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The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-01-07
IF YOUR ARE SICK

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REBEKAHS TO MEET

There will be meeting of the Reoekahs Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. Initiation and refreshn1ets.
 adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-01-07
DOW. JONES AVERAGES

The following are today's Dow Jones averages: Industrials 14493, 25A, Pound $4931s.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-01-07

SHOP IN JUNEAU. FIRST!
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-01-07
New Member

Miss Louise Kolitsch, talented Pro- gram and Musical Director of Radio Station KINY, was added to the club roster by unanimous vote.
Evening star., 1936-05-02
LAD, UNCONSCIOUS
SINCE HIT, ONE OF
PAIR BADLY HURT
Ran Between Two Cars,
Police Report-D. C.
Toll Now 80.
YOUTH, Ia, HOOKED RIDE
WHILE ROLLER SKATING
Parents Identify Him at Hospital
After Eight-Hour Search
Over City.

Richard Lloyd, 6, died in Sibley
Hospital today of injuries received
when struck. by an automobile yes
'orday He had been unconscious
Evening star., 1936-05-02
FIGURE
HELD MISLEADING
Urban Comparison of Chill
dren's Rate May Change
Ratio.

Although the mortality rate for
District children is revealed to be
higher than the average for rs States
in a compilation of mortality statis-
tics for 1885, issued by the United
States Public Health Service, it was
pointed out today that the direct COM
parison is not entirely fair.
The District is almost entirely an
urban population, and comparison
of its mortality rate with that of
entire States is somewhat misleading"
was explained by health service sta
tisticians. IF the District figures
were compared with those of cores
ponding city areas in other States. the
figures would more nearly cores
pond"
The report shows the total NOR
tality rate differed little from that of
1884, 1888 or 1882. but infant NOR
tality was somewhat lower in 1885
than in any of the three preceding
years. The 1885 mortality rate for
the District from all causes, how
ever. was higher last year than in any
of the four preceding years, averaging
II per 1000 of population as against
16.5 in 1884. l59 in 1888. 161 in
1882 and l5.9 in 1881. The total
rate for the 26 States and the District
was 1913 per 1000 last year, as against
109 for 1884, 1916 for 1888, 10.7 for
1882 and IL for 1881.
Total infant mortality for the Dis
trict was SO per 1000 live births last
year, as compared with So for the 26
States. The local infant mortality
rate in 1884 was 64 per thousand, in
1888, 65; in 1882, 73, and in 1881. II.
The Health Service pointed out that
because of large-scale population shifts
during the last few years, "the popu-
lation estimates for cities are particu-
larly unreliable" and also that today's
figures are merely preliminary and
may not agree with final results pub
llshed by the Bureau of the Census.
The local diphtheria death rate
climbed last year to a total of Sc per
100000 OF population, as compared
with in 1884, and with the average
of % for all States listed last year.
1nfantile paralysis resulted in deaths
per 100000 last year. as compared with
0.6 in 1894 and with O.S for the 26
States last year. Meningitis deaths
showed a heavy advance here over the
Evening star., 1936-05-02
BY REX COLLIER.

John Edgar Hoover had planned to
be present at the capture of Alvin
Karpis ever since that gun-toting,
boastful desperate threatened death
to the director of the G-men some
months ago.
Undismayed by the threats, Hoover
told friends nothing would suit him
better than face-to-face meeting with
"Old Creepy" as the No. public
enemy is known to his pals.
When a friend expressed concern
over the threats, Hoover laughingly
remarked that Karpis would never
have warned him in advance if he
really intended to do him harm.
Anyway" he added, that rat is too
yellow-like all of his kind"
In one of the messages which Karpis
mailed to Hoover the latter was threat
ened with fate similar to that which
his agents meted out to Karpis' close
friend, Fred Barker, and the machine
cunning mother of Barker, Kate
CMs") Barker. This pair was killed
when they. opened fire on a Federal
raiding squad at their hideout on Lake
Weir, Fla, January Is, 1885.
Determined on Showdown.
The threats from Karpis served
merely to intensity Hoover's determi-
nation to hunt the elusive kidnaper to
a showdown, and, if possible, to lead his
men in the final raid. He Is reported
to have been ready on several occa-
sions recently to fly to the scene Of
planned raids in various parts of the
country-for Karpis has been on the
move almost constantly.
A few months ago special agents
of the Federal Bureau of Inyestiga-
ton belived they had Karpis within
their grasp in Ohio, only to find he
had slipped through their ranks.
More recently they traced him to
q hideout near Hot Springs, Ark, but
found, upon raiding the place, that
he had learned of their approach and
fed.
They almost got him and his COM
panion, Harry Campbell, in the raid
at Lake Weir. Karpis and Campbell
had been living with Fred and Ma"
Barker and several girls in a large
house on the lake. Karpis' girl friend
was about to become a mother, how
ever, and he and Campbell, with the
latter's paramour. decided to head
North and arrange for disqualification
for the prospective mother. They left
Evening star., 1936-05-02
TAXI DRIVER FACES
JURY ON MONDAY
Coroner's Inquiry in Killing of
Girl to Consider Alleged
Confession.

