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son we're killed, fractured ribs and in
ternal injuries.
Patrolman William McGun, 36 head
injuries.
James Mitchell. 70, fractured ribs
and possible skull fracture.
Staten Island, the scene of the
disaster, lies five miles from the Bat
terry, the lower tip of Manhattan, in
Lower New York Harbor. 1t is IA
miles long and nearly miles wide
at its widest place, with 100000 resi-
dents, many of them commuters who
work in Manhattan. The tragedy oc-
Cured directly across the Kill Van
Kull, narrow strip of water, from
Bayonne.
Dwellings Completely Demolished.
The three buildings. erected nearly
halt century ago, were hit by foam
ing torrent rushing down a steep hill
side from a storm center. They we're
leveled as if struck by tornado or
an explosion Not board stood intact.
Neighbors said the houses collapsed
without warning One minute there
was only the steady din of rain pour
Ing from black skies. Then came a
terrific roar as the first two structures
crashed
Thousands of residents rushed to the
scene, creating such chaos that police
fought to hold them back. Two priests
stood with the rescue workers-Rev
Edward Goblin of ST. Peters Church
and Rev. Edward Jordan of Sacred
Heart Church. They administered last
rites to victims brought from the death
trap.
Rescue squads, comprising $50 po-
lice and firemen, worked feverishly
with picks and shovels throughout the
night. A searchlight, brought from
Manhattan glared on the Wreckage.
Tragic Scenes.
Relatives of the dead or dying
struggled to get through police lines
as bodies were brought out. Some
slipped under the ropes blocking off
the disaster scene and claWed at the
jumbled tons of smashed brick and
rain-soaked timbers.
The bodies were taken to the tiny
6eaview Morgue as the rescuers
sought possible further victims
Throughout the early morning as
searchers probed the ruins, lightning
f1ared and rain slashed down inces-
sanity. Shivering hundreds, soaked to
the skin. stayed, however, and many
were still there at daybreak
While the hunt went on four sepa-
rate Investigations were launched to
determine responsibility for the
catastrophe.
Deeply shocked by the tragedy, Po-
lice Commissioner Valentine headed
Evening star., 1937-08-12
lEG|0N'S MEETING
TO OPEN TONIGHT
Parade Will Precede Start
of District Groups
Convention.

1naugurated by parade Of 8
divisions and 20 musical units, the
nineteenth annual convention of the
District Department of the American
Legion will hold the opening session
OF its three-day meeting at 8 80 o'clock
tonight in the Mayflower Hotel.
The parade, in which more than
5000 Legionnaires are to march, will
assemble at John Marshall place at
7:l5, move by the reviewing stand in
Farragut Square and disband at the
MayfoWer where its members will pro-
ceed directly into the hall for the
conventions first session.
Capt. H. c. Whitehurst, director of
highways, will deliver the address of
welcome and Dept. Comdr. Horace w.
Llneberg of the Legion will reply.
Award of prizes for marching units
IN the parade will be presented directly
following Lineburgs address.
Cups and other prizes for Legion
posts who have made outstanding ac-
complishments during the year will
be awarded by Paul H. McHahan,
chairman of the Trophies and Awards
Committee.
The principal speaker of the eve
ming, J. Fred johnson, national vice
commander Of the Legion, will talk
following the presentation of the
inter-Legion awards. A number of
State department commanders also
will be introduced.
Reports of the Credentials and Rules
Committees and the roll call and
official seating of delegates will con-
clude tonight's session.
The session tomorrow night will
begin at tbs, when nomination of
officers for next year will be made.
Election of officers will be held at the
session Saturday which begins at
els pm. and a reception and ball
In honor of the newly elected officers
will be held after the business session.
The route of the parade is from
John Marshall place up PENNSYLVANIA
Evening star., 1937-08-12

q CLEANLINESS AZ.
Yan4sment, con.
struction, nsthods en-
ployed and condition
Of dairy farm build
inss vheye Thompso~s
Mill is produced.
Evening star., 1937-08-12
4 OUT FISHING DROWN

