The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 30, 1936, Page 1

"THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” * VOL. XLVIL, NO. 7235 BRUNO HAUPTMANN DENIED CLEMENCY . - ENDORSEMENT, - SUNDAYVOTE . . e . . Rhineland Remilitarization, | Treaty Denunciation, | Approved 99 PER CENT BALLOTS MARKED WITH AN “X” Not One Woman Among| 1,035 Candidates— Only One Ticket BERLIN, March 30.— Germany expressed 1n votes Sunday an over- | whelming approval of President Hit- ler's policies including remilitariza- tion of the Rhineland and denun- | ciation of the Locarno Treaty. | . Tabulation of the election show- | ed nearly 99 percent of the Vo'Prs‘ marked X in the sole circle on the ballots, the remaining one percem‘ being thrown out as “invalid.” | Hitler's greatest previous majority | was in 1933 when 95 percent of the voters approved Germany's quitting the League of Nations' Disarmanent conference. . Votes Cast in Air For the first time in history, votes were cast in airships. As the passen- gers in Germany's two giant craft Graf Zeppelin and the new Von Hindenburg, cruised around, the pas- | squadrons of German airplanes so dorf. (Associated Press Photo) NAZI WINGS COVER RHINE air. Here is a squadron accompanying the land reocgupation o” Duessel- JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1936. | While Nazi storm troops and army details occupied garrisons along the Rhine in a move which created a dangerous crisis in Europe, ared overhead for the conquest by sengers voted. The cruises were LT part of the unexampled propaganda | and drive put on by the Nazi for the | election called by Hitler when he‘YGUTHS GDNFESS denounced the Locarno treaty by | sending troops into the Rhineland. | K'LL'NG DncTuR, | Unigque Election | MERCY MISSION The ballots were unique. Gang Also Admits Commit- There was no provision for voting “no” on the Nazi policies and no ting About 200 Robberies provision for any choice of candi- dates. The sole option was to take the Nazi's list or leave it. A ballot was invalid if the voter left the ballot a blank or treated it in any other manner than placing the X in the circle.‘ CHICAGO, March 30. The Jews lost Lhelf franchise and youths, seized for routine question- 55,000 under arms did not vote but 3 . the age limit was dropped from 21 ing regarding a series of robberies, to 20 to let youths cast their votes. | suddenly confessed last night, Po- None of the 1,035 candidates was a lice Captain Harry O’Connell said, woman. | that they killed Dr. Silber C. Pea- . ————eeo——— | Winfield Puflen Graduates from MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS SECOND CITY OF ETHIOPIA 1S DESTROYED [talian Air Raiders Virtual- ly Wipe Out Harar, 250 Miles from Addis Ababa POPULACE FLEES TO HILLS IN TERROR Reports Bombs_Slruck Hos- pitals—French Mission,, Consulate Ruined | ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Marth 30.—An Italian air raid today virtu- ally destroyed Harar, second city 'of Ethiopia. The Government charged several hospitals and the Frengh centers were wrecked. ¥ The Fascist plane quadron cireled over the city, hurling incendiary bombs for more than two hours. Ad- vices received here, said most of the populace had been forwarned by scouting planes and had fled the city in terror. Hit Hospitals An official communique said 1 bombs had struck an Egyptian Reg Cross hospital, several had hit the Ethiopian Red Cross hospital and two fell near the Swedish hospital. It was officially reported that the | French Mission and consulate, the ! former Ttalian consulate and the Ethiopian radio station and prison | were ruined. “Monsignor Jaroseau, who was in charge of the mission, refused to leave the altar during the bombard- ment in which the church was i wrecked but he was unhuri” the communique stated - Near Railroad Harar is located about 250 miles dg This photo past week. It and Dresden, M > S\sfc{n Before Force of Flood DUST STORMS “RAGING TODAY — Three 1 due east of Addis Ababa, near the single raliroad which connects the | capital with the sea in French | Somaliland. Its destruction by air-| | craft reveals that Italy is rapidly | dents Chosen for Work ! closing the gap between its southern | with G. E. and northern forces and is within | { striking distance of cutting directly | | Winfield Pullen, son of Mr. and through the heart of Ethiopia. | o e | Mrs. Pullen, graduated from the | ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Wa§||_in‘gtun U Is One of Five Coast Stu- IN 3 STATES Visibility Is;—Zero in Sec- tions of New Mexico —Gale Spreads Unpjveraity obiiesingion wuh. the | March 30—Great silt filled clouds geirne O (R PUpOK IRl pgin. | swathed eastern New Mexico today announcement received here today. 