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Evening star., 1937-07-23

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been willing to let up in it's demand for
the court bill. Now, in the middle of
Summer, members rather resent the idea
they should be held here to consider these
controversial measures.
With the dropping by the administra-
ton Of its court bill, Immediately there
cropped up in Washington today rumors
that some OF the justices Of the Supreme
Court now rs years of age or more, would
retire-as Justice Van Devanter did last
June. 1t was understood that as long as
this court bill, with its provision relating
to the Supreme Court, was before Con-
gress, there would be no further retire
ments. This situation has now changed
abruptly. The court is in recess until
October, and it may be that no further
retirements will come until that time.
** X X
Also there was an increase in specula-
ton as to whom the President will ap-
point to the Supreme Court to fill the
Van Devanter vacancy. It was under
stood he would make no appointment
until after the struggle over the court
bill had been ended. It is now ended,
and there seems no good reason for fur
ther delay on the Presidents part. The
Supreme Court will reassemble with only
eight members in the Fall, If the Presi-
dent fails to act. The sudden death of
Senator Joe" Robinson OF Arkansas
has eliminated him as probable sue
cessor to Van Devanter. The Presidents
first appointment to the highest tribunal
will be watched eagerly. The battle over
the court, and the Presidents own stric-
lures against the tribunal, have turned
the spot light on the court as rarely be-
fore. The question asked on every side is,
which new dealer win the President now
put GA the benchf
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-11-17
FALLEN WIRES
 KILLS FATHER,
 TWO CHILDREN

PORT ANGELES, Nov. 17.-Higt tension wires grounded in the heavy weekend snow, cost the lives yesterday of father and two oi his children.
 Gilbert Hendrickson, 40, shinglt weaver, was killed in futile effort to save his two children. Merle, 9 and Ardith, 6.
 Three other members of the fam fly watched but were powerless to help as the three were electrocuted in an alley near their home. Mrs Hendrickson was seriously ill al the time of the tragedy.
 The children were playing in ar alley and came in contact with the fallen power lines. Hendricksor at- tempted to free them and was cleo trocuted himself.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-11-17
Haida Renders Aid to H ungry
 Hunters Today

The Coast Guard cutter Haida has returned to port with news that all hunters storm bound over the weekend are present and account ed for.
 Leaving Juneau yesterday after noon, the Haida steamed to Doty Cove where two Port Snettisham prospectors, Sanders Wilson and Henry Olson. have been storm bound for several days. On arrival off the entrance tc Doty Cove last night, weather was too heavy for small boat to put off into the cove III search Of the missing hunters. An anchorage was made at Oliver Inlet and the cutter returned to Doty Cove this morn- ing.
 Sanders and Olson were found to have become stormbound for ten days, their 10-foot open boat boat being too small for passage of Frederick Sound Their food was gone and they were subsisting on the meat of deer shot by Olson
 Three days food were left the men by the Haida and with the weather considerably moderated since yesterday, it is expected that the men will be able to cross to their mainland home today or to- morrow
 William Fleek, Dale Fleek. and Bert Stedman. reported missing when the Haida left, was storm bound behind Marmion Island. Dale had walked the beach to Douglas to notify worried relatives while his fa- ther and Stedman brought the boat around today
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-11-17
JACKIE AND
 BETTY WE'D ON SATURDAY
Form CT Child Actor and Blonde Movie Star to
 Be Married

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Nov. IT. - Jackie Coogan, who rose to fame and fortune as child actor, and Betty Grable, blonde movie star, will be married next Saturday.
 Relaxing in Jackie's arms, the blonde Miss Grable so announced today, smiling at one and all and punctuating her announcement with kisses--for Cccgan.
 Their decision was disclosed when Jackie returned to Hollywood - where he made million dollars as Ia child star after a 36,000-mile totu with the orchestra he leads.
 You see,e smiled Betty we've been waiting for long time. Jackie first asked me to marry him three years ago, just after we met But we were too young then.
 .sfIe was twenty-one last October and I was twenty. but my motion picture contract stipulated that couldn't wed until I. too. had at- taiped my majority
 Well, that's all taken care of now, because I'm twenty-one and there's nothing to stop us. We had planned to be married in Decem- bar, but we don't want to wait that long, so next Saturday, at quiet cefemony, we'll become man and wife"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-11-17
TWO ESCAPED
 CONNECTS ARE
 TAKEN EASILY
Officers Burst Into Lodging
 House Room and Make Capture ONE HUNTED MAN
 JUMPS TO SAFETY
House to House Search in Syracuse Brings
 Good Results

