The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 6, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LI, NO. 7633. JUNEAU, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” "ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1937. " MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS EW JAPANESE TROOPS MENACE CHINESE RUSSIA GIVES FORTH WARNING, ENTIRE WORLD Soviet Ambassador Says Not to Test Strength of Red Army on Field NEW YORK, Nov. 6.—A warning to world armies against matching their strength “with our new Red Army on any battlefield” has been sounded by Soviet Ambassador Alex- ander Troyanovsky. The Soviet official said: “A test on the battlefield might be disas- trous for any aggressor. Russia is ready for any emergency. Other countries have raised a clamor about their fight against Commun- ism in order to create a smoke screen for attacks against other parts of the world.” ——e,— ITALY, JAPAN, GERMANY ARE DUKE, DUCHESS MAY COME T0 U.S. NEXT YEAR Two Reasons Given for Cancellation of Trip to Have Started Today BULLETIN — PARIS, Nov. 6.—The Duke of Windsor is con- templating a tour of Russia to balance the recent tour in Ger- many. A person close to the Duke said the purpose of the tour is to show the rest of the world he plays ne politics. For the moment however his plans are up in the air by the abrupt postponement of the American trip. PARIS, Nov. 6.—Members of the Duke of Windsor's suite disclosed that the Royal party is studying the possibility of making the postponed tour to the United States early next year. Tt is declared that the tour is not definitely cancelled and Edward is still hopeful that public opinion in America will change within a few months, thus opening the way for THE ARMY BUILDS A BIGGER OFFENSE, “eet long, 150 feet across its wings, and weighing 30 tons has living MKINLEYS ARE FREED BY JURY IN MILLS CASE Indians Found Not Guilty of Murder Last February a trip which was to have started to- day but postponed on account of “grave misconceptions of his mo-| tives at Excursion Inlet John and Frank McKinley, In-| larger even mpleted i s initial test flight at Boeing quarters. k” than the “flying fortresses. B t———] This monstrous bomber, 90 Field, Seattle. It has complete MRS. HAHN IS FOUND GUILTY, POISON-MURDER Death Penalty Mandatory for 31-Year-0ld Blonde Mother BIG INVADING FORCE LANDED NEAR SHANGHAI Nippon Force Taken Ashage at Hangchow Bay—- New Battle Area |MAIN DEFENSE LINE 1S NOW THREATENED [Nanking Official Not Con- sidering Direct Peace Negotiations SHANGHAI, Nov. 6.—The Chin- ese main defenses west of Shanghal are put in serious jeopardy today by the landing of a formidable Jap- anese force on the north shore of Hangchow Bay. The vanguard of the Japanese force, shifting the war scene to the new front, is reported to have reached a point near Sunkiang, an important Chinese position on the north bank of the Whangpoo, 20 miles southwest of Shanghai. | | NO PEACE DISCUSSED NANKING, Nov. 6.—Chinese gov- IN BIG FACT Three Nations Join Accord in Fight Against Communism - Miami Drum Corps “Assembly” sounded by the fa- mous Miami, Fla,, drum corps as their ship entered port in New York, signaled “trip's over” fot the delegation of American Legion members who went to France fol- lowing the national Legion con: vention in New York. Betty Dan: ziger is the pretty drum major. U WASHINGTON, 4 ROME, Nov. 6—Italy has joined Japan and Germany in an accord against Communism which their | protocol declared “continues to place | the civilized world in constant dan- | ger of war.” The protocol stipulated Italy is to be considered an original signatory of the nearly one-year-old German- Japanese pact against the Commun- ist Internationale. databais ar tis Duken cn_idlgns. charged with the murder of id the Duke of Wmd.sor;AbH" Mills, another Indian, dur- felt & “lukewarm attitude” toward ing an altercation at Excursion ln—l the proposed American tour and {let last ‘Februgry, were found Mo one reason; one close ‘adviser said, {SUlfy by 8 jury in Federal District was the “lack of