5 Mr. Pullen who is now visiting his ‘:;:;fi:‘ng the worst dust storm of the | Eendsbarante tn Earpiolls Maine, From Raton, near the northeast- cock, widely known Pediatrician will report for duty to the General Electric Company at Schenectady, PEAGE OF MIND ern border, to Clovis, in the far southeast and center of the state's laska Nuggets Will Arrive in Seatjlg Tonight ‘Sunday Night and Today | Spent Traveling North | from San Francisco | | ABOARD SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRAIN EN ROUTE TO SEATTLE i FROM SAN FRANCISCO, March 30. —The Alaska Nuggets are speeding | through the beautiful Wilamette «Valley of Oregon today and were due to arrive in Portland between 3 and 4 o'clock this afternoon and leave | after luring him from his home Jan- N, y. on April 13. Pullen is one of uary 2 on a spurious mercy mis- | Police said the youths, all 19, re- ls SPREADING vealed that they shot the physician | when he resisted a hold-up attempt. Tu KENTUGKY\ Officers said that the youths ad- | | mitted that they perpetrated some 200 robberies, automobile larcenies land house burglaries during the last few months, and that one of their specialties was waylaying phy- sicians. The three were bocked as Emil Reick, Robert Goethe alias Mitchell | Didich and Durland Nash alias Joe Dziedzic. High Waters of Tennessee, Cumberland Rivers Now Receding LOUISVILLE, Kentucky, March 30.—The Ohio River continued to-| The fourth member of the gang is day to slowly rise across the IOW"Mlchael Livingston, aged 17 years. lands. Familes in the section be-| state Attorney Thomas Courtney gan moving to high land early this| promised quick indiciment and trial forenoon. {bread basket, saffron clouds are i churning around. | The dust storm has spread into Oklahoma and Texas Panhandle and |has cut visibility to two miles and the five students chosen from the Pacific coast to work with the Gen- eral Electrc Company, and the only one from Washington this winter. Along with thorough training in the company's shop work Winfield Pullen will do some special studying. 1S FOUND [ UNDER STRAIN ‘Candidacies of Borah and s Landon in Clash—Third ‘| Tne dust is carriea atong by a Party Threatening { 40-mile-an-hour wind. ally paralyzed highway and street traffic. Merchants have been forced \to turn on their lights. Housewives locked their doors and windows. Vis- ibility in a wide section is zero. 'STOCK PRICES WASHINGTON, March 30.—Pro- ! spective collisions in the campaigns to .nominate U. S. Senator William E. Borah of Idaho and Gov. Al- fred M. Landon of Kansas for the presidency challenges the peace of | mind of many Republicans. | Endorsement of his candidacy by (Dr. F. E. Townsend, originator of ‘the $200-a-month pension plan for | persons over 60, was welcomed by | Senator Borah, although it was on- ND DEAD N HIS GARDEN Former Congregational | Minister in Alaska ! Stricken, Dies At Tucumecari the storm has virtu- | shortly thereafter -for Seattle by train, arriving there tonight where headquarters will be at the New | Washington hotel until they sail for | Juneau. | The Nuggets and other Oregon and Washington contest winners left San Francisco Sunday evening after a gala stay in the bay city. Sunday morning the girls had breakfast at the William Taylor hotel and then were taken on a sightseeing tour | which included Golden Gate Park, |the great Oakland-San Francisco bridge, beaches, zoo, and the Pre- sidio. Luncheon was enjoyed at jLido’s where a floor show was the feature. A theatre party was given them Sunday afternoon and after dinner at the hotel, the girls en- trained at 6:45 for Portland and Se- attle. Flood dangers along the Tennes- of the youths. .- see and Cumberland rivers appeared SHERIDAN IS CHATTANOOGA FLOODED } CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. March | 30—The flooded Tennessee river ! last Saturday night poured into the lowland section of this city wash- | ing foundations of more than 124 houses that had been deserted by | the residents who had previously! fled 'to higher land | Several industrial plants were| flooded and today workmen are starting to dig out the debris. ¥ 5 Soup kitchens were hastily set up ~mhisted.on the Uniled Stafos Weaq and refugees spent Saturday night, | ther map as the coldest community Cold Wave Strikes Wyom- ing—Spreads to Two Other States | PASADENA, Cal., March 30.—Fun- jeral arrangements are being made |1y the personal endorsement of Townsend and did not necessarily GET BACK ON | Arriving in Seattle tonight, the Nuggets expect to have several days represent the will of the organiza-i COLDEST SPOT SHERIDAN, Wyoming, March 30. | Sunday and last night in city schools |O% the United States today, 18 de- gress below zero, the wave spread to other sections of this state, Mon- tana and Northern Colorado. It is 13 degrees below zero at Hel- ena, Montana. Whole School Closes and nearby fire halls. As the flood waters began rec- eding today, reconstruction work | started. Many homes have been| damaged beyond repair. Man with Broken Leg | Drives Car Two Hours | JUNCTION, Tex., March 30.