The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 23, 1936, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL, THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” OL. XLVIL, NO. 7156. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1936. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ETHIOPIANS ARE SHELLED BY BOMBS TRAFFIC COURT | NOT INDULGENT T0 ZIONCHECK Washington Representative Arrested When Fails to Obey Summons WASHINGTON, April 23. — After Representative Marion A. Zioncheck of Washington failed to appear in traffic court to answer to a charge of speeding at 70 miles an hour, a police order to bring him in bod- ily resulted in his arrest. Order was issued by Judge Wal- ter Casey of the District of Col- umbia traffic court. Zioncheck promised to appear after an attachment was issued for him at his office but told reporters ear- lier he had no intention of going into court. ZIONCHECK FINED WASHINGTON, April 23. — Rep. Zioncheck was convicted of speed- ing and contempt of court in the District of Columbia traffic court this afternoon, and sentenced to pay fines totaling $45 or spend 48 hours in jail. Zioncheck had pleaded guilty to speeding but had to be forcibly re- manded to a cell by bailiffs when Judge Walter J. Casey recessed pro- ceedings before disposing of the case. Zioncheck refused to pay the $20 fine for contempt of court and pa- pers were being prepared to com- mit him to the District of Colum- bia jail when Chairman O'Connors of the House Rules appeared, paid the fine and Zioncheck was re- leased. SNELLTOBE CHAIRMAN OF GOP SESSION New York Congressman to Yield Gavel After Sen. Steiwer Gives Keynote CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 23.— Republican Party leaders, now in session here, have recommended Congressman Bertrand H. Snell, of New York, to be Permanent Chair- man of the G. O. P. National Con- vention here next June. Snell is minority leader in the House. He was Permanent Chairman of the 1932 Republican National Conven- tion. Congressman Snell will take over the chair at the close of the key- note speech to be delivered by United States Senator Frederick C. Steiwer, of Oregon, Temporary Chairman of the convention. STOCK PRICES BREAK TODAY; HEAVY LOSSES Slumps Range from One to Five Points Generally, Eight in Some Cases NEW YORK, April 23.—In one of the worst breaks in years, stocks crashed through an air hold market today for losses of 1 to 5 points generally and 8 points or so in a| few instances. The ticker tape fell many minutes behind the floor transactions at the peak of the slump. Some aid ar- rived for scattered issues in the final half hour when the selling rush slowed. Today’s close was weak. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, April 23.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 13%, American Can 122, American Power and Light 10%, Anaconda 36%, Bethlehem Steel 55%, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad 1%, Gen- eral Motors 65%, International Har- vester 81, Kennecott 37%, United States Steel 65'%, Cities Service 5, NEW YORK, as of week ending April 18—(By Associated Press) — Victoriously, Mussolini’s Roman Le- Week’s News in Review by Richard H. Hippelheuser | their “fight against the New Deal. The strength of Borah in the rural areas cannot be doubted. Conse- MEN PRISONED TEN DAYS IN TUNNEL SAVED Noted Bregder of Racing Dogs Diesfiairhanks Valient W;rof Miners|William Corey, Alaska ROSIE MAIER IS | BADLY INJURED, - AUTO ACCIDENT, School Girl Steps in Front gions marched on Addis Ababa. De- | quently, the oldline party leaders finitely, T1 Duce spurned the efforts | cannot lightly cast aside the Sen- of the League of Nations to nego- tiate peace. The League’s peace committee abandoned its work. Seeking a solution, the full coun- cil of the League will meet in Gen- eva Monday. The situation seemed more critical, more ominous, than at any time since the Fascisti invad- ad Ethiopia. The immediate Afro-European erisis is not apart from the general ator’s platform views in the con- vention. The President’s name was un- opposed in the Democratic prefer- ential primary in Illinois. But Dem- ocratic leaders pointed jubilantly to the size of the vote registered for him. He polled approximately 1,372,000 in the state against a combined vote of around 853,000 for Borah European unrest created by Adolf |and Knox. Hitler’'s. The major powers are in- One factor of the record-making volved in both instances. Democratic vote was the intense With