The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 2, 1935, Page 1

VOL. XLVIL, NO. 7132. 'NORTHWESTERN “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ~ JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1935. DATOFF TAKES STAND AT BIVES ACGOUNT OF CLUB MELEE WITH DANIELSEN Defendant Claims He Was Struck First Before He Hit Association Head DENIES SEEING BARRIER ACROSS FRONT STREET Taroff andaner Testify They Saw No Trouble of Any Kind Asserting that Ted Danielsen, President of the Juneau Mine Work- ers Association, struck him twice on the head with a club from behind before he wrested the club from him and hit Danielsen was made on the witness stand this afternoon by Har- ry Datoff, one of the 24 defendants standing trial for alleged rioting on June 24. 5 Datoff denied that he had struck Danielsen from béhind and then slunk away as government witnesses testified. He further alleged that there were four “club men” with Danielsen and that one of them said, “Let's get him; let's kill him.” Never Told Anyone Under sharp cross examination by Assistant District Attorney George W. Folta, the defendant admitted he never told anyone before-today that Danielsen had clubbed him. Asked why he did not tell two regular police officers who, he stated were near there at the time, he replied he didn’t have time. He said Dr. W. W. Coun- cil treated him for the injury on nis head but he didn’t tell Dr. Coun- cil whera he received the wound. Folta began his cross examination of Datoff by asking him if he be- longed to the Communist party. De- fense Counsel Irwin Gooodman was immediately up moving for a mis- trial, but the court overruled the motion and cautioned Folta to turn to another line of questioning. Marched In Trial Datoff said he went to the A. B. hall the morning of the trouble and marched down the street about in the middle of the marchers going to the A. J. to register. He said he went along only to see if the pickets were on duty at the A. J. Queried closely by Folta on why he went with the marchers when he was not going to register, the defendant appeared to become confused and finally said he was in the line of marchers because he had a sore foot. He declared he didn’t run ahead to form the block- ade across the street near the union hall and denied he had seen any trouble with the exception of seeing Alex Daroff, another defendant, ‘‘go- iing down.” He didn’t see him struck, he admitted, but saw a man there with & club in his hand. He said e didn’t know the man. Witnesses Excused Datoff testified he had worked at the A. J. since 1920, off and on, and belonged to the Alaska Mine Work- ers Union when it went out on strike, and that he still was on strike. Four witnesses called by Defense Counsel Howard Stabler to testify for Bill Taroff were excused by the court without their testimony being given the jury on grounds they had been in the court room during the trial. They were Mrs. Taroff, Mrs. Mildred Hill, Deputy Marshal John McCormick and’ Attorney George Grigsby. = One procecution witness had been excused on the same grounds. MORNING SESSION Firm denial that they had par- ticivated in any untoward trouble last June 24 during the alleged riot on Front Street when men were marching to the A. J. mine to regis- ter for employment was made on the witness stand this morning by Simon Graner and Bill Taroff, two of the defendants charged with rioting in connection with the trouble. Graner said his memory was not clear on most of the points the gov- ernment witnesses had previously testified to, denying all accusations that he had a prominent part in the melee, especially at the A. J. office, as the government contends. Questioned closely by Assistant Dis- (Coatinued oL Page 'sgum The report was heard in New York that Mrs. John H. Tennant, | widow of the former managing editor of the New York Evening World, |easiness developed in some British will marry U. 8. Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York, They are ! shown at a football game. (Associated P s Photo) { LAUNCHES NEW TREASURY LOAN [Bankers Advise Market Will Absorb Offerings Without Difficulty | WASHINGTON, Dec. 2—The gov- $900,000,000 to finance winter work relief. If the full amount is raised, the nation’s public debt will be pushed to a new all-time high—about $35,- 500,000,000. Half of the amount will be offered in two and three-fourths percent 10-year Treasury bonds, the remain- der in one and one-half percent five- year Treasury notes. In addition, holders of $418,000,000 in two and cne-half percent Treasury notes ma- turing December 15 are offered the privilege of exchanging these securi- ties for either of the new securities. The new issues will be dated Sep- tember 16, 1935, and bear interest from that date, payable semi-annual- ly. From New York comes word that bankers expect the market to ab- sorb the offerings without diffi- culty. It is said that issues will prob- ably sell at premium. ——.