The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 9, 1935, Page 1

» - “ALL THE NEWS_ALL THE TIME” FUNERAL PYRES |E. L. Doheny, Oil Baron, Dies BLAZE ENDING PLAGUE THREAT Priests Pra;auickly Over 150 Decomposed Bod- ies in Florida MIAMI, Fla., Sept. 9.—Copyright, 1935, by Associated Press) — The danger of pestilence ‘in Florida’s tragedy-stricken coral keys lessencd Saturday night as flames flickered from scattered funeral pyres of the storm dead. As quickly as Protestant, Cath- olic and Jewish clergymen could recite their chureh rites for the| dead. workers applied torches to the oil-drenched and badly-decom- posed bodies of the victims of last Monday's hurricane. Sheriff D. C. Coleman, head- ing 500 workers in the storm area, estimated 500 bodies were affected by the cremation order, issued at the insistence of health officers. The bodies were placed in hast- ily-made pine boxes before being burned. Meanwhile, prepars‘ions went forward for ‘burial later for those whose bodies workers are able to prepare for burial. Latest . tabulation of the storm’s ti:y FERA and Red Cross dis- ol | these figures: Veterans—in ‘three Key camps— 718; . unidentified dead or missing, in_hospitals, 138; identified ad, 4; sick or rescued uninjured or! slightly hurt, 244; no record, 7. Civillans—iaissing and unaccount- SRR R RUM SMUGGLER CAPTURED OFF JERSEY COAST 200,000 British Liquor{j Cargo Seized by Coast Guard—20 in Custody CAPE MAY, New Jersey, Sept. 9.—Llaying a ghot across the bow of the British oil schooner Popo- catapelt, Coast Guardsmen Sunday seized the boat, also three high- speed American launches, and con- fiscated a $200,000 liquor shipment. Twent$ men, officers and crew members of the four ships, were taken under. guard in' the brig to the Cape May- air base for ques- tioning by Commanding Officer R. L. Burke. Government agents and Burke said that the liquor . was the largest since ‘ repe; con- sisted af', 5,000 British whiskey, alcahiol and assorted braiie t.qdu‘-cww_hu used for contacting the shore were 40-foot boats equipped with high-speed motors. ‘The : British liquor carrier was Tégistered at Yarmouth and Nova Scotia. She was a swife Diesel craft of 153 tons. The rum ships were anchored ten miles off share. MRS, KELLER PASSES AWAY SEATTLE, Sept. 9.—Mrs. Martha B. Keller is dead here after a short illness.' She was the widow of Dr. Louls ‘8. Keller, owner and editor of the Skagway Dally Alaskan. He died ten years ago Funeral ser- vices will be: held Wednesday. 7 7;'hraz lsland; Are Discovered In Arctic | | | in Los Angel : Illness; Visi g | | LOS ANGELES, Cal, Sept. 9.—‘ |IEdward Laurence Doheny, who |wrested one of the world’s largest {fortunes from the oil fields of Cali- |fornia and Mexico, died last night {at 8 o'clock after a long illness |at the age of 79 years. l 1: KNOWN IN JUNEAU | E. L Doheny is well known to many Juneauites. He visited here on his private yacht with a large party of friends one summer dur- ing the time Scott C. Bone wasj |Governor of the Territory. He re- mained here for several days and a public reception was given in |his honor, Mrs. Doheny and mem- ;bers of the party, at the Governor’s| | home. | FORTUNE FROM OIL E. L. Doheny’s fortune came from coastal oil fields of Mexico and the | west - coast section of the Unnedl | States. In Mexico, he reared an indus- |trial empire of such vast propor- tions that his investments were |known as the greatest concentrated |holdings of private capital in the | world. ©Of the corporations through which wealth poured to him, “Mex- !ican Pete"—the Mexican Petroleum |Ccmpany—was the greatest. That ‘lrc;lresemcd his Mexican holdings, developed from the first oil strike in the Tampico fields. From “Mexi- es After Long ted in Juneau ATED PRESS (UNDERWOOD) EDWARD L. DOHENY dustrial history when forthright courage, as well as capital, was necessary to forge ahead, in the fierce competition of the booming oil business. The calm nerve that carried him to success through the hard living days of the oil frontier of a gen- eration ' ago, stood him in good stead when he reached the age at which many men retire. Oil Scandal can Pete” radiated concerns €ob-{ ge was well past 60 when the oil | trolling refineries, storage plants,lscandais of President Harding's| pipe lines, railroads, tank steam=|aqministration ‘centered around