The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 12, 1936, Page 1

THE VOL L. XLVIIL, NO. 7I72 DAILY ALA "ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU ALASKA TUESDA\ MAY 12, 12, 1936. A EMPIRE MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ~ PRICE TEN CENTS KIDNAPER OF MRS.STOLL IS ARRESTED GRUENING SEES AIR MAIL FOR' LASKA COMING Direct Plane Connechon‘ with Seattle First Step in Program, He Says POPULATION GROWTH | IS AIM OF DIRECTOR To/fe pua biansl Highway, | Tourist Travel, Coloniza- tion All Part of Plan i Direct air mail connection wn.h} the States, construction of the In-| ternational Highway, encouraging| tourist travel to the north and de-! velopment of Alaska’s natural re- | sources with particular stress on| agriculture, all with the aim of get- | ting more permanent population are the four major objectives of the present administration for the Territory. This was the encouraging infor- mation brought to Juneau today by Dr. Ernest H. Gruening, Di-| rector of the Division of Territories | and Island Possessions, Interior De- | partment, who arrived here on the Alaska and is continuing to the Westward in company with Gov. John W. Troy. Both men will at- tend a meeting of the Alaska Ru- ral Rehabilitation Corporation at| Palmer, center of the Matanuska | colony, and then proceed to Fair-| banks to take part in the com-| mencement exercises at the uUn:-| versity of Alaska. | Connection With States The first step in the program of air mail service for Alaska is| connection by plane between Se- attle and the Territory, Dr. Gruen- ing said. “All the departments are back of the air program,” the director | stated, “for we all realize that air transportation is the real thing. The first step in getting air mail service up here is the connection with Seattle. Rather than ulti- mately, I would say it is the very firet thing planned.” While not wishing to set a spec- ific ume when such a service might be anticipated as a result of pos- sible favorable action by Congress | on appropriations, Dr. Gruening did hold out hope that it might be an actual accomplishment of the next year. International Highway Referring to the International Highway, the former newspaper man and widely known publicist, declar- ed himself convinced that the highway would mean as much if not more, to Alaska than any other: one thing, in that it would bring| population. i What you need up here is peo- ple, isn't ii?” he asked, and then continued: “It seems to me a road would be a sure way of bring- ing them here.” He explained that negotiations are being made with Canada, and| added that “while I don't propose | to speak for the Canadian govern- ment, I believe, as do most of us| in Washington, that Canada is not'| unfavorable to such a project and | that eventually it will be built.” | Tourist Cruise | Stressing further the need Xor permanent population in the Ter-| ritory, Dr. Gruening pointed to tourist travel and agricultural de- velopment as possibilities along that' line. He reported that this sum- mer a cruise is being planned (or‘ July from the East coast which will come through the Panama Canal and thence to Juneau and Alaska and then go to the Ha- wiian Islands. On the cruise will be people from the chief cities of the East coast, the idea being to acquaint them with the inter- | ests for the traveler in Alaska as| well as in the Islands. Through such a cruise and constant pro-| motion of Alaska as an attractive| tourist playground, he expressed the belief it would not only bring/| population but build up the tour-; ist” business far beyond anything at present realized. Impressed by the various souvenirs for tourists he had seen on this, his first visit to the Territory, the Director expressed the view that| too many of such articles are made | elsewhere and imported for sale| to travelers. Indians Make Totems “Why shouldn't these totem poles and like articles be made in Alaska| by Alaskans'? he enquired, and then answered it with the sugges- tion that more of them could be (Continued on Fage Two) G-M en sze Karpis 7 i —— | Quadruplets “Doing [Fine”; Physically, F mancnally PASSAIC, New Jersey, May 12—The quadruplets, born to Mr. and Mrs. Emil Kasper last Saturday, are “doing fine”— physically and financially. Major Benjamin F. Turner has assumed the job of business manager as gifts began to pour in. Five hundred dollars was telegraphed here by Mrs. Ed- mond E. Herrscher, of San Fran- cisco. The father is a $20 a week railroad roundhouse worker. ——————— FORMER ATTY. GENERAL DIES IN WASHINGTON Fighting Official, Boostel for Woodrow Wilson, | Passes Away WASHINGTON, May 12.