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Another Red Cross Unit Destroyed
HAUPTMANN GAINS A 30 DAY REPRIEVE
Conference Continue Despite Withdrawal Japan
JAPAN iS OUT
NAVAL TALK
4 REMAINING
(By The Associated Press)
Undated, Jan. 16, —These
highlights emerge from
three world capitals in the
back-wash of Japan’s with
drawal from the London
Naval Conference today.
Washington, Jan. 16, The
U. S. Navy moved for more
money to build and modern
ize American warcraft and
numerous members of con
gress indicated approval.
Tokyo—Premier Okada
minimized the possibility
of a naval building race
and stated that Japan
would not be the aggress
or. But, the high naval com
mander declared, “if the
Japanese navy is called up
on to fight the combined
power of the Americans
and British I am confident
that we will win, even if the
ratio is ten to one.”
London—Great Britain,
the United States, France
and Italy laid plans to
achieve fleet limitations
without Japan.
ATTENTION
COMMUNITY CHORUS
Important meeting Fri
day, January 17, 8 P. M.,
at Harlan’s Apartment.
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Newspaper advertising
will develop new business
for you.
Speed Indicator
Wrecked Plane
May Hold (due
(Bv The Associated Press)
Goodwin, Ark., Jan. 16,
—Investigators dug the
jammed speed indicator
from the muddy swamp
where seventeen persons
lost their lives in a plane
crash Tuesday night.
The official inquiry, head
ed by Eugene L. Vidal, as
sistant secretary of com
merce for aeronautics, must
depend on the mute eviden
ce remaining to fix the
cause of the crash.
The air speed indicator
was jammed at 180 miles
an hour, nearly three times
the plane’s landing speed.
It may furnish some clue.
With it, buried in the
mud, were found the igni
tion switches which were
turned to the on position.
The switch controlling the
landing lights was turned to
.he off position.
Rat Exterminator
Applies Fairbanks
Pied Piper Work
(Bv The Associate*) Press)
Fairbanks, Jan. 16, — V.
K. Wakefield, rodent exter
minator applied to the city
council today for the job of
being the Pied Piper of
Fairbanks, but the council
decided that the city didn’t
have enough rats to justify
the contract price asked of
$650.
IKE P. TAYLOR GIVES VIEWS
INTERNATIONAL HIGHWAY
(By The Associated Press)
Washington, Jan. 16, —
The proposed International
Highway is viewed by Ike
P. Taylor, Alaska Road
Commission chief engineer
as a necessary forerunner
to a commercial air service
over the same region.
“Until the highway ex
tends across British Colum
bia and Yukon Territory,
along which can be located
regular emergency landing
fields, it would be folly to
attempt to operate, passen
ger, mail and express plan
es on regular schedule be
tween Alaska and the Unit
ed States”, said Taylor.
The engineer explained
that the expense of trans
porting supplies and equip
ment necessary to maintain
a regular airline would be
prohibitive unless there
was a road available for
trucking purposes.
He said that while he
would like to see the high
way built he did not be
!ia!ians Claim Victorious Advance Of
10 Miles; Heavy Ethiopian Losses
I i
(By The Associated Press)
Undated, Jan. 16, Three
Italian bombing planes to
day destroyed a Red Cross
unit headed _bv a British
officer at Waldia, on the
northern Ethiopian front.
An Addis Ababa com
munique today said that
seven women and seven old
men died in the assault.
I The Ethiopian govern
ment said that Major Gener
al Burgoyne, hospital dir
ector was reported unhurt.
A sweeping, bitterly
fought Italian advance
along the entire Somali
land front was claimed by
the Fascist high command,
headed by Marshal Badog
lio, as a complete success.
The Italians claimed to
have advanced more than
forty miles during the Gan
ai Dorya river battle which
claimed unestimated Eth
iopian losses.
Informed Addis Ababa
sources forecast the immin
ent departure of Emperor
Selassie for the northern
battle-front, with the re
turn of his eleven-year-old
son. Prince Makonncn by
plane from Dessye where
he has been at field head
Quarantine Will
Be Lifted Friday
City Fairbanks
(By The Associated Press)
Fairbanks, Jan. 16, —No
new cases of scarlet fever
have developed and the
quarantine is to be lifted
Friday if no new cases de
velope today.
lieve it would be well to
construct the Alaska por
tion at present unless the
United States had assur
ance from Canada that the
highway through its west
ern provinces would be
built at the same time.
quarters for several wee'ks.
