The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 29, 1935, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLVI,, NO. 7052. ITALIAN KAVY CONCENTRATED AT SUEZ CANAL British Defied in Move to| Close Channel—Ait Fleet Assembled ROME, Aug. 20.—A communique | issued by the Italian Cabinet said! that Premier Benito Mussolini has decided upon military ~measures acainst sanctions, This was con-| sidered In political circles as a warning to Great Britain. 1 Well informed circles said military | measures proposed by Premier Mus- | solini included sending a large por- tion of the Italian fleet to the Suez Canal waters in order to keep the channel open and also a powerful air concentration at Sicily, in southern Italy and facing Malta. The British last week said prob- ably the Suez Canal would be closed. ONE LAST RESORT LONDON, Aug. 20.—The British Government looks upon the Kellogg Pact as the last bulwark against t heannouncement made in Rome by the Itallan Government. | Astor tate near Newport, R. I, 11, looks fondly on. (Associ EMPEROR PRAYS ADDIS ABABA, Aug. 20.—It | Plain William Astor is the name of the newest heir to the Astor millions, shown sleeping peacefully in the arms of his mother, at the while his father, John Jacob Astor d Press Photo) is sald that Emperor Selassie has prayed for victory in the forthcom- ing battle. Pilot Jerry Jo of Gruelling FRENCH HOPES PARIS, Aug. 29. — French offi-' clals, fearing that an Italo-Ethi- opian far is inevitable, hope that Premier Laval ‘can keep it from heachitig - Europe. ——te—— SALMON PACK IS HOLDING UP IN SOUTHEAST Total Behind Last Season But Well Ahead of | AntiClpaled Catch S. E. Robbins, PAA Pilot, who ar- e e {rived yesterday from Fairbanks, Wihille behind last season, the stated that Murray Hall, Depart- ‘Alaska Salmon pack is holding up ment of Commerce Aeronautics In- better than was anticipated for spector; W.J. Barrows, PAA Acting this year, according to reports to Division Engineer, and Al Monson, the Bureau of Fisheries, The pack PAA Pilot, left Fairbanks yesterday in the Southeast through last Sat- morning at 8:30 o'clock to inves- urday reached 2,843,579 cases com- tigate a nmew clue in the search for pared with 3,007,613 In 1934. South- the missing Hines plane, western Alaska packed 1814207 Barrows, who piloted the PAA cases through the same period com- Lockheed - Electra Tuesday on the| pated with 2,372,175 Jast season.'last scheduled trip from Juneau to| This is exclusive of Bristol Bay, Fairbanks, observed smoke in the which packed but 242,100 cases thls‘nelghborhood of Wellsley Lake. He yedr against 1,739,678 in '34. |immediately turned off his course All_districts in the Bouthwestern land discovered that a fire had been | area are closed now with the ex-|lighted about 15 miles north of the| ception of Chignik and Kodiak-|lake which lies about 50 miles south| Afognak. The latter is the only of Dawson. Barrows circled v.he; district in the area showing a gain (fire which had burned a narrow over a year ago. Kodiak-Afognak strip in the underbrush, but could | district had packed 695463 cases|not land. through last Saturday compared with 646,640 last season. In the Southeast Icy Strait, West- ern and Eastern districts are closed and final figures give: Icy Strait 203,181 cases, compared with 326,- 091 last year; Western, 212514 against 430,228, and Eastern, 344,- |quiry at a cabin located on the lake 652 compared with 809,209, a gain shore,” The search plane will also over last season. = Ketchikan andimake stops on White River to ques- | Wrangell are’ other districts ahead|tion local inhabitants regarding | of 1934, |the missing plane. That district Through last Saturday Wrangell has been thoroughly searched from had packed 455256 cases compared the air by land planes who were to 350,847 for the same time last|unable to alight to make inquiry at NEWCLUETS REPORTED ON HINES' PLANE Sinoke Baen i Neighbor- hood of Wellsley Lake —Is Investigated Hall Notified ' Barrows went to Fairbanks and| notified Murray Hall. Yesterday| morning Hall, Barrows and Monson left Pairbanks in a pontoon-equip- ped ship with the intention of land- | ing on Wellsley Lake to make in- year and Ketchikan 1,216,120 against 1,042319 in ‘34, IS INDICTED FOR THREAT KANSAS CITY, Aug. 29.