The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 13, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ~ JUNEAU, UARY 13, 1937. PLOT KIDNAPING OF QUINTUPLETS - CRISIS NEARS COMING NORTH | _ PLAN ATTEMPT . IN THREATENED FOR ABDUCTION ALASKA, SATURDAY, FEBR VOL. XLIX., NO. 7407. MEMBER ASSOCIA T0 MATANUSKA MARINE TIE-UP Crews Signed for Two Lin- ers, Ready to Sail, Fail to Show Up COURT ORDER HELD | TO BE RESPONSIBLE | Seamen Protest to Dis-| charge Books—Commis- sioner Awaits Instructions SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb. 13. —The threatened tie-up of West Coast shipping by seamen pro- testing to the Copeland Act, es- pecially that provision requiring seamen to carry discharge books, moved toward a crisis in the first test of the court order the seamen obtained to delay its enforcement. Two large passenger liners of the Dollar Line, the President Mon- roe and President Cleveland, are scheduled to sail from San Fran- cisco during this afternoon but of- ficials said this morning that the crews obtained had not been heard from. The deputy Federal Shipping Commissioner, who sought instruc- tions from Washington, said no re- ply has been received relative to the court order obtained yesterday by three maritime unions to pre- vent him from enforcing the Act. Restraining Order Three unions, Seamen, Marine Firemen and Cooks and Stewards, yesterday appeared in court and Federal Judge M. J. Roche issued a temporary restraining order di- recting United States Shipping Commissioner John = Rylander to! cease requiring seamen to sign dis-| charge books under the Copeland Safety at Sea Act. ! The order was granted at the re-| ‘quest of Ray Johnson and several other petitioners, identified by Judge Roche’s clerk, as members of the Sailors’ Union and other mari- time unions. The order is made returnable on February 20. REPUBLICANS PAY TRIBUTETO GREAT LINCOLN Large Number at Dinner to Honor Memory of Mar- tyred President | | In fitting tribute to that great American, Abraham Lincoln, who has become the patron saint of the Republican party and the cher- ished figure of all Americans, Gas- tineau Channel Republicans, nearly 70 strong, gathered last evening in the Lutheran Church at a dinner arranged in memory of his birthday anniversary. A fine group of true Alaskans and sound Americans, they filled the dining room audi- torium of the edifice virtually to capacity and heard appropriate eu- logies to the 16th President of the United States, and the first mem- ber of their party to hold that high office. Howard Stabler, well known Ju- neau attorney and Republican Di- visional Committeeman, delivered an inspiring Lincoln Day address, stressing the qualities which made the Great Emancipator an immor- tal in American history. Mr. Stabler said in part: A Great American “We meet here tonight to pay an affectionate tribute to the mem- ory of Abraham Lincoln, a great American; a man who rose from humble surroundings to become the sixteenth president of the United States; the man of whom one biog- rapher said: ‘Abraham Lincoln has been the subject of more varied discussion than has been expended upon any other historical charac- ter, save, perhaps, Napoleon.” “Abraham Lincoln was elected to the American Hall of fame in 1900. People have often called him the greatest man who ever lived; but, in fact, he is not properly to be com- pared with any other. Let us take him simply as Abraham Lincoln, singular and solitary, and be thank- ful if we can make a place big enough for him among the world’s heroes; and there let him remain forever, lonely, in his strange life- (Continued on Page Three) BOND DEBT PLAN Tem Mooney, “the werld’'s most famous prisoner,” is pictured as he conferred with Aitorney George of a court referee that Mooney ha California Supreme Court denies F. Davis concerning ihe decision d been given a “fair trial” If the his request for a writ of habeas corpus, an appeal will be mada to the U. S. Suoreme Court, Davis said. Mooney was sentenced to San Quentin prison 20 years ago for the Preparedness Day bombings in San Francisco. Bull Moose Make Saml;.t_re Attacks on Men Traveling by Dogsled, SENATE FAILS TO ENDORSE DIMOND Support for Delegate’s Bill in Congress Is Turned Down by Vote of 4-3 By 2 vote of four to three with one nbsent, the Territorial Senate this morning killed the Rivers res- olution which would have approved the Dimond bill in Congress to au- thorize the Territory to issue up| to two miilion dollars in bonds for | a public works in Alaska. Senators Cochran, Roden, Powers and Pat- | terson voted against the resolution, Rivers. Brunelle and Walker sup-l porting it with Senator John De- vine absent due to illness. Senator Cechran of the Second Division opened the attack on the proposal with the assertion that he believed no bond issue should be considéred without a vote of the