The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 18, 1932, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” 2 VOL. XXXIX., NO. 6007. e 7 g i JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1932. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS . LIEUT. MASSIE onor Slaying Trial DIMOND TO END HUMAN FIEND [] 1 z 5 ] ’ Says He Wrung Confession Senator A. J. Dimond At- Assaulter of Eight-Year- from Native Who At- rives to Make Vote Old Girl Pays Pen- tacked™ Wite Drive, This Division: alty for Crime ey ik oo 230 ki) Question of Insanity Arises Predicts Big Party Vote Enraged Citizens Quickly but Is Ruled Out by Next Week and Hopes Organize and Hunt Judge Davis for Own Success Down Outrager HONOLULU, H. I, April 18—/ To wind up his campaign for t ST. FRANCIS, Kansas, . Lieut. Thomas H. Massie, one of | Damocratic nomination for Del April 18. — A mob lynched the IO\vl.l‘ d?lendaxlg in the 'honm‘g gate to Congress,* Senator A. J. Richard Read aged B3 o . ing” trial, testified last Satur-| (Tony) Dimond, Valdez, arrived 4 AR 'y that he confronted Joseph here today and will spend the next bachelor farmer, who confess- Kahahawai with a pistol at the | week visiting Southeast Alaska ed he abducted, attacked and :iu‘nc of Mrs. Granville Fortescue | § communities. He will address the| then slew eight-year-old Dor- ot yat s | Clarence Darrow (left) chief of the defense counsel, in the trial| voters of this city tomorrcw event. othy: Hunter, of Seldun K& (e Jost thing he remembered of of four Americans accused of slaying an Hawailan native. Prosecutor| N8 at the Ooliseum theatre: be- & b 0F DeliCH. ].IL tragedy was the native's al-| g, . C. Kelley 1s shown to the right, tween the first and segond shows, | sas. eged confession of attacking Mrs. speaking about 20 minutes,: and| L : % Protected twice on Satur- Massie | St immediately after that meeting he : SR - B a5 i L s B THib 1ve athber tack iGH R | plans to leave by smail boat 'on & : ; Associated Press Photo zda?' from the mob by the Wight . shoiders responsibitity. for | tour that will carry him to all Investigation of the Lindbergh baby kidnaping halted for a few hours at Hopewell, N. J., as police, |quick thinking sheriff, 200 the killing of Kahahawai and pa\’-' of the larger towns and some: of firemen, newspaper men and Col. Lindbergh himself battled a brush fire that briefly threatened the home, heavil d . o bindivies wjny 5% Ahe THRRE the smaller places in the Divis-| *1OWN In the distance in the top photo. The origin of the tlaze was not determined. eavily-armed men finally fense, telling how the attack and | ion. AR SBATEY ¥ AL A ML i ey RS v A O lffmnd Read‘ last mgl.\t in the the “veiled rumors” about his wife | “Indications. e very good. for T’ M Cheyenne County Jail. They goaded }:’l\m' mtoca:;non'. | the biggest Democratic vote this DEPARTMENT UF‘ wree en MYSTERY GALL broke into the jail, entered Vrings Confession i ear in the party's hist i e | Lieut. Massie said rumors began ’!;‘crritow,‘ and Lhyesp}z:]:y?;yvyfing};, | T k' 0 { ¢ the cell, and .twk Read out circulating when it became known | O e ABHTE B T INTER'UR SILENT aking ut and hanged him to a tree. Mrs, Massis was- in:a sorious-oome-| record,” he said today. 