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The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-04-10

said Ross L. Sheely, General Man ager, here enroute to Washington for conference with Administra- tion officials. He added that about twenty more colonists are to be taken to Matanuska to replace those who returned to the States.
 Everything is going fine now and the colonists are beginning to ap- preciate what the colony means to them," Sheely said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-04-10
IS OPERATED UPCl.

Mrs. Robert E. Sheldon, wife of the Fairbanks Postmaster, recently underwent a successful operation for appendicitis in the Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle and is convalescing nicely, according to a telegram received by MT. Sheldon.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-04-10

room and did not go into the eau GUS. They were supported by the Anti White faction in Juneau. Not iceable among those remaining out of the caucus was w. H. Caswell of Ketchikan, who yesterday voted with the majority organization.
 Wide interest is shown in the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-04-10
NO PERMANENT ORGANIZATION
 OF 6. Q. P. YET
Republicans Going to List en to Keynote Speech
 Despite Everything
Continued from. Page One)

no convention business would be transacted at tonight's keynote speech meeting at pm, in the OEd Fellows Hall in Douglas.
 Albert White, E. A. Rasmuson, and Mrs. Charles Sey made brief speeches urging all to attend the keynote speech meeting and offered words of praise to Judge H. B. LeFevre, who will make the ad- dress.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-04-10

the minority immediately protest
 ed on grounds that as the Creden-
 tials committee had not acted, no one was authorized to function on such committee. He got the sup port of National Committeeman E. A. Rasmuson, who was again at the convention this morning after being absent yesterday afternoon, Judge Green and Grover Winn MT. White yielded, declaring it didn't make any difference to hom and that he was just trying to speed things up. The question was never put, as mo- ton to recess until ? o'clock was made in the interim and the chair declared it, after commenting that he believed the convention would not be through by Monday unless something was done to move things along.
 Carncry Angle
 Prior to the recess. -1r. White in jected the first open indication that the cannery interests figured in the squabble. He began reading a letter, which he said was from William L. Paul, in which he quoted Paul as saying, "the canner- ies are interested in patronage in Alaska and are figuring on gaining control of the convention"
 Objection was maoe py MT. Faulk- ner, who contended MT. White should present his material to the proper committee The majority leader, with a stack of letters in his hand which he explained dealt at great length with the cannery sit uation, said it didn't make any diff ference to him when he read them but that he was going to do so, but favored recessing at the moment. He then called caucus of First Divis- ion delegates to meet during the re- cess. Only the majority of the dele gation stayed for the caucus at which time it was voted to adopt the unit rule, pending seating of the delegation by the convention. Del egates from Ketchikan. Petersburg md Wrangell remained in the ante
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-04-10
MARTHA SOCIETY

Fried Chicken Dinner = Wednes- day. April 15 Adults, 75c; children under 12, 50 cents. adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-04-10
FRED HEADS ON PARADE,

Tuesday, April 14th, Coliseum Theatre, auspices Pioneers Auxil- iary. GET YOUR TICKETS. ad--.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-04-10
More Colonists For Matanuska, Says Sheely

SEATTLE, April 1O.-Business is booming in the Matanuska Colony,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-04-10
EASTER RREAn

Ask for it at the PEERLESS BAKERY. -ady.
The Washington times., 1936-03-28
D. E. BOY TELLS
FAG|N STORY

Two colored boys were held for
the Grand Jury under $4,000 bond
each in Police Court today in
cases reminiscent of the immortal
Fagin story of Charles Dickens.
Identified by Mrs. Amy Thorn
ton, of the 14O0 block of r st.
N. W., as the boy who had
snatched a pocketbook containing
$72 in money and valuableS from
her on March 10 near her
home, Joseph Gordon. II, colored,
pleaded mot guilty" to a robbery
charge.
Policeman G. v. Moore, of the
Second Precinct, testified that
Gordon signed a statement claim
ing he was forced into the crime
on threat of q beating by a
huskier colored boy, Moreland
Davis, 18, of the 900 block w.
st. N. w.
According to the officer, Gordon
said Davis had lurked in alley
while he snatched the pocketbook
and then had taken its contents
entirely for himself. Davis, the
Fagin Of Gordon's tale, was ar
rested and also charged with rob
berry. He pleaded mot guilty"
The Washington times., 1936-03-28
CURRAN TAKES
JUDGE OATH

