The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 1, 1935, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLV., NO 6873. KIDNAPING SUSPE “ALL TH. NWs ALL THE TIME” EXTENSION OF AIRMAIL LAWS WINS APPROVAL Senate Action Follows President’s Recommenda- tion, Civilian Aviation TRANS-OCEANIC AIR SERVICE IS COMING Aerial Defense Particular- ly Applicable in Alaska, Commission Says WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.— The Presidential message, recommend- ing that all civilian aviation be placed under control of the In- terstate Commerce Commission, was followed yesterday by the Sen- ate’s approval of a measure to extend the existing airmail laws to September 1. Ocean Air Liners The President’s Special Com- mission asserted that the “roman- tic dream” a trans-oceanic com- mercial air service was approach- ing a reality 'and said America should prepare to claim its share of this business particularly in the Pacific. Hawaii was envisoned by the Special Commission as the cross- roads of all trans-Pacific air serv-|" Land Plane Speed Record ice. Applicable To Alaska The Commission, in citing de- fense possibilities of aviation, de- clared air defense was particularly applicable to® Hawaii and Alasg RUSSIA REJECTS JAPAN PROPOSAL OVER FRONTIER Non - aggression Agreement Not Sufficient, Says Soviet Leader MOSCOW, Feb. l.—Jeers greet-, ed the mention of Japan's activi- ties in Manchuria as delegates to the Seventh All-Union Soviet| Congress heard Vyasheslaff Molo- toff, Russia’s virtual Premier, re- ject the Japanese suggestion that the Siberian-Manchukuan frontier be demilitarized. Molotoff said the Red Army had increased during the last four years from 600,000 to 940,000 men. The speaker agreed with Koki Hirota, Japanese Foreign Minister, who recently proposed demilitari- zation of the frontier, that a non- aggression agreement would not be sufficient to secure the good rela- tions between Japan and Russia. SENATOR LONG CHEERS GUARDS WHO BEAT MAN Associated Press Photo- graher- Sent to Hospi- tal — Is Injured NEW ORLEANS, La., Feb. 1.— Senator Huey P. Long of Louisiana stood by and encouraged his bod: guards as they severely beat an Associated Press photographer here today. The thrashing occurred when Long arrived from Washington, C. He got off & train surrounded by a throng of bodyguards. The guards’ first act was to beat up Leon Trice, an Associated Press photographer. Trice had just snapped a pic- ture of Long stepping off the train. Joe Messina, Long's chief bodyguard struck Trice in the mouth, causing the photographer to drop his camera. Senator Long shouted, “Give it to him, Joe. Do anything you want.” Messina then struck Trice with a blackjack on the back of his head, knocking him down and sending him ¢o the hospital. Oth- ers destroyed the camera and stalked off with the Senator. | | Jane Frances Mullen has been sarnival at Big Pine, Cal., which winter activities. RULES FESTIVITIES IN SNOW REALM selected queen of the winter sports is the playground of Los Angeles sounty. The sports season will start in February with skiina and other (Associated Press Photo) ' Will Be Soug TEN MILLION DOLLARS FOR MINERS’ AID ;Loans May "Now Be Made| on. Partially Devel- oped Properties WASHINGTON, Feb. 1— The Reconstruction Finance Corpora- day extending the life of the cor- poration for two years, is au- | thorized to make loans to miners of partially developed properties bearing gold, silver and tin, with a view of developing them as com- mercial enterprises. The sum of $10,000,000 is made available with loans not to ex- ceed $20,000 to any individual property, on reasonable assurance a paying ‘mining venture may be developed. NEGOTIATIONS, SOVIET DEBTS, ARE ALL OFF Conferences—; Washington Over Almost as Soon As They Started WASHINGTON, Feb. 1. — The Soviet-American negotiations for a settlement of the 16-year-old Rus- sian debts of $500,000,000, collapsed last night as Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Soviet Ambassa- dor Alexander Groyanovsky met to D.|renew negotiations. The conference was over almost as soon as it started. Secretary Hull announced that in view of the present attitude of the Soviet government and the terms demanded he could not “en- courage hope that any agreement is now possible.” ——.e— HOSPITAL GIVEN CANARY Patients on the third floor of St. Ann's Hospital were cheered today by the cheerful chirping of & canary—the gift of an anony- mous friend of the hospital. Although moved from a pri- vate residence to the hospital yes- terday, the little feathered fellow tuneful in his song today. kt by Turner in Secretly Designed Ship l By DON JOSEPH | i NEW YORK, Feb. 1.