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The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-06-28
COL. THOMP SON PASSES AWAY,
 Y0NKERS HOME
Copper Magnate and Phil anthropist Dies as Re-
 suit of Pneumonia

YCNKERS, New York, June 28. -Col. William Boyce Thompson, copper magnate and philanthropist, died at his home here last night as the result of pneumonia.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-06-28
Pilot Balloons
 To Be Installed iIn Alaska

WASHINGTON, June 28.- The Weather Bureau plans establishment of pilot bal looms at Nome and Fair banks, Alaska, expanding aid to air navigation.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-06-28
LEAVING ON ALAMEDA

Dell E. Sheriff is leaving on the Alameda for Skagway and Sitka.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-06-28

Gov. George A. Parks stated to- day that he had not been advised of the action. He said the salary of the Governor of Hawaii Terri tory had recently been raised to s10,0O0 and supposed the same action is now taken for the Cover nor of Alaska. The present salary of the Alaska Governor is $7,000.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-06-28
Governors Salary
 Is to Be Increased

WASHINGTON, D. O., June 28. --The Senate has passed the bill to fix the salary of the Governor of Alaska at $10,0o0 yearly. The bill has been sent to the House
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able to 10 back On the dole until tn
following Summer, and meantime can
and do refuse opportunities for taking
domestic employment" One may add
that the newspaper columns are ftln OF
help wanted advertisements, although
more than 5000 girls and woman are
drawing the dole.
Note from London's East Side: A
manufacturer decided 70 close his plant
for three days. A deputation from the
workers asked him TO make the holiday
. week. He asked why, and was told by
the deputation that II the men were out
Of work Q fun week they could claim
the dole.
Observation on anomalies by Blanes-
burgh committee Of investigation: A
man has q daily JOB and adds 10 his
earnings by doing portering or taking
on a night job as . cinema attendant.
He loses his regular job and Is entitled
10 draw the dole while going on with
his spare-time Job. But II, jobleSs, he
takes on any odd Job that comes his
way and declares 1t, he loses his dole,
Hence. losing his regular work. he Is
encouraged TO keep away from odd Jobs
CT they are likely to be found out) and
become q regular dole drawer.
Insight into collision: A small en-
ployer says 10 a jobless man: Here,
you do q bit of work for me. I'll pay
you % a week ofiicially and alp you
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under II are graded 1918 and 1921
and (the insurance contributions all
around being correspondingly lowerl get
$2.25 and $3.50, respectively. Girls
under II get $1.2S.
Some Prefer TO Idle.
Still, among the 100000 workers
there Is q section that prefers the dole
to work and gets along; there are boys
who draw the dole and live at home;
there are married couples who both
draw the dole; there are men who get
odd Jobs and earn maybe five or ten
dollars a week and still draw the dole;
there are a whole multitude OF pro-
fessional beggars, street singers, tum-
blers and what not, all drawing the dole.
Frauds are not easy to detect, and
the will to detect them varies with dis
tricts. There was an experimental drive
one year. Suspects amounted to 11.413.
But evidence sufflcient to warrant pros
ecution was found in only 1864 cases,
Out of those 1854 cases convictions
were obtained In 1874 cases. From
which it may be gathered that the au-
thoritieS have Ito be very sure of them
selves before they move, and also that
the fraudulent dole drawers have TO be
very stupid before they get caught.
A few SidelightS on the dole from day
to day may be Illuminating. Here is a
news item dated November: There Is
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This opening Of the fund has con-
siderably added TO the cost Of MAIN
tanning the dole. In the November de-
mand for an additional $50 zoo, 900 TO
see the fund through December, It was
disclosed that $40, 0O0,0 900 was required
for married women, seasonal workers
and others who, as the Labor ministry
put 1t q year back, ARE not really in
the market as competitors for employ
ment."
This means that motor coach drivers,
serving girls in Summertime cafes and
the like get pocket money through their
OF season, no matter how much they
were earning in their busy season. It
also means that woman who has kept
her Job after marriage or taken one
after marriage gets the dole If she Is
out of a job, without reference to what
her husband, sons or daughters may be
making.
The dole is not enough to keep the
genuinely unemployed from looking
hard and anxiously for work. It is