the ers, and great distributing stationSgroup of which he was a member President Regrets Spirit of Violence HYDE PARK, N. Y, Sept. 9. ~—President Roosevelt deplores. the “spirit of violence,” express~ ing regret at the attempt on Senator Long’s life. “I deeply regret the attempt made on Senator Long’s life. The spirit of violence is un- ( American and has no place for consideration in public ‘affairs, least of all at a time when calm, dispassionate approach to difficult problems of the day are so essential,’’ said the President. i It is learned the President ‘and Mrs. Roosevelt sent a per- sonal message to Mrs. Long but * this was not made public. S e HOMAGE IS PAID | ON HIS JUBILE Observance Is Celebrat;i Here—Rev. Hubbard Delivers Oration i ? b In observance of the Diamond Jubilee of his entrance into tI Society of Jesus, The Most Revers end J. R. Crimont, 8. J, D. D, Bishop of Alaska, sang a solemn pontifical mass in the Church of the Nativity in Juneau at 10 @'y clock yesterday morning . § BISHOP CRIMONT: far flng along the st - Mexico, Panama, Brazll, and the | United States, i With Rockefeller, Sinclair and} others, Doheny was one of Amer- |ica’s storied oil barons. He laid the foundation for that niche in in- ~his name .was carried to @ eping position of attention be- e the American people, He was| indicted in 1924. Tragedy and sorrow stalked him. (Conim‘uedi an Pfige ia;en) INJURED FLIER IS RESCUED BY SEARCH PARTY Pilot Hubbard Is Taken to Fairbanks—Story of Tragedy Is Told PAIRBANKS, Alaska, Sept. 9.— Pilot Herm Joslyn arrived here yesterday with Percy Hubbard, whose plane was wrecked while searching for the Arthur Hines' plane and missing passengers. Dr. Aubrey Carter said Hubbard had first degree burns over his en- tire face and scalp, a large cut on his cheek and three broken ribs. He is weak from the ordeal through which he passed. Hubbard was found late last Sat- urday by the searching party and |carried down river to a landing tield where Pilot Joslyn picked him up and brought him here. Tells of Finding Plane Radio Operator R. 'W. McCrary, who arrived yesterday aboard the | PAA Lockheed Electra from Fair- banks, was with' Pilot ‘Al Monsen when he located Busséll Hubbard and A. J. Douglas, observers on the search, plane flown by Percy Hub- bard which crashed into the trees {and " burned, near the head of the | Chena River last Tuesday afternoon. . Pilot Monsen, Murray Stuart, PAA pllot recently transferred to Fair- {banks from Juneau, and McCrary, l5eax‘ehlnn for the missing Arthur | Hines plane in the Chena River dis- | trict, Priday, were an hour's flying time distant from Fairbanks—about one hundred miles—when they ob- served several persons near a hy- draulic mine five miles upstream from Van Curler’s Bar, who traced out the words “Percy” ‘and ‘‘Help” with strips of white cloth. © Gets Direction Monsen, who was unable to land + his- pontoon-equipped plane, -drop- ped a binocular case containing a flashlight as a weight and a npte (Continded on Page 7) Says Iialy Has Only Nine ' Hundred Thousand Soldiers; Selassie Musters 4,400,000 SEATTLE, Sept. §.— =Remarking that Premier Benito Mussolini is in- telligent, Dr. J. E. 8. Morandhi, na- tive of Sumatra, and resident of Ethiopia for 40 years as physician and missionary, predicted there will be no war between Italy and Ethi- opia. “Italy has only 900,000 fully- equipped soldiers. Emperor Haile Selassie nas 4,400,000 promised from Ethiopia and the neighboring coun- try chiefs These warriors will prob- ably battle from behind rocks and trees. Too, the climate will take 1 terrible toll of the Italians. They will find no food and no drinkable water. If they invade Africa, their modern weapons will avail them nothing,” Dr. Morandhi said. TROOP MOVEMENTS ADDIS ABABA, Sept. 9.—Emper- or Haile Selassie was informed of important Italian troop movements along the Ethiopian borders, which are said to indicate an early of- lensive against Ethiopia. The emperor directed his Geneva representative to reject outright all resolutions thus far proposed by Eu- ropean powers for settlement of the dispute. BRITAIN WORRIED LONDON, Sept. 9.—The recep- tion accorded the new Italian am- bassador to Germany by Hitler was viewed in England as an attempt to slow up French support of Britain. COURTING EACH OTHER GENEVA, Sept. 9.