The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 15, 1936, Page 1

ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” | MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 17 ARE KILLED IN CRASH OF AIRLINER | THE DAILY * JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1936, VOL. XLVIL, NO. 7170, PANESE LEAVE NAVAL CONFERENCE JAPAN DELEGATES QUIT LONDON SESSION ON FLEET ISSUE Concede Ship Equality Causes Japan's Action TREATY NEGGTIATIONS Refusal of Big Powers to] WILL BE CONTINUED Limitations Discussion to Go Forward Tomorrow on Four-Power Basis LONDON, Jan. 15.—Jap- anese delegates tonight an- ncunced their withdrawal from the naval conference. Their decision signifies the end of the five-power dis- cussions seeking to effect an agreement on naval lim- itation to replace the expir- ing Washington-London treaties. It was announced follow- ing the showdown session that the conference discus- sions were deadlocked over the Japanese de m and for fleet equality with four oth- er powers, Great Britain, the United States, Italy and France. The naval conference is expected to meet again to- morrow to agree upon a new four-power parley without the Japanese. e GRANGE OFFERS | | | Gladys Swarthout, American o Hollywood studio, in a chic white at the swimming pool at her Be BRIEF JUNEAU | ROMANCE ENDS. WITH DIVORGE | | | | | | | pera star now under contract to a bathing suit at her daily sun bath verly Hills home. Miss Swarthout | doesn't believe avoirdupois essential to a vocal career. (Associated | Press Photo) Dr. Whiting Passes Away In Seattle SEATTLE, Jan. 15—Dr. Fen- ton B. Whiting, rged 67, Seattle surgeon and author, and veteran of the Alaska gold rush, died early today of a cerebral ailment. Dr. Whiting wrote the high SOUTHERN ARMY CRUSHES DRIVE OF ETHIOPIANS Negus’ Counter Assault Re- pulsed—Fighting on All Fronts LEAGUE AWAITS NEW COURSE OF BRITAIN Cabinet Instructs Eden on Proposals at Session in Geneva GENEVA, Jan. 15—Reports receiv- ed here claim that" the Italian southern armies have crushed the gathering Ethiopian drive on the Dolo front, repulsing and pul'sumgI the enemy. | The communique said that the So- maliland forces drove back Ras Des- ta Demtus’ army in a vigorous ac- | tion. The Italian report stated: | “PFighting continues along the entire front. Our losses so far have not | been serious.” NEW PENALTIES EXPECTED | LONDON, Jan. 15.—The British | cabinet met today to instruct For-| eign Secretary Anthony Eden on aj course regarding fresh penalties against Italy at the League of Na- | tions’ council session next Monday. | Authoritative sotirces predicted that Eden would carry pledges of English participation in further sanctions against Italy at the com- ing session of the League. The dis- cussion of the sanctions will prob- ably be re-instituted, and suggested oil, coal, iron and steel embargoes are forecast in London. FAIRBANKS NOW BALLOTING FOR CARNIVAL QUEEN FISHING TOWN This Is the press building at the New Jersey state prison at Trenton where newspapermen will have their headquarters to flash to the world the news of the scheduled execution of Bruno Richard Haupt- mann, convicted kidnaper-slayer of the Lindbergh baby. (Associated Press Photo) TOWESTWARD Mild Scarlet Fever, Small- pox Along Alaska Railroad Belt SEWARD, Alaska, Jan. 15.—Dr. A, D. Haverstock, Public Health Officer, said that fifteen cases of an undiag- nosed disease have been reported from Port Graham and he has telegraphed to Cordova asking that the Coast Guard cutter Morris be rushed to the stricken fishing town. Authorities reported mild cases of scarlet fever and smallpox prevalent over the entire distance of the Alas- ke Railroad belt except Nenana, || Moose Pass and Seward. Belle Captain ‘SOVIET BUDGET "FOR ARMY WILL | | | ! nounces Huge Increase Due to War Threat MOSCOW, Jan. 15.—After repeat- | |ed charges that aggressive neighbors are threatening the Soviet Union with war from both East and West, the government today announced its military budget of 1936 to be more | than double that of last year. i During the past year the standing army was brought to approximately % 1,000,000 men. Russia this year will spend 14,800,- 000,000 rubles, about $2960,000,000 on armed forces, said Gregory Grin- DOUBLE N 133 Commissar of Finance An- | | | | 14 PASSENGERS, CREW OF THREE DEAD. ACCIDENT | Huge Craft,Edies of Vic- tims, Torn te Bits in Night Disaster WRECKAGE FOUND, WATERFILLED BOG Plane Plows Through Dense Growth of Trees —Cause Unknown GOODWIN, Ark., Jan. 15. —Appalled by the worst dis- aster in American plane travel, volunteers struggled threugh knee-deep cold wat- er today to recover the man- gled bodies of 17 persons killed by the crash of the air liner Southerner in an Arkansas swamp last night. Twelve men, four women and one child made up the fourteen passengers and crew of three in the ill-fated ship on the Memphis-Little Rock hop of the regular New York-Los Angeles flight. A Department of Commerce official, viewing the splintered wreckage, said the cause of the accident will probably never be known. Both plane and bodies were torn to bits as the liner crash- ed through a dense growth of trees, scattering plane parts and victims over