The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 5, 1940, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL VOL. LV., NO. 8380. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1940. "THE DAILY ALASKA THE TIME” EMPIRE MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS GERMAN NAVAL VESSELS ARE BOMBED Eleven Year Old Girl, Cold Blooded Slayer HORRIBLE CRIME IS REVEALED Four Perso—n; Hammered to Death—Girl Admits She Killed Two POLICE, SUSPICIOUS GET PART CONFESSION Murderess ?e—rmed Cruel- est Individual One Of- ficer Ever Contacted BULLETIN—LOS ANGELES, Cal, April 5—~This afternoon, the County Autopsy Surgeon announces that Mrs. Davis bled to death after both wrists had been slashed apparently by a razor blade. The announcement was made by Dr. Frank Webb who said the artery in the right arm had been severed and she died from loss of bleed. He declared there is no evidence of a skull frac- ture which makes the tragedy more complicated. Barton Davis, the father, is still insistent Chloe is innocent and repeatedly sobs out: “Chloe could not have done anything like that and if she did, her mether made her.” LOS ANGELES, Cal., April' 5— The sole survivor of a quadruple slaying, 11-year-old Chloe Davis still clings to the story she killed only her mother, Mrs. Loita Davis, 43, and 3-year-old brother Marquis. Police Captain Edgar Edwards said however, he believed the girl ham- mered to death not only her mother, and brother, but her sisters, Daphne aged 10, and Deborah Ann aged 7. Turns Fire Fiend Newest Destroyer Launched ¥ Carrying many «f the latest developments in U. S. naval construc- tion, the 348foot destroyer “Mayo” the Bethlehem Yards at Quincy, Mass. s shown as she hit the water at This new addition to Uncle Sam’s Navy is named for the late Admiral Henry Thomas Mayo, World | War Commander and hero of the Atlantic Feet. AlaskaRoad GRUENING TRADE PACT LIMITATION IS HARMFUL President Speaks Out Re- | garding Change Pro- posal, Reciprocal BULLETIN— WASHINGTON, April 5~The Senate late this afterncon sided with President Rocsevelt and refused by a vote of 46 to 34 to limit extension of the trade agreement program te one year. The rejection came after a bitter debate, studded with veiled references to the political significance of the program as an issue in the Pres- idential campaign. WASHINGTON, April 5—Presi- dent Roosevelt said he believed it is very harmful on the part of this nation if the bill to extend the reci- procal Trade Treaty act is limited to one year. The President spoke at the con- ference today of the newsmen short- ly after it was reported on excel- lent authority that Vice-President Garner, and President of the Senate, would support the amendment to limit extension fo that time. The Administration supports the three years proposal. President Roosevelt said it 1s not good policy for the country to have a scrap over tariffs every year. Senstor David I. Walsh of Mas- sachusetts introduced the one year amendment immediately after the Senate session opened today and said it would amount to a “temporary continuation” of the trade program. | Secretary of State Cordell Hull, |at a conference with newsmen, char- acterized the proposal as utterly unfeasible. G { —— .. TORPEDOED SHIP i it o A “ship that’s not a ship, from New Orleans recently, bound for Hawaii by way of the Panama Canal. vessels on the long trip which will make her available as a new bulwark in Pacific defenses. can handle any Navy cruiser or two destroyers at one time. Pinning on the Diaper” ;] a 6,000-ton floating drydock of the U. S. Navy, is shown as it began its voyage She is being escorted by two The drydock NEW CHINA Starts Something; Fracas !REGIMEIS Spyeading in Washingfon ALASKA LEADS PACIFIC SALMON PACK FOR 1939 Tofal Is 9,75—9,265 Cases- 5,263,153 Came from Alaska Canneries WASHINGTON, April 5.