The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 18, 1935, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLVI., NO. 7016. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1935. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS EMPEROR TO LEAD TROOPS IN WAR LOUIS ALTERIE IS SHOT DOWN BY ASSASSINS “Big Time” Mobster Kill- ed as He Is Leav- ing Hotel WIFE NARROWLY | ESCAPES DEATH Former Ungefiing ok Ca-. pone Dies Without Making Statement | CHICAGO, 1, July 18.—Louls “Two Gun” Alterie, “big time” gangster who survived some of the city’s bloodiest bootlegging Wwars, was shot down as he left a hotel during the night. He died an hour latef. A blast of shotgun slugs dropped Alterie and he was so seriously wounded ‘that he barely survived the ambulance ride to the hospital. Misied Woman The assassins missed Alterie's woman companion, identified as his| wife, aged 35. | Capt. Daniel Gilbert, Chief of the State. Attorney's police, blamed the slaying to “labor trouble.” i ©Once a partner of Dion Obanion, Chieago bootlegger, Alterie was late- 1y an official of the Janitors’ Union, | Capt. Gilbert said. ‘} Died—No Statement : Alterie died without making a statement. Doctors said nine slugs struck him. His wife was taken| into custody by the police. | Alterie was known at a lieutenant of Dion Obanion at one time a pic- | turesque figure of the city's gangs. He was shot to death. Alterie was later known as a Capone underling. ' \Marital Tangle of Film Star REPORT MAHAN INNEBRASKA TOWN HOLD-UP Night Marshal Says One of Gang Told Him Leader Was Kidnap Suspect HOOPER, Nebraska, July 18.— Charles E. Mack, night marshal, said that the “ringleader” of the trio who abducted him last night “looked very much like Willlam ‘Mahan,” who is sought as the lead- er in the Weyerhaeuser kidnaping. Mack was abducted from the street and guarded by one of the trio while the two others stole new cars. He was bound hand and foot and then left under a bridge near Hooper. He said the man guarding him said: “You've heard of our leader—that’s Mahan, head man in the Weyerhaeuser kidnaping.” Mahan was reported seen near ‘Grand Island, Nebraska, Tuesday evening. B OREGON LIQUOR SALES REPORTED PORTLAND, Oregon, July 18.— Sales by the Oregon Liquor Com- mission stores and agencies for the first six months of 1935 were $2.- 543,000. The Commission estimates| the sales for the year at six million dollars. THREE WOMEN TURN MARINERS A gas boat left Juneau yesterday afternoon bound for Mary Joyce's Twin Glaciers Camp, “manned” by three feminine mariners—Mrs. Don Able, Mrs. George Bacon and Mary Joyce. | | CHICAGO GANGSTER COSTLY YACHTS H One man died, another was cri at $1,000,000 were destroyed when GO UP IN SMOKE £ % | | Vice Admiral A. J. Hepburn, in tically injured while yachts valued flames swept across the Pilkington yacht basin at Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. The basin is one of the largest in the United States. (Associated Press Photo) HUGE CRUISERS DUE TO ARRIVE | HERE TOMORROMW Indianapolis and Detroit— Navy Vanguard—To Stay Three Days | | Frobably the largest vessels ever {to visit Gastineau Channel will put lin appearance when two United | States Navy cruisers drop hooks in | the Juneau harbor sometime tomor- |row afternoon. They—the U. 8. 8. | Indianapolis and the U. 8. 8. De- | troit—will be here for a week-end | visit which will terminate early | Monday morning. They will be the vanguard of & | scheduled 11-ship visitation of Ju- | neau waters by the Navy from July 119 to 30. The Indianapolis, and one of the most modern of ‘[Uncle Sams marine defenders, is the flagship of the Scouting Foree. 610 feet long command of the force, is expected |to be aboard. | Detroit Also Due | Also expected to arrive is the Detroit, flagship of Rear Admiral C. H. Woodward, commander of destroyers with the Battle Force. 