The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 30, 1933, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIL. NO. 6353. " JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1933, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT§ - — BELL ANNOUNCES SIXTEEN HEARINGS NATION HONORS ALL WARS' DEAD IN CEREMONIES Memories of Valorous Deeds Flood Americans Honoring Heroic Dead UNDATED—Memories of myriads of valorous deeds came flooding) back to Americans on this Memor- ial Day as they poured out their| hearts in tears for the nation’s brave dead and uttered cheers for the living. At Washington, reverent throngs turned their faces toward Arling- ton National Cemetery where Presi- dent Rosevelt attended ceremonies honoring America’s dead of all} wars | People polis, and to hamlets the streets from lined sparsely the number of Civil War| veterans had dwindled. At Gettysburg, Pa., school chil- dren mingled with their elders to hear former Gov. John Fisher re- call the epic struggle there that marked the turn of the tide of civil conflict. At Chicago, World Fair throngs peered with reverence at a humble log cabin reproduction of the birth- place of Abraham Lincoln. Fair officials arranged a meeting be- tween an old Confederate warrior and one of the soldiers that wore the blue of the North, symbolic of the healing of the old wounds. -, TWO VESSELS ARE AGROUND; REMOVE CREWS Japanese Tonber witd ke ber Schooner Ashore, California Coast SAN PEDRO, Cal, May 30— Capt. T. Oni and 38 members of the crew of the Japanese tanker Nippon Maru, aground on the rocky promintory of Point Arguel- lo, have been removed from the stranded ship by a salvage tug. The tanker went ashore during a fog. Meanwhile the coast guard cut- ter Tamaora removed the crew of the lumber schooner Chesalis, beached after a collision in a fog with the J. B. Stetson, lumber schooner. 5 There is a possibility that both| the Nippon Maru and Chesalis may be refloated. v, —— SHOWER IN HONOR OF DOUGLAS GIRL IS GIVEN BY JUNEAU HOSTESSES In honor of Miss Helen Stragier, of Douglas, whose marriage to Claude Erskine will take place June 3, Mrs. Fred Schmitz and Mrs. Jack Schmitz were hostesses at a shower at the home of the former Monday night. Games were played during the evening, :and prizes won by Mrs. Katherine Shaw, Amy Messer- schmidt, Miss Dorothy Schmitz, Mrs. Mabel Bertholl and Mrs. Helen Hermle. Attending the party were t,hel Mesdames Eva Schmitz, Emily Schmitz, Wilma Schmitz, Mabel Society Awaiting New Chapter in House of Rogers Love Story Multi-Millionaire Oil Baron May Rewed Wife, from Whom He Parted Over Titled Son-in-Law, After Second Wife Wins Divorce. Mgs Mary BendaMIN RoGeRS MRs ARTURO RaMos That Colonel Henry H. Rogers, multi-millionaire oil magnate, will re- marry his first wife, Mary Benjamin Rogers, after his second wife, Mrs. Basil Miles Rogers, gets the Reno divorce, for which she is now in the Nevada divorce territory establishing a legal residence, is the prediction of New York society gossips, who have long followed the progress of the Romances of the House of Rogers. Should the reunion work out according to the course charted by Dame Rumor, it will mean the end of a series of marital difficulties involving father, mother, and daughter, Millicent, which has been paraded before the world for more than a decade. The trouble began with the marriage of Millicent, Colonel Ro ers’ daughter, to Count Ludwig Salm in 1924. Mrs. Rogers, it was said, favored the count as a son-in-law, but the colonel didn’t have much use for a European title, particularly as the holder thereof was as poor as the proverbial ecclesiastical rodent. But Millicent ma npbleman by the elopement route and the battle was on. Discord reigned in the Rogers household, which culminated in Mrs. Rogers divorcing the colonel in Holland in 1929. Shortly after, he married Mrs. Basil Miles, widow of an American diplomat. But Millicent, now divorced from Count Salm and happily married to Arturo Ramos, wealthy Argentinian would have no part of her step-mother, and once more discord led tc the courts. If, and when, the second Mrs. Rogers wins her Reno divorce, New York society is betting that the colonel will be reunited to his boy- hood bride, whom he married 33 years ago when a student at Columbia University. another | _ CARS ROAR AS . CHAMPWALKER, RAGERS START 92 YEARS OLD, 500-MILE RACE Fred Frame, Last Year's Winner, Leads at In- dianaplis Getaway INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 30.