The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 11, 1934, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLV., NO. 6828. TEN PERSONS AREDEAD IN HOTEL BLAZE Legislators Either Burned| to Death or Drown— Leap from Flames LANSING, Mich, Dec. 11.—Ten persons are known to have lost their lives early this morning, burned to death or drowned, as the result of a fire in the Kerns Ho- tel. Several persons jumped from the window into the Grand River and were drowned. Many legislators were staying ai the hotel during the special session of the Michigan State Legislature. Police and firemen believe that when a complete check is made the dead will number at least 20 persons. ROARING INFERNO LANSING, Mich, Dec. 11—Fire President, turned the Kerns Hotel, filled with | sleeping guests, into a roaring in- ferno. The list grew this afternoon with victims placed at 13 and threat- ening to triple that number. Many of the dead leaped from windows or from the roof into the iey river to the rear of the hotel or to the streets. Several suffered serious injuries. Dead Identified Five of the dead are members of the State Legislature, Donald Sias, C. D. Parker, Henry Howlett, J. W. Goodwine, Vern Voorhees. One of the six unidentified is a woman about 65 years of age. Others of the identified dead are David Monroe, Assistant Manager of the hotel; I. Wishneff, of Los Angeles; ton, Ohio, salesman. Among Missing Among the missing are State Senator John Leidlein, of Saginaw. Women ran through the halls with their night clothes on fire. A bell boy is the hero of the fire. He ran through the halls arousing the sleepers. The last seen of him was when he was dashing up a flaming stairway just before the walls collapsed. One man pushed another out of a window into the river, and then jumped in and saved him. There are probably between 20 and 50 bodies buried in the ruins. MISS STEELE IS RELEASED, GERMAN JAIL Hollywood Girl, Held Pris- oner for Four Months, Taken to Hamburg BERLIN, Dec. 1.— The four months’ imprisonment has ended for Isabel Lillian Steele, of Holly- wood, California, who has been re- leased from police headquarters and taken to Hamburg to sail for home. Miss Steele will not be allowed to speak of her imprisonment while on German soil. Charges on which Miss Steele were held are unofficially stated to involve suspicion of espionage. CHICAGO HIT BY BLIZZARD CHICAGO; T, Dec.,11.—A blind- ing blizard that stalled traffic, caused two deaths and sent Chi- cagoans seturrying to cover, has subsided. Streets are being cleared today and traffic resumed. e MISS JOAN MORGAN HAS RECOVERED FROM ILLNESS Miss Joan Morgan, who has been confined to her home at the Gov- R. S. MacFarland, Day- | | | | { | jUNEAU ALASKA TUFSDAY DECEMBER II 1934 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS President Ur ges Unified Attack on Crime Problems; quls On WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—A uni- fied attack by Federal and local agencies on the Nation’s crime problems was urged last night hy President Roosevelt to an audience composed largely of the country’s leading crime fighters and - high officials of the Government. President Roosevelt declared: “I want the backing of every man, ever, woman and every grown child DR. T. SMITH PASSES AWAY, N. Y. HOSPITAL E;c—kefeller In- stitute, Dies While Awaiting Treatment - THEOBALD .SMITH NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—Dr. Theo- bald Smith, aged 75 years, Presi- dent of the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research, who opened the way to the conquest of typhoid fever, cholera, malaria and yellow fever, died late yesterday as the result of an attack of the heart. He had just been admitted to a hospital to undergo treatment for a malignant growth of the intes- tines. Wars on Diseases Dr. Smith, working in the quiet of his pathological laboratories at Princeton University, stamped out the scourge which decimated cat- tle on the western plains—and in so doing made discoveries which vastly advanced the war against the diseases of man. His expgriments during the ‘‘Tex- as fever” plague which visited the herds in 1893, enabled him to prove the principle, since widely adapted to the treatment of human disease, of insect-born transmission of in- fection. His earlier work in the inocula- tion of pigeons against hog chol- era, rationalized the subject of vaccination and led directly to the invention of diphtheria antitoxin. It was.he who, in 1884, proposed the then revoldtionary idea of cre- ating immunity against disease with products of the bacteria which produced the disease. Given Many Honors Many honors came to him at the house overlooking Carnegie Lake in Princeton, known as Theo- bald Smith House where for 18 years he led his staff of Rocke- feller Institute scientists from one important discovery to another. He was given