The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 28, 1935, Page 1

Ly < b . l THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” * VOL. XLVL, ON. 7103. LIANS IN SQUE JUNEAU ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1935, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS * PRICE TEN CENTS E MOVE, ETHIOPIA "NEUTRALITY OF U, S. AFFIRMED . INLEAGUE NOTE + Answer to Sanchons Query' Reiterates Roosevelt | Pronouncements | WASHINGTON, Oct. 28— The| United States last Saturday night,| through Secretary of State Cordell| Hull, reaffirmed its stand of lnde-\ pendent neutrality toward the Ttalo- | Ethiopian war, but expressed “sym- 1 pathetic interest” in the efforts of | other nations to bring a halt to ma,’ armed conflict. In a formal communication to the | League of Nations, the Secretary gave this reply to an invitation to com- ment upon the program of nncuons 2gainst Italy. Economic Pressure Carefully outlining the steps tak- en by this government, Hull refrain- ed from making any direct commi’- ments on the League’s efforts to halt | the African conflict through eco-| nomic pressure. In fact, the “interest” i exparsed in halting the war was so | |3 drafted as to apply to any and all| | wars, In substance, the American reply to the League’s communication was | a summarization of the steps taken | by this government undsr the Neu- trality Law. To this was added a reiteration ol‘ Ameriea’s infention to remain unin- | volved and its desire for an ea:ly, halting of hostilities. | Note Is Delivered { The note was delivered through Hugh R. Wilson, American minister | to Switzerland, to Dr. Augusto de| Vasconcellos, President .of 'he‘ League’s Committee for Coordina- | tion. Previous neutrality-announcements r by President Roosevelt, wirich Hull | reiterated, placed an embargo on arms and war materials to both bel-| T mw lehfll ami Olive Strcets, Los As ture after 77 days of work. By using the two sections together to make Street. Then the building will be new.” |Giant’s vTask;Mfi m;ing Sk yscr&})er | 5000-ten septicn of the 13-Story (;ggumhl Exchange Bnlldlng at ngeles, back Tive feet ot Dlive Strect. Arrow pdints to the section @at away down the full leagth of the struc 1400 jacks, the workers are moving room fer the widening of Olive patched tegcther again, “just like «ligerents, admonished American| ) business against transactions with | either country, and warned American | | travellers not to use ships of eom-i ! i batants. The President's neutrality pro- WAsHlNGTuN Tn | #nouncements preceded the action of the League in proclaiming sanctions | 16-0 Victory ¢ Gives Card:] inals Chance to Hold ,against Italy. Two Principles Conference Cup Standing pat on its “isolafionlst"‘ policy toward foreign disputes, the! United States is disclosed in Hulls' official communication to the League | to have based its neutrality stand | on two fundamental principles, both of which were decided upon befors ! the Italo-Ethiopian hostilities began: | flxst the preservation of peace, and second, the determination to keep out | ing by that right foot of James ot war once it starts. (Monk) Moscrip, gave Stanford Uni- Other considerations which played | versity a thrilling 6 to 0 victory over a part in phrasing the American re- | the University of Washington Hus- ply to the League query, the official | kies here last Saturday afternoon. | SEATTLE, Oct. 28—Straight kick- spokesman said were the pursuit by this government of a consistent pol- icy of acting in any and all circum- stances on its own initiative, and its intention to follow its own separate and independent course, to make no agreements in connection with any foreign controversy, and to observe rigidly its ‘determination to avoid foreign entanglements in whatever The Cardinal victory spoiled Wash- Supreme Court Not to Pass on Mooney’s Case WASHINGTON, Oct. 28-~The Supreme Court of the United States today refused to reconsid- er its recent declination to pass on the Thomas Mooney case, which is now pending before the California State Supreme Court. Twe weeks ago the first decis- ion was given that the Court would nct pass on the case until the California Court has made a decicion and today’s action was the recult of a request to recon- sider the former ruling. CLIPPER SHIP ington’s undefeated record in the | Coast conference football race. Mo- scrip kicked both goals in the first eight minutes of the game. | A crowd of more than 40,000 wit- nessed the Californians’ victory, | which gave Stanford a chance to re- | tain its title, which it has held two successive years, despite its loss to T0 BE TESTED AFTER FLIGHT T0 STUDY AAA ON DECEMBER lay Hearings Granted WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.