The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 2, 1933, Page 1

l ‘. [ ¢ | z ~ - * Entries Close at Midnighti THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” NO. 6329. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1933. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS VOL. XLIL, TORNADO KILLS SCORES IN THREE SOUTHERN STATES USES HEMP ROPE TO END HIS LIFE TODAY EXTRA SESSION MAY END FIRST WEEK IN JUNE President and Leaders in Congress to Hurry Legislation ROOSEVELT HAS MORE| PROPOSALS TO MAKE Thirty Hou;TVeek Is Re- ported Jammed in House Opposition WASHINGTON, May 2—Presi-| den Roosevelt and Congressional Jeaders are combining for a quick wind-up of the extra session. The first week in June is fixed as the goal to legislation being worked on. President Roosevelt will add rail- anization and public s program to aid em-| | | | | ployment. The 30-hour week measure is in| the House jammed behind oppo- sition and it is said it is ‘not in the picture at present” but t Administration is counting on u ing it for a basis for legislation | to extend Federal supervision over industry and wages. [ORTY CARS iN MEMORIAL DAY CLASSIC Monday for Indianap- olis Auto Race JNDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, May 2 —With entries closing at midnight Monday for the Memorial Day 500 mile automobile race here,| officials at the speedway mdlcamdi that at least forty cars will line| up May 30 for the long grind| over the rough brick oval. Many sponsors have not selected drivers for their cars yet. They will be required to qaulify at more lhan; 100 miles an hour for 25 miles. | CREAT BRITAIN READY TO FIGHT FOR PRINGIPLE Acting Premier Baldwin Makes Emphatic State- ment in Commons LONDON, ‘May - 1.—Acting Pre- mier Stanley Baldwin told the House of Commons that Great Britain will take any step to de-| fend the principle of the open door in Manchuria, if it became ne- cessary to defend that principle. The statement was made as the | result of the new Manchukuo tariff to be based on reciprocity with Ja- pan and that the trade door is not to remain open to states which n. of her status. e Society Matron’s Body Is Recovered From Lake| DENVER, Ccl., May 2—The body of Mrs. William Fisher, aged 50 years, society matron, missing since last Saturday, has been recovered from a lake. | poisonous drugs fNDIANS MEET NEW ‘CHIEF’ John Collier (left) of California, newly appointed commissioner of Indian affairs, talks things over in Washington with Chief Coyote Runs and Chief Yellow Tail of the Montana Crows. (Associated Press Photo) MINE MEASURE. 1S ENACTED BY HOUSE, 10 70 § Creates Department Mines Under Alaska College Mines School The House the Hellerich-Hofman ing a Territorial mir ment to function in c ration with the School of Mines of the Alaska A ultural College and School of Mines. The dean of the School of Mines is ‘made Commis- tmis morning bil} creat- depart- |sloner of Mines and authorizad to make mineral investigations !inspect mines and publish d ments relating to Alaska's mineral resources. The vote was 10 to 6, and, the same vote, the emerg: clause designed to make the act ef- fective upon final passage and its approval by the Governaor. Pass Senate Bills The House also passed under suspended rules a Senate con- current resolution calling for a special joint session” to be held at 2 p. m. today for the purpose of rejecting or confirming the ap- pointments of Gov. Troy to the Territorial Board of Education and as Regents of the Alaska Agri- cultural College and School of Mines. Senate Bill No. 119, a codifi- cation of all the mining lien laws for labor, etc., was pased by the House by a unanimous vote after some minor amendments. House Bill No. 68, to define the practice of medicine was snowed under by a vote of 3 to 13 after a short discussion. It defined a physi- cian as one who administered and treated in- fectious or contagious disease, and a surgeon as one who made in- cisions with a surgeon’s knife, and sought to permit the treat- ment of the ill, halt and blind by electric apparatus without requir- ing the practitioners to be li- censed. Other Bills Passed Yesterday afternoon the House | passed six Senate bills and killed a seventh to round out one of its busiest days. A measure to reguire certain financial reports from dom- estic corporations was indefinitely postponed. Bills passed included: Bill No. 50, Bragaw, appropriating . $5,000 for a subsidy for the Anchorage radio broadcasting