The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 4, 1937, Page 1

- THE DAILY 'VOL. XLIX., NO. 7372. JUNEAU " ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1937 ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” MILL WEGHMAN fMother Is 17, Father Is GIVES HOT CLUE ON 2 SUSPECTS Plant Attendant Reports Men Ordered Him to Noti- fy Father “All Is Well” SUSPICIOUS PAIR HAVE SMALL COUPE Ad Indicate?Eontacl Has Been Made Between Matt- son Parents, Abductors BULLETIN—TACOMA, Wash., Jan. 4. — Immediately it was KIDNAP H UNT SHIF TS TO SHELTON 67 |SHIP OWNERS TO MEET RADIOMEN IN NEGOTIATION [Recently Created Federal Commission Has No Authority in Strike SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Jan. 2.— A negotiation meeting was tenta- tively called early today between the ship owners’ committee and the Radio Telegraphist Association, the smallest of the seven unions on a strike. E. S. Fitzgerald and E. P. Marsh, Department of Labor Conciliators who sought it, are keeping in close touch with Washington. Neither the ship owners nor un= ion leaders made any comment re- 1,600 Japanése Died W HOUSE FIGHT ON FLOOR LEADER SEEMS LIKELY Contest Rests Between 0'Connor of New York, Rayburn of Texas BANKHEAD UNOPPOSED FOR THE SPEAKERSHIP Robinson to Lead Senate Democrats while McNary Will Direct G. O. P. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—Demo- cratic House leaders today strove to agree on a floor leader to permit swift organization of Congress announced that an ad appeared ing the report f shing- in today's Seattle Times, Dr. o that e reoently creatat Bile whish convende ~{omorroN, D = W. W. Mattson called the Asso- eral Maritime Commission lacked O Contor - of . HEw. TR N R ciated Press representative to A | authority to “participiate or inter- Rayburn of Texas each were @ . his office and gave out a state- vene in maritime iabor dis] " ing victory on the first ballot. ment urging the law enforce- | A NS Selection of a floor leader who ment agencies to “abstain from | McGRADY IN EAST will kbe the ‘:lg‘l: hn:‘d mmehtz any action which would in any FTON, hurled ighty wave of water and poisonous |Speaker Bankhead in directing | WASHINGTON, . a.—Assist- When the 300-foot dam at Hanawa, Japan, collapsed and hurled a mighty ! manner interfere with the full | ant Secretary of L:?;::- Edwar; F.| mining residue on the village, 1,600 persons perished. Three hundred and fifty homes were swept away by |House legislation is the final pre- free opportunity which 1 wish - 1 g itv . the flood. Police are shown seeking bodies in the debris after the waters receded. liminary of the party's 332 Repre- fine epiectily mhich 1 e W | McGrady has arrived here from the sentatives summoned to make a "‘: e d_l';e : | Pacific Coast to confer with Seere= e — e e BRI R S 7 o choice at a caucus tomight. Some . ; tary of Labor Perkins. He declined | 3 £ q Almest immediately the Shel- Mrs. C. C. Featherly 2 . . members expressed fears that a S . | . e to comment on the 1ack of autrority| Ff qmilton Gets Big Pa - close race between the northern und o Al | There's 50 vears difference in age between the parents of this Chic | of the Federal Maritime Commission L] | - : 17 i it 5 | southern veterans might provide | cago baby whose mother 1s oniy 17 and whose father. C hC Feath- |, act in the present maritime bmke'i added grounds for Jplitting up the BRI QIS ot it shom D fara o | ALAPES SATUINCE so Une W hale ot a JoO THOUSAND AUTO | sezmmerse mierit e spector E. W. Willson, of the ‘State preferabie as a husband .mfi’x:c:s '2-}):‘”:’-!“-“ -‘:»w‘;’l“m‘i e Bt YN OOon:u'zr is a b of t . Police, said he_belleves that hun-| o e v ol ; ... By BYRON FRICE O o g v - dreds of armed men spread! ) ing morth until about January 20.'§j Chief of Bureau, The Associated rules committee. Rayburn is head throughout the southwestern sec- Y One House Le lslature to ! She was originally scheduled to sail| §' What next for John D. M. Hamil- of the Interstate Commerce com- tion of the State of Washington| ; Wednesday of this week | ton, now that the Republican Na- ki mittee and has the support of Vice- have “cut off escape” of two sus-| . Ummel announced that the Gen. U s EM P LUYEE tional Committee has rejected his President Garner. o pects in the kidnaping a week ago M eetin N ebraska TUBSdaY; W. C. Gorgas will sail for Alaska| &1 Q¥ § resignation as chairman? |Strikes Are Called in Many| Bankhead has no opposition in his last night of ten-year-old Charles| o with a full cargo of food supplies| That Chicago “vote of confidence”) race for the Speakership. A hand- Matison. ; Memb s' . of Fort -tllree about January 15 and carry pas- ) |—only two members voted in the Plants Of General ful ‘'of