The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 6, 1935, Page 1

" THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLV, NO. 6954 “4ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 6, 1935. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ORDER FAIRBANKS DOCTOR T0 BARROW U. S. SENATOR KILLED, PLANE CRASH B. M. CUTTING IS VIGTIM OF AIR ACCIDENT Three Othe;—/ire Dead as Result of Disaster in Missouri NEW MEXICAN WAS ENROUTE TO WASH. Plane ‘Runs—at of Fuel— Senate Adjourns Out of Respect to Dead ATLANTA, Missouri, May 6. United States Senator Bronson M. Cutting, Republican of New Mex- ico; Pilot Harvey Bolton, of Kan- sas City; Copilot Kenneth Greeson, and Miss Jeanne Anne Hillias, also of Kansas City, were killed when a fog-bound TWA transport planc crashed near here. Nine others aboard the plane, six of them members of a motion pic- ture production unit, bound for An- napolis, were injured, some seriously. The ship did not catch fire, which indicated it ran out of gaso- line. Eastbound The ship was. eastbound,. non- stop from Albuquerque. The pilot found the Kansas City airport wrap- ped in fog and smoke after vainly searchifig for 20 mitilites for a break in which to land, he was told to try Kirksville, Missouri, emergency landing field. The fuel evidently gave out 15 miles from the goal, which was comparatively clear, and the plane crashed on a farm about 4 o'clock this morning. Senator Cutting was enroute to Washington, D. C. to vote on the bonus measure, SENATE ADJOURNS WASHINGTON, May 6—The Sen- ate adjourned as soon as the sad news had been received of Senator Cutting’s death and at noon it was expected the House would also ad- journ about mid-afternoon, out of respect. No action was taken on the bnnus question. It is believed former Representa- tive Cheves, who was beaten by Senator Cutting and contested the election, migli be appointed to the Benate to fil. Cutting’s place Senator Cutting, editor and pub- lisher, was born June 23, 1888, at Oakdale, Long Island, N .Y. His term would have expired in 1941. CONGRESS MAY BE INSESSION MANY MONTHS President Insists His Pro- gram Be Enacted If It Takes All Summer WASHINGTON, May 6.— The legislative situation is pictured in terms of an endurance contest as Congress entered another week with the Roosevelt program still moving slowly. Word has been circulated that the | President has indicated he had no objection to Congress staying in session all summer if that is ne-| cessary to get his program passed. | JUNEAU MEN WlLL GO TO KENNECOTT| Paul Wamer of Juneau has re- ceived word from E. J. Duggan, Superintendent of the Kennecott| Copper Corporation, asking that several skilled mining men be sent from here to the Kennecott to keep the tramway and mill in shape There is no definite indication yet that operations are to resume at the copper mine, Mr. Warner said.! but the company is keeping the| property in shape in the event it is decided to open later. {Major General Allison Con- Skuguay Did Itjen Wrong When He Went To See Mae West While Martin Itjen was outside seeing Mae West, Skagway was do- ing things to Itjen’s tour route. This is according to stories brought south on the Princess Norah. Itjen, who was a northbound passenger aboard the Princess Nor- ah, told the round trippers about his tour on his street car at Skag- way and promised them he would take the mon the full circuit. On arrival at Skagway, Itjen made good and while the wonderful trip was in progress, he suddenly stop- ped, gazed around and then ex- claimed: “My gosh, they have torn down one of my old land marks while I was visiting Mae West. Now I will have to change my book, as the house that used to stand here had a prominent place in the book that| I have written.” R GREETINGS TO ALASKANS BY ARMY OFFICER verses by Radio Phone with Empire Man Major General James B. Allison, | Chief Signal Officer of the U. S. Army, now in Seattle, was inter- viewed by an Empire reporter through a radio telephone from the ! Juneau office of the U. S. Signal Corps, arranged by Charles E. Smith, Operator-in-Charge of the local office. “Tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock, | Col. G. E. Kumpe and myself!