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The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-18
TALLY'S DANCE
 GALA EVENT FOR
 JUNEAU FRIENDS
EIks' Hall Colorful Scene Tor Affair Given by
 Coast Guardmen

Service, signal and National En- sign flags decorated the Elks' Ball room last night when Coast Guard Tallapoosa officers, men and their friends enjoyed one of the finest social affairs Of the season and danced to Dude Haynes orchestra
 Entertainment was lively and the ballet, which George Ferriera, Lloyd Rishton, Joseph Pomije, Red Frodle, and Buzz Overend put on, received big applause Buzz gave Representations, songs and spring dance, which was enjoyed im- mensely.
 The Tallapoosa's Singing Swede'' Leonard Peterson, entertained with songs. Robert McAdams, chief ra- dio man, deserves a big hand for he certainly made a good master of ceremonies. A popularity con- test was held and the laurels went to the Tally's tall, dark, and hand some George Ferriera. He was awarded with a bouquet by Mrs. J. F. Van Ackeren.
 The affair was in compliment to invited guests of Juneau and the personnel of the officers and crew of the Tallapoosa.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-18
LEON TR0TzKY NOW GOING TO
 LIVE IN MEXICO
Exile from Russia Accepts Invitation - He Must
 Be Good, However

MEXICO CITY, Dec 18.-The Mexican Interior Department dis closes that Leon Trotzky, exiled rev. olutionary leader of Russia, has ap- piled officially for permission to come to Mexico.
 Alaberto Tejeda, Mexican Mia- ister to France, reports from Paris that Trotzky is planning to leave his present refuge in Norway soon.
 Trotzky, one time power in the Soviet Russian Government, has been an exile for a number of years and Norway refused to extend his permit to have his asylum in that country.
 The Mexican invitation carried provision that Trotzky respect the Mexican laws, refrain from spread ing his theories or propagandizing Communism in Mexico. Earlier it was understood Trotzky refused to accept the invitation unless assured full freedom for political activity.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-18
FOR BIRTHDAY DANCES ARE TO
 BE ON JAN. 30

NEW YORK, Dec. 18.-Roose- velt birthday balls to aid suffer- 'ers from infantile paralysis will be held throughout the nation for the fourth year on January 30, it is announced by Col Henry l.. Doher- ty, national chairman of the birth day ball committee.
 In approving plans for the cele- bration, Doherty said, the Presi- dent wrote
 My own views are that the na tional fight against infantile para lysis cannot cease. It must go on"
 As in the past, Doherty announc- ed, 90 per cent of the proceeds from the balls will be given to the Warm Springs Foundation, where the President was treated after he was stricken with paralysis.
 The other TO per cent will be de- voted to fighting the disease in the communities where the money is raised
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-18
Woman Who
 Sinned, Will
 Die, CaII0Ws
Mother of Six, Who Coun- selled Farm Hand to
 Murder, Is Guilty

RED DEER, Alta, Dec. 18. - Mrs. Christine Pogmore, aged 38, mother of six children, who admit ted on the witness stand she coun- selled Emmanuel Ernst, a farm hand, to murder her husband for fear their sins would be found out" has been sentenced to die with Ernest on the gallows on March 30 by Justice Ewing
 A six man jury convicted her last night, but recommended mercy. Ernst was convicted at a previous trial.
 George Pogmore, aged 41, was shot to death by a bullet which came through a window on the night of October Is when he and three other men were playing cards in the kitchen of his home.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-18
Civil Service
 Examination

The United States Civil Service Commission has announced open competitive examinations as fol- lows:
 Senior Medical Officer female tpsychiatry) $4,600 a year; junior medical officer dnterne), $2,000 a year; junior medical officer (psy- chiatric residenb. $2,000 a year, St. Elizabeth Hospital, Washington, D. C.
 Biologist, (wildlife management $500 year, Soil Conservation Service, Department of Agricul- ture.
 Full information may be obtained at Room 3l1, Federal and Terri torial Building.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-18
U. s. OPERATION TO TERRITORY
 ANGLE ENTERS
Sailors Union Head Mak- ing Trip to Seattle to Dis
 cuss Technical Details
LUNDEBERG REPORTS
 TENTATIVE AGREEMENT
Four Other Unions Yet to Settle with Owners Be-
 fore Strike Ended

