The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 20, 1934, Page 1

M 4 B | SPE A E DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL XLIV.,, NO 6733. MEMBER OF. ASSOCIATED PRESS' PRICE TEN CENTS 'AIRMAIL T0 @ AKER OF ARMY BUMBERS Chzldren of Royalty Bomg IN WASHINGTON FROM ALASKA Secretary v Ders Compll-' ments Officers and En- listed Men of Squadron WASHINGTON, Aug. 20. — The ten Martin bombers of the United States Army Air Corps have re- turned here. They left Falrbanks Thursday afternoon, Friday morning, Seattle Saturday aftternoon, Salt Lake City Sunday morning and Kansas City early this morning. Secretary of Army Dern con- gratulated the officers and enlisted men on the success of their ven- ture and said: “You have forged a link between Alaska and the people of the Unit- 59 __There is an unconfirmed rumor {gineer from Denver, Colorado, who You have demonstrat- (na¢ arrests are to be made in the | ed anew the skill and daring of y.n.¢¢ kidnaping case cur army and its fliers and the .41 orities ed States. thoroughness of their training.” Several hundred cheered the fliers as they swooped down to earth. e e— STOCK MARKET LISTLESS TODAY Dullest Sessnon in Twelve close to the family. Years—Proceedings Are Colorless NEW YORK, Aug. 20.—StockS gnt apparently gave them more the property last June and left were virtually trendless and it WaS cheery- news for the gang calmed after a short stay here,toassemble | the dullest session today in 12 qown and did not seem to be so the equipment needed for the hard | Sales totaled 240,000 Shares. fearfyl about the police discovering rock mine. He is enthusiastic about Some steel issues sagged and their hiding place. years. small fractional gains and losses were the rule. The colorless pro- ceedings closed irregular. EXPECT ARREST left Juneau’ | Guarded, Fear of Kidnaping LONDON, Aug. 20.—Glamis Castle, in the highlands of Scotland, where Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose, daughters of the Duke and Duchess of York are spending their summer, is reported being guarded by armed men in fear a kidnaping of the two may be nthpkfl ENGINEER HERE T0 BEGIN WORK ON LOGAL MINE Capt. John fEll:‘md to Start Work at Herbert River Immediately KIDNAPING CASE OF JOHN LABATT More Detailsj Abduction Are Made Public— | Murder Plot Bared LONDON, Ontario, Canada, Aug. | Capt. John Holland, mining en- has taken an option on the Herbert River mining property in which Mrs. Frank Garnick, Dr. and Mrs. | L. P. Dawes, ,C. L. Gilsinger and | E. C. Kibbey, owners, have retained |an interest, arrived this morning HAMILTON, Ontario, Aug. 20.— on the steamer Aleutian. John S. Labatt, wealthy English-| Capt. Holland plans to install a man who was kidnaped and then specially built 100-ton mill and released, had his sight for severallother equipment necessary includ- hours last Wednesday night as he ing a tractor and truck as soon as listened to a- cold-blooded discus- it arrives in Juneau. Actual pro- sion by his captors as to what duction is to begin as quickly as steps would be taken to murder possible. A portion of the machin- | and dispose of his bedy. ery arrived on the Northwestern qu was learned from a source and most of the remainder is to| Jccmc north ‘on the Haleakala. i All local labor is to be used inl installation and development | according to Mrs. but the refuse to make any statement. MURDER PLOTTED Fearing the authorities were clos- ing in ony them, the gangsters dis- the cussed plans for their victim within of the mine, his hearing. Garnick. The next morning their inform-| Capt. Holland first looked over | ithe prospects of developing a good | slzcd mine and left shortly after OTHER CASES his arrival here to spend the day; DETROIT, Mich., Aug. 20.—Chief at the property. He plans to lm:‘m\‘y 1 Tast word in hot weather.attire made Miss Theo-\ dora Peck, New York Mayfairite, queen of the beach at ‘“4ungle ball” given by Prov- ncetown’s famed Beachcombers’ Club and art col- ony, and attended by elite of shore summer colonists. Hztler 8 Popularlty Shown to Be Declining; Vote Taken on Chancellor Taking Presidency BERLIN, "Aug. 20.