The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 4, 1932, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XL., NO. 6021. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1932 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY U.S. EMPLOYEES ESCAPE CUT IN WAGES ECONOMY BILL PASSES HOUSE BY 316 10 6 Hoover Plan for Stagger Employment Is Eliminated FEDERAL WAGE CUTS ARE ALSO DEFEATED| Many Bureaus Are Abolish- ed — Congressmen Reduce Their Pay WASHINGTON, May 4. — The | House has passed the economy bill by a vote of 316 to 67. The bill is estimated to save $42,000,000 compared to the $210,- 000,000 in the original form. The House eliminated the Hoov- er plan for stagger employment of Federal workers by a vote of 250 | to 146. Two cuts straight wage employees were efforts for of Federal defeated. | Measures to curtail veterpns' | benefits were defeated. Congressmen’s salaries were ' re- duced $825 but 70 per cent of the 1,000,000 Government employees es-| caped a slash The Shipping Board was reduced from seven to four members. Many other bureaus were abol- ished. President Hoover was given authority to reorganize departments with Congressional approval. e BOAT WRECKAGE AND BONES ARE FOUND ON BEACH Craft Was Grant of Doug- las But Dead Man Is Mystery Grim relics, found within the past few days, are mute evidence of a sea tragedy that was enacted not far from Juneau several years ago. Broken pieces of a boat and several human bones were discov- ered on the beach between Dixon Harbor and Icy Point, which plac- es are between Cape Spencer and the westward side of Lituya Bay. The boat, judging drom the wreckage, was the fishing craft Grant, documented at the United States Customs House in this city as 'the T-300. Her registered pa- pors, which were filed May 19, 1919, by W. G. Rohrer of Douglas as owner, show that she was a fishing vessel 23 fest 4 inches in length, equipped with a ten-horse power gasoline engine. Rohrer Died at Douglas Inquiry at Douglas by the Cus- toms office established that Mr. Rohrer died at Douglas several years ago, but failed to ascertain to whom he had chartered or sold his boat. No report of the craft has been made to the Customs House in years. Advices relative to the finding of the wreckage of the vessel and of the human bones were re- ceived late yesterday by the Cus- tcms House from Joseph P. Ibach of Lemesurier Island, who wrote under cate of April 27 as dfol- lows: “There is wreckage of a boat on the beach between Dixon Har- bor and Tey Point. From the way it is scattered about, would say it must of happened years ago. The boat was painted green. Also found a leather shoe with bones of a foot to the ankle; also one leg bone from knee to hip. On the beach at Icy Point also found the guard of a boat painted green with T-300 and Grant on.” Cutter Will Investigate The information received from Mr. Tbach was communicated to Capt. C. H. Dench, commander of the United States Coast Guard Cutter Tallapdosa. He said that the Ccutter, which left Juneau this morning on a Red Cross flour dis- tribution mission to the Westward, would stop off the scene of the (Continuea on Page TWo) |had no bearing on [Frank J. Egan, Public De- Blighty ot -Bound Thespians essful tour of the United States, Betty s, who do a “sister act” on the stage, 1 to New York’s skyline from the >d they had landed on our hospit- r reception, but now they think ple are “just too lovely for anything.” GOV. HARTLEY PORTLAND CASE LOSES FIGHT, STATE PROBE ARE RULED OUT cer | |Battle However Just Start- Mayor Baker and Three Just Others Defendants in ing on Investigation of Offices Municipal Trial OLYMPIA, Wash., May 4.—Gov. R. H. Hartley has lost a point in {his fight to prevent an investiga- 'tion of the departments under his control and to be made by the tate Senate Committee. Homeward bound after a s and Stella Doyle, E are shown as th S. S. Mauretania. able shores with tiie Amer! TWO EXHIBITS, nglish s ; waved a fare PORTLAND, Oregon, May 4.