The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 3, 1935, Page 1

CONC RESSIONAL LIBRA Y " THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL XLVL., NO. 7030. JUNEAU ALASKA SATURDAY, AUGUST 3 1935 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRE&S PRICL TEN CLNI" CAL. MOB HANGS BANDIT- KILLER PRISONER I8 DRAGGED FROM JAIL BY GROWD Robber Who Shot Police Chief Lynched by Irate Citizens of California DEPUTY SHERIFF IS OVERPOWERED Doors Smas h ed, Pnson Ransacked—Body of Victim in Tree YREKA, Cal, Aug. 3.—Dragged from the county jail, C. L. Johnson involved in the killing of the Duns-, muir, Cal, Chief of Police after a robbery, was hanged to a tree near here today by a mob, Deputy Sher- iff Joe Ciark announced. The mob drove to the county jail in a caravan of autos at 1:30 this morning, - promptly held up and selzed Fleming Martin, employee of a restaurant who was passing by, held him until the prisoner was sejzed and taken away. The mob rang the night bell of the jail when they drove up and when Deputy Sheriff Martin Lange answered members of the caravan covered ‘him with pistols and overpowered him but falled to get the keys. He was bound and-carried {nto the country,’ being later released in his bare feet. } ‘ Break in, Doors Doors were smnshed and the jail ransacked before the keys to John- | son’s cell were found and he was| taken out. The prisoned kicked and' fought but without avail. When he was cut down from the tree a cou- ple of hours after the lynching, he| had a bruise on one eye, T'he young robber, who was from Reno, and Klamath Palls, Ore., had | insisted he did not shoot to death F. R. Daw, the Dunsmuir officer. He had blamed a companion in the robbery, Robert Miller. The latter is still a fugitive, Admitted Part in Robbery Johnson was caught an hour after the killing and admitted participa- tion in the shooting and robbery. About 25 men, mostly masked, participated in the hanging. IDENTIFY BULLET SACRAMENTO, Aug, 3.—Owen Secret Bride | | Mrs. Lloyd Budge (lbovc), the former Margaret Mo Seatt| Wash,, who has bt bride of Lloyd Budg the tennis star, Don, si Their pement to Re was ma known on th their departure from the Budge home in Oakland, Caiif., to Seattle | for tennis tournaments. (Auoclaud Prou Photo) WYOMING STATE 'GOVERNOR 1S VISITOR HERE Leslie Andrew Miller Ac-| companies Wife on Alaskan Trip Juneau today was host to Gov. Leslie Andrew Miller, Chie! Execu- Iuve of Wyoming who, with his wife, is a round-trip passenger on the| Charlotte from Vancou-| { | | | | Princess ver, B. C. Governor and Mrs. Miller are making their first trip to Alaska— and they “like it.” “No, we don’t mind this rain,” the Wyoming official said as he step- iped into a waiting automobile for a sightseeing trip to Mendenhall Glacier this afternoon. “As a matter of fact, this is the first rain we B RSB e 3 (Continued on Page Two) Kessell, state criminal identification (have experienced in the entire trip. bureau investigator, revealed here he said. today that examination of the bul- let_which killed Police Chief Daw of Dunsmuir showed it had been fired from the gun found in the possession of C. L. Johnson, who was hanged by &« mob at Yreka. Johnson. confessed he wielded the Luger pistol in the gun affray which resulted in the death of Daw, July 29. Kessell said Daw was hit by.three bullets, all apparently fired at close range. v IMPROVEMENTS MADE AT ALASKA A. T. FLOAT Beveral improvements have been made at the Alaska Air Trans- port float, including a permanent, convenient stairway replacing the temporary ladder ' previously in use. A window facing the ferry float in the office of the company on the float has also been added. Former Postmaster Of Juneau Passes Away in Seaule SEATTLE, A-..