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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-09
MRS.MARKHAM
T0SEEMAY0R

NEW YORK, Sept. 9 G.N.S).
Mrs. Beryl Markham, the blonde
Englishwoman who negotiated the
hazardous eastwest crossing Of
the Atlantic by air alone, was to
be officially honored by the City
of New York today. Mayor La
Guardia was scheduled to receive
her at city hall late in the after
noon.
Yesterday Mrs. Markham had
to abandon a shopping tour be-
cause of the extreme heat and
was ordered to bed in her room at
the Ritz-Carlton Hotel by her ply.
sician. The physician, DR.. A. A.
Moore. said because of the cut on
her head, suffered when he plane
crashed in a Nova Scotia marsh
Friday, all her engagements for
today, except the meeting with
the mayor, were cancelled.
Mrs. Markham was able to pur-
chase only two dresses before her
tour was called off yes.
terday. However. a number of
frocks were sent to her hotel on
She arrived in New
York with no other clothes than
the Stacks and silk shirt she wore
on her flight.
Tomorrow Mrs. Markham will be
the guest at a luncheon of the
Advertising Club Of New York and
on Monday evening members Of
the Canadian Club of New York
will give a testimonial dinner for
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-09
Bullets End Life
Of Noted Tough
In NeU York

NEW YORK, Sept. 9 Q.N.SO.
Tough Jimmy Griffin's amazing
luck ran out today. He was found
shot to death in a cellarway on
West 25th Street.
With fists and guns, Griffin
beat his way through Hell's
Kitchen and the underworld of
the Bronx for many years. With
money and terrorism he had
beaten raps for charges ranging
from robbery to murder in New
York, Pennsylvania and Connec-
ticut.
But his luck ran out. He didn't
have chance after someone had
shot him in the left eye this
morning, then kept shooting until
he had additional bullet holes in
his stomach and heart.
Though tried twice for murder
in New York, and tried on NIL
merouS occasions for robbery,
holdups and extortion, Griffin
only served one prison term.
Police have no clues to Crit.
fins killers, but expressed the
theory the murder was done in
revenge.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-09
Cocktail Gasoline
No Aid 10 Farmer,
Power Farley Told

Use Of cocktail gasoline" as a
means of solving American farm
ers' production and income woes
was termed a blight on scientific
progress technically, economically
and morally by DR.. Gustav Egloff,
director of research Of the Univer-
sal Products Company in a talk to
power conference delegates this
morning.
DR.. Egloff claimed the powerful
move in the United States to
utilize corn for the manufacture of
ethyl alcohol in production Of
motor fuel would add $50 million
dollars annually to the nations
motor fuel bill. Furthermore, he
said. experiments with the new
"alky gasoline" have revealed an
ease Of separating the alcohol
from the gasoline by merely add
ing water to dehydrate.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-09
Reich Plane Turned
Back From n. Y. Safe

NEW YORK, Sept. 8 G.N.SO.
Forced to turn back by leak in
it's Diesel engine cooling system,
the German seaplane, Aeolus,
reached The Azores safely this
morning, the Pan American Air
ways office announced here to-
day.
The plane, headed for Bermuda
on the first leg of a flight to New
York, was 900 miles west of Horta
in the Azores when Capt. H. w.
Won Engel decided to turn back.
Future plans were held up pend
ing repairs.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-09
|. {. {. IS TOLD
RAIL FUTURE
ISHAN
International News Service


