The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 6, 1933, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIL, NO. 6333, JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1933. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — - KIDNAPED GIRL RETURNED T0 PARENTS; IS UNHARMED 60,000 IS REPORTED PAID LAWMAKERS END LABORS AT LATE HOUR YESTERDAY Eleventh Session of Alaska Legislature Adjourns Sine Die Friday KEEP TAXES DOWN| Total of MOE Bills Below $2,000,000—Import- ant Laws Enacted CUT APPROPRIATIONS | The Eleventh Session of the Al-| aska Legislature, which ended its| work officially at mldmgm Thurs- | day but actually at 5:15 pm. yes-| terday, kept its appropriations to| about $2,000,000 and made only one raise in taxes. It passed 127 laws and repealed almost as many chsolete or unnecessary sm‘»utes} from the code. It made one reduction in taxes, exempting fresh fish buyers from one-tenth of a cent per pound un-| til their purchases shall amount to| 400,000 pounds in any single year. Many Important Measures 1t passed a number of important laws. Included among these was the school re-organization measure creating a Board of Education em-| powered with sweeping authority to administer and control, through the Commissioner of Education, rural schocls and in less degree, the schools in incorporated towns and incorporated school districts It enacted a law for controlling, regulating and taxing the beer and wine traffic, placing the issuance of licenses in the hands of the Fed-| eral district court in each of the| four Divisions. Refusal Thursday | morning of the local court to grant a license to a local business house led to an attempt to amend the| law just passed to transfer the li- censing to the Territorial Auditor, and another to create a board of| appeals composed of the ‘Governor, Auditor and Attorney General. The former effort was launched in the House and the latter in the Senate. The House passed its bill| by a 15 to 1 vote. But it failed to be admitted in the Senate where three Senators voted against a motion to suspend the rules to receive and consider it. It re- quired six of the eight votes 10, pass the motion. Senate Passes Bill The Senate then passed its own bill to create the board of appeals. This was received by the House which promptly amended it by| striking out all reference to Lhe| board and inserting in its swad‘ the provisions of the original House | measure. In the amended form it. was| passed, then returned to the Sen- ate. There it was met with stiff opposition. A point of order against receiving it was made, and Presi- dent Shattuck ruled it could not be admitted. It was then returned to the House. That led to a deadlock over the appropriations measure that lasted all night and until almost 10 o'clock yesterday. 1In that measure the House had slashed salaries and wages 15 per cent. The Senate had amended it to make an eight and one-third per cent cut. Several oth- er amendments were also made. The House refused to concur in them, and the big money bill was given to a conference committee of three members from each house. Balk at Reductions An agreement ‘was reached with- out difficulty o all of the differ- ences except the salary and wage reductions. On that issue, the conterees divided. The House stuck out for the 15 per cent, but was willing to accept the lower Senate rate if the latter would admit the beer law amendment it had Te- jected earlier in the evening. No effort was made to exact any promise from the Senate that it would pass that measure But the House did want to have a record vote taken on the bill itself. The Senate refused to yield in the matter. After hours of discussion, the conferees agreed to compro- mise on a straight 10 per cent re- duction. This paved the way for closing down the session. New bills were drafted and late yestor- day afternoon the final motions were made. Representative Lingo, Fairbanks, |laration to the newsmen that New French Envoy A recent photo of Andre LeFevre de la Boulaye, veteran of the | French diplomatic service, who has been named Ambassador to Wash- ington to succeed Ambassador Paul Claudel, who has been transferred to Belgium. M. de la Boulaye, who had been assistant director of the | French Foreign Ministry, is a close friend of President Roosevelt. DR. SCHACHT APPROVES OF U.S. PROPOSAL Tariff Truce Favorably| Impresses Germany, Says Spokesman WASHINGTON, May 6. Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, German spokes- man, entered the White House con- versations today with an expres- sion of unqualified approval of the proposal of the United States for |a world tariff truce. made a frank dec- “there cannot be peace in Burope without a postwar treaty revision and Ger- many is anxious to join an In- ternational movement to lower tar- iffs so she may pay her debts.” Dr. Schacht ANNUAL DANGE, DOUGLAS FIRE BOYS, TONIGHT Special Ferry Is Arranged| to Accommodate Ju- neau Guests The annual dance of the Doug- las Volunteer Fire Department will be the big event on the Channel for tonight. It will be given in the Douglas natatorium starting at 9:30 oclock and continuing until 1 am. To accommodate those from the Juneau side of the channel, a spe- cial ferry will leave Juneau for the Island at 9:15 o'clock tonight. A fine dance floor, good dance music, a marvelous night, features of the affair, assure all a wonder- ful time. AUT[]S GRASH MAN KILLED Seven Others Injured, Boy and Girl Probably Fatally SPOKANE, Wash., May 6.— Charles Henderson is dead, a boy and girl are believed to be dying and five others are seriously in- jured as the result of an automo- bile accident last night when two cars collided at an arterial street intersection. All are believed to be % (Continugd on Page Two) residents of Spokane, tito the levels of the previous years | | | {with |leaving the gold standard, prompted | further 1 |stock of |fore the {finish. jed at the local U. S. Radio station. STOCK PRICES FALL BACK IN QUIET TRADING Market Clo;with Num- erous Loses of One, Two, More Points NEW YORK, May 6—The finan- cial markets ran into considerable week-end profit taking at the short session today and stocks fell back into quieter dealings during the last hour. The market closed numerous net losses of one to two or more points. Further weakness of the dollar, resulting in new low levels since inflation and buying some commodities. dollar rebounded after the eign markets closed. Car loading reports came closest since 1930. Stocks losing two or three points included Case, American Telephone and Telegraph, Corn Products, Al- lied CHemical. Virtually all groups were under pressure. Rails were firm but dipped be- Cotton finished higher. Wheat lost one cent a bushel CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, May 6.— Closin quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 15, American Can| 79, American Power and Light 8.! Anaconda 12%, Bethlehem Steel 25%, Calumet and Hecla 4%, Ar- ‘mour B 2%, Fox Films 2%, General Motors 22, International Harvester 33, Kennecott 18%, Packard Mo- tors 3%, General American Tank“ 28%, Umted S'ates Sleel 467%. MARSHALL FOX FARM HOUSE IS DESTROYED Modern Residence of Glas-| ier Highway Burns to Ground Yesterday | The six room, one and one-half] story frame residence on the Mar- shall Fox Farm on Glacier High- way, was completely destroyed with contents, by fire late yesterday aft- ernoon. | The house was occupied by Wil- liam Manthey, his mother and his grandmother. So quickly did the flames spread that few personal| belongings were saved. | The fire is believed to have start- ed from sparks on the roof. The flames burned through to the at- tic and finally enveloped the. en- tire building. The house was a modern one, with furnace and hot and cold run- ning water. Cost of the house, ac- cording to Mrs. J. B. Marsall, the owner, was about $5,000. No in- surance was carried. None of the outbuildings were touched by ‘the fire. SEATTLE ADVANCES CLOCKS; TIME ON RADIOS UNCHANGED| Daylight saving time will becoms effective in Seattle at 2 o'clock tomorrow morning and clocks there will be advanced one hour, accord- ing to official inforhiation receiv- | | The filing time on messag3s orizi-| nating, in Seattle will, however,| |bear the Pacific Standard time. ————— PROMINENT SITKA MEECHANT AND WIFE ARE HERE TODAY Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Mills of Sitka were in Juneau this morning while the Northland was in port. Mr. Mills, prominent merchant of Sitka, and his wife have been spending the winter outside. - NEW THEATRE MANAGER AT GASTINEAU HOTEL Cliff Daigler, new city managey of the Juneau Greater Theatres Company, arrived in Juneau on the Northland today and is registered at the Gastineau Hotel, I | ning. |B. Melseth; Junior' Councilor, Ambassador s Lady " An excellent portrait of Mrs, Rob- ert Worth