— SANTA ROSA, Cal, March 30.— | When one pupil of District 18, Albert Eckert made a two-hour Kimble County, is ill, it's an epi- drive in his car to get surgical|demic and school closes. aid for a leg fractured in two| Virginia Lee Ridenhower, fourth- places. grader, is the only pupil. Eckert was injured when he was! There is a school building, but pinned under a tree he was cutting |it is not used. A room has been on his ranch. Neither his wife nor provided at the 9,000-acre ranch his son could drive, so they plnced!or her father, Dr. 8. O .Riden- him behind the wheel for the trip. hower. When Virginia Is Il |for the Rev. Thomas Hanna, aged {in Alaska. He was found dead, ap- | parently from an attack of the heart, [m his garden yesterday. PO T Ketchikan Man on Honeymoon NEW YORK, March 30.—William | F. Schlotham, of Ketchikan, Alaska, salmon packer, is here combining | business with a honeymoon trip. | Schlotham’s marrage to Mrs. Lil- {lian Betzel, of San Francisco, a widow, took place at Carmel, Cal., on March 18. e | FAIRBANKS BOY NEWS BROADCASTER Louis Gillette, formerly of Fair- banks. who is now attending Wash- ington State College where he is a sophomore student in the depart- ment of history and political science, has recently been appointed to take charge of news broadcasts for radio station KWSC. Mr. Gillette spent his boyhood in Fairbanks, where his father was attorney. 76, former Congregational minister | for a time the United States district § | tion, Gov. Floyd B. Olson of Minneso- ta again proposed a third-party movement at the state Farmer-La- bor Convention in St. Paul, a move which does not help the G. O. P.'s peace of mind. .- PATCO MAKES J. J. Meherin and Sandy Smith arrived from Petersburg today on the Alaska Air Transport Patco plane piloted by Sheldon Simmons. The Patco left Juneau yesterday morning with a load of freight for Hawk Inlet, flew from there to An- goon, where V. L. Hoke boarded the plane, and returned to Juneau. TWO FLIGHTS !Some Specialties Make | Gains at Exceedingly ‘ Dull Sesssion | ‘J NEW YORK, March 30. — The | Stock Market was on a fairly even | keel today due to the demand for a few specialties of which several had gained from one to two points. Today’s close was steady. The session was the dullest full | day session in six months. Trans- AN EVEN KEEL on Puget Sound before sailing for their homes in Juneau. They prob- ably will leave next Saturday on the Yukon. WINTER TAKES | ANOTHER FLING i - INWASHINGTON | fers totalled only 900,000 shares. ]Co]dest Ma_rch Thirty Re- | i corded in Some Sec- CLOSING PRICES TODAY | 4 | NEW YORK, March 30.—Closing | tions of State quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is-15; American Can 118%, American Power and Light| winters 12%, Anaconda 34%, SEATTLE, March 30—One of the last flings brought the| Steel 55%, Curtiss Wright 7%, Chi- Bet hlehem | coldest March 30 recorded. | 1 Tt is 21 degrees above zero at Spo- | At 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon|cago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pa-‘knne. 22 above at Mount Vemon.| Pilot Simmons again left Juneau with Mrs. C. 8. Charles, Angoon school teacher, who was called to Hydaburg by the illness of her mo- ther. From Hydaburg Pilot Sim- mons went to Ketchikan, where he spent last night. Leaving Ketchikan at 9 o'clock this morning, Simmons stopped at Petersburg, where J. J. Meherin and Sandy Smith boarded the plane, and returned to Juneau. cific Railroad 2%, General Motors 657%, International Harvester 85, Kennecott 37%, United States Steel 64, Cities Service 5%, Pound $4.95, Boeing Airplane 22%, United Air- craft 25. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 155.36; rails 46.81; utilities 31.81. 