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Austria Approves Italian War Policy
NEW BOEING FLYING PLANE MAKES RECORD
Nation Prepared to Pay Homage Funeral Will Rogers
Nation Prepared
To Pay Homage
Funeral Rogers
(By The Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 21, —With
the expected arrival this afternoon
of the bereaved Rogers family, fun
eral services are held up.
The nation is prepared to pay
homage tomorrow to ‘’the man who
never met a man he didn't like”.
A state-wide moment of mourn
ing during the funeral will be pro
claimed by the Governor of Calif
ornia.
Visit Mortuary 2
Hours: Cortege Is
Round Maysville
(By The Associated Press)
OKLAHOMA CITY. Aug. 21, —
For two hours the public passed
through the mortuary here today,
before the cortege formed to go to
Maysville for the afternoon services
in the little landmark Missionary
Baptist Church.
Tomorrow the body will lie in
state at the capitol. Services will be
held at the First Baptist Church
and burial will follow, while planes
overhead will drop flowers.
Wainwright School
Teacher Reported
Dead: Is Still Alive
(By The Associated Press)
TACOMA, Aug. 21, —Word indi
cating that a brother mourned as
dead for the past three months, was
still alive, came as joyous news to
Mrs. Emily R. Whidden, who lives
near "here.
E P Stowell, Mrs Whidden’s broth
er is a teacher for the Office of In
dian Affairs at Wainwright, Alaska.
He was reported dead by a Seattle
newspaper last May. Government
bureaus in Seattle said they had
received no such report, but as the
family had not heard any word from
him from the north, for some time,
they considered him dead.
Word came from the north last
week-end that another brother in
Seattle had received a wireless mess
age from the supposedly dead man,
in which he apologized for not
writing. Stowell was apparently
still unaware of the erroneous re
port of his death, as he did not
mention anything about it in his
message.
An error was made in the Alaska
Steamship Co. advertisement yester
day in the date of sailing for the SS
Dellwood from Seattle, and also in
its ports pf call.
It is scheduled to sail from Seattle
for Nome, St. Michael, Unalakleet
and Teller, September 11th.
NEW BOEING BOMBER
ARRIVES DAYTON IN A
RECORD BEARING HOI*
Huge Hoeing Flying Fortress Averages
233 Miles an Hour in 2.000 Mile Flight
Nonstop Seattle To Dayton. Ohio
'
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, Aug. 21—Italy gained an ally apparently
in the Ethiopian dispute, when the official government
mouthpiece of Austria, the Weiner Zeitung, banner-lined
an editorial which pleacedAustria unequivocally on the Ital
ian side.
Captioned “Europe or Ethoipia,” the editorial praiseu
| the honesty and frankness of II Duce, Benito Mussolini, who
“is not a hypocrite, and openly admits the hunger for land,
new resources and wealth.”
The British cabinet in an emergency meeting tomorrow'
■ will be seeking a special league session to curb Italy’s war
drive, by organizing the member nations in disapproval of
Italy’s policy.
In Paris, Laval is carrying on negotiations secretly with
Mussolini in an attempt to limit war measures, if they can
not be halted altogether.
Italy’s cabinet members awaited the call to serve in
the ranks with the Army in East Africa. Tribal warriors
staged a sham battle at Addis Ababa in preparation for hos
tilities when the Italians commence business.
The British bid for American cooperation for the solu
tion of the crisis may be the next move from London, it be
came known today._
The Washington
News-Letter
OFFICE OF A. J. DIMOND
Delegate from Alaska
(By J. J. ECKLES)
August 3. 1935.
An allotment of $55,996 for the
Bureau of Fisheries for the improve
ment of salmon spawning streams
in southeastern and central Alaska,
repairs to the marine railway, and
for the improvement of salmon
spawning grounds and destruction of
predatory enemies of salmon in
Bristol Bay, was approved by the
President July 30th.
The bill introduced by Senator
Norbeck to provide old-age pensions
for Indians who have attained the
age of 65 years, in an amount suf
ficient to bring the individual in
come of the pensioned to $1 per day,
i was reported out July 29th with a
[ number of amendments. It passed
' the senate July 30th as amended.
As it now stands the bill definitely
includes the natives of Alaska, and
the term natives of Alaska is de
fined in the bill to include Indians,
Eskimos, Aleuts or other aborigines
of Alaska who are of native blood. ]
The benefits of this proposed legis
lation would be extended to those of
one-fourth or more native blood
who are eligible by age.
The following bills were intro
duced by Dimond and were report
ed to the House by the Committee
on Cairns, July 29th.
H R 2497 to reimburse Holy Cross
Mission for medical services extend
ed to Jack Mort for injuries incur
red while removing mail from the
Alaska Railroad steamer Nenana.
H R 3513 to reimburse Archie P.
McLane and Hans Peter Jensen for
the amount of a bond paid by them
to the United States.
H R 5733 to reimburse Edith H.
Miller for the amount of freight
charges paid by Arthur H. Miller on
household goods when he was trans
ferred to Anchorage by the Office of
Indian Affairs.
