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David Harris Confesses To Sending Threat Letters
Would Change Alaska Election Date Back to Nov.
PROPOSES CHANGE
ELECTION DATE TO
OLD TIME IN NOV
(Special to the Nugget)
JUNEAU. Jan. 19. — With the
exception of Senator Powers of
the Fourth Division, all legisla
tors are now at Juneau, having
arrived here Monday from the
interior by airplane.
The House in a brief session
yesterday passed a $58,000 bill to
pay the deficit on various bounty
funds. The bill now goes to the
senate.
Two bills, both by Roden were
introduced in the Senate, one pro
posing regulations for foreign in
surance firms, with the Territor
ial Auditor as a Commissioner,
and the other to change the date
of the General Election.
The bill suggested the changing
of the date from the first Tues
day in September to the first
Tuesday after the first Monday
in November.
Roden said the first Tuesday
in September was too early for
fishermen, prospectors and oth
ers in season employment.
When argument arose later, he
said he would compromise on
October.
Senator Powers, it was declar
ed was still in Fairbanks but
would fly to Juneau at the first
opportunity.
Wants Some Cash
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Mrs. Gladys Luckenbach, fourth
wife of Lewis Luckenbach, member
of the shipping family, won an order
for separata maintenance from the
San Francisco courts but went back
again for a hearing to determine
the amount her husband must pay
monthly. 8he Is pictured as she
appeared In court to testify that he
had not paid the 9250 monthly temp
orarily ordered- She asked for
91,000 a month, but said ahe might
"get by" on 9400 or 9500. (Associ
ated Proas Photo)
Confesses Wrote
| Threat To Jane
Withers, Actress
(By The Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 19, — A
man giving his name as David
Harris, aged 46, walked into a po
lice station here last night and
confessed to detectives that he
had directed the $25,000 extortion
kidnap threat against Jane With
ers, juvenile picture star.
“I got the idea from reading
about threats sent to Shirley
Temple and Ffieddie Bartholo
mew", he told officers.
Officials quoted him as saying
“I really don’t know why I did
it. I didn’t have any way of car
rying out the plot.”
Harris was ordered held for in
vestigation. Jane Withers has
been guarded ever since the first
threat was received several weeks
ago.
Two Sides Civil
War Renounced
Try To End It
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, Jan. 19, — Both the
Spanish Socialist and insurgent
governments rejected the Non
Intervention Committee's propus
al for a control of munition ship
ments to both sides in the civil
war which has been going on for
the past three months.
This action was met with on
ly gloomy responses in British
circles, where it was stated ‘‘ev
erything is now up to Italy and
Germany, depending on wheth
er they will shut off the flow of
volunteers and munitions.”
The proposal was drafted in
December by an international
committee composed of members
from twenty-seven different na
tions.
CATHOLIC LADIES SOCIAL
Catholic Ladies will give a
Whist and Bridge Card Social.
MONDAY, Jan. 25, 9 P.M., at St.
Joseph’s Hall. Adm. fifty cents
each for ladies and gentlemen.
Refreshments will be served.
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Prize Winner?
Karl von Ossietzky (above), Ger
man pacifist and liberal, was re
ported to be the recipient of the
1936 Nobel peace prize as Nazi offi
cials announced he had been freed
from a concentration camp where
he had spent more than three years.
(Associated Press Photo)
Townsend Money
Plan Is Being
Tried Out
fBv The Assortated Bress >
CHELAN, Wash., Jan. 19. —
Tagged with ‘‘Townsend Dollars”
C. C. Fleming, 63, whirled do
zily about town yesterday, at
a dizzy pace, testing the Town
send plan, as he went into his
third day of spending, with a
haberdashery and a women's
clothes shop at the top of his
shopping list.
He spent $49.50 paying bills
yesterday, with each bill bear
ing a tag for the signatures of
every person through whose
hands it passes, and also a note
of their two cent transaction for
tax payment.
One of the bills already bore
eight signatures. One citizen
paid a four dollar telephone bill,
paying eight cents in the glass
jar which every business keeps
handy.
Another customer promptly re
ceived the Townsend dollars as
change on a five dollar bill and
then paid one back on a small
bill pus two cents for tax.
Voluminous fan mail is beginn
ing to come in from all over the
country.
Diplomat Dead
(By The Associated Press)
PARIS, Jan. 19, — Alexander
M. Thackara, wartime American
Consular General at Paris, died
in the American hospital at Neu
illy. He was 88 years of age.
SUSPECT
RELEASED
ONE HELD
"
(Bv The Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 19, — Be
whiskered itinerant Joseph Mit
chell, one of two men question
ed in connection with the Mat
tson kidnap case, was released
after a three hour quizzing yes
terday.
The identity of the second man
who is held for questioning was
still undisclosed today.
Harold Nathan, chief field ag
ent of the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation, said he was in Los
Angeles on routine matters and
not on the Mattson case.
EVERETT, Jan. 19, —The auto
mobile impounded here after the
Mattson boy’s body was found,
! was released today to its owner.
Vern Williams. ,
; Tests made of blood stains dis
I
covered in the back of the car,
a bloody handkerchief discovered
on the fender, and a lipstick pick
ed up in the snow, were retained
by the Federals. The car was
stolen shortly after the boy’s
body had been thrown in the
bushy area.
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Suffers Rare Malady
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A rare malady (Alberl-Schonberg’a
diaeaee) haa left three-year-old Joan
Balk (above) blind and paralyzed In
both lege. The diaeaee cauaes bonea
to become brittle, but Is not neces
esrily fatal and doee not affect res
plratlon. (Associated Press Photo)
r~ LEARNING fHE ESSENTIAL JOB "*
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Practice Has finally caught up with theory for Louise Pflusgel, senior
In dairying at the College of Agriculture of the University of Arizona,
and here she la at the esaentlal task In dairying. She knew all the
other things, but until the present semester could not milk a cow. She
hid to learn to get her degree. (Associated Press Photo) .
BIOLOGICAL SURVEY REPORT
REVEALS HEAVY KILLING OF
WOLVES THRUOUT ALASKA
Biological Survey Tells Secretary
Wallace of 8.000 Reindeer
Predatory Victims
CBy The Associated Pr°ss)
WASHINGTON, Jan.—The Bio
logical Survey Bureau in its an
nual report to Secretary of Agri
culture Henry Wallace, released,
said it had extended predatory
control to Alaska primarily to
protect reindeer and caribou
from wolves and coyotees. The
bureau said it had employed an
expert on trapping wolves to co
operate with the reindeer service
and to travel from one village to
another, showing the natives the
best methods.
“Protection of these herds from
severe depredations by wolves is
jf great' economic importance,”
;he report said. ‘‘Reports that
aundreds of reindeer are killed
n one night are not uncommon,
ind the reports further indicate
hat 8,000 reindeer were killed
iuing last winter.”
Similar reports indicate depre
lations on mountain sheep, goats,
noose and deer, t?ie Bureau re
sorted.
The maskox herd introduced
nto Alaska in 1930 is doing well,
.he report said.
Fay Webb III
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5hysicians attending Fay Webb
(above), 27, former wife of Rudy
bailee, at Santa Monica, Calif.,
eared she would die from the criti
:aI illness which followed an oper
ition for an internal ailment. Miss
Webb, shown in one of the latest
ghotographs made of her at her
lome, has been in poor health for
■everal years. (Associated Press
Photo)
PIONEERS ATTENTION
Regular Meeting of Igloo No.l.
at St. Joseph's Hall, Wed. Jan 20,
at 8 P M.
DAVE GRAY. Secretary
Double Header Baseball Games Wed. Jan. 20
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