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The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-14
HIRING HALL IS AGAIN
 PROVING HARD SUBJECT

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Dec. IA. The hiring hall is again proving a stumbling block but progress" is reported after a conference with the unions and ship owners. This is according to statements made by Harry Lundeberg. of the Sailors Union of the Pacific; E. F. Burke, of the Cooks and Stewards Asso- ciation; J. E. Ferguson, Secretary of the Marine Bremen, who met with T. P. Plant and Roger Lap- ham, of the ship owners com mittee.
 Lundeberg said: We are nego- tiating for the unlicensened person. nel and have made progress. The hiring hall question is still unset tied but things are looking bet ter"
 Lapham said We want to get this thing settled as soon as pos sible."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-14
MILLIONS SIGN FOR PENSIONINC
 UNDER NEW ACT
Deadline for Applications Is to Expire Tomorrow
 Not Extended

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.-Three- fifths of the eligible employers and two fifths of the eligible employees are registered for Federal pension accounts under the Social Security Law
 Officials expressed satisfaction at the results.
 Tomorrow's deadline for workers applications will not be extended.
 About 2,200,000 employers have signed and 22,0O0,0OO workers are numbered in the returns so far It is believed that before tomor- rows deadline is reached the num- Der of employees may reach 30,0O0,- GOO.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-14
WORKER NOW EDUCATED

During the campaign there was a great-to-do about what the So- cial Security program would cost the individual worker in taxes. That sponsors of the plan insisted, was badly misleading for the benefits were overlooked.
 In the leaflets handed to each registering workman was a full ex- plation of what retirement pay he could expect if he earned such and such amount weekly. Not until this was made clear wa sthe tax ex- plair1ed.
 One part of the pamphlet listed just what employees could not share in the insurance. farm hands, do- mestics, and the like. Perhaps that made the sharers feel they en- joyed sort of privileged status.
 Now should the set go out the window along with certain other New Deal enterprises, the individ- ual workman, who may be voter on and rectifying constitutional amendment, would know just how it affected him personally, and no mistake.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-14
SIGNAL. CORPS OFFICER, FOUND
 FROZEN, DEATH
Body of Capt. Dale P. Mason Discovered After Wreck
 ed Auto Is Located

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec. IS Capt. Dale P. Mason, aged 35 native of Virginia, was found froz- en to death Sunday by searching party which had discovered his wrecked automobile earlier, five miles from here.
 Capt. Mason, in command of the radio station at Whitney, had taken some of the men there Saturday night Returning to Anchorage, his car skidded off the highway.
 Signal Corps officers said Ma sons head was injured and he had apparently wandered in a daze un- til he collapsed and died.
 Capt. Mason's mother, Mrs s. F Mason, of Mattox, Virginia, has been notified.
 Capt. Mason was to have reported to the Fort Leavenworth Staff School next summer, this honor having been authorized only during last week.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-14
SITKA MEAT IS FOUND HERE AS
 BOXER UNLOADS
Captain Announces He Will Return to Old Capital
 E.nroute to Seward

The motorship Boxer, first ves- sel to arrive here under the gov ernment-charter arrangement, will return from here to Sitka to un- load from five to 10 tons of meat which was overlooked when the vessel was in that port, it was stat ed by Capt. I. Lystad today. The Boxer got in here about 8 o'clock this morning and proceeded to start unloading IA tons of meat and poultry from cold storage. While this unloading was going on the Sitka shipment was found.
 Capt. Lystad said he had no bill ing of meat for Sitka and did not know it was aboard until unload ing of the Juneau meat from the cold room started this morning.
 You can say, I am going back to Sitka with the meat" Capt. Lystad said, and then will go direct to Seward. We have plenty of time We have to stay at Seward until the Arctic contacts us any way, so we might as well go back by way of Sitka."
 The Boxer will operate in shuttle service between Seward and points to the Westward after reaching there and will not be going south again.
 Capt. Lystads discovery of the Sitka meat consignment this morn ing after arriving here came after sharp protest had come from Sitka merchants to Gov. John w. Troy about the Boxer leaving no meat there.
 The Sitka Chamber of Commefce radieed the Governor as follows.
 Boxer landed 200 cases of beer here, little food. Food situation critical. Is. our cargo aboard the Arctic? Please investigate Boxer cargo. We suspect crew of with holding our goods in reprisal our attempt to discharge the North land"
 Peter Kostrometinoff, Mayor of Sitka, radioed the Governor as fol- lows:
 "Sitka merchants request inves- tigation of Boxer cargo to determ- inc if she has our cold storage pro- ducts. No meat, very little veg etables or butter and eggs unload ed. These items were most need ed and according to freight bills were on the ship
 Capt Lystad denied he had freight bills for the Sitka meat, as charged by Mayor Kostrometinoff In fact, he declared, he had nothing to show it was aboard and he did not know that it was, until unloading began here this morning.
 The Boxer is scheduled to sail on the return to Sitka about 7:30 o'clock tonight.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-14
GEORGE, SIXTH, M AK ES PLEDGE
 TOPARLIAMENT
Promises to Uphold Honor of Realm, Aided by
 His Queen

