The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 10, 1935, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA VOL. XLVL, NO. 7009. “ALL THE IYEIVS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY. JULY 10, 1935. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS EMPIRE PRlCh Tl N CENTS ITALY SENDS MORE TROOPS, EAST AFRICA Force to Be Concentrated Estimated at |20, 000 Soldiers PREMIER’S SONS ALSO GO TO FRONT Japan Reported Alarmed at Probabilities of Armed Conflict ROME, Italy, July 10.—One hun- dred and twenty thousand Italian soldiers will soon be in the drive against Ethiopia, according to authoritative sources, to secure an, “inexorable” victory. It is understood Premier Musso- | linl has made this statement as the result of the break-up in Italo- Fthiopia negotiations of the Con- ciliation Commission. iwo new troop divisions for v.he East Africa campaign have been ordered and it is estimated that 30,000 Blackshirts will scon join these now in the near-war zone. Among the new divisions will be the Premier’s sons, Vittorio, 19 and Bruno, aged 17. They are noncommissioned officers, special-| ists in the military classes of 1909 and 1910. They were hastened to the colors in response to the new‘ official order. JAPAN ALARMED TOKYO, July 10.~The Foreign aged | | The astounding of yesterday is the is going to ho Gillis Wells Two Com panies | The' soldiers neau. are coming to Ju- Two companies from Chilkoot |Barracks will arrive here, one due |on July 24 and.the other on August 14. The companies are coming as a commonplace of today. Wiley Post (r.) who made world-wide headlines with previous dashes around world, over to Russia this time just for a hunting trip with Fny .) writer, and Mrs. Post. They'll shoot bears in Siberia. Photo was mnde while finnl lrr-ngementu were dm:uued in New York. of Soldiers Are Coming to Juneau from Chllkoot Barracks On VUSL ‘August 23. In Evergreen Bowl During the stay in Juneau, camp will be maintained in Evergreen Bowl. The practice march from Ju- neau will be over the following | route: KIDNAPED LAD TO TESTIFY IN- WALEY TRIAL Attorney Indicated Weyer-| haeuser Boy Will - Take Stand 5 TACOMA, July 10~United States District Attorney J. Charles Den- |nis told the Associated Press here last night that “undoubtedly” lit- tle George Weyerhaeuser would ap- pear as a witness against Mrs. Mar- garet T. Waley, now on trial, charg- ed with aiding in kidnaping him re- cently. “The boy undoubtedly ‘will ‘be |called as a witness, but whether | Wednesday or when I'm not sure,” { Dennis said. o et ! The statement set at rest‘;;nfiy speculation whether the boy wuld be called. Previously it had &(e'n‘ said, from what appeared to be au- thoritative quarters, that thefe would be no necessity of calling the boy. | The government put 16 witnesses' ,on the stand yesterday, the firsi {day of testimony-taking in Mrs.| ]Wmle\'s trial. These witnesses laid ) the ground work feundation for r.hj 1 prosecution. |" John F. Dore and other defensé counsels seemed to consider thel;': testimony as routine as no cross-' examinations were made. | Government Scores | The government scored a poink | when A. M. Kohn, Federal finger-| print expert from Washington, D,! C., identified as Mrs. Waley's finger ship, “Ole Mlu,' It was a happy moment for Fred and Al Ke: minutes in the air over Meridlan, Miss. wife and son and at the right, Al with prints those found on an elecmc‘ - light globe in the attic of the Spo: kane hideout of the kidnapers. ! Mrs. Waley had said, when ar- "Price Says Presulent Sticks Office spokesman said the Japan-| ese Government is watching Lhe sponsor of good-will, so the soldiers Imo—!:\‘.h!opla crisis with “great may become acquainted” with the concern,” attributing anxiety to dis- Juneau residents and the residents First day—To Mendenhall Gla- rested in Salt Lake City, that she’ cier and camp for the night. was never in me attic. Second Day—To Lena Beach and camp. (Continued on Page Two) * to “New Deal” Philosophy patches which deseribe war in East Africa as inevitable. The spokesman said: “War any- where in the world affects the whole world.” GERMANY WILL BUILD NAVY TO FULL STRENGTH Dreaded U Boats on Con- struction Program An- nounced in Berlin BERLIN, July 10.—Germany has concentrated upon a new naval| building program including submar- ines, the dreaded U boats of the World war, forbidden the Reich by the Versailles Treaty. A communique based on Ger- many’s naval agreement with Great Britain disclosed that 28 submar- ines are provided for in the 1935 naval building program. Three of the underwater craft are already launched. The program also includes con-| struction this year of two battle- ships, each 26,000 tons, armed with 28 centimeter guns; two cruisers, each 10,000 tons, carrying 20 centi- meter guns; and 16 destroyers, of 1,625 tons each. 3 - KRAKATOA IS ERUPTING IN FIERCE WAY Explosions Occur Every. Two Minutes — One Island Disappears BATAVIA, Java, July 10.