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The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-25
SINGLE MEN TO PREPARE SITES
 IN MATANUSKA
First Contingent to Leave Seattle April 20-
 Families in May

WASHINGTON, March 25.-The first contingent of midwest farm CTS whom the government is setting up anew in Alaska, will sail from Seattle April 20, it was announced here today These men will be chosen from transient camps in northern Michigan. Minnesota and Wisconsin, and will prepare the way for the 200 families which will be established as Homestead CTS in the Matanuska Valley.
 Selection of the families will be completed by April 5, 1t was stat ed. They will sail on May and May Is.
 Disclosing the details of the pro- ject which is to test out the possi- bilities of larger migration from the drought stricken areas, Relief Administration officials said each farm will cost $3,000 and is to be paid for within thirty years.
 The single men receive the same wages as the eco workers and will be returned to the states in Oc- tober.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-25
CHARTINC WORK IN ALEUTIANS
 STARTS AGAIN
Navy Vessels Are Starting North to Prepare for
 Big War Game

SEATTLE, March 25.--New maps which would give the United States parity with Japan on information about the Aleutian Islands are in the making as plans are being perfected for the navys biggest war game in the North Pacific this summer. Naval vessels are plough ing northward again to renew charting work.
 Coast Guard and trading vessels frequently have reported encoun- tering well-equipped Japanese fish, ing boats and training ships talk ing soundings and making other observations in the islands. Eyi- dently supplied d with accurate charts, or willing to take chances, Japanese merchant vessels cut cor ners on the great circle route from Japan to America, sailing through the Aleutians into the Boring Sea while American vessels skirt the southerly edge of the islands over somewhat longer course.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-25
SUN AND WIND ! RAvACINC PART
 WESTERN AREA
Thousands of Acres of Lanc Will Be Useless for
 Many Years to Come

KANSAS CITY, March 25.-The Southwestern drought damage to- day embraced homes, half starved herds and dust smothered crops. The damage runs high into millions of dollars as the weather beaten farmers prayed for general rain to check the ravages of sun and wind.
 Hubert Collins, Denver statisti- clan for the Department of AgTi- culture, said thousands of acres of land will be useless for farming and grazing for 100 years or more and he predicted the most com plete crop failure in the history of the wester plains regions This was in reference to eastern Colo rado, Wyoming, western Kansas, Ne braska and Texas-Oklahoma Panhandle.
 Farmers have already started the exodus from several Colorado coun- ties.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-25
ENCIRCLED BY
 FLAMES, s DIE
 IN CLUB FIRE
Smoke Starts Stam pc d e Early in Morning One
 Exit Quickly Blocked

T W WHa4I4 4
 CHICAGO, H., March 25-Sis persons were burned to death and scores were injured by flames which trapped them early yester- day morning in club rendezvous
 Encircled by the swift spreading fire, panic stricken patrons fought for the one exit. Many were tram pied upon.
 Motorists made intellectual att tempts to open another exit by ramming car against the outside of the building.
 Smoke curling up from the cloak room at 2:30 o'clock in the morn ing started the stampede for the one exit. The fire was of an un- determined origin.
 The club was one of several night resorts clustered in the lit tie town of Morton Grove, several miles west of Evanston, a suburb, scene of the Kidnapping two years ago of John Jake the Barber" Factor.
 The six victims apparently died in an effort to get their wraps before fleeing from the burning structure.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-25
SENATOR LONG PLANNING FOR
 THIRD PARTY

WASHINGTON, March 25.-Sen- ator Huey P. Long gave the coun- try an idea as to how he might talk if political events now shap- ing toward 1886 should lead to a third party campaign in which he will take. hand
 Laughing over Hoover's call for a militant revival of the Republi- can Party, Senator Long said:
 Hoover is a hoot owl and Roose- welt is a screech owl.
 "A boot owl bangs into the roost and knocks the hen clean off and catches her while falling, but a screech owl slips in and talks softly to the hen, which falls in love, and the next thing you know. there ain't no hen"
 Some Democratic leaders viewed Longs sally as a series of utter ances designed to lay the founda- ton for third party Presidential candidate next year,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-25
PACIFIC N. W.
 AGAIN SWEPT
 BY ELEMENTS
Rain, Blizzards and Dus t Storms Are Reported ? Over Weekend

