The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 19, 1935, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLVI,, NO. 7017. SIXTEEN PAGES JULY 19, 1935. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ETHIOPIANS INSPIRED TO WAR PITCH FULLER TAKES OVER GHARGE. | ancc> Navy Office today an- ! nounced preliminary phases of the Japanese Navy's grand ma- neuvers which begin tomorrow and will continue until early in October. It ic understoed that the fi- nal phase of the maneuvers will be carricd out cn a wide area ©f the Northwest Pacific Ocean #; Still Has Hopkins Representative Is New General Adminis- trator for Colony ARMY OFFICER IS | NAMED ASSISTANT Don Irwin, Who Has Been General Manager, Be- comes' Farm Executive | | ANCHORAGE, July 19.—S. F.| Fuller, New York manufacturer rep- resenting Relief Administrator Har- ry L. Hopkins at the Matanuska project, has announced a new ad-| ministrative staff for the coloniza- tion project with himself as General Administrator and Lieut. Col. L. P. Hunt as his assistant. Other appointments were Lieut. H. V. Martin, engineering and transportation; Capt. Alan Perkins, construction; Don L. Erwin, farm- J apan’siAnnual Naval Game Is to Be Play Pacific, Starting Tomorrow edin North | between Japan proper and the Kurile Islands, The vernacular newspapers in- terpreted the war games as a test of the Empire's defenses againgt any attack in the Northeast Pacific stressing the significance in connection with the United States Navy’s spring mancuvers on the Alaska-Ha- waii-California triangle. i MATRON STILL ‘Girls Take DENIES PUTTING OUTLAW ON SPO Red-haired W—o man Who Accompanied Dillinger to Theatre Living Quiet Life SAYS SHE DIDN'T KNOW REAL BANDIT As Mrs. Anna Sage Still Lives Within Few Blocks of Fatal Shooting Scene CHICAGO, July 19.—(Copyright 1935 by the Associated Press) -= The ‘““woman in red,” popularly sup- posed to have put John Dillinger, notorious outlaw, “on the spot," for government men a year ago July 22, has been found in Ohi- cago leading prosaic life, She is now Mrs. Anna Sage. The comely red-haired Rouman- ian emphatically denied she ‘put the finger” on Dillinger and re- vealed she had not fled Chicago ing; Eugene J. Carr, procurement and business administration; Ross L. Sheely, buildings, locations and surveys; J. B. Jacobs, architecture; Dr. C. Karl Albrecht, medical di- rector and - Colonist physician; F. L. Biggs, inspecting engineer apd water; F. L. Sulzman, fire warden, and Dr. Earl Osborn, transient workers' physician, | Reorganization Anticipated | Mr. Fuller, world's largest rayon manufacturer, passed through here recently with many of the men he has appointed to the new positions, coming direct from FERA head- quacters in Washington, and a shakeup in management was anti- cipated at the time. It was hinted at that time that due to reports| of discontent at the project it might be necessary to re-organize | the personnel. { Under the new setup Don Irwin, who has been general manager, takes charge of aiding the Colonists with their farming. He was for- merly connected with the Alaska Experiment station. Ross Sheely, who was in charge of the project' until the arrival of Erwin and an-| other experiment station man, now | takes over buildings. FAIR DATES SET FOR SEPTEMBER 11 THROUGH 14 J. F. Mullen Elected Presi-| dent—Ralph Martin to | Manage Show Again The Southeast Alaska Fair will be held this year September 11, 12,! 