| will leave on the Northwestern foi ‘Cluse on the heels of the T0 TAKE PLANE T0 MATANUSKA Gladys Forrest Going from Governor’s Office to Handle Accounts With the St. Mihiel, transport carrying the first contingent of families to the Matanuska Valley project, scheduled to arrive in Sew- ard at 8 o'clock tonight, Donald L. Irwin, Director, and N. Lester Troast, accompanied by Miss Gladys Forrest of the Govenor's office, will leave here by PAA plane tomorrow for Fairbanks and thence to the Matanuska to take charge of the work. After spending a wcek in con- ference with Alaska Rural Rehab- ilitation Corporation’'s dir e ctors mapping out the details of the project, the men have been authorized to proceed at once to the scene of the new colonization and begin operations. The North Star on which Mr. Irwin arrived here, arrived in Sew- ard Sunday with the transient workers and supplies and workers| immediately took a train for An-| chorage from where they go to the| Matanuska. As the St. Mihiel is coming so| workers it is expected to hold the settlers at Seward or Anchorage for a ishort time until tents and housing accommodations can be arranged, it is reported. The plan to bring the St. Mihiel | via Ketchikan and Juneau was\ abandoned late Saturday when it| was found she was already pro- "‘eedmg toward Seward. | Wezather is reported to be fine in the Matanuska district at this| time with the snow all gone. a tour of inspection of the Signal| Corps stations in Alaska,” said the General, in a voice coming in as clear as if he were telephoning from the next room. When told that the commercial service given by the Juneau Signai Corps station was appreciated here, Gen. Allison said that the Signal Corps was always glad to serve, the public. | “I am very pleased with lhe‘ efficiency of the Seattle and Port. land stations, I have uLspecLed' the General said today, “and I hope to find the same conditions in Juneau when we arrive there cbout May 11." Gen. Allison was advised that a fishing trip had been arranged for him. He replied that he hoped he| would have time for it, and knew that Col. Kumpe would try and make it because he was admittedly an ardent fisherman. In short conversations with Har- ry G. Watson, and Acting Gov- ernor E. W. Griffin, the General sent greetings to the people of Alaska and also said that he had visited with Gov. John W. Troy Friday in Washington, D. C., and the Governor was finishing his conferences and would leave for the West this week. e WHITE IS HERE P. F. White, connected with the Forest Service, arrived in Juneau from Tenakee on the Estebeth. He has been in charge of CCC work at Elfin Cove near Port Althorp. ——————— FROM TENAKEE H. Felder, prospector and min- ing man from' Valdez, boarded the Estebeth at Tehakee for Juneau. He has been in Tenakee to take the hot £prings baths. - LANGE 710 INTERIOR George Lange, the cook for the | Chichagoff Gold Mining Company, was an inbound passenger from Chichagof on the Estebeth. He will journey to the Inftior. HESN ok | HARTZELL RETURNS Donald S. Hartzell, supervisor of social welfare with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, returned to Juneau from Sitka on the Estebeth -oo TO HOME Riley Hammerley and William J Long left for Sitka on the North Sea. There they enter the Pioneers’ Home, Mr. Irwin will be in charge of! the project, Mr. Troast will have the construction and architectural work and Miss Forrest will set up |an accounting system. DARING ALASKA AVIATOR MAKES FINAL FLIGHT, Frank Dorbandt s Death| Was Caused by Minor Airplane Accident FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Frank Dorbandt, 41-year-old aviator whose name