The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 16, 1934, Page 1

THEDAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” L. XLIIL, NO. 6576. CIVIL WAR IN AUSTRIA TAKES ON NEW FORM Government Troops Rout Rebellious Forces from Buildings GUERILLA WARFARE, SABOTAGE PREVAILS Rumors of Assassination Spread Through Capital But Are Denied VIENNA, Feb. 16.—Sewers today became the last strong- | hold of the Socialist fighters | against the Austrian Govern-| ment and the civil war took | on the form of guerilla war-| fare. Sabotage against the| Fascist and Heimwehr or-| ganizations was also ordered by the Socialists and the | country, in the grip of p()lll- ical chads, seems quiet toda but the underground army still lurking in the sewers. Agg Rumors are heard thfoughout the | capital of the attempted assassina- | tion of Chancellor Dollfuss, Vice- | Chancellor Emil Fey, Prince von | tarhemberg &) other leaders of | e Government, also that a Nazi is imminent. All these rumors are subsequently denied. | Secret passages into the roomy | sewers, which honeycomb under-l ground Vienna, were ways of es-| cape for the defeated garrisons ! from the municipal apartment bl shelled by the Government artillery last night. Socialist rifle- men cmerged from the manholes during the night and terrified the foreign residents who were kept awake by the clamor of gunfire as ' the Socialists skirmished with the | police. i Civil War Ended ! Although the civil war is appar-| ently at an end, the Council of the Socialist and Republican de- | fense troops issued a command for | attacks on the Heimwehrmen, those headed by Prince von Starhemberg, the Sgcialists’s most bitter foe. The Socialists in issuing the new order, gave strict instructions that attacks are not to be directed against soldiers or the police. e INJUNCTION IN AIR MAIL CASE REFUSED TODAY Federal Judge Knox De-f nies Request to Re- : strain Cancellation | NEW YORK, Feb. lG—Fedelal Judge John Knox has refused to| restrain Postmaster General James A. Farley by injunction from can- celling the government’s air mail controcts. He denied the applica-! tion for an injunction sought {or‘ by scontinental West Air, Inc, with which Col. Chxr!es A. Lindbergh is chief advisor. Judge Knox ruled that the ac- tion in fact is a suit against the United States which eannot be sued withouf its consent and he held himself to be wifhout juris- diction, Congressman Charges Administration with Aiding Tax Dodger WASHINGTON, Feb. 16—Rep- resentative Louis T. McFadden of| Pennsylvania today charged the Administration with “prcYecting H. L. Doherty, whose Cities Service Company” he described a3"“one of I nvolved in All‘ M ml Ca Total of 355_560 Tons of | fore char A-J NET $202,000 IN JANUARY ON B5-CENT VALUE Ore Mined and Tram- med to Mill Alaska Juneau’s total profit be- s in January was $202,- 200, according to the monthly op-| | erations estimates issued from San Francisco headquarters and re- | leased today for publication here !by J. A. Williams, Chief Engincer. The production for the month William P. MacCracken Commerce, shown reading the war (left) former Assistant Secretary of rant calling for him to be brought befere the Senate for defying a subpoena from the air mail inves- MacCracken by tigating committee. removing papers subpoenaed sentenced to 10 days in jail a In Senate Probe L. H. Britten (above) Vice- Precident of the Northwest Air- ways, whe has been found guil- ty of contempt by the Senate in the air mail investigation. Gilbert L. Givven (below) Washingten representative of the Western Air Express, was .mqln((u\ by the Senate. PLAN TO CHANGE ELECTION LAWS 18 GIVEN OKAY Senate Judiciary Commit- tee Favorably Reports Norris Amendment WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. — The Senate Judiciary Committee today amended and favorably reported the Norris propesal for a consti- tutional amendment to abolish-the electoral college and to permit in- | dependent candidates without funds to have their names placed on the | Presidential ballot. he amend- | for He was adjudged in contempt the Senate, from his office. nd has appealed. Acquitted Harris M. Hanshue, President of the Western Air Express, who has been acquitted by the Scnate in removing papers from files wanted by the Senate Committee in connection with air mail contracts. FUUR HUNDRED - THOUSAND CWA - WORKERS 0UT Force to Be Demobxhzed by May 1°— Industry Will Take Up Slack 1 WASHINGTON, Feb. |CWA will drop 400,000 rural areas on Februar ng every state in 'the entire force ized by May 1 w pected to take up m ers. All needy ency relief, Yesterday it was ar 16 The in affect- demobil- 200,000 CWA workers in the South | B also | and Middle West sl been laid off with i ed to take up the major . Alaska Home Loan | Applications Go iTo Seattle Office SEATTLE, Feb. 16—W. E. McCroskey, Washington State Manager for the Home Owners | Loan Corporation, has had Al- | aska added to his territory, he announced yesterday, and-appli- cetions fer home lcans from the Territory will be cleared through the Seattle office. | - The University of Virginia box- y expect- the biggest tax evaders in the'ment aiso would prevent throwing | {ing team sgored 15 victories and ‘country.” elections into the House. ¢ tie in 16 consecutive matches. on and | | was 355360 tons with an average ‘valuc of 6444 cents per ton in |gold and 1.13 cents in silver and lead, making the %otal recovery ]\alur 65.57 cents per ton. | Valued at $20.67 an ounce, the ;old price, the net operating profit | would have been $44,000. The new T together with a small sum {from other sources swelled it by 1 $158,000. | The monthly estimates follow: | Tons mined and trammed | to Mmill Operating Revenue: 355,360 Cents Per Ton Gold (At $20.67 per ounce) Lead and silver, less marketing costs $220,000 64.44 4,000 Tota] % $233,000 Operating “Expenditures Mining and tram- ming $103,500 Milling 71,000 All other Juneau operating costs. New York Stock transfer and San Francisco office expenses 11,000 3,500 Total $189,000 Operating profit. 