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The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-20
ThAWS START, FLOODS NIT MANY PLACES
Much of Britain Is. Under Wafer-Canada, Unified
 States Also Suffer
6sy THE ASSOCIATED pREss)

(By THE ASSOCIATED PRESs)
 First the blizzards and now the floods have started as the spring thaws set in after one of the worst winters in years.
 The rivers are overflowing in England and in Europe, and in Canada and in the United States
 The British seem to be having the worst of it. The flooded streams have spread destruction and misery through scores of towns and villages in the Thames valley, the industrial Midlands and in Northern England. Troops, civil ians, police, and even German war prisoners have been called out to help stem the. spring tides-but they seem to be fighting losing battle
 Some communities have been evacuated. Others have been cut off.
 sIn the mining village of Bentley, near Doncaster in Northern Eng land, 1000 persons have been with cut 1aod shipments from the out side for more than 24 hours. Aid is being taken to them in Army amphibians and roWboatS. To a country which is spending badly needed dollars to import food the flood is a major disaster Untold tens of thousands of sheep and cattle have been drowned-in ad- dition to the millions which per- ished in the heavy snows of Brit aims worst winter in more than 5O years. On top of that, most of the winter wheat crop has been lost in the flood-and the spring sowing of other urgently needed food has been put weeks behind schedule.
 There are warnings that the same sort of news soon will De on this side of the world
 In Canada, south of Edmonton, the Red Deer River-which or dinarily is a placid stream-boiled up IA feet yesterday. And 1t still is going up as the thick winter ice cracks. Five persons already are missing on the flood and there, toe, livestock is being sucked into the swift stream.
 Southeastern Montana has got ten breather, however. Flood waters which forced 200 families from their homes appear to be subsiding after a breakup in ice jams on the Yellowstone and tke Tongue Rivers.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-20
PRECIPITATION
STEAMER MOVEMENTS

Princess Norah, from Vancouver, due tomorrow
 Aleutian, from Seattle, due Sun day Goes westward.
 Tongass scheduled to sail from Seattle today.
 Sailors Splice scheduled to sail from Seattle March 2l.
 Alaska scheduled to sail from Seattle March 29, calling at Ketch- ikan, Wrangell, Petersburg. Juneau, Sitka, Cordova, Valdez and Seward.
 Denali scheduled southbound from westward about March 25.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-20
AVIATION BILL WHIPPED up 10
 PASSAGE FORM

Absence of Senator Norman k. Walker, who has been sent to bed for a day or so on doctors orders, resulted in the Alaska Senate's pushing aside controversial legis- lation during it's session yesterday afternoon.
 On the two or three occasions when contested matters were pre- scnted, a threat to demand a Call of the Senate" held them over so that the ailing Senator would not be jerked out of bed. Especially was that true when effort was made to work over s. B. 30, the general property tax sponsored by Walker and Senator Victor c. Riv- CTS. It was reported that Walker had declared his desire to vote on that bill and Rivers stated that he would demand a Gall" unless the bill were continued in second read- ing. That was done, after one amendment had been voted down.
 Senator Don Carlos Brownell pro- posed to insert in the property tax bill the same amendment he suc- ceeded in putting into, the income tax bill before. that measure was defeated on Tuesday The amend ment would allow a credit against tax in the amount of expenditures for Improvements to farm, business and residential properties. Such a credit would almost completely ne- gate any tax. The amendment iall- ed by a 6 to g vote.
 Accord Of AAA
 The noon recess apparently brought accord on the Alaska Aer- onautics Act-S. B. 48-for the battle that was looming in the forenoon over a proposed amend ment making the Aeronautics Com missioners appointive from lists submitted by the legislators was found compromised by slight change i'll the wording when the Senate convened again in the after noon. The change was to require that the Governor be furnished at least three names from each Divl- sion for his selection. So rewritten, the amendment was adopted with out objection-along with the re- mainder of four solid pages of amendments. In addition, Senator Rivers secured deletion of a pro- vision for delegation of the Com missions authority to it's executive official, the Aeronautics Director.
 Self Sustaining
 Most important of the other amendments adopted into the aer- onautics bill is provision to make
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-20
HALIBUT SEASON
 TO OPEN MAY 1

