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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-08-20
HenryT. RaineyPasses Away
in St. Louis Hospital Where
He Was Taken for Treatment
White-Haired Vetera n
Handled Gavel at Start
of Fifteenth Term
HURRIED ALL ACTS
OF ADMINISTRATION
Made Spectacular Attack,
Payne Aldrich Bill,
Which DevelopedFight

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Aug. 20-Speak-
er Henry T. Rainey, of the Ma
tional House Of Representatives,
died at DePaul Hospital here Sun
day night.
The speaker came to the hospital
only recently from his home in
Carrollton, Illinois for treatment
for bronchial pneumopia and died
unexpectedly at TBS O'Clock last
night. He suffered an attack Of
pneumonia two weeks ago.
Faced Hard Session
Henry T. Rainey reached the
powerful post of Speaker of the
National House of Representatives
after service in fourteen Congress
es. He was a white-haired veteran
of u when he was handed the
gavel at the start of his fifteenth
term in March, 1888.
He started his Congressional SER
vice in 1908 and thereafter kept
his Twentieth Illinois district in
the Democratic column except in
the Sixty Seventh Congress, when
he was a victim of the Harding
Republican landslide of November,
1920.
AS Speaker he was faced at the
outset with the extraordinary SER
les of legislative acts which marked
the opening months of the Frank
lin D. Roosevelt administration.
The national bank holiday, return
of beer, the amendment to abolish
the Eighteenth Amendment, the
granting of powers to the Presi-
dent to slash government expendi-
lures. the abandonment of the gold
standard, currency initiation, farm
relief and a huge program of
public works to relieve unemploy-
ment, came in rapid succession.
Rubber Stamp"
So expeditiously did the National
Legislature push through the acts
connected with these developments
that some Of the Representatives
began to murmer about rubber
stamp legislation" but Rainey gen.
tly, and yet firmly, kept them in
line.
He was a big man physically
Towering over most of his coll
eagues his wide shoulders were
topped by a neck like that of a
circus strong man and a massive
head, crowned with name of sill
very hair that stuck out in all di-
rections from his silk hat on for
NAL occasions. His square Jaws
held big black pipe rigidly, but
when he spoke his tones were soft
and amiable.
From Farming District
Rainey represented a farming
district in territory once contested
politically by Abraham Lincoln and
Stephen A. Douglas and was far
mer himself. He had one of the
show places of the fertile Illinois
river valley near his home town
of Carrollton where he was born
August 90, 1860, and where he lived
all his life.
Farming was not only personal
hobby with him, but public cause
as well. He dedicated much of his
services in Washington to efforts
to improve agricultural conditions,
holding that farm prosperity was
imperative in any program for ma
tional well-being. sf'#
Z Was q Student
He was a student and critic too
of tariff and fiscal subjects and
jumped into the national spotlight
with a spectacular attack upon the
(Conffprroh an Do0n rYvt,roaN
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-08-20
Wancats Praised
For Assistance
Army Flight

alaska flight is about to
land at Washington. Request
you notify Signals at Fairbanks,
Anchorage and Juneau, express
ing sincere appreciation Of
whole flight for hearty cO0pera-
ton given by Wamcats."
The above radio was received
by the local radio office this
morning from the Seattle office
as received there from Col.
Henry H. Arnold, Commander
CT the Army Squadron of ten
Martin bombers in Juneau last
Friday enroute from Fairbanks
to Washington, ID. c., via Sc
attic.
Wamcats is the code name
for the Washington Alaska Mill
tary Cable and Telegraph Sys-
tenn.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-08-20
Confesses to Staying
Widow, then Stealing
Rings from Fingers

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Aug. 20
Frank Wick, aged 81, confessed, de-
tectives said, to the Staying OF
Mrs. Clara Ploeger. wealthy widow,
whose body was found near high
way. He said he took two of her
diamond rings from her fingers
and pawned one OF them.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-08-20
Names of Film Players Are
Found IN Seized Communist
Documents;I npestigationO On

SACRAMENTO, Cal, Aug. 20
The names of Lupe Velez, Dolores
Del Rio and Ram)n Na9trio, be-
sides that of James Cagrey, hav.
been drawn into the District A.
torney's investigation OF alleged
Communist activities.
The District Attorney said the
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-08-20
KIOndike
Pioneers
Celebrate
Wife of Speaker, House Of
Commons, Reviews
Bygone Days

