The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 8, 1932, Page 1

T Rt gn & VOL. XXXIX., NO. 5972. MYSITE DPPP Lo ad 293> «oCC " JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 8, MEMBER OF had ad 209> «CCoT DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE (! “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ASSOCIATED PRESS PRidé TEN CENTS NOTE REVEALED TODAY, LINDBERGH CASE Lo o2 d 2909 TWO OTHER MESSAGES ARE RECEWED OVER SCORE OF LIVES LOSTIN SAVAGE STORM Eastern and Southern States Are Hit by Se- vere March Gale SHIPPING SUFFERS ON ATLANTIC COAST, Seven Persons Frozen to Death in Blizzard Rag- ing in Maryland i | | NEW YORK, March 8—The sea- son's most savage storm has cost 2t least 28 lives. The lion of March roared through the Eastern and Southern States and buffeted shipping off the coast. Maryland lies under snow drifts and towns are isolated in New York, Pennsylvania and other States. Snow in some places in York State is three feet df p. Snow has fallen in Louthern States. Highway and telegraph and tele- phone communications are disrupt- | New of the navy's scout cruiser, This picture shows the tcrn stern fabric and smashed vertical fin the Akron, the result of a sudden gust of Associated Pres. Fhoto L |rrceive the majority ed everywhere. Nine members of a sponge boat crew are reported lost off Cedar wind as the dirigible was being hauled out of her hangar at Lakehurst, N. J., preparatory to a test flight with a congressional inspection com- nut&e.. | | . Bay, Florida. Five Coast Guardsmen were wned going to the rescue of a fishing schooner off Absecon Light, New Jersey. Seven persons have been frozen 1o death in the Maryland Mmrd Three vessels are unreported Virginia and the Carolinas. The crew of 3¢ men aboard the collier De Vardelben, formrely the Bremerton, built at Seattle, is pre- paring to abandon the ship which has lost her rudder off Nantucket. CONFESSES HE MURDERED HIS AGED LANDLADY Shipped Body in Trunk to Phlladelpl:\la Where | cLosve prices Topay It Is Discovered | NEW YORK, March 8—Closing ‘quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 13%, American Can 73, Anaconda 10%, Bethlehem Steel 23, Curtiss-Wright 1%, Kennecott 10%, Packard Motors 3%, United States Steel 49%, Bunker Hill, no drs STOCK PRIGES | TAKE ADVANGE THROUGH OILS Brisk Tone Een to Mar- ket Today—Many Is- sues Report Gains NEW YORK, March 8. — Brisk buying of oil shares imparted a firm tone to the stock market to- day and many issues advanced fractionally. American Telephone and Tele- gxaph Dupont and Consolidated t up one to two points. Umon Pacific regained a loss of 1’. points before the closing. e e—— ATLANTIC CITY, March 8— Louis Fine, aged 50 years, has been charged with murder. He confessed he shipped the body of his land- lady, Mrs. Mattie Schaf, aged 60 years, to Philadelphia, where it was Sale. Fox Film 4, General Motors found in a trunk in a rooming 217%. house. SELBY, Cal, March 8—Trapped in the hills by a posse after he ihad been foiled in an attempt to {hold up the Selby Post Office and imake off with a $25,000 payroll of |the Selby Smelting Company, an !unidentified robber shot and fat- ally wounded himself. Fine collapsed from a "heart az-l Authorities said they believed, Fine had three wives and a long record of swindling women. Mrs. Schaf was apparently‘ 'Robber Foiled in Attempt Oregon Takes I to Get $25,000 New Move i Shoots Himself On Education 8.—Ccnsolidation of all institu- tions of higher learning in Ore- gen, under one administration, effective next fall, has been tack and was taken to a hos-) pital. ) strangled. A maid saw her last Tuesday, a week ago today. | PORTLAND, Oregon, March crdered by the State Board of Education. Cataloni; Demands of Spain Right to Regulate Own Trade BARCELONA, Spain, March 8.