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The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-13

tension of time expires october IA, tomorrow.
 No further extensions of time can be granted, at the term of court at which Charles was tried has been adjourned. There is still the possibility, however, that his at torneys may appeal to President Roosevelt to commute the sentence to life imprisonment.
 Charles is still at Ketchikan. If he is hanged, the execution will take place at Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-13
GoLDsTEIN FUR STORE

will be open evenings from ' to g We have just received a large ship ment of short jackets and coats in different kinds of furs. The prices will surprise you.
 You are welcome to come and see our stock. adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-13
Husband Follows Wife 10 Jail
 For Six Monihs

Mrs Nels A. Smith was arrested last night on a charge of being drunk and disorderly, and this morning her husband followed her to jail. Ncls was charged with vaerancy
 Today both were found guilty in U. s. Commissioners Court and were sentenced to six months in jail They were arrested by Depu- ty Marshals
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-13
DEMOTTo INJURED

Rosse Demotto, an employee of the mine, is in St. Ann's Hospital re- ceiving medical care for a head in- jury caused by falling rock while at work last night.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-13

and to Hans Berg for $400 in altera- lions to the Harris Apartments, 240 South Franklin Street, owned by Charles Goldstein
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-13
HELLAN TO TENAKEE

Deputy Marshal Walter Hellan left on the Estebeth Wednesday night for Tenakee. He will return Monday,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-13

DIR. sTEyEs, CHIRoPODJsT. Makes Arch Appliances to measure office, 10 Valentine Bldg Phone 648
 ndv.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-01

CAN TAKE 2 or passengers to
Texas Sat. am. Leaving around
10 am. Call Carl ElkinS or Mrs.
Elkins, phone 1862, 483 State st.
1872
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-01

1000 USED Tires 81 Tubes. Vulcan
izing Recapping. Regrooving. Re-
treading. Free replacement guar
antee. QUALITY TIRE STORES
245 Main, Ell Centro-1071 East
Main, BraWley.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-01
Lost, round. EstraE
S Personals, Special Notice

! WILL NOT be responsible for
debts other than my own after
Nov. 20. Signed, Gertie M. De-
Witt. 12-2
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-01

FOR SALE OR TRADE-My equity
in new 1899 Chrysler Royal Deluxe
Sedan, Fhilco radio, heater and
air-conditioner. First class con-
dition. Low mileage. Big bargain.
Post-Press Box 772. 1872
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-01
IS Trucks, Tractors. Troilers
SAVE II

SAVE n
IT WILL PAY YOU to visit our
store. If it's auto or truck parts
you need see us. 1000 cars and
trucks in stock. All sizes in used
tires.
CARTER MOTOR g. SUPPLY
1863 Main Phone SO
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-01

WE HAVE A FEW repossessed cars
priced right. Peoples Finance &
Thrift Co., 638 Main. Phone Sis
or 525.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-01
% City Property - Sale

FINE HOME ON OLIVE ST, $4,000
Easy terms. Or trade for good
land.
HENRY UPHOLT
113 No. 9th st. Phone 556
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-01
UnusabIes Usabe Cash Insert For Sale Ad Now!
rs Miscellaneous for Sale

5 ORNAMENTAL light fixtures,
suitable for office or storeroom.
Reasonable. Call at Post Press
office.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-01

WANTED-Used one wheel trailer.
Will pay cash. Inquire GAS State.
Phone 1920 1875
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-01

DRY Eucalyptus Wood, $40 per
cord. Mrs. G. E. Paine, Heber
road & Dahlia Canal. Phi 8703M1.
-12-3
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-01
Help Wanted

WHY WORK FOR THE OTHER
FELLOW? Well-established busi-
ness of your own available for
man or woman over 80. Must be
neat and have good reputation,
willing to work 8 hours a day on
good-paying route. Car not neces-
sary but helpful. No investment.
Write Post-Press Box 290.
l2-1
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-01

DRIVING TO Little Rock, Ark.
Can take 2 passengers. Share
expenses. Call iii. 1872
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-01
Furniture for Sale

ELECTRIC refrigerator, Washing
Machine, Oil Burner Stove, 2
Bedroom Suites, Breakfast Set,
Livingroom Furniture, Upright
Piano. All for sale. 1865 Commercial.
1873
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-01
Cards of Thanks

