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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-03

Just because Tom Heeney was
called the Hard Rock from Down
Under is no reason for believing
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-03

day night must Dan Parker
have felt the same way about it.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-03
2O-Point Plan
To Aid RinQ
Cleanup
By KIRK MILLER
Times Sports Editor


Washington's box
ing commission has
made a splendid set of
20 recommendations
to the District of Co.
lumbia Commission
ers, all of which augur
for a more decent box
ing regime here.
It is expected the Board Of
Commissioners will approve
these amendments, designed to
eradicate existing evils, many
of which have been apparent
all along, but all Of which were
verified in the course of a
secret investigation covering a
period OF nearly a monLn.
The best thing about this In
vestigation is not that it turned
up no criminal practices, which if
they did exist are practically i'm
possible of substantiation.
The best thing is that it was
made and that the commission
has discovered that much of the
looseness on which it's 20 recon.
mendations are based was caused
by a lack of more earnest super
vision.
Difficult to PrOUe
You may rest assured that men
like Major Brown, Ken Parkinson
and Claude owen can be trusted
to remedy this forthwith.
It is extremely difficult, if not
impossible, to substantiate charges
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-08-21
.S0yiets Believed Down 6OO Miles
 North Barrow
(By The Associated Press,

tBy The Associated Press'
 Pilot Ray Crawford of the Mir ow Air Service, who arrived from Fairbanks late yesterday with l3O pounds of first class mail, report ed he had talked with Soviet ag- ent Smirnov, who is directing the details of an aerial search from Fairbanks.
 Pilot Crawford was requested to confer with the Soviet repre- sentatives concerning a proposal to fly gasoline from Nome to Pt. Barrow by the Migow Air Ser vice. He informed them that it would not be entirely practical due to the fact that nearly as much aviation gas would be used on the return trip to Nome each time.
 While in Fairbanks, he suffered an attack of flu, but is now re- covering.
 Pilot Crawford questioned Az ent Smirnov as where they believ- ed the lost Russian polar plane had come down. and reported the Russian representative said pro- bably five or six hundred miles north of Point Barrow.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-08-21

year old student nurse, and then fled as another nurse entered the room.
 The partly clad attractive girl lay on the floor near a bed with her skull crushed by a brick which lay beside the body. . Three other women have been slain in the same way during the past two years.
 The two negros who performed the crimes were convicted-one to life imprisonment-the other was executed.
 Two women were recently as saulted by negroes armed with bricks, during the last two weeks, one of whom is possibly the nur- ses slayer.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-08-21
Searches Arctic: Finds No Trace Missing Russians
Alaska Air Mail
 Bill Is Passed
(By The Associated PresS)

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2l-Pres- ident Roosevelt signed the Alas kan Airmail Bill today, just as Congress completed action on bills restoring the Reindeer in- custry to Natives of the territory and also permitting the city of Ketchikan to issue bonds.
 The Airmail measure authoriz- ed Postmaster James Farley to provide difficult or emergency mail service in the Territory of Alaska at total annual cost of twenty five thousand dollars. The bill also empowered him to con- tract for all classes of mail to, from, or within the Territory for delivery by plane at varying rates ranging up to 30 cents per ounce and IS cts. per half ounce.
 The Reindeer Bill also provides for government purchase of ami mals of white operators, and for their distribution among Natives.
 The bill further provides that white people will be forever bar red from owning reindeer.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-08-21
AITi1E SEARCH FOR MISSING SOVIET PLIERS NOW UNDER
 WAY. ALL SIDES POLE
Jimmy Mattern Tells of Flying Hundreds of Miles Over Arctic Ocean Not Finding Plane. Two Other
 Planes Barrow Ready Search
fBy The Associated prass)


 BARROW, Aug. 2l, - Jimmy Mattern reported here last night t.4at he flew four hundred miles over the Arctic Ocean but did not sight the missing Soviet trans polar plane or it's fiiers.
 He declared he found impossible landing conditions. He flew nor tn of Point Barrow and then west until his gas began to run short, and then put back to Barrow
 His tanks were nearly empty when he landed.
 Flying conditions were difficult. He was forced to fly very low most of the time.
 Meanwhile Bob Randall in the Canadian plane from Edmonton, and Soviet pilot Zadkoff worked on their planes preparing for the extended search.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-08-21
Don't Expect Farr
 Win From Bomber
tBv The Associated Press,

