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The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-04-25
UNIQUE DRAMA E FEATURED A5
 CAPITOL SHOW
''Leffer of Introduction Is Ending Tonight al
 Local Theatre

Just a simple letter of introduc- tlon =.
 But it provides some of the great est dramatic moments ever seen on any screen in Universals Letter Of Introduction, ending at the Capi- tol Theatre tonight.
 First of these moments occurs when Andrea Leeds. as Kay Mar tin, takes the letter to Adolphe Menjou, as John Mannering, screen and stage idol. For then Menjou discovers that Andrea is his daugh- ter, whose existence he never had suspected.
 And through this same letter of introduction, Menjou meets Edgar Bergen and Charlie Mccarthy, and helps them become the greatest fig ures in the entertainment world.
 The letter also causes a quarrel and parting between Andrea and George Murphy, when she will not explain the relationship between herself and the aging actor It in directly brings tragedy into many lives, happiness to others, a m d numerous comedy situations.
 Letter of Introduction" is the latest masterpiece of John M. Stahl, who produced and directed Back Street." Magnificent Obsession, !" illumination of Life"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-04-25

station platform M by avalanche of Hollywood stars the bewdered family itself by $34o the receipts of uredly taken collection. s.es
 production schedules up by nlroats tese spring Bob Hope has lost his voice completely fake his speeches in The Canay lines be dubbed On the Betty out theHWhat Life" company for This lns since brought out from New York the picture lapsed the first time from the sheer makeup ess and fittings. 4e | iAa slaNrs 4tx c slspp player Fzgeralds voice the Give troupe trying to shoot around her. She be out week, too se es aetlf W FsJs# ti35eM si------ax F*tsasM f@ rFg as
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 velez parties the other night Hers for the Girl company Johnhys place Nurn-
 ed yet The invited bring Sir Cedric iardwicke tired playing why he will do Shylock
 that he roles A OSuivan given surprise baby shower hg Oeaghty Received Norma Axyne Ie Pat Patterson other stars .Roert Yougs oary of appointed Virginia honorary police with Edgar Bereeu his leading lady the Universal picture Fields La secretly married Jerry Gallan of orchestra. It was Santa Barbara elopement
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-04-25
DOUGLAS
 NEWS
CIT YOFFICIALS ARE
 GIVEN SALARY BOOSTS
 BY DOUGLAS COUNCIL

A $l5 raise for City Clerk Charles Tuckett making his monthly salary salary 800, and $10 mp from $50 for City Marshal Charles Schramm were voted by Douglas Councilmen at their regular meeting last night.
 Greater attention to the duties of his office, particularly in con- nection with securing water reyen- ues due the city is to be expected of the Clerk it was stated. For his services as tax assessor an extra remuneration of $10 was voted
 It was decided that anyone de- string to use the city's cement mix CT must from now on pay $1 day for it's use. Ruling was also placed in effect that the use of the city truck will henceforth be restricted to city business.
 Two new ordinances were present. ed to the City Council for first read ing. Most important is one which would regulate the hours of business for beer parlors, and have them clos ed from 1 am. to am. each day
 The other would have drivers lic- enses issued for 2-year periods in- stead of for just one year as at pre- sent.
 Security bonds for the City Clerk and School Treasurer were read anc approved
 Audit of the school books was re- ported made. They revealed the sun of $7797 needed to effect balance between receipts and disbursement;
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-04-25
AUSTRIAN SklIERS
 SEEING CITY WITH
 EYE 10 MOUNTAINS

Two nationally known skiiers from Austria. via Sun Valley, were in Juneau today, looking for fresh snow pastures to conquer.
 They are Fritz Schwarz and Charles Brecknies. who arrived this morning on the steamer Yukon to visit Mary Joyce's Taku River Lodge, having met Juneau's Mary at Sun Valley during the winter when Miss Joyce was mushing dog team at the million dollar winter ski resort.
 The two Austrian masters of the art of controlled skiing say they are going to take try" at Juneaus slopes, and possibly go on to Mount Mckinley National Park.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-04-25

