The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 3, 1936, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLVIL, NO. 7186. JUNLAU ALASKA MONDAY FEBRUARY 3, 1936. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS 'PRICE TEN CENTS 4 RESCUED AS ALASKA PLANE CRASHES NEW ARREST LOOMS, LINDBERGH CASE MYSTERY MAN MENTIONED IN KIDNAP PROBE Gov. Hoffman Is Reported Ready to Identify Strang- er with Handkerchief JERSEY GOVERNOR EXPECTED TO ACT Reputed ‘P@by' Seen by Col. Lindbergh when Money Paid TRENTON, N. J, Feb. 3.—Gov. Harold G. Hoffman was today reported ready to identify the mys- terious man with the handkerchief in the Lindbergh kidnaping case and possibly will order an arrest. Sources close to the Governor said he probably would ask State Police either to arrest the man or clear him of any suspicion. The mysterious man was seen by | Col. Charles Lindbergh outside of St. Raymond’s Cemetery the night Dr. John F. “Jafsie” Condon paid the ransom. Police claim he was a mere passerby. i In granting a 30-day reprieve| from execution to Bruno Haupt- mann, convicted kidnaper of the| Lindbergh baby, Gov. Hoffman said | he was convinced there was more| than one persen implicated and he believed it was the duty of; authorities to dig further into the case. Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopfl head of the New Jersey State Po- lice, has started a new .secret in- vestigation into the case on the order of the Governor. * Film Stars Visit Sick Father - Joan Bennett, left, and sister, Constance, famous movie stars, shown on arrival at the airport at Newark, N. J., from Hollywood, xushed to the bedside of their father, Rlchard Bennett, famous stage | star, who is I.EAGUE ENVOYS “AGAIN STUDYING Fascist Grand Counci! Meets —Geneva Session Weighs Action ITALIAN TROOPS 225 MILES FROM CAPITAL 60,000 Negus Soldiers Leave Addis Ababa to Stem Advance GENEVA, Feb. 5.—The diplomatic phases of the Ethiopian war reas- sumed prominence today, as a Leaguc of Nations’ committee of experts met to determine whether an oil em- bargo against Italy is practical. According to reports received here from the battlefront, Ethiopia is re- garded as mainly interested in re- northward from Italian Somaliland. From Addis Ababa marched 60.- Ras Desta Demtu, who failed to pre- COUNCIL PRAISES ARMY ROME, Feb. talked for two hours Saturday s they seriously ill. —Fremier Mussolini on VANVLACKTO SEEKESCAPEBY P"l"w the Italian political and situation at a session of the Fascist Grand Council, which closed early yesterday. An official communique concemy- ing the meeting of the council, which adjourned until February 4, gave no indication that any important de- cisions had been taken. It said the Mild Woath erin r; Land Is ing Cl Cleared OIL EMBARGOES trieving the southern areas taken by | the Italians in their recent advance ; 000 warriors to bolster the forces of ; vent General Graziani’s “Hell on Wheels” column from reaching a = point 225 miles south of the nation's capital. military | i & | | | For the journey to London. Left t Royal 'HUGE INCREASE IN POST OFFICE ‘REGEIPTS SHOWN o right: Duke of Kent, Minnesota Democrats for F.D.R. Two Thousand Aitend Con- SONS MARCH BEHIND GEORGE V'S CASKET This radiophoto shows the sons of the late King George V, headed by the new monarch, Edward VIl ! following the dead ruler's coffin on foot from the royal estate at Sandringham, England, to the station | Earl of Harewood, husband of the Princesy _Duke of York. Kina Edward and Duke of Gloucester. (Photo copyriaht, 1936, by Associated Press) MANY FILE TO MAKE PRIMARY RACE IN APRIL ANGHURAGE SHIP ‘FURGED DOWN IN COOK INLET ICE Pllot Mechanic, Passengers ! Jump to Safety on Floes as Aircraft Sinks |GROUND FOG PREVENTS PILOT FROM LANDING |Other Fliers Hear Crackup and Save Quartet from | Icy Death in Water | ANCHORAGE, Alaska. Feb. 3.