The International Fisheries Com mission has announced that the l947 season Tor commercial fishing for halihut will open on May l, with the same provisions as for l946, except for small change in the boundary line of Area 4 and assignments of catch limitations to that area.
 Printed copies of the new regula- tions are expected by the local of flee of the Fish and Wildlife Ser vice shortly.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-20
SHOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, March 20 Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 5ls, American Can 94A, Anaconda 39, Curtiss- Wright 5%, International Harvester 82h Kennecott 44A, New York Central l6A, Northern Pacific 17A, U. s. Steel 71%, Pound $4021s.
 Sales today were 630,O00 shares.
 Merrill-Lynch averages today are as follows: industrials 175.38, rails 4843, utilities 35.72.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-20
JOHNSON TO PRISON

Joe Johnson, of Wrangell, was sentenced by Judge Harry E. Pratt in District Court yesterday, to serve l8 months in the Federal Peniten- tiary. Johnson had previously en- tered a guilty plea to charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor at Wrangell.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-20
GOVERNOR vET0E5 NET
 MINES TAX
Control Body Made Self- Sustaining by Tax on
 Aircraft Gas

The first veto of the Eighteenth Session, disappearing the net in come tax on mining operations in Alaska, reached the Senate and House yesterday accompanied by a nine-page bill of particulars pointing out tEe faults Of the measure.
 The veto had not heen entirely unexpected, apparently, but sev- eral of the Senators and Repre- sentatiyes from the Mining divis- ions had expressed the hope that it would be enacted as an aid to the smaller mine operators, and especially to lode mines
 The bill labeled s. B. 32, would repeal the present three percent gross tax on gold and other prec- ious minerals and substitute tax on the net profits, ranging from four percent in tEe lower brackets on up to eight percent in the higher ones, with deductible allow ances for depletion. The tax would be levied not only on gold and platinum, but on all mining oper- ations in Alaska showing net profit-coal, copper, gypsum, lime rock, and so forth.
 Veto Message
 orrI,ara o,a a ,,,,p,har of reaSopS why this bill is objectionable and, in my judgment, decidedly con- trary to the best interests of the Territory the Governor said in his veto message "Obstensibly designed to assist the mining in dustry and lift it from it's present doldrums, this bill would not achieve this objective appreciable, but would tend to reprive the Territory of any likely prospect of revenue from mining if and when that industry again goes into more active operation.
 The bill, the message states, is so loosely drawn that it would not produce revenue, and the Governor quotes the Attorney Gen. eral to the effect that the bill makes no provision for computing gross income, or for the computa- ton of capital gains and losses, depreciation, improvements by lContinued on Paqe Fipel
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-03-20
AVERSION IN JUNEAU

Ben H. Iverson, representative for Panther Oil & Grease Co, Fort Worth, Texas, is in Juneau for an indefinite time on business. Iver- son plans to spend four months in the Territory and will cover all principal cities in his spring sales tour He is staying at the Hotel Juneau.
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The Skyland post., 1947-04-10
Personals

Mr.. and Mrs. E. C. Stanley and
son, Charles, of Matewan, w. Va,
have been visiting Mr.. S. H.
Stanley at Warrensville.
lA Miss Raye Hairless, of ToWson,
Md, visited her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. T. Hairless, through the
Easter holidays.
MIR. and Mrs. Everette Lewis
of w. Va, are visiting Mrs. Lewis
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. T. Har-
less.
Mr.. Scott Denney, student al
Lenoir-Rhyne college, spent the
Easter holidays with his parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Denney, here
MIR. Thomas Shull Johnston re.
turned to his studies at Wake
Forest college yesterday, after
spending the holidays here.
Messrs. Frank Barr, w. B. Aus
tin, Harold Long, and Breeze
Pennington, students at UNC
spent the Easter holidays here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn B. Gray
beal spent the Easter holidays
visiting relatives in Lynchburg
The Skyland post., 1947-04-10

program. Warrensville was Rev.
Ingram's first pastoral work.
While here, as pastor, he COM
pleted his high school course, at
jefferson high school, going on
to A. S. T. c. at Boone, where
he received his degree before be-
ing transferred. The Ingrams
have many friends in this sec
ton.
Mrs. Walter Roland, of Mill
Creek, is very i'll at present.
Mr.. and Mrs. O'Neal Tyner,
and sons, were week end guests
of Mrs. Verta Barlow at Green
Valley, visiting in Warrensville
Monday on their way to Kan
napolis where they are located at
present.
Mr.. w. P. Shoaf has sold his
hardware store to R. c. Shoaf
and Ray Walker.
The Warrensville hosiery mill
has closed for the present. Mr.,
Eisenhour having sold the ma
chinery. Name of purchaser not
aScertained.
The Skyland post., 1947-04-10