13 and 14, it was decided at a meet- ing of the Southeastern Alaska Fair Association. Plans for the| coming year were made and Ralph| Martin was again named to man-| age the show. 2 Officers elected at the session Newest photo of Lady Sylvia Ashley, ex-British barmai {after the shooting. She still lives | within a few blocks of where Dil- ' |linger was shot down. She bitter. |1y denied she knew the man whe played cards at her home and took 'her to theatres and night clubs as any other than the person who { represented himself to be “Jimmy | | Lawrence, Board of Trade employ- ee.” Should Be Hanged Mrs. Sage said that on one oc- casion she.told Dillinger:the men who had. just robbed a bank, kill- ing one and wounding three, should be hanged. He agreed, she said, saying, ‘“yeah, T guess you are vight. That's pretty lousy, isu’g 1 i Dillinger himself was suspected of being involved in. the holdup. The woman said she could not have put the outlaw ‘“on the spot” because she didn't know who Dil- linger was the day they made the fatal visit to the neighborhood the- atre. d, made as Slain Near Theatre C., for refurn of Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., Film colony gossipers said Doug she waited at Vancouver, B. to her side from Los Angeles visit. made overtures to ex-wife Mary P \Inside Dope Is Given On “Death Sentence” Feature return to his Lady friend. ickford while there, but was told to Dillinger was slain by federal ag- ents, headed by Melvin Purvis, iy | | P! HEPBURN NOW RANKING NAVY OFFICER HERE Complete List of Adiiral's Staff, Indianapolis Officers Given { | | + \ 4 With the arrival of the U. 8. 8. | Indianapolis at Government Dock this afternoon, Vice Admiral ‘A. J. Hepburn, Commander of 'the Scout- ing Force of the United States Navy became the ranking line officer in Still More Cruisers to ( Visit Here Information Indicates New Orleans, Chicago Com- ing Next: Week . Not only did Juneau welcome two huge United States Navy oruisers to port today, but it was learned that two, and possibly three, more 6ff Skn-ts and Laugh at Law i When Yonkers, N. Y., placed ban on wearing of shorts by young women, particularly those of the hun- dreds of misses who throng through the town each week-end on way to camps and hikin Hudson River Palisades, it merely gave rise to new industry, that of skirt-checking. their skirls through Yonkers, then check them in favor of shorts on ferries or at roadside stands. trails of the he gals wear NAVY IS HERE! NAVY PROGRAM IS ARRANGED FOR VISITORS ing—Indianapolis Due in Afternoon | Gold braid as worn by a com- | missioned officer, or the f[amiliar :wmw hat of the bluejacket—it was Detroit Ariives This- Movssh vessels of that type are due here|all the same thing to Juneau to- next week, in addition to the ex-|day as this city bid a cordial wel- when he emerged from a moviel bouse in Chicago. The now Mrs.! Sage had accompanied him to the theatre. | 2 KILLED WHEN port. With him, aboard the Indianapo- lis are 17 members of his staff as commanding. Vice Admiral Hepburn's staff in- pected arrival of nine destroyers. Rear Admiral C, H. Woodward, Commander of the destroyer sec- tion of the Battle Force, said that apolis, were schegduled to call in Gastineau Channel soon. | come to the personnel of two Unit- ed States Navy cruisers, here today ?umll Monday morning. More than 1,400 Navy men are to well as 52 commissioned and War- he had informetion which indicat-|port and are expected to take ad- rant officers attached to that ship,{ed that two morg heavy cruisers, vantage of an entertaining program headed by Capt. W .S. McClintic,jof a type similar to the Indian- | planned for them by the Chamber of Commerce | The first Navy ship to steam in- and L obby Investigation By HERBERT PLUMMER | WASHINGTON, July 19.