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King & Queen Honored In Capitol
American Woman Released From Russian Prison
Columbia 123 Miles from Nome In Ice Going Slow
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Linked To 9-Year Mystery
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Allen Lostroth (above), 48, was
to be taken to Raton, New Mex
ico, on the basis of a murder
warrant in connection with the
mysterious disappearance of Ray
Sutton, veteran dry agent, who
has been missing since 1930. Los
troh was arrested near Walla
Walla, Wash. Sutton vanished in
northern New Mexico. Hhis fate
has never been known.
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at the Belmont Point cemetery,!
Sunday 2 p.m., Jurji 11th, for
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neers will meet at 1:30 p.m. at
Odd Fellows hall, where auto
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Royalty Greeted
tn Washington
By Pres. Roosevelt
WASHINGTON, June 8 (/P) —
With a smile and friendly hand
shake. President Roosevelt, after
a bombing salute and military
honors welcomed the King of
England to the capital of the re- \
public, grown great from, the 131
one-time English colonies.
Their faces crinkled in cordial j
similes as their hands met as if to|
symbolize the ties of friendship
between the two' English-speak
ing people who parted ways in:
1776.
Secretary of State Hull, who'
accompanied the King and his;
Queen from Canada, introduced
them. He said: “Mr. President, 11
have the honor to present their;
Britannic Majesties.”
"Hew are you, I’m glad to' see j
you,” the President said. The
King and Queen then greeted
Mrs. Roosevelt and Brigadier
General E. M. Watson, the Presi
dent’s military aide.
The royal couple and the first
family of the United States chat
ted briefly for a moment and
then formalities started. The
British monarch’s suite was intro
duced to President and Mrs. |
Roosevelt. After the President
met members of the royal suite,
high ranking officials of the Am
erican government were then in
troduced to the King and Queen.
Write to your friends and rela
tives on the ‘Outside’, using Sotir
ough Stationery. They’ll get a big
kick out of it
FELLER VISITS INJURED MOTHER
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A foul tip off the bat of Marvin Owen of thp Chicago White Sox.
on a pitch thrown by Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians, put
Mrs. William FeJIer, mother of the pitcher, in the hospital on Mo
ther’s Day, wh^n she journeyed from Van Meter, la., to Chicago
to watch her son. pitch. The ball struck her on the forehead, broke
her glasses, and inflicted a deep cut above hjsr nose and right eye.
She is shown as she was visited after the game by Feller, his
father, and sifter, Marguerite. Feller stayed in the game after the
misliap to win, 9 to 4
King and Queen
Strengthen Ties
With United States
WASHINGTON, June 9 (/P) —
Britain's youthful sovereigns ex
changed cordial greetings with
American legislators in a bril
Fant capitol reception demon
trating anew the close bonds of
friendship between the two great
English-speaking peoples.
Standing- in huge high-domed
capitol rotunda, the king and
queen 'had a smile and a royal
handshake for the 490-odd sen
ators and representatives who
crowded the chamber. When it
was over, chairman Pittman of
the reception committee, sa- d the
king thanked Congress with
these words: “Her majesty and I
are unable to express our ap
preciation for thp universal cour
tesy and friendship we have re
ceived,”
The monarchs stood less than
a hundred yards from the spot
where the victorious British
troops held a mock legislative
session in. the House chamber,
125 years ago, then sacked and
burned the capitol.
'Senator Borah, aged 74, the
Dean of the Senate, was the first,
other than the reception com
mittee to meet the king.
The royal couple were up un
til past midnight listening and
watching to |sinfers and folk
dancers who performed after the
state dinner at which the sov
ereign and Roosevelt joined in
solemn pledges of international
friendship. .
The President said, rising in
his place beside the queen, whose
gleaming coronet of diamonds
and rubias, reflected the tights of
the huge chandelier, “I am per
suaded that the greatest single
contribution that our two coun
ies are enabled to make to
civilization and to the welfare of
peoples throughout the world is
the example we jointly set by
our manner of conducting rela
tions between our two nations.”