enthusiasm on the|COUrt: The jury was out about an part of Washington officlals, coup- DOUT and a half yesterday afternoon, led with American Tabor criticism,” 8nd returned a sealed verdict which It is said here that when Wash- Was opened when court convened ington officials were asked to sug-‘“’“S morning. | gest an itinerary whereby the Duke| Mildred Hermann and Frank might be brought in close touch with | Foster were attorneys for the de- housing methods and labor sima_‘tumo whiie Assistant District At~ tions, only & perfunctory letter was torney George W. Folta handled the received. prosecution. - —_—— e —— The McKinleys weré charged A j I N c 0 ME UP with having inflicted blows on Mills I Ji Sever: tourage s which resulted in his death during what witnesses testified was a | | Laws without order, countless “forgotten” measures on the Nation's books; ‘ave to be repealed if Bruce Barton (above) New York advertis- ing executive has his way. The Republican was elected Tuesday in the New York balloting to Congress from the “silk stocking” district. a law a week.” CINCINNATI, Ohio, Nov. 6. —'ernment officials here declare that Mrs. Anna Hahn, 31-year-old blonde China will consider no direct peace \mother, has been convicted of first/negotiations with Japan until ev- \degree murder in the poison death ery possibility of international in- of Jacob Wagner, 78, retired gard- tervention is exhausted, and every ner. | collective effort has failed. The jury did not recommend len-| It is conceded, however, that jency and the death penalty is China might consider an uncondie mandatory. tional truce if guaranteed by a third The opesiug of the trial raised|POWer OF group of powers that:Baia the curtain on the weirdest poison- Clinese sovereignty and testls |murder mystery in the midwest. torizl integrity inviolable. The state prosecution contended |that the plump blonde prisoner was PETPT 0 \guilty of mass murder; that she p..o ::g('m::; ’i;-nt TlJl.ylulnm |poisoned at least two elderly Ger- Cnpllfll City of Shansi Province, i.s' man men to death, and that she S o | i . in its grasp although the troops {was willed more than $50,000 by her paya nof vel.plned mznwr the city’s ANOTHER JAP VICTORY MASS FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MINE VICTIMS Anchorage Will Join in Last Rites at Elks’ Temple on Sunday ANCHORAGG, Alaska, Nov. 6.— Mass funeral services for the twelve men who lost their lives in the re- 'GALIFORNIA IN - 0-0, TIE GAME BERKELEY, Cal, Nov. 6.—A de- termined Washington Husky eleven marched out against the undefeated California Golden Bears today with |a do-or-die spirit that stood the {Golden Bears on their spiritual beam ends. From the very start the game was |a see-saw punting duel with Wash- {ington kicks averaging considerable |more yardage than California’s. ! Passing attacks for both sides netted very littie yardage, with intercep- tions on both sides numerous. IN OCTOBER OVER PREVIOUS MONTH Ten Months’ _Figure Also Higher, Both Net and Gross, Report Shows SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Nov. 6. —The Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company reported today that Oc-| tober net income rose to $173,000; |from $166,000; in September but| In the third quarter the Huskies drinking party. — e SEATILE CASE INVESTIGATED BY C-MEN NOW Mystery Bathtub Death May | Reveal Link in White Slave Chain He is shown studying, how he hopes to move “to repeal Sidel‘ig_g;mtsr VArve N ow Thrown On Stock Market Situation | INSURGENT STRONGHOLD AID RAIDED Forty Government Bomb- (Jail, By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Nov. 6—Follow me for a few minutes and I will take you to a spot or two in Washington; where some sidelights will b(‘,i thrown upon the perplexing mar-! ket situatio: i First we go to a tax attorney. He, represents some wealthy clients who oppose both the 1936 law taxing corporate surpluses and the 1937 tax | victims. Mrs. Hahn, apparently undisturb- all the charges in Judge Charles S. Bell's tense courtroom, Held in the Hamilton County