The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 27, 1933, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1933, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS KIDNAPER FHGHTENG EXTRADETH@N MORE HORRORS “NOW THREATEN < MEXICAN CITY Dlsedse, Hungel and Thirst| Add to Stricken Tam- pico’s Condition HOSPITALS FILLED " WITH HURT PERSONS| , Food Runnmg Low and Relief Problematical— Railroads Disrupted TAMPICO, Mexico, Sept. 27.—| Discase, hunger and thirst threat- ened to add terrors to those of‘ ¥floods and storm which four days| ago brought 54 deaths and injured | more than 800. | It is feared many more bodies | s are buried in the city-wide ruins. The number of injured may be 1,500 persons. Stores are extremely provisions. Relief Problematical A check made this afternoon | showed there is only wheat suf- €,501ent to last only three more days end other food supplies are nearly gone. Medical supplies and food are » being sent from other sections, it is learned, but arrival is prob- lematical over disrupted railroads. Ruins ‘Everywhere Much of the city is in ruins. The harbor is filled with mud and debri Thousands are homeless. Hospitals are crowded with in- jured Nearby towns are appeals for aid. Many believe the actual number of persons killed in the hurricane and Ilooda wm never be known. RED CROSS 08S ADS short of » sending out Ketchikan Taxpayers to Bond City for Million to Purchase Public Utilities KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Sept. ~—Taxpayers voted yesterday by only 88 votes. ighty per cent majority approv- ing the proposal of bonding Ket- | The same proposition failed three chikan up to one million dollars to | years ago when only 91 taxpayers buy the electric light, water and |favored the issue. telephone utilities which are still| In both instances an Act of Con-| operated 2s a unit of the collapsed |gress required that 65 per cent, Feshay chain of utilitles, with head- | majority of the taxpayers carry quarters in Minneapolis. the issue. JEAN HARLOW, HUBBY BREAKFAST 27., Opponents of the issue mustered Jean Harlow, platinum blonde screen star, is shown eating her wedding breakfast with her new husband, Harold G. Rosson, motion picture cameraman, in their Beverly Hills, Cal., home. They eloped to Yuma, Arlz., for the wedding ceremony. (Auoclated Preu Photo) FEDERAL BOARD E. H. BAKER IS ASKED TO OPEN DEAD, RESULT |early yesterday KELLY, WIFE ENTER PLEA Extradition to Okla- homa for Trial MEMPHIS, Texas, Sept. “Machine Gun“ George Kelly and his wife Kathryn, |by Federal Agents and local author- naping of Charles Urschel, lahoma City. tradition to Oklahoma to -stand trial. 000. Mrs. Kelly said she is ready’to go back and stand trial to help| free her parents charged with housing Urschel during his duction. A $100,000 bond was also fixed for J. R. Tichenor, crippled auts mechanic, and his brother-in-law; |S. E. Travis, at whose home the Kellys were captured. Tichenor said the Kellys rented ! a room from him last Friday and he had no idea who they were. on Kelly's cell. BURIED RANSOM MEMPHIS, Tex., Sept. 27—John | Keith, special Federal agenf, an- nounced that Langford R&mmw attorney, and former brother-in-{" |law of Kelly, confessed that Kelly |sent him to Coleman, Texas, to get part of the Urschel ransom money, $75,000, which was recov- ered at Coleman today. | Albert — | homa City, said the total ransom money, $200,000 was divided among | the higher-ups and lesser lights. Keith said Kelly was broke when | | | ery effort to get the $75,000 which was buried near Coleman. ities, pleaded not guilty to the kid- | of Ok- Kelly is determined to fight ex- ! His bond was fixed at $100,- I ab-1 i | Machine guns are today trained | Bates, on trial in Okla- he got to Memphis and made ev-, {President in New York Cll\" KIDNAP CASE| Machine Cuner: 10 Fight[ 27—t afrested here j§ morning in a raid}: | seated at left, and her husband an d son, seated to the right of her. (A: ROOSEVELT IS CONFIDENT OF NRA SUCGESS : Returning to His Home Town F our I nduted for Craftm g Off F lshermen. Alaska Plants SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, —The grd jury last itmnml i tments {men involved in an \ruckel directed against the Al salmon fisheries workers. | The four men are Emil Mayer and Sam Young, partners in a San Francisco clothing firm; Arthur L. Mayer, son of Emil Mayer, and | Y. Lopez, labor agent. The indictment charged spiracy to violate the State Em- ‘plo)ment Law, coercion of State 'agents and cited the group indicted {as selling clothing at exorbitant Sept. 27. night re- inst four | asserted labor | con- i Machine guns