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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” Y, OCTOBER 13, 1937, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS Sy v\ J / VOL. L., NO. 7612. " PRICE TEN CENTS JAPS MOWED DOWN BY WITHERING FIRE PRESIDENT, IN ADDRESS, BIVES Fo reign Pol icy Given By oosevelt G-Men Rated Brady Gunmen as Tops; Two Were Killed Yesterday in Maine, NATIONAL VIEW Makes Speech Designed to| Quiet Criticism, Inter- national Cooperation RENEWS HIS PLEA FOR ACTIVE PEACE STEPS Tells What Nine-Power Treaty Signatories Expect to Do | | WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.—Pres- ident Franklin D. Roosevelt’s re-| i | | | | | | | | JAMES DALHOVER Who Surrendered | | Ano e > i « AL BRADY Leader of Gang, Shot —1 e ® 0 0 00 0 0 00 00 PROGRAM FOR CONGRESS IS NOW OUTLINED President Gives Measures He Expects to Be En- ther Captured — WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.—Presi- dent Roosevelt, in ordering a special |session of Congress to meet on No-| |vember 15, instituted his campaign |to enact by Christmas, if possible, the bulk of his legislative program that was sidetracked at the last regular session. Administration officials express- led the hope that approval of all |five measures outlined by the Pres-' ~ |ident in his address last night, moved with his mother to Indian- will be enacted. | CLARENCE SHAFFER, JR. Gunman, killed newed plea for active steps to pre—i Yesterday, in Bangor, Maine, the| SRS Paon interpreted by many |j..qer Al Brady, and one associate| u,m»r\'vrvs as designed to quiet ’“'m"gunman. Clarence Shaffer Jr., was icism of his policy of International killed, and another gangman, James | cooperation which might lead 0 pajnover, surrendered when G-Men| war. surprised the three after they had| Declaring in an address 1ast |peen secretly trailed for months. | night that mere refusal to recognize| py.,m ndiana, home of John Dil- war in other'parts of the world does ynger sprang the gang that G-Men| not guarantee this country's aloof-|1,peneq the most vicious operating. ness from conflict, the President said: | : “ 1 of _{Brady and his two undersized pals i I.n e pna G‘bm“t&?l],ms‘fieg who had boasted frequently, ac-| of“'h peaced b5 Bt b aishesicording to underworld gossip, that| re;}c ot cannlo); s it ; ‘:or % ' |they would “out-Dillinger” Dillinger. | T cunnPt i b * |They went & long way towards mak- Significant Remark ling good The President then added, signi-| : ficantly: # | Police charge them specifically “Remember that from 1013 to 1021 With three killings, several bank I was fairly close to world evenw‘mbberles ux?d holdups. There was in that period. a l;‘]ederal reward of $500 out for “While I learned much of what each. 3 to do I also learned much of what| Like Dfl::p?er.t thet); broke jail af- not to do.” |ter one whirl at outlawry. To many observers, this appared| Like D)llmgAer and his hengh- to be an expression of intention to men, they started then on a series, pursue a moderate course in foreign |Of b";k TObb:l‘l‘:;i " . affairs. | ‘ounges! 'as Braggar Nine Power Conference | Like the Dillinger gang, they had President Roosevelt emphasizedj"he G-hflen on their .mnl. Director that the conference of signatoriesJ- Edgar Hoover had set after them to the Nine Power Treaty will seek 2 picked squad of Federal agents,| a solution for the Far Eastern con- |8 usual in such cases. His men; flict by agreement. iimd a code worq‘ for the gang—| The President said the United|“the braga squad. ) States proposes to cooperate with! Most imwrtnnt of all, possibly, all signatories of the Nine Power‘me gang ‘had known its weakness. Treaty, including China and Japan. Like Dillinger, its members were The gang was ‘composed of Al | WOUNDED GANG SURVIVOR MAKES CONFESSION, CRIMES BANGOR, Maine, Oct. 13.