—Thirty-eight million Germans voted “ycs” Sunday on Adolf Hitler's taking over the Presidency. Whlte—Halred Veteran Handled Gavel at Start of Fifteenth. Term HURRIED ALL ACTS OF ADMINISTRATION Made Spectacular Attack, Payne - Aldrich BIill, Whu:h Developed Fight ST. LOUIS, Mo., Aug. 20—Speak- er Henry T. Ralney, of the Na- tional House of Representatives, died at DePaul Hospital here Sun- day night. The speaker came to the hospital only recently from his home in Carrollton, Illinois for treatment for bronchial pneumopia and died unexpectedly at 7:25 o'clock last night. He suffered an attack of pneumonia two weeks ago. Faced Hard Session Henry T. Rainey reached the powerful post of Speaker of the National House of Representatives after service in fourteen Comgress- es. He was a white-haired veteran of 72 when he was handed the gavel at the start of his fifteenth term in March, 1933. He started his Congressional |vice in 1903 and thereafter {his Twentieth Tlinois -district in the Democratic ecolumn except in the Sixty-Seventh Congress, when he was a victim of the Harding Republican landslide of November, 1920. As Speaker he was faced at the outset with the extraordinary ser- ies of legislative acts which marked the opening months of the Frank- lin D. Roosevelt administration. The national bank holiday, return of beer, the amendment to abolish the Eighteenth Amendment, the I HENRY T, RAINEY SABATH IS NEW DEAN OF HOUSE; Byrns May Be Succes- sor to Rainey WASHINGTON, Aug. 20. — The new Dean of the House is Adolf J. Sabath, Illinois Democrat, born in Cgechoslovakia in 1868. He suc- ceeds Henry T. Rainey. Sabath has been representing the Fifth Illinois District for 28 years and is seeking reelection. He holds a post on the powerful Rules Com- mittee and is also Chairman of the HenryT RameyPassesAw«w l(}[]NGRESS HAS in St. Louis Hospital Where He Was Taken for Treatment TAKEN STEPS, NEW SERVICE Delegate Dimond Makes Announcement on Ar- rival in North ANY LEGITIMATE LINE MAY CONTRACT Special Provisions, of Em- ergency Nature, Al- lows for Payloads KETCHIK AN, Alaska, Aug. 20.—Congress has al- ready provided for airmail to Alaska. This was learned to- day from Delegate Anthony J. Dimond. Delegate Dimond said the provision e xists at present whereby and flying firm, with its reliability assured, may carry mail from Seattle for delivery to'Ketchikan and other cities. Delegate Dimond said the provision is available to ‘all reliable fliers wishing to com- pete in payloads. The Delegate stated the provision was of recent origin and termed as emergency con- tract with compensation at a flat rate. Dimond at Ketchikan, Is Expected to Come Here Wednesday —_ 'of Detectives Fred Frahm, sald the Permanently in Juneau to supervise | s “no granting of powers to the Presi-|Special Committee investigating real | o imond prob- e CLOSING PRICES TODAY 1., €0 i e e the tirst the operations. Mgy fon lile v Gent 1o, Aleah Bovaant, spendi[Exate, and the hondNolfats Tro-| s orone AR R NEW YORK, Aug. 20.—Closing o.ont abduction in Canada. There| PSR RSP Eight hundred "“‘“’“‘"“' ballohe: e thrown out as invalid. tures, the abandonment of the gold |tective committees. e time next Wednesday from e quotation of Alaska Juneau mine p.u.“peen several but they have | The vote showed a slight decline in Hitler’s popularity com- standard, currency inflation, farm| The House leadership is in doubt|e getchikan, according to ® stock today is 20%, American Can been kept from the public, he said. parcd to the vote given him when Germany withdrew from relief and a huge program of |but Joseph W. Byrns, of Tennessee, | ¢ wordq ,ew,;,ed here today. He @ 96, American Power and Light Chief Frahm said ‘& wmd.sor the League of Nations. public works to relieve unemploy-|who helped Ralney put through|g ayrived at Ketchikan early e 4%, Anaconda 12, Armqur B 59%, man, named Lowe, paid $30,000 for BEAN . e - ment, came in rapid succession. most of the Roosevelt legislative| g Sunday morning from Se: e + Bendix Aviation 12%, 'Bethlehem his release recently. Another man 3 s ” “Rubber Stamp” program, is prominently mentioned. | ¢ gttle. ° Steel 27, Calumet and Hecla 3%, was kidnaped at St. Catherine’s STAND TRIAL Belgzan Sctenusts So expeditiously did the National| Mrs. Rainey might become the|gq The Brant, patroling traps e Curtiss-Wright 2%, General Motors and dropped from a bridge at Buf- Asr‘eml Ten Mlle Legislature push through the acts|choice for the House seat held byl e gouth of here, will pick hims ... 29, International Harvester 26, Ken- falo. - He -wa$ 'rescned:~ No rnn-‘ 3 4 S connected with thege developments|her husband. Senator Dieterich, of | o up there nnd‘ bring him to ® necott 18%. United States Steel o7 6 N8 (SR 0 T WITH THERS {Into Stratosphere that some of the representatives |Illinois, has suggested Mrs. Rainey | ¢ Juneau. He probably will ® 33%, VWz.rner Pic_tures 4, Pound song received . threatening " motas r began to murmer about ‘‘rubber|as her husband'’s successor. e remain here for a week or ® $5.08%, Nabesna bid .99 ask 1.02. Prahm said. 5 MARIBOR, Yugoslavia, Aug. stamp legislation,” but Rainey gen- e 10 days. . B o ) ! ! 