guard:d}ll exits of the federal building at Oklahoma City when Harvey Bailey, indicated by arrow at left, went to trial for the kidnaping of Charles F. Urschel, oil millionaire. Standing beside Bailey, in shirtsleeves is Albert Bates, also charged in the crime. Other co-defendants are Mrs. R. G. Shanron, shown ssociated Press Photo) CONDITIONS IN PANHANDLE ARE I Connors Finds Conditions Better and Morale of Residents Higher Conditions almost everywhere in Southeast Alaska are improved over a year ago, due to a more prosperous fishing season, the Emergency Conservation Work pro- MUCH IMPROVED IN UPRISING IN EASTERN PRISON Worst Ri ik, History of Pennsylvania Prison Is Pulled Off ‘HARDBOILED’ WARDEN IS BEATEN, SLASHED Long Termers Fivst Stage Attempt to Break Cells —None Escape PHILADELPHIA, Penn,, Sept. 27.—The entire convict population of the Eastern Penitentiary of Pennsylvania, 1,492 strong, revolted last night and threw the old stone prisen into the werst riot of its 103 years existence. The rioters grabbed War- |den Herbert “Hardboiled” J. | Smith and beat and slashed him severely before he was irescued by guards. The convicts were enraged over loss of special privileges after an earlier attempted prison break. The prisoners are all long term- ers, None of the convicts escaped. PRISON BREAK MICHIGAN CITY, Indiana, Sept. 27—An army of police and citizens searched the wooded area near here today in an effort to capture four of ten escaped and determined convicts from the State Prison here and also rescue Sheriff Charles Neel. The convicts entered the woods after wrecking the Sheriff’'s auto and a farmer's auto. Five other convicts have been seen near a farm home near Wanatah. iprices to fishermen for whom they | gram and increased mining activ- obtained employment. ity, declared J. J. Connors, Col- Several hundred fishermen lector of Customs, who with Asst. :xmurd to testify at the trial | Collector M. S. Whittier, has just - e — — .completed an inspection of sub- stations in this Division. THGUSANDS Gu “There is a more optimistic and | TAX MEASURES ARE VETOED BY MAYOR O'BRIEN New York l;xchange Will Not Move Now to Newark, N. J. NEW YORK, Sept. 27.—President ‘l'x.lnklm D. Roosevelt is headed for | his home town today confident that !the NRA drive will be successful. | He is ready, it is said, to lay down | terms of putting credit to work to make success doubly assured. series of talks with financial ‘lmders convinced his advisers that the President is about to make| |known his desires on expanding |credit through regular channels as| |an alternative to outright currency - ALASKABRANCH OF OPERATION Dimond Seeks Home Loan Cleveland Newspaper Pub- Bank for Alaska—Board | lisher, Progressive All Considers Request Times, Passes Away are TAMPlGU RELIEF WASHINGTON, Sept. 27.—The American Red Cross has given §25, 000 toward relief of the sufferers in the Tampico hurricane. e — FEDERAL PAY ¢ | a finer spirit everywherethan has ‘been in evidence for several years, i all attributable to the wonderful | leadership of President RoomwlL,P U DEPAH |and the beginning of the ‘new deal’ L {in Alaska,” Mr. Connors said. The two Customs officials visited | WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.—Spec-| CLEVELAND, Onio, Sept. 27.— jal to The Empire—To the end Elbert H. Baker, aged 79 years, that a branch office may be es-‘ch;\xrman of the Board of the tablished in Alaska, Delegate Di-|Cleveland Plain Dealer Publishing mind has repzatedly placed before Company, died last night at the Visits Many Places CUTS ARE TO BE ADJUSTED Questlonnanes Mailed to Employees Regarding Cost of Living . WASHINGTON, Sept. 27.—In an | effort to determine whether Fed- eral pay cuts made under the Economy Act should be restored, thousands of Federal employees have received official questionnaires asking them what it costs to live. The questionnaires marked the departurs of previous methods for compiling data on which to base salaries. The action was devised by Fed- eral agencies to supply more ac- ¥ curate figures than used previous- 1y for indices showing price trends.| Friends of President Roosevelt said the old figures were not sat- isfactory to him. The employees contended the old indices present- ed erroneous conceptions of living costs. — Louisiana’s 4143 men in CCC camps represent a total of 13,386 dependents in 4,178 families. Fifty Thousand .. Drown; One Million Face Starvation . NANKING, China, Sept. e 27—Floods of the swollen e Yellow River in July and August caused 50,000 Chinese deaths and reduced 1,000,- 000 to starvation. . . . 