The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 21, 1935, Page 1

v CASE OF MOONEY THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ALASKANS FORCED DO JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1935. PLANE BOUND FOR SEATTLE, IN BLIZZARD Pilot Dorbandt Lands on B. C. Lake with His Garner was to be replaced. Three Passengers Secretary of Interior Harold L. Yckes and Secretary of Agri- Roosevelt Wants Garner for Running Mate,’36 Campaign WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—Word was quietly passed around Sunday that President Roosevelt wants Vice-President Garner tc team up with him again for the 1936 Presidential election. | This information dashed cold water on the aspirations of | some half a dozen prospective candidates, ! During the past several weeks several pronounced strong men among the proncunced liberal l)echrnta had been told el culture Henry A. Wallace were mentioned as likely candidates ACCIDENT OCCURS to run with the President for Vice-President. WHEN GOES FOR GAS Flier Travels to Hazelton| THEY o N to Organize Dogsled Relief Expedition HAZELTON, B. C, Jan. 21. — Frank Dorbandt, Alas- kan flier, arrived here Sun- day by automobile to organ- ize a dogsled expedition to rescue his party. Dorbandt and his party of three tcok off from Anchor- age last Thursday, Seattle bound. The party landed at Atlin Friday because encount- ering 50 degrees below zero weather, Taking off from Atlin Sat- urday, the plane was forced down in.a hlizzard at Kitwan-; cool Lake, 25 miles west of here. After spending the night in an abandoned cabin, where the party had to cut woed all night to keep from freezing, Dorbandt took off for Beinres |- , and Vice-presi (Associated Press Photo) BEST OF HUMOR Representative Joseph W. Byrns (left) of Tennessee, speaker of the ' nt John N. Garner of Texas, wt together in Byrns’ office at Washington as they met to talk ov lative matters. Apparently they had a few good stories to rel MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS , RETURNS SOUTH WN ON FLIGHT 30 HSH TflhPS' Earhart Com}_)letes Solo Hop A cross Pacific ELIMINATED IN ALASKA WATERS Total Now Operating Plac-i ed at About Three Hundred Seventy {ROPER SIGNS 1935 FISH REGULATIONS, Provisions Reported to‘e! Only Slightly Chang-' ed from 1934 = SEATTLE, Jan. 21, — Ths Bureau of Fisheries announces that 30 Southeast Alaska sal mon traps have been eliminats ed with the signing by Seeres tary of Commerce Daniel €. Ro= per of the 1935 fishing r lations. The Bureau of '} eries figures showed the inated traps ecaught 2 salmon last year. £ v “The 30 traps eliminated l¢ about 370 operating in waters. About 800 were ated a few years ago the Government began L ually to close Sevi regulations identical with the 1934 regu- lations, - e photographe: legi: e, too. ranch to get a supply of gaso- line and return to the lake. The gas was obtained, but! in the takeoff, a ski of the plane struck a snow pocket, broke an axel and bent the propellor. Dorbandt was not injured HITS GHANNEL and came here for help. S Te In' the party are Grant| Reed, enroute from Anchor-|Douglas, Harbor Suffers age to San Diego to visit his| Most as Wind Rzaches sick wife; Herbert Reed and High Velocity Gus Gelles. Beinras ranch is 23 miles| One person is believed to have been drowned and much property north of here. damaged, principally in Douglas, T as an icy Taku wind whipped up SUPREME cuu RT Gastineau Channel. The storm, the worst in the memory of Channel residents, started.Saturday morn- ing, reached a climax Sunday an still was causing havoc today. Details of the reported drowning this issue of The Empire. Although Juneau citizens ex- WASHINGTON, Jan. 21— The| porenced much discomfiture, the Supreme Court of States today held that Tom Moon- ingly, on the harbor and in Doug- ey had not yet exhausted efforts ). 1n the latter eity, much dam- » _the state courts and refused w'age—m the form of felled chim- EAVIEw s SR | neys, broken windows and torn-off The Court promised a direct rul- ;. ,¢c was noted. ing on the constitutionality of NRA | Drop to Beach and adjourned to February 4 when| 1y, buildings, both of them the gold clause decision is e€xX-|.1.ndoned, were dropped to the vedied; beach from the wharf approach in | | worst this season and one of the Citizen: of Everett Fleek, Douglas resident, ™ are included in another article in 8TOUP the United g rm centered its strength, seem- nelle of Cordova, BY SENATE HEAD Three Proposals Tossed in' Upper House Hopper as | Second Week Starts ONE OFWORST | COMMITTEEON " gey punt TAKU STORMS LIQUOR NAMED WASHINGTON GET BUDGET 'Gov. Martin's Message| Presents Knotty Prob- i lem for Solution OLYMPIA, Wash., Jan. 2L e Gov. Clarence D. Martin has tossed !of the legislators, presenting & | knotty financial problem in view | : the budget message into the laps| The first woman to fly across the Atlantie © ompleted the first solo flight from Honolulu to the mainland in 18 hours and 16 minutes. Amelia Earhart, pictured in mile hop, as she came to earth in Oakland, Her high-winged monoplane, shown, 4 the inset as she finished the 2406- greeted by thousands, is e b PEFES " Climbs Out of Gockpit § USE OBIECTS 70 SUSPENSION OF MINING WORK |Resolution Pushed Through —Single Legislative Body Urged Passage of a resolution to Con- | gress asking that no further sus- | pension of annual assessments on unpatented mining claims be per- mitted and introduction of two ALASKA BOUND STEAMER RUNS * GROUNDTODAY Victoria Refloats and Is - Returning to Seattle for Survey LEAKING SLIGHTLY IN 2 HOLDS, REPORT | Passengers Will Be Trans- | ferred to Yukon, Sail- ing Wednesday SEATTLE, Jan. 21.