The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 24, 1934, Page 1

s, THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL XLIII NO. 6555. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ]UNEAU ALASKA, WEBNESDAY JANUARY 24 1934, MLMBI;R OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS FOUR ABDUCTED IN CALIFORNIA TOWN MYSTERY KELLHNG OF GANG LEADER __.x(i ¥ . PUBLIC ENEMY FOUND SLAIN [N APARTMENT Killer m CTn;go Labor‘ Rackets Dies Follow- ing Drinking Bout “THREE FINGERED JACK’ WHITE KlLLED BY TWO Slayers been to Leave and| Drive Away in Auto— Three in Custody CHICAGO, I, Jan. 24¢. — William “Three Fingers aged 44, ex-convict, rackets, has been he list of public ene- r his slaying in a suburb- ent. body, partially unclothed, d in his apartment after ots were heard and seen to flee and| were drive snuggl" Indicated Evidence is showed: that While 1 a terrible struggle for his put bookcase doors were the furniture in one had been thrown about. From bottles—and glasses found on the premises it is evident White and his visitors had engaged in a bout before he was slain. Wife in Custsdy an identifying herself as wife, another woman and ne man, were taken into custody.| drove up to the apartment| in an auto. All denied knowing| anything about the killing. ALASKA PACKERS REPORTS PROFIT ON SALMON PACK $320,670 Netted by Can- nery Corporation as De- mand Increases Rapidly drinking SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 24.—The Alaska Packers Association yester- day reported net profits of $320,670 in 1933, scoring an impressive re- covery from the previous year,| when the loss was $1,391,000. They also reported that the sale of the carryover pack from 1932 netted more than the cost, result- ing in the restoration of $858,000 to the surplus account that had been set aside against what appeared a probable loss on the salmon pack. The total pack for 1933 was 812,- 659 cases, compared with 950,249 during the preceding year. President William Timson said the markets for canned salmon improved during the early summer, nearly exhausting the stocks. — et MINE WORKERS MEMBERS GAIN THROUGH NRA John Lewns,Hehd of Union,| Says Organization Is Stronger than Ever INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 24—John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, last night told its convention that the union has more than doubled its membership | and is now greater and stronger than ever because of the NRA. Veteran Marries at 98 NEW BERN, N. C— George| Hughes, 98-year-old confederate | American Power and Light 8%, An- | aconda 16%, Armour B 3. Bethle- #irs. Franklin D. Roosevelt poses in the striking gown which she will wear at the birthday ball for the President on January 30. It i Georgia peach srepe satin trimmed with a broach of jade and brillia; Designed by Milgrim, New York, Roosevelt when she tried it on the fi STOCKS FIRMIN FACE OF HEAVY PROFIT TAKING Dollar Advances Moder-| ately and Some Special- ties Make New Highs NEW YORK, Jan. 24— Stocks turned over in large volume today under profit taking and accumu-| lated flurries. Gains predominated | during most of the session but most of these were small. ’ Prices tapered during the last) half hour but there was no pro- nounced pressure and the realizing was well absorbed. The close was| steady and the total sales were well| over 3,000,000 shares. Bonds were irregular and the Curb exchange was Spotty. Equities got little help from| grains which fluctuated in a nar-; row margin. Cotton and some oth- er commodities were a liftle easier. The dollar advanced moderately. Rail leaders although finally par- ed, made early gains of one to more than two points. Case Threshing, | National Cash Register, General| Elec Columbian Carbon, Gen- eral Motors and a number of oth- ers were slightly higher. Motors and a number of spe-g cialfies made new 1933-34¢ highs. | American Telephone and Telegraph, Consoiidated Gas, American Can | and various other leaders were somewhat lower. Alcohols and met- als were diffident and utilities were mixed. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Jan. 24—Closing price of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 217%, American Can 101%, 'm Steel 46, Calumet and Hecla Curtiss-Wright 3%, Fox Films 15%, General Motors 38%, Inter-| natjonal Harvester 43%, Kennecott 4, veteran, and Miss Libby Hill, 26, marched into the office of Magis- trate Harvey the other day and were 22, Montgomery-Ward 27%., Ulen Company 3%, Standard Oil of California 42%, United States Steel 56%. QUAKE TOLL IN. | are removed revealing perhaps in- of the gown was approved by Mre. rat time. (Al clated Prcss Photuy Claims He Was Beaten to Force Confession LOS ANGELES, Jan. 24.—Ed- ward Friedman yesterday testi- fied in superior court during his trial that two detectives beat him for four hours to make him confess robbing Mae West of $20,000 worth of jew- elry. INDIA REPORTED AS INCREASING Twenty-five Thousand| Dead in Monghyr —Of- ficial Advices Received CALCUTTA, Jan. 24—An appal- ling toll, beyond ~any previously hinted, may be reached in India's recent earthquake, This was indi- cated when official reports were received today from the Raja Mon- ghyr that deaths there have | reached 25,000. It will be weeks before the ruins calculable bodies. It is predicted two generations will pass before the devastated areas can be rehabilitated. Relief measures are reported to be ade- quate, however. — e — Stock Exclmnges Zoo Increases in London LONDON, Jan. 24—“Hares" have joined “bulls,” “bears” and “stags” in London stock exchange nomen- clature. Operators who change timidly and hurriedly from industrial and commodity, shares into the safety of gilt-edged $@cTtTties on the slightest breath of unfavorable news and dealers who mark down 5 Delegates in Atten dance| from All Parts of Divi- sion—Organize Today With delegates in attendance from Ketchikan, Wrangell, Peters burg, Sitka, Haines and all pre- cincts on Gastineau Channel and | Glacier Highway, and proxies from practically every precinct in the Division,” the biennial Democratic Divisional Convention was called to order in Moose Hall at noon today by S. Hellenthal, Chairman of the Divisional Committee. A temporary organization was ef- fected in short order with Mr. | Hellenthal as Chairman and A. B. | Kane as Secretary pro-tem. A cre- dentials dommittee, M. E. Monagle, | Juneau, was appointed and in- structed to make its report at 2 pm, The opening session was entirely harmonious with indication that the whole convention would main- tain that status throughout its de- liberations. On the surface, at least, there was no indication of any party factionalism or other strife to mar the proceedings. The Credentials Committee was directed to report at 2 o'clock. Aft- er it has done so, the delegates will perfect a permanent organization | |and appoint the usual committees. It was believed today that it would complete its work by Friday even- ing or Saturday morning. Out of town delegates included: | former Representative A. H. Zieg- |ler and C. 8. Hanson, Ketchikan; James Nolan, Wrangell; Eric Ness, Petersburg; Eiler Hanson, H. L. Bahrt and Charles Wortman, Sil ka; J. P. Anderson and J. V. Davis, | Salmon Creek; Al' Weathers, Lynn Canal precinct; Thomas Cashen, E. A. Andrews and John Martin, Douglas, and others. — - AMENDMENTS ARE MADE T0 MONEY BILL Devaluatxon Talk in Senate Brings Out Attitude of Some Members WASHINGTON, Jan. 24— While | the Senate Independents sought to strengthen the inflationary provis- |ions of the money bill, Senator Carter Glass denounced the de-| valuation.of the dollar as an in- valid and indecent process. Administration leaders have ac- cepted amendments to Iimit to| three years the life of the stabili- zation fund and the time within which the President might devalue the gold content of the dollar. It is estimated that expansion of the new money of about five bil- lion would result from the surplus of gold from devaluation. Senator Borah said the Inde- pendents are considering whether to provide for a mandatory issue of currency upon that surplus. —————— Sweet gum twigs, which back- woods women used to use for snuff brushes, are now utilized in the manufacture of perfumes and cin- namic alcohol. | LEADERS SHAPING NEW FlNANClAL POL]CY modity dollar. (Associated Press DIMOND PLEADS ALASKA FEDERAL MEN UNDERPAID {Delegate Dlscusses Living Costs