WE WISH to express our sincere
thanks and appreciation to the
many friends and acquaintance
for their thoughtful words OF
sympathy and flowers sent us in
the loss of our husband and
father.
MRS. G.. A. CARTER
AND FAMILY.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-01
Committing by Air

Use of airplanes for committing be- tween offices in New York City and homes or business interests in other parts of the country is the routine practice of various metropolitan business men. Mostly they have their own private planes and pilots. Occasionally one operates his plane him. self. One man works while flying. He had several seats removed from his seven passenger plane and desk put in for that purpose.
 The men who come by seaplane and use the downtown Skyport - seaplane ramp which was built in 1884 - land rather close to their offices. The man who comes from Maryland in about two hours spends half the time getting from Roosevelt Field to Rockefeller Center. Some day it should be possible for these aerial commuters to use autogiro planes and set them down on the roofs of their office buildings, with no time lost.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-01
Not a Perfect Record

A lot of people, discussing the con- quests of the Germans, Italians and Jap anese, dismiss the whole matter by say ing, "Oh, well, it's no worse than we did ourselves when we were expanding. That's a very easy answer, but unfortu- nately, like many easy answers, it isn't so. The aggressionS and conquests of today are worse than our oWn People who speak so about American expansion just haven't followed Al Smiths suggestion that we Hook at the record".
 The American record in territorial ex- pansion is no lily-pure sheet, and it falls far short of ideal standards. But compar- atively it is way above the average. The record of ruthless warfare and repeatedly broken faith in conflict with the aborig- inal Indians is not pretty. We came, we saw their lands, we took them. We killed many. Yet it might have been worse. Ever since, we have been smelling out mill lions to keep them in style to which we would like to have them become accus- toned, and there are probably more of them today than there were when Colum- bus landed.
 Our first big expansion was Louisiana in 1903. This vast western area, which raised by 140 per cent the American land area, was bought for 80,000,000 francs. A CllGdp pllCe, CCI Gdl1lAy, yCG OAlC W1l4C11 NC poleon was glad to get, and which was important money to struggling and poor young republic. When we took Florida from Spain there was coercion certainly, yet we assumed claim up to $5,000,000 against that government. Conscience money? Perhaps, but it at least shows that we had conscience
 Many still regard the Mexican War as naked aggression. Perhaps it was. Yet just before it broke, we had Slidell in Mexico vainly trying to buy California, and after the utter defeat of the Mexi- cans, we still paid $15 5,000,000 for New Mexico and California, and assumed heavy claims of Americans against the Mexican government. Alaska was bought out right from Russia for $7,200,000. Does it look like a small price? Many people thought Seward was crazy to pay so much.
 Even after the complete militry de- feat of Spain in 1898, when we found the Philippines rather unexpectedly on our hands, we paid $2O, ,O00, ,OO0 for them Cuba has been made free and independent After the Boxer uprising in China, the U. S. got $24,000,00O of the indemnity, and, deciding in 1907 that it was $13,000,- 900 too much, handed back that amount to China.
 We're not arguing that the American record in imperialistic expansion is 99 44/1OOths per cent pure. It isn't. We're only contending that, when stacked up against the record of some other coun- tries, our record of 50 and 100 years ago, remembering that much of the land con- cerned was practically uninhabited, pre- sents some things of which we can be proud.
 The conquerors of Czechoslovakia, AL bania and Manchuria must not be allowed to get away with their continual implica tions that, "Oh, well, you were just as bad 100 years ago." We weren't. Not by country mile.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-01
Time to Act Now

