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Checkup Made Campaign Expenses
LONGSHOREMEN TURN DOWN EASTERNERS
Germany Grants Recognition To Italian-Ethiopia
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“MILLION-AIRS”: Five of the six United Air Lines’ pilots observ
ing the tenth anniversary of flying on the Seattle-San Diego airway,
whose names are included in United’s roster of million-milers. These
pilots aie based in ..',e Facinc Northwest. Left to right: Ralph
Virden, Frank Anderline, Charles B. Stead, Grover Tyler and Heber
C. Miller, all employed on the Seattle-Oakland section of the Pacific
Coast airway. Pilot Miller is holding a model of a 3-mile-a-minute
twin-engined Boeing, while Pilot Virden compares it with the single
engined plane of the type they used to fly over the route. Herschel
Laughlin, another Seattle million-miler, unfortunately couldn’t be
i hand for the picture.
MYSTERY DAMAGED FILM
IN MAIL DISCOVERED BE
CAUSED PRESENCE RADIUM
Radium In Mail Finally
Discovered be Cause
Damaged Film
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Oct. 24,
—Postal sleuths today solved the
great photographic mystery and
banished forever the spooks
which have been playing hob in
the dead of night with the mail
bags.
The eerie things that happen
ed—and they were plenty—in
dicated that shadowy beings
from the spirit world were bent
on ruining the reputation of Jam
es A. Farley as postmaster gen
eral.
Solution of the enigma ought
to make a srwell detective story,
with the legs of a bathing beau
ty, a gray headed poison expert,
limburger cheese and the fed
eral government, all figuring
prominently in the plot.
Weeks ago a news photograph
er took some shots of a beauty
queen and sent the plates un
developed to his home office by
air mail, special delivery. There,
in the dark-room the plates
were developed to reveal a love
ly lady’s legs blotted by a stran
ge photographic fog.
Hardly had that happened be
fore a film manufacturer rushed
to Hollywood a can of blank mov
ie film. He also used air mail,
special delivery. When the film
was printed and developed tech
nicians were amazed to find weird
pictures—stars and blobs and j
sprays of white, obliterating the
faces of filmdom’s sirens.
Thereafter conditions became
worse. Shipment after shipment
of film by air mail, special deliv
ery, was ruined. Complaints be
gan to flood the post office de
partment.
It turned the problem over to |
Deputy Seoond Assistant Post
master General J. W. Cole, who
called in his poison expert A1
Skinner.
■Skinner pooh-hoeed the spirit
world theory. Then he proved to
his own satisfaction that nobody
was tampering with the light
proof wrappings of the film ship
ments. Still the damage contin
ued.
Skinner had an inspiration.
Aha! Villain Foiled!
RADIUM!
“And that’s what it was too,”
he reported. “Laboratories were
shipping radium to physicians by
air mail, special delivery, and it
had been fogging the films. One
package of radium left in the post
office overnight would ruin a
photographic plate in another
mail sack across the room.”
He took his problem to the pub
lie health service and then things
became enrfbarrasing.
This federal bureau was one of
the leading villains!
It had been shipping radium
(Continued on Page Three)
Checkup Made
Expenditures of
The Campaign
Republicans Have Spent
Five and One Half
Million Dollars
DEMOS NOT REPORTED
William Randolph Iicarst
Largest Contributor
$30,000.00
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 24,
—The Republican National Com
mittee is reported to have spen 1
three million, one hundred an?
sixty-one thousand dollars be-!
tween September 1st and Octo
ber 18th, bringing their total ex
penditure since June 1st to four
million, nine hundred and ninety
four thousand dollars, said the
clerk of the house, raising Re
publican expenditures for the
year to five million, six hundred
and eighty-six thousand dollars.
The largest single contributor
to the Republican National Cam
paign Fund was William Randolph
Hearst, who donated thirty thou
sand dollars.
The Democratic National Com
mittee hasn’t reported for the last
two months, but it did spend one
million, eight thousand dollars
from June 1st to the end of Aug
ust.
Crazed Negro Shot
Killed One Wound
ed 10 Other Men
(By The Associated Press)
WINDSOR, N. Carolina, Oc.t 24,
—Dennis Davie, a crazed negro,
infuriated when police attempted
to serve a warrant on him, killed
one person and wounded ten oth
ers in a gun battle today before
officers from three counties burn
ed him out of his barricaded home
and shot him to death.
