The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 14, 1934, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIIL, NO. 6574, JUNEAU, A LASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1934, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS 'PRICE TEN CENTS MAILCONTR PRESIDENT'S EXPLANATION IS PREDICTED, Reply to Criticism of His|| Recent Move Slated for Sometime Today OPEN LETTER IS DUE TG BE MADE PUBLIC Postmaster General Farley Will Refer to Evidence in Possession WASHINGTON, Feb. 14— The reasons behind President Roose- velt's wholesale abrogation of air mail contracts may be made pu-h-' lic before nightfall. This reply will be made in an- swer to criticism and the court ac- tion yesterday. The court action was a restraint order to prevent taking away contracts. The answer will be in the form of an open letter by Postmaster General James A. Farley. It will refer to actual evidence in the Government's possession., A%OTHER CHANGE WASHINGTON, Feb. T4—Presi- dent Roosevelt wants complete re- | organization of the ocean mail con- tract tem. He favors an out- right subsidy in place of the pres- ent shipping. The President expressed this view today at a press confer- ence. — e — MAKES ATTACK ON LINDBERGH Revocation of Reserve Of- ficers’ Commission Requested ashington, Feb. 14—The De- pariment of War has been asked to revoke Col. Charles A. Lind- bergh's commission in the Officers’ Reserve Corps. Arthur McMahon, who made the request, accused the Colonel of “conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman” in sending Presi- dent Roosevelt a telegram protest- ing to the cancellation of air mail contracts. McMahon described himself as a former Senior Lieutenant in the Naval Reserve Air Force. He sent the request to Major General Den- nis Nolan, Commander of the Sec- ond Corps Area. McMahon said Col. Lindbergh’s telegram was prejudicial to the good order and discipline of the Service. REPLIES TO LINDBERGH NEW YORK, Feb. 14—Replying to the protest of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, by telegram, Postmaster General James A. Farley, declared that if the Colonel had been in possession of all facts relating to the cancellation of air mail con- tracts he “would realize no in- justice had been done.” The telegram sent to President Roosevelt said that “condemnation of commercial aviation by cancella- tion of all mail contracts and use of the Army planes on commercial air lines will unnecessarily and greatly damage all American avia- tion.” . The telegram added: “Your order of cancellation of all air mail con- tracts condemns the largest portion of our commercial aviation without a just trial. Your present action does not discriminate between in- nocence and guilt and places no premium on honest business.” Three Alaskan Cities Permitted to Borrow Amounts from PWA WASHINGTON, Feb. 14—Juneau will be permitted to borrow $100,~ 000, Skagway $40,000 and Wrangell $47.000 from the PWA in bills presented by Delegate Dimond and form of Governmenf aid to| Gra phib Photo w Here is an exceptional view took place February 6 as a result Frenchmen had invested their de la Concorde on the occasion famcus square February 6. The 1793, of Louis XVI and Mai nearly a tho Guard rcinforced the police later. guard. - (1) Hotel Crillon, injured were taken here. (2) Cafe We in whick 3) @ %) (6) life’s savings. of a war anniversary celebration, and great excitement prevailed. throng shown in this photo, however, is calm in comparison with the excited mobs that filled the ccrde, in the foreground toward the Chamber of D eputies n Rue Royale. than a block further down the Rue Royale. Depicting Bloody Paris Scene i . of the Place de la Concorde in Paris, scene of the bloody rioting that of the collapse of a financial institution in which millions of The mob of 100,000 pecple shown here filled the Place The Place de la Concorde was the scene of the guillotining in October, Antoinette. Eighteen persons were killed in the first day’s rioting and sand wounded, as pelice battled to prevent the mob frem crossing the Pont de La Con- (not shewn). Soldiers and the Republican The deputies escaped from a rear door of the Chamber under heavy K TO PICTURE 1 many Government offices are housed. M of the more seriously Indicated by awnings. The Church of the Madeleine is less Thé™tafe is a famed rendezvous of gourmands. Champs Elysees, leading into the Place de la Concorde. French Ministry of Marine, which the mob twice attempted to destroy by fire. Rue Rivoli, entering the Place de la Concorde, opposite the Champs Elysees. Egyptian obelisk in center of Place de la Concorde, Queen, Marie Antoinefte, were guillotined in October, 1793. near spot where Louis XVI and his -L/\do|ph Sherrer Is “Some- (4] @) The famed Tuilleries Gardens, within a few yards from right center. Place de la Concorde, from the foreground of which the great mob sought to storm the police and soldiers guarding the Deputies. ORGANIZER OF TRUSTS, CHAS. R, FLINT, DIES Genius Recognized in Am- erican Industry Passes Away Suddenly NEW YORK, Feb. 14—Charles R. Flint, aged 84 years, shipowner and financier, died yesterday in the Shorehame Hotel, Washington, D.!