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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “AL L THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1936. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS VOL. XLVIL, NO. 7240. PRICE TEN CENTS BRUNO DIES; REMAINS SILENT TO END . CAPITAL CITY OF ETHIOPIANS 1S AIR RAIDED Five Italian Planes Swoop Low Over City Ma- chine Gunning INCENDIARY BULLETS FIRED BY INVADERS Selassie Forces Are Report- ed on Rout in North- ern Sector ADDIS ABABA, April 4.—A squad- | ron of Italian airplanes attacked the | airdrome of this Ethiopian Capital | today, machine gunning two Ethi- | opian planes and firing one with in- cendiary bullets. | Five planes flew over the Capital City for 45 minutes precipitating evacuation of the populace but the | planes dropped no bombs. i The fliers appeared to concen- trate over nearby Surkaki where both the airdrome and wireless sta- tion are situated. The wireless sta- tion was not damaged. | Natives from the surrounding ter- ritory crowded into Addis Ababa for the regular Saturday market day then were followed by panicky crowds. Quiet was restored when no homy were dropped. Foreigners went to their legations from refuge in trenches and dug- outs. The invading planes descended to an altitude less than 100 feet while gunning planes outside of the air- drome. Empress Mennen toured the city to inspect and learn if there had been any damage or victims after the planes left. ETHIOPIANS ROUTED ROME, April 4— Gen. Badoglio has wirelessed here that the Ttalian forces in Northern Ethiopia have scattered the Imperial troops of Em- peror Haile Selassie sending them into a “desperate flight southward. A battle raged at Lake Ashangi this morning and all Ethiopian forces are in flight. The entire aviation force is engaged in bombing and ma- chine gunning this disordered mass.” - eee — YUKON BRINGS 15 PASSENGERS FOR THIS PORT SEATTLE, April 4—Steamer Yu- kon sailed at 11:20 o'clock this fore- noon for Alaska ports with 244 first class and 204 steerage passengers aboard. Juneau passengers include the following: C. J. Goodall, R. E, Mur- phy, H. B. Madland, Mildred Pilsen, Nell Elliott, E. O. Anderson and wife, Elisabeth Kaser, Karl Theil, Esther Davis, Thais Bayers, Lloyd Stelle, Elina Rantakari, Edith Young, Walter Hancock. DELEGATETO DOUGLAS FOR GOV. LANDON Dr. Sc-ruby of Wrangell Wants Instructed Al- aska Delegation WRANGELL, Alaska, April 4.— R. N. Scruby, local dentist, a dele- gate to the Republican Territorial convention at Douglas next week, ' has started a campaign to obtain, an instructed Alaska delegation torl Gov. Alfred M. Landaen, of Kansas. Strangel RENTON, April 4. — The naping drama, passed in its year, fell into four acts, each c own poignancy. No mystery writer could pick scene for the opening of the drama than real life gave—a happy home in th Jersey Sourlands. And only a maker of fearful melodramas would have picked —Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, woi tor; his wife, Anne Morrc Morgan partner and a former Ambassador, and their first-born son. The night of March 1, 1932, lent itself to the drama—black, windy, menacing. sery of the house steals a kidn: is taken The figure. The chil is shock Il PRAISE GIVEN FERA PROGRAM IN KETCHIKAN i First -City Authorities Re-i | | | [ port Excellent Results Accomplished There Praising the work done by the FERA in the Ketchikan community | and the co-operation of Gov. John | W. Troy and the officers associated | with him in carrying out its policy, | Mayor P. J. Gilmore of Kebchikanl and M. J. Heneghan and E. C. Aus- | tin, who served on the Ketchikan | relief committee with him, have sent the following letter to the Gov- ernor, who is Administrator of the FERA in the Territory. The men point that through good manage- ment on the part of Robert W. Young, Executive Secretary of the FERA at Ketchikan, the relief list| there has been cut from 1,000 to less | than 500. | The letter reads: | “A meeting of this committee was held on Saturday March 28, at which the Executive Secretary gave a report of the FERA accomplish- | ments in this locality during the past winter. The report was ac-| cepted and was certainly very en- lightening not only to us but to the entire community. The money allotted to this com-! munity by your office was distribu- | ted cautiously and wisely and the! committee is unanimous in its ap-| proval of the service rendered by | Robert W. Young. We believe that| he has done everything possible | towards carrying out the intentions'| of