The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 15, 1937, Page 1

HE VOL. XLIX., NO. 7382. DAILY ALASKA K “4LL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FR IDAY, JANUARY 15, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS MPIRE PRICE TEN CENT INTERNATIONAL ANGLE, COAST STRIKE SUSPEC FORMER PRISON INMATE SOUGHT PACNORTHWEST Man and Woman Wanted tor Quizzing in Mattson Abduction, Slaying TWO SUDDENLY LEAVE PLACE WHERE LIVED | I'hree Namfire Used by? Couple—Blue Clay Also Enters Into Clues BULLETIN — SEATTLE, Jan. 15.—Fred Haynes is being in- terrogated by G-Men after sur- rendering himself at police headquarters here. Haynes walked into the Of- fice of Detectives early this mcining and asked for Capt. Marshall Scarfford, whom he knew. He sat down and waited 15 minutes. When Scrafford a’~ rived, Haynes greeted him, say- ing: “I have seen by the morning newopaper that they have got me mixed up in this kidnaping. I did not have anything to do with it.” At midday today, Scrafford said he believed Haynes had no connection with the case. Two Being Aunea | TACOMA, Wash,, Jan. 15.—State| Police today sought a man and wo- | man who disappeared from a four- room house, five miles north of Se-| attle. They left the house last| Wednesday, two days after the body of kidnaped and slain Charles Matt- son had been found near Edmonds.| The man's profile has been tenta- | tively identified here, also at San Jose, California, as that of Fred Haynes, former convict at Folsom prison. He is wanted for question- ing about the kidnaping. Information Furnished William Cole, Chief of State Po- dce inspected the house shortly af- ter midnight on information fur- nished by Mrs. Melvin Smith, for- merly of San Jose, who said she rented it two months ago to a man she was certain was Haynes. Chief Cole said information gath- ered caused him to believe the man might be “hot” although not neces- sarily that Haynes or the woman was directly involved in the kidnap- ing. Blue Clay Clue A barbecue pit, dug in blue clay, was found along a creek not far Valdez where he will be held until edly will again. from the rear of the house. Such clay is common in western Wash- ington, but clay was found under the fingernails of little Charles Mattson. | It is also claimed that three names said that if a steamer is not oper- ing bill for all corporatiol were used by the man and his wo-|ating soon, he may charter a plane*in interstate comm man companion who lived in the house. HELD AT SACRAMENTO SACRAMENTO, Cal. Jan. 15— head. A coroner’s jury at Palmer iness executives. Arthur Madsen, aged 28, who ad-| mitted to once being an inmate of the Washington Hospital for the ture of the new evidence on which I Insane and knew Dr. W. W. Mattson, is here here for investigation. He| was picked up yesterday on the! suggestion of a Sacramento bank of- ficial and given a writing test. ANOTHER QUESTIONED BELLINGHAM, Wash.,, Jan. 15— Leigh Haskell, said by Sheriff Faulk- ner of Everett, to be “tough,” is be- ing questioned here today by G- Men in connection with the Mattson case. Paroied Man Is Held at Anchorage, Attempted Robbery ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 15— Paul Ouellette, paroled from Mec- Neil Island prison after serving nine months of a sentence for bur- glary, has been jailed here an a| charge of attempting to break into the fur room of a local store. He| has been bound over to the grand | Jury. | -, River traffic is reported as “on | Ky., district. the way back” in the Owensboro,J | TS HUNTED IN KIDNAP A Million Dollar Debbie With a 75-piece orchestra playing in shifts until six o’clock in the morning, Joan Peabody (above) made her debut at a $55,000 party given for her by Mr. and Mrs. P. A. B. Widener in Philadel- phia. A cordon of detectives kept out gate crashers, and the guests included the bluest bloods of New York, Washington and Baltimore as well as Philadelphia. Price Sees RAorf;sevrelt in Splendid Spot to Bargain with Both Business, Labo A, PILKINGTON CHARGED WITH MANSLAUGHTER Palmer Man Held to Grand Jury in Connection Wife's Death ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 15— Alvah Pilkington has been jailed here to await transportation to the grand jury meets next October, on a charge of manslaughter in connection with his wife’s death at Palmer last October. District Attorney J. W. Kehoe to take his prisoner to Valdez. Pilkington’s