Testifying before an Interstate
Commerce Commission hearing at
a reorganization plan for the
Chicago and Northwestern Rail
road, Samuel P. Cady, the roads
general counsel, today refused to
speculate regarding future earn
ings of the line because of pre-
vailing political and financial
conditions" He said:
at Is impossible to forecast
earnings for the future because
this country is in a state Of
political flux and no man can
predict what 1t will bring forth"
The roads reorganization pro-
posal has been carefully worked
out. Cady continued, denying
that it was any stop gap plan"
He termed it the best program
that could be put forward under
existing political and financial
conditions"
Cady said the proposal would
reduce fixed charges from $6,500,-
900 to $4,500,O00; reduce interest
rates from Az per cent to 3 is
per cent; cut long term obliga-
tions by 100000, 900, and at the
same time would not reduce par
value of the roads outstanding
bonds.
The proposal would replace all
of the roads mortgages with a
single new mNStgaSe which would
the road the right to abandon
and unity service as it saw fit.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-09
BLACK LEGION
TRIAL WAITS
ON JURY

OFT, Sept. 9 I.N.S).
Threatening to send officers to
pick up jurymen at random I'm.
less a jury is selected soon for the
mass murder trial Of IL Black
Legionnaires, Circuit Court Judge
Joseph A. Moynihan today ordered
new panel of 300 prospective
jurors to be summoned Friday.
Three panels of 239 names al
ready have been exhausted. and
when the end of the third panel
was reached yesterday with only
nine tentative jurors seated Judge
Moynihan adjourned the trial I'M
til Friday so new jurymen could
be summoned. He said:
eff we can't get jury from
the next panel, I'll send officers
into the highways and byways
to summon jurors"
Michigan authorities today
slapped back at Ohio authorities
for their refusal to arrest Virgil
Effinger, reputed national COM
mander of the Black Legion,
while Michigan sought his extra
dition.
AS a result, James E. Johnson,
cashier of a brewery here, was
released from custody. He had
been detained on request of Pc
lice Chief Eugene Weatherly, OF
Cincinnati. who said he had a
warrant charging johnson with
removing mortgaged property.
The prosecutors office here re-
fused to issue a fugitive warrant
so Johnson could be returned to
Cincinnati. Inspector William
Dwyer, of the auto squad, said
Assistant Prosecutor Garfield A.
Nichols told him the fugitive war
rant was not issued because Ohio
authorities had not acted on a
similar warrant for Effinger.
unTE AMEPIcAA-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-09
F aces Staying Charge
After 6-Year Hunt

SALEM, N. J.-Henry D. Green,
80 years old, who allegedly par
ticipated in the pay roll Staying Of
William ]. MacCausland here six
years ago, has been returned from
Los Angeles and lodged in the
Salem county jail.
Detective Sergt. VIM. P. Kelly
of the State police said confes-
sion has been obtained from
Green.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-09
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-09
Don Rae Is Victor
In She'll CUP Race

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 9 G.N.s),
Roger Don Rae, the parachute
jumping aviator, returned to his
Alhambra (Cal.) home today fully
consoled after winning the post.
poned shell cup speed race here,
the last event in the national air
races.
Don Rae. who took third in the
Thompson trophy dash and sec
ond in the parachute lump.
zoomed around the 50-mile course
in his Rider racer at an average
speed of 225.544 miles per hour.
S. j. Whitman, of Oshkosh, Wis,
was second with an average of
223.56l miles.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-09
MussoIini and KinQ
Plan 10 Visit Ethiopia

ROME, Sept. 9 GN.SJ.-A re-
port that Premier MuSSolini and
King Emperor Victor Emmanuel
plan trips to Ethiopia was given
substance today when it was
learned three luxuriouSly fitted
railroad cars have been ordered
for service on the Djibouti.Addis
Ababa railroad, only railway in
Ethiopia.
The King is expected to go to
Ethiopia within the next go days
and MuSsolini at a later date.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-09

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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-09
Gen. Joseph Crazy
Is Sent 10 Preside

Brig. Gen. Joseph P. Gracy,
commanding the Coast Artillery
School at Fort Monroe, Va, yester-
day was ordered transferred to
command of the Ninth Coast Ar
tillery district at the Preside, San
Francisco, the War Department
announced.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-09
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-09
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-09
RoyaIist Leaders Die

