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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-30

with the British Army to be deco rated in this war. He was cited for gallantry during the evacuation of Dunkirk.
 Sims is grandson of the late Admiral William s. Sims, com- mander of the United States fleet in European waters during the World War. His father, George Sims, is also United States naval
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-30

A discharge was granted Domenic Montana, 30, of West Cheshire, who was arraigned before Judge Theo- bald E. Conway today, charged with reckless driving. The judge ruled the evidence did not prove reckless driv- ing.
 According to police. Montana struck a car at East Main street and Hamilton avenue July IA. Mon- tana said he was cut of when he tried to make a right turn into Hamilton avenue, and he struck the car when he tried to straighten out
 Other city court cases were dis posed of as follows:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-30
Discharge Ordered
 For Accused Driver
Judge Conway Holds Evidence Against West Cheshire
 Operator in Accident Case Insufficient

John J. Colapietro, 29, of 8 Oak street. speeding, nolled, $10; Fred eri ok J. Ferris, 21, of 82 Park ave- nue, Naugatuck, rules, no payment; William Calvin, 30, of 51 Manville street, rules, $5: Raymond c. Fisher. 42, of 330 East Main street, charged with assault, continued to August 3
 Edward Claffey, Jr., 20, of Herki- mer street, charged with being a fugitive from justice, was given a stay until August 13.
 Lieut.. Henry Johnson made the arrest yesterday on a warrant issued by Springfield, Mass, police The offense is said to be minor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-30

be required Of the so-called Fire Department" Battalions now being organized es the striking force of the fleet marine fierce, active, energetic and aggressive young men of excel- lent physique must be procured.
 Free Pictures
 Announcement was also made that a two-reel, 16 nm film with sound track, entitled Soldiers of The Sea" running time about 21 minutes, is available fer showing without charge before frarernal, patriotic and vet eran's organizations upon request to list SergeanG Beck. This film con- tains some excellent shots of Ma rine Corps training and instruction, both in the Recruit Training Gen. ters at Paris Island, s. c. and San Diego, Calf. and upon Fleet Ma |neuvers with the United States Fleet.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-30
Ruling Expected

Extradition papers seeking the return to Raleigh, N. C., of Gar land Terrell. z2, colored, of 19S Bishop street, this city, were to be examined by Gov. Raymond E. Baldwin at Hartford today. Terrell Is wanted for the murder of a white man In Raleigh last October.
 The papers were received yester- day at the governors office.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-30

ingly of the new deal and on her impressions of the recent DeEaocra- tic National Convention ct Chicago.
 Among those called on for short talks were Major William A. Patten of Torrington, Judge James F. Ho- gan, Judge of probate and Demo- cratic town committee chairman of Torrington; Patrick Phalen, regis trar of voters of Torrington: James Ruthledge, registrar of voters of Canaan and Mrs. Richard Galway of Thomaston, vice-president of the association.
 The various towns in the state were represented and about 90 were in attendance at the meeting. Press of other business made im- possible the attendance of several other speakers who were scheduled to address the meeting.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-30
Comfortable"

Mrs. Mabel Barnes, 45, of Beth lehem. who was injured in an au- tomobile accident in Bethlehem yesterday morning, was reported in fairly comfortable" condition today at the Waterbury hospital where she is being treated for con- cussion and head lacerations.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-30
Golf Pays

The week of July 4 was the biggest week in cash receipts in the history of the municipal golf course, it was announced yesterday at 9 meeting of the park board. Receipts for that week amounted to more than $500.
 The board voted to renew the lease of the land used for the Division street playground. The land is owned by the Chase company.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-30
SUICIDE VERDICT
 AT PLATTSBURC
Washington, Conn.,, En- rollee Found Dead Near
 Training Camp
Especial to The Democrat)

Plattsburg. N. Y, July 30-Dr Hubert Styles, coroner of Clinton county. said today he has reached a verdict of suicide in the death of Herman Lemont Schmidt, 4, of Washington. Conn.
 Schmidt was found dead Sunday near the professional and business mans training camp in which he was enrolled. The body was hunched over . shotgun. The back Of his head was blown of.
 Letters found in Q suitcase neas the body suggested that Schmidt was worried over husineas problems.
 Funeral services wilI be held ai the home Wednesday morning al 70 o'clock and viii ks private.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-30
BOSTON TEMPERATURE

Boston, July 30-(UP)-The tenn perature reached 90 at noon today, after soaring more than 10 degrees in three hours. Record for the date was 98 in 1883. The relative humid ity dropped from "A at 9:30 a. m. to 64 at noon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-30
FIRST AMERICAN
 IS GIVEN HONOR

