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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-24
DESPERATE
BEATS GUN
In ESCAPE
Wartime Cannon Were TO
Be Used on Durand's
Canyon Hideouf

CODY, Wyo., March 24-Advanc-
ing posses of officers today found
Earl Durand, 26, slayer of four
peace officers, had escaped from
his canyon stronghold while war
time howitzers and trench mortars
were being rushed in to blast him
out.
Whereabouts of the elusive killer
still has the posse puzzled. 1t was
believed Durand was in cul-de-
sac and his capture was a matter
of time only.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-24
SIX C0NVICTS
ELECTROCUTED
FOR KILLING |
White PrisonersDi Quick
Iy for Staying Of Cap
fain Of Guard

COLUMBIA, S. c., March "a. -
Six white convicts were executed
at the State Penitentiary early this
morning for the Staying of J. Olin
Sanders, Prison Guard Captain, in
an attempted escape in 1897.
The executions, all in the electric
chair, took just 48 minutes.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-24
YELLOW METAL
BE SHIPPED TO
UNITED STATES
England Is Sending Large
Amount Of Gold Across
Seas for Safekeeping

LONDON, March 24-It is esti-
mated that $100,000,000 in gold
will be shipped to the United
States during the weekend for safe
keeping because of the European
political tension.
Some quarters estimate that the
weeks total will be double the
amount
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-24
OTTAWA OFFICIAL
MAKES ROUND TRIP

Capt. Joseph Heenan, official
from Ottawa with the Department
of Trade and Commerce, Is a
round trip passenger on the steam
er Princess Louise. taking first
hand look at the Alaskan end of
Canadian operations.
While in Juneau, Heenan was
taken through the new Baranof
Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-24
LINES swARMING

SAN FRANCISCO. March "a.
Picket lines swarmed this afternoon
on waterfront piers in San Fran
cisco and also Alameda In an eff
fort to force the Matson Navigation
Company to improve living quarters
on three liners, and also to speed
negotiations for the Alaska fishing
season.
Secretary z. r. Brown, of the Dis
trict Council of the Maritime Fed
Grafton of the Pacific. said all docks
of the Alaska fishing fleet will be
picketed.
1.-The move is taken because OF
past actions by the packers delaying
wage negotiations until the vessels
are loaded and ready to sail to AL
aska and then last minute storm
ing of the unions into signing agree
ments," said Brown.
Brown further said no cargo Will
be placed aboard any Of the yes
sells until negotiations are completed.
The companies involved are the
Alaska Packers, Red Salmon Can
ming and Alaska Salmon Company
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-24
AMERICANS CASH IN

NEW YORK, March "a. - The
Irish Hospital Sweepstakes today
won S4,1830OO for ticket holders in
the United States, including $780,
900 each to 10 whose tickets had
drawn Workman, the winning
horse.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-24

Sixteen years ago. So per cent
of the residents of Turkey were ILL
iterate. Now, less than 40 per cent
are.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-24
AMERICANS SHOULD LEARN
SPANISH, is TIP GIVEN BY
FpFNCHMAN; GIVES REASONS
BY PRESTON GROVER

WASHINGTON, March "a. = We
have just been talking to a young
fresh from trip back
to his homeland, and as result
a trifle more clearly
what it feels like to live in place
only two hours removed from az
enemy airdrome.
ut is strange to have the sky
feeling unsafe he said. He talked
along as he sort of dreamed over
the recollection.
When you cross The English
Channel, you are an hour farther
away, and you feel better, but still
not completely safe. Then you
cross the Atlantic, five days, six
days away. You would never be-
heye it, the feeling of getting away
from it, having the Atlantic Ocean
between"
He blew a blast of cigarette
smoke upward with the air of a
man who has just raced his car
across the railroad track in time to
save everything but the tail light.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-24
BOOSTS SPANISH


Safety is not the only thing he
talked about. He thought it was
lstrange that schools in the United
States taught more French than
Spanish. Ct don't know whether
they do, but that was his impress
sion.)
He thinks it is a mistake for
Americans not to study Spanish in
stead
1T is the main thing that stands
between the people of the United
States and the South American
countries" he said. There is q
feeling of affinity among people
who speak the same language.
when an American comes up
who speaks only English they sense
the Anglo Saxon There is freez-
ing up He shrugged his shoulders
at this point to symbolic freez-
ing up-and did so very we'll
There is gap between the
United States and South America
as wide as the ocean," he said, with
outspread arms to signify the inn
mense distance. Even between the
United States and Mexico 1t is
wide, wider than you would be-
lieve. l meet them here. Gle waved
his hand TO sweep in all the Latin
speaking embassies) He has access
to them.
/ And it is mostly language that
makes the difference. It is hard to
understand that you have SO many
unemployed here when South
America needs SO many people
who know how TO do things
mechanics, farmers"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-24
SITUATION AT SEATTLE

