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

economic interest of many, rather
than the cupidity of a few.
James C. Bonbright, of the New
York State Power Authority, and
William E. MoSher, of Syracuse
University, presented an Ameri-
can paper assailing the bankers
and the lawyers. They praised
the policy of the National Admin
iStration to set up Federal power
projects as "yardstickS" in a drive
to compel private companies to
lower rates, and cited dropping
rates as results.
Against the Bonbright-M oSher
argument was presented a paper
by John E. Zimmerman, president
of the giant United Gas Improve
ment Company. Zimmerman con-
demned the Federal "yardstick"
program as inaccurate and unfair.
He commended that the Govern
ment was poking it's hands too
deeply into private industry in
the power field.
Few Agree
Only a scattered few of the
papers presented held with the
Zimmerman argument that the
Government should maintain a
strictly hands-off policy in the
power industry, notably those pre-
sented for China and Chile. In
these two countries, gas and cleo.
trio industries are almost entirely
privately owned.
A review of the papers dis
cussed today showed that, as in
America, private ownership and
operation of utilities characterized
early development in most coun-
tries, but now has been, or is be-
ing supplanted by rigid regula-
ton and, in most countries, by
active government participation
in the industry.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-09
HOME IS PLACE
FOR WOMEN,
SAY BRIT0NS
English Guests Think
Wife, However, Must
Be Accomplished

Two Englishwomen sat in the
jefferson room of the Mayflower
Hotel yesterday talking with the
press-one believed that the mar.
ried woman's place is in the home,
and the other believes that women
can be good electricians.
The first is Mrs. Gertrude Ruth
Zioni de Ferranti, widow of DR.. Sc
bastian Zioni de Ferranti, de-
scribed as the Edison of England,
and the other is Miss Caroline Has
lett, director of the Electrical Asso.
citation for Women. Both of them
are delegates to the Third World
Power Conference.-The only wom-
en- out of some 5000 delegates.
Noted Feminist
Mrs. Ferranti is a sweet motherly
woman who years ago took an in
tereSt in the employment of women
in her husbands electrical en-
cheering corporation and factory.
Wages? No, she doesn't know
anything about that, but she does
know about the rules that she es-
tabliShed when girls were first en-
ployed in her factory before the
war. The rules were strictly en-
forced, and they were.
]. Girls must not wear wooden
clogs to work.
2. Girls must not wear shorts to
work.
3. Girls cannot keep their jobs
after they are married.
81 don't think women should
be employed if they are married.
If they are married, the home
is their work. Home, husband
and children are their work.
That's what they marry for"
The other woman has organized
a school for educating girls in
electricity, making them fit to
take up careers in the electrical
industry.
Use More Power
Miss Haslett's students leave
school prepared to advise women
on the use of electricity, to
encourage them completely to
electrify their homes, to demon
strate electrical appliances, and
the like-everything that tends
to decrease the "drudgery" Of
houSework.
Miss Haslett, who believes that
every home, everywhere, should
be completed electrified, said:
Long ago, before the war, I
saw electricity as a great force,
the greatest thing yet, for the
emancipation of women from
the drudgery of house work.
And so I organized the school.
1t was hard shedding at first,
but within the last few years,
we have made rapid progress"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-09
PLOT SUSPECT
CAPTURED

CHICAGO, Sept. 9 G.N.SO.
Trapped by ten Federal agents at
his suburban Evanston home,
Frank R. Thomas, 36, employee of
an insurance company, today was
held in connection with the at
tempt to extort $4,000 from two
officials of his firm.
Thomas was seized last night
after being handed a dummy"
package by his 14-year-old son,
who was seen to remove it from
a railroad station locker where it
had been placed in keeping with
directions in one of the extortion
letters.
The officials threatened are H.
R. Kendall, of Evanston and r.
G. Lamberson, Oak Park, Ill.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-09
DEPOT A BANQUET HALL

Washingtonians would never rec
ognize the familiar waiting room
at the Union Station which today
has been transformed into a huge
banquet hall to accommodate dele
gates to the World Power Confer
ence, ranking Federal officials,
members of the Diplomatic Corps
and leaders of local and national
civic, social, scientific and engi-
neering groups who will attend the
banquet Thursday night.
Approximately 5000 persons will
be present.
A complete Encouragement of
the inside of the station and a
reorganization of the system of
handling traffic outside has been
effected, Morris l.. Cooke, chair
man of the conference executive
committee in charge of the plans,
said.
Guests will assemble in the Pres
ident's reception room at the east
end of the Hall of Transportation.
They will be escorted to their
places at the 300 tables by young
Washingtonians acting as ushers.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-09
KNOXOPENSUP
CAMPAIGN
IN WEST
Declares u. S. worst
Managed Business
In the Country"