people of Alaska. No members of the Legislature mentioned in their platferms, the Senator said, there- fore, 1 e declared, there had been no exoression of the voters which he b ved should first be obtained. “Uvtil the people of this Terri- tory tell the Legislature they ap- prove such an action, we are not authcrized to consider issuing bonds,” he stated. The Senator from the Second charged that a million dollars of the money proposed to raisé under the bond issue was planned to go to the University of Alaska. He said he was not opposed to developing the University but was opposed to granting it more than what seemed to him a just share at this time. He cited the opposition of the Ju- neau Chamber of Commerce to the bonded indebtedness proposal and a sharp response from Senator Riv- ers of the Fourth, author of the Tesolution who was defending the measure. “As far as the attitude of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce is concrrmed,” declared Senator Riv- ers, “it has said no to every bit of constriuctive legislation that has come before this body since the sessicn began. It represents a few special interests which have con- trolled it for years.” He then point- ed out, as had Senator Cochran, that the Fairbanks Chamber en- dotsed the plan, but while Senator Rivers held the Fairbanks expres- sion as an expression of the people of trat district, Senator Cochran had interpreted the expression as a sentiment for the University which is located in that city. The Senator from the Fourth stoutly denied that one million dol- lars of the issue would go to the University for a five-point program. He declared the sum would go, pri-{ mari'y into expanding airfield and road programs in the Territory, and pointed out that it was purely an enabling act. If the Dimond bill (Connnued';n.l;‘;ge Two) Seward District SEWARD, Alaska, Feb. 13.—Jack Lean, game guide, and Chuck Waitmarsh, a passenger, were at- tacked by a bull moose while trav- eling by dogsled at Cooper’s Land- ing, near here. Lean was knocked from the run- ners into a narrow ditch and Whit- marsh was knocked over the front of the sled among the dogs. When the moose finished smash- ing to crush Lean but the lead dog | wheeled, and dragging four team- mates, attacked and drove the moose off. Two days ago a bull moose chased three men onto a bridge on the Kenai road. They were also on a dogsled. BODIES OF TWO MORE VICTIMS ARE RECOVERED ‘Grappling Hooks Used at Scene of Plane Crash, _San Francisco Bay i i | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Feb. 13— ! Grappling hooks have recovered the bodies of Myron Lorge, of Los An- geles, and John Grennan, Sr., vic-| tims of the plane crash here last Tuesday night. Flood lights played over the scene as seven boats chartered by the United Air Lines took advantage| of the low tide at midnight. Autopsy showed that both Lorge and Grennan drowned, according to | the coroner. In a pocke in Grennan's suit was | a Los Angeles to San Francisco rail- | road ticket and a diary in which! he had written: “Gertrude wanted | to fly, hence the plane.” Gertrude was Grennan’s daugh- ter, also a victim. S8he was to have| been married in April to Paul Dul- fer and the wedding was to have been one of the high lights of the social season. The Brennans were residents of Berkeley. Wive bodies of the eleven victims are still unrecovered. ————————— BANKER DIES AT OLYMPIA OLYMPIA, Wash, Feb. 13.—D. J. Lord, aged 73, widely known banker, died late yesterday. His widow and daughter survive. Fun- eral services will be held next Monday. e DAUGHTER FOR CAMPBELLS A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Campbell this morning at 8:45 o'clock in St. Ann's Hos- pital. The baby weighed six pounds, eleven ounces. T0 TRY AGAIN Wyoming Farmer to Cast Lot in Alaska Colony— Relates Experiences SEATTLE, Feb. 13.—Harold Din-| packing their in a trunk,| and with other belongings, boarded the steamer Alaska toda yto go te kel and his wife, Wyoming philosophy the Matanuskc colony in Alaska. kel. have something.” Start Out In Auto Dinkel, who tenant farmer of Lusk, Wyoming, 20 degrees below zero weather and in driving snow and rolled west~ ward, away from the homes of their neighbors, who called them ‘“crazy.” years to make a success of life in Wyoming, but the “drought and dust pretty well beat them down last summer.” Lucky Find A Resettlement Administration 'name on a list one day and the of- ficial visited him. “After that we became the only ones in Wyoming lucky enough to go to the Matanuska. We were given five hours of physical exam- {ination. We were ready to go in the fall, then the waterfront strike came up,’ said Dinkel. “We lived for three months in a cabin in a camp while I worked with the WPA. {We have nothing to lose and every- ithing to gain. We are going to make a go of it.” 8 |ing the sled, the animal