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The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-07-23
MURRAY LANDS IN 0 WIN PLANE
 SATURDAY PM.
Medical Relief Director Arrives Here to Relieve
 pr. F. s. Fellows

Dr. Vance B. Murray, recently transferred here as Director o1 Medical Relief for the Alaska Di- vision of the Office of Indian Af- fairs, arrived here Saturday after noon flying his own plane from Spokane, Wash, where he has been stationed for several years He succeeds pr. F. s. Fellows who will leave in about a week for Albuquerque, N. M., his new sta ton.
 Dr. Murray made the flight from Spokane to Juneau without incl dent. coming through British Co., lumbia. He arrived at Whjtehorse Friday and came to Skagway for a brief stop Saturday afternoon, then proceeded here.
 He was enthusiastic about the temporary landing field just com pleted. He said it is fine field and ought not to be lost for that use.
 Dr. vance's plane is a two-place Fairchild 24, powered with 125 horsepower motor. It has cruis- ing speed of 105 miles an hour and fuel capacity for six hours sus- tained flight. He will use it in covering the Territory He will remain here for several days. get ting established. His first trip will be to Wrangell where he be- lieves he will be able to land on the beach. After the arrival of his mother, on the next trip of the North Star, he will fly to Fair banks and out of there visit all of the communities with landing facilities. This winter he will switch to skis and cover those not having fields.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-07-23
THREE KILLERS MAKE ESCAPE,
 TEXAS PRISON
Six Attempt to Gain Free dom Through Barrage
 of Gunfire

HUNTSVILLE, Texas, July 23.- Three killers, Raymond Hamilton, Joe Palmer and Blackie Thompson, who blasted their way through gunfire out of the death house at the State Prison, are still free this morning.
 Of their three companions, all lifers, one is dead and two are wounded. Whitey Walker was shot to death as he attempted to scale the prison walls. Charlie Frazier and Roy Johnson, were wounded.
 Blaze of Gunfire 4
 The men scaled the walls in a blaze of gunfire after overpowering unarmed guards while most of the prison population were attending a baseball game.
 Hamilton is one-time running mate of Clyde Barrow. Palmer is also a Barrow cohort. Thompson is an Oklahoma killer and bank robber.
 The break came when the un- armed guard took the prisoners their evening meal.
 Guard Taken Unawarcs
 Frazier showed a gun in the guards ribs and flourished an- other gun. Frazier took the guards keys and then all started for the prison walls.
 Firing broke out from the guards on the wall as Hamilton started over it. Only two of the others got over.
 Frazier, allowing the death cell men to proceed him was wounded and failed to get free.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-07-23
TO BUILD NAVY
 UP TO TREATY,
 ASSERTS FOR,
President M a k es Promise to Crew Aboard U.
 5. 5. Houston

ABOARD U. $. S. HOUS- TON, July B. President Roosevelt, talking to the crew of the Houston in mid-Pacific, promised the United States Navy will be up to treaty strength in three or four years.
 The President assured the seagOing fighting force that Congress and the country are behind the naval building pro- gram new under way which is calculated to reach treaty strength.
 The President added that the country expects the fullest eff ficiency of it's sea-fighting forces and praised the eff ciency of the crew of the Hous- ton.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-07-23
Today Is Hot; Maybe It WiH Get Hotter, Maybe!

Yes, it is hot tOday-and let 1t go at that.
 The hottest point was reach ed at 1:45 o'clock this after noon-84 degrees, and it re- mained there for some time hefcre slipping down gradually, and very slowly at that.
 Maybe 1t will be hotter to- morrow, maybe not-but any, way, I've sure and have clean shirt, you men, because you may have to shed vest and coat again
 Yes, it is hOt-hottest since August 3, 1929, when the mer- cury reached S5 degrees. On July 2l, 1880, it reached S2 degrees.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-07-23
HARRY TOWSEND BACK
 FROM WEEKS TRIP TO
 MINING PROPERTIES

Harry Townsend, well known mining engineer, returned on the seaplane Patco this morning from Berner's Bay after a weeks trip on which he looked over mining property at Berner's River and St. James Bay. MT. Townsend left here last Monday with Ed. Jahnke, in the latter's boat and looked over mining properties at St. James Bay and from there went to Ber- ner's Bay where he made an exam nation of the old Gray Boy prop erty, now known as the Rusty Lode, in which R. J. McKanna and Gudman Jensen are interested. MT. Townsend took samples of ore from the properties for assay.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-07-23
CHIEF (. J. DAVIS IS IMPROVING IN HEALTH
 ATSEATTLE HOSPITAL

