The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 30, 1935, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLV., NO. 6871. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1935. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS 'HAUPTMANN'S ALIBI IS SUPPORTED - FOUR WORLD COURT PLAN DEFEATED INU. S, SENATE Protocol of American Ad- herence Loses in Surprise Vote by 52 to 36 FOES DECLARE ISSUE IS DEFINITELY DEAD Proposal Backed by Roose- velt and All Presidents Since It Came Up WASHINGTON, Jan. 30— The Senate Tuesday night rejected the protocol of American adherence to the World Court by a vote of 52 for to 36 against. The court pro- posal has the backing of the ad- ministration as it has had the sup- port of every President since it first came up. Foes of the court declared the Senate’s rejection means the issue which has been before the Senate et intervals for 12 years is dead for some time to come, if not per- manently. The vote was a surprise to many as only Monday night opponents considered they would have no more than a majority of two votes to defeat the measure. However, sentiment-swung against .the meas- ure in the last few hours and it would have taken a two thirds vote to carry, hence the World Court proposal lost by seven votes despite President Roosevelt's re- quested ratification so the United States could “once more throw its weight onto the.scale in favor of peace.” GENEVA DISAPPOINTED GENEVA, Jan. 30.—The League of Nations learned with keen dis- appointment the rejection by the United States of American adher- ence to the World Court. The opinion had been held here that ratification was certain. The news brought from the rep- resentatives of various powers ex- pressions of belief the Senate’s ac- tion constitutes a severe blow to the building up of the international law promotion for peace through a policy of settling disputes by Jjudicial process. —— - REPUBLICANS OF MIDWEST HAVE SCHEME May Establish Root of New Organization 'in Farm Belt TOPEKA, Kas., Jan. 30.—Hopes for a National Republican organ- ization rooted in the farm belt of the Middle Wm are entertained by a party of ders of this sec- tion now here conferring informal- ly. No formal action has been tak- en on the possible movement to unite seven states represented by Justis J. Johnson, Illinois State Chairman, expressed the theme to let the Midwest, so typically American, with its sound funda- mentals, take the lead. Among those present are three mentioned as possible presidential candidates in 1936, Col. Frank Knox, Chicago publisher; Gov. Al- fred M. Landon, of Kansas, and Col. Patrick J. Hurley, Hoover's Secretary of War. Belgium Uncovers Smuggling Plots; Plants Being Used BRUSSELS, Jan. 30.—Narcotics hidden in potted plants led to the arrest of eight men in Mons and the uncovering of an international smuggling ring operating in Bel- gium, Holland, Prance and Eng- land. Two pounds of narcotics in a beflowered pot sold to peddlers for $1,800, 7 4 > . Royal Bride-To-Be The engagement of the Infanta Beatrice, eldest daughter of the exiled Spanish. king, Alfonso, to Prince Alessandro Torlonia of, Italy has been officially announced. The wedding is expected to be sol- emnized in Rome sean. (Associated Press Photo) HERRING PLANT BILL BROUGHT | OUT BY DIMOND Measure Would Restrict Operations During Next Four Years WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond intro- duced in the House of Represen- tatives today a bill which would restrict conversion of herring to oil and meai for fertilizer. The Alaska bill would restrict future operations to plants which operated in 1934 and would limit their production during the next four years to a percentage of their average output for the years 1930 to 1934. They will be allowed 80 percent of this base for 1935, the amount to decrease 20 percent each year until the output is 20 percent of the base in 1938. The bill also would prohibit the transportation of herring taken in Alaskan waters for conversion else- where. IDENTIFIGATION OF BABY'S BODY 1S LIKELY ISSUE Defense Announces Move that May Be Taken— Witnesses Ready FLEMINGTON, N. J., Jan. 30.— One of Hauptmann’s counsel, Eg- bert Rosecrans, said today the de- fense will introduce probably two or more experts to show the body identified as the Lindbergh Baby, may not have been examined prop- erly before it was cremated. “We are prepared to produce be- fore the court, two medical ex- perts,” said Rosecrans, “and one of them has said his first opinion o? the case is the conclusions reach- ed by the state autopsy authorities, with regard to the cause of the baby's death, are more than likely unwarranted.” .