tBv The Associated Press,
 LONDON, Aug. 2l, - There is a suspicion in Great Britain that t may be just as wen in the future if the empire does not dep-n nd on Tommy Farr to lift the words championship pugilistic crown off the brow of Joe Louis Detroit brown bomber, in their t:tle battle in New York Aug. 26.
 If Farr is mangled by Louis, .he commonwealth will be brac- ed for the shock. British sports writers are picking Louis to win.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-08-21
Cantacuzino Is Enroute Nome
 on World Flight Supposed to Leave Paris Today In Fast Plane
 For Speed Dash
tBy The Associated Press)

tBy The Associated Press)
 The United States Weather Bureau at Nome began sending airway observations for the flight of Prince Constantine Cantacu- zinc, Roumanian aier to start from Paris probably today. The flight will be made thru siberi1 and t.,aviator E sched- u,ed to stop at5Nome.
 Weather Bureau officials at Nome would not promise favor able flying weather although ob- servations will be sent every four hours. At this season very unset tied conditions occur generally over western Alaska according to : years of airway records here.
 The Signal Corps stations at Nome, Fairbanks, Juneau Anch- orsge and Cordova are standing by on this flight and every eff ort will be made to assist in a successful flight.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-08-21

the U. 5. Signal Corps by radio
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-08-21
tBy The Associated PreSs)


 FAIRBANKS, Aug. 21, - Be- fore leaving Fairbanks yesterday morning on an extensive nonstop hop out over the Arctic Ocean, Jimmy Mattern described the route which he would follow.
 We will fly first to the Arctic Coast of Alaska, and try to To- cate a favorable landing place at the mouth of some river near est the Hath meridian. That base will serve for our offshore flights, and obviate the necessity of com ing back to Fairbanks after each flight out over the ocean. It will save us round trip of perhaps to 1000 miles daily, as the distan- ce from here to the coast is ap- proximately 400 miles.
 Arctic Bases
 T think we will be able to find a place on the river bars or sandspits at the mouth of one of the rivers suitable for landings and takeoffs. From such a base we can fly to the Arctic ice pack and back as desired, weather nnrna it4iro
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-08-21
HOW TO STAKE CLAIMS.

How Mining Claims can be Staked in Alaska, length, Bread tn, how many, and the Associa- ton Claim, described in detail, in pamphlet form, for sale at The Nugget Office, for 10 cents.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-08-21
Alaska Tin Co.
 Is Incorporated
(By The Associated Press,

OLYMPIA, Wash, Aug. 2lst- The Alaska Tin Company of Se- attle, incorporated with a capital stock of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to do general mining business near Tin City, north of Nome. Incorporators are Jack Mcintyre, Seattle radio company man; Gurd Kennedy & Leslie Roe.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-08-21

BARROW, Aug. 2l, - The So- viet twin -motored hydroplane which arrived here from Welland northern Siberia, is anxiously aw aiting favorable weather to com mence systematic hops in search of the missing Russian trans-pol- ar plane piloted by Levanefsky, lost since last Friday.
 The plane is in charge of Pilot Zadkov. Landings made be made in lagoonS or others waters near Barrow.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-08-21
Col. Benedum Backer

SW. beueuum backer
 Tn my under: aking," says Mat tern. 1 am hnanced by Col. M. L.. Benadum, wealthy oil operator of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Colon el Benedum has msry oil inter ests in hte States, ard an exter- size organization. I deem 1t a very gracious act on his part to give of his means in such great humanitarian cause ard one which is sure 70 work 70 the de- velopment of the great North land and the establishment of world traffic routes of great and lasting importance"
 MT. Mat.rn is aeronautical dir ector for the Benedum oil inter ests, which maintains an aviation serv!ce with many planes for the convenience of its staff.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-08-21
Is Loose Chicago, Killed
 Student Nurse
ihv The Assoc,at,,d Press,

tbv The AsSoclat,,d Press,
 CHICAGO, Aug. 2l, - A brick yielding rapist stole into a south side hospital last night and rav- ished and killed Anna Kukcta,
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-08-21
Ice Breakers Bases