regard to Europe itself, and bitter campaign for the nom- | Great Britain was in the middle. ination for Governor. Henry Hor- But the British have turned the ta- ner, the incumbent, was opposed by bles on the French in the Italio- Dr. Herman N. Bundesen, Cook Ethiopian affair. County organization candidate. Hor- 1f Britain, at the Council session ner turned back the Chicago “boss- Monday, pushes the campaign of es,” Mayor Ed Kelly and National sanctions against Italy, France will Committeeman Patrick Nash, by a be in a precarious dilemma. majority of more than 100,000 France wants both Italy and Eng- land as allies in the event of trou- In the Nebraska primaries, there ble with Germany. * Paris may be was no opposition to Borah and the forced into the position of making President in the preferential vot- a decision between the two. ing, although in the Republican col- Hoping to avoid such a position, umn there was a considerable num- France sought to placate Mussolini. ber of “write-in” votes for Gover- It sought to gain at least an ar- nor Alf Landon, of Kansas mastice in East Africa, to carry on Senator George W. Norris, the negotiations peacefully. rogressive Republican who "bol(-' But Ttaly turned down this plea. ed” in '28 to support Alfred E. Smith The Fascist government laid down and in '32 to support Franklin D. its own terms for peace. And, most Roosevelt, did not seek renomina- important of all, Rome said any tion. | peace negotiations must be conduct- However, a non-partisan move- | ed directly between Italy and Eth- ment quickly gained headway to| iopia, outside the League. draft him to run again for the The Covenant of the League, to Senate, although he announced he | which both Ethiopia and Italy have wanted to retire. | |have a rapid recovery. Scadding’s Brings Two to Surface Unharmed—Eat MOOSE RIVER, N. S, April 23. —Rescued from the mine tunnel where they had been entombed since Easter Sunday, Dr. D. E. Robertson, mine-owner, and Charles Alfred Scadding, timekeeper, were teday well on the road to recovery in the improvised mine hospital. Dr. Robertson the surface at 11:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, last night. Scad- ding was brought up a few minutes, later. Diggers had reached the en- tombed pair at 11:15 o’clock. As Dr. Robertson was carried out | of the mine shaft on a stretcher, he waved to the weary miners who/ had worked day and night since! the disaster to save him. “Thank you, boys,” he is report- ed as saying. Brought into the improvised hos- pital, the 62-year-old mine-owner surprised his rescuers by asking for beefsteak. In Good Condition Physicians examining both men said they anticipated no further trouble. Robertson’s mental and physical condition is said to be ex- cellent and it is anticipated he will | condition is “surprisingly good,” al- though his feet are swollen and somewhat blistered. Both men were bright and cheer= ful when three draegermen, ex- Pioneer of 32 Years, Is | of Car on Highway— Stricken, Pneumonia FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April 23— William Corey, aged 73, native of Kikapomo, Wisconsin, for the past 32 years in Alaska, is dead here as the result of pneumonia. Mr. Corey was noted as a breed- er of racing dogs which were en-; tered in derbies. He drove his own: dogs as late as last year. He was a former resident of | the Pioneers of Alaska. A brcther, James Corey, of Newton, Ilowa, survives. HEAVY VOTE 1S EXPECTED ONTUESDAY Capt. James V. Davis Gives His Impressions of Primaries Capt. James V. Davis, owner of the Davis Transportation Co., who returned to Juneau last night on his motorship Roedda, which has been undergoing an overhaul in Ketchi- kan for the past three weeks, said Nome and| was brought tofAnchorage and was a mem! r of| Is in Hospital Rosie Maier, 8-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Maier, was very seriously, possibly fatally, in- jured yesterday afternoon when she was struck by an automobile driven by Joe Hill on the Glacier Highway The little Maier girl, who was tak- en to the hospital immediately after the accident, was still unconscious at presstime today, and was report- ed by Dr. L. P. Dawes to be suffer- ing from a very severe concussion of the brain and several cuts in her scalp. There is apparently no frac- | ture of the child’s skull, Dr. Dawes | said, and apparently no broken | bones. Thorough X-ray examination ghas been prevented by the child's condition. | Steps In Front Of Car | The little Maier girl alighted