The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 1, 1934, Page 1

.: - THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” NO. 6567. VOL. XLIIL, JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1934. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ROOSEVELT SEEKS POWER TOFIX TARIFF GR”INSM UF | QVidowec.l Queen and Successor NRA PILES IN UPON JORNSON Huge Volume of Com- plaints Being Lodged with Administrator SALIENT CHARGES | ARE MADE PUBLIC Discrimination Is Charged,’ Also that Consumer | Being Exploited | WASHINGTON, March 1. — The that NRA flung out to catch jcism is already full of com-=| nts but Gen. Hugh 8. Johnsuni is meeting all Salient charges include that NRA has failed to remedy more than 2| net handful out of the huge volume of | 8 complaints poured out in _dehance} bor regulations by big com-| of la by emaller firms; that negro| orkers ave victims of diserimina- tion; and that low paid women | -eplacing men to reduce pay»‘ | in: | Roosevelt but the acts are acts of | Hoover." } Other charges are that the con-/ being exploited through | devices and that the faith of workers is being under- | mined. 1 1t is also the claim of the labcv\" spokesmen, that stung by who_le- sale complaints, they are seeking to win a showdown for the worker | at the coming assembly of code authorities. ROGSEVELT TO APPEAR o WASHINGTON, March 1.—Presi- | dent Roosevelt disclosed today ',hat1 he plans to make a personal ap-| pearance for NRA next Mondgy; forenoon at 11 oclock. He will | make his appearance at the group | meet gress ing, representatives of the Amer-| jcan Federation of Labor asked for| 2 30-hour week. { { THREE SOVIET FLIERS BOUND FOR NORTHLAND Coming to Aid in Rescue of 101 Persons Maroon- ed on Arctic Ice MOSCOW, March i—Three of Russia’s foremost Arctic fliers are enroute to the United States to participate if necessary in the res-|ing for themselves and build bet-| cue of 101 persons stranded onj jce floes in Bering Sea. The pilots, who may work fromi Alaska, are S. A. Levsnevsky, whoi aided “Smiling Jimmy” Mattern| when he was forced down on his; attempted world flight at Anadyr Jast summer; C. A. Yshakov and M. Slepnev. The three fliers are aboard the Jiner Olympic bound for New York | City and will report at Washington; to await further orders. The fliers are not carrying their own planes but will probably use) American machines. Soviet officials said that while United States’s aid has not been specifically asked, the Soviet Gov- ernment would_appreciate any help | from American quarters. The marooned persons fled ta the floes when the Soviet ice- breaker was crushed in the ice and went down several weeks ago. Dogteams and other planes have been vainly trying to affect rescue of the party. —— Suspension of Mine Assessment Passes Senate i WASHINGTON, March 1— Suspension of the annual as- cessment work on mining cialms, provided in a bill, pass- ed the Senate yesterday. The House has yet to act. The bill would suspend assessment work for the year ending July 1, 1934, issues. | § panies that started wholesale chis- | 8§ sludies of the Dows Queen as her husband tcok the title of King Leopold IIL Qucen of the Belgians is a niece HEINTLZEMAN TELLS DUTIES | i Ining on a banner year, more can-‘ \ NETARY PL N neries will probably be in opera- jon during 1934 thaa at any time | i, | et | Popular Forestry Officia Declares He Regrets Leaving Northland Answering the speeches of good- ings which are now in pro- will and farewell at the Chamber present monetary plans at least|dustry, today that has been no- of Commerce luncheon today, Forester, said: “I appreciate your good will and|Congress today by Secretary of be the best since 1929 and J want 8ir was cold and the gas lines! oo |thank you for your good wishes Treasury Morgenthau in testifying to take this opportunity of tell-|froze up when identified by Mrs. Smith. for the future. I have been a member of this Chamber since my arrival in Juneau and have always enjoyed working on its commit- tees and executive board, both be- cause the things we were attempt- ing were worth while and because the work afforded me the oppor- tunity