The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 16, 1933, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL, THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIIL, NO. 6497. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, NO VEMBER 16, 1933. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS AN.B.TO ENTER McADOOS RETURN FROM ABROAD NEW DEAL, SAYS NEW PRESIDENT Booth and —J;Enson Make Fine Talks Before Lo- cal Chamber Today The Alaska Native Brotherhood, stormy petrel of Alaska politics for several years, is just now entering on “its new deal,” declared Frank Booth, newly elected President, in a forceful talk before the Chamber _ of Commerce today at a meeting vhich he and Phst President G. Johnson were honor “From now on we cease making enemies. We are going to make friends with the people with whom we have been fighting. This is our new deal,” he declared. Seek Self-Improvement . Jchnson, who preceded Mr. referring to differences of cpinion and policies in the pasi| between the Indian organization | and Chambers of Commerce said| both sides were sincere in working | for what they believed right. “We | mean to improve our own condition and that of Alaska in any way possible. Our actions are alw sincer We have tried to do right| and what we though was right. We have differed from you in cer- tain matters and we realize you were acting as you thought for the best interests of the Territory, t0o.” Referring to a resolution sug- gesiing the transfer of Southeast| Alaska to Canada, a copy of which | appears elsewhere in today's edition of . The Empire, he said it was passed by a bare majority of the delegates to the convention. “If occurred to some of the leaders to pass such a resolution,” he said. Among the delegates there was much doubt as to the advisability of the action, and although it was | argued that it was a gesture de- signed to impress Congress Wi the seriousness of their situation, the loyalty of the Indians to the United States is so strong that only a bare majority could be aligned for its support after an extended argument. Respects Opposition “Our organization has always been opposed to fish traps. At| times the Chamber of Commerce | has differed from us, and we re- spect your opinion and your kno ledge. We believe, however, the fishery problem will not be solved until the fish trap is done away with,” he declared. "He said conditions among Alaska Indians today are unusually severec. “The Indians are hard hit, and hundreds of families are actually in want,” he asserted. Some im- provement would be effected if fishing opened later and the closure | was later in the year, he said. Closure of trolling in May and Jure, favored, he said, by the trollers, is also approved by the Indians. Industries Out to Awaken Local industry ought to wakeup and provide opportunities for work for every Alaskan who desires it. declared Senator Allen Shattuck presiding today in the absence of President John W. Jones, in intro- ducing Mr. Booth. The latter extended the olive branch to the Chamber and said, “We are going to make an appeal for your. help and your support. We want to co-operate with your organization. We cease making| enemies 1 now on and we are going to make friends with the]| pecple with whom we have fought. This is our new deal” He intimated there would be no more blind following of leaders in the future. “We have ceased to be a charity organization. In the past 10 or 12 years we have sent men to Congress and to the Leg- islature and we have never got a dime out of it.” That sort of thing is over with, he declared. From now henceforth, the organi- zation will look to those it sup- ports politically for concrete re- sults. Remedial legislation and jobs must be forthcoming. What Dciermines Course Booth, | while Mr. :lvile name and asked him to see | having been made by the heel of T Europe. The senator visited Russia. Senator and Mrs. William Gibbs McAdoo of California are shown as :hey aryived in New York when they returned from a short tour of (Associated Press Photo) CASE IN CHIEF OF GOVERNMENT ENDED AT NOON Defense in Lawrence Mur-‘ der Case Starts This P. | M.