The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 9, 1935, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS-ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLVI., NO. 7008. JUNEAU, ALASKA TUESDAY, JULY 9. 1935. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ALASKA PLANE FOUR ABOARD, MISSING FIVE TESTIFY AS MRS.WALEY GOES ON TRIAL Father of KEI;p,ed Weyer- hacuser Boy Tells of Abduction DORE, FOR DEFENSE, REMAINS SILENT Salt Lake Floorwalker De- scribes Receiving Ransom Bill K | TACOMA, Wash,, July 94~Five! Government witneseses, lncludingE the father of George Weyerhaeuser, | testified in rapid’ succession during | the first two hours of the trial of | Margaret Waley here today. Mrs. | Waley is accused of assising in the abduction and, after a $200,- | 000 ransom had been paid in the release of the 9-year-old son of the Tacoma lumber baron. | Defense Counsel John F. Dore, | former Mayor of Seattle, examxned none whose testimony marked the; Government's preliminary sieps to- ward proving that Mrs. Waley was not an innocent party, but an ac- tive conspirator. H. C. McDonald, Cashier of the First National Bank of Seatile, de- scribed the preparation of $200,- | 000 Federal Reserve notes umch were paid to the kidnapers. Tell Ransom Preparations Charles Ingram, an cfficial of the Weyerhaeuser company, told of : representing the family, of arrang- ing with the banks for the money, of receiving it in a black suitcase,| and of giving it to Weyerhaeuser | at his home on May 29. | Miss Marian Samuels, a floor- walker in a Salt Lake Oity, Utah, Woolworth store, m.nunea the $5 ransom bill which Mis. Waley tried to pass on June 8. She said she did not talk to the girl, but called Detective William M. Rogers. Placed on the stand, he said that Mrs. Waley told him her name was Mrs. Von Metz and that she had | received the bill the day before in change from a $10 bill which she| presented at a Kress store. He said that she gave this testimony in a Salt Lake City Justice office where he questioned her. Father Testifies Weyerhaeuser told of George's disappearance, and of his frantic calls to hospitals and to school. He then told of receiving the first ransom note. He appeared nervous | at first on the stand, but regained his calmness before finishing his story. Mrs. Waley dropped her head and twisted he handkerchief dur- ing the presentation of the ran- som notes. The Government charged today that George was kept in a pit near Issaquah, Wash, but, later, was taken to another pit near Nasket, in eastern Washington, Canadian border. ADMIRALTY ISLAND TIMBER SURVEY IS BEING CONTINUED near the U. 8. District Cadastral Engineer George A. Parks of. the Public Sur- vey office, has sent a crew of men to. Admiralty Island in the Gam- bler Bay vicinity to continue sur- veying of areas valuable for mer- chantable timber. The survey was started five years ago and each geason the work is pushed ahead. The crew, headed by Charles P. Seelye, U. 8. Transitman, will re- main in the area most of the sum- mer and is made up of L. A Dauphiny, I. J. Ledbetter, H. C. Torgerson, Ed Torgerson, Roy Jack- son and Fred Shaffer. - e WATERFOWL SEASON Demand for a national closed| waterfowl season with Federal en-| forcement funds has been made to J. N. Darling, head of the Biologi- cal Survey, by officials from Ne- braska, the Dakotas and Minne- sota, according to word to the Al-| aska Game Commission. The Com- mission previously had applied for a 30-day season in the Territory as the requests of various sportsmen'’s | groups and Chambers of Commerce in Alaska. Under the plan, the Ter- ritory would be divided into three zones with a 30-day season in each zone, | and | Blossom, has WHTRE MRS. WALEY WILL BE TRIED FOR KIDNAPING AREF] o u lnmmr SEVEN lJlE IN STORM CINN. Y, STATE E,;ght Repolted Missing ‘in Disaster Caused by Rain, Electricity riomzknr DAMAGE OVER TEN MILLION 0 Thousand Persons Are Homeless — Havoc Wrought, Wide Area ALBANY, N. Y. July 9.