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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-20
LEADERS join
FOR SPEED ON
RELIEF PLANS
Aim to Stop Recession with
Minimum Delay
First Steps Taken
HOUSE COMMITTEE
GETS BUSY FIRST
Treasury, Federal Reserve
Officials Also Asked
for Decisions

WASHINGTON, April 20. = Con-
gressional leaders and Government
fiscal officials are united in a de-
termined effort to put the Admins
tration's four billion, five hundred
million dollar recovery and relief
program into operation with the
minimum delay.
Three developments are outstand-
ing today.
The House Appropriations Com
mittee is beginning hearings on re-
lief needed and has asked Harry l..
Hopkins, WPA Administrator, to
outline the WPAs proposed activi-
ties.
The next step is to hear Treasury
and Federal Reserve bank officials.
who have been called together, to
decide how fast the pump should
work on the desterilized gold for
credit of banks into lendable re-
sources for the nations financial in
stftutions.
Another step is the opinion re-
quested from the members attend
ing the convention of the American
Society of Newspaper Editors.
One step, not mentioned, is the
report from Detroit. that Henry
Ford, who has opposed various New
Deal policies, has accepted an in
vitation to discuss business condi-
tons with President Roosevelt on
April 81
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-20
FORCES
MAKING drive IN
.SHANTUNC PROV.
Shanghai Headquarters De-
clare Offensive Is
Victorious One
TWO MAJOR FIGHTS
REPORTED ON FRONT
Defenders Said to Be Max
ing Last Stand OPP,
timism Is Checked

SHANGHAI, April 20.-The JAZZ
anese are driving a strong often
sive today to thrust back the Cen
trail China Army of the defenders.
Two major battles along 50-mile
front are reported in southern Shan
tung Province.
The offensive, according to Jap
anese sources, has apparently
checked the optimism of the Chin
csc which was shown when they
were victorious at Taierchwang
According to the Japanese sourc-
es, the Chinese defenders are APP
parently making their last stand in
Shantung Province.
Chinese officials here refuse TO
make any statement aside from de-
claring that the japanese have not
won yet in Shantung Province.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-20
new TRAFFIC
INAUGURATION
IS ANNOUNCED
United Air Lines to Start
Planes on Weekly Serv-
ice, Says Stimson
CONNECT AT SEATTLE
WITH WEDNESDAY S. S.
Pacific Alas k a Always
Makes Pickup in Ju-
neau for Fairbanks

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. April 20.
The interior metropolis of Alaska,
the CITY of Fairbanks, will be brought
approximately eight days closer to
California under new air mail, pas
senger and express plane service,
according to the announcement
made today by A. S. Stimson, Dis
tdict Traffic Manager of the Unit
ed Air Lines.
The new service. will start, accord
ing to plans now, on Tuesday, April
e.
The plane of the United Air Lines
will leave San Francisco at 200
o'clock in the afternoon OF each
Tuesday and arrives in Seattle Tues
day evening. A steamer leaves Seat
tie for Juneau each Wednesday
morning connecting at Juneau with
a Pacific Alaska Always plane for
the final four and one half hour lap
to Fairbanks, via Whitehorse.
The total elapsed time for the
flight, San Francisco to Fairbanks,
will be four days.
Juneau will also be benefited by
the fast service from California.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-20
SAYS JACKIE
DIDN'T EARN
FOUR MILLION
Affidavit Filed as Answer
to Young Coogan S Suit
for Accounting

LOS ANGELES, Cal, April 20
Mrs. Lillian Coogan Bernstein,
mother of Jackie Coogan, has filed
an affidavit declaring that Jackie
only earned one million three hun
dred thousand dollars in the movies
and vaudeville as minor instead
of four million dollars he claims he
earned.
Mrs. Bernstein also states in the
affidavit, that he earned between
$4,000 and $4,000 during the last
two years.
The affidavit is filed in answer
TO his suit asking for an account
ing of his earnings fom his mother
and stepfather.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-20
BY PRESTON GROVER