is written bright in air | adventures in the Far North, died| Saturday a vietim of a minor air- plane accident, with his bride of a few months at his bedside. Dorbandt’s hand was hurt three weeks ago by a whirling propeller | at Takotna. He suffered a heavy loss of blood and then pneumonia developed. His friends, expressing sorrow, re- called his numerous tilts with the !law, his suicide hoax flight in which | he bade friends goodbye, but turn- ed up later unharmed, and his pil- lotmg of Father Hubbard, the Gla- |cier Priest, into the crater of Ani- akchak volcano. Ilauptmaun s Chief Counsel Is Ousted ; Suing for $20,000 BROOKLYN, N. Y, May 6.—Ed-| ) ward Reilly has been ousted as chief counsel for Bruno R. Hauptmany | and has sued Mrs. Hauptmann for $22,000, which he claims as his fee in the Hauptmann trial. The court has directed Mrs. Hauptmann to show cause on May 10 why she should not be enjoined from disposing of funds now in her possession Reilly might collect for his services and expenses. E - i WILL EL{ECT OFFICERS | | Officers will be elected tonight |by the Bu:iness and Professional Women's Club at the meeting call- | ed for 8 oclock in the Council o |IRWIN, TROAST [China Pirate Crew Led by Women Buecancers Loot l Vessel,Kill Passenger AMOY, China, May 6.— China’s women pirates, seldom seen but fa- mous in song and story along the South China coast, were a grim reality to 300 terror stricken Chi- nese travelers arriving here on a an obscure port in south Foochow and hardly had gotten under way When the female freebooters and their male accomplices, including one leper, commandeered the craft, killlng and wounding passengers coastal steamer. They said their|who resisted, and then the looting ship had fallen into the hands of | began. two female buccaneers with 40| The female chieftains revealed a SLAND PARTY SEEKING HELP | OF JAPANESE {Sakdalista Leader in Tokyo| Says He Is Asking for Only ‘Moral Support’ | | TOKYO, May 6.—Benigno Ramos, | President and envoy of the Sak- | Clean-up Campaign ),lmtwl Today; | Everybody Ruhmg Ulean-Up, l‘nln( -Up Week be- ging in Juneau today with a vigorous effort to make Juneau the brighte:t, cleanest town on the Coast within seven days, as has been previously announced in The Empire. Already evidence that resi- dents plan to co-operate fully with the Civic Improvement Committee of the Chamber of Commerce which is sponsoring AUTHORITIES GUARD AGAINST SPREAD OF FLU Gillespie on Way to Stricken Area with Nurses to Help male subordinates from Tuesday un- til Friday. The passengers said the ship had been robbed of a quar- ter of a million Mexican in cash and silver bars and the pirates af- strange mixture of merciless outlaw and sentimental womanhood. Before escaping to shore in the loot-laden small boats which half the num- ber of men members brought along- May 6.— {Hoover MaE;Addl’ESS in| Tucson Marfi: Indicted on ter killing one passenger and wounding three others escaped in a small boat to a pirate stronghold north of here. The steamer PAA PLANE HERE SITKA VETERAN FROM FAIRBANKS REPORTED LOST YESTERDAY P. M. AT TEE HARBOR Four Arrive Here from In- Joe Pocus Said to' Have terior Points on Weekly | Gone Into Woods There Trip off Big Electra | —Boat on Beach Fred and Tommy Harris were this afternoon sent out by U. 8. Commissioner Mullen to make a search for the missing man. side the vessel, they gave the broth- er of a slain passenger $70 Mexi- | can to provide for a funeral, and two Mexican dollars to each passen- ger for Lmnsponnnon Bound from Fairbanks, the Pa-| cific Alaska Lockheed Electra arnv-1 ed at the Juneau PAA airport yes- terday afternoon with Joseph Bar- rows, pilot and Murray Stuart, co-| — pilot. The trip down was made in| Reported disappearance of Joe| good time and excellent weather Pocus of Sitka was being investi- i prevailed between the Interior City \gazed by U. 8. Commissioner J. F. and Juneau, according to pilot Bar- | Mullen and the marshal’s office to- | rows. ‘day John Vincent of Tee Harbor Passengers arriving on the E]ectravreporu-d to the Commissioner n,ap yesterday were R. C. Stotts, Mrs.