The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 16, 1934, Page 1

THE DAILY ALAS “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIV., NO. 6652. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 16 1934 KA EMPIRE — | MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS VICTORIA TO BE LOADED FOR ALASKA GETTLE KIDNAPERS ARE KIDNAPED GIRL IS RECOVERING; GIVES DETAILS Description “of Two Men Who Visited June Robles Is Given Authorities FINGERPRINTS ARE BEING EXAMINED lililc Body TRasgted by Sun Death by Knife Threat- ened If She Cried uthorities are piecing together the | bits of -old June Robles, found Mon- afternoon in a desert tomb- son, after being kidnaped and are pushing ahead on the search for her abductors. June is greatly aiding the auth- orities as she is recovering from her horrifying experience. The authorities indicated that her description of the two men who visited her during her trench confinement might lead to their apprehension. Examine Fingerprints The utensils found in the sand trench have been examined for fingerprints for comparison with those on the letters mailed from Chicago which gave Gov. B. B Moeur the tip as to where the little girl would be found. Little June’s body is simply roasted from being shut in that awful box and the sun beating on her. Ate Mouldy Food Her forehead has sores from JCSON, Arizona, May 16.—The] weird story told by six-| Port F uml Shortago Found | | | | | | A. L. Bickell (left), cashier of the Port of Seattle, Wash., was said by police to have admitted a share in the looting of funds by the port auditor, Matt H. Gormley (right). Gormley killed himself when a $70,000 discrepancy was found in the accounts. (Associated Press Photos) s ROME FLIERS Signed Toda gwASHINGT:;, May 15— | FURGED DUWN [ IN IRELAND | The bill of Delegate A. J. Di- mond exempting mining claims in Alaska from assessment work during 1934, was signed | by President Roosevelt today. | § ‘ | The measure provides for the || eaky Gasoline Line and suspension of assessment work Coughing Engine Given | 1 but the provisions do not | | THREE MEN IN ABDUCTION CASE ARE GIVEN LIFE Arrested Lamonday Night —Taken in Court Tues- day and Sentenced PLEADS OF GUILTY ARE QUICKLY MADE Aulhorilies?o; Decided What to Do with Two Women Held in Jail LOS ANGELES, Cal, James Kirk, known to the author- lities as a bootlegger; Larry Kerri- gan, and Roy Willlams, pleaded guilty late yesterday afternoon and were immediately sentenced to life {in San Quentin Prison for the kid- naping of William F. Gettle. three men were captured by the police late Monday afternoon and evening. Gettle testified they did not in= flict grevious bodily harm. May Be Paroled It is indicated there is a possi- | bility the men may be paroled | after serving three and one-half years. The District Attorney gave the gang the alternative of pleading guilty or standing trial and facing the possibility of a death sentence. The f{rio immediately entered 'guilty pleas and were sentenced. The authorities are still unde- cided what to do with the two women arrested in the case, Lau- retta Woody, alias Ann Williams, for the fiscal year e'nd.in; July ndain e e | B8 Reasons for Landing titled to exemption from pay- | |and Mona Gallighan, | Ward. Irish Free State,| alias Joan The | May 16— [* - ?F%\ 4 e This ph estate from ich Gettle was spirited away In ',h\' midst of Country Estmo of Kidnaped Millionaire i a gay party. Gettle was seized by the kid- napers while he was talking with James P. Wolf, Los Angeles manufacturer, in a recreation hall in back of the mansion, location of which is indicated by arrow. with their own neckties and some adhesive tape and forced them to high wall. There they tied Welf to a tree and forced Gettle over inte the darkness in an automobile, The gunmen bound Gettle and Wolf march through the grounds to the the wall, then spirited him away Kui na ped Then Releawd L. H. METZGAR IS BACK FROM NRA eating mouldy food. ment of the federal income tax | LA HINCH, | PRGNS B eAE The doctors said her legs are| for the payable year of 1933. iMEY 16—Capt. George R. Pond sore where the chains on her little | Every claimant, to obtain the |and Lieut. Cesar Sabelli, who . limbs wore into the flesh. Knife Threatened June’s grandmother said the child ‘told her they would put the knife to her if she cried and the little girl did not cry during her long confinement but kept expect- ing something would happen to release her. June is resting quietly, trying to| forget and is looking forward to her return to school. | hopped off from Brooklyn Mon- day morning at 6:24 o'clock on an attempted non-stop flight to Rome, | landed here after 32 hours in the air. A broken gasoline line was given | as the reason for the interrupted flight, and the fliers plan to con-| tinue on to Rome. | They told a story of missing death by inches as they flew acr the Atlantic, fighting leaking ga: oline and a smoking, coughing en-| gine. The motor was in bad shape| when they landed, and the under- benefits of the act, must file or cause to be filed in the of- fice where the located notice or certificate is recorded on or before noen eof July 1, notice of his desire to hold the prop- erty under the act, and the notice must state that the claimant is entitled to exemp- tion from the income tax. The benefits under the bill