station; No. 100, relative to the filing of notices of liens for taxes payable to the Uni- ted States, a uniform tax law; (Continued on Page Eight) —Violators bf Alaska Road Regulations to Be Punished WASHINGTON, May 2. — The Senate has passed and sent to the House a bill providing that anyone violating ‘the regulations of the Interior ‘Department covering Al- askan roads will be subject to a fine of $500 or 30 days in jail. The bill is extension of authority given to the Secretary by Con-, gress last year in transferring the powers of the Alaska Board of Road Commissioners to the De- partment of the Interior. passed . sale , ing ! A ALASKA LIGUOR 'CONTROL BOARD NOW PROPOSED Senate Seeks Form Board to Control Manufac- ture and Sale In order that the Territory may not be unprepared for eventualit- ies when the Eighteenth Amend- ment is repealed, if that ocours belgre the next sessi ‘the Alaska Legislature, the Senate Jud- iciary Committee yesterday intro- duced a bill creating a Board of Liquor Control The measure would bestow in the Board absolute power to pre- ibe rules and regulations to govern the manufacture, barter, and possession of intoxicat- liquor. It also authorized to fix the gqaulifications of those who may engage in manufactur- ing or selling such liquor, Personnel of Board The. Board proposed, is compesed of the Governor, Attorney General, Treasurer, Auditor and Highway Engineer, all executive officials of the Territory. It would function until the Legislature could meet again and devise some other meth- od of control, if desired. ‘The date of effectiveness of the law is indefinite, but would be determined by the time when the Secretary of State of the United States shall publish a proclamation of the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. The method of sale, whether by public dispensary or private enterprise, is not mentioned; and would be discretionary with the Board under 'the terms of the Senate's measure. Seeks Fisheries Hearings Senate Joint Resolution No. 7, by Senator Walker, introduced yes- 'terday and passed this morning, urges the Commissioner of Pish- eries to conduct annually hearings in Alaska in fisheries regulations in order that the fishermen and other interested persons in Alaska, unable to attend those held in Seattle, may have an opportunity to express their views. Another measure, Bill No. 123, was introduced by the Judiciary Committee to amend section 691 of the Compiled Laws of 1913, providing that any person who shall perform any work or labor in, or on or about a mine, mining claims, oil, gas or other wells, shall have a lien for such work or labor as is now, or may hereafter be, provided by law. Senator Shattuck today intro- duced a bill to appropriate $13,- 000 to refund teachers in public schools for payments made by them on the Teachers' Pension System that has been abandoned by the present Legislature. No. 5, Senator DeVane, was passed authorizing a joint session of the two houses at 2 o'clock this after- noon to consider the nominations submitted yesterday by Governor Troy. Defeat Primary Bills The Senate today split evenly on non-partisan lines on two pol- (Continued on Page Eight) . |Light said today, “and has always ' HANGS SELF IN EARLY MORNING Mickey Floridan Commits Suicide in Tailor Shop After Dance Mickey Floridan committed sui- cide early this morning, by hang- ing himself in the rear of his tailor shop on Front Street. He still wore in his lapel the red ribbon given him at the door of Wagner's roadhouse where he at- tended the Russian picnic a few hours before, Friends were unable to under-! stand why he should take his life. | Robert Light, who operates hisi barber shop in the same room asi that in which Floridan had his tailor shop, discovered the body of] his friend at 8:40 o'clock this] morning when he went to the rear|, which to build a fire. Light noti- fied Chief of Police C. J. Davis, who informed the Federal authorj- ties of the tragedy. Called to the scene, Teiritorial Health Commissioner H. C. De- Vighne, pronounced the death a suicide due to hanging. Shocked by the tragic death of his friend, Mr. Light today told| of talking to Mickey for an hour or so before he closed his barber shop at 6:30 last night. In Good Health “He was in the best of health and good spirits. I asked him if he were going te the Russian pic« nic and he said he hadn't made up his mind. He drove by the picnic scene in the afternoon but didn't stop. When I saw him this morn- ing