—Accord- ing to a United States Bureau of Fisheries preliminary statement the { By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, April 5—Parlor Game: It's called “Pinning on the Diaper.” Interfor Secretary Ickes, | doing a little extra-curricular “stint for the Democratic party, started the whole thing in a magazine blast |at Tom Dewey. He made some scathing reference to pinning the young presidential aspirant’s diaper up behind. Representative Hoffman (Repub- lican) contemptuously pointed out on the floor of the House that Mr. Ickes didn’t know his diapers, dem- onstrated pinning cn infant panties with one pin. Opponents called Mr. Hoffman old-fashioned. BEING EYED U. 5. Government to Hold | Tokyo Responsible for Overt Ads \VASHKN(‘-T&;I. “.;pfll 5. — The United States Government is keep- ing an eagle eye on the Japanese- sponsored government of Premier Wang Chiang Wel at Nanking in occupied Chinese territory. l | { ‘The United States Government is determined to hold Toyko abso- lutely responsible for any action which might infringe on American rights. -o- AIR FORCE MAKES RAID NALZI BASE Four Destroyers Reported Damaged from Brit- ish Shells Dropped WESTERN FRONT IS REPORTED AS QUIET {Great Brifain, France Said to Be Forming Em- pire Combine BULLETIN—LONDON, April 5.—British Aircraft have bombed German naval vessels near Wil- helmshafen and it is officially re- ported that four destroyers were badly damaged. The Admiralty makes this announcement late today. (By Associated Press) An uneasy pall and apparent in- action hangs today over the Europ- ean war front. Both the French and German communiques issued this morning veported the usual patrol skirmishes on the Western front stating that about 1 diers were killed 16 quie he diploma is talk in London of a possible joint British-French coml tion aimed at forming an Empire co-partner- ship so strong that “no aggressor nation will challenge it.” Great Britain has launched the newest economic weapon whereby the g£nglish Commercial Corpora- tion, Limited, will sell products to Southeastern Europe and buy up goods which Germany otherwise might secure. a re 5 FOU . PROTESTS | “ g cRewies ARMY (UT Eighflhousm-Ton French 1939 Pacific salmon pack, on the| The squabble spread. Now the | basis of 48 one-pound cans to the capital is divided into camps and case, totalled 9,759,265 cases. }15 eager to demonstrate opposition The total for Alaska was 5,263,153 fallacies on every occasion. ‘There| cases; for Puget Sound and Wash- | are one-pinners, two-pinners, three- | ington Coast Columbia River and|pinners, square-riggers and advo- Edward said he believes the girl, attempting to disguise the whole af- fair, tried to burn her mother’s body. | ou e ou [ 1 ——————— She dragged a mattress from a day | B I | 5 NORWEGIAN MOST ON STAND "IN HANLEY CASE | \ | | bed in her mother’s bedroom, and | placed her mother’s body on the! | cates of the flying triangle. mattress and then started a fire.| The nightgown wds burned from her mother’s body. Cruel, Cold Blooded Dr. Paul Deriver, police pychia-| trict, called the girl the “cruel- ist, coolest-blooded individual I ever met.” The girl demanded a bottle of beer while eating her dinner last night during questioning and when this was refused, she snapped out: Stolid Indifference “Mother and I split a boitle a couple of days ago.” The girl said of her father, “he’s | nuts.” She described herself as a book- | ‘worm. When the girl's father, Barton Davis, broke down and sobbed, “Oh, my poor baby,” the girl replied: “Buck up Dad, don't let it get you down.” B Tragedy Revealed The bodies of the four victims | were found in the Davis home yes- terday and it was then given out that the mother beat the three small children to death with a claw ham- mer then died on a flaming mattress after setting fire to her hair. Girl's Story Chloe, it was stated, had been beaten and was found unconscious. | The girl, then questioned by the police, sobbingly said: “Mama believed demons were af- ter her. She loved us and we loved her and that is the only reason she could have done it. I fought her and tried to take the hammer away from her after she hit me on the back of my head.” Police Suspicious The police, however, became sus- picious after making a thorough in- vestigation of the rooms and the various statements made by Chlee and the latter changed her version of the tragedy by admitting she killed only her mother and little brother. Part of Story ‘The girl, during the night, when questioned by her father and po- lice, insisted that both she and her (Continued on Page Seven) {Magnuson Says Interna- | tional Highway Will | Hit Large Centers