The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 13, 1933, Page 1

R s THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME* VOL. XL, NO. 6262. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1933. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS 13 LIVES ARE LOST IN ALASKA STORM BEIR T0 FORTUNE KIDNAPED FROM HIS DENVER HOME JAPAN NOT TO RENOUNCE MANCHUKUO CHAS.BOETTCHER IS ABDUCTED BY I MASKED MEN Scion of Wealthy Family Spirited Away in Bold Manner WIFE IS HANDED RANSOM DEMAND Personal Friend of Col. Charles Lindbergh Latest Victim DENVER, Colo., Feb. 13.— Charles Boettcher, the sec- ond, scion of a wealthy pio- neer Colorado family, is held by kidnapers for a purported $60,000 ransom. Two masked men accosted the 31-year-oid heir to the Boettcher fortune, and his wife, at their garage as they returned frem a party last night. A The masked men took Boettcher to an upstairs room in their home, remained sev- eral minutes, handed Mrs. Beettcher the ransome note then departed with Boettcher in a motor car. Boettcher is a personal friend of Col. Charles A. Lind- bergh. WILLING TO PAY DENVER, Col., Feb. 13.—Late this afternoon. Boetcher's mother informed the police her daughter- in-law was willing and ready to pay a ransom for her husband’s release. POPE POSES FOR TALKIES Gives Six-Minute Conver- sation While Cameras Register Scene VATICAN CITY, Italy, Feb. 13.— For the first time in his life, the Pope posed for talking movies last Saturday afternoon, as he convers- éd’ six minutes before a battery of cameras after inauguration of the new ultra-shd.t wave telephone line connecting the Vatican with the Papal summer home at Cas- Gandolfo. e —e———— ANDREW AASEN HAS OPERATION ON HAND tei Andrew Aasen, of Hoonah, un- derwent an operation on his hand at St. Ann’s Hospital this morn- ing. | | | | | | | | | | | Introducing ‘Meggie,” ‘Major,” and ‘Dot’; They’ll Be the New White Hou 8 Vs, Pets S M 00 | | saddle herse are going along. | in the White House stable. By LORENA A. HICKOK NEW YORK, Feb. 13— Weejie” and “Pat” are going to be replac- ed on the White House lawn on March 4 by “Meggie” and “Major.” | And into the White House sta- ble will move a bay mare named }“Dot.” | “Weejie,” a friendly and playful llittle Norwegian elkhound, and a police dog, belong to esident and Mrs. Hoover. They | ared with the present first l1:zuy of the land in a photograph jon her Christmas cads a few \weeks ago, and the greeting in her When President-Elect and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt move to Washington, two pet dogs and a “Meggie,” a Scotttish Terrier, and “Major,” a Police dog, will replace the Hoover dogs as White House pets, while “Dot,” Mrs. Roosevelt’s saddle herse, will be given a stall Mrs. Roosevelt intends to take a daily horseback ride. ( |very fat and, when she is taken |for a walk she always barks until she reaches the end of the first | block, after which her deportment i, most dignified. She likes to |sleep in fireplaces, loathes the re- | sultant baths, and never makes a fuss over anyone except Mrs. | Roosevelt. | Before he went away to school, | “Meggie” used to belong to the | Roosevelts' youngest son, John. Af- } er he left, she attached herself to ‘Mrs, Roosevelt. Until recently she | divided her time between Hyde :‘}wndwriting below the picture was |at present at 49 East 65th Street, | |from “Lou Henry Hoover, Weejie the Roosevelt’s town house. 1:md Pat.” Someone gave her a bright red | “Meggie” a little black Scottish ccllar for Christmas with a silver (terrier with reproachful eyes, and | piate on it bearing the inscriptioin, |“Major,” a police dog, belong to|“Meggie—the White House, Wash- | President-Elect and Mrs. Roose- | velt. And “Dot” is Mrs. Roosevelt's |saddle horse. l “Meggie” Dislikes Baths ‘ “Meggie” is eight years old and |ington.” She wasn't much inter- |ested in it, however. “Major” Well Trained “Major,” a handsome buff and black German shepard trained for police work, was presented to President-Elect Roosevelt several years ago by the troop of state police to which Sergeant Earl Mil- ler, then his bodyguard, was at- tached. His present address is Krum Elbow, the Roosevelt estate atr Hyde Park. There are several other police dogs there, and it's “Major’s” job to keep them in order. He him- self has a trick which is frequent- ly misunderstood. He walks up to each vistor, takes the visitor's hand or wrist firmly in his teeth, and Park and Albany but she is living | scrutinizes him before he lets him! It makes “Major” unpopuls with some visitors, but he really doesn't mean any harm. It's part of his training as an alert dog. “Dot” lives at Hyde Park now, too. She also formerly belonged to the state troopers, the Roosevelts having traded another saddle horse for her. Mrs. Roosevelt hopes o g9 horseback riding every morning in Rock Creek park. U naliuhorizerdds | | i By BYRO) | (Chief of Bureau, the Associated Press, Washington.) PRICE Of all the growing pains of the new Roosevelt regime, none is more jacute just mow than the anuoy- ance produced by that perennial i ) | political irritant—the unauthonmd‘ spokesman. ! Professor Such-and-Such, of