—The Federal Grand Jury has indicted Jacob Bergman, aged 41, unem- ployed telegraph operator, charged nes Tells Search Made for Missing Hines” Plane T ek The* intensive -gearch’ for Avthur Hines, Fairbanks aviator, and his three passenger§, Mr. and Mrs. John Lonz and Alton G. Nordale, who have been missing since they left Dawson on August 19 in a | plane piloted by Hines, has slacken- |ed after a systematfc examination of the area, in which Hines' plane might have beep grounded, failed to disclose any evidence of the missing plane. Rain and foz have |closed down in gome parts of the territory involved, Three planes remain on active search duty. They are flown by Percy Hubbard, for many years Hines’ partner ip the Service Air- ways at Fairbanks; Murray Hall, Department of Commerce Aeronau- tic Inspector for Alaska, and Al Monson, PAA pilot, acting in re- sponse to instructions from Lyman 8. Peck, General Manager of the PAA, to “spare no expense¢ and no effort commensurate with safety to | locate the missing plane.” Search Pilot Here Jerry Jones, PAA pilot, who ar-| tived yesterday with Walter Hall| at the controls of the PAA Lock- heed Electra from Fairbanks, piloted |’ one of the search planes through- out the organized’ hunt for Hines' plane. Jones and Percy Hubbard began the search on Tuesday, Au- gust 20, the day after the Hines' plane left Dawson.. The following day, when more' planes joined the search, Pilot Jones, who gained ex- perience in an air search’ in Cali- fornia, suggested'a plan which was put into effect. Organized . Search The search planes first flew over all likely routes between Dawson and Fairbanks, a large scale map procured and a section outlined overlapping the undaries of the area in which if was thought the | missing plane might be found. The { section to be searched was divided into small cross sections and as- | signed to the various planes. At the |end of each day’y search each pilot the scattered settlements along the| ROGERS WILLS bate Court—Big In- surance Hinted LOS ANGELES, Aug. 29.— Only the Alaskan airplane jaunt in which will, a one-page document, leaving all of his estate to Mrs. Rogers. Wednesday. The probate petition joffered no estimate of the estate’s ;value except it was “in excess of $10,000,” the routine description of such petitions. $2,500,000 Estate Unofficially, the value of the es- tate is estimated at upwards of $2,500,000. Hearing on the petition is set for 10 am. September 16, in the Su- perior Court heré, The document said the estate in- cluded “personal property, money, travelers’ checks, household furnish- |ings, personal effects, automobiles, | tractors, horses, mules, ranch, equip- {ment, all of which is community property.” No description of real es- tate or other property is given. Will Frovisions | In‘bequesting &ll property to Mrs. ! Rogers, the will provided that it go !t the couple’s three children, Will, | Jr., 28, Mary, 22, and James, 20, in gase Mrs. Rogers died before the actor and humorist. The $2,500,000 estate includes LARGE ESTATE ALL TO WIDOW Document Is Filed in Pro- two days before Will Rogers left for he and Wiley Post were killed on August 15, Rogers made his last ‘The will was filed in probate on MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS CHAMBER HEARS IMOND REPLY S MAIL BLOW Little Chance for PAA Contract After Sept. 1— Duck Rules Protested A possible death-knell to main- tenance of Pacific Alaska Airways flying schedules for Southeast Alas- ka after September 1 was sounded &t the luncheon meeting of the Chamber of Commerce this noon at Bailey's Cafe. While some Chamber members still hold hope that an airmail con- tract may be obtained for the PAA, thereby allowing that organization %0 rescind an economy closing or- der effective next month, a tele- gram received by M. S. Whittier, secretary of the Territorial Cham- ber of Cimmerce, from Alaska Dele- gate Anthony J. Dimond in Wash- ington, D. C., indicated that there was little chance of such a con- tract being granted. The telegram, received