WORLD NEWS FLASHES
SINGLE HOUSE LEGISLATURE
BILL FAVORED BY COMMITTEE
WASHINGTON. July 10—Approv-;
al of the bill authorizing- a. referen-j
dum in Alaska on the proposal for a
one-house legislature in the Territory'
was given today by the committee on I
territories of the House of .Represen-:
tatives.
DeAgate Anthony J. Dinaond. au-j
thor of the bill, said many Alaskans ,
favor a one-house legislature because |
it would be more businesslike and!
less expensive.
BRITISH SHU* IS
HIT BY TORPEDO
LONDON—The British admiralty
announced today that the o l i-cr
Penelope searched fruitlessly for L1;
hours for the crew of a British boat
reported adrift in a small boat with
out oars.
The ship, was said to have been
torpedoed by a submar.ne off the
Spanish coast. The nationality of
the submarine nor the name of the
British boat was not learned up U- a
late hour today.
NOTED VISITORS TO
ALASKA ON WAY HOME
JUNEAU, July 10—After sojourns ;
in Alaska, either for business or on
pleasure, E. L. Yuravich. inspector
in the Bureau of Air Commerce of
the Department of Commerce; Robert
L< Roy Ripley. "Believe It or Not”
car- ni«t, and E. P. (Slipi Madigan,
football coach at St. Mary's Univer
sity. California, aiv an their way to
the States on the steamship Aleutian
having boarded the vessel today in
Juneau.
Mr. Yuravich inspected three Alas
aska air lines. In the States he will
inspect an air lire being established
in the North Atlantic area, and then
h<- wil go back to his headquarters
in Washington City.
Mr. Ripley and Mr. Madigan made
pleasure visits to Southeast Alaska.
LANGLEY IS ON HER
WAY TO I HE NOK I BLAND
SEATTLE. Julj 10—Bound for Al
aska. the United States navy airplane
carrier Langley sailed today from Se
attle. She will join the tender Sand
piper. which is already enroute north
to act as tender for three squadrons
of long range navy patrol bombing
planes. The planes, starting July IB.
will • .-it the Kodiak Si aa areas.
Bear Admiral E. J. King, base
force aircraft commander, is aboard
the Langley. Eefore the vessel s de
parture for the North, he said he re
gretted the planes would be unabl
to visit more Alaska points. They
will be In the North about two weeks.
Admiral King announced that two
squadrons of planes will base on the
nuvy sr,'p Thrush at Port Angeles,:
Wash., for flights in the Puget Sound
t - ea.
MAE WEST'S HUSBAND
ASKS FOR SI.500.000 IX SUIT
NEW YORK. July 10— Mae West.
44-year-od blonde and buxom motion
picture star, offered Frank Wallace.
New York vaudeville actor, S30.000
to forget" about their marriage,
which Mae, after having repeatedly
denied recently, admitted in court in
I. 0s Angeles, his attorney Samuel
S! . I, declared today in Los Angeles.
The ceremony was performed April
II. It'll, in Milwaukee. Wis.
Mae male her admission of the
marriage in the answer that she was
compelled to file in the suit that
Wallace instituted against her to es
tabish the wedding.
Having won recognition of the mar
: iage, W allace is now prepared to de
mand a half share of Mae's reputed
iortune of $3,000,000, Attorney Siegel
aid today:
“We expect to apply to the court
next week for an injunction to tie up
all of Mae West's property in Calif
ornia.”
ELLIS PARKER AND
SON (IIYEN PRISON TERMS
NEW YORK—Ellis Parker, Sr.,
chief of detectives in Burlington
County, New Jersey, was sentenced
in court in New York to six years
in a federal prison for plotting the
kidnapping in New York of Paul
Mendel, a former lawyer of Trenton.
N. J.. ami taking him to New Jersey,
where he was forced to sign a state
ment setting forth he was the abduc
tor of the la-months-old son of Col.
:.n,i Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh.
Ellis Parker, Jr., who was convict
ed with his father of the Wer.del
kidnapping conspiracy, was sentenced
lo three years.
V. endei declared he was tortured
into making the confession, and he
* epudiated it when liberated by his
captors.
Two grand juries investigated the
confession and found it spurious.
However, it caused Gov. Harold G.
Hoffman of New Jersey, to delay the
execution of Eruno Richard Hautrt
i .ann, who had been convicted of kid
naping and killing the Lindbergh
child. Hauptmann was electrocuted
f r the crime in the New Jersey pat -
itentiary April 3, 1&36.
UNITED STATES TO SELL
GOLD AND BUY SILVER
W ASHINGTON, July 10—Gold will
be sold by China to the United States
Henry luorgenthau. Jr., secretary of
the United States Treasury, and Dr.
H. H. Kung, finance minister for
China, who is in Washington, an
n.mn.eJ t> day in a join: statement
issued in the national capitaL
The announcement said:
“An agreement has been concluded
and.: wftich China will buy sub
•♦antial an.ount of gold from the Un
ited States, and the United States
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under the original Chinese-L'nited
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May.’
How much gold and silver will be
bought was not disclosed. The pur
pose of the agreement is to assist in
stabilizing the currency relationships
between the countries and to aug
ment the gold reserves of the Chin
ese Central Bank.
Secretary Morgenthau said the
' gold to be sold to China wou’d corr-e
; f. in the Tt a. ury’s inactive fcoid ac
! c:-nu,t, which was started in Fit em
ber and which now contains about
i $1,144,000,000.
Dr. Kung asserted the geld ac
quired by China from the United
States and explained it. would be used
as a reserve behind Chinese currency,
regardless of where the metal treas
ure was stored.
RELIEF WORKER CONFESSES
KILLING THREE LITTLE (.IRI S
LOS ANGELES, July 6—Detective
Lieutenant I,eRoy Sanderson said to
day Albert Dyer. 32, a WPA crossing
guard, empoyed to protect children
from crossing accidents, confessed to
murdering three girls at Inglewood
on June 26.
The confession followed apprehen
: sion of the man frem a description
| by another child who refused to be
a member of the fatal auto ride a
week ago last Saturday.
Dyer said the children left their
toys in the park and met him tt. the
hills.
“I took Madeline down : . the can
yon ami choked her with my hand
and then tied a rope around her neck.
I went back and got Jeanette and
choked her the same way. I did the
same to Melba,” he said.
The bodies were found after a
countryside search by more than 1,000 '
people.
Dyer was one of the most frequent
visitors to the police with tips. He,
later came to the police station and
announced, “I understand you want
me.”
Police said they were not iookir-sr
for him but, they shadowed the mar
and after observing suspicious move
ments arrested him. Dyer refused to
admit the crime, but after a lon£
^riling confessed.
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