The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 26, 1935, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLV., NO. 6868. ___JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1935. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS “TM TELLING TRUTH,” SAYS HAUPTMANN BIG FUSS IS STARTED OVER STAMP ISSUES, Farley Ma):TI; Requested to Appear Before Com- mittee to Explain ‘WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—A. con- gressional invesfigation is. proposed to determine whether Postmaster General James A. Farley has given “half a million dollars” worth of rare postage stamps to some of his friends including President velt, Mrs. Roosevelt and Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes. Representative Charles D. Mil- lard, Republican of New York, said he would call the attention of the House next Monday to newspaper reports that stamps worth half a million or more to collectors, have been distributed, and added he will seek the House approval to a reso- lution which in effect would sum- ‘mon the Postmaster General before the House Post Office Committee to explain, Refuse to Comment Democratic leaders declined to ¢ comment publicly, but one high ranking majority meuiber of the Post Office Committee remarked: I hope the resolution will be adopted because Farley should not have done that.” Representative Millard asserted that he understood that when the new stamp issue came along, Post- master General Farley would get a full sheet before it had been per- forated for tearing, pay the face value and give it to somebody he liked. No Money Made Nobody has made any money out of it, Millard said, but added, it The Postmaster General auto- graphed one sheet of this kind for a ‘“‘friend of a friend,” and that “friend of a friend” sold the stamps. The sum, Millard said, has not been discl but the price reported in sta collecting cir- cles is said to be $1,000. SENATOR NORRIS MAKES ANOTHER ATTAGK ON PMG Declares Administration Must Not Be Farley- ized—Warning WASHINGTON, Jan. 28— From within the Republican Independent group that has supported the Pres- ident strongly in the past, came the assertion yesterday that the Executive may meet defeat if he “continues to let his Postmaster General Farleyize his Administra- tion.” The statement came from Sena- tor George W. Norris, of Nebraska, on the floor of the Senate during a speech on the World Court is- sue. The veteran Senator’s statement that Roosevelt, like Hoover, might be a one term President, came as a surprise to some but to many of Norris’ friends it was not interpret- ed as an outbreak, but nothing more than a continuation of his efforts to have James A. Farley give up either his Cabinet post or the Chairmanship of the Demo- cratic National Committee. e o JURY CALLED TO PROBE CHARGES OF PWA GRAFT First Inquistorial Body Is Summoned in Capital Since Oil Scandal ‘WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—A spe- cial grand jury, the first fto be called here since the Fall-Doheny oil cases, has been summoned to meet February 6 to inquire into charges of graft in the Public Works Administration. The first inquiry will be into the four million dol canal project in Texas. Later disbursement funds and other projects will be gone Inte, I Spectre of Dead Hovers‘at Trial Violet Sharpe Oliver Whately Isidor Fisch The names of these three persons, now dead; have been mentioned on numerous occasions in the testimony presented .at the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann at Flemington, N. J., for the murder of the Lindbergh baby—Ileft, Violet Sharpe, maid in the Morrow home who committed suicide; right, Isidor Fisch, the man Hauptmann claims gave him the ransom money, who died in Germany; center, Oliver Whately, Lindbergh butler, who died a year ago. Only the, name of Fisch has been linked directly with the crime. General Delivery Window at P. O. Opened Sunday PASSES AWAY AT BREMERTON Was. Formerly-in-Alaska Service and WasMar- ried at Sitka Owing to the late arrival of the steamers with mail from the south, Postmaster Albert Wile announced this afternoon that for the benefit of those who do mot have boxes, the to 2 o'clock in the afternoon. e ———— LIQUOR, TAXES BEFORE SENATE GROUP MONDAY {Upper House Committees to Begin Survey of Two Important Problems v Liquor and taxation problems are ! due to come up for their first im- | portant survey Monday when Sen- | ate committees on bdth matters get | together. Senator John B. Powers, | chairman of both groups, announc- |ed yesterday that sessions would be held Monday morning and like- ly those not members of the Leg- BREMERTON, Wash., Jan. 26.