44,000 Non-Operating Revenue: Less outside pros- pecting 5,600 $ 49,600 Estimated revenue from price re- ceived for gold in excess of $20.67 per ounce 152,600 | Total profit before chargcs BROWN DENIES ANY COLLUSION MAIL CONTRACTS Makes General Statement| —DMeetings of Oper- ators Described $202,200 NEW YORK, Feb. 16.—Denying that air mail contracts awarded {15,000-mile |1ying possessions. and the Hawaiian Isi during the Hoover Administration were through collusion, former| | Postmaster General Walter F. | |Brown declared last night that the | only awards of major importance | made were “under the prov um\ of the law. There is absolutely no| justification for the charge that any air mail contracts were award- | ed through collusion among the contractors or by any other al practice.” { Offers To Testify The former Postal head issued | the statement after asking the| |Senate Committee, investigating (Continued on Page Four) | America’s Possessions in Tropics Ready to Greet Nautical President | President Reosevelt's vacation cruises will be dwarfed by his projected 15,000-mile swing around the trepics on visits to Puerto Rico, Panama and Hawaii. visco he would have an opportunity for a survey of recovery effects from the Pacific Coast to Washington. WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.— The tropics are calling nautical-minded President Roosevelt and if he can HisH With Congress™dn time he will be off soon after April 1 on a ise to America’s out- The President has in mind a cruise that would take him first to Puerto Rico, thence fo Panama ands, and back to the mainland at San Francisco or Los Angeles. He probably would return by train to Washington. Preparations already are pro- ceeding at these points and in Washington and the President can be certain of receiving a whole- hearted welcome on the fir ving around the great fropical circle ever made by an American Presi- dent in office. The projected trip would require at least a month. The President already has before him an invita- tion to extend his cruise to the Fhmmflne !slands, ahd hc has ex- d his desire to accept it, How- ever, this extension of the trip would require nearly another month and ‘theré ts™@bRbb that e can spare that additional time, be- cause he must be in New York early “in Jupne for the combined fleet review. Commissioner Iglesias of Puerto Rico and Delegate McCandless of Hawail are planning to make the cruise with the President, or to hurry home as soon as Congress adjourns to prepare the reception Sentiment for Sfatehcod In visiting Panama the President would have an opportunity to study at’ first hand work on the canal and to confer with government of- ficials on Panamanian subjects that brought President Harmodio Arias of the republic to Washington la fall for conferences with the Presi- dent and other government offi- cials. In Puerto Rico and Hawaii the President would have an ommx- CONFESSES T0 SLAYING CHILD; BODY IN RIVER Father BreaKDown Under Police Grilling— Statement ROCKFORD, Tl, Feb. 16— Charles Backus broke down under long hours of police grilling last night and said he accidentally slew his eight-year-old son and then | stuffed the body through the ice in .Rock River. This is the an- nouncement made by Joseph Rank, State Highway patrolman. - STREET CLOCK TO BE MOVED TO NEW SHOP OF PAUL BLOEDHORN To receive the street clock which is t0 be moved from the former lo- cation of Paul Bloedhorn's jewelry store, to the new shop on Front Street, a concrete foundation is be‘ng put in pL—wc in Bering MOSCOW, Feb. 18.—Sixty dog teams, carrying supplies and cloth- ing, have gone out in a raging bliz-| zard to rescue nearly 100 membe of Prof. Otto Schmidt’s Arctic g pedition, now stranded for two, days on the ice in Bering Strait. | The dog teams departed f:'omi Dog Team Expedltwn Out Strait Blizzard to Rescue Hundred Persons North Cape .yesterday while air- planes awaited abating of the storm to take off to the spot where the expedition’s vessel Cheliuskin sank after being crushed in the ice pack. The position of the party is given as 6717 north Latitude and 17251 west Longitude, Price Sees Difficult Stru «rglo for Republican Campaigners in’34 Congre.sswnal Battles| STEEL ISSUES LEAD RISE ON STOCK MARKET Close Is Steacly with Tone 1o of Optimism Evident on Wall Street NEW YORK, Feb. 16.—Steel is- sues had their innings in the Stock Market today while several other groups went through periods 0( ligesting recent gains. Oils and numerous were in demand at intervals. Tod close was steady sales of 2,750,000 shares. On the curb, industrials and| specialties rallled with some vigor.