—(of the republic we have been con- Francisco Macia, president of the|tent to stay with Spain. Cataionian generality, wants the| “But we have a labor problem central Spanish government to|which is peculiarly ours. Our mag- grant Catalonians a federal state nificent port here is Spain's chief “capable of legislating toward its|connection with Spanish America. own self-support and endowed with |and we who have helped to build the right to strengthen its ties of |it up feel we should have the right maritime trade with the Americas.” |to deal with the labor troubles that Discussing the Catalonian staxute,todsy threaten our martime indus- which is coming before the national |try with paralysis. congree he said: H “Gt:illm&'! the right to suggest £ specf tariff arrangements with “All we ask is the privilege of gouin America, wea:egueve we could meeting our own peculiar problems| stimulate an interchange of South in‘our own way. . American raw materials for greater “Separatism is no part of our{amounts of our conserves and our program, Since the establishment)Catalonian textiles.” After Eye Operatlon | MISHAP DAMAGES GIANT DIRIGIBLE SEATTLE GOES TOPOLLS TO ELECT MAYOR; Three Councilmen Ate Also to Be Chosen: from Field of Six STREET RAILWAY PROBLEM ALS0 UP| : John F. Dore, 2 to | Viee} tor in Primaries, Asks for 100,000 Votes SEATTLE, March 8—A vote of 120,000 is expected to be cast in to- day's municipal election for a May- or and three Counciimen. John F. Dore.’ prominent and reputedly wealthy attorney, who led two to one in the primary, has appealed for 100,000 votes. Robert H. Harlin, corn cob smok- i abor Mayor, predicts he will of the votes and be returned to office. He Was second in the primary race. Three Councilmen are to be se- lected from the following six can- didates: David Levine, incumbent; Phillip Tindall, incuw/abent; Frank Fitts, E. L. Blaine, Oliver T. kson and Dan Landen. The city will also vote on whether the street railway will be under & five-man commission with full eon-| Council | domination with a smgle manager, trol, or continue under | Associated Press Photo Ramsay MacDonald, British prime | minister, is shown here as he was| well on the way to recovery after al delicate eye operation. SEATTLE HAS BIG PROGRAM | T0 PUT OVER Twenty Million Jion Dollar Pub- lic Works Scheme Pro- posed by Engineers SEATTLE, March 8—A twenty- million dollar public works pro- gram, which would give employ- ment to thousands of men for many months, is proposed to the City Council by Seattle engineers who ‘were appointed to aid Mayor Harlin's committee on improvement in the unemployment situation. The program will be referred to the Council acting as a committee of the whole. — TRAVELING MEN RETURN L. M. Carrigan, ‘A. Van Mavern and G. D. TFelt, merchandise brokers and traveling salesmen returned to Juneau Saturday on the motorship Norco from business to Alaska towns south of Juneau. " | NINE - EXCURSION PARTIES SLATED: T0 COME NORTH ]uneau to Be Visited by Many This Summer, Chamber Hears Nine big excursion parties and a German warship are scheduled to visit Juneau during the coming season, it was announced to the Chamber of ‘Commerce today by Secretary G. H. Walmsley. In ad- dition to these, which have been are definitely arranged for, other expected to make the Alasak The German warship will the first large party, arriving here in May before the tourist season is fairly under way. The other parties already signed up are: Am- arilla, Texas, Good Will Tour, in June; San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, August 8; University of Oregon Summer Schools jtwo par- ites for August; Los Angeles Cham- ber of Commerce, June; Interna- tional Rotary excursions, at least two in July; Georgia Caravan Cor- poration, 102 boys, July; Califirnia Legionnaires, September. Spotlight On Two The spotlight of the Chamber turned on two visitors. Lieut. John R. Noyes, of the Alaska Road Com- mission, returned last week from an official trip ag far north as Coun- cil, on Seward Peninsula, and Ray G. Day, who returned last Satur- day after an absence of seven years spent in Miami, Fla., where he owns a job printing business. Glen Carrington, one of the mem- beos of the firm of Juneau Young Hardwaic Company, visiting here from Ketchikan, and Cly G. ‘Wann, pilot of the Briti Air Transport, with headqua at Whitehorse, were also spe at today's meeting. Mr. Wann recently rescued Pilot William R. Graham and Mrs. Edna Christofferson, about’ 50 miles from Atlin where they were forced down flying from Hazelton to Atlin en- route to the Arctic to segrch for the missing Hudson Bay Com- pany’s ship Baychimo. Railway Has Troubles High rates and deficits in oper- ations are not the only sources of trouble for the Alaska Ra was evident from Lieut. N count of conditions in the rail belf recently. Snow and windstorms blocked all traffic there last month for 10 days. A passenger and freight train enroute to Fairbanks was snowed in in the Broad Pass dis- trict. Two snow plows sent to its aid stalled and ran‘out of fuel. A special train bearing General Man- ager Ohlson started from Anchor- (Continued on Page Tw0) g | ballot ERNST THAELMANN THEODORE DUESTERBERG NEW CLUES IN KIDNAPPING OF BABY EXPECTED Police Commissioner of ‘New York City Re- ceives Odd Request 'LINDBERGHS ALSO RECEIVE TWO NOTES Investigation Still Sur- rounds Members of Hopewell Home NEW YORK, March 8.