Biennially an effort is made to have the Legislature add another senatorial district to the existing thirty-five. Bien- nially such efforts go for naught. We don't suppose the current drive for such a change will meet with any different response, but this is crucial year in all such attempts at apportionment of the State Senate. If we are to make changes in the outlines of the senatorial districts, we will have to wait for the first session following the decennial census to do so, but now the foundation for such reor- ganization can be laid
 The state constitution allows creation of a thirty-Sixth senatorial district and on the basis of shifting population it is high time the state did create the new district. While so doing it ought to do something, too, with the existing district lines. We are supposed to have thirty five districts equal not in area but in population. They are as different from a population viewpoint as they are geo. graphically. But that's an old story here in Connecticut and in other states, too. Our congressional districts are much the same - disproportionate
 It is The Democrats belief that the present General Assembly should create non-partiSan board to furnish the 1941 Legislature with pertinent facts and fig ures, if not an actual working design of new set-up, so far as senatorial and congressional districts are concerned. By naming this non-political group now it's work, which will be difficult and tedious, should be ready when the 1941 legislative session is here. Failure to take the proper action in 1941 will defer any change until 1851.
 Democrats and Republicans alike should for once put aside their partisan feelings in this question and approach it with the idea of being of valuable serv- ice to the state. Create the machinery now for the proper disposal of vexing problem in 1941 when our constitution provides for it's treatment.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-01
A Thought for Today
Highway Importance

A lot is being said today in our own state about big highways, parkWays we call them when they attain certain de- gree of splendor as well as cost of con Struction Just as much is being sald, too, down in Washington where the Pres ident thinks that program ot hlghWay developmeyC throughout the Unlted States is required at the present tlme. It's a return to the old topic of building great tranS-continental roads, which would facilitate traffic from one end or the country to the other, as well as make available speedy passage from the Cana dian border to Mexico and states border ing the Gulf of Mexico.
 There's double purpose now in such proposals. They are being linked to the threat of war. No matter how remote such conflagration may be nor how far distant from our own fair land ot liberty we are constantly reminded that we must be prepared to be drawn into any world conflict that may start. And so If we did embark upon program of highway expansion on a national scale we would be asked to keep in mind the idea that such roads might be used for military purposes just as much as for pleasure.
 That has a familiar ring. It has been mentioned that in the event of war, in which the U. S. A. was involved the Mer- ritt Parkway from Bridgeport into New York might be taken over as a military soute for quick transportation of war materials from Bridgeport into New York City. And we've heard the same thing said about that great highway they're building under the mountains of western Pennsylvania from Harrisburg to Pitts burgh.
 Aside from this of paramount interest is the announcement that the new high way program advanced by the President does not consider tolls as means of fi- nancing construction costs. Instead existing highways would be taken over for the route, improved, and converted into through routes which avoid congested areas and in general go over, under or around all towns. It's an interesting experiment on paper; we'll never know how it would succeed until it gets beyond the discussion stage in which it has been now for too many years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-01
In Today's Mail

home and care for our own business and our own people. Our first and last thought as citizens is America and its problems. We hold no brief for the advocates of the Rome-Ber- lin axis and neither are we sym pathetic with Moscow, Paris, Lon- don-W Washington axis.
 MT. Sumner Welles acting Secre- tary of State, (the un-elected spokes- man for the American people) re- gently made public two strange statements.
 Firstly, in an appearance before the Foreign Relations committee, he asserted all the Latin-American countries were Republics, in fact democracies! Yet as Senators Borah and Johnson sought to bring out practically everyone is a dictator ship, most of them being under military rule. MT. Welles, of course wants to protect the great lie, name ly, that we must back with money prestige, and armaments the Dem ocracies against the Relationships. "
 Secondly, MT. Welies mas applied economic sanctions to Germany and has curtly informed the Hitler government that the United States will not recognize the absorption of the Czecho- Slovakian States into the Reich. One might ask "by what right?" The answer is none at all The acting Secretary has assumed that in swallowing the syntatic Re- public created at Versailles, Ger many has broken a contract with the United States. Yet all know as Father Coughlin explained, no such
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-01
Fine Year for Health

The year 1888 had its blessings as we'll as It's disasters. A report issued by the University of California's department oi country set a record for low death rates from all causes, and particularly for tu- berculosis, typhoid, diphiheria and infant mortality.
 we are now, in fact. the possessors of better general health," says the report, "nrc less afflicted with diseases known to bc preventable, are more secure in the survival and growth of our offspring to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-01

contract exists.
 The United States refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles for the very reason that it did not pro- pose to involve America in the political bargains in the treaty. The American people at the polls in 1920 sustained and indorsed the action of the senate.
 MT. Welles acts, in his mad de- mands, as though some contract had been broken, as though the United States had been victimized. It is all part of the war-mongers game. Write to your Senator this week and demand that he fight for and supp port a real neutrality act which will guarantee to the Citizens of these United States, Peace-A peace that will limit the use of our soldiers and sailors, our munitions and arms and money to the defense of Am- erica, inside American territory and inside American waters.
 GEORGE l.. AYOTTE.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-01
THAT GIVES PRO- FICTION, PEACE IS GUAR
 ANTEE FOR US