— Two exhibits were ruled out at the trial yesterday of Mayor George L. Baker, City Commissioner Riley Mann and two others charged with malfeseance and negligence in con-; nection with the alleged overpay-| Superior Court Judge D. F. ment for a market site. Wright, of Thurston County, today The protest to the purchass was/overruled a demurrer brought by written by City CommissionrrRalphlGov. Hartley to the suit filed by Clyde who was absent when the the committee to compel the State vote was taken. This was ruled officers to allow the committee out as “argumentative, based on access to the State books and ac- pre-existing facts.” counts. The articles of incorporation of | The committee’s suit will now go the market company was also ban- !to trial on its merits. ned on the grounds that “changes| The committee was appointed by | in the structure of a corporation the 1929 Legislature to investigate | the charges the State Departments. against the city officials.” Department heads, at Gov. Hart- The trial was continued until to- ley's direction, refused the commit- morrow to permit the defendants | tee access to their records and the to attend a Council meeting to- suit resulted. dya. LIEUT. NOYES LEAVES FOR INTERIOR POST ———————— Lieut. John R. Noyes, Alaska Road Commission engineer, left on |the steamer Alaska Tuesday for | Cordova enroute to Chitina. He MYSTERY GASE DEVELOPING IN SAN FRANGISGO |and their little son. Lieut. Noyes will be engaged in | engineering work en the Gulkana- Chistochena route practically the erlire season, meking new location surveys and supervising construc- tion work. {Complete Aztec Codez AN FRANCISCO, Cal, May 4—| . mee search continued for Public| lS Acqulred b)’ T“lane; Defender Frank J. Egan, whe dis-| & e bl appeared Monday night, Deputy| NEW ORLEANS, Za., April 4— Coroner Jane Walsh revealed thal|pylane University authorities poss- Egan was the beneficiary in the ess what they % 1s the only will of Mrs. Jessie Hughes Wholiomplete Aztec cosdsemx fn1 the Unit-| was found dead on the street Te-|oq gtates cently, believed to have bemn the! mne codex, now on exhibit in vietim of a hit and run driver. lene university museum, is a 1053 | A telephone call presumably from | coon of deerskin ng’ painted | Egan to Chief of Inspectors Charlcs“figures W iy nndbwwmnien. | Dulla, Monday night, said: Pour twndred Sebrs ago the “They've got me. Two men haye,m ot aibe ®ia By . thelr got me here. I'm in a booth iN'guonien conquerers that those who the Ferry Building. They think T| o™ vt emished lineage am phoning home.” . for a certain number of genera- At this, the telephone connection tions would be exempt from taxa- Nas e |tion. Dr. Frans Blom, director R s {of Tulane middle American Te-| Mr. and Mrs. Frank Shotter search said:. of Hoonah are in Juneau for a| The Tulane codex is & record| few days and are registered at Of one of the nobles seeking ex- the Gastineau Hotel, ,emption in this way. fender, Disappears— Attempts to Phone |men north. { churia. CAPONE IS ON WAY T0 PRISON | IN ATLANTA GA. Gangster Hurried from Cell Under Guard to Waiting Train DEPARTURE SUDDEN; COMES AS SURPRISE (Starts Tc@mt to Begin Serving His Eleven Year Sentence CHICAGO, Ill, May 4—Flanked by half a dozen Federal agents, “Scarface” Al Capone, Chicago gangster, was hurried from his cell |in the Cook County Jail and start- 2d for the Atlanta, Georgia, peni- tentiary last night where he starts a 1l-year sentence following con- viction of income tax evasion. A caravan of police cars ac- companied the Capone party to the station where it arrived an hour before the train was scheduled to leave. “I am glad to get started,” Ca- |pone said. The train is due in Atlanta at |6:30 o'clock tonight. | Capone was permitted to take ;omy $10 with him and a limited |supply of his $30 shirts and $10 neckties. His departure was sudden and came as a surprise. It was be- lieved that he would be sent to Leavenworth instead of Atlanteky Capone bid farewell to his moth- er, wife, son, sister and younger brother earli in the afternoon. FALL MAY BE RELEASED IN PRESENT WEEK Sentence of Former Secre- tary of Interior Is Nearly Expired Another political fight betwee mary vote, in which Len Small ( cago, democratic nominee whose ton J. Cermak (phone in hand). NEW GENERAL MANAGER FOR BeVan Presley Succeeds H. C. Cantelow—Takes Up Duties on May 12 SEATTLE, May 4—BeVan Pres- ley, General Manager in Alaska for the Kennecott Company, succeeds H. C. Cantelow as General Man- ager of the Alaska Steamship Com- pany, with headquarters here. The appointment was announced today and it is said the change is a result of the economy pro- gram in consolidation of controlling interests of the Kennecott and Alaska Steamship companies. Presley arrives here on May 12 to take over his duties. Cantelow leaves here May 15 for California to take a long rest. WASHINGTON, May 4.