The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 17, 1933, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIIL, NO. 6498. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1933, RUSSIA RECOGNIZED BY UNIT SEARCH MADE | FOR BROOKE | HARTIN BAY Authorities Press Efforts| to Complete Evidence Against Two Men PART OF SHIRT IS : BROUGHT TO SURFACE| | Arrested Mm’hke Furth-| er Statements in Ab- | duction, Slaying Case ( SAN JOSE, Cal, Nov. 1T—Ef-| forts to recover the body of Brooke | Hart, which the authorities said! would complete the case against| his alleged kidnapers and sl § are being pressed by State and Federal officers. ] John Holmes, aged 29 and Thomas Thurmond, aged 28, who | confessed, according to the offi-| cers, to throwing Hart into San| Francisco Bay after the abduc-‘ tion, are held in a San Francisco jail. | Cloth Brought Up ! Grappling hooks have brought | up a strip of white cloth with| thin purple stripes from the bay | near the place the two men are| quoted -as saying they tossed the | 22-year-old store executive from the San Mateo bridge. The ma- terial is said to match the de- scription of the shirt Hart wore when he vanished. Dragging operations will be ex- panded today. One Man Trapped Sheriff William Emig trapped ond in a telephone booth a garage. While Thurmond was allegedly making. further ran- som demands on Alex J. Hart, wealthy San Jose merchant and father of young Hart. Thurmond said he and Holmes were only involved in the case. Holmes was arrested in a hotel to which offic were led. by Thur Thi at Prosecuted Both men will be prosecuted un- der the state law which makes death or life sentence the penalty for kidnaping where the victim suffers bodily harm. Sheriff Emig said the allaged confessions of the two men varied (Continued on Page Six) ACTIVITY NOW T0 WESTWARD AND INTERIOR Conditions ‘Growing Better Says Meherin — Gov. Troy Given Praise J. J. Meherin, Alaska represen- tative for Hills Brothers Coffee, who returned yesterday from an extensive business trip tothe West- ward and through the Interior, re- ports a generally improved situa- tion throughout those districts, and stated that the gemeral tons of business points to even things next year. “My opinion is that 1934 will be the brightest in Southwestern Alaska and the Interior that they have had for a great many years,” said Mr. Meherin. Meherin's itinerary included Valdez, Seward, Kodiak, Anchorage, Nenana and He stated that in all munities the relief mon- had been allotted ap- parently was being well administ- ered, and that it is believed in most of the localities mentioned that no further requests for relief will' be nzcessary. He further stat- ed that much credit is given in all districts to Gov. John W. Troy, the belief being that it was only through his efforts and personal knowledge of the situation which made possible the present encour- aging condition. Nearly everyone he talked to (Continued on Page Three) Hoosier Fra Arrested when detectives observed her take a revolver from a local check room, 18-year-old, 80-pound Isabelle Messmer, of Ellwood, In- diana, is shown in Pittsburgh po- lice headquarters as she demon- strated to the chief how she can handle a gun. She can also handle her hands, as the two burly cops who arrested her can testify. She said most gunmen are “phonies.” CUSTOMS MEN ARE SUSPENDED; GRAFT CHARGE iLiquor Alleged to Have | Diverted—"Four Horse- men” Are Involved | SEATTLE, Nov. 17.—Collector of ! Customs Sol Haas today suspended |seven customs officers and requir- ;ed two others to appear for ques- tioning in connection with an in- | vestigation. He charges wholesale igraft and diversion of Gpvernment !liquor during the previous admin- | istration. | No names were revealed | The Collector would not comment fon reports that liquor was diverted |to the State American Legion con- |vention at Bellingham and the Na- |tional Guard Encampment at Fort {Murray last year | Although no mention was made ‘ol' names, H: |the charges involved the “Four Horsemen of t Waterfront,” a | quartet of Cust officers. NOTHIN' DOIN' | | | | WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—United | States Senator Royal Copeland, of | New York, a Democrat, denies published reports he will be ap- | pointed Ambassador to France. $ ‘I am a party to such a i proposition. I am not interested |in it. I am content to be in the | Senate. There is no more foun- |esy as people are |doing on N b The Daily News, of New City, yesterday printed a right story regarding proposed shifts in the Administration’s per- sonnel and among other forecasts were that Senator Copeland was |to be Ambassador to France. [MAKI AND DIAMOND ARE TAKEN SOUTH With Evert 'Maki ahd William Diamond in his custody, Deputy United States Marshal H.D. Camp- bell left on the steamer Alaska {last night for Seattle. He will { pick up a third man, Harvey La- | zelle at Ketchikan. ! Maki is to be taken to McNeil Island to serve a three year term tin the Federal penitentiary for assault. with a dangerous wea- | pon. Williams and Lazelle will be placed in Morningside Sanitarium for tre:qment, - SAYS COPELAND CAPT. MICHAEL aas did not deny that | popance tax which would make it |goq | | | | better| dation to the story that a proph-| | | Senator. | .