The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 10, 1934, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLII.. NO. 6595. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1934. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRE‘SS PRICE TEN CENTS o PRESIDENT CURTAILS ARMY AIR MML FLYING NRA HEARS []F France Stiffens Spylng Penaltws- Espwnagv Scare I n('llules Stavisky 600D BUSINESS I BIG STORES Federal Reserve Proposes‘ Time Cut Without Re- duction of Wates WASHINGTON, March 10—N.R.| A. today pointed to the new sign! of better business in increased de-| partment store sales and also en- joyed the first fruits of its huu\'~| reducing campaign. i | i The announcement that depart- ment store sales increased 17 per cent the first two months of the| year compared with the like period of last year came from the Fed-' eral Reserve Board. The announcement proposed a' 10 per cent hour-slash without re- duction in pay made by refractor-| jes in industry. Employment of about 2,000 more men were indi- cated. | N. R. A, however, continued to| have troubles as three resignations | were announced. Dr. Paul Doug- 1z of the Consumers’ Advisory Board and Maj. R. S. Paddocki' depyty, will leave shortly. L. H.{ Tompkins, Gen. Hugh 8. Johnson’s personnel adviser, has quit to re- turn to the rubber business. Meanwhile enforcement activi- ties zoomed as NRA.; Department of Justice and other officials, is understood to be mak- an several the view of quick action courts ing hundred complaints with in the ——ao— ALASKA REPEAL BILL IS HELD UP BY TEXAS MAN House Territories Commit-| tee Waits for Minority Report from Strong WASHINGTON, March 10.—Fav- orable reports on the Prohibition repeal laws of Alaska and Hawaii have been delayed again by the House Territories Committee await- ing on a minority report Representative Sterling P. Strong, Democrat of Texas, who is opposed to repeal of the dry laws in Terri- tories. Favorable reports have been pre-| pared by Delegates Dimond and McCandless and will be ready for| presentation next Thursday. AUTO FACTORIES WORK OVERTIME ON NEW ORDERS Retail Den.;d Forges! Ahead of Production in Eastern Car Plants DETROIT, March 10—With an accumulation of unfilled ordersi sufficient to require full speed in factory operation for the next sev- eral weeks, the motor car industry finds itself in the position of be- ing unable to catch up with the retail demand, due largely to the difficulty encountered in obtaining raw materials, Exact figures on the number of orders remaining to be filled was not made public but the accumu- lation is expected to continue ahead of the production through- out March and a larger part of April. Barring labor troubles the March output is estimated at 340,000 cars and trucks, which is 172 per cent over the output for March 1933. — House Committee Approves Bills to Raise Silver Price ‘WASHINGTON, March 10.—The House coinage committee today ap- proved two bills under which sil- ver would be received as payment for agricultural surpluses and be! accepted by the Treasury at a premium above the world price,| while at the same time enough additional silver would be pur- chased until the 1926 commodity price level would be restored. with the | immediate examination of | from | THEY \\\ \lT FRENCH SPY TRI \I before Christmas. Such things | specimens of war chemicals, came: Election Bill For Alaska Gets Another Boost WASHINGTON, March 10.— The bill to advance the date of the general elections in Al- aska from November to the cccond Tuesday in September | has been reported favorably by | the Senate Territories Commit- | tee. The bill has already pass- ed the House. LIQUOR BARRIER | WILL BE LIFTED ~ BY ROOSEVELT |President to Permit Unlim- ited Entry of Foreign Wet Goods for Month | WASHINGTON, March 10—The ‘Government at the instigation of | President Roosevelt is preparing to| lift the quota barrier on inter- { national liquor trade. This drastic move is being made to reduce prices, combat the boot- {legger and improve the quality of {the liquor. ed entry of liquor would be declar- ed as an experiment. iod expires April 30. Indications |were -that restrictions would be | lifted then. — e — i Mrs. Roosevelt Goes Slumming In Puerto Rico SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, March 10.