The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 4, 1936, Page 1

- THE DAILY VOL. XLVIL, NO. 7187. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUES ALA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” DAY FEBRUARY 4, 1936. MEMBER OF EMPIR ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICk TEN CENTS GILLAM PLANE IS RECOVERED IN COOK INLET Crashed CrESalvaged by! Tractor and Crew— Little Damage IN— Anchorage, Alas- A tractor and crew covered the plane of Har- old Gillam from Cool¢ Inlet. 1 About the only damage to the plane is a torn wing fabric. MAY SALVAGE PLANE ANCHORAGE. Alaska, Feb. 4.— | The ten-place Pilgrim plane, piloted | by Harold Gillam, which crashed in | Cook Inlet off Anchorage Sunday | afternoon, was at urst believed to | be lost, but rescuers succeeded in | attaching ropes to the plane to hold | it against being washed away by the | tide. It is now believed that the plane | can be salvaged without serious | damage when the tide is out Down In Inlet H The plane, piloted by Gillam v\n.)l flight mechanic Buddy Heltenrich, | and carrying Jack Metzgar of An- chorage, who had chartered the plane | to return from Cordova, and Elmer | Hedstrom of Cordova, ran out of gas and the engine quit, after buck- ing headwinds and cruising over An- chorage where a ground fog made it impossible to land. Gillam headed for Cook Inlet rather than take a chance of crashing into the town. Those aboard the plane escaped witn nothing more serious than wet feet. Metzgar's clothing and effects are submerged in the ship. Jump to Ice Floes The four men stood up on the plane and shouted for help after the ship plunged between ice floes, then jumped to the ice when the plan~ sank under them. The crash of the plane was heard by Pilots Steve Mills and Kenneth Neese, who spread the alarm and helped rescue the four men from the ice floes. Another Plane Down Shortly after Gillam’s plane crash- ed a telephone message from Potter said that Pilot A. R. Lyle and his pas- senger, Jack Coates of the Alaska Road Commission, were forced down on the tideflats there by engine trouble. The plane was undamaged and the two men unhurt. They were coming to Anchorage from Copper Center when they encountered foggy weather at Potter. Pure luck result- ed in their finding the flats for a landing SECRET PROBE IN LINDBERGH CASE WIDENS Col. Schwarzkopf Asks Aid of Federal Men and Po- | lice in New Query TRENTON, N. J., Feb. 4— Th2 new investigation into the Lind- bergh kidnaping case widened in scope today when Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Superintendent of New Jersey State Police, sought the aid of Federal and New York police of- | ficers. Col. Schwarekopf asked for | the same officers who conducted | the previous investigation. The state police head is conduct- | ing a new secret investigation into the famous case on orders from Gov. Harold G. Hoffman, who recently granted Brune Hauptmann, convict- ed kidnaper, a 30-day reprieve from execution. The Chief Executive has expressed the belief that other pe.- sons besides Hauptmann were in- volved in the crime. i s Fifteen states will retain the same color combinations of their 1935 auto- mobile license plates in 1936, merely | reversing them as to background and rals. Charge Made Lebby Blocking - { Neutrality Bill i WASHINGTON, Feb. 4—The charge that a powerful lobby is seeking to block the Adminis- tration’s permanent neutrality bill, because it might reduce foreign trade, was made this af- ternoon before the House Rules Committee. The charge was pre- ferred by Chairman Reyno'ds, of the House Foreign Affairs committee. |organized Secret Marriage TthS Cadec WINTERRULES MANY SEEKING { Reinhold Schrein “The girl he left behind him” became the cause of his dismissal from West Point when authorities at the military academy were informed that Cadet Reinhold Schrein was of Steele City, Neb., in violation of West Point rules. of their marriage came from his wife when she learned that Schrein had fallen in love with another girl and wanted their marriage annulled, PRESIDENT IS CHECKING UP ON REVENUES White House Conference Is Called to Determine Budget Problems WASHINGTON, Feb. 4—A White House Conference of the Govern- ment’s lending and collecting agen- cies has been summoned by the President as Capitol Hill awaits more concrete word as to the tax plans of the Administration. Bulletins from the White House described the meeting as a periodic checkup on the Government’s reve- nue and expenditure position in the vast budgetary problems which are further impeded by the big supply of cash which must be raised by spring to meet the cost of paying the bonus, VICE RING TO BE RUN DOWN BY FEDERALS . Two Thousand Women Re- ported Held Virtual- ly as Slaves NEW YORK, Feb. 4. — Federal agents are working with the police in eastern cities to crush a highly