The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 23, 1935, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLV., NO. 6865. 14 “ALL THE 4 R 2 JUNEAU, ALASKA, V S ALL THE TIME” DNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1935. HAUPTMANN IS MANY SECTIONS, PAC. NORTHWEST Western W;Englon Hard Hit by Elements — 7 DeathsReported * SCORES OF FAMILIES ALREADY MAROONED Roads Blocked—Slides of Snow Threaten — Brit- ish Columbia Isolated SEATTLE, Jan. 23. Serious | floods as the result of record rain- falls combined with melting snow have blocked roads and communi- | cations today. | Several hundred families are re- | ported already marooned in various sections of the Pacific Northwest. Hundreds of thousands of dol- lars worth of damage is reported so far. The Pacific Northwest's storms still continue unabated, western Washington being the hardest hit. Seven Deaths At least seven deaths during the past several days are attributed to | the weather, Upwards of a dozen vessels, be- sides the Hokuman Mary, “have! been wrecked or damaged. { | | Transcontinental lines are block- ed or traffic just barely moving. New Storm A new storm is reported ap-! proaching the Columbia River sec- tion. Central and eastern Washington, also northern Idaho, are hit by unprecedented rains and thaw after weeks of bitter cold and heavy, Snow. 1 Serious snow slides threatened | today in various parts of northern Idaho. Flood Stage Tacoma, Aberdeen and all parts of southwestern Washington are ln a flood stage. British Columbia is still molmd, both by rail and wire communica- | tions. Several homes havi ed in Seattle as the result of landslides caused by a three-day rain after the heavy fall of snow. HOMES EVACUATED ABERDEEN, Wash, Jan. 23.—! County authorities have ordered several huhdred Chehalis River Valley families to evacuate their homes owing to flood danger. The | river last night was rising at thm rate of one foot an hour. RECORD RAINFALL TACOMA, Wash., Jan. 23.—West- ern Washington's flood danger was | serious last night. A 24-hour rain- | fall of two and seventy-three hun- dredths inches, against the record | of 13 years ago of two and sixty- seven hundredths, fell over this section. ————— GANGSTER HAS | CONFESSED-TO GREAT CRIME Names Associates in 1929 Massacre when Seven Were Mowed Down CHICAGO, Ill, Jan. 23. — The daily American says Byron Bolton, a Karpis Barker gangster, has ad- mitted taking part in the St. Val- entine’s Day massacre .of 1929, gne of the bloodiest crimes in Chicago's gangland annals. He named his associates in the killing of the seven men who were lined up against a wall in & garage and mowed down by machine gun fire. —_——ee SOURDOUGH VISITS STATES Dick Hall, sourdough proprietor of the Midnight Sun Trading com- pany at Wainright, is visiting outs side: George Broom is managing his trading post during his absence. W I ¢ .‘ o MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE'I'ENCFNI‘S KED WITH LADDER Grace Brandon A. Shepard, U. Mrs. Zenana Shepard (top cen r) ghp left), Texas sten Army (right), is Al ey pher over whom Maj. Charles d to have murder: hu wife, ace Mrs. Alice Watt Shepard, » lecond wife of the officer, when he goes on trial in federal court'at Topeka, Kan., Jan. 28, Maj. Sh {s shown. Mra. ALASKA SALMO) PACKERS TO PAY DIVIDEND FEB. 12 i | |Association Packed 1,051, i 250 Cases Last Season —Surplus Increased SAN FRANCISCO, Jan, 23—The Alaska Packers Association today announced a two dollar dividend, payable February 12 to stockhold- ers of record February 2. The association packed 1,051,520 cases of salmon last year and in- creased its surplus from $1,210,220 | to $4,963,102. CRAIG SCHOOL SWEPT BY FIRE; BUILT IN SPRING Flames Raze $11,000 Building Recently Con- pleted—Origin Unknown The new $11,000 school building erected at Craig last spring was d.e.; stroyed by fire yesterday morning | just before the start of school for| the day, according to word received | by A. E. Karnes, Commissioner of | Education. Origin of the blaze was not re- vealed but it is reported to have first been noticed in the walls, The water system was frozen up, seriously hampering efforts to com- bat the flames. The school has about 60 pupils and three teachers. epard was convicted and sentenced to life im| ri sonment in his first trial on the chnr | Riley, Kan., in 1929, but won an appeal » new trial, Inscrij uon on Miss Brandon's photo introduced in evidence | ‘Watt, wealthy Denver widow, after his conviction, of poison: his wife at totheU.E » married Shepard |Flights from Coast to China Indicated Now NEW YORK, Jan. 23.