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The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-16
GREAT BRITAIN SEEKlNG FACTS ON NAH MOVES
Ambassador 10 Berlin May Be Ordered 10 Return
 10 London Now

LONDON, March 16 -- Prime Minister Chamberlain told the House of Commons this afternoon that Great Britain is considering calling home Sir Neville Tender son, Ambassador to Berlin, to re- port on Germany's new adva1ice eastward.
 The Prime Minister, when point edly asked whether the British Government "contemplates protest ing to Germany against invasiop .pf Czechoslovakia," declined to make any reply.
 Sir John Simon, Chancellora sof Exchequer, indicated that steps wi1 be taken to keep from Germany the gold held by the Czechoslovak- ian National Bank in London.
 Are On Watch
 Home Undersecretary Geoffrey Lloyd declared that all Nazi organ izations in Great Britain are being watched most closely"
 The House of Commons has been requested to approve Naval esti- mates of $768,ooO.o0 for the next fiscal year. record for peacetime. Commons was told that Great Brit aims navy is her first line of de- fense and could confidently accept direct challenge of battle by any probable combination of foes"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-16
W. J. D0NNELY DIES SUDDENLY
 IN KETCHIkAN
Lighth ousekeeper, on Leave from Cape De-
 eision Passes Away

KETCHIKAN, Alaska, March l6 William James Donnely died early today, after sudden illness, in his hotel room. He came here recently from Cape Decision where he was lighthouse keeper.
 Donnely intended to meet his sister in Seattle within the next two weeks and go to the Worlds Fair in New York City.
 Donnely was on leave from the Lighthouse Service and was to re- tire when the leave expired on Nov ember l. He joined the service ten years ago.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-16
HALIBUT MEN
 WILL CONFER
 OVER LAYUpS
First Sailing Dafes Likely 10 Be Seven Gays
 Earlier This Year

SEATTLE. March l6-The Fish ing Owners Association and the Deep Sea Fishermen's Union are holding joint meeting today for discussion of the proposal by the vessel owners regarding layup o1 vessels during the coming halibut season.
 The proposal is that Area Two beats have the same layups as last year, that Area Three boats take ten days additional layup and that all Area Two boats going into Area Three be compelled to take and ad- ditionar layup time up to a limit of ten days.
 Union leaders said they expect to decide next week on sailing dates, which will probably be March 23 or March 24, instead of April l, as last year.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-16
NORMAN FREEMAN OF l. F. (. VISITS FISHERMEN HERE

Norman Freeman, junior scientist of the International Fisheries Com mission has been spending the last few days in Juneau on official busi- ness, contacting halibut fishermen and preparing statistical data on North Pacific fisheries.
 Planning to return south tonight on the motorship Northland, Free man will go to the conference of Pa cific Coast Biologists at Lummi Island, near Bellingham, holding forth March 23-24-25.
 While in Juneau. Freeman has been a guest at the Baranof Hotel
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-16
GERMAN PLANE
 DOWN ON OCEAN
Secret Nonstop Flight from Berlin 10 South Amer
 iCa Ends al Sea

NATAL, BRAZIL. March 16.-A German plane piloted by Captain Dierl was reported to have made a forced landing on the Atlantic to- day while attempting secret non- stop flight from Berlin to South America.
 A radio dispatch picked up by Navy radios said the crew of the plane had been rescued by the Ger man steamer Monte Pracoal.
 The plane left Berlin yesterday and crossed the Cape Verde Islands today at 4:30 am. EST. The forced landing was made about l26 miles off the coast of Brazil.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-16
By SIGRID ARNE AP Feature Service Writer