—A. Mitg . aged ‘white and Indian population f| wife of the Deputy United States INTERIOR TOWN | STRICKEN, FLU; THEN BY FLOOD Fort Yuk;Ravaged by Disease and Later Is Swept by High Water BOTH WHITES, INDIANS IN SERIOUS CONDITION Landing Field Under Water | Which Prevents Aid Be- | ing Sent from Fairbanks I s F mally FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 12— A radio dispatch to the Fairbanks | News - Miner said has claimed six lives among the rav- influenza at Fort Yukon while the flood swept the town, at the junction of the Yukon and Porcupine rivers. The News-Miner's correspondent il at Fort Yukon, Mrs. Emile Randall, Marshal, said no one was drowned | chell Palmer, former Attorney Gen=- | eral, who died late yesterday after- noon folowing an operation for | removal of his appendix on April | pelin’s motors sputtered and then |divorce complaint, charging cruelty, Five automobile loads of Federal agents dashed up to the air- port in St. Paul, Minn., to meet the plane bringing Alvin Karpis from New Orleans on Saturday, May 2. Karpis, Public Enemy No. 1, killer, mail rcbber, who blazed a trail of daring crime through many States, is pictured as he was escorted under heavy guard from the plane to an automobile at St. Paul airport. In the foreground, | immediately preceding the desperado, is pictured J. Edgar Hoover, | who supervised the bloodless but sensational capture in the Gulf city of the notorious criminal, Karpis apparently was brought to St. Paul to face trial in connection with the $200,000 Edward G. Bremner kidnaping there. GERMAN IEP NOW HEADED | NEW DEAL IS T0 HOMELAND KNOX CLAIMS | of 29, born of peace-loving Quaker stock, during the most active period his life was engaged Within the period of eight years | —from 1912 to 1920—he led a suc~ cessful battle in the Baltimore Democratic convention for the nomination of Woodrow Wilson; served as a member of the Housej turned down the Secretaryship of | War; acted as Alien Property Cus+ wdmn and Attorney General: sougm the Democratic Presidential nomination; and eng aged in a series of unusually bitter contro- versies in and out of Congress over his work in office. In Public Eve Mr. Palmer’s activities as Alien | Property Custodian and as Attorney | REAGTIGNARY‘GenemI contributed most to keep him in the public eye. Soon after | America entered the war he was called upon to become the first Giant Aircraft Expected to G. O. P. Candidate Says|custodian and he seized $700000- Break Record Over Atlantic Ocean LAKEHURST, N. J., May 12. — On a record breaking trip home- bound, the German dirigible von inath £ Hindenburg, visitor in the United | cPuPlican nomination for Presi- States for two and one half days, 9ent, said here last night that the is headed for the home mooring Principles of constitutional division Campaign Issue Centers Around States” Rights PORTLAND, May 12.—Col. Frank Knox of Chicago, candidate for the mast. {of powers and local sovereignty Half a minute after the com- .are two great overshadowing is- mand was given to “up,” the zep- sues of the preseni campaign.” took hold. Within a few minute;| The Chicago publisher, who spoke the huge aircraft headed north. 