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The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-23

 SEEKING BACK
 WAGE FOR '3S
Union Claims Cook InIei Workmen Not Given h.
 crease by Board Order

SEATTLE, Dec. 23.1The Alaska Fishermen's Union said today it plans to institute legal action to re- cover wages for Cook Inlet fisher men. The Union maintains the fishermen, at the end of the 1888 season, were not given the wage in- creases provided for by the Fact Finding Commission.
 The Union is collecting the claims of the individual fishermen and es- inmates the wages involved is more than $100,000. The action will not be filed, however, until disposition of a similar case involving the Copper River and Prince Williams Sound fishermen where the Union is su- ing the packers in King County court.
 Edward Medley, attorney, said the action was started against three canneries asking declaratory judge ment. He said the Fact-Finding- Commission didn't have all the facts and it's findings were void Two members of the Commission, Medley said, submitted letters saying they didn't have all the facts as to the Copper River and Prince William Sound packers. Suggestion was made for reopening the wage scale ad- justments by the Fact Finding Commission but the Union declined, Medley said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-23
 IS BIG ISSUE AT
 LIMA SESSION
New Formula Reported 10 Be Worked Out by
 Southern Group

LIMA, Peru, Dec. 23.-Presidents of Argentina and Uruguay, and the foreign minister of Brazil are re- ported to have acted to show the pan American conference the way out of its impasse on the vital issue of western hemisphere solidarity and defense. Reliable Brazilian infor- mants said the conference received copies of the solidarity declaration which has been agreed upon by President Ortiz of Buenos Aires, President Baldomir of Montevideo and Foreign Minister Aranha of Rio de Janeiro.
 Brazilian spokesman said nearly all the delgations approved of this new formula which is likely to be substituted for the Argentine declar- ation on which agreement was an- nounced by Conference Chairman Dr. Carlos Concha of Peru premat- urely, it developed
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-23
Insurgents Claim Four Ad- vanles-Border Re- : ports Say None GERMAN-AMERI(AN
 SITUATION TENSE
Da!adier Gets Approval of Budget Looks Stern-
 ly df Italy
(By ASSOCIATED PREss)

The Spanish Insurgent high com- mand said today the Governments Catalonian front has been broken in four places in the first blows of a new campaign in northern Spain.
 Border reports reaching Bourg- madame, France, said the drive is aimed at the strong Government Qualifications along the Segre River near Tremp, but Government troops repulsed six waves of Moorish troops without yielding an inch to the thrust.
 The drive was made in heavy snowfall with near zero weather.
 Insurgents hold sources of hydro electric power formerly having serv- ed important Government war in- dustries in Barcelona.
 Reports from both sides of the Civil War in the past month said a major Insurgent offensive is fore seen by which it is said France hoped to end the war which is now in it's thirtieth month.
 International Issues
 Three International issues hung in the balance today while the Spanish continued their fight.
 A growing strain is apparent be- tween Germany and the United States, Italy still expresses aspira- tions for French territory. and the Pan American question of a united front against aggression is still at loose ends.
 In Berlin, an official said, Tt is premature to forecast Germany $ reaction to the rebuff of Sumner Welles, Acting Secretary of State for the United States"
 American Rights
 Welles yesterday told Germany in no uncertain terms that Americans would say what they want to say as long as that right was accorded Ger mans His bitter message to Berlin was an answer to Secretary of Inter- for IckeS' condemnation of dlcta- torships and the resultant GermaA demand for apology.
 Fortified by a victory in the Chamber of Deputies. when his bud get proposal won that body's approv- al, Premier Daladier in Paris today turned to meet Italy's denunciation of the 1885 agreement between France and Italy concerning Tun- isia.
 The Premier's friends said he is prepared to refuse flatly to go be- yond the agreement in territorial concessions if Mussolini follows up the unofficial clamor with an offic- ial Italian demand for French pos sessions.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-23
Succeeds Daniel (. Roper Who Recently Handed
 Resignation 10 FOR COL. HARRINGTON IS
 SHOWED UP IN LINE
Aubrey Williams Is Named to Be National Youth
 Administrator