| capt. James S. Michael, aged 76, __ month is as follows: | PAUL JOHNSON MAKES PROFIT TAKES STAND, OF $109,000 MURDER TRIAL :Statement for October Is'bne of Two Defendants | Issued—Figures Are Bas- | Gives His Version of Mrs. ed on Old Gold Value Eva Lawrence’s Death The Alaska Juneau operations fOr| pai1 johnson this morning took the month of October showed &|4pe wiiness stand in an uh’:n't l‘n total profit before charges of $109-fpren qoun ‘the case built up by| 000, according to the monthly OP=|ghe Government against him and| eration’s estimate issued by J. Wil ajpert (Doc) Matthews for the al-| | Crosby, Secretary, and made PUbli¢ jageq killing of Mrs. Eva Lawrance Itoday by L. H. Metzgar, General gng for which they are charged| Superintendent. The gross produc- With first degree murder. He de-| tion for the month was placed ab pieq using violence on the woman | 3901000, ‘and claimed she died while re- These figures represent the value g)ining on his bed in room nine of the output on the basis of $20.67 g¢ the City Cafe. per fine ounce of gold. Based 0N 'rpe woman's death, he declared an average value of s.lzooanpunc& occurred as he and Matthews and there were but two days in the gopeq Thinking she was asleep, month on which gold was nNOt. g neon said, he and Matthews quoted above that price the month's Were preparing to leave the room | production was worth about $430,- ara allow her to sleep for a few | 000. . hours when he noticed her mou'hi This, however, is not indicated jaq fallen open and her lips were | in the report. Mention, howv;/ler iS “gurning blue.” made of the premium as follows: v “In addition to the above profits.t & . A ahe s "i“:“r’md‘mh_ there should be realized the net exammx;d Hag p‘ul&(‘ and oana f&l premium on the gold production of ? Al d t‘h +- lstihews the month, governed by current "fi m;:‘l:mt‘;]‘ i an"a B ona market and exchange quotations.” :xzcl'a";‘ed. }.’M:mgodss#:‘\_ dc:d B The operating estimMe {up s Johnson said he then raised her eyelids and asked Matthews, who had declared that he was going JUNEAU Tons mined and trammed to mill, 360,060, Cents Per Ton $276,500 76.79 3,500 97 PROGRESSIVE INHERITANCE TAX ADVANCED Senator Norris Gives Views on Economic Reme- dies, Today's Ills CHAMPAIGN, Il United States Senator George W. Norris, of ebraska, here to re- ceive the Cardinal Newman Award for statesmanship, declared in an address on the new civilizatioin, is selfish and the ambition to ac- cumulate money must be curbed by law if civilization is to stand and permanent remedies of econ- omic conditions today are attain- ed. Operating Revenue Gold Lead and Silver Total $280,000 Operating Expenditures | Mining and Tram- ming Milling All other Juneau operating costs. New York Stock Transfer and San Francisco of fice expenses $100,500 56,000 12,500 Nov. 17— 3,500 $172,500 Profit.$107,500 Total Operating Non - operating in- come less outside prospecting 1,600 Total profit before charges $109,100 The Senator recommended pro- " ve taxes on inheritances, re- EARL ROACH AGA[N bution of wealth and ,\ho;-(cr; ARRESTED, KETCH“(AN for labor. advocated a progressive in- dis hou: He Earl Roach, released from jail at hikan Wednesday after having impossible for property of OD€ oiveq g short term for vagrancy generation to be passed intact % gag rearrested within a few hours the people of a succeeding geN-ly,. neputy United States Marshal tion. He said such a tax would (¢ g caswell, according to the o far to bring the United Statesi,s:.is) advices received by Marshal to a permanent remedy. He alsol,p ot white, attacked men of wealth who dodge |" p .o s charged with forgery Just taxes land obtaining money under false BT < ) T pretenses. Following a hearing ir lumLsd ates Commissioner's cou {at Ketchikan he was bound over |to the Federal Grand Jury, and !his bail fixed at $1,000. DIES IN EAST "o s by CANNERY INTEREST SOLD | Joseph Sumption has sold his in- One of Four Heroic Amer-|terest in the Reliance Shrimp Com also his home, ai Wrangell ican Officers, World fTo N qi phoned for to- get out of this, to telephone a physician. Johnson then placed the woman's feet on the bed and