SYRACUSE, N Y, Nov. r. = Detective Sergeant Metzgar an- nonnces that the police have cap tufed John Oley and Harold Crow ley, two of three convicted of the k.-aapers of John O'Connell, Jr., in 1883, and who escaped from the Ondhdaga Penitentiary at lanes vile early yesterday morning.
 Itiis said the two convicts were taken by three officers without re- sistaAce in a rooming house in the oowmown business section.
 Mstzgar said the officers were making house to house search and came to a two rom apartment on the second floor
 The door of the rom was locked but tile key was in the door. They turned the key and burst into the room
 Crowley and Oley were in chairs and submitted to arrest without a struggle.
 Percy Geary, third member of the escaped convicts. is reported to have escaped by jumping Is feet t6 the ground from a bathroom window of the apartment.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-11-17
FRANCO BUILDS
 AIRBASES FOR
 NEXT ATTACKS
Planning Major Offensive Against Remaining
 Loyalists

HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Bor- der, Nov. 17.--Gen Franco is re- ported to be rushing construction of airports behind the Aragon- North eastern front to assist in the pros- pective major offensive eastward
 The newest base for the Insur- gent aerial armada is said to be To- cated at Tudela, west of the Tudela- Pamplona highway others are scattered across the vast battlefront from the French frontier to the mountains.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-11-17
INVOKING OF
  NEUTRALITY IS BLOCKED

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.-Imme- diate consideration of resolution by Representative Hauthoff de- manding President Roosevelt invoke the neutrality act in the Sino-Jap- anese crisis, was blocked in the House this afternoon by Chairman McReynolds of the House Foreign Affairs committee.
 McReynolds objected to the res olution and it was referred to the usual committee.
 Senator Bone announced that group of Senators will fight shortly for a general tightening of the provisions for neutrality legisla- tion'
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-11-17
QUESTION MAN,
 MATTS0N CASE
Composite Description Al most Perfect Of-
 6cers Declare

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Nov. IT A man who described himself as a structural steel worker and gave his name as Ely Rapaich, about 45 of Gary, Indiana, came in today foi renewed questioning concerning the Kidnapping and death of ten-year old Charles Mattson at Tacoma, al- most one year ago
 Officers said he continues to deny he has ever been in Tacoma. They declare he fitted almost perfect ly" the composite description of the kidnaper, except his age. The kid naper is believed to be several years younger than Rapaich.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-11-17
COvernm m ent Is Presenting Case
 In Piracy Trial
Jury Chosen and Nine Wit. nesses Called by Prose
 cution Up to Noon

Nine government witnesses had been called up to noon today in the fish piracy case in Federal District Court before Judge George F. AL eyander and seven witnesses re- nlained to testify before the defense would start it's case. Four men Alvin H. Merick. Elmer Beatty, Harry Elk and Albert Inman-all of Ke.chikan, are charged in the triai with raiding traps of the Pa- ciffc American Fisheries and the Astoria and Puget Sound Canning Company last July 28 at Gull Cove and also near Strawberry Point in Icy Straits. At Gull Cove, the de- fendants are alleged to have taken 10000 salmon and 7.c00 at Straw berry Point.
 Selection of the jury was com- pleted yesterday afternon and 1t includes the following: James Ed mistm, Mike P. Karry, J. E. Hill. Mrs. J. w. Mckinley, Joe Riedi, John Mills. E. s. Evans, George Shaw, T. w. Sanford, George A. Fleek, L. M. Ritter and Mrs. Ruby Elstad
 Assistant District Attorneys George W. Folta and w. c. Stump are ham, ding the prosecution and Mrs. Mill dred Hermann and George Grigsby the defense.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-11-17
ADDRESS OF FDR IS READ,
 CELEBRATION
Proves that w ashing to n Would Have Approved
 Present Farm Plans

MOUNT VERNON, Virginia, Nov 17.-President Roosevelt said George Washington's career made it al- most certain that the First Presi- dent would have favored the pres ent Government action to aid far mers."
 Washington, Roosevelt said, show ed in his own words The considered agricultural production, even in his time, was much more than loca matter"
 Because the President is laid ur with the toothache, Secretary o1 Agriculture Wallace read the ad. dress at the gathering in Wash ington's home in connection witt the seventy-fifth anniversary of thu establishment of the Department O. Agriculture.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-11-17
COUNTER ATTACK IS REPORTED BY INTERIOR FORGE
Thousands of Fresh Troops Rushing to Winter
 Defense Lines
COMMANDERS MAKE
 DECISIVE STATEMENT
Will Not Capitulate Nor Compromise But Will
 Fight to Finish