LONDON, Dec. liking George the Sixth today pledged Parlia- ment my constant endeavor, with Gods help, supported by my dear wife, to uphold the honor of the Realm and promote the happiness of my people"
 The message was read first in the House of Lords.
 Today is the new Kings forty first birthday but by Royal com mand, there was no official observ- ances beyond the firing of the cus- tomary Royal salute, one round for each year of his life. His Queen is mildly ill with an attack of the influenza.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-14
EDWARD IS GONE BUT
 HE IS NOT FORGOTTEN

LONDON, Dec 14-Under dreary skies last Saturday. Great Britain proclaimed George the Sixth as King while Edward the Eighth sought foreign soil and the solace of love. The latter is only volun- tary exile. and while his abdication passed into history with outward unruffled calm and the people ac- cepted the melodramactic change in sovereigns and turned from the Prince and King they loved so well to the tall family loving brother George, there was deep sympathy and godspeed to him who found the burden of a Kingdom too heavy without the woman he publicly de- clared he loved.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-14
PREDICTS STRIKE MAY END DEC. q
Social CircIe' m " hich EdUdrd Fruterlized Ciuen
 Most Sepere Castigation
Archbishop of Canterbury, in Broadcast, Ldmbdsts Fast International Set"

LONDON, Dec. 14.-The Arch bishop of Canterbury castigated the Social Circle" in which former King Edward VIII moved in a broadcast at the close of dreary rainy Sunday, in bidding farewell to the old King and welcome to the new King.
 Strange, it must be said" said the Archbishop of Canterbury, that for such motive, however strong ly it was pressing upon his heart, that he should have disappointed the hopes so high, abandoned the trust so great. Even more strange it is, that he should have sought
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-14
Mrs. BOettiger Will Edit Page
 in Seattle P.-l,
Has Been Appointed Di- rector of Homemakers'
 Club of Northwest

SEATTLE, Dec. 14-Mrs. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Boettiger, daugh- ter of President Roosevelt, last Saturday took over her first work on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer of which her husband, John Boet- tiger, is publisher
 The newspaper announced that Mrs. Boettiger has been appointed director of it's Homemakers Club of the Northwest.
 Whether Mrs. Boettiger person. ally would edit the page devoted to club work or act as advisor is not announced.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-14
COL. HARRISON IS FOUND DEAD
 IN APARTMENT
Son of Former President of United States
 Passes Away

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Dec. l4-- Russell Benjamin Harrison, aged 82, son of former President BenA jamin Harrison, was found deac yesterday in his apartment. He had been a practicing attorney here and also Mexican Consul.
 Perpetuation of the name of Har- rison in the civil and military an nals of the United States deyolvec upon Col. Russell Harrison. His forbears had an active part in the affairs of the nation from it's inception, and pride in theil service and achievements impe!led him to emulate them.
 Born in Ohio
 | Col. Harrison was born at oxford Ohio, the son of Benjamin Harri- son, 23rd President of the United | States, and Caroline Scott Harri- son. He was the great grandson of William Henry Harrison, ninth President of the United States, and great-great-grandson of Benjamin Harrison, signer of the Declara- ton of Independence and mem Der of the Continental Congress.
 These three paternal ancestors had bright military records in wars in which the United States became involved, and Col. Harrison follow ed their careers as closely as op- portunities permitted. He devoted years of public service to his state and the nation and also served his country in Cuba and Porto Rico during the war with Spain.
 Locates in Montana After his preliminary education at the Pennsylvania Military Acad- emy at Chester, Pa, Col. Harrison studied at Lafayette College, at Easton, Pennsylvania, being grad uated in the mining and engineer ing department in 1877 The next year he was appointed superintend- ent of the United States assay of flee at Helena, Mont, and was credited with giving valuable as- sistance to John sherman. Secre- tary of the Treasury, in bringing about the resumption of specie pay ment. He remained in the mint ser vice until 1885.
 Having done some journalistic work for Judge and Leslie's Weekly in New York, Col. Harrison again engaged in newspaper work while in the government service in Mon- tana, being owner for several years of the Helena Daily Journal. It was
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-14
LOADING THIRD VESSEL