1 The Detroit is 555 feet in length. Just where the huge vessels will stay while in port is not known, If either perths at a wharf, thas BUSTER KEATON 1S UNTRUE SAYS WIFE IN SUIT Enlarged by Aliena- tion Charges’ LC3 ANGELES, July 18— The marital affairs of Buster Keaton, film comedian, which were brough! into court by his wife, Mae Eliza- beth Keaton, have at the same time entangled the already com- plex domestic relations of Mr. and Mrs. Barton Sewell. Mrs. Keaton filed suit for divorce charging infidelity and naming as correspondent Mrs. Leah Clampitt Sewell, whose husband is the bene- ficiary of a $28,000,000 trust fund. At the same time, Mrs. Keaton filed sult for $200,000 damages against Mrs. Sewell charging she had stolen her husband’s love. The Sewells figured in the wife- swapping divorce suit in February with Mr. and Mrs. Walter- W. Em- erson. At that time Emerson named Sewell correspondent and Mrs. Em- erson named Mrs. Sewell correspon- dent in her cross complaint. Mrs. Keaton alleges her husband and Mrs. Sewell were guilty of mis- conduct at a Santa Barbara County hotel several times in the last three weeks. Mrs. Keaton asserted that she found Keaton and Mrs. Sewell in a hotel room on July 4; that they remained there until July 7 and that when they returned to Los Angeles they continued to see each other. : The Keatons were married in Ventura in 1933 and separated'on July 4 this year, Mrs. Sewell termed Mrs. Keaton's suit *ridicutous.” FISH BOATS COLLIDE AT INIAN ISLAND The purse seiners Hollywood of Anacortes and the Yankee Boy of Bellingham collided yeésterday morning at Inian Island,. between Cross Sound and Icy Strait, ac- cording to radiogram to the Col- lector of Customs office from Peter Creb Sorbic. cwner and master of the Hollywood, a 49-footer. Anton Galinovich is owner of the Yankee Boy, a 46-footer. and has been fish- ing at Excursion Inlet. Details of the accident were not given. . Fort Bragg, located near Fayette- ville, N. C,, is said to be the largest artillery post in the United States. NAKED DANCER IS FINED; HER | | - WORK ARTISTIC | Paris Judge Fines Amer- ican Girl $3.30 for *QOutrage” PARIS, July 18-~-Joan Warner, blonde American dancer, has been convicted of “outraging morals” in Paris and has been fined 50 francs, $3.30 in American money. The girl did her “cutraging” by “dancing nude.”" ‘The decision against the pretty, well-formed American girl is made the basis of widespread prosecution of all nude dancers in theatres and night clubs here, “Mlle. Warner's dance was artistic, but too naked.” M. Fraudrin, manager of the club where Joan dancer, was fined 200 francs, about $13, because of his “purely commereial spirit.” ‘The costs of the trial multiplied the fines eight fold. ———————— AMERICAN S UNDER ARREST, CERMAN NAZIS Editor of Golden Age, Pub- lished in Switzerland, Is Held in Jail BERLIN, July 18—M. C. Har- beck, Editor of the German edition of the magazine, Golden Age, pub- lished in Berne, Switzerland, by In- \ternational Bible Students, has been ,nrr':szed by the Berlin Secret Police. Harbeck is being held at Secret Service headquarters but is per- mitted to communicate with the United States Consulate. He is charged with attempting to remove money from attached property, and with maintaining connections with the Watchtower Bible Society, an organization forbidden by the Nazi Government. . — OFF TO HAWK INLET Sheldon Simmons, piloting the |Alaska Air Transport Stinson sea- plane, left Juneau today with mail jand freight for Hawk Inlct. . | Judge de Brasier decided that ship probably will be the Indian- apolis, and it will berth at Gov- ernment Dock. The Detroit may berth alongside, or may anchor in the stream. Arrangements have been made for public visitations of both ships. While in port, the two cruisers will be open to public inspection from 1 until 4 oclock each afternoon. It also was announced today that repair work on the approach to Government Dock would be sus- pended until early Monday morn- ing, when. the ships are due to leave. This was done to allow traffic on the wharf. To Exchange Greetings The first event on the official rogram of welcome tomorrow will be the exchange of greetings be- tween Gov. John W. Troy, Mayo:| Isadore Goldstein, Comdr. Fletcher W. Brown of the Coast Guard cut- ter Tallapoosa, and visiting Naval dignitaries. Then wiil come the first three hours of afternoon “open house” aboard the ships for public visits. A public reception at the Gov- ernor's House will be held from 4 to 6 o'clock in the afternoon, hon- oring the visiting commissioned officers. Sightseeing trips to Mendenhall Glacier at a special rate of $1 for Navy men also is offered by all bus| and taxicab firms. The city's three motion picture theatres also an- nounced a special rate of 25 cents for Navy men during the cruisers’ stay. Meanwhile, the Chamber of Com- merce Welcome Committee con- tinued active today, cleaning up detalls remaining on the program for Saturday and Sunday. ———— GIRL SCOUTS GET PINS AT CEREMONY "n an impressive candlelight cere- m ay, Tenderfoot Girl Scout pins will be awarded in the Northern Light Presbyterian Church parlors at 7:30 o'clock tonighi. Eighteen girls are eligible