The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 25, 1933, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIL, NO. 6349. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1933. ' MEMBER OF Assocmw PRESS PRICE TEN CENT} GlGANTlC POWER OF MORGAN REVEALED MORGAN HOUSE INVESTIGATION GETS ATTENTION Reactions Are Indicated to Occur in Both Sen- ate and House PRACTICES LIABLE TO BE ELIMINATED Important Measures Being Considered in Both Branches WASHINGTON, May 25. first reactions to the invi of the House of Morgan is looked for today. The Senate is resuming Glass bank bill debate. ‘The House is set to take up the public works and industrial with a new high income tax plan.' The Glass bill has been passed the House and has reached ige where the Senate is dis-| cussing bank deposit insurance. Probe Practices Many believe that Company and closures paid no income tax in the past two vears, Senators will not confine themselves to pending issues and are expected the amazing dis- inating such practices in the tax program. The House bill is regarded as sure to bring the Morgans in either today or in final discussion of the bill tomorrow. be passed then after a test vote on inserting the rejected sales tax. PAPS TO PLAY LEGION; GAME THIS EVENING Postponed Session of Last Sunday Scheduled for Tonight The ¥aps wiii irp w stop the Le- gion’s winning streak tonight when they meet to play off last Sun- day's postponed game. By copping this tilt the Moose can get within one-half game of the fast stepping Vets, Art McKinnon. Pans' leader, ex- pects to start Jensen on the mound and Fraser in the catching role. Bob Killewich, regular receiver, is favoring a bad ankle, and will probably do garden duty. “Curley” Fraser is anxious to take his turn behind the plate, that being his regular position. However, the big fellow has been doing yeoman work in the left field sector, and he is also hitting the ball at a good clip. Ken Junge is ready to take his turn at pitching for the Vets and he will try to keep the Moose away from the door. Bob Boyd will be on the receiving end of Junge’s flips. ————————— H. L. COE RETURNS FROM CHICHAGOF ISLAND H. L. €oe, who returned on the seaplane Baranof yesterday after- noon, spent several days looking over the prospect located by Mike McKallick om Chichagof Island. Mr. Coe is interested in the prop- erty with Mr. McKallick, John Biggs and Dr. Robert Simpson. He will leave on an early boat for the; south but may return later in the summer. Bimetallism Plan to Be Abandoned, London Conference! WASHINGTON, May 25. — The House Foreign Affairs Committee has tabled the resolution request- ing the American delegates at the London economic conference be instructed to work for 16 to 1 bi- metallism, stigation' the in the light of bank practices of Morgan and‘ that the firm members with the House to, look into ways and means of elim-| The bill willf | Connors Is ‘ Nominated, ‘ Collector ame of Juneau Man Sent to Senate Today by President Roosevelt for Alaska Office N James J. Connors, Democratic NationalCom- nitteeman for Alaska and President and owner of o Company of this city, . . CONNORS was today nominated by President Roosevelt for Collector of Customs for Alaska for the past 12 can encumbent years. Mr. Connors was apprised today! by Delegate Dimond that his name; sent to the Senate by| had been the President. Early confirmation is expected by party leaders here. He has the united support of]| the Territorial organization and of the National party organization. So |far as is known here he has no} opposition of any kind. His is the second appointment to have been made by the President. Gov. Troy| is the only mew public officer for Alaska to have been named to date. M, Territory, having resided here more |than 30 ‘years. He resided for {many years in the Second Division {before coming to Juneau some 20 years ago and has made his home |in this city since that time. He has always taken an active interest in party affairs and served as precinct, divisional and Terri- |torial Chairman prior to his elec- tion as National Committeeman in 1928. He was re-elected to that office last year. He, with Gov. Troy, is one of Alaska’s original Roosevelt for President men. It was due in large measure to his efforts at the Ter- ritorial Convention at Fairbanks last January that the organization instructed Alaska’s delegates to the National Convention for Roosevelt. Mr. Connors was unanimously endorsed by Delegate Dimond, all Divisional Committees, and the Ter- Customs. With Gov. Troy he went to Washington for the Roosevelt inauguration and