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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-18
TROPIC BORDER LINENS

If you are planning southern vacation, take along several of the new tablecloth dresses of printed border linen. The hand-screened colors are truly exotic, the designs unusual. You will enjoy them on southern beaches now and again at home in early summer.
 For teen age youngsters look at peasant printed dresses of cotton shantulng with head kerchiefs to match.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-18
Whistling Double Boiler

Preparing cereals, buildings and sauces in a double boiler practi- cally assures their creamineSs and smoothness. A new double boiler designed to occupy less space is made entirely in one piece, the in- ner pan and the hot water contain CT being sealed together around the top. The water compartment is filled through a spout at the side which, when capped, whistles when the water boils. It Is made of alum mum with a wooden handle.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-18
Emergency Dessert

Good to keep on your emergency icebox shelf is a new mixed fruit in gelatine. It requires only four hours in the refrigerator to "jell'' and may be servsd with cream or Q sauce for dessert, or if you prefer, use iv in a salad. The jelly is easily unmoulded from the cylindrical container and serves about six one inch slices.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-18
HYBRID WORD GAME

The anagram craze that four ished in the gay nineties is infiu- encing 1888 parlor fun. Crossword Lexicon, a speedy combination of crossword puzzle technique and ward building, is the latest card game craze. It's the first English card fad to start an American furor since whist.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-18
CHURCH SOCIETY
 SPONSORS SUPPER

Several hundred persons attended the German supper served last night by the Ladies Aid society of St. Johns Evangelical Lutheran church at the church hall. The committee included Mrs. Orla Ran dolph, Mrs. John Mohrmann, Mrs. Paul Beebaum, Mrs. E. Dase, Mrs. Albert Jabs and Mrs. F. Munder.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-18
PRURITIS IS ITCHING WITH
 OUT APPARENT CAUSE

Far be it from me to deny the qualification one gets from scratch ing the place that itches. I've had the old fashioned itch. I've had 8 few furious bouts with orthoform erythenna (before discovered that contact with orthform caused it). I've been foully attacked by cater pillar. And most maddeping of all, I've had ivy poisoning. Scratch- ing Is the sovereign remedy for any ephemeral itching, yet instinct may gffo wrong; the more you scratch any skin disease the worse it will grow
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-18

Some women can't "take" marriage. From the time of the wedding ceremony complacency settles on them like a blight.
 Pretty vivacious girls turn
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-18

cryStanze y o u T thoughts, SO to speak, giving you a real and legiti- mate excuse for letting Kay or Jack down gently when they have not minded too well. Children will be children, and you are willing to condone part of their misconduct because something told you they had to learn about life without too much interference.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-18
Modern Menus
SUNDAYS MENU

Breakfast: Grapefruit and pine apple juice, kidney stew on toast, fried hominy cakes, currant jelly, coffee, milk.
 Dinner: Celery stuffed with gra- ted beets, spiced baked Virginia ham, sweet potato pone, okra and tomatoes, Sally Lunn, radiSh and watercress salad. chocolate cherry ice cream shortcake, coffee, milk.
 Supper: Cold ham, hot biscuits, peach preserves, Washington cream pie, tea, milk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-18

And he learns to walk alone only after his moral muscles have been first helped by 8 hand along the path. Secretly, it is relief for chil- dren to look to their leader. And not always to know reasons and more reasons for this and that is also relief.
 Copyright, 1888, NEA Service, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-18
Latest Styles
WOMAN'S REALM =L,
Hoze, To Keep WeU
-HEAITH-
By DR. WILLIAM BRADY, MD.

health hygiene, not should he brief Owin be to to
  orc eOfW ePbuPyD
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-18

place, she won't be perfectly turned-out. Either her slip will be showing, nail polish
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-18
Teach Child to Obey,
 Not Question
Raising A Family-No. 16
 By Olive Roberts Barton

90 far. I have been showing why you instinctively step softly at times with your children, mother You
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-18

healer and it heals hurts however them experience that anguishes today anguishes us get accustomed to living with it, the pain give time ShOve shorten Sente suffer, if try, and it's cowardy not to try.
The Washington times., 1938-11-14

ing it out over 10 or 20 years?
But I've made the crack that
the joint might do some good in
the case of some Short-timers.
Here's what I mean: Take a
young punk, just breaking into
the racket, and let him pull a
caper that gets him, say, two
years. He goes to the ordinary
stir, and does his time, and thinks
that was pretty soft, and gets
half-tough and pulls another
caper.
But slap a punk like that into
a stir like Alcatraz, and he'll wake
up quick. He'll live through that
year or two - maybe - without
breaking up, and when he gets
out, he won't want any more stir
and he'll be a good boy.
AS matter of fact, I've got a
Sneaking hunch that that's chief
ly why the joint was established:
It's always threat, club swing
ing over the heads of cons in
other Federal stirs who might be
thinking of cutting up.
The Washington times., 1938-11-14
Guys Making
Lows Wronq,
Says Reed

