The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 10, 1934, Page 1

THL DAILY ALA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” 1934, “KA EMPIRE \ILMBLR OF ASSOCIATED PRESS " PRICE TEN CENTS SAITO DECLARES GONFLICT WITH RUSSIA SUICIDE Orders Drinks for “You Prohibitionists™ Be- fore Interview REFUSES TO DISCUSS 'WINS SHARE OF PIONEER’S FORTUNE. | POLITICS IN PAPERS‘ | Alaska Not Attractive to! Nippon Except Maybe | for Moose, He Says NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—| Hiroshi Saito, the youngest, Ambassador ever sent to Am-| erica by the Nippon Govern- ment, avowed Japan has no| wish to take over the l’hilip-? pines and he laughed over! any and all suggestibns of al possible second Russo-Japan- ese War. He arrived here| yesterday afternoon. | “We are not going to fight. 1 Russia does not want to fight! us and we do not want to fight Russia. If we go to war with Russia, it means we will go to war with all| other countries and that cludes the United States. We not want to commit sui- cide,” said Saito. Before being interviewed he in- sisted that the drinks be ordered for all of “you Prohibitionists.” Saito said he could not discuss s before presenting his cre- to President Roosevelt in ton, D. C., but added his diplomatic object would be rink whiskey with good Am- do o s shown dispatches about Gen. William Mitchell's charges that Japan was developing air forces with an eye on Alaska. The new Japanese Ambassador | exploded: “Poppycock—what do we want there—moose?” ‘ >ee — { MAL FLYING © lo l CONTRACTORS _ ASK HEARING Army Plams to Be Used in! Emergency Starting | February 19 WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—Private | fliers of American airmails, strip- ped of valuable contracts by the Government, cried out today for! hearings on President Roosevelt's wholesale abrogation of existing | airmail contracts which becomes ef- | fective February 19. On that date planes of the.United States Army will begin flying the mail. The demolition of the airmail subsidy structure was accomplished on the grounds of collusion in ob- taining contracts. The War Department said it will be ready M one week or soon- er. Deny Collusion Operators of airlines holding contracts were quick to deny any | collusion and some frankly said the loss of contracts might force them out of business. Many contractors demanded they be given a hearing before the con-| tracts are taken from them. There is no official comment on these demands but there is private | talk in some Administration quar-| ters of a hearing for at least some of the contract holders. The statute under which the or- der was issued sets forth ‘that no firm deprived of a contract for collusion can seek another for five | years. Reerganization Talk President Roosevelt in ordering the Army and Department of Com- «Continued on Page Two) in-|_ ATLANTIG COAST | froz One of the s EG lNTERlnR | sens Dehmer, | [ | investigators |More than $3,500,000,000‘ (tary of Interior Ickes This was a million dollar moment for Mrs. Constance May Gavin, wife of a Los Angeles bank clerk, who received word her eight year suit against the James L. Flood estate had been settled out of court for $1,200,000. Mrs. Gavin had sued the heirs and estate for one-ninth, or daughter’s share, of the fortune on the claim she was an illegitimate daughter of the early bonanza king. (Associated Press Photo) ; American Follower c 0 L D w A VE I \0f Gandhi Is MODERATING QN Pt fom i ALLl‘TTA. lndla, Feb. 10. —Nila Cram Cock, Gandhi’s former follower, was today car- ried aboard a steamship bound for America after three hectic hours during which she locked herself in a bathrcom and re- fused to dress, She feigned blindness, and dumbness and Forty Deaths from Freez- ing, Exposure, Report- ed in Five States NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—The col (‘ wave which sent temperatures lom» er than ever befmc recorded alollg‘ |2 Cres- the seen CALLS HALT ON NEW PROJECTS | | Worth of Works Above Appropriations WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—Secre- has halted submission of new non-Federal projects and instructed Public Works and State engineers to in- form prospective applicants for| funds that further requests could | not be considered. |10.