The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 30, 1934, Page 1

. ,preparatory to the arrival of the THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIV., NO. 6715. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 30, 1934. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS LONGSHORE STRIKE T0 END TOMORROW SQUADRON OF {2 SEAPLANES DUE HERE NOW Seven Are—E—);)ecled This Afternoon, Others and Flagship Tomorrow NAVY SEAPLANE SQUADRON PROGRAM Tuesday Arrival of U. 8. 8. Wright, scheduled for 10 a. m. Re- ception at Government dock. Welcome dance at 10 o'- clock tomorrow night, Man- darin Dance Room. Wednesday Golf and tennis. Fishing trips. Sightseeing. Museum visits. Baseball, game slated for 6:30 o'clock. Band concert. Dance at Mandarin Dance Room. ¢ 000000 cs000eecoss0s0000 00 With the arrival here Saturday afternoon of the U. 8. S. Avocet, aircraft tender, the advance guard| of the Alrcraft VP Squadron Sev-| en-F and Aircraft VP Squadron; Nine-F, United States Navy reach- ed Juneau to arrange for mooring | of the planes and other details planes. Seven of the planes, six of which are patrol seaplanes and one util- ity amphibian, have left Ketchi-| kan and are due to arrive here; this afternoon. The U. 8. S. Wright is scheduled to arrive at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning and the five additional planes are due some- time during Tuesday. Seven mooring buoys have al- ready been placed in the harbor by the personnel of the Avocet to take care of the planes arriving| this afternoon and others will be| placed for the five planes due here tomorrow. Rear Admiral A. W. Johnson,| Commander of the Air Base Force, with his staff of twelve officers, is making the cruise on the flag- ship Wright, which will be here tomorrow morning. On his staff are, Captain J. H. Hoover, Chief| of Staff; Lieut. Commanders H. B. Sallada, G.' R. Henderson, V.| H. Schaeffer; Lieutenant J. Perry,| Aide and Flag Secretary; Lieuten- ant B. B. H. Hall; Lieut. (j.g) R. B. Pirir; Lieut. Commander J.| J. White, Medical officer; Captain | E. R. Wilson, Supply officer; Lieut.| Commander W. E. McCaln; Lieut.| Commander C. A. Nicholson; Chief Pay Clerk E. B. Parker. Avocet Officers | Lieutenant L. P. Blodgett is commanding officer of the U. 8. 8. Avocpt and other officers aboard 'hief Boatswain W. A. Ther-| ien and Machinist E. R. Hinson. U. S. S. Wright The U. S. S. Wright is 448 feet in length, has a water line breadth of 58 feet; a mean draft of 24 feet 6 inches, a maximum draft of 27 feet 10 inches and displaces 11500 tons. Power is furnished/ by a 6,000 horsepower turbine en- gine and it has a single propellor. An estimated complement of 344 officers and men is carried on the U. 8. 8. Wright which was com- missioned December 16, 1921 and has a speed of 15 knots. Capt. A, C. Read is commanding officer of the U 8. 8. Wright,| (Continued on Page Eight) | el HINDENBURG © IS VERY ILL Alarm Is C:;ed by An- nouncement—Details Not Obtainable BERLIN, July 30.—Reports that President von Hindenburg is ser- iously ill caused alarm. Details of his condition are un- obtainable but the German Presi- dent’s health is admittedly pre- carious. “ALL IS WELL” i BERLIN, July 30—Late this af- ternoon the “statement that Presi- dent von Hindenburg was serious- ly’ il brought forth one from Neudeck, where he is at his sum- Marle Dressler. Dean of Laughter Passes A way on H erE state; Stormy Career Ended and kindliness of her face swep! deminated by ycuthful puichritu shows her as she appeared in * pictures. SUB, DIVISION LEAVES PORT THIS M(lRNING Ships Get Underway for Westward After Delight- ful Three-Day Visit After a crowded three day visit in Juneau, the submarine marine D vision Twelve and the | flagship Bushnell, on which Ad- miral C. W. Cole, commander of submarfine forces in the Navy, Is making the cruise, began to get underway at 1 o'clock this morn- ing when the U. S. S. Ortolan. rescue ship, left the Channel, bound for Soapstone Point with supplies for the Naval Radio sta- tion at that place. The next group to leave Juneau was made up of the submarines Bonita, Narwhal and Dolphin and the giant tender Holland, which is bound for a two day visit in Cordova. The Submarines filed out of the channel beginning at 8:55 o'clock and within the hour