SHANGHAI, Nov 17.--Heavily re- inforced Chinese armies today strucls back at the Japanese invad- CTS in counter attack along the winter defense line defending Nan king. some 125 miles away.
 Thousands of fresh troops from the interior marched eastward to bolster the forces southeast of the Capital City.
 At the same time civilians are fleeing from Nanking and evacua- tion of Chinese government offices is undW way
 Chinese commanders said: We Twill not capitulate or compromise with the Japanese We will fight to the last ditch"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-11-17
Labor Tote, Just What Is It? Recent Elections StiH Leaue
 Room, Splendid Arguments
By PRESTON GROVER

WASHINGTON. Nov. l7.-Before we go into tailspin about the sweeping significance of labor's demonstration in the recent elec- tions it might be well to keep in mind that the votes cast by the men who labor have been the bal ance of power" numerically in many if not all, elections in the United States in many years.
 This year these votes were the balance of power in the important New York City election. They were likely the deciding influence in the Pittsburgh elections.
 But what makes this balance ot power" stand out this year is that, flor the first time, it can be meas ured numerically in the big city of New York. There Mayor LaGuar- dia was reelected by margin of 454, ,425 votes over his Democratic opponent, Jeremiah Mahoney. LaGuardia was the Republican, Fusion candidate but was support ed as well by the American Labor IParty-which delivered to him 482 .459 votes. That was more than his margin of victory. Without those votes he would not have been elected.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-11-17
NORTH POLE .CAMPERSI IN
 PERIL NOW
Four Riding Out to Open Sea on Ice Floe-Res-
 cue to Be Attempted

MOSCOW, Nov 17.-Four Rus sian Arctic campers are now riding an ice foe down from the North Pole, according to radio report and are only l25 miles off the north eastern coast of Greenland
 The four men will probably bt taken off in January before the ice raft reaches the open sea and be in danger of breaking up.
 The campers have drifted more than 400 miles.
 They will probably be taken off the ice floe between Greenland and Spitzbergen.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-11-17
AIRCRAFT
 SUBSIDIES
 SUGGESTED
Right Now There Should Be Provisions for Con-
 struction Loans

WASHINGTON, Nov IT. = The Maritime Commission has recom- mended to Congress that loans and subsidies be made available for de- velopment of transoceanic aircraft.
 The report emphasizes however, there is no need at present for air. craft subsidies comparable to those granted surface shipping but the principal need now is for 75 per cent for construction loans to help swing high initial engineering cost of huge new flying boats.
 Informed persons say commercial service across the North Atlantic will start next spring.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-11-17
GOVERNMENT OF JAPAN IS
 UNIFIED NOW
Emperor Hirohito Approves Creation of "Imper-
 ial alHeadquarters'

TOKYO, NOV. .7.--Emperor Hiro- hito today approved of the creation of an Imperial il ca quarters which consolidates the Government in one highly centralized Adminis- trative body with sweeping powers.
 The creation of the Imperial Headquarters places the chiefs of the Army and Navy, General Staffs and their aides. in a unified com mand, and presumably coordinates the war operations.
 Press reports said the new body will include two of the Royal Princes. The Emperor is Chairman of the Headquarters"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-11-17
TAX CUT IS
 FAVORED NOW
Industry s PronouncedKick Evidently Bearing
 Some Fruit

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.-A sur vey discloses there is almost a unanimous sentiment of the mem bers of the Senate Finance Com mittee for modifying the corporate surplus tax.
 All but two of the 20 members expressed themselves in favor of re- yising the levy which has been criticized by industry in outspoken opposition.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-11-17
Woman Senator
 Is Getting Busy
Proposes Those of Her Sc, Be Drafted as We'll as
 Men Tn Wartime

WASHINGTON, Nov. IT. The Senates newest women member, Mrs Bibbs Graves, Democrat. of Alabama. has proposed a resolution that the Government draft women as well as men in time of war
 When war exists or is imminent, men, women. money and material should be available for unlimited use and service without profit" Mrs Graves resolution says.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-11-17
SOVIET PILOT CRACIANSkY IS
 LEAVING NORTH
Flier and Four Associates Abandon Arctic
 Search for Pliers

