs. Marcus Jen- sen and Miss Hazel Ferguson.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-10
NOTICE

AIRMAIL ENVELOPES, showing air route from Seattle to Nome, on sale at J. B. Burford & Co. adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-10

The Hawaiian Islands were ori- ginally named the Sandwich Is- lands by Captain James Cook.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-10

Half the population of Peru and Bolivia is native Indian.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-10
MRS. RICE ILL

Mrs. Glen Rice has been ill in bed for the past two days with an attack of flu. ' s's
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-10

WHY SUFFER with your feet? Phone 64d. Cnlropodist Dr. Steves. tadv.)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-10
Dave Dishaw
 Returns Here

Dave Dishaw has returned to Ju- neau accompanied by Mrs. Dishaw and daughter Leona.
 The Dishaws have been absent for the past five and one half months at Klawock where he has been fore man in charge of building the Doc tcr's quarters and Dispensary there for the Bureau of Indian affairs. The Dishaws have taken up resi- dence at Apartment No in the 20th Century where they are at home to their friends.
 ATTENTION ODD FELLOWS Beginning Tuesday, March Ii, Odd Fellows will meet Tuesdays al 7.30 P. M. instead of Thursdays. adv. T. HAGERUP, Noble Grand
Evening star., 1941-10-23
Defense Council Aides
Named in Montgomery

Chief of Police Andrew M. New
man has been appointed director Of
police service for the Montgomery
County Defense Council and Philip
J. Austensen director of information
and publicity, it was announced to-
day by Albert E. Brault, executive
director of the council.
Directors of other services will be
named in a few days, Mr.. Brault
said. Chief Newman is active in
American Legion circles and Mr..
AustenSen is president of the Allied
Civic Groups of Silver Spring ard
president of the Montgomery Press
Association.
Plans for canvaSsing the county
for houses and rooms for defense
workers were discussed at head
quarters in the Silver Spring Armory
yesterday. Officials from the Office
of the Federal housing co-ordinator
met with a group composed Of Mr..
Brault, Alfred D. Noyes, chairman
of the Southern Maryland Defense
Council, and Mrs. Ralph A. Wells,
executive secretary of the council.
Headquarters for the Southern
Maryland Defense Council and the
county council were opened this
week at the armory and are in
charge of Mrs. Wells.
Evening star., 1941-10-23
Brentwood 10 Undertake
Street Improvements

Mayor James L. Russell Of Brent
wood, Md. today announced that
the town is undertaking an extern
sive street improvement campaign.
Among the projects planned i'm
mediately is a $4,000 sewerage drain
project on Thirty seventh street on
which bids are now being cOnSid-
cred. The work will be let Octo-
ber 81
A S11,600 project calling for con-
struction of sidewalks, curbing. gut
tering and macadum Surfacing on
Varnum street has been tentatively
let to the Wilmoth Paving Co, but
due to an increase in the expected
cost, a public hearing will be held
Monday night at the Brentwood
FirehouSe to hear any property
owners who are affected by the in
crease.
Other projects being considered
are the paving of Thirty-eighth
street between Quincy street and
Rhode Island avenue. of Cedarcroft
place and of Thirty street
between Window road and Allison
street. A meeting of property
owners on the latter street will be
held November 3.
Mayor Russell has appointed AL
bert N, Plum to succeed the late
George A. Castle as town building
inspector.
Evening star., 1941-10-23
Arlington Reports New
InfantiIe Paralysis Case

The Arlington County Health De
partment reported one new case OF
infantile paralysis yesterday, but in
other nearby Maryland and Virginia
areas the quarantine list was on the
Wane, a survey showed today.
MONTGOMERY County and AleXan-
dria authorities reported no cases
under quarantine. One case In
Prince Georges County is scheduled
to be released Saturday.
One new case in Hartford County
brought the 1941 total in Maryland
to 221 cases, equaling the number
reported in 1921, the third worst
year in Maryland history. OF the
total, 130 are from the counties and
81 from Baltimore City. The worst
year in Maryland was 1915, when
333 persons were affected by the
disease. and the second highest total
was 289 cases recorded in 1927.
Meanwhile the HugheSville Md
Elementary and High School, which
had been closed for week as a re-
suit of case in that area, reopened
yesterday with most of the 200 stu
dents in attendance. The Charles
County Board of Education decided
to close the school because so many
parents kept their children away
from classes.
Bernard Gwynn, county superin-
tendent of schools, said he had been
assured by physicians that there
was no epidemic and added that
he saw no reason for further inter-
ruption of school work.
Evening star., 1941-10-23
Bishop Tucker Is Installed
In Chair at Cathedral Service
More Than 5000 Gather in Tronsept
And Galleries to Witness Rites