29 above in the Grays Harbor area, 24 at Bellingham and the same at Yakima. There is some snow scattered over the state. | ———— | A baseball, lost 44 years ago be- | twetn the outer wall and the ceiling of the Sterling county, Texas, court house, was found recently when the building was razed. between Richmond 4 s the raphically illustrates the power of the flood waters that have swept eastern states during f il’un nilyp]nne view of a section of a steel bridge over the Kennebec River, swept from its foundations by the flood waters and pack ice, MARY JOYCE IN “JUNEAD RFTE BIC DOG TREK Girl Musher Brings Dogs with Her by Plane from Fairbanks Mary Joyce, the girl dog-musher who travelled more than a thousand miles overland by dog team from her home at Twin Glaciers Lodge at Taku to Fairbanks, arrived in Ju- neau at 11 o'clock this morning aboard the North Canada Air Ex- press 10-place Pilgrim plane, piloted oy L. F. Barr. Miss Joyce completed her historic journey, probably néver equalled by any woman, last Thursday after- noon, when she was met at the out- skirts of Fairbanks by a reception committee including Mayor E. B. Collins of Fairbanks, Robert J. Mc- Kanna, President of the Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce, practically he entire personnel of the PAA an scores of spectators. Mayor Collins on behalf of the City of Fairbanks md the Ice Carnival Association, presented Miss Joyce with a mag- nificent silver cup bearing a suitable ption, a testimonial of her splendid feat, and Miss Joyce deliv- ered letters carried over 1,000 miles of winter trail through all kinds of weather. Miss Joyce left Taku on December 22, arriving at Tanana Crossing on | March 1 At Carnival Leaving her dogs, Tip, the leader, Stikine, Baldy, Nakinaw, and Taku, at Tanana Crossing, Miss Joyce trav- elled by plane to Fairbanks to at- tend the Ice Carnival, returning to Tanana Crossing on March 17 to complete_her journey to Fairbanks by dog &e!m4 Miss Joyce stated today that she was the victim of a serious attack of flu at Snag, halfway be- tween Kluane Lake and Tanana Crossing, where she spent four days in bed in the cabin of Jack Dolan. Her dogs were tired and worn when they arrived at Tanana Crossing, she said, but after two weeks' rest, while she attended the Ice Carni- val, they regained their full strength and the final leg of the journey was accomplished in record time, re- quiring only eight days’ travelling for the trip. Miss Joyce left Fairbanks yester- day morning aboard the PAA Ford Transport plane, piloted by Al Mon- son, arriving at Whitehorse last night. Lyman 8. Peck, Vice President of the Pacific Alaska Airways, Don Abel, Superintendent of Construc- tion for PAA, and ‘Mrs. Abel were also passengers aboard the plane from Fairbanks to Whitehorse. From Whitehorse At Whitehorse Miss Joyce, Mr. (Continued on Page Seven) PRICE TEN CENTS - LINDBERGH BABY KIDNAPER MUST DIE TOMORROW Scheduled to Go to Electric Chairat 8 0'Clock Tuesday Evening DEFEAT EFFORTS TO CLEAR KILLER Governor M;Carry Fight for Further Probe to ° Floor of Legislature TRENTON, N. J., March 30.—The Court of Pardons today refused clemency to Bruno Hauptmann, convict- ed Killer of the Lindbergh baby. Hauptmann will go to the electric chair tomorrow night, at 8 o’clock. APPEAL TAKEN UP TRENTON, N. J., March 30. |—The New Jersey Court of Pardons convened today to congider Bruno Hauptmann’s |second appeal, 33 hours before |his scheduled execution for the |slaying of the Lindbergh baby. ‘The Court was not expected \to change its previous refusal ito grant clemency. | Paul H. Wendel, once dis- barred as a lawyer, repudiat- ed that “confession” of crime still held under a murder charge, but County Prosecutor Hauck said he was convinced nothing would warrant fur- ther prosecution. Wendel said Hauptmann was “tortured” into confession and Gaston B. Means, who was imprisoned as a Lindbergh case hoaxer, also “confessed” he kidnaped and killed the baby. . “ Statements Worthless Department of Justice spokesmen said the statements were worthless and Gov. Har- vld G. Hoffman was conceded- ly without power te again grant a reprieve for Haupt- mann. The Governor issued a statement criticizing the Hauptmann trial and the pos- sibility developed that discus- sion of the case would be heard in the Legislature tonight with a view of further investiga- tion. Mrs. Hauptmann was pre- Ipared for what might be her {last visit to her husband’s |death cell. Physicians were summon- ed to the conference room of the Court of Pardons this af- ternoon when Prosecutor Hauck arguing against Haupt- mann clemency was taken sud- denly ill. “ONE CHANCE LEFT TRENTON, N. J, March 30.— Reprieve for Bruno Hauptmann, |accused slayer of the Lindbergh baby, was augured from a new source as the State Court of Par- |dons, which has rejected one mercy plea from him and has another before it, was seen late last Sat- urday as a possible means of sav- ing him from the electric chair. The convicted man is scheduled to die at 8 o'clock tomorrow even- ing. Court Supreme The Court of Pardons, whose power is decribed by a member as having “no limitation,” has con- ‘Aned its judgments in the past two pardons, commutations of sentences and remittances, and has never granted a reprieve; but a high judicial officer, who would not permit his name to be used, de- clared: “There is no limitation on the power of the Court of Pardons. (Contin