The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 18, 1934, Page 1

THE DAILY ALA! “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” | VOL XLIV., NO. 6732. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SAT STATEMENT I8 ISSUED, COMING " FROM NAT, SOC. 'Approval Civel of €onsoli- dation ‘of Chancellor- ship, Presidency JEWRY GO TO POLLS; VOTING QUESTIONED Plebiscite Sunday. I Thilde ish Farce’ According to Opposite Side BERLIN, Aug. 18.—German Jews are reported to have come forward to support Hitler in tomorrow’s plebiscite which has been called to approve of his assumption of the powers of a President. The statement of the National German Society of Jews said: “We find ourselves in agreement with the political testament of Paul von Hindenburg to the Fatherland. ‘This is a part of the belief of the life of the Jews who do not know any other Fatherland. We also approve of the joining of Chancel- lor and President offices and wel- come the national awakening, a}- though it has brought us sorrow.” Only One_Side The surprising and carefully worded satement. however does not | come from all " Jewry. Berlin’s ewish section knows and expresses | the fact that the plebiscite is a| “childish . farce”. and it it will be under ‘pressure Nazi | and their ballots, according to statements made to the Associated Press, will be blank. ————— EARTHQUAKE IN | | SKA EMPIRE RDAY, AUGUST 18, 1934. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Members of Reichswehr, regular army of Germany, taking the oath of all President von Hindenburg each soldier pledged himself to “obey Adelph Hit ance. Following the death of tler, leader of the German Reich and nation and supreme commander of the army and navy” and to sacrifice his hfe, if necessary. to do so, Army Bombers Make Fast Tlme, ALASKA NAVAL Juneau to Seattle; Radio Office WOMAN SHOT IN STEDMAN HOTEL JAPAN WRECKS AT KETGHIKAN R. R TUNNELS Termed Strongest in Cen- tral Japan in Years— Communications Cut TOKYO, Aug. 18, — A heavy earthquake struck the Nagoya dis- trict of Japan at 11:38 o'clock to- day, disrupting railway traffic and“ St N, on Tndish who w other communications. Railway tunnels and bridges were damaged. The quake is called the strong- | in Central Japan for several o .o 1ock this morning, est years. —_——e——— STRATOSPHERE FLIGHT BEGUN HOUR HAVENNE, Belgium, Aug. 18.—Max Cosyns and Nerse Van-| derlist, Belgian scientists, started a stratosphere balloon flight this; morning. They are seeking to reach 42,000 leet elevation which Cosyns made | in a previous ascent with Prof.| August Piccard. BAD AUSIE, Austria, Aug. 18.— The Belgian balloon has been sighted near here, drifting east. Air Demonstration Thrills Chicago as Fleets Wage Baule’ CHICAGO, 111, Aug. 18.—Flames and shell raked the Lake Michigan skies last night in a demonstration by night aircraft. In defense of | Chicago, 10,000 soldiers marched to the Chicago waterfront and cut loose with artillery on targets four miles distant aud 8,000 feet up. African Forests Are Set Afire by Baboons CAPETOWN —Forest fires in the Drakenstein mountains of South Africa were blamed on baboons which, hunting scorpions, sent rocks rolling down the slopes, the rocks striking sparks and igniting dead grass, | { ! | | \ {organs were struck by the bullet. | today. Ralph R. Johnston, Parol- ed Convict, Arrested for Shootlng | Following shooting of Mrs.) Effie D. O'Brien at Ketchikan last night, Ralph R. Johnston, was ar- rested for the crime by Federal| officers, according to an official: report received today by United| States Marshal W. T. Mahun?&” | described as Johnston's partner was also taken into custody. Mrs. O'Brien was shot through the back at the Stedman Hotel at| She was rushed to a hospital for treatment. | Physicians describe the wound as not necessarily fatal. No viLal[ She was said to be resting easy Johnston, the report said, is a ‘paroled convict from the State Re- {formatory at Monroe, Washington. Charges were withheld pending the outcome of the shootmg RELIEF DRIVE, DROUGHT AREA, IMMENSE ONE | | !Governmenl Will Be Larg-| est Purchaser, Distrib- utor, for Months WASHINGTON, Aug. 18. — TheI | magnitude of a relief drive on| account of the Nation's worst drought was today unestimated when it became apparent that for ! months the Government will be the country’s largest buyer and dis- tributor. Conservative estimates said the Government will own two billion pounds of processed beef and one hundred and fifty million pounds of mutton to hand over to needy families. Officials said that when the re- lief program is over and the live- stock industry is again returned to private hands, it will be in better . shape -and the cattle herds will ‘be vastly improved. 