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The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-03-25
WILKINS' SUB IS CHRISTENED
 IN NOVEL WAY
Cracked Ice from Silve r Barrel Is Used by Ex-
 plorer's Wife
MANY NOTABLES ARE
 PRESENT., CEREMONY
Arctic Trip Extrem ly Dangerous, Declared
 Donald MacMillan

NEW YORK, March 25.-Cracked ice was used yesterday afternoon to christen the Nautilus, recondi- tioned submarine by which Sir Hubert Wilkins plans to cross the Arctic Ocean next summer.
 The ice was in small silver barrell perched on the prov of the vessel. Lady Wilkins yanked a string and the ice fell.
 Jean Jules Verne, grandson of the French novelist; Dr. Hugo Eckener and Simon Lake were pres- ent at the ceremony in the Brook lyn Navy Yard,
 The use of the ice was last minute compromise, Sir Hubert said, in deference to the law of the land and he did not use a stimu- ialing fluid.
 HAZARDOUS TRIP
 LOWELL, Mass, March 25.- Commander Donald B. MacMillan declared here today that the pro- posed Wilkins cruise is the most hazardous ever attempted.
 The Arctic explorer saic that to reach the North Pole will be only by chance because navigation is dependent on the moon and stars when submerged as the navigator will be unable to get navigation points. He said there is no chance to escape if the submarine is caught in an ice pack.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-03-25
l VoIcano in Vest ALaska IIs ActiUe

UTCH HARBOR, Alaska, March 25.-An unnamed vol cano at the east end of Uni mak Island is active. No. cas- ualties have been reported.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-03-25

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, March 25-The Six Companies, Inco-i'or- ated has formally agreed to uuds-- take the largest construction con- tract in the history of the Upitsd
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-03-25
OFF FOR HOME

ABOARD U. s. s. ARIZONA March 25-President Hoover sailed aboard this battleship for Norfolk this afternoon after brief visit in Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-03-25
ALASKA CONTRACTS GIVEN

WASHINGTON, D. O., March 25. The Post Office Department an- nounced contracts for Alaska star routes in the mail system are awarded every four years. The contracts went principally to two airplane companies.
 The Alaska Airways has been awarded contracts for nine star routes and the Dorbandt and Cope Aviation Company contracts for five routes.
 The Post Office Department made it clear that the manner of mail carried is optional.
 Hainer Hinsh W, Washington representative of the Alaska Air ways announced however that the airplane will be substituted for a dog team schedule effective next October.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-03-25
0URTEEN AIR MAIL CONTRACTS
 LET IN ALASKA
Star Routes to Be Covered by Planes-New Conn.,
 pany Is Formed

SEATTLE, March 25.- Pilot Frank Dorbandt, in message to the Seattle Daily Times, says he and Alonzo Cope have been award ed a main trunk mail contract for Alaska for three-year period, starting July 1.
 The Pacific International Air ways, Incorporated, has been form ed with Dorbandt and Cope as stockholders, officers and direc- tors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-13

to them the realities. The same forces,
to a certain extent, opposed Stresemann,
who, had he lived, with little question
would have been Hindenburg'S sue
ccsSor.
The most significant figure, however,
is Otto Braun. premier of Prussia, the
greatly dominant state, in size and in
fluence, in the Reich. Braun is So
cialist, yet the industrialists say ne
measures up to the need" Braun Is
level-headed man, shrewd, sound po-
litical stratcgist, and he wields meal
culable influence. He has supported
himself against countless 1ntrigues,
which are more numerous in Prussia
than anywhere else in the Reich, even
Bavaria. For obviously the party
which can capture Prussia captures
Germany.
Braun has the advantage OF more
factors in his favor, and fewer against
him, than any other prospective canol-
date.
Schacht in Roll.
There is a third potent name, that
of DR.. Hjalmar Schacht, whose power
today is scarcely less than when he
headed the Reichsbank. Industrialists
and politicians alike admit, reluctantly
it is true, that Schachts name is almost
certain to be introduced into the presi-
dental nominations. Moreover, 1t Is
admitted that, in personal character,
Schacht is the strongest man available
for a crisis which, if it comes, Will de-
mand ruthless iron-handed dictatorship.
But of these three DR.. Luther Is the
only avowed campaigner, and in spite
of his substantial services, few in the
ranks of the leaders seem to want him.
But here again the analogy with
Stresemann may serve-although the
two men were wholly unlike-for the
leaders would not have chosen Strese-
mann.
1t is the people who unquestionably
would have elected him.
There is a fourth man to be taken
into consideration whose potential can
didacy. if it lacks the driving force OF
the others, is by no means negligible.
This is DR.. Rudolf Breitscheid, for years
the capable and unaSsailable Socialist
leader. a man whose sentiments as eX-
pressed to this correspondent SIX years
ago were SO liberal and far-sighted that
he can, with consistency and patriotism,
reassert them today.
Breitscheid, whose face at one time
was described to be as gloomy as Ger
many's future, was one of the few men
to perceive the exact psychological re-
actions from the Ruhr occupation. He
has represented his party with distinc-
ton. in the German delegation at the
League of Nations. Few think he will be
elected: many believe him an inevitable
and logical candidate. None denies his
capacity.
(Copyright, 1881. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. 1nc)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-13
CONSIDER RAIL STRIKE
Mexican Union Council Weighs
Charge Against Americans.

