The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 9, 1933, Page 1

-~ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE Y “ALL THE NEWS TWELVE PAGES ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1933. VOL. XLIL, NO. 6362. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY —— MATTERN UP IN AIR; TAKES OFF AGAIN ROOSEVELT NOMINATES 3 FOR ALASKA G. F. ALEXANDER, PORTLAND MAN, IS FOR JUDGE Son. 6f Formee Ui 5. Eob! inet Officer Named for Position, This Division WAS U. S. MARSHAL IN OREGON UNDER WILSON | PRESIDENT SIGNS SECURITIES BILL I | Marshal ang—l—l. S. Attor-j ney for Fourth Division Also Nominated Three additional Alaska nomina- tions were submitted to the Scnate | late yesterday afternoon by Presi- dent Roosevelt—one for the Federal bench in this Division and two other Department of Justice posi-| tions in the Fourth Division. Those named are: i George F. Alexander, Oregon,| President Roosevelt is shown as for United States District Judge, Juneau. Left to right, behind him: Senator he affixed his :ignatur} to legisla- tion designed to regulate sale of securities and protect the public. Fletcher, Florida; Rep. Rayburn, Joseph A. McDonald, Fairbanks,' Texas; Huston Thompson. Colorado; Henry Miller, attorney in drafte d States Marshal, Fourth Di- | ing the bill. (Associated Pr. s Photo) Ralph J. Rivers, Fairbanks, Uni- t2d States ‘Attorney, Fourth Divi- sion. DIMOND WANTS First Is Surprise The nomination of Mr. Alexand- | ; er came as a surprise to the Alaska | ] : Democratic organization leaders. | The . first, official intimation that ! such a step was to be taken was| contained in a telegram receivaed ! yesterday by National Committee- | man James J.<Connors from Dele- ' gate Dimond. | The other two nominations were | expectsd. Both Mr. McDonald and | Mr. Rivers had been endorsed by, the local organization and their| names were on the regular slate.| The organization, however, had:ial Correspondence)—Although he endorsed S. Hellenthal, local at- has been assured by the House torney and First Division party Ways and Means Committee and leader for several years, for that, by Director of the Budget Lewis position and had been informed | Douglas that the phraseology of that his name would probably be 'the administration's public works sent in. bill is such that Alaska will not Is Nationally Prominent |be discriminated against in high- BILL AMENDED gate Alaska Will Not Be Discriminated | WASHINGTON, May 20.—(Spec- | RUSTGARDS IN_ LONDON Committee Assures Dele- Former Juneau Woman Writes Empire of Three Days in English Capital Mr. and Mrs. John Rustgard who left Juneau several months ago to make an extended trip to Eu- rope sailed up the Thames River to London, England early in May after making a six weeks trip COLUMBIAIS | | | f i | f | | Higher than Crest of ‘ One Year Ago E PORTLAND, Oregon, June 9.— TROY IS ASKED RISING; DIKES | TO HELP FIND ARE WATCHED| INTERIOR MAN Water in River Is Now|Andrew Fink, Hot Springs,i Missing Weeks—Believ- ed Foul Play Victim ‘Citizens of Hot Springs, a mining A close vigil is being maintained |community on the Tanana River jalong the dykes on the Oregon|north of Fairbanks, yesterday tele- shore of the Columbia River abjgraphed an appeal to Gov. John | the stream, already more than oneé|W. Troy, urging him to obtain | foot higher than the crest of lastlauthority for an investigation in- | year, is still rising and pi to the mysterious disappearance | threateningly against the protecslof Andrew Fink from his home | tive wall guarding the garden lands | there on April 27, last. They de- and large industrial area north gl clared they had been unable to the Portland district. get action through the United ! Much Land Flooded States Marshal and United States | spilling over, the water is #n- creasing on the lowland terril of the Vancouver, Wash., distrit and now covers thousands of @ The flood waters have i several farmers who did not their dairy herds to higher earlier in the week. The river road is out at ,couver and broken in sev places