from ithe school bus in front of the Gla- | cier Dairy, operated by her father, | on Glacier Highway yesterday aft- erncon, and is said to have stepped into the path of the car driven by | Joe Hill approaching from the op- ipn.s:to direction. The school bus was followed by a BPR truck driven by | Alvin Torgeson, and it is thought that she was watching the ap- ipmuchma truck and failed to see | Hill's car. Hill reported that the | school bus was in motion at the time he first saw it, and that his vision was obscured by the bus and | today that he believes that an un-j the fact that the road curves at toat usually heavy vote will be recorded’ point. He did not see the little girl, subseribed, prohibits such direct ne- gotiations. Ttaly from all indications, will not end its invasion until it has crushed the government of Haile Selassie. With all the terrifying force of mod- ern armaments, the Italian army cccupied the Empercr’s stronghold at Dessye. Motor caravans of invad- ers sped on toward the capital. In Rome, high sources said Il Duce has prepared to meet any intern: tional actions resuiting from campaign. NATIONAL AFFAIRS “The period of geographic pion- eering is largely finished. “But, my friends, the period of sociab pioneering is only at its be- These were the words of the Pres- ident, in his Baltimore address. The Baltimore rally was heralded as the opening of his campaign for re-election. But, in large measure, it was not a political address. It was not filled with either a denun- ciation of critics or a vigorous de- fense of New Deal policies. The rally was arranged by the young Democratic clubs; and the address fitted the occasion. It was an address for youth. MORE ABOUT POLITICS The Illinois primary dominated the rest of the week’s political news. It was another instance of Sena- tor William E. Borah challenging the Republican organization; only in Illinois, he had some success, while in New York two weeks previously he failed completely. In the Preferential Presidential Primary, the Idaho Progressive, op- posed Colonel Frank Knox, publish- er of the Chicago Daily News. Knox had the endorsement of the Stafe organization. The heavy vote piled up by the Knox forces in Cook County (Chi- cago) gave the publisher a majority of more than 70,000 in the state. But Senator Borah demonstrated a strength in the rural areas surpris- ing to many political observers and carried the downstate. ‘The staus of the 49 delegates in the primary was the subject of dispute. The Illinois law provides that the preferential vote in the Congres- sional districts shall be “advisory” upon the delegates elected from those districts. On this basis, the Borah forces claimed 27 delegates. Managers for Colonel Knox, how- ever, said only two delegates were favorable to the Senator. Illinois has a delegation of 57. The der the “advisory” system, would be guided by the statewide major- ity for Colonel Knox. Bremner bid 17 asked 23%, Pound $4.93%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: Industrials, 151.10; rails, 44.80; utilities, 30.69. In the view of not a few Wash- ington political writers, the Borah remaining 8 delegates-at-large, un-‘ In a statement issued at his Palo Alto home, Herbert Hoover replied to the President’s remarks on em- ployment. 1 The real need, the former Presi- | dent said, is for a restoration of | “long-term confidence.” To achieve this, he advocated a ‘five-point program: ! 1. Reduce Government expenses, 2. Balance the National budget 3. Establish a ‘“real currency.” 4. “Stop these movements and threats of inflation.” 5. “Stop these other activities { which destroy confidence in the fu- ture.” OTHER NATIONAL NEWS Major General Johnson Hagood, suspended for criticising the New Deal's WPA, was resiored to active duty. The General, who characterized WPA funds as “stage money” was assigned to command of the Sixth Corps Army,” with headquarters in Chicago. The restoration came after in- tervention by friends and after a second conference between Hagood and the President. The Senate, in the twelfth im- peachment trial of its history, con- victed Federal Judge Halsted L. Ritter, of Florida, and removed him from office. The decision was 56 to 28, Ritter was found guilty of mis- conduct in office. The House of Representatives had found the jurist guilty. There is no appeal from the Senate verdict. If the Florida ship canal and the Passamaquoddy power project in Maine are completed, Congress perienced in_mine rescues agd emdiin the Democratic primaries