DAWSON CITY, Y. r.. Aug. 20.
The pioneers OF the Northwest
ern gold rushes celebrated the
thirty eighth anniversary of the
discovery of gold in the Klondike.
There were speeches and athletic
programs. Mrs. George Black, wife
of the Speaker of the House of
Commons, was guest of honor, and
she reviewed the romance and
hardships of the sourdoughs.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-08-20

names of these film players were
found in documents the police
seized during raids of Communist
headquarters and he Is turning
them over to the Los Angeles au-
thorities with the request he be
given all information regarding
their possible connection with IT,,
radical elements.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-08-20
C. P. R. DOCTOR
Dies; BULLET
WOUND FATAL

VANCOUVER. B. c., Aug. 90
DR.. A. p. Proctor. aged 65, Chief
Medical Officer for the Canadian
Pacific Railway, is dead as the
result of an abdominal bullet
wound, witnesses said to have been
inflicted August 3 by T. A. Sar-
good, of Revelstroke, former C. p.
r. engineer. DR.. Proctor found
Sargood physically unfit to work.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-08-20
|Dimond at Ketchikdn,
Is Expected to
Come Here Wednesday


. Delegate A. J. Dimond prob
. ably will arrive here some
time next Wednesday from
Ketchikan, cording to
. word received here today. He
. arrived at Ketchikan early
. Sunday morning from Sc
. attic.
The Brant, patroling traps
. south of here, will pick him
. up there and bring him to
Juneau. He probably will
. remain here for week or
. 10 days.
. = .
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-08-20
insult MUST
STAND TRIAL
WITH OTHERS
Court Denies Severance in
Case-Case Set for
September Is

CHICAGO, H., Aug. 20.-Samuel
insult has been refused, severance
and ordered to stand trial with
sixteen codefendants on September
IS. The seventeen men are charged
with using the mails fraudulently
in marketing the Corporation Sc
curities Company stocks.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-08-20
HabituaI Ketcllikan DRINKS
Are Listed; Sale of Beer or
Liquor Prohibited to Them

The list is signed by City Mag
istrate j. F. VanGilder and is or
dered posted in dispensa-ics. A
warning is given that dispensers
win be held liable for a INSIDE
meanor ard will be prosecuted if
they seil to those on the black
list.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-08-20
Seattle Vine and
Beer Dispensaries
Close Up Sunday

SEATTLE, Aug. 20.-Licensed
beer and wine dispensaries were
closed yesterday for the first
Sunday since the legal sale be-
gan The operators decided to
obey the old Law, prevented
Sunday sale. pending an appeal
to the State Supreme Court.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-08-20

KETCHIKAN, Alaska. Arg. 20
Inaugurating a new type of CAM
paign against drunkenness, the city
authorities have Issued blacklist
containing the MINES Of rs per-
sons, men and women, who are
pr1. 'hited froa being dispense.
Deer and liquce.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-08-20
GEORGE WORTH TO SPEND
TWO WEEKS WITH PARENTS
IN SEATTLE, WASHINGTON

George Worth, formerly of the
staff of the Sanitary Meat Com
pany, left for Seattle on the Yukon
to spend about two weeks with
his father and mother, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Worth. The latter
has been in i'll health for some
time.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-08-20
Amos Goes to Hospital
On Arrival from Alaska

SAN FRANCISCO. CAL, Aug. 20.
Amos, Of Amos and Andy, radio
stars, went to an eye hospital on
arrival here to have a foreign
Alaska body" removed from his
eyelid.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-08-20
Noted English Actor
Dies, Result Operation

LONDON, Aug. 20.-Sir Nigel
Playfair, noted actor and theatrical
manager, died Sunday after an abb
dominal operation. He was GO years
of age.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-08-20
STOCK MARKET
LISTLESS TODAY
Dullest Session in Twelve
Years-Proceedings
Are Colorless

NEW YORK, Aug. 20.-Stocks
were virtually trendless and it was
the dullest session today in IL
years. Sales totaled 100000 shares.
Some steel issues sagged and
small fractional gains and losses
were the rule. The colorless pro-
ceedings closed irregular.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-08-20
Killers Popularity Sho,on to
Be Declining; Vote Taken on
Chancellor Taking Presidenc,