SEATTLE, March "a. Alaska's
Canned Salmon Industry. employing
rs, 900 men and spending s25,000,000
for labor and materials, supplies and
transportation service is today in
extremely serious jeopardy be-
cause of the labor jurisdictional war,
A. I. Ellsworth. representative Of
the Alaska Canned Salmon Industry
said.
Ellsworth added that the packers
value the annual pack at $40, 000, 900
and the industry pays 10 percent
of the taxes collected by the Ter
ritory of Alaska.
Further Controversies
Although only three cannery tend
ers are held up now in Seattle by
pickets in the AFL and CLIO dispute,
this Is but a forerunner of more
controversy expected among the UNI
ions.
Ellsworth said. THE Industry has
been told each succeeding expedi-
ton to the salmon fields will face
exactly the same trouble in the ALL
and CLIO war. for control of workers.
This Is just as serious as civil war.
Ellsworth said that except for one
agreement with Alaska Fishermens'
Union no contracts have been signed
by the unions involved in the SAL
mon canning industry.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-24

A three-legged foxhound runs
with the pack at Southport. N. c.,
and is never far behind when the
fox is cornered,
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-24
SPEECH WITHOUT WORDS

And we are reminded at this
point that L.atins speak one Ian
guage Yankees never will master
Call it shrug language.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-03-24

Continued on Page Four
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-12-01
Drums Along the Mohawk" Opens at MaryandN Next Week
WINS FILM CHANCE
"CRASHING" GATES

Newspaper reporters and gang
sters are being crowded off the
screen by doctors as HollyWood's
No. 1 story source. There is ex-
element in the private life of
doctor and human drama behind
hospital doors that make medical
and scientific stories ideal for
translation onto the screen. The
latest is Paramount's version ~
he Lloyd Douglas best-seller
Disputed Passage" a picture il
the tradition Of such hits as pas
teur," Men in White and "The
Citadel 1t opens Monday at the
Maryland Theatre with Dorothy
Lamour, Akin Tamiroff and John
Howard heading a brilliant cast.
"Disputed Passage deals nor.
with a doctors attitude towards
his practice than the practice il
self. In the picture, Akin Tami-
rolf plays the role of d doctor who
believes in the stern dedication Of
the physicians life to science
with no room for human emotion.
William Collier, ST., plays the role
of a doctor to whom the human
side is as important as the scien-
tific. Caught between these two
attitudes are John Howard, pro-
duct and pride of Tamiroff's in
struction, and Dorothy Lamour his
sweetheart.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-12-01
DO YOU HAVE A BEAR
FOR PARAMOUNT STUDIO?
By Dave Keene

Jack Benny is one who can al
ways make us laugh, and the title
of the picture he is just starting at
Paramount promises even bigger
and better laughs. 1t is Buck
Benny Rides Again" Jack plays
the role of a radio performer who
assumes a cowboy character on the
air. His friends rib him about it
until he is forced into going into a
real cattle ranch to prove his abil-
ity as a COW hand. Included in the
cast are Phil Harris, Andy Devine
and Eddie Anderson, better known
as Rochester" Jacks dusky valet
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-12-01
SOIL CONSERVATION
VOTE TO Be TAKEN
Referendum December 8.
On Proposed Movement
In This County

A referendum on the creation of
the proposed Washington County
Conservation District will be voted
upon Friday Dec. s. by mail or at
the following places: Hagerstown,
s a. m. to p. m. at the county
agents office; Hancock, 9 a. m. to
3 p. M, at the high school building;
Boonsboro, 9. a. m. to 3 p. M, at
the high school building; Hines
store, near Brownsville, s a. m. to
4:30 p. m. and Smithsburg, a.
m. to p. M, at the high school
building.
1t is explained that for the past
four years the Soil Conservation
Service has done work in the
eastern portion of the county to
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-12-01
TENANTS TO ARRIVE IN
NEW BUILDING, DEC. I

