The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 26, 1935, Page 1

«»m‘ s~ THE DAILY ALAS VOL. XLVIL, NO. 7153, “ALL THE NEWS * JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER ALL THE TIME” 26, 1935, ~ T MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS ITA GUERILLA WAR | CONTINUES IN if | NORTHERN ZONE | Invaders Shoot Three, Im-| prison Nine on Charges of Spying [¥ ETHIOFIANS BRING DOWN ENEMY PLANE| Laval Soun&fi;eace Note in Talk to French Cab- inet on War | ASMARA, Eritrea, Dec. 26.—Sev- | eral skirmishes and a roundup of ypian outposts are deseribed in lian dispatches from the northern V. ravan descending the slopes of the central piateau -to the Danakil lands, enroute to the Ethiopian elds in the northern part. of ry, was attacked by Dana- ulars fighting for the Ttal- y. The Ethiopians were rout- ed with heavy losses. Meanwhile 12 natives wearing Ital- 1iforms were rounded up and before a court martial, ged with spying on the invad- ers’ activities. Three were turned over to a firing squad and nine were given prison sentences. AIRPLANE SHOT DOWN { ADDIS ABABA; Dec, 28— The Ethiopian government rapofted today | that its soldiers have cut down an | Italian airplane at Daggah Bur. Ethiopian secret police pressed a drive against suspected Italian .wpiesi | | here and in the fightinz zones. A Greek citizen was expelled from Negus Land on the charge. LAVAL TELLS STAND PARIS, Dec. 26.—Premier Pierre | Laval told the French cabinet today | that France would refrain from mak- | ing any military or naval move to- | ward Italy unless the latter na-| tion gave provocation | ROOSEVELT T0 DRAFT ANNUAL CONGRESS TALK Message to Concentrate on State of Budget, Inter- national Situation WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—Presi- dent Roosevelt got down To serious work today on recommendations to Congress, which meets January 3. He is concentrating on drafting his annual message on the state of the budget figures for the financial year beginning July 1. Much of the message is expected to be devoted to the international situation. Recommendations for neu- trality legislation are anticipated. It is expected the message will be brief. ASSASSINATED SHANGHALI, Dec. 26.—Tah Yu Jen, Minister of Railways and former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs in China, was assassinated as he step- ped from an automobile into a house in the French Concession. He was the right hand man of Gen. Wang Ching ‘Wei, strong member of the pro-Jap- anese clique in Chinese Government. SERIOUS EFFECTS SHANGHAI, Dec."26—Maj. Gen. Renhuke Isogai, military attache to the Japanese Embassy, today predict- ed there would be serious effects from the assassination yesterday of Tah Yu Jen. Isogai said the assassination throws a dark shadow over future Sino-Japanese relations. - e, President Attends Christmas Services ‘WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.— Presi- LIANS {Twelve Acquitted on Trial| ~ SUB-DEB WINTER SPORTS QUEEN Charlotte Dabney Halloran, sub-debutante, was chosen queen of Southern California’s series of winter sports carnivals to be held in mountains near Los Angeles. Here she is, with snowshoes and flow- 8. (Associated Press Photo) CONVIGT THREE /gimetic o, ON HUGE MAIL *Tretes FRAUD CHARGES Lait, newspaper wrifer, asserted today he has learned that Col. Charle . A. Lindbergh has been driven into exile by threats his wife would be kidnaped and killed if Bruno Hauptmann is | executed. | Ccl. H. Norman Schwartzkopf, of the New Jersey State Police, denied this. Cel. Lindbergh departed with hic wife and child for England last week, to remain there in- definitely, according to reports. gl T2 for Violating National Securities Act | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Dec. 26.— |Holiday traf fic accidents, suicides and domestic difficulties in the San Francisco Bay district left five per- sons dead and several seriously in- the National Securities Act of 1933.] ‘Those convicted on one count each were Alexander Coplin, former Se- ARE vIGTIMs | ed on sales of 300,000 shares of Ari- | UF TRAGEDIES zona-Comstock Mining Company of‘ —r Nevada. | those convicted. S eee THEATHE FIRE William Stein, aged 22, Coast Guardsman, fell from a moving au- tomobile and was fatally injured. 