WASHINGTON, April 20.-Rep.
Hatton Summers of Texas was
photographed with his feet on the
table-one of those informal poses
and almost the outstanding fea-
ture was a hole in the sole of his
shoe. How did he get it? He
walks
Members must take their exercise
in some manner and Summers pre-
fers his afoot. He scouts the coun-
tryside thoroughly on pleasa t
weekends and knows the lay of
most Civil War battlefields here
aboutS.
But his everyday walking has
something special about it. There
was time when he lived in a
downtown hotel, ate his meals there
and so walked to the Capitol, a
mile or SO away, for the exercise.
More than one Congressman has
tired of downtown hotel life and
so did Mr.. Summers. So he moved
to a hotel on Capitol Hill.
That, however, eliminated the
mile walk. He solved that. Now he
walks from his rooms across the
shady capital plaza to the restau-
rant in the new Supreme Court
building for breakfast, and back to
the capitol, in all about mile. He
goes to the same restaurant for
lunch. 1t doesn't serve dinner.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-20
WASH|NCTONIN
TURMOIL over
MEYERS MOVE.
Gov. Martin Flies West in
Effort to Stem Special
Legislature Call

SPOKANE, Wash, April 20--Gov.
Clarence d. Martins dramatic cross
country flight to head off the at
tempt of Lieut.. Gov Victor A. Mey-
ers to call special session of the
Washington state Legislature ended
shortly after o'clock this MORN
ing and threw the whole controversy
into legal knot
Gov. Martin arrived in the state
at Spokane while Meyers was wait
ing to file special session procla-
nation with the Secretary of State
at Olympia. The proclamation le-
gality was questioned officially be-
cause the Governor returned to the
state and therefore Meyers as act
ing Governor no longer had author
ity.
When the Governor was called TO
Washington on official business,
Secretary of State Belle Reeves had
become Acting Governor as Meyers
was in California Meyers returned
to the state Tuesday and assumed
authority.
Northwest Air Lines reported
specially chartered transport plane
had touched the airport in Spokane
at 1853 o'clock this morning after
crossing the state line at 7:5O o.
clock. Newsmen timed the Cover
nor's arrival at the airport station
at 800 am, from where he imme-
diately telephoned his office and
also the Secretary of States office
in Olympia
Assistant Secretary of Sta tie
Charles Reed refused to accept the
proclamation drawn by Meyers and
attested to early today by a King
County Justice of the Peace. 1t
would have called the special ses-
sion for April IS Reed said he would
ask an opinion of the Attorney Gen.
eral before signing the proclamation.
Meyers cited the relief. housing,
and state revenues as justification
- n.r-
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-20
Anniversary of Air Mail
To Be Celebrated Nav Is

WASHINGTON. April 20. - Only
a score Of years ago air mail serv-
ice was more or less something of
a plaything for scientists, an idea
most people took with grain of
salt if taken at all Today it is
very much of age, a vital compon-
ent to the nations transportation
and communication system.
The post office department on
May Is will celebrate the twentieth
anniversary of the Inauguration OF
regularly scheduled air mail SER
vice.
1t was but a shuttle service be-
tween Washington and New York
"a distance of 218 miles as the
crow flies-when the first route
was inaugurated on May Is, 1918,
during the World War.
The service was operated in two
relays with planes darting at the
breakneck speed of eighty miles
an hour. One pilot would fly from
New York to Philadelphia and
would be relieved by another pilot
who completed the haul to Wash
ington
The air mail system is one Oh
62,826 miles today, with planes fly
ing last fiscal year total of
seventy million miles.
Postmaster General James A.
Farley has proclaimed May Is to
Fl as National Air Mail Week. The
eyes of the nation will be focused
on Kitty Hawk, NC. and Dayton,
O., during that week. Those COM
munities were the cradle of avia-
ton.
1t was at Kitty Hawk that the
Wright brothers made their first
flight, while at Dayton, home of
the famous aviation pioneers, i'm
proved plane models were designed
and manufactured.
Official air mail cachets have
been authorized for Kitty Hawk
/~-.+;.a,,nl an Dorra rT,t1~<<.l
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-20
Congressman Puts Feet on
Table; ShoWs Hole in Sole
Of Shoe; He's Some Walker

knows how he wants his toast fixed
in the morning They coddle his
eggs right.
You don't have to call on the
League of Nations to explain to
them each time" he says.
He has to watch his diet a bit.
He doesn't always eat toast and
eggs. Occasionally in winter he
eats a dish we never heard of be-
fore 1t is oat meal mush, covered
with honey. Try it some time. We
haven't yet, but will be glad to get
reports on it.
His job as Chairman of the
House Rules Committee brings him
in close touch with Federal Judges.
Complaints about judges being
biased, unfair to certain groups of
lawyers, sluggish in their work or
tainted" in their conduct. find
their way to the House Judiciary
Committee. 1t is the first body to
act in impeachments.
Complaints are pending before
the committee most OF the time.
Few see the light of day. The COM
mittee investigates, occas ionally
summons the judge to Washington
to explain, or has a member visit
the judges district. The Constitu-
ton gives the committee no au-
thority to discipline judges but
when a judge finds the committee
is inquiring into his affairs he
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-20
NORTH IDAHO
FL00DED;TW0
men DR0W n
Estimated Damage Expect
ed to Pass Half a Mil
lion Dollars