—Mrs. Farnklin D. Rocsevelt, the First Lady of the United States, went to the slums today for an intimate study of conditions among the poor. “A certain type of New York tenements are as bad as the worst urban homes I saw here,” Mrs. Roosevelt remarked after her tour. e ——— DOGS DIE Dogs are dying of a mysterious malady along the lower Tanana River, according to word brought into Fairbanks from Nenana re- cently. Owners of dogs are warned to keep them tied up. e AGED PIONEER PASSES v George Stakemire, 80 years old, a resident of the North since 1898, age. He was among the best known pioneers of the Yukon country. Robert Gordon Switz, aviation salesman from East Orange, N. J., and his wife, Marjorie, are still in Paris cells awaiting trials on charges of being members of a ring of spies. as feuntain pens which pump up and secrets copied on necktie linings have been found, the police claim, in some of the many espionage cases. ‘The President announced a thir-| ty to sixty-day period of unlimit-| | ‘The present import permit per- They were arrested ras masquerading as wrist watches {and Serge Stavisky, arch swindler, |a wider range of acts suspectible JUNEAU SPLITS OPENING GAMES AT KETCHIKAN Boys Lose Etball' Game 22-23—Girls Smother Ketchikan 31 to 2 Juneau 22—Ketchikan 23—Boys Juneau 31—Ketchikan 2—Girls By RICHARD G. MASSOCK PARIS, March 10.—Stiffer pun- ishment for spies has been voted by the French parliament, impelled to speedy action by revelation of alleged espionage rings involving a young American couple, Robert Gordon Switz and his wife, in one in another. A bill raising the minimum pri- son term from one to two or three years, depending on the seriousness of the offense, leaving the max- imum at five years and penalizing In what Coach Harold Regele described as a “football game” the Orimson Bears lost the opener of a three-game series to Kayhi at Ketchikan last night by a score of 22 to 23. In confirmation of this, at least partly, the Ketchikan Chronicle in a telegram to The ‘Empire said “the game roughened in the second half.” The local girls team had its eas- of endangering the state, was adopted after lying in a ‘parlia- mentary pigeon hole more than 10 years. Many Espionage Post-War Cases throughout France since the world war has been S0 prevalent, a senate commitlee found, that a more drastic law was urgently needed. Twenty-five spy cases, with 27 arrests, 14 convictions and three executions agitated Europe in 1983. Ten of the cases were in France alone, where 18 spy suspects were arrested and a dozen convicted. State secrets have been stolen, bought and sold, the authorities declare. The spy scare has been greatest in the neighborhood of France's new $3,000,000,000 forti- | fications on the German frontier. Women Agents Numerous ‘Women, always glamorous fig- ures in the mysterious shadows of espionage, have figured in the French cases. Half of the 10 sus- pects caught in the dragnet that will. They had the Kayhi maid- ens blanked until eight seconds before the final bell when they caged their only goal. Officials At Odds The boys game was a heartbreak- ing affair, marred by extreme roughness on the part of - Kayhi that Regele indicated went largely unpenalized. And the Chronicle’s| report declared that Ray Varrall, Ketchikan, referee, and Alec Blan- chard, Skagway, umpire, “were in apparent disagreement often.” Paul Hansen, Juneau's first string center, and Buddy Lindstrom, star forward of the Bears, were both injured early in the fracas. Han- GREAT BRITAIN " DEMANDS PARITY Ambitious Building of Other Nations ‘LONDON. March 10.—Great Bri- | tain has served notice to the world that she is determined to have| parity in the air as long as other nations cling to their aircraft building program. “Great Britain is unwilling,” Sir Phillip Sassoon told the House of | Commons,” to accept the position of continuing inferiority in the face of the rapidly expanding air {forces of the United States, Ja- pan, Russia and other nations.” Official circles have been in- i formed that the United States is planning the construction of one Lhousflnd planes, Japan and Rus- | sia are building an unlimited but unknown number and other coun- tries are active in av)azmn PURCHASING OF ARMY SUPPLIES TAKEN UP NOW Subcommittee of House Is Making an Inves- tigation WASHINGTON, March 10.