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The Washington :
Daybook
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By Jack Stinnett i
WASHINGTON — Into the of- j
fice of “Cactus Jack" Garner the.
other day came "Cactus Harry” \
Carey.
Occasion for the visit was sim-;
ply that Carey was in own, mak- j
ing his return to the stage after I
29 years. He wanted to see and j
chat with the vice-president,!
whose chair he occupied for that
“Mr. Smith” movie.
Occasion for this yarn was that
the two got to reminiscing and
out of that came a remarkable
example of how life goes ’round
and round. John Nance Garner,
the son of a westerner, becomes
a big politician. Harry Carey, the
son of a big New York politician
becomes a westerner.
Mr. Garner, no doubt, could
give Harry cards and spades and
beat him to death at the politic
al game, but Cary Pere would
have given Mr. Garner a run for
his money.
"Pop.” says Harry "was one of
old Richard Croker’s Tammany
district leaders in Brooklyn and
a judge of the court of special
sessions.
Carried An Umbrella
"He anticipated Chamberlain
by about 50 years—used to wear
a high silk hat and carry an um
brella, rain or shine. Only differ
ence was he used it all the time—
used it to keep the sun off as
well as the rain.
“Golly, what a bunch of theiv
es they had around Tammany in
those days. Even Pop had a fran
chisc. It was for a two-mile
horse-drawn railway through
Pelham Bay park. Pop set it up
and charged a 10-cent fare.
“Seems like there was a state
law in those days that you could
n’t charge more than five cents |
on any street railway, so Pop!
was called up to Albany um
brella and all.
“They put him in the pan, told
him he’d violated the law and
Pop says 'Now, gentlemen, I
know the law. For years I have
tbeen on the bench. Doesn’t that
law say that no one street rail
way company can charge more
that five cents? But does it say
anything about two companies
ncl being able to charge five
ce .s each? Well, gentlemen, my
two-mile railway is owned by
two companies. One owns one
m;!e, another the next. You can
look up the articles of incorpor
ation. And, gentlemen of you
want to sit here and issue an or
der that the thousands of poor
people who ride those railways
have to get off at the end of the
first mile in torrential rains and
bitter cold and transfer to the
other company’s railway just to
* comply with a silly law then I’ll
1 have to take the matter up with
the voters.”
“Well, that was the last Pop
; ever heard of that.
More Trouble
“He did have a little trouble
: later on when they were building
; a w'ooden bridge across City Is
land. Pop wanted to run his
horse-car line across tViere. They
1 wouldn’t stand for it. So one
night, after the bridge was finish
; ed, Pop got a mixed gang of his
Italian and Irish voters together
and between midnight and dawn
they laid those rails across the
bridge.
“The next morning Old Dobbin
wms pulling the car across the
bridge and the car wras met with
an armed force. Pop was on
board and waving his umbrella.
1 He just grinned when the car
| was stopped and he shouted:
j Gentlemen, if you want to hold
; up the United States mail, you'll
j have to take the consequences.’
And right in their faces he wav
: ed a government mail pouch.
“How Pop ever got the United
States government to throw in
; with him on that, I don’t know
i but that horse-car carried U. S.
| mail as long as the opposition
| could remember.
“Yessir, Pop was a great pol
! itician,” concluded Carey.
Pop has my vote, Harry. He un
doubtedly could give the modern
boys aces in the hole and beat
them with a deuce-down draw ev
en with Vice-President Garner in
the game. m
Skelton Found Near
Juneau Has Been Identified
The skeleton found near the Ba
sin Road, Juneau, last week, re
ports the Empire, was tentatively
identified as that of Mirko (Big
Mike) Adzich, who disappeared
May 11, 1925, after writing a
note indicating he would take
his life.
Identification was provided by
A1 Lundgren and Emil Rundich.
Emil Rundich was Adzich’s
partner at the Chichagof mine
when Big Mike was injured in an
accident. As a result of this in
jury, he dragged one foot, ac
counting for the toe patch, and
carried a cane. The rubber tip
of the cane was found with his
remains.
