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The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-07-19
RIOT HEARING FOR DIBOFF AND
 SAREN BEGINS
Men Accuse d on Similar Charges to Those Under
 Which l5 Bound Over

Preliminary hearing of Ivan Ji- biloff alias Ivan Diboff and Sven Saren, charged with rioting in connection with the labor dis order of June 24, was started in U. S. Commissioner J. F. Mullen's court this morning and later con- tinued until 3:30 o'clock this af- ternoon until another witness would De available.
 Diboff and Saren are accused on similar charges to the Is men who were bound over to the grand jury on riot counts but had not prev iouSly been brought up for nearing.
 Witnesses
 Witnesses tsstiiyng today were Police Chief Roy Hoffman, Police Officer George Gilbertson, Nick Mooratoff, Julius Popoff and Al Butcher.
 Senator Henry Roden and Irwin Goodman of Portland are repre- senting the accused men with Dis trict Attorney William A. Holz-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-07-19
TOM HEENEY COMES FORTH
 ON GO ISSUE
De clares that Oldtimers Could Not Stand Up
 Under Present Grind

MIAMI BEACH, Fla, July l9.- Tom Heeney, stripped of all but swimming trunks, slipped a cooling drink and snorted:
 Sunk"
 That was his retort to the sug- gestion that fistland's modern her oes are softer than the giants of a past era.
 Gee whiz" said the one time Hard Rock from Down Under whom Gene Tunney cracked, the records prove that's the bunk"
 Heeney's contention, whether cor rect or not, comes from logical req soning. Painstakingly the New leaiander explains:
 Everything else in the world has progressed. Thirty years ago it was considered an astonishing feat to run the mile in APO. Today, Gun. ningham runs it in 4:06.7. All things which can be checked by time and record show improvement Doesn't it stand to reason then that boxing, likewise, has advanced?"
 If the truth be known he con- tinued, the tales of the proweSs of those oldtimers probably have been in the retelling."
 Springing to his feet and striking a pose easily recognizable as the favorite of the mighty John L. Sul- livan, Heeney chortled:
 ''Ho, ho. why if one of the boys today put up his dukes like this, standing flatfooted, or waddled around with heavy abdomen, he'd be knocked out in the first round colder than a herring"
 His contention of the worth of p-esent-day fighters proved to his satisfaction. Heeney slipped back in to the comfortable chair in the liv- ing room of his oceanfront home and again clasped his glass. The battle with summertime heat is more important to the former heavy weight challenger than ring strug- gleS.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-07-19
CRIMONT CLUB
 TO GIVE DANCE

Well known to Juneauites as the scene of many delightful private dances, the Parish Hall is once more selected for the annual sum- mer dance by the members of the Crimont Club in approving the ft- nal report of the dance commits tee.
 Friday, July 26 has been selected as the date. Jeanne Vanoer Loess, newly elected treasurer of the club, has been appointed chairman of special invitational committee. With well-planned decorations by Ada Gicvanetti. as background, and the music of Haynes as an incen- tive, the committee is assured of 2ne of the smartest and most en- joyable summer affairs given by the younger people in Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-07-19
SEN. PITTMAN NOT MEMBER
 OF SYNDICATE
Denies Reports He Is Asso- ciated with Raskob in
 Silver Mine Deal \

WASHINGTON, July 19.-Sena- tor Key Pittman denied local re- ports that he is a member of sym dicate, together with John Raskob which is buying $5,000,000 inter- est in the Comstock silver lode.
 The Nevada Senator said he is employed by Raskob and the stock holders of five silver companies to organize merger of properties, but he is not personally financially in- terested.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-07-19
PLAY GROUND AT BALL PARK
 TO BE LARGER
Fire Departm ent Makes Purchase of Corner Lot
 on Willoughby Avenue

The Juneau Volunteer Fire De- partments play field adjoining the baseball park will be enlarged. pos sibly late this year or next spring
 The Department has purchased property from the Milleager estate, about 40 by 40 feet, on the corner of Willoughby Avenue and Ninth Street, occupied by the old La France grocery store. The building, it is said, will be torn down and the play ground enlarged and ap- paratus installed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-07-19
ss . . STOCK QUOTATIONS . . .

