The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 5, 1933, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE . “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” — VOL. XLIL, NO. 6410. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS TRUCE DECLARED; BLOND GUN-WOMAN BEING HUNTED BY CHICAGO POLICE TRIO ATTEMPTS ROBBERY; MAN STABBED, SHOT Hzberdashery Owner lsf Murdered — Slayers Escape in Auto TWO MEN, ONE WOMAN STAGING CRIME WA VE| Fifty or More Robberies Charged to Three, Past 3 Months CHICAGO, I, Aug. 5.— A blond gun-woman, wl\oseI male companions shoot their; way to freedom, is the object of a city-wide police search today and if caught she will probably be charged with the murder of Gustav Hoeh, aged 70 years, haberdashery owner, their victim. Hoeh was shot to death when he tried to prevent the woman’s escape by grasping her dress while she and her companions were about to flee in a motor car after an unsuccessful attempt to rob Hoed in his shop. One of the blond gun-woman’s companions promptly shot Hoeh in the breast and he died enroute to a hospital. The attempted robbery and mur- der, the police said, is one of 50 or more crimes in which the blond had participated during the past three months. Usually she carries 2 pistol. In the Hoeh at- tempted robbery she stabbed Hoeh with a knife in the abdomen. —— RELIEF PLANE DOWN IN FOG, BARREN ISLE Pilot, Doctor, Little Boy and Mother Await Clearing Weather ANCHORAFE, Alaska, Aug. 5.— Pilot Blunt, Dr. A. S. Walkowski and little Henry Looff, flying from Alitak here, have been forced down by thick weather on a barren island. Mrs. Looff is accompanying the boy here. The four are not believed to be in any danger but it is feared peritonitis will develop if an operation is delayed much longer. Pilot Blunt will make a try for a flight at the first sign of clear- ing weather. The plane was sent to Alitak after a Seattle doctor had made the request following messages be- tween amateur radio operators) P AQT EXALTED RULER regarding the little boy’s condition. —————— ghocké "“Cincriinr;\ti 6pera Goér; Cincinnati opera goers are still gasping over the real- istic performance of Le- onora Corona (above), soprano, who divested her- self of even the last veil while performing the title role of the opera Thais Miss Corona was indignant because of the sensation her le;mn cm{iud."h“On :‘}:3 stage [ must live the pal she said. _“If Thais had no modesty I must 1 am too faithful to my to do part without ab- Wiflwg my costume.” BUSINESS AND TRADE TREND STILL UPWARD {Improvement Is Emphatic According to Dun- Bradstreet, Inc. NEW YORK, Aug. 5—Trade and 1husiness continued the upward J ' trend during the past week with “gains distributed in more direc- | tions, says the Dun-Bradstreet, Inc., review. Improvement is emphatic despite minor fluctuations in isolated places, says the review. Regarding the balance of retail purchasing against production and | wholesale operations, the agency said: | | | | Hardened Facts “The fact is the consumer buy- | ing thus far has trailed the some- what hectic gains in wholesole com- | mitments of industrial production but has created no cause for con- 'cern as the spending habit acquired | under the stark grimness of the llast three years is mnot expected to be changed with one full sweep. | “Retail inventories are still be- {low normal but rapid inroads are being made into the present hold- ings and will provide ample room before the Fall shipments of mer- chandise will have been received. { Are “In Black” | “Some retails are ‘now in the | black’ for the first time in over ATTEMPTS TO SOAR UP INTO STRATOSPHERE Balloon Ascends Fivej Thousand Feet, then it | Comes Down, Chicago CHICAGO, Il, Aug. 5—Lieut. Commander T. G. W. Settle took off at 5 o'clock this morning, Cen- tral Time, in the balloon Century of Progress on a scientific explor- ation of the stratosphere. The balloon ascended 5000 feet| and Settle pulled the valve in or- der to level off. For awhile the valve stuck and the balloon came down and landed on the Burlington Railroad tracks, 100 feet east of the| Chicago River. Settle was not Second Attempt | As soon as repalrs are made to, the balloon, Settle will attempt an ascension again. The damage to the balloon was slight. Curious spectators smoking ciga-| rettes and cigars and lighting matches near the inflamable hy-| drogen filled bag constituted a