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The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-08
ENGINEERS SEEK BEST ROUTE FOR
 HUGE AQUEDUCT

NEW YORK, Dec. 8.-The possi- bility of earthquakes presents a special problem in building the new 250-mile aqueduct from the Colo rado river to southern California.
 Thaddeus Merriman, chairman of the engineering board to select the route, says the aqueduct will be the longest ever built
 It will bring water impounded by the Hoover. dam to Los Angeles and ten other nearby cities.
 The aqueduct will be a concrete lined tube so large that the biggest moving van easily could be driven through any part of it. M
 Fifteen hundred cubic feet of water every second will be it's ca pacity, enough to fill lake a quarter Of mile long, 300 feet wide and IA feet deep every hour.
 Difficulties that face engineers, no matter which of four possible routes is chosen, were described here by Merriman, who is chief en- gineer of the New York city water system
 Earthquakes, he said, may occur in the region the aqueduct will tra- verse, because the San Gabrile and San Bernardino mountains are still in the process of being uplifted. Earth disturbances are likely to center along the line of the great San Andreas fault, which the aque- duct must cross.
 A fault" is the geologists' term for a division between two tremen- dous sections of the earth's crust. When an earthquake occurs one or both sections may shift its position breaking anything such as the aqueduct that passes through both sections.
 Geologists have been trying to find the best place for the aque- duct to cross the San Andreas fault, Merrlman said. Even then an earth
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-08
FOG OF DEATH
 IS SPREADING
 OVER E:NCLA AND
Symptoms of Victims Same as Taking Lives in
 Mouse Valley

LONDON, Dec 3-England to- day feared the appearance of fog which last week spread death and fear over the Mouse Valley in Bel gium, taking 67 human lives and a number of livestock.
 Near Grosmount, Yorkshire, ten cattle died today from the mys- terious malady. symptoms which arc much like those reported in the Mouse
 Southwest England has suffered several days of intense fog. Medi- cal opinions are that the deaths are due to the fog alone and not to other gases and pointed to prev ious records.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-08
PRICKLING SENSATION

BRUSSELS, Dec. 8. Deaths blamed directly to the fog in the Mouse Valley reached 67 today. Queen Elizabeth visited the strick- en villages. Recovering victims told of an intense prickling sensation ii the throat and advanced the argument that noxious fumes were released by industrial plants and were carried by the fog Other officials said the fog carried in- fluenza.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-08
University Introduces
 Airship, Airport Studies

NEW YORK, Dec. 8.-Aviation is becoming more part of col lege education.
 New York University, through it's Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautics, has introduced courses m the design of airports and Of lighter -than-a craft
 The course in airport design is the first to be offered by college or university in this country. It will include everything from select ing the site for a landing field to a study of communication problems.
 Dirigiblc study will include a
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-08
CABLE AND RADIO REPORTS
TODAY

Lowest fam. 4am. Precip. 4am. temp. temp. velocity 24 hrs Weather
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-08

ground school course in airship operation and a study of construc- ton, design, and use of balloons, blimps, semi-rigid, and rigid air. ships. Lessons also will be given in the handling and mooring of airshirS.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-08

quake cannot be prevented from breaking the tube.
 A gate near a danger point to shut off the flow in case of break is impracticable, he. explained. Pres sure Of the water behind the gate and of the earth above the aque- duct would burst the tube.
 The pressure could be relieved by opening a gate in the side of the aqueduct but a large river channel would be required to carry away the resulting flood.
 We can only hope there won't be an earthquake" Merriman said.
 Virginia and Maryland farms will produce about 8O,850,000 pounds of .peanutS this year.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-08

The but rising throughout Alaska and is un- usually low south of the Aeutial Islands It high from the Pacific Hawaii fallen from Cordova to Cape Faey fallen of Southwestern All asa and the Yukon Valley Temperatures unseason Northeastern Alaska Territory and have Northwestern Interior and Southern Alaska
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-08

Polo will bc played in Augusta, Ga, this winter. A string of 50 to 100 ponies will be brought to the new racing club.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-08

The Chicago Cubs battery men will go to Catalina Island, Califor- nia, for spring training February 12.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-08

Play Inuoor Golf at The Alaskan Hotel. (adv)
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-07-05

a college edueations a great thing. Lots Of these books I wouldnt
understand without I'll"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-07-05
ORRECTIO