''The Russian icebreaker Krass- in is to proceed northward, I un- derstand, along or near the l48th meridian and forge her way into the pack and establish a base there. Then We can pick out a landing place on the ice as near as possible to the icebreaker, and from that point fly northward to the pole or polar camp, or point of last contact with the missing plane. Another ice breaker, we understand, is to proceed to the eastward of the meridian, and also take up a position near which another airplane base may be es- tablished. That would permit planes to swe epback and forth over a fan tail sector converging toward the pole, and in which the missing plane may be found.
 Ford to Ferry Fuel
 ''The Ford plane will be em- ployed in ferrying gasoline and other supplies from Fairbanks to the Arctic coast base. It will de- liver about 800 gallons per trip. The Ford has a gas capacity of 1900 gallons carrying 1000 in the fuselage and 300 in the wings.
 My Lockheed has a capacity of l130 gallons, but I am cutting it down to 900 to give more room for other purposes. A radio op- orator will be taken along, and we will have communication with
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-04-26

tending the provisions to unpro- tected occupations.
 Alice Lord, instrumental in get ting the law passed originally and other Seattle Central Labor Coun- cil leaders plan to cooperate in enforcement but lean toward or ganization rather than statute as the best means of improving work ing conditions.
 For example, they compare the unions minimum of $15 weekly plus meals for waitresses and cham bermaids, with the $14.50 without meals provided by the state law. The state permits the employer to subtract 95 cents day if the wait ress chooses to eat at the restau- rant, leaving her $8.80 for the week.
 Ed Sorger, state safety supervisor, believes the states scales should be changed now to meet modern con- ditions.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-04-26

OLYMPIA, Wash, April 26.-Prac- tically every working woman in Washington but mother will get a break from the seal of approval recently placed on the states mini mum wage law by the United States Supreme Court
 Hotel and restaurant employees, mercantile and machinery workers already are protected and other oc- equations will be brought under the law as the workers apply. But ma hasn't heard anything about the 8-hour day 6-day week with a s14.50 weekly minimum for hotel and restaurant employees and S1320 for other specific businesses.
 Those are the standards set up by the State Welfare committee in 1921, eight years after the Legislar ture passed the law for the pro- tection of lives, health and morals of women and minors.
 The law was little enforced, how ever, and brought virtually no change in the lives of the 125,000 to 150,O00 women, state officials es- timate it affects.
 Now, the women paid less than the minimum could sue employers, just like the former Wenatchee hotel chambermaid who brought the test case, and collected a total of $100000. Assistant Attorney Gen. eral w. A. Toner estimates. Toner defended the law before the high court
 The State Welfare committee will meet shortly to map a course for strict enforcement of the law through field staff and for ex-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-04-26

Engineers recommended opening the plant, believing Price was blow ing off a lot of empty theory. But they did take his advice to vent the plant by replacing big section of roofing in a dust laden conduit with a heavy cloth.
 Prediction Comes True
 Within 24 hours the explosion Price predicted had occurred but it vented itself harmlessly through the cloth roofing Then they call ed him in again and he showed them how to pipe was te carbon dioxide gas from their furnaces to vulnerable spots in the plant. They have had no trouble since, be- cause carbon dioxide gas is death to fire.
 Natural explosions are simple enough. They are merely sudden igniti0ns of inflammable materials, usually gas or fine particles. The resulting gases require expansion within fraction of a second or else an explosion like the New Lon don. Tex, school disaster follows.
 Price does not wait for explos- ions to occur naturally to give him new problems to study. He makes his own at an explosive gallery he has built in Arlington. Va.
 stops Flood Fires
 Price likes to tell how his men stopped the fires in the flood zone last spring-fires that were caused by water.
 Farmers were puzzled when their barns started burning down after the waters receded in West Virginia and Ohio. Price told them to stick a thermometer in their hay and call a fire department to scatter it when the temperature reached 200 degree Fahrenheit. They did, and the barns stopped burning.
 The answer is that bacteria in water-soaked hay caused fermen- tation, and that started heat in the heart of the stack.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-04-26
DR, CARLSON IS
 BACK IN JUNEAU
Returns from Professional Trip to Ketchikan-
 Daughter with Her

pr. Rae Lillian Carlson, local op- tometrist, has returned to Juneau after a two weeks business trip to Ketchikan. Accompanying pr. Carl son was her young daughter Zaida, who returned from Berkeley, Cali fornia, where she has been attend ing school for the past year Her oldest daughter, Constance, who is student at the University of Call ifornia, and who has been i'll, is now recovered, but will spend the next two months at Pacific Grove recuperating, so that she can re- turn to the University on July lst to complete her years credits.
 Dr. Carlson commented on the unusual activity in Ketchikan. Sev- eral new buildings are going up, among them the Federal building and new apartment house which is being built by c. J. Stoll, former Street Commissioner of Ketchikan. There is a generally optimistic spirit in Ketchikan and the business peo- pie are looking forward to good fishing season.
 Plans for the Fair to take place next September are now engaging the attention of the City Council and the Fair Commission.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-04-26
ANNUAL MEET, AMER. LEGION.
 IN SEPTEMBER
Three-day Convention to Be Held-Dates Are
 Announced by Ellis

