The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 22, 1934, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLIV., NO. 6735. ARIZONA AROUSE . ALASKAN FLIER * DIDNOT SOAR OFF T0 DEATH Aviatior, Who Bid Friends Goodbye, Missing Two Days, Back in Anchorage 15 TAKEN IN CUSTODY Faitbanks Bondsmen With- drew Backing for Liber- ty—Needs New Bond ANCHCRAGE, Alaska, Aug. 22.— Frank Derbandt, who took off from here Sunday afternoon, tell- ing his friends they would not o2 him again, landed here late yesterday and was immediately ar- rested by Deputy U. S. Marshal }rank Hoffman on instructions fiem Fairbanks that his bondsmen there had withdrawn the backing under which he was free on fur cmuggling’ charges. On Susitna River Dorbandt talked .very little but said he spent two days along the Susitna River, 50 miles northwest « of Anchorage. Dorbandt is held pending his attempt to furnish a $2,500 bond. Ccurt Acticns Dorbandt, well known Alaskan aviator, took off late Sunday after- nocn in a small plané havidg. only two and one-half gallons of gaso- line aboard. In telling friends they would not see him again, it was reported he had flown to his death owing to trouble arising out of his coming trial at Ketchikan on the fur smuggling charge and also a Scattle case in which he is accused by Marjorie Seller, aged 19 years, of being the father of her child. STOCK PRIGES BIVEN BOOST, WIDE FRONT Gains Axe'l\—d:d—e of One to Three or More Points . and Maintained NEW 'YORK, Aug. 22—New life came to stocks today as galns of one to three or more points were recorded over a wide fronf, ' Sales totaled 1,300,000 shares, No specific news or developments are known to account for the up- turn although e mild revival of inflationary psychology may have beeh a factor, ‘Today’s close was strong. Bonds improved late. The curb was up. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Aug. 22—Closing quctation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 21, American Can 99, American Power and Light 5%, Anaconda 13, Armour B 62, Bendix Aviation 13%, Bethlehem = Steel 28%, Calumet and Hecla 3%, Cur- tiss-Wright 3, General Motors 31%, International Harvester 28%, Ken- necott 20%, Unrited States Steel 35, Warner Pictures 4%, Pound, $5.09%, Nabesna bid .91, ask 1.02. PRACTICE TRIP SEATTLE, Aug. 22—The airship Macon appeared over ‘the city at 7:30 o'clock this morning on a o practice flight. The huge crafl circled back over Tacoma and headed southward again. It was sighted over Tacoma at 8:20 o'clock. When the Macon appeared over Elliott Bay this morning, she loosed five “planes that flew about the: mother ship like sparrows around an. eagle. The Macon is now on the way to .er base at Sunnydale, Cal, having passed over Portland early this afternoon. BY U. S. DEP. MARSHAL ition, no doubt, will take a lead = JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1934. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN' CENTS ORBANDT RETURN Linked In Romance l When Archduke Otto, claimant to the Austrian throne, started his latest trip to Italy, there were re- ports that he would press his suit for the hand of 19-year-old Prin- cess Marla (above), younge daughter of King Victor Emanuel. (Assoclated Press Photo) SHORTER WORK HOURS IS PLAN, INTERNATIONAL United States Taking Steps' for Universal Scheme to Aid Recovery WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. — The| Administration is seeking a way | to have the world follow the| United States in cutting working hours. Officials hope a way will he| found in an international labor organization which the United States joined this week and in which the United States delega- in the movement for shorter hours.} Shorter working hours have many times been discussed as @ssential for a complete comeback of re-| covery and under NRA codes has meant generally increased produc- tion, also costs. The latter issue generally affects the United States foreign trade hence the Adminis- tration’s interest in shorter hours abroad. NEW WORK WEEK HOURS WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. — NRA announced this afternoon Presi- dential approval of a reduction in the weckly work hours from 40 to 36 without a cut in wages for 200,000 workers in the cotton and garment industry. NRA said this is equivalent to an increase of about 10 per cent above the May 1 levels in piece rates and will also permit reem- ployment of more than 19,000. The direct cost to the consumer is estimated at less than two per cent. BRIT, AVIATOR "DOWN, ICELAND ~ - y ‘'WICKS, North Scotland, Aug. 22. —An SOS message from