——— YOUTH SHOOTS TWO CHILDREN BY ACCIDENT Buster Russell, 17, Held in Guard House Following Discharge of Revolver LANGLEY FIELD, Va,, Dec. 2— Buster Russell, 17, is held in an army post guard house after Sgt. Clem H. Kelley's three-year-old son was fa- tally shot. A daughter, 8, wounded in the ab- domen, is expected fo recover. Russell is said to have discharged Kelley's service revolver accidentally while playing guard with Kelley's three children in the living room last night. The youth admitted firing one shot. Officers say three shots were fired. e o oo o and V. ANDERSON ON YUKON Victor Anderson, hydraulic en- gineer formerly with the Hammon Company at Nome, now employed by the Fairbanks Exploration Com- pany, is a passenger on the Yukon enroute to Seattle. 4 FEDERAL GOVT. EDWARD BALL PASSES AWAY - INWASH, D.C. Assistant in Bureau of Fish- eries, Alaska Serv- f ice, Is Dead | WASHINGTON, Dec. 2—Edward | Alaska Service of the Bureau of | Fisheries, died Saturday following an | operation for removal of his ap- pendix. Ball has been with the Fisheries Bureau for 38 years and made sev- eral trips to Alaska. He wrote a num- ber of statistical studies based on his trips. Ball had been stationed in the ‘Washington office of the Fisheries Bureau for the past two years. STOCK PRICES TAKE RETREAT LOSSES HEAV European Developments Force Customers to Stop Trading i NEW YORK, Dec. 2.—After back-, ing and filling dully throughout the jreater part of the session, the Stock Market staged an active retreat in the final hour. Brokers reported that many cus- tomers decided to ‘adjourn to the sidelines pending further European developments which arose today. Losses today were from fractions to around two points. | CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Dec. 2.—Closing quo- tation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 15j, Amerisan Can 137%, American Power and Light 7%, An-! aconda 24%, Bethlehem Steel 47%4, ! General Motors 53%, International/ Harvester 60, Kennecott 27%, Sim-| mons Beds 16%, United Corporation’ 6%, United States Steel 46%, South- | ern Pacific 23%, United Foundries no sale, Pound $493%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow.| Jones- averages: Industrials 140.72, rails 39.10, utilities 28.22. | | e BROKERS TRAVELLING A. VanMavern, West Coast Gro- cery representative, and Ken Ed- wards, Heinz representative, were passengers from Sitka to Wrangell on the North Sea. BRITAIN READY | T0 PRESS OIL EMBARGO PLAN Cabinet Is to Decide on Strategy Against Ital- * ian Reprisals “FEMININE ARMY” IS ORGANIZED IN ROME Fighting Continues in Africa, as Selassie Cheers Subjects BULLETIN—London, Dec. 2.—~ Authoritative sources predict thé Britich Cabinet and League of Nations will soon place an em- bargo cn all shipments of oil to Italy. This is said to be the de- cision of the British Cabinet, which will back the League’s ac- tion. LONDON, Dec. 2.—Extreme un- quarters today over complications arising from the projected oil em~- bargo, as ministers gathered for a cabinet session. It is predicted they will draft strategy to meet the Italian reprisals, and formally decide to take the lead in urging that the League of N-uor_u add oil to the embargo list. ECONOMIC SIEGE FOUGHT ROME, Dec. 2.—Itanan war moth- ers and widows today were mobilized in the economic war against the League sanctions. Nine hundred women were proclaimed by Musso- lini as an “advance guard to that feminine Italian army.” The women are organized to nul-} lify the League’s “hateful economic |ernment has requested a loan of M. Ball, aged 59, Assistant in the siege.” Italy, the center of the European crisis, adopted further steps Satur- | day to strengthen its already elabor- ate defenses by way of attempting to combat the penalties. | ‘Tension lessened between England, France and Italy as statesmen of those countries saw more hope of ending the war by negotiations. TWO WARSHIPS ARRIVE DJIBOUTI, French Somaliland, Dec. 2—Two French warships, La- motte and Picquet arrived here today, as a part of the government’s pro- | gram for maintaining order and de- fense within its colonial frontiers. Fighting continues over