the Mary Kingsley, Ko- ber, Flattery and Gerhan medals and in 1933 was awarded the Cop- ley medal, presented by the Royal Society, Great Britain's oldest sci- entific erganiation. He was a mem- ber of nearly all the important .ci- entific societies of the world and held honorary degrees from many universities. Cornell Graduate Dr. Smith was born July 31, 1859, ernor’s House for the last week! with = influenza, was sufficiently “improved to return to school this afternoon. at Albany, N. Y. He was graduated from Cornell University in 1881 with the degree of Ph. B, and in (Continued on Page Five.) All to Give Aid in every state of the United States and in every county of every state —their backing for what you and the officers of law and order are trying to accomplish.” The President said careful plan- ning for coping with crime will be ineffective in its results “unless the people of the United States un- derstand the larger purposes of crime suppression and cooperate with these purposes LARGEST GARGO OF FISH LEAVES ON NORTHLAND (Alaska Coe;t—_Fisheries Sends Trainload of Sal- mon and Halibut The largest single shipment of fish in the history of the Alaska Coast Fisheries Company is on the southbound Northland, it was learned today. The shipment, totaling more than nine carloads of salmon and halibut, was taken on the North- land at Sitka, Juneau and Ket- chikan. Some of ‘the cargo will be discharged at Prince Rupert, B. C., for shipment to eastern ports by rail, while the remainder of the huge allotment will be carried di- rect to Seattle. This announcement was made here this afternoon by Walis George, general manager of the Alaska Coast Fisheries Company. The largest single grouping of fish is bound for France. It in- cludes 160,000 boxes of frozen sil- ver salmon and will be taken to Seattle, where connection will be ing direct to Europe. More than five carloads are included in this group, which was loaded on the Northland at Juneau Cold Storage dock yesterday afternoon. Two other carloads also left the local cold storage plant yesterday. One, a car of halibut, is destined for New York. The other, a car of salmon, is bound for Seattle. The former will be taken off the Northland at Prince Rupert for rail transportation. Another carload lot was taken on at Sitka. This shipment, of hali- | but, is slated for Chicago via Prince Rupert. The Ketchikan office of the Alaska Coast Fisheries was to place the ninth carload on the Northland today. This was a sal- mon shipment, and is to be sent to New York, via Prince Rupert. To make the shipment even larger, E. E. Engstrom of the Se- bastian-Stuart Fish Company an- nounced today he had placed two carload allotments of halibut on the Northland yesterday.. One is bound for Boston, the other for Chicago. Both will go via Prince Rupert. George said this afternoon that other adgditional shipments this winter would be made, including some fish destined for England, but that no definite sailing dates had been scheduled. — - REAR ADMIRAL HALLIGAN DIES BREMERTON, Wash,, Dec. 11.— Rear Admiral John Halligan, aged 58, Commandant of the Puget Sound Navy Yard and the Thir- teenth Naval District, is dead. He failed to recover from an opera- tion for stomach ulcers performed December 5. B BROWN-WOOD NUPTIALS ARE CELEBRATED IN FAIRBANKS Lewis M. Brown and Mildred Hansen Wood were quietly married in Fairbanks, November 24. The ‘witnesses were Lyman 8. Peck and John W. White. Mr. Brown is an employee of the Fairbanks Exploration Company and the couple plans to make | Pairbanks their home. made with a French freighter, sail- | R. E. ROBERTSON | _ NAMED T0 HEAD CHAMBER IN '35 Boyle, Kirk, C. Shattuck Elected to Other Positions Today R. E. Robertson, prominent attog- ney and a past leader of the or- ganization, was elected President of the Juneau Chamber of Com- merce for 1935 at a meeting of tl newly chosen Executive Board at Bailey’s Cafe this noon. Other officers chosen at mdny% session were: Frank Boyle, first vice-president and Curtis Shattuek, secretary-treasurer. Shattuck Was re-elected. Robertson, this afternoon, had no definite announcement as to the Chamber’s program for 1935, but expected to point out certain aims at the next regular meeting of the entire Chamber, scheduled for Thursday noon at Bailey's Cafe. “I appreciate deeply the honor the Executive Board has given me,” Robertson said. “I feel that an active Chamber of Commerce can be one of the city's greatest as-| sets. Thursday, I expect to give| my views on the subject of makipg our work for 1935 of real value.” The newly chosen President said that committee appointment prob- ably would not be made until a week from Thursday. Retiring officers, who have hesé ed the Chamber during past year and who have seen a successful development. of aviation for the city, are: C. D. Gardner, presi- dent; Frank Garnick, first