he had the red ribbon in his lapel that was given at the door at Wagner’s roadhouss to those at- tending the picnic. “He wasn’t worrying about any- thing, as far as I know. There” Mr. Light pointed to Floridan’s work table, “is the pattern of a suit he cut out yesterday after- noon.” Floridan had gone to the dance last night, according to his friends, and left about midnight. According to Dr. DeVighne, he had been dead about six hours when he was found this morning. The young tailor had attached a rope to some framework in the shed at the rear of his room, brought the rope over the door, which he closed, placed the rope around his neck, and stepped off the steps that led from the shed down to the room, in order to hang himself. There was no evidence of any struggle, Dr. DeVighne remarked. Suicide Note “Please do not investigate this case,” Mickey Floridan asked in a note left on his bed. “There is| only one person who will ever know the real cause. “Everything that I have, includ-| ing the car, I leave to my step- dad, Frank Varlen. “MICKEY.” Floridan was about 25 years old, according to Mr. Light, and a member of the Moose Lodge. He was born in Mninesota, Mr. Light said, lived there for sometime and went back to the “old country” with his mother and brother fol- lowing the death of his father. The “old country” Mr. Light be-| lieved to be Serbia and Floridan's|, mother still resides there. With his step father, Frank Var. len and brother Carl, he returned|, to this country and came to Al-|, aska. of Charlie’ Anderson. Thought to A have tuberculosis he left for the|: South last fall. A few months ago| his wife joined him and they are| now in South Dakota with relatives| Gov, ‘Ma’ n Has |v a’ Ferguso ever, left the status of Brownshirts of Mrs. Floridan. ‘ Frank Varlen, step-father of the| boys, lives in Douglas and is em- | ployed at the Alaska Juneau. “Varlan is a fine man” Mr. been good to the boys. The boys| have always been fine boys, t00.”| There will be an inquest before . Commissioner Charles Sey at 10| a.m. tomorrow. “ SR G Collieries in the County of Kent,', YOUNG TAILOR | of the shop to get kindling with] HOUSE MAKES Five Hours Are to Be Set Carl Floridan married a Douglas |, girl, Dorothy Henderson, daughter g Miriam A. Ferguson of Texas wears ROOSEVELT AND ADVISERS IN Lo INFLATION PROGRAM SR \ Legislation to give President Roosevelt unprecedented discretionary authority to control the currency #ad monetary standards.of the country was drafted at@ conference ‘atténdedi bv treasury advisers and democratic congressional leaders. Among those who aided the President in Unapfhg tne program were Senator Key Pittman (left), William H. Woodin (center), secretary of the treasury, Senator Elmer Thomas (right) and Raymond Moley, assistant secretary of state, who is shown below with President Roosevelt. (Associated Press Photos) HENRY WALLACE Henry A, Wallace, secretary of agriculture in the Roosevelt cabinet, | ts shown with Mrs. Wallace in their Des Moines home following his ap- | pointment. (Associated Press Photo) READY T0 ACT ON INFLATION Aside for Debate; Vote Tomorrow WASHINGTON, May 2. — By re than 2 to 1, the House this 'rnoon in a vote significant of pproval it will probably ‘have »on the inflation question, de- ed to consider whether it will ept the Senate Currency ex- 1sion measure and adopted a| setting aside five hours of | day ate on the inflation proposal.| vote will probably be reached|one NOrToW. | the | the lers] All College-Made Coat LUBBOCK, Tex., May 2—Gov. oat which is entirely a prqduct Texas Technological college. | The wool was sheared from the wep in the college barns; the on was grown on the campus i'mS; both materials were cleaned, n, woven and dyed by students | the The ANI; HIS WIFE WORLD ARMS PARLEY HITS ANOTHER SNAG Army Strength of Germany Brought Before Dis- armament Session ran when the effective committee in computing Germany’s heated objec- of the bitterest battles in history of the conference on next point, exclusion of Hit- in Germany’s later decision by the conference. LEGISLATIVE BALL FRIDAY by Legislative Ball, given Senators and Representatives Englahd, produced 1,500,000 tons of ;. ring, and a girl student in the|Hall according to announcement coal in 1932 compared with 1, 000 tons in 1931. 00l of home economics made |made today. ‘ cloth into the finisned coat. 