Edward M. Curran, former
Assistant Corporation Counsel,
yesterday took the oath of office
and became the youngest judge
ever to sit in Police Court. He
is 80.
In a courtroom crowded with
friends and relatives, Judge Cur
ran took the oath from Associate
Justice Harold M. Stephens, Of
the District Court Of Appeals. His
fellow judges of Police Court
John P. Mcmahon, Isaac r. Hit
and Walter j. Casey-occupied
the bench with Justice Stephens
during the brief ceremony.
Judge Curran succeeded Judge
Gus A. Schuldt. He is gradu-
ate of University of Maine and
of the Catholic University Law
School. Prior to entering the
Corporation CounSel's office more
than two years ago, Judge Cur
ran was engaged in private prac-
tice of law.
The Washington times., 1936-03-28
POLICE SCHOOL
GRADUATES26

]. Edgar Hoover, director Of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation,
Department of Justice, today pre-
sided over the graduation exercises
of the Police Training School at
the departments new building at
Tenth Street and Pennsylvania
Avenue Northwest.
Twenty,six law enforcement Off
cials representing police depart
ment and law enforcement agen-
cies In various parts of the United
States who have just finished an
intensive three months training
similar to that given special
agents heard Mr.. Hoover's speech
on crime and it's prevention.
The graduates included police
chiefs, sheriffS, inspectors and
privates.
The course includes firearms
training and first aid, inveStiga-
tions, enforcement and regulatory
procedure, tests and practical ex-
perience, and police administration
and organization.
The Washington times., 1936-03-28
Hitler Calls on Public
To Back Nazi Moves

COLOGNE, Germany, March
28 U.N.S.).-Let's all swear we
shall never Swerve from our
goal of freedom and independ-
ence."
In smashing wfnd-up Of his
foreign policy plebiscite campaign,
Chancellor Adolf Hitler flung this
answer today to Britain, France
and Belgium, whose general staffs
will begin consultations in the
near future as a result of the
Rhineland crisis,
Hitler came to this Rhineland
city, just three weeks after Ger
man troops reoccupied the Rhine
land, to deliver his final verbal
blow in the campaign 70 ra plebis-
cite to put German public opinion
Squarely behind the Reich'S remili-
tarization of the zone and denun-
citation of the Locarno Treaty.
Replying to addresses of thanks
by Nazi officials for Liberation"
of the Rhineland. Ritter sounded
his battle cry for freedom and in
dependence, and added:
II consider myself happy be-
cause Providence chose me to
proclaim restoration Of full Ger
man sovereignty in the Rhine.
land"
The Washington times., 1936-03-28
GLASS TESTED
BY BUREAU

Tests to determine the type Of
glass best adapted to permit
trapped passengers in a burning
or submerged vehicle to escape by
means Of the windows were con
Quoted today by the Bureau OF
Standards.
Using q bus for the vehicle, sci.
entists inserted windows of three
types, including ordinary plate
glass, safety glass and a new sub
stance termed case-hardened glass
Kicks from the right foot OF
William M. White, secretary oi
the National Association of Plate
Glass Manufacturers, formed the
simple method by which the plate
glass and safety glass windows
were broken.
The plate glass slivered, leaving
jagged pieces around the rim
The Safet. glass, however, bulged
and came out in one piece.
Most interesting of the tests
from the standpoint of the onlook
erS was the one involving the case
hardened glass. Kicks and sharp
blows from blunt instruments
failed to Suar or crack it. A swift
jab with an icepick or other sharp
point, however, will make a hole
in the glass, whereupon the entire
mass undergoes physical change
turning from a transparent sub
stance looking and feeling like
ordinary glass to a cohesive plate
of small glass particles which can
be crumbled apart by child.
Necessity for this and further
tests was said by Bureau of Stand
ards experts to be due to the many
laws enacted or pending in which
some sort of safety glass is required
on public vehicles. To combine
the safety feature with glass that
will permit trapped passengers to
escape is the purpose of the re
search.
The Washington times., 1936-03-28
4 FROM D. T..
HURT IN CRASH