$4.25 a week for an adult male up to
SIS, plus $225 for his wife or any other
one adult dependent upon him, plus SO
cents for every dependent child. Gle
may add union BENEFITS to that.) A
woman gets slightly less and the grad
ing is slightly different, For instance,
she has q 21-25 years class, when she
gets only $3.75 q week dole. Males
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too much Of this sort Of thing going On
all over the country. and rs far a. pos
sible 1t has got to be put q stop to-" said
Alderman Sir T. Vansittart Bowater,
NJ. p, at the Mansion House (the city
Police Court, when q number OF men
we're convicted of obtaining the dole by
false declarations of unemployment.
The English representative Of a lead
ing American banking house, who owns
an estate in Kent, told me this story.
He thought he would help the local
problem bit by expediting work on his
garden. Through the local employment
agency he engaged % men, and on the
agency's advice paid the minimum wage
for that district. Visiting the garden
on the first day after the work had been
started. he found the men idling and
employing the most time wasting method
Of doing the job. Accordingly, he took
of his coat and went to work with
them, showing them how things should
be done. Next day Of the % had de-
cided to 90 back to the dole.
Jobs Are Open.
Evidence of q letter in an inquiry into
the seasonal unemployment field: dur
ing the three months season In this
south coast resort boarding houses, ho-
tells, laundrieS, ETC., employ numerous
women, both married and single. At
the end of the season these women are
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another %. Thsn you can aseiasS yua
are earning under 4S Q week on q casual
part-time Job and draw your dola."
This suits both worker and Petty en-
ployer. the latter getting q part-thne
man to work for 90 Q week plus the dole.
instead Of having to pay q man $40 a.
more Tor what would BE- o regular fob.
Note for sociologists and moraliSts:
During the war the British war Offlca
paid army separation allowances to -
female person" living with o soldier as
his wife. This practice dropped after
the war. But the Labor ministry
picked IL up and applied it to unema-
ployment insurance. The union has 20
be on q bona fide domestic basis. UntiI
the Blaneshurgh Committee overhauled
the system two years back, the female
person aforesaid was not required 10
qualify by acting Is housekeeper or IS
mother to the mans children as well
a. d1scharging the functions Of Q mis-
treSS Now she has to 90 qualify.
These are odds and ends. In the
broad field Of getting rid Of unemploy-
ment itself the dole puts on brakes and,
operating under Q radical free-trado
regime, tends TO perpetuate an eco.
noniic system which makes unempl0y-
ment. Low cost of living. gained b.
opening the home market to dumping
(cnntinlIed an 9Avn11tJa T9m@N
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few voters, and some having wives who
vote their way, counting two votes(.
Having opened the fund wide to all
corners by abolishing the last safe
guards, including the genuinely
ing work" clause, the present Macdonald
cabinet, unwilling to risk its political
neck by tackling alone the mess 1t had
got the fund Into. invited the other
two parties 20 cooperate. An all-party
committee sat and inevitably failed TO
agree. The governments own economic
Advisory Committee inquired intensive
ly. AL the material to justify inmedi-
ate and courageous action was, how
ever, ct hand. All that was lacking
was the will and the courage to act
Ramsay Macdonald threw the whole
business into q royal commission. which
Is the traditional pigeonhole for any
awkward question o British government
doesn't want TO tackle for quite o while.
Every politician will sympathize with
him.
Adds 10 Cost Of Dole.
The situation now Ii rather as II the
representatives Of the policyholders had
got control Of the board Of an insurance
company and the bank behind 1t. with
this difference: that the bank behind
the British insurance company Is the
income-tax payer, who takes longer TO
bankrupt than an ordinary bank.
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and his dependents, not excluding his
mistress.
Reasonable folk may wonder why the
system continues when 1t is riddled with
so many abuses and underlying evils
The answer requires only one word
politics Reasonable folk may again ask
whether politics cannot be kept out
The answer is No" You cannot keep
politics out of a fund controlled in q
democratic state by the government of
the day, fund swelled by state grant
a fund today maintaining assoc, 900 peo-
pie and covering 100000 Gall but q
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GREAT EVILS APPEAR
In ENCLAND'S DOLE
Politics and Fraud Have Entered Into
Unemployment Scheme Much to
Disinterest of the Nation.

