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

“ALL. THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1933. PRICE TEN CENT§ FARMERS FIRE FROM AMBUSH INN. Y. STRIFE Three Hundred Shots Are Returned by State Troopers GOVERNOR LEHMAN IS TAKING ACTION Asks National Guard Com- mander How Many Men Available LITTLE FALLS, N. Y, Aug. 9.— Striking milk farmers fired a fus- ilade of rifle shots from ambush late yesterday afternoon, narrow- ly missing two state troopers ac- companying eight large tank trucks of milk. Twenty-eight the fire. Three hundred shots were fired. Non-striking dairymen in New York state have battled the strik- ers who have dumped their milk. Gov. Herbert H. Lehman has asked the National Guard com- mander to advise how many troops are available for immediate duty. troopers returned TO QUELL MILK STRIKE ALBANY, N. Y, Aug. 9.—Gov. Herbert H. Lehman has ordered the summoning of grand juries and the appointment of unlimited num- bers of deputy sheriffs to quell the milk strike. The grand jury order was con- tained in telegrams sent to the District Attorneys of all counties and the appointment of deputies was directed by the Governor in a message to the State Legislature asking the lawmakers to amend the laws making the appointments possible. el FRENCH FLIERS TO GET $53000 Rossi and Codos Are to Be Financially Rewarded for New Record RAYAK, Syria, Aug. 9.—Mau- rice Rossi and Paul Codos, who recently broke the non-stop long distance flight, were to receive one million francs, approximately $53,000, at the end of 1933 from the French government providing their straight line flight record stands, but the fliers have been informed the nation is so enthus- fastic the sum will probably be paid immediately. The two fliers plan to fly from here to Marseilles tomorrow. — DEATH STALKS, PLEASURE TRIP Seven Orphans on Outing, Swept to Sea by Wave, Lose Their Lives NEW YORK, Aug. 9.—Seven or-| drowned today at' phans were Rockaway Beach when a huge wave swept in. Only one body was recovered. The children were part of a group of 105 taken to the beach for an outing from a Brooklyn orphanage. OFF T0 SOUTH, CHICAGO FAIR Bound for the Century of Pro- gress Exposition at Chicago, J. J. Meherin, Alaska representative of Hills Brothers coffee, left for Seattle aboard the Aleutian, ac- companied by his wife. ‘While on his six weeks' vacation, Mr. Me- herin will visit with A. A. (Max) Humfrey, formerly in charge of the Alaska territory for the big coffee concern, now in charge of the Middle West District. - More than 150,000 bearing apple trees were pulled- up this year in the Wenatchee, Wash. fruit dis- three years. The decline was es- chell because tricts to eliminate undesired va-|pecially noticeable in the working- tion on Mrs. rieties and thin orchards, Are in Juneau Aboard their own private yacht, the Infanta, John Barrymore, his wife—Dolores Costello—and the during the mid-afternoon and tied companying the Barrymore are two guests, Miss Katherine Hunter and James Hastings. The Barry Ethel Mae, who was with her parents on their Alaska trip two | years ago, and John Blythe, 15-months-old, making his first trip to In the picture above is the Barrymore family as they ap- peared in San Francisco before sailing for Victoria, B. C., where i Alaska. they boarded their yacht. BOARD SELECTS SITKA AS SITE FOR NEW HOME Vote Four to One—Hesse Authorized to Get. . Data on Architect Sitka will continue to be the Jocation of the Pioneers' Home. This was definitely decided yes- terday at a meeting of the Pion- eers’ Home Building Commission when that body voted four to one to construct in that town the new $225,000 institution, authorized by the Alaska Legislature last Spring as a work relief project. s The decision of the Commission was announced today by Highway Engineer W. A. Hesse, Chairman of the Commission. The vote was by secret ballot, four being cast Plans Come Next The next step, it was announe- ed, will be to obtain the services of a competent architect. The Commission yesterday authorized eir two children, arrived in port up at the Union Oil Dock. Ac- available information relative to filling that position. When that is done, plans and specifications will be made ready. It is proposed to construct the new institution on the site occu- | pied by the Home at present. The |land is owned by the Federal government, but the Department more’s two children- are Dolores STRIKERS ASK INTERVENTION, NRA OFFICIALS Pennsylvania Miners Wire‘ Washington on New | | | 1‘ Grievance GRANDSTONE, Penn., Aug. 9.