The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 14, 1934, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE | “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” G VOL. XLIV., NO. 6650. JUNEAU, ALASKI, MONDAY, MAY 14, 1934. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS : A . i - y ] [ HE MISSED FIRST LADY’S WEIGHT [ N R M . 2 Y : YOUNG WOMAN (KETCHIKAN MAN | Offon U. S. to Rome Flight L i | | ’ i S CA Zed sk ¢ | Member of ProminentUtalip, - - . o Go-between, Carrying $60,- | Family Killed—Steam- Dn\e\MF a;}s toHSeechflflrve Hundred Additional Po- 000, Surrounded on | ship Man Arrested % al'cl "(‘f its Ll licemen Sworn in—May 1 - On Los Angeles Street | pa N Request Troops i | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, May 1 sy s S | | Fonsteen 1 ? KETCHIKAN, Alaska, May 14— 1 | —Fourteen hours after the broke: 3 e 3 . FORCED TO SHOT HlS i and ravished body of Miss Louis s:‘ Moe, son ‘of st kPlctel PORTLAND COMPLETELY ! { Jeppeson, 23-year-old Utah girl wad Sather of Ketchikan was ki ITIED UP, WATERFRONT WAY OUT: ESCAPES Ifound in Golden State Park, MilfAlva Wingren, of LaConner, Wash.; g ’ lard Hickman, Port Engigeer fof Ralph Rogers and Svere Gjemso, = ; the Matson Navigatin Company BEth of Keichikan, were severely {Teamsters Join Longshore- Spectacular Maneuvers in was booked by the police on'giRured when an automobile crash- men in Strike at 3 c O N charde.jof inurder; ed on a cliff north of here. The A Kll.d“a%'“fi EP‘SORC“ il Hickman admitted the girl, ¢ YOu8 men Hpd. teen to- s party San Francisco 1ce Lalled to Rescue | member of a prominent Ogden and &' Ward Cove. e W ! Salt Lake City family, was in 3 ‘Mvm‘”;“ was driving and failed _: A LOS ANGELES, Cal, May 14— ' japartment until 3 oclock Sunday 'o fce the-curve. s | SEATTLE, May 24 — With the 4 In an escape from a mob of men merning. She was found criminall; Dt | port clogged with 29 vessels and apparently attempting to hijack iml.ac‘ful, beaten and strangled wit two more due, the waterfront em- $60,000 offered the kidnapers of la I)_cit torn from her ensembl STATE PATRULS | ployers were uncertain early this William F. Gettle, the emissary outfit ) : 3 morning whether to resume opera= fled after shooting his way to Hickman said the girl left h tions and attempt to work ships freedom. Shortly afterward two |apartment at 3 am. and he M { 1x\'i1h nonunion workers which suspects were caught in a police no knowledge of her death. H brought forth riots last Saturday. trap. 4 said they had been drinking ang ©On Mayor John F. Dore's orders The intermediary, whose identity |dancing in his apartment. I |nearly the entire police force was was kept a secret, has been at-! Aigethe i {on hand reinforced 100 additional tempting to contact the kidnapers | BOOKED FOR MURDER || {men sworn in last Saturday. since the abduction last week. 7 i SAN FRAN_CISCO, ‘May 14.—Thi{ “We are going to try and move A Dramatic Manew i D Ka ho has b ¥ lling the weights of all comers Emfi'"fm o decl;man Xa: Make A it atieids | aneuvers { 2nny csner, who has been calling the weights of all comers |bcoked on a murder charge aftel s police protection. We have got to The attempt to seize the ranfiom: with considerable accuracy for the past 12 years, made an error of |officers said they found a bruisyrA'u‘hontles i e, NEWEL !keep the ships moving,” said the money, carried in a satchel, came | 19 pounds when he attempted to guess the weight of Mrs. Frankiin |on his leg, a deep scraich on ont to Mayor DOYC S Re- | Mayor, but if there are any more after a dramatic series of maneuvers | 1 Rogsevelt, He guesced the first lady's weight at 155 pounds and |Of his hands, and part of som¢ cept Statement {outbreaks, such as last Saturday, ;vcl::z;: t:flteevrv :};;yen}::de ;;(;ix:ed into| g topped the scales at 145, It was a feature of a fair conducted .Pngme identified as the girl's, irf 1“wp'l] have no alternative but to i8¢ WP | s C i s i . jhis_auto. b ask the Governor to send Nati several notes left, by the apparent by the Women' sn? Club in Washinglon, (Associated Press Photo) ! Hickman IS “the father .of 4wo Jd@PATTLE, May 14—Acting un- oot ot el | onal kidnapers. e g s By Srand e P T ichildren and is being sued for Ser orders of fthe Staté Liquor) i.