— {A ten-place Pilgrim plane, piloted {by Harold Gillam and flight me- |chanic Buddy Heltenrich, and car- rying as passengers Jack Metzgar {of Anchorage, formerly of Juneau, land Elmer Hedstrom of Cordova, (crashed in Cook Inlet, off Anchor- age, at 3:25 o'clock Sunday after- noon All were rescued without injury. | The plane sank. Bucked Head Winds The party left Cordova and buck- led headwinds all the way to An- chorage. The trip, usually one hour and 35 minutes, took two hours and 115 minutes. | A ground fog over this city made it impossible to locate the airport. They flew for an hour looking for a | place to land. The plane touched wheels in Eklutna, but noticing they could see. under the fog blanket, Pilot Gillam came on to Anchorage, but fog hung over the ground here and they were forced to return to Eklutna. Gas Supply Exhausted The gas was exhausted and the engine quit. Gillam headed for the Inlet rather vention—Other States an take a chance of crashing into INSANITY pLEA % council spoke exaltingly of “the| Galn of $4,148 in 1935 |Complete Tlckets Are Made Blackshirts fighting in West Africa | > Soon Act e nterested |the town. ST“P-GAP FARM |Ground Hog Day Causes No yitr: the same heroic spirit they naa| Over Previous Year, Post- | Are to Up—Labor The plane plunged between ice PLAN MADE UP Killer Denies Any Memory| Concern to Matan_ in the beginning, and of “the militia uska Colonists with secure confidence in the civi-| master A. Wile Reports | MANKATO, Minn., Feb. 3.—Min- | | nesota opened the Farm Belt's Dem - in Nome Section floes, and the four men stood up on the plane and shouted for help, then of Slaying His Wife— | "’";13 "““"0‘} of Pascist Italy.” 4| A phenomenal increase in postal | ocratic drjve for the renomination cf | FATRBANKS, Alaska, Feb 1{. i:‘l:\km:l“:lzrll::w:;n floes as the ship g o | The council was in session two and | .eoeints for the year 1935 over 1934 | President Roosevelt last Saturday (The complete list of filings for the . Trial Near Climax | PALMER, Alaska, Feb. 3—Ves- one-half hours, although the com- | A the figures of Post-|when Democrats assembled in a|House and Senate for the Fourth Pilot Steve Mills and Kenneth o PG e | terday, ground hog day, found the munique had little to say regarding, magier Albert Wile, released today. |state convention for the election of | Division is as follows: | eT OfdAnchorgxk'l heard the ship | Speaking brokenly, and at times with | Matanuska colonists taking advan- 1S proceedings. It is believed, because | Grogs receipts for the year just|Delegates to the National Conven- Senate IC::“:O atrl‘ suien [1“ :lal;m Which d;r'i,cun‘;' Dougfi;; Van Viack, of |tage of the mild weather to work op °f the lengthy conference, that the .t were §36,487.84, Postmaster Wile | tion. Al delegates elected are pledged | Democrats—Victor C. Rivers M“!rom mp‘:‘ce";;g:“ of the four men New Subshtute Measureuramm ‘Washington, last Saturday | buildings and in clearing land for the "-2L/cT.Of sanctions against Italy was i qunced, compared with $32,339.04 | to the President. | Fairbanks, and Thomas J. DeVane| s 4 | thoroughly gone into. |in 1934, or an increase of $4,148 Convention officials said 2,000 were | of Ruby | Extended to Embrace |described how he shot two Idaho |spring planting. Lt AR Al RS et ; : B xte | peace officers but said he did not | representing revenue from box rents fin attendance. Republican—Julian A. Hurley o Alaska Also | Pemember killing Mildred Hook, 22, | The colonists were not concerned land sale of stamps. 1t is one of the| Another factional meet is sched- | Fairbanks M ARY JchE TU ‘hjs former wife, for whose slaying whether the ground hog saw his STBGK MARKET |most outstanding gains in the his- uled for March 14 when another del- House WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—Revisions |on November 26, he is being tried. ~ |shadow, forecasting six weeks more {tory of the post office. c;:.unun is expected to be named, Democrats—Leo W. Rogge, Vic- narrowing the powers proposed for | Van Viack seeks acquittal on an |of winter, because so far, there has Postal saving for the year amount- | aiso pledged to Roosevelt. tor R. Ross, Williara F. Thompson, RE A Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. insanity plea. b litt1 e ed to $55822 and a quarter of a, The Party split over patronage. Alfred J. Ghi Catherine P“"“'i Wallace under fh Bitaliisiention’h| ‘Slousias dosss’s Taamber kille | tvne TR Witiee 5 y |million dollars was represented in| Minnesota has 22 votes in the Na- | q1 of Fairbanks: Daniel L. Green.