—Vol- cano Krakatoa, which exploded in 1883, killing 36,000 persons, has be- gun erupting. The eruptions are occurring at two minute intervals. Lava is flowing freely. A close watch is being kept by, the Netherlands Government and arrangements for safety and pre- caution have been doubled. Tom' tom beaters have been sent through the Island regions giving a warning. The small island of Anakrakatau' has disappeared, with the soldiers. Capt. Harry V. Sherman and Lieut L. V. Castner, both of Com- pany E, arrived here last night on the J-44, barrack tender, to make a first-hand survey, secure camp- \ing place and arrange other de- Itails. They were in consultation {with Charles E. Smith, Operator- in-Charge of the Juneau Radio Station, United States Signal 'Corps who had previously con- rred with City officials regarding t.he coming of the soldiers. Practice Marches Annually the soldiers are required ‘t.o make certain distance on prac- tice marches from headquarters. {This year the command at Chil- koot. Barracks received authority to | make part of the annual march out of Juneau, and 60 miles will be the program here. | Company E, 50 men including of- |ficers, will arrive In Juneau on \July 24, two wecks from today, and jreturn to Chilkoot Barracks on Aug- just 3. On August 14, Company F will come to Juneau and remain until Third Day—To the Rifle range and camp. Fourth Day—Return to Juneau to the Evergreen Bowl camp. During the stay in camp citi- zens are asked to visit and in- spect the temporary headquarters, get acquainted and ask questions, find out how they live, what they do and how they are always preq pared to serve their country. Are Enthusziastic The officers and men are look- ing forward to the Juneau trip with great enthusiasm and hop> the same enthusiasm will be shown by Juneauites. Capt. Sherman and Lieut Castner returned to Chilkoot Barracks this forenoon, accompanied by Mrs. Ralph Wayne Dusenberg, wife of Lt. Col. Dusenbury, and Miss Erva Taylor, visitor at' the Barracks. The companies now at Chilkoot Barracks number about 50 men and officers each, The full strength is 74. The proposed increase in the army is 46,000 men and officers and when this movement is com- pleted the two companies at the| Barracks will average 125 men each. MAKES PLEA THEN FAINTS Alleged Slayer of Girl Says He Is Innocent— | Knees Quake ‘ DETROIT, Mich., July 10.—Mer- | |ton W. Goodrich, with his eyes| averted and his knees quaking, as- tonished a crowded courtroom at| his arraignment by mumbling a ‘plea of innocent of the murder oi; | Lillian Gallagher, aged 11 years. Goodrich was ordered to trial, |without bail, and fainted as he was | being led to his cell. The girl was found murdered in an apartment house, in a suite ccupied by Goodrich. - FLOOD DAMAGE IS INCREASING | PHILADELPHIA, Pa.. July 10.— Fiood harassed states this morning counted 47 dead, seven missing, 5,000 homeless and property damage run- ning into the millions of dolla | Floods are reported in the west-| ern part of this state, in Mary-! tland and western Canada. | The flood damage in upstate New. York is appaliing. to 1? 1 !merchant here, TWO DEATHS AT SKAGWAY Former Merchanl, Daugh-| ter of Merchant, Pass Away Suddenly (Special to The Empire) SKAGWAY, Alaska, July 10—W. R. Smith, formerly proprietor of Emith’'s Cigar Store, passed away |suddenly yesterday morning. Bernadine Hern, 12-year-old| |daughter of P. M. Hern, prommom passed away this morning after only a few days' ill- ness. - e 4. J. Shifts Are Continuing At Mine Two shifts continue to be em- yed at the Alaska Juneau mlne and the third shift will be anncunced soon. The miners are escorted to and from the usual entrances by Deputies, under Marshal Mahoney, and by the City Po- lice, The Alaska Mine Workers' Unien is holding a meeting this afternoon at headquarters, open to members only. Special agents are said to be investigating reports of intimi- dation, % e MAN HELD HERE CHARGED WITH STORE ROBBERY Hursch, Arrested by ]u- neau Pollce, Accused in Seattle BULLETIN — SEATTLE, July 10.—Paul Hursch, accused of the hold-up and threats to blow up two Seattle banks while rob- bing fhem, will be brought to Seattle from Juneau by Detec- tive Virgil Webb, who leaves for Juneau on Saturday. SEATTLE, July 10.—Paul Hursch held in Juneau as a suspect in the {holdups of two banks here, was |charged with robbery in Justice | William Hoar’s court Monday as |state and federal forces puzzled over | which should take jurisdiction in |the case., | The charge in Justice Hoar's court accused Hursch of the day- light robbery of a Second Avenue ‘shcn store last September, when ‘t.he lone robber cowed three clerks |with a revolver and scooped $50 |from the cash register, In the bank holdups, which net-| Despite Reverses by Cour t EUGENECARR . 