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The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-28
IN
 CHILE COLLEGE
 ACTS AS PRES
Confidence Is Expressed in Administra a ton
 Ibanez Fleeing

SANTIAGO, Chile, July 28-Juan Esteben Montero, University of Chile Professor of Law. has be- come Acting President when Pedro Opazo resigned few hours after Carlos Ibanez fled from the coun- try.
 Ibanez is on a train to Argen- tina bound for Buenos Aires, Eur ope and the United States. He has more than one billion dollars in various interests.
 Confidence is expressed with Montero as the head and Pedro Blanquier. Finance Minister Both are praised for economy when in the Ibanez Cabinet.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-28
BAG OF BONES PROVE PUZZLE,
 POLICE STAFF
Skeleton Found in Waters of Puget Sound
 Near Edmonds

SEATTLE, July 28.-Whether a bag of bones found near Edmonds in the sound, will solve the mys- tery of the disappearance of James Eugene Bassett, three years ago, or opens new mystery puzzle for the police presents itself.
 The bones were found in sack when fisherman hooked 1t. The skeleton is being sent to the Uni versity of Washington to obtain the views of the anatomy and chemistry professors.
 Earl Mayer, who is accused of murdering Bassett, is now serving a life term in Walia Walla as a habitual criminal.
 The skull and collar bone, several arm and hand bones are missing from the bag found near Edmonds. Eleven teeth were found but with no dental work.
 The coroner at Everett said the bones had been in the water but a few months but had been buried perhaps three years in earth.
 Marks appearing like chemical eating have been found to be only natural deterioration
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-28
Missouri Congressman
 Suddenly Dies at Home

FAYETTE, Mo, July 28-Samuel c. Major, aged 62 years, Demo- cratic Representative in Congress from the Seventh Missouri Con- gressional District, died at his home here this morning from a paralytic stroke.
 Congressman Major was born in this city July 2, 1869. He served as Prosecuting Attorney of Howard County, was in the State Senate fer several sessions and elected to the sixty-sixth Congress in 1918. He has been reelected six times. His death makes eight vacancies in the House of Representatives.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-28
INFLUENZA AND SCARLET FEVER
 HIT VILLAGERS
Five Tikchik Villages Hit by Flu Scarlet Fever
 Ra ges in Two

The native Indian population of five villages in the Tikchik River region, 180 miles north of Nusha- gak is stricken with influenza in dangerous form, Is being reported dead, and Nushagak is being swept by an epidemic of scarlet fever. with several cases also reported at Snag Point across the bay.
 This situation was reported by Dr. w. A. Borland, physician at Dillingham;, to local headquarters of the Alaska Division of the Off, flee of Indian Affairs, it was an- nounced today by Charles w. Hawkesworth. Acting Chief. Influ- enza serum and scarlet fever anti toxin are being rushed from Se- attle by the first steamer to An chorage and will be transported to Dillingham; to Dr. Borland by plane.
 Makes 180-Mile Trip
 The first word of the influenza epidemic reached Dr. Borland last week when Roy Smith, white trapper operating in the Tikchik River region, came to the doctors headquarters and reported many of the aboriginal population i'll and some dead in the upper region yil- lages. He volunteered his boat and services to take aid.
 Dr. Borland and Miss Majors, a nurse sent there from Anchorage to assist him in combating a scar let fever epidemic, left at once for the afflicted settlements. He found the natives all acutely sick with influenza, ,l6 dead and many seri- ously ill.
 Famine Aggravates Situation
 With the villagers all virtually helpless, famine was prevalent in the entire district. Food was almost entirely exhausted and fuel piles were low. Dr. Borland left some food supplies, medicines and head ed a woodchopping brigade that furnished new fuel and started the fires going.
 He then returned to Dillingham; and ordered a supply of influenza serum. He reached Dillingham; Saturday.
 Fever Epidemic Breaks
 On the following day he was ad- vlsed that the village of Nushagak was stricken with scarlet fever. Later in the day, word was re- ceived that a few cases had ap- peared in Snag Point. Miss Ma jors, who was due to return to Anchorage to go back to her sta- ton at the Eklutna hospital, can celled her plans and remained to aid in caring for the sick.
 A second nurse is already avail able at Dillingham;. Another will be sent there at once, and the necessary serum and antitoxin have been ordered from Seattle. A plane will rush them to Dillingham; as soon as they reach Anchorage. Mir. Hawkesworth said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-28