Old Lawlessness in America Is Being Swelled by Divorce, Is ChargeMade by Investigator PITTSBURGH, Penn., Feb. 13— Charges that divorce is swelling lawlesSTess™ in America are con- tained in the findings of crime study carried on by Prof. Edward Burchard of the University of and sleeping with convicts for the past four months. Prof. Bouchard studied 1,200 na- tive white prisoners in the peni- tentiary here. Divorce or separation of parents, the Professor says, is rupturing home ties and “exerts the most A A demoralizing influence on the for- ir crime at the present time. “Embezzlers, a youth of 16 years. means of knowing, but it is be- Ltea” : | Worry of Roosevelt Regime mation of habits, stability and in- tegrity of children. The economic unrest and low intelligence com- bme to produce a sharp upturn the smartest class Pittsburgh, who has been eatingjef criminals, however, largely dis- play average intelligence equal to We have no licved they are influenced by real brains who escape the law. Leis- ure habits play a part in more than half of the crimes commit- poiesmafi »Is Siwash, speaking with impressive confidence, outlines to the last detail what the new administra- tion will do for economic recov- ery. Colonel This-and-That shows up in the capital of Pategonia exuding information about the ‘Roosevelcian policies. Nine-tenths of which turns out later to be nothing at all but bunk. !In several instances, Mr. Roosevelt |has felt impelled to publicly dis- avow statements made “on his behalf.” HIS OWN SPOKESMAN If past performances and pres- ent indications can be trusted, the American people will learn| that they can depend on these jtwc things.: That Mr. Roosevelt will be slow ! to commit himself in advance to detailed policies, and that when 2 does come to the point of de- cision, he will make that decis- ion himself, and will himself an- nounce it. His disposition is to keep his| own hand very firmly on the throttle. It is expected fully that k> will ask Congress for more sweeping - authority than it ever has conferred on a peace-time 1S ILL; TAKEN TOHOSPITAL Glacier Priest Suffering from Blood Pressure in Spokane SPOKANE, Wash.,, Feb. 13— Father Bernard R. Hubbard Glacier Priest, was taken hospital here last Saturday n! suffering from high blood pres- sure. He entered the hospital af- ter his lecture. to Although the doctors order him tc remain quiet, the priest said he would be on his way again wit three or four days. He is mak a lecture tour of the western states. ——————— EEL BONES AS NECKLACES MELBOURNE — Two Australi unemployed for three years, fou! a system of treating eel bones 50 they shone like carved ivory President, and it is his intention passET s N R Ly (Continued on Page TWo) l have built up a profitable bu in necklaces made from the ve: brae of th.fimud fish, e REV. HUBBARD IN MANGHURIA CASE IS GIVEN Nipponese Will Not Aban- don Government of Newest Nation CHINESE PLANNING TO TAKE REPRISAL |Withdrawal_or‘]apan from| League of Nations Inevitable GENEVA, Feb. 13.—Japan’s dele- gate to the League of Natlons re- ceived on Sunday Tokyo's reply to inquiries concerning the Manchur- ian situation, saying Japan cannot renounce Manchukuo. The reply will be delivered in shortly. TOKYO'S REPLY | foll to the Committee of 19 very: |3 . . MAY REMOVE OFFICIAL LONDON, Feb. 13.—According to reports received here, soon after Japan informed the League of Na-| tions her determination to preserve the Manchukuoan Government, the ispokesman for the Chinese Na- tional Government hinted the Chi- nese Minister to Tokyo will prob- ably be withdrawn. The spokesman | said Japan has now threatened to slam the door on Manchuria in the ivery face of the world’s powers. ) T. V. Soong, Acting Premier and | Finance Minister, is reported to | have said that he sees no use in Keeping a Minister in Tokyo if| ]Lhere be a drive in Jehol. He said diplomatic measures promise to be of no avail. When asked if China is likely to declare war on Japan, Soong said A recent picture of the Misses Joan Page (left) and Aud: % British aviatrices, who had a narrow escape from dez:lthreuyhg:nlth!eh;ll;enre' in which they were flying from London to Cape Town, Africa, crashed in a dense jungle between lipstick and carried by a wild Masao oshi and Nairobi, Africa. A note, written in herdsman, told of their plight and brought aid. The women are now in hospital in Nairobi, Miss P; fering from a fractured leg, far;:l gfliss Sale-Barker frol;l”co:g:s:;fi of the brain, TROUBLESOME DEMOCRATS T0 any attack on Jehol will be just like an attack on Nanking, to be \met by force of the entire nation. STOCK SLUMP TOKYO, Feb. 13, — Fears that {Japan is on the verge of excom- | munication from the League of | Nations caused a heavy slump on |the Tokyo Exchange today. The Foreign Office spokesman said he believed Japan’s withdrawal from the League is a foregone con- clusion. —pelp FIGHTING IS RESUMED IN JEHOL REGION Japanese - Man chukuoan Forces Reported Re- pulsed by Chinese PEIPING, Feb. 13—Chinese ad- vices from Jehol, capital of Jehol Province, said a stiff battle oc- curred Saturday at Kailu, northern part of the Province, between the Japanese and Manchukuoan forces and Chinese regulars and volun- teers. Dispatches said that under cover of artillery fire and air bombing, the Japanese-Manchukuoan forces attempted to break through the Chinese lines but were repulsed. - TARIFF WALL ACTION LOST WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. — The strongly welded Democratic ma- Jority in the House, today defeated the Republican effort to win con. sideration at this session on legis lation to raise a tariff wall against depreciated currency countries, BE PUNISHED Must Support Plan to Give Roosevelt Reorgani- zation Power CHINA, RUSSIA ARE REPORTED T0 SIGN PACT 1Japan Also Believes Unit- ed States has Secret Understanding TOKYO, Feb. 13.