The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 28, 1933, Page 1

\d THE DAILY A “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ASKA EMPIRE( ) VOL. XLIL, NO. 6403. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1933. MEMBFR OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT§ CALL FOR AID SENT OUT FROM ARCTIC - ABDUCTORS HOLD OIL MAN CAPTIVE CHAS, URSCHEL | 1S STILL HELD BY KIDNAPERS Wife of Millionaire Okla-| homian Reported to Be Near Collapse NO WORD FROM JOHN O’CONNELL, ALBANY| Federal Agents Working on New Case in State of Massachusetts OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. July 28.—Charles Urschel, oil million- aire, kidnaped several days ago from his home here while playing bridge, is still unaccounted for. Mrs. Urschel is near collapse as all efforts for her husband’s re- leas: have been unsuccessful. O'CONNELL STILL MISSING ALBANY, N. Y. July 28—The| members of the family of John OConnell, Jr, kidnaped several weeks ago, are still uncommuni- cative. The police are out of the case on request of the family. NEW THREATS MADE LEOMINSTER, Mass. July 28— Threats have been made to Kid- nap executives of the Wachusett _Shirt Factory or members of their families. The Federal agents have been called into the case and are showing increasing energy in pur- ., suit of writers of Iletters demand- " ing a wage increase for the fac- tory's employes. WORLD CROOK HUNTING PLAN Kidnap Victim . A new picture of John J. 0’Connell Jr.,, kidnaped scion of Albany't foremost political family. The 24 year-old National Guard officer it owerfully built and is believed t gnvn put |:{p a struggle before h( was subdund by his abduetors, MANY SIGNING UP FOR NIRA WINDOW CARD Wage Boosting Scheme Is Meeting: with Suceess- in States WASHINGTON, July 28.—A rush of merchants and business.men. to, sign up and get the blue eagle Ni- ra posted in their windows has stimulated to more vigorous efforts 1S PUT FORTH _International Organization Is Being Formed by Criminologists CHICAGO, IlL, July 28—A form- ula for an International Clearing House for apprehension of crooks is the objective of European, Ameri- can and Canadian Police Criminol- ogists. Such an organization will deal with matters of extradition, white slavery, drug smuggling and trac- ing of confidence men but it is indicated- it will not deal with kidnaping gangs as they are con= sidered pecularily an American in- stitution, no abductions occuring in other' policed . countries. It is the indication that the In- ternational Criminal and Police Commission,” with headquarters in Vienna, may serve as a nucleus those working in Roosevelt's reem- ployment campaign and they pre- dicte success for the scheme. Thousands of telegrams pledged support in the hour shortening and wage raising job creating endeavor. Post Offices of the country re- port merchants rushing in to file certificates showing they are al- ready putting this agreement into effect. ———,——— PACKERS AHEAD OF LAST YEAR, | AT KETCHIKAN Run Is Fair, Fish Large, for the Europeau organization and ihe new Anti-Crime Bureau of the Department of Justice in Washing- ton, will be the Western Hemis- phere Headquarters. LIPS SEALED - AS MAN DIES ONSCAFFOLD Sla.yer Goes—_t; His Deathi Without Making Last | Statement WALLA WALLA, Wash., July 28. __Ollie Les Stratton, slayer of Wil- liam Frawley, his former army bud- dy, was hanged this morning in the State Penitentiary here. Stratton asked the prison offi- cials to let him die without mak- ing a statement from the gallows. Frawldy, retired, was killed Aug- ust 26, 1931, Stratton was unem- ployed at the time and robbery was given as the motive. ——————— Bernard E. Lyman, of Sandusky, Ohio, has been engaged in build- ing racing yachts and boats since 1873. but Flood of Salmon Has Not Appeared KETCHIKAN, Alaska, July 28— Salmon packers here said 13 can- neries in the Ketchikan district had packed 76,200 cases up to last Saturday night. Last year nine canneries oper- ating in the district had packed 31,800 cases. Packers sald the run is fair and the fish large but they foresaw possibility of short packs since the flood of the salmon should be ap- MATTERN IS AT EDMONTON EDMONTON, July 28— Jimmy Mattern and his four rEiefers landed here yesterday afternoon from Prince George. The five plan- ned to continue the flight today. NEW FLGHT PLANNED DETROIT, Mich., July 28.