by currents. B e Well, Whatdy'e Think of This? What—No Kick? SEATTLE, June 9~—The City Chemist, after testing seven brands of beer, principally eastern and middie west ‘popu- lar brewr, found “there ain't ne such thing as 3.2 beer.” The highest brand enly test- ed 28. | —t———— CAPT, HINCKLEY AND PARTY GET 4 1 ‘from California through the Pan-! ama Canal on the motorship Swen- | son of the Fredrik Olsen Line, Mrs.' Mr. Alexander, an attorney of Portland for many years, is na- tionally prominent cratic party and has been active in its work for a long time. He was United States Marshal for Oregon under the second Wilson Adminis- tration. He was inducted into of- fice on September 14, 1917 and served for four years. He is the son of Joshua W. Al- exander, Democratic leader of Mis- souri and Secretary of Commerce under President Wilson from 1920 to the end of the Wilson Adminis- tration on March 4, 1921. Prior to that time the elder Alexander had served seven successive terms as a member of the national House of Representatives, and before that served several terms as a Circuit Judge on the Missouri State hench. M'Donald Known Here Mr. McDonald is well known in this city. He was Speaker of the House of Representatives in the late Alaska Legislature and mem- ber of the 1931 House. He is a longtime resident of interior Alas- ka, conducting a business for many years at Ester and owning exten- sive mining property on Ester Creek which is now under option to the Fairbanks Exploration Com- pany. Mr. Rivers has practiced law at Fairbanks for several years. He has been City Attorney there, and is Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, The terms of the present en- cumbents of the offices named have expired. That of Judge Jus- tin W. Harding was over early this year. United States Marshal Len Smith, of the Fourth Divi- sion, died last April and a tempor- ary appointment was made by Judge E. Coke Hill pending filling of the vacancy by presidential appoint- ment. Julian Hurley, United States Attorney at Fairbanks, whom Mr. Rivers will succeed, is also serving beyond his regular term. Marshal Harvey Sullivan of the Third Division completed his term sometime ago. And the term of ‘Warren Cuddy, United States At- torney there has also expired. Other Department of Justice of- ficers in the Territory still have sometime left of their four-year terms, It is possible no changes will be made in them before next winter. in the Demo-| way construction, Delegate Dimond Rustgard describes some of the in- |is taking no chances and will cn-iteresting places and things seen deavor to have the Senate Finance by them during their three day | Committee insert an amendment 'stay in the English capitol in a |to the bill. letter to the Empire. It was his hope that the Housei «To see Tondon for the first ment, but. its members felt that!' one hecause of havin; i L H L g heard about H S:Zslgal ‘:o:d‘:tl::;:ly protected as the wonders of the world’s largest The only section of the bill deal- c’r;{g‘,—e lsareE n:::;m: glocek);pe::::fé :x‘gs ipeggimimwx;t; gglag’oflggo “tlc‘)[and piers in the London Harbor liho 40 ates Al HaWAlL 10 e s s reds ToL RGO, batges, ‘admimsbered - e fedans _tugs and liners, loading, unloading, {highwny aid syst:x:r ’I'hiseof cou:se'lfn fo; i farr!ving SLgmrne 3 : s {for home or foreign ports there gt:::; nmtth::cmt‘lt l’t“:i‘:fio rf;"’ dt::!every day. England is a network of 1 Inot. come within the provisions of {4 8T R A, SUE e e ?gfiegfzrfl;aglgt"fif :‘s‘s’u;‘é‘- fl?