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.-Presi- dent Roosevelt has named Harry l.. Hopkins, 48, to succeed Daniel c. Roper, resigned, as Secretary of Commerce, Stephen Early, President Secretary announced this morning.
 Hopkins will be sworn in tomor- row taking his oath in the Presi- dents study room.
 President Roosevelt, according to Early's announcement, has desig- mated Col. F. c. Harrington, 51, as successor to Hopkins as WPA Ad- ministrator
 Aubrey Williams. Deputy WPA Ad- ministrator will become National Youth Administrator
 Hopkins must be confirmed by the Senate of the next Congress.
 Col. Harrington is an Army Of ficer. He will head the WPA on de- tail from the Army, draw regular Army pay and receive no compen- sation from the WA.
 Hopkins has been drawing $10,000 but as Secretary of Commerce will now draw down $15,000 a year.
 Col. Harrington nas been Chief Engineer and Assistant Adminis- trator of WPA since September, 1885, when the War Department lent him to the WPA administration for that special duty. During the World War he was temporary Col onel on duty, part time in France.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-23
INTERNATIONAL HIGHWAY
 COMMISSION OF CANADA
 NAMED BY PREMIER KING

OTTAWA, Dec. 23.-Prime Minis ter Mackenzie King announces that the Canadian Government has ap- pointed five member Commission to consider the project involving the construction of the International highway through British Columbia and Yukon Territory to Alaska.
 The Commission named is as fol- lows:
 Hon. Charles Stewart, Chairman, International Joint Commission.
 Brig. Gen. T. L. Tremblay, of Que bee.
 J. M. Wardle, Department of Mines and Resources.
 Arthur Dixon, of Victoria, B. C., Public Works Department.
 J. w. Spencer, of Vancouver, B. c. This Commission will cooperate with the Commission appointed sev- eral months ago by President Roose- welt.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-23
WITNESSES
 NATURALLY RELUCTANT

But when the order is delivered it is found to be nothing more than a comic cartoon pamphlet such as can be brought from the corner drug store to amuse the kiddies on stormy night. The postoffice pro- secutes anyway on the grounds that the article advertised was not naughty, as advertised, but not true.
 That way the department gets them going and coming. If the stuff is naughty it is illegal, and if it is not naughty it is fraudulently ad- vertised.
 However, the department has to- dig up much of it's own evidence on the fraudulent advertising busi- ness. Practically never does per- son protest that he ordered an ob- scene book, expected to get an obscene book, and was not to be satisfied with a pocketful of funny papers.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-23
JEWISH MEDAL
 BRINGS NAzI
 SC0RN ON FOR
Use Roosevelt Slams While Iekes-HiiIer Ten
 sion Grows

BERLIN, Dec. 23.-Nazi controlled newspapers today ridiculed Presi- dent Roosevelt as Germany's of ficialdom press awaited word from Hitler for the next move in German American tension arising out of Sec- retary of Interior Ickes' speech against dictators.
 The German press is apparently under instructions to mark time in regard to the Ickes affair until the Government has time to formulate a stand after Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles' firm rebuff of the Nazi request for official apology for Ickes' Cleveland speech.
 As result of this marking time. , bitter press attacks on Ickes gave way to expressions of scorn for President Roosevelt because he had received medal awarded by an Am- erican Hebrew magazine
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-23
TWENTY SAVED FROM SHIP IN
 ATLANTIC GALE
Two Women Are Among Those Rescued by Am-
 eriean Freighter