|boat No. T-3180 arrived in Tee W. H. Cordle. Bertha L. hmbe&u,}}!arbor last Tuesday and a war vet- nd Dr. R. Edward Smith. The last|eran known as Joe rowed ashore three made plane connections at‘m a skiff and went into the woods. Fairbanks from Kotzebue. | Vincent said today the boat was At 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon stil at the north end of Tee Har- the plane is scheduled to leave here | por and the skiff on the beach. for the Golden Heart city on its| Investigation revealed the boat weekly trip. Reservations made at was formerly No. M-6190 and is noon today included A. B. Hayes, N. owned by Pocus and it is he who Lester Troast, Don Irwin and Miss is supposed to have gone ashore. Gladys Forrest for Fairbanks from |He is reported to have been suffer- Juneau, and J. J.. How, who is due |jng from stomach trouble. Author- here on the steamer Yukon tomor-‘meu were considering sending out .n eei.rchlng parly SEGUHITY PLAN JUNE ROBLES’ OF GOVERNMENT KIDNAP CASE UNDER ATTACK IS UP AGAIN Which Apparent Disap- proval [s Expressed Charge of Attempt- ed Extortion SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., May 64 TUCSON, Arizona, May 6.— The Creation of economic and social se- | Federal Grand Jury has indicted curity through “regimentation” bore osecar H. Robson, former night club arraignment of Herbert Hoover as gperator, on a charge of mailing not producing a true American citi-| threatening communications with zen in an address before the Cali- jntent to extort in connection with fornia Conference of Social Work.|the kidnaping of little June Robles Hoover assailed any attempt % more than a year ago. make the Government the major| The indictmens, the only one re- source of sceuring efforts. He made | at least one apparent direct criti-| turned as the jurors completed their investigation into the abduction, cism of the Administration’s pol-| taken to mean the case is not whol- icy, the original plan for production . the foqliext . tod " ly sef curtailment by saying: “You may| ttorney, Federal Government's a produce an efficient economic or governmental unit by a manufal_uludge Albert M .Sames authorized tured, regimented, imposed environ- | th grand jury to continue the in- yment but you will not produce a“’““l!a“o“ free individual, in short, you will| Robson is a former schoolmate of I not produce an American.” \June Robles’ father, Fernando Rob- e !les. Robson steadfastly denies any L % v connection with the case. He is a ORETER YR KA ! married man and has two children. Mr. and Mrs. J. 8. Jeffery were v returning passengers to Juneau from Petersburg on the North Sea. Jef- MRS. T. J. JACOBSON RETURNS fery is the representative for the TO HOME IN PT. ALEXANDER M. Seller Company. | - | Mrs. T. J. Jacobson, of Port Alex- DUNLu» TRAVELS ander, who spent the winter in Ju- Herb C. Dunlop, merchandise neau, returned to her home on the broker, went to Sitka from Juncau steamer North Sea n the North Se y oo { Some members admitted giving Ra- { quities and broken pledges under {to obtain immediate emancipation | is|they have received their dalista party of the Philippines, said | {he had been here since late 1934| “to inform the Japanese people of | {the real conditions in the island and | gain moral support of the Japan-| ese.” He denied he was attempting to obtain arms from this country. That Ramos already had gained “moral support” of influential Jap- anese was indicated by the fact that the interview with him took place |at the headquarters of Slekvkua lm'gvsl political party in Jupnn His Japanese friends were most vague about the nature of help he is enlisting. He insisted it is con- fined to morgl support. A news sheet, “Free Filipinos,” however, which Ramos distributed was f(‘fl-‘ tured in the Japanese language nsl an “appeal to the gallant Japanese | people,” recounting the alleged in-| mos friendship and protection. i | American rule. It also asked help and concluded with “arms mean| our freedom. We lack weapons and | resources, but if help is given us now we can reciprocate when we | are free.” BLAMES CONGRI‘.S& NEW YORK, May 6.