WALLACE. Idaho, April TO- =
With two persons known to have
been drowned, North Idaho today
viewed the far flung flood division
with an estimated damage that will
pass half a million dollars.
Civic leaders estimate that it will
be at least month before condi-
tons will be restored to normal.
The flood washed out roads, rail
lines, tottered bridges and homes
and the streets are strewn with de-
bris.
The flood is the most disastrous
that has struck the Occur d'Alene
section since 1888.
At Rosedale, 80 miles west of here,
the flood claimed the lives of Jack
Cochrane and John Ojai, both about
"a years old. One slipped from the
dixie into the stream and the other
lost his life trying to save him.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-20
CEN. PERSH|NC
IN new YORK
FOR WEDDING
Reaches Metropolis, Feeling
Fine Walks With
out Any Aid

NEW YORK, April 20 Smiling
and ignoring wheel chair, Gen.
John ]. Pershing returned to New
York today.
The General, who was near death
for several weeks in Arizona, has
greatly improved and he walked UNI
aided to a special car and also UNI
aided when he took The hotel ele-
vator to his rooms.
Gen. Pershing is here to attend
the wedding of his only son, War
rcn Pershing, to Miss Muriel Rich
ards, daughter of New York fin
ancier. The wedding takes place on
Friday.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-20
DEATH BEATS
MERCY filler
us. Commissioner at Ram
part Dies Before Flown
to Interior Hospital

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April 20
Death preceded a mercy flight at
Rampant. United States Commits :
sioner Andrew Braid Webster, sc,
succumbed to paralysis while Pilot
Norris johnson waited to fly him
to the hospital here. The body was
flown here for burial. Webster's
wife died March 6.
Webster was pioneer OF Ram
part and mine operator.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-20
Union Collins
Or No Funerals,
Directors Told

NEW YORK, April 20.-The Fun
eral and Ambulance Chauffeurs'
Union have notified funeral direc-
tors that after May l its members
would not carry nonunion collins to
graves. Pickets in front of the Uni
versal Funeral Chapel carried pla-
cards charging it was using nom
union coffins.
1t is a misdemeanor TO interfere
with a funeral in New York City.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-20
No RecrirninatiOns!

Dear Sans
Thanks for the fine fight. WILL you
also thank the Speaker and the others.
The reorgani cation bill IS intended
70 aimnlify and improve the public service. With
this single objective In vtew, have given 1t ny
earnest approval.
Tho QUESTION presented is solely
of oolicy therefore, the legislative DEVELOPMENTS
of Yesterday occasion for personal recrdni-
nation, and there should b none.
Very sincerely yours,
-zM@-~-.AZ1e-<,
Honorable Sam Ray burn,
Eouse Of Representatives,
Washington, D. c.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-20
WASHINGTON
STATE DEMOS
TO CONVENE
Gathering to Be Held in Ia
coma, July l3-Har-
mony Is Predicted

SEATTLE, April 20.-The Demo-
cratic State Central Committee has
decided to hold a state convention
in Tacoma on July Is, the day be-
fore the Young Democrats National
Rally at Seattle
Chairman Elwood Caples, of Van
couver, predicts that harmony will
prevail at the state convention.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-20
PIT. Barrow Minister
To Be Flown Out to
Fairbanks, Operation

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April 20
The Rev. Frederick c. G. Klerekoper
is to be flown here from Point Bar
row by Pilot Harold Gillian for an
operation for removal of his appen-
dix.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-20
KETCH|KAN CASE.
TAKES ON ANGLE.
IMP RECEDENTED
Judge Alexander Orders
Investigation to Be
Made by FBl

KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April 90
Judge George F. Alexander has or
dered the suit of Gordon MacDon-
aid, against the Ketchikan Spruce
Mills, to be investigated by the FBI
for possible perjury action of trial
witnesses for testimony which IS
contradictory.
The action is unprecedented.
The suit was started in 1884 and
involves the accounting OF $4,000
worth of logs.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-20
Cold Snap
Complexities
Ice Breakup

