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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-20

Supernumerary Johnny Driscoll would drive to New York days week if he he'd Bob Feler phenomenal 18yearod Cleveland Indian in the box He Pymouthed to the Polo Grounds Sunday and called it day we'll spent. Johnny says the "kd fnd is just what you read about in dime novels Johnny should know a good pitcher when he for he's behind the bat every game the Washington Hills play and therefore should know good pitcher "Feer is hated fellow as far Bill Terrys Giants concerned" pipes Johnny 'When he throws 'em up they just duck"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-20

Ski runs are now included in the training at Tula Naval School, Rus sia.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-20
Fish Story

The world shortage Of scrap iron. due to international rearmament. led to keen competition among 3rit- isll and other buyers for the ruins of L0ndons famous Crystal Palace. where about iS.oo0 tons of valuable metal waited salvage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-20
Catholic Women To
 Conduct Card Party
St. Michael's Ladies Aid Plan Event April 29-John
 son and Kreig Reel in l9 Trout
WATERVILL.E


to make this card party an enjoy- able affair.
 Candy will be served and prize given for each table.
 A great variety of card games will be played, and the committees are comprised of the following:
 Prize committee: Mrs. William Heaney, Mrs. James Hughes, Mrs. Leonard Gaugler. \
 Forty-Five teams-Mrs. Joseph McArdle, Mrs. Joseph Seery, Mrs. Daniel Sullivan, Mrs. James Mo- Aree.
 Contract and Auction Bridge Mrs. John Lynch, Mrs. William Dunlavey, Mrs. Wiliaml Rooney, Mrs George Heckleman, Mrs. Charles Denehy.
 Pinochle and Setback Mrs. Francis Whalen, Mrs. Charles Ditt- rich, Mrs. Alfred Ellis, Mrs. Frank LaChance, Mrs. Thomas Buckley and Mrs. Joseph Montambault.
 June Cook to Entertain
 The Micah Cleans Society of Grace Methodist church will meet this evening at 7:30 o'clock at the home of June Cook of Stafford street.
 The Epworth League Society will meet Wednesday evening at 7:30 o'clock at the Grace Methodist church.
 John Chauvel of Thomaston ave- nue, returned to his work with the Packard Company, yesterday after a six weeks illness, part of the time, having been spent as 8 patient in the Waterbury hospital.
 Mrs. Ralph Bates and children of Wheeler street, left yesterday, to visit at the home of Mrs. Clifford J. Welton in Elizabeth, N. J.
 Sewing Meeting Tomorrow
 The Ladies Aid Society of Grace Methodist church will hold an all day sewing meeting in the parlors of the church tomorrow. The meet ing will be opened at 10:30 o'clock and will last all day, a Pot Luck Lunch will be served at noon.
 All member are requested to be present to help with the important work of the day which will be the tacking of several quilts.
 The first day of summer weather arrived in Waterville yesterday and Spring Fever hit the populace a mighty blow.
 Everybody had the inclination to sit in the sun and stretch, yawn, and do nothing.
 Overcoats, top coats, jackets and sweaters were thrown into the moth balls with a resounding cheer and all the good housewives were ob- served to be following the proced- ure of other spring seasons by hanging over back fences and be- coming re-acquainted with neigh bors who were housed up during the winter, like themselves.
 MT. and Mrs. James Brodie and Mir. and Mrs. William Platt of Manville street. visited in Spring. field, Mass. Saturday afternoon and evening.
 Fish Story
 Benujamin Johnson and Julius Kreig of Boyden streea opened the trout fishing season Sunday. They went fishing, 1t is true. Their first stop according to the information that this correspondent was able to gather was at Coiebrook. After that they just won't tell where they did go. but the results of the trip were nineteen trout of unusual dimen- sions and MT. Johnson and Mrs. Kreig still refuse to divulge the source of supply of ail these fish.
 The world shortage Of scrap iron, due to international Tearmament. led to keen competition among 3rit- ish and other buyers for the ruins of London's famous Crystal Palace. where about l6.0o0 tons of valuable metal waited salvage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-20

June Cook to Entertain The Micah Cleans Society of Grace Methodist church will meet this evening at 7:30 o'clock at the home of June Cook of Stafford street.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-04
PING PONeERS OPEN TOURNEY
 HERE TONIGHT
First of Series Will Be Play ed at Noble's and
 Caros