in Ket- Hill said, until he struck her. ergency work, succeeded in break- ing from the main operating shaft {into the 141-foot level. The rescuers did not underground prison after broke through, but went directly to the pair, lying prostrate beside the skip or trolley which operated from the depths to the surface. The body of Hermann Magill, part owner ‘of the Moose River Mines, was brought up last. Magill died of exposure Sunday night. An inquest is scheduled in the near future. wait to explore the men’s Valiant Rescue Rescue of the two men was a story of valiant effort and gallant endeavor. Hard rock miners, in- formed of the catastrophe Ilate Easter Sunday night, assembled hastily to begin digging a way through a disused tunnel to the 141-foot level where the men had been trapped by a slide. Almost a week passed without word of the entombed men, until, late Friday of last week, miners succeeded in drilling a five-inch passage to the tunnel, down which a telephone and food supplies were lowered. It was by this means that miners were informed Sunday of the death of Magill and the imprisoned men were enabled to check on progress of operations. The final rescue was accomplish- ed when a group of three veteran coal miners, members of Nova Scotia’s famous mine rescue or- ganization, Draegermen, formed a spearhead underground attack which reached the two living men by breaking through a final wall of stone and dirt. late yesterday afternoon. will have to appropriate the money. The President served notice this tweek that no more Works-Relief funds will be used for these pro- Jjects. His decision followed the re- {ports of army engineers that the i{projects would cost considerably more than had been originally es- timated. In New York, the Court of Ap- Ppeals upheld the constitutionality of the unemployment insurance act. The measure was drafted to comply with provisions of the National Se- | curity program. { The State’s highest court laid jdown the principle that the Legis- |lature exercised its judgment in en- |acting a law to meet “A growing peril to a large number of our fel- jlow citizens.” “It would be a strange sort of government,” the decision continued, | “in fact no government at all, which | would not give help in such trou- ! ble.” In New Jersey, the task of caring KIDNAPED BOY ESCAPES FROM HIS ABDUCTOR Ten-Year-Old Son of Penn. Executive Identifies Sus- pect Held by Police ALLENTOWN, Pa, April 23— Police reported the young son of Henry T. Koch, department store executive, who was kidnaped and held for $20,000 ransom, has es- caped. Young Koch, 10, whose hands and legs had been bound appar- ently with tape, identified a man in custody as his abductor. Police said the suspect gave his name as John James, 42, of Chi- position, as a result of the Illinois for the needy was placed by the [cago. It is believed the name is primary, approximates this. Republicans turn to the West in 36 for agricultural support in State onto the municipalties. The state relief administration y (Continued on Page Three) i ) ficticious. The suspect carried a roll of inch-and-a-half adhesive tape. they | ! chikan, and the southern part of | the First Division. Capt. Davis bases his prediction on the conversations held with Ketchikan residents and with the seemingly generally active interest in the coming contest for | nominations. When asked about the progress |of his own campaign for nomina- | tion to the House of Representa- | tives in the Territorial Legislature, | Capt. Davis, explained that getting | his boat in shape hadn’t left much time for campaigning, and further- | more he didn't figure he was much |of a political campaigner, anyhow, but that a good many people had volunteered the information that they were going to vote for him. Capt. Davis has been a resident of the Territory for thirty years and {during practically all of that time has been engaged in fishing and |allied industries, including the wat- er transportation business, and the water mail contract routes. These occupations have taken him to all parts of the Territory, and given him particularly intimate informa- tion about Southeast Alaska, and | its residents. | “I have always believed that the | Territory’s welfare is in turn, my |own welfare,” Capt. Davis said. “If { nominated and eventually elected to the Legislature my best efforts will be directed towards legislation that | will result in the general weifare of the Territory.” > |Honest Man Is Revealed; $20 Is Returned Found! An honest man! And