The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 2, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIX., NO. 7371. ALSO SEEKING STRANGER SEEN NEAR OLYMPIA Bearded Man with Boy Re- | ported to Have Asked | Farmer Directions CLOTHING FOUND AT TUMWATER CAMPSITE Oddly Colored Ink May; Figure in Solution of Tacoma Abduction | TACOMA, Jan. 2—Questioning | of a former convict, examination | of an abandoned campsite and | study of ink coloration on the kid- | nap note sent officers off on new scents today on the kidnap trail | of Charles Mattson, 10-year-old son | of Dr. and Mrs. W. W. Mattson | of this city, who was abducted lasb} Sunday night from the family home here. 5 } ‘The suspect, 33 years oid, c}oselYi resembling the kidnaper, it was| learned, was arrested last night when he attempted to sell a wom- | an’s cameo ring on a downtown | street. He was fingerprinted, ques- tioned. by G-Men and remanded | to jail. Detectives George Burue-l son and Al Farrar reported he! claimed to be a seaman now strik- ing and had been on picket duty at the dock for the past two| nights. | The campsite, littered with parts of boy's clothing, a detective maga- zine featuring a kidnaping article and with such figures as “8,000- sixes” pencilled on the margin, was | discovered near Tumwater. Resi- dents reported seeing a man and | boy there on Monday. 1 It was learned that the ink used in the kidnap note was print- | ed with odd-colored ink. Also the| note informed that any further! communications should use the same color ink. | REPORTS SUSPICIONS OLYMPIA, Jan. 2—L. E. Ruck-| er, who lives three miles east of here, reported a man answering| some of the descriptions of the kidnaper came to his home about 10 o'clock- last Sunday night and| asked directions to an “abandoned | turkey ranch.” Rucker said he was suspicious of the man who wore a dark zipper jacket, light trousers, light cap, weighed about 160 pounds, was about 35 or 40 and had a dark beard. He said the man stood outside and refused to| face him. Detective Capt. Ray Hays said he believed the articles found at the Tumwater campsite could have no connection with the crime. He is' sending the clothing which in- cludes two pairs of men’s shurt-s,} a necktie and a large bag to Ta- |exempt but major industries such | coma. ———eee—— WRECKED ARMY PLANE LOCATED; 3 ABOARD DEAD HEFLIN, Alabama, Jan. 2.—A ra- dio message from the Forest Service | Fire Tower said a wrecked army plane with three officers dead, has been found in the woods near Mun- | ford. | The report came as airport work- | ers were seeking word from Col. F.| E. Eglin and Naval. Lieut. Howard Shelton, Jr., both overdue on a flight aboard an Army Attack plane from | Langley Field, Virginia, to the Max- well Field at Montgomery. | CCC men have been sent to the | scene of the wreck and will bring the bodies out. ——, CUSTOMS MAN OUT George G. Miller, member of the | U. 8. Customs Service at Skagway, is a southbound passenger on the Caanadian-Pacific steamer Princess Norah which was in port here for a short time this morning. SPECT ARRESTED IN KIDNAP CASE Jack Kirkland, author of “Tobacco Road,” and his bride, Betty Buck, film actress from Venice, Calif., are pictured at New York after their elooment to Harrison, N. Y. The new Mrs. Kirkland is known on the screen as Julia Laird. ( ADMINISTRATION NOW TO TACKLE HEAVY PROGRAM To Abolish Child Labor, Shorten Hours, In- crease Wages WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—A source | close to the White House disclosed that President Roosevelt has con- ferred with other Administration leaders on a tentative plan abolish- ing Child Labor, shortening work- ing hours and raising “starvation wages.” Although details of the plan re- main to be worked out, the chief features are: First—A Federal Regultory Ag- ency, with broad powers, to fix min- | imum wage and hour standards of all firms engaged in Interstate Commerce. | Second—Redefinition of Interstate | Commerce by Congress to bring much of the industrial production as well as distribution under Fed- eral supervision. Purely local enterprises will be| as steel, coal, automobile and tex- tiles will be defined as part of In- terstate Commerce. The program is characterized as an attempt to set the “American La- bor standard” which cannot be bro- ken by ‘“chiseling” competition but to permit unrestricted competiuon| above that level. PENSION FUND, OLD AGE TAX, STARTED NOW