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The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-13
MARRIAGE RATE DROPS; RUFFIANS
 ARE RESPONSIBLE
Serenaders BI a m e d for Fire sDiminishing of
 Welded Couples

DUBLIN, Erie, July l3-Practi jokes played on newlyweds by "strawboys" "--acquaintances of the bride and bridegroom who visit them on the night of the wedding and sing and dance outside their home-are being blamed for Fires low marriage rate.
 An old Irish custom, the. visits of the strawboys-who get their name from straw tied around their clothes before they start their celebrations recently have developed :. into rough house" antics that newly weds don't appreciate Hay-ricks have been fired, windows smashed, and various articles stolen as sou venirs.
 When two strawboys were charged with stealing articles from the home of a honeymooning couple in Coun- ty Leitrim, the district judge said he would jail any further offend- CTS.
 T do believe they are preventing matrimony, as people are afraid to get married because of the visits of these rnfffans,s the judge said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-13
SCOTLAND YARD
 SET FOR DRIVE;
 G-MEh TACTlCS
Clean up on British Crime Forecasf-U. 5. Methods
 Are 10 Be Followed

LONDON, July 13.--A nation wide drive to clean up British crime was foreshadowed as British police prepared to take over America s successful G Men tactics.
 Usually stolid Scotland Yard men were being train d to pit brain against brawn.
 Salient features in the adoption of the c Mems methods to combat crime were:
 1. The establishment of a net work of crime laboratories through out England on a par with the G Men field office scheme.
 2. Setting up of central crime laboratory in London called the Ma tional Foren sic Science Center which will model its details of or ganization and methods on the c Men headquarters in Washington.
 g. Training of every policeman in England and Wales in the general application of modern laboratory methods to fight organized and un- organized crime.
 Acting on the principle that if Chief c Man Hoover can curb tur- bulent American crime by securing a record of 94 per cent convictions in America, they can do the same thing, the British home office is copying his methods as fast as pos sible.
 Under direct supervision of the home office, crime laboratories have already been established in Birm- ingham and Nottingham to serve police officers in the Midlands.
 Cooperating with Washington po- lice headquarters on handwriting investigations. laboratory at Car diff serves. South Wales. A fully staffed crime laboratory has been inaugurated at Preston for the use of the whole of Northwestern Eng land.
 All the provincial centers will come under the central guiding bu- reau in London, similar to Wash ington system
 Academic staffs of nearby uni- versailles will be enlisted to carry out extensive laboratory experi- ments. Expert scientists in spec ialized fields will be attached to each laboratory, whose scientific staff will also include chemist, biologist and physicist
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-13
COAST TEACHERS
 MOST LIBERAL IN
 UNIvERSAL VIEWS

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. July 13.- School teachers in the Rocky Noun tain area and the Pacific Coast States are the most liberal school workers in the country while New England and Southern teachers are the most conservative.
 These findings, based on a survey of thousands of teachers, were re- ported in the Harvard Educational Review by George w Hartman, professor of educational psycholo- ogy at Teachers College, Columbia University.
 Dr. Hartman's survey revealed that the most scholarly teachers are most likely to be progressive in their opinions and vice versa. New England teachers were an outstand- ing exception to this pattern, Pro lessor Hartman found, they seem to be well-informed conservatives.
 More than half the teachers ill the country disagree with the theory of evolution, it was found Ninety one per cent believe in God and 93 per cent in the immortality of the soul More than half of the teachers believe abolition of poverty an i'm possibility and one-fourth approve a suggestion that relief recipients be deprived of the right to vote. One eighth favored complete stoppage of public funds for the iobless.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-13
Law Harsh on Fire Engine Chasers

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, July 13.- Indiana's new motor laws are harsh on fire addicts who scurry to every blaze reported.
 Article Is" of a recently passed law makes it unlawful to follow any fire apparatus travelling in response to fire alarm closer than 500 feet. The law also prohibits park ing within the block in which the fire-fighting equipment has stopped in response to an alarm.
 The law also provides these mis- cellaneous rules:
 No person shall leave a motor vehicle unattended without first stopping the engine, locking the ignition and removing the key.
 Ut is unlawful while travelling down grade to coast or travel with the gears in neutral.
 ''It is unlawful to drive a car when it is so loaded, or when there are in the front seat a number of per- sons, exceeding three, as to obstruct the view of the driver to the front or the sides of the vehicle or as to interfere with the drivers control over the driving mechanism.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-13
MAY SOLVE MYSTERY OF
 LOST vESSEL.

