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The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-29
20 YEARS AGO
MARCH 2s, 1915
From The Empire

All Constantinople was being shaken by the terrific cannonad- ing of the Russian Black Sea fleet. The roar of the hostile guns was the one great central thing in the city Russian guns were falling within 12 miles of the Sultan's palace and for the first time in history, the Moslem capital was be- ing bombarded from the air.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-29

 -BHR FADAY

The Empire ertends congratuid- tions md best uishes today. their birthday anniUersary. to the toiloao- ing:
 MARCH 29 Dr. w. J. B. McAuliffe
 Stanley Hill
 Mrs. William Franks
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A five-to-four decision by the Supreme Court seems like peg on which to hang the Constitu- tion.-(Toledo Blade)
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Wallis L. George, young Juneau business man, was back from &c., attle-single. At the Elks Club the bulletin board announced that MT. George had returned in double harness, but MT. George denied the rumor, admitting, however, that his wedding to prominent Ketchi- kan girl would take place the coming summer
 The Juneau ball club was look ing for manager. Tom Rado- nich, several times local baseball mogul, offered to help the team in any capacity save as manager.
 A. Nerland, Fairbanks business man, stopped over in Juneau to visit friends while his steamer was in port.
 R. Rutherford, manager of the Independent Mill Company, Fair banks, was another visitor here from the Interior.
 James T. Bar95n, head of the Thlinget Packing Company, was in Juneau from Funter Bay.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-29

Empire Classified Ads Pay.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-29

These new baby bonds out, and if you want five just ask the teller for quinuplets.-tNew York Sum-
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Senator Charles A. Sulzer intro duced in the upper House of the Legislature memorial asking Con- gress to establish school of mines in Juneau.
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Scandal in community spreads faster than fir and it's just about as dangerous.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-29
A New Role for Ruth.
(New York Herald Tribune.)

The glamorous Babe Ruth has worn the uniform of the New York Yankees for the last time After fifteen years here and nearing the end of his active playing days he has been permitted by Colonel Jacob Ruppert, owner of the Yankees, to go to Boston as executive and part-tme player with the National League club of that city
 Local Ruth admirers will in most cases regard his departure with mixed emotions. His personality will be missed at the stadium in the years to come, and will the threat that always lurked in his mighty club. Some has said that it is more thrilling to watch Ruth strike out than to watch another ball player hit a home run, and this is scarcely exaggeration No who has felt the tIemor that through the crowd when the Babe approaches the plate will question it, will any who has witnessed the Homeric quality and proportions of his home-run drives. The long g-standing debate as to whether Ruth or the great Ty Cobb ranks the outstanding ind- vdua player in the history of the game will con- tinue doubt down the years, but on point there is little room for argument: The Babe has undoubtedly brought drama to the game and dollars to the gate than any other player.
 Though they will miss him here, Ruths many admirers will be gratifed to learn of the terms of the arrangement under which he returns to the town where he first played major league baseball. He will play presumably as often as he feels like playing and at the same time he is to have the opportunity which he has long sought to learn the managerial side of the game It is a credit to the good sense of baseball that it has solved so happily this thorny problem of keeping in the game it's greatest idol at time when his regular playing days have virtually come to an end.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-29
BOUND FOR ANCHORAGE

Mrs. George L. Johnson, accom- panied by her son Leonard, left on the Yukon for their home in Anchorage after visiting with friends and relatives on the chan nel for about two months.
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NEW LOW LIQUOR PRICES are still in effect at THE TOTEM GROCERY. -adv.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-15
ETHIOPIANS HAVE
 BEGUN OFFENSIVE
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Leading the Philippians in the field are Ras Desta Demtu, son-in- law of the emperor and governor of Sidamo province, and Fitourari Bakale Halle, whom Ras Nassibu sent to the front Saturday.
 The slowness of the Italian ad- vance is likely to postpone a deci- siye battle for the country between Gorrahei and Jijiga, key to Harar and the Djibouti-Addis Ababa rail- road.
 ! Airplanes from the Assab base of Italy, on the Mt. Mussa front of Eritrea at its junction with French Somaliland and Ethiopia, created another air raid scare here by re- connoitering oyer the Issa country immediately to the north. The city remained calm. Motor trucks laden with soldiers and their women were rolled under trees and the popu- lace generally, under the guidance of the authorities, took prearranged precautions.
 The campaign on the Ogaden front, it is indicated, will be one for water holes. Water is scarce and progress will be almost impos- sible to the side which is driven from it. In the end, it is indicated tbet the Philippians will try to pro- tect the plateau as it rises from the Ogden lowlands to the interior.
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hour's striking. distance of Addis

