The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 2, 1935, Page 1

CONC RESSTON =THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLVI., NO. 7029. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1935 ) MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS BARBARAHUTTON'S EX-HUSBANDKILLED PEACE P ETHIOPIA WOMEN GALLED TO ARMS BY OWN LEADER Daughter of Army Com- mander Says She Will Lead Forces MANY VOLUNTEER TO REPLACE MEN Mussolini Appears to Be; Holding Strong Position at League Council BULLETIN—Geneva, Aug. 2. —Both Italy and Ethiopia have rejected the Franco-British for- mula for a settlement of the Italo-Ethiopian dispute. ' ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Aug. 2. —A stirring call to women of Ethi- opia to arise in active fighting le-| gions was sounded today by Woie- zero Asagadatch, dauchter of Com- mander Dedpazmatch Haptemizae. of the Ethiopian forces. “I will organize and lead my own army of women,” said the daughter of the man who compands the Em- peror’s field army. Stirred To ion Woiezero said if the women would not follow her in armed de- fense of their country, she would lead the soldiers of her father, who included the herces of Adua. Scores of women have voluntesf- ed to replace men at printing plac- es and other posts to permit the latter to proceed to the front. B IL DUCE PREVAILS GENEVA, Aug. 2.—Premier Mus- colini apparently prevails in the new formula for East African peace. Ttaly views the League of Nations Council's moves more optimistically but insists that the proposals are only tentative. Great Britain is suggesting’ that Europe pledge the Italians colonial security but Mussolini has failed to * accept in its entirety the settlement formula prepared by British, French and Italian statesmen. —————— KETCHIKAN MAN KILLED IN WILD KNIFE BRAWL Four Indian Seiners Held in Fatal Stabbing of Joe Starrish KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Aug. 2— Joe Starrish was stabbed in the back twice by a butcher knife and killed and the police are holding James Clinton and three brothers, Frank, James and Joshia Kashakes, all Indian seiners, following an al- Aeged wild drinking bout aboard the seinet Tackler. The four prisoners were still so intoxicated they could not describe the fracas, officers said today. Starrish is reported to have been visiting the four men aboard the seiner. FLIES FIRST TIME DITTO FISHING, IS - EXPERIENCED HERE C. B. Arpold, Thomas J. Craig, and Mrs. Guy Harold Smith of Co- lumbus, Ohio, were passengers to Lake Hasselborg last night and re- turned this morning aboard the Gorst Boeing flying boat flown by Vern Gorst. A fine catch of fish was brought back to Juneau in- cluding some specimens measuring 22 inches in length. Mrs. Smith, who arrived on the Yukon on Tuesday, is vacationing in Juneau during the absence of her husband who went to Seward on business. Until the fishing expe- dition to Lake Hasselborg, she had had never gone fishing. ROPOSAL FL ATLY REJECTE D She Kept The Ring o | A young New York banker, jilted 1y his fiancee, gave his returned ingagement ring to Miss Gertrude dartigan (above), but was unable to get it back. She was Jalled for a night but next day In court the banker was so impressed with her | beauty that he allowed her to keep ( the ring. (Assoclated Press Photo) = SECOND DEFEAT | 'BY HOUSE ON: - UTILITY BILL Abolishment of Unneces- sary Holding Companies ! Again Turned Down | | { WASHINGTON, Aug .2—Contin- | uing opposition to President Roose- | velt's wishes, the House has re- fused again to accept the provision; of the Utility Bill to abolish un- necessary holding companies. Studying the effects of the sec- ond defeat in the House adminis- tered to the holding company is- sue, some legislators predicted the bill may die in conference. —— GERMANY GIVEN REPLY ON NAZl - FLAG INGIDENT iU. S. Government Says It Was ‘‘Unfortunate”"— Authorities Exonerated | | | | | ‘WASHINGTON, August 2— The Government last night termed the tearing of a Nazi flag from the steamship Bremen as ‘‘unfortunate,” but emphatically told Germany that American authorities were not to blame. Furthermore, the United States stressed the refusal by steamship {line officials to accept measures re- commended by police to prevent a disturbance. A note replying to Berlin's protest at the incident last Friday night, a week ago, when a German flag was ripped from the Bremen's bow and thrown into the Hudson River, | was delivered to Dr. Rudoiph Len- yu, German Charge D'Affaires, last night by Acting Secretary William Phillips of the State Department. Leaders in the riot are being held for trial in New York. The note said