The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 10, 1933, Page 1

4 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” \(‘._‘ XLI., NO. 6260 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1933. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY CONFESSION MADE IN KIDNAPING CASE TWO MEN, ONE WOMAN ARE HELD IN LINDBERGH PLOT JAPANESE TO ?iY iiNufl TU LEAGUE'S BID. Will Not V[ake Statement Regarding Future Manchukuo Policy CHINA SOVEREIGNTY NOW THING OF PAST} Curt Reply Is Also Made| About Military Oper- tions in Jehol YO, Feb. 10—The Japanese C ment will reply with an 5 “no” to the League of by Vs request for a statement of Japan’s attitude toward dis- ance of vernment, be partially will for the Foreign Minister, “but a foregone conclusion the nment will make it in the ve. We must also proceed the utmost prudence.” Reply to Be Delayed pecial Japanese Consul at with J been instructed to a draft of his reply to the wgue of Nations” committee of teen to Tokyo before 'handing to the League officials, hence ne Japanese answer is likely to poned for two or three days iile the Cabinet studies the mat- To Keep Manchukuo The Foreign inister’'s spokes- man said Japan stands irrevocably maintaining Manchukuo and ed further that Chinese sov- in Manchuria has been d férever, notwithstanding re- s the League proposes to in- st on Chinese rights to exercise this ereignty. Harsh Reply The League’'s request as to ther Japan would promise mot extend military operations into the Jehol Province, brought a forceful comment from the Japan- es¢ War Office that “this is none of the League's business.” .- SENATE PASSES HOUSE MEASURE ON SUSPENSION Assessment Work Suspend- ed but Only to Those Unpaying Income Tax While the Senate has passed the bill suspending annual assessment work on unpatented mining claims the United States, including Alaska, it limited it to those own- ers of claims who are not paying an income tax, according to As- sociated Press reports received to- d by The Empire. The measure passed the House everal weeks ago without any lim- jon. Tt will now go back to House for appreval of the endment which was presented Senator Borah. Under Federal mining laws, $100 worth of work is required to be performed annually on unpatent- cd mining claims. This is the law scught to be suspended by the The Senate amendment ude claims owned by per- ing income taxes. will sons pe: SELINICK HAS NEW POSITION HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Feb. 10— David C. Selznick, who resigned as cldef production executive at Ra- ¢io-Keith-Orpheum last week, had a new job today as an executive producer at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Selznick will assume his new du- ties within two weeks. the present Man- | r, said the spokes-| | Nm‘y Shlps Square Off for ‘Battle’ on Paahc ! | 's Pacific shere will be the object of “attack” this menth when the Navy stages its an- nual winter games. The scouting force will attempt tc gain a foothold somewhere between Alaska and Southern Califernia, whiic the battle force attempts tc keep the attackers away. Above one of Am- erica’s fighting ships steams towards the western coast. SAN DIEGO, Cal. Feb. 10— it off. § | Like an Athlctic Contest | The scouting force is on its way from Hawaii and the “battle” take place any day now. Turrets Like Cylinders One of the most dramatic mca!‘ That same precision and team-| points of action will be in m(n\vmk will control the entire man- will | pattleship gun turrets. There’s a of the navy as the ships Follow- ‘ eel cabin on the deck which shel- | €ight each other somewhere along there will be a concentration |ters the gunning crew for a set up“‘w west coast. Submarines, ai of the fleet in the San Francisco- |of two or three large guns as the |Ccraft carriers and ships will each San Diego area be. The breeches of the|€0 through the highly technical The maneuvers are planned |guns are in the turret but|System of defense planned to keep somewhat in the manner of an|they nose out into the air, point- ading forces from United States athletic contest with a goa:r set|ing sidewise or up or down as the ores. but the manner in whicn it is to |target demands. Those in command this year will be attained is just as much a| The turrets, five or six to the|irclude Vice-Admiral Frank H secret as the mannes in which ship, are like steel clyinders that|Clark with the