London, July 30 - (U.P)-Lance Corporal Harold Arthur Sims, 21, wireless operator and tank gunner in the Royal Inninskilling Dragooll Guards, received the military medal today, the first American serving
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-30
Faces Charges

Carmine Angeline, of Waterbury, was charged with drunken driving and evading responsibility by New Haven police Sunday after an ac- cident in woodbridge. The local address was given as 405 Walnut street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-30
Breach of the Peace

Michael varanelli, 52, of SS9 Congress avenue, was arrested to- day on warrant charging breach of the peace. He will be arraigned in city court tomorrow morning.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-30

For iimid women often left alone in the house Q knockeg with q hole through which they can peek af those who knock has been Ge- Tised in London.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-30

The most popular books in Brit aims free libraries, apart from fic- ton. are biographies and travel stories.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-30

officer. Sims was born in Britain but never adopted British nation ality.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-30

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-03-31

General Fund Miscellaneous items of
 revenue ...............................$ 15,000 Receipts from National
 Forests in Alaska (75%) 25,OO0 Deposit interest fund ... 12000 Deposits by Territorial
 BOdrQS -..--.-...-.-..--.-.........-.-. 5,UUU Alaska Pioneers Home, Mis-
 cellaneous receipts ...... 10000 Escheated estates ................ 10000 Inheritance taxes and in-
 terest ................................... 23,0oo Property sales profit taxes 2,500 Railroad income taxes ........ 5000 Receipts from office of Au-
 ditor of Alaska including
 Insurance premium taxes 80,000 Receipts from office of
 Secretary of the Terri
 tory -..........-.......................... 1,75O Fishermens Licensing Law 155,000 Automobile license and
 registration law ............ 8O,ooo Llquor-licenSe fees - less
 refund to incorporated
 cities .-......-..-..........,....... 168OoO Liquor stamp tax--less
 commissions ...................... 2eoooo Chiropractors ....... 200 Dentists 600 Attorneys-at-Law ............... 1000 Undertakers ....................... 750 Bakeries ........-........-..........-.. 500 Telephone companies ... 1,5O0 Electric light and power
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-03-31
1869 Eclipse Autl,enticates
 Eskimo Old Age Pensions

The eclipse occurred on August T. 1869. it was discovered by Charles w. Hawkesworth, Assistant to the General Superintendent of the Of- flee of Indian Affairs. He remem- bered having read about the eclipse and found reference to it in Al aska, It's Southern Coast" by E. Ruhamah Scidmore, a book pup lished in 1885.
 Bit of History
 Professor Davidson of the Coast Survey, for whom Davidson Glacier near Skagway was named, came to Alaska to observe the eclipse. Ills observatory was set up at Klukwan. It is related that after he foretold the eclipse and the event occurred as he said it would, Chief Kloh- Kutz offered "his canoes, blankets, and wives if he would tell how he did it."
 A little known fact is that Secre- tary Seward, who purchased Alaska, was in the Territory at the time of the eclipse. He was on the Chil- kat River the day the sun went dark.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-03-31

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-03-31

Way up above the Arctic Circle, when the midnight sun goes dark it's quite an event. It's so auspic- ious, in fact, that Eskimos at Moor vik are still passing their time sys- tenn on an eclipse which occurred in 1869.
 A telegram from Gilbert L. Sven son, Noorvik Government teacher, to the Office of Indian Affairs here recently requested information as to the date of an eclipse of the sun affecting this vicinity, an eclipse near enough total so that the stars shown in the daytime"
 New Reason
 The condition which made the date of the eclipse important enough to be worth sending telegrams the length of Alaska is one compara- lively new to the North. Swenson said he had to know to determine the ages of Eskimo old age assist ance applicants. They couldn't get their pensions unless they could find out when the sun went black. That was the event from which they dated time and their ages.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-03-31

One of Alaska's distinctive insti- tutions, an event which has gained worldwide attention, is the Nenana ice pool
 The natural interest of those who live in the north in the breakup which signalizes the beginning of river transportation and the com- ing of another season is enhanced by this unique feature of Alaska's s life on the borderline of winter and spring.
 Mathematicians At Work
 At this season of the year, all over Alaska-and many places Outside, for that matter-men and women are marking up their guesses as to the day, hour and minute the ice will go out of the Panama River at Nenana.
 When the ice moves, anytime from April 26 to May l5, wire trips a mechanism which stops the clock keeping time on the breakup, and those having money on the minute divide cash prize which has in creased from year to year to around s100,000.
 Last year, when the ice went out
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-03-31
WAR NEWS FOLLOWED
 IN ALASKA
Interest as Great Here as Elsewhere = Territory
 Even in Headlines