I By W h a t ts S i m i l a r method did the three following a IT es get their profes sion al starts; Ginger Rogers, A n n ( Cl a Lou) Sheridan (s h ow n in the picture), and Frances Farm CT?
 . What Eng Zs fish direc- tor, responsible for some of the most popula a r British :. m a d c pictures shown in the United States, recently contracted to di- rect pictures in Hollywood?
 , Of tn es e Ss t h r e e scree en profes- sions, which has the longest av- craze profes S sional life: di-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-04-25
HALIBUT SALES MONDAY

Halibut sales at Seattle Monday were as follows:
 From the western banks-Eagle, 10000 pounds, selling for 7A and 6h cents; Attu, 10000 pounds, 75s and 6as cents; North, 10000 pounds, 75s and 6A cents.
 From the local Wesley, 1000 pounds, 8k and cents; Diana. 1900 pounds, Faith, 1000 pounds, 8A and cents; Westfjord, 5000 pounds, g and 6 cents; Bertha, 10000 pounds, and 6 cents.
 At Prince Rupert on Monday. l76,- 900 pounds of halibut were sold at TAO to 7.50 and cents.
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-04-25
PERCY,S = EsUS uas ui1' z

it's a congenial and delicious air that pervades PERCY'S al all times inc air of fine food we'll served in tasteful surroundings.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-04-25

 CONVICTED
Tweny-s seven Russians Found Guiliy-Given
 Prison Sentences

MOSCOW, April 25. - Twenty seven men, charged with sabotage and espionage for an unidentified foreign power, are reported to have been convicted at Yeravna Buryat, Mongolian Republic, and each has been sentenced to six years impris- onment.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-04-25
KRoNoUIsT RETURNS

After an absence of about three years, Franz Kronquist returned on the North Sea this morning from Finland to settle down and establish a home for his wife who will follow him here from the old country as soon as immigration regulations are complied with.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-04-25
BRENNENs MOVE

MT. and Mrs. Arthur Bremen have taken possession of the Mills house on St. Ann's Avenue and were to- day moving into the 3-story struc- t,ira
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-04-25
Hollywood ,Sight And Sos.n4s
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HOLLYWOOD Ca April 25No matter how far the studios the village New Salem Ill., for Young MT Lincoln after set for week Twentieth Century discovered that track full of auto impossible regulate traffic Pice Sherwood Forest and reshoot much of the weeks work
 The Louise Campbell who married j. Casey not Hoywoods Louise Campbell May silly print of confused showeng the a Mahon, e.tesS ss s
 Preparations going full tilt start RKOs afMenoy Caroe Lombard they insisting that the film production the agreed date So that plenty ready for her honeymoon trip with O. Gable.Ass
 incident occurred Kingnan Ariz, when appeared the license The off for the day and his assistant youthful Viola oon excited spilled ink all the the She probably the thrill of her life when the invited her attend the ceremony s.p4a4 sts srT
 The newywed Gables obliging to the After the marriage they back from Kingman Didn't get to bed until morning up at 93O for reporters and photographers
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 Incidentally the Lombard wedding wasn't Kinenans first taste of movie fame. Devine there %
 The Warner Brothers Dodge City brought luck to Mexican family of nine who sleeping the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-04-25
RUMMAGE SALE

Tn Lutheran Church Parlor, We'd
 liesday. Donations appreciated. Phone 579 and they will be called for. adv.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-18
Working For Uncle Sam

Connecticut cannot help but feel con- siderable satisfaction in the recent an- nouncement that Joseph M. Tone, former State Labor Commissioner, has been ap- pointed to a responsible post in the Department of Labor at Washington. He will act as liaison officer between Wash ington and the various state labor de- partments. Certainly his experience in this state fits him for this office and he should be a complete success in his endeavors.
 When he was replaced this spring as State Labor Commissioner by the very able Cornelius Danaher of Meriden it was remarked on all sides that Governor Ray mond E. Baldwin had to find an excepp- tional official to replace "Joe" Tone. Everyone admits that he did thoroughly satisfactory and complete job in his state office under the administrations of Will bur L. Cross. He not only revitalized the department, but actually made it a force in the state.
 From time to time is was rumored that he would leave Connecticut for a position in the federal labor bureau, but he re- mained faithful to ex-Governor Cross who first appointed him and who had first been successful candidate for the governorship under the aid and guidance of MT. Tone as secretary of the Demo- cratic State Central Committee. His new office may remove him far from this state, but he will still be remembered.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-18
The Big Ditch