will net apply to more than ¢ix lode claims held by the same perscn nor to more than twelve lode claims held by the ANCHORAGE IS PROTESTING ON MILITARY BASE {Messages Delegate to With- hold Definite Site—In- vestigation Asked Code Submitted to Author- | ities by Representatives {80 Per Cent Producers After a five weeks' apscnce dur- ing which he attended a two-day meeting held in New York City by representatives of 80 per cent of both the larger and smaller gold producers in the country, both lode and placer, for the purpose of pre- SENTENCED LONGSHOREMEN TO LOAD SHIP AND PERMIT IT T0 SAIL NORTH BULLETIN — OLYMPIA, Wash., May 16. — In order that Alaskan points will re« ceive mail and supplies, the striking longshoremen have unanimously agreed to load the steamer Victoria at Se- attle and permit the vessel to sail. The loading will be rush- ed but the sailing time is not janncunced. T his statement was made to the Associated 1I’r(»:ss late this afternoon by Gov. Clarence D. Martin. SAILING ANNOUNCED This afternoon the local agents of the Alaska Steam- ship Company received ad« vices from Seattle stating the Victoria will sail tomorrow night at midnight for Alaska, This probably is in agreement as announced in the above digpatch from Olympia. — e s ALASKAN TOWNS JOIN GOVERNOR IN AID APPEAL uDlrect Appeal Made ta | President Roosevelt to Intervene in Strike JUNEAU, KETCHIKAN, ANCHORAGE JOIN IN |All Vessels Are Tied Up— Will Not Load Unless Protection Given o STOCK PRICES | ! f,:m:n ln:-unflshnp, ‘:s'o:hhon Z;‘;S“L; ;Z:Z)::dly gamaged in “‘ ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 16.— paring an NRA code for the gold| With Alaska bound shipping still | Kporasion, or I moxe The the last hundred miles the The Executive Committee of the mining industry, L. H. Metzgar, tied tightly to the Seattle docks, than six placer claims not to aviators flew over the water with Anchorage Chamber of Commerce General Manager of the Alaska|Alaska communities through their { ) exceed 120 acres held by the {heir cngine coughing terribly. has wired Alaska Delegate A. 3| Juneau Gold Mining Company, re- | Chambers of Commerce today join= | same person, or to more than They éxpeckd S ita1l into Lim Dimond urging that the site of the turned to Juneau on the Yukon ed the efforts of Gov. John W. TRADING TODAY e Diacer Clalms ot 10 vater at any moment, and were Proposed ‘airplane and = milfary Fhsierday. |Troy to obtain assistance from exceed 240 acres held by the % “.t base in Alaska be not definitely As the result of the meeting a Federal authorities in breaking the 1 NEW YORK, May 16.—Stocks found few followers for the rally of yesterday's session and Zouay's E on degenerated into a “spotiy price movament. Some metals were subjected to| pressure but there were a- number of late recoveries. The close was irregular. Sales today totalled only 650,000 | shares, the smallest of the year. ‘Wheat and other cereals wer2 lower until the final reversal liftcd them to substantial net gains. U. 8. Smelting lost about points, Howe Sound, American Smelting and Depasco were down around one point. American Can was up two points American Telephone and Tele- graph dipped and rallied and end- ed slightly unsteady. United States Steel, American Can Dupont, Chrysler and Stand- ard Oil of New Jersey yielded frac- tions to one point. five CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, May 16.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 18%, American Can ~ 92, Amdrican Pewer and Light 7%, Anaconda 137%, Bethlenem Steel 33%, Chrysler 381, Curtiss-Wright 3%, Fox Films 14, General Motors 32, In- Armour B 3 ternational Harvester 32%, Kenne- MRS cott 19%, Seneca Copper 1, no range; Ulen Company 2%, United Alrcraft 20%, United States Steel 41%, Briggs Manufacturing 16'%, Calumet and Hecla 4%, Bendix Aviation 15, Standard Oil of Cali- fornit. 30%, Warner Pictures 5%, Pound $5.11, Nebesna, bid $1, ask $1.02, ] same partnership, association or corporation. e ———— KODIAK SHAKES ; JOLTIS SEVERE Bottles, Glasses and Mer- | chandise Dashed to Floors on Island SEWARD, Alaska, May 16.—Bot- |tles and glasses toppled to the floors and merchandise from the shelves as the most severe quake since 1900 occurred at Kodiak at 12:15 o'clock yesterday afternoon, according to radio advices received here. ‘The shock at Kodiak was preced- ed here by an abrupt jolt but no damage was reported. A Sl M. L. FERGUSON LEAVES ¥ FOR VACATION SOUTH M. L. Ferguson left on the steamer Alaska for a two months’ vacation trip to the States. He is employed at the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company. ———— . WILLIS E. NOWELL LEAVES FOR MONTH'S VACATION IN SOUTH Mrs. Wulis E. Nowell left on the steamer Alaska for a’ vacation trip to Seattle and Portland. She will visit friends and relatives while she is away and return to Juneau in about a month. only 80 feet above the surface at one time, traveling only £0 miles an hour. i Sabelli crawled down the fusilage toward the rear tank in a howling wind and patched up the faulty gasoline line. MAKE NEW PLANS LA HINCH, May 16—The two ! fliers late this afternoon an- nounced that they proposed a| round trip flight from the Umud States to Rome. They will Ily to Rome and then start back across | the Atlantic. The hope to take-off | in 48 hours. > JUNEAU IMPRESSES STANFORD PROFESSOR