The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 26, 1934, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIIL, NO. 6584. JUNE/\U ALASKA MONDAY FEBRUARY 26, 1934. MBI:R OF ASSO(‘ IATI—D PRF,SS TORNADOES, BLIZZ THREE STATES INSOUTH ARE HIT BY GALES Many Homes_\i/recked and |, Injured Reported Beneath Debris BLIZZARDS SPREAD ON ATLANTIC COAST | e Snow Envelopes Large Part | of Nation—Planes Held to Ground CHICAGO, I, Feb. 26.— Death, riding on tornadoes in the Seuth, blizzards on the| Atlantic Coast and a planel in Utah, have struck down 37 persons. Food, clothing and medical aid is being rushed to com- munities in three States where tornadoes ripped through leaving 13 known dead, eight in Alabama, two in Mississippé and three in| Georgia. Many persons are repor mcl to have been injured |, the toyhadoes wre ek ed tke | | | | { 11 as homes. v enveloped a large on from New Eng- 1 to Nebraska and southward. The snow storm has caused six aths, including that of a woman, ho died from exposure in Chi- cago. An engineer died in a train when a snow bank was hit Mapleton, Maine. e cities in the Bast. like sought frantically to| the snow and prevent tie-up like that of last week. trains are late. Highways m bad condition and planes| r a wide area are held to the SENATE ASKED T0 GIVE BACK WAR PENSIONS Spanish - American Veter- ans May Be Restcred Pay Lost in Economy Act WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—Senate Administration forces further lib- eralized the compromise proposal on veterans' benefits today by broadening it to include Spanish- American War Veterans under cer- tain conditions. ‘The proposal offered by Senator James F. Byrnes would restore to the rolls Spanish-American War veterans who were eliminated by the economy act, with a grant of 75 per cent of former pensions in- s(,ead— of 90 per cent as by alter- nate proposal. RALPH CAPONE FREE TUESDAY Will Pay $10, 000 Fine and Be Released from Mc- Neil Island Prison MCcNEIL ISLAND PRISON, Wash., ¥eb. 26.—Ralph Capone, brother of “Scarface” Al Capone, will pay a fine of $10,000 tomorrow and be released. He was sentenced to three years for tax evasion. He| gets several months off for good behavior. e, Richard Wakclin and P. H. Adams are among the merchandise ARDS TAKE HEAVY TOLL OF LIVES WASHINGTON, Feb. 26—Presi- dent Roosevelt, in a special mes- sage to Congress, recommends the creation of a Federal Communica- tions Commission to take authority over wires, cables and radio. “It is my thought,” says the President, “that a new commission | |such as I suggest might well be | nized this year by transferring the present authority of controlling communications of the Radio Com- | mission and Interstate Commerce ' Federal Commission to Control Communications Urged Today by Roosevelt Commission. “This new body should in addi- tion be given full power to inves- ate and study the business of the existing recommendations to Congress additional legislation at the session.” The Senate and House state Commerce Committees have been studying the problem for sev- | eral weeks. Early action is expected by leadex next DEER DRIVING | STARTED NEAR NARROWS TOWN {Game Commission Trap- ping Animals for Restock- | ing at Yakutat, Kodiak | Capturing of des: on islands near | Pet urg for placing on islands near Yakutat and at Kodiak is \\md‘l way, according to Frank Du- |fresne, of the Game Wardens' of- fice, who returned from a week’s trip tq the southefn end of the }division en sthe Nezco-Esturday. | The method of ecapturing the |deer was worked out last week in |the camp of Hosea Sarber, who th a crew of 18 men has been | trapping marten near Thomas Bay for stocking on Baranof Island | The deer are driven to the shore by the men with dogs and as they enter the water to swim, two boats take them from the water before they become exhausted. The boats have crates for seven deer where they are kept until they can be taken to retaining |pens in Petersburg to await ship- {ment to Kakutat and Kodiak. Mr. Dufresne left here a week ago Friday on a plane for Ketchi- kan from where he visited the game trapping camp on Behm Canal in charge of H. W. Jewell with a crew of 12 men. The mar- ten trapped by this crew are being placed on Prince of Wales Island. Marten trapping in both camps has been successful, according to Mr. Dufresne. FOUR SLAIN; GRAVES ARE POINTED OUT Oklahoma (fizers Led to Spot Where Tragedy Is Revealed ! OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Feb. 26.