—Dis- claiming any responsibility for Army purchases, Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur, Chief of Staff of the Unit- ed States Army, yesterday told Congressional investigators at an executive hearing, that if there had been a charge there had been no suggestion of irregularities as the result’ of his testimony. William Nathaniel Rogers of New Hampshire, member of the House Military Affairs Subcommittee de- Assistant Secretary of War Harry |H. Woodring or Maj. Gen. Samuel Hof, the Army’s Chief Quarter- | master, Gen. MacArthur explained he was in charge of the fighting part of the Army and knows nothing 4auout the purchasing. { ., FIRE DESTROYS HOME Early morning fire recently de- >stmyed the home of A. Pasco in | Hyder. The loss is placed at sev- ‘eral' thousand dollars. died recently in Fairbanks of old but all were rescued uninjured.|bill The building lm-l its ' were destroyed. OF AIR FORCES House of Commons Told of | cided it would be necessary to call! The family |lowing word that the House Com- was asleep at the time of the fire|mittee is ready to report the silver | Three-I League. He caught for sen’s shoulder was hurt, and Lind- strom suffered a knee injury. Af-| ter the game last night Regele| said his greatest need was five 200-pound linemen for replace- ments. He characterized the Ket- suspecting a connection between| .. 2 Y her and some of those arrested m)chlknn tachion 8¢ dlappatating gnd Paris. tadded that “Blanchard was too | La Belle Sophie” Drost, a fron- $ood, & apart:$0. tompete.3ith: Ve {tier beauty, was sentenced recent-| "L ly to two years' imprisonment. She | - was convicted, along with five| He complimented the local squad | |men, of espionage on hte mnew|OR its showing. “Our boys were | forts. wonderful sports” he asserted. “Ketchikan and Petersburg warhed {me, but I didn‘t plan on such a game. Our boys are playing hard. We will be back in there tonight.” ‘The game was close throughout. Juneau took an early lead with |long, clean shots, but Kyhi closed| |the gap at the halfway post. The| latter led there 14 to 13. Checking was closer in the final half when each scored eight points. In the final quarter, the play |was so fast that the 350 fans at- tending were on their feet most of the time. Local Girls Class The Juneau girls were clearly ithe class of their division. They sparkled in every department of the game, passing, checking and shooting rings around the Kayhi team. Despite the one-sided score, it was a treat for the Ketchikan fans to watch their brilliant work. Both teams play again tonight. _|entangled the Switzes are women. The mysterious “Marie Louise” |of the famous Baillie-Stewart case |of the Tower of London, lurks in |the background, with French police Praises His Squad Clever Devices Found Secrets written on necktie-lin- ings, inscribed on cigarette paper and hidden in the imitation pearls ‘01 necklaces, or embroidered in a telegraphic dot-and-dash design on a feminine handkerchief, have/ been discovered by the French police in some of their investiga- tions. Wrist watches which really are tiny cameras, and fountain pens used to pump up surreptitiously a ifew drops of a new chemical in a war-gas laboratory, also have been | seized. Here are some of the major of- fenses of espionage punishable un- der the new French code: Obtaining, divulging or inducing others to obtain or divulge secret objects, plans, maps, documents or| information of a military, diplo- matic or economic nature which| affect the national defense or| safety. Wall Secaling Penalized Making photographs or drawings within six miles of a fortification or other military establishment to which access is forbidden strangers. Scaling walls or otherwise forc- ing way into such places. Secret trial is provided for, if the authorities think the country’s welfare would be endangered by publicity, and courts martial are given jurisdiction over all spies in time of war or a state of siege. — STOCK MARKET SESSION DULL; TRADING LIGHT Lack of Ean;;iasm Attri- buted to Three Causes —Metals Rally NEW YORK, March 10. — Al- though some metals and a few| - specialties attalned a small degree of popularity on the New York Stock Exchange today, leading is- sues were extremely listless and prices were generally narrow during the dull short session. Sales were half a million shares. The close was irregular. $ Bonds were irregular. Metal Stock Rally Various metal stocks rallied fol- ARE SET TO GO This afternoon The Empire re- ceived a radio from Coach Regele that the Juneau team will probably lose the services of Hansen as the latter wrenched the ligaments be- tween the clavicle and scapula. Behrends has a bad leg and Lind- istrom a bad knee. “We are set to go and take Ketchikan tonight. Juneau has never given up and we don't in- tend to start now,” Coach Regele radioed. — .. D. E. DUGDALE DIES, RESULT OF ACCIDENT One of Best_K-nown Base- ball Men in