The new office building at An
napolis was formally accepted for
the State by Governor O'Conor. 1t
will house 10 departments: Con-
servation Commission, Bureau of
Mines, Racing Commission, State
Board of Funeral Directors and
Embalmers, Department of Parole
and Probation, State Auditor, De-
partment of Correction and the
State Board of Hairdressers and
Beauty Culturists. The Board Of
Budget and Procurement and the
offices of the Comptroller Of the
State will also be housed in the
new building.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-12-01

Of the air waves. Carmichael"
will be in the picture, too, if Para
mount can find a polar bear to
play the part. At the moment it
seems doubtful for the studio has
contacted zoos, theatrical eX-
changes and circuses along the Pa
cific Coast. all to no avail. They
have wired Eastern cities and even
Winnipeg without success. Jack
is keeping his fingers crossed and
admits it won't break his heart if
he doesn't have to emote with a
polar bear. But the property de-
partment, whose job it is to find
a Carmichael" has never failed
yet, so we'll see.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-12-01

Here in the mud!
And yet | know | should not be
Down here with creeping things!
l have no wings that l can see,
And yet | feel there's that in me
Twas meant to soar!
ggz'7
Strange if hung'ring
There should be no food,
Or thirsty naught for me to drink;
And if | feel the call to fly,
Strange indeed if that called "I'
Should founder in the mud,
When in my blood
Is urge to fly!
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-12-01

demonstrate to farmers what cam
be done to control soil erosion.
This work on over IT'S farms has
created a desire to continue this
service. To this end a number Of
farmers in the county have petition
ed the State Soil Conservation
Committee to organize a Soil Con-
servation District to include all
the agricultural lands of Wash
ington county, under the Maryland
law of 1887, which is in harmony
with the Federal Law. 1t is neces-
sary to organize a Soil Conser-
walton District in order to con-
tinue the work in the eastern part
of the county and to enable
farmers in the balance of the
county to obtain the benefits Of
this service.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-12-01
DIM E NOVELS

Walter Pidgeon portraving Nick
Carter the super-detective, has re-
ceived six couples of the old dime
novels through the mails. He is
adding them to his collection of
rare American literature. One of
them was printed 80 years ago.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1939-12-01
AUNT MILLY AGES

Sara Haden, the Aunt Milly of
the Hardy Family dons gray wig
and takes on about twenty added
cinematic years in the role of Nora
Helen Gilbert's former housekeep-
er in "Secret of DR.. Kildare"
Evening star., 1939-06-05
Money Truck Strike
Threatens Tie-Up Of Cash
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 5.-The State
Mediation Board today offered to
mediate a strike of 400 armored
truck drivers as a tie-up was threat
ened in transportation of millions OF
dollars in cash used to carry on
trade in the metropolitan New York
area.
About 129 trucks, operating in New
York City, Hoboken and Newark,
N. j., and in suburban Nassau, Suf-
folk and Westchester Counties, were
reported idle. They transfer huge
amounts of currency and specie
from the Federal Reserve System to
banks and business houses, and from
merchants to banks.
James Largay, an official of the
State Mediation Board, said he had
been in touch with John V. Murphy
president of Local 800, Armored Car
Chauffeurs and Guards Union, and
the United States Trucking Corp.
He said both groups agreed to con-
slider the boards proposal. Mr.. Muir
ply said the chief point in dispute
was the question of hours. The
union offered a compromise basis of
q 42-hour week after its original
demand for 20 hours, while the en-
ployers held out TOR a hours.
Evening star., 1939-06-05
BY GARNETT d. HORNER.

King George vi and Queen Eliza
beth will travel out Connecticut
and Massachusetts avenues when
they motor from the White House
to the British Embassy garden party
Thursday afternoon, the State De-
partment announced today.
The visiting British monarchs will
leave the White House at 445 pm.
Thursday, passing through lines of
Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts in the
White House grounds and cut the
southwest gate of the White House
to State place.
They will be escorted over State
place to Seventeenth street, right
on Seventeenth street to Connec-
ticut avenue, up Connecticut ave-
nue. to Dupont Circle and then out
Massachusetts, avenue to the British
Embassy at 800.
Evening star., 1939-06-05
Milk Investigation
Brings Dispute in
House D. {. Group
Use Of Dictophones Stirs
Fight; Immediate Action
On Schultz Bill Refused
BY JAMES E. CHINN.

