The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 7, 1936, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR VOL. XLVIL, NO, 7163. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1936. MORGAN TELLS WHY U. S. WAS IN WORLD WAR German Acts and Not In- ternational Finances Was Cause WASHINGTON, Jan. 7—J. P.{ Morgan, of the J. P. Morgan Com- pany, told the Senate Munitions| Committee today that German acts and not international finances pushed the United States into the World War. The famous banker faced ques- tioning by Senators intent on cre- | ating sentiment for legislation to curb financial dealings with war-; ring nations. Mr. Morgan's contention that financial transactions did not lead | to war was read from a printed | statement over the objections of | committee members. | Nye’s Statement Chairman Nye said: “Our inves- tigations show that the United| States, prior to our entry into the | World War, had made large sales| to foreign countries and the financ-| ing of arms and munitions of war| had been put into the hands of a few banking institutions.”” He re-}‘ minded that the committee was;| empowered to investigate the de-| sirability of creating a Government | monopoly on arms and munitions manufacturing. | Morgan’s Testimony | Witness Morgan said: “When| the United States came into the! war it was not driven into it by! any individual or class. It came| into the war because Germany made it impossible for the United States to refrain any longer. Ger- many drove us into the war by a series of insults and injuries result-| ’ > NOTED BANKER IS WITNESS IN PRO } San Francisco’s famed Scath of Market district will undergo another great change by 1938, when it will appear as pictured above with clevated ramps carrying motor and train traffic on and off the “A” shows the upper deck of the bridge leading into the city; “B,” the off ramp for automobile traffic, going to First and Clementina Streets; “C,” the on ramp, the bridgeway for motor traffic from “Fremcnt and Harrison Streets; “D,” the on cr off 1amp for trucks to or from the bridge, meeting the street near First Street; “E” the train ramp, leading te projected terminal between First and Seccnd, Mis ien and Howard Streets, and “F.” the mam on and off ramp, running between Harrison and Bryant Streets from a plaza at Fifth Street. The side ramps measure twenty feet in width. San Francicco-Gakland bridge approach. leading cntc width of this main ramp is fif APPROPRIATIO! BILL PROVIDES ty-eight feet. |Cash Payment of |Bonus Favored by ; House Committee 1 WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—The House Ways and Means Commit- tee voted last night in favor of How Eievated Bridge Ram“p—s- Will Run Into S.F. IWITNESS SAID THREATENED IN i MURDER TRIAL Man Jailed ;c;'?:ontempl— Ex-wife Claims Tes- timony *‘Lies” BULLETIN— Harry DeGroot took the stand in his own de- fense at the court session this af- ternoon. | l The arrest of a Juneau man for igovemment witness, and the asser- | tion of the latter that her testimony ion behalf of the defendant at the | first trial was “all lies,” today pro- { vided the highlights of the retrial of | Harry DeGroot, previously convicted | here of second degree murder. | Clarence Johnson was arrested by the United States Marshal's Office yesterday and cited for contempt of court for assertedly threatening Mrs Peter Kirkibo, formerly Mrs. Har DeGroot, and also for alleged carry- | ing a threatening letter to her from the accused man himself. Johnson lieu of $2500 bond, and is to be exander next Saturday morning. Story Said False On the stand this morning Mrs. Kirkibo declared under cross-exam- ination that she “lied to everything” on behalf of her former husband when he was first brought to trial for first degree murder in November, 1933. DeGroot is charged with the slay- ing of Abe Hansen &t Hirst-Chicha- gof in the spring of 1933. He was convictegd of the crime on November 10 of that year, and was sentenced to 20 years in prison by Judge Alexan- der. His case was appealed by his attorneys on an assignment of al- The MRS, BENTLEY, OF FAIRBANKS, alleged intimidation of the chicf | was remanded to the Federal jail in | brought before Judge George F. Al- | | | | | | 3election of Miss Carmen Fulkerson of Seasid Oregon State college, as the most a brilliant student career marked CONFERENCE OF honors, BE | BRITISH NAVAL FORCES ACTIVE, ~ SOUTHERN SEAS | Destroyers Reported Dis- | patched to Waters Off Greece | WARSHIPS SAID TO BE PREPARING, CONFLICT Fascist Pres:‘Attacks U. S. Neutrality Plan— Oil Embargo | | | | | | ATHENS, Jan. 7—Seven British destroyers have arrived in Greek | waters arousing public interest be- | cause of the situation in the Medi- terranean Sea. Unconfirmed reports spread here | that Great Britain has approached | the Greek Government for extension of harbor facilities to British war- | ships in the event of a conflict in | the Mediterranean Sea area. It is also reported that the British | fleet is on °vecial maneuver tactics jnot only in the Mediterranean but { elsewhere and decks are being clear- | ed for possible action NEUTRALITY ATTACKED ROME, Jan. 7.