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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-02-10
AIR MAIL
 IN ALASKA
 BOOSTED
Sum for Star Routes h. creased Turn Down Ju-
 nedu-Keithikdn Run

WASHINGTON, Feb 10. The House Appropriations Committee has recommended Congress appropriate SITS, ,000 for star mail routes in AL aska for the fiscal year starting July 1. compared to $150.0oo for the cur rent year.
 The increase of $2,000 is to pro- vide g roundtrips, one weekly. from May to October 3l. between Nome and Fairbanks and intermediate points. supplementing the service on this route between November 1 and May 6.
 The sum of $11.400 is for new twice-a-week service between Fair banks and Anchorage the year around to furnish adequate service to the new Army Base at Anchor age.
 Juneau Mail Hit
 The Committee has eliminated as "unwarranted under existing condi- tjons the Post Office Departments request for $4.000 for a mail route from Juneau to Ketchikan and pro-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-02-10
British Naval Forces Make Surprise Attack on
 Faseists Sunday
ITALIAN COMMAND
 SAYS DAMAGE DONE
Many Civilians Killed or Wounded . Properly
 Damage Destructive
,By ASSOCIATED PRESS,

Mussolini's High Command re- ported today that at least 72 per sens were killed, 226 wounded and "encrmeuS damage" had been in flcted by powerful squadron of British warships that boldly steam cd into Northern Italian coastal waters and rained at least 300 tons of shells" on Itslys naval base at Genoa.
 Earlier. in London, Prime Minis ter Churchill broadcast that an at tack was carried out at dawn Sun day and shattering blow was delivered on the base at Genoa from which "Nazi expedition might soon sail to attack Gen. Weygand ir Algeria or Tunis."
 Weygand is Comm an Ter oi Frances Armies in French North Africa.
 Destruction Acknowledged
 The Italian Commands war bulle- tin, while acknowledging heavy de- struction among the civilians, and dwellings in Genoa, asserted that the British naval assault failed to hit any military objectives.
 The British communique listed power plants, factories, warehouses Gil tanks, docks and shipping among the targets damaged in Genoa.
 Genoa is where the bulk of the Italian fleet is supposed to have based and taken refuge after the British raid on Tarantis naval base on November II.
 It is believed the British cruiser Renown, 32,000 tons, battle cruiser Malta, 3l 000 tons, and aircraft car rier Ark Royal, 22,O0O tons, took part in the Genoa attack
 The Fascist command reported that Italian airplanes overlook sev- eral of the British. men-of-war and hit one cruiser on the stern.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-02-10
COAST GUARD RADIO STATION
 FOR THIS CIIY
Comm andant Waes(he Asks for Appropriations
 for Alaska Equipment

WASHINGTON, Feb. l0.-- Rear Admiral Russell R. Waesche, Com- mandant of the Coast Guard, tcld the House Appropriations Commit tee that the Coast Guard wanted $1 ,750 000 for nine coast guard radio stations, two of which will be in &c., attle and Juneau. He said, the sta tions will not be broadcasting sta- tions but radio traffic stations.
 Waeschc als 0 urged $20,000 for oquipping the cutters Cedar and Hemlock with fathomctcrs for use in Alaskan waters and as war pre- paredness measure.
 Waesche also asked funds for three cutters to cost about $3.730. GOO each to replace old cutters.
 In discussing his request, Waesche said the regular work in Alaska has been neglected and now the time is coming when we should be paying more attention to the North as it is more important now than at any time before, as Alaska is of tremen- dous importance since Japan has abrogated the seal treaty. Because of that we need more protection in Bering Sea and more protection for the seals"
 Waesche said the new cutters will replcsrc the ITnaIoa OEgippc and TaI- lapOOsa.
 Funds were also asked to improve the Coast Guard base at Ketchikan, especially the wharves.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-02-10
Former Member Supreme Court, Conservative, Dies
 Suddenly in Washington