—Late next | summer or early next fall Colonel | Roscoe Turner, speed flier, expects | to attain a velocity of 400 miles an hour or more in an airplane |now being designed at the Univer- | sity of Minnesota. The flight will \be made somewhere on the west coash near Hollywood. | 1If attained, this speed would surpass that of the present world’s |land plane record, held by a | Frenchman, by more than 85 miles ian hour. | The record for seaplanes, set by [an Ttalian, is 44067 miles an |tion, under the bill passed yester-|Dour. Turner says the difference is explained by tne fact that sea- planes have an indefinite area in which to make their take-off run and that their landing always can be made on a smooth surface. Experiments in design for the new plane are being conducted by Professors (Howard Barlow and John D. Akerman, aeronautical en- gineers. Their model already is prepared for wind tunnel tests at the university. Its construction is being kept secret, they announced recently. Turner, who will pilot the plane, says the chief characteristic of the craft will be the application of new concepts of streamlining. “A body that is streamlined at 150 miles an hour is no longer streamlined when it has reached the speed of 400 miles an hour,” he explained. “This plane will even involve modifications of the ‘rain -drop’ style of streamlining, since it will be going through the air faster than a rain drop, or anything for that matter, fall.” He says thi as the speed of the plane increases the alrflew around it changes, and that the proper shape must be adapted to this fact. Both the wings and the fuselage of the plane will be modi- fied but Turner cannot say what the final form will be. He maintains that the changes nucessary to speed up planes to- day involve greater adaptations in detail than in general structure. The epgineering work for his new plane will be completed at the University of Minnesota, but the actual construction will be done at his home in Hollywood, where the test flights also will be held. The plane will be equipped to make flights of from 800 to 1,000 miles, which, he says, would per- mit him to fly from New York to Chicago in about one hour and 45 minutes. —— Official tests within recent years show less than .3 per cent of Tennessee’s dairy cattle are af- flicted with bovine tuberculosis. Femmer Says_Boat ! Unloaded Tonight i Face of Strike. & No person, except pa 4 workers actually engaged. loading freight, will be or off Femmer's Dock 135-ton cargo of the Northland is expected to charged at 6 o'clock This was the order given B. Femmer, agent for the N¢ land Transportation Company directed the construction trance on Willoughby Avenue day. would - not tolerate intel with ‘any man who wanted to. as . a longshoreman, Mr. went ahead today with plans for using non-union men to take the Northland's cargo off in the face of the present longshore strike which has tied up the port for six days. Longshoremen Meet Although both the United States | Marshal's office and the city Po- lice Department said, early this 'BRUNO BREAKS INTO SMILE; WRITING COMPARED ‘The camera caught these stages of a smile as Bruno Richard Hauptmann sat in court at Fleming. ton, N. J., where he is on trial for the kidnaping and murder of the Lindbergh baby. At the left he stares grlmly ahead, then he grins faintly, and finally breaks into a smile, Below aroc shown two handwriting speci- mens, a state exhibit. The top signature was admittedly Hauptmann's. The one below was formed by }ununw_nnmc afternoon, that they had not'been ordered to Femmer's Dock for to- hhh‘h;'vldlul letters out of ransom not note lnd pleclng them toauhw, owner of Femmer's Dock, fence and gate at the dack’sy night's boat arrival, it is expected 1 "“’“”“]SENATE PASSES Longshoremen and sympataiz- ers were to meet. at the I. D Hall at' & o'clock this afl W. J. Manahan, assistant Gen- eral Manager of the Northlnnd Transportation Company tele- graphed Mr. Femmer from Seat- tle last night and concurred with the Juneau man's attempts for unloading the Northland. Seamen to Work Manahan also notfied Femmer that “the seamen delegate (aboard the Northland) has instructions from his union that the strike is unauthorized and that the sea- men must not decline to perform their normal duties.” It was announced this after- noon that mail, as usual, will be the first item taken from the ship’s hold tonight. The mail truck will not be permitted on the dock, but will be backed up to the gate and loaded from there. Meanwhile, the steamship em- ployers’ offer of sending two dele= gates to Seattle, free of transpor- tation costs, stood unaccepted by Juneau’s International Longshore- mens’ Association local. The em- ployers offered Wednesday night to send two