‘bnrges to various ports. Last even- other sections of the bill DrovIIng | e firer shiomant aan the Ares for public works would not militate | oo two years, of California against road building in Alaska. naval He is inclined to agree with that' RIS, (MOl e the ‘Committes would adopt the amend- time and have it seem familiar to interpretation, but would like to see the amendment in so executive | deportments could not possibly mis- construe the bill's meaning. | 'Mr. Dimond's amendment would also include the District of Col- ubia, the Virgin Islands and Puerto |Rico, the status of which political sub-divisions is exactly similar in the bill to that of Alaska. Saturday Attorney General Homer S. Cummings sent to the | President the name of Willlam A. Holzheimer of Ketchikan with the recommendation that he be nomin- ated as United States Attorney for {the First Division. The House Committee on Rivers and Harbors has approved a re- solution submitted by Mr. Dimond for a review of reports on Ketchi- kan Harbor, with the idea that be approved by the Board of En- gineers. The Delegate is endeavor- ing to secure the inclusion of many rivers and harbors projects Alaska in the public works pro- gram. The rivers and harbors bill, which provided for several Alaska |the House but the opinion now is that the measure will not be acted upon. Instead it is thought all the approved projects contained in |it will come within the scope of additional needed work there will| inj projects, was reported favorably to| market in another day or two. “We saw London quite well in !mree days with the help of a guide, chauffeur and car. It is all | indescribable because one feels so !deply the reflection of past ages | /in all one sees and experiences. ,We attended services at Westmin-" {ister Abbey amid all the splendor (of that marvelous structure where IKings and Queens are crowned 'and which contains tombs of royal- 1y, tablets, monuments and busts, all tributes to England’s literary |geniuses and statesmen. “After feeding the pigeons from our hands_on the steps of St. IPaul’s. we were also present at a {service in that Cathedral, a white Imarble edifice of austere grand- eur. There is the huge tomb of the |Duke of Wellington, a reminder jof all his victories, ‘Waterloo and imany other battles. There too, lie Ithe remains of Lord Kitchener in a tomb of white marble, with a re !clining likeness of the great Gen- ieral, whose ship, during the war, was torpedoed and sunk, without |a life saved on the very spot in the North Sea where we are sail- :mg now, y Places of Interest “I shall just mention the places of interest we visited so familiar to all readers of Dickens or even the daily papers. Ramsey McDon- |ald’s residence at No. 10 Downing (Continuei on Page Two) (Continued on Page Eight) QUOTA OF BEAR Commander of Seattle Div. ! U.S.C.G. Returing South 1 on Cutter Haida Each having got his quota of two brown bear and an abundance of king salmon, Capt. H. D, Hinck- ley, Commander of the Seattle Di- wision of the United States Coast Guard, and his guests, William Piggott, Seattle business man, George D. Hubbard, Collector of Customs at Seattle and James Phelan, Football Coach at the Unversity of Washington, will re- turn to Seattle happy, on the C ,G. Cutter Haida on which Capt Hinckley has been making an in- | spection trip of Southeast Alaska ! Since leaving Juneau, a week | ago, the Haida, commanded by | Commander Michael Ryan, has been cruising in the vicinity of {Ohichugol, ‘Baranof and Admiraity | Islands, where Capt. Hinckley and {his party have been fishing and hunting. Mr. Phelan is credited with | shooting the largest brownie, a fe- male, which he got at Eliza Har- bor on Admiralty Island. See 44 Brown Bear Word of the success of ti week’s outing was brought to Ju eau by John Harris who went will the party as guide and returned at 9:30 o'clock this morning or the Coast Guard patrol boat C G 265 commanded by Boatswain Roy Stockman. During the six days they were out, the party saw 44 brown and black bear, acording to Mr. Harris A large number of brownies wer¢ seen near Tenakee. The Haida continued south or the return trip to Seattle yester day and the C G 265 will return Ketchikan where it is based u the Alert is finished with duty on the Bering Sea Patrol. ————eo—— JUNEAU BAKERY HAS FRESH COAT OF PAINT corated interior of the Juneau Bakery, Henry Sully is having & fresh, light coat of paint put o7 sell is doing the paint job and has the first coat about completed ‘To harmonize with the newly de-| Attorney at Fairbanks. The Governor