—Motion Is Denied | The Government concluded its main case against Paul Johnson and Albert (Doc) Matthews at 11 a .m. today and motions for structed verdicts of not guilty were promptly made by George B. Gi by and Grover C. Winn, who present the two men accused of murder in the first degree for the alleged killing of Mrs. Eva Law- rence here on February 14, last. The motions were argued brie Mr. Winn contended that Matthe whom he is defending, had not | been linked at all with the killing | and that the evidence did not show he was in the room at the time, Grigsby declared the evidence was not sufficient to show that any crime had been commit- ted. Judge G. F. Alexander over- ruled both motions. Story is Unfolded The Government yesterday after- noon and this morning laid before the jury the evidence on which i builds its hopes for a conviction. Jimmy Tanaka, waiter in the City re- story relative to the incidents in the main dining room there just prior to Mrs. Lawrence's death. | Dr. W. J. Pigg testified to hlsi summoned by Johnson by tele- phone. When he arrived, he said Johnson called the women by a if he could revive her. He saw at once she was dead. Death, he testified was caused by strangulation. He described the marks in the woman's throat as| made by a thumb and fingers, and! a discoloration on her breat as the hand pressing there. Pictures of the marks, over stren- uous objections by Mr. Grigsby, were shown to the jury after hav- ing been identified by Fred Ordway. They were made 10 days after the alleged killing. Former United States Commis- sioner Charles Sey, who as cor- onor presided over the inquest, also described the marks and i entified the photographs. He testi- fied Johnson had told him he slapped the woman and popped her in the face. Dr. Pigg also as- serted Johnson had told him the same thing. Dr. W. W. Counc®, who with Dr. Pigg made the autopsy, corrobora-| ted Dr. Pigg's testimony. The wo- “We have never seen and did not know dire want until the past two| " he exclaimed. Now it is| enced everywhere. too late to do the| n any good, he said. | are out of the younger generation is coming along. It has to make a living and man was chocked to death, he as- serted. Under cross examination b)‘ Mr. Grigsby, he admitted it | was possible for marks such as were on Mrs. Lawrence's throat to | | have been made without fatal re-| the picture but|sults, but added in this case he in that field. was convinced that death was the| result of strangulafion. 1 (Continued on Page Five) W(Eor‘nt!’nued on Page E:?;m) i . to San Francisc Cafe corroborated R. S. Hough'sj’ examination of the body. He was|! {and, which if successful {ful method. ! properties but |to seasonal conditions. BRADLEY TELLS OFADVANGEMENT INLOCAL MINE Deep Level Mmmg Pro- gresses—New Milling Equipment Is Tried Conditions throughout the Alaska Juneau mine are satisfactory, ex- periments in a new milling process are being made, and 1250 tons of ore from the deep level workings are being mined daily, are the highlights in a statement given The Empire yesterday by P. R. Bradley, President of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company, be- fore his departure for home. He left last night on the steamer Princess Norah for Seattle enroute 0. Mr. Brad commenting on contemplated NRA system for Al- aska, said: “If NRA comes to Al- aska, the Alaska Juneau will adopt it gracefully and abide by it cor- dially.” Increase Tennage Shortly sfactory progress is being made on the ,deep level develop- ment program undertaken some two years ago and which have uncovered a substantial ore body hat higher average value than the ore heretofore mined. The daily production is about 1,250 tons. will be stepped up hich time the new for use. This est in the Terri-| and will have a daily capacity | 6,000 tons from the 2,000-foot | 1,000 below the present velopment. It exceeds the old Treadwell hoist capacity 50 per cent, he said, but it is a much smaller piece of equipment. All of the new ore, he said, is not high grade. Its nature is such that the company will have to watch its production costs carefully in order to work it at a profit. Installation of Equipment “The most interesting develop- ment of the propery is in the milling department,” Mr. Bradley said. “We are doinz some installa- tion of new