— iPolice Commissioner Mul- ‘wrooney disclosed late this 'afternoon that the New Jer- sey State Police have request- ed him to take no action on a note in the Lindbergh kid- napping case which they promised to forward to him. He had not received the note {at the time the announcement ADOLF HITLER was made and much mystery Four candidates are in the race for President of Germany, the main issue being continuation or re- jection of the policies of Heinrich Bruening, Chancellor. but that result is not expected. pictures of the candidates: Paul von Hinnedburg, seven years | ago a legendary hero of the world | War, is now an oc&ogcn.arum in his third career. | He "W a professional soldier fxcm the time of the Pranco-Prus- | war of 1870-71, until-he laid de his routine garrison life, for | the quiet existence of a supor-an-‘ nuated offices Then the world war came. He was called back to take command on stern front, smashed the Russians at Tannenberg and was made a national hero. [He became chief field marshal of the west, constructed the “Hinden- burg line” and in November, 1912, got his defeated army back home in Germany without the anarchy that many feared woull result from the debacle in the field. Again retired, he was called to service the third time in a mew field, politics, in1925. The national- ist and parties of the right united on him for the second presidential and he was elected. Now he has again answered “a call of duty” and is standing for re-election, but this time backed mainly by Lhc cc-an-nsts FALSE TEETH MAY IDENTIFY SLAIN TRAPPER Portland W_or:an Believes Albert Johnson May Be Her Brother PORTLAND, Oregon, March 8.— Mrs. Elizabeth McLean said she | believed that Albert Johnson, de-| mented trapper, slain near the Yu- kon Territory boundary by Mounted | Policemen, was her brother, Edward Manning Gentry, because he car- ried a set of false teeth. Johnson's | teeth were good. Mrs. McLean said her brother bought her the teeth but she re- fused to use them and he always carried them with him. He was a prospector and was sent to an in- sane asylum in Nevada, but es- caped. The police found in Johnson's pack, the set of teeth, besides a | ployed and needy. On a second ballot a plurality will be sufficient. Ernst Traelmann, head of communist party in Germany, is A clear majority on the first ballot will win, has developed. NOTES RECEIVED { the | Here are brief word Adolf Hitler, leader of the na-, tionalists, started his run for pros&-’ HOPEWELL, N. J, March |8.—Information that the kid- nappers of thtc Lindbergh that faction’s psrenniel capdidate | dent of Germany while his citizen baby have communicated mth for high offiée ' the WUTE fHe ran in both presidential bal- lTots of 1925, but in the final fin- | ished a poor third. But much water has run under Germany's political bridges in the seven years. have already conceded that Trael- | Pre-election forecasts | Brap o thar - republic whs i st pute, | But appointment to a professor- ship in Brunswick university, cou- | pled with the delivery of a le‘!ur(‘[ in that capacity, fulfilled the letter of the law, even if it did not satis- | fy his opponents. his“parents came from an ap- iparently authoritative source today. Two notes are said to have |been received Sunday, one {typewritten but handwriting MeGScpatly, Wi comp oe to‘ The former Austrian tried to be | ‘”‘l’erts agreed the other is in doubling their 1925 -vote, although | that would not be sufficient to elect. Theodore Duesterberg entered the German presidential race with the backing of 800,000 world war vet- erans organized as “The Society of the Steel Helmet,” and one of the shattered natnonalist party headed by Alfred Hugenberg. The step marked a definite rift between these two elements of the German ‘“right” and the national socialist under Adolf Hitler. It | |an artist, failed to achieve that goal, took to interior decorating, | enlisted in the German army and | | won a medal in the world war. He has been pictured as the an- | tithesis of the venerable Hinden- | burg, gaining his points less