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Canadian Desperado Is Captured
NAVAL BASE ALASKA COME EVENTUALLY
Townsend Contempt Action Turned Over Feds.
DIMOND PREDICTS
NAVAL BASE WILL
BE EVENTUALITY
Delegate Said Navy Department Present
Declines Discuss Situation Because
Existence Treaty Still is in Effect
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 29, — Delegate A. J
Dimond said today that he believes the creation of a
new naval district embracing Alaska is “inevitable”.
However, he explained, he has no hopes for any
immediate action through the Navy Department. The
Territory is now a part of the Thirteenth District, ad
ministered from Bremerton, Washington.
The Delegate from Alaska said that the depart
ment seemed reluctant to discuss possible future plans
for the Territory on the ground that it might reveal
navy strategy, and that the Pacific ocean treaty will
possibly expire December 31st, and after that the navy
would have a free hand for undertaking development.
He said it was admitted that Alaska is a vulner
able point of attack if war should come from the East.
It is approximately 2,200 miles to the naval base
at Pearl Harbor and a naval establishment in Alas
ka is eventually necessary, possibly in the Aleutian
Islands, declared Dimond.
Great Britain
And France To
Default Debts
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON,May 26—To the back
shelf, the World War debt has
been pushed again by officials of
Great Britain. Authoritative
sources in London declared the
installment due June 15 from
Great Britain to the United Sta
tes will be defaulted as usual.
Great Britain has no intention of
paying it.
Advices received in London
from Paris are to the effect that
Leon Blum, Socialist, who is to
be France’s next premier, has
hinted that the French govern
ment may reconsider questions
in connection with France’s war
debt to the United States. Ap
parently trustworthy sources in
France, however, assert that as
usual France will default on her
installment due June 15 to the
United States.
Finland Will Pay
Finland is expected to pay in
full as usual the installment due
June 15 on her war debt to the
United States. Finland is the
only war debtor nation of the
United States that has never de
faulted.
World War debtor nations of
the United States owe her more
than $1,049,000,000.
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Signed Bill To
Permit Cities To
Let Out Bonds
(By Tne Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D, C., May 29
—President Roosevelt signed the
House resolution to authorize in
corporated Alaska cities and
towns to incur a bonded indebt
edness up to ten percent of the
assessed valuations upon approv
al of a majority of the taxpayers
which Delegate Anthony J. Dim
ond introduced.
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Robber Yields
Feeling Prison
| Is His Home
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L (By The Associated Press)
CHICAGO, May28—A 59-year
old man with a wooden leg who
robbed a blind woman of her
purse and 70 cents, told police he
did it so he could return to1
where he h^d spent 29 of the past
40 years—prison. “I just wanted
to get sent back to Joliet for vio
lating parole." Alex Rohda ex
plained. "There’s no place so
good for me.”
College helps a girl. It enables
her to be snooty to a husband
'who quit at the seventh grade.
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Contempt Action
Turned Over To
U. S. Dist. Att’y
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, May 29. —
The House voted late yesterday
on the contempt citation against
Dr. Townsend, Wunder and Kief
er by a vote of 271 in favor and
41 against, with instructions that
the case be turned over to the U.
S. District Attorney for action.
A score or more members sup
ported Monoghan’s efforts to stop
the House approval of the resolu
tion submitted by the Investigat
ing Committee Chairman Bell.
Amid considerable confusion,
Representative Blanton insisted
that any contempt action be tried
in the House instead of a federal
Court. Speaker Byrns ruled him
out of order.
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Oldtimer, Former
Mayor Of Seattle
Died Home Today
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(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, May 29, — John F.
Miller, aged 73, representative
from the 1st District in the 65th
and through to the 70th Cong
resses, died at his home here,
following a long illness. His
74th birthday came next month.
He came to Seattle in 1881, be
came a prospector in 1891. He
served four years as mayor be
ing elected in 1908 and 1910.
Surviving him are his widow
Mary Miller, a son, Major Stew
art Miller, U. S. A. stationed on
duty at Stanford University, and
a daughter Mrs William McKay
of Seattle.
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Bourgeoisie Is
Setting the Pace
Soviet Russia
(By The Associated Press)
MOSCOW, May 27—That the
Soviet State must for the time
being carry on with certain tra
ditions inherited from the bour
geoisie was among the important
announcements contained in a
statement on governmental and
social development of Soviet Rus
sia published recently.
The statement said of the plan
among other things, ‘‘The time
has not yet arrived to abandon
the principle and practice of corn
pulsion,that inequality in income
and therefore distribution of ma
terial comforts of life must con
tinue in the transitory period un
der the protective guidance of
the state.”
The statement said further that
democraticization of the soviet
system under a new constitution
is now being formulated and will
not lead to the creation of politi
cal parties or any organization
opposed to the community party.
These explanations are printed
in the magazine Boleshevik, offi
cial organ of the central commit
tee of the communist party.