BERLIN, Aug. 20-Thrty -eight million Germans voted
yes" Sunday Adolf Htler taking the Presidency
approximately four million voted mo"
ballots invalid
decline in Hitlers popularity
the vote him when Germany withdrew from
the League of Nations
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-08-20
CLOSING PRICES TODAY

NEW YORK, Aug. 20.-Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 2O1s, American Can
96h, American Power and Light
Az, Anaconda II, Armour B 59h,
Bendix Aviation 121s, Bethlehem
Steel a. Calumet and Hecla BIZ,
Curtiss- Wright 2%, General Motors
20, International Harvester 26, Ken
necott 1885. United States Steel
1875, Warner Pictures 4, Pound
$508aa, Nabesna bid SO ask 1,02.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-08-20
AIRMAlL TO ALASKA NOW PROVIDED
Children Of Royalty Being
Guarded, Fear of Kidnapping

LONDON Aug 20.-Glamis Castle, in the highlands Of
Elizabeth Princess Rose
daughters Duchess Of York spending
reported being guarded by armed In fear
a kidnapping the be attempted.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-08-20
PAUL REED wEsTBOUND

Paul Reed, son of the manager
of the Anchorage Hotel, is pas
senger for his home in the west,
aboard the Aleutian.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-08-20
Belgian Scientists
Ascend Ten Miles
Into Stratosphere

MARIBOR, YugOslavia, Aug.
2O.-Prof. Max Cosyns and Ne
rec vanderlist, Belgian scien-
fists, landed safely from the
shakespeare flight in a corn
field near here Sunday and
pronounced their trip a sue
cess. They ascended ten miles.
All instruments are safe.
The two scientists assembled
from Hour Havenne, Belgium,
last Saturday morning. Their
balloon was sighted over Bad
Ausie, Austria, last Saturday
afternoon.
Prof. Cosyns was with Prof.
August Picard when the lat
ter made an ascent into the
shakespeare over a year ago.
The scientists were at the
point Of exhaustion when they
landed, both bewildered and
they fell flat to the ground
when they stepped from the
gcndcla from sheer weakness.
Both temporarily lost their rea-
son on account of being so long
in the Shakespeare. Their wire
less was hindered by the strong
broadcasting stations of Europe.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-08-20
OTHER CASES

DETROIT, Mich, Aug. 20.-Chief
of Detectives Fred Frahm, said the
Labatt kidnapping is not the first
recent abduction in Canada There
have been several but they have
been kept from the public, he said.
Chief Frahm said Windsor
man, named Lowe, paid $4,000 for
his release recently. Another man
was kidnapped at st. GATHERINGS
and dropped from a bridge at Buff
falo. He was rescued. No ram
som was paid. Several other per-
sons received threatening notes,
Frahm said.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-08-20
MURDER PLOTTED

HAMILTON, Ontario, Aug. 90
John S. Labatt, wealthy English
man who was kidnapped and Their
released, had his sight for several
hours last Wednesday night as he
listened to a cold blooded discus
sion by his captors as to what
steps would be taken to murder
him and dispose of his body.
This was learned from a source
close to the family.
Fearing the authorities were clos
ing in on them, the gangsters dis
cussed plans for their victim within
his hearing.
The next morning their inform
ant apparently gave them more
CHEEKY news for the gang Gained
down and did not seem to be SO
fearful about the police discovering
their hiding place.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-08-20
ROMANCE IS
HEADED FOR
COURT ROCKS
Marriage Of Wealthy Man $
Daughter, Truck Driv-
er, Be Annulled'

GROVE CITY, Pa, Aug. 20.-The
whirlwind romance of Coletta Null
vihill, 17-year-old daughter OF a
wealthy Pittsburgh oil man, who
married Thomas Green, a truck
driver last Thursday. is headed for
the rocks.
The blonde bride said it was all
just lark and efforts will be made
to get the marriage annulled
Meanwhile the girls mother Is
prepared to leave for Manila in
hopes of getting the marriage vows
broken.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-08-20
EXPECT ARREST
KIDNAPPING CASE
OF JOHN LABATT
More Details of Abduction
Are Made Public
Murder Plot Barred