Estimated Twenty-three Million Workers Are to Benefit WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—Taxes to build up the huge old age pen- sion fund ,called for by the Social Security Act became effective yes- terday and more than twenty-three million workers in business and in- dustry will henceforth find one per- cent of their first $3,000 in wages deducted by the employer. Latest estimates are than two and one-half million employers are registered. Associated Press Photo) Aimee and Rheba in Competition With g_hurches California’s Widely Public- ized Soul-savers Turn to Publicity Again LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jan. 2—Ai- mee Semple McPherson and Rheba Crawford, her warring former Lieu- 'Lennm at Angeles Temple, said it in printer’s ink in the advertising columns of the church page of a local newspaper today. Each im- portant announcement was made with no bearing on Mrs. Crawford’s million dollar slander suit against Mrs. McPherson. Timee’s display, covering fice col- umns and five inches deep, herald- ed the opening of the “Fourteenth International Convention” of her Four-Squaare Gospel organization, Rheba’s notice, two columns wide and two inches deep, proclaimed first services tomorrow of her “In- terdenominational Church.” ———————— Lavish Spending 28 1937 Arrives; wflrl@glehrates Chinese Pay Off Debts While Others Add to Their Obligations (By Associated Press.) New Year’s Day from the Red Square in Moscow to Times Square in New York City and the rest of the way around the world began officially after a collective welcom- ing eve. There were few prece- dents to lavish spending. In China, following the ancient custom, everyone paid off his debt. In the rest of the world, most ev- eryone added a few debts caused by such things as cover charges ranging from 115 rubles, about $57 in the Metropole Hotel in Moscow, to what have you in other sections. Mrs. Edward McLean’s $50,000 party in Washington drew many. In Japan, the Government warn- ed the people of “more difficulties in the future.” | | | [ | | | ed Gov. Scholtz’s boyonet backed ef- WOMAN MAYOR IS REMOVED AT | DAYTONA BEACH Governor Charges Malfeas- ance in Office Against City Commission TALLAHASSEE, Florida, Jan. 2.— Gov. Daave Scholtz yesterday re- moved Daytona Beach's woman Mayor - Commissioner, Mrs. Irene Armstrong, and five other city of- ficials on charges of excessive ex- penditure of municipal funds, mal- feasance in office, neglect of duty and incompetency and also that they | lack und judgment and ability required.” Daytona Beach is the Governor's home city. The Governor acted on the eve of the expiration of his term next Tuesday. Others removed include Mrs. Eliza Robinson, Lyle Ramsey and Ralph Ric hards, City Commissioners; Francis Mills, City Clerk, and Milton Couch, City Manager. COURT ORDER BALKS MOVE e This picture shows how an Eastern Air Lines plane crashed against a mountain near Port Jervis, N. Y., but tae eight passengers and three crew memkers escaped w2ath as Pilot Dick Merrill, transatlantic flicr, brought the big ship down among the trees. Four were injured, including Merrill. (Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, Jan. 2,—Mis. Irene Armstrong, defiant, today clung to her Mayor’s job under pro- tection of a court order which balk- fort to oust her. Adj. Gen. Vivien Collins summon- ed 200 Guardsmen yesterday to eg- force the order and.tue seaiing a new city administration, named by | Gov. Scholtz, but sent the Guards- | men home after Judge Herbert Fred- | erick enjoined the new appointees from taking office. The writ is re-| turnable Monday. Mrs. Armstrong proclaimed today another New Year holiday as a rea- son to keep the City Hall closed. ONE MILLION WITNESS BIG ROSE PARADE Five Million Blossoms on| 54 Floats—18 Bands Participate PASADENA, Cal, Jan. 2—Under | cloudless skies after a week of stormy | weather, the Forty-Eighth Annual| Tournament of Roses parade was| held here yesterday. The parade this year portrayed the theme of ‘Romance in Flowers.” . One million speciawors were mass- ed along the route of the parade and 5,000,000 rose blossoms were scattered among 54 floats. There were seventeen bands of.