for pleasant association with men of the type who comprise the active membership of this Cham- ber. | “I am leaving Juneau and Al- aska with much regret. I like the Territory as a place in which to] {live. Moreover it is a pioneer | country and I like to have a hand |in helping to work out the prob-| like to see its people overcome the lems of a pioneer country and I| pany has appropriated $60,000 this station and spent the night in an | year for advertising Alaska to the Indian shack, flagging the train| | | people of the United States — the next morning and going obstacles and make a better liv- ter communities. I have always thought and still think this sec- tion of Alaska has sufficient na- tural resources to support a much larger and more prosperous popu- lation. . “I would like to stay and give what little help I could to work- ing this out but the tremendous impetus in forestry activities of the Government since the new President came into office and the branching out into entirely new lines of forestry work is causing the Forest Service to realign its established personnel. President Cconservationist “The President has always been interested in the conservation of forests, principally because of their influence on soil erosion, perhaps the most important but least pub- licized of the long-range problems facing the country. The improper use of forest and grazing lands at the headwaters of rivers and of the agricultural land farther down stream is resulting in an alarm- ing amount of land being ren- dered useless by erosion and gully- ing, destructive floods and the ra- pid silting of reservoirs and nav- igable rivers. This necessity for better control over erosion is one of the chief, if not the !oremost.} reasons for the start by the Gov- ernment of the work in which I am now to be engaged. “The President served notice on the lumbering interests that the old practice of “cut out and get out” must cease. They will no longer be permitted to cut the vir- (Continued on Page Two) i | Present Policy to Continue, plants, whaling stations, fresh and | | for At today's session of one hear-|F. Heintzleman, Assistant District|year before a fixed policy is de-|last three years. Set Record \BAKER PREDICTS | - BEST SEASON IN 5 FOR SHIPPING | Traffic Manager of Alaska’ | Steamship Co. Tells Chamber of Program 3 Expressing confidence that gen- | eral transportation business to Al- |aska this year will be the best| |since 1929, L. W. Baker, Traffic! | Manager of the Alaska Steamship' | Company today addressed the Ju-| neau Chamber of Commerce, and |outlined the program of his com- |pany for the season. | 1n addressing the Chamber he said: “Knowing how vitally interested’ you are &n the transportamon‘ problems of Alaska, T am assum-| ing you would like to know what we think the 1934 season has in| store for us. : “Prom a transportation stand-| point we are very enLhuslasucl over its prospective business, both freight and passenger, we expect | to handle to and from Alaska dur- | ing the present year. Looking as if he had just stepped off a street car instead of something resembling a man-made comet, *Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, war-time air ace, aids in unloading the mail from the TWA transport plane on “The new price on gold has giv- len the mining industry a tremen- | | companies are making plans for Il ‘i ]\ncreascd operations and several | £ __|new companies are going ahead RE 0N vIsIT | with new development work. In| | addition to this the individual pros- ) |country and all this is going to| | Lyman Brewster and Wife, |create new business for you and CONTEMPLATED, - | " “The fishing industry is plan- Have Interesting Plane | Incident Near Fairbanks | | Gold Price Aids | | ger Queen Elizabeth of Belgium (left), widow of King Albert, and the former Princess Astrid of Sweden, wife of the former Crown Prince of Belgium, who became The new of King Gustav of Sweden. The | during the past four years. H | herring packers, fish reduction | Although Lyman Brewster, Rein- -~ |frozen and mild cure fish produc- deer Supervisor for Alaska, and l to hnd Of Present |ers are looking