At Paris, radical social
ists demanded the resigna
tions of party members hold
ing, cabinet positions, fore
casting the downfall of Lav
al’s government and the el
imination of the peace ad
vocate in the approaching
league war parlies.
Stocked with provisions
for three months, French
battleships, cruisers and de
stroyers steamed away
from Brest harbor for man
euvers off the northwest
ern coast of Morocco.
DOUGLAS NATIVES
ARE FORCED INTO
COFFIN BUSINESS
“Natives can’t afford to
live in much comfort, and
up until a few weeks ago
they could hardly afford to
die,” Mrs. Rose Davis, tea
cher at the government
school in Douglas declared
recently to a representa
tive of the Juneau Alaska
Press.
ihe minimum cost of col
fins is usually $125, Mrs. i
Davis said. The natives at1
the government school are
now able to make them for
$5.50. Counting the rest of
the incidental expenses,
the entire cost of a native’s
funeral now totals $10.
“Four of our Indians at
Haines have died in this
last epidemic,” Mrs. Davis
said. “They can actually af
ford to die now, for on the
next boat we are sending
four coffins. In fact, we’re
going into the business of
coffin making, not to com
pete with other business
men, but to make the na
tives self-sufficient.”
Coffins are made in the
following sizes: 6 feet nine
inches; 5 feet 9 inches; four
feet 4 inches; and 3 feet 4
inches.
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Delegates Lca\e
fly Trai\ Coat
Demo *]<>:? vention
(Bv The Ass'iciatod Press'
Fairbanks, Jan. 16, —4th
Division delegates to the
Democratic convention at
Seward left here today by
train.
(By The Associated Press)
Juneau, Jan. 1G, —Head
ed for Seward to attend
the Democratic Territorial
Convention to be held Jan
uary 18th, were District
Attorney William A. Holz
heimer and wife; Auditor
Frank A. Boyle; Attorney
General James S. Truitt;
Secretary of Alaska E. W,
Griffin; First Divisional
chairman M. E. Monagle,
and John E. Pegues and
Robert Bender, all of whom
left this city on the North
western yesterday.
Bob Laverv Goes
J
Seattle For Tests
* By The Associated Pre^s)
Fairbanks, Jan. 16, —
William Laverv, decorated
by the Soviet government
for aiding in the rescue of
a party of Russian scion*
ists from an Arctic ice flo°
in the spring of 1934, left
today for Seattle to take his
final instructions and test
to be a transport flyer and
receive a transport license.
He now holds a limited
commercial license.
9 Persons Meet
Death Colombia
Airplane Crash
(By The Associated Press)
Bogota, Colombia, Jan.
16, —Nine persons, includ
ing two women were re
ported dead today as a re
sult of a crash in the jungle
of a tri-motored plane in
the Caqueta section of
southern Colombia.
Two others are believed
to be seriously injured. Sev,
en were unhurt.
A military plane left Tres j
auinas on Caqueta river to
transport the victims to J
Bogota.
HAUPTMANN IS
TO LIVE FOR 30
DAYS FUTl'RE
By The Associate d Press
Tron.on, N. J., Jan. 16—•
—Governor Hoffman an
nounced a thirty-day re
prieve for Hauptman, a
short time after the U. S.
Supreme Court refused to
grant a writ of habeas cor
pus.
Award of Soldiers
Medal S. Morgan
By The Associated Press
Washington, D. C.. Jan. lfi
—An award of a “Soldier's
Medal” to Sergeant Stanley
Morgan for heroism dis
played during an influenza
epidemic at Point Barrow,
last April and May, was an
nounced by Secretary Dern
today.
I Bodies Are Taken
From Ruins of (]h\
Hail In Peadleton
Bv The Associated Press
Pend'e on. Ore., Jan. 15.
Remains of the fourth per
son killed by a gas exten
sion that wrecked and set
fire to Pendleton’s Town
Hall were dug late yester
day from the scorched ruins
by salvage workers. The
body was that of Irvin Tay
lor, a tool maker.
Taylor dropped his eye
glasses into an abandoned
cistern under the building.
He asked the town marshal
Garland Brookbank.to help
look for them. The marshal
lit a match. Accumulated
gas in the cistern let loose
a blast.
I he explosion wrecked
the two story building and
flames which started in the
ruins were not extinguish
ed until after they had de
stroyed equipment of the
Pendleton Fire Department
Five members of the new
ly elected Town Council,
which was holding its first
meeting at the time, were
buried in the ruins. The
marshal was burned.