| Southern California in the line of march and wlso the University of Washington band. Nancy Rumpus was Queen of the Pageant and was attended by & court of 1,000 girls. Santa Barbara won the Grand Sweepstakes prize for the best float depicting Omar Khayyam and “Thou.” Pricemi{ olds Lobi»yists Will Profit Who Wins Relief Fight By BYRON PRICE Chief of Bureau, The Associated Press, Washington With the new year and the ap- proach of a new Congress the prob- lem of what to do about Federal Work relief overshadows all others. It is likely to prove the most trou- blesome, too, for the depression years rooted the philosophy of aid for the needy deep in our economic system. | A study of the welter of rumors/ and statements dealing with the| situation indicate President Roose-| velt is trying to reconcile two cam- paign’ pledges which at first glance might seem to be irreconciliable. iment with some authority on what Observers Look to Congress to Act When It Con- venes Next Week No Matter HOPKINS SILENT Harry Hopkins who could com- GREAT BRITAIN LAYS KEELS OF 9 BATTLESHIPS World Naval Race Started as Two Pacts Have Expired LONDON; Jan, 2—Great Britain inaugurated without ceremony the New Year's Day World Naval race by laying the keels of two 35,000~ ton battleships and this without waiting one single day after the ex-' piration of the Washington and London Naval Pact in removing all restrictions on capital ship con- struction. Great Britain began work at once on the two new superdreadnaughts to-be named Prince of Wales and King George V. e e BRITAIN, ITALY SIGN ACCORD ON MEDITERRANEAN Gentleman’s Agreement Re- prted to Have Been Made by Two Big Powers ROME, Jan. 2—Great Britain and Ttaly have signed a gentlemen’s agreement, an official communique announces, guaranteeing a status quo on the Mediterranean and drawing the two powers to closer cooperation. Friction between England and Ttaly which at times last year threat- ened to burst into open conflict, has been eliminated. The text of the agreement will be published next Monday. Count Galeazzo, Italian Minister of foreign affa and Sir Eric Drummond, British Ambassador, signed the document It is considered that the accord will probably assist eventually in regulation of the Spanish Civil War although an authoritative Fascist commentator said the agreement in no way modifies the Italo-German understanding on European prob- lems including Spain. e— e — LIQUOR STORE HAUL IS $916 SEATTLE, Jan. 2—Thieves who broke into a West Seattle liquor ELEVEN ESCAPE DEATH IN AIR LINER CRASH : 74|fSPA|N DECLARES SHOOTING 1S “AN ACT OF WAR® One Spanish Merchantman Seized, Another Forced Aground Under Shell Fire NAZI OFFICIALS SAY ITS “RETALIATION” Will Continue “Rough Treatment” Until Nazi Vessels “‘Respected” BULLETIN — BAYONNE, France, Jan, 2. — Three in- surgent Spanish warships fired more than twenty shells at a French merchant vessel off the nerthern coast of Spain, border reports stated tonight. The ship was said to have been pursued from a point five miles off Elanchove. Spanish Government planes, answering a radio alarm, flew dfter the insurgents. At Paris, the French Foreign Office said if the reports were true it would create a “pretty serious situation.” “AN ACT OF WAR” PARIS, Jan. 2.—Termed by the here today that German warships had attacked two Spanish merchant ships, seizing one and !forcing another ashore under shell fire. ‘The German battleship Admiral Graf Spee is reported to have seized the freighter Aragon and izhe German cruiser Koenigsberg is !sald to have forced the ship Soton jashore on the Basque coast. | Spanish envoys have been in- |structed to consult with French and iBrmsh governments immediately. ORDERS “EXTREME MEASURES” BILBOA, Spain, Jan. 2. — The Spanish Basque Government has |ordered “extreme measures” in re~ ply to the shelling of the merchant ship Soton. These measures were ordered, the Government announc- ed, “with full realization what in- ternational repercussions may be.” The “measures” were not ex- plained in detail but it was stated that two Spanish Government sub- |marines and several planes will patrol the Basque coast. | The Basque Government is au- | tonomous but staunchly supports the Valencia Government in the present civil war, Dispatches received here from the Soton said she ran aground and {escaped capture and that a Gov- ernment airplane then forced the German warship to retire. The So~ ton later pulled off and proceeded towards Santander. BERLIN, Jan. 2—German wars ships will continue “rough treats 'ment” of Spanish shipping until |Nazi vessels are “respected on the high seas,” the Foreign Office an- nounced here today through