SEATTLE, March 25. Four drownings near Waldport, Oregon, when sedan plunged off the highway into river during storm is part of the toll of the worst Pacific Northwest gale of the win- ter since the big blow of last fall.
 Gales. rain, blizzards and heavy dust storms was the tune the weatherman sang.
 One blizzard stopped the compe- tition in the Pacific Northwest championship and Olympic games tryouts at the Rainier National Park, causing a postponement.
 Dust storms swept Spokane and several other eastern Washington counties.
 Central Oregon also experienced a dust storm.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-25
DUST DAMAGES M|NIMIzED IN
 COLORADO AREA
Baca County Loses Wheat Crop, but Deaths Not
 Laid to Silt Storms

DENVER. March 25.-Ninety-five per cent of the loss to Baca Coun- tvs fall wheat crop was attributed here today to last weeks deluge of dust in Southeastern Colorado, but investigators co-incidentally dis counted the effect of the black blizzard on humans and livestock.
 As the swirling storm subsided in isolated regions which border on Kansas, Oklahoma and New Mex ico. county health authorities were inclined to believe that the four deaths in Springfield and the two others in Lamar, were unrelated cases of pneumonia influenced only slightly. if at all, by dust irritation.
 However, scores of adults and children suffered discomfort and lung infection from the constant clouds of silt, but none is expected to result in permanent injury.
 Four cows perished from the dust on one farm and there were scat tered cases of other livestock fla talities.
 The national Red Cross organiza- tion has been informed, following conference with physicians, that the local medical facilities are sufficient to cope with the situa- tion and that the dust storm has caused no emergency to health con- ditions. as was previously reported.
 Hay fever sufferers found the dust an acute irritation.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-25
Just What Do You Call
 Natiue of Juneau? World
 A,udits Ans,uer to This One

aska as White Men, Natives and Norwegians.
 A native of Halifax, MT. Funk goes on by way of example, is termed Haligonian, but what about a person from Juneau?
 Well, let's see. Juneauite, Unoite, Junoite, Junoalaskite are sugges- tions that have been made. Juneau- ite has become more or less uni versal, but let's set MT. Funk right on this matter, Empire read CTS.
 Send your answers to his two questions in to The Empire. Here they are:
 What term is applied to a na- tive of Juneau?
 If the name is similarly unusual, can you explain it's origin?
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-25
P OPE CLAIMS APPROVAL FOR
 MINING BILL
Will Make Available One Hundred Million Dol
 lars, Relief Measure

WASHINGTON March 25.-Unit- ed States Senator James P. Pope, Democrat of Idaho, estimates that 50 Senators will vote for his bill to make available $l00,000,000 for Government operation of gold and other mineral mines as a relief measure.
 Senator Pope's bill was also in troduced in the House by Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimonda
 The bill has the support of the mining groups of the western states and the Senate's mines and min ing committee.
 Senator Pope said only 20 of 70 senators questioned on the bill opposed the measure.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-25
PHILIP INES RECEIVE HOME
 RULE SET-UP
Roosevelt Signs Bill Allow ing Ten-Year Period
 Before Freedom

WASHINGTON, March 25.-Sur. rounded by beaming Filipinos, Pres ident Roosevelt here Sa turday signed the document which pro- vides home rule for the far-away Philippine Islands. The home rule policy will be followed for ten years before the islands are given their complete freedom.
 The home rule measure will be- come effective after the special session of the insular legislature meets in ten days to set the date for the election at which the Fili- pinos will vote on the acceptance of the constitution.
 Until complete independence is granted, the United States will see to the defense and foreign rela- tions of the commonwealth gov ernment. The United States also reserves the right to take over the customs in case the Philippines fall behind in the debt service.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-25
BORAH SAYS
 NO WAR FOR
 EUROPE NOW
Declares Reafming of Ger many Might Mean
 Peaceful Outlook