First of a series of games in a ping pong tournament arranged by Juneau players interested in the game will be held tonight, one group playing at the Irvine J. Noble home and the other at Bert Caro's. More than 30 players will participate in the tourney which will be an elim- ination event, series being played on various evenings at convenience of the players.
 Taking part in the tourney are Dr. w. P Blanton, Harry Sperling, Bob Kimball OrIn Kimball, Bill Kimball, Dr. w. M Whitehead Bert Caro, Tom Hutchings, Ernest Parsons. Spike M cC ain, James Orme, Earle Hunter, Clarence Rhode, John Hahn, Clarence Bands Joe Werner, Curtis Shattuck, Will bur Wester, John Keyser, w. K Clark, Sherwood Wirt, James Bar ragar, Irvine Noble, A. B. Phillips Dan Moller Tom Morgan. Byron Miller, Ed Sweupm, Bob Duckworth James Mattox,, Judson Whittier Bob Cowling and Elmer Benedict
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-04
Starts Crusade to Place Bible
 in Every Home

EVANS VILE, Ind, May 4. - R. K Blakely, former ice man, is trying to do for Evansville's homes what the Gideon Society has done for the country's hotels.
 He's conducting a one-man cam .paign to put a Bible in every home. its not a commercial proposition, he says, it's an ambition. Tt seemed to me that if people knew more about the Bible they would be better able to understand the lessons to be found in the New Testament" he explained Its amazing what a slight acquain- itence most people have with the Bible"
 On his sixtieth birthday, Novem- Der 13, 1885, Blakely started dis tributing New Testaments after naming himself the Helping Hand Testament League" and adopting the motto, "One in every home" When he finds a home without Bible, he offers a New Testament fer 25 cents. If there's no sale, he leaves the book anyway. He has sold 500 Testamen5s and given away 100.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-04
.L.EBRUN STIRS
 RUMPUS WITH
 PRESIDE TALK

PARIS, May 4. President AL bert Lebrun of France stirred up a constitutional controversy by fol- lowing President Roosevelt's ex- ample in talking to his nation by radio.
 When President Lebrun spoke into a microphone for 15 minutes March 1T, the opposition press protested that the President, traditionally g non- political figure, elected for sev- en years to serve as a stable arbit- CT over changing ministries. sur passed constitutional limits in plead ing for Peoples Front govern ment bonds.
 Conservative newspapers warned he would cease to be neutra leader and expose himself in pub. lie opinion if he repeated this course. No further presidential ] ita.ks were arranged
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-04
SIMMONS IS ON CIRCUIT FLIGHT. THIS AFTERNOON
AAT Pilot and Plane Bring in filling Passenger
 This Forenoon

Company business was the main
 call that Pilot Sheldon Simmons
 needed when he put the Alaska
 Air Transport Lockheed Vera sea- plane into the air from here this lafternoon about l o'clock, to make a flying circuit of nearby island points between Juneau and Sitka
 AS far as Hoonah, Pilot Simmons
 this afternoon had as passenger
 Frank Wright, superintendent of the Icy Straits Packing Company there, returning after two days in Ju- neau
 This morning, Pilot Simmons Iflew the Lockheed to Gustavus, with II. P. Taylor, leaving Juneau at o'clock, and to Hirst- -Chichagof with Mrs. Al Bloomquist. From there, The hopped empty to Chichagof, to |pick up an emergency hospital case,
 Mrs J. Ballinger, with whom he re- turned to Juneau about HAS o'clock this morning.
 Returning from his flight to Chi 'chagof and Sitka yesterday after
 noon, Pilot Simmons arrived back
 here at 5.30 o'clock with Art Carl son, Oscar Nelson, Adolph Ander
 son and Wiano Salo, as passengers
 from Sitka. Pilot Simmons is ex- 'pected to return to Juneau this af- 'ternoon at about 5.30 o'clock
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-04
Treasury Has $629,582
 in Conscience Fund

WASHINGTON, May 4. T h e U. s. Treasury has periodic visitor who blanks down a $100 note at a teller's cage with the request that it be put in the conscience fund and then walks away.
 He conceals his identity, but Treasury officials believe he un- justly obtained from the govern ment certain sums in connection with a building contract.
 The conscience fund" from all sources now amounts to $629, ,582. AT.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-04
Nails 60 Patriotic For Coronation