WASHINGTON, D. C., July 28.- The Lindberghs, Col. Charles A., and his wife, are practically off or their latest adventure, enroute tc jhina and Japan.
 They flew from New York tc Washington for conferences with Acting Secretary of State Castle and others on conditions in the Orient.
 Either today or Wednesday, de- pendent on completion of details the Lindberghs will fly to North Haven Maine, the Morrow estate lnd from there most of the flying will be across barren wastelands md deserted waters.
 Col. Lindbergh said the itinerary liter Tokyo is vague but they are expected to come back different route than by which they go.
 The plane is completely equipped with luggage, blankets and emer gency rations. The only thing re- Imaining is the checking of the instruments, refueling and obtain ing visa from the Japanese En- bassy
 Informed that a delay may oc- cur in getting gasoline at Point Barrow, Col Lindbergh said they could fly to Fairbanks. He did not elaborate on the statement.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-28
PLIERS OFF ACROSS ATLANTIC; LLNDBERGHS READY
WHITE, FAMOUS HYDROCARBONS
 ANOTHER VISIT
National Park Advocate and Brown Bear
 Friend in Juneau

NO place in the world can com pare with Southeast Alaska as a place for pleasure cruising in sum mer; her sheltered waters of en- trancing beauty; her foreste d mountains rising in grandeur from the shore lines, the abundance and variety of life on land and sea and the delightful, invigorating wea- ther combine to make this part of the Territory a chosen spot for re- creation that cannot be equalled elsewhere"
 , Such is the opinion of Stewart Edward White, eminent contem- porary author, lover of nature and cosmopolitan traveller who has wis., tied most of the hooks and cram nies of the world
 Enjoying Another Sojourn
 He is enjoying another of his lei surely sojourns in the North, hav- ing arrived last evening on his yacht Kura in Juneau for stay of several days. Since 1920, he has come to Alaska every summer except one, and he contemplates the continuation of yearly visits in the future.
 At noon today, MT. White was honor guest at luncheon given in the Gastineau Cafe by his regi- mental comrade in arms in the World War, Dr. H. c. DeVighne.
 Continued on rage Eight)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-28
NEW COLD ERA IN N0RTHLAND
 SAYS GARFIELD
Seattle Chamber of Com
 merce Official Tells of AL Mine

SEATTLE, July 29.-Alaska is seeing the opening of a new gold era said Director Garfield of the Alaska Department of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce after tour of the southeast part of the Terri tory.
 "The Alaska Juneau property had the best month in history in June and the estimated net profit for the year may reach s1,500,000, ten per cent capitalization" said Gar field.
 Garfield said the increased pur- chasing power of gold is encourag- ing mining operations.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-28
HUDSON NOT TO BE EXT RADITED; REQUEST DENIED
Gov. Hartley Refuses to Bring Ma ; "What-a-
 Man to Washington

OLYMPIA, Wash, July 28-Gov. R. H. Hartley has denied the re- quest to extradite Guy Edward Hudson from Los Angeles, Cal, to face bigamy charges for his mar riage to Minnie Ma" Kennedy in Longvlew a month ago.
 Gov Hartley said the state should be spared further humiliation from these careless performers.
 The Governor said the state has on hand funds for Glass A" crim- inals.
 The bigamy complaint was filed at Kelso on July g, after the Prosecuting Attorney got a witness to former marriage by Hud- son Hudson failed to secure a divorce from his first wife who is now suing him for divorce and ali- mony.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-28
Winston Churchill Expects
 Big Pay for American Tour

LONDON, July 28-The American lecture tour of Winston Churchill, lone insurgent of the conservative party, Is expected to gross him s45,000 for roughly 70 hours work.
 Churchill has engagements for 45 lectures in 10 weeks at the rate of $1 900 lecture, late this fall
 In addition to the work of lec- turing, travelling in the United States presents strain to the Eu- ropean platform men invading this country for often it is necessary to ride all night after completing one lecture in order to arrive at the scene of the next days address.
 Churchill's first lecture tour of the states was at the conclusion of
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-28

the Boer War while he was in the limelight. On that tour he was managed by the late Major Pond, who had handled such celebrities as Mark Twain. Walt Whitman and Henry Ward Beecher.
 Churchill, son of an American mother, has been soldier, writer and statesman having served with the Spanish forces in Cuba in the closing years of the last century and with the English in African campaigns.
 He Is expected to devote con- siderable of his lecture time to discussion of India and to the destiny of the English speaking people.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-28
STOCK M ARKET' .DRACS; TRADERS
 MARKING TIME
Many Issues Indicate Fairly Good Undertone Pre-
 vailing, However