A bill authorizing the town of
Anchorage to issue bonds for $75,
000 for the construction of a mun
icipal building and purchase of a
modern telephone exchange was re
ported to the senate by the Com
mittee on Territories and Insular
Affairs, July 22nd, passed the senate
July 30th and has been sent to the
White House for approval.
The establishment of an air de
fense base in Alaska has come clos
er to realization with the passage
(Continued on Page Three)
Circuit Court Of
Appeals Upholds
Rights Of P. W. A.
(By The Associated Press)
DENVER, Colorado, Aug. 21, —
The U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
today upheld the constitutionality of
the PWA, in an opinion which said
that the Federal Government has
the right to make loans and grants
to municipalities.
Three Judges of the Court ruled
in the case of the Kansas Gas and
Electric Company of Kansas City,
which sought an injunction to pre
vent the city of Independence, Kan
sas from erecting a municipal pow
er plant with Federal funds.
Attorneys said that this was the
first case involving the constitution
ality of the Public Works agency,
: mid regarded the decision of high
importance because of the billions
of dollars in projects now under con
struction, which the PWA program
i involved.
| _
Propose Census
Survey In Hawaii
And Terr. Alaska
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. Aug. 21, - The
Bureau of Census was requested to
estimate the cost of a census survey
in Hawaii and Alaska, with a view
to extending to the territories, the
proposed census under the relief ad
ministration.
The proposal was forwarded at a
meeting in the office of Dr. Ernest
Gruening, chief of the division of
Islands, Territories and insular Poss
essions, which Delegate from Alaska
Anthony J. Dirnond attended.
Included in the census would be a
survey of the population, citizenship,
industry and trade,agriculture, farm
population, and employment.
Lingo Nominated
Be Land Register
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. Aug. 21, — Geor
ge A. Lingo was nominated by the
President to the U. S. Senate as
Register of the Land Office at Anch
orage, Alaska.
Committee Decides
Shelve Walsh Bill
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21, —The
House Judiciary Committee decided
to shelve the senate-approved Walsh
bill to impose NRA standard on
government contractors.
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AUSTRIA APPROVES OF
ITALIAN POLICY WAR
IN AFRICA ETHIOPIA
Noxl M ove From London \lav Re a Hid For
Cooperation of The United Slates In An
Attempt to A\ erl Ceneral Warfare
(By The Associated Press)
DAYTON, Aug. 21—Roaring out of the West, the new
Boeing flying fortress hurtled over Dayton and landed at
nearby Wright Field at 3.47 P.M. Eastern standard time
yesterday, completing a two thousand mile non-stop flight
of nine hours, averaging 233 miles an hour, from Seattle,
Washington. /
It is being submitted by the builders in competition for
air corps bombardment planes to be held at Wright Field,
Thursday.
The huge four motored ship is believed by officials to
have shattered all speed records for military planes of its
comparable size.
Leslie Tower, Boeing chief test pilot said. “We weren’t
trying to break any speed records but actually were taking
it easy. We used only sixty-three percent of the engines’
horsepower.”
Tower also said that the plane’s automatic pilot flew the
ship'most of the way. Army officials figured that if the
speed of 233 miles an hour was maintained on 63 percent of
the plane’s power, its theoretical top speed would likely be
265 miles an hour.
Despite the plane’s huge size it landed with tin1 aid of
wing flaps at about forty-five miles an hour. Louis Waite
was co-pilot. Bud Benton, mechanic. Henry N. Igo, repre
senting Pratt & Whitney, builders of the motors, accompan
ied the plane as a passenger.
Mrs. Rogers Gets
Alaska Red Fox
As A Last Gift
(By The Associated Press)
BEVERLY HILLS, California,
Aug, 21, —An Alaska red fox skin,
a souvenir of the land where
death overtook him, and apparent
ly was the last expression of Will
Rogers’ affection for his family,
was received by Mrs. Roger's today.
The fur was inclosed in a small
package addressed to Mrs. Rogers,
care of J, K. Blake, her brother.
It was postmarked Juneau, Al
aska. The address was written in
the careless rambling scrawl, typical
of the comedians handwriting.
Court Matters
Albert Anderson pleaded guilty to
intoxication on a public street be
fore the U. S. Commissioner yester
day and paid a fine of $50.00.
At two pm today in the Commis
sioner’s Court, James Gabriel, at a
hearing, was bound over to the
grand jury on two charges—robbery
and attempted robbery. Bail was
set at $250.U0 on each charge.
Jim Donovan who was arrested
charged with adultery, will be tried
in the U S. Commissioner's Court
tomorrow afternoon at 2 PM.
W F Barber, charged with reck
less driving, pleaded not guilty in
the U S Commissioner’s Court to
day, and the case is scheduled to
be tried at 2 p.m. Friday.
Resolution Made
keep U S Neutral
Invent Big War
c
(Bv The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21, — Eur
opes crisis played a leading part on
capitol hill as democratic leaders
strove to avert a fight over Ameri
can neutrality legislation, a contest
that might halt congress, in its
breathless rush for adjournment.
Filibustering tactics by a senate
group led by Senator Nye and Bone
forced leaders to agree to bring up
for consideration, a resolution aimed
at keeping the United States neut
ral should the Ethiopian trouble de
velop into a serious war.