House Republicans have ar- Every automobile in the area| er. llp y sengers, accommodating about 132 negative, — has been described as Motors ranged to re-name Bertrand Snell o around Shelton, 50 miles south-| TR 2 | The Gorgas is now in Alaskan wa- | |overwhelming, but varied indeed of New York as their leader to make west of here, is being stopped by | | ! t to reach Seattle e must have been the emotions of nominating him ¢ blockading officers following a re-| meg{NA B}‘:‘::)UlfyzwnOtl‘_Amerx_ air:uf r_;:nf,’;l:;c;?d 5 - | sk those who voted. CHICAGO, Il, Jau. 4 — The ;pifi::},:’; oBiorTOW. b port Saturday night, made by G. R.! Jy Mg e politlca‘l sclence’s new baby, ‘The Arctic due here this week Wldely Known Man Accus- The action is open to many inter- United A“‘Omflb“e. ‘Workers h°' Seventy-six Democratic Senators Grubb, mill watchman, that two, Nebracka's one house legislature, from Alaska, will sail soon after ed on Two Statutory |Pretations. not the least of which|America reported this forenoon that |, oq" " pouing Joseph Robinson men had driven into a private| Will take it's first steps January 5 8frival for San Francisco to be re- , OrY i ‘that the committee did not hold[strikes are in progress in the ollow- | " ansag a5 thelr chieftain. Six- parking lot, then ordered him into| y |under the personal guidance of Dr, turned to her owners, the Alaska Charges InVOlegGll’l |Hamilton personally responsible for m;t;“pi‘agls tgf ;;vgnemll l;:;to" * |teen Republicans are considering the mill office, and instructed him | " % P the election disaster. Hamilton anta, employes. " Packers. At Kansas City, 1,320 employes. doing without a formal meeting, but | to “tell Dr. W. W. Mattson per- P. Senning and God[ather‘ Charles P. Seelye, 36, widely known himself admitted during the course PHILADELPHIA sonally that everything is well.” Grubb said he was standing near | ohn George W. Norris. | Forty-three members will meet in |the $10000000 state capitol's 100- i KINGMAN RECEIVES WORD Federal employee and resident of| Wyatt Kingman, representing the Juneau for many years, was arrested | of the meeting that “we made a lot of mistakes.” But it would be strange indeed if At Cleveland, 7,000 employes. At Flint, two plants, 8200 em- ployes. will re-appoint McNary of Oregon as their floor leader. the office about 5:30 o'clock last| ‘Alaska Railroad, now chartering by U, 8. Deputy Marshals this morn-| Saturday afternoon when he saw| a couple drive into the lot which has a no parking sign on it. | “I started out to order them off| All of the above are affiliated with the Fisher body plants. At Norwood, Ohio, Fisher also Chevrolet plants, 2,200 employegs. At Anderson, Indiana, Guide seat House Chamber and use its ; (33-seat Senate Hall as a committee vessels for Alaska, received ‘advices ing in his office in the Federal | room. itoday that the North Star is s;ched—ll)undlng and lodged in the Federal ‘ Nobody knows what to call them, uled to sail for Southeast Alaska jail where he is held without bail because the law forgot a title and POrts January 15 and the Gen. W. on two charges of statutory rape, C. Gorgas on January 13. his 17-year-old step- \the committee was as nearly unani- mous as the vote itself would indi- cate. The elephant was sorely |wounded last autumn, and recup- eration from such vital blows is GERMAN CRUISER SEIZES ANOTHER One of Most Widely Known Laymen of Catholic when one of the men got out of the auto, hands in his pockets as| if he had two guns in them, and told me to get back into the office and do as I was told. The man, then told me to telephone to Dr.; Mattson and told me what to tell} him,” Grubb said. “It was so dark I could not get ' a good look at him but he wore a rough-neck sweater and had broad nostrils. The car was a dark colored coupe.” At dawn today, heavily armed | forces were active over the area. Gov. Clarence D. Martin planned to assume personal direction of Church Passes Away the hunt by the officers and others. A yacht at Olympia planned to also beat over the widely sparsely settled Harstine Island. NEW AD APPEARS SEATTLE, Jan. 4—A new ad in| the personal column of the Seattle | Daily Times today said: “Mable, we have received your communications. Police have not intercepted them. Channel entirely clear. Your instructions will be fol- lowed. We are ready. Ann.” The first advertisement of a series appeared last Tuesday and ‘Wednesday, following the wording understood to hdve been specified | in the ransom note. The family has made no state- ment about the advertisement but observers immediately interpreted today's insertion to mean that the efforts of the parents of the kid- naped boy to negotiate with the abductors have finally resulted