that police author- ities took every precaution to pre- vent the affair and that the inci- dent was in no sense due to neglect on the part of American authorities. S e WILLIAMS ON INSPECTION neer of the Bureau of Public Roads, | |left on the Aleutian for an inspec- tion trip to Southeast Alaska cities. maintenance work at Sitka, Wran- nanec at Skagway and Ketchikan, M. D. Williams, District Engi-| WILEY POST ON FIRST LEG OF | ALASKA FLIGHT Flier and Wife Reach Seat- tle from San Francisco —Plane Is 0. K. | SEATTLE, Aug. 1—Wiley Post| and his wife landed at the Renton Airport, seven miles from here, last night, completing the San Fran- cisco hop of a flight to Alaska and Siberia, and possibly Moscow. Post said the plane, a low winz red monoplane, performed perfect- ly on the flight north. Post gave orders to have the wheels replaced by pontoons before he and his wife motored here from the airport. TUT, TUT, OLD BOY! SEATTLE, Aug. 2—With a scowl on his face, Post supervised the in- ctallation of pontoons on his plane and refused to divulge his plans at the Renton airport. When asked when he was leaving for Alaska, Post replied: “How the hell should I know!” Fost objected to the presence of newsmen and photographers but finally consented to pose with his plane. | When someone asked a mechanic to leok up, Post complained: “I am paying these fellows to work; I'm not paying you.” i Youth FLeaps 160 ‘eet from Bridge To His Death SEATTLE, Auvg. 1.—A youth, identified as John Ineichen, age 23, unemployed farm hand, Icaped to death late yesterday from the Aurora bridge to the waters of Lake Unlon, a dis- tance of 160 feet. The police said his automo- bile was recently repossessed. BOUQUETS FOR HITLER BA BERLIN, Aug. 2.—Disregard for an old law has caused Minister of the Interior Rust to warn Ger-| mans not to throw flowers at Reichsfuehrer Hitler. It is admitted that the bouquets may be.evidence of high regard, but neveriheless “there is a 'chance for danger” in the habit. “Lim| -ing” Freigi;t_Cars Number Some 277,000 NEW YORK, Aug. 2—A fotal of 277451 freight cars on <Class 1 railroads are “limping.” That is, they need repairs, ac- cording to the Association of Ameri- can Railroads. And of this total, 213,926 need Heavy repairs. The railroads console themselves however, with the thought that this is a decrease of 7,805 cars from the number in need of such repairs on February 1. Their figures show, neverthcless, that 14.9 per cent of the number of cars on line are still limping, and that 225 per cent of the num- ber of locomotives on line puff a. little too hard on steep grades. ———— — TAKEN TO HOSPITAL Mrs. George Cole, well known in Douglas, was brought over from the island on the noon ferry and taken to the Government Hospital by the ambulance. - e HALEY BACK Donald S. Haley, Warden for the Bureau of Fisheries, has returned to his office here on the Scoter after a patrol trip and inspection of crab fisheries in the Tenakee area. e MINERS LEAVE To be employed in the Chicha-|millions of dollars per year below |Administration at the Democratic|Simmons stated that he will wait He will look over construction and|goff Gold Mining Company plant|what they were when at Chichagof, Paul Jouck, Louis|Roosevelt came into office, and the | never ridden in an airplane and gell and Petersburg and mainte- }Morni, and Joe Balen left Juneau|only extravagance which can justly‘o]ulu, predicted Roosevelt's re-|will bring them back to Juneau to- for that port on the Estebeth, | | iy | i NNED | | | | | Shirley Temple, child film actr George Temple, before they sailes SHIRLEY TAKES A VACATION R ers, with her parents, Mr. and Mrs, d on the 8. 8. Mariposa from Los Angeles for Honolulu for Shirley’s first trip outside her native Calle fornia. (Associated Press Photo) GREAT BRIDGE BUILDER DIES IN NEW YORK Gustav Lincgalal, Design- | er of Hell Gate Span, Passes Away | METUCHEN, N. Y., Aug. 2—Gus- tav Lindenthal, the engineer who |planned and built the $25,000,000 |Hell Gate bridge in New York in F1917, characterized as ‘“an epoch- making event in American bridge building and a monument to the genins of its designer,” is dead here. He was born in Bruenn, Aus- tric on May 21, 1850, He came to America in 1874 and earned his first money as a stone mason Mr. Lindenthal began his career as a bridge builder in 1879 at Chi- cago and Pittsburgh, later became connected with the Erie and constructed a number of rail- West Virginia, Illinois and Indiana Bold Designer His boldness as a designer was evidenced in 1900 by his plans for a bridge over the Hudson river at New York, a structure with 14 rail- road tracks and a span of 3,100 feet involving an outlay of $100,- 000,000—double .the span of the project, although considered prac- ticable was abandoned for a tun- nel system between New York and New Jersey more than 20 year zlatcr. In this work Mr. Lindenthal (Continued o1 ‘Page Seven) SAN FRANCISCO, August 2— Postmaster General James A. Far- ley told a Democratic luncheon expenditures are now “hundreds of esident be laid at the door of the Adminis- Jury Rebuked by Judge at Returning Verdict of Not Guilty in Income Tax Case railroad | way bridges in Pennsylvania, Ohio, | original Brooklyn bridge. But (he| f MALONE, N. Y., Aug. 2.