The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 14, 1936, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR VOL. XLVIL, NO. 7169, REPRIEVE EXPECTED FOR HAUPTMANN JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1936, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS * PRICE TEN CENTS BRITISH ALL QUIET IN BATTLE ZONE: INVASION LAGS British Craft Watch Medi- terranean as French Foresee End MUTINEERS HANGED IN ETHIOPIAN ARMY Supply Trasis Seised by In- vaders—Little Fight- ing Reported LONDON, Jan. 14—British war- ships steamed southward toward the Gibraltar gateway to the Mediter- WARSHIPS STEAMING SOUTH THEY'LL KEEP THEIR PROMISE-PERHAPS TAKES ADVANCE IN COMMITTEE Democratic Leader in Sen-| * ate Makes Predic- | tion on Bill 1 WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—Despite | the testimony by Secretary of Treas- | ury Morgenthau that the Govern-' ment would have to raise a mini- mum of eleven billion dollars in the next seventeen and one haif months, | ,the Senate Finance Committee ap-{ proved the new baby bond bonus, | payment bill by a vote of 15 to 2 |* Senator Joseph ranean today, as Premier Laval began a period of watchful waiting ' for a settlement of the Ethiopian war. Authoritative sources here said | that the massing of English craft off the coast of Spain constitutes a de- | fense preparation against any poten- tial Mediterranean attack. The de- | parture of the British ships left the Island Kingdom without any protec- tion of major naval strength. LAVAL AWAITS PEACE PARIS, Jan. 14.—Informed sourc- ‘ es here report that the program of | Premier Laval and other French peace-makers consists of “an inactive policy for settlemeni of the war.” An | early election for a new Chamber | of Deputies is expected, with foreign policy one of the major is- sues. SUPPLIES CAPTURED DJIBOUTI, French Somaliland Jan. 14—Fascist patrols which sur- prised an Ethiopian commissary col- umn in the Tembien sector captured 1,000 bags of provisions, Italian dis- patches here reported. Eighty mutineers from Ras Mulu- gheta’s defending army were hanged and 100 flogged as dissatisfaction HOWARD HUGHES BREAKS RECORD ‘New Federal Crime Laws Put on Congress Work-List spread through the Ethiopian ranks. The war fronts were reported to be quiet today. CHURCH BOMBED GENEVA, Jan. 14—The death or wounding of ten Ethiopians in a church at Sakota in northern Ethi- opia and the blinding of ten others by Italian aerial bombs are claimed in an official communique from the Ethiopian quarters at Dessye, where Emperor Haile Selassie has estab- lished field headquarters. The planes are said to have wreck- ed the church January 10. The town is being bombed daily. PROTEST BY SWEDEM STOCKHOLM, Jan. 14—Sweden formally protested to Italy today against the bombing of a Swedish Ambulance unit in Ethiopia. The protest was presented to the Minis- ter from Rome. GORRELL NAMED AR LINE GZAR CHICAGO, Ill, Jan. 14—Col. Ed- gar E. Gorrell, former head of the S.utz Motor Company, has been named czar of the nation’s air trans- port lines. He will have powers sim- ilar to those of Landis and Hays of baseball and movies. The appointment was announced at a meeting of the newly-formed Air Transport Association. ——————— Italy Wary of Sanctions; Sends Cil Around Horn CRISTOBAL, Canal Zone, Jan. 14. —Although the Panama Canal is bound by international agreement to accommodate the ships of all nations, irrespective of agreements govern- ing cargoes, Italy is dodging possible entanglements over future oil sanc- tions. A few days ago an Italian tanker, rare enough at all times in this lo- cality, transited the canal in ballasi enroute for Talara, Peru. She was WASHINGTON, Jan. 14—It may | as well be put down right now that | the list of congressional subjects for this session. ed in the flight of the Lindberghs to ]Europe has made it all but certain | - ithat efforts further to increase the | | | iy !made. i : - s ] Rocky Road Seen i California Daredevil Smash-| ‘ | 2s the stage where new enactments | ° |are in clos: he | Turner s ]934 Mark e in close prospect, however. tl |rocky one. There is, and always has | NEW YORK, Jan. 14.