The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 12, 1935, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL XLV., NO 6934 JUNFAU ALASKA FRIDAY APRIL 12, 1935. MEMBFR OF ASSOCIATED PRESS 14 STUDENTS DIE I SECRET PLANS ARE MADE FOR FLEET ACTION Powerful Armada Will Be Assembled in North Pacific Ocean AIRPLANES ARE TO PLAY IN BIG PART Alaska, Hav_v; and ‘Coast to Be Shown as Only Few Hours Apart | SAN PEDRO, Cal, April 12— Nineteen men, the ‘“command brains” of the United States Fleet, sat down yesterday afternoon in a suite aboard the U. 8. S. Pennsyl- vania to discuss the big things the navy will do next month in the' North Pacific. Admiral J. M. Reeves, Comman- der-in-Chief of the Fleet, called the meeting, the results of which | are veiled in secrecy. It is known however, that aircraft will play a big part in the naval exercises. Planes are expected to prove the Hawaiian Islands, Alas- ka and the Pacific Coast are only a few hours apart instead of days. It is also known that 151 ships will begin the maneuvers and oth- ers' will join the fleet in the final phases. Innovations will include new cruising for submarines, new heavy scout cruisers, new airplanes, a new type of destroyer, a new aircraft carrier and newly modernized bat- tleships of the powerful armada. AMERICAN 1S ACOUITTED IN GERMAN COURT Richard Roiderer, Cleve- land, Chicago, Freed, catraz Island, Verill H. Raap, Prisoners Go Crazy, IsClaim Former Inmate of Alcatraz Makes Charges of “In- | human Treatment” ! CHEHALIS, Wash, April 12.~j Three inmates have become insane and a fourth is verging on mad-| ness because of “inhuman treat- ment” at the Federal Prison on Al- re- cent inmate said, after his arrival here to fate a charge of jail break and assault. GRIEVING FOR DEAD HUSBAND, SLAYS ANNOYER, |Man Shot by by Widow. on Eve of Funeral of Mate—Exonerated FORKS, Wash., April 12— Mrs. Gertrude E. Hoag shot and killed her “friend,” Walter Lindsay, on the eve of the burial of her hus- band. A coroner’s jury decided the slay- ing was ‘“entirely justified” and no {catraz for robbing the post office charges will be filed against the Raap served his sentence at Al- the authorities believe that at Leban, Wash. He escaped from woman for the slaying of her an- jall here while awalting trial for noyer last night when he attempted the Leban job only to be picked to force his way into her home af- up in California, brought back and ter she had refused him admit- tried. He is now to be tried for tance. Jail breaking. ' Lindsay was one of the proprie- Raap denied publishing reports tors of the Forks Hotel. that Al Capone is the man verging Mrs. Hoag's husband died Tues- on insanity. day. | | Prosecutor Joseph H. Johnson| MADE BY OFFICIALS and Sheriff Charles Kemp said SAN FRANCISCO, April 12. — Mrs. Hoag told them she and Lind- Flat denial that inmates of Alcatraz say had been “friends” for some are subjected to inhuman treat--time but she became afraid of hlm, ment were made by Warden James recently because “he proposed a| A. Johnston, when informed of suicide pact, then threatened her | Raap's charges. life recently.’ DENIAL The Warden said, regarding Raap’s charge that three inmates' had gone insane: “It just isn't s0.” INCORPORATORS OF MATANUSKA PROJECT NAMED {Griffin, Trum, Watson File Articles for Coloni- zation Program | Articles of incorporation for the Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Cor- poration to handle the Matanuska Mrs. Hoag warned him last night | she would shoot if he attempted| to force his way through the door of her house where she was| mourning the death of her hus- band. He answered: “Go ahead, shoot.” ! ‘When he persisted in kicking at the door, she fired, a bullet hitting him in the abdomen. He died a| few hours hwat g DETALLS GIVEN ON PRESBYTERY - KLAWOCK MEET Rev., Mrs. Waggoner Tell| COMMUNISM 1Seattle Girl Is Withdrawn Purchasing of Silver Started By Treasury WASHINGTON, April 13— The Treasury Department is engaged in an extensive silver purchase program and also wants to be free to force sur- render of stocks of the white metal in event owners refuse to sell. Secretary Morgenthau * out- lined the Department’s view on the complete program. BUSINESS RISE, BEST, 2 YEARS, NOW PREDICTED Sharp Increase Forecast with Fortified Assur- ances Provided NEW YORK, April 12. The scharpest business rise in 25 years is forecast in the immediate fu- | ture by the weekly business review