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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-03
OPENING OF WORKERS THEATER IN
NEW YORK, DEC. 3, MARKS IMPORTANT
MILESTONE IN PROLETARIAN ART

revolutionary spirit. Would that there
were few intellectuaIs like him in
America.
Young Workers in League.
The Workers Drama League, which
is giving the play, is made up mainly
Of members Of the Young Workers
League, tho It invites all young work
ers into its ranks. After many diff
fculties, real group of serious hard
working young people is forming, who
feel that they can best make their
contribution to the revolutionary
movement by this method They are
not writers or speakers, but they are
actors, and they are beginning to take
the workers theater as seriously as it
is taken in Germany and Soviet Rus
STA, wherever there is a real mass
movement, and real mass needs.
Deeter is Director.
Jasper Deeter has helped direct this
first play. Deeter is a professional
eSIOl anu ullSSIOA VI SlCdJ oA4Al. AAC
was the head of a fine repertoire art
theaNer in Philadelphia, and he is now
acting and directing at the famous
Provincetown theater in New York.
He also directs the dramatic work at
Brookwood Labor College this season.
Rudolph Liebich the proletarian
composer of songs and music, did the
translating from the German; Michael
Gold helped with some of the adapta-
ton, Louis Lozowick and Hugo Gel
lert helped with the settings; there
have been many others who have been
interested.
is Beginning.
This is only beginning; the group
will go on to better things. This op-
ening play may have historical sig
nificance some day as the first pio-
neer attempt to establish a workers
theater in America Aside from that,
it will be worth seeing for its own
sake alone.
The play will be given on the eve
nings Of Dec. 4, s and 10, at the
Church of All Nations, 9 Second ave-
nue.. The admission is so cents, and
there will positively be no United CT
gar Store coupons given away, and
capitalists and dogs will positively not
be admitted.
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ORGANIZATION
CLASS STARTED
IN PITTSBURGH
Many Workers Join in
Study

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Dec /. ~ The
course on Party organization conduct
ed by Comrade A. Jakira was started
in this city with we'll attended class
Friday, Nov. 2S. Among those who at
tended the class and who expressed
desire to attend the rest of the
classes on organization were several
Of the most prominent comrades in
this district. The entire first lecture
was devoted to the structure of the
Communist International and its. role
as the World Communist Party.
Repeat First Lectures
Due to the fact that a number of
new applications came in from COM
rades desiring to take part in the
course on organization, the agitprop
department decided to repeat the first
lecture for the benefit of these new
applicants so that they may be in a
better position to participate in the
rest OF the course. The class for the
, new applicants will be held next Sun
tusg 0CNs ~ - p Ahs ~ NAAC 81 ~
headquarters, sos James St., N. s.
Can Still Enroll.
Comrades desiring to enroll can
still do so by communicating with
Comrade d. E. Farley, the agitprop
director, at the district office. The
course will extend to at least six lee
lures. No fees will be charged, and
every active comrade, especially
those holding responsible positions on
various committees and in the party
units, should take advantage of the
opportunity and attend the classes.
Due to unforeseen reasons no class
es will be held on Dec. 3 and 10. The
second lecture on organization will be
given by Comrade Jakira Friday, Dec.
II, $3.50 p. m. at the party headquart-
ers. The classes will be then held
regularly on Friday evenings until the
course will be completed.
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Ex-Daughter-in-Law of
Ex-Kaiser Excited Us

NEW YORK-Mrs. Arnold Ruman
of Berlin, who was formerly prin-
cess OF the house of Hohenzollern,
having been the wife OF Kaiser Bits
fourth son. Prince August, arrived
here the other day with her new hus-
band. She somes for a six months
visit and hopes to paint American
landscapes in oil and water color.
This Is not the hardship which ex-
members OF the Russian nobility have
suffered here; they have had to paint
outhouses in vermillion, when not
busy scrubblng floors.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-03
LABOR PROBLEMS
COURSE FORMED
AT N. Y. SCHOOL
New Class Will Open on
December 3

NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-The living
problems being thrashed out by the
American labor movement today are
all of them scheduled for considera-
ton in a new symposium course Of
fered by the Workers School in which
persons prominent in the labor move
ment and expressive of every shade Of
opinion will participate.
Stuart Chase, Thomas J. Curtis, VIII
liam z. Foster, w. Jett Lauck, Albert
Welsbord, Arthur c. Calhoun, Robert
w. Dunn, Morris Kolchin, D. ]. P.
Warbasse, Ben Gold, Rogert Baldwin,
William Pickens-these few names in
dictate the wide range Of viewpoints
represented in this symposium course.
At Workers. School.
The course is to be given in the
Workers School, under the direction
of Alexander Trachtenberg, and the
entire top floor of the new building at
106 East 14th street will be used
every Friday night for the next three
months for this purpose.
Begins Dec. 3.
The course begins on Friday night,
Dec. 3, at p. m. with a lecture by
Stuart Chase on Waste in American
Industry" On the following week
Roger Baldwin will talk on subject
which should provide interesting dis
cussion, Civil Liberties and the Glass
Struggle"
Topics perhaps no less controver-
sial will be "The Aims of Workers Ed
ucation," with A. ]. Music as lecturer,
and "Class Collaboration, with VIM
z. Foster, to be given on December
II and January 8, respectively. On
January IA Benjamin Stolberg will
take up the same problem as Foster
takes up, namely, Glass Collabora-
tion," and on January 81 Ben Gold
and Sascha Zimmerman will talk on
the vital topic of "Amalgamation in
the Clothing Industry"
other Lecturers.
Subsequent lecturers include DR.. ].
P. Warbasse, Cooperation and the
Labor Movement" Theresa Wolfsohn,
THE Woman Worker and the Trade
Unions;" H. W. Ladder, "Injunctions
and Boycotts;" Morris Kolchin, "Un-
employment Insurance in the Garment
Industry" and Thomas ]. Curtis, In
dustrial Accidents and Workmen's
: Gompensations."
Each problem will be taken up in
an Introductory talk by Alexander
Trachtenberg, who is directing the
symposium, then talk by the leading
speaker of the evening, then questions
and a general discussion, in which the
controversial viewpoints will be
thrashed out.
Admission to the three months
course Of lectures is $3.50. Individual
lectures 80 cents.
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tspeciaI to La paIIy Workerl


NEW YORK, Dec. 1. - In Soviet
Russia there are thousands of work
ers' theater groups. One finds them
in every factory, red army barracks,
school and union hall. There are
workers theaters in Japan, France,
Germany, England, and even in China,
where workers theater groups travel
with the revolutionary armies, to give
propaganda plays when city is taken.
It's about time America started
something to place 1t in the ranks
of this world movement Workers
theaters are not luxuries; they are as
much as part of the revolutionary
movement, as newspapers, pamphlets,
speeches.
Started in New York.
This Saturday night, December 4,
New York will see its first attempt at
a workers theater. A group of young
revolutionary workers hate banded
together to form a permanent organ
ization, and their first experiment will
be a play called "The Biggest Boob in
the World" d.
WlttfogeI is Author.
This is a jolly, fantastic, melo-
dramatic drama by the brilliant young
German Communist writer, Karl Witt
eogel It's action begins in Passaic,
and then goes into China and Africa.
1t is a glorious satire on religion,
capitalism, and patriotism and has
been played in Soviet Russia, Ger
many, Bohemia and Japan. 1t is one
If the best and most modern plays
the repertoire of the new prole-
arian theater the workers are build
ng in the shell of the old.
Has Written others.
Karl Wittfogel has written other
plays which are immensely popular
with the German and Russian work
ers. One of his plays will be produced
IN Broadway next season, under the
direction of former assistant to
Maierhold in Moscow.
Wittfogel also spent some years in
China, living with the workers and the
revolutionary armies. He can speak
the language, and has written the first
MARKHAM study of the Chinese revolu-
ton. He is an amazing combination
of wit, artistry, scholarship and real
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Long afterwards they lay each others arms wills
pered Bunny, that girl is in love with you!"
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he quiet picketing men and women
1t has used all sorts of ammunition,
such as gas bombs, splitting ice water
on the strikers. and many other
things about which we all know.
They have also had it strikingly
shown that the ones who care most
and fight hardest for the interests of
the working class are the members
of the Workers (Communist) Party
of America. Its leaders are not afraid
no matter what terror the bosses are
using against them. They are always
in the forefront of the struggle. The
put the leaders of the strike behind
bars because the voice Of the masses
forces them to release them again,
seek to find new methods for dis
elimination against these leaders of
the working class. BY this, the bosses
show their real selves and thus give
the workers still more confidence in
their leaders and better fighting spirit.
Just so in Passaic, the more the bosses
tried to discredit the Weisbords, the
more confidence and affection the
masses have for them.
The most valuable lesson the work
ers have learned from the Passaic
strike is that Weisbord's, the Com
munists methods and tactics applied
in the workers struggle are the cor
rect and most effective ones in fight
ing the enemy, the boss. Here and
there the workers are beginning to
realize this and are applying them in
their battles. The paper box makers
strike is an example where the work
ers are applying the Communists
methods in their struggle. They are
using the same mass picketing, the
same mass meetings, and. the same
methods of relief in supporting the
strikers in order that they may stay
out more solidly. When the workers
went out, the bosses would, not listen
even to such simple demands as they
made for. the 44-hour week. recognition
Of the union, and better sanitary con-
ditIons. They thought because they
were starving while striking, they
would have to go back the second day.
They forgot that behind them is the
working class solidarity and the
Workers Party, which helps them to
develop this solidarity and to unite
the workers In a united front against
the united front OF the bosses The
Workers Party again came 10 the front
and has the women's council to help
them organize and help them TO con.
4 luct kitchen where $500 workers
are fed twice daily. This enables the
workers 10 go forth TO the struggle
with more strength for victory. The
quicker the workers realize that these
are the only effective methods and the
only ones which lead TO victory, the
sooner will come the end Of their
struggle.
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Help for oklahoma Miners.