scouting force and a football team is to score its descend through two or three lev .Aumu-ul Claud C. Block with the Tfluchdowns leis of the vessel down into Lhmbaule force. Re jorts Proposed ATLANTIC FLEET “eivs Pomset — MAIL CARRIER 1S T0 STAY ON e ivss | MAKES ESGAPE PACIFIC COAST riiwiiir=ads | FROM ICE PACK The Senate Appropriations Committee today over-rode the subcommittee and rejected {fie |Statement Is Made Today[ IiEskimo Caught on Qutgo- by Admiral Pratt, | ing Floe on Bering Sea Naval Chief —Swims Ashore proposal for a 10 per cent cut in the $8500,000 Prohibition Enforcement fund voted by the House. | WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. — The atlantic fleet will probably remain on the West Coast until July 1,] RE ARlNG FnR o next year, Admiral Pratt, Chief; of Naval Operations, said today. E The move is made in the mtcrestl | | Is Workmg on His March‘ 4 Address While on Yachting Trip | TFAIRBANKS, Alaska, Feb. 10— |A dispatch from Nulato to the | News-Miner says Mitchell Charles | Eskimo mail carrier, who left Un- | alakleet last Monday morning en- route to Nome, was caught on out-| going Bering Sea ice midway be-! tween Unalakleet and Shaktoolik He swam 200 yards to shore a mushed back to Unalakleet Mon day night. The Pacific Alaska Airways sta- tion here contacted with Pilot Jerry Jones, who was over Norton Soi Jones flew over the ice cakes, abou | the size of a house, and saw dogs MIAMI, Florida, Feb. 10—Presl-| yhich had broken loose from th | dent-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt 51 4, og sled. Mail appeared to b p)eparing his inaugural “dd“’*s‘aboard the sled on the ice. while on his present yachting orulse| pijof Jones heard that Charles's according to reports recived ashore.| | companion was missing but It is said the new Chief Execu- | proved erroneous according to | tive will ‘propose sweeping changes) Nulaw report, {in the government. An extra session of Congress vnd be called and an adjustment of the| | tangled international situation will) i be sought, also a program for clos- | er State and Federal relations. Rt \ RETURN SOUTH FROM i VISIT TO HAIN of “economy.” Admiral Pratt stated the Navy's budget has been cut so that it is inadvisable to make an additional| expenditure necessary for the re- turn of the fleet from the Pa‘ icific to the Atlantic, which is timated to cost about $400,000. ~ | .- GAS WARON AT PORTLAND PORTLAND, Ore, Feb. 10. Gusoline retailed at the lowest| price in seventeen years here, due' o price war. Third rate fuel sold, ar T% cents while standard grade | sold at 11% cents a gallon. —— .- — THE REV. G. E. GALLANT OF SKAGWAY IS IN JUNEAU, The Rev. G. E. Gallant, of| Philippine Senate President Coming To U.S. Thls Month MANILA, P. X Feb. 10—\1‘ - ¢l Quezon, President of the Pi- Skagway, arrived in Juneau on ‘mpine Senate and outstanding po- the steamer Northwestern, and will| Mr. and Mrs, Robert V. Kille-|litical figure of ‘the islands - be here until the sailing of the wich who have been visiting B. nounced yesterday he would sl Alaska next week. Father Gallant A. Barnett. father of Mrs. Kille-|February 25 for Washington, D has been feeling in poor health |Wich in Haines, are southbound C. to confer with the Independ- and will consult a physician whne'vaasengers on the steamer North- vchoe Mission and Congressin:n in Juneau. lc\er the independence act. D ot faietaie e wedd The purpose AOI tne pr(f})‘?m “handling” - room where the ame the Department of Justice ‘erulhurn California ctorious Wt the f»nme [Dw? s g muaiaon - 1e QoD -cab- i sy as P i [:i fleet of destroyers may land s famer g s f:ondm(‘n}% St “ay | mechanical co-ordination of thelh‘h begun, at the request of mwonth wiih the “annihiliation” OI\ bagiy mC:( e [" ;1 g o ,}m"“ placed on electrically Opel'n‘the Virginia police, an in- the United States navy battle| NO *::L;Cl"l’;l '?:n-];fsv ’;)q;‘,‘e ated trays and conveved rapidly|quiry into the Lindberg forces to its credit. 