The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 16, 1935, Page 1

WASHINGTON, D.c, THE DAILY A VOL XLVI., NO. 7066 CONGRESSIONAL LIy 1 ¥ “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU ALASKA MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1935. LASKA E FLEETS OF TWO NATIONS ARE NATION MARKS CONSTITUTION DAY TOMORROW Democrat . Republican Observance Will Herald Campaign to Come WASHINGTON, Sept. 18—Con- trovery over plans of some Demo- crats to raise the constitutional issue’ against President Roosevelt in the party convention next year pro- vided an unusual prelude to the IL DUCE’S SOl\'S or l | nation’s annusl observance of Con-, stitutional Day tomorrow. Prediction by John Henry Kirby, Chairman of the “Sputhern Com- mittee to Uphold the Constitution,” that his moyvement to defeat the President and “dictate” the Demo- cratic nomination brought quick retort from Senator Thomas of Utah. Thomas Raises Issue “They have got to point out some constitutional guarantee that is be- ing destroyed,” he said. “That is their first task and they haven't gotten around to it yet.” Both the Administration and Re- publicans leaders prepared to make tomorrow’s observance, marking the 148th anniversary of the submission of the Constitution to the States, the forerunner of campaign battles to come. “Forward with the Con- stitution” was announced as the object. Roper, Fletcher to Speak Addresses by Secretary Daniel C. Roper and Henry P.Fletcher, Chair- man of the Republican National Qmmmee. topped the long list of those ‘to speak. Anngunecing plans for revolt of Soiithern Demgerati - against _the " New Do{:! Rirby sald his commit- tee had 50,000 enrolled and held the support. of 70 per cent of the southern electorate. HOOVER AT FAIR SAN DIEGO, Sept. 16. — Plans have been completed for the sched- uled appearance of former Presi- dent Herbert Hoover in connection with Constitution Day observance at- the Exposition here tomorrow. His speech will be breadcast at 11 a.m., Pacific Coast time. ———————— DEATH PLOT IS ALLEGED IN ELECTION Assassination. Rumors Are Heard, Philippine Pres- idential ting MANILA, P. I, Sept. 16.—With threats of assassination reported, | the political. ‘campaign rolled - to-| ward an. exciting climax, with the | three. candidates in the first Phil- | ippine Presidential election each fokgeeing. - victory tomorrow. -, Benator- Manuel Quezons, of the C‘Afllmn. charged that his assass- jnation was being discussed openly, by Emilio Aguinaudos and follow- ers, He declared the charge was “prop- aganda” of the Extremist Republi-| can candidate, Bishop Gregorio Ag-| lipsy, head of the independent Catholic Church in the Islands. I — ‘The Unlvemty o! Kentucky will erect two new billldings at a total | In the white uniforms of air lleutenan (right), sons of Premier Mussoli Naples for East Africa. Thousands of vill _@nd cheered them ag they sailed. F FOR AFRICA Ny Bruno (left) and Vittorio | n as they embarked at rs flocked to the seaport (Associated Press Photo) ni, are Hitler Hurls Defiance to Jews of World Over Brodsky New York City. FAIR CLOSES IN BLARE OF NOISE, DUST Fourteenth Annual Event { Attended by Larger Crowds than Usual | John Rochich o Ketchikan, was awarded the door prize of $15 at the Southeast Alaska Fair last Saturday night. Everett Erickson was award- ed the Plymouth sedan and Mrs. George Gullufsen was awarded the fishing pole second prize of the American Legion. Two other awards, the Frig- idaire and Electric Range, have | not yet heen clpimed. W. S. Pullen stated the at- tendeneg™for the, four days was 5,000 or abomt ‘300 ‘over year. The Fourteenth Annual South- !east Alaska Fair ended its four- iday successful run at 1:30 o'clock 'yesurday morning in a blare of {noise and a cloud of dust that did not seem wholly to obscure tge glit- ter of its carnival spirit. The big event of the evening was | the awarding of the three big priz- es: the Plymouth sedan, donated {by*the Juneau Volunteer Fire De- partment; the Prigidaire, given by the American Legion, and the Elec- ! trie Range, by Minnie Fields. Also there was -the ‘door prize of $75. I NURNBERG, Sep.,. 16.