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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLVIL, NO. 7233, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU. ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1936. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NEW CHARGES MADE, HAUPTMANN CASE REYNOLDSTOWN IS WINNER OF ENGLISH RACE, Victor in Grand National Steeplechase Last Year, Repeats Today MANY AMERICANS GET REAL MONEY Five Draw Down $150,000 Each — Nine Others Awarded Sums AINTREE, England, Mach 27— Major Noel Turlong’s Reynoldstown repeated the 1935 victory today in the Grand National Steeplechase. | Sir Davis Llewellyn’s Ego, an out- sid was second and James V Bank's Bachelor Prince was third ield of 35. Golden Miller, winner in 1934, and the favorite, fell at the first jump and regained feet but was pulled up before completing the first round because there was no chance of over- taking the leaders. i Only seven of the thirty five hors- es finished the 4 miles, 856 yards, for four year olds and up. | MONEY FOR AMERICANS | NEW YORK, March 27.—When Reynoldstown won the Grand Na- tional Steeplechase today there was | automatically $750,000 sent to the United States for five Americans| who held tickets on the winning| horse in the Irish Free State Hos- pital Sweepstakes, each receiving $150,000. Four other Americans were on Ego which paid each of them $75,- 000. Five Americans were on Bachel- or Prince which paid $50,000 to each. BILL PROVIDES - | This graphic aerial photograph shows how the tamous “golden triangle,” business center of Pitts. | ‘GOLDEN TRIANGLE’ COVERED BY SURGING WATER HEAVY RAINS SWELL RIVERS - IN FLOOD AREA Mississippi Is Reported at! Danger Point — La- Crosse Inundated PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 27. —Heavy rains are swelling mid- Western streams today but re- ceding waters elsewhere facilitated reconstruction in the flood swept sectors. | The Ohio River is again spilling over the shores in the Wheeling, West Virginia area but not caus- | ing any appreciable damage. A new crest bore down on Mari- etta which is now at the 40-foot | stage. i Danger has apparently passed | from Steubenville to Portsmouth. | Most of the residents in the low| territory along the Ohio from the | ‘Wabash to the Mississippi river have moved to the hills | The Missisippi is now reported at | flood stage. | The area around LaCrosse, Wis- consin, on the Mississippi River, is Utilities Heiress and Husband REHABILITATION | FOR ALASKANS Senate Committee Reports | Favorably on Grant for Vocational Education WASHINGTON, March 27.—The Senate Committee on Education and Labor has reported favorably on a | bill to extend the provisions of laws relating to vocational education and civilian rehabilitation to Alaska. The Educaton Act provides for promotion of vocational education in ! agriculture, trades and industries in preparation for th teaching of vo- cational subjects. The bill would pro- vide $15,000 annually for such pur- poses. The Alaska Vocational Rehabili- tation Act provides aid and rehab- ilitation to persons disabled by in- dustry or otherwise and would en- able them to return to employment. The bill would make $5000 available | annually in Alaska for such purpos- ! es. SUUATTERSTAKE COVERNMENT AT WORD: EVICTED Leftists of New Regime Oust Spanish Farmers from Promised Land BADAJO, Spain, March 27.—Left- ists of the Spanish government took swift action today to eject 60,000 squatters who took over the large farmlands of this area when they became impatient at the govern- ment’s delay in its program of breaking up the big estates. The Government announced squa- tters will be ousted until the estates are taken over by legal procedure and then apportioned among the small farmers. .- BABY BOY BORN A baby boy weighing eight and three quarters pounds was horn to Mrs. M. F. McDonell this morning at St. Ann’s hospital. burgh, Pa., was inundated by the turbulent waters of two rivers near the junction that forms the Ohio river. Receding &f the water left the section covered with slime, and national guardsmen ruled the dis- trict under martial law to prevent possible looting. At least six persons were killed In Pittsburgh, and damage of more than $25,000,000 done by the flood, worst in the city’s history. (Assoclated Press Phote) DAY OF REST IS GIVEN ‘NUGGETS' Potomac Flood Victims INLOS ANGELES Girls Have Today to Do as They Desire — Many Visit Relatives, Shop LOS ANGELES, Cal, March 27.