1S U. S, COMM, AT MATANUSKA |Requests Deputy Marshal | —Construction of i Homes Progressing ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 10.— By BYRON PRICE ’hief of Bureau, The Associated Washingten) The present extraordinary siiua- tion in Congress is difficult to un- derstand without going back to fun- damentals, and examining the “New Deal” philosophy which underlies lt is obvious that a large section| of public -opinion favors an early adjournment. Organized business, in particular, has asked for a legisla- tive armistice, saying it would pro- mote confidence. Congressional leaders themselves had planned to adjourn long since; many of the Eugene Carr, Special Federal Em- pending issues are so explosive po- |ergency Relief Administration’s agem in charge of the Matanuska colony, has been appointed United ' States Commissioner for Palmer. | Carr has also requested that some |one be named deputy United States marshal for the Palmer area, stat- ing that such an official in ne- cessary for law enforcement. nearest deputy now to the Mata- (nuska district, is eight miles away The first colonist home was com- | pleted Tuesday. Six more are near- ing completion and 14 others are laid down. All work is progressing rapidly and crops are also growing rapidly. ATTORNEY ON WAY | Dan McGrath, Assistant U. 'S. Attorney General, is accompanying ted $2,500, the lone bandit—believed |the party headed by S. R. Fuiler, to be Hursch—threatened to drop|Jr., personal representative of Re- bottles of explosives and blow nwllef Administrator Harry L. Hop- |the banks if his demands for cash| |kins, which left here yesterday on were not met. HURSCH STILL HELD Paul Thornton Hursch, alleged to | {have robbed two Seattle banks of $2,50, is still in the City Jail here | although police said that they have {chtained no information from him relative to the holdup of a shoe ctore in Seattle which was m | patch received by The Empire to- day. Hursch has not admitted nor de- nied the bank robberies and h not been questioned about the store theft. However, city polic who arrested the man, had repo: previously that he had made shoe ne is the man wanted by Seattle officials. Meanwhile, a peace officer from Seattle is expected to be enrou % Juneau to return Hursch trial. Juneau contractors, who have 'mployed . Hursch recently as & plasterer, said today that the mar was a “hard worker” and capahl 1 for |tioned in an Associated Press dis-| enough admissions to indicate that | |the Coast Guard cutter Shoshone to continue on to Matanuska. Mc- |Grath and Fuller come direct from Washington, and the Ilatter will have entire supervision of the col- onization project, it is understood here, although he is expected to |stay there but a limited time. | A group of technical advisors ac- companied the two executives. e ee |Internal Revenue {Shows Big Increase 1()ver Last Year WASHINGTON, July 10.—An increase of $665,061,000 in in- ternal revenue for the financial year ending June 30, over ihe previous twelve months, was re- | ported Tuesday by Guy T. Hel- vering, Internal Revenue Com- missioner. | ANl internal revenue came 10 '$3,297,300,000 for 1935. Taxes gained in each classification of the income tax rose from $817,0- 025,000 to $1,000,025,000, | | | master litically that they would prefer to let the country think them over for the present. Yet Mr. Roosevelt insists that his program be completed. Why? No compresensive reply to that ques- tion has been made publicly by the White House, but certain oth- The | €rWise unconnected features of the situation combine to shed some light on the President’s mental pro- cesses, Government’s Duty On numerous occasions Mr. Roosevelt has said he wanted to see “reform” and ‘“recovery” inter- twined in the accomplishments of his administration. He conceives it to be the present duty of the government not only to get the country out of the dep: sion but to re-make the social and industrial fabric as a precaution against future crises. Starting with this obviously deep-seated convic- tion, circumstances have served to promote his insistence on such course, After the NRA decision, the ques- tion was whether the “New Deal would fold up, or find new meth- ods of carrying on. It never been Mr. Roosevelt's habit to sur- render without a fight. He sh fight plainly in his famous p conference remarks about NRA and the constitution. To say he was angry might be open to question, but certainly was aroused, and the result was that he enlarged his program and demanded action on it—a quite ural reaction considerir4 his per sonality and his previous convic- tions. has he Farley Tells a Story There remained the question very large question in the minds many Congress members—how (o get around the problem of const tutionality. On this point it is interesting to note some recent remarks of Post- Generay Farley vonunued on Page Two) a y when they came down after spending 653 hours n