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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. L, NO. 7553. PROGRAM MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS CHICAGO HAS MY STERIOUS KIDNAP CASE Donald Horst, Two and One-half Years, Snatch- ed from Family Yard TWO WOMEN PUT | UP HEROIC FIGHT| Authorities Are Quickly Called Into Action— Ransom Demand BULLETIN — Chicago, 1L, ! Aug. 4.—Assistant State Attor- ney Wilbert Crowley announced that the Horst child has been found safe and taken to his of- fice. He said John Regan and his wife Lydia had the child. They teld him they were his natural parents. The Regans are being ques- ¢ tioned. | Regan said the auto was | driven by ,Fred Ewert, former convict, for whom a Widé Search has been launched. A birth certificate filed with the Board of Health showed that Donald Otto Horst was born January 4, 1935. The father was Otto Horst and the mother was Mrs. Martha Szybnski Horst. The attending physician was Dr. John Rose. Another Queer Angle | The child was found at Re- ganw’s home after the Regans came to Crowley’s office volun- tarily when they saw by the extra newspapers and news- papers this morning. They ad- mitted taking the child which HELLO PLEASE. Anna May Wong, Chinese movie star who was born in Los Angeles, came back home from a European jaunt | on the big ship Normandie. Her “native” costume, plus high heels and gloves, are showa with this greeting from Anna May. ROAD, AIRPORT PLAN IS GIVEN {Proposal Is Presented by Group at Conference Held, White House DUST BOWL REFUGEE LABOR IS DISCUSSED TO PRESIDENT ECLARE rantic Mother F igbi‘s With 3 Abductors IDelegate Dimond, Senator Schwellenbach, Gruen- gation, calling at the White House late yesterday afternon, asked Pres- |ident Roosevelt to approve a Ten Million Dollar road and airport pro- lgram for Alaska. The delegation also discussed the proposal to use labor of the Dust Bowl refugees in constructing the improvements. { Conferring with President Roose- velt were United States Senator Lewis B. Schwellenbach, of Wash- ingfon State; ‘Alaska Delegate An- {thony J. Dimond, and Director of Territories and Island Possessions, Dr. Ernest H, Gruening. “I feel encouraged but I do not {know now, of course, what wiil come ,of our representations,” said Dele- |gate Dimond. i Three million dollars are needed ‘immediately fo provide Alaska with ladditional airports while it is pro- {posed to spend seven million dollars «for roads over a three year pro- gram, said Delegate Dimond. Senator Schwellenbach told the newsmen, after the conference, that as the result of President Roose- velt’s interest in the plan, it would e they said was born to them Jan- uary 6, 1935, when they were not married. Attending Physician Rose told them he knew “of a wealthy man who wanted a child.” Mrs. Regan agreed to let him | PHILADELPHIA baby was taken from Mrs. Re- over o the Horsts, The birth | Mayor Declares “State of cently Ewert_ told the Regans chance they could. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Aug. 4— CHICAGO, Ill, Aug, 4—Two men COmbat violence and preserve pub- from the back yard of his home ditional drivers. rich mother demanding $5,000 ran- Other necessaries shall not be inter- fought fiercely with the mother of carrying a four-police setup are pa- MEXICO'S OIL | ' cocr VOTE STRIKE i I —_— Strike Arbitration Board cLEVELAND oOhio, Aug. 4—Davia Walkout Will Take Place | | points. ‘ing ‘majority Robertson, President of the Broth-|that. be presented to WPA Administrator \Hopkm.s. especially the proposal for employment of labor from the Dust Bowl on projects during the sum- mer months. The refugees would be drawn from Washington, Oregon and Idaho, which now have a relief load which cannot be met locally. The group also sought to learn whether the President would veto legislation authorizing funds for a flood control project on Lowell Creek at Seward. Delegate Di- mond said he is convinced the Pres- dent would not veto the legislation. e, — BARKLEY GOING T0 HAVE TESTY J0B AS LEADER Not a Great Commander But Can Think Fast— Harsh Tone, Fiery Eye By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Aug. 4—“Dear Alben,” the President called him in a letter and pointed, perhaps inadvertently, to Senator Barkley of Kentucky as his choice for ma- jority leader to succeed Joe Robin- son. “Dear ‘Alben” thereafter was elected by a one-vote majority over Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi to piece together the morals of a Senate badly shattered by one of the bitterest controversies since the Civil War. It will be a testy job for Barkley, but from this vantage point there appears no one in the Senate better able to do it. P KNOWS CROWDS That is not to say that Barkley, is an ideal leader sent by a Divige! Providence to salvage the working parts of the New Deal. He has good He lacks others. But there| is