—Recod- ing flood waters left Upstate New lvork with .37 dead, eight ‘missing and property damage of approxi- { mately $10,000,000. | More than 2,000 persons are tem- { porarily homeless. I 8cores of villages are presenting "a formidable relief problem for ' Federal and State sagencies. } A dozen towns or citiesinear the § Pennsylvania border, within a ra- Nineteen-year-old Margaret Waley will be tried in this federal building in Tacoma, Wash., on chaiges of taking part in the kidnaping of George Weyerhaeuser, 9. Her husband, Harmon Waley, is serving a 4% yeor federal prllon sentence for his part in the abduction. (Auncuted Pruu Pho(o) 2 DEATHS FROM TYPHOID FEVER, GOODNEWS BAY Villages Quarantined, Ser- uum Sent from Here to Aid in Battling Disease | e { ““A typhotd fever “epidenitt” is ‘re<| ported at Goodnews Bay, an inlet| of Bristol Bay, according to word to the Bureau of Indian Affairs here from Phillip W. Lloyd, teacher | for the Bureau-there. Six cases, confined (o nalives two fatalities in the 1 month, are reported. Charles Miller, in charge of the Bureau during| the absence of Charles W. Hawkes- worth, dispatched Dr. Samuel J Weinberg of Kanaknak to the scene {and a nurse, Mrs. Florence Hurst, {has been sent by plane from Bethel| to stay until the epidemic is over Nurse Taking Serum Miss Elesa Simonson, a nurse {who has been stationed at Kotzebue but who has been outside and is now a passenger on the Alaska which left here this morning for the Westward, took a quantity of |serum from here and will take a| plane at Anchorage to speed to Lhe stricken area. Word from Dr. Weinberg stated six of the cases had been definitely diagnosed. Of these he reported two incipient and two convalescent.| '|The doctor said he believed the| epidemic under control and that 37 had been immunized in Goodnews| Bay and neighboring villages. All the villages have been quarantined and so far the disease has not spread to any whites, it is re- ported. Mr. Lloyd, the teacher, and his wife are the only white per- sons regularly stationed in the Goodnews .Bay village. Typheid Unusual in North The case is particularly unusual, according to Mr. Miller, who is Superintendent of Wrangell Insti- | tute and acting here while Mr. Hawkesworth is in Washington, be- cause there has been little or no typhoid reported in the Territory ' previously. Dr. W. W. Council, Commissioner of Health, said his information indicated that the situation was well in hand. - BODY OF PILOT EASELY FOUND NOME, Alaska, July 9.—The body of Pilot Ben Easely, whose plane was found last week near Cape been recovered ac- cording to a radio message from Bob Julian, amateur operator at Elephant Point. This report was veceived here ¥ day ~and ™ no further particulars - TO WRANGELL Louis Lemisux left for Wrangell, a passenger on the Yukon, Delegate Has New Plan for Alaska Radio System WASHINGTON, July 9.—Al- 2ka Delegate Anthony J. Di- mend hac introduced a bill in the Houoc which authorizes the War Department to collect tolls frem other Government agen- cies for messages transmitted ever the Washington-Alaska Military Telegraph System. The legislation womld make the system self-sustaining. Only the War Department, Coast Guard and’ weather bu- reau would be permitted to trancmit messages free of charge. BIG SCRAP IN LABOR CIRCLES INDICATED NO American Federatlon and 4L Organization May Soon Go to Mat By HERBERT PLUMMER WASHINGTON, July 9.— Word is being passed around privately in labor circles here to be prepared for what promises to be one of the scraps organized workers| merriest have had for a long time. The combatants will be the Am- erican federation of labor and an independent group known as the cooperative Loyal Legzion of Logger: and Lumbermen. The issue 1s whether the A. F. of L. or the co- operative unions are to survive. The so-called cooperative unions! claim a membership of around 2- 500,000 in the United States, while the paid-up membership of the A. F. of L. is given at approximately 4,000,000. Cooperative unions, where em- ployees and employers iron out their differences around the conference table, contend their own is the only way out of the labor-capital con- fusion into which industry has been | thrown as a result of the supreme