And don't think that he's kept
in ignorance of how tough The
Rock is: The system itself wises
him up. Every so often, cats from
Alcatraz are transferred back to
other Federal pens, and they don't
lose any time spreading the gospel
of He'll on The Rock.
Maybe it isn't done purposely,
but it sure works that way. I've
seen it, time and again, in Leaven-
worth. There, the system is to put
the cons in isolation before trans
ferring them to Alcatraz. I've
watched cons by the dozen go to
pieces as soon as they hit isolation,
and cry to get out, and make all
kinds of promises in order to get
out-and keep them in order to
stay out.
And so there, we have a joint
like Alcatraz serving a purpose in
keeping cons quiet in other
joints.
But is it worth it?
The Washington times., 1938-11-14

jects that interest him, and go out
with half a chance to settle down
and earn a living.
And for the second and third
offender, a pen where a con can
do his time without bothering any
body; a place where he can be
tucked away without danger of
pulling any capers; a stir where
they put the emphasis on punish
ment and just about forget re
habilitation.
Darn w two-time losers are
ever going to straighten out. If
they do, they Straighten them
selves and no system of penology
is going to make much difference.
Next, for the con who goes
wrong in stir, and tries to beat
every joint they put him in, and
can't keep out of trouble and
shows that he's just a bad gee,
there ought to be a tough, unbeat-
able joint. And that, 1 suppose, is
where Alcatraz comes in.
The Washington times., 1938-11-14
Doesn't Work
Out That Way

Only it doesn't work that way.
AS I've said before, there are very
few real tough, desperate cons on
The Rock! There are first offend
ers there, and more than so PEI
cent of them are just ordinary,
run-of-the-mill cons.
Take them away from there,
and put them some place where
they belong-and The Rock, to
my notion, would still be wrong.
I say there should be no con
on that Rock vino is ever going
to get off it alive-eXcept-and
this is going to strike you funny
some certain types of offender
carrying very light load of about
one or two years.
Here's how you've got to fig
The Washington times., 1938-11-14
KnOWs Results
On the Rock

AS I say, maybe I haven't any
license to ask that question. But
I've been four years on the Rock,
and I've seen what it does. I've
seen cons go for each other with
hammers and crowbars and ball
bats and knives. I've seen them
go clear off their nuts and howl
like animals, and I've seen them
digging for their own jugularS
with razor blades.
I know why cons all over the
country call it the slaughterhouse.
I can't help thinking that there
must be some other answer to
the question of what to do with
cons who are just out of luck,
and cons who are just troublesome,
and even cons who are tough,
desperate and so hopeless that
The Washington times., 1938-11-14

ure it: Nobody can do many
years on that Rock and come out
without a grudge against tn e
whole world; after five or ten
years, his spirit is broken, and if
he isn't entirely nuts he's in swell
shape to pull a caper that puts
him right back in stir again.
Here's what 1 mean: 1 knew
a colored con named Acey Taylor
back in Leavenworth. He had
done 18 years there, and had
studied hard. and was always
shooting off his face about how
he was going into business in Ar
kansas as soon as did the four
he had to go. And then. for no
reason that he or l ever knew.
they transferred him to Alcatraz
and made him do his four there.
The Washington times., 1938-11-14
Established for
One Purpose

AS I get it, that Joint was eS-
tablished for one purpose. and only
one: To provide stir that can't
be beat; a pen for cons who are
dangerous, and murder-silly. and
who ought to be laid away from
now on. I think the warden calls
it "a prison of maximum confine'
ment."
Now, no doubt there is a need
for a joint like that, as long as
society would rather keep killer
or even a snatcher of babieS-alive
than to put him out of his misery
Maybe I sound hard-boiled about
it, but I'm being just the opposite
when I say that any crime that
lays a guy away for more than
10 years. actual time served, ought
to put him to death and get it
over with. It's more humane that
way. and just as effective and a
lot cheaper.
I will try to get off my chest
what I've got to say about The
Rock. And to do that, I've got tc
talk about some other stirs.
Nobody is going to give me any
argument when 1 say that as long
as there's crime an d criminals
there's got to be pens to put the
criminals in. The only question is:
What kind of pens?
Not having any reputation as a
penologist to lose, Old Man Reed
will answer that one.
For the first offender. he says
have a pen where rehabilitation
is first and punishment second;
where a young punk can learn a
trade, and study up on a few sub
The Washington times., 1938-11-14
Record Broken
By ALcdtrGz