John Grierson, British flier, who hopped off yesterday morning from Reyk- javik, Iceland, in an attempt to cross the Atlantic via the northern route, says he is down to the west- ward. The message said: “Have food for ten days.” —— oo IS RETURNING TO HOME AT KETCHIKAN Miss Martha Dell Wentworth, former Juneau girl, was a pas- senger on the Northland, last trip, from Sitka, where she has been visiting her father. Miss Went- worth was enroute to Ketchikan|day to meet Mary Pickford but had|wind later died down and hopes °f openly endorsing a Senatorial where she will make her home forno comment to make after the|are expressed that the blaze will the winter. NO ARRESTS IN DIMOND LEAVES (U.S. Army Head KETCHIKAN FOR JUNEAU TODAY Time of AE} Here Not Known, But Expected Tomorrow Afternoon Delegate A. J., Dimond -was: due to have left Ketchikan sometime today for Juneau on the Brant, Capt. Olson, flagship of the Alaska fleet of the United States Bureau of Fishedies. The vessel reachd Ketchikan early today from Little Port Walter. No time had been set for the arrival of the Brant here, but it was believed it would be sometime tomorrow afternoon or evening, un- less the Delegate should decide to visit Wrangll and Petersburg en- route here. Attacks Fish Traps In a speech before the Ketchi- kan Chamber of Commerce yester- cday, he renewed his campaign for| the abolition of fish'traps, charg- ing that they are undemocratic and monopolistic. Later in the day he addressed | the Ketchikan American Legion post. He said that both the Army and Navy are beginning to realize the importance of the Territory in| the scheme of national defense. He | predicted some major work would | be undertaken in the near future| adding that airplanes are the first line of defense. : Plans ‘Are Unknewn | The plans of Delegate Dimond | beyond Juneau are unknown. It is believed he will remain here! several days, possibly two weeks,|;, before proceeding to western and'eq States encircled by up-to-date interior points. defense units if plans developed Plans for a rally here have been 'y the War Department are exe- practically completed by the W“"cm,ed. men’s Democratic Club at which| ynder the direction of General the Delegate will speak. No date pouglas MacArthur, Chief of Staff, has been announced for this meet-/tne Department is working out a ing. This will be fixed to sull gefense program calling for com- his convenience ,Plete and modernized anti-aircraft R e 1T AT guns, searchlight batteries and fire control equipment for eight regu- lar army regiments, seven National Guard regiments and 19 inactive regular army regiments. for this country. This is the first of a series of two daily articles summing up America’s air strength, its provisions against aerial at- tacks and its standing among the world's greatest air pow- ers. By LLOYD LEHRBAS ‘WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—‘War the skies” would find the Unit- ARMORED MONE e e g HUSESHEPT Criminal Has Appeared —-Qne Clue Is Found \BROOKLYN, N. Y., Aug. 22.—| No arrests have been made in the| armored truck hold-up of yester- day afternoon when machine gun bandits raided a Federal Reserve truck shortly after midday angd es- caped with $427,000. 1 The police credit a new arch- criminal, craftier than Capone and | more deadlier than Dillinger with: pulling off the job. !high swept a two story apartment Euipty money bags were Tound o o “pom “iis' foundation, dam- mme ’ vend- f;: m::hfi:“‘g’ amcl:i:;;;%e ;i:ce_iaged other buildings and inundated The bartender said ten men, whom | Part Of the city to the depth of a few feet. he never saw before, entered the = karroom at 4 o'clock yesterday af-| The damage is estimated at $25,- 000. ternoon and had a round of beer.| TR P iy The Hydrographic office is un- able to explain the huge waves as {the weather was perfectly ca'm. e By LAW, VIENNA VIENNA, Austria, Aug. 22.—Mar- tial law was raised last midnight! % after 27 days. Martial law was imposed as the result of the Doll- fuss assassination. NCW Army of Fighlers Rushed to Scene—Fire - May Be Controlled $33,325,000. Secretary Dern of the War De- BIG BREAKERS {Unexplained Calamity Takes Place—Part of City Inundated NEWPORT BEACH, Conn, Aug. 22.