—Ben- nett Griffin, former flying partner of Jimmy Mattern announced here last night that he and Mattern are planning a flight around the world in hopes of beating Wiley Post's time. STOCK MARKET TRADING LOW . PRICES DOWN ‘Commodities Turn Soft—| | | Many Issues Are Hit— Holiday Saturday | NEW YORK, July 28.—Stocks al-' most went to sleep today in one of the lightest sessions since the start of the bull market. i Prices tended to drift irregularly low from the opening as commo- dities turned soft. Dollar Uncertain H The dollar gyrated uncertainly| on foreign exchanges. | Today's close was moderately heavy. The curb was soft. Bonds with a foreign list wer s0g8Y. Holiday Tomorrow Trade was_almost at a standstill est is attributed partly to the fact| that many traders, with the Stock! Exchanged closed tomorrow and| each Saturday hereafter until early in September, began the holiday. | Wheat Down Wheat, corn, rye and oats were! down two to around five cents. { Leading stocks that lost one to three or more points included Am<] erican Can, American Telephone! and Telegraph, Dupont, General| Electric, Western Union, Alaska Ju- | neau, Dome Mines, McIntyre-Ror-} cupine, Cero Depasco, Canada Dry, | Bethlehem Steel, Case, Celanese,| Sears, Westinghouse. Rails held their fluctuations in a| narrow range. Some alcohols showed resistance. l A romance of the air waves and the more familiar waves of Old Neptune will climax in the near future in the marriage of Eleanor Holm, 19-year-old Olympic swimming star, and Art Jarrett (inset) radio crooner. Miss Holm was wcoed and won by the singer while pursuing a movie career in Hollywood. “Wheels Within W heels” F. D. R.’s Administration | |of coordinator of coordinators— called by some “assistant Presi- dent.” | . CLOSING PRICES TODAY | NEW YORK, July 20.—Closing| | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine| stock today is 25%, American Can 85, American Power and Light 12%, Anaconda 16%, Armour B 3%, Bethlehem Steel 40%, Calumet and Hecla 6%, City Stores A 6, | erican Telephone and Telegraph | 123%, Fox Films 3%, American| Smelting 74%, General Motors 30%. Fross Waliliston) International Harvester 34!4, Ken-; There are so many wheels within The Inside Track i necott 20%, Montgomery-Ward 21%, wheels in the Roosevelt administra-| The general impression around | Missouri Pacific 6%, Packard Mot-tion, and they all are revolving so the capital is that if anybody real- ors 5%, Radio Corporation 8%, rapidly, that it is no wonder visi- ly has the inside track it is the Standard Brands 26%, United tors to official Washington often professors. States Steel 54%, Ulen 3%, West- go away completely bewildered. That impression has been deep- ern Union 60%, United' Aircraft| No other President ever sur- ened by the President's failure to 32%, Ward Baking B, no sale;‘rounded himself with so compli- consult oftener with party wheel- ICurtlss-erghc 3%. By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Bureau, The Associated |cated a set-up. When you speak horses, most of whom don't show ———e——— (of the “inner circle” nowadays you ' much liking for the professors, | have to designate which inner cir-| It was many weeks after elec- LovE THIA N l |cle you mean. tion before Albert C. Ritchie heard |- There is the regular cabinet.|& word from the President-elect. | There is the circle of administra- Since election night Mr. Roosevelt RESULTS IN Twn tors and coordinators, some more 1as had no communication with j powerful than any cabinet member. |Alfred E. Smith, unless it has tak- There is the “brain trust” com- |0 Place very recently. n E AT“‘WN of 20 college professor offi- Yet the presidential veto of ‘Pro- |clals. There is the political inner fessor Moley's London stabillzation | lcircle, which includes Postmaster SCheme demonstrates that the General Farley and Secretary Fresident by no means thinks the Howe. khrtaln trust infallible. Accumulating Every one of these groups has a evidence indicates he reserves the special claim to the confidential'éht to make his own decisions. ear of the President. Not one seems 1t 18 an old trait 6f Mf. Roose- certain what any other is doing. V¢t 10 keep people guessing. He 'Broker Kflfioman and then Suicides — Notes Left Indicate Pact by HolmLoving Croorier [BJSINESS IS | Ma Ferguson's Jim SETTING PACE OVER COUNTRY Expanding Movement Con- tinues—Industrial Sched- ules Are Mantained NEW YORK, July 28.