COKATO, Mimi, Sept. 9 GIN.
SO.-Col. Frank Knox, Republi.
can vice presidential nominee,
opened a whirlwind campaign
tour through the West today with
another piping indictment Of
Administration policies.
Accusing the Government Of be-
ing the "worSt-managed business
in the country" Knox declared:
"Yet it is undertaking to
manage the business of every
body else"
He divided the activities of the
Roosevelt administration into
two classes, conceding that one,
which includes the securities,
stock exchange, banking and
Civilian Conservation Corps meas
ures have done much good.
Must Free Enterprise
OF the other class, he said:
'1n all history the efforts Of
Government to substitute the
arbitrary rule Of RECOMMENDATION
for free enterprise have laid a
bIighting hand on mans eco.
nomic progress. Through all his
tory such efforts have been one
gigantic flop.
"In every case it has finally
ended in a new form of govern
ment; the displacement of the
government responsible for the
situation. We have an OppOr-
tunity next November to get rid
of this one, before it completely
destroys US.
SOLUTION EASY
"Some Of the farm problems
can be solved by wise legislation.
Some of them would have been
solved long before this by wise
legislation Of the present Admin
istration if that Administra-
ton had ever stopped running
around in circles long enough to
think the problem out"
Winding up an excoriation Of
the AAA and other agricultural
plans of the Administration, Col
onel Knox said:
"DOeS this mean the Admin
iStration is deliberately trying to
ruin the dairy industry, or any
other industry? Not at all. An
administration that is trying as
hard as this one to stay in of.
flee is not trying to diSpleaSe
any group with as many as q
hundred votes. This Admins
tration is not evil-minded; it is
simpIe-minded. 1t is not DELHI
erately destroying industry; it
is just not looking where it is
going. 1t is not Intentionally
burning the house down; it is
just little boy playing with
matches"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-09
EXPECT STORM
TO STOP HEAT

Summer continued to play a
return engagement today after
the mercury had reached a maxi
mum of 81 degrees yesterday, and
a high humidity made Washing
ton Swelter.
During the night the tempera-
ture dropped to only 70 degrees,
then started to climb, standing
at Is at 8 o'clock.
The Weather Bureau, however,
expects thunder storms today will
hold the temperature down below
the maximum of yesterday.
VOTE AMERIcAN-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-09
Goodrich Will Build
New Plant Oaks, Pa

NEW YORK, Sept. 9 GN.sJ.
B. F. Goodrich Company today
announced plans to construct a
tire plant at Oaks. Pa, and
awarded the contract to Robert
E. Lamb and Company, Philadel-
phia, a New York Evening Jour
nal story stated today.
The Journal said officials were
silent on the size and cost of the
new mill, construction of which
will be started Immediately.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-09
.Enraged Ex-Boxer
Fires Gun at Kin

WILKES-BARRE, Pa, Sept. 9
G.N.SD.-Enraged at failure of an
attempted reconciliation with his
wife, Joseph Mattolo, 43, former
boxer, yesterday shot and Sc
riously wounded his Sister-in-law,
Mrs. Lucy Tedesco. Mattolo,
known in the ring as pep
O'Brien," fled in a stolen car. Mat
tolo, police said, blamed Mrs. Ted
esco for his wife'S estrangement.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-09

The speakers will have a Sepa-
rate roStrum to which each will be
escorted by an honor guard of Ma
rine sergeants who will carry the
Stars and Stripes and the flag of
the country of each speaker in
turn. A military musical ceremony
will introduce each speaker.
Victor A. L. Mallet, councillor of
the British Embassy, will attend
in place of Sir Ronald Lindsay,
who is out of town, while Secretary
of the Interior Harold L. Ickes will
represent the United States Gov
eminent.
-VoTE AMERICAN
Lost Arctic Bird
BRADSHAW, Neb. O.N.SO.-A
checkup with various scientists
has apparently established that
strange, stork-like bird which re-
manned several days near this city
was an "avocet," native of the
north polar region. They some.
times fly PARKWAY south, and it
is believed this one must have
gotten lost.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-09
Pwa Engineer Named