KENOVA, w. Va August IL tP.-
A fishing party ended in tragedy on
the Ohio River late last night when
four persons drowned after their boat
collided with another in the Ohio
River.
Searching parties sought the bodies
OF the victims police said were Mrs
Harrison johnson, 35, her two chill
dren, Harold, IL, and Betty, 10, all Of
Kenova. and her sister, Sarah Lucy.
Is, Laurel Creek. XIV.
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building lunged forward with a grind
ing roar and swept more victims to
their death-either by being crushed,
suf1ocation or drowning in the deep
waters of the cellar.
1t sheared off from the adjacent
building as though cut by knife.
Evening star., 1937-08-12

end Just opposite Retz In Lower Aus
tria
BratiSlava at the corner OF Czecho-
slovakia Is believed to be the most vul-
nerable, as pincers working from there
and from German Silesia may cut the
C1echoslovakia Republic in two in case
OF swift German attack.
(Copyright, 1872
Evening star., 1937-08-12
Mother, in Hospital,
Hears Walls Unaware
Husband Died Hero
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, August 12.-From
he bed where Mrs. Alice McBreen
lay with her 7-day-old son in
Staten Island Hospital today, she
could hear the walls OF those in
jured in the building collapse that
cost 18 lives.
Nurses didn't tell her that her
husband, Patrolman Joseph Nc
Breen, had died in the wreckage,
hero, while trying to rescue a
child.
Evening star., 1937-08-12
Public Construction Grows.

Started to aid the unemployed, pub.
lie construction is becoming a perma-
nent and dominant factor in Ger.
many.
The Kusko times., 1937-04-02
Labor Dispute Unsettled

Pickers uy members of the Alaska Fishermen's Umon, against the. Paci- ic Salmon Company continues to prevent the sailing of the company s -annery tender Virginia iu Seattle recently. Conrad Espre,-- business agent for the Seattel. unit = of the Caunery Workers and Farm Labor. CTS Union, announced. tFat3 negotiat lions bstween union representatives and operators of the major fish can neries in Alaska would be: opened very soon man effort to settle wage issues before the opening of the can Mng season this month.z Espne de cIaped the union. wsntssa an Hnde-- standing as to wage scales and en- ployment conditions zins connection with 5000 men and women employed
 n Alaska fish canneries.
The Kusko times., 1937-04-02
Douglas Busy Rebuilding

Recently swept by a rirea that laid waste the business district and con siderable of the residence area, Douglas, famous camp on Gastineau Channel, is on the threshh6ld of one of the greatest -building periods i'll her career. Thesn structures will be better than the old ever were. Plans are4geing forward for the er- ection of fine city han, of af school house and for extensive; street and sidewalk Improvements r. ConstFur- tion of business. places are under way. Funds for the public instftu- tiou are expected in the form of g loan and grant from the Public Works Administration 7In addition to rehabilitation. work, there will be a, great deal of residence construc- ton work this summer in Douglas The bridge betwens Juneau and Douglas and the. large area available for dwellings on the Douglas side makes 1t desirable as a place for homes for persons whose work or places of business are in Juneau.
The Kusko times., 1937-04-02
NEWS ITEMS FROM OTHER ALASKAN TOWNS Gathered From Our Territorial Exchanges
Investigate Train Wreck

Investigate Train Wreck
 An investigation 10 determine the cause of the passenger train wreck which occurred recently at Mile 85 1-2 was launched last week by 5 Alaska Railroad officials. The de- failment occurred approximately in the center of trestle which is about 160 feet long and I5 feet high at the deepest point of a gully 150 feet of track was torn up on the trestle. The engine plowed on across the trsstle, travelIng a distance of about 25 feet before coming to a halt. The engine tender, also de- railed, remained with the engine and came to a halt upright on the track bed. Three cars following left the track, with a. freight car, which was immediately behind the coal car, and the mail car finally coming to rest on their sides in the bottom of the gully after diving of the 15-foot trestle. The baggage car, the third car to tip over, came to rest with its lower end resting in the gully and on the mail car, and the upper end still coupled to the first pas senger coach, which stopped out on the trestle just before 1t reached the torn up track. The front trucks of the first passenger car were off the rails but the car remained up- right on the trestle Eand the passen- gers were uninjred. The remaining
The Kusko times., 1937-04-02
Emil Hurja to Quit

Emil Hnrja, former Alaskan who for more than four years has been associated with the Democratic Ma tionai Committee and whe called the turn for 1t on the two Roosevelt presidential elections and intervening eongressionalre election, Is going back to private business, according to re cent word fron1 Washington. Tine gentle-yoieed: expert on election fore casts and political patronage, who volunteered hissseryices in 1882 to James A. Farley, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said he would quit his political position within 50 days. His friends reported he will go to work for New York insurance firm Hurja, in comment ing on how he guessed right in three successive elections. once saidz @Pol- itics is largely matter of geog- raphy." Huria's first job was on a newspaper in Fairbanks He earned his way through the University of Washington by doing correspondence and reportoriaT work en the Seattle P-L Mrs Hurja, whose maiden name was Gertrude Andersen, also lived in Fairbanks when a girl. Af- ter graduating from the University of Washington, she became society editox of the Post-Intelligencer.
The Kusko times., 1937-04-02
Fox Peits in Demand