—Attacks on the | United States neutrality. program as proposed by President Roosevelt in his annual message to the American | Congress, occurred in Italy’s Fascist press today and apparently with the full and prior knowledge of Premier Benito Mussolini. One Fascist newspaper said the “President’s stand is necessarily im- perfect and does not show profound knowledge of European problems.” FOR OIL EMBARGO PARIS, Jan. T7.—Unofficial re- , Ore., senior at active and popular co-ed climaxed by numerous social and scholastic NEW DEALERS GOVT. BUDGET FARM LEADERS DISMAYED BY leged errors concerning the admis- ing in the loss of many lives.” s OPEN MEETING FOR MINERS IS THIS EVENING All Workers in Alaska Ju-| neau Asked to Attend —Talks to Be Made An open meeting which all employees of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company are urged to attend will be held tonight by the Juneau Mine Workers Asso- ciation in the A. B. Hall at 7 o'clock. The purpose of the meeting which will be presided over by Ed Kir- choffer is to explain to all em- ployees, particularly the newer ones, the history of the organization and acquaint the employees with what has been done by the association. Several speakers will explain the various phases of the movement, its aims and purposes. Officials of the association believe that for the good of all employees a thorough understanding is essential and urge that all mine employees attend and hear the several interesting and informative talks that have been prepared. ANOTHER TRIAL FACES HUBBARD Former Customs Collector Charged with Liquor Embezzlement SEATTLE, Jan. 7—United States Attorney J. Charles Dennis said | today he will go ahead with plans| to place George D. Hubbard, former Collector of Customs, on trial again on a charge of liquor embezzle- ment. His conviction has been re- versed by the Circuit Court. - .o - The kiwi, a flightless bird of New Zealand, lays the largest egg, rela- tive to the size of the bird, laid by any living species. | | { | | | | { Funds lnclu;i—'l'olal More than Fiscal Year 1935— Endow New Commissions WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. — The first of the 1936-37 appropriation bills, carrying $879,743,000 for under- takings of two dozen Government agencies, was reported today to the House as approved by the Appro- | priations Committee. The bill calls for expenditures | totalling $74,500,000, greater than that allowed for the fiscal year 1935, but $47,600,000 less than the President’s budget. Additional funds provided for veterans and administration of new Government activities. These in- cluded an appropriation for the Federal Power Commission, for en- forcing rates, surveys, and provis- ions for the new Utilities Control Law; the Interstate Commerce Commission, to administer the air- rail rate and make motor vehicle regulations; Securities Commission, for administering holding company provisions; utility laws, railroad re- tirement; National Labor Relations, for arbitration and a central sta- tistical board. The power commission was re- fused a request for $3,600,000 des- pite warnings from Chairman Frank R. McNinch that without this sum he could not begin to carry out the law effectively. e, — PINNED UNDER WATER, PLUNGE OF AUTOMOBILE Young Man Drowns as Car Jumps Over Embank- ment Into Creek REARDON, Wash,, Jan. 7—Pin- ned under the water, Charles Barry, aged 21, died in the wreck- l a cash payment of the bonus to | 3,000,000 veterans. It is planned | to get speedy action on the i measure in the House and also a | vote. A House vote by Friday on the bonus is today sought by Chair- man Doughton of the House Ways and Means Committee. He said he pMnned to ask the lead- ers for procedure which would complete debate and amend- ments on Thursday. The Com- mittee has agreed to eliminate from the bill provisions for re- funding interest paid on loans and on certificates. Bir Is Steilized; Charge Is Brought Against Mother Suit for Half a Million Dol lars Is Result of Operation ‘ SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Jan. 7.