| stop-gap farm plan, were voted Sat- ling the girl; he doesn't remember | F\ans call for the breaking of an {money orders sent out from the Ju- | tional Convention. S i Ho il Do urday by the House Agricultirallanything after they were alone in |2°Fe Of ground for a garden for each ineau postof fice, Postmaster Wile —_— Smith. University of Alaaka; Nels Committee. Two broad objectives in [the culvert and had talked about | aMily With 3 plick) "‘;" working said. During the Christmas rush OTHER CONVENTIONS Anderson, of Bethel \ the original draft, those directing a 'her going home and his trying to 24 hours a .a‘ylw reak as much 4,464 parcels were handled, m'r‘n Towa will hold a convention of Republicans — H. Elton Buzby, continuous, stable supply of agri- \make a getaway alone,” Leo Teats, | round as possible. =~ il than during the entire year of 1934 | pomocrats probably within the next |Louis D. Colbert, Fred B. John- - Despite Slormy Weather at cultural commodities, and re-estab- (defense attorney, told the jury. Seven thousand white Leghorn Slight Gains Are Registeredi S Lo two weeks. {ston, of Fairbanks; Marion G Kl lishment and maintenance of the| Edward Babcock, prosecutor, said | | chicks, eight weeks old, are to be g 4 | | Wisconsin will hold primaries on |mundson, of Circle Hot qm,m, aune La ke Gll’l DD farmers’ purchasing power, were transferred from the temporary sec- tion of the bill to a permanent state aid program designed to take effect in two years. The action limited the objectives of nine witnesses for the state have supplied the necessary evidence to | convict Van Viack of first degree murder. Van Vlack forced his former wife to enter his car on a Tacoma street dlsmbuled to the colonists. LIQUORPLANT by Steels, Motors, Specialties NEW YORK, Feb. 3. — Steels, motors and specialties rallied the CHEATING IN N, C. COLLEGE April 7 and Nebraska April 14. Iowa, Wisconsin and Nebraska are |expected to name delegates to the National Convention, pledged to Roosevelt. Samuelson, of Bethel SECOND DIVISION NOME, Alaska, Feb, 3—Divisional filings at the close of the required period last Saturday for the pri- Musher Ahead Schedule Mary Joyce, enroute to Fairbanks from Taku by dog team, was | thought to be at the head of Klaune |Lake Saturday night and will prob~ | the two-year direct subsidy plan to |near her home November 26, and\ stock market today and a number | mpads 7 s S 2 f payments for preservation and im- |fled with her into Idaho, where he | of new highs for the past several| INv maries "ll nA\,\)i” for the 5“5‘)““1;-§b1y_ reach Burwash tonight, ac- provement of soil fertility, promotion | fatally shot two officers, State Pa- | were recorded. Gains u[‘ Division, follows |cording to a _rfldlo message from ‘ Senate the PAA radio operator at Bur- of economic use of land, and di- minuation of exploitation and un- profitable use of national soil re- sources. Applies To Alaska trolman Fontaine Cooper and Deputy | Sheriff Henry C. Givens, when thm i attempted to interrogate him. Later the body of his wife was | found in the culvert. Van Vlack was found lying dazed along the road | !ractmns to one point or more were | in the majority. The closing tone| was firm. - BACK TO WORK PEKIN. Illinois, Feb. 3.—Pickets CLOSING PRICES TODAY [ Student Counal Presldent‘ Suspended—33 Others Dismissed for Racket UP; RAIN FALLS, | Democrats—O. D. Cochran and | Howard Lyng Republicans—J. Charles Kennedy. House Democrats—Ed Ulbrickson, George | | wash to Bob Ellis, local PAA rep- resentative, Stormy weather on the lake pre- |vented Miss Joyce from reaching Burwash yesterday, the message The House Agricultural Commit- threw bricks and 25 Deputy Sher- NEW YORK, Feb. 3. — Closing C Id W V P Pt 5 tee agreed late Saturday afternoon [not far away. iffs tossed tear gas bombs this quotation of Alaska Juneau mine| —_— O ave in Vast orhon"“'m““‘ S. David Mazen, O. O.|stated. If Miss Joyce reaches Bur- to extend the provisions of the new | The trial was recessed _over the morning as more than 200 em- stock today is 16%, American Can| CHAPEL HILL, N. C. Feb. 3.— f C t Is Re- Roberts, Fred Yanney, Tolbert| wash today, she will be one day i i i A ey s | of hounity is Re Scott, John Lichtenberg, W. Leon- | e substitute Administration farm aid | week-end and resumed today. | ployees of the American Distilling 124%, American Power and Light|A sweeping investigation of cheat. . 8, |ahead of her schedule. bill specifically to Hawaii, Puerto e gl OB ot | Company plant, some of them wom- 9%, Anaconda 31%, Bethlehem|ing in the University of North, ported Broken ard Smith, Peter E. Sather, Mrs.