the Administration and has won | the respect and co-operation of the entire community. “The work done by the secretary during the summer months last year was of great value inasmuch as he tabulated the earnings of all em- ployables’ and was able to cut this years relief list from one thousand to less than five hundred. The com- | munity, feels that the community | would benefit if the same thing| tould be done this summer. | The committee sends it whole-| hearted appreciation for the won- | derful co-operaton it has received i from you and your officers during | the past months.” | BPWC TO ELECT | NEW OFFICIALS Nomination of officers will feature | the next regular business meeting | of the Business and Professional | | | Y HE greatest manhunt of modern times is started. Money is of no consequence. The baby mu:t be found live, his kidnaper b)o\lgm to justice. The world’s police swing into action. Lindbergh kid- fifth and final harged with its a more fitting Out of retirement comes a Bronx school teacher, Dr. John F. Condon, the inimitable e desolate New Jafsie. He is accepted as intermediary, hands $50,000 over the wall of a lonely cemetery, only to find himself and the Lindberghs disillus- ioned, frantic. Then enter of the baby’s body, naping. On the nineteenth of September, 1934, in the Bro New York, Bruno Richard Hauptmann, an obscure German carpenter, is seized, charg- ed with the kidnaping, stripped of $14,600 of the ransom money such principals d-famous avia- daughter of a United States a more tragic note—the finding ten weeks after the kid- Into the n aper, a terrible civilized world 'AUPTMANN seems to slip neatly into the T Varied Acts Comprise Lindbergh Dram a HE fourth act portrays the battle of Haupt- range story. He is a burglar, stowa mann to free himself of the tightening taciturn, stoical fellow with a p: 1 for s bonds—his futile appeals to the highest court market gambling in New' Jersey, to the highest court in the land, R T R his vain appeal for mercy. Lawyers, armed i mhoce, fthic of & young Bigl s with legal strategems, move back and forth emphatic denial of his guilt N. J., courthouse becomes the the nation as he goes on trial murder. . The nation watches with bat lawyers wrangle. Hauptmann d the lumber, construc State to have been used by enter the infant's bedrocm A jury of eight men and fou beside a benign old judge, carpenter to death SERIOUS AMONG FUROPEPOWERS BOSTON, Mass., April 4.—Quick tion of the Lawrence police prob- ably i James Garrow, aged 40, | lof Isiand Pond. Vermont, from | “m}y <Miey werd .. |strangulation this morning. Se Vaews ud ,‘ 1971 Garrow staggered into Police head-| posals Will Come Up, |aquarters and shakily wrote on piece | L Meeti of paper: | eague Meeting | EMBAKED ON TIN EXPORTS SET BY HULL Edict in Accordance with Conservation and Munitions Control ® i B ! | LONDON, April 4—Capt. Amhonyi Eden, British Secretary of Foreign| Affairs, today rejected the formal | French request for a meeting of thc; remaining Locarno pact signatories| on April 8 in Brussels. H Capt. Eden pointed out that the session of the League of Nation's committee of thirteen has been call- | ed and a previous session of the Lo- | carno powers is not desirable at| present. He asserted the League| meeting will afford ample oppor-| tunity to exchange views and pro-| posals for European security. The Fereign Secretary said there has been no change in sentiment at the rejection by Hitler to with- | draw troops from the Rhineland and three nations are prepared to fight Germany if attacked. It is admitted here the tension is| serious | - REINDEER MEAT | MARKET GROWS | WITHIN STATES Rynning, Manager of Lomen | WASHINGTON, April 4—A com- | plete embargo of exports from th United States of tin, large quantities of which were recently shipped to| State Cordell iruil for the period; from April 14 to July 1. recent legislation for conservation of domestic tin resources providing that no tin plate scrap should be ex- ported except upon government li- | cense issued within discretion. ! President Roosevelt a month ago | vested in Secretary Hull, as chair- | man of the Munitions Control Board, the decision as {o conditions under which licenses should be granted. i 1 Commercial Company, Optimistic for Future 'Nflgf_fl H;HES}[H | | Seattle Slaying WALLA WALLA, Wash, April 4.— | Barney Flemming, 29 year-old Seat- tle negro, was hanged in the State Penitentiary here last night for the murder of his common-law wife, Labella Butler in Seattle last Oc-| tober. | Flemming, in his confession, said he slew the woman in a fit of drunk- en jealousy. D e MOOSE LODGE HAS ELECTION FRIDAY +ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 4.