The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 5, 1934, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” . \(;1 XLIIIA, NO. 6590. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1934. WILMBLR 0 | i TW0 RUSSIAN FLIERS MAKE GREAT RESCUE Ifi'h] on Flo(‘ and Take'off with Ten Women and | Two Chidren | i | FEAT ACCOMPLISHED | IN SEVERE WEATHER | Soviet Aviators Reach Marooned ParlyAMos- cow Gives Out Report \ | | MOSCOW, March 5—Two Rnfi-! Lepidevsky and Petroff, | airplane ANT-4, have| rescued ten women and two chil-| from among the 101 persons | marooned on Arctic ice. | The fliers have flown the cued persons to Cape Wellen in ees below weather. he rescue reported here from | the castaways' camp by radio. \ The two fliers landed on a space ce that had been cleared. The | ing field eventually broke| from the main ice floe but omen and children were tak- the open water in col- re. 40 and Petroff had no n taking off. Il is presumed here that further rescue work will be-attempted. B FRANK FANNING, OLDTIME ACTOR, after a long illness. (}l(l tune Scattlelte Dws | Byron Phelps (85¢v) who fought under b | man, died in Seattle Saturday night on the eve of his 92nd birthday, | He voted for Lincoln for President and cast his last vete for President, for Franklin D. Rocsevelt, in 1932. was a former Maycr ofeSeatile and Depariment Commander of the G. A. R. for Washingten and Alaska in 1927, his widuw, two sens and two daughters. DEMOCRATS GET BUSY IN STATE OF WASHINGTON | Heads of Five Offici Sought—Resolution Is Passed | i | ELLENSBURG, Wash.,, March 5. The Democratic State Central Committee called for the heads of i five prominent officials at a meet- ing held here. | The discharge of Charles F. Ernst, State Director of Unemploy- |ment; Frank S. Baker, Chairman {of the State Emergency Relief | Board and Federal CWA Adminis- | trator, and Paul Piggot, Federal | Director of Re-employment, is/ (asked in a resolution. The resolution reads: “The Ad=- | ministration of most of the State jand Federal financed projects, | while theoretically non-partisan, | “f oy has developed active Republican | Sl‘;xr\rm(r‘\fint.h.fitvhpfl; fi}ucfifil‘;"‘i‘,‘, machines hostile to the Adminis-| in-chief of the Soviet Armies in t tration and President Roosevelt.” | Two Others Slated | The resolution also calls for the discharge of two other officials referring to Joseph St.” Peter, Su- perintendent of the Monroe Re- formatory, and E. C. Rugge, head of the Northern State ospital at Sedro Woolley. The resolution| says that after a falr investigation |it was disclosed that an unsatis- | factory condition exists in each of |these institutions; that there arz| | competent "and suitable Domocrats| who could be selected and depend- | of the Northern State Haspital at tions with sympathetic under- standings and efficiency.” | The committee selected Walla He Is survived by |vgana for the state convention which will be held May 26 and Mrs. Roosevelt Making Flight To Puerto Rico TINGTON, March Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, of the President, is today bound for Puerto Rico where she will get first hand information of | that country’s proverty prob- | lome. She is making the trip | | | Bl Grant and Sher- by airplane, the first over the ceean fiight ever Fresident's wife. e e made by a He 1Economy League BETS LAST CALL ooy 1es . |0f Vets' Bonus Veteran Stager Was in| LOS ANGELES, March 5. — the President’s Recovery Program” Frank B. Fanning, aged 53 years,| |by refusing to pay now, in 1934, veteran stage and screen actor, rthe veterans’ bonus which is not died at his home last Saturday af-|due until 1945 ter a long illness. He began his theatrical career at the age of 13 years, Shortly after the Klondike rush Fanning went north with the Stock Company and played a sea- son in Dawson. He returned south | and played in several 10-20-30- cent stock companies and Lhen‘ came to Los Angeles. When the| pictures broke out, he joined the ! film companies and had parts up| to a few years ago. His widow survives. Temperatures and ARCTIG RESGUE “ NEW YO(::lnl\farlif)a—Roarmw NOT DIFFICULT ‘amres cly,mh::dvy rains and temper- Pilot Gillam Makes State-| Rivers swelled 