The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 12, 1935, Page 1

[ . “ pected it would require at least tw THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLVIL, NO. 7116. IL DUCE WARNS 5 MEN PLEAD NOT GUILTY TO RIOT CHARGES | | | | | i | Selection of Jur Jury Starts in Trial of Those Accused | in Labor Trouble MAY REQUIRE TWO DAYS TO FILL BOX Several Prospective Jurors Excused as Special Ven- ire Is Shown in 1 Pleading not guilty to charges of | rioting, 25 men indicted in connec- tion with the labor trouble here last summer went on trial this morning in Federal District Court before Judge George F. Alexander. Eight other accused in the indictments| Saren, who was not in court Satur- day when 24 were arraigned, appear ed this morning, was arraigned and\ entered a plea of not guilty. Selection of a jury was begun this | morning and at noon nine person:g had been passed on initial question- ing by the government. It was ex days to select the 12 from the jury| panel who will finally hear the case. Thirty-five of the special venire of | 40 were sworn into service this morn- ing, five being excused at their own requests to care for their businesses. Those excused were Angus Gair, Hans Berg, Joe A. Kendler, A. Mc- Kechnie and Jack R. Silva. Knight Questioned i After Judge Alexander had in- structed the jury panel on the duties | of a juror, Assistant District At-| torney George W. Folta took up the questioning of jurors to fill the box. A. F. Knight of Juneau was the first | juror interrogated and was passed | by the government after preliminary questioning. Others in the box when court recessed at noon were J. J.| Murray of Sitka, C. C. Clausen of Petersburg, George Nicholson of Pet- ersburg, Frank Karabelnikoff, Ju- neau; Cash Cole, Juneau; Mrs. Fan- noy Ungerfororen, Skagway; Mrs. Frances Roundtree, Petersburg; John Jacobsen, Juneau. The first person excused by the prosecution was Valentine Leonoff of Jualpa. Leonoff said he had formed a definite opinion he would not be able to alter regardless of the evi- dence. Others excused at request of the District Attorney after ques- tioning were C. A. Bornillette of Skagway, E. E. Whitisel of Jualpa | and W. H. Benson of Juneau. First Clash The only brief clash of the morn- ing session came over the interroga- tion of Bornillette. Prosecutor Folta had asked the prospective juror! whether the amount of the sentence in rioting cases would have any | bearing on his decision. Bornillette | replied that he thought it would. Jr- win Goodman, defense counsel, im- mediately objected to mention of} sentence and penalty in questioning Jurors, and Folta replied it probably would be brought out by the defense counsel later any way. Goodman challenged the attitude of the prose- cution and Judge Alexander advised the jurors not to pay any attention to “spats between counsel” and ruled the question permissible where it had pertinent bearing on the qualifica- tions of the jurors. Whitisel and Benson, both of who| work or have worked at the Alaska | Juneau gold mine, were excused when they indicated they had formed an opinion. The first stir in the morning pro- (Continued on Page Two) - e NAVY FLIER'S BODY LOGATED DOWN IN BAY Finding of Wrseka ge of Plane Ends Search Started Oct. 30 ANNAPOLIS, Md., No. 12. — The body of Lieut. Mathias M. Marple, aged 36, Navy flier, has been found in his plane wreckage at the bottom of Chesapeake Bay. The finding of the body and wreckage ended a search started when Lieut. Marple disappeared on October 30 vhile making a flight. “ALL THE NEWS L THE TIME JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1935. F lymg Shlp Ho ps from Atlantw to Pacsz S The China Clipper, 26-ton flying boat (above) has arrived at Alameda, California, from the Atlantic Ocean and is ready to carry passengers, mail, expres : and packages on the 8,000-mile Oriental route. The have not yet been apprehended. Sven!