&—Flnerll services for J. J. Chetwoed Bar- ber, aged. 67 years, who died last Tuesday, are being held this afternoon at the University | Alaska is delightful!” Following their trip to the Gla- cier, the Governor and his wife planned to call on Gov. John W. Troy at the Governor’s House. Governor and Mrs. Miller came to the Pacific Coast on the same train which brought Judge and Mrs. Fred H. Blume. Judge Blume is Chief Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court. He and his wife are enjoying the current round-trip cruise of the Aleutian from Seattle, and visited here Thursday. ‘Gov. ‘Miller has been a railway brakeman, but worked his way up to the presidency of the Aero Oil Company, which position he has held since 1921. He has served in the United States Marine Corps. He has been a member of both the ‘Wyoming House of Representatives PRESIDENT IS STILL STRONG BELL REPORTS|- Actual Improved Business Conditions Responsible for Roosevelt Faith Fresident Roosevelt is just as popular with the mass of the Am- erican people today as he was in 1932 despite the attacks that have been launched against him and the Administration by certain special interests, is the opinion of Com- missioner Frank T. Bell, of the Bu- reau of [Fisheries, who arrived in Juncau this morning aboard the Brant on his annual inspection trip to the Alaska fishing grounds. The Commissioner has recently traveled from Maine to Alabama in connection with his official duties and finds the majority of the people in all walks of life definitely back of the President in his program to bring back economic recovery to the| country. The only opposition ofj note is in the Northeast, a section of the country that has for years| thrived on high tariffs, the Com- missioner said, but even there the Chief Executive is popular with the mass of the people, he reports. | Moving ‘Ahead The foundation for this faith in the President is based primarily on actual conditions - throughout the country, Mr, Bell asserted. Business . i moving ahead, he said. Industry and agriculture are reacting to the impetus provided by the present Administration. There is bound to be some unfav- orable reaction as is reflected in labor troubles and wails emanat- ing from the relief act, he pointed out, but the force of pronounced improvement in all lines far over- shadows the ills that are being cap- | italized by certain selfish interests. Referring to Alaska fishing, the Commissioner expressed satisfaction | ————— DAMAGES ASKED IN TACOMA SUIT ON SUNDAY BEER Old Washmglon Closing, Law Leads to Trouble for Prosecutor TACOMA, Aug. 3—Charging that he was wrongfully and maliciously arrested for selling beer on Sunday, E. J. Breseman, Tacoma architect, has filed a $10,000 damage suit in superior - court against Harry H. Johnston, Pierce County Prosecut- ing Attorney, and T. A. Thompson, investigator for a bonding company. Breseman is charged on a war- rant with selling beer in two places in suburban Spanaway Park, of which he had been named manager. He was released on $200 bail. The case against him later was dis- missed when it was discovered the proprietor of the place was Gus and the Senate. He was elected Governor of his state in 1933. The Millers reside in Cheyenne. >, HESSE AND BLYTHE FLY TO WINDHAM BAY William A. Hesse, Territorial Highway Engineer, and John Blythe were passengers to Windham Bay this afternoon aboard the Alaska Air Transport Stinson seaplane. Bill Flory was a passenger to Hawk Inlet on an earlier flight of the Stinson piloted by Sheldon Simmons with Flight Mechanic Wilfred Lund. - e PEARL WILLIAMS LEAVES Mrs. Pearl Williams, who, with her hushand, Bill Williams, oper- ated the Paris Inn, which recently burned, is a southbound passenger cn the Northland. She accompanies her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Selmyr, enroute to Salinas, Cal Breseman, his brother. Prosecutor Johnston said, how- ever, he is not liable as the war- rant was issued on an affidavit. The case is one of several filed un- der the Sunday closing law which was not repealed with anti-liquor laws in Washington. Several other cases were dismissed with Brese- man’'s when the jury freed the first one tried. 3 No Flowers at Death; Aid Poor, Woman Bids SPOKANE, Wash, Aug. 3.—In life, Mrs. Ellen Van Dyke Peterson, penned a request that flowers should have no part in her death. She died at the age of 91. She asked that the money friends might spend for floral offerings be given to the needy. She was the mother of R. B. Patterson, a leading Spokane mer- chant, who died in 1924. Mrs. Pat- ‘erson was born in Milwaukee, Wis, [} | Council, claimed a victory in Italy’s QUIT THE LEAGUE » » * | i . . Is Demand on Grmt Brltam | BULLETIN — LONDON, Aug. 3.