for the unihcation of the church
and the fulfllment of its vision
While the choir sang H. Walford
Davies version of the Old Sarum
anthem, God Be in My Head and
in My Understanding" Bishop
Tucker, unaccompanied, slowly pro-
ceeded to the Jerusalem altar in
the sanctuary to pray and to give
the benediction
Number of Bishops Attend.
Among the high ecclesiaStics pres
ent throughout the service were
Right Rev William McClealland,
Bishop of EaSton: Right Rev. Arthur
R. McKinstry of Delaware. Right
Rev. Henry D. Phillips, Bishop Of
Southwestern Virginia; Right Rev.
William A. Brown, Bishop of South
ern Virginia; Right Rev Wintred H.
Ziegler, Bishop of Wyoming; Right
Rev. Wallace J. Gardner, Bishop of
New Jersey; Right Rev. Charles
Clingman, Bishop of Kentucky;
Right Rev. Frederick D. Goodwin,
Bishop of Virginia; Right Rev Ed
ward Helfenstein, Bishop Of Mary
land: Right Rev. R. E. L. Strider,
Bishop of West Virginia; Right Rev.
John c. Ward, Bishop of Erie: Right
Rev. Robert Carter Jett, retired
Bishop of Southwestern Virginia,
and Right Rev. Julius Walter At
wood, retired Bishop of Arizona.
Regents of the National Cathedral
Association attending included Mrs.
G. Maurice Congdon. Providence;
Mrs. Irenee du Pont, Delaware; Mrs.
Walter c. White. Cleveland: Miss
Mary E. Johnston, Cincinnati, and
Miss Virginia Chevalier Cork, West
Virginia.
Former Undersecretarv of State
William R. Castle, former Senator
George Wharton Pepper of Pennsyl-
vania. c. F. r. Ogilby and Robert
V. Fleming represented the Cathe-
dral Chapter.
Other distinguished guests were
Charles Peake. secretary to Lord
Halifax. British Ambassador; Mrs.
Woodrow Wilson, Mrs. Edward r.
Stettinius, Mrs. Charles Warren,
Coleman Jennings, H. L. Rust, jr.;;
Walter Clarkson, Busey H. Howard,
Dr. w. Sinclair Bowen, Thomas E.
Robertson, Edward M. Weeks and
Albert w. Atwood.
Evening star., 1941-10-23
Alexandria Granted
S65,OOO for Schools
In Defense Areas
Total Of sl58,O00 Now
Available for Children
OF U. S. Workers

PY Staff Correspondent of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. Oct. 23.-A
S65 900 grant for temporary school
construction and for operating and
maintaining facilities COR defense
workers children brings to S158000
the amount approved by the Federal
Works Administration under the
Lanham Act for school purposes
here, Supt T. c. Williams an
nounced today.
The latest project approved by
F. w. A Mr. Williams has been in
formed, will provide an eight-room
temporary structure for children at
Chinquapin Village, a housing prof.
ect for naval torpedo plant workers,
and for the low-coSt development on
Duke street extended, where en-
ployeS of Fort Belvoir live
Thirty-five thousand dollars was
approved for the temporary Struc-
ture. which will include an audi
toriUm. a library, lunchroom. clinic
and toilets and the eight ciassrooms.
While a site on ScrogginS lane
between Braddock road and King
street has been mentioned, Mr.. Will
liam explained school officials are
studying another area more CEN
trally located between the two hous-
ing projects.
The 100000 additional ALLEGATION is
for operation and maintenance of
facilities at all the city's schools
for defense workers children.
The F. w. A. has also approved
a S93.5o0 grant for permanent ad-
ditiOnS to several existing institu-
tions, contingent upon the citys
appropriation of s45,90O to match
these funds
Total F. w. A. grants sought by
Alexandria amounted to S245 500.
The superintendent said the city
now has the opportunity of obtain
ig a total of S2O4. 400 worth of
school construction at cost to the
local government of only S45900.
The City Council will be asked to
approve AleXandria's share OF the
expenses at an early date.
Evening star., 1941-10-23
Alexandria Board Calls
HEARING on Bus Ban
BY a Staff Correspondent of The Star.