—Capitol, TRAINS GRASH cludes: Captain A. C. Pickens. Captain H. M. Bemis. Commander W. J. Larson. Commander J. H. Buchanan. The New Orleans is scheduled to|to Gastineau Channel was the U. flarrive Tuesda y and to leave S. 8. Detroit, flagship ‘of the de- Wednesday. Next Saturday, the|stroyer section of the Battle Force. Chicago is lated o put in an np-iHer huge gray hulk ‘slid through pearance. She will. leave Monday, | a thick, low-hanging fog to arrive LUGAN HERE uN ile gossip has it that the real rea- OFFICIAL TRIP, PAN-AMERIGAN Special Representative of| Air Line Off for In- terior Today R. A. Logan, special representa- tive of the Pan-American Airways, were J. F. Mullen, President; J. P. Anderson, Vice-President; W. B. Kirk, Treasurer, and W. 8. Pullen, Secretary. Directors re-elected for a term of New_ York City, arrived on the Prince Rupert last night and was {to be a passenger aboard the PAA | Lockheed Electra to Fairbanks this |afternoon. He expects to travel by fwo-yera-mgs it 1 Mulken, B, B plane to Nome and will return to fiobartanl Apa . B Wark. !Juneau over the same nroute One of the ideas presented by{abom Sk Manager Martin at the meeting Was| 1., is making a tour of inspec- e suggestion to: sslept by- popular tion of PAA service and is also en- gheice o s i Qu_een, wm’;gazsd in company business. With woyld reign over the Falr, Martin Lieut.-Comdr. Fletcher W. Brown, reported that Ketchikan selected a . \mapder of the Coast Guard Queen for that city's Fourth of JUlyic, ion Tallapoosa; Joe Crosson, P celebration, and Secretary PufleniAA pilot, and A. B. Hayes, PAA o »requeswd to- write First OIty |y, p0 Representative, Logan vis- officials for details of the stunt. It also was announced that Mrs.:l,ml,.s House last night. This morn- G. 'W. Nostzrand had heen apgomt-‘.‘m he inspected the local PAA ed in charge of the Womens' De-|n,q ang air port as the guest of partment for the Fair. She is ex-|,;50rt Manager William Knox, pected to announce her aides in a Varied Experiences | Mr. Logan has had a varied ex- - - perience in aviation. He spent four GOING TO LOS ANGELES |years of active service as a Major Judge E. Coke Hill, formerly of i, tne Canadian Air Force in the Fairbanks, accompanied by his W{tc.;w“m War and a considerable per- is a passenger south on the Prin-ii,q with the Fairchild Aerial Sur- cess Alice. Both expect to return| .. wNew York. to the Northland within a few| g was a member of the execu- months and locate at one of the|(iye gtaff of the Pan-American Air- principal Alaskan cities. ways, Boston office, during the time o i that L. S. Peck, who is now Vice- Workmen digging ditches at Co-|pregident and General Manager of - in| ited the gathering at the Gover-| |¢on propénents of the ‘‘death sen-| |tence” section of the utility hold-! |ing ‘company bill agreed to the' House Rules Committee conducting |the inquiry into ‘‘lobbying” was| |that the Senate could do a better| | Job. ) The Senate previously had served netice, by Senator Wheeler of Mon- | tana, co-author of the bill, matl | whatever the House might decide| |to do in the way of investigating ylbhc “lobby” it would look into the proposition itself. ‘ Ever since the days of Senator Walsh of Montana and his Tea-| |pot Dome investigation, the House! | has way of saying, “When the | )Senace sticks its teeth into a thing, something likely will hap- pen.” | ‘And many think “something like- | Iy will happen” when the Senate, acting under authority granted it by the Black resolution and with| $150000 at its disposal, starts in-| vestigating the ~activities for and | against the holding company bill. | Much information can be gather-| ed with that amount of money to ‘spenu'. especially when there's a| will to spend it. | | 3 THE “REAL REASONS” | | Those on the inside however, say ! the real reasons the House, after| ;hsarmg the charges of Represen‘a- | tive Brewer of Maine that he hadi ‘been threatened with withdrawal of a long-awaited work relief pro- |ject in his district if he didn’t |vote “right” on the so-called| “death . centence” section of the | bill, didn’t consider ordering a spec- lal committee to investizate, were: ‘ 1. There's too much extraneous activity “on -the hill” now. 2. The question is too involved the House to tackle alone. None of the 435 members of for 3. lusa, Calif., uncovered skulls of 25 ancient Indians. s ued— oL Page Seven) |six men were injured