Public Works Administration to-
day announced the appointment
of Harry j. McNerney as State en-
gineer for Missouri, to succeed Will
liam Spann, resigned. McNerney,
whose home is in Philadelphia, has
been with PWA over two years.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-08-11
PLANE CRASH
 TO BE PROBED
 BY BREWSTER
Inspector to Go to Scene of Wreckage ge-Reward
 to Be Divided

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. H. Hugh H. Brewster, Aeronautics Inspector for Alaska, is expected to arrive here sometime today to con- duct an official investigation into the crash of the Arthur F. Hines plane, nearly year ago.
 The plane was found recently by John Hajdukovich, Panama Cross ing trading post operator, Bill Mo Conn and Carl Tveten, while on a prospecting trip. The bodies of the party of four aboard, Pilot Hines, MT. and Mrs. John Lonz and AL ton Nordale, all of Fairbanks, were found in the wreckage of the plane which burned after crashing.
 The reward of $1,000 offered for locating the wreckage, on the Healy River slope, will be divided equally among the finders, it is announced
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-08-11
RACE FEELING
 RUNNING HIGH
 ALABAMA AREA
Negro Attempts to Kldnap White Baby from Crib
 Shots Are Fired

ANNISTON, Alabama, Aug. H. Race feeling is high here today after a gun fight in which three whites were wounded while hunt ing a negro accused of trying to kidnap white baby from it's crib.
 Shotgun fire met a small body of searchers in the negro settle ment last night when they ap- preached a certain house and the trouble was on
 Today posse of 200 continued to hunt for the man whose asserted abduction attempt is said to have been frustrated by the child S mother.
 The would-be abductor is re- ported to have dropped the baby when the mother struck the negro with a hammer
 The search this afternoon broad ened to include the shotgun wield- CTS.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-08-11
FAIRBANKS TO GREET SOVIET
 PLIERS THERE
Among Welcoming Group Will Be L Lavery, Armi-
 stead, Rescue Heroes

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. H. Mayor E. B. Collins is heading the delegation representing the City of Fairbanks and Chamber of Com merce which will officially welcome the two Russian fliers when they arrive here today, as scheduled.
 A reception will be held in their honor upon arrival in Fairbanks.
 William L. Lavery, now pilot, and Clyde A. Armistead, who in 1884 flew as mechanics from Fair banks with Pilots Levanevisky and Slipnev and assisted in the rescue of 101 Russians from the Arctic ice floe, will participate in the welcome.
 Lavery is now head of the Gen. tral Alaska Airways and he will fly plane out to meet the Russians on the Juneau to Fairbanks flight
 Armistead is an official of the Alaska Air Motors Service He has telegraphed the fliers in Juneau that the facilities of his plant will be at their disposal while in this city.
 After the rescue of the Rus sians from the ice foe, Lavery and Armistead were given a trip to Rus sia and return here, at the exepnse of the Soviet government, and ir Moscow both were decorated with the Order of Lenin and given life pensions for their work
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-08-11
PLIERS DRINK
 THEIR S0DAS,
 NO INT0xICANT
Surrounded By Beer Drink CTS, Soviet Aces Stick
 to Soft Drin ks

American Olympic athletes may train oh Champagne, but Russian aviators train on ice cream sodas according to evidence obtained in Ia Juneau cafe last night.
 Surrounded by beer drinkers, the Russian fliers, Sigismund Levan- evisky and Victor I. Levchenko, who brought their plane down in Juneau late yesterday afternoon, followed the Soviet precept of discouraging alcoholic beverages and stuck to their sodas and cokes.
 Fine looking. lean-cut, and bronze skinned, the fliers were pleasing to meet and impressed an observer as being calm and bit aloof yet retaining under the calm ness the aviator's faculty of being alert to everything that is tran spring around him and of being able to make decisions in a split second. Asked how they liked American women, the Soviet aces smiled as they looked at one another and answered that they really hadn't had time to really appreciate the girls of America. sI
 The climate of Southern Cali fornia is much too hot for com fort, both Russians agree, although Victor Levchenko was originally from the South of Russia. Levan- evisky, on the other hand, was born and has lived in Moscow most of his life. The climate in Alaska, as far as living conditions are con- cerned, is just about right the visit ors stated. However, the Alaska climate isn't so favorable for fly ing. Pilot Levanevisky has done a great deal of Arctic flying in Si- beria; so he is already familiar with the types of climate he will encounter in the Territory.
 Levanevisky is already wellknown nere Tor the part he played ln rescuing the Chelyuskin Expedition of Russian scientists who were marooned on an ice foe in the Beriflg sea in 1883.
 In reply to a2query about whether the two days rations now carried by the plane were to be the total provisions carried on the Arctic part of the flight, the airmen in- formed the assembled party that they would pick up more supplies lat Fairbanks, the next stop after IJuneau.
 1 The big 8-place plane, which is owned by the Russian Government, will be used after the flight for air service in Siberia.
 While in Juneau, the fliers were entertained by several Juneau Rus sians headed by V. V. Solovieff, who made the acquaintance of Lev anevisky on his trip here in 1883
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-08-11
DIMOND HOLDS MASS MEETING
 AT FAIRBANKS
Auditor Boyle and Attorney General Truitt Also
 Participate