—| LOS ANGELES, May 30.—Dan Risking their lives with every turn}O’Leary, walker extraordinary, as of the wheels of their flying cars,/the “Human Machine,” who expect- | 42 drivers roared away this morn-|ed to live to the age of one hun- |ing at the start of the Twenty-idred and twenty-five years, was First International 500-Mile Auto-|struck down here yesterday at the mobile Race on the famous speed-|age of 92, by hardening of the ar- way here. teries. mous Pedestrian, Suc- cumbs Heart Disease Brockman, Mabel Schmitz, Mabel Battello, Mabel Bertholl, Amy Mes-‘ serschmidt, Helen Hermle, Lois Tucker, Rose Schmitz, ulia Breslin Miss Dorothy Schmitz “and the honor guest. -~ MRS. M. B. PULVER AND MRS. G. M. HAMBLETON LEAVE FOR THE SOUTH M. B. Pulver and Mrs. G. M. Hambleton, mother and sister| of Mrs. Arthur Fox, left on the Princess Norah this morning to re- turn to their homes in Rochester, New York. ——————————— MISS VIOLET BOURGETTE LEAVES FOR SOUTH ON PRIN. NORAH THIS A. M.| Mrs. Miss Violet Bourgette, teacher of the second grade in the Juneau Public Schools, left this morning on the Princess Norah for Seattle | E. The start was made in good; Many marks set by O'Leary as a order with gray-haired Fred Frame,|long distance walker, still stand, winner of last year's Memorial Day'despine repeated attempts through- classic, in the lead on the grindjout the world to better them. that will take five hours or more.! “The Human Machine's” walk- One hundred thousand cheering ing career started when he was and thrilled spectators sat in the 35 years old, when he was chal- stands and stood watching the|lenged to walk 100 miles. He ac- spectacle. The winner will get cepted and kept up walking con- $12,000 out of a total prize money|tests until his ninetieth birthday. of $30,000. !In 1874 he boasted he could walk AP e o, s A e five hundred miles in six ‘days, and according to report, accomplished the feat. White House Denies Debt Negotiations WASHINGTON, May 30.—From the White House today, an em- phatic statement was issued that President Roosevelt is not negotiat- ing for partial payment of the na- tion’s war debts. R. E. ROBERTSON LEAVES ON BUSINESS TRIP TO SEATTLE ON THE NORAH R. E. Robertson, Juneau attor- ney, left on the. Princess Norah this morning on a business trip to Seattle. He will be away for two or three weeks. e ——— CARLSON AT ST. IS PATIENT ANN’S HOSPITAL where she will have her eyes ex- amined. Shé expects to attend Normal chool nh Bellingham, Wash- inston. durlng the summer, The statement was caused by persistent reports given wide cir- culation that the President was engaged jn such negoflauons. E. Carlson entered St. Ann’s hos- pital last night for medical (reat-l ment, DIES IN L. A, Dan O'Leary, World Fa-| CONGRESS KEPT AT GRIND; TWO BILLS PASSED i Roosevelt Qulckstep Keeps| Congress Active Despite Holiday WASHINGTON, D. C, May 30.