today retelegraph- ed the request to Judge E. Coke Hill and suggested that a search night be made from Territorial funds for the rescue and relief of lost persons if the Federal author- il ‘had no funds to devote to the United States Commissioner ng of Hot Springs, dele- gated by the mass meeting to take up the matter with Gov. Troy, wired that it was feared Fink had been foully dealt with, possibly killed by Indians. Fink, he informed the Governor, last winter had been shot at and his cabin riddled with bullets by a local Indian. The latter was arrested, and bound over to the Fegl grand jury and is now in jall awaiting its action. His brothers resented this action and are said to have threatened “to get” Fink for the prosecution of their brother. LAMONT CUT INCOME TAX DUE TO U. &, Stock Transactions Reduc- ed Payment by Over Hundred Thousand WASHINGTON, June 9.—Stock transactions by Thomas Lamont and his wife enabled the young pantner of J. P. Morgan to defunct $114,000 from his 1930 taxable in- come. This was hown in his testi- mony today before the Senate Investigating committee. On Preferred List Two of the names given in the ‘preferred” list of J. P. Morgan and Company’s favored investors, 1as out in the Senate’s investiga- tion of the private banking firm, Stephen Birch, a former member |of the Seattle Rainier Olub, and John Nelson Steele, are well known in the Northwest by reason of their copnection with Alaska develop- ment work. h, a New York resident, is president of the Alaska Steamship Company, Copper River and North- western Railway Company and the | Alaska Development and Mineral Company, all controlled by the Guggenheim family and during re- cent years he has made frequent trips to Alaska, and Seattle, in con- Mfl( n with the operation of those e le, a New York attorney, is likewise associated with the Gug- genheim interests and is a director of the Alaska Development and b Company, Copper | Northwest Development. He, ,m visited Seattle enroute to during inspection trips of the warioys Guggenheim Alaskan Propgies. VETS' DISPUTE § EA , June 9. — Ten- the veteran’s compen- ite eased last night as Roosevelt planned to sion sation understood will liberalize allow- ances. The details are not disclosed. River | SING OFF Slain Mother i | I Above are Mrs. Bruce MacDonald, murdered widow of a Flint, Michigan, banker and her seventeen-year-old son Balfe, whom po- lice sought for questioning. The boy vanished the night his mother, a wealthy sccial leader, was clubbed to death in her palatial home. According to an Associated The Empire, the nation-wide ielrel_lq_r the boy ended in Nash- tempting to extort kmame‘y from denied he killed his mother and his own on account of strictness Lot I FLIES OUT OF BELOVO BOUND FOR EASTWARD Makes Sixth Hop to Kras- noyarck, Rests Four Hougu Up Again IS SIGHTED PASSING OVER NIZHNIUDINSK Has Hopes:rStill Setting Record for Flight Around World MOSCOW, June 9.—Jimmie Mat- tern, '‘American solo flier on a lfllgm around the world, landed at ‘Kraesnoyarsk, Siberia, completing the sixth leg of his trip, by making a 183 mile hop from Belovo. He continued his flight, hopping from Krasnoyarsk, a little more than four hours after he arrived here believing he still had a chance to set a new globe record and appar- ently recovered from nausea caus- jed by a broken gasoline line as {he flew into Belovo. Bound for Trkutsk Mattern is believed bound for Irkutsk which it is believed he can reach in about ten hours. He will be 145 hours out of New York. Post and Gatty took 92 hours to reach JIrkutsk but they were grounded for a total of 52 hours '.\) Press dispatch received today by prominent persons. Young Balfe said he left home to make it on of his mother. at "2:056 pm. Moscow time. This Headed for Senate? Mrs, Gertrude Bowler, of Sheboy- | ::lr'xm"xi!" ml:emocu;ic 'Natggnnl itteewoman, who s in; boomed by State Democrats as cnn‘3 didate for U. S. Senator to oppose Senator La Follette in 1934, She is said to have the backi f chiefs, i NEW ROMANCE BUBBLING FOR E. RODSEVELT Texas Brunette Concerned in Life of President’s Second Son DALLAS, Texas, June 9.