applied cold compresses to her head. He declared after waiting several minutes when Matthews did not return to the room he proceeded down stairs to the City Cafe where he found Matthews He asked Matthews if he had tele- a doctor. The latter replied that he had not. Johnson telephoned to Dr. W. J. Pigg, who arrived at the Cafe at 2:15 a. m Later when the night patrol- man, J. C. Davis, and Deputy Marshal Tom Newcombe arrived, asked by his counsel, George B. Grigsby, if he had used any vio-{ lence on the woman at any time while she was in his room he de- clared emphatically that he had not. Talked Unusually Loud He said that when she had first entered the room she had talked unusually loud and fearing she would disturb other lodgers in ad- joining rooms he had warned her to quiet down, which she did Later on he said while he and Matthews were engaged in conver- sation Mrs. Lawrence attempted to ay something, what it was he did not know, and he had placed his hand near her nose and forehead and shoved her back on the bed. She lay with her head on the pil- low and both feet hanging over the bed. She seemed to fall as- leep in that position. After a short time probably about 15 minutes he and Matthews prepared to leave the room so that she might leep undisturbed. But just before going to the door he noted the bluish tinge of her lips and ex- amined her, discovered that she had apparently died. Meeting Versions Coincide Johnson’s version of the meeting with Mrs. Lawrence at the City Cafe coincided with that told eafl- ier in the trial by R. S. Hough, (contunued oanage Two) to Neil Grant who thus becom the partner of George Sumption War, Passes Away ¢ PORTLAND, Maine, Nov. 17.—| one of four American officers who | successfully fought a fire aboard a French munitions ship and there by saved an important munitions; depot of the Allies at Bordeaux | during the World War, died to- day as a result of a heart ailment.| He was also a veteran of the Spanish-American war. Capt. Michael will be buried in the Arlington Natiinal Cemetery. ————————— WASHINGTON, Nov. 17. serting that unemployment fc population, Harry L. Hopkins, / ministrator of the $400,000,000 Civic Works Fund, said three of 2 | million jobs to be created w allotted tentatively to a popula MRS. FRENCH LEAVES basis of states and territories the remaining one million jobs % AFTER VISIT IN JUNEAU y. jor; over to take care of me |to be placed on Federal project Mrs. B. M. French is a passen- |under the Civic Works plan ger south on the Alaska for her| Under the arranzement, home in Denver, Colorado, after a|is subject to modification, 1500 visit hers with her parents, Mr. men will be employed in Alaska and Mrs. J. G. Morrison and her three brothers, SPOKANE, Wash, Nov. 17— 'Four Million New Jobs Are to Be Created; Alaska Is Included in New Proposal velt will preside, The State Relief Director has been instructed from Washington to put 36,000 men to work in the state with the least possible delay. The 38,000 jobs have been allotted the EMPLOYMENT INCREASES WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—Sec- retary of Labor Perkins estimates that 85,000 persons found employ- ment in October at the same time a call was made for a conference at the White House on relief for women. Mrs. Franklin D. Roose- Charging that he and two associates induced her to come to the United States on promise of movie and dancing contracts which never mate- rialized, Johanna Rischke, Viennese dancer, is suing Richard J. Reyn- olds (inset), to- bacco heir, for $123,650. New York court which heard plea re- served decision. ‘g Two Billion Five Hun- dred Milliort WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 get limiting ordinary Federal penditures to two billion five hu bu ing fiscal year has been set Budget Director TLewis This was disclosed yesterday the same time rumors were def might resign his post. Douglas has been represented his close friends as determined aid in fulfillment of the the tures 25 per cent. 9 VANCOUVER Accomplice—Driver of Auto VANCOUVER, B. C., Nov. of the Royal yesterday afternon and fled w $600. ed to have driven one of the ¢ in which the men got away. The authorities believe the sa bery of fhe last Monday. - eee — GOES AFTER AIRPLANE Pilot Joe Barrows, TODAY'S GOLD PRICE WASHINGTON, Nov. 17— Today's gold price is the same as for the past two days, $33.56 an ounce. S0 e s22aa0 0000 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS ED STATES 'Séeks Cash from Tobacco Heir '[]|P|_[]M ANNUAL BUDGET PREPARED FOR FISCAL YEAR Expenditures Estimated at 1d- in- dred million dollars for the com- for Douglas and in- itely dispelled that the Arizonian by to Presi- dent’s campaign pledge to reduc