SEATTLE, Dec. 14.-Loading of a third Alaska relief ship, the Gen. w. c. Gorgas, is progressing rapidly and sailing time for the north has been set for 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.
 Approximately 235 passengers will be aboard the Gen. w. c. Gorgas, J. R. Ummel said.
 No cargo will be left on the dock, Ummel further stated, as none will be accepted when a full cargo is in sight.
 About 2,5o0 tons are expected to be sent north on the steamer.
 The drug situation remains the same, the unions refusing to handle shipments from unfair firms"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-14
Income of Four Million Reported
 By One Man, 1885

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.-Forty one persons Tn the United States had million dollar incomes last year including one who earned four mil lion dollars, Treasury officials an- nounced.
 According to tax incomes filed to August 31, net incimes were four teen million six hundred and fifty six million dollars. almost two bfi- lion dollars more than the year before.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-14
SETTLEMENT IN SIGHT, CLAIM OF
 SEATTLE MAYOR
Dore Says He Has Word of Federals, Officials of
 Both Sides
SEAMEN'S HEAD ALSO
 SANGUINE ON OUTLOOK
Gen. w. C. Gorgas Posted to Sail Tomorrow
 Passengers, Freight

BULLETIN - SEATTLE, Dec. 14.-Mayor John F. D0re, re- turning here this afternoon from San Francisco, predicted a settle m c mt of the Pacific Coast maritime strike not later than next Monday.
 q was assured by Federal officials and representatives of both sides, ship owners and unions, just before leaving San Francisco for Seattle, that peace will be restored not later than December 21. I am confident of a settlement this time and that shipping commerce will soon be booming"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-14
ED WARD IS IN AUSTRIAN WILL CONSULT DOCTOR
Duke of Windsor r to See Specialist Regarding
 Old Ear Trouble

VOSELAU, Austria, Dec. 14.- Formber King Edward, now his Royal Highness, the Duke of Wind sor, seeking relaxation, is on the guarded grounds of an Austrian Castle and as a private citizen, is arranging to consult a Vienna spec ialist on an old ear affliction. He arrived here Sunday in special car attached to d regular train.
 It is understood he may call at the clinic of Prof. Heinrich Neu- mann, late today after all other patients have left.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-14
ROSS L. SHELLY IS
 IN JUNEAU FROM
 WASHINGTON TRIP

Ross L. Sheely, General Manager of the Alaska Rehabilitation Cor poration at Palmer, arrived in Ju- neau today on the Princess Norah.
 MT. Sheely, who has been in Washington, D. O., in connection with the Matanuska project, will remain in Juneau for three or four day to discuss colony affairs with Gov. John w. Troy before continuing his journey to the Westward.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-14
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK Dec. 14-Closing quotation today of Alaska Juneau mine stock is AZ, American Can HAS, American Light and Power 1928, Anaconda 50A, Bethlehem Steel 75, Calumet and Hecla 1854 Commonwealth and Southern 35s Curtiss- Wright ', General Motors TO, International Harvester 103% Kennecott 60A, New York Central A, Southern Pacific 42ss, United States Steel 78s, United Corpora tion 7is. Cities Service 4ls, Brem- ner bid .02, asked 04i2; Pound $49OA.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-14

his happiness in manner incon- sistent with the Christian princi- pies of marriage within the social circles whose standards and ways of lie are alien to all the best in- stincts and traditions of his peo- pie"
 The head of the Church of Eng lands castigation of Edwards so- eial circle is interpreted as refer ence to the so-called fast inter- national set" with which Edward delighted to fraternize and which includes several wealthy American women who have wed members of the British nobility.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-14
WPA WORKERS
 MAKE DEMAND