—Miss | Ruth Coggins, aged 25, Fort Worth brunette, declared there is no ro- mance between her and Elliott Roosevelt, the President’s second son. ? This statement was made after | from Washington, declined to com- ment on the reported romance saying “she could not say anything about that as FElliott is still mar- ried.” It was announced in Los Angeles yesterday that Eliott Roosevelt |and his wife have separated and a | divorce will be sought on the | grounds of incompatikility. Elliott has already taken up his residence in Nevada. | - -t — A Massillon, O, steel company the outside of the shop. Dan Rus- |Submit @ new program which it is completed a record of 614 days this | spring without a single lost-time | accident. place is about one third of the distance between Krasnoyarsk and Chita. Apparently his next objec- tive is about 1,300 miles from Kras- noyarsk. ) HOT WEATHER PREVAILS IN STOCKS GAIN DURING RALLY | IN LAST HOUR IFarm Machine Issues and' Corn, Wheat, QOats Aid Market NEW YORK, June 9.—A sharp spurt in gains and further weak- ness of the American dollar on foreign exchanges apparently fur- nished a welcome lift in the lag- ging stock market and leading! 'equities replaced early losses with | gains of fractions to two or more| points. The close was firm and sales totalling 5,000,000 shares. Last Hour Rally Rallying tendencies developed in the final hour when farm machine issues leaped into the limelight, and wheat, corn, oats, and cotton, moved higher. | Case gained around nine points. Issues Making Gains EASTERN U.S. Deaths Now Nearly One Hundred—Tempera- tures Sizzling Hot CHICAGO, Ill. June 9.—Sizzling hot, record breaking temperatures baked vast stretches of the east- ern half of the nation today bring- ing reports of deaths now ap- proaching the 100 mark. Some portions of the affected districts notably the extreme | southern and eastern parts of the 'Great Lakes region, are enjoying moderate relief from high temper- atures. Thunder Storms The east saw no prospect for Other issues one to more than:lower figures until tonight when two points included International thunder showers may ease the Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, flying | ‘Harvester, Sears, Caterpillar, Trac- | situation. New York City suffered under Ev,or. American Tobacco B, Liggett land Myers B, Reynolds B, Loril- lard, American Telephone, Consoli- dated Gas, Consolidated Oil, Am- | erican Waterworks, Standard Oil of New Jersey, National Steel. Postal, preferred, lost seven points and Western Union around two points, after defeat of the amendment to the railroad bill which would permit the companies to merge. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, June 9.—Closing| quotation of Alaska Juneau mine Istock today is 23, American Can 7%, ‘American Power and Light Anaconda 17%, Armour B 4%, Bethlehem Steel 30':, Calumet and Hecla 8%, Chrysler 24}z, Con- tinental Oil 14'%, Fox Films 4%, General Motors 4, International Harvester 41'%, Kennecott 20%, Packard Motors 6%, Standard | Brands 20, United States Steel 55%, Timken Roller 26%, Curtiss- ]‘Wright 3%. —— e | MAYOR I. GOLDSTEIN Mayor I. Goldstein is confined to his home by illness but expects jto be out again in a day or so. ILL AT RESIDENCE| 92 degrees with one death from |heat and two by drowning. l 22 Deaths In Illinois In the Middle West, death fig- ures mounted. Illinois counted 22 dead in the three days heat wave. In Chicago, 18 are dead. The thermometer hit 97 degrees. The temperature in Cleveland is 98 degrees with 11 dead in Ohio. Indiana reports four dead, Ken- tucky 5, Wisconsin four and Balti- more one. FRANCE IS T0 DEFAULT, WAR DEBT DUE U. S PARIS, June 9.—Another French default of a war debt payment due the United States on June 15 is evident and Premier Daladier, re- plying to interpellations on his foreign policy, avoided mention of debts. | - e ‘The campus cop at the University of California now drives a radio- equipped car, {