of Dun-Bradstreet, Inc., made pub- lic today. The review added that the “rise will be fortified adequately to pre- recessions which of the past two vent interrupting followed sports years,” Wholesalers are rushed with or- ders and retailers are losing sales because of delays, the review says, IS TAUGHT AT UNIV. OF CH, BERT MAYCOCK, PIONEER TRADER, TAKEN BY DEATH E. A T\ogerson Walks,| Rows 80 Miles to Noti- fy Authorities Here After traveling some 80 miles on | foot and by rowboat, E. A. Torger- ed in Juneau last night to report Admiralty Island last Tuesday morning of H. J. (Bert) Maycock, Wwidely known Juneau trader. May- cock was stricken aboard his motot- boat Pheasant, according to re- Pports, and Capl. Thomas srnlt,h; was sent out on the Yakobi by au- | thorities here to obtain the| body and tow the boat here. Maycock had been having trou- ble with his motor, Tuesday, Tor- gerson said, and was unable to get | it running. He had stopped work | for a time and had gone to the| forecastle to get a cup of coffee| when death overtook him. He had | suffered from a stomach disorder. | Others on the boat attempted w, get the engine running, but after | failing, Torgerson started out for‘ help. He walked the beach about, | 30 miles to the head of Seymour Canal, crossed the portage to Oli- rowed to Marmion Island where another boat brought him into Juneau, On Trading Trip Maycock was on a prospecting and trapping expedition into the| district when death overtook him. Bill Thomas, one of the men on the Pheasant with Maycock, went 0 Torgerson’s camp in the vicinity | 3nd - notified him of the tragedy and he immediately started out to| notify authorities. Maycock was about 55 years old and a pioneer of this section. Tor- as Student Follow- ing Revelation CHICAGO, 1., April 12—Lu- gerson also is widely known here. Mort H. Truesdell, gunsmith, and [intimate friend of Maycock for many years, tdld details of the man'’s life today. Maycock came West from Penn-| son, trapper and prospector, arriv- | the death at Windfall Harbor on| ver's Inlet and got a rowboat and | colonization project were filed to- cme Norton, aged 18 years, of Se-|5¥lvania about 1898 and worked for GERMANY WANTS LMPIRE RESTORED according to dispatches from ANOTHER FILM FAMILY NEARS BREAK POINT IDivorce Rumors in John Barrymore — Dolores Costello Household | | | Phelo) | | Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler informed the British envoy, Sir John 8imon, that he would like to see Germany's pre-war domain restored, in on their conversations there. The fore the war, e Germany of 1914. Left, below, are Germany's Afri- lons, lost under the Versailles treaty, and right, Pacific ons of the empire, also taken from her. I DTHERS HURT. AS ENGINE CUTS STAGEINTWO press Until He Had " Driven on Track ‘r } | | | | | | { 'BODIES HURLED INTO PRICE_TEN CENTS Driver Saysmn't See Ex- | CEMETERY BY IMPACT Victims M(;;ers of Uni versity of Maryland Chemistry. Class ROCKVILLE, Maryland, April 12, —The bodies of fourteen high school students who met death when an express train crashed into a bus last night lay in morgue to- day while anguished parents tried . to identify them. Fifteen other occupants of the bus, including the driver and teach- er are suffering from various in- Jjuries and shock, but with the ex- ception of two students in a hos- pital in Washington, all will be able to go to their homes in Wil- liamsport. Wet and Foggy | It was wet and foggy as the bus, |bearing a party from the chemis- try exhibit of the University of Maryland, approached a grade | crossing, guarded by a bell and a |red light. The driver of the bus declared ha did not see the train until he was on the track. ;- Bus Struck The flier struck the bus in m middle shearing it in two. The rear | half of the bus was. | yards. down the track it aside.” Bodies Strewn Ahn' Bodies were strewn along the track for 200 yards and some were hurled into & cemetery nearby. Am- I TOPT.BARROW VIATHIS CITY et s o General Manager Wilson,| " il The accident occurred near the Alaska S. C. Company, |window of the nome of Rev. Cecil McNenl who hurried outside and own In the map (Associated Press HUNTERS GGING . Is Head of Part G Y | administered the last rites to the SEATTLE, April 12— Shipping 9Ving. Activity of Annual Ses- |attle, Wash., has been withdrawn|tWO Years in Washington lumber las a student of the University of|¢amps. Then he moved to Alaska, day with Territorial Auditor Frank A. Boyle. Incorperatcrs are Act- Espionage Charges BEVERLEY HILLS, Cal, BERLIN, April 12.