NEW YORK, July Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is l6A. American Can l40A, American Power and Light 3lk Anaconda 15h, Bethlehem Steel 31A, General Motors 3611, Inter national Harvester 49ss, Kennecott l9h, United States Steel 38as, Pound s4.951a, Bremner bid 40, asked 52; Nabcsna bid 54 asked 60. Black Pine Silver bid g. asked 37.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-07-19
SURVEY CHIEF coMrNs

Phillip s. Smith, chief Of the AL aska branch of the Geological Sur vey, is scheduled to arrive here on board the Northwestern tomorrow. R. R. Sargent, topograrher of the Geological Survey, who has been on Admiralty Island on mapping ex- petition, has return to Juneau on board the Motorship Seal to meet his chief.
 You can't Kid Millions. adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-07-19

Cassidy Wright, Is, Enid, Okla, highschool student, hitch-hiked B. 900 miles through eight states on $5. 50 capital.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-07-19
Gastineau

MT. and Mrs. F. J. Baker, Se- attl.; MT and Mrs. Sam Pe&oich, Funter Bay Nick Jukich, Funter Bay; Mrs. E. L. Smith, Los Ange- lC; Mrs Janet McLeigh, Los An geles; R. A. Logan, New York.
 Zynea
 Mrs F. c SUan7on Flfin Cove
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-07-19

Miss Anne Partridge. J. B. Jones, nd wife.
 Alaskan Harold Grimstad. Hump Island; Al Anderson, Hump Island.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-07-19
OFF T. SEATTLE

OFF ro SEATTLE
 Joe George, of the Pay'n Take It Grocery Store, is passenger south on the Princess Alice for a rest vacation. He expects to be gone about 30 days.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-07-19

You can't Kid Millions.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-07-19

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-07-19

Mrs. E. c. Swanson, Elfin Cove
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-07-19

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-20
One Way of Getting It

Elimination of Dead Mans Curve on the Waterbury -Naugatuck road is de- manded as a means toward securing low CT automobile liability insurance rates for this district. The number of accidents at this particular point in the highway was recently cited at legislative session as cause for the excessive rates that are paid in Waterbury and Naugatuck. Even this, however, will probably not have the de- sired effect. The rates this year in the dis trict are the same. We wonder if they won't be i'll 1886
 We would like to see the bad curve elim- mated on the Naugatuck road, but we cer- tainly don't intend to encourage it as means to bringing down the liability rate. We think there are other spots in and around Waterbury which might be respon- sible for as many crashes. And if we are not mistaken one glance at the statistic map prepared by the Motor Vehicle De partment will show that the roads leading into Waterbury are no more responsible for accidents than those approaching other large cities, yet the insurance rates are lower there.
 We think that thorough investigation of the rate of accidents in the towns of the state will show that Waterburys is not ' <10 1IlSH dS Say lIldI III NI6tuWlCIl OI SOlIC of those towns along the Boston Post Road in the southwestern corner of the state And although not absolutely sure of this fact we still say that the insurance rates down there aren't as high as Waterbury's, for the latter have long been heralded as the highest in the state and in this part of the nation.
 There is more to the question of lower insurance rates than the mere question of had curves that produce accidents. There must be something in the nature of the ac- cidents themselves that make for differ ence in insurance costs. If mere numbers were the sole basis for figuring the rate Waterbury would be discriminated against and have just cause of complaint. But figures show that the loss-cost in Water bury is high. Loss-cost involves not mere N accidents, but claims paid out.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-20

their goods and to decrease prices, in spite of higher wage rates and shorter hours" But the vigor of automobile manufacture ing, great as it is, cannot provide a big enough basis for general recovery. The country needs similar vigor in the build ing industry, in which new construction is now showing a promising growth.
 eff the construction industry" he says, "could offer increasingly better value at progressively lower prices so that each purchaser would be confident that he had secured real bargain, as the automobile industry succeeds in doing, our recovery problems would find rapid solution" This happy combination of mass production with high value and low prices, and mul- titudes of sales making up for small unit profit, is the way of all successful modern industry.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-20
As Welcome As May