— Today da; for the Better Times contest girls, who fol- lowing breakfast at the hotel, had the day open to use as they most ! desired, many visiting friends and | relatives, some doing “window-shop- was ‘visiting inundated. The high water, which | covers thousands of acres of land, | followed in the wake of heavy snow | R ;Seward Day to Be | Observed Monday; | Schools Will Close | Seward Day., marking that ocas- lion on March 30, 1867, when Wil- liam H. Seward, then Secretary of State, signed the treaty closing the | i | i e Doherty, daughter of Henry L. Doherty, utilities ;‘::::E:Iei: ?}?{‘:’:‘nlgith her h{mhand, Theodore Wessel, Danish sports- man, at Managua airport just before taking off on their aerial honey- moon. They were married at the home of President Sacasa of Nicaragua, whose daughter, Maruca (left), was one of the bridesmaids, EXPECT JUNEAU ALASKA GOES OVER TOP IN FLOOD DRIV Extra Quota Requested and Officials Claim It sale of Alaska by Russia to the Uni- d States, will be observed as a !"Territorial holiday Monday in Jun- eau and throughout the Territory. All Territorial offices will be closed and many of the Federal offices n | Banks will be closed and this year (the public schools will declare a Skagway, Sitka and Other holiday, it was announced Points in District ¥ Special program apropos of the omts m District Yet : 1 to Be Heard From Will Be Raised event was held in the schools today with R. E. Robertson, Chairman of The Red Cross drive for funds to SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, March |aid flood vicitims in the east was 27.—Red Cross contribuaons w #iu continued today and indications are | the flood sufferers rose to $143,000 the School Board, as the speaker RIS Y that the Juneau district probably|in the Pacific Coast area which in- | i ising flood which threatens Washington, D. C., | ng s K pliitol exsauple of thfi:a‘i‘ tgeir fire after rising Potomac River drove 'vided, some visiting theatres, others | national Secretary of the Town- 1s this family huddled them from their home. SNOW FALLS N SECTIONS, = BY AVALANCHE, PUGET SOUND Housetops of Seattle and Two Companions Rescued| Tacoma Covered Early Today SEATTLE, March 27.—Snow and | colder in the Pacific Northwest and warmer in California are the wea- ther conditions today. A wet heavy snow started falling at daybreak here and at Tacoma and housetops were soon covered to a considerable depth. The $now was continuing at 9 o'clock. California, which has been exper-| iencing a cold wave, is reported to; be warming up. { The storm disturbance in the Pac- ific Northwest is moving in from Al- aska. NEW POST OFFICE BOXES SOON READY Two hundred and eight new post office boxes, now in process of ins-| tallation, will be ready for ren!al‘ by April I, according to announce-| ment by Albert Wile, postmaster, today. (International Illustrated News) YOUTH KILLED | MOUNT RAINIER in Semi-Conscious Con- dition—Revived LONGMIRE, Rainier National Park, Wash., March 27.—Jack Nor- throp, aged 23, of Seattle. was killed yesterday by a snow avalanche at Narada Falls. Northrop’s two companions, Forb- es Wilson and Gordon Proctor, both of Seattle, were rescued in a semi- conscious condition by park author- ities and revived. Major O. A. Tomlinson, Park Sup- erintendent, said Northrop appar- ently was suffocated beneath the seven foot fall of heavy snow. The victim of the avalanche was a son of Bert Northrop, Seattle at- | torney. —— e CAPT. BERNTZEN DEAD Capt. John Berntzen, 64-year-old veteran Pacific Coast master mar- iner, died recently in Seattle. For many years he was on the Alaska run with various salmon cannery firms. — - & A ton of New Zealand eels have TOWNSEND PLAN CASH RECEIPTS GIVEN AIRINE, Clements, Resigned Secre- tary, Says Organization Took in $666,000 WASHINGTON, March 27.—Rob- ert E. Clements, recently resigned ping,” and others catching up on their letters home. The forty girls, including the seven “Alaska Nuggets” from Jun- eau, Alaska, leave Los Angeles on | the popular Southern Pacific “Lark” bound for Son Francisco at 8:30 | o'clock tonight A trip to Catalina Island aboard 'the Steamer Avalon, lunch at the St. Catherine Hotel, and rides in the glass-bottomed boats to see the sub- marine gardens and the many species of tropical fish, featured | yesterday's entertainment. | In th evening the groups were di- | dancing at famous entertainment gonq organization, told the House | spots. 