— ‘The Roosevelt quickstep kept Cons gress at its grind, forcing forward at least two bills on the President’s emergency program despite the hol- iday. The Senate, after having balked yesterday on a vote on the 50 per cent reduced appropriation for the Veterans Administration and other independent goverment offices, drove ahead for its disposal today. Important new economy powers are attached to this measure for the President. The* House Committee on Inter- state Commerce sought a decisipn on the railroad regulation. The Administration’s bill is due for some revision becauss of opposed re- strictions on economy it now con- tains. There was no session of the ing speed with which the gold clause cancellation hjll was passed. The House Committee on La- ation of for a new Federal employment sys- tem that is identical with that year. The Senate passed the bill Monday in five minutes. BOLIVIA TURNS DOWN LEAGUE CHACOPROPOSAL Disappointed Over Refusal to Have Commission Settle Dispute GENEVA, May 30. —Dlsappom'- ment prevailed in League of N.n- tions circles here today when uurd was received from Bolivia consti- tuting a non-acceptance of the League's proposal to intervéhe in the Chaco dispute with Paragua The League proposed that 1L lish a basis for grounds by means of which the entire Chaco issue be subject to arbitration. AWAY AFTER ILLNESS OF SEVERAL MONTHS Mrs. away at 8:45 this morning an illness of five months. after ware, Arkansas, January 4, and was married to Arthur A Pledger in February, 1915. She came to Juneau with her daughter | about two years ago. Beside her daughter, Anna Mil- dred Pledger, 15 years old, who is at the home of the Rev. and Mrs. C. E. Personeus, Mrs. Pledger is| survived by her mother, Mrs. H.| O. Hatfield of Russellville, Arkan- !sas, five sisters, Mrs. Leslie R. Hoz- ins, of Juneau, Mrs. Allie Mc lister, of Venice, Filorida; Mrs. Mamie Johnson of Tulsa, Okla-| ‘homa; Mrs. Vadus Williams of Los Angeles. and Mrs. George Limbird of Delaware, Arkansas and a brc er, Charles N. Hatfield, of Rus ville, Funeral arrangements will b nounced later. 1897, | an Something Odd; Two Fishermen Catch One Salmon You have heard now and then about one fisherman catching twe fish—this season, he’s lucky if he eatches one—but it isn’t often that two fisher- men catch one fish. Trolling not far from the Faulkner-Holbrook summer home at Point Louisa, last Sunday Mrs. H. L. Faulkner and Wellman Holbrock landed a thirty-pound salmon. The greedy fish, his appetite not appeased with one herring had foolishly gone after the bait on each hook and com- plicated the matter of landing House, itself, because of the smash-| |bor pushed forward in its consider- | the Wagner-Peyser bill| which President Hoover vetoed last! send a commission there to estab- | Ora Dean Pledger pa«ux‘ Mrs. Pledger was born in Dela- | | legends, MANY HEARINGS " ARE ANNOUNCED 'BY COMR. BELL HOUSE ACTS OUICKLY ON I |Legal Tender Money in United States Is Now Designated WASHINGTON, May 30.—Acting | quickly late yesterday afternoon, i the House voted legal tender money i 0" be-yused henceforth in . cop- | tractural Obligations of the Gov-{ 'ernmont and private citizens buy | passing the bill, designed by the | Administration, to give the same| ]value to all legal tender money !as was held by gold before the ‘Govcmmem called gold into the 1Lreasurv I This was accomplished by a vote | | of 283 to 57. The bill was immediately sent to the Senate where the Banking | Committee has ulready approved it. ELMER REED IS PUBLISHER OF BOOK OF VERSE Local Authority on Alaska Compiles New Vol- ume of Poems | | | JUNEAU WOMAN PASSES' | Elmer Reed is gratulations from friends on his | 1atest publication, a volume of verses selected and compiled from his extensive collections of Alaska | poems and legends dating from 1866 to 1933. The title of the volume, attrac- tively printed and bound is “The Kobuk Maiden, and Other Alaska Sourdough Verses.” Mr. Reed has dedicated the col- lection to the “Pioneers of Alaska, receiving con- | Empire Builders of the Northland,” as the publication was induced by many requests from pioneers an old-time residents of the Territory who desired a permanent collection of verses that were popular years ago and some which are really and sagas of the North- land. Included in the volume are “The Kobuk Maiden,” “Baranoff's Brav- ery,” “Edgecomb,” “An Alaskan Idyll,” “The Welcome Light Along the Trail” “Eskimo Love Song” “The Legend of Baranoff Island,” “Matrimony on the