forward to bet-'Mrs. Brewster left Nome a week | FlSCal Year ;ter prices for their products and/ago today by plane for Juneau via, : iare therefore preparing for a real;F'airbanks. they never reached the! | WASHINGTON, March 1. — The good year. There is a general feel- ) interior Alaska city—but they got Administration’s desire to try the|ing of optimism in the fishing in- to Juneau today on the Alaska. Leaving Nome the weather was warm but in the interior, flying at a high altitude - with Victor “The tourist traiic 1s going to|Ross, pilot, the upper stratum of the remainder of this fiscal ticeable by its absence during the | termined upon was conveyed to! the plane was on a bill to establish a central|ing you people of Juneau why we|Within sight of Fairbanks, ap- Federal authority with sole cur-|expect a comeback. We know| proximately thirty miles away. The rency issuing powers. |there will be millions of dolls,rs[l)“oh. choosing the safe method] “Fortunately since I have been}spem in travel in the United of handling his plane, set the' in office, business has been getting ' States this year that formerly went machine down on a small lake a a little better from day to day.|to France. Our dollar will not be few hundred yards from the rail- Since February, last year, the world |worth much abroad and we will road track. gold price has risen 68 per centiall benefit greatly from this fact| Hike Through Snow and farm products 57 per cent,” alone. The passenger traffic of-| Mr. and Mrs. Brewster, said the Secretary of Treasury. ficials of all the eastern and and Mrs. Russell Howe, Nome| T T, | western transcontinental railroads, photographers, Ross Kenney, Alas- | Mr.| |tried to burn her alive, las the bodies of the two other speakers. the various large travel agencies, ka Road Commission superintend-! sTucKs Gu UP ent for the Nome district, who ) y resorts, etcetera, are preparing for a bumper tourist year and Alas-| ka will receive her share of the total. | | $60,000 For Advertising ; “The Alaska Steamship Com-| were passengers, and Ros the pilot, set out on foot through the snow for the railroad. After| striking the track they walked, three miles to Dunbar, a small Confession Secured in Murder Case Two Brolh;:Adrxxil Hor- rible Crime Near Wel- lington, Colorado DENVER, 'Col, ‘March 1.—Thé police said Louis and John Pa- |checo have confessed they killed| Bobby Griffin, aged 16, a farm- hand boy, and also Clifford Smith, farmer, at his ranch home, near Wellington. They also confessed to shooting Smith’s wife and then as well victims. The two will be charged with first degree murder. Louis and John Pacheco were They were found hiding in a haystack on the farm. John Pacheco is suffering from a bullet wound received, he said, when he got in the way of one of his brother's bullets when the latter was trying to shoot Mrs. Smith. Mrs. Smith, injured in the back | by gunshot wounds, will live. PEREESIR S0 &4 &, LS DEATH PENALTY FOR KIDNAPERS which he flew from Los Angeles to Newark, N. J the record-shattering time of 13 hours, b minute: addition to the mail, the last privately transported: the plane carried twelve passengers. g |maps, folders, pamphlets, newspa-|through to Seward. | | |per and magazine advertising. In| It was 25 degrees below zero ‘DUHHCSS Rules Almost En-saition' to this the Great North-!when the gas line froze up. The I tire Session_washing_ |ern and Northern Pacific railroads|pilot returned to the plane and| B . W h d |have budgeted tidy sums for an with an Indian dog team brought| ton eing atche | exclusive Alaska magazine adver- back the baggage, after draining Spssieres” tising campaign. We have been|the engine of his ship. NEW YORK, March 1—Stocks!successful in having the Milwau-| Optimism at Nome |dipped and rallied today very nerv-{kee. Union Pacific, Northern Pa-| Nome is in an optimistic and| jously but support was forthcoming cific and Great Northern nflroa/.lsicheerfu! frame of mind, according | i jduring the last hour and the list, join us in publishing four new!to Mr. Brewster, and the camp is {with a few exceptions, closed fair-) Alaska folders, that is the Alaska expected