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Dec. 18. Negotiations in the 50-day mari time strike neared a vote today by the Sailors Union of the Pacific, but Harry Lundeberg, union head, said he might not submit the pro- posal to the membership until he returns from a contemplated trip to Seattle. There he will discuss provisions on technical details pe- culiar to the Alaska trade.
 Lundeberg indicated conferences had resulted in tentative accord between the Sailors and Marine Firemens Unions and the ship owners.
 Further conferences are on today with the ship owners and the Cooks and Stewards Unions whose lead- CT is E. F. Burke. He reported a verbal accord" had been reached on certain sections. of the proposed agreement.
 Four other unions who have settled differences over the hiring hall issue must yet have agreements with the ship owners.
 Harry Bridges is today returning from the East.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-18
AMERICAN SHIP NEARLY HIT BY
 REBEL CRUISER
Navy Craft Narrowly Es- capes from Fascist
 Shots at GJon SHELL WHISTLES
 OVER U. s. s. ERIE
Commanding Officer Makes Report-State Depart
 ment Unalarmed

LONDON, Dec. 18.--A Reuters News Agency dispatch from Gijon Spain, said the Spanish Fascist cruiser Espana fired three shells landing 300 yards from the United States gunboat Erie.
 The Erie immediately ran up the American flag and the cruiser Es- pana quickly steamed away. The Erie then put into Gijon.
 The Erie is one of Americas $ newest vessels and was assigned to temporary duty with the Europ- can squadron on December g.
 While making shakedown cruise the destroyer Kane was endangered last summer when bombs were dropped from an unidentified plane Both Loyalists and Fascists denied the plane was theirs.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-18
SEARCH FOR AIRL|NER IS
 WIDESPREAD
Twenty-Five Planes Joir Hunt for Missing Craft
 with Seven Aboard

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Dec 18.-Bombarded by new clues searchers for the missing Western Air Express Airliner, with seven aboard, began hunting over hun dreds of miles of Utah's wide open spaces.
 Twenty-Five planes have been enlisted in the expanded search and half a dozen others have been offered.
 The snow storms have ceased and the planes are hunting from the air for any trace of the missing plane, while ground searchers are spread ing out over the mountainous sec- tionS.
 There is a remote possibility that the radio beam may have been lost and the plane swung westward to- ward Nevada from Milford.
 The Airliner left Los Angeles last Monday night with three of the crew aboard and four passengers. Early Tuesday morning a plane re- ported by radio as being over Mill ford, Utah, and since then nothing has been heard.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-18
NO DAMAGE SUFFERED;
 NO PROTEST MADE

WASHINGTON, Dec. IS. The State Department announces that shell was fired yesterday by the Spanish Fascist cruiser Espana in- to the port of Musel, Spain and hit the water 800 yards from where the Erie was anchored. No damage was suffered by the Erie. the commando ing officer reported.
 Not Object of Fire
 The State Department said there is nothing in the report to indicate the Erie was the object of the shell firing.
 Musel is the port of Gijon which is held by the Spanish Government forces.
 The Espana fired two shells at a distance of 10000 yards. One She5l whistled overhead into the hills.
 The State Department said the government is contemplating no action in the affair.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-18
HAMILTON TO
 GET S25,0OO AS
 COP MANAGER
Chairman Placed on Full Time Salary Between
 Campaigns

CHICAGO, H., Dec. 18-Mem- bers of the Executive Committee of the Republican National Commit tee disclosed that Chairman John Hamilton has been voted a salary of $25,000 year to devote his full time to the Party's rehabilitation.
 This is the first time a Chairman has been put on a full time salary basis in the interim between Pres dential campaigns.
 Hamilton handed in his resigna- tion at the meeting of the National Committee yesterday but the com mitteemen refused to accept it and voted confidence in his manage ment by vote of "A to 2.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-18
Bessie Love Is
 Granted Divorce

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec. l8- Bessie Love, star of silent pictures, has been granted a divorce from William Hawks, an artists agent.
 Miss Love won a default decree together with $750 a month for the support of herself and daughter, Patricia. four, and percentage of Hawkes. earnings.
 Hawks, she testified. was quar- relsome, failed to return her af- lection, and told her he was sick of her.
 Miss Love plans to leave soon for London to make a motion picture
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-18
WHEAT PRICES TAKE ADVANCE
 ALL MARKETS
Commodity Skyrockets to Above One Dollar
 Forty Today

CHICAGO, H., Dec. Is. = The world scramble for wheat sky reelected prices today on all mar ketS.
 Wheat rose here above $40, shooting up more than cents, the highest level in seven years.
 Top quotations on the Minne- apolis Exchange was $50.
 At Buenos Aires wheat jumped more than cents and the same at Liverpool
 Most of the foreign prices call for wheat deliverable this month at S142la.
 Germany and Italy have increas- ed their requirements.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-18
Fall Retains Home