court’s decision against NRA. Leaders Make Charges W. C .Ruegnitz, president of the 4L, has thrown down the gauntlet to William Green, president of the A. F. of L. He has predicted the downfall of Green's organization because of “destructive efforts” of its leaders and has called for a na- tional organization of employers and employes. Ruegnitz’ ‘grievance is that the strike in the Washington and Ore- gon lumber industry was the out- come of a struggle between the A. F. of L. and his organization and insists industry is being torn apart “by strike propaganda fomented by the A. F. of L. and seemingly sup- ported by regional board member Reugnitz also charges the A. F. of L. with deliberately trying to |break up all employer-employe col- lective bargaining organizations. Views Thought Significant ‘“The heat of A. F. of L. pr apm (Comin’«l . Page l‘wu) HUEY OPENS NEW ATTACK ON F.D. IN NEW ORLEANS Kingfish Claims President Copying Speeches He Wrote When 14 NEW ORLEANE, Juzy | Senator “Huey P, Loug, in a rlrfln speech Monday night, called Presis dent Roosevelt a “liar and fake | Reviewing the 1 recent special ses-| dius of 50 miles of Binghampton ‘appear to be thg worst' sufferers ‘from the disastrous rain and elec- trical storm. The story is the same throughout the area—ruined homes, wrecked communication lines, utilities dam- | aged, highways and bridges washed out and railroad tracks gone, with 8 crop damage and livestock loss un- eat.lmahlL ' Gov. Herbert H. Lehman has ob- tained the tmns{er of 25000 TERA workers and 1 CCC men to the scene The Amerlcm Red Cross has also rushed relief workers, food |and tents to the stricken areas. _FORMER JUNEAU “MAN STRICKEN ‘AIMEE HOME AND BLOND AGAIN | | flight i | hours. | Aboard " SHIP CARRYING FISHERIES MEN, - PILOT'S WIFE L G ngard and Assist-- ant Agent Enroute Here, May Be Down in Gulf CRAFT NOT HEARD FROM IN 3 DAYS Other Planes,—Coast Guard Cutter Join Search for Vanished Seaplane | M. D. Kirkpatrick, Manager of |the Cordova Air Service, piloting a Bellanca Pacemaker seaplane, left Cordova last Saturday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock bound fory Juneau with three passengers aboard. The generally takes about four The plane has not been heard from up to 3 o'clock 'this | afternoon. the seaplane, plloted by ! Kirkpatrick were the following: ! Lemuel G. Wingard, Alaska Agent, !Bureau of Tisheries. | A. W. Hawkins, Assistant Agent, She will never marry again, Aimee Semple McPherson of Four 8quare Temple fame told reporters upon her arrival at New York, returning from a round-the-world cruise. The Los Angeles evangelist is again a blond and her tresses glistened brilliantly as she smilingly predicted there is going to be a great & p back to religion. (Asso- ciated Press Ph u\o) SUPREMECOURT SENATORBORAH MIGHTY FACTOR MAKES ATTACK NATIONAL LIFE ON OWNPA |sion of the Louisiana leg)slmurew | Long attacked the administration | oId age pension plan and cited a‘ e<nutmn which would urge Con- o teplace the pension act! Frederick W Oliver Dies ‘\vnh one drafted by himself. He, Of Hearl A“ack Whlle | said 280,000 persons who were qual- 1 | ified under the pension act would | on Duly mn Pl’lbllofS ‘get a little less than a cent a day.| “That's what Franklin Delano| | Roosevelt sends you down here,” he | said. “Franklin is a liar and a faker| and now let them indict me for that and I'll prove him a liar.” Continuing the attack on the President, Long said “don’t think attack. those Senators, the President and Oliver formerly lived here and Congressmen are 0o big. I'm as big|is the son of Mrs. Willlam Wake- |as President Roosevelt. Why, he is ham of Juneau. He is a member of {copying my ‘share the wealth'|the Juneau Elks Lodge, having been speeches now that I was writing,initiated in 1927, and is a member when I was 14 years old, so hes Of the Alford John Bradford Post, just now getting as smart as I was American Legion here. At one time when I was in knee breeches.” ihe was employed at the Elks’ Club. Continuing Long declared: ~1| Oliver entered the Fisheries serv- wouldn't believe the President on|iCe in 1923 