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. l1.-- Delegate Anthony J. Dimond, Ter- ritorial Auditor Frank A. Boyle and Attorney General James s. Fruit addressed a big Democratic rally here last night, pointing out the outstanding accomplishments of the Roosevelt Administration nation ally and also the distinctly inter ested, helpful and constructive pol icy it has favored Alaska with.
 The three Democratic candidates will speak in Nenana tonight, then travel to Anchorage, Palmer, Sew ard, Valdez and Cordova. Dele gate Dimond expects to reach Ju- neau about August 24.>
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-08-11
HERE ON SURVEY OF FOX,
 MINK FARMING

pr. w. A. Lloyd, principal Agri- culturist for the Western Division of the Extension Service, Depart ment of Agriculture, arrived in Juneau last night on the Forest Service vessel Forester after an inspection of fur farms in South east Alaska. He was accompanied by Dr. Jules B. L,oftus, Territorial veternarian, and Lorin T. Oldroyd of the Extension Department of the University of Alaska.
 Today the party was out with pr. Loftus inspecting various fox and mink farms in this vicinity. Tomorrow he expects to take the Yukon to the Westward for furth- CT study of fur farming.
 Dr. Lloyd is making the survey in conjunction with the projected program of the Department of Ag- ricuuture for fur farming promotion in Alaska.
 In an interview today Dr. Lloyd said that the Department of Agri- culture was particularly interested in fur farming development in AL aska at this time and that it was his opinion that an experiment station or laboratory in Southeast Alaska, in the heart of the indus try. would be one of the first steps necessary in furthering the indus try and aiding the fur farmers oi the north.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-08-11
SOVIET ACES
 ARRIVE HERE,
 HOME BOUND
Airmen from Russia Land Here Last Evening
 Greeted by Crowd

Blazing a route for a proposed air service between the United States and Moscow, across Alaska and Siberia, two intrepid Soviet aviators, Sigismund Levanevisky and Victor I. Levchenko, arrived in Ju- neau from the south at 5:46 o'clock yesterday afternoon, official time by the Signal Corps, United States Army.
 As the big monoplane was sighted in the air down Gastineau Channel rush was started to the waterfront by citizens, young and old.
 The plane circled the city twice then up the channel toward Men denhall Glacier, did a graceful sideslip, finally came down easily near the Government dock, then taxied to the PAA hangar, waved in by attaches.
 An Air EUent
 Here was an air event Juneau ties had been waiting for.
 But there was quiet prevail ing, only the clicking of cameras as shots" were taken by the score Whether the purpose of the visit the fliers themselves or the beauti- full craft. awed the hundreds on the float, is perhaps a question For there was quiet.
 Then, as the big propeller stopped turning, Leychenko, from the cock pit, in good English, queried:
 ''Is there anyone here who can speak Russian?"
 Silence Broken
 The silence was broken, as the two tired but smiling fliers beamed upon the crowd. quickly responses were given to the visitors from nearly two dozen Russians.
 One interpreter climbed aboard the plane, exchanged grcetin $ in Russian and the talkfest began.
 4fOb <1b pCttG OCttu
 Newsmen were on the plane, too and when the query was asked How long were you down at Bella Bella and when did you take off for Ketchikan," to the general sur prise, Levanevisky replied in ex- cellent English, sharp and curt, I've were not down at Bella Bella" anc quickly recovering, spoke in Rus sian to the interpreter:
 We went down at Goose Island not Bella Bella.7
 Further questioning brought thu information that they were abou 75 or 80 miles north of Bella Bella B. C., last Saturday afternoon about ? o'clock when low viSibilit, caused them to descend to the wa. ter at Goose Island. When tn, ceiling lifted, they again took of but were forced down again by low visibility, heavy rain and mast, wind at Swanson Bay.
 Keep Long Vigil
 The two fliers remained in theil plane on the bay Saturday nigh Continued on Page Twc)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-08-11
AMERICA GETS
 COLD MEDAL IN
 OLYMPIC EVENT
Japan Swimmers Go to New Triumphs- 5. Row
 CTS Not So Hot