menace. An unidentified man was tram- pled and seriously injured in the, rush to the spot. Traffic was para- | lyzed for a radius of more than a mile in all directions. injured. ' i OF HONOLULU LODGE |to Hyde Park, N. Y., to have a 12 QUARTS OF two years with benign influence of | the blanket code to be felt immed- |iately and the gap which ordinarily |exists before the Fall buying move- | ment gets underway will have been | obliterated.” HULL RETURNS FROM LONDON; ="~ JUST LIED IN " MURDER CASE, GOES TO F.D.R. | Secretary of State Says He, Is Not Going to Re- ! PULIGE STATE sign Position $ | LERY WASHINGTON, Aug. a,—Secre&‘San Diego Youth’s Story tary of State Cordell Hull returned | g today from the World Economic| He Killed BOY Proves Conference, which recently recessed | to Be Hoax SAN DIEGO, Cal, Aug. 5—The in London, and went immediately conference with President Roose-‘smry of Charles Edwards, 19-year- velt. old San Diego high school grad- Secretary Hull said he had no yate, who has tried for three days intention of “resigning now or he“’“\to convince the police he mut- after.” _|ilated and killed Dalbert Aposhian, Secretary Hull said that despite ggeq seven years, has proved to be any confused reports about thels hoayx status of the conference, it is Very| yate last night the police an- much alive and has a thoroughly | nounced the youth admitted he virile, comprehensive organization yp,q fapricated the entire tale with to direct its affairs during the the ghject of misleading the police recess. in the hope of becoming famous and getting a vaudeville contract. The little boy's partially dis- membered body was found in San Diego Bay July 24. Edwards is held in the jail here for the time being. —————— ——————— /3.2 BEER FAIL T0 INTOXIGATE PATERSON, N. V., Aug. 65— Michael Sciro drank twelve quartsi of 32 beer—forty-eight eight-| Development of a method of packing fresh fruits in sulphuric acid has broadened the area in Europe and Asia which can be reached by California exporters. @ ", e BRITISH EMP TONNAGE | SHIPS l TONNAGE Japdn Sgpeeds? tb “Treaty” N(wybutU S a:d MINER?EE Great Britain Lag; Pact to Expire in 1936/ T0 WORK FIRST ~THE BIG THQQ G (present strength plus authorized censtruction) UNITED STATES IRE 3 JAPAN SHIPS | TONNAGE ~ (3 TURN OF NEXT WEEK Differences Are to Be Set- tled Pending Perma- nent Code MORATORIUM FOR ALL LABOR TROUBLE Representatives of Employ- ers, Workers Make Great Move HYDE PARK, N. Y., Aug. 5.—President Roosevelt an- nounced this morning a truce had been made between the management of the bitumin- | ous coal mines in Pennsyl- | vania and labor. The President stated the strike has been called off to “await a solution of the whole NN /9 SHIPS | a power albwed by 5-5-3 naval treaty | matter at the coming hear- ,201,700] --— T 186,200 [---] 763,050 Ships under age in 1936, built_and projected ings on the coal codes.” | Industrial A dm i nistrator ] 16l 999,373] 108 941,420 [ 183 | 772,437 1Johnson, who went to the Additional construction required to come up ko treaky ratio {coal fields, was responsible goal. By ALEXANDER R. GEORGE WAZSHINGTON, Aug. 5— The | battle fleets of the United States will be 101 ships and 204,000 tons below treaty strength at the end of 1936, despite the bolstering of American naval power by the ad- dition of 32 vessels costing $238,- 000,000 under the public works program. That is the outlook based on consideration of the number of old- er ships, remaining effective for serviee plus the tonnage now sched- uled for construction. Japan Up To Maximum On the basis of ships already built and those projected, Japan will be up to maximum strength while Great Britain will be short 64 ships and 197,000 tons when the London naval treaty expires on December 31, 1936. Japan, in fact, | will have an indicated surplus ton- nage of 9,387. The ratio of the “big three’ sea powers would be 9.9-9.4-7.7 instead | of the 5-5-3 prescribed by the | treaty, say naval experts. There is a prevalent opinion that Japan will renew her demands for parity or a 10-9-9 ratio at the naval arms limitation conference slated under terms of the London treaty to be held in 1935, American naval leaders so far have indicated that they would in- ist on retention of the 5-5-3 ra- o for the three powers—Secretary Swanson has said it was his opin- ion that the ratios stipulated by | the Washington and London treat- Louis