The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 24, 1936, Page 9

- . HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR VOL. XLVIL, NO. 7157. SIXTEFN PAGES “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1936. SECOND SECTION—PAGES | TO IVE INDICTED IN WENDEL KIDNAPING CHIEF € - MAN SAYSPOLITICS HAMSTRING LAW. J. Edgar Hoover Urges War | Against Crime, Flays Racketeer Lawyers WASHINGTON, April 24.—J. Ed- | gar Hoover, Chief of the Federal | Bureau of Investigation, told the Daughters of the American Revo- | lution in session here that 150,000 murderers are at large in the United States. Chief Hoover urged the D. A. R to wage war on crime, and de- clared: roughout our country law en- | forcement has been hampered,| hamstrung and strahgled by the blood-caked hands of crime affil- | iated with politics in every large [ American city. “There is attorney after attorney | who makes his living by counseling | f men he knows to be guilty. Often he plans with them.” D Professor Rates ‘6-Men’ Superior to Scotland Yard COLUMRBUS, O, April 2¢.—Harvey Walker, Ohio State University criminologist, tips his hat to Uncle Sam'’s department of justice agents and says he would rate them better than even with England's famed Scotland Yard operatives. ‘Walker, an authority on English police methods, says a definite com- parison could not be made because of “the vast difference in the crimi- nal problems here and abroad. “But Scotland Yard never faced a Job like that the Federal agents had in cleaning out the Dillinger and | similar gangs,” Walker says. “Our Federal agents’ work has been brilliant, spectacular and ef- fective. They have fought crime in America with crime’s own weapons —fast cars, scientific equipment, modern firearms—and have won. “Scotland Yard’s enforcement is centered on an island on which few criminals hide successfully after committing a crime.” - — Boycott of Nazis Urged on Hindus After Hitler Jihe CALCUTTA, Inia, April 24—An- gered by Hitler's recent statement that the “British taught the colored races how to walk, particularly the Indians,” nationalist leaders are or- ganizing protest meetings in all parts of India. Retaliation through the boycot- ting of German goods has been urged at meetings in Bombay, Lahore and Karachi. Invariably the meetings have end- ed with resolutions to boycott and with shouts of “Down with Hitler!” Labor organizations in Bombay demonstrated in front of the Ger- man consulate with the same cry and the German consul protested in turn to local authorities. Later a statement was issued, credited to the German foreign of- fice, which stated that Hitler's re- marks were applicable only to “an- cient India.” But this was interpret- ed by the Indian leaders, they have indicated at their meetings, as only adding insult to injury. At a packed mass meeting, held under auspices of the National Stu- dents’ Council, an organization of Bombay university students, the fol- lowing resolution was formulated: “In view of the reactionary atti- tude of Hitlerism towards the world in general and India in particular, India as a protest should not par- ticipate in the Olympic games in Berlin." Because of the influence of the Indian leaders, German exports to India may be seriously affected. —ee— Vote Held Worth $200 NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. — James Perkins’ vote is worth $200, a Jesa- mine circuit court jury ruled in awarding damages because elec- tion officers refused to allow him to vote in the November election. King Edward VIII King Edward VIII wore the uni- form of the Welsh Guards when be attended the 21st anniversary telebration of the regiment in London, above. GEORCE NORRIS PUTS OVER BIG APPROPRIATION |Senator Achieves Another | Success in Spite of Retrenchment j WASHINGTON, April 24, — The | Senate's swift and overwhelming | approval of the $420,000,000 rural | electrification bill can be cited as | another striking illustration of the genius of George Norris of Nebraska | in achieving legislative results. | In the face of a swelling tide of ;prmest against huge governmental expenditures and competition with private business and at a time when the administration is show- |ing signs of moving toward re: | trenchment, the measure sponsored lby the father of TVA swept to passage without even the formality of a roll call. There was some opposition, of course, notably from Senator King, Democrat of Utah, who denounced the “siphoning of money out of the | treasury” to finance the electrifica- tion of farms. NORRIS COMPROMISED An interesting disclosure during