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European Tension Is Eased Today
Utilities Concerns Preparing Combat Federal Authority
Slayer Mildred
Hook Captured
At Twin Falls
(By Tne Associated Press)
Twin Falls, Idaho, Nov.
30, —Deputy Sheriff Oris
Cryder and A. C. Parker,
chief of the Buhl police to
day said that Douglas Van
vlack of Tacoma had con
fessed verbally that he slew
his ex-wife Mildred Hook,
whose body was found in
a culvert this morning.
He said he killed her be
cause officers had been set
on his trail after he had ab
ducted her from Tacoma
last Saturday.
Sheriff E. F. Prater re
vealed that Vanvlack had
been whisked to the Burley
jail.
An inquest jury today
found that Mildred Hook
had been slain by Vanvlack.
Prosecutor Edward Bab
cock said he would ask for
the first degree death penal
ty for killing his wife, as
well as in the slaying of
state partolman Fontaine
Fox near Buhl, in his flight
last Monday.
Predicts Soldier
Bonus Bill Will
Pass This Time
(By The Associated Press)
Washington, Nov. 30th—
Senator McNary, Oregon
republican leader, predict
ed that the next session of
congress the Soldiers Bonus
bill will be enacted despite
the Presidential veto. He
did not say, however, what
kind of bill will be adopted
as the Veterans of Foreign
Wars are organizing a drive
for bonus legislation.
Freighter Beached
Is Leaking Badly
(By The Associated Press)
New Bedford, Mass.,Nov.
30—Leaking badly the frei
ghter Rigel was beached
under her own power in
twenty-five feet of water
off the State pier. The cut
ter Algonquin was sent af
ter the ship when it was
learned that the vsssel was
believed to be in distress.
....FOR SALE—A team of
seven sled dogs cheap for
cash. Inquire Jack O’Leary
Utilities Systems
Standing Against
Government Act
(By The Associated Press)
Washington, Nov. 30th—
Most of the nations top
rank utility systems stood
formally arrayed for a leg
al struggle against the New
Deals’ holding company act
before the deadline for reg
istration under the act, ar
rives at midnight tomor
row.
Other companies are ex
pected to join the fight by
refusing to register with
the Securities Commission,
and asking the courts to
prevent the government en
forcing the act requiring
registration.
This is the first step of
the administration to push
the law which seeks to eli
minate some utility com
panies to regulate those
who are left in existence.
Federal Dole Is
At End: Orders
Are Issued Now
(By The Associated Press)
Washington, Nov. 30th—
State and local govern
ments have been given no
tice that the Federal gov
ernment will give them no
more dole money. Officials
said that from now on the
Federal governments respo
sibility of relieving distress
will be confined to financing
Works projects which will
give jobs to employables,
but not until after the Sta
tes have exhausted all dole
funds already granted, and
be expected to take care of
employables with their own
funds.
Bishop Rowe Is To
Celebrate Com
munion Sunday
(By The Associated Press)
New York, Nov. 30—Bis
hop Peter Trimble Rowe of
Alaska, will ceebrate com
munion at St. George’s Ca
thedral tomorrow, at the
same altar where he was
consecrated forty years ago.
Bishop Rowe will also
speak Sunday at the cathe
dral of St. John the Divine.
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U. S. Doctor In
Ethiopia Leads
Medical Corps
(By The Associated Press)
Addis Ababa, Nov. 30, —
Dr. Robert Hockman of
Wheaton, Illinois, will leave
this capital in a few days
with the first foreign medi
cal unit for the northern
military front.
The 32-year-old medical
missionary is regarded by
Ethiopian officials as their
youngest but most brilliant
physician. He is a member
of the United Presbyterian
mission here.
The young missionary
plans to to leave with 500
native burden-bearers and
400 mules carrying 50 na
tive assistants and five of
the white missionary vol
unteers. The caravan will
carry several tons of medi
cine, stretchers and surgi
cal provisions.
Dr. Hockman said he
would take no soldiers nor
arms for protection en
route. Born in Szechuan
province, China, he said he
was already familiar with
bandit raids and was will
ing to face the risks of trav
el in the interior of Ethio
pia.
He turned from the vacc
ination of 3000 of Emperor
Haile Selassie’s warriors to
say:
“We need no protection
beyond the mercy of God,
whom we serve.
“Among the grim war
riors of Ethiopia such a
thing as surgical or medi
cal aid is unknown. These
tribesmen bear silently the
most terrible wounds which
would kill other men in
stantly. They are left to die
or be eaten by wild beasts
where they fall.
“Ours is the first military
medical unit in Ethiopia’s
history. We are proud that
it is American.’’
Dr. Hockman invited
Captain Codings of Jersey
City, former marine aviat
or, to accompany the unit
to its headquarters behind
historic Aduwa, protected
by 10,000-foot mountains.
The annual open house of
the Anchorage Igloo, Pio
neers of Alaska,will be held
at Pioneer had on Decem
ber 21. A varied program
with many unique features
have made the open house
notable in past years.
