The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 20, 1934, Page 1

W THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE | “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIIL, NO. 6552. B TELLS OF FATE OF . [iBREMEI{ Postmaster Received Infor~j mation Gang's Victim | Has Been Shot ‘ AUTHORITIES ACT QUICKLY ON REPORT Body Is Said to Be Near| Anoka, Minnesota— | Search Be Made i ST. PAUL, Minn., Jan. 20.] —A mystery note declaring | that Edward G. Bremer, President of the Commercial State Bank, and 37-year-old | son of Adolph Bremer, weal- thy brewer and prominent; hanker, kidnaped last Wed-| nesday, has been “bumpedi off” has been received| through the mails by W. C.| Robertson, Minneapolis Post-| master. | The nete is written in long | hand by a good penman. The notfe said: “Very sorry, but Bremer is now resting in peace, by acci-|. dent. He was bumped off by| | mistake by one of our gang‘BELIEVEs NEW [ being drunk. The body is] | near Anoka, Minn., and will:’ GERMAN MUVE | not be found until after the| i | snow goes. Please forgive, ! - BOUND TO FAIL d ‘ | As her trial for murder opened The note was signed by| “One of the Gang.” s 3 St The local authorities left|/American Test of Sle”llza'i tion Held Inconclusive by Eugenist immediately in an attempt (w% locate the body. ‘ By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE | RANSOM READY ST. PAUL, Jan. 20.—This morn-| (Asscciated Press Science Editor) ing a fortune in old bills was| NEW YORK, Jan. 20. — Sixteen ready for the kidnapers if they|thousand Americans, sterilized leg- heeded the plea of the aged and|ally in the last 25 years, have failed | ill father of Adolph Bremer, beg-|to give science the key to social | ~ JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1934, " MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS in Chicago, Dr. Alice Wynekoop | was taken from her jail bed-and esrorted in a wheelchair to-the court- | room where the state planned to demand the death penalty against her for the slaying of her daughter-in-law. (Associated Press Photo) Abyssinian Is to Seek Japanese Bride TOKYO, Japan, Jan. 20.— The 23-year-old Prince Lij Ar- aya, nephew ow Emperor Haile Selassie, of Abyssinia, plans to visit here next month to choose a Japanese bride. Newspapers state the choice will be made in the course of an important political and eco- nomic conference. GERMAN COEDS MONETARY BILL | Tommy FACES TESTIN HOUSE BALLOTS Republicansfimil, How- ever, Majority Will Fol-_ low President’s Plan PROFESSORS CALLED BY, SENATORS’ COMMITTEE Byrns Warns_House Ses- sion Will Last Until Measure Passed LA A i WASHINGTON, Jan. 20— The| Administration's cry for speed put' | the Roosevelt dollar devaluation [ bill to the most critical test so far by the coming House vote, in | which even Republican leaders | agreed the majority could follow | the President, ! The Senafe banking committee, | | reported divided to a hairline en i the measure, summoned two of the | President’s most trusted professor- jal advisers to answer criticisms. Leaders hoped Prof. G. F. War-' ren, an author of the monetary lnrugram. and Prof. James Harvey | Rogers could sway some of the op- | ponents. | The House, called in se: hour earlier than usual today, | warned by Democratic leade: {eph W. Byrns of Tennes: Mr. and Mrs. Tommy ion an was showgirl, his bride—the fourth M Manville’s Many Marriages Four months ago, Tommy Manville, multimillionaire asbestos heir, made Marcelle Edwards, beautiful his fourth marital adventure is to end like the gueen; wife No, 2 was Lois McCoin, his father KIDNAPER IS SHOT, INSTANTLY KILLED ABDUCTED BANKER OF ST. PAUL IS “BUMPED OFF” Manville | { Lois McCoin (No. 2) Yvonne Taylor (No. 3) rs, Manville. Now Tommy sighs that the romance is ended and that Prcvious ones, Wife No, 1 was Florence Huber, Follies 's stenographer; wife No, 3 was Yvonne Tavlor, show girl, CONVICTS MAK JAPAN RESENTS | ESCAPE, BOUND STATEMENT BY ' 70 OKLA. WILDS | UI SI 0 FFIG I A l- Country S cfiol Teacher, ‘ | Taken as Hostage, Is Declares Utterances by, Given Fréidom Hornbeck Are “Unfor- | Gl | tunate and Untimely” | |stay in session until we pass this I'bill.” | i e LANSING, Kansas, Jan. 20— | Seven convicts who scaled the | TOKYO, Japan, Jan. 20.