the olland, Gastineau Channel’s largest visiting ship, disappeared from sight behind the rock dump. Last to leave were the Bushnell, and submarines, Nautilus, Barra- cuda and Bass, which will make a short stay in Valdez. The two groups will rejoin at Seward where they will all visit for two days, and from there proceed to Kodiak, and Dutch Harbor, their last Al- aska port of call. After spending a week at Dutch Harbor, they will depart on August 16 for Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, to remain for two weeks before sailing for their San Diego base where they are due September 19. Enjoy Visit Here Though they were in Juneau but three' days, both officers and men of the submarine fleet leave be- hind them warm friends made during their stay here, who re- gretted seeing them leave and will be happy to have the visit re- peated. Juneau people responded with customary hospitality to the rule of host to the 1300 men and more than 80 offieers of the sub- marine fleet and during the short visit provided entertainment of all varieties, both formal and inform- al. That the hospitality of the town was appreciated was evidenced in the comments heard everywhere. Both men and officers enjoyed the visit tremendously and were happy at the cordial reception that had been accorded here, both by the city as a whole and the individual resi- mer home, say “All is Well.” t (Continued op Page Eight) Marie Dressler called herself an ¢ her to stardom in an industry n “ugiy duckling,” but the beauty de. “Tugbcat Annie,” The photegraph at the left one of her hit * NEW CABINET - FORAUSTRIA IS ANNOUNCED Dr. Kurt Schuschmgg Is' Chancellor—Civil War | Believed Ended } i { ‘ VIENNA, July 30—A new Aus-| fleet,| trian Cabinet was appointed Sun-|eryone knows that the supporting comprise dof eight ships of Sub-|day night with Dr. Kurt Schusch- | cast included Charlie Thaplin and | ucceeding | as Fed nigg, ardent anti-Nazi, the late Engelbert Dollfuss eral Chancellor. Prince Ernst Rudiger von Star-| hemberg, Acting Chancellor after | Dollfuss was assassinated, has been name Vice-Chancellor. Von Papen Status Doubt is expressed in well in- formed circles that the new Aus- trian Cabinet will accept von Pap«.-n' as German Ambassador. According to advices here the German press the Italian press with against Austrian acceptance of von Papen and-asks: “Is this an aid to European peace?” received REVOLT GUNS SILENT VIENNA, July 30.—Guns of the civil war which cracked four days are silent except in Carinthea where the Nazis occupy a strong- hold and maintain defiafice of | Fascism which they sought to over- ‘hrow. There was no new fighting over the week-end, Another putsch planned for Sun- iay night, which was feared by the authorities, failed to materialize. REMAIN ON BORDER ROME, July 30.—Despite reas-| suring reports from Vienna, Italy's| fighting forces 1emain -encamped | along the Austrian border. ; RESTORATION RUMORS VIENNA, July 30. — Restoration cumors flew about today with the| arrival of unverified reports from Lacenburg, near here, that the| Hapsburg summer palace was being ! cenovated prior to its reoccupa- tion. ASSASSINS ON TRIAL VIENNA, July 30. — Faced with hanging, Otto Planetta and Frank | Holzweber went on trial today,| Planetta having confessed to kill-| ng Chancellor Dollfuss and Holz- weber charged with directing the Nazi putsch which plunged Aus- tria into a civil war. Planetta is a former staff ser- zeant of the army. He said he zilled Dolfuss because he had been dismissed from the army beeause of Nazi activity, Succumbing to a long affliction of |on her estate near here where ' ago | she abandoned her career and de- PRESIDENT IS {Makes Brieffipar!ing Ad- | Army bands played “Happy Days| BEER LICENSES SANTA BARBARA, Cal,, July 30. | cancer, heart trouble and uremia, Marie Dressler, aged 62, widely be- loved stage and screen —actress, died here Saturday. Death came at 3:25 o'clock in the afternoon for the self-styled “Ugly Duckling” who became Dean of laughter during her career, replete with hardships end glory. Under the care of two phy:! cians and several nurses, she ¢ she went from Hollywood three months ago because of a ‘physical breakdown. Hope for recovery wasj| abandoned three weeks ago. Incurable Ailment Miss Dressler learned two