FL PASO, Tex. Dec. 18.-R. 0. Garland, attorney for Albert B. Fall, has announced the former Secretary of the Interior will re- tain his Tres Ritos ranch home in New Mexico by settlement just reached. The attorney described Mrs. Fall as in precarious health as result of worries over the long litigation. Fall, who is seventy five, has been bedridden a year.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-18
PAA ELECTRAS AT WH|TEHORSE
Juneau Loads Unable to Come Here on Ac-
 count of Storm

With snow still falling at Juneau today. the PAA Electra piloted by Al Monsen, with Bill Lavery as Ico-pilot, which was to have en- gagged in air ferry service between Whitehorse and Juneau, changed it's plans and returned to Fairbanks from Whitehorse this morning, leaving twenty-nine Juneau bound passengers there.
 Leaving Fairbanks this morning lat 9:15 o'clock, the other Electra, piloted by Jerry Jones and Walt Hall, took off for Whitehorse and Juneau with another load of nine passengers intending to catch the Princess Louise for the voyage Out side
 If possible, Jones and Hall will fly a shuttle service between Whitehorse and Juneau tomorrow bringing one or two plane loads to Juneau. It was reported this afternoon that most of the pas sengers at Whitehorse intend to take the White Pass train into Skagway, to catch the Princess Louise there.
 Passengers flown to Whitehorse from Fairbanks yesterday aboard the two planes were: Maurice Nor enc, Fred Martin. Nellie Kekdal, A. Lortenzen, Sam Godfrey, Louise Sam Godfrey, Louise K. Pratt, Vic- tor Isaacson, Werner Benson, Gud- way Preston.
 E. E. Crosson, MT. and Mrs. John Ogriz, MT. and Mrs. Gus Uotila, Mrs. Gus Rodman, N. J. Vibe, MT. and Mrs. Ed Olson, Paul Webring.
 Passengers flown to Whitehorse today by Jones and Hall were: MT. and Mrs. E. A. Kobe, Don Brady, MT. and Mrs. Patrick Savage, C.. w. Tibbetts, Jack McCord, Joe Loranger, c. D. Lamars.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-18
ALASKA FIGURES IN STRIKE ACCORD
DROP NEAR U. s. GUNBOA
Lou Ann Markle Is
 Walking; Predictions Are Now Fulfilled

PORTLAND, Oregon, Dec. 18.- Lou Ann Markle. whose parents were killed in plane crash in AL aska, has finally freed herself from the shackles of hospital bed where she has lain for ten months.
 She took her first step, since early last winter, week ago and full filled the predictions of surgeons who treated her in stopping bone infection suffered in a skating ac- cident in Anchorage.
 She must use her crutches now but some day may discard them She will live with her grandparents, MT. and Mrs. E. R. Hayseen.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-18
YOUTH SOUGHT IN SHOOTING OF
 GRID PLAYER
Clyde Ellis, Scol ded for Complaining, Shoots
 William Cahill

CORVALLIS, Oregon, Dec. l8.- Clyde Ellis, aged IA, is sought to- day for the shooting of William Cahill, of San Francisco, Oregon State College football player, after Cahill demonstrated with him for scolding his mother, Mrs. Moss for the kind of food she served at dinner.
 Ellis went to the basement of the boarding house, secured a shotgun returned and fired at Cahill at close range. Ellis then fled.
 District Attorney Fred McHenry said Cahill has an even chance at recovery.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-18
Extra Dividends
 Be Paid by PAF

BELLINGHAM, Wash, Dec. l8.7-- The Pacific American Fisheries an- nounces a regular quarterly divi- dend of SIPS on preferred stock payable on February 1 next and quarterly dividend of 25 cents on common shares payable January Is to stockholders on record of Jan- uary 2.
 An extra dividend of s1 share common stock, is payable February 5 to stockholders on record on Jan uary 12.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-18
INV. A|RLINES' TRANSPORT IS
 NOW MISSING
Plane, on Special Mail Trip with Two Pilots, Be-
 ing Hunted
LAST REPORTED AT
 EARLY HOUR TODAY
Lost with Ice Forming on Wings According to
 Latest Radio

SPOKANE, Wash, Dec. 18. = The Northwest Airlines announced this forenoon that transport ship carrying mail with Pilot Joe Liv- ermore and Co-Pilot A. A. Haid out of St. Paul, has not reported since 3:19 a. m. The plane was then west of Elk River, Idaho, several miles off the regular course.
 There are no passengers aboard the plane which is on a special mail schedule.
 The plane left Missoula. at 12:30 a. m, circled over Elk River for more than an hour before learning definitely where it was and the pilots were then advised to fly 90 miles west and hit the radio beam. The plane did so and reported at 3:19 a. m. that ice was form g on the wings.
 Four planes are searching lo. the transport.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-18
Girl Gets s3,OOO
 for tilted Love