} C., where he was on a business trip, according to notification re- ceived by his associates here. In number and variety, Flint prebably had a greater part in the organization of big business cor- porations than any other American. His activity in this field was so |extensive that he came to be known familiarly as “the fafher of trusts,” and amassed a fortune that, in the opinion of some, placed him among the wealthiest men in the United States. In 1927 when he was well on his way to the 78th mile post of his life, Mr. Flint attracted consider- able attention by marrying Char- lotte Reeves, many years his junior, They had been acquainted for sev- eral years and had met frequently on businvss matters in which Mz, Flint was interested. Marriage Views During his honeymoon in Europe he expressed in an interview with newspaper men his views on mar- riage and great fortunes. “Marriage is right,” he said. T} spent 42 happy years with my first wife as my best pal, and now I have been lucky again in my sec- ond.” He decfared that greed was the impelling force fhaf made million- aires go on increasing their wealth after they had acquired millions, instead of retiring and enjoying life. “Ambition and power certainly favorably reported from committee. play a part in keeping him keen,” (Continued on Page Three) Pont de la Concorde over the Seine leading to the Chamber of Alaska Election Bill Favorably Reported SLAYERS OF ) CHILDREN ARE FOUND INSANE {Former Alaskans to Spend ! Remainder of Their STUML}_Y | Daye B Bacy W ASHINGTON, Feb, 14— The bill of Delegate A. J. Di- mond, of Alaska, to advance the Territorial election to the second Tuesday in September, has been favorably reported upon by the committee. | | SEATTLE, Feb. 14.—Oskar Hest- nes Ballard fisherman, former resident of Petersburg, Alaska, who strangled hi¢ two small sons to death a month ago to ‘“choke the Devil out of them,” and his wife AS SENTIMENT in Cotton crimnally insane ward at the State | Penitentiary. | Improvement Also Adds to General P i The couple was found not guilty Good Trading Today e <iuiy iby reason of insanity on a first NEW YORK, Feb. 14— Stocks' degree murder charge but the jury rallied moderately today following|found the frenzy in which the a substantial recovery of cotton strangling occurred would return and improvement in trading sen- and decided they were not safe to timent. be at large. The list backed Calmly Testify throughout most of Hestness and his wife testified however, calmly they found the two small Tobaccos pared their losses and boys possessed of the devil and alcohols erased most of the de- they agreed the evil spirit would clines. | have to be choked out of them. A protracted period of religious frenzy firm. ' preceded the killings. Neither Hestness nor his wife | showed any emotion at the verdict .- and filled! the session,! Close Fairly Firm Today's close was fairly Transfers totalled almost 2,000,000 shares. { Bonds were firm on the curb in late trading. | K80 @ } American Telephone and Tele- l“ WA Workers in South, East, graph gained more than one point. Seaboard Oil gained two points and Consolidated Ofl a fraction.|ay Lose Jobs Air Issues i Wright Aeronautical was up sev- en points and Douglas and United Aircraft recovered one and two| points respectively. { International Silver, U. S. Smelt- | ing, Howe Sound, American Smeft-; ing, Depasco and Dome were upl one to three points. WASHINGTON, Feb. 14— The Civil Works Administra- tien is considering discharging, within the next few days, 200,- 000 or more men now employed cn Federal projects throughout the East and Scuth. This was learned last night. " Many of the men will be ab- sorbed by private industry. Other Gainers United States Steel, Case, Du- (Continued on Page Three) to| HOUSE, SENATE CANNOT AGREE ON CWA BILL Both Chambers Locked in Dispute Over $950,- 000,000 Measure BULLETIN—WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—The Senate has com- pleted Congressional action on fhe appropriation bill for CWA distress and relief and it mow goes to the White House for the signature of the President. WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. — The House and Senate remain at log- gerheads over amendments to the new appropriation bill of $950,000,- 000 continuing CWA work and seemingly unable to make any ad- vance. The House passed the appropria- tion bill, the Senate did the same, but with amendments, and the bill was then sent back to the House. MISSING MAN OF FAIRBANKS 1S ‘REPORTED where in Oregon,” Let- ter to Police Says SEATTLE, Feb. 14—The police said today they have received a letter postmarked Aurora, Oregon, purportedly from