its mouthpiece, the diplomatische poli- tische correspondenz. Nazi officials announced German warships had ‘“retaliated” against two Spanish merchantmen. Detail- ing what it called two independent actions, the Propaganda Ministry said the battleship Admiral Graf Spee seized the freighter Aragon and the cruiser Koenigsberg forced the Soton ashore. The Ministry denied “that we are trying fo provoke more trouble in Spain.” COLD WAVE IS HITTING MONT. Low Temperatures Report- ed Prevailing Over Most States HELENA, Mont., Jan. 2—A New Mr. Roosevelt said during the fall | campaigning that the needy would| be cared for. He also said every| effort would be made to balance the budget. These questions arise from is to be done, shied away from at least opportunity. He did not hold his customary press conference the Thursday after the Presidert re- (Continued on Page Two) Press Photo) “Loved T Husband She ““Loved Too ” Is Dead; Wife I Much” Is Dead; Wife Is . . o, . it i Held in California Jail ! SANTA MONICA, Cal, Jan. 2.— ATTEMPT MABE The Husband she “loved too much”| |is dead after a New Year's Eve | Party shooting. Mrs. Helen Wills Love, aged 31, is Tu BOMB HUME in jail, on suspicion of the murder. Three shots from a pisto! enfolded in the women’s handkerchief, Po- 3 lice Chief Charles Dice said, killed |Harry Love, aged 45, retired busi- |ness man, at a fashionable beach | club. Heav,y Guard Is Placed L) h her cell, a ahort time after hey Residence of Former Mex- |arrest, Mrs. ‘Love tied o silk scart 3 4 to overhead iron bar and at- Ican Pres., San DngO | tempted to hang herself but Matron Etta Brown reported the noose was SAN DIEGO, Cal., Jan. 2—A light- | yemoved and the woman’s life was ed bomb found in front of the home | c4yeq. of Gen, Plutarco Elias Calles caus-| .y husband was attempting to ed the police to place a heavy guard ,yeak off with me. I loved him too about the residence of the exiled |, .\ to let him get away with it,” former “Iron Man" President of \np. yve is said to have declared. Mexico. ——a Braulio Estrada, member of the household, saw a man lighting the bomb late last night. Estrada was FEDERAL MUVE standing at a window and he im-| mediately ran into the street, snatch- | ed the burning fuse and pursued the | man, but the latter escaped. | Is ANT'clPATED The bomb was a quart beer bottle filled with a black crystal powder | powerful enough to demolish “the| - Calles home. ’ — e i Traffic Deaths Breaks Record In King County SEATTLE, Jan. 2—King County | ended the year 1936 with 170 traffic| SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Jan| 2.— deaths, the highest on record. There Predictions that Federal action will were 105 traffic deaths in Seattle end the present Pacific Coast Mari- during last year. | time strike today replaced hopes for = | settlement by negotiations. | Some observers expressed the be- lief that legislation by the new Con- |gress, opening next Tuesday, will provide the needed machinery. Assistant Secretary of Labor Ed- ward F. Grady flew east yesterday and E. P. Marsh, Labor Department conciliator, took over negotiaticn at- tempts. Marsh said he expected no that Stati | conference before next Monday. E Before leaving for the East, Mc- How much of his tremendous POD-| s Shll N Wil Sinke s detatied ular majority was rolled up because oo ¢ Taenaiar of Labor Per- of his liberal relief policies? No one | . " o “might” discuss the strike can say. Nor can anyony say with| o President Roosevelt any degree of certainty what effect Gl e el his pledges to balance the budget! o had in the total. Mr. Roosevelt, i however, has not been blind to the 3 PnllcEME improvement in busihess. Purhaps‘ he is trying to bring relief rolls into proper alignment with absorption INJURED RIUT of workers by private employers. (] That would be a good guess. F 3 ] | SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 2—Three policemen were injured and three men were arrested without a charge as the result of a small sized riot which spread from a beer tavern into an all-night theatre. Forty policemen were called out to quell the disorder. | store early New Year’s morning took ) Year cold wave brought 20 degree $916. The manager, J. H. Jackson,)below zero weather at Havre and reported . he has banked several |eight degrees below here. times Thursday or the amount would have been larger. ed over other parts of the state, Similarly low records are report- s oot v