— L. E. Rynning, assisant manager of the Lomen Comercial Company of Nome, said here that the market for reindeer meat in the States is growing annually. “When meat prices were low, there was no market. Now prices are high and people are taking to rein- deer meat,” he said. The Lomen company operates its own boats between Nome and Seat- tle and has several large reindeer herds. Rynning is enroute home after a visit to the States. B FLORY RETURNING Regional Forester C. H. Flory is returning to Juneau from Ket- chikan the first of the week on the Yukon. He went south with Ad- meeting of the Moose in the Moose Hall at 8 o'clock last night. ! The new officers are: W. W., Bergstrand, Dictator; Eske Eskesen, Election of oficers took place at the | = Dr. Scruby is a former Kansan| ywomen's Club, to be held Monday and lived in Cordova and Kennecott night at eight o'clock in the City before moving to Wrangell. He has. coyncil Chambers, under chairman- been corresponding with Oscar S.|gnip of Mrs, Pearl Burford, presi- Stusser, Kansas Publisher, in charge, gent A1l members are urged to be of the Landon campaign in Kansas.' ,recent. —ee — | ministrative Assistant Charles G. Burdick on the Forester as far as |Prince Rupert on official matters. | The Forester is now in Ketchikan for her annual overhaul and Mr. Burdick is attending to work on RANGER IX SOUTH ! | The Ranger IX, Forest Service vessel, left this morning for Oliver |driver, and Mrs. Johnson returned | |the West Coast of Prince of Wales Island. SR AP ENTERS HOSPITAL Mrs. Jane Armour from Klawock - JOHNSONS RETURN ! Paul Johnson, Royal Blue Cab" Inlet and will proceed from there|to Juneau last night aboard the|was admitted to the Government with a tow to Wrangell Capt. | North Sea from a two-weeks' vaca- George E. Sarvela is in command. tion trip to the States. | Hospital last night where she will re- | ceive medical treatment, Vice-Dictator; Bill White, Prelate; John Pastl, Treasurer; George Jor-| gensen, three year term trustee; Pete Botello, 2 year term trustee. Delegates who were elected to at-| tend the Moose convention are Joe Giovanetti and E. F. Rodenberg, Sr.. alternate. Two new members were initiated at the meeting last night. They are | John Giovanetti and Henry Gorham. | Eske Eskesen was presented with a | gift for having the largest class at} a recent initiation. 1 “Swallowed my false teeth. I am dying from lack of air The police immediately hur him to a hospital where physicians gave Garrow temporary relief and prepared to operate later. ‘Hospital attendants said Garrow would probably recover as danger of immediate strangulation s past Governor Urges Further Effort in Job Sea:ch Calls on Agencies, Employ- ers and Workers Them- selves to Co-operate 1In line with the appeal of Presi- dent Roosevelt to private industry to make every effort to take up the unemployment slack. Gov. John W. Japan, was ordered by Secretary of | Troy today sent telegrams to all re- | lief committees throughout the Ter- ritory urging that they do everyhing The edict is in accordance with |in their power to encourage those | on relief to expend further effort in trying to get employment and to s to private employers of labor the need for their co-operation While $40,000 additional grant has been made by Federal Relief Administrator Harry L. Hopkins, the Governor pointed out that the sum | will last only a limited time and | there is no reason to believe more will be forthcomng as is purely a special emergency th tual end of relief being 26 “The smallness of the allotment we have received makes it absolutely necessary that everything be done to get private industry started,” the Governor, said. “This is the last rant we will receive at least before June 30 and there is no reason to believe any more funds will be forth- coming at all. The local committees that this ant, and the people themselves must un»’ derstand that the purpose of gov- ernment is to get them off of re- lief as soon as possible. Circum- stances now make it impossible to promise anything beyond June 30 and the sooner people now on relief get to work the sooner they will get a living wage and relieve the gov- ernment of the tremendous bur- (Continued on Page Eight) Mrs. Roosevelt Christens Aircraft Carrier Yorktown NEWPORT NEWS, Va., April 4.