The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 16, 1936, Page 1

THE DAILY VOL. XLVIL, NO. 7150, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1936, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS CAPTURE OF ADDIS ABABA NOW NEAR P e e BIG VOTE IN ILLINOIS IS PLEASING ALL Democrats Make Gains, Es- pecially in Guberna- tortal Contest REPUBLICANS GETTING SOME ENCOURAGEMENT Governor Horner Renomin- | ated—Brooks Wins in | 8-Cornered Race CHICAGO, April 16.—Members 01' both major parties profess to see| gains in the results of Tue~da\\ statewide primary elections. The Democrats point to 1,158, 000 votes for Roosevelt and a re- cord total of 1,750,000 cast in the Democratic gubernatorial race. Eighty percent of the state’s 7,- 426 precincts have been reported. In the Knox-Borah presidential primary, together they drew 696,- 000 votes while the seven man Re- publican gubernatorial contest at- tracted 1,012,000 votes. Gov. Henry Horner, who battled | the Chicago Democratic organiz: tion for renomination for (,owm- or, won out over Dr. Herman V Bundesen. C. Wayland Brooks, former th- ine Lieutenant, won the Republi- can nomination for Governor. - MADRID READY FOR TROUBLE THIS EVENING All Red Cross Units Told to Prepare for Reign of Terror MADRID, *Spain, April 16.—All Red Cross Units here have been ord- ered to be prepared for emergency service tonight as terror arose this afternoon in the wake of a pitched gun battle between Fascists and Communists in which three were killed and 40 wounded. The rumor spread through the Capital of the Republic that a gen- | eral strike of workers is planned WEDS EX-HUSBAND’S TEAM-MATE | | with its vast area has more advant- ~ SELL ALASKA TO YOUNG PEOPLE, SPEAKER URGES, Territory Must Con vine Youth of Advantages, Redlingshafer Says Sell Alaska first, especially to her young people for they are the Territory’s greatest asset. This was the farewell message brought to the Juneau Chamber of Commerce today at its noon lunch- eon in the Terminal Cafe by H. Li Redlingshafer, Regional Fiscal Agent for the U. S. Forest Service, who is being transferred to Wash= ington, D. C. to higher position. “It is my thought that Alaska ages for the young person than any other place,” he said. “And if we| i The former Mrs. Zanita Muller, who divorced Dr. Harold P. “Brick” Muller at Reno, and Gerald G. Pearce are pictured after their marriage at San Francisco. Muller and Pearc of California “wonder teams” of Photo) e played together on the University 1922 and 1923. (Associated Press ARRESTS MADE N BOND THEFT, - NEW YORK CITY {Eight Men Are Nabbed for Bensational Rob- bery in 1934 WASHINGTON. 1 16.—A par- tial solution of the mysterious theft | of $590,000 in bonds taken when a clerk stepped for a moment from his cage in the United States Trust | company in New York City in Dec- | ember, 1934, is claimed by the De- ! partment of Justice J. Edgar Hoover, Chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, an- | nounces that eight men have been arrested and $300,000 of the bonds recovered. | Those arrested are listed as Charles Hartman, William E. Evans, { Theodore Crowley, Gabriel Marosi, | Earl F. Palmer, all of New York; \Paul Alexander, Washington, D. C, |Rocco J. George and Degrassi West, ‘Paul Beach, Florida. Hoover said that all except Mar- Germans Planning Air Service to U. S. Over Atlantic BERLIN, April 16.—The Ger- man Ministry announces that trial flights for a Trans- Atlantic Service between Ger- many and the United States will be started within a few months. The service will be routed by way of the Azores and Bermuda to Charleston, South Carolina. - CREW OF 20 IS OFF FOR KENSINGTON Men Will Construct High- way from Beach to Tram Terminus A crew of twenty men, with their | baggage, camp equipment and tools, | left Juneau late yesterday after- ; ed in the industry | gathering with the Chamber to- {and Arn Allen of the Seattle Hard- can not interest our own young ! people in the possibilities how, can we expect to interest others.' | Mr. Redlingshafer stressed the need