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The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-09-23
FALLS OFF OF
 D0CK,DROWNS, EARLY SUNDAY
Mrs. Elsie Jack Meets Death = Fire Depart
 ment Called Out

Mrs. Jimmy Jack, aged about 25 years. wife of Jimmy Jack. drowned early Sunday morning at the Pacific Coast Dock. The re- mains are at the C. w Carter Mortuary. No funeral arrangements hay yet been made.
 Mrs. Jack who is reported to have been accompanied by two companions, a man and woman, fell into the water at about 4 a. m. at point where repairs are being made on the dock. The portion of the dock where the re- pairs are being made was barri- caded and how the woman got through this is mystery.
 The Fire Department was called to the scene and the body of Mrs. Jack was discover floating among the piles, buoyed up by air imprisoned in her clothing. The body was taken aboard skiff, re- moved to the dock surface and re- sucitation methods, including use of the Fire Department inhalator, were applied. Mrs. Jack failed to respond to efforts to revive her. She was pronounced dead by Dr. w. w. Council and removed to the Mortuary.
 Jimmy Jack, husband of the ee- ceased. is reported to be out O. town on boat.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-09-23
DIR. DAWES STARTS
 FOR PETERSBURG:
 TONED BACK HERE

Dr. l.. P. Dawes started for Pet crsburg yesterday aboard his boat the Prince of Wales, but only got as far as Taku. A connecting rod bearing burned out and the Prince of Wales returned to Juneau, lowed by the Vyella of Sitka.
 pr. Dawes said he had intended to have the boat hauled out of the water at Petersburg for painting. If the weather is good after repairs have been made, Dr. Dawes will sail again for Petersburg in a few days.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-09-23

MYSTERY BODY IS FOUND AT
 EAGLE RIVER
May Be that of C. J. Huff man, Rancher and Miner.
 Disappeared Year Ago

A body which may be that of c. U. Huffman, rancher and miner of the Eagle River district who has been missing since last October, was found Sunday on the Eagle River flats not far from the Boy Scout camp.
 Charles Jenne and John Krug- ness, Juneau boys who were out duck hunting, ran across it. Only a foot and part of the leg was protruding from the sand on the beach, the boys said. They reported to the Marshal's office when they returned to town and today De- putty Marshal John Mccormick and the two boys were appointed by U. s. Commissioner J. F. Mullen to make an investigation and ttg up the body. They left this aftels-, noon for the scene.
 Although there is no evidence yet to show who it may be, it was re- called by authorities that Huffman disappeared last October while en- route from Douglas to his home in the Eagle River district. Some time later his boat and dog were found at Berner's Bay but there was no trace of Huffmanj who is widely known in this section and had lived for years around Eagle River. It was feared at the time that he had been lost overheard from his boat. The body might well have been washed by the tide to the location of the find made by the boys. of ficials point out.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-09-23
LONE FISHERMAN
 IS TO BE RETIRED

The gasboat Lone Fisherman, which arrived at the Lumber Mills Dock at 5 o'clock Sunday morning with tow of logs. will be retired from the Juneau Lumber Mills tow ing service, according to Roy Ruth orford of the Juneau Lumber Mills.
 The Roedda, Capt. J. Davis, has brought tow of logs to the Lum- Der Mills Dock from Shakan each week for the last three weeks, Ruth erford said. The Juneau Lumber Company boat Driva has been mak- ing occasional trips to Juneau with logs from Edna Bay, and has kept the Roedda supplied with tows of logs at Shakan
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-09-23
PLIERS CRASH,
 NEITHER HURT

KHARTQUM, Anglo Egyptian Sudan, Sept. 23.-Thomas Camp bell Black and J. H. c. McArthus, British fliers attempting flight from London to Capetown, bailed out on the west bank of the Nile when their plane crashed here. They landed unhurt.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-09-23
CARLsoNs HAVE BABY GIRL

MT. and Mrs. Lawrence Carlson of Douglas became the proud par ents of a baby girl this morning. The child, born at St. Ann's Hos- pital, weighs IF pounds. MT. Carl son is employed in the Alaska Jul neau mine.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-09-23
5 YEAR PLAN TO MODERNIzE
 ARMY OF J. s.
Farewell Report Is Sub mitted by General
 MacArthur --