WASHINGTON, March l6.-Those Dear Bill" and My Dear John letters the President issued from Miami were not notes written on the spur of the moment.
 Behind them lay five months of treking back and forth by the de- termined. black-clad figure of Sec- retary of Labor Frances Perkins She has kept so still about what she was up to that even yet her trail is vague.
 It was early in September she had a ''hunchv the time was ripe for another attempt to bring CLOS John Lewis and AFL's William Green together in an effort to reach a labor true. Now the meetings have been started
 Timing with Babe Ruth
 The Madame secretary admits she had the hunch. Past that, she won't talk. But evidently her timing was right. And in public office sense of timing is like having three men on bases with Babe Ruth coming up to bat.
 Madame Perkins opening gun stirred scarcely an echo. It was her Labor Day speech. What she did then was to take the lid off by talk ing openly about the labor strife Up to that point, for almost year administrator leaders had avoid ed the subject.
 Now, just talking bout labor unions management of their own affairs might have brought bitter rebuff. And such rebuff would be sour apples to any administrator.
 But Miss Perkins Labor Day speech drew a flood of congratu- latory mail. And CIO and AFT headquarters said nothing.
 So the lady evidently decided tc press on. She had date to address the railway brotherhoods at Colum- bus, Ohio. in October. There, she publicly offered plan for a peace conference; a board to be composed of five CIO-ers, five AFL-ers, anc three outsiders.
 To anyone who understood labor affairs, that proposal looked as naive as letter from Santa Claus. Labor unions prefer to settle their differ ences without outside help So bott CIO and AFL hopped on that Octo- Der suggestion. But there was this much to it: they both had agreed on something-that they didn't like that peace plan.
 By this time Washington was thick with rumors. Amateur states
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-16
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT 10 PETITION CONGRESS KEEPS
 HOUSES ABOUT SWAMpED
By PRESTON GROVER

WASHINGTON, March 16-The Constitution says the right of peti- ton shall not be denied, and if ever there was right more freely exer- cised it has escapeu us.
 Every day the Inso few pages of the Congressional Record are packed with petitions from persons and groups and memorials from state legislatures asking congressional ac- tion, or inaction, on an amazing host of subjects.
 Kansas legislators feel the Gov ernment is chiseling on the distri- button of revenue from the 10 per- cent tax on sporting goods sales. Only $1.000,000 is scheduled for distribution to the states this year for wild life restoration, says the memorial, while usually reliable sources" say the tax is bringing $3,5O0,000. Kansas says its share of one million is only $l7,000, while if the usually reliable sources are right, it should be get ting $57,000.
 The Governor and Legislature of Arizona ask Congress to continue the silver purchasing program, warning that many of her own mines and others in the silver pro- ducing states will fold up without such aid.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-16
WEAR ROLLS ARE 10 BE HALvED
 BY JULY, 194o
Col. Harrington Says He Is Confident Agency Will
 Be Liquiddted

WASHINGTON, March 16.-Col. w. P. Harrington, Works Progress Administrator, is confident that eventually the WPA will be liqui- dated, it was revealed today.
 The new Administrator was said by member of Congress to have revealed this view at a recent secret committee hearing on the bill now pending to appropriate an addition al $150,00000 for relief work.
 Col Harrington, it was reported, told the Committee that he thought the WPA rolls could be reduced by 50 percent by July l, 1940, and added he didn't consider the huge relief agency permanent in any sense, and that it's eventual liqui- dation seemed certain.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-16
Germany and Hung ary Absorb SIovakia and
 Cdrpatho- Ukraine
EUROPE WONDERS AS u.
 TO NEXT EXPANSION
Bohemia, Moravia May Be Next 10 Fall Under
 German Yoke
(By Associated Press)

The two new states--Carpatho Ukraine and Slovakia--left from the wreckage of Czechoslovakia, faded today from the map of Europe '
 Hungary has annexed Carpatho- Ukraine, and Germany took Slo- vakia under her protectorate.
 As Hitler laid down the German law, Bohemia, Moravia and the re- mainder of Europe wondered anxi- ously where the next expansion of the Reich would be felt--and evil dently only one man--Hitler--knew the answer.
 And that German dictator is in Prague awaiting a propitious mo- ment to appear before 100000 new German subjects over whom he has laid protective hand.
 Decree Issued
 However, in decree broadcast by Foreign Minister von Ribben- trop, Hitler chartered the future oi the ancient lands Of Morayia and Bohemia as that Of "aulono- nous protectorate" within greater Germany.
 While Hungarian troops were reaching the border of Poland. after marching across Carpatho- Ukraine, Hungarian Premier Count Teleky proclaimed to a wildly cheering parliament in Budapest vCarpaJho- Ukraine has become q .ert of Hum gary"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-16
NEW CHIEF OF
 OPERATIONS OF
 NAVY iS NAMED
Rear Admiral Stark 10 Sue (eed Admiral Leahy-
 Towers Goes Up

