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The Kusko times., 1931-04-04
4 STEADY GROWTH IN.
 ALASKA'S SCHOOL SYSTEM

A steady growth in Alaska's school system is noted by Commissioner of Education. Leo w. Breuer in his re- port to Governor George A. Parks for the bienniu,n ended June 30, 1880.
 A 4s per cent increase in enroll Saent during, the last decade, a.. 100 ger cent increase in cost, addition of school buildings throughout the. Ter ,.tory and material advance in sal- aries of taa.hers are among the salient features of the reppEt.
 The he4schools are making a a~steadyJ growth,'g,. says Commissioner Breuer, lin keeuingss, with the growth. of the population sof the. Territory. We shall ,4ixerge briefly. and compare the pres ent schonl system with. that of ten years ago. The total enrolment has increased, 5G cent, from 1860 to $, ,07I.- During this, time the enrolment of the elementary. shhools has grown from 3,Ol3 -ta.A,233, or 40 per cent. and the high school enrolment has grown from.-34 in. 1920 to 1888 in. 1930. or 1a8 per cent. This is a most. healthy growth. and conveys clearly that the children of Alaska seek higher education"
 At the. e.-same time enrolment has increased there has-been-. a. corre- spending increase in edudation.s cost. says the commissioner. "The cost of maintaining the growing system has increased, also. The. cost off main- aaining all the schools ,.ina 1920 was $40. .728.65. The figures for- 1930 show $688, ,568. .23 expended. This is an increase of 100 per -cent;- in. other words. the cost doubled. Yet, we must consider that. the enrolment has increased greatly, especially. inA the high scnbois;. that better buildings are provided; that 1922 30 was a year n which over .S100 ,0G0 was spent in capital out.Ays. This is not yearly affair. A number of new buildings were eretced to give the best possible type of education ntooour children. Further, schools Aare maintained in sections n0rys. with a :. very limited schooi population have reference here to the, special schools.
 Tt; is not inconsistent to diverge here a moment and discuss the. true cost, which ix tlse cost per pupil. The cost of education per pupil in 190 waz $l01-&. During the ten years it has iAcsezxed g per cent to that of Sr4IDx. Cemsider this increase with he increase, in enrolment, better paid teachers, better schools, and the cost is very small, indeed.
 Lastly, to encourage and to re- ceive the best possible teachers, the salaries have made material ad- yances.a In 1920. the average salary of. principals and superintendents was but $500. The average salary flor principals and superintendents in 1880 was. <2648. High school teach CTS, saI2rieG have risen from $1,46s 70 s$I1668. The elementary teachers
The Kusko times., 1931-04-04

of 1920 received an average salary of $l ,2S5, but in 1880 it, was $1,6l3."
 Teachers are better trained now than they were, a dacxde ago, re- marks tho commissioner Now 94 per cent of thelA are norma, college or university graduates. while in 1920 .he percentage was only 19. Then .A.re were 164 teachers; now. 253.
 ..ls ,hry-n.nQ sc.oo.s were main ei;.ed Il the b4enniam covered by the report. k s.uent. increas. d 5 per cent.
 o1r plrsot.s have como under the provisions of the tea hrs pension fund- instituGsd by he ast legislature. t 8 reporled Livery teacher pays 1 ger cent of his or her salary into the pension fund.
 Commissioner Breuer does not look with favor upon the measure for cleo ton of the commissioner of educa- .io.l- He says "A change of great and far-reaching importance to the school system was made when the office of commissioner of education was removed from appointive basis by the Territorial board and made alective by the voters of the Terri sory- This was a step backward, ac- cerding to educational theory and practice of the present day. However, one good point in the law made the term of office of such official four years, eginning 1933-"
 Among recommendations made by Commissioner Breuer are the follow lng:
 l. Amending of Section 49, Article VI of the school laws ofthe Terri .ory of Alaska to, the effect that the uew school board take office on July 1 fol owing their election and organ za.ign.. At present the new board
 al1as office seven days after election. uausing much confusion. Especially $ this true with the office of school board treasurer. It requires trans ferring of funds during the term and Aecessltates a report to be made by .wo different people.
 2. Legislation which will more c.eariy define the relationship of the o...ce of commissioner of education to yhat of the office of the auditor At present the auditor requires certain papers or documents te be filed in this oii.cer although the law requires fling, of the same in the office of the commissioner of education. The law. also gives the commissioner of educa> tion certain rights and duties pertain .ng to appointment of funds t0a school ooarus, which rights have heen ques- .ioncd; and whether the office of com- missioner of education or that, of the auditor is final in apportioning items for refund. The present law gives the office of commissioner of. educa- ton such authority.
 4. Passage of an act memorializ- ing Congress to extend to Alaska tho provisions of the Smith-Hughes vo- cational aducation law
 s. The establishment of summer school for teachers in Alaska =----.---"-
The Kusko times., 1931-04-04
learned that the Chinese had left