CLEVELAND, Dec. 1. - At its last
meeting the Cleveland Federation OF
Labor contributed 800 for the relief
of the miners of Oklahoma, after an
appeal by Baldo Rich, representative
of the miners, who gave graphic pic
ture of their situation. Rich also ap-
peared at Local 1850 of the carpen.
ters' union, where $25 was voted for
the relief of the miners.
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Weisbord Speaks
in Many Cities

Youngstown. Dec. S, Ukrainian Hall,
525Ia w. Rayon street, p. m.
East Liverpool, Ohio. Dec. 2.
Akron, ohio, Dec. 4. ziealer Hall,
Cleveland, Dec. 6, Moose Auditorium,
1000 Walnut St.
Toledo, ohio--Iota Hall, 716 jefferson
Ave, Dec, z.
Detroit, Dec. 8. Majestic Theater,
Woodard and Wills.
Flint, Dec. 10.
MuskeQon, Dec. II.
Grand Rapids, Mich, Dec. II, Work.
ers' Circle Temple, 347 Mt. Vernon
Ave-, NJ. w.
South Bend, Dec. 10 and "a.
Gary, Dec. IS.
Chicago, H., Dec. 10, Mirror Hall,
Western Ave. and Division St.
kenosha, Dec. IS.
Milwaukee, Dec. 10, Frele Gemeinde.
Hall. Eight and Walnut SITS.
st. Paul, Mimi, Dec. 20.
Minneapolis, Dec. Fl
Superior, Wis.,, Dec. %.
Duluth, Mimi, Dec. %.
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Passaic, an Example; Workers Party, Help
BY OLGA GOLD.

ymbo~of the awakening the
endure Strike fight
impartial
strike
plainly
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Russian Women Will
Give Affair Dec. 5

A performance concert and dance
will be given by the Russian Progress
slve Women's Mutual Aid Society,
Sunday. Dec. s, at shoenhoffen Hall,
cor. Milwaukee and Ashland AYES.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-03
Workers Communist Party
Party Grows in Southwest

result organization made by Stanley Clark the
"A organizer City nuclei
Oklahoma beginning the Of extending the
has only had connections with a members a large.
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The December issue Of the Amer
lean Worker Correspondent will be
out this week. Get copy, sub
seribe
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LARSON OFFICERS
 HIRED BY ANDREWS;
 ]. E. COOPER, COAST
DUTIES WILL BE TO KEEP INTI- MATE TOUCH CONDITIONS
 THEIR DISTRICTS

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16. (P)-As- sistant Secretary Andrews announced the appointment of five zone superin- tendents as liaison officers between prohibition field forces and headquar- ters. Andrews said Duties of these officres is to keep in intimate touch with the condition in their district and keep me informed. There action does not relieve the administrators of any responsibility. The bootleg indus try has developed into business with lawyers, informers and bribers and what not We have the brains and the machine to go after them and break up these organizations" John E. Cooper of Healdsburg, California, has been named for the Pacific zone which includes Alaska.
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|s BESTOWED
 0N HOMER ROAD WORKERS

