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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-03

Ford Fassett, 19, of Beacon Valley road, Naugatuck, was ad- mitted to the Waterbury hospi- tai last evening following 2 fall from a horse near his home. Hospital attaches said Fasset sustained 8 head injury and his condition seems good" today. Japan has partially lifted its bar on the use of rubber in sporting goods and will permit the manufac' ture of tennis balls and soft base balls.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-03
Market Opens Firmly
 But Trading Is Light
Changes Were Very Slight -Steels Were Up, Down; Motors Had Small Gains; Aviation Issues Were Firm

1-2 to 26 1-4.
 Public service, Kennecott and Gen- eral Electric were up 1-2 point.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-03
Falls From Horse

and readily agreed to the post
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-04
 PLAN FORMAL
 CAUCUS SUNDAY
Expeeted 10 Decide fhen on President and Speaker
 Lander Arrives

Conferences with Territorial of- fciials and informal caucuses occu- pied the attention of members of the 14th Territorial Legislature today as they awaited the opening of the session next Monday. Present plan is for the two houses to convene at noon Monday.
 First formal caucus of the two groups is tentatively fixed for Sum- day afternoon when they are expect ed to decide on President of the Senate, Speaker of the House. Chief Clerk and Secretary. Senator Nor man R. Walker of Ketchikan. serv- ing his fourth term, has indicated he will accept the Presidency if his fellows tender him the position and Representative Howard Lyng of Nome appears to be slated for the Speakership, according to legisla- tive expression.
 Representative Jesse D. Lander of the Fourth Division arrived in Ju- neau today by PAA plane. bringing to the city all the out-of-town mem berS
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-04
COMMISSIONER HERE FOR GAME
 MEETING TUESDAY
John Hajdukoyi1h, Wild life Agent Sam White
 in from Fairbanks

For the annual meeting Of the Alaska Game Commission which convenes here next Tuesday, John Hajdukovich, member of the Com mission from the Fourth Division, arrived in Juneau this afternoon by PAA plane. Also aboard the plane to spend some time at hea./.uarters during the Commission session was Wildlife Agent Sam White of Fair banks.
 Other members of the Commission are expected to arrive on the next boats from the west and south, ac- cording to Executive Officer Frank Dufresne. They include Earl N Dinner of Petersburg, Acting Chair man since the resignation of Irving McReed; Frank F. Williams of St Michael and Andrew A. Simons of Lakeview.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-04
ALASKA GETS
 ALPHABETICAL MILLIONS, '3S.
Territory Share in Special Federal Spending Is
 .S3,423,O59

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.-Alaska's s estimated share in 1888 actual Fed eral expenditures, in addition to funds for routine departmental ac- tivities, was s, ,423 ,059.
 Also the Territory received total of $433, 3,395 from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in loans auth orized, and from the Federal Hous- ing Administration in loans accept ed for insurance, small home and property improvement.
 A breakdown of the expenditures follows:
 Works Progress Administration $1,5O0.
 Public Works Administration-$1,- = 937,1 in grants for non-Federal projects.
 Civilian Conservation Corps-$820, : GOO.
 Reconstruction Finance Corpora tion = Cloans disbursedD $73,000; 0oans authoried $173,500.
 Army Engineers-$470 70000 for riv- CTS and harbors and $l 400 for flood control.
 Federal Housing Administration Qoans accepted for insurance) sl92,- 700;- doans accepted for small home and property improvement $67,195.
 Social Security grands in aid S1200OO.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-04
Fascist Inclined PrivY Council Head Named
 by Emperor to Act
MILITARLSTS DEMAND
 NEW POLICY IN CHINA
More Rigid ntroI of Economic Life of Jap-
 anese Is Forecast

TOKYO, Jan. .4.-Emperor Hiro- hito has commanded Baron Hira- numa, 73-year-old Fascist inclined President of the Privy Council to form new Cabinet to succeed con- paratively liberal Prince Konoye, who resigned.
 Declaration was made that the war in China has come to stage where new policies under new Cabinet" should be formulated.
 The Konoye Cabinet fell before a strong militarist demand for re- organization at home and abroad for renewed efforts to hasten Jap ans will in east Asia.
 The Predetermined elements want a single political party in Japan and more rigid control of economic life and. a new administrative policy in China.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-04
SPECIAL SERVICES
 FOR SECRETARY AT
 SEWARD ON SUNDAY