Further repercuSSions from milk
investigation developments marked
today's regular meeting of the
House District Committee as the
committee resisted the efforts of
Representative Schultz, Democrat,
of Indiana to force immediate &C
ton on his bill which would open
the Washington milk market to
cream for fluid consumption from
any section of the country.
Discussion of the milk investiga-
ton flared up soon after the COM
mittee convened when Representa-
tive Bolles, Republican. of Wiscon-
sin called attention to the use of
dictaphones and propounded these
questions:
l. Where were the dictaphones
installed?
2, Who authorized their installa-
ton.
8. Who took the responsibility for
the installation?
Bates Takes Responsibility.
Representatives Bates, Democrat,
of Kentucky, chairman of the Milk
Investigating Committee, answered
that the dictaphones we're installed
by members of the metropolitan po-
lice force in the office of the Mary
Virginia Milk Producers AS
sociation, the Office of John S.
Barbour, counsel for the organiza-
ton. and in room 240 Of the Hamil-
ton Hotel
Mr.. Bates further explained if
there were any dictaphones in the
old House Office Building room used
by the committee they we're in
stalled without his authority.
Mr.. Bates also took full respon-
sibility for ordering installation of
the dictaphones.
1T was unethical and unfair to do
those things without counseling
other members of the Investigating
Committee" declared Mr.. Schultz, a
committee member.
Il feel I have been entirely ethical
in my efforts" replied Representa-
tive Bates. Stories brought to me
about certain things were unbe-
lievable. I used the dictaphones to
(See MILK, Page AID
Evening star., 1939-06-05
July I Reorganization
Of Bureaus Assured

Reorganization of many Govern
ment bureaus on July was assured
today when the Senate accepted a
House amendment to the resolution
fixing that date This sends it to
the White House, where President
Roosevelt is expected to sign it.
The amendment merely restates
a provision of the reorganization act
to make sure that no temporary
agency would have its life pro-
longed beyond the date fixed by ex-
isting law without further congress
sional action.
The two reorganization plans
made effective July l by this reso-
luton regroup nearly all the New
Deal agencies, together with some
permanent bureaus. into three new
units, known as the Federal Works
Agency, Federal Lending Agency
and Federal Security Agency. They
also transfer a score of old-estab-
lished bureaus from one department
to another, and abolish the Bitumi-
nous Coal Commission, vesting its
duties in the Secretary of the In
terror.
Evening star., 1939-06-05
Royal Pair 10 Visit
Largest Nickel Mine
Near Sudbury, Ontario
King and Queen Will Go
Down z, 300 Feet to
Watch Operations
BY the Associated Press.

SUDBURY, Ontario June 5.-The
program of the royal party's stop at
Sudbury was heightened at King
Georges request today to permit the
King and Queen to descend 1890
feet into the worlds largest nickel
mine.
King George vi and Queen Eliza
beth will watch operations in the
Frood mine of the International
Nickel CO. 1t is 212 miles north of
Sudbury. in the heart of this nickel
district that produces 80 per cent of
the worlds supply of metal which
is vital to Britain's rearmament pro-
gram.
The regular one-hour program at
Sudbury is to remain unchanged,
but the royal party will stay one
hour longer to make the visit to the
mine
Cleanup" Visit to Ontario.
Their touring Britannia majesties
were back in Ontario, making a
cleanup" visit to rich sections of
the province missed on their trip to
the Pacific.
Preparatory to crossing into the
United States Wednesday night at
Niagara Falls, their itinerary called
for a dozen civic receptions in eight
short stops and four that will last
an hour or more at Sudbury, Lon
don, Hamilton and Niagara Falls
not to mention observation platform
appearances.
Thousands of citizens from min
ing towns hereabouts poured into
Sudbury by special train and auto
mobile to receive King George and
Queen Elizabeth at $50 pm. today
on their first principal stop since
leaving Sioux Lookout, Northwest
ern Ontario, last night.
100000 Expected at Windsor.
A 15-minute visit is scheduled to-
morrow evening for Windsor, where
100000 persons from nearby Ontario
counties and Detroit, just across the
international border, are expected.
At Nigara Falls the royal visitors,
in a three e-and-one-half-hour visit,
will don raincoats and boots like
any tourists or honeymooners and
will view the cataract from a tun-
mel cut through rock at the base
of the Falls on the Canadian side.
They will cross into the United
States at $50 pm.
Evening star., 1939-06-05
Construction Luborers Picket
District Building Projects
Work Handicapped as Strike Is Called
On Demand for Wage Increases

