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The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-05-02

vironments somewhat similar as to climate to that of the northern valley.
 Rigors of weather, isolation and the prospect of greater depriva- tions than most have been ac- customed to have been stressed by the Federal Emergency Relief Ad- ministration which is sponsoring this mass migration.
 Days 20 Hours Long
 But the enthusiasms of those chosen and of thousands who have found the battle against drought, depression or other adverse factors losing one, have not been chilled. Relief officials here have been lit erally swamped by applications of those who would join in the unique colonization movement. Many times the number which could be includ- ed have tried to get their names added to the list.
 About the time the first contin- gent of homesteaders and their worker cohorts arrive. the days will be 20 hours long and the remaining four hours scarcely darker than deep twilight Yet the days will
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By W. A. WELLS

SANFRANCISCO, Cal. May D. It's hardy life they face up north but they're hardy bunch who face it, these modern argonauts who are sailing on the U. S. transport St. Mihiel into the sunlight of a new economic existence in the Matanus- ka valley of Alaska
 The army of workers chosen to accompany the handpicked contin- gent of agriculturalists have been recruited from able-bodied, experi- enced foresters, toughened to hard work months spent in the transi- ent forest camps, chiefly in Cali fornia. The farmers, whom the work army will help to establish, were handpicked in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin, from en-
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RAIN FALLS IN
 ONE DUST BOWL,
 COLORADO AREA
Residents Dash Into Streets in Night Clothes to
 Welcome Moisture

SPRINGFIELD, Colorado, May z Rain splashed into the dust ooWi of the southwest last night and residents dashed from their beds into the streets in their night clothes to welcome the moisture which poured down for two hours, reviving crop hopes.
 The rain was the first Of any amount since January and the heaviest since June, 1892. The rain was quite general over this sec tion.
 At Dalhart. Texas, efforts to bring rain by dynamite explosions have failed 50 far.
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COL. LINDbERCH IS THREATENED;
 1 ARREST MADE
Night Watchman Is Taken Into Custody in Pat
 erson, New Jersey

PATERSON, N. J., May 2.-J. N Phillip Martin, aged 46, night watchman, is held pending arraign- ment on a charge of sending ob- scene letters in which he threatened Col. Charles A. Lindbergh with death.
 The police said the prisoner ad- mitted the letters were in his hand writing but he does not remember writing them.
 One of the letters said: This is from John and is not a ransom note. This is a killing note. I'll kill Lindy and myself. I'm John and I'm going to take the law in my hands
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-05-02
ADVANCE SHIPS OF U.. s. FLEET
 NOW IN NORTH
Twelve Seaplanes Leave Sitka for Kodiak, Sur
 face Boats Following


 The advance guard of the United States Navy, in preparing for the great maneuvers to begin on the North Pacific next Sunday, is all ready in the north, distributed at various points.
 The 12 naval seaplanes leaving Sand Point near Seattle last Mon day morning, arrived at Sitka at 5.30 o'clock that afternoon, making a nonstop flight.
 The planes left Sitka at ' 7o'clock yesterday morning on nonstop flight for Kodiak and presumably arrived there as no advices have been received to the contrary
 Destroyers Breckenridge and Bid- dle and the service ship Sandpiper, at Sitka at the same time as the seaplanes, also left there for un- known destinations yesterday morn ing
 All movements of the planes and surface vessels are under secret orders.
 Yesterday part of the United States Battle Fleet entered the Golden Gate at San Francisco.
 Four cruisers of the fleet, with an oil tanker, arrived at Port Angeles, Wash, this morning. How many others are to join the cruis- CTS and how long they. will remain there is not announced
 Associated Press dispatches. from Seattle said part of the battle fleet is expected to enter Puget Sound sometime today
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2o,000 AUTO
 WORKERS OUT
 C. M. PL ANTS
Conference Between Union Heads and Government
 Is Taking Place

DETROIT, Mich, May 2.-TWen- ty thousand workers in the auto industry, forced into idlness through a series of strikes and shutdowns in the General Motors Corporation and subsidiary plants, today awaited the outcome of the scheduled peace conferences be- tween the American Federation of Labor officers and those of the Government.
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SENATE BEGINS
 DISCUSSION OF BONUS MEASURE
Effort Under Way to Raise Interest Rate on Harri-
 son Bond Proposal