a world's endurance flight. At top left, Fred greeted wife and daughter just after the descent. Lower: the brouum toa llmfinm (Auoclanu Pru Photos) political |, CRAFT CRASHES ON BEACH WHEN HITS TREE TOPS Searchers Locate Seaplane and then Report Find- ing Passengers |PARTY IS FLOWN BACK TO CORDOVA ‘None Are Injured, Just Fatigued from 20- Mile Hike rl LLETIN — The Bureau of cries received a radiogram afternoon from Hawkins s‘ating that Wingard should ar- rive in Juneau about 5 o’clock this afterncen, by plane, from Cordova. The Bellanca Pacemaker seaplane, piloted by M. D. Kirkpatrick, miss~ ! ing since it took off from Cordova Jast Saturday afternoon at 4:30 | o’clock bound for Juncau with three passengers aboard, was located yes- terday on the beach near the vil- lage of Yakataga. The party, which nciuded Lemuel G. Wingard, Alas~ ka Agent, Bureau of Fisheries; A. ‘W. Hawkins, Assistant Agent, Cen- tral District, Bureau of Fisherles, and Mrs. Kirkpatrick, wife of the | pilot, were not injured and were flown to Cordova yesterday after- noon by a land plane of the Cor- dova Air Service, owners of the ;(.‘B}‘J:vn(h and 34 by his sturdy. ers of the party suffered no effects except fatigue from the 24- hour hike to a miner's cabin where Tree Tops Hit The seaplane struck the tree tops at Yakataga Bay half an hour ialter leaving Cordova. The MUGH IMPROVED Hesse, Just Back from Trip, Reports New Finds Con- stanily Being Made Considerable mining development |is going on throughout the interior, | according to William A. Hesse, Ter- | ritorial Highway Engineer, who has just returned from an extensive trip on official busin to various points in the Territory. “Though mining conditions throughout the interior have great- ly improved, too many unfortu- nately, have gone there in search of mnp]oymcnl." he said. “There are, however, more prospectors in the hills than there have been for many years and new finds are con- stantly being made. F. E. Work “The largest single operation in the interior is that of the Fairbanks Exploration Company, which em- ys about 800 men. At the pres- ent time extensive preliminary work is under way on Ester Creek. “This work involves the stripping of the overburden, amounting to'as much as two hundred feet, after which the ground will be dredged. “There is more activity in lode mining in the Fairbanks district than there has been for many years and numerous individual operations, especially in the vicinity of Ester Dome are under way. they were taken care of until the arching party reached them. The Tallapoosa and the PAA Fairchild, pilot Alex Holden, were dispatched from Juneau to search for the missing plane nnd occu= pants. e PILOT HOLDEN GIVES DETAILS, PLAE SEARCH Juneau Flier Returns After Spotting Missing Craft, Yakataga Beach ! Pilot Alex Holden, who left at 9 o'clock yesterday morning in the PAA Fairchild in search of the missing Cordova plane flown by M. D. Kirkpatrick, Manager of the Cordova Air Service, returned to Juneau last night at 8:30 o'clock after having found Kirkpatrick’s plane on the beach near Yakataga Village, with evidence that all was well with Kirkpatrick's passengers— A. W. Hawkins, Assistant Agent, Central District, Bureau of Fish- eries; L. G. Wingard, Alaska Agent, Bureau of Fisheries, and Mrs. Kirk- patrick, the pilot's wife. Pilot Holden said that after leav- ing Juneau he searched every foot “General McCrae under the man- agement of former Dean Patty of the Fairbanks School of Mines, is building a dredge on Coal Creek of the shore line, including bays and inlets, between Juneau and Yakutat without finding any trace of the missing plane. He arrived above Circle City and is car- (Continued on Page Seven) at Yakutat at 1 p.m. with his gas B 00 5 0 8 L 4Conklnued o Paxe Seven) Juneau School Teacher Has Thrilling Tale to Relate On H(’r Arrwal in N. Y. City NEW YORK, July 10.—(Special to The Empire from the Intercity Service)—A. thrilling tale’ of an and of mercy in midocean was described by Miss Mabel M. Monton of Juneau, Alaska, school her in the Public Schools, on arrival here yesterday in the Pacific liner he Panama Juneau girl said that on June 25 the California received a wireless mes- | sage from the freighter Silver Elm that a Malay seaman, alias Ucope, had an arte ifing aff ently tenti>n, The California. | Enroute from San Francisco, the|engineer loctor, George H. Benton, radioed lrst aid instruetions and the ship put on extra speed to pick up the wounded *man. He was put ashore it a hospital In Balboa, Canal Zone Five was T Reye: days later another message cel from the vessel, Point that William M. Beam, chief, aboard, had been severely burned and needed immediate at- tention. When the California reach- {eq the ship, Beam was lowered in Ben | severed in’ a | needed | Alaska, ship's |.fornia a lifeboat and carried aboard. Miss Alice Palmer, of Anchorage, also arrived on ihe Call-