learned that the Chinese had left their rear exposed.
 Accordingly, in the night, the English fleet circled the island, and at dawn they advanced on the morh- fled Chinese from the rear.
 "On their appearance high Chi
 SC official ran out on the gunless earward ramparts, waved his arms and shouted to the enemy:
 No blong plopper. No can come IS siue. Must come other side. Must 5 back, come plopper side"
 Moron-Your spelling is atrocious. V hy don't you look up the words in the dictionary?
 Robot-I can't spell we'll enough to find them.
The Kusko times., 1931-04-04

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-02

between staff members of the Y. W..
C. A. and Y. M. c. A.. the smen were
victorious.
The guests were served tea and coffee
by q committee of hostesses, headed by
Mrs. Leonard w. De Cast, Huston
Thompson, presid mt of the association;
Mr. De Cast and members of the board
CT directors greeted the visitors.
Dormitory residents held dance in
the assembly hall. There were movies
during the aft moon for boys and girls,
and in the boys department there was
an all-day round Of championship
indoor sports
The scene shifted in the evening to
= w. c. A. headquarters at Seven
tenth and K streets, where motion pic
lures were shown and refreshments
served
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-02

by Justice Peyton Gordon Of the same
tribunal; Federal procedure by Judge
Charles S. Hatfield of the United States
Court of Customs Appeals, and trial
procedure by Representative Ernest w.
Gibson of Vermont.
The new faculty members ~ s-~
Winter term include DR.. Jean Stephen
son, instructor in parliamentary law
DR.. Stephenson is the first woman to
teach law subject at National and the
second woman member of the faculty.
National University was founded in
1869 and was Incorporated by act OF
Congress in 1896. Its chancellors in
cluded five Presidents of the United
States-Grant. Hayes, Garfield, Arthur
and Cleveland, and Arthur Macarthur
and Sr/nuel r. Miller, associate justices
of tie Supreme Court of the United
States.
Charles F. Carusi, president of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-02

ingathsring, which is an annual cam
paign in which each member of the
constituency visits his friends and
have a part in the work by free will
offerings. The other S8S5O.03 was con-
tributed in weekly offerings at the
regular Sabbath school meetings. Dur
ing the year there was an average meme
bership of 2l5. made up almost en-
tirely of workers connected with the
institution, so that their individual gifts
averaged $5095, or something more
than 78 cents per week, which they con-
tributed out of their own earnings, the
report states.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-02

to give q swimming show as a pre-
liminary to a life-saving demonstration
by Red Cross experts. 1t was the first
time in history that women have been
admitted to the Y. M. G. A. pool. The
fair swimmers included Miss M. A.
Hood, Leonora Taube, Evelyn Scott,
Martha Ward and Polly Wrightson.
They were directed by Miss Irene
Richards.
w. B. Mundell, local wizard of the
checkerboard, played II checker chal-
lengers and five chess players at one
time. OF a total of % checker games
played. Mundell won 20 and lost 8,
while he won chess games and lost 2.
Commodore W. E. Longfellow of the
Red Cross and a corps of assistants
gave a demonstration in Tho pool of
the evolution of live saving. w. G..
Grabbe showed the buoyancy of the
human body in water.
In a contest on the bowling alleys
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-02
THRONG AT Y. M. C. A.
"OPEN-H HOUSE" FETE
1000 Members and Friends Attend
Associations All-Day New
Year Celebration.

