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The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-01-29
THE PWA PROBE.

grand jury has been called in the national capital to investigate charges of graft in connection with the operation of the Public Works Adminstra- tion. four million dollar canal project in Texas will be one of the first matters to come under scrutiny the trail of accusations then leading into various undertakings under the PWA.
 The Public Works setup with it's vast organi- zation like every other worthy undertaking would indeed be exception in these times if 1t had not assmilated somewhere into it's fold some of that variety President Roosevelt appropriately dubbed "chislers." Such a large public enterprise would naturally draw that particular specie like fly paper draws flies
 Under such close surveillance as Secretary Harold given the program they would be super if they escaped unscathed by the jabs of the ever-present opposition The old adage that everything is fail in love and war might well include politics The sharpshooters of the minority party have been sparrng for openings like the expert politicians some of them are. If there is any chance to make a little political fodder out of the PWA and slar the Administration it is only political strategy their part that it be done.
 Thus the calling of grand jury to investigate charges need not be viewed with too much alarm ton, it will be good thing to clean it out and guard against re-occurrence of the defects when the Presidents works program gets underway If it is in large measure political chaff, as we somehow suspect it will only tend to bolster the national program and react against instgators Of the charges
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-01-29
Noisiest Room in the World.
Scientific American.)


 What kind of a noise annoys an oyster? That's nonsense of course, but noises-and noise insula- tion-are important, a unique chamber has been built to study them. Here between four walls is enough distortion and magnifyng of noise to drive person insane in half day. All the worst fea- lures making for noise have been combined into an architects nightmare. The walls hard reflect ing surfaces, set at angles to another The floor throws back any sound The roof is set at a tilt In the center of the is loud speaker mounted a pendulum which swings back and forth distributing the noise evenly into all parts of the room.
 In the ordinary room, as we all know, sound dies away almost immediately. Here each sound lasts for twelve seconds hundreds of sound waves may be set whzzing from wall to wall in those twelve seconds It is possible for one man with a wide voice range to sing all four parts of a song at once-a 1-man quartet musician recently played Home Sweet Home" in all four parts on a trombone in this chamber.
 On the wall behind is hung sample of sound- absorbing rock wool material, being tested for it's efficiency in lowering noise This is the most ef- fectve method of lessening noise, after acoustics have been adjusted.
 In the silent chamber, a direct contrast to this room, one has the impression of being suspended in air blind man led into this silent chamber and, his trained to sense the presence of walls, he drew back in fear, thinking he was walking off into space.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-01-29
NORAH ARRIVES IN CITY TODAY
 IS HOURS LATE
Local Run, Snow Causes Due Southbound at
 Noon Tomorrow

Because she made many local stops between Vancouver and Prince Rupert, B. C., and because she was delayed by snow storm in Scow Bay, the Princess Norah was IS hours late in reaching Ju- neau this morning from the south.
 V. w. Mulyihin, Juneau agent for the Canadian Pacific Steam ship Company. said today that the Norah took the local run of the Princess Adelaide from Vancouver to Prince Rupert as well as making her own stops on the run to Skag- way. The Adelaide is being over hauled.
 Moreover, heavy fall of snow was experienced in Scow Bay, four miles south of Petersburg.
 The Norah arrived here at 1l:45 o'clock this morning and departed an hour later for Skagway. She is expected to return here at Il o'clock tomorrow morning and is scheduled to sail for Vancouver, B. C., at l2 noon.
 Inbound passengers arriving on the Norah today were: H. Ander- son, A. J. Ficken, C. T. Gardner and A Van Mavern.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-01-29
Who Can Say We Are Better or Worse?
(Port Angeles News.)

IPOrt Angeles NeWS)
 Over in Paris. convict named Benjamin Ullmo having served 26 years on Frances Devils Island returns, looks the world of 1885 and finds it terrible He says he's going back to the penal colony, though he offered a job in Paris
 The world today disgusts him, says this man who has seen nothing of it for 26 years.
 What has struck most" he is quoted as saying, 'is the extraordinary spiritual collapse in the world and the decline in conscience and nteli- gence. have been less impressed by the material progress It is not much the lowering of moral standards, the immeasurabe stupidity of present-day humanity, which regards itself as so superior"
 Now this is worth listening to, for man who has seen nothing of the world since 1909 ought to get singular view of it. But it needn't be swallow ed without thought
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-01-29
WELL-T0-DO
 THREATENED.
 HIGHER TAX
Senator Black Advances Proposal to Social
 Security Program