to re- ceive this award, which makes them official members of the Girl Scout organization. Mrs. M. A. Lagergren, |Troop Captain, said today that parents of the girls receiving {awards have been invited to attend the ceremony. { | | ONLY 2 HALIBUTERS SELL FISH, SEATTLE SEATTLE, July 18— Halibuter| Sitka arrived today from the west- ern banks with 35000 pounds of halibut and sold for 7% and 6% cents a pound. The Neptune came in from the local banks with 26,000 pounds of halibut and sold for 8% and 7% | | recourse to foreign loans, unavail- Calit,, ot $32,000 Iin je craft, Three of the men bound by nd cash. The modern bucoan Howard, storekeeper, and J, W. Kellar, ai five modeérn pirates.were sald to have used the smafl sel was found, with decks awash, a few hundred yards from the Monte Carlo. (Associated Press Photos) the raiders were (lowe tant cashler, Aighing boat pi ROME, July 18.—If Italy goes to Known as the “Blackjackets,” it considerable space from time to Its latest victory is seen in the Ras Nasibu, to be Governor of the The Ethiopian Fascists, say the ers. day.” BLACKSHIRTS MAY FACE BLACKJACKETS IF ITALY GOES TO WAR WITH ETHIOPIA may fight against Ethiopian Fascists. sinia which has made some headway and the Italian press has given Of the two classes, say the Italian newspapers, “the new one the worse and the more dangerous for peace.” war with Abyssinia, Italian Fascists | there is a Fascist Party in Abys- time. nomination of its chieftain, young important Province of Harrar. This Province would feel the first brunt of an Italian attack from Eritrea. Italian press, “are young national-| ists who possess a sprinkling of European education and hate foreign- Their dominance over the older men becomes more manifest every is DR, SALAMANCA DIES SUDDENLY AT RANCH HOME President of Bolivia Dur- ing Chaco War Pass- | es Away at 66 LAPAZ, Bolivia, July 18.—Dr. Daniel Salamanca, aged 66, Presi- dent of Bolivia during most of the Chaco war, is dead at his planta- tion at Cochabamba, as a result of heart trouble. i Weary of politics and harried by chronic ill health after a long pub- lic career, Daniel Salamanca had| been in retirement for ten years,| teaching in the university of his na- tive town, when he was called to| the Bolivian presidency by the rev-| olution-makers of 1930. He accepted unanimous nomina- tion, was inaugurated in 1931, and had been in office less than seven- teen months when war broke out with Paraguay over the long- smouldering Chaco issue. Fugitive in Command In this, the first international emergency which Bolivia had faced since its nitrate war with Chile in the '90's, President Salamanca brought back to command of the army the German general, Hans Kundt, trainer of Bolivian soldiery since 1911 but a fugitive, after the 1930 revolution, from the junta which placed Salamanca in power. The President drew upon his life= long hobby of finance to devise means to pay for the war without able to Bolivia because of defaults INDIAN BILL INTRODUCED BY DELEGATE Privileges of Certain Sec- tions of Wheeler-How- ard Act Asked WASHINGTON, July 18—Privi- leges of certain sections of the Wheeler-Howard Act will be ex- tended to Alaskan Indians under a bill introduced in the House by Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Di- mond. The Delegate said the measure would enable Indians to obtain Government aid in establishing and setting up their own business organizations, such as salmon can- neries, provided the money Wwas made available by Congress G B L Mission Vessel Performs Another Charity Act The Messenger, motorship of the Alaska Mission of the Seventh Day | Adventists, is known well in South- east Alaska waters for its many acts of charity. Last night the ship was return- ing northward in Stephen's Passage from a two-week trip around Ad- miralty, Baranof and Chichagofl islands. Off Midway Island, which is between Holkham Bay and Port Snettisham, the Rev. H. L. Wood noticed a boat adrift. Closer investigation proved it was a Juneau fishing craft, helpless with engine trouble. True to its mission of charity, the Messengzer and the prevalent world depression. cents, (Conu;;ed on Page Seven) took aboard a tow line and brought the ship into port at midnight i RIDDLED 7] PIRATES RAID OFFSHORE GAMBLING CRAFT | night | colorful social events of the sum- | mer BULLETS & Pirates boarded and robbed the gambling ship Monte Carlo (upper left), anchored off Long Bcaéh, chained 11 men together while looting the left to right) “Doc” James, a guard; A. who was forced