—It was be- lieved by some here that the Hit- ler reception of the Italian ambas- sador indicated an attempt by Italy to win back Germany as a friend. Reports were confirmed that Eng- land bas concentrated her home and Mediterranean fleets for any eventuality, ———r——— WORLD FLIERS REACH ANADYR MOSCOW, Sept. 9.—Reports re- ceived here from Anauyr, Siberia, that satd: “I- am''radioing for @ said .the world fliers Farquhar and Bieler arrived there from Cape The Rey, Berpard R. Hubl 8. J., “Gilacier Priest” now ihg here was Deacon of the Mass and deliveréd the Diamond Jubilee loration. He was assisted by the Rev. G. Edgar Gallant, of Skag- |way, who came here by special plane Saturday evening to assist in the ceremony, and the Rev. Wm. G. LeVasseur,” 8. J., pastor jof the local church. Monte Snow directed the music, with O. E. Krause as organist. Choir members were: Mrs. A. M. |Geyer, Ruth Geyer, Mrs. August iGoodman, Betty Goodman, Mrs. Jack Pasquain, Edward Rodenburg, |Edward Giovanett!, Ada Giovanetti, |Mrs. Albert Forrest, E. M, McIn- tyre and John Mutter. Sings Pontifieal Mass | The little church was filled be- yond capacity and many people istood in the aisles and in the rear (of the church to hear the vener- able Bishop, who has served 42 ivears in Alaska, sing the pontifi~ jcal mass. Father Hubbard, in a spirited ad- \dress, drew a parallel between the {life of Christ, as “the prototype and model,” and the life of Bishop Crimont, who “is also to be judged, not by his claims—for many im- posters have made claims—but by his manifestations of the sanctity which clothes his very name.” Praise Is Given To a hushed audience, he related ‘Ithe story of the young French Jesuit, who, condemned by doctors, to die within a portnight of ‘pernic- ious anaemia, yet, “by the pro- phecy of the saints and the mira- cle wrought by God,” lived to be- come the great missionary he had vowed in boyhood he would be, and, through hard sérvice, to do much to establish Catholicism in Alaska. “Bishop Orimont may feel he himself has done very little, and that not worthy of our said Father Hubbard. :‘‘But to us, who can see his life and its results plished falls nothing short of mir- acle. He is like the woman who for years patiently tended a rose- bush ‘which never bloomed, and which she thotight of as a failure or at most but a partial success. Yet one day she went outside the fense against which the rose bush grew, and found—on the other side of the fence, where she had 'never guessed they were—the beautiful and fragrant roses that came of her tending.” The mass ended at 12 o'clock. Outside the church, in the beautiful sunlight, - the colorful pageant of the mass was arranged for motion pictures, taken by Ken Chisholm, aide of Father Hubbard in his glacial expeditions. Later in the afternoon, a dinner, for Bishop Crimont and the at+)] tending clergy, was given by the Sisters of St. Ann’s Hospital. Dinner Tomorrow The celebration .of the' Diamond (Continued on Page 7) praise,” | as he can not, what he has accom-| JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1935 CONDITION OF | SENATOR LON SATISFACTORY [Physician’s *Bulletin Issued] Early This Morning at Infirmary |WOUNDED MAN Is GAINING STRENGTH Mrs, Long Says Husband 't Had Premonition Some- thing Would Happen BULLETIN— La, Sept. 9.—Senator Long is reported losing strength this af- termoon in his fight to recover from the bullet wound, attend- ing physicians said. A bulletin from his room said general con- cerp is felt. It is reliably said the Senator ing blood and his pulse | has quickened. A second blood transfusion has been given, Callers at the hospital left with grave faces. BATON ROGUE, La., Sept. 9.— Ne! 5 “physician's. bulletin early today sald the condition of United States Senator Huey P. Long, shot last night by Dr. A. C. Weiss, was sat- isfactory. Senator Long was shot . through the right upper quadrant of the the bullet. going throughi the body, making two penetrations of the transverse colon. There was considerable hem- orrhage from the mensentery and omentum. At 8:30 o'clock this morning & second bulletin reported Senator Long as. gaining strength after a blood transfusion and operation. Had Premonition Mrs. Long, at the bedside of her husband, said he had a premonition when he left New Orleans for the special session that he might not return. She quoted