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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” — STATE GETTING READY FOR CASE OF HAUPTMANN Six Assistants to Attorney General Are Drafted as Legal Talent FLEMINGTON, N. J, Oct. 22— The State began today organizing the prosecution staff for the case of the kidnaping and slaying of the baby son of Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh. Six assistants to the Attorney General have been assigned to the tasks of constructing the case. | There is a possibility that Haupt- mann will be taken to the former Lindbergh home for reenactment of the kidnaping. There is also the pessibility that John Hughes Cur tis, of Norfolk, hoatbuilder, for the Lindbergh kidnapers, wil/ also enter the case again. | Hauptmann is in the Huntendon County Jail. His wife is coming to the vicinity, to be near her hus- | band, just as soon as their baby Bruno Richard Hauptmann Iori : | | | con- | i victed here of obstructing the searc | son recovers in New York from a severe cold. THREATS MADE UPON LIFE OF G, VANDERBILT Mother of Little Million- airess Receives Note at New York Home NEW YORK, Oct. 22—The for-' bidding brown stone front of Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt’s home | is guarded by police after she re- ceived a threat against the life of | her millionairess daughter, Gloria, over whom the family has been | fighting in the courts for posses- sion. The question is still unsettled. | “If you value the life of the. child do not fail to meet me in front of the Metropolitan theatre | in Brooklyn on Friday,” said a crude note last Tuesday delivered at the Vanderbilt home. “I will be waiting. If you do not keep the appointment you will hear from me again,” the note added. Mrs. Vanderbilt did not keep the appointment but a policeweman did. No one approached her. e Germans Making Cotton from Woodpulp, Report WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.— Ingenuity of German chemists is putting new furrows into the brow of Secretary of Agri- culture Wallace’s experts, fac- ed already with declining ex- ports of cotton to foreign na- tions. The experts are noné too hap- py over the undercover infor- maticn they have received of the possibilities of “vistra” cot- ton, a substitute made from woodpulp by the Germans that might make them independent of cutcide cotton just as the United States developed its dye industry to become inde- pendent of German dyes during the World War. Vistra is a fiber resembling cctton but lacking the wearing qualities of cotton. Samples re- ceived indicate it may prove adaptable to cotfon users through further experimients. HAPP ——BIRTHDAY The Empire extends congratula- tions and best wishes today, their birthday anniversary, to the follow- ing: OCTOBER 22 John Marshall B. C. Delzelle Lloyd Capp George L. O'Brien | | | | ik ! Leon Brownstein, known to the world as Leon Trotzky, is reported to be | on his way to the United States for a visit. It will not be his first one to ! this country. He was a waiter, in a hotel and movie extra in New York before he went to Russia to become first foreign minister and later commander of the Red Army. Photos show him at the time he was the | Red chieftain, smilingly addressing an audience in Denmark after his | exile, and as he appeared as a movie extra in 1916, THOUSANDS OF WAR VETERANS IN CONVENTION American Legionnaires 1in FLOYD IS SHOT, KILLED TODAY EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio, Oct. 22.