—Loggers are striking A survey shows a total of more|camps, here, on Bell River than $3,500,000,000 worth of projects | E Bay. are on file for which no allotments Newspaper men estimate have been made and for which | number of men out at 1200. no money is available because of| Camps are closed pending set- exhaustion of the original sz,zoo,A{uemem of the demand for higher 000,000 Public Works fund. J ages. year-old son wziting on board the ship. | Pebruary, is ,’:‘udumzl\ releasing its old on New York City which had | BREMER SEEN Boston reports the same tem- | perature and Philadelphia is three nFFlclALS SAY | 40 Die from Cold | Yesterday States ———— 40 deaths up to midnight N(-\X"l“,”[eagre Clues BPilH; Run ork had 17 deaths as the re: i i Down in Hopes Abduct- New Jersey 1, Massachuse Ohio 4 - aars and MEAdL ST. PAUL, Minn, Feb. wl: Trains and liners are delayed. |Meagre but fresh clues gave the e i . (will bring to justice the gang that Icebergs have bvp‘n sighted Off | chatohed Edward G. Bremer, bank- Cape Cod for the first time since Names of at least five persons Five men have been rescued by beliewef; to h:\‘e : en L’I;,‘].‘, the |Coast Guardsmen after they aban- : |are in possession of the p Justice Department agents a widow, told how she had when the abductors h with their postol L\u' Campbell River Closed Pending Settlement refused to speak to her seven- temperature of two degrees be- | degrees ahove zero. tive reported | of the cold wave, Pennsyl ors May Be Arrested Hundreds have been treated for olice investigators new hope they Tcebergs Sighted L Y 1917 ler, for a $200,000 ranson | kidnaper’s auto or its occupants, doned an ice- Loated schooner. persons, Mrs. the scuffle in the victim's [Three Logging Camps at CAMPBELL RIVER, B. C., Feb n three and at the |Administrator Johnson An-| \HUNDREDS OF GROUPS | | .| opinion was that it is imprac! 32-hour week for | date has been 3)-HOUR WEEK FOR INDUSTRY IS INDICATED nounces Mass Meet- ing for March 5 WILL BE ASSEMBLED ! Government t Plans Shlftmg Some Unemployment to Private Channels WASHINGTON, Fob mination on the part ministration to move Ame! was indicated yes ment A dministrator S Johnson that he would to put forward an ex- tended indus reemployment program by 5. The Administrator explained that et for a mass meet- ing of code author at which control groups of 275 300 indus- tries will be assembled u) toordl- nate and § ure. is not proposed to force an reduction demand on indus- groups by an Administrative the chief objective of the shouldering onto the spring large sharg supported” b} n the CWA. ! 10.—Deter- | of the Ad- for try annou Hugh be ready of government. | hour trial fiat but meeting is to t | private initiative dur u)d summer menths employment now | the Gmr"mm‘n‘ throu passing LOGAL PAGKERS i ANNOUNCE PLAN OF EMPLOYMENT & "2 Congress t ’('Lxslduon did not make clea nem his stand on some of y Roosevelt Helps TON, Feb. bilis for of Stock E ded down permit of looked of 10. trict Fed changes a route quick to Presi WASHING as Roosevelt Although committees and Rayburn conceded priva the Fletcher ures, leaders Will Open Emplovmen | Agencies in Alaska But L Without Contract Power - SAYSGODDBYE THEN LEAPS T Employment offices, similar those operated in Alaska last ye will shortly be opened in the T ritory by the salmon packers, Gov John W. Troy has been advised by H. B. Friele, President of the A sociation of the Pacific Fish with whom the Governor has been communicating for sometime rela- tive to the employment of Alaskan labor in the salmon fishing canning industry. The employment agencies, ho ever, will not be empowered to con- tract for any labor, alfhough this was very strongly recommended 0| President Friele by Gov. Troy. The canners, Mr. Friele said, did consider it practical to go to t length. Makes Search PORT ANGELES, Wash., Feb —Tony Hastisuk, aged 40, a |ger, leaped from a ferry boat I Port Ludlow yesterday and ! drowned. 