SEATTLE, Dec 14.-Claiming to represent 5000 WPA workers throughout the State. two hundred delegates today demanded collec- tive bargaining, 30-hour week, un- ion wages, right to strike, sick leave and pay for holidays.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-14
LORD BROWENLOW TAKES
 LEAVE OF MRS. SIMPSON

CANNES, France, Dec. l4.-Lord Brownlow, into whose care, Ed ward, as King of England. entrust- ed the woman I love-" took his leave of Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simp- son last Saturday night.
 Lord Brownlow said he was going to London, with possible vacation enroute. He denied he intended to visit his former Ruler.
 The arrival of Edward in France brought no visible signs he is ex- pected soon at the Riviera shelter ing Mrs. Simpson.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-14
PLEADS GUILTY, ILLEGAL ENTRY
Woman Arrested Tn Alaska, Sentenced to. l2 Months
 and Fined $l ,000

SEATTLE, Dec. 14-Jeanne Marie Berguery has pleaded guilty to en- tering the United States illegally from Canada and has been sen- tenced to F months in jail and fined $1,000.
 Federal officers arrested the wo- man in Alaska recently after a search for more than one year.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-14
Supreme Court Takes
 No Action, Litigation
 On Certain WPA Loans

WASHINGTON, Dec. IA. - The Supreme Court today sent back to the lower courts for further action, litigation challenging the consti- nationality of PwA loans and grants to publicly owned hydro-electric projects.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-14

Oregon claims the honor of hav- ing initiated the movement for direct primaries. the initiative and referendum and the recall.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-14
DOW. JONES AVERAGES

Tine following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 18l87. up .95; rails 54.s2. down II: util- ities 35.6l, up 50.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-14
FURNISHES TAX DATA

Incidentally, the information go- ing into the hands of the Social Security Board about what each man earns could provide the gov ernment first hand data on what
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-14

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-11-25

THE America that celebrates Thanksgiv- \ ing this year isn't much like the America that celebrated the first Thanks giving Day, 300-odd years ago.
 Todays America is a broad land, rich land, secure and safe and strong. That earlier America was tiny one, hundred in by great foes, wee colony planted be- tween wilderness and ocean, one which might survive and might not.
 The contrast is as striking as any in his tory.
 And yet there is more similarity than you might think between the two Thanks givings. There should be great deal of similarity between the spiritual attitudes.
 The tiny Massachusetts Bay colony was returning devout and heartfelt thanks for the mere fact of survival. Ahead of it were uncounted problems, some of them very great; but just back of it lay the greater fact of escape.
 The dangers of hunger, destitution, and cold had been beaten down, the great men, ace of the Indians had been held at arms length.
 Whatever might happen in the future, the colonists at least knew that their set clement was not to go the way of that ear- Her, tragic one on Roanoke Island in Vir- ginia.
 co there was that sense of deliverance. O There was enough to eat, there were houses to live in, there was assurance that all they had worked for and hoped for would not be snatched away from them be-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-11-25
Civilization Is Menaced