the debate on the measure was that Senator Norris had agreed at a White House conference to reduce the stipulated appropriation for rural power systems in the next 10 years from the $1,000,000,000 origi- nally intended to $420,000,000. Hailed also as “hopeful harbin- gers” of an Administration trend toward curtailment of expenditures were Secretary of State Hull's strong emphasis upon the impor- tance of a balanced budget in the course of his temperate campaign speech at Baltimore, and the Gov- ernment’s apparently sudden deci- sion to transfer to States and municipalities the resonsibility for acquiring land for low-cost housing projects . This change in slum clearance policy was said to have been indi- cated by the abandonment of the Government'’s fight in the Supreme Court on appeals of land condemn- ation cases in which the lower courts had held that the Federal Government lacked the power to acquire land intended for use in such projects. CONSTITUTIONALITY Chairman Henry P. Fletcher, of , the Republican National Committee, | immediately pounced upon this dc- (Continued on Page Four.) MOSQUITOESAND | . LOVEINVADING [PALMER COLONY Sigus ok Sprste Kl Ao companied by Muddy Roads, Matanuska April 24— PALMER, Alaska, Spring has definitely arrived at | the Matanuska Colony—roads are muddy, mosquitoes are biting, and | two couples have been married The couples married were Miss Betty Meirs, daughter of Mr. and * Mrs. Carl H. Meirs of St. Louis Ccunty, Minnesota, and Jelf More- | Iy of Palmer; and Miss Dorothy Bouwens, formerly of Rhinelander, Wisconsin, and Martin Novak, (formerly of Sanborn, Wisconsin. Additional signs of spring’s ap- | proach are activities of the colon- | ists getting ready to plant crops. Archealogy Trip NO. TONS BLDG. CAPITAL SHIPS 15 464,300 AIRCRAFT CARRIERS 4 92,000 54,500 CRUISERS (A) 16 149,775 30,000 CRUISERS (B) 10 70,500 90,000 DESTROYERS 213 241,105 84,050 SUBMARINES 84 70,020 21,900 - of U, S. Heiress Haltgg by War EL PASO, Tex., April 24. — The | Italo-Ethiopian fracas has thrown 'a hitch into plans of Miss Geraldine | | Spreckels, attractive 19-year -old | heiress, for an archaeological ex- pedition into darkest Africa. | ‘When the dogs of war are quiet, | the adventurous young lady intend: to strike southward across Liby Italian territory, and head for the Belgian Congo. deep in Central Af- | rica Until peace comes Miss Spreckels plans to travel in Europe. The sugar With Great Britain’s sharp increase in naval building and the with- drawal by France of objections to 35,000 ton battleships, the U. S. may enter new naval race to main- tain parity with Britain. Photos show the U. S. S. Maryland (the type of ship most valuable to America, with her long coast lines) ; and below, the U. S. S. Ranger, air- plane carrier. Tabl. ows present .. strength of U. 5. navy, . GALLANT FOX COLTS SLATED AMONG ACCUSED T0 FAGE TRIAL Ellis Parker, 51. Exempted by Grand Jury in Charges NEW YORK, April 24. — The Brooklyn Grand Jury late last night indicted five on charges of kidnaping Paul H. Wendel, former New Jersey attorney, whose repud- iated “‘confession” of the Lindbergh baby kidnaping gave Bruno Haupt- mann three days’ lease on life. Indicted were Ellis Parker, Jr, lson of the New Jersey detective; Martin Schlossman and Harry Blee- feld, now in custody; Harry Weiss and Murray Bleefeld, whom police are seeking. Specifically, they are charged with kidnaping and second degree assault Officials declined to comment {on what consideration the jury gave Ellis Parker, Sr. chief Burlington County detective, who played a prominent part in investigating angles of the Lindbergh case during the attempt to save Hauptmann. Word, however, was sent to New Jersey to take the younger Parker into custody. BLONDE ENTERS ~ WENDEL KIDNAP | CASENEW YORK Mysterious Woman Be-;-g heiress only recently completed a Pacific tour, and has given no time | to leap year thoughts. “I don’t think I will take a(l\'an-“ tage of the year, as there are many things that I want to do before get- | - TOBEDOOMED Sought by Police— Clues Found LOUISVILLE, April 24. Three sons of Gallant Fox, himself a Der-| by winner, are entered in the 1936 ting married,” she says. “Anyway, there will be another one along be- fore it is too late.” Although Miss Spreckels leans to | the hardier side of life, music and ; art received a large share of atten- {tion in her studies at exclusive | schools in Maryland and at the Uni- | | versity of California. Recently she filed suit in San Diego, Calif., for termination of a | ;ss,ooo.ooo trust fund established by | iher late grandfather, John D.