NEW YORK, July 28.-A partial moratorium seemed to be in effect today on the stock market.
 Prices maintained fairly good undertone despite the torpor of the U. s. Steel dividend announce ment due after the close.
 Traders marked time today with the same pace as yesterday when the slowest trading in nearly seven years resulted, though the volume of listed shares tripled during that period.
 U. s. Steel common moved nar- rowly.
 Allied Chemical, General Elec- tric, Safeway, Penney Woolworth, ChrysSler, Eastman, Westinghouse, Standard Oil of New Jersey and a few motion picture issues ad- vanced a point or two.
 Auburn lost more points today
 Childs dropped two to a new low.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-28
BRIT. PREMIER TELLS GERMANS ABOUT POLICY
Balance of Power Theory Opposed Conditions
 Only Temporary

BERLIN, July 28.-Great Britain is .diametrically opposed to the balance of power theory because 1t is incompatible with disarmament said Prime Minister Ramsay Msc- Donald here today.
 Great Britain believes in estaa- fishing security by international cooperation. High tariff walls lead to universal bankruptcy, he said.
 The British Premier said the German economic difficulties are largely psychological and temper ary.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-28
FLAMING OIL '
 WELL KILLS 1

KILGORE, Texas, July 28.-One man was killed and two were se- riously injured by a flaming oil well, two blocks from the business district here and which threatened the town
 Clyde Erskine was fatally burned when pinned to the ground by a falling timber, trying to escape.
 The fire was finally extinguished by a special pipe device closing the gate valve.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-28
TODAY'S STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, July 28.-Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 153s, American Can 99A. Anaconda Copper 25a, Beth lehem Steel 41%, Fox Films 1874 {. General Motors 37ss, International Harvester 41A, Kennecott 1924 Checker Cab, no sale; Curtiss- Wright 3A, Packard Motors 7ls, Standard Brands IS, Standard Oil of California 367s, Standard oil of New Jersey 381s, Trans-America 7as i, United Aircraft 27as, U. s. Steel e2ss.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-28
French Tax JOIts FIattened
 Purses nl Villas of Riuiera

which demand immediate payment.
 One man who had 5000 yearly before the debacle, and who now is cut to $3,5oo, received tax bill covering his three years resi- dence. With fines and additions it amounted to $2,200.
 The result has been some lucra- tive business for local legal talent.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-28
FIRE ENTERS
 LASSEN PARK

SACRAMENTO. Cal, July 28.- Fire raging over 5o,000 acres in Butte and Tehama Counties this afternoon penetrated the Lassen National Forest. Five hundred men are fighting the blaze.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-28
Graf Zeppelin No,v in Arctic

REIMBURSEMENT Germany, July = Zeppelin reached Franz ii,45 yesterday from ship said.
 Zeppelin algn Land exchanged mail and then continued flight,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-28
STIMSON IN
 LOND0N;WILL MEET DAWES

LONDON, England, July 28.- American Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson has arrived here to meet Ambassador Dawes who has arrived at Plymouth on the liner Mauretania. They will discuss the debt holiday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-28

NICE, France, July 28-The in- come tax collector has brought added grief to the many American residents of the Riviera who have been tightening their belts for the past year.
 Ignorant of the fact that they were taxed in France. scores [ them are receiving overdue bills
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-28
ARE
 BACK IN WASH,

WASHINGTON, D. C.. July 28.- President Hoover and Mrs. Hoover have returned after three days and four night1 at the Rapidan Camp, his longest rest since the trip to Porto Rico.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-28
HALF OF TOWN
 IS DESTROYED

SPOKANE, Wasr.., Suly 28.-Fire started in woodshed and levelled half of the town of Loon Lake, 35 miles north of here. The loss is estimated at $15,000.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-28
NOW
 OFF FOR POLE

PLYMOUTH, England, July 28.- Sir Hubert Wilkins has sailed aboard the submarine Nautilus for Bergen, Norway, enroute under the North Pole.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-28
Amy Johnson, Auatrix,
 at Moscow, Tokyo Bound

MOSCOW, July 28.--Amy John son, British aviatrix. landed here today on her flight from Eng land to Tokyo, via Berlin.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-28
MYSTERY EXPLODED

