The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 3, 1934, Page 1

T THE DAILY ALA “ALL THE NEWS AI,L THE TIME” “KA EMPIRE \‘IMB[ R O" AbSOCIATI D PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS CONGRESS PLANS SPEEDHNG uP WORK EARLY SPRING ADJOURNMENT PLANNED NOW, |<-n1~la'mn Is Piled ngh 1 Both Senate andHouse — | PRESIDENT MAY MAKE| FURTHER SUGGESTIONS, Job Insurance Plan Meas-| ure Practically Ready for Introduction HINGTON, Feb.3.—Congress tting ready for busy weeks head in a drive through a grow- ing pile of legislation toward the Administration’s decree for an early g adjournment. h the Senate and House are today. President Roosevelt bégun a final tudy over what further legislativ he will toss into the ssional machine in the Sen- | House has approved the v\p.msmu bill. The $600,000,000 Navy Lawrence seaway treaty ng lm‘ bul ra’mc.zuun benefit bill cut arg slated for de- appropriation il rider | the House measure. e Senate has passed bill to penalize private financial 2ctions h defaulting debtor and has gone to the Job Insurance Plan bill for the establishment of ance plan in every State introduction, drawn up r Watson in cooperation &.Hlurv of Labor Perkins. easure would set up a Fed- upon all employers, each would be given exemp- however, tion: State unemployment insurance sys- tems, ONE INDUSTRY BREAKS WITH LABOR BOARD Executives of Steel Con- cerns Take Stand on Union Elections NEW YORK, Feb. 3—The steel industry has come to the parting of the ways with the National Labor Board of NRA by endorsing the position taken by the Wierton Steel Company and other concerns. Executives of leading steel com- panies have issued a statement pledging themselves to “resist all attack” upon company unions, con- | tending the unions comply with Section 7 of NRA and the elec-| tions are authorized by Executive Order. The National Labor Board has been empowered by the President to step in on conduct of elections and negotiate with employers when a substantial number of workers ask it, ROBBED FILM STAR, VERDICT LOS ANGELES, Cal, Edward Friedman , and will be sentenced Tues- She lost $17,000 in jewels and $3400 in cash in a hold-up. —ige o, EIDE GOING SOUTH Antone Eide, well known South- west Alaskan, is a passenger aboard the Victoria for Seattle. He is ac- companied on the trip by his daughter, Marit E. Anderson, of Fairbanks, e | by next | and | ne John- | It has the Administration’s | s for contributions to approved | Peb: 3.1 has been con-| vicled of robbing Mae West, film| | \ | | | | | | | l | fruits, which was shipped by Roosevelt in The cake is the Los Angeles. | cake's many decoraticns. SENATE ORDERS ARREST IN AiR MAIL INQUIRY Former Hoover Adminis- tration. Official Must Divulge Information WASHINGTON, Feb. | P. MacCracken. Secretarv of Commerce Hoover Administration, 3—William in was ar- of the Senate to come before it Monday and give information, pre- viously refused, to its air mail in- quiry committee. MacCracken was held for more than an hour until the Senate Sergeant-at-Arms, Chesley Jurney. |agreed that MacCracken's attorney, Frank J. Hogan, might stand spon- sor for his appearance Monday. In refusing to surrender the rec- ords sought by the Senate Com- mittee, MacCracken argued the in- formation sought was the private and confidential property of avia- tion companies whose attorney he was. Hogan said telegrams had been received from aviation com- panies agreeing to the disclosure of their records and files and these were seized in MacCracken’s office | under the Senate order. Wife Divorces Her Snuff-using Mate LOS ANGELES, Feb. 3.—“T've stood it for fourteen Years, but I |can’t stand it any longer—my hus- |band uses snuff.” “That's 'nuff,” commented the judge granting Mrs. Dora S. Bene- dict a divorce from Orwin A. Ben- |cruelty and neglect. | A. Haas, —————— In the Malay Islands the period | riage proposals. former Assistant | the | rested lalé yesterday under order | Btrlhdu y Cuke for Ruosvwlt Photo shows the 250-pound birthday c air mail to President Franklin D. me fer his natal @ay celebration, Tuesday, January 30. gift of Culver City, Cal, An exact duplicate of the cake was served at the banquet and ball honoring the President on that day at the Biltmore Hotel in Miss Muric! Evans is pictured “testing” one of the ;Body ;f Attractivcr |had been crushed as if edict. Benedict did not appear in | | court to dontest the suit. Mrs, Ben- | edict also accused him of extreme | The decree | was granted by Superior Judge C.| of the year when Venus is observed | Ding for ports of Southeast Alaska closest to ti# moon is regarded as|On business trips, the most opportune time for mar- | herin, L. F. Hebert, J. B. Caro, *[TWO DEMOCRATS SEEK TREASURY, POST ON SLATE Martin Haryraisrand 0. G. Olson File Declara- tions with Auditor Interest in the Democratic pri- mary election was quickened today on a Territory-wide scale when two candidates filed declarations of can- | didacy for nomination for Treas- urer of Alaska. Martin Harrais, veteran Democrat of the Third an ST Fourth Divisions, now residing at | Ellamar, near Valdez, and Oscar G. Olson,. Eyak, a suburb of Cor- dova, both filed their declarations for that office, it was announced |by Frank A .Boyle, Territorial Auditor. One filing was made for the Di- visional Republican primary here— Harry G. McCain, Ketchikan at- | torney, filing for nomination on {the House ticket. It was also re- ported that Louis F. Paul, Wran- | gell, prominent Alaska Native | Brotherhood leader, would file be- fore the closure next Tuesday. A complete Divisional ticket has | {been filed by the Republicans in the Third Division, according to Frank H. Foster, former Represen- ‘tu.