to be more active this| ly steady. | Steamship Company and each of | spring than it has been for many! Duliness ruled throughout the these railroads will have a joint years. The Hammon dredging| |session and sentiment was slightly | (Continued on Page Two) J (Continued on Page Three) :tinged with bearishness despite in-, Bonds were irregular. t { i . . ! Washington for clues as to specu-! As Huge ReorganI’Z(ltlonl seven points on Secretary of| (Chief of Bureau, The Associated tion, abolition of unemployment,; held for the remainder of the‘ The Administration’s national | the period required to carry the dications of continued industrial| % b, o 'National Planning Seen Watching Washington Traders were inclined to watch lative programs. I United States Smelting dropped | By BYRON PRICE |ing about of agricultural produc-| | Treasury Morgenthau's statement | Press, Washington.) remodeling of transportation. Fif- the present monetary plan will be e — |ty years is spoken of casually as fiscal year. Other silver issues planning project is seen by some.pro}ect into effect. (Continued on Page Two) ibrainhumrs as the capstone of| Individually, these are big sub-| g 3 Inew and stupendous ideas. PoPe to .Ad“u. sP.m’h . | 'What the newly-created Cabinet which make NRA, Civil Works and Catholic to Aid Republic’ committee of planners is setting all of the other more or less iso- ! — lout to do, seemingly, is to draw | lated current undertakings VATICAN CITY, March 1. — up a program for the reorganiza- small by comparison. {Pope Pius XI shortly will invite tion of about everything. The en- | Spanish Catholics to adhere un- terprise is so vast it is diffcult TVA AS “SMALL MODEL” equivocally to the Republic, it was for the human mind to grasp it,| The present inclination of the learned authoritatively. The Pope or even find an adequate name new planners is to take the ex- at the same time is to urge that for it. isting . Tennessee Valley - Muscle Catholics unite and thus be better The vague advance notices of Shoals development as a sort of able to exact greater respect in!the mew plan deal with such terms half-way, small-scale model gle plan, they assume proportions | The |by a Superior look | WHO TORTURED California Jury Decides Two Abductors Must Die on Gallows LOS ANGELES, Cal, March 1.— first death penalty verdict under the California anti-kidnap- ing law, was returned yesterday Court jury that condemned H. C. Brooks and Will- jam Tanner to die on the gallows for abducting Henry Bodkin during {a torture holdup last December 16. Bodkin, an atforney, testified that Tanner tortured him by burning the tips of his fingers with a piece of paper while he was bound in a chair. CROWDS HONOR JOHN J. MGRAM it |the entire Roaseveitian odifice of | focls. Tamnped together i o sin-| Thousands Jam St.Patrick’s Cathedral in New York to Attend Funeral NEW YORK, March 1. — New Yorkers to whom his name and baseball were synonymous, yester- Iday crowded St. Patrick's Cathedral |to its doors to pay final tribute ‘to John J. McGraw, who died last Sunday. His body was sent to Baltimore and placed in a vault. Burial will Spain for the church and its|—to name only a few of many—as | Rivers are to be made naviga- principles. Gecentralization of Industry, shift-| (Continued on Page Three) take place in the spring. 4 Last Private Mail Flight , in CHAMBER BIDS FAREWELL TO - HEINTZLEMAN \Forestry Official, Trans- | ferred to Washington, Is [ Luncheon Honor Guest | Appreciation of the place held in the community and of the work of B. Heinztleman, Assistant | District Forester, who has been transferred to Washington, was ex- pressed at the Chamber of Com- merce luncheon today by many H. L. Faulkner, chosen by the |Chamber to officially say farewell to Mr. Heintzleman, said he had a double task, as it was with the keenest regret he was saying good- bye to a warm personal friend as | well. M. ! “Nearly all the officials that have come to Alaska are good men, but some of them are outstanding. Among the outstanding ones whom I have known are M. B. Summers, Maj. Malcolm Elliott, and Mr. Heintzleman. Since coming to Al- aska with the Forest