Yukon,” and many others. Today Mr. Reed said he had al- ready disposed of a considerable number, to people who not only want them for their own libraries, but who desire to send them fo friends in the States, as a gift pertonent to Alaska. ————— SOUTHBOUND PASS| GERS ON STR. NORTHWESTERN Leaving here on the Northwest- ern, were, for Petersburg Julia Aranbela and J. B. Loftus; for Wrangell, Katherine M. Os- born and Mrs. J. Bernsdal; for Seattle, Frank Kastalok, Chris Avon, Henry Mason and three sec- him by being doubly caught. ond elass, LATEST BILL French Graves Of Americans Are Decorated PARIS, May 30.—French graves of 28,000 Americans who died in the Werld War were decorated today with ceremon- s commemorative of their sacrifice in five military ceme- teries. Delegations of veterans conducted the services. e DEATH PENALTY FOR KIDNAPERS URGE POLICE ON Authorltles Hope for “Break” in Kansas City | Abduction Case KANSAS CITY, Mo, May 30.— Tensely alert police today sought for an expected “break” whlch might lead to the arrest of the four men who abducted Miss Mary McElroy, 24-year-old daughter of City Manager H. F. McElroy, who was released unharmed Sunday after payment of a ransom of 530- 000 by her father. Spurred by the promise of Lhe Prosecuting Attorney that he seek the death penalty for '.he kidnapers, the police questioned Miss McElroy. She viewed photos but failed to identify any as the men who kept her in a basement for 29 hours,, ,8he expressed no feelings against the men and said they hoped they will not be dealt with harshly because of their good treatment of her. YUKON ARRIVES FROM SOUTH AND IS OFF FOR WEST The steamer Yukon, Capt. C. A.| ! the south at 3 o'clock this morn- ing and left two hours later for the Westward. Arriving here on the steamer were Mary Baroumis, Nina Bar- | oumis, George Beal, W. S. Ben- jamin, Ina H. Benson, Garland Boggan, C. L. Fenton, Flory, Mrs. C. H. Flory, L. A. John- | son, George Jones, Mildred H. Kea-' ton, W. F. Kirk, William Maher, Imogene B. Melinger, Ethel Rund- quist, Mrs. O. H. Smith, Virginia Smith, Royal Arch Smith. Leaving on the steamer for the Wesward were E. M. Polley, R. C. Wakelin, Dr. and Mrs. Stanley Jorgensen and J. M. Bovee. There was a large list of through passengers aboard the steamer for Westward ports. - e, {Posses Search for Two Negro Klllers SPARTANSBURG, 8. C.,, May .!0 —Possemen here today were search-' ing for two negroes who killed Miss Thelma Martin and seriously wounded Madison Stone, her es- cort. Both were shot by the ne- £0es Charles H.! PACIFIG N, W. BUSINESS IS NOW GAINING Prices Are Raising with Continued Advance | Being Predicted SEATTLE, May Northwest farming and business {looked, back over the month with rismg prices and increased employ- and heard predictions that thc fldvance would last through the summer. Renewed building has rejuvenat- \cd lumbering, the key industry, ]mhaps the greatest sufferer of) rocem years. | | | | Beer has brought back hop rais- |ing. 1 Wheat and other farm products | have scored good advances. INTERNATIONAL SIGNAL SYSTEM CHANGES MADE New Dimensions Adopted for Signal Code Effect- ive January 1934 Changes in the dimensions of code flags and pennants, adopted o 30—Pacific |Sixteen Are Schediied by Commissioner During 3-Month Voyage Sixteen hearings on the fisher- ies of Alaska are planned by Frank T. Bell, United States Commis- sioner of Fisheries, during his first visit to Alaska next month and in ‘July, according to advices received at local headquarters of the bu- reau. He is due in Seattle next ‘Thursday and will sail on June 6 on his Alaska trip. * He will arrive in Juneau on the evening of June 14 and remain un- til the morning of June 17, sailing then on his westward voyage. He will hold a hearing here. Purpose Is Stated Commenting on his Alaska hear- ings, the Commissioner advised the bureau here they are for the pur- pose “of giving all interested par- ties an opportunity to express their