of imbuing young Alaska boys and girls who go outside to school with the idea that the Terr!tor)i | offers as great advantages as they will find elsewhere when they have! finished their courses in the var- ious colleges and universities. Lee C. Pratt, who takes Mr. Red- | | lingshafer’s position here expressed | pleasure at being back in Juneau | innvr an absence of two years. i i CONSTRUCTION OF WAR CRAFT BEING DELAYED Fonly two.of 76 Vessels Will Not Be Com- pleted on Time Pass Oyster Resolution A resolution was adopted by the| | Chamber of Commerce from lhcw ' Ketchikan Chamber asking that the fisheries regulations pertaining to the Territory be amended to pro-| vide for leasing of oyster beds in| WASHINGTON, April 16.—(Copy- order to protect persons engag-|right 1936 by Associated Press)— A delay in the completion of at The resolution points out that!|least 42 of the 76 warships being Southeast Alaska is especially adap- | built to bring the Navy up to treaty tible to oyster culture and every-|strength is disclosed by the Navy thing should be done to promote | Department today. the industry. Copies are being sent| Naval officers said the delay is to Delegate Anthony J. Dimond, the | caused by the shortened week un- | Interior Department, Frank T. Bell,| der the old NRA that strikes at pri- Fisheries Commissioner, and others vate shipyards. | in the National Capital who might Many of the ships were started aid in bringing about such amend- while NRA was still in effect. ment to the fisheries regulations. b R.R. SERVICE STARTS EARLY day, K. F. MacCloud of the Crane Company, Tacoma, and P. H. Adams | ware. Mr. Allen expressed the hope that the reception for Alaskans in Seat- | tle could always be as hearty as| Here s an air view of the new alrcraft carrier Yorktown as sl News, Va. after being christened by Mrs. Franklin D. Ruo-evm he slid down the ways at Newport (Auoclat-d Press Photo) SOLDIERS MOVE TOWARD CAPITAL BY MOTOR CARS Ttalians Believe Only 1,000 Ethiopians Block Entrance SECRET MOVE MADE BY GREAT BRITAIN Protection Being Rushed to Grand Fleet in Mediterranean GENEVA, April 16—With Addis Ababa, Capital of Ethiopia, only three days away, Italian soldiers have started by motor cars for that city. Dispatches from Rome indicate | that the consummation of the con- | quest of Ethiopia is at hand | Capture Easy | | __ | Rome advices state that it is be- Threat Made Iu Kidnap Children, BUILDING LAID! King of Belgium BY ROOSEVELT : Former Conwct Arrested— President Dedlcates New ! Confesses to Demand- Interior Dept. Edifice ing $132,000 to Conservation BRUSSELS, April 16—A threat WASHINGTON, April 16. — The to kidnap the motherless children COrnerstone of the new $12,000,000 v i .. Interior Department Building was of King Leapold of Belgium 18 dis- |1y tosey by president Pranisi closed with the arrest at Liege, p Roosevelt who pledged renewed eastern Belgium, of a former con- Nicholas Elsen, aged 31 Federal efforts to conserve the na- Elsen is said to have confessed tion's natural resources. The President reminded the large writing letters to King Leopold threatening abduction of his child- crowd present that the building was financed with a WPA allot- ren whose Queen Astrid, was killed in an auto accident. The ment as part of the program “which has already been successful sum of $132,000 was ordered to be left in the woods near the border vict, mother, CORNERSTONE OF, in aiding in the return of the na- | city tion to better times.” The police laid in walt twice in er and failed. Later they | Elsen through a letter. guarded. The King's children are (lo\el\( 'MOTHER OF FIVE an attempt to capture the kidnap- | trapped | CHILDREN 1S | DEAD, GALLOWS lieved that not more than 1,000 Ethiopian warriors stand in the way between the motorized column and the Capital City and that satisfac- tory conclusion of the war, as far as Ttaly is concerned, is assured. The threat of possible more sanc- tions against Italy under the leader- s)np of the British is practically ‘laughed at” by the Italians as sanc- tions