—Refu: the federal government's request for speed on its final decision, the Su- ments on the constitutionality of the AAA. a Counsel for the Hoosac Mills Cor: ing the validity of the processing and asked that the hearing not | held any earlier than December - ‘ The justices’ waived the federal at~ torneys’ protests in granting the re« quest. - e, TOWNSENDIT B T0 MASS VOTES Convention Gives Author; and His Aide Unlim- ited Authority CHICAGO, Oct. 28—Dr. Francis E, Townsend's pension plan followers last Saturday night gave him and his chief aide, R. E. Clements, authority gressional and national elections, | wherever they wish. | The action gave the pension lead-| jers a political army. estimated by their assoclates at between six and | seven million men and women. | Townsendites, at the same time,| | voted to steer clear of “embarrassing | allianges” with either political party or “any new political party.” Under | their political marching orders, the | Townsendites will stay out of mu- nicipal and county elections. \ CONVENTION IS CLOSED CHICAGO, Oct. 28.—Dr. Francis | E. Townsend closed the first national convention of his disciples Sunday night with pleas for the enactment of his plan to provide $200 a month to citizens over 60, with the provis-! ion that they spend it all within th‘ month. o, place. thelr votss in. the nexp Gon-| . Plaintiff's igq?—uesl to De-| preme Court set December 9 for argu={ poration of Massachusetts is attacks] ° SUPREMECOURT | United States Fleet, in Midst of Expansion, Pauses for Celebration of Own “N avy D(w a This year's Navy Day catches the United States Fleet in one of its greatest periods of peacetime expan- | sion with the 1937’ goal, calling for a great increase in man and ship power, ship of ‘the Navy, the U. S. S. Pennsylvania, headin g # processicn in a receat review off the Pacific Coast, In the inset are a group of navy “gobs,” typical of the fighting force which will number 100,000 mcn in 1937, if the present program is carried out. . Helena Counts Fourth Victim Of Earthquake [ELENA, Mont;, Oct. 28.—This has counted its Tourth earthquake victim, Edward Mur- gel, aged 12, collapsed and died following a tremor of moderate intensity. Attendants said the boy was stricken with a heart attack following one of last week’s intense quakes, but recov- ered apparently and was in per- feot health when the new shock came. e MASS MURDERS SUSPECT GIVEN DELAY ON PLEA Officials estimated ihat a crowd 6,000 of whom were delegates. gress, or, failing in that, to mobilize sufficient voting strength in 1936 to assure its passage in 1937. MOB ASSASSIN SUICIDES IN HIS of 10,000 attended the final session,| The convention settled upon two goals: first, to secure enactment of | its plan in the next. session of Con- | UCLA two weeks ago. Is Bitter Loss It was a bitter loss to Washington; is done or said by this government. —_————— GANGLAND GUNS BLAZING AGAIN, F, w, BROWN TO NEW YORK CITY [EAVE “TALLY" t e b Aot FOR HONOLULY Shot Down in Doorwa Transfer to U. S S. Itasca| of Apartment House NEW YORK, Oct. 28—Guns of| Reecived by Commander | gangland blazed again early this morning leaving two men seflously’ of Coast Guard Cutter | Lieutenant Commander Fletcher W. | wounded in the doorway of an apart- | ment house. The police started an investiga- | Brown has received orders transfer- tion to determine if the ambush ‘vas| | ring him from command of the Coast connected with last week's gang war- \ Guard cutter Tallapoosa with base at| fare which claimed five lives. | Juneau, to the U. S. 8. Itasca, with | The latest victims are Huge Ger- | baseat Honolulu,“T. H. This was an- aldo and Joseph Pegno, shot down |nounced this morning by Mrs. Brown: | as they were leaving a building where| The orders release Brown from Jhe | they resided, | Tallapoosa on January 2, and ask| — ‘mat he sail directly for Honolulu. | FISHERIES VESSEL No comment has yet been received | DUE IN SEATTLE from Comdr. Brown, who sails to-| | night for Juneau on the North Sca The Bureau of Fisheries vessels| from Seattle, where he has been pur- | Brant and Widgeon, are due in Se-|sulng government business. In the attle today, according to Assistant|absence of any advice from her hus- Fisheries Agent Howard Kinsey. Both | band, Mrs. Brown had nothing fur- | (Continued on Page Five) ships were storm bound in Canadian her to say until his arrival next Pri- | waters for several days. New Ship Makes Good Trip South to Miami— Enroute to China MIAMI, Florida, Oct. 28.—The 25- toh China clipper of the Pan-Ameri- can Airways today awaited laboratory tests before proceeding over the Car- ibbean Sea, after a 1,200 mile flight from Baltimore, which was made in saven hours and forty-four minutes. The clipper ship is capable of car- rying 75 passengers and crew of six men. The test today precedes the pro- posed hop to San Francisco whers the clipper ship will enter the China | service next month. e i s B THIRD PARTY IS PREDICTED NEW YORK, Oct. 28.—Gov. Philip F. LaFollette, of Wisconsin, pre- dicts the emergency of a strong third party in the Presidential election ‘unless the two major parties purge themselves of the reaction of the great sentiment for a new party alignment.” N. J. HIDEOUT Killer of D;E Schultz Is| Found Dead by Gas Poisoning NEWARK, N. J., Oct. 28.