WASHINGTON, March 16.-Rear Admiral Harold R. Stark will head the Navy for the next four years during it's greatest peaeetime expan- sion.
 The 58-year-old Compander of the battle force cruisers has been chosen by President Roosevelt as successor to Admiral Leahy as Chief of Naval Operations.
 Capt. John Henry Towers, flier for 27 years, has been named as Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-16
New Route To. Orient
 Via Alaska
Officials of Coast and Geo. defi1 Survey Reveal
 Study of Project

SEATTLE, March 16.-The offic- ials of the Coast and Geodetic Sur vey disclose a five-year $25,000, GOO project to chart a shorter and safer course to Asia through the North Pacific and facilitate Naval opera tions in the fog g-shrouded Aleutian Islands.
 The purpose is to develop a route between Continental America and Asia through Uninak Pass and westerly along the northern side of the Aleutians The proposed new route will be 100 miles shorter and less troubled by westerly storms.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-16
WHOLE CITY TO
 MAKE R0TARIAN
 (0NCLAvE CLICK
May Conference Is Com munity Responsibility,
 Chamber Told

Coming of the Rotary district con- ference in May is distinction for Juneau and will result in publicity of great value to Alaska, Juneau Chamber of Commerce members were told today by W. J. Moe, mem Der of the Portland Rotary club.
 Moe, fire insurance adjustor who has been here for month in con- nection with the Goldstein Building fire, said the Rotary conference is community proposition and would require the cooperation of all citl- zens of Juneau, not just members of the club, to make it a success.
 The Chamber of Commerce Is par ticipating actively in preparations for the convention, which will bring more than 600 visitors from clubs throughout Washington, oregon, British Columbia and parts of Idaho.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-16
FIRE PROTECTION
 FOR INTERIOR OF
 ALASKA BOOSTED
Request of Iekes for S37, 500 Tentatively Ap-
 proved by House

WASHINGTON, March 16.-The House has tentatively approved of the $37, 800 appropriation for forest fire prevention in the interior of Alaska.
 The appropriation has been re- quested by Secretary of Interior Harold l.. Ickes.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-16
LABOR SECRETARY WORKS fjUNCH TO COAX CHIEFS
 OF UNIONS TO pARLEYS

When President [ Roosevelt called on the AFL and the CI0 to heal the breach in labor's ranks, did he act on a sudden inspiration or was his letter part of carefully laid plan? Sigrid Arne, AP Feature Service writer, has made a painstaking study of what went on behind the scenes. This article is the first detailed account of what happened.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-16
STOP TAxEs-PAY PENSIONS!

STOP TAXES--PAf PENSIONS!
 Delaware comes in with a request that the Government stop taxing gasoline and other motor fuels, as- serting it has already gobbled up $1,500,000,00O since it invaded the gasoline tax field. Delaware thinks the states should have that tax to themselves.
 The one-house Nebraska legis- lature asks enactment on one of the Townsend-style old age pension bills.
 Six hundred members of the construction industry meeting in Los Angeles petitioned Congress to appropriate additional money to pay Federal housing employees, where last years appropriation had run out. The petition arrived on the very day the Senate passed the bill ano sent it to the President = so the builders can claim a bull's-eye there
 Gary, Indiana, Lodge No. 1l17 o1 the Steel Workers Organizing Com ------------------
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-16
NEWSPAPERS OF
 GREAT BRITAIN
 URGE WAR FUNDS
All D e m a ind Appropria lions Be Made for Pre-
 Daredness Plans

