The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 27, 1933, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR VOL. XLI., NO. 6325. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS_ MAY POSTPONE PAYMENT WAR DEBTS ROOSEVELT T0 ASK FOR POWER T0 MAKE MOVE Suspension of Pa yments Will Be Placed Before U. S. Congress TARIFF ADJUSTMENT AUTHORITY SOUGHT No Agreements Have Been| Made So Far—World Truce Pending WASHINGTON, April 27.—Presi-! understood, | power to| debt payments! is for dent Roosevelt, it will ask Congress postpone the war to the United States until after the World Economic Conference,! which will be held in London. The Administration also plans to seck authority to adjust tariffs that will take a primary place in the!| Pr Fr ent’s conferences with form nch Premier Edouard Herri: Bennett The French emmisaries express ba- lief that agree to a consultative pact makes{ it easier for France toenter an arms| reduction agreement. No Agreements President Rosevelt, it is willing to consider war debt re- vision after the Conference but it is that he had entered into agreement for the postponement of| the June 15 payments or-laid davm any plan for debt settlement. Secretary of State Cordell Hull indicated a world truce on taritfs pending the convening of the Lon-| don conference is under considera-| tion and that the United States is| favorably inclined. M'DONALD IS ON WAY HOME AFTER BANQUET British Premier Expresses' Hopes for Results at London Conference NEW YORK, April 27—British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald | expressed hope last night that the | United States will t at the same table” at the forthcoming International Eooxmmu Conference. The Prime Minister addrcssed the Pilgrims Society of the United States, and said: “No greater blessing can come upon the nations of this world than that Great Britain and the United States should remain in affectionate relations.” Farewell to U. S. Coming to New York City late after the economic conversations with President Roosevelt, the Prime Minister bade America farewell amidst a brilliant settifig with not- ables in the financial, political and social world about him. The Premier and his daughter sailed for England on the Beren- garia after the Pilgrims’' banquet. Heartfelt Thanks Just before sailing for England, Premier MacDonald sent the fol-| lowing message to President Roose- velt: “T cannot leave these shores with- out sending you a message con- taining our heartfelt thanks for the cordial and generous hospital- ity which you and Mrs. Roosevelt extended to Ishbel and myself, and for the friendly welcome which we everywhere received.” COLEMAN VISITS THREE TOWNS AND ALL OPTIMISTIC Herb Coleman returned to Ju- neau on the Admiral Watson from/ a business trip around the mangle route, to Skagway, Haines and Sitka. Activity in preparation for, the fishing season was evident, accord- ing to Mr. Coleman, and residen’s in the three towns appeared optim- istic, and Canadian Premier Richard B. American willingness to; is stated,| World Economic| emphasizad | no| and Great Britain Chicago’s New Mayor Self-Made Battled Own Way to the Peak‘ * Edward J. Kelly Quit as Apprentice Mortician to Take - Pick and Shovel Job and Rose to Pinnacle of Engineering Profession. i | | l | | | | Mavor EDWARDS KELLY asd FAMILY While watching workmen excavating for the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, Edward Joseph Kelly, a young apprentice to a mortic: 3 | decided there was no future in embalming, so he threw up his job and took one with a pick and shovel. Today, he is not only at the peak of the engineering profession, but is Mayor of his native city. The man who hke- up the reins dropped from the hand of Anton Cermak, Cl ugo 's murdered executive, was born in 1876 in the city he now rulal, 'of Irish parents. He attended public schools and night classes until 'he came of working age. Then he got the funeral parlor job which |he left to become a ditch digger. But he wasn't long at that humble job. Using up his spare time studying engineéring at Notre Dame Umvenlly, Kelly was soon on his way to the top. An idea of his prog- /ress may be guagud from the fact that for the past nine y he h been president of the South Park system of Chicago, and ltor of a $120,000,000 sanitation district improvement project. He been called one of the foremost builders of modern Chicago, for the was associated with every plan for civic betterment in the Windy City these many years. Chicago’s new Mayor has been twice married. His first wife, the former Mary Edmund Roche, of Chicago, died i 1918. He married Miss Margaret E. Kirk, of Kansas City, in 1922, | They have three adopted children, Joseph and Patricia, twins of 6, i and Steohen. 