Chief of Police c. J. Davis, who went south two weeks ago for medical treatment at the Virginia Mason Clinic, is improving steadily according to word received here by Roy Hoffman, acting Chief of Police this morning.
 Chief Davis illness was diag- nosed at arsenical poisoning at the clinic and he has been confined to the hospital for the last eight days undergoing treatment. He did not mention how long it will be before his return.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-07-23
CONCERN FELT FOR BYRD; HIS
 TRAIL IS LOST
Tractor Party Unable to Reach Explorer in
 Lonely Outpost

LITTLE AMERICA, July B. Grave concern for the safety of Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd is felt as the trail to his lonely weather observation outpost is lost
 A tractor party, which set out last Friday to bring Byrd back to the main base, reported it could not pick up the trail.
 The group was 50 miles out on the 123-mile run.
 Orange flags which marked the trail could not be found past the 50-mile mark.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-07-23
Lon g h en Making Move to Settle Differ
 ences, Present Strike PREDICTION MADE ON
 OUTCOME OF VOTING
Alaska Ships May Leave from Seattle for Alaska
 by End of This Week

With a favorable repOr t predicted among the unions of the Pacific Coast to sub- init the long S hOr e m e ms troubles to the M d i a t o n Board at San Francisco, re- sumption of sailings of AL aska steamers from Seattle this week is expected accord ing to Associated Press dis patches received by The En- pire this afternoon.
 All longshoremen u n 1 o n s along the coast are taking a vote, on the mediation ques- tion, the results of which are expected to be announced to- morrow.
 Sabotage broke out in San Fran cisco today in the Street Carmen's strike and one man was injured, four others endangered, when a car was wrecked by vandals.
 The police dispersed a crowd of pickets at Oakland as the truck drivers went back to work along the waterfront.
 One man was beaten and an automobile was overturned at Oak land.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-07-23
L. H. SMITH, WITH MOTHER
 AND MISS MARY JOYCE, TO
 RETURN TO TAKU TODAY

L. H. Smith, who with his moth CT, Mrs. Erie L. Smith, and Miss Mara Joyce, arrived here from Twin Glacier Camp at Taku, on Mrs. Smiths yacht Stella Maris, Saturday, plan to return to the camp on the yacht this afternoon after spending the weekend in Ju- neau. Mrs. Smith, who makes her home in Los Angeles, came north on her yacht two weeks ago and has been visiting her son at his log lodge on the Taku River.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-07-23

ASTORIA, Oregon, July 23.-The six Navy seaplanes of Squadron VP-9 hopped off this morning for Seattle where they will join the six planes of Squadron VP-7
 The fleet will leave Seattle, ac- cording to present schedule, on next Thursday for Juneau, Alaska, stopping at Ketchikan enroute. The fleet is due at Juneau August l and will remain there until Aug EuSt 6.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-07-23
". H. PICKENS
 DIES IN |. A,
Wellknown Sports Promot- CT of All Kinds of Attrac-
 tions Passes Away

LOS ANGELES, Cal, July 23- William Hickman Pickens, aged 60 sports promoter who offered almost every kind of sports attraction died here Saturday at his home as the result of blood poisoning.
 Among his automobile attrac- tions in their earlier days were Henry Ford, Eddie Rickenbacker Barney Oldfield and Louis Chevro- let.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-07-23
MRS. c. M. JORGENSEN, MRS. LESLIE WHITE AND CHILD
 VISIT J. w. LEVERS HERE

Mrs. Leslie White, whose hus- band, Dr. White, is physician with the U. s. Bureau of Indian Affairs, stationed at Metlakatla, their daughter. Rena Carol White. and Mrs. Whites mother, Mrs. c. M. Jorgensen, arrived in Juneau on the Northwestern to visit with Mrs. J. w. Leivers, another daugh- ter of Mrs. Jorgensen's here for some time. Mrs. White and her daughter will visit here for about two weeks while Mrs. Jorgensen will stay for a longer time The latter has been visiting at Metla- katla for the last month,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-07-23
T1Uo ALaska1ls To Be Guests Of SOuiet Union