Pacific Northwest Passes SEATTLE, Wash.,, March 10— Daniel E. Dugdale, aged 68 years, one of the best loved baseball men in this tferritory, died today. He was injured by a truck when crossing a street and an investi- gation. has been started. A. A. Peterson, who drove the truck, which was a machine of the Light Department, said the accident was unavoidable. Dugdale began his career in the ‘Washington, Detroit and Boston (Continued on Page Seven) iest victory of the year, scoring at| KlDNAPERS GET DEATH PENALTY H. C. Brooks (left) and William Tanner (right) received the first death penalty verdict under California’'s anti-kidnaping law when a Jjury at Los Angeles condemned them to die for abducting Henry Bod- kin during a torture holdup. (Associated Press Photo) I EXECUTION DATE IS SET LOS ANGELES, March 10.—H. C. Brocks and William Tanner were sentenced to die on the gallows on May 11 following conviction in' the torture-kidnaping of Henry Bedkin, preminent attorney, last December. The twe convicted men burned the fingers of Bodkins' hands as they sought to force him to disclose the hiding place of his money, etc. REFERENDUM ON JURORS DECIDE DEFENSE TO BE CHILBERG DEATH | Territorial Chamber of Body Identified by Nephew| | Commerce to Vote on as that of Uncle Missing Subject in Short Time Shts Laih Yaar The Board of Managers of lhe‘ Alaska Territorial Cham ber of| «we the jury, duly empaneled, Commerce, at a meeting to be held find that the deceased was Peter here next week, will take up for Chilberg and that he met consideration and vote a national'geath at his own hands on or| referendum designed to develop a ,about the 10th day of July, 1933, suggested policy on national de- by means of a 44 caliber revol- fense for the United States, it was yer» announced today from the offices' This was the verdict brought in of that body’s executive secretary.'py the coromer's jury at the in- If approved by the Board it will quest into the death of Peter be submitted to the member Cham-| Ghilherg yesterday afternoon at 4 bers to ballot on as members of oclock in the court of United jthe Chamber of Commerce of the states Commissioner J. F. Mullen. \United States. It is based on & The jurors were: |report of a special committee of Hy ~Bert Bertholl, George Get- the National Chamber that has chey Jack McCloskey and William | given many months of study to! | Sprigdale. the subject. Proposals Are Listed ‘The proposals to be voted upon are as follows: The United States should con- tinue support of the principle of limitation of armaments by agree- | ment, berg just before noon, about 200 In agreements for limitation of feet on the upper side of the road naval armament the United States| 200 feet beyond where the first should obtain assurance of a fleetjbrmgg crosses Gold Creek in the adequate to protect our shores, little basin. Shortly after he met | our territories and possessions, and|Henry Kuchen on the road and our foreign commerce to an €x-|told him of finding the body. tent equal to that enjoyed by any; Kuchen, the next witness, xaid other power, |he arrived at the bridge about | The United States should main-\“ :30 and met Pecovich, who was tain its fleet in relation to the| accompanied by two dogs. Kuchen fleets of other contracting powers| sajd he accompanied Pecovich to at the ratio established in agree-|where the body was and stayed ments for limitation of armament.|there until the arrival of Charles Within the terms of agreements Carter, the undertaker who was for limitation of armaments the|called to care for the body. He! United States should systematical-| gescribed the position of the body, ly program all naval construction saying it was seated at the foot, and modernization. of a small spruce tree with the The United States should at all|revolver in its right hand and times maintain personnel needed gcross the left knee. for efficient operation of all com- ponent units of existing naval Gun Identified vessels. Mort Truesdell, who sold the The United States should con-{gun to Chilberg, told of the trans- tinue the policy of training reserve|action and identified the gun. He personnel sufficient to meet all|examined the revolver before the demands for Navy personnel in the | jury and found that two shots had event of war. been fired from it. The United States should give continued support to the upbuild-| ing and maintenance of an Amer- ican-owned merchant marine suit- able and adequate as a naval aux- iliary in the event of war. Body is Found Pete {at the