LONDON March 16.--The Brit ish newspapers, in editorial express sions today, found in Germany's emergence as an Imperialist Power further reason for vigorous pre- paredness program.
 All morning and afternoon news papers urge Parliament to not stint on any appropriations that will be used for protection of England.
 Prime Minister Chamberlain while sticking to a policy of con ciliation emphasized rearmament for Great Britain.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-16
MAJOR BENTON
 PASSES AWAY
Man Serving with General Custer in Indian Wars
 Dies in Yonkers

YoNKERs, N. Y, March le.-- Major Charles A. Benton. 91. who rode as Honor Guard in President Lincoln's funeral cortege and also served with Gen. Custer in the In- dian Wars. is dead here.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-16

The normal body temperature of donkeys and horses is the closest of all animals to that of human be- ings.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-03-16
FRENCH FOR COALITION

PARIS, March 16.--Agitation here appears for coalition in the Gov ernment of all parties in order to present a strong front against Ger many
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Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-11
Edited by Anne Hardy Davis
Fawcett- Thomas Wedding in
San Gabriel Monday

Valley friends of Mr.. and Mrs.
H. w. Fawcett of El Centro will be
interested in the account of the
marriage of their daughter, Margo,
to r. Montague Thomas, jr., son
of Mr.. and Mrs. r.. Montague
Thomas, sr., of San Francisco.
The ceremony was performed
Monday in the Church of Our
Saviour, San Gabriel, the oldest
Episcopal church in southern Cali
fornia. The Rev. Mr.. John r. At
will read the impressive service in
the presence of a group of rela-
tives and intimate friends
Organ music was played before
and during the ceremony, the young
couple exchanging VOWS before
an altar decorated with salmon
colored gladiola and many white
flowers.
The bride, given in marriage by
her father, was beautiful in her
wedding gown of white silk net
over white satin, fashioned with a
full skirt, tight bodice and short
puffed sleeves trimmed in narrow
white silk lace. She wore a veil
in the popular finger-tip length
caught to her head by a tiara of
blue forget-me-nots. Her bouquet
was of white orchids, white rose
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-11
News Items About
VALLEY Residents

Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley WolfSohn
and Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Worten-
dyke and daughter, Barbara, all
of Ell Centre, will spend the week.
end in Los Angeles. Mr.. WolfSohn
and Mr.. Wortendyke are drivers
license examiners for the Motor
Vehicle department.
Miss Marion Nelson of Los An
geles is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. John
Ballard for one week.
Nh and Mrs Henry l.. Loud re-
turned Wednesday from Los An
geleS.
Twice Told Tales section men,
bers have received invitations fol-
reading and luncheon on Tues
day, May % at the Barbara Worth
hotel from Mrs. Julia MCGOWAN
Brackett. Mrs. Louise Jewel Man
ming Hicks will give the program
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-11
Camp Fire Annual
Mothers Day
Tea Saturday

Camp Fires annual Mothers day
tea sponsored by the guardians for
the mothers of Camp Fire mem
berS, is scheduled for Saturday af-
ternoon between the hours Of -four
and five in the Ten Thousand club
The guardians have arranged a
delightful party for the mothers
and have stressed the fact that
every mother of a Camp Fire girl
is to be a guest of honor. Each girl
has been given an invitation for
her mother, but in case the invi-
tatiCn may have been mislaid, the
mothers are assured that they are
expected and will be most well
come.
Mrs. E. Z. Mason, Jr.. is general
chairman, and the following COM
mitteeS are busy at work on plans
for the tea: refreshments, MIS-
Mark McMahan. Mrs. r. Kohler
Mrs. E. H. Faulds; decorations, Mrs
Walter Phillips, Miss Esther Eek
hoff; corsageS, Mrs. James E. Nc
Kahan and Mrs. Robert Jones. Mrs
Forrest Manley is in charge of the
program.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-11
Two Ten Thousand Clubs to End
Year at Meetings Thursday