so badly they |senger train collided with a freight| [ i Commander W. E. Malloy. Lieut. Commander J. R. Redman.. Lieutenant H. G. Hopwood. / Lieutenant T. H. Binford. Ensign J. C. Myers. Ensign G. O. Hobbs. Ensign J. L. Counihan, Jr. Ensign H. C. Maynard. Captain G. F. Cottle, (MC). Captain E. G. Morsell. (SC). Commander E. L. Cochrane (CC). B. A. Fairchild (CPC.) Lieut. Colonel 8. A. Woods, Jr. McClintic's - Staff Captain McClintic's staff cludes: Commander T. 8. Wilkinson. ON BLIND SIDING Engineer, Transient Die as N. P. Passenger Collides with Freight Near Pasco i PASCO, Wash., July 19.—An en- gineer and a trespasser were killed needed hospital attention, and sev- eral other persons were slightly hurt when a Northern Pacific pas- ins train on a blind siding 27 miles| east of Pasco. | The dead are Stanley Cowan, 60, of Pasco, engineer of the passen- ger train and FPred Madson, of Fortland, a transient who lived half an hour jammed in the wreckage. A three-car local passenger train, enroute to Pasco to connect with a main line train, met headlong with the freight train loaded mainly with lumber and vegetables. The boiler of the passenger train engine was pushed back through the cab, kijlling Cowan and six freight cars were shattered ——— GREEK CABINET MEMBERS QUIT VARIOUS POSTS ATHENS, Greece, July 19.—The | Greek Cabinet has resigned, Pre- mier Tsaldaris said, because of dif- ferences of opinions between the various ‘Ministers on the of restoration of the Monar The whole Cabinet has quit President Zaimas wiil ask Premier (Continued on Page Scvem) lTsaldans to form a new Cabinet, 8 u‘vn':cll Lieut. Commander M. J. Walker. Lieut. Commander R. Burhen. Lieut. Commander J. Wilkes. Lieut. Commander J. H. Jacobson. Lieutenant L. A. Parker. Lieutenant D. Curry. Lieutenant W. E. Sullivan. Lieutenant W. E. Cleaves. Lieutenant W. H. Duvall. Lieutenant (j.g.) R. H. Keliher. Lieutenant D. M. Tyree. Lieutenant (j.g.) H. P. Webster. Lieutenant (j.g.) C. W. Haman, Lieutenant (jg) D. G. Donaho. Lieutenant (j.g.) C. H. Kendall. Lieutenant (j.g.) P. R. Lackner, Lieutenant (j.g.) 8. W. Betts. Ensign C. H. Everett, Jr. Ensign R. W. Thompson, Ensign A. R. Gallaher. Ensign M. K. Clementson. Ensign P. W. Winston. Ensign S. M. Barnes. Ensign J. D. Bulkeley. Ensign F. W. Hawes. Ensign C. T. Doss. Ensign G. P. Chung-Hoon. Ensign G. L. Christie. Ensign J. 8. Clark. Ensign P. F. Hauck. Ensign E. A. Michel, Jr. Ensign E. C. Outlaw. Lieut. Commander J. W. Ellis, | (MC). Jr. (Continued ou Page Seven) July 29, and probably will be the final vessel to pyt in an appear- ance here in col tion with the current Alaskan maneuvers of the Navy. 1 There also is & possibility that the light cruiser Raleigh, similar to the Detroit, will call here dur- *ling the week, although she is not scheduled definitely. Sandwiched in-between the visits of the New Orleaps and the Chi- cago, are the cally of two groups of destroyers, whigh had been an- nounced previously, On Wednesday, July 24,' to leave Wuly 26, will be a group of four destroyers. On next Friday, July 26 to leave July .|28 or July 29, will be another group of five destroyers. BAND GONGERTS MAY BE CIVEN Band concerts may be expected during the visit of the U. 8. S. Indianapolis and U, §. 8. Detroit. Both of the nayal vessels have bands and also orchestras aboard The band aboard the Detroit numbers from 25 to 30 musicians and eight of them double in the orchestra. The band aboard the Indianapolis is larger than the one on the Detroit. If concerts are given, they will be aboard the navy ships, possibly at the ball games and on Triangle Place. R e ! NEW BOY I SCOUT TROOP Anchorage is organizing a Boy Bcout Troop under the direction of W. S. Milligan, formerly with the United States Marines in Ni- caragua. here at 7 o'clock this morning. Ju- neau's own Coast' Guard: cutter Tallapoosa moved' away from her |berth at Government. Dock to of- fer the Detroit space there, but the | eruiser anchored in the stream just | north of the Alaska Juneau Gold | Mining Company’s rock dump. This afternoon at 3 o'clock, an even larger Navy ship, the U. 8. 