in some sort of contact. All mail has been delivered di- rectly to the family without prev-| ious scrutiny of officers, it is said. RANSOM NOTE PUBLISHED SEATTLE, Jan. 4—The Seattle Post Intelligencer publishes, under a copyright, what it terms the au- thentic ransom note left a week ago last night. by the kidnaper of Charles, ten year old son of Dr, ASS0C/ATED PRESS JAMES A. FLAHERTY PHILADELPHIA, Pa., widely known laymen of the Cath- olic Church died suddenly here last Saturday night as a result of pneu- monia. For 18 years he served as Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus and had been received by kings, queens, popes and other high dig- nitaries of church and state throughout the world. Numerous honors were bestowed upon him, by the Vatican, for his work in behalf of the Church, and by ‘the United States and several |foreign governments for his individ- ual service and the work of the Knights of Columbus in behalf of |the Allies during the World War. Internationally Prominent While his rise to international prominence was due chiefly from his connection with the Knights of Col- umbus, Mr. Flaherty has been prominently identified with lay ac- tivities of the Catholic church for many years. He was Vice President | Jan. 4.— {James A. Flaherty, ohe of the most they have not christened themselvesl yet. Some want to be known as Senators, others . Representatives, still others merely Legislators. One Nebraska newspaper thinks that by May the state will want coj call them home. But Dr. Senning,! State University profes: i sor, declares| the 43 “its” are “the cream of the| crop—the higher type.” ! Non-Partisan Basis | Party monickers (22 are Demo- crats, 21 Republicans) mean little because they were elected on a non- partisan ticket. Georgia, Vermont and Pennsyl- vania had Legislatures a century ago that were one-house except for| boards of censors empowered to sit with them and pass on their ac- tions. Those experiments were] abandoned. Nebraska first considered the idea in 1913 but shoved it aside by a tie vote in the 1919-20 constitutional convention. Revived by Norris Senator Norris slapped life into the idea three years ago, and in 1934 all but 73 of the 2,029 precincts voted for the necessary constitu- tional amendment. Political Pediatrician Senning rec- ommended there be 43 members, after the amendment provided for between 30 and 50. The former 100 Representatives voted for 50, the former 33 Senators favored 30. Dr. Senning drew maps districting the state for every permissible num- ber, then showed House-Senate con- ferees there would be the least “spread” between the city-sprinkled eastern third of the state and the lightly populated western two- thirds if 43 were chosen. Arguments: Pro and Con Proponents of the plan contend it will: Fix responsibility more direct- ly on individuals. Cut salary and costs. Simplify procedure and abol- incidental (Continued on Page Eight) (Continued on Page Two) | 7" (Continued on Page Two) ———eto————— Juneau Man Is Declared Lying Champ of North Mosquitoes So Big They Ate Horse, then Pitched Shoes for Harness | involving daughter, filed in the U. S. Com- missioner’s Court by District At- |torney William A. Holzheimer. Seelye was non-committal when taken into custody and made no statement, officers said. The girl alleged in the complaint to be involved is now in the States with her mother ar-l the District Attorney said they would return ‘here to testify in the case. Mr. and 'Mrs, Seelye have four other chil-| ren. quaintance here and is a popular member of the American Legion in The accused man nas a wide ac-| ANCHORAGE, Jan. 4. — W. C. which he has been active for years. MecCarthy of Box 1551, Juneau, has He served in the Army during the won the Alaska Liars' Champion- War and has spent 30 years in the ship, sponsored here, with the fol- Federal Service, according to infor- lowing story: mation to the District Attorney. { slow. There persists in some quarters the feeling that Mr. Hamilton wish- ed off on himself one of the most difficult tasks in recent political | history, and that he is welcome to it. Even when his resignation was made before the committee, there were no other known aspirants for the job. Why? The scattered few who openly opposed Hamilton con- tented themselves by criticizing him. Work Ahead The obvious—and intended—in- terpretation of the “vote of confi- 'dence” is that it is a mandate to put the party in “fighting trim” for the 1838 Congressional elec- tions. That alone might daunt a man of lesser physical vigor than Hamilton, But he does not start “Home town mosquitoes, as big as turkeys, swarmed and ate my uncle’s horse, then pitched horse- shoes to see which one would get the harness.” Second