'at a Republican raiiv, said: It was sighted over New York's, “I challenge the New Deal as Battery Square about one hour la-/an expression of reaction because ter heading north over the Atlan- every major policy it has produced tic. has sought to shear away the pow- Before departure, Dr. Hugo Eck-|ers of states and given them a bu- ener, veteran commander of the | reaucracy dominated by an arbi- Graf Zeppelin, predicted the von! trary executive. This campaign is Hindenburg would reach Europe'the most crucial which any of us within 46 hours, smashing all rec- have ever participated in and we ords. He is very hopeful of Ger- can not meet the crisis by blind man-American commercial dirigi- sup; -rt of reactionary principles. ble service. The TRA failed miserably and in 000 in enemy properties. Disputes jover the methods of handling the | trusts ensued and lasted for years. It was under his direction that the German dye and chemical pat- ents were seized and later turned over to the Chemical Foundation. His contention always was that the step was necessary to build up an American industry free from Ger- man domination, and this was ad- vanced when the sought to cancel the transaction through court action. Congressional Investigation Even after his promotion to the post of Attorney General the wrangle over the seized properties continued, and a Congressional in- vestigation finally determined that the charges aganist him were not sustained. Prominent among his ac- cusers was Samuel Untermyer, the New York lawyer and counsel of a New York legislative committee. Seeing the light of day first at Moosehead, Pa., May 4, 1872, young Palmer attended school and college Capt. Ernest A. Lehmann, the actual practice the AAA did not|in his native State and was ad- ship’s commanding officer, said the cure the ills of unculture e weather ahead looked good. Two United States Naval orh- cers are aboard the von Hinden- H burg. SIGHTED THIS MORNING | B Hu“fl DEBATE HALIFAX, May 12—The zeppehn’ von Hindenburg was sighted hy early morning risers off Nova Sco~ tia's southern shore, following the coast line. i MRS.VALLEE ASKS DIVORCE LOS ANGELES, Cal., for Discussion—Op- position Fights WASHINGTON, May 12. — The House buckled down today for a six hours warm debate over the three billion dollar new currency | Frazer Lemke bill. ! Democratic I:aders are fighting May 12—A 4 on the ground it is inflationa They said they will make no effor to amend the bill. FRANCE TAKES ARMED STEPS has been filed by Fay Webb Vallee against Rudy Vallee, The couple married five years ago but broke up three years ago. She has been in long mxgauon since to obtain more than agreement to pay her $100 weekly. e MRS. GEORGE GOES SOUTH Mrs. Wallis 8. George is a pas- mitted to the bar in 1893. He was elected a member of the House in 1908 from the 26th Pennsylvania disrict, and in the pre-convention and post-convention ‘campaign in 1912 he was tireless in his support of Mr. Wilson. Declines War Secretary n assuming office, President Wllson offered him the post of Fraz)er-Lemke Measure Up Secretary of War, but he declined it because of his religious faith, which opposed war. He continued his service in Congress until 1915, and in 1917 he was called to the post of Property Custodian soon after the United States entered the World War. His nomination as Attorney Gen- eral was submitted February 27, 1919, and it was not until August ry.|20 that it was confirmed. In the rt | meantime, administration of his previous post was a live subject of controversy. He received a recess appointment to head the Depart- ment of Justice, however, and im- medmtel [\barked on a campaign eds” which was punc- tuated by the explosion of a bomb at his home in Washington on the night of June 2 of the same year, which caused him to take up PARIS, May 12—The French|a secret residence in the capital. senger southbound on the Yukon Army General Staff has issued or-|Another bomb was addressed to for Seattle. Her son, Wallis Jr., ders establishing recently entered a sanitarium at North African troops permanently Riverton, suburb of Seattle. opposite the German frontier. contingents of | the Attorney General by mail but (Continued on Page Seven) in one€ | |fight after another, with the climax |a bomb outrage in which he was |the target. { Government | in the flood which spread over the town when the ice broke in the ough above the town early yes- terday morning. Condition Critical | Food, ammunition and household goods are ruined by the flood wa- ters and the condition of influenza patients is critical. There are three feet of water in | the church, one cabin has floated |away and the main street s a SPARKS HURT Blocks of ice are