personate a variety of characters
by subtle infection. mannef1sm,
gesture so that they are really
lifelike and vivid TO her audience
Junior Banquet
AS for the Junior club. their clos
ing meeting is to be a banquet
Thursday evening at 7 o'clock in
the hotel. Miss Mae Thomas and
her committee are planning a
charming table appointment for the
occasion while Miss Marian Call,
program chairman, has arranged
an entertaining program for the
evening which will include a read
ing by Miss Emogene Blackard and
special numbers by the Junior Po-
lice Auxiliary, an organization
sponsored by the clubs Welfare
section.
Members of the club had an op-
portunity of meeting these girls at
the bridge tea last Saturday since
the Auxiliary helped the section
members in serving.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-11
Discuss Taxation
And L sisIation
For rCenter

Legislation and taxation were
subjects for study at the meeting of
Spruce Westmorland farm home
department Wednesday in the
Brawley women's club house.
These discussions took place in
the afternoon when Mrs. II. j. In
gram of Brawley gave a paper on
farmers and taxes, discussing at
length the hidden taxes and read
ing from the report OF the National
Consumers Tax commission.
Mrs j. F.. Warner talked ON the
work of the American Red Cross,
telling what the local chapter had
accomplished and also its future
goals.
Mrs. w. A. McFadden discussed
pending legislation.
During the morning session Miss
Florence Glenn, home demonstra-
ton agent, led the demonstration
on small equipment for kitchens.
At noon Mrs. Warner, Mrs. Ash
urst and Mrs. Sandford served a
tempting luncheon.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-11
.Committe es for
We akley Class
Party Named

Committees in charge of the lawn
party to be given May 16 at the
John IL. Dubois home for Guy A.
Weakley'S class of the Methodist
Sunday school have been announc-
ed as follows:
For supper, Mr.. and Mrs. John
w. Cook, Mr.. and Mrs. Rollie Clark,
MI. and Mrs. Frank Young, MI. and
Mrs. w. w. McEuen, Mr.. and Mrs.
C.H.H. Small for transportation,
Mr.. and Mrs. Small; for program,
MI. and Mrs. Will Won F'luss, Mr..
and Mrs Weakley;
H. Lee Landerman, assistant farm
advisor, is in charge Of the games;
Miss Barbara Borden, county music
supervisor, OF the community sing
ing. ssk
Mrs. Margaret Rau will play ac-
Gordon numbers and the Rev. DR..
E. A. Palmer, pastor of the church,
will install the officers.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-11
Catholic Women
Entertained d

Women of st. Marys Catholic
church had their monthly gather
ing Wednesday night at the j. P.
Eyer home, 1885 Olive avenue where
they enjoyed a series of amusing
games and the refreshments which
the hostesses served later in the
evening.
Mrs. J. B. McNeece won the door
prize; Mrs. Helen Kaley and Mrs.
I. Thanner, the prizes for the
games.
The house was charmingly decor
ated for the party with bouquets
of larkspur and snapdragons.
Hostesses for the evening were:
Mesdames j. P. Eyer, j. F.. Scott,
John Nugent. L. L. Rentz, Louis
DeVita, p. N. Van Slyck.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-11

Junior and Senior Ten Thousand
clubs will have their concluding
meetings of the year on Thursday
May 18, both clubs installing the
officers-elect at their respective
sessions.
For the Senior club, the final
meeting Is to be in the form of a
luncheon at the Barbara Worth
hotel at 1890 o'clock. Instead of
the usual reports by chairmen and
Officers, these reports are to be
filed with the secretary to allow
ample time for the program which
is to be an exceptional treat.
Play Reading
Mrs. Louise Jewell Manning
Hicks of San Diego, celebrated play
reader known widely in the United
States and Europe, is to be present.
ed in the delightful Candida by
George Bernard Shaw. This bril-
liant woman has the ability to i'm
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-11
Central Music Department
In Concert Friday Night