— Capt. Frank Foley, of the Ban- gor police, said James Dalho- ver, wounded survivor of the G-Men’s ambush of the dead Al Brady gang, has confessed the band killed three police- men. Capt. Foley said he heard the sulky prisoner, during the all- night questioning, admit to the Federal agents that the gang killed Richard Rivers, Indiana- polis Police Sergeant; Paul Mineeman, Indiana State trooper, and Highway Patrol- man George Conn, of Free- port, Ohio. Dalhover’s skull was creased by a G-Man's bullet and he surrenylered after the squad of Federal sleuths shov and killed Al Brady, Dillinger's “successor” and also the gang's youthful triggerman, Clarence Shaffer, Jr., in yesterday's dra. matic five minute battle on a downtown Bangor street. ee 0000000000 a crack about “making Dillinger piker.’ What They're Like Here are details from the Fed- normal life. o 'apolis. She remarried, but died in| The program includes crop in- e 1926. An errand boy, then a cloth- 'surance and control, wage and hour ! . jing store worker, he was first arrest- |standards, regional planning to con- e'ed on a vagancy charge, in 1934. |serve natural resources. Govern- o | Later, for possession of stolen prop- mental reorganization and stronger . ierty, he did a stretch in an Indiana janti-trust laws, e prison farm, then worked as a fnrm; President Roosevelt characterized o hand near Hanover, Ind. There he!the program as one which America . ‘Kprobablv met Dalhover, who farmed needed immediately to provide pros- .[nmn'by. By 1935, Brady was in In- perity, “a kind of prosperity we .,d”‘““PQl‘S once more, working in|want, a sound and permanent kind oifaz‘tories The next year the Bmdy‘whmh is not built up temporarily | o (gang raids began. |at the expense of any section or of | o1 James Dalhover, crack rifle shot,|any group.” e®lalso is a farm boy—rawboned and oy o |scrawny. Four years older than ! ® |Brady, he was the son of parents ® later divorced. He attended school .- OFFICIAL ASKS | ®|at Madison, Ind., married a cm-‘ ; &1 01cmnati girl, and has two boys, 91 ®land 7 years old. A roving laborer) | ®las a youth, he returned to Indiana| | | ®land bought a farm near Hanover,| | | ® mixing farm work with bootlegging. | ® |His first prison sentence, at Santa | Oct. 13.—The AFL this after- | noon voted unanimously to join the British labor boycoit on Japanese goods and also decid- : Fe, N. M, was for auto theft. Oth- | ers followed in Kentucky and In-| ¢ diana for assault to kill and posses- Charges Made Before AFL A kot ik s : Convention of CIO .| Clarence Lee Shaffer, Jr., “loud . o /mouth” of the trio, operated a sand- | Leanmgs o |Wich shop before joining up. Born ! in Indiana in 1916, he was reared | |by grandparents after his parents| @ separated. He attended elementary |school in Indianapolis, and at Ben !Davm. Ind.,, and apparently lived a But while doing odd SHE'S SIMPLY WILD about Clark Gable, declared blonde, 23-year-old Della Carrol, insisting she has been twice en- gaged to the film star and plans to marry him next spring. “I'm just nuts about Clark,” she murmured, “and the big day draws nearer every hour, He’s just the divinest man I ever met.” NIPPON ARMY - IS UNABLE TO . CRASH LINES {Over Three Thousand Dead or Wounded in Lit- tle Sector | CHINESE RESISTANCE HOLDS ON ALL FRONTS Attempt to Capture Strate- gic Position Fails in Fierce Fighting | SHANGHAI, Oct. 13—The Chin. ese spokesman declared today that | the Japanese forces have lost more than 3,000 dead or wounded in the disastrous attempt to crash the Chinese defense lines across the | Wentsajang creek into Tanzang, {four miles northwest of the In- ternational Settlement. ‘The Japanese Army officials used 15,000 men in the desperate thrust, One Japanese flying column (pushed ahead of the main body three miles to the outskirts of Tan~ zang where it was met by a mur- derous machine gun fire and forced ‘tn retreat to the original position, leaving hundreds of dead or wound- ed on the little battlefield. The capture of Tanzang by the |Japanese might force the Chinese |troops to withdraw from the hetly contested Chaphet” Sector