— Howflfd]bcen, in Congress an important sec- | has crowned his thrilling air achieve- | high degree of concentration in | ments by completing the fastest|Washington of investigative and | Hughes flew without stop from! Men of this school always say they | Burbank, California, to Newark in|yield to no others in their desire | smashing by more than a half-hour | fundamental points with those who the record set in 1934 by Roscoe Tur- favor turning over the more import- Hughes flew most of the distance | tharities. Opposition is based on the at 18,000 feet, breathing part of thfi'lheory that i tis unwise so to lift tained a speed cf 295 miles an hour | officials. and averaged close to 260. Most of those in this group are | | old doctrines of states' rights. Oper- ating on the same general philosophy | eral anti-lynching law. BLAZE K“-Ls 2 | The “Lindbergh Law” | | est in the subject cf kidnaping in i 11932, when it passes the “Lindbergh 1 w |law” making it a felony to transport | | kidnaped persons across state lines. an unexpected newcomer will go on | The wide public interest manifest- | Federal authority over crime will be o by Half Hour Roscoe Granting such a movement reach- | | road from there on is likely to be a | Hughes, young California darede: tion of influential opinion against a | transcontinental flight ever made. |prosecuting power. |9 hours 27 minutes 10 seconds, to stamp out crime, but differ at! ner. ‘ant police functions to Federal au- time from a tank of oxygen. He at- | responsibility from state and local APttt 1higll-raxxk1ng Democrats, clinging to EARLY MnHNING | they have successfully opposed a fed- Congress first showed vital inter- |In 1934, measures going much fur- “ R d ther were passed, one of them mak- {Fifty Persons Are Route: |ing 1t presumptive that a kidnap- 1 |ing was interstate—and thus sub- OU;- frolrn BEléght | ject to Federal authority—if the vic- amily Bldg. {tim was missing more than three | days. NEW YORK, Jan. 14—Two men| Incidentally, the so-called “Lind~ were burned to death in a tenement | |fire early this morning which de- stroyed the upper two floors of an eight-family building, one block off Doomed Greek Colonel Times Square. o g 4 Firemen found the body of Pedro to Train Aby”m“, Chavez, 33, on a stairway landing, charred. He was caught in the path | ATHENS, Jan. 14—Although he is of the flames. |under sentence of death from the The body of Frank Murrello, 31, |Greek government, Colonel Bakirtsis was discovered in a bed on the fourth | has just been offered a new appoint- floor. . |ment, He is able to accept it be- | The blaze routed 50 persons from cause it does not involve his return | the burning dwelling. | to Greece. e - (Continued o1, Page Seven) R o S The colonel has been invited by the 8.8. Stelvio. Brazil's first program length t.n.lkie’ Her captain told canal officers|“Favella dos Meus Amores,” 8,’:00‘ here that he would return to Genoa | feet long, will be distributed with | the Belgian military mission, which | is organizing Abyssinia’s new army, to join the Ethiopian general staff j Democratic leader, predicted | measure will be enacted before the !end of this month f e | iBruaidcasiing | Companies Ban GOP Prupagandav Because wedding bells claimea 85 stewardesses, the air line for which these young women work now refuses to consider applications for hostesses’ positions if early marriage is planned. These stew- ardesses are making a leap year resolution to remain single n 1936, but Patricla McCarthy (second from left), who wears a ring and keeps her fingers crossed, seems to make some reservations. Left to right: Grace Matson, Miss McCarthy, Hazel Maulsby, Nancy Wilson, Hazel Frenchand Frances Gosney. (Associated Press Photo) AL SMITH SEEN AS ACTIVE FOE OF ROOSEVELT Believed Despefate Battle to Be Waged Against Administration By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Bureau, The Associaied Press, Washington) Al Smith’s return to the open arena of politics has enlivened the Democratic scene greatly, although | opinions differ as to the ultimate importance of the event. It is beginning to be understood generally that Mr. Smith's objec- tions to Mr. Roosevelt and his poli- cies are fundamental, deep-seated, earnest and tinged with a personal exasperation which almost sur- passes the bounds of ordinary lan- guage. The conviction that the break between the two is complete and enduring, on Smith's side at least, arises from several great and small causes. One is the comparatively minor incident