—President| of the Philippine Senate, Manuel Quezon, blames the United States Congress for the Sakdalista ||prib-w ing. declaring restrictions put upon | imports from the Philippines was, bound to result in discontent. RELIEF FUNDS | EXHAUSTED IN | STATE OF ILL. Thousands of Families Face| Prospect of Going | to Bed Hungry i CHICAGO, Ill, May 6.—Officials strove desperately today to end the stalemate over relief funds as hun- dreds of thousands faced the pros- pect of going to bed hungry. Gov. Henry Horner expressed con- fidence that enough opponents to the sales tax increase plan for raising the state’s share of the relief bur- den will be compelled to change sides to carry through the emerg- ency measures tomorrow. Fifty thousand heads of Cook County who depended upon work relief, received their last checks a week ago. Relief officials sald it meant their food supplies are ex- hausted. This group included 175,000 individuals. Another group of 4,000 families on direct relief will he added each day to those without supplies because last as- sistance. Downstate counties reported that 143,000 families, dependert upon work relief, could no longer be giv- en help, S TODAY | NEW YORK, May 6. — Closing| quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 17%, American Can 118%, American Power and Light 3%, Anaconda 13%, Armour N 3%, Bethlehem Steel 25'%, Calumet and Hecla, no sale; General Motors 30%, International Harvester 40% Kennecott 17%, United States Steel 31%, Pound $4.8 Bremner bid 63, asked 68; Nabesna bid 58, ask- ed 70. - OFF ON PLEASURE TRIP Chambers in the City Hall, - BAKER IS HERE Mrs. R. R. Lister and daug BAKER BOOKS PASSAGE Representative of the National|Sylvia are pas aLh Sam Baker, Walton N. Moore Cash Register Company, M. Baker |Princess Norah for Vancouve representative, booked for Sitka ou iS in Juneau. He arrived on the | spend ral months .visiting the North Ses. North Sea from Petersburg. tives, wd g Clean-Up Week, is obvious in cvery portien of the city where COUNCIL SENDING fresh paint i appearing on SERUM FROM HERE fences and business Py and rakc. are busily Last Report Says 11 Dead cleaning yards and vacant lots. | package, | pany's PLANE BRINGS VACCINE NORTH T0 FIGHT FLU |Pilot Kirk[mn’;h Here with' New Ship—Serum Will Go on PAA Plane FOINT BARROW ALASKA, | RUSH" is the address on the box of influenza vaccine brought to Juneau | by Pilot M. D. Kirkpatrick aboard | his Cordova-bound Bellanca plane which arrived here this afternoon and left shortly afterward, Kirkpatrick delivered the serum, donated by Drug Company to aid in the fight! to prevent the spread of the influ- enza epidemic in the North, to A. B. Hayes, Traffic Representative of the Pacific Alaska Airways in Ju» neau, and Mr. Hayes will send the labelled “Quick Delivery, into Fairbanks on his com- plane Electra, tomorrow. From Fairbanks the serum will go by plane to its destination. Urgent” The airship left the Puget Sound: port at 10 o'clock yesterday morning with the following persons aboard: Pilot M. D. Kirkpatrick, J. W. Webb, Peyton C. Ramer, and James Galen. Webb left the plane here. He is the new manager of the Wilson- Fairbanks and Company brokerage branch here. Ramer is manager of the Brem- ner Gold Mine Company plant near Cordova, while Galen, with head- ;qmu-ters at Cordova, is a prominent ; transfer man and transportation company executive in the Interior. He has been in Washington, D. C. The plane stayed at Alert Bay last night, but was off for Juneau,! via Ketchikan, morning. Kirkpatrick’s plane, the Eyak, a, six-place