—“Pretty Boy”Floyd, no- tcrious bandit, was shot and killed near here late this after- noen by Federal agents accord- ing to a brief announcement made over the telephone. — o COLONEL CLARK - ABOARD YUKON Says Nome,—After Rehab- ilitation, Will Be Better than Ever Before Issue Is Paramount MIAMI, Florida, Oct. 22— The bonus question is the most virile issue facing the American Legion as thousands met today at the start of the Sixteenth Annual Con- vention. The adoption by the Rules Com~ mittee of a two hour debate limit on the bonus came as speculation increased as to just what the con- vention would do about payment of adjusted compensation certifi- cates. Seventeen State Departments of the Legion have voted in favor of immediate payment. :Meet Death in Italy Flying Session at Miami—DBonus | IR DERBY RACERS | Trotzky Reported U. S. Bound | ONE PILOT AND ASSOCIATE DIE, PLANE FLAMES in London to Mel- bourne Classic TWO AMERICANS IN THIRD POSITION NOW Flying ‘Mol@\s Are Be- lieved Be Out of Spec- tacular Event MILDENHALL, England, Oct. 22. C. W. A. Scott and Malcolm Black, | Britishers, have highballed into the | Jast 2,000 mile stretch of the Air, Derby, out of the port of Darwin with the Dutchmen, K. D. Par- mentier and K. J. Moll, four hours behind and Turner and Pangborn, | who are in third place, only 24| miles behind them. | Burned To Death Harold Gilliam and his copilot Barnes, were burned to death when their plane crashed in Italy. This leaves only thirteen planes in the race. The Flying Mollisons are believed out of the race as they remained at Allahabad with a damaged mo- tor. In fourth place are Cathcart Jones and Ken Waller, leaving Al« lahabad. 4 OFF EARLY ON DERBY MILDENHALL AIRFIELD, Enz-! land, Oct. 22—The Flying Molli- | sons roared away Saturday for Baghdad in the van of 19 com-| petitors in the London to Mel- bourne air derby with another Brit- ish team close behind, and two Dutchmen, in hot pursuit. C. W. Scott and Malcolm Black, Britishers, swooped into Baghdad twelve minutes after the Mollisons had taken off for Allahabad, In- dia. Scott had been unreported until he reached Iraq, suddenly looming up as a major contender. Dash on Again | K. D. Parmentier and J. J. Mill, of Holland, in an American ma- chine, stopped 40 minutes at Al- eppo, Syria, then dashed off again in pursuit of the Mollisons and Scott. Only one machine out of the 19 remained unreported last Saturday night and that contained Cathcart Jenes and Ken W. Waller, Brit- ishers. ¥ Have Good Lead Amy and Jim Mollison led their competitors all the way across Eu- rope at a speed of 200 miles an hour, reaching Baghdad, 2,533 miles from Mildenhall Airfield, in 12 hours and 40 minutes. | Col. Roscoe Turner and Clyde 'CRASH, LOSE. . Melbourne Derb y Jaqueline Cochran and plane American Fliers in London * Colonel Fitzmaurice and plane This layout shows American pilots and planes participating in the $75,000 Mac Roberisson air derby from London to Melbourne, Australia. Col, Roscoe Turner, noted speed flier, is flying a new Boe- ing plane with Reeder Nichols, radio operator, and Clyde Pangbern, well-known lcng-distance pilot, as menibers of the crew. Other American entrants inolude Cel. James Fitzmaurice, flying a low-winged Bellanca monoplane, and Miss Jacqucl.ine Cochran, piloting a new Neorthrop Gamma plane, CAULDRON OF THE BALKANS Diciape; 3 ROBINSONS ARE INDICTED KIDNAP CASE Conviction Will Mean Penalty—All Accused of Conspiracy LOUISVILLE, Ky., Oct. 22— Thomas H. Robinson, Jr., his wife and fa a spe the charges make it possible that lin the event of conviction, there will be a death penalty for all three in connection with the kid- naping of M Berry V. Stoll. The indictment charges the tual abduction to Robinson Jr. A joint indictment accused all three of conspiracy and conviction would carry the death penalty be- ac- This map of Yugoslavia, a kingdom organized since the World war, shows how the nation is composed of numerous states with racial and credal differences. Much of the apprehension which followed the as- assassination of King Alexander in Marseille, France, was due to the |cause of physical injury to the vie- uncertainty as to what effect it would have on these conflicting desires |, 3 and beliefs. s LOUISVILLE, Ky, Oct. 22—The ather, have been indicted by | al Federal Grand Jury and | THIRTEEN ARE REPORTED DEAD IN TWO STATES One. Fidhiig.Cratt BNl Down Taking Five Men to Watery Graves CNE SHIP SUNK AT DOCK IN SEATTLE Property Damage Is Esti- | mated Huge in Wash- ton and Oregon BULETIN— SEATTLE, Oct. 22.