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.-Willis Van Devanter, 81, former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, who retired in 1887, died suddenly Saturday night as the result of an attack of the heart. His resignation, after 26 years on the highest bench, added fuel at the time to the flaming controversy over the enlargement # the high tribunal as proposed ,y President Roosevelt
 Was Conservative
 Van Devanter, then 78, was sen for in commission and second old est member of the bench. He was bracketed as one of the outstand- having been listed with Justices having been isted with Justices Sutherland, Butler and McReynolds in opposition to a majority of the new deal" cases brought before the tribunal. Several of those meas ures had been overthrown by votes of 5 to and the President had asked Congress to empower him to name an additional Justice for each member of the court who refused to retire at the age of. 70. This would have increased the number of Justices from 3 to 15.
 Opponents of this measure from the beginning denounced it as a scheme to pack the court Van DcvanterIS retirement, they ar- gued, took the wind out of the sails of those who supported the Rooseveltian program since the conservative" bloc, reduced to three, had become an ineffective minority
 Retires to Farm
 Seemingly unmindful of the storm which his retirement had aroused, Van Devanter calmly be- came "a gentleman farmer talk ing up his residence on 788-acre tract near Ellicott City, Md, which he had purchased few months earlier.
 Forty years earlier, in fact, Van Devanter had come out of the west with a brace of fowling pieces in the baggage which he brought to Washington when he took his first Federal post That place was given him after, as Republican national committeeman for Wyoming, he had helped nominate and elect Will liam Mckinley as President.
 Wyoming however, was an adopt
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-02-10

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, Feb. 10 Former United States Senator Reed Shoot, 79, of Utah. Whs served 30 years, and gained na- tional prominence as co-author ol the Shoot Hawley Tariff Act, ano as one of the twelve apostles, whc with the presidency of three, form the governing body of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints died suddenly yesterday.
 Three years before he went tt the Senate, his incumbency of the Mormon Church post caused bit ter contest of his election which lasted more than year before il was defeated.
 The specific charge was that when he became an apostle he took an oath to the church incompatible with the swearing of allegiance, as Senator, to the national govern ment. But the real issue was poly gamy.
 Against POlygamy
 He expressed his own beliel against polygamy and pointed out that he had taken only one wife although his father had practiced the church doctrine regarding mar riage and his mother was a plural wife.
 Shoot had been converted from his fathers democratic political be- liefs to Republican tenets by a study of the tariff question in the days when the Mckinley bill was on every newspaper page and in every cross roads store debate. The subject became the chief article in his political creed and in time Le
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-02-10
l N I H E
 H 0 U 5 E

INTRODUCED-H B. 26, by Her. bert, repeating sections providing for Divisional Road Commissions.
 PASSED-H. B. 15,, by Smith. providing for the issuance of de- layed birth certificates.
 PASSED-H. B. l6, by Peterson, providing for setting up grazing districts.
 PASSED-H. J M 6, by Peter son, asking survey for trunk highway system.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-02-10
AID BILL
 6 l. E PASSED BY HOUSE
Many Amendments Beaten Down Just Prior 10 Fin-
 al Vote Being Taken

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. = The House has passed the Aid to Britain bill by vote of 260 to 165.
 Just before the final passage, late last Saturday afternoon, the House defeated the motion by Representa- tive Hamilton Fish, Jr., of New York to send the bill back to the House Foreign Affairs Committee with in structions to substitute Two Million Dollars as credit for Great Britain.
 The final Senate vote is not likely for about three weeks.
 Ceiling Beaten Down
 Earlier in the afternoon the House Democratic majority beat down the Republican attempt to impose Sev- en Billion Dollar ceiling on the Aid Bill This vote was 122 to 33. taken standing.
 The House also rejected Reprcsen- tative Wadsworth's amen dm n which would have limited that sum as the total expense of this Govern ment in furnishing military aid to nations whose defense is deemed es- sential to the United States
 During the afternoon. the Demo- cratic majority also defeated the amendment to prohibit United States ports to be used as repair places fol belligerent nations. Representative Fish contended such use would bring war to America" He predict cd that if the House rejected the amendment the Senate would insert it.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-02-10
SISTER OF CAPT.
 LATHR0p I5 DEAD

SEATTLE, Feb. 10.-Mrs. R. s. Richards of Seattle. sister of Capt. A. E. Lathrop, died in Portland yes terday She and her husband were early day settlers in Dawson. A son and daughter survive, neither of whom have lived in Alaska.
 Funeral arrangements are await ing the arrival of Capt. Lathrop, now in Juneau. on his way south from Fairbanks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-02-10
Iceland Is
 Air Raided
 ByGerlllans
Planes Roam 0utfrom Nor. way Air Bases s-Reykja
 vik Machine Gunned