| | Spreckels. | | 3 Siam Purchasing ‘Modern Arms for ' ir, Sea and Land BANKOK, Siam, April 24—Siam- | y H ese military defense is being made “ce s lr a“ stronger on an unprecedented scale, with the government expending s“eeded tn Meat European Crisis more than 30 percent of the nation- By GEORGE C. JORDAN have achieved stardom or until sociated Press Photo) al revenue in modernizing the army, navy and air force. New airplanes are being ordered from the United States; an order has gone to Japan for four submarines and Italy has nearly completed seven torpedo boats. German and British firms have been given orders for nav- al guns and armaments. Public contributions are being sought to aid this military expan- sion. Anti-aircraft drills are fre- quent and an experimental mass | mobilization is to be held soon. A hundred Siamese naval officers and cadets have left for Italy to take over the new torpedo boats. As a member of the League of Na- tions Siam has duly adopted sanc- tions against Italy. Holy Pigeons Starve in Instanbul Mosques ISTANBUL, April 24.—Flocks of pigeons which have inhabited the courtyards of Istanbul's mosques since the 15th century are among { the principal sufferers here from the depression. Moslems who consider them holy ROME, April 24. — A six-year, billion lire aviation program squeez- ed into three years is giving Italy lone of Europe’s foremost air forces, supported by a revolutionized in- dustrial organization. air force. Later he added 200- 000,000 lire, bringing the total to job done by, June 30, 1837. The air force already had been getting 900,000,000 a year, equiva- lent to about $72,000,000 . Thousands of New Pilots At the time Il Duce announced his air program the Italian force consisted of 25830 men, 1380 of them pilots. There are now 1,750 commissioned officer pilots and 41,- 900 men, including 1400 student officers in training. about $96,000,000, and ordered the‘ birds, always have made it a prac- tice to scatter a handful of grain for the pigeons each time they went to pray. As prayers are said five times a day the birds used to be gorged with food. But now the Turks, like every- one else, are counting their piastres closely and no money is available to buy grain. Limp with starvation the birds are leaving the mosques. Mussolini’'s expansion program also comprehends the training of 10,000 reserve pilots. This means there are 3,000 actual or potential pilots already flying or in training. Informed sources place the pres- ent Italian air strength at about 1900 planes, of which between 450 and 500 are in East Africa. (Continued on Page Four) Technically, at least, romance is all off for these seven young movie actresses, for with six others they have formed Hollywood’s first “spinster club” and vowed not to be married or engaged until they pretty certain that they never will. Left to right: Marle Wilson, Paula Stone, Jeanne Madden, Olivia De Haviland, Linda Perry, Rosalind Marquis and Patricia &llis. (As- HITLER'S ARMY BIG ISSUE FOR " FRENCH VOTERS By jOiN EVANS |itarization of the Rhineland and lthe war scare in its wake may change many votes in the elections | for deputies April 26 and May 3 Adolf Hitler put political sooth- In May, 1934, Mussolini announc- sayers on a spot until he denounced | Kansas capital. ed he would spend a billion lire in|the Locarno pact,‘ for as German | six years to make over the national | soldiers stomped into the Rhmr—wm” & special session ‘of the St.av.e‘m‘mmg of three school houses. land, observers were perdicting a | sharp swing to the left. Since then, however, the rightists have taken full advantage of the tense situation and their appeals |for “a strong man at the helm” to face Germany may alter results Left Leaders Worried Rightist leaders are warning that the World War broke on France | shortly after it turned to the left in the 1914 elections and are assert- ing that a strong nationalist gov- ernment, ready to assume a stern attitude toward Germany, is the best guarantee of peace. Leftist leaders admit worry and discouragement. It is against their policies to advocate big armies and navies. Political meetings turn to war |talk. Voters ask candidates why Hitler tore up the Locarno pact and escaped punishment. The danger f war will, however, be only one of (Continue« on rage Four) ) PARIS, April 24—German remil- | Kentucky Derby. But, if tradition holds, they might as well stay in the barn on May 2. The reason is that offspring of the same sire never have won the big Churchill Downs fixture two years straight. Thus does