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, July 23.-Bound for Moscow to be guests of the Soviet Govern ment, Bill Lavery and Clyde Armistead, Fairbanks mechan- ics, who aided the Russian avi- ators in the rescue of refugees from the Arctic ice floes, left here Friday enr0ute to the coast to board the steamer AIeutian. They will visit in California then go to Washing ton and receive their passports from Soviet Ambassador Troy anovsky. thence to New York
 to board a steamer for Russia
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-07-23
WILL FINISH SELDOVIA
 SCHOOL SEPTEMBER

Work cn the new school at Sel- dovia is said to be progressing satisfactorily, with the basement dug and the foundation in. It is planned to have the school ready for occupancy at the beginning of the school year, and finished by September l.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-07-23
MRS. ROBERT KAUFMANN AND DAUGHTER MORE, LEAVE FOR SOUTH ON HALEAKALA

Mrs. Robert Kaufmann, whose husband is proprietor of Kauf- mann's Cafe, and their daughter, Lenore Kaufmann, left on the Haleakala for the south. Mrs. Kaufmann, who has been in ill health for some time, plans to go through a medical clinic in Seattle upon her arrival there and before returning north will visit for some time with her family in Montana.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-07-23
DESPERADO IS SLAIN SUNDAY
 NIGHT, CHICAGO
Bandit Walks Calmly from Theatre Into Clisten-
 ing Trap of Guns
STARTS TO PULL HIS
 PISTOL, SHOT DOWN
Fatal Bullet Strikes Him in Neck-Dies on Way to
 Hospital from Wound


 
 CHICAGO, H., July B. John Dillinger, Public Enemy No. l, Indiana outlaw, was slain by a special detail of fifteen Department of Jus tice marksmen as he came out of North Side theatre Sunday night.
 Dillinger fell under a fusil- Jade of bullets.
 As Dillin ger swaggered from a neighborhood theatre, he saw too late, the gleaming steel of the trap set for him.
 His hand went to his pocket for his gun but too late.
 Three bullets tore into his body, one through the neck
 
 and two in the breast. "
 Dillinger staggered, t h e n fell.
 Tip Is Given
 Melvin Purvis, Chief of the Chicago office of the Department of Justice, was informed through an underground method of Dill fingers plan to visit a theatre.
 Purvis stationed men around the whole block
 Their presence drew many loiter- CTS to the section to see what was going on.
 Enters Theatre
 Purvis, seated in his parked car near the theatre, saw Dillinger buy a ticket and enter.
 Purvis and his men waited a little more than two hours.
 Then Dillinger came out of the theatre.
 As the desperado passed Purvis's auto, Purvis moved his right arm out of the window in signal.
 Agents Leap Out
 Department of Justice marksmen leaped forward, pistols glistening. Dillinger saw the trap. He dart ed down an alley, reaching for his gun as he did SO.
 A five-shot fusillade cut him down.
 Two gaping women spectators, got the other two bullets in their legs, but were not seriously wounded
 SprawIs to Pavement Dillinger sprawled to the pave ment, crumpled heap.
 There was a tense silence. then scores of mortified witnesses and agents, two detectives and five of- ficers rushed forward with guns drawn, taking no chance that the outlaw might feign dead.
 A cordon was thrown about the fallen desperado and the curious herded away.
 Dies in Patrol Car
 Dillinger was lifted up and car ried to a patrol car. He died en- route to a hospital without a word
 The neck wound caused Dill fingers death.
 The two women shot in the legs were carried to an ambulance and sent to a hospital. The women are Mrs. Etta Batalsky and Miss Theresa Baulus.
 Was Changed Man
 Dillingers hair was dyed dark. The telltale scars on his cheeks had been lifted by plastic surgery. Gold trimmed spectacles framed his shifty eyes.
 His nose had been strengthened and he had a carefully groomed black mustache.
 The whorls of his fingertips had been obliterated by acid.
 The bandit carried Evelyn Frech- cites picture to the end. Officers found it in his watch. She is now in prison for harboring the desperado in Minneapolis.
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-07-23
SITUATION IN PORTLAND