— | islature would be heard if time af- Admiral Robert Edward Coontz,| forded. aged 70 years, retired, formér Com-| The two. issues are among the mander-in-Chief of the United' most important to come before the States Fleet, died at 3:10 o'clock Twelfth Legislature and a thorough this morning after suffering from a | discussion is planned before action series of heart attacks. is taken. A public hearing by the In 47 years of actice service,! joint liquor committee of the House Robert Edward Coontz rose to the | and Senate is being considered for highest positions of responsibility, later in the session. open to an officer in the navy as! Earlier Poll chief of naval operations and com- A hearing of the joint commit- mander in chief . of the United|ee was held earlier in the week States fleet with rank of rear ad- | g,. organization and a poll taken miral. at that time by the group showed One Achisvement { a prevailing demand for change in This and the adoption of a defi-| the present set-up. A poll taken nite naval policy signed by Sec- in juneau recently also has been retary Denby and President Hard- 4,:neq over to the Legislature to ihg calling for “a mavy second 0 ye jn jts deliberations on the li- none” he later listed among "he.quor subject. outstanding achievements of his| “rne genate liquor committee - is tenure of nearly four years. . |made up of Powers, Brunelle and He also cited as important ac-|prayley and the Senate taxation complishments the definite forma-| oyoun * which also includes reve- tion of a United States fleet, de-| nues, highways and navigation, is velopment of forelgn cruises as/ oomnoceq of Powers, Roden, Walk- part of the operating plan and‘e‘_ and Hess. strengthening of the office of nav: Walker Offers Bill op:x‘;amuflgi Coontz was referred to| One new bill was presented in by Josephus Daniels, Secretary of | the upper house foday, by Walker, the Navy, under President Wilson, 0 act to define the crimé of neg- as “a man of ability, resource and| ligent homicide. The measure pro- judgment who has the confidence vides that any person who operates of the service perhaps as much as| any vehicle, boat or airplane in a anyone in it.” | reckless or careless manner, or who Complimented | is careless or reckless in the use “Everything he has ever done in | Of firearms and causes the death the navy has been done splendid-|Of another would be guilty of neg- 1y the Secretary said. glhem homicide. Penalty is fixed | at one to two years in the federal For hi k in the World War, | » Admll'rnllsczzl;nz received the dis-| Penitentiary or a $1,000 fine or tinguished service medal. He served | A 4 n::t as commandant of the Brem- After convening with the House erton Navy Yard in the state of to approve appointments, the Sen- ROBERT E. COONTZ 3 ARE KNOWN DEAD IN CRASH - OF WARD LINER [Federal Invesligafio‘.i of Sinking Starts—Box Found Frozen Stars in ¥ - A NEW YORK, Jan, 26— While}" Federal inspectqrs opened am in- ;| vestigation today into the crash of the Wand Line's two mil- ) | lion dollar Mohawk and'freight- er Talisman off \the New coast Thursday, the list of dead mounted as .warchers in the air, on the water \and along fhe shore continued theix work. %} Thirty-four were \known % be dead this morning. -elve missing. One hundred\ ahd 8 teen of the Mohawk’ and crew have been members of the crew of er, which did ‘not sink, alive, Believe 46 Dead It is believed thaf 15 p and 31 members of the .\ the sunken Mohawk are drowned or frozen to death icy Atlantic waters. liner is among the ssi body of Second Officer Rigoulot was found in the Coast Guard searchers. Chi tin Trumbly of Cromwell, Mr. and Mrs. Julian Westbury, N. Y., are included the list of prominent persons who died in the wreck. Mrs, Pea~ body is a member of the“pelo- playing Hitchcock family, H. F. Cléland -of Williams- Om‘h another known dead. Menaces Navigation Marking, in mute testimony, the resting place of the third Ward Line vessel to participate in a ma- jor sea accident in recent months, are two lifeboats and a lighted bellbuoy. The submerged vessel is in traffic lanes six miles south of Seagirt, N. J,, lighthouse and is regarded as a menace to naviga- tion. A bellbuoy has been anchor- ed above her, and two empty life- boats, with lines apparently en- tangled with the rigging are bob- bing above the sunken hull. The crash occurred Thursday when the freighter knifed her prow into the Mohawk, which suddenly, Talisman officers said, veered across the freighter’s bow. A de- fective steering apparatus was giv- en as a cause of the veering, ac- cording to a Mohawk seaman’s story. ————— APPOINTMENTS APPROVED AT JOINT SESSION One-House Proposal, Fish Trap Elimination Mem- orial Pass Lower Body Winding up the first two weeks of its 60-day legislative session, the Senate and House of the Twelfth Territorial Legislature held its first Jjoint meeting today to confirm the recent appointments of Gov. John W. Troy. Without a dissenting vote, the 24 members indorsed the appoint- ment of Michael J. Walsh