| service is to be inaugurated November 22. Enroute t¢ Alameda the clipper helped search for a plane re- porud down off the California coast and also ulked. via radio, with the men on the stratosphere balioon. BAD LUCK DOGS FLIERS ;PLANES THOUGHT LOST Yukon Flood Submerges Herman Craft and Rescuers’ Plane DAWSON, Y. T., Nov. 12—Pilot {Jack Hermann and several mechan-| |ics are at Cassiar Roadhouse today . attempting to salvage two planes, | one which was forced down by motor | trouble when Hermann was attempt- | |iflg to fly five passengers from here {to Fairbanks, and the other which/ crashed through the Yukon River ice while landing to pick up the stranded | passengers. The relief plane, which was a new ship with only 25 hours in the air, |1s feared to be a total loss. An ice jam below where the plane cracked up has caused a rise of sev- (eral feet in the river level, and the; \plane is now submerged up to its| wings. The rising water has also nooded the island where Hermann's plane rests, and has caused some damage to his ship. The damage done to both planes ' is estimated at $10,000. DESTROYER T0 AID MAROONED SHIP VICTIMS| INaval Officers Hope -to! Rescue Party Before Typhoon Strikes MANILA, Nov. 12.—Carrying spec- ial life-saving equipment, a second naval destroyer sped from Manila to aid 54 persons marooned on a wave-lashed rock at the entrance tc the perilous San Bernardino Straits All previous attempts to reach thc stranded party have been thwartec by high waves and powerrul rip tides Naval officers expected to rescuc the enttre party before the typhoor forming off Island Yap, 1200 mile: east, reaches the Philippines. ‘The marooned persons are passeng- ers and crew of the wrecked British freighter Silver Hazel. THREE MEN PICKED UP MANILA, Nov. 12—~The destroyer Peary has wirelessed that three men of the crew of the Silver Hazel have been picked up from a life raft. The message indicated that rescue work has begun of those marooned on the rock. The message stated that the men picked up said the castaways have been without food and water for two days. —_———-——— ENTERS ST. ANN'S Alec Shutte entered St. Ann's Hospital yesterday suffering from arthritis. ——-ee—— LOSES FINGERS Robert Bryant, mine employee, suffered the amputation of three fingers of his right hand yesterday ut St. Ann's Hospital. Ilnuptmann ' Appeals to Hl;.hmt Court WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—Bruno Hauptmann has appealed to the United States Supreme Court in an attempt to save himself from thé electric chair following his conviction and sentence to death i for the kidnaping and killing of | Baby Lindbergh. i A 32-page petition was filed by ) Egbert Rosencrans, one of | Hauptmann's counsel. A new trial is acked on the ground that “Hauptmann was convicted at a trial which assembled a circus.” It is alse contended that his con- stituticnal rnghls were violated. BONUS “BOOM IS DUE TO START 'NEXT CONGRESS By HERBERT PLUMMER WASHINGTON, Nov. 12Y—P01iuc- ‘h;ns and observers in Washington ex- | pect the first ten days of the com-| |ing session of Congress to eclipse 1any similar period of any Congress in recent times. They base their expectations on a | simple but politically powerful word spelled “BONUS.” The last Congress left hanging fire two pieces of legislation providing methods for paymen’ of the soldiers’ bonus. Both have a preferred par- liamentary status in the session op- ening on January 3, 1936. One is the perennial measure of Wright Patman of Texas, passed by both houses in the last Congress, but vetoed by President Roosevelt. The other is authorized by Fred Vinson of Kentucky, member of the House Ways and, Means committee, and sidetracked in favor of the Patman bill by the margin of oge vote in the | Senate. VINSON BILL'S POSITION Sometime between the opening day f the session on January 3 and Jan- 1ary 13 the membership of the House vill have before it a bill for payment »f the bonus. The “ayes” and “nays” »f the*435 Representatives will be 'ecorded either on the Patman bill r the Vinson bill. ‘The Democratic leadership of the House has been and will be from' 10w on in serious conference to de- ermine which bill will be voted on ‘irst. Politicians are laying odds hat the first vote will come on the Vinson bill. hased on: 1. 