vice- president; C. W. Hawkesworth, second vice-president; and Henry Meier, Board member CORPORATION SALARIES ARE BOUNDING UP Shrinkage Reported Taxable Incomes of $5,000 or Less WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—A de- mand for a broader reporting of salaries paid by corporations arose after figures disclosed a boost in the number of million dollars in- comes and a shrinkage in reported taxable incomes of $5,000 or less. Figures showed a quarter of & billion dollars shrinkage in the na- tion’s total net income in 1933, but the Securities Commission disclosed that some corporation salaries are leaping upward, one case where the increase was more than 200 per cent. Others remained stationary, or edged forward markedly. e ENGAGEMENT OF POPULAR JUNEAU COUPLE ANNOUNCED Mrs. Anna Webster has an- nounced the engagement of her grand-daughter, Miss Verna M. Hurley to Mr. Roy Carrigan, whose holidays. Miss Hurley Mr. and Mrs. is one of the popular members of Juneau’s younger set. Mr. Carrigan, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Carri-~ gan, of Seattle, has been associated with the Juneau and Douglas Tele- phone Company of several years. is the daughter of HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Dec. will head a movie picture expedi- sand Smokes and the Aleutians, using four special designed air- planes and following the trail of! wedding Will take place during Lhe‘ R. C. Hurley and Hogan entered vice-president; W. B. Kirk, ;second | § The contest for the speakership of the next congress, which has been going on quietly since the death of Rep. Henry T. Rainey of Illinois, finds the four men shown above being prominently mentioned for the post in which administration ad' Upper left is Sam Rayburn of Texas, upper right William Bankhead of Alabama. At left, below, ls James | | \ want a strong leadership to handle the huge democratic majority. M. Mead of New Yurk, and at nnht, Jnnph W. Byrns of Tennessee. (Associated Press Photos) | TWO ABDUCTORS ARE STILL FREE IN WASHINGTON Kidnaped Victim Returns Home, Badly Scared— Injured in Auto Wreck SUNNYSIDE, Wash,, Dec. 11.— George Wasson, a rancher near here, was stopped late yesterday afternoon at the point of a gun near the wreck of Clarence Far- rell's car, and made to drive Far- rell, who was injured, and his two abductors to Wasson's ranch where all three stayed. Wasson and his wife came here this morning to repert the incident and get medical njaid for Farrell. FARRELL RETURNS HOME ELLENBURG, Wash, Dec. 11.— Clarence Farrell returned this after- noon “so scared he could hardlly talk.” He said after he was re- leased by his captors at the Was- son ranch last night, the abductors were driven by Mrs. Wasson to near Prosser, at their command. Wasson was told not to sound the alarm until 8 a.m. today. Farrell's hand was cut and his back injured when his car was wreked, driving at a speed of 75 miles an hour. Farrell said Hogan's companioa is a 16-year-old boy who saved Farrell's life several times when Hogan, thinking Farrell was double crossing him, threatened to ki Farrell. JAIL DELIVERY The two abductors of Farrell are Martin Hogan, aged 23 years, con- victed of a hold-up and assault and for shooting and slightly wounding of Thomas Stoves, Cle Elum druggist, and his unknown companion who delivered him from the Ellensburg jail last Sunday night. The ynknown companion of the jail under a ruse he wanted to be treated for a wounded hand. The unknown man quickly produced a pistol and ordered Deputy Sheriff Gus Linde- !man to release Hogan which was this city for! (Continued on ch Five) Movie Picture Expedltwn to Come to Alaska; Special Designed Planes to Be Used 11— Ewing Scott, film director, said he | the Rev. Bernard R. Hubbard. Scott said he intended to fly |into the crater of Aniakchak, also tion to the Valley of Ten Thou- into the more dangerous crater of Shishaldin. Scott did not state when the expedition will start. Indicted TWO PORTLAND Attorney | DRUBRISTS HELD Gives Up* - FOR22 DEATHS ers in Seattle, Mail | Must Face Charge of Inq voluntary Manslaughter Fraed Charge I —Deathbed Statements SEATTLE, Dec. 11.—Pierce Lone- | gran, Seattle attorney, indicted on a mail fraud charge in connection with operations of the Seattle|deathbeds of the victims of poison | Metal Exchange, of which he is|drinks form the basis of formal President, has surrendered to the | charges of involuntary manslaugh- authorities. He was released on a |ter that are faced by two Portland bail bond of $1,000. druggists, Solomon Miller and Irv-| John R. Walsh, a broker, indicted | N8 Schwartz. | with Lonegran, also surrendered| Miller and Schwartz have been land was released on his personal arraigned and bail set at $10,000. | recogniance. Three other druggists are hr-ld| Both Lonegran and Walsh denied | 85 material witnesses under $2,500 unlawful acts. The exchange dealt |bail in silver futures. Twenty-two victims lie as mute “Both the investors and myself[eudencv of denatured alcohol were ground under by Government| Which spread a wave of agony| legislation and the losses were un- through the city. | avoidable,” Lonegran said. | Another man is near death. I‘ GEN. JOHNSON s b * = SPEAKING ouT 49 RUSSIANS | GO ON TRIAL, TERROR CASE Must Answer Charges in Connection with Kir- off Assassination Pierce Lonegran Surrend- PORTLAND, Oregon, Dec. 11.