The airplane bombings of Madrid ought to make it perfectly clear, by now, that that kind of warfare is an ugly, inhuman, and unrelieved throWback to absolute savagery. No plea of military necessity can excuse this long-ccntinued bombardment of a populous city. The military mind which demands such measures is the sort of mind that sees in every bed-ridden cripple, every baby m arms. every housewife, and every school child an enemy as important as the SOL dier at the front.
 For it is obvious that when an army showers flame and explosives on city, as the rebel army has been shoWering them on Madrid, it is out to break, by any means the populace's will to resistance. To that end it can count the murder of an infant, the burning of hospital full of expectant mothers, or the destruction of a school building and its pupils as an achievement equal to the capture of a trench or the destruction of an airdrome.
 It may be that this frightful philoso- phy can exist only in bitter civil war, where to the ordinary brutality of war there is added fierce personal hatred, bias which makes the opposition look like fiends against whom any form of fright fulness is permissible. But even there the excuse is a poor one. For warfare of thls kind is the fruit of mental attitude which can have no place in worlc call ing itself civilized. The mere existence of armies and governments which can fight in this way is threat to the we'll being of the entire world.
 There has been good deal of talk about the "collapse of civilization" which another war would bring That collapse would not come through the physical de- strlction of towns, factories, and trans- portation systems, or through the mere total of violent deaths. It would come through this resort to barbarism of which the assault on Madrid is so glaring an example.
 For world which fights like this Is not civilized. It is on level with the ancient world in which Assyrian armies put the inhabitants to the sword after capturing a city, The only difference would De that the modern world put them to the sword before capturing the city, not afterWard.
 And beyond all that -- how insane this rebel procedure is, anyway The repeis hope to govern Spain, some day. Madrid is Spains greatest city. How can they hope to get anything remoately resemb- ling loyalty, or even tolerance, from city they have repeatedly bombed? Human memories are not so short as all that.
 The war in Spain may end in rebel victory, and 1t may not That, at the moment, is not the point. The point IS that a savegery has been loosed which, if not disavowed and discarded by the con- science of mankind, means the beginning of the end of European civilization.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-11-25
AND THE OGPU'LL CIT YOU, IF YOU DON'T WATCH
 OUT, MIR, CHARLES
Nov 2a. f036,

NOV. zj, lboo' Editor, Waterbury Democrat:
 There's an old gag about guy who writes letters to editors but nuts to that. This is case wherein drastic measures are required. Wed like to do q favor for the Democrat. if the name is still Maloney, and not Malonivitchl
 In your edition of Friday eve- ming, Nov. 20, you ran almost two columns of stuff and hooey about . lecture given in Russian Hall, which ! presume is in the Jungles Of Brooklyn. The talk was sup- posed to have been given by one MT. Taylor of Hartford, whose ex- periences fin Soviet Russia are al- legcd to have given him vast au- thority as an interpreter Of the RuSSke scene.
 His rhapsodic utterances on the benefits derived under the wildly waving red flag of communism, as printed in your so magnificent sheet, were more flauseating than the effects of 6 quart of gin guzzeled all at once. And the erudite Wa terbury Democrat ran the collection of drival under an eight-column banner line. Phooey! We realize that Fridays sheet is a large one. We realize that it takes lotta type to i'll such lotta space. But for the Lords sake Ill your space with boiler-plate, if nec- essary, or with publicity puffs of any description, rather than take q chance on offending the intelii- gence, real or supposed, of your readers. A paper the size Of the Democrat can't afford to do that not and live.
 From the continuity of the story. we get an imaginative picture such as this:
 A packed mass of humanity, mostly Russian breeds, smelling 70 the high Heavens of an admixture of sweat, liquor, strong food. and stale tobacco into their boards, lily dressed, and decidedly more bovine than human. A c0o- glomerate crowd, drawing pay checks from American industry and | the American government. tickleo
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-11-25
An Editorial, by Bruce Cation
An Editorial, by Cation Our Spirit or Gratitude Should Be As Sincere 7ndnv As Ou COuuty-vS First ThankSgiving

fore they had even fair chance to taste it.
 And from that sense of deliverance came a great upsurge of thanksgiving, of grate- fulness to Providence for an escape from dire perils.
 It is not hard to see the parallel between that and the situation today.
 No American needs to be reminded that we have come through time of great diff ficulty and danger. Our institutions have been tested so the utmost. The age-old dangers of hunger and cold have been with us; with them we have had that utterly terrifying feeling that nothing was secure, that some sort of lasting darkness might be ready to descend on our fair land, bringing chaos and confusion to us all. GOMEHOW, we got through that bad O time. We may not know, any more than those early Pilgrims knew, just how we did it, but we do know that it is at last behind us. The sky is Tightening. our in- stitutions are secure, we can look ahead with hope again. .,.,
 Great problems remain for us, but we can face them with full faith that 1t is our destiny to meet and solve great problems.
 Should not we today feel that devout sense of thankfulness, as our ancestors felt it three centuries ago? Have we not, in truth, as much to be thankful for as they?
 Can we not, today, express our sincere gratitude to Divine Providence-and, hav- ing done 50, await the future with the con- fidence that was implicit in the first Thanksgiving