HOMER, Alaska, October 15. A great deal of credit should be given to Joseph Bell, foreman of the Alas ka Road Commission at Homer, who with the able assistance of a few of the farmers in the vicinity, that were working on the road, not only for their daily wages but also because they were building their own road and getting paid for doing SO, have completed three miles of road this season. Besides, they have slash ed and partly cleared three-fourths of mile of road which when finish ed will connect the two farming com munities at Homer. In the crew were also Axel, Palmgreen, George Gregg and R. N. Dobson, chef, whose good work is likewise appreciated by the community. Mir. Edmonds, superin- tendent of the A. R. C., was at Hom- CT recently on a tour of inspection and expressed himself as very well pleased with the work. Messrs. Ed monds, Bell, Palmgreen, Gregg and Dobson all returned to Anchorage on the last trip of the Princess Pat. MT. Bell expects to return early in the spring at which time he will begin building on his homestead.
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MISS WELLS, MYTH,
 DECLARES DEFENSE
MRS. SEILAFF TESTIFiES THAT PHILADELPHIA WOMAN IS
 MISS K"

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 16. (P)-Mrs. Seilaff testified the woman who made the affidavit at Salinas that she was Miss K" was Miss Rachel Wells of Philadelphia. Mrs. Seilaff swore she sent the money that Aimee gave her to Miss Wells at Philadelphia to come to Los Angeles and pose as Ormis- tons companion. Mrs. Seilaff said she knew Miss Wells was in San Francisco two and one-half years ago and declared Miss Wells arrived at San Francisco August 13 and met her in the lobby of the Y. M. c. A. The defense said they proposed to prove Miss Wells is a myth and that Mrs. Seilaff took her sister to Carmel as Miss "X."
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J. $. TRADE BALANCE
 SEPTEMBER, 0KEH
LARGEST IN FIVE YEARS, AN- NOUNcES DEPARTMENT OF
 COMMERCE

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16. R-The Department of Commerce announced the United States had a favorable trade balance in September of $105,- 000,000 exportations amounting to $45O, 100000, the largest for Septem- Der in five years. This was due to heavy movements of cotton and wheat. The sum of $23, 100000 in gold was exported and $16,O00,000 imported.
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HOMER RESIDENT GETS
 BIC YIELD 0F STUDS

This is potato story, not fish story. MT. Stanton Shafer, one of the worthy fox ranchers at Homer, with the help of Alfred Anderson and G. w. Harrington, dug his potatoes a few days ago. He planted less than one sack of seed potatoes and from nine rows of about 15O foot length, in addition to new potatoes used during the summer and fall, harvested AS sacks of as fine, large, mealy potatoes as anyone will find in Alaska or any other country.
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SECY. WORK LAUDS
 A|RPLANE MAPPING
EXPECT TO DIVERT $1o,0o0 FROM FORESTRY FUNDS FOR
 1927 WORK

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16. P)-Sec. retary of the Interior Herbert Work wrote Secretary of the Navy Wilbur that the airplane mapping in South
 eastern Alaska may result in hydro. electric development for high noun. tain lakes were discovered which will more than offset the cost of the navy expedition. A diversion of $10,0OO from the forestry funds to the map ping expedition next year is expected
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HUGE BANK MERGER FORMED, NEW YORK THREE BANKS COMBINE WITH TOTAL RESOURCES OF
 S75o,0O0, ,0Oo

NEW YORK, Oct. 16. P)-The Irv- ing Bank Trust company, the Ameri- can Exchange and the Pacific Nation al bank with combined resources of S735,OOO,00O will be merged. The directors have decided the new institu- tion will be known as the American Exchange Irving Trust company. This bank will be the third largest in New York City.
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J. $. ID REL|NQU|SA
 AIR MAIL SERVICE
} BIDS WILL BE CALLED FOR FROM PRIVATE COMPANIES WITHIN
 THIRTY DAYS

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16. P)-The postmaster general announced the government intends to relinquish op- erations of the transcontinental air mail service and within 30 days will call for private bids. Private com panies must also be prepared to trans port passengers and express.
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Oscar Anderson, owner of the Knights Island sawmill and tie camp, by his son Maurice, ar rived in the city last evening. They are en route to Anchorage, MT. An derson's main office. It is understood the camp has been closed down for the winter.
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Milo Kelly. prominent

Milo Kelly, prominent in Alaska mining development but of more re- cent date. wit putting Alaska birch wood on the L-I.ket, returned last evening from Seattle, a passenger on the s. s. Alaska. MT. Kelly is en route to the Interior.
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SEWARD ALASKA SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1S 1926
"BoB" WILLIAMS ON ALASKA