—| The last words gasped out on the | Former NRA Dictator De- clares System Is Dead —No Advice to Give NEW YORK, Dec. 11—Gen. Hugh 8. Johnson, former NRA dictator, | declared today that “NRA is dead | as a dodo, it is as dead as a door- | nail.” e The specific trouble it seems,| MOSCOW, Dec. 1l.—Forty-nine Gen Johnson said, is that NRA, more persons have been ordered to or what there is left of it, is “not . trial for their lives, charged with ang proper aid in needed sourc- Promoting “terroristic action” es." against Soviet officials in connec- Asked ' if he attributed the de- |tion with the assassination of Ser- cline to Donald R. Richberg, the .gei Kiroff on December 1. i General asked: Kiroff's assassin, Leonid Nicho- “Richberg, who is he?” | lieff, is still being questioned as to Gen. Johnson sald he had no,COnspirators. ! advice o glve. “That was the trou- Over one hundred have so far| ble I had, everybody was trying Peen executed by firing squads. | to tell me how to run it.” it T R s 34067 50 WIDOW OF MINING MAN Dies B 1 AND CHILD ARE BOUND | ies Beneath FOR CALIFORNIA VISIT |Earth Slide; |Says “Goodbye” GREYSTONES, Irish Free State, Dec. 11.—Joseph O’Leary, well digger, imprisoned in a shaft since last Saturday, died but his body has not yet been recovered. “Goodbye, I am dying,” O'- Learv told those attempting to rescue him. He spoke through a tube: that had been forced through the caved-in mass of earth. O’Leary’s limbs were crushed by the earth slide. . [ | | | i | Mrs. Charles Opdyke and her small child, from Fairbanks, are' bound for the south aboard the steamer Yukon on their way to; California to spend the winter. Mr. Opdyke died several months ago as! the result of asphyxiation while he was retorting gold at his min- ing property at Nome Creek, in v.hel Fairbanks district. AL MINING AN RETURNS Alter spending some time in- specting mining property in Alas- ka, Harry Townsend, well-known mine expert, is a southbound pas- | senger on the Yukon. | adopted a resolution RESOLUTION IS PASSED ENDING STRIFE THREAT League of Nations’ Council Deplores Crimes at Marseille TWO LITTLE NATIONS SEEM SATISFIED NOW | Yugoslavians and Hungar- ians Bury Hatchet After Geneva Action GENEVA, Dec. 11.—War threats in Central Europe were dissipated last night when Yugoslavia and Hungary bowed to the League of Nations whose Council unanimously “deploring” the crimes at Marseille. The action of the two opposing | nations in accepting the resolu- tion is viewed as a great victory for the League of Nations in the interest of peace. Central Europe has been threat- ened by war as the direct result of the assassination on October 9 of Yugoslavia's King Alexander, | and incidentally of the killing of French Foreign Minister Barthou. YUGOSLAVIA VICTORY BELGRADE, Dec. 11.—Yugoslav=- iam cheered the resolution adopt- Jed at Geneva on King Alexander's assassination as a sweeping vic- tory for them and ignominous de- feat for Hungary. The nation is singing the praises of the League of Nations. ANOTHER GAIN BY DEMOCRATS IN U, S. SENATE {Supreme Court of Colorado Issues Order to Can- vassing Board SANTA FE, New Mexico, Dec. 11.—The Election Canvassing Board has received an order from the State Supreme Court to issue a certificate of election as United States Senator to Congreéssman Dennis Chavez, Democrat. The Supreme Court; in issuing the order, contends the Canvassing Board had no right to canvass re- turns from 65 San Miguel County precincts because the votes were those of non-registered voters which gave Senator Bronson Cut< nng, Republican, seeking re-elecs uon, a majority of more than 4,000 votes. — e MRS. WERNECKE VISITS For the purpose of visiting her son, Ted, and her dayghter, Claire, Mrs. Livingston Wernecke is a Se- attle passenger from Juneau on the Yukon. Her children are students at the University of Washington, Mrs. Wernecke hoped, when she boarded i the vessel, that her husband, con- sulting engineer for the Alaska | Juneau Gold Mine Company, who flew south recently, would be able to join the family in Seattle for the Christmas holidays. - MRS. MULLEN ON BOAT Mrs. J. F. Mullen, wife of the United States Conmmissioner here. is on the Yukon, bound for San Francisco where she expects to spend the Christmas holidays with her daughter, Missie Mullen, a stu- dent at Sacred Heart School in | Menlo Park.