10 ‘pom o ment Regarding Soviet |"'r nunarea ramities at water- |ford, N. Y. hastily packed their FLOOD THREATS . ENDANGER EAST; RIVERS RISING Snow Melhng as Rain Falls ,m the east today as snow was the danger Marooned Party ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March 5. —Pilot Harold Gillam, who discov- household goods this morning to !move to higher ground as the Mo- ‘howk River poured a huge volume ered with Joe Crosson, the wrecked [of water into the Hudson River. Eielson-Borland plane at North| Other New England towns- are Cape, Siberia, several years ago“‘threatened by floods and the dan- ha ived here from his flying ger spreads even to the south b: at Copper Center, and said it where Wheeling, West Virginia, is would not be difficult, with favor- |endangered by rising walers. able weather, to rescue the strand- ed Russians on the Arctic ice. FAMuus AuTn Gillam said Nome should be us»:d1 as one operating base with North | Ernie Triplett Dies as Re- sult of Injuries Re- Cape as a secondary base from which to locate the party. ceived in Crash e Rt i i Sitha Iiutldmg Bill | Approved by Senate; Has Passed in House ‘WASHINGTON, March 6. — The Senate Public Buildings Committee has approved the House bill grant- ing the abandoned public bulld- ings and grounds at Sitka to the Territory for use as a home for aged sick and infirm pioneer resi- dents. e IMPERIAL, Cal, March 5—Ernie Triplett, among the most famous |racing drivers of the nation, died today as the result of a fracture received Sunday when his racing car crashed at the Midway Fair. Dawson with Stock Com- ! WASHINGTON"March 5. — The‘ . . |National Economy League Sunday pany in Klondike Days [sent a letter to each member of | the House asking them to “support |streams threatened serious floods; ALASKA LIQUOR |May 27. STOUK PRIGES |, ==~ | meeasube STIL MULLED ABoyr, MOTHER OF 3 | HANGS IN HOUSE DULL Sessioh IES N CRASH |Seattle Man, Driver of Au- President Signs Repeal Bill ‘ rious Charges Metals and Tobaccos Show ently told the Communist Congress i in Moscow that ife | T Improvement—Several | Issues Advance NEW YORK, March 5—Traders focused their attention today on President Roosevelt’s speech to the| code authorities in Washington. Equities mulled about on a trendless range through a dull ses- | sion. Metals and tobaccos improved, slightly. The close was irregular. Sales| were under 1,000,000 shores. The curb was as dull as the| Stock Exchange. Bonds were ir- regular but Government bonds were higher. ) Offercings Scarce A number of leading issues| sagged fractionally but offerings were relatively scarce. Grains, silver and some other _commodities eased. Homestake jumped 20 points on a few sales. U. 8. Smelting was up two points. Dome, Noranda. Kennecott and McIntyre were up slightly to around one point. Auburn was up one point. WASHINGTON, March 5*?('(‘5-!\ ident Roosevelt has | CENTRALIA, March 5. — Mrs | Cora Gerwig, 48-year-old wife of a Centralia business man was fatal injured when the automobile be- ‘Jonging to and driven by D. M |Lee of Seattle crashed into a con- crete bridge late Saturday. Lee’s arm was broken and he| | sustained severa bruises. Mrs. Ger- wig’s neck, both legs and both {arms was broken. She is survived by three sons| and her husband. They were returning from a din- ner in Chehalis. The County Prosecutor said he |would file serious charges against Lee if it developed he was driving | a car while under the influence of liquor. Advertising Agency President Murdered| CHICAGO, Marth 5—Eli Daich- es, 44-year-old president of the | | Thomas Bowers Advertising Agen- ‘cy member of a distinguished Chi- | signed the measure repealing the Federal Li-| quor Laws and Prohibition in force; in Puerto Rico and the Virgin| Islands. No further action has been taken on the Alaska bill which is now in the House after having been passed by the Senate. - eee Interior Department Appropriation Bill 1 Slglwd by Roosevelt WASHINGTON, March 5.