2. | 'Civil Service System Is to Be Continued by Roosevelt; POLITICAL ACE By BYRON PRICE “ Press, Washington) ‘! WASHINGTON, April 15.—(Spe- | cial Correspondence)—The question whether President Reosevelt favors unimpaired maintenance of the | Civil Service System, under which v I S I TI N 8 u SI many thousands of government jobs ‘am kept out of politics, appears to have been answered, ‘partially at Herriot, Hors o Talk with| least, in the affirmative. Roosevelt Veteran In so far as it has disclosed its ) of Battles Actwns Answermg Questwn (Chief of Bureau, The Associated | intentions, the Administration leans toward continuation of existing By M. K. WHITELEATHER PARIS, April 27.—France has/ |sent her outstanding political fig- ure to President Roosevelt's White i House conversaticns. | Edouard Herriot, the nomad of French politicians, veteran of Eu- ropean diplomatic battles and ar- dent advocate of payment of the defaulted French debt, has arrived methods of making up the Gov- ‘ernmem payroll, rather than large «scale reversion to the Jacksonian policy of awarding all the govern- | mental spoils to the political vic- tors. | This inclination disappoints many of the politicians. A government berth is so alluring a haven in | these days of unemployment that | various members of Congress and others have succumbed to the urze| in America as spokesman of the of their satellites and would like Daladier government. _ito see Mr. Roosevelt go the limit Jaunt Suits His Style | in providing jobs for the politically Herriot, at 61 is equipped to speak | deserving. with authority. He has been thrice| Recent weeks have seen an agi- Premier, is a present Chairman of |tation for doing away with those the Foreign Offairs Committes of regulations which require appli- {the Chamber of Deputies and for cants for postmasterships to pass long has been leader of Liberal examinations. forces of the country. Farley says no such change Such a trip fits perfectly into | contemplated. | Herriot's scheme of life. He is al- | is United States in 1924 as a private | classification act, which Msts all |citizen and he often recalls this{government employees in various | voyage, specially the time he spent grades and pays them accordingly. in and around Boston. One of the purposes of this act . Mayoralty a Twe-Day Job He-rrwt lives in a hotel in Paris politics, The repealists are gefl,mg (Continued on Page Seven) 1“ “(Continued on Page Seven) Postmaster General | Pending in Congress are seve*al‘ {ways on the go. He visited the pills to repeal a law known as the| | was to eliminate favoritism and EARTH SHOCKS AT ANCHORAGE, OTHER PLACES Severe Tremors Are Re- ported from Seward to Dutch Harbor STOCK SHAKEN FROM SHELVES IN STORES Plate Glass Wlndows Are Cracked—Power Line Connections Broken ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 27.— A heavy earthquake shook Anchor- age for two or three minutes start- ing at 4:50 o'clock yesterday aft= ernoon. Buildings swayed and the elec- tric power line was disconnected. Stock ‘was shaken from shelves in stores and several large plate glass widows were broken. Slight tremors continued for half ah hour after the main shock. The movement seemed to be south to morth. SEWARD IS SHAKEN SEWARD, Alaska, April 27—A | quake was felt here a few seconds after a shock was reported at An- c‘mmg Seward was lifted like a |bon in a rough sea. The move- {ment was north and south. The shock stopped clocks and threw canned goods from shelves. The movement continued for five minutes. The United States Signal .Corps. operators suspended business tem- porarily. o { OUT TO FAR WEST ; DUTCH HARBOR, Alaska, April |27—A slight earthquake was felt here at 12:20 o'clock yesterday aft- ernocon. Buildings here and at | Unalaska trembled. No damage is E reported. | | : QUAKING CONTINUES ! ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 27.—| | Quakes continued today and are | rocking the earth with severe jolts The shocks are being felt virtually| | every hour. A Persons now here, who were in| the recent Southern California quake, said the movement here s “almost as severe” as there. BUSINESS 18 ON INCREASE OVER NATION Commerce and Industry Experiences Most Striking Revival NEW YORK, April 27. — From| Wall Street, where stocks have | perked up, to the Pacific North- west, where the lumberman’s axe |is swinging more busily, betler| | business and reempolyment is the| | report from many sections of the nation. Commerce and industry for the past month experienced one of the, { most striking revivals in mmt‘ years. \ A sharp percentage of the gains reflect of course the rebound from| the extremely low levels of the March banking crisis. Nevertheless, some lines are ap- \ | Patterson, proaching or have actually crossed 3 (cb}EnIJed “on piéé “Seven) | JUDGMENT FOR - 333,000 GIVEN L. B. Wallbridge Wins His Case in District Court at Fairbanks FATRBANKS, Alaska, April 27— L. B. Wallbridge has obtained a $35,000 judgment in the District Court against the New York-Alas-| ka Gold Dredging Company for services rendered and money loan- ed. John L. McGinn was attorney |of one cert per OCEAN CRUISE AWARDED BEAUTIES FROM TACOMA o Popularity had a practical value in Tacoma, Wash., when these misses won a contest and were awarded a trip. Here we see them aboard the iiner San!a Rosa, ready for a sea ]ourn:y Left to right: Ruth Anderson, Louise Receconi, Louise Phelps and Norine Trace Owens, __(Associated Press Phote) NERLAND BILL FOR NONPARTY PRIMARY WINS {House Upsets Advance Dope by Passing Non- partisan Primary Act In a surprising upset over ad- vance predictions, Representative Andrew Nerland, Republican of the Fourth Division, successfully guided his measure to establish a non- partisan primary election system to |a victory in the House yesterday afternoon on a nine to seven vote. Five Democrats joined the four Republican members to put it through. Democratic members vot- ing for it were: Judson and Green, First, Ross, Second, Hofman and Third, and Nordale, Fourth Division. Use Single Ballot The measure provides that only one ballot shall be used in the primary elections., The names of all candidates, irrespective of par- ty, will be printed on it, and the two high candidates for nomina- tion for any office, regardless of whether they are of the same or Jdirferem. parties would enter the general election, Under it party officers would continue to be elected by popular vote. In the Senate, however, there |1s a bill pending to take this out of the primary election and leave it to the respective parties to se- lect the method of electing na- tional committeemen and delegates to national conventions. Pass Other Measures After amending it to permit sale of proprietary medicines and oth- er general drug accessories in gen- eral stores anywhere, Hofman’s bill to regulate the practice of phar- macy was passed by the House yes- terday afternoon. House Bill No. 81, giving the | Commissioner of Education blanket porwer to alter, suspend or create |new rural school districts, indefi- nitely postponed by a unanimous vote. It was originally introduced by Mr. Hofman by request. The House passed four and killed two of its own bills this morning. |and considered the Department of |Mines bill in second reading. ‘It continued that measure on the calendar until next Saturday. Kills Halibut Bill It indefinitely postponed Kehoe's bill to exempt buyers of fresh fish from Territorial tax of one-tenth pay. The vote w defeated a measure | appropriating $1,050 for the relief of Peter Knud- sen, of Bristol Bay, 13 to 3. It ' passed Green's measure to provide for additional flood con- trol work on Salmon River at Hy- der, alloting $5,000 /rom the First Division’s road fund and appro- voting it down for the plaintiff, \ " (Continued on Page Two) ,' time of the explosion, who is “Miss Tacoma.” HOUSE SELEGTS CONFEREES FOR wrm s i | BEER MEASURE awaiting the birth of her child o acneed | in St. Ann’s hospital. S e T s TBengte Refuses to Accept ter at Haines, was tried befor= | Amendments and House Will Not Recede the United States District Court in Ketchikan for embezzlement of post office funds and sen- tence pronounced upon the re- The Senate yesterday artemmni turn of the Court to Juncau to |by a unanimous vote declined to a year and a day in jail. concur in the House amendments Judge Justin W. Harding ac- to the beer regulation and licensing companied the sentence with a bill and returned that measure to recommendation of parole. Mrs, the lower branch with the request, Berry, whose sentence is to be that it recede. But the House of served a tthe Oregon State |Representatives was not less obdur- Prison in Salem, has been held /ate in its position and unanimously refused to recede. Speaker McDonald then named Representatives Green, Kehoe and in Juneau until the birth of her child before preceeding on Hellerich as a committee on con-| ference to act with a like commit- her journey to Oregon where tee from the Senate in an effort she will complete her term. Mrs, Berry is being attended by Dr. W. W. Council. o, o, {to reach an agreement in the dif- ferences between the two houses.| |Tt was expected that President Shattuck would name the Senate FRANCEIS TO : IS PREDICTION the scope of beverage dispensaries.