Adzich received $1,700 compen
sation from the mine, but is sup
posed to have gone through the
money rapidly and became broke
and despondent.
The note which Adzich left in
his room at the Alaskan Hotel
was as follows:
“Dear Comrade Jagoshe:
“One old tree is starting to fall
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DERBY FAVORIT E—Bimelech, that prize bay colt be
longing to E. R. Bradley, has-been one of the favorites for the May
4 Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs. He's seen exercising at
Bradley's Idle Hour farm near Lexington, Ky. On Bimelech's
1939 record are six wins out of six starts, including the Hopeful
and Futurity; earnings of $135,090.
and if it should be on the road
remove it out of the way and
notify Emil Rundich. The time
has arrived, must proceed. Yours
with regards, MIRKO ADZICH."
The letter was addressed to Joe
Jaradich. It was found by John
Covich who went to Adzich’s
room to look for him.
Adzich before going out told
the clerk at the hotel desk he
was going to the Alaska Juneau
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bunkhouse in Last Chance Basin
to visit friends. He was never
! seen again until John Osborn
1 found his bones 15 years later.
NOTICE
Write to your friends and rela
ives on the ‘Outside’, using Sour
iugh Stationery. They’ll get a big
kick out of it
DERBY DATE NEARS ,
FROM WHITNEY S T A B L E S-VVith both Flight Com
mand (above) and Carrier Pigeon entered in the May 4 Ken
tucky Derby at Churchill Downs, C. V. Whitney has hopes for a
winner. This bay colt won two out of four starts last year.
1 STAGEFRIGHT
MAYBE ’—Heading tor that May 4 date at
Churchill Downs—scene of the 66th Kentucky Derby—Stagefright
' I* expected to give a good account of himself, for Owner Hal
Price Headley. His sire was Apprehension.
[sirocco
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WHAT’S IN A NAME?—Whether Sirocco, Chas. T.
Fisher’s entry in the Kentucky Derby May 4, will live up to his
name, only the race will tell. A “sirocco” is a hot, almost cyclonic,
wind. The horse is a bay gelding.
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"PARTNERS IN CRIME”
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Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau
FORECAST, NOME AND VICINITY
Partly clouly tonight: Thursday partly cloudy with occasional
rain showers; No important cha nge in temperature. ,
Data For 24 Hoars Ending 1:00 pm Today
Highest tempt — 38 Lowest temp — 33 Precipitation — 0.08
Total precip this month 0.02 Total since Jan. 1, 1940 1.96
Temp. Humidity Wind Weather
12 Midnight . 33 98 E-9 Drizzle
Bam .... 34 99 SE-7 Drizzle
12:30 p m ... 37 94 S-4 Drizzle
One Year Ago Today
Highest temp — 32 Lowest te mp — 19 Precipitation — 0.02
Tomorrow: Sunrise 3:28 a. m. Sunset 8:28 a, m.
The Peninsula: Temp. Wind ..Weather
Deering ...— 40 Calm Pt Cldy
Council .-. 38 SE-4 Cloudy
frolovin . 40 NW-3 Clear
Kotzebue .—.. 42 S-2 Cloudy
Solomon ... 42 Calm Cloudy
reller .— ... 34 W-4 Cloudy
Tv UVCu ■••••••■ ........ ••»•«••• •••••••• •••••••■ ••••
Weather Elsewhere: 1:00 am Nome Time ’
Temp. Wind Weather Precip.
Anchorage .... . . 36 SE-6 Pt Cldy 0
Bethel ...... 34 SE-6 Cloudy 0.36 0
Cordova ..... 40 Calm Cloudy 0
Dutch Harbor. . 40 W-0 Rain 0.06
Fairbanks . ... . 36 N-6 Clear 0.02
Juneau____ 37 W-3 Clear 0
Pt. Barrow . ...
WEATHER SYNOPSIS AND GENERAL
We expect the weather along with scattered rain showers most
the coast and peninsula to im- ly in the mountains inland. Ceil
prove somewhat during the next ings and visibility will be ample
12 hours. However skies will re- for bying except reduced at tim
main partly cloudy to cloudy es in the shower area.
Suggestion* and Criticisms Invited