4 - L ee00g0090000e the Federal Home Loan Bank Board figures and facts showing why such an office should be cre- ated. Governor Troy has also requested the Board to authorize an Alaska branch. The Home Owners' Loan Act of 1933 speCifically includes Alaska within its provisions, but the Ad- ministrative set-up is moving along slowly and unfortunately it has not been possible for home owners in the Territory to secure assist- ance from the Federal government | up to this time. The Board is now considering the request of the Governor and the Delegate for a branch 'office in Alaska and it is hoped that a favorable decision will be made soon. Mr. Troy and Mr. Dimond have argued that an office in the Territory would make for decreas- ed administrative costs and better service. If the Board is not disposed fo have a local office in Alaska it has been asked to placc the Ter- ritody in the jurisdiction of the nearest Pacific Coast State branch. Alaska Is Included The National Industrial Recovery Act doss apply to Alaska. Such was the definite ruling obtained by Delegate Dimond from the National Recovery Administration after doubt had been expressed by some that the Territories of Alaska and Hawaii were included. Miss Sather on Job Miss Kristie Sather of Juneau and Nome, arrived in Washington last Saturday and is now engaged at her work in the office of Indian Affairs. She was formerly with the same Bureau in Juneau. With the Near East as his next (conunued on Page Two) Lakeside Hospital. He underwent |an abdominal operation last Fri- ‘day. Elbert Hall Baker built up the Cleveland Plain Dealer from a run- down newspaper of Spanish-Amer- ican War dayseand found recom- |pense both in the growth of the property and in the success of the “boys” he developed. For more than half a century Baker, as a newspaperman, was prominnnl in Cleveland’s civic life. He “grew up” with the city. Be- isides reconstructing the Plain Deal- er until it reached outstanding prestige, he played a major part in obtaining location of a Federal Reserve Bank in the city, was ac- tive in World War work, captained community fund teams and helped settle a traction dispute that had raged for 10 years A. P. Director Beginning in 1916 he was elected to six successive three-year terms as a Director of the Associated Press. He was President of the American Newspaper Publishers’ Association from 1912 to 1914 and was a director in a number of Cleveland business concerns. Baker, born in Norwalk, O., July 25, 1854, went to Cleveland when he was 23, just married to Ida A. Smith of Cleveland and looking for a “chance to work.” He found a place that year, 1877, on the old Cleveland Herald as an advertising solicitor. Then he joined the for- mer Cleveland Leader, where he was advertising manager and later a member of the board of directors. Takes Lease In 1898, with Charles E ,Ken- nedy, he acquired a leasehold’ on the Plain Dealer from the late Liberty E.-Holden. At that time there were only nine employees, type faces were battered and the (Continued on Page Four) | inflation. —ea-— NEW YORK, Sept. | 27.—Mayor | John P. O'Brien lasi night vetoed two proposed tax bills which led'17 uun KILLED the New York Stock Exchange of-| ficials to threaten to move to| Newark, New Jersey. Richard Whitney, President of| the New York Stock Exchange, told Mayor O'Brien earlier in the day yesterday that the Stock Exchange would abandon plans to move if the tax measures were vetoed The two measures had been de- | signed to raise between twelve and fifteen million dollars for unem- ployment and home relief by tax- ation of stock transactions. ates Three Thousand of Outlaw Group NANKING, China, Sept. 27.—Foo |Chow advices said 17,000 persons, including @& number of students,| |were killed in the recent Com- McDOWELL RETURNS | munist ‘invasion of Fukien Prov- FROM VACATION TRip|ince. The same advices state Gov-| z |ernment troops annihilated a band | 3,000 Communists and thus breaking the menace in the Prov-| ince. Bandit Can Have Her Purse, But Kiss? No!, CHICAGO, Ill SepL 27Tt |all right when a robber took Gladys Raymond's purse menacing her with a 0; she never objected when he moved a $250 diamond ring her finger, but when the armed gunman asked for 4 |she slapped him down. He caped. ———..— B. F. B. F. McDowell, Assistant Man- ager of the local Piggly Wi store, returned from a month’s v: cation in Seattle and Portland on the steamer Alaska yesterday. Mr. McDowell also visited friend and relatives in Fresno and San Francisco, Cal, and Centralia and Bellingham, Wash. was Mis: af And re- Newspaper Ad Drive Opened By Sinclair Oil NEW YORK, Sept. 27.