MIAMI. Fla, July 13.-Two mrs- tifying blank pages in Navy re- cords will be reduced 10 enc if an expedition now working off the Isle Of Pines, Cuba, meets with success.
 The group believes it has dis covered the wreck of the UsS.S. Albany. a warship vanished at sea in 1854. Yet to be solved is the equally mysterious disappearance cf he Nav 5 coler, the Cyclops, in 1907
 Wade Logan. Chicago business man who is financing the search fer inc Albany said the wreck of ship has been found on the ocean led, and there is reason to believe that i is the long-lost fighting craft. Using diving equipment the expedition will attempt to raise guns, the ships bell and other metal for positive Identification.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-13

 Wins Prise

PEABODY, Mass. July 13. = Pretty Evelyn Santos, twenty-year- old stenographer, was given such a push" at dance that shell land at the New York Worlds Fair.
 At ball in honor Of Ambassa- = dor Joao de Bianchi of Portugal, a beauty contest was being held and Miss Santos was pushed into line by friends-against her wishes and came out the winner.
 In addition to receiving a loving cup from the ambassador and a bracelet donated by the Minister of the Navy in the Portuguese gov ernment, Miss Santos gets trip to the fair and will be the guest of the ambassador at a dinner at the Portuguese pavilion
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-13
BABY EXpECTED
 90 YEARS AGO
 EGUNE) UNBORN

DETROIT. Mich, July Medi- cal science studied tonight the eX- cept.cnal case Of siXty-five-yeaE- cid woman, victim of 8 thirty-year birth obstruction
 Four Detroit physicians, of whom pr. J. Gilbert Israel was the spokes- man, said the woman was advised thirty years ago that she was an eM1ectant mother but that the birth never took place.
 Surgeons they learned, urged an operation, but the woman refused, Until a few days ago, when she vis- ited pr. Israel, she had no subse- quent medical attention
 pr. Israel conferred with Drs. Milton Darling, Charles Kennedy and Haas Jarre. The four reached the conclusion that the baby was arophied inside the mother.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-13
WHARF PROBLEM FACES JUNEAU;
 DUCHESS GRAFT
Seven Hundred Tourists to Arrive Here on
 August 6

What to GO with an ocean linci 596 feet long with displacemer of 30.000 tons has become prob- lem to Juneau waterfront men ana Canadian Pacific Railway agsrt V. w. NTulvihill who is making ar- arrangements for the arrival here ot the big Duchess Of Richmond Aue- ust 6.
 The palatial liner largest ship to appear in Juneau's harbor may anchor in the harbor and may land at the Alaska Dock and Stor- age Company wharf.
 That difficult point has not been decided yet Agent Mulvihill be- lieves the vessel will have to be anchored although the CPR has been offered the services Of the Alaska Juneau tug Trojan, the Davis Transportation Company vessel Esteheth, and J. J Meherin's boat Triton, in docking the giant craft.
 
 The Duchess of Richmond left Montreal July l and sailed down the East Coast, through the West Indies, and has just passed through the Panama Canal ii she is on schedule
 From there she is going to Hon olulu and direct to Yakutat Bay where the TOO tourists and GOO crew will see glaciers at close hand, the Duchess of Richmond being too unwieldy for Taku Inlet.
 From Yakutat, the vessel goes to Sitka and from there to Ju- neau to spend nine hours, arriy- ing here at nine in the morning and leaving at six in the evening.
 Large purchases are reported 10 have been arranged here to re- plenish ships stores, anu if the craft does not take on fresh water at Sitka. it will fill it's tanks here, providing a dock landing is feas- ible.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-13
TWO DELECATEs
 MAKE PROTEST,
 HERRING B0ATg
Bureau of Fisheries Asked to Close ShOaI Point
 Area 10 Seiners