—~A check at noon today listed seventeen deaths in ves- terday’s gale en the coasts of ‘Wachington and Oregon, SEATTLE, Oct. 22— A terrific gale swept the Oregon and Wa | ington coasts Sunday leaving thir=- teen known dead in its wake, Five of the dead are members of the crew of the purse seiner Ag- | nes, which sank in a storm off | Point Wilson. Damage to erty is huge. The dead are: One Crew Dies Ernard Thomason, S. Peterson, Howard Anderson, Leonard Torget and Leonard Berg, all members of the crew of the Agnes. Mr, and Mrs. Carl Christenson, of Tacoma, electrocuted when a high tension wire fell on a radio aerial they were fixing. | Chris Patol, 25, of Astoria, duck« | hunter, whose boat was swamped. | shipping and prop= Crushed By Bricks Johnson, of Portland, beneath bricks when the a roof on which he was | working at Bellingham, gave way. | Elmer Lee, 30, of Bremerton, Navy Yard worker, crushed by a (tree which fell across his auto- | mobile on a Hood Canal Road. Lou Chin, a Seattle Chinese, was | killed when a wall of a rooming | house gave way i House Wrecked John Dybdal and wife, employed on a fish trap at the mouth of | the Skagit River, when the house was wrecked and blown into the water. ‘The freighter Floridan was driven |near the shore off the Columbia | River, but later messaged she would proceed to Portland for re- pairs. R. M. crushed edge of Ship Sinks, Seattle In the Seattle harbor the Presi- dent Madison snapped her lines and careened along pier 41 sweep- ing the North Haven, Aleutian, Native Sound and Harvester along, pinning them in against the dock. | The was so badly dam- |aged that she sank. Great damage was done to pow: er and telephone lines, highways, Harvest ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 22— Pleas for an early but not im- Pangborn, Americans, were in fifth Col. Elmer W. Clark, Executive Assisatnt, who flew to Nome for a survey, has left here for Wash- ington, boarding the steamer Yu- kon at Seward. He expects to mediate payment of the soldiers’ place. A British news agency re- bonus and for a strong national de- ported they had flown over the fense were heard at the opening top of Mont Blanc and encounter- of the session today. ed strong winds and dense fogs on e — .the flight from London, but went confer with Gov. Troy on his way East. Col. Clark said Nome will be better off than ever before when rehabilitation is finished. WORD BY GOVERNOR Col. Elmer W. Clark, Executive Assistant to the Deputy Adminis- trator of PWA left Seward yes- terday on the steamer Yukon ‘on his way south, bound for Wash- ington, D. C., from Nome, where he was sent to determine the best possible way in which legal aid could be given to the fire suffer- ers through PWA and other gov- ernment agencies, according to word received this morning by Gov. John W. Troy. Ten Million Dollar Estate Reported to Be Left by Dead King BELGRADE, Oct. 22—King Al- exander left a fortune estimated at ten million dollars, the bulk of it going to his widow and son, King Peter. e Wild cotton in lower Florida is being eradicated because of the|decreed dead, and married H. A. | menace to domestic crops. iSnow Falls, First Time of Season, at Anchorage ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 22.— A slight fall of snow, the fir#t of |the season, has fallen here. | s !straight through to Athens. | Dangerous territory lay ahead of the fliers, especially over India, where risks, including striking huge birds, such as vulture, were pres- ent. (Continued on Page Two. | LONG BEACH, Cal, Oct. 22—A ‘mcdem Enoch Arden has arose {medern Enoch Arden has arisen from the dead and in a’ strange vaguely familiar.” Eight years ago, Akbery DeVaul, prosperous lumberman of Mpyrtle Point, Oregon, disappeared, a vic- tim of amnesia. He wandered up and down the | coast, working as a roustabout at lumber camps or on waterfronts, ,beueving he was a fugitive from the police. His wife divorced