today in reply to messages sent by both the Territorial and Juneau Chambers yesterday, was read at the luncheon meeting by Whittier. The message follows: No Appropriation “Congress did not make any re- cent appropriation of $25,000 for air mail contracts. Congress recent- 1y passed a bill authorizing the car- riage of all classes of mail by air in Alaska after advertising there- for in accordance with law and | further limited giving emergency service without advertising to $25,000 about. $800,000 insurance, réported: Pén year, but made no additional here Wednesday as having ' been paid Mrs. Rogers by Lloyds. A rep- resentative of Lloyds here said that such a policy was issued to Rog-! ers eight years ago, but he did not know whether it had been paid. STOCK PRICES RALLY, TRADING IS VERY QUIET NEW YORK, Aug. 29. — Stock prices rallied today but trading was exceptionally quiet. Gains of one point or so were registered by virtually all groups with the exception of oils which were backward. ! Today's close was firm. CLOSING PRICES TODAY appropriation for any kind of ser- | vige. All here understand the value of the Juneau-Fairbanks service, but no funds whatever have been appropriated or are available there- | for; nor can the same be obtained | before the meeting of Congress in January.” ‘The opinion was expressed here generally that the proposed airmail contract for the Juneau-Whitehorse, Y. T.-Fairbanks route of the PAA Wwas an ‘‘emergency” measure. Whit- tler intimated, after the Chamber meeting, that he intended tele- graphing Delegate Dimond for more detailed explanation. The airmail situation developed |when the New York office of the PAA ordered all Southeast Alaska schedules dropped on September 1, with Lyman 8. Peck, a PAA official, saying that an airmail contract on the Juneau-Fairbanks run was need- ed, and that neither that route, nor the Southeast Alaska schedules could be maintained on only pas- senger and express revenue. | | NEW YORK, .Aug. 29.—Closing Ducks Discussed quotation of Alaska Juneau mine This prompted both Chamber stock today is 16%, American Can|groups to telegraph Delegate Di- 137, American Power and Light 6%, Anaconda 18%, Bethlehem Steel 36%, General Motors 42, Interna- tional Harvester 53%, Kennecott 22%, United States Steel 43%, Pound $4.97'%, Schenley Distiller- ies 33%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, rails, 34.83; utilities, 24.88. AR . ) FLIES FROM HOONAH Fred Wetche arrived yesterday afternoon from Hoonah aboard the PAA Fairchild flown by Alex Hol- den with flight mechanie Lloyd Jar- man. Rex Beach was a round- Jones averages: Industrials, 12692;; mond. The Juneau Chamber also sent messages appealing for help. to the Tacoma and L.os Angeles Cham- bers of Commerce. While today's luncheon planned to honor the coming de- partures of Dr. H. C. DeVighne and Willilam Kirk, another business de- tail crept into the meeting’s spot- light. An angle to the migratory- bird hunting situation developed when an exchange of telegrams between the Chamber and A. N. (Ding) Darling, head of the Bio- logical Survey, relative to Juneau's protest over hunting restrictions for this year, was read. The telegrams are self-explana- tory. The Juneau message to Dar- was il | marked on the map the track of the course flown by his plane that day Robbins: . whio - was’ ‘ehioite _w\ showing the area covered, Fairbanks from Seattle - with q!e“ Mot e CORARY, % thefveaiely PAA Lockheed Electra flown soufh|27¢3 15 ‘extremely’ rugged and is sparsely inhabited. If the occupants of the missing plane landed unhurt i1t would possibly take ‘thém weecks ‘0 get to a radio station, Gruelling Flights Disregarding hazards the search | Planes took off each day with gas tanks filled to capacity for long Saw No Signal (Continued on Page 7) —_——— Alaska Highway Bill Signed By President trip passenger on the plane from Juneau to Icy Strait, Port Althorp and Hoonah. ling follows: (Continued on Page 7) Hearst Says Smith Would Bé Powerful 36 Candidate; +-Makes Denial toReports SANTA MONICA, Cal.,, Aug. 28— |nees of such a party will be. I do With the statement: “I think Al- |DOt know who will ::nthfi nominees fred E. Smith would make a power- | % the Republican Party. ful candidate” for president, Wil- SPECULATION ‘WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.—Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond has been notified that President Roose- with writing a letter to President Roosevelt demanding = relief and threatening to, blow up the White House if aid was not forthecoming. velt has signed the Alaska Highway { . : bill. ‘ TEACHERS ON ESTEBETH i The measure authorizes the sur- Lena . Geor, and Busie ‘White, | vey and construction of the Alaska teachers with Bureau of Indian|proposed International Highway Affairs, left Juneau on the Este-|which would connect the Territory beth. “Lena George will teach at|with the Pacific Coast States, Angoon, while Susie White willlthrough the Yukon Territory and | be an instructor at Hoonah. ! British Columbia. hours of gruellifig flight. All of the territory beginning at Fairbanks and extending 50 miles beyond Daw- son, and from 30miles north of the Yukon River to 50 miles south of the Tanana River, an area of more than 65,000 square miles, was close- ly scrutinized for clues. In Air 7 Days o Jones, who pilgted a Ford freight- er plane with an exceptionally ‘high "7 (Continued on Page Five) liam Randolph Hearst last night described as ‘“inaccurate” reports that he would support a candidate of 'the proposed ‘“Constitutional” WASHNGTON, Aug. 29.—Appar- ent approval by William Randolph | Hearst of Al Smith as a Presiden- 1:131 candidate aroused immediate Dies as Result of Accident Zwvociited I'ress I'hoto Young Queen Astrid of Belgium ! KING EXPLAINS ACCIDENT; WAS LOOKING, MAP Said Eyes Were Off Road Only for Moment, then Car on Top of Tree KUSSNACHT, Switzerland, Aug. 29.—King Leopold told the mem- bers of the Royal entourage short- ly after the accident: “I leaned over a map, which the Queen was holding. It lasted only a second. When I looked again at the road, the car was almost on top of the tree.” The car actually hit the tree and the breaking of the windshield cut the King's face and head. i ‘The King is suffering not only from the emotional shock but from cuts and bruises. He was immed- ng Albert Was Killed: jately ordered to bed in the Villa Haslihorn, where the body of the Queen was also taken after death e AUTO MIGHT HAVE STRUCK LARGE STONE Investigation Is Made at Scene of Morning Accident LUCERNE, Aug. 20.—A further investigation this forenoon at the scene of the aceident in which, Queen Astrid was killed, showed & large stone at the roadside have been the cause. When the King looked aside for 4 moment, the car probably turne to the edge of the highway, struck the large stone and it is beljeved the impact might' have been 50 violent the occupants were thrown out. DEATH WATCH SOON PLACED KUSSNACHT, Aug. 20—The re- ception room was immediately cleared at Villa Haslihorn b i M arriu;:b,l Was Culimination of Real Love Match LUCERNE, Switzerland, Aug. 29.~The ‘marriage ‘of Princess, Astrid . pnd (he then Crown Prince . of | Belgium, was' @~ clainted as a true love matgh. Astrid, after her betrothal, tcld hew she had refused tH& Crown Prince three times in three weeks. “1 love him,” Astrid said at the time, “but I was just afraid to become a Queen.” TRAGEDY - SECOND ONE | FOR BELGIANS Last Year in Climb of Mountain BRUSSELS, Belgium, Aug. 20.—! The death of Queed Astrid in an auto accident in Switzerland this morning is the second one to strike the Belgian Royal family. King Albert fell to his death in February of last year while climb- ing a mountain near Namur, Bel- gium, S ee—— QUEEN ONLY TWENTY-NINE BRUSSELS, Belgium, Aug. 20.— may Queen Astrid is survived by her | Royal -husband, a son, named for King Albert, and by Princess Jose-| d phine Charlotte and Crown Prince) Baudouin. The Queen was 29 years of age and the King is 33 Belgium is in deep mourning to- SCENE S NEAR HISTORIC SPOT LUCERNE, Aug. 29.—Kussnacht, PRICE TEN CENTS BELGIUM LOSES 'QUEEN, RESULT AUTO ACCIDENT {King Leopold Is Slightly Hurt, When Car Skids from Highway IMACHINE HITS TREE, BOTH THROWN OUT [ Pitiful Scen_e Enacted Near Lake in Switzerland This Morning LUCERNE, Switzerland, Aug. 29.