| Bonds were firm, holding exten- slons. with Trades Cautious Traders were cautious today but the sentiment was noticeably timistic renewed control the hopes that Regaining the mainland at Los Angeles or | | | | | . | paign Im specialties | op- | House is to be elect as the street entertained contest will be ov tunity to study sentiment for state- hood, recently voiced in Washing- ton, Hawail aud Alaska have be- o1t CUroad” biiEs wsKiny Senats ial representation in Congress, and' the Hawaiian delegate has an- nounced passage of this bill would determine whether he »\nl press fur Hawaiian statehood. May Study Recovery Although his plans are indefi- nite, it is believed the President after returning to the mainland might proceed somewhat leisurely back toward Washington in order 0 allow himself an opportunity to study recovery effects in as many sections as possible. In addition to being the first visit a President ever made to the | nearer insular possessions and ter- ritories since they came under Am- erican control at the turn of the century, the trip would afford the executive his first swing across the country since his campaign tour 18 nwllllh bEfO'L‘ By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Bureau, The Associated| Press, Washington) somewhat restricted Congres-| \u“ 1l campaign, circumsecribed by | | the unusual political situation as well the debt-ridden condition or by'h uoasum-s. appears in pros- as ’Im Housp campaign promises to reach its greatest intensity in only 100 of the 435 Congressional | districts and the Senatorial cam- in less than a score of states. It is on those fronts the Republ cans will try to keep the pr nl‘ Democratic Senate majority from | increasing and to whiitle down as m possible the Dcm’)craud ponderance in the House. hough the Congressional Com- ees are steaming up, they con- | the issues are not yet very| A lot will depend on com- jing events —whether times get be |ter or worse, whether the Roosevelt, | Admir tion comes through .h«' summer going strong or burdened| by blunders and failures. —_— THE BATTLEFRONT | The full membership of the ed, but the chief the 100 S0 | clea Y PFederal | normally Republican districts which |ing bill will be substantially|fel into Demoeratic hands in :m; amended before Congressional ap-|great sweep of 1932 proval. Reach New Levels Silver reached another new high | level. Rubber was at level since last June. Cotton also rallied. Grains were about even The Democrats agree t natural course of a on some of these and re-| di s are| the best|likely to slip back into the Repub- | lican column. It would take exactly changes, however, to wipe 100 such Sterling jumped about three cents present Democratic House plural-i (Continued on Page Eight) (Continued on Page Six.) |eyes on Austria’ | definite out the |2 NOTE IS SENT T0 HITLER BY NEW MINISTRY |Declares Flrher Talks on Arms Absolutely Useless ACTION CHEERED BY CHAMBER DEPUTIES [taly May Take Action in Austrian Conflict Over Czechoslovakia PARIS, Feb. 16.~Premier Doumergue, armed with the big stick of popular support, today showed a firm hand toward Germany. The new Ministry, with troubles, openly charged Chancellor Adolf Hitler, of Germany, with having rearmed Ger- }man_v, hence, said the official French note to Berlin, furth- er Franco-Germany talks om arms are useless. The note was one of the first acts of the new Cabinet. The German rearmament charge was hurla i Képly 10 Hiters. L memorandum in regard to further discussions on disarmament and {came while cheers of the Chamber of Deputies resounded in the ears of .the Cabinet members following announcement by Premier Dou= mergue that he is now working on a foreign policy which will “give us necessary authority to play & useful role in the League and in= ternational conferences.” ITALY MAY TAKE ACTION ROME, Feb. 16—TMhe possibility that Italy might make a demand on the League of Nations to inves- tigate whether Czechoslovakia had any connection with the Socialist rebellion in Austria is seen in some circles. However, it is said such lan investigation will be asked only if Chancellor Dollfuss carries "out his announced determination to place the Austrian question before the League. DENIES SUPPORT PARIS, Feb. 16. — Dr. Edouard Benes, Czecheslovakian Forelgn | Minister, has issued a flat denisl that his Government supported the Socialist outbreak in Austria as intimated by Italy. Benes and Premier Doumergue agreed that cautious non-military aid to Chancellor Dollfuss is the best way to prevent the Naszis from taking over the power in | Austria -,e RISING TREND INDICATED IN ALL BUSINESS Retail Salfincreasing—» Payrolls Are Also Re- ported Larger NEW YORK, Feb. 16.—The week= review of Dun-Bradstreet, Ine;, today said the rising trend in trade and by volime continues without abatement and *sporadic instances of improvement are now ing way to proofs of a more general revival Some ins, compared to one year ago, have reached nearly staggering per- centages, especially in consumption ods such as foods and clothi= and the demand is widening idly. Prospects are now more @S- d in both texiiles and shoes. Spring business will exceed that the past four years. “Retall sales have pushed ahead boldly as larger industrial pay- rolls offset Retall sales of last Saturday and ay equalled the total of the best days during the December shopping perit of layoffs of the CWA.