made to be used in purchasing uni
forms.
The concert will open with num-
bers by the school band after
which the glee club will be heard
followed in turn by the orchestra
the final number being Greetings
to Spring" from the Strauss blue
Danube" by orchestra and glee
club.
The program is one which every
one will enjoy including the tune
full melodies which are always SO
popular as we'll as the military
band compositions.
Glee Club Members
Members of the glee club are:
Nadine Abel, Bobbie Ann Anderson
Barbara Barrett, Helen Beronio
Dorothy Clark, Joan Clark, Natalie
Diemoz, Betty Dutton, Betty Mae
Duer, Jimmie Evans, Paul FabareS
Norris Gianini, Charles Gum, Ethel
Hurst, Virginia Jones, Mary Claire
Kieffer, Hazel Lee, Anna Joe Loon
ey, Helen Looney, Joan MacLarty
Louise Pennington, Marion Marcot
Jeanne Merritt, Genevieve Moody
Frank MouSseau, Geraldine Ordo-
nez, Virginia Price, Clara Pullenza,
Barbara Remington, Cecile Roberts,
Evelyn Robertson, Marie Roth, Eva
Shumard, Marjorie Jean Taylor
Marjorie Thomas, Velma Thomp-
son, Jean WEIGH, Echodell Wilson,
Mary Louise Sigmon, Marjorie
Harris, Harry Minami, George
Neves.
Band and orchestra members are
trumpets, George Neves, Bill Sage,
Raynor Clemons, Ebert Roberts
Lillian Carlton, Paul Haun, James
Cope, Marshall CroWell;
Clarinets, Reed Anderson, John
ny Thanner, Thomas Slovak, Fran
els NeveS, Helen Bishop, Leon Pro-
vazek, Russell Sherwood;
Baritone. Dale Hockett; from
bones, Dudley Cole, Marshall Finck
ElWood Carroll.
Violins, Lenna Arnold, Lois Bez-
decheck, Jay Burritt, Jeanne Criss
Betty Cole Ortha Console, Mary
Fiore, Marilyn Ingle, Henry Keltz
Melba Mcfarland, Mamie Maggie
Janet Moore, James Mora, Calvert
Moody, Jimmie Riedy Billy Glenn
cntS.
Sax and oboe. Edgar Palmer
Joyce Sherwood, Don zavala; mel
lophoneS, Laurence Cook, John
Neves' percussion, Leland Ritter
Tom Daniel. Haruo Fujizawa, Philip
Fahs; baSses. Jack Kinne, Charles
Cash, Gale Israel; piano, Pauline
OSWalt, Joyce Sherwood.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-11
Christian Church
Elects Officers

The Rev. Mr. Thomas L. Massie
pastor of the State Street Christian
church, was extended an invitation
to serve the church in that capa-
city another year at the recent an
nual meeting.
Other officers chosen include: O.
F.. Haun, r. D. Hoy, elders for
three years; Harold Tyler, P. E
Ryerson, elders for two years; G
T. McCarty, elder for one year;
Harold Tyler, trustee for three
years; P. f. Ryerson, trustee for
two years: Glenn S. Kieffer
trustee for one year; John Green
E. de La Vega, Glenn Kieffer
deacons for three years: John Ty-
Ter, Herman f. Taylor, Elma Ma
cey, deacons for two years; Wesley
He'll, Stanley Ryerson, Harmon H
Tyler, deacons for one year; Mrs
Haun, Mrs. C. S. Reed, Mrs. Martha
Steele, Mrs. Phil knights, deacon
esseS elected for three years; Mrs
He'll, Mrs. James DeVore, Mrs. w
p. Shea, Mrs. Henry Frost, deacon
esses for two years; Mrs. Macy
Mrs. Charles A. McCalmon, Mrs. j
D. Muncill, Mrs. de la Vega. deac-
onesseS for one year; Mrs. Johr
Green, financial secretary; Harold
Tyler, treasurer; Mrs. Harmon Ty-
ler, church clerk; Miss Ethel Maui
pin. Sunday school superintendent
Mrs. Herman E. Taylor, assistant
superintendent.