equipment in the mill which is more or less experimental will change | ing prac-| | | the | hoist \uI. h( hoist is the of largely the tice. The new equipment is a fine grinder which it is hoped will be even more satisfactory in handling | the ore than the present success- present Expand Exploraticns Under the direction of Livingston Wernscke, eaid Mr. Bradley, the company will not only continue its present policy of searching for new it will expand its exploratory operations. Just now these are largely at a standstill due As soon as Spring comes, they will be renewed with vigor. “We will be increasingly active The new price of gold naturally adds interest in that direction, and we believe we wilt e i, (Conunuea o P Eigat) MORGENTHAU TO TAKE NEW J0B | robbers, ADMINISTRATION PLANS SHIFTING ANY OFFICIALS ! Raskob to Be Named Sec- ! retary of Treasury, Ac- ' cording to Report I ON TOMORROW Becomes Acting Secretary .of United States Treasury APPOINTMENT IS STARTING RUMORS Denied, However, that Rift Exists Between Presi- dent and Woodin WASHINGTON, Nov. 16—Henry| NEW YORK, Nov. 16—The Daily Morganthau, Jr., who is now Under | News, in a copywrited article to-| Secretary in charge of the Trea-|day says Alfred E. Smith's ‘,,,” sury Department, following an un-|tg the White House with Pxefldem.‘ limited leave of absence granted|Roosevelt according to a “person | Treasury Secretary William H.lhigh in Democratic Party circles” | Woodin, owing to his present badfeoncerned the following shifts in, health, and the resignation of Dean jthe Administration’s personnel and | Acheson, says he will give un-fthe following appointments which | wavering support to the gold buy-|he said would be made: ing plan of President Roosevelt.] The resignation of William H Morganthau will take full con-|ywoodin as Secretary of Treasury trol of the Treasury Departmentjand the appointment of John J. tomorrow. Raskob as his successor. Officials still deny vigorously that Resignation of Jesse Isador! the moves mean any schism be-|gtraus as Ambassador to France tween Woodin and the President.land the appointment of U. S. Sen- President’s Letter ator Royal Copeland as his suc- Despite the President’s letter to]cessor. Woodin, telling him to take a| Appointment by Gov. H. H. Le- Jeave of absence and after turn-|hman of Al Smith to succeed Sen- ing down his resignation by say-{ator Copeland in the U. S. Senate. ing: “We need you back again,” Farley For Governor | many in the National Capital take James A. Farley, Postmaqex- the developments as meaning there |general, is designated in the article is a rift between the Secretary and|as the next Democratic candidate President. for the Governor of New York to It is recalled that Woodin once|succeed Lehman, who, The News exhibited a five million German|stid, will not seek renomination. mark note when asked about infla-{ “Through such an arrangement,| tion. The News said, it is hoped to cir-! Observers here added that infla-|cumvent the advantage gained by tion will be along soon. the Fusionists in the recent elec- Morganthau parried questions on|tion of Fiorello LaGuardia as may- the monetary policy except tojor of New York and to rebuild the say he would support the gold pro- | Democratic machine in New York gram. City. The paper added that this pro- | gram apparently means the ouster of John Curry as the leader or Tammany Hall. Straus recently returned from Paris and has been advised by his physicians to retire. FORCED DOWN IN HEAVY SEA | nght Naval Fliers Saved —Quick Action of Bat- 1 | SENATOR COPELAND IS, TO BE SENT TO FRANCE Al Smith to Be Named Sen- ator from New York— | Farley for Governor SUCCEEDS MORGANTHAU WASHINGTON, Nov. 16—Wil- liam I. Myers, Deputy Governor of the Farm Credit Administration, has been named the Administra- tion's Chief to succeed Henry Mor- ganthau, Jr., who has been made Acting Secretary of Treasury while William H. Woodin “complete leave.” Oklahomans Find Bounty on Bandits Bring No Results OKLAHOMA. CITY, Nov. The Oklahoma Bankers' . A tion has an offer of $300 each for | tleship Officers dead bank robbers—killed under e ! certain conditions—but state op-| AT SEA OFF THE CALIFORNIA | eratives say the reward has brought' COAST, Nov. 16—During the