so far have not prevented a | successful progress of the campaign in East Africa. Turmoil Is Seen From the League of Nation's Council rooms it is indicated that things are not going any too well. There is little reason to assume that Premier Benito Mussolini in~ tended to make any peace terms other than those of his own. It is also reported here that France, fearful of eventualities, has surveyed her own military strength S0 to be certain she has sufficient power to defend herself in case the whole system of collective sec- urity should collapse. London Conference In London, French military of- ficers, with those of Great Britain and Belgium, continued in confer- ence concerning plans for coop- eration in case of a sudden aggres- sive act on the part of Germany in view of the present strained rela- tions with Italy. BRITISH MOVEMENTS LONDON, April 16—With the tension of uncertainty mounting in noon aboard the motorship Treva |the one extended him since his ar-' Geneva, the British Admiraity hur- for tomorrow and this would be ac- companied by acts of terrorism which might start tonight. A strong police guard has been | thrown around the Parliament building and other guards have been | stationed at the famous Puerta del! Sol where demonstrations are often | the center. Among the three killed this atter- noon is a relative of former archist Premier Mequel anu de Rive MiISS DE LEO PLANS MONTH’S VACATION! Miss Gretchen DeLeo, stenogra- pher in the Territorial Treasurer's | office, is leaving Monday on the steamer Alaska for Alameda, Cali- fornia, to visit her mother and brother. She will be gone for a menth. After a brief visit among friends in Seattle, Miss DeLeo plans to fly to California. Her brother is con- nected with the United Air Lines at Alameda, and her father was a recent arrival in Juneau enroute | to Cordova. -—— SUNDAY SCHOOL TOTS PLANPARTY SATURDAY | osi, Palmer and Alexander have | criminal records. D NOT TRUE BILL AGAINST PAUL | WENDEL FOUND |Case that Delayed Haupt- | mann’s Execution Is, Reported Out TRENTON, New Jersey, April 16. —Prosecutor Erwin E. Marshall, of Mercer County, announces that the grand jury investigation of the | naped the Lindbergh baby, has vot- ed a “no true bill.” This has the ef- fect of absolving Wenzel of guilt. Wengzel, disbarred attorney, con- | fessed that he kidnaped the Lind-| | bergh bhaby and then repudiated the | confession. This was the case that | suddenly delayed Hauptmann's exe- cution for 48 hours. Gt IRVING PLANE IS HELD AT KETCHIKAN, The Lockheed Vega plane flown by Wilbur Irving, which took off last Tuesday for Ketchikan and way ports with six passengers from Juneau, was still in Ketchikan this {morning. It is believed that Pilot Irving is awaiting the arrival in| Ketchikan of the steamer North, Sea, bringing Pilot Gene Meyring, | |who will fly the Lockheed Vega plane this summer, and Gordon Graham, who has accepted a posi- tion as mechanic with the Alaska ' Air Transport. e — DISMISSED TODAY Howard Kenyon, miner, was dis- charged this morning from St. Ann’s Hospital where he had been receiving treatment for influenza. 5 Under the direction of Mrs. H.| Stonehouse, the primary department of the Resurrection Lutheran| Church Sunday School, plans a| party to be given at the church parlors Saturday afternoon from 2 to 4 o'clock. The party is the result of an at- tendance contest which the boys‘ of the department lost to the girls, and they, being losers, are hosts at‘ the party. - BURIAL AT HOONAH The body of Billy Bevans, Indian, who died at the Government Hos- pital Saturday, April 11, will be taken on the gasboat Raven to Hoonah for burial according to an- nouncement by €. W. Carter today. The boat will leave tomorrow morn- ing Mr. Carter safdl. charges that Paul H. Wenzel kid-| C., Capt. Ralph Reischl, for the, Kensington Mine at Berners Bay, where they will be employed by the | Kensington Mining Company at constructing a highway two and; one-half miles long, from the beach to the terminus of the tram at the' mine. The length of time required to