The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 28, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. L., NO. 7522. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 28, 1937. * MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS TRIPLE MURDERER RUN DOWN, ARRESTED BACK T0 WORK MOVEMENT IS GAINING NOW 15,500 of 20,000 Workers at Youngstown Enter Gates of Plants SHOE STRIKERS BACK TO WORK, JOBS TAKEN Cambrai Factory Workers Returning—Bomb Car of AFL Organizer (By Associated Press) At Youngstown, Ohio, Major Gen- eral Light, of the Ohio National Guard, estimated that 15500 men are back to work in the Youngstown plants of the Republic Steel and Youngstown Sheet and Tube Cor- poration. CIO officers said the fig- ures are “exaggerated” but Light said 15,500 have passed through the | entrances on the different shifts. | The mifls normally employ 20,000 | workers. Strikers Return—Jobs Taken At Lewiston, Maine, shoe fact,oryI workers at Lewiston and also Au-| burn, numbering 2,000, who have| been on a strike since March 24, marched back to their jobs today to) find virtually all places filled with | non-strikers and new employees. | The company officials promised to | place the individuals as soon as! production permits. | At Cambria Company officials estimate that 1,800 men have returned to the; Cambria plant of the Bethlehem | Steel. Bonb- At Detroit, a bomb wrecked the car of Joseph Laughlin, AFL or-| ganizer. — HOLDEN FLIES - TOEXCURSION | INLET WITH 2 McLean Wings to Sitka in| Other Marine ! Flight | Pilot Alex Holden, in the Marine| Airways Fairchild, took off shortly after 2 o'clock this afternoon for Excursion Inlet with Bob Hamilton and Willam Smithson, He was| scheduled to pick up several pas- sengers at Hoonah on the return trip. I Sunday he flew over Mendenhall Glacier with Bobbie Dooley, Marian | Cramer, George White, Louise Kem- | per and Ed Laurie. Early today Pil-! ot Chet McLean, accompanied t:yL Mechanic Lloyd Jarman, in the| Bellanca flew to Sitka with three) passengers. Pilot McLean in the Fairchild Saturday night flew a fishing party of five, including Bill Rudolph, Bob Darnell, Len Tucker, Sonny Lund and Guy Gaudet, to Young’s Bay Lake. The party returned Saturday night. Pilot Holden Sunday morning flew a charter trip to Sitka with F. ©O. Overland. The return trip was made at 3 pm. with Frank Mautz flying to Juneau from Sitka. — e BIG INCREASE, INCOME TAXES WASHINGTON, June 28. — The Treasury Department reported to- day that income tax receipts from three Paciic Coast states and Utah and Alaska during the first half of the year totalled $11,940,000 which is almost double the pay- ments during the previous year. Oldest Local in New York Secedes From AFL; Joins CIO NEW YORK, June 28.—Local 144, of the Cigar Makers International Union, the oldest New York local in! the American Pederation of Labor, has seceded, joining the CIO Sam- uel Gompers was a former president of the local union which was form- ed in 1875, They’re Married Now N by ! ; R e ———————————————————————E——————— Yes folks, America’s former “Little Sweetheart,” Mary Pickford, and Buddy Rogers are man and wife. The above picture shows them at the Hollywood marriage license Bureau where the film artists signed their intention to wed. Well, last Saturday afternoon, their intentions were completed. Mary changed her name fer the fourth time when she became the bride of Buddy in a double ring ceremony performed in the pres- ence of 17 relatives by the Rev. James Hamilton Lash, pastor of the “Wollywood Congregational church, as they knelt on a white satin pillow under a sycamore tree at the home of Louis D. Lighton. 7ilm producer, and his wfe, Hope Loring, film writer, Mary's life-long friends. The Associated Press says that when Buddy placed the ring on Mary’s finger, she gripped her hand and squeezed the ring tightly. Buddy is 23, his bride is 44. The police kept a parade of cars moving on the streets in front of the Lighton home while the ceremony was being performed and all street lights surrounding the place were on. WIFE STEALER |NEW TYPE OF GETSOMONTHS | PLANE COMING, IN JAIL HERE Nevada Man Pleads Guilty | When Husband Shows Up Couple — Reconciled Twin Hulled Italian Craft to Be Used Between Seattle and Nome SAN DIEGO, Cal, June 28.