—President | ’Adflr Hitler's Reichstag, stung by | strictures of New York City mfig-‘ iscrnbe Brodsky against the Nazi emblem, Sunday night pronounced ! | the Swastika to be the Reich’s sole ' flag. The Reichstag hurled defiance to Jews throughout the world, and| | limited Germar. citizenship to mem- | bers of the German race. | The specially-summoned law-| makers acted after Fuehrer, in a fiery mood, opened the Reichstag | {about 10 o'clock Saturday night as iKi]lers, After Pouring Shot’ {ful gunmen who opened fire with- ature DEMOCRATIC N CONVENTION IS TAKEN UP in Norfix_(_:engral'Stltc Will Probably Be Designated ‘WASHINGTON, Dec. 16. — Men close to the Democratic Party lead- ership forecast that the 1936 Na- tional Convention will be held in some city of adequate size in’ the North Central States. Minneapolis, Chicago, and Cleve- |\ land received prominent mention. Because of their confidence that the session will be brief, Party Leaders are 1epresented as ft that the Convention City should] be at a central point. This circum-| stance is felt to have eliminated 8an Prancisco, which bid for the convention. | The leaders. however, emphasized) that the quesion of money is o prime importance. They said they| believed the city should offer ab| least $200,000 to obtain the vention, with its resultant trade City !to hotels and stores. NIGHT OFFICER IS SHOT DOWN, RUTHLESSWA This remarkable map presents a thorny scrub, the nature of the country which may be the battle ground of Italian'and Ethiopian forces. The rough, ‘barren terrain is seamed by impregnable gorges, impassable ravires, wwamps and rocky monntamn. Much of Lhe ph— Greatest Barrier to Italy’s Ambmons Map of Ethiopian terrain graphic idea of heat menaces all treacherons | track railroad to Into Marshal's 5 ng(ake Esca’g‘:;! ~ NEWPORT, - Wash., Sept. 16— Three wounds from a pair of youth- out warning. claimed the life of Night Marshal George Conniff, aged 53 years, early Sunday morn- ing. g * Conmiff was ruthlessly shot down BELLINGHAM IS { PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL SITE Surgeon - General of U. S. Confirms Rumor of Se- accosted two prowlers in an ialley behind the Newport creamery. He died Sunday morning. The two killers escaped without leaving a clue. Newport ic 45 miles northwest Dimond Sees No Chance for Selection of Alaska A Site Until Earl vith a bitter attack on the Lith-, lof Spok-ne on the Idaho Sm.e ; 7 98 e""Mushnl in Bastern Washmgwn tory. He called upon the solons .o pe shot and killed within a ‘0 approve three laws. One per-| 4, mitted them to continue as German ! ::‘:::n 2:‘, 1::::';0;“ l:y H:;T;{ subjects, but forbade them to fly sAn unusual situation arose when|’ cost of $500,000, it plans for a BWA | any emblem except the Zionist em- blem; forbade intermarriage be- tween Aryans and non-Aryans; and ! forbade Jews to engage Aryan do- mestic servants under the age of 45, Of the Brodsky-Bremen incident, Hitler said: “The insult of the German flag in the United States, for which the United States apolo- gized in dignified form, shows how far international Jewish agitation has progressed.” The United States expressed of- ficial regret on Magistrate Louis Brodsky's alieged ‘“insulting” re- marks concerning the Nazi flag incident when the Bremen sailed recently from New York, but dis- claimed any responsibility as not violating an atiitude of the Amer- can Government, —— W. L, HANLEY 'PASSES AWAY Xng bank robbers. PRESIDENT IS AT HYDE PARK Cabin Plane, Saluting Train, Causes Appre- hension of Aides HYDE PARK, Sept. 16—Presi- dent “Roosevelt arrived home last Saturday night by train, after an all-day visit to public projects in upstate New York. The President spent an hour at Saratoga Springs, visiting the new recreational building. A cabin plane, swooping low to salute the President’s train, caused his aides apprehension, but Roose- velt enjoyed the incident. KILLS PARENTS lodn are_successful. | -——“'Q———- P | Does it Pny to no one 'in the 'large throng that crowded 'about the' stage for the || awarding was able to claim any-of the. three . prizes. WOODWARD, Okla., Sept. 16— PENDLETON. Ore, Sepl. 16—|p) 100 b eeell 1s charged with the, lection—For Alaskans SEATTLE, Sept .16—Hugh 8. Cummings, Surgeon-General of the United States, confirmed reports that Bellingham, Wash. definitely has been selected as the site for a $2,500,000 psychiatric hospital, Cummins telegraphed the, Seattle Chamber of ; Commerce that *rec- ommendations for funds have been requested ‘o establish a West Coast psychiatic hospital at Bellingham.” The hospital will take care of all Alaska poychiatric cases when completed. - GIRL RESENTS ADVANCES ;MAN IS SHOT DOWN Improper Proposals Result i Charge of Murder in Kentucky OWENSBORO, Ky., Sept. 16— Oharged with murder following a confession she shot her escort, Ezra Boarman, aged 35, when he made improper advances, Christine Lan- ham, aged 19, is in jail and awaits Lueky Erickson ' ' Everett Erickson, ‘High School | instructor in English, Public