in order Suggests Penal Colonies For Prisoners GREAT BRITAIN | ADMITS CRISIS 1S IN OFFING PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct Sanford Bates, of New York, has recommended the American Prison Association the abolishment of the | present prisons in favor of a system | of penal colonies to “keep people | er of Opposition in Consultation cursingfinman to escape being flanked and sur- rounded from the west. Despite the withering fire from (Jand, sea and air, the Chinese still cling to all other fronts in the Shanghai district. It is admitted on all sides that the command of the Chinese forces is most significant and great gen- eralship is shown, also great fight- ing ability of the Chinese is re- | vealed. .- 3 BULLETIN — DENVER, Col. 1wha have sinned out of idleness.” :P“'me MinlSKCl‘ Ca”s Lead_‘lA Nn A ND AIR { BATTLE FOUGHT 1 LONDON, Oct. 13. — Premier | |Chamberlin took an unusual step| {today and called Major Clemens Attlee, leader of the Laborite oppo- | ed to ask Congress to curb the powers of the National Labor Relations Board. overly fond of women. The “braga squad” were just two former farm boys and a big city| . = jeral Bureau of Identification und}jobs, he worked for a time with a the police |character known to the G-Men as| Alfred Brady, credited with being|Charles Geiseking, onetime member - Kills Girl and AIR CONFERENCE. youth who went wrong. All three—Alfred Brady, James |the gang organizer, is an Indiana of the Brady gang who is now serv- |farm boy, described by one of his:ing time in Ohio. DENVER, Col., Oct. 13. — John Frey, President of the AFL Metal /Dalhover and Clarenge Lee Shaffer, first sweethearts as “too sweet to From Stores to Banks Trades Department, today demand-' sition in Parliament, and his dep- !uly. Arthur Greenwood, into con- IS UNDER WAY IN CANADIAN CITY Mail Route from U. S. to Canada, Via Interior, Being Discussed | LETHBRIDGE, Alta. Oct. 13. | Three planes loaded with air execu. | tives, municipal authorities and Board of Trade officials have ar- Jr., were small. Police called them “half pint killers” All are the products of broken homes, and are and at a mechanic’s bench, he was | Robinson, 21 to 31 years old. Both Brady like Dillinger. To him is credited hurt anyone.” Pinch-faced and hard muscled from his years on the farm | born near Kentland, Ind., in 1910 a child, his father died and Brady The first job attributed to the gang was a $320 store robbery at| Ill, in January, 1936. |Brady was identified as one of the }and Halhover were morose, while and attended elementary school at two holdup men. |Shaffer was boastful and talkative.|North Salem Whgn he was Other holdups followed. (Continued on Page Three) Politicians, Farmers Will Watch Congress at Special Session Write New Farm Bill | FRANK RICHARDS GIVEN FREEDOM led the removal of three National| |Labor Relations Board. officials for T |uation |what he said was activity on behalf Fifteen Shots Fired at In-| Such a conference rarely takes | | The officials accused are Reglon-’ |llament is not in session or when \al Directors, Elinore Herrick, New ly Road |important Government decisions and Adolph Meyers of Boston. |move, as instituted today, is prob- | Al three, Frey said, “Are trying MISHAWAKA, Ind., Oect. 13. 'A‘flljl_‘l to obtain the apposition's sup- | The AFL Expense Resolutions with a foreign accent, opened fire the present crisis. | Committee called on the Convention last night without warning and shot, The move followed an impasse |now being exercised” by the Laboriand two escorts stopped their car|Britaln and France on the other Board in adjustment disputes. to aid a motorist in apparent trou-side. |sultation on the International sit- of the CIO. . place and. occurs only when Par- nocent Trio on Lone- | York, Mrs. Rossiter, San Francisco, {are up for consideration. Such a to build up CIO'S membership.” middle-aged gunman who cursed port to the Government’s policy in to seek an end to “usurped authority [to death Melba Moore; 16, when she between Italy on one side and Great A2 . T ble, on a . lonely road. Other Ministers of the British SPANISH FRONT Scores of Planes Engaged | —Insurgent Shock Troops Defeated | | HENDAYE, FRENCH - SPANISH FRONTIER, Oct. 13.