Prof. B. F. Haley, head of the Economics Department of Leland Stanford University at Palo Alto, California, is a round trip passen- ger on the Northwestern. Prof. Haley said that it was his belief that no better could be devised than a round trip through Southeast Alaska, particularly if one has little time at his disposal. The progress and prosperous air exhibited by Juneau impressed Mr. Haley very much, and he stated that Juneau was busier than any ttown of its size that he had seen !during the past year. | e e,——— TOURING 8. E, ALASKA | Mr. and Mrs. M. Rinearson are on the Northland for Seattle from Sitka, having come up recently on the North Wind for a round trip. Mr. Rinearson formerly was an engineer on the Yukon River boats for many years. designated until competent author- ities have fully investigated the most strategic and advantageous points. Recently the Delegate asked for an appropriation of several mil- lions of dollars for an airplane and military base at Fairbanks. -, — SENATOR REED RENOMINATED Governo Enchot, This Afternoon, Concedes He Has Been Defeated PHILADELPHIA, Pa, May 16— | United States Senator David A.| Reed, NRA critic, was leading Gov. | Gifford Pinchot for the nomination | for United States Senator, ac-| vacationg cording td early returns this morn- | ing. i This afternoon Gov. Pinchot con-| ceded his defeat by Reed who is| leading by about 100,000. ——— - GETS COAT OF PAINT The front of the California Gro- cery is receiving a new coat of paint today from the brush of H.| E. Edwards, | R MISS MYRTLE ROCHON IS ENTHUSIASTIC TOUR ©One of the most enthusiastic round trippers aboard the steamer Northwestern on its present voyage is Miss Myrtle Rochon, trained' nurse from Seattle. kidnaped lr'm h'i lu urious Arcadia cmlntry estate, a tuburb of Los Angeles, by two masked gunmen, who defied elecirically operated gates and a 7-foct stone wall tc interrupt a gay party and spirit away the wealthy man. Getile is pictured when he attended a lcdge party, He was found and released by the Los Angeles police last Monday night. Three men are under arrest as the abductors. (International Ilustrated News Photo.) Only single men are admitted to the military academy at We: Point. Only four times a yea- does the sun reach the meridian at exactly 12 o'clock. (code has been submitted by this | industry to the National Recovery Administration authorities in Wash- | | ington, D. C., but as yet, no action (has been taken by the authorities. The meeting was in session on} {April 16 and 17 in the engineering | auditorium in New York and on April 18 a committce of ten was, appointed to submit the code as drafted by the operators, to the yNRA authorities in ‘Washington, D. |C. Mr. Metzgar, representing the ! Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Com- | pany and James Frawley, of Nome, who was represented at the meet- {ing by prexy, were members of this committee from Alaska. Mr. Fraw- ley represented a number of indi- {vidual operators from Seward Pen- !insula. No Announcement Yet | “No announcement of the pro- visions of this code as drafted by the operators represented at the meeting will be made public until a def code is adopted by the industry, and it is hard to say just when that will be. Howerver, special efforts were made to take care of the needs of small producers and prospecting operations were entirely exempted from i{ts provisions,” Mr. + Metzgar” said. Offices have been established in|W |New York City and authorities have been chosen by the various com- panies and individuals represented at the meeting, to look after their interests and act for them in NRA code matters, Mr. Metzgar said. Companies Represented Mining companies operating in Alaska that were represented at the meeting were the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company, Chichagoff Mmlng Company, Hirst- Chlchagof i (Continuea on Pn;e Two) jam, caused by the longshoremen’s strike in Pacific Coast ports, as far as it affects shipping to tha Territory. Juneau, Ketchikan and Anchors age have wired President Roosevelt, |Secretary Ickes and Delegaté Di- mond urging immediate interven= tion. From Seattle Mayor John Dore telegraphed Secretary Ickes urging that Federal troops be sent there to guard non-union workers 50 Alaska vessels might be loaded and dispatched. Ickes Wires Troy Gov. Troy carly yesterday even= ing, received a radiogram from Secretary Ickes saying he had tele- graphed both Gov. Martin of Wash- ington and Mayor Dore. This was in response to the message sent hy the Governor to Secretary Ickes Monday afterncon. At the time of the latter's reply he had not re- ceived Gov. Troy's urgent message sent early Tuesday. Advices received here by the Gov- ernor and others said the situation was unchanged. There are many vessels tied up in Elliott Bay await- ing a break in the conditions. All efforts to load and dispatch them has been suspended as none of the operators care to risk the attempt hout protection which Seattle Executive Committee Acts The Executive Committee of the local Chamber of Commerce yes- terday sent radiograms to Federal authorities, Delegate Dimond, Gov. Martin and Mayor Dore. One of them was sent to President Roose- velt, placing before him the critical nature of the strike as it affects the entire Territory. He was asked (Continued on Page Seven)