~ The parrot IS a tropical bird and not found in Korea. ~ The par
rot should have hnt two toes on each foot tl The upper part q the
parrots bill should project well over the lower part. tD Sailors do not
wear their ties in a boz knot 90 The scrambled word A VOLUNTEER
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-07-05
1G94s Oc~amNe4iar>

have TO be asked

There are Il east four mistakes n the above picture. They may per-
tain to grammar. history. etiquette. drawing or vhatnot see II you can
fund them Then look at the scrambled Sord beIow-a-d unscramble H.
oy switching the letters around. Grade yourself 20 for each of the mis-
takes ylu find and 20 for the word II gu unscrambe "
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-10
FOSTER TO SPEAK
AT NEEDLE MEET
Executive Board Will
Open Sessions

NEW YORK-The General Exec
utive Board Of the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union issued a
call for a plenary session Of the
General Executive Board, to be held
in New York on Thursday, Dec. 25,
to take up the dress strike prepare
tons and then to meet in Philadel-
phia on Friday, Saturday and Sun
day, Dec. 26, 81, and %. The plenum
will take up the report of the in
ternational situation of the needle
trades as we'll as of the needle in
dustry in the U.S.A. 1t will also
take up reports from the various
needle trades centers throughout the
country, and will elaborate and con-
cretize the decisions of the second
convention of the union: to make a
sharp turn in the direction Of mob
ilizing the masses of needle trade
workers throughout the country and
to lead them in their struggles
against wage-cuts and speed-up, and
for the union demands of the seven
hour, five-day week, week work, and
unemployment insurance,
The opening of the plenum of the
General Executive Board of the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union, will be celebrated at a mass
meeting, concert and dance to be
held on Wednesday, Christmas eve,
Dec. "a, 1880, in Star Casino, forth
st. and Park Ave-, N. Y. C.
The reporters will be Comrades
VIM. 2. Foster, General Secretary
of the Trade Union Unity League,
and Louis Hyman, President of the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union. This mass meeting and
dance will mark the opening of a
concerted drive in the dress strike
preparations. 1t is to be expected
that every needle trade worker in
New York and vicinity, as well as
needle trade workers of other CEN
tiers will come to this opening ses-
sion of the General Executive
Board. Sympathetic workers are
requested to come to this affair and
help make it a big demonstration
for the coming dress strike for the
7-hour, 5-day week, week work and
unemployment insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-10
'IGDENBU''-A SOVIET FILM OF NOMAD
LIFE IN THE NORTH SIBERIAN TATGA

vulture who fed them booze and
robbed them as freely as he could.
When nature failed and there were
no fish nor furs, the trader had no
help for them. Instead, he demanded
Igdenbu's pretty wife in lieu Of i'm
mediate payment of debts. And be-
cause Igdenbu was out hunting for
the starving nomads, the trader sue
;ceede6 in getting his wife. A Red
border patrol intervenes and saves
her, but is forced to take her to the
city. After nearly failing, rgdenbu
arrives in the city and enlists the
help OF the Soviet workers who rush
help Immediately. In the city, Ig-
denbu finally meets his wife again
and they return happily together on
the boat that is bringing the relief
to the starving hunters.
The plot is simple, as simple as the
life of the people it portrays. In
several spots, it is even crude and
anlateurish. Instead of allowing Ig-
derlbu and his wife to NEE when
they are about to cross one another's
path on the city wharf. they are
made to mis- some another in the most
unnatural way. 1t is only after the
relief boat is leaving with Igdenbu
on the deck, that he sees his wife on
the wharf waving farewell with other
workers. Then he jumps into the
water, swims to shore and embraces
his wife and both are taken onto the
vessel Fastening to the rescue of the
starving nomads. While this length
ems the film. the whole device is un-
natural. obvious and really unneces-
sary. se
In spite of this, the onrushing boat
communicates a tremendous sense of
the power and significance of the
new Soviet world. It holds out a
new perspective of security and free
dom from starvation; back of its re-
lief cargo, it bears new and mighty
possibilities of growth and emanci-
patton. No more the robbing trader,
no more q slave to an uncomfortable
and inexorable necessity. The ham,
mer and sickle flying in the breeze
brings new courage and new hope.
In spite of its technical slips, this
picture is an excellent reflection of
mighty reality-AL.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-10

Defend the Soviet Union Meets
Friday D. m.
At St Lukes Hall, 1926 w. 130th
st. Prominent speakers.
2.--Turn Hall, s5th st. and Lex
ington Ave. Prominent speakers.
Auspices Section 4. C.P
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-10