Ethiopia, and a skirmish in the Tembien area today killed 15 Ethiopians and six Italians. “Mopping up” operations | continue in that region and near| Uomberto, according to Italian army | dispatches. | Tribesmen east of Mount Mussa Ali surprised an Italian column there Saturday, killing 183, with 20 Ethi- opians slain. EMPEROR AT DESSYE DESSYE, Ethiopia, Dec. 2—Em- peror Haile Selassie has arrived here ta establish a general military head- quarters. The Lion of Judah was hailed by a big throng of cheering subjects as he appeared to confer with his commanders. “If necessary, I will go even far- ther, in joining my warriors in the trenches,” Selassie said. (GREEK PREMIER NAMED BY KING ATHENS, Dec. 2— Constantine Demerdjis has been named Premier under King George II, who formed a cabinet of new ministers immedi- ately after he took office here Sat- urday. ‘The new Premier is a law professor and a former minister. National Prohibition Prediction of Bishop ST. LOUIS, Mo., Dec. 2.—Bishop James Cannon today predicted the Teturn to National Prohibition with- MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR ‘N PRICE TEN CENTS HORE, REFLOATED A " g ] Major Willis Taylor CLIPPER SHIP FROM MANILA Sixteen Bags of United States Mail Aboard— No Passengers ‘MANILA, Dec. 2—The China Clip per hopped off at 2:50 o'clock thi: morning, or 10:52 a.m. Sunday, Pa- cific Standard Time, on the return flight to the United States via way- points. The island of Guam will be the first stop. The China Clipper carries 16 bags of mail only. Capt, Musick and crew of eight are aboard the China Clipper and it is intended to pick up other Pan-Amer- ican employees enroute to Alameda, the California base, and take them to Honolulu. Some of the men have been on lonely island waypoint sta- tions for nine months. CHINA CLIPPER T0 HAVE RIVAL OF SIXTY TONS Russian Plane Builder Also Predicts Regular trans- Atlantic Service ‘WASHINGTON, Dec. 2—~The 25- ton China Clipper, which landed in Mantla Friday, and is.now returning to Alameda, Chl, is.jyst a baby com- pared to future flying boats, Ignore I. Sikosky writes in the National Aeronautics magazine. ‘The Russian plane builder says he is building two in a Bridgeport, Con- necticut, factory, one of 40 tons and one of 65 tons. The flying boat of the future, he predicted, will have a speed of 150 to 250 miles an hour, will fly at a height of 15,000 to 20,000 feet, with oxygen supplied in the cabin; and accommodations for 30 to 40 passen- gers. Tt will be equipped with berths, dining room, promenade deck, and dancing floor. Sikosky also predicted a regular flying service -across the Atlantic in ten years, within three to five years. Seeck Aviator Miss pbe: 0E Recent reports that Paul Redfern, the ._(mericln aviator missing since 1927, is still alive have | spurred & new attempt to-find thetairman. M, Melcherts, Catholic teacher, brought ization from the wilds of Dutch Guiana the tale of 2 native there who reported Redfern alive. Suffi- cient credence is given to the story so that Major Willis Taylor, army ace stationed at Panama, has 'ENROUTE HOME |~ " Paul Redfern A4f “Port of E k to civil- reports of the Whites of Alaska Make Bishop Rowe Tired” NEW YORK, Dec. 2— The Right Reverend Peter Trimble Rowe, Protestant Episcopal Bish- op of Alaska, said Sunday that the Indians there crawl to church if necessary for their religion. “The white people are just the same there as everywhere. They make me a little tired. They are ready to take every- thing and give nothing. Alaskan Indians take their religion seri- cusly.” Alaska holds tillable soil enough to support hundreds of thousands, the Bishop said, at a service in the Cathedral of St. John the'Divine, WRANGELL MAN SUCCUMBS T0 LONG ILLNESS J. G. Grant, Hotel Opera- tor, Dies in Seattle— Wife, Children, Survive SEATTLE, Dec. 2—J. G. Grant, ‘Wrangell businessman, died in a hospital here, the victim of a pro- longed illness. Among other enterprises, Grant operated a hotel in Wrangell. He is survived by a widow, now in Seattle, and two daughters: Mrs, Harold Thomas, Bremerton, and Mrs. A. R. Bruger of Wrangell. The lat- ter is now in California. He has one son, Neil Grant, of Wrangell. The body will be taken north Sat- urday abpard the steamer Alaska. No funeral services will be held here. Nanking Government Official Has Resigned . NANKING, Dec. 2—Premier Wang Ching has submitted his resignation as Foreign Minister and Chairman of China’s Executive Department. He. pleaded weakness as the result of wounds received in an attempt to as- sassinate him a