3 | Investigating Committee that the | The Juneau girls declared they|rTownsend Old Age Pension Organ- |all “like Los Angeles.” ization receipts for October, Nov- | While in San Francisco, the girls ' empber and December, 1935, esti- will stay at the William Taylor Ho-|mated $350,000, represented about | | tel, and will make a 30-mile tour of | i the total cash receipts since { the city, visiting such interesting|the movement's inception early in | spots as the Golden Gate Park and| 1934 | Clements submitted a chart show- | | Presidio, and will see the two famous | bridges now under construction— | ingy the cash total to be $666,000 for the San Francisco-Oakland and the (he entire period, but explained it | Golden Gate. | was not all receipts, but that some Rides on the San Franciscoof the total represented credits and | and Sausalito ferries and the quaint | gishursments, etc., hence that it was | cable-cars of the city’s famous hills, | not a fair picture of the whole. iluncheon at Lido’s and, in the ev-| Clements placed the total amount iening, a trip through Chinatown,|received since the inception in Jan- Wwill be features of their visit to the yary 1934, at $951,964809. | Bay City. Following the forenoon session, b ponaen gmor cocn vorad | the committee took adjournment until next Wednesday to enable | Clements to produce the financial | records. BUSINESS MEN | | 3 DIE lN GRASH earning henceforth will go into the pension organization’s treasury. | So long as there is a need, he said TUCSON, Arizona, March 27. — |he would keep the remaining ten | The Sheriff's office reports receiv- | Per cent himself. |ing word that a plane carrying four| The new arrangement replaces one Phoenix business men from Douglas [ il Which Townsend and Clements | last Wednesday night, has been |shared equally in the profits of the found on a ranch near Oracle. Ail{Weekly, which has an estimated occupants of the plane are reported | circulation of 22,000 and has been dead. making money for six or eight months. Dr. Townsend said Clement's successor will be named in a few days. CHANGE OF POLICY LOS ANGELES, Cal.,, March 27— Dr. Townsend announced that 90 percent of the Townsend weekly's net | e LUCAS RETURNING Fred Lucas, Assistant Alaska agent for the Bureau of Fisheries, and Warden Don Haley are due to re- turn to Juneau tonight from Pav- e Farmers in nine southwestern Kansas counties recommended a 30| | equality between partners, no last- would double its original quota of $400, Red Cross authorities said. | B. D. Stewart, who is heading the | present campagn for B. M. Beh- rends, Red Cross Chairman, said| that Skagway, Sitka and Hoonah| cludes Alaska and Nevada. Alaska and Nevada were the first to oversubscribe the original quota, Alaska collecting $1,872 against the $1.800 quota, and Nevada conirib- uting $2,971 against a quota of $2,- had not yet reported but it was ex- |7 pected that all returns would be in | by the first of the week The Governor's office was in re-| celpt of & radiogram. fromy Jhekl Henry Post of the American Legmn} at Anchorage today reporting that| Anchorage had sent $250 to A. L.| Schaeffer, Red Cross head in San| Francisco and that “more will fol-| low.” The first Anchorage quota| was $200. The message said ‘‘our| subscriptions greatly exceed quo- ta,” indicating that Anchorage was easily exceeding the 50 per cent in- | crease asked in the second request from Admiral Carl T. Grayson, na- | tional chairman | A message of congratulations was | sent the Post by Gov. John W. Troy. | S e — HITLER FLAYS | WORLD PEACE ARRANGEMENTS ‘No Lasting Armistice Unlil{ Equality Is Established,’ He Tells Essen [ ESSEN, Germany, March 21— | President Adolf Hitler, carrying his election campaign to the industrial Krupp works center before an au- dience of 870,000, said today: “There can be no real world peace without | ing peace until there remain no longer either vietor or vanquished, no longer the honored or the dishonor-| ed.” | Scornfully, he referred to “secret| arrangements” and “Wilsons's 14-| point peace plan.” The President was cheered lustily throughout his speech which was| carried to the vast assemblage by | loud speakers, i - | The “mailman” at Osborne, Kas., | | Fifty applications are already on} file. and it is suggested that others| been shipped to England for analy-|lof Harbor where they have been in wishing accommodations make ap- sis of vitamins in body and liver|connection with fish ladder con- plication at once. \ oils. struction in Freshwater Bay. per cent cut in wheat acreage in| their district to the department of agriculture, is Miss Elizabeth Craddick, one of | United States, the few women mail