He quit talking about his busi-
ness. Fifteen days after he got
out, they filled him full of lead
in Little Rock because he had
gone into the burglary business.
Four years on The Rock undid
18 years at Leavenworth for Acey.
But for a guy who's doing the
book. and is never coming out,
Alcatraz may be o. K.-except
that, in my 10-cent opinion, it's
entirely too tough and looks too
much like torture. AS I said be-
fore. I don't see why the law
doesn't give them the rope or the
gas-box, and get it over with in
a hurry, instead of dragging it
out.
Wouldn't it be better, for the
con who has to live through it,
and for his family who has to
think about it, and for society
that has to pay the bill, to kill
him all at once instead of spread
The Washington times., 1938-11-14
Has No Effect
On Outsiders

1t doesn't have a bit of effect,
of course, on guys outside of pens.
That's because a guy going into a
caper never figures on getting
caught. Such a thought never
enters his mind, or he wouldn't
go into the caper. He doesn't
care how tough the stir might be,
because he has made up his mind
that he's never going to be in any
stir.
But take the same guy after
he's caught, and is in Federal
pen. He finds the going tough
enough, where he is, and isn't
hankering to get into a tougher
ioint-such as Alcatraz.
The Washington times., 1938-11-14
'GlIi1leG Pig
Death Denied
RrndM CANISTER

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind,
Nov. Ia H.N.SO.-JameS Dal-
hover, last of the Brady gang
who will go to the electric
chair early Friday, was
turned down in his offer to
become a human guinea pig.
Returning from visit
with her son in the prison
farm at Milan, Mich, Mrs.
Bertha Craig, of Madison,
said DalhOver had requested
he be allowed to undergo ex-
periments with deadly germs
until he was killed.
The law, however, requires
he be executed in the man.
ner prescribed by his SEN
tence.
The Washington times., 1938-11-14

they'll kill because they haven't
a thing to lose.
1 don't think Alcatraz can be
the answer because I've been there
The Washington times., 1938-11-14
Thrilling
FACTS
Con- Believes
Rock Worse
Than Death

P. F. Reed, author Of Muir
der on .1lcdtrdz. herewith con-
ClLdeS his second series Of fact
udl articles. "Alcdtrdz Is He'll
1rith his personal opinions on
the north of The Rock Us a
deterrent to crime and as u
proper part OF the American
penal system. These opinions
rere formed from four years Of
actual confinement in the
prison.
.,copvriEht. 1895 ny san Francesca
Examiner and The Washington Times)
The Washington times., 1938-11-14
&WMzp

Maybe I'm talking out of turn;
maybe I haven't any license to
sound off; but I'm going to work
my nickel jaw about Stirs in gen
eral, and The Rock in particular.
I'm no penologist. and I've
never studied the why's and where
fores of punishment and why one
kind of caper gets more than an
other; but I've done time in more
than one pen and I've lived beside
more than a few cons, and I know
what they think and know what
l think.
And l think that the U. S. peni-
Tertiary at Alcatraz Island needs
a good going over.
The Washington times., 1938-11-14
NOT
Fiction

and lived through four years Of
it. Alcatraz can't be the answer
to anything, because Alcatraz II
hell.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-09

Winners, first half-Conductors
1896 $500, Began, Hollmann
Benedict.
Second place - Firemen, 13,24l--
$500, Burke, Riendeau, Carmichael
Third place-EngineerS, 13,127-
$100, Shaw, Hermle, Foster.
Last place-Supers, 1l,977-$1 90
Brown, Delebecque, Williams.
Winners, second half-Conductors
14O10 = $500, Began, Hollmann
Benedict.
Second place-Telegraphers, 49,
287 - $500, Hutchings, Walmer
Sterling.
Third Place-SWitchmen, 1896
$1.0O, Redling, Kyler, Bloedhorn.
Last place - Brakemen, 12,764-
S1OO, Iverson, Blake, Holland.
High individual average-Boggan
178, $500
High 3-game total-Burke, 627
$500.
High single game-Wilson, 240
$3.50.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-09
JAvEL|N T0SSER
TO Be ADDED TO
YANKEES STAFF
Joe Begg Is to Throw Balls
Insteads of Spears
During Season
by DILLON GRAHAM
AP Feature Service Writer

