TELEGRAPH NEWS
WILL, EMPLOY
ARMY OFFICER#
(By The Associated Prase)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 —Army
officers will be placed ln charge
of the Civil Works administration
in several of the largest cities of
the country, Harry L». Hopkins, ad
ministrator, said Friday. Mem
Wars of the engineers corps will
become civil works administrators
in several cities, some replacing
civ llan heads. In other cities
where no civil administrators are
officiatipg, army men will be nam
ed. . N ,
Hopkins has been having d.in
culty in some sections on account
of The efforts of politicians to se
cure control of the CWA program.
He said however, .that politics
was not the reason for his dec
ision to use army officers: he add
ed that several cities asked for
them. There has also been com
plaints that at a few spots graft
crept in’o, the Civil Wbrks Ad
ministration.
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SERVANT (»IRL
WRONGLY HliAMKD
(By The Associated Press)
HEIDELSBERG, Jan. 29 — The
belief that Lieut. Colonel Walter j
Asplund, of the Finnish army, was
a victim of a poison plot was: j
givt.ri a blow by the state chemist j
following an autopsy on the of- J
liver’s body. Doctor Haenaelae- '
inen said that he found no trace
or poison deapite an exhaustive
investigation. The servant girl.
Jennie Antila, who the police said
confessed putting in poison given
her by Prussian officers in his
drink, has been in jail several
months.
(IT IN (XIAST
GUARD AtliOWANCK
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. Jan. 29 — The
Coast Guard allowance was nine
teen million against 25 million,
seven hundred and seventy two
thousand tor the current fiscal
year.
The treasury floatoffice bill pass
ed the House aad was sent to the
Senate, Friday. The bill totall
ed eiRht hundred and twenty-one
million.
ITALIAN MAIL
PLANE CRASHES
(By The Associated Press!
PORT ALBZA, Brazil, Jan. 30
Italy's premier Trans-Atlantic
air mail plane crashed on the
beach 12 miles south of here. It
is believed that the pilot and three
or four fliers escaped death.
TWO DESPERADOES CAPTURED
(By ,The Associated Press!
TALLAHASSE. Jan. 30 Two
men identified as Whitney Walker
and Roy Johnson, escape Okla
homa desperadoes, were captured.
Each was shot slightly as the of
ficers opened fire when they re
sisted arrest.
DAJLADIKR FORMS
SAFETY CABINET!
i
(By The Associated Press)
PARIS, Jan. 30 — Edouard Dal-j
adier was ijpirusted with the form-'
ation of a sort of public cabinet
for the rigorous house-cleaning of
financial scandals and the restora
tion of shaken confidence in the
gorennent. Gaston Doumergue.
former president and Jules Jean
ney both refused.
KOOAIJ8T TURNS
RANK ROBKKR
(By The Associated Press)
HOLtLBROOK, Ariz. Jan. 30 —
Accused of attempting bank rob
bery Dilsworth Sumpter, who last
October was a candidate for Con
gress and drew the largest vote in
the state's history. Is in Jai, ac
cused of battering at the founda
tions of a bank in his efforts to
tunnel thru. ‘‘I have bungled ev
erything. been denied work by
capitalists, and needed work to
support my invalid mother,” he
said.
SECRETARY PERKINS WANTS
l' N EMPLOYM ENT INSU R A NCE
(By The Associated Press!
NEW YORK. Jan. 30 The}
possibility of .creating a nation !
wide system of unemployment in- ^
suranee within two years design
ed to take the place of bread
lines, was declared by Secretary i
Perkins,.,, addressing the national
conference for unemployment in
surance. She stated that a bill
would be introduced in Congress
shortly for a federal tax on em
ployers
GOV. TROV KEEPS HIS PLEDGE
—
(By The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, Jan. 30 — Laat sum
mer on his trip to the interior of
Alaska. Governor John W. Troy
frequently asserted that as far as
it lay in his power, no one in
Alaska would go hungry this win
ter. Saturday that pledge was
carried out to an isolated part of
Alaska in the Hooper Bay region,
when a herd of 1200 government
reindeer were delivered after a
drive of 200 miles from Mountain
Village. These reindeer will pro
vide food and clothing for the na
tives in that section which will fill
a long felt want.
■SKXATK CONFIRMS
GRIFFIN APPOINTMKXT
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. Jan. 30 — The
Senate, Saturday, confirmed ■ the
appoin’ment of Edward W. Griffin
is Secretary for the Territory of
Alaska.
FKKHV BOAT A COGENT
IN JAPAN
.i—.
(By The Associated Press)
NAGASAKI, Japan, Jan. 30
Five were drowned. teu missing,
and thirty taken to the t.aspit il
when an over loaded ferry cap
isb ed Sunday. dumping between
two to three hundred persons into
the water. The bodies of At*
were recovered. ,1
I YRI> FLIGHT
ADlSs ANOTHER
AREA TO MAP
(By The Associated Press)
-ABOARD ADMIRAL BYRD'S
KLAOSHJP EN THE, ANTARCTIC
Jan. 4 — Rear Admiral Richard
E, Byrd and four companion*
made a three hour flight today to
approximately _ latitude 72:30
south, legs than 18 degrees from
the South Pole.
The plane’s course was roughly
along the 117th meridian, and the
flight extended 160 miles south of
the flagship, to a point approxi
mately 1,060 nautical miles from
the pole. P
On his return, Byrd reported:
“No land. The sea-borne ice con
tinued to the limit of vision."
He Baid, however, that the obser
vations from this flight combend
with those of the bight two weeks
ago along the 150th meridian,
900 miles west, had convinced him
that about 200,000 square miles
'*r
of previously unknown area now
can be eliminated from Antarctic
maps and be designated simply
"Pacific Ocean."
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