NEW YORK, Dec. 23. = Twenty persons, including two women, have been rescued from the disabled Norwegian freighter Smaragd in the gale-swept Atlantic. 500 miles southeast of New York.
 The American freighter Schodack wirelessed the reports and said the rescue was completed this morn ing after a night of anxiety dur ing which time the Schodac stood by waiting for lull in the weather.
 The Smaragd was out from Nor folk for Fort William, Scotland, laden with oil cases, sprung leak and then radioed for help.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-23
M0T0R5HIp FERN RUNS ON GROUND
 NEAR FALSE PASS
Passengers and Mail Tdk- en 0ff-Reporf Made
 from lkefdn

UNALASKA, Alaska, Dec 23 = The motorship Fern, carrying Christmas mail and foodstuffs for Unalaska, went aground yesterday near False Pass, according to word relayed here.
 A radio message said the mall and passengers were removed safe- ly by P. E. Harris Company can- Inery tender and taken to False Pass.
 Henry Peterson, one of the pas- sengers, hiked over the snow and ice-covered trail from False Pass to Ikatan to make the report
 The ship is believed to be in no immediate danger. Pete Wold is master of the Fern.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-23
Shipwrelked Grew Mem bers Finally Enroute
 10 Juneau, Sitka
GUIDES, LANDlNG CREWS ARE ALSO HOME BOUND
Last Chapter Almost, ,Wrif- fen ia Sea Tragedy
 Off Alaska Coast

Sixteen exhausted and cold
 survivors of the wrecked motor.
 ship Patterson ended 26 mile
 trek to Lituya Bay last night
 through snow and across swollen
 rivers to be rescued today by two
 Navy bombing planes and boats of the Coast Guard Cutter
 Haida. s~
 Nine of the survivors were
 taken through the dangerous
 little neck of water that con-
 meets Lituya Bay with the Gulf
 of Alaska in Haida surf boat
 this morning shortly after day
 break. The rest were flown to
 Sitka early this afternoon by
 two Navy seaplanes.
 Thus closed this latest drama of the North Pacific, with a chill wind creeping dismally down from the snow burdened glaciers that saw the historic old wooden hulled Patter- son pile high on the surf pounded sands north of Capt Fairweather a week ago last Sunday night in blur of snow and rain, and saw also the struggle of the illfated vessels crew in surviving vicious combina- ton of blizzard, sleet and gale that ended in victory for the human ele- ment in the battle when tired feet dragged into the confines of lone- some but sheltered Lituya Bay last night.
 Survivors on Haida
 Those survivors taken aboard the Haida are Capt. Harry Bune, Lester Camper, Freeman Hobart, Edward K Boyce, R. M. Ingram, P. Malk- off, Ray Nelson, L. R. McCourbry. and not forgotten, the ships cat.
 These nine men were taken aboard the Haida at $40 o'clock this morn ing and the surf boat returned to the beach just after noon to bring off four guides and three Haida men left on the beach by the Navy planes, already loaded to capacity with men and gear
 The guides were, Nels Ludwigson,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-23
Defenders
 Defeating
 Invaders
Chinese Claim Successes on Two Fronts Deep
 in Inferior Areas

SHANGHAI, Dec g. - Chinese authorities report gains over the Japanese on two fronts, deep in the interior of China.
 Japanese defenses before Yochow, gateway to Human Province, are said to have been completely smashed.
 The Chinese spokesman said guer- fila fighting has inflicted 2000 casu- alties on the Japanese along the Yellow River during the past two weeks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-23
Girl Sanfa Claus Fatally Burned; Dies in Hospital

LOUISVILLE. Ky, Dec. B. Miss Mary Curran Day, 20, handicraft worker, volunteered to play Santa Claus each after noon in the Community Center.
 She appeared on the job yes terday.
 A spark from a cigarette, being smoked by one of the on- lockers, ignited her flimsy cos tune and she was quickly en- veloped in flames.
 The girl was rushed to a hos pital and died soon after from burns.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-23
RAIL COMMITTEE
 HAS BROAD PLAN
Would Sci Up New Board of Transportation 10
 Save Railroads