LONDON, May 1 - Fashionable eociety women are painting their finger nails red, white and blue for the coronation and have earned the contempt Of the communist news paper Daily Worker.
 After a scathing reference to finger nail royalty" the paper adds Tn an ecstasy of loyalty even their pampered Pekinese pets are be.ng decorated with expensive silk ribbons of similar hues."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-04
CORONA MAN TO
 OPEN STORE HERE

H. R. Smith, former operator of the Piggy -Wiggly Company at Cor doya, arrived in Juneau from the States aboard the steamer Yukon. hfr. smith expects to locate perma- nently in Juneau and will spend the next few days determining on the site for the new store he expects to open.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-04

for the difference between the face value of worn coins returned and the amount such coins produce in new coins after they have been melted down and recoined.
 A five-year average shows loss of S28,000 or per cent, on cents and nickels, and $678,303, or ST per cent, on dimes, quarters, halves and dollars. Worn out coin is spoken of as "uncurrent coin" It averages about $l0,000,00o a year in face value.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-04
Wreck Helpers
 Call for Help

WHEELING, W. Va, May A. = Patrolmen Harry Wolf and Harry Cotts were ordered to investigate an accident involving two cars.
 They started out in radio car. Soon came a telephone call from the officers:
 Our car has been in an acci- dent. Better send another car to check or the first wreck"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-04
AFTER BIG GAME

On his fourteenth big-game hunt to Alaska, Fred w. Hollander, of New York City, passed through Ju- neau this morning aboard the stea- mer Yukon, enroute to Anchorage from where he will fly to his hunt ing base.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-04
DIR. CHEIEETZ BACK

Returning from Haines and Skag- way, where she has been in con nection with her work for the Ter ritorial Health Department, Dr Sonia Cheifetz arrived back in Jul neau this morning aboard the stea- mer Victoria.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-04
COOPERATION

On the same day Senator William Duff laid before the Parliament in Ottawa a proposal to strengthen ICanadas naval defense, comment ing at the time that Canada should Hook to the United States, not Great Britain, for help in the event of trouble.
 Without knowing Senator Duff's relationship to Canadian admins trative forces, it is evident that neither the United States nor Can Iada can take any important inter- national position without concern of the other.
 Certainly Lord Tweedsmuir did not overlook the opportunity for an informal -fireside chat with President Roosevelt that might help clarify this relationship
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-04
EVELYN BERG IS
 SAILING TONIGHT

The Evelyn Berg is scheduled to sail from Seattle about oclock tonight according to advices re- ceived by D. B. Femmer. local agent. The radio also stated that the Cannary Workers picket fine was placed in front of the dock, Pier ', about 1 o'clock Monday afternoon, which stopped all trucks. but af- fected nothing else Most of the cargo was on the pier but some did not get through.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-04
Loss III Worn Coins
 Set at $700, 900 Yearly

WASHINGTON, May 4. - Wear and tear on metal money represent a loss of more than $7o0.000 year.
 The government stands the loss. Aupropriations are made each year
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-04
Indian Dub Rescuer
 "Chief Flying Beans

ALBUQUERQUE, N. M, May 4 John Graves is just trans port pilot to air passengers, but to the Navajo Indians he is "Chiet Flying Beans"
 They gave him the name several years ago, whe nhe flew over a group of snow-bound Indians and dropped them food
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-04
MRS. LIVE LEAVES

Following a visit here for several months with her sister, Mrs. John Livie, Mrs. Robert Livie sailed for her home in Valdez this morning aboard the steamer Yukon, to join her husband, Dr. Robert Livie.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-04

Garden soils should be thorough ly prepared or poor stand of plants may result regardless of the quality of seed says Walter B. Balch, Kan sas State College horticulturist.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-04
WEATHER CONDITION AT A. M. TODAY

Seattle tairpob, cloudy temperature raining cloudy 45; Alert partly
 
 Ketchkan, Craig A5 Wrangel cloudy 53 Petersburg prnkng Point showers cloudy Radiovie A. Skagway cloudy Cape Cordova raining Mccarthy, cloudy China, Fairbanks Ruby cloudy, cloudy Kaltag and Unaakleet Flat Ohogamute showing May Juneau Sunrise 3:57 757 pm
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-04
WEATHER SYNOPSIS