—Albert Stern, 21, heodlum, whom police suspected’ as the major executioner in the bloody warfare that smuhed the once powefful Dutch schultz mob, has been found dead in a cheap hideaway. Authorities attributed his death to suicide, saying the chances that oth- er gangsters killed him were slight Stern’s death, apparently due ‘o blasted police hopes that his appre- hension might start them on the road to a solution of the tavern massacre in which Schultz and his thiee henchmen were mortally wound2d last Wednesday night. Stern, considered to be a profes- sional assassin, was described by po- | lice as “the meanest killer since the latz Vincent Coll.” AL I BOUND FOR SEATTLE RIS o8 A new California law delays the final registration of out-of-state automobiles for 90 days after appli- cation for a license as a means of fighting® the stolen car ‘‘racket.” D. A. Zweigart and Carl G. Hill, who have been engaged at installa- tion of refrigeration equipment at the Pioneers’ Home, are through passengers on the Northland frora only slightly wounded and fled be-| " Sitka to Seattle. gas poisioning ' and strangulation,| *Leo Hall Moved to Olym- { pia Jail After Lynch- ing Threat PORT ORCHARD, Wash,, Oct. 28. —Superior Judge Henry Sutton today {granted Leo Hall, Bremerton mass | murder suspect, a'delay until No- |vember 12 to enter a plea on the first degree murder charges against him. Hall was moved secretly Satur- day night to the Thurston county jail in Qlympia after reports were current that a Bremerton group was | attempting to incite a lynching, The large crowd in the courtroom here was silent as the prisoner was brought in. Hall was also silent and appeared contemptuous of the charg- |es against him: MAN SOUGHT IN MYSTERY DEATH OF EX-JURIST f Office Building Murders | CHICAGO, Oct. 28 —Two men were slain and two others seriously | wounded in a mysterious slaying in a downtown qffice building here today. The dead are William Fetzer, for- mer judge of the municipal court, and Willlam Hawthorne, court re- | porter, An unidentified youth is said to have entered the attorney’s office and asked to have some typing done. An‘argument occurred in which Fetz- The ‘youth ran into an outer office and shot Hawthorne, and thefh turned the gun on himself. He was fore he could be apprehended. Two Dead, Two Hurt in| | er. was shot down in an inner office. | carriers; By WILLIAM S8, WHITE WASHINGTON, Oct, 28.— Seven- teen years after the chancelleries of | Europe first acknowledged the Unit- ed States as a major naval power, Uncle Sam observed his annual Navy Day with an American ncc' Second in tonnage only to Britain s great squadrons. Until the World War the almost universal conception of America had been that essentially and historically it was only a large community in & separate part of the world. The transition after the peace of 1918 was so marked that under the terms of the subsequent London treaty—al- locating to the nations the sea arm- aments they might have—the Ameri- can navy today still is well within the treaty limits, despite the biggest ship-laying campaign since the days of 1917. That program encompdssnd the construction of 24 new sea- fighters this year alone, and as many in 1934. By July, 19836, it is expected the enlisted strength will be 93,500 men. | Big' Program Planned The United States has fought few prolonged naval engagements, the most vital being in the war of 1812. The nation could build in 1936, some 36 destroyers and 15 submarines be- fore reaching treaty maxima in these categories. The government likewise has broad new power to coordinate planes with ships as it’ goes ‘along— authority to build the one along with the other, where heretofore separate permissions from Congress were nccessary. More and more em- pasis has been placed by the navy command upon speed and more’ speed, until the tempo of the 1925 navy is vastly heightened over that of 1917. ‘The Navy Department recently an- nounced a program for 1937 which would include construction of one battleship, 12 destroyers and six sub-~ marines, and addition of 6,500 men. Today, America’s total fighting tonnage in ships already built is 1,084,910, against the British Em- pire’s 1,188,284 and to this figure may be added an additional 283,150 tons of armed steel in the classification of ships in process of being built or for which money has been appropriated. Britain's ships in the “building and appropriated for” classification ar~ put by the U. 8. Navy Departmen: at 183,295 tons and the new tonnazc permitted her for 1936 at 90.623. Tonnage Figures Here are the tonnage figures, in_ order, for the other major powers, as stated by the American navy: Japan, 748,997 built; 117,707 build- ing and appropriated for; 2,708 ad- ditional tons permitted under treaty for 1936. France, 572,917 built; 203,591 build- ing and appropriated for; 89,854 per- mitted for 1936. Italy, 398,564 built; 110,234 build- ing and appropriated for; 165,000 per- mitted for 1936. (For both France and Ttaly the 1936 tonnage limits are only for capital ships and aircraft cruisers, destroyers, sub- marines not being limited). Germany, 161,716 bulilt; 123,000 lbufldlnz and appropriated for; 1936 (Continued on Page Six) The picture shows the flag- SENATOR BORAH NGT TALKING “ON PRESIDENCY Veteran Statesman Refus-' es to Divulge Political Plans—RumorsRife LEWISTON, Idaho, Oct. 28.