About as far from the battlefields as it is possible to get, Alaska never theless has figured more than once in the war news. The interest ot Alaskans too Is unflagging in the details of latest developments in Finland, France or the war at sea.
 Readers in Juneau expect quite as much war news as readers in the States. Columns of The Empire have carried every important war story since the firing began last Septem- Der.
 Especially in the early days of the conflict, when developments came fast. hundreds here read important news flashes from bulletins posted in The Empires windows.
 Empires War News
 War news files furnished by The Empire are broadcast several times daily by radio station KINY of Ju- neau
 The war came close to Juneau last September 12 when it was an- nounced that neutrality act provis- ions would require that American passengers cease travelling on steam CTS of belligerent nations. Canada was belligerent and Canadian Pacific steamer was due here that very afternoon with a long list of Ameri ica n passengers. Arrange ments were being made to take off all United States citizens when word was received from Washington that the ruling would not apply except in war zones, which Alaskan waters were not considered to be. Provis- ions of the revised neutrality act passed by Congress at the special session did not change this section of the law and Americans have continued to travel to and from Alaska on Canadian boats.
 Alaska was excited on September g by a statement made by Presi- dent Roosevelt at his press confer 6llCe UIldI d lOIclSii oiDiiidlAi iiesO been reported in Alaskan waters. The report, which placed a sub in Clarence Strait heading south rap idly at dusk and submerging soon after it was sighted" proved to be in error.
 Notified by Runner
 At the outbreak of the war, Gen. eral Robert E. Wood, President of Sears Roebuck and Chairman of the War Industries Board, was in the northland hunting grizzlies at Burwash Landing. He was notified of the start of hostilities by an h. dian runner and few days later passed through Juneau as he hur- ried back to the States.
 Another hunting party interrupt ed suddenly due to the war was that of the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, whose yacht Sanspeur was in Cook Inlet when the out break of war sent them southward to Vancouver at full steam.
 Several vessels bound to and from Alaska have been halted by patrol ling Canadian warships.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-03-31
MAKE READY
 FOR FUTURE,
 I5 MESSAGE
Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness 0bjeetives
 in NOrthIand Too
By ERNEST GRUENING Governor of Alaska

The objectives of any community of Americans citizens are broadly those outlined in our Declaration of Independence: Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" Inter preting these three aspirations in terms of Alaskans, it is reasonable to assume that we desire political equality as an inherent right of a free people, and economic oppor- tunity as natural derivative of life in our democracy.
 Political equality wh ic h is not fully achieved by residents of Territory-such as Alaska-is an ab- solute goal attainable with state hood
 Economic opportunity tthe basic ingredient of the pursuit of hap piness") is a relative term in which individual initiative, natural re- sources, community enterprise, pub lie spirit, and governmental action are all contributing factors. And if economic opportunity is rela- tive term it is none the less pretty clearly definable: It means for the American family adequate food, clothing, shelter and medical care, the gradual improvement of ones standard of living, so that the fam fly may have more than the bare necessities, and may look ahead without fear of insecurity. These are individual and family require ments, which, multiplied, constitute the requirements of geographic or political unit such as Alaska.
 Alaskas problem is therefore ob- viously to move in the direction in dicated above in terms of its fish ermen, miners, trappers and fur farmers, merchants, professional people-teachers, engineers, doctors, lawyers, public servants-industrlal, transport and clerical workers, and the rest. And the interest common to all of these is the improvement of living conditions, the increasing of economic opportunity and the raising of living standards through out Alaska. Tn seeking to achieve this program, certain specific goals and measures loom up as immed- lately important and desirable.
 BETTER COMMUNICATIONS
 l. skans are the most air. minded of Americans, and chiefly by their own efforts and initiative have made aviation an indispensable and rapidly growing part of Alas kas daily life. Now the Federal Government, through the Civil Aeronautics Administration, is in- stalling aids to air navigation throughout the Territory which will facilitate aviation by making it safer and possible in conditions of poor weather and low visibility.
 9 Regular air service from the States to Alaska is essential. It has Jagged behind the achievement of American commercial aviation else
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-03-31
Territory Is Gaining
 Attention of Nation;
 Delegate Lists Gains