years she had an incurable ail= ment but took a course of treat- ment that enabled her to make two more pictures by working only a few hours daily. Finally, however, she was forced to seek a long rest. Only a few were present at h death, including her faithful sers vants for the past 25 years, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Cox. AMERICA’S SWEETHEART" HOLLYWOOD, Cal, July 30— (By Robbin Coons)—Marie Dress- ler called her autobiography “The Life Story of an Ugly Duckling” but she lived to prove that an “ugly duckling” could become @& real ‘‘America’'s Sweetheart.” She stands as the first of the hardy players who demonstrated that there was a niche for charac- ter and experience in the high places of a film world that untfl her advefit was dominated by youth and “beauty.” Hollywood had to Marie Dressler before that there was “youth” in a kind- ly face whose wrinkles told of joy and sorrow and accumulted wisdom and understanding. | Little Leila Koerber, who was born in Coburg, Canada, November 9, 1871, was to hit the heights of triumph on both stage and| ‘een as Marie Dressler, a name she took from an aunt. Leile Koerber made her professional | stage debut when she was 14. She \sa.s past 60 before her second rand greatest triumph came on the | screen. i Preferred the Stage In 1914, Miss Dressler at the height of her stage fame appeared in a feature for Mack Sennett,| “Tillie’s Punctured Romance.” Ev- “discover” it learned Mabel Normand, then undiscovered. But Marie Dressler liked the stage, {and she went back. Nobody both- ered much about films then. After the war, during which voted herself to Liberty bond sale: the ageing actress found herself in parlous financial condition.| | " (Continued on Pnge Seve) b o o o d ON WAY HOME | FROM HAWAII dress Concerning Am- < s erica’s Defense Force HONOLULU, T. I, July 30—| With a brief address in which he emphasized America’s defense force “must ever be considered an in- strument of continuing peace, President Roosevelt said goodbye to Hawali last Saturday and sailed aboard the U. §. 8. Houston for| Portland, Oregon. ‘The President spent five dd}s on the Islands. As the cruiser pulled out, m.\swdr Are Here Again,” while the band| aboard the Houston countered with “My Little Grass Shack in Keal- akekua.” ARE CANCELLED OLYMPIA, Wash., July 30. Cancellation in Seattle of seven| beer licenses and suspension o four others is announced by the Slate Liquor Board for violation of r ulations. Warning has been iss to other license holders in state, neau today. sweethearts look on. 1Anoelated from San Diego, Cal, to Dutch Harbor. Navy Seaplanes Now on Way to J uneau Twelve planes, manned by 15 oficers and 46 cnlisted men are nlni on their 8,000-mile flight The planes are now at Ketchikar. Two of the naval seaplanes are shown leaving their Califoinia base while wives Press Photo) MEN WILL 60 BACK TOWORK TUESDAY, 8 AM. Represe ntatives of Both Sides Will Be at Hiring Halls |WAGE ADJUSTMENTS ARE NOW TO BE MADE Seamen and Other Mari- time Workers Have Not Yet Announced Plans SAN F R AN CISCO, Cal, { July 30.—The National Long- shoremen’s Board announced 'last night that the Pacific Coast longshoremen’s strike will be ended and the long- shoremen will return to work and seven are due in Ju- and HOLMER WAIVES HEARING; HELD WITHOUT BAIL Charles Holmer, Slayer of Two, Is Bound Over on Murder Charge Charles Holmer, slayer of his estranged wife, Mrs. Mary Holmer, and Alan A. Miller of Ketchikan, here early last Saturday morning, wis today bound over to ‘the Fed= eral Grand Jury without bail on a charge of murder in the first de-| gree, by Judge J.F.Mullen. Holmer, represented by George B. Grigsby,! appeared before Judge Mullen in the United States Commissioner’s | Court at 2 pm. today and waived the usual preliminary hearing, con: senting to a bindover without evi- dence. To prevent any effort on his part to take his own life, special guards were put over Holmer by the Mar- shal’s office last Saturday. These were still on duty today. He is said to have intimated he would commit suicide if he were given an opportunity. In the presence of a large num- ber of eye-witnesses, Holmer shot Mrs. Holmer, from whom he had been separated for six months, aift Miller on Front Street in front of the Juneau Drug