"Igdenbu," the new Soviet film now
playing at the Cameo, is one of the
most satisfying of Soviet pictures
that this reviewer has ever seen. 1t
is simple, unpretentious and most de-
cidedl7 unambitious. While the story
of Igdenbu, which means Siberian
hunter, has undoubtedly been fiction
allied for purposes of the film, it is,
nevertheless a convincing picture of
rather than without reality.
AS a matter of,fact, the slight plot
merely serves as a frame around
which is reproduced real record of
life in the Siberian wilderness. Ac-
cording to Amkino, which has re-
leased the film in this country, the
picture was made without the use
of professional actors or any special
studio devices. The actors consist of
native members of various nomad
groups.
The film itself portrays the story of
a nomad camp belonging to the Gold
tribe of Siberia. This tribe is a Mon
golan off-shoot. Its gentle and peace
able people live in the far northern
Taiga, in the cold swamp lands of
Siberia, and their small communities
are really like large families. They
live by hunting and fishing, and their
existence is so simple that it is al
most primitive.
Consequently, when nature fails,
when rain mad flood destroy their
catch of fish and the hunting ic poor,
there is nothing to restrain the spec
tire of starvation, unless it be some
power from without The lonely,
primitive camps are like isolated blots
on the snow-coyered country, and the
only visitors are tigers prowling about
in search of dog that has died of
hunger.
TIL eSoyiet producers have put all
this in their movie, and they have
done this with a full sense of con-
trast, with d feeling for the elements
of nature and a skillful use of snow,
rain and flood. 1t is impossible to
see this picture without feeling that
you have seen a well-filmed and ac-
curate picture that could only have
been made in the Soviet Union, where
a gigantic labor of emancipation is
being performed in understanding
and in freeing semi-primitive people
from the twe-fold terror of natural
calamity and human exploitation,
Igdenbu is the name of the central
character in the story. He is the
bravest hunter of the entire nomad
camp. When the camp is faced with
starvation because of a natural ca
lanity, Igdenbu is chosen to go to
the city for nelp. Every season the
nomads sold their catch to trading
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-10
Labor and Fraternal

viii hold a mass meeting Wed.
Dec 10 5 p. m. at 81 Graham Ave.
Workers Laboratory Theatre
OF the W.I.R. Rehearsais Mon and
Wed. at $50 p. m. important meet
p. m. Euec. Com. meets Friday, at
$50 D. m.
Special Meeting 80
Branh, LID. viii be held Wednesday
Dec. 10, $50 p. m. at 524 Vermont
Ave. Brooklyn. All members leave
this date open.
The office Workers Union
VIII hold its regular business meet
ing Wednesday, Dec. 10, D. m. at
Labor Temple, Second Ave. and 14th
attend.
Independent Shoe Workers Union
Calls all its members to come to a
p. m. 16 W. 2lst st.
Unemployed and Employed Medical
Mass meeting "0 Tfif take place to-
night at s p. m. at 16 W. 21st st.
The Present Evens.
In the Soviet Union will be dis
Brownsville, is Bristol ST.. tonight.
Plumbers Helpers Group. T.U.UL.
Meet tonight s p. m at 16 W. 21st
st. All helpers to. attend.
Comrades
Must report tomorrow at ga West
22nd St for mass Daily Worker sale
OF special indictment edition.
YorkviHe Branch. LID.
Meets Thursday Dec. II, 8 D. m. at
the Czechoslovak Workers Hail. BAT
E. 72gd St
Nat Turner Branch. LID.
Meets THURSDAY. 8 p m. at Urban
League, 204 w. l36th st.
If You play an INSTRUMENT
JON the WIR. Brass Band; Re-
2Sth St. first floor. Our band takes
part in working class activities.
Councils 50 and 10 of the Bronx
WIZ have a lecture Friday eve, at
sos AIDES Ave, Bronx. on Zionism, or
the Situation n Palestine. VIM. Baum.
of the jewish Buro will deliver the
ecture. Discussion to follow. Pro-
leeds to Morning Freiheit.
All workers Are Urged
To come. to mass meeting for the
Defense of the Soviet Union and TO
EtStA the tNAHtSt RSpNltE t-OnSIESS.
Friday 8 y. m. At workers Center.
290l Mermaid Ave. Coney Island. Ar
ranged by Units and 6. Section Z.
c.P.
Harlem Progressive Youth Club
Business meeting Friday. $50 pm,
All attend Sunday night a good
speaker will deliver a lecture. Ad-
dress. 1892 Madison Ave.
Printing Workers Industrial League
Meets Friday Dec. II. 7.30 p. m. at
16 w 21st st. Every comrade should
be present. Exec. Comm. meets on
Thursday, $50 p. N. some place.
Brighton Beach Workers
Children School Friday. Dec. IL.
supper fro benefit of Daily Worker
and Freiheit.
.
Defend the Soviet Union Meets
Friday 5 D. m.
AT st. Lukes Hall, 1875 w. i30th
st. Prominent speakers.
2-Turn Hall. s5th st. and Lex
ington Ave. Prominent speakers.
Auspices Section 4. C.P.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-10
UNITY COUNCIL
MEETS THURSDAY
Important Matters to
Be Taken Up