1v10d(‘l‘n eqmpm“{L will be|to the level of the guncrews, eachl|case. Hour's Vislk acih Mrs, Hoover, The annual winter problem of from anti-aireraft to gunnery | command of a turret manager. the navy this year is one in Which | ¢rom tne turrets of huge war-| When the target is too far to THREE PERSONS HELD the scouting force must at ¢ 10| ghips. Men will work with clock- | ght m)ug‘ the guns, the crews| ROANOKE, Va. Jan. 10. — Joe goln a foothold somewhere along |yyo precision, handling and, plac- |Fecelve thelr orders for pointing pryant, Norman Harvey and DEER REPUBTED 1?71' American west shore ‘“"'0"10 shells and powdsr just fl*\m an. electrical clock "’p"“"“diwuman whom Harvey claimed to the batlle fomo staipia hold | i3.6ught they were actually in war :“":héhfnss‘("m“ oftiog:in & post |be his wife, are held in the Col. | o ' Mits. Roosevelt WARRANTS T0 HOLDING THREE Extortion Charge Will Be Hard Pressed by Vir- ginia State FEDERAL BUREAU IS TO INVESTIGATE CASE| Conflicting Stories Are Told—Worthless Pap- er Given for Check ROANOKE, Virginia, Feb. 10. — The Assistant District Attorney announced this afternoon he had ordered the| issuance of Federal warrants' for the principals involved in the attempted extortion of $50,000 from Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, or his infant son would be kidnaped. At Washington, D. C., the Bureau of Investigation of | at Whlte House h | Mrs, Franklm D. Roosevelt is shown leaving the White House after an The wife of the President-elect was \ invited to the Executive Mansion so that she could decide what she might| “bring down” when the Roosevelts move in on March 4th, | | Lindbergh kidnaping threat in an effort to extort $50,000. The police have compared ters exchanged at the stump D%Dg office with those of the kidnapers |and slayers of the first Llndbergh! SUUTH 0F HERE baby but said the handwriting is| apparently not the same. | LS. The first note sent to Col. Lind- Du{lesne Inveshgatmg Re ported Famine Conditions bergh demanded $50,000 or “I wul‘ bl |~ Near Petersburg | Conflicting Stories The police said several conflict- ing stories have been told by Bry- Reports that deer in the Wran- igell Narrows area are suffering ant, Harvey and the woman. A ¢ iace. due 110 oty SERST A Mo g n thie ity 2‘0‘;:?ve‘mc)ild5ho\:ea%h::r and iced yesterday afternoon when the two’me‘ams and beaches, are being |men were arrested after attempting |investigated by Warden Frank | [to make thelr escape. " | Dufresne, it was announced to- | The police intercepted Bryan day by E. M. Goddard, Acting when he went to the bank to cash |the $17,000 check taken from the stump post office. The bundle of supposedly money given in ex- change for the check proved to be only worthless papel were so heavily iced in last Mon Accept Smalled Sum {day it was necessary to send the; | The police for the past WO jionthouse tender Cedar there to| months have been carrying on cor-|y,eax through in order for the respondence with the extortionists, cmajjer local light tender to get |after Col. Lindbergh turned the ¢, tne lights there. Two halibut| letters over to the authorities. Fin- | boats were forced to turn and lally the plotters agreed to accept!;un around Cape Decision as they | |$17,000. A check for this amount| yere unable to break through the |was left in the stump and Bryant jce secured it. The bank was notified| There was a considerable quan- and the bundle of worthless paper|tity of jce on the beaches. Resi- awaited Bryant when he presented acngs reported the deer were un-+ | the check. Officers were also Wait- [aple to pick up forage on the |ing and the arrest of Bryant and peaches on that account. Mr. Harvey followed. | Dufresne, who has been at Ket- | Bryant said he came on the' ot ikan attending the district court |check by accident. Harvey said term, was directed to proceed to | Bryant told of finding the check' the Narrows and investigate con- and Harvey then drove Bryant to' ditions. the bank to cash it. i ———————— J. F, PERSHING i I-E.AVI‘.. HERE I'OR SEATTLE NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—James F.| Pershing, aged 71, younger brother | Mrs. Beverley E. Moody was a of Gen. John J. Pershing, died southbound passenger on the last night as a result of heart steamer Northwestern. She will} disease, - He suffered an attack sey- join her husband, Lieut. Moody| eral months ago. He had always, in Seattle, where they will re- engaged in quiet mercantile pu,_\mmn until ‘he receives permanent suits, transfer orders. Lieut. Moody was He was 16 months younger than recently tempoxanly transferred | his General brother. from the U. 8. Coast Guard cutter o » | Tallapoosa to the U. 8. S. Haida, W. H. DUGDELL RETURNS |based at Seattle. TO YAKUTAT ON EVANS! VL L iKENNE’l‘ll B. EDWARDS ‘W. H. Dugdell, United Statesl LEAVES FOR