~Mrs. Franklin D. Rooseveit, wife of the President, broke a bottle of champagne against the prow of the aircraft carrier York- town at the launching here to- day. The Yorktown is the first ship of the Roosevelt naval construc- tion program amounting to nine- teen million dollars, ed the ladder, said by the condemn the The Flemington, news centar of for the kidnap- deiies man, young, ed breath while lenies he bought ; ernor talks to the kidnaper to The action & il cal asides r women, sitting ) the story. The alien The threugh an atmosphere of arid legalistic sub- sentimentalities, hopes and fears The Governor of the State—Harold G- .Hoff- ambitic the decision and airs his views There is a scene in the death house doubts the justice of to the pres the Gov- s, the condemned man becomes confused, there are politi- a departure from the clean line of Lindberghs leave the country fatal hours of execution then came REPORT SHOWS CANDIDATES AT IN GOOD SHAPE ARE QUESTIONED $34,130 Spent Aboye Nor- mal Functions But Still Condition Sound The City of Juneau has spent for emergency relief and in other ways $34,130 above the ordinary cost of government the last 12 months ending March 31 and now stands within $6,500 of being even with the board, it s revealed la night by Mayor 1. Goldstein in a brief sur- vey of the city's activities for the period at the regular meeting of the | City Council. While the figures wer: available, the formal submission of the annual report was put over, until | the next meeting to allow City Clerk | A. W. Henning further time to put lit in shape for formal presentation. The Mayor explained to the coun- icllmon that above the normal func- tions of government the city had spent approximately $12,000 for its share of the Federal Emergency Rielief work. Other items he listed aside from the normal expenses, were: Poli ar, $879.75; Wharf heating plant, $2,487.88; wharf de- ficit, $1,000; city hall oil burner, $963; new fire equipment, $1,600; other city improvement, $1200; police department extra expense $1.500; repairs to city schools, $4,- 500, and payment on bonded in- debtedness, $8,000. | Good Tax Collection | It was brought out that the tay ;cullrclmn\' on the 1935 assessments | was $91,831.58, or approximately 95 per cent of the total to be collected | A sum of $4,091.66 was collected in | delinquent taxes from previous | years. Mercantile licenses amounted | to $10,958.18, or a gain of $2,353.8 | over the previous year. Liquor lic- | enses brought $6,195.98, or a gain of $1,837 over the year previous, and in the next few dgys a sum of $5,- 285 is due from this source. Between the period from April 27, 1935, to March 31, this year 6,382 | tons of freight was handled over the city wharf and on this basis, the Mayor said, the wharf next year should show a return of around $4,- 000. Police Report Chief of Police Roy Hoffman in presenting his report said there had been 487 arrests during the twelve | months period and fines amounted ito $2,564. It was explained that the | total from fines was below last year "(iurv to the fact that many of those taken into eustody were penniless | and it was necessary for them to work out their fines, meaning no | revenue to the city. | The Library showed that about 13,000 books a month, or an average !of 121 books a day, are withdrawn | from the City Library. At the request of Allen Shatteuk, | Chairman of the Chamber of Com- merce small boat harbor committee, | the Council voted to expend not in excess of $200 in getting a man to| Work is Mr. Harri's hobby, Platforms Are Stated, Hob- bies, Personal Affairs Are Given In answer to a questionnaire, the various candidates in the city elec tion next Tuesday, both those seek ing positions as Mayor and Coun- cilmen, gave some interesting side- | lights on their present and past histories. Isadore Goldstein who is seeking reelection as Mayor, | years of age and was born in San B e e i e e S R S S L L i ML~ LS L A Francisco. He came to Juneau at he age of three years and has been a resident here ever since. Hé has always beerf a merchant, he says. The present Mayor served as Councilman in 1921 and 1922, as Mayor in 1923 and 1924, and has seen Juneau's present Mayor since 1933. Mr. Goldstein was in the army, stationed first at Camp Lewis in April 1918, and saw foreign service in France and Belgium from the end of May 1918 until the first of June 1919, Mr. Goldstein has a wife and son, Bobby. His main hobby i hunting and fishing. Goldstein Platform In response to a question con- cerning his platform and why he is running for reelection, Goldstein said: “I will continue, if elected, 0 run the