'affair and everybddy is invited. The ball is a public 7 APPOINTMENTS GIVEN OUT BY GOVERNOR TROY College Regents Are Nominated At a joint session of the Ter- ritorial Legislature at 2 o’clock this afternoon, all appointees were confirmed to the Board of Education and as Regents of the Fairbanks College. The first bavch of appointments | to be made by Governor Troy were sent to the Alaski Legislature yes- | terday, reaching the Senate in time | for its afternoon session but com- |ing too late to be formally placed | before the House until today. | There were seven in all, includ- | ing the complete personnel of the | newly created Board of Education and two regents for the Alaska Ag- ricultural College and School of | Mines. [’ Name Two Juneauites | Two widely known and prominent residents of this city were on the list—Herbert L. Faulkner for mem- 'ber-a,t»lurge on the Board of Edu- cation, and Mrs. James Wicker- GENEVA, May 2—The world's | sham on the Board of College Re- efforts toward disarmament into another serious obstacle Mon- | gents. She was named to succeed | Ralph E. Robertson whose term iexmred April 1, last, and who de- of the world aris parley voted clinéd to accept a reappointment. twelve to three, to include 34,000| The second College regent nom- police army strength. The vote was cast| over Germany's tions. Delegates were prepared for | inated was Arthur A. Shonbeck, re-appointed, of Anchorage, one of the outstanding business men of the Territory. A third nomination on the Board of Regents is pending. Capt. A. E. | Lathrop was renominated some- time ago by Gov. George A. Parks, but no action was taken by the Legislature which decided to await (Continued on Page Two) {Board of Education and| UNDREDS ARE | INJURED IN 2 " DAYS OF GALES {Wreckage Is Left in Wake of High Winds; Five l‘ Towns Damaged [FARM HOUSES ARE | LEVELLED TO EARTH Fires Reported to Have Broken’ Out; Highways Are Blockaded { SHREVEPORT, La, May 2— Spasmodic tornadoes that lashed the lower Mississippi Valley for the past few days, left behind at least 89 dead, more than 1,000 in- Jured. Wreckage is also left in cities and rural communities of | Louisiana, Arkansas and Missis- sippi. The tornadoes started on the ,Week-end then renewed the blasts on May Day. The tornadoes danced in a crazy pattern over the three States, Five Towns Damaged Five towns are known to be damaged including the important Parish of Sen Minden, in Louisiana. Sixty-nine persons were killed there late yesterday of whom 50 were negroes. Rescue workers labored through the night in the wreck- age and it is feared the death list |will increase. ! The May Day storms struck first along the Arkangas-Missouri line and farm houses were leveled and barns bowled over. Trees were whipped down and torrential rains blew in horizontal sheets. Many roads are impassable to- ay. a Funnel-Shaped Cloud One funnel-shaped cloud struck at various sections, shaking build- ings and whirling loose objects |through the streets with a speed of bullets. Houses were unroofed and level- ed. Fire broke out in several sec- tions. Tossed Through Air Sam Light, a merchant, reported the wind lifted him off his feet as he walked along the street, and dropped him on the next hill un- injured after giving him a bird's eye view of the destruction. Trains were flagged in many directions to prevent going into creeks and rivers where trestles and bridges had been damaged or washed away. Guardsmen are in several areas preventing looting. —————————— NAZIS CONTROL ALL UNIONS IN GERMAN NATION Headquarters Are Occu- pied by Brown Shirts in Surprise Move BERLIN, May 2.—Hitler’s Brown | Shirts, by a surprise storm, went ‘over the last hurdle on the road |to Nazi domination of the labor movement by occupying the head- quarters of Free Trade Unions |throughout Germany early today. Socialist leaders of the unions, which have at least 5500,000 mem- | bers, were arresied. . Unions in the future will be made national rather than inter- national in character. - e The combined world crops of corn, oats and barley in 1932 ex- |ceeded 1931 production by about 13 per cent. Alaska Proposals Included In Rivers, Hdrbors Measure WASHINGTON, May 2. — The 3 | ninety imi ' the department of textile engi- |Will be next Priday night at Elks'| " "¢V 71€ Al doliar gemntie rivers and harbors bill introduced in the House includes proposals 'for Wrangell Harbor of $65.000, Wrangell Narrows $142,000, Dry Pass $79,000, Stikine River $600, Kodiak Harbor $77,000, Petersburg $94,000 and Egegik River $5,000. This gives a total of $454,600 for hmprovemems in Alaska, ¢ !