Picket lines were thrown around
about 100 construction projects in
the Washington area today as build
ing laborers locals of Washington,
Hyattsville, Md, and Alexandria,
Va, went on strike demanding in
creased wages.
Other workers were on the job in
most of the projects, and there was
some dispute between union and
Master Builders Association officials
as to extent to which building was
lmpeded by the walkout. There was
no question. however, that in most
instances construction progress was
handicapped seriously.
Projects affected by the strike in
cluded the Mellon Art Gallery, the
new Municipal Courts Building, the
new Government Printing Office,
Galllnger Hospital. the Pennsylvania
Avenue Bridge and a number of
buildings at the University of Mary
land.
Larry Kelly, president of Local
No. "a Of the Building Laborers, as
serted that work was at a virtual
Evening star., 1939-06-05
3y the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
LONDON. June 5.-Prime Minis
ter Chamberlain told the House of
Commons today full public inquiry
would be held into the submarine
Thetis disaster in which 80 men
perished.
The prime minister, in what he
called full account of the disaster
as FAR as details were known de-
clared two forward compartments
in the submarine were flooded
through the forward torpedo tube.
Mr.. Chamberlain disclosed that
after the submarine was located she
was lost for nearly 16 hours, pre-
sumably on Saturday, when her
marking buoy was cut away by the
slipping of a wire placed around
the hulk in rescue efforts.
The wire, he said, slipped the
wrong way" after being placed
around the Thetis at 7:15 am, cut
ting away the indicator buoy. The
submarine was relocated at approxi-
mately II pm"
Could Not Close Door.
In describing the flooding, Mr..
Chamberlain said it was found i'm
possible to close the tight
door behind the first compartment,
but flooding was restricted to the
second compartment.
The main ballast tank was emp
tied, but the submarine continued
to dive, and struck bottom in about
130 feet of water in Liverpool Bay,
he said.
This impact destroyed the signal
ing apparatus, making it impossible
for the submarine to communicate
with surface vessels.
A marker buoy was released, Mr..
Chamberlain said. and smoke floats
sent up but they were not observed
by the escorting tug which was
with the Thetis when she made
her tragic dive at 1:40 pm. GAO
am. E. S. TD Thursday.
To facilitate the escape of per-
sonnel, the Prime Minister said,
all measures were taken by the crew
to tighten the submarine, and the
stern thus came to the surface by
daylight Friday
Mr.. Chamberlain said the per-
sonnel of the inquiry board was
under consideration but he could
not say when the investigation
would open.
Public Inquiry Planned.
After describing the finding of
the submarine and the rescue ef-
forts briefly. Mr. Chamberlain said
that in view of the magnitude of
800 TJET1C Dooo A2l
Evening star., 1939-06-05

standstill in all of the buildings in
volved.
They can't do much without car
penters' helpers and brick masons'
helpers, strippers. hod carriers,
mortar mixers and the rest of the
laborers," Mr. Kelly said.
The union leader stated that about
400 laborers were at work today on
IA projects with 9 contractors with
whom separate agreements had been
reached. The contractors are not
members of the Master Builders
Association. Mr.. Kelley added.
An official of the Master Builders
disagreed with Mr.. Kelly as to de-
gree of impairment of the projects
being picketed and whether nine
contractors had made separate
settlements with the unions.
You will notice that electricians.
metal workers and all the rest of
the workers except the building la
borers walked through the picket
lines and went on the job" asserted
the building association officer. In
(See STRIKE. Page A-30
Evening star., 1939-06-05
Royu| Route to Garden Party
From White House Revealed

The same route will be followed
by their majesties when they return
to the White House from the en-
bassy, between 6 and $50 pm.
There had been considerable spec
ulation whether the King and
Queen would be taken through the
business and residential area on this
route, giving additional opportunity
for thousands of Washingtonians to
see them, or be shunted over the
Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway
through Rock Creek to upper
Massachusetts, avenue.
1t was understood the Connecticut
avenue route was chosen only after
long discussion among secret service,
police, State Department and other
officials concerned with arrange
ments for the royal visit, with the
decision being Influenced by pleas
(See ROYALTY, Page A-5,)