BY a Staff Correspondent of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, Oct. 23.-The
Alexandria Traffic Board decided
yesterday to hold public hearing
to. allow bus companies a chance
to discuss a City Council recon-
mendation that public vehicles be
prohibited from using Washington
street. The date will be announced
later.
The Council recommended that
buses travel an alternate street
paralleling Washington. which con-
stitutes the Mount Vernon Me-
mortal Highway through Alexandria.
Action was deferred on the Coun-
ellis recommendation that the use
of the 100 block of North Washing
ton street as a cab stand be pro-
hibited.
The Traffic Board ordered buses
that travel on King street to stop
at every other corner instead of at
each intersecting street as at pres
ent. This new system will be given
a 30-day trial in an effort to al
leviate congestion.
Evening star., 1941-10-23
|ndieting Of Druggist
Result Of Inquiry
In Horse NEEDING
Laurel Pharmacist Pleads
Not Guilty to Charges
Of Narcotics Violations
Staff and A. P Photos.

Six indictments against 37-year-
old Laurel Md druggist, who
pleaded not guilty in Prince Georges
County Circuit Court yesterday TO
charges of illegal sale of narcotics,
were the result of an investigation Of
a stimulated horse at the Laurel
track one year ago tomorrow, Off
cials of the Bureau of Narcotics said
today.
Leavitt H. Brinkley, proprietor of
a Laurel pharmacy, who was named
in the indictments alleging illegal
narcotics sale, said he knew nothing
of the charges until notified by
police to be in court yesterday. He
has been a registered druggist in
Maryland since 1925 and has been in
Laurel for the last five years, he
said
officials of the narcotics Office said
that testimony of one of its agents
before the grand jury was based on
an investigation made after saliva
tests of horse named Crius, which
won the seventh race at the Laurel
track October "a, 1910, showed
Crius had been given morphine. A
trainer later was suspended by the
Maryland State Racing Commits
sion as a result of the tests. mar
cotics officials said. The horse later
was sold.
LIE Roy Morrison. a Federal mar
cotics agent, was listed as one of the
witnesses who testified before the
grand jury.
After the suspension Of the train
er, narcotics agents checked all the
drug stores in Laurel. which are re-
quired by law to keep records for
two years of all purchases and sales,
it was learned.
Mr.. Binkley is charged specifically
with selling hypodermic tablets of
morphine sulphate not in pursu-
ance of a properly executed written
prescription of a physician, dentist
or veterinary" each indictment cov-
ering an alleged sale to a different
purchaser He is resident of Uni
versity Park.
Also arraigned yesterday were five
soldiers indicted on charges of
criminal assault on a 17-year-old
girl August 7. Thomas Amato, 81,
of Cleveland; Francis Bower, 80, of
Philadelphia; Lee Schroeder, 26. of
Baltimore; Cyril Becht, 80, of Phila-
delphia, and William Greenjack, %,
of Philadelphia. All pleaded not
guilty.
John F. Slaughter pleaded not
guilty when arraigned on an indict-
ment charging criminal assault on
his stepdaughter.
Evening star., 1941-10-23
Virginia Women Assoil
Immoral Trailer Camps

By the Associated Press.
ROANOKE. Va, Oct. 23.-An ap-
peal to the State for legislation to
control roadside development in Vir-
ginia was made here yesterday when
the Associated Clubs of Virginia for
Roadside Development agreed that
county coming regulations are too
SLOW and, also, that they are not re-
troactive.
An attack was made on "unsight-
ly dine ambulance places and i'm
moral trailer camps" which the
group, representing more than 40,-
600 affiliated women in the State,
plans to DO away with for the ben
eft of the people of our State"
The organizations program calls
for moving billboardS and signs back
a distance from the highways.
The association will hold its next
semi-annua. meeting at Virginia
Beach in June, 1912. :
Evening star., 1941-10-23
Suspect Denies Killing
RoiIwoy Policeman
= a Staff Core dent of The Star.