hours striking distance of Addis Ababa, the capital learned today.
 It roared over the small village of Errer Gotha, less than 200 miles from Addis Ababa as the bird flies. yesterday afternoon, but dropped no bombs. It escaped with impun- ity a fusillade of shots fired at it by a handful of the towns inhabitants. Errer Gotha is just this side of Diredawa on the railroad from Djibouti to the capital.
 At the same time yesterday two Italian planes bombed Alage, south of Makale. This town was the scene of the first battle in the Italo-Ethi- opian war in 1896 in which the Ital- ians suffered humiliating defeat.
 No damage was done by the bombs dropped on Alage. Two bombs were also dropped near Makale, aimed at a small detachment of Ethiopian troops. No one was hurt.
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Premier LQual Has
 Proposed Wars End
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ian ambassador, and. Sir George Clerk, British ambassador.
 All three conferences were be- lieved to be concerned with peace efforts.
 It was reported that Laval had obtained promise that Great Bri- tain would not press for actual ap- plication of severe penalties by the league against Italy for ten days, so that he would have time to work. Layals conference with Mgr. Maglione was reported to be aimed at obtaining the cooperation of the Pope in persuading Mussolini to ac- cept a peaceful settlement before in- ternational relations were further embittered.
 There was nothing surprising ir Lavals effort. All along he has been the key man in efforts to ne- gotiate private peace settlement as Anthony Eden of Great Britain has taken the lead in insisting that 1 the league covenant be adhered tC in dealing with Italy's attack or Ethiopia.
 British Help Ethiopia Rome, October 15 - UP) - Dispatches to Rome newspapers to- day said that Great Britain is col laborating with Ethiopia officially to rush tanks, airplanes and ann intuition to a beleaguered Ethiopian army on the southern front.
 Popolo Di Roma said four fast Whippet tanks already have been transported to Jijiga from the Brit ish Somaliland port, Berbera, six airplanes are on the Berbera docks and that a British colonel, a new Lawrence of Arabia" sailed yes terday from zeila for Alden, Arabia to arrange transportation of arms for Ethiopia across the Red Sea. A sloop laden with machine guns was confiscated off the French l Somaliland coast by the French pa 1 trol ship Trouyille, Popolo Di Roma said.
 Official spokesmen expressed more distrust than interest in reported efforts in Paris to find a solution to Ethiopian-Italian disagreements through new diplomatic confer ences. It was said officially that there was no intimation of inter- vention lat this time" by the Pope
 Italy Is Determined A front page editorial in La Tri- Buna said Italy is prepared in spite of financial pressure to continue its aggressive policy indefinitely.
 For 13, years the Fascist regime has conducted colossal program of financial and social reorganiza- ton without asking penny ir loan abroad, without imitation and without deflation," the editorial said.
 Gasoline for military purposes can be obtained in new factories l from beet alcohol and charcoal, woo substitutes from animal by-product. and coal from intensively worked mines that may permanently dis place the British product, the news paper added.
 A spontaneous boycott of British goods seemed to be gaining ground Merchants reported that thousands of housewives specify that theil purchases must not be of ritisf manufacture.
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 useful only in small portions of the rocky, canyon cut terrain.
 Philippians seeking to prevent the invaders from reaching water holes established themselves in trenches on hill crests commanding trails and women manned ancient rifles with men whenever Italian troops appeared below.
 Gen. Rodolfo Graziani's forces generally had penetrated 30 miles north of Ualual, the correspondents agreed, but were finding each new step northward interestingly diff cult and costly. The Daily Mail said the irregular troops mustered at Harar, Jijiga and Tomsa by the Dedjazhatch Nasibu numbered more than 100000 and were being strate- gically directed by foreign military experts.
 At Nazibu's headquarters are Gen. Wehib Pasha and Rapid Pashs of Turkey and former German officer, von Loeben.
 Shipments of rifles and ammuni- ton, and even two tanks, it was reported, have reached the gathering Ethiopian army since members oi the League of Nations lifted theil embargo on arms. A special effort is being made to equip advance troops with gas masks. British Warships On Cruise. Alexandria, Egypt, Oct. 15-(UP) Thirty warships of the British Mediterranean fleet left today fol a cruise round the coast, expecting to return this week end.
 Egyptian Bedouins, estimated te number 10000. have offered theii services to defend the country ir event of a clash with Italy, on con- dition that they use their own cus- toms and methods of warfare. There has been daily target prac- tice by the fleet here, and 8 con tinuous procession of troops across the western desert toward the iron. tier of Italian Libya. Most have gone to Mersa Matruh on the coast. May Stop Oil.
 Geneva, Oct. 15-(UP)- Usually trustworthy sources said today that informal conversations had beer opened with responsible representa- ! tives of the Standard oil and Roya Dutch companies with view te possible cessation of oil shipments to Italy. The Russian Petroleum Syndicate and the Angelo-Persiar Company would be expected to joir in any agreement, 1t was said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-15
DAIRY FARMER
 HANGS HIMSELF