News that the decrease in the cost of registering motor vehicles is sure to be approved by the legislature is welcome to all motorists. It has been apparent for many years now that Connecticut has been exacting an exorbitant toll from car own- CTS. Steps to rectify this condition should really have been taken some years ago when first proposed. It is also obvious that our system of levying this motor tax could be better.
 However, the system won't be con- plained about so long as the actual drop in the registration cost is accomplished. The Democrat policy with respect to it has been from the very beginning one of ap- proval. We do insist, though, that such drop in registrations shall not be accom- panied by an increase in the gasoline tax which will enable the annual receipts to stay on their present high level. We must continue to oppose this despite the fact that the funds of the highway and motor vehicle departments are becoming more attractive every day.
 We do not believe in diversion of funds From these departments to finance any other kind of work going on in this state. If the income from operation of motor ve- hicles in this state is bringing in such large sums as to attract interest in them. then 1t certainly is proper for the authori- ties to lower this total in favor of the grooming motorist whose taxes today are considerable and would be more if many legislators had their say about it.
 There are enough ways for raising rev. knue legitimately without depending upon the motor car owner. We believe in pay ing for the expensive roads we build and maintain, but not at an excessive price. We believe it is time that the motorist was given an opportunity to recover from his taxation losses of the last few years. Why burden one or two classes of taxpayers, particularly when those least able to pay are the ones who suffer the most?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-20
Presidents Pet

Word is being slipped quietly to the democratic rank and file on Capitol Hill that if they want to keep in the good graces of the White House, they should watch their step on the utility holding corporation bill.
 And there is no fooling about the nature of the warming.
 The boys are being told with pointed emphasis that the presi- dent is so interested in the fate of this legislation h at he is having an individual record kept of the vote and attitude of every member. Those who don't "come clean" can expect to feel the full weight of his displeasure on such highly highly important matters as patronage and local pork.
 Already, it is whipered, two men have been marked down for future s'attentlon."
 The first is Illinois, barrel. stomachsd Senator BiiI Dleterlch the lone democrat to oppose the bill in the senate interstate com. lnerce committee.
 DleterIch's warning against the measure in the secrecy of the committee room has incens. cd White House advisers.
 The other bOIicr is AIabana's wmvy -iia red Representative tie0Fwe liuidiesfon.
 iio deserted Co ihe republican minority on Inc house interstate celnmefce subcommittee. when
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-20
So They Say

There will be no bitterness in the divorce pro- ceedings, because we had lo vital differences. Evelyn Mulhall divorcing her actor-husband. People have supposed liberalism to be freedom to know and to say not what is popular or con venient. or even patriotic, but what they held to be true. Jane Addams All we have to show for administration schemes is the greatest debt the country ever had, shat tered confidence, and federal government water logged with ward politicians
 -Col Theodore Roosevelt. 1T kisses were longer, divorces would be fewer. Judge Joseph Sabath veteran Chicago di- vorce court jurist We are paving this United States government a compliment when we let it do business with us We have solvent state down here.
 Huey Long. God help capitalism if 1t won't defend com. mon national crisis without its pound of flesh.
 Senator Vandenberg of Michigan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-20
Mr. Pape Held His Pow-wow But Secret Service
 Men Could Not Find Pretzels and Beer