BERLIN, Aug. 11.-Japan's great est swimmers today moved to new triumphs as the tenth days pro- gram of the Olympic Games pro- ceeded.
 The day was also marked by Americas first gold medal in the aquatic competition and the with drawal in high dudgeon of Perus entire delegation.
 While America was l, 2 and 3 in the springboard diving finals, with Dick Degener, Marshall Wayne and Al Green finishing in that order, Japan snared the mems 800- meter swimming relay in record breaking time, also the women's 200-meter breast stroke.
 Peru withdrew as the result of the International Football Feeder ation's ruling that their to 2 vic- tory over Austria last Saturday would have to be replayed. Peru, by withrawing, subsequently, for feited the match to Colombia and it is indicated the latter will with draw in sympathy with Peru.
 The opening of the rowing com petition saw the United States make a sad showing, tying in fourth place in the coxswains race. The heat was won by Germany, defending champion.
 In the scull races, Dan Barrow, of Philadelphia won but there were protests immediately involving charges of professionalism.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-08-11
4TH DIVISION
 FOR DEMOCRATS

Frank A. Boyle, Territorial Audi tor, in radiogram received by friends here today said that from his conversations and observations in Fairbanks and other section of the Fourth Division, the entire Di- vision looked like it would go strong ly Democratic in the coming elec- tions, September 8.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-08-11

Taxing from the PAA hangar and float at exactly 12 o'clock noon today, the Soviet fliers, Sigismund Levanevisky and Victor I. Lenchen- ko, in their big 8-pasenger mono plane, pontoon equipped, bid good bye to Juneau and started on the next leg of their flight from the United States to Moscow.
 The fliers taxiied down the chan nel, turned up to near the Doug las Island Bridge, circled on the water several times, then gave the plane the gun" and were off, leaving a wake of foam and went into the air at 12:06 o'clock this afternoon.
 The plane gradually reached alti- tude and when in the air over IDuPont, circled around. came back and flew over the city and was soon off at speed of ITO miles an hour toward Lynn Canal.
 Proposed Route
 The fliers intend to fly up Lynn Canal to either White Pass or the old Dyea Pass, then follow the PAA air route into Fairbanks along the chain of lakes that will afford landing in case of emergency.
 The fliers were extended farewell greetings just prior to their de- parture by Mayor l. Goldsetin. Both expressed their sincere appreciation for the courtesies received while here and said that all Alaskans had treated them very nicely.
 We will never forget the court esies Juneau has extended to us" Pilot Levanevsiky said. He has been in Alaska on two previous occasions and he said it was always a pleas ure to return.
 If we come through again and if a regular air service is ever established to Moscow via Alaska we will always remember the help Alaskarls have given us," he said, talking through an interpreter to Mayor Goldstein.
 Contact Established
 Immediately the plane was in the air contact was established both by the Signal Corps and PAA and the Weather Bureau prepared to dispatch bulletins every IS min- utes.
 The plane, while in Juneau was serviced by Gordon Graham and Lloyd Jarman, mechanics at the PAA hangar. A magneto on the right side of the motor was not functioning properly and this was attended to, together with the other serving. Two hundred and seventy gallons of gas were pumped aboard he plane during the forenoon.
 Excellent weather conditions for flying prevail along the entire .oute from Juneau to Fairbanks. disability being unlimited and a tail wind aiding the plane.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-08-11
Horsepower and Gas Capacity of Soviet Plane

The Soviet plane carries 431 gallons of gasoline. There were 27O galIone pumped aboard here for the flight to Fairbanks.
 The planes motor has 75O horsepower.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-08-11
Claims 25, ,000 Converts

BIRMINGHAM, Ala-The Rev J. O. Hanes, Southern Methodist evangelist for 29 years, claims 25,- poo converts.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-08-11
MOSCOW FLIGHT
 RESUMED WHEN
 PLANE IN AIR
Big Craft Takes Of from Hangar Exactly at l2
 O'Clock Noon
CIRCLES OVER JUNEAU
 THEN HEADS FOR INT.
Route to Be Followed Is Over PAA Course
 Coodbyes Given

BULLETIN At 3:20 o'clock this afternoon the plane was passing over Tanana Crossing and if the same speed was main tained as on the other part of the route, the fIiers should reach Fairbanks by 4:30 o'clock Juneau time. The weather was most favorable and the tail wind was increasing.