she readily conversed with de- tectives, newspapermen and visit- ors. Sundays she joined heartily in the hymn-singing services. Her grand jury trial was brief. After 45 minutes of testimony were given, the panel returned true bills charging that she did unlaw- fully, purposely and by means of poison kill Jacob Wagner, 78, and George Gsellman, 67. Other Deaths Unexplained 40-foot wall bulwarks. A Japanese air observer said the led by the fact that she had been japanese cavalry and mechanized {labeled a “Modern Borgia,” denied ynits occupied the city's north gate this morning after severe fighting. Only a few Chinese defenders are however, believed to be inside the walls. NEW ALARM TO BE PURCHASED FOR FIRE CALL | law which destroyed the usefulness Although the trial was confined cent explosion in the Evans Jones| coal mine will be held Sunday in put on a determined rush that kept |the ball in threatening position in { &7 short of the $237,500 for October of| gpATTLE, Nov. 6.—The Federal i laflt‘hyear. R S ‘fo¢ Oclobbr % Bureau of Investigation has entered e gross income for Oclober Was yp,e patntuy death mystery of Mrs. ing Planes Make At- tack on Zaragoza of personal holding companies as means of escape from income taxes. ‘lu deaths of Wagner and Gsellman, }punce claim to have at hand the following additional evidence. City Councils Approves Re- the Elks Temple. | The Rev. Rudolph Frieling, of ithe Lutheran Church and the Rev. Leo Dufour, of the Catholic church,| will officiate. | The bbdy of Joe Cernick will be sent to Cle Elum, Washington, the home of his parents, for burial. The body of Augustine Yerbich, was sent out last week, destined for| Nebish, Minnesota, for interment. - e —— TRAIN HITS TRUCK; THREE | MEN KILLED ILOVEJOY, Georgia, Nov. 6. Three of the train crew were killed and the engineer and firemen were pinned under the wreckage, in the derailment of the Central Georgia Limited passenger train after it struck a truck at a grade crossing. Neone of the 27 passengers on the train was hurt. Reéscuers said they have been un- able to find the body of the engin- eer-and he is feared to be dead. The firamen was perhaps fatally injur- ed. He has been removed from the wreckage. Thé dead are James Allen, 29, his wife, aged 18 and son James Allen Jr., aged 2, occupants of the truck. It was first announced three of the! train crew were dead, but all are 'decounted for. Ketchikan Man to Be Married, Seattle SEATTLE, Nov. 6. — A marriage | license has been issued to John Thomas Roberts, 23, of Ketchikan, Alaska, and Helen Johansen, 19, of Seattle. ' $424,000 compared with $470,000 for |October of last year. The gross from 10 months this year was giv- through the fourth quarter,| - the Huskles had the Golden Bears|CD 8t $4,508000 against $4,352.000 back against their goal posts. The final gun went off with the score still nothing to nothing. California territory for the whole period. tprdeslon for depletion, depreciation| jor income tax for the same period | |was $2,194,000 against $2,157,000, |last year. | It’s a Good Idea To Start Eating | Those Ducks Next Wednesday, the 10th, is the last day for the hunter to have legal possession of ducks, it is an- nounced by Executive Officer Frank |Dufresne of the Alaska Game Com- |mission as a reminder to hunters who have birds that they better get busy and do some duck -eating. At that time a routine check of |meat markets and cold rooms will be made, he advises. | |“BOB” GLEASON IS TO AID AERONAUTICS GROUP WITH PROGRAM R. L. Gleason, radio technician for the Pacific Alaska Airways with headquarters at Fairbanks, arrived in Juneau yesterday on the plane from the Interior and will be sta- tioned here for about a month, doing special work for the Alaska |Aeronautics and Communication, having been loaned to the Commis- sion by PAA to assemble technical data. k SPECIAL TRIP FOR ESTEBETH The motorship Estebeth, Capt. Gus Gustafson and Purser Dave - JUNEAU BOUND FOR TRIP TO ARCTIC AREA SEATTLE, Nov. 6.