— Steamer Victoria, of the Al- aska Steamship Company, with 126 passengers aboard for Alaska ports grounded at Johnson Strait at 5:22 o’clock this morning in a heavy snow storm. & The Vietoria was able to | refloat two hours later and is | returning here for a survey. The steamer is leaking | slightly in two holds. Passengers will be taken north from here Wednesday aboard the steamer Yukon. — Horace Adams, local rapruen‘u- \tive of the Alaska Steamship Com- pany, received a radio this after- rioon that the steamer Victoria is disabled and is returning to Seattle where all passengers will be trans- ferred to the steamer Yukon sail- ing from Seattle Wednesday even- ing at 9 o'clock. Aboard Victoria ¥ Passengers aboard the Victoria booked for Juneau include John Vignlid, Mrs. M. Rundell, Jackie Rundell, Betty Rundell, Jane Run~ dell, Myrtle Krusey, Mrs, J. T. Scheidleberger, Mrs. Charles War- ner, Peter Warner, Mrs. J. F. Mullen, Nick Bavard, Dorothy Michello, M. 8. Rhodes, Steve Kane, measures, oné seeking a single H. C. Dunlop, Dorothy Adwms, 8, of the anticipated deficits in the | Twelfth legislative session, Senate common school and other funds.) members tossed three proposals into| ~The Governor's budget sets up | the bill hopper and heard a peti-: & financial outlay of $96,142,000 | Starting the second week of the tion from the Ketchikan Good|compared to $112,000,000 approp- | to o ntatives today. Pushed through under ] the House apy resolution in ‘view ¢ mining wuse of the Legislature and the|N. Greenle he, A. Adams, ther fixing the limits on old age|J P ith Horton, Mr. and ilowances, centered the atiention | M a1 Holbrook, John B. f the Territorial House of Repre-|P¢gues, D. G. Dascalos, Mr |H. Cleveland, C..W. Orr, F. George ls.wawr, Melvin G McMullen, Britta J. McKanna,® M. Imlaek: aud ship League asking Territor- jal control of intoxicating liquor before adjourning to 1:15 o'clock 4 Ptomorrow afternoon: President Luther C. Hess . an- nounced his appointment of a com- ittee to serve with the House in connection with drawing up proposed liquor legislation. Named to the committee were John B. Powers of Eagle, M. E. 8. Brun- and James Fraw- ley of Nome. The House committee is made up of A. H. Ziegler of Ketchikan, Joe Green of Hyder, Tolbert P. Scott of Nome, A. M. Chamber- lin of Deering, H. H. McCutcheon of Anchorage, Charles Murray of Cordova, Andrew Nerland of Fair- banks and Willlam N. Growden of In the NRA announcement, the n1a5 Both city floats were vir- Ruby. Supreme Court agreed to review tually destroyed. Chimneys were the decision of the Alabama Fed-|yj,yn gown from the Owl Restau- eral Court holding invalld both the y,pt tne Feusi residence, and the Recovery Act and the code mr‘()rnnberg residence. The porch of duced a measure fair competition for the mnberl products industry. -f/itamin E May Holci”Secret for Pre-determining of Sex CHICAGO, 1ll, Jan. 20. — The{ :linical role in pre-determining of Science State Medical Society has | iex.” The article asserted it pre- announced it may seen provide | dicted when experiments are com- means for pre-determining 'sex. pleted, a shaft of wheat, long a The secret is said to be in Vita- | barometer of world trade, may be mine E, plentiful in oily substance | the means of permitting parents to such as wheat, which appears|select the sex of their children from “most ethical laboratory ex-|in advance. periments” to have strange pow- Experiments with rats, the jour- ers of telling whether an unborn | nal said, showed that mother rats chilld will be a boy or girl. give birth to males and females The society's journal said “re- |in direct ration to the small or over supply of vitamine E in the diet. (Continued on Page Three) I Roden Measure Henry Roden of Juneau intro- which would make uniform any reference to or citation of the Compiled Laws of Alaska, 1933. Amendment to existing statute providing that in criminal actions for polygamy or adultery husband or wife of the accused shall be a competent witness to testify against the other without consent of the other is sought in a bill brought in by John B. Powers of Eagle, Powers also sponsored the third measure of the day, an act defin- ing disorderly conduct and dis- turbance of the peace as a misde- meanor and fixing the penalty on conviction at a fine of $300 or im- prisonment in jail for not more than six months, of both. The bill would bring the old statutes such as driving mules or horses more than six miles an hour and simi- (Continued gn Page Two) | riated by the last Legislature for | !the current biennium. | ’ Should the legislators stick close to the Governor’s estimates and | in addition provide state funds for | the relief ‘'of old age pensions, as| recommended by the Governor i appropriations for the coming| biennium may total about $110,-| 000,000. STOCK PRIGES MOVE SLIGHTLY Market Assumes Waiting Attitude—Some Spec- ialties Push Up NEW YORK, Jan. 21.