to confer with National Chairman Farley over Territorial appointments. His own candidacy for Collector of Customs was endorsed by National Chair- man Farley at that time. —————— BROADWAY IS THROWN INTO GREAT PANIC Two Carloads of Hoodlums Race Down Avenue Spitting Gunfire NEW YORK, May 25. — Two ed, were struck down in a shrieking panic. Two carloads of hoodlums, rac- ing south, poured a fusillade cf shots into a third automobile. The target car, spitting gunfire, into an iron fence. Two men, trailing blood, tumbled out of the auto and limped qusckly away. ] Sadie Fortune, aged 45, walking ‘down Broadway, was hit in the ! back by the bullets and her condi- tion is critical. Irene Savage, aged 24, wounded in the shoulder. The police are without clues. R e was Mrs. Ella Littell, mother of Ben' suffered a mild stroke of; apoplexy and is in St. Ann's Hos-| Littell, ,pital for medical treatment, of Customs, Connors Mot- | Connors is a pioneer of thej ritorial Committee for Collector of | women, one perhaps fatally wound-| a street; skirmish that threw Broadway into’ YGHAMBER HoLDS OFF AGTION ON FISH TRANSFER Hears Extended Argument on Dimond Home Rule Bill—Defers Action | The Chamber of Commerce today | opened its consideration of Dele- gate Dimond’s bill to transfer the control of the fisheries resources over to the Territory, but postponed action on it until next week or even later. The measure relative to the transfer of control of the game and fur-bearers was not dis-| cussed. | Only two members discussed the | fisheries measure. H. L. Faulkner,| who as chairman of the Le:zis]a-| tive Committee recommended to; the Board of Directors that the| bill be disapproved and whose rec- | ommendation was followed by the bill to succeed J. C. McBride, Republi- Board by a three to two vote, ar-| gued against endorsement, and J. E. [Pegues, Managing Editor of| The Empire, urged that the Cham- | ber approve the bill. Lack of Funds Mr. Faulkner declared that th(-. movement is both political and in- volves a question of economics. IL' ‘\ma not a partisanly political issue, !since both Democratic and Repub- lican parties have committed them- jselves to local control of resources. It is political in the sense that at the polls. He declared that up | to two or three years ago the pres- | transfer and said he believed he | would thank the Chamber now if | it opposed the enactment of the Bill. The Federal Government, he pointed out, now pays all of the expenditure of the administration of the fisheries and the Territory gets all of the revenue. This s)bua-\ tion, he asserted, is an ideal one‘ for the Territory. Local control of local resources, he added, is a very fine sentiment but poor economy. | Cost Is High He scouted the claim that the Territor could administer the fish- eries at a lesser cost than has been done by the Federal Govern- ment. The average annual cost of administration, he said, over the; past five years has been about| $425,000. He questioned the ability of the Territory to lower that fig-| ure materially. | The history of local government (Continuei on Page TWwo) HENLEY GIVES ORAL PLEA IN APPEALS COURT {Defendant in Foshay Case| Also Files 122 Page Brief ST. PAUL, Minn, May 25.—H. H. Henley, who last week person- {ally appealed from his conviction] {of mail fraud charges before the Circuit Court of Appeals, yesterday| { presented a 122-page brief denying the statements of the Government’s counsel at the hearing. Henley and W. B. Foshay were convicted in connection with the | $60,000,000 Foshay failure. | Although not a lawyer, Henley | was given permission to conduct \hls own case when he pleaded lack’ of funds. Foshay rested his case on the ———e——— You Figure 'This Thing Out Yourself DENVER, Col, May 25— Trapped-in a bath tub for four days, Mrs. Mary Bensen, aged 67 years, described as rather stout, was rescued by police and firemen affer two appeals for help had gone astray. She got fastened under the faucets, i Alaskan Quake Dayhght S(wmg Time Arrives in Juneau;Clocks Moved Ahead One Hour; Business Continues Well, “it” arrived in Juneau. Everybody seems cheated out of that one hour caus- led by advancing the clock that ent Delegate was opposed to the|period of time to effect daylight | saving. And at that, business seemed to go right on perking, despite the sleepy-eyed appearance of the above mentioned 'two-third population. And there is no chance to get |back that lost hour until next September 24—then, oh, boy—what a grand and glorious feeling. The turning of the clocks ahead one hour at midnight was not without some queer