Bingham, wife of the newly-appointed United States Ambassador to the Court of St. James, Judge Robert W. Bingham, of Kentucky. She is the former Miss Aileen Muldoon, of Louisville, and, as Mrs. James Byron Hilliard, was married to Judge Bingham in London in 1924, JUNIOR MASONIC ORDERS TO HOLD NSTALLATION Rainbow Guls and De- Molays Will Have Exer- cises, Dance Tonight In the regular election of Offi-| ce-\ for the Order of Rainbow | which took place last eve-| mm in their lodge room in the |Scottish Rite Temple, the follow- ing members were chosen for po- |sitions: Worthy Advisor, Carol Robertson; Assoc;atc Advisor, Margaret Han- |sen; Charity, Elizabeth Terhune; Hope, Eleanor Gruber; Faith, Hel- en Torkelson; Treasurer, Mary Jeannette Whittier; Drill Leader, | Dorothy Rutherford; Chaplain, Cor- inne Jenne; Love, | Religion, Esther Margaret Robinson; Immortality, Marie Fox; Fidelity, Miriam Lea; Patriotism, Amy Lou Guerin; Serv- ice, Bernice Riedle; Inner Observer, Geraldine Bodding; Outer Observ- er, Nancy Ann Kann; Organist Rosa Danner; Choir Leader, Gene Niemi; Nature, |Carlson. Joint Installation A joint installation of the above |Officers of the Rainbow Girls and the newly elected Officers of the DeMolay Boys, will be held in the Temple at 7:30 o'clock this eve- The installation exercises will be followed by an informal dance in the auditorium of the Temple to which all Masons, mem- bers of the Eastern Star and the parents and friends of the boy and girls are invited. DeMolay Officers The newly elected DeMolay Offi- cers to be installed tonight are:| Master Councilor, Richard H.| Radalet; Senior Councilor, Peter don Ingman; Senior Deacon, Wil- liam Friend; Junior Deacon, Carl Alstead; Senior Steward, Ted Huns- bedt; Junior Steward, Duncan Rob- ertson; Standard Bearer, Ervin Hagerup; Chaplain, Orrin R. wards; Almoner, strom; Sentinel, Arthur Orator, Alvin Bloomquist; Olavi Kukkola; Preceptors, Wal Holmquist, George H. White, Jo! S. Mills, Paul H. Hansen, Car Hagerup, Earnest Weschenfelde {Le Roy West; Scribe, Robert {Henning; Organist, Clyde E. yan. E Investing Public iTo Be Protected ; | House Passes Bill WASHINGTON, May 6.— Without a reccrd vete, the House late yesterday approved of President Roocevelt's idea of protecting the investing pub lic by compelling publication of all pertinent facts in connection with new issues of securitics. Only negligible opposition veloped in the House and there was no demand for a roll call The bill nnw goes to the Sen ate, v Birdie Jensen; | RRAY STEVENS IS CITY ASSESSOR FOR COMING YEAR Bids' Awarded at Council Meeting Last Night on Pipes, Sidewalks At (last night's regular meeting of the City Council R. H. Stevens, former, cashier of the First Nation- al Bank, was elected City Assessor for 1933. Other candidates for the positign, were :C. H. Helgesen, G. A. Baldwin, A. J. Nelson, W. C. {Irish, " Alaska Personal Service 'Agents, and David M. Ramsay. Dishaw & Son's bid of $480 for the construction of concrete side- walks in front of the Assembly Apartments on Fourth and Seward Streets and on Seward to Third Street, was the lowest among nine bids submitted, and Dishaw & Son was awarded the contract. The bids ranged as high as $825.35. Work will start next week. Rice & Ahlers Co. was awarded the eontract for furnishing the City with 1950 feet of concrete sewer pipe on a quotation of $1,346.10. G. E. Krause, local manufacturer of concrete pipe, was the only other bidder. His price was $1,526.00. — e SMOKE POURING FROM ILIAMNA ON COOK INLET Recent Quake to West- ward Apparently Cen- tered in Gulf ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 6— Capt. Heinie Berger, of the motor- ship Discoverer, arriving from Ko- |diak, said the recent quake was ap- parently centered in the Gulf of Alaska off Kenai Peninsula. Capt. Berger said Mount Iliamna, |which has been smoking only slightly in the last few years from one funnel, is now hillowing black smoke from three places on the east side. WHALERS MAKE Four BoatsI;ve Victoria This Month for Grounds Off Islands VICTORIA, B. C,, May 6.—Whal- ers who have made Victoria their home port for years, are going out this year for the first time since 1930. Four boats will leave near the end of this month for the hunt- ing grounds off the Quecn Char- lotte Islands. - " | FIRE DEPARTMENT CALLED OUT BY BLAZE IN CITY DOCK WAREHOUSE TODAY The Juneau Volunteer Fire De- partment was called out shortly after 3 o'clock this forenoon by a .