of Nome and A. H. Ziegler of Ketchikan to the Board of Education and George A. Lingo of Fairbanks and J. W. Gilson of Valdez to the Board of Trustees of the Agricultural Col- lege and School of Mines Pass 2 Memorials Moving along rapidly today, the House passed unanimously the Green memorial providing for one house of the Legislature and the Murray memorial asking elimina- tion of all floating and standing fish traps in the Territory. Both proposals now go to the Senate. Joe Green of Hyder is proponent of the one-house plan and Charles Murray of Cordova, father of the fish trap proposal. Five new bills were tossed into the House hopper before that body adjourned until 11 o'clock Monday. Washington where he supervised|ate adjourned until 1:30 Monday. the building of fighting ships and| _ =~~~ —*#** oombatwdmgagimwrs and &rfil&e.‘ Ventura county, Cal., peace offi- In the closing months of the war, €TS have equipped a room in the ' old county jail for the reloading (Qontinued oy Page Two) of shells fired in the line of duty. A. H. Ziegler introduced a meas- ure requiring that in cases of in- sanity or alibi defenses in criminal prosecution the defense must give (Continued on Page Foup) A ruling of the district’ court of appeals at Sacramento, Cal., declaring that decrees are void has left many naries not knowing if they were married and if so, to whom. Some of the more prominent film folk who were wondering about their Quandary as Co Newell Blair Mexican divorce Hollywood lumi- Mexjcan_divorces Talmadge and J urt Rules Divorces Void Max Baer and Dorothy Dunbar Gloria Stuart Richard Dix and, in some cases, subsequent marriages to others, include: Richard Dix and Winifred Coe, Katharine Hepburn and Ludlow Smith, Gloria Stuart and Newell Blair, Jack Holt and Margaret Wood Holt, Dorgthy Dunbar and Max Baer, and Norms oseph M. Schenck. FARMERS FLEE .. FROM WATERS, FRASER RIVER Valley Is h;ded, Fertile Lowlands Covered— Slides Reported VANCOUVER, B. C, Jan. 26—A wavering. line of fleeing refugees stretched across British Columbia as swollen streams poured muddy waters on fertile lowlands on both sides of the Fraser River. Community halls have been turned into shelters for families ‘who snatched a few belongings and fleds Floods and slides continued yes- terday and last night. Farmers in some sections are ki%ling livestock as they have been without feed for several days, Cold Wave Continues Mid-West Temperatures Dropping in One Section of Country —Floods in South CHICAGO, 1., san. 26—While warmer weather and rain are pre- valent on the West Coast, floods continue in the southern states, with 18,000 homeless. A new winter invasion is threatened in the Mid- West. Temperatures are lower again today. Two hundred are known to be dead in the recent storm and the toll will mount if the weather turns coldler, as predicted. e o e cesmmmesd JAPANESE ROUT CHINESE FORGE Quiet Prevzfis—— Along Dis- puted Boundary—Set- tlement Is Near PEIPING, Jan. 26.—The Japan- ese military headquarters at Kal- gan, Chahar Province, reported to- day the disputed Jehol-Chahar bor- der district has been cleared of Chinese and quiet prevails in that area. It is said an agreement has been Teached to negotiate a settlement, Are Buried bySliding of Mount British Cobjmbia Commun- ity Is Being Devastat- ed by Mud, Water VANCOUVER, B. C., Jan. 26— Tons of mud and torrents of water roaring down the Sumas Mountain continued to devastate Kilgard, British Columbia. The Provincial Police are seeking the fate of sev- eral families living on the caving mountain, and who are believed to have been burjed. Two hundred inhabitants have already been rescued. | Abbotsford. One slide, the first of a series, swept the 4-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. McGee out of her father's arms and she was carried away in the mud avalanche. Fifteen year old Bruce Wakefield was buried at Abbotsford when a slide crushed a barn in which he was milking. ——re—— FINANCE PLAN GETS APPROVAL OF U. S, HOUSE Goes to Senate Backed by Morgenthau Bill to In- crease Borrowing WASHINGTON, Jan. 26—Meas- ures broadened the Government's power to borrow and lend, now go- ing through the legislative mill or headed toward it backed by the Morgenthau bill to increase by nine billion the government’s au- thorization to issue bonds, went to the Senate today affer passing the House. ‘Administration men, who said it law which lmits bond about two and one half billion ing, declared the bill was designed for refinancing at lower interest rates and for swinging recovery ex- penditures. Under the present law the government can issue only 2§ billions in bonds. Meanwhile both houses recessed with Republican members consid- ering the relief bill, Hugh Johnson scheduled to testify before the military committee on war prof- its and the Ways and Means House Committee