North Canton, Conn, Oct. IS - (UP)-Carl Evanston, dairy farm CT, sought since early Sunday when he fled his home clad only in a nightshirt, was found today hang ing from a tree in an orchard near his farm. Members of his family said he had been upset of late over business difficulties. His wife and two sons followed him out of the house but he lost them in the woods. The Sunday morning serv- ice at the North Canton church was cancelled as volunteers search ed the area, two small ponds were drained and bloodhounds failed to follow his trail for any great dis tance.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-15
AUCUSTO ROSS0
 DEFENDS ITALY
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(Cont1nued rom rage lO fulfilled the conditions on which she was submitted to the league.
 Italy has not been the aggressor in frontier incidents.
 Italy has not accepted the league remedies because they did not re- moe the cause of the conflict.
 Italy's alleged aggression in cross ing the frontier was merely a de- fensiye measure against Ethiopian mobilization.
 Italy is merely the latest of a suc- cession of European powers to seek more territory in Africa.
 The closing of other countries to Italian emigration led to congestion at home and need for more room.
 Need for New Markets
 International commercial barriers have crippled Italy's foreign trade creating the need for new markets and new sources of raw materials.
 When Mussolini sent our young men to Africa" Rosso said, "it was DeCduSe 1Ldly lldo tACAC PASS lem of life and security which must be solved; it wsE because, all other methods having failed, the inevita- bla forces of history-of reality permitted no other solution. And the youth of Italy responded to the call, cheerfully and serenely. Why! because they feel-as the whole aa- ton feels-that the vital interests o1 the country need their defense. You may disagree with that assumption but that is the unanimous and deep-rooted conviction of the peo- pie of Italy. And if this conviction be wrong, then it means that moi the Italian government alone but 4 million Italians are mistaken"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-15
CHEF FRIES VERY
 BADLY INJURED
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Abbott avenue. He is also held as coroner's prisoner.
Asket to Leave Club