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-United States Senator Hugo L. Black of Alabama, announces he will offer an amendment to the social secur- ity program to make the well-to-do pay the unemployment insurance. This will be through additional revenue by a higher income, in- heritance and excess profits taxes.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-01-29
Needed-A $25 Home.
Seattle Journal of Commerce.

tSeattle Journal of CommerceJ
 Thomas R. Marshall, late e-President of the United States, lifted his office from obscurity by vocing his famous remark to the effect that what this country needs is a good five-cent cigar There are some who think we have such cigars. writer in The Nation, named Mark Granite Git may be nom de plume) comes forward with the contention that what this country needs most today is good $25 house.
 The assertion is not as far out of line as it at first sounds. What is meant is that there is a serious need for modern, wellbuilt houses of about five each that be purchased on payments not to exceed $25 month-these payments to include interest and possibly taxes. That would mean house that would not cost more than $2O0O on a $500 lot.
 There are any number of experts who will assert that it can't be done-that modern homes cannot
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-01-29

We aren't worrying about what will happen to our dollar, when Congress comes to it. We know dratted well that the same thing will happen to it that has happened to it all along-(Boston Herald
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-01-29

Sounds as of motor backfirng no doubt dismay the Russian driver until he realizes it is another mass executon.-(Detroit News)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-01-29
20 YEARS AGO
 Prom The Errpire
JANUARY 2a. 1915

A dispatch from Tiflis, Trans caucasia, said that 50 Greek vil- lages around Kars, southern Trans caucasia, had been laid in ruins by the Turks. The flight from the villages was precipitate. Women and children suffered from the cold and many men were taken prison CTS.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-01-29
DIES; UNCONSCIOUS
 AFTER CRASH

SEATTLE, Jan. 29-Neyer hay ing regained consciousness since his airplane nose-diVed into the bank of the Duwamish River last Wednesday, Rex Sweet. aged 2e years, student nier. died yesterday.
 Sweet is survived by his mother who witnessed the accident from window of her home.
 The cause of the plunge has not been determined.
 A man named Hit and another named Fite recently engaged in a fist fight at Murfreesboro, Tenn.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-01-29
HAPPY
 BIR RTADAY

The Empire ertends congratula- tions and best iDtshes today, thetr birthday anniuersary, to the follo'o- ina:
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-01-29

Uic I ulhS. lHe IllgnJ rom the villages was precipitate. Women and children suffered from the cold and many men were taken prison CTS.
 The German Crown Prince in an authorized statement from the bat tlefield near Verdun said that every Austrian and German who had followed events was confident that they would win the war in which they were engaged. N
 Lloyd V. Winter left on the Princess May to visit Pacific Coast cities and to attend the exposition in San Francisco where he was to be the guest of Ray E. Wilson, former assistant cashier of the B. M. Behrends Bank.
 Surveyor General Charles E. Davidson and Charles E. Naghel left on ptarmigan hunt.
 Claude Ericson and w. R. Cars ter were members of the Elks' committee in charge of their ban- quet and dance, the fourth of the series given by the lodge since Christmas.
 An Empire editorial commented upon the conversation by telephone between Mayor James Rolph. Jr. Tof San Francisco, and Mayor John Purroy Mitchell, of New York. be- ing the last word in telephone de- velopment-an event that prob ably far surpassed the most en- thusiastic dreams of Alexander Abraham Bell, inventor of the telephone.
 Eastern Star officers installed in- cluded Mrs. Alice Case, Lloyd V. Winter, Mrs. Maude Vaut, Mrs Maude DeLong, Mrs. Laura Gold stein, Mrs. Elita Daniels, Miss Mary Morgan, Ruth F. Anderson, Harriet Case, Mrs. Marion Olson, Mrs. Eva Tripp, Mrs. Hazel Os- trom, Mrs. Anna Webster, Miss Ina Priest, Miss Gladys Tripp, Mrs. Emily Raymond and Fred Smith.
 Weather, Maximum, 33; mini nIm %. cnnu
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-01-29

Weather, Maximum, 33; mini mum, 22; snow.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-01-29
oe c c
 HOSPITAL NOTES . . . ee c