—J. T. Trippe, Pan-American Airways Precident, announces he will leave the Alameda Airport and use the Naval Air station at San Diego for experimental flights to China. GAPT.PATTERSON ON LAST VOYAGE |First Man tfilot Steamer |~ Up Tanana to Fair- banks, Dies SEATTLE, Jan. 23—Capt. H. W. | Patterson is dead here as the re- |sult of a sudden attack of the | heart. He piloted the first steam- boat up the Tanana River to Fair- | banks. His widow and two sisters sur- | vive. [INDIAN GIRL s | ROBBED BY DEATH OF HER PARENTS A sorrow is the possession today, lnr the young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Davis, Indian couple | from Hoonah. Last Friday Mr. Davis died at the Government Hospital here from pneumonia. That same disease struck again this morning at the Government ‘Hospttal when Mrs. Davis died. Previous p'ans for the removal of iMr. Davis' remains to Hoonah for | burial will be carried out. His body Ipmbs,bly will be shipped on the Kenai, scheduled to leave tonight | for Sitka and way ports. jupreme Court lnd | NEW WAVES OF Drive to Ptov1de 3,500,000 New Jobs Starts COLD SWEEPING LARGE SECTION Other Reglons Today Re- port Floods, Fog and. ore Snow CANADIAN REGIONS Fatalities in_R—ccent Severe Weather Are Said to Be Increasing BULLETIN — CHICAGO, IiL, Jan. 23.—A storm that is pre- dicted to reach gale propor- tions, is sweeping up the At- lantic seaboard. There is & six-inch fall of snow in New York and the Ohio Valley ex- tending to the New England States. Light fall of snow is report- ed from Meridian, Mississippi, and also Jacksonville, Florida. SWEEP DOWN FROM NORTH CHICAGO, Ill, Jan. 23.—New cold waves are reported sweeping down from the north on parts of the Midwest and Rocky Mountain areas. 4 - The number of fatalities is, re- ported growing from the recent cold snaps. Other sections of the nation are beset with floods, fog and snow. The South is hit by floods and frosts. Blizzards are raging in Manitoba and Edmonton. The temperature recorded at Ed- |monton is 60 degrees below zero, at Prince Albert 46 below and {Winnipeg 40. There is snow, sleet and fog in the Eastern States and general snow in West Virginia, Pennsyl- vania and New York States. ——— TERRITORY RUM STORES OPPOSED | BY COMMITTEE Joint Legislative Group Majority Favors Sale of Liquor by -Glass Poll of its members taken by the Jjoint liquor committee of the House and Senate at its meeting yester- day afternoon reveals that a ma- jority of the group is opposed to Territorial stores and is in favor of the sale of all kinds of liquor by the glass With 10 of the joint committee of 11 present, one House member being absent, the vote on “Do you favor Territorial form of sale of liquor?” found nine against with only one for. On the question “Do you favor sale of all kinds of liquor by the glass?” the vote was four, no, and six, yes. ‘The complete list of questions and the vote shows: Question, “Do you favor Terri~ torial form of sale of liquor?” For —1,, Against—9. (Continued on Page Eight) Meanest Fraud Is Given Long Term SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 23.