connection with the operation of the several departments to which they may be assigned, but Members of Congress have no particular oc- casion to visit the Territory unless assigned to a Committee which is authorized to investigate or to in quire into a particular governmental operation or industrial organization or economic condition, as was the recent case with the House Com mittee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries.
 Public Buildings
 During the past year our public buildings program for Alaska has gone forward at a satisfactory rate. The big public building for Anchor age is now nearing completion and will be ready for occupancy some time in 1940. The smaller, but still fine, public building designed for Wrangell will probably go into construction within month from date. Of course, there is still need for other public buildings in the Territory; one at Petersburg; an addition to the Capitol at Juneau; and an addition to or an enlarge ment of the public building at Ket- chikan.
 The addition to the Capitol build ing at Juneau has been approved by the Interdepartmental Committee and is now eligible for appropria- ton or allotment of funds, while the other buildings are still under consideration by the committee and no approval of them has yet been expressed Public buildings are need ed at other places, but they are not considered eligible under ex- isting standards.
 Rivers and syarbors
 One of the most valuable func- tions performed by the Federal Gov ernment of Alaska is that of lm- movements of rivers and harbors and the construction of flood con- trol work, and particularly in the building of small boat harbors to give safe mooring to small boats. Our record along that line in the past few years has been an excel lent one. Within the last twelve months the flood control project for Lowell Creek, near Seward. AL aska, has gone into construction; the Panama -Chena. flood control project for the protection of Fair banks will go into construction in the spring of this year; work on the harbor improvement project at Nome has been continued; the Ju- neau small boat harbor is now near ing completion; and the combined flood control and harbor improve ment project for Skagway is prob ably finished even as this is written; and the small boat harbor at Val deg has been completely dredged and is now ready for installation of floats.
 It seems likely that further small amount of work will be found necessary in Valdez in order to pro- tect the mouth of the harbor from wave action, but if found necessary, there will be no difficulty in hav- ing that work done.
 Projects Pending
 In the first regular session of the current Congress, the House passed all omnibus river and harbor im- 'provement bill, which is now pend ing in the Senate, and which au- thorizes the constructions of the following new Alaska harbor im- provement projects:
 Wrangell Narrows, $2,731 900.
 Wrangell small boat harbor, s189,- GOO.
 Metlakatla small boat harbor, $160,O00, of which $40,000 must be contributed by local interests.
 (COntinued to Page TWO)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-03-31
Nenanu Ice Pool Great
 Guessing Came of North

at 1:26 o'clock the afternoon of April 29 eight Alaskans divided a pool of S97,000.
 Times of the ice pool breakup since 1917 when the Nenana event was started are as follows:
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-03-31
If Costs Money 10 Run Territory; Budget for
 Year Is $2,000,000

Expenditures of the Territory of Alaska in the present year will be slightly more than $2000,000. The Legislatures appropriation for the biennium 1939-41 was $4,307 ,390, the largest in Alaskas history.
 Burgeoning governmental servic- es, however, have caused no in- crease in the demands by the Ter ritory upon citizens of Alaska. There is still no general property tax in Alaska, except that levied by municipalities. The greatest share of the cost of government in Alaska is borne by two industries, salmon canning and gold mining.
 Here is where the Territorial gov- ernment's money comes from, as outlined in estimates of the Board of Budget for the biennium from January 1, 1899 to December 31, 194O:
Evening star., 1940-02-11

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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-20
Work Out Plan TO Aid Motorists
Unable 10 Obtain Car Insurance

State License Director Dave
COIN and Insurance Commissioner
William a Sullivan have worked
out a plan Of insuring motorists
whom private companies have re-
fused to sell insurance to after
they had lost their drivers licenses,
1t was reported Thursday.
Since the 1899 compulsory in
suranee law for such drivers went
into effect. 1878 have had their
licenses revoked or suspended.
Only s62 have been able to buy
property damage and public liabil-
ity insurance required before they
could get the licenses back, Cohn
said
The new plan calls for insurance
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-20

companies to divide up the burden
Of insuring drivers who have lost
their licenses. Premiums for such
insurance will be higher than
ordinary Most Of the insurance
business heretofore on such drivers
has been written by Lloyds Of
London.
Reports here said state legis-
lators were receiving complaints
about the difficulty OF getting
insurance at any but high rates.
The coming session may be asked
10 set up a plan OF state insurance
for such persons since private
companies are hesitant about TAX
ing the business.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-20
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TODAY
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-20
Hope Of Adjourning
CONGRESS Abandoned
WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON - Administra-
ton leaders abandoned hope of
adjourning the lingering 18th con-
gress Thursday and arranged TO
continue in session over the holi-
days by a series of three-day
recesses.
House leaders had planned to
offer an adjournment resolution II
the prospects for its success were
good. Then they learned that at
least one Republican member
could and would block a request
for unanimous consent TO adjourn.
Senate Majority Leader Alben
W. Barley joined House leaders
in deciding that any attempt to
adjourn this session sine die would
be futile and that no such effort
would be made.