The new constitution under
study will grant the right of equ
al vote to all soviet citizens ex
cept those disenfranehized by the
courts. The class origin of citi
zens is not to be taken into ac
count, and voting will be direct
and secret.
According to Josef Stalin, so
viet leader as quoted in the mag
azine, the constitution will serve
as a whip in the hands of the
people against the badly working
organs of the state.”
The magazine explained that
our system will be devoted sole
ly to the ousting of bureaucrats
and other unworthies by the elec
tion of the best individuals to
office.”
Bitterness Is
Apparent In
Court Ruling
r
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C„ May—
The majority and minority opin
ions of the United States su
preme court in the case of the1
securities and exchange commis
sion and J. Edward Jones were,
really very spectacular in their
implications.
Search the court's history and '
you'll find no instance where so
many observers felt the court
had gone leaping over so many,
fences to enter a field which had
nothing to do with the case be-1
fore it.
Lawyers and laymen here, frie
nds and enemies of the new' deal
alike, think the conservative six
man majority deliberately took
the occasion to bawd out by in
fluence Senator Hugo Black's
lobby committee, which has be<*i j
on the pan for peeking at peo-'
pie’s telegrams. It referred to -
‘‘unlawful searches aid seizures,” j
“a roving inquisitorial investiga-}
tion,” and so on.
The court majority's departure
from custom in going so far afield
is considered by many to be so ,
unusual as to be amazing* Scar
cely less astonishing is the opin
ion of Justice Cardozo, dissenting
with Brandeis and Stone, which
accuses the majority of giving
“immunity to guilt,” encouraging
falsehood and evasion,” and invit I
ing “the cunning and unscrupul-;
ous to gamble with detection.” |
There’s Amusing Angle
The fact that the securities and J
exchange commission, which had
refused to allow Jones to with
draw a registration statement,
was object of the majority’s lash
ing charges of arbitrary and un
reasonable abuse of power has
its amusing as well as its un
usual aspects. Heretofore the
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DESPERADO FROM
CANADA CAUGHT
AT BELLINGHAM
!
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Kdwanl McMullen, W anted Connection
Bank Rohherv Kills Immigration
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Officer In Scuffle During Capture
(Bv The Associated Press)
BELLINGHAM, Washington, May 29, — Critical
ly wounded by a bullet wound in the head, a man iden
tified as Edward McMullen, widely sought Canadian
desperado is in the hospital here, under guard of the
U. S. Marshal’s office, charged with murder, following
the fatal shooting at Blaine of a customs officer Thurs
day—Immigration Inspector Charles M Flachs, aged 40.
McMullen who gave his name as John Albert or
Arthur Fraser of Vancouver, was taken off a bus
when his answers to questions put by the immigra
tion officers, proved unsatisfactory.
When an attempt was made to search him, he
shouted: "No one’s going to search me.”
He pulled out an automatic and started shooting,
in the melee Flachs was shot through the heart and
L. J. Pike, customs officer was wounded slightly. Mc
Mullen then shot himself in the head accidently while
struggling with the officers.
Canadian officers identified him through his fin
gerprints as the much sought Canadian outlaw, who,
Dominion officials said was a companion of No:m.. 1 F.
Red Ryan, the Ontario bank shooting gang leader,
who was slain last Saturday night, in a liquor store
robbery at Sarnia, Ontario.
McMullen had a revolver in addition to the pistol
used in the fracas, and about two hundred rounds of
ammunition. He carried over seven hundred dollars
in Canadian currency.
A federal warrant was sworn out in Seattle, for
mally charging the prisoner with the slaying of Flachs.
If McMullen recovers sufficiently he will be tak
en to Seattle in an ambulance, U. S. Marshal A. J. Chit
ney said.
King Edward
Flew To Leigli
From London
(By The Associated Press)
SOUTHAMPTON, England, May
23—King Edward VIII flew from
London to East Leigh to head
Ureat Britain’s royal delegation
to ceremonies in connection with
the final inspection of the Atlan
tic liner Queen Mary.
King Edward’s air trip today
is his second since he became
sovereign. He is the first Eng
lish monarch to fly. His mother, j
Dowager Queen Mary, and other
members of the royal family
went by train from London to |
East Leigh.
Great crowds greeted the plane
jrrival of the King and train ar
ival of the members of the royal
’amily.
Quintuplets V/ii!
Make 3 Pictures
(By The Associated Press)
CALLANDER, Ontario, May 23
—The quintuplets’ guardians
signed a contract for three feat
ure pictures with Twentieth Cen
tury Fox Films, for a quarter of
a million dollars, and “other
monetary considerations."
Housewife—Yes, I'll give you
a meal if you saw and split that
pile of wood, carry out the ashes,
mend that hole in the fence and
sweep the walk.
Tramp ( Walking away )—I
guess you made a mistake, lady.
I’m not your husband.
A leading citizen is one who
sees the simple about to ruin the
country and keeps still for fear
of losing their support.