The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 11, 1935, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLV., NO. 6881. J‘UPJEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1935. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS FINAL ARGUMENTS, HAUPTMANN’S CASE 250?@9@) ITA WAR LOOMING IN AFRICA; MEN ARE MOBILIZED Thousands of Troops Re- ported Already on Way to Strife Scene HEAVY SHIPMENTS MUNITIONS SENT# Trouble Has Arisen Be-| tween Italian Somali- land, Ethiopia BULLETIN—ROME, Feb. 11 —The Government spokesman declared the situation is ex- ceedingly grave and it is im- pessible to state what will be done if Ethiopia ignores “our protest.” No ultimatum, it was revealed, has however, yet been sent. LIANS ROME, Feb. 11.—Italy has called | one quarter of a million men tol the colors and has already started | thousands of soldiers to Africa as| fresh hostilities are reported on the | frontier between Italian Somaliland and Ethiopia. | The official spokesman disclosed | that the latest border hostilities have been known for ten days but| were not made public until Jlast! Mrs. Ethel Stocktor, one of the jurors in the Hauptmann murder trial, flashing one of her famous smiles in the Flemington, N. J., court- she threw one of them in the direction of , much to his encouragement, while he was (Associated Press Photo) NO DECISION Further Postponement Announced by U. S. Supreme Court \BULLETIN —- WA! TON, Feb. 11.—The gold @ ion' may be harded down nmreow at it may not be’ next ' Saturday. WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.— Supreme Court’s awaited-for= gold' clause decision is: not to. announced today. % For! the 'second time ' the High Tribunal last Saturday night de- parted from the usual course and let it\be known it’s next regular opinion, day would pass without announcement of the tensely await~ ed verdict. The announcement that ne de- cision would \ be \given today, was made by the court’s clerk, Charles C. Cropley after receiving instruc- tions from Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes. i Meanwhile the A'dministration officials declared they are ready for any eventuality. The President could declare an emergency, in case the ruling is adverse to the New Deal regula= *| tion, giving Congress time to if necessary. Meanwhile Administration ehiefs LLED TO COLORS LINDBERGH ENTERS COURTROOM TO HEAR BRUNO Most of the principals In the murder trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann can be seen in this courtroom @cene at Flemington, N. J. The picture was taken just before the start of the session and Col. Charles A. Lindbergh Is shown, in circle, on his way to his seat. Hauptmann, on trial for the murder of the Lind- bergh baby, Is Indicated by arrow, (Associated Press Photo) EYES REVEAL EMOTIONS OF HAUPTMANN IN COURT STATE,DEFENSE ' PLEADING WITH JURY IN CASE Guilt Is B!mhed Beyond *“Reasonable Doubt” Says One GANG RESPONSIBLE FOR KIDNAPING BABY Defense Attorney Declares “Inside {ob"—l.ad- der Is Plant FLEMINGTON, N. J,, Feb. 11— The final defense plea for Bruno Richard Hauptmann reverted this {afternoon to the original conten- tion of an “inside job” and then turned to utterance of charges against Betty Gow, the Lindbergh baby's nurse; Ollie Whateley, butler iin the Lindbergh household, and a denunciation of Dr. John F. Con- don. “Condon stands behind something in this case that is unholy,” Chief (Defense Counsel Edward J. Reilly told the jury. Gang Did Kidnaping Reilly also declared a gang kid- naped the baby with the aid of “‘disloyal servants,” and then he brought in the name of Red John- Aimerica and Groit Britdin o — night. ¥ Populace Excited The populace is excited by the mobilization activities. Heavy shipments of munitions and other war materials are under- stood to have been going forward to the African posesssions for sev- eral days. In the latest outbreak, five Ital- ian native troopers were killed and six wounded in an engagement at Asdub, south of Ualual. The Ethiopians are said to have suf- fered more casualities. One Class Called The Government spokesman said the whole military class of 1911 has been called out, numbering al- most 250,000 soldiers. The call for mobilization has been issued “for measures of a pre- cautionary nature.” - eee — C. P. STEAMER RUNS AGROUND NEAR SEATTLE Princess Alice Hits During Fog—Passengers Are Taken Off SEATTLE, Feb. 11.—Canadian Pacific steamer Princess Alice, in- bound from Vancouver and Vic- toria, grounded on West Point, a. few miles north of Seattle’s har- bor Saturday night in a dense fog. The passengers were taken off and brought here on tugs. The Princess Alice was refloated Sunday morning and returned to Victoria for examination. The steamer is not believed to be dam- aged. Photograph Made of Star Farthest Yet Is Recorded PASADENA, Cal, Feb. 11— A star system whose rays are so faint a high speed photographic plate needed three and a half hours’ exposure to record it, has been pictured through the giant 100-inch telescope at Carnegie In- stitution Mount Wilson Observa- tory. The nebula was 500,000,000 light years away, 200,000,000 light years further from the earth than any star ever before photographed. ———.