—Comparison of the days military dispatches of !the Spanish Government and In. |surgent forces revealed that one of !the greatest land and air battles of the Spanish Civil War is being fought on the Aragon Front. The Government was on the of- {fensive twice. A fleet of 40 or more Government planes sailed over the rived here for the International| Conference aiming at develop-| ment of the air mail route from| ‘(?harles Walton, 17, one of 'th Cabinet meet in an air ‘ol Ws""m‘“mlb&meflelds near Zaragoza, Insur- girl's ascorts, received a grazed resulting from reports that Pre- gent stronghold, to meet the Insur- By PRESFON.ROVER shoulder, but Adolph Stopper, 20,/mier Mussolini has called up 50000 gent’s crack fighting squad. Nearly WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.—When BY SANITARIUM poich gegian the United States to Alaska via| Alberta, Northwest Territoriesand | the Yukon. | The states represented at the con- | ference include Utah, Idaho, Mon- | tana, Colorado and Wyoming. | Development of the Great Falls- ' Lethbridge, Whitehorse and Fair- | banks legs of the North and South | Route, would, in the opinion of the delegates, give a complete air serv-} ice to all parts of the United States and Alaska as soon as the Leth- bridge - Calgary . Edmonton branch | of the Trans-Canada Airways goes| into operation next year. .- ORVAL ADAMS CHOSEN HEAD BANKERS ASS. BOSTON, Mass., Oct. 13.—Orval Adams, 53, Salt Lake City, Utah, banker, whose entire career has been in banking circles, has been elected President of the American Bankers Association. ! The new official is Executive Vice- | President of the Utah State Nation- DISCOVER SABOTAGE, WAR CRAFT | | Navy Inquiry Board Inves- tigates Case on Cruis- er Vincennes WASHINGTON, Oct. 13. — The Navy Inquiry Board reported that it found evidence of possible sabo-| tage on the heavy cruiser Vincennes now undergoing tests at the Boston | Navy Yard. The Board said in one of the four | reduction gear boxes of the 10,000 | ton war vessel, a piece of metal, a| file, not of Navy issue, was dis-| covered. The damage caused is not esti- mated. ‘The Board reported the investiga- tion started when a noise was heard in the reduction gear machinery and the metal was then found. e Britain's pri al Bank, 000 a year. Congress sits in the special session! beginning November 15, to write a farm bill, the politicians as well as the farmers will have their eyes on the shape it takes. The AAA setup was distinctly beneficial to the administration in| 1934 and 1936. It provided an or- ganization among the farmers, though which they felt directly the fine things being done for them. It is hard to present a more con-| vincing argument .than a shower of checks. | Every farmer who receives ai| benefit check under the AAA be- comes a member of a county asso- ciatioin. And each township has its| local organization to which belong the members of a particular locality. PR COMPLETE ORGANIZATION These organizations have a spec- ific purpose in the performance of the law. Through them are selected the farmer-leaders who initially pass upon claims of individual farm- ers on past production, which forms the basis for benefit checks. | Presidents of these township or- | ganizations automatically become | members of the board of directors Men Held Responsible for| Death of Bill Childs Here Released at Portland Frank Richards, who was sent to Morningside Sanitarium in Port-| land from here on July 21, 1935, having been adjudged insane fol- lowing the killing of Bill Childs, jailer at the Federal jail here, was released from the sanitarium on September 28 on a writ of habeas corpus, according to a communi-| BERLIN Oct. 13—Germany today