was rear-| The youngest child of the Dinkels is Gene, aged seven months. ELIMINATION OF FISH TRAPS DETRIMENTAL Gov. Martin, of Washing- ton, Sets Forth Facts— Interesting to Alaskans | | | | | Gov. Clarence D. Martin’s inau- gural address, given at Olympia, Washington, and received recently in Juneau, reveals, among other things, the detrimental results of the elimination of fish traps in Washington State—a matter of par- ticular interest to Alaskans. In his address Gov. Martin said: “I direct your attention to an alarming and costly trend in one of our major natural resources and industries—the commercial fisher- the Columbia River. It now is ob- vious that Initiative 77, which adopted by the people two ye: ago, is not working out as well as| had been promised. Since this| law became effective, our neigh-| bors, Oregon and British Columbia, | are taking more and more of the| salmon, while Washington’s share| is decreasing. 'This is especially disappointing becauuse, while our neighbors are taking the bulk of the fish, we are spending much more money, effort and time for the rehabilitation and conservation of the salmon run. Some Figures “Just a few figures reveal graph- ically that the trend is detrimental to Washington. “In 1832, Washington packed 81.- 000 cases of sockeye salmon, ued at $975,000. British.Colunbi packed 65,000 cases, valued at $790,- 000. “In 1936, Washington packed 43,- 000 cases, valued at $515,000. Brit- ish Columbia packed 180,000 cases, valued at $2,160,000. “On the Columbia River in 1932, Washington took 7,000,000 pounds of Chinook salmon. Oregon took 8,500,000 pounds. “In 1936, Washington took 3,- 600,000 pounds. Oregon took 11,- 600,000 pounds. Deserves Attention “This problem deserves your de- termined attention. There are oth- er phases, too, but I shall not go into detail at this time. I heve asked the director of fisheries to “We have been renters and have been getting no place,” said Din- “We want a place of our own and when I am through, I intend to is 27, and former the father of five children, said he bundled his wife and children into their old automobile and set out in Dinkel said he has tried for eleven | worker chanced to note Dinkel's' INDIANA STATE (GUARDS ORDERED OUT, DISORDERS | Soldiers to Anderson— . Severe Clash TakesPlace [ b ' INDIANAPOLIS, Tnfltan, Feb. 13 —Gov. H. Clifford Townsend has| |ordered 1,000 National Guardsman | {to Anderson after ten men were/ | wounded in a labor disorder there. | Mayor Harry R. Baldwin, of An-| |derson, reported to the Governor| that the situation was exceedingly | |grave after violence between mem- | |bers of the United Automobile| ! Workers of America and nun-unxon-i [ists, | It is reported were made. | Many carloads of auto workers ar-| irived in Anderson this morning| from Flint, Michigan, and the dls-‘ order started at a tavern. | | Shots were fired, bricks were |thrown and clubs wielded. ! Six of those arrested were men |from Flint. | thirteen arrests | | CLASH IS SEVERE ONE ‘ | ANDERSON, Indiana, Feb. 13.— | At least ten men were wounded, two |severely, in a clash here this morn- ing in which firearms, stones, clubs, bricks, hatchets and pieces of iron pipe were used in the melee be- tween the union workers and non- unionists. | The clash started at a tavern fre- (quented by the nonunjonists who| |Automobile Workers of America at various plants, units of the General Motors, Incorporated. iGov. Townsend Sends! | A few hours after the vote ending the announced, ships’ propellers were set in mof ere is Harry Miller, | n the liner President Hoover In 8an harbor. (Associated Press Photo) three months idleness. H starting the propellers moving o Francisco MRS, PosT 1S TODISCUSS STUDYING NOW les industry on Puget Sound and pave opposed moves of the United \Widow of Flier Interested in Secretarial Work in Getting Job The tavern, owned Shipley, was wrecked. FOX TERRIER, i by Efmory | | DOG'S KING NEW YORK, Feb. 13.—Flornell Spicy JPlece, of Halleston, trim white three-year-old female wire haired fox terrier, today sat a! the top of the Kingdom of Dogdom, winning the best of the honors at | the annual dog show here. There | were more than 3,000 entries. | 3 LOSE HEADS BERLIN, Feb. 13.—The axe of Germany’s headsman fell three times at dawn today. Kurt Stangell was executed for treason, Bruno Bushe and George Gram- |mens lost their heads for murders during robberies. e ARE MARRIED HERE Sally Tassell and Danny Madel- las Dawe, both of Juneau, were | united in marriage at 3:30 o'clock | Thursday afternoon by Judge Felix Gray in the Comimissioner’s Court. | Witnessing the ceremony were |Eleanor Phillips and Rosellen Mon- | | iwho said OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. Ffl){ 13.