and Salaries in | Northern Territory ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 18— (Special Correspondence)— Soon after debate commenced yesierday on the Independent Offices Appro- prlauon Bm, Delegate Dimond ad-‘ e House on the subject ! of relauon between living codts and sa!nrles of Federal Employees in ‘ Because of the rule adopted the | previous day, prohibiting the sub- mission of any amendment unless it has committee approval, the Delegate is not confident that he | will be able to induce Congress to take favorable action on his request | that workers for the U. S. govern- | ment resident in the Territory be exempt from any pay reductions. |But ‘at least he has shown the membership of the House that con- | [ |ditfons in Alaska with respect to UMng costs are not analogous with | those in continental United States, | and that is a seed that may bear fruft later, and there is still an | opportunity to secure the desired amendment to fhe bill in the Sen- ate. Today’s issue of the Congres- sional Record carries tables show- ing the comparative cost of neces- | sitles of life in the Stafes and in | Alaska. Under ordinary circumstances the committee handling the bill | might be disposed to correct these | obvious thequalities, but now it committed to driving ahead with | the least possible loss of speed on | the administration program and it | is mot likely to open the door for | |one amendment for fear that a| (Continued on Paxe Seven) Civil Works Administration Be Extended to Mavy 1; Prestdent to Seek MoreF unds May ‘WASHINGTON, Jon. 24—Harry Hopkins, Director of Civil Work Administration, after a conference | with President Roosevelt, said hopes workers can go into private he prices on the flimsiest pretext and change their views rapidly, are|rector said that if private industry | nounced that Civil Works emmoy_ I hnresandchaledul “nuisance. industry before May 1. The Di- doumtfindjmforngoodshare calau-minnwrmbythat (time, the President will consider extending the life of the agency.| |” Director Hopkins said the Presi- | dent will ask Congress for $350,000,- | 000 for the Civil Works %o keep going until May. | Several weeks ago it was an- President Franklin D. Roosevelt took another ltep toward his “commodity dollar” plans when he ask®d congress to “vest in the United States government title to all supplies of American-owned mone- tary gold.” He also requested it to give him broader authority for revaluing the dollar. Above a some of the men who are helping the President shape the new financial policy. Senator Duncan U. Fletcher (lower right) is head of the senate banking committee. Rep. Henry B. Steagall (lowar left) is chairman of the house banking committee. Henry A. Morgenthau, jr. treasury, and Prof. George F. Warren (upper rlght) lc credited with advising Mr. Roosevelt on the com Photo) ; 7 shown (upper left), is secretary of the Two Alaska N ommatwns Are Confi irmed by Senate WASHINGTON, Jan. 24—The Senate has confirmed the nemination of George F. Alexander, to be Federal Judge of the First Division of Alaska, with his headquarters at Juneau, and also the nomination of Themas. Gaffney to be United States Marshal of the Second Division, with headquarters at Nome. Beth nominations were reported favorably by the Senate Jndiclary Committee. MOTHER OF 2 SLAIN KIDDIES | MAY DIE SOON Mrs. Hestness Also Dnven to Insanity, Result of Several Causes SEATTLE, Jan. 24.—Physicians | said Mrs, Oskar Hestness might die in ten or twelve days as the result of a mental and physxcal | breakdown and “driven to insanity by fear, undernourishment and | lack of sleep. If she recovers she will be emotionally unstable.” Alienists said Hestness would de- velop insanity anyway, even if he had not been exposed to religious | excitement. Hestness, former resident of Pe- tersburg, Alaska, confessed Sunday to killing his two little sons by choking them to death “because the Devil was in %he'm . FILM ROMANCE ENDS SUDDENLY : Johnny Weismullar and Lupe Velez; Married in October, ot Separate HOLLYWOOD, Cal, The Examiner today said that | tober, have decided on' a separa-! tion because of clashes resulting | from temperaments. —— e Glenda Farrell Pays $2 Fine for Parking =Furrvu, film actress, paid a $2 fine |for parking her car overtime, and a similar fine for dashing by a J-flwnd terminate possibly by | boulevard stop sign, Jan. 24— | HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 24.