Robert Bob" Williams, one of the best known of live wire citizens of for many years past but who some months ago departed for the States, is now one of the officers on the s. s. Alaska, in the stewards Bob" is making his se- cond trip on the Alaska.
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GREEN REFLECTED
 HEAD LABOR UNION
LOS ANGELES CHOSEN AS 1927 CONVENTION CITY; BE HELD
 IN OCTOBER

DETROIT, Oct. 16. (P-The 1927 convention of labor will be held in Los Angeles beginning on the first Monday in October. William Green was reelected president; Frank Nor rison. secretary; Daniel Tobin, trea' surer and the eight vice presidents were unanimously renamed.
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William Niemi, Anchorage young man who has been working at Kenne- colt for the past three months, arriv- ed in Seward from there on the S. s. Alaska, He is paying a visit to the Inlet city.
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EXPLOSION KILLS 118

DUNDEE NATAL, South America, Oct. 15. P)-Four Europeans and IA natives were killed in the gas explo- sion of the shaft of the coal colliery at Danhautser last Friday.
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MRS. REX sWARTz IS VISITOR

Mrs. Rex Swartz, wife of Dr. Swartz Nome, was among the arrivals in the city last night on the S. s. Alaska of Anchorage, and of recent date from from Seattle. Mrs. Swartz will leave for her new home at Anchorage on Monday,
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Miss Louise Bissett, who will teach school at Rampant, was among the popular passengers on the s. s. Alas ka from Seattle, who is a brief visi- tor in Seward prior to the departure of the train for the Interior.
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The Seward Chamber of Commerce will hold it's next regular weekly busi- ness meeting and luncheon on Tues day at noon at the Seward Grill.
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PROHIBITION BEFORE
 THE VOTERS, EIGHT
 STATES, NOVEMBER
w. C. T. U., WITH 6o0,0 ,0o0 MEMBERS WILL BE ACTIVE IN
 FIGHT

CHICAGO, Oct. 15. P)-Voters in eight states, at the November elec- |tion, will have an opportunity to pass upon prohibition. The states are Cal ffornia, Colorado, Illinois, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New York and Wis consin.
 In New York, Illinois and Wiscon- sin, the referendum is on the ques- tion of asking congress to amend the Volstead Act.
 Would Amend Volstead
 New York and Illinois vote on the same proposition: Beverages which are not in fact intoxicating as de- termined in accordance with the laws of the respective states" In Wiscon- sin, the proposition says beer for beverages purposes of an alcoholic percentage of 275." In Ne W York the legislature passed a bill to place the question on the ballot. In Wis consin the proposal was adopted by joint resolution of the legislature. In Illinois, the referendum was initiated by petition.
 The question in California is whe- ther to repeal the Wright act, the state enforcement law, adopted by the people at a referendum in 1922.
 Depend on Federal Law
 In Colorado. the question will be submitted as a proposal to amend a section of the state constitution "en- abling the legislature to provide for manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors, such amendment to be inoper- ative so long as in conflict with the laws of the United States"
 The Missouri vote will be on the question of repeating the state en- forcement laws passed in 1923.
 The Montana proposition is on the question of repeating all state laws relating to liquor control, except the law forbidding sale of liquor to min- ors.
 The Nevada referendum is in the form of a memorial to congress to submit the Eighteenth amendment again to the states.
 w.. C. T. U. ACTIVE
 In these eight states, the W. c. T. U. with 6OO,OOO members, has laid plans to concentrate a fight to get a "100 per cent dry vote."
 In some of these states, wet candi- dates are also the object of the dry attack. In California, Mrs. Julia Kahn, avowed wet, has as one of her four opponents in the Republican con- gressional race, Mrs. w. B. Hamilton, favored by the w. c. T. U. In Illinois, George B. Brennan, Democratic candidate for U. s. Sena- tor, who has advocated modification |of the Eighteenth amendment in his campaign speeches, is being actively opposed by the drys. In New York, the drys are backing IF. w. Cristman, independent and dry opponent of Senator Wadsworth.
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Rass Simonsen arrived last evening from the Copper city en route to his home at Anchorage. Following brief visit he will return to Cordova and resume his duties at the Cordova dock.
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T. H. Dad" Hunt, wei known AL askan, returned to Seward last even- ing from Valdez where he has been serving as juror.
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REBEkAH LODGE MEETING

The local Rebekah lodge will meet Monday evening in Odd Fellows hall at 8 o'clock, at which time all mem bers are asked to please be present.2t
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T. w. Nelson, Anchorage resident, returned on the Alaska last evening from Valdez.
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J. s. Truitt, we'll known Anchorage attorney, returned from Valdez on the s. s. Alaska en route to his office.