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, April g.
The Yankees are going to have
a jayelin thrower pitching spheres
instead of spears toward the plate
this season.
He's Joe Beggs, one of the mi
nor leagues outstanding twirlers last
year, a 2l-game winner with New
ark
The first time Joe got his mitts
around a javelin he tossed the stick
100 feet-and won himself a col
lege scholarship, to a school that
did not have a baseball team! He
was good enough to place second
in the Penn relays for Geneva coll
lege, but too interested in baseball
even to try for the 1886 Olympic
team
You'd have to look a long while
to find pitcher with as nifty rec
ord as Beggs has compiled in his
four years in the Yankee chain.
He has won IS and lost only %
games during that stretch and
Marse Joe Mccarthy figures he's
ripe now for the majors.
Father Puzzled
Beggs was cut out to be a steel
pudder His dad is an engineer in
an Aliquippa, Pa, mill and the sem
ior Beggs was as angry as bee
when Beggs passed up a chance in
steel to go to college. And he didn't
like it when Joe became a ball
player, although Joe says he
rather likes those salary checks
The youngster has been sending
home, Beggs senior still can't I'M
derstand why men are paid to play
baseball
The Yankees beckoned Beggs to
help take up the slack in the pitch
ing staff with the passing of Blub-
Der Malone, Frank Makosky and
Johnny Broaca. Lefty Gomez and
Red Ruffing and Monte Pearson,
along. with Bump Hadley and
Johnny Murphy give the Yanks
a pretty fair hurting corps but Nc
Carthy likes to take no chances.
That's why he has brought up
such rookie aces as Beggs, Alley
Donald, Steve Sundra, Spurgeon
Chandler and Joe Vance
Beggs is a 182-pound, 6-footer
dark haired and "a years old He's
the only Crotian in the league.
He Has Control
Joe has something that most
youngsters don't possess-control
Last year he walked only 33 mer
all season. He has plenty of speed
and a repertoire of curves and a
fast sinker.
He was a catcher in high school
That is. until the day he substitute
ed on the mound and proceeded to
pitch a no-hit, no-run game. He
hasn't had on a backstops mask
since
Joe has been spending his win
tiers working in a steel plant, but
no more, he says. IT'S too danger
Gus" Beggs explained. "A dror
Of that hot steel would go through
your hand like bullet. I'm ur
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-09
RIFLE SHOTS
TO co AFIELD

Outdoor range shooting will be-
gin officially for the summer sea-
son tomorrow at the Mendenhall
Rifle Range.
Members of the Juneau Rifle and
Pistol Club and marksmen from the
Coast Guard Cutters Haida and
Alert will leave town tomorrow
morning at o'clock from the
Haida's moorings in buses and cars
for anyone wishing transportation.
1t is reported that considerable
improvement work has been done
at the range in the way OF recover
ing targets and altering the shelter
house.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-09

Winners, first haf-Santa F'e-
Stevenson, Pullen, Hudson.
Second prize Pennsylvania
Lavenik. Bavard, Hahn.
Third prize = Southern Pacific
Henning, Duckworth, Writ.
Last prize Reading-Metcalf
Benson, Bringdale.
Winners, second half-Santa Fe.
Second prize-Pennsylvania.
Third prize-Southern Pacific.
Last prize = Northern Pacific
Stewart, Tubbs, Blanton.
Individual high average-Radde,
189
Individual 3-game total-Radde,
666.
Individual high game-Hagerup,
252.
Individual av er a geS for both
loalvoc of me
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-09
Great Britain to
Slash Cable Tolls

LONDON, April 9.-The govern
ment announces the provisions of
a bill to be introduced in Parlia-
ment to reduce rates on cablegrams
within the British Empire.
The toll reductions are expected
to save two and a half million
dollars a year on cable charges
between the United Kingdom and
the dominions and colonies.
The reductions will apply to mes
sages sent to Canada, Australia,
and other Empire colonies.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-09
is FREE STYLE
SWIM winner

COLUMBUS Ohio. April o.
Ralph Flanagan of Miami won the
220-yard free style swimming
championship last night at the Ma
tional AAU Senior Tournament.
Flanagan's time was two minutes,
ten and nine-tenths seconds.
Patnik of Ohio retained his title
in the meter springboard diving
championships. Patnik won the
event with a total of 14817 points.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-09