More than 1000 members and friends
of the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton were entertained with an all-day
New Year "open house" program at the
Central Y M c. A. Building yesterday.
the highlightS of which included an
invasion of the mems swimming pool
by bathing girls.
The girls came from the Y. w. G. A.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-02
GID WINTER TERM OPENS
AT NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
Law School and School of Econom-
les and Government Resume-14
New Courses Listed.

National University began its sixty
second Winter term with the resumption
today of classes in both the Law School
and the School of Economics and Gov
eminent.
Fourteen new courses will be avail
able to students in the law and college
departments this term. These and the
faculty members who will administer
them include equity pleading by Jus
tice Thomas Jennings Bailey of the Dis
trict Supreme Court; criminal law cases
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-02

Because a ram recently taken to Kra-
kow. Poland, had one pair of sleeps
horns and one pair of goats horns, 1t
was sent to the Warsaw zoo instead cs
the slaughter house.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-02
RECORDS EARTH SHOCKS
-. q. Seismograph Shows Severe
Disturbances $500 Miles Away.

The Georgetown University seismo-
graph today showed a record of severe
earth disturbances having occurred be-
tween asa am, E. S. T., and o'clock
Father Sohon, in charge of the observa-
tory said the quake was some 1890
miles from Washington in an undeter-
mined direction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-02

Mrs. Ann Russell recently celebrated
her l07th birthday at Fareham, Eng
land
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-02
TAK0MA PARK SANITARIUM
REPORTS SERVICE COST
Shows Total of $1o,e54.e3 Ex-
pended Past Year in Medical, Ed
ucational and Other Work.

"A total OF $l0,95493 was given during
the past year for medical, educational
and publishing work in this country
and foreign lands by the members of
the Washington Sanitarium and Hos
pital in Takoma Park it is revealed in
report by W. E. Barr, chaplain of
the institution and superintendent of
its Sabbath school,
OF this amount $2,1049O was secured
through what is known as the harvest
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-02

Di Of Columbia Board Of Educa-
tiol, ) its present chancellor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-10

any acts participated in by him are null and void., The complaint states Anna is now in possession of the property and is collecting the rents and other moneys. The plaintiff al- leges thls property is needed by him to settle his wife's estate. The trans- actions of Frank and Anna are al- legged to have been made with intent to defraud and cheat the estate of Francesca. The property is alleged to be worth S20,000 and the amount collected in rents and other moneys
 is said to be $15,000.
 The plaintiff individually and as administrator asks $4O,0O0 damages, that the leeds transferring the prop erty be declared null and void and the appointment of a receiver to collect rents.
 An imposing array of legal talent is represented in the case. For the plaintiff he firm of Mascolo, Mo- Knight < Dauch and the firm of Bronson, Lewis & Bronson and Att torney Harold G. Green are counsel. Meyer & Hincks represent the Wa terbury Savings Bank. Attorney Wit liam K. Lawlor appears for Mary A. Lawlor and Attorney Charles ;. Hamilton of New Haven represents the defendants, Frank and Anna.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-10

Rome, Feb 10.-UP)-The new Italian penal code. which goes into force next July, will support with the power of the state many of the announcements on matrimonial ana sex questions made by Pope Plus in the recent encyclical on mar riage.
 Birth control propaganda, whether in the form of books, pamphlets oi lectures, is prohibited under the new code. The sale of contraceptives Is technically forbidden.
 The punishments against marital infidelity are not only maintained but increased in rigor. Under the law as it stands. husband or wife can be arrested for misconduct. The wife or husband of the guilty party must, however, invoke the interven- tion of the police. who cannot now act on their own initiative. Both guilty wife or husband and the cor respondent are liable to imprison- ment up to six months.
 Under the new penal code the maximum penalty will be increased. It also has been proposed to include in the new code a provision empow- ering the police to act merely on in- formation received, but it is not yet certain whether this authority will
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-10
Unconditional Surrender He Called It and Not a COm= promise - Thou s and s of Farmers, Who Are Starving, Can Give No Security
BY LYLE C. WILSON