—Pres-| ident Roosevelt has signed the| thirty-two million dollar Interior Department appropriation bill for next year. FIRE RAGES ON ~ Soviet Prepared for Japanese Threat in the event Japa: herself facing a Soviets. Above is sian tanks during ly preparing for set), commander- he Tar East, re- 1“Sun-ny Italy” Grows Dark to Dollar’s Sun Sets Americans; The President To Hear Her Sing Nan Johnson, 18, of Cleveland is | going to take the full three octaves of her soprano voice to Washington some time in March or April and sing for President Roosevelt. (As- sociated Press Photo) SENTENCED T0 LIFE, IS FREE ON LARGE BOND Dr. Sarah Ruth, Convicted of Murder, Allowed Lib- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE F AS bOCIATFD PRESS PRICE. TEN CENTS MAKE EMPLOYMENT, URGES ROOSEVELT TWELVE ARE SAVED FROM ARCTIC ICE PLAIN TALK 18 GIVEN INDUSTRY AT BIG SESSION President T:e_“: Gathering of NRA Code Author- ities What to Do REDUCTION OF WORK HOURS IS ADVOCATED Protection for Small Busi- ness — Government Takes Firm Stand WA\HIV(.TOV March 5. —President Roosevelt today |presented to assembled NRA code authorities a summons fer further reduction in work- |ing hours as a means to spread employment. “l give to industry this challenge—it is the immed- iate task of industry to re- employ more people at pur- chasing wages and do it now. “Only thus can we continue _{recovery and restore the bal- lance we seek. It is worth | while Kkeeping to the front of iour heads the thought that Before the dollar drop in April, | P€ePle whose incomes are less American residents and Lom-"than $2,000 yearly buy more | were able to convert their cur-‘than two-thirds of all goods rency at the rate of about 1950 |lire for each dollar. Thereatter|S0ld in this country. It is American money kept slithering|logical that if the total | until those dep;n(g::“gonui:;oz]f; amount that goes in wages S—xoe’:' ‘(“:(L;:hg:gl::c losses at 40 ‘per‘to this group is steadily in- Sk creased, then merchants, em- No Lining To Money Cloud ployers and investors will in [the long run get more income A hoped for readjustment of the lire to tk llar's level failed to [118 %0 e GiTRS 1vel. Dar |from the increased volume of sales.” n does attack Russia, she will find ring of steel that surrounds the a parade of up-to-the-minute Rus- recent Moscow review. ROME, h 5—Many dependent Americans have led y Italy and gone the United States in search of a ’Lthuer economic_climate. back | transpire. Those who held on to | villas, apartments or hotel suites in 'the expectation that the dollar Nation’s Choice | would crawl back to a ‘“reason-| The President said a year ago able” ratio with the lire, saw|today the nation was “suffering | President Roosevelt's recent stabi- | lization merely preserve the status g’quo of their exchange losses. | Even a talked of lateral cut in iand shrinking under economic pres- |sures so intolerable that a col- lapse was at hand but “we ar- rived at a day to make our choice. Italian wages and prices has failed | to materialize for the comfort of |We have made that choice, The American pecple have responded Americans. {to the call for action with eager Visible effects of the prolonged |enlistment in the struggle against exchange difficulty abound. In| the ruthless self-seeking reckless Florence—barometer city of the greed and economic anarchy. |influx and exodus of English and| “We undertook by lawful consti- ‘American visitors—the American |tutional processes to reorganize the colony has decrea.sed by half since| dlsmtegratmx system of production last April. |and exchange. The purpose of this Dozens of American automoblles reorganization is not only to. bring are available at absurdly low back prosperity but something far prices in Rome’s hig garages. They'deeper—me reorganization must be have been forfeited by AmPrlcan|P€l’mmlElll for all the rest of our visitors who found that dollars|lives in that never again will we would not buy enough highly-taxed | Permit social conditions, which were { Italian gasoline or pay enough on|permitted in vast sections of our the sizable -circulation taxes, w\ (Contnued on Pwe Two) make motoring a pleasure. - Apartments of the pnore palatial type in sections favored by Engush‘JuHN DILLI NGER and Americans have been gather- ing dust since a precipitous search started last spring for less costly abodes. Hotel and restaurant complain of the depreciated dollar\ as bitterly as the perennial Amen- erty Pending New Trial S c'm seeker for a kindly existence| ‘‘among the natives” back pittance. One tea room pro- LINER AT SEA| cnemvoon e s s ‘Over strenuous objections of the on a green-| ‘ cago family, was killed by two| men who fired two blasts from a| BOSTON, Mass, March 5. shotgun into his car. ‘Com Guard cutters are proceed- ——————————— ing to the assistance of the steam- The Colusa County, Cal., rice ship City of Montgomery reported vcrop for 1933 was valued at $1,141,- |afire off Chesapeake Bay. 000, which was an increase of A later report said the fire had reports that the House Coinage!