gels should be twisted. Such things probably crowd out any patriotic | news.
 Waterbury's citizens don't want Relationships and that automatical- ly excludes Mir Pape if he enter tains such an idea. And they don't want any pretzel-benders either. Mir Pape showed once he was a champion pretzel-bender when he said editorially, "Sandland is not the man." and then backed him for mayor. Let him hold the cham pionship, but never let him become a dictator!
 There is every imaginable variety of dictator from a benevolent despot" to strutting drum major. All of them can be as ruthless and | tyrannical as any other. Dictators are always interesting-but they | need not be wise or good to be interesting. Some are most stupid and fiendish characters. Whether good, bad or indifferent, we'll mean ing or malevolent, an individual dictatorship is not safe form of government for an intelligent na- ton or city. Human experience has demonstrated often enough that no single human being on earth has been altogether and al- ways dependable.
 Rule by a minority anywhere is 8 hideous tyranny backing the responsibility which centers on an individual dictator.
 a.. bury is built upon the theory that the government was made for the individual and not the individual for the government. This is the policy of Washington, Adams, Jeff ferson, Lincoln. Cleveland and, at least, the first Roosevelt. With a dictator here we would be like flock of sheep, not free and independent men and women. It would mean nothing more than return to the serfdom of the middle ages.
 It is the chief duty of a news paper to point out the faults and virtues of governments, not to run them. It begins to look as though the candidate for the mayoralty on the republican ticket will be MT Pape's choice if the republican ticket is to get the backing of his two papers. If that is so it means but one thing, that City Hall would probably take it's instructions from a chief in sub station on Leaven- worth street. And if that were so 1t would be a dictatorship and nothing less.
 ana going to all this bother fin an honest endeavor to show Water burians the light. If they can't see 1t that's too bad. Then it's their loss, and their fault.
 I'd suggest that we sit back and calmly study the situation. Intelli- gent folks should be able to deter mine what the facts are and act accordingly. I'm still sore for being unable to find the pretzeIs and beer. Whats the use of being e secret service agent if one can't ferret out the whereabouts of such things. l dunno! I dunnol Yet, we might stumble on something still more important. Who knows? We might even bo able to aid in facidlng the fate Of Waterburyi
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-20
. ". WALKER WOULD SAVE WRITINGS OF COMMON
 CLAY" FOR PoSTERITY
Waterbury, Conn. VI May. IS. 1935.
itor ,of The Democrat..

Editorsof The Democrat:
 We find under conditions today great anxiety and strenuous, occn- patton with the hard necessities of obtaining food and clothing. Work itself is less laborious because it is
 more largely done by modern ma
 chinery and not by mere strength:
 There is more leisure which can be | used for the acquisition of knowl- edge and for setting thought free
 to play upon subjects other than
 practical. All of our transportation | facilities have become easy and swift and cheap, so that everyone's
 mind can be enriched and re- | freshed and stimulated by travel. l Works of art should be produced
 more abundantly, and there should
 be more exposition of these works Of course the increase in intellec-
 tual progress is very essential as well as the, increase in material progress. Tn regard to literary progress of which am very: much
 interested in, especially in the work of contributors to that section of your paper entitled 4In Today's
 Maip' I have written the above
 comments also the remarks to fol-
 low: Writers should attempt to cul-
 tivate form and place greater em- phasis upon the formal side Of lit-
 erary work. They should manifest diversion in their efforts and dis play training in scansion. Of course the development of literary taste
 is a difficult, slow and vexing task. The beauty of literature cannot be tracked and hunted down as can obvious facts and dates. The per- son who likes literature and whose taste has been formed by intimate acquaintance with good writers
 cannot avoid doing good work. To criticize every innovation, when people are experimenting.
 non constructively is, like unto say
 ing that all things new are bad
 which is to say that all old things
 were bad in their incipiency. For all the old ideas ever seen or heard
 of there is not one that was once not new. believe implicitly in the
 freedom of the press up to an i'm
 telligent degree. I admire writers
 who have a fastidious regard for
 simplicity, dignity, and charm in language. Some writers are harsh and unpleasant. others are melodi-
 ous and agreeable to n thinking
 mind. Those who can avoid ex-. tremes always gain certain amount of charm in their efforts. l also admire any person who fights valiantly for his convictions and the more vehement the attacks upon him, louder should be the call of duty to defend his own opinions. All writers possess the prerogative of questioning our democracy, but only poHterity alone can prove what will be successful. One out- standing defect shown by writers is scif- consciousness, which often makes himself or herself ridiculous by trying to show off special knowledge 'or special education or q fancied skin in analysis which Is not AlsiIl but merc immnturity and artileielity of judgment. In closing 1 hopa my hostile opponent "com-
 mos Clay" continues to express his nnInlpna as { am ciIppinr hlr fsi-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-20