MEXICO CITY, September IL OP).-
Inc National Council of the Transports
Union met today to consider the pro-
posed strike of employees of the Southern
Pacific Railway of Mexico, which
operates the line between Nogales and
Guadalajara.
Native employees of the line proposed
the strike on the ground that the COM
pany was employing more Americans
than the 10 per cent permitted by the
federal labor law.
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SHINES PROPOSES
PLAN TO AID WORLD
Eldest Son of Late Magnate
Asks Debt Cancellation
and Disarmament.
BY Cable to The Star.

By Gable to The Star.
BERLIN, Germany, September Il
An impressive scheme for world eco
..ornic relief was published today by
Edmond Hugo SHINES. eldest son OF
the great industrial magnate In the
Berlin Deutsche Allegemeine Zeltung.
In the list Herr SHINES outlines, OF
the various points necessary, partlcu-
larly from the German angle, the tlrso
is cancellation of reparations, or the
simultaneous cancellation of SO per cent
of reparations and private debts, since,
according to his calculations, Germany
is in q position to produce an annual
export surplus equal to about only half
of its necessary payments abroad.
Second. America should cancel the
interallied debts, but only in exchange
for full disarmament.
Would Turn SlinSt Soviet.
Third, Germany should make clear
its intention of turning its back on
Moscow and coming closer to the allied
capitalistic world, particularly to
France.
Fourth, the interest on all public and
private German internal longtime
loans should by fiat be reduced so per
cent, thus lowering all production costs
or IS per cent
Sixth, cartel-controlled prices and
foodstuff prices should be lowered.
Maximum Salary PROPOSED.
Seventh. salaries and pensions Of all
public employees should be lowered. pos
sibly to a maximum of $4,000 annually
Eighth, wages per hour should be
maintained but the number of working
hours per workman should be reduced
Ninth, universitytrained students
should not seek to enter professions
where they have no chance, but should
be admitted into industries as kind
of privileged workmen with chances OF
quick advancement.
Plans Chances Held Slim.
Herr Shines second article, to be
published tomorrow, outlines further
means of realizing these measures
These means include lowered rents, in
Inundated cartels, administrative re-
form, the feeding of unemployed di-
rectly by goods and preferential instead
of most favored nation commercial
treaties.
Unfortunately, the plan has little
chance of being carried out
tCopyricht, .S3l)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-13
DEBENTURE RELIEF
URGED BY CONNALLY
Democrats Should Act to Save Ma.
ton From Republican Blunders,
Says Senator.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MEDICINE PARK, Okla, September
Ex-senator Tom Connally, Democrat,
of Texas, speaking at a Statewide
meeting Of the young Democrats to-
night, advocated the debenture form CT
farm relief as "the only plan which
will give to agriculture tariff benefits
enjoyed by industry"
Asserting that the country was
weary of the miserable plumbers and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-13

failures of the Republicans, of Their
selfish and reckless policies" Senator
C1nnally said the Democrats must go
before the people in 1882 with definite
and clcar-cut program.
In addition to de5enturc farm relief,
the Texas Senator advocated downward
revision of the tariff, currency and
coinage legislation, and an international
conference to stabilize silver.
ConnaLy characterized President
Hoover as an "imperialist OF big bust
ness"
international bankers and indus
trlallsts," he said, have invested bill
hons In foreign countries in loans and
factories. The Hoover administration
has shown more interest in protecting
such investments than in our own PEG
pies welfare. Anxiety over American
Investments in Germany ought not to
be greater than over American con-
sumerS at home"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-13
BANK CASHIER WAS SHOT.
Wounding Occurred When Two Refused
to Put Up Hands.