3 . he was hit by a train. Injured—Damage Esti- Bk 7 mated $200,000 \ S i wor seascs, s, oee 20— QUCOESSOR T0 ing | One unidentified body has been re- | Three of the missing persons oc- |onorative bank commissioner of the cupied rooms in the hotel. Three of | parm Credit Administration, suc- the injured were hurt leaping "‘)m'c:eding Francis W. Peck, recently re- —Three Army officers, attached to| BELLINGHAM, Wash. Dec. 26.—A. the CCC camp here, were burned to |L. Callahan, formerly one of the best death and three others were critical- | known Pacific Northwest police of- dent Roosevelt attended church serv- ices yesterday and later presided at the family fireplace in the White House. SEATTLE, Dec. 26.—Three de- fendants were convicted and twelve | acquitted in the $625,000 Coplin mail | attle broker; Benjamin F. Serlis, of Los Angeles; and Joseph Konwiser, of New York City. The government allezed misrepre- | Accidents, Suicides, Etc., 'entation by mail and telephone. The jury deliberated 72 hours. i Tflle TOll Around San Francisco WREBKS HUTEL“ A man jumped from a ferryboat jand was drowned. An itinerant man was found dead Three persons are reported missing | and four others injured in damage estimated at $200,000 dollars caused | moved from the ruins. | WASHINGTON, Dec. 26—Samuel A small frame hotel at the rear of |y ganders, President of the Wash- the theatre was wrecked when thelinan Cooperative Egg and Poultry its second floor Ky 5. NIRRT B SIEHet i | . ly burned in a fire which destroyed |ficers, former sheriff of Whatcom the officers' quarters early today. Lcoumy and chief of police of Belling- fraud trial on charges of violating' The government charges were bas- Notice of appeal was given b,\" Jured. Three Missing, Four Others. atong a railroad track. 1t is believed as fire swept the Princess Theatre. | walls of the show house crumbled. Association, has been named co- WATERBURY, Vermont, Dec. 26. | The officers dead are: Capt. Rol- |ham, is dead as the result of injuries and Potter, Capt. E. W. Boothby | when he was struck by an auto at a and Lieut. Leonard C. Bushey. |street intersection Christmas Eve. HUBMRB P AR“ 4! scm REGISTER DROPS BARBARA AND VNDEILT ' RETURNS NORTH NEXT JANUARY Famous Explorer Will Study King Island Eskimos— Dog Katmai Dead SAN JOSE, Cal., Dec. 26—Mem- | bers of the family of Ed Levin, Alas- |kan explorer, said he is enronte home from New York, aiter making plans with Father Bernard R. Hubbard, “Glacier Sriest,” for a 14-month ex- ploration trip to King Island, Alas- ka, next month. The party will study a practically |extinct race of Eskimos. A born-to-order dog team was Father Hubbard’s Christmas present from Akutan and Wolf, two of the glacier priest’s pack dogs. Seven pups, all males, were born recently to Aku- tan at the home of Ed Levin, who has accompanied Hubbard on his last six Alaskan expeditions. It is declared that within two years |Rev. Hubbard should have the first team of brother dogs in mushing his- {tory. l ‘Katmai, another of Hubbard's fa- mous pack, was killed recently by a | hunter who mistook him for a wild |animal at Lake Tahoe. ) ————— 'STATE OF WASH. Five Deaths Reported in Tragedies on Christ- mas Day | | ! | SEATTLE, Dec. 26—Traffic acci- |dents took a toll of lives Christ- {mas Day in the State of Wash- | ington. Mrs. Ida Gollofon, aged 53, of | Kirkland, was Kkilled in an auto | collision. Ray Aror, aged 35, died an hour after being struck by an automo- bile. Mrs. Blanche Williams, school teacher, died shortly after she had beeri injured in a automobiles. Chauncey Canning, aged 53, died |a hit-and-run driver. Fritz Horgan, aged 18, of Cen- tralia, was fatally injured when his automobile overturned. PEAGE GROUP WOULD EXTEND F.D. R. POWERS National Conference Pro- poses Renewing Author- ity, Enlarging Scope NEW YORK, Dec. 26—The Na- tional Peace Conference, an or- ganization of 30 groups, meeting here, has proposed revision of the Neutrality Act, extending the Presi- dent’s power to proclaim embargoes on arms and shipments to warring nations, and a tentative draft of the measure is expected to be plac- ed before Congress for considera- tion. The plan proposes to renew and extend the President’s present man- datory duty to proclaim the exist- ence of a state of war between two or more nations, prohibits export of arms to belligerent States and to allow the President to enter into discussions with all powers which have signed