—Albert B. Fall, former Secretary of In- terior, will probably be released from the New Mexico prison with- in the next few days. May 8 is the expiration of his sentence, de- ducting time for good behavior. Although the $100,000 fine im- posed with the one year and one day sentence has not been paid, the sentence is not understood by the Department of Jusiice to re- quire confinement until it is paid or Fall takes the pauper's oath. Fall was convicted of accepting a $100,000 foribe in connection with oil land leasees. PROSPECTORS BeVan Presley is well known on Gastiheau Channel. For a number of years he was employed at Treadwell, at the same time Horace Adams, now Assistant Agent of the Alaska Steamship Company in Ju- neau, was also on the Treadwell staff. Presley left Treadwell touche where he was Gene ager and was later transfe Kennecott. P S TRUITT AND BURTON LEAVE FOR SURVEY IN HYDER DISTRICT La- Man- To meke a survey of Salmon river flood areas, James Tr engineer on the District Engin- eer's staff, and Lieut. A. H. Bur- T0 B. C. AREA ton loft here last night on the AN steamer Admiral Evans for Ket- ~|chikan, and from there they wil Alaska Grubstake Com-|ehikan, and pany Lets Contract to The District Engineer e Capt. Barrington to expend funds in flood c work on Salmon river some! during the next fiscal year. T survey is to be used as a bas! for tthe improvement program. — .- SEATTLE, May 4—Fifty pros- pectors who wintered here are as- sured of transportation to Tele- graph Creek, British Columbia, on their annual search for gold vnen Capt. S. C.* Barrington w: let the contract by the Alaska Grub- stake Mining Company to tak: the CLOCK DEALER HEARS THEM ONLY WHEN THEY STOP MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 4—A W. Webster, 42, who has been op- erating a quaint little clock shon since he was 16, never hears the 100 clocks he keeps running all the time, he says. Yet his hearing is good. “If one of them stops,” he ex- Plains, “I hear that. But the run- ning of the clocks is music to my ear, although I mever seen to The Barrington Transportation Company is to take the men to their destination and they will be supplied with provisions before turned loose. Manchurian Inquiry Commission Reports ot T noticé,.” GENEVA, May 4—The first re= Webster has one 122-year-olc port of the League’s Manchuriangrandfather clock and a 230-year- Inquiry Commission makes no rec-|old English Bull's Eye watch al- ommendation for fixing responsi={most as big as an alarm clock bility for the situation in an=|Both are in good running condi- tion, ALASKA LINE GOVERNORSHIF Associated Press Phote n Chicago and downstate Illinois was forecast by results of the state's pri- right), former governor, again was chosen to head the state’s republican ticket in the November election. Opposing him will be Judge Henry Horner (center in group at left) of Chi- campaign was soonsored by political forces led by Chicago’s mayor, An- }Th(.msdnds ) ;NU PRISUN FUR H"S’z‘l‘ii""‘}s;lef DEFENDANTS IN el Isle yoNOLULUCASE | Late Reports Tell of Fatali-| ties as Result of Judge Davis Will Commit Typhoon Them to Navy Custody Pending Appeal | JOLO, Philippine Island, May 4.i —Belated reports received here | bring the deaths on the Island 0(! HONOLULU, H. I, May 4—As-| Sulu last Saturday as a result of surances that the Massie defend- a typhoon to 65. ants will not have to go to prison It is feared that many others as long as their fight against con- have been killed. victlon is in progress, is made Reports state that 65000 are|known here. They will probably homeless. |remain in custedy of the Navy at The Sultan of Sulu’s Palace wns‘Puarl Harbor. destroyed. It is understood that Judge -, — Charles 8. Davis will commit them | to the custody of the Naval officers 1Bu s RIVA L RY when they appear for sentence next | Friday. i ! The defendants are Lieut. Thomas | IRRITATES HEAD ;H. Massie, Mrs.. Granville Fortescue, {A. O. Jones and E. J. Lord. They were convicted last week of man- 5 i i WASHINGTON, May 4.