The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 3, 1934, Page 1

v V OL )\Llh ., NO. 6589. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR MEMBER OF ASSOCIAT[ D PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ESPERADO DILLINGER MAKES ESCAPE ROOSEVELT URGES 2 NEW MEASURES CLEAR SLATE OF FIRST YEAR WORK Administration Starts Sec- ond Year of Service to Country Tomorrow 2 MAJOR STEPS TO BE GIVEN CONGRESS Legislation on War Debts and New Airmail Con- tracts Be Asked | NGTON, March 3.—Presi- osevelt, about to enter the 1 year of the New Deal Era, | 0 more major steps in mind ress adjourns. | would press for leg- on handling the war debt | step situation her step would be to re- a privately owned air system shorn of what critics e old tem called abuses dministration is now look- d to the next twelve| It will be just one year months. 0 tomorrow that the President his office. Congress has set itself to work I cur dent’s request for wide powers to veral of the President’s recom- | ndations, such’ as the vital y of exchanges and the Presi- r lowering tariffs y as much as 50 per cent. This| latter is stirring turbulence in Congress. ERITISHER TELLS OF HIS PART IN RASPUTIN DEATH Member of Parliament Tes- tifies He Was Invited to Join Murder Party LONDON, March 3.—The de—l fense yesterday wound up u\ case |, in the Rasputin libel in a blaze of new sensations, cludmgz| the revelation for the first time by a member of the British Par- liament that he was invited to join the party which poisoned, clubbed and shot to death Rasput- in, the Russian Imperial Court’s mad monk. ; Commander Oliver Locker Lamp- son supplied the dramatic climax to two-days’ testimony in the $2,- 000,000 libel suit of Princess Irena Youssoupoff against the producers of the film “Rasputin and the Empress.” Commander Lampson said he was asked to join the murder party and had taken part in an unsuc- cessful scheme to save the Russian royal family from a violent end| during the days of the Red Revo- lution. Prince Youssoupoff, Irene's hus- band, yesterday told how he had killed the monk and thrown his body into the river. Irena charges her character had been marred by insinuations in the| film. ——————— 2 SHOT DOWN, IDAHO TOWN TWIN FALLS, Idaho, March 3— Leroy Uttley, aged 55, accused of shooting’ and killing Sheriff Rob- ert Walton and William P. Gard- ner, Uttley's brother-in-law, and dangerously wounding Mrs. Elva| Gardner, his mother-in-law, at| Rupert, has been captured by a posse. The posse found Uttley in bed Fourth Romance Near break? Reports are current in Hollywood that the fourth romance of Glori is on the verge of cracking up. witzerland, will be charged with desertion pictured with the Irish sportsman. Marqguise Henri de la Gloria Swanson, screen star say Michael Farmer, now in in suit. At top, Gloria former husbands, left to ght, Wa 1 ce Beery, Gos Below, Valaise und Herbert Somborn, Chicago millionaire. “FISH PIRACY" 'STOCKS CLOSE TRIAL RESULTS = SHORT SESSION DISAGREEMENT ABOUT STEAD Jury Fails to Reach Ver- Silver Metal Is Higher and dict, Ketchikan Case, and Is Discharged KETCHIKAN, Alaska, March 3.—| The jury in the case brought against August Starkloff, James E. Ninnis, Eddie Kahiapo and W. F. Cummings, charged with alleged theft of fish from a trap of | Libby, McNeill and Libby on the| west coast last August, has been!T discharged by Judge George F. Alexander. The jury deliberated 31 hours and failed to reach a ver- dict. George W. Folta represented Lh\“ Government. and Harry G. McCain | the defendants. 1 The jury was composed of Anna Folger, Ole M. Wick, Clara Cope- land, Hans Apsch, Mary Newell, James Newman, E. E. Grout, Bert Wiesenfluh, I. Braad, E. Nelson, Lem McKay and G. W. Ger- It for is reported ten were | acquittal WOMAN DOCTOR FOUND GUILTY, MURDER CASE: Beath: Shaiesment Tells of Poisoned Whiskey High- | ball Given at Tryst GREENWOOD, M jurors March 3.— 36-year-old woman physician, was)| convicted here of the whbkew. murder of Dr. John Preston Ken-| nedy by a jury today and the pen- | |alty was fixed at life 1mgnson-5 ment. Kennedy, who was 41, clinical essociate, died after day illness. In his dying ment he charged that Dr. and her a 10- state- Dean |gave him a poisoned whiskey high- ball during a midnight tryst the clinic, July 27, No motive was mentioned but witnesses said Kennedy was plan- ning to rewed his divorced wife after breeking up his affair with in in his cabin and brought him here for safe keeping. Officers said Uttley the shootings. confessed to Dr. Dean. Mrs. Kennedy testified Dr. Dean ' broke up her home, | Chemical, Trading in Futures More Acti tive REPORT MADE ON| WATERSHORTAGE BY COMMITTEE Investigators Offer Recom- mendations to Council, Changes in Systems | © Numerous changes to be made in the Juneau Water Company's sys- tem and the Nelson Water system, were recommended by Allen Shat- tuck, H. L. Faulkner, G. B. Rice and G. E. Krause, members of the citizens special committee