Carl Loveridge. 29-year- taxi
driver, will face a coroner's jury Mon
day in connection with the fatal
shooting Of his sweetheart, Miss Jessie
Posey, "a. of 244 Nirth street south
east.
The young woman was slain in front
of her home early yesterday after she
returned from ride with a man
against whom she had been warned
by Loveridge, according to police.
Arrested about an hour after the
shooting, Loveridge, who lives at 1903
N street. had with him a 32-caliber
revolver from which one shot had
been fired. police reported. He is
charged with murder
Police said Loveridge signed a con-
fession after first refusing to talk
about the shooting
The body of the girl has been
turned over by Coroner A. Magruder
Macdonald to the Harry M Padgett
undertaking establishment, 13l Elev-
enth street southeast. Funeral ar
rangements have not been completed.
Loveridge was caught at Eleventh
street and Potomac avenue southeast
by Policemen Robert Redding and
Thomas Smithson of the fifth pre-
cinct.
Evening star., 1936-05-02
ASKS
FOR WATER GATE
Seeks Use for Summer Con-
Certs-JuIy 7 May Be
Opening Date.

The National Symphony Orchestra
has applied for use of the Lincoln
Memorial Watergate for a series of
Summer concerts similar to those
given last year. it was learned today.
T. C. Cappel, manager of the orches-
ira, has written to c. Marshall Fin
nan. superintendent of National Cap
ital parks, suggesting that the con-
certs start July and continue for
six or seven weeks. They would be
held on Thursday and Friday eve
nings. but Cappel did not state the
starting hour. He advised Finnan
that this years series would be the
same symphonic type of programs as
were given last year.
Finnan said he is taking the appli-
cation under consideration. Mean
while, he has written to Yasha Bum
chuk, formerly with the "Old Roxy
Gang" of radio and theater fame, who
also proposes to have series of Sum-
mer concerts here, probably at the
Watergate, notifying him of the Ma
tional's application. Isaac Cans, local
civic leader, and Fairfax Oyster. busi-
ness man, called recently at Finnan's
Office with Bunchuk relative to the
proposed series.
Finnan said he would give the Bum
chuk organization a reasonable time"
to reply before taking any action on
the National Symphony Orchestra ap-
plication.
He declined to indicate whether he
would grant permits for two rival
musical groups to give concerts at the
Watergate.
No formal written application for
the permit has been received from the
Bunchuk group, Finnan said.
Evening star., 1936-05-02

Since the acci-
dent. which oc-
CURED on First
street, between /
and K streets.
Richard, W h o
lived at so 1
street, was one of
two boys critical
ly injured in &C
cidents in tn e
last "a hours.
His death brought
the Di S t r ic t S
traffic fatality
total for 1896 to
33.
The NnlInuStar
Evening star., 1936-05-02
Hoover Determined to Face
Karpis and His Threats