—A prog- ressively expanding #movement in business and trade conditions con- tinues with scarcely any sign of Inormal midsummer recession the Dun-Bradstreet, Inc., review says “The strength of the buying movement has proved insensitive | to precussions of falling commodnyi and security values in the summer lull in retail demand. There are only a few instances of narrowing and these are in a few isolated districts and even there the usual decline has narrowed to almost ! inperceptible proportions,” says-the' report. “Industrial schedules are being maintained at a level only slight- | ly under the peak. The current' movement now is that industrial| codes are beginning to be applied. | The consumer’s purchasing and sales are generally still ahead of last year's total for July.” - eee — CALIFORNIA FIVE DEATHS Fores Fires Are Raging in Various Parts of Washington | | Texas' other governor, James Ferguson, husband of the fa- mous “Ma,” is seen leaving the White House after visiting the President and advising him that Texas would vote to repeal the 18th _amendment. “Ma” stayed home and governed all by her- self. RECKLESS AUTO LOS ANGELES, Cal, July 28.— Five deaths in Southern and Cen- 'DRIVER SOAKED + Al - WITH $50 FIN tral California are attributed to sizzling temperatures which have sent thermometers in Central Cali- N s o e o1 aenvess, Nick Gasset Pleads Guilty Northern California and the Pa-| —Companion Is Injured cific Northwest report comfortable and Car Wl’ ec k e d temperatures. Forest fires are in widely scat- tered points in Washington with Pleading guilty to a et the C. C. C. boys fighting them and reckless automobile driving, ik keeping them in control Gasset was today fined $50 by TRADING CRAFT SPRINGS LEAK NEAR ICE PACK Anyox Sends Out Call for Assistance from I l North Bering Sea 'CUTTER NORTHLAND RUSHING TO SCENE :Twenly-one Men Aboard i Hudson’s Bay Company Ship Are in Peril i 1 !' SEATTLE, July 28.—The i trading vessel Anyox, under Hudson’s Bay Company char- ter, is battling a severe leak in Northern Bering Sea near i the Arctic ice pack and the United States Coast Guard cutter Northland is rushing to aid the crew of 21 men ;aboard. | May Save Ship | The Anyox wirelessed that a patch was being placed over ,the leak and the ship may be saved but asked for aid. | The pumps of the Anyox -are_helding. the water down, . | according to the radio calls for help. | Detafls Lacking | Details of how the leak was sprung have not been re- ceived. The Anyox is in command of Capt. D. B. Johnson, of Vancouver. The ship is a 1,000-ton vessel owned by the Pacific Salvage Company of Vancou- ver. On Annual Cruise The Anyox is on the an- nual trading visit to outposts of the Hudson’s Bay Com- pany. i The cutter Northland put out from Shishmareff Inlet | | | | | | | SEATTLE, July 28—Boyd G.| Goebel, missing merchandise brok- er, aged 60 years, and Mrs. E. Ritchle, aged 30, have been found dead in the Virginia Hotel. Goebel apparently had shot the woman as she entered the room | and then killed himself. One of three notes signed by‘ Mrs. Ritchie, said the couple had mutually agreed that death was| the only way out of the love | triangle. Goebel . had been missing since early yesterday. TAXI DRIVER SHOT ON RIDE SEATTLE, July 28—Robert E. Elliott, aged 40 years, a taxi driver, | was killed and his body thrown| out of the cab. He was shot through the neck from a rear seat while driving his taxi. He was not robbed. “The taxi was found near the railroad yards. It is believed the slayer hook a ride out of town. B e . s X. Ray is a rural mail carrier at Flat Rock, N. C. |'Wnshingwn is as full of rumors |Many crossed wires are inevitable. 3d€ 8 game of it when he select- d his cabinet, not only with the as the army was in wartime—which ¢VSPaper reporters but with those D i 53 7 Judge Charles Sey in the local United States Commissioner’s Court. |WI LI- Gu A FTEH An automobile driven by Gasset GOLD HOARDERS, SAYS ATTY, GEN. Prosecutions Are to Be Started Within Next Few Weeks ‘WASHINGTON, July 28.