appoint- ed by the City Council to inquire into the cause of water shortage, in a report made to the City Council at the regular meeting| last night. ! Installation of water mains at a depth of at least four feet, so| that freezing will not occur in; cold weather, and adequate fire protection are among the chief} recommendations made by the( committee. The report in full fol-| lows: Nelson Water System e “With reference to the Nel-| son system we find that the sup- ply of water for those on this tem entirely failed during weather last December. to have been due to the the water at the he: of the intake ditch froze so that the entire supply was shut off. ‘When this occyrred some of the mains and lateral pipes froze, due to the fact that there was no! pressure. | “The Nelson water system sup- only a limited number of The compéany reports that approximately 90 custo- mers, Many of these are on St Hill at an altitude where they |a cannot be supplied by the Juneau | water systen. i [ “The Nehon Water company has appeared before the committee and they have submitted in writing a statement of the cause of the wa- ter shortage, and a statement of| what they propose to do to remedy plies hou s, has NEW YORK, March 3.—After & yhe trouple so that it might not| brief upward flouris! ing stocks turned dull and aside por.to attached. specialties |changes were extremely narrow. The close was fairly : the turnover for the short sesslon o jis franchise or by regulation decided whether the plane will be fron a few 50,000 shares. Bond traders took profits. bit higher and more Shares up slightly point were J. C. Penr Cerbon, United Stat Refining, Bethlehem can Smelting, Sears Park Utah. of similar Losers United States Steel, American Tele- all consumers on their system with ns-Mane an adequate supply of water at all United States Industrial Al- times at uniform and reasonable | Aircraft Union Pacific mxd New ph and Telephon United York Central. CLCSING PRICES NEW YOREK, March 3—Closing the Chamber of Commerce, quotatwn of Alaska stock today is 20%, 1034, trading was (the general tone was h this morn- price 2dy with limited and steady. Many Silver was a active around & Columbian to ney, Ameri- and Steel, Roebuck amounts were e, J Allied TODAY Juneau mine American Can American Power and Light tee’ made on March 6, 1925, and 10%, Anaconda 15%, Armour B 3, Bethlehem Steel 46's, Calumet and la 5%, Curtiss-Wright 4%, Fox Fux\”s 15'%, General Motors ' International Harvester 42%, Ken necott 20%, Packard Motors 5 | Southern Railroad 327, Ulen Cc Dam no sale; United Sta S u) %, United Aireraft 25 - > VISITING lN C]TY age of water, empties into an A. A. Shonbeck, prominent bus- reaching the springs or intake of iness man of* Anchorage. the motorship North-|mittee inspected this pipe line we Juneau on land from the sou Mrs. an extensive trip States since then, ‘Washington, Pacific Coast cities. Mrs. in Seattle visiting Today on the with Mr, Shonbeck steamer Sarah Ruth Dean, attractive A A SHO“BECK [S arrived in th, Mr. and Shonbeck went south shortly overflowing on the ground and cor before the holidays and have made |siderable of the in! D. C, New York and; other cities of the east, as well as|foliows: through visiting relatives, left {from Juneau, , also found leaks in various plac Victoria{tem be extended so that all and will continue on to Anchorage |water coming through the pipe line [Nome in short order” occur again. This “The committee recommends that the Nelson Water Company be re- quired either through amendment | to be prescribed by the City Coun- cil, to lay the proposed new wa- ter main at a depth of at least four feet so that the same will not freeze; and that they be 1'0(4:1:"0115 to install a fire hydrant at a point to be designated by the City Smelting and Council; and that the franchise be | point. amended so as to set forth some| reasonable consideration for the| granting of the franchise, such as the requirement that they supply rates. Juneau Water Company | | “The committee examined the Juneau water systém and we have also examined previous reports made to the City Council and to that is to say: the report of what is known as the ‘Cheatham Commit- the report of B. D. Stewart, en- gineer, made on February 17, 1932 “We find that there are leaks n the lines leading from the in- take to the supply tanks We in the mains within the city it- self. We find that the new pipe line installed in 1832 for the pur- pose of conveying water from th Alaska Juneau flume to the neau water syst:m to supplement its supply during periods of sh abandoned tunnel where it filters | through the gravel bed before the system. At the lime the com- found that much of this water it flowed back into Gold Creek. Recommendations “The committee recommends a 1. That the present Dpipe Shonbeck, who remained|from the Alaska Juneau flume to the Juneau Water Company's sy: he (Continued on Page Seven) r | will be used as a base for to NEUTRAL POWERS TALY GREAT