'Representative Dougton of North Carolina, chairman of the ‘Ways and Means Committee, and his authority. 2. Action of the American Le- gion convention this year in St. Louis calling for payment of the bonus without inflation. 3. That the House will pase the first bonus bill presentea whether the author be Patman or Vinson. BYRNS GETS PETITION Stated bluntly, the Democratic leadership in the House (where such legislation as the bonus must orig- inate) is out to beat the Patman- ites to “the draw.” Their predictions are' HOPE LESSENS INSEARGH FOR LOST AVIATOR \' ;Royal Air Force Bowbsts Report Fruitless Hunt for Kingsford-Smith 1, RANGOON, Burma, Noy. 12. — Crews in planes seeking Sir Cliarles Kingford-Smith, famous world flier | | missing on a flight from England | | to Australia, reported the search to be virtually hopeless. | | Two Royal Air Force flying-boats | ! today arrived from Singapore Straits | | Settlement after a fruitless search| |over a wide area off the coast over the Bay of Bengal. The hunt is still continuing. THREE BOATS TIEDUP; HOT . CARGO ABOARD Longshoremen at San Pedro Refuse to Un- load Gulf Shipments SAN PEDRO, Cal, Nov. lZ—Un- able to discharge hot cargo, thr freighters are tied up here as the result of the longshoremen's relusal to handle shipments taken on Gulf of Mexico ports. The &hipowners will go before a local joint Labor Relations Commit- tee and will request disciplinary action. The vessels affected are the Kat- rina Luckenbach, Point Montara and Mau.hew Luckenbach. PAA ELECTRA SCHEDULED TO FLY TOMORROW ! Weather permitting, the PAA Lockheed Electra flown by Pilots Joe Crosson and Walter Hall will leave the local airport tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock for Fairbanks. B. Hensley, PAA radio operator, | who has been on duty at the Juneau airport since his arrival from the States*last week on the Yukon, will be a passenger to Fairbanks enroute to an Interior PAA radio station. Following his departure, Bob Ellis will resume operation of the local PAA radio station. i Mrs. Agnes R. Scott, PAA Secretary from the Fairbanks office, will also be a passenger to Fairbanks on the Electra tomorrow. John W. White, PAA Accountant, who arrived on the Electra from Fairbanks, will return to the Inter- jor city with his wife and daughter Barbara who arrived on the Yukon from Seattle last week. { Lyman 8. Peck, Vice-President and | sistant to Manager Charles D. Beale, | Young, General Manager of the Pacific Al- | of the Coliseum and Capitol theatres, | Erickson, FLIERS BREAK WORLD RECORD kach Helght of Thirteen Miles Above Earth— Descend Safely PICTURES “TAKEN DURING DESCENT Delicate Ins!ruments. Pho- tographic Plates Sent ' to Washington WHITESIDE, 8. D., Nov. 12.—Unit- ed Statés Army Captains Albert Ste- vens and Orvill Anderson, strato- sphere explorers, landed on a farm near here at 4:13 o'clock yesterday afternoon, after having charted a position in space hailed as the farthest man has even ventured above the earth. The two army fliers, soaring in a balloon, reached an aerial outpost estimated by the ground crew as be- yond 74,000 feet after about two hours in 67 degrees below zero temperaturz. At 1:05 p. m. yesterday the two men radioed they were starting down. When the balloon had descended to 40,000 feet, the crew started taking pictures. Examination of rarefied air in {sealed tubes and records on delicate instruments and photographic plates, obtained by the stratosphere fliers 13 miles above the earth are await- ed by the world of science. Data gathered by Captains Ander- son and Stevens in their record- breaking flight was packed for ship~ ‘ment to Washington officials of the National Geographic Society. The two captains took off at 7 o'clock yesterday morning from Ra- pid City South Dakota, in ‘he Ex- plorer II, the world's largest balloon, on the stratosphere flight for scien- tific exploration. - eee Travel by Air Safer than 10 |Years Ago WASHINGTON, Nox. 12. — Notwithstanding the recent se- ries of fatal crackups, the Sen- ate Commerce Subcommittee in- vestigators, concluded after a thorough study, that travel by air is three times safer now than it was ten years ago. This record has been achieved despite the speed that permitted coast - to - coast flying in one- fourth of the 60 hours required in 1921, STOCK PRIGES TOPPLED AGAIN, PROFIT TAKING Some Reoemaders Are Hit: Hard—Losses Reported NEW YORK, Nov. 12.