—The Japan- ese Foreign Office spokesman to- day said he had received infor- mation that China and Russia ‘WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—Demo- cratic House leaders last Satur- day night laid tentative plans to punish members who oppose the program to give Roosevelt drastic power in Government re-organiza- tion. Earlier in the day it was an- nounced that the leaders planned to force a record vote at the present session, giving extepsive governmental reorganization pow- er to Roosevelt. The plan now is to retailiate against those Democrats and op- pose the power to Roosevelt, with loss of patronage. Loss of patronage will include both House and Senate Chairman- ships and memberships on com- mittees, There are some leading Demo- crats who believe that there will be mo necessity for carrying out the retaliation plans. MAIL TEAM IS TAKEN OFF ICE FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Feb. 13.— The dog team carrying mail to Nome, adrift on ice in Norton Sound, has been rescued by a power boat and taken to Shalto- lik, according to a message Te- ceived here. The sled with the mail was also taken aboard the power boat. MRS S0 P A secceevccsssncoe . NO MARKET NEW YORK, Feb. 13.— Owing to observance of Cin- coln's birthday anniversary, the New York Stock Ex- change was not in session today. have signed an offensive and de- fensive alliance and he would not be surprised if the United States also had a secret understanding with both China and Russia. RADIO STATION LOSES LICENSE WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. — The Supreme Court has refused to con- sider the recent action of the Radio Commission in declining to grant a new license to radio sta- tion KGEF over which the Rever- end Schuler made his broadcasts in Los Ange SEATTLE, Feb. 13.—An eleven- day race by airplane and steamer from Nome to Seattle to bring the nine-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Nelson, of Nome, here for medical treatment, ended Sunday night. The child was rushed from the steamer Northwestern to a hospital and an X-ray taken. Physicians said the child was | suffering from a persistent thymus gland trouble. “The child is comfortable. He has a fighting chance,” Dr. A. Drtina said. The first of the month, when physicians a¢ Nome told Mrs. Nel- | a SMALL VESSEL SINKS IN GALE, ALASKA COAST Bishop Antonin Among Victims of Disaster to Westward SHIP UMNENATIVE REPORTED WRECKED Three Survivors Reach Shore—Captain Tries to Save His Wife, Dies Thirteen lives were lost, in- cluding that of Bishop An- tonin, of the Russian Greek Church, when the small mot- orship Umnak Native, owned by the Nikolski Village, na- tive community, sank in a storm._on. January 24, aecord- ing to Associated Press re- ports received by The Empire this morning from Dutch Harbor and also by the Unit- ed States Customs Office in Juneau. The meagre reports said the craft went down in a storm and 13 of the 16 aboard the craft lost their lives. Be- sides Bishop Antonin, others included Capt. Andrew Nel- son, former commander of the motor Eunice; Capt. Stan- kus, master of the Umnak Native, his wife and infant child, and Michael Tutiakoff, Russian priest. Three natives aboard escaped with their lives. P Survivor Is Hero A second Associated Press dispatch received this afternoon from Dutch Harbor said the three natives saved were Simmigan Eimeloff and George Dushkin, of Umnak, and Larry Stepetin, of Unalaska. Dushkin is credited with saving (Continuea on Page TWo) Hoover Is to Make V aledictory Speech Tonight WASHINGTON, Feb. 13— President Hoover worked today to complete the final address of his Administration which will be made tonight at the Lincoln exercises of the Na- tional Republican Club at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. The President's aides maintain his speech will be nonpolitical. kavce from Nome to Seattle By Plane and Steamer with Sick Infant Comes to End son the infant could not live more than three weeks without special medical treatments, she started by plane. At Cordova the North- | western was held to await her ar- | rival. The steamer came south under force draft and arrived one | day ahead of time. | Nelson, the father, is an ems ployee of the Alaska Road Com- mission at Nome. Another som, Robert, aged 2 years, accompanied | his mother and baby brother south. | After further examination today, | Mrs. Nelson was informed her child would live. LS