Continued From Third Page.l
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CONTINUED on Seventh Pa9e.)
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ROBBERS GET $8,187
FROM EXPRESS CAR
Swing Aboard as Train Leaves
Terminal-Money Was for
Pay Rolls in Alabama.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, November 90
Entering the express car of Southern
Railway train No. 10 as 1t backed away
from the terminal station this morn
ing, two masked bandits obtained two
currency consignmentS totaling $8,187
dropped from the car and escaped.
The robbery was staged so method
ically that G. c. Findley, messenger in
charge, said the men were in the car
scarcely four minutes.
The currency was in two consign-
ments. one of $7,016 for the Montevallo
Coal Co. at Montevallo, Ala, and the
other of $1,171 to the Straven Coal
Co. to meet their pay rolls.
Findley said as the train backed from
the station on its run to Selma one
of the men swung aboard, covering
him with a pistol and ordering him
to lie on the floor.
A second man then swung aboard
Findley said, and began looking for
the money. Obtaining it. the men
dropped into the yard and disappeared
Police tonight apparently had made no
Roadway toward their capture.
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MAN DIES RAv|NG
of WOOD ALCOHOL
Former Fireman Is Rushed to
Casualty Hospital After
Violent Attack.

Wood alcohol poisoning was named
last night as the cause of the death Of
Henry Jensen, Al years old, of 4o3 Mas
sachusetts avenue, former fireman.
DR.. Joseph D. Rogers, deputy coroner,
after an autopsy performed last night
In the District Morgue, reported the in.
ternal organs showed distinct signs OF
having been poisoned by wood alcohol.
Jensen, who was unemployed, had
been living in an upstairs room above
Q tire vlllcanizing shop at the Massa-
chusetts avenue address owned by his
friend, w. B. Baseman. by whom ne
formerly was employed as mechanic.
He became violently i'll shortly after
noon yesterday.
when he shouted he was going blind
and continued yelling at the top Of his
voice" Baseman reported, II called an
ambulance and sent him to Casualty
Hospital. He died there an hour later.
I knew he had been drinking and tried
10 make him tell me where he bought
his stuff, but he refused"
Jensen was dismissed from the Fire
Department several years ago after five
years service. He was convicted by
trial board of charges of intoxication
and desertion.
DIR. A. S. Grosberg of Casualty Hos
pital, who treated Jensen, told police
the man had become i'll while lying In
the same bed where Samuel Baseman
SO years old, was found in a similar
condition November H. Samuel Base
man, brother of w. B. Baseman, died
In Casualty Hospital soon after he be-
came sick. Records of the morgue dis
closed his death also had been found to
have been caused by wood alcohol
poisoning.
An investigation into both cases was
launched yesterday by Thomas F.
Sweeny, headquarters detective SER
geant.
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Ger, already attached TO that precinct.
Thayer's post as prohibition offlcer will
be taken by Pvt. John Auffenberg of
the same precinct.
Other changes in the police personnel
were the transfer of Sergt. Thomas
Mason. jr., to the Traffic Bureau, as
hack inspector. succeeding Sergt Joseph
D. Harrington, who has been trans
ferred to the eighth precinct: the ap-
pointment of Sergt. Albert I. Bullock
of the eighth precinct as a member Of
the night inspectors force at head
quarters, and the promotion of Pvt.
Marian G. Randall from the post Of
special street railway crossing officer
to the motor cycle patrol force.
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Observation-Disclosures
BUT SOFT FOR PEOPLES CAUSE
Nebraska Senator Has Rad
icaI Ways, but Heart
of Child.
Gets That Way From Dis
tinguishing Between Right
and Wrong.
BY WILLIAM HARD.