vice-mob operating in three states. Undercover men estimated the an- nual “take” from this source at $12,000,000. The ring, according to the officers, |are said to hold 2,000 women as virtual slaves for immoral purposes and blackmail, in 200 houses. HOUSE PASSES BILL TO SPEED FILING CLAIMS Dimond Measure Would Redqce Limits on Suits Against Mineral Entries WASHINGTON, Feb. 4— The House of Representatives late yes- terday passed and sent to the Sen- jate the bill introduced by Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond reduc- ing from eight months to sixty days the time limit for filing adverse claims in instituting suits against mineral entries. ——————— HAS OPERATION Fred Coleman was operated on last jevening in St. Ann's Hospital for — —————o —— — hernia, OVER ENTIRE -~ NATIONTODAY “Frigid Wea]g and High | Winds, Fallen Tempera- | tures, Brmg Suffering | 2 \ CHICAGO, 1ll, Feb. 4—The Arc- |tic lashed a double blast of Zero | chill across the nation as flood wat- {ers swirled over the banks of snow- swollen streams in North Alabama |and East Mississippi. | A forty-mile wind brought suffer- {ing and destruction to the Great | Lakes region. Another stream of frigid weather poured down the Rocky Mountains eastward, whirling a 25 to 40 degree | temperature drop before it. Storm piled up snowdrifts, bloek- .mg highways and railroads in the | west, and coating the roads with ice rrom the Rockies w the Atlantic. 'SNOW, COLD IN PAC.NORTHWEST Mo derating Temperatures | Forecast for Tonight and Tomonow [Lucite Toytr secretly married to Lucille Taylor | Disclosure Heiress Married SEATTLE, reb. 4—5now covered most of the state of Washington to- day but the Weather Bureau fore- cast moderating temperatures for the west portion tonight or tomorrow at the latest Douglas, in the Columbia River valley, reported zero wenther Lhw forenoon Snow fell last night and wday in Seattle, Tacoma, Everett and Bel- lingham. D SENATE KNOCKS OUT 3 CONTROL ACT MEASURES House Actlon Awaited on Repeal of Cotton, To- bacco, Potato Laws WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—Speedily heeding President Roosevelt's re- quest, the Senate today adopted a brief bill repealing the Bankhead cotton control act, the Kerr-Smith tobacco control act and the potato Ruth Moffett, 16, Standard Oil heiress, is bride of Warren Johnson, Bronxville, N. Y., society man, fol- .owing surprise marriage at Harri- son, the “Gretn Green" of N. Y Bt st ont sy control act. The House is yet to take action. cHAS B wARREN Earlier the Senate Agricultural committee decided to defer floor con- sideration of the Bankhead soil con- servation subsidy bill until the com- mittee studies the changes made in a similar measure by the House Ag- ricultural committee. MRS. BEHRENDS 1 TAKEN ILL DETROIT, Mich., Feb. 4—Charles| Mrs. B. M. Behrends, enroute Beecher Warren, former United, | north after a visit in Pacific Coast States Ambassador to Mexico and; | states, became ill aboard the | Japan is dead here after a brief |steamer Northwestern, and as a| illness. He suffered heart trouble.'Precautionary measure, was taken A power in Republican politics, off the steamer at Ketchikan and a lawyer of international renov.n'mken to the hospital. Mr. and Mrs. and ‘a diplomat of first rank,| J F. Mullen also left the steamer Charles Beecher Warren was de- 'to be at the bedside of Mrs.| scribed by intimates as a mental| Behrends. genius of many facets. k The information was contained His endeavors were many and|in an Associated Press dispatch varied. In politics, he was Repub-|and also in advices received by lican National Committeeman for Harley J. Turner, of the B. M. Michigan and figured prominently| Behrends Co. Inc. The message in the conventions of 1908, 1912,jto Mr. Turner did not indicate 1920 and 1924. In international| Mrs. Behrends‘ illness was serious. law he twice pleaded the cause of| the United States before lm.erna-'SNows HALT MLS [ WORK OF CCC CREW | tional Arbitration Courts, first in The Forest Service launch Foreste- the Bering Sea dispute of 1896 and in 1910 in the North Atlantic fish- {left this morning to pick up a ccc crew at Oliver Inlet, where heavy | DIES SUDDENDLY; HEART TROUBLE Former Power in Republi- can Politics Passes in Detroit eries cases, both times against Great Britain. Wins Commendation He was Ambassador to Japan and | SPOWs have made further work tem- | to Mexico and in each instance|Porarily impossible. | won commendation for solving| The CCC workers have been build- vexatious problems. ‘ng a portage trail from the inlet In war days he helped write the|3d the shelter cabin on the Sey- draft law and other statutes bear-|MOUr Canal side is now completed ing on it. He wrote most of the About three weeks more of work re- army's selective service regulations|Ma3ins to be done, according to the and for his work in the Judge Forest Service, and will be completed (Continued on Page Three) next summer.