- Alexan:ler’s Death Spot Ruled by City Traffic MARSEILLE, Jan. 30—A bronze plate, embedded in the street, will mark the spot where King Alexan- der of Yugoslavia and Louis Bar- thou, foreign minister of France, were assassinated. The decision to commemorate the tragedy with a plaque in the pave- ment instead of building a monu- ment, was taken by the city gov- ernment. It decided an upright memorial IS UNITEDTO | HONOR F. D. R. Big Events Will Be Held Tonight in War on In- | fantile Paralysis BULLETIN— WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—~The Nation shower- ed birthday greetings on Presi- dent Franklin D. Roosevelt and dressed in the finest clothes for the countrywide birthday par- ties tonight to be given from New York to Alaska, north and south. | | | | | i | | i | | i NEW YORK, N. Y. Jan. 30— | America will hold the greatest so- |cial event in its history tonight |to honor the President's Birthday !and to finance a nation-wide fight {against infaniile paralysis. This seemed established at head- 4quarwrs for the Birthday Ball for |the President here today when Col. |Henry L. Doherty, National Chair- man, announced that the total |number of towns and cities hold: |ing celebrations this year will far |outnumber the total last year. With more communities organized on January 8 this year than the grand |total organized at the end of the campaign last year, and with each community which held a party in 193¢ working to out-do itself in 1935, everything points toward an event unrivaled in the history of the nation. While small communities from Jackson, Maine, to Honolulu, Ha- waii, and from Point Barrow, Al- aska, to San Juan, Porto Rico, prepare for programs that will include very local notable and will reach a climax between: 11:30 and 12:30 with a nation-wide radio ad- dress by the President himself, great population and social centers vie with each other to make their ball the outstanding event of the year. Chicago Plans “Biggest’ “The biggest social event ever held” is the way the Chicago com- mittee, under the chairmanship ol Howard F. Gillette, characterizes its birthday party for the Presi- dent, and the boast is backed up by elaborate plans. Scene of the ball will be the city’s International Amphitheatre, the largest hall in the world, with a capaclty of 60,000. There, be- sides the ball itself, will also be featured the world's largest barbe- cue plus a barn dance led by an old-timers’ orchestra of 80 pieces. Twenty orchestras have volun- teered to play tonight, the Chicago Musicians’ Union has donated a 100-piece band, and meat and beer are being supplied by Chicago busi- ness men. The Chicago birthday celebration will not be limited to the evening program alone. In order to swell the fund to fight infantile paralysis, banks and other public places in the city displayed a total of 10,000 contribution cans to receive small contributions. School children also made their special contribtions sep- arately, and a Presidential birthday cake will be sold at City Hall. Chicago’s newspapers, transporta- ——————— CHILD 0 BE HONOR BUEST, F.D. R PARTY Dillingham Miss Taken to Anchorage—Will Be Sent South ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 30— The guest of honor at the Roose- velt Birthday Ball here will be Selma Olsen, aged five years, crip- pled, and unable to walk. The girl was brought here from Dillingham by Pilot Murrell Sas- seen for medical treatment which is unobtainable here. The Presidegt’s Birthday mnd‘ will enable her to goto Seattle to, enter the Chjldren’s Orthopedic! would be ‘a hinderance to traffic. Iflosplm‘ { ] Mr. and Mrs, John Boettinger posed for this picture In the New Yor! residence of President Roosevelt upon their return from a short honeys moon. M Boteeinger is the the President. (Assoicated Pri ‘mer Anna Roosevelt Dall, daughter of Photo) Supreme Court Qil Decision Heartens Anti-New Dealers, Points to “Specific” Laws By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Bureau, The Associated Press, Washington) HOUSE PASSESE APPROPRIATION .z o, mever, o oo | significance of the supreme court’s $12,000 Involved in Pro- posals to Help Schools in Stricken Cities Two appropriation measures were pushed through the Territorial House of the Legislature today. One would provide $10,000 to Nome for its grade and high schools andi‘ the other $2,000 to Craig to car- ry on its school work interrupted by the recent fire. Effort was made by George Lingo to amend the Nome pro- posal so that the territory would receive a refund of the money, but he finally withdrew it when How- ard Lyng of Nome pointed out the city, which was wiped out by fire last September, has virtually no money in its treasury and wil have none whatever for schools af- ter the middle of February. Explains Situation Lyng told the House that three fourths of the taxable property of Nome had been wiped out in the disastrous fire and for the next two years at least the city’s revenue from taxation would not be a third of what it had been before the fire. Lingo explained he was not against giving Nome the money but he felt that it was & bad practice to allot Territorial funds to incorporated cities with- out making arrangements with the cities to repay. The money would be