The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 21, 1935, Page 1

el R ] “DEATH PACT” SUGBESTED BY CIRCUMSTANCES| Dead Are B;u—tiful Daugh- ters of U. S. €onsul at Naples MYSTERY LETTERS FOUND BY PH.OT Tragedy Is Likened toj Strange Leap of Capt. Loweenstein UPMINSTER, Essex, England, Feb. 21.—Described by officials as the strangest air tragedy in Europe since 1928, two beautiful young girls, the daughters of a United States Consul, plunged to treir deaths here yesterday from the speeding London-Paris transport airplane. The dead girls were Elizabeth DuBois, 23, and Jane DuBois, 20 They were the daughters of the United States Consul at Naples, Italy. Investigations today by Scotland yYard detectives revealed circum- stances hinting of a possible death pact. Letters Found Two sealed letters, found in the plare cne hour after the accident when the pilot#first noticed his lone passengers’ absence, were found addresced to their parents. The letters’ contents are. mot known. _,%; Futhermore, friends said the two girls started their last flight heart- broken over the recent crash and death cf ‘two men of the Royal Flying Corps near Messina, Italy. One of their attendants said that for the last day or two, the pair had appeared “very upset, rathe: hysterical and had cried a lot.” Still another peculiar circum- stance affecting the two deaths was the fact that the girls made the London-Paris flight alone with the pilot. They had reserved and paid for every other seat in the airplane. Mother Prosirated However, the mother, prostrated in Naples, could give no reason for the. deaths. Officials here described the dual deaths as the strangest air tragedy in Europs since Capt. Alfred Low- censtein, famous Belgian financier, disappeared in 1928 from an air- CASE IS NOW IP TOBOARD Confidential Secretary Gives Important Tes- timony on Income PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 21— Andrew W. Mellon's confidential i Admira?! {a long Admiral, Who Is By WILLIAM S. WHITE WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—Rear Christian Joy Peoples kesps the rigid silence of his ser- vice tradition as events suggest his selection for the bigzest job of career—helping to spend $4,000000000 in the administra- tion’s new work program. This naval officer who never commanded a bridge—whose wea- pons have hbeen figures rather than guns—is understood to be President Roozevelt's choice to di- rect one of three phases of the Administration’s big work relief drive. The dash and color associated with line officers have not been | Peoples’ in his 35 years with the navy. He has been the painstak-: ing job of overseeing all the de: partment’s vast purchases, run- | ning into many millions annually, | and—more recently — doing the | same work for the U. S. Treas-| ury too. | Reticient About Self Ask naval officers about the man | and they tell you only the flat,| official facts cf his career. Ask| Peoples himself and he tells you | nothing. He turns away all ques tions, and refers questioners to his| official navy department biography —whi words—and £a] any discussion by | pi. him, even of his own life, would be “most inappropriate.” It He made “a record in sc imum, especially during the world in war, and was decorated with the navy cross. In the era of Amer- HOOVER MAKES - T GOLD EENSIUN‘ Uiges Gold Payments by, U. S., Also Stabiliza- | tion of Dollar TUCSON, Arizona, Feb. 21.—Im- mediate resumption of gold pay- ments by the United States and stabilization of the dollar in its present value is advocated by for- mer President Herbert Hoover in a statement commenting on mef Supreme Court’s gold case decis- ien. The former President said this course will “put fhore men to work out of the 12,000,000 who still re- main unemployed than any other single action.” | The statement was one of the| few public pronouncements made | by Hoover since leaving the White House. i R 1 STIRS UP DEBATE WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—Former President Hoover’s proposal for im- mediate return to the gold stand- secretary, Howard H. Johnson, told the Board of Tax Appeals that Mellon sold stocks short ghile Sec- retary of the Treazury in Hoover's Cabinet in 1931 and failed to syear to this in his income tax report the same year. Among other things Johnson tes- tified to in the Government's $3,- 000,000 income tax suit, was that Mellon profited $72,000 in a short sale in 1931 and took a loss of $68.000 in another, and signed the income tax report in 1931 with- cut examining or-being sworn, and that later a notary’s seal was affixed in the banker's Pittsburgh office. Book Loss Johnson also said Mellon ex- perienced a book loss of approx- imately $15,000,000 the same year. The statements were made in answer to the Government's claim that Mellon made numerous fic- titious stock sales to establish re- ard stirred up 2 hot debate in the Senate today with Senator Tom Connally, of Texas, conténding the Government is already on a gold standard basis: Senater Carter Glass asserted that the country is on a flat cur- rency basis. Previously Secretary of Treasury Morgenthau said