The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 25, 1934, Page 1

P » 7 S N . 4TS T 3L 1 5 S M0 S VRS 78 4 YN TS 3 S AR I 0 T “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIIL, NO. 6556. ¥ JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1934. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE/ g 7 — * MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS , PRICE TEN CENTS MONETARY BILL NEARS VOTE IN SENATE YOUTH TAKEN FROM JAIL, STRUNG UP' 10 SHOTS ARE PUMPED INTO BANGLING BODY Mob Storms Bastile in Ken- tucky Last Night and Gets Negro ASSAULT CHARGE IS CAUSE FOR ACTION Investigation Immediately || Started with Three Arrests Made HAZARD, Kentucky, Jan. 25— The body of Rex Scott, negro, aged 20 years, shot approximately 40 times, was found last night hanging | to a beech iree, two miles south of Vicco, two hours after the youth had been taken from the Perry Ceunty jail by a mob. The negro was charged with slug- ging Alex Johnson, coal miner, on a side street last Saturday night. Johnson is in a critical condition in a hospital, never having regain- ed consciousness. ‘ An intensive investigation has been started. THREE ARRESTS MADE HAZARD, Jan. 25.—Three were arrested today on murder warrants and another is held for questioning by oficials ~ investigat- ing the Scott lynching. The three under arrest denied participation in the lynching. ———,—————— MAN WITH FIVE WIVES MEETS SUDDEN DEATH Blind with Rage, Undi- vorced Mates Kick Husband Lifeless MALEWSKI, Poland, Jan. 25— Because he had not been divorced from four previous wives, Isador Ruskewyat paid with his life. His fifth wife became suspicious when she learned her husband still [ CUPID NIPS “MARRYING JUSTICE” i | I | | | E. A. Freeman, “marrying justic brities, has surrendered to Cupid ! Richard Dix and Sally Eilers are | (Associated Press Photo) “ BUSINESS MUST | COME UNDER NRA DECLARES WADE {Adm inistrator for Terri- | tory Outlines Work to Chamber Commerce Cooperation of business men and industries of Alaska asked by Hugh J. Wade, newly-arrived repr | sentative of the NRA, before the luncheon of the Juneau Chamber | of Commerce today, where he was | the guest of honor. “So far,” said Mr. Wade, ‘‘the ad- | ministration has been too busy in | Washington with applying the | codes to industries in the States to give consideration to the Ter- | ritories. Now, however, with machinery working well m the the e” of Yuma, Ariz., who has married several thousand couples, including scores of motion picture cele- and is shown here with his bride, the former Mrs. Vesie Ona Homesley. Jean Harlow, Gloria Swanson, just a few for whom he officiated, Treasury - . Offerings Taken Up 'Depart mg Announces First Move in Borrow- | ing as Successful WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—Pocket- !ing one billion dollars worth of offers in one day and turning in | several billions more, the Treasury | Department still had an ace in the hole should it be needed in the i of bor- jremaining nine billions rowing. MAE WEST IS (CONGRESSMEN - INFORMATION UNDER GUARD Threats Made Against Film| Actress for Testify- ing in Case had four other wives. S}}e sgarch-‘ south, the policy is being extended. | ed until she found them in time. |ppe planket codes have been in ef- The five wives became inem_ily.:[cct. of course, in Alaska all the The fifth lured her unsuspecting yime anq the territorial industries husband to a party at which all|ape ypger the codes worked out | wives had gathered. Blind With|, " 40 jnqustries in the United rage, the five kicked Ruskewyat gi ios in general, but adjustments | to death. — e —— FRENCHMEN N DUEL; 4 SHOTS | will have to be made. That’s what |1 am here for. | Work Under Pressure | “The administration. has been | working under pressure but it has i done a good job. The NRA is suc- ‘ce 1 in the States. While the codes have been in effect in Alaska the same as they have in the United States, no force has been applied here, chiefly be- LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jan. 25.— | The guard given Mae West, film | | actress, when threatened for testi-| ‘fying in a robbery #case, was strengthened today after a prowler attempted to gain admittance to her apartment during the night. TAX REFUNDS | e | cause it was mot felt that they, R iy | were sufficiently understood here."