—Robert Cooke,| 25, radio technigian who has been‘ designing sets for the Marconi com- pany in Montreal for five years, sailed on the Alaska today to help Sir Hubert Wilkins in his polar| search for the six missing Soviet| fliers. Cooke will leave the steamer at| Juneau and fly to Point Barrow. He is taking 1,000 pounds of radio equipment. He said he expects to have two Cirection finding stations) set up within two weeks. This Is Cooke’s first visit to Al- aska. i | | MRS. TRIPPLETT IS HOSTESS AT PARTY Mrs. Wood Triplett is entertaining this afternoon at a shower honor- ing Miss Eleanor Gruber, fiancee of Mr. Roderick Sutherland. The affair is held at the Triplett home on the Glacier Highway. Present are Mrs. Gene Gath, Mrs. Dell Richardson, 19, after learning the dead girl was a bride of only| four days at the time of her mys-| terious death. last year. The net income before| py o oy i the former Clara Comp- Stronghold in the Aragon sector, ton, stepdaughter of Lewis Boin-| ard, prominent San Francisco man.| The girl died this week from burns suffered last Saturday in a| This attorney is on record with a prediction that the 1937 tax law enacted last August would precipi- tate an extensive market dn-clino.l He predicted before the bill was| drafted that if personal holding| companies were made useless as means of escape from high taxes, rich men would begin liquidating MADRID, Nov. 6. — Forty Gov- ernment bombing planes have raid- ed the city of Zaragoza, rebel causing huge explosions and many fires. e e quest for Diaphone at Meeting Last Night As a precautionary step to main- Ernest Kohler, aged Germun‘ whom she “befriended,” died in| 1933, making her his sole legatee. Charles Qswald, another of her| friends, left her his property upon|lain the high standard of fire pro- his death. {tection throughout Juneau, the City Albert Palmer, 72, who had loan- Council last night voted to purchase od her $2,000, died early this yeur,:fl diaphone alarm which will be in- HAZEL J. SAFE; bathtub of scalding water. Her hus- band admitted her real identi Richardson’s sister, Claire, also ad-| mitted she had been implicated in placing numerous girls in houses of ill repute in different coast cit- ies. The FBI is interested in the case to link it in the Pacific Coast white) slave traffic. Scores of girls have| lately disappeared mysteriously and it is believed they are held as| white slaves. SENTENGED TO DIE; BREAK 1S MADE, LIBERTY Convicted Youth Finally Beaten Into Submission in Court Room TRINITY GUILD TO HOLD CARD PARTY Close to two dozen were assembled at the social gathering of the Trin- ity Guild, held last evening at the home of Mrs. Lucretia Botsford in the Feldon Apartments. SPOKANE, Wash., Nov. 6.—Tak- ing advantage of confusion caused by the collapse of his mother, Her- bert Allén, just past the voting age, made a desperate break for freedom lafter being sentenced to hang for | murder. With the court room in an uproar and by shouts of “get a doctor” mingling with the hysterical wail- The troller Hazel J., Ralph Jami- ing of two sisters, Allan jerked loose son, owner, has arrived safely in|from a deputy and attempted to Ketchikan, according to word re-|plunge to liberty. ceived here today from that city One sister tried to hold a deputy Jamison left here October 14 from but she was shoved aside Petersburg and when he failed to show up there some days later fear was feit for his safety. Yesterday he was reported seen at Cape Fan- shaw October 29, headed south. To- day’s news reveals that he is safe in Ketchikan, but was delayed by bad weather. e FAIRBANKS WOMAN HERE Mrs. John W. White of Fairbanks those corporations as fast as they| could. There are 5500 of them. [The attorney estimates they held upwards of a billion dollars worth of securities. | He argued that the market was weakened considerably by other fac- tors, including business recession, and that the 1937 tax law, by in- augurating this liquidation of per- sonal holding companies, precipitat- ed the decline. . | THE ATTORNEY'S STORY Now why should the rich man li- quidate his personal holding com- pany? For just this reason, the tax attorney explains: Befdte the 1936 corporate surplus tax law, a rich man operated| through his holding company to buy and sell actively in the mar- ket. Say he made money. He made enough perhaps to crowd his earn-! ings up into figures where the in-| come tax is as high as 75 per cent.