‘\e from there and now a can- | for #he House were reported to be: ‘H I. Staser, Anchorage, former United States Marshal there; Clyde R. Ellis, Cordova, former Assistant United States Attorney in the Third | Division; Eddie Walsh, President of the Alaska branch of the Broth- erhood of Locomotive Eengineer }m«l Elywyn Swetman, pioneer Sew- rd druggist. Mr. Foster also said advices had | '\JLL'\ received here that the Re-| pubxunm would have complete s in the field in both the and Fourth Divisions. h ake baked of California to President Roosevelt. TEACHER SH(lT OF HER PUPILS pr: mmxy alrcady has competition for | Rejected Su itor Storms both the House and Senate mLh (Continued on Page Two) | School—Slayer Com- mits Suicide ————.————— DOLLAR PROFIT IS GIVEN INTO GENERAL FUND © Nearly Three Billion Dol- lars Realized on De- valuation Order HARLAN, Iowa, Feb. 3—The bul- let scarred bodies of a rural school | teacher and a 28-year-old farmer,| Herman Seick, rejected suitor, bore evidence of a double tragedy en- acted before the horrified eyes of twenty pupils. The students told the story of| how Miss Margaret Graves, aged 23, was shot to death. The tr: ;le‘ occurred during the last class of | yesterday's school s On. The students said Seick stalked into the school room with a shot- gun. Miss Graves saw him and scream- ed as she crouched under her desk |five million dollars. for safety. This has been paid into the Seick poured a rain of slugs into |General Fund and has wiped out her back. She staggered to her |the Federal deficit which stood at | feet, screamed for help and started |one billion nine hundred and twen- | toward the door but fell dead. |ty-two million dollars. The children then started to run| The profit gave a surplus on the | WASHINGTON, Feb. 3. The | doilar profit to the Government| on President Roosevelt’s devalua-| tien order is given by the Treasury as two billion eight hundred and out of the school room and as|Vear's expenditures to date of a they did, Seick went into the |most one billion unless Secretary | school yard and shot himself |Morgenthau should decide to use| through the heart. some of this profit to meet the| W current expenditures which he said | |the Treasury does not plan to do. | The year-end defieit will still re seven billion dollars as estimated be President Roosevelt. | Woman Found on Road {didate for a place on the First {Division Republican House slate. | Senator R. S. Bragaw, Anchorage, |he said, is seeking renomination |by the 'G.+O. Pi, and those w&nsi Four members of the Dillinger gang of asserted killers and bank robbers of the Midwest, Jchn Dillinger, were captured at Tucson, Arizona. One of the officers making the arrests re broken finger and one of the mobsters was beaten while trying (o resist arrest. Bond was fixed at $100,000 each. Dillinger, leader of the “mob,” is shown, upper left, in jail while at the upper right is Russell Clark, with head bandaged after putting up.a fight when trapped. Lower left: Harry Pier- peint, asserted “trigger man,” objected to posing but the pelice thought otherwise. Left to right, in this picture: Capt. Ben West, the recalcitrant prisoner and Sheriff Belton. Lower right: Charley Makley, the fourth member of the bunch. Dillinger, several days after his arrest, was taken by airplane to Crewn Peint, Indiana, to stand trial for the murder of a policem The others are in jail at Tucson awalllng extradition to Eastern States. (Associated Press Ptotos SENATOR DIES IN WASHINGTON The Atltlnlic Gilbert M. Hitchcock,) Newspaper Publisher, Suffers Heart Attack | TREASURY IS WATCHING BIG MONEY BATTLE (Two Billimfi)ol]ar Remains Intact, Inter- nauonal Flght SO UTHAMPTON, England, Feb. 3.—The trans-Atlantic gold rush in the wake of the Am- erican menetary moves began teday with the Bremen and Berengaria strong rooms stack- ed with gold bars totaling more than thirty million dollars. —————— WASH!NGTON Feb. 3.