WASHINGTON, May 2-Plung- ing into the bonus issue after breaking the deadlock over the anti-lynching bill, the Senate found an effort under way to change the Harrison bonus compromise so it would pay five per cent on bonds to be exchanged for certificates instead of four per cent.
 The Patman and Vinson bills also will be offered the Senate as substitutes for the Harrison bill. Under the Harrison measure the veteran who borrowed half on a thousand dollar certificate would receive about $180 at this time.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-05-02
4u Reserues Summoned to Help Project France
 Against Surprise Attack
By ROBERT B. PARKER

PARIS, May 2.-Reserve air units and private flying organizations will be mobilized this year as part of the governments campaign to bolster national defenses.
 General Victor Domain, Air Min ister, said that private organiza- tions will be called for the first time this year, instead of in 1886 Sas previously planned, because of the fears of surprise attack on France from the air.
 He told the Union for Defense Against Air Attacks that Frances air fleet is ready to answer bonn bardment by bombardment and in cendiarism by incendiarism
 Three Years Work En' One
 T stop at the enumeration for you have understood me-" he added.
 General Domain, who has com pressed a three-ye plane building program into one year to meet the challenge of Germany's air corps, said he had instituted industrial mobilization" measures to assure de- livery of hundreds of new fighting ships before December.
 France. he said, will be able to more than match the reich's fleet of 1900 new planes planned by General Hermann Goering
 The air minister scoffed at the idea that an invading enemy fleet could paralyze the nation, for, he said, France is strong enough to protect herself.
 General Domain said that in 1883 the French fleet was composed of l,500 planes ''of the vintage of 1925" and incapable of properly defend ing the country Its stocks of muni- tions and it's armaments, he said, dated from the close of the world war.
 Force Triples This Year
 German air armaments forced us to speed up the program which was adopted two years ago to modernize the fleet" he said. We now must make urgent efforts to develop an aviation for reprisals, the best guar antee of our security
 At the end of this year, the air minister said, the nations bomb- ing fleet. now about 300, will be tripled and its radius of action doubled. He said 24-hour watches have been instituted at all air bases for instant action in case of sudden attack.
 French airplane factories, he re- yealed, are just beginning to reach highspeed. Since January l, he said, the number of planes in the air corps has been increased by 20 per cent.
 The air corps is 40 per cent stronger than in 1933," said General Denain. Our average radius is $50 miles compared to BIO miles two years ago"
 Civilians Train to Watch
 The corps, the minister told his audience, will receive soon squad ron of the worlds most modern pur- suit planes equipped with motor driven guns. Observation planes, of which Frances has nearly $50 now, will be increased nearly 50 per cent, he said.
 He revealed that 5000 civilian watchers have enrolled in the air raid defense program to warn of
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NORTH s I AR IN PORT WITH 110 FOR MATANUSKA
Motorship to Be in Juneau Approximately 24Hours
 Loading Freight

With one hundred and eighteen members Of the preliminary work CTS bound for the Matanuska Val- ley aboard, the motorship North Star, Capt. s. T. L. Whitlam, com mander, docked at the Pacific Coast dock shortly before noon today. The motorship viii be in port approxi- mately 24 hours loading ITO tons of lumber and 55 tons of stoves to be used in the agricultural settlement.
 The North Star left San Francisco. bound directly for Ketchikan on April g after spending nearly five days in the Bay City loading 1900 tons of lumber and freight for Matanuska.
 Two days out of San Francisco, rought weather was encountered which delayed the North Star more than a day on it's way north. Ap- proximately 25 of the Transient workers, many of whom are having their first sea voyage, succumed to seasickness until they got their sea legs several days after leaving San Francisco, according to ships off, ficer's. The motorship docked in Ketchikan Monday night and re- mained there until 11:15 o'clock yesterday morning while 300 tons of lumber were taken on board for the Matanuska colony.
 Improved Quarters
 The North Star, which was chart cred from the United States Bu- reau of Indian Affairs to be used in transporting workmen and sup plies for the Mantanuska project, has ordinary accommodations for about forty-five on board, includ- ing steerage and temporary quart CTS were arranged for the ad- ditional numbers. Bunks were in- stalled in the after hold to &C., commodate 78 of the Transient workers and others are taken care of in the regular steerage quart CTS.
 Regular Personnel
 With the exception of the Ste wards department, the regular of ficers and personnel of the North Star are aboard the vessel In the stewards department, ten additional workers from the stewards depart ment. of the construction crew are assisting in handling the cooking and serving of food.
 Ships Officers
 z Officers aboard the motorship in addition to Capt. Whitlam are, lst Mate E. L. Bush, 2nd Mate L Lystad, 3rd Mate. Charles Salen- jus; Chief Engineer. Herman San wick, 1st Assistant Engineer w. H. Greenfield, 2nd Assistant Engineer, E. L. Holland. 3rd Assistant Engin- eer O. Gunderson; Chief Steward s. Sundt; Wireless Operator and PurSer M DoWdy.
 Tn spite of the unusual crowd aboard, Steward Sundt is providing the same variety and quality of food as that ordinarily served aboard the North Star on it's voyages to Alaska With storage space for four months supplies on the yes-
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TOKYO, May 2.-The ketch Fly ing Dutchman" and three men aboard, described as a retired Unit ed States Navy Lieutenant, a Ger man and a Russian. are reported to have been detained in Formosa on a charge of espionage.
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KARNES SEES GOOD SCHOOL
 FUTURE HERE
Territorial Director of Edu- cation Speak s to
 Chamber Today