—Queen Astrid of Belgium wae killed in an auto accident near here this merning, and King Leopold, who was driving the car and apparently lost control, was slightly injured. The accident occurred while the King and Queen were driv- ing cpeedily on a pleasant lake- side ctraight-away road near Kunacht, The King was at the wheel and the Royal chauf- feur was in a rear seat. The speed was between 50 and {35 miles an houm | Close behind the Royal car rode [the Gentleman and Lady-in-Waite ing with their chauffeur. | They said they thought they saw jthe King turn his head and look at the mountains bordering Lake |“Vier Waldstatter See,” near Kus- [snacht, nine miles east of hef®. | Swerves Off, Road, | Suddenly, the, @ tontaining |the King, Q m Auffesr. swerved off, xoad onto rough ... ground. < Both the King and Queen were thrown out of the car, the Queen’s ‘head striking a tree. The blow fractured her skull. The car swerved into the lake. The- Queen lay motionless. The ‘King, his face smeared with blood, picked himself up and went to his wife’s side, 4 Implores for Word | He gathercd her into his arms, kissed her and implored her to speak, The Queen scarcely moved and it was impossible to tell whether she recognized her husband. Within five minutes the Queen died in his arms. The King straightened her body and smoothed her clothes and Royal attendants covered the still form with their coats. Help 'Summoned Peasants who witnessed the trag- NSRS s Continued on Page Sevem) —————— SORROW IS EXPRESSED ~ OVER WORLD tBelgium Plunged Into Mourning — Beautiful Woman Endeared by All BRUSSELS, Belgium, Aug. 20.— Glamorous memories of royal love= making mingled with sad recollec~ tion of today's tragedy as the news as the Queen's death was borne around the world. She was beloved her own |Sweden and in her adopted land, !Belgium, as a lovely girl who had taken a place as housewife and Queen here. To a large part of the rest of the {world, she was the royal sweet- heart whose wedding. had, drawn | multitudes of the ° world's | most glittering names, | Before their marriage, the names of Prince of Wales and his un- married brothers swirled with those other princely and eligible bachelors in rumors which her impatient sub- Jects told and retold as they await- | | | { in this where the body of Queen Astrid is ed the announcement of Princess morning for Queen Astrid’s body, at present in the Villa Haslhorn,| Astrid’s engagement. which was soon placed in a casket. is a popular resort which stands She was a good horsewoman and Gar 4 small bay of Lake a beautiful dancer.” She was ad- The casket was draped in black ab the head of a sma { and lighted candles nri-angcd about Vier Waldstatte See near the spot|verse to pomp and display, and her it. where legendary William Tell is Democratic party. ‘apeculauon here as Smith and “I do not know whether there will | Hearst have been political foes be & Constitutional Democratic Par~|since 1922, when Smith, then Gov- ty or not” read the Stfl[emem!m of New York, tefused to run which Hearst supplied to the As-w-iu Hearst’s' named party candidate rciated - Press: and which appeared | for the United States Senate. As a this- morning. as an editorial in his | result Dr. Royal 8. Copeland; Hearst newspapers, “and if there should | writer, ran and has served in the be one do not know who the nomi-Senate (ever since. Members of the household took reported to have shot the. tyrant| up the death watch e = i Everett Nowell, representative for the Blake, Moffitt, and Towne Gessler. > ON ROUND TRI Mr. and Mrs. George Betchkal, {dress was always simple. Tiny Belgium is plunged into the deepest grief. The aging Phince Cazl and Princess Ingeborg mour- {fully chartered a plane to fly to jLacerne: to join the grief-stricken Paper Company, left Juneau for residents of Milwaukee, Wis.. are husband of their daughter Astrid, Valdez on the Yukon for a business round-trippers aboard the Aleutian. He plans to Betchkal is in the transportation trip to the Interior. return in a few weeks. business. | Queen Astrid's’ body will be jbrought here by a special train leaving the south tonight. = =~