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.-Gen. Douglas MacArthur, in his farewell report as Chief of Staff, proposes a five year plan to modernize the American Army.
 Gen. MacArthur said the plan he has outlined will make the Army a world model for speed and fight. ing ability.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-09-23
IS SUMMONED
 BACK TO ROME

LONDON, Sept. 21.--A dispatch from Moscow said that Gen. Um- berto Mobile, the Italian Arctic fii- CT who has been in Russia for five years assisting in dirigible con- struction after he had been blamed for the Italia disaster, has beel called to Rome, He will leave in :. few days.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-09-23
HENEY ARRIVES FROM
 WINDHAM, GO SOUTH

F. A. Heney. President of the Alaska Windham Gold Mining Company has arrived here from his mine at Windham aboard the com panyss boat. He is regi>sered at the zynda, Hotel. Heney intends to go south for the winter on the Alaska.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-09-23
DEPUTY GOES SOUTH

Deputy Marshal c. H. MacSpad- den left for the south on the North Sea, taking D. c. Helmar, Hawaiian, to McNeill Island Penitentiary to serve three years after conviction for contempt of court growing ou. of assault charges.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-09-23
WILLARD B, IN PORT

The motorship Willard B., Capt. E. Kaarbo, Libby, McNeill and Lib by cannery tender arrived from Taku Harbor at 2:15 o'clock this afternoon for mail and supplies. The Willard B. will return to Taku Harbor tomorrow.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-09-23

State politician, who is i'll with pneumonia, described his condition today as very serious, although not hopeless, but the outlook is unfav- orable."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-09-23
YOUNG UNMARRIED PEOPLE TO MEET,
 ELECT OFFICERS

The social organization of young unmari ed people which was form ed lasIl Monday evening under the guidance of the Northern Liz h t Presbyterian Church will hold It's first formal meeting on "Wednesday evening in the church parlors. Off, ficers will be elected at this time and fall and winter activitias viii be planned. M
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-09-23
U. s. SENATOR SERIOUSLY ILL

MOSCOW, Russia, Sept. 23.-Rus- sian physicians in attendance on U. $. Senator James Hamilton Lew is, of Illinois, former Washington
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-09-23
sHATTUCK FROM sITKA

Curtis Shattuck, Secretary of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce, ar rived yesterday on the North Sea from Sitka where he has been on business and pleasure.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-09-23
LEAVE HOSPITAL

William Steinbeck left St. Ann. Hospital today, after he had un. dergcne treatment for heart trouble
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-09-23
FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT

F. J. Thorpe, Juneau longshore- man. entered St. Ann's Hospital today to undergo medical treat ment.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-09-23
HAS BRONCHITIS

Chas. Williams of Douglas. is in St. Ann's Hospital suffering from Bronchitis.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-09-23
COMING TO JUNEAU

Mrs. Mary Kammerling. mother of Mrs. D. B. Femmer. is passen- ger aboard the Yukon for Juneau
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-06-28
Family Tells of Misfortune
after Creating Stir in House
Mother Who Nursed Baby in Gallery
and Husband Retain Dignity
Despite Years of III Luck.

ordered his family from the gallery
yesterday.
Il reckon it was because We looked
so droll." he said.
Sinnott. however. explained he
asked Parker to tell his wife to take
8-month-old Hilda Jean to the ladies
rest room if she had to nurse the
child again.
Hitch-Hiked 5000 Miles.
The Parkers. with their children
hitch-hiked 5000 miles back and forth
through the South before reaching
Washington, where the father hoped
to find work.
Their problem began when, early in
the Roosevelt administration, Park
er's Sl8 monthly pension was stopped.
BY aid of the pension he had been
able to pay S2.25 month rent for a
small, barren Tennessee farm and buy
a few clothes for the family. The food
came from the land, which was rent
ed from a minister Without the
pension he was unable to pay even
the low rent, and the travels of the
family began.
All the children look healthy. They
are Kathleen, 6; Carl, 4; Bruce, Q,
and Hilda Jean.
Parker served 18 months with
American troops in France.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-06-28
TAXI RATE HEARING
.LAGS UNTIL JULY 8
Commission Debates New
Licenses Now or After
Order Is Issued.