—/ Ann Cooper Hewitt, aged 21, great| grand daughter of Peter Cooper, founder of Cooper Union and once a presidential candidate, and grand- daughter of Abram S. Hewitt, once Mayor of New York and Congress- man, has filed suit for half a million dollars damages against her mother, | Mrs. Haryon Hewitt MeCarter, of | New Yark City. . | The girl charges she was duped into a_ sterilization operation just | | before her twenty-first birthday, in | October, 1934, so her mother could | benefit from a $10,000,000 trust fund left Ann by her father, Peter Cooper | | Hewitt, who died in 1921. The trust |fund was to go to the widow if Ann {died childless. Ann said she thought she was to be operated upon for ap- pendicitis. Doctors Tilton E. Tillman and |Samuel G. Boyd, in statements said | they operated on Mrs. McCarter’s or- |ders because she said the girl was feeble minded. ., REV. BROMLEY HERE | | | | | | { PASSES AWAY | Bert Wilson, Foreman, Also sibility of certain testimony and the | Jjudge’s instructions to the jury, and the findings of the local court werc reversed last August 3 by the Circuit | ports received here declare the Brit- ish General Staff is pressing for ap- plication of the oil embargo against Italy and this indicates that the em- ] imonia, A private funeral, i sippi River. Dies as Result of Pneumonia Court of Appeals in San Francisco. Retrial Started The retrial of the case was begun yesterday in the Pederal District PAIRBANKS, Alasks, ~~ Court with R. B. (“Doc”) Melver Jan. T, {Mrs. Harry Bentley, 70, prominent ghe firgt to take the witness chair. |socially and among the pioneers of Mclver told how he had taken DeGroot to Chichagof Island from o 8C~ Juneau aboard his gas boat before count of scarlet fever quarantine, will ¢ o alleged crime, and of the events be held today. Mrs. Bentley's hus- surrounding the shooting. band operates a dairy. He was iollowed on the s T e stand late Bert Wilson, 56, Alaska Road COM- yesterday by Mrs. Kirkibo, who told mission foreman, also died of pneu- mggu:vfwllson: :vho h;ld a Roosevelt gl to obtain employment in Juneau ;“ 8 E' ropeat ’;K @ drowning man, jn 1933 5o she went to Chichagof in has no known relatives. an effort to earn a living for both. P T i 48 There she stated she resided at the cabin of Abe Hansen for several FAvoH Exc“ANeE months, until her husband came t) see her and the killing of Hansen oc- OF NAVAL PLANS "-.. sista. Folta and Defense Counsel H. L. LONDON, Jjan. 7.—B5uitish, French Faulkner marked Mrs. Kirkibo's tes- and Italian naval conference dele- timony and cross-examination. gates alike circulated proposals for Attorney Faulkner read DeGroot’s Fairbanks, died yesterday. of pneu- Attorneys Clash Frequent objections by both As- |2 mutual exchange on information own statement of the crime, given on warship building plans for consid- to his attorneys shortly after the eration by other delegates. deed, and Mrs. Kirkibo claimed that ———————— it was a carefully-rehearsed story which she had been told to recite in SUBZEHU wAvE court at the first trial. The statement described how De- Groot landed at Hirst-Chichagof on Mclver’s boat, then took the trail over the peninsula to Hansen's cabin, where he had learned his wife was staying. He said he was caugh* CHICAGO, Jan. 7.—Centering in out in a snowstorm that night, and Minnesota and adjacent states, the arrived at the cabin the next day, severest coid wave of the winter sick and suffering from exposure. moved eastward to envelop the up- Hansen Makes Threats per Mississippi Valley. His wife cared for him, he said, Subzero temperatures were I°- byt Hansen became abusive ard ported in the northern states from threatening when he returned and the Rocky Mountains to the Missis- 400nv:1;ue<iioin Page Two) how her ex-spouse, DeGroot, was un- | nt District Attorney George W. | ES peedy Recovery Cou;';se Is ' Seen by Railway President | NEW YORK, Jan. 7.—Continued “The extent of that expansion, of | 'mprovement in business was fore- |course, depends upon government |cast in a review of the year by A. C: | restrictions and control. Business ha< age of an automobile in Spring] The Rev. E. E. Bromley, pastor Creek. The car sprung over the of the Presbyterian Church of embankment during the night. | Hoonah, arrived in Juneau on the James Rogers, driver of the car,| motorship Roedda on a short busi- escaped with severe injuries and ness trip. He is registered at the went to a farmhouse for help. | Zynda. | Needles, president of the Norfolt {and Western Railway Company. “Current developments indicate {continued improvement,” he stated. “Business is preparing for further been sobered by the depression. It is ready and eager to go forward. “Given greater freedom to exer- cise private