Sniping with a shotgun from
inside a one story frame build
ing, Davie killed an unidentified
negro boy, wounded six white
policemen, two other white men
and two negroes.
Most seriously wounded was
police chief Waters of Windsor,
who was shot in the chest as he
approached the house.
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ATTENTION UPLIFT
U. S. BUSINESSMAN
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Oct. 24, — Arguing that
the administration had loosened the grip of monopoly
and had dragged private enterprise back out of the pit
into which it had fallen in 1933, President Roosevelt
Friday night addressed, and broadcast to a number of
businessmen’s banquets through the country, one of
his most important speeches of the present campaign.
The President that the New Deal was resolved “to
keep politics out of business”, and at the same time he
said “we ask business to refrain from coercion in poli
tics.”
, Roosevelt declared “the overwhelming majnrity nf
independent and individual business men approve of
what we did to save American business. I am equally
sure that the handful of monopolistic business men
hat what we did for American business.”
He told diners that as profits return, values of sec
urities and investments will come back. “We must
hold constantly to the resolve to never again become
a committee’s philosophy of a boom era, or of individ
ualism which ran wild.”
Land Ordered
Placed one Side
For Air Base
fBv The Associated Press i
FAIRBANKS, Oct. 24, — The
Fairbanks News Miner said yes
terday that R. M. Hunt, represen
tative at Fairbanks of the Fed
eral Land Dep’t., had receiv
ed instructions to set aside four
square miles, on the banks of
the Chena River, four miles west
of town, for possible use by the
U. S. Army Air Corps, as a princi
pal aviation base.
The newspaper said that Hunt
was also instructed to set aside
two additional square miles of
land which may be added to the
site. The larger body of land is
all government owned, while the
addition contains some private
tracts. The river frontage is to
permit the use of pontoon land
ings.
The Army Board visited the
site this past August. The news
paper said, that while a bill had
been passed by congress providing
lor the selection of a site, it still
bad to provide funds for the con
struction of the base.
Smaller bases may be establish
ed in other parts of Alaska, it
was indicated. The Board con
sisted of Lieut. Colonel Wilmot
A. Danielson, Major Otto G.
Trunk and Major Albro L. Par
sons.
Special Power of Attorney forms
Germany Today
Recognized Ital.
Empire Ethiopia
(By The Associated Press)
ROME, Oct. 24, — Germany
granted full diplomatic and poli
tical recognition to Italian Eth
iopia, to strengthen relations be-1
tween the two European Fascist
nations of Italy and Germany.
This was the first recognition
' accorded the new Roman empire \
: since its formal annexation was!
proclaimed on May 9th, by Mus
solini.
The action was viewed in some |
quarters as another blow at the
prestige of the League of Nations.
Football Upset
(By The Associated Press)
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 24, — West
Virginia Wesleyans from Buck
hannon turned back Duquesne
University 2 to 0 yesterday be
FIRST WINTER DANCE
“Let’s Get Together And Have a Party”
SATURDAY, OCT. 24th, — 10 P. M.
ORCHESTRA — NOVELTIES
WHITES ONLY LADIES FREE
L’shoremen Turn
Down Easterner’s
Offer To Settle
Plant Says Eastern Com
panies’ Offer Insure
Their Coast
OFFER WAS REJECTED
Longshoremen to Maintain
Solid Front With The
Sailor Unions
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 24, —
Pacific Coast longshoremen re
fused to break their united front
™;u"- ooagoing unions, despite a
peace offer to dock workers from
twenty-seven eastern and foreign
steamship companies.
The offer was termed favorable
by leader Bridges “but it is use
less unless the seagoing unions
are granted hiring halls and cash
overtime pay.”
Admiral Hamlet, of the U. S.
Maritime Commission still con
tinued his efforts to bring about
a settement. Unions today con
tinued taking strike votes.
The companies made the long
shoremen an offer, including an
ncrease in pay, independently of
the coast committee for the Pac
ific shipowners.
Plant said that the position of
lis group “has not been altered
ay the offer of New York and
foreign lines”. He interpreted
heir offer as a move on the part
>f eastern companies t- create a
‘situation vvh.re h rc ran be no
ongslioreniE n’s strike in New
fork, regardless of w’ at happens
>n the Pacific coast.”
ore five thousand dumbfounded
ans.
A long punt, fumbled in the
md zone, enabled Wesleyan to
icore a safety.
Duquesne dumped Pitt’s cham
jionship hopes a week ago by de
bating the Panthers 7 to 0.
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