NEW YORK-An important meet
ing of the Trade Union Unity Coun-
Gil will be held this Thursday, Dec.
II, ct 745 p. m, at the Manhattan
Lyceum. The main points to be dis
cussed will be a report from the Ma
tional Committee of the Trade Union
Unity League, unemployment and the
special signature drive. the organ
izing of the United Front Conference
to be held on Dec. 10, and the send
ing of delegates along with the dele
gates from other cities, to Washing
ton to present the Bill for Unem-
plcyment Insurance to congress.
Other important matters will be
discussed, such as the Fight to Smash
the Injunction. struggle against the
12-hour day at Zelgreen's, and the
strike of the Eagle Pencil workers
against. the 10 per cent wage-cut.
All delegates are urged to atten-,
this important meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-10
ALL OUT SAT. FOR
SOVIET DEFENSE
Week End Meets All
Over City

Continued from Page One)
let Union, must be conbatted with
the might of the workers in capital
st countries.
To combat the growing war prep
arations and to rally the workers to
struggle against it, the New York
district is calling a series Of meetings
throughout the city:
Anti-War Meetings.
Irving Plaza, Dec. 18th.
Speakers: Wortis, Foster, Amis
Trachtenberg,
st. Luke's Han, 1875 w. 1S0th ST.,
Dec. IL.
Speakers; Williams, Moore, Be-
dacht, Amter. Knoll, Ho.
S5th st. and Lexington Ave, Dec. II.
Speakers: SanSari, A. MARRIOTT,
Knoll, Aziz H. Williams
Ambassador, 1875 Srd Ave, Dec. IL.
Speakers: Reiss, Olgin, Baker, Ho,
Moore.
Grand Manor, 31S Grand ST., Bklyn,,
Dec. II,
Speakers: Flaiani, Bimba, Amter,
Engdahl, Haywood, Lucy Wang
1873 43rd St, Bklyn- Dec. IL.
Speakers: Lawrence, Hathaway,
Obermeier, Chen, E, Walsh.
4S Bay 2Sth ST., Dec. IL.
Speakers: Hogan, BALKAN, Nesin,
Damon.
1901 Mermaid Ave, Coney Island,
Dec. II.
Speakers: Sazar, Levine, Todes
los Thatfoyd Ave- Bklyn., Dec. IL.
Speakers: Weber, S Don, John
stone, Alexander, S. Van Veen.
Newark, 80 Mercer St., Dec. Ia.
Speakers fairfield, Potash, Moore,
S. Don. Hsu.
Elizabeth. 1O6 E. Jersey St., Dec. IL.
Speakers: Blosser, NJ. White, Wag-
enknecht.
Jersey City, 81 Henderson St, Dec. IL.
Speakers: S. Krieger, Biedenkapp
P. Ragozin.
Perth Amboy, S0S Elm ST., Dec. IL.
Speakers: Blossar, D. Gordon, Tai
lentire, Sepesy.
New Brunswick, II Plum ST., Dec. II.
Speakers: r. Evans, Moreau, j.
Rubin
Paterson, POS Paterson ST., Dec. IL.
Speakers: Appel c. Brodsky, Sroka.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-10
JObless Demonstrate
Against Scabs; Council
Gives Dance Dec. II

NEW YORK.-The Unemployec
Council, in solidarity with the 9Oo
strikers of the Eagle Pencil Co. who
are fighting against a 10 per cent
wage-cut, demonstrated in front o.
the Fitzroy Employment Agency.
which is attempting to hire scabs to
break the Eagle Pencil strike.
In order to broaden its work. the
Unemployed Council of Greater New
York is holding a dance at Manhat-
tan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St, Dec.
IL Ryan Walker, staff artist on the
Daily Worker, will give an exhibition
of red cartooning. The Workers
laboratory Theatre will put on a play,
Many other features are arranged
Admission is SO cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-10
AFFAIR FOR NEW CENTER.