BUFFALO, N Y, September IL Up.
Police here believe the Hamburg hold
up to which Fritz Boehm confessed in
Columbus today occurred on Septem-
Der g.
T. Chauncey Williams, cashier OF the
Bank of Angola was shot four times
and seriously wounded by one Of two
men who held up the car Of Peace
Justice Robert J. Laverty on a lonely
stretch Of road near Angola. about 10
miles from Hamburg. A shot fired at
Laverty pierced the side of his hat.
The shooting began when Williams
and Laverty refused to comply with
the demand of the men to hold up their
hands.
Williams is still in a hospital and is
expected to recover. The two men
escaped from the scene of the hold-up
in their own car which bore an Ohio
license.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-13
SUSPECTED BANDIT
ADMITS SHOOTING
One of Two Brothers Says He
Thinks They Killed Rob-
berry Victim.
BY the Associated Press.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, September 12.-
City Detectives o. w. Phillips and
Glen Owens announced today they had
obtained confession from Fritz Boehm,
81, West Valley, N. Y, at Lancaster,
Ohio, Jail to half hundred hold-ups
in cities between New York and Kansas
City, and the admission that he and
his brother shot and possibly killed one
of his victims at Hamburg, N. Y, near
Buffalo.
f. The detectives interviewed Fritz after
they were unable to talk to his brother,
Edward Boehm, IS, who is near death
in a Lancaster hospital from a bullet
wound received when he drew pistol
on Sheriff Gail Sessler of Fairfield
County while resisting arrest.
Detective Owens said Friss Boehm
expressed a belief the hold-up victim at
Hamburg had been wounded fatally.
Owens said Boehm told them the man
never moved after both he and his
brother fired several shots into his body.
BANK CASHIER WAS SHOT.
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TWO OF II BURNED
IN OIL BLAST DIE
Seven Others in Philadelphia Ex-
plosion Are Not Expected
to Live.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, September 12-
Two of II men injured today in fire
and explosion at the Atlantic Refining
Co.'S oil plant here, died tonight Seven
others of the injured were not expected
to recover.
The dead are: Joseph Hall, a
rigger, and Irwin Milligan, a machin-
lists helper
A new gas stabilizing plant, consist
ing of a series of pipes outside the
buildings, was being operated for the
first time when some parts of the pip
ing were ruptured, Spraying flaming
naphtha over men employed by the
company and a contra ctor.
No serious property"damage was done
but the burning oil spread over score
of men and II of them were injured.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-13
HELD ON THREE CHARGES

Nan and Woman Accused of At.
tempted Kidnapping and Assault.
LOS ANGELES. September IL Op.-
A joint complaint charging George H.
Lasher. AZ, and Mrs. Iris Stephens, %,
with three felony counts in the alleged
attempt to abduct deputy sheriff from
within the shadow of the Hall of Justice
was issued by the district attorneys
Office today.
They are charged with attempted
kidnapping, assault to do bodily harm
and assault with intent to commit
murder.
Lasher is accused of attempting to alb
duct Deputy Sheriff James Macarthur
sitter he is said to have caused the arrest
of Mrs. Asher on a liquor possession
charge. She forfeited $500 bond by fail
ure to appear to answer the charge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-13
WOMAN ENDS LIFE
Slashes Throat With Razor After
Alta cking Husband With AK.

AltdcklnS husband with AK.
THOMASVILLE, Ga. September IL
P).-Mrs. John Singletary struck her
husband in the head with an AK today
and then slashed her own throat with
a razor dying shortly afterward, police
said.
Singletary, who is so, formerly was
member of the Townsville police
force. Physicians said he had little
chance to recover. Mrs Singletary had
been in i'll health for several years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-13
NAVY INSPECTOR HURT
AS TEST PLANE LANDS
Craft With New Engine Noses Up
on Return to Flying Field,
Injuring officer.

BY the Associated Press.
HAsBROUCK HEIGHTS, N. j. Sep
tember 12.-The Navy plane TG-2, a
torpedo plane in which a new $50
horsepower engine has just been in
stalled, was damaged in landing today
at the Teterboro Airport
Lieut.. Walter Crist. Navy inspector,
took the plane up in a test flight ac-
companied by a factory inspector. In
landing, he could not keep the tail on
the ground. The ship turned up on It's
nose, damaging the wings and tail.
Crlst sustained a cut over the right
eye and was bruised about the legs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-13
BENJAMIN CLIENDINST,
ARTIST, is NEAR DEATH
Noted Portrait Painter, Graduate
of v. M. L, Suffers Stroke
in New York