Two delegates from Juneau sal mon trollers and halibut fisher men, yesterday called on Seton Thompson, Assistant Alaska Agent for the Bureau Of Fisheries, to pro- test the operations of herring sein- CTS off shoal Point on the west shore of Douglas Island
 The representatives were I. Gold stein for the trollers, and Olaf Larsen, skipper of the halibuter Arden, for the halibuters.
 Goldstein said today; "The troll- CTS came to me and asked if I would make a plea for them. They said that if the Bureau of Fish cries doesn't do something about it. we will"
 Larsen reported sighting five large herring seiners working in the disputed area two days ago, taking herring for fertilizer and meal plants in the Frederick Sound area.
 Fishermen. alarmed at the sud- den appearance of the seiners, in sist that if the herring seiniug is continued in this area, the school which is native to the immediate district will be exterminated
 Those herring" Goldstein said winter and breed between Point Retreat and Point Arden. If they are exterminatad, halibut fisher men will get no more bait at Aux Bay, and somewhere around 200 salmon fishermen in the immedi- ate Juneau area will have to move elsewhere to catch their fish. And it isn't to be overlooked that the sport of salmon fishing near Ju- neau, an attraction to tourists of immeasurable value, will also 90 by the boards
 Larsen and Goldstein recom- mended that the area be closed to herring seining ether than for bait between a line from Point Retreat to Eagle River and from Point Arden to Point Bishop.
 Goldstein said the Bureau of Fisheries had promised the matter will be looked into.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-13
Iekes Tells His
 FirsG Fish Story

WASHINGTON, July 13.-Interior Secretary Ickes has told his first fish story" officially
 By the Presidents reorganization plan, the Bureau of Fisheries was transferred from the Commerce De partment to that of Ickes, and the Secretary promptly released his first announcement regarding fish.
 Under a PWA grant, he said. a trolling vessel, donated by Boston corporation to the government and to be reconditioned at a cost of $125,0O0 will soon undertake a sci entific survey of the deep seas along the Atlantic seaboard to gather data on ocean fish conservation.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-13
ChiId's CuYio2iiy
 Nearly Cosis life

LOS ANGELES, July 13.-Child- ish curiosity almost cost the life of two-year-old Gerald Wellmuth recently, when he investigated a strange bottle in his parents home
 The bottle contained ant poison
 Gerald's parents, Mir and Mrs H. T. Welmuth, discovered the youngsters plight and rushed him to Georgia Street Receiving Hos pital, where first aid m ensures proved effective He was later ta- ken home.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-13

 WpA 5ET-Up

CHICAGO, H., July 13.-Federal Works Progress Administrator liar rington announced here his outline of a complete overhauling of the WPA. He intends to cut it's rolls by a large percentage by June, 1940
 The administrator outlined his plans before a meeting of officials from Illinois. War veterans are ex- pected to be exempted from the rul- ing forcing each employee to take 30 days furlough without pay after he has been employed Is months.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-13
BIaGk Hills Fires
 Are Under Coniro!

DEADWoOD, s. D, July 1s.- Fires in the Black Hills have been partly brought under control after burning 10000 acres of timber. For two days the flames cut a wide path through the first grade timber. Ad- ditional men were sent from even as far away as Denver before the fire was brought under control.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-13
Prisoners Escape
 From Crowded Yard


 BROOKLYN, July 13-Two men escaped from the Raymond Street jail late yesterday. The prisoners cut their way out of a window and escaped across the jail yard where 600 prisoner were exercising. The men ran across the yard shovine other prisoners aside and climbed a l5-foot. fence.
 The guards were taken by sur prise and did not dare to shoot into the crowd, Ii Was believed that confederates were waiting outside. No trace has been found of them and they apparently vanished into thin air.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-13
ONE SUIT LEADS
 BUT TO ANOTHER

CHICAGO, July 13. = Charles Odrin Pennock, wealthy New York CT, became angry when a suit of his was late in coming back from the cleaners.
 50 he packed up and left me, and since that day, December IT, 1887, we've not lived together" Mrs. Lillian Liddle Pennock, forty related in pleading for a divorce here.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-13
U S. DEPARTMENT or AGRICULTURE WEATHER BUREAU
 THE WEATHER
(By the U. s. Weather Bureaul

Forecast for and Vicinity beginning pn probably with tonight southeast winds
 Forecast for Southeast Alaska Cloudy probably night Friday; moderate and southeast fresh Dixon
 winds c of Alaska: fresh east and southeast Entrance Olnnlaney Cape
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-13
VILE
 AZ POSTMASTER