continuing consideration of the social security program. ‘The refugees are sheltered at| was necessary to change existing| issues to| more than the total now outstand- | FLOODS RECEDE IN WASHINGTON; BELLINGHAM HIT Water Supply Contaminat- ed—50 Families Still Marooned, County SEATTLE, Jan. 26—Floods in Western Washington were subsid- ing today. Railroads were back on schedule again and wire communi- cation was resumed to Vancouver, B. C. ‘The Bellingham situation was improved but water mains were broken contaminating the water supply. Conditions in the Olympic peninsula, hit hard the past sev- |eral days, were better, but it was ;rcpcned 50 families were still ma- | rooned in Clallam county. | The snow is almost gone in the }Spokane section. —_— e —— HUEY MOVES IN ON INSURGENTS INBATON ROUGE {Long:Sets Up*Military Base and Orders Probe of 1 “Murder” Plot BATON ROUGE, La., Jan. 26— | @nator Huey Long arrived here | from New Orleans today and an- | nounced “mob violence has stop- | ped.” He immediately launched a |court inquiry into a plot to “mur- | der” him. | Reaching the state capital here, where last night more than 100 men were threatening his dictator- | ship, he seized the parish court house and established a base to command the militia and other | state forces and ordered a court | investigation of what he said was |a “murder plot involving four sheriffs and a district attorney.” MASSING FOR SOVIET PUSH LONDON, Jan. 26.—A Reuters ‘dlspowh from Dairen, Manchuria, isald the Japanese troops are mass- |iug at Hailar for an offensive | against the Soviet forces concern- ed in the recent skirmish in the | Boinor Lake district, BRIEF CROSS EXAMINATION GIVEN BRUNO Prosecution Brings Out Statement from Defend- ant on His Veracity STATE IS PREPARING FOR STIFF QUIZZING One Surprise Is Sprung When Memorandun: Book Introduced FLEMINGTON, N. J, Jan. 26— While the court took a recess to Monday in the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, the defendant fortified his defenses while the prosecution rolled up new ammu= nition for a savage attack on his denial he kidnaped or killed the* Lindbergh baby. The defendant studied his sfock trading records to account for his affluence after the ransom had been paid. His lawyers went to in- spect his home in the Bronx. The state attorneys studied the weak points in Hauptmann's de- fense. ‘Wait, Says Wilentz “He is wulnerable! Very vulner- able!” said Attorney General Wil- entz, who hammered at Haupt- mann during the defendant's first half hour of cross examination yes- terday afternoon, ‘“but wait nntil we get started.” Although Hauptmann appeared shaken when he left the stand yes~ terday afternoon, he voiced satis~ faction with the impression he had made on the jury. “I do nof feel they bore me any fll-wil'” :ald Hauptmann: Hauptmann was almost coniemp- tuous in his remarks about Wil entz. “It seems the Attorney General is trying to get me excited. All I can say is he will have to iry & | lob harder. I'm on to that because I have been told prosecution yers act like that. It is no Attorney General Wilentz, in his cross examination of Haupimann late yesterday afternoon said: “You have an opportunity, you still have time to tell the whole truth Have you told the truth?” “I have told the truth alrcady,” | said Hauptmann. When asked if the story he told was the same he gave in the Bronx after his arrest, Haupimann | said, to a certain extent. : Surprise Sprung : As Attorney General dinned the “truth” point into the ear: of the Jjurors, then swung to Haup:imann's criminal record in Germany: then sprang the first surprise of the cross examination. Wilentz thrust into Hauptmann's hands a cheap red memoraridum book, open at a certain page “Is that your writing,” said Wil- entz. 1 “Yes, that is my writing,” replied Hauptmann, twisting in his chair. “Take a look at this word and tell me if that is your wriling. That one word there!” said Wil entz, g Hauptmann made no answer and stared dully at the open page ns if he could not comprehend what he saw. J Wilentz pounded away at the question until the pallid prisoner finally acknowledged: “It looks like my handwriting, but T can'' re- member I ever put it in.” " The word was “boad,” found in one of the ransom notes referring to where the baby would be found and using the word “Boadnelly” in designating the exact locatior The State will try ' Moncd to show Hauptmann financed his stock market- manipulations ‘rom the ransom money. Idaho Man Uses Fuse, Blasting Cap, to End Life WALLACE, Idaho, Jan. 26— Touching off a fuse of a blast~ ing cap placed nearby, J. T. Cooke, aged 54 years, Shoshone County Commissioner, endeod his life here. He had been in ill health for some time, el Cleaning a brace of ducks pur- chased from a Portland, Ore., mar- ket, Mrs. George Tilka found gold nuggets worth $4,