Company. He shot Miller first, firing two shots into him from the rear. He fired eight shots into Mrs. Holmer's right breast. She died in about 30 minutes. Miller lived some four hours after the shooting. Mrs. Holmer and Miller had at- tended the dance at the Mandarin Ball Room. That ended at 1 am. and they left with the rest of the crowd. Holmer had been in the same room watching them and fol- lowed them down the street. overtook them just as they turned into Front Street from Seward and | immediately began firing. He was overpowered by two sail- ors from the submarine division in port and his gun, a .32 auto- matic knocked from his hand. De- puty Marshal John McCormick and City Patrolman Ken' Junge placed {him under arrest. ————————— CHILE EXPANDS LAND SCHEME, SANTIAGO, Chile, July 30, ~ The Ministry of Lands and colon- ization has set aside funds for three more ranches to be devoted to the scheme whereby men wifh- lout capital, are set up as farmers on money borrowed from the gov- ernment. | JOE JUST WON'T BE LEFT BEHIND MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., July 30.! —The old home run clouter, Joe ‘Mauser, wasn't to be left out of the limelight on the day his team- mate, Ray Starr, performed an iron man feat by pitching and win- -|ning a double-header from Col-| |umbus, The Minneapolis sluner}non the Federal Farm Board and aska Juneau dock yesterday morn- ©|hit three home runs to give the Government ‘‘cheated, swindled and iNg. crowd a few added thrills, He | Dimond Expects to |Leave for Alaska Trip Next Saturday Delegate A. J. Dimond, who has been busy since Congress adjourned working for Public Works allotments to the Territory, expects 'to leave Washington abo ut August 4, for Alaska, ac- cording to a- telegram re- ceived from him today by Hugh J. Wade, Deputy NRA Administrator for Alaska. Due to delay in allotments and other important matters pending before some of the departments in Washington, the Delegate had not been certain he could get away this summer, he had advised friends here recently. His o telegram to Mr. Wade, how- e ever, indicated he would |® leave mext Saturday unless | @ something unexpected should | ® arise, ;--.n-.-.-no-- “STOP ORDERS” AREISSUED ON 2 MINE FIRMS 'Government to Probe Al- leged Misstatements— Seattle Concern Cited WASHINGTON, July 30. — The Federal Trade Commission an- nounced today it has issued “stop orders” against the proposed se- curity issues of two western gold | { mining companies and referred the papers on them to the Deparfment | of Justice for possible criminal action. ' The “stop orders” were issued / | | . . . . . vada and-Los Angeles, and against porated, of Seattle, Wash. The Abba case was referred to| the Justice Department to delib- ierehe. Misstatements are charsed ONE BILLION DOLLAR SUIT NEW YORK, July 30—A dam- age suit asking one billion, one hundred twenty nine and one hau {million dollars and additional res- ' titution of five millions has be- |gun in the District Court against tion and thirty-two other cor- porate and individual defendants in behalf of A, Gilchrest, grain broker, The complaint charges that through chicanery and hypotheca- | defrauded.” Balloon of 3 Army Avmtors ! Rips on Stratos[)here Trip; They Are F orced to “Chute”| against the Abba Gold Mining! Corporation of Carson €ity, Ne-, the Caribou King Gold, Incor-/ STARTED NOW : the Grand Stabilization Corpora- ‘Tuesday morning at 8 o’clock in all Pacific Coast ports. As part of the conditions of returning to work, 0. K. (ushmg‘ spokesman for the | President’s Arbitration Board 4 wnld the Board will place a |/ HOLDREDGE, Nebraska, July | representative in the hiring 30.