—Profit top- pled a number of recent stock mar- ket leaders today and there was a noticeable drying up of trading ac- tivity on the decline. Communication issues bucked the trend and rails were resistant for most of the session. Today's close was heavy. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Nov. 12. — Closing quofation of Alasky Juneau mine stock today is 14%, American Can 142'2, American Power and Light 8%, Anaconda 20%, Bethlehem Steel 42%, General Molrs 58, Interna- tional Harvester 577%, Kennecott 26%, United States Steel 46% , Pound $4.92%, Calumet and Hecla 4%, Unit- ed Foundries 15/16, United Corpora- tion 6%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 14256, rails 35.04, utilities 28.45. TO JOIN HUSBAND Mrs, G. L. Green, wife of the as- There’s a petition on the desk of aska Airways, may also return to|isa passenger aboard the Northwest- (Continued oL Page Seven) Wairbanks on the Electra. " 4 ern for Juneau. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS { Struther a cnain of Ohio drug stor CAPITAL URGED T0 UNDERTAKE CREDIT BURDEN IHeads of‘a(-)vernmental Finance Agencies Ad- dress Bankers i NEW ORLEANS, La, Nov. 12. — Heads of two government financial {agencies today urged members of the {American Bankers Association to {look forward toward shouldering the demands of capital, now supplied by the government. Leo T. Crowley, Chairman of the tion, said: “I feel that banks should make a more courageous effort to substitute private for government u-e:m." Chairman Jesse H. Jones of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, said: “I am as anxious as any of you can possibly be that the govern- ment get out of the money-lending business as soon as possible.” Jones warned, however, that the government should not get out too soon. DOCTOR SHOT TO DEATH IN Slayer, Make Arrest of Woman ‘NEW YORK, Nov. 12—Dr. Fritz Gebhardt was shot to death in a skyscraper hotel last night. Police rushing to the scene cut off the slayer's escape and seized and ar- rested the doctor's fiancee, Vera Stretz. She admitted the slaying but refuses to glve ;he motive, STUDENTS AWAITING PLAY NOVEMBER 22 Jnneau }th School students are busy this week preparing for their presentation of the three-act mys- tery play “Hawk Island” to be pre- sented at the Coliseum Theatre on November 22. ‘The play, written by Howard Irving will be directed by Everett dent director and Walter Scott serv- ing as stage manager. Missionary work in India is the ambition of Miss Miriam Koch of 0., who resigned a position as soda fountain manager of « to enter Capital university at Columbus, Q., where \hu :~ hnauung her preparation for a missionary career : Yy derking sodas Federal Deposit Insurance Curporn-‘ SKYSCRAPER Police Cut—BE Escape of| PRICE. TEN CENTS GAINST SANCTIONS STRATUSPHEHE From Seda ]erker to Mlssnomrv ;N[]TE SENT T0 * ALL GOUNTRIES BY MUSSOLINI alians Exclude 197 Key Products in Move for Reprisal |GRAVE RESULTS OF BOYCOTI‘§_FORESEEN |Germany Places Latest Ex- port Ban for ““‘Home D) Necessity GENEVA, Nov. 12—II Duce teday warned all nations of the gravity of the consequences of the League's sanctions and econ- omic boycott against Italy, and at the same time declared Italy’s economic independence of these nations. By an official decree from Rome, | the Ttallan government has placed an embargo on the importation of 1197 products, according to word re- ceived here. Except for a few goods | which may be bought under