—The | enigma of Senator William E. Borah's political plans is bothering Idaho| Republicans more than usual. The veteran Idaho representative in the Upper House of Congress has left Lewiston still insisting that his current tour of north Idaho has, nothing to do with his political plans, | but that he is merely greeting old friends. He refused to acknowledge the| current “Borah for President” boom. | In the face of this assertion, how- ever, political observers insisted they could see that his first definite plan was to seek reelection in the Senate, | where he has served since 1907, and *i: second definite plan was to seek tne Republican nomination for the presidency in 1936. To supporters of both theorles, Borah has given no public assuranc |AHMIES PUSH ~ NORTH, SOUTH, T0 INTERIOR {Three Coitans Repotted Marching on Makale, Strategic Gateway 'FRANCE JOINS OTHER " NATIONS, SANCTIONS Russia Serves Notice of | Economic Action—Staff Meets on Thursday GENEVA, Oct. 28.—Italian troops | pushed forward today into Ethi- | cpla’s interior, both on the Nerth- {ern and Southern fronts. ‘The big push is now under way to- | ward Harar cn the Northern front where three columns marchzd ol i Makale, the strategic mountain pass |to the gateway of the interjor of Ethiopia. The central column, according to advices received here, has occupied the Feres Mai Valley, south of Aduwa and is advancing due south of Adi- grat to the east. The main Army Engineering Corps is building a road straight toward |Makale at the rate of thioe miles ,’dauy. l SANCTIONS BY FRANCE GENEVA, Oct. 28— France has | notified the League of Nations she ‘has accepted the economic sanctions against Italy, joining Great Brita.n and other nations in a drive to is0- )n‘r“ Premier Benito Mussolini be- | eause he made war on Ethiopia. i The League's General ’!‘hundny to fix the date for appli- | cation of the sanctions. RUSSIA ALSO JOINS GENEVA, Oct. 28.—Russia this +*- ternoon joined other powers in pro- |claiming an economic boycott on ltl.ly Official notification was given to the League of Nations during tre |1ate afternoon. % It is believed here by Leazuc o°- |nclala that Japan and Germany sl | pattern their policies in respect to the United St.aben GREATER SKY FORGE SOUGHT '~ BY DEPT. WAR Forty Million Dollar Ap- | propriation to Start Five-Year Plan greeting all direct questions with lence or with observations on the, ~WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. — Harry state of the farmer or on the possi- | Woodring, Acting Secretary of War, bilities in the Italo-Ethiopian crisis. intimated today the War Department — e | will seek an appropriation exceeding | $40,000,000 for the start of the five GHEEK KINB year plan to double the size of the | Army's aerial armada. The Acting Secretary of War de- WILL RETURN Expected He Will Be Back on Throne Soon After Nov. Plebiscite ATHENS, Oct. 28—The return of former King George to the throne of the ancient Island Kingdom, is set| for within one week after the ple- biscite on November 6. A committee has been named to| e:zcort him from London to Greece on November 3. The committee will advise the King as to the results of the plebiscite, now taken for granted as favoring restoration of the mon- lrchy |clared that manufacturers will be | 800 planes to be purchased in 1937. The objective of the United State's sky force is 2,.500 serviceable pluus 'DEPUTIES BRING Deputy U. 8. erlhah John Mec- (Cormlck and Chis Christensen re- turned from Sitka last evening with | two persons in custody. One, Cyprien | Dandonneau, has been adjudged ‘in- sane and committed to Morningside Sanitarium in Portland. Thomas Young was indicted by the Federal grand jury for burgiary in a dwelling, and was also remand-~ ed to zhe Pederll Jlu here. | talmn Envoy, U nder Escort, Leaves Ethiopia; Mllztary | Guard Takes Himto Border ADDIS ABABA, Oct. Vinel Gigliucel, 28.—Luigt of defiance to Emperor Hail'e Selas- sie’s order to leave the country, fin- ally departed by train late last Sat- urday under an armed escort. Fearing attempts of hostile groups, the Emperor sent along a large group | ¢l Riavily armed soldiers who ac- Italy's minister to| Ethiopia, ending his sixteenth day | (companied the Itallan envoy to the frontier of French Somaliland. Emperor Selassie ordered the Ital- | ian envoy to leavs on the grounds | he was acting as a spy on Ethiopian. | movements, which the Italian cenied. | He refused to leave earlier, ain- ‘mchevunnmnclholm of Italian consular agents from the | Interior, = sanctions much as has been done by PRISONERS HERE. asked to submit bids on the basis for . . 4