EVERETT. h., July 28.- July 28--What was believed to be clue in the Bassett murder has fizzled. Three boys admitted dump ing the skeleton from an abandoned cemetery into the sound after a doctor had refused to purchase 1t.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-28
U. s. STEEL DIVIDEND

NEW YORK. July 28.-The Unit ed States Steel Corporation has reduced the quarterly dividend on common stock to $1 from SITS, making the annual basis $4 against $7 previously paid, more drastic reduction than forecast The pay ment of SIPS was expected as the first reduction.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-28
LONE EAGLE IS READY TO MAKE
 FLIGHT, ORIENT
( olonel and Wife Fly to Washington to Make
 Last Check up
ACTUAL START TODAY OR MAYBE TOMORROW
Weather Conditions Will Decide Start-Peril-
 ous Trip Ahead

MISREPRESENTATION, July 28.-Col. and Mrs. Lind bergh have hoped off for North Haven, Maine, where family farewells will be said before the flight to Japan.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-28

Cuba is to have it's first commer- cial census since 1919.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-28
HEAT SIzzLES WIDE SECTION; MERCURY SCARS
Sixty-three Deaths Are Re- ported from Califor-
 mia Districts
TEMPERATURE RKS BROKEN, MANY PLACES
F crest Fire Hazards h. creasing Along North
 ern Border States

KANSAS CITY, July 28.-Tht sun beat over the Middle West and southern Pacific coast yesterday sending the mercury climbing.
 Salina, Kansas, reported tenn peratures ranging from 106 tc no.
 At Hays and Emporia the tenn perature was l05.
 Temperatures of 100 were record ed throughout Oklahoma
 Forest-fire hazards have increas- ed in Idaho, Montana, Utah and Wyoming and gravated the drought area in eastern Montana
 California has reported 63 deaths during the last 90 hours, ending last night in the southwest.
 Forty deaths occurred in the Im- perial Valley. Six deaths are re- ported from Needles, California where the temperature was 120.
 Phoenix, Arizona, has reported IA deaths from the heat and the others are scattered.
 Showers helped Los Angeles where it registered 90.
 Taft, California, reports tenn peratures of l18.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-28
DEATHS INCREASE

LOS ANGELES, Cal. July 28.- Deaths from heat in the South west total 69 following receipt of deaths in the Mojave desert.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-28
1s DEAD IN CANADA

WINNIPEG, July 28.-The heat wave over the Canadian prairies has left 19 dead, damaged crops 50 per cent to total losses in some places.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-02-20
Concert at Meredith
Stringfield and the Faculty Chamber
Orchestra Will Play There

Lamar Struggled and the
Faculty Chamber Orchestra are
going down to Raleigh on Satur-
day the 28th-one week from
tomorrow-and give concert
at Meredith College. 1t will be-
gin at $3.50 in the evening.
The personnel and the pro-
gram will be the same as in the
Stringfield concert in the Play
makers Theatre last month. Mrs.
Fred Mccall will be the pianist,
and ID. A. Mcpherson the violin
ist. The entertainment will.
close with the orchestra's rem
dition Of the conductors own
composition, "Cripple Creek"
Mr.. Struggled is in the Nc
Pherson hospital in Durham
now, with a swollen jaw that be-
came infected after tooth was
pulled. But he expected to be
at home today or tomorrow.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-02-20
When Will Bells Play?
They Will BE Heard Very Little
during Working Hours
When will the bells play?

When will the bells play?
This important question: is
suggested by the Raleigh Times
editorial comments upon the
Morehead Patterson Memorial
Tower about to be erected on
the south edge of the Univer-
slty campus.
Every now and then twelve
bells will start their clangor, i"
says the Times. "The chimes
will sometimes be hard to live
with. Heard at frequent inter
walls during the day, they will
be more than apt to set the
campus and the village culver
ing AS to the students, their
youthful resilency and power of
accommodation will soon make
the chimes just one more thing
in their lives. SOphomOres will
sleep through the early morn
ing rumpus without turning a
hair; but for others not so well
fortified we fear the chimes are
going to prove major prob
lem"
| am losing my own resiliency
and power of accommodation,
and after had read this ] tele-
phoned, in alarm, to II. S. Dyer,
head of the University's music
department. What about this ."
| asked, "Are those bells going
to be playing all the time"
He laughed gently. "Do not
be frightened" he said "They
may sound what is called the
Westminster chord on the hour,
or maybe even on the half hour,
but the Westminster chord is
only three strokes. It's no more
disturbing than the ordinary
striking of a clock. There will
be real chimes only at certain
appropriate times. Usually in
the evening, but perhaps at 9TH
er hours on Christmas, New
Years, Easter, and on other
special occasions"
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-02-20

