The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 27, 1936, Page 1

THE DAILY ALAS VOL. XLVIL, NO. 7207. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU ALASKA, THURSDAY FEBRUARY 27, 1936. ANOTHER COLD WAVE SWEEPS MANY STATES Floods Threatenmg Other! Sections—Ice Jams Releasing of the llunterdon County Court of day of March, A. D. 1936, as the of duath must be executed in the CHICAGO, Ill, Feb. 27. ~—-Sub-v zero weather has returned to the | north and central states for a new | cold wave. | Heavy precipitation and high | winds are forecast for other sec-' tions. | Residents in many states are threatened by floods which have al- ready caused several drownings and much property damage, and are hoping for the return of freezing weather as relief Ice jams are many “Pres ’ | ATTESTy already rising in flood waters. —_—————— FLOOD, SLIDES CAUSE PROBLEM TTerk of the Wunterdon County Court of Oyer and Terminnr. Pres case made and provided, 1, THOMAS appoint the week commencing Monday, the e hereby command you to execute said sentence upon some day within NEW DEATH WARRANT FOR BRUNO NOW, THEIFFORE, pursuant to the statutes in such '« THENCHAKD, Presiding Judge Oyer and Terminer, do hersby Zath (T0) week within which such sentence manner provided by law and the week 30 appointed, snd this shall, under the statutes of tifs State, be your sufficient warrant therefor, IN TESTIMONY WHEREOP, I have hereunto set my hand this nineteenth day of February, A. D. 1936. MWM erdon Tounty o Court of ‘Oyer and Torminers This is a facsimile of the new warrant signed by Judge Thomas W. Trenchard of New Jersey which directs Bruno Richard Hauptmann to be executed the week of March 30 for the kidnap-murder of the Lind- bergh baby. The warrant was issued at the expiration of a 30-day reprieve granted by Governor Harold Hoffman. (From Associated INWASHINGTON Snoqualmie Pass Closed by Avalanche—Mt. Baker Road Ordered Shut SEATTLE, Feb. 27.—Flood and slide problems in Western Wash- ington approached an acute stage today as rains continued after the break in the cold snap. Snoqualmie Pass, closed by aval- anches, remained impassable, after the highway department withdrew its workmen because of the danger of fresh snowslides. The road to Mt. Baker is closed at the glacier for the same reason THREE KILLED AS AVALANGHE BURIES TRAIN Two Others Injured—Bod- ies Removed After All- Night Struggle WALLACE, Idaho, Feb. 27.—Three persons were killed and two injured when an avalanche slid 200 feet down the mountain and engulfed a Northern Pacific train 24 miles east of here. The bodies were recovered after an all-night struggle. The dead are Thomas Byall, Mis- soula, brakeman; F. A. McClain, 1i Missoula, and a blonde woman, about 30, unidentified. The injured are E. C. Florin, H. E. Wheeler. The avalanche started at the sum- mit of Lookout Pnss FISHERY CHIEF TELLS CHAMBER OUTLOOK 600D W. F. Thompson Says Hali- but Industry’s Future Promising W. F. Thompson, Chairman of the International Fisheries Com- mission, was the principal speaker at the Chamber of Commerce | luncheon today in the Terminal Cafe. Mr. Thompson, who has been in Juneau for a conference with local halibut fishermen, declared that the industry is looking to the future with optimism. The number of ed, giving promise of a greater vield and a firm basis for a stabil- ized condition. “Fisheries science has advanced tremendously during recent years," he said, “and the commission is doing all in its power to acquaint fishermen more closely with the facts, and to show them the foun- dations on which the changes and regulations are based. You are for- tunate in the type of men engaged in the industry, and its future as an increasingly productive and well- controlled line of endeavor is most promising.” Halibut History Told The fisheries chief briefly out- ned the history of the halibut to the gathering, and showed the ac- turial basis on which the control is premised. Mr. Thompson was