strict government, supervision, all imports of the nearly 200 key products are | definitely prohibited. | | boycott Note Sent to All Nations The embargo becomes effective the same day that the League of Nations becomes operative. The | warning from Mussolini was con- ILABOR T0 SEEK 30 - HOUR WEEK FROM CONGRESS Indust rial_Licensing Bill Also on A. F. L. “Must’" List i WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 — 'I‘hf‘ Black-Connory 30-Hour Week Bill| tops the American Federation of La- | bor's 1936 legislation program, Presi- | dent William Green said here to- day. ‘“We expect to make that our ma- | ! jor objective at'the next session ot\ Congress,” he declared. Seconl oy the list is the Industrial | Licensing Bill, which gives Congress the power’to establish a minimum | | wage, ma)&hqum hours and other labor standatrds for all mdustrles sending products into interstate com- | merce, | BOY CONFESSES | MURDER OF KIN T0 HIDE THEFT Hollis Martin, 17, Admits Brutal Slayings of Aunt, Uncle and Cousin LY | OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Nov. 12 | —Hillis Granville Martin, 17, has| confessed slaying his aunt, uncle ‘md\ cousin’ on their New Mexico farm | to hide theft of a small sum of | money. Mr. and Mrs. Willard Shaffer were found shot to death Saturday. Their son, Tommy, 9, was found with his | head crushed in bed — - e 'First Flight Made, | Japan to Philippines, 4mnrimm Made Plane MANILA, Nov. 12 —-’l'he first Jap- an-Phillippine flight ever made has just been completed in an American made plane. The flight started Sun- day and the plane carried four bags of mail e URED IN FALL Mrs. J. C. Roehn of Hirst-Chicha- goff slipped on the floor of her home for several days as a resuld of her | injuries. tained in a note to all countries con- | cerned, and makes a threat of fur- ther reprisals. Il Duce also chal- lenges the League's coordination committee to impose its sanctions, Ttaly threatens implicitly to leave the Geneva body as a result of the penalties. “Italy has not wished until now to issassociate herself from the Geneva institution,” Mussolini’s note read, “despite Ttaly’s opposition to the procedure followed, She desires to, pravent the conflict such as is now being considered from leading to more vast complications.’ SHOWDOWN ASKED WASHINGTON, Nov. 12—Ttaly has moved for a showdown on the sanc- tions by demanding that all partici- pating nations make clear their po- sitions on the measures individually, Ambassador Rosso made public today after delivering a copy of the note to the U. 8. Government. The note challenged the authority of the League coordinating commit- tee and warned that Italy is being | forced into reprisal. NAZIS TAKE ACTION BERLIN, Nov. 12—The exporta< tion of certain important foodstuffs and raw materials has been forbid- den by the German government on (Continued on Page T) et TENSION GROWS BETWEEN TOKYO AND SHANGHAI Possibility of Armed Pres- sure Rises—Press Muz- zled, Naval Maneuvers TOKYO, Nov. 12-—Japanese au- | thorities gave indications, at least n some sections, that the Tokyo gov- |ernment envisioned the possibility of armed pressure on China as the result of anti-Japanese incidents in Shanghai. Police Mave circulated an order forbidding néwspapers or new. igencies from publishing anything concerning ‘naval air forces which | may go to China except by offieial communiques. y Shanghai dispatches report in- reasing tension. TERRORISM FLARES SHANGHALI, UNov. 12.—Anti-Jap- anese terrorism flared anew when zroups of Chinese threw bricks and bottles through the plate glass win- dow of a Japanese-owned store just after 500 Japanese marines disem- barked. The landing party strength has “eached more than 2,000 with the ar- ival of the new force, although Jap- anese navy officers asserted they were merely replacements. The situation arising from the un- with Tom Stewart as stu- there and will be confined to bed| olved slaging of a Japanese marine is considered increasingly threaten- ing an outbreak of new terrorism.