The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 15, 1934, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 15. 1934. VOL. XLIIL, NO. 6599. e UNITED STATES GUNBOAT AFIRE, CHINA WATERS Flames Spread Quickly| Following Explosion in Engineroom BRITISH WARSHIP | RUSHES TO SCENE S | | \ Every Officer and Sailor on Fulton Are Saved— Heroism Recognized HONGKONG, March 15. — One hundred and eight-seven American | alors and a mascot cat were aved from a fiery death on Lhe‘ ming American gunboat Fulmn! 1 burned to the woter's edge | h of here. They have been | t here by rescue ships. e fire broke out in the engine | room | Eight members of the crew were | injured. Tribute fer Heroism | illant tribute to British tars; wh ved the Americans came | from the Fulton's skipper and! Commander Harry McHenry, S. N A Mrésis-écfeisfirsi;ect in Toils U.| Long sought in connection with the gan, Kansas Gity, in which four officers and their prisoner were slain last June, Ed Davis, Oklahoma outlaw, . is shown shackled to two deputies The crew of the gunboat Fulton | following his arrest at Los Anzeles. Two other men and two women were brought here aboard the H.| M. S. Wishart which saved the officers and men, assisted by the ' crew of the steamship Tsinan, a commercial vessel. “I cannot speak too “highly | the courageous action of the of-! ficers and men of the H. M. S. Wishart, whose display of heroism will go down in naval annals,” said Commander McHenry. of Flames Roared | While the flames were roaring aboard the Fuiton, life boats and | speed boats from the Wishart went | alongside and pulled men virtuaily | from the decks and when the | flames became too hot, the Wis. hart’s crew picked up the Fulton’s| officers and men from the water into which they jumped. The Fulton, still blazing, is being towed here. | There is a likelihood the explo-] sion was caused when an exhaust | b out. Flames caught in the| tank in the engine room. | One member of the engine crew “There was a hell Price Views Air Also Russo-Japanese Troubles| NINE ALASKA PLANTS TO BE OPERATED '34 {Pacific American Fisheries| Announces Activities for Fishing Season BELLINGHAM, Wash,, March 15. The Pacific American Fisheries ~ were taptured v Mail Situation, By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Bureau, The Associated i Press, Washington. More than one up-for-election Republican now is banking heavily 1 use of the airmail cancellations as a campaign issue. It is the intention to link the President's | cancellation order with general lcharges of attempted dictator- 'ship. It is argued that Mr. Roosevelt denied the aviation com- panies any real hearing of their | side. | Cautious floor and private ut- | terances in Senate and House in- ! dicate that this plan is widespread | among the Republicans, but by no |means universal. Many members shooting at Union Station, | CODE PROGRESS IS BEING MADE, METZGAR AVERS Quotes. Wade as Saying‘ Progress Is Satisfactory —Others Make Talks A code for the gold mining in- dustry is new being prepared, it} was revealed to the Chamber of Commerce today by L. H. Metzgar, General Superintendent of the Al- ‘aska Juneau Gold Mining Com-| pany, who returned this week from/| a several weeks trip to company headquarters at San Francisco and elsewhere. He said he could nobt discuss the code at this time. “Progress is being mad: on it, and I am authorize¢ to quote Mr. Wade (Deputy NRA Admiuistrator for Alaska) to s he is satisfied with that progress,” Mr. Metzgar added. Routine Business Trip His trip south was just a matter of routine business, he said. He was not in position to observe gen- eral conditions as closely as others| returning recently from the south, but the few things he did notic !indicated quite a material recovery | had been made in the months. For instance, there is to-| day four times as heavy passenger traffic on the railroads as there was at the same time last year. Employment in the smaller shipg yards is very much better, and lalso in the Ilumbering industry. | Business, generally, seems to have | substantially improved. | | President Gardner said late data fon the lumber industry showed 380 Pacific Coast mills now in |operation as compared to 80 aj year ago. | 1000 Sailors to Visit The crews of the six submarines |and two surface ships comprising; |the Twelfth Submarine Division, 1 U. 8. Navy, scheduled to arrive here | July 27 for a four-day visit, number 1,000 men. The officer personne]l‘ includes 60. This was disclosed to| the Chamber in a letter from Capt. H. M. Jensen, Division Commander, | He expressed his appreciation for| the Chamber’s invitation to visit this port and said the Juneau call was being looked forward to with |a great deal of anticipation. | | Details of the visit, such as hour| !of arrival, entertainment, etc., will| |be worked out Ilater. President| |Gardner announced he would ap-! of an will exceed last year's activiuies by |are keeping quiet, waiting to see|point a special committee later in losion. There was no possibility |operating n¥he canneries in Alaska What else the investigation will|the season to work out a program of putting out the flames and we seemed doomed until the Wishart and Tsinan arrived and saved us.”