The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 25, 1936, Page 1

L w . r v THE DAILY VOL. XLVIL, NO. 7179. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY. JANUARY 25, 1936, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS ALASKA EMPIR PRICE TEN CENTS 6 DIE AS BURNING PLANES CRASH IN AIR FASCIST TROOP S BEING MO WED DOWN ITALY SE:FERS Watch Oilt Buddy!uli’s LeapY‘ear STUGK PR"}ES - BIG LOSSES IN TEMBIEN FIGHT Invaders’ Casualties at New High After Latest Offensive * TWO COLUMNS WIPED OUT BY ETHIOPIANS Il Duce Rushes More Men] to Africa — League Views Sanctions DJIBOUTI, French Somaliland, § Jan. 25—The Fascist high com- mand on the northern Ethiopian front today reported casualties in the Tembien offensive of 763 men, and claimed 5,000 Ethiopians died. Field Marshal Pietro Badoglio set losses at 453 Italians and 310 na- tives, which is a high mark for in- vaders’ losses. The Ethiopian government said that troops encircled Makale, wiped out two Italian columns and Killed, » captured or wounded thousands more of the enemy in engagements in the region. The defenders’ war office claimed the: capture of ten Italian cannon and 100 machine guns. MORE TROOPS SENT ROME, Jan. 25.—Premier Musso- lini today dispatched 1400 more troops to Africa, among them his nephew, Gennaria Maschi, promi- nent in blackshirt activities LEAGUE AWAITS ACTION GENEVA, Jan. 25. — League of Nations members are awaiting the action next week of a committee of experts designated to ganvass the effectiveness of the existing sanc- tions against Italy. An assembly of League oil experts has been called for. February 3 to consider the practicality of the ad- dition of an oil embargo. The coun- cil has adjourned after considera- tion of various war problems. ICY GRIP IS RELAXING IN FRIGID AREA Dead List from Cold Wave| Is Now in Excess of 150 CHICAGO, Il., Jan. 25.—Slight moderation in the Arctic -like| weather which has held most of the nation in an icy grasp several days is forecast. A tabulated list of the dead now exceeds 150. At Sherrard, West Virginia, res- cue crews cut through the moun- tainous drifts with welcome fuel, food and medicine for 300 snow- bound residents of the village, iso- lated since last Sunday. 3 KILLED N PLANE CRASH Pilot and Two Passengers| Die in Accident in Texas ITASCA, Texas, Jdn. 25.—Three men were killed six miles south- east of here today when an airplane crashed in a field. The dead are Ralph C. Kirk, pilot of Handley, Texas; George W. Carter, salesman, and Albert H. Doern, architect, both of Dallas,| Texas. No cause is known for the crash. e TAKEN TO HOSPITAL Tillie James, 10-year-old Indian girl from Wrangell, arrived on the Norco and was admitted to the treatment. Buddy Rogers clzubeyrod around him, but wonder if he’s making a California, with whom the he boardwalk at o bt he seemingly is all ea long distance call to Ma: young orchestra leader . Miami with a bevy of beau rs for uo;:n_mkr;eregn:.m ickfos 14 has been links d JOHNSON RAISES VOICE AGAINST California Senator Argues Measure Gives President Too Much Power WASHINGTON, van. 25. — The Administration’s neutrality bill was pictured today by Senator Hiram Johnson of California as a docu- ment giving the President “power no other living man has” to plunge us into danger of a conflict with other nations. The Senator said he was prepared to back his warning with expert testimony from Edwin M. Borchard of Yale University. Committee hearing on the bill is set for Wednesday. — e SENATE DEFERS ACTION O SOIL CONSERVATIONS f Will Await Judgment o Sec. Wallace as to Con- stitutionality of Act WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.— Still doubtful of constitutionality he Senate Agriculture Committee de- ferred final action on the subsidy of after Secretary Henry A. Wallace and his legal aides present their judgment Monday. New Dollar Bills “Cheap,” Georgia Bank Head Says AUGUSTA, Ga. Jan. 25—Elbert P. Peabody, President of one of the national banks here, frowns NEUTRALITY ACT soil conservation farm plan until' | Federal Bingles {For Colonists At Matanuska. PALMER, Alaska, Jan. 25.