In addition to hearing Matanuska Valley colonization. details, the Chamber of Commerce. in regu- lar luncheon session at Bailey's Cafe today, heard Anthony E. Kar- nes, Territorial Director of Educ cation, and also considered several important business details.
 MT Karnes, who recently re- turned from a trip to the States which took him to Washington, D. O., in the interest of Alaska school ing, told the Chamber that pros poets were good flor big advance on the practical side of education in Alaska"
 By the practical side, I mean vocational and adult education, D MT. Karnes said. We have been given $30,000 for vocational work next year. We will make such large strikes in vocational instruction that we shall employ a supervisor O1 that WOrK.
 Part -Tin.e Work Due
 MT. Karnes went on to tell how part-time vocational training, such as has long been taught in the States, will be presented in Alaska next year. Students will be able to coordinate school work with lines of employment in which they may be engaged while attending classes.
 Then, too, where the demand is strong, adult education along voca- tional lines may be installed.
 T am very hopeful for the edu- cational future of Alaska during the next four or five years MT. Kar- nes concluded.
 Kirk Presides
 The business portion of the meet ing found William Kirk, second president, presiding in the place of R. E. Robertson, who was unable to attend.
 Because MT Robertson was ab- sent, no vote was taken on the proposition to change the meeting date from Thursday to Tuesday and theExecutive Board meeting from Tuesday to Monday These changes had been proposed because of the new airplane service to Fairbanks, which often takes important per- sonages who arrive here on Tuesday boats out of town before the Thurs day session. Proponents and op- ponents for the idea were heard.
 Secretary Curtis Shattuck read a brief financial report which showed that $1 ,885 had been received from cash memberships His comparison of meeting attendance showed that an average of 33 were attending luncheons this year as to 35 who attended last year.
 A motion was made and passed without formal vote to telegraph Gov Gov. John w. Troy to inter- cede the Federal Communications Commission for concessions for the KINY.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-05-02
V. E. BBEop Saunders U. S., M Address

LOWELL. Mass, May ?. - Charactefizing the United States as staggering drunken Ma ton, Bishop A. w. Leonard, of Pittsburgh. Pa, told the New England Conference of Metho- dati Episcopal Church he would rather be the iowliest resident of the lowliest nation en earth than be the President who sigu- cd the bill repeating the Eight eenth Amendment.
 The Bishop also condem1ed eivorce ac married unfaithful- ness,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-05-02
CHALLE OF GERMANY OVER ARMS ACCEPTED
Great Britain to Speed De- lenses, Specially Air
 Program

LONDON, May 2.-The British Government has acce opted Ger many's challenge to an armament race and decided on a new effort to win the Reich's cooperation in a general security system based on disarmament.
 Premier Ramsay Macdonald an- nounced that Great Brita4a's air program will be immediately ac- celerated and expanded.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-05-02
American Is Held On
 Charge of Espionage

The ketch left Shanghai early in April ostensibly to seek South Seas buried treasure.
 The ketch is commanded by w. S. Gates of Lancaster, Pa, and a former Lieutenant of the United States Navy,
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VANGUARD, MATANUSkA PROJECT HERE
Tvilight Night, 2O-HoW Days
 to Greet Neu AIaska Pioneers