Uni-| no noticeable results. | ted States Fleet maneuvers Tn The reward is paid only if the heavy squally weather, four obser- | robber is killed in the act of rob- \.wlon land geared planes from the | bing a bank or in attempting es- jer Langley, after bqwmk cape. xmimn high winds, dropped into After several years, the offer of the sea in distress. | a state reward of $250 for bank The lfVes of all eight Na dead or alive, was with- fliers were saved as a result of drawn when the Legislature de- prompt aid and brilliant %amanw clined to make appropriations for ship of the officers of the cxux»e"' the purpose two years ago. The Cincinnati. withdrawal was described as an During the maneuvers, the navy economy move. dirigible Macon, receiving her bap- The number of bank robberies tism as a unit of the U. S. Battle in Oklahoma has decreased sharp- Fleet, was theoretically destroyed ly during the past year. by the defending force Administration M ust Soon Make Positive Decision on Question of Big Importance All along the line, the problem is coming home with a t greater’ of lesser force as il re- lates to other features of the re- covery plan. | | | By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Bureau, The Association Press, Washington.) The current of events flowing out of various phases of the Re- covery Program is carrying the Administration rapidly toward a fundamental decision of the old question: Shall we have more or| less of direct government cont of private business and of the ev- eryday affairs of national life? The question is raised sh: by the proposal of Gerald S to reorganize the industrial up under a self-governing Natic al Chamber of Commerce. raised by the emergence of a I stage on the farm relief expe ment, making it necessary to begin TOWARD PERMANENT PLANNING When these various projects were launched last summer, no one took the trouble to inquire very deeply into the basic principles involved. Haste was the compelling force then, and the whole question was whether an emergency bridge could be thrown together, out of whafever sort of materials, to meet the nmeed of the moment. Now Washington is going on toward permanent planning. Both agent, 1(i. same | of Flghtmg Crime in Indlana Members of the American Legion, who volunteered for police duty in Indiana in the State’s fight against a mob of convicts that has terrorized the countryside for several weeks, are shown near Indianapolis, a machine gun and rifle ready for instant action. Thirty thousand Legionnaires are aiding the regular police. Below, State Safety Director Al Feeney and Captain Leach, who are directing the war on crime Convicted Man Pardoned by President After Serving 4 Hours of 5 Month Sontem'(’ 'ALASKA ON TAX ~ ON FISHERIES ;l‘d out of the Federal House of | Detention last night after serving I\o Basis for Proposed Pro- cesamg Taox in Fishery Products, Claim only four hours of his five-month sentence for violation of the lottery |laws, having been pardoned by | President Roosevelt. Mann will be obliged, to pay a $10,000 fine before cember 30. Mann’s conviction was in con- nection with the Eagle Lodge fund | raising wn'ux' S. however, De- WHANG! BLOW LANDS ON JAW In support of its own pjrotest against the proposed processing tax on fishery products, the Cham- ber of Commerce here has been informed that the Seattle Cham- ber of Commerce has passed a resolution on the same subject and has instructed its Washington J. J. Underwood, to use every effort to defeat the proposal. | A copy of the resolution was| presented at today’s meeting of| the local organization. It was ad-| vised that its attention to uw matter was aroused by an Fd- Prince itorial in The Empire which was| Grace forwarded to them by Secretary|Prince, H. Walmsley. |oft No Shift Evidenced The Seattle resolution follows: ‘( ormic and the Prince “Under authority of the Agricul-|the divorce, Miss Wi tural Adjustment Act the Secre-|ing a biography of - e A TOTI BUILD LARGER NAVY AT ONGE ; payment of a Processing Tax on Construction of Vessels to hogs and pork products. The Sec- retary is now proposing to levy Limit of London Pact Is Forecast a Compensatory Tax on fish and| sea food products to equalize the Nov. 16. Smacks Woman Friend