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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XV. NUMBER 572.
REWARD, ALASKA THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1930. PRICE TEN CENTS
CUSS WORKS
WITH FEVERISH
HASTE 1 BILLS
COMMITTEE WORKING BILLS
EXPEDITE FEDERAL CON
STRUCTION
WASHINGTON, Dec., 11, (£9—
The Senate continued the de
bate on the unemployment re
lief bill and the Interstate Com
mittee considered the nomina
tions of the new federal power
commission.
At the same time Senators con
nnued to smart under the Hoov
er accusation that some of them
were “playing politics at the ex
pense of the unfortunates in mis
ery.”
The agriculture committee is
{ msidering the Capper bill to
r ^tribute 40,000.000 bushels of
t heat for relief.
The House is debating the In
terior appropriations bill. The
appropriations committee is pre
paring t ostash the Senate’s $60,
v’9,000 drought relief measure.
The naval committee is con
s dering the building program to
bring the United States up to
the London naval ' treaty basis.
The agriculture committee was
holding up the drought relief
hearings while the pubhc build
ings committee worked on a bill
t.o expedite federal construction.
The nova! commit/!ee r ,nr .■ d
roe purchase of the Surrey villa.
ffi111, s-te ot. $5 000.009 for a
r 'aei r■ „Tn., ’s ^
Legge. of the f:/rrn
warned i h ' ' approval
Capper bill might affect
t rices adversely.
in
at
LONDON, D |c. 10. -TP)-House
of Commons gave Secretary of
Labor Bondf'eld right to raise
another $50,000,000 loan for the
anemp\oyment insurance fund
bringing the total to $350,000,000.
Debate disclosed that the govern
ment has been and is in
solvent to the amount of $200,
C*00,000 annually.
STILL ON THE POOD
LONDON, Dec. 10. (/P)—With 70,
BOO miners already out of mines
5n Scotland negotiations for set
tlement of the strike failed.
Fear is felt that the strike will
■spread to South Wales, where a
shutdown was narrowly averted
over the week-end.
“HOW NICE!”
LONDON, Dec. 10. (/+* —Believ
ing continued weakness of crude
oil price is hampering business the
Royal Dutch Shell Oil intersts are
reported to have made a tenta
tive offer to raise the price in
United States providing its com
petitors among oil purchasing
£ companies will do likewise.
BURKE DIED
WHITEHORSE, Y. T. Dec., 11,
i/P}—Burke died from exposure
but his companions Kading and
Marten were found safe 40 miles
from where the Burke plane was
discovered by Pilot Wassen They
were brought here yesterday by
Wassen.
POWERFUL AMERICA
GAN END MILITARISM
EINSTEIN DECLARES1
NEW YORK. Dec., 11, (/Pi— Dr.
Albert Einstein landed in the
United States and gave Ameri
can people by radio a simple but
forceful message on the end of
militarism
He spoke from the drawing
room of the liner Belgenland, and
spoke in German.
He said: “Kill the monster of
militarism: with your political
aconomic position, you can en
tirely destrop militarism when- ‘
j ver you set your hand on if'
His wife translated the address.
CAN YOU IMAGINE
NEW YORK, Dec. 10. (JP) —Miss
Agness Anable, 22 year-old actress
and interior decorator, committed
suicide by inhaling gas in her
Greenwich Village apartment. Her
fiance and mother were unable to
ascribe a motive for her act, since
sue was ir good health and had
plenty of money.
■ MACOMB, Illinois, Dec. 10. f/P—
Oliver Harding, Peoria gangster,
shot 4nd killed three policemen
before he was slain by a fourth
patrolman in a duel in front of
the Macomb police station. The
dead policemen are Edward Whit
tlesey. E. D. Bowman and Alfred
Links.
THIS JUDGE STICKLER
FOR ALLEGED RIGHTS
CADILLAC, Mich. Dec. 10. (/P)—
Because he can’t or won’t tell a
justice of the peace where he got
liquor Frank Harrand is in the
| middle of fouurth week in jail,
j Harrand said it was “can’t”; the
judge said it was “won’t” and held
him in contempt.
INDIAN UNREST
BOMBAY, Dec. 10. (^-Sixty
five persons were injured in some
clashes between demonstrators and
the police, casualties occurr
ing when police charged with bam
boo staves crowd in front of the
police station after ceremony of]
salute to the national flag.
NIP PLOT
I LISBON, Dec., 10, (/P)—Police
announced that a well organized
revolutionary movement involv
ing a plot to blow up public
buildings had been prevented. A
large quantity of bombs and ex
plosives were seized.
ONE OUT OE THREE
I CLAIMED Of GODS
MEN IN GOOD CONDITION BUT
EXHAUSTED FOR LACK
OF FOOD
I WHITEHORSE, Y. T„ Dec., 11,
j(/P)—Burke died November 20,
one month and nine days after
he was forced down on Laird
River, after the party had hiked
| considerable distance from the
j tranded plane.
! His companions buried him at
a point 50 miles from Wolf Lake
marking the grave with a pile
of logs. It is expected an early
'attempt will be made to bring
j ut the body.
! Kading and Marten were in
good condition except that they
jwere exhausted from lack of
food.
| Marten has two slightly froz
en toes and Kading suffered a
I frost-bitten hand. The only food
tlie party had was what they
could shoot and the hunting was
'poor.
i
■Quot
:df an early American' era,' a ciir
: tniguished array of lawyers dial.
| lenged the validity of the Eight
i eenth Amendment in a test case
heard in the United States Cur
rent Court of Appeals.