by | rigid determination, than by elo- | quent pleadings. But his “nazis” worship him. His remarkable oratory sways thous-! ands and his undisputed personal | courage holds them. He has taken part in several of |the same writing as the ran- som demand left last Tuesday ‘night on the window sill of ‘the nursery when the baby was abducted. The last two notes bore the mme postmark. The baby is 'described as safe and well. Yesterday afternoon Capt. J. J. Lamb, of the State Po- lice, gave out a story denying drove Hitler into the race himself. |the hottest riots and political fights that any ransom note had been But Duesterberg and Hitler agree on several points and particularly upon the treaty of Versailles as the source of Germany’s present woes. Wheat Blll Is Signed by Hoover Forty Million Bushels Plac-| ed to Credit of Unem- ployed, Needy WASHINGTON, March 8—Presi dent Hoover has signed the free| wheat measure placing 40,000,000 bushels of Farm Board wheat to the credit of the nation’s unem- The Presidsnt made no comment when he signed the measure. The wheat will be handled by the Red Cross. It will be distribut- ed to mills, ground into flour and given to commuities to be made into brcad 14 PASSENGERS of his militant organization and once, it is related, led in person a band of 50 fighters who cleared 800 opponents out of a hall with a bar- z.ige of cha .md rx» 3 STERLINGIS i ~ BEING BOUGHT |Bull Demonslratlon Sends' Quotations Up Over Twelve Cents NEW YORK, March 8. — World | buying of the English pound sterl- | ing today witnessed the greatest; | bull demonstration of any forexgn | exchange in months. | The buying sent |of the sterling ug 11\016‘ than 12 |cents to above $3 the highest | price since Nm'ember 3 . the quotation | WASHINGTON, left on the window sill and that no contact had ever been made with the kidnappers. INVESTIGATING MEMBERS OF LINDBERGH HOUSEHOLD HOPEWELL, N. J, March 8— The New Jersey State Police re- (Continuea on Page Two) Former Justice Holmes Is 91 Years Old Today March 8— Oliver Wendell Holmes, who re- cently resigned from the Unit- ed States Supreme Court, cele- brated his 91st birthday today. Rest has restored him to old time vigor. He never leaves his home nights and will listen to a banquet in his henor to- mght over the radio. | | \Thirst and Machme Guns Erase Libyan Desert Band ON NORTHLAND FOR THIS PORT SEATTLE, March b — Motorship | poke of gold and $3,000 in large bills. DISCOUNT CLAIM EDMONTON, March 8. — The Mounted Police here discounted Northland sailed for Juneau and TRIPOLI, Libya, March 8. —| The caima's full name was Abd- Buried in the unemotional pages|El-Neby-Ker. From 1924 to 1929 |of an army T's report to the its mere mention struck terror to | proving au s is a story of |the hearts of peaceful desert dwel- how once dreaded caima of.Or- |lers in the region of Fezzan. fella and 50 of his rebel tribesmen| Life there in the barren interior. perished of in the Taferust|of Libya is made possible by deser: sprinkling of oases. By virtue whfi The report gives no details other |office, which carries with it the than that the band tried to nego- [title of muntsaref of Murzuk, the the possibility that the mad '-rap-‘uy ports at 9 o'clock last night per, Albert Johnson, was Edward |with 38 first class passengers Gentry, brother of a Portland aboard. ‘woman. | Passengers booked for Juneau are The Mounties said that at lea.st§Capt. R. E. Davis, J. V. Davis and six persons in widely separafed | wife, Mrs. W. S. Klockenteger and points are sure Johnson was their baby, Charles Crawford and son, relative. | Miss Joan Mickelite, Ben Mahlum, Johnson was about 35 or 40 years David Mahlum, H. L. Ward, Miss of age. Gentry would be at least Patricia Sunde, Miss Muriel Jar- 65 years old, ‘mnn and Miss Lue Reed. tiate the vast arid strel the calima laid the worst in Africa, when fleeing |claim to the whole territory. X to Algeria from the machine guns| Leading 200 fierce warriors, and airplanes of Italian troops. preyed upon the natives, and Marshal Pistro Bodoglio, who in|power was undisputed until a three-year campaign has cleared | Italian column went into Tripolitania and the western half|country. of Libya rebels, made the report.| It was an uneven fight. He mentioned the caima’s fate in-|TItalian weapons cut down cidentally in accounting for all the|caima’s men, and the rel | ¢hiefs of the 10-yerr rebellion. \desert finished the work, !