WASHINGTON, March 25.--Unit- ed States Senator William E. Bor- ah predicted there will be no Eu- ropean war within the near future, and forecast that even If there was European conflict. America would keep out of it. His ideas were giy- en in an interview with the Asso- ciated Press.
 Senator Borah suggested that the rearming of Germany might, in stead of bringing war. lead to more peaceful Europe.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-25
FORMER VALDEZ OFFICIAL DEAD,
 CANADIAN CITY
John Leedy, Once Govern or of Kansas, Passes
 Away in Edmonton

EDMONTON, Alberta, March 25. John Leedy, aged 86, former Gov ernor of Kansas, died here yester- day. He had lived at score of places in the United States and AL aska before settling here.
 Leedy went to Alaska in 1901 and practiced law until 1908. He served there successfully as city attorney, mayor and referee in bankruptcy in the Third Judicial Division of Alaska.
 Leedy was the second and last Popularist governor of Kansas and was defeated in the election of 1899.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-25
STATEME NIT ON
 CITY AFFAIRS IS RELEASED TODAY
Financial Condition at End of Fiscal Year Ex-
 plained by Mayor

In prepared statement issued at the City Hall today the follow ing was released:
 When the municipal books for the 1934-35 fiscal year are closed March 31 the City of Juneau will start the coming year free from current indebtedness, it was an- nounced by Mayor l. Goldstein to- day in response to inquiries about the financial condition Of the city.
 The city has paid the $15,000 it was obliged to borrow from the bank to tide over the period be- tween tax payments, has taken care of current bills to date and will have enough cash on hand, assuming that promised tax pay ments are made this week, to meet March bills and payrolls, without borrowing" continued Mayor Gold stein. "The only other obligation of the city. in addition to the bonded indebtedness, is the amount of $2,033 still due on the street grader purchased in 1883, payable in two annual payments October l, 1895, and October l, 1886.
 Bond Situation
 'The City owes $226.000 in bonds, including the s80,OO0 borrowed this year from the PWA for which only $6,26238 has been expended to date. The sewer bonds total 6,000, due March 1, 1949, and the school bonds total $90,000. maturing June 1, 1857 The latter issue was originally $100,- GOO but the City paid off $l0000 in December, 1883.
 Mayor Goldstein explained that though the City was authorized by Congress and by the citizens at a special election held last August 29 to issue s1O3,00O in bonds for public improvements, paving, sidewalks, bridges and sewers, only $80,000 worth has been issued. This amount wss advanced by the PWA and made available in January to de- fray the cost Of the improvements covered sy the loan and grant agreement between the PWA and the City.
 PWA Expenditures
 The agreement calls for the expenditure of $51 400 for street and sidewalk improvements, ST. $50 for bridges and bulkheads, $2.- 750 for sewers and water mains, $25, ,000 for a refuse incinerator and s6,000 for engineering, overhead, etc, or total of sl03,000. How ever, after investigating costs of construction and opera ion, the City Council decided to give up the plan of erecting an incinerator as teing impracticable and in stead installed new garbage dump south of the city at cost of $1,-
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-25
A War Debt Idea

More may be heard within the next few months about the war debts. The Roosevelt Administra- ton is studying quietly what, if anything, can be done.
 A plan advanced by a group of Chicago attorneys is attracting some attention in Washington. It proposes that the combined total of the debts be scaled down from about $10,500 100000 to about $3,- 500, ,0O00 900, and that payment be made over a 12-year period at the rate of something less than $300,- 100000 year
 To enable Europe to save the money necessary to make a begin ming, a five-year holiday on arma- ments is proposed. It is argued this would mean further compensation for the United States, too, because what we now spend on armaments could go into savings.
 The authorship of the plan is attributed to Salmon O. Levinson, who had much to do with laying the groundwork for the Kellogg Briand anti-war pact.
 Nothing approaching acceptance of this proposal is yet apparent in Washington, but it will remain un- der study salong with other sug- gestions.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-25
Standing Army ot
 U. s. to Be Increased By Forty Per Gent 7