WASHINGTON, July 13. - The Senate has confirmed the nomina- tion of Albert Vile to be Postmas- ter at Juneau. It is a confirmation of renomination.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-13

The assessed valuation of prop erty in the United States is esti- mated by the Department of Com merce at 139 billion dollars.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-13
OLD SHIPS
 NEVER DIE

, PORTSMOUTH, England, July 13. Half a dozen old cruisers and 30
 obsolete destroyers of the Royal
 Navy are being converted for con voy duty and as training ships for the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-13
WEATHER SYNOPSIS

Low barometric continued most of Alaska and the Mackenzie Valley the reported being 2974 inches at Nome while high
  Midway This distribution attend ed by shcwey weather the Fresh southeast winds prevailed this the
 Juneau July 14-sunIse 3:15 sunset s54
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-13

(Continued from Page Onc) zuarez and didn't see a sign of a revolution"
 But if there are no revolutions there are other hazards. There are" said one auto traveller, "tco many dunkeys on the highways
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-13

E~aaixe Want Ads Bring Results.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-07-13
Dear UagIe Sam:
 Having Fine Time; Wish You Were Here

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-27
FOR DEMOCRATS

Grover Cleveland: IF the people
of this country ever submit to the
Punishment of the underlying prin-
ciple of the merit system from the
operation of their government, they
will abandon the surest guarantees
of the safety and success Of Ameri-
can institutions"
Woodrow Wilson: 'I am a hearty
believer in the principles of civil
service reform and shall take pleas
ure at all times in doing what I can
to promote those principles in prac-
tice."
Franklin Delano Roosevelt promis-
ed for his party that the merit sys-
tenn would be extended from top
to bottom in the national govern
ment, only few policy-making
positions to be excepted.
Alfred E. Smith: Lets stop all
this hot air talk about reduction Of
taxes and the cost of government
and get down to the root of the evil
There are two things that don't fit
together political patronage and
the reduction in the cost of govern
ment."
Wilbur E. Cross is, of course, heart
and soul for the Merit System from
top to bottom.
FOR REPUBLICANS
Abraham Lincoln, (pointing to a
group of office seekers In Washing
tom: There you see something
which in the course of time will be-
come a greater danger to the Re-
public than the war;"
Theodore Roosevelt: 1.-THE merit
system Of making appointment is
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-27

and care as some other member OF
the family whom they observe when
visiting. We keep our efficiency al
the highest possible level, but we can
not overwork our staff as an es-
tablished procedure. Sometimes it is
unavoidable. Therefore, our sphere
is far too limited already, and we
can not cut our service any more
and do minimum job that is ade-
quate. We are not going to be able
to give the city of Waterbury the
health education and care that we
should until our city fathers and
our citizens are sufficiently educat-
ed to the need for further progress,
which can only come through more
generous and considered financial
support.
I am trying to tell the public that
we could do a better job for Water
bury if we had more nurses and
more supervision. We are somewhat
in the position of the farmer who,
when the Government Agent came
around and told him how he could
get more out of his land if he would
rotate his crops. said-"I amt in
terested. I already know how to do
a better job than I'm dom now"
The difference is that we are inter-
ested-but is Waterbury?
PAULINE L. SPERRY
President, Waterbury Visiting
Nurse Association.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-27
Prominent Statesmen
Favor Merit System
Frederick s. Chase in Public Statement Cites Presi
dent, Many Others as Supporting Civil Service