LONDON, Sept. 8 G.N.sO.
Madrid correspondents today were
permitted to telephone to London
news Of the deaths of Gen. Luis
Mario and Count De Los Moriles,
outstanding Spanish monarchists.
The latter was a multi-millionaire
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-09
Notre Dame Men
Fiqht Red Threat

CHICAGO, Sept. 9 dN.SO.
Eighteen thousand Notre Dame
men, making up IS alumni clubs,
today were girding for a fight "to
the finish" against the red men.
ace Of Communism.
According to James Armstrong,
alumni secretary, the whole $4,000
Notre Dame alumni body will be
enlisted in the battle to stop sub
versive forces from attacking the
State, the church and the home.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-09

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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-09

.VOTE AMERICAN
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-09

VOTE AMERICAN
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-08-05
DEMO WOMEN ARE TO START
 MEETINGS NOW
First Session of Present Year to Be Held at
 Douglas Monday

The Democratic Women's Club will hold their next meeting in Douglas Monday evening at 8:3O o'clock in the City Hall, according to an announcement made today by Mrs. Emil Krause, president of the Club.
 This is the first meeting of the year to be held in Douglas accord ing to Mrs. Krause and a large turn out of the members and friends is expected.
 For those who do not have cars to drive to Douglas the regular bus leaves Juneau at 8:15 o'clock giving ample time for the opening of the meeting
 A talk relative to the procedure at National conventions will be part of the program
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-08-05

They are Gen. James G. Steese, former head of the Alaska Road Commission, and Hawley Sterling, Assistant Chief Engineer of the commission.
 The General is bound for the Interior to look over mining op- tions in the Nabesna region and MT Sterling is returning to the Interior to carry on field work for the commission the balance of the summer.
 Sterling and Gen. Steese were associated in road commission man. agement years ago and later spent several years in Colombia, South America, together in mining ven lures. The General now lives in Texas where he is interested, pri- marily, in oil.
 While the Alaska was in port last night he was a guest at the home of Chief Engineer Ike P Taylor of the Alaska Road Com mission, and Mrs. Taylor.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-08-05
DUFRESNE BACK FROM INTERIOR
 GAME SURVEY
Present Regulations Appear to Be Meeting General
 Approval, He Says

After a several weeks. trip dur ing which he looked over game matters in the Interior and the Westward, contacting game war dens and others interested in wild life in the Territory, Frank Du- fresne, Executive Officer of the AL aska Game Commission, returned to Juneau this morning on the Yukon.
 The present program is working out well, he reported, and appears to be meeting with general approv- al Several suggestions were made in various communities for adjust ment in regulations to suit the particular needs of those commun- itieS, he said, and much informa- tion which will be of value to the Commission in its future activi- ties was obtained, the official said.
 MT Dufresne was Fairbanks dur ing the Senatorial hearing there and heard the various witnesses give their views on game and trap ping conditions. It was brought out, he reported, that trapping is about the only industry that the Indians can turn too for a livelihood in many parts of the Interior.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-08-05
HEAVY LOSSES
 ARE SUSTAINED
 CHINA FIGHTING
Kwangsi and Yunnan Troops Clash at Yanlam
 -Revolters Seek Bribe

HONGKONG, Aug. 5. = Reports from Canton said heavy casualties have occurred in a battle between Kwangsi and Yunnan troops at Yanlam.
 The artillery of the Central gov ernment is also reported to have brought down Kwangsi military airplane near Kiyang in South Honan.
 One Kwangsi regiment is reported to have deserted to the Nanking cause at Chuenchow in the north ern part of the province.
 Leaders of the Kwangsi sporadic revolts against the Ranking Gov ernment are reported to be offer ing to leave the country for a bribe of five million dollars.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-08-05
FUNERAL RITES HELD
 FOR TOM M'MULLEN