as engineer aboard the oath.” Murre. He became master of the Frederick W. Oliver, 41, well known in Juneau, died Sunday aboard the U. 8. F. S. Penguin in the Pribilof Islands, according to word to the Bureau of Fisheries here. He was the victim of a heart Although in Recess Con- gress Contemplates Many Decisions By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Bureau, The Associated Press, Washington) Even though it is in recess, and its members scattered far and wide on vacation, the Supreme Court continues to be a mighty factor in the daily life of the national gov- ernment. Not only are several additional “New Deal” agencies preparing to i fight for their lives when the Court reassembles next fall, but the whole trend of legislative developments speaks of a dominating role for the Judicial Branch during the next two years. Every day Congress hears argu- ments whether this or that pendinz bill will pass muster at the bar of the highest tribunal. As a matter of fact, prior notice already has been | [ | Assaciate Justices for Pres- idential Candidates “Serious Blunder” WASHINGTON, July 9.-—United tates Senator William E. Borah, of Idaho, bzlieves the Republican Party will make a “serious blunder” if it seeks to pick a Presidential candidate from the Supreme Court of the United States Senator Borah said he was prompted to make the statement, as the result of articles mentioning Associate Justices Harlan Piske Stone and Owen J. Stone as possi- ble candidates to oppose President | Roosevelt. Senator Borah said the Associate! Justices were undoubtedly men- tioned because of recent copinions which coincide with what fertile brains of political strategists think ! were made for Republican Party advantage. Such an action, in tak- ing a candidate from the Supreme court would be nothing less than, 'Central District, eries. | Mrs. ' pilot. Bureau of Fish- Kirkpatrick, wife of the Search Instituted The Bureau of Fisheries office here, fearing the plane had met with lan accident while flying over the | Gulf of Alaska, or was forced down |on the practically uninhabited coast of the Gulf, instituted a search. H Plane Starts Out | At 7:30 o'clock last evening the 'PAA Fairchild, piloted by Alex !Holden, with Lloyd Jarman as 'flight mechanie, and R. W. Mec- |Crary, - radio operator, was - dis~ ipatched by the Bureau of ~eries from Juneau. At 8:30 o'cl ithe plane reported by radio that it had been forced back by a low “ceumg and returned to Juneau. | Tallapoost on Search | In the meantime, the Coast Guard cutter Tallapoosa was ordered into the search and the vessel salled at 8 o'clock last night. At 8:30 jo'clock this morning, the cutter reported from Graves Harbor, on ithe Gulf of Alaska, that weather |conditions, fog and low hanging clouds, was preventing an effective search but the vessel was proceed- ing cautiously along the shore line. Plane Out Again At 9 o'clock this morning, the PAA Fairchild again took the air from Juneau, piloted by Alex Hold- len, with Flight Mechanic Jinks lAmes and Radio Operator McCrary aboard. The plane took off for Port | Althorp where a base for the search {from the air was to be estab- lished. Pilot Holden reported un- Ifavorable weather at Port Althorp upon arrival there and radioed he {would stay on the water until conditions changed. | Flies Out Over Gulf | Early this afternoon, a radio was |received from the PAA Fairchild |stating Pilot Holden had taken Murre in 1826 and then dropped out of the service for a time ex- | jcept for temporary employment. | Ruth Dt?an, Convicted 1 “Poison Highball™ Case, Free JACKSON, MASS July 9.—After a two-year fight, Dr. Ruth Dean, sen- tenced to life imprisonment for th ‘T‘nu season he signed aboard the Penguin as quartermaster and was serving .smcken Beside his mother here, he leaves |his wife and seven-year-old son |at 3608 West 62d SLreeL Seattle. " TRIP 70 WEST " hIDS SELKIRK in that capacity when “poison highball” slaying of Dr.| John Preston Kennedy, is free, hav- ing won a pardon from Gov. Mike S. Conner, and looked forward to resuming her practice as a child specialist. 