—Stocks re- sumed a waiging attitude today. Scattered specialties pushed ahead but the main body of the list held to a dull range. Today’s close was steady. President’s Son Is Defendant in Suits Involving $35,000 BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 21 —Frank- lin D. Roosevelt, Jr., is named de- fendant in two suits totalling $35,- 000 as the result of an accident last March when Mrs. Mary O’= Leary was struck by young Roose- velt's car. One suit is for $25000 brought by Mrs. O'Leary and the other . v A Amelia Earhart shown climbing out of her single motored air- plane at Oakland at the completion of her hop from Honolulu. OF HAUPTMANN Shows How Account Grew After-Ransom Money Was Paid FLEMINGTON, N. J, Jan. 21— William E. Frank, United States Treasury Department Agent, was placed on the stand today as a witness by the State in the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann to give a detailed account of the fi- nances of Hauptmann and his wife before and after payment of the ransom money. Frank testified that before April 2, 1932, the day the ransom was paid, until September, 1934, the day of Hauptmann's arrest, the sum of $16942 was put in Hauptmann’s brokerage account. Total Assets is for $10,000, brought by her hus- band Daniel, for loss of her seg=|: grer i i I 1 (Continued on Page Two) J vices. Frank testified that the total of WITNESS GIVES [EDWARD FLEEK FINANCE DEALS | BELIEVED TO BE WATER VICTIM Douglas Resident Object of Search — Boat Found Beached Belleved to have been drowned, Everett Fleek was the object of a wide-spread search in Douglas yes- terday and today. The 23-year-old son of Willlam A. Fleek, Douglas machine shop | proprietor, awas reported missing yesterday when his small gasboat, | lights burning, was found swept up |on the beach. | The younger Fleek had gone to his boat, moored at City Float, to arrange additional lines to keep the vessel from drifting away as the 'result of high waves caused by a {strong Taku wind. When he failed to return, and when the boat was found on the beach, the Dougls (Continued oa Page Seven) ¢ telegram received through the CGovernor’s oftice Saturday from TR Ala Delegale Anthony J. Di-! | ' nond, who asked carly advice trom| T'rial for Former Lo : Kuaiser Forestalled ~ Dimond's Wire By 1 ; vire to Gov. Jobn W. Troy, By United States n Dimond read: i Will you please ascertain from | Legislature and advise me what| view of Legislature is with respect to suspending annual assessment work for current assessment year. It would be helpful to me here if Legislature would adopt a memorial | or resolution on subject, either in| favor of or opposed to such sus- pension.” Chairman Tolbert P. Scott of the mining committee explained that it has been the practice for several years to suspend the annual assess- ment on claims, a custom that was WASHINGTON, Jan Revelation that the (rial Ex-Kaiser Wilhelm, as the world’s arch eriminal, was prob- ably forestalled by the United States, came out today from the State Department files, hitherto unpublished. Failure of the Senate to ratify the Versailles treaty def- initely took the United States out of the picture as the pros- ecuting nation and the other allies were wunwilling to go ahead with the extradition proceedings without the aid of the United States. (Uonninued on Page Two) Five-Four Decision Expected in Historic Gold Clause Cases WASHINGTON, Jan. 21, — Nine Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, although guard- ing the secret closely, left surface ‘and if the Progressives follow lines to which they have often hewed in the past, some observers held it possible the Court might divide, signs late last Saturday afternoon, | five to four, or sustaining the val- after a protracted cunlerence,mat‘idi:y of the act in suspending they had reached a decision on the | gold payments, historic gold clause cases. l In purely physical action, the | AWAITS DECISION court'’s trained overservers saw| WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. — The hints of the possibility of another | word gold was on every lip today famous 5-4 decision. | as the Supreme Court gathered to The Justices themselves were hand down several decisions, The silent as always but of the six|Capital and much of the world who remained closetted together | awaited word as to whether the ,after the long conference broke up, | court will decide the tremendous five have been labeled Progressives. question of the gold clause today If their meeting is significant or later.