Thomas Phillip McMullen, pion- eer Juneau restauranteur and old time Alaskan who passed away at St. Anns Hospital Monday morning was buried this morning after ser vices at the Church of the Nativ- ity, Rev. w. G. LaVasseur offic- iatingo
 Pallbrearers were: J. J. Connors ST, Lockie MacKinnon, Jack Mo- Closkey, John Beck, John Pastl and J. L. Gray Interment was in the Pioneers plot in Evergreen Cemetary.
 MT. McMullen leaves his widow a step-daughter, Mrs. Otto Ander- son, and step-son, William AL exander, in Juneau, as well as three sons and two daughters in the States.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-08-05
MANY NOTABLES ON NORTH SEA DUE IN FRIDAY
Stanley Morgan Returning to Barrow Wolf Con-
 trol Expert Aboard

The Indian Bureau vessel North Star is due in Juneau Friday, en- route to the Arctic, according to Charles w. Hawkesworth, Assistant Director of the Bureau here. The vessel was at Wrangell this morn ing and after making several stops is expected here some time Friday.
 Several persons going to duties north of Circle are aboard. Among them are Sergeant Stanley Morgan of the U. s. Signal Corps station at Point Barrow and his family Sergeant Morgan, the man who sent out first word of the Will Rogers Wiley Post crash at Barrow, is re- turning to his post after years leave in the States.
 Harlan Fl. Gubser, who is enroute to Kotzebue where he will have charge of trapping predatory ani- mals, particularly wolves which have been killing reindeer in that section, also is aboard the vessel. Gubssr IS coming here to confer with Frank Dufresne, Executive Of- ficer of the Alaska Game Commits sion, Indian Bureau and Territor- ial officials relative to campaign against the wolves. He was for merly engaged in similar work in the Territory for three years and the last four has been doing the same kind of work in Idaho.
 Another aboard the North Star is Dr. Raymond w. Maurer, Indian Bureau physician from Metlakatla, who is being transferred to Point Barrow to take charge of the for mer Presbyterian Mission hospital which has been taken over by the Indian Bureau. He takes the place of Dr. Henry Griest, the widely known Presbyterian missionary. Dr. Maurer, who formerly lived in De- troit, is accompanied by his wife.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-08-05
AUXILIARY OF LEGION HOLDS
 DEL. ELECTION
Representatives Are Chos. en for Big Convention
 Here Next Month

At a business meeting held last evening in the Dugout, the Am erican Legion Auxiliary elected delegates to the convention to be held here on September 2, 3, 4 and 5.
 Delegates elected were; Mrs, AltN Newman, Mrs. E. M. Policy, Mrs. Lucia Betts, Mrs. Edith Bavard, Mrs. Edith Sheelor, Miss Paul Hudon, Mrs. Esther Gullafson, Mrs. Florence Manville, Mrs Helen Bern hofer, Mrs. Oscar Olson, and Mrs. Fred Sabey.
 For alternates the following were chosen: Mrs. Ethel Anderson, Mrs. Bess Reeder, Mrs. Lucille Stone. house, Mrs. Sybil Bacon, Mrs. Dave Davenport, Mrs. J. R. Elliott, Mrs. Dolly Kaufmann, Mrs. Betty Me- Cormick, Mrs. A. zenger. Mrs. Lor- raine Johnson, and Mrs. A. E. Karnes.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-08-05
PAA ELECTRA
 LEAVES HERE
 THIS MORNING
Plane Enroute to F airbanks Has Aboard Nine Pas
 sengers from Juneau

The PAA Electra took off for Fairbanks from the PAA airport at l1;30 o'clock ths forenoon with a full load Passengers were Charles E. Bunnell Mrs. Wiley Post, Mrs J. E. Crosson, Ira Joralman, w. G. King, H. J. Mesta, James Truitt and MT. and Mrs. Murray Stuart. The flight had been postponedk fir o m yesterday afternoon to await the arrival of the Alaska with pilot Joe CrosSon and several of the passen- gers. Co-pilot on the trip is Jerry Jones.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-08-05
MARY STERLING RETURNS