3 | y Gov. Harry H. Wodring on dition. It was for this reason he | $80 a D la politieal L undertook to wring a confession Sure of Third Division ay a political campaign, was only from' the Hawaiizn and prove ths | . Sernmu- Dimond " is modestly ¥ KIDN AP GASE 4 few miles away, at Atwood, attack charge to the ,public. “hopeful” of his own success in the “ o] 0y at the i Lieut. Massie said he had no! contest for momination for Dele- Bkl Young Klondike™ Is Re- dtime of the. lynchings intention of killing the Hawailan | gate, but refused to make any Del Wickeraki R ported at Boston Bar, |(i: : 4 Rea wnfes.sed that he lur- at that time but Massle said Kaha- | esiravagant claibs. I record 13 elegate Allc I((:rSCsz e- S e Lindbergh's Baby in De-|ed the little girl into his auto- Bl fiEally e a member of the Alaska Legislature 1es - 1 r1Lis| olumbia | R mobile with a stri . «Yes, I done it.” and as a resident of the : plies lo‘ las rroan VANCOUVER, B. C., April 18| troit, Report—Ab- h h a. ey ".f Peatly uestion of Inanity ! Division are iis answers to crit- ber's Inquiries It is reported here that Major W. | sDisag When she was leaving the ‘ : 3] uctors ‘Disagree | At this point of the trial Prose- ics. He hopes, he admilted, that H. Mills, hotel keeper at Boston o school at Selden. He took the cuting Attorney John C. Kelley in- the Democrats of WAlaska think Until the Dill transferring the |E8r, has a “young Klondike, officers to h sisted that Clarence Darrow, vet- well enough of his ability to rep-|activities of the Alaska Road Com- | His property, once a hustling| TOLEDO, Ohio, April 18, — The the bod af aysm‘-‘ whets eran attorney and defense lawyer, resent the Terrdtory in Washing- | miss A _|mining town with mills and a|authorities are investigating a mys-| € y of the girl was 3- | mission from the War to the In 3 mady name the kind of insanity but Dar- ton to nominate him, but if one|erior Department is ‘drafted and |Mine, is reported producing $80 fl}tsrmus telephone call to the Toledo|found concealed. row replied that he did not know, of his rivals for the Delegateship |introduced into Congress, officials |48y With three men working. Times, newspaper, last night. A Immediately after the word as doctors disagreed on that point. should be successful, he has as-|of the Interior Department are — |man by tht_? name of Patterson, £ th 4 Judge Charles J. Davis ruled sured ‘the party orgamization it can % who said his home was in New|Of the crime became known, i org: not in position to outline what |troduce a bH: in Congress au- 3 . that Darrow need not attempt *o| count on him to make a hard |policics they will pursue with re- |thorizing the iransfer but the bill] L0 < S4d the Lindbergh baby was|Selden citizens began search- name the insanity and to let the! campaign for the nominee, spect to highway construction and |has not yet been prepared or in-|i- Dhc"‘m' He warned the Lind-|jng for the sheriff and his . varrative proceed. : Lieut. T 3 _He is surc of the Third Di-|maintenance in the Territory, ac-|troduced. The Interior Depart- RN D080 PAY. Sy time. e rison Lieut. Massie said he remembered | eut. Thomas C. Massie (right) naval officer, who took the blame |vision by a wide margin. In fact. [cording %o @ message recelverd by |ment says it 48 hardly in posttion |*°™ sk nothing from the time Kahahawai last Saturday in the Honolulu trial for the killing of Joseph Kaha-|some of his supporters have in-|the Alaska Chamber of Commerce|to make @ stabement as it does| PAtterson, in his telephone mes- BT T confessed attacking Mrs. Massieun- hawai, who attacked his wife. Mrs. Massie is shown, center, and Mrs. [formed him he will get about 90|from Delegate in Congress James not know the exact nature of the |53¢¢, said the kidnapers had come til he was being taken to police Granville Fortescue, one of the four defendants, is shown at left. percent of the vote cast in the|wickersham. bill to be introduced, but assumes|t© @ disagreement. NINE_YE AR_ULD flf_flé_fluttf:el;;’d whk(:’l;l ool tggw*:fi. Democratic primary. The Delegate’s message was In |that road appropriations would be| Patterson said a message would ;B.