the Kellogg - Briand peace pact with a view of conclud- ing a supplementary treaty to set- tle all international disputes by pacific means. R St 0 Dr. Jiri Baum, the “spider man” of Praha, allows more than 100 spe- cies of spiders to run loose in his home and spin webs where they de- sire, AUTO ACCIDENTS - = TAKE LIVES 4 ST0CK PRIGES collision of | at Cle Elum after being struck by| ROUTE ETHIOPIAN I £ | | | were found wanting. Howeve., e This year the names of such others made come -backs, ure), who left a Park avenue home for a stage and screen career, socialite actress. (Associated Press Photos) 'FORGE AHEAD, - SESSION TODAY iAvialion, Utility and Spec- i ialty Groups Take Leadership | NEW YORK, Dec. 26.—The Stock JMux-keL forged ahead today under { the leadership of aviation, utility and specialty groups Gains of fractions to three or more points were scattcrad over a broad front. Todays' close was firm. Today's turnover was not excep- tionally larger than usual for the | post-Christmas season. | S | CLOSING PRICES TODAY | NEW YORK, Dec. 26—Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 14 1-8, American Can | 135, American Power and Light 8 7-8, Anaconda 28 7-8, Bethlehem Steel 49 7-8, General Motors 56 1-4, Inter- national Harvester 61 1-4, Kelvinator 14 3-4, Kennecott 28 1-4, United | Corporation: 7, United States Steel 47, Pound $4.93. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, | Jones averages: industrials 141.54, rails 39.71, utilities 29.11. —— 'HUNT CONVICT FOR SHOOTING ' OF POLICEMAN Former Prison Inmate Kills Two, Wounds Others in Butte BUTTE, Montana, Dec. 26.—Henry Knight, former convict, is hunted to- day for the fatal shooting of a police officer and another man and the wounding of two others. The dead are Policeman Tom O’Neill, aged 37, killed instantly, and Frank Walsh, aged 24, who died later. Those wounded are Policeman James Mooney, shot in the right choulder and both arms, who is ex- pected to recover, and Mrs. Florence | Benvenue, who has a minor wound in the neck. The officers were shot attempting to arrest Knight after shooting the |woman in an apartment house. Knight has been named by Jean Miller, his companion, who was caughit, as the slayer of Deputy Sher- iff Thomas Meehdn on November 13 Injured In Fall Carmelita Geraghty (above), for- mer film actress, was seriously in- jured when she in the bath- room of her home in Hollywood, Calif. At first, her husband, Carey Wilson, said she had been beaten by intruders but when she regained consciousness, Miss Geraghty told police she fell and injured herself. (Associated Press Photo) BRIT. OFFICIAL ENDS HIS LIFE Counsellor at Tokyo Em- bassy Commits Suicide Aboard Steamer LONDON, Dec. 26.—A report has been received here that Arthur Wig- gins, aged 43, Councellor at the Brit- ish Embassy in Tokyo, and former! a member of the British Embassy in Washington, D. C, shot and killed himself aboard the Steamer Presi- dent McKinley while off Hongkong. No reason is known for the suicide. PROFESSOR 1S SLAYER LAS CRUCES, N. M, Dec. 26—F. E. Oakes, 40, was shot and killed by W .A. Stone, a member of the New Mexico Agricultural and Mining Uni- versity faculty, and the accused slayer committed suicide. Officers ,said trouble had been brewing between the two men for a year. Stone objected to the working hours required of Mrs. Stone, a for- mer employee in Qakes’' office, - India now has approximately 40 motion picture producing studios. and Cornelius Vanderbilt, r. (left ineluding the lovely Jane Wyatt (central fig- and Whitney Bourne (lower left), The 1936 New York sociai register, so-called directory of America’s highest society, has bounced off | the press again with its usual surprises. i the Woolworth heiress and wife of Count Haugwitz Reventlow, notablet s Barbara Hutton (rlght;, SUDDEN DEATH MARS HOLIDAY CELEBRATIONS Many Killed in Domestic Tragedies, Traffic Acci- dents, Here, Abroad CHICAGO, 111, Dec. 26.