 Because he fell and broke his arm last night, Jim Mahoney is a patient in St. Ann's Hospital today.
 N. Mcleod entered St. Ann's Hospital last night for medical attention.
 A. B. Larsen was admitted to St. Ann's Hospital for medical treatment last night.
 Joe Burloyich, who has been a medical patient at St. Ann's Hos pital for several days, is reported in satisfactory condition by hos pital attaches today.
The Washington times., 1935-09-23
OGPUTOrture System
Rules Penal Camp

thought to washing. It was
cold and shivery. The heavy
air in the room was supple
mented by the smell from the
dying-out kerosene lanterns.
Timofeyich returned shiver-
ing from cold and carrying a
tea-kettle of boiling water. We
started our morning breakfast
Of rye bread with salt, and tea
to wash it down. The tea
warmed US and seemed to CON-
fort the soul. But not for long.
The convict mug of "comrade"
Grigoriantz appeared in the
doorway.
"out into the yard" he cried,
like a flash, quickly, don't
delay"
Like a flashW his voice was
heard from the other rooms.
There was a jam in the door
way. A mass of people poured
out into the dark. We stopped
in the middle of the yard. Here
a considerable crowd was al
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The Washington times., 1935-09-23
Man, II, SAVED
IN BAY PLUNGE

DENTON, Md, Sept. % GN.s).
Louis H. Gutermuth, II, of Bos-
ton. who fell overheard from the
deck Of the Merchants and Min
ers liner Ontario, was rescued
after swimming in the Chesa-
peake Bay for a half hour early
today by the power boat Margie
H. Travis.
The Bostonian, who was en-
route to visit a daughter in Wash
ington, told the following story:
"AbOut $3.50 o'clock this morn.
ing 1 was walking around deck
taking my morning exercise. 1
stopped and talked to a man
named Reddington for a mo.
ment.
"After he walked on, 1 leaned
over the rail looking at the
water. The boat suddenly
rolled slightly and 1 lost my
balance.
Before / knew it, was in
the water. / came to the sur.
face and struck out"
After swimming about a half an
hour near Baltimore light, he was
sighted by a man on board the
Margie H. Travis and a tender
was sent out to get him.
The Washington times., 1935-09-23
ROOSEVELT.
PLEADS FOR
CHARITY
Corporations Urged
To Be Liberal as
Needs Demand
BY EARL GOODWIN

President Roosevelt gave the
country general notice today that,
inasmuch as the Government is
rapidly withdrawing from the busi-
ness of relief, private charities in
the States and communities must
get back to their level of giving
and caring.
The President sounded this
warning as his first act after re-
turning to the White House from
Hyde Park to 400 community
chest heads, representing the
third annual mobilization for hui
man needs who sat In chairs on
the lawn on the south side of the
White House. The President,
looking bronzed and rested, ad-
dressed them from the portico.
The President also took occa-
sion to declare that purchasing
power of the mass of people is
getting back to the old prosperity
levels and declared also that
American industry as a whole was
promising to adopt every possible
course to increase private employ
ment.
Situation Gets Better
He stressed several times his
statement that the economic Situa-
ton is getting better and, for that
reason, he told his audience the
response to Community Chest ap.
peals should be better than it has
been for three years.
Decreases in public giving to pri-
vate charities, community chests,
ETC., have amounted to 13 per cent,
but he congratulated the members
present on having checked the de-
cline and predicted a full set Of
community chests this fall.
President Roosevelt took occa-
sion to mention some of the
reasons why he believed the pur
chasing power of the mass of
people has "greatlv risen from
the 1882 level" He listed the Fed
eral aid to farms, the housing
activities, the general impetus
given to business bv government
lending agencies. The nation. he
argued, is now in much better
condition to take care of its pri-
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The Washington times., 1935-09-23
IS DOWN
IN IRELAND

DUBLIN, Sept. % G.N.SO.
With or without his plane-dam-
aged in landing after a 22-hour
flight from New York, during
which he came at least once peril
ously close to death-Felix Wait
kus, former United States Army
pilot, planned today to continue
to Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania,
as soon as possible.
His Lockheed-Vega machine,
which he flew blind through rain
and fog most of the way, rested
on a hillside near Ballinrobe,
County Mayo, one wing smashed,
the propeller buckled, and the
undercarriage torn away. It will
be brought to Dublin airport, but
may prove beyond repairing.
A lowering gasoline supply
forced Watkins to end his pro-
jected nonstop flight to Lithuania,
he said, revealing that once during
the trip a frozen carburetor
forced him steadily down towards
the unseen water, but that he was
able to melt the ice in time. The
flier said:
During the whole flight, 1
never had a glimpse of water"
The last land he saw was Nova
Scotia as the mist through which
he flew all the way across the At
lantic was encountered over New
foundland.
"The machine behaved beau
tifuIly during the critical part
of the journey, and received
magnificent help from the
AthlOne radio.
"Were it not for the directions
given every hour by the radio.
never could have held my
course. That radio saved my
life, for flew in the fOulest
weather"
The young Wisconsin airman
said he would continue by boat
and rail, if necessary, since his
journey to Lithuania was spon.
sored as aAgood-will mission.
The Washington times., 1935-09-23
Hopper Grand oId-Timer'
Of the American Stage
Rv ANDREW r. KELLEY