At the request of his large circle of Seward friends, special funeral services for Edward w. Griffin, Secretary of Alaska. who died here last Friday, will be held in the un- dertaking parlors at Seward at 2 o'clock next Sunday afternoon, ac- cording to word to the Governors office today. Prominent citizens of Seward will serve as pallbearers and the distinguished official will be buried beside his wife, who died there in 1880.
 Services were held here on Mon day for the Secretary and his body placed aboard the Baranof Tuesday for shipment to Seward. The late official lived in Kodiak and Seward for many years.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-04
CHAMBER CHIEF SAYS BUSINESS
 GAINED IN 193S
Plea fo Congress Is No New Tangled Short-
 euts 10 Prosperity

KANSAS CITY, Jan. 4.-George H. Davis, President of the United States Chamber of Commerce. noted the opening of Congress with the observation that business is "at a level definitely better than the level at the end of 1857"
 But Davis tempered his optimism with the statement:
 Whether the upturn is to con- tinue in 1889 depends entirely upon Mister Average Citizen. For many years we watched the experiment of trying to make water run uphill. Everyone realizes now there are no new fangled short cuts to prosper ity."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-04
NAzl B0MBER5 NOW REPORTED
 IN HONDURAS
Sixty of Latest Designed Graft in Little Nation on
 Barter Agreement

SAN DIEGO, Jan. 1.-The Daily San Diego Union today says that 60 German bombing planes, with crews, are now in Honduras, 600 mill es from the Panama Canal.
 While the type of planes is not reported, it is said they are large jobs" the latest design.
 It is stated the planes were sent to the Central American Republic under what is reported to be barter agreement whereby Honduras will pay for them in coffee and other products.
 Germans are reported to be ins- tructing Honduran pilots and mech anics.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-04
American Religion, De- mouaey and Good Faith
 Threatened, He Ayers
.SLApS UNDE(LARED WARS
 AS A GROWING MENACE
Recommends 10 Congress Legislation to End Fdl-
 tiondI Labor Strife"

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.-- President Roosevelt told Con- gress today world peace has not been "assured" by the Munich pact.
 Storms from abroad" di- rectly challenge American Democracy, tn e President said.
 Addressing a joint session of the Senate and House n the packed Eouss chamber the President asserted that "undeclared wars, deadly arr mamcnts and new aggres- sion threaten three institu- tions indispensable to Am- ericans: Religion, Democracy and International Good Faith.
 UNITED NATION
 Only through a nation united, both physically and spiritually, he added, can these storms be kept from American shores.
 "War which threatened to envelop the World in flames has been averted, but it be- C o m e s increasingly clear peace has not been assured" Roosevelt declared, without mentioning by name the Mu- nich pact.
 Nor did the President name any foreign nation.
 But the President referred to events in Europe, Africa, Asia," places where Czecho- slovakia was dismembered, Italy conquered Ethiopia and Japan invaded China.
 "AlI about us rage unde- cIared wars, military and eco homie; all about us grow more deadly ornaments, mih- tary and economic; all about us are threats of aggression,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-04
WRECK HEARING
 E IN PROGRESS

SEATTLE, Jan. 4.-The progress of the motorship Patterson in the storm on the Gulf of Alaska which ended in the craft piling up on the beach near Cape Fairweather, was described today at the Federal Mar inc Board inquiry, by Capt. Harry Bune.
 Capt. Bune said the storm was so violent that the Patterson was able to log only seven miles in a two hour Z period before she grounded. Prev iously the Patterson had logged g miles in four hours.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-04
SCHOOL TEACHERS
 ARE PROPOSING LIFE JOBS;
 GOING BEFORE LEGISLATORS

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. A. It is said here that Alaska teachers are subscribing to fund to send a lobbyist to Juneau to seek passage of a Tenure Act providing virtually life jobs.
 As proposed by Anchorage teach- CTS, the act will give all teachers who have been in Alaska schools for two years or more, permanent posts, subject to discharge only after for mai hearing on proof of mental in- competence, dishonesty or neglect of duty.
 The act would strip school boards of the power to make them pay masters.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-04
FINDS FAULT WITH MENACE
 OF PRESIDENT
COP Leader Says "Unton- sirutiive" Demo Man
 Says "Masierful'