BERLIN, Feb. To- -Hitler's High Command reports that Germ n planes roamed far from their bases Sunday and attacked and machine gunned Iceland, especially the Brit jsh airport at Reykjavik, the Capital City of the island
 The British occupied Iceland soon after Denmark was invaded by the German forces
 Reykjavik is 1000 miles from the German air bases in Norway
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-02-10
PIGEON REGENERATION BEING UNDERTAKEN BY
 us. SIGNAL CORDS NOW
By JACK sTINNETT

WASHINGTON. Feb. 10. = Wher this news gets around. the pigeon protection" bill of Dr. Joseph L Pfeifer, Brookln congressman. med ico and fancier. is probably going to have a lot more chance of con sideration than it has had in re- cent sessions.
 The news is that the U. s. Sig nal Corps is interesting itself in the registration for possible use in defense emergency of the country's trained homing pigeons The signal corps has dispatch rid" CTS, telephone and telegraph lines wireless and radio. but when all lines are out, the circuits dead and riders can't get through there's nothing so handy. it seems as a homer that can wing it's way back to headquarters.
 The signal corps has pigeons lots of them-but as means oi building reserve supply. the corps plans to ask all private fan cicrs to register their lofts. This way, the Army figures, it could in an emergency. get about 50,00C trained pigeons in no time at all
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-02-10
Severance of Relations Be- tween British, Rumdn-
 idns Been Expeeied
NAzI DOMINATION
 LEADS TO RUPTURE
Diplomatic Sources Look for Drastic A(tion-Chur-
 chill Made Forecast
oBy ASSOCIATED PREss)

Great Britain has broken off dip lomatic repations with Nazi domi- mated Rumania and according to both neutral and diplomatic sources the break may be followed by declaration of war on that nation.
 The break came a few hours after Prime Minister Churchill announced in broadcast in London that Ger many was making thrust through the Balkans, moving troops by the thousands, most pronounced act of aggression, and jeopardizing Brit ish interests
 Legitimate Move Diplomatic and neutral quarters point out that Rumania's rich oil fields are now completely in German hands, supplying fuel to the Naxi luftwaffes in raids on Great Britain. therefore this constitutes legiti- mate target for British bombing ma chimes
 British Minister Sir Reginald Hoare informed Rumanian Premier Antonescu at noon today of the break and immediately United States Min- ister Franklin Gunther and his staff began taking over the British af- fairs.
 Rupture Expected
 The rupture has been expected ever since strong contingents of Nazi troops began entering Rumania late last fall.
 Churchill announced in his broad cast that a considerable German Army and Air Force were being built up in Rumania and its forward ten- acles already have penetrated Bull garia. in what we suppose is acqui- essence of the Bulgarian Army. Many preparations are being made for a movement of German troops into or through Bulgaria from Ru- mania and perhaps this southward movement has already begun
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-02-10
Presidents of '57 varieies'
 Passes Away
Howard Heinz, Whose Firm Started with HOrserddish,
 Dies in Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Feb. 10.--- Howard Heinz, President of the H. J. Heinz Company of Pittsburgh, passed away here last night.
 Heinz said bottle of horse radish was the acorn from which his family's international business grew His father, Henry J. Heinz, born in Pittsburgh in 1344, con- ceived the idea of bottling the te-flowered brassicaceous plant and sowed a small patch near his home in 1869.
 He rented a shack next door, hired two women and a boy to
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-02-10
USED BY SPIES

USED BY SPIES
 Stories keep drifting in from England about the use Of homing pigeons in the present war, par ticularly in getting information back from the continent, where t is reported Great Britain has an elaborate spy system, abetted by thousands of persons in German controlled territory who are will ing to take all sorts of risks to contribute to British victory. There has been some talk in Army cir oles that carriers may be supplied to these spies in parachute cages. At any rate, it is estimated that 20, 900 pigeons now are in use in Great Britain.
 If these were U. s. Signal corps pigeons, the parachutes wouldn't be necessary. Army trainers re- gently have made contribution to military science which, I'm told. has lot of fanciers bug eyed They are training signal corps carriers to fly both ways.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-02-10
WOULD FLY TO FRONT