—Appar- ently waiting for subsidence of the violent dollar fluctuations abroad being going into action, the Treas- lu\ officials disclosed that they > virtually intact its entire two lion dollar fund for playing the al money game. e it is announced the ‘WASHINGTON, Feb. 3—Gilbert M. Hitcheock, former United States Senator of Nebraska, died early to- day after a week’s illness from an attack of the heart. Mrs. Hitch- cock was at the bedside. Mr. Hitch- | cock only established his residence, Report Is Made to Com- here a few months ag X o munist Internationale Educated for a legal career, Gil-| 3 fund has not been usued to pur- bert M. Hitchcock forsook that| in Moscow Government securities, an- profession after four years to be-| ] other of the major functions. come a newspaper publisher, and| MOSCOW, Feb., 3—The Com- -o o later attained national prominence|munist Internationale was present- | : in Democratic politics. |ed with a report today umpu world l‘_scape from Jail (Contiwed on Paze TWo) Jrevolution victory for Communisin! Costs Extra Term LOS ANGELES, Cal, Feb. 3,— The body of an attractive woman, identified as that of Alice Krieger, aged 33, sister of Johnny Krieger, auto racing driver, formerly of Denven, was found on the edge of the highway near the harboc district this morning. Her skull she had Says She Is a But Not of been hit by an auto. - e MERCHANDISE BROEKERS LEAVE ON ViCTORIA FOR SOUTHEAST ALASKA NEW YORK, Feb. \[ Goldman, anarchist, yesterday | came back to New York, where she lived 30 years prior to being deported to Russia in 1900 for ] being a criminal alien. She said 1 3.~Emma Among the merchandise brokers who left on the Victoria last eve-| Scviet Russia was “more op- pressive” than under the Czar. Emma Goldman now lives France but is a British citizen by marriage, She is in the were, J. J. Me- and A. Van Mavern. Anarchist Emma Goldman | throughout the world is approach- —_— The report was delivered to JACKSON, Mich., Fek [the ~ All-Union Communist Party Retkowi seventeen-y Congress by D. Z. Manuilsky, mem- mate of Michigan State p: in son, was C 8o ber of the Executive Committee of | sentenced to serve one and one- ommuntsi the Internationale who declared half to four and one-half years| |the elements of a revolutionary | in addition to his o sentence RuSSEQH 7‘,‘"101 crisis is growing everywhere, al-|when he pleaded guilty to escap-| 1‘.mxun somewhat irregularly —— e —— \Iln\ ROBERT COUGHLIN tember 25 and LEAVES FOR KETCHIKA Clairsville, 0O, TO JOIN HUSBAND THERE from Wayne County ing from prison. The ed away from a | inmate walk- United States on a short \ml. to cee her mother and incident- ally to do a little lecturing. She April 28, 1933, calls herself an Anarchist— | fo 9698 Wne 1o fiftcen years fa Cemmunist but makes plain | Mrs. Robert Coughlin left for preaking and entering the is no Communist after the |Ketchikan on the Vietoria to jc AT Russian model. She refused to |her husband, Clerk of the Uni BROKERS RETURN talk on conditions in the Unit- | States District Court, who w Robert Wakelin and Gil Rich, will down on the Tallapoosa. She | remain in XKetchikan during coming term of court there. ed States but declared “Democ- racy was not a great suceess anywhere.” merchandise brok: returned to the Jjuneau on the Victoria after busi- ness trips to the Westward. Fund| d PRESIDENT IS ~ HOT ON TRAIL OF GRAFTERS ecret Service Given Ord- ers Direct from | Chief Executive |CROOKED OFFICIALS TO BE ROUNDED UP {Action Said to Be Withe out Precedent Since i Time of Lincoln | NEW YORK, Feb. 3.—The Daily | News says President Roosevelt has ordered the Secret Service to “end the alliance between crooked Gov- ernment officials and the under- tworld.” The News says that already the Secret Service has evidence of cus- toms frauds; illegal refunds on import duties totalling $100,000,000; an underground railroad for trans- porting criminals in and out of the United States; a $50,000 bribe to a Customs Patrol and also traf- fiec in smuggled drugs and alien | girls The News says the ordering of |the Secret Service on the work is without precedent since Lincoln gave Allan Pinkerton, founder of |the Seeret Service, the double duty of spying behind Confederate lines {and Llracking down enemies of the T iingten. HOW COME, SAYS MORAN WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 —William Moran, Secret Service Chief, said he is unaware of any such in- vestigation as that reported in the |New York News. The newspaper {said the Secret Service has been ordered to make a wide inquiry of alleged graft by some Govern=- ment omciah DEFIANGE IS HURLED OUT BY ROOSEVELT Folitical Bosses Must Not Interfere in Public Works Program WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—Orders rrom President Roosevelt to defy political bosses was carried by forty-eight State Directors to the National Emergency Council as preparations were made for taking over local relief tasks. The President, referring directly |to reports that some had tried to | make “political advantage out of |relief to human needs,” promised {the backing of the Administration, saying to be absolutely hard boiled, “even if you hit the biggest political |boss in the United States on the head in carrying out this program.” On Capitol Hill, Democratic mem~ bers made ready to bring up Mon- day, the President's request for nearly one billion dollars for relief | purpeses, half a billion of which |is for the purpose of continuing the Civil Works program. ——,e—— CAN'T AGREE - ON VERDICT, - TOUHY TRIAL |Alleged Kldnapers of John Factor Will Face Jury ; Again This Month CHICAGO, Ill, Feb. 3—The guilt or innocence of Rogert Touhy and |nis two associates, alleged kidnap- |ers of John Factor, is still un- determined. The jury has failed to reach.a verdict and has been dis- charged. | Touny and nis {two assoclates will be placed on trial again on February 13,