—Richard Roi- derer, of Cleveland and Chicago, U. 8. A, has been acquitted in the People’s Court on espionage charg- es. He admitted taking notes on German military matters but said he was encouraged to do so. Roidered, pallid after long months in prison, told the story of a love triangle and expressed the belief he had been betrayed by the other man. Roiderer testified he received $18 for .two articles he succeeded in selling in the United States. In them he praised the German. fight against Communism and unem- ployment. 17TH ANNIVERSARY OF HUTCHINGS IS CELEBRATED HERE On April 11, 1918 the guns of Europe were silenced as wedding bells announced the marriage of a tall .Canadian soldier and a petite French maiden in Boulogne, on the Sur-Mer, France. Seventeen years later, in the Coliseum Apartments in Junecau, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hutchings, who played the leading roles in the wartime wedding, gathered their many friends about them to ob- serve another anniversary of the event. Mr. Hutchings was a member of the Canadian army during the Great Struggle, and it was during the war that he wooed and mar- ried the French maiden from war- torn Boulogne. Mr. Hutchings is now Manager of the Frye-Bruhn Packing Company here. About 45 friends of the couple were present at the anniversary party at the Hutchings Apartment yesterday evening. Pioneer Alaskan Dies in Seattle SEATTLE, April 12— Edward Tyndell, aged 61, pioneer miner of Washington and Alaska, is dead here. He went to Alaska during the Klondike rush, finally settling in Fairbanks operating gold mines. He retired and came here ten days ago. A widow and sister survive here. ing Governor E. W. Griffin, Secre- tary of Alaska; James S. Truitt, Attorney General, and Harry Wat- son, Secretary to the Governor. The Board of Directors of the corporation previously named are Governor John W. Troy, Charles sion of Church Bodies With the return to Juneau yes- terday of Rev. and Mrs. David ‘Waggoner, details of the annual meeting of the Presbytery and Pres- byterial of Alaska at Klawock from }Chicngo at the request of Charles | Walgreen, President of a drug store |chain, because of alleged preval- ence of communistic doctrines in |the University classrooms. Walgreen said, in a statement, Ihis action was taken after “serious and for several years worked min- mg property at Nevada Creek be- low Treadwell. Finally, he became dlaoclabed with men known as , Sanders and Johnson in sev- eml claims on Nevada Creek. Moves to Windfall Island April 4 to 8 were announced. The Rev. Waggoner, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church here, is E. Bunnell, President of the Uni- versity of Alaska; Colonel Otto F. Ohlson, Manager of the Alaska Rallroad; E. R. Tarwater, of the the Stated Clerk of the Presbytery. Bank of Alaska, Anchorage; Will-| More than 100 official delegates iam Taylor and Mike Skriven, mer-, and visitors were present. Eighteen chants at Anchorage. D. L. Irwin'churches were represented in the thinking,” when his niece told him| His next move was to Windfall about “new ideas” she was acquir- n‘"'d in Seymour Canal. He builf ing. a house, which, when rented sev- “‘Apparently she was being taught eral years later, was burned. Here communism is the only preventative |N€ attempted the unsuccessful of war,” Walgreen said. breeding of marten for fur. He was engaged in this venture for ten is general agent of the corporation at Washington, D. C. Speed Up Action { In order to facilitate business, Griffin, Truitt and Watson were named incorporators and tempor- ary acting board to facilitate mat- ters in that all are located in Juneau. The corporation is incorporated for $1,000 and is authorized to handle funds up to $500,000. Nine' shares of stock will be issued on| a non-profit basis, one to each of the incorporators and original board of directors. Central Authority Primary purpose of the organiza- tion is to have a central authority within the Territory for carrying on the Matanuska project which | is expected to bring 200 families to that section this summer. The corporation will handle all the funds in colonization pro- gram and is authorized to direct,| supervise and guide the work of rehabilitating the families sent to stake part in the undertaking. ————— LARGE PROFIT BYLMN &L SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 12 —Libby, McNeill and Libby reports a net profit for the fiscal year ending March 3, as $3,032,000 com- pared to $2,206,000 last year. pesiy S Rl B bl WANDA DAY, GRADUATE Miss Wanda Day, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Day, holds the honor of being the first graduate to be graduated from the Fort Lis- cum High School, says the Valdez Miner. Graduation exercises in her honor were held March 6. !sessions. Rev. A. D. Swogger, Met- !becflme the Ministerial Commission- Presbytery and 13 women's mission- !ary socleties had delegates at the Presbyterial. Election of officers and chosing of delegates to the annual General As- sembly at Cincinnati starting May 23 were features of the Presbytery lakatla, was named Moderator; Rev. Waggoner was re-elected for the three-year term of Stated Clerk; and Rev. F. G. Klerekoper, Skag- way, was elected Temporary Clerk of the session., Rev. Webster Chosen ‘The Rev. J. L. Webster, Sitka, er at the General Assembly, while Elder William Wells, Sitka, was named Lay Commissioner. As a Tesult of the Klawock ses- sion, the retirement of two well- known Alaska Presbyterian minis- ters was announced. The Rev. 8. G. Davis, Hydaburg, the only ordained native minister in Alaska, will re- tire, at 70 years of age, in May. The Rev. George J. Beck, after 40 years on Alaskan service, will re- tire at the end of the year from his pulpit in Ketchikan.' On the program for conference hours were many interesting talks. One which attracted much atten- tion was the series of Bible Hour lectures on the ‘‘Spirituality of the Psalms,” given by the Rev. Ralph K. Wheeler of Haines. Book reviews were presented by Rev. Webster and Rev. Russell F. Pederson of Wrangell. Miss Ruth B. Mead, re- ligious education instructor at the Sheldon Jackson School at Sitka, led two conference hours on dis- cussion of Sunday Schools and young people’s work. Young People Meet Incidentally, it was announced at the Presbytery that the second young peoples conference this yu.r -wn.mued an Pm Two) President Hutchins of the uni- versity declined to make any com- ment. Tt is understood the Presi- dent and the trustees are to hold a meeting to discuss the action. RECEPTION TONIGHT TO ENSIGN TANNER A public reception will be held at the Salvation Army Barracks tonight to welcome Ensign George Tannare and wife who arrived here aboard the Princess Norah to suc- ceed Capt. and Mrs. R. B. Lesher in command of the Army in Ju- neau. Major W. J. Carruthers will participate in the affair and the public is \nvwed TANANA CROSSING MINISTER IS HERE Rev. E. A McIntosh, Episcopalian minister stationed at Tanana Cross- ing, arrived in Juncau on the northbound Princess Norah. He is accompanied by his wife The couple are returning from a six months furlough in the States. They are registered at the Zynda Hotel and plan to continue to the Interior next week. MISS NANCY ANN KANN HAS MINOR OPERATION THURSDAY Miss Nancy Ann Kann, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. Kann, is re- Ccuperating from a tonsilectomy which was performed by Dr. W. W. Couneil at his office yesterday. LENTEN SERVICE TONIGHT A special Lenten service will be held tonight at the Resurrection Lutheran Church. The piblic, as years. Then, in 1918, he was injured in| a logging camp, where he had tak- en employment during the war. He was brought to the hospital here, and had never been in good health after that accident. Following this, he operated the 50-foot Pheasant for John Haho, the owner, between Petersburg and (Continued on Paxe six) CARR COMING BACK NORTH 10 GET GOOL Fairbanks —_R:sident Has Had Enough of Warm Places in South SEATTLE, April 12.—After first visit to the states years, Bernard W. Carr is going back to Fairbanks, Alaska where a man can keep cool. Carr came out last November and married Miss Laura Lee, of Los Angeles, former Fairbanks high school teacher. Their honey- moon trip took them to Cuba, Ha- wali and the Canal Zone. Carr declared: in any of those places because it i8 too hot” and added: Fairbanks climate suits me.” Carr is returning north a week from Saturday to build a home and he said it will probably be an- his the states again. well as the members of the churel is invited. onme- & restaurant at Fairbanks, other 20 years before he ventures w; ‘cer rymore-Dolores Costello household | brought reports of an impending | divorce. While Barrymore remained