—The |twin hulled Savola Marchetti fly- |ing boat with capacity for 22 pas- . has arrived here by a Pleading guilty to three charges of adultery, I. L. Babcock, 32, | sengers, recent arrival from Nevada, Was gteamer from New York and has sentenced to nine months in the been delivered to George Schwamm Federal Jail by U. S. Commissioner of the Alaska Airways for the Se- | Felix Gray this morning. | in et | Pilot Schwamm, with Co-Pilot | Babcock is said to have runaway ., ' ganson, expects to start north from Nevada with another man’s goon wife. The husband arrived here last| The plane is of the same type as |week and swore to a complaint used by Italian Premier Mussolini | against Babcock, charging him with in Ethiopia and by the Itallan trans {2 » e Atlantic service to Brazil. iviolation of the Mann Act, trans- ‘pomng women from one state to, 5 i {another for immoral purposes. The st“u"u"al ' Amendments to | jcharge.s were reduced when Bab- cfl" ‘cock pleaded guilty and was given| a maximum sentence. | | ‘According to officers, Babcock and the woman had been ‘“very| |much in love” and had decided to come to Alaska to start life anew,| running away from the woman'’s |husband. After the husband ar-| !rived here, the “romance” was soon {shattered and husband and wife |made up, deciding to try it over |again while Babcock does a stretch !in the hoosegow, officers reported. | | - e ANCHORAGE NAMED NURSING POST FOR EUNICE ANDERSON WASHINGTON, June 28. — The Senate Judiciary Committee has agreed to consider on July 12 all pending proposals for con:“tutional amendments affecting the Judiciary and a score or more proposals af- fecting courts. The committee is jammed up and many months be- hind. Senator Burke, one of the leading foes of the Roosevelt Court measure, announced that if there |is a continued and distinct opinion Miss Eunice Anderson, who re-|0f the committee, he will recom- turned from studies at the Univer-|mend the creation of a special com- sity of California last week, has mMittee to “study the whole judicial |been named Public Health Field System and report back at the next Nurse at Anchorage, where she will |session.” be associated with maternal and child health work. e GRIZZLY SAILS Miss Anderson is to leave on the| The Alaska Game Commission Yukon tomorrow. ’Vessel Grizzly Bear, Capt. Claire Miss Alice Moran, also returning Kroegh and Mate Howard Jensen, here from U. C. is to be stationed |sailed at 10 o'clock this morning here in Public Health nursing work |for Ketchikan from where she will for some time, before receiving word !ply in Commission work until fall of her new post, before returning to Juneau. ITALY, GERMANY ALASKA ROUTE AGAINSTFRANCO, BRITISH PATROL Two Nations Not in Accord with Pact — What Is to Be Outcome? ROME, June 28-—Italy and Ger- many will not accept the Great) Britain and French patrol of Coast= al Spain. The announcement came on the eve of the meeting of the nen-in- tervention committee in London, which is to consider steps to 'be ta- ken in closing the gap left in the patrol by the withdrawal of Ger-! many and Italy from the non-in-| tervention pact. The announcement is taken here as pronouncing an indication of trouble. The announcement was/ made by Virginio Gayda, editor, who | frequently mirrors Mussolini's opin= ions. He said neither Berlin nor Rome would accept the British-| Franco ship patrol plans because of Britain’s partisan attitude against the Insurgents and France's alliance with Russia. WHAT ABOUT IT? LONDON, June 28-—Just what Germany and Italy proposes to do relative to Spain is conjectured | the Wasatch Mountains of Utah. December 15, 1926, was found in the fuselage. under the snowbank. Baggage in the plane was intact. Associated Press Photo. Cabin 0;’ Ifi:i?ated Plane Dug Out Here is the fuselage of the wrecked Western Air Express airliner which was dug from a snowbank high in No trace of bodies of the seven persons aboard when the nlane vanished The bodies are believed to have been thrown clear and buried here. British and French warships |are now patrolling coastal Spain’ land intend to keep out contraband,| both men and war material. It is known in all international! Is MADE BY L |official statements have been made | bearing this out, in fact, command- NAZI NATIUN ers of Italian and German warships have been told to retailiate immed- iately on any attack by the Val- -l . encia government and the questlon[Wl“ Demand Sha re of b & 3 i . is—what will they do if command World s R.BW Malerlal by German and Ttaltan steamers to| Spain? | kv ey e i 51 Hitler was applauded while Nazi -4 H |Germany, through the highest apos- |that the International Chamber of |Commerce will demand a share of Are Arresied |the world’s raw materials in its ¥ |trade. Mnscnw Henun sufficiency, and Dr. Schact, Econo- mic minister, spoke out to 1,500 Y b B 4 ‘dr‘legates of 40 countries seeking a | ‘Alrman_ We"known n Ju_ place in the economic sun demand- H I Bel d Be ing raw material and also demand- neau, Is leved to |ing return of the colonies lost as a MOSCOW, June 28.