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, May 1.-Two hundred and seventy fcur Minnesota farm colonists sailed for Alaska at 5:25 o'clock yesterday afternoon on the Army transport St. MihieI. An ERA chorus and band gave a ssrcnade on the dock prior to the departure of the vessel.
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NORTH STAR IS TAKING LUMBER
 FOR COLONISTS
Director Erwin and Assist ants Enthusiastic Over
 Big Undertaking
VESSEL EXPECTED
 TO LEAVE TOMORROW
Supplies for Two Months, Tractors, Other Equip
 ment Aboard


 Bound for the great colonization project in the Matanuska Valley in Central Southern Alaska, and filled with the courage and determination to win, the vanguard of those who will turn the fertile Alaskan valley into home site arrived ill Juneau shortly before noon today on the North Star
 Strong, weather tanned, clear eyed are these men. who came from all parts of the United States. to aid the coming settlers in wrestling from the wilderness a habitable community
 Two Divisions
 Headed by Donald L. Irwin, Di- rector of Rural Rehabilitation for Alaska, who will have charge of the huge undertaking, two divisions make up the party which is to take the initial step in making the proj- ect an actuality With Director IT, win is Stewart Campbell, who will be one of his chief assistants, and Francis Biggs, who will be associate ed with N. Lester Troast, architect in charge of construction. They are the leaders of the colonization division.
 Heading the construction division is Frank U. Bliss. Director of Con- struction. On his staff are Frank G. Carr, his secretary; w. T, Geis- man. photographer; Ben Jordan. steward; Dr. E. E. Ostrom, surgeon: Earl A. Osborn. nurse; c. R. Peck. chief mechanic; George Reuter-. accountant; Charles R. Richards, storekeeper; H. B. Stoneman, as- sistant storekeeper; Eugene K. Sed- file, labor foreman, and Albert c. Shell, camp superintenent. Tn this division also are the 113 transient workers who were recruited from every State in the Union and rep resent every trade, such as car- penters, plumbers, tractor opera tors, engineers. well drillers and every other skilled mechanic need ed in making the great project a success.
 In Conference Here
 Here the North Star is taking aboard 1l5,000 feet of lumber to add to her already large supply of goods being taken to the project, and she probably will be busy loading until about noon tomorrow. Mir Irwin was in conference with the Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation this afternoon. going over the various details of the big enterprise. Ea&
 "The project is feasible fand should be success" he said in an interview. Tt is being run on a strictly business basis and the merit of the undertaking is un- questionable. While there arc some details yet to be worked out, the major program is well in hand and before the summer is out. the col- onists will be all housed and the project well under way"
 Sanitation
 Sanitation, he alth conditions. policing and all the many details in connection with any communi- ties are being cared for so that the settlers should be off to fly ing start, he explained.
 Arriving at the project next week the first work will be throwing up tents for temporary housing, the director said, in telling Of the
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Frank Dorbandt, Flier, Reported Seriously W,
 tn Fairbanks Hospital

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May D. Reports received from Fairbanks today say Frank Dorbandt, Alaskan flier. is dangerously ill with pneu- monia and with only fighting chance to recover. He is in St. Joseph Hospital.
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KILLS MOTHER,
 DIES, GALLONS

BELLEVILLE, Ontario, May e. Harold w. Vermilyea. fruit farmer of California, who came here on a visit to his mother, was hanged early this morning for killing her in a dispute over money matters.
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IS SHOT, KILLED NEAR ANCHORAGE

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May D. Ed Tepas was shot in the chest and killed at the Toumi ranch. four miles from here, in an alleged drunken brawl George Ray, Unit ed States Army war veteran. has given himself up to the Deputy United States Marshal. The latter said the shooting was admitted by Ray but in self defense when hit by a bottle. Ray is still bleeding badly in the jail here.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-05-02

Professor c. R. Kellogg of Massa- |chusetts State Agricultural College told Stockton. Calf, club, the bee works itself to death in six weeks"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-05-02

Twigs from 17,OO0 elmtrees sus- pected of being infected with Dutch elm disease have been inspected during the past year.
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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-12-06