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WASHINGTON
CURRENT i
COMMENT
About this season of the
year 1782, the United Stat
es and Great Britain were
patching up their difficul
ties and putting the final
touches on the business of
getting rid of George the
Third as ruler of this coun
try. The Greeks do not
seem to have a correspond
ing antipathy for kings in
general, and in particular
for kings named George, i
They chose the month of
November 1935 as the time
for restorating the monar
ch and seating their George
again on the throne. A litt
le more than a decade ago
he was deposed under the
procedure which consists
in being asked to resign.
Presumably he is glad that
he is no longer out of work,
but if one may judge by his
pictures, George is a keen
young man and must be do
ing some thinking. During
his stay in England, he may
have read Walter Scott. As
he jogs back to Greece and
to his old job, a few lines
from the Lady of the Lake
may come to his mind:
Who o’er the herd would
wish to reign.
Fantastic, fickle, fierce and
vain.
Kings by the way, are
not the only ones who can
stage a comeback. A while
ago, pigs were in such bad
repute that the farmers
were paid for putting them
out of a society in which
they were not wanted. New
occasions make new duties,
and now the Department
of Agriculture is contem
plating offering a bounty
to hog-raisers. This is a
good world after all, where
in even a pig has a chance.
In addition to other woes
China is having trouble
with her currency. Too
much silver has been slip
ping out of the land and
the government has called
it in, to be replaced by pap
er money, much as gold
was impounded by the U.
S. The currency question is
too intricate to be interest
ing, and is almost as deli
cate a subject as religion.
Abandoning the relative
merits of gold and silver
standards to discussion by
experts and partisans, it is
to be observed that China’s
money troubles probably
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To Get Airplane
Start Search For
Lost Explorers
(By The Associated Press)
New York, Nov. 30—Still
lacking word from Lincoln
Ellsworth, the expedition’s
base ship Wyatt Earp is
leaving for Magallanes,Chi
le, to pick up a plane to un
dertake a search in the An
arctic regions.
Pilot Lynn of Nat
Flies In 60 Below
In a temperature of sixty
degrees below zero, Pilot
John Lynn of the Northern
Air Transport, landed and
took off at Old Crow, Can
ada, recently, says a recent
issue of the Fairbanks News
-Miner. Torches beneath a
hood covering the engine
of the airplane were neces
sary to keep the motor
warm while the plane was
on the ground. It was 45
below when he took off at
Fort Yukon on the way
back. Although Fort Yu
kon and Old Crow are with
in the Arctic Circle, and
well to the North, the tem
peratures there are extre
mely low for this time of
the year, the middle of No
vember.
Sgt. E.A.Kirk of the Roy
al Canadian Mounted Pol
ice and Mrs. Kirk were pas
sengers to Old Crow with
Pilot Lynn from Fort Yu
kon. Canadian mail was
taken from Fort Yukon to
Old Crow by Lvnn.
Trapping Opens
Old Crow is a village con
taining about 200 natives,
and is at the mouth of the
Old Crow river. A Mount
ed Police Station is main
tained there. The trapping
season in that district open
ed Nov. 17, the day the
plane arrived there,and the
natives were all starting
out on their trap lines.
Old Crow is an important
fur trading station. “Hay
wire” is the way Pilot Lynn
describes the river there.
He says the channels are on
the wrong sides and “every
thing else about the river
is backwards.”
Meat Shortage
An acute shortage of meat ;
at Fort Yukon was relieved j
by Lynn who took a load of ;
caribou meat from Old
Crow to Fort Yukon. He j
returned to Fairbanks No- ;
vember 17.'
I
Tension is Eased
By French Stand
With Cr. Britain
(By The Associated Press)
Undated, Nov. 30, —
Franco-British collabora
tion eased the international
tension in the Mediterran
ean, informed London cir
cles said today.
Talk of a crisis between
Great Britain and Italy ov
er an oil embargo was quiet
ed by France’s warning ag
ainst any attack on the Bri
tish fleet.
On the war front, new
j evidence cropped up to sup
port the belief that Musso
lini intended pushing the
campaign to a swift conclu
sion. Marshal Badolglio is
planning the initiation of
fresh conquests. The cabin
et approved plans for the
strengthening of Italy’s su
preme council of defense.
Its membership was en
larged to include many
new officials.
Italian bankers foresaw
an easing in the near fut
ure of the financial sanc
tions.
Italian planes bombed
Daggah on the southern
front, and in another skir
mish on the northern fron
tier, ten Ethiopians were
killed.
Third Pi •otest Is
Sent To Japan
Ov er Act ivities
(By The Associated Press)
Shanghai, Nov. 30th—A
vehement protest against
the alleged Japanese seiz
ure of a Chinese postoffice
in North China in the pro
posed demilitarized zone,
has been presented. It is
China’s third note to Japan
within two days.
Simultaneously the for
eign office addressed ident
ical notes to all embassies
and Legations in China, de
nouncing the autonomous
regime set up by Yin Ju
Keng in the demilitarized
zone of which he was the
Chinese administrator.
Volcanic ash was noticed
on several windows on 4th
avenue in Anchorage re
cently. It was thot that St.
Augustine volcano was in
eruption again.
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