allotted over a two-year period, $5,000 an- nually. The measure passed with- out a dissenting vote. The Craig school bill also found ready passage. The new $11,000 Craig school was burned last week and’ the school is forced to seek temporary quarters. The $2,000, asked of the Legislature, would go to defer cost of rent, supplies and other incidentals. Both measures now go to the Senate. Grist of New Bills A grist of bills were thrown In the House hopper yesterday. Four of them are aimed to clarify the existing statute Auditor, Highway Engineer, and provide the At~ torney. General and Treasurer| shall take office the first of April “hot oil” decision, but no one dis- putes that two practical results al- iready are becoming apparent: The language of the court has lgtven new hope and new enthusi- |asm to those who contend that ‘the Basic concepts of the “new deal” are unconstitutional, unwork- able, and futile; and— Delivery of the opinion just at this time forecasts far greater care {and deliberation «in revamping the | national industrial recovery act |than were expended in its origi- | nal enactment. These are considerations of fact |and not of opinion. Whether there is ground for the new courage in- fused into the anti-“new dealers’ |is beside the point. Nor is it ne- |cessary to establish whether a more cautious administration course actually is compelled by the court’s action. } The hard practicality is that the | new courage has been infused on |the one side, and the new caution on the other, and both of these facts already are having their ef- fect on capitol hill and elsewhere. A SPECIAL CASE It should be understood that in holding certain features of the oil code wunconstitutional, the su- Kr.u'eme: court was dealing with a | rather narrow field of litigation. | ©Oil was considered so much a | special case when the recovery act | was drawn that a special section | was devoted to it: This section | went somewhat farther than the | general sections authorizing code- making in general. The court felt it went too far. The question now is whether, in later decisions, it will have the same feeling about | the ‘other and more general clauses of the law. The renewed activity and en- thusiasm of the anti-“new dealers” is based on implications they read into the court’s words; implications denied by the “new dealers.” Almost immediately the effect has been seen in Congress. The Re- publican minority stiffened its lines overnight. It began an organized opposition to the ‘lump sum” plan for public works. It began to make | Preparations to examine more care- fully the other proposals expected | soon from the White House. Whatever the justification for its hopes, the opposition to Mr, Roosevelt did take new hope and “Ayonninued on Page TwO) (Continued on Page TWo) 'A|.|. AMER"}A ‘ leWLYWEDspos;t:lNNEWYORKHOMQ’DAWSUN BUUND CRAFT CRASHES INTO MOUNTAIN Disaster Occurs in Snow Storm Over Summit of White Pass PILOT AND THREE PASSENGERS DEAD Bodies AreT{ezovered and Taken to Skagway on Rotary SKAGWAY, Alaska, Jan. 30. — An International Air- ways Buell, taking off from here at 11:30 o’clock this forenoon, with Pilot Lawrence Muehleisen at the controls, and with three passengers aboard for Dawson, crashed in a snow storm, against a high rock cliff 150 feet north of the south end of the Am- erican snow shed at the sum- mit of White Pass and all were killed. The dead are: Pilot Mughleisen. John R. Muralt, of Van- couver, B. C. Archie King, of Dawson, Y. i C. C. Largen, residence un- known. ‘The plane fell down on the shed of the White Pass. Workmen in the shed heard the crash and were the first to discover the accident. The bodies were brought here on the rotary, One wheel of the plane is up high on the cliff. Mrs. Muehleisen and two chil- dren are guests at the Golden North Hotel here. ————————— AID TO MINERS IS PROPOSED IN RF.C. MEASURE Loans of Tv;e;y Thousand Dollars or Less Would Be Permitted WASHINGTON, , Jan. 30.— The Schrugham amendment to the Re- construction Finance Corporation’s bill, which has been made, is hail- ed as one of the most important steps toward developments of min- ing properties thai has been taken in years. ‘The amendment permits the RFC to use ten million dollars in mak- ing loans of $20,000 or less to min- ers desiring to develop gold, sil- ver or tin deposits in anticipation of providing a body of ore suffi- clent to secure a larger operating RFC MEASURE - PASSES HOUSE Bill Sent Back to Senate for Action on Amend- _ments Made WASHINGTON, Jan. 30. — The House last night passed the Ad- ministration’s’ bill giving the Re- construction Finance Corporation two years more of existence. The bill has been returned to the Senate, which has already ap- proved it, for action on House amendments, The bill must be signed by the ARE KILLED IN PLANE ACCIDENT Wife on Stand Mrs. Bruno Richard Haupt- mann was placed on the wit- ness stand today in her hus- band’s defense. LAST TESTIMONY IS GIVEN TODAY President before Thursday, other- wise the RPFC automatically ex- pires, BY HAUPTMANN Redirect Examination Is Handled by Reilly to Combat Admissions FLEMINGTON, N. J, Jan. 30— Bruno Richard Hauptmann began his fourth day in the witness chair 2 WITNESSES BACK CLAIM OF DEFENDANT Suspect Was Seen Far from Scene on Night Baby Kidnapped MRS. HAUPTMANN ON STAND TODAY Swedish Carpenter Is Posi- ive in His Iden- tification FLEMINGTON, N. J, Jan. 30.