—Glenda' ‘Negro Member ‘Of House |Shows Fight WASHINGTON, Jan. 24— The lone negro member of the House, Representative Oscar De Priest, of Illinois, Republican, hag served notice on the Demo- cratic majority, he will ‘force a | flcor vote as to whether ne- ‘ groes should be barred from the House Restaurant. l “I am going to see to it that negroes eat there or we can close the restaurant,” said the 1‘ angered De Priest. e FRENCH CABINET RECEIVES VOTE, OF CONFIDENGE Backing of Government i Wrested from Chamber as Police Flght Rioters Jan ~The French nbvnm ln\t mght \trL»ted a vote of confidence from the riotous Chamber of Deputies while the po- lice battied street mobs shouting “Stavisky cabinet, resign!” ‘The opposition ch: the cab- inet with corruption connection | with the $40,000000 collapse of | the Bayonne pawnshop of the late | Serge Stevinsky. 561 L1 S | Johnny Weissmuller and Lupe Vel-|Fish, Evasive for '(7 who married secretly last Oc-! Years, Finally |Caught on Shore ! AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Jan. 24—A unique specimen of the uni- scorn ribbon fish which scientists have sought for years in the Medi- | terranean sea and around the Ca- nary Islands, swam ashore here at the feet of an amateur collector. The fish is said to be the Buster Crabbe, swimmer-actor, paids world’s most nearly perfect speci- men. It has a long red comb curl- ing above the snout. el STRIKE STARTS { {Seething Unrest Prevails in Section of Rich Im- perial Valley 3 MEN AND 1 WOMAN TAKEN AWAY BY GANG Crowd Rusl;_lnto Crowd- ed Lobby of Hotel and Make Kidnaping BRAWLEY, Cal., Jan. 24. |—Two wholesale abductions and strained relaticns between i the vegetable field strikers |and farmers of the rich Im- perial Valley have stirred this section which is seething with unrest. Communists have been run cut of the town and told not | to return. | The strike has been in pro- |gress for several days and ;thv climax came when a group {of unidentified men stalked {and made off with Al. Wirin, | representative of the Ameri- {can Civil Liberties Union. He had just addressed Mexican workers. Grover Johnson, San Bern- |ardino lawyer, and his wife, ‘and David Sokol, of Los An- geles, also a barrister, shortly {afterwards, were also taken \‘b_\' the band. | The four, according to all re= “|ports have been released in scat- tered nearby towns after one of the abducted men had apparently been beaten. During this afternoon four ar- rests were made in connection with the abductions, NRA BROUGHT T0 ALASKA BY - HUGH J, WADE Admlmstralor Explains Workings of Codes for Territorial Industry Bringing the NRA to Alaska, (Hugh J. Wade, administrator for the Territory, arrived in Juneau last evening ofi the Steamship Vie- toria from Ketchikan, where he spent the past week in hearings of labor and industrial representatives preliminary to setting the machin- ery of the administration in mo- tion. “Unless they are specifically ex- empted, industry and commerce in Alaska are governed by the NRA,” said Mr. Wade this morning as he was preparing his office head- quarters in Room 222 of the Fed- eral building. He is not yet ready to announce details of his organi- zation which is authorized under the authority of the administration. Mr. Wade - was accompanied to Juneau by Hi§ wifé, the former Miss Madge Case of Juneau. They are registered at the Gastineau hotal and will probably remain there until permanent quarters are found here for their home. Starting In Territories “Frankly,” he said, “little or no aftention has been given to the NRA set-up in any of the territor- ies until this time. The work in the States has taken the entire time of the aGminTstration, but now that it has been established there and is well under wayw we are looking to Alaska, Hawali and Puerto Rico.” It is because of this, he contin- ued, that any infractions against the NRA as found to exist or that have existed will be overlook= (Continued on Page Two) jinto a erowded hotel lobby .