—Indica- walls under gun fire last Thursday tions are that Japan is not worried night, are still at large, but Lewis about the possibility of trouble with Dresser, county school teacher, tak- the Soviet. This is seen in the en as a hostage, has been given his anouncement by the War Office freedom. in reducing the forces in Man- Dresser telephoned his brother, chukuo. “V. A. Dresser, that he was set PARTY CHANGES ' ALTER LINEUPS "IN WASHINGTON President Seeks New Chair-| man of National Commit- | tee to Succeed Farley |Fi fteen Thousand |Reported Dead, |India Earthquake | CALCUTTA, India, Jan. 20. —The dead as the result of last Monday's earthquake is esti- mated officially at 15,000, Workers are laboring day and night gathering bodies and dumping them into the Ganges. The damage in the Bihar Province is estimated at mil- lions of dollars. Many buildings at Muzaffar- | pur sank five feet into the WASHINGTON, Jan, 20.—A surge il of political party changes that may | i g, 25 LNl widely alter the national capital's accustomed lineup gathered mo- mentum in various quarters ‘as| Roosevelt at the insistence of James A. Farley, is seeking a new | chairman of the Democratic Na-| KETGIHKAN ELKS GIVEN COURSE iw I L L E D 35“" BY tional Committee. | No immediate shift is imminent, ging for the return of his son Edward G. Bremer. No contact had been made early this morning with the kidnapers although the family was then hopeful some sign would be made during today telling how and when to deliver the ransom in $5, $10, and $20 bills. The finding of bloodstains on the rear and front seats of Brem- er’'s car led to the belief he had been injured or else slain. The kidnaped man was abducted last Wednesday by ‘an unascertain- ed group of men, after conducting his 8-year-old daughter to school. Later a telephone message was re- ceived at the Bremer home de- manding a ransom of $200,000. RECOGNITION OF CUBA NOW APPEARS NEAR Secretary of State Will Propose Recommenda- tion to Roosevelt KEY WEST, Florida, Jan. 20— Secretary of State” Cordell Hull sp2d northwaxd today with recom- mendations of President Roosevelt which may lead to early recog- nition of Cuba. The Secretary of State received first hand information from Unit-| ed States Ambassador Cafferty who came here from Cuba to have a personal conversation with Hull on Cuban affairs. Both the Secretary of State and Ambassador seemed enthusiastic over the new turn of affairs in the Island Republic. |uplift now sought anew in Ger- many's laws, Dr. o n e NALL STUDIES The Foreign Office spokesman free at Pawhuska, Oklahoma, and| said the Japanese Government re- indicating the escaped convicts | timely,” the speech made in Wash- state which are used by despera- | as Farley indicated he would retire | |as party chief when a satisfactory | | successor was found in order to! | So s garded as authority on eugenics. | |But if the key is discovered, he thinks it is likely to be found in' America, the pioneer country in sterilization. The handicap is too scant knowl- edge of the laws of human heredity. As an example Dr. Landman men- tions persons who resemble the fa- {mous “typhoid carriers,” men and women healthy, normal, even out- | wardly superior, who carry defec- tive heredity in their germ plasms. Thus far science has no test to find these “earriers.” | Some Hold 25,000,000 Unfit Dr. Landman is on the faculty of the Ccllege of the City of New York. An author of books on ster- ilization, he makes his latest re- port to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The extremists, he says, find 25,- 000,000 persons, “one-fifth of the population of the United States su- {perfluous — a mass socially unad- justed or maladjusted, that we can !never altogether properly absorb into our social and economic life again.” Not even the extremists would