LONDON, Ontario, Canada, Aug.
20.-There is an unconfirmed rumor
that arrests are to be made in the
Labatt kidnapping case but the
authorities refuse to make any
statement.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1934-08-20

The planet Pluto travels through
space at the rate OF two or three
miles a second.
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CONTINUED on Page Three,
Evening star., 1934-12-14
SCORING CHANGES
IN BRIDGE STUDIED
Whist Club May Approve
Shifts in Slam Bonuses
and No-Trump Count.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 14.-Four
important changes in scoring for rub
Der bridge may be proposed by the
Whist Club of New York.
The Whist Club is considered the
official rules body in the United States.
Changes in slam bonuses, in the
count of no trump tricks and in
bonuses and penalties for over and
undertricks are the four important new
rules being considered, Waldemar Won
Zedtwitz informed the directors of the
American Bridge League.
He said the proposals had been sub
mitted to the Portland Club IN Lon
don, which occupies in England posi-
ton similar to that of the Whist Club
here.
The changes would simplify scoring.
Grand slam bonuses would be cut
from 800 to 1000 for not vulnerable
slams and from 2,250 to $500 for vul-
nerable slams
The proposed no-trump count is 40
for the first trick and 80 thereafter,
instead of the present 80, 40, 80, 40.
Game bonuses would remain un-
changed.
Overtricks for doubled non-vulner-
able contracts would be so for the first
trick and 100 for each trick there
after, and for vulnerable contracts
doubled, 100 for the first trick and
200 for each trick thereafter. Doubled
vulnerable contract penalties would be
200 for the first trick and 300 there
after.
Evening star., 1934-12-14
Customs of Early
Indians in Alaska
Grin, and Violent
Bury Infants Alive With
Mothers; Widows Sent
Quickly to Craze.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Life was grim on Kodiak Island,
Alaska, when prehistoric ancestors OF
the Indians lived there.
Some of their less cheerful customs,
as reconstructed from ancient remains
by DR.. Ales Hrdlicka of the Smith
sonian Institution, were:
Killing an infant If its mother died
and burying the two together; or
simply burying the baby alive with the
dead mother.
Killing a wife when her husband
died, and burying them together.
Sacrificing slaves or captured enc
mics by burning them to death.
Hazards Of war and hunting also
were severe, DR.. Hrdlicka found:
Bones of hunter apparently killed
Evening star., 1934-12-14
DOCTORS WARNED
ON SPECIALIZATION
Head of American Medical
Group Urges Care in
Changing Practice.
nv the eAsSoriated pregs-

| BY the Associated Press.
SEA ISLAND, Ga, December IA
The United States should proceed
slowly in any attempts to socialize the
practice of medicine, DR.. Donald Bal
four of Rochester, Mimi, president OF
the American Medical Association,
said here yesterday.
DR.. Balfour was attending the an
nual meeting of the Southern Surgical
, Association, which closed its sessions
with the election Of DR.. Robert L.
Payne Of Norfolk, Va, as president.
Hot Springs Selected.
Hot Springs, Va, was selected for the
1885 convention.
Americans receive more efficient
medical attention than do the people
of any other country" said Dr. Bal
! four, yet this is practically the only
country In which some sort of social
4, ization or insurance plan is not in ef-
feet"
DR.. Balfour said the principal objec-
tion to such a plan is that it deprives
patients of the individual human
touch the family doctor gives.
He said, however, a plan now In op-
Grafton at Portland, Greg, whereby a
number Of persons pay a set amount a
year and may go to any one of a num-
ber Of physicians for treatment had
shown very good" results.
Advantage Cited.
An advantage of socialized medicine,
DR.. Balfour said, is that people who
| otherwise do go to physicians for treat
ment unless they are seriously III can
receive treatment any time at no extra
cost.
On the other hand, he continued,
| doctors who thus have large number
of patients constantly are not able to
give them sufficient attention.
DR.. E. P. Lehman of Charlottesville,
Va, was named chairman of the ar
rangements for the Hot Springs con-
I, vention.
Evening star., 1934-12-14

by a bear, with most of the vertebrae
in his back broken, several ribs
crushed and one arm entirely missing
Remains of a massacre, including a
woman's skeleton with q bone dagger
through the heart, warriors skull
with stone club head still imbedded
in 1t, and another skull with a stone
arrow point at the base Of the brain.
Debris Of a conflagration that de-
stroyed an entire village, containing
bones Of several who were trapped and
killed In the fire.
Evening star., 1934-12-14
EMPLOYEES TO MEET