— Tokens minted by the Federal Government will be used as money ameng the Matanuska colonists, it is announced here. While mainly for the purpose of making commissary pur- chases, the tokens, already dub- bed “bingles” may be used for any purpose to which money is usually put. None of the tokens have been received here yet. INCOME TAXES T0 BE TURNED ON PROCESSORS 'Signs that Government May Yet Collect on Process- ing Levies Shown CHICAGO, Ill, Jan. 25.—Signs that the Government may attempt (to collect income taxes on pro- !cessing levies paid before the AAA was. declared unconstitutional | threatened a new fight between processors and the New Deal to- | day. . | ©O. W. Osler, assistant in charge of the income tax unit, Office of Internal Revenue, Chicago, con- firmed the fact that the Govern- ment is contemplating such action. ‘A ruling is now awaited. - NOME MAN IS "~ GIVEN AWARD Hilkey Robinson, Robbed of Gold, Gets Judgment " SITE OF DEMOCRATIC CON TAKE ADVANCE SHORT SESSION Market Quickly Overcomes Boosting of Margin Requirements NEW YORK, Jan. 25.—The Stock Market righted itself quickly after an early stumble today following boosting of the margin require- ments by the Federal Reserve Board. Initial declines ranged from frac- tions to two or more points. Avia< tion and utility issues led the re- covery and most of the losses were shaded, cancelled or replaced by gains up to one point or so. To- day's short session close was st.eady.‘ CLOSING PRICES TODAY ! NEW YORK, Jan. 25.—Closing) quotation of Alaska Juneau mine s y is 17, Ameri Can Philadelphia, which put up $200,000 and free facilities, was awar 1 :l;gc'f ‘z‘:xd:e}ricl;n Powex:-‘ef::?jnu!;', “tion to be held June 23. The municipal auditorium where it will be staged is shown above. (Associ- 10%, Anaconda 30%, Bethlehem ated Press Photo) Steel 52, Curtiss-Wright 4%, Chi- cago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pa- cott 32%, United States Steel 481, Southern Railway 14%, Cities Serv- ice 4!, Pound $5.00%, Bremner 17 1at 25. OUT PRELUDE, DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's. Dow,! , Jones averages: Industrials 147.01, rails 44.06, utilities 31.43. R L | Attack Centers on Propos-| | Quarantine for smallpox and scar- let fever will ‘be lifted today and schools will resume Monday. Nurses will inspect children each morn- ing as a precautionary measure to prevent another outbreak. D seatem i SR T DAYIS GIVES To Lift Quarantine BETTER TIMES at Anchorage Today CONTEST GIRLS on the Treasury Department’s new| from Insurance CO dollar notes. He terms the money| e “cheap.” SEATTLE, Jan. 25—A jury has “The paper is cheap, the engrav~ awarded a $4,355 judgment against ing is cheap and it is hard to tell the Phoenix Indemnity to Hilkey the notes from counterfeited Robinson, former Nome merchant. money,” he says. |Robmson, a gold buyer, who was The banker pointed out that tel. insured by the company against lers could differentiate the old robbery, testified that he was rob- by the “feel.” I hiteh hiker. MADE INDEALS, o - STOCK MARKET Cash Ante Suddenly Raised by Action of Federal Reserve Board WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.— Eyes were glued on ticker tape as the of- | Federal Reserve Board’s surprise ac- [tion in jamming the brake on the | Stock Market. Acting without advance hints, the |Federal Reserve Board announced last night a boost in the cash ante !a purchaser must put up if he desires | to buy securities on a margin. Beginning February 1, a buyer must put up 55 percent of the pur- chase price instead of the present 45 percent. PRISON GUARD ATTACKED:TWO MEN WOUNDED Plot Revealed in Scottsboro Case in Birmingham, Alabama BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Jan. 25— Sheriff J. Street Sandlin charged that white persons plotted the at- tack on guards by two Scottsboro case defendants in which one negro deputy sheriff was wounded. Physicians said Ozie Powell, in- jured prisoner, had an even chance to recover from a pistol shot Sand- lin fired into his brain. Deputy Sheriff Edgar Ballock is nursing a three inch knife wound in his neck. The fight occurred late yesterday while the guard was moving Powell and a fellow prisoner, Roy Wright, by automobile from Decatur to Birming- ham. ted last Thursday night. — -, ——— 1849 during the Mexican war. NEW YORK, Jan. 25.