In announcing recently another fur auction to be- held April 14- the Se- attk. Fur Exchange. declared that March sales brought advances of 5 per cent in silver fox and blue fox ized last February Buyers took all relts as compared with figures real Fat 10 per cent of the 750 blue fox pelts offered st prices ranging from ST, for the Northwest States ranch variety to $50 pelt for Alaska Arc tic variety. Buyers snapped up xir- tuaHy all of the 2,S60 silver fox peItse offered at prices ranging from s16efor the black variety to s160 a peltffo the better quality of full silverx- Other fox sales were: Red fox $500 pelts which brought prices ranging.from S16 to $20 a peft. Whi-gzfax, $50 pelts, S14 to S32. Gross Sax175 pelts, $25 to $50. Pric- es of ozsser pelts at last weeks sales were practically Unchanged from the figures that ruled in the February M5sE-
The Kusko times., 1937-04-02
Alaska Pays Big Tax

AfaSka rays DE AdA-
 A total Of eS443. .se0.44 was collect ed from Alaska- in internal revenue taxes during the fiscal year ended June 5o, 1856. the report of the com+ missioner of internal revemle reveal ed srecestly. The sum represented one hundredth per cent of the total amount, collected. from all states and territories This, compared favorably with Alaskais apopuls tions of y61 500, which IS. iye-hundredths of the total. The figures, when broken down, showed that $342, 2,e25.44 was collect ed in Alaska in income taxes, of tSu-hundredths per. cent of the total. Miscellaneous internals revenue col lections amounted to- s100, ,204.81, while only S56o.19 was collected in the territory as sagrieultural-adigst- nent coElectins. -.
The Kusko times., 1937-04-02
rrapper Held rsMurder-


 Owen MeEn1ee, H strapper, Is held by federal officers in kokrinesa IT connection with the fatal shooting. of Joe. Wright, a native. recently. Thomas Long, dsputy .marshal at Ruby and U. s. Commissioner George Warner reported to the narshal's of Zee in Fairbanks.-that the verdict of he coroner's jury was that Wright net death at the hands of McEntee-
 he defendant was arraigned.sa but
 zived examination and was bound sver to the grand jury. He furnish d S3, 900 bail. McEntee is an Gfd-- time resident Of the section s1d> has 8 good reputation.
The Kusko times., 1937-04-02
Moose Menace to woOdsman-

BeIIigerent moose are both a nui- sance and a menace to Tom o'Dale, veteran woedsman who lives in a cabin on the shore of Tustamena Lake on Kenai Peninsula. ODale has been obliged to build fence around his cabin to keep the moose away from his dwelling. Often when he goes to get water he has been chased up a tree by the animals, and on occasion has becn keptcup tree for fas long as half day. He now carries. rifle and scares the moose away by firing bullets IT the. snow near them.
The Kusko times., 1937-04-02
Plane Party Forced Down

Plane Party toTced DO" h.
 Forced down recently two =miies his side of Koyukuk while enroute 70 Fairbanks from aNonIe, Pllots Don Emnons and passengers took refuge st a native csnin and were maroon e5 there and report having had the ausuaI experience of encountering 8 ioIently insane, native woman i'm the abiu of their refuge. Arrivals aeH he plane report that about the risIre tneysr repaired to the cabin for refuge antil they could get their ship ready for another sakeoF,. the native wom- ! suddenly became dersngeds and
 so violent II was necessary to sr1 her. with force. Application mas. been made in FairbaE3cs for a marshal to beasent tperel.to take the xonan into .custodyIstF
The Kusko times., 1937-04-02
Sentenced For Having Poison

Charged with possession of poi son.Ivar Peterson, t-apper, was fined S25. and given a six-months sentence bxHsUnitef States Commissioner A. T.Rowe at Fort Yukon recently. Sen tence was suspended Fur worth S2,gOo was confscated by the warden, and released to the Game ConImis- sion by Peterson. Peterson had been trapping in the Beaver Greek district about 50 miles by trail from Fort Yukon.
The Kusko times., 1937-04-02
Anchorage Expects Big Sum

AhtAAUA oNC AAPNNAS
 To make preliminary estimates for q PWA loan of S225, 900 for erection of a public school building in Anch- orage, Harry K. Wolfe, an architect of Palmer, has been engaged by the Anchorage municipal authorities
Evening star., 1937-01-04
Get Away with Fast Stuff.