comple(e the highway will depend largely upon snow and weather con- ditions, according to Rex Early, in jcharge of operations for the com- pany. who arrived last Friday on Lhe Princess Norah. The men who | went to Berners Bay today consti- | tute a full crew, Mr. Early said, and | no more men will be hired for some | time. A fifty-horsepower caterpillar eq- ‘ulpped with a bulldozer, enroute to! Alaska aboard the Victoria, will be unloaded upon a scow in Berners Bay, Mr. Early said, and will be used in construction of the highway. ———— RED DOG BOBS ~ UP BY TRAGEDY GRASS VALLEY, Cal, April 16. —Mrs. Jack Harvey, aged 45, was Ishot to death and her husband critically wounded in an isolated 'cabin in the ghost mining town of |Red Dog, 12 miles east of here, last night. | Sheriff Carl Tobiassen said the |shooting culminated a drunken \brawl, Harvey apparently having ~sho( his wi(e and then himself. i outside rival in Alaska on this his first trip north, As the meeting convened, the Ju- neau schol band serenaded the Fd Chamber members from the street to Chitina in connection with the| Southeast Alaska Musical Festival CORDOVA, Alaska, April 16— to be held here April 22 to 25, inclu- | Starting half a month earlier than sive. John Krugness and Mary usual, a Copper River and North- Wildes, students, spoke briefly, western Railroad crew has left here bringing the Festival message to the with a rotary snow plow to open members and asking the Chamber’s the railroad to traffic after the support. | winter shutdown. Several communications were read| The object of the early start is from 'Outside chambers pointing 1o reach the Chitina railroad junc- out what those groups are doing in |tion before the breakup takes out spreading the message that Alaska the trestle across the Copper River is no place to come to expecting to|and get a supply of fuel to the find a job; that resources are abso- | Kennecott Mine. lutely essenml | The washout of the Chitina idge is an annual occurrence and genera.uy goes out during the first lWO weeks of May. e Music Festlval Week Is| Boosted by Live Organizations Rotary Crehee Senit Out: brom Cordova to Open Line FOREST SERVICE ERECTING TROUT TRAPS FOR STUDY With Gerald Banta and a crew of workmen aboard, the Ranger 1X, George Sarvela, captain, left this| morning for Sitkoh Bay where the| Forest Serviee is preparing to con- struct two trout traps with the aim of making a study of dolly vardens. Juneau was enlivened at the noon| The Forest Service every year gets hour today by a band and student|many requests for permits to build rally of the Juneau High school |traps to cateh dollys for commercial boosting for the Southeast Alaska |or other use but has taken no action | STOCK PRICES TAKE DECLINE IN LAST HOUR Only Few Scattered Spec- ialties Able to Hold | Woman Hanged in England, \ried a new secret type of anti-sub- ! marine craft to Gibraltar to bul- wark the Grand Fleet scattered mroughout the Mediterranean. Fifteen especially designed ships, Idnscnbed as mine sweeping trawl- —_— iers have'arrived at Gibraltar from BIRMINGHAM, England, April England within the past week. 16.—Mrs. Dorothy Waddington, ag-| Secret movements of the British ed 34, mother of five children, was| Air Force are also being made to hanged this morning in Windsor | thwart any attempts of the Italian Green Prison for the poison slaymgw Navy to make a sudden attack on of a crippled patient in her Not-|the vessels of the Grand Fleet. for Poisoning Crip- pled Patient Music Festival here next week. |on them’ until a research could be| The high school band of over made. It is proposed by means of 35 musicians gave snappy, fast time | the traps to learn the habits of the! .| marches at various places in the dolly varden and find whether it HOLDEN REPORTED FLYING TO, JUNEAU According to reports received here today the PAA Fairchild plane, flown from California to Seattle several weeks ago by pilot Alex Hol- den, left Seattle this morning at 7:45 o'clock enroute to Juneau, with three passengers: Mrs. Holden and young son Sandy, and a PAA me- chanic enroute to Juneau. S city, under the direction of Byron‘would be advisable to allow traps Miller. Students in decorated autos | at certain times of the year. The or marching with the band com- | dollys are not protected by the new pleted the rally while other stu-|trout fishing regulations and the dents hustled among the crowd at!