of the rejected White House invitation. Another is Smith’s constant devotion to the aims and activities of the Liberty League, now the most active engine of organized effort against Roosevelt. The strongest cause, perhaps, is zheJ now widely-disseminated knowledge of private and semi-private re- marks Smith has made about the “New Deal.” Putting two and two together, (Continued on Page Three) Schall’s Death | T. Robinson, | ! | 'Major Networks ‘Refuse: | Facilities for Political | Dramatizations ! | NEW YORK, Jan. 14—Two major broadcasting companies, NBC and | |CBS have refused their facilities to the Republican National Committe2 | for political purposes. | Both systems refused to sell GDP‘ Cheirman Henry P. Fletcher facili- | | ties for a political dramatization of | the New Deal and Republican issues. | In addition, Columbia system per- | manently banned any form of dra- | ! matization of political issues and ruled off the air all paid political! broadcasting until after the party | conventions. | Columbia’s President, Willlam &.' Paley, said it is not the policy of the !system to permit anyone to mak~ |use of the facilities as they saw fit, “since the responsibility for the structure of the broadcasting lies with us rather than with those whc |buy time from us.” Lenox R. Lonl, President of NBC, ‘wrote Fletcher: “To accept such dra- | matic programs as you have offered Iwould place the discussion of vital political and national issues on a basis of dramatic license rather than |stated fact or opinion.” From Washington, Chairman Fletcher hurled charges of “cen- sorship” at the broadcasting com- | panies. e .o | Final Decree Is Issued, Pickford, Fairbanks Divorce | HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Jan. 14— Divorce at last separates Doug- las Fairbanks and Mary Pick- ford, but work in a manner unites them. Each is now busy at the United | Artists Studio, Miss Pickford producing a picture and Fair- banks preparing to do so. The final decree was issued yesterday. Widens Gapr in Ranks of “New Deal” Foes By HERBERT PLUMMER WASHINGTON, Jan. 14—By the singular and macabre coincidence of death the Senate’s two most bitter opponents of President Roose- velt were stilled before the open- ing of the 1936 Congress. Huey P. Long and Thomas D. Schall, so active in the 1935 ses- sion, lost their lives violently. No two other men in Congress have been more vocal against the Ad- ministration: certainly no others would have been more arduously opposed for re-election. The way in which they met death (La., and Schall, the blind Minne- sota Republican, prosaically from automobile injuries suffered almost within walking distance of the na- tional capitol. Too, they were whol- 'Iy dissimilar personalities in many respects, alike chiefly in the un- paralleled vigor of their denuncia- | tions of Mr. Roosevelt. But in this one regard they had relations ex- traordinarily close for a regular Re- publican and an insurgent Demo- crat. UNANSWERED QUESTION For further coincidence, both the Gaug Out” Is Democratic Rally Call Sounded by Farley TUCKAHOE, N Jan. 14.—Pos'~ | professed gangsters of big business’ master General James A. Farley last |85 “arrant demagogues and hireliny night sounded the Democratic rally :’f;’l‘l‘;(‘,’,”"“"“““ Whidme slock 1 Rl cry of the Presidential campaign |y poes cooke at a delayed with: s 1 | Jackson Day dinner of the West- | 'PROCEEDINGS ARE STARTED |Two Mysterious Letters | Signed by Dr. Condon Figure in Latest Move “Keep Roosevelt in and keep the chester County Democratic Commit- | mplifi- laration gang out.” [ tee. His words were a clea The Democratic National Commit- | cation of the President’s d tee Chairman arraigned the “self-|to Congress of “no retreat.” Skating Champions Try Course the| Three European skating champions of their respective countries, left to right, Sonja Henie of Norway, who is also world's figure skat- ing champion; Liselotte Landbeck of Austria, and Maxi Herber of Germany, posed for the cameraman during practice at the German upon a basis of responsibility for | winter resort where the 1936 Olympics are scheduled. i MORGAN SILENT 'AS SEN. GLARK STATES CHARGE Declares England War-time Shipping Regulations Tied U.S. Trade WASHINGTON, Jan. 14—J. P. | Morgan listened without comment as | Senator Champ Clark, Democrat of | Missouri, charged that England’s wartime shipping regulations “tied up lour trade irretrievably with the Al- lied cause.” | Earlier he challenged an effort to | show that the Federal Reserve 8ys- tem violated our neutrality in 1915 Iby negotiating with the JBank of England. - e — ‘Anchorage Is Now ' Under Quarantine ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 14.