The curtain falls on a grand
old-timer as the news wires flash
the death of DeWolf Hopper. No
figure on the American stage had
q life quite as full of dramatic
incident, nor one whose adven-
lures on the matrimonial merry
go-round had been more colorful.
The world will remember him
best as a six-wives man, but the
Lambs Club and those places
where actors congregate, will re-
call him as a star who carried
dramas torch aloft for more than
Sc years.
DeWolf Hopper was a man so
gifted in charm and manner he
was fascinating to women. He
had the faculty Of anticipating
milady's wishes and carrying
them out before she could express
them. A habit of pretty phrases
and gallant compliment served
him well in romantic conquest.
Marital Ventures.
Those who fell willing victim
to his gallantrieS were:
Ella Gardiner, his second cous.
in. married in 1889.
She was soon succeeded by Ida
Mosher, member of his acting
company.
Edna Wallace Hopper, watch
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DEATH ASKED
FOR SHERMAN

WORCESTER, Mass, Sept. %
G.NSD.-Newell Paige Sherman,
26-year-old choir singer, went on
trial here today for the murder of
Alice Dudley Sherman, %, his
wife, and the mother of his two
babies.
The Commonwealth of Massa.
chusetts charged that Sherman
deliberately drowned his wife in
Lake Singletary last July 20 so
that he would be free to WOO IT,
year-old Esther Magill and with
all the solemnity and amid the
trappings of tradition handed
down from the seventeenth Gen.
tury, the Commonwealth moved
to exact the supreme penalty for
the crime-death in the electric
chair.
Reverse for Defense.
Sherman suffered a reverse at
the outset when Superior Judge
Thomas ]. Hammond denied a
motion by defense counsel to
quaSh the jury panel, an unusual
legal request, seldom made except
when public feeling is running so
high as to prejudice prospective
jurors.
The giant defendant-he stands
6 feet 4 inches tall and weighs 223
pounds-waS brought from the
county jail to the courthouse an
hour and half before the trial.
Sherman appeared calm but
glum after he Shambled into the
court room behind a guard. He
wore the same dark gray suit in
which he was arrested.
The former model youth" Of
Sutton was spared the ordeal of
sitting in the prisoners cage, an
archaic fixture in Massachusetts,
court rooms. The cage had to be
removed to make space for some
40 reporters from the metropoli-
tan areas, but the tradition of the
cage was preserved by an iron
grill, about the size of a garden
gate, which was tied to the railing
beside Sherman's chair. Officials
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The Washington times., 1935-09-23
SELASS|E GLAD
OF FDUCE'SACT
By H. r. KNICKERBOCKER
Copyright, 1888, by
International News Service)

InIeFHdIIOHaI -Ne"B ScFNlCeD
Adds ABABA, Sept. % Q.N.SO.
The Ethiopian government was
highly pleased to-day at Premier
Mussolini's rejection of the League
of Nations commissions peace pro-
posals, which now have enabled
Ethiopia to accept in principle
what she could not accept in prac-
tice.
once more Emperor Halle Selas-
sic has won a move in the chess
game with II Duce, because the
five-power plan to appoint a high
commissioner here would have
brought civil war if the Emperor
acceded.
Helped BY II Duce
Upon close examination, it was
seen that the league committee
really proposed serious inroadS on
Ethiopian independence. Even if
the Emperor had been inclined to
accept a diminution of his Sover-
eignty-which he was not-the
great barons would have made it
hazardous.
Now, however, Premier Mus
solini has made it possible for
Halle SelaSsie to agree to the pro-
posals, with certain stipulationS
protecting his throne and the
right to veto appointments Of
foreign advisors.
BeIgianS Ordered Home
The Belgian mission of nine Of
ficers, which arrived a week ago
today, received telegraphic orders
from the Belgian Ministry Of War
to resign from service in the ETH.
opian army and return to Belgium
Immediately on pain of expulsion
from the Belgian army rolls and
imprisonment.
The order was interpreted as
meaning that the Belgian govern
ment consider&Far inevitable.
The Washington times., 1935-09-23
OF 5
AT GENEVA
COMEDIES
FAILURE
Situation Seen Eased,
However, by Kings
Of England, Italy
International News Service