! Neither Participants Are, Mr. Wade let it be understood Injured — s | that past infractions of the code | i i { provisions in Alaska would be over- Highest Return Less than Not Satisfied AREEXCHANGED |looked, but that he would send| 2 e o vl One Million Dollars, PARIS, Jan. 25—Fighting the| circulars to every industry and first duel as the outgrowth of thc! Bayonne Pawnshop scandal, De-| puty Andre Hessee and Lawyer| business in Alaska within the next | two weeks informing them of the | provisions and what they are eX-| \wASHINGTON, Jan. 25. — Con- pected to do toward helping thelgrecs was told yesterday that the Says Treasurer John Beineix, fired two shots at\,gene_ral recovery plan of the Ad- Treasury Department made tax re- each other in the Parc des Princes, | ministration. funds of $51,484,000 last year but on the outskirts of the city, with- Industries Accept Codes {the refunds were lower than in out resuit. He said that 185 industries had | former years. Instead of there The duel was the result cf A0 accepted specific codes in the|being several returns of a million article Beineix wxfote eriticizing | ypited States up to the first or;dol!flrs. one _Iar s7'1v4,000 to the Hesse in his agtivmes as a 1aWyer |4pe vear and that they were find-|Northern Pacific Railway, topped for Serge Stavisky, founder of the ;s “that wherever the plan had!the list. collapsed Bayonne Pawnshop. been given a fair trial it had been The bitterness of the quarrel has|, gecess and had improved busi- Daughter of Steel not been settled by the affair of | ) oo oo well as providing work for honor. many unemployed. Head Files in Reno | While compliance with the blan- Auto Turns Over on lcy | ket code was voluntary, the regu-| RENO, Jan. 25— Dorothy Weir % ” lar codes are binding on the signa-|Breck has filed suit for divorce l’avement, Driver Klnedlwfle;. and they will be binding 08ainst George D. Breck Jr, of {here as weil as in the Stales. New York City. She is a daughter S .- BREWSTER, Wash, Jan. 25.— Clifford Gillespie, aged 26, member of a piopeer family, was killed instantly when his automobile over- Many adjustments will have to be made here in provisions of the codes owing to different conditions. The mininmum wages that have {of Ernest T. Weir, head of the | Welrton Steel Company, who re- SEEKING WAR House Military Committee Head Would Learn Army and Navy Strategy NATIONAL DEFENSE IDEAS ARE DEFINED Aerial Force and Navy Sec- ond to None in World Are Advocated WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—(Copy- right by Associated Press, 1934)— A move to have the War and Navy Departments “take Congress into their confidence” and disclose in private to the legislative bramch of the 'Government the funda- mental strategy underlying national defense plans was last night taking shape. » Chairman John J. McSwain of the House Military Committee said he planned to go to the Rules Committee and seek early consid- eration for his resolution for a Congressional survey of the na- tional defense system. McSwain explained his own ideas of national defense which were a huge air force for first line de- fense, Navy. second line, regular Army and National Guard, third line, which he said he believed | would permit time for organized| and unorganized reserves to be concentrated, trained and equipped. “This suggestion is based solely upon defending our nation against invasion. I hope America never fights another war across seas,” | said McSwain. He declared for the “greatest air force in the world, adequate to strike quickly and de-| cisively, defending any part of | North or South America, and a| Navy equal to that of any nation in the world.” TWO LETTERS RECEIVED IN KIDNAP CASE Federal Authorities Have New Clue—Rendez- vous Hinted | ST. PAUL, Minn., Jan. 25.—Fed- eral agents are trying to run down two letters, neither signed, sup- posedly from the abductors of Ed- ward G. Bremer, banker. | The contents of the missives are not disclosed but it is understood they directed that the kidnapers be met at a rendezvous for the ran- soming of Bremer. LARGE FRENCH NAVY IS URGED Minister Sarraut. Makes Startling Proposal in Panis Today ‘ s | PARIS, an. 25.—In the midst of | disarmament failure and Germany's demands for rearming, Naval Min- ister Albert Sarraut today advo- cated the building of the French fleet to be more powerful than the combined fleets of Italy and Germany, | ‘TL;rkey Cheapens Drink to Boost ANKARA, Jan. 25.