Glavis Re%nstated by VISITS LOCAL LODGE ™ NO REDUCTION, FREIGHT RATES) WASHINGTON, Aug. 5—A gen- eral freight rate reduction by the railroads of the United States -is positively denied. Reports were circulated early this forenoon that H railroads were to cut freight rates; in line with special passenger fare! reductions. ' ‘W. J. Warner, Past Exalted Ruler of Honolulu Lodge of B. P. O. Elks, visited the Elks Club here Thursday €vening while the steam- er Prince George was in port. He jounce steins—to prove it is not; . . . wieains " 7 "1 Roosevelt; Injustice Done in contest, in which five others, one a' woman, dropped out after the first| fifteen minutes. Sciro went on for, sixteen minutes® more and gulped; down a total of 384 ounces. | WASHINGTON, Aug. 5—A rem- Dr. F. F. Smith of Ridgewoodedy for what the Interior Depart- hen examined Sciro and found Ment called “an injustice allowcd Alaska Case Now Remedied is a roundtrip passenger on. that U ; . steamer on his first vgt to Alaska, him “neither liquefied Mr. Warner is a prominent busi- cated.” 3 ness man of Honolulu and a lead- _ When the others dropped out ing Elk of the Hawailan Islands. Dr- Smith examined them and He is a trustee of the Honoluly discovered they were “Hquefied but lodge. i not intoxicated.” nor intoxi- | Poof! Poof! HAVANA, Aug. 5—Despite governmental threats that strikes will be fought with martial law and that union meet- ings are under the ban, truck drivers, messenger boys and to- bacco workers have jeined more than 24,000 other employees in strikes that has kept most of the industrial activity at a standstill. | meant being so thoroughly satur- {ated with the fluid that the body !cou]d neither contain nor acce] {any more of it. | | Dr. Smith said by “liquefied” he For Threats ——————— Green water snakes appear in South Carolina, despite scientific books which set their range - through Florida and Louisiana and up the Mississippi River to 1li- | nois. R to stand for nearly a quarter of a century” has been given by Presi- dent Roosevelt in an Executive |order restoring Louis R. Glavis to full Civil Service status. He is now Chief ‘of the Investigation Divisior of the Interior Department. Glavis was dismissed by Presi- dent Taft in 1908 after uncoveri | irregularities in the Alaskan coa fields. Department’s Statement “His Investigation disclosed that the Morgan-Guggenheim syndicatc and other corporations were tryinZ to acquire much of this valuable coal land through dummy entry- men in violation of the law,” the ' Department of Interior’s ment said. As the outgrowth of this con- troversy, the then Secretary of In- terior R. A. Ballinger and Glavis vere dismissed for insubordination y President Taft. At the Congressional investiga- tion, seven Republicans supported Bailinger, and four Democrats, and one Independent Republican sup- ported Glavis. A few months later, Walter L. Fisher succeeded Ballinger as Sec- retary of the Interior and reversed | 5 predecessor and cancelled all| the Alaska coal entries and filings. While out of the Government employ, Glavis lived in New York City and engaged in private ‘in- state- vestigation, € 197,628 b #ml 101 | 204,380 | O 1936 TOTAL 9,387 TONS ABOVE Expiration, in 1936, of the naval pact prescribing a 5-5-3 ratio for the navies of Great Britain, the United States and Japan, respectively, will find Japan built to the limit, according to her current pro- gram. The two other powers, on the basis of present announced building plans, will be short of the | ments, TREATY RATIO. | for the truce. The Presiden't also an- nounced he will appoint a board to settle all disagree- jes “are fair and just and should be maintained.” Former Secretary Adams said shortly before his retirement that nothing has happened in recent years to justify the United States lowering its treaty ratio with re- spect either to Great Britain or Japan. Representative Vinson of Geor- gia, chairman of the house naval committee, takes the position that the navy, because of economy, is already on a defensive basis and that building it up to treaty lim- its simply would give this country the defense to which it is entitled. Naval experts here say that, practically speaking, at the pres- ent time the United States ranks third in seapower, Japan as .well as Great Britain having consider- ably more modern ships in fighting trim. Counting ships already built and those projecfed, Japan will have in 1936 a total of 183 war vessels of combat age. Great Britain will have 161 and the WUnited States, 108. Japan, it is -indicated, will have marked superiority over this country in number of ships and in tonnage in the submarine, de- stroyer and light cruiser classifi- cations. Many Japanese Submarines Japanese submarines will - num- ber 53 as compared with 24 in Uncle S8am’s navy and 39 in John i { BACK ON MONDAY | WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.