Weaver, have returned to their
studies at Emory and Henry Col
lege after spending the Spring
holidays at their homes in Lans-
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. w. Graham
and daughter, Ola Ann, of Husk.
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs
Bill Graham, at Todd.
Among those students of
WCUNC who have been spend
ing the spring holidays here are
Misses Evelyn Dare Vannoy
Clairenc Oliver. Roberta Austin.
Myrtle Dean ard Elizabeth Gray
beal, Maxine Alexander and
Daphne Elier.
AIessrs. Bob and A. B. Hurt.
students at State college, spent
the week end with their par
ants, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Hurt.
Miss Ruth Hairless, student at
DraughOn's Business college,
Knoxville, Tenn, spent the East
er holidays with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Ballard Hairless.
Miss Betty Cornett. of Boone,
spent the week end with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Cornett.
Miss Vivian Johnson spent a
few days this week with her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Leverne John
son, Of Pulaski, Tenn.
Mrs. Mary Hafer and children
Of Hickory, spent the week end
visiting friends here.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. N. Oliver Wis
tied Mr.. and Mrs, Ed Houck, OF
Todd, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Grouse, OF
Winston-Salem spent Easter
holidays with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. John Weaver.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gale Mcmillan
who have both been i'll in the
Ashe hospital, have returned
horro and are imnroviDo.
Mr., and Mrs. Edwin Weaver
If Burlington. spent the Easter
. lGudavs with relatives here.
The Skyland post., 1947-04-10

va.
Messrs. Marvin and Ralph
Stump, students at State college,
spent the week end at their home
at Nathan's Greek.
Misses Winona Roland, OF
Charlotte, and Norma Roland, OF
Winston-Salem, spent the Easter
holidays with their parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. E. Roland, of War
rensville.
Mr.. ]. Buckley RAIDER returned
to his studies at Pheiffer Junior
college, Missenheimer, afte
spending the Spring holidays with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Jen-
nings RAIDER.
Mrs. J. M. Shull returned to
Mt. City, Monday, after spend
ing sometime with Mr.. and Mrs
Ira T. Johnston. She was ac'
companied by Mrs. Johnston ano
Thomas S. Johnston.
Mr.. and Mrs. William H. Ray
Rufus Hiram Ray, and Mrs. Johr
McRoberts, who came here tc
attend the funeral of their nep-
hew, Dickie Ray, have returned
home after visiting relatives fol-
few days. Miss Ann Wyatt ac-
companied them home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Lee Akers
of Princeton, w. Va, spent the
Easter holidays with their parents
here. Mrs. Akers is the former
Miss Louise Killen.
Mr.. John Barr and Mr.. JACK
The Skyland post., 1947-04-10
SCHEDULE FOR CHURCH
SERVICES ANNOUNCED

Elders l. w. Kilby and M. K
Cook will hold several services
in the county during this month
it was announced here. The
schedule of services is as fol
lows:
Senter, April IL and 13; Beav-
er Creek, April 13 and IA al
night; Big Helton, April Is, at II
o'clock; Roans Creek, April Is
at II o'clock. Services will be
held at Sparta on April 19 and 20
The Skyland post., 1947-04-10
PIT. A. Party To
Be eHeldFri. Night

A card party, which will be
sponsored by the Parent-Teach-
ers Association, will be held at
the community building here to-
morrow night at 7:3O o'clock, Mrs.
Herman Haire, president, has an
nounced.
The public is cordially invited
to attend. The party was to have
been held in March but was post
pOned.
The Skyland post., 1947-04-10
Warrensville News

Easter guests Of Mr.. and Mrs.
J. Ance Johnson were Mr.. and
Mrs. Randall Woodie and Sandra
and Miss Margaret Johnson, of
High Point, Mr.. and Mrs. Worth
Dollar and family, of West JEFF
ferson, Mr.. and Mrs. Alton Tur-
ner, Of High Point, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Radford Johnson and son,
of Welch, w. Va.
The Skyland post., 1947-04-10
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to express our sin
cere thanks to our many friends
and neighbors for their kindness
and sympathy in the sudden
death of our dear daughter,
Louise; also for the beautiful
floral offerings.
MIR. AND MRS. BRUCE COX
AND FAMILY.
The Skyland post., 1947-04-10