the Lake Weir house only few hours
before squad of F. B. I. agents sur
rounded it and engaged in a battle
with the Barkers.
Pair Fled Northward.
KarpiS and Campbell had driven
away in an automobile, a complete
description of which was learned by
the agents and flashed by radio to
police northward from Florida. At
lantic City police spotted the car and
undertook to arrest Karpis and Camp
bell without careful preparation-al-
though the agents had warned police
that the men were armed and "des-
perate." The fugitives opened fire on
the police and escaped in a stolen
car.
Karpis is the last major figure Of
the once dreaded Karpis- Barker gang
to fall into the Federal net spread
after the 100000 kidnapping of Ed
ward G. Bremen on January II. 1884.
Agents of the F. B. I. began SEN
sational roundup of the gang when
f1ngerprints of Arthur ("Doc') Barker
were found on gasoline cans discarded
by Bremer's kidnapers when they COL
lected the ransom, and when store
clerk identified Karpis, from a photo
graph, as the purchaser of signal
lights used by the kidnapers.
As the members of the gang were
picked up, by ones and twos and
threes, over the months that followed,
the agents learned from several Of
them that the gang also had perpe-
trated the 100000 kidnapping in 1888
of William Hamm, jr, who. like, Bre-
mer, was a wealthy resident of St.
Paul.
DOC" Barker. captured in raid
on an apartment in Chicago, was
convicted in the Bremen case and is
serving a.life term in Alcatraz. Rus
sell Gibson, alias Slim Gray. was
killed when he fired on agents in a
raid on another Chicago apartment,
and Byron Bolton was captured in
Gibson,s apartment. Volney Davis, ar
rested later in Chicago, also went to
Alcatraz for life.
A number of other members Of the
gang have been taken, including John
]. Mclaughlin, Chicago politician, who
is serving a f1ve-year term for aiding
the kidnapers.
Evening star., 1936-05-02
BODIES OF MAN, WOMAN
RECOVERED FROM RIVER

The bodies of a colored man and
woman. found in the Potomac River
at widely separated points, were in
the morgue today.
The man, about so years old, has
not been identified. Three midnight
fishermen found his body about half
a mile south of Chain Bridge and
towed it to Fletchers boat house.
where they notified police.
The woman was identified as Julia
Mazes, 30, lilo Sixth street. Her
body was found in Washington Chan
mel. at the foot of Sixth street south
west, and was taken by harbor police
to the morgue, where it was identified
by Elizabeth Spann of the same ad-
dress.
Evening star., 1936-05-02
BYRNS PROMISES
TO TRY FOR HOUSE
DISTRICT DAY SOON
Chances of Red Rider Re.
peal Are Boosted With
Agreement.
FRAZIER.LEMKE BILL
WILL TAKE UP MAY II.
May Squeeze in Local Legisla.
tion Before 25th of
Month.
BY JAMES E. CHINN.

Speaker ByrnS today promised
Chairman Norton of the House Dis
trict Committee he would endeavor to
set aside a special day in the House
In the near future for District legisla-
tion, thereby raising the chances of
consideration of the Sisson bill to re-
peal the red rider" to the 1886 appro-
priation act.
Mrs. Norton conferred with Byrns
as result of the latest legislative
tangle which will deprive the District
of another so-called District day"
May IL. On that date the House is
scheduled to consider the controversial
Frazier-Lemke farm mortgage bill.
Lost Day in April.
The District lost its last day in the
House in April because of the deter
mination of Democratic leaders to
concentrate on important National
legislation. 1t was believed the major
National bills could be cleared out Of
the way by May II. the next regular
District day, but Mrs. Norton learned
the Frazier-Lemke bill would be taken
up at that time.
Determined to force House consid-
Grafton of the SiSSon bill before adj
journment of Congress, Mrs. Norton
appealed to Byrns. She stressed the
serious effects of the second cancela-
tion of District day, not only as it
applied to the Sisson red rider" re-
pealer. but to other District legisla-
ton on the House calendar
Byrns was sympathetic. He said he
had no desire to deprive the District
of its regular two days a month, but it
was the decision of House leaders to
move important National legislation to
the Senate in time for action before
June /, the tentative adjournment
goal of the Seventy-fourth Congress.
Sisson More Hopeful.
However, he explained, after the de-
ficiency appropriation bill, carrying
the money to finance the Nations un-
employment relief program and the
Frazier-Lemke bill are out of the way,
1t may be possible to give the District
a special day previous to May 25, the
final regular District day before the
expected adjournment of Congress.
Byrns promise raised the hope of
Representative Sisson, Democrat, Of
New York, sponsor of the red rider re-
pealer, that his measure is not des-
tined to die on the House calendar
A few hours before Sisson wrote to
newspaper men placing responsibility
for the fate of his bill squarely on
Speaker Byrns. Byrns. he declared,
could allow the bill to come up in due
course or could prevent it from being
considered by parliamentary strategy.
Evening star., 1936-05-02