says the HerdH Tribune. "One
was about the rancher who tried
to run down the coyote with an
automobile. Another was about
the rattlesnakes that tried to
swallow one another.
AT present, under commits
sion by the Laura Spellman
Rockefeller fund, he is gather
ing material for a vast deal of
writing on the history and
legends of the cow country. For
one thing, he is busy talking to
people who once drove cattle up
the old Chisholm trail; for an
other, he is gathering wh0ppfng
big yarns about animals"
Going to New York Mr.. Dobie
travelled from Dallas to Atlanta
by airplane; from Atlanta north
ward the airplane seats were all
taken, and so he had to go by
train"
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-02-20
Bairnsfather Tonight
Illustrated Talk to Be Given by the
Famous CartOOnist

Captain Bruce Bairnsfather,
the celebrated World War car
toOnist, will give an illustrated
lecture at $3.50 o'clock this (Fri-
day. evening in Memorial Hall.
His topic is "Old Bill and Me. !"
Bairnsfather served on all
European fronts in the war, and
it was amid the danger and con-
fusion Of the fight that he drew
the whimsical pictures the fame
of which has spread over the
world. General Sir Ian Hamil-
ton called him "the man who
made the world laugh in its
darkest hour" and another gen
eral said: "Bairnsfather is
worth an army corps to the
western front"
His play, "The Better Ole"
ran in this country and Europe
for two years and was twice
made into a motion picture.
This evening his pictures, con-
verted into slides for lecture
purposes, will be shown on the
screen; and he will end his lee
ture by drawing, before the eyes
Of the audience, a large-size pic
ture which he will sign and pre-
sent to the University.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-02-20
Chapel Hill Chaf

E. C. Branson is accomplished
in many ways, but | value him
most as a tobacco-mixer at just
this moment because l happen
to be putting on his delightful
product. After the meeting Of
the North Carolina Club | was
about to beg a pipeful from
Robert B. House, who smokes
the same common sort of to-
bacco that | do. Then l remem-
bered that we were in the pre-
cincts of Chapel Hills supreme
artist in pipe tobacco. re-
minded Mr.. House of that, and
we both suggested to Mr.. Bran
son, gently but firmly, that we
would like to go into his sane
tum and fill up from his jar
With his usual generosity, he
agreed heartily. A few mo-
ments later, while he was. en-
gagged in conversation in the cor
ridor, | skunk back into his Of
fee with my empty pouch and
captured two or three more
cubic inches of the precious mix
ture. But | am not going to
raid him any more; he has given
me his formula, and | am going
to purchase the ingredients and
mix my own.
Somebody in my office ad-
dressed letter to Collier Cobb,
Sr., and when | met Mr.. Cobb
on the street he said; 'Im 60
ing to cancel my subscription
the next time you send a letter
to Collier Cobb, Sr. There
isn't any such person. There's
Collier Cobb, and there are
eighteen Collier Cobb, Jrs., in
North Carolina-tWo in my own
Continued on last pa0s)
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-02-20

J. Frank Dobie, ex-coWboy,
writer Of Texas tales, and Uni
versity Of Texas professor, who
was in Chapel Hill last summer,
went to New York on visit the
other day, and the New York
Herald Tribune published an ac-
count of his visit under the head
line, "Dobie Arrives with Wide
Hat and Tall Yarns"
Mr.. Dobie did not wear his
wide hat in Chapel Hiff-it was
warm weather, and he went
bareheaded-but he told many
of his tall yarns, much to the
delight of the University faculty,
the students, and the rest of the
population.
Sunday night Mr.. Dobie told
some of the stories that are
swapped in the bunk houses of
the ranches of the Southwest"
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-02-20

to the Superior court on two
others.
Mrs. English Bagby. whose
laundry had been taken from
her porch early one morning
about two weeks before, was one
of the witnesses at the trial.
She recovered the table and bed
linen, but by the time the police
searched the Guthrie house all
her stolen clothes had dis
appeared.
Many thefts were reported to
the police in the last part of
January and early in February.
from the campus and from
homes about the village, and
much of the stolen stuff was
found at Guthrie's. All the gar
ments except three overcoats
had been claimed yesterday.