initiative, business can chart and hold to a steady course of true recovery.” SLATED JAN. 10 Will Confer on Shaping Government Program to Replace Smashed AAA WASHINGTON, Jan. 7—Farm leaders have been summoned by Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace to confer January 10 and 11 on shaping a program to re- place the smashed AAA. Sponsors of the meeting said 3,000,000 farmers will be represent- ed by national organizations at the | conference. Representative Jones, of Texas, Chairman of thé House Agricul- tural Committee, said an effort should be made to find a con- | stitutional method of putting all | citizens on an equal footing. Representative Bertrand Snell, Republican leader, said his party would seek to present a farm pro- gram as a possibility. Adding as much as $600,000,000 to the budget appropriation esti- mates to allow the Government to meet existing contracts with farm- ers is seen by Chairman Buchanan of the House Appropriations Com- mittee. e - PARDONS COURT WILL CONSIDER CLEMENCY PLEA If Court Meets in Prison, Hauptmann May Make Personal Appearance TRENTON, N. J, Jan. 7.—Mem- bers of the New Jersey Court of Pardons today awaited the de- cision of Gov. Harold Hofffhan as ‘o the place the court will meet to consider the clemency plea of Bruno Hauptmann, condemned to die next week for the kidnaping and slaying of the Lindbergh baby. The court is to convene Satur- day. 1If it meets at the prison, ‘| Hauptmann may have the oppor- tunity to appear personally. - AAR KNOGKOUT | bargo may be initiated before Feb- 8 ruary 1. Plans for Creation of 4 Separate Organizations Informally Discussed HOPES FOR VICTORY ADDIS ABABA, Jan. 7.—Ethiop- |ians celebrated the holidays buoyed TR iby fresh hopes for victory over the WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—AS the yeajjan invaders. Aiding the Ethi Senate Munitions Committee t0day opian forces are continuous rains opened hearings in the long-pre- which have pelted both armies for a pared inquiry into World War fi-| full week, especially on the Northern nancing, New Dealers, at the bier front. of AAA, pondered the fate of other/ >, — against the farm program con-‘cAPTl leTNEY tinued to dismay sponsors of the AAA, which came to an abrupt stop. The opinjon is expressed by some that the Soclal Security Act, the Guffey Coal Control Act, and the & SR Widely Known Alaskan and here is a possibility new may be recommended. | Former Steamboat In- Plans for a major farm meeting! spector Strlcken at 77 here, to discuss possible future leg- i islation, and talk of creation of 48| pegth reached out Sund in little AAAs or Federal grants to Berkeley, Cal,, to take from Alask farms for “proper land use” OF|ang the pacific Coast one of its over in New Dealer conferences. | .,re than 30 years and a former Salaries of 6500 AAA WOrkers pioy)y respected and honored eiti- have been cut off and the flow of| o of Juneau for 16 years. cash to farmers stopped. Capt. Whitney was stricken in 3 BNt his 77th year 'at the home of his (niece, Cora M. Steeves in Berkeley. | Word of the death was received DEA“ IN FIREJ Few men have won a warmer recent legislation, Wagner (Labor Relations Law may be doomed as a direct result of a quota system for crops to be 50, posy loved and best known resi- domestically at prices guaranheed‘dems_‘cnm_ George H. Whitney, ‘| here today in a telegram to M.'S. | Whittier, Assistant Collector of Cus- MORDEN, Manitoba, Jan. 7—Two Place in the hearts of Alaskans persons are dead and four others of | than the sturdy, colorful down east The Supreme Court's decision IN CALIFORNIA the decision 5 by the Government, were milled ajacka steamboat inspector for | | toms, and an old time friend. the same family are in a serious con- ' skipper, Capt. Whitney. He made dition as the résult of fire in a farm home near here 75 miles south of Winnipeg. The dead are Mrs. Arni Olafson and her daughter Annie. - ——— Dog Follows Postman BROOKFIELD, Mo.—"Jiggs,” a small white dog, meets Postman his entry into the Territory in 1898 when he was assigned in the sum- mer time from the San Francisco office of steamboat inspection to | northern waters. At that time this | district was under the San Fran- cisco office and in the winter the Captain was stationed at Honolulu. In 1912 when the Juneau office was established, being transferred from Sitka where it had its incep- Lee Fletcher on a corner near ""-‘;uon, Capt. Whitney was placed in post office promptly at 8 am. d““/!chuge as +Local Inspetcor of Hulls. and follows him. On Sundays and| g remained here until July 20, holidays the dog waits all day onf___ the corner. (Continued on Fage Two)