-== g : {7 Thie - nitobe That: Batteving: 1n aulls The emissary noticed, as he drove | Weianon G | divogee by his wife, Board, highway patrolmen raided Capt. George R. Pond (right above) and Lieut. Cesare Sabeili | - . Yot Mave been ‘coOmphiss g down the street, that he was being ;c u N T R u I- B"-L vscaped Conuvict | e e five alleged speakeasies as State| (lefl) soared into the air at 6:24 o'clock this merning at Brooklyn |, .40 it =7 izl 5 surrounded by three automobiles. | Will Be Permitted | liquor inspectors made the rounds| on an attempted nonstop flight to Rome, a distance of 4,500 miles, | A Confident that the occupants were | His Liborty i = lw“ Festaucanis, eppaTRRLly "; according to Associated Press dispaiches to The Empire. TEAMSTERS WALK OUT not the actual kidnapers, he opéned 4 o/ 2P A S PO | Stemheny, Capt. Pond is a former Navy flier and Lieut. Sabeli was at one | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, May 14 fire. Shots were exchanged and | Mayor Dore that police were un-| 4 /ar ac | oot . fter a brisk b | WASHINGTON, May 14 — | able to emforce the new state 1i-| time an Italian war ace. |—The longshoremen’s strike has after a brisk battle, the go-between | cyectnats Dl d 1 The two have been planning the flight for some menths. The |spread here to the Teamsters' Union P escaped. | Believing that “no good pur- quor law. a5 (g sy T AT ; B they hive walked: out i pase” il b6 di¥id Dy reksiri- Speakeasy proprietors or bar-| Plane, called the Leonardo Davinci, carries fuel for 40 hours, d they 2 Emissary Rescued i ing" a. foemer, fonvict to- tha | tenders were arrested, but the The route of the flight is shown in the above map. Two river boatmen have struck The emissary, after escaping, | i hic e | restaurant men were instructed to There were favorable winds cver the Atlantic reported this |2t Portland and not a man work- penitentiary from which he O plegne telephoned the police and they raced caped 24 years ago, Attorney | ' . appear before the Liquor Board at| morning but also a low pressurc area. ;." fiov' & sldg 1ng ’“""eg on Port~ to his protection and escorted him || theral P, ls Shouted! General Cummings has orderea | Olympia to explain the elleged|— — — & : |land’s waterfront. Moré than 35 ¥ ; ¥ 1bera roposais oute: 8! | # 1 | freighters are trapped on the Co- back to this offices and new plans extradition proceedings to be Plane Makes Transcontin- violdtionh. n | R Bpec. ¢ o were laid to pay the money and Down as Fast as They dropped against Frank Grig- | The Board may revoke their li- “A n el ()f I» Q T, l?y SRS WK IR bring about Gette's rescue. | Are Offered ware, recently located in Ed- | ental Average of 227 censes to dispense beverages if it| g , [\ s RS Bl T e 13 ! PR AT i R | finds such action justified. 29 s all Pacific Coast por ANOTHER VERSION | ranthint | Siiteate Miles Per Hour Claude Bannick, King County Ghettfl ’s |have been cancelled until “proper | WASHINGTON, May 14—Late| "“7 / A— sheriff, also had a squad of men | protection to employees of the com- LOS ANGELES, May 14.—Late last Saturday the Senate passed NEWARK, N. J., May 14—A new g4 or; independent gaids, arrest- | |pany are afforded.” (4 this afternoon the shooting in the|the Stock Exchange Control Bill | transcontinental air mail record jno five. i Near D(’ll' (A | There are no general disturh- Ggme kidnapping case was at-rejecting all tho_ more liberal pro-iNEw SGHEME |was set yesterday by a Transcon- >oo | |ances today on the entire coast tributed to an auto backfire and Posals but adopting an amendment ; tinental Western Airways, Inc., oo i | according to advices received up to suspicion of the emissary caused | modifying the Securities Act of !plane which landed at Newark < 0 | |1 o'clock this afternoon. i him to flee:from what he believed | 1933. The bill now goes to a con- Is PRUPUSED leleven hours and thirty-one min- Woman Relief Wor ker‘ A | ‘were hijackers. | ference. |utes after taking off from Los , { . | SHIPS ARE RAIDED 1t is now believed the kidnappers| The Senate’s action is the cul- | | Angeles, Stabbed, Slashed by Man Government Preparing to! SEATTLE, May 14—Aafter strik- are ready for conclusion of the mination of years of agitation for| | The plane's elapsed time includ- T UPLE Dropped from Rolls Resist Attacks that /i longshoremen raided eleven case with the return of Gettle. regulation of stock exchanges and | ] led a ten minute refueling stop at —_— i | ships last Saturday afternoon to Contact is expected before the is asured of final approval if the| Kansas City. g 73 1 M]ght Be Made drag non-union workers ashore, day ends. | bill is "satisfactory to those de-| The record is considerably lower _ . | A7 ( CIRAG0, My 14—~Slashod Ay Mayor John F. Dore declared in .2 cRlie i, L0 manding 1 L than the previous record set by Gitl in Case Is Criminally|stabbed B e i T 100 extra police for strike duty but mendments were shouted down |(]~v, the company February 19, of thir- T P ron B/ ABRHOR 4 £ | said thi 7 ias fast as they were offered. bo“ernment Insul"ance‘ forawen hougs aynd two mymuzes on th Attacked—Victims Left |rons, Miss Frances atien, aged 2“‘jedvv,[fHIN('T.ON Vy‘f" D“ iTu"k:w;m‘l he sw::?:’liie :s:s SZ: S(‘;fixr‘znfl: | the final vote was 62 to 13.