The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 3, 1935, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLVI., NO. 6978. " FEDERALS FORM NET IN ENTIRE PAC. NORTHWEST All Avenue;F Escape Be- lieved Guarded 1 Two States NO TRACE OF GANG ABDUCTING GEORGE Weyerhaeuser Family Spends Quiet Sunday in Seclusion, Home BULLETIN—TACOMA, Wash,, June 3~With all avenues of eccape in the Pacific North- weot guarded, Federal Agents appear to be closing on the kidnaper: of the Weyerhaeuser boy. No informaticn of a spec- ific nature is givem out how- ever, BULLETIN, TACOMA, June 3—Survivers of the Barker- Karpic mob faded from the pic- ture of the kidnaping late this afternoon and there are increas- ing indications the snatch is being laid at the doors of Pa- cific Northwest criminals. DESCKIPTION 1S GIVEN ABOUT RANSOM MONEY TACOMA, Wash, June 3.—De- partment of Justice Agents have re- ceived and began distribution of the pamphlets listing the numbers of the bills with which little George Weyerhaeuser . was ransomed. The agents refused to comment on the statements made in the| Seattle Post-Intelligencer that the| ransom was paid near Elma last| Thursday by the boy’s uncle F. Rodman Titcomb and the kidnap- ers stole his auto. No one else would comment. (Connnued on Pnge Seven) — SPEEDING TAN SEDAN CAUSES EXTRA ALARM Weyerhaeuser Kidnapers Were Believed Seen in Oregon’s Wheatland PENDLETON, Oregon, June 3.—A sedan, speeding nearly 100 miles an hour, last Saturday night turned the search for the Weyerhaeuser kidnapers to Northeastern Oregon’s wheatland where William Edwards “The Fox” Hickman, who kidnaped and butchered little Miriam Parker, of Los Angeles, was tracked to earth in 1927. Roars Past Officers The sedan, late Saturday, roared past two deputy sheriffs cruising eastward along the Umatilla-Wallu- lla Highway, less than 35 miles from where former Sheriff Tom Gurdane and his deputy Buck Leul- lan captured “The Fox.” The two deputies spurred their car to 91 miles an hour but the tan| o sedan was traveling so fast they did not even see what make the car was or the type of license car- ried. Roads Guarded The roads in the district were already guarded but more guards were rushed to all strategic points. Meanwhile from Southeastern Washington came reports that the Walla Walla County Sheriff had thrown out guards in the hopes of intercepting the car if it headed north, Have Tan Sedan One of the cars reported used by the kidnapers is a tan sedan. Hickman earned the name of “The Fox” because he was clever enough to drive out of California, through Oregon and Washington, over coast roads but met his mast- ers when he turned into the wheat- land country. - Hickman was re- turned to Los Angeles where he was convicted and hanged. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, | UNE 3, 1935. Home Brightened rby Return of Kubw_ped Boy BI_UE EAGLE Phe. ionzhle 1ecld Geoa:ge Weyerhe veiands 2 white bed rheet, presu it wa the lad was released -nd returned PARENTS LAVIS ATTENTION UPON s the large, old tial szotion of LITTLE GEORGE IStatemen—t—[s Issued by Weyerhaeuser Family as Man Hunt Starts TACCMA, Wasn., Juze 3.—(Copy= right by Associated Press, 1935) — Manhunters, from which no quar-| ter may be expected, last Saturday night spread an ever-widening net over the Pacific Northwest. The moment that it was announced that youthful George Weyerhaeuser had been freed from the grasp of the kidnapers whose coffers bulged with $200,000 ransom, the grim ar- my of Federal, State and local au- thorities took up the chase for the abductors. The nine-year-old boy, safe in his home, was lavished attention by his hysterical parents as the snatchers of the curly-haired boy were being hunted down. Family Statement The members of the family issued a statement late Sapurday reveal- ing the ransom demands were met “through the assistance of friends.” Ne word was revealed when con- tact was made which resulted in freedom of little George in the lonely wooded area near Isaquah, just before dawn Saturday. The name of the Karpis gang, kidnapers of Edward G. Bremner, who was released after $200,000 was paid as ransom, was brought into the case. Reports Pour In Various reports that the Karpis smen had been seen in parts he Pacific