|blaze in the warehouse of the city dock, and found that City Wharf- '|inger C. H. MacSpadden and his assistant, C. F. McNutt had got i under control just as they ar- rived. When the blaze was noticed flames were shooting nearly to the | Toof of the warehouse from a ship- ping. crate containing some ex- | eelsior. It is supposed that some \Dne carelessly threw a cigarette ‘bown.rd the box setting rnc to the inflammable excelsior. ‘Mr. Mac-| ‘spadden immediately turned in Lh(-= railway, |alarm in case the flames should | spread. ‘ e R A | PIGGLY WIGGLY MANAGER ARRIVES HERE ON NORTHLAND | Donald Armour, manager of the Piggly Wiggly stores in Southeast | Alaska arrived in Juneau this morn- ing on the Northland from his| |‘headquarters in Ketchikan and will {return to his home Monday. He is |staying at the Gastineau Hotel. PLANS T0 HUNT SOLONS DEPART VIA PLANE FOR Exodus of Lawmakers Be- gins — Frawley, Lomen, Hellerich Take Plane Members of the Alaska Legisla- ture, their work completed, began teday to depart for their respective homes and by the middle of next week practically all of the out-of- town solons will have sailed. The first to go were Senators James Frawley and Alfred Lomen, and Representative Hellerich, all of Nome, who left by plane for Valdez today, accompanied by Mrs. Frawley, Mrs. J. M. Brightman, mother of Mrs. Hellerich, and Joan, small daughter of Mr. Hellerich. They expect to remain overnight {at Valdez and go to Fairbanks by plane Sunday. They will hop off from Fairbanks to Nome Monday. They used the seaplane Baranof from here with Pilot Meyring at the controls. The next members to leave will go next Monday. Included in that party will be: Senator and Mrs. N R. Walker and their daughter Miss Florence, for Ketchikan; Repre- sentative and Mrs. J. W. Kehoe and Representative and Mrs. F. J. Baranovich for Ketchikan; Repre- sentatives Nordale, Blake, Scott, Swanberg and McCutcheon for S attle. Tuesday Senator and Mrs. Bragaw, Senator and Mrs. Hess and Senator and Mrs, DeVane, and| Senator Campbell will sail for Sew- {ard on the Alaska, enroufe to their several homes. Representative and ‘Mrs. Nerland, Representatives Lin- go, Patterson and Hofman will sai) on the same vessel Speaker Joe A. McDonald and Representative Taylor probably will remain in town for a few days| longer. The former will be engaged | in preparing the House journal for final. publication, and the latter will be engaged in looking after private business matters. GRAYLINETO INVADE JUNEAU VERY SHORTLY New Travel Bus Organiza- tion to Start Opera- tions in City The Alaska Gray Line Company has secured membership in the Gray Line Association, internation- al organization under which travel busses operate throughout the| world, according to an announce- ment made today by George Lingo, president of the Alaska company, and will start operating wuu»tl buses in Juneau in the near fu-| ture. The Alaska company, is entire ly financed by Alaska capital, ac cording to Mr. Lingo, who is to- day making arrangements for the local organization of the company. Tenative Plans Tenative plans for the tourist trip in Juneau include picking up the tourists at the dock, taking them| out the highway, around the loop to Mendenhall Glacier, a stop at the bridge for a view of the gla- cier with Auk Lake in the fore- ground, then on out the highway for a considerable distance, the round trip taking about two and one-half hours. The tourists will leave the bus at some central point in the business section of town. Benefits Derived Mr. Lingo pointed out the bene-| fits to Juneau from the firm’s membership in the association /Through the office of the Sec: tary of the International associ tion in Baltimore, descriptive lit- erature and folders are sent to all| steamship and tourist| agencies as well as hotels and trav- el information bureaus throughout| the world, and this literature will| tontain descriptive matter of Ju-| neau. Mr. Lingo contends that lms‘ will do much to encourage tourist| |business in Southeast Alaska ——————————— GOES "TO SITKA | Lawrence Kerr, Court Stenogra-| pher, left on the Northland for I 'sitka NORTHERN HOME istood here that Premier ~ Screen Invader Looking forward to an American ronquest, Miss Florence Desmond, Inglish actress, is pictured as she wrrived at New York on the S. S. Manhattan for her first visit to the United States. Miss Desmond, who will