—John W.! LIE DETECTOR |ficials watched for effects of the| Powell attacked the Deputy Sher- iff. He claimed the scheme was plot- EAGLE PASS, Tex—The Texas |Electriclan Alfred Thompson, aged Centennial Commission has donated | 37, was shot to death aboard the funds to Maverick County to pro-|Grace liper Santa Elena and Sec-| vide a granite marker at the site|ond Officer Boyd has been arrested Government Hospital for medical|silk-paper issues from bogus money, bed on February 13 last year by &'of old Fort Duncan, established in’pending an investigation. 9 Davis last night assailed the pro-| posals for a sweeping constitutional amendment in an anti-New Deal prelude to Alfred E. Smith’s ex-) pected attack upon the Roosevelt ! Administration tonight. | The former Democratic Presi- dential candidate, like Smith, is, lone of the founders of the Amer- (ican Liberty League which Smith {will address in Washington to- night. 1 | TEST URGEDBY GOV, HOFFMAN New Jersey Executive Who Granted Hauptmann Re- Attacks Proposals prieve Has New Scheme | Davis spoke before the New Yorkl — Bar Association, centering his at- tack mainly on proposals for ichanges in the constitution to cen- tralize administrative and econ- .omic powers in the Federal Gov. ernment. f Davis said: “There is cause for |wonder in passing whether some (of the legislation of these last three | years was not enacted in the belief |such an amendment was already on | the bool TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 25.—Gov. Harold G. Hoffman has invited the Bruno Hauptmann prosecutors and attorneys to agree on a lie de- tector test as such a test might | bring answers to some of the puz- zling phases of the case, the Gov- ernor said. Legality of such a test and ef. fects on the Hauptmann conviction, should it indicate innocence, is un- | certain authorities indicated. Leg- !islation is needed to make the re- sults binding on the State defense. .- — HOMER SECTION BEING SURVEYED Belief Expressed Modified Farm Colony to Be Established ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 25— A Government surveyor is doing extensive work now at Homer, giv- ing rise to the belief that another modified-type farm colony may be {in the offing. HORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 25.| A —(Atlr;‘:s Eckmaun, logal merchant,| Soil, climate and transportation 'has filed for place in the Terri—"“‘m‘” are said by some to No Room for Doubt Davis spcke only in general terms but left no room for doubt that the present Washington Adminis- itration was his target. Davis said he had no reproach for any man advocating a consti- tutional amendment who. gives his reason for saying so, “but when panaceas are offered on one side only to be answered by panegyrics lon the other side, the argument lacks conclusiveness.” 7 Clris Eckmam Files for House | i SHIP BOARD s P o MINEOLA, N. Y., Jan. 25—A jury of 12 men voted death in the electric chair for Mrs. Mary Frances Creighton and Everett C. Applegate for the poison eggnog of Applegate’s wife, Ada. Mrs. Creighton testified she put poison into the eggnog giv- en to Mrs. Applegate, COLON, Panama, Jan. 25.—Chief I Thompson was shot five times. VENTION ded the 1936 Democratic conven- GIVEN DINNER Thirty-five Contestants Sing Praises of Hump-back Salmon in Terminal Thirty-five Juneau girls, who swore faithful allegiance to hump- back salmon but indicated they would be willing to change their diet temporarily to one of tamales, met at 6:30 in the Terminal Cafe last night for the Better Times Contest Dinner and Pep Drive, sponsored by Juneau Merchants and The Daily Alaska Empire. With “On to Mexico!” their slogan, and “I Like Hump-Back Salmon” their theme song, the assembled con- testants posed for a group picture, taken by Winter & Pond; were en- tertained during their dinner by the Musgrave Triolians; witnessed a tan- go by Laddie Kyle; heard Bernice Lovejoy sing “Alice Blue Gown"”; and last but not least, received fromn members of the Empire staff in- structions as to how best to con- duct their campaign. What Not To Do The most important of the in- structions ‘what not to do,” and concerned soliciting of votes from customers by girls working in places of business. Proof that any girl has violated this rule would