—~Under the heading, “League of Mischief,” the Daily Mail launched a tirade today against Geneva demanding that Great Britain withdraw from the League of Nations and attend to her own interests. “If Benito Mussolini, of Italy, succecds in ridding the world of that meddling, muddling peril, the League of Nations, he will have performed a great inter- ational service,” the Daily Mail says editorially. The stand of the Daily Mail immediately aroused much ap- prehension, it is stated. advanced during a sesslon | last night. ATTACKS BRITISH ROME, Aug. 3—The Italian press| rénewed the assault on Great Bri-| tain in face of her proposals Xor; an Anglo - Franco-Italo conference | to consider the broad aspects of| the Ethiopian dispute. night BOMBERS TO TAKE OFF ROME, Aug. 3.—Fifty of Italy's mightiest and most modern _air bombers will take off for East Africa early in September in what is considered to be the greatest mass flight in history. FACE TO FACE ADDIS ABABA, Aug. 3.—Emperor Haile Selassie is willing to meet Premier Mussolini face to face, on neutral soll, and thresh out the dispute which is causing the pres-! ent crisis, The Emperor also announced that his Government brought in 800,- 000 high-powered rifles during July | despite the arms embargoes. | VICTORY CLAIMED ! GENEVA, Aug. 3.—Capt. Anthony Eden, British representative at- tending the League of Nations' acceptance of the League's propos- ed September session which was| Headed for PICTURES NOT POLITICS IS HIS PLEASURE NOW Dietrick Ge:l\./-lany Feet of Fine Film — Sees Con- gress Adjourn Sept. 1 1 Arbitration GENEVA, Aug. 3.—Italy’s dispute with Ethiopla is headed for arbi- tration with all signs indicating strongly that the controversy will be back in the lap of the League of Nations a month from now with the adoption of a three-point agree- ment by France, Italy and Great Britain calling for the resumption of arbitration proceedings. Capt. Eden, British representa- tive, emphasized the dispute will be up for review by the League’s Council next month. It has been agreed that England, France and Ttaly will soon confer and consider the possibilities for a broad political settlement of the dispute, The League’s Council will con- sider the entire subject on Septem- ber 4. Congress may be expected to ad- Jjourn around the first of September, Representative C. Elmer Dietrick, Congressman from Pennsylvania, who is in Juneau, accompanying Commissioner Frank T. Bell aboard the fisheries vessel Brant, believes, There is still considerable work to do but he believes that most of the EMPEROR SAYS 0. K. | ADDIS ABAGA. Aug. 3.—It is an- | Francisco nonstop flight of Soviet | program will be successfully carried | jout in the next 30 days. The Congressman, who gained his nounced here that the Ethiopian Emperor will accept the League’s *(tures on his jaunt north and plans | nuska when the Bell party visits the proposal designed to settle the quar- rel between Italy and Ethiopia. ——— P PARLIAMENT ADJOURNS TO LATE, OCTOBER General -EE:tion Auto- matically Postponed Indefinite Time The Pennsyivanian’s fishing am-| LONDON, Aug. 3— Parliament h"llm now is to try some of Alas-|adjourned an eventful session late ka’s famous strip fishing. | yesterday and by agreeing to re- SOLDIERS WEST election, ‘Government leaders in the mean- LONDON, Aug. 3.