b1 V. NlLIoo4<
 (Unitcd Press Stan COrrcspondcnt)
 Washington, Feb 10-tUP)-Or- ganized assault on the S20.OOO,OOO drought relief compromise was started in the senate to-day by in- surgent republicans led by Senator I.aFollette, republican, Wis.
 Charging that the agreement be- tween President Hoover and con- gressional leaders was mot com promise but an unconditional sur render" LaFollette attacked the amendment to the interior depart ment appropriation bill on the ground that it would not provide adequate relief in farm areas, anC that no provision whatever wa made for sufferers in cities. He estimated that 5,O0O,OO0 per sons are unemployed and that stil | another 5,000,000 are working only part-time.
 This so-called compromise de | mands security he said. "If these destitute people were able to give security they would not be destitute There are literally thousands upoI | thousands of farmers who are starV- | ing and can give no security The senate has been informed the i house will not agree to the Cappei relief proposal, which would makt 2O,000,O00 bushels of farm board wheat available to feed the hungry | this winter. Senate Minority Leader
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-10
Y. M. C. A. NOTES

Resolved that the United States
 was right in sending an apology tc Mussolini for the action of Smedley Butler' was the subject of an in- formal debate in the Square Circle | club last night at the central Y. M
 c. A. The decision was awarded tc the negative which was supported by George Cuddy and Clyde Ferry The affirmative debaters were John
 Dalleywater. and George Brown The new bowling captain of the | Square Circle club is Clyde Ferry who is known to his friends as
 ''Weehawken" Ferry.
 | The February meeting of the Wat erbury Public Speaking club will be | called to order tonight at 8:15 al | the central Y. M. c. A. President ! Franklyn M. Stibbs will preside. A
 strong program of club speaker.
 mittee chairman, Roy A. Ferris
 The Waterbury Public Speaking | club is affiliated with the educa
 tional department of the Central Y
 M. c. A.
 Reservations are coming in fast | for next Thursday nights meeting oi | the Industrial Foremen's club | Among the factories which arc leading reservations to date are: Waterbury Brass Goods Corpora ton. 20; Bristol Company, 20: Far
 rel Foundry and Machine Company go; Seth Thomas Clock company 19; among the other companies
 which are expected to come through with good delegations are: Ameri- can Brass Company, Scovill Mfg Company, Chase Brass and Copper company, Patent Button Company Beardsley and Wolcott, Waterbury Clock. American Ring Company
 and the Lux Clock company. Charles H. Granger. vice president of the Waterbury Clock company will in- l troduce as the speaker of the even- ing, E. F. Armstrong, personne
 manager of the Chapman Valve
 Mfg Company of Indian Orchard,
 Mass, whose subject will be De
 partmental Harmony"
 Certificates of proficiency will be
 presented to the following men at
 the closing session of the sales
 manship class taught by Carl c.
 Gul1iver during the last 16 weeks at the Central Y. M. c. A.: Albert
 w. Atwood, Michael Bruno. Armand
 Errichetti, John K. Fletcher, Charles
 V. Follett. Joseph Hes, Henry H.
 Lange, Jr, Frederick A. Packard,
 Lawrence Weeks and Donald c. Wood.
 Two representatives of the Naug- atuck Valley Industrial Traffic as-
 sociation will attend the Hartford Chamber of Commerce traffic club
 banquet at the Hotel Bond to-mor- | row night.
 Walter s. Berry, William A. Car penter and Arthur l.. Purinton will represent the Industrial Foremen'
 club at meeting in Torrington to-
 night to consider the advisa bility of organizing a Foremen's club ir Torrington. The meeting will be
 held at the Torrington, Y. M. c. A.. starting with supper at 6:45.
 The second session Of John Gil
 martins 4 o'clock class in vocabu-
 lary building and Practical English
 is being held this afternoon at the
 Central Y. M. c. A. Enrolment Is still open to both men and women whose working schedule enables
 them to attend an afternoon class.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-10
Salvatore DiBlasi Attempts To Recover
 For Wife's Estate
Judge Peasley Hears Initial Evidence This Morning in
 Superior COurt-ImpOsng Array of Legal Talent Represents Both Sides in Contested Action