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.-Repre- sentative Joseph w. Martin, of Mas sachusetts, Republican House lead- CT, said today in commenting on the Presidents message: T am sorry there wasn't something constructive offered in the message which would give a measure of hope for ten mil- lion unemployed"
 Representative Sam Rayburn. Democrat of Texas. House Demo cratic leader, called the address . smasterful setting forth of world affairs and trends.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-04
BOMBING GRAFT
 DROP DEATH ON SPANISH IRAIN
High Explosives Also Rain ed on Tdrrdgona,
 Port Area

BARCELONA, Jan. 4.-At least forty persons have been killed and more than thirty wounded in Tar ragona today as Insurgent planes rained heavy bombs on two pas senger trains loaded with refugees from front line areas.
 While rescuers dug in the debris of Tarragona's port area, 25 more Insurgent planes circles overhead dropping more missiles of explosive death with bomb after bomb.
 It is definitely one of the Span- ish Civil Wars worst behind-the- lines attacks.
 Extent of casualties in Tarragona and surrounding suburbs is not fully known.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-04
GERMANY LACKS FOREIGN EXCHANGE; THIS BROUGHT
 OUT IN JEW EXCLUSIONS
By PRESTON GROVER

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. = When indignation over mistreatment of Jews is set aside, the cold fact stands out that Germany has not enough international money to allow Jews to leave with pockets full of gold and foreign exchange That must come from other countries before hand
 That is the view of competent financial authorities here who have as good information as is available outside of Germany as to the amount of foreign exchange which Germany can lay her hands on. This does not arise as an excuse for the German program of driving Jews out of Germany. But the purely financial difficulty of getting the Jews out of Germany will bear ex- plaining.
 Germany's latest maneuver is to propose tentatively that wealthy for eign Jews advance enough foreign exchange for German Jews to get new start in life elsewhere. Ger many's part of the program would be to repay the wealthy foreign Jews by shipping them German goods. German Jews, of course, would deliver a corresponding value in property or securities to the Ger man government to complete the three -cornered trade.
 WHY MANEUVER IS NECESSARY
 Now why is such a complicated maneuver necessary?
 Best sources here indicate there is not enough gold and foreign ex- change available in Germany to per- init German Jews to get out of the country with their wealth, even II the Reich turned over to them its whole hoard. And the Nazi govern ment is not likely to deplete its war chest" of gold and foreign ex- change by letting Jewish refugees take it out of the country.
 Here are figures on the situation.
 Last April Germany ordered Jews to register all their wealth. It was officially reported to total 8,0000 000,- GOO reichmarks, or $3.200 ,000, ,000. A British publication, the London Banker, estimates that since then one billion marks of value has shrunk away and that two billion Continued on Page Seven)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-04
Chinese Winning
 2Fronfs
Force Crossing Along Sui Riyer-Move Forward
 Also on Border

SHANGHAI, Jan. 4. - Severe fighting on widely separated fronts is reported after the holiday lull.
 The Chinese claim they have broken the long stalemate along the Sui River, 50 miles south of the Yangtze River at Port Kiukiang by forcing a crossing and recapturing two towns on the north bank. Far ther west, along the Hupeh-Hunan border, the Chinese assert they have recaptured Tawuntsun, in the north.
 The Japanese are continuing the offensive in Shansi Province.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-04
RARE INCIDENT TAKES PLACE IN
 SENATE OF U. 5.
Wife of Former President Witnesses Son Taking
 His Oath

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.-Capitol historians said the attendance of Mrs. William Howard Taft at the seating yesterday of her son Ro- bert in the Senate, marked for the first time in 136 years, when the wife of former President of the United States had seen her son so honored.
 In 1903, Mrs. John Adams saw her son, John Quincy Adams. take his oath as Senator.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-04
INSURGENTS 0NADvANCE
 ONE SECTOR
Reported Arteskd, Key 10 Catalonia, Control
 Point, Captured

HENDAYE, Jan. 1.-Two Insur- gent columns, blasting their way through the Government fortifica- tions. are reported to have captured the little textile town of Artesa, known as the key to Catalonia.
 Artesa is highly important to the Insurgents because of it's position as the control point for three main highways.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-04
FOUR FLY WITH AAT

Shell Simmons took four pas sengers aboard the Alaska Air Transport Lockheed today for Hoon- ah and Hirst.
 pr. Joseph Aronson and Irma Parr flew to Hoonah and Reginald Lee and Ralph Effner flew to Hirst.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-04
ARGUMENTS BEING HEARD IN SCOTT
 DELINQUENCY CASE