the discovery comes through a classified ad in The Daily Al- aska Empire! Ole Olsen, CCC worker, who saved up enough money, at a dollar a day, to assure him pas- sage to the Westward where he has a good job waiting, came to town yesterday to cash his check, and after a visit to the bank, lost his entire savings, $20, in a bill fold. The Daily Alaska Empire helped him out last night by advertising for it, and behold, this afternoon in walked the honest man, Alex Boroff, a relief worker, with the wallet and the 520, asking that it be delivered to the unfortu- nate man who lost it. Is is one of the finest exam- ples of honesty and fellowship seen here in years. Boroff, who exists through relief work, and who could use the $20 to a good advantage, gladly turned over the bill fold to some one, whom he said, was “less fortunate than L” PP GO [ M. E. Monagle, local attorney, left on the Estebeth on a business trip to Tenakee. He will return on the same vessel. Speeds To Hospital Hill stopped his car so suddenly that the rear wheels skidded from the road and the car could not at once be driven from the scene. Tor- geson stopped his truck, dumped the load of gravel it contained on the highway, turned his truck around and started at once for the hospital with the injured child. Ed Christianson, driver of the school bus, stopped his vehicle and re- turned on foot to learn what had happened. Shortly after Torgeson left with the Maier girl for Juneau, Hill was brought to town in a car driven by Edith Bavard, and went at once to Kill Child S0 They Can Go to Shu_w_ Together Mother of Child in Conspir- acy with Man Compan- 1on, Police Charge ALTOONA, Pa., April 23.—Death of three-year-old Matthew Marm- endi from a broken skull became a murder case when police pointed to an alleged conspiracy between he boy's mother and Roy Lockard, who was lately her companion at the movies, H Both, it is said, have signed statements accusing each other of striking the boy with a heavy bolt or railroad spike to get him out of the way so they could go to shows together. Further investigation way. SINGERS STEAL SHOW AT C. OF C, NOON LUNCHEON Ketchikan = Vocalists Fea- tured as Part of Music Festival at Chamber Ketchikan High School vocalists under the able direction of Miss Marjory Miller moved in on the Juneau Chamber of Commerce this noon, by their very presence pushed | routine affairs into the future ref- srence file and proceeded to enthrall the staid business executives with song. The good looking boys and zirls from the First City with lht‘ir‘ charming leader completely stoie he session at the weekly luncheon in the Terminal Cafe without a struggle and the warm reception ac- corded them gave ample indication that any time tney want to come hack, they only have to say the word and the Chamber mempers will hold a meeting to hear them even if it is | Sunday. It was Music Festival Day at the Chamber and the rhythm, melody is under the hospital to learn the extent of the girl’s injuries. The parents of the little girl were not notified of the accident, due to the confugion, and learned of her |injury when a dairy employee in- vestigated the load of gravel in the highway and discovered a shoe be- longing to Rosie which had been and harmony so aptly referred to by Miss Ruth Coffin of the Juneau schools, who introduced Miss Mil- ler, Miss Hunter of Wrangell, J. M. Honn of Petersburg, and Byron Miller of Juneau, all supervisors in the Festival, held sway. It was well provided by the Ketchikan singers who entertained so brilliant- lost from her foot. Mrs. Maier im- mediately identified the shoe and rushed to the hospital in Juneau. Hill is one of Juneau's Fire De- partment truck drivers, TAX BILL NOW UP FOR DEBATE WASHINGTON, April 23.—Open- ing the battle for the Administra- tion’s $803,000,000 tax bill, Represen- tative Doughton, Democrat of North Carolina, told the House that its corporate tax reform was one fun- damental of justice. The veteran Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee was the first speaker in the 16- hour debate scheduled for the meas- ure, R Hoop a-fime In Palmer on Saturday Night ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 23.