8. Indlanapolis, flagship_of the Scout- ing Force, is scheduled to arrive. She will berth at Government Dock. ‘The Tallapoosa, earlier this after- noon, moved to a temporary berth at City Dock. Both arrivals heralded the visit of 13 Naval vessels, including both cruisers and destroyers, from today untfl July 30. While the official entertainment program for the 12- day perfod has not been complet- ed, here the following is today’s and tomorrow’s list of events: 1 to 4 o'clock this afternoon— U. 8. 8. Detroit open for public inspection. Transportation to ship provided at Government Float 4 to 6 o'clock this afternoon— public reception at Governor's House honoring commissioned officers. In- dianapolis orchestra to play 1 to 4 o'clock in afternoon—In- spection of both ships by public. Indianapolis at Government Dock, Detroit being reached by ships "leav- ing Government Float. 1:30 o'clock in afternocn—Base- ball game betwee teams frm In- dianapolis and Detroit’ at Baseball Park, 7 o'clock | at night—Basketball games at Southeast Alaska Fair | Building. TIndianapolis and Detroit teams to meet in opener, winner meeting Juneau All-Stars in second game. 9 o'clock to midnight—Invita- tional informal dance at Scottish |Rite Temple honoring commis- ,sloned officers. This morning was taken up with i (Continued on Page Twor NATION AROUSED BY FIERY SPEECH OF ITS EMPEROR Interpret Address as Def- inite Refusal to Accept Italian Demands LONDON IS STILL HOPEFUL FOR PEACE Japanese Reported Watch- ing Tense Situation with “Grave Concern” ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, July 19.—FEmperor Haile Sel- assie’s exhortation to the Ethiopians to “fight to the {last man” has aroused en- {thusiasms in Ethiopia and in- |creased determination against Ithe Italians. | Unofficial Italian sources in- terpreted the Emperor’s speech as indicating he would not give in to Italian demands while Ethiopians were report- ‘ed considering his plea for a call to arms. | | LONDON REACTION ! LONDON, July 19. In iLundun the Emperor’s speech jacted as a stimulus to Eng- land's efforts to arrange ‘a peace between the two na- cials of the League hope the dispute might yet be settled peacefully, pointing out the Commission on Con- ciliation still has until July 26 to reach a (esision or extend deliberations. JAPAN WATCHIN! TOKYO, July 19. — The Inewspaper Nichinichi in Tok- |yo said the Japanese Foreign Office attached particular im- portance to the East African crisis because it is a dispute between the white and color- ed races, but a Foreign Of- fice spokesman asserted Jap- an was merely watching with “great concern.” A ARMY PLAN AT FAIRBANKS |Capt. Hez -NICIe"and Re- ports Difficult Land- ing at Pt. Barrow FAIRBANKS, July 19.—The army plane which arrived in Fairbankt Wednesday from Point Barrow will leave for Washington, D. C. via Seattle, about the . first of mnext week, sald Capt. Hez McClelland, in charge of the flight. ' ' Capt. McClellan reported diffi- culties in landing and taking off the amphibian plane at Point Bar- row because of the icy condition of the ocean and the rough surface of the land. Eskimos prepared a‘crude runway on the tundra for a tdke- off which was ‘made with a light load of gas—just' suffitient!to reach Fairbanks. WILL FLY TO JOYCE'S CAMP Mrs. E. L. Smith of Los Angeles, who is a regular summer Visitor to Juneau and Taku River, arrived yesterday on the Prince Rupert, and was a passenger aboard the Alaska Air Transport Stinson pi- loted by Sheldon Simmons to Mary Joyce's Twin Glacier Camp today. Mrs. Smith is accompanied by Ja- net McLeish. Norman Banfield was also a passenger aboard the Sim- mons plane,