Lie David Markham of Palmer won second place with the story about the electricity mine in the Kobuk country where they mined electric- ity in square chucks and sold it for storage batteries. Not So Bad, Either Third place went to Montie Mor- ris of Anchorage with the yarn about airpockets so big that pilots were compelled to stop and shovel clouds into them before they could cross with their airplanes. Entries were received here in the lying contest from all parts of Alaska and many from the States. GORGAS DUE AT 4 TUESDAY AFTERNOON The Gen. W. C. Gorgas is due to arrive in port at 4 d'clock tomor- row afternoon, according to a radio received from the ship by Wyatt Kingman shortly before 4 o'clock this afternoon, J, BARRYMORE, YOUNG BRIDE, NOT SPEAKING 'Quarrel at New Year's Eve Party at Night Club Causes Rift HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Jan. 4 — John Barrymore’s move today in the troublous interlude which has invaded the marital life of the movie star and his ‘young bride, the former Elaine Barrie. “The next move depends on him,” Elaine firmly said. The two have been separated since a New Year's day rift, com- ing after a quarrel at a New Year's Eve night club party. Elaine said she “did not ant 'mate any serious developments, ci- from scratch, That must be re- membered in any analysis of his position. There is an old score which must ibe_settled first. During the cam- 1paign a deficit of more than $900,- ‘000 piled up, mainly for advertising and radio time. Hamilton was in 1‘charge then. He now will be in |charge of efforts to liquidate that idehz. ‘Thoughts of these obligations |might. well have tempered the de- |sires of committee members other- |wise anxious for a change in lead- "Prhhlp. | That admittedly was the aftitude |of some of the so-called old guard | leaders, whose advice seldom was &sought by Hamilton during the cam- | paign. (Hiles of New York arrives |at the meeting too late to vote and [Phipps of Colorado did not even at- | tend) . | Hints of ill winds to blow from Congress may well trouble the Na- tional chairman. Two Republicans |from the House of Representatives | were among the most outspoken of | his critics at the vote of confidence | meeting. That brings up the ques- |tion of how well these men, and | (Continued on P‘a](é "E'{g'hn Chevrolet plants, 2,200 employes. Closed Full or Part The UAW announced the follow- ing General Motors units are closed for full or part time because of t ages in material, attributed to the strikes: At Anderson, 700 employes. At the Delco Remy plants, 9,000 amployes. In Atlanta, at the Chevrolet plant, 300 are idle. At Kansas City, at the Chevrolet plant, 1100 are idle. \t Flint, Chevrolet and Buick plants, 6,800 are idle. Board Meeting At Detroit today the Board of Strategy of the Union, which au- thorized the general strike in the General Motors' 69 plants in 14 states, convenes. It is estimated that 38,000 work- ers are idle in the General Motors and affiliated plants. HIGHEST COURT REFUSES MAKE $SA DECISION WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. — The | Supreme Court has refused to make a ruling on the constitutionality of the major part of the Federal So- cial Security Act, that of levying a tax on employers for the bene- fit of the jobless. The court also declined to pass on the appeal by George Davis, of Boston, from a ruling of the Massachusetts Federal District Court upholding the legislation and dismissing the complaint. Both| Davis and the Government urged | the court to pass on the contro- SPANISH VESSEL Nazis Laugh as Basque Pa- trol Boat Stops Ger- man Steamer BAYONNE, France, Jan. 4. Reports circulating in Government shipping circles said an armed pa- trol Ship of the Basque, Northern Spanish Government, has “provis- ionally” captured the fourteen hun- dred ton Nazi steamer Pluto. THIRD SHOW OF FORCE BERLIN, Jan. 4—Nazi Germany has backed its insistent demand for Spanish marine “satisfaction” with a third show of warship force. It is announced here thatthe German cruiser Koenigsburg Sunday noon seized the Spanish merchantman Marta Junquera. Confirming the stopping of the Basque gunboat of the vessel Pluto, Nazi officials laughed at the “child- ish threats” of Basque resistance. PARDON CHANG FOR OFFENSES Marshal Expected to Enter Immediate Re- tirement NANKING, Jan 4—Marshal Chang Huseuh Liang, who recently kidnap- ed Generalissimo Chiang Kal Shek, then released him, returning here with his captive, has been pardoned unconditionally by the Council of State. Chang’s sentence to ten years in prison has also been cancelled. It versy without waiting for a ruling by the Circuit Court of Appeals, is expected that Chang will enter immediate retirement,