KETCHIKANE Commissioner, who came from Kenneth B. Edwards, Heintz| Executive Officer of the Alaska | Game Commission. If conditions | are as bad as described, feeding will be undertaken. The Narrows, Mr. Goddard said, ;along the streams will be cut and assembled in strategic places. This is abundant in the district and God- Ino hay mll be needed, Mr. If relief is necessary, alder brush |V |today voted against action on the bill designed to provide for auto-| CUT BY SENATE; TOTALS $463,500 Program for 1933 Largely Maintenance—Little New Work, Says Taylor The sum of $469,000 is provided for road, bridge, trail and ferry maintenance and construction in a by the Alaska Road Com- mission is included in the Interior Department supply bill passed ear- lier this week and now before con- ference commiftees of Congress, it was revealed today by Associated Press dispatches to The Empire. The same measure also carries $3,000 for repairs to and mainten- ace of the Government wharf in this city. As mneither item was| changed by the Senate from the way it passed the House, neither will be affected by any confer- |ence agreement that may be made. | The smallness of the road fund| will keep the operations of the Road Commission down to a scala‘ largely identical with that of a»t‘ season. This was made knowm today by Ike P. Taylor Chief En-| gineer, who said: “Due to the lack of funds, our program this year will again be comprised largely of maintenance to existing projects. Only a small amount of new work can be done on pro-| jects already under way, and no mw projects can be launched.” is understood that the only new planned for the coming sea- n limited amount of con- uction on the Gulkana-Nabesna ad. TARIFF RAISE is a NOW OPPOSED WASHINGTON, Feb. 10— House Ways and Means Committee matic increases in the tariff offset imports from countries with The | to| WOMAN, MAN UNDER ARREST LA, ABDUCTION Admlt Lurmg Wlfe of Uni« ‘4 versity Professor from { Her Home SECOND PLOT IS x ALSO REVEALED School Teacher Slated for Another Victim—She Was' Suspicious LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 10.—The police, early today, said Miss Luella Hammer, aged 35, and W. P. Howard, aged 39, her hired man, iden- tified as a paroled ex-convict, have confessed to the kidnap- ing of Mrs. Mary Skeele, aged 65, wife of Prof. Walter Skeele, Dean of the College of Music of the University of Southern California, on the night of February 5. The confession, it is said, also included an attempted abduction of Miss Isobel Smith, Pasadena school teach- er. Mrs. Skeele was released on Monday, February 6, and re- turned home in a hysterical condition, about 24 hours after the abduction. Miss Smith’s abduction failed when she sensed some- thing was wrong when an automobile called at her home to take her to church after she had been informed over the telephone to wait for the auto. She remained at home and did not appear. Howard said the abduction and demand for ransom was made in order to secure money to raise a mortgage on the house owned by Miss Hammer. Both have been charges of kidnaping. Miss Hammer viewed her pre- |dicament as a joke but wants to apologize to Mrs. Skeele. Neighbors’ comments on “myster= |lous goings on at the Hammer home,” resulted in the arrest of | Miss Hammer and Howard. booked on “SOFT VOICED LECTURING” LOS ANGELES, Cal, Feb. 10.— A detective's soft voiced but per- sistent lecturing of Howard about ‘treating an old lady so roughly” provoked the confession in the | Skeeel kidnaping, The police said that during the questioning of Howard he blurted out: “We did not treat her rough at all.” —————— BUSINESS IS IMPROVING IN GENERAL WAY iRetail Trade Increasing— Activity in Whole- sale Markets NEW YORK, Feb. 10—A | sharp improvement in retail trade and also a larger activ- | ity in the principal wholesale markets, is the report today depreciated currencies. e H. E. BIGGS SUFFERS | BROKEN ARM BY FALL well known ice yesterday,' H. E. Biggs, {siipped on the pion=- | made in all mercantile reviews. i —————— | BAD WEATHER PREVENTS PLANE MITKOF LANDING | The seaplane Mitkof, pilot M. W. Sasseen, with J. V. Hickey, hn Juneau for Funter and Ten- Yakutat a week ago, returned there Tepresentative in Alaska, left 0n|bwakmg an arm. He is in St.|akee this morning but returned i the steamer Admiral Evans, the Northwestern for Ketchikan. |Anwrs Hospital. Ibecause of bad weather,