—Sinclair Refining Company announces the launching of “the most intensive advertising campaign ever under- taken by the company.” Because of their effectivenes a Sinclair official said, newspap: have been selected to carry bulk of the company’s sales m sages to the public. He said new Sinclair campaign will ploy more newspaper advertis ments than the company ever used before in any one sales drive. k GOLD PRICE WASHINGTON, Sept. 27— The price of gold today is $31.35 an ounce, a drop of 14 cents from yesterday. The price was announced by the Treasury Department. 0900090090900 the . . . . -l ® ° . e . BY COMMUNISTS Government Then Annihil-| T0 STRIKE CALL ITool and Die Makers Automobile Plants in Michigan Quit in DETROIT, Mich, Sept. 27.— The spokesman of the Committee of the Mechanics Educational So- | ciety last night claimed that be- | tween 5,000 and 6,000 Detroit tool and die makers, most of them employed in automobile plants, answered the strike call sent out | at noon Tuesday. The Spokesman also said | another 5,000 men will join strike today. | Leaders said the strike in sympathy with the striking mem- | bers of the Mechanics Educational Society of Flint. The striking men also demand recognition of the Society by the ‘hup owners, e that the is Iluot er Cabinet IMember Involved In Queer Loan from | same WASHINGTON, Sept. 27— Testimony that the United Sta Shipping Board spent il 528,000 in repairing eighteen thips sold to the Export Steamship Corporation for $1,- 071,000 and that a Hoover Cab- inet member approved of the loan extension to the company when the liabilities were $3,- 952,000 and assets $1,172,000, was received by the Senate Investigating Committee which is conducting a general inquiry into subsidies granted to steamship lines, | many places, including Petersbur Wrangell, Ketchikan, Craig, Hy- der, Prince Rupert and Sitka. They | found all of the Customs’ sub- offices in ‘excellent shape. Petersburg and Wrangell, Mr. Connors said, were particularly | well pleased with the past season’s results. At Wrangell they were| informed that there had been no unemployment whatever during the fishing season. The salmon packs in that district were larger than usual and the runs of fish ex- cellent. There, at Ketchikan and on the West Coast, the residents are high- ly elated over the new policies inaugurated by Frank T. Bell, new United States Commissioner of Fisheries.“ His evident concern over the welfare of resident fishermen has gratified 'm exceedingly. Troy's Work Praised People, are delighted with the splendid a istration of Gov. John W. Troy deeply apprec- jate his a efforts to ob- tain adequate public works relief funds to spread employment throughout the Territory,” Mr. Connors said. “The real teamwork | exhibited between the Governor and Delegate Dimond, whose popu- larity has increased since he took | office. 1s commended by everyone,” | he added | There is a feeling prevalent that the backbone of the depression has | been broken, and that after the coming Winter, conditions in South- east Alaska will bs back on a normally high plane. Ketchikan More Optimistic Ketchikan, hard hit by the un- prosperous condition prevailing in the fisheries industry for the past | three or four years, is in better | shape than it was last year. “That 1ccommunity has a more optimistic [ (Continued on Page Eight) 00, ssive Change in Custodianship Is Announced—Will Effective Sunday | Effective October 1, custody of the Capitol Building, heretofore in . the Treasury Department, will be transferred to the Postoffice De- partment, according to official ad- vices received today by J. J. Con- nors, Collector of Customs and Custodian. The same order also transfers the United States Cus- toms House building at Sitka, which also houses the postoffice, to the same department. The transfer, Collector Connors was advised, is made under the Executive Order of June 10, and a later Presidential order, dated July 23. Mr, Connidrs was further notified that each custodian employee on duty September 30 automatically is separated from the service un- til re-employed by the Postmaster- General. No official notifica change had been receiv local postoffice today, it was an- nounced. It probably will be re- ceived before Saturday with in- structions relative to the Custod- ian force. - —— ‘Moo’ Record Fools Cows DENMAN, N. S. W—A cow, whose calf had just been sold, was being driven through the town here and all went well until she reached a phonograph record store where a “farmyard” record con- tained a realistic bellowing of a& calf, and the cow rushed madly into the store, overturning the talking machine in her anxiety to find her lost offspring.