nobody else better. He is jovial and hearty and phys- ically as tough as a fiddlegut. Be- leader requires nll' He has a booming voice, of UMISSINGIN PLANE CRASH, OFF PANAMA Wreckage Indicates Explo- sion Occurred — No | . » | Bodies Recovered \ WASHINGTON, Aug. 4. — The Naval Commandant of Canal Zone reported by nadlal today that evi- dence indicated an explosion oc- curred aboard the airliner, which crashed in the sea off Panama early yesterday with 14 aboard. | Examination of parts of the wreckage towed to the air base indicated the airliner struck the water at high speed and broke into small parts. It is- believed the explosion preceded the crash. Plane and surface vessels are ing See Executive : | WASHINGTON, Aug. 4—A dele- 'seaman on a ship out of New Guinea Vive firemen were burned, two seriously, when the gascline they were fighting the flames. The truck was being UiSed EXTORTION PLAN ATTEMPTED IN ; EARHART CASE | New Yorke_r_ erested for| Trying to Shake Down G. P. Putnam WASHINGTON, Aug. 4—J. Edgar Hoover announced today that his; agents arrested Wilbut Rithat, of | New York, in connection with an attempt to extort $2,000 from George Palmer Putnam and promised safe return of his missing aviatrix wife, Amelia Earhart. Putnam received the letter last! Sunday advising him that his wife was on a ship. He was asked to/ contact the writer of the letter the| next day. | Subsequently, a man talked to Putnam. The man said he was a engaged in smuggling narcoties. While at sea he sighted the wrecked | plane and took off the woman, who was injured, he said. The man demanded $2,000 for her | safe return. ! Putnam conferred with the Fed- eral agents who quickly arrested the man. The latter then admitted the whole story was false, but he must stand trial for extortion. AR A | Pack TrainIs | Seen, flcharagefi Early Pioneer Days of Al- aska Recalled—Bound on Hunting Trip - ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 4.— A pack train of 17 horses, carrying | several tons of freight, went down the main street yesterday. The pack train is headed for the| arrange for the child’s care but gan after birth which occurred | certificate was. filled out to the 3 » . Emergency” Exists where the child was and they Mayor S. Davis Wilson today pro- and one woman kidnaped Donald lic peace as the truck drivers’ strike, last night and five minutes later Mayor Wilson said he is determ- som. fered with. the child, Mrs. Otto Horst, aged 30, trolling the streets. Unless Wage De- Orders $7,200,000 An- said she signed no papers. The EXTRA Pol-lcE at the Ewert home and turned | _ Horsts as the real parents. Re- Because of Strike decided to get'the child the first o SENSATIONAL Aanchok. claimed a “state of emergency” to Horst, two and one’ half years old, which began Monday, spread to ad- the abductors telephoned the child’s ined that delivery of foodstuffs and One of the men and the woman' Fifteen hundred automobiles, each kit i g (Continued on Page Eight) RAILRBADERS i mands Met nually in Raises MEXICO CITY, Aug. 4—Mex- ico's four hundred million dollar foreign-controlled oil industry has been ordered to make wage increases and to establish workers' benefits aggregating $7,200,000 annually. Eighteen thousand employees staged a 12-day strike two months ago, resulting in bringing their demands before a three-man arbi- tration board which ordered the increases. erhood of Locomotive Firemen and good timber, with which he can Enginemen, announced today that'set the ventilating system in the 96 percent of 350,000 railroad work- Senate to vibrating. ers and members of five operating| He is not a bookish man, and while, Brotherhoods have voted to author- like any Senator, he must do a cer- ize a strike on the Nation’s rail-'tain amount of reading, he gets his roads if the demand for a 20 per- information and viewpoints by con- cent increase is not met. (tact and debate rather than by RS (3 P sustained study. But his associates MISS WILLIAMS ViSITS credit him with keen ability at Miss Marie Williams of Ketchi- “finding the mosiac” of & crowd. kan is visiting Mrs, Jesta Young in Mingling in a crowd, a word here,’ Juneau. She arrived here on the g sentence or gesture there, gives steamship Alaska and will remain’ b Z5 for one month, ] (Continued on Page 3ix) ) lation is the reason. continuing an attempt to find the Talkeetna Mountains where big bodies of the 11 passengers and game hunting will be enjoyed by | three members of the crew. the men of the party and the horses Do o o o will be allowed t ograze. Smiths Outnumbered HONOLULU, T. H~This is one city where the Smiths and Jonses don’t outnumber all other names. For an extensive school trip; The new city directory shows Lee through the Interior and Westward, is the leading name, there being Commissioner of Education A. E. by th esight of the pack train. | —————— KARNES TO INTERIOR The large