| But by holding part of his earnings in his “personal corporation” as al reserve of extra capital, he escap-| ed paying the tax. He paid a tax| . . Allen was beaten into submission.|only on the amount he took from/lier, Mrs. |his holding company earnings. So| why should he risk his money in! speculation if the government gets ,most.of the profit? Maybe he ought to be glad to pay, but he isn't. Even with the 1936 tax law, rich men still found some use for per- sonal holding companies. But the 1937 law ended their value entire- She claims she repaid the loan. George Hels, 83-year-old coal dealer, now paralyzed, claims Mrs. Hahn fed him “doped” beer and spinch after making him “comfy.” Arsenic assertedly has been found in vital organs of some of the al- leged victims. of arsenic—have been found in oth- ers. Peison Bottle Found An empty poison bottle was re- covered from the basement of Mrs. Hahn's home. It is claimed by the prosecution that she had at least 13 faked poison prescriptions filled| at a Cincinnati drug store, and that| least| she bought morphine on at 11 occasions. Her boarder, Dr. Arthur Vos, re- vealed the fact that she was known to bookmakers throughout the cit gambling heavily on horse race Police records showed that she was once arrested on a bad-check charge. Despite the monotony of her long confinement in jail and the crush- ing weight of the evidence against Hahn lost none of her carefree confidence. “Thirteen is my lucky number,” she jocosely grins, referring to the (fact that she was arrested Friday, (July 13. The trial stood out as a thrilling \modern true-life story. D 1: HOLDEN UP RIVER | Traces of powerful| croton oil—used to destroy evidence, | Ramsay, will make a special trip to|Rudy Nieme, Miss Elizabeth Stew- Sitka tomorrow night at 6 o'clock,|art, Miss Geraldine Bodding, Miss officials of the Davis Transporta-|Blanche Thorgerson, Miss Etta Mae tion Company announced here to-|Kolasa, Miss Mary Nordness, Miss day. Miriam Lea, and Mrs T.om J. Selby. wife of the Chief Accountant for the Pacific Alaska Airways, was a pas- senger on the airliner Electra from Fairbanks yesterday afternoon. She is stopping at the Gastineau. ly In addition to informal visiting, plans were made for a public card party to be held in Trinity Hall on November 16 at which bridge and pinochle will be played. | Alex Holden made one flight to- |day with three passengers and air express to the Polaris-Taku mine. Passengers were Gene Weschen- felder, John Houk and Hans Froese. PR THE TREASURY’S STORY Now we go to the Treasury. (Co‘inflnued on Page T‘wo) !stalled In the City Hall and will issue an alarm to be heard within la radius of two miles. | Acting Fire Chief William Neider- | hauser initiated discussion on the matter by stating that under thz |new telephone system there is no |infallable way of notifying firemen when there is a fire. Under the lold system, the men were notified by six bells over the telephone. Total cost of the purchase” and |installation is estimated at $2,000. Councilman G. E. Krause moved that no freight except perishables be allowed to leave the City Dock until after boats are unloaded. The motion was passed. No action was taken on the taxing of punch board operation which was discussed by City Attorney Frank Foster. The monthly police, dock, and radio reports were read, and the nnual report of the Alaska Electric ight and Power Company Wwas made. — e —— FOOT BALL] RESTLTS The following are final scores of football games received up to 2 o'~ clock this afternoon: Duguesne 0; Carnegie Tech 6. Chicago 12; Michigan 13, Purdue 3; Fordham 21. Dartmout 33; Princeton 9. Penn State 7; Penn 0. Michigan State 13; Temple 6. Army 7; Harvard 6. Navy 13; Columbia 6. Illinois 6; Northwestern 0. Pittsburgh 21; Notre Dame 6.