he was satisfied| no reason to change, though thel policy was on a day to day basis. Senator Connally contended| Hoover was prcposing a return to a. system that “brought his Ad- ministration tumbling in ruins about him” ——r>——— Licutenant Mason WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—Army orders issued include First Lieut. Dale Mason, of the United States ductions in his income report and that the banker’s wealth, based on figures of December 31, was $97,603,000. Mellon ‘claims that he not only knows he does not owe the Gov- ernment any taxes, but that he|ported at Neodesha, Kas. the sec- Nicholas were married in Nome|indicating “yes” votes and Signal Corps Laboratory at Wright Pield, Ohio, to be assigned to duty in Alaska with the cable and fele- graph system there. et A large flock of robins was re- is entitled w: refund of $139,000,lond week in January. R A R Keeps Traditional Silence of the U. S. N REAR ADMIRAL P h covers the subject in 150 ica’s greatest naval expansion in Of the biggest \things in the ad- pur: His fellow officers have little|figured out a system of fuel spec- turning 60, despite’ his insistent knowledge of thé details of his|ifications that saved a lot of time silence. He is jocular and there This much, however, em- and money and, his friends vou- is a sort of umobtrusive heavti- keepinz naval expenses to a min-'has been hard—bolleg about spend- it all, is the long training of "Dead;’ 5 Minutes STATEMENT ON " """ .. . FAIRBANKS TO Planes to Fly Hockey Play- With the present program and saw!Irish Woman’s Fingers Assigned to Alaska/ Slated to Head Work Drive, 3 tween" two jobs and three |He is head of the Treasury | partment procurement division: | which means he is the 2 ment's No. 1 purchasing officer— | head of the Navy's bureau of | plies and accounts and payn | general of the Navy. He entered the, Navy tl | competitive examination — n ley of the naval academy- | became a “business man” offi§ | From . 1914 to 1921 he served assistant chief of the bureau supplies and accounts and was @i ed for ‘“exceptionally meritol service in a duty of great p sibility.” His job was to’'buy supplies for a navy' at war, to get them as quickly and:ch |1y as possible. From 1921 to 1930 he serv general inspector of the west supply’ corps, with ' headquan at San" Francisco. Then he Wwas | placed in charge of | the naval supply ‘depot at Brooklyn. 3 President Roosevelt, as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, became svell acquainted, with the Iowa admiral during the war. The | tent of his admiration «is -gal by the fact that the work ef | post outlined for People: G of EOPLES | recommending suitable projects to — ~—————- | the President—is going to be one X~ ed, the ministration. No dour wearer, of brass but- this square-faced officer he kept watch over <e of everything, from beans millions of barrels of oil. He tons is stor hafé, I all his official life he' ness in his thanner. :But, be!; 3 government dollars. service man who waits for his sus “Bucines . Man” Officer perior officer—in this instance his Peoples divides his time now be- ' commander-in-chief—to speak. 14 NEW BILLS INTRODUCED IN LOWER KOUSE Total Reaches 75 on 39th Day Aside from Memor- ials and Resolutions hen Life Restored | After life had apparently left ‘; him for five miuutes, it re- turned slowly to 71-year-old 1 W. A. Strang, according to Dr. | Howard Bryant, who revived } the former sheriff by injecting acrenalin into the stilled heart afler “death.” Dr. Bryant said Strang’s chances fer recovery are good. Fourteen new bills, seven of them| dealing with the Department of Education and introduced by Andrew Nerland by request, were tossed into the House hopper this morn- ing, bringing the total of measures, other than memori#ls and resolu-) tions, to 75. The 45th day is the last for introduction of bills with- out special consent of the Legisla- ture. Today was the 39th day of the 60-day session. Education Bills The education measures provide as follows: House Bill 62, permit- ting people of incorporated cities 5 and adjacent settlements to form independent school districts; H. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Feb. 21.—|p g3 providing for certification of |PAA planes will leave here Satur-}..achers in private and public de- iday for Dawson to return With|nominational schools in the Terri- 120 hockey players, curlers and oth- | iory ang providing for eighth grade |er passengers to compete with the | syaminations in the same; H. fAlaska College 2nd local players 64, appropriating $10000 for @ for ‘the Fairbanks Ice Carnival. |scientific survey of the Alaska pub- An excursion train from An-|ye sehools to be conducted in con- MEET DAWSON, SPORT EVENTS ers, Curlers, Others to Ice Carnival @ | Nazi Nation Hungry B.| briefest talks, Karl Theile, cannery VS ALL THE TIME” SDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1935. |Accusations Are Made that for War REWD NOTE TO BRITISH, Three Countries Repoi'ted Lining Up for Con- ! flict in Europe ) MOSCOW, Feb. 21.