| the 193¢ season according to an yices as to the popularity of the| |announcement made by E. B. Dem- | President’s course are much mixed. — e — GREAT STRIKE and its Bellingham plant during ing, Chairman of the Board of Directors. The company anticipates a pack thousand cases. show. The Administration’s own ad- From some sections strong sup- port is reported; in others, the Lindbergh notes, the army mail | casualties and the objections rais- |of between six and seven hundred eq in Congress are described as A ENEB | |having made a deep impression. | CLAIMS GREEN Auto Industry Attempls! Further Reduction | in Wages WASHINGTON, March 15, —| William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor, told the Senate Committee today the auto industry is on the “verge of | one of the greatest strikes in the history of the nation.” | Green made the statement as| the auto makers presented their| side of the story to the National Labor Board to the effect they were facing strike threats from their employes. . At the same time rail employes and managers sought a solution of their pay dispute. The auto employers want to re- duce the basic wage another five per cent in addition to the ten percent now in effect. The work- ers oppose this. Green said danger of a wide- spread strike is traceable to an “effort to compel workers to be- long to the company unions.” Green gave wholehearted support to the Wagner bill- which would outlaw company unions and make permanent the Labor Board a the court for industrial labor disputes. Equipment pu s for the sea- son will amount to about one mil- PARTY PROVES FATAL AFFAIR PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 15— J. M. Caines was given a party on his 70th birthday by the mem- bers of his family. After the party Caine killed his wife and seriously wounded a visitor, then attempted suicide. He told the police he was despondent. COUPLE MAKE UP; SHOT DOWN POINT ROCK, Alabama, March 15—Dwight Jones, aged 35, and his wife became estranged but made up their differences and determined to start life anew. They were found shot to death last night outside of their home. Mack Woodall, aged 38, husband of Mrs. Jones's sister, said he killed the couple then fired two bullets into his own body because he was jealous. Wood- all will die. | There is no question the White | House is seeking to get the mail iback into private hands, on some | basis, “as soon as feasible. The { President personally is giving the | subject much of his time. 1 RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR? | Confidential advices reaching | Washington from the Far East in- | dicate that a Russian-Japanese war may easily be in the cards for this spring, although the sit- uation has not yet reached the stage of centertainty. Government officials refuse to discuss the subject at all, but they are receiving interestings reports about it. The general impression laround the ecapital is that the United States will take no hand. | The Japanese objective, if war should come, is said in private \reports to be occupation of that strip of Russian territory lying along the coast, including Vladi- vostok, and that portion of Sak- halin Island, which now belongs to Russia, A look at the map will show. At least one well-informed mil- itary expert thinks it would be over in 90 days. Russia has a nest of airplanes at Vladivostok, which can do much damage to the Japanese cities, but it is the in- fantry which takes and holds ter- ritory, and Russia's lines of com- munications across Siberia are long and difficult. (Continued on Page Six.) |for the visitors, | | Church Expiains Business | Three phases of his operations in Southeast Alaska were explained to the Chamber today by Campbell Church, Jr., head lof an organi- zation conducting cruising parties here for several years last past. The idea that it was devoted to hunting and fishing expeditions is erroneous, he said. “We promote cruising in private yachts and are seeking to build up our business along that line