Northwest, began to pour into the authorities here. One rumor was that George Powell, ac-| cused of complicity in the 1933 kid- | nap plot against a Seattle man,| missing from his usual haunts in Everett, might be in the custody of the Federal agents for question- ing. i | | 8 Georgg Sleeps Soundly While the law forces scoured the countryside for his captors, little | George slept Saturday night in his own little bed in his home while his hysterical parents hovered near-} by. The family statement issued labe“ last Saturday afternoon, at a press conference, and through the De- partment of Justice agents, said: No Further Statements “In response to many queries, we wish to state that the ransom de- manded was finally met through: assistance cof friends. George is tContmued on Pnge Seven) | Tacoma filled with hippin wor who was kiGnaped and held for $200,000 ranrom, which was paid. Frcm the rear fashioned mansio : ! Jchn Philip s again a med to be a sign ', wo- clung cut mys‘ericusly replaced by a blue sweater which hung (here until to his home, Harry Pratt 79 | Nominated for | Alaska Judgeship WASHINGTON, June President Reosevelt has no inated Harry E. Pratt, of Fair- banks, Alaska, to be Judge of {he Fourth Division, followinz the resignation of Judge E. Ccke Hill, Mr. Pratt is a lawyer of In- i Alacka. t VOLNEY DAVIS UNDER ARREST, TWIN CITIES Convicted Murderer, Sus- pect in Weyerhaeuser Case, Rounded Up ST. PAUL, Minn.,, June 3.—Vol- ney Davis, convicted murderer and one of the alleged kidnapers of Banker Bremer, has to the Twin Cities by plane under heavy Federal guards. g | apeake Weyerhaeuser, Jr, in the fashs fter the return of nine-year-old two days affer the kidnaping and fast Saturday morning when VIOLATIONS Cases, Last Vestiges of* Dead NRA's Laws ently throwing off the last vestiges of restraint imposed by NRA'S now dead wage hour and fair trade practice provisions, President Roos- evelt last Saturday dismissed 411 court cases involving violations of {the Blue Eagle rules. This wholesale action was cou- | pled with the announcement that other legal actions contemplated would not be initiated. Hints were also dropped in high quarters the NRA legislation if any permanent !plan is ready for submission. Congressional leaders lacked any inkling of any legislation that is now ready. ‘quoia over the week-end while the Capital pondered, without answer, | the course the Administration will take, The most uniform specula- sounding of the Nation's reaction {cede any definite action J. A, CHALONER PASSES AWAY, VIRGINIA HOME Member of Fighting Fam- ily, Once Held Insane, Coined Famous Phrase CHARLOTTESVILLX:, Virginia, June 3.—John Armstrong Chaloner, 2 dead at his home here. A three word felegram, “Who's | looney now?” mdde John Armstrong is n brought | In Washington, Chief Hoover of | the “G Men,” Davis refuted suspicion he been seen in Tacoma, Wash., Saturday. Davis was arrested following a shooting affray which Federal agents refused to exp]um TAKES SHOT AT PRESIDENT OF S. A, REPUBLIC : said the arrest of had last | Chief Executive of Uruguay Escapes with Chief of Brazil MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, June 3. | —Wounded slightly in the leg by a | would-be assassin, who is held and treated for a saber wound inflict- ed by the police after he fired a lshc«t. President Garbriel Terra is little the worse for his experience | and President Getulio Vargas, of | Brazil, has the assassin’s bullet as a souvenir, The Presidential party was fired ‘upon by Bernard Garcia as the two | Chanler, with guards were entering the race | course. The bullet barely pierced the skin of Terras's leg and lodged in| _ the fatty tissue. Chaloner coast. The bon mot, addressed to a her, epitomized a sensational quaxrel in one of the country’s old- est families, foreshadowed the au- thor’s victory in a long legal battle to escape the guandary of being le- gally insane in New York while sound mind in Virginia and North Carolina, echoed in Manhat- tan’s society and politics and rum- bled behind the wings of the Met- ropolitan Opera House Semi-Recluse Back of it was a career as a suc- cessful business man and lawyer, coupled with social prominence. Be- yond it an existence as a semi-re- cluse on country estates in Virginia and North Carolina, devoted largely to campaigns for “humanizing” the |lunacy laws of various states. Chaloner’s family name was Chau- ler. He changed it June 1, 1908, to an old form after the quarrel with his brothers and sisters became bit- ter. His father, John Winthrop was a lineal descendant of Peter Stuyvesant, governor of the !Dutch colony of New Amsterdam. His mother was Margaret Astor known from coast (Conunued on P.Age Four) 'STOCK ‘PRICES ARE BRIGHTER: TRADING 600D NRA' Clouds’ Drlft Away from Wall Street— Closing Steady NEW YORK, June 3.