Speak- ing, Dramatics and Journalism, was awarded the Plymouth sedan with Advertise? Yes, in - 1 The Empire and How ‘“Lost, at Fair Building last Willlam L. “Bill” Hanley, aged 74 yeans, -last | of the famous Oregon cattle kings, candidate for United States Senator in 1912, is dead at his home here. slaying of his parents, Mr. and; lan examining - trial tomorrow, Mrs. John Russell, after his par- ents objected to him leaving Teach- ers' College to marry. - Twenty-one west Texas counties Miss Lanham and Boarman, with couple, left a roadhouse in Boarman's car. He drove to a lane and parked his car. The girl said he made advances to her. The 765. ‘The other two tickets on th~ car for return to Empire office.” The abaove little classified ad appeared in The Empire last Saturday afternoon. The Em- pire was on the streets at 4:15 o'clock. Little Miss Powers came into the office at 4:30. She had the glasses, read about them in The Empire. She re- ceived the $1. Later, George Dudley, who dost - the .glassesyoalled and re- ceived . them. .. Practically Ill vaver, within gu, howr. | ~/Yes, The Empire's w do the work. 4 were 2879 and 3115. Tickets on the Frigidairy are and 789. Only one ticket, No. 349-A, was; awarded on the electric range. Tickets will be held fur 30 days. If at the end of that time the first number has not bee claimed, the second number will be ac- claimed the winning one. Was at Capitol .| 'Mr. Erickson, who was awarded ; {the | Plymoutb, - was, .enjoying thz ‘(Continited on Pun Seypn) 1115. Second and third were ml JACK FOWLER HERE ° FROM BREMNER MINE John E. (Jack) Fowler, Jr., for- mer employee of the Alaska Ju- Ineau Gold Mining Company, re- \tumed to Junesu this morning on |thz Yukon from Seward. Fowler has been employed by | the Bremner (iold Mining Company of McCarthy for the past two ‘months as an assayer. He will stay jhere at least a week, although his immediate plans are indefinite. He brought . an encouraging report. of ,the activities of the Bremner con- . eem. and possibly portions of others have|police. quoted her as saying she been definitely included in the fed-|snatched a pistol from a pocket in eral tree shelter belt project. the car and shot Boarman. Regiments, with Soldiers Armed, Dropped from Air KIEV, Sept 16.—Soviet Military strategists dropped several regi~ ments, armed with rifles and sub- machine guns, from the sky in war maneuvers Sunday. The airmen soldiers landed the- oretically behind the enemy lines, ir Base. yin1936 WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.—Possi- bility of any of the Army air-base sites under the Wilcox Frontier Air Defense Act being designated before Spring was discounted here| Saturday by Alaska Delegate An-| thony J. Dimond. He sald that he had been in-| formed By Army officials that the “magnitude of the program” made it impractical to designate the sites until a thorough survey is made of all the potential bases. Delegate Dimend said he hoped the proposed base for Alaska would be one of the first built. He ex- plained that the Territory was in- terested greatly' in this project and also in its request for a $2,900,000 allotment for work on commercial | airfields and route markings in Alaska, Gov. John W, Troy. of Alaska, Delegate Dimond said, has forward- ed an application for a blanket allotment to permit work on the proposed fields and routes. Delegate Dimond said he hnd been told Lhat surveys in Alaska| already made by Army fliers might be sufficient fop the location of a| base there. He added, hawaver, that more information might be needed and said that a flying force possibly might be sent to the Ter- ritory early next year to obtain additional data. TOM MOONEY IS OUT AGAIN, NEW HEARING Seeks Freedom' on Pleal Convicting Testimony Was Perjured SAN FRANCJSCO, Cal., —Thomas J. Mooney's second trip out of the penitentiary at San Quentin in nearly 20 years im- Sept. 16. prisonment, is scheduled for today| as a new climax neared in his long battle freedom. ‘He is to be brought¥here for an extraordinary hearing ordered by the State Su- preme Court opening tomorrow. teau section is waterless and the intense tropical forms of life. At the left corner of the map is shown the capital city of Addis Ababa connected 'by ' highly importgnt single- the scaport of Djibouti. It is in \his sector that Italy-is expected to strike. \FOUR FLIERS - KEEP UP HUNT FOR MISS Hope Practically Aband- oned for Hines and Three Passengers | | FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Sept. 16.— Four planes continue to search for the Arthur Hines party although hope for their safety is being aban- doned with the passing of time. 