rather than on hunting and fishing. The form is lasting and permanent; the lat- ter temporary, because it must go as more and more people come into the country.” ) He smilingly disclaimed making enormous profits. “That is not the situation. We are a group of young men who are putting money into' Southeast Alaska, and trying to build up something for the future,’ he said. In the past four years (Continued on Page “Two) &ew MOdE Mun MILAN, Italy, March 15. — The Fascist regime is forging a new type of man, described as the possessor of ‘“virile humility.” He will be an individualist, says | a blackshirt forecast of the future generations, only in so far as in- d dividual characteristics benefit so- ciety in general. ‘The “negative” attributes of in- dividualism that he will know| nothing of are listed as: venality, | vanity, desire for luxury and re- bellion against fundamental mor-A’ als. His “virile humility” will be ex-' past 12 » square yards of woolens, From Fascist Training, BOOST PAY, CUT WORK W In a vigorous MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS 'KIDNAPED NEW YORKER IS MURDERED address before several thousand members of NRA’s code authorities assembled at Wash- ington for a three-day review of the industrial control program, President Franklin D. Roosevelt urged an immediate increase in wages and shortening of the work week. He said it the task of industry to re-em- oloy more people at purchasing wages and to do it now. The President is shown above as he gave his adress while Hugh S. Johnson, NRA administrator, listens intently. (Associated Press Photo) Repeal in Alaska Is Expected by End of This Month WASHINGTON, March 15— FProhibition repeal in Alaska and Hawaii before the end of the menth is expected to be- come legally effective follow- ing the action of the House Territories Committee in re- por-ing the repeal bills favor- ably The Senate has already pass- ed the two bills. Final action will simply re- peal the Prohibition laws of the two Territories. G - PRI SGORES KILLED CITY IS FIRED Dynamite Explosion Raises Havoc in San Salva- doran Republic SAN SALVADOR, Salvador, March 15.—Much of the city of La Libertad is a mass of smoking ruins, levelled by a fire which spread after an explosion in which 150 persons were killed. The blast, which was heard for 0 miles, occurred when dynamite exploded as it was being unlo‘xd('d‘ from a ship. Fire followed quickly, spreading then sweeping through many city ‘The City Hall and a church are among the buildings consumed. Not one man handling the 250 cases of dynamite escaped death. e - Australia now has 58 woolen mills producing about 76,000,000 worsteds and flannels, a million blankets and 8,000,000 pounds of yarn year- Claim pressed in a profound respect for the state and unquestioning obéd- lence to rules that embrace the welfare of the people. An article published in Premier Mussolini’s newspaper, 11 'Italia, says the new man will be a welcome relief from the types produced by the French and Rus- sian revolutions. The French revolution, it de- clares, gave the world a man mark- ed by “swagger and egoism,” while the Soviet produced a “single cell type lacking in physiognomy, form, energy or will.” Popolo‘ | STUDY DECLINED BY LINDBERGH \Famous Flier Declares He Is Not in Favor of Cancellation Policy NEW YORK, March 15, — Col. {Charles A. Lindbergh last night declined to serve on the special | committee to study the Army's | mail flying. The Colonel said: “I believe the use of the' Army Air Corps to carry the mail is unwarranted jand contrary to the American | principles. | “The action is unjust to airlines whose contracts have been can- celled without trial and was un- fair to the personnel of the Army Air Corps who had neither equip- ment designed for the purpose |nor adequate time for training for the mew field. It has unnec sarily greatly damaged all Ameri can aviation. | “I do not feel I can serve on the committee whose function is to er to buildings near the wharf and 8ssist in following out the Exe- | cutive Order to the Army to take |over the commercial air mail sys- |tem of the United States.” Col. Lindbergh telegraphed his statement to Secretary of War Dern who had invited the Colonel | to serve with Orville Wright, Clar- ence Chamberlain and other avia- tors on a special committee to de- termine the “adequacy and ef- ficiency” of the Army’'s technical flying equipment and training for mail carrying. Col. Lindbergh is Technical Ad- | visor of the Transcontinentdl and Western Air Lines, formerly a large mail carrier. Mr. Wright has also refused to serve as his health will not per- | mit. He is a very sick man, it is said - > Mullen Resigns | as Committeeman WASHINGTON, March 15. J. Thomas, Democratic state man of Nebraska, announ: Arthur J. Mullen has resigned as National Committeeman of that state. Mullen was the third Na- tional Democratic commiiteeman to resign since President Roose- velt's expression against commit- teemen practicing law before gov- }ernmcm departments. 