instances, the following which will be appreciated by all except a certain three per- sons: & Father Started Something The father of one household in Juneau, retires about 10 o'clock at night for he goes on early shift at the Alaska Juneau mill. When this certain father prepared to re- | tire last night, he pushed the clock ahead the one hour. Mrs. Juneau retired one hour later—and she pushed the clock ahead one hour. Bobby Juneau came home about midnight—or thought it was—and | he took the minute hand and spun it around. Blue Atmosphere The alarm for father went off at says when he found out what time it actually was by phou- to be happy |candidates for office and politi-| about it except about two thirds jcal leaders use it to obtain eumxm‘of the population that has been ing to Central—there was all klnds; of blue atmosphere about the bed- room and Kkitchen, but he was wasme and made everybody, includ-| ing Bobby, get up and start the day two hours earlier than neces-| sary while the birds twit-twitted| in the branches of the trees near-| by. H Cows Chew Cuds | Out along the Glacier Highway| the new time went into effect but Dairyman Smith said he could nm.‘ fool his cows and they were very| reluctant, In fact just looked at| him and the other milkers in as-| tonishment, and continued to con- tentedly chew their cuds and re- fused to get up until Alaska Standard Time arrived for them. Rooster in Bad | Out at Rudy's ranch one rooster |who had been quietly slipped the information that daylight saving was to be effective today, proudly, hopped off the roost and let forth his cock-a-doodle-doo. The hens pushed their heads u into the atmosphere and in no un-| certain clucking informed (their feathered lord and master that he was a plain “egg before he was born” and to get back on the roost. The one-third of the population| pleased with the change were those| U Ips and Downs i A scries of heavy earthquakes, which shook the region about the mouth of the Susitna River, 25 miles west of Anchorage, Alaska, April 26, heaved lakes in the vicinil were piled on the beaches five and six feet deep. ity so violently that huge ice cakes The upper photo shows the ice piled on shore. Low bottom land near the mouth of the Susitna, was split and tumbled about by the earthquakes. The lower photo shows a crack in the earth five feet across. Ooze and mud flowed in almost immediately making the cracks look like irrigation ditches. who.went to work after midnight- i they gleefully noted the clock go-' ing ahead and saved one hour on their shm BOY SLAYER GIVEN LIFE, ALSO RUBBER. COLFAX, Wash, May 25.—Two days after a jury ordered him I prisoned for life for the kmm.fl; of his father, Ernest Kirkland aged 16 years, was charged with| grand larceny yesterday in connec-| | | 'NEWSPAPERMAN 1'8 SHOT DOWN IN CALIFORNIA Asmstant Publlsher Killed Attempting to De- fend Another | LOS ANGELES, cal, May 25— Crowd of 300 00 B les Pope Resum es Custom| Abandoned Many Years Ago ROME, May 25.—The Pope bless-| ed a crowd of 300,000 when he left| the Vatican today and attended mass at the Basilica of St. John, Lateran Mother Church of the Catholic World. The depmure‘ from the Vatican marked the re-| tion with the robbery of a sl0'®{ Rushing to the defense of his fel-| sumption of the Ascencion Day| at Pine City, near here. Douglas Kirklarz, aged 22 year Ernest's brother, was arrested I Spokane yesterday by Sheriff W Dailye, of Whitman County, w said the boy's father, W. A. Kirk land, learned of the robbery upbraided the boy. This is belie Mails Letter He Will Beat {To Point Barrow 25, LOS ANGELES, Cal., May —Charles D.: Brower, Postmast er at Point Barrow, mailed 2 letter yesterday to a friend which he himself will deliver Brower said he will beat the letter to Point Barrow by sev- eral weeks, ,| Patterson, aged 55, General Man- 2| | new: il | {careened at a corner and crashed argument of his former colleague.i to have led to the father's killinz.