wife, Zella, a school teacher, was found dead in their {home, a rifle bullet through her With more complacency than do bus- returned a verdict of suicide. Kehoe declined to reveal the na- Pilkington is held. Marten Trappers Fined, Ketchikan Pleading guilty to charges of trapping marten before the open- ing of the season, Alex Irwin and Clarence Kivley were fined $50 each by United States Commis- sioner Austin in Ketchikan yester- day afternoon, it was learned here |this morning in a message to Frank Dufresne, Executive Officer of the Alaska Game Commission. Irwin and Kivley were brought to trial by Game Warden W. R. | Selfridge. ., — RETURNS HOME Bobby Swanson is recovering nicely from an appendicitis opera- |tion and was able to leave St. Ann’s Hospital yesterday. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Severin Swanson. | FLOODS GAUSE BY HEAVY RAIN, \ ! ESh'eanu Rising, Covering Flee from Homes { | % | CHICAGO, 1ll, Jan. 14—Rain | has sent streams surging over their ¥banks in many sections of the Mid- |dle West and East, flooding low- | lands. | Aorrential rains of cloudburst pro= | portions have created the most ac~ lute flood conditions in years in many communities. Streams have | approached or reached a flood stage in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Mis- souri and Illinois. ¥ More than one hundred families have fled from their homes ‘at Hamilton, Ohio, and Poplar Bluffs, Missouri | -~ ANDY ERICKSON MISSING: HUNT 1S ABANDONED | |Cannery Employee Not Seen l Since Leaving Latouche | on December 28 SEATTLE, Jan. 15.—Coast Guard |headquarters here reported receiv- |ing a message from the cutter | Morris, out of Seward, saying that Andrew Erickson, of Seattle, em- ployee of the Nellie Juan cannery r of the Copper River Packing Com- |pany, has been missing since he |started out alone from Latouche, jon Knight Island, for his cannery Chief of Bureau, The Associated post, in a launch on December 28 | Pross, Weshiugten : Erickson was last seen north of . .. |Evans Island in a westerly gale fi All‘mt.empts to cuart the Admin- and apparently in no danger. istration’s probable ?nurse on labor Two powerboats have been search- |and industrial legislation have ;.. g0 Erickson but abandoned bumped up against a_ barvier of|yne punt after fruitless efforts. The Presidential silence which would Morris has also given up the seem to be deliberate rather than ..., | accidental. Whatever he may be| ; @ Most, Superintendent of the v.hmlfmg personally, Mr. RD"S"VE““con\puny, has radioed to the Cor- manifestly is in no hurry to disc]osc‘duva Airways to dispatch a plane his program, either to COngress or| .. ¢,on as possible and make a | . | to, his associates. fur S 4 | ¥ urther search for missing Administration stalwarts in the| .., e e | Senate, however, have been hurry-! !ing to the front with schemes, both old and new, to aid labor. Many of these have had Mr. Roosevelt's| approval in the past and undoubt- Guffey, for the| i third time, will introduce a bill to| ! maintain prices in the soft coal in-| By BYRON PRICE Dimuiid Outlines AIasIgBumi Bill Measure Introduced by Delegate Provides for Finance Board Reportedly supported by the Con- gressional delegations of the Pacific Northwest States, Alaska Delegale Anthony J. Dimond has wired Gov John W. Troy, outlining the bill he has introduced in Congress (O further a development program for Alaska by allowing the Territory to incur a bonded indebtedness of $2,000,000. Delegate Dimond’s message read “Have introduced bill to authorize Territory of Alaska incur bonded indebtedness and issue bonds up to, but not exceeding, two million dollars. Principal proceeds to be used for commercial air fields and facilities, roads and trails, build- im i dustry; Black will be back with his| act to limit workers to a 30-hour | week; O'Mahoney will have a licens- ns engaged | erce; and Wag- ner will propose a huge housing| program. That is only a start. Labor leaders view the situation Both in public| jand in private they have said con- fidentially that they expect admin-| tration support for most of their| measures. Their first problem, how- | | ever, is to consolidate gains already made and to find some common | ‘gruund of their own. | F.D.R. Can't Afford to Wait Factors apart from the immed-| jate past must be considered in any thorough analysis of the reasons {for Mr. Roosevelt’s silence. Some | months ago he called