WASHINGTON. March 25.-- An agreement on the immedi- ate increase In the, authorized strength of the standing Army by 40 percent has been reach ed by the Senate and House conferees on the $400,000, 900 War Departments appropria- ti0n bill.
 The increase begins at once with an annual cost of $20,- 100000.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-25
Ready for that Asia Route; Virgin Isle
 Test Flight Is Successful


 MIAMI, Fla, March 25.-Con1- mercial aviation Saturday demon strated it's technical readiness for trans-Pacific air service when a 13-ton Pan-American clipper ship alighted on Biscayne Bay after a 2,504-mile circle flight to the Vir- gin Islands. No stop was made.
 The flight was credited by air line officials here with establish ing several new records, including the worlds seaplane distance mark.
 The huge plane was aloft IT hours and Is minutes. It covered several hundred miles in excess or the distance between California
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-25

and Honolulu, the longest soverwat- CT hop in the proposed service to Asia.
 The plane took off Friday after noon and flew all night. returning to it's base in the morning.
 Despite the long flight, there were 498 gallons of gasoline re- maining in the tanks. This amount, it was estimated, was sufficient to fly the plane $50 more miles.
 The clipper ship has a wing spread of IA feet and it's hull is 69 feet long. Its four engines pro- duce 2,800 horsepower and give the plane a cruising speed of from l5o to l60 miles per hour,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-25
DOES TRAPEzE ACT

SEATTLE, March 25.- Pretty Mrs Adam Simons, who, detectives said, is the wife of an Anchorage reindeer breeder, explained to hor- rified spectators as she hung out of hotel window here Saturday, I'm doing an act of the trapeze.' 7
 A minute later she fell 40 feet.
 She is critically injured and near death.
 She registered as Toy Lee. Offi- cers said she had been drinking before she started her trapeze act.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-25
Whats the name, please?

Whats the name, please?
 MT. Charles E. Funk, who is quite an expert and student of names, is in a quandry. As a pub- fisher of dictionaries for 10 these many years and one of the pub fishers of the Literary Digest, MT Funk knows his words, but at last he is stumped.
 What term he asks in let ter to The Empire, lis applied to native of Juneau?"
 A native of Glasgow is called a Glaswegian, MT. Funk suggests, but to set the dictionary publisher right, it isn't entirely true that na- tives of Juneau and the North are Norwegians, although some face tious individuals have referred tc the three groups of people in AL
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-25
EUROPE AWAITS
 ANxIOUSLY FOR
 RESULT'o TALK
Hitler Explains Armament Program to British
 Representative TENSION GRIPS ALL DIPLOMATIC CIRCLES Back Toward Peace or On Toward War Is Burn
 ing Question

BERLIN, March 25.-- The long awaited conference be- tween Great Britain and Ger many started today when Presi- dent Adolf Hitler talked per- sonally with Sir John simon, British Foreign Secretary, and Capt. Anthony Eden, British Lcrd Privy Seal.
 President Hitler told his guests of Germany's armament program but the conversations were not made public this fore noon.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-25
IS RENO BOUND
 TO GET DIVORCE

SOUTHAMPTON, Eng. March 25.-Princess Barbara Hutton Mdi- vani. the ten cent store heiress, hurried away from England last Saturday toward Reno. Nevada, U. S. A. for a divorce. She was ac- companied by her cousin, Jimmy Donohue. They sailed aboard the Bremen for New York City.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-25
Supreme Court Decision
 Does Not Stop Opponents
 of Neu DeaI's Gold Policy
By BYRON PRICE Chief of Bureau, The Associated PreGs, Washington

Those who leaped to the con- clusion that the Supreme Courts gold decision settled everything in favor of the Administration appear to be revising their opinions.
 The suit brought by Robert Taft, challenging the right of the Gov ernment to call it's liberty bonds ahead Of maturity and substitute lower-interest obligations, has been causing lawyers some thought.
 MT. Taft may not win, but he has put his finger on declara- ton of the highest court which is not likely to be forgotten by those who oppose the Administrations gold policy. It is the Courts plain statement that the Government has no constitutional right to repudi- ate a promise to pay in gold.
 Out of this part of the decision arise the prolonged conferences of Government attorneys, the demand in some quarters for new legislation, and the apprehension on the part of some that at some time the ruling may arise to plague or wreck monetary plans.
 It would seem there is a central issue here still in dispute.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-25
. . . . .
 STOCK QUOTATIONS
, . . . . . ss .