views on fishery matters.” His ten- {tative itinerary shows meetings of this kind are planned from Ket- chikan to Bristol Bay, and he will visit many other points where no formal hearings are scheduled but where he will discuss informally the fishing conditions with local residents. Mr. Bell is expected to be accom- panied by Dr. Willis T. Rich, for- ymerly head of the Bureau of Fish- eries’ scientific investigations in jAlaska, C. O. Bower, assistant to the Commissioner for the trip, and ne or two others. He will spend | almost three months in the Terri- frstig Itinerarv Is Given The Conimissioher left Washing- ton last Saturday and is due in Seattle next Thursday. Sailing on the Brant on June 6, he is sched- uled to reach Ketchikan about noon of the 9th for a two-day stay. The first public hearing will be held during his visit there. Sailing on June 11, he will visit Yes Bay and Olive Cove enroute to Wrangell for his second hearing which will be held on the 12th. On the following day a hearing is slated for Petersburg and, after a |few hours there, the Brant will procced to this port via Taku Gla- |cier. It will arrive on the 14th. The Commissioner has fixed June 16 for the hearing to be held in this city. On the following day he will sail on the Brant for the west- ern areas. Hearing at Yakutat From here Mr. Bell will go to Yakutat, holding a hearing on June 18, and proceeding to Cordova where a similar meeting is slated for two days later. From Cordova he will go direct to Seward, de- ferring his visit to Valdez until southbound. A hearing is slated for Seward on June 22, and he will leave for Anchorage by rail on | for the International Code of Sig- | nals, are contained in a pamphlet! issued by the Government and which may be obtained from the! Hydrographic Office at Washing- | ton, D. C, for a nominal sum, it was announced by Capt. Clark, of the local Board of Steam- | boat Inspectors. The pamphlet is issued for the | convenience of mariners and others mwrested 1t contains the dimen- | sions of flags, showing the flags| of all maritime nations, and the d| Glasscock, arrived in Juneau from flags and pennants of the Inter- national Code in color. Candidates desiring licenses Master, First Class Pilots, Chief Mates, Second and Third Mates, both ocean and coastwise, will be | ‘,exnmlned in the new code on and after January 1, 1934, when it be (comes effective, Capt. Clark said.| Persons interested can obtain the| dimensions #om the United States Local Inspectors, Bureau of Navi-| gation and Steamboat Inspection Service, located in this city, at any| time before June 6. The local office will be closed from that date until the local board returns from its annual trip to Western Alaska, | about August 7. FARM PRIGES ARE GOING UP WASHINGTON, May 30. — Farm prices are going up in the fastest rise since the spring after the end of the World War. There has been a steady climb since April 15, the following day. The Anchorage hearing is set for June 24. On the same day he will leave Anchorage aboard the patrol ves- sel Teal for Seldovia, holding a hearing there on the 26th. He will transfer at that port to the Brant + (Concmued on Page Two) CHICAGO GANG MEETS DOOM IN INI]IANA HOLDUP | -One Dead and and Five in Jail as Result of Culver Bank Robbery CULVER, Indiana, May 30. —One bandit dead, and five cap- tured, constituted the accounts with a sextet of gunmen alleged to have robbed the State Exchange Bank here of $16,000. All but a small part of the mon- ey was recovered, when one of the captured bandits, James Davis, di- rected officers to a creek where the money was thrown, and where a machine gun was also found. T. S. Teske, one of the alleged bandits, was shot in the head and instantly killed by Oliver Sechil- ling, son of the president of the bank, as the thug sat at the wheel of the bandit car. South Chicago companions of the dead man are in jail facing possi- ble charges of both bank robbing and kidnaping.