Clyde R. Ellis, chairman of the convention committee, has announce ed that the 18th annual convention of the American Legion, Depart ment of Alaska, will be held in An chorage on September 20 21 and 22.
 While all of the plans have not been formulated, it is the plan of the committee to make this the best convention that has ever been held in Alaska.
 Due to the publicity that Anchor age has received during the past two years, the committee has been as- sured of a large attendance of dele gates and visitors.
 In 1930 the city of Anchorage entertained the American Legion during it's annual convention. The delegates and visitors who attended that convention are still talking about the wonderful times they had which was largely due to cooperation of the citizens of Anchorage in making the delegates feel at home, and giving them a delightful time.
 As one expressed it-"The people of Anchorage are certainly hospit- able and friendly. Many who were not Legionnaires, although strang CTS to us, invited us to their homes; lit seemed as though everyone was holding open house." One of the outstanding entertain menu features will be trip to Pal mer on Sunday, September 19, where the delegates will be entertained by the Palmer Post.
 The complete program will be an- nounced later. The committee has been promised the cooperation of the Anchorage Chamber of Com merce, all other organizations, and the city of Anchorage.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-04-26

Six tables of Cootie made up the entertainment of the evening, with Mrs. Glen Kirkham winning first prize, Mrs. J. R. Guerin and Mrs. A. Shudshift consolation.
 Mrs. Gallwas was the recipient of a number of appropriate and use full gifts from her friends. Mrs. J. O. Kirkham, for those present, presented her with an assortment of stainless steel wear and a set of nestled mixing bowls. A lively din- ner service for eight was presented her from Nugget Chapter, Eastern Star.
 The list of guests included Mes danes Robert Fraser, w. R. Spain, J. R. Guerin, w. E. Cahill, James Sey, Alex Gair, Edward Bach, E. E. Engstron, R. M. Davis, Inga Dickinson, J. O. Kirkham, Glen Kirkham, A. Shudshift, A. H. Camp bell, Jack Sey, A. F. Knight, Gun nar Blomgren, Arthur Ficken, J. A. Williams, Laurel McKechnie, A. Grove, c. A. Fcx, L. Delebecque, Harold Gallwas, Ray Day and Bud Carmichael.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-04-26

By MORGAN M. BEATTY GAP Feature Service Writerl

WASHINGTON, April 26.-When David J. Price plcxs up a headline explosion" he packs his bag for a quick plane ride to the scene.
 This chief of the Agriculture Departments Bureau of Chemical Research is recognized as the worlds outstanding explosion de- tective" when it comes to track ing down the source of a blast.
 With his staff, he follows up clues to past explosions to ar rest future ones.
 The quick-eyed specialist is not interested one whit in plain dyna- mite or nitro-glycerine. But any natural explosion of dust or gas makes his brown eyes sparkle. He pours over photographs of the scene carried in newspapers, and calls ii finding the fundamentals Stu dying such fundamentals back in 1917 brought the discovery with col leagues in the Bureau of Mines that coal dust is as great an enc my of the miner as coal gas.
 Discovers Dust Danger
 Price also was an early discoverel of the mounting danger of dust explosions in the industrial age As a result he has helped design buildings that vent the dust and avoid ignition.
 once great industrialisi chanced upon an article describing Prices work, and recalled he had a new plant with 8 possible dust hazard opening within 24 hours. He sent for Price.
 You'll have a dust explosion within a day after you open this plant" Price told the man.
 How can we prevent it
 You can't do that immediately but you can remove a serious dan- ger to your workmen."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-04-26
MISS LOVEJOY, MRS.
 REDLING WILL SAIL
 SOUTH NEXT MONTH

Miss Bernice Lovejoy is leaving for the south on May 27 to visit in Seattle with friends and relatives and later to enter business college.
 Miss Lovejoy will be accompan- jed by her mother, Mrs. w. N. Red- ling, who will visit in Seattle for about six weeks, returning then to Juneau. The two formerly made their home in Seattle where they have many friends. Miss Lovejoy plans to remain in Seattle and will probably return to Juneau early next summer.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-04-26
STAR AIRWAYS PILOT AND FAMILY GO OUT
 AFTER } AIRPLANES