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23-Presi- dent Roosevelts Committee on Railroads today recommended the creation of a transportation board charged with responsibility of regu- lating all modes of transportation
 The committee would be com posed of three representatives each of railroad managers and labor.
 The proposed comprehensive pro- gram is for immediate rehabilita- tion of all carriers.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-23
R005EVELT HAS TALK WITH NEW
 JAPANESE AMB,

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.-Presi- dent Roosevelt today was visited by the New Japanese Ambassador Ken suke Horinouchi. The two parted with assurances that each would CO., operate in the promotion of good will between the two nations.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-23
GOVERNOR TROY
 NOW IN SEATTLE

SEATTLE, Dec. 23.-Gov. John w. Troy has returned from visit in California and will spend the holidays here. He intends to sail north shortly after the first of the year and arrive in Juneau in time to open the biennial meeting of the Territorial Legislature.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-23
CONVERSIONS OF NAzI spy" WILL
 BE FEATURE NOW
Warner Brothers 10 Make Perturbation Despite
 German Protests

HOLLYWOOD, Gal, Dec. 23. n Warner Brothers announced today that work win begin immediately on the picture Confessions of a Nazi Spy" This announcement was made notwithstanding the protests of the German Consul. Edward G. Rob- inson will have the title role.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-23
CHILDREN WENT GYPSY

GRAVESEND. England,-Giving evidence when his wife was charged with unfitness to care for her four daughters, aged four to 14, the father said while he was away working the children had been allowed to wander about like gypsies.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-23
Smallpox Epidemic,
 Shanghai

SHANGHAI, Dec 23 = Foreign Health officials announce tn a t smallpox here has now reached the proportions of an epidemic
 A vigorous preventive campaign is announced and 10000 vaccina- tions are being administered daily.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-23
ITEMS AT RANDOM

Also you might like to know that:
 December 2 was the 115th anni- versary of the proclamation of the Monroe Doctrine <. A policeman is on guard at the German en- bassy at all hours just in case a crank might want to start some thing that would create an inter- national incident Usually also there is a cop in the vicinity of the British embassy, but for more or less historic reasons. Back in
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-23
MARRIES AT s1

Notice has been post ed at a London register office of a marriage between Sir Andrew
 Hislop Pettigrew, aged 81, to Miss
 Joan Cottam, 28.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-23

A child's dining chair should be only deep enough to support his back and yet shallow enough to al- low his knees to bend.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-23
ANCHORAGE SCHOOL WORK

The work on the new Anchorage school building has progressed so satisfactorily that it may be com pleted by the first of next Febru- ary.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-23

Canada has more miles of rail- road in proportion to its popula- ton than the United States.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-23

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Twin-City herald., 1938-02-05
Classified Ad
House For Sale

352o 4th Ave. South. 4 bedrooms,
hot water heat, to close estate. Mr..
Sanger. Bridgeport 1865.
FOR SALE - IL room house, all
modern. 100000, $15O0.0O mortgage.
Terms $4,000 down, $4,000 per month,
including interest. Taxes $l22.O0 year.
Located at I'll Emerson Ave. No. Call
Twin City Herald, At. 1858.
]. Dunn, 2421 Dupont South, Phone
Ke. 1898.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-21
Legal Notices
MYfTATToN TQ nIn