|Bureau of Pisheries is co-operating the various gatherings selling sea- with the Forest Service in the ex- son tickets for the musical event. | periment. e~ - — - e ENTERS HOSPITAL AT ST. ANN'S Eddie Jackson, who was admit- O. Snow, who is 'suffering from ted to the Government Hospital|influenza, was rushed to St. Ann's last night, will receive medical Hospital in the ambulance last treatment there. Inlght,. tingham Nursing Home. King Edward Himself was u\e only one who could have saved the NEW YORK, April 16. — After | women by a last minute reprieve considerable dull irregularity for | after Home Secretary Sir John most of the Stock Market session | Simon had denied her appeal for today, the list turned downward in | clemency. the final hour. There is a wave of protest over| While a few scattered specialties|the British nation as a result Of| were able to hold portions of their | the n,mgmg early gains, declines from fractions to around two points predominated Today’s close was somewhat heavy RAY JAMES BACK CLOSING PRICES TODAY | FROM TAKU LODGE NEW YORK,’ April 16.—Closing Ray James, who spent the winter Early Gains quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 14. American Can |at Mary Joyce’s Twin Glacier Lodge 125, American Power and Light 11%, |at Taku, arrived this morning Anaconda 39, Bethlehem Steel 60%, | aboard the Alaska Air Transport Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and |Patco seaplane piloted by Sheldon Pacific Railroad 2'¢, General Mo- | Simmons. tors 68, International Harvester| Mr. James reported that he re- 86':, Kennecott 41':, United States cently finished construction of a Steel 69%, Gfties Service 5%, Brem- |new two-story guest cabin at the ner 18 at 25, Pound $4.94%. Taku resort, containing accommo- dations for five people. The interior DOW, JONES AVERAGES |of the cabin is finished in knotty Today's Dow, Jones averages are cedar, specially selected for beauty as follows: Industrials 158.49, rails |of grain, and a set of furniture of DEMAND FOR SANCTIONS GENEVA, April 16.—Ethiopia has (Continued on Page Two) DAMAGE DONE BY TORNADO WINDS, TEXAS RipMade in Southwest Past of State—Two Known to Be Dead DALLAS, Texas, April 16—Two deaths and heavy property and crop damage has been caused by tor- nadic winds which ripped through southwest Texas during the night, bringing bad thunder showers to the parched region. Fishing boats were capsized dur- 4851, utilities 3251 |the same material was also con- | structed, he said RAINBOW GIRLS To 3T:l)(uu.su:el)l]y Ezrgs'rsllov\;rzusbl.n ht:w HAVE INITIATION | sumes. coisd i d |James, who commented upon the iremarkably fast time made by Three candidates will be initiated | Mary Joyce and her dog team from into the Rainbow Girls organiza- | Taku to Tulsequah and Inklin on tion at a service to be held in the her famous trip to Fairbanks. Scottish Rite Temple Saturday > night at 7:30 -'clock, according to LEAVES HOSPITAL announcement made today. ‘ Following Friendship Degree serv-| Joe Mikel, mine employee, who ices for members of the Mason | was receiving treatment for a and Eastern Star orders, refresh- broken toe at St. Ann's Hospital, ments will be served. was dismissed this morning. ing the blow. Jester Roach, aged 30, and L. B. Hansen, aged 25, both out in the middle of Lake Nasworthy in a motor boat, are believed to have lost thelr lives. Their bodies have not been recovered. Their boat was seen to be lifted out of the water and then fell bottom side up. At Midland the twister cut through a section half a mile wide n the outskirts of the city, wreck= ng considerable property. It is not snown whether any lives have been lost there although the ruins are being searched.