2 Governor’s action was layed to the woman last night a the doors of the prison were opene l’)dfly | NEW YORK, July 9.—George Sel- Akirk agrees Horace Greeley had the |right dope about the benefits of westward travel for young men. The | Yankee right fielder got 22 hits in 57 times up during the second western trip for a .386 average, |bringing his all-season mark up to 1.308. Alaskan Cuws May Incur Indebtedness Without Any Special Act of Congress WASHINGTON, July 9—Cities in Alacka will be permitted to incur bonds for indebtedness for public works, including public utilities up to 10 percent of the assessed valu ation of property, under a bill in- troduced in the House yesterday by AA!aska ‘Delegate Anthony J. Di- mond Approval by 65 percent of the voters will be necessary before the indebtedness could be incurred. Delegate Dimond explained the legislation is to correct the present situation requiring a special act of Congress every time an Alaskan city desires to issue bonds. jan ultuLk upon the Court itself.” GENE MEYRING given that almost every one of the administration measures now before Congress will be hailed into court as| soon as it becomes operative. It all points toward elevation of the court to a level of prominence | and prestige even higher than that | reached in the gold and NRA decis- ions. Both the President and Con- gress may find it far more difficult than formerly to keep in the spot- light. Women’s Remarks “Too Strong” The latest chapter of the Long-| Overion case fllustrates once e how bewildering Senate procedur?| can be to a layman. Since 1932, sworn charges have, been pending that John H. Overton| was nominated for the Senate in| Louisiana by fraudulent means, with the help of Senator Huey P. Long. In the interim Long has address- ed the Senate on many occasions He has called his enemies all sorts of names, and accusedl a, long list of individuals of high erimes and mis- demeanors. His remarks are clothed with' immunity, of course. Now comes the Women's commit- tee of Louisiana, eiting the c tutional right of petition, ac the Senate of having “whitewash- ed” Long and Overton, and asking why action has not been taken, one way or the other, on the charzes against them. Senatorial indignation rises. The petition is handed around. A sena- tor who happens to be a celcbrated Airport Manager—Knox to Go to Fairbanks E. A. daughter, (Gene) arrived on tober while employed izs and !ment as Airport neau for the PAA. Williami Knox, manager since last Manager April, when augurated, will banks from the and piloted a FAA plane on mai flights from Fairbanks to ,Yukon River points during 1933. - e ODOM HERE M. W. Odom agent, arrived here (Continued on P;Ie Twe) LOCATES HERE Wellknown Flier Will Be Meyring, wife and the Alaska. Meyring, who was injured last Oc-| as pilot. for| | the Alaska Southern Airways, spent |lands, ! the winter in Seattle. He is almost | entirely recovefed ‘from hi§ injur- has accepted .an appoint- at Ju- who ‘has been of the local PAA alrport scheduled {PAA flights from Juneau were in- go to Fairbanks within a few days to resume flying for the PAA in the Fairbanks dis- trict. Knox plloted a plane to Fair- East Coast in 1932 lower Frye and Company on the Alaska rom a Southeast Alaska way port.| e (Contlnued on ?.ge Twor - PEACE MEET ENDS IN ROW, IS SUSPENDED {Conciliation Com mission, | Italo-Ethiopia Contro- | versy, Adjourns SCHVENINGEN, The Nether- July 9.— The Conciliation Commission, seekinz to avert war tetween Italy and Ethiopia, has de- cided to suspend hearings indefi- nitely when it was reported the two Italian delegates are said to have refused to hear witnesses for Ethiopia. After {attempt w meeting, in which an made to reconcile the differences, an angry scene is re- ported to have developed when Prof. Gaston «Jeze, advisor to the | Ethiopian Government, asserted the {Italians wanted to fight for ‘“‘glory” and uld not attempt to patch up the differences. The TItalian representatives en- tered a strong protest against the testimony at the hearing and said the Commission was empowered only to consider the causes and in- cidents, 1