Four Washingtonians were in
jured last night when the taxicab
in which they were riding skidded
and struck a telephone pole near
Bel Air, Md, relatives were in
formed today.
The cab was driven by Ralph
Thompson, 26, of 1406 Shepherd
st. N. w.. who suffered decorations
of the face and head. Also in
jured were Mrs Mabel Thompson,
20, wife of the driver, lacerations
of the face and a fractured nose;
Miss Margaret Donohue, 26, of
1916 Quincy st. N. w., pelvic frac-
ture and lacerations of the hand,
and James Crawford, 80, a Marine
stationed at the Marine Barracks,
fractured wrist. All are under
going treatment at the Havre de
Grace Md) Hospital.
Gladys Wilson, colored, IS, of
927 P st. N. W., was injured today
when a truck knocked her down
at Seventh Street and Florida
Avenue Northwest. At Freedmen's
Hospital physicians said she had
a dislocated left knee, cuts and
bruises on the left leg and a
bruised left shoulder.
Preston M. Hardesty, white, 20,
Of the 600 block G st. S. E.,
driver of the truck, was not held.
The woman's condition is de-
Scribed as not serious.
The Washington times., 1936-03-28
100 BOYS GET
GARDENS

One hundred boys will be en-
rolled in the eleventh annual Civ
itan Club of Washington Boys
Garden Club, Rudolph Jose, a di-
rector, announced today.
The gardens, 80 by so feet Of
ground for each boy, will be on
Government-owned land on the
south side Of the Benning Road
on the banks of the Anacostia
River, Mr.. Jose said.
The Civitan Club finances the
gardens for the underprivileged
boys, and the crops grown on the
garden plots become the boys
property, each lad doing his own
planting and tilling. The work
Is under the direction of w. r
Beattie, senior horticulturist Of the
United States Department Of Agri.
culture.
The Washington times., 1936-03-28
FR. COX
|NCLASH

PITTSBURGH, March % U.N.
S).-Father James R. Cox, pastor
of old st. Patrick'S Cathedral and
leader of a march on Washington
several years ago, today was
threatened with action" by Rear
Admiral Richard E. Byrd as a re-
suit of a radio speech he made
last January II.
In the speech Father Cox criti'
cized the explorer for accepting
compensation from the National
Government while actively par.
ticipating in activities of the Ma
tional Economy League, an anti.
bonus organization. Byrd was in.
formed of the speech in a letter
sent by John w. Weeter, Of Lewis
town, Pa.
Byrd declared compensation re-
ceived from the Navy was because
of two promotions he received by
act of Congress for his services to
science. He added:
"If your remarks are az
quoted in this letter from Mr..
Weeter, 1 propose to take action
against you for a deliberate mis-
representation of facts"
In reply, Father Cox informed
the Admiral he believed he had
done equally notable work in the
interests of humanity but had re-
ceived no compensation from the
Government.
The Washington times., 1936-03-28
ANTS PEACE But. AFRAID OF WAR, MEET HEARS
CURBING
LOBBIES UP
IN SENATE
international News Service

International News Service
The House today sent to the
Senate the Smith lobby bill re-
quiring periodical statements Of
salaries and expenditures to in.
fluence legislation or election Of
Federal officers.
House opinion differed widely
on the effectiveness of the meas
ure. While advocates of the bill
declared it will throw the light
on far-flung lobbying activities,
other members called it a futile
gesture.
Rejecting the Black bill, which
passed the Senate in the last seS.
sion, the House adopted bill Of
it's own. 1t must run the gamut
of a committee before action by
the Senate.
The measure, it YVES said, would
reach such organizations as those
of Father Charles Coughlin, the
Townsend old-age pension and the
share the wealth" movement.
The House defeated an amend
ment offered by Representative
Culkin (R.) of New York prohibit
ing Federal officials from using
patronage to force Senators and
Representatives to support legisla'
ton. 1t also rejected an amend
ment prohibiting lobbying by Fed
eral officials.
A proposal by Representative
McFarlane DO of Texas, to reach
political lawyers" or others in
fluencing Federal officials was
declared out of order.
Lobbyists are required to register
with the clerk of the House and
give the names of employers and
their compensation. Violation OF
the act would be punishable by a
fine of $1,000 or one years inn
priSonment, or both.
The Washington times., 1936-03-28
I SCH00LB0YS
MISS|NGHERE

Two 16-year-old boys, one Of
them described as an all-'round
athlete" were reported missing
from their homes today.
Daniel McKinnon reported to
Tenth precinct police that his son,
Deale, pupil at Roosevelt High
School, has been missing from his
home at 1106 Allison st. N. w.,
since Wednesday. The boy, an
athlete. is believed discouraged
over his studies, the father told
police.
The other boy is Charles Beko-
witZ, of 2032 Seventeenth st. N. W.,
whose mother, Mrs. Freida Beko-
witz, told Third precinct police
he has been missing since yeSter-
day afternoon. He is believed en-
route to New York.
The Washington times., 1936-03-28