The barometric high this Southeastern  Pacific at latitude 42 degrees longitude 36 the Gulf norwad
 
  the Prince William Sound region soutward to Seattle also Autans the Tanana Valley the Mayo generally weather night Yukon Valleys, Fairbanks the highest yesterday weather 
  a Nome
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-04
GOLD BRAID
 ATTRACTS IN
 WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, May 4. = G o d braid still gets attention, even in ultra democratic Washington.
 Take Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada, while on his good neighbor" visit to Washing ton. His high office and many ceremonial functions required him to gold braid about the city, gold braid at receptions, and gold braid in Arlington cemetery. He didn't like that much, but it was part of |his job.
 The net result was an appear lance of stupendous importance to lhis visit. Actually there likely was far less weight attached to his lofficial conferences than to those of many less gold-braided officials coming directly from London. As far as actual international | importance goes, if they shot off 2l guns for Lord Tweedsmuir, by com parison they might well have shot off the capitol dome for Walter |Runciman, president of the British Board of Trade, who visited here recently with far less ostentation
 SIGNIFICANCE
 But underneath all the gold braid there undoubtedly is real meat in |the Governor Generals visit. Most important were intimations which, when studied closely, point ed to talk of concerted action be- tween the United States and Can ada in event of a foreign war
 which both might feel was of nc especial American concern.
 On the day after Lord Tweeds- muirs arrival here, J.L. Ilsley, Min |ister of National Revenue, intro- duced in the Canadian Parliament bill to give the government rigid control over manufacture, importa-
 ton and exportation of arms and lother munitions of war.
 Under it's terms, as outlined 1T
 news dispatches, it could bring Can ada into alignment with the Unit led States arms embargo.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-04

Try The Empire c1assifieds for results.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-04
LOCAL DATA

Showers tonight Wednesday moderate southeast
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-04

Alaska" by Lester D. Henderson.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-04
(By the U. s. Weather Bure

Forecast for Juneau aud vicinity, beginning a
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-05-14

Attired in her scarlet and ermine
coronation robes, the American
born Lady Astor is shown arriving
at Westminster Abbey for the Coro-
nation. She is the former Nancy
Langhorne, of Greenwood, Va, and
the first woman to win a seat in
Parliament. This picture was
flashed by radio from London to
! New York.
central Press)'
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-01-28

tary of the territory under Porter
was a nineteen-year-old Virgin
ian named Stevens Thomson Ma
son. He had come to Michigan
from Kentucky and after Por-
ter's death he was made acting
governor. As such he played a
leading role in the exciting but
bloodless Toledo war;"
But before beginning the story
of that affair. it is necessary to
cut back briefly to 1905 when
Michigan was made territory.
The act of congress creating the
Territory of Michigan fixed the
southern boundary as provided in
the ordinance of 1877. The re-
suit was that the new territory
claimed a strip Of land some
five or six miles wide across the
entire southern side of Lake
Erie, including the port of To-
ledo. "But," retorted the Buck
eyes, "that's our land. We laid
claim to it three years ago and
we intend to have it." So there
was an acrid dispute which
dragged along unsettled for 80
years. sf sru
BY 1885 Michigan was ready to
become a state and sought to en-
force its claim on the Lake Erie
strip. But Ohio had its Miami
and Erie canal system under
construction and wanted an out
let for it in Toledo. Mason, the
youthful governor of Michigan,
denounced this "Ohio steaP' and
the people of his state backed
him up in his determination to
assert Michigan's claim to the
Lake Erie strip. In March, 1885,
he rushed a thousand Michigan
militiamen into Toledo, resolved
to hold it against the Buckeyes
at all costs.
At the same time Gov. Robert
Lucas of Ohio called out his mil
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-01-28