| Private Home Financing |iast fiight made with mait before Tied to Trees geller ‘onse grorker, kuown as B o i Which sy | DY MARE o 1S Gudiie W Gore of Oklahoma, was the onlyl [ aoiclation [s Asked |the private contracts were can- 1, | ‘Angel of the Ghetto,” is in a L o ‘ovision au. 3150 the state highway patrol. voting agal h n ) egislation Is Aske: ~ | critical condition. become a law is a provision au-| | Democrat voting against the bill. | | celled. SPOKANE, Wash., May 14—The| = [ %50 JO0/Mar nm_‘ thorizing the President to spend A'med guards turned back strik- ———————— ’ g g S 4 S, 5 8 | | | WASHINGTON, May 14.—Legis- Yesterday's flight was the first story of Dan Oliver and his 16- BT Al bk isnr permaninile {up to $10,000 for information “from | N longstoremen at the Bell {lation is requested by Pr under a new contract. The com- year-old girl companion, that two| oy Y O 2% METE BEARIAEY: an authoritative source” as to Steet Terminal when they at- | Roosevelt in a special mess pany has been reorganized, and masked men abducted and robbed |, o€ SERAL ARCEH BHCTECO poographic meteorologic and weath- | !eMPted to board the Grace liner lday , Which the . Democ was formerly known as the Trans- them, then attacked the girl, is be- 2500 &0 ¥2RTS WES PEOHET B EO0 o “conditions of the northern lati- Sant8 Rosa to drag off non-union i 1€ . J i nkgmed _ | continental and Western Air. ing investigated. e M frendlec crOBEEEE workers. The strikers previously would provide possibly seve 8 men and boys who cornered him | tudes. | faliat lion- dollars for home cons The plane averaged 227 miles Qliver said the men abducted back of & building a short distance, This information is to be pur-|Dattered down the doors of the > i an hour on the 2609-mile trip. him and his girl companion as " ) dy gathered |Pier and swept aside the small Third Time Explosive Has! Been Found—Officials | Not Commenting St. LOUIS, Mo, May 14.—John C. Johnson, negro farmer, who is understood to have made a con- SPOKANE, Wash, May 14.—A cigar box containing seven sticks of 40 per cent dynamite was found | by late last Saturday on the corner of | fession u_npntabng several persons the loading dock used jointly by iR the kidnapping of Dr. Isaac D. the Spokesman Review and Chmn_yKeHey in 1931, was slain by a icle, two daily newspapers. machine gunner late last Saturlay No fuse nor percussion caps were | 25 he sat outside the home of Dep- in the box or other indication the explosive was intended as a bomb, |LOUIS. b bub the police said it could have| t:gi‘l‘y“@“ was. killed almost in- been denonated by a blow and a ‘ heavy jar would have resulted. Twice before dynamite has been : discovered in the same building. Officials of the Cowles Publish- ing Company, publisher of the two newspapers, would not com- ment on the find. Henry 1Isle, accused of sending a trunk of dynamite from San It is understood he was to be the state’s chief witness against sev- jeral of six persons indicated for Kelley's abduction. G s Showers Predicted Over Drought IS MURDERED uty Sheriff Harry Newbold, of St.| | i | | | | and improvements. The President ernment insurance firancing for home and repair work. proposes a Gov- for private construction The 1 lation is urged as a move to leviate distress, help employment and raise the living S andard The ment would create two with a capital stock of hundred million dollars to cooperate with private companies on a huge program, Mortgage Insurance The loans are for modernization to be made by private agencies in- sured by Governmental agencies agains! Icss up to certain perceni- ages of the advances. It is a mutual mortgage insurance under governmental direction to enable private agencies to make first mortgage loans on newly con- structed houses up to 80 per cent of the appraised value. It also provides that new mortgages be he ‘brought her home. The masked men took them outside the city, attacked thé girl then tied them both to trees with sacks over their heads. The masked men robbed Oliver wrist Two Students Execute Suicide Pact; Bodies Are Found on Campus of 86 and the girl of her JAMESTOWN, Md., May 14— Wwateh. Missing for three days, Alama Medical examination substantiat- Marie Johnson and Jack Gotham Her ed the girl's story. name is freshman and sophomore at the withheld. Jamestown College, were found - R s dead at the edge of the campu Leo Rapuzzi, Skagway business man, arrived in Juneau aboard the Northwestern for a short stay here. Indications are a. suicide pact wa executed. \ Widows of Five Presidents Send Greetings to Mother of President on Mother’s Day NEW YORK, May 14.