Mr.. and Mrs. Mathew McCor-
mick and Ralph Ashley visited
relatives in West Virginia last
week end.
Roy James, who was i'll with
flu last week, is able to be out
again.
Mrs. J. w. Caudill is very i'll
at present.
Rev. Russell Caudill, Of Will
mington, N. c., has been with
his mother since Friday.
Martin Ashley spent the East
er holidays with relatives in Blue
field and Welch, w. Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Mccormick
and daughter, and Miss Ella Mae
Testerman visited relatives, here
Saturday.
Mrs. Ray Brooks and daugh-
ter, of Troutdale, Va, were
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Nc
Cormick last week.
Mrs. J. M. Burkett, Mrs. c. R
Latham and Misses Sally Bur
kett, Mary Elizabeth Latham and
Virginia Ruth Price were shop
ping in North Wilkesboro, Sat
urday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Maynard Jones
| of Greensboro, were guests OF
Mr.. and Mrs. V. C. Huddler, Sun
| day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Webb Roter
spent the week end at Fig.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. c. Shoaf anC
son have returned home after
several months in Alabama.
Rev. j. R. Short was a flu vic,
tim last week.
A. H. Hartsoe is recovering
from a severe case of flu.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. M. Stanley anc
family, were Easter guests of Mr.
and Mrs. S. H. Stanley.
Miss Pauline Elliott spen
Easter at her home on Stagg'E
Creek.
Bennie Hartsoe, Ruby Mae Sc
graves, and Dale Hartsoe were
on the list Of sufferers from fiji
last week.
Mrs. w. C. Warren attended
the Easter service Sunday. Mrs
Warren is nearly Sc years young
and walks the quarter mile dis
tance from her home to the
church, store and post office
whenever the weather permits
Mrs. Warren keeps house, gar
dens, takes care Of her chicken!
and cow.
Her knowledge of Ashe county
history, and the inhabitants o
same. would be a prize for any
one desiring to obtain data for
book.
An evening spent with Mrs
Warren is an enjoyable event
Her cheerful disposition is an an
tidote for the 'blues' any day.
/ Spring has arrived at last. TIE
lucky ones are getting ready I
garden, Mcssrs. Chester Race, R
! w. Eller and J. w. FaW are i'm
proving lawns and home sur
! rOundings.
If no other signs were visible
the grimy knuckles and dirty
knees Of the younger elemen
of the male population would be
eloquent evidence that the mar
BILE season is with us again, which
is Just another way of saying
| spring has, at last, ventureC
around the corner, we hope tC
stay, this time.
Robert Huddler. Herbert anC
Herman Turner celebated Eastel
: by climbing Phoenix mountain
This is an old custom here but ha!
been neglected for the last fOul
years. 1t was a very tired trio
that came back into WarrenS
vile Sunday afternoon. The
Phoenix being easier to look a
than to climb.
Mr. and Mrs Y G. Huddlp
The Nome nugget., 1947-08-29
Committee To Investigate Europe Food Situation
(BY Milt Dean HilD

WASHINGTON, (A') - B c k market operations make it diff cult, if not impossible" for Euro pean nations to survey their food resources accurately, an agricul- ture department report contends.
 The document, bearing a "con- fidential" label, was prepared for a Congressional Investigating com mittee which sailed for Europe Wednesday to make first-hand study of foreign needs.
 A copy of the 97-page report was made available to a reporter.
 It provides a country-by-coun- try summary of food and agricul- ture conditions throughout west ern Europe based on "the latest information available"
 The foreword, however, says the report has been classed as confi- dential because " the production figures for some countries will not agree with the official eS- inmates supplied by the minister of agriculture"
The Nome nugget., 1947-08-29
Work As Usual Tho g Years Old

CHICAGO, (P) - Gen. Charles Gates Dawes, former vice preSi- dent of the United States, one time Ambassador to Great Britain and Nobel peace prize winner, ob- served his 82nd birthday Wednes- ay by working as usual in his La Sale street office.
 Dawes, vice president from 1924 to 1928 under President Calvin Coolidge, told reporters he is in good health and plans to be at his office on his birthday next year. Dawes, who is chairman of the board of the City National Bank and Trust company, was given a birthday luncheon by his assocl- ates. There also was a party for him in his home Wednesday night.
 Commenting on the internation- al situation, Dawes, who was au- thor of the original Dawes plan for German reconstruction after World War I, said Germany never will get on her feet until the world gets together on a uni fled plan of reconstruction
The Nome nugget., 1947-08-29
Girl Scout News
Wilma Stephenson. Troop Scribe

