WORLD NEWS FLASHES
TWO AIRLINES WILE OPERATE
FROM FAIRBANKS TO STATES
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WASHINGTON—Weekly subsidiz
ed airmail service between Fairbanks
sr d Juneau, and more frequent Bu
rn ail schedules between Fairbanks
and outlying isolated regions in Al
aska are planned by the United
States, and establishment of a reg
ular airmail service between Fair
banks and Edmonton, Alberta Prov
ince, Canada, is contemplated by Can
s r. and all the projects will be dis
c ed at the conference in Washing
ton City next October ' by United
grates and Canadian officials, Harllee
•»i . .. second assistant postmaster
g, • ral in chares of airmail service,
< ed recently in the national cap
ital.
The United States and Canada,
r h eager to control Alaska’s profi
ts, cl: air lines will settle the problem
r and the conference table. The
price is a rich one. Post office offi
c :»!s say it involves the right to fly
shipments of gold, platinum and furs
f■ -i Alaska’s Interior to the outside
v ■ ’ -.
’’ • d States officials have quietiy
r pans to inaugurate a weekly
. - 4. < i. e between Fairbanks and
Juneau by way of Whitehorse. Y. T.,
I subsidizing private lines with air
r ;il contracts. United States offi
cials also have planned shorter sched
ules between Fairbanks and outlying
is V.tod regions m Alaska.
Assistant Posmaster General
Branch declared the postoffice depart
rr at was all set to go on both these
st•’■vices when it was discovered that
Cana da was preparing to inaugurate
an airmail service between Edmon
t-n ant Fairbanks by way of White
horse and Dawson. Y. T.
Because each country must secure
permission to fly over the land of
the other, the Fairbanks-Juneau
project and the Fairbanks-Edmonton
pr-'jcct are now at a standstill. These
projects and other matters. Mr.
Branch announced, would come up at
the October conference.
More and shorter schedules be
tween Fairbanks and outlying re
g:-r,s in Alaska are dependent to
some extent on connections with the
p ed Fairbanks-Juneau service
INSIST ROOSEVELT MUST
ABANDON SOME OF PLANS
WASHINGTON—Strife within the
Democratic party worries its lead
er-. Some of them predict that be
fore the next session, which begins
next" January, President Roosevelt
must choose one of two far-reaching
courses of political strategy, name
b
1. —Reconciliation, at the cost of
abandoning some of his most cher
ished objects, which factions in the
Democratic party have refused to
support, or,
2. —Prosecution of a new cam
paign by him tjo rally public support
to a p r o g r a m for hammering
I through his controversial issues
I thereby disrupting the Democrats
j party beyond all repair.
One of the New Deal's most trus
■ ted strategists asserted privatelj
that the President would base hi;
decision on the trend of public opin
ion within the next few weeks.
A group of influential House Dent
ocrats expressed strong oppositioi
to a special session of congress nt-x'
fall on the ground that it might in
crease party dissension. One Demo
cratic leader refused to be indenti
fled with even the suggestion for i
special session, saying no practica
good and maybe some harm woulc
come from it. The special session ha
been mentioned in connection wit!
proposed wage and hour legislatior
and proposed farm legislation.
President Roosevelt declared h<
was h o 1 d i n-g under advisemen'
the question whether to cal! a spe
cial session of congress in the fall
He said he did not know whether he
could call congress back before th<
beginning of January. He assertec
he had been advised both to cal
and not to call a special session.
Democratic congressional leader:
after a White House conference sak
that the suggestion for a specia
session had been discussed, but thal
no decision was reached.
WHALEN HAS GOOD
CHANCE IN MAYOR RACE
NEW Y'ORX—If anybody beat
Mayor Fiorello H. Laciuardia, inde
pendent Republican, in his candidacy
for re-elecion as mayor of New Y’orl
it will be Grover S. Whalen, the Nev
Deal democratic candidate, in thi
opinion of many shrewd politician:
in the nation’s largest city.
Wnalen became popular as Nev
York’s official greeter during thi
mayoralty tenure of James J. Walk
tr, has the Democratic leadershi]
support of the Bronx, Queens an
Richmond Boroughs, while Unite
States Senator Royal S. Copeland
| the Tammany majority candidate
has the support of only one Borougf
; Manhattan.
W halen counts on the aid of th
. federal organization, and may get th
open endorsement of Postmaster Gen
eral James A. Farley, Democrati
national committeeman f r o r
New York state, and chairman o
the Democratic national committe
Mayor LaGuardia's term expires i:
December this year and New Y’ork'
i municipal campaign is warming u|
j LaGuardia's supporters count on th
1 split in the Democraic party to re
; elect him.
j COURT PLAN IS STILL
l RGED BY THE PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON—Some of the re
organization of the United State
supreme court still remains the ob
jective of President Roosevelt, h
announced recently at the Whit
House. The announcement is th
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President's first, relative to the high
tribunal since congress shelved hb
mand that the justices be increased
from nine, the present number, to 15
, The President's announcement was
made when he signed a bill recently
passed by congress changing the ju
dicial procedure of the lower courts
He said:
“This measure leaves entirely un
touched any method of relieving the
burden now imposed on the supreme
court.”
The Chief Executive asserted the
lower court bill is a moderate ad
vance into a field which calls foi
further and more complete explora
tion.
SAVES THREE MEX—
Aviator Art Woodley effected !
daring rescue recently of three
members of a\ iaiion party who wen
left stranded at Lake George aftei
their moored seaplane had beer
partly sunk by rising water and ice
j bergs. The three stranded men wen
Aviator Pilot T. Barnhill. Georg*
Koth and Texas Rex Shaw. Thej
moored their plane along th" shor<
of the lake and then went { rospect
ing in nearby mountains. Whei
they returned to the place when
they had moored their plane, the-j
found that high water had floated i'
away, that ice had punctured its
; pontoon and that it was sinking. A1
! their food was lost except a can oi
; beans, on v, hich they lived until thi
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arrival of Aviator Woodley with his
piano. When the latter arrived at
the lake and landed his plant or. its
i waters, he taxied it precariously
j through icebergs 7J> to 100 feet high
as Charles Diamond climbed out on
1 one of the pontoons and pushed the
j ice cakes aside.
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