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec. 18.-- For her broken heart. pretty Paul line Rossman has been awarded 5000 damages from Michael Mills. wealthy Long Beach furni- ture dealer who assertedly tilted her after promising to marry her.
 Miss Rossman testified he made the promise repeatedly after they met in 1930, but that a year ago he married another girl.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-18
Cigarette Cause
 of Fire; , Lives
 Are Snuffed Out
Man Who Was Sleeping at Time, Charged with
 Manslaughter

NEW YORK, Dec. 18-William Hoffman, who went asleep with a lighted cigarette in his hand last night, and caused a fire in room ing house, costing the life of five has been arrested and charged with second degree manslaughter
 August Frank, aged 43, jumped to his death from third floor win dow.
 Other victims are Elinor Duffield, aged 32, her eight weeks old son; Nancy Green, aged 25, and her sis ter Margaret, aged Is.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-18
ALASKA R.R. IS BLOCKED
 BY BLIZZARD
Service Is Disrupted Until Storm Over, then Ro-
 taries Will Work

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec. 18.- A blizzard between Broad Pass and Mckinley Park has disrupted ser vice on the Alaska Railroad sched- ules of two trains have been aban- doned through the storm area.
 Snow is being drifted by a 40 mile an hour wind.
 Rotary blows will be sent out as soon as the storm abates.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-18
Chiang Kai Shek
 Is Coming BaCk''

HAWKING, Dec. 18.-Gen. Chiang Kai Shek may be back here by Saturday." Central official of the Chinese News Agency reports He said he is passing his prediction on letter which he declared was written to War Minister Ho Yink Chin.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-18
FLARES ARE REPORTED

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Dec 18.-A. E. Cahlan, Western Air Ex- press spokesman, said that at least 20 persons in the region of 100 to l25 miles eact of Tonopah, Ne vada, have reported they saw flares at regular intervals last Tuesday
 A plane, piloted by Ralph Hall flew to Tonopah today and picked up two observers to make a survey of that section of the country
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-18
PLANE IS HEARD

SPOKANE, Dec. 18.-Buford O. Keefe, resident of Boville, IS miles northeast of Elk River, said plane, apparently 100 feet off the ground, roared over his house sometime after 3 o'clock this morning and T should judge that after flying about three miles south, the motors were cut and were dead. I did not hear crash. Possibly freak in the weather might have cut off the sound"
 A searching party left from o. Keefe's section.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-18

The full name of the world court is the permanent court of interna- tional justice.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-18

The Texas gulf coastss deepest oil well -- 10,500 feet - is located north of Galveston. It soon will be
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-18
OLDTIMER DIES;
 RESULT STROKE

ANCHORAGE. Alaska, Dec. l2. Thomas McAvoy. old-timer, is dead here following a stroke. He was born in Pitsfield, Mass, in 1863 and came to Alaska in 1903.
 McAvoy helped bulls the old AL aska Central Railroad, taken over by the Alaska Railroad. and he has been railroad employe since.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-18

Rocks capture mussels and open them for eating by dropping them from a height.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-18

Herman Schaar of Neptune, N. J., goes a-hunting in a wheel chair.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-16
SOLDIER BONUS
 NEAR ZERO HOUR

(Continued from Page l) indicated sufficient strength to pass the bill over the Presidents disap- provai. There was no doubt the house, which last year overrodo the veto, would do 50 again.
 He May Sign
 Some bonus leaders believed that in the face of almost certain enact. inent over Q veto that President Roosevelt would sign. At the White House Mir. Roosevelt adroitly evad- cd Q direct answer as to his inten- ton.
 Several fights to amend the bill before 1t comes to vote, perhaps late this week or early next, were brewing. These ranged from left wing efforts to pay off the bonus with on expanded currency issue, to attempts to soften the treasury blow by communicating unexpended re- lief balances.
 Harrison said he did not anticipate any great difficulty in rushing the measure to passage without sub- stantiai change. It would then re. main for the house either to accept changes or send its own cash-pay- ment bill to conference.
 House leaders Of tho bonus bloc have indicated . willingness to ac. cept tho Harrison coinpronlise. II NaiIa for uaVriAfat in "hnby botldh which could Do cashed ct any post' office. If held they would bear three DOT cent interest and mature In iolB.
 An imitation fight in the senate was threatened by Senator Elmer Thomas, democrat, Oklahoma, whe said he was gathering support among advocates of currency expansion for payment in money rather than bonds. It seemed probable the sen' ate would reject Thomas' plan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-16
Hospital Discharges
 Victim Of Shooting
Edmund Diana IO, RecOvers From Experiences of De-
 cember z7th -- Companions Held