was hit, police reported. when he ran
from between two parked cars. Niven
F. Ladd, %. of the 300 block of Long
fellow street. was the driver, the re-
port stated.
The other juvenile mishap victim
was Louis Brittle. IA, of 507 H street,
who lay unconscious in Emergency
Hospital until am. today before
being identified by his mother and
stepfather, who had conducted an
anxious 8-hour search for him.
Louis was hurt, police said, when
he slipped beneath the wheels of a
truck while hooking" a ride on
roller skates.
Louis mother, Mrs. Mollie Mays,
accompanied by her husband, found
him in Emergency after police in
formed her a youngster answering
his description was in serious con-
dition there. Badly injured. he was
taken to the institution by Joseph
Cullinane. 46l6 Massachusetts, avenue
Although police established that
Louis had been clinging to the rear
OF the truck, the driver, George Nc
Clellan, 30. colored, 2428 Ontario
road, was held at the first precinct
pending outcome of the boys injuries.
Two other boys, aged and Is. also
were injured yesterday and last night,
but not seriously. They were Edward
Basskin, 7. of 913 NJ street and
Rosario Pappalardo, 16, of 1l14 H
street northeast.
George Mcneil, 944 Maryland ave-
nue., was in q serious condition in
Casualty Hospital as the result of an
accident yesterday near Upper Mari.
boro, Md
Four persons were injured, one se-
riously. in collision between an au-
tomobile and truck yesterday at Nine-
teenth and @ streets. They we're Mrs.
Omelia Kialik. Sc, Cleveland: her hus-
band. John Kialik. 73. and Mrs. A. j.
Klein. IS. Miami Beach, Fla, and her
son Wilbur. 13.
Evening star., 1936-05-02
U. S. JOBHOLDERS
UP 5000 IN MARCH
Principal Increase in 0ld.Line
Agencies-Advance Slight,
However, in District.

Federal employment jumped more
than 5000 in March to a total OF
806,035, the monthly report of the
Civil Service Commission showed
today.
In the District the advance was
snght-a net increase of go persons
putting the force at 1880. In the
field the end of the month saw
693 ,665 employed.
The pay roll advance was nearly $2,-
000. 900 to 1924. 4.659 ,062.
The principal increase was in old
line agencies-War. Navy, Interior
and Veterans Administration, with
lesser advances in units administer
ing the works program.
The breakdown on the total en-
ployment is as follows:
In District-Old line agencies, 82,-
038; new agencies exclusive Of works
program groups), 12.771; works, 1851.
In the field the corresponding totals
are 529. .309, 1892 and 126,534.
District employment is about 5000
short of the war peak and that in the
field 100000 under.
Evening star., 1936-05-02
u. S. Films Popular.

Movie fans of Colombia prefer pic
lures from the United States.
Evening star., 1936-05-02

average. with 1873 deaths per 100000
population recorded last year, as
against an average of only 2.
There were 1915 tuberculosis
deaths per 100000 of population here
last year. as compared with SIS for
the 26 States. The local pneumonia
death rate jumped from 1915 in 1884
to 151.5 last year, as compared with
a total of 801 for the Is States.
Typhoid deaths here also rose from
l.6 in 1884 to 3.2 last year, the gen.
eral average being 1.9.
Evening star., 1936-05-02

of New Orleans for the past two montnss
and have been trailing him." he ex-
planned.
The Nationwide hunt for KarpiS
began with the finding of his finger
prints on a gasoline can and a fash
light dropped by the Bremen kidnap
mob.
Earlier crimes attributed to him and
his gang did not come under the de-
partment's jurisdiction.
The robberies and kidnapings of this
group of hoodlums in three years
caused the deaths of at least five per-
sons, four of them policemen, and about
S500,000 cash loss.
Bigger ''jobs" included:
The $4,000 robbery of the Third
Northwestern National Bank, Min
neapolis. December 16, 1892, in which
three were slain.
A 100000 pay roll robbery at South
St. Paul August 80, 1888, in which
one policeman was killed and another
wounded.
Policeman Was Killed.
The September %, 1888, Federal
Reserve, Bank mail robbery in Chi
cago, which resulted in the death of
policeman.
The $4,000 hold-up of the First
National Bank of Brainerd, MINI.
The $4,000 robbery of the National
Bank g. Trust Co. of Sioux Falls,
S. Oak.
The Bremen kidnapping. in which
5000, 900 ransom was paid.
The abduction of Hamm for s100I-
900 ransom.
Karpis' crime career began when
he was only 16 years old, a slender
youngster arrested at Topeka, Kans.,
for stealing automobile tires.
After three years in the Kansas Re-
formatory at Hutchinson he escaped
by saving his way through the bars,
remained at large a. year and was
rearrested and sent to the Lansing,
Kans., State Prison. He was freed
under parole after another year of
| Imprisonment.
A month later, in 1881. he visited
the crime school" of Kate (Ma)
Barker in Tulsa, Okla, and rejoined
Freddie Barker, whom he had met
in Lansing Prison. For a year or
more they cut a wide swath through
the oil-wealthy State. broadening their
crime activities and adding to their
mob.
Karpis Once Paroled.
KarpiS was arrested for, a Henry
eta, Okla, jewel robbery and SEN
fenced to prison, but paroled after
he had served three months in jail
at Okmulgee. Barker had eluded
arrest.
In December. 1881, the two killed
Sheriff C. r. Kelly of West Plains.
Mo-, when the officer approached their
car.
In st. Paul, shortly after the Hamm
kidnapping the Karpis-Barker gang
suspected Mas" second husband,
Arthur w. Dunlap, had tipped off,
GERS as to their hideaway, and Dun
lap promptly was taken for a fatal
ride.
The association of the desperadoes
continued until the fatal interruptio1
by Federal officers at the Barker
hideout in Ocklawaha, which Karpis
and Campbell escaped by only few
hours.
Evening star., 1936-05-02