0O £fi St pen Difloes Bom | Mastisuk was In his radiogram to the Gov nor, Mr. Friele said a represen tive group from the industry met| in Seattle last Thursday and ap- pointed a commiftee from each general district with instructions to work out details for establish- ing employment agencies soon At that meeting the concensu cable injured a-| |Logging Company's camp. | Officers of the ferry tisuk was apparently While talking with an |tance, BHe suddenly said |bye” and jumped overboa: Lifeboats were lower body was not found. | - of to give the employment agents authority to make contracts as the . superintendents would be unable GIRL AIRPILOT BORN to pass upon the men hired. The: A seven-pound g packers, however, will con n fcently born in different «genc s to post A;and Mrs. 8. ‘E. Robbins. . who is an airplane pilot in the air at the time to Robt was h 'f‘on!mued on Page Four) (T (;;{fessed Kidnaper Gwes Advice to Youth as He Goes SIOUX FALLS, Scuth Dakota, Feb. 10.—Gordon Alcorn, one of the confessed kidnapers of Charles Boettcher, 2nd, broker of Denver, now under life sentence, gave ‘a word of advice to every yeuth whe thinks crime is 2 smooth road to money. “Look into the future first and try and see the terri consequence then aveid what I am facing now,” Alcorn said as he left for Leavenworth. Alcorn was one of the cohorts of Verne Sankey, who com- mitted suicide in his prison cell here while awaiting sentence for the Boettcher kidnaping. for more direct guidance. reported | hearings would open next week on! meas- | Pros:dcnt Roose- reaching pl'ohlhilions projected. | WATERY GRAVE i Loggers Bo?iy—Not Found| Although Ferry Crew | while working in the Merrill-Ring Quillayute said they were informed that Mas- intoxicate acquain- “Good- to Prison for Rest of Life REGULATIONS TO .BE TOUGH ISSUE Bumpy Sledding Predicted STOCK MARKET | in Congress Unless | i | En-| teral ap- | too \ ction | dent | | ately for to| the | r ’ 0 ‘[m 10§ log- near was ntly d. the | Mr. | bins, up| New French Revolution—Of One Famxly A striking picture, made in front of the Chamber of Deputies, Paris, as gendarmes and detectives foreibly removed a family of mother, father and five children who picketed the Give us bread!” All members of the family seem to be putting up a fight, Note struggling father at right and two children at left who refuse to be separated ¥ ST[]GK EX[}HANGE Polltu'mn.s Ar(’ in Mulst of New Deal in Politics as in New Dml of Government OVERSHADOWED . BY NEW DEALS Aircraft Issues and Other|, NEW YORK, Feb. {ton clouds overshadowed the | market at and fore equ three in Shares Decline Until Late Rally Staged 10.—Wask the short s most categories, led by e support appeared for ities. Metals and some or the final hour. Several of ion today air- | of craft issues, shrunk preceptibly be - |fused to re leading special- ties turned early losses of one to more points into gains ther groups also cancelled or pared de- with ay's close was irregular | sales to talling 2,300,000 shar The curb was somewhat h Government bonds better others depressed. Pessimistic traders unloaded hold- \ s regulations | | liquil | iatd \nmnm, Pessimism Prevails early as stock imminent and airmail cancellations brought dation in aviation stocks. m Corporation was off United Aircraft off e [ Douglas Aircraft nearly four Some Gains Are Made dier but on- | swift |North American Aviation three. U. S. Smelting gained five points Howe Sound, American Smel ting and Depasco were up fractionally whm. ferr !to one point or higher. showed some resistal actions to one point were American Telephone United States Ame) ican Commercial Lm(Ld States Steel, ed; Western Union, nce. or and p! Bethlehem Steel and U. 8. Industrial Alcohol N. 110%, | Bethler | Hecla Films 16, General Mot terr cott CLOSING PRICES TODAY EW YORK, Feb. 10—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine jdebat , American Can A.vnvnc;m Pu»wr Anaconda 15%, Armour B m Steel 44, Calumet Curtiss-Wright 3%, s 387, Harvester 4 Montgomery-Ward 1ational 20, and Light 2%, and Fox In- , Kenne Southern Railway 33%, United Air- craft Star Uni | CHET JOHNSON CI 22'%, Ulen Company dard ©Oil of California 1 States Steel 55 e RETURNS ted FROM BUSINE het Johnson, well 3%, 40, S TRIP known mer- chandise broker, returned from Pe- this burg on the motorship No morning. While he was av hnson visited other point ast Alaska, orco 2y, HUNDREDS ENTER — HOSPITALS WITH 3 RIOT INJURIES | | :Communisl Bands Cleared from Street After Night of Terror 137 POLICE WOUNDED IN PITCHED BATTLES | {New Premier Appeals to Frenchmen to Do Duty and Stop Fighting PARIS, Feb. 10.