CHARGEDWI
DIRTY WORK

COLLEGE PARK, Md, March
discharges Of dirty work" on
the part of the fraternity group
today lifted an otherwise decorous
campaign for the presidency Of
the University of Maryland Stu
dent Government Association into
q heated battle that is likely to
end in the most closely contested
election in the history of the
school,
Though one of the candidates is
o fraternity man and the other is
not, the campaign thus far has
been unusually quiet, neither can
didate taking any active part on
his own behalf and each prefer
ring to leave the work to his cam
paign managers.
Candidates Friends
The two men up for the office
are Richard Hunt, $500 Kansas
Ave. N. w., editor of the Diamond
back, not affiliated with a frater.
nifty; and Thomas Birmingham,
Sparrows Point, Md, advertising
manager Of the Diamondback and
q member Of Phi Delta Theta fra
ternity. Both boys have been close
friends during their college ca.
reers through their association on
the school paper.
Although a nonfraternity man
has never held the presidency Of
the association since the body was
founded, no hint of fraternity par
tiSanShip entered the campaign
until late last night when meas
ure was introduced into the execu-
tive council meeting asking that
the date of the elections be ad-
vanced from Tuesday to Wednes-
day of next week. The measure
was passed without opposition.
Pulled Fast One
Later several of Hunts cam
paign managers got together and,
after considerable head scratch
ing, decided that the fraternity
men had pulled fast one" on
them. They found that the post
ponement would give the frater,
nifty men time to gather a solid
front against Hunt at the regular
weekly meetings of the fraternitieS
Tuesday night, a move that woulc
not be possible if the original elec.
tion date were adhered to.
Fraternity leaders today denied
any ulterior motive in promulgat-
ing the shift in election dates, say
ing they had done it because
there were more students in claS:
On wednesday than on Tuesday
and a larger vote would be gained
The Washington times., 1936-03-28
Will Sing
AT Fraternity Dinner

Donald Richberg, who formerly
headed the NRA, will appear in a
dual role at the Morris Pig Din
ner" of Phi Gamma Della fraternity
in the University Club Thursday
night. He will appear both as
vocalist and composer of song,
Smoke Dreams" which he wrote
for the fraternity while member
of the University of Chicago
chapter.
Originated by the late Frank
Norris, novelist, while he was a
member of the University of Cali
fornia chapter, the annual dinner
has been a tradition of the fra
ternity for the last 40 years. This
years affair also will celebrate the
eighty-eighth anniversary Of the
fraternity's founding.
The Washington times., 1936-03-28
2OO-Year-0Id Well
Is Found on Bank Site

HAGERSTOWN, Md. March %
An old well, believed to have been
used as source of water supply
for HagerStown nearly 200 years
ago, was found in the center Of
the old Hagerstown Bank plot.
where excavations are in progress
for a new mail order house.
The top of the well was several
feet beneath the floor of the bank
building, erected early in the Nine
teenth century, and apparently
was not in use when the bank
building was erected. It is thought
a home once Occupied the site.
The Washington times., 1936-03-28
JobIess Decrease
0n|y2t4,OOO in Year

Unemployment in February
stood at 12,55O,O0O. a decrease of
only 214,00O in a year, President
William Green of the American
Federation Of Labor, reported yes
terday.
Declaring industry as yet shows
no signs of reemploying any sig
nificant portion of the unem-
ployed, Green added:
"UnleSs a determined effort
is made to create work, we may
expect that for many years mil
lions will be denied the chance
to produce wealth and the ma
tiOn will be taxed to maintain
them in poverty"
The Washington times., 1936-03-28
SENATORS RAP
u. 5. DEBTORS

Senators Borah (R) of Iowa,
and Lewis CD, of Illinois, led a
general assault in the Senate yes
terday upon foreign nations which
have refused to pay their debts
to the United States while build
ing huge military machines.
Their obligations to pay She
United StareS are as Solemnly bind
ing upon them as the Versailles
and other treaties which they are
accusing each other of breaking,
Borah thundered.
Though they repudiate their
debts to America, they point &C.
cusing fingers at Germany and
Italy for GAINED violations Of
treaties. the Tdahoan declared.
Senator Walsh CD, of MaSSa-
chuSettS, demanded some action"
be taken toward collecting the
debts, while Senator McKellar
CD, of Tennessee, interjected
that if Great Britain, France and
other defaulting nations would
slightly trim their military budgets
they would have ample to pay the
United States.
Charges by Lloyd George, war.
time premier of Great Britain, in
Parliament Thursday that his
country was repudiating its obli'
CATION to the United States, were
approvingly commented upon by
Senators Borah and Lewis. both
members of the Foreign Relations
Committee.
The Washington times., 1936-03-28
Freddie Rich ,
Orchestra
Head, WedS