has been discharged, hospital au- thorlties said today. A continuance of one week was granted last satur- day in city court because of Diana's inability to appear and the case is scheduled for trial Saturday morn ing.
 Parent, held without bonds in con- nection with the shooting, has told police he shot his friend accident- ally.
 Diana walked into police head quarters on Friday morning, Dec. 27, and collapsed, after telling dee tectives he had been shot. He had been driven to city hall by Parent after the shooting.
 Parent explained his action by saying that he waS Q stranger to the city and that he believed tho building was Q hospital. He said he had been taking bullets from his gun and thought 1t was empty when he pressed the trigger.
 Held without bonds as witnesses to the Shooting are Ernest LaFon- taine, 22, of lie Meadow street, in whose apartment 1t took place, end Albert Petit, 22, of Union street. Parent told police that he had let out the other two youths . few blocks away from city hall after Diana had left the car, and that he had driven to Bristol, throwing his gun out on the way.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-16
NATIONAL CIRIS
 UNIT WILL MEET
Margaret Bull to Attend Session Saturday in
 Newark, N. J.

Miss Margaret Bull, director of the Corner House, will attend the Eastern Regional Conference of the National oirls' Work Council in CO., operation with the Girls Activity Council of Newark and the New Jersey Association of Deans of women and Girls which will Dc held at the Y.W.C.A. in Newark, ", J., Saturday. The conference will be conducted on the general theme 'srhe 1ntsFreIaticn of the School and the social Worker"
 The program for the day will be as follows:
 Moyning Session - Miss Emily Burr, rh, D. presiding:
 iO:lB-Address: James s. Plant M. D., Director Essex County Juve- nile Clinic.
 ii:i6-piscussion Group Leaders Miss Edith N. Everett, White Wil- Hams Foundation, Philadelphia Miss Pose Qslaida, Nassau Juniof High, East Orange; Miss Catherine C. Miles, Pr. D., Yale University New Haven; Miss Jessie Compton Juvenile Protective Association Brooklyn.
 i2:l6--Luncheon. Miss Jessie Con- dit, Newark Children's Aid Society prebiding. Speaker: pr. Frank Newark.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-16

mosnlnk lliat tho city wiIl hs stn- resented at tho New Haven mesE. ins if duties in the local oEloe afe lisht enough at the time 70 permit participation ln the conference.
 The New IEsyen gathering will be one of the 1e3o sectional confer- ences which aFe being held ae eutl~ venient places throughOut the etata. The meeting will hs conducted ln the nature Of c round-tabie dlscus- sion of assessors and boards of re- lief problems. It is particularly de-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-16
.O,SULLIVAN FOR
 TROLLEY WORKERS
Continued from Page io

:, (O0ntinueu rom PABe 1J for there can be no question that the deficits revealed in the last three years appear upon the profit and loss statements of the company. The utlwary, however, may Dc in ignorance of Q matter cf vest inc poTtanee which occurred in 1881, which accounts for the sharp drop in the net income Of that end glic- ceedlHg years, end which explaitih fully the dblielt now shown ili the einploybFs statements"
 n ieSi, he said, the concerns capital structure was revised to cid tho New Haven railroad,
 The plan, CUiisuinsnAted ili July of thAt year, he eaid, resulted In cancellation by the railroad of e20,- D00,0OO cofnfn0ii stock, par value, although It's fair market was prob- ehly not worth more than . quar- ter of that sum, and received in lieu thereof bonds of the Ccnnec- ticut Company of e face value of e20, 10000 hnaytng interest ct ap- proximetely 5 per cent per annurn." lse said the transaction created c new obligation of 4i,000,OO0 . year end the directors "as reasonable men Thew, or should have known, that their action was placing millstone around the neck of their own company"
 Agreed To Cut
 As result of the ensuing deficit, he said. employees agreed to . volun- tary wage cut.
 The Connecticut Company now iS in process of reorganization under the hAnkruptey law, . condition, he said, which was brought about by the transaction with the railroad and "the burden of Q subiease with the Connecticut Railway & Light
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-16
HARTFORD DRIVER
 REMAINS CRITICAL

William Brexana, as, ce e7 Allyn street. driver Of the CT iA which his wife was killed end two pnsseli- gers were injured saturday night in Cheshire, was stu en tl4s aauesr list ak At. MaxylB hospital thig att ettloon, nrsIlha hes been uflcegl- sclouh, eacspt for brief intervals, slnce his adimittahce to tha hospi- tal,