Washington, May 20-Official intelligence reports received here indicate that war between Italy and Abyssinia is certain.
 The British, who usually exert powerful influence with Musso- lini, have talked with him ear- nestly and privately. But h ey have not made a dent. Mussolini is determined to carve off slice of Africa.
 Two methods of attack are open:
 1. He can attack soon by air. bomb Addis Ababa, the capital, which is a collection of mud huts, and drive En- peror Halle Selassie into the jungle. Then he can offer the emperor a puppet throne and a fat salary under the rule of Italy if he will come back.
 2. Or Mussolini can wait until the rainy season is over in Septem Der and then use the same strategy. The latter meInOQ IS SdlcIt USCduoS Oy that time his men could travel by motor. During the rains it is impossible.
 Which strategy Mussolini will employ depends chiefly on Adolf Hitler.
 The ex-Austrian house painter is getting a. greater kick out of the .Abyssinian ruckus than any, one else. He figures it will give him chance to accomplish the Anschluss - annex Austria, his homeland. When Mussolini's back is turned on Austria, Hitler would like to send in his Nazis. This is why Mussolini has to gauge his attack on Abyssinia carefully. This is also why the French and British are worried sick over II Duce's war plans.
 Privately they are calling the. Abyssinian campaign "Musso- lini's Folly"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-20
The Way To Recovery

A striking statement is made by Colonel Leonard F. Ayres, one of the foremost American .busipess economists Poin' n';ng out that the automobile industry has led Che Way out of this depression, he declares Ehat most of the country's business re- covery during the past two years, and practically all the net gain of general inc dustfy. has been made by the three Iead- in9 producers of automobiles.
 ssI1ie1e astonishing results" he adds. Hsf4 6 striking tribute to the ability of lhest producers 10 improve the quality Of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-20
Your Questions Answered

Eoa ean got an answpR Q any nnavgernbls auestiom @a fmes oe n. eoRn,nfiom by writing Co FpedeFitlg n. Kerby, 0uestlun U1l1oR, Tha waterbury Don,ocsNfs Wmshlngton nnFamus 1ol9 ThfFteemeh Street. Wnghlngsen. Q. O. enelnsime TnaEn ssn.s .', {. eo,s 1,s q .ss sss'.ws sss rom1rI enriln. Nedneul and legal sdviesn cannot Do given noe cnn oxtemdea FeneaFch bs made. All n2hnR mmesfrnms will receive m, oersonnl reply. LetteFB without manaa ox. addKenD cannot be ans nveBred. All 1etteRD are 0OnA1em- tlnl. Y0u are cordially tnyIted @ make use of this free service as otter as yen Dleasa. .......s.
 O. what is the letter postage rate to Alaslza2
 A. It is the same as to otheI parts of the United States; thres cents for each ounce or fraction thereof.
 e. Are strawberries raised 1T Alaska?
 A. Some are raised in thu southern part, in the vicinity oi Sitlxa, for local markets only.
 0. Name the states that wer' formed from the Louisiana pur' chase.
 A. Louisiana, Missouri, Arkan sas, Iowa, Minnesota, North Da kota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Ok lahoma, and most of Kansas Colorado, Wyoming and Montana.
 c. Describe cosmic rays.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-20

mand support for continuance of the AAA.
 En route to Alexandria, LOuisi- ana, his train stopped for a few minutes at the town of Monroe. Wallace stepped ont on the platform to stretch his legs.
 A Missouri Pacific official ap- preached him, asked if he were having a comfortable trip, then added: Were carrying lot of farmers to Washington over this line next week."
 Wallace said he hadn't heard about it. ..s
 "Yes, and they're plenty mad. But not at you. They're mad at Congress. I can't make out
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-20

You can see just how much chance there is of the present session of the Legisla- ture being continued beyond the contenl- plated dead-line of June 5. There'll be six day session next week, the body even meeting on Memorial day. And there'll be no let-up in showing measures through the hopper until Wednesday morning, June 5, when joviality will replace stern and uncompromising demeanors. A six-day week for the legislators is something al most unheard of in this state, not to men, tion holiday sessions. And we don't doubt but what this could save been avoided if legislators weren't human and hence prone to procrastination.