longshore delegates toO Seattle, so that they might have an opportunity of a personal ap- Dearance before the Federal Are bitration Board. But the longshoremen turned down the arbitration proposal la- (Continued on Page Eight) COUNGIL WiLL [COLLUSION IN CONSIDER VOTE | BIDDING TO BE BILL LAST TIME| LOOKED INTO City Fathers_Probably to|Senate Munitions Commit- 0. K. Messerschmidt’s tee P.repares to Ques- Election Ordinance tion Key Man Up for its third reading, Coun=- cilman Henry Messerschmidt's election ballot and permanent reg- istration ordinance is expected to be unanimously passed for the fi- nal time by the City Council as that body meets tonight at 8 0'- clock in City Hall. Messerschmidt’s bill, which would give the city a modern alphabeti- cally-arranged ballot and perm-l ment registration of the voters, has met with no opposition in its first two readings. - At the initial read- ing, & unanimous vote for it was cast. At the second reading, a few minor changes of a technical na- ture wer~ made, but the bill agin was passed without opposition. Councilman Wallis George, Whoj has been the Acting Mayor in the absence from the city of Mayor Tsador Goldstein, will preside at tonight's meeting. SHORT SESSION Upper House Meets at 10 Tomorrow to Consider Marketing Bill i Meeting for a brief session today the Territorial Senate approved Senate Joint Memorial No. 1, ask- ing that the Federal Aid Road Act be extended to include Alaska, and passed House Joint Resolution No. 1, approving the fisheries bills introduced in Congress by Dele- gate Dimond. The latter passed the House January 25. The Powers memorial asking that discontinued signal corps sta- tions be re-established was read and slight amendment made. Many remove sections are without ade- quate means of communication since the United States Signal Corps stations have been abandon- ed, it was pointed out by Senator John B, Powers, author of the bill. Meeting at 10 o'clock in the morning the Senate will take up the Roden co-operative marketing association measure which is a special order for tomorrow, - WASHINGTON, Feb, 1. ~ A pressing investigation of alleged collusion among shipbuilding com- Panies in bidding for naval con- tracts is underway by the Senate Munitions committee as the mem- bers prepared to question Ernest Cornbrooks, descrived as a key witness. Cornbrooks is the former plant manager of the New York Shipbuilding Company, Meanwhile, members of the com- mittee said what purports to be a diary of Arthur Homer, Marine Architect, containing supposed chronicles of meetings of naval officers with President Roosevelt, and conferences of shipbuilding company officers seeking contracts, Was being examined. —— e - Historlans say guarantees of re- t in case of mishaps to marine cargoes constituted the earliest form of insurance. 2PROPOSALS AT | ) Nome Helps Show Given Birthday Celebrations Are Also Held at Kotze- bue, Marshall NOME, Alaska, Feb, 1.— The Roosevelt Birthday amateur the- atricals raised nearly $300 Wednes- day night which is more than last year, Ac dance could not be held this year as the fire destroyed the hall, Celebrations were also held at Kotzebue which is believed to be the farthest north event. Marshall oft the Yukon also held a celebration. ——ee EXTENSION OF AUTO CODE IS CAUSING SPLIT American Fe—de_l;ation of La-| bor Will Not Accept F.DR.’s Proposals WASHINGTON, Feb. 1—Rela- tions between the Administration chiefs and the "American Federa- tion of Labor seem nearing the breaking point after the extension of the automobile code by Presi- dent Roosevelt with changes de- signed to spread employment. President Willlam Green, of the American Federation of Labor, de- clared the gode imposed restric- tions on labor without a hearing before NRA officials and pointed to the recemt government super- vised electiops in Detroit. Not Accept Extension ganized labor will “not accept the code extension.” President Gireen made his state- ments to the Senate Judiciary sub- committee gonsidering the Black 30-hour week bill in these words: “We p rotest against this code. ‘We do not accept it and will not recognize it.” The AFL President said the code “absolutely failed to spread work because under it workers were compelled or required to work almost unlimited hours at the discretion of the manufactur- g % The receat ballot conducted among the auto workers by the National Automobile Labor Board is reported to have shown that 90 percent of those voting opposed AFL affiliation. EDUCATION BILL PUBLIC HEARING THIS AFTERNOON Game Control Memonal and Two Others Passed by Territorial House Passage of three memorials and discussion and amendment of the Nerland placer mining bill occu- pled the time of