(;‘ oy foun}c,l 1 50 xbianobils Gets Encouraging Reports response to A communication sent|turmned over to the Interior De-\be sent to the Probate Judge in O Y R A i Hflus ANDS ARE Unable owing to personal illness|him by the OChamber calling his|partment and that work would|Toledo within two days telling GIRL KIDN A 1 the confession was sécured by Lieut. | ‘ and Siress of legal business to|attention to the alarm felt in Al-|Pproceed along established lines and |Where the baby would be found. ] . Siatal - 44 o o Akb dernndants. | make an extended campaign in the |aska over the proposed transfer,|for the good of Alaska. Rivers and pETT— 2 She is. tk.m ScktiesbE Mrs.'Massle:i FATAL BLAST‘ Second and Fourth Divisions, he|asking him to ascertain what at- |Harbors work is not performed by OPTIMISM AT HOPEWELL ¥ E. J. Lord and A. O. James, Navy | has been in correspondence with|titude the Interior Department |Alaska Road Commission but by Ten, sve the phber 4w dafendaiite; | bt DiRwh 3 5 | many leaders in both sections. He|would take if road activities were the United States Engineer's of-| HOPEWELL, N. J, April 18— . 2 The Jury | ety rse'p s e IN E ARTH u AKE has received very encouraging re- |entrusted to it, and inquiring if |fice, although both are presided |Optimism of three negotiators of P — | 3 X etimini 7 om . Y - | ports from all sources and has|such tasks as rivers and harbors|over by Major Malcolm Elliott. | Norfolk, Virginia, in the Lindbergh M i MTS]: ";1:‘3]’0:}“?7 e 0 opoeng ;Ze{;:dgat:rs 0[( ke, ,s”"w 0“{""01 been assured of majorities in |improvements now in charge of the |Until the bill ds introduced—and |kidnaping case with indications that AdeCtors HOId Chlld for o S OMIEAENEL L e;mlobafon were the blast both divisions, Army officiers would also be|we are informed by the Senator’s|Col. Lindbergh has the utmost con- Two Days —Toss : Dhmigtiom g ch{]dre;x e fin-' was cm:isel q. y a' .g\35>0[ s_f’mc T bl T ll I T k J “I have not come to Southeast|transferred with road work to the Qfflcc umn it is not yet ready for |fidence in “Jafsie” of the case, who H f A t { i st i G e sirb¢an 1 e structural steel trame | lerrible lo s laken Injataska to wage political warfare|Interior Department. introduction—it is difficult to say!paid the ransom of $50,000, were er from Auto 3 e e & i o I 058 o hed ,Lru':LuTe has not been‘ Provmce n Chma, on my rivals for the nomination,” Regarding Executive Order what it will contain centers of interest Saturday and g g . Olad Bitundtn. B oF Dt an. T ool Sadny. ¥ | S, declared ®enator Dimond. ‘“Both| Before the Chamber dispatched | Is Not Reassuring Sunday in the dogged hunt for the| WILMINGTON, Delaware April * oeoiry: BARMSATE SORNABEE OF & Telt- | o M, TR N, neaty ays Report are men of ability and splendid[its inquiries to the Delegate, what| The statement in the Delegate's|missing child. kidnaped from his|18—Hilda Brodsky, aged nine years, | e O ) comiledr, ra;:resenmmnil e cost_ of timber for the office to which|apparently were trustworthy, re-|message that “rivers and harbors(crib in the family home on the|¥as ;emm?d to her parents safely " public and private schools. (SN, T o Jrecked | HANKOW, China, April 18—Re- | they aspire. I am here to present|ports from Washington, D. C.