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 PORTLAND, Oregon, July B. Last Saturday night United States Senator Wagner seemed hopeful there would be no general strike unless the Governor goes nutty and starts to order his little tin soldiers around"
 Gov. Julius L. Meier mobilized HOO Guardsmen last week and holds them in readiness in case of trouble during the attempt to open the port.
 Strike supporters carried banners last Saturday criticising the Gov ernor for calling out the guards. The strike supporters gathered around the Meier and Frank De- partment Store, of which the Gov ernor is President.
 Ben T. Osbourne, Executive Sec retary of the Oregon State Fed eraticn of Labor, would make no statement Saturday night regard ing a general strike pending re- ceipt of further details from the unions.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-07-23
SCORCHINC SUN KILLS s HUMANS
 AND LIVESTOCK
Total Number of Death h $ Reached 275 Over Ma ton Early This Morning HEAT AND THIRST
 TAKING BIG TOLL
Crop Losses Are Already Estimated in Hundreds of Million Dollars

CHICAGO, In., July 23.-A heat wave today extended over the sur scourged nation raising the total of deaths to PTS, according to early morning reports.
 Lives are being taken in the larger cities and smaller commun- ities.
 Livestock is being ravaged and also crops.
 Water supplies are failing.
 A survey from the Mississippi River to the Rockies showed thou sands of head of cattle lost, dying from heat and thirst.
 Crop losses are already placed at hundreds of millions of dollars.
 A continued hot spell is forecast
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-07-23
Kennecott Resident
 to Wed in Seattle

SEATTLE, July 23.--A marriage license has been issued to Paul Werner, of Kennecott, Alaska, and Margaret Eberhart, of Seattle, both of legal age.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-07-23

Mrs. Helen V. Roberts of Fort Dodge, Iowa, is a roundtrip pas senger on the Princess Alice for a cruise of Southeast Alaska. Her husband is owner and publisher of newspaper in Fort Dodge.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-07-23
PORTLAND LAYS OFF

PORTLAND, Oregon, July B. Plans for an extensive loading of ships and for general strike here are alike held in abeyance await ing the vote of members of the International Longshoremen's Asso- citation on the question of sub mitting all disputes in the strike to the Mediation Board at San Francisco.
 The ballots will be counted to- morrow.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-07-23
LAND PERFECTLY

EDMONTON, Alberta, July B. The ten Army bombing planes ar rived Saturday from Winnipeg via Regina.
 They circled the field then dropped to perfect landings in single file.
 The next hop is to Prin c e George, distance of 490 miles enroute to Fairbanks, Alaska, via Whitehorse, Yukon Territory.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-07-23
SHOWERS REPORTED

GUYMON, Okla, July 23.-Scat- teed showers over the Oklahoma Panhandle temporarily broke the back of the heat wave in this section and temperatures are fall- ing from 10l yesterday to as low as 68 this morning. Half an inch of rain fell during the night.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-07-23

PRINCE GEORGE, B. C., July 23.-The ten American Army bomb ing planes arrived here this fore noon from Edmonton where they remained over Sunday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-07-23
BACK BY WEDNESDAY

SAN FRANCtacO, Cals July 23. Officials of the Tn ter n tional Longshoremen's Association said that if the vote for arbitration carries, the union men will prob ably be back at work Wednesday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-07-23
ACCEPTS KODIAK POSITION

Paul Garrett, teacher in the Seward Territorial school for the past two years, has accepted the position of principal of the Kodiak school.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-07-23
TEN BOMBERS
 OF ARMY ARE
 AGAIN IN AIR
Spend Sunday in Edmon. ton then Hop on Another
 Leg Toward flask a

ULLETIN PRINCE GEORGE, July 23.-The Am crican bombers took off this afternoon at 1905 o'clock, pre- sumably for Whitehorse.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-07-23
NAVY PLANES, ALASKA BOUND, MEET, SEATTLE
Six Aircraft Hop This Morning from Astoria
 to Join Six Others

SEATTLE, July g. The scaplanes from Astoria have reached here and the twelve set eff for Alaska on Thurs day morning.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-07-23
SOME GUARDS RETURN HOME

SAN FRANCISCO, July 23--Late last Saturday afternoon 3,042 Ma tional Guardsmen boarded trains for their home or training camps while 1,727 remained behind for demobilization orders.
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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-22
ARE WE SELFISH AND INDIFFERENT?