20.—~Prof. Max Cosyns and N LATEST PLAN ;}ly, and yet firmly, kept them in oo e oo e f ¢ ) ! 2 . | ree Vanderlist, Bél scien- ne. ——————— | Wamecats Praised Court Demes Severance in| L g He was a big -man physically. RUMANBE Is C.P. R. DOCTOR DIES; BULLET For Assistance Army Flight “Alaska 'flight 1s about land at Washington. Request you notify Signals at Fairbanks, Anchorage and Juneau, express- ing sincere appreciation of whele flight for hearty coopera- tion given by Wamcats.” The above radic was received by the local radio office this merning from the Seattle office as received there from Col. Henry H. Arnold, Commander cf the Army Squadron of ten Martin bombers in Juneau last Friday enroute from Fairbanks to Washington, D. C, via Se- attle. Wamcats is the code name , for the Washington-Alaska Mili- i ! VANCOUVER, B. C. Aug. 20.— Dr. A. P. Proctor, aged 65, Chief Medical Officer for the Canadian Pacific Railway, is dead as the, ‘result of an abdominal bullet wound, witnesses said to have been inflicted August 3 by T. A. Sar- Igood, of Revelstroke, former C. P.! R. sargood physically unfit to work. e GEOBGE WORTH TO SPEND TWO WEEKS WITH PARENTS IN SEATTLE, WASHINGTON tary Cable and Telegraph Sys- tem. —_—— PAUL REED WESTBOUND staff of the Sanitary Meat Com- pany, left for Seattle on the Yukon ito spend about two weeks with Paul Reed, son of the manager his father and‘ mother, Mr. and of the Anchorage Hotel, is a pas- Mrs. Charles Worth, The *latter senger for his home in the west, has been in ill health for some aboard the Aleutian. time. Habitual Ketchikan Drunks Are Listed; Sale of Beer or Liquor Prohibited to Them KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Avg. 20.— Inaugurating @ new type of cam- paign against drur’zenness, the city authorities have issued a blacklist containing the nimes of 28 petr- sons, merl and women, who are ;nr.,“hlud fro-a béing dispente. ocor and lique’, The list is signed by City Mag- istrate J. F. VanGilder end is or- dered posted in dispensarics. warning is given that dispsnsors ‘will be held liable for a misde- meanor ard will be prosecuted if they sl to those on the black- list. WOUND FATAL engineer. Dr. Proctor found | George Worth, formerly of the| | A Case—Case Set for ! September 18 CHICAGO, I, Aug. 20.—Samuel Insull has been refused, severance and ordered to stand trial with sixteen codefendants on September |18. The seventeen men are charged 'with using the mails fraudulently in marketing the Corporation Se- curities Company stocks. Klondlke Pioneers Celebrate iWife of Speaker, House of Commons, Reviews Bygone Days DAWSON CITY, ¥. T, Aug. 20. —The pioneers of the Northwest- ern gold rushes celebrated the thirty-eighth anniversary of the discovery of gold in the Klondike. There were speeches and athletic ' programs. Mrs. George Black, wife of the Speaker of the House of { Commons, was guest of honor, and |she reviewed the romance and hardships of the sourdoughs. | Amos Goes to Hospital On Arrival from Alaska SAN mmcwoo Cal,, Aug. 20. —Amos, of Amos and Andy, radio stars, went to an eye hospital on arrival here to have a “foreign Alaska bddy” ‘ removed from his eyelid. tists, landed safely from stratosphere flight in a corn field near here Sunday and pronounced their trip a suc- cess. They ascended ten miles. All instruments are safe. The two scientists ascended from Hour Havenne, Belgium, last Saturday morning. Their balloon was sighted over Bad Ausie, Austria, last Saturday afternoon. Prof. Cosyns was with Prof. August Piccard when the lat- ter made an ascent into the stratogphere over a yecar ago. The scientists were at the point of exhaustion when they landed, both beéwildered and they fell flat te the ground when they stepped from the gondola from sheer weakness. Both temporarily lost their rea- son on acccunt of being so long in the stratcsphere. Their wire- less was hindered by the strong broadcasting stations of Europe. A e Confesses to Slaying Widow, then Stealng Rings from Fingers SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Aug. 20.