—| A direct appeal to the National| Recovery Board was telegraphed; by a Miners'’ Committee, repre-| senting several hundred men Wwho| claimed fresh grievances against| the H. C. Frick Coke Company. | The committee, in the message ! hurriedly dispatched to Edward! McGrady, NRA labor representa-| tive, said the company officials refused to accept union check one of the planes of Gen Balbo's| gyger Chamber of Commerce, Pet-| 'One of Balbo's Seaplanes concerned has already approved of legislation to effect its trans- fer to the Territory. However, it is believed that this may not be necessary. It is said that the President, under the National Re- covery Act, has authority to trans- fer title to land acquired by the Government to States for building purposes has been asked to ascertain if this will not extend to the site of the Sitka home. Will Gratify Residents Most of the residents of the Home will be highly gratified with the Commission’s action. It was right in line with a vote recently taken at the institution. The ballots were mailed in a sealed box to the Commission and was opened at the meeting yesterday. When tallied the count was: For Sitka, 70, Anchorage 16, Wran- gell 6, Skagway 2, Douglas 3, and Craig 1. The Commission’s records show- ed the following endorsements for Sitka: Haines City Council, Ket- chikan Chamber of Commerce, FOUR ITALIAN FLIERS HURT; IN HOSPITAL Overturned Today | in Take-off BULLETIN—PONTA ADEL- GA, Azores, Aug. 9. — Lieut. Squaglia died late this after- noon as the result of conges- tion of the lungs after the plane, in which he was sec- ond in command, overturned in the take-off for Lisbon. HORTA, Azores, Aug. 9.—Four Italian aviators were hurt when for Sitka and one for Anchorage.. the Chairman to obtain all the} and Delegate Dimond| weighmen and also to recognize armada overturned on the take- To escape the heat in Washington during most of the sultry month of August, President Roosevelt has moved the seat of government to a cooler site on the banks of the Hudson river. Intent upon his recovery drive, the President took with him an office staff to maintain full command of governmental affairs from the family residence at Hyde Park, N. Y. (Associated Press Photos) i - TAKE ADVANCE - ON GOOD NEWS Numerous Shares Make Gains from One to Five ! or More Points NEW YORK, Aug. 9. ‘The Stock Market exhibited renewal of (optimism in trading which is still | orderly but much more brisker than recently. +Gains of one to five or more points were recorded. The close was strong and around the best levels of the day. | Transfers approximated 2,800,000 shares. i Public Participation | While trading was largely pro- fessional there was some expan- . sion of public participation. Resumption of a rise if chiefly attributed to the cheerful news concerning steady progress in bus- iness and industry. Grains Narrower STOCK PRICES | the Miners’ Committee on a strike for the past two weeks. The men had agreed to return niere, were taken to a hospnal‘nw“‘ Cordova Chamber of Com-| to the Colonial Mine. They re- mained at the mouth of the mine awaiting word from Washington. off today for Lisbon. { The fliers, including Capt. Ra- but were only slightly hurt. | The accident is said to have ;been caused by the fact the planes ersburg City Council and Cham-; Grains were narrower today. | Shares up three to five points , N 2 ber of Commerce, Nome Ity COU™" | included_U. . Industrial Alcohol, Allied Chemical, Ameri¢an Sugar, American Telephone and Tele- graph, Mestern Union, Case, Du- pont. merce, Seward Chamber of Com-| merce, Craig Chamber of Com-| { merce, which favored Craig only| E armada remained to care for the on the Ty . . Em to it—Sends in it justing assessments. Three com-; One property owner, according sta and one was caught by injured and as soon as the in- | Check for Taxes HUTH NIGHULS plaints were heard and considered. to City Clerk Arthur W. Henning, jwere forced to take-off on the i gjpka was not to be considered,| and the Valdez Chamber of Com- merce. Fourtéen Iglods of the Pioneers of Alaska, in 1932, passed reso- lutions favoring Anchorage. Those were: Anchorage, Nome, banks, Valdez, Wiseman, Tanana, Nenana, Kodiak, Cordo ' Dillingham, Kanakanak, Point and Bethel. Next Meeting Unset No date was fixed for the nex meeting of the Commission. It is subject to the call of the Chair- H n. | The full membership, compris | Mr. Hesse, Auditor Frank A. Boy | Secretary, Attorney General J. S | Truitt, Commissioner of Education 'A. E. Karnes