The president of the American Bar Association
Earl w. Evans, of Wichita, Kas., is reported in n
gathering of lawyers as saying that "about 95 per
cent of the citizens of the United States still self
ish and indifferent, do not think much, or Scent
ingy give damn, about their government or what
is to become of it."
A pretty severe arraignment, that. Is it just-
fled, as against the mass of our body polite?
We know there are many, far too many, who
are selfish and Indifferent, and the great mass of
the people are intensely engrossed in the urgent
business of making living-and all too often
only bare living-and that other pressing bust
ness of raising up another generation of men and
women to take their places.
The necessities of living and the spirit of the
age have taught us that this is the chief concern
of man. Which has made inevitable degree of
selfshness which is sometimes much to be regret
ted and deprecated.
| But that such percentage of our citizens as
| 95 per cent has in a century and half become
indifferent to the fate of the government which
the fathers brought forth with blood and suffering
is not to be credited.
! That something of neglect of the essentials has
brought US to our recent low estate we NAV not
IL doubt.
| But we must believe it has been because of mis-
understanding of the needs of our country and its
government, rather than Indifference to its fate
I Selishness to degree seems to be prime ne
cessity of our existence but certainly we do not
believe it is too much to say that the great ma
IJority of our citizens not only not Indifferent
Fto. but are deeply concerned for the fate of the
country and its government although for perfect
Fly obvious reasons they may not be as actively en-
Egaged they should be in the effort to that
its destiny is worked out in the right way.-The
Rock Hill Is c. Herald.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-22
NEWSPAPERS OPINION
VIEWS OF A Pennsylvania EDITOR

E. j. Stackpole editor-in-chief of the "Tele-
graph Newspapers" Harrisburg, Pa, warns pub
fishers to prepare for the reaction in a bulletin
just issued through the American Society of News
paper Editors. His article follows:
''Never in the history of the newspaper industry
so far as it is related to the United States has
there been such effort on the part of the ruling
powers at Washington to tell US what, when and
how to do it. Having come up from the country
weekly experience into the presidency and chief
editorshp of company printing two daily news
papers, morning and evening, have felt the steady
pressure coming from the so-called "New DeaP' at
Washington.
''I still believe there are traditions in America
which are of vital Importance to the nation, and
vet it appears inconcevable to me that our peo-
pie are accepting almost without protest regula-
tions and all that sort of thing which would have
been regarded as impossible few years ago.
''Untl recently our government refused to rec
ognize the Soviet theories of Russia, but if may
Judge of what is happening now at Washington
some of the braintrusters there doing their
level best to precipitate and catapult the people
of the United States into Soviet mess.
apparently the President has approved the
newspaper code with all manner of private reser-
vations and incidentally some mighty impolite
comment on his own account. 1t is my judgment
that unless the American press gets awake to the
immediate job ahead-the maintenance of the in
situations and principles which are the basic foun-
datons of our system of government-there will
be reaction not to say up Set of the whole trend
of the newspaper business through insidious in
terferenceesYith what we regard as the freedom
of the press,
Unfortunately any comment adverse to the
policies promulgated by the Roosevelt admlnlstra-
ton is turned upon those responsible as an evil
dence Of their lack of patriotism and failure to
grasp the great and noble experiments which arc
constantly being developed. 1 am still of the hon
est opinion that the press of the country can do
more than all other agencies combined to bring
about restoration of confidence in the institu-
tions which have been built up over a century
and half and which necessary to the main
tenance and development of American morale"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-22
ON MOUNTAIN PEOPLE

Editor, Inc llmeS-NeWS:
1t is not my intention to reply
to "The Countess" who recently
maligned the North carolina
mountaineers, a people with whom
she is evidently not well acquaint-
ed. Had she known them better
she could not have been guilty of
such discourtesy, such unkind mis-
representation.
Too often we have he'd to stand
great injustice from those who
having spent a few weeks or
months in our bidst think them
selves capable of writing a book
; or newspaper articles. about us.
If it were not for the outrageous
unfairness of such a procedure it
would be actually amusing. These
writers dwell with exaggerated
positiveness upon the faults and
imperfections of the mountaineers
rarely paying tribute to their viz
tues.
Isolation. lack of cultural adj
vantages have made them a people
apart, but they have kept. unim-
paired their standards of chivalry,
their religious beliefs and Gus
toms, their devotion to home,
their love of liberty, and their hos
pitality to strangers.
Hear this testimony from the
late Bishop Hoss of the Methodist
church, who labored so long
amongst them:
"The great majority of the
mountaineers are excellent citi-
zens. loving their country and its
flag, obeying it's laws without re-
luctance, and ready to fight for
it whenever fighting needs to be
done. They are the descendants
of the men who rode with Shelby,
Sewer and Mcdowell at Kings