ARMONK, N. Y, March %
0.N.S0 S0.-Freddie Rich, orchestra
leader, and Eula Marlene Mitchell,
who gave her address as Chicago,
we're married here early today
by Justice of the Peace Julius
Raven.
Friends who accompanied the
couple here from New York wit
messed the ceremony in Ravens
home.
Rich, who said his first marri-
age ended in divorce in 1929, gave
his age as 38. Miss Mitchell said
she is 20.
The couple and their friends
headed for New York after the
wedding.
The Washington times., 1936-03-28
Knights of St. John Meet

Annual inspection and muster
of the Washington district COM
mandery of the knights of St.
John will be held tomorrow at l
p. M, at Good Shepherd Hall,
Third and Eye Streets Southwest.
The local commandery is COM
pleting plans to attend the ma
tional convention in Columbus,
Ohio, in June. A large group of
delegates also will be sent from
the auXiliarieS.
The Washington times., 1936-03-28
Gull Drops Clam
Through Window

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., March
28.-The sea gulls which have
been dropping clans in Robert
StackhouSe's front yard to break
the shells so that they can return
to eat the morsels inside. are be
ginning to lose their aim. A gull
drcI)ed a big clam through the
glass Of one Of the Stackhouse up.
stairs windows today.
The Washington times., 1936-03-28
FEAR AROUSED
BY YL0CARN0
BREACH
Britain Feels Germany
Must Aid Any Plan
To Insure Harmony

NEW YORK, March 28 UN.S0.
Apprehensive of an immediate
clash of arms, western Europe
still hopes some formula will be
found to preserve peace Of the
continent but has not yet agreed
on that formula, according to q
croSs-Section of representative Eu-
ropean opinion expressed today
at a meeting Of the Foreign Pol
icy Association.
Discussing the question Does
the Threat to Locarno Mean
WARP" unofficial representatives
of Britain, Germany and France
indicated that all three nations
fear the answer is in the affirma-
tive.
Britain Wants Peace
Supreme aim of Britain's for
eign policy is peace, the Coun-
tess Of LiStowel declared, but
Britain believes peace can be
achieved and maintained only
within the framework Of the
League of Nations. She said:
''More and more, however,
British public opinion has moved
to the view that the collective
system cannot be achieved with
out Germany. The AbysSinian
dispute made it blatantly evil
dent how much the collective
system is weakened with the
greatest central European power
outside it. The problem was how
to bring the Reich back into the
community of nations. Hitler'S
Ehineland coup was not the
most fortunate way of brOach-
ing the question but the offers
attached to it opened the road
to a long range settlement. Be-
heving in the collective system
and believing that system can
not function without Germany,
in her own interest England is
willing to discuss Hitler'S peace
proposals."
French alarm over Hitler's re-
militarization of the Rhineland,
Count Raoul de RousSy de Sales
told the group, is based chiefly on
the feeling that reputation of the
Locarno pact by the Reich indi.
Gates no treaty whatsoever will be
considered valid by the Germans
if it does not coincide exactly at
the moment with Hitley's concep-
tion of German Honor and equal
itV' ot that moment
Defends Soviet Pact
Hitler's denunciation of the
Franco-Soviet defense pact as a
violation of Locarno is invalid,
Count de Sales claimed, because
securing allies is for France
question of life and death" be-
cause of Germany'S greater popu-
lation and resources.
That claim for France was dis
puted by DR.. Helgo w. Culemann
who insisted Frances traditional
policy of alliances and defensive
treaties was aimed at subduing
Germany and "by exploiting her
internal diSSension insure French
domination on the continent"
France, with almost senile stub
borness," he claimed, has refused
to change that century-old policy
despite the emergency of a unified
Germany in place of the system
Of petty German States to control
which the policy was first formu-
lated. AS for possibility of war
because of the Locarno violation,
DR.. Culemann said:
"The German offer of a 25-
year guarantee of peace and a
proposal of demiIitariZatiOn on
both sides of the Rhine must be
recognized as the one step which
may save western Europe"