|Work is not performed by the Al-|night of March 1. on Sundsy after being held in John Stone, American, 43, mlst.!;"e " :",,_J;La‘ st e :\?llcd urs; iports trickling in from the north- [MYy Own case to the voters of Ju-|stated that an executive order had |aska Road Commission but by the| Just what gives rise to ine pres- nfl PP Ly, e S 3 ant secretary of a steamship com- | o To oy, Ton Were a0 cast part of Hupeh Province said|Deau and elsewhere in the First|been losudd by President Hoover |United ~States Engineer's offios, ent air of confidence is not known|, L', ¥as reported on Friday that | engineer with a high school edu-| < 3 ere, Ut an earthquage on April 6 took a|Division. I shall do this without{ibransferring the Alaska Road Com- |although both are presided over|as the movements of all concerned Thl e[gxr ah eén kidnaped. i fisst Avi Pref H terrible toll, “tens of thousands|derogation to the other two can-{mission’s activities from the War b{ :};Jm‘ Malcolm Bllwbbx‘m_ is nm;[fu-e kept as secret as possible, lomo;uiuwwfix: ;:;;:li’";n";‘:“n; Charles Strohlin, 51, American!Aviator Preters ome |of persons perishing.” didates for the same place on the[to the Interior Department but |al reassuring to members of A engineer with a high chool edu- C “ The quake also slightly jarred the [Pparty’s ticket, end in advance of |that the order had been with-|the Board of Directors of the Al- ';fnmae . lzzi:hh ;l:luxam 'I‘hem Rev. cation. rusts to U- s R“:h“ Yangtze Valley. the verdidt of the voters at the|drawn when it was learned Con-|aska Chamber. They were aware o AE Pr : rgcduethm chlleldthe A Shadford Waterhouse, 26, Ameri- Dispatches say the quake affect-|polls T freely pledge myself to sup-|gressional action was necessary|of the fact stated by the Dele- xr i eturn e ld to can, educated at Princton Uni-! SYDNEY, Aprii 18 —Kingsford |ed scores of towns and villages|Pport the successful candidate if Ifto effect such a change. The Dele- |gate. But they apprehend that > x ; : % : The police are reticent but it is versity. Smith, air commodors of Aus- | Producing appalling conditions. |am not named.” gate's message declares no s“d‘f“ RN ads aboald Ibe - taben believed the kidnapers returned the Charles A. Kana, 32, Chinese an- |tralia and one of the world's great- | The important walled town of Will Answer Critics order was ever issued. His mes-[away from the War Department,| AT chiln Shrough feml.)e Foheg 5. » jv . cestry, an accountant with high est airmen, is trying to earn an|Ma Cheng is reported to have re-| mqyae 45 being made an effort|538€, made public today by M. S.|then it would not have any suit- Hary Boadeky . v.hzm”h P school education. {hohest crust by taking people for |¢eived the severest jarring, thelys maxa an #ssue out of the pri= ‘Whittier, Executive Secretary of aal?le officer in Alaska to entrust s ko 'rated \;'ell-w~do ;:; willy Beyer, 42, German m_(‘flights over the city, at $3.00 a|Walls of 70 per cent of the houses mary election law which Senator the Alaska Chamber, follows: with river and harbor l‘mprovf‘- % ok v;'eaftfi cestry, a potato chip manufacturer, trip. |having crumpled on the imhabi- Dimond noted sufficiently L;.' say “Interior Department states that jments and these would be put in y. with grammar school education. He uses the monoplane South-|tants. he would comment briefly upon it|P® executive order transferring Al- d\argg of the United States En- BBk ST y Theodore Bush, 40, American- ern Oross in which he flew from| Relief is requested from the Pro- |, nic speach Tuesday night. “It|a%a Road Commission activities gineer's Office in Seattle or Port- | —_— :l born eivil engineer from Lititz, Pa.!San Francisco to Sydney. {vincial Government. is a perfectly futile movement, and | % issued, but that the War De-|land. 1In suph event, the w:rk;B l Sold o G d Henry Chang, 25, Chinese, gram-| Smith says he can get a good| ——— one without foundation” he said|Psrtment in fline with the idea | would be subjected to all the evils| ur.y iers Are Guard- 2 mar school education. job in the TUnited States any today. “The Dum:mm’z‘ party has of co-ordinating activities, recom-|of delay and flack of information | ing Par!