— | Pennsylvania’s striking coal | miners will be hack to work !Monday and the basic rea- 'sons for their walkout will be brought up for solution at a hearing next Wednesday. ALASKA GIVEN $34629 FEDERA RELIEF MONEY Emergency Relief Admin- istration Makes Grant to the Territory ACTION CHEERED BROW N SVILLE, Penn., 'Aug. 5. — Lusty cheers from l (Centinued 1rom Pags One.) (R | IT PAYS TO BE AN ALASKAN, TO BE HONEST, T00 This is the first money for direct Forme}' H)’del' Real Estat- relief that the Federal government er, In Trouble, Assist- has granted to Alaska under the . emergency act. i [ ed by Former Client [ i The Territory this morning was advised of the above grant, it was announced by E. W. Griffin, Act- ing Governor. Application for it WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 5— The Emergency Relief Administra- tion has granted to 'Alaska the sum of $34,629 for unemployment relief, it was announced today by Harry L. Hopkins, Relief Adminis- trator. With this allocation, Fed- eral relief funds have now been made available to all the States and Territories under the Relief SALEM, Oregon, ‘Aug. 5.—Louls M. Johnston now owns his farm at Silverton, free of encumberance and people hereabouts are saying was made last May by Gov. Troy. Bull's sea forces. Japan will have 59 destroyers mot exceeding 1500/ tons, the United States will havel 24 and Great Britain 65. The Jap- anese will have 24 destroyers of more than 1,500 tons, the United States will have eight and Great Britain none. Great Britain will lead in the light cruiser field with 2]. Japan will be a close second with 20 and the United States will have 14.| This country will top the list in| the 8-inch gun cruiser class with 18, Great Britain will have 15 and Japan, 12, The United States and Great Britain will have 15 capital ships each (battle ships and battle cruis- ers) and Japan will have nine. Seven of the American capital ships, 11 of the British and four of | the Japanese will be more than 20 years old in 1936. The navies of Great Britain and | Japan will have six airplane car- riers each while the United States will have five. American carrier tonnage, however, will exceed that { The sum allowed is one, third of tory for rellef of unemployment rent calendar year, he said. the money expended in the Terri-| during the first quarter of the eur- Alaskans never forget. Back in 1900, Johnston was in the real estate business in Hyder, Alaska. Nick Thomson, of Oklahoma | City, former Alaskan, commission- |ed Johnston to sell a piece of | property in Hyder, Alaska, for what |he could get and keep what he wanted for his commission and send him the balance. 1 Deal Is Made ADELAIDE, Australia, Aug. 5., Johnston was offered $800 for Gold diggers are more quiet and the property but would not sell at refined than those of the old days, that price. says Rev. G. R. Bishop, who stop-| A year later Johnston sold the ped here on his way to England’ property to the Guggenheims for aftern ine years in New Guinea. $40,000, deducted his commission “The miners among whom I and sent the remainder to Thom- worked are of an exceptionally fine son. 3 type,” he said. “They leave for-{ In the meantime Thomson made tunes in fine gold lying about in'a fortune in oil. their huts, and nobody wouldl Four years ago Johnston invest- dream of stealing any.” i (Continued on Page Two) And If-—-McBride’s Talking SEATTLE, ‘Aug. 5—F. Scott McBride, General Superintend- Refined ‘Gold Diggers Found in New Guinea of either of the other countries. —,——— 1 The first coal from Hocklngf Valley in Ohio was called “stone! coal” by the blacksmiths, to dis-' tinguish it from charcoal. ent of the Anti-Saloon League, said here last night, that the battle over repecal of the Eighteenth Amendment is in the early innings. He further stated that if Washington, voting on the repeal of the amendment on August 29, retains it, “We will win”