—The unex‘fspeech and declared Germany wel- plained absence of Gen. Vialkanis, COmes the Insurgent victors inj |Chief of the Soviet Air Force and SPain 8s “it is generally known wej |Vice-Commissar of the Defense, have tried to buy ores everywhere Ifrom an official welcoming party of and have failed. Spain has ore |which he ordinarily would have Germany needs and we are going to get the ores.” circles that both Germany and Italy | |are supporting the Insurgents and! ers of British and French warshins‘ resist running of men and material | Because Needed BERLIN, June 28. — Chancellor | | Col. Goering, virtual dictator of Germany's four-year plan of self- One Held in Custody |result of the World war. | Chancellor Hitler himself made a |been present, has led to reports he 0 |has been arrested. | Goering declared “it is intoler-| | Also missing from the reception able,” this refusal for raw material, to Dr. Otto Schmidt on his return s it is known the Reich is depend- |from establishing the North Pole €Rt economically on other nations, ‘air base was Sigismund Levanekx.sky_:G"mG also defended Germany’s re- Inexperienced Gold Miners, Don’t Make Good; Bureau of| Mines WPA Survey Announced Film Zioncheck?. WASHINGTON, June 28. -— The | Bi of ‘Mines WPA let it “be |known “there’s durn little gold in ithrm thar hills.” | The agencies reported that the average inexperienced gold pros- ROBERT IRWIN CHARGED WITH SLAYING THREE Law Finallfieaches Out and Grabs Killer of Model, Two Others CHASE ENDS IN EASTER SUNDAY TRAGEDY, N. Y. Former Portland Man Sur- renders in Chicago— Tip First, Cleveland NEW YORK, June 28.—The path to the electric chair is chartered for Robert Irwin, long sought youthful sculptor arrested in Chi= cago yesterday, more than 12 hours after he surrendered in the offices of the Chicago Herald Examiner. He was brought here by airplane last night in custody of New York detectives, and Police Commission= |er Lewis J. Valentine. District Attorney William C. Dodge said that although the 29-year-old artist was formerly in an insane asylum, he would ask the Grand Jury to indict him for first degree murder three times for the slaying of Veronica Gedeon, artist's model, her mother, and also a male roomer in the Gideon apartment. Has “Queer” Confession Irwin, in his confession, made to the Chicago newspaper, said: “I figured it could remove a sex- ual impulse. I put myself under pressure and I believed I could solve the problem of the driving impulse of man's life, which is sex, for all ,time. I knew only one way out— ‘on a spiritual plane and believed murder would make everything even.” % Planned Fourth Slaying pector makes about $72 a year. | “A joint survey demonstrated con- |clusively the futility of following | suggestions frequently made in re-| |cent years that a large number of! !people be encouraged to become Irwin said he meant to kill Ver- onica’s sister Ethel at the same time he killed the other three. Irwin is held without bail: During a brief court appearance today he hired the wellknown ctim- 'murdering somebody.. & put myself - gold miners as a means of solving Inal lawyer, Samuel Liebowitz, who the unemployment situation,” says D8s defended 133 persons at ' first attle to Nome route via way ports.| Come Up in Com, Arctic flier. KNOWN IN JUNEAU | Levanevisky is known in Juneau. 'He was one of the party of fliers who flew Jimmy Mattern from Si- beria to Nome when the latter was forced down at Anadyr on his at- tempted world flight and was in Juneau with Hectoc I. Levenchko when the two blazed the trail from San Pedro, via Alaska, and Siberia, to Moscow. Levanevisky was also announced to be the pilot in chief of the recent Soviet plane from Moscow, over the Oakland in a nonstop flight. The plane was piloted by Chekaloff in- stead. Foreign observers believe the cur- rent wave of arrests in the Soviet !Army are continNing in the Soviet Union, according to advices received lm Juneau. ——t——— | CARPENTERS HOLD PICNIC AT AUK BAY RECREATION BEACH An all day picnic which gathered close to 200, was held yesterday at Auk Bay recreation beach, when the Carpenters’ Union and families as- sembled for their annual outing. North Pole in an attempt to reach| armament as a necessity because jother nations refused to disarm. —— - SPANISH COAST | SHELLED TODAY {One Report Says Germans Are Participating in Bombardment VALENCIA, Spain, June 28.