inquest, told of leaving town | yesterday morning at 9:30 o'clock |for a walk up the Basin Road, and of finding the body of Chil- Chilberg, the dead man and also the keys found on his person as belonging {to his uncle. He also said the body {was similar to that of Chilberg, Maintain Adequate Army ‘although it was so badly decom- ‘The United States should main-|posed that positive identification| tain the principles of Army or-|along that line was practically im- ganization embodied in the exist-|possible. ing national defense laws, calling Before the inquest at the Com-| primarily for & small active mili-| missioner’s Court, the jury viewed| tary force to serve, with the Na,-!me body at the mortuary of tional Guard and the Organized Charles Carter. Reserves, as the nucleus of a large| citizen army in case of emergency.| The United States should make provisions each year for Army, personnel and reserves adequate to meet the objectives of the nation- al defense laws. The United States should under- take and maintain a systematic program for modernization of Ar-|found hanging to a tree about a my equipment. (quarter of @ mile north of the The United States should have city limits, and about 100 yards systematic planning for reserves from the Glaciér Highway by sev-| Countrvwide Seach Chilberg, who was 80 years old, was the object of a countrywide search here after his disappearance July 10, last year. The search was conducted by scores of citi- zns and Boy Scouts. contents| Heaviness of alcohol groups fol-|and owned the Seattle franchisglof war materials and for indus- eral boys who were searching the in the old Northwest League. (Continued on Page Seven) !woods for Chilberg on July 18. UPFORBALLOT WAS BY SUIGIDE his | Ike Sowerby, Joe| Pecovich, the first witness Arvid Anderson, a nephew of| identified the clothing of | The body of John Carlson was| ROOSEVELT ACTS EOLLOWING TEN FATAL ACCIDENTS {Only Necessary Routes Will /| Be Flown ,According to Orders PRECAUTIONS TO BE TAKEN ON EQUIPMENT Democrats Block Attempt | of Republicans to ‘ Create Trouble WASHINGTON, March 10. —P r esident Roosevelt this Iafternoun curtailed the Army {in flying the mails. The mo- Etivating action, it is said, was ithe loss of ten lives in nine- teen days of flying the mails. The President acted after a | conference with Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Chief of Staff. The President ordered elim- ination of all but the most necessary air mail flying and |further directed that every safeguard humanly possible be thrown about the equip« ment of personnel of tha Army Air Service. | In Congress, the Democrats blocked the Republican at. | tempts to start discussion on fatalities. EARLIER MOVEMENTS WASHINGTON, Marcn 10.—Early today friends and foes of the Ad- ministration's air mail policy squar- ed off for a fight in Congress amid |atmosphere made tense by the growing list of deaths among the |Army mail fliers. Four died yes- terday, making ten in all since the private contracts were cancelled. President Roosevelt's request that postal funds be transferred to the War Department to finance the Army mail flying service, was due for a debate in the Senate during |teday. Bitterness among the foes of the Administration’s policy promised an acrid debate. An outburst in the House yester- |day was averted when Democratic leaders brought about a quick ad- | journment. 12 ARMY FLIERS MEET DEATH IN CRASH OF PLANE Motor Trouble Develops | After Take-off, Craft | Hits Power Wire | | CHEYENNE, Wyoming, March 10. —Two Army Lieutenants, F. K. Howard, pilot and A. R. Kerwin, | passenger, were burned to death |and the plane was demolished when the ship developed motor trouble and struck a power line near the Cheyenne Airport late yesterday. | This brought the air mail fatalities |of the day to four Army men. | The motor sputtered soon after taking off for Salt Lake and the fliers were returning to the field when the plane struck the power lines. | There was no mail aboard the plane and the men were just tak- ing off for a tnal run. AERIAL SURVEY COMING NORTH Rear Adxmral Watts to Be | in Charge of Aleutian : Islands Force WASHINGTON, March 10.—The Navy Department announced today |that Rear Admiral W. C. Watts, Commander of the Mine Forces in | Hawaii, will be in charge of the aerial survey in the Aleutians dur- |ing the coming summer. The survey party will probably |include two planes, repair ship and two mine sweepers for a strategic marine study and observing of weather conditions. RS