The Panama Canal is only 25 years old. That doesn't seem possible. To most Americans it seems as if the "big ditch" was always down there cutting the Isthmus of Panama in two and making that long journey down around the ex- tremeity of South America needless for sailing vessels. During the celebration this week one of the high-lights was movement through the canal of several of the old-time boats that participated in the first voyage through the canal back in 1914.
 That was the year the World War be- gan. In fact, when the canal was thrown open on August IS, 1914, war guns had been blasting for some few days. And we can recall, too, how Americans won- dered if perhapps this great waterway might not last very long if European war powers decided that this was too strategic watercourse to be allowed to go un- scathed. Yet even with our entrance in- to the World War three years later the canal continued to operate, although under closer surveillance.
 And today, too, it remains under ex- tremely close surveillance as it's import ance not merely as commercial water route, but as an easy means to shunt war vessels back and forth from Pacific and Atlantic and vice-versa becomes more pronounced Twenty-Five years after the opening of the Panama Canal no one but honors the memory of those who con- ceived and worked and persevered to make the canal a possibility.
 For those who wonder how the federal government does in business, the canal Is striking example of good manage ment. The net investment of the Ameri- can people in the canal is something over $5O0,O00,OO0. Over and beyond cost of operation, plus depreciation, the canal pays between 2 12 and per cent inter- est annually.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-18
War on the Air

Small radio stations are taking up arms against the manufacturers of pho- nograph records. On and after October new system goes into effect in those stations which make frequent or daily use of records to fill in intervals not cov- cred by commercials or local sustaining programs. Use of records for radio pro- grams has become so widely accepted and indulged in that the disc manufacturers feel they are not getting their moneys worth. So they are going to impose a weekly charge on the stations.
 But most of the smaller stations aren't going to accept the charge They are going to make some other arrangements to fill in their intervening hours with entertainment for the listeners. At least that's the impression we get after read ing bit about the argument in trade circles. There will be many original and good schemes probably produced to cir cumvent this charge for use Of records. rhere'll be many efforts made to evade the ban with consequent disastrous re- suits, of course.
 As to the justice of the record makers plan, no one should begrudge them the riRht to certain percentage of royalties
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-18
Newspapers Cooperate

There are many, many cases in which newspapers withhold news when the pub lie interest seems clearly at stake. Often it is done when damage will be done to private parties by publication of some thing in which there is no public interest This is field in which it is hard to set up rules. But editors are human, too, and many public service and private deed of consideration goes unnoticed
 Two such cases of suppression recently were so outstanding as to cause wide notice. In South Bend, Ind, and San Francisco, Calif., the newspapers deliber- ately held out stories of kidnapings be- cause such publication would either en- danger the victim or hamper police in catching the criminal. In both cases the children kidnapped were returned un- harmed, and in both the criminals were caught red-handed. In both, the news papers had the story, and worked closely with police in running down the cases but refrained from publication until the cases were concluded. They placed the public interest ahead of even their own. While these cases were spectacular and outstanding, they are not unique.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-18

The growth of the community club movement in Waterbury is quite notice able right now. Many new organizations in various sections of the city have sprung up in the past year or so and are actively functioning for the betterment of their particular locality. That seems to be the motive behind most of the con- munity clubs right now and it's natural one, too. Every section of the city wants to have all the improvements that go with city's progress. When they are denied or held up it usually requires con- certed action to secure the desired improvements. In such an instance a club can prove valuable asset to both the section it represents and the city board which it is going to importune. Often times requests for improvements are not based on reason. It is safe to assume that community clubs will not go in for this sort of thing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-18