—The trip of the Army wuurs‘lmlh and the men will also nd their exploration of the st: ”mve representatives there to i osphere was cut short at approx- | imately 60,000 feet, by a d:“mwll‘see there is no discrimina- | balloon but the trip ended suc-; { tion. cessfully after a perilous d(escentl The strike started May 9. on the prairie near here late last| " A Saturday:afternoon. i Any adjustments in wages, The trio was aloft ten hours and‘flfter arbitration, will be made e | fifteen minutes when rips appear- | retroactive to th 2 e dat ed on the upper side of the huge ot k ok envelope. The men xmm('dxl!,e)y\me" refyrn 10 work. Seamen and other marine work- busied themselves in attempting | to land their cargo of precioys €S have not yet annouficed plans | scientific instruments safely. [for golng back to” work bui the Major Willlam E. Kepner said belief is generally expressed they he would not know the scientific|Will move to do so soon. results of the exploit until he had | The dock workers' announcement | checked the instruments. |that the strike will end Tuesday " First to Jump { removes the threat that National | Capt. O. A. Anderson was the Guardsmen will enter Portland to- first to take to the parachute and day to open the port. ‘Capt Albert W. Stevens followed, |but his chute caught in the en-| OTHERS ARE TO RETURN velope that delayed him so long, SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July 30. Major Kepner had to wait until, —TWo maritime unions, the Mas- the final critical moment to jump.lers, Mates and Pilots and Marine himself. |Engineer Beneficial Association, Anderson was able to free his have notified the Longshoremen's chute only at en altitude of 2,500 Labor Board they will return to feet. work tomorrow with the longshore- Crowd Gathers men with disputes to be arbitrated. Although the balloon landed on| The seamen, stewards and cooks a farm, a crowd estimated at 5000 had not determined late this after- quickly gathered by automobiles. noon whether they will return to Ropes were strung around v.hue‘their posts but they are expected the balloonists seized axes to pry to join the longshoremen and go into the gondola to recover their [back to their jobs. instruments. The balloon and gondola, with | the three aviators aboard, went up into the air from Rapid City, foum Dokota, last Saturday morn- ng. | SITUATION AT SEATTLE SEATTLE, July 30—THe long- shoremen will return to work here jat 8 o'clock tomorrow morning with |the non-union men who worked ;cargoes at Piers 40 and 41 dis- icharged before the strikers resume 'work in compliance with one of Ithe conditions for resumption of work. | The officials of the Alaska Steamship Company said operations another venture into the strato-|Will at once be moved from Ta- sphere. The stratosphere balloon|COma to Septtle with two ships, |reached oxm 60,080 feet, 'n“,‘me Northwestern and Oduna af- | Wreckage is'being studied today to|fected immediately. find out what caused the rip in| Te Lakina is due here this after- the gasbag. Inoon from Tacoma to be discharg- Instruments Destroyed led. Nearly all of the instruments! The Dellwood will start loading were destroyed when the balloon | tomorrow. She has previously been EAGER FOR ANOTHER TRY HOLDREDGE, July 30. — The three army men who took to their | parachutes to escape death in the! crash of the world's largest bal- |loon, near here, are eager for SEATTLE, July 30.—Collector of Customs Saul Haas clashed agam last Saturday. afternoon with Vlce President A. P. Haines, of m American Mail Line, refusing to permit the Emma Alexander to. leave for California until a competent crew had been obtain- hit the ground |idle. The huge gondola plunged to| e | earth burx'ng open as it eruLk} TROUBLE AT SEATTLE H STATES; CITIES | - OWE BIG SUM | WASHINGTON, July 30—A sur— Haines protested no seamen ey shows that states, cities and|¥ere available on account of‘the other local units will owe the Strlke. Haas sent a Customs of- Federal government about one bil- ficer, posing as a seaman desiring lion one hundred million dollarsi WO'k to the line's employing ag- when they get through borrowing|ents and the officer was informed all the government is empowered DO Men were being hired. to lend Then Collector Haas demanded ——————— the American Line get men, which |vm» done, and the ship was per- | mitted to sail. 'nv“ A week ago Collector Hass held the President Grant, which finally Robert Simpson, son of Dr. and | Wwas released on orders from Wash- Mrs. Robert Simpson, is a patient ' ington, and sailed with a short at St. Ann's Hospital recuperating |crew after paying & fine of $500. !from an injury to his left hand suffered while working on the Al- ROBERT SIMPSON SUFFE ACCIDENTAL 1IN Twice as many boys as girls are killed in road accidents in England He is getting along splendidly |a survey shows, and eight times as laceording to Mrs. Simpson. jmnny boys are drowned.