carriers in thel Both Alaska and Nevada have been asked to increase the quota by doubling up and Alaska officials have replied it will be done. Juneau’s first quota was $400 and this was raised with little and the added $400 quota will be quickly contributed, it is said. Ju- neau had the largest quota to raise in the Territory, owing to its great- er population. - e FOURTEEN DIE, PLANE CRASH; BODIES BURNED Ten Victims Are German Tourlsts_——Worst Disaster in Mexican Air History AMECAMECA, Mexico, March 27. —Ten German tourists on their way home after a visit in Mexico, were among fourteen persons killed yes- terday when a huge trimotored ship crashed near here. The other four were an aviation official and three crew members. The plane caught fire following the crash and the bodies of the fourteen victims were burned al- most beyond recognition. Officials said it was the worst crash in the history of aviation in Mexico. Six of the touri men lntrodlvlc'es Bill for 40-Hour Week ; Applies to Alaska WASHINGTON, March 27.—Uni- ted States Senator Elmer Thomas, Democrat of Oklahoma, has intro- duced a bill to extend the 40-hour week to Federal employees, to those on the Alaska Railroad. The measure is identical with one recently introduced in the House by Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Di- mond. s killed were wo- effort | FURTHER STAY OF EXECUTION 1S QUESTIONED Governor Hoffman Seeks Authority for An- other Reprieve ROASTS PROSECUTOR, HUNTERDON COUNTY Bristling Statement Issued Against Anthony Hauck TRENTON, N. J., March 27— Gov. Harold E. Hoffman today charged that “the whole Hauptmann case reeks with unfairness, passion and prejudice.” Gov. Hoffman asserted that if the prosecution would tell him he had the right he would be glad to grant a further reprieve. In a statement bristling with de- rision of Prosecutor Anthony Hauck, Jr., of Hunterdon County, Hoffman said he didn’t believe he had a right to grant another reprieve, but “if the brilliant Mr. Hauck and legal | advisers will advise me, I will be glad to do it. NOT FAIR TRIAL “I am more than ever firmly con- vinced that Hauptmann was not giv- ten a trial in line with what are con- | sidered American standards of jus- tice.” { Hauck said he would oppose anv | move in that direction. | Gov. Hofman denied he was trying | to make a laughing stock of the | courts. “Hauck is the young man who told the jury he was going to prove John Hughes Curtis actually had contact with the ‘gang' in the kidnaping. He proved it, then later participated in the trial which ‘proved’ Haupt- mann committed the crime single- handed,” said the Governor. “Hauck was so confused and incompetent that later the trial was taken out of his hands and conducted by At- torney General David T. Wilentz, | for whom Hauck was permitted to | act as messenger-boy."” Bruno Richard Hauptmann is scheduled to go to the electric chair next Tuesday night at 8 o'clock for the kildnaping and slaying of Baby Lindbergh. PROBLEM LEFT - BY CLOSE OF FERA ACTIVITY ‘Authorilies—_s:ek Ways to | Care for Some Families ‘ Still in Distress That a grave situation exists for destitute persons in the Juneau area as a result of the termina- tion of FERA activity yesterday, and that publicity should be re- leased and other measures taken to prevent an influx of unemployed persons without funds from the | States, were the chief findings of | the special meeting of members |of service clubs and other organi- ! zations held this afternoon in the Council Chamber in the City Hall | to discuss the problem. | City and Government authorities, | members of the Chamber of Com- (merce, the Salvation Army, the | Business and Professional Women’s | Club, Juneau churches, and Mayor |A. E. Goetz of Douglas attended | the meeting. | Mayor 1. Goldstein was author- |ized to send telegrams to Alaska | Delegate Anthony J. Dimond, and ito Harry Hopkins, Federal Rellef Administrator, stressing the neces- sity of funds for the relief of worthy destitute persons in the Juneau district, and Rev. Erling K. Olatson, who acted as secretary at the meeting this afternoon, was instructed to appoint a committee of from seven to ten members to study the feasibility and probability of obtaining funds locally in case a drive is decided upon, as a result of a motion proposed by Harry G. Watson, a deputy FERA Admin- istrator for Alaska Mr. Watson stressed the necessity of doing something to relieve exist- ing conitions at the earliest possible time, and stated that the relief e (Continued on Page Three)