and Treasurer W | G. Smith, were present at yes- | terday’s meeting. | open 1& wave. : Twenty of the seaplanes left for Portugal BUARD MEETS‘jured fliers were in the hospital, they followed. Fog awaited the fliers The City Council sat as a Equalization yesterday afternoon from 2 o'clock until 4 o'clock,' The Board will continue to meet I'ails in Attempt to Make t 21 2 at the same hours every afts Tnoon NOHS!OP thht_Has has already made a guess and sent in a check for his taxes be- fore the assessment rate has been and the others of the i One Property Owner Beats guropean coast. checking over tax rolls and ad-| for the remainder of this week. | Motor Trouble set. — o River Straightening NEW ORLEANS—Shortening the Mississippi river distance between New Orleans and. the Gulf of Mex- ;|ico by diverting the river course westward through construction of a short-cut channel has been pro- posed. The cost of the project has been estimated at $3,000,000. Dogs’ Days Fewer - | ing their days in Vienni, the city hall reporting a drop of 10,508 in the canine population within class district, ' e T . JUDGE PARKER i | Ruth Nichols returned here af-| ‘Motor trouble caused her to re- turn. She sald she will make an- other attempt. — e — WINCHELL T0 SUE FOR BLOW NEW YORK, Aug. 9.—Walter Winchell, New York columnist, said he is going to sue Al Jolson, stage and screen actor, fdr $500,- VIENNA—Fewer dogs are hav- 000 as the result of the mm{ encounter two weeks ago in Hol- lywood. Jolson took a punch at Win- of alleged reflec- Jolson in a film scenario, ter taking off on gn attempt for, a non-stop flight to New York.i ‘ OLYMPIA, Wash., Aug. 9.—Jus-| tice Emmett N. Parker, memb of the State Supreme Court s 1909, has resigned at the age 74 ypears. He gave poor health as | the reason for leaving the bench.| Aimee Knows W LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 9| Aimee Semple McPherson Hu''on | and David Hutton met amiably a fashionable cafe yesterday ‘the first time since the estra ment, | zil's Other Gains Gains of one to two points were | recorded for Sears-Roebuck, New | York Central, Chrysler, General Motors, United Aircraft, Union Pa- cific, United States Steel. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Aug. 9.—Closing 'l quotation of Alaska Juneau mine "| stock today is 26%, American Can 88, American Power and Light 13%, Anaconda 17%, Armour B. 3%, Bethlehem Steel 42%, Calu- met and Hecla 6%, City Stores A no sale; American Telephone and Telegraph 127%, Fox Films, no | sale; American Smelting 35%, General Motors 31%, International Harvester 37, Kennecott 21, Mont- gomery-Ward 20%, Missouri Pa- cific 26%, Packard Mtors 5%, Ra- dio Corporation 8%, Standard Brands 28%, United States Steel 55%, Ulen, no sale; Western Un- ion 65%, United Aircraft 86%, | Ward Baking B 3%, Curtiss-Wright —_——————— To Build Cruisers RIO DE JANEIRO—Two 8,000 ton cruisers are included in Bra- 12-year navdl modernization program, the minister of marine revealed in his annual report Bids on their construction probab- ly will be asked soon. hat It Is All . About; David Has Talked Out The two discussed his divorce action. Almee said: “All this was so strange t0 me. I insisted on knowing what the divorce was all about and Mr. Hutton was glad to glve me his version,” { by, Beauty Entry %l Conference and said Gladine Sweetser Wash., will be Miss Washington In the Atlan City bathing beauty pageant. (Assoclated Press Photo) NEWSPAPERS AGCEPT CODE NEW YORK, Aug. 9. — The Hearst and Scripps-Howard ne paper chains announced today a ceptance of the proposed news- paper code under the NRA and said they would go further than the code and place copy desks, re- write men and reporters on a 40 hour week. The Scripps-Howard acceptance is effective immediately and the Hearst mewspapers adopt the new code effective next Monday af- ter arrangements are perfected. —,——— WILL REBUILD of Seattle, TAKU CANNERY Lumber Is Being Shipped North on Tender Ostego Today SEATTLE, Aug. 9.—Employing 100 men for six months, the Lib- McNeill and Libby cannery at Taku, 20 miles south of Ju- neau, will be reconstructed at a cost of $100,000. The tender Otsegd is sailing for Taku today with lumber and con- struction work will immediately start, it is said. Men to be used by the company at the cannery are employed from Juneau and Craig, oy (SAYS MACHADO MUST GET OUT T0 SAVE CUBA U. S. Ambassador Welles Makes Suggestion Which Is Turned Down - HAVANA, Cuba, Aug. 9.