Bellanca was purchnsed recently in Memphis, Tennesse, for the Cordova Air Service, of which he is president. He lef Memphis a week ago today, flew through dust storms so thick that he was unable of see the tip of the plane's wing, encountered 20-inches of snow in Cheyenne and was glad to reach Seattle two days later. In Seattle the plane’s wheels were discarded for pontoons. KING GEORGE CELEBRATING ANNIVERSARY at 5:30 o'clock this | Staid London Joms in Jub- ilee Seldom Surpassed —Subjects Rejoicing LONDON, May 6-—Amid almost unparalleled popular rejoicing, King George completed his 25 eventful years on the throne today. Such a ceiebration as staid Lon- don has seldom seen swept the old city as the King and his Queen drove in state to St. Paul's Cathe- dral to kneel in prayer of thanks- Ov subject the untes tary. the patd ha i wougn & quarier cen the Blumauer-Frank | and Others Feared Dy- ing in Epidemic { s While the peak of the influenza cpidemic at Point Barrow is be- | leved by authorities here to have | been passed, Dr. W. W. Council, 1C¢mm1\\10ncr of Health, today wir- |ed Dr. F. B, Gillesple, health offi- cer at Fairbanks, to take a plane there immediately and go to Bar- row to investigate. He was instruct- ed to take two nurses and report to Dr. Council at once. He should arrive at Point Barrow tonight. 1 Dr. Council is sending serum on ithe PAA plane leaving here to- |morrcw for Fairbanks and it will | be hopped from there to the strick- en area if necessary. 11 Dead E Information from Point Barrow , today said there were 11 influenza deaths and others. feared since there {are five critical cases in the hos- | pital. A plane arrived there yester- jday to take out bear hunters but Ihad no vaccine aboard, it was re- ;ported There is no break in the {ice pack and a storm is holding the {plane there so that the hunters, C. E. McDonnell and Roderick Tow- er of New York, are unable to leave on account of lack of visibility. A traffic report from Barrow sent via the Associated Press said young {men were digging graves in the deeply frozen earth in anticipation ,of funerals to be held later. The hospital staff is sald to be carrying on and the work is said to be well in hand. No professional aid is | needed now but there is a shortage of foodstuffs, it was said. Children are improverished from poor diet, according to word from Dr. Henry | Greist. Not Critical, He Thinks Dr. H. Edward Smith, Indian Bu=- |reau doctor at Kotzebue, who ar- |rived here by plane Sunday said he felt the situation at Point Bar- how was not critical and that the peak had doubtless been passed. He {sald that influenza had been pre- valent this winter in the northern towns and that at Kotzebue there were 150 cases without the loss o! life. Charles W. Hawkesworth, Assist- ant to the Director in the Bureau of Indian Affairs, had communica- tions today indicating that the crest of the epidemic was past although |one additional death was reported | today. | Serum From Seattle Serum from Seattle arrived in Juneau this afternoon in a plane piloted by M. D. Kirkpatrick of the Cordova Air Service and will be sent to Fairbanks tomorrow on the PAA ship to be held pending word from ‘Dr. Gillespie at Point Barrow. If ‘xL is found necessary it will be flown {to Barrow from the interior city ’ The serum was supplied by the Post Intelligencer and Blumauer |Frank Company of Seattle. KEGAL TO KETCHIKAN Faul Kegal, former captain of the mml boat Pacific, is traveling to Ketchikan on the North Sea. | MRS. GROSSMAN TRAVELS Billed as a through passenger |from Sitka to Seattle, Mrs. Teresa | Grossman, Sitka business woman, ls Lraveung on the steamer North I P TSI DR. HODGINS ARRIVES Dr. and Mrs. H. J. Hodgins ar- |rived here on the North Sea from Sitka, accompanied by Harold Hod- gins. Dr. Hodgins is a Sitka dentist. .o l YNCH TRAVELS , Diamond Drill Come pan, ‘representative, i traveling on 'the North Sea to Ketchikan, r