-~OA@-~NS@S~~~S
"A showdown between Italy
and the League of Nations ap-
peared imminent today as the
crisis reached a new
impasse with Rome awaiting
new peace suggestions from
Geneva, while League officials
turned their thoughts toward
possible sanctions. Important
developments were:
GENEVA-The committee
of five turned thumbs down
on Italy's demands in ETH.
opia and confirmed that con.
ciliation attempts had broken
down, bringing League face
to face with the question Of
sanctions.
ROME-While Italy await
ed new peace proposals, King
George of England and King
Victor Emanuel of Italy
were credited in unconfirmed
reports for an exchange of
assurances between the two
nations that naval and air
concentrations in the Medi-
terranean were without ag-
gressive intent.
LONDON-Political circles
expressed conviction British
Cabinet has decided to
strengthen defensive forces.
Adds ABABA H. R.
Knickerbocker says the Ethi-
oplan government is pleased
with Mussolln's rejection Of
the League peace proposals,
enabling Ethiopia to accept
in principle a peace plan
which actually might cause
civil war in the African en-
pire. A clash between Ethi-
Opians and Italian Somali
troops was reported at Ger
logubi.
GENEVA, Sept. % GN.sO.
Refusing to indorse Italy's de.
mands for greatly increased con.
cessions as the price of peace in
Africa, the League of Nations
Five-PoWer Commission, at q
meeting lasting less than one
hour, today confirmed the com.
plete breakdown of Italo-Ethio.
plan conciliation attempts.
Tense excitement gripped dip
lomats as word rushed through
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The Washington times., 1935-09-23
PRISONER OF THE oGPU
BY GEORGE K1TCH1N
CHAPTER SEVEN

CHAR GIG OG GN
"Get up, get up!" shouted a
big soldier who had come to re-
lieve our watch. "Get up, it is
five o'clock"
Of course nobody gave .
The Washington times., 1935-09-23
Several Reported
Dead in Ethiopian
Clash With SomaIi!
Copyright, 1888. by International News
SerVice)

Copyright, 1885. by International News
Service)
Adds ABABA, Sept. 23.-Un-
confirmed reports reached here to-
day of disturbances at Gerlogubi
between Ethiopian and native
Italian Somaliland troops in which
several were killed.
The Somalis, according to the
reports, had deserted from the
Italian side to serve ETHIOPIA some
weeks ago, but recently caused
trouble.
Ethiopians ordered them to give
UP their rifles and the Somalis
refused, according to the reports.
The clash enSued.
Gerlogubi is in southeastern
Ethiopia. not far from the Italian
YSomaliland border.
The Washington times., 1935-09-23
COMEDIAN
ACTIVE TO
THE LAST
On Radio Few Hours
Before Death; Famed
For'Casey at the Bat

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Sept. %
G.N.SO.-DeWolf Hopper, famous
stage and light opera star, and
immortal for his recital Of casey
at the Bat" died at st. Luke's
Hospital here today.
He was II years old. Death was
attributed to heart trouble.
Active to the very end, Hopper
completed a broadcast over a Ma
tional Broadcasting chain yester-
day afternoon. Two radio station
officials believed him i'll and
called a doctor. Hopper was taken
to the hospital at $3.50 o'clock last
night.
y Active TO End
Attendants reported that he re-
fused to take his confinement
seriously and as late as II p. m.
was sitting up in bed reading a
newspaper and smoking a pipe.
He slept until about 6 o'clock
this morning. Upon awakening,
attendants reported the veteran
actor experienced difficulty in
breathing. He died at $50 a. m.
Had Two Sons
Hopper had been married and
divorced five times. He married
his sixth wife. Mrs. Lillian
Glaser, an Oakland Calf, singer
in 1928.
A son, william DeWolf Hopper,
by his fifth wife. made his stage
debut last season with Catherine
Cornell in New York. Another
son, John Allan Hopper, is vice
president of the Chemical Bank
and Trust Company in New York.