Why Is Senator Norris of Nebraska
the way he is? That is a question
which long has annoyed and puzzled his
adversaries. It furnishes them now
with a new rash of irritation as they
contemplate the pivotal position he oc-
cupies in the forcing of radical" legis-
lative proposals in the impending Con-
gress.
The first explanation that has always
come to their minds is that Mr.. Norris
hates the rich. The trouble with this
explanation is that it Is so readily
the opposite explanation in the inter-
preting Of Senators who are reaction
ary." Senator Moses of New Hamp-
shire, it Is intimated. is the way he Is
because he hates the poor-or the
people" The question would remain:
Why should Senator Moses and Sena-
tor Norris. both distinguished and both
poor, hate one the poor and the other
the rich? Peoples characters are not
points of view-not even by stating
them extensively.
Senator Norris character might be
said to start with tendency in him
toward the expectation of lust world.
Hence he Is frequently verv depressed.
The world turns out not to be Just. His
fellow radical" the late senior Sena-
tor La Toilette of Wisconsin. was sell
dom really depressed. He expected the
world to be crowded with aggressive in
justices. Against them he was aroused
and irate They did not essentially
bother him. He bothered them. They
do bother Senator Norris.
Plunge Into Detection.
Senator Norris Just never could I'M
derstand, for instance, in 1919, why
the great powers of the international
world should be so greedy toward China.
along with the treaty of Versailles and
the League of Nations. The League was
for peace. He was for peace. Then in
the treaty. he found gross injustices to
China. They plunged him into dejec-
ton. They suffused him with gloom.
They showed him the League, he
thought. as an acconplice in inter
national piracy. He turned against the
League. He became an "irreconcilable.
Senator La Toilette and Senator
Borah would have been against the
League If the text of the treaty had ex-
hibited not one unjust comma. They
opposed the League on general prin-
cipleS or theories of international re-
lationshipS. It took concrete injustice
to make Senator Norris an anti-Leaguer.
Senator Norris is built, like an onion,
in layers. At the heart of him there is
an almost child like simplicity of faith
in the nature of man. In that recess
and origin of his mental constitution he
is cheerful and even joyful. On a wan
dering trip with senatorial cronies of
his on the rivers in the Northern woods
he can chat and chatter and spin yarns
and help sing songs all Afternoon long
while the boat glides through the water
no more buoyant and acceptive Of life
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angel and every existing railroad rate
an effort at holiness. Senator Norris
is not primarily an economist, but pri-
marily a lawyer, a judge, a considerer
of causes between moral right and
moral wrong, as he sees them, and an
outraged avenger of moral right chat
is, of his conception of it, In the eco
nomic legislation which is not the first
objective. but only the final by-product
Of his wrath.
The sum of the matter is that Sem
ator Norris would not be so harshly
economically bad for our straying erring
utilities If he were not, to begin with,
in the innermost of him, so softly, so
sensitively, so shockably, just good.
(Copyright, l930O
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than he. That is because, perhaps no.
body is spearing fish with an unfair
weapon.
How Horror Originates.
Then, though, upon returning to
Washington, he learns that some cor
poration has hired university profess
sor to speak for the corporations in
terests while pretending to speak as a
student and scholar. On Senator
Norris core of sweetness there at once
accumulates an enveloping layer of
black horror in the midst of which,
al Ser assimilating repeated instances of
corporational obliquity and an official
connivance at it, he frequently displays
strong impulse toward retiring from
public life and toward joining the re-
tired Roman Emperor Diocletian in in
dignantly raising not mankind, but
vegetables.
At that moment, however, a second
layer grows upon him. It Is layer of
disgust, of resentment, of acidity. He
decides to make speech squeezing out
gallons of acidity on the knaveries
which have so astonished him. They
have astonished him into a condition
originally totally foreign to him. 1t is
as if sugar cane put on lemon rind
He makes a speech that burns and
blazes and blisters. The Psychological
truth is that behind it there is not hate
but pain.
The pain mounts, and with it, to get
rid of it, the desire for action; and
thereupon the previous successive layer
like George Norrisses, Norris the trust
ing and Norris the disillusioned and
Norris the excoriator, are at length
OVERHEAD and completed by Norris the
reformer, who stretches a retributive
forefinger toward the Tennessee River
and exclaims:
Take Muscle Shoals away from
those scoundrels and give it to the pub
lic!"
True Radicalism Different.
That is fundamentally the tale of
why he Is the way he is; and it is the
tale Of a process wholly different from
that Of true "radicalism.' Senator Nor
ris has no philosophy for the tearing UP
of contemporary economic society by the
roots. He is not genuinely an economic
personality at all. He is not like George
Eastman, that pillar of learning and
that point of incandescence in the In
terstate Commerce Commission, who is
for public ownership of public utilities
on arguments sheerly coldly economic
and destined in his thought to endure
even If every railroad president we're an
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DETECTIVE CURTIS
DENOTED TO RANKS
Robert J. Barrett Takes His
Place in Bureau, Under
SheIby'S Order.