scaucr(-d throughout the town Influenza Flood IN ACCIDENT The residents were suffering from ' influenza at the time and the con- | dition of the Indians is particu- larly serious. | The airplane landing field is un- der water and plans to aid the stricken community are considered | impracticable in view of the flood- | ed landing field. Up to last night the names of the, dead and other information had not been obtained. Man Receives Serious In- juries When Motor- cycle Skids Leonard Sparks, 34, was severely in- i)ured early last evening when driv- ing a motorcycle on the Glacier | Highway about a mile from Juneau. | The vehicle skidded, throwing | Sparks to the ground causing cuts - INFANT'[E | and bruises to his head, face and ono leg which was badly cut. | The accident occurred about 7 PARALYS'S'uumk last night, and Sparks was rushed in the ambulance to St. .Anns Hospital where he was treat- u‘d by Dr. W. W. Council. New Melhod Discovere [— ! Dr. Council reports the man bare- | ly escaped serious injury to one eye, Announcement Made at g /s i | and many stitches were taken in his Medical Convention | leg which was badly injured below | the knee. KANSAS CITY, May 12.—Plans| Sparks was repairing the motor- of the Rockefeller Institute to try ©) cle' and was on a trial run when the a newly discovered method of pro-| accident happened. He was tecting children against mlanulm unconscious for some time after ta- paialysis during the coming sum-|ken to the hUSDllal mer and fall is announced by the| American Medical Association at the | annual convention here. [THHEE KlLLED Thomas M. Rivers said experi-| ments seemed to show that svwml PI-ANE GRASHES simple nasal sprays will preves paralysis virus from entering a human body. Retired Navy Officer, Pilot —Farmer and Later's Daughter, Victims The House of Delcgat(‘s voted Ln install as President, Dr. J. Tate Ma- son, of Seattle, “if he is alive to- night.” | Dr. Mason is in a Seattle hos- pital with one leg amputated and critically ill as the result of a blood clot on the brain. —————— EDITOR DIES INVANCOUVER Publixher of Daily Sun Passes Away En- route to Hospital NEW LISBON, Wisconsin, May 12—Pilot Herman Underdahl, of ! Los Angeles, Carl Ristow, New Lis- bon farmer and his daughter Caro- line, died today in a plane crash n a heavily wooded tract. Underdahl was a retired Navy of- ficer and was visiting his cousin here. A i s e e ec 0000 v 000 . STOCK QUOTATIONS . ., NEW YORK, May 12.—Closing guotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 14, American Can 129, American Power and Light 9%, Anaconda 32%, Bethlehem Steel 48%, General Motors 63%, Inter- national Harvester 81%, Kennecott 35%, United States Steel 55%, Com- VANCOUVER, B. C, May 12— Robert J. Grombie, aged 48, pub- lisher of the Vancouver Daily Sun, world traveler and widely known editor, died on his way to a hos- pital this forenoon as the result of cerebral hemorrhage. monwealth and Southern 2%, Cities R VR S Service 4%, Pound $4.98%. FLYING TO INTERIOR G. H. Edmunds, General Manager DOW, JONI AVERAGES of the Alaska Sunset Gold Mine at| Today's Dow, Jones averages are Nome, and three dredge winch op-|as follows: Industrials 146.70, rails erators, John Anderson, August|4329 utilities 20.01. Adams and W. E. Cox, arrived on ———- the Alaska and left for Fairbanks| wyaming has 40 farmers who de- aboard the PAA Lockheed Electra.|yote all their time to bee-keeping, The will fly from Fairbanks to|and 320 others who find honey pro- Nome by PAA plane tomorrow. ducing a_profitable sideline, Thomnq H Rohmson. Jr., - LAST NIGHT Run Down is c.umht ITALIANS ARE GIVEN ORDERS, LEAVE GENEVA Action Follows Condemna-| tion for Annexation of Ethlopla GENEVA, May 12.—Baron Aloisi, Chief Italian delegate to the League of Nations, announces that J. C. C. Avenol, Secretary General, and his colleagues have been instructed to leave Geneva. It is indicated that the orders were issued direct from Premier Mussolini. The action came shortly after leading members of the Council of the League of Nations drafted a resolution which in effect con- demned the annexation of Ethiopia by Italy The action threw all delegations into a tumult, NEARLY 1,000 STRIKING IN OREGON STATE Another Walkout Threat- ened—Higher Pay Demanded PORTLAND, Oregon, May 12.