to leave on the Victoria for Petersburg and Ketchikan, where he will hold meetings with fishermen. Supplementing Mr. Thompson’s i talk, Martin Borleck, Juneau fish- erman, sounded a new appeal for ter support for the proposed | small boat harbor for Juneau and wHu KlLLED | Douglas, which he stated would | considerably increase the perma- HEH FATHER.nem population. Vice President W. S. Pullen pre- sided at the meeting in the absence of President Norman Banfield, and Emma Willis, 18, Freed by Jury on Ground of In- sanity from Cruelty introduced two returning members, C. T. Gardner, Vice President of the | Juneau Lumber Mills, and Robert Simpson, optometrist and owner of ] the Nugget Shop. | Ezecutive Report Read The report of the executive com- mittee meeting was read by Acting Secretary John Keyser, in which it was stated that the committeemen | voted to have all contestants in the ! Better Times Drive as luncheon guests on the Thursday before the winners leave for the south. Support was pledged for the high | school music festival, to be held in | Juneau from April 20 to 25, at which 7 . ‘approximauly 40 students from Insane Hospital for observation. The girl shot her father as he lay | cichikan, Wrangell, Petersburg {and Sitka will be in attendance. Lf;mbssr‘:": their farm home on De-| 10 committee also took up the ! matter of the placing of pictures of | Alaska’s governors in the Post Of- | fice lobby, and the uncurbed shoot- ing of fireworks within the city limits. ANARDARKO, Okla, Feb. 27— Emma Willis, 18, farm girl, has been acquitted for shooting her father, by a jury which accepted the de- fense theory that she was driven' insane by cruelty and lmproper ad- vances from the 51-year-old share cropper. Eddie H, Willis. Plans were launched immediate- ly to obtain freedom through a hearing on her present sanity. Meanwhile, she will be sent to an e BOY SCOUTS MEET Members of the Norlitemen Boy Scout Troop meet at 7:30 o'clock this evening in the Northern Lisht| Presbyterian Church parlors for the | initiation of several new members. Acting Scoutmaster Eugene Rhode will preside. mation were received during the week, it was stated. (Oontinued on Page Two: spawners is on the increase, he stat- | ) A total of 69 requests for infor- Italy Refuses Signature on Naval Treaty Object of League Sanctions Balk at Agreement— Technicalities LONDON, Feb. 27—Ttaly, balking at the continuation of League of Nations sanctions against her, to- day advised Great Britain she is not ready to sign the new naval treaty with England, France and United States British advices said technical dif- ficulties over the size of ships and questions of procedure resulted in the Italian action. TAXI DRIVER NOW QUERIED BY HOFFMAN Governor Questions Joseph Perrone’s Identification of B. Hauptmann TRENTON, N. J, Feb. 27.—Gov. Harold G. Hoffman today ques- tioned the identification by Joseph Perrone, taxi driver, of Bruno Hauptmann as the man who hired him to deliver a note to Dr. J. F. (Jafsie) Condon prior to payment of the Lindbergh baby ransom. The Governor said Perrone, on one of many occasions, picked out persons whom he said greatly re- sembled the man who gave him the note. In no case, he said, was the description similar to that of Hauptmann. Attorney - General David Wilentz said he “would make no move at all” to combat the Governor's re- newed attacks against the Haupt- mann evidence ———— METHODISTS HAVE POTLUCK SUPPER A covered dish supper, sponsored by the Ladies Aid Society for the entertainment of their husbands and families, was held last even- ing in the Methodist Parsonage, home of Rev. and Mrs. O. L. Ken- dall. Following supper, a social even- ing, with games and community singing, was enjoyed by the 35 per- sons present. Feature of the evening was the reading, by Mrs. George Perrin, of a paper dealmg with “The History of Alaska.” Arrangements for the supper| were carried out by Mrs. Floyd Dryden. el FRAWLEYS ON VICTORIA Senator