1 Squadron, was a severe test on the! | gency. : | telephone was Here Gives Fme Demonstration BULLETIN—Seattle, Aug. 18. The Army bembers are prepar- ing to leave for Salt Lake City enroute to Washington, D. C. SEATTLE, Aug. 18.—The United States Army Air Corps Bombers, ten of them, landed at 5:55 o'clock Friday afternoon (4:55 o'clock Ju- neau Time) completing the 940 mile nonstop flight from Juneau in five hours and forty minutes. Lieut. Col. Henry H. Arnold, Squadron Commander, was out- spoken' in his belief in the devel- opment of aviation from Puget Sound and along the Coast of Alas- ka. A prime necessity, he said, is a landing place at Ketchikan and a better equipped field is needed at Juneau. Dog Fight “Smokey,” the two months old pup given the fliers at Fairbanks, | celebrated his landing on Boeing!| erld here by picking a scrap with la stray police dog. The airmen are loaded down with souvenirs received during their Alaska stay, including a to- tem pole, presented at Juneau. JUNEAU RADIO OFFICE PROVES EMERGENCY WORTH ‘The Alaska flight of the Army) Juneau Radio Office which came| | through both from the standpoint | Jof radio telephone and radio tele- | | graph with flying colors and proved | 'EXPEDITION IS - ENROUTE Subs Leave Dulch Harbor Yesterday — Planes at Sitka Ready to Fly CORDOVA, Aug. 18.—The United States Navy's surveys of Western Coastal Alaska. The submarines left Dutch Har-| bor Friday for Honolulu. ‘The Naval planes are assembled at Sitka, ready to begin a long flight with several stops enroute to San Diego. Airptane tenders are already steaming south, with one of them, the U.S.S. Swan, carrying a plane swung aboard for repairs. .- FIERY DEMON AGAIN RULING IN NORTHWEST Flames Break Out Again— Even Canada Sends Out Fighters Once More SPOKANE, Wash., Aug. 18—The | its capabilities in times of emer- Several weeks ago the local radio’ in constant com- 7 munication with the fliers before; they reached Whitehorse, and then from Whitehorze to Fairbanks. Real Test | The real test come on the flight| from Fairbanks to Juneau Thurs- day and from Juneau to Seattle! yesterday. Hazy weather and low Vlslhfllty required constant reports Xrom Juneau Thursday after the planes took the air from Fair- banks. Immediate contact was established between the planes and |Juneau as the squadron left the |interior. As the flight progressed, Juneau was kept informed as to weather, height of flight, etc. As the planes neared Juneau, the re- port was received “just over upper Lake Kluane,” now ' “headed for Chilkat Pa: 'safe through Chil- kat Pass,” and “will be in Juneau in 30 minutes.” Yesterday's Test Weather reports yesterday morn- ing were unfavorable as regarded the Seattle Division and none too satisfactory regarding the Ju- neau area. Contact between the Juneau office and the planes at the Juneau alrport, about eight miles out on the highway, was made before 8 o'clock yesterday morning. ‘Weather - reports were given every 15 minutes. Then (Continuea on Page Three) yIdeho and British Columbia, fire demon is on the rampage in the Northwest forests again. Fires were thought to have been icheined in by thousands of fight- ers but the red menace broke out of bounds in several sections ing i | WASHINGTON, Aug. 18. — Prevident Roosevelt has asked NRA Administrator Gen. Hugh S. Johmnson, to work out NRA recrganization and put it in effect. The President went over the tentative plans with Gen. Johnson to set up a commis- sion form of administration for NRA, Alaska expeditions| are headed south after exiensive; EcT_no of Minister's Abduc- tion in North Carolina Heard in L. A. LOS ANGELES, ‘Aug. 18. — An ponymous - letter, threatening to mite Aime Semple McPher- Angelus Temple unless $25,- is paid for the release of the . R. H. Askew of Goldsboro, N. his been received by Temple Juthorities. The letter ' was postmarked hmond, - Va. e Rev. Askew has been miss- for three. days.. Yesterday Askew .Teceived a note de- mending the payment of $25,000. {DEADLINE ARRIVES ’ GOLDSBORO, North Carolina, Aug. 18—The deadline for meet- ing the $25,000 demanded by the purported kidnapers of the Rev. Askew arrived and.found the. in- vestigators faced with a kaleide- seopic array of facts and rumors. KIDNAPED MINISTER ARRIVES