Testimony was completed and ar guments started this afternoon in the case of Sam Scott who is being tried before a jury in Federal Dis trict Court on charges of contribut- ing to the delinquency of minor girls.
 The Jerome J. Armstrong murder case is scheduled to open tomorrow Armstrong is charged with the death of Peter Allard last summer aboard a gasboat at Kalina Bay
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-04
BABY CLIPPER
 FROM SEATTLE;
 LANDS AUX BAY

The Baby Clipper of the Pan Am- erican Airways zoomed over Juneau this afternoon and landed at Aux Bay about 2:05 o'clock.
 The clipper will remain until to- morrow morning, and weather per- mitting will fly south again, via Ketchikan.
 The trip is the third on the winter flying from Seattle to Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-04
LYING AND ARNOLD TO BE GUESTS,
 CHAMBER TOMORROW

Senator Norman R. Walker and Judge w. c. Arnold of Ketchikan, and Representative Howard Lyng Of Nome. member of the Territorial Board of Public Welfare, have been invited to be guests of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce at it's weekly luncheon tomorrow noon in Percy's Cafe, it is announced by Secretary R. H. Stevens.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-04
Large Sum For Navy Bases In MorihIand

WASHINGTON, Jan. All aska Delegate Anthony J. Di- ond has introduced legislatisn to authorize the Navy to spend $1OO,OOO,OOO on whatever Alaskan bases the. Navy Department deems necessary.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-04
MINING FIRM INCORPORATES

Articles of incorporation have been filed with the Territorial Au- ditor by the Sonny Fox Mining Com pany of Seward. Capital is listed at $10000O and directors are E. D. Webb, c. E. Orlander and R. .E. Baumgartner.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-04

To get the most vitamin c, keep vegetables in the refrigerator, for this vitamin deterioratees rapidly at any but cool temperatures.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-04

In Palestine bread is not con- sidered ordinary food, but special gift from God; until 1844, it was not sold, but only given or exchanged.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-04

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-09
Here's How It Started
WHO INVENTED THE AUTOMOBILE?
Democrats Washington Service Bureau By Clarence A. Holden, Staff Writer

commonly given to Krebs, who, in 1894, designed the Panhard car with a vertical engine under hood, at the front, modern type chassis, common type of sliding gear trans mission operated by hand, clutch and brake pedals, and foot &C., celerator.
 U. s. Patent Issued 1895
 An American patent for an auto mobile which used an internal com bustion engine was granted in 1895 to George B. Selden of Rochester, N. Y, whose claims were so broad and inclusive that at one time 90 per cent of American cars were manufactured under Selden li- censes. Eventually, however, small group of manufacturers led by Henry Ford resisted at law the charge that their products infringed the Selden patent, as it should be properly interpreted, and in 1911 a decision that ended its reign was rendered.
 Today, nearly 260 years after Sir Isaac Newton made his suggestion for a mechanically propelled .ve- hicle, the grst line of the prophecy purported to have been made by Mother Shipton in 1641, has been fulfilled. Unfortunately, it has also brought about the fulfillment of the second line of her insight into the future. The lines read:
 Carriages without horses shall
 go,
 Accidents fill the world with
 woe"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-09
Annual Convention
 Of Real Estate Men
Plans and Schedule for Three-Day Session Opening
 Oct 4 in New York Already Under Way

New York, June g. - The sched- uled is out today for real estates big week of the year the annual convention of the National Associa- tion of Real Estate Boards, to be held in Los Angeles in October. The convention will be held in the Bilt- more hotel, with general sessions in October. The convention will be held in the Biltmore Hotel, with gen. eral sessions opening Tuesday noon, october 24, and continuing through "wednesday morning, when the con- vention will break up into national meetings covering various special ized branches of real estate prac- tice, two or three of which will be going on at a time Wednesday after noon and all day Thursday, October | 26.
 General sessions vii lbe resumed Friday morning, October 27, will close on the afternoon of that day. N.A.R.EB.'s board of directors will meet on October g. Executive and committee meetings will fill the earlier days of the week. Saturday will be held free for entertainment and sightseeing.
 A one-day adjourned session of the convention is to be held at Honolulu, with the Honolulu Realty Board as host. The Realtors will sail from Los Angeles October ? on this post convention journey to Hawaii. Real tors Days have been declared at San Francisco's Golden Gate Exposition. They are October 21 and 9.
 Special vacation tours are being planned by the boards and by state real estate associations over the country as pre-convention and post convention tours. For example, a special train planned by the Chicago Real Estate Board will leave Chi cago, October 16, with stop-overs at Glacier National Park, Seattle, Victoria, Portland, Mount Shasta, and San Francisco, taking in Real tors Day at the San Francisco Ex- position and starting back to Chi cago from Los Angeles on October 30.
 The Los Angeles Real Estate Board and the California Real Es- tate Association, hosts to the con- vention, are already planning spe- cial entertainment and sketching sightseeing trips for the visitors. The convention is the principal meeting of the year on matters Of real estate public policy. E. L. Os- ltendorf, Cleveland, president of the Association, will preside at all gen. eral sessions.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-09