upon business | for greater cooperation in reducing unemployment. He also urged this in his recent message. Not much |ings for University of Alaska, school came of this, other than a tart|buildings and hospitals. Upon ap- exchange of ideas, and the Govern- proval by Legislature of the amount ment’s relief burden remained|of indebtedness to be incurred, pro- heavy. ceeds of the bonds to be placed Since then, however, trade levels,control of, and disbursed by, b have forged steadily higher with of finance for Territory, to ¢ special dividends, and bonuses sist, ex-officio, of Governor, marking a welcome change from |torney General, Auditor, Treasu the skimpy fair of depression years.|and Highway Engineer.” Thus business could not be as well| .17 plead poverty when the President| turned again to its leaders in mid Mo!her at 7 November and asked for a report MARTNICE, Yugoslavia — Prob- on what should be done about wa-| : 5 ges, working conditions and unem-’“ly the proudest father in Yue slavia is 80-year-old Josip Sipos, married 55 years, whose 74-y ployment. The second request was made to| A with ABDa tesently bore h a healthy son, their first child. (Continued on Page Six) 1 A T 1 MANY SECTIONS, , Province, DICTATOR MUSSOLINI SURVEYS HIS REALM ] | 1 3 ! These unusually excellent picture studies of Premier Mussolini of Italy were made during a visit to the mushroom cities of Littoria and Sabaudia. In the views at the left, Il Duce registers satisfaction as he receives the plaudits of the residents of the cities, built in the rehabilitated Pontine marshes. At the right is one of the most expressive studies of Italy’s strong man ever recorded by a camera. The Italian nhotographer termed the expression one of confident determination. (Associated Press Photos) ANDERSON AND 9 AMERICAN "LEFEVRE FOR “ FLIERS HELD REPEAL MOVE Representative and Judge Would Throw Out Alaska Exclusion in Jones Law Death Ends Search ]Bert Acosta, Gordon Berry Must Tell About Civil War Enlistments NEW YORK, Jun. 15.—Bert Ac- )sta nd Gordon Berry, Ame n fators who fought for the Span- ish Government forces in the civil war, were served with subpoenas to appear before the Federal Grand Jury on arrival aboard the French Liner Paris. Assistant Federal Attorney John Dailey announced several days ago he has been investigating recruiting of American citizens in service in Spain and said he will attempt to learn who is signing them up. Hold Motorman Responsible for Street Car Crash 4 fé |Coroner’s Jury Says -Gas- ! sett Incompetent— Company Censured In a story on the Chamber of| : e i | Commerce luncheon appearing in i yesterday's Empire, it was incorrect- ly stated that Judge H. B. LeFévre and Territorial Representative J. P. Anderson were against repeal of the Alaska exclusion clause in the Mer- chant Marine Act, commonly known |as the Jones law. The article would have stated that both Judge LeFevre and Represen- tative Anderson were FOR repeal of the Alaska exclusion clause. They saw no point in attempting to amend |the act so that the clause would be /ineffectivg, only in time of emer- gency such as t present st |Rather, they expressed themselves fof the belief that the exclusion clause in the act should be thrown out entirely as it is dis- criminatory against the residents of Alaska. | The Empire takes this opportun- lity to keep the record straight in fairness to these two pioneer citi- |zens of this community. | S PLANS RESCUE, 21 AMERICANS HELD IN CHINA :Alleged Hostages Will Be Flown from Sianfu to Loyang Little Rachel Ianniello, 7, a deaf mute, of New Rochelle, N. Y., van-|, ished November 11. Weeks of fran-|| tic search failed to reveal even a| clue to her disappearance. More| than six weeks after her disappear- | ance her body was found, head| down, in a water-filled rain barrel| into which the child had apparently | fallen, less than 300 yards from her | SEATTLE, Jan. 15.—A coroner’s jury of six steam railroad men have found motorman R. W. Gassett, in charge of the street car which over- turned here last Friday morning, a week ago, killing two passengers, was “incompetent and inexperienc- ed The jury permanent found the ment “ne | recommended Gassett's dismissal” and also City Railroad manage- ligent in not keeping a on operators while on rseeing their actual and qualifications.” - Fire Hose Gives Up $35 in Dust STOCK QUOTATIONS S —_———— ) NANKING, Jan. 15. — United| NRW YORK, Jan. 15. — Closing States Ambassador Nelson Johnson guotation of Alaska Juneau mine said this afternoon he has been in-'stock today is 14%, American Can formed that Willys Peck, Counsellor 115% American Light and Power of the Embassy, has reached Sianfu,| 155 Anaconda 55%, Aromur of Il- {the walled Capital City of Shensi Jingis 8%, Bethlehem Steel T6% stronghold of Marsnal calumet and Hecla 18'%, Common- Chang’s Communist inclined armies.