The sun-tanned king, standing
inside the curve of the great
horseshoe dining table replied:
“I trust and believe that in many
years to come, the history of the
United States will continue to
be marked by that ordered pro
gress and by that prosperity that
has been yciurs in the past and I
pray that our great nations may
ever in the future walk together
along the path of friendship in
world peace.
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No Passenger Accomodations
On South Bound Voyage of
S. S. Denali on July Sailing
Joe Hamish local agent for
the Alaska Line is in receipt of
a telegram from Seattle stating
that there will be no passen
ger space of any kind available
on the July sailing of the steam
er Denali from Nome southbound
as the steamer will 'load a full
passenger list 'In Bristol Bay.
Passengers planning on going out
side are encouraged to take the
steamer Columbia which will sail
soon on her outbound voyage to
Seattle.
A BIT OF ENGLAND IN A STRANCE LAND, this is the British embassy in
Washington, where King George and Queen Elizabeth will probably call during their visit tv America.
18-Mo. Detention
American Woman
Ends Tomorrow
"MOSCOW, June 9 (/P> — Mrs.
Ruth Marie Rubens, American
women, whose long detention, in
Russia caused an extended diplo
matie intervention, was sentenc
ed ta 18 months imprisonment by
the court, but she was told she
would be free tomorrow because
he had served all but one day
of the sentence.
Sentence was passed by a Mos
cow city court, wfhere she was
charged with entering Russia on
a false passport.
She disappeared from a Mos
cow hotel with <a husband known
also as Donald Robinson in Dec
ember, 1937. A month later, U.S.
embassy officials were permitted
to see her in prison. Her hus
bands whereabouts has never
been established.
Whether she would be turned
over to U. S. authorities after
her liberation could not be learn
ed.
She asked the court for inform
ation about her husband but was
refused.
Boat Movements
Early this morning all efforts
to obtain some news on the lo
cation and distance of steamers
enroute to Nome proved futile,
but early this afternoon it was
learned thru local agent of the
Alaska Line, Joe Harnish, that
the freighter Sutherland was 150
miles distant from Nome and
making 9 miles per hour in open
water. This news flashed around
town Pike the news of a fire ard
soon everyone was figuring how
many hours it would be before
the vessel arrived here. However
Captain Alex Westerbolm of the
Sutherland, did not give bis ar
rivap time, probably because he
was no.t sure just what the ice
conditionis to be encountered
would be.
LATEST BOAT NEWS
At 5 p.m. today the S. S. Col
umbia was 123 miles from Nome
heading into Yukon River ice,
going slow.
Sutherland was 120 miles from
Nome. Both boats are in sight of
each other.
Airs Belief There
Will Be No War
In Europe
LONDON. June 8, </Pf — Lord
Halifax. British Foreign Secre
tary, declared that the time has
passed when independent Europ
ean nations cou'd be destroyed
by the action of one state.
He said it was clear now that
any further attempt at aggres
sion “would meet with resolute
resistance." He spoke at a foreign
affairs debate in tine House of
Lords.
Chamberlain told the House of
Commons that the recent attitude
of Germany : n the colonal ques
tion w'as of placing further ob
stacles in the way of a possible
step toward the adjustment of
that problem.
Lord Halifax said “I don’t
share the view that war is un
avoidable. There are problems in
Europe only too likely to lead
to war, but I find it very difficult
to believe that with a certain
.prospect of resistance, those who
■might feel tempted to risk the
arbitrament of war, would not
think it wiser and more proflt
1 able to resolve their difficulties
by negotiation.”
Signs Resolution
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WASHINGTON, June 8 (TP) —
President Roosevelt signed the
resolution seeking to permit two
plans for the reorganization of
the executive branch of the gov
ernment, to become effective
July 1.
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PERSHING LEAVES FOR EAST
His erect military figure belying his 78 years, Gen. John J. Periling
(left) is shown as he shook hands with Stephen Tormey, past com
j mander of the Tucson American Legion post just before speeding
eastward by train after a winter of unprecedented seclusion in
Tucson, Ariz. The General planned first to go to Washington. Whe
ther he would make his annual trip to France was not known.