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 12.-Word
reached here today that Benjamin
West Clinedinst, noted artist. has suf-
fered stroke and is near death at his
home at Paving, N. Y.
Mr.. Clinedinst, who is 70 years old,
specialized in Genre pictures and por-
traits. One of his works. Civil War
battle picture, hangs in Virginia Mill
tary Institute, his alma mater. Recently
he had been engaged on another large
canvas for the same institution.
He has won praise for his portraits
OF prominent men and his book illustra-
lions and has received several medals
and other awards.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-13
VISITING FRIENDS, SAYS
"MISSING" SWIMMER
Mrs. Lee Fourier Explains She
Wasn't Lost" at All,
as Reported.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
= LOS ANGELES. September "a
Mrs. Lee Fourier, professional distance
swimmer reported missing from Santa
Monica several days ago, wasn't lost at
all, but was visiting friends in Pomona,
Calf, she said today.
Viola Young, Mrs. F'ourrier's mother,
reported to police that her daughter
had disappeared. She had told au-
thorities that Mrs. Fourier had been
respondent over her failure to set a
new endurance record at Santa Monica
and asked that a search be made.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-13
SOCIALISTS STAGE RIOT
Storm Berlin Restaurant in Anti
Jewish Demonstration,

BERLIN, September IL (P).-A crowd
OF about 1000 National Socialists
stormed restaurant in the Kurfuer-
stendamm tonight, in an anti-Jewish
demonstration, smashed a number of
windows and completely demolished the
interior of the place.
They tried to attack a number of
persons, but an emergency squad,
welding clubs, cleared the street.
Several members of the crowd were
injured and AZ were arrested.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-13
SMITH TO SEEK MARK
Australian Flyer to Hop Septem-
Der 90 on Flight to England.

MELBOURNE. Australia, September
IL P).-Wing Comdr. Charles Kings
ford-Smith said today that he would
start from Wyndham on September %
in an attempt to beat j.. A. Mollinson's
record for flight to England in days
Is hours and 35 minutes. He hopes to
make it in seven DAYS
The Washington times., 1931-11-25
WRITER FINDS FILTH POVERTY AND MISERY RIFE IN MINING CAMPS

painfully bent over the bed OF
the railroad track, salvaging bits
of coal into q bucket. She was 80,
perhaps. She looked more like 80;
her arms were grimed black to
the elbow, and the hopeless CRIME
Of her worn face was terrible to
see. She said to me:
Goal Il too dear to buy. We
have to pay 50 for . hundred
pounds and . dollar for haulage.
That burns q lot Of money In
the winter" (The price per ton
which the miner IL paid for
mining the coal is 30 centsJ
She was a widow. and her son
had been killed on that same
railroad q week before. She was
so poor that she could not scrape
the money for even the meanest
coffin. He had been buried in a
grocery crate that some one had
given her for pity. She told me
about the coffinless burial with
her mouth puckered and her eyes
swimming with tears.
The Washington times., 1931-11-25

good.sized room, and it Is divided
up inside into various sections.
There is one chimney and the
walls and roof are of wood.
There Is no plaster or other
protection against the weather
and cold. AS a precaution.
though, against the terrible mud
Of winter, most Of the shacks
are built on high wooden piles,
50 that there is usually q rubbish
filled space under the houses
where the hogs and children
play.
There Is no running water in
any of them, and, heaven knows,
no sanitation. Certainly there Is
none inside the houses, and the
back yards Of nearly all Of them
are an indistinguishable tumble
Of debris, old buckets, bicycle
tires, tin cans, bricks and pigs.
The filth Of everything Is be
yond description. Some families
are evidently still making a strug.
gle to keep up appearances and
live as they used to for I saw
several droveS of children coming
from school in reasonably clean
pinafores, and decently clothed;
but. a pitiful number were bare
foot and abysmally dirty.
They have nowhere to play ex'
cept the mud road and thiply
shattered refuse dump that
spreads from house to house.
Some that I stopped to photo!
graph were playing an organized
game with old tin cans ana
pieces Of brick.
Pitiful Lack Of Clothes
Most of the smaller children,
as I said, were barefooted, but
their shortage of clothing did
not stop there. Two that I
watched playing under the timber
piles Of their front porch had on
little threadbare coats and moth
ing else at all. They sat uncriti.
cally among the stones and
played a mysterious game with
battered cans.
The Washington times., 1931-11-25