——— Monterey, Calif., has figured that the 143,340 tons of sardines caught there the first two and one-half months of the 1934 fishing season, if placed end to end, would girdle the globe three times, : Can Combine and Warn Japan HOUSE EFFORTS TO AMEND LABOR BILLS DEFEATED Majority of House Appar- ently Sympathetic to Measures as Are \ | | | Efforts to amend the three labor bills now before the Legislature with the aim of taking out some of the “teeth” went for naught at a three-hour session of the House this morning. Amendment after amendment was offered but all were voted down, the trend of the respective votes indicating the House divided about nine to seven in favor of the measures as they now stand. After long discussion as a com- mittee of the whole, the House wound up by voting progress on the two measures dealing with ab- olition of contract labor and the ‘eight-hour day, six-day "“week. House bill No. 14, providing that no employe may work underground more than six hours in any 24 was under discussion when the group recessed for lunch. Lingo Leads Attack The fight to amend was led by George A .Lingo and A. H. Zieg- ler with A. P. Walker, Charles Murray and A. G. Nordale rallying in support of their proposals. Walker declared the six hour underground bill was a piece of progressive legislation and in line with the national setup. Speaker J. S. Hofman, who had yielded the gavel to H. H. McCutcheon as the chairman of the Committee of the Whole, stated it would put the small coal mine operators in his district along the Alaska Railroad out of business because they are working on a very small margin now. He charged that should they be forced to raise their prices to the railroad through having to em- ploy more men the railroad would open up its own mine and virtually put them out of business. Must Consider Territory “If .we could pass sectional leg- islation it would be a fine thing,” the Speaker said, “but we cannot and this is a broad country and I think we should take that into consideration in any sort of legisla- tion. We must consider the whole (Continued on éuge five‘) | CAPETOWN, South Africa, Feb. 11.—America and Great Britain, working together, could keep the lid clamped down on the Pacific, the world's new danger spot, Gen- eral Jan Smuts told the members of the South African Institute of International Affairs. “If Japan knew, treaty or no treaty, that a policy of practical cooperation existed between Brit- (ish and American groups, that knowledge in itself would in all probability suffice to ensure peace in the Pacific.” Asserting that Japan's present policy holds within it the possi- i bility of the entire world virtually | becoming embroiled in the Pa- | cific, General Smuts said that the “dominions desire the closet as- | sociation possible between Great {Britain and the United States in world affairs for their own future security.” 18 KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK Third Disaster in Short Time Is Reported on Russian Railways MOSCOW, Feb. 11.— Russia’s third disastrous railway wreck within five weeks killed eighteen persons and seriously injured nine others. The accident happened near Sar- atov, in West Central Russia, on the Volga River when a freight train and passenger train collided. Since the first of the year 202 havé been killed in train wrecks. {Nine Home Sites Are Restored, Alaska Area, By Ewxecutive Order | i | : WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has signed an Ex- ecutive Order restoring nine home sites and excluding them from the boundaries of the Tongass Na- tional Forest. >——— Approval Given for Improvement, Two Harbo WASHINGTON, Feb. 11. — Pro- jects recommended for endorse- ment by the Projects Committee of the National Rivers and Har- reiterated previous statements they believed the financial world was over estimating the effect’ of an adverse decision. Calming Down There was a noticeable calming in financial circles during the past week. For one thing, the Stock Market could be closed in event there would be any indication dealers were running wild. Although a number of questions are bound up in the forthcoming decision, the court primarily must determine whether Congress had the constitutional authority of declaring invalld all promises to pay in gold or the equivalent. Under gold or its equivalent, ob- ligations will be worth $1.69 of the face value under the devalued dol- BIG REINDEER HERD BLOCKED Here are the eyes of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, snapped in varying expressions as he sat in the Fiemington, N. J., courtroom listening to the state attempt to prove he murdered the Lindbergh baby. There are amiling eyes, sinister eyes and frightened eyes in this group. (Associated Press Photes), TIME ELEMENT IN FAR NORTH ind Swept ice Floes Pre- vent Crossing of Mac- Kenzie River EDMONTON, Alberta, Feb. 11.— The herd of 3,000 reindeer which started the trek from the Kotze- bue Region in Alaska in 1930, is at Shingle Point, west of the Mac- kenzie River. The herd appeared to be blocked within one hundred miles of the goal and it may take another year to make the trek. Lapland herders are driving the deer which will be used by Canadian Eskimos for food and clothing. Major R. Walter Hale, Post Of- fice official, and Capt. Walter Gil- bert, Canadian Airways pilot, re- ported the wind swept ice floes at the mouth of the Mackenzie River have prevented the deer d{rom. crossing and unless conditions im- prove next month, the crossing at- tempt will be delayed until next winter when the herd may be driv- en across the solid ice. e HIGH GRADE MINE NEAR ANCHORAGE 1S BOUGHT W An important mining deal was closed recently in Anchorage when T. 8. McDougall, operator of the in Alaska|Pern mine, took over the High Grade mine, adjoining the Fern group. The property newly acquir- ed by McDougall was held by M. J. Conroy and Capt. N. J. Gaike- ma, of Anchorage. McDougall now bors Congress, include Wrangell and Sitka harbors, has ten men working on his prop~ erties, says the Anchorage Times. 