As the signal corps explains it. these two-way pigeons, under mod ern battle conditions, would fly forward in groups of l2 from the message receiving point near head quarters to the front lines or out posts. Having delivered their mes sages there. they would be kept overnight in cages and sent on the return trip the following day
 All of the signal corps pigeons already have been trained to do their mile-a- minute stint at night,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-02-10

WASHINGTON-T one Cabinet officer whose term expires by law at the end of a presidential term is the Postmaster. General. However, affable, eggbald Postmaster General Frank Walker, one of Roosevelt's closest friends, made it clear he had no intention of quitting.
 Here's my resignation" Walker told the President, but I'm warning you I'm sticking around. In this emergency feel it's my duty to serve the country, and I'm staying on as Postmaster General or in any other job where I can be helpful
 Thanking him, Roosevelt assured Walker that he wanted him to re- main in the Post Office Department, where Walker has done an out standing job.
 T refuse to let you refuse to quit, Frank" he grinned You are re- hired"
 NOTE: In order to give his full time to the Government. Walker re- gently placed general manager in charge of his string of movie the atres in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Un- like Jim Farley, who spent only a day or two at his 20 deck, Walker is there every work day from 9 A. M. to well after P. M.
 NEVADA SENATOR SLAPPED
 The only one who came to Senator Pat McCarrans support, when the Democratic steering committee roughly slapped down the portly Ne vadan's noisy demand for the Judi ciary chairmanship, was his isola- tionist cohort, Senator Bounding Burt" Wheeler.
 The Montana Senator argued that McCarran's seniority over Senator Fred Van Nuys of Indiana had been recognized, and that the steering committee would be setting a bad precedent" if it vetoed McCarran.
 But Wheeler's guns were spiked by veteran Pat Harrison of Missis- sippi, president pro tenn of the Sen- ate, who pointed out with some vigor
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-10-06
Winston Hester Is
Honored at Party

Mrs. J. T. Hester and Mrs. C. G.
Short entertained on Thursday even
ing at a party at the home of Mrs.
hester, in honor of Winston ID. He's
ter, who left III Friday to enter the
U. $. Naval Reserve.
Numerous games and contests
conducted by Mrs. Short, were play
cd during the evening.
Guess were invited into the dining
room where punch and cakes were
-INCd. Inc table was conferred with
a crystal bowl of mixed tall flowers,
carrying out the color scheme of red
white, and blue.
Those present for the evening
were: Winston Hester, Miss Paulinl
Hoyle, MI. and Mrs. Arthur NJ
Hoyle, Miss Blanche Hester, Mrs
Furney G.. Hester, Jr., Mr.. and Mrs
r. E. Cooper, Mrs. Johnny Wilbornc.
Misses Katherine and Margare'
Reavis, Misses Elizabeth, Vera, and
Elma Workman, Harry Workman, Mi
and Mrs. T. P. FIster, Mr.. and Mrs
c. G.. Short, and Mr.. and Mrs. J. I
Hester.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-10-06
P%Iaymakers Appear
Here on October !

The Carolina Playmakers take to
the road again, inaugurating their
thirty-eighth tour with Paul Green's
play of the Old South The House OF
Connclly". Their schedule includes a
performance here Tuesday evening
at 8 o'clock in the Henderson high
school auditorium, sponsored by the
dramatic club of Henderson high
school.
DR.. Frederick II. Koch saw his
dream of Il drama of the people be-
ing realized when he organized the
FIRST group Of Carolina Playmakcrs
some % years ago at the University
of North Carolina. Paul Green, one
Of the greatest writers of the Amer
lean drama, is the author of The
of conflict between a decadcnt arls-
tOCraCy and a burgeoning lower class.
In 1881 it was acclaimed on Broad
way, and last year it was toured sue
cessfully by the Carolina Playmak-
erS.
The Playmakers have produced
their plays not only in Chapel Hill
but have gone out into the byWay.
Of North Carolina to play one-nigh
stands. The scope of their appear
ances has Widened to include almos
the whole of Dixie and much o
Yankeeland as we'll. When they g
on the road, the Playmakers carry
along everything necessary for a I'm
ished production. The top OF then
shoW-bus is fitted to carry three com
plete sets of scenery, built IN then
own scene shop and specially de
signed to occupy a minimum O
space.
The Playmakers have made thirty
seven grand tours, II upwards o
800, 900 people have seen the 10 dll
ferent original plays produced OF
the road. Two hundred torty-slE per
formances have been given IN 80 dlf
ferent North Carolina cities an
towns.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-10-06