BY Staff Core dent of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. Oct. 23-
Walter Davis, 36, colored, who was
arrested in Poughkeepsie. N. Y,
in connection with the fatal shoot
ing of a Southern Railway police
man here in 1885, pleaded not
guilty and asked for jury trial
when arraigned on a charge of
murder before Judge William P.
Woons of the Corporation Court
yesterday.
Judge Woolls appointed William
S. Snow to represent the defend
ant and no date for the trial was
set.
Capt. Edgar Sims of the Alex
andria Police Department said the
prisoner had confessed to the shoot
ing of William M. Mcintyre, the
railroad policeman, who died four
days after receiving his wounds.
Fingerprints taken in connection
with a charge of intoxication at
Poughkeepsie led to the prisoner S
apprehension on the murder charge,
police said.
Evening star., 1941-10-23
Foirfux Students Form
Two Clubs at School
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FAIRFAX, Va, Oct. ga Home
Economics and a Shop Club have
been organized at Fairfax Elemen-
tary School under the direction of
Mrs. T. B. McCord
Hazel Ward was elected president
of the former group and Jack Perzel
of the Shop Club. Other officers of
the Home Economics Club include
Pearl Rowland, vice president; Nora
Magner, secretary, and Doris Lin
den, treasurer. The girls plan to
make Red Cross articles and their
first project will be to make curtains
for the school cafeteria.
Other officers of the Shop Club are
Frank Kidwell, vice president; Row.
land Kitchen, secretary, and George
Cation, treasurer. The boys will work
on simple shop equipment.
Evening star., 1941-10-23
Defense Effort
Adds 466,995
i. ). Rolls
1,444, ,985 Civilians
Employed as of August,
186,o3l in CopitoI

Nearly half a million civilian
workers have been added to the
Government rolls since the defense
program got under way.
The August report for the execu-
tive agencies, made public today by
the Civil Service Commission, showed
total employment Of 1,444,965 per-
sons. On May 81, 1910, the date
customarily used as marking the
start of intensified defense activi-
ties, the figure was 977,990 for net
growth of 466995.
In the District. approximately
$4,000 persons have been added.
August employment totaling l86,931
"a gain Of nearly 1900 over July.
Field employment in August was
1,253,654, a gain Of approximately
81 500 over July. The increase for
the month was nearly an eighth Of
the total that has taken place
since the end of May year ago.
Expansion General.
The largest increases have been
shown in War-233 ,000-and Navy
42,O0O-but a comparison Of the
reports for the two periods dis
closes that almost every agency
in the Government has expanded
its force.
Principal employment totals now
are as follows: War, 358, ,789; Post
Office, 318, ,793; Navy, 253,42l; Agri-
culture, 90,727; Treasury, 65,417; In
terror, 47.70O; Veterans Admins
tration, 42,735; Panama Canal, 81
653; Federal Works, 36574; Federal
Security, 31,369; Tennessee Valley,
27055; Commerce. 23,05l; Justice,
22,l54, and Federal Loan, 16473.
In the District, War and Navy
have slightly more than $4,000 en-
ployes, about equally divided be-
tween the two establishments. The
Treasury is next with 2l752 and
then comes Federal Works with 49,
374. The Office for Emergency Man
agement. which combines several OF
the strictly defense activities, has a
staff of ASH, and the executive staff
of the President numbers 69l per-
sons.
New High in Pay Rolls.
More than 80 per cent Of the Au-
gust increase in the country as
whole took place in the War and
Navy Departments Locally War,
Treasury, Agriculture, o. z. M. and
Justice showed the heaviest growth.
The August pay roll reached an
other new high. Here an increase
of more than S3,200,O00 over July
brought the total disbursement 10
s31, TAO, ,l04. In the field, the ad-
vance was approximately s8,6000t)
to s186.031 $50. The commission eZ-
planned, however, that this is &C
counted for by the fact that the J
figures covered only % days for SCI .
agencies.
Evening star., 1941-10-23
Baltimore Man Dies
AS Auto 0verturns
South Of La PLATA
Three Others Seriously
Hurt; Two Children
Injured in D. c. Streets