—Carl Evans, twenty-nine, was accused of one of the world’s meanest rack- est—taking money from old men on the pretext that he could get them jobs. He has been sentenced to three vears in the county jail, the longest sentence ever meted out in the history of San Prancisco's munici- pal courts. | Mrs. Davis' body is being held| He was given six months for As soon as at the C. W. Carter Mortuary |each of six cases, the sentences to supplies can be sent there, classes| pending information from her|run consecutively. His purported will resume in temporary quar- ters, Mr. Karnes said. mother, settlement near Haines. a resident of Klukwan,|victims ranged in age from sixty- seven to eighty. Congressional leaders, lcllowln conferences with President Roosevelt on his message calling for vast pub- lic works prof pctus tn vldc clmfldw am to provi bullding, home im| vailable for such at lower rates thaw those of private compl.nhs, & pri New York (left) is seen conferring with Secretary of Interior Harol de jobs to replace doles, are plotting legislative course which will rovement and other lelf hqmd-tinz public unprwements e e Nty Lachar oF 28’ construction of ive vast ime oney would ing jobs, mud roads such as shown would be replaced by modern highways, and rural residents would be enabled to change from barn-like dwellings like that at left to modern residences illustrated at right, VICTIM OF KIDNAP GANG | FOUND SLAIN Iron Welghed Bullet Rid- dled Body of William Welss in Creek MENTIONED IN HAUPTMANN TRIAL PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan, 23— |& The authorities have ended a hunt of three months with the finding of the iron-weighted, bullet-riddled body of William Weiss, night life character, in Neshaminy Creek, | ‘Weiss disappeared one afternoon, He left his home for his place of business and was never heard from after. | ‘Weiss was reputed kidnapped by the Tri-State gang. Martin Far-' rell, member of the gang, identified the body. ‘The Tri-State gang was rounded up during the past few days. Ins cluded in the gang were Walter; Legenza and Robert Mais, They: were taken last night to Richmond, { Virginia, for execution for the murder of a bank truck driver. They recently escaped from prison. —————— ATTACK MADE, GHINA CITIES BY JAPANESE Two Thou;:l Manchou- kuan Troops Report- ed in Assault PEIPING, Jan, 23—A withering onslaught of 2,000 Japanese Man- choukuan troops, using airplanes, armored trucks and artillery, against three armed cities in the r Province of China, is re- ported in official dispatches from Kalgan. Noted Socialite to Seek Divorce| NEW YORK, Jan. 23—The New York American says that Mrs. Earl E. T. Smith, the former Consuelo Vanderbilt, is en route to Reno to win her marital freedom from the grandson of the lale Edward N. Jailer, Tl\l names of Vloln shnrpo (left), who eormnmod guicide while smployed as a maid at the home of Mrs. Dwight Morrow, and Henry “Red” Johnson (right), sailor friend of Betty Gow, nurse of the slain Lindbergh baby, were brought into the trial of Bruno Hauptmann for the crime as the defense sought to indicate the kidnaping plot was an %inside” Job. (Associated Press Photos) States Vie for Leadersth in Birthday Ball Campaign NEW YORK, N. Y, Jan. 23— ‘While states from coast to coast wvie for the honor of holding the most birthday parties to honor Fresident Franklin D. Roosevelt on the evening of January 30, hope was expressed at National Head- quarters for the Birthday Ball for the President here today that pro- ceeds from the 1935 celebrations, which will go toward fighting in-{ fantile paralysis, ,will far exceed the million dollars raised on the | same occasion last ye Punds this year wiil be divided, | to- ! 70 cents of every dollar going ward rehabilitating victims of the disease in the communities raising funds, the remaining 30 percent to be turned over to the President for use by the Birthday Ball Com- mission for Infantile Paralysis Re- search, of which Col. Henry L. Doherty is chairman States In Lead Colonel Doherty, also chairman of the 1935 National Committee for the Birthday Ball, announced to- day that seven states are leading the rest in the race for the most birthday party towns and cities, while far-flung American colonies are joining in plans for the festivi- ties. Pennsylvania tops the state list,] (Continued on Page Seven) lm'caent system.” with a