November 2l, 1888.
 Sealed bids addressed to the State of Connecticut for the following Projects:
 Employees Building, Connecti- cut State Hospital, Middletown Conn, PWA Docket No. Conn. 1011D-F, Item Mo. l, Contraet D-1 g Heating ana VenfilAting; Item item No. {, Contract D-4, Electri-
 Alterations to Cafeteria, Con- town Conn. PWA Docket Conn. 1O11E-F, Item No. 5, Contract B, General Construction including all
 inGusttial Building, State Farm for Women, Mantle, Conn. PWA Contract B, General Construction xdministration m Building and Cottage. Long Lane Farm for Girls, Middletown, Conn, PWA Docket Conn. 1015B-F. I.s:,i No. I, ton Including Painting; Item No. tilatii1g; Item No. g, CuitrgSt D.3, Plumbing; Item No. 1O, Contract R-4, Electrical;
 will be received at Room 402, State Office Building, Hartford, Connecti' cut, until ? O'clock F. M, on the at at s:iS r O'Clock P. M.. on on said day publicly opened and read aloud ir the Hall of the House of Represen. tatives, in the State Capitol in said city.
 of Connecticut for the following project:
 Reconstruction of North Wing and Main Building, Connecticut State Hospital. Middletown. Conn. PWA Docket Conn. 1011B-F; Item No. Il, General Consthuction in- cluding all Trades;
 will be received at Room 402, State Office Building, Hartford, Connect. cut until o'clock ?: M. on the 0tl 2:i5 o'clock F. M. said day.. pub. licly opened and read aloud in the Hall of the House of Representa-. tives, in the State Capitol in said
 The Plans and Specifications, to. Bidders, Bidder For Form of of Proposal. Contract including the Conditions thereof Performance and Labor and Mater. ialmen Bonds, may be examined al said office after November 21St, 193t and copies thereof may be obtained upon payment of $25.00 for each set Any bidder upon returning one set promptly and in good condition vii be refunded his payment. All othel deposits of actual bidders and al deposits of non-bidders upon the return of the documents in good condition, within ten days after day of opening bids, will be refunded with deduction of $10.00 for each set taken to cover the cost of pro- duction. The Performance and La. bor and Materialmen Bonds to be furnished by the bidder awarded the contract shall be in an amount not less than 100% of the contract price The Commissioner of Public Works reserves the right to waive techni. cal defects or to reject any and all bids. Each bidder must deposit with his bid certified check drawn up on a State Bank and Trust Company or a National Bank located in this State to the order of the Treasurer of the State of Connecticut in the respective amounts set forth in tab ulation below for contracts refer enced above. No bidder may with draw his bid until after the con- tract shall have been awarded. It is estimated there is available to f- nance the above work the following amounts:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-21
ADDITIONAL SPORTS !.
CLOSE RACE IN
 HOCKEY LEAGUE
Ry United Press)

(My Unlte0 EEe8BD
 Five teams punched within three points of each other foreshad0 0Wed Q red hot race for the National Hockey League title today.
 While Chicagp's BlackhawlEs re- tained Q one point lead by playing to a 1-1 tie with Toronto last night, the New York Rangers kept their winning streak intact and climbed into a second place deadlock with the Leafs.
 The Stanley Cup champion Hawks played the Maple Leafs before 17,3O2 at the Stadium. Johnny Gpttselis scored first for Chicago, Gus Marker taillied the equalizer for Toronto in the second session, and the third and overtime periods were unproduc- tive.
 The Rangers made it four straight in defeating the hapless Montreal Canadiens, 2-1. Phil Watsorl's sec ond period goal was the margin of Les Canadiens' six straight defeat.
 Fast Finish
 The Boston Bruins moved into fourth place ahead of the idle New York Americans when they drilled home three goals in less than two minutes in. the final period to beat Detroit A-1. After two periods of scoreless hockey, the Wings counted first on Chuck Conacher's goal at 6:57 in the third. !Cooney Weiland tied 1t up i've minutes later. With less than four minutes to play, Bob- by Bauer, Milt Schmidt and Porky Dumart rushed goals across so fast the Detroit defense was bewildered.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-21
Legal Notices