—Reports are} received here that Russia, as a| while planned to hold the general election “late in 1935 or about next precautionary measure, is transport- | ing 160,000 troops to Chita and| February." Irkutsck, in Siberia. This is the| seat in the House by defesting Louis T. McFadden, fiery Republi- can from the' 15th Congressional district of Pennsylvania, is desert- | ing politics for pictures on this trip, his first to Alaska. A real pic- ture fan, he already has taken sev- eral thousand feet of moving pic- to take a 1,000 feet or so at Mata- colonization _project. Coming up from Seattle, the Congressman tried his hand at fishing and reports con- siderable success although he got pretty wet on one occasion bring- ing in a big salmon, the praises of which he sings loudly, especially the mighty King, trouble. |{ingrad. PLANE STARTS OFF IN RAIN FROM MOSCOW Soviet Fliers Take Air for San Francisco at 3 0'Clock Friday The Moscow-North Pole-San fliers is on. Sigmund Levaneffsky and his two two companions took off from Mos- cow on the projected flight across the North Pole at 3 o'clock yester- day afternoon (Juneau Time) ac- cording to an Assoclated Press dis- patch to The Empire and from the Tass Soviet News Agency. The takeoff was made from Mos- cow in a driving rain but weather conditions further on were report- ed most favorable. With Levaneffsky are George Bai- bukoff, copilot, and Victor Leychen- | ko, navigator. Dignitaries at Takeoff Among the dignitaries at the Sholkovsky airport was United States Ambassador ‘William C. Bul- |litt, who shook hands with the fli- |ers as they climbed aboard the plane, and foreign correspondents, except German and Japanese, The plane wds made entirely in Russia. It is eqiipped with emer- gency features designed to offer protection from the Arctic cold and also carries provisions for several months. “Freakish” Ship The plane, a “freakish” ship, was designed by the same man who built the tragic Maxim Gorky air- liner. ‘When the plane took the air, the fliers said they expected to reach San Prancisco in 40 to 60 to 72 hours. The distance is estimated over a direct airline route of 6250 miles of which 2700 miles are over uncharted polar regions. e INEXPENSIVE AIR CRAFT IS NEXT IN LINE Planes Will Be Selling for less than $1,000 WASHINGTON, August 3.—Mass production of safe, easily operated, inexpensive airplanes within a few years is predicted by Eugene L. Vidal, Chiéf of Aviation activities in the Department of Commerce. Vidal said that the general aim for less than $1,000, which he con- be safe and will require only a few hours to learn to operate. It will be capable of taking off and land- ing on a small space. Vidal mum.ud zmv. production | of such planes is closer to realiza- tion than most people suspected tailless plane are being tested by Vidal’s Bunnu SHOWERS FALL IN HEAT AREA |SMALL-BORE SHOOT AT RIFLE RANGE SUNDAY MORNING latest development in the increas-| ingly tense situation in the Far| East where the Manchukuos de-| have announced that anyone inter- ©Officers of the Juneau Rifle Club mands for outer Mongolia have |ested in small-bore target shoot- been made following frontier inci-|ing is invited to go to the Menden- dents. hall rifle range at 10 o'clock to- ——— morrow maorning to take part in a Henry Tormey, Jr., hitch-hiked shoot planned there. from Salt Lake City, Utah, to Lin-! Those planning to attend should coln, Neb., borrowed a dollar, gulp- | take their lunch and ammunition. ed down anme food at a beanery,| Targets may be had at the range then took third place in the 5,000- | for a nominal sum, it is announced. meter event in the Junior A. A. U.| Cars will leave the Terminal at Games. 9 am. Some Rehef Is Promlsed from Torrid Weather of Recent Days CHICAGO, 1ll, Aug. 3—Showers generally with slightly lower tem- peratures are promised for most sections of the country as some measure of rellef from the heat wave which has reached most of the upper Mississippi valley and the greater part of the Atlantic coast. BULLETIN—MOSCOW, Prediction 1s Made that is to create a model plane selling | sidered possible if the planes are; produced in volume, The plane will | Several small planes including a| Flight Leader i g & W MEDIOSVIDKA IS ASSEMBLED, SENT AVIATORS {tinuous Polar daylight. Stations Gather Data for Fliers ued[mowm 48715 net & Rus- A which 18 now" heind: gathered from Point Barrow 16 Juncau and radio- ed to the plane of the Soviet fli- ers now enroute from Moscow to San Francisco. United States Signal Corps‘ woather . duta, Aug. 3.