on nomination of the district COM
mittee. Your reporter knows abso-
lutely nothing of his W personal
knowledge and hasn't even an opin-
ION satisfactory to himself; but there
have been reports hat he was
chosen with the express understand
ing with DR.. Ralph Mcdonald, the
reports say that he would not stand
for denomination in 1912.
Now if (haven't we heard that
bfeore?) there was such an under
standing, there's going to be a hot
race in the Fifth. Should Folger
honor the supposed agreement, then
Dr.. Mcdonald and one or more con-
servatives VIII battle it out. Also
and again if-if Folger should re-
pudiatc the agreement. then he will
have the same DR.. Mcdonald TO beat.
Which is d man-sized JOB in any
political race.
On the other hand, in the absence
Of any agreement on FOlger's part.
there seems nothing to keep him
from running again-dnd winning
Dr.. Mcdonald could hardly oppose
him under such circumstances. So
the existence or nUn-eXistcnce of
the agreement seems to be the cruz
of the whole Fifth district problem.
There may be other congressional
races, which could conceivably turn
INTO bloody battles; but if 50 they arc
not looming even in hand-size clouc
fashion On the horizon.
More than half the judges of the
state viii be up for reelection. These
posts pay 50 well that there's
great temptation for politically
minded lawyers whose private prac-
tice isn't too remunerative, to try fol
them.
1t follows, therefore, that there
Will likely be some judicial contests
There is talk of one in the Seventh
wolves a Wake county political fcuc
and not a lawyer who finds it hare
to make a living at his profession
On down the line, there is the en-
tire state legislature. Here. too, there
are possibilities of much ection
There is no doubt whatsoever tina
there is a group which would give
its collective eye-tecth to SCI an anti.
Broughton General Assembly il
1913. but there is grave doubt tina
any such conSumation can be achieV.
cd. The governor has made enemies
but ne has made many friends he
did not have before. and his sbant
IN support Of the national admins.
tration'S foreign policy has mad
him friends in many quarters.
In the local field there are l0'
shcriffs' races: which is to say tina
me home town boys viii have tn
time Of their lives.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-10-06
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-10-06
Family Reunion Is
Held Near Wendell

The Eastwood and SattrrWhitc
families gathered at the home of r..
f. SatterWhite, near Wendell. Sun
day for a reunion. Those present
the following: Mr.. and Mrs. G..
S. Eastwood and Perry SatterWhite,
Mrs. j. c Hudgins, of Henderson;
Pitt Denton, c. b. Painter, MI. and
Mrs. r. +. SatterWhitc and family.
James Lewis SatterWhitc, Jesse VIII
lard SatterWhite, Mrs. b. A. Wealth
ers, and Miss Mary Elizabeth VII
liams, of Wendell; Mr.. and Mrs. Joe
Jones, l.. l.. Eastwood, w. 7. East
wood, Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Eastwood.
and Miss Duffie Williams, of Green
Vile; Mr.. and Mrs. r. V. Eastwood,
Miss Missouri Eastwood, and Willie
Pittman, of Zebulon; Mr.. and Mrs.
G.. w. Poole, Of Lilllngton; Mr.. and
Mrs. c. L. Eastwood. of WaIston-
burg; Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. SattcrWhitc,
Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. SatterWhitc.
Julian S~atterWhite, of Oxford: Mrs.
Sallie Jackson, of Dunn: Mrs. S. W.
Parker, of Goats; Mrs. J.. c. Jour
nigan, of Macon; r. +. SatterWhitc,
Mrs. Ella SatterWhite. of Rougemont.
and Mr.. and Mrs. Z. d. Bcvers, OF
Durham.