—United States Ambassador Sumner Walles, told President Machado he must ask Congress for a leave of ab- sence if Cuba’s political problems are to be settled. Welles said all political parties have so agreed. | Tt appears however, Machado will resist all efforts to oust him. “OLD STUFF” MIAMI, Fla, Aug. 9.—Gen. Or-| estes Ferrera, Secretary of State, Cuba, termed impossible reports that United States Ambassador Welles told President Machado he must ask Congress for a leave |of absence to settle Cuba's poli- STATE IN WET COLUMN AFTER- 18 DRY YEARS Arizona Becomes Twenty- first Section of U. S. Seeking Law Change MRS. GREENWAY J IS ALSO WINNER Defeats Two Male Oppon- ents for Only Con- gressional Post PHOENIX, Ariz, Aug. 9— Bone dry for 18 years, Ari- zona became the twenty-first state to ratify the proposed repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment.. Yesterday’s vote was more than 3 to 1 for repeal Three hundred and thirteen of the state’s 444 precincts gave 31,683 for repeal to 9,604 against repeal. Mrs. Irabelle Greenway, Dem- ocratic National Committeewoman, personal friend of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's family, de- feated two male opponents for the state’s only Congressional post. The nomination is equivalent to an election as there are no Re- publican candidates. COLORADO VOTES SEPT. 12. DENVER, Col., Aug. 9.—Colo- rado will vote on repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment on Sep- tember 12. The House passed the Senate bill to that effect yes- terday afternoon. —t—— MARTIAL LAW DECLARED OVER CHINA SECTION {Communist Activities Re- sult in Establishing Military Rule AMOY, China, Aug. 9.—Chinese authorities today declared mar- | tical troubles and strikes. Ferrera is enroute home from {the London World Economic tial law throughout Amoy as the result of increased apprehension of Communist activities. “that man-| Many thousands of refugees are | ner of diplomacy is not in style! fleeing from the interior to this any more.” He likened the riots seaport because of what is called “lof last Monday in Cuba to New the Red Danger. ;Yox'k State’s milk war and said:| The influx of the refugees caus- | “Leave Cuba alone to work out:ed the authorities to establish mili- her own problems.” ltflry rule, —————— SOMETHING DOING HYDE PARK, N. Y, Aug. 9.— A special airplane arrived here | late this afternoon from Washing- | ton carrying the report presumab- ly from Ambassador Welles at Havana on the Cuban situation. No information is given out (but it is believed the President is preparing to take active steps to | bring peace in the Island Repub- | lie. Meanwhile in ‘Washington, it is stated, Ambassador Cintas, of Cu- ba, has asked the State Depart- ment to arrange an interview with the President and apparently the request has been granted. Brewers Now ‘Hit Bullseye |Fixed by 3.2 | i PHILADELPHIA, Penn., Aug. 9.! { —The brewers are now hitting| | the bullseye. Analyses of the “new” beer here soon after its | introduction last April showed none of it contained more than 3 per cent of alcohol. The latest check-up shows eleven brands of beer actually 3.2 per cent. brew. - eee— —— | Have No Use for ! Daylight Saving In Bellingham BELLINGHAM, Wash., Aug. 9.— After a lengthy petition, in which |a majority of the local business- ,men asked a return to standard time, the City Council took the matter under advisement. Signers of the petition declare that daylight saving time is re- sulting in more inconvenience than benefits, labout $7,000,000, WHEAT ATTEMPT TAKE OWN LIFE Federal Prisoner at Skag- way, Recently Recaptur- | ed, Tries Suicide Orville Wheat, Federal prisoner | who escaped from the Skagway | jail Saturday evening and was re- captured Sunday night, yesterday attempted to commit suicide, ac- lcordmg to official advices received by United States Marshal Albert White. No details were given. To prevent another attempt, ex- |tra guards have been employed. Wheat has nine months to serve and may be transferred here where guards are available at all times. Following his recapture, Wheat was bound over to the Federal grand jury charged with break- ling out of a United States jail !and assault with a dangerous wea- pon. Britain Starts Cruiser Delayed by Budget Woes PORTSMOUTH, England, Aug. 9.—After a two-year delay, work has commenced on the “Amphion,” first of a new class of British jcruisers. ‘The “Amphion” was authorized in the navy estimates of March, 1931, but the money originally allo- cated for construction was used in- stead to help balance the budget. ‘Total cost of construction will be i e