A recent article in The Democrat re- vealed for the first time to many Water bury householders the fact that there is an exact number to be applied to their homes on the regularly-accepted streets of the city, Federal mail regulations require that houses where there are reg ular mail deliveries be properly identified by number. Superintendent of Mails Charles Platt of the local Post Office re- veals that such numbers are not obtained by looking at the next door neighbours, but are on file at the City Engineers office and identify the lot on which the house is built.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-18
Current Comment

I hope to establish definite pre- paratory standard. because there are too many unqualified lion-tamers But they don't last very long. Clyde Beatty, qualified liontamer I tried to keep up appearances, because you've got to keep up 8 front in Hollywood. I just couldn't make it.
 Marshall Neilan, Hollywood movie director. now broke.
 We have so emphasized the inn portance of the dollar that many believe it makes no difference how you get 1t, just so you have it. pr. W. Stanley Smith, Windermere M. E. Church, Cleveland.
 Morals and ethics have no validity anywhere unless vali deverywhere.
 Frank M. Sheldon. It is clear that though the cacoph- ony of 8 swing band may fill the soul of a jitterbug with rapture, it fills the air with barbarous dis onance" in the ears of weary worker wooing tired natures sweet restorer.
 New York Supreme Court Justice Samuel Hofstadter.
 
 Real life never presents . simple choice between an absolute right and an absolute wrong.
 Sherwood Eddy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-18
THE HIPPODROME TO VANISH
(New York Herald -Tribune)

(NeW York HeralQ-IrlDune)
 Like the sixty beautiful girls in bathing suits who disappeared night ly from the stage of the big play house at Sixth avenue and Forty third street beneath seventeen feet of water, that vast structure is itself to sink fro insight. Its establishment in 1905 was due to the daring of two young showmen who had made money at the Buffalo Exposition. and who afterward established Luna Park, at Coney Island. Frederick A. Thompson and Elmer s. Dundy per- suaded several rich men, including John w. Gates, John s. Black and Col. H. H. Rogers, to back them in a great amusement venture, on a new plan. and the Hippodrome was the result.
 Its popular success was tremen- dous. and it became a center of New York's night life at a time when money was plentiful. fod and drink were cheap and Jacks and other similar resorts entertained throngs at prices that would make a night club manager curl his lip in scorn because of their moderation. The Hip" in it's time housed @ long list of spectacles and sporting events: it echoed to mass meetings and saw several seasons of creditable low priced opera. Its doom was often pro- claimed. but always until now an imaginative snowman has taken over the building. Vast numbers of New Workers were entertained by these enterprises. and often the promoters made money. A succession of owners and lessees followed, struggling man. fully against rising tidesfof taxes and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-18
(FrOm The New York Times)

Connecticut's most shocking polit- ical scandal of recent years ap- breaches it's final curtain with the conviction, at Waterbury, of Mayor and former Lieutenant Governor Frank Hayes and nineteen others, indicted with him for conspiracy Of course such an episode cannot be fully explained by saying that twenty men did wrong and were found out. How did these men, nine of whom were elected or appointed public servants reach a point at which they could, in the words of the indictment, conspire ito cheat and defraud the city of large sums in excess of a million dollars? It was charged that the offenses began in January, 1880, yet as late as 1897 the voters of Waterbury thought well enough of MT. Hayes to make him Mayor and well enough of another defendant, former City Controller Leary, to give him only thirty-three votes short of a ma jority. Why =, successful politicians, bankers, contractors and account ants throw away in sinful folly the friuts of life's hard work?
 The answer seems to be that the state of political morals in Water burv and to some extent in other subdivisions of Connecticut had a bad slump after 1880. Acts which might once have seemed unthink- able came b. easy stages, to at least a few men, to seem natural. When the Waterbury indictments were re- turned, in May, 1888, the extraordi- nary grand jury referred in it's re- port to lawyers who had hagrantly violated fundamental principles of professional ethics," and to the paid lobbyists who. concealing his finan- cial interest in the passage or de- feat of legislation, secures the end for which he is employed through the exertion of political influence. ' The lawyers and lobbyists in ques- ton were not named in the indict- ment, since they were not shown to have committed illegal acts. Yet it was apparent that the Waterbury scandal had its being in broader political environment which was not 1 in Q healthy condition.
 Some of the trouble may have been due to confusion in the vot- CTS minds. They elected an honest and able chief executive former Governor Wilbur L. Gross. but the highest aspirations ran successfully in the same elections with some thoroughly cynical political chi-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-18
. HIGHLlGHTS FROM LATEST BOOKS
Why Children Are That Way