—The Turkish Government is launching a “drink more, smoke more, burn more’ campaign to speed up State mon- cpoly sales of alcohol, tobacco, and matches. cently clashed with Hugh Johnson Where Japanese- Ambitions Lie in Pacific e - H MANDATED IspaNDs THAT MAY PRECIPITATE WaR an insurmountable handica; Dispensing with the eustomary flowery phraseolo, in 24 hours under the leadership of Lt. Com. Knefler ons, war will result if an; these islands. of the Orient, Vice-Admiral Nobumasa Suetsugu, com- | mander-in-chief of the combined Imperial fleets of Japan, recently declared that Japan already is preparing | for war with the United States, implying that there is not room for two big fleets in the Pacific and apparently | believing that the distance separating the American mainland from her Hawaiian and Philippine possessions to the U. S, The flight of U. S. Navy seaplanes from San Francisco to Hawaii cGinnis may have changed the admiral’s outlook. Backed by Minister of War Sadao Araki, Admiral Suetsugu further asserts that in 1935, when she is due to return mandated Pacific islands to the League of Nati y attempt is made to eust Japan from GEN SADAO ARAKI | DANUBE STATES AT VARIANCE ON LEAGUE REFORM Split Caused by Proposals Made by Premier Mus- solini of Italy By WADE WERNER VIENNA, Jan. 25.—Ttalian pro-| posals for reform of the League of Nations are meeting in the Dan- ubian nations the same mingled welcome and oppositidn as all pre- vious suggestions for peace treaty revisions. In the defeated countries, Aus- tria, Hungary and Bulgaria, the ac- tion of the fascist grand council in demanding League reform is deem- ed worthy of admiration. In the Little Entente countries, whose boundaries are guaranteed by the League covenant, the Italian demand is considered just another attempt to wreck peace treaties. Two Conferences Coincide Foreign Minister Benes of Czech- oslovakia recently conferred at Kosice with Nicholas Titulescu, Rumanian foreign minister. It so happened that at the same time the kings of Buigaria and Yugo- slavia talked in Belgrade. Cordially and courteously King Alexander told Boris at a banquet in the latter’s honor: “Only a policy of peace and con- solidation of the status quo can bring to our peoples the full as- surance of a better future.” 5 (Oanunuei Vorxrxr }age ’I'hreef Public Revenue| 10poly produce 10-cent bottles of | raki (potent sister of “Alabama | corn”) so that “citizens even of modest means may contribute to| this source of national revenue.” ifOl" the remaining six months be- | | By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Bureau, The Asscciated Press, Washington) ‘Washington's extraordinary op- timism over the immediate future arises mostly from a realization that so large a proportion of the big recovery war chest remains un- touched. It is not understood generally, but hardly one-fourth ‘of the money set aside for this fiscal year ac- tually had been paid out by Janu- ary 1. The amount spent was less than 3 billions, leaving 8 billions fore July 1. Up to the present a very large part of the spending program has existed on paper only. The really tall spending is about to start, and that fact greatly stirs the dmagination of administration officials, convinced from their re- ports that important results al- ready have come from the compar- atively small outlay to date. They have been told nothing has done | more to stimulate trade, or in- crease¢ the popularity of the Presi- dent, than the civil works and oth- | er payments to individual commun- ities. Multiply that result by four- says the enthusiasts, and you will have a picture of the conditions expect- ?Bié Réé(;be;y Fund Balance Ii]REl','UN JUDGEm— Keeps Democrats Optimistic UPHOLDS NRA | LUMBER GODE Government Plan Declared Preventative of Disaster in Court Decision PORTLAND, Jan. 25.—Observing “the NRA plan, while not perfect, | is most likely to prevent comp]et.e! disaster to the lumber industry,” | Judge Johri H. McNary, Wednesday upheld code authorities in their imposition of a production working hour allocation to the lumber mills within their jurisdiction. | McNary's decision was written in | an action brought by the Willam-| ette Valley Lumber Company of Dalles, Ore. The company sought a permanent injunction restraining the code authorities from enfore- ing a thirty-hour week at the mill. If the case is appealed it will be taken directly to the United States Supreme Court instead of through | | the Circuit Court of Appeals. COMMITTEE OF ed by late spring. Tt sounds simple, whether it really is or not. DIPLOMATIC MR. HULL Private reports of a possible re- | deal in the Latin-American section | of the State Department preceded | HOUSE APPROVES To stimulate match sales, there | re to be “surprise boxes” contain- The old Moslem precept forbid- |ing one mateh which burns with a over NRA codes. The Brecks were|ding strong drink wasn't mentioned |green light. To the purchaser of turned on the ey pavement late ! yesterday afternoon. "7 (Continued