—John Cane led officers to a spot along the highway, stopped | and screamed: “My God, there's the spot.” Officers dug the unmarked graves Cane pointed out and found four bodies. The bodies were those af Cane’s wife and three children, Cane said he killed them. Cane had been once adjudgea| insane. He gave no details as to the killings. Gas Fumes Kill ine Students Of Dartmouth DARTMOUTH, New Hampshire, Feb. 26. — Nine Dartmduth stu- dents, members of the TTheta Chi fraternity, were killed by carbon|; monoxide poisoning while asleppl in their fraternity house. The| furnace exploded as the result of| gas formed by the coal, and the| door was blown open. The ex- plosion disconnected the plpe‘ leading into the chimney and | el i “abrokers who returned to Juneau on the motorship Estebeth this morning» flooded wthe house with fumes. player, The janitor found the bodies of the viciims in their beds. BASEBALL VET PASSES AWAY, N. Y. HOSPITAL John J.McGraw Succumbs After Ten Days” Se- rious Illness ASSOCIATED PRESS (UNDERWOOD) JOHN J. MCGRAW NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y., Feb. 26. —John J. McGraw, veteran base- ball leader, and Manager of the New York Giants until the 1933 season, died in a hospital here Sunday at the age of 60 years after a critical illness of ten days as a result of uremic poisoning. In his playing days a brilliant third baseman, hard hitter and clever base runner and afterwards the most successful manager in e history of the major leagues, John J. McGraw was one of the outstanding figures in America’s national game for nearly four de- |cades. While his success as a player and as manager of the New York Natlonal League club brought {fame to himself and his club, a more notable achievement for base- ball generally, in the opinion of {many, was the transformation of New York from a joke city in the ymajor leagues to the best baseball city in the country—a transforma- tion generally accepted as being due to McGraw's successful efforts with the Giants. Never an Umpire During his long connection with ithe game, McGraw had had an active period in every phase of baseball work with the excepiion of one role—that of un On !the field of battle he been ceptain, ceach and mar ager. He served as club executive when he became Vice-President and part owner of the Giants; he con- tributed many interesting stories to newspapers on the game (0 had {which he devoted his life and wrote a book reviewing his own career after he had completed 30 years in baseball. And finally, he wa ione of the most active missionaries in introducing baseball to the coun- tries of Europe and the Far East. Young Manager Until July, 1902, John McGraw, | Persons were burned to death although star of the first magni-|several injured early this morning | ter being arrested Saturday tude among baseball players, was | merely one of hundreds of young men who were attracting attention on the diamond. In that month he (Continued on Page Five) 50V, PINCHOT companies and make | for | Inter- | Pinchot IS CANDIDATE, U.S. SENATOR Wants to Replace Reed in! Order to Give Aid to Roosevelt NEW YORK, Feb. 26—Gov. Gif- ford Pinchot, of Pennsylvania, ill! here, announced his candidacy for the United States Senate, as a Republican, to support President Roosevelt's platform in opposition to Senator David A. Reed, whom charges is taking orders W. Mellon, former the inter- steel inter- from Andrew United States Treasur national bankers and | ests. “He should be replaced by a man /' who takes orders only from people,” Gov. Pinchot said Contjnuing his statement, Pinchot said Republican Pennsj vania requires and deserves Reed’s place, a Republi enator who will work with ti ore prosperity g and of sn heels.” TROOPS AGAIN ON PATROL ON AUSTRO FRONT Rumors Clrculaled Arch— duke Otto May Be Placed on Throne VIENN. Fel). 26.—Forty sand Fascist-Heimwehr reported concentrating along the Austro-German border for the pur- pose of a movement that has not been announced. It is rumored the troops are only resuming bor- der patrols® abandoned during the recent civil war, ANOTHER RUMOR VIENNA, Feb. 26—New rum were circulated here late today that Heimwehr troops are to meet Archduke Otto, claimant to the Austrian throne, at the Swiss bor- der and escort him triumphantly to Vienna and enthrone him. Fast Train Hits Truck in Snow Storm; Threo Men Killed, 4 I DELPHOS, Ohio, Feb. 26.—Three men were killed and four men injured when a Pennsylvania flyer crashed into a truck at a cro g in a snow storm. The locomotive overturned and seven cars were derailed. L eee WILL GIVE AIR MAIL BACK TO PRIVATE FIRMS Admmlshanon Indicates Early Move—Measure for Congress WASHINGTON, Feb, 26—The Administration indicated today that it will hasten to present Congress a bill giving the air mail back to private companies. The meas- ure is expecated to be presented before the week end. SLIVESLOST IN HOTEL FIRE esident | thou- | troops are | ? (he‘ in Radw Pwtures Qhou PRICE TEN CENTS Sceialist strongheld, killing and i vy be seen. The in the revolt. Karl Marx Apartments, largest (Asceiated Press phnh, ]n(l\lu-—l‘(‘l?phntm‘d from Vienna to London and then seni by radie t the damage done to the Karl Marx Apartments in Vienna The holes torn in the juring many. in Europe when Government h New York rrs chelled shows the of the building by the the scene of the bitlerest frent Echoes of the Austrlan civil war reverberated on one of the busiest corners in the world, New York's Fifth avenue and 42nd street, when a crowd of radicals besieged the Austrian consulate in protest against fascism and the “heimwehr destroyers.” All traffic was blocked as police battled with throngs of milling people. A !ed Press Photo) IS PINNED 0 TREE BY AUTO, FATALLY HURT Retired Boat Builder of Mount Vernon Killed —Peculiar Accident ERNON, W: Feb. aged 65 years, uent MOUNT VI 26.