—Attor- ney General Homer 8. Cummings told newspapermen yesterday that gold hoarders who have refused to return their gold to the Govern- yesterday is reported to have struck and it will perhaps take two a telephone pole near mile one' days to reach i on Glacier Highway, cutting the ve:’sel S5 e strisked pole in two pieces, injuring the, i ——— GIVEN ANOTHER FOUR-YEAR TERM Dominic was taken to St. Ann’s Hospital - for treatment for cuts, Ketchikan Man Reappoint- and bruises about 'the mouth, face and left ear. Gasset’s injuries were confined to minor bruises and scratches about the head and face. | | vt PRODUCTION ed as Member of Alas- ]md' M. Baruch, of the d is saying a great deal. The Welter of Rumors Treasury Secretary Woodin's con- tinued absence—he went away June 15—has inspired reports that the way fs being prepared for his re- tirement. His stay in New York .is attrib- uted to illness. Stories he disagres with Mr. Roosevelt’s financial poli- cies (many of whigch originated with the “brain trust”) are ofifcially denied, but they persist. There ‘are many ' guesses as to what«State Secretary Hull will do when he returns from the London economic conference. Private ports of what happened ‘there d ing the visit of Assistant Secr Raymond Moley are beginning reach the White House, and, soor- er or later, Washington is expec:- ing developments in the situat hetween - the secretary and “brain trust” dean who technicaly s his subordinate. WNor has the sensitive. pulse of of- ficial speculation failed to respond Yo such developments as the ex(: ordinary role assumed Trecent! nation of Prank Walker as a soi « Teeland, two of the most popular |eries. - Vanny Jones, sister of ‘the bride, | Chief Bert Sybrant and a group OF GOLD IN JUNE DROP Reaches Lowest Level Since February — World Production Figures ment in response to the Presiden- tial order, will be prosecuted with- in the mext three weeks. ——— FLAMES HIT BELLINGHAM —_— {clin®d in June to the lowest level Warehouse, One Block siace February. | The gold output in June was 142, Long, Is Destroyed by —A violent earthquake of 15| 000 fine ounces compared with conds duration occurred here at | Flre k nght | 85,000 ounces in May and 188,000 ounces in June of last year. 49 o'clock this morning. The| | The first six months of the cur damage is not known. BELLINGHAM, Wash., July 28— rent year, world production was —————— Fire last night threatened the 11,000,006 ounces or 600,000 ounces Miss Vivian Jones and Walter plant of the Pacific American Fish- :::re than for the same period t year. voung people of Anchorage, were| The fire destroyed a block long | T i T TR married recently at the home of |warehouse and commissary causing LU BRINGS SALMON WHICH the bride’s parents with the mem- damage estimated by the company | bers of the familles present. Miss at $50,000. mediately involved. Even hrley' told friends he was not in- ted into the cabinet until just before inauguration. So there can be little doubt that the present guessing game is some- thing more than mere accident; or that the President is enjoying it immensely. EARTHQUAKE T0 WESTWARD DUTCH HARBOR, Alaska, July The fishing boat Lu, Capt. Olal SELLS TO OXENBURG BROS. ka Game Commission W. R. Selfridge, Chairman of the |Alaska Game Commission for the |past two years, and whose term expired on June 30, has been re- appointed as a member of the Com- mission for another four-year term, |Tepresenting the Pirst Division, it was made known today by H. W. | Terhune, Executive Officer. | Mr. Selfridge, who resides in Ketchikan, has served more than |five years on that body, He suc- ceeded C. T. Gardner of this city, jupon the Ilatter's resignation in February, 1928. | He completed the remainder of Mr. Gardner’s term and was re- appointed for a full four-year term beginning July 1, 1029. Mr. Self~ |ridge is an enthusiastic sportsman and has taken an active interest in game eonservation matters for lmuzy years. —_————— FANE BRINGS HALIBUT WHICH IS SOLD TO SAN JUAN CoO. ‘The halibut boat Fane, Capt. Ole Johnason, brought in 3500 pounds was mald of honor and C. L. of firemen narrowly escaped being Swanson, brought in 16,000 pounds of halibut which was sold to the - Simms, brother-in-law to the|trapped in flames in the ware- of salmon which was sold here to croom, best man. house. ,the Oxenburg Brothers. San Juan Pishing and Packing Ce., or 6 and 3cents a pound.