Officers will be nominated by Dis
trict Building Lodge, American Fed
Grafton of Government Employees, at
a meeting in the Mayf1ower Hotel
at pm. Monday. The election will
be held January at the Harrington
Hotel
John H O'Connell, comma +
Costello Post, American Les
for many years secretary-trC +
the District division of the ay
mail service, will speak.
Evening star., 1934-12-14
WOMAN WHOSE SIRE
FINED WASHINGTON DIES
Squire Reed Assessed 5 Shillings
Against Swearing During
Court Dispute.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Pa, December Ia.
Mrs. Jane Ann Reed May, grand
daughter Of Q Colonial squire. who
tradition says, fined George Wash
ington for swearing, died yesterday,
Is days before her 1O4th birthday an
niversary.
The story handed down by sue
ceeding generations in Washington
County is that David Reed, grand
father of Mrs. May, fined the then
Lieut.. Col. Washington for using pro-
fame language during a hearing on a
disputed land claim. Washington paid
the i've Shillings and apologized.
Mrs. May. a distant relative of
United States Senator David A. Reed,
had oeen in good health until few
days ago when she contracted cold.
Evening star., 1934-12-14
DIES OF SCALDING
William Brusch, 2, Fell Into Tub

William Brusch, 2, Fell Into Tub
of Water.
William Brusch, 2-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Brusch, TIC
A street northeast, died in Casualty
Hospital early today from burns re-
ceived when he fell into a tub of
scalding water while playing on the
floor of his home last week. He had
been in the hospital since the acci-
dent suffering from severe burns on
the back and arms
The child, according to police, was
playing in back room when his
mother heard screams and found him
in the tub of hot water.
Evening star., 1934-12-14
More Old Autos Compete.

Entries to the recent annual run of
ancient automobiles in England num-
bered SO, gain Of Is over the previous
high record.
Evening star., 1934-12-14

Divorces on Increase.
Divorces are increasing in number
in England this year.
The Washington times., 1934-08-02

Through a period Of years
cable tolls on stories Of unsuc-
cessful treasure hunts probably
would mount up to a sizeable
treasure.
From the days Of Herod, who
went treasure hunting, down to
this newspaper deadline, tales
of buried treasure have been the
endless balance brought for
ward Of folk lore and legend,
and they have impelled men to
delve into the earth and search
the depths of the sea-and to
dream endless dreams, for here
is the golden domain of old
romance.
An English lawsuit headlines
again the sunken treasure Of
King John, sunk in the Wash,
a large tidal bay on the shore
of Norfolk, in 1915. Sir Fred
erick Ponsonby sues the Ameri-
can treasure hun ter, the
wealthy James A. Herbert
Boone, charging violation Of
contract. Three distinguished
British archaeologistS. deserted
Mr.. Boone when he brought in
OWNERS with divining rods.
The search goes on, and 1t
may outlaSt the Magma Charta,
which came out of the quick
sand Just as King Johns gold
sank into it. For the symbol
of gold has been, in the story OF
man, more enduring than any
parchment.
All the gold in the world
could be contained in a fair
sized room, but around it circle
all the vast and planetary ab:
stractions of credit and ex-
change.
The knights Of Runnymede
knew nothing about the gold
standard-we have much in
common-but they did know
about gold, as did Ghengis
Khan and AttiIa and Solomon
before them and Sir Montagu
Norman after them. Old FAT
mir, sitting on his Rheingold,
knew what it was all about.
Then, as now; legend and
reality overlapped in this do
main. Mr.. Boone's archaeolo'
gists are of today and his di-
viners Of yesterdays, but the
Niebelungen Lied carries down
into the white light Of today.
Down in lower Austria, they
are all excited because they
think they have found, thirty
feet underground, some OF
Siefried's gold. When Rodmar,
the giant, found his son slain,
he demanded gold sufficient to
cover the boys skin.
The gold was wrested from
a demigod, but the demigod
cursed it and decreed that it
should sink into the ground,
and blast with il1-fortune who
ever touched it. Why this
curse so often laid on hidden
gold? why did the story Of the
curse spring to life so readily
when the treasure was taken
from King Tut's tomb2