month ago. ——e Physicists believe that in the near future they will be able to make any element synthetically. ing ini | ]ungl;:s of GU_IEZ ' volunteered to finance a flight to determine whether Redfern is living in the jungles where his plane, nswick’’, was believed to have crashed i “on a flight from ‘Brihswick, Fla., to Rio De Janiero, started Aug. 25, 1927. Meanwhile, Mrs. Redfern, | now a resident of Cleveland, still clings to hope that her husband is alive despite numeraue falas | 'BODIES FOUND RIOT TRIAL | g Mrs. Redfern NEW LANDSLIDE | VOTE VISIONED FOR ROOSEVELT Mrs. Holzheimer, National Committeewoman for Al- aska, Predicts Reelection Stating as her emphatic opinion that “the trend of American politics is unquestionably and thoroughly | Democratic,” Mrs. Willlam A. Holz- heimer, National Démocratic Com- mitteewoman for Alaska, today reit- erated her faith that “Roosevelt will | be re-elected by another landslide Democratic vote.” Recently returned from a visit to Seattle, where she was present at| several Democratic Club meetings, Mrs. Holzheimer is confident that the Administration has nothing to worry about in the forthcoming elec~ tion. “James A. Farley put it well enough: ‘You can’t beat somebody with nobody,'” she said today. “The candidacies of Hoover and Borah are jbound to split the party, whergns unanimously Roosevelt.” Treaty Wins Approval | Referring to the present agitation of West Coast lumber interests| against the recently-ratified Canad- ian reciprocal treaty, Mrs. Holz-| heimer said: “It is true that certain lumber firms are protesting what may seem, at first glance, to be a sacrifice of their interests. But it is the general consensus of Washington and Oregon opinion that these same firms will soon realize that the gains made will more than compensate the losses which they now antici- Although Mrs. Holzheimer recog- nized considerable Republican agi- tation in the Northwest, she affirm- ed that in her opinion the Repub- | licans “have begun their attack too fsoon. The Democrats,” she said, | “are sitting back, allowing the Re- | publicans to spend their force before the campaign actually opens. The | Democrats have not even opened | their attack. By the time they do,| Republicans have no candidate| worthy of the field. The upunteg the Democratic primaries will go| ALASKA BOUND STEAMER GOES AGROUND, FO8 Vessel Drifts Broadside in Seymour Narrows Early Sunday WHISTLE IS FOUND FROZEN, NO BLASTS Craft Remains on Land 4 Hours — Off on High Tide—Proceeds Steamer Northwestern weat ‘aground in Seymour Narrows at 4 o'clock yesterday morning in a heavy fog but was refloated four hours lat- er, on high tide, and is proceeding north. According to radio advices received by The Empire, the Northwestern is not damaged. The whistle became frozen, accord- ing to radio advices and this made it impossible for those on the bridge of the Northwestern to sound a blast ‘and get their bearings from echoes from the shore. The steamer drifted ashore broad- side on before the whistle was fixed The steamer sailed from Seattle | |last Saturday morning at 9 o'clock with 65 passengers aboard, including the following booked for Juneau: F. P. Wiliams, O. M. Floe, A Payne, F. Dufresne, Miss D. Evans, Miss M. Anderson, Mrs. C. J. Davis, Miss K. Gamble. IN MEXICO NOT ALASKAN PAIR Disappearance of Mr. and Mrs. Thompson Re- mains Unsolved TIA JUANA, Mexico, Dec. 2—Two bodies discovered by Tia Juana workmen digging for adobe at Ros- arita Beach are those of Mexican women buried about 15 years ago, Liceneiaro Auguino, District At- torney, said today. It was at first believed thai they were the remains of Charles Thomp- {son, wealthy Fairbanks fur dealer, and his wife, who disappeared on December 5, 1932. No trace of them has been found since. BOY ARRESTED FOR PATRICIDE BIG STONE GAP, Va. Dec. 2— The arrest of a 16-year-old boy on a charge of killing his father be- cause he whipped him, aroused mountaineers here where Edith Max- well was convicted last week on a similar case. L. N. Falin was fatally shot and his son, Abram Falin, was arrested. ProminW—omn Educator Is Dead PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 2.— Miss M. Carey Thomas, President |Emeritus of Bryn Mawr College, i3 dead here at the age of 79. She was one of the best known women edu- cators in the country. MRS . 13 oA Prattville, Alabama, “The Fountain City of the World,” has more than 400 overflowing wells. | the Republicans wili be out of am- | munition, and it will be another | Democratic walkaway.” (Continued on Page Two.)