Trade Pact Is
Now in Making

LONDON, April 9.-The House
of Commons has approved a bill
providing for new trade agree
ment between Britain and Italy.
The measure provides for the
settlement within six months Of
italian debts to creditors in the
British Empire.
Officials said the agreement pro-
vided for large increases in the
purchase of British coal in Italian
markets, and would help Italy to
buy other British goods.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-09
BOCCAN WINS
RAILROADERS'
PIN RIBBONS
Conductors Win Twice
Art Burke and Warren
Wilson Get Prizes

Conductors won both first and
second halves of the tournament
just ended at the Elks' Club.
Garland Began, with an aver
age of 1872, topped the Railroaders
League average list. Art Burke took
high threegame total ribbons and
Warren Wilson walked off with
high single game.
Conductor winners are Garland
Began, H M. Holman and Merit
Benedict
Last TALES Of the season follow:
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-09
Kudzu Plants Used
To Control Erosion

GREENSBORO, N. c., April o.
Here is how G. 3. Higgins is saw
ing three acres of his farm from
washing away:
First, he dug a 700-foot ditch to
divert water that had been run
ming in from nearby road and
washing the land into gullies. Then,
he planted $500 two-year-old kudzu
crowns and gave the plants lib
eral treatment of fertilizer.
Now the kudzu vines, which make
good stock feed, are 80 to IS feet
long and there is no more washing
on the land.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-09

Sanford, singled in the tenth in
ming of a one to one tie with San
Diego to score two men on bases
for a three to one win.
Henry Pippen, Scion chucker,
handcuffed the Portland Beavers for
a five to two win.
San Francisco spanked after drop
ping three in a row and licked the
Hollywood Stars in batfeSt that
was enlivened by the third fistfight
between Walter Beck, Hollywood
pitcher, and Ted Norbet, Seal out
fielder, after an argument over an
umpire'S decision.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-09
Legislature at
Toronto Ended

TORONTO, Ontario, April g.
The Ontario Legislature has ended
its session, and many of the law
makers started at once for home.
The 1888 session was the last
one in which members of the body
will be known as members of the
Legislative Assembly. They voted to
be known henceforth as members
of the Provincial Parliament.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-09
SEATTLE Gets
THIRD VICTORY
OVER OAKLAND
Seals Stars Battle Popped
Up by Fistic Display
for Third Time
by Associated Press

The Seattle Rainiers outiasted
the Oakland Acorns yesterday to win
their third game in four this week,
with the Oaks getting three runs
in the first frame and two in the
last of the ninth, to fall one short of
a tie.
Angels second baseman, Jack
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-09
u. Of California
Prof., HOnorGd

BOSTON, April 9.-The American
Chemical Society announces that
Prof. Gilbert Lewis of the Uni
versity of California had been
awarded the fifth Theodore Will
liam Richards medal. He was given
the award on the bases of his study
CT the cubical atom.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-09
TOURNAMENT
CLOSE FINDS
RADDE CHAMP
Santa Fe Takes Top Rung
in Both Halves-Hag-
erup Individual High

The bowling season at the Elks'
Club is over. Champion bowler in
the Big Four League is Ed Radde.
who COPIED high average honors
and individual three-game totals
Erwin Hagerup took high single
game honors
Pennsylvania ran Santa Fe a
close second in both first and sec
ond halves of the tournament, but
Roger Stevenson, Bill Pullen, and
Lou Hudson came out on top both
halves.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-09
A.P. BUSH IS
DEAD, MOBILE

MOBILE, Alabama, April 9.-An
Alabama financier and philanthro-
pist, Albert Peyson Bush, is dead
at the age OF &c. Bush was director
Of the Federal Reserve Bank at
New Orleans.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-09
Champions Meet
. In Golf Battle

PINEHURST, N. c. April O.
George T. Dunlap and Frank Stra-
facet meet today in the finals of
the North-South Golf Tournament
here
Dunlap was 1888 amateur cham
pion and Strafacci is an ex-public
links champion
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-09
ADAMICK Gets
DECISION WIN

DETROIT. April 8. Jimmy
A d a m OK, brilliant heavyweight
prospect, last night took decision
here over Al Ettore, Philadelphia
veteran.
The ten round circuit was mark
ed by knockdown in the first
round when Adamick caught Eft
tore on the point of the chin with
straight right.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-09
TAYLOR RETURNING

Ike p. Taylor. Chief Engineer OF
the Alaska Road Commission. sailed
from Seattle this morning aboard
the Yukon for Juneau. The official
has been in Seattle in connection
with the purchase of equipment for
the seasons road activity.