Public hearings on the uniform rates
and zones for Washington's taxicabS
will be held July instead of next
Monday. the Public Utilities Commits
sion announced today. The delay was
asked by spokesman for number Of
taxicab and public interests.
Whether to start issuance of the new
fiscal year taxicab licenses July l, III
stead of waiting until after the mi
form rate and zone order is issued,
was being debated today by The COM
mission. 1t had been announced
licensing would be withheld until the
order was issued. but one company
reports some of its drivers will have
new cabs here July l and asks that
their operation be not delayed.
The commission is seeking legal
opinion as to whether new licenses
could be issued with stipulation that
the drivers would agree to the uni
form rates and zones after the order
was effective. If the District is not
to lose some of the license revenue the
permits must be issued before the emo
Of July.
Opinion also is sought as to whether
the commission can issue 1896 licenses
until after it has ordered uniform rates
and zones. Under the terms of the
District appropriation act commission
funds are not to be used for taxicab
licensing except for operating under
uniform rates and zones as shall have
been" prescribed by the commission.
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gar" Another prohibition is against
voluntary assignment or transfer OF
property by an applicant for the pur-
pose of qualifying for assistance.
While receiving an old-age pension
the recipient could not be given any
other form of relief except for medical,
surgical or nursing care.
Congress as yet has not considered
an appropriation for carrying out pro-
visions of the measure. Estimates OF
the cost range around 100000 for the
first year. Under the national So
cial security bill the District would
receive Federal grants up to SIS a
month for the care Of each pensioner.
This Is calculated on a $3.50 division
of cost so long as the Federal share
did not exceed SIS a month.
Street believes the program will
serve to cut down the costs of relief
by taking care of the aged by the pen
sions instead of by relief disburse-
ments. He praises the program as q
forward looking movement.
In investigation of applications,
Street explained, the Commissioners
will have the use of the extensive re-
lief case records. which should reduce
the amount of case investigation work
so far as early applications are con-
cerned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-06-28
GIRL TWICE RESCUED
WITHIN 10 MINUTES
Miss June Eaton, Taken From
Potomac, Dives Back Rather
Than Face Photographers.

Miss June Eaton, 10, 1900 block OF
Fuller street, late yesterday had the
novel experience of being rescued from
the Potomac River twice within 10
minutes-the first time when small
sailboat overturned near Memorial
Bridge and again when she jumped
overheard to prevent news photog-
raphers from taking her picture.
Miss Eaton and her companion,
Isbel Jerry. "a, of the 1000 block of
Tenth street, were thrown into the
water when a sudden gust of wind
upset their sailboat.
George Garner, 300 block Of Elev-
enth street southwest, who was nearby
in a gasoline launch, went to their
aid in his boat. pulled them aboard
and took in tow the sailing boat.
AS they approached the Memorial
Bridge to land, Miss Eaton, who was
dressed in a bathing suit, again
plunged overheard when she found
battery of photographers awaiting her.
She started swimming ashore, but be-
came exhausted and called for help.
This time her companion. Jerry, Owed
overheard and swan back to the
launch with her.
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F Pittsburgh Hitch-Hiker Fails
To Find Mother in Hospital

Failure seemed worse than hunger
today to the 12-year-old boy who
hitch-hiked from Pittsburgh to
search local hospitals for his mother.
This morning, as yesterday, it was
the same old story for young Frank
lin Campbell, the penniless searcher,
who has found friends and sympathy
here, but not the object of his quest.
mo, we haven't a Mrs. Bertha Betty
Campbell among our patients"
This reply, often repeated. has con-
WINGED the boy he must return to the
highway tonight, to hitch-hike back
to Pittsburgh without his mother.
Young Franklin's' story won him a
friend in Fireman Harvey S. Fearnow
of No. 9 engine company, who picked
up the hitch-hiker in Hagerstown,
Nd, and brought him to Warrington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-06-28

Yesterday Fearnow drove the boy
to the hospitals and renewed the
search this morning. He gave a de-
scription of the boys mother to police,
who checked local institutions on the
possibility the woman might be found
under another name.
Franklin said his mother and ia
Their had been separated as long as I
can remember" He heard she was
i'll in a local hospital and set out for
Washington to make sure.
The boy was sick and dizzy with
hunger when Fearnow found him. He
had been on the road three days,
sleeping in box cars and by the road
side.
Fearnow took the boy to his home
and said he would keep him there
while the search lasted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-06-28
CAPITAL PENSION
PROGRAM MAPPED
Special Effort Will Be Made
to Assure Fairness in
Administration.