on Page Two) | property is involved in the suit. Deputy urged that the alecohol mo- married in New York in 1923. No|in Parliament when a Kemalist such & box, prizes ranging up to! 375 will be given. i Secretary Hull as he turned Wash- ington-ward ‘from the Montevideo conference, On the whole, it appears that |Mr. Hull got along well with the Latin-American statesmen assem- bled for the conference. One deli- cate question, however, kept coming up: Just what did Ambassador Sumner Welles have to do with the revolutionary era in Cuba? Did Mr. Hull, a strong non-inter- ventionist, approve? These questions had increased | weight by reason of the fact that in pursuance of a routine plan worked out long before the Cu- ban revolution, Welles now is back in the State Department as an As- sistant Secretary in charge of La- tin-American relations generally. Secretary Hull handled himself | diplomatically with his Monte- video conferees, just as he had at the London conference when he | was confronted with the activities " (Continued on Page Two) | committee the bill was estimated NEW TAX ITEMS |Revision Bill Expected to Bring in $200,000,000 Additional Revenue WASHINGTON, Jan. 25— The House ways and means committee today approved several items in the modified tax revision bill de- signed to raise $200,000,000 in addi- tional revenue, including a change in the income tax rates to bring in $36,000,000 more yearly. As originally presented to the to yield $270,000000 through the tightening up of administration provisions of the income tax law. The bill will probably be pre- sented the first of next week. e Jimmie Lynch of Texarkana, Tex., devised a set of controls so he could drive his motorcar from a saddle mounted on the hood. APPROVAL OF MEASURE MAY BE TOMORROW Only Two Major Contro- versies Are Now Be- ing Fought Out PRESIDENT’S PLANS TO BE FOLLOWED OUT Dollar Devaluation Pro- posals Conceded to Be Accepted, Close Vote WASHINGTON, Jan. 25—Ad~ | ministration leaders expressed high | confidence today they could se= cure the stamp of the Senate’s ap~ proval on the dollar devaluing bill, just as President Roosevelt desires, by tomorrow night. Only two major controversies re= mained today to be settled as the Senate headed into the second day i of debate. ‘The controversies are proposals for mandatory inflation and con- trol of the stabilization fund by a board of five members. Defeat of the two proposals is conceded but the vote is expected to be close however. REPUBLICANS RAISE CRY ‘WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—A Re- . publican cry of “robbery” was rais- ed in the Senate today against the monetary bill as the Administra- tive leaders maneuvered toward a vote. Senator Daniel O. Hastings, of Delaware, Chairman of the Sena- torial Campaign Committee, charg= ed the bill was unconstitutional be- cause it “undertakes to legalize robbery by taking the property of citizens without due process of law and without compensation.” —eee—— FIRST SESSION OF DEMOCRATS 1S HARMONIOUS Organization Completed Yesterday — Gov. Troy Makes Short Address With the Platform Committee still engaged in writing that dccument, the Democratic Di- visional Convention marked time this morning. It convened for a shert time at 10 o'clock then recessed until 2 p.m. At that time the Platform Committee, it was believed, would have virtually completed its work. It had practically agreed upcn all planks at noon today. Harmony, expeditious completion of all organization details, including the seating of all delegates and the appointment of a Committee on Resolutions and Platform, and a short but highly encouraging talk by Gov. John W. Troy, featured the opening day of the Democratic Divisional Convention here Wednes- day. The convention resumed its, session at 10 a.m. today. The Governor, who is a delegate from Juneau Precinct No. 1, and unable to attend on account of the pressure of official business, visited the convention hall shortly after permanent organization was com- pleted. When he arose to address the delegates, he was given an enthusiastic Teception that lasted several minutes. Hellenthal Chairman S. Hellenthal, Temporary Chair- man, was unanimously elected Permanent Chairman at yesterday afternoon’s session. A. B. Cain, Temporary Secretary, was also el- ected by an unanimous vote for Permanent Secretary. The Credentials Committee, com~ posed of M. E. Monagle, Chairman, Mrs. Crystal Snow Jenne, C. H. Hansen, Ketchikan, James Dolan, Wrangell, and C. E. Wortman, Sitka, found all of the credentials in proper form and correct and (vonunued on Page Two) . \ b