|wealth and Southern 44, Curtiss- Peck plans to rescue 21 Americans|wright 7%, General Motors 68" trapped there by the warfare be-ipnternational Harvester 105%, Ken- tween the mutineers and the Central| necott 61, New York Central 43 Government's punitive expedition. | Republic Steel 29%, Southern Pa- | Peck intends to fly the Americans cific 47, Southern Railway 26 |to Loyang |United States Steel 817%, United | The Americans have been held as| corporation 77%, Cities Se 1 Ihostages in order to prevent bom-|premner bid 2%, asked 3%; bardment of the walled city $4.91%. o e R DOW, JONES AVERAG On Mount Waialeale, Hawaii, GQB The following are today ‘llr::h“ of rain fall annually while|jones averages: indus ! miles away the fall is only 8 yp 82; rails 55.66, up .23; inches. 37,05, down 01, | ARCADIA, Cal, Jan. 156—W. Park Lyon, wealthy collector, bought an old fire engine once used 1t Dayton, a Nevada mining camp, and started refurbishing it for his Pony Express museum. Something bright at the rotting ose connections attracted his eye land he scraped out some of the dirt and panned it. It was gold, and 184.53, | now Lyon claims to have recovered a utilities | full ounce, valued at $35, from the ancient hose. st Pound | | | FOR QUIZZING | CASE ANADIAN TUG 1S MOLESTED, - AMER WATERS it Ordered to_"l)rop Tow of Logs Before Allowed to Proceed | | 'BOUND TO VANCOUVER 'FROM ANACORTES, WN. | Dominion Government De: mands Explanation— Protest Filed BULLETIN — OTTAWA, Jan. 15—~An inquiry has been dis- patched to Washington by the Canadian Government asking for a statement of facts re- garding the haiting of the Can- adian tugboat Prospective. As soon as a formal state- ment of facts is received, a de- cision will be reached regard- ing representations to be made to the United States Govern- ment. | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Jan. 15.— | Halting of a Canadian tug boat, al- !legedly by American maritime strikers, has brought demands from the Dominion Government for ex- | planation and caused a protest to | Washington, | The threat of International com= plications came from the stopping of the tug boat Prospective, out- bound from Anacortes to Vancouver with a tow of logs. | Itis claimed by the crew of the iPl‘DfipeCflVe that a group of Everett men stopped proceeding of the tug unless she dropped a tow of logs. DENY KNOWLEDGE ’ SEATTLE, Jan. 15. — Maritime | headquarters here deny any know- |ledge of the reported stopping of !the Canadian tug Prospective. PROTEST JINCIDENT VANCOUVER, B.C, Jan. 15.—F. |E. Berke, President of the Vaucou- ver Merchants Exchange has sent a protest direct to Ottawa on the stoppage of the tug Prospective with a tow of logs. BLAME IS PLACED OTTAWA, Jan. 15. — Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King has been informed of the stopping of the tug Prospective and he blames “al- leged strikers or men employed by them.” The Prime Minister said the ac- tion is “tantamount to piracy.” | Messages received here from the | Vancouver owners of the tug de- clare the vessel was boarded while she was anchored with her tow in American waters in Deception Pass | while awaiting favorable weather to proceed, CONFERENCE SLATED SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Jan. 15.— Ship owners and longshoremen here | '(cbnunueu on Page Seven) AUTO STRIKE NEGOTIATIONS OPEN MONDAY Both Sides Are to Get To- gether, Announces Gov. Frank Murphy DETROIT, Mich, Jan. 15—Rep- resentatives of the General Motors and United Automobile Workers of America today agreed to open ne- gotiations for a settlement of their labor dispute on next Monday. Gov. Frank Murphy made public this afternoon a statement issued by both sides agreeing to meet Monday to negotiate the strike in which 114,000 workers are out and also that the union has agreed to evacuate the sit down strikers as soon as possible. It is said that unless plants are |opened soon, deliveries to dealers |will have to be suspended within tho weeks.