city as I have for the last three terms which has been o the best of my ability.” He ex- dlained that if he had made any rrors during his administration hey were unintentional, and if re: slected he would continue serving the people as he has in the past nd will give the city his undivided attention. Beistline’s Record Ralph H. Beistline who is a can- didate for reelection as Councilman m Mr. Goldstein's ticket, is 48 years old. He has served as Coun- cilman for the last four years. Mr. Beistline is a carpenter fore- man by trade, and has as his hobby nunting and fishing. He has been 1 resident of Juneau for 26 years and has been in the Territor: since 1908. The present Councilman has two children, a boy in the Universi of Alaska and a girl in second year high school. He explains his reason for seek- ing reelection is to see the city run right. is fifty-three ' NO CONFESSION BY HAUPTMANN, KIDNAP, MURDER { Convicted Man Goes to El- ectric Chair — No Words Pass Lips CARRIES ALL SECRETS OF CRIME TO GRAVE Three Shocks Snuff Out Life of Slayer of Lind- bergh Baby | TRENTON, N. J. April 4—Bruno Richard Hauptmann, German car- penter, was put to death last night in the electric chair in the New Jersey State Prison for the kidnap- murder of Charles August Lind- bergh, Jr., baby son of Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh. { Hauptmann was taken into the death chamber at 8:41 o'clock, Eas- tern Standard Time, placed in the chair at 8:41 1-2 o'clock and pro- (nounced dead at 8:47 1-2 o'clock Capt. Mark O. Kimberling, prison warden, said Hauptmann made no confession. He did not speak a word after leaving the death cell for the death chamber. Execution Delayed The execution was set for 8 o’clock | last night but was delayed for wit- | nesses. Shortly before 8:40 o'clogk, | the death walk started from the death cell to the death chamber. Entering the death chamber, his arms held closely to his sides by guards and hair shaven, Hauptmann appeared to have a slight sneer on | his face as he was led to the chair. | He walked with quick, light steps, I'his face pale and he appeared only | slightly nervous. He was led to the chair by two guards. | Bruno Silent Hauptmann uttered no word af- ter entering the degth chamber. One Bruno stared at the 55 wit- | nesses who crowded into the little |chamber with its dirty white walls. Hauptmann was quickly placed lin the electric chair. Executioner Robert H. Gleason slipped the death helmet over Hauptmann’s head, while guards fastened strap: arms and legs to make contact with the electric current. At 8:43 o'clock, Elliott, official ex- ecutioner, gave Hauptmann the first shock. Two more shocks followed at minute intervals and then Elliott threw off the current. “Man Is Dead” Dr. Howard Wesiler, prison phys= ician, announced, after six physi- jclans had examined Hauptmann twice: | “This man is dead.” After the execution the straps ! were quickly loosened, two guards | took Hauptmann by the legs and | two others by the shoulders and car- ried the body into the autopsy room. A few witnesses, sickened at the sight of fhe execution, were helped out of the chamber by guards. Reprieve Denied That the execution wbuld be car- ried out was indicated early in the |evening when Gov. Harold G. Hoff- mann said he had no authority te grant a further reprieve. During the execution, the Rev John Mattlesen, Hauptmann’s spir- |7 (Continued on Page Three) ———————— LINDBERGHS IN KENT AT TIME OF BRUNO DEATH |Colonel and Wife Spend | ight in Cottage—Lon- don Papers Silent | WEALD, England, April 4.—Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh slept | last night at their old country cot- | tage in Weald, far from the grim scene of the Hopewell kidnaping, for which, at eight o'clock in Tren- ton, New Jersey, Bruno Richard Hauptmann paid the death penalty. London newspapers, carrying out their informal agreement with the Newspaper proprietors Association, Work Harri’s Hobby Oscar Harri, also a candidate for Councilman under Mayor Gold- stein’s banner, is 55 years of age. He is the propriejor of the Harri Machine Shop, ahd has, for the past 25 years, done machine - work and blacksmithing. Mr. Harri has been in Juneau for 34 years. He has no children, and is a widower. and (Continued on Page Three) (Continued on Page So\';n; made no attempt to get comment from Lindbergh in connection with the execution, although they print- ed thousands of words describing the lost scenes at Trenton. It is understood the Lindberghs jare planning to stay at Weald all throughout the summer.