1t is Noises sixth term as the as
sociation's head.
More than 300 commercial men
who "cover" this section attended the
banquet, and the meeting was more
largely attended than any in the as
sociation's history.
William G.. Post, Baltimore, and
Albert Krause, Salisbury, were elect
ed vice presidents; Edward L. Thomp-
son, Salisbury, secretary and Alan
Huston, Salisbury, treasurer.
Directors named for the next fiscal
year are: Charles E. Taylor, Balti-
more; w. Robertson, Baltimore; Ben
Proctor, Philadelphia; w. Alan Get
tymullen, Salisbury; P. c. De Mena,
Baltimore; John Ramsay, Baltimore
William E. Hutchinson, Harborton,
Va; William A. Day, Wilmington,
Del; Walter A. Cox, Jr., Baltimore;
w. Wallace, Washington, D. c.; W.
McKinnon, Detroit, Mich; w. Mel
vim Gravely, Atlantic City; Robert
Kaufman, Charlestown, W. Va.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-12-06
THIRTY-FIRST PLEA
FOR LIBERTY FAILS

Pleading his own case before Chief
Judge Benjamin A. johnson Salisbury,
Lewis Berman, who is serving life
term in connection with the murder
of Clifton Brown, his attorney, lost
out in the thirty-first attempt to gain
his liberty through a writ of habeas
corpus.
Berman, whose plea was argued
against by William S. Baynard of the
Baltimore City States Attorneys Of
flee and Rex A. Taylor, States At
torney for Wicomico County, contend
ed the Baltimore City court, erred in
passing sentence when the jury did
not specifically pass upon his insanity
plea in returning a verdict of guilty.
He could produce evidence, he stat
ed, that he was insane at the time the
lawyer was slain, and that he was in
sane for two and a half years after
being committed to the penitentiary.
Berman was returned to prison fol-
lowing the hearing, Judge Johnson
denying the petition on grounds that
Berman had not offered sufficient ar
gument to show that the court OF
jury had erred.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-12-06
Much of the departments snow re-

Much of the departments snow re-
moval equipment is of the demount-
able type which can readily be at
tached to or removed from regular
department trucks in accordance with
requirements.
Last year the department made
improvements in this equipment that
greatly aided in the problem of snow
were added so that the truck could
handle both sides of the road, oper-
ating back and forth over the road,
and shields were also added to the
tops of the pillow blades which pre-
vented the flying snow from clogging
the radiators or filling the windshields
with clogging snow, binding the OBJ
servaton of the driver while travelling
at high speed.
In the past it had been custom
airy to employ only the larger trucks
for pushing plows but last year
showed that plows on lighter trucks
could also be used effectively espec-
tally in lighter SHOWS, so that % of
these were equipped and gave fine
performances. Practically all depart
ment trucks from 1 IL ton capacity
to heavy duty trucks have now been
equipped with snow plows. For the
coming winter the highway depart
ment has purchased 81 latest type re-
versible plows and three new funnel
type high speed plows which will be
used in light SHOWS and to follow the
heavy V-shaped plows in heavy SHOWS
making a modern fleet Of heavy duty
plows supplemented by the Lighter
truck plows.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-12-06
Still Coughing?

Nc matter how many medicines you
have tried for your cough, chest cold
or bronchial irritation, you can get re-
lief now with CreomulSion. Serious
trouble may be brewing and you cam
thing less than Circumcision, which
goes right to the seat of the trouble
to aid nature to soothe and heal the
inflamed membranes as the germ Laden
phlegm is 1oosened and expelled.
Even if other remedies have failed,
don't be discouraged, your druggist is
authorized to guarantee CreomulSion
and to refund your money if you are not
satisfied with results from the very first
bottle. Get Creomulsion right now. (Adv)
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-12-06
DELAWARE is PREPARED
FOR THE WINTER SHOWS

When SHOWS of the coming winter
arrive, the Delaware State Highway
Department, with it's former equip
ment supplemented by newly pur-
chased apparatus, will have a total
of ITO snow fighting units ready to
attack the job of removing the snow
from the miles of highways which
the department maintains, Chief En-
gineer w. w. Mack announced last
week.
With this equipment ready for in
slant call to duty and with changes
in plans made as a result of last
years experience in opening all main
highways within a few hours despite
the depths Of last wnter's snow drifts
the chief engineer expects to be in
first class shape for winter hazards