IN NASHVILLE NASHVILLE, Tenn., Auge 18— The Rev. R, H. Askew walked into police headquarters here and said hehldbeeninthehnndso!kid- when he was put out of the auto on the edge of Nashville, Taken For Ride The minister said he was en- route from Goldsboro to Smith- field with $40 with which to buy brick for his church when he was |stopped by a man at the cross- roads who said he had a sick child in Raleigh and asked Askew {to go to the hospital there. Askew agreed. Arriving in Raleigh, in the car he was driving, three men |came along, poked a gun into his ribs and told him to get into their car. The three men gave the pas- tor's passenger some money and the latter drove off in the minis- ter’s car. Askew said he was driven all around the country. He wasg iven some sleeping tablets and relieved of his $40. Apparently the kidnapers found out his relatives had no money |and also there were no chances of getting any money from Aimee Semple McPherson, and he was re- leased, the authorities said. ——— STOCK PRICES DRAGGED DOWN, DULL MARKET Results in Losses, Frac- tions to One Point NEW YORK, Aug. 18.—Extreme apathy tended to drag prices down in one of the dullest Satur- day sessions in more than 10 | years, Much of the list barely changed but numerous losses of fractions to more than one point were regis- tered, Today's short session close was easy. Sales were only 180,000 shares, in| giv- ing the foresters the worst problem of the season. Canada’s fire fighters, once called | off, have been brought back and they battled to bring several rag-| infernos under control. Last reports received here give little| hope of conquering the flames for sometime. The fires around Kootenay Lake | are raging up Graham Creek to the crest of Lake Shore, three miles from Nelson, B. C. A stiff wind is fanning the flames near Nelson and Nelway. ———————— NRA Is to Be Reorganized By Johnson CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Aug. 18—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 20, American Can 95%, "American Power and Light 4%, Anaconda 12', Armour B 60%, Bendix Aviation 12%, Beth- {lehem Steel 27':, Calumet and Hecla 3%, Curtiss-Wright 27%, General Motors 29, International Harvester 26%, Kennecott 18%, United States Steel 33%, Warner Pictures 4, Pound $.09%. Town Ringer Killed KISVARDA, Hungary.—The bell he was ringing fell on Jozsef Mar- ton, this town’s bell ringer, killing h Ty unifl bout daylght. foday] Quietest Session in Years| Hr- and .n. G v D M Sopwith Arrlvlng at New York from England, T. 0. M. Sopwith, shown with is wife, expressed hope that hig/ yacht “Endeavour” will at last take the America’s Cup to England. Bgch will be aboard the British challenger during the races off Newport/ Mrs. Sopwnch .cuu as timekeeper, Alaskan Haven 0N ARREST IS | | | i KIDNAPING CASE ho” Attempled Negolmnons | ' TORONTO, Aug. 18—The author- |ities hope to track down the kid- | napers of” John 8. Labatt-through |arrest of Fdward Chard, aged 26, said to have conducted the ran- som negotiations. Chard is held on a charge of attempting theft and extortion. , The authorities said he made lin an effort to arrange payment |of the ransom demanded, which Was- $150,000. ‘Threats of further against the Labatt family have | apparently sealed their lips on the |case and there is positive refusal to answer the question if any ran- % som was paid. t’::‘z:o’:l :;:T.flcrye r:l;:fey.lelmim Labatt’s eyes are still m[}lum:d fertile Matanuska Valle aska | from being tapped but he is re- with view to recnmmemT;ng & Gov- | covering. ernment colonization plan whereby | Chard is accused of demanding 2,500 families from drought stricken |.qs 00 with menaces.” He was ar- western _states would be moved ' there. - The valley comprises 1,000,- |rested when he left the home of 000 acres and will produce almost "his parents by a rear door. every. kind of znm mwn in the —_— ANOTER INVESTIGATION United S LONDON, Ontario, Aug. 18.—The HIS SUGGESSBB; an employee of the Labatt brewery which John Labatt heads. Neither brewery officials nor the police will discuss the matter. R 825,000 MAY ' 6O ON STRIKE NEW YORK, Aug. 18.—Adding to the strike in the cotton textile industry voted yesterday, affecting 500,000 workers, strikes involving 325,000 more workers were voted st night by the woollen, worsted, silk and rayon knitters industries. Executive committees are to de- tcide when the strikes are | called | | i tained a fractured skul]. He was BERLIN, Aug. 18.