The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 16, 1936, Page 1

| o THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLVIL, NO. 7171 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1936. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS HAUPTMANN 'WINS 30-DAY REPRIEVE 14 DIE DURING ATTACK ON RED CROSS STATION Invaders ‘M:]:e Sweeping| Advance—Selassie to Leave Front LAVAL GOVERNMENT NEARING DOWNFALL! Early End of Fr France’s Role as Peace-maker Is Seen in Paris ADDIS ABABA, Jan. 16— Three | Italian bombing planes destroyed a Red Cross unit headed by a British officer at Waldia, on the northern | Ethiopian front. Seven women and seven old men were said to have died in the assault Tuesday morning. 'The Ethiopian government said that Major General Burgoyne, the hospital director, was reported to be uninjured. Informed Addis Ababa sources forecast the imminent departure of Emperor Haile Selassie from the northern battlefront, with the re- turn here today of his 11-year-old son, Prince Makonnen, by plane from Dessye. Selassie has been in the field headquarters at Dessye for several weeks. 40-MILE ADVANCE MADE ASMARA, Eritrea, Jan. 16— A sweeping and bitterly fought Italian advance along the entire Somali- land front is claimed by the Fascist high command. Marshal Pietro Boadglio announc- ed complete success in advance of goore than 40 miles during the Ganal Borya River battle, which claimed unestimated Ethiopian losses. RESIGNATIONS DEMANDED PARIS, Jan. 16.—Radical social- ists have demanded the resignations of party members holding cabinet positions, forecasting the downfall of Laval's government and the elim- ination of a peace advocate in the approaching League of Nations war parleys. Stocked with provisions for three months, French battleships, cruisers and destroyers steamed away from Brest harbor today for maneuvers off the northwestern coast of Morocco. .- NAVAL SESSION WILL CONTINUE DESPITE JAPAN " More Money for U. S. Navy| —Japanese Official Speaks Mind WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—As the result of the “backwash” following Japan’s secession from the London Naval Conference, Congress foresees the Navy's move for more money to build and modernize America’s war- craft. Associated Press dispatches from Tokyo state Premier Okada minimiz- es the possibility of a naval build- ing race and said Japan will not be an aggressor but an opposite view is given by a high Naval Commander who said: “If the Japanese navy is called upon to fight the combined power of America and Great Britain - am confident we will win even if the ratio is 10 to 1.” In London, Great Britain, United States, France and Italy laid down plans to achieve fleet limitations without Japan. e e,— 2 Alaskans fo Wed in Seattle SEATTLE, Jan. 16.—Marriage li- censes have been issued here to Carl A. Johnson, 29, of Anchorage, BOMBS DESTROY EGYPTIAN HOSPITAL TOWN HOSPITAL i This Associated Press map shows the location of Daggah Bur in Cross hospital-and the town itself were reported by ftaliar bombing planes. A Swedish Red Cross hospital was bombed previous! | the southern sector of Ethiopian warfare, where an. Egyptian Rec | | i at Dolo. Hearing on Alaska F tsh Tru p Bill Underway at Washington; TAYLOR URGES HIGHWAY AS AIR | LINE NECESSITY Internatlonal Road Eflsflg tial to Establishing Regu lar Plane Service, U.S. WASHINGTON, Jan. 16. -- The proposed International Highway is necessary as a forerunner of com- mercial air service over the same region, Ike P. Taylor, Chief En- gineer of the Alaska Road Commis= sion, said here today. “Until a highway extends across British Columbia and Yukon Ters ritory along which can be located regular emergency landing fields it would be folly to attempt to oper- ate passenger, mail and express planes on regular schedule be- tween the United States and Alas-{ ka,” Mr. Taylor said. The engineer explained the ex- pense of transporting supplies and equipment necessary to maintain a regular airline would be prohibitive unless a road was available for! trucking purposes. Mr. Taylor said that while he would like to see the highway built, he did not believe it would be well to construct the Alaska por- tion at present unless the United States had assurance from Canada that the highway through the ‘Western Canadian provinces would be built at the same time. PLANE TRAGEDY CLAIMING LIVES Many Wztnesses Being Called OF 17 STUDIED LEADERSHIP IN STOCK MARKET SHIFTED TODAY Oils Drop as Result of Profit Taking—Other Issues Forge Ahead NEW YORK, Jar. 16—Utilities, copper, steels and a number of spe- cialties stiffened today in rather a characteristic market. Oils lost their recent leadership as profit takers got to work. Communication issues were active er. American Telephone and Telegraph advanced sharply to a new high for '35 and ’s6. Today’s closing tone was steady. CLOSING FRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Jan. 16.— Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 15%, American Can 131%, American Power and Light 9%, Anaconda 29%, Bethlehem Steel 537%, General Motors 55%, Interna- tional Harvester 58%, ennecott 30%, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul nad Pacific 2%, United, States Steel 48%, Southern Railway 14%, Pound $4.96%, Cities Service 4'2, Brem- |ner 16 at 25. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow. Jones averages: Industrials 145.92, rails 43.24, utilities 31.36. —— ., 'Report Received Ellsworth Case, WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—Former Alaska Delegate Dan E. Sutherland | added his voice yesterday in support | of Bill H. R. 8213, introduced by Del- | egate Anthony J. Dimond, to abohsnv all fish traps in Alaskan waters. Sutherland told the House Mer- chant Marine and Fisheries Commit- tee that the United States is the only nation which still permits Jthe taking of commercial fish in traps. Sutherland, Dimond and othe. told the committee that fish traps | had led to a monopoly of the indus- | try by the large packers. ’ Seiners Testimony Jacob Zeldenrust added his testi- mony to that of a2 Ketchikan seiner, | Themas Hanbury, that traps brought |poverty to the natives of the Terri- tory. The men represent the Alaska Seiners Association. Zeldenrust said the seiners jlast season averaged $75 for a summer’s work. He added that before traps became the chief mode of catching salmon, operators of seine boats would clear $1,000 to $1,200 in a sea- son. Zeldenrust said that years ago, when he received three-quarters of a cent per fish, they were able to make more than $1,000 a season but now, with fish five to six cents, “we couldn’t make enough to keep going.” Similar statements were made by C. Chester Carlson of Cordova, nnd‘ Harry Stuhr of Seattle, represen- tatives of the Copper River and Prince William Sound Fishermen and Cannery Workers Association. Conrad Espe of Seattle told of the 2limination of traps in Puget Sound and denied allegations that abolition of traps had materially changed con- ivions either of catch or returns in industry. Sulzer Testifies Salmon traps were cescribed by former governor William A. Sulzer of New York as “the most murder- ous instrumentalities ever devised by human minds.” Sulzer, veteran of many Alaska gold stampedes, said that unless traps were abolishea the fishing in- | | | i | | | | LONDON, Jan. 16.--The Captain|dustry in Alaska would die. Hun- of Discovery No. 2, searching for|dreds and thousands of fish, he said, explorer Lincoln Ellsworth and his|are lost every year because storms pilot, now lost for several weeks, mflkfi it impossible to empty traps. indicated in a report received here| He urged members of the commit- by wireless that an airplane hnd] tee to get acquainted with the Ter- been sighted in Little America and |ritory, declaring its potential wealtn Investigators View Wreck- age of Transcontin- ental Airliner GOODWIN, Ark., Jan. 16.—Inves= tigators today dug a jammed speed indicator from the muddy swamp where 17 lost their lives in a plane crash Tuesday night, for an official |inquiry headed by Eugene L. Vidal, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics. The investigation must depend on mute evidence to fix the cause of the crash. The air speed indicator was jam- med at 180 miles per hour, nearly three times the plane’s landing speed, | which may furnish a clue to l.hn tragedy. | With it were found ignition switch- | | es, which were turned on, and a| switch controlling the landing lights, | which was turned off. NINE PERSONS ARE VICTIMS, JUNGLE CRASH Trimotored Plane Wrecked in Wild Region of | Colombia BOGOTA, Colombia, Jan. 16— Nine persons, including two women, are reported to have been killed as| the result of a crash in the jungle of a tri-motored plane. The accident occurred in Caqueta, Department of Southern Colombia. Two other per- sons are also reported to have been serfously injured and seven were not hurt, A military transport plane has left for Tresauinas on the Caqueta River to transport the victims to Bogota. Are Selecting Miss Anchorage luneau Girl Winners to Make LINDBERGH BABY 'KILLER DODGES - Round Trip to Old Mexico EEcT cit Better T\mes Drive Will Furnish Transportation | and All Expenses | Juneau’s leading merchants, op- srating with The Daily Alaska Em- pire, join today in announcing a Better Times campaign to start, Wednesday, January 22 and to run approximately six weeks, early in March, with a marvelous | trip prize to each of the girls, who“ are the winners. | The trip will be an all expense ' 16 day trip to California and Old Mexico, starting from Juneau early in March, depending on steamer connections, and returning to the North after visits to Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Holly- wood and other interesting Cali- fornia points and also to Tia Juana and Ague Caliente, Mexico. Also will be a marvelous steamer side: trip to beautiful Catalina Island off 1 the coast of California. There will be a large group 0(, young women from 40 or 50 towns| in the States of Washington and; Oregon make the trip together, | ending | i One only of the hundreds of sights to be enjoyed by travel trip winning girls—Balboa Park, on the repeated San Diego Exposition grounds. iente, for lunch in Old Mexico. will be at the hotel, Breakfast They will travel in chartered sleep- Return to San Diego will be during | with Saturday morning left open ing cars, with a club car and a|the afternoon and the balance of | for the girls to visit famous San dining car for their exclusive use.