to ictured i Ww. DS the The Tiehing “at INVITATIONS OUT FOR DANCE HONORING NAVY Scottish Rite Temple to Be Scene of Gala Par- ty Saturday in the mail to- of Juneau's most Invitations are for one calendar—the informal dance at Scottish Rite Temple Saturday night in honor of the comissioned officers aboard the two Navy cruis- ers which are visiting port over the week-end. In announcing the mailing of invitations, Judge George Alexander, President of the Shrine Club which is sponsoring the dance at the re- quest of the Chamber of Commerce, sajd, “Of course, all members of the Chamber are invited, even though some persons may have been left off the mailing list in- advertantly through the haste in preparing for the dance.” Judge Alexander also announced that the dancing would begin with a Grand March. The dancing hours have been listed from 9:30 o'clock until midnight. Admission tickets are priced at $1. The commissioned officers are |invited guests. WITLER GOES ON PATROL TO - WATCH THINGS BERLIN, July 18—President Adolf Hitler himself patrolled the Kurfuerstendam last night to see that there was no new outbreak of Antisemetic rioting. He rode twice up and down the fashionable thor- oughfare in an automobile, and made a personal survey to assure himself that firm steps were being taken to prevent a repetition of yesterday’s disturbances. Government circles, admitting that the new attacks caused bad impressions abroad, sought to white wash the Na movement by at- tributing the riots to “subversive elements,” Police patrolled the West End section where the outbreaks started [ETHIOPIA KING CALLS SOLDIERS T0 SAVE NATION Better to Die Free than Live Without Liberty, Haile Selassie IMPASSIONED PLEA IS MADE BY RULER Lion of JuEJDeclares Italy’s Intentions Are to Conquer Nation ADDIS ABADA, Ethiopia, July 18. Emperor Haile Selassie has called all FEthioplans tc follow him in battle, declaring it is better to die | free than to live without liberty. The King of Kings, Lion of Judah, | addressed both his parliament and | soldiers in impassioned tones. He ;saul the military preparations of Italy proved its intentions to con- (quer Ethiopia and declared he weuld lead the troops into war him= self. 1 Sacred Duty “Our ancestors preserved inde- pendence by sacrificing their lives and we must follow their example,” he shouted. “God will be our fort- i ress and the shield of modern arm- ament of the aggressors cannot de- 1ter us in our duty which is for ik | He reviewed Ethiopia's past’¥e= (lations with Italy, the events from the skirmishes of last Deember un- (Ul now The Emperor described | Ethiopia’s efforts toward peaceful | settlement of the dispute and also | the efforts by the British which, he | said, Mussolini “brutally rejected.” [ | JAPAN HAS NO INTEREST ROME, July 18.—Premier Musso- }lini has informed his nationals of Italy's military preparations and |reported her colony in Eritrea, east | of Ethiopia, in excellent shape. Ambassador Sugimura of Japan |confirmed official Italian . versions of representations made by Musso- lini that Japan has no political in- | terests in Ethiopia. STENART TELLS MINE PROGRESS ATC.C. LUNCH Commissioner of Mines, Returned from Wash- ington, Reports More than a mere “report of progress” was made to the Cham- ber of Commerce at Bailey’s Cafe this noon by B. D. Stewart, Terri- torial Commissioner of Mines. Res turned recently from an extended stay in Washingion, D. C., Stewart told the Chamber of many steps of progress made in the Alaska min- ing industry. A seven-point program, including many proposals which have met with governmental approval as well as several others suggested for the immmediate future, was outlined by Stewart. Tt includes: Actual resumption of safety triin- fpg work in Alaska mifies; the Al- aska Department of Mines working In close co-operation with Federal agencies; a hint that a Federal “in- ventory” of the Alaska mining in- iustry and resources be made; a repért that Army engineers are in- terested in Alaska metals for use in possible electro-metallurgical work after the Bonneyville, Wash.,, dam has been completed; some progress n an attempt made to instruet young men in the “art” of prog- pecting; correction of Information on file in Washington relative to the metal prospects in the Glacier Bay Monument; finally, a report hat a new geo-physical instrument 1weful in placer gold work may be nstalled ai the University of Alas- ka. b ? Stewart concluded his talk with a brief tribute to Alaska Delegate ke Bt 4 wonunuec on Page Two) i