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Nov. IT, Russian pilot Graciansky and his crew of four associates, left Fair banks at o'clock this morning for Providence Bay, Siberian coast. op- posite Nome, in their Sikorsky ann phibian plane The flight should take six and one half hours.
 Graciansky has been engaged in searching for the six missing So- vieta fliers. He is now returning to Moscow
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-11-17
Roosevelt Is
 In Bed Today Tooth Still Causes Trouble All Engagements
 Cancelled

WASHINGTON, Nov 17-Presi- dent Roosevelt has still a slight temperature as the result of an in- fected tooth. Doctors ordered him to remain in bed all of today and all engagements were cancelled for the second consecutive day. The dentist wishes to save the tooth in stead of extracting it.
 The President however, had q restful night.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-11-17
FIRE RAGING
 IN HEART OF
 OHIOCAPITAL
Half Block of Business Es- tablishments Destroyed
 -Firemen Hurt

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov l7-Fire destroyed half block of business establishments in the heart of the city today causing damage unof- ficially estimated at half a million dollars and resulted in slight injuries to more than score of firemen.
 Famed by brisk wind. the flames shot high in the air.
 The blaze district is only two blocks from the State Capitol Build ing.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-11-17
Second TyphOOn
 Hits Philippines

MANILA, Nov 17.-A typhoon swept in today from the ocean over the Islands of Cebu and Panay. in Central Philippines, and disabled radio stations. Power plants and power lines are destroyed.
 This is the second twphoon within six days.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-11-17
GOVERNOR TROY
 IS IN OLYMPIA

OLYMPIA, Wash, Nov. l7.-Gov John w. Troy, of Alaska, was the honor guest at luncheon at the Country Club here today. He is visiting his nephews, Prosecuting Attorney R. Smith Troy and State Senator Harold Troy. The Gov ernor is now on his way to Juneau after visiting in California.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-11-17
BELL COMING
 WEST BY PLANE

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.-United States Commissioner of Fisheries Bell will leave by plane next Sun day to attend the Halibut Com mission hearings at Seattle which start on December 2.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-11-17
RETIRED APP.
 MAN IS DEAD

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Nov. IT, Elmer Roberts, "A, war correspon- dent and long chief of the Berlin and Paris Associated Press Bureaus, is dead here.
 Roberts served the Associated Press for 35 years in his 40 years of newspaper work. He retired eight years ago.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-11-17
BUT LOOK AT DETROIT

But to say, because of the New York victory, that labor can step |out into the national field and ex- ercise the balance of power in 1888 and 1940 would be excitingly haz- ardous, at least.
 First off, there is the example Iof the Detroit election. There one faction of labor, the CIO, put up its own ticket and was beaten about two to one In several Ohio cities, where the CIO endorsed candidates, the vote was against it's candidates.
 Now let us go back to New York City. There Mayor LaGuardia was tremendously popular. He had giv- en the city an administration So handsome in contract with racket ridden previous administrations that vast conservative sections SUD- ported him in spite of his known radical leanings.
 The Repub b Ii can organization, which does not especially love La Guardia, was glad enough never theless to nominate him because of what his popularity might bring them. It brought them several of- fees and some prestige.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-11-17

Administration of the Virgin Is- lands was transferred from the navy to the Interior Department in 1881.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-11-17

Wild onions, bane of southern dairymen, are rankest during the spring
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-11-17

The basis of Chinese social organ ization is closely knit and highly organized family.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-11-17
POWER NOT YET PROVED

There is no need to look for like reasons for the American Labor Party supporting LaGuardia. The
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-11-17

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-13
Engagement Of
 John Roosevelt
 Revealed Today

NAHANT, Massachusetts, Sept. B. = The engagement of John Roosevelt, youngest son of the President, and Anne Lindsay Clark, Boston debutante, is announced to- day by her mother, Mrs. Haven Clark.
 Mrs. Clark stated that the couple will not be married until John, a Harvard senior, graduates next June.
 "They have made no plans for the wedding. Anne first met John during his first year at Harvard at a Harvard dance" Mrs. Clark said.
 John is now the Presidents only unmarried son.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-13
PRESIDENT
 THREATENED
 IN LETTERS
Writer, Former Officer, Is Convicted = Sent to
 Prison for Year

BOSTON, Mass, Sept. 13.-Morton Wainwright, 72, former Deputy United States Marshal at Seattle, Wash, has been convicted of send ing letters, threatening the life of President Roosevelt. He has been sentenced to serve one year in a Federal prison.
 Investigators said the language used in the letters was the most violent that has ever come before them.
 Wainwright has been travelling salesman of late years and made his home at Winthrop, Mass.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-13
CnribOu Eaters of Arctic
 Related to Apache Indimns