—‘ Frank Wick, aged 27, confessed, de- | tectives said, to the slaying of Mrs. Clara Ploeger, wealthy widow, whose body was found near a high- way. He said he took two of her diamond rings from her fingers and pawned one of them. Noted English Actor Dies, Result Operation LONDON, Aug. 20—Sir Nigel Playfair, noted actor and theatrical manager, died Sunday after an ab- dominal operation. He was G0 years of age. Visitors Now Allowed on Famous Wreck—About $40,000 Is Loot The latest project to be pianned by the Curtis-Wiley Marine Sal- vage Company, salvors of the Is- lander wreck, is the transporting of the battered and barnacle-en- crusted hull to Seattle. If the idea is put into effect, the Isldnder will float on the seas again, lashed to one of the barges used to raise her, either the Griff- son or the Forest Pride, and towed down the inland passage by the tug Georgia. The start, as planned, will be in about two weeks, and it is thought the trip will consume near- ly as much time. Hull Is Solid The hull is said to be quite solid, and by the use of cement across the broken end, it will be possible to keep the derelict from sinking. Saturday, for the first time, visit- ors were allowed to go aboard the Islander, and were conducted through its passages and' state- rooms. The reason for the grant- ing of this privilege is that the work of regaining the valuables aboard the ship when it sank have been nearly completed. About $40,000 are said to be the returns on an expenditure of ap- proximately $500,000 by various sal- yaging companies. Some $20,000 of this sum were in the form of gold, and the remainder in jewelry, trinkets and other valuables, in- cluding .150 tons of coal. Divers May Survey It is possible that the raising of the bow, which broke off in the raising operations, will be aban- (Continued on Page Seven) Towering over most of his coll- eagues his wide shoulders were topped by a neck like that of a circus strong man and a massive head, crowned with a mane of sil- very hair that stuck out in all di- rections from his silk hat on for- mal occasions, His square jaws held a big black pipe rigidly, but when he spoke his tones were soft and amiable. From Farming District Rainey represented a farming district in territory once contested politically by Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas and was a far- mer hmself. He had one of the show places of the fertile Illinois river valley near his home town of Carrollton where he was born August 20, 1860, and Where he lived all his life. Farming was not only a personal hobby with him, but a public cause as well. He dedicated much of his services in Washington to . efforts) to improve agricultyral conditiens, holding that farm prosperity was {mperative in any prwnm for na- tional well-being. Was a Student He was a student and critic too of tariff and fiscal subjects and | 'Names of Film Players Are Jjumped into the national spotlight with a spectacular attack upon the | (Continued on Page Three) Seattle Wine and Beer Dispensaries Close Up Sunday SEATTLE, Aug. 20.—Licensed beer and wine were closed yesterday for the first Sunday since the legal sale be- gan. The ogerators decided to obey the old prevented Sunday sale, pen an appeal to the State Supreme Court. BANK DEPOSITS SHOW INCREASE IN12 MONTHS Two Major Factors Re sponsible for Renewed Confidence of People HEADED FOR COURT ROCKS Marriage of Wealthy Man’s Daughter, Truck Driv- er, Be Annulled: GROVE CITY, Pa., Aug. 20.—The whirlwind romance of Coletta Mul- vihill, 17-year-old daughter of a wealthy Pittsburgh oil man, who married Thomas Green, a truck driver last Thursday, is headed for the rocks. The blonde bride said it was all just a lark and efforts will be made to get the marriage annulled. Meanwhile the girl's mother is prepared to leave for Manila in hopes of getting the marriage vows broken. WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—An in- crease of three billion dollars in bank deposits is reported by J. F. T. O'Connor, Comptro'ler of Cur- rency. The increase is atiributed ta two major factors, reopening of more than 500 banks since ihe year ending June 30 and the fact that the new deposif insurance la% stimhlated confidence in per- sons who feil they wera not sure after the 1933 finaneial ciisis. The planet Pluto travels through Nationa; bank deposis totaled space at the rate of two or three|appreximately nineteen bilion dol- miles a second. lars. | FROM ILLINOIS Speakership > Is in Doubt— | Found in Seized Communist Documents;Investigation On SACRAMENTO, Cal, Aug. 20— The names of Lupe Velez, Dolores Del Rio and Ram)a Naverio, be- sides that of James Cagney, have been drawn into the District At- torney’s investigation of alleged Communist activities. The District A‘torrey said the names of these film players were found in documenis the . police seized during raids of Communist headquarters and be Is turning them over to the Los Angeles au- thorities with the request hc be given all information regarding their possible connection with tM radical elements.