cation to the Governor's office here concluded a non-agression agree- today from the sanitarium. ment with Belgium, the two nations Richards, who had been living reaching an accord in an exchange in Cordova, was taken from a ship of notes between German Foreign lere two years ago and lodged in Minister Van Neurath and Belgian jail after he had gone beserk on Minister Devignon at the Foreign the vessel. During his confinement Office in Berlin. in jail pending hearing, he hit; The German note said that in- Childs over the head with a bolt, asmuch as the new agreement re- an injury which resulted in the lat- placing the Locarno Security pact ter’s death, officials stated. |might take a long time to become Twice previously Richards had effective, the Reich wished to de- been in the sanitarium, according to fine its attitude toward Belgium his record sent to the Governor's without delay. office from the Portland institu-| “Germany is determined that un- tion. der no circumstances will she in- — e+ fringe upon the integrity of Bel- African natives judge by the winds gium and that she will respect at Diplomats Are In N_ew Accord Germany Makes Known! Stand in Note of Exchange | { | | | i |of the county organizations. These ime minister must pay in turn are under the supervision heavy rains will fall on the head- cf course, if Belgium should cooper- |an income tay on his salary of $50,- of state organizations, the heads of (Continued on Page Two) | | across the Sahara desert whether all times Belgian territory, except waters of the Nile and cause gen-'ate in any warlike erous floods on the great river. against Germany,” the note said. The Moore girl was struck in the Blackshirt reserves. Rome, in dis- gunman sent 15 bullets into the car. patches received here, denied that The Mooreg irl was struck in the the troops are destined for the back of the head. |Spanish civil War. Sheriff William Hissinki said no| Great Britain and France have trace had been found of the assail- asked Mussolini to withdraw his ant, |forces from Spain. | New Corfract SIX DIE WHEN Fur_l{lccarthy{ TANKER BURNS Manager of New York Seamen Trapped in Inferno Yankees Is Signed Up | When Hose Breaks for Another Season j Aboard Shnp NEW YORK, Oect. 13—Joe Me- BAYTOWN, Texas, Oct. 13.—8ix Carthy, seven years manager of the seamen were burned to death and World’s Champion Yankee baseball nine were injured yesterday when team, has signed- a contract for sudden flames enveloped the engine the next three years at the manag-|room and galley of the tanker Pa- erial post at a salary of $35000 a'raguana. year. | The men were trapped in the in- McCarthy has bossed three pen- ferno when a hose broke as the nant-winning Yankee teams and tanker’s tanks were being flushed four runner-uppers. |with kerosene. ——— As firemen at the Humble Oil the first nine years of Refinery Company fought the fire London George Bernard for fifty minutes, the unfortunate During lving in him six pounds. flames crackled toward them. 100 planes were engaged at one time and twice, masses of Government | soldiers swept over No-Man’s Land |to meet Gen. Franco's shock troops holding the key to the Funetest del Ebro Sector. | Who won the air and land battles ;Ls a matter of contradictory state- |ments, as usual. PLANES SHOT DOWN MADRID, Oct. 13. — A Govern- ment communique said Government airmen shot down seven Insurgent planes in fierce dog-fighting over the Aragon front in aerial battles. The Governrent hails the victory as one of the most successful fought in the entire Civil War. SEEKS BROTHER, MISSING FLIER SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Oct. 13.— Convinced that his brother, Sir® Charles Kingsford-Smith, is still alive somewhere, B. H. K. Smith sailed aboard the liner Mariposa to- day for Sydney, Australia to join in the hunt for the aviator, now | operations Shaw sold writings which brought |seamen sereamed for aid as he'missing almost two years on his flight to Australia.