FAIRBANKS, Alaska April DO
The cold snap continues here to
complicate the Nenana and Cinema
ice breakup contests An inch of
new snow fell Monday night.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-20
REINDEER BILL
IN Conference;
CHANGES MADE
Senate Approves Purchase
Of Half Million Dollars
Worth of Animals
BY j. ]. ECKLES
Secretary to Delegate Dimond

WASHINGTON, April 11.-(Spec-
ial Correspondence When the
Senate considered the Interior De-
partment appropriation bill on April
for amendments, Senator Hayden
of Arizona, offered an amendment
that would authorize the Secretary
of the Interior to Incur obligations
and enter into contracts for the
purchase of reindeer and rang e
equipment from non-native owners,
not exceeding $500,00O"
The amendment was proposed to
take the place in the bill OF the
item passed by the House some
days ago, which carried an appro-
priation of $4,000 "for an inves-
tigation, under the direction of the
Secretary of the Interior, of the
property and reindeer to be ac-
quired for the natives of Alaska"
as authorized by the so-called Rein
deer Act, approved September /,
1887.
Original Bill
The Reindeer Act authorized an
appropriation of not to exceed two
million dollars for the purpose of
buying all reindeer and equipment
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-20

New York's first elevated rail-
way was opened in 1868.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-20
THE EGGS ARE RIGHT

He likes the restaurant. The help
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-16
Rose Blues Top Chase Tourney
 By One Point

Members of the Chase Country Club competed in one of the best contested team matches of local rec ord, when 66 players, divided into B twosomes wound up but one point apart at the finish of 18 holes, and two men tied for the best ball, when Ned Farley and Jim Conway each scored 79's, Saturday afternoon at the Wolcott course.
 Captain Layton Rose led his Blues to a 5O-49 victory over the Reds, explained by J. H. Gilbert Ned Farley negotiated the first nine holes ill 40, four over par, then went around again in 39, while Jim Con- way used up AZ for his first nine but played the course the second time in 37, just one over par, for the best nine hole count of the day Henry Wagner won the oratorical contest. Scores:
 Red-Capt. J. H. Gilbert 0, Ned Farley 3, R. E. King l, Jack Calo F, Ed Farley 0, J. J. Dubiel 2K, Ex. Galgota 3, Lloyd Parsons o, R. Wa terworth 2h, w. c. Husted o, w. A. Jarvis 3, R. c. Smith 3, M. E. Sur face 0, R. Fallon l, L. Harvey 3, R. J. Beaudette 0, R. L. Hale 3, Max Behne 1, Fred Smith, Jr. 1, John Carroll 1, H. w. Schott o, Herbert Pinter 0, Gento Orsini 2la, Chester Smith 3, Win Casey 0, Cy Mellette 2, K. V. McDonough 3, R. Palantine 3, Ed Lynch 1, J. w. McGarry F., John Babin 0, R. Hyland 2A, T. ". Sullivan 3. Total 49.
 Blue-Capt L. A. Rose 3, Al Stew ems 0, F. J. Byrnes 2, w. Stevens 2h, James Conway 3, L. E. Browne h, A. c. Gross 0, John Calvin 3, F. A. Stack 1z, William Birs, Jr. 8, c. Carlsrud 0, Norman Reeds 0, Will liam Bire, ST. 3, Larry Ryan Nelson o, A. w. Circle 3, Vic Hedberg o, Pic Shea 2, J. Prisavage 2, Tom Miller 2, H. A. Ashley 3, Ernest Axelby 3, James Kelly h, D. J. Beck 0, John Baker 3, John Anderson 1, James T. Kelley 0, Ed Burbee 0, Jim Cun- ningham 2, w. c. Childs 2h, M. J. Dunn 3, A. J. Colucci h, c. B. Jacobs 0. Total 50.
 Ned Farley 40 39-79 James Conway ......... AZ 37-79
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-16
Crosby, Late To Start,
 May Capture Grown