an area 400 yards long and 75 yards wide. The wreckage came to rest in a water-filled bog. Coronor J. C. Crawford, after ex- SUBSTITUTE FOR virginia Grayland Frank W. ko, Commissar of Finance. Last year’s war budget amounted | to 6,500,000,000 rubles, but actual ex- lights of ten years in Alaska with reminiscences of Soapy Smith and other characters, in a book, amining all bodies removed from wreckage, held that the victims “died (by an accidental airplane crash.” FAIRBANKS QUARANTINE Honored Girl to Compete with Candidates from FARM PROGRAM % Sineiiest New 10-Point Plan Submit- ted to Congress—Take Place of Old AAA WASHINGTON, Jan. 15. — The National Grange, dean of organized farm groups, submitted to the Sen- | ate agriculture committee today a 10-point program for a new nation- al plan to replace the AAA. Grange officials said it represented a crys- tallizing of farm sentiment against the constitutionality and question- able rewriting of AAA to control ag- ricultural production through subsi- ' dized soil conservation. The Grange plan asks Congress to provide appropriations for comple- tion of contracts entered into in good faith and partially carried out by the farmers. It urges a soil conser- vation program based on a rise in | rotation of crops; a system of gov- ernment rentals to build up nationai resources; speeding up retirement of marginal and submarginal lands for foresting; conservation of recrea- tional and wild Lie uses; retention and expansion of the surplus com- modity corporation to deal with ag- ricultural surpluses. B. M. BEHRENDS AND WIFE BOUND SOUTH B. M. Behrends and Mrs. Behr- ends are passengers aboard the | Princess Norah for the south. They will go to Seattle and then to Cali- fornia where Mrs. Behrends will probebly remain while Mr. Behrends goes to Chicago. He may go east to «New York on his trip. Mr. and Mrs. Behrends expect to return to Juneau about March 1. - — N GOES SOUTH VIFQUAI C. J. Vifquain, General Agent for the White Pass and Yukon Route at Dawson, is a passenger on the Princess Norah enroute from Skag- way to the States. tle — Married Here | SEATTLE, Jan. 15.--The brief Alaska romance of Mrs. Virginia Bandy, singer, neared as she filed I her divorce suit against Frank W.| | Bandy today. | Mrs. Bandy, nee Virginia Gray-| !land, met Bandy when she spent| |a two weeks' vacation in Juneau last | summer. They were married in | Holy Trinity Cathedral on Septem- ! |ber 15, with Dean C. E. Rice per-| | forming the ceremony, and Miss| | Lucille McGuire and Mr. Henry Nelson serving as attendants. | While here, Mrs. Bandy sang | several times over radio station KINY . ———ee—— FLOOD WATERS ‘THREATENING N NORTH CAL. Ranchers and Lowland Residents Near Sacra- | mento Prepare to Move | | | SAN FRANCISCC, Cal., Jan. 15.— | Harrassed ranchers and lowland res- | idents scanned the rain-bearing | skies today prepared to evacuate as | swollen Northern California rivers threatened again to burst the levees. The Higliway Department engi- neers have closed the flood gates between Sacramento and suburbs to | the north of the American River. Officials predicted the Sacramento River would reach the highest level of the season. Bridges have been washed out at several points already. -—— NOWELLS RETURN Mr. and Mrs. Willis E. Nowell, who | spent the Christmas holidays in Se- attle, returned to Juneau on the Northwestern. “Grit, Grief and Gold.” Dr. Whiting lived for many years in Skagway, as physician in the construction days of the White Pass and Yukon Route and several years after. From Skagway he went to Cordova for a short time and then to Se- attle where he located. D:r. Whiting had a host of friends in Alaska and made scores in Seattle. He was highly respected and honored by all who knew him. LABOR COUNCIL PROTESTS LOSS OF 34 SEAMEN Jowa Disaster Blamed by Union on “Giving First Thought to Profits” PORTLAND, Oregon, Jan. 15.— While a new storm ripped into Ore- gon and Washington coast lines, a storm of protest also rose from union labor over the loss of 34 lives when the freighter Iowa piled up on Pea- cock Spit. A Federal mvestigation was de- manded by G. O. Hunter, Vice-Presi- dent of the Portland Labor Council, . and other union spokesmen. Hunter assailed the practice of taking steamers over the Columbia River bar without a bar pilot and questioned the judgment of om-f cers in putting to sea in the face of | a roaring hurricane. said. ~ 1 Flags on ships carrying union workers will fly at half mast during a 15-day mourning period. | Alaskan Towns | FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan. 15.— This city began balloting yesterday for the Northland Beauty Queen contest to nominate ten girls who will run in the finals for the title of Miss Fairbanks. The winner will en- ter the contest against candidates of other Alaskan towns for the ice car- nival here, March 6 to March 8, in- clusive, for title of Miss Alaska who will rule over the carnival. The Carnival Committee has in- vited all Alaska towns to enter can- didates. MERCURY HITS LOW FOR YEAR, CANADIAN AREA Fifty and Sixty-two Degrees| Below Zero Tempera- | tures Reported EDMONTON, Jan. 15.