—A special train will leave here for Palmer Saturday night carrying the Anchorage delega- tion on the spring pilgrimage to the Matanuska colony. The Legion Post of the colony is sponsoring a dance in the Com- munity Hall at Palmer. B Committee Gives Approval of Navy Air Base, Alameda ‘WASHINGTON, April 23. — The House Naval Affairs Committee has ly with negro folk songs. The singers making up the chorus include: Sopranos, Willa Armour, Inga Nerup, Edna Drake, Helen Barton and Jeanette Erickson; Altos, Genevieve Pedersen, Constance Fas- so and Ethel Selfridge; tenor, Mich- ael Hagiwara and Abraham Hagi- wara; bass, Thor Larsen, Bill Race and Jack Olafson. J. J. Conway of Sitka also was a guest of the Chamber today and while facetiously admitting Sitka I.fi': a better fishing town than Ketchi- kan he had only praise for the mu- sicians from the First City. Mr. Conway reported Sitka is showing excellent progress in a business way and expects soon to have its new Federal building underway, replac- ing the historic edifice which burn- ed down last winter. Secretary Curtis Shattuck report- ed on attending a luncheon with the Alaska department of the Seat- tle Chamber of Commerce while in the south and that the Seattle group is co-operating to the fullest in trying to discourage those with- out funds from coming north, Simi- lar action is being taken by the Tacoma Chamber. Report of the Executive commit- tee revealed that L. O. Herndon. inspector in charge of radio district 14, expects to be in Juneau from June 12 to 16. TEST PLANE ICE REMOVER LONDON, April 23.—A newly-in- vented device to combat the forma- tion of ice on airplane wings has been adopted experimentally by Im- approved of the Government's ac- ceptance of Alameda, California, for a Naval Air Base. perial Airways liners. The mechan- ism, it is said, would have saved Knute Rockne and other lives lost to the ice menace. FASCIST FORCES KEEP ADVANGING ON ADDIS ABABA Invaders Figh_ting Through Mud, Swollen Streams in Ethiopia TROPICAL RAINS ARE REPORTED ; DOWNPOUR Badoglio Moving in Moun- tains for Final Clash with Selassie BULLETIN—ROME, April 23. —Italian airplanes are savagely assaulting Ethiopian troops on the Dessye-Addis Ababa road, Fascist dispatches report this afternoon. This is to prevent Selassie’s warriors from de< stroying the highway. An airplane sqaudron sur- prised 2,000 Ethiopians near Doba, about 65 miles south of Dessye, and bombed them with heavy losses. ITALIANS DEFEATED BULLETIN —ADDIS ABABA, April 23.—Ras Nasibu, Ethiop- jian Commander on the South- ern front, reported this after- noon that defending troops have defeated the Italians in an engagement near Babudanan. He gave no details of the en- counter. DRIVE ON ADDIS ABABA GENEVA, April 23.—The Italian army is fighting today through the muddy and swollen Ethiopian rivers in a drive into the heart of East Africa, moving toward Addis Ababa, the capital. Crossing of the rough terrain is made even more difficult by the advent of the tropical rains. The Northern Army, under Mar- shal Badoglio, is reported to be high in the mountains of Shoa Province expecting momentarily to face a desperate last stand by the Ethiopian defenders, under Emper- or Haile Selassie. The Southern Army, under Gen. Graziani, has not been halted as yet by the heavy downpours. The General flew over the Ethiopian ground works south of Harar to make a survey of the enemy posi- tions, according to advices received here from Rome. He is preparing for an atatck today. ‘The Empress of Ethiopia today appealed through the foreign news- papers asking all great powers to support the Ethiopian nation in the fight against the Fascist in- vaders. — DAR, UPHOLDS OLD TRADITIONS INSTRONG VOTE Constitution, Tydings-Mec- Cormack Bill, Merchant Marine Win Praise WASHINGTON, April 23.—Op- position to any constitutional amendment which “would result in change to our form of government” was pledged today amid cheers by the Daughters of the American Revolution. The resolution was aimed at an amendment proposed by Represen- tative Vito Marcantonio, Republi- can of New York, to permit Fed- eral ownership and operation of national resources and enterprises. ‘The organization praised the Tyd- ings-McCormack bill, to punish in- citement to disaffection in the army; opposed giving the Federal Government power to regulate and control the labor of individual workers; opposed bureaucracy and centralized government, and de- clared in favor of an adequate merchant marine and continued Federal aid to American shipping companies which employ only Am- erican citizens as seamen. S e WHITE MOVES OFFICE Albert White is moving his office from the Shattuck Building to the Bon Marche, explaining this will place him in closer contact with the public and at the same time allow him to aid Mrs. White with her bus~ iness.