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1936-05-02

Karpis-Barker gang. and two COM
panions surrendered without a shot
in New Orleans last night to Federal
raiders in the first arrest ever made
in person by J. Edgar Hoover, Depart
ment of Justice chief.
Shotguns, automatic rifles and pis-
tolls were leveled by Is or 20 agents
to take the fight out of the youth
most wanted for the 100000 abduc-
ton of William A. Hamm, jr., st. Paul
brewer. June Is. 1888. and the 100000
kidnapping of Edward G. Bremen, st.
Paul banker. six months later.
Karpis lifted his hands and yielded
pistol.
Arrested with him in his motor car
near pretentious Canal street apart
ment were red-haired young woman
identified only as Ruth" who had
posed as his wife, and Fred Hunter,
81, suspect in the $4,000 post Office
robbery at Garrettsville, Ohio, Novem-
ber Z, 1885.
Shackle Hands and Feet.
Swiftly the agents shackled the
hands and feet of the men and took
them and the woman to the Post
Office Building for questioning.
Other officers were posted about the
apartment, where Karpis had been
known as ed O'Hara," a mild-man-
nered devotee Of fishing.
Karpis, who has a criminal record
for 10 of his 26 years, was rushed
from the post Office % the New Or
leans airport at $50 pm. and thrust
aboard a chartered plane BY about six
guards.
Victims of the st. Paul kidnapings
were cheered by news of the arrest.
Seven of Karpis' associates in the
gang dominated by the late Kate (Ma)
Barker are dead, and the others are
all imprisoned.
Congratulations again to the De-
partment of Justice" said Hamm, "for
a mighty tough task so nobly done"
Brewer termed it "a further tribute"
to the department.
Trial Charges in Doubt.
Whether Karpis would be brought
to trial on the kidnapping charges i'm
mediately. however. was a question.
Hoover said he was implicated with
Hunter in the Garrettsville Post Office
robbery.
The simple statement, 1--WE got
something interesting to tell you," was
Hoover's greeting to newsmen in New
Orleans an hour after the capture.
We've captured Alvin Karpis, gen.
orally known-but not to us-as public
enemy No. l."
Hoover gave the names of the 9TH
ers taken, then said:
"Karpis never had a chance. There
were too many guns on him.
"They were in an apartment and
were leaving the house to enter an
automobile when the agents surround
ed them.
THE agents called upon them to
surrender. and they were taken with
out the firing of shot"
Karpis was shackled hand and foot
and the shackles themselves were
chained together, before he was placed
aboard the special plane for the
secrecy -shrouded night flight.
Hunted for Two Months.
He had been living in the apartment
with the woman, who posed as his wife.
Hunter visited them nightly.
His arrest followed two months OF
concentrated vigilance in New Orleans,
Hoover said.
We've known he's been in and out
Evening star., 1936-05-02
Highwaymen Relieve
Man of Clothes and
Mothers $4OO Pin

Leslie S. Green, 43, of Al Rhode
Island avenue almost became an
involuntary nudist early today.
But the fact he was near his home
at the time spared him consider
able embarrassment.
-Four men attacked Green and
stripped him of his pants, coat,
vest, shirt and shoes. In his
trousers was $400 brooch which
belonged to his mother, Mrs. Clara
A. Green.
Green lost his near-nudist
status in record-breaking time.
Evening star., 1936-05-12

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