; It is the intention of these
lawyers that the prohibition am
endment was never legally ratified
(Since it was acted upon only by
the state legislatures and not by
the “people in conventions as
sembled in their several states,” as
they claim the constitution indi
cated
Th principle involved, which Is
'< regarded as one of fundamental
land constitutional law, arose from
the sentencing of Louis Thibault,
ordinary citizen, to a year and a
day in jail for having sold two
pints of whiskey in Vermont
The Stock Market
A. Juneau . 8
A. Can. . Ill
Bancorporation .. 28
Cities . 17
Cons. Gas 82
Zellerbach . 5
| Durant . 1
Motors . 33
Goldman . 7
Int. Tel. 23
j Kennecott . 25
Lehigh . 5
Radio . 14
Richfield . 6
Stand. N. J. 51
I Carbide . 56
| Union Cal. 231
1 Steel . 141 j
GOLD SEEKERS AIDED
SYDNEY, Aust., Dec. 11, (^P)—
Gold seekers in New South Wales
have been furnished with trans
• portation, equipment and rations
|at government efpense on con
dition the advances be refunded j
when paying deposits are discov
RUTH NICHOLS SETS
FROM 1ST TO EAST
NEW YORK, Dec., 11, (JP)—
Ruth Nichols arrived at Roose
velt Field establishing a one
stop record for her sex of 13
hours. 21 minutes and 43 seconds
from coast to coast, West to
East.
Her actual flying time was bet
ter than Col. Chas. A. Lindbergh
land Roscoe Turner, although
iher elapsed time was greater be
cause of an overnight stop at
j Wichita.
The flight began Tuesday
morning from Los Angeles.
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TANGLED LOVE
SETUBAL, Portuagal, Dec. 10
' IP)—The French Confess Dubreul
Pontbriand, widely known for lie-*
! beauty, and Robert Verigandy, a
; Paris stock broker, were found
shot to death in a room of their
.hotel. Police are of the belief
li that Verigandy khled the woman
I and then ended his own life.
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CHICAGO, Dec, 10. (/P)—Mayor
William Hale Thompson announced
he had severed relations with
Governor Louis Emmerson of II
j iinois because of a difference over
the waterways policy
Governor Emmerson said he was
“surprised to see it stated that
Thompson was ever with me.”
FILIPINOS UNITE IN
| INDEPENDENCE 010
| MANILA, Dec 10. {TP)—During a
; demonstration commemorating A.
Bonifacia, Filipino patriot, 20,000
• Filipinos became members of the
■ new Katipunan Nationalistic Or
ganization, which hopes to prove
to the U. S. that the islands want;
independence.
The association is designed to]
I unify various elements behind the|
j independence campaign and to
j prove that the islands are cap
able of supporting a government. j
... .—
COMMUNISTS RIOT
BERLIN, Dec., 10, (&)—Com
Imunist unemployment riots kept
police busy in several parts of
the city- Many arrests were
jmade.
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EXPLOSION KILLS
j RIO DE JANEIRO. Dec., 10, (tf5)
!—Thirty persons, most of them
! soldiers, were killed and others
wounded by an explosion at Por
ta da Cunka, in the state of Min
as Gerais.
SQUADRON ITALIAN
| PLANES PREPARES
HOP THE ATLANTIC
PLANES TAKE OFF FROM OR
BETELLO, NEAR ROME,
NEXT WEEK
ROME Dec., 11, </P)— ItaUan
viators hope to end the old year
, nd ring in the new with an un
1 recedented feat—a formation
light of 12 planes across the
tlantic.
Italo Balbo, air minister ar/d
aring pilot himself, will head
he expedition which expects to
ake off December 15 from Or
etello, 75 miles northwest of
tome, for Brazil.
Savoia Marchetti seaplanes,
modeled after Italian bombers,
will make up the fleet which will
iprogiess in easy stages to Carta
igena, Spain, and down the Afri
can coast to the hopping-off
point, Bulama, Portugese Guinea.
Their departure for the new
world, after general overhauling,
wil be timed for the light of the
fall moon and dependent on good,
v. hh'T. probably between Janu
ary a S,
They will make far the near
st point of Brazil—Natal—cross
■y' the equator in mid-ocean,
nd then proceed down the
oast to Rio de Janeiro.
Ry the mars formation flight,
hr i ■ over p* 70s rt for a
r ns- 't’mtic at^emnt. Italy an—
icioates demonstrating the re
3 ' bility and possibilities of avia
tion.
PARIS IXc.f 11, (jT*)—Theodore
Steeg, radical socialist, was call
ed to form a cabinet by Presi
dent Doumergue to replace that
of Tardieu which resigned last
week.
Steeg said he would give reply
soon.
i Laval Bathou was blocked by
the radical socialists in his at
tempt to form the government,
and Poincare refused on account
of poor health.
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DOMINIONS DEMID
II DECEIVE RICHES
—
LONDON, Dec. 10. {^)—Sir Is
aac, Chief Justice of Australia,
was named governor general of
Australia ‘on recommendation of
right honorable J. H. Scuilin, the
prime minister.
Sir Issac’s appointment was the
i first practical operation of a de
cision adopted at the recent Im
perial Conference whereby domin
ion prime ministers were idven the
right to recommnd appointments
directly to the king.
CROSSING CRAS1B
LENINGRAD, Dec., 10, (JP>—
Twenty-eight persons wej*e killed
and 19 were hurt when a loco
motive hurtled into a train filled
with passengers at a crossing.