—The Soviet plane with three fliers aboard, on a projected nonstop flight from here to San Francisco, has aband. oned the flight because of oil trouble and has turned back and is returning. The fliers radioed they were unable to ascertain or remove the cause of the They turned about and headed across Kola Peninsula toward Len- A special commission has been ordered to examine the airplane when it lands and mvesllguto the causes of tlw trnul)le. THREE SOVIET FLIERS ARE ON FLIGHT TO U, S. | l ’Coming Southward Over | Unexplored Regions of Arctic Zone FLANE IS MAKING 110 MILES AN HOUR a 'Expect to Pass Over North | Pole This Evening, Van- | couver Sunday Night I i | | MOSCOW, Aug. 3. — At ;5-15 o'clock this morning, Pa- cific Coast Standard Time, the Soviet plane, bound for San Francisco, headed across Par- ents Sea into the zone of con- The plane is averaging 110 miles an hour. Aid Ready The Soviet ite-breaker Sad- ika is in constant communica- tion with the fliers and two planes are ready, with pilots aboard, ready to go to the rescue if the non-stoppers are forced down. This—as spelled above—is radioed by United States Signal Corps sta- tions to the plane and also to Se- attle over special ether circuits. The data is reported to the U, 8. Weath- er Bureau and is being sent out every three hours keeping the fli- ers positively Informed as to all conditions, A. A. Vartanian, chief Engineer of the Amtorg Trading Corporatiory, Soviet firm, is making his tempor- ary headquarters in the United States Signal Corps office at Se- attle, and is blazing with the help of the Signal Corps, the weather trail of the over 6,000 mile nonstop i Moscow-North Pole-San Francisco flight, The reports cover an area from Point Barrow to San Francisco and eastward to Edmonton. Just as soon as the flight acuted | from Moscow yesterday aftern Juneau time, Weather Bureau oI- ficials and U. 8. Signal Corps of- fices were in action. Brief meteoro- !logical data is being radioed every three hours. These messages will be translated into Russian and tranhs- mitted. From the plane will also come reports of the progress of the flight, in Russian, and these are translat- ed into English. The- flight is sponsored by the Northern Route Department of the USSR and is for scientific and commercial purposes. POST MAY HOP SEATTLE, Aug. 3—Wiley Post /is poised here for his hop to Mos- cow via Alaska. He announced, |after inspecting the pontoons plac- NORTH MONDAY The plane crossed the On- ega River at 4:04 o’clock this morning and then began the flight over the White Sea at 4:48 o'clock. North Pole 6 P. M. If Pilot Levaneffsky con- tinues his present speed of the plane he should reach the North Pole about 6 o'clock tonight and reach Vancouver, B. C., about midnight, Sun« day. A radio here from the plane reports the motor hum- " (Continued ot, Page Seven) TWO POSSIBLE PLANE ROUTES, SOVIET FLIERS The Soviet plane now on a flight from Moscow to San Francisco has two possible air routes, it all de- pending on the weather, as follows: From Moscow over North Pole to | Prince Patrick Island, Darnley Bay, Great Bear Lake, Fort Simpson to Vancouver, B. C, then directly south over the Pacific Coast,states of Washington, Oregon and Cali- fornia. ‘The other route is from Moscow jover the North Pole to Point Bar- irow, south to Fairbanks, White- horse, Prince George, Vancouver and south to San Francisco. — e ! led on his plane, replacing the : LR, S BT i B e : wheels, that he might take off S jwith his wife' on Mondny {2 ANNIYERRANY 3 C . Just one year ago today The ' @ Empire began issuing the 4- ® '® page comic feature in con- ® e nection with the regular e o Saturday edition. The fea- " ® e ture has made a pronounced ; 4 hit and continues to grow in ® — ® popularity. New features are © | WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. — The e contemplated which will e Coast Guard, the brain child of e place The Empire far in the ® Alexander Hamilton, celebrates its e Jead of any other newspaper @ 145th anniversary tomorrow. e publication in Alaska and ® On August 4, 1790, the act cre- e for that matter of hundreds ® ating @ Coast Guard Service was e in the states. . sigred. . Watch for special an- e At that time the “revenue cutter e nouncements. ) service was an obscure force of o 3 10 cutters and 200 men." R EEEE T