— Two witnesses, Mrs. Bruno Haupt- mann and Elvert Carlstrom, Swed- ish carpenter, today supported Hauptmann’s alibi for the night the Lindbergh baby was kidnaped. Carlstrom sald he remembered the day because it was his birth- day. He sald he saw Hauptmann in front of the bakery where Mrs. Hauptmann works, reading a newspaper. He sald he saw a pic- ture of Hauptmann in a news- paper after his arrest, and told someone, who had told attorney Reilly, that he knew Hauptmann personally. Carlstrom said Mrs. Hauptmann had waited on him at various times during the two months he ate at the cafe counter. Remembers Hauptmann . Carlstrom said the reason he re- membered Hauptmann was because he laughed at him and he got mad at Hauptmann for the laugh. “When I get mad at a person I this morning under redirect ex- amination of his counsel, seeking from him testimony to counteract the damaging admissions wrung from him during the past two days by the state. Hauptmann testified, under the questioning of Edward J. Reilly, chief defense counsel, that he went to the Majestic Apartments on March 1, 1932, looking for work. He said there was nothing im- proper between him and Mrs, Henckle and that while in jail he had read the life of Lincoln, North Pole Expedition story, and stories of Canada and also ancient his- tory. That Word Boat Reilly produced a booklet and asked Hauptmann to spell “boat.” Hauptmann spelled it correctly. The word was spelled “boad” in ransom notes., Hauptmann said that when he was arrested he did not try to con- ceal that he had a gold certificate or try to conceal or change the li- cense plates on his automobile, Bought Wife Shoes Hauptmann said he took his wife to buy some shoes with one of the ransom bills openly and that not one dollar or ransom money went into his bank or brok- erage accounts. That Plane Again Hauptmann said he did not know that Harry Uhlig and' Tsadore Pisch had an apartment in some other part of the city. He also de- clared his carpenter plane had not been in use since 1928, that he had not sharpened it since then and it had been on a shelf on the rear wall of his garage since then, which is directly oppo- site to that Arthur Koehler testi- fied. Koehler testified that his ex- periments had convinced him the Hauptmann plane was used in the construction of the kidnap ladder. Hauptmann said he had used his iron planes since 1928, He said a large iron plane was missing from his tool box. The plane was intro- duced and Hauptmann examined it from the witness stand. Redirect questioning was then concluded. STOCKS STURDY; GAINS SLIGHT NEW YORK, Jan. 30— Stocks were sturdier today but lacked vigor. Prices closed irregularly higher but most of the gains were fractional. Today's turnover Wwas under 500,000 shares. remember his face,” said Carl- strom. Mrs, Hauptmann who began her testimony after her husband had completed his direct examination, said she never saw the shoe box on a shelf in a closet, sald to have contained the ransom money alleged left by Fisch, but was made to admit by State Attorney General Wilentz that she used it. Was Same To Mate She sald Hauptmann acted no differently toward her after her return from Germany on a visit but admitted she refused to go to the home of Mrs. Greta Henckle. Asked what was the reason, she dropped her eyes and timidly re- plied: “I couldn't say that to you.” Mrs. Hauptmann said her hus- band called for her the night of the kidnaping. DEFENDANT IS WELL PLEASED WITH HIMSELF Hauptmann Receives Con- gratulations from His Counsel and Wife FLEMINGTON, N. J, Jan. 30— Bruno Richard Hauptmann re- turned to court this morning with an air of confidence, indicating his belief he was passed the worst days of his trial. Hauptmann left the witness stand yesterday afternoon, follow- ing the gruelling, rapid cross ex- amining of Attorney General Wil- entz, and immediately received the congratulations of his counsel staff and his wife. “I could have stayed there a week,” Hauptmann said. “I can't be rattled because I am telling the truth.” His wife visited him in jail late yesterday afternoon in company with Attorney Lloyd Fisher, of the defense staff. Hauptmann's buoyant mood as- serted itself when fire engines raced past the jail. “I hope it is Condon's house,” he told Fisher. Surveys Water Power ANKARA—As first step in a plan to electrify all of Asia Minor, Turkish engineers are estimating the cost of a hydro-electric plant at Iznik Lake, near Broussa. The lake is 1,000 feet above sea level, Gl 5 B