Wilma Stephenson. Troop Scribe
 We have been at camp ten days. The second day we decided to make a stone fireplace, we worked hard on it for three days.
 We plan to initiate it by invit- ing our parents out for a big marshmallow roast Thursday eve ming.
 While it was drying we carved our initials and the name Girl Scouts and the date in the cement of the fireplace.
 We wrote notes and sealed them in bottles, and sent them down the river. We hope someone will find them and write to us.
 We also made tin can stoves and hiked to the end of the road and cooked our whole dinner over them.
 We have gone swimming twice and it was very warm the last time.
 At night we have bon fire and we give impersonations and sketches and sing songs.
 We are having lots of fun and the food is wonderful.
The Nome nugget., 1947-08-29
Wallace Says
 Administration Not Progressive

NEW YORK, (P) - President Truman's administration "has not earned the support of progress sives," Henry A. Wallace says in Labor Day editorial in the cur rent issue of the New Republic magazine, of which he is the edi- tor
 The former vice-preSident as serted that on this Labor Day We should not be discussing which is the lesser of evils" the Truman administration or the Republican party, but i've should be planning to avoid the necessity of such a choice by winning control of the Democratic convention
 He said that some progress siveS, through an astounding nai- vete and lack of political judgment are dissipating their power with premature pledges" to the Truman administration, and added:
 ''No liberal can safely pledge support to this administration at time when our foreign policy in- cludes the support of reactionaries everywhere; when the administra- tion is advocating even greater armaments, demanding universal military training and promoting war-mindedness; when it is using gentle exhortation rather than po- litical power to get price reduc- tions; and makes only feeble ges. lures to win liberal and labor sup. port"
The Nome nugget., 1947-08-29
AND NO LIQUOR EITHER

BELLEVILLE, III. (P) - When Mrs. Harol Metzger grabbed for what she thought was the garden hose in her basement, it started to uncoil and grab right back at her.
 She ran screaming from the basement. Neighbors called police. Patrolmen with clubs subdued the hose-a three foot black snake.
The Nome nugget., 1947-08-29
COYOTE FIELDED:
 BULL GETS ASSIST

PENALOSA, Kas. (4') - A. B. Hazell, stockman, set out of rope an excited bull which charged at his horse, Old Snake.
 The horse bolted, with the bull close behind him. Old Snake ran so fast that he flushed a coyote.
 Hazell, with lariat in hand, las soed the coyote and dragged him to the ranch house.
The Nome nugget., 1947-08-29

The little girl had been reading the fairy book she got for Christ mas, and she asked her Daddy: Are kings and queens always good, Daddy?"
 They are not" Snorted the practical parent, deep in the sports page, mine times out of ten, you'll find threes out against them"
The Nome nugget., 1947-08-29

Hunting dogs are often Urea as human beings in primitive sc cites. Tn certain tribes killing dog is considered as bad as m der.
The Nome nugget., 1947-08-29
Encyclopaedia Britannica Says

Pawnbroking was probably car ried on in China as early as two thousand years ago. Usually, the borrower could take three yeas to redeem his property and he could not be charged higher rae than three per cent a year.
The Nome nugget., 1947-08-29

About 2,l45,0O0 passenger autos were produced in the United States last year together with 933,0O0 trucks and busses. This IS less than GA per cent of the num- Der of units produced in 194l, when, in addition to the cars ani trucks, automotive plants produ2- ed nearly 0OOO,OOO worth of armamentS.
The Nome nugget., 1947-08-29

The l946 sweet potato crop was estimated at 66,8O7,0OO bushel5. This is slightly more than the 66, 665, ,000-bushel crop of l945.
The Nome nugget., 1947-08-29

It has been said that a manU- script of Theophilus shows sig IS of having been ruled with black lead pencil; but the first distinct allusion to the pencil was made by Conrad Gesner of Zurich in l5G5 in a treatise on fossils.
The Nome nugget., 1947-08-29
Broadcloth Paiamas

At last pre-war quality. Fine count broadcloth paamas in variety of new patterns. Coat or one- piece style Can also be had in good quality cotton flannel. All sizes.