A careful case study will be made
of each application for old-age pen
sion under the District social security
program now awaiting final action in
Congress, according to plans being
formulated today by District officials.
This examination will be made by
case workers attached to the Board of
Public Welfare, under tentative plans.
Final arrangements will be withheld
until Congress completes action on
the bill. now before a Senate District
subcommittee.
The District Commissioners would
be designated to administer the act
but they plan to designate the staff
of the welfare board as their agency.
The House bill provided that the
act shall go in effect 90 days after
enactment, to allow time for estab-
lishment of machinery and the per-
Torrance of necessary investigation.
Transfers Planned.
Some case workers needed for
examination of the situation of appli-
cants would be transferred from those
now handling emergency relief cases.
Elwood Street, director of welfare,
hopes to have enough case workers
so that each would be responsible for
no more than rs cases. Each case
worker on the relief administration
here now has about 100 cases under
his care, on the average.
Persons approved for the old-age
payments would be taken care of in
their own homes, the homes of rela-
tives or in suitable rented quarters
to the fullest degree practicable.
Street said. One of the aims would
be to reduce the number of cases
subject to institutional care. There is
no idea, however, that this would
make possible abolition of the Home
for Aged and Infirm. There is some
thought of making that home more
of a place for convalescentS.
Just how much the first-year costs
of the program will be has not been
calculated exactly. Welfare officials
estimated that as many as 1000
would be found eligible the first year
and that later this total may be
raised to 1000 or more.
The bill does not set. any definite
limit on the amounts which may be
paid to recipients. except as gagged
by their needs. Street said the ex-
perience in some jurisdictions where
old-age pensions have been in effect
indicates the need of about $50 a
month for a single person, with more
needed in cases involving man and
wife. Data gathered in investigation
of the application here would guide
the Commissioners in fixing the pay
ments.
65 Minimum Age Limit.
The bill would set up as require
ments for eligibility that the appli-
cant have reached the age Of IS, that
he shall have resided in the District
for five years or more within the past
nine years. and that there shall have
been continuous residence here in the
last year before application, and that
the applicant have no child or other
person financially able to support him
who is legally responsible for doing
so.
There is a prohibition also against
persons who are inmates of the jail,
work house, insane asylum or other
public correctional institution. and
against the "habitYal tramp or beg
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-06-28

The Parkers, who caused quite a
stir in the House yesterday when Mrs.
Parker without the least trace of en-
barrassment nursed her baby in the
gallery, are not the complaining kind,
despite the hard luck that has dogged
them for years.
Ragged, uneducated. dependent on
charity, the family has managed to
retain a quiet and humble dignity
which has set them apart from most
of the other cases handled by the
Transient Bureau.
The husband and father. Everett
Parker, 44-year-old Tennessee tenant
farmer, wants job. and therein lies a
real social problem. He can neither
read nor write, and consequently is
barred from most employment except
manual labor, and serious physical
disability make strenuous physical ef-
fort an impossibility for him.
Bureau Workers Puzzled.
Transient Bureau workers, who have
cared for the Parkers and their four
small children for five weeks, are at
a loss what to DO.
A possible solution to the problem
is to send the family back to Ten
nessee. The relief administration of
Cooke County now is trying to find
a home for them on some farm. and
if this is done the Transient Bureau
will send them home.
Meanwhile, they live in a single
room at 401 Fourth street. Food is
supplied to them, but clothes have
become a problem. None of the chill
dren has shoes. The parents have
the clothes they are wearing-that
is all.
and these overalls are getting
kind of thin in places" Parker re-
marked, displaying a threadbare spot
Need More Milk for Babies.
1--WE do pretty we'll. They give us
Sc a week for rent and about $3.50
for food. That buys us enough to
eat, but we would like to have little
more milk for the babies. OF course,
we can't buy much meat on our al
lowance. A few days ago we got
pound of salt meat and it cost us 80
cents, and even a pound was only a
few bites apiece"
Parker is partially deaf and is under
the impression Joseph j. Sinnott,
veteran doorkeeper of the House,
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ARMORY APPROVED.
FOR NAVY YARD
Swanson Favors S500,000
Structure West of 18th
Street Bridge.