—Official or- ing accusations against Germany, claiming that nation has plans for | aggression in both Eastern and| Central Europe. | The accusations follow on the: heels of approval of the London | agreements between Great Brnaml and France, extended by Maxim | Litvinoff, Commissar for Foreign Affairs. Litvinoff suggests in an official note that France, Great Britain and Soviet Russia make effective, at once, binding agreements be- tween themselves and that Great Britain and France stand behind pacification. L The Soviet Commissar of Fore\gn' Affairs, according press, pictures Nazi Germany as est . 4n the disguise -of c - chattering.” “Not only the Soviet press, buf the Czechoslovakian newspaper| is m for war against the Soviet Union. SHREWD NOTE LO! , Feb. 21. — Dtplomauc’ quarters' today viewed Russia’s un-| expected and shrewdly timed note demanding Great Britain and/ France stand solidly behind their | entire pacification program, as an; adroit move to forestall any further concessions to Germany. GUEST SPEECHES Fish Cannery Men, Others Honored at Meeting This Afternoon” ; Charging that the action of the Territorial House in the passage of the Hofman graduated fish trap measure yesterday was “rid- ing a good horse to death” six representatives of the fishing in- dustry spoke before a luncheon meeting of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce at Bailey's Cafe to- day. Although making one of the operator of Wrangell and a former Secretary of Alaska, startled his audience with two pointed state- chorage will bring other hockey|junction with the Bureau of Indian players and also basketball Play-|Affairs in the event the latter 5, matched the sum; H. B. 65, appro- In the ice events, t_hc Klondik~ prigting $500 for printing the com~ |ers are favored to win the sPort|pied school laws and other rules ‘levenbs. and regulations; H. B. 66, accept- ance of Congressional act with aim of promoting vocational education; | e ——— ments. He said: Theile Brief “Gentlemen, you see in me the last of the species known as a ‘cannery operator.’ - The best thing that you can do is to get some- thing to take the place of the sal- mon industry in Alaska.” Set Needlework Recor: (Continued on Page Two) d H. B. 67, appropriating $40,000 fO!‘I While not voicing such strong (Continuea on Page Two.) CASTLE DAWSON, Northern Ireland, Feb. 21.—Something in {he. way of a long-distance needle- work record has been set here. In the past 32 years, nearly 300 miles of threed have spun under the tireless fingers of Mrs. R. Pickering, who boasts a collection {of 2,024 empty spools. Each spool STCCKHOLM, Feb. 21.—An elgc-! criginally held more than 250 yards tric voting system has been In- {of ‘thread. 5 stalled in the Swedish parliament, | Ehe hss kept each spool as she|at & cost of approximately $20.000, {emptied it since 1903. Nearly 60;|to take the place of the old labor- ishe does not usc spectacles despite {ious meéthod of balloting. tha strain of thousands of hours of | Under the new system, the mem- sewing on intricate patterns. ser of parliament simply presses —— & button to register his vote. The MARRIED IN NOME result is revealed on a larze elec- Harry Longley and Miss Frances|tric scoreboard, with green lghts jJanunry 22 by Fgther LaFortune., |lights “ha" votes, Swedish H 0;1 se Installs Electric Voting System The tabulation of those mem- bers who refrain from voting, as well as those absent, is as quickly revealed on the board, which will make a complete vote by the as- gans of the Soviet Union are mnk-t to the Soviet, f Ihungry for war and declares this Narodni asserts that Japan, Ger- || many and Poland are preparing | |i (GHAMBER LUNCH | FEATURES MANY Mary Margaret Fairbanks, 28, Henry' Chappellet, 27-year-old chemist, at the Los Angeles marri. 3 3 L3 license bureau when they filed notice of intent to wcd.“ They :llrl‘la:t nayrlud 8t. Valentine’s day. (Associated Press Photo) Named to Judgeship - Precident Roosevelt has sent the name of William Denman (above), 8an Franclgco attorney, to the sen ate for rmation for a place in the ninth United States circuit court of appeals. (Associated Press Photo), SENATOR LONG LAMBASTED BY LA, STATE REP, “Little J.'Y.” Sanders Is Alloted Time in House to Make Speech By HERBERT PLUMMER WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. Among the 76 or so freshmen in the house, J. Y. Sanders Jr, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is an ob- ject of envy— Principally because he was “al- lotted 20 minutes under the pre- vious order of the House” (o make a speceh, (Most of the 76 have tried to “get one” and have failed.) 4 ¥ Sanders, however, ents the Sixth District of Louisiana in the House and Baton Rouge, the state capital, and scene ol operations for Louisiana's Senior Senalor— Huey P. Long. It's not often the ohter side of “the hill” has opportunity to speak its mind apout the “kingfisn." Jef- ferson's manual and the rules of the House prohibit a ~Represen- tative saying anything derc of a Senafor. But Sanders did— sembly possible in approximately one minute, compared with 16 to 20 minutes under previous systems. A camera, mounted in front of the “scoreboard,” will automatically red ! photograph the result for use in ‘official records of meetings. e ex- For hal{.