, in its essence as democratic ana
American as the common school sys-
tenn itself. It simply means that In
clerical and other positions, where
the duties are entirely non-political,
the applicants should have a fair
field and no favor
William H. Taft: IF we selected
employees according to the length
of their noses, it would be better
than the political spoils system of
appointment"
Charles E. Hughes: I'VE have
nothing more important than a sys-
tem-the best that has yet been de-
vised-of securing men of the needed
capacity of competitive examination,
whenever such examinations are
practical. believe that; I thorough
ly endorse 1t, and hope to see 1t
extended throughout the States of
the Union"
Calvin Coolidge: 1.-THE mainten-
ance and extension of the classified
civil service Is exceedingly import
ant. The best method for selecting
public servants is the merit sytem'
Herbert Hoover: "Our civil service
has proved great national boon
Appointive offices must be based
solely on merit, character, and repu-
tation in the community in which
the appointee Is to serve"
Elihu Root, (probably tn !. ablest
man in public life in the list hun
dred years, with vast experience in
politics.: 1.-THE spoilS system is not
essential to effective party organi-
cation. On the contrary, it tends to
prevent effective party organization.
It tends to keep out of the organi-
zration the men whose services
would be most effective"
Governor Raymond E. Baldwin
has taken strong stand for the
Merit System.
The strongest statement Of all
came from Charles w. Eliot, who
was not a politician, but one of our
greatest thinkers. He said: civil
Service reform is so fundamental
that all other reforms must rest
on it,"
Do not these statements from
such men justify us in asking at
least that you study this subject?
Finally, remember that all three
party platforms in the last election
promised thorough going Merit
System for the state and its sub
divisinos.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-27
Mayor, Health Officer
Manifest Sympathy In
Latest Public Appeal
City Asked Directly to Aid Association to Carry On;
Board of Finance to Consider Request at Meet
ing Tomorrow Afternoon

/ grateful patients as any hospital
my guess would be even more-but
! they are not the people who can
will money to us. They haven't got
it. Also, the day is past when the
president can run around to dear
Miss Somebody, tell a vivid story,
and some back with a check for
100000.
Again this year for the third sue
cessive time we shall appeal to the
city government for funds. It is
almost everywhere conceded to be
the responsibility of the city to pay
part of the cost of public health
nursing service directly to the agen-
cy which renders it. For the most
part it is sum given to the private
organization for general health pur-
poses. Cities appreciate the advan-
tage of part of the health work be-
ing done by private organization
that is entirely out of the realm of
politics. The city of Waterbury is
unfortunately exclusive in that it
is NOT one of the II towns or cit
les in Connecticut that gives any
money to its Visiting Nurse Associa-
ton. One city gives more than 500
600 to its Visiting Nurse Association
for general public health nursing;
another gives more than 100000;
another gives 100000 for nursing
care among the poor; one gives
nearly $14,00000. Shall we get any?
Not Defeatist
I am not defeatist, but as presi-
dent of this organization it is my
duty and responsibility to look pref
ty carefully in the future. A COM
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-27
police CHIEFS
convene TODAY
William ]. Roach Speaks
at New England COnven-
ton in Boston

william J. Roach, superintendent
Of police, today spoke on the subject
Results Of an Accident Prevention
Bureau" at the convention of the
New England Association Of Chiefs
of Police in Boston, Mass.
Supt. Roach reviewed the meas
ures adopted by the city to make
Waterbury the safest city in Connec-
ticut at the end of 1888. In 1896, Supt.
Roach said, Waterbury was the
worst accident risk city In the state.
Commended for achieving the rec
ord were the Waterbury Citizens
Traffic Safety Committee, the local
accident prevention bureau, the
press, the radio, the school depart
ment, and the churches.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-27
AHEPAS ENTERTAIN
GUESTS LAST NIGHT

-Four guests were entertained By
Waterbury chapter, Order Of Ahepa,
last night at the first fall meet
ing in the chapters rooms. The
guests were: James Mazarakos. Of
Springfield, Mass, district governor:
Theodore Scombud, Of Danbury,
district secretary; James Starr, Of
Hartford, lieutenant governor, and
Stephen Patterson, president Of tbs
Hartford chapter.
When picked from the tree, the
coffee berry looks like a red cherry,
each berry containing two beans.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-27
MAN RETURNED
TO BR00KS|DE
Escaped Inmate, Arrested
81 Times, to Serve Rest
of Sentence

Arrested 81 times since 1917, Pat
rick Fitzpatrick, AZ, of Baldwin
street, was sent back to Brookside
today after arraignment in city court
on charges of escaping from that
institution. He will serve the ball
ance of his sentence.
Adam Folkman of CAT North Riv-
erside street, arrested by Detective
Lieuts. Henry johnson and Joseph
Bender on charges of assault and
breach of the peace was granted a
continuance until tomorrow.
The case of Henry Goldman, SO,
OF 565 West 165th street, New York,
charged with abandonment of his
wife, was continued until Oct. II.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-27

MA MASSACHUSETTS, and r Fl o D Z
ISLAND = Showers this afternoon
and tonight. Somewhat warmer to-
night. Thursday generally fair and
warmer.