The problem of the child's emotion-
 al life Is receiving increasing at-
 tention these days, which is Q
 salutary trend. One of the lead
 CTS in this field of study is Dr.
 Maria Montessori. Her findings
 are included in a book vital to
 both parents and teachers, "The Secret of Childhood" Stokes: $2.50). Just a jot of her advice
 and analysis is excerpted briefly here.
 Before the child can perform ac- tions with clearly logical motive, such as theses he has sen perform ed by grown-ups, he begins to act for purposes of his own, using things for ends that are often unintelligible to adultds.
 Once, for example, I saw a child of a year and half who found a pile of napkins that had just been ironed and were neatly laid one on top of the other. The child took one of these folded napkins, hold ing 1t with the greatest care and putting one hand under it so that 1t should not unfold, and carried it diagonally across the room to the opposite corner, here he put it on the ground saying "One!" He then went back, taking the same diago- nal path.
 He took second napkin in the same way . put it down on top the first, saying again "One!" This he did till he had carried over the whole pine. Then he took them all back to their original place. Luckily for the child no one of the family had been present.
 How often do small children see a grown-up descending on them with a cry of. "Stopl Put that downl" And how many times are those tiny, So much to be vene- rated hands, slapped so that they shall learn not to touch thingsl . The adult who has not grasped that manual activity is a vital need for the child, and who does not recognize the first mani- festation of an instinct to work. prevent sthe child fro mworking.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-18
What's Your l. O.?
Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to last page for the answers.

1. Why does cream rise to the top of a bottle of milk?
 2. What is post mortem examin- ation?
 3. Is King Haakon VII the ruler of Norway, Sweden or Denmark? 4 Into what body of water does the Volga River empty?
 5. Is a meter longer or shorter than yard?
 6. What Is nephoscope?
 T. Name the first Chief Justice of the United States.
 8. Which baseball team in the American League was the first to defeat the New York Yankees in double -header this year?
 g. What is the correct pronuncia- ton of the word remonstrate?
 10. What does the letter s on American coins indicate?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-18

With the conspiracy trial almost a thing of the past we wonder if the move ment, or should it be termed fight, to enlarge the present quarters in the county courthouse, can be continued successfully. The legislators from New Haven County thought local members of the bar were worried simply because of the continual tion here of the conspiracy trial We think, though, that if the situation were studied, it would be seen that complaints about contemplated.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-18

was no surprise to the White House inner circle. They had been tipped off in advance by friend- ly Texan.
 Undercover signs also told them that Rayburn was prepar- ing to return to the Garner cor ral. .Rayburn went over to Gar ner's office to confer practically every day in the closing weeks of Congress.
 During the Hatch bill fight, Rayburn, although outspokenly against the bill, lined up for it on the final vote-as did all the other Garnerites who didn't duck the roll-call.
 A few days later, Raybun let the lending bill be killed without the semblance of a fight. He voted for 1t, but made no effort to save 1t. In the face of united Re- publican opposition, when every vote counted, the Democratic whips didn't lift finger to get out a full party muster
 Angry New Dealers charged Rayburn with "desrting" the ship in order to further secret political ambitions. They be- bieve that Garner feels he has not chance for the 1940 nomina- ton with Roosevelt dead against him, and has promised to throw his delegates to Rayburn after the first or second ballet.
 This story has left Roosevelt congressman to plan appointing a floor leader and whips of their own next session. Whether any,