‘ln hour or mor coriated the political machine in Louisiana, and Huey Longz. Be- fore the ig minutes allotted to him “under previous order of the “House” had' expired, Blanton of T (Conttoued 08 Page Sx) ' - HUSBAND;GASE MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS H, URGES ALASKA DEFENSE [ | niece of Douglas Fairbanks, and ALASKAN SUES | Mrs. Pauline Ferris, of An- chorage, Asks for Two Thousand Monthly SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb. 21 —Avking an allowance of $2,000 monthly, and community property she declared is worth $200,000, Mrs. Pauline Feurris, of Anchorage, Al- agka, has filed suit in the Superior Court here for separate mainten- ance from Joseph Ferris. Mrs. Ferrls hes also asked for an injuncticn against the Bank of America, John Marchbank, owner of the Tanferan Race Track,. and the Jim Crow Dredging Company, cf which she said her husband is owner, to prevent them from touch- ing any financial holdings of Ferris, pending the outcomie of the suit. Mrs Ferris charged failure to previde. Also in the papers filed, she’ said she believed her husbands’ income was about $5,000 monthly. {She said he has large real estate holdings here, mining property worth $150,000 in Happy Valley, California, owns a dredging com- pany, placer mine in Boise, Idaho, is part owner of a.road house at Daly City, Cal, and “has certain holdings" in Reno. NRA EXTENSION ' PROPOSAL WILL CAUSE BATTLE Forces Are Already Array- ed Against Act, Ready to Press Demands WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—Presi- dent RoOOSevelt's recommendation for ‘a two year extension of NRA is headed straight into’ the Legis- lative situation and bearing all the signs of a bitter controversy. Observers 'wondered whether the fight will be over before June, when the NRA act expires. Arrayed for skirmishing against NRA are the forces of industry and union labor, and those who accuse NRA of fostering monopoly. These forces are ready to press demands. One of the fierces struggles will probably rage around Section A, the collective bargaining provis- ion - OLSONS RETURN Returning to Sitka on the Ke- nal dre"Mr. and Mrs, J. M. Olson. Olson is a fishing man of the Baranoff Island -eity. ] NAVAL AND AIR BASES DECLARED T0 BE REQUIRED | Delegate Makes Strong Plea for Guarding of Great Northland IS ONLY GREAT KEY Explains Distances from Japan's Strongholds to United States WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.— Denying that Hawaii is the only Cefensive key in the Pacific, Alaska Delegate Anthony J. L'mond, in a speech In the Houss yesterday, said any ene- my from the Far East would ignote these iclands in sirik- ing at Continental United States. The Alaska Delegate urged the ectablishment of a naval , bas2 in the Aleutians and an Army air base on the Alaska mainland, Adwitting the importance of Hawaii's ~defense plans, Dele- gate Dimond cited the straight ~line distance between Japan and the United States showing that the Aleutians and the mainland of Alaska would be the logical points of attack in case of war. e Delegate showed that the shortest distanceé from the strong- holds of Japan to the United States is via Alaska and that the lack of defenses of the northern Territory would make it the lig- ical victim, The shortest line from Seattle to Yokohama, said the Delegate, passes south of the Aleutians, a di‘tance of 4,924 miles, while from Yokohoma, the nearest point in the United States, via Hawaii, is ° 6,316 miles. 3 Nerthland Not Defended L “It is quite obvious,” declared Delegate Dimond, “that in case of attack on the United States, the enemy would not follow the long- 1Continued on Page Seven) HERRING PLANT MEMORIAL OUT "BY AGEEEMENT New Proposal Will Be Of- fered by Walker—8- Hour Bill Passes After more than an hour's ad- dress in support of his memorial providing for the complete elimina- tion of herring reduction plants, Representative A. P. Walker agreed to withdraw the proposal this afters nocn when it was pointed out on the fleor that it was not in ling with the biil Alaska Delegate A. J. Dimond had introduced in Con- © gress. The Dimend bili calls for - abolishment over a pariod of five | years. Walker said he !d bring in a new memorial in line with the Dimond measure. The Walker memorial has Leen the subject of several earings, committee and public, and’ had passed through its routine on the calendar to third reading and final action today kefore it was dis- covered by the House that it was in direet conflict with the Dimond bill, Howard Lyng was responsible for informing the members. When it was suggested action on the | Walker memorial be delayed until Dimond could be contacted and the full text of his mcasure learned, Lyng produced a newspaper with & full text of the bill which he ex- | palined had been published two weeks ago. Lyng Offers Information bt “What informaticn are you going to get from Dimond?” Lyng in: quired. “Here’s the full text of Dimond's bill here in this newss paper and for the infoermation of A O R S B (Continued on Page Five.)