—Ocean waves 30 and 40 fest Pickford-Fairbanks Romance Now Rests in the ‘Lap of Gods’ HOLLYWOOD, Cal,, Aug. 22. The future of Pickford-Fairba rests in the “lap of the Gods. This is the way Mary Pickford described the status of their once idyllic marriage which finally fouNi its way into the divorce courts. Fairbanks returned here yester- meeting. SPOKANE, Wash., Aug. 22—The hottest forest fire in the North- Powerful searchlights exploring night skies, artillery perfected to bring down all kinds of marauding airships . . . of cquipment a “war in the skies” would require. k Plan ‘Stockade’ of Antiireraft Defense Units that's the type The War Depar tment is planning an impenetrable wall of such anti-aircraft units WHITE FARMERS CHASE JAPANESE 0UT OF ARIZONA Nearly On:_:rhousand Orientals Are Warned to ‘Get Out and Stay Out’ JAPAN NEWSPAPERS . MAKING GREAT FUSS State Department Requests Officials Not to Do Any- thing of Rash Nature TOKYO, Auvg. 22. — Ari- zona, in the United States, supplanted Manchuria as Japan’s principle trcuble zone teday. Newspapers devoted a great deal of space to the difficulty bctween American and Japanese farmers in the Salt River Valley in Arizona. Developments even eclipsed the squabble with Russia partment, who recently made an}’ing at such elevations and at tar- | signed to combat low flying planes|OVver the C hinese Eastern inspection of Panama Canal de- | fenses, reported that the canal, a vital link in ocean-to-ocean com- munication, is seriously lacking in ati-alrcraft equipment and the | first steps in the program probably { would be taken there. | Our Equipment Best | War Department officials say the anti-aircraft equipment developed by the American army is the mosy | efficient in the world, and that | this country would have full pro- | tection if allotted funds were pro- | vided to complete and expand the skeletonized defense system. Prior to the World War no means had been provided for com- bating aircraft from the ground. Allied armies improvised means for countering German aircraft, which became extremely active in con-| ducting reconnaisance flights over | | the Allies’ territory, and raids by | The program would cost about | bombing planes against large cit-|and have a vertical range of 25, | tes i{gcluding Paris and London. 1 The artillerymen found that fir-| Democrats Seem in Fertile INTO SEA BY Fields But Republicans Are | TyaeATENED IN . Experiencing ; ‘ "By BYRON PRICE | (Chlef of Bureau, the Associated Press, ' Washington.) A mid-season survey of primary and convention results shows that the political map still is strewn with confusions and contradictions. Weather sharps would call it ex- tremely “spotty.” ‘The Republican drought contin- ues over large areas. No one de- nies that. In other sections weath- ervanes have been shifting apprec- | iably and the outlook is unsettled. Nowhere is there any sign of cy- clonic developments. The Democrats expect to keep most of their present big majority in the House, and while Republi- can gains are accepted .as’certain, { few leaders of that party go so far as to forecast any actual Repub- lican majority. Because of - Spec- |1al circumstances it 1s. conceded | the Demeerats will retain . contndl {of the Senate, possibly by g con- ibly. increased margip. & bigger question is what it all portends with respect to the Roosevelt regime at Washington. |On that question the claims are distinotly conflicting, and each side is able to produce evidence which |1t seems to regard as convineing. | POLITICAL ECCENTRICITIES | ‘making night raids... . ithe President—Hatfield of West {are leading the Republican attack! gets of great speed called for new | which attack troops, trains and es- guns and technigue. The preblem tablishments with light bombs and of spotting the ttackers arose machine guns. These planes fly when fhe bombing planes lw\m‘so low and so fast that it §s im- | poasible for-an artillery gun te, five Develop New Methods at them effectively. At the end of the war, equipn:ent | Units Skeletonized Now was crude and unwieldy, metnods | s —ees . e o e e some to combat new planes. | f _gw hg tical 12 The War Department and ciyil- | Mitting it to the anticaircraft guns, including a stereoscopic height- ian manufacturers began an inten-| . e sive study of the problems, devel- finder and a director to keep the . gun pointed at the target and set zgg‘geqz’i‘;fien";m"‘mm“ Weapons | je fuse so it will explode at the 1. The 3-inch gun, to combat|ProPer second. : heavy bombardment planes and ob-| 4 Searchlight units, consisting servation planes engaged in pho_;of llgpm of 800,000,000 candle pow- tographic reconnaisance at high al-| € With power plant, and means titudes. To hit such targets, the|fOr locating the aircraft before the gun must have a high muzzle vel- | light is turned on. ocity and excellent ballistic char-| The army now has four anti- acteristics,. The guns now devel-‘nireran organizations in