- - NOMINATION IN THIRD DIVISION Three Democratic Candi- dates for Senate—Re- publicans Have Two VALDEZ, Alaska, Feb. 4 dlete filings for the Third Division Jemocratic and Republican tickets s as follows: Democratic For Senate—C. A. Pollard, Ancho: age; James H. Patterson, Valdez D. MeCutcheon, Curry. For House—Harry N. Wilson, Eyak; Oecil Minaker, Cordova; R. E. Baum- jartner, Seward; Dan Kennedy, C I S M. Eckman, H. H. McCutcheon, all of | Anchorage; Ed Coffey, Palmer, Hilbert Anderson. Kanatak. Republicans and | For Senate—O. S. Gill, Anchorage; | M. D. Snodgrass, Palmer. For House—Joseph H. Murray and | Florence Nafsted, of Cordova; James Climie, Moritz Anderson, Joseph Mc- Mahon, all of Anchorage; James Buggey, Palmer. C. A. Pollard, candidate for Sena- | tor on the Democratic ticket, is a dentist of Anchorage; James 1 Patterson was a member of the House at the last session, and S. D. Mec- Cutcheon is a son of H. H. McCutch- eon and a former employe of the House. O. 8. Gill, candidate for the Sen- ate on the Republican ticket, is the mayor of Anchorage. Joseph H. Mur- ray, candidate on the Republican ticket for the House, has been a member of that body in previous ieg- islatures but was not in Juneau at the last sessmn fITAI.IANS WEIGH ACTION AGAINST NEW SANCTIONS {Fascists Confer on Possible Cutting Off of More Supplies | Wil | ROME, Feb. 4—Confronted with the fear of further sanctions, Pre- |mier Mussolini conferred with his |two highest advisory groups, the |Supreme Defense Commission and |the Fascist Grand Council, whick will help him decide the next step in the Ethiopian war. The manner for fortifying the populace at home against privations due to the shui- ting off of supplies from Leaguc | members will also be studied. Little was reported from the bat- tle front, although Italy claimed that the Ethiopians were defeated at Neghelli. The Ethiopian govern- ment is said to claim an Ethiopian victory there. Field Marshal Pietro Badoglio re- ported that bodies of native war- riors coming over to the Italian side routed a hostile Ethiopian concen- tration in the Ellot Region, between Webbe Gestro and Webbe Shibelli DOUBLE RITES FOR ALASKAN PIONEER PAIR Mr. and Mrs. *Happy Jack’ Pollard Die Within Few Days of Each Other LOS ANGELES, Feb. 4.—Mrs. Jo- seph Pollard, 73, wife of “Happy Jack” Pollard, ex-prospector from Alaska to Mexico, died yesterday, not knowing her husband had pass ed away Saturday grieving over her illness. They had been married five year: and were ranching in San Bernar- | dino County. A double funeral has been set for | tomorrow. Kenneth Neese l;'fi;med Manager, Plane Service Kenneth Neese has been named manager of the Star Air Service suc- Izeedmg L. McGee, who is going to |mine in the Koyukuk district. Mc- Gee recently sold his planes to the Star Air Service, but retained the in ample time for the use of the trail | position of manager until he re- signed. Com- ! \ 4 |‘ | | | In recognition of the flying recor Lieut. Phil Haynes, left, was aws trophy by President Roosevelt in Dern, Hot News in Florida I | & | The cold blizzardy North is “hot news,” in Florida and this bathing beauty thought up a novel way of using newspapers, emblazoned with storm headlines, for her suit to spread the tidings. Homer SourdouAgrrid Is Honored by {Ranger Staft HOMER, Alaska, Feb. 4.—Two work boats from the aircraft car- rier Ranger were stranded by the tide, and officers and crew had to spend Saturday night with Charlie Miller, sourdough bache- lor. On Sunday the Ranger re- ciprocated by sending Miller a turkey, candy, fruit, a photo of the Ranger, and a letter from Capt. Arthur Bristol. Officers say the Ranger will probably depart on February 10, after an intensive aerial survey of the Homer area. D GOLD EXPORTS GET LICENSES WASHINGTON. Feb. 4 The Treasury Department has announced yrant of license for exportation of ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. 4. | 1250,000 in gold in addition to the $5,600,000 authorized yesterday Of today’s $6,750,000 will be co igned to France, the remain 3500,000 to Holland. - -es A total of 2,414 coyotes were killed n 54 California counties during 1935. d of his squadron of naval planes, arded the Herbert Schiff memonal the presence of Secretary of War cepter NEW SHARES TAKING LEAD STOCK DEALS, Recent Favorites Discar Motors and Mines Sag Today | NEW YORK, Feb. 4—Traders in the stock market today selected buy- ing spots with care and neglected | several recent favorites Merchandising, farm implement oil, rubt nd specialty issues were ! in demand and gains of fractions to two or more points were made. Rails improved in late trading Motors sagged during the session ' along with mines. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Feb. 4.