—Arthur “Dutch Schultz” Fleganseimer has been acquitted of the charge of vio- ;lanng the [Federal income tax | laws. | Schultz, a former Bronx beer | baron, was accused of withholding $92,000 in taxes on his profits dur- | ing 1929-30-31. Judge Frederick H. ;buked the jury saying: | “You will go home with the sat- | isfaction you have rendered a blow ! against law enforcement. A verdict |such as you have just .rendered, shakes the confidence of law abid- ing people.” Schultz appeared dazed at the | verdict, then a slow smile broke |over his face and he winked at an | associate. JAPAN'S NAVY ~ MANEUVERING jfFirst and Second Fleets | Pass in Review Befote Emperor Hirohito HAYAMA, Japan, Aug. 2— The | combined first and second Japanese | fleets steamed out of Tokyo Bay today heading for the annual ma- neuvers in the Northwest Pacific. The start for the maneuvers fol- lowed the informal review before Emperor Hirohito. ~ BIG ROBBERY Bryant re- DENVER, Cal, Aug. 2. — Three |gunmen escaped this afternoon with $24,000 in cash, stocks and jewelry after they held up Max Schwartz, real estate man, in his down town office. Administration Critics . Roundly Scored by Farley Itriuon is money expended feeding | the hungry, giving work to the job- 1 less, and changing business balances group that routine Governmental|on their ledgers from red to black.”|up Richard Wakelin and A. Van He lashed out at critics of the | luncheon. Farley, who leaves today for Hon- | clection, TAX MEASURE IS AGAIN UP BEFORE HOUSE Six-Hour Debate Allowed on One Proposal—Vote Tonight or Saturday WASHINGTON, Aug. 2—The new quarter of a billion dollar tax bill, {assailed by Republican leadership, came back to the House floor today to be defended by the Democrats. ] Six hours of debate were to be jallowed and by nightfall or by to- morrow & vote is expected to be taken on the provision to increase surtaxes and personal incomes in excess of $50,000. The tentative tax schedule, as it came from the House Ways and Means Committee, 15 as follows, al- though some amendments have al- ready been made; Excess profits levy—No tax on profits up to 8 per cent; graduated | ! cent profits to 20 percent on profits ! of more than 25 percent. Inheritances—No tax up to $50,- 000 if inheritance goes to close kin; | graduated upward from 4 percent on that part of inheritances be- tween $50,000 and $60,000, to 75, percent on the part in excess of $10,000,000. J Gifts—No tax up to $50,000; grad- | uated upward from 3 per cent on' | that part of a gift between m,wo.-[ and $60,000, to 76 percent on the| part in excess of: QIW.OQIL - Individual incomes—Present rates on incomes up to $15,000 rémain unchanged; surtax graduated up-' ward from 54 percent on income between $150,000 and $200,000 to 75 percent on incomes in excess of $10,000,000. i Corporation incomes—Tax rang- ing from 13% or 13% per cent on $15,000 income to 14% or 14% per cent on all over $15,000. FREAK WEATHER | BREAKS TORRID WAVE, MIDWEST Relief from_fi;t Indicated —Ten More Deaths | Are Reported | | CHICAGO, TIl, Aug. 2.—A respite from the pitiless heat of the past month appeared today to be in store for the Midwest after at least, ten more persons were added to the death list of 108 reported yes- | terday from the present torrid| wave. | Forecasts of a break in the heat came after freakish weather in scattered parts of the nation. | Wind squalls claimed two lives.