\' ‘mm Pa— 5 v Theodore Char, 31, Chinese ac- time he chooses to go there. ] 500 ARE GUT adopted a ‘Territorial platform mended this transfer. that are neg:es.sa.ruy incident to dis- e J u countant, educated at Chicago Uni-| “I was offered $100,000 for two |18 that sets farth s position fully| “A Senator has proposed to in-)tant administration. cific Northwest ¥ versity and the University of Illi-iyears' service, but as it entailed | on the vamous issues and the di- o N o) nois. Ibeing naturalized 1 refused,” ‘he | FROM PAYR"LL rect primar: ‘ 3 i e ) y is not one of them. le S l S SEATTLE, April 18—With ten| WASHINGTON, April 18. — The {Oomtinnka. on Fage RN Sate The present Territorial primary J Ob 88 at deattle dtart purly Costa Itiean soldiss as|Senate has approved of a one mil< (i . 5 7 tem has its defecdis as even its ¥ e g et e lion dollar cut in the $11,000,000 CHICAGO, T, April 15—Nearly | &% guards, the treasure hunters who o e | 4 L4 £ defenders admit. But it is not at " sific st st | Prohibition enforcement fund after 1,500 city employees have lost their A B k F M e left the Pacific Northwest last Eldest American Mother 1500 city employees have losk thes e in. the- forthooraing slecion ack-to-I' arm MOvement i & rei Moo, ) ing o'y o s Sensior son monthly salaries. The news of the| . There is no reason why the tempting to locate the supposedly|SOn's Proposal to make the cut 50 S| Sou ht b Club Wom()n discharge was 1ot made public|Delegate to Congress should be| opiqvym April 18—Seattle’s| At Grayland, southwest of here, |fabulous wealth buried by buccan- |Per cent. This was Senator Johns g y ~A% Luntil last Saturda; 4 concerned about it. even if the | Seglre” formation has been |SOn's first Prohibition statement in . y night. Mayor » he |umemployed have started a back- (another back-to-the-farm move is, eers iis - information has e A Genmak ordered the anncunce-|TeVerse were ftrue. Anything well under way. Forty-five new|receivéd by Ralph Lomen, Presi- |YeATs. *: WASHINGTON, April 18. — The (nial convention in Seattle in June, |ment. might feel upon the subje_ct would |to-the soil movement on 2000 ac- omii il oA 5 7 2O et ot tha. ConlbmtP Weich! ot PEIE~ : s general Federation of Women's| The names will be read and the ———————— i" Bm‘“;;";nm“"flf‘ i 5 g land near Arlington, DOTh|oiyers in the community. They|the Siver Wave, the Seattle ves-|BERLIN RECORDS LOW CRIME oldest mother will be presented| The Philippines sugar crop s, o Toies U solely with- |of here, |are to rely on chickens and cran-|sel used by the treasure-seckers —_— ; Clubs is searching for the oldest|, . stoate of honor. Mrs, Bu-|now ewpected o exosed estinates | 12 mmc‘;‘mh;f e A’fi Heads of about 20 families have |berries for a livelinood. ‘While the [on their voyage to the island, 300/ BERLIN, April 18—Crime's trug American mother. gene B. Lawson, second vice-pres-| There are ot present seven ran-| L foiauire. and ihat body ought |, on up alotments of 20 acres|land is being clearcd, the farmers (miles west of Costa Rica. low was reached here when counte State delegations are requested |ident of the Federation, of Tulsa,|a: systems under the Canadian|'C ¢ ree from dictation by thel " jonated to their use with |have turned to fishing, clam dig-| The letter said the soldiers were |erfeliers started putting out to locate the oldest woman in Oklahoma, is in charge of the Government Department of Rail- the provision they may buy at ging and pulp wood cutting for|to see the Government gets a fair lou'r pfennig pieces, each coin each state and Teport to the hiem-]m}e:n. Irfld; and Canals, | (Continued on Page Eight) the end of a two-year period. | Incomes, division if any loot is found. ing worth approximately one ¢