Trial of the $4O,O00 civil action of Salvatore DiBlasi, administrator of his wife's estate. against his son, Frank. and Anna DiBlasi, was started in superior court before Judge Frederick M. Peasley this morning. The action, involving much legal technicality. is based on the plaintiffs attempt to recover proper ty now in his sons name. which the plaintiff claims is part of estate of Salvatore's wife.
 The facts in the case as outlined by the complaint are that Salvatore s wife Francesca, executed certain power of attorney to her son, Frank, 1924, Francesca died. Salvatore was appointed administrator of his wife's estate on July 19, 1928. As admin istrator, Salvatore claims one-third interest in his wife's estate as his distributive share from the estate, as provided by statute.
 Francesca, prior to her death, was the owner of certain property on Griggs street. On February Is, 1925. the defendant, Frank. purport- ing to act as agent of his mother, conveyed by warranty deed the Griggs street property, to his wife, Anna. On June 10. 1925, the de- fendant, Anna, mortgaged the prop erty to the Waterbury Savings bank, also named defendant, in the amount of $5,000. On March 12, 1926. Anna again mortgaged the property to Mary A. Lawlor, also named de- fendant. in the amount of $2,000.
 On June 29. 1925, Frank. with the proceeds nf the two mortgages, pur- chased a1(additional piece of prop erty at the corner of Griggs and North M ,in street. The plaintiff Franks power of attorney ceased with the death of his mother and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-10
BONUS PLAN WILL
 BE PASSED AND
 SENT TO HOOVER
50 Per Cent Will Be Limit on Loans on Certificates Measure Will GO to President Within Two Weeks
By THOMAS l.. STOKES

United Press Stan ColTcspondent.) )
 Washington, Feb 10.-UP)-A veterans relief bill increasing to 50 per cent the limit of loans on ad- justed service certificates will be passed by congress and sent to Presi- dent Hoover within two weeks, it was indicated to-day
 Republican house leaders are 1n- formed the house ways and means committee will report favorably to- morrow a measure along the lines Of the Bacharach bill raising the loan limit at cost of $500,O0O,00O to the government.
 The house calendar now is com paratively clear, so the bill could be brought in and passed before the end of this week. The senate finance house committee to act. Then it will begin the task of reporting out a measure, thus opening the way Tor prompt action in the senate after the house has passed the bill.
 Any doubt about senate action was dissipated with the announcement by Majority Floor Leader Watson that the senate would pass a measure at this session. Republican leaders are proceeding on the theory it is best to meet the situation by passing conn., promise bill first in the house. They want it passed quickly so as To smother as far as possible any att tempts in the senate to pass a more costly measure for full cash pay ment of the veterans certificates.
 If the situation should get out Of hand, republican leaders still have 1t in their power to hold up legisla- ton so it would go to the president in time for a pocket veto." If the 1O-day period in which the president may approve OF veto a measure ex- tends beyond the end of congress. he can kill it merely by taking no ac- tion whatever.
 Reports that the treasury would oppose a bill increasing the loan limit of certificates were not taken seriously by responsible republican congressional leaders. They have re- ceived private advices that the treas- ury would look favorably on such measure, treasury officials are under stood to be cooperating in drafting a bill.
 The senate is expected to act promptly because of demands from democrats and numerous republicans who have it in their power to flibus- ter supply bills and raise again the threat of an extra session.
 With the veterans situation ad- justed, house leaders are formulat- in the rest of their program for the present short session.
 This includes a veterans hospital ization bill to cost $12,000,000; mod ernization of three battleships. at cost of $3O,00O,000. already ap- proved by the senate; a vote on proposed constitutional amendment to abolish the so-called flame duck" session of congress, and possibly a bill reducing immigration 90 per cent for two years.
 Opposition of Chairman Shell to its application to the Philippines will prevent the immigration measure from coming before the house unless this section Is eliminated.
 House leaders have decided to de- fer action on the $74,000,000 naval building bill until next session. Muscle Shoals legislation seeks to be definitely dead at this session.