WASHINGTON, April 5—Chair- Says Anchorage Air Base Is Crying Need for Na- tional Defense WASHINGTON, April 5. — GOV. | ang drifting after apparentl | Tanker Picked Up-Be- ing Towed fo Port LISBON, April 5—The Portu- guese steamer Carvalho Araja has wirelessed that she has found an | 8,000-ton French tanker abandoned y being man Warren G. Magnuson of the Ernest Gruening today expressed torpedoed on the Atlantic. Alaska International Highway Com- mission, announced today it is keck into the War Department AP';damage& planned to recommend selection of Propriation bill the $12,000,000 sum|ipe crew. for the Anchorage Army Air base.” | an inland route from the United States to the Territory. The route would touch centers . of population, said. He declared the report which will be made to the President soon, will urge the Commission’s life be extended four years and that ne- gotiations be continued with Can- ada over the route’s financing. o Inferviews Robert Dyer, Personnel Officer for Siems Drake Puget Sound, Sitka, Alaska, will be in Juneau April 23, 24, 25 and 26 for the purpose of in- terviewing applicants for positions af the U. 8. Naval Air Station, at | sitka. | Information as to where Dyer may | be contacted will be released later through the offices of the Alaska | Territorial Employment Service. — e FHA TRIP Herb Redman, Chief Underwriter for the Federal Housing Adminis- tration, left for Ketchikan on the Baranof for several days’ FHA bus- iness. Job Seekers Dyer Coming, FirstSales the hope that the Senate would “put Gov. Gruening said: portant, not only to Alaska, but to the whole scheme of national de- fense. “The Government has spent $400- 000,000 fortifying the Hawaiian Is-| lands while Alaska, on the shortest route to the Orient from the Unit- ed States, is undefended at the present time Of Halibut At Seattle Fifty-six Thousand Pounds Are Sold for 16% fo 17% Cents SEATTLE, April 5. — The first1 sales of halibut at Seattle this season were made today. Three ves- sels came in from the local banks and sold as follows: Orbit, 17,000 pounds, selling for 17% and 16% cents a pound; Re- covery, 20,000 pounds, 17% and 16 3/4 cents; Spray, 19,000 pounds, 17% cents a pound straight, 0 “This sum, | tow and is bringing her to port. large eliminated by the House Appro- Magnuson Priations Committee, T consider im- The tanker sustained only minor but there is no trace of The steamer has the tanker in| Horror in | Poland Is | Now Told Epidemi(—flkes Heavy Death Toll-Poles De- ported in Cattle Cars PARIS, April 5—The Polish in-| formation center here reports that an epidemic is causing 250 deaths a day in Lwow, in Southeastern Po-,’ land. This is in the Russian occupied part of the country. The Paris report says that the| epidemic followed a famine and that there are not enough medical sup- plies to check it. Infant mortality in the stricken area is said to have reached 75 per- cent. The Polish statement said that Soviet authorities are arresting 500 persons a day and deporting them to Russia in cattle trains. It is also claimed that hundreds of persons are freezing to death in sub zero weather. the Oregon Coast 728846; British Columbia 1, 539,057; Japanese and Siberian 1,124,329; other Japanese 1,103,880. Southeast Alaska packed 2441 |cases of chinook or king salmon, 195,000 red or sockeye; 66,236 silver or coho; 1,475,358 humpback or pink; 296,104 chum salmon, Central Alaska totals were 24,512 kings; 655,399 red; 37,886 silver or coho; 1,054,665 pink; 239,446 chum. Western Alaska including Bristol Bay, packed 5,503 king; 1,115,491 red; two pink; 94,750 chum. e OVER MILLION CASES SALMON REMAIN UNSOLD Association of Pacific Fish- eries Make Report fo End of March SEATTLE, April 5—The Associa- tion of Pacific Fisheries said the stocks of canned salmon remaining unsold at the end of March was 1369535 cases. This information is based on re- ports from 81 companies represent- ing 99 percent of last year's pack. This total is 45,173 more cases than were unsold at the same time last year. There was a movement in March of 120,618 cases, it is estimated. E——— GAVRIL RETURNING Mike Gavril, “Big Mike” to his friends on the Chanuel, is return- ing from a vacation trip to the States aboard the North Sea which left Seattle this morning. e LINGO DUE 'George A. Lingo, Register of the Land Office, is expected to visit Juneau on a short business trip next week, friends reported today.