him as saying: “I may not come back but I'll die fighting.” ‘Mrs. Long'was composed when she reached the Senator’s bedside. Mrs., Long, with her children, Rose, Russell and’ Palmer, arrived by auto from New Orleans. Bodyguard Warned It was revealed today that the bodyguard of Senator Long had been told to expect trouble at, the special session, which will contiriue withstanding - the shooting. The head of the bodyguard said: “We really believed a bunch was. plan- ning to storm the State House last Sgturday night and we were pre- pared for any -trouble and all members were alert,” ———e———— SENATOR LONG. QUICKLY FLEES “FROM CORRIDOR Runs Down Stairs in State House — Falls Into Arms of Friend BATON ROUGE, La., Sept. 9.— Pollowing the shooting, last rniight, Senator Long fled down stairs and near the basement exit fell into the arms of Public Service Commission- er James O'Connor and muttered to him: 3 “Jimmy, my boy, I'm shot.” O'Connor rushed him™o the in- firmary in an automobile and dur- ing the hurried trip, Senator Long “I wonder why he shot me.” On arriving at the hospital, phy- sislans informed Long an operation was needed and the Senator said: “Go ahead.” Long was stripped and quickly placed . on the operating table. He gritted his teeth and waved away the anaesthetic. \ , Long murmured a prayer almy audibly, as the physicians cleans his wound. . 4 Just. before he went on the operat- ing table, Long said: “Nobody is to give out state< ments.” . Y 3 United States Senator Huey quickly in Capitol of State last night. » " Is Wounded by Bullet o P. Long, of Louisiana, attacked Pistol Used in Shooting Probably Smuggled BATON ROUGE, La., Sept. 9. —It is learned that the pistol uted to shoot Senator Long is | without a serial number and was probably smuggled into the country. | The pistol had been fired twice and the second shot evidently went wild, ONE-SHOT, THEN BURST OF FIRE OF NACHINE GUN Bullets Ring Out Suddenly| in Corndor of La. ! State Capitol | H I | | | BATON ROUGE, La., Sept. 9.—As one ,shot rang out in the corridor| of the State Capitol, between the House and Senate chambers, and then the rattlé and crackle of a burst of fire from a sub-machine! gun, a near panic resulted. Senator Long collapsed to l.hcl floor. The would-be assassin dropped, cut down by the bullets of Long's bodyguard and his body was tram- pled upon by the members of the bodyguard and excited legislators The corridors were quickly clear- ed by the bodyguard and Long was picked up and carried quickly down stairs to & walting automobile and rushed to the infirmary and into the operating room. The would-be assassin’s body was finally placed in an undertaker's basket and taken to the morgue. The body was riddled with machine gun bullets, the immaculate white linen suit stained with blood. The States Legislature, called in special session Saturday night, was preparing for another meeting when the shooting eccurred. The Legislature was preparing to pass a list of bills designed to com- bat the Federal Court and relief money in Louisiana. ———————— CAPTAIN RETURNS Capt. A. R. Nichols, atfached w( to his| post on the Aleution from Seattle,| Chilkoot Barracks, went accompanied by - his . wife and daughter, Marle. el Reindeer Meat, Properly Stamped, Goes Into Cal. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Sept. 9.~—Alaskan reindeer meat may be shipped into California as long as It bears the usual Gov- ernment stamp of approval, At- torney General U. S .Webb has informed Director of Agriculture A. A. Brock. The meat of the wild rein- deer, without the requisite stamp, will not be admissible, Webb said, The inguiry was prompted, | bers or GUARDS TO BE DISPATCHED TO STATE CAPITAL Baton Rogue Quiet This Morning—Sudden Re- action to Shooting The city is quiet today although a report has been received here from New Orleans that National Guards- men are preparing to move here. It is said 200 Guardsmen are be- ing mobilized, preparing to leave | in trucks. Sudden Reaction A tremor of premonition pre- Vvailed in the State House since the special session convened and extra precautions were taken last night. , Most of the persons in the State House failed to realize that the noises heard were gun fire, For a few moments there was no reaction, then as bullets con- tinued to fly, women screamed and men shouted. Scurry