—Stocks | were brighter today as NRA clouds }appen.red to be drifting away from | Wall Street. Many issues were vir- tually unchanged and a number of \ 1 | | | selective | good. Today's close was better \steldy. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, June 3—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 17, American Can 123%, Anaconda 15, Bethlehem Steel |25%, Butte Copperand Zinc, no sale; General Mo 30%, Inter- national ‘Harvester 18%, United States Steel 31%,| Pound $491%, Bremner bid 55 ask- ed 65, Nabesna bid 84 asked 66, Black Pine Stiver bid 36% asked 38. SOCIALIST PLAN IS TURNED DOWN BY SWISS VOTES demand. Trading was Depression Loses Out Sunday Ballot BERNE, Switzerland, June 3. The Swiss voters Sunday rejected the Socialist five year recovery plan to combat depression. ‘There was some rioting in Gen- eva when the police charged a Fas- cist parade. The Socialist plan was defeated by a vote of 565,000 to 426,000. - e - ELSTAD TRAVELS Bert Elstad, who recently an- here from F. S. Scobee, passage on the Aleutian for Peters- burg. WALLSTEDT LEAVES Juneau on the Aleutian. than | %, Kennecott | ane-Year System to Beat| THROWN OUT|: President %;n'sses 411, WASHINGTON, June 3.—Appar- | President would propose Stop-gap The President cruised on Ches-| Bay aboard the yacht Se-‘ tion by observers is that further {to the overthrow of NRA will pre- / nounced he had taken over thelJuneau Cold Storage Company Mutual Benefit and United Bene-|turned to the city last night on tr fit Life Insurance company agencies | Princess Alice after a six-week bus- Hconah, a barge was being loaded |the booked | iness trip to the States. Sig Wallstedt, merchandise brok-|San Francisco. er, is traveling to Ketchikan from|fish company executives during his | What Is in Store for ° Qums 7 “What does the future hold for the famous Dionne quintuplets?” That's. the question being asked as the five baby sisters complete t)\enr first year. o Will their destinies parallel those of two sets of| quadrupl(te who are United States chief rival claim to the nnlal‘ (distinction of the Dionnes? Will stage as have the Doyle quadruplets, the Dionnes sometime go on the below, of Hollywood, #hown playing bridge “behind the scenes”? And will they attain the physical perfection of the Keyes sisters, top, of Hollis, Okla., who , #ave reached their 20th birthday and are now college co-eds? Black “Devil”’ Sweeps Down in |others advanced substantially in a| |S. E. Colorado SPRING FIELD, Celorado, June 3. — Sweeping away the heaped up dust of another black blizzard, Southeastern Colorado ‘folks had justification to wonder at the irony of the State’s freakish summer weath- er. Another cne of those black “devils” howled dewn upon this commlmlty last night. FLOOD WATERS SPREADING IN SOUTHERN AREA - One HundrE_Are Dead— Thousands Are Home- less in Kansas OXFORD, Nebrask:, June 3. While raging torrents of the Re- Kansas leaving behind nearly 100 dead and thousands homele flood worries assailed western Ne- braska as the Platte River plunged toward the fearsome junction The darhage now extending over a 200-mile area is estimated at $12- 000,000. e GEORGE RETURNS TO CITY SUNDAY a government Wallis 8. George, manager of the re- 10 Mr. George made the round tr to New York from Seattle by air- plane. He made a stop-over in Chi- cago and returned to Seattle via He conferred with trip. GUNTRUL OVER - SOCIAL SETUP ISSUE FOR 1336 Fight to Center on Ques- tion of Federal Power Over Economic Problems WASHINGTON, June 3.