—A bill ‘Lu give President Hoover power to {pardon the Massie defendants was |introduced in the Senate today. . - e slaughter in the killing of Joseph May~ 4—Miflam [ BILL FOR PARDON Ohlson Won't Cooperate " with Richardson High- ’ way on Tourists Kahahawai, young Hawaiian, who assaulted Lieut. Massie's wife. ! Irritated by the competition of-| |fered to the Alaska Railroad by the Richardson Highway Transpor- tation Company, Col. O. F. Ohlson, | General Manager of the railroad,| recently wrote to Oscar Breedman, | President of the highway company, | notifying him that the railroad| CHICAGO, Ill would 1o longer cooperate with the | Hopkins, stage and screen star company in obtaining nad accom-'who told the court she was di- :x:g?:]tmzmln:;lgr filrflsk;wzz:l;:’;;vorcm from her playwright hus- wrote to Col. Ol;Lson .saying that‘:‘u;l;'bymgr;n Zégl;kefll;dha:h:d:g;e]g in the matter of tourist travel the|rear the child as her own and set transportation company had helped | g5ide g trust fund for him the railroad more than the railroad | R B, had helped the transportation com- | any, and that in the future as in| ¢ travel over both the high-| chING HOME ry effort to have Interior Alaska tourist CANNES, France, May 4.—Am- / and the railroad. { Text of Corresponrence “ The correspondence between Col.| Ohlson and Mr. Breedman, as| printed in the Valdez Miner, fol- lows: |erican Secretary of State Henry L y; horage, Alaska, March 23, 1932, €timson boarded a liner here to- Mr. Oscar Breedman, 1duy for home, having concluded his President Richardson Highway work at the Disarmament Confer- | Transportation Co., je at Geneva but without suc- “‘Cordova, Alaska. g in efforts to bring about o {a Five-Power Conference on Dis- my understnding that you | armament. contracted with the Piggly| H W s S REEYRS iggly concern to handle their! FORMER EMPIRE STAFF rishable commodities from Val-| 3 E GOES dez to Fairbanks in trucks that you | have recently purchased; also that| G. V. you have announced inauguration|Empire business of bus service between Valdez and more than three years prior to Fairbanks this year. |April 15, left for the south on Withdraws from Agreemen |Lhe Princess Norah, yesterday. “In view of the above I find it{was accompanied by Mrs. Goss. necessary to withdraw my agree-| Mr. and Mrs. Goss expect to re- ! (Continuea vn Page Six) iturn to Alaska, OUTH nected with The office staff for 4 He' TEXAN WINS IN CLOSE CONTEST FROM 2 RIVALS Gov. RooseETakes Sec- ond Place and Al Smith Finishes Third LOS ANGELES COUNTY GIVES GARNER EDGE Alsbama_and South Dakes ta Delegates Pledged to Roosevelt N FRA N CISCO, Cal., May 4.—John Nance Garner, Speaier of the House of Rep- resentatives and Texas's en- try for the Demeocratic Presi- dential nomination, has ap- parently won this State’s Presidential primary on the basis of incomplete returns reported today. He was lead- ing both Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Ex-Gov. Alfred E. Smith for the California delegation. The vote from 9,138 out of 10,272 precinets in the State gave Garner 200477; Roosevelt 158959; and Smith 131,601. The same precincts gave President Hoover a conlidence vote of 584,669, or more than the combined vote for all Democrats. Heavy Los Angeles Vote Garner's success in the State was due to the large vote he polled in Southern California, particularly in Los Angeles County. He led there by a wide margin, with Roosevelt second and Smith a poor third. In Northern California, and especially in San Francisco, Smith ran slightly ahead of Roosevelt with Garner a negligible third. In the early returns from through- out the State, the three candidates ran neck and neck. The first thousand precincts to report gave Garner 17,587, Roosevelt 17,240 and Smith 16,463. As more and more returns were reported, Garner began to draw away from his two rivals. It is not expected that the complete vote will materially affect the present standings. ROOSEVELT GETS ALABAMA WASHINGTON, D. C., May 4— Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt today appeared assured of-all 24 of Ala- bama’s delegates to the Demo- cratic National Convention in Chi- cago next June. He has also added the ten dele- (Continued on Page Two) FRANCE LOSES FIGHT IN OWN STATE.PRIMARY. Former U. ?Senalor De- feated by Hoover in Maryland Election BALTIMORE, Maryland, May 4. —Former United States Senator Joseph I France was defeated in |his own State at the Republican preference primary on Monday. sident Hoover polled 26,619 |votes and France polled 16,920 | votes. | This is seen as the death blow |to France’s ambitions to be Presi- |dent. He has been entered in pri- maries in numerous other - States, mostly unopposed. Asks Democrats To Pay Raskob Just Debt Owed NEW YORK, May 4.—For- mer Gov. Alfred E. Smith to- day appealed to the Demoerat- ic Party to pay back to Na- tional Chairman John J. Ras- kob $320,000 it still owes because it is a just debt. asks that the debt be paid order the party may function as an untrammeled organi- zation, i ; | |