automati- cally disbar her from the contest, it ‘wus explained. Under no circum- ‘stance can a clerk ask a customer ‘ror votes at the time of purchase, inor, if the customer does not ask for his coupons, is she allowed to ap- propriate them to her own use. Other than this obviously neces- |sary requirement, the field is open; and letters read to the assembled girls from last year's winners in coast |states revealed how girls, to garner | votes, went out and solicited sales for | merchants—one girl selling 43 tons Iur coal—how one girl, to garner votes, personally sold 43 tons of coal for a local merchant; how another spent her Sundays in a filling station where gas sold seven gallons for 96 cents and asked merchants to buy an extra gallon and give the votes to her; how other girls set up amateur collection agencies and drummed up payments on bad debts for local equal or superior to Matanuska. merchants who had found it impos- Collected a Debt Such a procedure was used to good {effect in Juneau yesterday, when one |enterprising contestant collected a /850 debt that had lain dormant for a considerable time, and earned by that process 5,000 votes toward a trip | to old Mexico. 1 Itinerary Told In outlining the itinerary, it was lalso brought out last night that |girls desiring to remain a week in | Seattle on the return trip may do so lat their own expense and still use | their tickets for the boat trip to Ju- |neau when they wish to return home. ‘Thls will give many having relatives :;n::: e on the DemocmmiUnlimned acreage of rolling grass giple to collect. CEl:k;nann was once Mayor of awalts the plow without clearing, Anchorage. {with a year.around harbor for any Lw__ | size ships. MURBEH uN Death in Chair Voted by Jury in " (Continued on Page Three) | “INJURIES AFTER - “CHUTE" LEAPS 2 ESCAP E WITH During Night Maneuvers ‘ Over Hawaii Base ROPE SAVES ONE, FEW FEET FROM GROUND ! Ships Flying at Less than Thousand Feet When Tragedy Occurs ! HONOLULU, T. H,, Jan. 25.—Six army airmen were killed in flaming planes here last night when two open cockpit army bombers collided in midair during night maneuvers over Ford Island, Hawaii's military air base. Two others escaped with in- juries by leaping with parachutes, An Army investigation was ordered today. The Victims The victims are Lieut. William G. Beard, Staff Sergeant Bernard F. Jablonowsky and Privates John B, Hartman, Bruce Taylor, Truman J, Gardner and Gordon M. Parkhurst, The two who escaped are Lieut. Charles E. Fisher and Private Thom- as E. Lanigan. Chute Fails To Open The planes were flying at less than a thousand feet altitude when the crash oceurred. Fisher’s chute failed to open and shot like a bullet toward the ground. Scarcely a hundred feet from the earth, the chute caught on a rope extending from an oil tank to the ground and left him dangling a few yards above the field. WERE KEYSTONE BOMBERS WASHINGTON, Jan. 25— The War Department announced today that the airplanes which crashed at Honolulu last night were Keystone Bombers. They were purchased in 1932 and were powered by two en- gines. The bombers carried a crew of four men each —————— FAMOUS CRIME COMMISSION HEAD PASSES George W. Wickersham, Former U. S. Attorney General, Died in Taxi NEW YORK, Jan. 25.—George W. Wickersham, former United States Attorney General and Chairman of the famous Wickersham Crime Com- mission, died suddenly here today in a taxicab. He was T8 years old. Mr. Wickersham had entered the cab and when it arrived at his desti- nation, the driver was unable to arouse him. The driver summoned an ambulance surgeon who pronounced him dead. The body was identified by his'law partner, Henry W. Taft. Cause of death was not immediately determined CONGRESSIONAL 'PROBE DESIRED *BY MARITIMERS Pacific Federation Asks Support in Effort to Balk Coming “‘Lockout” SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Jan. 25. —The Pacific Maritime Federation today asked support of national | organized labor in its efforts to {balk the asserted shipowners' “lock- out” through a Congressional probe. At the same time, Thomas G. Lant, President of the Waterfront Employers Association, declared shipping interests “would welcome a complete and thorough investi- gation.” 3 _1‘ |