'The aviators saild they hoped to continue the search until stopped by snow. Joe Crosson resumed inspection of the country at the head of the Salcha river where he left off last Thursday on aceéount of a storm. » James Dodson, Jack Hermann,| and Prank Pollack ‘have searched |the Goodpasture river and Volk- mar river districts. The missing passengers are John F. Lonz and his bride, and Alton <G Nordule 11 JAPANESE NAVY SAILORS F ire Reported in Gun Tur- ret Aboard Cruiser Ashigara TOKYO, Sept. 16—Eleven sail- ors injured last Saturday in a gun |turret. fire aboard the Japanese cruiser Asshigara died today. Forty-one in all were injured. in the fire, The' Navy Office nas appointed {a Commission to make an investi- gation of the accident. D 93Py » 69 o comenanarad __. | bent _over navigators' - DIE, ACCIOENT 100 ENGLISH SHIPS PATROL MEDTERRANEAN Diplomats Believe Ones third of Largest Navy in Trouble Zone ITALO-E THIOPIAN | NF.Am roops Armed Strength as Ital: ian Navy repares BULLI'I'IN—IO", Sept. 16 val exercises off Alexandria, Egypt. LONDON, Engiand, Sept. 16. — (Copyrighted, 1035, by - Assoclated Press)—Upwards of 100 British war- ships, about one-third of the big- gest navy afloat, are believed by [ diplomats to be concentrated on the serené waters of ‘the Mediter- ranean Sea today, their officers charts 48 they .awalt developments in Italio-Ethioplan erlsts, : near, it appeared from L { . There alio ate about of the lighter Italian na o lean their fofce to. v.h {tion by the Tealian Cabinet. it 48 prepared to meet any resistance to El Duce’s ;moves that may ‘be of~. fered from whatever direotion. | Since the first of September, the !pick of the British fighting ships has been ‘assembled in the troubled |section. The belief of diplomatic observers was that more than 76 British - fighting ships are gathered |at ~ Alexandria, Port Said, Malta, | Gibraltar, Port Sudan, and Maifs, while ten more are cruising the Mediterrangan and a fleet of about 25 ships which sailed from Ports- mouth on August 31, presumably is still at sea,’'could have béen concentrated in the vicinity of the Mediterranean. 3 | Nearly another 100 units of the British “home fleet” is standing by Portsmouth for maneuv ers an ~hounced to start tomorrow in | Scottish waters. 4 Naval .men, however, ohll"ll ithat this fleet could receive orders and change plans so as to reach’ the Mediterranean in from three to five days. In addition to the sea forces, published lists show approximately I1!).000 British army regulars - are in Egypt, 2,600 ai Gibraltar, and 3200 at, Malta. There ave also 57,000 troops in India, the strength of which has been added by re- cent reinforcements of undiscloded number, but sscwn to bz iiege The British flotilla, ineide i has been termed the 'mfi! fleet,” because Admiralty lsts com tain no reports of its movements FOREIGNERS FLEE ETHIOPIA ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, \| 16.—Foreigners began fleeting country Saturday with Baron Fal- coni, the Iialian consul shot ac- cidentally, heading the retreat of Italians out of Ethiopia, The wives of three Swedish cers, and thair children, also Many ‘Italian missionaries and nuns in the interior showed, how- ever, a reluclance to leave, declar- ing themse!ves @s distiples of . fhie Pope, not Premier lluuoun( .ol Italy. 'NO COMPROMISE GENEVA, Sept, 16—Premier Ben- (Contired w Page Two) Added to British. SHOOTING ENDS | - WITH CHARGES OLYMPIA, Wash., Sept .16. — | James Moore, 18, of Vail, near. here, faced first degree assault charges — e Makes Flight From Ketchikan to Texas Sick Bed PALESTINE, Tex., Sept. w—‘] o ter a speedy airplane trip from Testimony will be taken on hisjin connection with the shooting,|Ketchikan, Alaska, application for a writ of habeas corpus through which he seeks free-| | July 10, of Norman Nelson, 11. Also a Vail complaint, sworn to formed ranks and quickly attacked|qom on the grounds that the tes- by Lars Nelson, Norman's father, '.he enemy in the rear in a mogk battle. One plcturé taken of the descent showed 350 jumpers in the alr at one time: timony convieting him of bombing in the San Francisco Preparedness Day Parade in 1916 was perjured, The hearing 1s expected to last|his shoulder and neck, partially|down here Imree or four days. accused Moore of shooting Norman with intent to kill. pardlyzing him, the complaint said. The rifle bullet passed through|Lou Hoote brought: ens was at the daughter here ‘Sunday. Palestin's.. air . field, which equipped for -night danding Mes, 118p of the flight.