—The sea- | son's records for subzero tempera- | tures in the North were smashed today with a reading of 62 degrees below zero at Ft. Vermilion, 200 miles north of Peace River. Keg River was next in line with 50 below. BRIT. NOVELIST DIES ; USES GAS } | “The belief is increasing that the! LONDON, Jan.15.—Cynthia Stock- |loss of lives was due to first consid- |ley, British novelist, was found dead | erations being given to profits,” he in her home this morning, appar- ently a victim of gas poisoning. ‘The body was 1lying in front of a gas fire. One end of a gas tube was in the novelist's mouth. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan. | The scarlet fever quarantine is to || be continued to Friday and if no i new cases develop the quarantine i penditures amounted to about 2.v, 000,000,000 rubles additional. | Premier Molotoff last week de-| clared that both Japan and Germany | will be lifted. No new cases have de: veloped since the end of last week. Officials are guarding all train: and planes against smallpox from the coast, making a rigid inspection. | CHARGE WILSON OF COMPLICITY IN WAR BUILT |Senate Munitions Commit-| tee Discloses Evidence Against Late Chief WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.--Chair- | man Gerald P. Nye of the Senate | Munitions Committee, asseried to- | day that Woodrow Wilson . falsified in chronicling some of the circum- stances surrounding America’s en- | trance into the World War. | Senator Nye attacked Wilson's | post-war story that he did not! know at the time the United States | went into the struggle of sapret| treaties between the Allies for he| redistribution of Europe. | Both Senator Nye and Senator | Bennett Champ Clark joined in]| asserting that documents they had | ready in the State Department files | and elsewhere proved that both Wilson and Secretary of State Rob- | ert Lansing knew of the treaties. Senator Nye said : “Wilson and Lansing were fully apprised by | Balfour of the secret treaties to which the British were commit- Here's beautiful Ilireva Averill —it’s a streamlined name, that reads the same backward or forward, who has been named Captain of 100 page girls for the California-Pacific Interna- tional Exposition, which reopens in San Diego February 12. She wen the distinction with a rat- ing of 97.8 per cent for mental- ity, personality, health and edu- cation, in competition with 150 other candidates. 4 PARTIES PONDER PREDICTION FOR SIX-TICKET RACE By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Bureau, The Associated Washington) However skeptical may be their remarks for publication, practical politicians have found much food for thought in the prediction of Senator James Hamilton Lewis that Searching parties did not find the wrecked plane until after mid- night. Department of Commerce inspec- are contemplating an attack on the | tors arrived immediately to make a Soviet Union, ->> | Tragedy Is Revealed in Phone Call Doctor Summoned to House, Finds Mother, Slayer of Three | WEST CHESTER, Pa. Jan Apparently temporarily Mrs. Joseph Oberle beat three chil- dren to death with a three-foot pinch bar while they slep. and then tried to kill herself. | The tragedy was discovered by Dr. E. Leroy Barber after he had been summoned by telephone to the Oberle home by Mrs. Oberle’s frantic words “I just killed them ™ 15— deranged, | ! | | | the crash. e ——— REPRIEVE FOR HAUPTMANNIS DEFENSE HOPE Governor Has Not Yet Decided — Attorneys Seeking Clemency probe of TRENTON, N. J., jan. 15.—Bruno Hauptmann’s attorneys today con- tinued to seek an eleventh-hour re- prieve to snatch him from the shad- ow of the electric chair. Losing in the Federal Court habeas corpus proceedings yesterday, attor- neys planned to apply to Gov. Harold G. Hoffman. One attorney said there were defi- nite indications that a reprieve would The woman was removed 0 the |halt the execution, which is sched- hospital in @ critical condition and | yleq for Friday night. The attorneys the children’s bodies were taken t0 | held an all-night conference. the morgue. Mr. Oberle is out of the city on business. - Kills Daughter and Then Himself MACGN, Georgia, Jan. 15.—Albert Previously Senator Clark charged‘su Presidential tickets may play adams, Sr., General Agent for an that Col. Edward House, confiden- tial advisor to President Wilson, had agreed to bring the United States into the war without know- ledge of Congress. significant parts in the campaign of 1936. Senator Lewis is an old-timer at the game of politics. He has bad (Continued on Page Seven) insurance company, shot and killed his two young daughters and then fatally wounded himself with a shot- gun. No cause is known for the trag- edy. | | | GOVERNOR STUDIES CASE TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 15— Gov. Harold G. Hoffman announced this forencon he had “reached no decis- |ion on the question of a reprieve for Hauptmann.” The Governor's press aide, Wil- liam Conklin, said the governor was continuing his private investigation of the case and is seeking legal ad- vice on his power to reprieve at this late date. Mrs. Hauptmann teday informed her husband of the refusal of the Federal Court to grant a writ of habeas corpus and told him his main hope for escape from the chair rest- ed with the Governor.