— Strikes kept nearly 1,000 workers away from their jobs today as an- other walkout is threatened. 8ix hundred loggers and 350 au- tomobile journeymen are now out Gust Anderson, Secretary of the Central Labor Council, said 40 em- ployees of the Alaska Junk Com- pany laid down their tools yester- day All those striking are demanding higher wages. —e— ALTAR SOCIETY TO HOLD RUMMAGE SALE A rummage sale sponsored by the women of the Altar Society will be held all day tomorrow in the Val- entine Building, according to Mrs. W. G. Hellan, chairman in charge of the sale. Anyone wishing to contribute arti- cles for the sale are asked to call either Mrs. Hellan or Mrs. Hector McLean and they will gladly call for the donations, the chairman said. - - GO TO SKOWL ARM L. Buschmann, of the Deep Sea Salmon cannery at Skowl Arm, and his son, L. Buschmann, Jr., were passengers to Skowl Arm from Se- attle on the Northwestern LONG SOUGHT KY. ABDUCTOR 1S CAPTURED ;Thomas H.figbinson' Jr., Hunted for Months, ‘ Is Under Arrest | \TAKEN IN CUSTODY IN GLENDALE, CAL. Not a Shot Fired Although Fugitive Armed—Has Ransom Money | Fos WASHINGTON, May 12.—Thom-= as H. Robinson, Jr., long sough 1[01' the kidnaping of Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll in Louisville, Kentucky, in October, 1934, has been captured | according to a bulletin issued last |night by J. Edgar Hoover, Chief of |the Bureau of Investigation, De- | partment of Justice. Robinson was captured in Glen« dale, California. Robinson admitted his identity, according to the bulletin issued by Hoover. The hunted man was captured at 10:30 Eastern Standard Time and was immediately started for Louis- ville. Had Ransom Money } Robinson had on his person when |caught, $4,560 of which $4,200 was ___|part of the kidnap ransom money. | Hoover said no shots were fired although Robinson was carrying a |38 calibre pistol. Robinson had | been living in Glendale for the past |two months and was known as |"“John Simons.” The Kidnaping Mrs. Stoll, aged 26, beautiful |southern matron, the wife of Berry |V. Stoll, oil company executive of | Louisville, was slugged and carried away from her mansion. An in- tensive search was immediately |started. Several days later, follow- |ing payment of $50,000 ransom, Mrs. Stoll was found in Indiana, and in a hysterical state, taken back to Louisville by Mrs. Robin- !son, wife of the abductor. Two Arrested Mrs. Robinson, Jr., and Thomas |Robinson, father of the abductor, were arrested and charged with complicity, the elder Robinson with being an accessory, having handled the ransom money. Mrs. Robinson, Jr., and her fath- er-in-law were tried on the charges |but were acquitted. Robinson, Jr., has been sought over the country since he disap- |peared following the kidnaping and ipaymem of the ransom money. KARPIS GAVE TIP | GLENDALE, Cal, May 12. — The | tip which led to the capture of Thomas H. Robinson, Jr., a G-Man disclosed to an airport official, came from Alvin Karpis who was recently captured in New Orleans. Robinson was arrested in a hotel here. It is known that on recent Visits to a drug store in Pasadena, Robinson was wearing feminine apparel. Robinson surrendered quietly and within two hours after his arrest was aboard an airplane speeding East, FATHER WILL AID NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 12.— Thomas H. Robinson, Sr., said that flying his son from California was a “display of showmanship.” He has already taken steps to obtain counsel for his son. SLAYER DIES ON GALLOWS MANCHESTER, England, May 12. —Dr. Bock Ruxton, aged 36, died on the gallows this morning in Strangeway’s jail for the “Devil's bathtub” slaying of his wife and dismembering her maid, May Jane Rogerson, last September. Lumber Mills Reopen After Brief Shutdown VANCOUVER, B. C., May 12. — Two lumber mills reopened today after a brief shutdown attributed by the managers to picketing of striking lumber workers . ———————— Mrs. Al Forsythe| who has been suffering from a severe attack of pneumonia at St. Ann’s Hospital, plans to return to her home today.