—Commun- ist bands, which created a night of terror, were cleared from the miles of riot ridden streets at dawn today. Shots were exchanged free- ly, there was hand to hand fighting and pitched battles across the burning barricades. Thousands of police were used in clearing the streets. Last night, during the fighting on the streets, Pre- mier Gaston Doumergue ord- ered proclamations posted calling on the Frenchmen to “do your duty by refraining fmom, vipt i Police listed 97 of number wounded last majority by gunfire. Rioters were injured by thousand: Hospitals this morning held sev- eral hundreds being treated for serious injuries. Telephone poles dozens of streets. Wreckage in Streets Streets on which rioting occurred are strewn with wreckage. Official estimates place the num- ber of killed in the fighting dur~ ing the past week at fourteen. The new Cabinet concentrated on the present reign of terrorism to the exclusion of all else. Ivation Ministry” Premier Doumergue and his twenty seasoned hand-picked men for his “Salvation Ministry” con= centrated on plans to end disorders and chow the world “this country has no need for a dictator to @8- sure exislence » BIDS ON PIERS FOR BRIDGE TO BE OPEN MAR. 14 Four Pie:—to Be Con- structed for Cantilever Bridge Across Channel Bids for the construction of the building shouting: “Down with By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Bureau, The Asscciated Press, Washington) were skeptical ‘nk(“l of who narty” Politicians out the ‘“new n g P own the what their night, 1ing to see it now thac the most. am- understand they ihave been witnessing bitious effort of a generation to boring about a real realignment in politics, a radical revision of party {lines which have obtained with only minor variations since the civil war, When Mr substantial surgents ago the are down on ] Roosevelt brought a roup of Republican in- o his camp two years hide-bound g nization men both parties unanimously re. ard it as a matter of |great significance. It represented, they said, just another of those temporary defections from which all parties suffer They talk differently now. Their yes have been opened to the sight Republicans in a Democratic |Cabinet; a President almost never |mentioning the party whose can- |didate he was; the clearing out of | |office and almost out of Washing- | |ton of officials of the successful| a National Democratic! airman openly lending aid to| | Republican Senator Hiram John- |son in his re-election contest. It has taken a long time for the s to sink in, but the politicians | 1d now they are in the deal in politics as 1 as in go —AND RUDDERLESS d be difficu SE. | It t to overstate the situation of confusion whict |this news has caused in many (hitherto) well ordered minds, | Public fig of magnitude, who had come to regard the old party lines among the most definite |four reinforced concrete piers for | figures in universe, find them- |the Douglas bridge will be opened | at sea. They do|in local headquarters of the Alas- t has happened. ‘ka Road Commission on March 14, circumstanc- was announced today by Ike P. ing that the Re-|Taylor, Chief Engineer of the Al- ation of Massa-|aska Road Commission. Plans and ate of Calvin Cool- | specifications are available here Cabot Lodge—is|and at the general purchasing of- to run a candi- Seattle. or this year. hundred and fifty days are imply to|allowed for completing piers one h have |and two, on the Juneau shore at and not (the fodt of Tenth Street, and 200 > are |days for piers three and four om the Douglas shore two main piers, two and have a base area 16 feet by feet and a minimum height .of feet above the concrete base. On ne base of each pier is supported two ba cylinders, 10 feet at the and six feet at the top, as date Sor let ne by emselves ur further developments. The Republican Na quarters continues to tridges point-blank, the most important t would be much quiet. comm Head- » off car- some of think stay | but b to WHERE ARE THE For one of the few times in his- | forced conc'ete The (op area is in tofy a campaign-year n of [the form of a concrete skab 28% | Congress has been sitting for over | feet long and seven feet wide. a month without devsloping a soli-| Piers one and four have a ‘nine tary party issue. | by nine base and a total height of Twice as many House Republi-)31 feet. They are of the areh cans voted for the President's 9«)‘d‘ type the legs of which are six feet — —— (Continued on Page Eight) ISSUE! (Continued on Page Six.)