—Sudden death in domestic tragedies and traf- i3 accidents marred Christmas Eve in many homes here and abroad Twenty persons were killed and eight injured in a train crash in d /Germany. A head-on motor car col- lision near Freeport, Ill, killed five | holiday celebrants A train-automobile crash near Newell, N. C., killed four. A Missouri | farm couple died in a similar aceci- |dent near Atchison, Kans. Two men |died in Houston, Tex., after a truck hit a bridge and caught fire. Two | small girls were burned to death near Ringwood, Okla Phillip Leo, 39, and two sons, died {in a New York fire. Two men, a wom- |an, and a small boy were killed in an airplane crash near Lima, Peru ‘John W. Rogers, Philadelphia, killed his estranged wife, two children and his wife's mother, critically wounded (& third child in a crib, and ended his own life, Freeze To Death | Two Manitowoe, Wis, farm girls were found frozen to death. A Fort | Smith, Ark., miner was injured when | he bit a torpedo, thinking it candy, |and a Norphlet, Ark., miner was hurt in the same kind of accident shortly | afterward. | Near Sutherland, Neb., Dorothy | Metcalf gave her life trying to save | her mother. She pushed her mother to safety but she was struck by an | automobile. | The crushed body of L. C. Hage was found in the wreckage of a car near Nowata, Okla., and a Christmas Eve | traffic accident near Clayton, Okla, | claimed two lives. Lawrence Maytea, 122, 'was killed when an automobile |r‘olllded with a train at Stedward, Neb., ‘as he was returning from a Christmas morning church eommun- {ion service | Several fatalities are reported in illlm‘x;, ‘ : ' Gov. Hoffman Is Not Contemplating Any Hauptmann Reprieve WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—Former Gov. Charles H. Brough of Ar- kansas, is dead in his home here |at the age of 59 He came here two years ago to serve as Chairman of the Virginia- ‘Dl.sln(‘l of Columbia Boundary | Commission. __PRICE TEN CENTS | COLD WAVE TAKES HEAVY DEATH TOLL RILIVESLOST IN AGCIDENTS, FIRE, EXPOSURE |Biting Zero Temperatures | Hit States, Leaving l Scores Dead |ICY HIGHWAYS PROVE ESPECIALLY MENACING |Middle West and Parts of | East Caught in Holiday | Winter Storm CHICAGO, Dec. 26. — Fifty-two 1 known deaths were attributed to ex- | posure, traffic accidents | over the Christmas holidays as bit- | ter near zero temperatures and snow swept south over the middle west and other sections of the east and south, Three died of exposure in Illinois, four in Ohio and two each in Wis- consin, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and North Dakota. Single deaths were reported in South Dakota, Mis~ souri, New Jersey, Indiana, Tennes- | see and Montana. | Iey highways claimed nine lives in Ohio, four in Maryland, two in Mich- {igan and one each in Illinois and | North Dakota while fires took other | lives throughout the nation. RECORDLOW MARKS MADE BY WEATHER }Mild Christmas Morning ! Turns Into Raging ‘ Storm in Illinois fire and CHICAGO, 111, Dec. 26.— Record low temperatures and a snow storm were recorded by weather bureaus in the middle western states yesterday. The snow blanket extended from Maine to the Pacific Coast over the northern tier of states, and was ex- pected to widen to Georgia and the Carolinas. |~ A mild Christmas morning turned into a raging snowstorm in Central { Illinols when a sudden blast of wind sent the temperature toppling from 20 degrees to 8 degrees above zero {in twenty minutes. WINTER IN SOUTHLAND | CHICAGO, Ill, Dec. 26.—Winter descended on the southland today af- ter covering the northern half of the nation with snow and zero cold weather. A howling wind whipped snow across Kentucky, Tennessee and |Maryland, smashing store windows |in Louisville as it swept toward the | Dixie Highway Travel was perilous in Kentucky | and Maryland. With the state blank=~ |eted in white, Virginia shivered in | zero cold Frigid Levels The mercury dropped to frigid lev- els in the Carolinas and Georgia. A Florida storm from the northwest ripped acress Hampton Roads and blew three scows and a derrick aground near Norfolk, Va. The cold wave left 15 known dead from exposure from Montana to Tennessee. Three died in Tlinois, Itwo each in Towa, North Dakota and Wisconsin, ‘Single deaths were re- | ported in Missouri, New Jersey, Ari- zona, Indiana, Tennessee, and Mon- tana, HUNDREDS DIE "IN EARTHQUAKE CHENGTU, Province of Szechuan, Chin, Dec. 26.—Reports reaching here sald a great number of persons, possibly running into the thousapds, were killed by an earthquake Decem- 18 in the southern part of the Province. Tt is impossible to determ- ine the true extent because of the remoteness and inaccessibility of the area. Tribes of Lolo, in the moun- tains, are believed to be the chief | sutferers.