TUCSON, Arizona, Sept. 13.-Dr Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer and ethnologist, said 600 years sep aration has only partially removed the family similarity between the Apache Indians of Arizona, and the Caribou Eaters of the Arctic Circle.
 The physical resemblance and language similarity is still apparent Dr. Engstad said, despite the fact that the Apaches broke away from the parent tribe and journeyed southward more than six centuries ago.
 Dr. Ingstad stayed four years with a Hudsons' Bay tribe and is now living on an Apache reservation.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-13
NEW GERMAN
 ARMY PASSES.
 GREAT REVIEW
Mock Com b at Held with Fuhrer Hitler Sound
 ing Praises

NUREMBERG, Germany, Sept. 13. A feverishly excited throng of 600- coo Germans saw on the Zeppelin field here a mighty display of Ger many's new armed two armies locked in mock combat
 Twelve thousand men, IA motoriz- ed uniss, 1,500 horsemen and 450 airplanes took part before Adolf Hitler.
 Anti-aircraft guns and three new bombers were also brought out for display.
 Hitler's voice blared out through a loud speaker: 'Heil Soldaten' and swelling chorous came back ''Heil Mein Fuhrer."
 Hitler proclaimed: You are the Nations pride You have become men,"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-13
JAPANESE FIRE ON HOSPITAL AS
 U. s. FLAG WAVES
Seventh-day Adventist In- stitutioS Is Bombed
 for 5Minutes

HONGKONG. Sept. 13. P. V. Thomas, head of the American Sev- enth Day Adventist Mission and hospital at Waichow. charges that the Japanese apparently had de- liberately bombed the hospital there notwithstanding the prominent dis play of the American flags.
 Thomas. who arrived here. brought wounded members of his Chinese staff He said Japanese war planes bombed the hospital for IS minutes Sunday
 Waichow is fifty miles up the river from here.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-13
StenCh Bombs Are Exploded,
 Movie Houses

NEW YORK, Sept. 13 - Stench bombs, exploding simultaneously in score of upper Manhattan and Bronx film theatres last night, in jured more than 50 and caused a panic among Sunday night au- diences.
 Labor troubles are blamed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-13
U. s. Government Finances
 Armament of Philippines
By PRESTON GROVER

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.-It may not be news to the watchful Jap anese, but this government is indi- rectly financing the Philippine gov ernment in it's armament program.
 Here's how:
 In 1884 Congress imposed an ex- else tax of cents pound on im- ports of Philippine coconut oil. That was part of the plan to keep out oil competing with American sourc- eS.
 Revenue fro mthe tax amounted to about $1,500,000 a month, and Congress provided it should be paid to the Philippine government. Suit was brought by soap manufactur- CTS, users of most of the coconut oil, to annul the tax, but it was upheld by the Supreme Court last spring By then $550 0,00O, 900 In taxes had accumulated and the treasury credited the whole sum to the Phil ippine government.
 
 IA BIG HELP
 Such a sum is a mere trifle in the United States these days, but lit was enough to finance the whole Philippine government for year and half. Moreover, it continues to pour into the treasury for the credit of the Philippines at the rate of $1 100000 a month. That makes $18,0 100000 a year, more than half of the regular Philippine govern ment budget.
 But that is not all. Congress pro- vided in the new sugar bill that the tax of 50 cents a hundred pounds on Philippine sugar imported into this country be returned to the Phil ippine vernm ent That will amount to $12,000.000 or Sl5,000, ,00O la year. That tax seems likely to stay regardless of how the sugar bill is rewritten next session.
 The total is close to the full amount of the annual Philippine budget, and far more than is re- quired in General MacArthur's pro- gram for building up the defense of the Philippines to point where even first class power would con- slider it too expensive to conquer them. The total Philippine budget
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-09-13
MID NIGHT CALL CAUSES MURDER
Man Summoned to Door, Then Shot Down as
 Auto Speeds Away

DARLINGTON, s. C., Sept. 13.- Officers sought a midnight caller who shot and killed Haskell Dunn 38, of Lamar, recently acquitted on a charge of staying Albert Am- erson.
 Dunn pleaded self-defense at his trial.
 Dunn was killed Saturday night when he went to the door in answer to knock and a shotgun blasted away from the car in front of Dunn's home and he fell dead as the car sped away.