—Closing quo- tation of Alaska Juneau mine 4 stock today is 16. American Can 125%. American Power and Light 10'«, An- | aconda 30, Bethlehem Steel 527, | | Curtiss-Wright 4%, Ch: Mil- | waukee, St. Paul and Rail- road 2':. General Motors 59, Inter- national Harvester 667., Kennecout 34, United States Steel & South- |ern Railway 147, Cities Service 7, | Pound $502%, Boeing Airplane 2 United Aircraft 28's DOW, JO? AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow. | Jones averages: Industrials 150.94, rails 46.88, utilities 32.13 | COLD WAVE STRIKES SOUTHEAST ALASKA; MERCURY HERE 14 One of the coldest days of the| winter was felt in Juneau todav,| with the mercury at 14 at noon and | the wind reaching a maximum ve- locity of 25 mph. The cold wave is general over the northern half of Southeast Alaska, according to Weatherman Howard J. Thompson, with no let-up forecast for tomor- row Ketchikan enjoyed mild weather this morning, though the forecast is for colder weather there tonight. | Fairbganks found the thermometer at 40 below today, erle of t helowest re- cordings in several weeks. The forecast for Juneau is show ‘flmne» tonight, with falr and con- | | tinued cold tomorrow and fresh east ‘w north \vmds TOMORROW LAST DAY FOR MOTORISTS TO USE OLD LICENSES People operating cars or truck must have their 1936 license plates by tomorrow night or they will be given tags, Chief of Police Roy Hoff- man warned today. With the final day at hand for op- eration of vehicles with 1935 licenses, about 300 motorists have so far pur- ased the new plates. R LEAVES HOSPITAL D. Halvorsen of Skagway. was dis- charged from St. Ann's Hospital this | morning. EAST REPORTED ' READY TO BACK GOV, OF KANSAS Report Says Rep ublican Leaders Have Decided on Standard Bearers PLAN UNDERWAY TO SWING CONVENTION Kansan for President, Con- gressman for Running Mate, Present Slate NEW YORK, Feb. 4—The New York Times said today the Repub- lican ticket will be Gov. Alfred M. Landon of Kansas and James W. Wadsworth of New York, member of the House of Representatives, if ‘.lhe plans of some Eastern Repub- licans who met in Philadelphia are ( fultilled. The plan is to send uninstructed delegations to the Cleveland con- vention to divert strength to the Kansas Governor for President and Congressman Wadsworth for Vice- President, the newspaper said. | Boom Started Last Summer | Gov. Landon has been boomed as Republican Presidential timber since last summer when attention first called to his success in balancing the Kansas State budget. While he has not been considered lucceplable to Chairman Henry Tletcher of the Republican Na- ded tional Committee, and former Presi- dent Herbert Hoover, titular head lof the party, it is reported that |'BEastern pressure has broken down | their resistance as it was in the East that most of the opposition to Landon was located, according to reports. b Landon is described as a middle- of-the-road Republican, neither re- actiona nor ultra liberal. He is sald to favor the social curity program as advanced by President | Roosevelt and was a warm friend of the AAA. He comes from a (Kansas oil family. Trained a law- | yer, he practiced little, turning his business effort to oil in which his father before him was interested. He is serving his second term as Governor of Kansas. Former Senator Mr. Wadsworth is a former Sen- |ator from New York and in the East has been himself mentioned |as a possible Presidential candidate. He has not been particularly active in the: Hopise since his election to that body but’ he gets an attentive | hearing in his oceasional appear- ances as am exponent of some pro- | gram. Heé is said to be a pro-~ | nounced anti-New Dealer, profess- ing to detect a trend toward dic~ | tatorship in the Roosevelt program, D FIGHT BREAKS OUT IN YOUNG 6.0.9. SESSION ‘Controversy Splits Conven- { tion — Old Guard Hides Behind New Deal Attack WASHINGTON, Feb. 4—A fight in the Young Republican party’s convention broke out here today af- |ter the election of J. Kenneth Brad- |ley. of Westport, Conn., to be Chair- [man of the executive committee of jthe Young Republican National ‘Po(h*rfluun John H. Carton of Lan- sing, Mich., refused to make the :lection unanimous and controversy | | | was running rampant through the { Young Republican ranks. Republican leaders, confronted by | the threat of strife among the young- |er members of the party, welcomed a chance to concentrate on charges that some of the Administration’s |four billion dollar relief fund was ;|being used for political purposes. Senate Republicans planned to ask a Senatorial ca m pa i gn expenditures committee be directed to investigate whether relief money was being used politically as a threat. D IS OPERATED ON Young Teddy Smith, of the Ju- neau Dairy, was operated on last evening for appendicitis. He is re- i:‘overinx nicely in the St. Ann's Hos~ pital today.