—Colonel Os- kar von Hindenburg, son of the late President of Germany, issued a statement today, declaring that his father saw in Hitler his imme- diate successor as head of the Reich, SRR AL G Science Claims Method to Prevent Infantile Paralysis PHILADELPHIA, Pa., ' Aug. 18.—A victorious end .of sci- ence’s one-hundred-year search for a method to prevent in- fantile paralysis is claimed by Dr. John A. Kolmer, Profes- sor of Temple University. He stressed that vaccine is entirely a preventive measure but is not a cure. PRESIDENTIAL ACTION WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.—It was not indicated at the White House today whether the President will {take action in the proposed textile strike nor is it indicated he will {take any personal action in the PROMINENT ENGINEER |Chicago Motor Coach Company em- BACK FROM VALDEZ TRIP ployees' strike and many other {minor conflicts, Labor Boards will Harry Townsend, prominent be permitted to handle the sit- ing engineer, arrived in Juneau [uation. aboard the Yukon from Valdez m' Strikes and weather caused a the vicinity of which he has been drop in employment last month. looking over mining properties. | - oo e Fire Hit Eshtes SON ARE ON ALEUTIAN| >, MRS. E. E. NINNI§S AND i LONDON. — Losses in country| Mrs. E. E. Ninnis and her small { house fires in Great Britaln with- the steamer Aleutian from Smme.lm total more than $5,000000. MADE IN LABATT nag an Autbonhcs Have several telephone calls to Hugh La- | batt, brother of the abducted man, | reprisals| to be| son are arriving in Juneau aboard |in three years have been estimated | SENATOR LONG MADE DICTATOR STATE AFFAIRS i | Given Greal Power Over Military as Well as City, Parish Governments ILAWS ARE QUICKLY PASSED; DISORDERS 1Sluggings in Lobby, Fist Fights on Floor of House, | | Newspapermen Barred BATON ROUGE, La, Apg 18.— | United States Senator Huey Long's machine today held the broadest power for military and political jcontrol ever conferred on a single | faction by the Louisiana Legisla- ture which handed over the power to Long amidst a welter parliamen- tary confusion marked by the ex- | clusion of newspapermen from the House, sluggings in the lobby fist | fights on the floor and arrests in | various parts of the State House. | Uproar And Disorder ‘There was an uproar and disor- der such as has been seldom wit- nessed in state sessions of the legislature which have always been tumultuous. ‘The Legislature, during the clos- ing hours, enacted legislation | broadening Senator Long's power | over “elections, courts and the Na- | tional Guard, also city and parish ‘governments bh.rqu:hn\u the, state. actively directing his mwnm. Photographer Slugged After. the House Vdled out news- papermen, Leon Thrice, a photog- rapher attempted to get a snap shot of Long. He was slugged and | knocked down a flight of stairs | and painfully injured. Reporters went to his rescue but Trice's photo plates had been seized and carried away. His assailant was not identified. The newspapermen | then were given orders to “get the news” notwithstanding the action of the House and today's news- papers are replete with boisterous actions of that organization, un- paralleled in the state’s history. X, K. K. IS GOING AFTER SEN, LONG ATLANTA, Ga., .Aug. 18.—Ths Ku Klux Klan has announced it has sounded the “bugle call” ta remove United States Senator Huey Long from power and retire him, this work to be done by the KK.K of Louisiana, PRETTY GIRL FOUND SLAIN SAN DIEGO, Auf. 18.—Choked to death in what the police say was a fiendish murder, the body of pretty 16-year-old Celia Cota was found in-the back yard of her home, a victim of a criminal at- tack. She went for a walk ana failed to return. RETURN FROM TRIP; GOOD CONDITIONS REPORTED | g | Mr. and Mrs. Liste F. Hebert re- turned yesterday on the motorship Pacific froni a combined two weeks' pleasure and business trip cover- ing the entire West Coast of Princs {of Wales Island, Ketchikan, Peters- burg and Wrangell. Mr. Hebert re- |ports that trollers in all of the |communities visited by them wers very active and much pleased with |the new prices offered them for |salmon, and that the fall outlook |for business in his'lines of mer- chandise is very good. ., EARL H. CLIFFORD 1S BACK FROM EXTENSIVE BUSINESS ' TRIP WEST | | | Earl H. Clifford, wholelsale rep= resentative, returned to his home in Juneau on the steamer Yukon ]d{tex making -an extensive business trip through the Interior and West- |ward districts of the Territory.