—Widows|do for their children, but I think from- the relief station. | chased from ths Guerriero stabbed Miss Allen| by noted expl 80 the with an ice pick and slashed her|POWers will not take offense face and neck as she fell to the| The stipulation added | handful of policemen to gain en- {trance to the dock. Work was ihe{halted on the Santa Rosa. Aslatic at N0% 68" the ‘atation | nformatzon would concern. both sse‘:z‘:le:s:::;‘:m\::m Foy Lo [civil and miliary aviation. r | Government experts believe the.‘;‘n::‘;:dd i) aha. St o o 14 Sty | ed longshoreme: ¥ MRS. SELMA HENNING! ¢xe il add immessureably fo) oy S0ty Sglcy o 1 DIES PEACEFULLY IN tacks trom e pacitic in bringing |, The police sid the greatest dit- e long-sought 0 | Heulty was wit e long- SEA"LE ON SATURDAY‘EV::: m,“”:“““ g On;s oremen but with avowed Cmfp | POV | munists who trooped to the dock Mrs. Selma Henning, mother of {and tried to incite pickets to vio= W. and Fred Henning, passed | lence. away at her home in Seattle la REEB NUT Tn | Late last Saturday members of Saturday, according to word r the Waterfront Employers Asso- ceived by her sons here. She was ciation met hurriedly and decided 76 years old. | BE GANDIDATEM: call a halt on all operations om Mrs. Henning, who had been the waterfront until protection of suffering from heart trouble for| "»\o:'km'; could be obtained. the past several years, left Juneau ey | Gov. Martin reached Spuokane for the south about three weeks - . . late Saturday night and he ago following o nine-months' stay [ 0rmer Missouri Senator|then he saw no necessity ns:!ln: in the city. The end, while not Changes Mind About | present time for calling out of and Mrs. Henning passed away 2 : National Guards as he believed wholly unexpected, came suddenly Runmng Agam local authorities were able to peacefully. \ | handle the situation, J Francisco in 1930 to the oftice of|(Gripped Farm Area b el ox yieg homes D 10| ¢ five former Presidents of the|that the influence of the father is| Besides the twofisons in Juneau | KANSAS CITY, Mo, May 14— RPN the Spokesman Review, is now pe 1 ppraised value. 3 . . |just as essential” |she is survived By her husbind, Reversing his: previous announce- | POUR TAR FOR ROOFING serving a life sentence. WASHINGTON, May 14— | B R United States sent Mothers' Day|Taqu g we of former presidents|Carl Henning of @eward; two sons|ment, James A. Reed, former Sen- | A can containing 102 sticks of | Light showers are forecast over FISHHAWE- 1Y~ PORT greetings to Mrs. Jages Ro0SC-|wh 'sent greetings were Mesdames|in Seattle, Ed @fd Iver, and en- ator from Missouri, says he w e s few brushes full of dynamite was found at the en-| the drought gripped farm belt PR oS o8 A velt, mother of the President. | Coolidge, Theodore Roosevelt, Wil-|other son, Hanford, of Ketchikan. not.attempt to regain his old seat|paint were being splashed on the trance of the building in 1927 but| but this failed to remove of- ‘The Fishhawk, Sebastian Stuart| At a panquet for the promotion |som, Harrison, and Preston, the|Four brothers and two sisters liv-|in the Senate this year. Sev new quarters of the Alaska Steam- Whoever placed it there has never| ficial apprehension and some |Fish Company cannery tender from |of world peace where she was ihe | latter formerly being Mrs. Cleve-|ing in the States and Canada,’also days ago Reed said his hat was|ship Company, workmen prepared «» been apprehended. The fuse at-| Administration officers private- |Tvee, was in port today, bringing|guest of honor, she said: “I think land. | seurvive, |in the ring although he did not|to pour tar for the roofing. The % tached to the can apparently falled| Iy expressed the fear of ex- (in Supt. H. E. Stephanus, after|it is wonderful what the mothers| The wife of the President also| The funeral was held in Seatle|know whether he -could make the roof work is being performed by . to burn, , panded destruction of crops. |supplies, of the country have been able 0 sent greetings, | today. grade or not.” the Morris. Construction Company, 3 v i e w R A A A - AT N o