—- ‘This city joined the list of quaran- tined cities today as the number of scarlet fever cases increased to seven, although all cases are mild. and all public gatherings are banned. The authorities said the measure was a precautionary one. — - Starting Fire With Oil Causes Five Deaths POPULAR BLUFF, Mo., Jan. 14.—Mrs. Virgie Willard, 26, and four children were burned to death in their home near Taskee Public schools were closed today |* MASS FLIGHT OF PLANES IS IN PROGRESS Twenty-five Marine Craft Joins Fleet for Winter final unit of a mass movement into the West Indies for winter maneuvers, left here today. The squad is scheduled to alight for the night at Quantanamo. e, ALASKAN GIRL WILL BECOME - “GOLD DIGGER” | { RENO, Nev., Jan. 14.—Jean Hor- ning of Alaska, is taking a practi- cal course in gold digging. She will be the first woman student to gradu- ate from the Mackay school of mines at the University of Nevada. FATHER SOUTH ON ALASKA W. S. Horning, Miss Horning’s father, one of the owners of the Goid Cord mine near Wasilla, passed through Juneau last week on the Alaska enroute to Reno, Nev., to visit his daughter. | Hoover to Make Address | at Lincoln on Thursday NEW YORK, Jan. 14.—Herbert Hoover will deliver an address at Maneu vers OPALOCKA, Florida, Jan. 14— Twenty-five Marine planes, the| by way of the Straits of Magellan with his cargo of crude oil. Spanish script for the throughout Latin-America. dialog (He is at present in Bulgaria, but is lexpected to go to Addis Ababa soon. was widely different—Long from an | were to come up for re-election this assassin’s bullet at Baton Rouge, | (Continueda on Page Six.) today. A can of oil used by the hus- band and father, Poney Willard, to start a fire in the stove, ex- ploded, He was critically injured. Lincoln, Nebraska, on Thursday, |according to an announcement to- {day by the Republican National Committee. The subject to be dealt {with will be agricultural problems 'GOVERNOR EXPECTED | TO STAY EXECUTION Rush Signature of Baby Kill- er from Death Cell to | Court Hearing BULLETIN, Trenton, N. J., Jan. 14.—Attorney Gen- eral Wiléntz said this after- noon he was reliably inform- ¥ | ed Gov. Hoffman would grant Hauptmann a reprieve and told members of the Legislature if the reprieve | was granted he would need | more money to handle the state’s case. IS DENIED TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 14.—Federal Circuit Judge J. Warren Davis late this | | mann’s appeal for a writ of | ! habeas corpus. HABEAS CORPUS MOVE ! TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 14.—- Bruno Hauptmann’s counsel went into conference in a hotel ;here today preparatory to !start habeas corpus proceed- {ings before Fed er al Circuit {Judge J. Warren Davis for the release of the kidnaper. C. |Lloyd Fisher said the attor- neys hoped a final draft of the application would be ready to {present to Judge Davis before the usual time for leaving {court at 5 p.m. | Mystery Letters Gov. Harold G. Hoffman’s press aide gave out photostats of two mysterious manuseript letters signed with the name tof Dr. John F. “Jafsie” Con- don. The person to' whom the letters were sent was not named. Hauptmann’s signed peti- tion for a habeas corpus writ was to be obtained in the death cell and attorneys rushed from the conference room to'the prison to get his signature in time for filing today. The Lindbergh baby killer’s execution is set for Friday night. WRECKED SHIP BEING POUNDED BY HIGH SEAS Coast Guardsmen Unable to Go Near lowa—Only 6 Bodies Recovered ASTORIA, Ore., Jan. 14—Rising winds and heavy seas pounded the skeleton of the freighter Iowa on Peacock Spit today, which was wrecked early Sunday morning with the loss of the 3¢ members of the crew. Coast guardsmen found it im- possible to take their boats close enough to board the broken bow. Only six bodies have been recov- ered and all have been identified. It is feared many bodies may never be recovered. afterncon denied Haupt- “==~=