in Newspaper Office LOS ANGELE Cal Mary McCormic, who ha: Serge Mdivani Williams, friend of on the jaw in a newspaper where Miss Williams tempted to dispose of secrets as|in an agreement between Miss Mc- Nov. 1 divor was liams Prince competition to pork from these, commodities. He is authorized to. do so, but under the terms of th Act it must be shown that there; is an excessive shift in consump-| tion from pork products to fish. This most emphatically can not be borne out by the record of sales fish products. Furthermore, there can be no excessive shift as the quantity of fish products is fairly stable, and there is no reasonable likelihood whatever of a substan-'VYOcal tial increase occurring. The 1933 naval pack of canned salmon does not X exceed the average over a period |NAVY of years. widespread shake-up is now «Tt is estimated that the compen- |Seen by observers here and a force- satory tax on fish under the sched- ful policy of building the navy up| ule of the progressively increasing 0 lim} pork processing tax may be as ded as pnwmg high as six cents per pound can 4¢C hed, the big of salmon. The imposition of this s will demand & tax would seriously interfere with P¢! PAEE the distribution of salmon and 5 would retard its consumption at a time when the industry greatly| needs encouragement. Under the, TOKYO, tes treaty, have been given the commands the of With this navy advo- larger ratio, ps at the' 1934 1 confe GROSS GOING SOUTH D. Gross 1s leaving aboard Alaska tonight on a business W the planning for long-term rather than immediate results, Continueq on Page Thrce) 0 Seattle, (Continues on P‘Ige Two) ) trip | | searching an automobile | ‘he! BROOKE HART IS MURDERED; BODY INBAY Confession "Made by One of Two Suspects Ar- rested in San Jose ABDUCTION MYSTERY CASE IS CLEARED UP Ransom Demands Were Made on Family After Victim Was Slain N JOSE, Cal., Nov. 16. —Louis O’Neal, an attorney, announced this af t ernoon, that a suspect named Thomas Thurmond, admitted partici- pating in the kidnaping of Brooke Hart, 22-year-old son of a wealthy department store cwner and confessed killing Hart shortly after, throwing the body into San Francisco Bay. Thurmond named Jack Holmes as his accomplice. The two men were arrested here. O'Neal became an inter- mediary between Hart's wealthy father and the kid- nap suspects soon after the young man was abducted last Thursday afternoon. Thurmend, in his confes- sion, said Hart was beaten to death before the telephone call to the Hart home de- manding a ransom of $40,000. Thurmond said Holmes hit Hart over the head with a brick and when he yelled for Ip, hit him again, then took |him to the bay near San [Mateo and threw him off a bridge into the water. Thur- mond said Hart struggled | some as he was thrown into the water. The police are searching the San Francisco Bay near San Matep, north of here for traces of the body. O’Neal was authorized to make the statement by the Divorced Wife of P\'ince‘”‘,ier of the San Jose Police jafter the confession was | | his al-|tanker moored alongside the steam- | | Japanese | the London pac”l‘e(’ | taken. Brooke Hart was not seen after he left his father’s departmeunl store last Thursday afternoon when *dhe went to a nearby service station smac '\’; d to get his automobile. the Two days after his disappearance wallet was found on an oil mer Lurline at a dock in San Francisco. The Lurline was then Aside from enroute to Los Angeles and the 15 writ= | authorities searched the craft at Los Angeles but Hart nor his ab- ducters were not aboard. After the demand for $40,000 ran- |som was made, a compromise was suggested over the telephone, mak- ing the sum $20,000 The Hart family then published, through the newspapers, they would pay the amount if contact was established with the kidnapers on proof they had young Hart and he was alive. BOLD PRICE TODAY $33.56 WASHINGTON, Nov.16.—Today’s old price remained the same as yesterday, $33.56 an ounce. PPN ] N, {Bus Drops 250 Twenty-five Persons Killed GRANADA, Spain, Nov. 16.— Twenty-five persons were killed this afterncon when a bus, load- ed with Socialists, fell over a 250-foot eliff. The bus was part of a cara- van returning from a political meeting at Castril, |