. WIDOW OF MINER
THIS WOMAN is q victim
Of conditions In the Harlan
county, Kentucky mining dis
trict. Her son recently was
killed on the railroad running
near their home and she was
forced to stand by as his body
was placed in rough box and
buried because she did not have
money for funeral expenses. She
collects Jumps Of coal along the
railroad to keep herself warm.
The Washington times., 1931-11-25

As I went slowly through the
camps, women came out on their
front porches to stare. A surpris-
ing number had the tragic rem.
nants Of good looks; tan, thin
women with fairish hair and
faces unwrinkled from the sun
and the dreary squalors of pow
erty. Some Of them had half
clad children crawling round their
feet. Some Of them were pitt
fully old.
My driver regaled me for some
miles with stories and rumors Of
killings on Black Mountain. The
thugs" ne told me, were EN-.
ployed by the mine owners to
patrol and keep order, and that
they were often strangers i'm.
ported from other States. The
owners, he said, were compelled
to pay $4,000 every time a guard
was killed, to the dead mans
relatives. According to him, more
had been killed than had been &C
counted for.
I IL across an old woman
The Washington times., 1931-11-25
Before a Cold Starts

Here, briefly, is the Wick Plan
for better "Control-of- Colds"
The Washington times., 1931-11-25

LOT DeCCer "ConCroIOt-CoIdS
before q Cold Starts
Use vicks Nose Drops few
drops up each noStril-whenever
you have been exposed to any.
thing which your own experience
tells you is apt to, give you q cold
contact with others having
fresh colds, crowds, stuffy i'll.
ventilated rooms, public places
a night on the Pullman or
a dusty automobile ride-sudden
changes in temperature, wet or
cold-inhaling smoke, dust, gases
-exceSses in living. such as over.
eating, smoking or drinking
after hard day, when you are
over-tired.
In short, don't wait for that
stuffy, sneezy irritation Of the
nasal passages-Nature's warning
that you are actually catching
cold"
2.-After a Cold Starts
At night, massage the throat
and chest well with Vicks Vapo:
Rub-now available in white
stainless" form, If you prefer.
Spread on thick and cover with
warm flannel. Leave the bed
clothing loose around the neck
so that the medicated vapors
arising may be inhaled freely all
night long. During the Gay, use
Vicks Nose Drops every few hours
any time, any place. Of there
is a cough, you will like the new
Wick Cough Drops. actually medi-
Gated with ingredients Of Vicks
VapoRubJ
This gives you full 24-hour
treatment and without the risks
of too much internal dosing, ="
which so often upsets the digeS-
tion-especially Of children-and
lowers body resistance to disease
at a time when it is most needed.
Don't "dose" colds except on your
doctors. advice.
The Washington times., 1931-11-25
Admission Granted
To Russian Lumber

The CustumS Bureau yesterday
decided to admit a cargo Of Rus
sian lumber scheduled to reach
New York on the U. s. Christians
borg, which had been challenged
on the ground Of alleged use Of
convict labor. The decision an
nounced yesterday declared no
proof has been advanced to show
that convict labor was employed
The Washington times., 1931-11-25
Memphis Man Seeks
District FHctOrU Site

Attracted by Washington'S ship
ping and other facilities, Henry
8. Blumenthal, president Of the
Henry s. Blumenthal Company,
Of Memphis, Tenn, is here look
ing for a National Capital site
for his factory today.
The company manufactures
"Ribbonew" for the rejuvenation
Of typewriter ribbons and other
office equipment, and has several
Government contracts.
The Washington times., 1931-11-25
BY MARGARET LANE

NEW YORK, Nov. 25
II.N.S.).-To anyone who has
always lived in cities and
known the country as a clean,
pastoral place and mountains
as things that are pleasant to
climb the Kentucky mountains
in Harlan county are a long
bad dream.
In the first little village I came
to there was a tiny general
store, like a bicycle shed. ]
went in for some cigarettes. The
1oungers inside kept a stony
silence while I was waited upon
and followed me silently to the
door to watch me drive away.
At the door Of the car was a
oue.legged boy. I suppose he had
been in some accident when he
was very young. for his right
eye was dead and he was an
idiot. He hung on the door and
begged for q mick" I gave him
0 quarter and he spun round and
hobbled back instantly into the
store.
Blight On Hill Sides
A mile farther on the true
mining camps begin. They are
nisht-marish places. Even in the
days when mines were prosperous
and miners earning their $50 and
more a week I do not see how
they could have made these
places habitable.
They are like a blight on the
hlll-sides, clusters of shacks and
The Washington times., 1931-11-25

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