yAs TT Is now, boxers, promoters,
"A managers, etc., can "pull a fast
one' in one State and then go to an
other state and have all the privi-
1eces that are extended to the legiti-
mate fellows who abide by the rules
and regulations; except IN those cases
where the States are members OF tne
National Boxing Association, or where
the boxing comm issions have one OIL
those working agreements wnlch
really works. The trouble is, though,
that these so-called working agree
ments" are good only as long as they
don't interfere with the aims anu
ambitions or the financial welfare Of
the commission which Is recognizing
the working agreement. Right now
the rules poverning IL boxing differ ma
teriallv In some States. Under one
head boxing rules and regulations
would all be the $ anne throughout the
United States.
The high cor nmissioner could
be selected by 4 representatives OF
all the other boxing commits
sions. The saIa ary could be paid
out of the tax es from the va
rius fight shows throughout the
country.
Evening star., 1937-01-04
rs HARDLY likely that any action

IT'S HARDLY likely that any action
will be taken by the United States
Golf Association on the stymie
i at its annual meeting in New
York next Saturday, but the solons
who run the game are due for at least
q few gentle reminders that two Sec
tors of the country don't want the
stymie retained.
The District Of Columbia Coli As
ISOLATION and the Massachusetts, Golf
Association, represented by their Of
ficials, are going to stand up on their
hind legs and tell the world that they
want the stymie barred from match
play golf and that in so far as their
own bailiwicks are concerned, there
isn't going TO be any more stymie,
no matter what the U. s. @. A. may
think about it.
Vice President Jim Cosgrove
Of the District Golf Association
b going up to New York loaded
for bear--the bear In this in
stance being the stymie.
Jim has been the main crusader
against the stymie around Washing
ton, and it was mainly through his
Evening star., 1937-01-04
20 YEA RS AGO
IN THE STAR

GEORGE Wa sH1NoToN's bas-
ket ball team was defeated for
the first time this season when it
lost to Navy, 34-17. The Hatchet-
ties could score only three times
from the floor against Jim Colli-
flowers team, Almon making G.
WIS II other points from the foul
line.
The interhigh basket ball series
will start at the Y. M. C. A. gym
with a double header in which
Business will play Western, and
Central will meet Eastern. The
opening half of the Eastern-Cen-
trail game will be played between
the halves of the Business-West-
ern contest.
Professional foot ball is q dead
issue as far as Washington Is con-
cerned. The proposition now
strongly advocated in the Middle
West is accorded very little interest
here. According to Benjamin 8.
Minor. president Of the Washing
ton Base Ball Club, no one here
will undertake the promotion Of
professional team.
Evening star., 1937-01-04
<&S&tmi9@@& & M3 .
W. By WRMeCAllu~ -

They couldn't hide that one, and
that may have something to do with
the inevitable conclusion; that the
stymie Is on its last legs in this coun-
try. II it isn't barred at the coming
annual meeting, it must be barred at
some future time.
THE set-up Is that the q. 8. q. A.
and the Royal and Ancient Of
Great Britain work hand in glove.
They see eye to eye on all major leg
islative problems Of the game. but
the gray boards Of the Royal and An
cient are grimly and firmly in favor Of
the stymie, with the purist notion OF
playing the game as originally started,
meaning that the ball shall not be
touched by the hands from the time
it is struck from the tee until It Is
holed out. They don't agree on the
size Of the ball, but that's . small
matter compared to the stymie.
Outlawing Of the stymie IN
this country would mean IN
open break with the Royal and
Ancient, and the U. S. G. A.
wants to avoid that.
So meanwhile sentiment against the
stymie mounts, and even If something
isn't done this week it will be done
later. It's inevitable. The stymie has
taken so many socks on the coco that
it can't stand up much longer.
WAsHINGToN's golf colony took
w the U. s. @. A. 14-club edict
with a grin, and with general realiza-
ton that it's thoroughly sound. It
won't affect most of the vast army Of
buffers. Its main effect will come
among the pros or among the anna
teurs who fancy they have to have .
club for every distance Of shot. And
it will affect that modern brigade who
think that because Runyan plays .
spoon better than any one else they
must have . flock Of spoons in their
bags.
All the older pros agree en-
tireiy with the ruling, but think
1t isn't drastic enough.
As matched sets are made now
adays they are composed Of nine irons,
ranging from the long-hitting No. /
to the niblick, known as the No. 8; q
dynamiter, or sand-wedge; q putter
and four wooden clubs-15 in all. But
every player has pet club or two
which he wouldn't give up in any
case, and there's where the rub comes.
We predict the manufacturers will
cut down the number of irons in the
standard set from nine to seven in
their 1887 lines; that the No. iron
will be eliminated entirely and that
only one spoon will be carried. Mat
ter Of fact, there aren't 10 amateurs
around washington who can play the
No. iron anyhow. They'd rather take
q spoon for q shot around 200 yards in
normal Summer weather. It's more
accurate and more dependable.
Evening star., 1937-01-04