to Safety Scores scurried from. the co.ridor and returned’ to thé Hquse Cham- clung to the corridor walls to escape the withering fire of the bodyguard. Legislature In Sesslon The House “is ' rushing through bills to aid' in, strengthening Sena- Is Face Dewnward The body of Dr. Weiss, which lay face downward, remained on the corridor floor for. 15 minutes be- fore the police cleared the crowd away. " When Long was shot, in front of Gov. Oscar K. Allen's office, the latter rushed out shouting: “Give me a gun, Somebody give me a gun!” Prayers Asked BATON<ROUGE, La. Sepl. 9o ipe ATTEMPT MADE TO ASSASSINATE LA “DICTATOR” Only One Bullet Is Fired —Lead Pellet Passes Through Body WOULD-BE SLAYER IS QUICKLY KILLED {Wounded Legislator Rush= .ed to Infirmary and to Operating Room BATON ROUGE, La.; Sept. 9.— United ~States Senator Huey P. Long, political “Dictator” of this tate, was shot through his right side while ‘In the State Capitol last night, by a pistol in hands of Dr. A. C. Welss, ‘specialist of Baton Rouge, and a member of an Anti-Long political family, Would-be Slayer Killed Bodyguards of the Senator im- mediately killed Dr. Weiss, riddling his body with sub-machine gun bullets and leaving him dead on the floor of the corridor. Identi- fication of Dr. Weiss was estab- lished hy Dr. Thomas B. Bird, East Baton Rouge coroner, and Joe W. Bates, Assistant Superintendent of the State Bureau of Identifi- cation. Senator Long had just finished directing the passage of bills at one of his speclal State Legislative sessions. One Bullet Fired step) from 1| » Weiss walked up to Long, pressed the muzsle 6f a pistol clpse to the body . of Long, #nd: firéd one ' shot, then hodyguards opened fire, kill- ing Weiss, - Rughed to Infirmary Guards assisted Senator Long down the stairs ‘to. an automobile and he was rushed to Our Lady of the Lake Infirmary. He was taken to an operating room and shortly after, Dr. Arthur Virdine, head of the New Orleans Charity Hospital, pronounced Senator Long's condi- tion as grave but not critical. Goes hrough Body The one bullet, according to Dr. Virdine, passed - entirely = through the body of Long but did not strike any vital organs, and unless complications set in, the Senator had a good chance for recovery. Meanwhile, Dr. Urban Maes, of New Orleans, of the Medical Staff of 'the “Louisiana State University was summoned by airplane. At 11 o'clock last night a blood transfusionl took place, ' the blood being supplied by Lieutenant Gov- ernor James A. Noe. WOULD-BE ASSASSIN, SPECIALIST As The Rev. Gerald L K. Smith, Na- tional Organizer of Senator Long's Share Wealth Societies, this fore- noon issued a call that “all of the ten million” members of the so- ciety, spend at least five minutes during the day in prayer “for Seng- tor Long.” .S, BROWN DIES, SITKA Charles S. Brown, former Juneau |resident, died September 4 at the | Pioneers’ Home, according to a |dispateh received by The Empire ifrom Eiler Hanson, Superintendent. |He was 80 years old. Brown, who was born in Sweden | September 18, 1855, came to Alaska |in 1894' He lived many years i & Slain Manms Graduate of Tulane—One Clue as to Cause of Crime BATON ROUGE, La., Sept. 9.— ¢"A{nra‘ Weiss, w;u}‘-be fl.ml of / ,"Wag’, 30| years ani": a.a:m ‘!fifl ear, nose and throat specialist. For three years he ‘was with his father. Dr. Welss was graduated from the Tulane University and took a post- graduate course in.Vienna, then internsiip in Paris and New York. He had one child, Carl, three { months old. Upon his graduation from Tulane, the class prophecy under the pho- 'fiozraph in the school annual said: | | (Continued on Page Five) DISPLAY TO BE ° Juneau, prospecting in this region,l[ |and later resided in Valdez and| Seward, where he practiced his! profession as cook. | Charles Goldstein, Juneau fur-| NURNBERG, Germany, Sept. 9.— who knew Brown for 35| President Adolf Hitler yesterday |years, said that as far as he knew | gave his approval to pre he had no relatives or intimate for the Nazi Parly convention this connections, -either here or in the|week when the Third t}exgx\ 1s ex- States.. "He was well liked by pected 'o display proudly, for the 1, rier, Brock sald, by requests of ‘rein- deer mest shippers. -~ everyone,” sald Mr. Goldstein, “and first tin the best rearmameng had & fine reputation in Juneau.” “samples. f