—While the capital awaited President Roosevelt’s next move on NRA ther were indications that the ion of Federal power over najor economic and social ques- urns would be the leading issue of the 1936 campaign. The fight over the idea of changing [the Constitution was sharpened when Senator William E. Borah declared that the Con- stitution now gives the Government enough power to cope with the emergency. In effect he dared the Roosevelt Administration to seek an amendment, Norris on the other hand favored | publican River swept onward into an amendment depriving the courts | of all power to hold any law un- new constitutional although he express- | ed the belief nothing would be done by this Congress by an amendment “This is the only civilized coun- in the world in which a law d by a parliament and ap- by the executive can werruled by the Supreme Court,” “It illustrates we by injunction.” e try TUG ARRIVES Brought by the cannery tender tod: get Sound Canning Company plant at Excursion Inlet. kippered by Capt. Tony Iverson, w not in port today, but is e >d to tow the barge to the can y when loaded. be! are | y at the Lumber Mill Dock with| ip box shooks for the Alaska and Pu- The Hoonah, | [AFTER ATTEMPT ON OWN LIFE, MAN 1S ALIVE Alex Sidor(;fE—Rejected Suitor of Garnick Daugh- ter, Is Near Death THREATENS GIRL’S LIFE THlS MORNlNG Man Lnrrages in Pistol Duel —Object of Posse's One-Hour Siege Althou[h r:nflnd by his rhysicizn a5 having scarcely no chanec of recovery, Alex Sider- off, 33-year-cld mine employee, o'ill was #live al 3 c'olock this afterncon at St. Ann's Hospital aftcr he apparently had at- tempted to take his life when a nine - man peise of city Federal cfficials attempted to cust him from the Frank Gar- nick residence on Twelfth Street this forenoon. A rejected suitor of Anita Gar- nick, daughter of a grocery store sroprietor, Sidoroff, after an hour's lege, was carried from the resi- jence when officers braved the tear-gas filled house and rushed him to the hospital in «n uneen~ scious Suhdition. | P He had been shot through the nead at a spot about two inches posterior from thé eyes. A .38 ¢ ter pistol was found beside him on a bed and there was every indi- | cation that he had attempted to take his own life. Two bullets had been discharged in the six-shot pistol. ! Shots Exchanged Residents of the Casey-Shattuck Addition became aware of the af- fair when shots were exchanged by | sidoroff and two Deputy United States Marshals, Walter Hellan and John McCormick in bushes across Twelfth Street from the Garnick residence. The officers had been called by Mrs. Garnick when her daughter returned to the house after start- ing for work in the family's store about 9:30 o'clock. Miss Garnick, in relating details to an Empire reporter, said that she had rejected Sidoroff's offer jof marriage about two years ago. However, during that time he has bothered the family repeatedly. Whenever the family or Miss Gar- nick appeared in public, Sidoroff usually managed to place himself nearby and was a constant source of annoyance, she said. Tells Story Continuing her story, she said that she had walked but a few blocks on her way to work this morning when she was met by Sidoroff. He ordered her to wait for mer mother on the Gold Creek Bridge and tell her that she was not feeling well and would have to return to the house alone. Miss Garnick said that the man showed her a pistol he was carry- ing and threatened to shoot her unless she did as he ordered. Desperate, Miss Garnick attempt- ed a ruse. She said that her moth- er would not believe her if she told her of her illness on the bridge and probably would insist cn returning to the house with her. S0, Miss Garnick said she ‘told Sidoroff that she would return |home immediately and would tell |her mother there of her “illness.” Ruse Works | Sidoroff tumbled to the ruse, |although warning her “not to tele- phone the police.” Safely inside the Garnick resi- dence, the girl told her mother of the man’s demands. Mrs. Garnick immediately telephoned the Mar- hal's office and Hellan and Me- Cormick were dispatched to the scene. Find Man | They found Sidoroff lurking in > brush near the home. Accosting him, Deputy Marshal Hellan order- ed him to surrender. Sidoroff’s an- swer was tp draw a pistol and start hooting. Hellan, attempting to return the fire, was able to shoot one bullet only to find his gun (Continued on Page Three) -