the Territorial House today before it adjourned until 11 o'clock tomorrow morning to make way this afternoon for ‘the public hearing on the educa- tion bill which had assembled a large number in the House cham- ber this afternoon. The bill, which is receiving a thorough airing, would repeal the law passed by the 1933 Legislature which made the Commissioner of Education an appointive office. The present Commissioner was elected prior to the passage of the law. 0. K. Memorials Without opposition, the House approved the Lyng memorial ask- ing abolishment " of the Alaska Green later announced that or-|vote. Game Commission, extension of the powers of the Legislature to include game laws and transfer- ring control of game from the Department of Agriculture to the Territory. Unanimous support also was given the Baronovich request to Congress that no boats or fish- ing gear be seized until after a suspected law violator is duly con- victed. The Memorial declares .it has been the practice to hold such boats and gear until the case comes to trial and is disposed of. The Walker memorial, also deal- ing with fishing, rolled through the House and all three now go to the Senate. The latter would change the election laws so that fishermen and others outside their precinets on election day could It was pointed out by the author, A. P. Walker ' of Craig, that many fishermen are away from their precincts 30 days prior to the election in gainful occupas tion and because of this lose their franchise under the' prevailing statute. Carried Over After adoption of several clari- fying amendments, the Nerland mining claim measure was car- ried on to tomorrow’s calendar in second reading' when it was re- vealed one portion might conflict with the federal laws, legal advice being obtained in the meantime. Undaunted by defeat of the sin- gle house plan by the Senate yes- terday, Joe Green of Hyder brought in a new House memorial on the same plan today which re- quires only House approval. The (Continued on Page Two) ¥ i (Continued on Page Two) EXPERT GIVES NEW VERSIONS Defense Witness Disputes and Criticizes Eight Other Men T INTIMATIONS MADE REGARDING DEAD MAN Chief Counsel | Brings Out | Many Details from Other Charts BULLETIN — FLEMING- TON, N. J, Feb. 1.—Peter | Semmer, fingerprint expert, placed on the witness stand late this afternoon identified pictures of Isadore Fisch and Violet Sharpe, maid who sui- cided when about to be inter- | rogated on the kidnpaing, as two of three persons he saw on. a ferry boat shortly after n‘flg:llght on March 2, 1932, with a blond child about two | years old. When the ferry reached New York from the’ Jersey side, Sommer said they . boarded a trolley ear. FLEMINGTON, N. J., Feb. 1.— John M. Trenrley, East St. Louls, 1., volunteer handwriting expert, disputed and criticised the find~ s Trendly also declared that Hauptmann did not write the | notes as charged in the conclus- lons of the state’s chief expert | Osborn, - especially the important= | ly and incriminating nursery note. ‘Trendly said Osborn based his cohclusions on one word “is.” Asked by Attorney General Wil- entz, in cross examination, if he found any similarities in Haupt- mann’s writings and the ransom notes, Trendley replied only in that in the letter “v.” “There are similarities then,” asked Wilentz. “Very few,” replied Trendley. Trendley said he concluded the first four lines of the second ran- som note were written with the left hand. His statement appear- | ed to contradict earlier inplica- tions that the first and subse- quent notes were by different writers, HANDWRITING EXPERT IS PLACED ON STAND FLEMINGTON, N. J.,, Feb, 1.— Today's session of the Haupt« mann trial began with John M, Trendley, handwriting expert on the witness stand as the defensé opened the fight to convince the jury Hauptmann never wrote the ransom notes, Trendley said Hauptmann did not write the kidnaping notes. Chief Counsel Edward J. Reilly directed Trendley’s attention to the " (Continued oA Page Two) —e P . WITNESSES ARE THREATENED 18 DEFENSE CLAIM At lorney.-R_eilly Makes Complaint — Kidnap Ladder Up Again FLEMINGTON, N. J, Feb. 1.— Defense counsel in the Hauptmann trial today charged intimidation of Hauptmann's alibi backers, &d- ward J. Reilly saying: “Seven of my witnesses have been intimidized by pug-uglies who went to the homes of the witnesses, claiming they were rep- resenting the state of New Jersey, but had . no credentials, and giv- ing a warning that they had bet- ter stay oqut of New Jersey if they know. what is good for them.” Reilly also said he understood the police report on. the structure of the kidnap ladder might clear Haupimann and said the defense is going to ask for it. L o0 i