Abbott avenue. He is also held as a coroner's prisoner.
 Asket to Leave Club
 Deputy Coroner Smyth held a preliminary inquest at the detective bureau this morning. Witnesses examined included Maurice Chaude. president of the Press Club, and the two girls who were with Neville and Murphy when they were asked to leave the club last night because none of the group was a member.
 Fries, who is one of the city's best known characters, had not regained consciousness at the hospital up to this afternoon. He is the famous Willie" whose name was used 50 often in the old Dreshcher and Neck resturant advertisements.
 Refused Service
 Neville and Murphy, accompanied by the two girls, entered the Press Club at about 10 o'clock last night, and asked ro be served. Chaude, noticing that they were not members of the club, Informed them that he would not serve them. They took 1t good-naturedly enough, Chaude said today, and left the place quietly. As they went down. stairs there, was a crash of glass, as one of the party kicked or punched out the glass in the door at the foot of the stairs.
 Fries started to go down stairs, not hearing Chaude telling him to "let it go", that he planned to put in a new door glass anyway. In g few minutes, a passerby ran upstairs to inform Chaude that Fries lay un- conscious on the pavement. The police theory is that Fries hit his head against the pavement when he was either pushed or struck.
 On Danger List
 Fries was taken to the hospital in police car, and his name was placed on the danger list at once. Detectives John Calvin and Joseph Bendler began an immediate inves- tigation of the case, and worked on it till after o'clock this morning, when Neville was booked at head quarters. The investigation was taken up later in the morning by Lieutenant Pollard and Detective Foley.
 Chaude declared today that he could not understand how Fries had been hurt. since the party of four had been well behaved while in the Press Club, and had left quietly when he declined to serve them. They were all sober, he said, ex- cept that one of the two men, ap- peared to have had few drinks.
 The case is now in Coroner Smyth's hands, pending change in Fries condition.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-15
YOUNG THOMPSON
 DIES IN CHAIR
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l6 girls he had attacked. The let ter which Miss Hughes requested be read 10 minutes before death was strictly a love letter." Capt. J. R. Carpenter of the prison guards said. "She said she still loved him." Car penter said, "and hoped his soul would be saved. She asked him to be game.""
 Thompson was convinced of "sal- va.ion." Warden Joseph Ragen, who succeeded Frank D. Whipp, an op- ponent of Capital punishment, at midnight, issued a three-page type- written statement which Thompson hal labored over in pencil form yes- terCay afternoon. The once lustful killer revealed that he was conver- ted to Catholicism by reading two Looks on the religion at the prison after leaving Peoria in a cynical and bitter frame of mind."
 Had Laughed at Religion
 1.-TWO months ago I would have laughed at religion as a guide for imbeciles and superstitious ones afraid of death or hell fire" he wrote. Nov my mind is full of peace. If my faith is enabling me to face death without dread and with joy at the thought of eternal life, why couldnT 1t help your" Thompson's mother and stepfather, MT. and Mrs. Charles Whiteside, and his grandparents, with whom he had lived since a small boy, spent the early evening hours with the condemned youth.
 .iss Hallmark's bruised and brok- en body was found in a Peoria cem- etery ditch June IT. Thompson was arrested on suspicion after several girls revealed secretly to authorities that he had attacked them. When his diary was read to him, he con- fess that he lured the girl into his automobile and beat her when she resisted his advances.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-15
SEARCH FOR PLANE