campaigning and his insistence 1t
should be barred that 1t isn't played
in District Golf Association tourna-
ments any more-and won't be.
NOV the United States Golf Asso-
citation is composed Of q highly
intelligent, reasonably minded group
Of men, who have the best interests
Of the game at heart, and always
have an ear cooked for public senti-
ment. The fact that they have been
a little bit stubborn ABOUT the stymie
doesn't mean that if enough pressure
is brought on 'em they won't change
their minds. They may well do that,
and the fact that they eventually
will change their minds is foreshad-
owed by that QUESTIONABLE handed to
all amateur championship competi-
tors last September at Garden City.
There, for the first time in history,
the U. S. G. A. tried to check on the
stymie, how many Of 'em were laid,
how they affected the play and so on.
But the worst stymie Of them
all, the one that went all over
the world, came before the
amazed eyes Of 5000 or 5000
people on the thirty-ifth green
Of the final between John Fisch-
er and Jock Mclean.
Evening star., 1937-01-04
Would Grim b Spectators.

"a GEAR" not only would bring all
"A the boxers a nd other members
Of the fight game under one Jurisdic-
tion and make the rules all the same,
but under this arr rangement the prices
for big fights could be set so that
the ticket gougers could be put out OF
business.
Instead Of having an acre or two
Of so-called "ringside" seats all at
one fixed top price, the best OF which
are gobbled up by the spectators and
sold to the wealthy customers, the
plan could be put into effect of scaling
the prices from THE first ringside row
back to about tn e fifteenth, behind
which all of the other ringside seats
would be at a sar he price, but would
not be fabulous.
Now the questi pn arises: Who IS
the man for the job? The answer will
have to be determined by the repre-
sentatives of the various boxing COM
missions througho ut the country. But
what boxing real y needs today is a
single national head with some brains.
copyright, 1887. Reproduction in whole
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Evening star., 1937-01-04
Likes Jackie's Right.

JACKIE has appeared in several
" tournaments here and in Cleve-
land and Flint, Mich. The nautral
ability he displayed aroused ex-cham.
pion Miller's interest and he offered
to help the youngster along.
They paired of for q five-rouno
workout, Jackie mailing Freddie time
or two with q right.
That's q swell right, Jackie" the
ex-champion encouraged. you real
ly know how to throw 1t; but you
haven't got any power behind 1t.
"You hit me with it several times
because couldn't even see 1t coming.
But 1t didn't hurt. You see, you are
throwing it without putting your body
behind it.
DO it this way"
Evening star., 1937-01-04
Checks Soon Ready as Star
Tourney Scores Are AUDITED

his handicap, to trail Elkins by %
pins.
Mrs. Ford with 25-625 spread
eagled the women's field. Mrs. Sparks
shot 50-593 and Mrs. Wootton, s.
sci.
The tournament surpassed all ex-
pectations, not only In the number
Of entries, but in the smoothness with
which the rather complex event went
of. Every alley in the metropolitan
area staged q section of the tourna-
meft, and for the first time in the
history Of bowling prizes were award
ed on the basis of scores rolled at
different plants.
Said George Isemann, secretary Of
the National Duckpin Bowling Con-
gress, today: THE Stars 1886 tour
nament beyond question was one of
the most successful Of any kind ever
held in this country"
Evening star., 1937-01-04
CRICKET ROUT CHECKED
Aussies Brace, Lead In Match
After England Takes Two.

MELBOURNE, Australia. January I
R,-Australia's test cricket team IN
creased its lead in the third test
match against England today, running
its second innings score to 81 runs
for the loss Of three wickets at lunch
time. A throng of 10000 turned out
when the match was resumed.
When play began today the Aussies
were leading by 127 runs, with one
wicket down in the second innings.
England won the first two matches
and needed one more victory to clinch
the series.
Evening star., 1937-01-04
NET RANKING SQUAWKS

NEW YORK, January 4 @.-The
Ranking Committee Of the United
States Lawn Tennis Association ap-
pears to have laid the groundwork for
an argument that will endure an entire
year In listing Alice Marble above
Helen Jacobs in the 1886 women's
rankings and placing frankie Parker
in the mems No. spot behind Don
Bulge.
While the rankings announced yes
terday won't become official until
passed by the annual convention here
in February. surprised comments al
ready have been uttered.