—John Downs, etired boat builder and a ! voyager to Alaska, w ally in- jured yesterday “hm stalled | automobile backed down a hill he attempted to place a rock un a rear wheel, pinning him again 1 tree. Downs lived only a few fter being crushed. His n the car at the time, survivors are three dau of Mount Vernon or v —~ - a 1t all Two State Employees | at Liberty Following | Arrest on Two Charges| Young. 28 yanrs old 'Hohenzollern Prince Begs For Alms Other | " BERLIN, Feb. 26.—The Ho- henzollern Prince, August Wil- helm, 47 years old, fourth son of Kaiser Wilhelm, stood on a street corner here Saturday and begged coins” before the old Tmperial Palace in his ca- pacity of group commander of the Nazi storm troops, col- iciting money for winter re- lief funds. Crowds swarmed about him. HENRY PU YI IS 28 TODAY HSINKING, Manchuko, Feb. 26. —Henry Pu Yi, who is 28 today, receive @ new name March Emperor Kank Teh, which liter- means transquility and - — 1 ally Brewery: Watchman Resists Two Robbers, Pays With His Life TACOMA, Wash., Fb. 26.—John 26. — Gerald Morgan, aged 59, watchman at the of Olympia | Northwest Brewing Company plant, and James Sweeney, 26, members died from gunshot wounds receiv- |of the State Insurance Commis- ed early today when he resisted UTICA, N. Y., Peb. 26—Five|sioner’s staff, were at liberty to- two robbers af the plant. d in a fire which destroyed a four- story hotel. The cause of the fire has not been determined. Only three of the dead have been | identified, \day on their own recognizance af-| | their auto was reported as hav hit two other cars. Young was charged with kenness and Sweency with {less driving. | dru | nl | ——————— BROKERS LEAVE N. A. McEachran and H. Crewson, merchandise brokers the motorship Norco to wvisil rangell and other cities of South- 5t Alaska. B This dramatic picture tells its own story as police moved in to break up the demonstration. STOCKS DECLINE 5 IN ORDERLY DAY ON N Y. CHANGE Brief St'llmg Fluny Star Session on Downward Path in Morning | NEW YORK, Feb. 26.—Stocks| today exhibited further nervousness | w exceptions most leag- | and with rs recorded losses of more points selling flury ly for the most part the decline was orderly. The close was heavy and total the day were 2,- 250,000 Curb bonds one to two sales for tocks W and heavy. Tridity of the traders was tly to strikes and threats of strikes in the automo- tive industry and to fears of dras- tic federal regulation of specula- tion. Wheat lost more than a cent, cotton more than $1, and silver and rubber were reactionary. Gains and Losses Small gains were held by Dome es, American Can. Dupont L'N\\s and Seaboard Oil. United raft was under pressure, losing two 'points, while Case Threshing llied Chemical and United States ng and Refining lost a like Losers of around a point were United States Steel Motors, General Motors, (Continued on Page Three) mixed more There was a brief | in the day but| Marks of iusrrmn Pvmlt LINER GRASHES | | IN MOUNTAINS; EIGHT VICTIMS Wrecked Craft-Finally Lo- cated in Canyon Near Salt Lake City /ONLY ONE BODY IS FOUND INTACT | i iM‘angled Parts of Pilots and Passengers Scat- tered About Cabin SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, {Feb. 26. — The United Air |Lines transport plane, miss- |ing since last Friday after- {noon with eight persons |aboard, was found late Sun- |day afterncon, badly wrecked {at the top of Parley’s Can- | yon, leading out of the Salt |Lake Valley. The plane was {only 20 miles east of Salt | Lake City. | The plane was enroute tc | Cheyenne when it erashed. Sl ecamant oyl Killy The body of Miss Mary Carter, stewardess. was in- tact. : The bodies of the passeng- ers and two pilots were badly mangled, parts of them scat- | tered about the cabin. | | Al day Saturday and yesterday { forenoon ple were searching for the lost craft. Clouds and snow |squalls hindered the search until | the weather cleared during the | forepart of Sunday afternoon. Sev- {en inches of snow fell and this {also prevented spotting from the air., I | CLIMBING OUT OF SNOW SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Feb. iza.f"rne belief is expressed that |the pilots were trying to climb out {of the storm when the air liner | was wrecked in the Wasatch Moun= 1s. This is expressed by P. H. , Chief Pilot of the United ir Lines. He said the wreckage appeared as if the ship did a half back turn, then nosed to the iground. AIR CHIEF SAYS . PLANE MISHAPS - NOT EXCESSIVE {General Fc—)_ui;is Declares All Possible Precautions | Taken with Air Mail ta | WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—Maj. Gen. Benjamin Foulois, chief of the Army Air Corps and one of ‘the first army fliers, Saturday issued a statement in which he asserted that army aircraft acel- :d('ms while carrying the mail had {not been excessive, even though flying conditions had been ex- tremely bad. | Foulois said all pilots had been | instrueted to exercise all possible |care and judgment, and had been told to take no unnecessary chanc es in flying the air mail Brig. Gen. Oscar Westover, chief (of air mail operations, flying his own plane, is now in the Western | zone making a personal inspection of the men and equipment on all air mail routes. PR N P AR HOMME IN HOSPITAL John Homme, employee of the Alaska-Juneau Mniing Company, egtered St. Ann's Hospital last ev~ ening to receive treatment for ‘& severe cold.