| spaper, was shot and killed late | low executive engaged in an alter- cation with Ed Davis, aged 55 years, discharged janitor, E. Gail ager and Assistant Publisier of the| Los ‘Angeles Daily News, a mormng{ | yesterday. J. W. McGuire, aged 60, the Newu purchasing agent, v«hmnl Patterson sought to defend, was| taken to a hospital with bullet| |wounds in the leg and abdomen | MeGuire discharged Davis yes- | terday. | { Davis walked calmly from the | newspaper building and was ar- rested later on a street car R | Baby Day, two-year-old infant of| ‘Mr and Mrs. W. E. Day, entered St. Ann’s Hospital: last night for | treatment for appendicitis. ) NEW YORK TOURIST custom abandoned in 1870. R TO SPEND SUMMER IN M’KINLEY PARK | | FEDEHAL JUDGE IS VINDICATE "' OF ALL CHARGES Impeachment Proceedings in U. S. Senate Ended After Nine Days WASHINGTON, May 25. — The nine days' trial before the United States Senate brought complete vindication yesterday for Federal | Judge Harold Louderback on the five charges brought by the House | of Representatives that he had ir- regularly handled receivership cases in his court in San Francisco On only one count was there a vote of the majority for conviction resulting in 45 voting guilty and 34 not guilty. It requires a two- third majority for conviction in | impeachment cases. This count was Miss Ellen B. Scott, of New York City, called on Father Kashevaroff at the Territorial Museum when he passed through Juneau a few days ago on her way to the West- ward. She had an introductory note from her friend, Ilia Tolstoy, grandson of the famous author Leo | Tolstoy, who spent two summers in |the Territory. Miss Scott expects to spend the summer in Mt MecKinley Park| {studying the flowers and fauna of the country. She was greatly in- terested in the historical exhibits in the Museum while in Juneau, .| the fifth charge and summed up all the others charging the jurist’s conduct was prejudicial to the dig- nity of the judiciary, also with causing distrust in the court. Judge Louderback said he will return to California and again re- sume his position on the bench saying that it would be silly, like playing mies, if he resigned. He said he felt completely vindicated. e The South Texas onion crop for: the 1933 season is estimated at 3,- 500 to 4,000 carloads. [} in the hands of his ene- VIVID RECORD BEING SPREAD 0UT TO PUBLIC Men Promment in Public Life Are‘Favored by Financmg House [DEALS OF BANKING FIRM DISCLOSED Bllllons of Dollars Worth of Securities Shown to Have Been Sold WASHINGTON, May 25.—Furth- er evidence on the Morgan and | Company’s bestowal of millions in | paper profits to favored customers is sought by the Senate investi- | gators, They have already spread | on the record many names while Morgan watched the names of | other men high in the public life | appear, men made beneficiaries of the great firm's bounty through ! sales to them below the price paid | by the public. | The Alleghany Corporation \ suc of 1929 was shown up today. Beneficiaries Among the men benefiting from | Morgan’s favors are present Sec- | retary of Treasury Woodin, United !states Senator McAdoo, Newton D. Baker, Justice Owen J. Robers, Su- ! preme Court Justice; Col. Charles | A. Lindbergh, John J. Raskob, Gen. John J. Pershing and many others. | Secretary Woodin had no com- | ment but Senator Borah said the | people are entitled to a Secretary of the Treasury, who like Ceasar's | wife, should be above suspicion. | Morgan himself admitted he paid | no taxes here but paid income | taxes in England in 1931 and 1932. | More Evidence | The gigantic sweep of the busi- ness of Morgan and Company was vividly portrayed today by evidence it sold six billion, twenty-four mil- lion dollars worth of securities to the public since the war days of | which more than two billion have ' been retired. George Whitney, | partner of Morgan, made the statement. Whitney said he made "$146,000 profit on the' sale of 14,000 shares of Alleghany stock he was es- | pecially allowed to purchase through the firm. McAddo’s Statement Senator McAdoo denied today he (was a preferred client of Morgan !and Company but he said he lost | $2,500 on three purchases but made $4,900 on 500 shares of Alleghany stock he was allowed to buy. The late Calvin,K Coolidge was shown as a privlleged purchaser shnres of “Standard after he left the 13- Presldency. As the name of Norman H. Davis was spread before the investigators, Senator Robinson, of Indiana, ask- ed if Davis was representing the House of Morgan in Europe. Davis ls now Special Ambassador attend- !ing the disarmament conference in Geneva. Morgan, explaining whey he paid | English income tax and none in the United States, said it was be- cause of a difference in the laws "of the two countries. IRON, STEEL INDUSTRY IN 600D SHAPE Confidence,filimism Pre- vails with Further Gains Predicted | NEW YORK, May 25—In cons trast with the gloom prevading the last annual session, the Am- erican Iron and Steel Institute held a meeting today in an atmo= sphere of confidence and optimism with the heads of the different great companies commenting hope= | fully on the marked expansion of operations this spring. Many of the chieftains are looking for further gains.