—Mrs. Wiley Post has cnrolled| lin a business university here to | for a career. “I am interested in work and in getting a job,” Mrs. Post said. Mrs. Post said she 1s in her class room by 8 o'clock in the morning prepare secretarial {for the first of four subjects and with the exception of the lunch period, she remains at her studies until 3:30 o'clock in the afternoon Post left only a small estate Mrs. Post, however, received $25,000 from Congress for the globe circling Winnie Mae. “Sleeping Beauty” Enters Sixth Year of Coma OAK PARKS, Il1,, Feb, 13. — Pa- tricia Maguire, aged 31, the “Sleep- ing Beauty,” entered her sixth year of coma today. Her affliction is still a puzzle to physicians. The woman is still on the bor-|tion from Federal Judge George F. derline of consciousness, according to her sister, Mrs. Gladys Hansen, at is a little more alert now than she was a year ago.” | agle, i The woman is & victim of sleeping |other enterainment in beer par- sickness, Joyful at the end of the long Pacific coast maritime strike, cheering stevedores jammed the longshoremen's dispatchina hall at San Pedro awaiting assignments to handle cargo on 82 ships which had been tied up in the harbor there. (Associated Press Photo) GAiN i e Pacicic coast maritime strike was tion again after as much as assistant chief engineer, DAM POWER fer Relative to Bonne- ville Generation WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—Presi-| dent Roosevelt will confer next | week with Senators from Washing- | ton, Oregon ana Idaho on the pro- posed legislation to govern dispo- sition of power to be generated by the Bonneville Dam. AGREEMENT, WPA STRIKE SEATTLE, Feb. 13—City Coun- cifwoman Mrs. F. F. Powell today | announced a tentative agreement | to end the strike of 1,800 striking WPA workers. They have been de- manding increased pay. GRS 1 i | Recommendations of Grand Jury Sent To Legislature Recommendations of the recent Grand Jury were presented to the| Legislature today in a communica- | Alexander, who declared in his let- |ter dissatisfaction with the present liquor control and suggested that steps be taken to bar music and President, Senators to Con-| TWO CHILDREN Traveler on Bus Reveals Scheme—Report Made to High Official EXTRA GUARDS ARE RUSHED TO NURSERY May Be Only a Hoax But Provincial Police Tak- ing No Chances TORONTO, Feb. 13. — A wide- spread search has been ordered throughout Ontario to thwart a re- ported plot to kidnap at least two of the Dionne quintuplets. Extra guards have been sent to the nursery of the famous quints. Attorney General Arthur Roebuck ! has ordered an investigation of the stocy given by an unnamed bus tra- veler who heard two foreign look=- ing men plotting the abduction. The traveler said one of the for- eigiers said: “We will knock them off. Every- thing has been arranged.” In Hands of Police Provincial Premier Michael Hep- burn said: “The case is in the hands 'of the Provincial Police and they 'are quite capable of looking after the quints.” Both the Police and Roebuck are inclined to think the tale a hoax but they are taking no chances and extra guards have been ordered to the nursery to walk the beat about /the five foot steel fence which guard the quints. . Second Soare This is the second kidnap scare !in Jess than two years. In March, . i an af three years old The quints will be on May 28. XIDNAP JURY AN'T AGREE IN NEW YORK Retrial Ordered for Schloss- man and Weiss in Wen- dell Abduction Case NEW YORK, Feb. 13.—The Kings County Court jury, which deliberat~ ed since midafternoon yesterday, re« ported at 10:51 o'clock this fore- noon that it was unable to agree on the guilt or innocence of Martin Schlossman and Harry Welss, charged with the kidnaping of Paul Wendell, New Jersey attorney. Judge John Fitzgerald said: “I see no reason why twelve intelli- gent men could not reach a verdict.” The judge set a retrial for March 1 Yesterday morning, Murray Blee- feld, one of the trio, suddenly plead- ed guilty and attacked Ellis Parker, Burlington, N. J., detective chief, and his son, and called them the master minds of the conspiracy. Wendell charged that three men tortured him and compelled him to testify falsely as being the Lind- bergh kidnaper at the instructions of Parker, Sr., and later repudiated the confession. e NOWELL TO KETCHIKAN Everett Nowell, Alaska represen- tative for Blake, Moffitt and Towne and Ballou and Wright, was a pas- senger for Ketchikan from Juneau aboard the Alaska Air Transport plane piloted by Sheldon Simmons today. Thinks Child Marriages Are “Horrible” SPOKANE, Wash., Feb. 13.—Mar- ried at 13, a widow at 15 and re- married at 16, Mrs. Lee Blackiter, now after 30 years of married life, says she thinks mar- riage is “horrible,” but “in many cases it is the lesser of two evils and better for the child. In many cases it is better to marry then live under conditions existing among many large families of the south, such a T went through.” Mrs. Blackiter now makes arti- lors, ficial flowers.