$560,000 over 1932 been brought under control. Committee would press for some] e Administrative decision on silver in the near future. Declares Americans Are Becoming Interested in Government;F. D. R.’s Vier s WASHINGTON, March 5.—Pr - | versity that the “new deal” is not| ident Roosevelt Saturday pro- temporary, and pointed to “eradi- nounced the outstanding feature of cation of the deeper causes of the Some Issues Drop g United States Steel, American Telephone and Telegraph, Ameri-| can Can and others finished lower. Metal stocks apparently reflected | CLOSING PRICES TODAY & NEW YORK, March 5—Closing quotations of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 21%, American Can 103, American Power and Light 9%, Anaconda 15%, Armour 2%, Bethlehem Steel 45%, Calumet and Hecla 5%, Curtis-Wright 4%, Fox i | Court allowed the attorneys Films 15%, General Motors 39%, International Harvester, 40%, Ken- necott 20%, Packard Motors 5%, Southern Railroad 322, Ulen Com- pany 3%, United States Steel 55%, United Aircraft 24%. his first year's administration, the|immediate illness and many ov.her‘ “amazing universal increase o’ the | illnesses of the body politic.” interest of people in Government.”| The address was made at the At the close of his first year in | stallation of Dr. Joseph M. M.| office he gave notice in an address Gray as chancellor of the uni- | at exercises at the American Uni- | versity. | State, Judge 8. F. Davis decreed that Dr. Sarah Ruth Dean, sen- tenced to life by a jury for the murder of her admirer, Dr. John | Preston Kennedy, remains free on 'a $10,000 indictment bond pending | decision for request for a new !rlal g Preliminary arguments for a new trial were heard after which the 90 days to prepare detailed briefs and tentatively setting a further hear- ,mz on June 2. Kennedy, who was 41, and her clinical associate, died after a 10- day illness. In his dying state- ment he charged that Dr. Dean gave him a poisoned whiskey hizh- ball during a midnight tryst in | the clinic, July 27. kel o An era off Pigeon Point, Cal, two miles wide and seven miles long, has been set aside to be used as a practice field for submarines. Officers of Many States Searching for Es- prietor who specialized in Ameri- can trade, recéntly grew weary o!w waiting for the usual winter flock | of tourists, ran a partition Lhroughi CEPEd Desperado i stablishment and offered a gt e CHICAGO, TN, March 5—John for rent. | L s b Dillinger, bank robber and Tiller I |who escaped from the Lake County VIgllante’ Are to jail at Crown Point, Indiana, last Bar Undesirables saturday, is stil a free man. Dillinger is being hunted in half HYANNIS, Mass,, March 5—Neil a dozen states. C. McMath, father of “Peggy” Mc-| A vigorous investigation is un- Math, whose kidnaping and récov-!/der way to fix the responsibility ery was in country-wide promin-|for the brazen break. One rumor ence last summer, today headed ais that his sensational getaway “fixed.” off| Dillinger used a dummy pictol to {get out of his cell and in company Under the plan, American Le-mnh a negro convict murderer, gionnaires will act as watchers in|Herbert Youngblood, entered the vigilante group to keep undesirables | was .md racketeering businesses their home towns and turn over information regarding unlawful ac- »s to local police. The Cape Chamber of Commerce has a ‘“crime war fund” od been raising of $50,000. warden’s office where they armed | themselves with two machine guns and walked out of the jai! taking a deputy sheriff with him .as host- age, then stealing an auto and es- caping.