sterilize all these, but they contend birth control is needed, with sterilization for the worst. The American experiment has been made in 30 States—with 64 different kinds of laws. seven States still keep their ster- jilization statutes. Indiana -startec the procession in 1907. Since then | Alberta in Canada, Denmark, Fin- land, Vaud in Switzerland, Vera |Cruz in Mexico and now Germany have fallen in line. England, Nor- | way, Sweden and Western Australia |are reported - seriously contemplat- ing such laws. Sces “Glaring Discrepancy” “The execution of the various human sterilization laws reveals a ‘(Continued on Page Two) Twenty- |. By WALTER BROCKMANN ington, D. C. Thursday night by Stanley K. Hornbeck, Chief of the BERLIN, Jan. 20. — The ne\v"‘ university woman in Hitler's “third| Reich” is a kind of feminine storm- | thooper. “Kitchen service” and “family| care” are equivalents assigned to| her, of “field service” and “first; aid” training for the young man stormtrooper. | Compulsory service in a woman’s labor camp is suggested as a pre- requisite for university study by Gisela Bretschnieder, Nazi head of the woman’s branch of the Ger- man Student Association. Extels Physical Work | Discussing the Nazi educational| goal for women in an interview with the Deutsche Allgemeine Zei- tung, she said: | “This is the best means of deter- | mining whether a woman is fit to HOUSE PASSES INTERIOR BILL OF $31,128,000 WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.— The Interior Department annual ap- propriaiion bill carryinz $31,128,000 in outlays for the coming fiscal year passed the House yesterday and was sent to the Senate. The largest single outlay was the direct appropriation of $16,269,000 for the Indian Service, plus $1,414,- 000. The item for Alaska totaled $716,200, the largest amount allot-| ted to any territory. Division of Far Eastern Affairs of the State Department in which 1 was said the United States will make every legitimate effort to be “a good neighbor” to Far Eastern, countries by projecting the Roose-| veltian concept of international re-| latons into the Pacific, the same as are already in force in South America. The Foreign Office spokesman said the speech bears directly on Japanese actlvities in Manchu- kuo and the impending changes; in the status of Henry Pu Yi of that State. ’ ————.——— NOWELL COMING BACK i Willis E. Nowell is a returning passenger on the Victoria from a hurried business trip south. He left Seattle this morning. BAKER ON VICTORIA Dewey Baker is a returning senger to Juneau on the Victor ia, Mr. Baker is head baker at the Juneau Bakery. |garded as “unfortunate and un- have escaped into the wilds of mac,MHs G N SELI G s Ui 1% does as a hide-out. — e EXPULSION OF INSULL TO BE GREECE'S AIM vernment to Take Posi- ive Action in Case of American ATHENS, Jan. 20—The Greek Government is represented as de- termined to expel Samuel Insull, American utility head, whose many companies collapsed, no matte what decision is taken in case by the Council of State. The Secretary of the Interior indicated the Council adjourned yesterday until next week without reaching any decision. his %fit_jh_e—tz)wruirbanks Air Service Planned; General Manager man 8. Peck, President and Gen- eral Manager of the Pacific Alaska Airways, said here the Pan-Ame can Airways, parent company, is considering establishment of an all-year-round mail and passenzer service from Spokane to Fairbanks, Alaska. [Peck said he came here to study Peck Investigates SPOKANE, Wash,, Jan. 20.—Ly- | the terminal facilities for pontoon,|of five men, who allegedly robbed ski or wheel equipped planes Peck said he estimated a one- way flight would consume 18 to 20 hours with Nome five hours from Fairbanks. A passenger traffic, if a mail contract is included, would justity establishment of the line, Peck said. 