dolph Sherrer, Fairbanks, Alaska, gold miner, say- ing he is safe “somewhere in Ore- gon.” Sherrer came south last Decem- ber with $2,000 cash in his pockets, bound for Porfland to spend Christ= mas with his family. The police were notified several days ago he never arrived there and were asked to make an investigation. Fellow passengers aboard the Yukon said Scherrer told them that he had $2,000 with him. He hurried from the steamer to a train for Portland, on arrival here {December 22. There were floods at that time and no trains and no busses left Seattle for Portland for several days after arrival of the Yukon from Alaska. R U PO COVERNMENT MARKETS 2 BOND ISSUES Secretary Morgenthau Makes Announcement on ‘Subscriptions WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. — Suc- cessful marketing of $800,000,000 Treasury notes was announced last night by Secretary of Treasury Morgenthau. There were two issues of $400,- 000,000 each for 22'% months at 2% per cent. Notes for the same amount for three years at tMree per cent were also described as substantially over- subscribed, Forgot Repeal, Smashed Bottle; Fined for It SPRINGFIELD, Tll, Feb. 14—He forgot prohibition had been re- pealed. 8o when a prominent cifizen met a policeman just after making a purchase of a bottle of tanglefoot and leaving the liquor store, he promptly hurled the bottle to the pavement, smashing it. ‘The policeman just as promptly arrested him for strewing glass| about the countryside. He was tak- Répeul of Ala ska Liquor Law Advanced Another Step WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—Th has ordered the bill to repeal t also the Alaska Bone Dry Law rej General does not object. e he House Territories Committee he Volstead Act in Alaska and ported favorably if the Attorney A similar bill has been reported favorably by the Senate Committee. In addition to the liquor law repeal, the bill provides that liquor control be placed under Liquor Control, composed of the the direction of a Board of Territorial Governor and cther elective officials, sct up until the next session of the Legislature ct permanent legislation, “Roaring Forties,” Prosecutor of Harry K. Thaw, Dies in East NEW YORK, Feb. 14. —William | Travers Jerome, crusading arch- foe of Tammany Hall for nearly half & century and prosecutor of | Harry K. Thaw, died yesterday at his town house as a result of pneu- monia, at the age of 74 years. He | is survived by his widow, who is ill at the Jerome country home at Yonkers, and one son. Jerome took the roar out of Man- hattan's ‘“‘roaring forties.” As dis- trict attorney for New York Coun- ty from 1902 to 1910, Jerome clean- ed up gambling and vice by a se- ries of sensational raids and “on- the-spot” courts, Chief trophy of his way was the gambfing house of “Dick” (Canfield, a twenty-year- old establishment frequented by millionaires. It was Jerome, too, who prose- cuted Harry Thaw, after that scion of Pittsburgh wealth had shot and killed the nofed architect, Stan- ford White, on the old Madison Square roof. Man of Wealth Through his latter years Jerome led the retired life of a man of wealth. The stormy, fighting period of his public life was seemingly forgoiten alike by public and him- self, after Jerome Lojuired a for- tune through a color process for motion pictures. “Jerome raids,” as New York called the sudden swoops on gam- bling houses of the District Attor- ney and his committee of fifteen| private citizens, were almost night- 1y occurrences in 1901 and 1902, The caused a big storm. It implicated they contai; Committee of Fifteen replaced po-|the name of Reginald Vanderbilt, ' ship. lice when the District Aftorney| Who was supposed to have lost | PL 2 WILLIAM TRAVERS JEROME “Mr. Carrie Nation” He was dubbed “Mr. Carrie Na- ACTSTATEMENT EXPECTED HUNDREDS ARE 'SLAIN; FIGHTS RESUMED TODAY Socialists, Especially in | Vienna, in Combat : with Troops 'GOVERNMENT GAINS | OUTSIDE SECTIONS Run on Banks Add to Further Panic — Police Armed with Bayonets BULLETIN — VIE NNA, Feb. 14.—The death toll so far in the Austrian civil war is placed by the Government | this afternoon at nearly 1,500 persons. | Scores of women and chil- |dren are unofficially reported lamong the fighting casual- ties. Indications are the Gov- |ernment is gaining the upper ‘hand slowly but the Social- ists are fighting every step. | 48 HOURS OF FIGHTING | VIENNA, Feb. 14. — It is cstimated - that #1;000° pertons have been killed in the fight= ing between the Government forces and Socialists in the past 48 hours. Fighting broke out again early today in various sec- tions of Vienna, the Social- ists recapturing some strong- tion” by his adversaries but the holds from which they were title did not worry the husky cru- driven last night by the Gov- sader. More than once he told in- terviewers: “I like to gamble a bit myself, but any ‘man can get all the gam- bling he needs in a social game with