Demotion of Detective Sergt. William
G. Curtis and his transfer to the fourth
precinct as a foot patrolman was an
nounced last night by Inspector William
S. Shelby, chief of detectives. At the
same time Precinct Detective Robert j.
Barrett of the fourth precinct was pro-
NOTED to the rank of detective sergeant
and transferred to the Detective Bureau
to succeed Curtis.
The change, Inspector Shelby an
nounced, was ordered "for the good OF
the service" Barrett is a nephew OF
Capt. Edward j. Kelly, assistant chief
of detectives. He will be replaced al
the fourth precinct by Pvt. Nelson G
Thayer, prohibition enforcement off,
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RAIL HAULAGE HEAVY

NEW YORK, November 90 Dr.
Soviet railroads probably will carr!
more tons of freight per mile this yeai
than United States lines, Ralph Budd
president of the Great Northern Rail
way, said in statement tonight.
Mr.. Budd, who recently made a sur.
vey of railroads in Russia, said the
Soviet lines were functioning normally
moving freight and passengers with
fair promptness."
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FlVE-YEAR LIMIT STAYS
DEPORTATION OF ALIEN
Judge Holds Proceedings Involv-
ing Moral Turpitude Must Begin
Within Set Time.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, November 29-Deporta-
ton proceedings against aliens for
crimes involving moral turpitude must
begin within five years of their arrival
In America, Federal Judge James M.
Morton, jr., ruled today.
Judge Morton granted a petition for
habeas corpus relief asked by Philip
Dipierro from deportation proceedings
which he contended were illegal because
not begun within i've years Of his ar
rival from italy.
Evidence was introduced to show
that Dipierro came to America in 1920
and that In November, 1923, he was
convicted Of the abuse Of a 15-year- old
girl-"unquestionably involving moral
turpitude"-in the words Of Judge Nor
ton. Dipierro served an 18-month
sentence in a Massachusetts reforma-
tory. Deportation proceedings were be-
gun December %, 1928.
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TWO FOUND KILLED
BY STILL EXPLOSION
Colored Victims on Abandoned
Farm Near Annapolis Believed
Recent Arrivals.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, November 30
The mutilated bodies of two unidentified
colored men we're found beside an ex-
ploded still just outside of Harwood.
near here, today by Deputy Sheriff
Thomas H. Cullember.
Discovery of the bodies resulted from
an investigation by Cullember of a re-
port by another colored man Of an ex-
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plosion in the Harwood neighborhood
shortly after last midnight.
The dead men were believed to have
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come here recently and set up the still
on the abandoned farm Of Walter Chase
on the Patuxent River.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-12-04

tarv said the Shoot -Hawley law had added s4S a year to the cost per farm of the commodities the farmer buys and $50 to his in- come leaving a net balance of $l02 per farm in favor of the farmer.
 Citing an unprecedented activity in the wheat futures market, Hyde said this was associated with fall- ing prices instead of rising quota tions. with the large speculators as group operating on the short side.
 Grain exchanges play neces- sary and important part in our marketing system" the report said. ''The facilities afforded by these in stitutions should be retained. At the same time, they should be i'm proved and in some respects forti- fled to prevep: abuses. The rules of cotton and grain exchanges are not, at present, subject to review by any agency in the interest of the producers or the consumers. It would seem to be in the public interest to change this condition.
 Hyde referred briefly to coopera- tion between his department and the Farm Board, saying it depended on facts from the department in it's efforts to minimize speculation and other phases of it's work.