him, had him Sheff “here. Modern Enoch Arden Comes Back from Dead; Finds Wife . “Looked Vaguely F amiliar” Friday night he appeared wiih his cousin who found him work- |ing in an Auburn, Cal, mining camp under the name of Bert King. The man and wife sat behinc | closed doors. She forged back ¢ |tears and said: “I thought | were dead.” He said she looked vaguely miliar and then told of his derings. Sheff said he had no inten' {of allowing DeVaul's return [0 | interfere with his marital status. DeVaul - will probably contue Jm the Enoch Arden role. YOUTH GOES TO CHURCH BIS Robinson ent pla to arraign Mrs. Jr., as search still con- unabated for her husband, 30V | tinued R LlFE\ A P P Ruv B H now believed to be in Canada as | !a hotel man at Fort Erie, Ontario, COLORADO SPRINGS, Oct. 22. —Walter Repping of Newark, New | Jersey, slayer of a local taxi driver was sentenced to life imprison- | ment. Repping was once sentenced to die in the lethal chamber for the murder of Vincent Regan, but won a new trial, The jury disagreed in; the second trip] and again in, the) third. J | ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Repping is now 20 years of age.[—The House of Bishops of the He was eighteen at the time he | Protestant Episeopal Church hav killed Regan during a robbery. adopted a resolution advocatin —,e— passage of laws to permit dissem- » 4 ination of ‘birth control informa- Robber Escapes and tion by hospitals, reputable phy- Jumps /rom liri(l','('; sicians and clinics. Is Believed Drowned|ixoduction of semination of Informa- tion Is'Passed 22 the resolution TACOMA, Wash., Oct. 22.— The | Wash. waters of the harbor are believed to hold the drowned body of a robber who tried to rob H. Lind- holm, watchman, on a railroad| bridge. Lindholm said he grappled with| the man and finally got him down | after which the man escaped and plunged off the bridge into the e CORDOVAN CROS! DIVIDE John B. Lopez, well known Cor dova resident, passed away ly following an operation necessi- tated by the rupture of a stomach ulcer. He was 32 years old and came to Alaska from Californ several years ago. He was an in- dustrious young man and acquired some property in Cordova. Astronomical telescopes are of two types—refracting and reflect- ing. positively identified Robinson, who | plate glass windows and other property. LATEST CHECK SEATTLE, Oct. — The gale that struck the coast of Washing- CONTROL DATA: Resolution Advocating Dis- NEW ALLIANCE ‘The question arose with the in-| Bishop Arthur Huston, of Olympia, | ton and Oregon rushed 1,500 miles from last Saturday night to Sun- day night. The property damage is not esti mated but immense. Ferry dules are |even today. | Trees and houses have been blown down and roads are blocked in all directions and communica- tion systems interrupted. New Storm Reports received from the Gulf |of Alaska indicate a new storm ap- ° |proaching and the gale is now about 800 miles off Eureka, Cali- (Little Entente to Stand To-|ornia. | gethcr n Any Attack | The wind during the past 24 |hours has averaged from 60 to 75 on Members miles an hour | Three men duck hunting in var- BELGRADE, Oct. 22—The Little lious sections, are m ng and are ente has stoutly determined to |believed to have drowned. tand four square against all who| The freighter Floridian, pounded ck any one of its members,” [and battered in one of the wildest a decision has béen reached to|of storms of years has crossed to Hungary and the League [the mouth of the Columbia River y's alleged harboring of !x'nrn:(t(‘ to Astoria for a survey. nal Terrorists which e denied she did. WILL WINTER OUTSIDE South Europsan countries o are trying to tie Turkey and | Greece in with the alliance against |any who m attack the Little Entente nations. alleged to have been seen Friday, om a picture in a newspaper. - SOUTH EUROPE "COUNTRIES IN interrupted Hu Inte: Hur i A Ammon, who is minipg in the a country, left Cordova re- .tly accompanied by his wife, for to spend the winter.