total of 125 communities al- ready organized. Other leading states inelude Ohio, with 108 towns and cities organized; New York, with 96; Ilinols, 94; Cali- fornia, 88; Texas, 87, and Minne- sota 65. Alaska Will Aid Every state in the wnion is rep- Tesented in the complete list, which today totals more than 2500 and is expected to reach a grand to- tal of more than 5600 before the final returns are in. Hawali, the Canal Zone, Alaska and Porto Rico will all have parties. Word from Alaska says there will be at least four celebrations, one each in Ju- neau, Anchorage, Fairbanks and Cordova. Balboa will hold a cele- bration in the Canal Zone, Hono- lulu will be the scene of a Hawai- ian party, and San Juan has cabled that it will hold a ball in Porto Rico. Cities Join In Practically every major city in the nation will hold formal affairs. Included "in the list is Washing- ton, D. C, where Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson will be chairman of the ball; New York, where Mayor Piorello H. LaGuardia is ISTATE SPRINGS EVIDENCE THAT IS HARD BLOW Lumber Used in Kidnap Ladder Traced from Mill to Attic MORE TESTIMONY IS SLATED TODAY Telltale Marks Are to Be Revealed—Hauptmann Is Confident FLEMINGTON, N. J, Jan. 23.— The state has played the last trump card giving the jury an ac- count of how it traced the kid- nap ladder directly into the attic of Bruno Richard Hauptmann's home. The prosecution traced the wood from which the kidnap ladder was made from the iumber mill in North Carolina, where the planing knives marked it, to the Bronx lumber yard. Next came the discovery, accord- ing to the testimony, that a board removed from the flooring of the attic in Hauptmann's home, was one of the boards used in making the ladder. Telitale Marks Today’s testimony, the prosecu- tion stated, is expected to show how Hauptmann's clamps, chisels and planes left telltale marks on the ladder. Corporal Frank Kelly, finger- print expert, took the stand late yesterday for cross examination. The defense charged that Kelly's method of taking impressions ruin- ed them and he was required to demonstrate the way he took the prints. Expert Testifies Arthur Koehler, Government for- ester and wood expert, testified the upright piece in the kidnap ladder and the section taken from the attic in Hauptmann's home, were at one time one piece. Koehler took the two pieces of wood, on display at the trial, and held them together to make one continuous section. He declared: “As the result of very careful stu- dy I come to the conclusion these two pieces at one time were one plece and they were cut in half.” Welding Link Koehler also said that marks made by Hauptmann's plane on the wood were also a welding link. The state announced intention tr “wrap the ladder around Haupi- mann’s neck.” The ladder represents the-fourth cardinal point of the state’s evi- dence, the others being testimony that Hauptmann's handwriting was on 14 ransom notes, that he was seen near the Lindbergh home proir to tize kidnaping, and that he collected the ransom. Hauptmann Confident Lloyd Fisher, one of the attor- neys for the defense, today said Hauptmann, ‘“‘after ‘his 'acquittal, hopes the world will forget him and allow him to live quietly with his family.” Attorney Pisher made the state- ment after talking with his client in the jail here. Fisher said Haupt- mann continues: unshaken in the belief he will soon be free. “Hauptmann is confident the state is failing to prove the case against him. He is composed and cheerful and he has no fear of cross examination because he will be telling the truth,” Attorney Fisher said. Vote for Youths, Aim of Brookhart ‘WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—A con- stitutional amendment permitting youths of eighteen to vote, was ad- vocated by former Senator Smith ‘W. Brookhart, of Towa, addressing the national youth congress here, he said: “I believe the youth of our na- tion should begin to take his place in the affairs of the government earlier than is possible under our