—The Spanish Governmeént’s ' coast be- tween Sagunto and Castellon has |been heavily shelled from the sea. One report, not confirmed, said ‘the Germans participated in the shelling at Sagunto, 25 miles north |of here. The attack stretched about 30 = miles farther north. WASHINGTON, June 28. — Rus- Some 22 shells are reported to|sla’s trans-Polar fliers made cour- have been fired and one observer|tesy calls on President Roosevelt identified the Insurgent cruiser|and Secretary of State Hull today. {Canaries as participating in the at-| The President congratulated the (tack. !fliers for their nonstop flight from Moscow over the North Pole to Vancouver, Wash., and they in re- ! turn expressed gratitude at the Am- ‘encan cooperation on their flight. Rubye Nix Zioncheck, widow of the late Congressman from Washing- ton, is shown in San Francisco just before she left for Hollywood, pre- sumably with a motion picture con- tract. She has been screen-tested several times recently. POLAR FLIERS Make Courtesy Visit Also to Secretary of State’ Hull—Compliments ———— PURSE SEINERS Sport events and games were on the program, and beer, hot dogs and ice cream and soda pop were served for the event which was pro- nounced an outstanding success by 'all in attendance. On the committee in charge of the affair were Leonard Dean, chair- man, Art Peterson and John Lar- sen. 60 OUT TO FISH | ANACORTES, Wash, June 28— | Purse seiners have left for the Pu- |get Sound salmon banks after the| scales for this season. The percent over last season, 31 EXECUTED MOSCOW, June 28.——The exe- | union voted acceptance of the wage'c““"“ of 37 or more “wreckers” of to the House a bill to extend to 10 %a,e.’the Soviet Par East is announced, years the terms of U. 8. District includes an increase of 28% w 37|bringing to 131 the number so far Judges in Alaska and other terri- executed in that area, the Bureau of Mines WPA. .degree murder trials, none of whom J have gone to the electric chair, as his attorney. i Liebowitz Immediately won a postponement of any further hear- ings until June 30. The survey showed that 28,000 unemployed, who turned to small ‘placer mining, sold some gold dur- ing 1935. Working on an average of 45 days a year they grossed an average of $1.60 each working day. The other thousarMils made noth- ing. ' i —e——— | from Cleveland last Saturday. Ir- (win had fled, however, from his shabbily furnished and dim-lighted room and left only a slender clue Girl Spots Man G fll.n STOLE N !lor the authorities to follow. | | A kitchen girl, Henrietta Koscians, llD. one clerk and half a dozen other ! FRuM MlNEs |employees of a leading hotel iden- | ’ IDAHO STAT Quarter of Million Dollars | Annually Is Pilfered, | Is Testimony i GRASS ALLEY, Cal, June 28.— John Bongard, Deputy State Min- eralogist, who has been an assistant to Federal operatives in the recent ‘mvesugauum of violations of the National Gold Reserve Act, testi-| fied at a National Lab\: Relanonsl Board hearing that $250,000 in gold are stolen every year from mines in Idaho. | Bongard was called by the Mary- land Mining Corapany of Idaho to | GAI-I- UN FIDIRI testify in the hearing on charges glept, that the company closed down the mine because of union activity among the workmen | B e | Terms of District Judges in Alaska May Be Extend- ed to 10 Years WASHINGTON, June 28. — The Senate Judiciary committee has ap- proved the nomination of William A. Holzheimer, U. S. District At- torney in the First Division, Alaska. The Senate also passed and sent tories, jtified the bar boy there as the sculptor and divinity student charg- ed with the slaying on March 28, in New York City, of Veronica Ge- (deon, model; her mother and a man lodger. The girl sald she recognized the ,man after reading a detective story |in a magazine. The girl said: “Bob ‘whnt is your real name anyway, and did you ever hear of Robert Ir- {win?” The girl said he turned his /back and walked out of the hotel and disappeared. | In the man's room were found dozens of newspaper clippings of the Gedeon murder. Easter Sunday Tragedy The triple slayings were discov- ‘ered in the New York apartment {of the Gedeons in a fashionable dis- trict of ‘the metropolis on Easter |Sunday afternoon. The three had :been murdered presumably as they :‘ Clues were immediately run down |and several suspects were arrested I\and third degreed, including the ar- tist’s father who was estranged from {bis wife, but the slayer was stfll gt |large. Columns were written about the murder and follow-ups and pages of picture of Veronica Ged- ' " (Continued on Page Five) Sets Fire to School Because He Did Not Like Teacher SPOKANE, Wash,, June 28.—A 14- year-old boy who set fire to the Logan Grade school because he did not like his teacher has been com- mitted to the State Training School until the Superintendent of the in- stitution releases him. Judge R. M. Webster said the boy’s parents are too tolerant. The school fire loss is placed at $40,000, ¢