In celebrating the opening OF the
new workers Center of Brooklyn,
Section Six of the Communist Party
is arranging a Concert and Dance to
be held Saturday evening, Dec. 20,
8 p. M, at the new Workers Center,
81 Graham Ave.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-10-03
AS THE WORKER.
SEES HIS WORLD
Summary and Digest of
Important Events of the
Week. Here and Abroad

'It is perfectly clear that business
on the whole has crossed marked
decline which was characteristic of a
number of earlier months, and these
are some distinctive encouraging fea-
tures," Secretary of Commerce La
mont declared recently
John Little, of New York, Sylvan
A. Pollack, Brooklyn; Dan Singer,
Glen Carlton, H.; Joseph Ptashin-
sky, alias Tash, of Hartwick, Pa,
and Philip Frankfeld, of Scranton,
Pa, alleged communists, arrested at
Scranton in a raid recently, have been
indicted by the Lackawanna county
grand jury on charge of sedition.
Directing attention to the fact that
fires annually take the lives of thou
sands of persons throughout the coun-
try and during the past year rolled
up national property loss exceeding
$170. 100000, President Hoover re-
Gently signed a proclamation setting
aside tn eweek of October as ma
tional fire prevention week.
Physicians judging the better ba-
bies' contest of the Kansas State
Fair said the drought had left its
mark on babies to a greater extent
than it did on the crops Undernour-
ishment was found more common
than usual, which the physicians at
tributed to the prolonged dry weather
and the heat.
Six leading Southerners have ac-
cepted membership on a commission
which will make the first scientific
! study of lynching.
The imperial japanese cabinet has
sanctioned loan of $35,000,000 to
agricultural and fishing communities
for the relief of economic strain and
unemployment. The funds are to be
loaned through cooperative societies
for the specific improvement of ara
Bile lands, the clearing of forests and
the construction of irrigation prof
ects, together with the improvement
of wharfage facilities and fishing
equipment.
Ten men lost their lives when the
schooner Carranza was struck by a
bolt of lightning and split in two off
tho coast of Cane Preton IN Sentan1.
Der 18.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-10-03
HIGHER POSTAL
Rates Rest on Shaky
Ground, Says Daily

Baltimore. = Postmaster General
Browns plea for higher frst-class
postal rates to defray the cost of
this service rests on "shaky ground"
says the Baltimore Sun.
Mr.. Brown recently stated that
there is no more logic and iustifca-
ton in asking the government to
transport your private mail for less
than cost than there would be in ask
ing an electric light company to light
your house for less cost"
In both of these contentious" saws
the Baltimore Sun, Postmaster Gen
eral Brown is on shaky ground. The
analogy between the postal service
and a private enterprise is basically
faulty, and even if it were conceded
that the postoffice department should
be. managed on the principles applic
able to private business it is by no
means established that the govern
ment is losing money on the first
class postal service.
By any method of allocating costs
OF postal service that is feasible from
an accounting point of view, and does
not involve wide degree of specula-
ton, the frst-class postal service is
shown to be operating not at loss
but at very handsome profit.
Until Postmaster General Brown
demonstrates that the government is
actually losing money on the first
class postal service by recourse to
something other than a profession of
faith in tenuous economic theory.
his recommendation of higher rates
for this service hasn't leg to stand
on"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-10-03

mill would operate as an open shop
with 25 per cent wage reduction.
Under the terms of the settlement
the Primrose Mill agrees to take back
all union members at the old wage
rate and to resume peaceful negotia
tons along with the rest of the man
ufacturers.
The officials of No. 25, Mr.. Casey
said, were jubilant over the terms Of
the settlement and were grateful for
the solidarity shown by the jacquard
Loom Fixers, the Beamers and Twist
ers and the United Textile Workers
and agree that the support of these
unions was responsible for the strike
settlement in their favor.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-10-03
TWENTY MILLIONS
Voted For Unemployment
Relief i'm Canada

Ottawa (ILNS)-The house of
commons has passed the $4,000, 600
Canadian government unemployment
bill. Part of the money is to be dis
tributed among the provinces for
highway construction; another part
is to be utilized in various ways to
speed up public construction pro-
grams Of all kinds, federal, provin-
cial and municipal.
The aim is to provide employment,
but where unemployed relief is neces-
sary the federal government will
bear one-third of the cost. The re-
naming two-thirds of the cost will
be divided equally between the NUM-
cipalities and provinces.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-10-03
Labor Queries

Questions and Answers on La
Dor: What 1t Has Done; Where
1t Stands on Problems of ths
Day; It's Aim and Program;
Who's Who in the Ranks OF
the Organized ToiIers, etc, etc.