'Russian Flier Repo r Lost Flying Over Arctic ARMY AIR MAIL rited MOSCOW, March 15.—The in- {trepid Russian pilot Liapidevsky ‘who saved twelve women and chil- ‘(II'L‘n from the Arctic Sea ice floe, |15 missing and is believed to have | met disaster in an attempt to | rescue the - others of the party | still remaining on the ice. | It is believed Liapidevsky has | been forced down after taking off from Cape Wellen across the strait from Alaska. RUSSIAN AIRMEN IN SEATTLE ON WAY TO SEWARD | in Attempt to Rescue Men on Ice Floe SEATTLE, March 15.—The Rus- sian rescue party, composed of Prof. George Nshakov, geographer, and Mauritz Slepniv and Sigmund Levonewski, aviators, have arrived here from New York and will out- fit here and sail for Seward Sat- urday on the steamer Alaska. The party will go to Fairbanks by train, charter a plane there and fly to Nome. . Under present plans they will ferry a plane to Wrangell Island and then attempt to rescue the marooned Soviet party now on the Arctic ice floe, The rescue party will attempt to fly the 98 marooned men to East Cape from whence they will be taken to Vladivostok by boat. The latest information gives the location of the ice floe as being 350 miles northwest of Nome. Aviator Slepnov aided in Eilson-Borland search in the tic several years ago. e ‘Mink Bites Man; |Mink Is Dead, ‘Man Survives the Arc- ABERDEEN, Wash, March 15. —A year ago, Phil Mason, rancher, had a mink in captiv- ity. It bit his hand. Mason curvived but the mink died. Then Mason got a wildcat and made a pet of it. The wildeat scratched and bit Mascn. Mason is now back at work but the wildcat is ill and like- | Iy to die. Party Will Fly from Nome VIGTIM SLAIN WHEN RANSOM DEMAND DENIED ;Max Kasoff's B Body Found Today on Ocean Side, Long Island THREATS MADE BY ABDUCTORS EXECUTED |Family of Man Notified Po- lice, then Human Sac- rifice Is Made NEW YORK, March 15.—Kidnap= ers of Max Kasoff called the mem- bers of his family last week de- manding $5,000 ransom or “we will | send him home in pieces, his ears first.” Altogether there were four or five telephone calls. Last Sunday the kidnapers said: “So you have notified the police. O. K., we'll fix him.” Today the members of Kasoff's family went to Rockville Center, Long Island, and identified a body as that of Kasoff. He had been blindfolded, shot twice in the head and once in the neck. There was a deep cut where he had been struck by a length of pipe. His |body was found in front of a bill= |board on the ocean side of Long | Island. Kasoff was 37 years old and was known as beinz in the auto rental business. He disappeared last Thursday night. The family did not take the demands for ransom seriously. ——.———— HOUSE ADOPTS 'GOMPROMISE ON VETERANS PAY Congressmen Break Away from Administration Lead- ers in Night Action WASHINGTON, March 15.—Af= |ter once breaking away from Ad- ministration leaders, the House settled down last night and adopt- ed the compromise proposals on Veterans' pay legislation contained in the independent office Supply bill. As dispatched to conference with the Senate amendments the’ meas< ure included the $90,000,000 Tas ber compromise proposal for ine | creased benefits to former sol+ diers and the Vinson amendment restoring 5 per cent of government salaries as of February 1 and an= |other 5 per cent July 1. | The Senate originally overstepped the Administration boost of Vet- erans’ benefits about $118,000,000 and directed 5 per cent restora- tion of federal pay now and the full 15 per cent on July 1. D MRS. ROOSEVELT CAUGHT IN GALE MIAMI, Florida, March 15.—Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, enroute home from Puerto Rico, has been forced back to San Pedro, and landed there on account of un- favorable weather. A gale was en- countered on the flight. RORT AU PRINCE, March 15.— Mrs. Roosevelt arrived here late this afternoon and will continue toward home {omorrow, weather permitting. Soviet to Train One Million Men for Air LONDON, March 15—~An Ex- change Telegraph dispatch from Riga reported that the Soviet Council of Peoples’ Commissars had decided to increase the Soviet Air force by training one million pi= moment’s notice by the end of 1997 lots to be ready for service at &