James Frawley, Nome at- torney, and Mrs. Frawley are pas- to the States. RUTH LUNDELL POLLS QUARTER MILLION VOTES Total Number Caal in Duve ! to Date Is 14,000,000— | Counter-upper Staggers | Ruth Lundell set a new record in voles registered to noon yesterday, | when the No. 1 candidate in the Better Times Drive turned in an | even quarter million votes. This sent her total to 1,394,550 votes. Incidentally, votes registered since - the last report set new all-time | high at 1,169,375 votes, as the 28 | contestants enter the “home stretch™ of the drive which closes midnight, Feb. 29. | Becond in votes cast to noon yes- terday was Catherine York, who, by counting 142,500, moved into | te: th position. Anita Garnick mov- ed into second place by registering 1128625, Two other girls, Bessie Powers, and Rosa Danner, cleared the 100,000 mark in the heaviest day of voting on record. Elisabeth Kaser with 95,175, Eleanor Gruber with 90,000 and Rosellen Monagle with 54,675 were others to pass the 50,000 mark. Almost 14 million votes have been cast in this drive up to today. The “counter-upper” staggers un- der the avalanche of voting, and does not promise complete reports at any specified time. - HAGOOD TALKED TOOFLIPPANTLY | - SAYSWARDEPT, ' Explanation Is Given for Reason in Disciplin- ing Officer WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—Step- ping into the politically tinged me- lee over disciplining of Major Gen- eral Johnson Hagood, the War De- partment today published a state- ment that his entire record a General and an officer was “mark- ed by repeated examples of lack of self control, irresponsible and in- temperate statements.” The War Department’s silence was broken in the face of a Re- publican effort to force the Senate to make an investigation into whether military exiling of Maj.- Gen. Hagood has abridged his right of free speech. The War Department’s statement was issued by Gen. Malin Craig, Chief of Staff In a letter to Secretary of War George H. Dern, dated Ferbuary 18. it was recommended that Maj. Gen. Hagood be relieved of the command of the Eighth Corps area and sent home to “await further orders.” In referring to past utterances of Maj. Gen. Hagood, Gen. Malln said “there have been reprimands and explanations to little avail,"— and another comment was that “evidently the trait of flippancy is too ingrained for reprimand or ad- monition to have much effect.” Asks Leniency Senator Byrnes, accompanied by Representatives McSwain, Chairman of the House Military Committee and Blanton of Texas, asked Sec- retary of War Dern to set aside or modify the disciplinary action taken against Maj. Gen. Hagood Byrnes told Army leaders he be- lieved the order removing Hagood ,from command of the Eighth Corps Area was too severe NOBEL PRIZE WINNER DIES LENINGRAD, Feb. 27.—Ivan Pet- rovitch Pavloff, aged 86, physiolo- gist who became internationally fa- mous for his “purely materialistic” | theory of conditioned reflexes in the research of the mental processes of animals, is dead here. He won | the Nobel prize in 1904 for his re- 'senn:h work in the activity of the digestive glands i - ! ENTERS HOSPITAL 1 | Axel Peterson, medical case. is| jregistered today at St. Ann’s Hos- 'pltal Mr. Peterson, who arrived suffering from an eye injury. ' to the Republican conv SKA EMPIR SAVED FROM ICE FLOE FLOATING OUT TO SEA B | | Séven CCC youths were saved by coast guardsmen from an ice field floating out to sea off the Cape Cod coast of Massachusetts. Top (left to right), Norman Beaulieu, Nick Scunzio, Manue! Bottello and Tony Ray, four of the boys, photographed by Thomas Malone, a companion, as they sat behind a crude windbreak while awaiting rescus. Below, the seven boys safe aboarc the rescue cutter (left to right): Tony Ray, Nick Scunzio, Thomas Malone, Manuel Bottello, John Fitzsimmons, whose feet were frozen; Norman Beaulieu and Albert Papa. The latter three were flown to a hospital a few minutes later. (Asso