silent {in New York, his wife was equally uncommunicative here but it is believed she has prepared to desert the palatial home and go with her two children to an apartment near- er town, Rumors of marital discord be- {tween the Barrymores was first | heard following his long absence |in Europe on a film venture, then {on a hunting expedition. ‘The Barrymores are known to many Juneau residents as they en- tertained and were entertained dur- ing several trips to Alaska. The last trip was made last year aboard the Infanta, private yacht of the Barrymores. -t 000000000000 . STOCK QUOTATIONS . NEW YORK, April 12— Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 17, American Oan 118, ‘American Power and Light 3%, Anaconda 11':;, Bethlehem Steel 25%, Calumet and Hecla 3%, | General Motors 29%, International Harvester 37%, United States Steel 31, Pound $4.84, Nabesna 77 bid 90 asked, Bremner 59 bid 63 asked. |HAYES DEWITT, MAYOR \OF KAKE, IS STRICKEN in 20/ Haynes DeWitt, Mayor of Kake, Presbyterian missionary and lead- er in the Alaska Native Brother- hood, died Wednesday of a cerebral hemorrhage, according to a wire received today by Charles W. Hawkesworth, Assisant to the Di- rector in the U. 8. Bureau of In- |dian Affairs. DeWitt was an out- “T would not live | standing figure among the Indians in Southeast Alaska. He was 40 “The | years old and leaves a wife and family. RONAN ON YUKON John Ronan, recently appointed Territorial liquor enforcement offi- for the Fourth ' Division, on the Yukon, April | 12.—"“Moving day” of the John Bar- | men, bankers and waterfront lead-| 5 ers gathered at the Olympic Hotel SURVIVORS REACH HOME today to bid bon voyage to T. B. WILLIAMSPORT, Md., April 12. Wilson, General Manager of the —Eleven of those in last night's Alaska Steamship Company, who|'ran and bus tragedy returned is leaving tomorrow on a hunting | :‘;’:‘ b:?i:vmh::fl;;:yuwz‘:: trip to Point Barrow in the Arc Tnnmu wive not thcded e S tie. A. L. Hager, President of the New England Fish Company, and E. O. McDonnell, Director of Lhe Pan-American Airway, will accom-’ pany Wilson on the trip. The party will go to Juneau| |survivor list published early this morning. B GERMANY SAYS i) acres on Carr is a former Seattle boy and'travelling from Juneau to Seward | Worth. He and his wife are consid- ka. | aboard the Alaska, then go by! plane to Pomt Barrow, READY TO JOIN | CROP DAMAGE, ~ MOVE FOR PEACE DUST REGI“NS [Reich Posmon Declared |S EN"RM"“S‘ Big Step Toward Eas- ing Europe Situation Twenty Thousand Families on Relief Rolls—More Storms Forecast STRESA, Ttaly, April 12.— Ger= many informed Great Britain, Italy and France today, that the Reich is prepared to join Eastern Europe cial communique said, issued from Somaro the Stresa conference. WASHINGTON, April 12.—~Crop The announcement was made al- damage estimates exceeding $30,- ter French Foreign Minister Laval, 000,000 in a seriously affected area said the three nations agreed cons of more than 15000000 acres and cerning the program for the forth relief rolls carrying over 20,000 coming meeting of the League of families were revealed here today. Nations called as the result of The figures are the result of a Germany's announcement to con= survey made in the dust storm sec- script an army. tions of the west and southwest The French spokesman said m. It was alsp announced that re- “step in advance” made may per= | curring storms are forecast in the imit the revival of the proposed western, west and “central Kansas, Eastern Locarno pact sponsored by sou stern Colorado, all of Okla- France and Russia in an effort to homa Panhandle, the southeastern duplicate in Eastern Europe a non= corner of Wpyoming, northeastern aggression treaty similar to that corner of New Mexico and north- of Locarno. ¢ ern two- thirds of the Texas pan- Delegates said Germany's offer handle. was a big step toward settlement Crop damages are largely con-|of affairs in Europe. [ fined to wheat. - e Former Resident of Elliott Roosevelt Fairbanks Passes Away Buys Texas Farm s Al SEATTLE, April 12— Friends FORT WORTH, Tex., April 12. have received word from Coloratio —Eiliott Roosevelt, son of the Springs of the death there President, has bought a farm—250 | Vance Rutledge McDonald, mer= the outskirts' of Fort chandise broker of Fairbanks, Alks=' He went to Colorado Springs | four years ago for his health. ering building a home there. in a non-aggression pact, an offi-