litia and marched to Perrysburg
with 600 of them to protect the
Ohio surveyors who were running
a northern boundary line-far
enough north to include Toledo.
Moreover, the Ohio legislature
formed a county out of the dis
puted territory, including Toledo,
and gave it the name of Lucas
in honor of their governor.
An Early 'sNight Court"
When the Michigan militia
forcibly elected the Ohio survey
ors, it was up to Lucas to assert
not only military but judicial SOW
ereignty over this region. He
began issuing commissions to
county officers and at midnight
one night, while the Michigan de-
tenders of Toledo slept, a group
of Buckeyes stole into the town
with law books and judicial pa
pers and hurriedly went through
the formalities of holding
court" Having done this, they
raced their horses back to the
protection of the Ohio troops.
Michigan's retort to such actions
was to catch and imprison every
inhabitant of the disputed terri
tory who accepted a commission
from Governor Lucas or other
wise indicated allegiance to Ohio.
Next the Ohio legislature in
special session appropriated
$500, 900 and authorized its fight
ing governor to borrow $500, 600
more to maintain Ohio's jurisdic-
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-01-28
Albania Hears the
Call; Gets Phones

Tirana, Albania. = They're
thinking of putting Albania into
telephone connection with the
rest of the world, after all these
years.
Heretofore the department of
communications has seen no ne
cessity for introduction OF eff
cient telephone service, feeling
that the citizens of mountainous
Albania wouldn't use telephones
if they had them. &C.,.
The practice here is to climb
peak and shout over to a per-
son on another. The system is
so good that news spreads over
the entire nation in a few hours.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-01-28

activities there might not have
been a commonwealth Of Michi-
gan, or, at least, its entrance
into the sisterhood Of states
might have been delayed even
longer.
Cass was born in New Hamp-
shire in 1882 and at an early
age joined his father in Ohio
where the elder Cass, a major in
the army, was commandant at
Fort Hamilton. Young Cass stud
led law, began his practice at
GAINESVILLE in 1902 and at the age
of twenty-five was elected TO the
Ohio volunteers, then a colonel
in the regular army and as a
brigadier general fought under
Harrison at the Battle Of the
Thames where the great Indian
chief, Tecumseh, was killed.
Cass' Long Service.
A few weeks later General
Cass was appointed governor of
the Territory OF Michigan and
with the exception Of a few oc-
casional absences he lived in that
territory for the next ID years.
He was also eX officio superin-
tendent of Indian affairs and
concerning his work in that ca
pacity one biographer has de-
clared:
"It is no exaggeration 90 say
that TO his exertions and influ-
ence is due the actual posses
sion of the Old Northwest. He
negotiated a score Of treaties
of great importance, Travelled
through the wilderness study
ing how he could ciyiIize the
red man and how he might
open up the vast western re-
gion to peaceful settlement. He
started surveys, built roads
and military works, lighthouses
along the lake shore, arranged
counties and townships, started
the democratic machinery OF
seIf-g0vernment, and made the
laws, which were codified and
published and have since been
known as the Cass code. The
record of his management of
the Indian affairs is one al
most without parallel in the
history of the United States"
In 1881 Cass was appointed
secretary of war in Jackson's
cabinet and served there until
1886 when he was made ambas-
sador TO France. He resigned in
1912 because he disapproved Of
the Webster Ashburton treaty,
which fixed the boundary line be-
tween Canada and Maine and
which gave England the better
military frontier. Returning TO
Michigan Cass was elected TO
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-01-28
The Wolverine State Is 100 Years Old
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
NN JANUARY 26 the state of Michigan will celebra
J its hundredth birthday.

nN JANUARY Is the state of Michigan will celebrate
Y J its hundredth birthday.
Now, there may be someone who will take exception
to that statement and say: But Michigan has already
celebrated centennial She did that two and
the United States Post Office department, recognizing No
veber L. 1885 the Wolverine states birthday, issued
special commemorative stamp in her honor.
All of which is perfectly true and if look in some
reference books you'll find November L. 1885 given the
date of MichiganS admission to the Union But in others
you'll find January 26, 1887 the date. So how
state birthdays and which is correct-Nover
Der l. 1885, January &c, 1887?
The answer is that both of them are more or less
correct that the latter has the better claim to being
the real birthday And thereby hangs the tale of the
doxca position which the state of Michigan found it.
self century ago. For at that time it had passed the
territorial stage had regularly organized state govern
nent and in the United States, but it neither ter
ritorx nor state of the United States.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-01-28

To get at the origins of all
this situation it is necessary to
20 back to the year 1755 when
Michigan was still a part of the
empire of His Brittanic Majesty,
King George III of England. In
that year one John Mitchell, an
English physician and scientist,
published in London a great map
of America in eight large sheets.
This map was accepted as the