last year's vie- tory of Omaha, another son of Gal- | lant Fox, seem to blight the chances tof Granville, Cavalero and Phantom | Fox--all by The Fox. Horses there have been which Virgil was the daddy of three—Vag- rant, winner of the second derby, | in 1876; Hindoo, first under the wire in 1881 and Ben Ali, the 1886 win- ner. Zev, by The Finn, won in 1923, and Flying Ebony, another of The Finn's progeny. was Derby champion in 1925—and that's the closest ap- proach of sons of one sire to con- Landon Enemies CALLES BLAMED * Hope Legiglature FOR MEX, REVOLT ~ Brings Him Grie | By HERBEZT PLUMMER Fanatics, Swoop Down on Three Towns WASHINGTON, April 24—Poli- MEXICO CITY, April 24-—The |ticians here, Democrats and those name of Plutarco Elias Calles, de- !Rl!publll:ans opposing Gov. Alfred ' ported former President and former M. Landon for the G. O. P. Presi- “strong man” of Mexico, echoed in | dential nomination, have their eyes the State of Vera Cruz today in {trained on developments in the the wake of violence which brought death to one school teacher and the mutilation of another, and the The possibility that Landon may | Legislature to settle the problem‘(vs;vmgy“ A ":'l';' shouting of Kansas cooperation with the e Tm & esl t;:oope iyl Federal Government on assistance (10t BOIa(E sowhs of hepe: 1565 he Social Seci P 4 Phgocs. OF-Shs Smin urity Pro-'ast night and burned public schools |gram is the reason. . § W : before the soldiers chaSed them The Social Security Board in back into the hills | Washington already has advised the State that it plans do not meet requirements for Federal help. The principal objection is that the Kansas plan would be established France Blunlly on a country option rather than a State-wide basis. Re‘llle‘ Re'“mng From a political standpoint, how- Of Cameroons ever, the relative merits of the two fanatics. R sired more than one Derby winner. | Rebels, Believed Religious | The Government blames religicu:| plans have nothing to do with the lquestion. The important thing is |Landon’s own statement that “We |are going into all possibilities, in- |cluding a special session of the Leg-| |islature, to bring Kansas in under {the program.” | Opponents of Gov. Landon would | (Continued on Page Four) L PARIS, April 24. — France to- day officially announced refus- al to return Cameroons, French mandated territory in West Af- rica, to Germany. Louis Truitard, official of the Ministry of Colonies, declared that it is out of the question for France to expose the natives of Cameroon to the German re- gime. | BROOKLYN, N. Y. April 24. — | A mysterious blonde woman has been brought into the Paul H. Wendel | kidnaping case as a special grand jury neared the close of the inves- tigation, | Attaches of District Attorney Wil- liam F. X. Geognan said the woman |paid Wendel’s bill and claimed his belongings at the Stamford Hotel, |New York City, after he had been jabducted in connection with the | Lindebergh kidnap case previous to | Hauptmann'’s execution. The police are seeking the woman | believed to be companion of a man hunted as one of the alleged kid- napers. Martin Schlossman has been {charged with kidnaping Wendel af- | ter confessing he was paid for com- mission of the crime. Hugé Nfifiital ' at Swedish Capital ~ Costs Ten Millions STOCKHOLM, April 24. A complete ‘“medical city,” which, it \is claimed, will be among the most | modern of its kind in the world, is | being constructed near here by the | Swedish Government. | It will cost $10,000,000, and will |include the latest hospital equip- |ment as deveoped in all parts of the world. | The main building will be H- |shaped, with a roof for sunbathing, and will be seven stories high. It will contain operating theatres, lec- {ture halls, wards and laboratories. In addition there will be a chils |dren’s hospital, a building for psy- |chiatric diseases, a rehumatism {clinic, swimming pool, football | grounds, tennis courts, church, con- cert halls and homes for staff doc- tors, students and nurses. Plans for the project were orig- inated in 1931 and work on roads and exacavations started in 1932. The foundation stone for a special clinic on cancer has been laid by King Gustav. s oy NOMEITES HAVE BABY A telegram, recently received at Nome, stating that a baby had been born at Spokane to Mr. and Mrs. Gus O'Leary, well-known Nomeites, neglected to state whether the baby was a boy or a girl. Mr. O'Leary who is employed in the power house of the Hammon Company at Nome, left there some time ago by airplane. Mrs. O'Leary travelled to the States by boat last fall. | | i