'BANK ROBBERS | devote more time to the duties of | Postmaster-General. | The President’s denunciation of | lobbying by national committee- men has developed a wave of polit- Others Remembered ‘HCM reform and a spirit that prom- ises quick consideration and cor- SEATTLE, Jan, 20—Mrs, Grace ‘ective legislation with the Senate D. Selig, widow of the Ketchikan considering a bill to prevent mem- fish trap buiider, who died here be_rs of either national party com- January 13, bequeathed $500 each mittees practicing before govern-‘ to the Ketchikan Lodge of Elks™Ment departments. and Salvation Army. This was dis- | FROM NORWAY - DENIED ENTRY Harriet Rossiter, of Ketchikan, {Alaska, was bequeathed $2,500 and | Action Similar to that Tak- en Recently on Blue the balance of the estate was di- | vided among relatives and chari- Eagle Tuna Fish Salvation Army Also Be- queathed Like Amount— ties. —————-— * ARE CAPTURED - BY BIG POSSE 'Fierce Gun Battle TakeslNRA Y. Place —_ Bandfls | Similar action was taken the | s d other day at San Pedro, Cal, when urrender a shipment of Japanese tuna, bear- ing the Blue Eagle, was barred. Rock Slides, Seattle NEW YORK, Jan. 20.—~Customs officials yesterday refused to al- low the entry of about 4,000 cases | QUINCY, Ilinois, Jan. 20.—Four | the State Bank of Gerard of be- tween $2,000 and $5000, marched VICTIM TRICKS EDDIE HUFFMAN, COAST FIGHTER Jewelry Salesman Feigns Faintness While Driv- ing Automobile SLUMPS OVER WHEEL BUT RECOVERS QUICK Five Shots Fired Into Body of Pugilist—Death Instantaneous LOS ANGELES, Cal., Jan. 20. — Kidnaper Eddie Huff- man, aged 22 years, a prize fighter, has been killed by his intended victim, William Spitzel, aged 48, jewelry sales- man. Huffman, on probation after a two-year prison sen- tence, stepped behind Spitzel as the latter was entering his automobile in front of his home. Huffman made Spitzel get into the car at the point of a gun and drive off. Spitzel had a pistol in his._ overcoat pocket but saw no chance to use it. Spitzel drove the car along for a while with the kidnaper beside him. Spitzel was thinking fast then decided on a trick. Slumping over the wheel, Spitzel murmured: “My heart. I am going to faint.” The kidnaper fell for grabbed the steering wheel. Spitzel jammed his foot on the brakes, seized the kidnaper's pistol with one hand, pulled his own out of his overcoat pocket and shot Huffman five times, killing him it and | almost instantly. ———eeo VALLEE CASE HEARING WILL BE NEXT WEEK Surprise Witness Is Flown to Hollywood frem New York HOLLYWOD, Cal, Jan. 20—A surprise witness, in the marital case of Rudy Vallee and his wife, who flew here from New York, was spirited away from the airplane under guard. This surprise wit- ness has been identified as Johnson Hurd, formerly confidential secre- tary to the orchestra leader. It is said he will testify for the former actress in her separate maintenance action in which Vallee is accused of indiscretions with four women. It is said three more surprise witnesses are to come here. Hurd will be the principal wit- ness for the plaintiff at the hear- ing on temporary alimony set for next Wednesday. —>>-o— MR. AND MRS. J. J. MEHERIN MAKE ROUND TRIP TO SITKA N MOTORSHIP NORTHLAND Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Meherin left Juneau last night on the motor- ship Northland for a round trip to Sitka and will return to their home here tomorrow afternoon. Mr. Meherin, well known mer- chandise broker and Alaska repre- sentative of Hills Brothers Coffee, arrived in Juneau on the North- land yesterday from a business trip to cities of Southeast Alaska. —— out and surrendered after a spirit- Man Fatally ln)ured ed gun battle with a huge posse which had trapped. them in the' TACOMA, Wash. Jan. 20— Carl woods near Basco last night. The Lemann, aged about 50, of Seattle, fifth member of the gang was died yesterday as the result of in- caught later about a mile from the juries received in a rockslide at scene of the gun battle. , the quarry at Alder the day before. SEWARD ASKS LIGHT PLANT Seward recently almost unani- mously voted to apply for a gov- ernment lcan to provide a publicly owned electric power plant. The vote was 323 to 9 in favor of the proposal.