With more than an even chance of continuing their winning ways this week against Ansonia on We'd nesday and Gilbert of Wnsted on Saturday, the Crosby high school baseball squad, a team that almost wasn't, came through with a 4-1 victory over Wilby at Hamilton park Saturday afternoon, in the first of two meetings of the teams this sea- son. George Woods, pitcher of a perfect no-hit game a week ago, was hit safely nine times, but he spread 'em out while the Crosby batters got Il safeties, and It's in- field worked well when the going was rough. Crosby and Naugatuck, which beat Torrington Saturday, now share the Naugatuck Valley league leadership.
 A two run count in the second inning proved enough to win the game, Wilby's only score coming in the seventh when some ragged base running also cut down Wilby's chances. Daly, Sheehan and Mc- Kenna put over their second double play of the day to choke off Wilby rally. Chestone being called out on strikes, Woods flaming nine Wild
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-16
DAUBER ODDS-ON CHOICE TO TAKE BELMONT CALLOP
DuPOnt Colt Showed Real Class in PreakneSS;
 Other Sports News
BY STUART CAMERON United Press SpOrSt EditrO)


 New York, May 16.-UPD.- - Americas annual horse racing hysteria is over for another year It ended Saturday when Bill Du- Fonts Dauber splashed through the slime at Baltimore to win the Preakness stakes.
 This is the second of the two U. s. races of which America as a whole is particularly conscious. The other, of course, is the Kentucky derby.
 There are plenty of other races that the inveterate race follower watches just as closely. The Bel mont is one of them. Arlington is another. But there are millions who confine their interest to the Derby and the Preakness. They get down one-buck bet on each of these big ones and that's their racing for the year.
 The Preakness this year was the Derby over again except for two things: LaWrin wasn't in it and the track was fetlock deep in mud. But otherwise it was just the same. Dauber waited for the stretch be- fore making his bid. Then he passed Menow and Fighting Fox, the early leaders. Tn. time there was no Lawrin to catch and Dauber won goining away. The time of 1:59 4-5 for the mile and three sixteenths was good considering the going.
 The battle for the place was a wow Cravat broke last, was the first time past the judges, and still last in the backstretch. Our Henry McLemore described Cravat at this point, eleevn lengths back of the leader, as a ''fourlegged mudpie." Jockey Jackie WeStrope Whacked Cravat just once and he picked up every horse but Dauber to take the place from Menow in photo finish. Dauber should be an adds-on fa- vorite for the Belmont stakes in June Lawrin was not nominated for this fixture and Stagehand is not likely to have recovered from the illness that put him out of the Derby. But the Arlington classic in July should be a great fight among Stagehand, Lawrin and Dauber.
 Week-End Sports
 It was busy Sporst weekend with lots of rowing, golf and motor boating. Harvard's varsity eight beat Cornell, with Syracuse and M. l. T. trailing in the quadrangular regatta at Cambridge. Penn beat Princeton and Columbia at Princeton.
 Jimmy Hines retained his Metro politan open golf championship, passing National Champion Ralph Guldahl and beating off late bid by Sammy Snead. Hines winning 287 was just one stroke off the Fresh Meadow course record set by Sarazen in winning the open in 1882.
 The national Women's golf cham p;on was defeated Saturday when Marion Miley beat Mrs. Estelle Law son Page, l up, in the final of the southern golf championship at Bir- mingham.
 Ted Roberts, 4-year-old New York boathouse proprietaor, won the an- nual Albany-NeW York outboard motorboat race yesterday. It was Roberts first victory in nine tries and he won in the toughest weather in the history of the race. Marshall Eldredge, defending champion, was seventh.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-16
New Workers Oppose CiarlO, Buff And
 TurcOtte Thursday

Bridgeport. Stamford and Nauga- tuck, Joe Rossi and Red Moffet be- ing paired in a bout that ought to rival anything on the card. Irish Johnny Hayes of Bridgeport, one of the states outstanding amateurs and Billy Nuncio of Thompsonville are booked while Frankie Buff takes on Eddie Rahm of New York, Tur- cote faces Joe Johnson, a N. Y. Golden Glover, and Ciarlo has Dick Walsh to contend with. Lou Mur- ray of Torrington and Johnny Par ker of Thompsonville and Billy Fay Tor vs. Sam Fibre of Bridgeport were added to the card today.
 Ready To Go
 With the stadium, painted, bolted and put in first class shape, more seats, more comfort, parking space and other conyenienceS, all that re- mains to make the opening show an outstanding success is a good break in the weather. Six outdoor shows last summer were complete success ses and there is every reason to be- lieve Promoters Mickey Dance, Bob Kelley and George Mulligan will take up where they left off. Wrest- ling will be presented every other week, depending upon the matches, the promoters are able to secure.