 NEW YORK, March 25s--Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is l6, American Can l151s, American Power and Light 24s. Anaconda 9M, Armour N As, Bethlehem Steel 23a. Calumet and Hecla 3, General Motors 27A. In- ternational Harvester STA. Kenne- colt 151s, United States Steel 29is, Pound s4.78. Nabesna bid 60, asked 75, Bremner bid 55, asked 60,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-25
UP TO GERMANY

GENEVA, March 25.--According to advices received here. official Italian circles in Rome are said to have expressed the opinion that Italy Is willing to participate in diplomatic negotiations ms with France, Great Britain and Ger many, provided the latter is will- ing.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-25
PLOT TO KIDNAP DIOQlQE QUINTU UPI ET
One Million Trained Men, Ready to Fiight, Is Ans,cer
 Italy Ciues to Hitler Plan

ROME. March 25.-Premier Be- nito Mussolini trundled forth a war machine totaling 100000 men as Italy's answer to Germany's re- armament and declared the Ital- ian nation was ready for any threat of war
 The Premier has called the en- tire military class of 1911 to arms as a precautionary measure"
 The Fascist Dictator declared
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-25
Russian Mary Goes to
 Prison for Killing Man

SEATTLE. March B. Russian Mary Kelly, convicted of staying Otto Johanson on January Is, has left for the state prison to begin serving from five to twenty years.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-25
POLICE GUARD IS PLACED AROUND
 DAFOE HOSPITAL
Provincial Governm e n Takes Action Follow
 ing Abduction Rumor

TORONTO, Ontario, March 25.-The Provincial Government has ordered police to guard the Dafoe Hospital to foil an alleged plot to kidnap the Di- onne quintupIets.
 Rumors were circulated that a plot has been uncovered to use an automobile and airplane to take the five babies into the United States in about two weeks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-25

that millions of bayonets carried by the people will accompany our sincere desire for European col liberation
 The mobilization order added 100000 men to the forces already under arms bringing the total for the regular army to around 600,000 plus some 100000 Black Shirt mili- tiamen ready to move at the drop of the hat.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-25
ANCHORAC|TE'S WIFE IS KILLED
 IN FREAK FALL
Mrs. Adam Simons, Said to Be Drinking, Does
 "Trapeze' Act

SEATTLE, March 25.-Mrs. Adam Simons, who plunged 40 feet Saturday after shout ing to tenants in an adjacent apartment building she was do- ing an act on the flying tra- peze, died. Sunday in the King County Hospital.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-25
DIPLOMATIC VIEWS

GENEVA. March 25.--The Berlin conference is described in dip.o- matic circles as likely to determ- inc whether Europe turns back to- ward peace or continues on toward war
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-25
MAY JOIN GERMANY

GENEVA. March 25-Hungary. according to advices received here. is showing sentiment is growing for a union with Germany.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-25
To Fellow G. o. P. Plan


 Looking to the 1886 Presidential ampai gn, some administration strategists are taking encourage ment from what happened in 1924.
 They base their reasoning on a belief that next year will see a three-way contest, with MT. Roose- welt and the Republican nominee bidding for the right-wing and middle ground support against a third party left-winger.
 In '24 the Republican nominee, Calvin Coolidge. was opposed by John w. Davis. Democrat, and Robert M. LaFollette. progressive.
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-25
CLEVELAND BACK

Connected with the B. M. Behrends Bank, George E. Cleve- land returned to Juneau on the Ncrco from Ketchikan.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-25
REGISTER! REGISTER!

To vote at the city elec- tion on April 2 you must register. The qualifications are-resident of the Terri tory for one year and the city for six months. If you have not registered yet, do so now, at the City Hall.
 REGISTER. REGISTER.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-25

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