friends.” He also liked a drink when he wanted it, but he showed no mercy to predatory liquor interests. The famous raid on Canfield’s ernment troops. Elsewhere in the Austrian nation the situation is be- lieved to be coming under Government control. The Government has outlawed 36 societies and associations .of various descriptions on the grounds ned Socialist memfi'- While calmness apparently pre= found that his every attempt with nearly $500,000 in five nights of vajled early this morning, fight- regular officers of the law was | “tipped off” in advance to the| gamblers. Was Independent Running for the District Attor- neyship as an independent, Jerome dominated two municipal elections | between 1901 and 1909. His first term ended in 1905 and he was tri- umphantly reelected in the face of strong Tammany opposition, al-| though the anti-Tammany oppo-| sition vote was split three ways that year. He had been urged to| run for mayor rather than seek re- | election as district attorney, but he refused, protesting that he was not a politician, but a lawyer with a job to do. When he felt” that his job had been finished he returned to the private practice of law. Was New Yorker Jerome was born in New York on April 18, 1859, one of a family of lawyers. His father, Lawrence Jerome, was an attorney and his| brother who died ebout the time! Jerome was admitted to the bar,! was an assistant district attorney.| It was natural for William Trav- ers Jerome to turn also to the le- gal profession and he did this soon after graduating from Amherst Col- lege. He was admifted to the bar in 1884 and started pracfice with| Daniel Nason as his partner. Jer- | ome was an assistanf district attor- ney, 1888-90, and a justice of spe-| cial sessions, 1895-1901. H He married Lavinia Howe ofj Elizabeth, N. J., in 1888. They had | one son, William Travers Jerome,| Jr. Throughout his career as a re-| former and raider, Jerome retained | | play there. Public opinion blazed to such in- was able to arouse the Legislatuce into changing the laws governing the testimony of witnesses to raids. That change became fhe basis of New York’s present restrictions on gambling. Spot Evidence Jerome not oniy made arrests and took evidence on the spot in his clean-up raids, but he seized furniture and destroyed gambling equipment. Many a poor New York family kept warm that winter by using $500 roulette wheels for fire wood. v The store rooms of the District Aftorney’s office were piled high with equipment for faro, red and black, Klondike and baccarat. Ex- pensive mahogany furniture was {sold at auctien for what it would' (Continued on Page Five) |ing broke out anew with rifle fire upon the troops from various apart= | téMeity that the District Attorney ment houses occupied by Soclal= ists. A run suddenly started on .the Central Savings Bank and this caused further disorder as crowds began forming in front of alk-of | the branches of the bank. Police with fixed bayonets were assigned to these points to keep order. Panic of depositors was (further increased when the Gov- |ernment issued a decree forbidding jall banks to pay money to agy | Socialist organization. BRITISH TO TAKE ACTION \ LONDON, Feb. 14.—The Foreign Office said Great Britain's insist- ence that Austria’s independence be preserved will probably be brought to the personal attention of Chancellor Hitler within a week. Students VU rgmi Into Politics As Profession; Opportunities DENVER, Feb. 14.—Polil fers the biggest opportunity versity graduates today, Chancellor Frederick M. Hunter of Denver University told the student body recently in an address on “Politics as a areer for College Gradu- ates.” Not only does politics offer great opportunities, but it is in need of intelligent leadership at present, he declared. “History proves what strong | leadership will do,” he said, citing | frontiers to create pioneers.” In the field of local govern- ment real leaders are needed, ac- cording to Dr. Hunter. “Because of indifference of those who should be on guard and the alertness of grafters and waslers, corruption is rampant in cities like Chicago and New York. “Even in Colorado the brains and leadership which should be | available for government are de- voted to other activities. As a con= sequence, we are confronted with a tolerant personal attitude toward | Washington, Lincoln, Wilson and |appalling conditions and the gambling and drinking. He foungRou\'evolt as men who took com- ;ernl government refusing to carry uncompromisingly, however, against | public gambling and the alliance of | en to the police station and almost as promptly released. liquor with vice and corrupt ]x)]:-i tics. mand when emergencies arose. ““We are told there are no more frontiers to conquer,” he said. “As |a load which should be carried.” | In conclusion, Dr. Hunter urged | students to “think seriously )lon»; as politics exist there are new ] making politics their Nefl‘g