DISTRICT of WATERBURY, SIS.
 PROBATE COURT, Nov. 18th, A.
 D. 1888. ESTATE of ANDREW M.
 LARSON, late of the Town of
 Waterbury in said District, de-
 ceased.
 The Executor, having exhibited Preliminary account with said estate to this Court for allowance, it is
 ORDERED, That the 25th day of November, A. D. 1898, at 9:3O o'clock, in the forenoon, standard time, at the Probate Office in Waterbury, be and the same is, assigned for a hear ing on the allowance of said account and the Court directs the Executor, to give notice thereof, by publishing this order in some newspaper hav- ing a circulation in said District, and by leaving with, or by mailing in registered letters addressed to each of the persons interested, and residing without the Probate Dis trict of Waterbury, copy of this order. all at least three days before said day of hearing.
 Attest:
 MARGUERITE M. FAHY, 11-z1-1t Asst. Clerk
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-21
LIQu0R PERMIT

This is tc give notice that I, erbury, Conn.,, have filed an appli- cation dated Nov. 18th, 1888, with the Liquor Control Commission for a Tavern Permit for the sale of alcoholic liquor on the premises, 142 Cherry St., Waterbury, Conn. The of 43 Edson Ave-. Waterbury, Conn, and will be conducted by Angelo Rosa. of 4s Eds0n Ave, Waterbury, Conn, as permittee.
 Dated Nov. 18th, 1888. l1-2i-3s
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-21
Real Estate For Sale
Auctioneers

CHARMING HOME AT AUCTION. At the order of Mrs. H. c. Beecher. I will sell her home at PIP Woodruff Ave, Watertown, on Wednesday, Nov. 23rd at 1:30 p. m. The prop erty has 185 foot frontage on Wood ruff Ave, and 119 foot frontage on Academy Hill. The house, which is in fine repair, has four large rooms, sunporches. maids room, two car garage, laundry and cellar down stairs; five bedrooms and sunporch upstairs. Three baths and lavatory. large closets, hardwood floors, oil heat, full attic. It is offered sub- ject to a $15y00O mortgage. Terms on day of sale. Inspection Tuesday, Nov. 22nd, 10 e. m. Q 1 p. m. and Wednesday to time of sale, or by appointment. WILTON LACKAYE, Auctioneer. Sandy Hook, Conn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-21
ORDER OF NOTICE CITY of WATERBURY
 v9s
 EDWIN CTtIMpGON


 CITY COURT of WATERBURY, at STATE of CONNECTICUT, CITY
 COURT of WATERBURY, ss.
 WATERBURY,, Nov. 21st, 1888.
 Upon the complaint of the said plaintiff City of Waterbury praying foreclosure and possession of mort gagged premises, now pending, re- turnable on the 1st Tuesday of No- vember, 1887, before the City Court of Waterbury. in and for the City of Waterbury, and State of Con- found by the subscribing authority, that the defendant Edwin Stimp- son and absent from this State, gone to parts unknown.
 IT IS THEREFORE, ORDERED, That notice of the pendency of said complaint be given to. said defend ant Edwin Simpson by publishing this order in the Waterbury Demo- crat, a newspaper printed in Water bury, Conn.,, three days successively, commencing on or before the 21st day of November 1888,
 A certain piece or parcel of land West. designated as lot No. 56 on map of West Side Manor. Section No. 5. Map Book No. z, Pages 54-55 on file in office of Town Clerk, Waterbury, Conn. said lot is 50 feet front and rear and approximately 100 feet deep. Subject to building restrictions mentioned in deed.
 Being the same premises con- veyed to the said Edwin Simpson from George Tracy. Inc, by War ranty Deed dated and recorded De- cember 31, 1928 in Vol. 422, Page 127 of Waterbury Land Records.
 IRVING VIM. PASTERNAK, Clerk Of the City Court of Waterbury STATE OF CONNECTICUT, NEW HAVEN COUNTY. ss. WATER BURY, November 21st, 1888.
 The within and foregoing Is a copy of the original Order of Notice and in my hands for publication.
 ANGELO J. NARDoNA,
 City Sheriff of Waterbury, ll-21-St Connecticut