| VESSEL IS ‘'because every time you hand out a | Hospital baby wards and nurs- | ereis, which should be final arbit- |ers in such a matter, refuse to en- |ter the fracas. It's a political fight, they say, and in political fights there ji“‘ no room for science. Washington Traffic in a Mess SEATTLE, April 5.—Joseph Most The Capital ought to be setting ' testified today that one reason he an example for the United States, Wished E. B. Hanley, owner of the but instead it offers a driving prob- ' Copper River Packing Company to lem that would make breaking trail turn over control of /the million in the African bush seem like a dollar company to him was because | joy-ride. | “He had seen men who become | There are so many rules and reg- | feeble minded in their old age.” |ulations that not even the veteran! Most said that in accepting con- taxi drivers can remember them, trol, he desired to make a contract The regulations change throughout SO agreeable to Mrs. Hanley and |the day. At 4 o'clock you get fined Other members of the family that |for making a U-turn where it was, they would wish to renew it when lo. k. at 3. Westbound streets be- it expired. |come eastbound at the turn of the| B i 5 7, |clock. Many corners have s0 many | |signs, it takes 15 minutes to read pRoTE(TED ElK them. | Being a capital traffic cop must be one of the most discouraging SHOT; AFOG“AK jobs in the U. 8. Not because of (all the rules and regulations, but| | Wildlife Agent Appre- hends Poacher-Herd Now Numbers 200 ticket, you stick out yor neck. | Nearly every one in Washington ! has pull or he wouldn't be here. In the last two weeks, 125 traffic In one of the few such violations on record, Robert Agick was arrest- ed this week for killing a cow elk from the protected animals on Afog- tickets were “fixed.” Add to that all the violations the police didn't, nak Island. Agick was sentenced to serve 50 days in the Pederal jail give tickets for bacause they knew | it would be useless. at Kod Wwildlife Agent Jack Ben- rresting officer. ?Says He MConlrol of Company Because Old Man Feeble Minded ‘ \ | <‘ | Examples: 1) Man parking in drive- way turned out to be a foreign Embassy official. Ticket torn up, Reason, diplomatic immunity. (2) Rep. Dash-Dash requested ticket handed young lady be changed to warning. Granted, (3) Man parker in restricted zone turned out to be official collecting Finnish relief funds. Ticket changed to warning. Rea- son, it's a worthy cause. That's a rough idea. Traffic police badges here should bear the motto: All js futility. In- vit to tourists shonld read: | | Eight ¢ calve e p ed on | Afognak Island in 1928. They were brought north from their native |Olympic Peninsula of Washington. | At present the herd numbers about 200 and is increasing rapidly. The Alaska Game Commission pians an open season on elk as soon as the mals become sufficiendly well e, ! tablished. (Continued on !;age Seven) . AIR RAIDED | Germar Craft Drop Eight . Bombs on Ship - Two | Passengers Injured | OSLO, April 5—Bombed eight |times by German planes, the Nor- wegian passenger ship Mira, with two of 107 passengers slightly in- jured, has arrived here from Eng- land. | The two passengers were injured by bomb splinters. The Mira, 1,100-ton ship, sailed from England, accompanied by a British convoy. One passenger said: “The Ger- imans had several planes in the | squadron. One attack came at us in pairs. All passengers stood on the deck, ready to go into lifeboats. Five bombs were showered on us |at one time and in other attacks, |three more bombs were dropped from the German planes, which (kept at a reasonable altitude so |as to escape any possible gunfire. Some bombs exploded very -close to us. We did see one British de- stroyer hit one attacking plane | which came down and crashed in the sea.” | - - FISH PRICES AT PRINCE RUPERT PRINCE RUPERT, B. C, April 5. | —Seventy-six thousand pounds of halibut were sold here today for ‘12,90 and 8 cents a pound. } AT KETCHIKAN | KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Aptil Halibut sold here today brought 1110 and 10 cents a pound, =