| The Senate bill, a revision of Hel- lerich's original measure prohibited Foreign Minister Sees Three Powers in Pact to Help World Nellie Berry in Hospital Awaiting Birth of Child Nellic Berry changed her role today from embezzler, serving such dispensaries from handling anything except draft beer and | beer in uncapped bottles. This pro- vision, it was felt in the House, would shut out soft drink parlors,| cigar stores and pool rooms fromn handling beer for sale on the prem- ises. This was not in line with the( declared purpose of the House, and it promptly struck off the limiting| words and opened beverage dis- PARIS, April 27.—Premier Dala-' dier is said to be actively prepar- { ing to pay the defaulted $19,000,000 | war debt installment due the Unit- ‘?dF::';:- Minister Bonnet said no pensaries to the sale of any legal . commodity. It, also, t the li- effort will be spared in aiding 4 also, cut the 1 stabilization of other countries'| monies and financial experts see France heading toward a three-| power pact with the United Stales and Great Britain for this pur- pose. ————— THREE PERSONS cense fee for the establishments from $250 to $100 per year. It, also, provided for a wholesalers’ |license which the Senate had stricken from the Hellerich meas- ure. There were other differences, but ’(hvy were not considered serious, and it was felt if the dispensary matter could be settled all of them could be composed in short order.| — - 3 SHIELS RETURNS HOME | s 1 Archie W. Shiels, President of| | the Pacific American Fisheries, Inc., BUMB EXPl'ns'nN | who arrived on the Princess Norah lrom Seattle, coming to Juneau on RAVENNA, Ohio, April 27— ' business, returned south today on Three persons were killed and six the Canadian Pacific liner. He| injured, mone ecritically, when a was accompanied by Mrs. Shiels. bomb exploded at the home of Ed- e eee ward Rock, a barber. The police ascribed the act to| persons who have a grudge against . Y Rock. S. E. Pope, who recently resigned The dead are Mrs. Rock, Silas from the First Nalional Bank as| Eldridge and Sylvester Barnes, the ' EXecutive Vice - President, accom- Jatter the father of Mrs. Rock. (panied by his son Jack, left on Rock was not at home at the the Princess Norah enroute to Cali- { fornia, POPES GO SOUTH SEATTLE MOB MAKES ATTACK ON OFFICIALS Fifteen Demonstrators Are Under Arrest in Se- attle Disorder SHERIFF, DEPUTIES HAVE BROKEN BONES Police Reserves Finally Called Out — Clubs Are Used Freely SEATTLE, April 27. Fifteen demonstrators are under arrest, held on open charges while Sher- iff Claude Bannick and eight de- puties are nursing broken bones, severe cuts or bruises as the out- growth of a riot during the eviction of a family from a home on which Frank Franzen had discontinued payments of buying the home. In the battle, stones, iron pipes, baseball bats and razors were used by the crowd numbering between 200 and 300. One of the most seriously in- jured was Deputy August Busse, former University of Washington football star, on who two men wielded an automobile jack while he was in the basement of the house. He was badly beaten aboui the head and may have a fractured skull, Sheriff Bannick’s head was gash- ed by a flying rock. County Detective William Sear’s Jaw was dislocated by a rock. Deputy Sheriff George Arnold’s ear was partially severed with a razor. County Detective Harlan Calla- han’s hand was broken. Police reserves were summoned to the scene and officers used their clubs freely. Artur Page, itinerant, was badly hurt about the head. The others injured declined to give their names. The eviction was ordered by the court and had been delayed in ex- ecution for two days to allow an- other home being found for the family. Franzen had paid $2,900 on the $4,500 purchase price but had nof paid anything for the past year. — INFLATION BILL VOTE PROMISED FOR LATE TODAY Free Coinagej Silver Pro- vision Now Included in Measure BULLETIN—WASHINGTON, April 27.—The Senate has ap- proved that section of the in- flation proposal which would authorize the President to re- duce the gold content of the dollar. The action does not af- fect the silver coinage amend- ment which remained in the bill. WASHINGTON, April 27.—The Democrats were this afterncon seeking to bring the Administra- tion’s inflation bill, now containing provision for free coinage of silver, to a final vote in the Senate by nightfall. A limit has been placed on debate. PERMITS SECURED FOR United States Marshal Albert White, who has charge in the First Division of issuing internal reve- nue beer and wine licenses has granted permission to sell the legal brews and wines to the follow- ing: Charles Greenaa, Petersburg; Ben Peterson, Yakutat; Ed Snyder, Ten~ akee; Charles Wortman, Sitka; J. H. Biggs, Juneau. ——r Acreage planted in burley tobac- co in the highlands of North Caro- 1932, say farm -agents, ) LEGAL LIQUOR SALES lina last year will double that of