Boston, October IS - (UP) = Search was started today by Coast Guard craft and an amphibian plane for the 34-foot dragger, John K, with three men aboard. The boat, owned by Ray Kershew of Newbury port, failed to return last night. Food and water inadvertent- ly were left at the dock when the John K. put to sea. A coast guard cutter, three patrol boats, surf boats, and the ernphibian CG-16l searched North Shore waters for the dragger.
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ltaly Sends l7,OOO More Troops To Front
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1FS ih event Of an alian-BritIst fonflicts
 May Go To Egypt
 The Mature division is tempo fofiiv stationed ns zripoli but it is believed it will soon be moved to the Aih1an- Egyptian frontier to join the Asietta division, based at Derna and the Cosseria division, based al Henghase.
 It was learned there has been an important movement of native camel cavalry across the Libyan desert towards the Egyptian fron- tier.
 It was learned the Italians are shipping considerable number oi airplanes, especially bombing planes to Libya.
 It was reported without confrma- ton that eight bombing squadrons or about 50 planes, and group of pursuit planes recently flew to the colony.
 The troop movement to East Africa meanwhile continued un- abated. Sixteen ships are loading for departure this week.
 The s. s. Italia sailed from Na- -ples to-day with 56 officers and 529 soldiers. It will embark an addition al 24 officers and 665 soldiers at Messina.
 Fears of a clash on the Lybian- Egyptian border have been manifest on both sides. It has been intimat- ed that considerable numbers of Italian troops who sailed ostensibly for East Africa were diverted to Lybia.
 The British have landed addition al troops at Alexandria, who are CO., operating in land defense maneu- yers with Egyptian troops.
 United States is Block
 Geneva, Oct. 15-UP0 The league proceeded to-day with the third step of its program to pena- lize Italy, entailing boycott of the 1atter's exports and imports, but found the United States a stumb- ling block in the path of making it complete.
 The economic subcommittee de- cided it would be inadvisable at present to try to shut off oil, coal and copper from Italy, because the United States is the principal pro- ducer of them, and they are not on President Rooseyelt's embargo list as war materials.
 The subcommittee, after examin- ing list of key products, decided to postpone consideration of these principally produced by the United States, and concentrate on products largely controlled by members of the league.
 1t was believed nickel, of which Canada is the principal producer, would be included.
 Not Strong Enough
 Hut drastic as was the leagues campaign, swift and firm as has been it's penal action, belief was growing here that the leagues pres sure on Italy would prove so grad ual and incomplete as to render it almost certain that within a meas urable time the league and the British navy must collaborate to isolate Italy's expeditionary force in East Africa.
 Great Britain has made it plain ! that it would use it's navy only un- der the absolute authority of the league and as an agent of the na- tions making up the league; also with the full consent and support of France and other Mediterranean nations.
 Slow Up Program
 Hesitation by several Latin Amer ican nations to commit themselves immediately to enforcement of
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drastic penalties and the resistance of Austria, Hungary and Albania to them, it is held, may slow up the leagues program.
 Step one of the leagues penal plan, the arms embargo against Italy and lifting of the embargo as applied to Ethiopia, is in force. Bri- tain and Belgium already have lift ed the embargo. Step two, for a financial and credit boycott, was voted yesterday by the penal com- mittee, which in fact is the league, for each member represented at Geneva is on the committee.
 War Rumbles
 London, Oct. 15-(UP)-British quarters were extremely cold to-day to intimations from Paris that Pre- mier Pierre Laval had suggested withdrawal of the British fleet from the Mediterranean as an aid to peace.
 Well-informed quarters professed ignorance of the French request. It was pointed out ernphatically that Britain's attitude has not changed 1t holds that Britain feels the dis pute is entirely in the hands of the league, and Britain has clearly as- sured Italy that her Mediterranean intentions are not aggressive, but purely precautionary.
 Mombasa, Kenya Colony, Oct. IS -U.P)-General Erik De Virgin, of Sweden, retiring chief military adviser to Ethiopia, predicted to- day that Italy would win further military successes before the Ethio- plans were able to draw them into the hills and apply guerilla tactics.
 He praised the fearlesness of Ethiopian warriors but said be- cause of lack of imagination they did not realize the possible effects of modern weapons and so they of ten went to meet a foe when more highly trained trops might hesitate.
 London, Oct. 15-U.P) - Ger many's probable attitude toward the Italo-Ethiopian war will be discuss ed by the British cabinet at its reg ular meeting tomorrow.
 The belief prevails in London that Berlin will maintain its aIoof- ness in much the same manner that the United States is doing. This be- lief is based upon a growing con- viction that Adolf Hitler has been speaking his real mind in his many recent declarations that Germany wishes to maintain peace on the contient.
 Rome, Oct. 15-U.P) - General Pietro Badogio, chief of staff of the Italian armies, arrived at Massawa, Eritrea. last night, a dispatch from Asmara said to-day. He will make a tour of inspection of the war zone.
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chimes in the 4th, 5th, 7th, 9th and 11th districts. Phillips countered with a request that the machines in the 18th, 14th and 18th districts be opened and re-checked.
 Question as to the right of the registrars to carry out both requests without a court order was consider ed by the registrars. It was pointed out that even the opening of the machines, with town chairmen, mo- derators and other officials present, would entail expense which the
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petitioners for the re-check would have to shoulder.
 Phillips May Also Quit.
 MT. Cambigue told the registrars this morning that he would with draw his request. As he was the first one to ask for the relcheck 1t was believed that Alderman Phillips would not press for a recount in the 18th, 1ath and 18th districts. The battle between the two 6. o. D. aldermanic nominees, therefore, is apparently at an end, at least for the present.
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FATAL ACCIDENT

Hartford, Conn, October IS - (UP) = A skull fracture suffered in an accident Saturday caused the death of Martin Rybeck, 25, Thomp- sonville, late yeAterday.