Service, Mr. Heintzleman has been a leader in the spirit of co-operation shown by the service in all things for the good of the community and Alaska in general. Called Tireless Worker “He has been a tireless worker outside of the service as well, when he saw anything to help the upbuilding of the Territory. I deep- ly regret personally his leaving, but I, speaking for the Chamber and for his friends individually, wish him Godspeed and happiness in his new duties, We all hope that he will be sent back to the Ter- ritory some day to finish the work he has so ably begun.” Besides Mr. Heintzleman, who was the guest of honor at the luncheon, a number of visitors were introduced to the membership of the Chamber and were welcomed. Ike Taylor, Chief Engineer of the Alaska Road Commission, had as his guests at the luncheon visit- ing District Superintendents of the commission who are in Juneau con- ferring on the coming season's work. They were Frank Nash, M. C. Edmunds, Fred Spach, T. D. Huddleston, R. J. Shepard, Ross Kinney and Master Mechanic John Coats. Governor Introduces Guest Governor John W. Troy intro- duced as his guest Lyman Brewster, Reindeer Supervisor for Alaska who arrived on the Alaska from Nome (Continued on Page Eight) E—— Aimee * Withdraws Her Contest, Divorce Case LOS ANGELES, Cal, March 1 —Aimee Semple McPherson has withdrawn her contest to the di- vorce suit sought by her portly, estranged husband, David L. “Iron Man” Hutton. Her decision was contained in a stipulation filed in Superior Court. In addition to giving notice that she would not contest Hutton's action she also agreed to walve notice of trial Faulkner said in part:| PRESIDENT TO Wi AKE DEMAND UPON CONGRESS Trade Expansion Is to Be } Real Cause for New Proposal : 'NEGOTIATIONS OF ' TREATIES SOUGHT Pacts Made Would Not Be Required to Be Given | | v 3 i Senate Confirmation WASHINGTON, March 1.—The tariff has become a hot issue again. President Roosevelt has written out, for delivery to Congress, a request for new powers to fix tar- iffs within a wide limit. Congress leaders foresaw some trouble but the Democrats believe in the end the request will be granted. | Trade Expansion Trade expansion is the hub of the new proposal. This will give the President |authority to shift tariff rates up or down by as much as 50 per cent in negotiating reciprocal tariff treaties with other nations. * The treaties negotiated by the President, under the request he seeks, will not have to be con- firmed by the Senate nor would the President have to deal with the Federal Tariff Commission. Authority Limited His new authority, under the proposals, would be limited to three years, No article will be placed on the free list nor removed from it. In view of the tariff issue, some leaders predict that Congress will be in session until July. e DOUMERGUE IS MADE DICTATOR FRENCH TARIFF Premier Also Given Abso- lute Authority to Ef- fect Economies PARIS, March 1.—The French Parliament has balanced the Bud- get and made Premier Gaston Doumergue tariff dictator. The Premier has been given absolute powers to effect Governmental eponomies and negotiate trade trea- ties. N. Y. EXCHANGE HEAD IS TO BE GIVEN QUIZZING Richard Whitney to Be Asked Regarding Abuses on Market 'WASHINGTON, March 1.—Rich- ard Whitney, head of the New York Stock Exchange, faced more qustions on the market's efforts to eliminate abuses, Senate Com- mittee Counsel Pecora said to- day. “We have not begun to ques- tion Whitney yet,” said Pecora. ‘Whitney appeared yesterday at a hearing on the Fletcher-Rayburn bill to put exchanges under Gov- ernment control. He did not deny there had been abuses on the ex- change but said market officials attempted to eradicate them. Whit- |ney offered a bill providing for Federal help in this direction. Four Members of One Family Die in Flames in Brooklyn Tenement BROOKLYN, N. Y, March 1— Four members of one family were killed and a fifth member was critically bursed in a tenement house fire early this morning. The dead are Walter Galazi, aged one year; Joseph, aged six, Stephens, aged nine and Rose, aged 31. Angel Galazi is the one seriously burned.