the Unit- oped can fire 25 shots a minute | ed States and four in the Philip- | pires, Hawaii and Panama. They 000 feet. | are, however, only skeltonized reg- 2. The .50-inch machine gun, de- | iments. [TIN SHORTAGE Awful Drought UNITEE STATES State Department Gives | Warning to House For- eign Affairs Com. Merriam Makes Campaign Promise, Mooney Pardon SACRAMENTO, Cal, Aug. 22. —Acting Governor Frank E. Merriam said he would give Thomas J. Mogney’s pardon pe- tition serious consideration if elected to the full term of Gov- ernor. %0 ‘WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. — The State Department has warned the {House Foreign Affairs Commiliee lof a possible tin shortage in the event of a war, leaving the United |States shy of essential martial | metal. feated ro: the nomination. | The tin Everyone agrees that many Re'!dommuled publican voters prefer Mr. ROOSe- through an velt’s leadership to that of old- ment. line Republican conservatives. | PR AR Yet probably the two mosk caus- | tic Republican Senatorial ofitics oz{RE STflR ATIUN | GENOA, Italy, Aug. 22—The pos- | sibility of a political tryst between Premier Schuschnigg and former| Empress Zita, seeking restoration| of the Hapsburg throne vanlsh:d; producing indusiry is by British intevests International agree- Virginia ‘and Robinson of -Indiana —have been nm& almost | without' &’ murmer of opposition. ! Everyone knows the Republican high command lacks control over the Western group .of Republican liberals. 4 | Yet two of that group—Borah of | Idaho and Nye of North Dakota— | on Roosevelt policies. SOME MORE PARADOXES The Democratic leaders have been openly rebuilding the party on what they call the "liberal” ele- with the Premier leaving Florence | last night, after a conference with west is near Avery, Idaho. It grew' That is possible only because hotter as new armies of fighters 1934 Is becoming a year of politi- were rushed to the front in an at- °al eccentricities. tempt to halt the slow, relentless! = Everyome agrees Mr. Roosevelt spread of the blaze which shied has an exceptionally effective con- away from the little settlement of trol over his party. Avery after 12 uneasy hours and _ Yet In the one instance where spread before a brisk wind. The Farley went the length date—Clem Shaver in West| cand | Vi that candidate was de-) be brought under control. Premier Mussolini without seeing her. ments among' the voters. But in Minnesota, the Demo- crats are seeking a fusion w“hi the Republicans to defeat the ul* 2 tra-liberal Farmer - Laborites: in| Circus Group to Meet ‘Virginia a group of “young Repub- | lican Liberals” is seeking the over- RICHMOND, Va. — The annual throw of Democratic Senator Byrd; | COnVention of the Saints and Sin- in West Virginia, Rush D. Holt won DTS Club of America, national or- iy _ |#anization of circus lovers, will be (Continued on Page Sevei) held here the first week in October. Railway as the topic for edi- torial ccmment. CAUSE OF EXCITEMENT L R , Aug. 22— Assurances there will be nho vio- lence against the npearly 1,000 Japunese, whom the white fapmers have “ordered to get out and stay out” of the fertile Salt River Val- ley, were forthcoming from officials today. . Their assurance came as the State Department asked the Gov- ernor to prevent happenings “which might create difficulties in the relations between the United States and Japan. Simultaneously the county offie- ials went ahead to enforce the alien land law which forbids Orientals, who are not natives, from owning or leasing agricultural land in the State of Arizona. ——o—— PAGANISMIS PUT TO FRONT, GERMAN LAND New Group Is Established, Called “Nordic Faith Movement” BERLIN, Aug. 22—Fresh evi- dence of the advance of Paganism against established religion, under the Nazi regime, is provided by the founding of a second Pagan body this year. This new group is called the “Nordic Faith Movement.” This movement is founded on the belief there are no “hopes for beyond and holds there is no need for redemption.” HITLER'S LAST MOVE BERLIN, Aug. 22—Hitler has ordered the name of the President’s office changed to “Presidential- Chancellory.” " STRIKE ENDS Truck Drivers and Employ- ers Come to Agreement After Five Weeks MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, Aug. 23. —The striking truck drivers and employers have reached an accord immediately ending the five weeks’ old walkout. Union leaders claim the accord is a victory for the workers. ? Many disorders have resulted from the strike and at one time the militia was called out. : ATH OF JAPAN S:. UNDER ARREST