ciated Press Photos) Name Publisher As Running Mate for Senator Borah Frank Gannell to Team Up with Idahoan for Vote Drive in Ohio Primary —Se Pr COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 2i ator William E. Borah ful dent” forces announced that his running mate in the pri- mary drive for Ohio's 52 delegates ion will be of 19 Frank E. Gannett, publisher newspapers in New York state, New Jersey and Connecticut Gannett is one of the best news- papermen in the east and leans to the more liberal policies in his Re- publicanism, much the same as Bor- ah, it is pointed out Political observers see in the move an effort on the part of the Borah forces to gain support in the East LANDON DECLIN TO ENTER OHIO RACE COLUMBUS, O., Feb. 27.—Gov. Alfred M. Landon of Kansas today informed the Ohio Republican State Committee he would not enter the Ohio primary as a candidate for the Republican Presidential nomin- ation - THREE MATANUSKA . . FAMILIES GO SOUTH, Three smpore families of returning colonists from the Matanuska proj- ect are passengers aboard the Vie- toria enroute to the States. They include the following: Mr. and Mrs John Hoeft and daughter; Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Leander; and Mr. and Mrs. Ray W. Wilkes and four chil- dren. Miss Ruth Cook, a nurse from the colony, is also a passenger aboard the Victori: - OUT FROM MAYO L. Stevens, mining man from Mayo, Y. T, is a passenger aboard the Victoria enroute from Skagway to Seattle. > NOME BANKER HERE G. R. Jackson, Nome banker, and | sengers aboard the Victoria enroute‘(mm Chichagof on the Roedda, is Mrs. Jackson, are passengers on lxhe Victoria eénroute to Seattle. i- | last night | JAPAN REVOLT Isham Temple Shrine Coming North in July SAN FRANCIS — Islam Temple Shrine m..‘ complcted arrangements for an 18-day summer cruise tc Al- aska following the Shrine cen- vention which will be held in Seattle in July. - _EXPONENT OF FREE THOUGHT DIES IN SOUTH [Gen. Lynes:'No-led in Edu- cational, Military Cir- cles, Passes Away 27, MARIETTA, Georgia, Feb, 27. Gen. J. Colton Lynes, aged 91, prom- inent in military and educational circles in the south for many years. is dead at his home here Temperate but complete living vith the mind open to progres and change was the philosophy preached and practiced by Lynes “I am an evolutionist in all he would often say when militarism, government or educaunnwlux chief interest in | life., Hh life’ was prinmrm one of ser- vice, ffrst as 4 drill sergeant in the DLonfederate army at the age of 15 then as a lawyer, and later as an instructor of youth. He abandoned | the law soon after being admitted | to the bar “because it zhd not bring out the best in a man” and made teachinz his career. He estimated that in 34 years spent in the class- room he lectured to more than 7.000 students. For a number of years Gen. Lynes ranked with the leading educators of the South. His first professos ship was held at ‘Carolina Military Institute, and he was president, in turn, of the Marietta Female Col- lege, the South Georgia Military and Agriculture College and the Middle Georgia Military and Agricultural ollege. He also for several years assistant = superintendent at King's Mountain Military Academy, | Yorkville, 8. C., and held professor- ships at Shorter College, Rome, | (Continued on Page Five) GIVES POWERS SUDDEN SHOCK | Tokyo Mass Assassinations | Adds to Tension Already | Felt, Diplomatic Circles | | REBELS REPORTED GIVING GROUND Firm Army Rule Anticipat- ed Following First Flare- up of Liberal Element [ LONDON, Feb. 27 | ope Jar -Anxious Eur- anticipated firm army rule in n on the heels of the mass as- | sassinations of cabinet = members { vesterday. Diplomatic circles echoed ! with the question of whether war | would eventuate from the conflict between Japane: militari and the more conservative libe: Much speculation was heard over | the identity of a new Premier. Those most frequently mentioned were Baron