Aprll Zf, 1853. Editor, Waterbury Democrat:
 The two great forces contending for mastery in the field of battle are drawing their lines. They are those who, demand war and those who battle for peace; the interna- tionalists versus the Americans.
 In the columns of our daily papers this week all will note how the forces for peace, for democracy, for Amer ica, are taking the offensive. Father Coughlin's speech of last Sunday is stirring document, Bishop Duffy's ringing message to the Catholic youth of New York State, Father James Gillis' contribution in Sur sum Corda" are all devastating att tackS on the war-mongers and in- ternationalists who strive to wreck civilization in their emotional de- mand for warfare. I hope these articles will be read, will be memorized in substance, will be repeated in homes, ciupS, travels wherever people congregate. Re- peat thousand times if necessary, NO FOREIGN ENTANGLEMENTS FOR AMERICA.
 That the masses who are expect ed to pay and bleed and die in wars must protest against involving the United States in Europe be- comes more apparent each day. Re- gently Roy Howard, the well known American publisher, in broadcast from Paris asserted only miracle can keep the United States out of the next war and he pleaded that Americans be not moved by "senti- mental saps." On the same day for mer Secretary of State Stimson urged the Foreign Relations com- mittee to give the President a blank check permitting meddling and he would allow one man to designate for the American people, who are the aggressors. This report pleased the chairman of the Committee Senator Keves Pittman who is scarcely more neutral in his out- look than Mussolini, Hitler, or Sta- lin. He is forever talking about American principles and he betrays the actions of an antocrat. He pro- posed that the committees hear ings be sercet. and when he lost II votes to 8 he stated: Nothing any witness could say would change my mind on the subject
 Imagine If the fate of one hun dred millions of people is placed In the hands of a committee chaEman who has Q closed mlnd. who Is self confessedly unneutral, who Is to act as a judgel Is 1t any Wonder Amer lcans are determined to resist these warmongers. Many will assert 6en- ator Pittman and his ilk should first be sent to Europe to fight In the wars in which they might lead others.
 The American people should tell the Foreign Relations committee that if distant nations want 10 fight among themselves over questionable Issues our program b to stay right at
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-01
Whats Your l. O?
Can you answer seven or these test questions? Turn to last page for the answers.

1. Name the first woman aviator who flew solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
 2. With what sport is Gene Mako associated?
 3. Name the great river of north- ern India, formed by drainage of the southern Himalayas.
 4. How many cubic feet are in a cord of wood?
 5. What are pelagic animals? 6. Name the capital of India.
 T. What is the correct pronuncia. tion of the word Bedouin?
 8. Which has the higher freezing point, fresh or salt water?
 g. Does an alien woman become an American citizen by marrying citizen of the United States?
 10. Name the first important bat- tie of the Civil War.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-01

ed except to take care of storage.
 It's possible other countries will come in with other commodities, but Hull will block any move to apply barter to regular commerce. POLISH-BRITISH FLOP
 Diplomats are not shouting it from the housetops, but the much heralded British-P Polish alliance has never been signed, and is not in force today.
 After Foreign Minister Beck's discussions in London, he took the new pact back to Warsaw where it was supposed to be signed with in ten days, following which gen. eral staff officers of both countries were to draw up detailed plans for each others defense.
 But nothing happened-except that the Poles decided the British were a weak military reed on which to lean, and the Germans used such bulldozing tactics that the Poles feared any final sigma ture of the alliance would precip- itate war.
 Copyright 1889, United
 Feature Syndicate)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-01

makes good use of his diplomatic contacts. It was through informal conversation in a western Euro pean embassy that Feis first opened discussion of exchanging surplus U. s. agricultural products for strategic raw materials.
 "We want supplies of tin and
 rubber" Feis said to the diplo-
 mat, land you want supplies of
 wheat and cotton. Why can't we
 get together?"
 The two men went to see Secre- tary Wallace, who mulled over the plan, then discussed it with Sen- ator Byrnes of South Carolina. Next step was visit of Wallace and Byrnes to Cordell Hull. The Secretary of State smelled the bad odor of barter and didn't like it. But he was persuaded that this was different-there would be no sale of the products, merely storing by the respective govern ments for war emergency.
 Feis is now working out details. Results will probably be series of treaties with Britain, Holland, and Belgium, with no funds need-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-01
Press Comment
THE ALARM CLOCK (Christian Science Monitor)