Accompanied by Mrs. Neese and their small daughter Betty, Ken meth Neese, wellknown Anchorage flier, until recently manager of the Star Airways, is among the few passengers southbound aboard the steamer Mount Mckinley, in port here Saturday evening.
 MT. Neese is enroute to Michi- gan, where he will purchase three new Stirison planes for the Star Alrways. Pilot Neese will fly two of them out to Seattle, from where they are to be shipped north. One of the planes, which is to be equip ped with floats. he will fly north himself.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-04-26
D Q J CL A s NE W s
RIEDI WILL CONVERT
 NEW RULING INTO
 MODERN BEER PARLOR

Joe Riedi is making preparations to open beer parlor in his newly constructed store building on Third Street which he expects to have ready for occupancy early in May. He originally planned to use the building for bake-shop. Later MT. Riedi plans to construct building for his grocery store on D Street, where the store was formerly To- cated.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-04-26
INTRIGUE AND : DRAMA OF SPY
 RING IN 'SUzY'
Sing Baby Sing Ranges from Hi-de-ho to Ham,
 let at Coliseum

The Jean Harlow picture, "Suzy, based on the best-seller novel of the same title by Herbert German, is now the attraction at the Capitol Thea cre.
 ITO of the ace leading men of the screen support Miss Harlow in this production in the persons of Franchot Tone and Cary Grant, each of whom is seen as Miss liar lows husband n respective por- tions of the exciting story.
 The romance. intrigue and drama in the precarious lives of those who stand behind the scenes of interna- tional espionage form the back ground of the plot which centers about an American girl stranded in London. The girl, Suzy, unwittingly becomes entangled with spy activi- ties and stumbles upon the evil idence which leads to the execution of a woman counter-spy and the shattering of her romance With a young officer.
 The picture is the directorial eff feet of George Fitzmaurice who achieved distinction for his direc- tion of Greta Garbo in two of her most successful photoplays, "Mati Hari' and "As You Desire Me"
 Nobody will be able to complain that Sing, Baby Sing, the musi- cal special at the Coliseum Thea tre, is limited in scope. The pie ture literally ranges from hi-de-ho to Hamlet, from bay rum to cham pagne, from the dizzy speech of Gregory Ratoff to the equally dizzy antics of the Ritz Brothers, and, from the swing tunes of Pollack and Weller, as interpreted by Alice Faye, to the iambic pentameter of Willis a m Shakespeare, as inter- preted by Adobe Menjou. MT. Men jou, incidentally upsets personal tradition of fastideousness by roam ing around in a nightie, in a Se- quence which adds nothing to his reputation as one of the world S best dressed men.
 Besides the comedy of Gregory Ratoff, Menjou and the Brothers Ritz, the picture is punctuaSed by the stooging and counter-stooging of Ted Healy and Patsy Kelly.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-04-26

mother, Mrs. Ronald Lister.
 Favors were dolls and balloons and pink and white were the table decorations.
 Refreshments were sandwiches, crangeade, three-layer cake and ice cream.
 The guests were Sharon Sharpe, Mona Ann Douglas, Tony and Lois MacSpadden, R ob erta Messer- schmidt, Evelyn Claire Hollmann, Jenny and Ruth Larsen, Pearl Swanson, Laura Olson, Harriet Stonehouse, Doris Graves, Joan and Jean Lesher, Nancy Karen Mc- Dowell, Lynn Popejoy, Thomas Hughes, Buddy and Donny Mog- seth, Elton Engstrom, Jr, Norman Lister, Bobby Lesher.
 Afternoon Jea was served by Mrs. Lister to the following guests: Mrs. James Dennis, Mrs. Walter Sharpe, Mrs. Floyd Dryden, Mrs. Elton Engstrom, Mrs. Thomas Hughes, Mrs. Erling K. Olafson, Mrs. Bruce Lesher, Mrs. Peter Reed, Mrs. Bert McDowell and Mrs. Jack Popejoy.
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-04-26
WIFE OF WESDAHL
 COMMANDER HERE

Coming north to join her hus- band, Mrs. H. Arnold Karo, wife Of Lieutenant Karo, commander of the Coast and Geodetic Survey tender Wesdahl which is charting Taku Inlet, arrived here Saturday evening aboard the steamer Bar anof. Mrs. Karo plans to make her home here for the summer.
 Mrs. Karo is a former student of the University of Washington, where she was recognized as pos sessing outstanding dramatic tal- ent and took leading roles in many presentations of the University Drama Department.
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