A 26-year-old Baltimore man was
killed and three other Baltimoreans
were injured seriously early today
when their car ran off the road and
overturned five miles south of La
Plata, Md.
Thorndike Berwick, 26. died en-
route to the Physicians Hospital in
La Plata after the accident, which
occurred on highway 301 near Bel
Alton, according to Maryland State
police.
Mr. Berwick was a passenger in
a car operated by Leo Donohud, %,
who was admitted to the hospital
with two, other passengers, Miss
Helen Reaves. "a, and Mrs. Mildred
LanderS. State police reported. Their
injuries were undetermined but their
condition was believed to be serious,
hospital attendants said.
In Washington two children were
taken to hospitals with traffic in
juries late yesterday.
Donald Shifflett, II, of 206 Ken
lucky avenue Sc. was admitted to
Casualty Hospital for treatment OF
concussion and contuSions after be-
ing struck by an automobile in front
of his home. Lille Mae Barrett. II
colored, of the 1000 block Of New
Hampshire avenue NV. was taken
to Emergency Hospital with a frac-
tured lett wrist. fractured right leg
and lacerated lip. Police reported
she was hit by car at Sixteenth
and Caroline streets NV.
Clinton Foley, IS, of Waterfall,
Va, was taken to the Alexandria
Hospital early today with fractured
shoulder suffered in an accident
near his home. Prince William au-
thorities were investigating the &C
cident. in which he was reported
to have been struck by a car while
attempting to hail the driver to ask
for a ride.
Evening star., 1941-10-23
Brooklyn Bid Is Low
For Patuxent Dam

The E. w. Foley Co., Inc, of
Brooklyn, N. Y, submitted the low
est bid, one for S693,124, for con-
Struction of the proposed Patuxent
River dam near Laurel, Chief En-
gineer Harry R. Hall of the WASH
ington Suburban Sanitary Commis-
sion announced today.
Two other bids submitted were by
P. G.. Lyon of Baltimore for S1,136,-
SCI, and Spencer, White & Prentis,
New York, for s1,306,950. Mr.. Hall
said the contract probably would be
awarded in next few days after
study.
The dam would impound $780,
100000 gallons of water to serve the
area within the sanitary district in
Montgomery and Prince Georges
Counties.
Evening star., 1941-10-23
Boy and 7 Girls
Held for Jury
In Staying
Boil Is Refused
At Preliminary
Hearing
By the Associated Press.

BEL AIR, Md, Oct. 23.-Twt
companion today were ordered helC
without bail for action of the Har'
ford County grand jury on charge!
of numbering Granger G.. Brown
ing, 40. on a wild ride that ended
In Portland, Me.
The action, which remanded the
youngsters to the county jail, was
taken by Magistrate Stanley S
Spencer at a preliminary hearing
for the trio-Herbert H. Cox, jr, Is,
Ida Nav Price, Is, and Leona Ellen
Cunningham, IA.
BroWning's body was found last
Thursday in a thicket near Como
wingo after the two girls and the
boy had been taken into custody in
Portland, Me. Mr.. Browning had
been shot in the head.
Body Hidden in Woods.
The search for Mr. Browning's
body was instituted after the Cox
boy told Portland authorities that
he and the two girls had run away
from their home in a trailer camp
near Alexandria, Va, October II
with Mr.. Browning and that he had
shot Mr.. Browning while their car
was parked north of Bel Air and
later hidden his body in a clump OF
woods beside Highway No. l near
tie d-PennSylvania line.
The Cox boV, whose story was
corroborated by the. two girls, ac-
cording to Portland police. first said
he had shot Mr. Browning because
of improper advances" to one OF
the girls, but later admitted he
wanted Browning's car to get to
Portland to search for work. He
had formerly lived in Portland and
was staying with an aunt, who be-
came suspicious that the car they
were driving might be stolen. A
search of the car showed bloodstalns
in the rear seat.
Waived ExtraditiOn.
Tracing the North Carolina license
tags of the automobile, authorities
learned it was. registered to MI
Browning, a Mount Olive IN. c.
carpenter who had been staying in
Alexandria while working on a con-
struction project
The girls and the boy waived eX-
tradition and were returned to
Maryland,