oriental popu- plane for Fairbanks. He expecis to be gone a month or six weeks. Jonses. Five Firemen Are Burned in Explosion 'NEW CHIEF OF 0 Adlyne Rogers of San Jose, Cal., who was recently elected Grand President of the Young Ladies Institute at the Golden Jubilee of the Catholic order which was held in San Francisco. Miss Rogers will have jurisdiction over 107 Institutes in eleven western states, Alaska, Panama and the Hawaiian Islands. VATICAN NOT ~ RECOGNIZING SPAN.REBELS Admits, However, that| Cordial Relations Be- ing Maintained VATICAN CITY, Aug. 4. semi-official Vatican statement said the Holy See is maintaining cordi ohral | Secret Service by innocent takers ' 164 repair créw al Des Plilies, 1. NOMINATION T0 SUPREME COURT MAY COME SOON President May Make Ap- pointment Before Con- gress Adjourns WASHINGTON, Aug. 4. — The belief that President Roosevelt will nominate a successor to Willis Van Devanter, who resigned as Asso- ciate Justice of the Supreme Court, before Congress adjourns, jncreased today among high Administration supporters, President Roosevelt himself gave # |that impression at a press confer- | ence. Appointment such as Attorney General Cummings said was per- missable, would not go to the Sen- |ate until next year. Some of the President’s advisors urged immediate appointment to the Supreme Court so that it would | be at full strength for the fall term without a recess appointment. S A N Counterfeiting, Smuggling Show Il‘ecli_ng inl.S$. Check -Forging, However, Appears to Be Grow- ing in Popularity WASHINGTON, Aug. 4—Count- erfeiting and smuggling are de- clining and check-forging is in- creasing in the United States, the Treasury Department announced today. Counterfeit money turned over to mounted to only $487,000 in the fiscal year ending June 1) a third Early pioneer days were recalled |relations with the Spanish Insur-|, qo.‘the total of spurious money |gents but no steps have been taken| which came to Federal notice the| for formal diplomatic recognition of | previous year. the Insurgent Government. The Secretariat described as “in- exact” dispatches from Salamanca, seat of the Insurgent Government, | 648 of them to 197 Smiths ana 81 Karnes left today aboard the PAA|(hat the Vaticanand Insurgents are formally exchanging diplomatic rep- resentatives. The Customs Bureau reported 9,- 800 seizures of smuggled goods as | compared with 13,000 the corres- ponding period last year. Check forger arrests, however, | increased from 879 in 1935-36 to 11,215 in the last fiscal year, FOR ALASKA PUT UP TO FDR. ) JAP NEWSPAPER DEMANDS CHINA BE *SMASHED" Settle Funda—mental Rela- tions Once and for All Time, Says Paper AERIAL ATTACK IS ROUTING ARMY Chingss Dalonse Crumblifig Before Drive of Nippon- ese Toward South TOKYO, Aug. 4—The influ- ential Japanese newspaper Nichi Nichi today urged the Japanese Government to settle Japan’s fundamenial relations with China once and for all time by smashing the Nanking Government. The urge is taken to mean “declare war.” JAPS BLAST PATH PEIPING, Aug. 4. — Continuous aerial bombardments, Japanese au- thorities declared today, have rout- ed the western concentration of the Chinese army and blasted a clear path for the Japanese to march across North China, Parallel columns of Japanese |pressed southward today in eastern and western Hopeh Province toward the border of Shantung province near where the main Chinese armies are believed to be centered. Peiping is quiet and foreigners bege # returning to their homes from embassy compounds. Japan contin- ued to pour troops into the area from Manchoukuo, fully machin- ized. It is believed to have raised the total to 25,000 at Foochow. China port authorities reported said they had arranged to sink ships at the mouth of Ming river to form a barricade against a feared Jap- anese naval attack. - e - BUREAU NEEDS LARGER FUND WELFARE WORK Penny Declares Liquor and Tuberculosis Fast Boost- ing Death Rate, Indians ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 4— George C. Penny, Supervisor of So- cial Welfare for the Indian Bureau in Alaska, declared here that liquor and tuberculosis are the “chief ene- mies” of Alaska natives. The two scourges are “raifing the death rate tremendously,” He said. 3 Welfare work among the Indians is limited, Mr. Penny stated, beé- cause the Bureaw's funds for that purpose total only 83 cents per yehr, per capita, L “There are approximately 30,000 Indians in' the Territory and we have $25000 for relief work. Last year the Bureau assisted 2,247 na- tives,” Penny said. Carrots——Your Name Is “Mud” From Now On LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 4— Vegetarians to the contrary, car- rots are not a thoroughly nour- ishing food. Dr. Charles H. Wood said car- rots cause a toxic condition to the human' digestive system and many arthritis sufferers found car- rots aggravating their illness. | § i §