1S CONSIDERED MURDER TRIAL Law Journal of New York Has Editorial, Haupt- mann Case NEW YORK, Feb, 11.—The im- portance of the time element in| the death of the Lindbergh baby is | pointed out in an editorial in to- day’s New York Law Journal which discusses the felony-murder under which Hauptmann is being tried. The editorial does not mention | Hauptmann but says that “lack- ing adequate proof of the essen- tial element that the death of the infant occurred or there was a fa- tal injury inflicted before the com- pletion of the crime of burglary, the prosecution would fail.” The editorial stated also that| it gives the opinion the jury must bring in a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree, or a| verdict of acquittal, or must disa-| gree. i ALFRED LUNDAHL, LUCKY SHOT EMPLOYEE, DIES Alfred Lundahl, pioneer of Alas- ka and recently an employee of the Lucky Shot mine, died in An- chorage where he had Deen|retumg this month. The youthful| brought for treatment for abdomi-| nal trouble. Lundahl was 64 years| old, a member of the Eagles and ©dd Fellows lodges, Hauptmann Case Has Cost | New Jersey $1,000 Daily; Defense $150 to $ 200, Day FLEMINGTON, N. J, Feb. 11— A sidelight gp the trial of Bruno Richard Ha ann was the state- ment last rday afternoon by Assistant rney General Lani- gan, that case had cost the state $1,000 8 day since it started. Edward J; Reilly, chief defense counsel, said the defense has cost between $15Q and $200 a day. Reilly said most of the money had come oyt of the defense attor- ney’s pockets as Hauptmann's wealth was inconsiderable. The deferise attorney said they have been working gratis in the case for justice. When the case was completed last Saturday afternoon it marked five weeks and three days of trial. S PHILIPPINES SOON COMING TO ATTENTION Senatorial Commission Ex- pected to Make Re- port This Month By HERBERT PLUMMER WASHINGTON, Feb. 11. — The question of independence for the Philippines i due for a place in the national lHmelight soon. The Senatorial Commission sent to the islands to study conditions Senator Tydings of Maryland, Chairman of the Senate’s terri- (wonunved on Page Two) PROSECUTOR HAS OPINION, KIDNAP CASE Chief Defense Counsel Points to Error of State's Indictment NEW YORK, Feb. 11—The New York Times ,in a special dispatch from Flemington, quotes Attorney General David T. Wilentz as say- ing “this baby was killed during the flight from the kidnaping and in my opinion the flight was part of the uncompleted crime.” The Times also says Chief De- gave the opinion the state made a great mistake in drawing up the indictment under which Haupt- mann is being tried. The State, he said, had to prove the murder was in Hunterdon County where Haupt- mann is on trial. The body was found in Mercer County. e \Medicine, Law, Teaching Freshman Class Choice | CHICAGO, Feb. 11.—If the hun- |dreds of students comprising this |year's freshman class at the Uni- versity of Chicago realize their | present ambitions fully half of them will be doctors, lawyers or edu- cators. Robert C. Woellner, head of the vocational guidance and placement service at the university, says the three vocations were the most |popular in a recent survey of the class. - eee— Duke University has one of the south’s most complete collections of _ surveying instruments, all avail- | able to engineering students, ) } fense Counsel Edward T. Reilly| to the rescue of the only person in the world they have not brought back here if he did not know him,” Reilly asked referring to Johnson who is now in Europe. Pleads for Hauptmann Pleading to save Hauptmann from the chair, Rellly said, “Col. Charles A. Lindbergh was stabbed in the back by those who worked for him.” Reilly charged that Miss Gow |wds the only person aside from ! Col. Lindbergh who knew the baby | would be in Hopewell on the night |of the crime and of Whateley, now also dead, who he said had charge of the dog which failed to bark when the baby was taken. Ladder Is Plant Reilly declared the ladder was a plant and the baby was not taken from the nursery through the window. State’s Contention Reilly’s summation began after | Prosecutor Hauck, for the State, contended Hauptmann was “beyond |a reasonably doubt gullty of the kidnaping and killing of the baby.” Reilly replied to that by saying: “The person who picked up that child, I give you my solemn word, (Continued on Page Eight) ————--———— DEFENDANT IS WORRIED, SAYS SPECIAL GUARD Many Changes Noted in Hauptmann’s Demeanor —Says He Is Innocent FLEMINGTON, N. J, Feb. 11.— Hovey . Low, special deputy and guard, who has spent much time with Bruno Richard Hauptmann, said he believed the prisoner thinks “things look very dark. For the first time, he asked me what I thought the outcome would be. “I replied, that is in the lap of the Gods. “He said: ‘I am innocent’.” “I answered, ‘Don’t worry'.” Low said he had seen many changes in Hauptmann's demcan- or. “Hau nn is more worried now ‘thlt he” ever been before,” said |14)w. “He is wrought up over what he feels is a rift between his at- torneys. He thinks Lloyd Fisher, |local attorney, wants to do things Reilly won't let him do. “Although Hauptmann is still an enigma to me, there is something ’lllenble about the fellow. He is not all bad. T feel sorry for the man,”