shortly make her bow in Amer- can movies, is noted for her im- sersonations of our leading film kings and queens, AGREE ON WAR BEBT PAYMENT AT CONFERENCE President and Premier in Accord—Tariff Truce Causes Worry : ) | LONDON, May 6—1It is under- Ramsay MacDonald and President Frank- lin D. Roosevelt agreed at the Washington conversations that war debt payments must be made with- out delay. Special representative of the President, Norman Davis, has re- ceived instructlons from Washing- ton to remain here and press the British for adherence to an im- mediate tariff truce and war debt discussion. It is understood that other na- tions are prepared to follow Great Britain's lead and await a decis- ion on the tariff truce. The Brit- ish Cabinet has not yet reached any decision regarding the truce, except that the Premier has not been able so far to win the mem- bers over to the American propos- al. SEEK AMERICAN REVOLT LEADER World War Veteran Said to Be Implicated in Cuban Trouble erican, world war aviator, is sought leader of last week's abortive revo- lution. A reward of $5,000 has been | offered for his name and where- abouts. T0 SEEK HOME IN NORTHLAND “Famlly Commg to Alaska in 19-Foot Sail Boat— To Homestead BELLINGHAM, Wash,, May 6— {Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Warner, of Ferndale, and their three-year- old son Kenneth, plan to leave here Ab’)ub May 15 in a 19-foot sailboat ! ka. The Warners hope to take up a homestead in the vicinity of chorage or Seward | HAVANA, Cuba, May 6.—An Am- | by the Cuban government as the An- | TWO ARRESTS ~ ALREADY MADE BY OFFICIALS Police Searai—ng for Two Others in Mysterious Abduction Case 'COAST GUARD OFFICER IS CONDUCTING QUIZ :Girl Relurrg Home but Father and Others Are Being Questioned BULLETIN — HARWICH PORT, Mass., May 6.—Ken- neth and Cyril Buck, broth- ers, the latter on the boat when the McMath girl was recovered, have been arrest- ed, Cyril as a go-between and Kenneth as the man in the auto who wore a black hood. |Two other men are sought. GIRL RETURNED WOODS HOLE, Mass., May 6. — Ten-year-old Mar- garet McMath, kidnaped last Tuesday afternoon, is safe at her home at Harwich Port while the police strained ev- ery nerve to penetrate the mystery of her kidnaping and return in exchange for a $60 000 ransom. Her wealthy father, Neil McMath, is being quizzed with others aboard the Coast Guard base ship here. Among the others questioned are William Lee, representative of the McMath family. Lee and McMath have been clos- eted with Gen. Daniel C. Needham, head of the State Police’ and other officials since the father and daughter were taken from Lee's boat, the Bob, late yesterday after- noon. Ralph Snow, a banker, made the money transfer. He is also among those being quizzed. Gen Needham said he is led to believe the $60,000 was paid Thurs- day night to assure the safe re- turn of the girl. First News The first news of the return of the little girl came when a Coast Guard boat crept into Wychmere Harbor, near the girl's home. As the boat turned to &ea enroute here, Gen. Needham shouted to the newspapermen: “The child Is aboard, so is her father.” Mrs. McMath greeted her daugh- ter here. She visited her daughter in Wychmere Harbor before dawn | yesterday and had a few happy moments with the child and then returned home, then here to meet her again. She was then driven back home with her daughter. Story of Kidnaping Gen. Needham this forenoon made public the girl's story of the kidnaping. Little Margaret was taken from ! school last Tuesday. She was blind- folded and tied and taken to a | shack that night and to another ‘,shack the next night She was | locked in Thursday then taken to her father They boarded the Bob where the police found them and took charge. She was unharmed. Trent McMath, of Detroit, rela- tive of the girl's father, said the |girl spent restless time last night tand had a slight temperature al- though it was not sufficient to re- quire a physician. Negro Involved Gen. Needham, in further detail- Img the story of Margaret, she said |told of being placed in an auto | by a negro chauffeur and was then | driven away. Shortly after the |car stopped and another man car- |ried her into a shack where she heard voices. She was told to lie )m search of a mew home in Alas- | down on the floor and a man gave | her an overcoat for a pillow. There was no furniture in the room and | (Continued on Page Two)