E'he automobile is not the product of a single inventor, nor even of men within a single century, for, although most of us are inclined to think of the automobile as an in vention of our generation, in reality it8 history goes back several hun- dred years.
 In 1880, Sir Isaac Newton sug- gested a method for propelling ve- hicles by mechanical power, but his idea resulted in little more than toy, consisting of a steam boiler supplying a steam jet turned to the rear. The real credit for build- ing the first self-propelled road ve- hicle belongs to Nicolas Joseph Cugnot, French military engineer, who between the years 1763 and 1769 built two steam driven car- riages, one of which is still pre- served and exhibited in Paris. These were designed to be substituted for horses in drawing artillery and, it is asserted. they could run at a speed of two and one-half miles per hour, but had to stop every hundred feet or so to make steam. Only few years after Cugnot's achievements, Oliver Evans of Dela- ware, U. s. A., thought of steam to drive a road wagon, and in 1789 obtained the first American patent for a self-propelled vehicle.
 First Combustion Machines
 Although Christian Huygens, the noted Dutch scientist, ins work published in 1878 proposed the first internal combustion engine, by burning gunpowder in a cylinder closed at one end with a loosely sliding piston, all the self-propelled vehicles up to 1860 were powered by steam engines which ran at slow speeds. In that year, however, Lenior of Paris built an internal combustion engine which ran on city gas, ignited by an electric spark, which engine was used to propel road vehicle in 1862. In 1866 Otto and Langen invented the type of four-stroke cycle engine, and that principle is still used.
 Credit for the first gasoline auto- mobile incorporating many of the essential features of modern cars is
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-09

men wishing to know how to swim Monday. Wednesday and Friday evenings. George also has charge of the women's classes which hold forth every Tuesday evening.
 Not only is careful attention given to those who want to learn to swim but also to members who wish to swim well to know the art Of fancy diving and also life saving.
 Besides these special classes and hours, members of the state cham pionship Orion Swimming Team
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-09

holds SO,oOO gallons of clear. spark. ling water.
 The whole family can learn to swim at the ''Yp Boys csasses are held every day and instructor Mar tin OFlaherty is always on hand to give the boys the best of attention.
 For the girls, Tuesday and Thurs day mornings have been reserved and classes will start as soon as school is over.
 George Gelgauda is the mems in- str1ctor and classes are held for
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-09
STEPS ON NICHOLAS
 PROPERTY REBUILT

A set of stone steps on the Nich- ois property at Baldwin street and eParl Lake road was rebuilt yester- day by city workmen, as result of complaints by the family that the steps had been badly damaged in the paving of Baldwin street.
 The work was done by Superin- tendent of Streets Thomas J. Elem ing after an investigation of the claims made by the Nichols family.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-09

Price includes laying and ce- menting over felt lining - for kitchens of 16 square yards! Double cemented to the floor with felt lining-work guaran- teed!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-09
FEDERATED PASTOR
 MAY REMAIN HERE

Rev. Thomas Leroy Crosby, pastor of the South Federated church, will announce whether he will accept or reject the call to the pastorate of the First Congregational church in Manchester, N. H., at services at his church next Sunday morning. MT. Crosby appeared at recent board meeting, but gave no definite answer as to what his decision will be.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-09
Y POOL PROVES
 POPULAR PLACE

The Central 'Y" Swimming pool is a popular cooling of place these hot summer days. Scores of young sters and grown-ups drop in to the indoor lake for quick plunge at all hours of the day. The "Y" pool