Mary Sperling, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Harry Sperling, returned to her home in Juneau on the Yukon after an extended visit in Lawing with MT. and Mrs. William Sherman. MT Sherman is District Ranger in the Seward area and MT. Sperling is Administrative As sistant in the headquarters office of the Forest Service here.
 Harry, Jr., the young Sperling son who has been at the Y M. c. A. boys camp near Seattle, is leaving Seattle Saturday, enroute home
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-08-05

(COntlnueQ rom rage LpeJ ment, he had been First Sergeant of the Medical detachment at Chil- koot Barracks since April, 1885. Mrs Stone was from Washington, the Stones having been in Alaska for little more than a year. Ser geant McWain leaves relatives in kentucky, he was serving for his third term in Alaska.
 It is believed the accident oc- cured about an hour after the party left the post. They were seen by no one after leaving. No reason for the accident is known, the best guess being that the boat overturned somehow, for it was unquestionably an overloaded boat The boat was owned by Sergeant Lawliss. Recovery of the bodies is hardly expected unless they float in ten days or so.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-08-05
SYKES RETURN,
 HUNTING TRIP
Party of Four Arrive on Alaska for Second
 Visit to North

H. c. Sykes, broker from Engle- wood, N. J., accompanied by Mrs. Sykes, H. c. Sykes, Jr., and Wal ter H. Sykes. III, arrived in Ju- neau last evening on the steamer Alaska and are now registered at the zynda Hotel
 This is MT. Sykes second visit to Alaska having been here before on a big game hunting and fishing expedition. The party will leave tomorrow on the Leota, Capt. T.. M. Bixby. on fishing and hunt ing cruise in nearby waters and to the Westward. They expecV to return about the middle of Sep tember.
 A. E. Housman, who died recent ly, became classic" with his first book of poems, "A Shropshire Lad"
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-08-05
Former Police
 Chief Charged
 in Kidnap Case
Ordered Dismissed from Department -Allega-
 tions Made Public

ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug 5.-Thom- as Brown, former St. Paul Chief of Police, is charged in a Police De- partment order dismissing him as a detective, with actual participa- tion in the conspiracy to kidnap William Hamm, Jr., and Edward G. Bremen, both wealthy St Paul citizens.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-08-05
Couldn't See It, There Alright But Wow, It Was

CHAUTAUQUA, N. Y., Aug. 5.-While more than 1000 per sons were listening to George Britton, operatic singer, last night, a skunk walked onto the stage in the open air audi torium and soon after there was peculiar but strong OdOr.
 BrittOn, who was singing a spiritual, suddenly stopped, then broke into:
 q Got Plenty of NOthin'."
 The skunk scurried for the woods.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-08-05
OLD TILLICUMS
 SAIL WESTWARD ABOARD ALASKA
Gen. Steese and Hawley Sterling Together Again
 After Many Years
ACROSS

Friends of many years standing were joined here when the Alaska arrived in port last night and today they probably are having a good fashioned reunion as the steam CT carries them to the Westward.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-08-05
SHEPARD BACK

John G. Shepard, Assistant En- gineer- Inspector for PWA, returned to Juneau on the Yukon after an inspection trip to Valdez and Cor dova where public works projects are under way.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-08-05
MISS GAULT LEAVES

Miss Elizabeth Gault, who has been visiting her parents in Skag- way, left for Seward on the Alaska enroute to Palmer. where she will teach during the coming school term.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-08-05
ARE ENROUTE HERE

N. K. Jensen and wife are com ing to Juneau, passengers aboard the steamer Victoria.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-08-05
MISS GRAY HOME

Miss Iris Gray, teacher of music in Oregon State College, arrived on the Alaska for a brief visit with her parents, MT. and Mrs J. L. Gray.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-08-05
RETURNS HOME

Mrs. w. P. Scott returned to her Juneau home aboard the Alaska after several months visiting in the States.