| ‘Western Montana had snow flur- ries and Arizona reported cloud- bursts. PAA ELECTRA FOR INTERIOR . | The PAA Tockheed Electra with| Pilots Joe Crosson and Walter Hall | at the controlg, left Juneau this| afternoon on the scheduled flight | to Fairbanks. R. E. Robertson and Don Abel, PAA Construction Super- intendent, were passengers on the trip north. OFF BY PLANE TO GODDARD SPRINGS Mrs. Tom Morgan and Mary Rey- nolds were passengers today aboard the Alaska Air Transport Stinson seaplane flown by Sheldon Simmons | to Goddard Hot Springs. From Goddard Hot Springs Sim- mons went to Sitka where he picked | 1 ! Mavern, brokers, for Port A!Lhorp‘ at Port Althorp while Wakelin and Van Mavern transact business and I night, NEW DEATH CODE jupward from 5 per cent of 8 per; | .n'uve Killed MDIVANIVICTIN OF AUTO CRASH AT BARCELORA ;Woman Companion Near Death After Machine Plunges Into Gully [PRINCE GOT MILLION FROM DIME PRINCESS 10-Cent Heiress Expresses Regret at Tragic Death of Former Mate BARCELONA, Spain, Aug. 2. —Prince Alexis Mdivani, 31, di- vorced husband of Barbara Hutton, one of the most color- ful figures in inlernational so- ciety, was killed here today in an auto accident. Baroness Moud von Thyssen, his pretty young woman companion, was critically injured and is re- poiicd unconscious and near INSTITUTED BY :: | The Prince had volunteered to | drive the Baroness to her home in |France after the latter had miss- ‘ed her train, The couple had just |lett the palatial home at Palames of Mdivani’s sister, Mrs. Jose Marie Sert, where the BaToness had been 4 housc guest when the powerful roadsier struck a culvert on the winding roed and plunged into a BERLIN, Aus. 2—Olficials- nase | 3950 ‘“"’m W disclosed” that aetivity against | When Miss Huttonu«n!n‘! Yrkiod the Nazi party and its organizations Mdivani she retained full control will be regarded as treason against of het A Siileeis: ok & & W the people and will be punished by | death under the new criminal code }nor'.ed she gave as & wedding present to her bridegroom a set “It mugt be clear the Nazi move- of pearl shirt studs, a string of ment is the pillar of the German polo. pontes, '» million deliaré &nd national government it must be| y e ceq.|® trust fund that paid him $50,- protected by provisions against trea. 000 yearly, sonable activities in the coming The Prince's sister, wife of & code,” sald an official. The pronouncement was issued as Tx:’l"::midmal:h ;;:‘m;e:::\m:‘;nthe': Nazi Germany observed the first the mortuary and it was believed anniversary of the death of the late she would have the bod ovedt to President Von Hindenburg and the |y . oo S end of the first year of absolute Surgeon; performed an emergency rule. by Seklen, i operation on the Baroness in an o effort to save her life. She is cuuNclL GPENS reported suffering from a fractured PRINCE ALEXIS MDIVANI Whe meets death in accident, | Activity Against Nazi Par- ty Will Be Regarded as Treason, Says Edict SIDEWALK PRVE | ses e s WERE GOOD FRIENDS COPENHAGEN, Aug. 2.—Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz Revent- low learned of the death of Mdi- vani as she traveled here by train from Paris. She remained in her compartment and later issued a statement through her husband which sald: “The death of Mdivani impressed Barbara deeply. They parted good friends and kept up the best of relations.” : —————— TREND SHOWS BUSINESS S GOING HIGHER Unexpected Upturn in Op- erations of Many In- dustries Reported NEW YORK, Aug. 2—A general expansion of business to a higher ‘evel this week during a similax pe- . riod last year is found by the Dun- Bradstreet, Ine., survey. ‘‘Accelerated by an ‘ unexpected upturn, the pace of operations of some of the leading industries is far advanced of the usual period for expansion. Trends reached to- ward a higher level this year than recorded last year during the same period,” the review says " e GOING ON VISIT Mrs. Charles Miller and daugh- ters Nellie and Millie, leave on the Prince Robert for a month’s visit with her sister, Mrs. Sam Bell, at Prince Rupert. .o TO SKAGWAY A. C. Black, merchandise broker, left the city on the Aleutian for Skagway, is little hope ‘for her recovery. Two Projects, One Only of PWA Nature, to Be Considered Opening of bids for two separate sidewalk paving projects is expect- ed to be the feature of the regular meeting of the City Council in the City Hall at 8 o'clock tonight. One group of bids is for a Public Works Administration project, in cluding about 2,400 lineal feet of sidewalks in various sections of the city. The other is not a PWA contract but is strictly a municipal project calling for estimates on paving one and one-half blocks at Eleventh and D streets in the Casey-Shattuck Addition. It is indicated that the remainder of the Council session probably would be taken up with routine business details. CAPT.E BAKER | IS FOUND DEAD SEATTLE, Aug. 2.—Capt. Edward Baker, aged 56, master of the steamship Arthur J. Baldwin, a veteran’ on Alaskan routes, has been found dead, having passed away while sleeping. Capt. Baker brought the Bald- win here a week ago from Nome and Kotzebue Sound and was to have taken the vessel north again sailing next Monday. Capt. Baker has been on the Seattle-Alaska routes for the past 35 years. His daughter, Margaret survives,