| the afternoon and evening will be Francisco stores and shops if they h will be a real good will tour og?apenv. at the exposition grounds,|desire. or see friends. That after- | the south and will be a marvelous| With dinner at the Cafe of the| noon there will be a matinee party travel adventure, with every ecent | of expenses, including even tips, paid for the contest winners. Hoszesses Arrangea The trip is arranged under the | joint auspices of the Daily Alaska Empire and Juneau merchants and the Washington Press Association and the Oregon Editorial Associa- tions, with hostesses to look after the welfare of the young ladies and with an experienced tour manager in complete charge of all arrange- ments. The young ladies will be guests at Fox-Twentieth Century new stu- dios in Beverly where they will see a movie actually being filmed. They will go through the outdoor set- tings at Universal City and they will have lunch with the movie stars at the Universal City movie cafe. Perhaps some of them will obtain autographs from stars as some of the girls did on the trip a year ago by winners of the contests conduct- +ed through the Washington Press ' Association. They will undoubtedly have their pictures taken with the | movie actors again. Local Contest The contest winners ! young unmarried ladies the ages of 18 and 20 years. girl competes in a purely local contest. Success depends upon arcusing the interest of friends, who will gladly save the coupons they obtain from the participating mer- chants on all cash sales of $1 or more or for paying up old accounts. The complete rules and regulations are announced in a large display advertisement in this issue. Last year 60 Washington girls made a similar trip to California from Washington. This year the trip has been made longer and with new and added features to make it even more enjoyable if that were possible. The cars with the Washington State winners will leave Seattle at 11:30 p. m., Friday, March 20th. At Portland the cars containing the Oregon State winners will be attached to the train, also club car and diner. The train will leave, Portland at 8:15 a. m., Saturday, March 21 and will travel down the Willamette Valley that day, pick-| ing up additional winners from various cities enroute. All meals will be in the special diner that day and the following. The club car will be open all day and even-| ing for the exclusive use of mem- | bers of the party. In Sacramento Sunday the train will be in Cali- fornia and the day trip will be down the Sacramento and San Joa- quin Valleys, arriving in Los Ange» les during the evening, where the must be between Each World. The sleepers will not leave San Dicgo until 1:00 p. m. so the whole | evening may be spent at the expo- sition. Arrival will be in Los An- geles early Tuesday morning. Head- quarters will be made at the Rosslyn Hotel where breakfast will be serv- | ed. After breakfast there will be an all day tour of Hollywood, Bev- erly and Los Angeles, with a visit to the 20th Century Fox Studios, to see a movie beirg filmed, lunch at Universal City, yrauman’s Chin- ese theatre in Hollywod for a mat-| and dinner at the famous)| inee, Lucca’s Italian Restaurant. To Catalina Island Wednesday after breakfast at the botel, the party will leave for an all day trip to Catalina Island, go- | ing by Pacific Electric cars to| “Wilmington and then by the sl.cnm-{ er “Avalon” to the famous resort. Lunch will be at St. Catherine’s Hotel while in the afternoon the girls will be taken on glas: bottom- ed boats to the submarine gardens, Arrival back at the hotel will be at 7:45 p. m. with dinner on arrival. Thursday will be open day as the girls may visit stores, see friends or take what side trips they desire. All meals will be provided at the | The cars will be attached to | hotel the popular Coast Route train ‘“The Lark,” leaving Los Angeles at 8:30 p. m. Breakfast on Friday will be on the train, which arrives at San Francisco at 9 a..m. The baggage will be taken direct to the Wil- liam Taylor hotel, but the girls will | be at the Lido Club, where there will be a floor show and dancing. Dinner at the hotel that night, and a conducted tour of Chinatown and return to the hotel at 11: 30 p m. Ghosts Rtse in AAA Wake; at the Fox Market Street theatre. The party will leave on the famous limited “Cascade” train at 6:20 with dinner on the diner. Meals will all be on the diner the next day as the train speeds north- | ward through Oregon and Wash- ington. Arrival in Portland at 3:50 p. m. and Seattle at 8:20 p. m. Marvelous Trip 1 Everything has been arranged to make the trip one of the most mar- ; velous that is possible. Special cars, fine hotels, luxurious sight- seeing trips, movie studios, the San | Diego Exposition, Old Mexico and novel and unique places to dine. Every item .of expense of the win- ners on the trip is paid, the girls only needing money for what sou- | venirs or purchases they might make. Even their tips are all taken | care of. Each girl has a berth to | herself. In the hotels two giris are | placed in twin