What Is probably one of the first alarm clocks ever made came on view recently in London at the Science Museum, South Kensington. The legion of those whose morning excursions are preceded by alarms may we'll look at this 200-year-old relic with awe, and perhaps a shud- der. For this is a clock that pulled a trigger that exploded a charge that lit a candle that dazzled gen. tleman all-forlorn who was tossed from his crumpled sheets at morn by a bang that would shatter the house that Jerry built.
 Fortunately the alarm clock is not the big noise it was; and though the morning clamor that pursues it's way round the globe is not pleasing dawn chorus, 1t is at least not a creeping barrage that slaughters "the innocent sleep" One feels, however, that there Is room for fur- ther progress; and no doubt when the sleeper awakes in the future 1t vii. be to more tuneful, fl not less insistent, reveille.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-01

maturity, and have an average expect ancy of life greater than that of any population group in the history of man."
 Doctors and public health authorities and special groups such as antitubercu- losis organizations have done fine job of educating the public in health promotion and the prevention of certain diseases There is much more work yet to be done, but 1889 seems to promise that the work will go forward.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-01
Selected Poem
BOUNCING BETS

y Florence M. McClelland in the Boston Post There's an old house l remember AS think of bygone days, A house beside a country road, My fancy often strays To that spot I see the naples Beside the old stone wall That was crimsoned OCT With ivy When the frost came in the fall There were roses in the garden Laden down with dewy blooms, There were lilacs, ever lovely, With their wealth of purple plumes; But the little flower long for, That I'd like to see once more Is the Bouncing Bet" that fiourished By that old homes kitchen door, A humble flower surely But my Mother loved 1t well, Loved its delicate pink color, Its elusive. spicy smell; Speak not to me of orchids There's flower I love much more Tis the "Bouncing Bet" that blossomed By the old homes kitchen door.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-01
Daily Almanac

Moon sets 4:3i q. m. tdayghs time).
 Sur rises b;b2 a. m; sets 7:47 D. m.
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty min- utes after sunset.
 Moons phases--tull moon. May 3, i0;O7 e. m.: last quarter May H. b:32 Q. m.; new moon. May ie ii:i7 p. m,: first quarter, May %. 0:i2 D. m. lstandard time)
 Morning stars Mercury. Mars, Venus, Jupiter, saturn; evening, none.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-01

dtanS who have set up a village in the N e W York w orld's Fair.
 Conten1ptuous of white mans help, their att titude is a direct s n u b to tn e W hit e m a n's brass plumbing, W a s n Ing ma c h i n e S, an d other gleaming streamlined in- cfitY,tiopc Tn O
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-01

 and Answers
Ry rREDERICK AL KKRBr

By FREDERiCK M. NEEDS Enclose a three-cent stamp for reply when addressing any qnes- ton Of fact or information to the Waterbury Democratic Service Bu- reau at Washington Legal and medical advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be un- dertaken. Be sure all mail IS ad. dressed tO the WATERBURY DEMOCRATS SERVICE BU- REAU. lOl? Thirteenth Street,
 THE EDITOR
 a Gan the wife of veteran who served as an enlisted man III the army be buried in Arlington Na. tional cemetery if he is still alive9 A. Yes. # the veteran Is 70 years of age or over at the time Of his wife's death.
 a. Name the colleges and uni versailles in the District or Colum' bia.
 A America University, Catnoilc University of America, Gallauoes College for the Deaf, George Wasn- inrton University, Georgetown Unl- versity, Howard University eNegroy' st. Johns College and Trinity Col- lege Sisters of Notre Dame or Na- mur).
 a rs tbere a hank directory of Canada?