Hiranuma ,Vice Presi- dent of the Privy Council and noted head of the Fascist organizations, fand General Sadao Araki, former War Minister, REBELLIOUS OFFICERS RELENT TOKYO, Feb. —Tl.e rebellious young army officers who killed four Japanese liberal statesmen in an | attempted coup d' etat yesterday gave ground today in Tokyo while the surviving ministers of the Jap- anese Cabinet strove to form a new government An official source told the Domei news agency the insurgents capi- tulated late today. The recaleitrants who held police headquarters bar- 1cks loyal against the tightening ring of troops for 24 hours are re- ported to have started evacuation of the buildings they ogeupled The original object of the upris- ing, it was stated, was the removal of those government figures they onsidered inimical to Japan's best interests, Establisnment of an ultra patriotic nationalist government ap- peared near achievement - STOCK PRICES TAKE ADVANCE FINAL SESSION High Levili Weachd by Various Groups— Late Acllvlty SITKA RADIO - STATION NOW IS “WORKING" Tallapoosa Returns from Scene of Fire—Answer- ed Emergency Ca The United States Coast Guard cutter Tallapoosa, commanded by Lieut. Miles Imlay, arrived here this morning from an emergency trip to Sitka in installing radio equipment replacing the Sig- of activity in the Stock Mar-~ nal Corps station in the Federal yet carried prices onward at the Building at Sitka which was en- close from the high levels reached tirely destroyed by flames last Sun- during the quiet early session. day morning s, rails, nonferrous metals The Coast Guard vessel received g;q a broad list of industrial spec- a radio mesgage at 6:30 o'clock jaities climbed from one to three or Sunday evening notifying them that ynore points the Army radio station at Sitka Today's sales totalled over 2,350~ had been destroyed by fire, and oo shares. instructing them to pick up Radio Technician V. L. Hoke and equip- ment available here, to go to Wran- gell for additional equipment in-!guotation of Alaska Juneau mine cluding a transformer, and to Pro- |siock today is 15', American Can ceed to Sitka at once. The Talla- | 119 American Power and Light 8%, poosa was ready to sail as s0on as|Apaconda 35, Bethlehem Steel 57%, Mr. Hoke had his equipment aboard. | Cyrtiss-Wright 6%, Chicago, Mil- Lieut. Imlay said, and steamed|ywaykee, St. Paul and Pacific Rail- down the Channel at 7:45 pm.|road 2%, General Motors 59%, In- arriving at Wrangell 10:15 am. | ternational Harvester 67, Kenne- Monday, and reaching Sitka at|coty 375, United States Steel 637%, 3:35 a.in. Tuesday | Southern Railway 19%, Cities Serv- Install New Station ice 5%, Pound $499%, Blaw Knox Upon arrival at Sitka, Mr. Hoke,|Steel 19%, Boeing Airplane 23%, assisted by members of the crew|upited Aircraft 287. of the Tallapoosa, immediately be-| gan the process of installation of a new station in the old cable office,{ DCW, JONES AVERAGES occupied by Dr Nicholson, who! The following are today’s Dow, moved his property from one room |Jones averages: Industrials 152.54, in the two-story frame building rails 50.16, uulities 32.44. Cutter Handles Business - - The original message sent to the| Tallapoosa last Sunday was sent| Sitka, and relayed by an amateur ! in British Columbia to other sta- tions before reaching Juneau. The NEW YORK F‘s-b Wallace, actor, has st small set later worked direct with Juneau after technical adjustments had been made. Until the new sta- to enjoin Mae West from denying n Hollywood that he is her hus- band tion was ready to function all Gov- ernment messages wefe handled by Mae said, “That guy's trying to ash in again because I have a new the Tallapoosa for Sitka relieving the smaller set of a considerable picture. I'm not married to him and never was.” to aid NEW YORK, Feb. 27—A final CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK; Feb. 27. — Closing a volume of business. Members of the crew of the Tal (Continued on Page’ Three)