bed rooms with bath. In Seattle during the stop-over, | both north and south bound, local Better Times Drive winners will be guests of the popular New Wash- ington Hotel management. | The contest is arranged by the |local merchants co-operating with the Daily Alaska Empire to stimu- late business during January and February and also to help on the collections of old accounts. The travel contests conducted by mer- chants in thirty-one Washington towns in January and February, 1935 proved very successful and ev- ery girl who won is an enthusiastic booster for the marvelous time she had on the trip. The reward for the winners is worth a real effort and there are going to be winners {here and elsewhere. A nomination cuupon uppears in this issue. Constitution Becomes Issue and G.0.P. Seeks Farm Plan By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Bureau, The Associated | Press, Washington) Several important probabilitics are presented by the tumbling events which have greeted the in- fant 1936 at Washington: The AAA decision brings home to the Democrats, much more ‘\rorclbly than anything heretofore, |the necessity for deciding whether to favor a constitutional amend- ment to enlarge Federal powers. It likewise forecasts for Repub- lican leaders and candidates a sea- was seen on the Bay of Whales. The | was was sufficient to pay the national Alaska and Margaret Denteau, of|report did not identify the plane debt “even though it reached 50 Seattle, and also to Einar J. Mich- aelson, 26, of Ketchikan, Alaska, and Edna Rude, of Kent, Wash- ington. nor the man or men aboard. - eee Port Washington, Wis.,, has no municipal tax. billions.” Delegate’s Opinion Delegate Dimond said the bill (Continued on Page Six) ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 16.-- This city has started balloting to select Miss Anchorage who will compete with others for the title of Miss Alaska at the Fairbanks Ice Carnival in March. cars will be switched to the Santa | son of severe ordeals as the various Fe railroad and taken to San Diego | party groups seek to unite on some during the night. Breakfast will !substitute plan for farm relief. be at the San Diego Hotel, and the party will proceed by special bus makes relations between the White to Coronado Beach, down across the House and organized business still border to Tia Juana and Agua Cal-,more difficult—a fact which is sure | to be reflected in some degree dur- ing the session of Cgngress. The new budget, encountering immediately the prospect of soldier bonus payment and invalidation of the processing tax, has been thrown into a state of confusion which puts even the details of Govern-| ment finances into the center of the political campaign, ’ Combined, these various clrcum-i | stances indicate a long and acri- | monious Congressional session, in | place of the short, harmonious one| hoped for by the Administration.| They complicate almost beyond de-! Supreme Coust Turns Down Writ But Gov. Hoffman Gives Temporary Stay REPUTED CONFESSION FIGURES IN ACTION Chief Executive Refuses to Give Reasons for Post- poning Execution TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 16. —Gov. Harold G. Hoffman announced t his afternoon that he had granted a 30- day reprieve for Bruno Hauptmann, convicted Lind- bergh baby killer who has been sentenced to die tomor- row night in the electric chair. The announcement came a short time after the United States Supreme Court had refused to grant writ of Habeas Corpus to Hauptmann’s attorneys. Attorney General David T. Wilentz said Hauptmann would not die for at least three months as under the law he must be re-sentenced. Gov. Hoffman said he would not grant any further re- prieves unless circumstanc- es warranted. He said he had divers reasons for his action, but refused to dis- close their nature. Wife Jubilant Mrs. Hauptmann was jubi- lant when she heard the Gov- ernor’s announcement. She visited her husband in the death cell today for what she at the time believed was her last time to see him alive. Shortly after she left the an- nouncement of the reprieve was made. A Report Confession Made An appeal earlier in the day to the United States Supreme Court and a statement from a high source that there had been a confession in the Lind- bergh murder case gave Hauptmann new hope to es- cape the electric chair tomor- row night before the Gover- nor acted. The action in the higher court required only a few seconds and was filed by 'Hauptmann’s five-man coun- 'sel. In asking the writ of hab- eas corpus, a stay of execution was requested pending hearing on the writ. The court this af- ternoon denied the writ. Information concerning the reputed confession came from ‘a high source but officials re- 'fused to say by whom. e CAPITAL SEES PENSION DRIVE AFTER BONUS By llEllll‘l‘ PLUMMER ! The President’s annual message | WASHINGTON, Jan. 16—With veterans confident the present ses- Ision of Congress will dispose of ithe bonus issue in some fashion, | seription a political situation whlchl already was tangled and uncer- tain, NEITHER PARTY WILL REST The trouble and turmoil a.risingjn drive for general World War pen- (Continued on Page Three) (Continued on Page Three) '