| Miss Joyce left her home at Taku Rico, and Alaska at the request of 2 en, returned to work. Steel 53, Curtiss-Wright 4%, Chi-|Carolina reached a sensational cli-| —_— | Garnet W. Martin. |with a five-dog team on December Territorial Congressional Represen- Y A strike had shut down the plant cago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pa-|max when Jack Pool, President of| CHICAGO, IiL, Feb. 3. — Rain| Republicans—Nels Swanberg, Sr. 20. She arrived at Tulsequah on tatives. The Committee wrote the exlcn nme" for almost two weeks. cific 2%, General Motors 60%, In-| the Student Council, was suspended |swept out of the southwest today|Thomas D. Jensen, Ben F. Fil- December 27, Atlin on January 7, names of the three territories into | e e ot ternational Harvester 66%, Kenne-|indefinitely, after confessing heland turned to snow on the journey |lette, Edward E. Steffen Carcross on January 17, and reach- the measure. cott 34%, United States Steel 51%,|cheated while he was a freshman north and-eastward. The mercury All candidates are from Nome |ed Whitehorse January 20. After a i a“ nw “ e* AMEHIGAN Is Southern Railway 14%, Cities Serv-|member of the council, the student was pushed upward in parts of| Mazen, Roberts and Yanney are week's rest for her dogs and her- | ice 6%, Pound $5.02'%, Boeing Air-|disciplinary body the nation and east of the Rockies also listed as members of the In-iself at Whitehorse, she struck out E | plane 25, United Aircraft 28'%. | Before suspending Pool, the sen-'for the first time since the cold|dustrial Workers of Alaska. The for Burwash on January 27, last | MEXICO CITY, Feb. 3.—The Na- WINNER I I | ior council had dismissed 33 others,|snap took hold of the various sec- Nome Labor Union, a nnme\mrwh‘ Monday, and expected to reach her tional Revolutionary Party, a Gov- | DOW, JONES AVERAGES |all alleged to have taken part in tions on Jnnuary 22. | sheet, edited in Nome by the IWA, | objective tomorrow. jernment political organization, has The following are the Dow, Jones|an organized racket of filching and 155 im'”"ll‘v(“? to interest IL\‘PU» in the| From Whitehorse Miss Joyce was {taken a major step toward grant-| averages for today: Industrials,iselling copies of questions to be |primary and general election. The|accompanied by Mrs. Eugene Jac- |ing Mexican women the right of 150.62, rails 46.21, utilities 32 | asked on examinations. |fact that three are in the Demo-|quot, who was to serve as her Tu CUVER Bunus‘mflmge o LT e o cratic list mu_;' indicate a political | gujde far as Burwash, where | The party announces women will 1 scrap to send representatives to|Miss Joyce expects to hire Indians :be permitted to vote in internal DAVOS, Switzerland, Feb. 3.— Home Passes Bill MISS FARRELI"EY uneau in the interest of the work-|to help break trail across the ST elections, similar to American pri- Delbert Lamb, 21-year-old Milwau- for skagway wOrkg ENROUTE HOME s AwAY‘lH‘ class. "uulm\'v!P:i area between Burwash WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.— The!maries, on April 5. kee, Wisconsin, landscape artist, SERRESEN | sl |and Tdndnfl Crossing Senate passed and sent to the House .. - won the 500 meters ice skaling WASHINGTON, Feb, 3. — The| Miss Jane Farrelley, FERA office | ITH COMING HOME e e———— of Representatives for conference the SITING IN TOWN race here last Saturday afternoon House has passed Delegate Dimond's | employee, is a passenger to Juneau WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—Rolfe F. | e Nine states selected a combination $3,067,770,000 deficiency bill, carry- P. J. White, foreman of the CCC In 42 6/10 seconds, defeating skat- bill authorizing Skagway to finance|on the Northwestern. She is re- Bolling, aged 74, President of th»| Walstein G. Smllh of the First|of black with orange or yellow for ing funds for farm benefits under |camp at Herbert River, is in town ers of 12 nations. a $12000 municipal public works|turning from a vacation spent in Liberty National Bank and a broth- | National Bank, who has been south |their 1936 automobile license plates: AAA contracts and expenses of pay-|and registered at the Alaskgn] Hans Engestangen, of Norway, program by means of a bond issue, Seattle, Tacoma, and other Wash- er of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, is dead |on business, is' a passenger for|eight, blue and white, and seven, ing the bonus. Hotel. i was second. ‘The bill now goes to the Senate. ington cities. ,at his home here. Juneau aboard the Northwestern. black and white.