normal Government expendi- BANKS ROBBED BY 2 BANDITS Blonde Woman Said to Be 17~ Two bandits held up the Branch Bank of Canada ith A blonde woman is report- ars me pair escaped with $3,500 in a rob- Bank of Montr eal who recently flew one of two planes from Miami to Fairbanks, in company with Joe Crosson, is enroute south to Miami rd plane for the interior . . . ° . . . . . ®e00000000000 000000000000 PRICE TEN CENTS ATIC RELATIONS ESTABLISHED ONCE AGAIN Official Statement Issued in Washington Late This Afternoon — Climax Reported Last Night — WASHING BULLET | States has recognized Russia |according to a brief official |statement issued late this |afternoon. } It is said a detailed state- | ment will he made later this !afternoon or this evening. | Recognition, it is said, cov- |ers both diplomatic and trade {relations be t ween the two “;.';nvernmenls after years of |severance. | CLIMAX NEAR WASHINGTON, Nov. 17—Emerg- |ing from the White House this af- ternoon, after a conference with 5 ’ _ | President Roosevelt, Soviet Com- ( | misssar of Foreign Affairs Maxim |Hugh O’ Neill | Litvinott satd: | . | ““There may be a statement to- Appointed, to |day on recognition of the Soviet Nome Office | by the United States.” X (ff” | His attitude was a further in- | dication the climax in the nego- tiations was close. Last night it was announced that the way had been cleared | for recognition following a two- | hour review last night of subjects ! involved between the President and | Commissar, i ————— | STOCK PRICES ARE_ AFFECTED, PROFIT TAKING 2 |Advance Halted as Dollar o| Takes Rally—Many Is- 3 sues Rather Heavy . | NEW YORK, Nov. 17. — Profit ‘Ldkmu. mixed- with renewed cau- tion, halted the advance in stocks today as the dollar rallied in for- '*'mn exchange dealings, and com= | modities fell, except for mining and imetal issues, which were rather | heavy Most equities followed a | narrow range. The close was a bit | easy with sales over 2,000,000 shares. | The Curb was irregular but bonds 5 O'Neill, lawy and Democratic leader Nome, was today given a recess appointment to the office of United States District Attorney of the Second Division by Presi dent Roosevelt, was an- nounced in an Associated Press dispatch to The E pire. Hugh ent promi it O'Neill was recom mended for appointment the Democratic Committee for the Second Division and was endorsed by tMe Tt torial Committes and James J. Connors, National Com- mitteeman. He will prob- ably take over the office a soon as his commission ar- rives, possibly by the first December. of GEN, TREKLER DIES, RESULT Organi7er of Largps! Ce.ibul reacted to $5.15 where it was ~ . |off 11 cents on the day. Francs ment Company inU. S. also recovered and then dipped to Victim, Accident 6.23% cents. Currency stabilization gossip was 17.—Gen. \} plentiful. 79 years, | Wheat was off 2 cents on the Board of Lehigh day. Cotton, silver and rubber sag- Company, and|%€d United States Government died early securities improved. United States Tesult of in. |Smelting stock was off 6 polnts, an auto acei- McIntyre, Dome, American Smelt- swiped a parked |08 Cerro de Pasco, U. S. Indus- i trial Alcohol and Owens Glass were off 1 to 2 points. Minor gains were afia held by Montgomary Ward, Stand- iz umbeT | ard Oil of New Jersey and Chrys- ctivities unti1|ler. Losers of fractions to a point most of the|Were Allied Chemical, United Air- and achieved craft, Dupont, General Motors, Am= erican Telephone and Telegraph prominence as coment man |U- S: Steel and others Harry Chairman of the Portland Cement y known ba receiv His car ning juries dent. oil his career N as a part- Harr he fir business, to he Union commercial head of the largest ufact g concern in the world. These two important industries,| however, only part of the Vi 1 interests with which he oc: himself. He took up agri- culture as a hobby and developed it into one of his principal busi- ness enterprises and engaged ex- tensively horticulture, trout breeding and game propagation In his home state, Pennsylvania Mr. Trexler became deeply inter- ested in the development of pub- lic utilitles, including water, elec- t telephone and street trans- arir CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Nov. 17.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 23, American Can 93',, American Power and Light 67, Anaconda 15%, Armour B 2%, Bethlehem Steel 31%, Calumet and Hecla Colorado Fuel and Iron 47,, Curtiss-Wright 2%, Fox Films 14 General Motors 317, Inter- national Harvester 417, Kennecott Packard Motors 4, Canadian g 2';, Chicago and Milwau- kee (preferred) 8%, Standard OIl were 5, in b of California 43%, United Corpora= tion 5%, United States Steel 48, (Continued on P:.ge’ Two)