BRITAIN SOVIET RUSSIA FRANCE & ALLIES GERMANY & ALLIES ATLANTIC i OCEAN A F R < A With Europe in the throes of another war scare as the result of the trouble in Austria, this map shows lmw the continent lines up in the new “balance of power” hetween armed nations. Note how -NOME MAY BE d‘; SBVIET BASE |Handling NRA FOR RESCUERS by e | ks |Russian Aviators anve m New York — Will Start | for North Immediately | 1 NEW YORK, March 3~\Iomc Soviet ‘ aviators, under plans outlined to resue a party of about 100 Ru--\ sians adrift on the ice in the A {tic Ocean north of Bering Strait. The rescue party in charge of Prof. G. A. Ushakov, Arcti > plorer, and pidots S. A. Levanev- sky and M. T. Slepnev, arrived here yesterday. Levenevsky aided Jimmie Mat- statement is|tern in Siberia on his round the' ‘\\orld flight last year, As soon as permission is Ll\’Ell {the Soviet government the party will go to Nome. It is not yet |commissioned here and flown to Nome or the party will go overland | Seattle and fly north from| there. | Ushakov said that the rescue could be better effected from Al- aska than from any -Siberian As tentatively proposed the rescue attempt will be made in a large transport plane. If possi- ble the ship will land on the floe and the stranded people taken in small groups to the Siberian, shores, thence by dog teams to; settlements. « The party on the ice has food for two months, but the fear is, felt that the ice will melt undei them or that they may drift south through the Strait into the | Bering Sea. The rescuers speak | no English. ‘ NOME, Alaska, March 3.—The| Northwestern Alaska Chamber of Commérce has wired Alaska Dele- gate A. J. Dimond to y the Soviet Ambassador in Wask that Nome offers all assi ce posstble for the rescue of the 101 Russians marooned on the Arctic ice floe and is anxious to procate for Soviet aid in the son and Mattern relief cases. The officials of the Northwest u- Alaska Chamber of Commerce be-| lieves that Alaska fliers are well] equipped to bring out the mar- ooned Russians which the local Coast Guard reports are 140 miles west of East Cape and 12 mil off shore, Oldtimers say the ice in gion is always moving and imperative the party be rer as soon as possible. E this re- it is oved 3 —Al- WASHINGTON, March fred J. Lomen, of Nome, be Alaskan fliers can immediately aid to the Russians on the Arctic ice if the Soviet Government asks for American aid. “There are a dozen planes with thoroughly experienced American fliers that can be assembled said Lo~ at men, ‘How War Clouds Cast Their Shédows (i? factor, Germany and her President Takes Further Action on WASHINGTON, March 3.— President Roosevelt acted today to speed up the handling of industrial violations under the teflective: bargaining provisions of the Recovery Law by order- ing NRA’s Compliance Board to act on findings of the Na- tiun:x] Labor Board without re- 'wlng l.hun WITNESS AVERS HE WAS OFFERED MONEY T0 LEAVE Man in Alaska Fisheries Peonage Trial Accuses One of Defendants SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., 3.—Manuel Difuntes, state witness in the peonage trial of four men accused of defrauding Alaska fish- ermen, testified yesterday that Emil C. Mayer, one of the de- fendants, offered him $50 if he would go away and not testify. The other defendants are Sam- uel Young, Arthur L. Mayer and Joscentio Lopez. The four are accused of vio- lating the state peonage laws and with operating an employment bu- reau without a license, Ernest Camillichi, former fisheries foreman, who recently testified at the trial, is charged with perjury in an indictment re- turned by the San Francisco grand Jury. Camillichi is accused of giving testimony contrary to that prev- iously given to the grand jury. Alaska ICKES GHARGES POLITICAL LEVY ON RELIEF WORK WASHINGTON, March 3. Charges that Civil and Public Works employees in North Da- kota have been assessed five per cent of their wages to contribute to the political campaign funds in behalf of Gov. William Lan- |ger have been turned over to the Department of Justice by Secretary Ickes, Public Works Ad istrator. ‘The Public Works Administrtor has ahsked Attorney General Cum- mings for a grand jury investi- y gation. “We are not charging anybedy with anything but as a result of the investigation we are stating to the Attorney General that somebody on behalf of the Gov- ernor has been assessing the work- ers five per cent of their wages” tary Ickes said, AT former allies are eircled by France and French allies, except in the south, where Italy remains the unknown Great Britain and Soviet Russia, too, main- tain “watching briefs"” as tension increases, PROPOSAL TO BOND CITY T0 . BE VOTED ON Councnl Adopts Resolution to Present Improvement Plan at Coming Election At the meeting of the City Coun- cil, held last evening, a resolution | was adopted authorizing the sub-| mission to voters at the next elec-| tion, of the proposal to bond t]lP City of Juneau in an amount not to exceed $100,000, for street and other public improvements. The resolution follows: | “Whereas, the Common Council | of the City of Juneau has here- tofore considered the necessity for | regrading and paving certain streets and sidewalks in the City, and the installation of new sewer and water pipes, and the matter of concrete bulkheads, and the con- struction of a refuse incinerator, all of which improvements are necessa and, “Whereas, it sting law to borrow the neces- ary fuhds for such improvements from the United States through the Federal Emergency Adminis-| tration of Public Works, upon the ity’s bonds, payable over a per- iod of 25 years, at a rate of in- terest of four per cent; and, Bill Introduced | “Whereas, for the purpose of ob- taining authority for a bond issue) for such public works as herein | enumerated, the Common Council, through the Hon A. J. Dimond, Delegate to Congress, has caused to be introduced in the House of Representatives a bill, known as ‘HR. 6558, the title of which is as follow ‘To authorize the in- corporated town of Juneau, Alas- is possible ‘ka, to issue bonds in any sum not exceeding $100,000 for municipal | public works, including regrading | land paving of streets and side- ywalks, installation of sewer and water pipe, construction of bridges, construciion of concrete bulk- heads, and construction of refuse incinerator.’; and which bill thorizes and empowers the City of Juneau, Alaska, to issue its general obligation bonds in a to- tal sum not exceeding $100,000, to be used for the following purposes, namely: The sum of $51,000 for| regrading and paving of streets and sidewalks; the for installation of sewer and wa- ter pipes; the sum of $5000 for bridge construction and replace- ment; the sum of $12850 for the construction of concrete bulkheads; the sum of $25,000 for construction of refuse incinerator; and the sum of $3000 for engineering super- vision and overhead on all of the above-mentioned works; the said bonds to bear interest at a rate not exceeding six percent per an- num; which bill is now pending (Continued on Page Six.) au-| sum of $2750 | BANK ROBBER, KILLER WALKS -~ OUT OF JAIL {Notorious Outlaw Makes | Getaway, with Negro Convict, Indiana 'BOTH MEN ARMED | WITH MACHINE GUNS |Deputy Sheriff and Garage % Attendant Taken as | Hostages, Released | 5 CROWN POINT, Indiana, March 3. — Jehn Dillinger, I notorious killer and bank rob- ber, awaiting trial on a charge |of killing a policeman, has walked out of the “escape | proof” Lake County Jail with /a negro prisoner, Herbert Youngblood, murder convict, each armed with a machine gun. | Sheriff Lilian Holley, in !charge of the jail, had re- | marked Dillinger would not escape from her jail. Her husband was killed by a mad |man and she succeeded to the [ position of Sheriff. The escape climaxed weeks of planning, it is believed. Dillinger whittled a dummy pistol lout of wood and used this to hhxeulen a guard and forced him {to unlock a first floor cell door in which Dillinger and four others were confined. Once outside the cell, Dillinger and his negro companion went to the warden’s office, seized two machine guns and left with Deputy | Sheriff George Blunt as hostage. Dillinger and the negro, Young- blood, took Blunt to a nearby gar- age, stole an automobile and forced Blunt and Edward Sager, garage |attendant to accompany them. | The four headed toward Gary and Chicago. Dillinger forced all four prison= March construction and repair of bridges, ers in the cell with him to ac- company him but three of them | willingly gave up to deputies after they reached the street. under | SHERIFF GOES HUNTIN: CROWN POINT, Ind, March 3.— rL)lmmume Sheriff Holley is ouf ithh her men hunting for Dil+ linger. Flustered at first over the escape, she quickly regained her composura and with the remark: “If ever 1 |see him again, I'll shoot him dead with my own pistol,” she started {out with deputies in search of the | desperado. Sheriff Holley probably will do {just what she says she will as she is a crack shot. She packs an automatic pistol and has gone out frequently with her men and alsa makes arrests herself. As Dillinger left the jail, he sald: “Ha, Ha, Ha. I did it with a toy pistol. Ha, Ha, Ha.” HOSTAGES REL.ASED PEOTONE, Illinois, March 3.— Blunt and Sager were released here by John Dillinger. The two escap- |ing prisoners disappeared in their augo. | CAPTURED IN ARIZONA Dillinger and three other mem- ybers of his noforious Chicago gang were caplured last January [n Tucson, Arizona. Dillinger was {taken to Crown Point, Indiana, for trial on a charge of killing a policeman. The other members of the gang are now in various |States awaiting trial on various | murder and robbery charges. —————— JOHN HALOFF AND SAM NIEMI LEAVE HOSPITAL John Haloff and Sam Niemi, em- ployees of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company, who have been receiving medical care at St. Ann's Hospital, have left the hospital for their homes.