Plans for a 100000 local Naval
Reserve Battalion Armory at the
Washington Navy Yard today had the
approval of Secretary Swanson, who
sent along a request for this sum to
the Works Allotment Board.
The armory, which has received the
Endorsement of all interested author
tiles in the Navy, would be built on a
site south of the seaman gunners'
quarters and just west of the Eleventh
street bridge. Rear Admiral Joseph
r. lDefrees, commandment of the
Washington Navy Yard, approved the
program, which will enable a de-
strbyer to run alongside the new
afmory, as one end of it is to be
pier.
Navy Department officials said that
they are fully cognizant of the present
inadequate quarters used by local Naval
Reservists. They believe the new pro-
gram will beautify the Washington
water front. an objective long sought
by local civic interests. as we'll as
affording suitable accommodations for
the ReserviSts.
When Franklin D. Roosevelt was
Assistant Secretary of the Navy he
took keen interest in affairs of the
local ReServists. Now that he is Chief
Executive-and recommendations of
the Works Allotment Board will have
to be passed on by him-little diff
Guilty is anticipated in securing funds
for the new armory. Naval authori-
ties were unanimous in deciding that
the new armory should be constructed
forthwith. Although the project had
to pass through half a dozen high
ranking authorities, there was not
dissenting vote.
Interested in the project is Lieut..
j. E. Sullivan, commanding officer of
the local Naval Reserve E-alion.
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years." Neale continued. "why I'M
der this bill you will bring Reno to
our own doors"
That's a pretty wild statement"
interrupted Carpenter.
"You did not let me finish my
statement" said Neale. Il wanted to
say that you would separate us from
Reno merely by a degree. I don't
think that's a wild statement"
Neale also said that the only ex-
preston of sentiment for changing
the divorce law was ION the floor of
the Bar Association"
There is nothing to indicate pub
lie demand for this BILL" he declared.
ct don't think the people of the Dis
trict want this law changed SO that
a few lawyers can get more fees" .
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-06-28
PRESIDENT GETS PIES

Cherry pies, 2 feet in diameter, we're
presented to President Roosevelt to-
day by Miss Genevieve Pepera OF
Travers City, Mich, who was named
cherry queen of that locality.
Miss Pepera, with her chaperon,
Mrs. Richard Muck, are staying at the
Hotel Mayflower. They few here this
morning on the Pennsylvania Airlines.
Other giant pies are to be presented to
Government officials during their stay.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-06-28
DR.. COLViN ON BOARD

DR.. E. Milburn Colvin, jr., today took
oath of Office as a member of the
Board of Dental Examiners at ses-
sion of the District Commissioners. He
is a cousin of Commissioner Hazen.
Colvin, 80, is the youngest member
of the board, which passes on appli-
cations of dentists for licenses. The
members receive no salary. His term
is for five years. He was nominated
for the post by Commissioner Allen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-06-28
Detectives Pistol Stolen.

Detective Charles c. Carver of No.
2 precinct had a personal case to
work on today. Carver's service pistol
was stolen from his automobile,
parked in the garage in the rear Of
his home, 22l2 Randolph place north
east, yesterday afternoon. He sus-
poets three boys whom he saw play
ing around the garage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-06-28
YOUTH CONFERENCE
TO SELECT DELEGATES
Representative Scott of California
to Address Meeting Here
Sunday Morning.

A youth conference sponsored by
the Washington Committee for the
American Youth Congress will meet
Sunday morning for the election OF
delegates to the national congress in
Detroit July At, at the Phyllis Wheat
ley Y. w. c. A., Ninth street and
Rhode Island avenue.
Representative Byron Scott OF Cali
fornia will speak on youth and War"
at this meeting.
After the election of delegates. a
mass send-off rally for them will be
staged In the evening, featuring a play
by the New Theater group.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-06-28
GAS DISCOUNT EXTENDED
$50 Reduction in Effect Yet as
Rates Remain Unsettled.

Continuation of the 8.5 per cent
discount on bills of the Washington
and Georgetown Gas Light Cos. from
July l to September 80 was ordered yes
terday by the Public Utilities Commits
sion. This was done because the ques-
ton of rates under the new valuation
fixed by the commission has not been
settled.
Evening star., 1935-07-03
Insects Soften Eggshells.

MINNEAPOLIS R.-Prosthogoni-
mus macrorchis causes poultry to lay
soft-shelled eggs in early Summer the
American Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science was told yester-
day. That "jaw breaker" disease is
caused by eating dragon flies. The
cure is simple-keep the layers cooped
up during the last week of May and
the first of June.